Cheryl Ho’s Blog

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Actually, truth being told, until today.. I still don’t get it why the phrase “burning midnight oil” goes as such. Well I do understand what it is trying to convey. It’s just that… why burning? Why midnight? (okay I can accept midnight, I get it for this). And why oil???

Okay I know I’m asking stupid questions.

It’s like another idiom; “A stone’s throw away”, and me asking why a stone, and not a pebble? Or some shit.
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I woke up at 9am today. Brushed my teeth with my Colgate, cleaned myself up and got changed. I went downstairs to seek if there was breakfast. Mom said yes. I was unsure on whether I should be happy or sad, because I wasn’t quite hungry at that moment.

Till she told me, “Take your char siew pau over there”.

WAHHHHHHHHHH. Nice. Long time since I last had it. (Sorry, a not-very-halal-topic)

Anyways, since 9:30am, till NOW, I’ve been doing my Creative Journal. And having the title being “CREATIVE”, I have to frik’n be creative when I design this creative journal. It’s not easy okay. It’s very stressful, for my brains. My creative side of the brain, that is.

Alright fine, perhaps I’d admit that we were given a longer duration of time instead of 2 days long (this dues this coming Tuesday). Actually we were given 12 weeks to do this CREATIVE journal using our CREATIVE minds and designing it CREATIVELY.

Bahh.

Please. How long have you been a Malaysian? Or at least, knew a Malaysian?

When we are given a very long duration of time, there will only be one thing set in our heads; “Still alot of time lahh, can chill first”.

Thus, the frequent existence of the 2-days-last-minute-work.
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As much as I want to snap some photos of my creative journal progress so far, I’m afraid if I do so, I’ll totally miss my sleeping time and lagi cannot finish my work.

On another note, I have a very sad news to share. My external drive went corrupted today. All of a sudden. Don’t ask me how or what or why or when. No, wait. I just told you when. Ughh..

It got corrupted. Period. :(

I have all of my photos in there! All those since God knows when till present! And it’s all gone now! Not to mention, I have all of my assignment photos in it. I have no backups for all of it. So yeah, damn right I’m fucked.

As you can see in my wishlist, I noted “1 Terrabyte external hard drive” there for a reason you know. You know why???

Because I sensed this was coming! Just not THIS soooooon! WHATTHEHELL! Can like at least give me some time to back up some of my important files?

First, my camera memory card gets corrupted. Once. Then it happened again. So that makes it twice. Then now, my external hard drive gets corrupted. What are you going to pick on next, huh? Pfft!
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I’m dying with my journal now, seriously. I’m thinking if I should continue doing it now, but I’ve been counting the hours. And it’s been 13 hours long since I started doing this shit. That’s more than half a day!

Perhaps I should stop. And sleep.
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Yours truly,
Cheryl, does he notices me?

…..in class today.

SIGHHHH

Today’s Photography class, but our lectures are all over, and it’s only left with tutorial, well that is if we need extra help.

All of my classmates are not coming, and will only come for class after lunch at 2:30pm. I’m gonna be all aloneeeeeeeeee today! What the heck am I gonna do la wehh..

By the way, I’m late. It’s 9:12am and I’m still at home. Hah. Wonder if my lecturer’s already in the photolab.

WEHHHHH…… =(  how lahhh…

Okay, super late. Gotta roll.
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Yours truly,
Cheryl.

Another year older.

Birthdays don’t seem very exciting and special for me anymore. My friends seemed more excited and happier than I myself actually was. Perhaps it’s the fear of getting old. And having to grow up even more. In a few years time, I’ll be graduating. Working. Paying taxes and loans and what not.

Okay fine. Maybe I’m just overloaded with stress lately.

Anyways, I still had heaps of fun celebrating my 18th birthday 3 days ago (Saturday, on the eve of my birthday) with my friends.

On the late morning of the eve of my birthday, my two best friends, Bren and Mich and myself went to RedBox carry-o-kee (karaoke. i just love how the americans pronounce it as such) to have some fun since we’ve not gone there for quite a while.
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I was damn frik’n surprised and happy when they presented me a birthday gift. I really wasn’t and didn’t expect anything this year, and I considered their presence that entire day out with me as my biggest birthday gift.

Bren and Mich bought me my usual makeup. Christian Dior’s Mascara Diorshow, and Dior’s Pencil Eyeliner. I was very happy because my Dior mascara and eyeliner just finished recently. Although I restocked myself with a new Mavala mascara just a few days ago, I’m still very happy with the gift.

