Christmas Decoration Shopping.

After church, Koler, & well everyone, was really bontadi to go out gallivanting so we headed over to Mid Valley to look around for some extra Christmas decorations. As usual, the place was all decked out in Christmas things, complete with a many many foot tree. :D

Was looking around in Jusco & saw some pretty unique decorations but there was one that was really horrible. I really don’t understand who would put this one up on their tree or in their house.

pweety christmas balls.

i might start hating fish on account of this.

Also had fun taking pictures while walking around.

mirrors!

Next time, Aussie’s are coming home!

CHEERS!

Welcome Back Godpa & Happy Belated Birthday!

It’s been a long week rotting my brains out at home while taking care of my little sister so I was thankful for the little respite that I did get. Thanks Deb! We’d gone running in Taman Jaya on Wednesday & I must say we did soo much better than the last time.
Also, my godfather arrived during the week & I finally got to see him tonight when we went over to my Nan’s place to celebrate his birthday which was actually a week after mine, on the 15th.

Happy Belated Birthday Godpa!

Something else about tonight, apparently the clan in Klang was also having something to celebrate all the November birthdays. Which does include me but, something tells me that one missing November baby wasn’t going to hurt them much. Not to mention the fact that I’d been waiting ages to see my godfather & I wasn’t gonna pass up this chance to spend with time them. But I digress..

As usual, the affair at Nan’s place was all about good food & great company. It was so great to see my godfather again after what seemed like ages! Also, it was a pleasant surprise to find out that they were celebrating my birthday as well. Yay!

the cake, with my name missing an 'S' & the Paul's November babies.

his two godchildren.

great to have you home! XD

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The Past Week - In Retrospect.

Monday - 17/11/2008

Went to college to help Ryan with calculus for our final paper on Wednesday. Needless to say, it wasn't much of a success. Basically, we'd technically already passed the subject on our internals & totally lost the mood to do any kind of studying.

What was interesting about today was I saw exactly the extent to which the people in my college (ok, one person) are prepared to go to make sure that their favourite Prom Queen & King are voted for. Two words, pathetic dude.

Another thing, if you happen to get emails from someone claiming to be sent by God on random topics such as Communication then its safe to say that you don't need to worry as the person who sent it probably goes to my college & while religiously inclined he's most probably not sent by God.
Makes for a good dose of laughter though :D


Tuesday - 18/11/2008

Had another session of calculus revision, this time Pabo joined us. She was freaking out cause she thought she wouldn't do well. When in actual fact, & I did tell her this, she'd only have to answer half a question to pass. :)
But since Pabo was there, we actually did do some work which involved differentiation till I thought my head was gonna explode. Also, Alan asked me if I was free on Thursday to help out by being in a training video for the college. Of course, I decided to rope Ryan into it but that old man was pretty skeptical bout it. One more day before finals are over!


Wednesday - 19/11/2008

Finally. The last paper for the semester. It wasn't that bad, pretty much as expected so I hope I'll be able to do well for this one. After the paper, Emily met us in college & we decided to go to Dragon-i in Mid Valley cause the one in Pyramid sucks. So we all took the bus over & I must say, Emily must be proud of herself for such an achievement. & I though so too, till of course the whole ATM episode. Brilliantly intelligent bic, truly.

Ryan & Emily - yes, they're shy.

Pabo's...being herself.


curiosity got that cat squeezed.

Thursday - 20/11/2008

So, its the first day of my holidays & what do I do? Wake up early to go to college. Though some would say that that's perfectly normal for me. Pfft.
It wasn't for work or anything. It was actually to be in that video that Alan asked me about earlier in the week. It was actually pretty fun, but all my nervous habits started making cameos & I had to work really hard to keep them in check.

Ryan was casted originally to play a disgruntled parent, but there were some scene changes so he didn't have to in the end. But I was done quite early & we'd made plans to meet up for lunch since he'd be going back at the end of the week. So in the end, we had lunch in Pan Bakery & walked around the area looking for his old dry cleaner.

To sum up the rest of what happened that day: I decided it would be a good idea to hit the pavement with my knees, enrolled for Feb '09 semester, got soaking wet in the rain walking back from Ryan's house (though some random guy offered to drive me back) & apparently became a liar for missing my dad's calls twice. Go figure.


Saturday - 22/11/2008

Nothing much happened on Friday except I stayed at home & took care of my sister. So I decided to skip to the next day.
I'd made plans to go over to Deb's place cause, after the previous day, it was starting to get suffocating up in here. We actually tried going running around her housing area & I must say I had no idea what the phrase out of shape meant till that moment. Very depressing evening, but the food, wine & company in Deb's house always makes you feel better :D

who can stay depressed when you've got this much good food in front of you.



CHEERS!

The True Definition of Relaxation.

