Study Date

Mak Ngah's Birthday

Flyer

We were supposed to utilise the two tix I got in the national day goodie bag. But as it turned out, the free ride was meant for the August babies only. So we decided to split the cost of the second tix as we already took the trouble to go all the way to the location. Fifteen bux from each of us. The ride was...rather ANTI-CLIMAX. Apparently, the Flyer's definition of 'top of the world' differs vastly from mine. I was thinking TOTALLY ON TOP, but what I saw was really not enough. Duh. We enjoyed the ride anyway, considering we got the entire capsule to ourselves. Still it would have been much much better if the whole GM went on it together. Soon ok? Haaa.

Imma's Pre Birthday Celebration

Well, Imma treated us for a feast at Popeye's, located at the Flyer. Initially it was supposed to be a satay galore at Lau Pa Sat but the weather wasn't really appropriate. We pretty much stuffed ourselves bloated with fried chickens and biscuits. After which, we hung out at Starbucks Marina Square, more so to relieve ourselves from the bloated-ness.

National Day

This is very belated. Haha! But we celebrated national day at the Padang. Lots of fun I shall say. But the rain and the throngs of people were a little too much. And the last picture? The little boy harrassed me all throughout the event. He kept whacking me with the inflatable paddle. I kinda disturbed him first, you see. Heee. Ohh, and he does look like Macauly Culkin from Home Alone right?

I wish...

For a new comp. I've had enough of the red streaks hokay.

Golden Key

HAPPY 21st RAHIMAH!!!

Rainy Saturday

What a horrible day it is today. I'd woke up early to go jogging but by the time I was going through my second round, the sky turned really dark and menancing. Which totally reminded me of Independence Day. So I had to cut short my jogging session, head on home, washed up, read the papers whilst sipping my usual dose of coffee and munching on oreos and ritz crackers. Alright, that bit done right? BUT, I just hadta go back to sleep again. WITH MY LENSES ON. Bleah.

Woke up form my sleep. Saw packets of nasi lemak on the dining table. Was just about to eat 'em when my mum called. She got stranded at some void decks with my auntw coz of the heavy rain. Had to bring down a couple extra umbrellas to fetch them. So ok, I then finished up my nasi lemak once I got home. Hung some wet laundry at the corridor. AND, I FELL ASLEEP AGAIN.

The I woke up, and this time round, I feast on a bunch of satays, some kueh lopez and mee goreng. Superb mann! I literally eat and sleep today. At this point in time, I'm trying my best to keep these drooping eyes of mine open. Argh, but the weather is just so perfect for a sleep-in saturday! Hah.

On a very very EXCITABLE NOTE, I'd just gotten wind that there could possibly be a VERONICA MARS movie. WOWWWWW! I have been waiting for this since forever! I'm hoping that it will happen. The final episode on the very last season was wayyy too good for it to end just like that. As in, the suspense was just building up and then it was gone, just like that. Bleah. I hope the movie works out and coming VERY SOON that is.

B.I.T.C.H

I don't wanna make a nasty entry. But I kinda got reminded of the ugly encounter at Ikea yesterday. I was with my parents browsing for the things there, plus my dad needed to get some shelves. We're just taking a look at the wide variety of furnitures (it's IKEA! duh.), and then it was at one of the furnished "rooms", where my mum got drawn towards a particular sofa. She was just trying it out, as in, sitting on it just to feel how comfortable it was and my dad was at the other side, surveying the shelves.

There was this woman inside the room too. I noticed her presence there when I first stepped in, and I thought she was in the midst of making a phone call or something. As in, not browsing much at all. So I thought we wouldn't be obstructing her view or anything. Not until she went like "I WANT to take a photo of the cushion" at my mum. Yeah, just like that. She didn't even say 'please' and from the look of her face, she expects people to immediately comply with her DEMAND.

I guess the best part was that, my mum didn't quite hear her coz she spoke in that sickeningly low-key but bossy tone. I told my mum about it and my mum quickly moved away whilst apologising profusely. Guess what? With the very same aloofness from when the BITCH spoke and not even a sign of gratitude from her, she just snapped away at that SACRED cushion and put up that FUCKING snotty look on her face. Like as though we didn't exist at all. Yeah FUCKING BITCH right?

Man, I have totally stopped myself from using the F-word (and perhaps the B-word too) on my blog entries for quite awhile already. But that BITCH deserves much vulgarities. I mean, who goes around acting like a total diva at a PUBLIC SPACE? Seriously, all these high-strung MONKEYS should learn to bring their shopping activities elsewhere. Oh, and I thought that it was really disturbing that the BITCH looked very familiar. It's either I know her (which I highly doubt so) or I've seen her somewhere. Bleah.

Top Of The Food Chain

I keep nodding off while reading my text. My aim was to shut off the comp until the next day just so I can focus on my work. Unfortunately this droopy eyes need a little tech fix to stay wide open. Which surprisingly worked. I am really awake now. Haa.

So I was reading about a fraudulent scandal that's raging at a particular spree comm, which involves a certain spree-er, who is at the same time, a spree organizer cum moderator at the particular comm. Right, very confusing. It's just ineveitable, that people would resort to harsh and hard tactics to remain at the top of the food chain.

What I don't quite get is, in the midst of all the run-ins, nobody seems to wanna bring the blueberries into the picture. Maybe it's good to not blow things out of proportion, but based on my very last check (on the comments page of the fraud scandal post), A LOT OF PEOPLE had issues with that particular spree-er cum organizer cum spree comm mod. High time to OUT that ass, don't you think so?

Well, you can tell already, that I am hooked to thee spree stuffz. Considering I'm keeping myself so updated about the going-ons in the spree communities. Yeah, can't help it. I'd even applied for ibanking. Uh-oh!

