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Thursday, September 01, 2005
Latest Annoucement

This is the latest happening of Miss Kan Ming Choi

Did you see her at the national day parade yesterday?She was marching in her uniform with the other national service trainees..anyway some updates..if you've tried calling her sms her and you can't get through..its not your fault.Her handphone got stolen (its nothing new in NS camps) and she suspects a guy whom she had a misunderstanding with,stole her handphone..she was terrified at first and scared her parents will scold her,but she ok now and her parents didn't scold her..she's asking some guys in the guys dorm to get back her hp..anyway her credit was about RM4..if you want to contact her,you stil can,but its her friend's hp at 012-3629277..other than that,some of her 'personal' belongings also got stolen,you can ask her what was stolen??

For those who deeply miss her,not to worry..ming choi will be back home on the 11 Sept 2005..for PERMANENT..Yes,she's coming out from the NS program earlier cause she's starting her law degree in Taylor's on the 19/9/05..so people,embrace her homecoming with full of smiles and hugs (eventhough you have to fake it) How she feels about this?mix feelings..on one hand,she feels relieved and happy to be out of the NS camp..on the other hand,she feels sad that she's leaving her friends in the camp who she bonded so well (ahem)

For me,i'm relieved that i won't be updating her blog anymore cause she's not paying me anything..other than that the meaning of peace will be gone when she's back..ARGHHHH

Ming Choi's Spokesperson








Posted at 11:49 am by ming2
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Sunday, August 21, 2005
Asta LaVista bahbee!

Hey.. hehe.. Well, im a lazy pig.I wanted to write about NS but.. the procrastinator and lazy piglet in me surfaced. I delayed everything till the last minute. And today im leaving at 4 pm.

Oh well.. Goodbye peeps. If theres anything of importance, my spokesman will relay it.

Another 6 weeks and ill be back to civilisation.

Esther,Eunice,Evo- Huggles peeps, all the best in whatever your gonna do! 

Eunice- woman,im gonna miss you,so you better sms me whenever  you can!! And i want a wombat from MELBOURNE! XD

Spokesperson-Thank You but you dont get any pay lor,sorry! :P


ciao peeps.yourstrulyme. =D 

Posted at 12:53 pm by ming2
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Saturday, August 20, 2005
NS-Non Substantial

Like Eunice says, even though im back, im still not bloggin. XD LOL A bit lazy lo. And also cos i dont have much time to spend back home,so i wanna utilize the time i have to the max to spend wit everyone. XD

Sorry "fans of Ming Choi" (according to my spokesperson la.I personally donno if ur my fans or KPC's ) hehe *joking k*

YES,Im officially a Program Latihan Khidmat Negara (PLKN aka National Service) trainee, with the "official colours" to mark me as one of their own. My official colour is HITAM.Because that my friend, is how i look now. HITAM. OR rather in Yi Wen's words, like an Amazon. XD

To make my post short and sweet, id say that NS has been a total culture shock in comparison to my perfectly protected and plastickily urbanised world.And no im not talking about the fact that im derived of television,handphones or technology nor am i speaking of anything material.

Im talking about the fact that Chinese youngsters aged 18-19 in camp cant speak English or Malay and that their mother tongue is  normally Mandarin n Cantonese.

The fact that most of them have dropped out of school at the age of 14 or 15.

That some are even married with kids.

That some have prison records and have gone to detention centres.

So people,i obviously have not seen much of the world. Hehe.

Although i was very sad and depressed those first few weeks,things have started looking up for me in many small small ways after 6 weeks there. When i get back next week (the 22nd August) it'll be my 7th week which will be spend marching around like walking machine because i am one of the "lucky" few who got chosen to joing the National Day Parade on the 31st of August. Define lucky for me people.Ish. Oh well.Acceptance is slowly dawning.

I obviously cant be posting up EVERY detail of life in NS for 38 days ( like what my friend Jolene in Kem Rimba Templer is doing on her blog) so ill write short short excerpts from my pink diary cum blog cum ranting machine cum venting toy cum plastic telephone.

Day One-10th July

I cried bucketfuls of tears today.Uncountable.If i did it would have been able to fill a dam. * exaggeration warning*

The bus drives away and im off. Thank the Lord that my cg mates and "family of 3" came to send me off as well. Will miss them loads.

Hate it here. People.Food.People.People.People.

Where are all the familiar faces of people i know?
Nonexistent.

