sushi daze

Off to a food binge-ing weekend. Won’t promise to update!

PS – August felt like 5 seconds wtf?!

the malaysian animal farm

The wheels of the bus goes round and round ~

Sorry, that song was stuck on my head the morning we left for the zoo. I think it’s because going to the zoo makes me feel like a kid again, and it was a happy day, thus a happy kid song.

Twas a nice day, had fun, lalala until next week when he got hospitalized for dengue and we think it’s from, you know, the zoo.

Poor dude, animals and little kids always seem to like me more.

 

See! Not kidding, animals DO love me! (With the exception of dengue mosquitoes perhaps, haha) Have lots more pictures but I have to sleep.

Giraffes are fascinating creatures!

So handsome!

Toni & Guy Graduation ‘10

*AT THE SCENE (shameless name-dropping): Samantha K, Hitomi, Reiko, Zoe

So the other day we were at this graduation show for Toni & Guy’s first batch of diploma students. When I said we, I meant Jer Yen and I; I practically pulled her hair in forcing her to join me in this.

Billy was our hairstylist and he coloured my hair green (original plan grey) a few days before the show. You can see my hair better in the next picture. And yes, it’s still like this now.

Here’s a picture of me with my make up artist Max, from Style & Sense.

There were 7 hairstylists and 10 models each. Um I don’t know why Billy had 14(as per below).

Everyone loved my camera and its swivel display screen! Good investment, good investment :P

And I had a picture with the Twilight guys!

No, really.

even the long-necked knows it

Is it me or is it normal to not want to have messy unread/uncleared messages/notifications in my email/facebook? (Wow thats a lot of or’s!) I MUST read and sort out properly my emails as well as clear my facebook notifications (you know the one on the right side) even if I have to choose ‘ignore’ or ‘maybe’, or else I’ll feel like there is something still left undone. Which is why I can’t understand why some people can leave the requests and notifications piling up, ignored and just staying there forever and ever, not cleaning up the numbers!

OCD or I have not reached that level of ignorance?
 

Even the giraffe knows its priorities. And that includes ignoring an empty hand reaching out to pet its nose.

unpaint your life and put it in words

#1 At 20, I am so exhausted with life and people that all I want to do is curl up in my bed with colourful bubbly vodka and Nancy Drew. Alone! Too bad I only found the literature treasure after my new semester started; what a waste of my month-long holiday.

#1b It’s such a joke to think that it is during the holidays that I tend to get more bored, depressed and stressed as compared to during the study period when I’m supposed to be more worried with assignments and what not. A friend once said that happiness is the pursuing of attainable goals, and I very much agree with her. Life has to have a purpose, and contrary to popular belief, procrastinating is much more fun when you have an assignment due soon.

#2 Personal creative project: fashioning and filling up my IKEA corkboard! No pictures because I think that it’s really personal…okay who am I kidding, I am a picture-sharing-freak, it’s just that I am just lazy to transfer it from my camera tonight.

#3 I do think it’s time to go to church again.

#4 How is it that the older one gets, the more you will tend to appreciate your parents?

#4b I hope that none of my family members read my blog (and stumble upon that potentially embarrassing-due-to-hint-of-appreciation-towards-people-in-general statement). Fat chance.

#5 Just because I don’t advertise my grief doesn’t mean I don’t love him as much as you do.

#6 Pretentious people I hate. What does that word mean anyway?

#7 I do think that I need to go for a medical check up soon. I’m sure that usually people do not get terrible killer headaches so frequently like I do?

#8 Why is it that the grass is always greener on the other side? Do people from the other side think the same way about my side? Here’s where the ‘put yourself in my shoes’ proverb thing come in…

#9 Do you get annoyed with random unexplainable long titles such as this post’s?

#9b No, don’t answer that, short of being rude (or maybe I am) I don’t care. I’m sick and tired of caring about what others think and what they want instead of what I really want. Sometimes I really think that I deserve more. Now I know.

#10 If only I can get paid to do the things I love…cuddling in bed with colourful bubbly vodka and Nancy Drews…it’s like somebody saying they wish that they’d get paid to sleep all day long and read children’s books while getting drunk.

Oh wait.

orianthi live in KL 2010

Hi all, I just returned from a rockin’ good concert.

She’s a famous guitarist slash singer, with a couple of radio hits that Malaysia should be familiar with…something that goes like: “According To You”?

She’s half-Greek, blond, has really sharp features and knows how to give the audience a rockin’ good time!

She’s none other than Ms Panagaris, known simply as Orianthi!

I love her expression in this one: pure ecstasy!

