SWEET SIXTEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Both me and my twin are officially 16 now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P My twin, (whom you might have read a little about her in one of my previous posts) and I have SO MUCH IN COMMON. Our birthdays are just one day apart!!!!!!!!! :P

Elise, that's her name, she turned 16 on the 9th of February, and I turned 16 on the 10th of February, which was yesterday!!!!! So now we are officially twins again!!!!! :D Because we had to wait until my birthday before we can be called "twins" again since she turned 16  first. :D

We are both the same age, have almost the same birthdays, and have many other things in common. That's why we call ourselves "twins." And it's really scary how each time we talk to each other we find out even more things to add to the list of things we have in common! It's really very creepy. :D One of these days I'll just blog about she and I, and the list of things we have in common. ;)

As you know, usually people say when you turn 16, it's "sweet sixteen." Since I usually don't have parties, and I thought it would be nice to have one to celebrate my "sweet 16th", I thought of planning one. But when I thought about having a party, that was like maybe 1 week ago??? Which is too late to plan one. So in the end I had to forego that idea. Sad. :( But anyway, I still had fun I guess. :)

My family has this tradition that when it's one of our birthdays, the birthday girl/boy gets to pick the place he/she wants to go for dinner. :) I didn't really know where to choose, so we ended up at Sunway Pyramid. I wanted to try a German restaurant there but in the end I changed my mind and we ended up at Italiannies. :D We actually usually end up there for birthdays. :P

Ah well, next year I'll pick somewhere else. :)


So there's nothing much else to report about, so I guess this is it! :)


It was still a lovely 16th!!!!!!!! :) And THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WISHED ME!!!!!!!!!! :)

Charissa

CNY 2012!!!!!!! :)

CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!!!!! :D 

Here's a summary of what happened the 1 week of CNY Hols... :)

2 Sundays ago, after church, my family left for Ipoh in the afternoon. :) There wasn't any jam, thank goodness.

Ipoh was kinda of boring, as usual.. :) Nothing much to do, and we stayed there for 2 nights.. :( The problem is, all my cousins are either all working people, or, their babies, or, their kids. :( Infact, the only cousins I ever talk to are in Australia. Imagine that, how pathetic is that???? That's why I don't usually get excited for CNY. For a simple reason, I don't have anything much to do, no cousins to meet up with, no nothing. :(

Sighs. Ah well, anyway, the 3 days in Ipoh seemed like 1 week. :P I really felt like the stay there wasn't gonna end!!!!!! :P

One highlight in Ipoh though: My nephews never fail to make me laugh. :) They are always so funny, and awesome... they are still young kids, and I love kids, only problem is I can't really communicate with them as they speak chinese, and I'm a banana. :( I really must brush up on my chinese speaking skills.. :) So that, Ipoh won't be so boring,  I can talk to the kids. :) Note: When I say nephews, they are my cousin's sons. :P We call them nephews. :P

Finally Tuesday afternoon, we headed north to Penang...WHEEEE!!!!!!!! I <3 Penang!!!!!! :D

We stayed with my grandparents as we usually do.. :) Penang wasn't so boring, it was quite ok.. :) My mum's side of the family came to visit those few days we were there.....Uncles and Aunties, and Grand Uncles and Grand Aunties all came.. :)

The rest of the time, I was eating, using the computer, watching tv, (not much of comp and tv though) sleeping, listening to the rest talk, etc.. :P

Oh, and of course the PASAR MALAM!!!!!!!! :) I <3 the Pasar Malam infront of my grandparent's condo.. :) It's awesomeee.. :) And it's open everyday.. :) Except maybe 1 day a week I think they are close...not sure about that though. :)

We went to the pasar malam with my two aunties, they are my mum's cousins so that makes them my auntie...kinda of.. :)

It was just the two of them, me and my sis....which was awesome because we could stay there longer.. :) We were there for like 2 HOURS!!!!!!! :) Imagine, other times I will be there only for like half an hour the most because the rest don't wanna wait. But this time since it was only the four of us, we could stay there as long as we liked. :)

And Aunty Cheryl bought me a dress for my birthday!!!!! :) It's a pre-birthday present as my birthday is actually 10 days from now. :)

Another day we went to QUEENSBAY MALL!!!!!! :) Ah Kong wanted to buy something there so the rest of us tagged along...

