Practice & Basics

Finally got these two books from Chambers Music yesterday. And now I'm half a grand poorer T___T 

I hate how a lot of music books are so fucking expensive and inaccessible here in Malaysia. If it's possible I always try my best to not advocate photocopying but the price and availability sometimes give me no option. Also, I was a student myself (still am) and I know how it feels to be burdened by the need to spend so much on music books. Even if you're not spending your money on it, your parents are. I don't know about others, but when I had to ask money from my parents to buy music books, I remember nothing except them yelling at how expensive they were.

Anyway, Ive read a couple of pages from the books. Very informative indeed. I'd say these are great books for violin teachers as well as students.

Pink in the Afternoon

Lunch at Vietnam Kitchen.

Honestly, I've never been a fan of Vietnam food only because I've tried it once and it wasn't a good one. Yesterday's lunch totally changed my mind. Not only were the food surpriseingly good, the dishes tasted just like Chinese cuisine! Jian and I shared this set which is supposed to serve 2-3 people. Holly cow look, there's 4 dishes to eat with rice ok and it was only RM 33++. That amount can probably serve 4 girls but I was hungry as athe beast so...

The purpose of this gathering is to make up to our absence during Mun Fei's (guy in the middle) farewell gathering last week. I look damn fcking weird and ugly T___T

It's funny how the two of us, get to meet up with the ONLY three guys in our course. Usually it's difficult to, cos either one or two will be away. Samuel (guy at the right) was at Birmingham, Jian usually at Seremban. Mun Fei's leaving to Missouri. We kept saying this meet up is only once every year so it's ok to spend a little bit more on food and laugh a little bit louder (actually damn loud it's quite some heads-turner) when it's funny.

 Managed to watch Salt before leaving 1U. Quite nice.

Being Asian FTW! Lol.

A very kind reader suggested that I end each post with a different coloured lips each time, reason being this way I can finish up my lipsticks. LOL actually I thought of it but not too seriously. Since she suggested, I think it'd be fun to do :)

Ok, a goodbye kiss from my girly, pink lips ~x

PS In case anyone's wondering, YES I did mosaic the area above my lips because I cannot tahan the misai, too ugly and disgusting to look at. I could have used Photoshop but it'll take some time and I'm lazy. So yeah. It isn't bad editing, it's called QUICK EDITING FOR LAZY PEOPLE. Kthxbai.

Ekor Ikan

I tried to Google Translate "fish tail braid" and it gave me "ikan ekor jalin" WTF -____-

I'm soooooo happy to have managed to do this! It took me about 15 minutes cos this requires a lot more work than the usual braids. I've seen tutorials of this in Youtube so many times and personally have tried doing it a few times but always gave up cos it's so demotivating! The process is really really slow before you can actually see something so I always give up after trying for about 5 minutes, cos I thought I was doing the wrong thing. The mistake I did was of course not having enough of patience haha.

It helps a lot to have longer hair cos with this you need to look into the mirror and see what you're doing. If your hair's short you can't possibly bring them to the front can you? And also it helps if your hair isn't too layered like mine. Look at all the little hair flicking out! So irritating.

The thing I like about this fish tail braid is it's not as chunky looking as the normal braid. And also, after braiding, it doesn't make my hair look shorter than it is, unlike how the normal braids would.

A little practice and lots of patience and you'll be good to go!

Kiss Me Coral

Ok sometimes I can be quite hard to please but there are times it's really not my fault when I become bitchy.

I was at a Jusco supermarket earlier this evening shopping for the ingredients for my dinner (pineapple fried rice :D) and when I was about to pay, I saw the super huge notice hanging on the ceiling saying "NO PLASTIC BAGS PROVIDED ON SATURDAYS" and I thought ok fine I'll just pay for it since I forgot and I didn't bring any types of bag with me except for my handbag which of course can't be used to put groceries.

When I was at the counter, the cashier started scanning my items without even asking me first if I wanted a bag. So I thought fine. After he was finished scanning and calculating the total price, after he nicely arranged everything at the side, after he stuck each and every item with a "PAID" sticker (or whatever it says), he told me plastic bag is not provided.

