Sushi on Veteran's Day

Today is Veteran's Day in Boston. That means no class for me. Yay! Thought of spending the entire day doing my work, but decided to go to Livia's house to see her "pan leng" for her demo cover and playing Tenchu with Lionel for 3 hours!! Stupid boss levels.. We ended up using cheats because it was so frustrating.

There's a new Japanese sushi place called HARU at Prudential Mall. I read the review and it said it's cheaper than Douzo but slightly more expensive than the regular sushi place like Shino Express. Me and Livia wannna try!

My first impression when I was infront of the restaurant was, "ok.. looks kinda fancy eh, and so New York-ish". Well, they have about 5-6- branches in New York. I guess they followed the same concept.

I was greeted mostly with Americans and I was abit worried that this is one of those places where the Asian food is Americanized.. Then we saw a bunch of Jap Sushi Chef. *phew*

Their menu was ok. It's quite pricey so I didn't get to try the fancy rolls. The average price for a fancy roll is about $15. And that's one roll. I was freaking hungry so I went for their sushi set. A set with 3 regular rolls for about $18. I think their sushi is not bad, just that I would rather go to Shino Express. Cheap and Satisfying!!

Sushi anyone?

Now I wonder how expensive is Douzo? Hmm...

On a different topic, here's a picture taken by Steph during Halloween. I celebrated it by working in LC for 6 hours..Lame
Freaky right? and he looks so disturbing!!
The first time I saw him was in front of 150 Berklee jiggling to the people on the streets.
2nd time was after class, crossing the road back to 150.
3rd time was with Steph, and he was waiting for the bus at Best Buy. That's when I took a picture with him.

Alright, time to shut down. ZZZzzzzzzzzz........

Breaktime..

Gwahhh.. the monster is taking a break from scoring her project. The more I score, the more AH BENG it sounds. Oh dear!!

Hope it turns out all right. I don't want my Final Project to sound like those 'feng tau ah beng' thing. It's a big No No..

Say Hello to Mr. RESISTOR (my final project)
so cute right?

Okies.. 18days till the session
back to work!!!!!!

BBBBBBBRRRRRRR......

PAUL GILBERT YOU BLARDEE CHEAPSKATE!!!

ON THE HEATER GOD DAMN IT!!

I'M FREEZING LIKE A MUTHA HERE!!!... GAAAWWWWDDD

Stuff you have to go through to have a homecook meal

I'm pretty much sick of outside food and I'm kinda broke too. Somehow, I got this great eagerness to cook today. I went grocery shopping at Whole Foods.

I decided to use one of those ready-made Lee Kum Kee packet sauce. Tonight's main dish would be Sweet and Spicy Beef with Broccoli and Mushroom!! Wahaha..

Step 1, cook rice..

Went into the kitchen and I have to decide on which rice pot to use. Usually, I use Mel's rice pot but now that she's gone, so is her rice pot. I wanted to use Orang Kecil's rice pot but I have no idea how. I open the lid and I see another cover with a smaller pot in this bigger pot. So confusing.
Then I turned around and saw this other rice cooker which I believe is the Orang Bodoh's. Whatever, I just wanna cook some rice. Orang Bodoh's rice pot seems more familiar to me but then there was this knob which looks like a timer and there were chinese/japanese words on it. Seriously, I never had so much confusion on cooking rice. Usually it's just wash rice, put water, put into the pot, and press that thingy. Tada!!... So I decided to use the Orang Bodoh's one.

There is actually another rice pot above the cabinet. Lazy to bring it down..


Then I started cooking my main dish. This is my first time cooking beef so I am not sure what is the outcome going to be.

*Orang kecil came out from her room*

OK: You're cooking??!?!
Me: er..hehe..yeahhh
OK: oh what are you cooking?!?

*Comes into the kitchen*

I was kinda shy because Orang Kecil is a really good cook. She must probably be thinking WTH? while looking at my cooking pan.

