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>

Why I can't live without handphones

Hey, why isn't Blogspot letting me post photos? :(
Grarh.
EDIT: For Nad, who wanted a sparkly pink serial killer pony. :D

After college I walked to the flyover where Mama usually picks me up and realised that I forgot to bring my handphone. So I just waited. Then it started to rain. Good thing I had my mini umbrella. As it got heavier, it hit me; I told Mama that I had meeting today ... what if she was waiting for me to call first? That got me worried. But I just waited anyway.

For half an hour.

Then I kinda got a bit noodly in my head wondering whether she was just late or really was waiting for me to call. I walked back under the flyover and crossed the roads a few times, like some confused chicken. Then I made up my mind and went to ask the traffic policeman for help. xD

Traffic policeman #1 didn't have credit. D: So he told me to cross the road a bit further where Traffic policeman #2 was on duty, saying to tell him that he asked him to help me. So I crossed the road and waited for the road to clear, because the guy was standing in the middle. Finally, the road cleared! I crossed - then realised that the policeman had crossed to the side of the road. So yeah, that was ... frustrating.

Finally, I found an opening before the cars could start again and managed to ask him for help. He was real nice about it. Gave me his phone and told me "Jangan bawak lari pulak". xD So I called Mama, who really was waiting for me to call and wondering why the heck I wasn't answering my phone. Five minutes later, she came to pick me up. Haha.

And that was my eventful adventure of the day.

So thanks, traffic policemen guys! I dunno what I would have done without you.

Hit and miss

Having this strange little rindu feeling.

Bunch of things leading up to this I guess ... Saw Nahjan and Aiman at OU the other day. Five minutes later, saw Rui Rong (I dunno, I thought she's supposed to be at NS? Unless they're holidaying right now? OK I have no idea. Heh.). So kinda ... missing school people. xD

And then with the Delta reunion next week ... I miss NS people as well. Which sucks because it's so far away. Sort of coming to the realisation that there's no real way to meet up with everyone at once, y'know? At least I didn't go to a Sabah or Sarawak camp. That would be even more difficult to plan a get-together.

At least the MPH warehouse sale is next week. I've been neglecting my reading list for too long. Give me something to distract myself with. :D And here I was thinking I'd miss the sale because of NS. Whee.

All I can taste is this moment

It's halfway through the week, and time is flying by pretty fast. College life is going well, and work is slowly creeping in ... I don't mind the slow way it creeps in, that way I can get used to it in small stages. Haha. Orientation Night was ... meh, boring the first couple of hours. Tried to keep ourselves occupied by 'adventuring'. Which meant going to the back of the courtyard overlooking the highway. Heh. The dance floor time was fun though.

Yesterday a group of us went to Pyramid for lunch at KFC. 'Twas fun. Kent couldn't stop laughing about something ... can't remember what. I started laughing too, because his laugh is contagious! It hurt. I felt like my insides were going to explode. xD
Then when we were about to leave the carpark, Sharine made a sarcastic 'ah' noise. Which Azhar said sounded sexual. Us girls (Sharine, Sammie and I) disagreed ... seriously, everyone makes that noise all the time. Then we turned to Kent, who agreed with Azhar about it. Later, which was earlier today, even Suzuki said so! :\ Must be a boy thing.

Other stuff, Fahmi sent out an invite so that we could get all the NS people together ... on an outing to Genting! But not many people could go so it was cancelled. :( Hamizah and I were just getting excited. Hoping to get it on in the next few weeks.
Speaking of NS, Yen told me that Zizan told her that Sheda told him that she discussed with Cikgu Gee for a reunion. Phew. xD So I told One, who went to talk to Sheda about it. So it's:
Cikgu Gee discussed with Sheda who told Zizan who informed Yen who contacted Sara who told One who called Sheda to talk about it.
Haha. I love that sentence.
So One talked to Sheda and find out that she and Cikgu Gee are headed to Kuantan today to have a chat with Zizan about it. Which is pretty sad 'cause One can't make it ... and she's our girl squad leader. Man, if they were having it closer to home, I wouldn't mind going either. Hoping to contact them later today to see what they've decided on. I hope it's a good time and I can make it. :)

Driving is going well. Hopefully I can take my JPJ test next month on the 14th. Can't wait to get a license.

Oh! And I have a laptop now! Papa walked into my room last night and just ... gave it to me. And I'm all: ....... O_O
Haha. Well. Since that there's no class tomorrow, I'm gonna work on getting the laptop installed with all my stuff. I have yet to name it. ^^

Well this is a pretty long post. xD Just wanted to get everything out there. Excuse my ranting.

Interpersonal communication

My computer is fixed!

