happy merdeka from singapore!

Say good morning to blurry Kim. This is the latest I've woken in what feels like forever! I would usually wake up 7am lastest 9am. But I've been feeling so tired lately. Sigh, Singapore's tiring me out! Hahahaha. Shopping is exercise!!

I'm so stupid, ok. Last night I stayed up till it was past midnight and I forgot all about merdeka! But then again, I'm in Singapore so I can be excused? Hahaha! How horrid of me to celebrate merdeka day by being in another country, eh eh?? Hahaha! Last year, I celebrated merdeka day by spending it in Brunei! Hahahahaha!! Next year must go to Indonesia or the Philippines.

Alright, happy independence day, Malaysia! :)

and i've already gone shopping and overate

I am blogging for:
Wednesday, 29th August 2007.

I'm attempting some real time blogging. Something I'm lousy at. Wow. This trip has been so incredibly last minute. On tuesday afternoon, I smsed my mom at about 3pm asking her if I could go to Singapore, and at 4pm she came over and picked me up to go to town to pick up my plane tickets.

Then at about 10pm I started packing. Finished at midnight. Slept. Woke up at 6am. Showered. Hopped into car and headed to the airport. Mom sent me. Then I flew to Kuching. Flight went alright. Took only an hour. One aunty tried talking to me in chinese. I didn't notice cos I was looking out the window until I turned around and saw her looking at me. Eeps. Had to speak malay lor. How embarrassing. Touched down in Kuching and then I had to find the counters to check in for my boarding pass and all.

Had trouble finding it and ended up at the wrong counters first time. Then the lady there was so rude! Sorry lah I thought this was the correct counter. It was the immigration counter but I thought maybe I could get my boarding passes there as well.. since I didn't see any other counters around! (Turned out the counter I was supposed to go to was right outside but it looked more like an information counter and did not even have a proper sign!)

I want to bitch about this lady a bit, k? She wasn't friendly. So I made a mistake of going to the wrong counter. What lah. PMS is it? Maybe before I came up to her counter she was thinking about her own life and how sad and lonely she is. How she has no one to go home to. How much of a loser she is and how she ended up working at the airport stamping air tickets. What kind of life is that, right?? She's also ugly and has an ugly mug and she's fat fat fat. She got the perfect job to assure that she maintains that figure of hers! Simply sitting behind a desk all day and the only exercise she gets is lifting a stamp. Pfft.

I went to get my boarding pass and then I rejoined the queue for immigration checks. So I had to go through that same lady. Actually, at that time I wasn't even pissed at her. But the bitch had this scowly look on her face. I said, "thank you" to her when she passed me back my passport and she just scoffed. Like, totally wtf man. Yeah, that's when I got pissed. Go walk down a dank dark alley naked! Even rapists won't touch you.

Then I went to kill time by going to Coffee Bean. I'm not the kind of person who drinks those kind of drinks all the time though. I just wanted to waste time. What a way to do it, eh? Received attention from the boys working behind the counters there. Haha. It just reminded me of what my high school chemistry teacher said about how when your only aim in life is to find a husband, something about being gatal. Random.

Kopi Bean.

Soon boarded the plane. For some reason, whenever I fly through MAS, I always always get row 5. Which is the first row of economy class. I wonder if you have to pay extra for those seats or does my travel agent pull strings for me. Hahaha!

Something awful happened on the flight: lunch.

Lunch that was served on the Kuching-Singapore flight.

They gave us a choice of either curry chicken or fish and potatoes. I don't take curry so I had no other choice but to have the fish and potatoes. Doesn't the sauce that they put on the fish look so questionable???? I tried my best to not think much about it when I first started eating but halfway through my meal I just couldn't do it anymore, lost all my appetite, and stopped eating.

Touched down on time. Hurrah. My uncle picked me up from the airport and they all went and had lunch at Swenson's. I didn't eat. I ate already and also, you know I know lah. My little cousins have grown up so fast! One's in her terrible two's stage and the other is just adorable! Last I saw them was during chinese new year.

Anyways, as soon as I got dropped off with my other cousin, Min (who's going off to Canada the next day), I went out again to Takashimaya. Not even time to rest properly. Was at Kinokuniya for awhile. Lost my cousin. We both went around the bookstore several times trying to look for each other. I gave up and hung out at the stationary section. Bought myself two pens and a mechanical pencil. So sad! My old mechanical pencil's been with me ever since primary school maybe! It was a Pilot Shaker pencil. Bought a new one cos someone's car air freshener spilt all over it. And then I also have to get myself a new pencil case (haven't found one yet) cos the zip on the one that I've been using for the past 6 or 7 years is giving out. Yeah, really sad. My most dependable stationaries and I'm replacing them.

