Nose-talgia

I held a jewel in my fingers

And went to sleep.

The day was warm, and winds were prosy;

I said: " 'Twill keep."

I woke and chid my honest fingers,-

The gem was gone;

And now an amethyst remembrance

Is all I own.

(Emily Dickinson)

It's been quite awhile since i opened my good old rusty, beat up, pages-falling-out-all-over-the-place metal bible. So, recently, when i decided to go old school after almost a year since upgrading to le most wonderful, awesometastic, super gaya-mengaya-maya iTouch bible in my pocket, i was greeted by a pleasant surprise. The scent of the past... The sweet smell of fond memories and whiff of those i can't quite recall. The bible smelt like something i might have had, someone i must have known, or someplace i might have been at some point of my life. But try as i might, i just couldn't pinpoint who or what or where it was.

Funny how i never noticed that my old bible had always smelled like it had been scented until i stopped using it for a period of time. Mmmm... now i'm inspired to create a new scent :D Time to pull out my long, looooong (almost) forgotten "kung fu" chemistry skills... which shouldn't be all too bad since i did get a B for SPM after all... (i think) XP. Besides, i still remember paying the most attention my ADD teenaged brain could possibly give in Chemistry classes when we were going through the chapter on esters.

And, should i succeed in this crazy endeavour, i think i shall call my scent "Nose-talgia: The Scent of Forgotten Memories".

*** Oh yes... you don't want to know what drove Lim Chu Yaw and Miss Poo to that state of mind (in the photo on bottom right). But if you do, i'm sure there're few who can still share tales from that particular YC Camp X)

9:11pm...

And now for some FIREWORKS! Woot woot!!!

HAPPY 4th of JULY MI AMERICAN AMIGOS!!!!

Words Of The Day

gaya (Malay): stylish... and "gaya-mengaya-maya" is not a word. It's just bad Malay grammar XD

SPM (Malay): stands for Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia- Malaysian Education Certificate?

YC Camp (FGA-glish): stands for Youth Church Camp.

An Old Flame

Some recent events have brought my attention back to a certain old, pre-teen/teenage flame i once had. It started with the realization that ever since i saw the movie Singin' In The Rain ages ago, Good Mornin', Good Mornin' is still among only two songs i wake up humming on a particularly cheery morning. YES! Amusingly, although incredibly rare, Jan Faye CAN be quite the morning person under the right circumstances. 

That, and when someone (you know who you are) mentioned that he finally watched the movie after me mentioning the movie to him so, so freakin' long ago... It musta been within the last couple of week that i caught myself humming the tune one morning and instinctively jumped online in search for this all time favourite number X)

And thus, it  was love all over again. Ahahah... So nonsense!

So now everyone knows who Jan Faye secretly liked while all the "normal" girls her age we busy ogling over the Backstreet Boys and Westlife and whoever else... O ya. Nsync. hahaha! *Shivers. Mwuahahahaa! YA.. don't pretend you never >:D 

For all you who still have not figured out who in the world i've been talking about so far, i got three words for you- Ask you grandma. And, as for you who are thinking evil thoughts right now, like "Jan Faye is such a grandma", i also have three words for you: I got TASTE! Bluekhhh ;P

Ah, Gene and Frank. My two not-so-secret-anymore boyfriends XD And yet, though i could never seem to get sick of listening to dear Mr. Sinatra when he sings New York, New York and Fly Me To The Moon, i am still a ONE man girl at heart. Frank Sinatra never really got around to singing and doing this...

MMmmm... X) So yeah. For me, the all time winner is still undeniably Mr. Kelly! 

After all, i still often wonder how much fun it would be splashing around like a maniac in tap shoes under the California rain... That is of course until i remember how cold i'm going to get and how gross my pile of laundry is going to be the next day :D

Neh-mine!!!

It's ENGLISH... i PROMISE! hehehe XD

Quotable Conversations of the Week

***Special reading instructions... the grayed texts are in a more admirable English Translation XD

Tan Family

5/21/09 9:44 PM

Hey Babe you there?

i'm bored

can i call you?

ǝʎɐɟ uɐɾ

5/21/09 9:45 PM

heeeeeeey

yaaaaaaa

*ring ring!!! ring ring!!!

Janfaye

Harrouw... 

guess what!?!? 

i have figured out what i would call my hotel if i ever own one someday.

*bounces off the walls

ASK ME!!! ASK ME!!!

Clare

Ok, what?

Janfaye

COME INN!!!

bWUahAHahaHAHhhaaHAHAaa................

Jan Faye Lee at 12:19am May 22

YAY! come come... then we go MAKAN!!!

*Oh that would be wonderful! Do come. We could even go out for a meal together! 

 Sara Alia Suleiman at 12:20am May 22

ok!!! pass me yor number la

* Sure! May i have your contact number, please?

 Jan Faye Lee at 12:25am May 22

uno dos tres... cuatro cinco cinco seis!!!! bwuahahaha... sorry. i mabuk adrenaline tonight.

*uno dos tres... cuatro cinco cinco seis!!!! Haha.My sincere apologies. I am incredibly drunk/high on adrenaline at present.

 Sara Alia Suleiman at 12:26am May 22

1234556??? como se dice...giler en la espanyol???

*1234556??? Like they say, "crazy" in Spanish.

