Making rainbows

I baked rainbow cupcakes today. :D

Got the idea last week while surfing on Deviantart. Someone had made a layered cake with all the colours of the rainbow and covered it in blue icing and fluffy white cloud shapes. So when you cut up the sky, you got a rainbow inside. It was gorgeous. So Mama and I attempted it this morning.

Our tools.

Step 1: Violet.

Step 2: Yellow. Hehe. Sri Aman colours.

Step 3: Orange.

Step 4: Blue.

Step 5: Pink. It was supposed to be red. But I put too little colouring.

Step 6: Green.

Last layer is normal cupcake-y colour.

Baking!

Success!

Every cupcake cup has a different rainbow pattern on it. So awesome.

How do you like your cupcake icing?
With chocolate sprinkles ...

Rainbow sprinkles ...

Or both? Hehe.

I'll be bringing what's left of the batch next week to college. I tried to rescue as many as I could, 'cause my siblings sort of ... didn't stop coming to the kitchen to grab a piece. Haha.

Ps. Went to MPH warehouse sale again. Geehee. Bought another 6 books. I found a 1980's Teen Titans graphic novel for only 20 bucks!! It was a steal! Haha.

Ps.2 Happy birthday to Li Jing and Nigel, my two NS pals. Have a rocking good time and welcome to the Legal Club! :D

Yay, presents!

I turned 18 yesterday. :)

I share my birthday from many famous people. Jessica Alba, Terry Pratchett, Harper Lee ... Saddam Hussein. Yup, famous people.

And Ee Won! Happy birthday dear! :D

So here's the photodump of stuff I got. And that's my new laptop, under all the stuff! Still haven't named it. It's awesome, got webcam and everything. I love it. xD

Bracelet from Hanna. :)

The necklace also from Hanna. Purse from Maktuk.

Swimming dog in the mouse Mira gave me. Haha.

Baby Phat watch from Mama (It's GORGEOUS.) and a 'newton's cradle' from Nazim. I love the cradle thing, I've always wanted one. Hee.

The day went by very normally. Went to MPH warehouse sale, bought 6 books. Started reading Soul Music by Terry Pratchett yesterday (I think it's awesome that I share a birthday with this guy. He's awesome.). Hilarious.

After that was supposed to go to Pyramid with ze Collegers, but then Mr. Zul (my driving teacher) called and said that my Wednesday class has to be cancelled, so he moved it to Tuesday. I said OK, since that I have to pass my QTI test this week if I'm going to get to take the JPJ exam in the second week of May. So yeah. I passed my hill, parking and turn test, but failed the road test. So I have to take it again, by this week. Grarr. Engine died twice. Felt like an idiot.

At night, ate at Cozy Corner with the rest of the fam. Then went to the DVD store and bought a copy of The Secret Life of Bees. I'm only halfway through my assignment, 'cause I couldn't remember any of the 'verbal and non-verbal messages' I'm supposed to note down. Also bought Aristocats, because I was feeling nostalgic. Asked for Beauty and the Beast, but they don't have it. Haha.

Ooh and today, I went to the college to see if the computers there could access Malaysiakini. Turns out they can't. But I did my ECS journal essays instead. Then met Hamizah for lunch. It's so good to see her. <3>

Catspam

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA!
ROCK ON. :)

Went to Johnny's for dinner. I got Papa a Boston t-shirt, Mira got him a voucher for a foot massage, Nazim got a speaker for his iPod, Hanna got him a little glass plaque with 'My Papa The Rockstar' on it and Mama got him a new iPod. Overall, it was a cool night. :)

EDIT: Photo credits to Mira. Happy, blob? xD

Gee, who's a little model? Scout really loves the piano. He likes listening to it, walking on it, and ... sleeping on it. xD

I got my ATM card yesterday! Which is awesome. I won't be using it that often, but hey, still feels good to have it anyways.

Random 6 year-old quote:
Mama: Oh, look at the t-shirt ... *reads* Monkey Business.
Hanna: Oh, does that mean the monkey is going to toilet?
Me, Mira and Mama: *choke laughing*

Well, I'm gonna go create my agrobank account tomorrow, what with NS being in less than two weeks (insert panicked gurgle here). Speaking of which, Atuk was talking about how Papa escaped from NS back when he was in Singapore. Apparently the authorities kept coming to the house bothering him for months. O_o But y'know, Singapore NS is 2 and a half years. To which I say, "Malaysia NS 3 months? No problemo senor!"