I was dumbfounded. I KNOW plastic bags are not provided but that doesn't mean you do not need to ask me if I wanted to buy one, does it?

Ok NO, I didn't throw a fit just because of one freaking plastic bag. Although I did ask the cashier in a pissed tone, "So? I cannot buy a plastic bag is it?"

And the poor cashier had to say "Yes you can buy a plastic bag, it'll cost you 20cents".

-_________________________________- this was literally my expression.

Then of course I told him I wanted a plastic bag in a frustrated tone. 

And then I told Wk this situation and said "Do I look like I'll put all the groceries in my LV bag ah" which I know sounded SUPERRRRR bitchy and snotty but seriously! Do I??! I am not in anway trying to show off or be snotty but SERIOUSLY!

And he replied, 

" they dunno its real or fake wan ma, so many fake wan around hahahahahha "

HAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAH OMG SO TRUE!!!

Anyway, let me stress again I'm not trying to be a show off  with the namedrop but I seriously find the situation a little awkward.

So here's the said Pineapple Fried Rice I made today during dinner. Quite nice :) 

OH WAIT.

Which reminds me, I didn't get to eat any shrimps!!!! How could I have forgotten there were shrimps in it!!!! Grrrrrr wasted all my time peeling and de-veining and cooking and in the end I didn't get to eat it! >=(

Aaaaah my favourite drink everrrr.

Today's goodbye kiss is from my reddish coral lips :)

When it all began...

My poor twitter followers and Facebook friends (who check updates quite constantly) would have suffered from my rant spams the past 2 days.

Let me just share a story.

Right when I finished SPM, my dad urged me to look for a part time job while waiting for results. He strongly suggested asking the principal at the music centre I've finished learning at, and see if they needed a part time teacher. I wasn't keen but asked anyway, and a few days later she told me there's a slot. A teacher was away for medical reasons for a week so she asked if I could take over her lessons for that week which I of course agreed to since it's only a week. I won't deny at that time, all I see was actually the money, wasn't so much about getting the experience. True enough, I was ecstatic when the money came. It was my very first salary from working outside and it was actually quite a big amount considering I worked for only a week of a few days and few hours each day.

A few weeks later my principal called me back and told me the teacher I was previously relieving, her condition has turned quite serious and she's not fit to teach anymore and asked if I would like to take over the teacher's place permanently as a full time teacher. Speaking of which, I wonder how she's doing now... Her name was Teacher Amy and I was told she had a lump in one of her arms so she couldn't play the piano anymore unless she undergoes a surgery. Isn't that so sad? We all know surgeries doesn't promise a 100% cure.

Anyway. Since I didn't have much to do anyway and knowing my dad, he would nag me the whole day if I were to stay at home not doing anything so I agreed.

And that was how I kickstarted my job in teaching music.

Stereo Rose

I managed to sell 3 paintings yesterday! Well, I was plain lucky but still!

Today was my day off and having the ability to sleep at 5 am the night before and wake up at 12 pm today cos you know you do not need to work, is just pure joy. My interpretation of a day off, is THAT ability.

I wanted to talk about something but because the internet is so bad it took forever to upload pictures, I forgot what I wanted to talk about already. So now I'm going to sleep.

A goodbye kiss from my wet, sparkly lips. HAHAHAHA.

Pinky

Yay! Meet my new lamp! :)

Absolutely loving it NOT only because it's pink (a lot of people think my favourite colour is pink when actually that is not true), but because the design is really sleek and cute.

Best part? This was kind of like a reason-less gift to me from Wk's mom. She helped me to get it cos she knows people who deal with Panasonic stuffs and she refused to take my money. So yeah.

Yay! Now I can take pictures without having to bitch about how untrue the colour turns out.

Yay, some new toys to play with :)

Wk has gone back to Melbourne, in case some of you haven't noticed. But we'll be meeting again this December for his graduation :)

This blog isn't mine if it isn't infested with vain pictures like this XD

Ok bedtime. I have a 2 big pails of laundry to do tomorrow morning. Running out of underwear is not fun at all.