Seat-Warmer

Just a tiny ranting post about watching movies in the cinema.

Have you ever went to watch a movie in a cinema with numbered seating, looked for your seats in the dark, only to find that someone else is comfortably sitting there? So you'll have to walk up to them and tell them they might have gotten the wrong seats, and when you get to sit down that seat is all warm and disgusting? I mean it's not like there's shit or piss there but the fact that someone's body heat was transferred into the seats through their ass, and you are going to put your ass there and feel that heat is... just... no. 

I've encountered this situation several times and honestly, it is getting really annoying. I would also say that it's only in Melbourne that I've had situations like this more often than in Malaysia. I don't know why, maybe  some Melbourne people are partially blind. Blind to cinema seats. Or they just enjoy being shooed off when the person who's actually PAID for the seats come telling them about it? Or maybe they're actually part time Seat-Warmer, they enjoy warming up other people's seats wtf.

The thing is whenever we can, we try to get middle seats in the cinema for obvious reasons. I can totally understand it if someone decided to move from their original, not so good seats to a better seat (eg. middle) as long as it is for 100% sure that the seat isn't occupied at all, and I mean like there's no one sitting there right from the beginning and it's already halfway (or at least, a quarter way) through the movie. Makes sense? 

What I don't understand is, right at the beginning of the show when the movie hasn't even started yet and it's only ads playing, these jokers are already seated in the middle  seats or wherever even though it's not theirs. And it's not as though they are senior citizens or disabled people who have trouble looking for seats ok. The "oh I couldn't find my seat" is just plain steaming pile of bullshit. What are you? 5? It's an alphabet and a number, all you need is a pair of eyes to look for them and your ass to sit in it. 

It is so obvious that they know it's not their seats, but they didn't care, they sat anyway. And when confronted, they pretend and play innocent like "Oh we're at the wrong seat?" insincerely apologize (if they do) and then move to their seats, or probably other unoccupied seats which are  still not theirs.

WHY?? Why can't you stick to wherever you're supposed to sit??? Why do you want to molest my throne? My ass has the perfect ability to warm up my own seat I seriously don't need your help you know?

People, I'm begging you, please stop going around warming other people's seats in the cinema. Thank you very much.

Hot Hombre

Time for some random pictures update ala Instagram.

Met up with Beatrice while she's here for a vacation and look what she got me! This pack of peanut butter goodness is evillll. Wk and I couldn't stop eating it for as long as it's within our reach until I decided to pack it and put it aside where it's not so visible. But as I'm typing this I'm popping one into my mouth because it's right next to the computer. Evilllll...

Tried this new drink from Starbucks, Cinnamon Dolce Latte. Mmm it was perfect for that rainy cold day.

Macarons from Cacao... yummeh.

Chillin' in my new jammies that I got from DFO. Only $20!

Random message made me cannot stop smiling :) I was smiling to myself in the lunch room when a classmate saw and called me crazy lol.

And so we did went out for dinner and watch a movie.

Had a new burger from Grilled called the Hot Hombre. Homaigaah it was so spicy.

Dessert before the movie! Had a BOGO free short stack at Pancake Parlour. I seriously prefer whipped butter over anything but decided to go with icecream because whipped butter is so fattening :( Ice cream's good but it's just not as good as butter. And after going through half the pancake I feel quite sick of it already lol.

We watched Dark Shadows. It wasn't a fantastically good movie but it was entertaining to watch, especially with Johnny Depp in it. Come on, everybody loves Johnny Depp, admit it. Eva Green was stunning, as she was in Casino Royale as Vesper. I like that name, Vesper, sounds so... venomous hahah. Ok nvm.

The Cold Weekend

It's been getting quite cold lately but I'm definitely not complaining, I'd rather it cold than stuffy and warm because I don't remember having such good sleep in the past 2 days for quite some time ever since the weather went warmer early this year.  It's frustrating when all I do at night is waking up in the middle of a sleep, having difficulties to fall back into sleep, tossing and turning because every posture just felt uncomfortable. AAaaaand, the mother of all problems... ants. Since it's not a problem anymore, I won't get into that. Let's just hope I won't have to go into that.

