Random, but I was just thinking - "What's the best advice my dad has given me?"

Answer:
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket"

Soooo truee - it works all the time!

Yes, it's that time of year again - assignments... I NEED to be panicking right now if I want to produce good assignments and have them finished on time! Sometimes panic is a good thing?

So it's just one of those days - Friday night/Saturday morning, mid-semester break, eyes barely open - and for some reason I don't feel like going to sleep. It feels like I'm an 8-year-old all over again. I don't know why I chose the age 8, or why I am even writing this post.

I'm giving in to my sleepiness in 2 minutes (just enough time to shut down my laptop :p).

♥ the view from my window :)

Ok, so the picture obviously doesn't do my view any justice :p But you can see the tall buildings in the background.... they look nice... ?

Butt Pain

I'm not sure whether it was the little slip in the bathtub or sitting on the hard choir benches at Ormond or my bad sleeping posture that did it. But the result of one of the aforementioned occasions is that my tailbone is now SORE and I can't sit down, or walk, or even STAND properly!!!

I now literally have a pain in the butt :p

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.....
  

Absolut Mango vs The Real Mango

The Real Mango tastes better and is better for you too!! (and A LOT cheaper :p)

Also, since this post is dedicated entirely to all things strictly mango-related, I think everyone should know that I'm craving mango with sticky rice right now :(

A Few Lessons Learned

1. There is hope yet to find my Mr. Right. I watched a friend find hers right infront of my eyes :) Now I just have to pray really REALLY hard that I'll find mine soon.
   
   
2. You don't even have to be remotely drunk to dance if the music and the company are good.
   
   
3. Mushroom pizza ain't all that great...
   
   
4. Good concealer is MAGIC. Made my snowboarding bruise invisible. Nyehehe.
   
   
5. Don't ever use a unisex toilet in a club/bar (unless you reaaally need to pee). Dodgy things happen. And there is always a very suspicious-looking puddle of god-knows-what on the floor around the toilet bowl. Blegh :s

I have boiled this one particularly unfortunate egg 4 times over... The final time was for about 30 minutes... Talk about overkill :p

See, 3 people told me that rolling a boiled egg over a blue-black bruise somehow makes it heal quicker. And it works!! Hehee :) Except, I can't bring myself to eat the egg... So I've been reusing it instead :p

I'm NOT planning to crack it open to see how it looks on the inside.

As I write this post, I am on a weird caffeine+condensedmilk high... On the way down, I think. But still pretty darn high. Note to all: DON'T drink 3 cups of teh tarik in a row if you don't usually take caffeinated drinks. Boo.

I went snowboarding last weekend. More details later.
I went for a Malaysian seminar thingo today. More details later.
I want to play the piano but am too fidget-y to produce any actual music.

I want to write more, but my brain will not permit me to :p

Maybe tomorrow :)

I've just spent the past hour reading random blogs and going through my old, old facebook wall posts and am feeling particularly philosophical about life - what it's given me in the past and what it has in store for me in the future.

A few slightly disjointed thoughts:

• It's confusing trying to read into everything that happens in your life and interpreting it as a 'sign' of some sort; Difficult to predict from these supposed 'signs' what lies ahead. And yet, without fail, everyone does exactly that every single day.
  
  
• About soulmates: I always wonder if I will find mine, or if such a thing even exists. Recently 2 things I've read/heard regarding this very thing have been featuring constantly in my thoughts. One is what I read in a book that says that a soulmate doesn't have to be someone who remains in your life forever but instead comes into your life in your time of greatest need, to help you, and then leaves once his/her duty is done. The other is what someone told a friend who then told me: that there is not one, but many soulmates for any one person in this world - the key is to stop looking once you've found one soulmate.
  
  
• It's interesting how everyone has different ideas of what the ultimate goal of their life should be - some say it's having a successful career and making lots of money; some say it's getting married and having a family; and some don't even look that far ahead but instead choose to live life once day at a time. I always wonder: What is MY ultimate goal in life?
  
  
• I just straightened (well, to be accurate, I should say 'relaxed') my hair 1 week ago but can't help noticing what looks like the beginnings of a curl in one particular lock of hair... Meh. So much for having straight hair for a change.
  

Swine Flu Bull$#!t

Like SERIOUSLY PEOPLE!!!

This swine flu is practically the same as the normal flu. Just accept it and move on with life. If you get the flu, then all you have to do is take a course of antibiotics, rest, and recover! So what if other people get infected. We don't quarantine people with the regular flu. And that causes more deaths than the swine flu does! Meh.

