Wuz goin on?!!

I haven't been updating properly about my life because A. I've been busy and B. I'm actually finding it a bit difficult to actually put interesting and potentially incriminating bits of my life up on the internet for the public's viewing pleasure. but then again what are the chances that anyone actually cares?

Anyway, it's Chinese New Year right now so basically the office is... dead. No one is here. Oh right before I forget Happy Chinese New Year!!


This past weekend, I spent Saturday catching up on doing nothing, Sunday meeting a boy for coffee in the morning and having Chinese New Year dinner with the family, on Monday meeting another boy for tea in the evening and on Tuesday watching Valentine's Day with my mom and going for a Chinese New Year party at night. So I'm guessing the whole - had beverages with a boy sentences - didn't escape you. Don't worry I didn't suddenly acquire a life by being really outgoing and asking out people/having people ask me out. Let's just say that there's an arrangement for me to meet different boys and I guess we have to see if we get along and then I suppose we are eventually supposed to get married, have kids and then grow to resent each other. In any case, if you want more details please just message me personally. Not on Facebook and not on my wall please. Because some of these boys might just be on my Facebook. So please, discretion is key.

So far it's been alright, stressful though. I guess that's expected since I'm not exactly the most laidback person on the planet.

On the first weekend of February I judged SEA Forensics at ISKL again. Duet and Solo again since they are basically the only things I feel fit to judge. It was fun. Really nice to see some acting onstage again. Of course it was inevitable that I had the whole, "You know... I really think that I was better than these kids during my time... not that I'm jealous or anything!", feeling. Which I suppose is probably explained by the fact that I am bloody jealous that I'm no longer the one acting up there and also because I'm bloody BETTER! Dammit.

Caught up with Laetitia and Ching Wen for lunch that day and I also bumped into Alycia an old, old friend from my SFS days. She's now a reporter at The Star so I guess I can add another person to my meager Malaysian friend roster.

That's about it I suppose. Ooh and I lost 1 kg!

ISKL... sniff sniff

Yesterday evening was ISKL's Alumni Reception which was held at the lovely library at the Ampang Campus. I had a really fun time, more fun than I've had in a long time.

A whole gang of us planned to meet there; me, Preetha (down from London), Ching Wen, Noah (with girlfriend Cat in tow) and Laetitia (she didn't end up coming for the reunion itself). Ching Wen, Preetha and I got there early and of course marveled at all the beautiful changes that have been made to the campus.

"WAH! Got waterfall all ah? What happened to the little shop?! Where's the panther our year gifted the school? Guess it was too UGLY to put up. Wah... so beautiful wan..."

We basically did our own little tour of campus and ended going to the library where the reception was being held. We met our lovely host, Ms. Mullen and Sahari and a WHOLE bunch of people from our 2004 year and a whole bunch more from other years. There were like 20 people from our year, not including us there was Parker, JP, Ian, Tim, Annie, Shakira, Harald... actually they're all I can remember... that's not much at all... it seemed like there were more of us. Maybe it was all the LOVE. The class of 2004 chatted and at one point Shakira was like, "Is it just me or is everyone just so much friendlier?" Preetha was a bit like, "They're the same!" and I pointed out that maybe we are also the same... and it's a good thing because I guess the beauty of the people in our year was that yes we had the popular, nerdy, theatery, whatevery groups and yet no one was really mean and we all seemed very easy with just sort of being in high school and going through life.

Yesterday I had that easy lovely feeling again and then when the few us adjourned to Coffee Bean (where else?) we had a ruckus post mortem about the reunion, coupled with belly aching laughter and just a really nice time reminiscing about everything. Preetha and I talked about how sort of painfully nostalgic we felt at the end of it. I still feel and fear that I met my soulmates at ISKL and it scares me that I will never have that easy feeling again for the rest of my life. It's just something that will be relived once a year when we do little reunions. It's sad but I guess it's also life.

So anyway, in that vein I just want to say hi to rest of the gang that wasn't there: Ali, Nick, Alex, Anas, Serena - WE MISSED YOU!

I'm 17 again!

This weekend was a fun fun weekend because I actually went back to ISKL (The International School of Kuala Lumpur), my high school, to judge Solo and Duet Acting for the SEA Forensics Competiton. For those of you who don't know, although I bet you do since I talk about it a lot, I actually won both Solo in Duet Acting in 2004, my last year of school. I also won the whole tournament by most points and as a result won the Anne Russell Award. So basically, it was like the BEST day of my life and there was some chanting of my name involved at the Awards Ceremony.

So fast forward to now, 5 years later, and I went back and I judged the thing. I have to tell you guys it was soooooooooooo much fun. Also I got to catch up with Sahari and Richardson and it was just so great. BTW for all of you in the golden '04 year of ISKL, Sahari still refers to us as the 'special year'.

Ok and a quick recap for those of you who really don't know about this comp, the SEA Forensics tournament is held annually in ISKL. A bunch of schools compete in events like Debate, Original Oratory, Original Interpretation, Extemporaneous Speaking, Solo and Duet Acting, some other stuff I can't remember... The schools that compete are ISKL, Assunta (yes I remember them because they scream A LOT), La Salle PJ, Victoria Institution, St John's, Hong Kong International School, Garden International and some other schools I can't remember.

So anyway I judged for this, I woke up FREAKISHLY early, like 6:00am and got there to judge Solo at 8:30am. I was so damn tired and I didn't have a pen so I asked these super obliging kids behind me, from I'm-sorry-but-I-don't-know-your-school, for a pen and they like all panicked collectively and found me one. Thank you nameless kids. Solo was overall okay, I had problems with them and liked them. I was definitely more positive about Duet which had some really good pieces. I mean basically if you pick Neil Simon or David Ives its gonna be entertaining.

The school looks good, kinda scrubbed and spiffed up. Makes me really want to do something in the education line... *hint* *hint* * wink* *wink*