Alright, back to my text. I'm reading this portion on Maslow's hierachy of needs. Like I'd heard it before and I never thought that I'm gonna have to learn anything about it? Was it at econs or something? Boooo.

I'm Tripping

Why is it so hard for me to priotise man?! I still CANNOT get the academic load to get on a positive turn. JUST-CAN'T-SEEMS-TO-DO-IT-MAN. And it's just MCQ, for god's sake! Errghh. To make it all worse, I conveniently booked myself an exam slot for next week. I am double dead. One, coz I still have three pending assignments and two, I've not done much revision for the first few. Okay shoot me already. Well, at least I do not have to face the pressure of the normal classroom setup. Like those instances of me bailing out from reading my notes and subsequently not being able to make myself a contributing member in the group discussions or presentations or whatnot. THANKFULLY. Though I can smell the consequences up ahead. I know, this whole distance-learning progg is gonna kill me more than it would benefit me. But I need a break, from the conventional learning system. I've had enough. That's why I'm doing what I'm doing now. Human interaction has ranked itself seven feet under in my list. So I better not jeopardize this space and opportunity. Three years all to myself is quite aplenty. The least I could do is to get things right.

Updates YO

It's a lazy thursday for me. I feel extra sleepy today and the gloomy whether made it all even more permissible for me to take extra nap time in the evening. I guess it must be because I've had to wake up at 4:30am since monday to sahur. But that won't make much sense ayy. Coz last year I had to drag my ass off from bed so early in the morning just so I'd reach the west side on time. And that went on for the whole freaking year and it was pretty much ok (if you don't take my academic-decline into context that is).

So, to be more accurate, it could be because I've been slacking it off for more than eight months already. So much so that, having to wake up super early for a mere four days, made it more of a drudgery considering I'm no longer used to the whole routine anymore. Anyhow, on a bright note, I am left with just one day to repay my fasting debt. Yay!

I am right now in the midst of a shopping dilemma. I can't quite decide between a Max Factor or a Neutrogena foundation. I'd go for the latter considering I've been using most of the facial care products since upper sec. The former, however, seems to be quite a popular makeup brand among the online spree-ers. Both seems credible enough and I don't think either one can be found in sg. Though price-wise, the latter would most definitely come up to a cost that would be equal or maybe more than my ZA foundation that I'm currently using.

OR MAYBE I should just stick to ZA. I guess the only reason why I'm scouring for other alternatives is because I was quite bummed the other day when I couldn't find any of my ZA foudation on discounts. I'm so used to buying the promotional packages, that I'd never get them at the original price (coupled with the very boring green/turquoise casing) since quite awhile. Haha. I shall try to reach a verdict before the cap on the spree sites get busted.

While on this 'shopping' topic, I should have known that once I start to get really chummy with online shopping, I'd totally get hooked to it. That has already happened in just a matter of two weeks. This is so expected man! The one saving grace is that I do not own an ibanking device. Yet. So the whole process of transferring money through the atm has been quite a hassle. Which is good coz it is limiting my expenditure. But once it totally get on my nerves, things may take a turn and I'd probably resign myself to painfully watch my bank account losing all its worth. Haa.

Materials aside, I'd gotten the grade for the very last assignment I'd handed in. Not bad but not good either. It's like, for me to get a perfect 'A', I'd need an almost perfect score. And I hadn't been able to achieve that. Whatevs. Exam's coming in about two weeks. Then I can bid the textbook goodbye for good. After which I'll have to decide which to start off with first. Vish Arts or Comp app. Well at least it's not something science or math right? I better appreciate this moment of peace till end of the year before I start getting down to doing subjects which I totally loathe.

Up And About

Was out on Saturday with Imma to catch the fireworks. I'd like to upload the pics but unfortunately the files are being rather uncooperative. Not only that, the motherload (ie, the video containing most of the fireworks) keep giving an error popup whenever I wanna play it on my comp. Dratz. As for the fireworks? I have to say...abso-damn-loutely spectacular. I totally forgot what it's like to catch a firework display LIVE. The last time I saw an equally brilliant one was during the ndp NE preview whilst I was in p5. And that was about TEN years ago! W-T-F. Haha.

I guess we just got lucky to find the perfect spot at starbucks. Which, by the way, has a newly renovated outdoor area. Like man, I've not been over to One Fullerton in the longest time ever and now the place look so much better than before. So, despite the unfulfilled thosai cravings, initial brush-off with some very irresponsible and disrespectful blueberries and the very constipated waiting period leading up to a TB-induced spurt of excitement from the fireworks... IT WAS WELL WORTH IT.

I'd like to say that I'm going back to the same spot on the nineth. But there's no guarantee ahhb-viously. Unless we step out very early in the morning. Which would still render us a 50/50 chance coz some people would have already set up their "campsite" and throw packets of tissue paper EVERYWHERE as a "mark of ownership". Haa.

In other reports (LOL), my very first attempt to join an online spree was very much shortlived. I was so looking forward to get those two items I've ordered. But due to some complications on the spree organizer's part, the whole thing got cancelled. Now I'm gonna have to wait for yet another one.

Oh, I can't help but notice how cocky-in-print some spree organizers can be despite using various terms of endearment on the comments part. But that speaks much about online sales eh. Somehow you can actually gain the power of authority and that no "customers is always right" sentiment should ever be adhered to. I love that ayy. It beats being a dumb (or at least pretend being dumb) sales promoter at the departmental store and having to listen to the whims and fancies of very unreasonable customers.

Well, I shall go back to sleep now and wake up at around twelve in the afternoon. Good morning!