In fact, I think I was THAT surprised and happy until I think I didn’t give much expressions or response. Sorry lah wehh. I was surprised. Honestly.

Thanks Bum and Fren!! (:
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Carry-o-kee with my two best friends is always fun. We do the usuals. Get crazy and retarded. We practically chose songs that could kill our throats and lungs. But we didn’t give shits anyways.

I chose one particular song that I knew was crazy but really funny when we tried to sing it; Soulja Boy’s Crank That.

Hahahahaha!

After Soulja Boy, we seriously lost our voices. Especially Michelle. It was either the excessive extreme laughters, or we literally screamed, not sing.

And not forgetting our carry-o-kee tradition, we sang Spice Girl’s Wannabe. We call it the Tripod song. We always sing Wannabe everytime we go for carry-o-kees. Without fail. Call us gay, but if you wanna be our lovers, you gotta get with our friends! Haahahah okay I know, gay.

After 2 long hours of singing (or screaming), we were pooped. I dropped them both back home over to Mich’s place and went home to take a short nap before I had to get ready for dinner that night with my other friends.

Guess where I went and celebrate with my other friends for dinner?

GUESS GUESS GUESSSSSS!
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Muahahahaha

I KNOW RIGHTTTTTTT

Like I’ve been wanting to go to Palate Palette since years ago. Well not literally. I really really wanted to try Palate Palette out since months ago. And I finally did!

I’m damn happy weh!

And as most of my friends would know, I pronounce Palate Palette in my own different way which annoys many people; Pala Pala Teh Teh. My friends were very annoyed with how I pronounced it as it was supposed to be pronounced as Palate Palette (both are the same pronunciations). They looked like they wanted to throw shoes and forks at my face.

Pala Pala Teh Tehhhhhh. Muahah :P
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From left back to front: James, Jitz, Dao Wei, Jian.
From Right back to front: Gabby, Tim, Jewin, Brenda, Michelle and Ethan.

And myself? The photographer lah obviously.
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You know, Palate Palette is one hell of a not-so-easy-to-find-restaurant. Seriously. You won’t want to know how we got ourselves lost that night! I made a reservation at 7:30pm, and thanks to getting lost, I had to call and extend my reservation to 8:30pm.

My suggestion if you are really interested to go to Pala Pala Teh Teh, remember to MEMORIZE exactly the map of how to get there.

Because even with my GPS, we eventually still got lost.

Okay, the story is like this. I clearly know exactly how to get to the area of where Palate Palette is at in Kuala Lumpur. Jalan Mesui. I drove pass Times Square and Bukit Bintang and all. I took the immediate left turning after McDonalds. Then I went straight downhill and took a right turning after that. And at that moment, Gypsy (GPS) told me on her face that I should turn left in 110metres away.

Manatau, Gypsy was lagging.

Happy.

So instead of taking the correct left turning which was the first one, I took the second left turning which was wrong, and which, I THOUGHT would be correct if it really was 110metres away.

Pfft.

So that wrong left turning took us to God knows where. We literally drove in circles and in the end only to find out that if Gypsy did not lag at the wrong time, and we would have took the correct left turning in the first place, we are exactly at where Palate Palette is. At Jalan Mesui at that left turning.

Sighhh.
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One thing I like about Palate Palette is because of its very artistic and unique interior and decos. It gives a very artsy feeling. I like.
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The food there is not too bad. I wouldn’t say it is fantastic, but it is not bad at all. I think the price is also quite reasonable for a happening KL restaurant. All in all, it’s good. Except for the finding-our-way-there-part.

I ordered Fish & Chips, which came with potato and yam chips. I can’t really recall what the others ordered, but I know Michelle got herself Salad, and Bren ordered Lasagna (i think).
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After dinner, the guys wanted to have some drinks. Well due to some miscommunications and misunderstandings, we ended up in Planet Hollywood. Just for a short while. They had one shisha, and decided to just buy some beer and bump over to Tim’s place and chill.

Since Bren and I are not quite fans of beer, we stopped by Starbucks (!!!!!!!!) in Taipan and satisfy ourselves with our favourite coffees. Yummmmm (:

In Tim’s house, some of us gambled playing 21, and Jian was making big bucks. Hahah..
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Okay most importantly, thank you to all my friends who celebrated my birthday with me although I know some of them are having exams soon. Damn touched seriously.

And thanks Gillie who’s in Aussie for the birthday wish! I MISS YOU and eating Bak Kut Teh in your Klang house!

