Crazy Weekend!

I am feeling SOOOO guilty for not blogging for the past few days.  I keep telling myself that I will do it RIGHT NOW but RIGHT NOW apparently equals to 4 days? Lol, I am NOT PROUD of myself for my procrastination!

My week has been crazy in a GOOD way <3 I've watched Rise of the Guardian THREE times (hint:  Might be watching a fourth time), once in 3D >D  I am so glad that I've gotten the opportunity to watch it in 3D!  Now I am wishing to be able to watch it in IMAX 3D instead but I am not complaining since I've watched it in 3D already <3

Why the craze?  Though I am TWEN- though I am a 'young adult' now, I am still and forevermore young at heart!! I love all this fairy tales or fables or whatever you call them and I am simply just absolutely in love with SANDMAN <3  He is my absolutely new lover >D

He is cute.  Adorable.  Witty.  Strong.  Shiny and sparkly.  Lol, short and round >D  All things round are cute undeniably.  Other than Rise of the Guardian, I've watched Life of Pi too, but now we are contemplating to watch it in 3D as well because Ang Lee won an award for creating the best 3D movie effect for bringing it to the next new level!  All good things must be shared so after I watch it in 3D I will let you know whether it's worth it for YOU to go watch it in 3D as well <3

The craziest thing that happened this week (actually last, since today's a Monday :D) happened on Saturday.  I was in our local bookstore and I saw 'Casual Vacancy' by J.K. Rowling going for RM 29.90 from far away so I literally hopped and skipped my way to the aisle selling it and picked it up but boy I was disappointed, it was in Chinese T_T

I am not proud to say that though I am Chinese, I can't read Chinese so I naturally have to put that book down and just as I did so, 3 employees was walking towards my direction so I approached them and asked if they have Casual Vacancy in English.  One of them happily told me YES and ask me to follow her.

Conversations then started to flow.   (Note:  I thought she's a Eurasian because she does look like one with her complexion and accent so I panicked for no reason whatsoever <.>)

Her:  So, you like Harry Potter?
Me:   YES, what about you?
Her:   YES I love Harry Potter too!
Me:    Is Casual Vacancy for the English version going for RM 29.90 too?
Her:   I wish!  I was so excited when I saw the 29 bucks one but the English version is still selling for 69.90!
Me:   (Broken hearted ;_;)
Her:   So, do you know Pottermore?
Me:   (*eyes sparkles*) YES I DO!  Note:  If you are big enough of a Harry Potter fan, you WILL know about Pottermore >D

She immediately gave me her Pottermore account and asked for mine.  Sadly (and disgracing) I can't remember my Pottermore account but nonetheless conversations bloomed into more conversations and Godbrother joined in the fun too!

So, J.K. Rowling leads to Pottermore leads to Hunger Games leads to Facebook leads to LOTR and as though all this isn't crazy enough, WE SHARE THE SAME BIRTH DATE OKAY!

Tell me about coincidences O.O

And I found it all in a local bookstore.

On a random Saturday.

At a random employee walking pass by.

Can you contemplate how crazy is that?

 (ﾉಥДಥ)ﾉ︵┻━┻･/  Flipping table since 2006, just because I can <3

Gonna update more post (I PROMISE TO DO SO) in one or two days! <3

Today Is the Perfect 24 Hours

Today my time is really well spent.

There are times when I tell myself that 24 hours in a day is not enough (and that would be the time when I am in Japan >D) and most of the time, I wish that the day is made of less than 24 hours.  Then I can spend lesser time working and doing anything at all.

Today, I find that 24 hours is just enough.  My well spent 24 hours.

Morning and afternoon, I've got work as usual but so many things happened in between.  I got my car steering wheel fixed (some part of it chipped off on the very day I got Paddington (my car) and since its still under warranty, I get to change it for free! <3).  

Then Godparents came to fetch me FROM WORK to their place to HAVE LUNCH because of the above.  I've got no transport till around 1500 Hour so Godparents offered to pick me up ;_;  So so so very nice of them ;_;

Boss offered to buy us lunch this coming Friday.

I had an enjoyable dinner and movie date with my Godbrother's family + 2 aunts.

