Sunday, August 28, 2011

QY's birthday

Another birthday friend-QY in this month. I planned to throw her a surprise on 20th. Together with me, ST, KY, CF and Lionel, we celebrated this special occasion in the Garden Cafe, Mid Valley

The ambiance is pretty comfortable with the songs played by the pianist.. The decoration of the place is exactly like the western concept. But what I dislike is their management. We were informed that they don't accept reservation during weekends. But we saw most of the tables are being reserved.

Back to where we are... Our table was filled with lots of laughter that night especially the birthday girl.. She kept on teasing Lionel's elephant key chain.. Lionel insisted his elephant is BIG but everyone mentioned LITTLE elephant..
Lionel's little elephant... Big or little??
We celebrated QY's birthday for the first time. Sing a song and cut cake.. A small kid also joined us singing happily.. Pretty cute boy..

Cutie kid..

When it's time to leave the place, Lionel offered us a ride even though I drove my dad's car (I parked my car quite far away from the mall). I wish to say "Thank you" for being such a kind-hearted friend... =)


 Happy moments together...
I hope QY enjoy her birthday celebration and everyone has a great time.. ^.^

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

25 ways of wearing a scarf

I found a very useful link.. Not only useful to me but all the girls.. I didnt know there are several ways to use a scarf to "deco" yourself.. Last time, a scarf is used in a cold environment to keep yourself warm.. Now, a scarf act as an accessory and it has became a trend for all the ladies.. So, please have a look at this video below..

Another link teaching how to wear small scarf => 10 ways to tie small scarves

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Grow Up Another Year

How I wish I can slow down the time on my birthday cause I wish spending more time to do what I wish to do.

Previous two Sundays, my friends threw me a birthday celebration at Purple Cane Tea Restaurant, Mid Valley. For the first time we had Chinese Food. The table had half of roaster duck, a pot of bak kut teh, prawns, vegetable and tau fu. I would rank the food for 4 out of 5 stars. ^^

When time comes, a cake would be blew and cut.. Hehe.. I like the layer cake.. Also, they gave me presents which really out of my expectation!! Actually my only gift that I hope is to watch the movie, "Harry Potter" and they did realise my wish but the presents are really a big surprised.. A big "THANK YOU" to my friends-Ah Gor, ST, KY, CF and QY.

Talking about Harry Potter, the last part of the last Chapter. 
The part talks about the live and dead battle between Harry Potter and Voldemort. Voldemort is trying to find the Elder Wand whereas Harry, Ron and Hermione are finding ways to get and destroy the Horcruxes.

Harry guesses that Voldemort has a Horcrux stored in Bellatrix’s vault, since she seemed so worried about it, and he persuades Griphook the goblin to help him break into the vault. With Griphook’s help, Harry, Ron, and Hermione break in and steal the Hufflepuff Cup from the vault, then escape on the back of a dragon.

Harry learns from a vision of Voldemort’s that the final Horcrux is at Hogwarts, so they travel to the nearby village of Hogsmeade. There they meet Aberforth, Dumbledore’s brother, who helps them get into Hogwarts through a painting by summoning Neville Longbottom, who has been organizing meetings of Dumbledore’s Army in the hidden Room of Requirement. Harry asks the members of the D.A., who are all his supporters, if they can think of an important item associated with the school, hoping such an item might be the final Horcrux. The Ravenclaw students tell him about the lost diadem of Ravenclaw.
While Harry looks for the diadem, the professors and students of Hogwarts rally to his defense, having been warned that Voldemort is on his way. Voldemort and his followers attack the school in a great battle, and Harry finds and destroys the diadem Horcrux.

Harry witnesses Voldemort murdering Snape in order to take possession of Dumbledore’s powerful wand (since Snape killed Dumbledore, Snape is presumably the wand’s true master until someone kills him). Before he dies, Snape gives Harry his memories, extracted for viewing in the Pensieve.
Harry goes to the Pensieve in the headmaster’s office and views the most important moments of Snape’s life. He learns that he has been completely mistaken about Snape, who loved Harry’s mother, Lily Potter, his whole life. Snape had spent his entire adult life spying on Voldemort for Dumbledore and working to protect Harry.

