Tao

This evening, we went to Tao, a Japanese buffet restaurant in Sunway Giza, for a super belated Fathers' Day dinner. We were supposed to go there on Fathers' Day, but it was fully packed so we went today instead. But before that, this afternoon, I helped my brother record a drum cover of Move Along by The All-American Rejects. 

check out the cover here

Then in the evening, we went to Tao! :D 

the place where you pick your food and they'll BBQ it for you with their special sauce.
yum.

the deco. just empty soy sauce bottles.

appetizers.
frosted cashew nuts & chawanmushi in cute cups.

of course there are more food than these, but I felt a little awkward snapping photos of all the stuff there.

raw oysters. tried one for the first time and EWWWW.

what my dad did with leftover food.

dessert! 

 AND THE BEST DISH EVER:

that's oysters in cheese. THE BEST THING EVER.

family being jakun.

HAPPY BELATED FATHERS' DAY :)

Even she doesn't.

Her chapped lips are turned down slightly at the corners. Her hair is tied up in a loose ponytail that falls limply down her back. Her fringe is way too long, covering her round eyes, making her look a little sad. She stares into blank space with her mind crammed with jumbled thoughts, making no sense of a single one. Dark circles rim her eyes and her eyelids threaten to close. Her face has become paler than usual, emphasizing her sickly appearance. Her arms are crossed tightly across her chest, and a small frown is hidden under the thick fringe. Her legs are crossed in an "un-ladylike" fashion, making her look defiant. She breathes in and out slowly, letting her mind drift. She doesn't feel like doing anything. She doesn't want to talk to anyone. Her mind is overflowing, and in one second, she lets herself go idle. No one knows what's happening to her.

Even she doesn't.

day of the papas.

Every single year
He says he's thirty-nine
I ask him why he insists on that
He says he doesn't wanna cross the 'forty' line

He's wacky and funny
Just like a crazy clown
And he knows just what to do
Whenever I'm feeling down

'Your dad always looks fierce'
People always tell me
I'm like, 'No, what on earth?
He's as funny as can be.'

My dad likes 'Thrift Shop'
And also 'Locked Out Of Heaven'
And 'Somebody I Used To Know'
He's so 'in'... I can't even

He tries to keep in trend
By spiking his hair with wax
Everyone notices his hairdo
Which looks awesome to the max

My daddy can be strict
He's disciplined me quite a few
I remember once he hit me
My thigh had a reddish hue

But my dad is so loving
With his affectionate embrace
But you'll never know when he'll start tickling you
Accompanied by a devilish look on his face!

Daddy, you are awesome
No one else can replace you
And throughout this life
I pray that God rules in whatever you do :)

I LOVE YOU DADDY.

HAPPY DADDY'S DAY. <3

Over and done.

So it's been a pretty lackadaisical two weeks. School holidays were driving me crazy. Having done the last Malay paper this morning, I'm feeling really excited to go to school tomorrow.

I mean, who wouldn't be, right? It's CCC, for goodness' sake! Carmen and I have already agreed to reach super early just to choose our seats. I'm going to take the time to do some exploring. :B

Over the past few days, I've been so unproductive. I think I'd overused my oomph in the first few days of holiday, during which I completed quite a lot of work. After that... Not so much. I'm practically forcing myself to sit behind my desk and finish the rest of my holiday homework (failing miserably, btw).

So, tomorrow's the first official day of school, with a new classroom, a new schedule, and...

A student ID card!

We have to submit an IC-sized photo of ourselves to the school so that they can use them for our student cards. Kind of excited for that, too.

Aaaand. At CCC, we don't have access to any outside restaurants like we did at Damansara Perdana. So, there is going to be a food caterer. I didn't register for the catering service though; I am guilty of being quite the picky eater. So I'm going to have a packed lunch everyday, prepared by none other than my mom. Gotta love my mother. So pampered.

*yes; mashed potatoes, pasta or fried maggi for lunch. P: *

Here's my student photo. I look high.

school holidays.

It's June already! Time flies. 

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This week mainly consisted of math, add math, piano and more add math. I think a small part of my brain has already exploded from the three continuous nights of Additional Mathematics holiday homework. Well, on the bright side, at least I finished it! :D

Also, these few days, I've been grabbing the chance to practice my piano since I kind of have nothing else to do. Three days in a row, I just played scales. Just to get the feel back into my fingers. This morning, I woke up with an aching left hand. Have I mentioned that my left hand is weaker than my right?

This two weeks, I've also started on an (for once) adult novel, Still Alice by Lisa Genova.

It's about a fifty-year-old woman with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, and man, this book is depressing. But Lisa Genova has some good writing skills; easy to read, but filled with emotion and meaning. I'm halfway through and I'm hooked. As you can see, it's a New York Times Bestseller. This book didn't get the award for nothing.

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So tomorrow's a big day! On the 6th of June, 2013, at 9 a.m., my classmates and I are going to take our IGCSE Malay Language written exam, Paper 2. We don't take Paper 1. Paper 3 is the oral test and we already did that few months back. Paper 4 is the essay paper which is held on Monday, 10th of June. This is sad because the 10th of June is supposedly our first day at CCC, but we have the exam. So we STILL don't get to see our classrooms when school reopens.

I'm way less nervous as compared to how I felt before the oral exam. But then again, I'm better at written Malay, but ultra-bad-until-it's-embarrassing at spoken Malay. I'm maybe a quarter fluent at Malay. Or one-fifth. I don't know.

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Oh, and my family went on a vacation to Penang and Hatyai (yes, Thailand) and we took tons of photos. But we had no idea where our photos went. We just found them two days ago, yay! 

Here's a throwback photo from our Penang trip, December 2012.

yup.