Aw mannn! (Btw, a good friend told me to stop saying 'aw man' coz it makes me sounds like a dude... Say whaaat? :p) It's cowld outside!! COWLDDDD :(

I just want to stay in my bed the WHOLE day and sleep and have someone bring me food when I'm hungry and massage my feet when I get pins and needles... Any volunteers?

Maybe I should sleep a teeny bit more. It is after all, a Sunday. Meh. SUN-day. Where's the sun???

To make up for the 'lack of sun', I'm putting this picture here:

No, I changed my mind. I can't find a nice picture of the sun. Booo.

:p

Taylor Swift - BLEGH!

So I woke up this morning with the song 'Love Story' by Taylor Swift stuck in my head.
Noooooooo!!! Blegh.

See, I really don't like her. Her voice is weak and uninspired - surely there are more talented and deserving artistes that are more worthy of her song slots? So maybe she's one level above Paris Hilton in terms of her ability as a songwriter. But when it comes to vocal prowess - very ParisHilton-esque!!

Yeah, so now I'm annoyed that I have this stupid song by this poor excuse of a singer stuck in my head!

REALLY don't like her.

Just Point and Shoot?

Why can't guys aim and pee INTO the toilet bowl? Is it really that difficult to point and shoot with some sort of accuracy? The people who designed the toilet bowl obviously left a lot of room for error and yet, there are still some of you out there who just can't contain it (meaning your pee) in the provided space. Geez!! Grow up already?!

I DO NOT understand!

Meh.

Politically INcorrect

I still cannot believe that despite living so close to Asia, Australians are still so ignorant of certain cultural and geographical information pertaining to Asia. One big one is that Aussies use the term 'Asian' to describe any East Asian person. The last time I checked, India was part of Asia... But no, in Australia, Indians aren't considered to be 'Asians'. Go figure.

So what trigerred off this attack? I am so absolutely and totally tired of explaining to people that Malaysians are not all Chinese! There are Malays and Indians and even a few other kinds of people who are Malaysian too. Get that right!!

So in the beginning, I found it amusing that despite sounding totally un-Indian or Sri Lankan (and sometimes even ohsoMalaysian), people still mistook me for being from India or Sri Lanka. And when I say "no I'm from Malaysia", they just look a little surprised and I leave it at that. We move on to talk about other things and all is good.

Today however, at one of my classes, this girl asked me if I was born in Australia... Yeah, coz I sound sooo Australian right? Mate? :p Lol. Obviously I set her straight by telling her, in a very friendly and polite manner, that I was Malaysian. Then came the usual 'look of surprise', but no, she didn't just stop there.

She had to say "But you don't LOOK Malaysian".

Wtf? Do Malaysians have only one 'look'? Ermm... This was where I started getting annoyed. Didn't show it of course, but I was boiling on the inside. And who can blame me?

So I asked her "What do you think Malaysians are supposed to look like?".

Well, I don't know if that was a good question to ask her or not considering my very annoyed state of mind because her answer just very nearly tipped me over the edge.

She said, "I dunno, Asian?".

Me: Gggrr... *no comment*

As you can imagine (or not) I was dangerously close to saying something mean to her. But I didn't. Yay me! :p

What IS 'The Secret'?

Recently, everyone has been talking about this book called 'The Secret'. Apparently it is a life changing experience to have read this book... Ooookaayyyy. Yeah, right :p

Well, I went for my routine dental check-up this afternoon and my dentist's waiting area had a copy of the book. I wanted to know what this amazing life-changing secret was and so I casually flipped through the book. I found a page that said 'What is the Secret?'. Guess what the answer was? I would never have guessed what was coming next. Well, the Secret is.... wait for it... Attraction o_O

Yeah, well I guess it sort of made sense. Our lives are based on different attractions to anything and everything that surrounds us everyday. But it took an over-hyped book to tell us that? I didn't have time to read more but my sister says that there is more than one Secret in that book. I guess its for me to discover when I have more time :p

So for now, the Big Secret seems to be ATTRACTION. Gah! I wish I had thought of that...

I couldn't go shopping because I woke up late...

This is me complaining...

1. I was supposed to go to Mid Valley but accidentally overslept...
   
2. My new glasses and contacts were supposed to be made before the Chinese New Year but still aren't ready :(
3. My dentist doesn't want to me to make an appointment to see her... no one is answering my calls...

This is dumb. I will stop now... though part of me wants to go on ranting, I'm guessing no one else wants to hear me complain except myself. And I also am aware of how emo I sound :p For the record, I'm NOT feeling emo.

:D :D :D

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Gosh, what a night (or should I say morning?) its been!

Well, it all started with the Federer-Djokovic semis clash which ended with Djokovic beating poor Roger in straight sets. I was shocked!! And what's worse was that I couldn't decide whether I should be feeling sad for Federer or elated for Djokovic. Hence, 'mis-event' number 1.