And on Saturday we left Penang to go back to KL. :( I didn't wanna leave actually.... :(

And looks like, everybody was scared of the report in the Star Paper, concerning a jam on saturday and sunday....because, THERE WASN'T ANY JAM AT ALL for us!!!!!!!!! :) Awesomeee!!!!! :) It took us only FOUR HOURS to reach KL!!!!!!!!! :) Of course my dad sped along the way, but well, it was perfect, so fast we reached home....and the weather was so nice for traveling too!!!!!!! :)

It was an awesome week (:

Charissa

Traveling

Going to hit the road to Ipoh in about an hour's time. Not looking foward to it. Traveling in the hot sun on a Sunday afternoon after church DOES NOT appeal to me nor does it sound inviting at all!!!!!!! :(

Ah well, hopefully it won't be jammed.. :(

I won't be having internet connection for a few days so, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!!!!!! :D God bless!!!!! ;)

Charissa

Louisa-girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (:

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I'm going to miss Louisa SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! :( After 1 month of Christmas break in Malaysia, she went back to America on Sunday. So sadddd... :(

And I won't be seeing her for like another 2-3 years??? Because this year she won't be coming back to Malaysia for Christmas break anymore as her whole family will be in America for the next 2 years or so. That's really sad... :(

Ahhhhhhhhh Louisaaaaaaaa, I wish you didn't have to go back to America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( Nooooooo!!!!!! :(

Lousia's such a sweet, pretty girl, and she always brings smiles to my face!!!!! :) She's so funny, and nice.. :)

I'm really going to miss her tons!!!!!!!!

Charissa

Happy Birthday Mummy and Kerry!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Mummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for being my mummy and also making sacrifices for me, thank you also for loving me always. :) May God continue to bless you and be with you, may He watch over you and keep you in good health!!!!!!!!! Love yaaaa! YOU'RE THE WORLD'S GREATEST MUMMY!!!!!!!! :D

Also, today's Kerry's birthday!!!!!!!!!! :) I only found out today.. :) Didn't know she has the same birthday as my mum.... :) I miss her tons, miss her craziness, her fun awesome ways, and most of all her beautiful smile!!!! :(

Charissa

Ripples 2012 Kick-Off Poolside Party!!!!!!! :)

Ripples had their very first meeting for 2012 last Saturday!!!!!!!

It wasn't really a youth meeting, it was more of a party... :)

The party was held at Laman Baiduri, Subang Jaya. It's a condominium... :)

The place is SOOOOOO AWESOMEEEEE!!!!!!! Like a resort!!!!!! :) The scenery, the layout, the landscaping especially, was all really tastefully done!!!!!!! :) I wish I lived there!!!!! :(

So, the party was from 4 pm - 8 pm...technically we could go off after 8, but we could stay there until 10 too. :)

 It started off we Uncle Siew Meng giving us some advice and stuff like that, and after that it was GAMES TIME!!!!!! :)

I think we played 3 games????? And then we had food, and after that anybody could do what they want... some went swimming, the rest of us just chilled and talked. :)

I hung out with Lily and Michi, Swen couldn't come because she had tuition....... how sad..... :(

On the whole the party was quite fun, so many new youths, all of them Caleb's friends..... he brought like more than 10 friends!!!!!! :P

Oh, and we have a new Ripples Committee, the old committee resigned, because now they are getting older too, and also they have studies and college, plus, they've been in the committee for so many years, so now it's time to change responsibilities and the new committee consists of the younger youths.. :)

Here's one picture Lily, Michi and I took together.... unfortunately Swen is missing from the pic!!!! :(

Michi, Lily, and Me!!!!! <3

Charissa

Ah Kong's 70th Birthday and New Year!!!!!!! :)

It's been a crazy week!!!!!!!! :P My grandparents arrived in KL from Penang 2 Sundays ago, and they are leaving tomorrow. :)

New Year's Eve~

My grandfather's birthday is on the 1st of Januray, New Year's. :) Yes, I know, imgaine his birthday on New Year's!!!!!! Awesomeee!!!! :) For several reasons we didn't celebrate his birthday on the 1st...so we celebrated it on the 31st of December instead. :)

And yessss, he turned 70 years old yesterday!!!!!!!!! :) WOOOOOTTTTTSSSSS!!!!!!!! Awesomeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

We had a chinese course dinner for him on the 31st, but that was also for his and my grandma's 45th Anniversary!!!!!!! :)

