Starring -- A Pair of Thick-Framed Spectacles.

Another one of these excuses-to-post-pics posts coming up.

Basically Ryan, Pabo & myself had had a conversation before where Pabo introduced to us those spectacles that don't have any lenses but people still wear them to...well look cool, or at least try to.
& since Pabo has one she now carries with her all the time we decided to take pictures of us wearing them. This was just one of the more successful sessions, when I took them out for Italian lunch. Yes bless me, I'd just gotten paid.

mine's not at the italian restaurant i realized.

Ryan's is though. haha!

Justine Take 1.
verdict: face looks too fat.

because her face might look less fat like this.
verdict: aiyaahh, still look fat.

By the time this was over, it had started raining POURING cats & dogs. Which we later had to walk back in by the way. So to kill time while waiting for the rain to stop a lil. (we found out later that it was PMS-ing & so did not stop)

because my face is small?
*whips out palm in front of my face* like that only.

because i'm artistic this way.

because he can.


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Confirmed. Holy? I Think Not.

So it's the 10th of August & after today I finally have a teman for Sunday brunch. Not that I was in need of one or anything but yeah... things just happen like that.

Anyway, the point is that it was Koler & ShaShaMol's Confirmation Day!
Congratulations, && also to all your classmates & crazy friends.

After today, there's no need for you to stay back after church anymore. Attending their Confirmation mass made me think about my own Confirmation. Which led me to think about the fact that I wasn't in the final group picture (oh the injustice of it all), which made me think how many people, that were in the picture, I actually see or hear from nowadays?
Everyone told me that I'd miss being with everyone every Sunday but I thought, Nahh.. We'll still somehow see each other. Point is, its been 3 years & those people were right.

It rather seemed like after being confirmed everyone just kinda went off in so many different directions it would be near impossible to get everyone back together again. Which would be a shame, cause we were one ROCKING confirmation class!

Anyway, coming back from my own musings, being the designated photographer for the day, here's some of the pics I managed to take of my sister & cousin before they entered church with their godmothers.

Koler & her godma

ShaShaMol & her godma. all the way from Singapore.

Ok so for those who have no clue what I'm talking about, being confirmed & all, it's basically saying that after today they are adults in the church. Being free of Sunday School which they've been attending since they were about 5 or 6 years old. Think of Graduation but with religious undercurrents. They're usually accompanied by a sponsor of some sort, usually its a godparent but in some cases its a facilitator or even someone from the youth group.

Koler smiling like a donkey in her (AHEM) class picture.

ShaShaMol in her class picture.

Warning: Looking through these pictures again I realised that Koler looks really high for some reason. Just thought I'd point that out before we move on.

Mom, Koler & Dad.


Eriko & Koler.


ME & Koler.
Mass over ady k, can camwhore.


Lyn, Koler & RZ.


ME & R-esh.
See how easy it is for me to be distracted when I have a camera in my hand?

Time for some pics of ShaShaMol.

ShaShaMol & G-Man looking like they just got married.


ME & ShaShaMol.


Mum & ShaShaMol.


the Paul-Menon confirmants.

family photograph.

Usually after the ceremony is over, we have a celebration like thing with family & friends. Since my sister & cousin got confirmed together, we had a joint celebration with the Pauls, Carloses, Menons & friends at the Bukit Jalil Golf & Country Club.

& something else that needs to be established before we go on again. There are A LOT of people in my family. I'm not sure if you guys ever managed to see how many people there are though you will if I update enough. XD
Point is though is that there were about close to 80-90 people at this thing & that still doesn't include all of them. But the place was setup quite nicely, we had our own lil hall & everything even a small stage & dancefloor.

the backdrop they provided.
i just realized ShaShaMol's name is red, i have no idea why.

the cake.
chocolate & marshmallows, food of the gods people.

then for some reason, they had to feed their parents.

Koler feeding Dad cake.

what's a eurasian party without dancing?

Mum loves terrorizing Koler's friends.

At the end we all went home, full stomach, though some of them did adjourn to our house to lepak some more. Wow, my family's really clingy. :)

i was feeling left out reminiscing right, so here's a pic of me with my godma.
if you're observant: she's ShaShaMol's mum.