I also bought socks from Far East Plaza. We went there because Min wanted to get a t-shirt printed. Then we were off for dinner with the family. Went to Amara hotel to have Korean food!

Most of the waitresses there couldn't speak english though. And they had a heavier chinese accent. We deducted that they might be from mainland China. Our waitress cooked the food right in front of us. Mmmmm.. and the food was awesome. Yeah, it's so unfortunate that we don't get Korean food as ass-kicking as this back in Miri. Ate till I felt sick. You know that feeling when you eat too much. You feel so unhealthy, fat, slow, and like throwing up.

After dinner we dropped by Min's new apartment, which they haven't moved into cos they're doing renovations there. I'm staying at my cousin's cousin's place.

This is Min. When I first saw her after arriving, I almost mistook her for my aunt! Hahaha. They look so much alike now that Min's hair has grown longer.

Min.


Us sitting on the edge of the fountain, Min looking through a book, me looking gangsta'.


Read with me!


The moon was large, clear, bright, and pretty that night.

While I was taking that shot, the adults drove back to the other apartment abandoning both Min and I at the new apartments. Lol. No problem though cos we have legs to walk. Besides, the new apartment and her cousin's apartment is just across the street from one another. Not one of those huge highway roads. Just one of those sissy lorong roads lah. Hahaha.

Saw this on our walk home.


This was in the elevator as we went up. Urgh. You know I hate cicaks, right?

There! That was Wednesday all blogged out! Of course, later that night, I was so tired.. I had to force myself to check my emails, chat a bit but not for long cos I couldn't stand how tired I was, and went to bed almost immediately after.

1 ringgit a sms, 1.50 a minute

ARGH. It's so hard to resist picking up the phone and messaging someone on it. And when people sms me, it's tough to resist replying.

Sigh. Roaming is so expensive.

Yearps, I'm in Singapore now. Touched down at about 12.30pm. Flew MAS. Very tired now. Will write with more flowers in my sentences another time. Been out all day. Haven't rested since 5 or 6 this morning.

Mark, I miss you. :(

Goodnight.

traveling = tension

Oh man oh man oh man. Okay. Breathe. Erm. Hello. I'm leaving for Singapore in the morning. Yeah, totally last minute. I know. I just decided to go over at like, 3pm. And an hour later I'm buying the tickets to leave tomorrow morning. I haven't packed. And I'm feeling very stressed. Like, why am I doing this to myself. Why am I such a lousy impulsive person. Why did my mom let me go? Why couldn't she have said no?

Erm. Sorry Wani and Halim.. I know we already made plans to play Nintendo Wii tomorrow morning but the reasons why I'm going is:

1. See my cousin off before she leaves to Canada.
2. Attend my grandfather's memorial.
3. See babies.

Sorry again, Wani. Won't be around next week either so I don't know if you would still like to sit in on my management lecture without me being around. Argh. Sorry I have to abandon everyone like this. Ha ha. Not like anyone will miss me though.

But I will surely miss everyone back home. And feel guilty for splurging so.

Also, congrats to Wani's cat for popping out the finally ready buns. Hahaha! As in, for laying the kittens. Lol. Won't be able to see them as icky, red and naked worms but I don't think I'll be missing out on much for just missing that stage. Cos they quite frankly gross me out. Please don't lose these bunch of kitties again.

kimmy's birthday

... was over a month ago! Oh well. Kimmy is the girl who owns this particular blog, by the way. Oh. And she has finally turned 21! But the poor girl is still such a kid. She doesn't know how to wear makeup (poor thing) nor how to walk in heels (tsk tsk). But ah.. she's such a sweet kid who loves to make people laugh. She called her boyfriend earlier tonight and she managed to make him laugh for a whole hour. She felt really lovable and good about making someone happier.

But that's not what this post is supposed to be about! It's about Kim finally turning the much over hyped number 21! How she finally turned 21 may not be how she dreamt it up to be but it was nonetheless not any less special than what she managed to dream up for herself. I lied. If things had gone the way she dreamt it up to be, her own wedding would've been a book club meeting in comparison.


How she dreamt it up to be in her own mind:
She flies all her friends out to some spectacular hotel or resort where they will stay a total of 3 days, 2 nights, having fun. On one of the nights will be her super mega huge birthday bash. Fantastic foods such as chicken wings will be served (lol). She obviously wasn't thinking too much about food. Also great drinks will be served.. to get people drunk. Muahahaha. Then the highlights of the night would be performances from Panic! At the Disco, The Academy Is, and Anberlin. And they are all there only for her!! And everyone will have a blast and dance and party the night away. Hehe.

