(that’s our new favorite way of saying WTF.)

The weather is so siao.

Seriously. The first day i was here, i wore boots. And i looked like a freak because everybody else was wearing shorts and sandals. It had been crazy warm and i kept asking Oli where has autumn gone.

The fluffy clothes i brought here are a complete waste of luggage space. Then today, i finally decided to wear like i’m going to Bali. Tank top and jeans and bikini on the inside and tons of sunblock lotion. And i looked like a freak.

Because it is bloody cold.

Arggggh. But this, is what i call autumn. This is more like it!!

I took tons of awesome photos!!! Later we’re going Cheap Road shopping. For now i’ll just post some random photos of my awesome friends in Shanghai.

His name is Headwin. I think he’s such a deep inspiration. Especially when October is coming to an end and there’s a party awaiting.

This is Niu Nai. Oli’s soul mate. He has a bow on his head but he is a he. Oli accused me of being discriminative when asked if Niu Nai is a cross dresser.

This is Cookie. We adopted him two days ago from Hang Zhou. Don’t even ask me how he got his name. Basically i wanted to name him Cuggi (that’s what we saw on a belt. It’s supposed to be a really, reeeeally bad typo of Gucci. I think.) But Cuggi sounds like Cookie. And Cookie goes well with Niu Nai. And basically he is of Oreo color. Yum.

This is Oytun the mysterious Turkish delight and Ibby.

And this is whom i’m having olidays with. Who never, ever, gets his head into a picture taken by me. Ever.

And who weighs 2.5 times heavier than me and is about 40cm taller than me, but eats an amount of food that’s equivalent to a hamster’s tea break. What turf.

The first time i met him it was kinda weird. I didn’t do the kiss air thing because it means i would be kissing his armpits. What turf.

Oli is weird.

Oli: Do you know how to play the game?
cheesie: What game.
Oli: You know… the square ball thingie with symbols on it.
cheesie: Dice?
Oli: No, not dice. It’s like Dominos. Like, Chinese Dominos.
cheesie: …
Oli: It’s really famous in China.
cheesie: Really?
Oli: Yea. Wait. i think i know what it’s called. Wait wait wait.
cheesie: Ok.
Oli: Oh. Mahjong.

What turf.

And we were having this minced pork and braised egg on rice thing. He said the first time he ate that, he was truly disturbed.

“What turf?!? How do they expect me to eat an egg with the eggshell on?! Knock it against the bowl?!”

There’s only ONE (1, satu, ichi, yat) kind of exercise i will do. And i call it UCE (Ultimate Cheesie Exercise).

Why is that so? It’s because not only can it help you shape your body up swell… Wait that came out wrong. I don’t mean swell like, swell, but you know, swell. It’s also very sexy, fun, versatile and the best thing is, you can do another 100 other things while doing UCE. Like, reading, watching TV, surfing internet, camwhoring, painting your nails. No la i’m just kidding.

Actually, i am not.

UCE is so cool i decided to use it to join the 100PLUS Me Against the World Challenge.

I have uploaded a video to outdoyourself.com.my to join the Online Challenge! This is what you can to do if you think you are up to challenging yourself and strutting your stuff by joining the online contest to show the world you can outdo yourself.

Online Challenge (15 October 2008 – 15 February 2009)
1) Upload a video of yourself doing something challenging, within these 4 categories:
a. Sports (e.g. football freestyle, cool basketball tricks etc.)
b. Dance / Music (e.g. breakdance, drum solo etc.)
c. Extreme Sports (e.g. skateboarding, surfing etc.)
d. Lifestyle (e.g. skipping rope tricks, cheerleading, handstands etc.)

In this case i chose lifestyle.

Hula Hoop Challenge!!

After you have uploaded your video, you can get your friends to vote for you to win great monthly prizes. The top 12 ranked videos will win things like Nike Vouchers, Sony products and Top Shop vouchers.

At the end of the 4th month, the top 12 ranked videos over the campaign period (3 per category) will be selected to perform LIVE!

And all the 12 selected lucky peeps get to win really great prizes!!! You know what you will get? Check this out.

• 1st Prize Winner – Prizes from Sony, Nike, Topshop and 100PLUS worth RM 8,000
• 2nd Prize Winner – Prizes from Sony, Nike, Topshop and 100PLUS worth RM 3,000
• 3rd Prize Winner – Prizes from Sony, Nike and 100PLUS worth RM 1,000
• 9 Consolation Winners – Products from 100PLUS worth RM 85

Watch my video! It’s called the “100+ things you can do while Hula Hooping“.

