Kiasu-ism LIVE at UM

Whoa! I finally have time and computer to blog this! I just got mah Powerbook back yesterday and I can happily say the suffering is over!! XD This post should have been done on Monday, but since a certain laptop went MIA, you get to read it one week late! 

The following is a pictorial erm, post about my hectic morning in UM where I, and a million other students went to get our graduation robes.

Tried to have breakfast at KFC at 4am. Unfortunately, their breakfast menu starts at 5am and so I was forced to eat a Zinger. Poor stomach!

Waiting in line at 4:30am. Too damn early to be awake, period.

Bumped into Aby who had a fab new 'do!

My partner in crime. We were so damn bored that we just sat around taking picture after picture of each other.

Forseeing a massive line up, I brought necessities which, I didn't end up using...

If only you knew how uncomfortable it was to sit on pavement for hours and hours...

Bumped into June and Kelvin who arrived there at 2am!! (Insane people :P )

If you think this is bad, shriek when I tell you this was taken at only 5am and the office wasn't to open until 8:30am.

Originally, there were about 100+/- people before me. When the office opened up, the zoo animals pushed and jumped lines, making everybody pissed, and I ended up being...

...no.582.

University graduates just don't have manners, I tell ye.

Lament Kingdom

*Groan*

If I were you, I'd do that too if I knew what was coming up in this post (Actually, I do, but let's not get technical here). But, it remains a fact; I can't stop complaining and bitching and lamenting about you-know-what every time it hits a wall.

And I've hit a big, big wall.

I've lamented about it to everyone in this house multiple times a day!

I've subjected poor Darren to it as well.

It's as though I can't seem to talk about anything else whenever I open my mouth. I know it's annoying, and I know it makes me sound like I'm obsessed but I just-can't-stop-talking-about-my-weight-issues!! I'm not even touching on how I constantly think about it as well.

I guess I just want it that badly.

But, that really shouldn't be a just reason to become obsessed about it, is it? I really do think I'm suffering from body image issues as I can stand in front of a mirror and scrutinize every last bit of me to see what's gone up or down. Man....sounds a lot worse when I actually put it down into words :-s

To be honest, right now I feel like absolute crap. Not only is it because of the mysterious poundage I mentioned a couple of posts back, but I just found out that a dress of mine is tight and hard to zip up now...when it wasn't like so to begin with! There are so many questions that until they are answered I'm just completely baffled.

I just really want this to END!!

Edit: OK, I feel a teensy, weensy bit better...I snuck into a pair of June's size 28 jeans and fit perfectly!! So erm yeah, as soon as she reads this she's gonna kill me but I sure feel better knowing I can throw my still-new size 32 jeans away. :)

Coolness

If you think about it, having a makeshift squash court smack in the middle of a mall is pretty cool...until you bring in the sentimentalists.

In (the only) other news, poor dear ol' Powerbook has to vaykay at the repair center longer than I had hoped. I'm already having withdrawal symptoms in so many ways :(

Sniff

Sending off my beloved Powerbook for repair tomorrow.
I hope my data won't be all lost because that will make me be the saddest person...uh, I know :P
Hopefully we'll only be parted for a day my lovely! XD

Bad, bad day

"When one thing goes wrong, everything else follows"

I don't normally have those sort of days...but today, I am stuck in the midst of one. It alllllll began yesterday when this self-admit computer addict discovers her Powerbook can't/won't turn on! It hasn't since and it is now 1:30pm the following day. I have reports to write. I have stupid questionnaires to fill in. I have food logs to update. I have BLOGS to update. Yadda, yadda.

In short, without my precious, half of my life has been put on hold.

*drama*

Woke up this morning, already in a bad mood, to find that there is just one last piece of turkey ham for my sandwich. Which means no more turkey ham for tomorrow's breakfast. Which means I'll have to go out and get some more when I don't have the time to and spend the money to buy some more when cash is hitting critical levels. Grrr. Made hot cocoa but added too much water, and ended up drinking brown water. Meh.

Get into car, find out iPod battery has depleted. Remembers it was still full yesterday. Curses out loud because can't get music therapy. Looks at speedometer...tank running on empty soon. Curses out loud again. Blast! I reach the workplace and find an OK parking spot but then realizes my parking pass expired yesterday. Had to dig all over the place for RM5 worth of coins to chuck into parking machine. What about tomorrow?

Sitting at computer now. Tried to fill in stupid questionnaire...filled in all kinds of things...PRINT. No movement from printer. PRINT DAMN YOU!! Silence. I check tray, paper non-existent. Refill paper, click PRINT.

.....Error...error.....

What the fucking fuck!

Webpage times out, and I have to do it ALL OVER AGAIN! Have to endure answering stupid annoying questions a second time.

