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O happy day

11:47 PM

O happy day

Today, was such a lovely lovely day.
First off, I had enough sleep.
Secondly, I won some money.
Thirdly, need I say more? =p

Headed to Bangsar after class and was walking towards McD's when we suddenly got stopped by this lady on the pavement. I was all prepared to walk past her casually and I was all ready to give her my "No thank you, we don't want whatever it is you are selling for whoever line." with a nice smile when she suddenly asked us if we could do a movie review.

Huh? *ter-stunned for awhile*
Movie review? *puzzled look on face*

She asked us to do a movie review for Channel V on the movie called the '300.' (or something like that) .I have never heard of such a show and she was going on all explaining about it being an epic movie and something like 'Troy' with loads of great fighting sequences and Persian against Greece etc.

Recruiter : So can one of you do the movie review cause we only need one person.
Me and Wai Ee immediately point to each other.

Recruiter : Can you do it? *looks at me* You seem like the more outgoing person.
At that point, all I could think of was, "What the...? I say a few encouragingly polite words and you call me more outgoing!" I wish I had just walked on or just kept my mouth shut. After mentally cursing myself, I reluctantly agree.

She had to prompt me since I couldn't recognize any of the leading characters. One guy was a Rodrigo (something starting with an S) from 'Lost' which I don't watch and I don't like, and another guy was Gerald Butler who plays the engineer Karl in 'Love Actually' which I only saw a bit, but he is fairly hot lah.

Basically, all she wanted me to do was to promo the movie and enthusiastically tell white lies about how damn good the movie was going to be because there were hot guys and chun fighting sequences and that everyone should go watch it, end of story.

I mentally prepared some phrases before she could turn on the camera. I felt so stupid holding the mike and even sillier when she pointed that super huge camera at me and started recording. I think I repeated myself, got my tongue all tangled-up and I couldn't remember that Rodrigo's full name and I went...

Me : Well, the show starrs Gerald Butler from 'Love Actually' and Rodrigo *blank pause - frantically tries to remember his surname* and Rodrigo from 'Lost.'
I think I probably threw in the word hot in that sentence too, for good measure. =p

While I was undergoing this ordeal, Clareen and Wai Ee were in the background and they hazily seemed to be snickering at me and Wai Ee was snapping pics with her phone. The camera lady probably felt my increasing discomfort on her screen and decided that it was enough.

After she switched off the camera and we were in line at McD's, a whole storm of words and phrases that I meant to say earlier on. Now why couldn't they have came out earlier while I was right in front of the camera?!

I guess its a bit tougher talking about something you don't know in front of a camera that's possibly going to come out on TV to the masses (unless they edit it and cut my segment out), than simply talking about stuff you don't know without a camera recording it. I shall try to remember to catch it on Channel V next week.

Came home and watched my 9.30 series which is so full of drama cause its ending tomorrow and they need to get all the background for the culmination of the plotting and scheming all set up. I just adore these drama shows. Hehe.

Written on Wednesday, February 28, 2007; 11:47 PM

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And once again, the fun begins

11:59 PM

And once again, the fun begins

This is the 6th year running that me and a bunch of friends do the rounds to err..visit one another, gamble, make merry and to collect angpao's. =p We used to walk under the blazing sun from house to house but ever since last year, things have gotten easier as some of us can drive.

So this year the starting point was my house. I gave strict notice to be there at 10am or no angpao as my parents would be out of the house. Mind you, its a decent way of getting punctuality though some people will come Malaysian timing lah. Hehe. Wai Ee and Sook Teng were the first (see, who says girls aren't punctual?) and everyone was at my place py 10.30-ish. Wai Ee, my bro is cute because it runs in the family lah. =p Earlier on, I had to call people up to practically beg them to drive as there was a shortage of drivers. On that day itself, Thiam Beng, Andrew, Karl Son and Wai Ee drove. Wai Ee decided to leave her car at my house as there wasn't any need for her to drive and we all hopped into Thiam Beng's Camry.

Cze: So kesian, why no one sit in Karl Son's car wan? (It was only Karl & Zhen Quan in that car)
Wai Ee: Choose between a Camry (Beng's car) and a Wira (Karl's car). =p
Beng: *laughs* Wah, too much.

This girl has the same Camry at home and she still wants to sit a Camry. But, if I was in her shoes, I'd chose the same thing too. Hehe.

So we headed to Cze's place and ate her potato chips and whisky and sake sweets from Japan. Kah Yand and Andrew did their magic thing and we all learnt a new game, "8 or 9" from Cze and Beng, Karl, Zhen and I played "Yahoo Poker" which is actually "Texas Hold 'Em Poker ", I think. The stakes ran into millions. The most absurd stakes were 8 million and 1 dollar and 50 cents. Haha. Yang and Drew left us at this point to go for a gathering at Nigel's place. Hopped back into the Camry where Michelle sneakily manoeuvred Sook so that she could sit in the centre and get all the air-cond. Hmmph...Michelle you meanie, I'm sitting in the centre the next time. =p

All the girls at Cze's place

Drew and Yang magicking before they disappeared to Nigel's place

Off we went to Karl Son's house where the guys disappeared to play Maple and the girls played chor dai dee and had some girl talk.

We took pics at every house we visited

The guys at Karl's place.
Stopped off for a curry noodle lunch in SS2 where Karl Son went to pick up his sister and Sueh Lung joined us. We decided to go to Yang's house and Wai Ee beat me to chup-ing the cute orange hand chair that is in his computer room. Eesh...Anyway, we all ended up in the living room munching on his 'lil crabs that tasted a bit like those dried sotong. Not exactly my cup of tea, but each to his own poison I suppose. Turned on his giant TV to find that "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" was on Astro. Yay! I totally totally love that show even if it doesn't make much sense cause Brad Pitt is simply super hot and yummy and Angelina Jolie is so sexy and dishy too! Yang's chocolate chip cookies were also yummy and made the perfect companion to the sizzling hot show. Hehe. Yang gave an impromptu piano performance which took our eyes temporarily off Hollywood's golden couple as it was a surprise to all of us that he knew how to play the piano.

Yang at the piano

Upon leaving Yang's house for Sueh's house, it was like playing merry-go-round around the field as the cars went in opposite directions. On the way to Sueh Lung's house...
Sueh Lung : Eh, how to go ah?
All of us : Your house you dunno how to go, ask us how to go ah? *laughs*

We end up getting there the last and everyone was waiting in the drizzle for him to go in first cause its his house. Haha.

As Sueh doesn't have the movies package for Astro, we all turn to gambling while waiting for the heavy rain to stop. In-between, 8 and 9, blackjack, chor dai dee...I think we ran out of games to play and as the rain had lessened, we decided to brave it for Thiam Beng's house.

Somehow this year visiting is rather quiet and we don't play much at Beng's house except for Drew and Yang who play Magic. We really should consider banning the Magic shouldn't we? But than those 2 will boycott us from then on. Hehe. And I'm so bored that I play cards with myself. Beng's grandmother came out to chat with us for a bit. Such a sweet nice lady. =)

The rest zoom off to Drew's house but I decided to take a raincheck as I was running very late for church. I kinda forgot that Wai Ee left her car at my place till halfway home. Church service is extra-long and I'm so tired that I nearly nodded-off and I suddenly remember that I left my DVD's in Thiam Beng's car. Oh bother it all!

