doughnuts and harry potter

FINALLY GOT TO TRY THE DOUGHNUTS FROM THE BIG APPLE DONUT SHOP AT CURVE!

GOSH THEIR GOOD!!!


CHEERS to the BEST doughnut shop in malaysia!
(well i stress Malaysia..as SOME ppl may think another doughnut shop is better..lets say...KRISPY KREME!!)
=p




lets see if i still remember the flavours...

top left downwards : glacier, mango tango, choreo

top right downwards : (a chocolate doughnut), hot berry, snowy



bliss

the long anticipated 7th Harry Potter book ( HP and the Deathly Hallows) were in **BOOKSTORES* on the...21st of July 2007...

and of course....Malaysia is Malaysia when it comes to so-called scandalous issues :
Loads of people who pre-booked the HP book decided to cancel their orders and go for a better deal...

WHY PAY RM109.90 WHEN U CAN PAY RM69.90 ??

erm...hello? its harry potter guys...have different opinions u will but i guess MPH and various other bookstores are making BIG bucks selling it about RM40 cheaper...well Carefour was being *considerate* to price it soooo low...but think about it...the stock will eventually run out and people will have to buy the book at the normal bookstores...provided their still selling it....which im pretty sure they will be..

( i'm waiting until the price of the book drops to about RM40 something ... =p yes i know im stingy...in the mean time....my brother sent me the PDF file of the whole HP7 book...so maybe im being a bit of a hypocrite because reading it online cost absolutely NOTHING! XD )

A week that was...

First that tops the list :

HSBC Classics Strings Festival
(10th-14th July 2007)

On the 10th and 11th , most of the mpyo peeps ( lu ee,jebat,kah yan,anabelle,anthea,and sorry if i left out ur name...i have bad memory! =p) were there to watch the competition. Well , the tribe was mainly there to support the two Js!!!

Jia Rong and James!

Met a few new interesting people there....mostly the contestants and a few other people. The contestants were really really impressive! not to mention sooooo good!!!! especially the winner Elizabeth Tan SuYin who presented the Haydn Cello Concerto in D major that was flawless and most enjoyable!

check out the repertoire!
- Vieuxtemps' Violin Concerto no.5 ( Latifah )
- Dvorak's Cello Concerto ( Kett Chuan )
- Wieniawski's Violin Concerto no.2 ( Jia Rong )
- Haydn's Cello Concerto in D major (Elizabeth)
- Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto op.64 ( Reow Shuen)
- Saint-Saens' Cello Concerto ( James)
- Bruch's Violin Concerto no.1 ( Jae Sern)
- Paganini's Violin Concerto in D major ( Ka Ming)

it was really eye-opening to see MALAYSIANS perform these songs....i mean....PAGANINI'S VIOLIN CONCERTO ppl ! no joke....Ka Ming did quite a good job too! ( and gosh!! those double-stop harmonics...!!!!!! ) but after the semi-finals on the 2nd day...i went home disappointed...ask me if u care to know.

and on the 11th of July, i skipped LEO meeting and was surprised by a phone call after about 5pm.

Ming Hui : Hello .Su Yin?
Su Yin : yea ming hui .wats up?
Ming Hui : errr....u know wat happend at meeting today right?
Su Yin : no...what? ( i was actually lying ..=p)
Ming Hui : there...they announced the new board members for 07/08
Su Yin : OHHHHHHHHHHHH
Ming Hui : and u know wat su yin got?
Su Yin : which su yin?
Ming Hui : huh?Leo club only got one su yin wat....thereeeee....the Leo Su Yin...
Su Yin : ohhhh....wat did she get?
Ming Hui : COMMUNITY SERVICE DIRECTOR!!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......im community service director!!! soooo happy....
and the next day i got "scolding" from my senior for not coming to shake her hand and "receive" the post. =p
so yeaaaa....apart from my new responsibilty....i also promised myself to practice twice as hard to be as good as the contestants in the competition...



what a week....

Things that I have done...

yes, u ppl are probably grabbed by the title...haha...its nothing scandalous...just the things I have done in the past few days when I was sooooo bored...=p

In the past few days.....
I have....watched many movies! ( new and old ones)

The figure skating gimic!

