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swimming forever in my head

so i haven’t been blogging for a while now.  maafkan daku.  kotot na krap, tui bu qi, my apologies…

The remaining Loo family members did not do much for Chinese New Year, we didn’t even visit my Dad’s relatives in Kota Kinabalu.  to tell you the truth I only know one cousin from these relatives that are living in KK, her name is Elaine and we went to St. James together.  She is one year older than me.  The rest have all migrated to who knows where.  OOPS, I did DO something for CNY.  We went over to Charmaine’s house! Tina, Choco, Nathan, and I.  Stayed there for about an hour before heading for this:

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The Donuts were great.  Delicious.  But I would only recommend having them once a month. 

The rest of the days were spent figuring out things for my next big move, visa runs, bank runs, doctor’s appointment.  Oh, I found out that the young hot female doctor that did my medical checkup was from St. James too.  Gosh the world is so small. 

I did have FUN with my girlfriends last Saturday night.  We went to the local market and bought lots of local kuih-muih.  Nothing can BEAT buying DELICIOUS CHEAP FOOD!!! I had martabak telur, lots of kuih pisang, fried tapioca, and KUIH BULAN smeared with butter… yummy…

We watched this movie:

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when a stranger calls:  jill had to babysit some kids who lived several planets away from civilization.  she starts getting these prank calls.  most of the time, you could only hear the breath of the person at the other side of the line. 

yes the “stranger” plays around with jill before appearing.  oh yeah, apparently the stranger was in the house from the very beginning.  don’t even ask me how he got in.

it’s an old movie but me and my girlfriends did scream here and there.

by the way, the above picture is the scene where they (jill and the kids) escape the crazy man.  some of her hair is caught in the door and that guy is pulling it.  ouch.

Comments

Deanna Beryl said…
When I went home, I had 3 doses of Big Apple. Hahaha. But yeah I agree - only have it once a month.

I see Tina's fave there :)
9:30 AM
Kim said…
sedapnya donat!! ah yes the daily tamparuli kuih stalls are sungguh hebat dan sungguh sedap!! and also you never know who you might bump into there hihihi.
11:09 AM
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