No more baby elephant computer monitor! Now it's a sleek flat screen.
I shall call it ... um. Shelly. Because it's flat like those strange discy shell things you find washed up on the beach.
Strange logic, but I just like the name Shelly.

So, I've been incredibly busy this week. Haha. What with college kicking off properly, I never really felt the absence of my baby elephant.

So. College is fun ... seriously. Of course nothing much has started and we've not much work so far ... but my classmates are fun to hang around with. In fact, we went to Sunway Pyramid on Wednesday ... had lunch at Delifrance. It's amazing how many discounts you can get with a student card. Had a very filling meal. John managed to save us from paying extra because of a technical error on the bill. Pening kepala over getting people to give in the right amount of change. Our tax came to RM12, it was insane.

Then we went ice-skating. I went back early so I didn't get to join them bowling. But I still had a blast ... haven't been skating in years!

Photo yanked from Carmen's blog.
So these are a few of us ... the ones who went skating anyway. A lot of people didn't go skating. xD No matter how much we tried to pujuk them. Anyway, left to right, Nigel, me, Suzuki, Azhar, John, Carmen, Fira and Joan. No, Nigel's not taking foundation with us, he just popped in to enjoy the skating. :P

Notice the blue gloves? I got a pair myself ... and I like them loads more than the ones I got years ago. They're cute! xD But I think the orange ones are nicer ... Michelle S. had an orange pair, really nice colour.

Also, I learnt how to skate backwards! It's all about shaking your butt. Yeah. O_o A bit awkward at first but got the hang of it. Kinda reversed into someone who was tying her boot on the ice-rink (no I have no idea why she is tying her boot on the ice rink) and fell on my butt. Which ached when I got up in the morning. xD

Regretting not bringing my camera. I could have taken photos of everyone. Argh!

On Thursday, went out with Nad, Aidil and Sophie. We were very hungry. xD I dunno why, we just had huge appetites that day. Sneaked hot dogs into the cinema, where we watched Talentime. The cinema was very empty. Sophie was blur during the dramatic scenes and spoiled the moment. Hahah. And we kept commenting on how the school students had no name tags and stuff. I think we annoyed all the other people in the hall.

Anyway, the movie was quite nice. Almost cried once. xD But the scene changes were kinda choppy and the ending ... potong steam. Yeah. But overall, not bad.

Going to watch the Cats musical tomorrow! Can't wait! :D

Check the medic

Played around with the original DELTA logo we did for camp. Whee. :D
I'm trying to design a DELTA t-shirt ... just for the heck of it. If it turns out nice I'd like to print it ... but not for everyone because I dunno how to ship it out to 101 people. O_o;; I wanted to put everyone's names on the back of the shirt then realised that I don't know all the boys (I'm missing 9 names), and whether I could squeeze in all the names. So Jamie and I were scratching our heads over it:

Jamie: How are you going to put in all the names? There're a 101 of us!
Me: Hehe. We're like the 101 dalmatians. And Zizan and One are Pongo and Perdita.
Jamie: LOL!
Me: Haha yea. *feels a little guilty* Kesian the both of them, they always become the brunt of all the jokes. xD

Which is true. Sorry you two (if you ever find this webspace ... gwaa). We love you guys, you know that. xD Yen knows, right Yen? :D Haha(If you read this webspace too. Which I doubt. Gwaa times 2).

As for my life right now, all is good. Went to orientation on Monday and Tuesday which was OK, not bad. Got a group of people to hang out with already. :D Haha. And I don't have classes on Thursday! Which is awesome. I don't start till next week.

Oh and went to driving theory class yesterday. Hoping to take my practical class during the weekend.

PLKN Flashback: Sing until your lungs give out

Wirawati D2-02.

I like to think that it sounds just a little bit like R2-D2.
Just a little bit.
Heh.

Anyway, one month's worth of a trainee's life in NS will be spent sitting in a class doing CB. That is, character-building. I have no photos of that era, sadly. Mostly because I only had a big honking film camera and you're actually not allowed to bring it into class in the first place. Apparently, everything we learnt is top secret hush-hush material. Haha.

But it was a good time. I was in CB class 3. Was in two different groups:
3G - Andy, Jordan, Ah Yaw, Khairi, Mat, Ruby, Yoong, Shanti and Wani. This was definitely the most fun I had in CB. It was the first time I realised that there is a Malay version of Wonderpets. HAHA. Yeaaah. What can I say, I just don't watch channel 9.
M-Pro - Nina, Aini, Afif, Keat, Shih Wyi, Mani, NC, Shean (not sure about the spelling) and Andy again. Not quite as rocking as 3G, but still alright. My buddy was Shi Wyi. Since we had to get partners for the second module. All about learning how to help another person and stuff like that.

