Au Revoir, Pn Chan.

Went to school on Friday thinking it would be just another normal school day, only with one of the occasional teacher farewells. Almost didn’t get up out of bed when the alarm rang. Almost went back to sleep after turning the alarm off. But only when I got to school, did I realise how a big a farewell the school was throwing for Pn Chan.

Never really knew Pn Chan much, but I still remember the first impression I had of her the first time I transferred to DU. She seemed like one of those teachers you wouldn’t want to piss off. And whenever anyone was called out to see her for disciplinary reasons, you knew they were in deep shit. I don’t really remember getting much scolding from her (I’mma good boy XD ) but what I do remember is, she’d probably scold the living daylights out of you, but afterward, she’d calm down, and take time to understand the situation and try to help you. I guess even though I didn’t know her that much, she really stood out among the rest of the teachers, someone with a heart for the students. Unlike some teachers. Or principals. (cough cough)

There was a farewell celebration prepared for Pn Chan on Friday and there were quite a few performances, some good, some amazing, and some not so amazing…..but overall, still a memorable farewell for a memorable teacher. Without further a do, here are the pics from that day.

we have some pretty nice sunrises. You just gotta know when and where to be.

Put some stuff in class and went to go find the cina boy gang. Found them at the usual spot and decided to spam a few pics there.

one whole row, either stoning or playing with hand phones. lol

Had a short perhimpunan, then the form 4’s and 5’s had to go to the hall whilst the form 3’s stayed back for something at the assembly grounds. Walked around with Eric and took photos while waiting for the whole thing to start.

Caught Sherwin, Afiq, and the rest of 5 Meranti and a few bits of 5 Keruing getting ready for the Jaiho Dance.

lol Sherwin’s a rockstar. Let a few of them play around with the camera.

this is the end result of jakun photography in kiara park the day before added with tau foo fa (will update on that soon too!)

lol, I can imagine Eric with a goatee.

looks like there should be more people don’t you think? This is Form 4 and 5 together mind you.

Dinesh was wandering around outside the hall. And decided to pose. lol

Haha nana

The school’s orchestra in waiting.

Dres Amigos. Photo taken by Wee Giap

snuck around the hall taking more photos, and once the event was about to start, went up front where the rest of the photographers were waiting.

Pn. Norsham gave one of her signature speeches, which pretty much dragged the event on a little longer than it should have lasted. So decided to go out of the hall to take a few more shots.

More focus on the fence than the face. Lol. Afiq S. took this photo.

Wee Giap

was still stoning and taking shots outside till Pn.Chan came on stage, and the whole hall was filled with the noise of claps and cheers.

the photo says it all.

Eric stole my camera for a bit

lol John and Matthew.

After Pn Chan’s speech, which left her crying a few tears of sadness and joy, the performances began.

the orchestra started playing the intro to billie jean, which was pretty damn cool, until they just cut it off for some reason to switch to another song.

Then it was V-ki’s turn, performing some awesome tricks with her chinese yo-yos, better known as Diabolo. With her performance was this dam addictive song called “Dancing in the Moonlight” by Toploader.

lighting in the hall was shit. So most of the pics were blurred. =.=

After that, one of the form 4 classes sang “Sha La La La” by Vengaboys.

Then after them, the prefects sang “Angels Brought Me Here” by Guy Sebastian

Scouts of the 73rd Petaling performed the Sorry Sorry dance by Super Junior. Then, Batmanjelee (not sure if I spelt it right) a form 3 prefect I used to play the violin with in the orchestra came on to sing “Hero” by Mariah Carey. OMG. Her voice is amazing.

DU’s got hidden talent huh?

I’ve forgotten his name. But he came on and sang one english song and one mandarin song. Help me out here, readers.

Finally, the last performance came on, and it was none other than the Jaiho Dancers, made up of 5 Meranti and Kenanga students. Even though they all were in standby positions on stage, they started a little late cos someone tried to sabo them. Their CD was stolen so they improvised, using their iPod. Heh, barang rampasan saves the day!

The dance was dam nice, till one part, when they were 3/4 way through, Sherwin and Afiq S. came in through the middle and it got AWESOME. The crowd started cheering wildly.

Rockstars they are. After the Jaiho dance, they sang “You Are Not Alone” by Michael Jackson.

Then all the different departments, clubs, and teachers came and personally gave Pn Chan gifts. Our beloved headmistress was nowhere to be found that time. =.=

Then all the higher-up teachers came up and said their goodbyes to Pn. Chan. Many were in tears.

except En. Ismail. R u Enjoice? Lol

Heck, even the Jaiho group came up and gave her a goodbye gift.

The whole school proceeded outside to the assembly grounds and all awaited Pn Chan to come out of the hall.

The sky was quite nice that afternoon. Kinda looks like a shark don’t you think?

She gave words of advice to most of the students waiting for her on the way to her ride. She even said goodbye to me and Eric. I’m not so good with goodbyes, so go figure.

Pn Chan’s driver. R u Enjoice? LMAO

Those stickers pasted on by yours truly and farawr.

