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Fiona has left on a jet plane~ sob sob

Two of the few things I like about Chinese New Year are angpow and public holiday. Other than that, everything sucks. Shops are closed and most of my friends aren’t around. Today, I combed the entire OUG for food. None were open. I had to resort to leftover economic rice sold by one of the rare shops that were open.

Then I wanted to get a haircut. And sadly, the entire stretches of saloons were closed due to Chinese New Year.

Since no Chinese eateries were open, for the past 3 days, I have been eating McDonalds, lunch, lunch and breakfast. I heard about this guy who did an experiment on himself by eating fast food for 30 days, 3 meals a day. After 30 days, his cholesterol level shot up, his liver was poisoned and his entire health deteriorated. I was immediately disgusted by that news and skipped McDonalds on Day 4!

January 22, 2004 — LAST February, Morgan Spurlock decided to become a gastronomical guinea pig.

His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald’s and document the impact on his health.

Scores of cheeseburgers, hundreds of fries and dozens of chocolate shakes later, the formerly strapping 6-foot-2 New Yorker – who started out at a healthy 185 pounds – had packed on 25 pounds.

But his supersized shape was the least of his problems.

Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock’s entire body deteriorated.

“It was really crazy – my body basically fell apart over the course of 30 days,” Spurlock told The Post.

His liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered headaches and depression.

Spurlock charted his journey from fit to flab in a tongue-in-cheek documentary, which he has taken to the Sundance Film Festival with the hopes of getting a distribution deal.

More @ http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/16393.htm

“entire body deteriorated”…hmmm hey! you can actually lose weight with McDs!! *ngam *ngam *ngammm

Mum, Dad and I finally had our replacement Reunion Dinner. Well, we had it at Hard Rock Café as initially suggested by Dad. In the beginning, I was having doubt whether or not to have dinner there because my mum is a vegetarian. Fortunately, Hard Rock Café serves Fried Rice (she liked it). Dad and I on the other hand had pork roast and lamb chop. We ended the dinner with cheesecake and ice cream! YUMMY! 😀

Brissy friends
I finally got to meet up with my Brisbane friends, Sharon and Fiona. I had coffee and headed to Zing’s house to gamble. To them, our RM1 is just 50 cents to them, so they were happily gambling all night long.

I’m planning to bring them clubbing tonight but I’m afraid that club will be dead tonight due to Chinese New Year. Let’s see how it goes later..

Guess where I had my reunion dinner? Obviously not Hard Cock café, not Esquire Kitchen (it was closed) and not 6 Happiness Restaurant (our backup plan in case Esquire Kitchen is close). We tried many other restaurants but most of them were either closed or full house.

So in the end, Dad, Mum and I were forced to have our reunion dinner at a mamak stall.

Anyway, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR FROM ALL OF US AT WWW.XES.CX!

gaH*

Boss strolls out of his office… looks at me funny… and says, “Eh aren’t you on leave?? Why never apply leave??”

But but but.. . . .

gAH*

I could have gone shopping for my new year clothes today – yes, I know it is very last minute but no, I already got some new starchies but due to some unforeseen circumstances, I have to get new ones. So little time!!! I reckon most shops will be closed by the time I get out of the office, but let?s just see my luck.

With Chinese New Year, comes the Yee Sang (which is a very Malaysian thing, I heard) where we will miss Kim’s presence even more coz whenever we start to ‘lou’ (mix?) the yee sang with chopsticks, she tends to get a little bit too enthusiastic. By the time we are all done, we have to pick out the bits and pieces of salad from our hair and clothes. 😀

Chen is on the road back to his kampung as I type this and sigh, miss him already. He will be away for so long? Ok maybe just 4 days but that would be the longest time away from him in a really long time! 🙁 Hope he remembers he has girl back here in KL.. (yoohoo! Dear?? *waves arms a bit*)

Ok since he isn?t around, I shall take advantage of that to blog about him. 😀

Today would be our 8th month together but it feels much longer though. 8 months together and not once has he opened a door for me. 😛 It?s a familiar scene ? swing open, he walks out, swings close and with me staring at the closed door or attempting to catch the closing door. 😛 And that?s coz we are so comfortable together already – so what for?, he thinks. HE thinks, mind you. But of course, with those 8 months, I have gotten used to that? I merely assumed that he would get to the gentlemanly traits a little later into the relationship. I am still waiting though. 🙂 And yet, the absence of that trait has actually become quite charming in the individualistic sorta way…

Alrites, should find something to do and look busy in the office, before they start to find things for me to do. So before I end this post – Everybody, HAVE A HAPPY GLORIOUS CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!

According to recent scientific reports, it states that human feelings such as love, hunger, anger, lust and happiness are induced by chemicals in the human body. Well, it seems the human body is the thing that creates feelings for us. If we take the body away, what do we have? A soul? What kind of soul? A soul with no feelings due to the fact that the body is no longer there to provide chemicals?

Religions promised us heaven, the land of eternal happiness. But here, the body is no longer there to provide the chemicals to make us happy. How can there be eternal happiness?

Despite that, I never doubt the existence of a greater force. There was once I doubted the existence of a greater force, but until Abby Lu told me this,

“Imagine there’s this community of ants eking out their existence within an ant hill.

And one day, a person was to stumble across this ant hill and started to kick it, destroy it, or clear it.

To these ants, who have a very simple and no prior knowledge of external force.. it would seem as though, that human was very powerful indeed.

And that human.. could be to their simple minds.. a God..”

Yesterday, after lunch with Sui Lin @ Damansara McDonalds, we headed to Regent Hotel with Gavin to attend the Monash Pre Departure briefing. It’s basically a talk telling everyone what to expect and what to do in Australia.

There’s a Monash campus located next to a beach. God damn it, it’s damn cool. If I get to study there, I could literally throw my books and go for a swim everyday! But now, my god damn college is located on a dead end street, surrounded by printing shops. Everyday, we are subjected to hard thumping Indian and Bangra music…

We were given notepads, pencils and survey forms to fill up. Out of boredom, I filled my survey form with these answers

What is your main purpose of attending this briefing?
To check out the hot chicks!

Are you satisfied with the briefing and why?
No! No free food and not many hot chicks!

What else do you want to know from the briefing?
Whether or not drugs and weapons are easily accessible

Please fill up your details
Gayvin Tan (Tel: 016-XXXXXXXX)

I wanted to hand up the survey form but unfortunately, I couldn’t find the person who were supposed to collect the form 😀