Becky in Russia who texted also! Thanks babe (:

And Yen in Singapore who texted, which I replied but she didn’t reply me back after that! Lol. Thanks Yenang! (:
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Wahhhh. I just realized. I have quite a number of friends who are in overseas. Why so sad wan!! Everybody is going away! =(

And last but not the least, hehe. You know who you are. Bum and Mich! (: Thanks for everything. Not only the gifts, but the effort, and the time, and all the fun, and for all the times that you two had stood by me endlessly. I love you two, loads. (:
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I have Part 2 coming up. That is with my family. Hehh.. told you it was gonna be a long post.

Anyway, I have Typography test tomorrow, and I’ve been doing pictures and blogging the entire night, I haven’t layed a fingerprint on my revision yet. But I’m quite familiar with Typography already. Should I still read up? The thing is, today I played 2 and a half long hours of badminton non-stop with my coll mates in the afternoon. So I’m dead tired by now. My left eye is already half-shutting.

Ugh.

And why is the weather so hot nowadays!!
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I have been trying and trying to login into my blog admin to update a new post today, but something in it was being a real bitch to me. It just kept failing to load. Seemed like my blog server was down or something.

I asked a few friends if they could open my site. Seems like nothing was wrong for them. Hmmm..

The moment when I’m so damn semangat to ber-blogging, I get this kind of shitty problems. I was merely pulling every strand of my hair off from my head. I wanted to blog so much. I was like a kid crying for candies. Or maybe even worse!
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It’s already 12 something A.M. now. I have Photography class tomorrow, yay! I was supposed to finish up some creative studies sketches which dues tomorrow. But I guess the typical procrastination happens and what not again, sigh.

Today I was all alone in college as my friends all left for home early today. Well not that they ditched me in a bunch, but slowly one by one left for home. Since I have always wanted to TRY out the computer lab in my college (yes I’ve not stepped my foot in there before although being here for more than half a year), I went there today.

I was excited to try out the Macs, and thought maybe I could try my luck and see if they had Adobe InDesign and Illustrator programs installed inside. Which obviously, they SHOULD have. I mean, c’mon. It’s an art college for God’s sake.

Bahh.

Tough luck I suppose. Stepped in there, and only to find out that all of the labs are being occupied with students which I don’t know if they were doing individual work, or having a class on. And the only lab which wasn’t occupied, was locked.

Pfft.

Off I went to the library instead. At the very least, I could still use the Internet in the library.
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Oh something I just recalled. I’m working on my Photography page as you can see. For the moment, I’ve only uploaded one album, Nature. Will be continuing on other albums! Spare me a little more time (:

And speaking about photos, I have a few here which were taken quite some time ago, maybe like last 2 months ago or something.
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And having that to be about 2 months ago, I can see how much longer my hair has grown in those 2 months; barely an inch!

Grrrrrrrrr

I want my long hair back! Grow hair grow! GROWWWWW

I’m once again, like a kid crying for candies. I feel young again. Well not that I’m old now. Bahh, goodnite. I think I need to hit the sheets.
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Yours truly,
Cheryl, what’s the possibility?
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I must say, I really was inspired. Inspired with or by what? Someone’s blog. Not just any ’someone’, but particularly someone. I found out only recently today of the existence of his blog. After reading, I was very much inspired.

All his posts were just words, words and words. Contained no images. Even if there is an image, it would be just one. But that is exactly my point. I was reading and reading, and kept on reading post after post. And I wasn’t bored of reading it.

I was inspired. I was inspired to blog myself. To actually start blogging for real again. (The last time I consider myself a serious blogger was back in year 2005 and year 2007).

And you probably would be wondering by now who the heck is this person who could possibly give that much inspiration to me. Well that’s a secret I’ll never tell (damn right you know what tv series I’m hooked on to ATM).
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Anyways, I’m back. In the blogosphere, that is. I hope to make a commitment to my blog from now on, considering I have a paid domain for a reason!

In fact, I’m on a spree in making over my blog. I’m working on making a page here in cherylho.net specially for my photography. One more page on my artwork. And perhaps other pages, but I’ll work on that two for now.
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Well oh well. How’re things everyone? For me, it’s been hell of a headache these few days trying to install Adobe CS3 Master Suite Collection into my PC. Firstly it is a 3GB file. MY PC’s RAM is being cheap and isn’t up for it, cos the requirements is at least 1.0GB of RAM.

So I upgraded my RAM by 1.0GB under my sister’s bill, and consider that as my 18th birthday present this year. How geeky, I know.

