Urrgghhh!!! Me wants the money laaaaaa

Okay I shouldn't think about it this way. So what if I'm not getting paid as much as the rest? At least I get to go where I want to and I bet lotsa goodies will come my way. Find find I'm trading the cash for better experience and maybe a job opportunity too if I like doing publishing at the end of the day. And I have a better place to stay with cheaper rent and not with strangers. Also Jaya One is a hangout spot so yay! I've got variety to choose from for lunch and it's near UTAR can lunch with See Mei and Kc when they start their semester. The rest of them are renting rooms instead of the entire place to themselves with no transportation and works in an office building even if it's near Midvalley so what la.

So Angelene, look at as a perk not a pay cut =(
(pat self on the shoulder boohoooo!)

YASMIN AHMAD 1958-2009

It was a shocker to hear the words of this Flyfm dj announcing Campur Chart coming up next and with him adding on, ".......this is a show dedicated to Malaysian artists and all creative Malaysians especially the late Yasmin Ahmad for her local indie movies like Sepet, Mukhsin and the latest Talentime." Our expression froze and we turned staring at each other with our mouth wide opened. It was only last Thursday that we heard she had a stroke and had to go for surgery. Over the weekend without much news said about this controversial yet touched every Malaysian soul film producer for our seasonal Petronas advertisements (this year end we will have none to look forward to) then suddenly she has passed on?!!!

All her Petronas ads are such perks during commercial breaks coz you'd have to wait till the very end to get the jist of the story. And every single one of it has the element of surprise at the very end. One of my favourite is this one during cny, it's these 2 teenage boys sitting far apart from each other both minding their own business sms-ing and the other on his psp. They both had spikey hair and had baggy clothes. Acting like strangers not talking to each other but in fact they are cousins.

There is also this Merdeka ad where a dad had to wake his son at dusk to shower him in the slump, get him dressed(combed his hair karipap style, added the putu) then cycled him all the way to town just to witnessed Tunku Abdul Rahman. While the little boy was half asleep the whole entire way especially sleeping on his dad's back on the bicycle. And the last clip, his dad carried him up on his shoulder so he can have a clearer view of the event because he was tip-toeing among the adults.

I might have gotten some of the ads wrong coz it was so many years back but look it was obviously a very efficient and creative ad coz it tapered into my mind and I can still remember it till today. Hmm I tried looking for it on youtube but can't find the same ad I'm talking about. Anyway here are few others which are equally as touching.

This reminded me of poh-poh. I miss her dearly.

Oh here is the first ad I mentioned. Now that I've re-watch it's entirely different from what I remembered. Haha the last part was cute after he got his peepee skin cut.

Ohyeeaaahhh ohhhyeeeaahh!!! Words from an almost-graduate

Double dose of papers in a day within 9-3pm, do the calculations I'm to zoinged out to do any logic right now. So glad everything was crammed into a day so I need not worry about the week anymore. I can officially say I am done with college! Done with KDU! Adious shitty rut! No it's not that I don't have good experience studying there it just took me double the time to get it all-most done. Right now I've got my 3 month internship ahead of me which I am kinda getting the kick of reality. In a week or two from now I'm going to be a working woman living on my own without mummy and daddy boohooo =........( no one to wash my laundry, mop the floor, dust the house, clean my room occasionally and most of all the naggings of staying out too late.

Wait my point is, before my thought stray to more unrelated issues I have in mind. Yea my point is when I was doing my last round of double checking my answer for my Dekstop Publishing paper I came to realized I've never mistakenly answer more questions required in any essay sections. For example you have 5 questions to choose from all you need to do is pick 2 and answer them. Amazingly I have never ever mistakenly answered all like those who DON'T READ INSTRUCTIONS or have I ever not answered the last page of question on the back of the paper like what MOST OF YOU would do haha.

The thing is I might have missed out one or two questions for short answers because I decided to skip it and go to the next question. Either I had no time to thoroughly check it through or I just forgot about the unanswered question entirely.

I am proud of myself in a way

-words from an almost-graduate =)

The hot chic+fat chic combo

Ok guys how true or how often does this happen? There's this really cute looking chic who you've been eyeing on for quite sometime and you are waiting just to take the right move to walk over there and say hi. But..... the only thing is she's always with this fat/ugly girl who happens to be her bff. What do you do? It's obvious you have to get through this not-so-attractive friend of hers first to get to her. Find a scapegoat(a buddy of yours who's willing to be a decoy, or who's willing to take the other ugly chic when you both go on double dates) haha.......

You know somewhere deep down I've always felt like the fat/ugly chic but I never let it bother me or felt unwanted. So what if guys are interested in my hot girl friends? So what I'm not the first girl that catches your attention when you enter the room. You know personality shines through! It's bigger than pam anderson's double d's. Unless your intention is to get into her pants then be my guess go ahead and oogle all you want at pam anderson's double d's =)

It will always be

When I saw the both of them hanging out together once again after so many years of losing contact(as far as I'm concerned) it seems like time never passed us and nothing has changed. She didn't go to Russia. She wasn't MIA. As though the entire 5 years did not happen. It seems even weirder when I went over to say hi and the response I got would have been the same exact thing she would say back then. The way she behaved, her body language and the laughter were all the same. We didn't go anywhere after all =) we didn't mature, we didn't go the distant, we've only gained more knowledge and maybe a couple of pounds(in my case) and saw the almost real world.

