i didnt realised its been one whole month that i havent updated my blog. and its almost coming to an end of march.
its not that i havent had anything happening to me.. more like too many things happened until no time to pay my bills..! and yes, i've had a lot of thoughts in my mind too that i wished i had time to let you all wonder with me.
anyway, as it is.. i'm now at...
took half day off cuz my car was cranking, screaming, yelling and whatever else that a car can possibly do. and what i like and dont like about servicing my car is that:
like: my mechanic does a good job and most of the time fixes the problem thats minor without charging me and give really good service too.. hates: reminder of my next service - need to change battery, engine moulting, tayars.. *ka-chiiiing!!* sigh..
other than that, let me put some thought together for a more proper update..
and here's a kiss from moi polka-dotted neice
for me of cuz.. you want, you ask from her yourself! =P
no joke.. when i corbis a photo for the term 'lazing', i got this picture.. neat, huh?
anyway, yea.. i'm in my lazing moment - i'm on a 2 week holiday! i know.. you guys envy me.. but oh well.. *whatever*
hahaha..
well, it a fun time with my neices and my brother's family.. and of cuz, bringing my sis-in-law shopping - must show what kinda malls we have in msia that i can shop for 8 hrs.. *grin* also, my own excuse to do my own shopping too.
aside from that, my own malas-ing moments, i've been procrastinating to: 1. do research on cameras to buy - DSLR/Canon/Pentax/Pro/Entry..?? 2. do my planning and personal budgetting for the year.. eh, with shopping a bit hard right? 3. do more reading - already behind alot of books i've been meaning to complete soon
oh well, i'm still in my malas-ing mood..
can anyone help on which camera to get? puhleezzz...... *blink blink blink*
ever felt the feeling when you open you mailbox and you see a plain white envelope and it actually has a stamp and your name and address on it?
thats what i felt, when i went back home and opened a box of old mails. i've totally forgotten all about it until i decided to do some cleaning. and the feelings came back. along with a smile.
while reading thru the old mails, you could roughly guess what i wrote. and reading the replies, its.. highschool. asking typical highschool questions like - favourite sports, favourite bands, favourite singer, boyfriend/girlfriend, societies in school.. its really funny to read them back again. but its so.. highschool.
at least i think at my time. darn, suddenly it felt so long ago.. hehehe..
but i guess thru writting mails, i've learnt to communicate a lil with others outside my lil 'kampung' state. kinda allowed me to mix with other people that i prolly have no idea who and how that person actually looked like. oh, in my snail mails there's a constant request of asking for photographs. but we'd drag for the longest time before we actually sent out our photos.
then.. those mails started to get lesser and lesser..
because thats when internet became more common. first started as emails. then mIRC.. then ICQ.. which still exist till now with other fantastic web chat - msn, skype, gtalk, ym, etc. but there were community web pages that we'd try to keep in the loop like eCircles, Friendster and now.. Facebook.
slowly and obviously letter writting became extinct and even emails. hardly get any of those for the longest time cuz everyone would be posting short messages in facebook, friendster and if we could chat immediately with another person over msn and skype, why do we need to compose something?
i must admit, though, that i have lost contact with most of my pen-pals that i used to write to them. i do wonder what are they doing and how are they doing. who they are actually. after so much of writtings, everything just goes by, forgotten. i do have a couple of them still in contact but very briefly.
still, reading hand-written-posted-letters will always bring a smile.
suddenly its like sesame street.. today we will learn the number 3..*music playing at the background*
3 inches of my hair is gone.. maybe 4.. or 3.5... but oh well, i just had a haircut..!! hehehe i might just do something to my hair again just before Chinese New Year.. hmmm
3 great friends to join me shopping for freaking 10hrs yesterday.. plus my haircut time of cuz and lunch and dinner time.. still, it wasa great time - who ever said 3's a crowd..?
and i just got my 3 lovely shirts from Yvonne Foong. i got to meet her this morning she's so sweet! seriously. anyway, if you all can - help her out and get the shirts. they're really really cool. i love the heart shape design. you can read up more abt her shirts here.
and know what, its 3 more days to Christmas. which means its holiday time! yippie..! oh, and 3 cars from KL (my friends) will be going back to my little humble town. isnt it lovely.. =)
oh well.. i'm liking it already so far.
but also, i realised last weekend when i sent my car for a wash
i had a nail stuck to my BRAND new tyres.. that also because my previous tyres had 2 nails stuck to it. that makes 3 nails to my tyre in less than a week.
all i need next is a cross.
anyway..
thats all kids from sesame street. today we learned the number 3..
1. a new pair of casual work shoes 2. non-ironable, casual work clothes 3. magazine 4. funky cap 5. capris 6. funky necklace 7. camera 8. mp3 player 9. radio 10. storage boxes
and i got myself.. a casual tank top.
so much for retail therapy.
does anyone knows what is a letter pad or am i still stuck in the old memory style of writing letters in matching envelopes? i was hunting it all over in a megamall yesterday and it is as though it never existed before.
housemate: of cuz la! everyone's on email and msn already. who would want to write letter somemore..
thats a point.. but i still love receiving mails. only mails i get are wedding invitations!
and the remarks i've gotten.. dad: dowan la.. i want to see sharapova play only. friends: wah! expensive la just to watch the oldies play another friend: wah.. expensive! imagine going there without a camera.. and another friend: you free meh?