Blades of Glory : Reviewed

Starting off , I wanted to watch this movie mainly because of the cast . And no , im not a fan of Will Farrell...but...im a HUGE FAN of Jon Heder. He's soooo hilarious...well shoot me about his versatility and duh-ness, but u gotta admit it's kindda funny. Remember "the Benchwarmers" and "Napoleon Dynamite"? those movies didn't do so well at the box office but the actors really deserve some credit u know.Anyway back to the movie , it's not as sick as u ppl think it is. =p
This movie is about two rivals , Jimmy MacElroy who is a both technically and artistically versatile figure-skating prodigy/daddy's boy...starred by Jon Heder! ( kindda obvious?) the other rival , Chazz Michael Micheals , a sex-addict who believes in improvisation and is labeled "hot sex on ice" in the movie. When both of them become Gold Medalist at the Olympics , sparks fly and BOOM! a fight begins. =p long story short , they both get banned for life in their figure-skating divisions. and yea...they decide to pair up for doubles 3 years later when they find out when they were only banned from their divisions(singles). And "OMG huge surprise"**sarcasm*...they win the doubles division and they lived happily ever after.


Other movies I watched...

The Wedding Planner!
(common , every girl loves this "happily ever after story" =p)

a scene from Miss Congeniality

This show perfectly describes "actors who can dance but not act"

quote: Channing Tatum is HOT!

Moving on...
I have also discovered a few virtuoso pieces for violin...=p

Russian Violinist Alexandra Soumm playing Paganini's La molinara!






a young Polish violinist named Krzystof Rucinski playing Paganini's L Palpiti!
( I would post Maxim Vengerov's rendition cos' its much nicer but I can't seem to upload it...oh well...this boy plays it nice as well...=p)

Here's another video which I haven't got bored of even after listening to it for the umpteenth time...haha...enjoy! =p


Presenting Sergey Khachatryan ! (siapa tu?)
He's the winner of the Ysaye Competition in Belgiun...still scratching ur heads?
anyway...he's playing Brahms Sonata no.3 (4th mov)

yeap...things that I have done ...=p

MPYO camp #2

MPYO camp was over a week ago...soon we will be going back to school...and the torture begins.at least for some of us. just jk. =D Mummy droved shulamite and I to camp.hmmm....we left around 12.45pm...wahahaha...i was still packing when shulamite arrived.The place was like deserted when we arrived....hmmm....walked into the main hall...and saw one double-bassist there. We decided to explore the place a bit...and finally we met...tiki,dylan and...erm...a few other members from east-malaysia.
Soon later , well actually half-an-hour later....the rest of the tribe arrived.GOSH! how happy i was to see all of them! u cant blame me! they're great ppl and haven't seen them in 900 years! well actually it was only about a month and a half ago....but it seems like 900 years!

MOVING ON! The place we stayed at this time was....SOOOOOO much better than the last place(UTP)! seriously! although i kindda like being out in the wilderness....we all seemed sooo spaced out for some reason.We had our tribal councils in jia rong and adelyn's room...it was quite a cool room...sooo unfair! it had 2 levels! check this out!

well...this is just the downstairs of the unit but can u see the SPIRAL stairs there!
=D

wahahaha...we weren't gambling...funny tho...kit leong is there...wait...i think we're playing UNO =P

Concert repertoire :
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
Saint-Saens' Danse Bacchanale
Tchaikovsky's Elegie
Selections from Les Miserables!!

Les Miserables was awesome!! I'm embarrassed to say that I actually cried listening to the recording yesterday. =D

Bunch of us making noise...hahaha...before the concert

after the concert...having fun? =P

Getting a taste of jia rong's flexibilty!

My 2nd family!!
standing at the back l-r : James,Jebat,Eben
2nd row l-r : David,Adelyn,Jia Rong,Lu Ee,Mabel,Philbert
sitting l-r :me,Kit Leong

The Bunch =P


The Tribe!


Jia Rong and I (ex-desk partners...miss u girl!!!)

One thing that should be emphasized ...is the FOOD!!!!

a bunch of happy ppl with delicious lunches...well actually this pic was taken on the 2nd day...plus...there isn't a full picture of what was actually served...=D


That was camp!

wow...im actually....quite exhausted....I never thought blogging was hard...
**salute** to all those bloggers out there...

starting a blog

starting a blog...
something I have been very skeptical about...
but...jia rong convinced me to start one for fun!
wahahaha
so here i am!
its 11.50p.m
and...I'm going to sleep soon!