People who really matters to you will always stay the same and you can trust that they really got your back when they say so.

EYE-KEEEEEYYYYY- YAH YAH YAAAAAAHHHH!!!

Flip the switch and turn the lights off =) from green colored screen background to an all black background. It says on the site,

"An all-white screen uses about 74 watts to display, while an all-black screen uses only 59 watts. Now you know you're helpping save too."

Every now an then the IKEA website comes out with different design on the Go Green page with unique and interactive ideas for you to be apart of saving the mother earth.

Yarzzzz yarzzzz my new place *fingers crossed* is gonna be Ikea-ized =) hohohohooooo! I hope mum allows me to get a whole entire unit instead of some crummy itsy bitsy room with no ventilation and horrible strangers as my housemates. Gosh! Heeellloooo so you'd rather save a couple of hundreds and endanger my safety to who I stay with? Geeeezzzz my semester fees for the last few sems were cut to half, no less than that. And I've been studying locally so that's no way you can tell me we don't have enough to pay my rent in KL gosh parents!

I want the place to be all white with incandescent lightings and rugs lying around like some sort of hobo gathering with no furniture. Lots and lots of fluffy pillows in my room with funky curtains and bed spread. Ok I can go on and on how I want my room to be. Basically something like how my old room in the US used to look like. I can't wait I can't wait......... to snippety snap the outcome and show you my decorating skills lolllll now let's sit back and get my final project done while I try to get study tips for the final exams =)


Tooooddddlllessss good night!

Are you a talker or a doer?

So here you have someone who walks the walk and talks the talk. Then you have someone who is a NATO, the Malaysian translation of Talk Only No Action. I have no idea why the acronym is the other way around probably coz it sounds better than erm TONA hahaaaaa. I've seen and hear people around me, on TV, in the newspaper and etc. being all ambitious wanting to achieve a goal be it for long term or short term. For example a world effort decided by the UN announced that they will help poor countries like Africa, India and China to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. Do you see an effort by any of your government? Let's side-track a lil, so there is this campaign "In My Name", where citizens urge their government and political leaders to take action on this promise as the deadline set by the UN is drawn nearer and nearer. With this you can sorta summarize that the people in the UN is a talker without taking any actions. It's always easier to put your goals into words than action. When you actually carry it out it is 100 times harder than you've thought of but it takes on tiny step from each of us to make this realization come true. Be a doer!

Okay back to a day-to-day related example so yea I have this friend she was so anxious and worried when she did not get a reply for some application at the very beginning when the rest of us was just too lazy to even bother about getting accepted or not. As the week past by some of got a reply, some got accepted immediately and some did not. She was still being a worry pot questioning why didn't she get at least a reply when we were told just to wait a few more weeks. I did not get my reply either so I figured maybe I should source and apply on my own coz I don't want to just sit there worry and do nothing about it. I was kinda trying to be a doer but I was lazy and hesitated along the way. And guess what it paid off looking for another application on my own. I got accepted within a week. This friend of mine waited for 3 months and is still waiting for just a reply whom she refuses to call up to double check just coz we were told to wait. When I asked her if she got anywhere else she can pull some strings to get in on her own, all she said to me was, "Oh I don't want to think about this now. I'm just going to wait. Let's not talk about this." Wow! Suddenly she couldn't be bothered about it when everyone else has already gotten a confirmed reply with acceptance. Gosh!!! Talk about a real talker huh? What is the point getting all fussed up and worried if you don't even care when it is time to take real action. Geeeezzzzz......

I'm not saying I'm all perfect and all but through out the years I've come to realized I fall in between a doer and a talker. Sometimes I'm more to a talker when it comes to realizing a vision. I will have the best brainstorm ideas on what to do and then take a bloody long period before I put my hands on it but I will somehow get my job done even if it means burning the midnight oil for days. Like I've mentioned above I'm like a lazy hesitant doer.

Urrrgghhh!!! I can't stand a wannabe doer talker.
And yes, I have friends who are doers too =) she is one extreme person who will go through all lengths to make it happen!

Kay elle weekenders

Last weekend down was for a mission =) my interview with KLue. I applied for my internship with the magazine a few weeks back and got a prompt reply from the editor asking me to go down for an interview. Fortunately the interview went amazingly smooth and I was almost hired on the spot. She said my chances were high and we even talked about the allowance which I assume they obviously want me on board or else why bother telling me how much they will pay me. So I waited till today for a confirmation from KLue but I was so anxious as it was past lunchtime and still no reply, I sent the editor a thank you letter instead then she came back to me with good news of wanting to hire me. Phhhheeeww! What a relieve! Now all I have to do is find a nice place to stay for the 3 months in KL. But but before that I obviously have to hand up my final projects and sit for the exams siiiggghhhhh aaaaaahhhhhh I can't wait for it to be over and done with.

Will probably be down in KL this weekend as well to look for a nice condo around Sunway/ Subang or SS2.