Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Hotel Room Sabotages
I'm back, folks!
I think I may need a holiday to recuperate from this holiday. My trip to PD wasn't as relaxing as I hoped it would be for a number of ridiculous reasons, although I won't go as far to say that it wasn't an okay holiday as well.
First off, our two hotel rooms were not adjoining and to get to the other room, we'd have to run up and down four flights of stairs. This being a family holiday, I didn't feel as though we had spent it being as a family when we retired to our separate rooms.
The biggest peeve I had with the hotel is that our toilet got clogged up and by the time it was 3AM, it was overflowing! That being said and being so late at night, I spent the first night with my entire right arm submerged in the toilet bowl trying to unclog the damn thing with a hotel-supplied toothbrush! Good thing it paid off--when I went to check in the morning, it was finally unclogged! Of course, our toilet seemed to like sabotaging us because later the tap produced no hot water!
The room was also not thoroughly cleaned, as I found bits of hair trapped under the legs of the bedside table. The extra blanket and small pillows reeked of old furniture smell and was dusty! Also, Jules and I got locked out from the room because as we opened the door, the loose metal latch caught on the door! It's a good thing that June was in the room at that time or else we'll have some major hard time getting back in!
This is pretty minor, but I've decided to include it in the list anyway. In the lobby, I saw several people with laptops and wondered if there was a wi-fi service available. So I went to a female staff person to ask and she said "no". So fine, I didn't think about it after that. Then on the last night, my dad shows me this small sign at the concierge counter saying that there indeed was a free wi-fi service!! Talk about not training your Legend Hotel staff properly! Terrible!
Also, we paid a visit to the ostrich farm but to our dismay, the maintenance of the place has dwindled drastically and all the poor animals looked quite absymal. I could be totally wrong about this if it was molting season though *blush*. From the looks of it, the park doesn't seem to be able to generate enough revenue to properly maintain the place and this is really not good, especially for the animals.
Hopefully the next holiday I take would have better memories for me to take home.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Sand! Sun! Beach!
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
I've got a look-see warrant...
Now Playing : "Porcelain" - Moby
I got tagged.
So, now thanks to dear cousin Kel (feel the wrath of my death stare *lol*) I have to show the world (or at least her, eh?) the contents of my handbag. Well, I've got news for you sista!!
The contents (or my handbag for the matter) is probably like the dullest there is. See the blue with white striped handbag on my laps in the picture down below? That's like the only handbag I own *mwuahahah!* Tells a lot about my shopping habits, eh?
The seemingly ordinary contents of my handbag!! The pink wallet that bloats when you stuff coins in, the green scrunchie that I almost never use but keep it anyway incase of an emergency, C&C pink grapefruit oil blotter which after 60 used pieces could probably manufacture its own brand of cooking oil (I can hear the ewwwwws already), never-leave-home-without-it black V-Moda earphones accompanied by Charlie, my 80GB iPod Video, a packet of tissues (this is occassionally forgotten :P) and finally, loose change dating back to my trip to Singapore last year jingling all about in my handbag.
Oh, and I almost forgot. Also always squashed into my handbag is my Nokia-I-can-never-remember-what-model-number-phone and my car keys down below.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Conspiracy!
It's a conspiracy, I tell ya!!
With reference to the previous blog post, I found out today from Jules that it's not just us students who are dying (heh, pun!) to know how the Harry Potter story ends, but apparently, one of our lecturers this morning let slip the ending of the HP saga!
Fate!
Good thing I had stayed home from going to class (had a major headache) or else I would have been totally and utterly pissed at finding out how it ends before finishing the book!
And yesyesyes, I know I've been over-blogging Harry Potter related posts. So sue me!
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Tags Harry Potter, JK Rowling, university
Monday, July 23, 2007
I'm Not Listening!!
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Tags books, friends, Harry Potter, university
Damien Hirst's Creations
Now Playing : "Let Forever Be" - The Chemical Brothers
Pictures taken from Wikipedia.org a.k.a Not From Me.
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(Hump)Back Ride
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Pardonnez mon anglais - Partie 2
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
Pottermania
I got my Harry Potter book!!!!!
5:00AM
Tititititititititititititit!!!! *Slams alarm clock* Groan...gotta leave by 5:30am to go line up for my Harry Potter book...*looks at Jules still snoring*...okay, 5 minutes more lah...
10 minutes....
15 minutes....
Aiyah! I'm late! We're late!
