Benji Turned 22

The night before my birthday, I went to watch “Tooth Fairy” with BK, WS, Jason, & Kelvin. After the movie, we stopped by the Mamak stall at Teluk Pulai while fetching Jason home. There’s where I countdown my birthday and started to receive SMS wishes from everyone.

The next morning went to college as usual. Received a call from bro saying will have dinner with the family. So I make a call to my boss to take a half day leave, luckily it’s approved. Went to work after that. Not many people know it’s my birthday today, so everything went quite normal. By around 7pm something, I off my work and my mom came to fetch me to dinner.

We went to T.G.I Friday Subang Parade for our dinner, bro already waiting inside. I get a T-shirt for my birthday present again!! XD My very first visit to T.G.I Friday, by just having a look on the menu already making me drool. I ordered a 2 course meal which includes Boneless Wings & Aboro Half Chicken! Because of my hungriness, I feast on without taking the nice picture of the foods. While dining, I see the other table’s customer celebrating their birthdays too and I also forgot it’s my own birthday also today. I don’t bother much, I just keep eating, the food was too fascinating!!

Until we finished our meal and about to leave. My bro asked us to wait outside the restaurant while he going to pay the bill. But actually he went to complaint inside with the manager. Earlier today, my bro already called them to make reservation and asked them to organize everything such as bring the cake out and sing their Friday version of birthday song. But don’t know whether they’re not really believe that there’s 2 our of 5 people in a table having their birthday(mom & me) and end up nothing happen. They spent about half an hour for this inside. The manager is such a nice person with good attitude, he keep apologizing for the technical problem and VOIDED THE BILL. Means we had Friday’s food for FREE!! They even made a cake instantly for us as another present for us to apologize. My bro already handed them the credit card and printed the receipt out, just waiting for the signature only. Just they don’t feel right to accept the payment anymore. Perhaps it’s their policy to make people “Come for the food; Stay for the fun”. After everything settled,we went back home, the cake is still in the refrigerator. Thank my bro for everything there.

Well, I think this is the first birthday so far without blowing out the candles. Hehe, but I don’t really care, that’s means I’m still 21 years old? Haha!! Anyway, i would like to thanks those who remember to wish me Happy Birthday. I appreciate it very much. =D

Credit for those who wished me via “face to face”:
Kelvin Piah
Ng Boon Kiat
Ng Weng Sheng
Jason Lee
Hui Juin Giap
Jamie Lee
Melissa Lim
Lee Mei Li

Via SMS:
Ng Tuck Long
Ng Weng Sheng
Kelvin Piah
Lim Hui Leng
Joan Yee
Jamie Lee
Tan Huan Huan
Saw Vee Mae
Adam Chooi
Tan Shin Bei
Eddy Ng
William Chooi
Tan Hui Leng
Vinny Tay
Keller Wah
Eric Lee
Lee Wei Li
Lee Jia Wei
Tan Jie Yan
Kua Pei Juin

Via Facebook:
Yeow Shiow Huoy
Tan See Chee
Lim Wan Mum
Gan Neou Wei
Ng Wei Siang
Chee Lee Onn
Joan Yee
Chloee Wong
Jerry Cheah
Jeannie Lim
Kok Hua Hui
Lee Soo Huay
Jason Lee
Lee Wai Jin
Chang Chun Sang
Lee Poh Keong
Lim Hui Leng
Hng Yunya
Andy Chen
Lee Wei Li
Pauline Lim
Tai Shir Gee
Jenny Kor
Sze Xiou Hong
Yat Chun Fai
Tan Jen Lim
Lam Chen Han
Tan Sen Chen
Lee Pei Leng
Alvin Moses
Tan Huan Huan
Lee Chin Yee
Osheenn Giam
Donovan Sim
Ng Jef Fre
Chua Her Seng
Ang Kit Shang
Tan Kai Keat
Lee Sheng Yee
Jane Yap
Josephine Ng
Heng Wei Khang
Wong Ho Kwin
Nithiavanan
Choo Kok Sang
Tan Boon Hooi
Seah Teong Tat
Ng Say Khuan
Tan Chee Long
Saw Vee Mae
Lian Li Peng
Ng V Lyn
Tan Jian Ming
Peter Chow
Tan Chin Siong
Lee Chia Kie
Ranjani
Staphe Ng
Tan Chay Sien

via phone call:
Ng Jef Fre
Gan Lih Ying

I’m Tired

It’s all begin with the departure of HerSeng’s mother to China and he gained himself a total freedom by night time. As he gets too boring during midnight, he dragged Jeffre and JuinGiap out by around 1am for a Project-D session until 4am for 2 consecutive night. They did try to drag me along as well but it’s a red light from me. Until last Friday which the next day is Thaipusam Day, I agree to follow along for another Project-D session after work since many of us already gave a green light. As expected, the session ends around 3am.