I found out that I am able to eat ALMOST EVERYTHING just 3 days after getting my lower braces fixed!! Amazing <.>  I don't know if it's the sheer determination of wanting to eat or just that my dentist is really professional <3

We watched Life of Pi.  By now I think needless to say, most of you would have know it's an adaption movie from a novel written by Yann Martel BUT what most of you don't know is, the book has been out for over 10 years (my Godbrother has been telling me this over and over again so YES, it's been OVER 10 YEARS!).  All of you who thinks this is a new in thing and keeps quoting things from Life of Pi the movie, LAME!  <3

Though you might not know / care, the director of this movie is Ang Lee, the person who directed  "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon".  As clueless as you are, I bet you must have heard of this.  Godparents thinks he is a very suitable director choice for this movie because of the nature of the story.

Godbrother's review:  The movie did the book justice.  The only parts missing are the extremely brutal part, which might not be suitable for audience purposes.

I am not going to spoil the story of Life of Pi here for you because I hate spoilers like you (I think) but I've known the summary of the story even before I watched the movie.  I think it's very rare for you to watch a movie where the Director absolutely did not mess with the important story line of a novel and just bring it out in its entirety from words to a motion moving picture.

All I can say is it's a good movie.  Well worth of the move ticket money.

After the movie date, I got an unexpected call from a friend saying that he is hungry and he wants someone to accompany him for dinner.  Of all the places, we went to McDonalds JUST when Godbrother and I was telling each other we should go and buy McDonald's Happy Meal Set just for the Rise of the Guardian toy like 3 hours earlier!

But I was super disappointed cause my friend didn't order the Happy Meal Set T_T  BUT as a surprise, he got me a toy! O.O  He says it was a gift from the set meal that he ordered but later told he it's just a small token he bought so HERE IT IS!  

Can you believe that this is actually MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER from Rise of the Guardian?!  It's THE SANDMAN and he is just SUPERBLY ADORABLE to the max and and, today's the LAST day to get him!! /hops around  THANK YOU FRIEND, for getting me this <3

When I was in McDonalds' and sitting there waiting for my friend to come with his food, there was a McDonald cleaning lady who are in her early twenties I would say and she was just wiping the table in front of me and glanced up at me because I was the only one sitting at that corner.  I caught her looking my direction and smiled at her.  

She immediately responded with a huge smile and keeps smiling at me.  I did not know what to do so I continued to smile back lol.  Then she started making sign languages at me while moving her lips but no voice came out.  It was then I realized that she's a deaf and mute person ._.  She is a very pretty young woman and I was touched when I realized that she was telling me that my hair is very nice because she keeps pointing to my hair and making some curly movements with thumbs up.

I feel like kicking myself for not knowing how to say thank you in sign language at that moment of time and I could only mouth the words 'thank you'.  She attempted to struck more conversation but truth be told, I really couldn't understand her T_T

Once again, I am really thankful to be born normal.  I might not be as good looking as her but I am born with the ability to speak, see, hear and have all fully functioning limbs.

Well, enough of sob stories.

I then reached home all beaten up and tired and just when I am about to shower, I found a little uninvited guest in the toilet.

It's a giant moth and guess where it's at?  RIGHT at the water tap where all my facial cleanser, tooth paste are situated >.>  You might not believe this but it has worked for me numerous times on different encounter such as against cockroaches in toilets.

What I do is I calmly SPEAK (yes, speak out loud) to them telling them not to disturb me and that if they leave me alone, I will leave them alone too.  I told the moth exactly that and guess what, for the entire time after I finish showering, it lied there quietly and after I finish showering and after I came back with my camera to take a picture of it as proof, it starts flying around everywhere.

You might think I am crazy but it really works lol.  Even with cockroaches or baby cockroaches so I guess that's one reason why I am not afraid of cockroaches.

After that just before bed, I am on Skype with my love ones and blogging about this.

This is one rare 24 hours of a normal working day really well spent. 

There, giant moth and water tap >D  You believe me now! <3

Good night guys, dead tired <3

Book Reading: Drug Addict Level

Past few days (or week) I was going through a 'Blog-Block'.  I took the term from 'Art-Block' which means during these period of time, one couldn't get any inspiration to draw or come up with anything creative (for artists) and for me, I couldn't come up with anything to blog or even if I do come up with anything at all, I did not have the mood to blog.

