Class Cancelled and Shopping Advice for a Singaporean

Tossing and turning till after 3am, horrible dreams that woke me up with a jolt. Waking up late with thoughts of going back under my blanket and skipping class.

Yet i forced myself to get dressed and travel 20km, fighting the vicious Sunway toll jam. Got a cup of coffee.

Only to enter class and find that the lecturer is not there?? Please let her just be late.

But if she was just late, would i be blogging?? Sigh. No tutorials as well.


So i went over to the computer lab... Receieved this email.

"hihi..
i saw ur comment on xx's blog.. it was the post on kl..
can i find out some shoping places which u feel are betta n more wothy
of d time n $?
would appreciate ur reply..
thanks and cheers!!.. =)"


ASAP, I replied like this...


"Hey hey, wow, she accepted my comment?? =) It really depends on your taste...

If you're looking for botiques, price range around RM25 for spaghetti straps and about RM100 for dresses, Boho style tops for around RM50, there is is Jalan Telawi at Bangar and Uptown Damansara as well as Sri Hartamas. There are many night blubs there as well...

There is also this flea market thing on weekends at The Curve (nearby Uptown Damansara) and there is one in Mont Kiara (i'm not sure about it) but that's risky because u might not find stuff u like and they don't have many other good shops there.

If you're looking for Taiwan-style clothes and espadrilles like XX, Sungai Wang (Bukit Bintang) is a great place. Though some stuff IS ugly, the shop-lots in Petaling Street during the day do offer some good stuff.

Then there are always huge malls such as Midvalley and One Utama (very near Uptown Damansara) with many outlets like MNG, Vinci, Hang Ten, Elle, Guess, Calvin Klein, Padini, Body Glove, Roxy...

Then there are Isetans in Lot 10 (also in Bukit Bintang) and KLCC, but the Isetans here are very different from those in Singapore. During sales, Isetan is pretty decent.

Hope i helped. Any further question, don't hesitate to ask, i really hope u'll have a great time here if u do decide to come. =)

Sue Lin"


Please please tell me i said the right stuff!! Anyone else have more tips for her?

Or should i just forget all about my studies, fail everything, hunt down the whole KL for specific bargains and become some tour agent via blogging with posts of good bargains with photos and honesty???


Note: The tips above is all MY opinion, from my experiences as a consumer and a self-proclaimed shopaholic.

Note #2: Shit, i made a grammar error... =P Any further questionS.

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Summer School 2005/2006 Part 6

It's not that i love to sleep late, it's not that i love to do my work at the very very last minute. Aka starting to do the work after the 11th hour. At night.

But if i don't feel the stress or any urgency, i tend to REALLY slack. I slept for 12 hours last night cuz i knew today's a public holiday.

So anyway, nothing interesting in my life at all. Just studies, studies, studies. Next week's gonna be tough, i've struck a jackpot.

Jackot of assignments la. Everyday something's due. First Consumer Behaviour Quiz (5%), then Company Presentation presentation (3%) the next day, then Consumer Behaviour group report (20%) on Wednesday and then Company Presentation assignment 2 (15%) on Thursday.

And then on Monday i'll have an individual Consumer Behaviour presentation(15%). But it might be brought forawrd! Urrg. Isn't life beautiful??

So won't be blogging lar for a while. Nothing interesting to blog about anyway. Like if i were to blog now i'd blog about the Consumer Behaviour group presentation yesterday. It was great, 4/5! Yay.

Our group's topic is on Fitness First and it just so happen that our group members all dressed casually to sportily, 2 of us in black t-shirts and 2 of us in white t-shirts. Looks good, u know!

And our group consist of 2 girls and 2 guys. So u have one girl in black shirt, one guy in black shirt and one girl in white shirt, one guy in white shirt. Funny man, it's just a coincidene.

Another group did a presentation on KFC. And right after class, my group mates and i felt like eating KFC! Funny...

Oh, if u happen to come across any e-articles on the fitness industry, do save it for me and send it to bay_bee_tea@yahoo.com ok? Thank u sooo much! Or if u see anything in a newspaper, tell me what page and what date.

Not a very interesting post, right? Hopefully once Friday is over, i'll have something good to write about. With lots of pictures. If the plan goes well. Wish me luck.

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6 Days into 2006

As a big sister, i had to chauffer my lil sis home from school on Tuesday. Incidentally her school was my old school, so there i was in the all too familiar traffic jam, waiting for her, when it hit me. The form fives now are 3 years younger than us! Shit man. We're old.