Now, lemme introduce you to ...
Drumroll please.
Chiki Chiki Pom Pom.
Of Integrasi class 2.
Matthew, Ram, Zizan, Azie, Anis, Yenli, Yunalis, me, Hasbi and Sham.

This was the most fun I had in a class. Insane, I tell you. I laughed till the tears started flowing. This was also where I think the whole situation with the friendship between DELTA wira and wirawati sort of came to be. My group had the highest concentration of DELTArians in the entire class. Other DELTA people in class included Yen, Pei Ying, Dhila, Mubin, Din, Izzat, JF, CH ... there were more I think, can't remember who.

Special credit goes to Zizan (of all people) for coming up with our awesome group name. Nobody had any idea what to name it. I had a marker pen, and an A4 sheet of paper was waiting on the floor. We were all throwing names around. But nothing sounded ... right. Suddenly, Zizan says, in complete and utter seriousness,
"Chiki Chiki Pom Pom."
There was a pause.
Different people at different intervals: Chiki Chiki Pom Pom?
Zizan: *nods head seriously* Chiki Chiki Pom Pom.
Another pause.
Hasbi: *cracks up laughing* Saya setuju!

And so, Chiki Chiki Pom Pom was born.Doing the chicken dance. Cikgu Ruby wanted to teach everyone how to do it, but I guess time constraints ... etc. killed it. But I know how to do it, and Hasbi knows how to do it ... so when we had to do a group performance at the end of our five days in Integrasi class ...
We did the chicken dance!I did the music. Hasbi lead the dance.
Haha.

There were some fun projects in the class. One was ... the wedding ceremony. Supposed to be a demonstration of how the different races get married.

The Indian wedding. Take note that none of the brides are ... well, not all of them are women. xDThe Chinese wedding.

The Malay wedding was done by my group along with Fantastic Crew.
'Parents' of the 'bride'. Me and Mubin.'Parents' of the 'groom', JF and Yunalis.The 'groom', Zizan Haikal bin Adam and Hasbi as the tuk kadi.
And the lovely 'bride', Sham Shaza binti Mubin! xDThe happy couple. :D

We also had to do funerals. My group did Chinese funeral ... Izzat as the corpse. Not as laugh-inducing as the weddings, but we still had a good laugh.I think you can see why.
My 'hat' kept falling into my face. And everytime we were supposed to cry, we ended up in stitches instead.

But yeah, we had a lot of fun times. Mubin's camera and his collection of photos of sleeping people. Yunalis and the cute little dance she made while singing the Chiki2 Pom2 cheer. Sham and his insane laugh. Infectious! xD And the little dulu-dulu sing-along sessions Hasbi, Zizan, Azie, Yunalis and I would have when we ran out of stuff to do and the teacher wasn't paying much attention. We were the rowdiest group in class, the reason why the teacher kept asking us to go up first whenever presentation time came around. Hehe.

Yunalis and the baby Rubik's cube she spent days on trying to fix. xD I wanted to give it a try, but I was worried I'd be clumsy and break the little thing.

Next up, maybe a recap of how my days in Kenegaraan class went. :D

Mission accomplished, chap!

Went out with Nad, Hannah and Sophie yesterday. :D
Had teppanyaki for lunch, then basically lepak all over the place. I wanted to buy new clothes, but couldn't find anything really really nice, y'know? But had fun window-shopping anyway. Then Hannah said she would belanja us ice-cream, so to Baskin Robbins we went! Watched an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place on Hannah's iPod (I actually really enjoyed it. Haha. Cute story. I just wish they'd do away with the fake audience laughter, it kills a lot of the jokes.)

We also went to Borders, where Sophie met William Shakespeare.
...
Yeah, he's the same height as me. Uncanny!!

We told Hannah to get a facebook account.
Instead, she got a facelift.
"I'm BOOKFACE! :D"

We did a lot of bookshop-visiting. Hannah bought some Jonas Brothers biography thingy ... and Sophie won awards for Best Observation of Stubble on Celebrities. xD Nad bought The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I bought Lost For Words by Lorelei Mathias. Yeah, a romance. I wanted to find something written by a local writer, I don't care whether English or BM, but a story, y'know? But I couldn't find English fiction and the BM books ... um. Their synopsis scared me. As for Sophie ... she bought nail polish. Hehe.

Tried to catch her unawares. Candid shot. Y'know, weird facial expression, etc. But dang, Nad's too photogenic.
D:

Finished the day sitting in Coffee Bean. Ate some chicken pie and chicken puff for dinner. Felt good to go out with them. Been far too long. :) We thought of a movie, and Sophie wanted to karaoke, but ... I really enjoyed just lepaking with them.