The Orang Bodoh came too and I am now surrounded by two people, STARING AT ME COOK!!
Stress man. Haih..

OB: do you need suhhh to put this sauce suhh?
Me: er..yeah.. I will put that later

Before I can finish my sentence, OB already open the packet

*OB pour the sauce packet into the pan*

Me: Hm.. I wonder if this is ok (while staring at the pan)

THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN!!!!!!

OB: OHHHH THIS IS GOING TO BE SALTY!!! YOU MUST PUT WATER!!

*OB took a bowl and fill it with tap water and just pour it in my pan as if she's trying to put out fire!!!!!*

I WAS SERIOUSLY IN SHOCK!!

and I'm pretty sure Orang Kecil was shocked too because her face was stunned for awhile and turn to the Orang Bodoh and ask why did she do that.

OB: oh haha sorry sorry..

OMG man!!! First of all, I haven't even taste the food yet and she slumber pour water all over it. Secondly, tap water?!!? come on. Yes this is US where people drink water from taps but still??! This is an old building I'm living in and there's probably roaches and mice running up and down this pipes.

I look at my pan.. It was sizzling and bubbling before. Now, all I can see is this puddle of water 'takung-ing' in my pan. OMG!! so watery now...

I quickly stir stir and pour my food out into a bowl. I didn't even bother to see if it is fully cook. I just can't wait to get out of the kitchen.

Finally, can makan already..

*Opens rice cooker*

CHOI!!! my rice is still swimming in there. It wasn't even cook at all.

I was like...shit.. stupid confusing rice cooker. Then I asked Orang Kecil if she knows how to use this rice cooker. She wasn't sure either and asked Orang Bodoh about it. Then, Orang Bodoh said that the rice pot is from her boyfriend so she also don't know how to use. Arghhh my rice ah!!! At that time, Orang Bodoh was talking to her bf on the phone.

OB: Heyy suhhh, I got a more important question to ask you suhh.. The rice cooker suhh.. how to use suhh got number 1 to 13.suuh...

I seriously don't know how they communicate loh. If I was the bf, I'll probably wanna bang my head on the wall having to listen to her talk like that all the time.

The bf also don't know how to use it. Somehow, we got it to work. Yay!!
While waiting for the rice to cook, I decided to fry an egg.

*Tak!*

Yay! Rice is ready. *Opens the lid*
Aiyoh!!! so mushy.. ugh.. I hate mushy rice. Looks like I have to put less water if I want to use her pot again.

Haih.. so much stuff to go through just to have a homecook meal. Never going to cook when Orang Bodoh is around. God knows what she would do with my dish in the future.

Zach's Session

Some random pictures from Zach's Directed Study session. It was for a cartoon clip called George & Rosemary. Arghhh everyone is done with their session. Mine is approaching soon on the 30th Nov. I'M NOT DONE SCORING!!! DIE ME DIE ME DIE ME DIE ME

Not angry..but hilarious..

I thought the spring cleaning won't happen because I woke up at 2pm and no one called me. I woke up and got ready to meet Livia at 3:30pm for shop shop.
*Opens door quietly.. tip toe tip toe.. close aptm door*

WAHAHA..I'm free!!! Yay!

Me, Livia and Lionel went kai kai and dinner at Vinnyt's. After dinner, she said she needed to pee. Then after awhile, she sms Lionel saying she felt pain in her stomach. Crucial pain! I went to check on her, and she was cross-legged sitting on the toilet bowl. So poor thing. Her face and lips were so pale. They went back by cab. Hope she gets better!!

As for me, I walked back home. Pass thru prudential and took a picture of Free People.

Free People's Xmas Tree

Got home..