She's so cute when she dreams, no? Also, she wanted to have her party guests wearing only white so that she'd stand out in the crowd by wearing a different colour. Although she isn't so much an extrovert, since it was to be a special day/night, she doesn't mind being the center of attention. I think she might actually secretly be an extrovert. I don't know!

How things actually went:
Was by no means any less special! For one, she felt like her birthday lasted an entire week! Because everyday since she got back from Kota Kinabalu, there have been occurrences which in one way or another had something to do with her birthday!



Friday, 29th June 2007

It was Kim and her friends' last night in KK. Earlier that day, they had a blast island hopping. They were tired, but they still managed to go out again that night as they have done every night since being in KK. Tonight they headed out to Thai Cafe to meet up with the guys who have by then become what you could call good friends because of the bond that occurred from spending almost every single day and night for the past week with them.

Kim, the poor innocent girl, was not expecting anything to happen other than to hang out one last time with everyone before having to head back to Miri the next day. There she was innocently sitting at the tables, drinking her third glass of beer, when she felt a presence sneaking up from behind her.

She turned around and saw her friend, Hazman, hovering behind her holding something in his hands. She was so blur that it took awhile for her to even figure out that it was a birthday cake. What with it having candles on it and all. Then she wondered whose birthday was it they were celebrating. Oh, the poor thing, I tell you! Then he finally set the cake down in front of her and it was then that it hit her like a truck hitting a baby kitten.

She hopes that she didn't look like she was acting, she wasn't. But she had her mouth covered with her hands from the shock. Haha. Of course, there was the singing of the birthday song, the wishing, the blowing of the cake, and the cutting. Then the distributing and the devouring.

Unfortunately, she did not take much pictures that night. No idea why. No one else did either. I think everyone just forgot.


Saturday, 30th June 2007
The little gathering they had the previous day carried on till 3am on this day (does it still count?) and at the end of it, she ended up quite tipsy or drunk. But even if she was, she couldn't tell. She remembers always ending up on her back when she tries to sit though. Which was hilarious and kept making her laugh. I think she was talking a bit more too although she denies that it was the alcohol talking.

There were reports later that morning that she was talking to herself while packing her luggage that night but she was only reading off her checklist to see if she had anything left out! She talks to herself all the time anyway so it shouldn't be anything special or new.

Also, as Kim and her friends were all at the airport, about to go into the departure lounge, she got more hugs and birthday wishes from the guys. Aww. Feel the love! And when they had finally landed in Miri airport, he boyfriend was there to surprise her and to welcome her home. Awww... He had driven all the way to the airport just to greet her! So feeling the love!!


Sunday, 31st June 2007
Mark, her sweet bumbling boyfriend, surprised our main character with a birthday present. She's so easily surprised, isn't she. She also opened her present on this day despite saying that she would wait for her real birth date to roll on by.


Monday, 1st July 2007
The gang that Kim traveled to KK with came over that night. Initially only to trade pictures. Then it started getting late so everyone decided to stay back and wait to midnight. Countdown to my birthday! =)

Tuesday, 2nd July 2007

Kim's actual birthday! Her family decided to use her as an excuse to travel up to Brunei. Or maybe they actually thought that she would enjoy a trip up to Brunei. These are the boys sitting in the back. They're lousy with staying up during road trips.

Kim's family drove all the way up to bandar. Dropped by the mall. Went to Dome for brunch! Kim couldn't decide what to order for herself and was torn between ordering this breakfast set which has bacon, scrambled eggs, and toast... or ordering spaghetti carbonara. Haha.

But they said that since it was her birthday that she could order both. While waiting for her food to arrive, Kim played around with the camera and took this shot. What you can't see is that their waiter was standing right next to her when this shot was taken.

After brunch, they went into The Mall to shop. There was an IT expo going on so Kimmy bought herself an FM Modulator so she could listen to her mp3s in her car. She would've much rather have gotten a new sound system though. Who wouldn't?

But the purchase of the day had to go to Kim's sister who bought herself a pastel blue Nintendo DS. Funny since it wasn't even her birthday. Oh well, Kim.. better luck next time. At least you also bought a pair of slippers Charles and Keith, right? Not only one purchase but two.