Blogging or drawing, anything that requires that creative part of your brain is a bish.  They come and go as they like.  You could get brilliant inspiration from when you are showering or about to sleep and they run smoothly like that water tap but at times, it's blocked beyond words and you can just get absolutely NOTHING from it no matter how hard you try.

I am glad that that part of my brain is slightly unblocked today, so here goes!

Do you love to read books?  I do, but I dare not pick up a book unless I am really 'asking for it'.

Why would I say that?  The title of this post is self explanatory of what kind of person I am when I pick up a book to read.  I become SUPERBLY ADDICTED to it.

As long as I pick up a book and read around 5 to 10 pages into it, I CAN-NOT put that damn book down for the next hours or days until I finish reading it.  I am serious o.o

I don't think it's a kind of sickness but I do think it's a kind of addiction.  Book makes me addicted like drugs.  I can't eat, I can't sleep and I can't even talk to other people (like answering a phone call) or even forgetting to go to the toilet when I am in a book frenzy.

People says I read fast but I do not think that's the case.  I simply must finish that book or I become absolutely dysfunctional in my daily life until that damn book is finished so I usually finish a book (normal 300+ pages book) in a day or two.

I remembered when Harry Potter's 4th book came out.  That time it was few days before my Public Examination and I was just burying my nose in some magical broom flying kid with a scar book rather than my exam subjects book.  You have no idea how my mom looked at me that time. It was full with contempt and disappointment but all her yelling and warnings fell to deaf ears because I finished that book in record time:  8 hours.  No toilet breaks, no food absolutely nothing. My eyes felt so violated after that lol and I couldn't read even a single page of the subjects that I am supposed to study for my exam.

That was a long time ago and lets not dig up old stories >D  As you all can remember (or if you don't), I went on a book shopping spree last few months and you can see the amount of books I bought here <3  That is really a book record breaking shopping.

My latest addiction is John Grisham's book.  I've heard great reviews about him but I've never bought or read a single book from him until last week when I had to survive a sleepless night in the airport (which you can read here <3) , I picked this book to accompany me.  It was a good, depressing book and I must say, I like his book.

My all time favourite author is still Sidney Sheldon and second in line would be Pearl S. Buck.  Third place goes to J.K. Rowling and at Fourth currently, John Grisham shall sit there <3

Ta-ta!

So, the Blistering has Begun!

After the trip to the Dentist yesterday to get my lower jaw braces fixed, the blistering war inside my mouth has begun!  Orz.

The first impact is at the sides of my mouth.  As of now, it is estimated that there are two holes. One round hole and the other feels like a long gash. Right side, two holes as well.  Both round.

That's just the initial damage.  The worst is actually the continuing aching pain on both upper and lower jaw.  Upper because my braces was tighten and lower is because well, it's its first time.  It gotta hurt >D

It's not superbly painful or anything of that sort.  It's just constant aching pain that refuse to go away and its at nearly every tooth.

My upper and lower back teeth on the left side can't reach each other so I can't chew whereas the right side, the upper and lower back teeth has been grinding against each other so it kinda ache when i close my mouth.

Hopefully the teeth alignment won't take very long.  This morning, my breakfast was milk and banana (which is a recipe for tummy disaster.  Lesson well learnt) and can you imagine I have slight difficulty 'biting' into a banana?

After that when I tried to eat bread, I merely threw the whole bread into a glass of milk to have it soaked till it's soft and nearly liquified state only then I started eating (swallowing it) BUT, all this shall be worth it after I have my braces taken off!

Note to self:  Ask Dentist how long will that take.

Yesterday when I went to the Dentist, after I lay down on the patient chair, she asked me if I wanted  a towel or tissue.  I was like O.O  and the conversation took place:

Me:             'What for?'
Dentist:       'For you to wipe your tears!'
Me:             'It's going to hurt?'  /panic 'Why why why?  How? Why will it hurt?  Will it be terrible?                                        
                  Can I get my lower braces fix another day?'
Dentist:       'Shush!  Don't be so manja!  Open your mouth'
Me:             'T________T Nooooo, okay. Tissue T_T'


(Dentist assistant came over and handed me a tissue roll)

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Sounds super dramatic right?  You know what happened in the end?
 

