Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Rage my head off

ROOOAARRRR

Am having the worst luck ever! EVER! EVER!

I flick sauce onto my top when I'm having lunch.
I get barked at when I'm walking home. Twice. Fuck, now I hate dogs.
I banged into a telephone when I was coming out of the washroom.
I fell down onto the road on my ass because of a stinking dick of an ass cat.
I totally forgot about the IMC Quiz until Linda reminded me.
I don't have the fonts for my IDP newsletter.
I find out I have to make a speech. To get people to vote.
I tripped on my heel while I was taking a step back.
The CRM Quiz was a total bomb.
I blew my top off at Tun because he wasn't talking properly on the phone and later found out Chee Hang was the one who received my rant.

and now I STILL can't drive. Am waging the silent war at You-know-who. Although I wonder how long it will take before he even notices. He probably won't even notice; he's THAT blur.

AGGHHHH VERY ANGRY! NEED TO KILL SOMETHING!

Actually I've already had a go at a wasp. But it's icky. So I'll let You-know-who clean it.

This is the start of what is going to be a very violent month.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Points, Shoots and Leaves.

For any beginner delving into digital photography and getting their first digital camera for not-serious photography, most people would recommend a point and shoot camera. It's the best kind to start off with, because well.. you can't get more basic than point and shoot.

Personally I would always recommend Ixus only because it's my first digicam, and it's one of the best digicams I've handled. Canon makes very user friendly cameras, and it's great to handle. Okay la, I'm damn biased, but really! I've handled Francine's dunno what model camera, but it a bit klunky and hard to control compared to what I've become used to. Calvin's Lumix (?) is a pretty nice gadget that's probably the best I've handled besides mine; it's got image stabilisation, if I'm not wrong, higher pixel count, and the screen is bloody huge. I've only ever shot with Rahjis' Powershot a few times back in form 5, and it's flipable screen was pretty cool, but really, when all is said and done, it's not something you can stuff into a purse because of its comparitively huge size. My sister's Ixus 55 is undoubtedly better than mine; bigger screen plus, my favorite, it has colour filters! Niiiice. Some more some more.. I can't remember KarBear's camera, cause she hardly brings it out. I'm not even entirely sure it's hers.

And I hate Cyber-shots. I hate the way they feel in my hand, I hate the responsiveness, I hate the shape of it. Suxi eats and spits out Cybershots for breakfast.

Lydia mentioned that she was considering getting a digicam the other day. Okay, I'm no expert la (modeeesttt), but I will share my experience when I was first acquiring Suxi.

Okay, first all, my mom made me do my research. You have no chance of anything if you don't know what you're talking about when you ask for something. So I did my homework. I pretty much focused on Canon because they had a lot of heavy advertising going on then, and I didn't think much of other brands, not even Olympus, although at one time I think I was considering the Mju thingy, but daymn, it had an ugly shape. Factors taken into consideration were budget (mom was pretty generous), pixel count, features, zoom, and er.. the colour. :D Alas, no pink, except the cybershot.

Of course, very easy for people to make the misconception that megapixels make the camera. AU CONTRAIRE! Yes, higher pixel count is related to a higher resolution lar, equating to clearer shots, but the sensor of the camera also matters! An 8MP camera with small low quality sensor will take inferior shots to my little old school 4MP Suxi. BLUEKKK! And besides, unless you're going to be printing anything larger than A4 size, 4MP is sufficient most of the time. Buy so many MP for what, can eat ah.

If you're really picky about getting value for your dollar, most cameras offer glitzy features nowadays like image stabilisation, filters, and dunno what else. IS would be pretty handy, but you won't die without it la, unless you've got Parkinsons. I've overcome blur shots by hiking up my ISO when using flash is not a good option, at the price of extra noise in the photo, but it's not too bad. Filters are fun, although I don't know how many cameras offer that feature, and plus, you can always cheat that with a little photoshop effort.

Besides, it's the photographer, not the camera.

Wah I crap a lot hor.