Its pouring rain again after church and I rush home to change and pick up my food. As I was about to leave the house, this guy dressed in white walks past my house and I think, "Hey, that guy looks familiar." Then, the same guy turns and comes back to my house again and I realise that its Vincent. Haha. Somehow, Cze forgot to tell him that the potluck was at Wai Ee's place so he came to my house. He couldn't remember exactly which house it was and he wondered why there were no cars and no noise outside my house, which pretty much explained his puzzled expression. Hehe.

Vincent offers to fetch me to Wai Ee's place and we stop to pick Cze and Mich up. Reached Wai Ee's house around 8.10 and I get sarcastic comments as I said I'd be there around 7.30. Sorry girl, but I didn't think church would be so long and that it'd still be raining like mad cows.

Most of us are pigging out and "hoi toi-ing" or watching TV. In my case, I do all 3. I eat, make everyone watch Constantine as Keanu Reeves is so darn hot and bergaya and I join the table. There was *takes a deep breath* fried rice, sandwiches, sushi, jelly, yee sang, sparkling juice, cocktails, roasted chicken, pizza, potato salad and ermm...drinks. Hehe.

Surprisingly, I ate very little as I was very bloated from the visiting earlier on. So much for my bottomless pit reputation. This bottomless pit not functioning well on that day.

I skip over to the living room where I watch TV and play cards. I think I broke even on blackjack or maybe lost a bit. I lost pretty much at in-between except for the time me, Cze and Yang tumpang Drew to sapu the pot. In-between is so not my game.

I think the big winner of the night is probably Kinz or Yang. At one point when I asked Kinz how much his pile of cash was, he told me it was at RM19 and he started on a base of RM1. Lucky fella! Almost every other round he blackjacks, get twenty-one or he manages to run.

Kinz and his winnings! Luck was definitely with him...

Me and Cze conspiring to beat the dealer, Vincent. Hehe...

Mean, Evil & Naughty. ;)

Cze, Me & Thiam Beng at Wai Ee's place

Cze and I bersnap-snapping pictures between gambling and tv...

Towards the end, we take loads of photos, some crappy, some poser-pan and some just like a big happy family.

My personal favourite cause everyone looks so nice and its like one big happy familyThis is the i-dunno-what-combo of poses...

Hail Hitler!

Babies on top, or are they trying to do the seductive one finger in the mouth pose? Peaceful prayers in the middle and the bottom row do their own thing. Haha.

1 likes it kungfu, 2 cover their face from shame and 3 peaceful prayers. Some very "friendly" but shy guys and as usual the bottom doing their own thing.

Family photo round 2. Sober and devoid of any hysterical-laughter inducing poses

Lean to the left!!!

This is embarassing...attack of the clams! The oh-so-noted one, two and five pose. I'm pretty sure the one pose isn't normally done with that finger though.

We end by "lou-ing" the yee sang with forks and not chopsticks which is a first for me. Usually, people say things like "may you be prosperous & healthy" or "may you do well in your studies" BUT, Cze said, "may Wai Ee, Sook Teng and Siew Yen get boyfriends soon!" Haha...Uh, thanks very much for your thoughtful wishes but I think I'll continue enjoying my freedom for now. Lou hei, lou hei...

After "lou-ing" the yee sang, we wanted to yum seng but Wai Ee's parents were sleeping so we did a silent version of yum seng. It was hilariously funny cause everyone was like going "yuuuuuuuum... seng!" but in whispers instead of yelling out at the top of our voices. Its like normal yum seng but on silent mode. Kinz took a video of our silent yum seng. Haha.

Helped Wai Ee to clean up or she would have to stay up half the night, before Cze and I left for home carrying the remnants of our food. Came home and chatted online before crashing at 3am. I kinda fell asleep in front of the comp actually. Hehe.

Final highlights:

1. A heartfelt thank you to those who kindly drove on that day without complaints.
2. Wai Ee, thanks very much for opening your house as a potluck venue again and I'm sorry if we created a mess and made so much noise.
3. This organising thing gets a bit easier with practice, but I think I'd prefer not to have to organize it again on such short notice. *hint hint, guys you can start practicing your organising skills*
4. Camera people of the day : Kinz, Cze, Sueh and Wai Ee, thanks for snapping and sending the pictures over. I plain forgot about my camera the whole day.
5. Thanks to all who cooked, or whose mum's cooked or those who bought and brought food to the potluck, it was a nice dinner.
6. This will probably be my last CNY here in Msia for a bit, so thank you very very much to everyone present who made it an enjoyable event for me. Its more of who you're eating with than what you're eating. But its no excuse to eat lousy food among friends either!
7. Lets do this potluck thing more often and especially during every CNY if possible. After all, we don't have very long more till we all walk down our own separate paths, do we?

Written on Saturday, February 24, 2007; 11:59 PM

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Hold 'Em or Fold 'Em

11:28 PM

Hold 'Em or Fold 'Em

Rolled out of bed this morning with a pounding headache that felt like it was going to surge to the front of my skull and hit my brains with a sledgehammer on maximum. It was like a crescendo thing where you know its just going to get louder and louder and you can't do anything to stop it except crawl back into bed.

"Musn't be late, musn't skip Math."

I chant this solemnly to myself thoughout the whole process of morning ablutions and dressing to stop myself from falling back into bed.

In class, I switch between stoning and trying to decipher an almost illegible scrawl under the harsh lights of the room which reflects on the board and makes it even tougher. Headache reaches mid-crescendo. Clareen does her daily thing of nicking my eraser and making me search for it. Nowadays when I want my eraser, I just ask her for it instead of scrounging under the stuff on my desk for it. Hehe. Today, she goes one up by unattaching my pencil case zip from one of its sides. Sigh, looks like she's really determined to make me use a new pencil box. It gets sadly passed around in hopes of finding someone who can fix it back.

Headache now reaches the zenith of its crescendo. My hungry tummy is emanating sharp pangs of pain. I wish I was back in bed. Thankfully class ends early or I'd have to just give up and fall asleep at my table.

I perk up a little when a deck of cards magically appear. We proceed to teach and learn different card games for a bit when we decide to head over to WH and play. By then, my headaches starts to decrescendo and I don't feel hungry anymore. =p

We play Texas Hold 'Em poker and I win a bit, but not enough to cover yesterday's losses.

Cla and I can't concentrate during class so I draw her 'Siew Yen's basic guide to poker'. Hehe. We bumblingly stumble and mumble our way through class. My headache has somewhat decrescendo-ed to a blob at the back of my head that gives an occasional throb to remind me that it hasn't completely vanished into thin air.

A bunch of us gather around after class but we don't play poker as there were some who don't know how to. Played the all-time universal game of blackjack where I win enough to cover my losses and have some over. John and Ai Kheng kept getting blackjack or twenty-one between the two of them and they practically clean poor Wil Liam out.

We decide to play in-between where I hit the tiang with a crash, twice. Sigh. I've never been really lucky at in-between. I've only got away once from in-between with actual winnings and not pure loss. This time's no different and I walk away with an overall loss of 3 bucks. The damage isn't too bad, I suppose. And today's just a warm-up session for the actual thing. Hehe.