Today I went for my driving ceramah. The classroom had little spray thingies to chase away the bad smell. Would have been nice if the perfume they used wasn't bad to begin with. Felt queasy the whole time I was there. D: But thank gosh, the speaker wasn't as boring as I expected. He was actually pretty funny. The youngest person in the class was 16, there to take his motorcycle license. The oldest was 34. I could tell which of the boys are fresh out of NS ... by their haircuts. Haha.

So, now I've got a book to study. Can go back anytime to take the computer test. :)

PLKN Flashback: Misty mornings

Took this on a very, very misty morning. Mid-February.
One thing about camp; when the mist comes along, you can't see a thing. You could stand on the padang kawad, and it's like you're standing on an island inside a cloud.
On this morning, we were supposed to practice kawad for the competition. In the end, only the boys practiced because us girls came down at 6.30 a.m. to practice, before morning roll call at 7.30. Now I remember ... it was a weekend.
Boys goofing around. They were doing some kind of squatting exercise. Moment they were done, they started ROFLing. xD
Mist lifted a bit by this point. Girls went back to dorm early, but Yen and I hung around to watch the boys kawad. It's awesome how they can do it so well, in perfect synchronization. Everytime we girls do it, we end up looking clumsy and fast-forwarded. xD
The only other Sri Amanian who reported to camp. xD Seriously, I don't know what I'd do without her. The first week in camp was absolute crap. Barely knew anyone and felt like crying everytime I thought of home. Even though we only got to talk when we went down to the surau and during breaks from CB class, you seriously made my days easier, Hamizah. :) Thanks for being there ... listening to all of my ramblings and complaining and sharing my thoughts on almost everything.
Yet another person I wouldn't have been able to survive without ... my dorm-buddy, Yen. We were the first two people to step into D2. We walked back and forth to logistics together, that first week. When I got elected ketua dorm, she helped me out, gave me advice. She got me to think straight when my brain was a complete mess and when I was PMS-ing and thinking about too many things at once.
We became like siamese twins, the way we went around camp. It helped that she was Chinese and I was Malay ... when we sat down together in DM, nobody had any reason to separate us. xD When things went cuckoo inside the company, she had the guts to make diabolical schemes to fix things. I was never bored. We always had some crazy little plot we were working on together. And she is an excellent 'digger'. We were the most well-informed trainess in camp. I went from being a total blurcase in Sri Aman to 'I know something youuu don't!' :D in Indera Pahlawan. No duh I was still a blurcase, but Yen kept me well-informed. Haha.
So, one more time, to the best dorm/camp/company-buddy I could ever ask for ... thanks for everything, and 'I lap u'. Haha. All the best now that you're starting college!The four pangkat girls of DELTA. From left to right, Jamie, Yen, One (Wan) and me. We had a rocking good time together. That very last night in camp, we were the last four in the dorm to sleep. We didn't want to sleep, really. We played UNO, prank-called people (if you could call it that ... it's kinda hard to fool people at 3 in the morning) and lay around trying to stay awake. Yen was the first to pass out. Jamie and I thought of squeezing Colgate onto her face, but we ended up falling asleep 45 minutes after her so that plan failed. One was the last to fall asleep. I still don't know what time she admitted defeat. xD
The 8 pangkat people of DELTA. From left to right, top to bottom: Mizan, Arun, Zizan, Samad, me, Yen, One and Jamie. DELTA is the best company when it comes to the buddy-buddy relationship between the wira and wirawati. Mostly thanks to Cikgu Gee for holding meetings on a regular basis and encouraging us to interact with each other. Ironically, it was the 'denda' we got for losing our flag that brought us closer together. From writing the surat kiriman rasmi asking for our flag back to the bizarre and awesome majlis peminangan bendera to our partnered kawad sessions and the DELTA jamuan on our last Monday ... I couldn't ask for a better company, Alhamdulillah.
The Weekend Joggers' Club. Haha. Another reason why DELTA is tight I suppose. Regular joggers are DELTA people. The most regular being me, Yen and Mubin. In the photo, top to bottom, left to right: Me, Yie Ping, Yayi, Mubin, Yen and Shean. We have no PT pagi for weekends, so roll call is always at 7.30 a.m. Anybody who feels like jogging just come up at the normal 6.30 time slot, jog around for a while then hang around waiting for the others to march their way up. I think jogging would be the main reason I lost 10 kilos while I was at camp (!!!).

