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| It's been a long time I've been here at Xanga, close to 5 years. There are many things I love about Xanga, mainly the visitor tracker (stalker me!), and I've been very reluctant to make the move but the time has now come to announce that Wandkey has moved to...
Wordpress
Click click! Meanwhile, I can't think of a way to wrap up this blog, it feels so final, just ending a chapter of my life here like this. Leaving. Putting the blog "on the shelf to gather dust". Let bygones be bygones.
But well, it was time for a change. So, click on the link above and I hope you'll read on and stick around for more Wandkey goodness. Haha.
Now I know how authors must feel when they write the final chapter of their book, it's called reluctance. Eek. This is not the end, not the end! Wandkey will continue to blog, for a very long time to come I hope. But for this Xanga blog, this marks the end.
It's been great times, good times, some not so good times, it's been quite a ride... Thanks to everyone who has read this blog, whether from the time I just started or the readers who occasionally, randomly pop by. Thanks for all the comments, I love feedback. Thanks to Xanga for providing this platform that has been a refuge, place to air my random thoughts or emotions, share snippets of my life, make people salivate (and get fat! Haha!!). So many thanks....
The End? No....
To be continued... at Wordpress. See you there!
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| BEWARE: THIS POST CONTAINS TEETH-ROT-INDUCING PHOTOS, PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK
Kuching supermarkets have come a long long way from what I remember from my childhood.
Recently on a trip to Choice Premier Supermarket quite near my house, I discovered something that triggered my "sweet tooth" alert. Arnott's TimTams Original at almost half price! And there were chocolate Scotch Fingers too!
Oh my goodness, from the usual price of RM7.90 to RM4.80, these TimTams were such a good find. Do you know how hard it is to find REAL TimTams in KL supermarkets? You can find the Indonesian made TimTams almost everywhere but somehow they don't seem to like Aussie biscuits much.
 More recently, last weekend actually, Cold Storage Supermarket finally opened its first outlet in Kuching. And it was packed during the opening day I tell you, madness! Kuching people being Kuching people, love new things and love bargains. Let's see how long this will last. The place is full of imported goods and the food, ah the food.... I found myself some Lemon Curd which is ridiculously hard to find in Malaysia, what more to say in Kuching. I remember my childhood days when I had Robertson's Lemon Curd bought from Ting & Ting supermarket on toast, it reminded me of Sugus Lemon-flavoured sweets. Nostalgia...  But what took my breath away was the ice-cream selection. First time ever I saw BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM in Kuching!!! I remember watching some chick flick and when the girl got dumped, she ended up with a huge pint of Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Wow that must be good advertising, many many years on I still remember that ice cream. My point is, lookie, it's here in Kuching, yours to take home for only RM33++. Hahaha. I don't know if Kuchingnites are that big on ice cream though, for that price.  And another interesting ice-cream find I made was Reese's Choc Butter Cup and Oreo Ice Cream. Now I've never heard of this brand Klondike but the sugary delights the ice-creams are flavoured with... Aah. Rich, sinful on its own, I can't imagine how they would taste like as an ice-cream. Good thing my indulgences are limited by my budget and my conscience. Or you would see quite a round Wen Qi by the end of summer. Haha. P.S. This blog post was not written on a sugar high. P.P.S. These may be one of the last few blog posts on this blog. If all goes well, Wandkey will be moving to a new, yet to be disclosed location. | | |
| "How about another meat dish?", the middle-aged man with a beer belly and husky voice asked as we were ordering for dinner at The Venue. "Beef, venison, chicken, pork ribs, pork belly...?" he further inquired.
I sensed hesitation by the looks of the important people who were to make this decision, my parents.
In my mind, I was going "Prawn, prawn, prawn?". Testing the strengths of my telepathy skills, not daring to speak up to suggest a pricey, not often ordered dish by the family.
"How about prawn?", my mum finally said.
Hallelujah! Haha. Great satisfaction was in store, though the wait was long. This finally arrived after the vegetable and tofu dish....
