hey....

i want to tell u my brother, ah Long...

smthg bad happened to me and my family on 30th March 2012, we lost Ah Long, my younger brother. Long is 2 years younger than me, I don't have much fresher memories with him as we are quite far from each other and always busy with own stuffs.  Ah Long did not complete his secondary school education, he started collect protection fees since kindergarten. He has a bit of "chao ni tai" / in younger days, dad always like to ask him to read from 1-10 in mandarin as he is reading it like , qi, ba, jiu, keirrrrr...

i remember he likes to play kites, and he is champion in modifying his kite and always can "potong" many other kids's kite back. He is very good in drawing, i think the only subject he can passed with flying colors is Art. He can smell places, no need GPS, google map etc...He can locate the place even though he never been to the place, and he can't read well. We have to kowtow to him for his gifted talent.

Long is not expressive but he truly love his wife and daughter, Beiz.

Now that he is gone, and i miss him so much.

depression vs recession

I must admit that i like guy who has sense of humour. As long they make me laugh, even if i m angry over something, a good funny line can make me forgive and forget easily.

Here is one classic example, happened between me and my boyfriend. I was complaining that he used to be so generous when courting in the initial stage and now that he is so thrifty. When i said " huh, now recession but few months ago no recession meh? u kept encourage me to buy this buy that and u paid for it. " He then answered this, " Darling, that time Depression mah, but now Recession! "

Just thought its funny and to me it adds some colors to this relationship. So my dear ladies friend out there,is your recession take place now or never? My dear male friends, how u wanna share about your depression and recession stories?

ordering rice is a disgrace to the host?

Just back from my ancestor's land-China, Fujian, Zhao An...

The hospitality there was too good! too warm! They insisted to buy all meals, pay all bills...that stop us from buying more stuffs back as they want to pay for everythings...how can???!!!

I was wondering how come for all the meals they did not order rice but only 10-12 dishes plus 2 type of soups? Thought Chinese's main meal is rice?  yesterday when i was sharing my China trip, a friend told me this-if we as guests order rice besides what they ordered, it simply means the host is not generous enough as the dishes they served on the table failed to satisfy the guests????

Thriftiness is no longer Chinese's attributes?
And eating rice has become a disgrace?
"Face" is paramount, and above all?

Hmmmm.....

sorry lo... u were made in 1974....

Celine, my good friend whom i knew since the college days...

She is buying a new car, a Honda Civic. Deposit paid. When she inform me her decision on going for the current model which we know the brand new model is soon to be launched...to support her buying decision she forwarded me the new civic's picture to try convince me that there is not much of difference between the current model and the latest model. This is how our conversation via whats app ...

me: Sis i look younger than my age right?
C  : Why say so?
me: Lot of people thought i m 26-28yrs old
C  : Hahaa people say i m 29m same same u lo
me : Congratulation to both of us :) But u were made in 1974 and i was made in 1976, our market value is   
       lower compare to those who made in 1980s and 90s...
C  : What? ....Hahaaaaa....agree

After being so mean to my dear friend, sad but truth...she is still going ahead with her Civic. She is "stubbornly lembu", u know her surname is Goo (in hokkien means lembu) hahah! No matter what her decision is, the conversation above will forever be a little funny joke between us. Cheers to the 15yrs friendship which i truly cherish.
 

sawasdee ka ku kap...kahhhhh....

sawasdee krup or cup...last year i paid around RM450 to a language school in SS2 for Thai lesson. My initial intention is to pick up Spanish language but there do not have an immediate one, being me, totally impulsive sometimes, thought why not took up Thai, and my supporting reason is- i go Thailand for holiday all the time, if i can speak ka ku karp, i think its good so there and then i enrolled and attended 2 lessons. But after the 2nd lesson, I self declared graduated...its not that i can't pronounce it correctly but to have the softness in the tonality like the Thai people, i just cant do it right! Damn!

Lyanna once commented on me, Suat Kian, u really Beh Hiao manja(不会撒娇） , and she demonstrated to me how she manja with her Lao Kong, and i looked into the mirror and tried imitate but i just think my entire face got twisted before the tongue can even moved...by the thought of 'me manja...ing' is powerful enough to redeem a face change plastic surgery for myself (already bo sui, after that lagi bo sui) lol

i think - why not give it a try?

To b frank to u or just me, i have no idea what i m going to write in my newly created blog. When i told my good friend,Jeff that i want to be a blogger, all he said to me was,- your computer knowledge is so poor and yet you want to blog???...yah man! what if i face the problem  like how to start to open an account ( is that what u normally called?) The real fact for me is, i only learn to send attachment via email a year ago from Ashley. And in my entire life till now, i have never open an email account before by myself. And I am using a Blackberry smart phone and i have to continue using it as long as my good buddy, Chan is using his too. As every month i will just sit down with him for coffee and he will help me to upgrade the software, phonebook backup and sync all the contacts to my netbook.

On Monday night when i post it on FB status- u think i can blog? and i had a sleepless night as my mind was full of ideas or topics of which i'm going to blog about. From my contact list in my phone, i have about 1000 names, i like to write about these people, fun things, sad things, experiences i had encounter with them...but is it intruding some people"s privacy? things that i thought is funny to others may think is a sabotage? hmmm....

If write about people may create unnecessary issues, how about I write about me myself the Yvonne' way? Yvonne's way can be a free way just like how i wrote in an accident police report back in year 1997 when i was 21. I remember telling the policeman the traffic light not functioning and that leads to the accident in the junction. I wrote in the report "Saya harap pihak polis boleh bertimbang rasa walaupun saya cuma mempunyai license memandu 3 tahun sahaja tetapi selama ini tidak pernah berlaku apa apa kemalangan. Lagipun itu traffic light tidak berfungsi dan menurut polis polis dan ahli ahli tow truck, tiap tiap bulan average 10 accidents dekat junction itu"

So this is Yvonne's way, if i like this way can i have my fans? Or can i keep my fans? ( i think here your call that followers than fans, fans is for korean boy band  :)

So here it goes, the Yvonne's way, suka suka write, manglish, chinglish,...

Stay tuned! adios