Random photo of us getting the 'gifts' ready for the DELTA jamuan. Me, One, Hasbi (can't see him, he's hiding behind One), Cikgu Gee, Zizan, Yen, Sheda and Din. This was the start to DELTA lepaking in the DM towards the end of our camp days. We didn't have any activities, so you can imagine our boredom. So a certain number of us just ... never went back to dorm until time came to bathe. Haha. Good times.

Shedding our responsibilities. Green for DELTA, blue for BRAVO, red for ALPHA, yellow for CHARLIE and the remaining two for the penghulu and penghuluwati.

More in the future! Yea, I'm just indulging myself with these posts. It's been a week and I've finally shed off some of the 'gah I miss camp D:' feelings. But there's just a little, titchy ... OK, not so titchy bit still in me.

DELTA GO

Aw, I do kinda miss these people.

Full update? One day. I'm lazy right now. xD

Time Capsule

I've noticed that every year since Form 3, I've had class quads. As in three people I spend most of my class-time with. In Form 3, it was Nad, Hannah and Iffah. In Form 4, it was Ling Shin, Tarsha and Chan. In Form 5, it was Sophie, Iffah and Nazia. I wish I could get a picture of all of us, together, but that doesn't look like anytime soon. So this is the closest thing; sure, the photo's a little shaky, but these are 4 of the 8 people who have made the biggest impact on my secondary school life. What can I say? I love you guys. <3 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2BPGSKzAMzPAZvQp4BxEqU3Tr72MEJvt6vAtJyQ-LjCrjuW7lw3nhYzBpMqTmV9abNLG_RRQ-rej1RaeQp62VsVpt8GpgNVFTeYX4NpbPqo-Uk3yk945rj_F91hzFq5W6_lo0_LqMBA/s1600-h/Picture+004.jpg">
So. Prom. My first one ever.

The night started out with me completely losing my cool with my make-up and hair. As most people know, I'm not a make-up sorta gal, and my hair at its best is held in place with a fancy hairband. Mira did my hair, and everyone worked on my makeup. It's official that I am a very bad make-up reciever. xD

Reached Sime Darby Convention Centre a little before 8. It was mind-numbingly cold. Matches the 'Frozen In Time' theme I guess. ;) Ean and Azura were our hosts for the evening, something I had not expected. They were cool. I toyed with the idea of saying hi to Azura, y'know ... telling her how I'd always watch Disney Buzz on Sunday mornings ... in my pjs. xD Or just say hi. But never got the chance. Maybe one day.

Anyhoo, the performances were great. They gave me good enough reasons to say, love thy local artists. So that was good. Helps that quite a few of them were quite cute. What can I say, there were a lot of good-looking chaps in that hall. Pity majority of them are taken. LOL. The Reza Salleh dude was particularly good. Strong voice, nice music, sweet lyrics. I'mma look his myspace up in a mo. See if I can find his other songs.

When people started slow-dancing, I tried to drag some of the girls up to just sway, y'know, since that we were all date-less. I mean, there was a boy-couple dancing up there together, since that they didn't have dates. Cute.

There also games. Or, uh, a game. The 'scavenger hunt' didn't really work (although I was pretty interested in seeing the results of the 'find a guy with a six pack' prompt) but we continued with the celebrity lookalike contest. The male winner was a Datuk K lookalike. I KID YOU NOT. Azura called him up, and actually made a surprised squeak when he made his way to the front. He turned to the audience and everyone burst into cheers and laughter. It was so cool.

The real dancing didn't start until 11 when everyone took over the dance floor and Atlas (a band) started playing. That was the best part. The lead singer had the wackiest dance moves. xD His expression kept reminding me of Brendan Urie, but other than that, doesn't look like him. But he was amusing. All of us - me, Nad, Hannah, Sophie, Huda, Aidil, Iffah - were dancing in a sort of little circle, doing crazy dance moves. Then someone started a conga line which snaked through the hall.

In the end, we were all exhausted and sweaty. Hannah and I sang A Night To Remember (yes, from the HSM3 movie. So sue me. xD) as we made our way to the front door. And sure, it was a night to remember. Had a real blast. Met some people I haven't seen in a while (shout out to Priscilla and Nisa! *waves*) and ... well, felt like a girl. But mostly, had a rocking good time with people I hold dear. :)

Klaklakakalatu

Bought Creature In The Case by Garth Nix. A sort of short book (for World Book Day) about how Nick Sayre ends up going back to the Old Kingdom after the events in Abhorsen. SPOILERS onwards. Just for the next paragraph.

