So I took a day trip to Kundasang today! :) It was beautiful as always. I'm so proud to be sabahan. ;) It was also a chance for me to play around with my dad's Canon 60D.

Boutique Cupcakes. My brother got it from a GIRL. Why no one buy me cupcakes wan? :P

 Random hanging orchids.

TARAP! :) one of my favourite fruits, EVER. So delicious omg.

  

Splashing raindrops. 

 ♥

Been coming to this place since I was really small. It hasn't changed much.

anddddd, my dad took a picture of me. :)

Dim sum for breakfast yesterday. :) It was awesome. I can just never get enough of it. 

Then I went for a family gathering, and as usual, it involved lots of food, gambling, and beer. ;p

Someone took out old ancient family albums. It was nice to look through it, given the fact that everything's so... digital these days. Nobody prints out pictures anymore.. so looking at these old old sepia-like pictures is actually pretty cool. And its funny to see how YOUNG the old people in my family used to look.. LOL. ;p

I feel bored la, don't know what to do everyday. I can't wait to skype again. THURSDAY FASTER COME LA PLEASE. :C

merry christmas

me before going for christmas mass yesterday. :P

hope everybody has a great one! ♥

Kisses.

Its good to be home. :)

Currently how my house looks like, kinda. As in, SO CHRISTMASSY! Apparently my family had a party at my house the other day. Without me. T.T Which explains all the decorations. Oh and even though I didnt bring my camera back, (slaps face) I can still take pics cos I'm using my dad's camera. Woots. :)

Haul from my mum when they went on vacation. Again, WITHOUT ME. T.T But to compensate my mum got me a bunch of cool stuff. :) I actually asked for only a T shirt but she got me other cutesy stuff and lip balm  and even a pair of really gorgeous tights cos she knew I was upset when my old pair got lost in my hostel. -.-


AND TODAY I WENT SHOPPING! :)

Gosh, it felt so good. :) I'd forgotten what its like to shop in malaysia, but seriously its AWESOME. :D I got a bunch of pretty stuff and the best part is its CHEAP! Cos of the christmas sales no doubt.

Vain pics coming up cos I haven't posted pics of myself in awhile. ;p

Gorgeous white lace top in mng. Loved it but didn't get it cos I decided it was still too expensive even after discount. :(

Top and miniskirt from padini. Almost bought the skirt but didn't for now. Might still wanna get it though. ;)

Pretty christmas decor of 1B. So festive!

AND the best thing is, my favourite makeup shop in the world FINALLY has an outlet in sabah! :D *squeals and hyperventilates*

I spent half a day shopping and still haven't attacked ALL the shops yet. :P Like I haven't been in cotton on yet. Maybe next time, after all I do have lots of time left here.. :) But I wasn't completely selfish! I did manage to get gifts for my parents for Christmas. ;p

I can't believe tomorrow's Christmas eve already! How time flies. :)

Merry Christmas everyone! ♥♥

xoxo

HOME SWEET HOME ♥

Yes I'm back in malaysia! :) FINALLY. Currently sitting in LCCT (yes its almost 4 am, malaysia time) waiting cos my flight back home to sabah is 6 something am later. OH YEAH.

Chris and I. we look exhausted. :P

K time to check in. Next post will be when i'm home! :D

xoxo

mimi came to visit! ♥

We had a good weekend. :) This is us standing outside my church (with what we call pose kampung, lol) and the weather around here is getting EXTREMELY cold, hence, the shorts and tights look that I couldn't really wear back home cos it was too hot :b hehe.

Oh and coincidentally, today is amy's birthday! :) happy birthday darling! I know you read this sometimes and this time I really hope you see this. teehee :D come visit us again soon.

Only 3 more weeks and its time to go home! I'm so excited. :D

xoxo

Goa, sunset. :)

This looks like heaven to me. ♥

It's only 4 something in the morning and I'm sitting in a semi dark room clutching a femur and mumbling its muscle attachments. -___- what has my life become. :p

Good morning world! Today is physio practical day where i become a masochist and prick myself multiple times with a lancet and suck blood out of my finger. :p

XOXO

anatomy is killing me.

