Xmas Eve & Xmas

I started my Xmas Eve with sleeping for only 3 hours. It was my own fault actually. I slept at 7 in the morning and had to wake up on 10 AM for medical examination for my student visa. I promised my friends to arrive at Red Box @ The Gardens by 11.30 AM but I ended up arriving an hour later. I am so sorry. The medical examination was delayed for a little. So I only got to sing for 2 & 1/2 hours while the boys - Jeff, Choon How, Brian (the birthday boy. Yes, his birthday is on Xmas Eve) got to sing for 3 hours. Well, I wasn't the only one who's late. Chin Yee was late, too. So we went in together. I was practically running (walking REALLY fast) from Mid Valley carpark all the way to Red Box. I was totally out of breath when I finally reached the karaoke room where the boys were in. LOL~

And then, after singing for awhile, we brought in a Black Forest as a surprise for the birthday boy! We sang him the birthday song and I playfully sang that in Korean (Saengil chukha hamnida, saengil chukha hamnida~). Haha. It was fun even though Choon How and I sang until we actually lost our voice!! I talked like a man (a deep, husky voice) after that. XD

After that, we watched Sherlock Holmes. It was nice. Funny, too! Love Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. They made a great pair! XD Before we went home at 9 PM, we had dinner at Pasta Zanmai and I got to eat my favourite dish (fried soft shell crab) and try out yasai miso soup. I got to buy a tube of Gummy Choco and ate omochi ice cream from Shojikiya, too, which is right next to Pasta Zanmai.

What made me laughed out loud was that Choon How tried to give me a piggyback when I couldn't see a performance at Mid Valley (the crowd was full of men. Why? Because the performers were girls in short-skirt costumes).

All in all, it was a fun Xmas Eve.

On Xmas, I went to Daidomon in the Great Eastern Mall for japanese buffet with my parents and my cousin and aunt. The food was okay. Not great, though. But the price was affordable and that's the most important thing. LOL~

Anyways, merry christmas and happy new year to everyone!!

Hachikou: The Loyal Man's Best Friend

As I was writing this, my eyes were still redden and swollen from crying, my nose were still running and it was hard to breathe. I can't quite remember the last time I was crying so hard that my voice became shaky, my throat tightened until it was difficult for me to breathe and tears just wouldn't stop flowing out from my eyes even if I wanted to. I think I had stopped crying like that after I went to high school.

This would be the first time ever that I cried in such a way over a story I read from Wikipedia and a movie trailer. I haven't even seen the movie yet. A film, Hachiko: A Dog's Story (starring Richard Gere), was released in 2009. It wasn't released in Malaysia, though. It's a pity because I really wanna see it. But I saw the trailer when I was simply changing the channels on the TV. I stopped when I knew that the movie is about a dog (I always enjoy shows and films that involve dogs). The trailer didn't even last for 3 minutes and I was already so touched by it and tears started flowing out of my eyes. But it was just like any other normal reaction after seeing a touching scene in a movie --- just a few drops of tears.

However, I got so curious about the star of the film, the dog, I went and read the story of Hachikou. It was a real life story. Hachikou was a pet and best friend of a professor (Ueno Hidesaburou) back in 1920s. He was one of the members of the beautiful breed, Akita Inu. He had stayed with the professor since the day he took him in, even after the death of the professor. In the morning, he would see his owner off at the front door and wait for him to come home at the Shibuya Station in the evening. This routine continued everyday until May 1925, when the professor never come back and see Hachikou at the station like he usually did. But Hachikou kept waiting, even after he was sent off to another owner. He would escaped routinely to his old home, the professor's house, and wait at the front door. Eventually, he knew the professor would not come home and so he went to the station to wait every evening. He would show up exactly the time when the train arrives. The professor never appeared, not because he abandoned Hachikou, but because he suffered a stroke and died before he could go home to Hachikou on that faithful day.

Hachikou kept going to the station and the frequent commuters at the station would feed him as they know he was waiting for his owner who would never come back again. The routine continued for 10 years until he finally died in 1935. He was found on the street on the way to the Shibuya Station.

I was crying the entire time when I read the article on Wikipedia. I've never cried over a story or an article as hard as this time before. The fact that touches me the most is that Hachikou died with his owner still in his mind and he was still waiting for the professor to come home. Words simply cannot describe the feeling I'm having now. It's really such a shame that some people never appreciated the loyalty and faithfulness of the man's best friends, by actually abandoning them on the street or abusing them.

The story of Hachikou just made me love dogs even more than I already do.

Brown Eyed Girls - Sign MV and Morse code ???

I fell in love with the beat of the song =] It's so catchy and addictive, especially the "dot-dot-dot-dot" part. The "dots" are merely punctuations to express the frustration and desperation of the singers who couldn't get the man they love to understand their feelings. However, some people started the Morse-code-theory. 2 long dots and 3 short dots represent "7" in Morse code but I don't know if that number really do mean "help". I've searched everywhere but there is not even one source that suggests 7 = Help. Or may be I'm just not resourceful enough XD

But the song does make use of a well-known distress signal --- Mayday. No, it does not mean the 1st of May or Labour Day or whatever in this case. It means "HELP". I read some of the comments when I was looking for this video, and I just can't take those people that kept on giving wrong information regarding the "mayday" and the "dot-dot-dot-dot" thinking they know everything. But it's not like I can fully understand the music video, though. I mean, the main guy was fighting the minions of the "Devil in suit" (LOL that's what I named him) at the beginning, which were controlled by the devil. And then, the Devil just started killing off his own minions and even gave a weapon to the main guy to kill himself??!! And then, there's the blind-in-one-eye thing. What's the point of putting it in the story? LOL and it somehow reminds me of Syaoran from Tsubasa Chronicles.

Anyhow, I still like this song very much. ;]

New work...again

This is ME! Haha...People who are close to me will be thinking "Doesn't look like you at all!" I really can't draw my big flat nose (the part least similar to my actual facial features ><). I hate my nose~ XP And I'm wearing my signiture shirt (in the picture) --- Supergirl!!! *laughs at my own silliness*

I drew this a couple of hours before my 19th birthday on 5th of December. Sort of like a memory for the last few hours of being 18. Lol~ I know, I know...I'm making a big deal out of this. But I really do have the damn Peter Pan Syndrome --- I hate growing up. XD But...Oh, well. What can I do about that? I just need some time to get rid of that illness.

I meant to make this the cover of the first chapter of Blood Moon, but then I realised it's more suitable to be the cover for another chapter and since I haven't introduce Jack in the first chapter. I'm going to add the novel's title later (after I finished designing the title, that is). It didn't quite turned out the way I want and I still think it lacks something ><