Anyway, he meets Lirael in the very last few pages of the book, and she saves his life. And well ... who else thinks that they would make a great couple together? Nick seems to really care for her, and the way he kept re-reading her letter to him in the book made me ... well, get inclinations, so to speak. I mean, I toyed with the idea back when I started reading the Lirael book, when we first meet Sam and Nick. And the way she keeps tumbling over her words at the end of the Creature etc. book while talking to him made me want more. Dang it, Garth Nix! You write endings like beginnings! And you don't tell us what happens next! GRARR. But then again, maybe that's why your books are so good in the first place.

I hope he's writing a sequel. I hopehopehopehope. Other Old Kingdom readers out there, what do you think?

In other news, spent past few days having fun outside home. Slept at Nad's house on Friday, which was awesome. Watched a couple movies, slept at 3.30 in the morning then went swimming. Watched The Day The Earth Stood Still (which was pretty boring) with Acu and Mira. Then slept over at Ara, my grandparents' house.

Watched My Sassy Girl for the 2nd time (first at Nad's) which is this really cute romance that made me cry. Seriously. It's sweet. A little sad. Based on a Korean movie, but due to my complete obliviousness to all things Korean and Japanese, I know nothing about it. IMDb seems to hate it because of it being yet another Hollywood adaptation, but personally, I found it very sweet. I could watch it forever, I wouldn't mind. :)

Also watched Pride and Prejudice for like, the 5th time. The Keira Knightley one. I never get tired of it.

Then this morning, I woke up with rashes. D: Which is really weird. My whole body is covered with them. Itches like crazy, so Acu gave me some cream for it. It's sort of similar to something I had back in Form 1. It'll go away in a few days, but for the meantime, it's really annoying. Mama thinks its a bug-bite. Some sort of small mite creature.

Prom's tomorrow. Hope it doesn't itch so bad then.

Also went to Taylor's College open day, for their PJ campus. I really really like their course structure for Mass Comm. I can't think of anywhere else (not many diploma courses ... lots of foundation mostly) and I can only think of UiTM. But Atuk rathers that I not go there 'cause ... well, he's got reasons.

I'm pretty set on Taylor's at the mo though. But I'll be sending in my application after NS, so I have some time to think.

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*

Hotel Adventure

PJ Hilton
After Prefect Lunch 2008.

*four of us are exploring the hotel just for kicks before going home*
*hop into elevator*

Me: Let's go to a random floor. Lucky number?
Liyana: 7!
Shumi: *reaches for 7 button*
Tarsha: No! Not 7! *hits 4 button*
-silence in lift-
Shumi: *words cannot express the look on her face* Tarsha, 4 is the number of death.

*Later on, on level 4*
*In hushed voices*

Me: There's nothing here.
Tarsha: Let's go back.
Shumi: *walks towards end of corridor*
Liyana: *won't stop giggling*
Me: Yeah, let's get back into the lift. And try number 7. We could end up in Hogwarts!
Shumi: Or Narnia.
*pause as idea sinks in*
All: Whoa.

Tarsha: What happens when somebody asks us who we are?
Me: We're tourists.
Tarsha: From India! You can be from Nepal.
Shumi: How about me?
Tarsha: *says something that sounds like roti canai*
Me: Say what?
Tarsha: It's a place. In India.
Me: Oh. Then Liyana can be from Korea!
Liyana: Me, Engilish, no speak! No!

We also visited the meeting room floor, where Tarsha panicked a little and told us to back off, because there're security cameras. Then we went to the swimming pool, but it was raining and some dude yelled at us to go back inside. xD And that was our magicall not-so-eventful hotel adventure. After prefect lunch, which was fun and very yummy. I'm gonna miss everyone ... I barely see most of them in school anymore.

Most likely not posting after this. Tood-loo, good luck to everyone facing SPM, STPM or university finals or what have you.

Krash ... down in the dumps? xD

Look at what Krash has gotten himself into. xD

Apparently, someone left some chewed up chicken wing in the little dustbin. Krash sniffed it out, and being the greedy and eternally hungry little monster he is, he tried to squeeze himself in through the cover flap.
Well, he got stuck.
Silly thing. <3

Nabila, who doesn't want to go to NS, was feeling particularly miserable today ... not because she was chosen, but because her parents want her to apply. Jayshini thought that applicants to NS would have to pay in order to take part, so Nabila was momentarily relieved ...

Nabila: (to Mr. H) Hey teacher, we have to pay if we want to apply for NS, right?
Mr. H: Oh, no. They will pay you! Don't worry, you don't have to pay to apply. *is then distracted by other classmates*
Nabila: STUPID! *storms to the back of class* Sophie, I wanna switch parents with you.
Sophie: (who wants to go NS but parents don't allow) OK! :D

Funny world we live in.

Names.

