How it was

So it’s been a year. This time last year I was racking my brains out for the radio assignment. I’m looking forward for a change this time around. Keeping my fingers crossed cuz you know lah things never really go my way usually. There were lies and frustrations and embarrassments and a tong full of mistakes amongst many others. Yup, that’s how I sum up my 2008.

First trip to Genting in years was in February. The class had been contemplating a class trip but got postponed at the last sec. But the hostel gang and some others decided to go anyway. I had an interview for internship the very next day.

The following 3 months was all about my first job. Met some great people, some manipulative people, some grouchy, some nice-but-in-the-end-not-so-nice yea I’m ready for working life. I made mistakes definitely and I can’t change that unfortunately. Hate me for that, but you’ll never know the other side of the story – mine.

Somewhere around there I got my previous finals results back and was somewhat labeled as stupid lah. But I totally made up for it.

T’was also when I made yet another trip to Genting. I loved the wrist ban so much and wouldn’t take it off for nothing but in the end kena sacrifice it in the name of art.

College began in June, and marked the beginning of endless productions and editing. Claws came out, so did the fangs, horns, disagreements, disappointments and misunderstandings that had possibly sealed my fate for the rest of the year.

10 bucks says I’ll never see these again.

Beginning September I was back to me, myself and my room. Instead of hoping for a change, I tried to make the change. It worked but perhaps not so much.

I opted not to join the Penang trip with them classmates, instead I went myself when my roomie invited me over. Ate a lot, walked a lot, went hiking, gawked at houses and just like that, semester break was over.

Final semester in college already began like since semester break. I was busy busting my head for thesis ideas and materials to support it. My self alleged worst nightmare wasn’t the worst after all. There were more setbacks in store for me but I just tutup one mata and say don’t care lah, it’s not gonna change the past.

Somewhere out there Jen was there for me as did other lepaking kakis. See, still got life beyond college wan.

Towards the end I initiated the change again and I think it worked in my favor lah. Not much but it’s a start. I’m happy again finally. There were still occasional bumps along but heck, just live with it lah.

Supposed to celebrate wei

... but instead I'm up helping Nic touching up Ms. Rasmuna's assignment due in 8 hours time. I trust in your writing, he says.

OK lah, never mind. Thesis sudah buat habis .. unless Ms. Theresa wants me to add more in Chapter 5. She did note in my previous copy that I needed to critisize more if I wanted good grades. Well ... I actually do need good grades to finish off college with a bang! Not exactly a fun thing to think about.

Why am I blogging now exactly?

Home away from home

Dec 24th - While the family is at home chomping on ham and mouth-watering dishes I had my very first teppanyaki! I picked this one cuz it’s like the 2nd cheapest plus I’m addicted to beef.

While waiting the food to digest we lepaked around Jusco and looked at food and how we’re gonna survive in Liverpool and what we’re gonna eat who’s gonna cook .. you get the idea lah yea.

Gerenti can live forever

So cute I want!

Then Lydia and I ordered sundaes :)

The other two had fries. And we were still going to Mali’s later to see if there were fireworks displays and also to eat more.

On the way to Mali’s I was already in the SMS mood. I really suka Dec 25th lah cuz it’s like that one day in the year where I get countless messages and calls. It’s like people out there still remember your existence. Ha!

Then we waited on the slope where we could get a good view of KLCC and the KL tower. My phone couldn’t really reach that far so no point take pic or video lah. Mana tau langsung tak dak fireworks, just some colorful light display on KL tower itself. KLCC blackout except for some twinklie lights.

Dec 25th - The gang gives up and we retreat to another mamak cuz Mali overcrowded. I continued receiving and replying messages, very very happy in the center of attention. I pretty much forgot my roti pisang.

Out of nowhere, this came:

Omg like so overjoyed lah like never see cake before. I thought the gang forgot all about it but I didn’t really peduli lah cuz too busy reading SMS. Aiseh … looks like my first birthday and Christmas in KL wasn’t that bad after all.

We left at 2 in the morning and I still had the mood to add more for the thesis. Not before I opened up the gifts!

Hostel gang bagi

Roomie's. We got the same gifts for each other .. haha

K's 39.90 bunny. Somemore he left the price tag there. Idk if he's that calculative or just plain sengaja.

In the afternoon I ajak K out to lepak and belanja him. I spent 22 bucks on Twilight tickets alone, dang the cinema really profit a lot on public holidays.

He say don't want McD's for dinner so I treated him to Chilli's (2nd time this month alone!) We sengaja ordered the cheapest food but the bill still came up to 76 bucks. But incredibly worth lah since it took us very very long to wipe out our food. Knowing me lah I memang anti-wasting my food cuz when I'm starving the next day I'd think about the food I wasted before. Yet another bizarre info.