I've found a pleasant, albeit expensive cure for headaches.
My pencil case of 5 years is facing a permanent retirement as the cost of keeping it employed is higher than the cost of getting a new and younger replacement.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
Its the season for it after all. Hehe. ;)

Written on Friday, February 23, 2007; 11:28 PM

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Intolerable Cruelty

11:43 PM

Intolerable Cruelty

I was super grouchy about a 5 hour break in between my Thursday 8-6 when I showed up for my law lecture to find that it got cancelled. And my dad drove off before I could get him to send me home. My oh-so-sympathetic classmates stood there laughing at me. Cruelty of this sort at 8am in the morning is too much to be tolerated by any sane sleep deprived person...

I stood there alternately yawning and shivering and eventually realised that with my law classes cancelled, I only had one class at 10am. Was so damn tempted to go home and play hooky for that 1 hour math class. Instead, I sat down at the mamak with my classmates and started complaining about how pissing off it was to have your 1st class cancelled without any prior notice. The very least a lecturer could do was to text the class rep about the cancellation. There's not much excuse for not knowing you class rep's number or even if you don't know, you can call up the department and ask them for his/her number. Sigh, its the first freaking class of the day and you cancel it at a drop of a hat. Some people actually have to take public transport for 1 1/2 hours carrying heavy textbooks just for a cancelled class. These poor people have my heartfelt sympathy as I do take public transport to college at times sans the heavy textbooks of course and I feel their suffering and misery.

Whines and complaints aside, we proceeded to ponder on what we could do kill time till 10am. Someone wanted to skip class and go out and the rest of us fell in line by agreeing to watch Ghost Rider. Some wanted to play cards but that idea petered out as the nearest deck of cards were in a car at the main block.

I went on to play blackjack and promptly lost RM5 before heading to a jam-packed class that resembled a can of sardines. 75% of the people there weren't my classmates so Clareen and I grabbed a place at the back and proceeded to stone, squint and copy, argue and talk to Dhaya and Arafat who gave up all pretences of copying towards the end of class. Hehe.

Gossiped with Sook Teng and Clareen while waiting for someone to pick us up from LC. As John, Ee Wei and Wil Liam drove up and pulled over in a row, it occurred to me there were only 4 passengers and 3 cars. I somehow seemed to have counted more passengers (who disappeared behind my back and ended up in 1U) at the mamak earlier on. Oops, my bad.

The guys did their usual machoboy roadthing with their tail-gating and smirking as they overtook one another on the road. When will guys grow up? *shakes head*

Hopefully, not for a long long time.
Then we can continue to mock them from our lofty perches. Hehe.

Ghost Rider was just a decent watch for 6 bucks. While I'm sure the guys and those bikesters were drooling and eyeball-glued to the screen, I'd have liked it more if they delved more into the plot and storyline and less of the flaming skull, fire-spurting modified bike and its stunts. Not that they aren't nice but I'd prefer more stuff and less fluff, thank you very much. The younger version of Johnny Blaze looks so much hotter than the older version. The chick also looks way better in her younger version. The older version looks so puffily celluloid and yucky. Not to mention I thought she looked a bit like Jessica Simpson.

We went separate ways after the show as the rest wanted to eat Wong Kok and Sook and I were going to meet Wai Ee and we didn't feel like eating Chinese/modified Hong Kong food. Finally left after inquisitive questions + raised eyebrows on who I was meeting. Not to mention the "I can't believe you're ditching/dumping/leaving us to go..." sentence popping out of their mouths. They're not gonna let me forget this one so soon. Not to mention I'll have to see them tomorrow and hear them mutter, "You ditcher/dumper." at me while giving me a dirty look. Hehe.

Went to Chili's where I had my Monterrey Chicken again and Wai Ee ordered a mashed potato. Haha. I shall do that next time I have a craving for their mashies. Did I tell you we both love the mashed potatoes? Haha. For the amount that I complain about Chili's, I end up eating there most of the time I'm out with friends. I don't really complain about Italiannies but I rarely eat there with friends. How's that for ironic? *shakes head*

So newsflash, I finished every single thing on the plate including the veggies (stop shaking your head in disbelief, will ya?) except for the onions cause I didn't fancy them. And I only ate the veggies cause Kinz, Eman and Sueh Lung were taking ages to meet us there.

Accompanied the guys who wanted to get a drink at Kluang Station where we discussed the pending potluck which changed to a bbq and then a steamboat before it remained a potluck. If you guys want something else, then make up your minds earlier and don't say "Anything la or Up to you la" when asked to make a decision, okay. =)

Went off shopping with the girls and Sueh Lung who sat down at every shoe shop we entered. Haha. I tell you, this is seriously a guy thing. And Wai Ee, it wasn't a sneaky trick. It just bubbled out naturally. And you enjoyed it after all. =p

Came home and practically fell asleep while doing binomial expansions. I gave up those never-ending x's and brackets and just let the work pile up for the weekend where I'll probably make a perfunctory attempt at finishing it. Darn, I just remembered I have a bunch of Stats work also. Ahh, I'll worry about it later and drop into dreamland before my head explodes.

Written on Thursday, February 22, 2007; 11:43 PM

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Weird Tags

11:21 PM

Weird Tags

Each player of this game starts out by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names.

1. I pushed down a house when I was about 14.

Okay, not a whole house but a portion of the wall.
Chun leh...
My cousins remember this till today, partly thanks to my uncle perpetuating this story and they clamour to see the house whenever they're in Malacca.

Did I mention the bricks on the wall were freshly put together? =p

2. I have never drank Starbucks till last October. I've always drank Coffeebean before that, don't ask me why. And even at Starbucks and Coffeebean, I don't drink coffee but I drink choc frappes. Haha.

3. I like filing papers together. At least a part of my life gets organized and neat. I seriously feel damn satisfied when I've filed a whole bunch of loose-leaved notes together. Its like totally wow.

4. I don't own a make-up set. All I have is a tube of lipgloss. And I don't know how to put make-up on properly. While I have nothing against people who wear make-up, I currently go with the natural look cause its the easiest and also because make-up hides your flaws and accentuates your assets, it can be a bit misleading. Plus, waking up an hour earlier just to make-up your face everyday is too much of a hassle for me. I'd rather sleep in. =p

5. I enjoy playing Devil's Advocate. Just to screw people over and mess around with your head. Don't mind me, I'm supposed to be doing good by helping you see both sides of the coin instead of your narrow minded, tunnel-vision view. ;)

Just kidding, don't get offended!

6. I prefer people to curse if they really have to, in English instead of Mandarin/Canto. While I do curse in both, English seems to sound more elegant to my ears. But that's just my view. A whole super long string in Canto/Mandarin does have a certain, shall we say, style of its own? Hehe.

I hereby tag :
1. An Yi
2. My sister, Siew Ann (a good reason for you to update)
3. Clareen (refer to above)
4. Kah Yang (refer to above)
5. Sueh Lung (refer to above)
6. Ying Shyen, if you happen to pass through and see this. =p

Written on Wednesday, February 21, 2007; 11:21 PM

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Piggy pig. *oink oink*

9:17 PM

Piggy pig. *oink oink*

Guess who's back?