Vote for me here: http://outdoyourself.com.my/2008/10/22/cheeserland/

I’m still not satisfied with the challenge. I think i’ll practice more tricks like juggling (properly), some cool twirling, doing my make up, writing a blog post, sleeping… NO LA!! There’re soooo many things you can do! Life has no limits!

Register here.

ps- There’s an uncut version of my vid which i think is better but cannot submit cause there’s a limit of 1 minute for this challenge video, so do take notice! Leave a link k, can’t wait to see yours

“If you’re awarded with RM15,000 CASH, how would you use it to fulfill your dream?”

My dream! Okay this is easy. I was just talking about it to a friend of mine. I love to talk about my dreams. I can go on and on and on.

First of all, i’m gonna book air tickets to Osaka (!), then Hokkaido, London (again), then London to Amsterdam, Mauritius, Sydney then Sydney to Brisbane, Seoul (again), Taipei (again and again and again and again)… then travel to all these places before i go back home and get my apartment done up really swell, and maybe look for a landed property that has a fountain and a garden the size of a zoo, because i am gonna keep 10 dogs. I want 2 Golden Retrievers, 3 Maltese (2f 1m) to play with Cheddie (and the male one can mate with her), 1 milo color Poodle, 1 Papillon, 1 Pommie (white fur, very rare!), 2 Huskies with eyes the color of a clear blue sky, and an Afghan Hound if i manage to get one. When my mansion (God i’m loving the sound of it) is done, i’m gonna move in with my 10 12 dogs, and rent my apartment out and start looking for a cottage house in some countries far away so i that can run away anytime i want.

It will look something like this:

With a few ponies around one.

And then i will probably take the up violin again. Or maybe learn piano. Since i am so rich, i might as well just hire a full time pianist to play songs for me everyday. Who knows i might be able to afford an entire orchestra. Or Jim Brickman. Anyway, when i return to Malaysia, i will donate a total of—

wait, how much money do i have again?

Oh. Fifteen thousand ka.

…

Well i think i will skip the donation. And the mansion… and… the 12 dogs and… and…. Oh forget it. I will just use the fifteen thousand to, erm, hire a finance specialist and let him/her manage the money for me so it can snowball to an amount that will get me those air tickets, mansion, cottage, ponies, 12 dogs and a donation of 15k.

Sounds good doesn’t it! See how much 15k can do for you!!!!

Except that i haven’t gotten it yet.

But i just need to join “Project It Starts In Me” by Shine. I will register as a member and submit my dreams (i can submit as many as i want to!!!). You can design a hot air balloon and tell the world about your dream in less than 800 words.

In fact, i have already submitted!

My balloon cute anot?

Then i will wait for the three Shine personalities, Moana Ishak, Salfarina & Lee Hui Ling to judge the entries based on its originality, uniqueness and inspirational value.

Then of course i will be selected (duh) as the top 10 shortlisted finalists, who must be prepared to video their words, i.e. “How would you utilize the RM15, 000 cash given to you as a stepping-stone towards fulfilling your dream/aspiration” via a 2-minute capsule. (And they will, i mean, i will also receive RM1000 as the prize for the first stage!) All 10 video capsules will be uploaded to www.itstartsinme.com for the public to vote. Then i will bribe encourage all my friends to vote for me.

And of course all my friends will vote for me!!! Because one lucky voter gets to win RM1,000 worth of shopping vouchers every week. On top of that, the person who sent in the most votes at the end of the contest win RM5,000 worth of shopping vouchers!!! (Now my eyes are all SHINING with $$$).

So, naturally, i will become one of the 3 Project winners who will get RM15,000 each. EACH!!! Wow. Now that is a dream.

Entry submission has already started, and it is going to end 9 November 2008 (Sunday) at 11.59pm. I’m now all dreamy-eyed and excited. I’m gonna compile my dreams tonight.

Just collected all five flavs! So damn cute.

Let Shine be my inspiration.

Ok la since they are selecting 3 winners, i don’t mind sharing it with you. Nah. Now go to Project It Starts In Me and find out how you can win RM15,000 with just penning down one dream.

Shine, baby, shine.

PS: Oh yea. Search for “Cheesie”, if you wanna vote for me.

