Rainy Days and Fast Food

It's been quite a wet week with pouring rain almost every evening or night. I've never really love rain because of the dullness it brings. Well, maybe not 'never' but I seldom like rainy days...except of course, I want to visit slumber land or that I'm feeling 'artistic' (sometimes I like to look at the irregular lines of water sliding down windows or the flashes of lightning across the sky, lighting up the whole dark horizon).

Anyway, after class on Monday (thanks to T1, we T2 have a better timetable XD), Sarah, Ju and I decided to go to Section 14. Our first stop is Public Bank since our main purpose is to accompany Sarah to the bank to pay her school fees. As expected, it was raining quite heavily. Due to this reason, Ju suggested we have our lunch somewhere nearby; by that, it means either MC D or Pizza Hut.

We were deeply engaged in conversation on fast food and other types of food when the corners of my eyes caught a familiar silhouette... It's Dr.Carmen.

We went over to the other side of the bank and greeted her. She was with her boyfriend. After a brief talk, we resume our seats.

S: Eh...Do you think she heard us talking about fast food huh? Haha!
J: No kua... She's on the other side of the bank...so far...
(Sarah left her seat and headed towards the counter)

Ju: Eh...Imagine we were in MC D and we were just about to bite a burger when Dr.Carmen pass by and saw us.
(She moved her hands as if she was holding an invisible burger. The imaginary burger stopped before entering her mouth. The face was of shocking expression... like the picture below...)

Both of us laughed out loud. Thats Ju...Always funny and dramatic! XD

Chinese Banana?! !

Definition of Chinese Banana:

Urban Dictionary- An Asian-American who has lost their heritage. Yellow on the outside, white on the inside.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chinese+bananas

Wiktionary- (mildly pejorative, slang) A person, especially a woman, of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/banana

The Racial Slur Database- An Asian-American who has lost their heritage. Yellow on the outside, white on the inside.
http://gyral.blackshell.com/names.html

goingbananas.org- Banana, in the unlikely event that you’re not aware of its new metaphorical meaning, describes Asians (not necessarily Chinese, I think) who culturally are no longer exclusively Asian. Having absorbed an unspecified degree of the culture known as European for want of a better word, they are said to be, like the banana , yellow on the outside and white on the inside.
http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:0DDNxknUAaEJ:www.goingbananas.org.nz/PDF/IB_Brians_Column.doc+definition+of+banana+chinese&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=59

Now, see the above criteria and tell me, Which part of definition above describes ME as a Chinese banana?! I'll argue with anyone who said I'm a banana because:-
1. I'm NOT an Asian American nor Chinese American.
2. I did NOT lost my heritage.
3. I'm NOT really assimilated into the Western culture. I read Chinese books (mostly by Jin Yong 金庸 which uses Traditional Chinese), read Chinese newspapers, listen to Chinese songs, watch Chinese dramas and most importantly SPEAK Mandarin (it's my mother tongue and I can say I'm quite fluent in Mandarin. Yes! More fluent than English!)

So tell me why you think I'm a banana? If I am one, then you are too!!!
My roommate said I'm half a banana because I have better knowledge of English. What the heck! If I'm a banana because of THAT then everyone IS a BANANA because everyone knows English (including you)!

She then pointed out my English is better than her so I'm a banana and she's not. Okie...Although my English is better than her but her English is better than somebody else. So can I say she is also a banana too?! Can I?!

If I'm a banana just because I'm taking English course, then what am I before I take this course? Would YOU say YOU ARE a banana too because you study English in your primary and secondary school?!

Yes, I'm not from Chinese primary school. So what? I can still speak Mandarin fluently! My sister is NOT from Chinese primary school too but her Chinese is BETTER than those from Chinese school. If those who are not from Chinese school can beat those from Chinese school, would you still call them Banana? So call yourself a banana! It's a shame! Mandarin has always been my mother tongue. So if I can speak Mandarin fluently and still being called a banana, then what are you? Also a Banana?!!

I'm a banana because I read lots of English books? YOU WATCH A LOT OF ENGLISH MOVIES TOO!!

Obviously, I am NOT a Chinese Banana! Mandarin has always been my mother tongue. In fact, I think it's quite RUDE to call people a banana. I've never been called a banana before I came to UTAR. I don't know why I AM consider one here in PJ. Think for yourself! I'm of NO difference from you all! If I am a banana, then SO ARE YOU!!!

*Yes! I'm quite pissed off while writing this blog!

Fact or Myth?

Get your facts right before believing in rumours.

RUMOUR 1
Description: Coke+ mentos = coke eruption

Fact or myth: FACT

Explanation:
Water molecules strongly attract each other, linking together to form a tight mesh around each bubble of carbon dioxide gas in the soda. To form a new bubble, water molecules must push away from one another. It takes extra energy to break this surface tension . So, in other words, water resists the expansion of bubbles in the soda.

