have a piece of candy

i had a great day :) i totally support you becoming a geek (not that you aren't already!) and sacrificing your social life at intec, not that it would last long, because i know you just as well as you know me. here's to more sleepovers, phone calls, camwhoring, and craziness. you know, i'll even help babysit if ever you end up with eight kids.

hey sunshine :)

Look into your heart

and you'll find the sky is yours;

♥

HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY! :D

i'll make it all up for you,

i was pretty hyped up to post an entry about my recent trip to jakarta, but the pictures took forever and a day to upload, and my enthusiasm (predictably) diminished as the minutes passed. so, instead, here's some few photos that i thought would be nice to share (or show off. whatever). these were all taken with Mr. Olly Osbourne, which happens to be the name of my new camera. yeah i'm one of those weird people who name inanimate objects. thumbs up for me!

note: lots of animals. weird.

i have no idea what bird this is, but i like it very much because it is FIERCE.

(bears deserve two photos, because they are infinitely awesome.)

dolphins kissing! i am easily amused!

and here's what happened on our last day:

we checked in for the flight the earliest, but we were one of the last to board the plan. people were pretty pissed off. they were also probably pissed off because i had a clumsy attack, and hit everyone on the aisle seat with my bag.

the airasia flight ran out of hotdogs. jerks.

when we were like five minutes from landing, i saw this mountain down below. and i thought, "hmm weird i didn't know sepang was located near a mountain." interesting huh? except that planes travel at 400 km/hr or something, so it wasn't really near KLIA.

and since i was grumpy from not being fed on the plane (it was hotdogs or nothing), we bought McD's. i like this picture, which is why i'm putting it up, eventhough it's not even remotely interesting.

highlights:

I. we were stranded at the airport! for two hours, because there was a flood on the road leading to the airport, so we had to wait. but something awesome happened though. we got to ride a military truck! yesss. the truck transported us across the flooded road and onto dry land. it was awesome to the power of nine.

II. while were at some fashion warehouse place, we got scolded by a female pak (mak?) guard, because we were playing with the camera in the shop. so we (my sister & i) went inside the dressing rooms and took pictures. of course.

III. crowds suck. so do traffic jams.

IV. we stopped by the malaysian embassy while we were there because my dad's part of the malaysian club or whatever, and they were having their AGM. we went there, ate, and left. i got to talking with this one guy whose been living there for seven years, and later on my dad commented on how well he think i spoke, which made me happy.

V. traffic jams suck BIG TIME.

on another note: i'm starting my no-junk-food diet today. where, you guessed it, i'm going to abstain from eating junk food for a whole week. so, my only snacks would be yogurt and prunes. i would eat fruits too, but i'm way too lazy to cut them up and stuff.

i want a KitKat.

what i've been up to:

01. practical grade six exam yesterday at impiana. went there alone. sedih betul. great adventure, though; took the lrt and walked walked walked (blisters galore! yay!) and took the bus back to my mum's office. stopped by kinokuniya to buy the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera, even though i haven't finished white teeth by zadie smith yet, because i buy things whenever i feel nervous of scared about something. this was before the exam, obviously. it did not help much.

02. out with bri and aisyah last weekend, because brigette had some movie passes to blow off.

very attractive, no? ;)

and we met up with rosma! whom i haven't seen in YEARS. we used to be buddies in primary school, but then, sadly, we lost contact.

03. first time riding public transport with nicole last week. omg jakun. she needed to get some certs certified, and my sister wanted me to see kuning's tabik hormat (which i missed, btw, because i had to make a trip to the toilet.) so i tagged along to Sri Aman's sports day and we went to sunway afterwards. we watched shutter, where i found nicole's reaction to the scary scenes pretty darn funny. :D

04. FSADS;ADAS;DAJSAS!!!

05. last but not least, good luck to all those who got called for the JPA interview! :) my own MARA interview is scheduled for next week (ahaha, how did that happen?) so wish me luck!

or a tongue full of sympathy

my room is starting to look like a pigsty.

and i have developed a bad habit of chucking things on the floor beside my bed. although, it's amazing how it's all bundled at one spot, yes?

everything is illuminated by jonathan safran foer (which i finished this morning! i love foer. i do. i really do) and lolita by vladimir nabokov (still in the process of reading) and though you can't see it, the jane austen book club is under there somewhere (waste of time).

bags, my mp3 player (i'm horrible to put it on the floor, but it's hardcore. really), a house slipper. also, the battery charger (wtf), kinokuniya plastic bag and under it, a neatly folded newspaper from which i tore a book coupon from. not forgetting, laundry from god knows when.

today's my sister's thieteenth bday :) she's considered a 'teenager' now, if you want to listen to what the oxford dictionary says, the big baby.

(my eyes look crazy as shit, but what the hell)

had lunch at marche yesterday to celebrate. and then we went to borders because my sister wanted to look for her present (for which i forked out half the cash, haha) and she settled for a x-men comic. how weird, when i was thirteen i would've chosen something chick lit-y.

i did not buy anything although i was so so tempted to buy nicole krauss' history of love. i'm abstaining from buying books this month, if you're wondering. why?

that's why.

the sun is up, the sky is blue

so last night i went to UM with my mum to watch their festival seni. it's supposedly where all the colleges compete with one another in cultural events. which is cool, you know. because there isn't any excessive amounts of sunlight and sweat involved but there's still a lot of shouting and cheering going on. (which made me miss school a bit, to be honest. but anyway,)

they had a beautiful traditional orchestra. (and a large projection screen, apparently). the people behind me were talking during the performances which pissed me off greatly. the man in front of me was wearing earphones the whole time and i felt like slapping them out of his ear, dear god.

i really liked this performance. they won battle of the bands, or something of the similar sort. isn't it weird that's there's always a battle of the bands at almost every single function? uh-huh. they sang a song i didn't - don't - know, and an instrumental piece which filled my heart with glee. the keyboardist was probably why i enjoyed their performance so much, because he was all smiley and jumping around and genuinely enjoying himself which made me go :D

i also liked it when this one lady sang the mulan song, the reflections song? yay, disney.

federal highway like you've never seen it before. i love the night-time.

oh and this was from some time ago:

a pet monkey! the owner had a leash tied to the monkey's neck and he let it out during the red light. when the light turned green, he let the monkey inside. acceleration must be dangerous for a monkey hanging by a leash, i guess.

post-script: PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE!

not 'tooths'

thank you for the wonderful time, girls.
let's terrorize another hotel soon, yeah? :D

strings that tie to you

"then the carousel started, and i watched her go around and around"
- the catcher in the rye

i just finished reading the catcher in the rye this morning. it was so awfully nice. the ending made me really sad, though. but i guess that can't be helped.

i always get weirdly excited when i find out the meaning behind the title of a particular book. and the meaning behind this one was very, very nice and it made me feel tingly in both a good way and a sad way. which actually is a good combination.

(picture taken from my first roll of the fisheye, yay)