Did you all miss me? I bet you all did. =p

This was written on Tuesday the 20th in Malacca (and yes, its gonna be a long one):

So here I am in Malacca, cruelly separated from my darling since Friday night. 5 whole nights of not running my fingers all over your body and making it come to life and respond to me.
Did that totally sound so 'hither, come wither' or what?

Truth be told, that wasn't some tall, dark, handsome, loaded, Ferarri-driving sizzling guy. It was my computer. Haha.

Friday :
I drove back partway to Malacca cause my dad was so sleepy.

Saturday :
Went to Jusco to shop. I just can't stay away from the shopping malls. =p Healthy reunion steamboat lunch instead of the usual array of food like sharkfin soup and fried chicken at my grandma's house. Pigged out and bummed around then headed to my paternal grandma's house for the reunion dinner. Normally, there'll be about 10 dishes or more on the table, but since my grandad passed away last year, my dad told my aunt to cook less. She nearly insisted on cooking at least 8 dishes cause its an auspicious number. Haha. Vege gravy got spilt on my shorts while transporting the food from my aunt's house to my grandma's house. Dang. I sat on the sorely-missed rocking chair at the house as I have a feeling that I won't be comfily rocking myself there for quite a bit. Sigh. I totally love rocking chairs, especially with food or books in my hand. Or a cute kiddy. Bliss...

Sunday :
Gong Xi Fa Cai, Hong Pao Na Lai! Hehe.
Got dressed and all and I wasn't wearing any pink or red. =p Headed to St. Peter's Church for mass and had an interesting sermon related to the pig. *oink oink* Saw a junior librarian from Taman SEA there and also this fairly decent-looking guy who looks like someone in my college and I think he was looking at me. Or at the people in the row behind me. Tee-hee. Met up with the relatives and collected ang pao's. And I got my family to play Scrabble with me too. I was on a winning streak till the last 3 rounds where my score fell due to an error in judgement. Tsk tsk. But I redeemed myself by winning a 1 against 3 game in Grabble. Hehe. Sis, I'm waiting for you to come back to Malaysia and Grab with me so that mum and dad won't say I'm a big bully. Came home and mamak-ed with my dad and younger cousins cause we had itchy mouths. Got hounded by my cousin to play Monopoly with him. For once I was super lucky and kept on getting free cash from the bank. Hehe. Decided to continue the game the next day as it was too late.

Monday :
Got awoken by my cousin who insisted that we finish our Monoply before he went off to Segamat. Sigh, I can't even pig out properly in bed and its CNY! So anyway, he ended up making a bad decision cause he was so desperate for that single piece of property that he swapped 2 pieces for that 1 piece. And no, I didn't cheat him cause technically, the rent for that property he wanted was much higher than the other 2. But what he didn't take into account was that players seldom landed on that property. Hehe. Needless to say, we both started building houses and hotels left and right. He landed on 2 of my property with hotels one after another and the irony was, both properties were separated by 2 spaces in between. He was horrified and dumbstruck and I was bursting over my seams in hysterical laughter. End result, he was totally wiped out and bankrupt. Went to Tesco to shop for groceries. The funny thing is, there's a Tesco in PJ, but everytime we're back in Malacca, we'll go to Tesco to buy things to bring back up to PJ. Normally there's a family dinner on my dad's side on the 2nd night, but it was cancelled this year due to unforseen circumstances so it was kinda boring. Heck, everyone in the house was in bed by 11pm. Me, I watched 'Princess Diaries 2', 'The Taming of the Shrew' and 'Freaky Friday' back to back from 8pm-1am. Yes, I was that desperately bored. =p

Tuesday :
Went to eat my Taiwan noodles but the regular shop wasn't open so we went to the place opposite it. I am so not going back there again if I can help it. Not that it was inedible, but it just wasn't the same and most definately not that good! I can be amazingly finicky and particular about food. My squeaky clean white shorts got stained by the stupid sauce. Dang, I seem to end up with food on my shorts this whole CNY. =p Went home and slept (I woke up really early at 9am, ok!) till lunch. Decided to get some Math homework done as I didn't want my mum to sarcastically say that I brought the book all the way from PJ for show. In the evening I went with my mum to Dataran Pahlawan which is a new shopping mall directly opposite the Mahkota Parade. Its tagged as the Malacca Megamall, but its even smaller than the Curve so calling it the Malacca Megamall might be stretching the publicity line a bit thin. Its a bit like Sungai Wang as they had certain areas which had small stalls and shops but they have very KL brands like Padini concept, Bossini, Bodyglove, Esprit etc. Oh and guess what, people normally buy new clothes to wear for new year but I bought 3 tops and very nearly bought a corduroy pants from Bossini, but they didn't have the size I wanted. Hehe. I'm so going by the Bossini outlet in PJ to check if they have my size. At the Padini concept shop, I just went on grabbing tops and tops and by the time I reached the dressing room, I had an armful of garments. It would have been so embarassing if the saleslady had to make me put some back at the counter in front of everyone. Thankfully, there was only a male sales assistant and he just smiled at me and started counting my tops. As I was trying them on, I thought, "I'd better buy something or the guy will start cursing at me for bringing in 9 tops and not buying a single damn thing!" I decided on 2 tops and handed the rest over to the saleslady with a sweet smile as I was too lazy to go back and put them at their respective shelves. Hehe. Well, that's what they're paid for....Oh and sis, I bought something for you from Bodyglove too. =) I was considering getting this pair of black heels but they didn't have my size. I'm afraid I'll never find my second perfect low black heels like my first one. Shoe, O shoe, wherefort art thou? Hide thyself no longer but return to my loving embrace...

Had dinner and a quick shower and my brother and I got dropped off at my aunt's house where I'm now blogging. I don't think I'll get my usual dose of cendol and curry laksa as my dad will be working tomorrow which means we'll all be stuck at my grandma's place.

This was written on Wednesday the 21st in PJ :

Wednesday :
Missed an Econs class to bum around the telly in Malacca before heading home. The autogate had to be opened manually as there was no electricity. Probably a meter tripped. Stepped foot into the house for my olfactory nerves to be assailed by a smell of a dead corpse + garbage truck. When the meter tripped, the fridge turned off and all the raw food in the freezer went bad. Eeew, yucks! What a homecoming. There's not much of a dinner as today is Ash Wednesday and is supposed to be a day of fasting = no consumption of meat. The first thing I had for breakfast today was bread and 'bak kua' (that flat square pieace of roasted/grilled pork) cause I kinda forgot about the fasting thing. Oops, hehe.

Tomorrow :
Back to college. My accounts class is cancelled and I have a 5 hour break before my tutorial. Should I skip the 4pm tutorial and head home at 11am? I'm so very tempted...