Anyway to PROVE that my little 4MP-only Suxi can kick ass, here's my gallery. It only has 7 shots la, and yes, I edit, but still damn chun right?

Fuyoh, blow my own trumpet all. Rage la. Hehe.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Baskin is a rude Robbins

Lydia asked me to blog. If she didn't I'd probably have forgotten to log in to Blogger until something majorly happening er. happened.

2007 is extra stressful, dunno why! I told KarBear yesterday night that this year I am much more serious about studies, and thus extra stress, and thus less tolerating in general. I told her I must be finally growing up. Come come, let us celebrate this coming of age!

But yes! I have hardly any patience for anything anymore! Meaning to say I am very mean la, and plus, I get extra angry and pissy and hissy-fitty and bitchy and violent. I give you example.

Today was Tun's birthday so we headed to Nando's in One U to makan. The Sun has also been publishing coupons for Baskin Robbin's free one scoop ice cream. Linda and I have been collecting coupons like anything. So far she has 5, and I have three; what to do, we are kiasu Malaysians and we like ice cream.

WALA WEIIII we got ATTITUDE from this fella who scoops the ice cream at One U's Baskin Robbins (the one near RedRumMurder and Cherrielle).

I asked him what the flavour of the day was, because (and I really do read the terms and conditions of all coupons and vouchers and stuff la! Must know your legal rights okay.) the coupon states that you have to buy the flavour of the day then only you get one free scoop of your choice. So I asked la, dunno what the fella mumble, just motion for me to give him the coupon only. So fiiiine I give him. He points to the flavour advertised. Mind you, it never said THAT was the flavour of the day)

"Okay, I'll have one scoop of this (points at Maui Brownie) and... "

*wanders off to the next section*

*spots Pralines and Cream*

"And THIS one!" *pokes finger at glass*

eh..where's the fella.. Had to wait for him, give him look, then poke again at Pralines and Cream.

"Yeah, I'll have this one please"

The faggot go and SIGH. WTH I CANNOT ORDER ICE CREAM IS IT!?? WOULD IT KILL YOU TO WALK ONE MORE METRE TO PRALINES AND CREAM?? YOU GOT ONLY ONE LEG AH? PEOPLE WITH NO LEGS ALSO CAN RUN MARATHON YOU CANNOT WALK IS IT???!!! (Okay la, I dunno if there actually is anybody with no legs who run marathons, but I'm sure there are people with only one leg who do that okay don't argue with me, I'm angry)

Then he was holding two normal sized ice cream cones. Takkan I want to hold two ice cream cones and lick them alternately right? A bit greedy looking, and 'sides I don't fancy their small ice cream cones. They go soggy. So I asked VERY POLITELY (polite tone, 'excuse me, could I..') if I could have the two scoops in the big cone.

Retard obviously got no authority so he looks at his boss, he says cannot.

"Oh.. Well, it's alright then, could I just have it in a cup please?"

The fella scoops my Pralines and Cream.

and SLAMS it down on the counter.

Excuse me, cibai hailat pukima asswipe! DO NOT SLAM MY FREAKING ICE CREAM ON THE COUNTER! VERY TIRING TO PUT THE ICE CREAM CONES BACK IS IT? geeeeeezuuussss (@$&@)(!)@$( Fucker, want to get shelling and slapping from me is it? I've never slapped anyone in anger or bitchiness before, but I can tell you that you would definitely get a bright red palm print! My friends will confirm that...

People like this are the bane (or is it boon? whatevs, the bad one.) of the service industry. Of course, they're not here to serve you. They're employed to scoop ice cream. One can argue that they're not paid to wait on you hand and foot. But I will also reiterate that if you cannot give me service with a smile, you'd better be one of those pasar malam vendors or hawkers because I expect service in any shoplot to be polite at the very least. If the Baskin Robbins at Pyramid can give me excellent friendly service with a smile, I see no reason why you cannot at least be polite. Rudeness does not have a place in any bloody job unless you're an actor on MTV Punked or Boiling Points. And very few people tolerate rudeness. I am not one of those people.