 Jan Faye Lee at 12:34am May 22

ahaha! ya.. apparently i donno how to count no matter what language... that's y kesian Puan Koh lepas ajar kita F4 maths 1 year, retire pulak the next year. buwahahaha! IT'S MY FAULT... i ADMIT!!!

*It looks like it doesn't matter what language i count in, i can't count. This is why i claim responsibility for forcing our poor Math teacher, Mrs Koh into retirement after teaching me for a year in high school.

 Sara Alia Suleiman at 12:36am May 22

hahahaha...god....btol2 high la u ni....y didnt u buat pn ooi berhenti mengajar?? ooi is our add math right?? or u dont remember coz selalu tdo dlm kelas??

* Oh my friend. You really are high. Why didn't you cause Mrs Ooi to retire as well? She taught us Additional Mathematics didn't she? Or do you even remember, since you were always sleeping in class.

 Jan Faye Lee at 11:15pm May 21

eh.. don't lah. i didn't really do my business there.

*Oh, my friend. Please do not say such a thing. I did not really do potty on that chair.

Darren

its funny...normal women have a weakness for designer brand shoes...

you got weakness for colourful selipar jepuns (flip-flops)

hahahaha

11:30pmDarren

good lah...your husbdan sepnd (darren can't type. bwuahaha!!!) less

And finally, who can deny that kids come up with the BEST one liners!!! XD 

Stolen from Martha's blog...
on a walk with Jo yesterday we came across some very big roots. I asked her "Jo, what do roots do?" without hesitation she replied "roots for for tripping people!" hahaha...

SabOOOoOOoooh!!!!! (Part 2)

WHO DA CLOWN?

One picture is all that's needed to say it all...

Mwuahahahahahaaaaa!!!!

and look at the handsome boy now...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLOWN!

SabOOOoOOoooh!!!!!

Mwuahahaa!

It's that time of the year again.

To the woman who taught me one of my most important life lesson (or not ;P)... Drawing and colouring primary shapes is NOT the easiest, most piece of cake art homework a 10 year old could ever get. Bwuahahaa!!! Here's to all the years we drove each other crazy with tons of laughter, teasing, bickering, and... i'm sure quite a few other stuffs that prolly should never be mentioned on a public website. HAha! To this day, i still can't believe i made you cry over a painting of circles, squares and triangles. But then again, you probably still can't believe the only shiny new mechanical pencil you conveniently grabbed from me that fateful day 13 years ago would be worth more to me than your apparently very precious art homework. Hahaha!!! To that i only have one thing to say after all these years... YOU STARTED IT! ;D

And now, the fun part! You know this was coming XD

Through the years...

of ugly t-shirts..

and double chins (oooh! she's so going to kill me. bwuahahaa!!!)

.

By the way, happy birthday to UNCLE SCOTT too! Fasterlah.... i'm craving shark's fin soup ;P

of the rebellious, slacker days in F4...

haahaa. i just noticed Melissa sesat at the back.

and all that name calling XD

oh golly look at you two pale skins while i was so roasted from the scorching heat of tennis tournaments!

when we thought we could dance

oooo... showing some leg eh? hahaha!

and not so gentle loving...

when you didn't pass up the opportunity to SIT ON ME when you KNEW i had very badly sprained my butt. RARW!!!!!

I must say, we've come real far...

considering how often we fell asleep in class and how much food we snuck in after rehat!

And you know it's going to be awhile before i get tired of looking up terribly unflattering old photos of you. Coz i just have too many. Mwuahahaa!!!

But, it's ok. I'm sure Don will think you look like an angel no matter. ahahahahahahaahahahaaaaa!!!

Thanks for the good laugh when i rediscovered some of our long lost "love" letters!

Or more like "merajuk" letters. HAHA! And, apparently it was cool to spell sorry "sorrie" when we were 12 XD

and someone didn't know the meaning of leaving spaces between words. hahaa!

Am i a better friend now that i don't owe you RM25? :D

Just last Sunday my pastor mentioned how when iron is being sharpened against iron, there will be sparks. And so we had our moments, but here's where i'll swallow my pride and let you gloat about how i may not be the way i am today hadn't you snatched my mechanical pencil from me 13 years ago :)

Happy Birthdaylah Miss Foong Wing Sun. Stay Awesome!!! (and you better be coming to visit me soon XD) Cheers!

p/s: eh, very hard to find a good photo of just you and me yah...

Words Of The Day

saboh (Manglish): Short for "sabotage". Yay for our wonderful gift for mutilating the beauty of the English language. Bwuahahaa!

sesat (Malay): to be lost.

rehat (Malay): recess.

merajuk (Malay): erm... to be pissed off? to throw a tantrum? something like that lah :D

BwUAhaHAaa!!!

Ahahhahahaha!!! Yay for random funnies from the net X)

Moving on, for some strange reason, i think the angels of Heaven decided to drop some real random humour in to my increasingly unfunny life lately. Somehow, a piece of the most-est nonsense-est tune ever composed decided to resurface from the deepest darkest conners of my memory only to loop itself mercilessly my head all last weekend. And thus, my fellow Malaysia-Singaporean, kiasus, babies of the 80's, i bid thee to join me in the spirit of kiasuness as we sing our infamous kiasu anthem. Come, come. Don't pai-seh. Lets sing!

Words Of The Day

kiasu (Hokkien): fear of defeat.

pai-seh (Hokkien): to be shy / shameful.