Headbang: One of her guitarist, Bryan rocks it

Yes I got a pick! Two actually :P

Although I was never really a fan of hers, knowing only her two famous singles, today at Orianthi Live KL she has earned my new-found respect in her mad awesome guitar skills which earned her the position as lead guitarist for Michael Jackson’s supposed-to-be tour.

I’ll share the Flickr link of the full set and maybe* a couple of videos too (*maybe because the sound quality was really bad as I stood too near the bass /sad), but definitely more pictures as the stage setting and atmosphere made the pictures too good to only be shared among my facebook friends, as I normally do.

I might also have a group picture of us to show for!

PS - If you think that my pictures look surprisingly familiar here...well you're not wrong. *humble

we’ll see the last of you

I have an exciting creative project on the way!

And such a pretty nail-do, I wonder whether it will last longer than the 2 hours it usually only lasts.

Short life updates, if you’re interested:

#1 I'd turned 20 recently if you didn’t know. Midway to middle age!

#2 Semester four starts next week. I’ll be more than halfway through with my degree then. Too scary!

#3 Can’t wait for World Stage this weekend! Lucky bugger hamster gets to interview Katy Perry! O.o

#4 How d’ya like my new layout? Thanks very much to beautiful vintage blog shabbyblogs.com for the background and header! It’s a temporary header though, but I’m guessing with my procrastination it’ll probably be here for quite awhile. :D

#5 I started a Books I’ve Read page, do check it out. It’s a good way of keeping track! What more with the Taylor’s Book Club that we’re starting in the new sem, I guess it’s a great idea to encourage people to read.

#6 I’m still recovering from a severe bout of pharynx-gitis, which made it painful every time I swallow even porridge or water. I think my cousin caught it from me though, oops!

#7 July was really lethargic and unexciting. August & September looks bright though! :)

hidden gems

I am of the opinion that there are 3 kinds of regularly updated blogs: the really good ones with high readership, the specific niche ones with slightly higher than average readership, and the hidden gems with low readership. The lousy ones with low readership don't get a mention because 4 types of anything is too much and distracts the reader's attention.

Anyhow, I'd like to think that im the third kind. Only because I think too highly of myself to call my blogging style 'boring' and it also cannot be denied that readershp has declined greatly ever since I imported all my older posts away to 'start anew'.

Here is why I think the hidden gems have such low readership:

1. Most people feel intimidated by the intelligent musings and words we use in our writing.

2. They cannot think deep therefore find our cryptic short or wordy blog posts frustrating.

3. They prefer to write about 'what I did today' & they think that every personal blog with no specific niche should do the same. (BTW I've thought about it and I think that my niche is 'personal musings' which should be interesting enuf for u bitch cos I am awesome and breathing the same air with me automatically renders you a fan of me). No, really, im not joking.

4. Our blogs are not 'socially up to date'. Meaning we dont blog about latest events which actually generate quite a bit of search hits, believe me. But then we're not event bloggers so its excusable if all we wanna do is wallow in self-pity all day long and write long cryptic emotional posts.

5. We do not 'promote' our blogs enough. Okay okay so I mention my blog in almost every opportunity I get, but this is not what i meant. I just don't take the effort to do what many bloggers do which is for example, try to get clicks from joining contests in fellow bloggers' blogs as well as some who (un)selflessly go in to every blog and leaving a "Nanged..." comment in their cboxes. Those going to blogs and leaving proper comment are acceptable because they take the effort to. Unlike ppl who "Clicked on your ad!" and tells the whole world so.*

You might say I've sour grapes but I do hv (a certain level) of self respect! Writing whatever I like whenever I want for whoever who wants to read is what I'll do and what I'm doing, and that should be good enough for me, even if not for you.

Really, sometimes I think I'm too philosophical for my own good.

*no apologies if thats what you do.

had a little brown weekend!

Not having food weighing machines and measuring cups makes it slightly harder to bake stuff. However I can always rely on the good ol’ instant bake mix or just rely on the ‘agak-agak’ method which however has yet to prove its success. I guess I’m not really good in guessing games.

Amazing how a little icing sugar makes everything looks 10x better.

Ingredients & instructions:

1. One instant baking mix of whatever brand you like.
2. Follow the instructions.
3. Be prepared to adapt and expect a variation of whatever you see on the front box cover.

bon odori ‘10: simplified

Car parked miles away, long walk to stadium in the middle of factories area, milling in claustrophobic sweaty crowds, overpriced Isetan food, grass wet with melted ice, non-Japanese people in yukatas, familiar music and dancing in the centre of the stadium…same old, same old… <More pictures here>

I want to go to the Penang one next year, I heard that there were fireworks too!

Oh and join Taylor’s Book Club here!