MY PRIVACY!!!!!!!

I want my privacy back!!! I have family over for a while, and my aunt is putting up in my room.. and she's driving me crazy!! It's times like this that I wish I DIDN'T have a t.v and a dvd player in my room.. I wanna watch my own stuff and do my own things but I can't coz I have to play host!! It's so frustrating!!! ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

GRRR!!! I want my privacy back!! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!!!

Current

Love: Coffee Prince!!

Hate: Sharing my room for another week..

Neutral: Meals I'm having at home..

Wishlist: Harry Potter Book 7 and tickets to Singapore for the weekend to meet my friends!!

Mood: As grey as the skies outside. I need some colour in my life!

Monday

It's Monday again.. The battle begins.. *SIGH*

Somehow, I feel like I am fighting a losing battle.. I'm tired already, and it's only Monday!

When will the weekend come again??

Lazy Sunday

Ahhh, I had a great weekend with my girlfriends!! We ate, we laughed, we took lots of random pictures.. Been such a long time since we did any of those together. I love work free weekends!! Plus it was an added bonus that one of our friends is finally back home! Hopefully she stays for a while, it's been great just knowing that she's back and we can meet up without having to take a flight to wherever she's at. Yea, yea I know, I'm cheap. It's a process called growing up.. Trust me. When you reach my age, you'll be exactly as cheap as I am now! The ajumma genes kicking in.. Oh no!!

Anyways, one of the girls still had to work this weekend (how sad is that??) so I decided to post up some pics of our fun-filled weekend for her benefit! Ain't I just the sweetest friend ever?? Enjoy! Muahahaha!!

Calming waters

It really was a super hot day..

My dinosaur leaf!

Don't you just love blue skies? It just takes my breath away..

Shadows on the grass

I have more, but I figured this should be enough for now. I still want my head to be attached to my neck after she reads this post! If it's any consolation, we were thinking about you while you were slaving away! And it's the thought that counts right?? Saranghae!! :D!!!!!!!!

Finding my way back into love

"All I wanna do is find my way back into love.." -Music and Lyrics-

Ahh.. I just love Music and Lyrics.. It's witty, charming, heart wrenching and sickeningly sweet, the perfect combination for every romance loving sucker out there. I was watching this with my girlfriends a while back and we just fell in love with the whole package. The actors were great, the lines fantastic, and the cheesy songs were so lovable!! *gush*

I want to find my way back into love as well.. During my puppy love days, I remember all I had to think about was, why didn't he call me? Did he pass my way on his way to class? Are we meeting for lunch later? Trivial now, but they were so important then. My day wouldn't be complete without a nod from him, a phone call, a letter. My sweet, cheesy days.. *sigh*

Later experiences allowed me to understand that not every relationship is sweet and cheesy. As I grew older, my outlook changed. Things always start out right, but end up wrong. It was like we were once two people walking down the same street before turning towards different directions. We yelled and tried to get each other's attention, trying to bring us back to the same street, but eventually we walked on too far to hear each other and just.. walked on. And after a while, I got tired of trying to keep walking down the same paths at the same pace with one person, and decided to just walk my own path at my own pace. Right decision? I don't know.

Fast forward to today.. I am even more disillusioned with the guys around me. Is it just me or do they seem to all be oddly moulded? It's like they may have 10 merits, but then their 100 demerits just jump out at me to the point that I just want to run far away. And guys now are becoming so stalker like, they are just so persistent even when you have indicated that you're just plain NOT INTERESTED. I seriously don't know how to spell it any clearer than that, maybe all the guys nowadays read from different books or learn their words from other dictionaries. Dictionaries printed in Krypton or something. Bah.

However, the clocks are ticking, my friends and family are reminding me of what I lack. And somehow, I do want to find my way back into love. But I don't know how to anymore. There is no such thing as a perfect man anymore. Perfection lies in your imagination, and we all know that there's no way in hell you're ever going to find a man that fits in with your every want. But that doesn't mean that I have to settle for goblins and trolls right? *sigh*

I seriously wish I could mail order from my collection.. Aiii...

Neoprints

I was just reading one of my favourite blogs when I came across an entry about neoprints. Labelled to be a thing belonging to the 90s, it seems that neoprints are now a thing of the past.. Which is kind of true, as there aren't any more neoprint machines in the malls, and when I mention neoprints to the younger generation cousins, they all look at me with saucepan eyes and blank looks, going "Huh? What's that?"