I fell asleep.

HAHAHA, talk about scaring your patient, way to go Doc!  >.>  My Dentist is super sadistically awesome <.>  She loves to play pranks on me and I am such a sucker for believing her QQ

She can some more tell me 'Wah you fell asleep and snored so loud!  Why so unlady like one!'

I was like 'I didn't snore!  I was just half asleep, I know I didn't snore!!'

Lol, and THEN, she casually look at me and say 'By the way, I gave you Christmas theme this time'

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Then she gave me a mirror.

And this is how it looks like.  GREEN AND RED AND ONE SPECIAL MICKEY MOUSE ONE! LOL, okay it's superbly cute.  I am not gonna complain >D

Muah Dentist is awesome <3

But that does not stop the blistering and the liquid food for few days QQ  I don't even feel like talking or moving my mouth at all.  Orz.

Oh I got my hair cut too :D  And I wonder if I shouldn't have done that <3  Makes me look older and I thought having shorter hair makes you feel younger.

Happy weekend everyone!

Be Thankful for Being Able to Read This

If you are reading this right now, be thankful.

No, not to God, okay if you are a Believer (NOT BelieBer) then yes, be thankful to God and also your parents/yourself (whichever one it is) because this is proof that you are currently sitting in a sheltered place, have a laptop/computer with internet connection to go online to, or some of you who are reading this via your mobile phone, be thankful once more because you own a smart phone!

Be thankful, because you own all this gadgets.  Be thankful that you have a fully functional computer/laptop instead of worrying when the next meal is.

Be thankful that you have an education or job waiting ahead of you tomorrow instead of worrying where that bullet is hitting who next.

Be thankful that you are doing your own laundry instead of not having proper clothing during a cold winter or a pair of sandals to walk on that scorching hot ground.

Many a time ALL of us open our ungrateful mouth to swear or complain about something such as the hot weather or traffic jam and we forgot that we are simply trap in the comfort of our car with air cond and radio to accompany us.

We forgot that while we go on and on about how God is unfair for not giving us a better body or a better face, our boss is unfair for not giving me the bonus that I think I deserve, money is simply not enough, not enough to go shopping, not enough to own another smartphone or SSD card, not enough camera lenses, not enough this that left right up down, we just simply forget that at certain part of the world, poverty is at large.

People are dying of hunger by the hour.  People are getting hit, shot, abused and murdered as the clock ticks away.  Kids are being enslaved to work inhuman hours at factory fixing up all those smart, sleek gadget that we hold comfortably in our pockets protected by a screen protector and a phone bumper.  Kids being used as sex slaves.  Drug traffickers.  Beggars, where they amputate kids limbs just so they can beg on the street.

I am sorry, this post isn't suppose to be depressing or anything of that sort.  I am just saying, we should be VERY thankful, that we are born normal.  With a normal functioning brain, limbs, organs, speech and eye sight.  We do not have to have a spectacular brain like Steven Spielberg or James Cameron.  We do not have to have a one-of-a-kind voice like Celine Dion or limbs like Michael Phelps.

I am thankful every single day that I have a family that loves me, an extra God-Family that loves me.  My friends that loves me.  My bosses.  My colleagues.  Even strangers on the road who sometimes smile back at me when I smile at them.  I love every single one of them. And I am thankful for having them in my life.

Of course at times they annoy the crap out of me, including my dearest ones but apart from that and bills that are going to be due, I realized that my life is already quite complete in some ways.  I've finished my education.  I've found a job.  I have a circle of close people whom I know I can always turn to for help.

I don't have to constantly worry about how many hours would I have to go without food till the next meal comes.  I don't have to constantly worry about getting woken up in the middle of the night due to some bombing or gun-shooting sound going right outside that thin wall that is sheltering me.   I don't have to constantly worry about not having a bed to sleep for the night.