You sad pathetic fool, I hope you serve ice cream for the rest of your life. And not from an air-conditioned lot. I hope you serve it from a motorbike. With no umbrella! And little kids will scream and squeal your eardrums out and take ages to decide which ice cream they want; and then they will eat at your motorbike so your motorbike will have sticky ice lolly stains; and they'll throw the ice cream at you because your ice cream sucks. And then they will cry and yell for their beefy bushy eyebrowed fierce protective father because you yelled at them, and then you kena bish bash up until muka lebam. Or better yet, you kena sued for causing emotional damage to little cute vulnerable children. And while you're in court, your motorbike kena saman.

You little wench, you're lucky that you had Pralines and Cream today. Otherwise I would have given you my killer stare that I always give Linda and Kitty. And bitch at you outright. And walk away.

And you know those used leftover spoons lying in front of the ice cream that other people left? Yeah, I was going to be nice and put them into the container for used spoons, but then YOU existed, so I left them there. In full view of everybody.

You find it bothersome to walk one metre from Maui Brownie to Pralines and Cream? Let's see you go all the way around the counter to pick up dirty spoons.

Suck my nonexistent balls, you bitch.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Oh Chandni!

"Even so, we find that there are human females with XY chromosomes (very rare) that the male"startup" gene (called the sry gene) apparently did not work. Default is female."
source: here

"Except for the potential contained within the genetic content of its chromosomes and the subsequent formation of primordial tissue, the human embryo is essentially asexual for the first weeks of its life. It has been shown that the undifferentiated gonads are destined to become ovaries unless acted upon by TDF (testis determining factor), which is genetically encoded on the Y chromosome. Therefore the default sex of the human embryo is female. The information for TDF is contained in the SRY (sex determining region of the Y chromosome). It is the translocation of the genes encoding for the TDF to the X chromosome that can result in the abovementioned XX male, who ultimately will be infertile."

hehe, that last bit was funny.

Anyway, Chand and I got into ANOTHER disagreement over the default sex. So we agreed to google it. Muahahaha! See, one of the rare bits of Newsweek articles that I remember. Syok!

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Midnight Randomness

Daddy's watching the Chelsea match. It's almost midnight now, and January's a helluva good month so far, for a number of reasons

I have a new organizer. Free from American Express, and it's damn chun. Better than my old one that Daddy got for me for Interact.

Anya just sms-ed me that Hana Yori Dango 2 is out! Finally, I can get hooked onto Jun and Arashi again. As of right now, the MediaSource is playing my favourite old Arashi tunes.

My right back tooth is swollen. I think maybe it's the wisdom tooth or whatnot. I certainly hope it's not because I ate half a fishball during dinner. So I put Bonjela. Bonjela is yummy in a yucky weird sorta way :D

I finally pierced my ears in Thursday. After countless pairs of earrings wasting away in my drawer no thanks to friends who keep giving me earrings for presents and clueless people who have never noticed that my ears are unadorned. Chandni and Linda and Lydia came along for support. Chand and Linda left with my fingernail marks on their hands :D nyehehehe. This also means no prawns, seafood, and egg for like the next two weeks. What will I do with my sotong fix :( Never mind, can make up for it when Chinese New Year rolls around

I cannot wait for CNY! The sister comes back, Angpaus come rolling in, I get to wear my new silk kimono top (if I can wait that long) and I will have my CNY party after our mid sems. Ah time to bring out the guest list. Yes yes good things come in abundance in the first half of the year.

Mass Colympics. Commlympics. Fugger, first order of business, ask The Chairman how he wants it spelt. Although honestly, his answer will probably be a lot of agitated shouting and swearing and end with me pacifiying him by calling him Chairman. Hehe! Kit wants me to transfer to the Marketing side, but since I'm already starting my prep for the events side I want to stay put, but I'm gonna be there for LindaFunnyFernNi if she needs anything done. This is good because it means I attend her meetings so I kill time while waiting for the stupid bus.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Term 3

Semester 3 is so far, better than the previous semester.