Why did neoprints die?? Why?? I love neoprints! I remember many happy moments with my friends, posing and having the time of our lives in that small little booth that took minute pictures of us. And even while at Uni, me and my bestest mate there took neoprints whenever we had the chance. 3 years of Uni all proven through the countless neoprints we took, marking the changes in us. Neoprints are good, it gave us an excuse to be yupki (not that we needed one, but yea..) I want my neoprint machines back! Come back!!

LIfe has been a bit too serious for my liking. I've forgotten what it was like to just hang out with my friends and relax without having something hanging over me. It's gotten so bad that we have to make appointments with each other just to meet up and relax on a weekend! Someone's always busy with work, family commitments, yadda yadda yadda. The list goes on and on.. Is this what growing up and becoming part of the working class is like? I suppose so. No wonder all those adults I grew up with were always so sour faced and easily agitated. I understand how you feel now.

Looking through my pile of neoprints, I am brought back to a time where things were seemingly simpler, I had more time for myself and for my friends. I had time to just be me! A strange thought came to me while flipping through my neoprint album (yes, I have one of those..). I now feel that although I am still here, somehow I left me when neoprints left. I too, have become a thing of the past.

Only I...

... can lose a scrunchie while swimming... I swear, it was like one minute my hair was nicely tied up, and the next it was all over my face. A scrunchie.. A massive scrunchie.. And when I swam back to where I think I lost it, it wasn't to be found at all. It was like it grew wings and flew away in the night sky or something.. *sigh*

This can only happen to me. Only me.

The beginning of a very, very long week

Last week I was knackered by the heavy workload I had. And when Sunday came around, I was praying that this week would be relaxing. But the curse of Friday the 13th seems to have followed me around.. life this week is even more exhausting!!

It's only Tuesday and I already feel burnt out.. How am I going to make till Friday? And please, no long weekend this week too. Having to go to the office on a weekend just sucks big time. If only life had a remote control like in "Click" I could fast forward work and just concentrate on having fun and relaxing. If only..

I am going to sit back in front of the T.V with my hot cup of tea and just relax for a few hours. I need some pamper myself time in order to be able to fight tomorrow's battle. Give me strength!!

I hate growing up..

Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th has certainly worked its magic on me.. I've been forgetful and careless at work, had a panic attack, dropped things on my foot, missed calls, nearly fell into a drain and nearly went deaf when the volume on my MP3 player was set on to the max without my realising it. What else did I miss? Actually, the more appropriate question should be, is there more to expect??

I am now in bed, just had my shower and am waiting to have dinner. Friday the 13th's evil spells and doings only work during the day right? Coz if not, I'm just going to forgo dinner and hide under my covers till the break of dawn...

Is that a flying broomstick I see hovering outside my window? I think it's a sign.. Covers, here I come..

Monthly cycle

I have a new monthly cycle. It's called "Falling Sick".. I have no idea why but for the past two months, I have been falling ill without fail. First it's the scratchy throat syndrome, followed by the dripping nose before finally maturing into the lets-see-how-much-force-it-takes-to-cough-your-lungs-out. Gross..

I had to go to the doctor yesterday, I really really HATE doctors. They are mean people who hide syringes and other scary metal tools under their coats and slowly advance to you smiling while thinking "Hmmm.. how should I torture you today". Kinda like that clown that hacks people into bits. Only they don't have the freakish makeup and hair. I hate doctors. Hate them!

Anyways, I was diagnosed with a cold and cough and given flu pills and cough syrup, which tastes really vile by the way. I wonder why they have to make the dratted syrup so bitter! Don't they have cough pills?? I'd rather swollow pills than cough syrup, no matter how much you drink or gargle after that, the syrup's aftertaste still lingers in your mouth! Is it suppose to remind me that I'm sick? Coz if that's the purpose of the tar-like taste then I seriously don't need it. My coughing so hard that my tonsils threaten to fly out is a good enough reminder, thank you.

I hate falling sick. When am I going to get menopause for this monthly cycle?

Dong Dae Mun?

The only Dong Dae Mun I know is in Seoul.. and it looks like this:

Or there's the famous Dong Dae Mun nightmarket which looks like this:

Then I heard that there's a Dong Dae Mun in Kuala Lumpur. Hmm... Really?? I went, I saw and I snapped. Dong Dae Mun Kuala Lumpur looks like this:

Maybe I need a closer look...

Ah.. This is Dong TEH Mun...

It's my birthday!!