*Opens door*

OB: YEEE SAA BEEEEHH AHHH..you're back!!
Me: Heyy (oh..no)

So yes, I didn't manage to get out of the whole cleaning aptm thingy. OB and my other roomie (let's call her OK for Orang kecil)

OB: I'm so glad you're back. We were discussing how to split the place. Who do toilet, kitchen and this area.
Me: I can do the toilet since I don't really use the kitchen to cook
OK: I'll do the kitchen.
OB: oh haha..I thought we can do scissors, paper, stone.. then the loser go clean the toilet.. then the second one clean the kitchen..
Me & OK: ............................

Somehow we started by clearing all the stuff in the fridge. Then I decided to go in and change to home clothes first.

OB: YYYEEE SAHH BEEHH are you done changing?? can you come out and help us (in mandarin).

Wahlau, change also cannot change in peace.Mutha..

Oh one more thing, my other roomie wasn't in . So it was just the three of us clearing up the place. She came back much later, when we were almost done.

OB was really enthusiastic. She cleaned every spot and every corner. Me and OK was more like..whatever.. haha.. as long as we are done before 12am. Most of the spots were cleaned by OB and she did a good job in that. I mean, the aptm really is alot cleaner and neater. Me and OK did the kitchen and OB did the rest. Haha..

I threw away alot of those cili sos, maggi mee (expired edi), and Babi!! I threw your pinang curry pineapple thing already. I want to recycle those bottles and cans so I emptied out all the contents before recycling. When I was emptying the belacan powder bottle, wahlau... Farkin smelly man. I actually thought of throwing the belacan powder into separate bags because I was afraid the big trash bag might bocor. But knowing me, whatever.. haha
Clean clean clean.. Throw throw throw.

Then I brought the rubbish bags down.. Fark!! ada lubang.. and the damn smelly belacan powder is coming out...I knew it!!! Haha.. I ran down the stairs and made a trail of belacan powder. Wahlau, the whole basement damn smelly just from the powder. I'm sure those gwai los will faint when they smell this.

Went back up, clean abit more.. While cleaning, Me and OK actually chatted for awhile. Despite her being my roomie for about 6 months now, we don't really talk to each other.

OK: er.. I have a personal question. I hope you don't mind asking..
Me: sure..ask.. (ahem....)
OK: why did you choose...(I can't remember if she said female, girl or simply just gave me a look?)
Me: Well, it's more of a personality thing.
OK: I see, everytime I talk about her with Melanie, I don't know how to call her..er.. your bf? gf?
Me: Partner would be fine.
OK: OHHHH!!...

So we talked about it, asking me what's my feeling about it and yada yada yada...

After all the cleaning, I decided to go into my room and rest.

OB: YYEEE SAHH BEEH LAAA can you do me a favour?
Me: sure (what!)
OB: I don't know where is my phone, can you call

*calling.. calling... RINGGGG RINGGG*

OB: Oh it's in my bag!
Me: *sigh

Then we start talking.

OB: ohh yee sah behh ahh, you are that right? you suhh..
Me: ( what? again?) er..yah..
OB: yahh you look like it. And you're together with uhhh the one from upstairs.
Me: STEPH?!?! huh no lahhh (faint faint faint faint). I'm with that one (describing Babi to her)
OB: ohhh!! *sticks her hand out to congratulate me* yahh she looks suhh.. face suhh.... very cute. She reminds me of Chai Chai from F4
Me: ohhh??? (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
OB: Yah.. like shy shy cute cute..and looks like a boy...she's very nice suh.. you two look cute together
Me: (HAHAHAHAHAH) haha...ok..
OB: You..suhhh.. you look.. like very sporty..

Then we talked about other stuff. As I was about to go back to my room

OB: ohh are you the male or female?
Me: (OMFG HAHAHAHA) I'm the female..

Man... first, I have a 'gay' look written all over my face, then she thought I was with Steph.. then, Babi was compared to a F4 fella!!!, then the question of me being the male or female.

Hmm..didn't know I could look "manly"

My conclusion is that OB is actually a very nice person, but she can be like "13 tim or sampat."