Notable facts :
1. I didn't get all my tummy filled with the usual good food. Sigh.
2. I haven't gambled at all this CNY. I'm being good. Hehe.
3. I'm damn fed-up and lazy of planning outings. Sigh, what's new?
4. I was pretty quiet this CNY, as usual. Diam-diam ubi berisi. =p
5. I haven't played any fireworks this CNY.
6. I just realised this is my last CNY here. Damn!
7. My younger relatives have grown-up to be pretty good-looking. Interested?
8. I didn't manage to finish my Math work. Its the norm.
9. Its past my usual dinner time and I'm starting to get hungry. *tummy growls*

Total summary of CNY : sleep + eat + watch tv + read + shop + collect ang pao's.

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Gong Xi Fa Cai

7:41 PM

Gong Xi Fa Cai

I won't be blogging for a bit as I'll be busy celebrating Chinese New Year, catching up on my sleep, consumption of good food, reading, meeting the relatives and basically having a good time.

So 'Gong Xi Fa Cai' to all of you and have a safe journey back if you're going baliking kampung. Oh and watch out for the speed traps too. =p

I'll definitely miss my computer and all of you.
Parting is such sweet sorrow....

But don't worry, I'll be back!

Written on Friday, February 16, 2007; 7:41 PM

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A leprechaun's slide

11:35 PM

A leprechaun's slide

Today the roads were unusually un-jammed at 8am. I was trying to figure out why wasn't it sardined-packed when it struck me, yesterday was Valentine's Day so loads of people probably came home late and took a day off to rest or they just plain couldn't get up this morning. Hehe.

Was nodding off throughout the first part of law so I drank some Nescafe which was a big mistake. After my long abstention from coffee, it just went down the wrong way and left me feeling weird, bloated, and wretchedly torn between a fuzzy slumberland and insomnolence which was why I was such a brusque, irascible, peevish grouch today. Sorry, peeps. =)

Was looking forward to a remedial of birthday dinner with friends to perk me up when it got cancelled. Passed the word along the grapevine and I texted my parents dejectedly that I wasn't going out tonight. Suddenly, my spirits fell with a resounding crash like the stock market in 1997 and I felt woebegone, despondent and completely dissatisfied.

I even texted my dad to see if he was free for lunch. I think he sensed my dejection and called me to see what happened and to tell me that he was already at lunch. Darn it, even my dad's not free to have lunch with me!

Like a storybook cliché ending to a disheartening day, it was raining when I reached the train station. This time the rain didn't feel that good. There was no refreshing breeze and you couldn't feel the cool pitter-patter of raindrops that makes your skin tingle. All you could feel was the heat rising up from the ground in invisible waves along with the post-rain tepid redolence with a whiff of moisture.

As I was walking back, the sun came out and shone while the rain was still falling and I scanned the horizon with hope that an arc of prismatic colors would appear in the heavens to tell me that everything was gonna be just fine. The more I searched, the stronger the sunbeams peeked out from behind the clouds but there was just no rainbow. The heat brought the mildly rejuvenating cloudburst to a screeching halt and it begin to revert to the sultry day it was before.

And it dawned on me that life was like this, you could have the requisite elements but sometimes rainbows just don't turn out in its opalescent perfection for who-knows-what reasons.

And so we trudge along, waiting for the next gentle shower of rain with luminous sunbeams piercing through the veil of clouds, and we simply hope for a rainbow.

Written on Thursday, February 15, 2007; 11:35 PM

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Make a wish

12:00 AM

Make a wish

This is just to wish someone a very happy and blessed birthday! *no juicy gossips in here, don't be too disappointed*

Hope you get happier and wiser as you get older...
That you have everything else that you want and need for...
And to remember to be grateful for your blessings...
That has been showered upon you and you have showered upon others in turn...
Surrounded by loving family and friends...

What more could you want?
Maybe a more hardworking worker, eh? =p
Now blow the candles and make a wish.

Happy Birthday, Lee Thiam Beng!!!

p/s : I wonder if you know who else shares a birthday with you. ;)

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Whipped cream and a cherry on top

8:52 PM

Whipped cream and a cherry on top

I've been breaking resolutions left and right ever since college started.

I told myself I'd get started on homework right away after I got it.
I wait till my 9.30 show is over before I start.
I told myself no more last minute studying especially on law.
I haven't started studying law at all.
I told myself no more sleeping past midnight.
I haven't slept before 12am for weeks.
I told myself no more dreaming and nodding off in class.
I just fell asleep in Stats 2 today.
I told myself to wake up early for class.
I entered law class at 8.20am today.
I told myself not to play games anymore.
I just automatically returned the first serve of the day.
I told myself to stop thinking of you.
I just can't help wondering if you would ever read this.
I told myself to forget those little things that remind me so much of you.
They just won't stop popping up like those internet advertisements.

I'm supposed to be totally abject over my failure and wallow in misery at my lack of self-ability to do what I'm supposed to do. Especially when I can't seem to do the most important things the way they should be done. But I don't feel that horrenderously sad to a level where I'm a shambling bundle of tears and nerves. Maybe just a bit upset, disappointed and wistful.

But I still want comfort so will you pretty please bring me a chocolate frappe and a shoulder to lean on? And maybe a hanky to sniffle in and a blankie to keep me warm.

After all, I did say pretty please. =p

Written on Tuesday, February 13, 2007; 8:52 PM

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Perfect waffle squares

8:15 PM

Perfect waffle squares

Today after classes, Clareen and I went to A & W to grab a bite before dinner. And I got my rootbeer float, curly fries and my beloved waffles with butter and syrup.

Ah...yummylicious!!!

This reminds me of those times where the netball team would come here after tournaments and mourn our losses or celebrate our victories. And sometimes after practice in Astaka, we'd catch the train and come here for brunch in our smelly, stinky t-shirt and shorts and muddy shoes.

And of those times where I'd coax my fellow librarians on duty and some other friends to have lunch in A & W. And we'd create excuses on why we were late for duty, horr? Someone would always ask if A & W stood for Air & Water. Haha. And Karl Son would put his butter and syrup carefully into his waffle squares so that they'd make a perfect diagonal triangle of clear golden liquid and yellow creamy substance before eating it. I made him do it once for me as I was too lazy to do it myself and I really enjoyed putting each perfectly made-up waffle square into my mouth and feeling it slide down into my tummy. So Karl Son, when are we going to A & W again? =p

I do miss those times and you along with it. *gets nostalgic and moist-eyed*

Written on Monday, February 12, 2007; 8:15 PM

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The good, the bad & the puzzles

11:40 AM

The good, the bad & the puzzles

Sunday's are always slow to come and fast to go by.

What made my day:
1. I was at my club's library when the librarian who has probably recognized me from the numerous times I have set foot in there during odd times on weekdays sort of recommended me this book. She told me the book was pretty new and that it wasn't on the reserve list yet and she offered it to me. I know that on a surface glance, it would seem like a meaningless trivial gesture, but to me, I really appreciated the fact that she recognized me as a "loyal customer" and made the effort to make me feel good. =)

Oh and did I mention this librarian is relatively new (as in working there for less than 2 years) and she always smiles at everyone who enters the library? I must say their PR is much better than what it was many years back.

