mini drama

exams started. and i forgot to take my exam slip. awesome right?

the thing is, i did not leave it at home but forgot to even get it from the office (which you're supposed to do at least a week before exams start). haih. so i was panicking throughout the whole car ride to col and the mini traffic jam... "what if the office is not opened? what if they won't give it to me? what if i fail because i can't sit for my paper?". you know la, when you're panicking everything seems dire. and thank God i was just in time! to take my slip, pay rm5 fine for lateness to collect :( and go to the exam hall to do my paper.

on hindsight it was probably much better than leaving it at home. good thing this is my last semester.

it's study break again

have been staying home since mon. except for short stints to the library and bible study on tues. here's where i'll start complaining right? aww... you know me! well i'm not. at least for now i'm not. was just thinking of how i'll be having a super duper long break (providing i don't have to retake anything) after this so might as well give it my best shot. since after i'll be having at least 2 weeks to bum around and complain about how bored i am. oh what about the rest of the time? well... here's where i laugh in your face and tell you i'm going for a smashing holiday and then lead a fabulous life buying fabulous things and getting fabulous beauty treatents everyday. wah i sound like a bimbo.

the first part's right though. haha! will be going for a (in my opinion) well deserved break.

but then i've got to get serious and get me a job. part time, can't be doing with the (counting with fingers) 9 hour 6 days a week jobs. i need something that can fill my days and keep me from amusing myself by picking the dirt off my fingernails (sounds disgusting i know) out of sheer boredom. but not something which will tie me up to the point that i can't do all the other stuff that i like. afterall, if everything goes as planned, i only have let's see... *august, september, october...* about 6 months left to enjoy dirty beaches, abu's maggi goreng, bahasa campur campur, and food whenever i want it... good food at that. shops closing at 5 stinks. i mean, who does that?

and that's why i love penang.

well... back to studying i guess. back to facing the agony of cramming for exams.

trailer

omgosh omgosh... it's out! *homer simpson style*

the trailer of my group's final project. now it's in english actually, just that we don't have subtitles for the trailer. sigh... it feels like you've achieved something to see it out there. and the screening's today, together with all the rest of the other senior's final projects. awesome! i can't wait to see.

i sound so annoyingly enthusiastic, aren't i?

oh by the way, it's about life in the old folks home. think the old folks have a swell time playing mah jung and talking about old times there? well, think again.




would you want to watch the whole thing?

hello~

is it just me or has everyone kinda lost blogging steam? i used to really enjoy posting and reading other fellow bloggers' new posts... but now... it's just lost it's appeal a little. well, i will still try to update once in awhile. it's one way for me to let out steam... writing about it. and it helps. but no, not today. today i'm good *beams*

just got back from exercising with my mom, then with sara cos she was so annoyed that we went out without her she barked herself up into a frenzy. so now, in addition to her nightly rounds (it's a must! no other walks are counted) with my parents, she gets an extra evening run. isn't life just awesome for the lil doggie? oh yeah, i'm exercising again. yay! have been feeling absolutely guilty for acting the slob ever since i came back to penang (which was like... soooo long ago), and getting sick again (AGAIN!) was the last straw for me. so i'm exercising whenever i can now. it really does me good cos i'm not so moody/cranky nowadays. what with so much extra time on my hands, i Need to get out of the house and do stuff otherwise i'd just think myself moody. now isn't that something to cheer about?

hmm... the funny thing... i got 3 phonecalls from wrong numbers all in 2 hours. and a text too. my number is so simple. how could people get that wrong?

oh and yes, i got my first offer letter today. for swinburn uni in melb. but it's only my third choice so i think i'll just wait to see if the rest come before i make any decisions.

col life in HCC as i know it is coming to an end! frankly, i'm happy it is. after almost 3 years, i think i'm ready to move on to something else. it was ok... i mean, i didn't exactly immerse myself in the social scene there and the language barrier was and still is kinda a pain. but i did make some wonderful friends... anyway... the last class is this friday. thurs we have our big screening (which anyone can come but i doubt it'll be anyone but col people) of the seniors final projects. broadcasting seniors that is. yes my group's work'll be up, can't wait to see how it goes down with the audience. hehe... well i wrote the script for it mah... you understand my excitement right? and i'll also be emceeing this thingie with another person so... haha can't wait.

also, we're going on 17 this 15th.

only a month left

i shall miss college life. not really.

but i'll definately miss my friends.