Behind the Big-O shades

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LING SHIN
;D I know it's exams and all, but rock on in a studious way, yeah?

In other ... bloggy events;
Let's play a game!

I call it "Who That There?"

First one to guess gets an imaginary cookie.
I don't think it's that hard though.

Probably ridiculously easy.

EDIT:
Yeah, that's Zac Efron. He whose name sounds like efferent neuron.
*cough*
Laugh with me, Bio students? Yes? No? Oh well. xD
Nad wins the cookie! :D

Anyway, a story behind the random pic-posting. I was hanging around an lj-er's blog, and she happened to be a 'Zefron' fangirl. Not the crazy rabid ones, one of the funny witty ones. Anyway, she had a lot of pics of him on her page. One of which was this. And dagnabbit, I never thought that I'd see the day that I'll admit that yes, Zac Efron is a sexy Disney baby.
Yes.
*wallops self with long MIA plastic squeaky mallet*

Too baaaad.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATUK!

and
HAPPY SWEET 16th SOFEYA!

Firstly, regarding the WB decision in moving the HBP movie to July next year: WTFish, people. WTFish. You're all a bunch of greedy no-good wingdings. If the movie's good, even if you release it on the coldest winter night, it'll top the box office. So what if the writer's strike killed a few things? All the other movies and tv shows pulled through OK. Heck, 2008 is a pretty good movie year in my opinion. I can sense your fear! I bet you guys think the film sucks. Well too bad. >:(

Secondly, hey guys, SA now gives you your homework online! Yippie-kay-yay. *waves white flag miserably*

Oh, I borrowed Breaking Dawn from Sab. It was a very spur-of-the-moment thing; she happened to have the book, but Tarsha was absent, so couln't pass to her. So I took it instead. Haven't read it yet. I just don't have the mood. :(

By the way, I finished reading Nightrise a few days ago. SPOILERS ahead. I thought it was really good. :) My favourite of the series so far. The story starts off a few weeks before the ending of the second book, with Scott and Jamie Tyler instead of the protagonist of the first two books, Matt Freeman. They both have powers; they can read minds, and they've got the whole Jedi-mindtrick deal going on. xD

Anyway, Scott gets kidnapped by the Nightrise Corporation, a company that supports the return of the Old Ones (basically, the evil bad guys). Jamie, lost and confused, ends up getting help from Alice McGuire, a woman who's searching for her son Danny, who was also kidnapped by the company. Horowitz's writing is simple, but effective; I can see everything clearly in my mind. Very good stuff. And the plot is finally starting to come together, giving us a clear picture of just what exactly is happening in this series.

So far, Jamie is my favourite of the Five; Matt is too much of a classic hero for me, and Pedro comes in second. We don't see too much of Scott from the book, but he comes off as the troubled one of the group, if you ask me. The fifth one, the girl, is Scarlett ... but I'm not sure whether I'll like her yet, because we've only met her 'past self'. And the indication is that she might turn out to be the one who does an anti-hero ... but I won't know till the next book, coming out in October.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY ATUK!
I meant to post yesterday, but I forgot. ^^;;

Pn. L chased a bunch of us to class today. Because we were walking slowly. Evelyn happened to be walking behind us, and she got most of the poking. The rest of us ran, ran as in "OMG RUN FOR YOUR LIVES D:" but couldn't really, because a few of us were sporting heavy bags. So yeah, that was funny. xD

Oh, and to any Twilighters reading this space, check this out: Clicky! Something I drew during the weekend. Inspired by Sofeya quoting poor Edward on her blog. xD

Other than that, today was tiring. I dunno why exactly. Anyway, Internetzz time for me is now limited. I'm only online right now because I'm finishing up an Agama presentation. I need to study for Trials.

Ps. Damn you SA FORMATIVE. Dx *shakes fist*

EDIT: This happened just now during dinner:

*Nazim and Hanna just watched Friends*
Ross: I haven't had sex in a long time!
Hanna: Yeah, Ross hasn't had six in a long time! *giggles like the six-year old she is*
Me: Yeah ... he hasn't had ... six.
Mama: Uh-huh, he hasn't been sick for a long time.

Normality.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IFFAH
ol' buddy ol' pal.
*throws rubbery cicak* :D
I know you're not a pink freak anymore, but what the heck.