*Vomits blood*

Classes will start at 3:30pm. Good luck, please be on my side :(

Where there is a party, there will be food

...and where there is food, there's me! Right now as we speak (or type, if you want to get all technical) my mum is hosting her monthly karaoke party. There are two things I I always have ready at hand when this event takes place;

1. Earplugs

2. Camera

Earplugs are so self-explanatory. The camera, on the other hand, is to show you lot what sort of sorcery my mum cooks up in her kitchen to feed her hungry, largely tone-challenged friends. The food alone is a good enough reason to attend her party, even if it meant enduring wails of humpback whales (mummy dearest not included, because she'll kill me if/when she reads this *blank stare*). 

As you'll see in the following pictures, she outdid herself this time...and of course, when that happens, yours truly will outdo her quota for today. Enjoy!

Her famously delicious seafood spaghetti!!

Okra curry...or belacan...well, it's spicy :P

Pure cheese cake!!

Insanely delicious butter cake!

As if two cakes weren't enough, we also have mini cupcakes!!

Yours truly with the regular sized cupcakes. You don't wanna see the after pictures ;)

Because we simply must have a fancy cupcake stand.

As I've said...you really don't wanna see the after pictures...

Weight may only be just a number...

...but it sure as hell makes me furious when it goes up!!

I've been in a bit of a funk this week. Good things have happened, then bad things, then good things again, etc etc etc. One of the things which got me all riled up (and sadly to say, was hardly in the mood for work) was my stupid weight.

I've been eating a lot of processed foods ever since I started work. Cornflakes, cocoa pops, granola bars, ham and cheese sandwiches, yogurt--almost always for breakfast and lunch. They were convenient, low-fat/low-calorie and long lasting (outside of the fridge, that is :P). 

But then I thought to myself, "hey, this can't be too healthy even though I'm losing weight". So fine, I went and bought myself some veggies. Broccoli, potatoes and sweet potatoes to be exact since I'm like a toddler with picky tastes for green stuff. Learned the nuke 'em-season 'em-box 'em method of preparation and for a week I ate all these healthy foods for lunch.

Oh, what a happy clam I was! What could be healthier than this, ay?

Stepped on a scale. Oh man!! I gained two pounds out of nowhere! As if that wasn't bad enough, not only am I still unable to get rid of those two mysterious poundage, it seems to keep on climbing and I feel bloated like a whale all the time!

Bah, this has got to be a cruel, cruel joke. 

This is some serious setback to my goal of reaching 120lbs by the time I jet off to Florida. Initially, losing 3 pounds was easy peasy. Now I have to lose 5 pounds and IT'S PISSING ME OFF!!!!!!!

Grrr!

Shi(t)n!!!

I found out this is what I use to discover unavoidable shin-height chairs in class :(

Evil Shampoo

"Green tea", "Volumizer", "Anti-break technology", "Used by woman with strongest hair"--all fantastic claims of a promised land, don't you think? I bought it and hoped it it do all the things it promised. 

Meh...I don't know how I was so blind to see that this shampoo was doing me no good! My hair was dropping at an insane rate but never thought to pinpoint it to possible shampoo cause.

 

The moment I switched to another anti-hair loss shampoo, my hair stopped falling off en masse! Grrrrr! I feel so cheated I tell you and all the hair I lost because of this--I could probably make a fur coat out of hair! That's how much hair I lost!!

Meh

I've got nothing interesting to blog about.

I guess you've noticed too, huh? Do I blame my job? Nah, not really but it does play its part a little. Spending so much time at the work place, you probably wouldn't like the idea of coming home only to blog about your day and all you can talk about is...well, work! Work is still going fine, btw :P

Next month should draw for better and more interesting posts, however. Not only does yours truly have a graduation to attend but will also be going on a (very, long overdue) trip to Florida *woot woot!* With an entire month off work, I'm pretty sure I'll have some other things to talk about--and much more interesting, at that! 

Oh and of course, a trip means a heaping sack of pictures!

Yesh, I am soooo going to look like a tourist.

Addition

Woo hoo three cheers for Promod sales!!

(Is it that obvious I haven't got much else to blog about? :P)

Closer

Hmm...it's been awhile since I last posted pictorial updates of my weight loss. Then again, it's been awhile since I last blogged *smiles apologetically*. Today, I got my hair highlighted as a result of an impulse hair salon visit. Looks good, so some people say, but personally I need to get used to the added colors on mah head. Anyhoo, having got highlights kicked me into the mood for some "vanity time"--you know, slipping into carefully chosen items of clothing and taking photos...for tracking purposes, naturally! :P 

As you'll see in the pictures below, I am still quite flabby especially at the arms. That's OK though, since I haven't reached my goal yet although that's like, 14 pounds away. I bought the blue shirt some six months ago but never wore it because I could barely squeeze into it but now *mwuahahaha!!* and the black top...ah...funny story really! I bought the fab black top when I was 16 during my trip to LA and kept it ever since as an incentive for me to slim down. Now that I can wear it, it's horridly OUT OF FASHION!! *sniffles*