The number of Amanians who got NS is quite shocking. I mean ... there are loads of us. I'll continue that in a mo.

Anyway, I was incredibly excited yesterday. Mama told Papa via sms (his reply was: "Yahoo!" xD) and I told Acu. She asked if I was OK with it, and I'm like, hell yeah! I went to tuition and told Ms. M about it. She got all excited, because I'm her very first student to get NS. "Nanti you see me at the pagar, and I'll call out, "Hi Saraaaa!" Haha!"

Then this morning, Ms. F let the ones who're going to NS ask her questions, since that she worked with 'em a few years back. She even wrote the schedule on the board. Wake up at 5, sleep at 11. And that's if you don't get a night shift duty thing ... patrolling in the middle of the night with a flashlight. The thought sends excited chills down my spine.

Then I visited Syafika Z.'s blog ... she went to NS last year. And that just made me even more excited, and a little worried. I mean, there'll be people from all over the country, and I'm scared that I won't be able to communicate. What with all the different accents and my cacat-ed BM ... xD

So, yeah. Not including me, here's the updated list of people who got the whole TAHNIAH message (I know for some, they were more of "Whaddaya mean, 'tahniah'??? D:" But many others are pretty cool about it.) :

Chyna, Rui Rong, Nadiah B., Gaya, Precillia, Nahjan, Ling Shin, Jaya, Alny, Mai, Shumi, Jayshini, Izzati, Nazia, Athirah A., Ellena R., Farah Diana J., Pei Min, Yen Li, Huda, Dahlia, Michelle C., Najwa, Hamizah, Sandra, N. Phatimah, Sharmilaa, Attiya, Chan ...

Loads more. Just can't remember the names. xD

Focus, Sara! SPM first. Then NS!

Happy day

AIS KRIM GORENG
Hot on the outside ... but cold on the inside! *waggles eyebrows*
Hahah. Lol.
I'd detail this more, but ... it works better in person. Laksh and I would be only too happy to oblige.

Before recess, Chan and I went around school to give these prize coupons to some girls. We went to 1F, but they weren't in class. But dude, they've got the best floor EVER. Chan and I were sliding all over it, and doing ice-skating twirls. xD We tried to do it again in the Form5 block corridor, but all that happened was a miserable scuffing sound by our shoes.

Recess consisted of more DEMON CHILD bashing:
Me: *does not say anything at all, just to be clear*
Tarsha: *sits down next to me* OK, tell me.
Me: *knows exactly what she means* *turns to Jane* I'm gonna tell her about the DEMON CHILD.
Jane: *facepalm* It's so stupid.
Me: *explains about DEMON CHILD, breaking bones, fountains of blood and V-C-section.*
Laksh: *snorts into drink every five seconds* Heehee, V-C-section.
Jane: *mumbles into bowl of dunno-what soup xD* I'm trying to eat here ...
Tarsha: O_O

Hmm, now I re-read the last few lines, it sounds like I'm detailing an Aliens movie. Huh.

After recess, we watched the Bukit Kepong movie. Which was kinda boring until everyone starts shooting and people drop dead all over the place. Then we came to the bus scene, and everyone leans forward.
Nazia: They're not going to show them lah.
Sophie: *leans forward anyway*
Me: Yeah. I doubt they'll show.
Movie: *shows the take-off-clothes scene*
Nazia and I: Ooookay, proven wrong.

Then during History:
Mr. H: ... Julius Caesar and Cleopatra had a son, Caesarian ...
Me: *mutters* Dude. That's worse than the DEMON CHILD.
Mr. H: ... and he was murdered by Mark Anthony ...
Laksh: *also muttering* Who later took a boat to Mexico and met J.Lo!
Both of us: *crack up silently*
Mr. H: *continues until he starts talking about Chinese emperors' concubines*
Nabila: China has a lot of porcupines? O_o
Mr. H: Yes, over 4000 concubines!
Nabila: That's a lot of porcupines.
Sophie: Aww, porcupines! They're so cute. <3
Me: Wait, what're you talking about?!

Then later, at Ed Board's interview session for next year's team:
Me: *to English Segment applicants* What books do you read?
Various Applicants: Harry Potter/Twilight/Meg Cabot/Gossip Girl/Cecelia Ahern
Me: *after interviews are over* ... Nobody reads Anthony Horowitz. :(
Jane: I read Anthony Horowitz.
Me: *feels slightly better* :D

Sooo, that was my happy day of funniness. How was yours?! :D *cue glittery hearts and sparkling flowers*

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.

Motivational speech free with every Happy Meal.

