Baring It All.
My name really is Leonie.
It’s not an English name I came up with for myself. My mother is indeed a genius in coming up with such a splendid name for me. Although my name has been unfortunately mutilated (nicknames are excluded) over the past years, full credits to my mum for my current identity.
I’m a cancer patient.
I’m certainly looking forward to changing the word ‘patient’ to ‘survivor’! If you’re interested to read about my journey in battling lymphoma, you can click
here to proceed to my cancer blog.
Green is my favourite colour.
Ironic, I know; this blog is mainly pink instead. I like all colours actually, but I find myself having an affinity to the colour
green. In fact, I can safely say that
green is my
soul colour.
I’m an art-appreciator.
Languages, music, fashion, photography, cultures, dance, literature, writing; just about anything, really. The arts truly intrigue me, especially thought-provoking pieces. Of course, the arts play a major role in inspiring me in my everyday life.
You’ll find me carrying a book to just about everywhere.
I don’t have a favourite genre – I read any book that interests me!
I found out that I’m actually a left-hander.
I am a trained right-hander from young, since apparently being left-handed is considered ‘wrong’. Basically,
I’m ambidextrous! No wonder I find it easier to air guitar using my left hand than my right; I simply relate to the arts than subjects that deal with logical thinking better, too.
Taurus is my astrological sign.
A stubborn Bull I am, too. I abhor being rushed. I prefer doing matters at my own reasonable pace. I don’t particularly like changes in my routine, but I can adapt quite easily. I’m a very practical person as well. I enjoy the beautiful things in life, but that doesn’t make me shun ugliness at all. Besides, it all depends on how one perceives beauty. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
I’m a born perfectionist.
Still am, but I’m slowly learning to accept imperfection into my life. Also, I’m doing my best to erase the many expectations I have so I could one day master the art of letting go and freeing myself to simple happiness and joy.
A natural drama queen.
Compared to before, I’m less dramatic nowadays. Language-wise, I attempt to blog flawlessly in English and speak proper English online with my peers. Call me a Grammar Nazi all you want, but that’s how I roll. I only converse in perfect English in formal situations and during my dramatic outbursts. Otherwise, I’m absolutely capable of communicating like the average Malaysian!
It’s a pleasure to learn and discover new things.
It’s a different issue altogether when you’re forced to learn for the sake of getting good grades, though. Other than that, I’m open to new information and knowledge anytime! I especially would like to learn more languages and pick up new musical instruments.
Travelling around the world, participating in artistic photoshoots, performing in a band, writing a book…
…are just some of the things I would love to do in the near future, hopefully!
When it comes to social relationships,
the basic rules apply. If you respect me, I’ll respect you. If you happen to be someone who has low EQ skills, I’ll try to be tolerant but my patience is definitely limited. I’m observant when it comes to human behaviour. I’m a person of many opinions, but I don’t voice them out unless I trust you enough; I’m very honest and candid when it comes to the people I can trust. Even though I trust very easily, not everybody can prove that they’re all that nice. Hurt me, and I’ll only defend myself if necessary. Hurt my family or my friends –
you won’t find me holding back.
Is there anything else you would like to know about me?Throw me your questions and/or doubts
here! I honestly have nothing to hide, so you’ll expect the truth and nothing but the truth.
It’s only how I phrase my answers that you’ll have to be aware of.
Or…you can click
hereto go back to reading!
23:47
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Whammed.
30th of December.I hate whoever that smartass is for choosing that specific date to announce the PMR results for the 2008 batch.
I really want to go to Singapore to hang with
my fellow RYLA-rians.I want to be thrown into the sea by
Picasso again, and
Jeffrey if he can make it.
I want to just go berserk in my bikini as promised to
Fiona and be the wild child.
I just want to be free from all these conditions at home that restricts me from so many things in life, till I'm missing out.
I'd always missed out, but this year, life had been opened up to me in many ways.
I found the real me through RYLA '08.
I miss the
AWESOME friends that I'd made there.
I miss
dirrrty-dancing with my
dirrrty dancers.
I enjoyed the times that I did all sorts of crazy things that I'd never done before, even though it was breaking the so-called rules my parents set for me, but I felt amazingly good to be finally free during camp.