Shanghai is kinda smelly. But there’s this omnipresent floral scent floating in the air everywhere we go!!! Oli and i tried sniffling around like a doook (that’s how he pronounces dog) but to no avail.

I’m very very disturbed. I really wanna find out where the scent come from! It smells like those little colorful fragrance beads i used to buy during primary school days and put them inside my pencil case. You know which type?? Different color got different smell one. We called it “xiang dou” (fragrant bean).

IT IS SO FREAKING NOSTALGIC!

If anyone can tell me where the smell possibly come from (and if it’s verified) i will buy you cartons of China milk. Promise.

We were in this nice little Balinese cafe by the pond.

Waiter: What would you like to have, maam?
Cheesie: I wanna have a nice day.
Waiter: *puzzled look*
Cheesie: Have a nice day.
Waiter: Oh. *chuckled* Which flavor?
Cheesie: I wanna have a nice, chocolate day.

This is my nice day.

Hmmm yum.

And something funny happened to my camera.

When i slided it open, it vibrated. And the LCD screen wobbled like a Jello on Osim iGallop super speed mode.

For a moment i thought, all this while i failed to discover a hidden function of my Sony T10. How dumb i was!

It either A) can double up as a mobile phone (and somebody was calling me but it was on silent mode), B) is a massager slash vibrator and C) Or something.

I think C. Or what they prefer to call it: spoilt.

My Sony T10 camera, vibrated. Wow.

This is how it looked. On video mode.

What should i do? With a vibrating camera?

This was the most spontaneous decision ever.

It went like

“Oli where are you.”
“I’m in London.”
“Can i visit you.”
“You better be here fast, cuz i’m heading back to Shanghai soon!”
“Then i’ll see you in Shanghai.”

And so i bought a ticket to Shanghai.

And it’s gonna be the most relaxing holiday, ever.

I flew 2am and reached 7am at Pudong, Shanghai. Somehow the flight felt really short. Sat next to an empty seat, and the seat next to the empty seat sat a Japanese, who offered to let me stretch my legs across the seat. And i slept fitfully for a few hours. I called Oli the moment i touched down.

“Hey! I’m here!!!666″ (Okay, you can’t exactly express !!!666 over the phone, but you know what i mean.)
“Oh great!”
“So i just take a taxi over to your place?”
“What taxi? I’m here, outside!”
“AWWWW!”

7am in the morning. Oli is the sweetest thing giant. He stands at exactly 200cm tall. Six feet freaking seven.

This is how tall he is.

This is me. The pic is really shakey because Oli was kancheong when the elevator’s door suddenly opened and someone’s in it.

I love walking behind Oli. Because i will never need an ella ella e (that’s how yee hou says umbrella.).

This is my room. Oli bought new bedsheet and comforter for me. AWWWW!

cheesie: Oli. You don’t have a bolster.
Oli: A what?
cheesie: Bolster. I can’t sleep without a bolster.
Oli: What’s a bolster?
cheesie: O.o
Oli: What?
cheesie: Are you serious?
Oli: What’s a bolster? The only bolster i know is “reinforce”. Like, “He bolstered the defense”?
cheesie: What the. So you don’t know what a bolster is?
Oli: No. What’s a bolster.
cheesie: What do you call that long, soft thing you hug to sleep?
Oli: Girls?

HAHAHA. That’s Oli. And i can’t stop teasing his bri’ish accent. He pronounces “duck” as “dog”.

cheesie: So what do you call the feathery bird, that swims?
Oli: “Dog”.
cheesie: WHAT? Dog? So what do call the puppy thing?
Oli: “Dug”.
cheesie: What the. So how do you pronounce the past tense of dig?
Oli: “Dork”.
cheesie: Ok. So what do you call the place where you stop your boat at?
Oli: “Duck.”
cheesie: -_-.

Shanghai is a lot warmer than i thought. My boots makes me look super silly. This is really gonna be great. We have no itinerary whatsoever planned out for the next 2 weeks. Just chill, relax, eat, watch DVDs and laugh.

Oli is playing his Guitar Hero and i’m here online. I’m so thankful the Great FireWall doesn’t block cheeserland.com. And i’m drinking some Chinese orange juice. Best thing in the world.

I’m starting to like it here! Let me know if you have something to recommend in Shanghai.

PS: Ok apparently Oli’s Turkish flatmate Oytun also doesn’t know what a bolster is. -_-

But i miss you.