I've never had Sichuan food until last year here in Melbourne and I must say... gosh how much I've missed out! Sichuan food is awesome. This is leftover pork ribs smothered with chili flakes and Sichuan pepper that we didn't finish when we had it in a restaurant. It's not spicy at all... well depending on your spice/heat tolerance. Sichuan pepper gives a numbing sensation when you bite it, it's not spicy or heaty like chili. Which I really like because I find the sensation really interesting! Haha.

For dinner on Saturday we decided to try Chilipadi Mamak Kopitiam. It was ok, nothing to shout about. There're definitely better tasting Malaysian food out there. Went home and it was already quite late but I decided to bake... because I can.

It's Red Velvet (Mini) Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting, recipe from here. Mini because I don't have regular cupcake/muffin tins at the moment. I had a little bit of a disaster moment while making it. I added a little more buttermilk than I should have out of carelessness so to make it up to the extra liquid, I added a little more dry ingredients without measuring (blind estimation), I wasn't bothered to throw out the batter and start again. The cake turned out fine! Except that I didn't think the cake would rise since it didn't ask for any raising agent (baking powder, self-raising flour) and I didn't think baking soda/bicarbonate soda is a raising agent, I filled the first batch of cupcakes quite full. Result: muffin top aka the cake 'overflowed'. But apart from presentation, the cake tasted good. Soft, fluffy and moist.

2nd disaster moment is the frosting. I think I shouldn't have used soft icing and should have used pure icing instead. My frosting look 'grainy' for unknown reasons... when it should be a smooth, beautiful opaque cream colour. I'm guessing it's the starches in the soft icing that's causing this ugly outcome. Bleghhh. Also, I would have loved my cream cheese frosting to be more cream cheese and heavy, this one is a tad bit too light and buttery. But I do like the lovely roses I piped out! Can anyone tell it's a white rose... ? Wk couldn't :((

 HAHAHA

Love how my cheekbones make my face look so slim here! <3

Just because I haven't done this in a while :P

Went and watched Hunger Games earlier. Wasn't interested in it at the beginning because the trailer didn't look interesting but apparently it's gotten really good ratings in Rotten Tomatoes so we decided to give it a shot. Not bad... worth the time and money spent.

And that concludes the weekend. Back to school tomorrow and let's hope I'll be able to do much better this week.

云吞

With food/recipe magazines everywhere, anyone can cook! =P

Today I attempted to make wontons which turned out pretty good. The recipe said to use chicken mince but since chicken meat here is so expensive, I decided to go with pork mince. I mean come on, who makes/eats wonton with chicken meat anyway? At least I don't, for all I remember wontons are always filled with pork. I think it would be a completely different texture if it was chicken meat, possibly not as 'soft'? Which defeats the purpose of making wontons cos literally wonton or 云吞 means 'swallowing cloud' which indicates the wonton being so soft it's like swallowing clouds. 

My version is probably a cross between Cantonese and Shanghainese. Cantonese serves it with noodles, Shanghainese uses only pork and wombok (no prawn) and wraps it the way I did. The first time I tried to wrap it, I didn't know how to do it as the instructions weren't clear in the recipe. It turned out looking really ugly and weird so I looked up Youtube and found the right way to wrap them. Seriously, the internet has just about anything you're looking for it's not even funny.

By the way, I just finished watching Lord of the Rings (all 3) yesterday. I know, so freaking late. It was out when I was 15, at that time I probably still didn't have that much freedom to hang out with my friends and watch movies so when the 2nd or 3rd movie came out, I didn't watch it cos what's the point of watching when I didn't watch the first movie, right? Can I just exaggerate how freaking long the movie is? 3.5-4 hours for one movie, are you serious? Lol. Nevertheless, it was good. Next, The Matrix. Yes I haven't watched that either, because the name sounded boring hahaahh.

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.

The Reading List

I've finally finished reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Guess how long I took...

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9 months.

Wtf.