In other news, HAZE upon us! Grab your gas masks!

In other other news, school today was fun. Said toodloo to the moral students, who went to FRIM. The signed this really long cloth banner thing. It's supposed to go into the Malaysian Record Book or whatever. Something about longest merdeka-happy banner ever. It would be a lot more cooler if they let everyone write in different languages, to display the DIVERSE RACES in the country. And, not limiting us to really cheesy phrases that made me feel guilty and not at all patriotic.

Then we watched some cheerleading vids and gymrama vids that we did during PJ with Cik F. That was funny. Then we watched a student drama of Puteri Hang Li Po during BM. Recess was uneventful. Chemistry was ... normal. And there was no Physics, so Nazia, Iffah, Sophie and I bonded with the two trainee teachers.

I'm posting a lot lately. Hmmm.

EDIT: Found this while surfing the net:

"Just got back from Borders, where they took back my book [Breaking Dawn] with no problem. Got into a discussion with the cashier about how I was the 15th(!!!) person to bring my book back today. Seems like many customers felt that SM was not true to her characters and her self created Twilight world, and are calling foul." -- quoted by julian_black on LiveJournal.com

The tagline for this is "Don't Burn It, Return It."
And I'm all, duuuuude. This looks like serious business. (cue Joker-reel saying "Why So Serious?") I know the ending wasn't the best in the world, but ... I'm wondering what Stephenie Meyer's got to say for herself now.

EDIT2: I read up more on the DEMON CHILD and I can't take it, THERE'S SO MUCH BLOOD. Ah well Sara, this is what happens when you ask book writers for gory, bloody endings. Avatar wouldn't give it to you, so ... eh, well the DEMON CHILD decided to oblige. Egghyuk. At least it's not boring. Completely weirded like palatypus crap, but nope, not boring.

stuff

Happy Belated Birthday Keerthana!
Happy Belated Birthday Alny!

and
Happy Birthday Stephanie!
We're all getting older, but Steph will be forever younger than the rest of us. xD

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DeviantArt is not showing up on my computer. This makes me very sad. :( I can't draw anything properly lately, and even though looking at some of the awesome artists there makes me even more miserable, at least I'll get some sort of inspiration. There're tutorials there that I really want to read right now.

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And even though it's been a few days, this is my Hari K update.

Proof of who stayed back to clean up the class stall. :)

Not much of a photodump I'm afraid. I took a whole lotta pics, but there's nothing particularly interesting.

I went into the Rumah Hantu with Sophie, Aidil, Farah, Vivien and Aisyah. Aidil went running out before it even started, which was kinda depressing. Sophie ran after her to get her back in and ended up not going either. So there were the four of us. I, personally, though that it was awesome. But that could be due to the fact that the people I went in with where scared out of their minds. Farah kept grabbing my shirt and going, "Are you Sara?" And I'd say, "Yeah, it's me."

Towards the end, there was a lot of sticky slippery stuff on the floor and I slipped, falling on a mattress. I tried to get up, but fell down again. Then, somewhere behind me, I heard a yell: "You're not Sara!" and there were all these shadows everywhere, and screams and me yelling, "I'm over here!" All four of us ended up falling over each other on the mattress, then one of the ghosts ran over and started tickling me. Which was incredibly freaky. I burst through the exit, laughing hysterically.

Later on, I tried the Flying Fox. Now I can say that I've jumped off the office building. xD I went with Aidil, who ... well, is afraid of heights. She spent 15 minutes sitting on the railing, refusing to budge and screaming threats whenever anyone suggested pushing her off.

In the end, even Mr. H got up from his comfortable bench in the gazebo to coax her into coming down. All these random people were waiting at the bottom, yelling at her to face her fears and stuff like that.

She came down in the end. :)
(I have four photos, just of her sitting on the railing. xD)

It wasn't bad for a Hari K. But I was really sad about the non-existant dunking booth. Wow, I won't have to go on Hari K duty anymore. Awesome.

It's the Final Countdown!
Doo-doo-doo-doo ... doodoodododo!

5 days till Prefect Retirement
69 days till Trials
133 days till SPM

Snakehead

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHEREN!

Have a good one. Being 17 is fun. :)
Minus SPM shenanigans, lah.

I finished reading Snakehead, the latest Alex Rider book. And I gotta say, to Mr. Anthony Horowitz: Man, you're not going to give this kid a break, are you? xD I mean, he's gone on seven missions in the past eight months. He's eluded death for like a bajillion times. But I do admit; it doesn't get old.