2. I went to San Fransisco's for dinner. I like them the way I like The Ship and Secret Recipe. Food outlets in various places where you can get fairly good food wherever and whenever you want. Though the lobster bisque didn't taste as good as it once did. =p

3. I beat my dad and my brother in Monopoly just now. I won by the grand total of RM1900. =)

What annoyed me:
1. On the way home from my club, I was on the LDP reaching the free u-turn at Taman Megah that goes to SS4 when traffic on that lane came to a standstill. Its kinda obvious that some idiot must have been on the free u-turn lane trying to cut queue and slide into the next lane when the lights went red and he had to stop and block up the lane. Immediately, a cacophony of horns sprouted up until the lights turned green and the lane was cleared.

What puzzles me:
1. If you understood what I typed, can you please tell me what's the logic of banging the horn when the road is blocked and nothing can be done by adding to the noise pollution? Yes, the fella who tried to cut queue and ended up blocking the lane is a total jerk+selfish+idiot but why are you compounding the problem by venting off your frustration by hitting your horn? Its noisily annoying, plus it doesn't get anything done. Sounding your horn doesn't magically make that car vanish into thin air and clear the lane! If you really wanna do something, why don't you ~~step out of your car and beat that idiot up~~ set a good example to fellow drivers and your children by not doing such a selfish act like that when you drive?

2. I beat my brother in Monopoly by RM 1900. We started out with the same amount of cash and we sold everything back to the bank at the end of the game. If my brother did not land on any of our sites that would require him to fork out huge amounts of cash and I had only one windfall of RM 1000 from my dad who landed on my hotel, how did I end up with RM 900 extra? There were some minor (all less than RM 100) injections and withdrawals.

So can someone please explain the logic behind the 2 puzzles of the day?

Written on Sunday, February 11, 2007; 11:40 AM

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Hectic splurging

11:47 PM

Hectic splurging

I haven't gone so long without posting something except for the time when I was swamped under with UCAS applications and I was away on holiday.

Let me show you why I was so busy...

Thursday
I had class from 8am to 6pm with a break from 2-4. I had 4 subjects on that day and all 4 subjects had homework out of which 2 was due the next day. And after rushing thorough the work, I stayed up till 2am to finish reading Jodi Piccoult's 'My Sister's Keeper' because I absolutely had to know what happened in the end.

Friday
Class from 8 to 12. Maths teacher called in to say that she'd only be in class at 9. So a bunch of us decided to grab some breakfast at the mamak. Class ended at 12 with loads of homework and Simone, Ai Kheng, Joanne, Clareen and I headed to Megamall by ourselves as the rest didn't want to go. Walked around and ate Kenny Rogers for lunch. Cla and I sat down there chatting while the rest waited for us at Brewball where they got addicted to pool. Met them at Brewball at 3 and played a few games before the 3 of them went off while Cla and I continued shopping as we had some time to kill. I managed to buy something before we cabbed to Bangsar. =)

The cabbie wouldn't turn on his meter but asked for RM5. And he only said this after we got into the cab. But we didn't want to be late and he was rather jovial and pleasant so we just paid up. Sigh. Oh and there was a lady who wanted to steal our cab. We were standing in front of her and I don't know if she didn't see us or what, but she reached the cab faster than us. Before I could get close enough to say anything to her, she asked the cabbie to take her to Cheras. While she was talking to the cabbie, I was already glaring daggers at her and at her 2 other younger companions. I already thought out what scathingly sarcastic remarks I was going to say to her, but in the end the cabbie didn't want to take her to Cheras. See, God's fair after all. =p As Cla and I walked up, I heard her companions say that we were there first, but I guess she didn't hear or didn't want to hear it. I shot her and her companions a very dirty and contemptuous look as we got into the cab. Yes, I totally loathe it when people try to steal my cabs.

My dad picked me up from Bangsar and we headed back to *yes, you guessed it* Megamall as he needed to buy some things. I bought another item and we went to get some groceries before eating a late dinner at this 'Chopstik Noodle House' where I got my favourite curry laksa which was pretty good. Cause normally when you eat curry laksa at the end of the day, you tend to get oily icky remnants of the day's soup. Reached home at 10.30 and I didn't bother starting on my work as I was so drop dead tired.

I've been out of the house for more than 13 hours and I've spent 7 of those hours in Megamall. Oh and I think the deco in Megamall are a little freaky and scary. They look like giant pink fungus of some sort. They're actually some sort of China cloth umbrellas without the handles. There was a lion dance today too. I wonder if its the same lion dance troupe like the ones I saw in The Curve and One Utama.

I bought this 3 little clips which are really wooden pegs with a nice decoration on the top for 99 cents. I knew the cost of producing the clips were probably dirt-cheap but I couldn't resist it cause they were so cute.

If you recall, I previously mentioned that my dad bought this wrist-rest thing when you use the mouse that comes in the shape of animals for RM 3.90. If you can't remember, then just check out the picture below.

I saw it being sold at Megamall for RM 12.90!

Wah, 330% profit wei! Even adding in the cost of transportation, packaging and rental, at the very least it should come up to more than 100% profit.

This is why entrepreneurs love China so much. ;)

Written on Friday, February 09, 2007; 11:47 PM

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On the first day

11:49 PM

On the first day

First day of college and I'm late for the first class of the term.
What a great beginning. =p

Have I ~~bitched~~ talked about my oh-so-wonderful-perfectly-made-by-a-genius timetable to you?

Even if I have, I'm still gonna whine and complain about it here anyway. =p

Monday : Class from 12-4. I hate classes that don't start at 8 or 10 cause I'd still have to come early and waste my time unless I take public transport which I don't really like doing.

Tuesday : Class from 8-4 with a break at 10-12. Law lectures are always the first class of the day which is why I sleep a lot in law. Can't really complain about Tuesdays except that I'd rather have 3 back-to-back classes and go home earlier.

Wednesday : This is the crap of all crappy days. One miserable class at 12-2. I need at least an hour and a half to travel to and fro to college via public transport and I have to endure the nuisance of fighting with the masses just for a 2 hour class??? If you must torture me with a single class, at least give me an 8-10 where I can go home early and continue my love affair with my bed. *sigh* I think I'll end up skipping a few econs classes on Wednesdays for this term.

Thursday : Thursday and Wednesday both compete for the crappiest suckiest ultimate killer position for the coveted title 'Most Hated Day of the Week'. Classes from 8-6 (yes, you read correctly. its 8-6) with a break at 2-4. Damn it, I can deal with 4 back-to-back classes so will you just take away that break and shove that tutorial right smack at 2pm so I can go back at 4 instead of fighting with every Ah Mat, Ah Beng and Ah Lee for the public transport at 6pm where every working person wants to go home?!

I hate Thursdays...I hate Thursdays...I hate Thursdays *chants vehemently*
I think those 3 words have become my mantra and Thursday hasn't even come yet.

Must start thinking positive.
I love Thursdays...I love Thursdays...I love Thursdays *struggles to mutter out the words*

This isn't working. My lips just can't lie and say I love Thursday when my brain violently screams that it loathes and absolutely dislikes Thursday.

Friday : Class from 8-12. A bit upset at not having free Fridays anymore. If you have 1 class on Friday, it means you gotta come all the way to college for a single class. And if you have 2 classes, it means you gotta wake up early. I guess I'm too used to having Fridays off where I can joyfully shout out loud from the rooftop, "Thank God It's Friday!!!"