Issues in Media Content- I'm not too sure I really like my lecturer, but she seems nice enough. The lesson keeps going at the very least, and so far the subject doesn't seem to bad.

Comm Research Method - We have Dr Lean again, and apparently so far there's a 100% passing rate, plus this year they abolished the actual carry out of the research proposal. So although there have been rumours that CRM is even harder than CTR, I think this should be a passable subject.

Public Relations 1 - This is the semester where we diverged into our respective majors. Most of us chose PR, with the exception of Chandni who went for Journalism, and Reagan who is in Advertising. We have our former Programme Director who is now pursuing her PhD, and she's reallllllyyyyyy havoc. Very engaging and fun. Ah, this will definitely be a subject I enjoy a lot. Plus, we're organizing the Mass Colympics this year!

Academic Writing - NOT my favourite subject. It's like CSS all over again *wail*

There's still Intro to Desktop Publishing left, on Thursday and Friday. Did I mention I really don't like my schedule this term? Classes end at 3pm on Monday and Tuesday, so I have to wait till 4.30pm. On Wednesday to Friday I have to wait for the 2.30 pm bus because my classes end at 12pm, 10 am, and 11 am. Think of all the hours I'm killing in school! Pray pray pray that Daddy will keep considering letting me drive Jun starting from February. Otherwise I come home everyday too pooped to do anything. Which is a real pity because there are many things I'd like to do at home. FizzShizz la.

Hehe, Jay really liked his Christmas present. Which he ought to, because I went to several CD music shops before I found it. Set Yourself On Fire by Stars. Ahhh thanks to Gramophone Singapore, I'm a certified Good Present Giver :D And Chandni got me black wedges. And Linda got me MORE chunky bracelets. And we might go to Pyramid this Thursday to pierce my ears. They're gonna accompany me so I can wring the life out of their skinny little fingers while I get needles poked into me.

ps : I'm watching The Simpsons. The detective wants access to Lisa's permanent record.

Detective : You have an awful lot of papers in your tray. Wouldn't it be an awful pity if they all got...SHUFFLED?

Principal Seymour : You wouldn't dare....

Detective : Oh, I wouldn't, would I?! *shuffle shuffle shuffle shuffle*

PS : .. You know, I could just arrange them back in order.

Detective : * takes sheaf of papers and... STAPLES THEM*

PS : NOOOOOOO!!!

Hehe.

Monday, January 08, 2007

Pool and Guitars are like sex.

Since coming back for the holidays, my sister cannot stop yapping on about bass guitars and strings and the uni band for which she sings backup. Come on la, even I don't talk about cameras that much. It got to the point where I auto tuned her out once she started talking about guitars or when she syok sendiri laugh at videos of her band. Bad enough already I had to endure being dragged around KL going to music shops to check out bass guitars. I blame her band for getting her hooked onto the bass.

Then I went back to Singapore with her, crashed at her hostel, met some of her bandmates, and heard them play.

You know how some girls find musicians to be especially.. I dunno. Attractive? Particularly guitarists. My sister thinks it's because of penis envy. You know, phallic replacement. Not that I particularly wish for a penis, but for me, it's something that's like. A SIGN of better things to come. Okay I will tell you something I once told Chandni that I read from SOMEWHERE that made her laugh her ass off.

Men have sex like how they play pool. Meaning to say, if you're good at pool, chances are you're good laaa. It boils down to technique. Skill. Good aim and precision. Which one am I talking about? God knows.

So when a GOOD guitarist, mind you, not a simply horrible or even mediocre (okay okay, got chance la, mediocre) appears and starts strumming away, you can't help but be enamoured. Even better when they're REAllY GOOD. It shows they're good with their hands see. ;D

Pool and Guitars. So bloody sexual.

Actually it might just be me la. HornnyYuenny lives up to her name once again.

