BIRTHDAY 2012~

HELLO PEEPS! 26 of December is my birthday! And it had just past! >< Well, my birthdays were really awesome since when I was born, even though I can't remember the birthdays I had when I was a baby :/ BUT most of them were really awesome. As you all know, 25th December is Christmas *cue Jingle Bells song* and the day after Christmas which is also Boxing Day is my birthday!

This year, my dad told me the day before Christmas that we were going to Melaka for a holiday. Well, of course that's what they said, I was thinking, Melaka for my birthday?? NICE. Okay, you can stop the music now -.-


Me, my dad and my mum reached Melaka at 12noon. My parents told me that my godmum a.k.a. mama, will not be going D; she was with me for almost every birthdays I had... (if I am not mistaken) so without her, it'll will be very different BUT I still looked forward to the trip. My mum, the planner, said that there was a very famous Nyonya restaurant called Makko's Nyonya Food. It was packed inside! There was a family waiting outside, it seems that we need to write down our name and wait until it was our turn. But we didn't! We didn't know, we just went in, found an empty table and ordered our food! XDD We ordered their famous dishes. 

After 2 hours of sitting in the car, we needed to release ourselves :) when we came back from the toilet, the food were already served! Wow, that was really fast. After our lunch, the lunch? Oh, it was just okay, turns out that the food was already prepared. -.- We went to our hotel, Hotel Puri, the road infront of the Hotel was really narrow, Jonker Street was just right behind our hotel, so we can walk there :) The 3 stories hotel was really unique, the deco was all Nyonya Style. But unfortunately, our room will only be ready by 3 so we went to Jonker Street. 

Jonker Street, where cheap things and yummy food roam *not really* we went in to many shops *not really* we bought many stuffs! *not really* We did buy something, we bought 2 wall stickers :D 3 funny luggage tags, a shirt for me :) and... i think that was it. ANYWAYS we continued our way and went to this shop which was famous for their ice coffee. My dad ordered an ice coffee and lemon honey. Turned out that the ice coffee was in a small bottle and the lemon honey sucks. Well, the ice coffee was nice. We went back to the hotel because there was nothing else to look at. The room was already ready and we climbed up to the 2nd floor...

I love opening hotel doors :D So I had the honor to do it :) the room is a 4 person room because my mum said that the 3 person room was already fully booked. It was 3.15 when we settled in our hotel room. We took a bath and rested. Shortly after, we went out for dinner at the Portuguese Settlement. We ate seafood * Portuguese style* by the beach *not literally BY the beach*. 

We ordered Egg plant, Fried Squid and fish. And again... it was okay. :/ Except the Fried Squid, it was nice. We took pictures and went back to the hotel because we were tired. My mum was playing word search on her phone and I was playing my iPad, my dad went out to find his friends. My mum received calls from mama several times, I thought there was a problem that mama had, so I didn't bother. I was getting sleepy by 11.30 and decided to call it a night when my mum said that she can't find the word and I played with her and ended up on YouTube watching funny commercials. My dad came back and told me that one of his friends want to see me. I was thinking, which friend? what? I wore my brand new shirt and went down the stairs, when we reached the end of the stairs, my dad said that I need to cover my eyes, my dad covered them with his hands and led me. 


I couldn't see anything, then we stopped, I smelt candle. And I can see light the gap of my dad's hand, I guessed it was a cake because of the candles, it had to be! IT WAS. I saw the cake and mama was there holding her camera, I yelled out :O MAMA. And I made a wish and blew out the candles. Mama bought the cake in KL and went there all the way to Melaka :) We took a lot of pictures and went up to our room to eat my cake :D It was pandan with coconut :D It was really awesome, thank god it was already 12 when we ate the cake which means we ate the cake on my birthday :D We switched off the lights and went to bed, mama asked me to take her phone which was in her bag, I felt a box all wrapped up (my bday present??) I pretended I didn't know when mama said that her phone was on the table, then my mum asked me did I touch my present, I give my best "no" face. But sadly, I only get to open my present the next day :) AND we slept :)