I'm not even exaggerating. -__- its so hard! Human body, y u so complicated?! *inserts y-u-no-guy face here* :p

I need to get through next week! Then I can breathe again.

For now I can't sleep, I can't exercise, all I'm allowed to do is study. :p

After 2 whole plus months being in india i finally picked up my beloved DSLR and started taking pictures again. :) I'm amazed that I still know how to work the manual functions and stuff. I feel like its been forever.

Diwali is just too festive, I really HAD TO take pictures. :P

Kolam outside viityaa's door. :)

Fireworks were really loud. and somewhat scary. :P

Other pictures up on facebook. I must have taken like, 200 pictures! But after I delete all the blur ones and epic fail ones I was left with 100 plus la. hehe. :)

*taken with the Vignette photo app on my phone. I'm a big fan.*

JUST CAUSE I WAS BORED.

happy diwali everyone! the firecrakers are SO loud outside, i can't study or sleep. LOL.

I KNOW I HAVENT UPDATED IN FOREVER. Been too busy freaking out and studying and well.. having fun. :) ok pictures.

Malaysian night was.. last week I think. Sorry. Bit blur. :p

Some of us JPA nerds. Markos, Mich and Nana came to see us! :) Loves.  

 Cindy and I. Her eyes are sooooo gorgeous! 

 With the guys.

And with the girls. Picture's abit blurry but I love the effect.

:)

My own vanity, but I like this picture. :D HAHA. What? we both look pretty here. sehhh. ;p

 Oh, and I cut my hair. :D Myself. With Yuen Quan's help. teehee. I like it although not everyone does. *cough*

 9,10,11.

What else? Oh. Trinity is going on now. So its too noisy outside. So I can't study. So I'm blogging after not updating for ages. :P And... oh exam is in 3 weeks and I am SO unprepared. :(

bye bye now. ♥

♥

Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. "No", he said. "Why?" "Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are."


- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

(saw this on one of the blogs i bookmarked. Made me smile. (: )

I'm surprised that I still get people visiting my blog. :p i haven't updated in forever, I'm well aware. :p haha.. I've been way too busy. I know right. Same old excuse all the time. :p

So i probably havent been studying as much (or as obsessively) as I used to. Honestly speaking its cause I'm tired. :( and i know that if i stress too much now, then towards the exam time I'm going to be too tired to study, or I'm going to be sick. :p and also i know for sure that God is never going to abandon me.. as long as i did study then i have nothing to worry about.. I'll pull through somehow. :) faith is believing in a power greater than yourself and trusting in Him.

It's my brother's pmr exams this week! He's really smart even though I call him dumb all the time. :p haha. I have total confidence in his ability, I'm pretty sure he's gonna be ok.

I'm blogging using my phone right now btw. Lazy to on laptop. :p oh and spoke on the phone with Sam last night. Epic. Love you samson. :) I'm quite sure you read this so yeah. :)

Gonna fall asleep now. :p kthxbai.

SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED IN THE LAST WEEK!

♥ ;)

and thats all I'm saying for now. :P

OMG exams are looming. November will come very very very soon, I can just sense it. ARGH nervousness. I study everyday yet I feel terrified, whats wrong with me ah? :P

I miss home, too. Here I'm honestly beginning to treat Cindy and Yuen Quan like my family. ;) I think honestly I'd go crazy without them. :( Cindy's my mum and YQ's my older sister. :) I'm a baby, as always.

OH and now I insist everyone call me Li Shan. I'm tired of being Karen. Time to embrace my Chinese-ness and be proud of it. *winks.

I'm finally beginning to feel like I fit in here. :) I go jogging all the time now, it makes me feel really happy. I can finally comfortably (without screaming or fainting, lol) prick my fingertips during hematology practicals, and blood will flow. And my classmates are being super nice to me! AND plus my waist got another inch smaller. WOOTS! ;)

Life is good at the moment despite me being busy studying ALL THE TIME. But somehow, even if I don't know it yet, I think God will find a way to pull me through it. I have nothing to worry about, I just have to have faith and trust in His plans for me.