Then there was the dinner by my old choir to thank all the students, teachers and parents for their support in helping her open her choral academy. Food was good, company even better... then came the lucky draw... :s The highlight of draw being 2 Triumph gifts. There were about 30 odd people at the dinner and about 30 prizes to be given away at the lucky draw. And there I sat waiting for my name to be called out. The odds were pretty much 100% that I would win something, it was just a matter of when. Once all the other gifts had been given away, it was Triumph gift time... Yours truly won the gift pack which included a, very loudly publicised, g-string. No, not the kind that is metal and found on string instruments. This was a g-string. And to top it off, I was sitting with my parents when my name was called! 'Mis-event' number 2.

After the dinner, we (my parents and I) had to pick my sister up from her friend's birthday party at Starhill and we arrived about 1 hour too early. So we conveniently sat down at the lobby of the Marriot and waited patiently... Not so much a 'mis-event' as the previous 2, but one nonetheless. ('Mis-event' number 3)

So finally, my sister and her friend (whom we were giving a lift back) left the party and we were finally headed home!!! Now would be a good time to mention that my dad's brain shuts down at about 11 pm most days and it was already nearly 12 am when we accidentally jumped a red light. And it wasn't even a big red light, it was a teeny weeny pedestrian red light. And note that it wasn't done intentionally as my dad's brain had most certainly stopped working regularly by then. So we thought, "okay, we'll just keep going since we didn't notice that the light was red" but no... A few seconds later, a police patrol car came up behind us and signalled for us to pull over. 'Mis-event' number 4 - we got fined for 'jumping a red light'. Gah!!

So there... my whole line of unfortunate (I used the prefix 'mis', a little lazy word shortcut of mine) events. But what an experience it was :D

The Most Random of 'Em All

Yeah, I'm feeling a little random right now... well, more random than I usually am at least.
I think its the chocolate brownie I had earlier. It's having delayed effects on my brain. Or it could be some abnormal hormone imbalance... when are hormone imbalances ever normal? (a rhetorical question...?)

Ya... What else do I say?
I want to sleep, but my brain does not allow it... Feel sad for me. Pleeeeaasseee!!

Tomorrow's a Sunday. I'm going to be a lazy couch potato that watches the Aussie Open the whole day. Weeeeeee!! Parhaps by osmosis (can athletic ability permeate the tv screen?) I will be able to play like Roger... Wishful thinking, I know. But maybe.....

I don't think I should have had that chocolate brownie... I wasn't really hungry when I had it, just a little greedy. Oh well, such is my life :( Boo hoo.

Yeah, maybe this post is getting freaky/weird (in a bad way)/annoying/mundane (what does mundane mean exactly?)... but yeah, you get the picture.

Ok, I will stop now and you can stop your eye-rolling/cringing/yawning/snoozing/all of the above (well not exactly above...)

Don't be scared!! I'm not evil, I swear!

Yeah... don't run away (well, not too quickly at least)

does blogging make a person more self-involved and narcissistic?

Why Smoking Is Bad For You

(Totally unrelated to title) A friend pointed out that in one of my earlier posts, I thanked all those who commented on my blog but forgot to thank those who visited my blog but didn't necessarily leave a comment. So here's a big thank you to everyone reading this blog too :D

And to the main point of this post...

Why smoking is bad for you:
- Smoking causes cancer, heart disease and lung disease (OMG!! No way!! *rolls eyes*)
- Passive smoking is bad (really, really bad) for the people around you. So you're not only
shortening your own life span but that of others too.
- Smoking = $$$. Think of all the good things you could do with all that money spent on cigarettes.

That's basically the gist of all the anti-smoking ads and campaigns (except perhaps that last point). Like its going to convince a smoker to stop smoking... I know people who've had diseases caused by smoking and still insist on their daily pack. Why would anyone subject themselves to such a slow and almost always painful death? Self-inflicted too! I don't get it at all.

Its NOT COOL to smoke
People who smoke usually snore because their lungs and throat are so congested with gross things (not cool!!)
Neither is it beneficial to your health...
Addictive maybe, so why do people start smoking in the first place?
If its because of stress, try chewing gum!! Or even minor electrocution... Well basically what I'm trying to say is that there are other alternative stress relieving habits (don't count drugs)

So there, that's me venting out my frustration on this whole matter about smoking and my lack of understanding as to why people choose to start smoking in the first place.

Crazy/Beautiful

I was watching this movie on TV today and in the beginning thought "what a pointless movie this is". As the movie progressed, I began thinking "what an annoying movie!! ggrrrr...". Seriously. The character played by Kirsten Dunst had to be the most screwed up person I've ever known/seen. She seems to hate herself and yet she is self-involved enough to feel sorry for herself at the same time. Which is what annoyed me the most. She should just make up her mind already!! I could go on, but I'm sure you get the picture ;)

Towards the end of the movie however, I realised that it wasn't such a bad movie after all. It gave a pretty good insight to the life of an emotionally screwed up teenager (which was played really well by Kirsten Dunst) and there were some touching father-daughter scenes thrown in to good effect. So overall, I had a much better impression of the movie than I did initially. (But the girl still annoys me :p)