I have transport.  I have shelter.  I have food.  I have love.  This are all the necessities that I need.  Things that I need, and I have it all already.  Things that I want, that's a very long list to go, but those are not things that I need and I can live just right without them.  Having them is like getting an extra bonus.  Not having them, it doesn't affect me much.

Imagine not having enough layers of clothing to go through that horrible winter that is coming.  Or not having enough water to drink during the drought.  I don't even want to imagine that because it's just too horrible.

We even have the luxury to go travelling at some point of our time.  We did not end up being maids to others (because if you are, you won't be reading this).  We did not end up being handicapped and is challenged by everyday life.

We are born just normal.  And I am thankful of it.  So should you.  Take a small little peace time and be just thankful for existing on this Earth and being surrounded by all that you beautiful things and people that you have now instead of being somewhere else at this very moment and constantly living in fear.

Be thankful, for being able to read this.  (Amen)

Blissful Saturday

Just weeks ago I was complaining to everyone who would listen that half of the people in my Facebook friend list is married or getting married.  Married to some random dude or lady that I have not met.  Married to their own classmates.  Married left.  Married right.  What about me?  This are the times I feel like Carrie from Sex and the City.  Am I going to be like the "Last Single Lady in New York" at the age of forty and still not married, and not even in New York .

I wasn't bitter about it.  More of a peer pressure thing till my mom snap me out of it.  She tell me it's a good time for me to focus in my just-budding career and keep a strong look out till I find the right person.  She "claims" that I am still young.

That aside, I am back!  <3  From the short weekend escape back to my hometown!  The journey ain't sweet at all, that I can tell it to you.

It might sound adventurous to you but to actually go through it, it is a test of my ability to stay awake.  One talent that I have acquired from University life. First of all, I've got to catch a midnight, as in twelve a.m. bus to the Airport.  It is a 2 hour journey, during midnight.  Where you are crammed with 30 other passengers that you don't know of and you can't see 85% of their face.  Not funny.  Even less amusing when you find out there's only 2 other female on the bus.  This is the time where your imagination decides to take on a creative toll and tells you 101 ways of how you could die during this 2 hours.  I can't even fall asleep during this trip and this is the first time that I am not sleeping in a two hours bus trip.

P/s:  Special thanks to my Godparents for sending me to the bus station nearing midnight on a Friday night T_T

Luckily, reality is better than my imagination.  I got to the Airport safely (thank goodness) but then, I am merely at my second stage of the ordeal!  Now, I have to wait for SIX hours before my flight (after a 2 hour bus trip + 7 hours of work)!!!

THIS is how I survived.

A hot cup of cocoa with a tinge of red velvet flavour (not bad imho <3), phone + charger so that I could chat online and finally, a trusted book.  I've finished the book by now because it is that addictive b-but, that book is depressing <.>

Looking stoned.  I think I look more stoned than the Christmas trees dangling with shinning stones behind.  Can you tell that I am really putting up a fight to keep my lids open?

Andddddddd, after I saw all the foam on the hot cocoa, I couldn't resist but do this T^T  Must be all the sleep deprived hours killing my brain cells at that time!

Annd after that, I checked in, boarded my flight and I am off to my hometown!  *Glee*  I was falling asleep so badly in the plane and I must have looked horrendous because I could feel all my hair flipping left and right and 80% of it covered my face.  This is the time when I am happy that I ain't that famous.  I mean, how would you feel if you seen Angelina Jolie sleeping like that in a plane? Lolol.  Horrendous.  >.>  It's not even profoundly funny.

NEXT.  Well I missed the very first session of the wedding day, which is the actual wedding itself lol but fret not!  I have photoes from my trusted cousin!  She showed me the moment I walked out of the Arrival Hall lol.  Everyone's so hyped and excited!

My cousin and her entire family.  2 sister and 1 brother <3  Look how blessed they are.

Their wedding ride <3

After that, mommie brought me to my favourite food from hometown.  It's call the Sibu Laksa!  <3   Ahh, my mouth is watering right now just by looking at the picture.  *wipes saliva off

After breakfast, home sweet home!!  Look at the Eden that my mom has grew in our lawn o.o  I am superbly impressed and so proud of her! <3

Andddddd, as the clock ticks by mercilessly, we are all dressed and seated at the restaurant and all this delicious food is being served!! OMNOMNOMNOMNOM!  I still love Chinese wedding the most cause of all the food >D


I love this dress because first, it is handpicked by my mom and she bought it for me.  Second, I could actually FIT into it!  LOL  (it's a miracle!)  Three, I don't look that horrible in it even though its pink.  I am known to own only black coloured clothing though I love colours hahaha.

