Wonderful world

My bedroom is cooling nowadays with the new blinds in place.
Just had breakfast, so my tummy's satisfied.
I'm working on a little DIY scene frame thingy which I will blog about when I've finished it.
Had a good day yesterday at Joe's dad's new restaurant.
Then later at Tropicana City Mall.
Had fun with you guys ... Fira, Joe, Jovenne, Carmen, Kent, John, Nick, Pinto ... and Joe's little bro Alif. Haha.
I'm in such a good mood.
Birds are singing outside.
And I can see little baby rambutans growing on the tree outside my window.
I'm reading Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett.
Listening to Speed of Sound by Coldplay.
Pebbles slept at my feet last night.

I turn to Peach's fishtank behind me and say, "Life is beautiful, isn't it Peach?"
He just stares back at me.
I'm smiling.
:)

Mouse and man

Sammie and I on MSN.
Total randomnesssss.

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Also ...
yesterday was Kent's B'day!
We celebrated at Nando's. It was awesomefun.
Happy birthday man! :D

Goodbye baby-cat.

Scout passed away today.
He was chased by one of the neighbourhood stray cats and fell into the sungai longkang.
Found him this evening.
:'(

Goodbye baby-cat. We had a good ten months together.
To Scout/Chedet/Det-Det/Unyil/Scoot/Scooty-poo.
We love you.

Snakes in a bottle

Red stuff.
During MMH class. Really tried to pay attention, but ... meh.
So Fyra, Jov and I dug through our bags to pull out all our pink/red stuff.
Fun. :)

We watched The Great Debaters yesterday, it was OK.
The subtitles sucked. Didn't help that the movie's full of freaking bombastic-isms and I couldn't understand what they were saying ... the subtitles just made me more confused.

Anyhoo, went to Subang Parade today to buy ice-cream! It's the 31st so yeah.
Baskin Robbins, baby.
Yum.
Bought If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern. It was among the suggestions for our ECS project so I looked it up on Wiki and got interested. 20% discount since that MPH is having a book fair. Not bad. Hoping to finish reading it by Monday.
After that went to KLIA to see Atuk, Matuk and Acu before they left for India.

Best part about going to the airport?

CHOCOLATES.
Uh-huh.
We saw this box of five choc bars that cost 60 bucks.
It's like the freakish designer label of chocolate. Gah.

And this Mira and I found in the prohibited items case.
It's a SNAKE IN A BOTTLE.
I'm not too sure what it was ... a drink? Yeah.
That should have a very ... unique taste.
Hmm.

The reason

'I believe I'm on this planet to do justice to this life that God has given me. It's like God has said,"Okay girl, here's your life. Let's see what you can do with it."'
- Roslyn

Found this lady's blog while searching for the old Royal Commonwealth Society Essay website.
Took a liking to it.
:)

Eternity

First things first ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VANESSA! :D

Anyway, first day of second semester!
I think it went by OK.
During IIT, this guy came in and everyone fell silent. I remember thinking, so this is our new lecturer. Hahaha, it'd be so funny if he wasn't.
Guess what.
He wasn't!
It was kinda funny. Haha.
Turns out whoever our lecturer is supposed to be s/he was sick today so we had two hours to kill. I dunno how we're going to cope our Mondays from now on ... we only get one hour of break with four different classes from morning to evening. What a nightmare.

Suki brought his new car today, so a group of us (Azhar, Vanessa, Michelle, Fyra, Jovenne and I) went to check it out. We could see it from across the road outside the college building, it was so striking. Haha. And it was pretty far away, considered. Just ... really stood out. Azhar took it for a test ride with all of us piled up inside the car. It was scary.

Oh and a lot of people were sporting new hairdos.
Totally random sentence sitting in the middle here like this.

During ECS we talked about what we're going to do for our English drama project for this semester. I'm pretty excited about it. Right now we're supposed to look up books that we can adapt into a stage play. Ms. M is leaning towards To Kill A Mockingbird. I love that book, but I think it'll be a little too heavy to turn into a drama. I'm worried it might end up boring. :/

So we all went off to do some research on possible script ideas.
And I stumbled upon Tuck Everlasting.
I saw the last five minutes of the movie once when I was 12 on Disney Channel. After that I waited and waited for them to show it again but they never did. I wanted to buy the book it was based on, but for some strange reason ... I never did. And the book just faded away from my conscious mind.
I read the synopsis just now at college.
And ... I kinda fell in love with it.
It's got some Twilight elements in there with the whole immortal thing going on, minus vampires, bad writing, lame plot-twists and annoying female lead. I watched it just now on YouTube. Here's the first part of the movie:



My eyes got watery at the end. I am so pitching this idea on Thursday's class.

The storyteller

Yasmin Ahmad
1958-2009
May Allah bless you.
Rest in peace.
:(

Found the news when Ashman posted about it on FB.
The 15Malaysia group was keeping tabs on her condition, and it was just announced around a half hour ago, give or take some minutes.
And I just found her blog like five minutes ago.
I've admired her, yes. But never really took the time to watch all her stuff, never got around to finding out more about her.

Well it's never too late to do that.

She'll be missed.

Scenes from a hat

I've watched these videos for so long ...
I'm starting to lose awareness of ... well whatever else that's been keeping me entertained for the past two weeks.
Who's Line is freaking hilarious.

Last day of holidays baby!
Starting tomorrow.
To mark the end, I will ... continue doing whatever it is I have been doing.
Yeah.
So much for getting a move on with my AfterParty novel-in-progress. I've only done one chapter. I'm so ... unmotivated to write at the moment. Blah.

*continues watching Who's Line*

Ancient cube of Rubik

Spent the past two days sweating in front of the computer.
Reasons:
1) Trying to learn to solve the Rubik's Cube off YouTube.
2) It was freaking hot, man.
3) I'm sick, it's a given to sweat off the fever.

So did it work?
YES IT DID.
I have beaten this crazy game! After years of buying from cheapo souvenir stalls in Melaka and giving up, breaking the cube into pieces because of clumsy fingers and finally deciding never to buy the stupid cube ever again (despite feeling like buying anyway, because it's pretty) I have DONE IT.

Took me two days following the YouTube videos.
And fifteen minutes by myself with some written down notes.
Haven't finished memorizing the moves yet, but hey! I just need to practice a few more times and I'll have it down pat.

That's one box ticked off my Things To Achieve In Life List.
:D

Strawberry sauce

Rainbow kittens. Inspired by the Pink Meow Kitty. :)

Pennacotta by Mama. Yummeyh.

Random convo:
Nazim: Kakya, why do they spell baloney as BO-LOG-NA?
Me: ... That's 'cause baloney is baloney and bologna is bologna.

Today, I am sick.
Bleurgh.
Had it coming I guess. The rest of the sibs already had theirs and I haven't been since the first few days back from NS. I just hope it wears off by the time second sem starts.

Can't remember what I wanted to write here last night.
Fell asleep at 9 because of the meds.
I haven't slept that early since ... since ...
Gosh I can't even remember.
Ah well.

EDIT:
Got results!
Happy beyond belief!
:D
Alhamdulillah.