Oh it has been far too long, too many months since I've had prawns this good. The size of prawns normally found in KL, sigh, I rather just not eat prawn there. And this prawn was such a breeze to deshell, making the eating process just that much more enjoyable. Boo to the prawns at Annual Dinner, so much for making people look so unrefined eating prawns with their hands at a 5 star hotel because the prawn so hard to deshell.
On to other matters, hasn't it been some time since you last seen me here? Oh yea, I forgot to mentioned, I'm back in Kuching. Just in case you couldn't gather that from what I just wrote above. I am currently rotting and this has been my most anti-social week for this year so far. Internet has been keeping me alive, and no complaints so far. Thanks to SNS for making me appreciate fast internet connection. After months of not being able to p2p or video stream properly, say hello to my two new best friends, YouTube and Limewire! Yes, I'm officially a lost cause, hermit with a shell I call home.
Initial thoughts when adapting to staying at home as opposed to uni:
Fridge with food! No need to worry about people stealing my food! Wow, cold milk!!! Cold milk and cereal, WOW!!
Washing machine that needs no coins to operate, yay!
Streamyx! (Already explained above)
TV that I don't have to fight with to watch what I want and has proper ASTRO, wah...
Pretty pretty, sweet smelling flowers in the garden. Mmm... gardenia, jasmine
Hello bed... Zzzzz..
Chocolate is good... Ta Kiong Supermarket has an amazing range of Australian and NZ chocs. These were smaller sized bars instead of the usual huge ,sinful family-sized bars, perfect.
Yes, essentially it was like I just emerged from a jungle into civilisation. Am not missing KL too much, yet. Am missing Semenyih, not. Except maybe for the fresh air and breezy nights. Am missing uni friends, a lot.
Okay, holiday plans? Argh, it'll wait till June. Haha. Procastinators unite, tomorrow!
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| 1. Real name => Wen Qi
2. Nickname => Qi Qi, Serena (The girls seem to think I have hair like Serena from Gossip Girl), Monkey (Rhymes with Wandkey)
3. Married => Not married
4. Male or Female => Female (What's with these boring questions?)
5. High school => Kuching High and St Thomas Secondary School
6. University = University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus for another year)
7. Short or long hair => Long, definitely needs a trim soon
8. Are you a health freak? => I love my food!! Go figure.
9. Height => 167.5cm
10. Do you have a crush on someone => No *Blushes at being asked*
11. Do you like yourself? => Definitely (Another weird question)
12. Piercings => None at all
13. Righty or Lefty => Righty
FIRST'S
14. First surgery => Never had one, hope I wouldn't ever have to
15. First piercing(s) => Refer to question 12
16. First person you see in the morning => At uni, it's Grace I most often see first, as we walk to class. At home, it's most often my sister I see first
17. First award => Oh my, I seriously cannot remember my childhood much...
18. First sport you joined => Does swimming count?
19. First pet => Fish that died when my sister took a liking towards creating tsunamis in the water by shaking the container and I was lousy at taking care of them
20. First vacation => Must have been either Miri or some nearby beach place when I was really young
21. First concert => A classical music concert perhaps, I can't remember my first
CURRENTLY
23. Eating => Wished I was, it's lunch time but there's no lunch to eat yet
24. Drinking => Next scheduled water drinking time: after I finish this tag
25. I'm about to => Finish this tag and get back to Pharmacology, and later Pharmaceutics (Terrible Ps)
YOUR FUTURE
26. Want kids => Don't want to think so far ahead
27. Want to get married => Don't want to think so far ahead
28. Careers in mind => Pharmacist
WHICH DO YOU PREFER?
29. Lips or eyes => Eyes.
30. Hugs or kisses => Hugs
31. Shorter or taller => Taller.
32. Romantic or spontaneous => Spontaneous
33. Sensitive or loud => Sensitive in private, Loud in public
34. Trouble maker or hesitant => Oooh.. wouldn't mind a little trouble making
HAVE YOU EVER...?