Ok I read it on and off of course and I only read a few pages at night, but not every night. And besides, the story moves extremely slowly and kinda repetitively so I've never had the excitement nor anticipation to know the ending. That being said, it's still a good book but not one of my favourites. Not that I've read enough to really favourite anything anyway. It got a little more interesting towards the end.


New book recently added into the reading list is The Notebook, which I just purchased yesterday. I downloaded the movie (yay to piracy lol) when I was in Melbourne and haven't had the time to watch it. Wk watched it already and told me it's good. I figured it'll be more interesting to read the book first since the movie's good because after watching the movie, I usually wouldn't be bothered to read the book anymore.


I was looking at The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (which is also a movie now) and almost purchased it cos there's a 20% off for the Popular Card members but in the end decided not to, need to save money. I got home and realised I actually own the book haha! It was with a different cover of course. I bought it in Melbourne last year and have only read the first few pages before I decided to read others first.


Ok, time to practice. Bye.

Comedy Thursday

Writer's block writer's block!

Lol.

As of now, I only work on Fridays and Sundays. And if that's not lovely enough, I only have to work 5 hours each. Sounds lovely but the monthly income, no. Sufficient to support all my expenditure though but oh well, no amount is ever enough for me. I cannot keep taking new students either cos what if I need to leave for masters. Having too much time in hand, surprisingly my life is still so uninteresting. All I do each day is go online, click the refresh button (or anything that means the same thing) of my Twitter,  Blogger and Youtube page ten thousand times. So today I decided to do some spring cleaning and realize I have 10 lipsticks and 10 lipglosses. WTF DID IT MULTIPLY BY ITSELF.

Shit lah it's as though I have 10 lips wtf.

I'll probably need to dig out some old Melbourne pictures or something otherwise everyone'll go "Yer all emo stuffs so boring" wtf.

Ok a couple of Project 365 pictures that are not so boring. 

#307

 Some pig lol sleeping like a pig on my bed.

#310

When I say couple, I really mean only two hahaah.

On the day Wk left, that night a bunch of us (me, Esther, Lorraine and Jun Xue) went to Velvet Underground, Zouk for this stand up comedy thing Esther has been asking me to go since few weeks ago. It's the Comedy Thursday which basically happens on every first Thursday of every month. Google yourself for more info. Had a ball cos;

1. First time in Zouk ok walao of cos happy lah wtf and I wasn't the only jakun anyway cos it was Jun Xue's first time in Zouk too.

2. Laughed until I almost broke my jaw. Don't ask me if it's THAT funny cos like I said before I laugh at most things. Even jokes told by Esther and Jun Xue. Geddit geddit? HAHAHAHAHAHA.

3. Ate tosai + neslo panas at 2 different mamak stalls. It kinda amused me that Jun Xue's so attracted to my neslo panas cos he kept picking mine up to drink. He said he has never heard of that drink before wtf! And when I told him it's Nescafe mixed with Milo he went, " Oh Mocha la" HAHAHAHAHAHH WTF!!!

Anyone missed my vain pics?

I'll post one for you to salivate at LOL

Mmkay bye.

Oh btw, am I the only one who finds Avatar funny especially the 'ajaran sesat' and the 'bomoh' dance part?  Where they transfer life or soul or whatever it is from the human body into the avatar, like transfering a file? LOL!

The Time Traveler's Wife (Movie)

So I've finally watched The Time Traveler's Wife and again, I'll have to admit that I totally suck at giving any type of reviews so I'll just put it as simple as it's a great movie which pretty much portrays most, if not everything essential from the book except that, of course, usually people tend to love books over its adaptations, agree? This is definitely not exempted. Still, to me it's a great one.

I even prepared a packet of tissue and not just the normal small packet of face tissue. I brought the big ones, in a big pack. Not on purpose though, I couldn't find any of those small packets in my house so I just grabbed that before leaving the house. It came in handy! It's the pop-up pack kinda tissue where you tear the top of the plastic and pull the tissue out and the next one will come out halfway. I placed it at the handrest in between seats, Esther and I conveniently used the tissue throughout the movie! Hahaha.