Mira: *yells at Nazim for drinking her Strawberry F&N*
Nazim: *giggles uncontrollably while fending off Mira*
Mira: *storms out of room*
Nazim: *still giggling*
Me: *very ticked off by all the yelling* Keluar!
Nazim: Hola!
Me: O_o;; Keluar!
Nazim: *still giggling, runs out of room*

Seriously. That boy does an awful lot of giggling.
Ooh, and a shout-out to Hannah's mom, who reads this web space. :D Hey Aunty!

Anyway, today wasn't as bad as I feared. Bio was incredibly fun. Laksh and I constantly related the Bio-topics to DEMON CHILD. Of course, none of you will understand what this DEMON CHILD is. Let me just say, when the time is right, and you ask me the right question, I might just enlighten you. ;)

Moving on, not everything was Fun and Laughter (tm) today. For one, I realised just what kind of effect Stupid Paper Monkey is having on our *ahem* society. Or maybe it's just the society itself. Whatever.

There are so many people who don't like school anymore. And that makes me sad. :( Not only that, but there's so much animosity flying all over the place. And people being depressed. And people who've just thrown caution to the winds and just don't care anymore.

Let's just say that the beginning of this year, everyone was so happy. I hope - no, pray - that I'll be able to see it again before we graduate. It's our last year, guys. I say we rock it. (I suggest doing the most awesome prank in SA history, but then again, that's just me wanting to act like Giggly!Jim in the first part of the post. And yeah, Jim is my pet name for Nazim. Yup. xD)

So let's give the remainder of the year our all, yeah? Maybe the teachers don't think that we live up to what our seniors built, but that doesn't mean we can't leave an impact on them. :) It's OK, it's alright, c'mon Form 5s ... fight fight FIGHT.

Ps. Blog Poll Numero Dos is up! Vote vote vote! :D

*yanks tie*

School started off great, then ended on a note so bitter, I choked. Or rather, tried to with the stupid striped tie.

I mean, I was set to enjoy the best of school days, i.e. the kind that only has four subjects, one of which is put on hold where we have to go to a pretty fun ceramah. And also the kind where I get to talk all day long no problemo. I got to discuss the finer points of film and literature (Hehe, the Avatar finale and the latest Pendragon book) with Tarsha, have an easy-going Bio lesson (I love learning Bio when it's human-related), build plot-points with Nad, good food for recess (seriously, prefects? Really good food-providers. xD I'm lookin' at you, Nahjan and Anne.), and one of those Agama class days where Ustazah tells super-cool Rasul stories.

And then the last two periods arrived.

And all I have to say is: I am tired of this. I'm sick and tired of getting teachers who completely make me feel like hating English. The last English teacher I really enjoyed was Pn. C (Yup teacher, it was you in Form 1. ;] ). It's not teaching-wise ... but just the way they make me feel during class. And Pn. B is really nice, but I hate it when she starts going on about us not paying attention in class and about letters.

I understand that you've got to get the job done, but really, I get so so so tired. So so tired of how that's the first thing you ever say when you come into class. None of us have ever had to worry about frickin' letters. None of the other teachers seemed to care. Form 5 seems a lot too late to plant the habit into us, considering we're ready to not care anymore.

And then, to all those other people who make me want to choke myself with the stupid tie even more. No offence, fellow classmates; but really, when a teacher starts off on a tangent and tells you to shut up? SHUT THE HELL UP. STOP THE FREAKING GIGGLING. Almost every single class, guys. I want to tear my lungs out every time a teacher howls at us about paying attention. Not all of you, of course. Most of you are super-cool classmates. But some of you (or one of you, I can't really decide).

So yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I'm acting like a total a-hole right now. But I had to get this off my chest. Oh, and here's another thing I want to get off my chest:

Stop hushing people when you're the one who's making the noise, you moron. I'm quite aware that you want to be every teacher's bestest friend. Stupid hypocrite. Just because you throw the story in first doesn't make you the person in the right. You're like that stupid kid in The Pencil story in Form 1, when he stole the pencil and squealed to the teacher that the other kid tried to steal it from you first.

You make me sick.

Sigh. I was pissed off all the way outside the school gates, and even in the car when Mama picked me up. I cheered up considerably when she took us to Subang Parade to visit the fish spa ... y'know, just to give it a try. It was incredibly ticklish. xD I closed my eyes because every time I saw just how many little fishies were gnawing at my legs, I'd get all giddy. But I got used to it after five minutes. My legs were all smooth afterwards. And the skin on my hand is slightly better (all you people close to me, you know about my hand) ... I could actually clench it properly (the way you're supposed to in Taekwando), something I've had trouble doing since last year.

So I'm thankful that something sweet happened after all the bitterness. It was a ... cute experience. xD