After upgrading my RAM, I thought, “yes lahh set. can install already”. With all my anticipation and excitement, I tried to re-start and install the Adobe collection again. This time, it’s even worse. The setup wouldn’t even load.

Grrrrrrr.

I tried all sorts of solutions, mounting it and unmounting it, uninstall and re-install. I even borrowed my friend’s DVD copy of another Adobe colletion, the Premium one, and tried installing. But failed.

I’m like hanging by a thread at the tip of the cliff right now!

The problem is that I need these Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator programmes (I already have photoshop) for my Design Studies Newsletter final assignment. And today was the class. I could do nothing but sit down and rot. The worst thing is our class smelled like fart mixed with puke today! And with being bored, it’s harder to drive the attention away from the terrible stink. Sigh..

Now I’m downloading a separate file of the programs using BitComet. Wish we luck, I hope it works. If it doesn’t, then do me a favour by just cutting the thread I’m being hung unto now.
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(Time: 8:20pm)

Crap. My chinese drama started already. Alright. I’ll continue again tomorrow. (:

And oh, notice my new blog title. Heh..
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Yours truly,
Cheryl, I call it a good day today (:

Hello all.

I think I abandoned my blog for exactly a month already. It makes me puke seeing my blog dead, but oh well, what choice have I got. I’m being drowned with assignments every single week.

And when I feel like updating, I feel guilty because I can find the time to blog, but not to finish my assignments.

And yes, I bet you guys are all dead bored of hearing me say that over and over again every single time I leave my blog abandoned.

Heh.

Too bad.
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Thank God it’s Raya now cos I seriously need that 1 week holiday off next week.

For whatever reasons lah; To finish up all my assignments. To chill and meet up with friends. To go shopping for my birthday (but I’m broke yay). To err.. watch my chinese dramas. To exercise and keep fit (I think I’m putting on unnecessary weight nowadays). To shit.. to sing.. and to whatever lahh.. A LOT.
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Anyways, I have photography class tomorrow, and BOY AM I EXCITED WOOHOO. No seriously. Veen and I secretly think our photography lecturer is hot, especially with his camera.

As promised, some photos I took with my DSLR (Nikon D60). The first three photos are a few out of hundreds that were chosen for my first photography assignment by my lectuerer.
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This one on top is taken at Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur.
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And I personally like this photo below, though he did not choose it. I took it along one of the back alleys opposite near my home.
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The past past past Saturday (or I don’t know how many past Saturdays it was), Ah Seng, Mich and I went for this Midnight Sale in Bangsar. WHICH, mind you, I literally got conned by Michelle. Konon some happening nice and cheap clothes and stuffs bazaar sale..

…turned out to be… pfft… One shop lot on the second floor with few small vendors inside.

Well surprisingly, still got quite a number of people visited them. Facebook. Confirmed. You know Maxis’s tagline? “With Maxis, So much is possible!”. Ya weh, “With Facebook, so much is possible!”.  They (midnight sale) advertised hugely on Facebook, so I’ve heard (since I’m not a big hoo-haa-er of Facebook).

And yes lah Mich, I’m not blaming you for telling me bout this sale. :P I had heaps fun anyway.
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And I have heaps of photos more, but not that much time to post all at one go.

So these are just some of those first at the moment. I took some photos of my current artworks too. Post it up soon k.

And oh, before I go.. I realized one benefit of not updating blogs for a long time; Nobody tags you on stupid-waste-of-time-tags.Hahahahha. Very good.
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AND OHHHHH.. Can I pleassseeee cry for one more thing…

You know what? My memory card for my DSLR.. keeps getting corrupted.

Hailat.

It got corrupted twice already. I feel like slaughtering that dude’s neck who developed my photos for me, who kept plugging in and out my memory card without safely removing it. Now it’s all corruptedddddd..

Alot of my pictures are all gone cos I have no choice but to reformat it. The most important ones are my assignments pictures which I’m suppose to keep and burn it into a CD for my lecturer’s archival end of this semester. Now I’m screwed for that.

Also, Becky’s farewell pics. Daowei’s birthday pics. I feel like screaming into somebody’s eardrums, seriously.
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Knnbcb weh.

Bahh.. but yea.. what has happened had happened. So fck that. I’m going to Mid Valley tomorrow night to the shop where I bought my camera to change the memory card. Thank god there’s something called WARRANTY.

Okay. Off I go now. Toodles.
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Yours truly,
Cheryl, Slamat Hari Raya to all! Duit raya?