Ohh by the way, this is how Chai chai looks from F4

2nd from the right, the dong dong holding the bread.
I AM SO NOT DATING SOMEONE LIKE THAT

Very Confused

oh my god.. I thought I was having some deja vu thingy. Like a turn back time experiance. I swear to god I went to do my laundry around 2 something. And when I came back up.. It's only 1:25am

Took me awhile to realize it was that whole daylight savings nonsense.

But if I'm not mistaken, it's only gona happen in the next few days..No???

Orang Baru dari Neraka!!

Arghhh I'm so damn pissed with the orang baru. When I came home, I saw trash bags outside my aptm. And in there were my magazines.. baru ok. Omg, so annoyed. I went in, and everything on the table and fridge were gone. There were some magnets left but my BOSTON PRIDE was missing. Then the orang baru came out from her room;

Me: Hey, you cleared the fridge?
OB: YAH!!
Me: Where's my magnets.
OB:Uhhh they are on the fridge suhhhh..
Me: Well, there's one missing.
OB: Oh..uhh.. ohhh i threw them away.
Me: Well, I want it.
OB: uhhh ohhh why do you need it?
Me: Well, because it's a souvenir. (fucking moron)

*OB opens the door*

OB: oh it's in these bags (pointing at the trash bags).

*I stood there waiting for her to get it out.*

So she dig the bags and to my surprise, it's not just one. There were 6 more magnets. They were from Salem, Niagara Falls, Disney.. etc.. etc.. She even threw a movie DVD away. Bodoh Sial.

Then we came back in and she says;
OB: Oh they all say that you're soo nice. Always order magazines every month
Me: *charity smile while thinking yah.. you throw my mags again and you're dead*
OB: Oh I arranged your shoes.
Me: er.. thanks?

*OB saw my cheque*
OB: wahhh your signature is soo nice *and pops her head next to my face*

F-R-E-A-K-Y

OB: Oh those 4 bags of clothes that you are giving away. Can you only give them 3?
Me: WHY?!?
OB: Oh suhh because tomorrow we want to clean this floor suhh..

Ok, let me tell you one thing about my aptm. It's freaking old, and all of us wear shoes in the main area because the floor is fuckin old and dirty. No matter how many times you scrub, it's going to be the same. Plus we live on the first floor. That make things even worst.

Me:You plan to scrub this floor??
OB: Yes suhhh.. we can use 1 bag of clothes for the floor.

Inside me, I was like wtf?!?!, you want to sacrifice other people's needs just to scrub this stupid floor.

Me:Err, just so to let you know. No matter how many times you're going to scrub this floor, it'll never be clean. This is an old aptm.
OB: OHHHHHH...GOOD TO KNOW

*Phew* She finally gets it.

OB: So we use that 1 bag of clothes tomorrow??

FUCKER...

*OB sees my room*

OB:wahhhh you have so many things.
Me: Yah, I've got alot of stuff to pack
OB: You need help? I can help
Me: It's ok *closes door*
ARGH!! I WISH SHE COULD STOP HARASSING ME

So tomorrow I got a couple things to do.
Plan 1: Wake up real early to protect those bags of clothes from being her victims as floor scrubber
Plan2: Convince all of them that the floor is impossible to scrub and if they really want to, they can do it without me.
Plan 3: BOMB HER INTO PIECES!!!

Unfortunately, only Plan 1&2 can be carried out..

RED SOX Videos..

Hehe.. didn't realize I post so many videos.


Banana jumping from the traffic light into the crowd.



The crowd



Oleeeeeeee Ole Ole Ole...



Let's go RED SOX (watch out for the monster in the end)



Police coming out from Hemenway



And then there was fire...



Signboards Unite!


Score!!!!!