Met some of my dorm mates. 2 chinese girls.Both typical Chinese. Mandarin and Canto all the way. bwargh. Things are getting bleaker by the second.

Trying to be friendly wit the Malays but all my "hello.My name's Ming Choi. whats yours?" seem to fall on deaf ears. Another frustrating sigh can be heard on my part.

All i hear today is jurulatih's screaming orders here and there and frightened people.
Everything is a mess.Me and the camp. Blek.

My day ends wit writing this entry and me crying myself to sleep.

Posted at 3:00 am by ming2
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SOS

38 days in National Service.
1 hour back home in 18,Jalan Tengku Zainun Rashid 2, Taman Raja Nong,41200 Klang.
In other words, back in civilisation,comfort and chilling.

How do i feel?

*grins*

WONDERFUL

So in answer to your statement Eunice.. Im still basking in my bed and laptop and have grown lazy. Hehe.

Posted at 2:34 am by ming2
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Saturday, August 13, 2005
Announcement

Hi fans of this blog and obviously Ming Choi

This is her spokesperson here...i know you all miss her very much..so i requested her to come back..at first she doesn't want to..but after some persuasion and begging...she'll be back starting next wednesday (17/8/05) night to sunday 21/8/05.Partly also to collect her result,so those out there who care about her,please pray for her results and God will prepare her heart to receive any result that is given.So whoever wants to meet-up or talk with her,u can call her on thursday.Have a nice day

Monday, July 11, 2005
Gonna miss all of you

Hi peeps,
As for now,I'm in Kajang fullfilling my duties as part of the Program Khidmat Negara (National Service).So you won't be seeing any blogging of yours truly for another 2.5months.The program ends on 30/9/05.I'm very sorry if this news is shocking to you cause i'm equally shocked too.I was selected to join NS last year but i defered due to my studies.So i was supposed to join this year and the letter never came eventhough i called them and they say i was supposed to join for this intake.But the official letter didn't arrived and i thought that i didnt need to go.But when i checked my name online on friday night,i was selected!!!Eeeeeeekkkkk!!!As usual the inefficiency of the government.Well,this leaves me saturday to buy neccessary things (which i have to ask other ppl cause i didnt get the list),say goodbyes to friends,open a maybank account,pack.But thank God that i manage to do everything.Eventhough its kinda rush thingy,but pls pray for me that
1)i will be able to adapt with the new surrounding
2)make friends easily
3)not to miss my family and friends
4)enjoy fully all the programs
5)good health and
6) God's protection upon me as you've read some 'not so nice to hear' cases happen in the NS camp.

If you plan to contact me,u can try sms me as i brought my hp there,but during weekends as my phone will only be returned at that time.If best that you sms me and not call cause i tend to cry when i talk over the phone with my dearest friends and family.I can't endure another crying session as i wish not to think of so many things and jus purely enjoy all the programmes at NS.If you wish to see me,visiting time is every 2weeks but you have to be accompanied with my parents as only family are allowed to visit,not friends (sorry).But dont worry about me.I'll be strong as i know my God will make me strong and thanks for all of your prayers.So see you all in 2.5months time.Hopefully this blog won't be covered by dust.Take care.

Thursday, July 07, 2005
Reunion of the three witches

Finally after one month of absence from the 3 witches, i get to meet them again!

Finally,finally finally!
As usual, when it comes to Evochka Wong,all the plans we make will go awry.
Our initial plan was to meet in college * me,Eunice, Evo* to sell books FIRST den EAT.
BUt MS Wong was feeling hungry and didnt want to eat in Cabana ( where i was craving for the pan mee) so we ditched our initial plans and reversed the order.

From SELL FIRST and EAT LATER to EAT FIRST and SELL LATER! XD Hahah.
And guess where we ate? Kai Fan.Ipoh Kai Fan... Which i gotta admit..was quite disappointing.Evo ar,if you like kai fan/ipoh kai fan so much ar.. COME TO IPOH LA! Go On Holiday in Ipoh la! Ill be your tour guide! It's so so so much nicer there!! ;)


Evo and I looking "Dead". Do we? I guess we arent camera people ;) hehe

Sad to say,due to poor planning and lack of information of when the book sales were happening, we got... POOR BOOK SALES. Not even one book out of our ( Eunice,Evos and mine) combined books got sold. Haih. Hopefully tomorrow will be a good day for business ;) as we will be going very very early! At 8 am!