To me, the book is a lot more sad. The adaptation is slightly altered, and made to end in a 'happy ending' kinda way. It's actually a lot more tragic in the book and I cried so much harder reading it than watching the movie. Also, I noticed that everything was kind of a rush in the movie but oh well, to make a 500++pages story into a 1.5-2 hours motion picture is definitely not an easy thing! I would say it is quite a well directed movie considering that most of the essential parts in the book are there. Oh. One thing though, I actually expected to see Gomez as a handsome blonde hunk but... he's not haha. Oh oh oh, one more. I was kind of disappointed that they didn't show the scene where an 80++ year old Clare is waiting for Henry who time traveled to the future. I personally think that'd be the perfect way of ending the movie. The ending now is kind of... bleahh. Not bad but because I've read the book, I kinda expected more from it if you know what I mean.

Anyway, to me, I love the movie but I absolutely love the book more.

Ok before clicking 'Publish Post', just wanna show you all my Chinese New Year inspired makeup look.


More pictures on the other blog cos I know I look kinda scary but rest assured I'm not crazy, this is just an entry for a little online contest.

Ok bye!

Random Stuffs

Omg the itch to buy things is freakin' me out. Every second I think of what I want to buy and it's only the 2nd day of November! Seriously, can die man. Wk's right, when we live together, I should hand him ALL my money and he shall be the one to control the flow.

I seriously need a new night time moisturizer cos my BodyShop Time Release Capsule's finishing. It's a 28 days treatment thingie and I'm left with my last 4 capsules already. And another foundation cos I just realized that the current one I'm using, which is new anyway, is too light for my skin tone. It makes me look stark white not only in pictures, even my mom said so! Ugh the horror. Not gonna throw it away anyway, it's still money spent! I'll probably get a darker shade and mix them.

Ok since Wk's not going to sleep tonight cos he's rushing for his submission, I'll stay up with him by practising =) We have our videos and skype on. It's as though we're right next to each other, working really hard =)

Oooh I just found out The Time Traveler's Wife the movie's out already! Gosh I'm still left with 200++ pages. Gotta speed up.

Ok time to go. Have a great week everyone.

I scolded IDP

Lol. Indirectly of course. I was checking out their website and discovered a "Online Enquiry" thingie so I clicked on it and under the "Message" box, I typed a looooooong message telling them about my encounters and how disappointed I am with them.

Remember I said I went to the Postgraduate Fair and met a representative who said she'll email me when she finds out about the questions I asked? I don't know if she has forgotten all about my enquiry, or she only said that because she wanted to just brush me off cos it has been more than a week after the fair and I still have not gotten anything from IDP. And it pisses me off.

If I still don't get anything from them, I'll email the head of department of the Faculty of Music of Uni of Melbourne. If that still doesn't solve the problem, I'll call. Calling is my last resort because I think calling is a total waste of time and more importantly, money. Calling will only put me on hold for the number of times I don't even want to imagine, and I might not even get the answer I want.

If calling STILL doesn't solve it, screw it. I'll apply anyway.

This is really stupid. Just one simple question - audition or not. And no one can answer me. I even emailed them my enquiry. They have this sorta like a forum thing where I get to log in, post my question and wait for their reply. For the first few weeks, I checked and I still could see my question there without a solution. And after a while, I think it was two weeks back when I checked, it says "0 queries" WTF. They cleared it without even giving me an answer!

Seriously, what the F.

Ok end of rant.

Watched I Love You Beth Cooper with Esther just now. Not impressive, but not bad either. Hayden blablabla's hot though. Lol sorry dunno how to spell her first name. You'll know her, that cheerleader in Heroes. Tomorrow, will be heading to uni to return my graduation robe and get my transcript and certs. And I'll officially be a degree holder yo! :) After that, lunch with Cat and Samuel. Hopefully will have enough determination to go jogging in the evening. Right now, read a little before I doze off.

There's Something Wrong With Esther

First, continuation of Project 365! Pictures are mostly myself cos I haven't been doing much but being vain haha!