When mentos is dropped into the coke, the gelatin and gum arabic of Mentos break the surface tension. This disrupts the water mesh, so that it takes less work to expand and form new bubbles.

Each Mentos candy has thousands of tiny pits all over the surface. These tiny pits are called nucleation sites - perfect places for carbon dioxide bubbles to form. As soon as the Mentos hit the soda, bubbles form all over the surface of the candy.

The Mentos quickly sink to the bottom, causing carbon dioxide to be released by the carbonated liquid with which they come into contact along the way.

Source: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000109


RUMOUR 2
Description: Mentos and coke consumed together resulted in ruptured stomach. (This is an EXTREMELY POPULAR myth that has been sent to me several times but dear friends, it is a MYTH!!!)

Fact or myth: MYTH

Explanation:
When we drink Coke, the high temperature in the mouth causes the release of carbon dioxide . Thus, there is only a small amount of carbon dioxide left to be released when Mentos is added. This tiny amount of CO2 will be released later through a burp. There goes all the CO2!! ^_^


RUMOUR 3
Description: A tooth left in a glass of Coca-cola for 10 days will dissolve into nothing. (due to the acidity of coke)

Fact or myth: MYTH

Explanation:
Although the acidity of a coke is stronger than that of a vinegar, it is still not strong enough to dissolve a tooth TOTALLY in 10 days time.

An experiment has been conducted where a tooth is soaked in a glass of coke for 20 days- double the days as stated in the rumour. The tooth is still much intact after 20 days. This busted the rumour that coke can dissolve a tooth in 10 days.

Soda drink. (-0.18g)


Coke without bubbles.

Coke (-0.25g)

* Anything acidity still can decay our teeth although it might not totally dissolve them. Hence, it is better to not drink too much Coca-cola! ^_^

Tagged!!

1. What disappoints you the most?

What disappoints me most??Oh sorry...I'm supposed to answer question. Haha! erm...When things doesn't turn out as expected?

2. Where will you go if someone sponsors you a tour ticket?

That's hard!! Let it be either England, Australia, France, Holand, Switzerland, America, Iceland, Finland, New Zealand,.. oh my!! There are so many to name! :P

3. What's your favorite thing to do?

Reading

4. Do you think money can buy happiness?

To a certain extent,yes.

5. If you can have one dream to come true, what would it be?

Everyone happy and healthy.

6. Do you believe you can survive without money?

Not sure... test me,anyone!

7. What are you afraid to lose the most?

Family and friends

8. If you win $1 million, what would you do?

Another question with multi answers..haha! Let me see...save, travel, buy books, charity, give some to my parents, my education, etc...

9. What is the most embarrassing thing that happened to you recently?

Recently? Hmm...I remembered wrongly the time of my lessons and turned up in class at the wrong time twice. :P

10. Give a reason why you want to die ?

Can't find the answer to this, seriously.

11. What makes you happy?

Being with my family makes me happy.

12. what have you wished most recently?

I just had my birthday wishes a few days ago...lol! I wish that everyone will be happy and healthy always. And what you all wish for will come true! Nice ler~haha!

13. What is your ambition?

It's ever changing.

14. If you could have a superpower, what would it be?

For the moment, to fly.

15. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?

love ( every type of love you can think of)

16. What do you do when you're alone?

Reading, watching tv, sleeping.

17. If you have a chance, which part of your character would you like to change?

I've been very forgetful recently so I would like to change that.lol!

18. Which one do you prefer: People who are over-friendly and those who hates socialising?

people who are over-friendly.

19. What is your least favourite animal?

Ferocious-looking animal.

20. What is your ultimate addiction?

Books.

Instructions: Remove 1 question from above, and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 5 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.

Ish...You've tagged almost everyone in class!! Who am I suppose to tag now?!! Let me see who else in blogspot can I tag...
1. KahJoon! (I don't have any choices, KJ. Viv tagged all of our classmates in blogspot except u.)
2. Jonathan Chu ( sorry... There's no one else I could tag)
3. Anyone who wants to be tagged!
4. Anyone at all!
5. Anyone! XD

*I almost tag our class blog! If I did, that means you have to do it,viv! XD

Flogos

Wonder what it is? A bird? Of course not! Balloon? No!!UFO?? Certainly not!! No idea? Haha! It's a flogo! (flying logo)

It's a brilliant idea of a company who actually makes "cloud" in the shape of, well, anything!!

Flogos are actually a mixture of soap-based foams and gases such as helium (so that it is lighter than the air). It is a modified version of artificial snow where artificial snow machines are used to generate flogos as a new type of ads- floating ads!

An artificial snow machine can generate one flogo every 15 seconds. Pretty fast huh..

It can generally float up to the height of 90-150 meters and can last for a few minutes to an hour depending on the conditions in the atmosphere.

The inventors claimed that flogos are environmental friendly as the soap used are derived from plants and that eventually the flogos would just evaporate without a trace.

Besides that, flogos will not pose any dangers to airplanes because flogos are like clouds. Airplanes flying through a flogo would be like "flying through clouds".