After finally waiting patiently for 3 hours plus, Eunice and i gave up hope and packed up.As Eunice was itching for a hair cut, we went to Snips in Pyramid to cut her hair. WE even dragged poor Hao Ern along. LOL. But he was a good sport. *Thanks NHE*


Eunice and me on the way down to Pyramid. Look closely at her hairstyle now and later. * me once again looking reli dead.Wats wrong with me?*


This being Ng Hao Ern's bored,semi-amused telling me " Oh ya, i Know i'm THAT handsome" look. hehehe. We were waiting at Snips for Eunice to finish her haircut. He was reading FHM i was reading FEMALE mag. What a combo! XD


And then sometime after that,we got kinda bored, so we camwhored a little bit. Hehe

Initially ar..that woman Eunice told me " I need a trim oni rite? We trim oni ok? Ok!"
Then when we arrived there, her 'head' got slitely itchy,especially the part on her forehead! She was thinking of cutting a fringe..It got itchier still when the hairdresser, Syida recommended her to try cutting her hair short. So , the result, was this!

TADA!! Doesnt she look adorable biting her fingernails??!! hahahah
LOOk at her sceptical and scared face! LOl.

She kept asking us whether it looked good or not. She didnt believe me at first until Hao Ern assured her it was.


Eunice smiling radiantly after Hao Ern said it looked good. *wink wink*
hehe

To read more about our adventure today, go visit Eunice.

After Pyramid,we made a stop at Parade as i had to get books from Salvation.And then, Eunice oh so sweetly dropped Hao Ern and I to the KTM. hehe. More like she also had to wait for her brother to finish tuition at 7 also la.Joking ni k ;)

BUt today was really really great fun! It's been ages since ive gone out wit them. Although the "ages" are a little exaggerated la cos its only been one month since i last saw them but we have been doing things 24/7 (also another exaggeration)! Go for the same classes,go for same breaks,makan together, study together,go out together, hang out together. Its as if an arm and a limb are gone if we dont do it together.hehe.

So, here's to the four of us. May we stay forever in each other's hearts and laugh our ways to a LAw degree
*winks and hugs and kisses*











 

Monday, July 04, 2005
Go Karting



My church friends and i went go karting last Thursday ;) and below are some pictures of the "ordeal" that i went through.




L-R: Ming/Nicky, Elisha and me ( you can only see me from the side and the back in all the pictures).Filling in indemnity forms.If we die, we die.No compensation. Narda. ;)


Another one taken through Carolyn's lenses,the girl in yellow is laura, the one in orange is D-Way,the one in red is James ( everybody came in an array of colours dat day..dunno why..) XD


And in this pic, we see Sunny Ong ( on the left ) bargaining prices with the go karting guy. Look at Mr Sunny Ong's "authoratative pose" heheh.Really like some big boss!

And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have the dressing up scene. Nick ( in the green jumper lookalike) looks like he lost an arm! and Dan@SSS ( the guy in the black jumper standing 2nd to the left) looks like he is about to hyperventilate like a chicken cos Nick lost his arm*cue= arms swinging*


 L-R : DW,James and Nick! NICHOLAS! What in the world are you doing down there?!! XD ..ahem..are u ..adjusting something??..or pulling something


And the three ah pek posers. James,Kang,Nick.Especially Mr Kang. * cue evil laughter! This is revenge! MUAHAAHAHA*

According to the guys, it was hilarious watching me race in a go kart. Why oh Why do you ask?

Because all i did..and i quote "was break,race,break,race,break,race".

Lol.Due to the fact that it was the first time in my life that ive ever DRIVEN anything before. To the uninitiated, i am 18 going on 19 but still does not have a driving license/P. Neither have i driven any CAR before. So the closest i came to a moving mechanism was on this fateful day ( am being dramatic here.Ignore :P ).

And i think i really boo-ed it :D Heehe. However it was a good experience! I finally,if i can say, SUCCESSFULLY maneouvered something that is actually MOVING. Hehe. So i can say it was an ACHIEVEMENT. Although i did get stuck at the first lap of the race XD


Ps- Thats why i wrote the word "ORDEAL" in inverted commas in the beginning of my post *teehees*


 

Treasure Trove of memories

Digging up an old box is like digging up a treasure trove of memories. I opened just one like it today while I was packing my bedside table (if you can call a makeshift dressing chair a bedside table that is ).