The next morning, I need to help out my mom in the kitchen frying “arrowhead” chips. I’ll make another much details post about this later. That has consumed all my time I can spend with the sun. After dinner, I received another call from them again saying there’s another go for the midnight Project-D session. It’s a green from me of course since I’ve spent much enough time at home and I do need some fresh air. And the session goes until 2am something again.

Sunday morning, doing the same thing as Saturday morning until night again. While dinning with my family, there comes another call for Project-D but this time without HerSeng. I still want to play, so I say Yes!! As the timing goes delayed, we somehow started late and ended late as well by around 2am. Next morning still have morning class…

This morning, woke up by around 7am and prepared myself for the 8.30am COM126 class. As expected I keep yawning in the class. Then I have another ENG101 class after that. I fall asleep while watching the video clip projecting on the whiteboard. After classes, TuckLong and I went to EngAnn to catch my lunch and went to Kumon preparing to work while TuckLong came up to have a few peep on his nostalgic working counter. As he went back, I start working until 10pm off work. That’s all the reasons causing my physically tiredness.

As for mentally, I’m tired of thinking too much recently. Put the financial and college fees part aside, I’ve been thinking why can I texting with somebody no matter in Facebook, MSN, or SMS that frequently but can’t really speak when meeting the real person? The pathetic me today suddenly have an urge to take up an experiment on this issue. I purposely went to top up my cell phone to send her an invitation for dinner. But too bad she already had it with her friends. And I just lost my mood when things doesn’t really come that smoothly, so I just say “maybe next time” again.

Perhaps I really shouldn’t think that much anymore, I’m tired…

Enter The College

After all the wandering, striving, errand running, deciding which college I should really walk in to since the local university application has turned me down twice and considering the financial status I’m current at, the final decision I’ve taken is get myself enrolled into HICT.

I enrolled into the January intake and there are 2 days of orientation with the freshmen on 4th and 5th of January. Orientation, what would I expect? A bunch of “fresh meats” enrolled together also of course! But unfortunately, it’s really like letting me down from heaven to hell! A total disappointment! Only 4/10 of the freshmen are female. And among the females, only 2/4 are Chinese which is both of them are transferred students from other college previously from HUC & Sunway College. Both type are over “Hiao” and totally not my kind of meat to devour. Yawn~

Wipe off the orientation part, classes finally get started. The first class I had was quite fortunate because I’m having the class with some familiar faces around, TuckLong and his gang was in the same class! It helped a lot so I won’t really have a phobia on the first class being all alone and strangers all around. The rest of the classes after that aren’t going that smooth as the timetable haven’t settle down. Classes keep on cancelled and there are times I went there for nothing. I went to check out the updates regarding my exempted subjects, they asked me to fill up another piece of form which they should ask me to fill it earlier. Now things are still pending, guess I should pending the fees as well. Hah!!

As all the classes has settle down, thinking I can finally go on a stable and scheduled routine at both college and working. Was quite happy with all the classes I had as I’m somehow longed for something like this. Until today, it really pissed me off. The day before today, yesterday, the student council president came into our class distributing invitation letters to us saying tomorrow will have an event for the freshmen and seniors for a deeper interaction made me have to wake up early in the morning to day while I hardly get some sleep in order to finish the tutorial given in the maths class yesterday. I’m so eager to get the answer today in order to know how much my brain has rusted. But somehow the event has took the time more than it stated, while the lecturer did mention yesterday that she don’t like her student to enter her class late. Most of the event organizer members are going into that class too, did not want to enter the class and rather staying at the platform shaking their booties. They even made a letter out requesting to change the lecturer, saying the lecturer not good enough. They made me missed out that class. I got frustrated myself thinking that college students nowadays only know how to complaint is it? They don’t really try their best in their studies and rather spend their time on the activities just to shake their booties. They just come here to have fun that’s all. By the time they get their results, if it’s not good enough, their probably would just go and complaint again thinking that is their rights. Duh~

Well, guess that’s all I could complaint so far. I still want the answers for the tutorial!!