Creative isn't it? So if you happen to see a flogo one day, don't mistake it as a UFO or a balloon! It's a flying ad! A flogo!

Advance Birthday Surprises

J- Jeannie(me)
H- Ho Wen Keun (roommate)
L- Lee Lin Jie ( housemate)
P- Loo Boon Pei (housemate)
B- Boey Oi Yoke (housemate)
S- Su Koh Li (housemate)
F- Fion (housemate)
A- Albert (housemate)

My bedroom door opened and my roommate's short-haired head popped in. The door was pushed further ajar and I could see Lin Jie beside my roommate.
The light from my room half-flooded the dark corridor outside, casting long shadows of the two. The corridor was dark. Maybe not totally dark...There was some kind of orange light. I couldn't see the source of the orange light.

"This is strange," I thought. "Is there a blackout?"

"Couldn't be...The lamp and fan in my room is still on," I shook the thought away. Duh!I don't care what's happening. I was too tired to bother myself with this.

H: Big sis (they call me big sis), can you come out for a while?
J: Why?
L: Big sis...[ she looked upset and exhausted] Help me...something's wrong with my laptop...can you come and see what's wrong with it? [ she put up a more exhaustive face]
J: What happened to your laptop? Hang?
L: Dunno...Can you come and take a look?
H: Come faster la!! Don't hesitate la...aduh!
J: Ok ok...

I walked out to the dark corridor outside. Something behind the wall moved out of hiding...

J: AHHHHHHH- [ halfway through the scream, I stopped.] H,L,P,B,F,A,S: Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you~~~~~

I patted my chest...They really gave me a fright. I thought...forget about it...
This was a surprise birthday party, not some spooky event so I'll skip what I thought.haha!

Almost all my housemates were there, singing birthday song in half darkness.
Aha! So that's the source of the orange light! Candle light!

I was momentarily stunned. But I was touched too. I did not expect this. Bless them.

We ate the cake...or shall I say ate and played with the cake. They were attacking each other with cream. Thanks to Lin Jie who started this by attacking me and Oi Yoke for making things
worse.

The whole night was chaotic. Everybody was chasing everybody else, trying to attack as many people they can reached. Eventually, Albert shut himself in the bathroom, my roommate and Lin Jie shut themselves in my room. The living room, stairs, landing,...EVERYWHERE was a total mess.

Cream all over the face...



However, I have to admit I rather enjoyed myself that night; playing and laughing till my stomache hurts.

Hey! Don't think I forgot you guys! While cleaning up, I was thinking how fortunate I am to have such good friends. A few days I just received some wonderful presents from my coursemates and now this!

Want to know what are the gifts I received? Okok...I'll show you. Proud to show you what you all have given me.Hehe!


Amy's gift (I've tried it on, Amy! And it fits! Yay!)


Sue Sin's gift (okok...I got your message...I'll TRY to sleep early.hahaha!)


Sharwin's gift ( Thanks! It's cute! ;) )


Bought by Amy- contains wishes from most of you (even Dr.Carmen! Surprise indeed!)


Packed with birthday wishes...


Yeevon wants to be unique... She's the only person writing at the back page instead of the main middle pages. Haha!

People Are All The Same

Are you ugly? Are you not? What do you think of yourself? Does it Matter to be ugly? What say you?

Ugly is a song by Sugababes. I heard it by chance when my roommate played the song and I'm loving it. I think it's more than just a song. It is a piece of advice. It shows us how we should perceive on ugliness...What's ugly anyway? Is it base on your looks or personality? Maybe you can find the answer in the song...

UGLY (by Sugarbabes)

When I was 7
They said I was strange
I noticed that my eyes and hair weren't the same
I asked my parents if I was OK
They said you're more beautiful
And that's the way they show that they wish
They had your smile
So my confidence was up for a while
I got real comfortable with my own style
I knew that they were only jealous cos

People are all the same
And we only get judged by what we do
Personality reflects name
And if I'm ugly then
So are you
So are you

There was a time when I felt like I cared
That I was shorter than everyone there
People made me feel like life was unfair
And I did things that made me ashamed
Cos I didn't know my body would change
I grew taller than them in more ways
But there will always be the one who will say
Something bad to make them feel great

People are all the same
And we only get judged by what we do
Personality reflects name
And if I'm ugly then
So are you
So are you

People are all the same
And we only get judged by what we do
Personality reflects name
And if I'm ugly then
So are you
So are you

Everybody talks bad about somebody
And never realises how it affects somebody
And you bet it won't be forgotten
Envy is the only thing it could be

Cos people are all the same
(The same, the same)
And we only get judged by what we do
(What we do, yeah, yeah)
Personality reflects name
And if I'm ugly then
(Yeah, you)
So are you
So are you

People are all the same
(Oh, oh, oh)
And we only get judged by what we do
(What we do, yeah)
Personality reflects name
And if I'm ugly then
(Yeah, so are you)
So are you
So are you