Pre-merdeka + post-merdeka

Hah so Merdeka finally dropped by. So what did we boys and girls of Monash do? Sad to say, nothing related to Merdeka… No ‘Keranamu Malaysia’ and ‘Tanggal tiga puluh satu’ but we did sing ‘It’s my life’, ‘Hotel California’ and ‘Hey Jude’. We all had our hair dyed – blonde, very lala-ish blonde because according to Jinn Tan’s mum, you patronize at Red Box and you’ll come out with blonde hair and Jinn generously added that you’ll also have techno music that goes ~dum dum dum~ surrounding you and blue neon lights in your pants. Not forgetting the spiked hair, earrings/rings, cigarette tucked on top of the ear and a good command of Mandarin/Cantonese. Anyway, the point is, we went to Red Box and Jinn is now a true Tarcian. Once a Tarcian always a Tarcian eh? But before all that Merdeka shit, let’s venture 1 week back into time. Aaron came up with the idea of paintball. And so we went.

from left: Joe, Choong Khin, Fai, Ghee June, Aaron, Kwee and the two little ones in the front row, Jessie and Kimber. And so that's all for paintball. You must be thinking, wtf?! Yea... Wtf?! But don't wtf me, for the lack of pictures before, during and after the game, I blame Jessie, again for not bringing her camera. A camwhore without a camera?? WTF??!!

And so the next day, I travelled back to Ipoh and after 1h 15m of driving, we came to a halting stop. Unexpected as it is, we are experiencing traffic congestion on the north-south highway and it's not Chinese New Year yet. WTF?! Ok man chill, let's be patient and be like everybody else and wait in line. After 45mins of jam, I saw this:WTF?!! But in the end I still made it back. Of course I made it back.
Good ol' Ipoh.

And I'm back in the big city once again. It was Tuesday and after our grueling marketing test, we adjourned to Sunway Pyramid for a movie and a meal. Guess where did we go for that meal?
- pain in the as... I mean wallet -
Grilled boneless chicken.

Then the next day, Merdeka's eve, Jinn Tan decided to bring us all to dim sum for lunch in Puchong.
And er... about the lack of pictures before the meal, I blame Jinn cos he made me drive. However during the meal, I blame myself cos I was too busy eating... hehe

After our finger-lickin'-good meal, we went back to uni to attend macro lecture and whoever said 2 hours of Dr. Wan would not be ear-straining, was lying. Phoof, after lecture it was finally time to visit our beloved and long talked about Red Box. [Jinn: "I'm coming home!!"]
Mil (left) our superstar. Jinn shying away from the Red Box sign. You can run you can hide but sooner or later, "we will caught you!" (GanCincang, 2006)
Hah, gotcha!
Picture taken under duress. Forced to take a lala-shot, we call this.
Stop pretending to be a lala... You already are one.
Mil the superstar gives up and a new superstar - Kimberly steps up and takes the stage by storm

After experiencing an explosive session of karaoke, we went over to Ikano power centre to join in the Merdeka eve fun.
Then we went makan. Minced chicken something something lasagna and Aussie burger.
Then came 12am. Time for Cinderella to go home. =.=" More like fireworks time!! This is just a glimpse of the 7-9mins extravaganza. Recorded 3mins of it before my hand and neck started to tire.
After fireworks, we concluded that the few exits available are so jammed up and it would be almost impossible to get out of there without going through one of those jams so what did we do? Went to Nasi Kandar Kayu - full. McDonald's, bitchy full. What to do? It's merdeka mah... So we ended up buying soya bean drinks and sitting by the roadside, chilling... until 1.30am before chowing
Kirsty and Choong Khin
Debbie and Ghee June
Hah, guess who?


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