 

This inconspicuous box contained  little knick knacks I have collected through time. In it, I found many  unfinished products. Products of my own toil and labour.  I found 2 unfinished friendship bracelets that was meant for people dear to me in the past –Bern and Yi Wen. Unfortunately the procrastinator in me is still procrastinating till today and as a result it has been hibernating quietly in the box.

 

I also found abandoned short stories of my own creation,bearing with it my trademark unfinished “chop”. It was all scribbled ideas of in little bits of torn paper and very unorganized due to the fact that yours truly didn’t have a personal computer back then to store any of her writings! I even wrote dates of when such ideas came about. The oldest being 12 April 2000! Imagine, unfinished stories from 5 years back!

 

Among my favourites is also the oldest. It was about a certain disfigured man falling in love with a cellist. XD Heheh. YES YES YES. Phantom of the Opera meets aspiring musician cellist instead of a Christine. ;)  I had an obsession with the Phantom of the Opera even way before the abridged version of the book was made a compulsory literary component for Form 2 students and more so before the movie came out this year.

 

I also found one of the many early poems I concocted. Naturally, it was about bidding friendship farewell and was a very very simple four stanza poem with a uncharacteristic rhyming scheme of a,a,a,b. XD LOL. It sounds like the kind that you would put on autograph books :

 

Ode to thee my friend,

May our friendship never end,

With you lady luck I send,

To the ladder of achievement hence.

 

Dated- 15th August 2000.

 

Gosh. I sound so so very young! And simple minded and so not confused and so ..naive and innocent.  Compared to the darker and much more turbulent poems I now read and write,..a vast difference can be seen.

 

I found in that box also, camp booklets from my first ever Scripture Union camp called Project M=Metarmophosis. And memories of the campsite in Cameron Highlands started flooding back.Of being cold and learning. Of Tricia and Kevin Thomas ,Aunty Siew Ching and of Joshua Liew. Also of Soon Yen and Marcus, Eden etc etc. lol. Many many happy memories. Of  finally knowing what a concordance was and quizzing about the Gutenberg Bible. .. sigh..

 

Another camp booklet was the Melaka Missions Camp booklet from way back. I recall clearly that it was through that camp that I finally grew back to Him. I finally realized who I was and what I was supposed to do for him. I remember Pastor Maggie’s poignant  words and messages on my camp booklet.

 

“Remember that God first loved us. All love comes from God.To love and be loved, you have to first love Him”

 

Enclosed with it was also an Anne Geddes notebook tha t I had used as a scribbling book during my MIF years. I found guitar chords written by Ping Xin for me . I  found snippets of Pastor Chi Meei’s sermon in it and doodles of flowers and people and short messages to Wennie and Winnie. Self reminders of what I was supposed to do( I didn’t have a canggih handphone yet at that time. All I had was the basic Nokia 3210 model which supported only SMS-es ,phone calls and Snake) Science formulaes and history notes. * a lot a lot of rubbish *

 

In a way, opening this box is something like opening a pandora’s box, only that the effect of this is not negative but a more positive one. In a way, this box and all its memories, is pushing me to re-write a few of my short stories and poems. ;) Lets cross our fingers and hope that MingChoi the procrastinator doesn’t resurtace again ;)


Posted at 12:38 am by ming2
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Thursday, June 30, 2005
Twilight years Upon Them

I can conclude now with absolute certainty that what it all boils down to is INSECURITY.

Pure INSECURITY on her part.

She's afraid now that as i'm nearing the big 20 that i will forget her.

Fear of losing me i guess. Wait let's cross out the guess part.I am certain.
Very certain.

Haih. Although i can understand her feelings on this matter, it still doesnt mean that i can accept it. She can also say that its her concern for my safety and yes i understand her rationale. But her doing this does not really help her or me for that matter. Ill just grow more restless and angry at the injustice (ie refer to previous post)

Sometimes i question her fear and insecurity that she does not want to admit.

She says that if now, i am constantly going here and there and treating the home like a hotel, what more when i'm working.
Personal comment- You cant predict the future. I think ur just being paranoid la dear..

I guess this is prevalent in all women her age. The fear of losing her own offspring. The fear that we will forget them in their old age. Even though their twilight years is yet to be upon them, the fear is manifesting itself very strongly in women in their 40's ( indirectly taking this to mean my mum).

Tell me, what can i do to assuage this fear in her and at the same time not compromise my freedom?

Posted at 1:19 am by ming2
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