I know, 31st is their anniversary and 1st is my grandad's birthday!!!!!!!!! :D How cool is that???? :)

We had the dinner with my aunty and some other relatives.... :)

After dinner, all of them came over to my place for the cake and to hang out... :) We played games until 12 midnight, and FIREWORKSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

And also we wished my Grandad HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY and also a Happy New Year to everyone!!!! :)

How nice to be born on the 1st and have fireworks on your birthday!!!!!! :)

We stayed out at the balcony for like 15 mins until all the fireworks stopped... it was so amazing seeing all the lights in the sky!!!!!!!!! AWESOMEEEEEE!!!!!! :)

After that they all went back home since it was very late and we all had church the next day... :)

New Year's~

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!! :) Went to church, and my grandparents and aunty visited our church too... :)

Oh and we had steamboat that night, and another cake specially for my grandfather's birthday!!!!! :) So only that night we sang happy birthday to him... the previous night we sang happy anniversary to my grandparents... :)

*ahhhh bliss* :) It's been an amazing and tiring week..... :) I still can't believe it that my grandfather is SEVENTY!!!!!!! :P

Charissa

ROLLER BLADING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went ROLLER BLADING today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P

It was our youth outing event thingy.... I decided to go.... Swen and Lily also went... there were 14 of us youths altogether...oh except one was one of our ex-youth leader.. :)

Anyway the place we went is called The Wheels which is at Subang Avenue top floor... :)

It's Rm 25 per entry for non members, but that means it's for the whole day...after you pay the 25 bucks you can go in and out for that whole day.. :) Means you already paid for one whole day.. :)

And after paying for the first time, you immediately are a member...free membership...so since today was my first time, I still had to pay Rm 25, but the next time I go I only pay Rm 20!!!!!!! Save 5 bucks!!! ;)

So they only opened the place up at 11 am...we were there earlier but we couldn't go in so we had to hang about outside...

This skating place is like a DISCO AMBIENCE.... like it was seriously super duper dark in there, with all the coloful lights and stuff... but on the whole, the place is really sooooo dark!!!!!!! :( It wasn't a very nice atmosphere as it made me quite sleepy... hahaha.. :D

Anyway, so there were two types of skates we could choose.. ROLLER SKATES or INLINE SKATES. I went for inline skates because when I was younger I used to use those but that was really long ago... anyway I don't like roller skates.... :)

Roller skates has 4 wheels...2 on each side of the shoe... inline skates are 4 wheels in a straight row in the middle of the shoe.. :) So of course with roller skates you don't need to bother about balancing.... inline you have to... :) Which is pretty tricky... :D

I tried on size 6 at first, later I found it too loose and I couldn't balance properly, so I had to remove those and get a smaller size.... and let me tell you, those skates are REALLY REALLY HARD TO REMOVE AND PUT ON.... it's like, it takes awhile to figure out the concept of it.. :P

So I got on size 5 and they were so much better... :)

Then came the tough part. Since the last time I ever inline skated was like when I was still quite young, I've forgotten how to skate.... it was more of balancing and pushing your feet forward that was tough... at first I kept clinging on to the metal bars they have all around the rink, and used those to glide myself along... meaning, I wasn't skating with my feet, I was skating with my hands... :)

I tried and tried, finally after like 1 hour, I MANAGED TO SKATE WITHOUT HOLDING ON TO ANYTHING!!!!!! Later it got easier and easier...although you didn't find me racing about like some of the guys... :)

Luckily, I wasn't the only one having problems, if I was, that would have been like really embarrasing... :P

Anyway I'm happy that I managed to skate without holding on to anything....thats the main point... :)

We were there from 11am until like 2pm....about 3 hours. :)

Then we all walked to Subang Parade to have lunch at KFC. :D McDonald's was crowded so we decided not to eat there... :)

So, RESULTS OF ROLLER BLADING??????? I currently have a sore, bruised, blueblack left knee, an injured right hand first finger, and beginning-to-ache-muscles. :(

Oh, I ONLY DROPPED ONCE!!!!!! :) And that was because I tripped over Jane and Esther's skates... ;P That's how I got my bruised knee...

My hurting finger??? I think I bumped into something and pulled or twised a muscle in the finger... :( It really hurts a lot and it's my right hand!!!!! I'm a right-hander unfortunately... :( Hope it heals soon... :( I feel so handicapped... hahaha... :P

And my muscles??? Well they are already aching, and tomorrow's gonna be worse...