From one of Snape’s conversations with Dumbledore, Harry learns that there’s a piece of Voldemort’s soul inside him (Harry is in fact the final Horcrux), and that he will have to let Voldemort kill him before Voldemort can die. He goes into the forest and lets Voldemort kill him, then wakes up in a dreamlike version of King’s Cross train station, where Dumbledore meets him and tells him that he hasn’t died, and that the protective charm Lily Potter placed on Harry is kept alive inside of Voldemort, because Voldemort used Harry’s blood to reconstitute himself. Thus, Voldemort could not kill Harry, and Harry can now go back and finish him off.

Voldemort takes Harry, whom he believes to be dead, back to Hogwarts to demand its surrender. The students and teachers defy Voldemort, and Neville uses the Sword of Gryffindor to kill the giant snake, Nagini, which was the last Horcrux keeping Voldemort invulnerable. A final battle erupts, and Harry reveals that he’s still alive, going on to kill Voldemort in a duel.

In an Epilogue set nineteen years later, Harry is married to Ginny and is sending their children to Hogwarts. Ron and Hermione are married, and their families are both thriving.
(Extract from link )

Luckily, the author, JK Rowling, didn't end the story by sacrificing Harry.. If not, all the readers would be disappointed.. Haha..

On the next day, I had another surprised. My colleague told me, "Sook Yee, please come to the meeting room." Looking at the time, it was 5.30pm. I was puzzling, "What meeting are we going to discuss". Getting myself ready with a notebook and walked into the room. I was feeling embarrassed that all of them were waiting for me to blow and cut the cake.

At night, I had a wonderful dinner with my parents in Chinese stall. That's how I spent my day.

Found my Favourite Books

Colleagues have been talking about the book fair at YMCA, KL. I also heard of this event so we promised to go together.

Yesterday we went to the place after working. The place was filled up with variety of books but all are in English. Looking at the prices are also attractive too.. Price of book is cost less than RM10. You could even get RM8 for 3 books!! Sound pretty worthy right? Haha.. However, all the books are second hand. If you are lucky, you still could get a book as new as before.. I saw all this and start wondering where should I begin my search.. Hehe.. 

I was trying to get some detective books. Last time I read all the series of Famous Five by Gnid Blyton. Now, I'm happy to get another famous detective stories, Nancy Drew. Also, ghost stories were written by Stephen King and RL Stine. So, I managed to get it. =D Haha.. I walked home with a big smile.. ^^

Meantime, my colleagues bought famous fictions ie. Chronicles of Nania-The Last Nephew and The Lord of the Ring-The Two Tower.

Hurray.. I could spend my free time on books again.. ^^
 

Friday, July 15, 2011

Last of the Mohegan-Harry Potter

The movie of Harry Potter is a non-fiction but I know Christian discourage watching it. To me, as long as I don't learn their what so-called spell, I don't think we should not watch. What I admire the most is their characters, ie. value of friendship. Harry, Ron and Hermione always stick together (Ron and Hermione are willing to leave their family behind) even though they know the level of danger. 3 of them never fail to solve problems as a team. 
I've been following the story from the very beginning and it has became part of my teenager story. I always admire kids playing in action movie so that's how this movie caught my eyes. Haha.. Before coming to an end, let me highlight of each part of stories.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
Harry Potter became a legendary person since he was a baby in Wizard's world because Voldemort could not kill him but left a scar on his forehead.

Sorcerers Stone is the most valuable item as this magical stone will bring immortal to a person. Such a valuable stone is attracted to evils such as Voldemort. Harry Potter destroyed the Sorcerers Stone is to prevent falling the stone on the hand of Voldemort.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret
Harry entered the Chamber of Secrets and encountered Ginny's still body and Tom Riddle. Tom turned out to be a younger version of Voldemort, who has been enchanting Ginny through his journal. Tom summoned a basilisk but was killed by Harry using the Sword of Gryffindor. Harry stick a basilisk fang through the diary to destroy Tom. Ginny was rescued.  

