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.

Have you ever...

... felt like you hate your life? You know you're not trying to sound like you're taking things for granted, you know you're very lucky if compared to many homeless and hungry kids out there, but you somehow want to have just a TINY bit more?

... felt like you want to smash the computer because you can't connect to the internet and Skype with someone dearest to you?

... felt like life is extremely unfair - you see other couples having the chance to be PHYSICALLY together and you feel extremely jealous? Not envious, JEALOUS. You start to think why you pour your heart and soul into the relationship but it doesn't promise you what you really want. You know distance doesn't matter, you still want to hope that your tiny little wish can be granted.

... felt like you don't know what to do with your life - you're unsure of the directions anymore.

... felt like you have such a big dream to achieve but it all topples down when your family doesn't really understand what you're trying to achieve. You try and try and try again to build those sand casltes but again and again, it gets washed away by the sea water. And then, you just feel like walking away and at the same time, feel wasted.

Goodbye DU - I'll miss you.

We've finally moved. To this ulu place called Putra Heights. It's a pretty newly developed place so there's pretty much nothing there - including a lunch kaki =( And my favourite chap fan place, and my favourite place to buy my favourite guava where they'll add shitload of my favourite asam powder =((((((((((((((((

I absolutely hate it when I need to leave after I begin to like a certain place =( 

We... I mean my dad's shop has been there for the past decade. We've moved after being in the front row for 10 years, to the back only because the rent became very intolerable. Stayed for another 2 years and the lack of parking and business became even more intolerable. That makes it 12 years at Uptown. My dad has been talking about moving and finally, it's for real this time. Honestly, I'll miss working there a lot. 

I worked there 4 years ago before entering uni for about half a year, and started working there again since the past 3 months. There's nothing you won't like in Damansara Uptown - EVERYTHING is there. The vibe, the people, the food. It's considered one of the prime locations for commercial and business, possibly everything you need is there. 

Or maybe I should even include "possibly everything you DON'T need is there eg. double parking" lol but hey, if people are not double parking, it's probably not so much of a prime location, no? Double parking is seriously not EVERYONE's fault - it's the developer's fault. They've never put into consideration on parking spaces before building all these sky high commercial towers and 3 stories business buildings. Hello? 2-3 Parking spaces for 3 stories of shops? Ok this totally deserves another post.

But seriously, I WILL miss double parking there. If there's one thing to describe DU, I'll say the double parking madness!

Anyway. I've always complained that my job was boring the crap out of me until I found Shin Dhee who's working very near me, found a few places I like to eat at and a few petshops I like to pass by. On days when I don't feel like walking out, I order McDelivery cos McD's is IN Uptown itself. 

Now in Putra Heights, there's NOTHING of everything I've liked in DU. Now I truly know the meaning of boredom.

Ooh my eyes got punched.

Okbai.