Conclusion : Everyday practically sucks except for Tuesday which is bearable. Give me my 1st term schedule where I didn't have single classes on a day. Or give me last term's schedule where I had 3 back-to-back classes everyday with Friday off. I can handle 4 back-to-back classes if necessary. Just don't give me only one class a day that starts right smack in the afternoon and don't make me stay past 4.

Oh Lord, I can't believe I actually complained about 1st and 2nd term's timetable when they're actually fantastic and great timetables. Will You pretty pretty please with a cherry on top give them back to me? *moans and pleads*

I guess you don't learn to appreciate the good stuff you had until you get stuck with the lousy rotting stuff.

Written on Monday, February 05, 2007; 11:49 PM

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The farewell reunion

11:46 PM

The farewell reunion

Today was the 5 Jasmin reunion lunch which is a sort of farewell to our emeritus assistant monitor Lee Wen Yang who is leaving for the University of Western Australia to do a double degree. This fella here has Einstein's hair and Einstein's brains. Class joke : If a bee ever flew into Weny's hair, it would get trapped there forever. Oh well, that's another friend lost to the continent of Aussie.

Met Karl Son about 11 and we picked up George and he told us all about his car that got hit by an unknown driver when he parked at Subang. Poor George....

Reached 1U and I wanted to go shopping while Karl and Beng wanted to do their shopping so we decided to split up and meet back at 1. George and I walked all the way to the old wing but came back to the new wing empty handed.

Met up with the rest of the 5 Jasminians and we decided to go Chili's for lunch where I ordered my usual Monterrey Chicken. Its the only thing I ever eat in Chili's cause I don't really like anything else. Haha. Did I tell you their mashed potatoes are fabulicious? And this time, I actually finished everything on the plate by myself, except the veggies cause I am a carnivore and I don't like eating veggies. :D

There were 22 of us and we had to split into 3 tables cause Chili's wouldn't seat an incomplete party and we had to wait and there wasn't enough place to sit us all at one table. Hmmph! This is why I don't really like Chili's. They have an issue with large and incomplete parties.

Those who came :

Edmund, Hsiao Ling, Mun Yi, Chia Pei, Lee Yian, Oga, Bee Suan, Congning, Yu Deng, Zhan Sheng, Weny, Eng Loon, Deepika, Abishek, Eman, George, Thiam Beng, Karl Son, Simon, Aaron, Kah Yang, Suan Loong, Sabrina, Marianne and myself. Did I miss anyone else out?

Chit-chatted throughout lunch before making a move at 3pm. Saw loads of people whom I haven't seen in ages. Thank you Mun Yi for organizing it!

The people at my table

Me, Marianne Chung and Abee.

After lunch, we all split up as everybody wanted to do different things. Oh and we managed to see a lion dance performance at The Oval too. I like watching lion dance performances. =)

Karl, Beng, George and I decided to catch a movie as George and I wanted to watch Blood Diamond but the timing wasn't right. Met Kah Yang and Emily at GSC and found out that they were watching Hit & Blast. We decided to join them and coincidentally, the 4 tickets we bought were right next to their seats. They were surprised to see us walking up to them. Haha.

A conversation between me and Suan Loong earlier on...

Me : Eh Suan Loong, you watch Hit & Blast already right? Nice or not?

SL : Not bad lar. Complicated.

Me : Got cute guys or not?

SL : Not really. If you want the Chad Michael Murray type than don't have la.

Me : Chad Michael Murray is cute. Too bad no cute guys.

Later on when the show starts, I think...

How can Suan Loong say no cute guys?!

Jason Statham is not bad looking and Ryan Philippe (the ex of Legally Blonde's star, Reese Witherspoon) is cute lar. Who can ever forget his seducer-fell-in-love role in Cruel Intentions? Not exactly Michael Chad Murray hot but still cute in his own way. Hmmph!

The show wasn't that bad. Pretty decent actually. Or maybe I just like watching Jason Statham being his usual wisecrack sarcastic I-don't-give-a-damn-about-the-rules personality and Ryan Philippe smart innocent kid turn rule-bender. Plus he is cute, too. ;)

The guys head home and I walk back to the old wing to try on that blouse and pants I saw earlier while waiting for my parents to come for dinner. That blouse comes in faded pink, white and black. I wanted white, but the saleslady said they didn't have S size so I had to pick between an S black or an XS pink. I decided to grab the pink for CNY (eventhough I said to George earlier on that it looked like it was washed 1000 times before being sold. On a closer look, the colour's actually quite pleasant.) but it was defective so I asked for a new one. And the same saleslady tells me that they only have an XS in white!

Why didn't you tell me earlier that you had an XS white, I ask her. And she said I asked for S, not XS. Hello, I might have said S, but if you were smart enough to see that I bothered to ask for S and that I could fit into an XS, you should have taken the initiative to tell me there was a freaking XS in the stockroom. How lar you want to do sales like that?

It was sort of a good thing that they didn't have pink in XS. Cause if they did, I might have faced difficulty deciding which one to buy. As it is, I bought the white which was my first choice. =p

And yes I know its CNY and I'm supposed to wear red and all but look on the bright side, its not black either. Which means grandma probably won't give me the look when I wear it during CNY. Hehe.

Head off to to Kluang Station for dinner where I bump into Jun King and his family and my mum bumps into her ex-colleague from Sri Sentosa. Then its off to MPH where my dad buys my brother a book as a reward for getting 7/7 for his BM spelling.

Lucky kid! I never had it so good at his age. I definitely didn't get storybooks whenever I got full marks for my spelling. If I did, well lets say I'd have loads of loads of books as a child and my dad would start wishing that my teacher didn't give spelling at all. =p

I realize that I've been out of the house for almost 12 hours straight and I've been in 1U for 10 hours plus. 1U really is my second home. Hehe.

Tomorrow, I have to get up before sunrise for the 7am mass. *groans* I don't like being unable to go for my usual Saturday evening mass. *sighs* More importantly, I have only 1 day of holiday left. *gasps in disbelief* Where did the one week fly to? I haven't even finished watching all my DVD's. No...I need more time..For the first time in weeks, tomorrow I will have to sleep before 1am in order not to doze off during the first day of college. =(

Oh, and I feel its a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. Which kinda puts you in a hypocrite-ish position doesn't it? I wonder if you even realise that or if you consider it 'different'. I think I would. But then again, we both know that we are each capable of bending the rules to fit our own pictures and justifications on the term 'differences'. Well, so be it.

Written on Saturday, February 03, 2007; 11:46 PM

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The Curve

11:10 PM

The Curve

Was going to the Curve with Amery, Bernice, Clareen, Robyn and Sarah. Planned to meet Bernice and Clareen at KJ station at 10.45. Seeing that I slept at 5am doing err...well I slept at 5am la, I was squeezing every bit of sleep I could and consequentially running 5 minutes late.

Arrives at the station at 10.50 and calls Clareen to find out that she is waiting for Bernice to come to her house.

Ohmybloodyhellwhyonearthdidn'tyoutell me?!