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban and Harry wanted to take revenge on him over his parents' death. However, the actual fact was Pettigrew (one of Harry's father's best friend) who is the servant of Voldemort and betrayed Potter. After knowing it, Harry, Ron and Hermione decided to rescue Sirius Black from being killed by the servant of Voldemort. Harry is happy that Sirius Black became his godfather.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry was not expected that he could enter Triwizard Tournament despite his age. This tournament was a trap in the beginning to let Harry entering the final stage. The trophy is a transporter to bring Harry and Cedric to face Voldemort. Voldemort murdered Cedric and wish to do the same on Harry. When both summoned each other, Voldemort's past victims emerge from his wand and protect Harry once the wand connection is broken, giving him time to grab Cedric's body and touch the trophy, thus returning to Hogwarts.

 
Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix
The 3 teenagers formed a group called Dumbledore Army (DA) to learn Defense as Professor Umbridge refused to teach them.

Harry was trying to find his godfather, Sirius Black in Department of Ministry as he foresee Sirius was being captivated and tortured by Voldemort. When Harry reached the department-Ministry of Magic, he saw one of the glass spheres has his name on it, as well as Voldemort’s. Harry grabbed the sphere, and Death Eaters surround to attack, demanding that Harry hand over the prophecy. Employing all of their Defense skills, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, and Neville have moderate success fighting the Death Eaters, but they are ultimately helped enormously by the arrival of several members of the Order of Phoenix (a group to fight against Voldemort's Army). In the midst of the fight, Harry dropped the glass sphere, and it shattered. Meanwhile, Sirius’ own cousin, Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange, killed Sirius. Harry is devastated.

Dumbledore appeared and corralled the Death Eaters but Voldemort and Lestrange managed to escape. Back to Howarts, Dumbledore explained that the prophecy mentioned Harry will either destroy Voldemort or be destroyed by him. Harry has to live with his Aunt because he has the protection of the love bond from his mum.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry also learned that Voldemort has divided his soul into seven Horcruxes. Two of these, Tom Riddle’s diary and Marvolo’s ring, have already been destroyed. One resides in Voldemort, one resides in a snake, one is Merope’s locket, and the other two are suspected to be hidden in objects belonging to Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Gryffindor.

Together with Dumbledore, both went to obtain Merope’s locket, thus making Voldemort one step closer to mortal. After taking the locket, they returned to Hogwarts as quickly as possible as they knew Voldemort's Army will appear in the school.

Draco found Dumbledore and threatened to kill him, meanwhile Harry was freeze (by Dumbledore's spell) and covered himself with his invisible cloak. Later, Professor Snape appeared and killed Dumbledore. Draco and Snape escapes from there. 

Harry was very upset over the death of Dumbledore and he realised that the locket was not a Horcrux. Inside the locket had a note from someone named “R. A. B.” Harry told his friends he would not be returning to Hogwarts next year and would instead search out and kill Voldemort by destroying all of the Horcruxes. Ron and Hermione vow to join him.

Also, Harry found out that Half Blood Prince is Processor Snape.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
Voldemort's Army is getting stronger and they even interfered Muggle's world. Muggle means a person who could not perform any spell.

The members from Order of Phoenix were trying to take Harry to Weasley's house, Burrow. When he arrived Burrow, he learned that Mad-Eye Moody was killed.

Rufus Scrimgeour, the Minister of Magic, delivered the items Dumbledore left for Harry, Ron and Hermione in his will. Harry is given a Snitch which he caught in his first Quidditch match, as well as the Sword of Gryffindor, which Scrimgeour does not give him, claiming it did not belong to Dumbledore. Ron is left a device called a Deluminator that turns lights off, and Hermione is left a book of wizard fairy tales. None of them have any idea what the items mean.

The Weasleys host the wedding of their son Bill to Fleur Delacour. The wedding is interrupted by Death Eaters, as Voldemort has taken over the Ministry of Magic and is now in charge of the Wizarding world. All of them fled the scene. The 3 teenagers escaped together to a safer place.

In previous book, R.A.B left a note in the fake locket. This R.A.B is Regulus Arcturus Black, Sirius's younger brother who is dead. However, the locket has been stolen by Umbridge. Harry, Ron and Hermione were taking their risk to get the locket from Umbridge. Ron used the Sword of Gryffindor to destroy the locket.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione go to visit Xenophilius Lovegood, because Hermione has discovered a strange symbol in the book Dumbledore left her, and they had seen Xenophilius wearing it. Xenophilius explains that the symbol represents the Deathly Hallows, three objects—the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, and Invisibility Cloak—that were made by Death and that give the owner of the three objects mastery over death.