Later that night, Kim and her family went down to Esplanade for some Japanese. Too bad for Kim, she ate too much at Dome earlier that morning that by night time, she was still too full to have enjoyed pigging out on cheap (compared to Miri's prices) Japanese food. Mark, Kim's boyfriend, joined them for dinner. I would like to believe that she was happy to have seen him that night.

Maybe not so.

Earlier, Kim's brother bought her a little white teddy bear in a supermarket that came with a little black marker for everyone to write their birthday wishes on for her. Aww. Everyone that was there wrote her a little message for her to remember. Someone drew a mustache. She is yet to figure out who.

Wednesday, 3rd July 2007
Kim had a last minute birthday party where everything just happened to happen. Everything was last minute, the cake, the preparation, the food, the invites, everything. Her aunt curled her hair with some curling tongs. She was apprehensive about it, of course, never having had curly hair before but since it's some sort of "special" day, as her aunts put it, she decided to give it a go.

Our heroine wasn't very fond of the outcome though. Maybe she just needed time to get used to her new hairstyle. Oh well.

Oh and guess what? Our girl was lucky enough to have her boyfriend make a trip back down to Miri as well just to celebrate her birthday again. Aww. Lucky girl.

Then there were others who managed to make it as last minute as it all was and brought gifts too. Kim told me to mention that she says thanks to everyone. She really wasn't expecting to be given any gifts. In fact, she's forgot that day that people gave presents on birthdays. Lousy girl.

She also got the prettiest birthday cake she's ever gotten. Even as a child she never got such a pretty cake and now only at 21, does she get one such as this. It's really funny if you think about it. Unfortunately, it was a normal cake that concentrated more on looking pretty than tasting great but that did not deter people from finishing it until there was only a quarter of it left. Thank goodness too because she was afraid that most of it would've gone to waste considering its size too.

Unfortunately that night didn't go without its misfortunes. There was a terrible so-called accident which caused cake to end up on other people. Here are some of the unfortunate but luckily still alive and breathing casualties.

And you thought our birthday girl was safe? Not with the kind of friends that she has, she is never safe.

i managed to title and organise my ramblings! just look!

Pay me attention! I'm a lonely and neglected child! Hehe.

Did anyone even notice that my blog looked different? I finally upgraded to the new blogger. I've been too lazy to relearn how to code with the new blogger but I finally decided to give it a go. Turned out to not be so different from the old blogger after all! Managed to code everything in just a few minutes.

Okay, so I didn't code everything.. I just tweaked the original blogger codes.

OMG. What's this?? I just noticed an extra button on the blogger toolbar that looks like a filmstrip. OooooooooooooooOOOooo... *click* *click* *click click click!* Nothing happened! I guess they're still working on it. Wow. Soon we can just upload our videos straight to blogger! No need to go through YouTube anymore.

Oh. Turns out it was just slow. It finally managed to load up. Sweet. I'm uploading a little home video just to test this thing out.

(There was an error uploading my video. Boo.)




Trouble sleeping..

Anyways, I've been having trouble sleeping. Haven't been able to enjoy my sleep in what feels like a long time now. And I've been having quite disturbing dreams. I told Mark once about what one of them was and he just laughed at me. Argh!

You know: sex dreams. But it doesn't mean that I had to have sex. It could just be me being with someone other than Mark. Yeah, that's the disturbing bit. That it's always someone else. Not gonna say who! It's too embarrassing. Hehe. What do these dreams even mean anyhow? It's not like I have any feelings for these people in real life and it was not even like they were on my mind but they still manage to creep into my dreams.




Kimmy makes narrow escape from the creepy clutches of Chimney boy!

On Monday, I had an awful time for one of my lectures. I wanted to be alone that day so I sat by myself. This other guy, whom I barely converse/socialize with decided today that he would come sit next to me. The reason I wanted to be left alone in the first place was because I wasn't feeling very well that day.

And this guy, he's literally a walking chimney. Smoker who smokes WAY too much. Every other time you would see him out of class, he would be smoking. And I have NO idea what he smokes. What brand he smokes. Cos he smelt horrible. Really really bad. I didn't know what to do! I didn't want to seem rude and walk off. I couldn't tell him that to go away from me.

But he did smell seriously awful. I have other friends who smoke but at least I can stand being around them. This guy, he smelt a hundred times worse! He must be smoking 24/7. Smokes as soon as he gets up in the morning.. and then probably doesn't brush his teeth, and then continues throughout the day to smoke shit. Haha.

Okay. It's NO laughing matter. I was getting really sick and nauseous. I kept on messaging Robert and Mark to distract myself from him but also to discourage him from talking to me. And everything he would talk and ask me a question, I would give him a one word/syllable answer.