Tomorrow I'm gonna be sitting for another paper & I'm still awake. Doing nothing I might add. Compared to Pabo, who's freaking out about not knowing how to do the questions tomorrow, I'm about as calm as can be. Which is starting to scare me, but not enough to do anything about it, unfortunately.

Not to mention I spent the last two days catching up on WGM, which is freaking hilarious btw. Its all thanks to Pabo though, otherwise I'd never get hooked on all this Korean stuff. I've come to a conclusion though that Koreans live to laugh, & are freaking good at making other people laugh as well. :)

Anyway, hopefully everything will go well in the 4 hours that I have tomorrow to finish the paper. Night people!

CHEERS!

Feel This - Bethany Joy Galeotti

It's gotta be this one,
You don't have to fake it
You know I can take it
What if I told you your tears haven't been ignored
And everything that was taken can be restored

Feel this
Can you feel this
My heart beating out of my chest
Feel this
Can you feel this
Salvation, under my breath

It's gotta be disguised
Soul and script
Chord and lyrics
What if I told you that innocence is yours
And the beauty you have now is brighter than before
Before

Feel this
Can you feel this
My heart beating out of my chest
Feel this
Can you feel this
Salvation, under my breath

Let go, let go and believe, let go, let go and believe,
let go, let go and believe, let go

Feel this
Can you feel this
My heart beating out of my chest
Feel this
Can you feel this
Salvation, under my breath

Can YOU feel this?

Birthday Wishes!

Happy 17th Birthday to ShaShaMol!

Today's paper is Finance 307. The one where I don't know what I should be studying.
Hence the reason why I'm still awake.
Wish me luck!

Oh! & today is WGM day!
Can't wait to watch it. :)


CHEERS!

REjuvinating Breath of Fresh Air.

Ok so I'd decided some time ago that I was thoroughly bored with looking at so much orange at one time and I thought, Enough is Enough. I'm changing templates, fonts, colours, et cetera, et cetera. Personally, that chick was starting to annoy the heck out of me. Posing there, doing nothing all day.

Anyway, today, finished my first final paper (Acc 260) & it was shihh-ty to say the least. Haih, caught between feeling relieved that its over & nervous about the possible outcomes. Desperately needed an adequate distraction & I must say I did manage to find it. :)
Now I just need to get through one more paper & finals are as good as over!

The only ones left are the Finance papers.

13th Nov (9.00 am) - Finance 307
16th Nov (12.00 pm) - Finance 206
19th Nov (8.30 am) - Finance 203

I'm pretty happy that my finals timetable is nice & not a big ball of pressure. Even though it drags on for a bit, its still better than having to take 4 subjects in 3 days. I do feel sorry for those who had 215 after 260 & Tax the day after 260. That's gotta be pretty rough.

Gonna need lotsa lotsa luck for the next paper, I keep thinking I've got it all covered. Then scared cause I think there are still things that I don't know. But totally chilled & unafraid. Confused? Yeah me too.

CHEERS!

Dwebbie's Coming Home.

Today Chel & I went to pick Deb up from the airport. She'd been gallavanting around Europe for the last 6 months & finally decided she's homesick. She'd told her parents that she'd be arriving on the 17th of November. In actual fact, she changed her flight to the 8th so she could surprise everyone. Then she called & told us cause, let's face it, she's gotta get back home from the airport somehow.

Thought I'd be able to wake up but in the end, even though I had set a million & one reminders on my phone I still only managed to drag myself out of bed after 5 in the morning. What can I say, I'm too used to snoozing. :) Fortunately, Chel hadn't slept the whole night doing her college assignment so she was wide awake.

Ok so Crazy Idea No 1, which was actually cooked up during the conversation last night, we had to talk to Deb in BM from the moment we greet her. I thought, hey why not & since we have that long journey ahead, we can practice in the car. Needless to say that didn't work out very well as we only started 'practicing' about 2 minutes from the carpark.

Crazy Idea No 2, Chel figured she wasn't going to park in the carpark but wait outside instead near the taxi place. Only after persuading her, did she decide to park the car.

So we get there & we're looking around to see if Deb had come out yet and I realised that I didn't know any of her flight details. So I decided to ask Chel, since she'd spoken to her two days ago. Unfortunately, Chel being Chel, she didn't know anything besides the fact that she said she'd be out by 7.30. Great!

Then we waited & waited, till I spotted her making her way out & this is where Chel decides to be brilliant again and come up with Crazy Idea No 3 : Surprise Deb by coming up from behind her. First order of business, Hide!

taken from behind the board where we were hiding.

Even with our genuis brains, we couldn't make it pass her let alone come up behind her. So we were spotted & after all the greetings (none in BM btw) we headed off. Chel had to stop by her college to meet with her lecturer for one of her assignments.

us in the car.

Since Chel & I had been a lil late to leave, we didn't get a chance to eat. So after she was done in college, we headed to Bangsar cause Deb felt like eating banana leaf rice. We walked around Bangsar after that & the heat was so atrocious that we decided to stop over for a drink.