Bellatrix Lestrange caught the 3 teenagers and she tortures Hermione for information about where they got the sword they are carrying, since she thought it was in her vault at Gringotts bank. She is very concerned about anything else they might have taken. Dobby, the Malfoys’ former house-elf, helped Harry and his friends to escape, along with Ollivander the wand maker, Luna Lovegood, and Griphook the goblin.

Harry guesses that Voldemort has a Horcrux stored in Bellatrix’s vault, since she seemed so worried about it, and he persuaded Griphook the goblin to help him break into the vault. With Griphook’s help, Harry, Ron, and Hermione broke in and stole the Hufflepuff Cup from the vault, then escaped on the back of a dragon.

In the meantime, Voldemort is looking for the most powerful wand-Dumbledore's Elder Wand. The battle is about to start... Does Harry able to destroy all the Horcruxes? Who will survive in the end? Harry or Voldemort? Let's watch the final part together..

(You may read this in details through this link)

Harry Potter is the LONGEST parts among other movies. Every story has the beginning and it has to come to an end.. I'm reluctant to bid farewell to the last of the Mohegan this Sunday..

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Won a Contest

I seldom take part in contest as I didn't get anything so far. This happened when I noticed Golden Screen Cinema (GSC) organised a contest in Facebook in giving out the free movie tickets. The criteria is simple, i.e name the person who you wish to watch together and write your reason not more than 20 words. 
Hmm.. I just said to myself, "Why don't I give myself a try?" Yes, I did it and GSC gave me two complimentary tickets. =) The title of the movie is "Treasure Inn". It's a Cantonese movie which filmed by main stars-Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheong and Charlene Choi.

Two complimentary tickets - special thanks to GSC
Today, I watched this movie with ah gor. How was the movie? It is romance and comedy type of movie. I laughed throughout the show. But the killing part is a bit violent. Overall of the storyline is okay.. I would say I give 3 out of 5 stars. By the way, I like the pretty girl-Yuk Ling Lung (acted by Liu Yang). Haha..

Short synopsis about Treasure Inn
In China, two street inspectors named Gong and Ba were on the mysterious murder case in town - the massacre at millionaire's estate, and the disappearance of the prestigious white-jade statue. The renowned investigator Iron was assigned to the case. But the local Gong and Ba were being shoved so they decided to track down the culprit on their own. Along their journey, the duo fell in love with two sisters, Water and Fire. When the real murderer is finally revealed, Gong realizes the danger is much closer to home than he could ever imagine. (Extract from: GSC movie and HK Movie )

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Two lovely songs - I Know who Holds Tomorrow & Still

I love this song "I know who holds tomorrow" especially the lyrics. It's very meaningful.. ^^

I don't know about tomorrow,
I just live from day to day.
And I don't borrow from the sunshine
'Cause the skies might turn to grey.

And I don't worry about the future,
'Cause I know what Jesus said,
And today I'm gonna walk right beside him
'Cause he's the one who knows what is ahead.

There are things about tomorrow
That I don't seem to understand
But I know who holds tomorrow
And I know who holds my hand.

And each step is getting brighter
As the golden stairs I climb.
And every burden is getting lighter
And all the clouds, they're silver lined.

And, I'll bet the sun it's always shining
There no tears will ever dim the eye
And the ending of the rainbow
Where the mountains, they touch the sky.

There are many things about tomorrow
I don't seem to understand
But I know who holds tomorrow
(Sung by LeAnn Rimes)

Another beautiful song "Still". I will praise Lord unto Eternity.. 

INTRO:
A - AM - C/G - G
F - AM - C/G - G

C         G/B       Am

HIDE ME NOW
F   D/F#  Gsus  G
UNDER YOUR WINGS
C         C/E   F
COVER ME
Dm7       D/F#                   G
WITHIN YOUR MIGHTY HAND

REFF:
C         C/E  F
WHEN THE OCEANS RISE
G Csus   C
AND THUNDERS ROAR
C     C/E   F
I WILL SOAR WITH YOU
G  Am
ABOVE THE STORM
C        C/E   F
FATHER YOU ARE KING
G  Csus  C
OVER THE FLOOD
G/B F/A
I WILL BE STILL AND KNOW
G/B  C
YOU ARE GOD -> Sung By Hillsong