"No."
"Yeah."
"Thursday."

But I don't think he understands!!! How can you be so thick to not get it when someone does not want to talk to you?? I'm pretty sure that my face also reads disgust! I happen to wear my emotions on my face. You can really tell what's going on in my mind by just looking at me. Unless I try to hide it. But that day, not feeling well, feeling nauseous, barely able to breathe, I didn't bother hiding.

Halfway through the lecture, which was an hour later, our lecturer gave us a break, I was so thankful. I grabbed some of my things and proceeded outside to get some fresh air. I felt like I haven't been breathing properly for the past hour! But, oh gawd, chimney boy followed me out.

I messaged Robert to come meet me cos chimney boy is afraid of Robert. Hahaha. So as soon as he saw Robert walking in our general direction, he quickly made an excuse to go off somewhere.

Now, usually chimney boy would come in to class only to sign attendance and then he would leave. I was so hoping that he would not break that little tradition of his. So when Robert offered to sit in in my lecture with me just in case chimney came back, I told him thanks but I didn't think he would be coming back.

But he did! So I quickly messaged Robert and then it was Robert to the rescue! Robert came in and came up to where I was sitting. I scooted over so that Robert would have to sit in between chimney and I. After a few minutes to trying to bare it, chimney couldn't stand it anymore and went back up to sit all by his lonesome.

Later that night, I told Mark more about it. (Mark thinks he's a creep. I do too. Well, he is creepy.) And he said that he ever tried to do anything stupid, to not hit like a girl. *rolls eyes*




Oh, how I would LOVE to be a rockstar!!

Who wouldn't?

30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill. In this video, we can see the ever handsome Jared Leto. Sigh. Oh, and try to spot Spongebob! When he climbs up the scaffolding and addresses the crowd, swoon, that's the best part.

Put in a dash of Velvet Revolver performing Slither.. see Scott Weiland in action. It's so unfair that he manages to fit into pants that I'm sure are smaller than mine! This performance of theirs was only so-so but I just want you guys to see Scott and his pants.

And here, we have Stone Sour with Through Glass. There are boobies in this video. Haha. Oh yes, you know you're a rockstar when you get flashed by boobies while you're performing. Can't wait for it to happen to me. Lol!

Yay for Curtin students! It's the tuition free week! Have a great weekend!

i'm alive, k

How long was I out for? I think I went more than a week without blogging anything real. The last two entries before this one does not count. Okay.. I counted. It's close to 3 weeks now.

SO. Has the traffic for my blog gone down? Hmm. Apparently it's been pretty consistent. Huh. I would've thought traffic would've reduced by now. Hahaha. Not that that has been the plan this whole while. What happened which caused me to become as defunct as I possibly could be was not planned.

What happened? Not gonna talk about it. :)

How have you all been? I've been depressed. One of those things that have been getting me down is how my timetable for the semester have been. This is definitely the worst timetable I've ever had. This is what time I finish each day:

Monday - 7.30 pm
Tuesday - 5 pm
Wednesday - 8 pm
Thursday - 8 pm
Friday - 6 pm

Sigh sigh. You know, I much much rather have morning classes than have classes that end late!

Anyways, I love this video. My hubby's band again:

Isn't he sexy? Mine!



Very tension lah that video. :( Stress je.

Oh, you know. The Cardigans have always been one of my favorite bands ever. But I'm so upset that their videos don't come out here anymore. Isyk. How could they forsake me. So what if I don't even own one of their albums. Hahaha. :)

Mark, you need to be nicer. Or I will become an alcoholic. Our relationship have gone to a much higher level now. We publicly threaten each other now. Okay. So it's only just me. Smile smile. Just smile. :) Anyway, is it just me or does Nina Persson just exude Scott Weiland? Google them. Just check out the way she moves in the video.

Nina Persson

Scott Weiland

Anyway, I'm okay. What happened was a total inconvenience, yes, that's what I shall call it. And I won't get over what happened just like that because what happened was very serious. So there may be days when I will stumble and be depressed and totally screaming in your face if I don't feel like being nice. :) Kidding. I won't scream in your faces because I can't scream.

Uh. At least I don't think I could. Never tried. Fine. I'll shaddap now. Class in an hour. Byes.

call me ash, for short

You know.. The only ones that repeated themselves were Ashley Tisdale and Ashley Olsen. I ought to change my name to Ashley then. Ashley Marie Kimberley? Hahaha!

ZOMG. I'M UGGG-LEH.

at least i haven't chosen to stop breathing

Erm. I'm not at my best. Sorry.