I woke up by the sound of tv and my mum slapping my butt. IT WAS MY BIRTHDAYYYYY~~ I woke up and brush my teeth and yadayadayada and I sat down on the face and gave my mum a big smile :D And she smiled back saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! HEHE:) I wore my brand new shirt and headed down for breakfast. It was a small buffet, really nice with French Toasts, Omelet, Nasi Lemak, Sausage and fruits. We went up and it was present opening time^^ I opened the first layer and found out that there was a fun quiz XD i did it and open the second layer, white, I opened the third layer and there, in my hands, a box with bird nest written on it XDD HAHA but there was a card inside it... I ripped the box open *not really* and the present was so small :3 so cute. It was rectangle and heavy, last stage, i opened at realized it was a Samsung Note 2 box, I was speechless. 

I opened the box and say a shiny phone looking at me, I did not cry. >< not that much... I can guess that it was a phone because previously, my mum made it a little obvious... :/ but I never expected a note 2! How unexpected?! *THE HOBBIT* Excuse me while I fangirl. I was really speechless, I switched it on and explored it. :3

The rest of the day went pretty well, we went through Jonker Street, mummy and mama got new shirts, we went to the Stadthuys and ate Chicken Rice Ball. We left the hotel and headed out to Mahkota Plaza *mall* and eat their yummy cakes at Nadaje Cafe, the cakes were really special and unique, we ordered, cheese, banana chocolate and cafe mocha, the cakes were layered by layered and it was really soft ^^ we went back to KL.

Mu birthday ended like that, pretty. :) I need to thank my mum and dad for the super expensive present, and mama for the cover :) I am truly a lucky girl. I can't say anything else, I am speechless :/ Alright, that's a wrap! 





                                                                      

The Hobbit--An Unexpected Journey (MOVIE)

It's December 18 and you know what that means? The Hobbit--An Unexpected Journey is showing in the cinemas!!! It was released in the cinemas in Malaysia on December 14.  I just watched it yesterday at MBO cinemas with my mum, and it was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. The movie is the adaptation of the book but of course with more action. In case you don't know, The Hobbit, will be divided into 3 films. The first is An Unexpected Journey which was released a few days ago. The second is The Desolation of Smaug, it will be released in 2013, a year away -.-.  The final one is There and Back Again, it will be released in 2014. 

13 dwarves and Gandalf showed up in Bilbo's hobbit hole at bag end. Bilbo ended up going on a mission with them (reluctantly) being the 14th member excluding Gandalf. The mission to reclaim the dwarf's homeland which was being conquered by Azog (the beast).

The sceneries were stunning, from the beautiful Hobbiton to the enchanting Rivendell. The movie started with Old Bilbo (Ian Holm) lighted a candle, he's writing his book about his adventures when Frodo (Elijah Wood) asked his dear uncle what was he doing. Then the scene went back to the young Bilbo. 

Everything pretty much the same as the book, Rivendell, the trolls, the goblin tunnel, Glamdring and Sting. There were also some cute and funny moments with the dwarves and of course who can forget Gollum and Bilbo's Riddle Game. But that one scene triggered me during the movie... 

When the company was climbing the mountains in a storm at night, the lightning struck the peaks of the mountain, causing boulders to fall down, what's worse? The mountain giants arose, they started to have their own "battle", they lifted up boulders and began throwing at each other, at one point you could see them wrestling. The company, as you know is a big company of 15, they all struggled through the mountain with difficulty and some nearly fall. When the mountain giants were fighting, the force caused the mountain path to split into two with the company being separated apart. One side of the path belongs to another mountain giant's hand. (This part was very exciting!) 

Part of the company had to jump back to carry on when the fighting ended. When they finally managed to get on their feet,  they realized Bilbo was not with them, he's hanging off the cliff edge. Now, Thorin didn't like the idea that Bilbo joined their company and he said that Bilbo was a burden and shouldn't be in the company at all. Anyway, he pulled Bilbo up and told him that he shouldn't be there. I felt very sorry for Bilbo, it's really mean of Thorin to say that. Anyhow, they moved on and found the goblin tunnel and that's where it all continues...