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Cupcakes, Craziness Ensues.

Finally the big date, 08/08/08.

Personally I don't get what the big fuss is about, yeah I get that its good luck & things like that but come on.. Its just a date after all. How a series of numbers can affect your fortune is beyond me. Though it must have meant something pretty special to all those people who got married/registered today, which according to Pabo is A LOT of people.

So congratulations to all of you, extra to those who managed to make the time work as well.

Since I don't have marriage on the mind right now, I was thinking of following Chel & Sammy to visit Deb's grandma today. But it turned out that I couldn't cause I had to stay home & take care of the kids. Mum & Dad had a wedding (yes another one of those) to go to in the afternoon so I had to be at home with them.

All was not lost though as I ended up having a really great time baking with Chel & Sammy. They came over to bake cupcakes for Deb's grandma. After looking through some recipes we decided on Earl Grey cupcakes with satin icing. MMmm.. Yummy.

This is where the improvisations kick in. First of all, I don't think the tea we used was even Earl Grey tea, but it was better than using some Teh Harimau that they saw when they went to the mart to pick up some ingredients. & it turned out that one squeezed lemon isn't enough for 5 tablespoons. && apparently, the eggs in my house have really round yolks according to Sammy. The last one isn't a bad thing, I think.

All in all it came out pretty well, though we couldn't really taste the tea, the icing had a right amount of lemon-ey & we managed to make really nice Smarties like colours for the icing. We even had time to decorate them & take pictures. As usual right?

Just realised that we didn't manage to take any pictures of the process but anyway, there's already more than enough as it is. :)

just ice-d cupcakes.


Sammy contemplating which one to sample first.

we got all creative with edible black 'ink'.

Chel's Jack O' Lantern cupcake.

R-achel's ankh, S-ammy's lips & C-assie's eye.


Koler got in on the fun as well.

Gosh that was hard work, time for something else. Camwhore your cupcakes girls!

R, S & C put to good use in our mouths.


hear no evil, see no evil, say no evil -- with a twist.


its back to the drawing board for a sec.


the result.




the final product. & the point of all the craziness.

Get Well Soon Deb's Grandma!


couldn't help myself.

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The Pointlessness of It All

Well its been a while & this is the first post I'm doing since 'coming out'. Seriously you guys, I can't thank you enough.

Classes have started again & already I'm wondering how I'm gonna survive the rest of the semester. Its only the second week k, why must I give up so fast? I mean not all my fault, the lecturers are so boring I almost lose the will to live whenever they start talking.

Anyway, its no wonder why our brain cells feel so utterly dried up we feel the need to do spastic things in our free time. (these are a few days old, but for the sake of an example I don't really care)

Stacking our bottles in cafe.
Because apparently they're taller than Ryan's phone.

Because candid shots are the best.

Because the back of Ryan's head has never looked better.

See its a pretty awesome process really, even better when Ryan decided that he really needed to drink water & it was a good idea to just yank his bottle out when it was right smack in the middle of the stack. XD

On a totally unrelated note, we recently found out something about a friend from college which I've been meaning to put up here but I've just been to lazy. But no matter, I will now.

Because it matches her jeans perfectly.

If you're going to be hardworking enough to figure out what the point of this whole post was, don't bother cause even I don't know myself. Just reveling in the randomness that is me.

& I'd like to invite you all to examine the randomness inside of YOU.

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Late Night Date with the Girls. Part II

I finally have the pictures from Chel which is basically us taking tons of pictures anywhere that tickled our fancy. All of which was around the furniture that I mentioned before.
Another thing bout Bambo9, it really inspires you to take pictures. :D

I went so crazy over Chel's camera & got to take a few shots myself. She even Photoshop-ed some of them, hence the genius brain of hers.

Warning: Picture alert!

The Three Stooges

Hey, let's pose by that light - Take 1

Hey, let's pose by that light - Take 2 (edited)

Get your FIERCE on!

The Prankster & The Meditator.

Hmm.. What should we do next?

Trapped / Trapped (edited)
*shot by me. LOL!*


In The Womb I (edited)

Taking pictures is hard work.

In The Womb II / In The Womb II (edited)


Just plain inspired.



To Us Three :D


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