It's my birthday today!!! Wishes and presents galore! I had a lovely day, right from the strike of 12 midnight! My family were the first lot of people to wish me happy birthday, and they really made today wonderful for me. I had breakfast with my parents, lunch and shopping with my best buddies (if only the others were here as well..) and dinner with my sis and my bro-in-law!! At all my favourite places to eat!!!

And I received birthday messages and texts the whole day!! I feel so loved! Especially by everyone from uni! My special thanks to all my wonderful friends who remembered me and made me feel special by sending me something as simple as a text message! Love you all!!

I received an electronic keyboard from my bro-in-law!! So happy!! I've been wanting one for ages, and today he got it for me! But guess what everyone started asking me.. "Do you even play it? Should we enrol you for classes??" ... The faith that they have in me.. I'm sure I'll be able to play it soon! I will!

I love my keyboard!!

The only weird thing about today was that I kept on bumping into really weird strangers.. who would keep on coming up to me and talk to me. Especially the elevator experience. Freaky! But it was full of laughter as well! Especially at our humour spot in the bookstore! Ai, lovely memories!!


To everyone, thank you for making my birthday such a wonderful and memorable one for me! Love you all!!

Random pics

I had lots of spare time while I was in Bali, so I fully utilised my phone memory card and snapped and snapped away. It was the only free thing in Bali, I swear. I had to pay for breathing there, 80,000 Rupiah for 4 days worth.. I am still fuming!! Grrrr....

This pic is self explanatory..

The machine being worked..

The biggest papadom in the world

Bali's version of Mickey.. Or actually, a malnourished Mickey.. wearing brown McDonald shoes..

Silk.. Indonesian condoms..

Guess what this is!

This is supposed to be Balinese sweets. I can get them almost everywhere in the world! Minus the "Yummy Bali" sticker! And each box was going for like over 10,000 Rupiah or something like that. Not cheap at all.

Some statue of people trying to boil water.. or create a geyser.

I tried it, and it ain't delightful. This restaurant is supposed to be the most authentic in Bali, winning loads of awards and all. But it kinda tasted like the sushi I get in the local sushi places back home. Hmmm...

Peeing statue!

This was taken at the beach. All transactions are on a money first basis and showers are like 2000 Rupiah. But right at the end it says no bathing.

Ever tried eating while sitting on a bucket?

This really reminds me of those freaky jack in the boxes. Only this is more menancing.

Dehydrated mermaids in Bali..

He sells seashells on the seashore. The shells he sells are seashells I'm sure. So he sells seashore shells. Did I get the tongue twister right?

I am back!

I am finally back!!! Feels so good to be home!! Although it was a short week away from my crib, it felt like I was away for years.. Now, I really understand what Dorothy meant when she chanted "There's no place like home, there's no place like home". There really is no place like home!

An apt depiction of what I feel about Bali

About Bali... Sad to say, I honestly hated the place! It would have been a great holiday spot if not for the series of unfortunate events that just began pouring on me from day one! I honestly hated my Bali holiday. I remember watching Memories in Bali and thinking that it seemed like a nice place to go to, the beaches seemed perfect, and everyone said that Bali is like heaven on earth. All I can say now is, really? Didn't seem that way to me, maybe heaven went on holiday while I was there and left me with hell..

Bali is seriously full of scammers, there are people out to scam you everywhere! Be it the local vendors to governmental officers, everywhere you turn is a shark waiting to bite you to pieces. I managed to get a few good bargains at the local night markets, but they seriously seem to think that foreigners get their brains fried in the sun or something. I managed to haggle a pair of really nice embroidered shoes for like 30,000 Rupiah a pair so I figured I might as well get a couple and bring the price lower. The woman was like "No, No Cheap Cheap for you already. Not making money! Give you cheap for good luck!" My mom tried haggling a bit more, and she was like "No, Madam, cannot. I will give you 3 pairs for 100,000 Rupiah, very cheap for you". Like HELLO!! 3 pairs at 30,000 Rupiah is 90,000!! 100,000?? I did do Math in school you know!! I just balked and said "I don't need 3 pairs, 2 is fine. Besides, 3 pairs is 90,000 and not 100,000." Needless to say, she just took the 60,000 and kept quiet.