Deb's strawberry daquiri & my cranberry magherita.
(i had no idea it was gonna be pink :X)


Chel's vodka & cranberry.

to our 9-10 years of friendship.

Great to have you back Deb!



CHEERS!

p/s: PSA courtesy of a shirt that Chel made. I thought of YOU.

Turning the Big 2-OH, Part II.

To continue from the previous post..


Pabo left around 12ish, & I met Ian who was actually there but decided not to tell me so I wouldn't be distracted from my studying. So sweet right?

He'd already decided he wanted to take me for a super-expensive movie at GSC Signature at the Gardens. So we headed over & bought tickets for the new James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace. Its a pretty nice place but I doubt I'll be going back there to watch a movie again. Its not very worth it la if you ask me.

About the movie, well I didn't really get it. I'm not sure if its cause I didn't watch Casino Royale but it just didn't make sense to me. Some more I don't like that dude who's playing James Bond now. People say he's good & all but I just don't understand why they couldn't have cast an actor with more... hmm.. just more la.

Ooo.. There was something I discovered about the Gardens (besides the fact that that's the place where all my shoes live) which is they have really cool toilets! I discovered one that I really really liked which is..well in a place I can't really explain but they've got mirrors on a counter behind the sinks! Which I think is soo totally cool cause when you're washing your hands you can see the back of you reflected in the mirror in front of you. Lol!

I really wanted to take a picture but for some strange reason, I suddenly felt I didn't wanna look stupid so I decided to save my jakun-ness for another time. Somehow I'd spent so much time in there that by the time I got out, Ian was standing there with a look on his face that said 'I can't believe you've kept me waiting out here for so long'. Hahaha!


ian: you took so long ah just to do your hair?
ME: how did you know that? :X
ian (points to the entrance of the toilet) : see the reflection over there?
ME: well i can't help it, i've never seen what my hair looks like from the back.
ME: oohh. you know, the next time i need to pee i'm coming here straight.
ian: =.=" yeah... well, you're on your own k.

Such a charming boyfriend no?

Anyway, we ended up chilling in MPH after that, until my family finally came over to meet us after Koler's tuition. Had dinner in Spaghetti Grill to celebrate my birthday & by the time we were done it was quite late so we headed back home.

All in all, I gotta say it was a pretty great day. But I was totally beat that it felt so good to finally be able to sleep. Tomorrow, Chel & I are picking Deb up from the airport!

Tribute to my big 2-0

because it's the only picture i'd taken all day, :(

CHEERS!

Turning the Big 2-OH, Part I.

Happy Birthday to lil ol' ME!

I officially turned 20 today & I must say, it wasn't as depressing as I thought it would be. To be honest, I was really really surprised with certain developments that made me too sex-cited & actually happy that I was turning 20..leaving my teen years behind & all that jazz. Thanks to YOU for your birthday wishes.

Also, if you notice a dry spell during the months between August & this month (which I'm sure you do because of all the pestering to update) it's because I'd gotten really lazy. & what happened was that I was left with this HUGE backlog of things that I wanted to blog about but never got a chance to because of said laziness. Then my birthday came around, and I decided I was gonna be a lil more committed to updating my blog starting from this point onwards. However, as Ryan would put it,

FLAW...

My birthday...is possibly the best time ever that I could have picked to make such a resolution, seeing that it's at the tail end of study week.
Brilliant I know :)

& that ladies & gentlemen, is how this post, & the rest proceeding it, ended up getting published only after my birthday.

Anyway, back to today, I'd been meeting Pabo everyday in college for the past week to study & we decided we desperately needed a change of scenery, so we were going to meet in Mid Valley the next morning & find a place to study there.

I took the bus from college & met her at around 8 something and went looking for a place to have breakfast. She ended up treating me breakfast at Toast Box, which has quite nice Lontong, 'if you like sticky rice' as Pabo put it. After studying, we walked around the place & I learned that she enjoys trying out free samples & supermarkets are like heaven for Pabo. She was getting so excited about everything & pointing out things to me here and there, like a little kid at a toy store. Lol!

Then she did something that I've never known anyone else do before in my life. She started walking around the supermarket LOOKING for those booths where they give out free samples. If that wasn't enough, she started complaining why they hadn't set up yet. Hahaha! So typical Pabo that she dubbed herself one level higher than those aunties that keep trying free samples everywhere cause she actually looks for them.

To Pabo: Thanks for tahan-ing me this week, with my constant messaging & concourse analyzing. For making me eat whenever I got too frustrated & cranky, which made you cranky. Apparently I get emo when I don't eat. I never knew that. :X

Lastly, Happy Birthday to all the other 7/11 babies.
There are many of you out there, I know.
Part II coming up!


CHEERS!