The torture that the evil villains come up with are ingeniously awful. Especially this one in particular. SPOILERS, people, for those who are eager to read but haven't had the chance to buy it yet. Basically, Alex has gotten himself into a nice, tough situation, as always. And I've always sighed at villains who don't just shoot the hero and burn the remains to be done with it. But this guy really made sense. He wouldn't kill Alex, why?

Simple. Instead, he would cut him open, removing his kidney, selling it on the black market. He would live through the operation easily enough. Then when the time came, they will remove both his eyes. He'll be blind, but still alive. He could do without his pancreas, followed slowly, one by one, by the rest of his functioning organs. And throughout all of this, his blood will be pumped out, leaving just enough to keep him going. And finally, when he comes close to the end of his tether, the prize: His heart. Worth a million pounds. Naturally, he is worth more alive than dead.

And when he finally kicks the bucket, he'll ... have the satisfaction of knowing that he saved a few lives in the process.

Reading that stuff sent chills down my spine. xD So YES. Read the book. Read the series itself, just so you can reach the seventh book. And buy the paperback edition of the seventh, 'cause there's a bonus chapter at the end that explains quite a few things.

In other news, prefects step down on the 7th of July. As much as I'll feel empty for a while, I can't wait. <3

Onwards to battle, ladies and gentlemen ...

"No moshing"?

Well so much for that warning.
I'm pretty glad nobody smoked inside the hall myself. :D

So yes. BotB. Never been to one before, today was my first. First thing I noticed upon setting foot on school grounds: everyone (nearly everyone) was wearing black. WTFish, people. xD I know black makes you look slim and all, but it stops oozing the cool factor when everyone wears it.

I was wearing red myself. Nad's tuition-buddy Andrew was wearing red too, so we were red-buddies. Speaking of which, yes, Nad, your tuition-buddies are indeed awesome cool people. :D

Anyway, the overall thing was OK - the weirded sound system killed it a little for me ... we could hear the guitars and drums, but could barely make out the lead singers. Kinda disappointing. And no moshing? No fun, if you ask me. I've never moshed before, but heck, it looks like fun.

Looks like fun, Sara? Hang a second, what happened to the 'no moshing' rule? Well ... it got scrapped. xD Basically, it started with these two guys dancing like crazed idiots in front of the stage. Then there were three. Three bands later, there was a small group, crashing into each other like water molecules (science-reference, whee). Then there was a bigger group, doing the can-can together.

Apparently, they got 'escorted out'. Poor things.

After the 'ten-minute break', things went wild. When the band started playing (can't remember which one it was) a whole group of guys leaped up and started to dance; I was at the very edge of the crowd, and it was bedlam, I tell you. More people started crashing into the makeshift mosh pit, and people were bouncing off each other, there were cameras flashing, people screaming, and the band howling away in the background. One dude got on a chair and started waving his guitar over the crowd's heads. Then one guy started crowd-surfing. A second guy followed him, and he tumbled off at one point, poor dude. He looked like he was gonna pee his pants.

It was the wackiest piece of fun I've ever seen in my life. I told everything to Acu (it's her birthday btw ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY ACU!) and she laughed and said that the moshing sounded like something out of a comedy movie.

Well, comedy's gotta come from somewhere, and I'm sure most scriptwriters are inspired by real life. I can see clearly now! *dramatic music*

Ps. Don't speak of Narnia: Prince Caspian to me. I can't watch until the holidays. Dx
Ps2. I just watched all existing episodes of Gossip Girl. All I can say is: *incoherent squeaks and blabbering*
Ps3. I am a weak human being who read the Avatar spoilers. D:

Birthday Update

'Cause Nad put me up to it. :P

So yeah. I'm seventeen now. Don't feel any different. xD Spent the last few hours of being sixteen wondering about how I'm turning an odd number.

Soooo, BIRTHDAY HAUL. Very good this year. :D
There's a sketchbook that Ling Shin gave me afterwards (Thankee Shinna!!) that's not in the pic.

Sooo, I now have a tablet. I love it to bits. Its name is Bamboo. :D So yeah. I can't stop using it. So much fun.

And, um, I don't have much to say. *twiddles thumbs* Just, thanks to everyone who wished me! And especially to everyone who gave cards and presents. Seriously. I love you guys. <3