Bilbo got separated from the company and met Gollum, while the dwarves and Gandalf were being taken away by goblins to the Goblin King(of the town). He's big, fat and hideous. Thorin managed to cut his stomach with his sword. The Goblin King backed up and fell, that's the end of him :/ The company then escaped the goblin town (most epic part of the movie). Bilbo, too, escaped with the ring which Gollum dropped when they were fighting, he found himself became invisible when wearing the ring and so he could outrun Gollum. And he finally joined the company again when the company thaught that he had decided to run away.

This is new in the movie: After they escaped the town, they were chased by wargs (out of the frying pan; into the fire ). They climbed up the trees to advoid the wargs. They ended in different trees. Gandalf and Thorin and a few others were on the tree which is on the cliff. On the ground were wargs and goblins, and Azog (the goblin king)((the real one)).  Then Gandalf got an idea. He took an acorn from the tree and set it on fire, he then threw the acorn down to the wargs, the company followed Gandalf and soon the forest was on fire. The wargs ran away. Thorin soon realized that Azog was still alive (previously, he thought he had killed him in a battle when Azog killed Thorin's grandfather) Thorin wanted to finish Azog once and for all but he failed, he got knocked down. Azog then ordered his "minions" to chop Thorin's head off. Out of the blue, Bilbo scrambled back to the ground, pulled out Sting (the sword given by the elf) and fought off the goblin who was about to chop Thorin's head.

Bilbo stabbed him several times furiously and the goblin was finally dead (Bilbo proved himself  that he was actually not that worthless). Bilbo then turned to Azog, who was going to kill him when suddenly all the dwarves ran towards Azog (the company were inspired by Bilbo's courage). Thorin seemed motionless, his eyes were close. Before that, Gandalf had sent for the eagles and the eagles came just in time. The eagles dropped boulders on the wargs and picked up the dwarves and poor Thorin. The eagles settled them down on a platform, everyone rushed towards Thorin. Gandalf chanted and Thorin opened his eyes, thankfully :D. He then asked for Bilbo and got up. This was what he said to Bilbo (more or less)  : "What were you doing? Remember that I said you were a burden, you shouldn't come on this journey. I'd never been so wrong in my life. "*hugs Bilbo* The other dwarves cheered! (he finally realised)

That was the most touching moment ;) The movie ended with Smaug opening his eye.

Annnd, we have to wait one whole year for the next one ;( sucks! BUT I can wait, The hobbit was the best movie I ever watched!!! Next to Lord of the Rings Trilogy of course ;) Peter Jackson did a wonderful job! I love every bit of the movie. Fili and Kili are so cute and hawt ^^ I know, first I'm in love with and elf and now dwarves, don't judge me. XD If you haven't watch it yet THEN GO WATCH IT, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING SITTING DOWN IN FRONT OF YOUR COMPUTER. GO TO THE NEAREST CINEMAS RIGHT NOW! GODDAMMIT. ^^ If you did, good job, the movie went awesome didn't it?? 

The Hobbit / There and Back Again

The Hobbit is the prelude to Lord of the Rings. It is about a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins in his young age, going on an adventure with 13 dwarves: Fili, Kili(the youngest), Oin, Gloin, Dwalin, Balin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Dori, Nori, Ori and the leader Thorin Oakenshield and Gandalf showed up in Bilbo's hobbit hole in Bag End, Hobbiton to claimed the dwarves treasure. However, the treasure was guarded by a dragon, Smaug the magnificent. Smaug stole the treasure from Thror, Thorin's grandfather, King under the Lonely Mountain and they wanted revenge. But poor Bilbo didn't want to go on any adventures, hobbits like to stay in their holes not on an adventure but Gandalf insisted him to be the 15th member, the dwarves too, disagreed with the idea but Bilbo joined. 

The hobbit is also a movie, it will be in cinema this December 14. 