I was thrown into the South China Sea at the beach - knowing very well I was told not to go close to even the shorelines.
I was thrown into the swimming pool - knowing very well I was told to stay away from the pool area at all costs, and even dirty danced there with
Cai Ling, camwhored underwater with
Rina and splashed water continuously at the culprits that threw me in at the very beginning.
I crashed in Room 13 - knowing very well I was told to stay away from the guys during the whole of camp.
I missed the times when the dudes come and pick me up from my room - in attempts of trying to scare me but always unfortunately fail. Eheh.
My new personal quote :
"Some crazy nonsensical rules are just meant to be broken."And boy, does that feel good.
Before I proceed to any of my other posts that I'd sadly procrastinated, here's a little something for everyone to know, especially my fellow campers from RYLA '08.
I miss my fellow roomies!
Fiona, the one who has everything in her compact bag who's also sarcastic but in a humourous way, also very forgetful with names but will eventually get them. Heheh xD
Karyn, the one that takes almost the same time as me to shower, who calls me darling when she sees me going back to our room, who slept like a log when I was locked out the second night, but I still love her. Lol.
Veena, everybody knows her well enough. My crazy yet still looks very sane friend of 9 years. Eheh.
These are my dirrrrty dancers from Labuan - Tara aka my hawt top model Tyra Banks on the left and Rina my hawt sexiness on the right!

I miss these two so effin' much, seriously! Rina with her blue hair extension and Tara with her electric blue nails! But we all made a promise to bring our bikinis next RYLA! Considered it done! =D
I miss Lya who's the girl on the very left who supports my statements everytime Cai Ling goes crazy and high over Joe Jonas and when Robert Pattinson comes into the conversations!
I miss partying with Rachel the music addict with her cool PSP! Rachel's the one in black and holding on to me with the blue headband by the way x]
I miss Teacher Joanne who's the sporting one in the bus and is also very friendly towards everyone in camp! She's also the one who choreographed the dance for our team on Talent Night! ;D
I miss Vin with his lame but actually funny jokes! And his constant bullying even though he's a nurse-to-be. Hahah! But he's nice, especially to Joanne! Heheh.

I miss Picasso who's in the first picture and Jeffrey who's second from right in the other picture! They were the ones who started the throwing me into any water source frenzy! But it was actually fun, and I miss them so much as they were like my elder bros during RYLA!
I also miss Sara, she's the one on the left, she's very nice to everyone especially our team mates from Team Eagle to make us all feel comfortable with each other's presence. We didn't chose the wrong leader after all! =D
I miss these two dudes - Wen Jie on the left and Avery on the right who kept me company throughout camp, had meals together with the rest of the dudes especially Abhi and Julian, and allowed me to rant about my problems then.
I miss Christina and Agilan, one who's my personal Cupid and the other my mean sayang! Of course, my real sayang is Mr Perfect. Eheh XD
I miss Cai Ling! She's my very first dirty dancer actually, and still is even though we were already in the pool! Imagine that! XDD And again, the other two are my Cupid and Little Miss Naughty :P
I miss Kenny aka Mr Photographer! He's a really nice guy and he takes AWESOME pictures! He got us all addicted to the word AWESOME and he's the creator of the sacred game - Open Number! LOL!
I miss Mindy and Kim! Even though I didn't really talk to them much during camp, but I'm glad we got along fine during the mini gathering in CS (:
I miss Uncle Sir! He's the guy who helped us with getting interviews during the Tebrau River Clean-Up, and he's a mean but super nice Uncle! It took us ages for us to know his real name! Heheh.I really apologize if you're not mentioned, but in honest truth, I miss every single RYLA-rian, as you guys are also familiar enough to be called
FAMILY.
Even
Saiful that meanie! =P
And note that this is not even my RYLA post yet.
In truth, I just posted this up 'cos I miss every single one of these people, as they made camp ever more meaningful and fun for me.
I miss RYLA so much! Sigh.
*****Off to Melaka from tomorrow till Friday for the X'mas celebrations.
Doubt there's much to celebrate in my family anyway.
Hopefully I can meet up with
Erica or
Jeffrey there (=
So in advance, a
Merry Christmas to you all! ;)
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