Picture with all my female cousins and then suddenly being photobombed by the dude behind >D

Unimpressed face.  Because we waited for soooooooooooo long before we manage to grab a picture with the bride :<

Everyone dressed up <3

Picture with bride and the bridegroom!!! <3  Bridegroom commented that I am too tall ._.

The entire set of cousins from my Dad's side <3

There are more of them but some went back already.  It's a pity that we couldn't get a proper group reunion picture :<

All added up together, it's a super blissful Saturday.  She is the first cousin to get married from my dad's side and we all wish her the best of happiness and smooth journey to their now joined journey!

Bless 24th November 2012 because it is not only such an important date to her but to all of us who was there to see her off as well!  I mean, getting married is not JUST getting married.  From now on, we can't just call each other out to go and fool around.  She will have to fulfill her obligation as a wife.  Obligation as a daughter in law.  Perhaps in few years time, obligation as a mother.

She is no longer like the rest of us, single and free of any obligation.  We could still wake up late on a weekend.  Have a quick weekend escape with friends somewhere.  Have random late night movie sessions.

Haha, how life has changed 360 degrees from the moment she said "I do".  Those two small but powerful three lettered word.

All sum up, it was indeed a wonderful Saturday.  Manage to have a small catch up time with mommie slotted somewhere in between.  Great food.  Family reunion.  Awesome night sleep with aircond and a good old (actually new) King size bed compared to my 3 wing-ed fan and Single bed.

Life's good.  I love a good life.  Who doesn't?  <3

See you all soon <3  I shall spare you the rant of the trip back except one small detail.  30 hours, 9 hours on plane rides and bus.  By the time I am on my bus back to Melaka and sleeping away, those moments when I was forcefully jerked by the bus sudden brakes or acceleration and woke up for those split seconds, I couldn't tell if I was on the plane or on the bus because I have been sleeping while sitting upright for too many hours within a day and a half.

It's incredible lol.

Quickly Updates!

Today will be a very, very long day.

Why?

Because I have to catch a midnight train to the airport after work and sit there till my flight which is in the wee hours in the  morning >.>

Things that I wish I can do:

1.  Bring my laptop, so that I can go online and browse stuff or chat.
2.  Bring my iPod, so that I can do the same thing as 1. without the dead weight.
3.  Take a later bus which is nearer to my flight time.
4.  Change my flight to leave a day earlier.

What I finally decide:

1.  Bring a book.

AHH, so different from my initial plan but I am really not willing to carry my laptop just for a 2 days trip!  It's so heavy and this time I didn't add on luggage check in because I thought it would be a 2 days one night trip so I will have to hand carry everything.  Besides, I totally killed my iPod.

Oh, why and where am I going for this trip?  It's actually for my cousin's wedding <3 The first in the family from my dad's side!  OF COURSE have to make a trip back to my hometown SPECIALLY for this wedding <3

I will upload pictures and details of the weddings after I am back but before that, a short preview of my 'wedding nails'!  <3  I am not the one getting married so I shall not be hammered for choosing such odd coloured nails <.> It looks like a fun colour at first but now, I think it looks fugly.  Urgh, the downside of not having a nail polish remover >.>

Judge for yourself.

#1  I was trying it out on a piece of paper of all the nail polishes that I have and colour combination lol <.>  Such a nerd.

#2  My SOOTD <3

What's SOOTD?  Well you know OOTD stands for Outfit of the Day right?  SOOTD is something I came up which means SEMI Outfit of the Day >.> This is only happening because I don't have a full body mirror, something which I have been wanting for a VERY LONG TIME.  Which is why I adore any full body mirrors that I see anywhere.  Malls.  Hotels.  My Godbrother's toilet.  Lawl.

See you guys after the wedding and I am looking forward to share it with you!