The group traveled out to the wild towards Rivendell, with the help of Thror's map

The group came to a halt, they saw sparks and light and sent Bilbo, "the theif/burglar" to investigate. Bilbo, being part of the group, went and investigate, he saw three trolls feasting on roast mutton, Bilbo thought he stole some food for everyone since he was a burglar, he attempted to steal the food from the trolls. Bert, Tom and Bill were their names, they were complaining that they'd been eating mutton for a long long time when Bilbo tried to steal their food. Unfortunately, Bilbo was caught red-handed and was put in a sack, the dwarves came after that figuring that it took centuries for Bilbo to investigate, the 13 dwarves got captured as well. 

But then, Gandalf showed up and cast a spell that turned the trolls into stone. Morning came, and they once again set foot towards Rivendell (Elrond, ring a bell?) They spent days walking, they were cold and hungry until they reached the river, the border of Rivendell. So they dwelt in Rivendell (that rhymes) for a couple of days as they find themselves once more back on their journey. 

They reached the Misty Mountain and figured out that needed shelter to get away from the storm. Fili and Kili, being the youngest and the most energetic ones found a small cave enough to fit everyone. Oh, and again Gandalf went somewhere.... Just when they thought they were safe, goblins invaded them, the whole cave rumbled and the wall began to collapse. All the dwarves and Bilbo drew out their swords and started fighting, just when things started to get worse, Gandalf came and safe the day. As they all flee, Bilbo got lost and wandered down the Goblin tunnel all alone. 

Bilbo was sad to be separated. It was dark in the tunnel, he tried to feel the ground and he caught something... he felt something cold and round... a ring!!! :OOO ( don't you guys get it?? this was where he found Sauron's ring. -.- ) He decided to keep it in his pocket. Bilbo saw something glimmered ahead of him, worse of all, he was being watched. Bilbo walked slowly, feeling the walls when suddenly his feet felt cold, there was a pond infront of him. He caught a glimpse in the middle of the pond, for sure there was an "island" ahead. Whatever it was, the creature was moving towards him in a boat. The boat stopped where Bilbo was standing, for those who watched Lord of the Rings or read it, the creature might be familiar to you... Gollum stepped out of the gloom and approached Bilbo, he was hungry too and will gobble Bilbo up. Smart O' Bilbo made a deal with Gollum a.k.a. Smeagol (nt really) to a Riddle Game. Whoever couldn't guess the opponent's riddle will be gobbled up. Gollum accepted the challenge.

Couldn't find a better picture. Look at his... face... ugh! Feel like stabbing him >< just kidding -.- 

Lucky for Bilbo, he knew lots of riddles back in Bag End, he had a lot of confidence in himself. But Gollum was good at it too, they had a little "battle" between them. Just when Bilbo was losing, trying to think of more riddles. Gollum was whimpering about him losing his "precious" (>:)). Bilbo had forgotten the ring in his pocket, he asked "What is in my pocket?" as he run through his pocket. Gollum thought that was the riddle, he literally brainstormed, he cried: "what is inssss hiss pocketsis???!!!" Bilbo got him this time, he gave Gollum three chances. For sure, Bilbo won. Gollum went away in despaired trying to find his precious. Bilbo was left alone, he doesn't know the way out so he secretly followed Gollum. Lucky for him, Gollum did led Bilbo out the cave. 

Bilbo found the company and told them all about his "adventure" and Gollum, he told everything but the ring. Bilbo found out that the ring could make him invisible if put on. the company journey in to Mirkwood. The dwarves got wrapped out by giant spiders, Bilbo slipped on his ring and cause troubles to the spiders he killed most of them with Sting (his glowing sword he found) He saved the dwarves from the and then AGAIN at the wood-elves dungeon. They all were trapped but Bilbo got away with him being invisible. But some of the dwarves was unhappy with Bilbo's way of getting them out of the dungeon. 

After... a long time. The company finally reached The Lonely Mountains. They traveled in to a small tunnel into Smaug's home. The walls and grounds were smooth because of Smaug. The company were really tired. The dwarves sent poor Bilbo to investigate the caves and by any chance, find the treasures. Bilbo saw something glow, he walked and found a big hall infront of him and a big shiny beast. Smaug was sleeping, his shiny armor on, sleeping soundly on top of old the precious treasure. Bilbo wore his ring and decided to steal something since he was a burglar. He took a golden cup and went back. 