#166

#167 - Dad's reply when I sent him a msg saying I was watching a movie with Esther and would be back late. Dad's messages never fail to crack me up. I dunno why.
#168 - My mom's geng mirror which magnifies! Not this one, another side of it.

Check this out.

Look at how round it makes my face look! I look like a doll. Not Barbie, the other type with bigger eyes and small mouths.

#169 - Taken in the car while waiting for my grandma to finish buying her whatever fruits from the stalls I drove her to.
#170 - Today, before heading to the mall for a movie with Esther and Wai Tuck.


Sorry if I have just irritated the crap out of you with that face.

I like today's make up. Wasn't too dramatic, but wasn't barely there. Could have toned down on the eyeliner though. The best stuff I've ever gotten from MAC is definitely the Smoke Signals Smoking Eyes eyeshadow quad. The colours are so very pigmented, versatile and useful.

So today, we watched Orphan and I tell you, it's so damn freaky!

We were laughing at Esther the whole time after the movie. As in, my best friend Esther Toh. Not that psycho Esther in that movie ok.

Ok here comes my half-assed movie review. Don't worry, it's short and I won't include any spoilers.

It is surprisingly not as typical as most horror movies are. Well it's of course typically horrifying with all the killing scenes. What's not typical is that there isn't much gore but more to thrills. And at least there is an end to all that killings.

I like the surprise when they find out who she is. Very unexpected. I like how there's a proper plot and explaination behind everything in the end, unlike most horror flicks that end all of a sudden making the audience go "Wtf?". Or the type which is totally pointless where the movie ends after everyone's killed. Damn irritating. Like Halloween, a DAMN STUPID movie. Total waste of time and money.

Anywayyyy.

I also like the actress who acted as the main character, Esther,

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Isabelle Fuhrman who looks pretty in this picture but after watching the movie you'll find her monstrous wtf.

At the beginning of the movie when she appeared, I asked Esther how come she don't look as ugly as she is in the poster (Btw check out her poster, she looks quite ugly there but not the one I posted here though, check out the other one, go google. I feel like plucking her eyebrows wtf.). Esther said "Cos she hasn't started to kill mah!". Wah damn true. Even before she started to kill she already gave me chills and her ugliness slowly crept in me wtf.

For a 12 YO, her acting was superb as a crazed kid. There were times when I had to block my eyes with my popcorn bucket or my right hand while my right arm was clutched tightly by Esther who hid behind. Her jerks and screams freaked me out a few times wtf. Wai Tuck who's beside me was laughing away wtf Laughing Gor laughing away WTF HAHAHAHAHH Wai Tuck are you reading this!!!

Yes, she's THAT freaky.

Also, thumbs up to,

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Aryana Engineer who's only 7!

Isn't she the most adorable and the prettiest kid ever? My heart melted when I saw this picture. Just look at her smile! I personally don't like kids. I think they're annoying and noisy. But her acting and the look on her face totally made me go "Awwwww..." with my shoulders and eyebrows drooping already.

In the movie she's a mute and partially deaf. I checked her bio out and in real life, she's actually really partially deaf! I feel so sad for her! Such a talented girl with such a pretty face but with a partially-impaired hearing. :(

Ok end of half-assed review. Not exactly a review cos I suck and reviewing. So, go watch it. Definitely worth the money.

P.S. I added the 'Currently Reading' section! My vocab is seriously getting more and more horrible these days. I often find myself getting stuck not knowing what's the right word to describe a situation, an object, a feeling etc. Even right now. I knew the right word's not 'getting stuck' but I just cannot think of the word I want to use. It's somewhere in my mind but I just can't seem to find it. Also, I always end up using the same word again and again. And it's frustrating. Hopefully by doing this section, I'll be more motivated and determined to finish them books and update constantly. I went to the bookshop today and saw so many books that looked really interesting but in the end I didn't buy any because I decided to only get them once I've finished all that I have right now. They're not a lot. Most of them were read half way, before I put them aside and forgot about them. And now, I have to start all over again. This seriously cannot be it. Gotta start reading more!