Something I’ve Missed Out

• Went to Genting Highland with family and my uncle’s family on 31st of December 2009. Was planned to watch the fireworks there as for celebrating the coming of the new year. But ended up jammed in the middle of the crowd while counting down. Didn’t even get to see a bit of firework also. Boring case, I felt meaningless going up there this time. The worst countdown ever.
• Finally, I owned a goggle myself. Arena AGL-9300! A tool which have boosted my courage dramatically while in the swimming pool.
• Big boss Wilson 22nd birthday at Neway Centro. The first among us who turned 22. Too bad I didn’t bring my camera along and no picture taken that day. Sorry boss and Happy 22nd Birthday again!!
• Lastly, I have started my college finally. I guess I need to make a more details post regarding this. From the orientation day to all the circumstances I face there.

Until here this time, will update again… =D

Christmas 2009 #4 – Finale

Calls chasing, keep rushing, car drifting, where to?
To another Christmas party and celebrating my superior’s birthday as well.
Obviously my attendance was so late that time, everyone was already there that time.
I already have my dinner that time, so all i had that night there was just a can of Calsberg.
As the last person arrived, a punishment has sentenced to me.
They want me to do some performance similar to MJ in his Earth Song.
But I refused, still I need to make something up that peoples around will laugh. And they made me do this.
Mr.BoonKiat is very kind for willing to be my side dancer… LOL

Anyhow, the main objective that night is still celebrating MeiLi’s birthday after 12am. Happy Birthday, I won’t expose how many candle was there. XD
 
Peoples dismissed themselves 1 by 1 after that. Left most of the men still fooling around there playing with the puppies there. By around 1am, it’s time for everyone to dismiss. And that’s the end of my Christmas 2009.

I know it’s very late to post about all these, but I seriously hard to find some time to blog as the PC has moved to the living room. You know, it’s hard to write things out when you feel like someone is starring on what you’re typing especially my sis who’d keep asking questions and being busybody. I only have around 1 hour time to spend with my blog recently which is when my sister went to bed and before my bro is back. Time is not enough?

Christmas 2009 #3 – Wedding Dinner

Okay, the night is finally here. I got my hair set up and attired myself with the maroon shirt which I used as my Interact Club uniform previously, but I paired it with jeans and my Reebok. Looks stupid though. There’s a serious problem occurred that time, my FE-320 battery is dying and I forgot to charge it when I went home that time. I brought my charger out and charge up as much as I could in the VIP room. My mom ask me to help out on placing the guests, I blur case. I prefer to sit on the table placed for us and wait for the food as I haven’t spotted anything ‘edible’ yet… Haha!
The venue is Grand Imperial at Centro by the way. As the ceremony about to start, they messed up with some technical problem. The dishes released in a wrong timing, the keep repeating the ceremony for several times. Not long after the dishes is served and everyone started to dine, some of my mother’s cousin already start interacting with each other. The first to approach us would be that couple of aunty(Annie I guess) & uncle(don’t know his name) on the top right of the photo below.

Now only i realised that my dad also in maroon that day. Haha!
And here comes the AngMo Uncle Mark on the left.
 
He went to visit the next table which all is my closer cousins that can be found in Klang(my mother’s siblings and children) with Aunty Jo(AngMo’s wife / my mom’s cousin).
 
And now the other cousin of my mom from Singapore(Aunty Jennifer) came to our table for a visit with her daughter, and I caught the first contact of her with my cousin brother who I always play Dynasty Warriors with. He finally let go of his PSP! Haha! Look how happy is the Aunty behind.
 
Enter the bride and bridegroom…

They have a live band performing on the stage… Cool~

Wedding cake and…

Champagne ceremony after that.
 
And everyone started to cam-whore-ing!
The juniors…

The Klangz goes “tar”~!!!
 
I feel not right about this, I should hunt some pictures from those far cousins, not those from Klang which I can always meet up with. I pretend to move to the centre and catch some elders photo.

And here comes the chance! They stand just beside us!!

With the AngMo family! XD

The children…

  And 2 Singaporeans joins in! Start with all the girls!

Add 2 guys behind there.