Not too long ago, my lil baby sister was in pre-school while i was in pre-u. Now she's in standard 2!!! And i'm in my 2nd year of Monash University now.


Yeah, i said i'm usually all happy about the English New Year but nostalgia hit me bad on Wednesday, that's the day i started classes for the year 2006.

Dragged my sleepy ass to Monash on Wednesday morning, felt super stressed because i didn't manage 2 get much work done in my long long weekend. Felt like shit.

Just felt like going to some secluded corner and start crying.

But somewhere along the way i turned positive, thinking that it's a new day, blah blah blah. But it didn't last long, another unwanted trip down memory lane traveled me. I realized that it's the beginning of my 3rd year at the Sunway campus. Already? Shit.

Thankfully all that emotions didn't last long, a shot of coffee and a dose of MKW2402 consumer behaviour kept my mind of the fact that another year has gone by. Again.

After that, rushed to finish Company Reporting assignment, met up with a friend to discuss n check the answers. Can't believe we actually did work continuously from 3pm till 9.30pm!!! No dinner. I was dying.

But working on the assignment wasn't too bad, made new friends-- other people who were struggling with the subject. And don't care what u think of me but i LOVE accounting wan... at the end of the day i was happy n positive already!

Happy n positive until i realized that i haven't typed up all my answers yet... then i was down a bit again and poor E had 2 help me as well as put up with my mood...

Oh yeah, Sunway/Monash has just gotten this canggih parking ticket machines. Like the one in shopping malls -- u get a ticket when u enter and pay using the machines before leaving. Guess it's in response to the phasing out of the RM1 coins. Here's my resit.

See, i stayed at college for 13 hours just to do work!!

After Wednesday, everything's normal for me, i write the date 2006 without accidentally writing 2005 n i attend classes without falling asleep (with the help of coffee)(and i still do yawn till tears fall from my eyes)... just the usual.

Guess i've come to accept the new year?? Ate my favourite Sunway College Cafeteria's dish ever-- Chicken Kuew Teow for lunch and joked about how i'd NEVER get bored of it though it's the beginning of my 3rd year eating that same dish on an almost daily basis...

Speaking of food, i had steamboat for dinner!!! Remember how nuts i was over steamboat a few weeks back?? Thank u E, for inviting me 2 join u and ur friends for dinner. They're so nice, fed me prawns! Haha. And funny la they all, though i dun understand half the stuff they say...

3rd new year resolution: TRY to MAKE AN EFFORT to ATTEMPT to learning A LITTLE bit more chinese.

So yeah, i'm fine. And happy. Though very busy and tired.

And reluctant to carry out my 3rd resolution.


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Jinxed New Year??

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Could it be with this post, i jinxed it??? I wrote about how lucky i was to never be molested and then 2 days later, it happened to me.

Nothing serious. Happened in crowded, crowded Bukit Bintang, where i was, with E, 3 of my closest secondary school friends- PL, C, A, E's good friend S and S's friend In.

Please note that in baybeetea.blogspot.com, i refer to everyone by their initials, and sometimes initials overlap, so try not to bother figuring out who i'm talking about- u might get it wrong. The initials are for me to remember the events that took place in my life, not for u to 8.

Please also note that this post will be long. And probably not very interesting...

First, a random picture i find appealing... =)

In a blurred snapshot of Bukit Bintang by nightfall,
C's ear... my head... E's eye

Okay so, if u are unfamiliar with Bukit Bintang and how it is like on a celebration like New Year's eve... The street in between Sungai Wang and Lot 10 are normally closed. And in place of traffic jams are hordes of teens, mostly. In the hands of many are those spray cans, containing coloured foam, purchased at RM10 for 3, if u bargain well u might get them for RM10 for 4.

So to get from Times Square to a decent fireworks viewing spot, we had to venture into the throng of people. Somewhere along the way, E's hand was on my left shoulder and i was holding his hand with my left hand. And then i felt a hand on my stomach...

At first, i was sooo blur, i thought it was E!! I actually held that hand with my right hand LOVINGLY. Shitttt, then did i realized how can E have 2 left hands!?!?!

I looked down and saw this unfamiliar disgusting black plump hand... yuck! And i was holding onto it?! I tried to scratch it or whatever, to inflict some pain on the molester but i dun think i was successful. I should have held on tight to one finger and dislocated it.

Didn't tell E nor the others until later, didn't want to spoil the night.


Despite that and all the weaving through the crowd, i enjoyed my countdown.