While walking to the car I counted I spent 98 bucks. 2 bucks left for the LRT ticket the next day then. That was before the parking cost us a massive 14 bucks! K only had 3 bucks in his wallet so I sigh and say I pay lah >.<

That was my Christmas slash Birthday.

Eve

Highlight of the day: My supervisor commented I did a great job for Chap 4's thesis.

Then she proceeded to write "quite brief" for Chap 5's application of theory. But, but .. I wrote .. 1 page. OK, maybe it is brief. Cheh I thought I could start my Christmas celebration early but turns out I'll be spending the whole day facing the screen again.

It's the eve of Christmas. I bet everyone's anxiously waiting for dinner to begin at whoever's house in Ipoh. They're prolly having turkey and nice homecook food and I'm having ... teppanyaki. Going out with YY and Lydia to Jusco later =)

Gotta hand up Ms Rasmuna's assignment asap and Ms Theresa's Chap 5 on Friday. Good thing I'm not going back to Ipoh yet.

Ahh my first Christmas away from home, more specifically my first in KL. You can prolly see me lepaking at KLCC and watching two movies in one day and pigging on a slice of cheesecake at Secret Recipe and having a Prosperity Burger tomorrow.

Mom gave me 100 bucks to treat whoever I'll be hanging out on 25th. Dad told me to get anything I want and he'll pay for it (I'm thinking maybe the $1.5mil house at The Peak).

Kelly left me her usual Christmas/Birthday gift before heading home:

I freakin love her message ... goes to show I'm not such an evil person after all.

On Monday I was treated to a BBQ at a playground. Had teriyaki chicken, lamb chop, some weird tasting salad and a kebab which I lurve so much only to have K said:

... It's still raw! =.=

Then I got what I wanted:

A flower :) No one has given me flowers before ... *cry*

And a birthday gift which K accidentally let out cost 39.90 and it happens to be a bunny from Memory Lane. He sengaja wan to make me feel bad for making him spend $70+ on me. One more soft toy and my closet is gonna burst. Next time you buy me real rabbit can? Heh ... tenkiu so much! I freakin love your SMS too! Tomorrow we go out I belanja ok?

Merry (early) Xmas and Hapi (early) Burfday to meeee ...

Boom de ya dahh!

Heh, I'm back sooner than I expected. Yes, yes, I've submitted Chaps 1-3 today. I'm hoping I've shed a few pounds today after all the walking and running under the heat. I left the LJMU application form in the room and had to run back to get it. Next I power walked to TBR to print the three chapters out and met an old buddy which I can never remember his name! Some friend I am ..

Not to mention I almost missed my 3.50pm bus. I stepped on a lil girl on the way but she didn't seem to realize it. Heh. And there were lots of people blocking my way, because, apparently this happens everytime I'm late for something. And someone had to sit in my seat. Are you people blind or simply ignorant? Your seat no is printed on the ticket in case you didn't notice.

I really sangat suka this song lah. Now that AXN stinks without all 3 CSIs, TAR and House, I pig on Discovery, NGC and History Channel. Unfortunately the general knowledge I obtain is not helping me very much in school.

Tuning into dead mode

I took 11 weeks to complete (and procrastinate) Chaps 1-3 and I've been given exactly 4 days to finish Chaps 4-5. Yea, I thought it'll be good to finish off college life like I started.

Pig on the job. Check.
Last minute works. Check.
Sleepless for 24 hours. Check.
Lepaked on the eve of finals. Check.

The only thing bugging my mind is the Policy & Planning assignment o.O (surprise!) I find thesis to be fun can? The reason why I pig on it is cuz I .. am a pig. Fair enough? Or maybe the first three chapters are a bore? Check.

Will be off downstairs to watch Hairspray (for focus group purposes wei, I don't pig on the job when I have to submit it in 4 days!) later.

Everything is under control, I say
Maybe ...
So what I'm reading now? I ask
.. Holocaust (?)
I got a feeling we're gonna discuss about racial segregation during the focus group later, I answer

Thesis checklist:
Chap 1. Done.
Chap 2. Need to replace the current review with another one =.= I hate journal reading cuz it's (supposed to be) boring and the high class vocab they use is annoying. Consulting the dictionary every 2 mins is not my definition of fun.
Chap 3. Redo content analysis cuz apparently I was too hardworking, I did Chap 4's content analysis instead.
The above chapters need to be handed up tomorrow. Maybe I should start doing now.