Lastly add myself in there. I should’ve stand on the other side!

Cam-whore!!

I dragged my sis along to use her as my Vanguard! Haha! From the previous post I’ve mentioned about taking a nap at my YiPoh’s house. While napping, I heard some conversation as I’m not fully dead sleep. Aunty Linda(bottom left from the picture above, also from Singapore) asked my YiPoh “who is this sleeping here? Ben is it?” I’m grateful that my name is still being remembered, that’s why I went to have a picture with her and her daughters. One of the picture I’m most proud of that night.
The banquet has came to the finale. For the local peoples, they would simply pat their asses off the chair after all the dishes has finish serving and move out to shake hand with the bride and bridegroom and bye. Surprisingly, this time I see those from far distance stay back and have photo session around with everyone. Of course we joined in but unfortunately my FE-320 battery is out in a moment like this. I have no choice but to use any sources I could to save this moment, using my close cousin’s camera seems ideal. And my bro made it just in time here after his party from somewhere else. Here comes a big group of seniors.

All the juniors! I should fill into the empty space in the middle~
 
End up a Klang giant filled it in. Take a closer look at the picture below, I’m on phone, with TuckLong. XD

Last shot, all in~!!!

The main character of the night should be the bride and bridegroom, but I somehow did not mention much about them in the post, haha!! Who cares, this is my blog and of course I’ll write more about myself. Anyhow I wish they’ll have a wonderful marriage and have kids soon! XD

After I’m done with my business here, I rushed to the next venue…
To be continued…

Christmas 2009 #2 – Aunty Ivy’s Wedding

Continue from the previous post, late but still want to post. After a great night hanging out with friends at The Curve, the next early morning around 7am something I already been summoned by my mom to move out to my aunt’s house. This aunt of mine was one of the closest cousin to my mom, so it’s normal for my mom to sent out both of her sons to help out in the wedding. The first thing we do when we reach is of course pay the bride a visit first. Mom and aunty Ivy.

Me and my bro’s turn.
 
Then we just go help out in arranging the tables and chairs outside for all the guest that will be coming later. By around 8am something(if I’m not mistaken), the bridegroom and his gang strike on with all their car horn all the way. While inside the house is still preparing, They all having they seat outside.

As for the preparation, the bridegroom are required to answer all the questions below.

If answered wrongly, one of the gang member will have to choose one of these and drink it all up. Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Spicy~

Being questioned…

As for the matter of timing, they simply let them go through after that. And they easily ramped in the bride’s room.

After that is the formal Chinese wedding praying ceremony as for “reporting” to the great grand generation. You know what I’m talking about in the picture below.

And of course the well known tea serving ceremony from the bride and bridegroom to the parents.

While the youngsters will get AngPow!! XD
 
My AngMo far cousins gets AngPow!! Haha!!
 
A photographing session for everyone was on after that.

When it’s about 10am something, it’s time for the bride to leave her family house and proceed to the bridegroom’s resident.
 
Everyone ride on the bridegroom’s gang member’s ride and go wander around Klang town and finally reach the bridegroom’s resident which is just in a walking distance from my aunt’s house. Yeah it’s just nearby.
 
There isn’t anything interesting happening at the bridegroom’s side as I’m not familiar with the surrounding. So I rather walk myself back to my “Yi Poh”(my aunt’s mother) house and get some rest there. More and more guests and relative from far away was showing up at my YiPoh’s house while I was napping which I think myself being kind of rude to them. When my mom woke me up as it’s about time to leave and go home prepare, I see some of my mom’s cousins from Singapore and asking her “Hey who’s that boy?” (pointing me). “My second I heard my mom says” and follow by her cousin says “Wah! Grown up already hor~ These are my childrens!” I spotted SuiGe!! So my mom asked me to step up and have a slight introduction with them and of course I did. Tell my name and shake hands with them in a very sleepy look. Then off we back home and prepare for the dinner that night. Then I suddenly snapped out from my dizziness and think why don’t I interact more with them just now!!?? Oh c’mon! They are such rare cousins to be meet who came from far distance, why let the chance swept away like that!! My mom told me that we used to know each other when we was still small but I totally have no image about that in my mind, my bro still remember though when I ask him. So I determined myself saying that “Tonight!! will be the night I’ll get a closer interaction with them!!”

Tonight! The flower will bloom madly!! XD

To be continue…