Ah well, I had a fun time despite all these little problems.. :)

Charissa

Christmas Weekend!!!!!!!! :)

Christmas Eve~

Considering not having enough sleep on Friday night, I woke up early on Saturday. Because we had to start baking muffins for Christmas Kopitiam at Church the following day. And we were baking petit muffins so that takes longer...

My mum and I really slaved over those vanilla muffins for like 3 hours!!!!!!!! And there were some failures which got on our nerves....sigh....the whole point is, when you are in a hurry, everything will go wrong... :(

Anyway we managed to finish making more than enough... :) It was a tiring job but we got it done.. :)

After that my family had to practice one more time for Sunday Worship... and that took quite awhile too.... then it was gym time, and quickly rush back to bathe and get ready for the Christmas Eve Celebration at Subang Church.. :)

It was fun, seeing all my friends again... there was a Hymn Musical too.. :)

Tiring Eve but also awesome in a way.. :)

Christmas Day~

IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Had to wake up like super early because we had to go to church early to set up and have a last round or practice... I was really tired because the previous night I only slept like 1 something in the morning, and I woke up at 7:45 am which makes it less than 8 hours of sleep... Really tired.. :(

Christmas service was good... :) FIRST TIME EVER PUCHONG CHURCH WAS PACKED UNTIL NOT ENOUGH CHAIRS!!!!!!!!!!!! Phewww!!!!!!! The church sure was crowded and stuffy.. :P

Lily and Swen came!!!!!!!!!!!! :) AWESOMEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! :)


Had a fun time hanging out with them, laughing over silly things, etc... :)

And oh yeah, I SAW LOUISAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She's back for Christmas.... :) So nice to see her again... :) I missed her so much!!!!!!! :(

So that's about it..... I must say, this year's Christmas was pretty AWESOMEEE!!!!!! It rocked!!! :)

Charissa

The Weekend Before...

Here's what happened last weekend...sorry I was too lazy to blog about it till now.. :)

Well as you all know, I attended my Youth Christmas Party at WEaVE's place.. :) It was AWESOME!!!! It was so nice seeing Lily, Michi, and Swen again!!!!!!! :)

We didn't do much at the party except hanging out.. :) But it was still fun anywayz... ;)

I had to leave the party early because I had to rush back home to change my clothes and grab my cello and stuff for our performance at IOI Boulevard!!!! :) It was quite a rush...hahaa but I manged to arrive at the Boulevard with 10 mins to spare... :)

The peformance at the coutyard was quite good...both Sarah and I could hear ourselves...thats the main thing...hahaha...besides the funny thing was, there was cool air coming down from the ceiling...that was nice because I was beginning to sweat.. ;)

After that we went to Pacific Coffee to peform...AHHHHH I TOTALLY LOVE THE SMELL IN THERE!!!!!!!!! It smelled sooooooo yummy!!!!!!! :)

And guess what I got a souvenior from Pacific Coffee...it was a Pacific Coffee 2012 Calendar and a cute little slide box(with a mirror inside) of mints inside a Pacific Coffee Bag!!!!!!! :) I was so surprised there was something for me!!!! :D

Sunday Morning, was sooooo tired, didn't have enough sleep, only had like 5 hours of sleep... :( And we had to stay back after church service till 2pm for our LAST PEFORMANCE at IOI Mall!!!!! :P

We had plenty of time to waste...hahahaha...went out for lunch with Sarah, JJJ, Sam, and Jie at Pelita.. :)

Talked there for quite awhile before we headed back to church and started to while away the time playing christian songs... :) JJJ on the piano and also vocals, Sue Ann vocals, Sarah on the violin, and Me on the cello.. :) It was fun.. :)

And then it was time to head to the mall...and when we arrived there, there was this really WEIRDO clown who gave us the creeps... he was like trying to be funny with us but at the same time we got annoyed and irritated with him...like he was so random...like serioulsy out of his mind...I think he's so IMMATURED!!!!! :P Both JJJ and I agreed we didn't like him and found him scary... :P

Anyway peformance at the mall was better than the 1st time...we could hear ourselves!!!!!! Wheeee!!!! :)

So that was the super busy weekend I had...and yea...another busy weekend ahead too!!!!!! :P

Charissa