Then there was this guy who approached my parents and me and asked us to pry open this sealed coupon thing, and then claimed that we won a prize and wanted to bring us to a hotel to claim the prize. I was totally against the idea, but my parents were game (seriously, don't ask me why they went). I got into the cab with them, took out my cellphone and kept my hand on the door handle, all prepared to jump out if things went wrong. I was thinking throughout the whole way, my sis is so going to kill me for getting into the car, she's going to call me an idiot. And guess what.. when we reached the hotel, the first person I saw when I walked in through the door was my sis.. Anyways, the trip to the hotel was legit, they didn't trick us into going to a place and suddenly attacked us and reaped us for organs. All they did was try and scam us into joining this travel club, where we can supposedly enjoy fantastic rates for 5 star hotels all over the world. All we'd be paying is a management fee AND a joining fee.. Which was about USD 12,000.. My parents rejected them, and they got rather unpleasant at our lack of enthusiasm to jump at the golden opportunity. The blasted Philippino guy began giving my dad attitude when we said that we were not interested, and we just got up and said that we wanted to leave. And guess what our free prize was? A free week's stay at one of their hotels. Which isn't really free coz we need to pay like USD100 to confirm the room and some other crappy thing, plus we have to add on another USD200 to get a bigger room if there are more than 2 adults. Talk about a scam job!!!


The thing that really told us that this was another money cheating scam was that the registration place seemed really dingy, nothing like what an international company would offer. Plus they were pulling people off the streets, which is DEFINITELY not something an established company would do. The only silver lining in this cloud was that we got a free ride to a tourist spot and we had a safe adventure in Bali. I have never been scammed before, so this was an experience for me! By the way, the name of the holiday club is Royal, so everyone! Watch out for them! Oh, and we got free T-shirts as well, which we are all gonna use for washing our cars. And for wiping our feet..

I seriously think that there's something out to get me in Bali. I was nearly hit by a motorcycle while I was crossing the road, the damn motorcyclist decided to overtake a car that had stopped to give way to traffic and nearly killed ME. I sprained my ankle, and the next morning my ankle had swelled to the size of a golf ball.. On top of that, no matter what plans I made, they were always cancelled due to the horrible weather. I wanted to go snorkelling, the waves rose to 5 meters high.. I wanted to go on a tour to the mountains, the rain just started pouring and pouring.. I wanted to have a nice Indonesian meal and I was served with something that they probably serve everyone who hates eating food. The forces were really against me while I was there. Really against me.


But the worst thing that happened to me was when I was taking my flight out of Bali. I had lost my departure card, and the guy at the check in counter gave me another one, and said that if I explained that I lost my card, they'd let me through. So I went up to Immigrations. And was stopped. The fugly guy started questioning me like a criminal when he asked me where my card was. I told him I lost it at the hotel. Then he started telling me that I wouldn't be able to clear immigrations coz of the difference in entrance code and all, basically trying to scare the wits out of me. I just looked at him and said "Well, I lost my card and there's no way I can get it back. What do I do now?" Guess what his solution was. Money.


The fink asked me to pay a fine, which I was ok with. Then he told me how much. 100,000 for a lost card! 100,000!!! Never mind. I opened my purse and counted all the Rupiah I had, and I only had 80,000. I asked him if I could pay him in RM. And he was like, yea you can. Give me another 30 RM. I looked at him and said "No. That means that I am giving you more than 100,000. I've already paid 80,000. An extra 30 RM is like an extra 80,000!" I was starting to get a bit loud and everyone was asking my dad what was happening. I said out loud to my dad "This man is taking me for a ride, he's trying to cheat me". Then he got a scared at the scene that I was creating and quickly said "It's ok. 80,000 is fine. Just don't do it again". The effing fink! Blackmailing visitors into bribing him and then acting like it's all our own fault! I just grabbed my passport and stormed off. The only reason why I paid was coz I couldn't wait to leave Bali, and I didn't want to risk being unnecessarily detained and missing my flight for a measely 100,000. But what really got to me was the way everyone there see foreign visitors as cash cows. What was initially a fun holiday for me just ended up giving me nightmares.


Bali just hates me. And now I hate her too. Grrr...


But the trip wasn't a total waste. I did take some nice pics and bought loads of nice stuff. You just gotta take the good with the bad I suppose. I'll post up pics from my trip in my next post, took loads of random ones ( just have to love your camera phone!) and some really good pics of the view. But Bali is seriously overrated. I think that the scenery in NZ and Australia was loads better than the scenery in Bali. And it was so humid there that I literally bathed in my sweat everytime I walked out of the hotel! Not nice at all..


The weirdest thing is that lots of people thought I was from Taiwan.. Care to explain that to me anyone? Coz I sure don't get why.. Taiwan??