Chap 4. Half done. The highlight of that day was pressing Ctrl X and Ctrl V content analysis.

I hate using my brain.
Ciao. I'll see you Monday

So, we're good?

Things were looking up this entire week, no, not talking abt thesis. The process was halted in the middle of the week. But I did manage to get the focus group done, so there ya go, some progress. I'm making sure I finish Chap 3 before I return to KL on Tuesday.

I hadn't been feeling good for some time, but this week was nothing but merry and fun. I was invited to go to Chilli's and dinner at TBR the next day. All this while I was pigging on canteen food.

A combination of everyone's food at Chilli's. I've resorted to drinking hot drinks these days, so I ordered tea and had it refilled 3 times (for free!). I left KLCC with a headache and was awake the entire night :(

Celebrating Jinny's (YY's buddy) birthday :)

The next day I found myself having dinner at TBR after a long time, and we talked abt UK and stuff we should bring. Like, planning for Liverpool ledi lah. We divided jobs some more leh, like who cook rice and who cook sayur. YY said we should bring the entire pack of rice there. Heh, gua bukan the over confident type so we shall wait and see if I can make it through this last sem.

Also I'm contemplating on buying a laptop. Unfortunately, I'm not super rich so I tak boleh FedEx my desktop to UK geh so I've resorted to bugging ppl abt laptop infos. My eye falls on a Sony Vaio (is that how they spell it??) but don't need too expensive lah. Or I could pinjam from my aunt, after all, it's only 3 months. Cuz the way I see it, I'd have 3 computers to handle by the end of this year. I cannot handle being overloaded wan.

I contracted a sore throat yesterday, and threw up (yea, you don't need to hear the rest) after dinner today. No, I'm not sick, I just had too much to eat gua. The last time I puked was because I was home away from home for the first time so I didn't makan for more than 24 hrs.

I'm not anorexic cuz I dream of pausing the world and eating all the food I can find for free.

Pig

Wah liao I told myself I'd get my Chap 2 done by this weekend and then I go main Facebook and kepoh people's blogs. The deadline for thesis (from what I've summed up) is around Week 11-12, but haven't confirmed with my own lecturer yet. Week 7's coming to an end already.

I memang berani mati.

Chap 2 ONLY you ask? But it's been 7 weeks already!

Yalah, you see me pig around in my dorm sleeping till 11am and then come home terus main game. How can finish? I also getting more berani to not hand up the chapters weekly (with the exception of Chap 1) but I've told myself to not do last min work in Week 11-12. I need my daily dosage of 10 hrs sleep (wah!)

Every night I pray for God to not let me procrastinate. And then the next day same whole story. Type and press backspace for an hour, then make myself promise to play for the next hour. In the end main until 12 midnight.

Geng chao hor?

I stalk

Some cat I saw during internship

TBR's Garfield

I don't recall which cat is this, but I reckon it's the Tom Yam kitty

A kitty at my dorm. Then the hostel boss saw and demanded the guard to get it off the hostel premises. &$%@#&

Waiting for makan

Row of cats at TBR

Saw this kitty snoozing at went snap

I walked past a pet store after the Cameron trip and went in to see if I could stalk some bunnies

Whenever I mentioned I want one, my Mom automatically goes "your Bruno will makan it".
Omg comel giler I want! You see that guy behind there? His paw so darn cute wei

Not to mention I did some stalking in Cameron itself

A white kitty who goes meow during dinner time. Lives behind my place

Went to Penang to visit my roomie last sem and did some bunny stalking

At least it's way better than stalking guys during high school. And I do stalk some show houses occasionally. Another career prospect for me.

People

Punggung Derique at Klang

Derique & Jia Teng's presentation but Cikgu was doing much of the talking ;)

Dad making his scrambled eggs + tuna

Too much porn

Downloading porn

CEO and future CEO

Why, I never ...

It's kinda strange I've been appreciated more in the virtual world than in reality. Some of you may know I play counselor on Yahoo! Answers and one dude comes up and says this:

Language and typos aside. I don't know about my soul (cuz I'm Jekyll & Hyde) but bringing smiles around and making other people happy ... I don't do that a lot to the real world. Haha. Hey, if you give me a chance I'll make you happy lah.

I memang tak tau nak kerja apa in the future. Perhaps a counselor would do :P

Now, this is the time I really sayang myself. Few hours back I was contemplating suicide .. hehe

Take time to smell the flowers

Again, I dunno if the title is accurate.
I only realized I had lots of fake flowers in my room after staring at this pic for some time. The ones on the bottom right was a bday gift during Form 2. Back then folding flowers using straws were a hit. The red/pink roses were taken from Form 2's teacher's desk after school year was over. Right behind 'em are my own straw flowers (which you can't see, but just to tell you I ruled at it). And that's one of my cats.