I think the Malaysian Health Ministry is massively overreacting - closing down schools, quarantining people who've been in contact with infected people, asking students studying in Australia not to return home. But wait, there's more - you could be fined up to RM10,000 or jailed for up to 2 years for withholding health information about yourself... :s

Seriously, I think the resources wasted on all that can and should be used for more important things.

Found these cute little works of art/vandalism in Melbourne. I totally agree with the message that the people who did this were trying to put forth. Basically, there are these cute life-sized sculptures of 3 skinny men in business suits, holding their briefcases and random Melbournians have taken the opportunity to use them as part of their mini awareness-raising campaigns (I once saw them with cigarettes in their o-shaped mouths - so cute!). Here, they are wearing masks. Lol!

The T-word :p

I bought turkey by accident at the supermarket. Came home, read the packaging for the first time, and realised that it wasn't chicken, but turkey! Meh. Only someone called Shobie could do something as silly as that :p It said 'TURKEY' on the front. But I didn't realise that when I was buying it :s

Didn't want to waste it. So I cooked it anyway. Surprisingly, it tasted good! Probably because it was fake turkey... tasted a lot like chicken... and quite unlike the turkey I usually have... but that's only roast turkey, for Christmas - so maybe it's meant to taste different :p

So having the other turkey breast today. Yumm :)

I think I'm going to start using short sentences from now on. Like this. Hee.

(NOT YET PSYCHO... but getting there... as you can probably tell)


And just a little something on the side - found this printing error on a sign at the Asian grocer's here :)

I FOUND MY PENGUIN!! ♥ ♥ ♥

:) :) :)

I found it!

See, when I reformatted my laptop, my msn emoticons got wiped out along with all the junk I had in it. And my penguin that waves goodbye to everyone I chat with on msn was gone too.

As expected, I searched high and low for this emoticon. But none of the people I asked, whom I thought would have it, had it. Not a soul... It was as if this poor, cute little waving penguin had disappeared from the face of the world of Windows Live Messenger without a trace. Boohoo :(

But then today, my cousin Dhaaren who was bored to the point of insanity in his home started sending me all these random emoticons over Messenger. And then I realised that there was a good chance that he'd have that ever-so-elusive penguin emoticon! AND HE DID!!!

:)

So now I have my penguin back - to wave goodbye to the people I chat with. Yayyy!!

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

FMyLife :p

- Today, I tasted rainbow. By that, I mean a homeless man hit me in the face with a bag of Skittles for not giving him money. FML -

My friend, Priya, told me about this website called www.fmylife.com and so I decided to check it out. The validity of some of the stories are questionable. But some are obviously true and, like the one above, make you laugh out loud. So funny!! :p

If you haven't discovered it for your self already, you should go right noww! :)

Lemme Think...

I haven't been blogging as frequently as I'd like to. No mood, no time and no inspiration!!! Wait... maybe mood and inspiration are the same thing? Hhmmm... *thinks hard*

Anyway, yeah. I dunno what else to say now.

Maybe it's because I'm having issues with myself - whether or not to force myself to come up with a post, what to write about, whether or not people will be entertained... does a lack of enthusiasm translate onto plasma???

Maybe I should talk about a new song?

No.

I'll just show everyone a picture of the wet look tights I bought. (They look like skinny leather pants from afar. Teehee!)

I ♥ my Body Shop Exfoliating Mitts :)

I just bought these mitts 2 weeks ago and have been religiously using them about 4 times a week. Soo good!!! It makes me feel good about myself :p And they look nice too!

And

I also noticed that my blood circulation's improved... Though I'm not sure if exfoliating mitts are meant to do that. Added bonus :)

I'm doing a much better job with this blog than with my journal. I haven't written in it for 2 weeks and 2 days now. I will try to recap briefly the going ons of the past 2 weeks in my journal tonight. I wish my journal had an auto-write button! :p But it doesn't. So I have to write everything in myself, using my own hand. Meh.

Going to pain my hand now. Yes, I said 'pain my hand'. In my speak, it means write till my arm muscles learn and memorise the true meaning of PAIN. Lol :p And also 'ouch' in advance... :s

How To...

Blow your shoe!!

Haha. There's some randomness for you. Meh.

I'm bored. Bored bored bored boredddd.

It's ok, I know that boredom doesn't kill. Even though sometimes it really feels like it does.

I think I will try to go draw something in my journal (which has now become a little picture journal). Hey, I might even get good at it :p

Toodles!!