Rain:Won Shopping:Lose

It's raining..
No Shopping for me

I usually don't wake up that early, and that's usually around 4pm haha.. So today, I was woken up by someone pushing my door open..I thought I was dreaming so I didn't get out of bed straight away. Then I turn..WAHHH my door wide open and no one is out there... Wtf?!!?
*Saya perlu ada kunci kunci*

I've already received the 2nd check that I send to myself. Now I can hippity hop to the nearest BOA and deposit it into my account and pretend that I've got extra money now. Haha..

Had a nice chat with Michelle, talking about old stories which I couldn't stop laughing. Miss her lah, can't wait to see her in Msia. It's been more than 2 years already.

Omg, thought of uploading the Red Sox videos. I didn't realize I actually took a total of 43 videos!! Looks like I have to screen them first. Will post them in my next post. Right now, I'm gona go eat..

WTF???

FARKKKKKK.. you must be so kidding me..

It's going to RAIN the entire day tommorow!! Me and Grace are suppose to go shopping!!!

And I cakap dengan perempuan bodoh yang saya akan kat rumah pada hari Ahad kerana dia mau membersihkan rumah kita. ARGHHHHH

SUNDAY'S WEATHER IS SOOOOOOO NICE!!!

I wanna go shopping..I've been working non stop the past week..

Big Zoltar...

Hehe.. everyone can ignore the previous post..For those who knows about it, haha.. for those who don't, it's not important.

I missed my English quiz today. I'm not sure if I will die..if I do, I'm gona kill someone and you know who you are..(j.k hehe ).

Tonight was Livia's session. I wrote music for her project which was a clip from the movie Big, starring Tom Hanks. I did a similar project for Yenny last semester and it was from the movie Pulp Fiction by Tarantino. The music that I wrote for both of them are totally different. For Yenny, it was more of a groove thing with the whole rhythm section and the B3 Hammond Organ wailing away with a solo. I didn't get to spend that much time on Yenny's project because there was a problem getting the clip and I was having other projects to deal with.

As for Livia's, it was more complicated and I have to break it down to 3 cues. It was all orchestral-like with lots of strings. The session went very well. The players were all amazing. I was seriously blown away with the strings section. I'm a computer sequence person so I've always been sequencing my music, unless I'm required to record live. While we were recording the strings, I began to have goosebumps because they totally made the music come alive!

After both the high and low strings were done, we recorded the trumpet. The part that I wrote for trumpet is actually kinda hard and high. I was a lil worried about it, but I figure if anything happen, there's always the sequence that I made. Omg, the trumpet player was hilarious! He's the type of person where he will keep trying until he gets it right.When we told him that the session is done, he was sooo shock.. And he kept wanting to record more takes. So we ended up with 17 takes. It's kinda rare to find players like that. Most of them just cant wait to get over it.

Next, we recorded Lionel popo. He had the most 'difficult' part. I caught it on video..

Sorry Lionel, for giving you such a retarded part..but it helps!!!..haha

The saddest part about this project is that we won't get to have a copy because it's going to be mix into surround sound and there's no surround burner in college. Haihhhhhhhhhh

After the session, we got a zipcar, picked Grace and head to Chinatown, mmMmmMmm.. Ate Scallion Pancakes, Dumplings, Conch & Pork soup, Weever, Kangkung and Sweet & Sour Pork. So damn full..

Came back home, and orang baru yang tinggal bersama saya memberitahu saya bahawa dia hendak membersihkan tempat tinggal kita dan tanya bila saya lapang. ISH BEDEBAH!! KECOH BETUL DIA NI. KACAU AJE LAH ..NAK RELAK PUN TAK BOLEH..

*Lately I've been overwhelmed with so many secrets.. Shhhhhh


I'm not really sure what I'm feeling right now. It's my 'delayed emotional' thing again. With all this workload, it kinda makes me feel like a robot..emotionally. I don't know how long can this last.. a year? hmm..probably not..

joooookoooeessss

la la ying yang potato is a mushroom steph bowl drop bowl.. and la di al di alll idddd tankgirl pow po wpowwww.. snip snip...ar bam bam bam..
In the middle of the night..