Yada yada

I got my hand on the Sims complete collection yesterday after getting back my PC. But it's inappropriate lah cuz it's not exactly "complete" but I don't care lah just grab it. Deep down I knew it was gonna take weeks until I can finally play cuz I tak berapa pandai in installing games.

Ya, you say easy lah, juz tekan and follow what they say. In the end

WRONG CD INSERTED. PLZ INSERT THE ORIGINAL CD

*scratch head*. But that's the ONLY CD I got wei. Mana kena cari lagi liao? Semalam 6 jam saya garu kepala, trying to figure out what's there left to do. Don't care, today wanna cari the store and hentam habis habis. I'll drag him to the hostel to install for me if I have to :P

Or maybe it's just my stupidity?? Hmm ...

Tomorrow parents wanna drag me to Tanah Tinggi Cameron. Not excited cuz I have this rare disease of throwing my guts up whenever I'm there. It happened twice the last time. I blame it on the very winding road. If Genting was any nearer I'd ask them to drop me there and go lepak alone :)

Pasal thesis pulak ... eh, still ok lah. Got minor glitch here and there but still in the race lah. Which reminds me of Amazing Race Asia 3. My fav team is still alive!! I thought about doing a race report hehehe

Some of you who actually reads this thing may caught a sight of my Twitter post (under "What I'm Doing") about Barack Obama. Not that I know anything about politics but just to tell people I actually keep up with world events lah. I did watch CNN now and then but eh .. politics memang not my type.

The other thing I know is that Sarah Palin (McCain's running mate) is a popular figure in the porno industry. I read somewhere they're making a movie about her.

Giler ...

Ain't fun

In my dictionary, cyber cafe-ing is a form of relaxation where you lepak on the Net and not do anything productive at all. Hari ini, wuah .. research thesis la, buat Ms. Rasmuna's assignment la, then computer yesterday kena serang virus. I've got 2 culprits but ... what you want me to do lah?

Rasa nak cabut kepala

Hehe, tapi masih nak berblogging.

At this sec, my thesis is going haywire. The problem is both of us have no clue on what to research about. Which is like a total disaster lah cuz frankly if there's no problem means no thesis to write lah. So Lydia and me haf to switch movies lah from Tomb Raider to Mona Lisa Smile (even though I found the latter totally boring)

So balik dorm hari ini and try to pry open my brain. And spread more viruses into my health-stricken desktop. Since they're already swimming around I might as well give them more buddies to swim with lah.

>.<

Shameless self promotion

The name's Lace. I'm the one with the red halo on my head. I'm very very short. Am an adult but sadly, don't act like one. I'm a loner, since I'm the oldest and youngest child in the family. I'm not bitchy, see for yourself. I'm a banana so I socialize better with the English speaking world. Born on Christmas Day in my favorite place of all, Ipoh. I'm funny to some people.

I do not enjoy shopping because my salary slip doesn't have 6 figures on it. I follow beauty pageants. I have multiple alter egos. I'm not a girly girl cuz I wake up 15 mins before classes begins, where got time to make up and dress to kill lah. If you can't handle that fact then so be it. I do not enjoy coffee much, but I buy Starbucks cuz it makes me look cool. I'm totally brainwashed to worship the United States of America. I majored in Broadcasting so I have to watch movies and most of 'em nice ones are from the county I worship. Ok lah, so not totally worship lah ... I wanted to be an archaelogist when I was in school but I stank at Malaysian History so ...

Contrary to popular belief, I have a driver's license. Got it on my first try. A FRIENDS fanatic. Yeah I know that show is so yesterday but I'm still saving up for Season 7's DVD =) I do not download movies online cuz I just don't do it. I memang pantang pirated movies whose subtitles do not make any sense. I try camwhoring but I turn out like a moron. I'm overjoyed by the lil things in life. I'm prone to screwing my grammar.

P/S: I stalk cute lil cats and bunny rabbits.

Overall, life is fine, has more downs than ups but I'll just live with it.

I'm back!

I don't precisely remember when I first ventured into the unknown world of blogging but I do recall my first post was on January 1st (it's either 2004 or 2005). I left after 2 or 3 years and settled in Blogdrive before returning to Blogger. Things have changed a lot the last time I was here and needless to say I'm pleased with what I could do here.

I got my own header (yay!), labels (which I renamed to tags cuz I like the word) and I got to pick the color that goes with the header.

And I promise myself I'll make this site as interesting as I want it to be.