Current picture of me. no edits or anything, I just grabbed my camera and took the picture right here. :P hahaha. Yeap I look tired. Long long day. :|

xoxo!

Time for my usual sunday morning blogpost. ;D Yeap I switch on my laptop and blog only once a week, see how good i am? ;)

Anyways, we had freshers night like.. 2 nights ago? Kinda like an orientation night (at least, I think thats what we'd call it in malaysia.) I was abiiiiiit shy cos I was the only chinese girl wearing a saree. :p but my local friends kept asking me to wear one so I did. Its the one I already own, from malaysia. I keep wearing it to functions, i know, but I do love the color. :)

 Shruti, who's a big baby. Or at least, acts like one. ;) she's from Bahrain.

 Malaysians ;) only some of us though. Actually got many more. LOL :P

And last night we went to the senior guys' house to celebrate mooncake festival which is supposed to be this coming tuesday. It was so AWESOME. There were probably like.. 50? of us? (sorry, excuse my sucky estimation skills lol) ALL chinese and ALL the seniors were extremely friendly and cool people. AND this is the house we went to! ♥

And oh the senior girls are AMAZING cooks, I kid you not. My stomach was super happy yesterday. The sambal was like OMAIGOD delish. I literally could not stop eating. :O

 Prawn sambal. DAMN I miss home.

 MOONCAKE ♥

 And we juniors made dumplings! :D

 The senior girls even MADE mooncake. Yes, MADE. Is there NO end to their talents? :P (it was green tea flavored and delicious, btw. :P)

Crowding round the table taking food. teehee. :)

I am in such a good mood. ;p 

Anyway. I woke up at 7am today, on my ONE free day with no class, to squeeze in a jogging and exercise sesh with Phoebe and Cindy. It was AWESOME and I feel so good about myself! This, coming from a girl who used to NEVER exercise and HATE sweating. Now I have to go gym everyday or else I feel weird and fat. :P haha, its so weird how I'm changing. :| 

I got a high fever few days ago, totally outta nowhere. I don't even know why I keep getting sick. :| I slept a full 10 or 11 hours and took rehydration salts and only then the fever went away. I think I'm dehydrated. :P

Also, everyone tells me I'm shrinking. :( 

Okay beginning to ramble. Bye bye now! ♥

the SDM-ians visit ♥

Morning darlings! :) Its sunday morning already. My favourite day. Anyway, this week was super relaxing cos cossss we had two days holiday! :) It was one of the gods' birthday or something like that, so we get holiday. :D And it was so meriah. I saw people dancing on the streets, LOL.  Yeap, only in India. :P

AND it was extra special for us BECAUSE...... our SDM friends came from Dharwad to visit! :) I can't even fully express how excited I was. hehe. :) First time having visitors mah. Excuse our patheticness. LOL. Brought them around to Maruti Galli for shopping and of course, FOOD FEST! X)

Dinner with the girls. :) I've missed Sasa and Nana SO MUCH omg.

 I super love this picture! IDK who took it though. :p

 GROUP PIC! From belgaum with love. ;P

Went to cake walk, its like an indian version of secret recipe. They make very cheap and quite yummy cakes la :) FRUIT TART! didn't eat this though. Bailey's cake was calling out my name. ;)

Lunch at Adarsha (its a hotel.) extremely yummy lamb pie thingy. Cheap also! I think less than rm12. :)

 Christine has a habit of randomly taking pictures of me. -.- My addiction to my phone is captured here. :O

Saw a cow at the roadside. Its so tame! And cute too, don't you think? :D LOL. 

The guys. Mark has a beard now. Or the beginnings of one, anyway. MINDBLOWN. :O

 :) ♥

 The BFFs. ;) I like this pic, I used my Vignette app (on my phone) to take it. I LOVE THAT APP, the pictures turn out all vintage and gorgeous. ;)

 Checking out saris. Very cheap here, compared to the cut-throat prices we had to pay in malaysia. =.=

And I bought a peacock feather from a guy selling them on the street. 

Oh and happy Eid Mubarak to my muslim friends! ♥

I miss home very much right now. I've been here for a month but it feels more like 10. :P