(-_-")
oh well.. to see john mcenroe quarrel with the umpire, with bjorn, with federer.. not too bad, right?
but then again, its on a weekday in bukit jalil.. and i have no idea how to get there. i guess, i'll just settle with ESPN.
sis: Its sucks being old me: hahaha.. isn't it part of life? i'm crossing over my quarter already.. sigh sis: Haha! You got a lot of working years to go. That sucks too. me: now THATS comforting..!!!
which was suppose to take place.. well, last year. sorry why, yarn? hahahaha
here's my 50+1 reason i *heart* malaysia
with conjunction with merdeka this month, i thought i should actually put it to action. so here it is..
feed me! 51. mamak - there's food 24 hrs 50. food are cheap - with some exceptions of the expensive restaurants 49. varieties - from indian to chinese to malay to mixed all 3 together 48. durians!! - durian bomb, durian tart, durian icecream, durian mooncake, durian itself!! 47. conventional - ever had your fantastic coconut drink in a plastic bag tied with raphia string at one corner and a straw, of cuz.
entertain me 46. our own fav - mia palencia, roger wang, reza salleh, sheila majid.. and it goes on and on, and they're really good! am proud of them. there were also peeps like KRU, Nora, Innuendo.. still proud of them too 45. sepet- and gubra, and mukhsin.. and many more from yasmin ahmad that shows so much of the malaysia culture and authentiness 44. rainforest world music- something i'm yet to go but want to go. seems to be happening every year.. soon! i shall attempt to go for it!
43. our style - our own version of entertainment like this for this and this for this 42. performances - cultural performance every chance we can get to show it off
people 41. mixture - we've got all the culture under one roof and we can still talk to each other 40. language - a chinese can speak tamil, a tamil speaks mandarin.. why do you think most of the support centers are here? 39. slang - we have our own slang 'lah', 'wat', 'leh' and to east malaysians 'bah' 38. colourfulness - aside from our own majority - malays, chinese and indians, there's also so many other people around the globe 37. fooled - so nice to be able to fool others with asian looks and hide our age, our language ability, our skill.. ahh..
achievements 36. tallest twin tower - c'mon be proud about it! 35. sports - nicol david, lee chong wei, rashid sidek, foo kok keong, and my sista! well many more names of cuz 34. our own car brand - may not be the best but we have our own brand, our own car! 33. seeing it differently - we have world class peeps too like louis pang, kid chan, kenny sia 32. here! - we have managed to hold a few main events where leaders come together - Commenwealth, F1, OIC, NAM, etc..
culture 31. mixed - seen an indian in baju kurung, chinese in sari? come here la 30. celebration - we celebrate all the festivals together, seriously - its a holiday! we celebrate! 29. richness - go to Melacca and experience historical nyonya, east malaysia, kelantan, penang, etc.. 28. fashion - seriously, the traditional has gone modern and yet, there is the essence of it 27. freedom - to worship our faith
shopping haven 26. 1Utama - one of those malls that has so so many shops in one place, and its still growing! 25. Sunway Pyramid - another megamall that even has an ice ring in the middle of the mall 24. Starhill, The Gardens - extremely highclass mall then when i go, i can only afford to go to the toilet.. and nice too! 23. RM5 per entry - to the highest class toilet in The Gardens. any sponsors? 22. Pekan Rabu - and like every morning market, night market, shopping is everywhere
da place 21. strategic - in between thailand (shopping haven) and singapore (update haven) and easy to travel to any other countries 20. homes - you still amazingly find wooden houses, urban to the most unexplainable expensive houses 19. beach - c'mon, almost every state is near to a beach! how convenient 18. montains - mount K, y'all.. and i'm planning to climb one of the tallest in SEA 17. still - dont feel the earth move, dont see any spinning winds or vulcanic mountains
my 2nd home - KL 16. city - that never sleeps, and so does the jam on the road 15. food - williams mamak! chilli pan mee! 14. driving - a good driving practice for anyone 13. contradictory - kg baru in the middle of the heart of the city. but if you want to see a malay lifestyle, its beautiful 12. potential - so much potential in the people here and the place.. simply amazing
my home - Alor Star 11. cheap cheap - food are extremely cheap. imagine a bowl of noodles for only RM1.50! 10. lingo - we have our own lingo like 'hang' means you, 'kupang' means syilings, 'depa' means them, 'panaih' means hot 9. paddy - kedah aka rice bowl of malaysia cuz there's paddy field almost everywhere and sunset there is .. ahhhh..... 8. parking - a guy walks up to you, with a piece of paper and each hour cost 30 cents.. 7. lorong titi siam - if you say it fast enough and understand it in hokkien, you'll know how the name came about.
somethings dont change 6. da squat toilet - always get a glee from my cousins from aussie 5. old newspaper - siren screaming 'suratkhabar lama.. old newspaper.. old magazine.. old batteries' 4. pasar malam - 'night market', altho not much a fan of it but i realised its unique 3. travel - we still have cabs with no meters, trishaws, bicycles 2. wrapped up - some food are still wrapped up in newspapers like putumayam.. nice!!
blur as ever but thats me. mastering in blurrology and influencing others with the newly found skill. well, just another person blurred about the simple complexity faced everyday with a cup of coffee.. be coffexified, everyone! ;o)
3 inches of my hair is gone.. maybe 4.. or 3.5... but oh well, i just had a haircut..!! hehehe