The night started off with running in the rain. We parked super far away. The others were worried about the weather but somehow i was confident the rain'll stop before midnight.

Dinner at Marche World Restaurant, that's where the other girls met up with us. Haven't seen them in so long and as usual we had sooo much to talk about. We were more interested in talking... that's all we did yak yak yak. Haha. =)

Ohhh, and i'm sooo happy, C said that E looks better than his pictures! =p =) PL said he looks better with short hair...

Stuffed full at Marche

After dinner we wandered aimlessly before going to Times Square for a while, split up with the guys... the 4 of us girls just found a bench and continued chattering away. Haha. The guys seemed bored when they joined us...

When Times Square was about to close we headed out to Bintang Walk, that's where the molest case happened... and C got sprayed with those foam thing in the mouth... and in the process of avoiding being sprayed further, our group got separated for what seemed like forever. Phone networks were busy-- smses did not get through and neither did calls. Luckily, we were lucky enough to be reunited thanks to E...

Aside that, we continued down the street without a destination until we managed to get to the junction outside Giordano's and McDonalds.

The guys wanted to use the toilet there but the queue was too long. E was kinda pissed at me (bad choice of words...) and i heard him utter to S that "they -referring to me- never planned properly", which was true.

C is aware that these kinda celebration goes that way, a lot of waiting and nothing much to do during the long wait till midnight. Still, i felt really bad cuz it was my idea to go to Bukit Bintang, and immediately made a decision-- which was to find a spot to view the fireworks, though it was barely eleven o' clock.

PL helped me out. She abruptly stopped right smack in the middle of the normally jammed up junction and claimed it to be a good spot. Explaining that at the junction we could view firework whether it's from Times Square or Star Hill. We girls decided to stay there while the guys went toilet hunting.

They took about 20 minutes plus plus... =P I know cuz C and i kept looking at her watch anxiously, willing the time to go by faster.

There was still traffic at the spot we chose, but only one slow moving lane, unlike the regular 3 lanes. And the good thing about our spot is there were a lot of policemen around, as well as DBKL trucks and workers who were already starting to clear up some litter. I felt-- and we were-- somewhat safe.

During that long wait, PL started blotting her face with facial blotters... and she offered us some. Gladly A and i accepted, my face was so greasy! Then i burst out laughing.

I found it amusing, there we were, a tight group of 4 girls, standing in the middle of the road at night, in a beautifully lighted bustling city, among many many others, to celebrate the end of 2005 and to usher in 2006, blotting our faces?? Hehe.

They laughed with me and A took out her camera! =)

We're still laughing away!

Looking at the people around us i noticed that some parents brought their little kids to the countdown! Sweet of them but i wouldn't recommend it.

Traffic through that junction ceased. Also around us i noticed many couples. Made me long to be in E's arms =p Haha. What's taking the guys so long to get back us!?

Soon they found their way back to where we were. The wait after that wasn't so long. And it was sort of stupid, u know, the management of Bukit Bintang or whatever never bothered to put up a digital clock for countdown like they do in previous years.

So u had one group here counting down to Zero and then whistling and screaming to welcome the new year, while, at the same time, there was another group there starting the countdown at 10, 9, 8... and then there was an idiot who laughed and booed those who counted down too early... and then more people booed too... and some people thought that the booing indicated that it was midnight already and started cheering... and then more people cheered and hollered... and snowing foam...

But where are the fireworks??

All u had were the monorails honking away real loud... Haha, really unorganised and funny when i write about it.

Red and white helium balloons were released into the midnight blue skies above. Really beautiful and something unique i've never seen before... even if there were no fireworks, i'd be happy!

But E was mad at me again, blaming me for this choice of venue.

"It's still early..................." i said, to him, but more to convince myself, when--

--the fireworks started!!!!

Yay! Saved! Hahahaha. The crowd cheered even louder and it was spectacular. Glad to have the girls with me, to scream crazily with, wave idiotically at each other yelling "Happy New Year" like a bunch of smiling retards =) Glad to have E by my side, as 2005 comes to an end and 2006 begins.

I am thankful to have such great friends and a loving, caring, boyfriend (i'd make second a resolution to try to be less blur, to annoy u less). It's also nice to know that i get along alright with E's bestfriend, S.

To the others who weren't with me that night, i do cherish the part u play in my life, thanks, simply for just being my friend. =)

Again, Happy New Year.

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And i'm in the process of writing and gathering photos for my long new year's eve post. While struggling with my accounting (company reporting) assignment. Enjoy the last day of your holiday!