Just got back from Hong Kong on Friday. It was fun fun fun!!! But so gloomy!! It only rained twice at night but the days were still always misty and gray and gray... Had loads of fun nonetheless!!

I realise that my attempt at starting a twitter account is crashing and burning pretty quickly :p Firstly because I've protected my account so it can only be viewed by people whom I approve, and secondly because I haven't tweeted in more than a week. Fail. Oh well, can't say I didn't try it. Hehe.

On another note, I am very excited about becoming a Real Civil Engineer. Lol. I know that what I envision my job to be is a highly glamourised version of what my actual job will be like (once I start working that is) but I'm still excited about designing Real buildings and Real infrastructure that people will actually be using and being able to see the product of my designs in Real Life. Ahhhh!!! My holiday in Hong Kong only made me feel more excited - I had an awesome aerial view of the Hong Kong International Airport - a civil engineering marvel in it's own right :)

Anyway, completely unrelated - but my "flavour of the month":

Matt Bomer from the TV series "White Collar". Average storyline, hawt lead actor :p
Yess, I can be quite superficial sometimes.

tweet tweet

As the title suggests, I now 'tweet'. Along with a large portion of the American population and countless other people who are either constantly remotely connected to the web via phone/blackberry/iphone or jobless bums like me :p

Not sure how long this is going to last... It doesn't seem as interesting as Facebuku to me. Probably because I don't have a blackberry/iphone/3Gphone. Sad right? Well, I'm getting a new phone soon. It probably won't be too hi-tech since I don't see the need to waste a chunk of my precious savings on such a thing.

So for now, I'm still a Twitter noob+wannabe.
But that's cool with me - my life goals won't suffer from it.

The Perfect Leather Jacket!!!

Yes, I know it's already summer in Australia (not to mention summer all-year-round in Malaysia) but I couldn't help noticing this leather jacket at Mango/MNG which I had only half a mind to try on for obvious reasons (i.e. that it's too warm to wear a leather jacket around KL, in case it wasn't that obvious to you :p). Well, I decided to try it on anyway - and immediately fell in love!! Yes, I know this is a jacket I'm talking about being in love with. But seriously, I think it's safer to fall in love with a jacket rather than an actual person - more fun, more satisfaction, less heartache :p

So it's being reserved for me. I need my sister's stamp of approval before making the purchase. (Well, I'm planning to buy it even if she DOESN'T approve). But it would be nice if she liked it too :)

Here's a picture:

P.S. I'm very excited because I've been looking for the perfect leather jacket for quite some time. And I've just found it!! Now to find the perfect guy... Hehe.

Joshua Kadison - Jessie

I've heard this song on the radio before but never really paid any particular attention to it. Then just now, I happened upon it on YouTube (since I'm highly jobless :p). I read the lyrics while listening to the song and that was when the honest, raw emotion of the song hit me - it really is a pretty darn good song :) And which incidentally was written by the singer with reference to Sarah Jessica Parker of SATC fame (whom this Joshua dude dated for awhile)!

So, crappy 90s-style music video and weird tarzan-esque hairstyle aside, do give the song a listen if you haven't already.

From a phone booth in Vegas, Jessie calls at 5 A.M.
to tell me how she's tired of all of them.
She says, "Baby, I've been thinking 'bout a trailer by the sea.
We could go to Mexico... you, the cat and me.
We'll drink tequila and look for sea shells.
Now, doesn't that sound sweet?"
Oh, Jessie, you always do this every time I get back on my feet.

Jessie paint your pictures 'bout how it's gonna be.
By now I should know better, your dreams are never free.
But tell me all about our little trailer by the sea;
Jessie you can always sell any dream to me.
Oh, Jessie, you can always sell any dream to me.

She asks me how the cat's been. I say, "Moses he's just fine
but he used to think about you all the time.
We finally took your pictures down off the wall.
Oh, Jessie, how do you always seem to know just when to call?"
She says, "Get your stuff together. Bring mose and drive real fast."
And I listen to her promise, "I swear to God this time it's gonna last."

Jessie paint your pictures 'bout how it's gonna be.
By now I should know better, your dreams are never free.
But tell me all about our little trailer by the sea;
Jessie you can always sell any dream to me.

I'll love you in the sunshine, lay you down in the warm white sand.
And who knows, maybe this time things'll turn out just the way you planned.

Jessie paint your pictures 'bout how it's gonna be.
By now I should know better, your dreams are never free.
But tell me all about our little trailer by the sea;
Jessie you can always sell any dream to me.
Oh, Jessie, you can always sell any dream to me.

A Few Things:

• Bee vs Ant - didn't stick around to see which one won. I think the bee looks kinda cute, don't you? Brings back memories of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'. *sigh*
  

• Been trying to explain to my grandma that she is 87 this year but she insists that she's 88 and that everyone else is wrong for trying to tell her otherwise. LOL.
  
• I can't seem to talk and make hand gestures and drive at the same time. But hey, in my defense, I drive a manual car - which fyi, requires the use of BOTH hands to maneuver :p
• It's only 9.15pm right now but I really want to sleep because I am so jobless that the only other thing I can think of doing is to refresh facebook every 30 seconds sit here and finish this blog post. Boo.
• MOSQUITOESHAVEBEENATTACKINGMEANDWON'TSTOP!!! They have also somehow managed to develop a resistance to insect spray. Grrrr.....
  

Books to feed the word-hungry

Went to 'The Big Bad Booksale' in Amcorp mall just now. Ok, so the name sounds pretty lame - but the sale was AWESOME! Hundreds of books from autobiographies to fiction to self-help were on sale for as little as 5 Ringgit! Actually, most of them were either 5 or 8 Ringgit. Which converts to less than 3 Aussie dollars. A-may-zing! Obviuosly, being as word-hungry as I am and also considering the fact that I now am officially on holiday, I pretty much went crazy - picking up books like a tornado over Texas. Got myself a few thriller/mystery novels, a cookbook, an autobiography, another novel and a book of poems (for my sister whose attention span only lasts for one page - I figured she'd be able to handle reading the occasional poem since most of them are only a few lines long. hehe.).

So basically I bought 8 books (which will hopefully get me through the whole summer) and it only cost me RM60!! The other people there were walking around with cardboard boxes with easily over 20 books in them!! Seriously, I felt like Christmas had come early. I was that excited.

And now to read them - Fun fun fun :)