35. Kissed a stranger => No
36. Drank bubbles => I think they meant drank bubbly right... Or not?
37. Lost glasses/contacts => Never lost my glasses, but broke a few in my younger days
38. Ran away from home => Where would I run to? Absurd...
39. Liked someone younger => Why not?
40. Liked someone older => Why not?
41. Broken someone's heart => Why not?
42. Been arrested => Why not? Haha. NOOO la. Of course not.
43. Cried when someone died => Yea
44. Liked a friend => What's with these like questions....
DO YOU BELIEVE IN...?
45. Yourself => I have to
46. Miracles => Not really...
47. Heaven => Yes
48. Santa claus => What am I, four?
49. Angels => Don't I look positively angelic? Hehe
ANSWER TRUTHFULLY NOW...
50. Is there one person you want to be with right now => Anybody who would make me laugh a lot, I'm low on laughs now as exams are coming up and people are all busy and serious these days
51. Do you believe in God => Yes
52. Tag 5 people => Nobody... This tag isn't worth tagging others
Now, time for some photos...
 Ah, if it weren't for my eyes that were closed, I'd say this was the best photo of us girls during Annual Dinner. Everybody was dressed so nicely that night. Will blog more about this when I have the time.  Two days ago, Cynthia and I did something quite unthinkable, we went to jog at 7.45 in the morning. I love this photo, look how the building reflects in the water. Though the lighting isn't that nice, looks somber. | | |
| Tis the season to be eating! Exams are coming up, this semester is ending, I'm going back to Kuching early next month. This can only mean one thing, more eating! More eating when exams are around, snacking and such. More eating to savour the food that can only be found in KL before going back. Then, yet again more eating when I get back to Kuching and reunite with laksa, beef noodles, ABC, kolo mee... Oh my, if this goes uncontrolled, you're going to see a very round Wen Qi by May.
Recently, I've had two different cases of two guys saying I'm skinny. And in both instances, they first poked me in the arm before saying that. Hey, my arms are not toned, please don't poke. Haha. But what one of the guys said really stuck in my mind. That was the day we were having physiology lab and before taking our systolic and diastolic blood pressure, we had to have our weight and height measured. Upon finding out that I weigh 56kg (I think the weighing machine missed out 1kg at least), the guy said "I want to be like you, thin but heavy". Then going on to say my bones must be dense and all that. Haha. Thin but heavy!
Aah, I'm going to miss this place over the summer holidays. I'm going to miss walking back to my room at night, after a mamak session or after studying at the SA, when the air is cool and breezy. I'm going to miss walking to the kitchen on Sunday noon, when it's sunny and the sky is ever so clear and the campus is quiet and feels almost resort-like. I'm going to miss the Pharmacy lab at the block we ever so lovingly call "The Red Building", where the views of the mountains are fantastic, never had such good views from a lab before. I'm going to miss having KL near enough for a weekend outing out. I'm going to miss most importantly, the people here.
Anyway, enough of that, now let's get back to talking about food yea?! Last week, I tried out a new place in Semenyih that serves Pakistani food, Al-Shad. I must say, the food may not look appetising, but it really is very rich and flavourful. We underestimated the size of this Chicken Briyani, musing over at first it's seemingly small portion of Chicken, until we got to the end of it and realised we were proven wrong. This dish is really filling, especially since we ordered a plate of Paleek Paneer (Spinach and Cheese). Then, there was that glass of Kashmiri Tea that we had no idea what it would be like till it was served. Gosh this is the nicest, most unique drink you can find around Semenyih town. I can't tell if there's any actual tea in it because the thing is just so milky and rose-syrupy, and it had lots of chopped almonds in it. It's almost a whole meal on its own. Okay, this may not be the best Pakistan food around, but it certainly is one of the better mamak-like places around in Semenyih.
Well, that's for all now. Time to get back to my darling Pharmaceutics, it's starting to look a little neglected.
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