16

if anyone wants to know, we're entering our 16th month together already. me and him. 16 months might not be a lot but i feel like we should celebrate going this far and still growing in love. it's something worth celebrating. and i'm learning to just take things one step at a time. and getting through the past month has been a huge milestone for us... so i think i'd just like to celebrate and enjoy it for awhile.

i'm getting a taste of what love actually is. it's so so much more than feelings and passion. cos when it all fades away, love is really about the tough stuff. being patient when you feel like screaming, thinking of someone else other than yourself, accepting that some things you just cannot change, letting the other person have breathing space... i'm still in the beginners stage but i want to learn it. observing how my parents treat each other, how their love matures from passion to something deeper, i want that too. the best love is when you can grow old together and still find yourself growing deeper in love with each other.

that said, quah joo tatt if you're reading this... I Love You. you make my life a little sunnier.

after so long

i've had a sore throat for over 3 weeks (it lasted for two) starting from the day i started my mid-sem break. how utterly sad! but the good news is, i think i'm cured. i tried basically everything le... lozenges, antibiotics, kor teh, ice cream (i couldn't resist!), gargling with warm salt water... and finally my mom dug out some chinese herb medicine from the pits of our fridge and told me to try them. i'm quite sceptical about chinese meds but then i just want to get healed. they look dubious and taste bad but hey i think they did the job! praise God. i just want to eat junk food again... so, enjoy your junk food while you can. as for me, there're 2 tubs of baskin robbins in the fridge and the remains of famous amos cookies (which i bought but couldn't eat), so i have to get well!!

other than that, i find that i'm suddenly very free for the remainder of the week. not the weekends though, i'm super packed this saturday. this has been a strange week... class-wise. so far, i've had two 8am classes cancelled which i did not know of and had to find out by reading the notice posted on the classroom door at 8am in the morning. ok, maybe a little over 8am... i'm usually not that punctual. haiz... so i went back home to sleep for an hour before going back for my next class. yes i can't get over it still. lol. you know how it is with morning classes... they take an extra LARGE effort for you to get up and go.

anyway, so my morning classes for thurs and fri are also cancelled so... yay! get to sleep in. you're probably wondering why i'm making such a big deal over sleeping for a few extra hours. lol. truth is, i don't know also. a good change in the routine is always fun what.

hmm... am feeling happy and contented at the moment. there're so many things that can upset my boat but for now, i'm choosing to ignore them. i choose to be happy. lol why do i sound so emo saying that? i mean, basically, happiness is a state of mind. you choose to be what you want. material things don't even make me happy anymore, i mean, they do for awhile,... but after that, the novelty wears off and it's back to square one. for now, i'm just glad that my parents are still married to each other, i have a loving family (+ the dog), i have my Father who loves me unconditionally even though i broke His heart a thousand times before, my guy who still wants to stick with me through the storm, my friends that inspire and accept me, hope, and all the little things that a person needs to be happy.

now what am i babbling on about... i've got to eat my apple now.

i'm a blessed girl

yes i am *smile smile*

well i don't want to brag nor do i want to give a lengthy explanation so here's the long and short of it. seagate tv commercial competition. my group won. yay!

lol. ok here's the long, a while back seagate organised a competition for my class. we had to produce a tv commercial about their freeagentgo hard disk, which was a bonus le for us cos it was part of our assignment plus there was an incentive. so we presented it to our client today and the rest as we say... is history. yay! :)

here it is... all 320gb's of goodness.

my take on 'Sell Out'

watched sell out today with jootattmyhoneypie. and... it's actually not bad! and for a MALAYSIAN movie. don't get me wrong, i love my country but i almost never watch any homegrown movies cos one, the storyline and acting is boring... there always has to be a moral at the end which is lame. and two, they're always trying to be so darn artistic that makes everyone go "Wha-a-a-t??". good films don't have to be avant garde all the time.

anyway, i liked the movie. he didn't.

but, to each their own right? i don't think it'll appeal to everyone. this is one parody that starts out being totally nonsense (but with so much dry humour, so must listen carefully), but surprisingly ends up being meaningful. and i like the songs they sing, musical mah. i mean, they actually sound good! but my one peeve was that it had no ending. what la! i like movies that end. but what to do? malaysian movies somehow have have to all be artistic and indie looking... so, you can't have everything.

but i like.

if we continued coming out with watchable movies like this, hey, i might even actually watch them. who knows? anyway, anyone up for the french film festival? i was thinkin of catching a movie (detective one based on agatha christie's books) when it comes to gsc gurney. please please come with me...

happy mother's day

she...

makes sandwiches for me whenever i'm sick of canteen food

fetches me places when i get lazy to drive

cooks my favourite dishes whenever i requests for them

called me every other day when u was in kl

supports me

scolds me

cleans my car whenever she can't stand the dirt

goes shopping with me

referees fights between me and my sis

loves me

it's still not too late

so

Happy Mother's Day Mummy!

I don't think she'll ever read this, but i do love, appreciate, and admire my mom. she's awesome! we don't see eye to eye to certain things but i have to admit le, my mom's the best. i wouldn't want any other.