Robyn msges me and I tell her sadly not to expect us anytime soon as I'm waiting for Cla and Bernice. And I also tell her to think of ways to kill them both when she sees them. =p

Considers walking back home but I think hopefully that they'll be there in a bit. I don't even have my Ipod as I thought I was going to be the one who'd be late. Sigh. Its a lucky thing that I have credit and I start msging people in hope that a kind soul will entertain me and my complaints and whines about my two "punctual" friends.

At 11.20 Clareen tells me that she is still waiting for Bernice. I get wolf-whistles and suggestive comments from this chinese boy with his friends whom I don't even bother to dignify with a glance. Sigh, which part of my decently dressed body and garish make-up free face looks like a damn hooker?! Damn, its only 11.20am and its a respectable area ok? You desperate for hookers go Petaling Street la! What a complete arse of a lantern.

At 11.30, I discover that Bernice is somehow taking the train to KJ and Clareen is about to leave her house. When I ask how long more they will take she tells me that they will arrive pretty soon. For goodness sakes give me a number so I can decide whether to go home or not. I hate it when people tell me "soon". Tell me 5 minutes and both you and I will be much happier. =)

I have seen 2 buses come and go to Ikea. Five buses to 1U have gone already. And people keep approaching me to ask if the bus to 1U has left already. And when is the next bus. And they ask me where is Giant.

Hello?? Do I look like a tourist information counter?
Are there the words "bus station asst" written on my head?

I smile politely and tell them in gentle tones what they want to know.

I harass Clareen at a quarter to 12 to discover that she is near KJ. Now, I don't know about your assumption of near, but MY assumption of near is 5 mins away, 10 mins tops. She arrives in 15 minutes and is bombarded by me scolding her. She stands there nervously while I vent off my 90 minutes of waiting at a bus stop for her.

We go to Guardian to enjoy the air-cond while waiting for Bernice. Bernice shows up at 12.40 and before I can begin my verbal barrage, she apologizes profusely and I'm unable to get in a word. When she stops, I begin but I've already lost momentum so it wasn't as powerful as poor Clareen who had to bear the brunt of it. =p

I think Clareen was shell-shocked at my barrage. She tells Bernice that she should have heard what I said to her. And that people were looking when I was bombarding her. Oops, hehe. But you both should start learning to quantify time or I'm not going out with you both again. They try to sooth my injured and annoyed self by promising that they'll buy me a movie and a drink. Nice try, but no cigar. =p

I count and realize that I've waited for 2 hours for this 2 monkeys to show up. I could have eaten a hearty breakfast and slept more and still have time to spare. *sigh and shakes head*

Now before you all start making snide comments, I do know that punctuality is not my strongest point, but I have never made anyone wait for 2 hours and I do try and msg earlier if I know I'll be running late. Heck, I msged Clareen that I'll be 15 mins late and she doesn't msg me to tell me that she's still waiting for Bernice at her house at 10.45 when she's supposed to meet me. How not to think of ways to murder those two when you've got loads of time on your hands from waiting for them? =p

And for those 2 hours, you both are never allowed to complain anymore if I'm ever late in meeting you. Ever. =)

Oh and thank you to that wonderful soul who was kind and free enough to entertain me. I owe you one, as always. ;)

That ranting done and over with, we cab to the Curve to meet the rest. Robyn's been waiting for 2 hours too, but she wasn't alone and she was in a lovely air-cond shopping complex with things to see and buy. But, I promised her a part in killing the both of them. Haha.

With tummies a-growling, we head off to 'Sakae Sushi' for lunch. Its a bit like Sushi King with the conveyor belt but each table has a computer screen and you can order your food through the terminal. As there were 6 of us, we sat on the low table with the hole underneath where you can put your feet in. I think we made a lot of noise while ordering as the guy from the next table looked at us. Oops. *blushes*

We girl-talked and gossiped while eating and exchanging juicy little tid-bits of scandal-raising information. We only realized how noisy we were when during a lull in the conversation, the whole place suddenly seemed so quiet as we stopped talking. Maybe that was why we were receving glances from other patrons, hmmm? Hehe.

Sat there till 4-ish before we decided to walk around. I wonder why do we always take so long to eat at Japanese restaurants. The last time in Sungai Wang, we sat at the Jap place for almost 4 hours till they were bored of us and probably wanted to kick us out. =p

Cross over to the Cineleisure and buy some accesories and make-up. Oh and I get to do my "economics saving money lecture" to Clareen and Sarah. Haha. It goes something like this...

Me : Do you really need it? *with a you-should-save-money frown*
Sarah : I've been looking for it for some time.
Me : Is it absolutely essential? *emphasize on the essential*
Sarah : Err..yeah?
Me : How many of that thing do you already have?
Sarah : Quite a bit la...
Me : Is it really that necessary till you can't live without it?
Sarah : If I don't buy it, I scared I can't sleep tonight.

With a reply like that, what can I say? Haha.
Anyway, the whole point of the lecture is to help them see if they really really want that thing. And it tends to work. There are several variations to this, but it basically boils down to that.

Oh, and I'm pretty immune against it. So don't try and turn my weapon against me. Unless you're damn good at it and know the exact right buttons to push and I'm seriously wavering on whether to buy it or not.

Sarah got her necklace at a lower price than she was willing to pay for thanks to us buying other stuff there + all the bargaining + muka kesian face + the its-over-my-budget line. Haha.

Went over to the Bodyshop and converted more people into appreciating the wonderful smells of their body butter. Especially the grapefruit and golden apple flavours. I think the grapefruit smells a bit jambu-ish, but its quite nice. I feel most of the flavours smell pretty good except for the mango and papaya flavour. But then, I've never really liked mango or papaya either.

We watch a bit of the lion dance performance and Sarah disappears for her date. The rest of us head on to Secret Recipe for a drink and something to munch on.

Clareen orders a currypuff and the rest of us split some cakes. When Clareen decides to pop over to Ikea to take-away their currypuffs (which are delicious) for her parents and mine, our food comes and we polish off the cakes within minutes. Now, there's only left this lovely looking pastry oozing curry smells. And its owner is out of sight. You tell me what happens next? =p

Bernice and I are tempted to take a bite. As she doesn't seem to be coming back, we get concerned over her eating a currypuff that would be cold and being such concerned friends, we start in on her currypuff and decide to order her a new one. 3 bites into the currypuff and Clareen is back. Uh-oh. *guilty looks*

She switches her order to a tomyam puff. Bernice, Robyn and I tak tahan and we order a black pepper lamb pie. Haha. Yes, I know we are such pigs, but they really do taste good. And that's dinner for Clareen and I anyway.

Upon taking a cab back, the cabbie said fixed rate RM20 and I was like, "What the hell, we cab here for 7 bucks and you want us to pay triple that?!" Bloody rip-off! We had to settle for a fixed rate of RM12 from another cabbie. Stupid cabbie conman!

We arrive at 8-plus and I cross my fingers and hope I don't get told off by my mum as I said I'd be back around 7-ish. Oh, and I bought her 'tau sa peng' and Ikea currypuffs not to placate her for my lateness but because I know she likes them, ok. See, I'm such a fillial daughter. =p

I get off without a scolding. Hehe.

p/s : Amery, if you're reading this please send me the pics so I can post them up. Thanks.

Written on Thursday, February 01, 2007; 11:10 PM

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