Goodbye teacher. Take care.

Went back to class and played cards. Kononya.

Najwa (will be updating on her open house soon!)

that’s the face she gets when she gets cards like this:

LMAO.

There’ll come a day, when it’ll be time for all of us to say goodbye to DU. So savour every moment while you can people.

How much time do we have left? Not much.

Raya holiday post. FINALLY

Well, its been a while since I’ve posted. Was supposed to post up about Raya last week, but decided to….um….yea. Anyway, here’s pretty much happened during the remainder of the Raya holidays.

After church, went out with Eric on Sunday, to teach me how to use the 350D. At the same time I had some much-needed hang out time with him. Its been quite a while since we hung out.

We went to waffle world. IT IS MY FIRST TIME GOING THERE!!!!! It was almost like going to Disneyland. Crap the waffles are the shiznit man.

Had their classic, waffles and maple syrup. Awesome.

Eric had a coke =.=

Me playing with Eric’s and vice versa. Oh yea, it had been quite some time since his birthday had passed, but in the end, me and Cher Haow made good on our promise.

Gave him a 2GB cruzer thumbdrive with a little extra something. ;D Are you ENJOICE???? You’ll have to refer to Eric’s blog to see it lol Went to the arcade to revisit an old friend

Played about 3 rounds till we started looking like assholes and decided to leave.

There was mooncake festival exhibition going on, so decided to take a few photos there.

They had some pretty nice things there but the photos of them were a little blurred and or noisy. Had to go at about 4.30 cos Eric had to go help his sister. Had to limp back from the bus station because of the fresh wound on the bottom of my foot. Was so tired that I feel asleep on my parents’ bed, only to be rudely awoken by my mom some 3 hours later and I had to go for the opening of some new restaurant.

The place was at Plaza Hartamas. Had to pick up Julianna’s dad, Uncle Daniel before heading to the restaurant. Being the youngest in the car, I was cramped at the back of Dad’s Rexton.

From left, Mom, Aunty Choi Lee, Miss Goh, Uncle Pang, Dad. The place was a little bit too cramped for our liking and the layout a bit too unorganized. Even the service wasn’t much to brag about. But Uncle Pang reminded me that we weren’t there for the service or the atmosphere, we were there to eat. Lol.

Each table came with a complimentary bottle of Hennessey X.O.

Was pretty much taking pics and stoning at the dinner table with Brian until the first dish came.

Egg whites stuffed with Goose Liver Pate accompanied with Marinated Jelly Fish

It was quite nice, not awesome, but nice, yet it was going to be quite a while till the next dish came.

Its supposed to be Braised Chicken Feet in Abalone Sauce. Heh but we’re all critics huh? Stayed away from this dish. Me no likey kai keok

Crispy Roasted Pork. Took it with a little bit of Chinese mustard which was more like wasabi. X(

Japanese Hamachi Sashimi accompanied with Raw “Zhang Hong” Fish Marinated with Dill and Mint leaves. Didn’t try it because my stomach was a little too weak. Mom said it was very fresh though.

But this was THE BOMB. Double Boiled Superior Shark’s Fin with Stuffed Dried Fish Maw in Shark’s Bone Cartilage. Sorry sharks, but this tasted so dam good.

After the shark’s fin soup, things were moving a little slow, so decided to explore the restaurant with Brian.

For a new restaurant on the block it seems to have some pretty neat stuff. They had some Hennessy bottles with Diamonds encrusted on them but I wasn’t allowed to take photos of them.

Picture’s a little blur, I know, but I’ll improve :P. After the last dish we were so bored, Brian wanted to go to the nearby mamak. =.= Tagged along, bought him a lighter, and convinced him having a quick meal of roti canai at a mamak defeats the purpose of going out to opening of a new restaurant. When we came back, this was waiting for us:

Steamed Alaskan King Crab with Chinese Wine. This was pretty dam good. Never tasted crab meat as sweet as this before.

Braised Australian Abalone with Steamed Hand-made Prawn paste served in Golden Sauce. Yea the abalone was great (KK’s one still the best, hands down) but the prawn paste was crap.

Steamed Chicken Rice in Onion Oil. Don’t let the photo fool you, it tasted like shit.

Steamed Village Chicken, “Hainanese” style

I have no idea what was the name of these veggies but they were more sweet than bitter. Kinda reminded me of pearl corn. Interesting.

Special Two Varieties of Chinese Pastries. I wonder when jelly counted as pastry. Bah give them the benefit of the doubt la.

Chilled Pumpkin paste with sago. I rike. Was dam refreshing.

Well I guess this post and the one before pretty much sums up my raya. Not many open houses to go to. But still, had some fun experiences. Going for Najwa’s open house tomorrow, missing the air show with Eric. Maybe I should start a poll, should my posts have more words or photos? First of all, you readers would have to vote. Lol so tell me what you guys think la!

Something about these last two pieces of dessert in this shot. They look like they’re worlds apart, but they actually tasted good when you ate them together. Huh.