Pics of my sister's band. Peroxide. er. I think. I only met some of them, and not all are in the pics. There was Yee Keat (edit : KIAT), who looks like Chow Sing Chee when he wears glasses, Sham who is a fellow John Mayer fan (and kinda plays like him too) and Kim who we bumped into while in KL. All three are very good guitarists. And are pretty decent looking la. Plus, Sham has really nice eyebrows. Nyehehehe.



P/s : Hey Jie.

JENG JENG JENG!

Hahaha, I'm so faaarrrneee.

Viva la Vivo

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups from Candy Empire
Have you ever eaten Reese's Pieces?

gah. *drool*

It's a messiah from the world of peanut-butter chocolate goodness. Go to VivoCity, as soon as you reach VivoCity from the Harbour Front MRT underway, you will see this bright light.

A bright orange light, more specifically. Halos surround the sign "Candy Empire". Try not to ransack the place.

VivoCity is quite the shopping mall to be reckoned with. It's got many many many lobbies, the high class shops like GAP, to the more middle class ones like TopShop, to the little quaint boutiques. And it has a ship too.

Fuh-RIGGING-ancient. *snort*

Okay la, it's not ancient, per se. It's some Swedish ship called The Gotenburg, or something of that sort. It's crew were repairing sails as a demonstration in the middle of the mall, and showing some people around on the ship. I took that picture off the rooftop of Vivo, which reminded me of KLPAC.

Neckermans go BingBangBoom


Bubblehead Mascot of Vivo


Rooftop structure on Vivo

Yep, definitely KLPAC.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Gone Fishin'

No la, gone shopping holiday. Have many many places to go and things to do and stuff to be bought. Earrings and maybe shoes for Linda and Chand, Tun's two birthday presents, something crazy for Kitty, Jay's Christmas present, and I have a brown shopping list paper that the people above might recognize. Hehe.

I'm heading to Singapore on the 8 o'clock bus tomorrow, and I'll be in our little neighbour around noon, so LINDA KHOO FERN NI, you have until then to reply my message before I cross International waters and am unable to message you. Then I'll kill you on Monday.

OMG

College term 3 starts in 5 days. Am very very the happy. Super. Practically the whole holidays I've been bored out of my mind, and now as soon as I get back from Singapore, I get to go to school. Geek!!!

LINDA KHOO FERN NI

If Maxis has no problems, you should have gotten my sms like.. yesterday!! Gonna chop you up. I keeeeelllll you! Btw, come come sayang, let's go out on Sunday, MV okay? I sms you as soon as I'm back on Malaysian soil, providing I'm not too pooped out. You call the Subang people all okay. The foreigners should be back by then. Apochee, I miss you all la. Miss scolding and whacking and sulking and making funny sounds at you all and weird out-ing you all.

By the way, did I tell you I really really really really really really miss...

pool

mihun laksa [alas, no more see hum :( ]

fried sotong

uh... the elevator. Well, sort of.

air conditioned classrooms

my watermelon juice

bee in my bonnet : Nanheul Saranghae Nuhman Saranghae - Shim Tae Yon (Goong OST)

oh my freaking god, Anaz! You have to download this song okay.

*edit*

Oh, I forgot to mention, I also did something else in December.

Specifically 17th December. HEHE i would post the photos, but suddenly kena on Monday all. So I show you then la *cackle*

December Recap

In the month of December, I...

baked a cheesecake with Pui Yan, Zarrin and Lydia

Baking..

THE CHEESECAKE!
got treated to lunch by SuRynn, and Sumi. One year overdue okay.
SuRynn and Sumi
Went to Sunway Lagoon with Pui Yan, Suriya and Siska. And forgot to bring an extra change of clothes, so I walked around sopping wet.

It quacked at me okay!

Went driving!

Shit, my eyebags!

Tong Yuen fest.

Instant tong yuen - pluck and roll

And New Year's Eve at Anaz's house :D Thanks for having me over babe!

The alcohol table :D

these 2 = 1

wala...

hehe :D


New Year's Eve