But Smaug waked and noticed that his cup was missing and let out a great roar and flew up the hall into the open to find the thief. The dwarves were happy at first when they realized they were in trouble and blamed Bilbo. Bilbo was all frustrated and scolded back, Thorin and the whole company felt bad. Bilbo went to check on Smaug after that, well, Smaug was asleep (that was what Bilbo thought) He look all curled up and sound asleep (that was what Bilbo thought) Bilbo crept near him with the ring on. Now, one thing about dragons, their eye sight are not that good, but they can sniff anything out. Smaug was pretending to be asleep, Bilbo slipped behind a rock pillar, then he spoke. "Come out thief! I can't see you buy I can smell you!" Smaug spoke (yes, he speaks. I was surprise too) Bilbo didn't want any trouble, not from a dragon especially! They had a nice talk to be honest then Bilbo quickly went back.

For the next few days, it was silent, no sound was heard from Smaug. He was out of his cave, the company and Bilbo went to his "room" to get the treasure. The company were there for the treasure, but Thorin specifically wanted the Arkenstone. The Arkenstone was found by Thrain and shaped by the dwarves, it was lost when Smaug "invaded" the mountain from the dwarves. Thorin searched for his Arkenstone whilst the others just grabbed anything within their sight. 

Now, this is what happen to Smaug. Smaug was hungry he went to a small town to look for food. To eat people. He invaded the town, everyone was alarmed and fled immediately, Bard the bowman shot a Black Arrow at Smaug's left breast (his weak spot because there was no armor to protect it). Smaug fell and died. With that everyone knows that Smaug the magnificent died, and that no one was guarding the treasure up on the mountain. So, Bard and the king and their men traveled to The Lonely Mountains to get the treasures. But they were not the only ones, the wood-elves, too, wanted the treasure. So the 2 "race" marched towards the Lonely Mountain in different directions. The dwarves were told by a thrush(a bird) about what was happening. Thorin got mad, literally, mad, and got really angry. 

Bard and his army reached the mountains and talked to Thorin and set up a small fight. Bard gave Thorin a few days to give them treasure. Bilbo can't stand Thorin being all fussy and mad. One night, he sneaked out of the mountain and go to Bard's camp, he had the Arkenstone all along, Bilbo gave Bard the Arkenstone and he also found Gandalf! He was with Bard in the tent. Bilbo went back to the cave. The next day, when Thorin and Bard were arguing, Bilbo told him that he gave them the Arkenstone. Thorin was even mad now, he shouted at Bilbo. Poor Bilbo. That is when the first arrow was struck by the dwarves. The battle begun. 

The battles of five armies. The elves, Bard and the men, the dwarves, Orcs and the Goblins. The orcs and the goblins came later. The elves, men and the dwarves teamed up to fight off the Goblins and the Orcs. Bilbo, with his ring on, avoided the fight and was the first who alerted everyone that the eagles were coming. The eagles helped by dropping big rocks on the goblins and orcs. The goblins and orcs were all scared away. Bilbo got to share the treasures with the elves, men and the dwarves, but only took coins back. In the battle, Thorin was badly wounded on the field, his nephews, Fili and Kili died defending him. Thorin died shortly after seeing Bilbo one last time. They buried them in the Mountains. Gandalf and Bilbo went back after a few short trips including Rivendell. 

Bilbo was very happy and tired indeed, he was really happy to get home in Hobbiton. One evening, when Bilbo was busy writing his book about his adventures, There and Back Again--A Hobbit's holiday, someone was at the door. It was Gandalf and Balin! Bilbo welcomed them in and had a good chat and tea. 

And that's how the story ended. Happy. :) I can't wait for The Hobbit to be in the cinemas! Just one more week! Some part of this blog is not correct and the pictures are just animations or paintings, I can't find the one in the movies, probably because it is not released yet or sth... Tq and sorry for the late blogging :)


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