5:40AM
Out of the house, me speeding like devil woman to Carrefour Subang. Still very dark, thank god for streetlights and headlights. 80kph and not much cars around...wah, might just make it!
Wah liao! Almost nobody also...so lepaked in parked car for 15 minutes. See more people semi-running to the entrance. Eh, cannot--I must go too!
Wah liao, suddenly got a line! See picture? Still dark, but very glad I'm like person no.30-something in the line.
6:35AM
Hear someone scream "Eh, the line is at the other entrance lah!!!" Suddenly see people run very, very fast. So I run fast fast too. Cilaka, by the time I got there, I'm no more person no.30!! At least no.100 liao. Aiseh!
Wooooooot! First Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book sold to sisters!! One old man clapped kuat kuat. See more and more people walking away with their books with big big smiles.
7:15AM
Line moves very fast, making me lagi more excited. Wah, can see the book stock already! Shiok lah I'm getting my copy so fast! No need to line up under the hot sun later. Walked back to car with book in hands, shiokness only got so many people looking at my book. Cheh, don't want to look at me ah? :P
Drove off to McDonald's for breakfast. Waved at all the poor people still lining up with an evil grin.*Mwuahahah!* Maybe should faster read the last page and then wind down the window and scream out who dies!
Better not...after my car kena stone.
Brought along bag of Harry Potter books to McDonald's. Not trying to show off lah!! Just don't want people tengok inside my car and then steal them. Made a little girl excited. :P
See my beautiful new book? Got the children's version but since I take off the paper sleeve each time and all the words in the book are the same anyway, it doesn't matter lah! Also got a free poster along with the book...but cacat one. Why should I put up a poster of the book when I can just stare at my book? I wanna look at my book, not look at a picture of the book! Cacat!
Must blog!! Must blog!!
I got my Harry Potter book!!!!!
Ooops...I said that before hor!
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Tags books, Harry Potter, hypermarkets, JK Rowling, McDonald's
Friday, July 20, 2007
Hypermarkets shoving wands up bookstores' *bleep!*
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Tags 1Utama, books, Harry Potter, hypermarkets, JK Rowling
Inverted Situations
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Tags Dead Silence, funny, gecko, movies, weird
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Girlfriends
Catherine,
because of you, I now have a better peace of mind and gained a better perspective of things.
Thank you.
I really don't say this often at all, infact probably never, but you have been like a big sister to me and thank you for the guidance and friendship and support which you have given me. I greatly appreciate it and feel very blessed!
Love, Me.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Where's My Sugar Sugar?
Now Playing : "Dance of the Mirlitons" - Tchaikovsky
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Ho-hum!
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Tags bored, stupid, The Office, university
Monday, July 16, 2007
A Funny Day in a Nutshell
Notice anything unusual (or even funny) about the fire emergency guide that pasted all over the linguistics faculty above? If not, I'm not surprised! I too would not have noticed anything funny about it but as luck would have it, I was leaning against the wall on which the sign was pasted on and I took a closer look!
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Tags chinese food, fire, funny, IKEA, insects, Swedish food, termites, university
Homemade
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Tags chinese food, family
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Checkers
Now Playing : "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand
"Life cannot be fully enjoyed unless one learns to enjoy food."
Those are the wise words of a friend who loves the company of good food as much as I do. Being a self-proclaimed carnosaur, I love a good hearty meal. Earlier tonight was the promise of that at Checkers, a small local restaurant, apparently famous through the spread of the word of mouth for its pork--ribs, chops, etc. When we got there, it was quite apparent that the employees were fever high with the new (or upcoming) Pixar movie, Ratatouille. Not only do they offer a ratatouille dish, but we also found these signs all over the place!
However, none of us ordered a ratatouille due to previous experiences with ratatouilles where it didn't taste very good at all! So I ordered the BBQ pork ribs (shown above) while some of us ordered pork chop with sausage (shown below). Although my parents and Fred--well, actually, everyone else seemed to have liked their meals very much, I didn't like mine at all--despite how appetizing they all look in the pictures! The thing is, everything on my plate had tasted very citrus-y. My pork ribs tasted like citrus, my mashed potato even tasted like someone squeezed a lot of lemon into it, and my salad was waaaaaaay too citrus-y! Actually, my pork ribs were literally swimming in pineapple gravy. Yuk!
Fruits and food should not mix!
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Tags Checkers, food, fruits, Pixar, ratatouille
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Breasts...breasts...
Now Playing : "Sick Cycle Carousel" - Lifehouse