Greed

Just a minute ago…

Abah: So are you going anywhere this coming Friday?

Me: Yeah, working half day.

Abah: This Friday? On Deepavali?

Me: This Friday is Deepavali??? Yaaaaaaaay. I have the whole day to last minute pack. My flight is that night.

Abah: Owh you’re going already? Was just thinking of going to Fraser’s Hill. Haven’t seen that place in years. But you’re going to an even better place.

Me: Oh NO! I wanna go to Fraser’s Hill too!!

In other news, brother has officially caught the Justin Bieber hair fever, claiming the hair naturally sweeps sideways.

Gender Equality in the 1920s

Happy weekend everybody!!!

Terbukti Mat Salleh Memang Gila

Kenapa saya guna bahasa melayu? Sebab takut kena serang dengan mat salleh –_-

Enjoy!

CONTEST MORTAR BOARD: The Beauty In Ugly

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Muka semangat & tangan macam “the claw”. Klau tengok crita Jim Carrey msti paham.

Miss Bells tagged me.

Saya tag EVERYBODY.

Wednesdays Are Quote Days

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." (p.43)Tuesdays With Morrie

Vanguard Up-rise Camera Bag

I wouldn’t call myself a photographer. Far from it. I take pictures for the sake of keeping them for memories. I’m a nostalgic person more than anything.

Funny enough, despite being a non-photographer, I find myself buying little photography “extras” like the Vanguard up-rise camera bag below.

Also the camera remote control trigger and tripod. Not to mention I have two compact cameras—an Olympus & Casio. That doesn’t count the times when I change cameras twice in university because a) One camera became SO outdated. b) Another: somebody got excited and accidentally splashed sea water on my camera (a nikon coolpix is not cheap). Sometime in the future I want to have a collection of lenses.

Well, you get my point. I’m not a photographer but more like a memory keeper.

Now that I’ve written things down.. I now know where all that money went –_-

Somehow there’s always a way to justify the things that have been bought.

For SLR: It’s a future investment. I need crisp CLEAR pictures and not lame ones so that I wouldn’t regret in the future. Plus, everybody needs to get an SLR at some point in their lives. Why not now?

For tripod: What if there’s no one to take photos of me and the group? What if I need to take pictures at night?! If I need to take a night photo of KL?! You know, what if???!

For remote trigger: It would be so cool to stand in place when the photo is taken and I don’t have to run when using self-timer! So many pictures have been ruined! Oh and don’t have to take camwhorish pictures no longer! I can pretend that somebody’s taking the pictures for me!

For camera bag: The default bag is so flimsy, I’m sure it’s going to rip into half any time soon. Better get a good, tough bag.

For changing cameras after the sea splash: What, you want me to go through life without a camera? Are you crazy? What if the future me wants to look back at how disastrous my room was?

There you have it, I justified all my purchases. And they’re completely rational too. The “what-ifs” could certainly kill me.

At some point everybody does it. You’re going to buy something because it makes you feel good and powerful and like, THE-bomb. Maybe you don’t need it everyday, but you just have to have it! Or maybe that’s just me =P

PS: Better really start saving up for real. Hmm. Might have stepped into the realm of the quarter life crisis.
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Update 18.7.2012: This turned out to be a GREAT investment. It keeps my camera safe from falls, hard knocks and rain. I brought the bag to New Zealand, China, and all over Malaysia. I love the fact that even though it is two years old, it looks like new!!! Very robust!! If you're like me, aka the clumsy photographer, this is bag will be your favorite!!! 

Cracked the Nutshell

So you know that after 5 very long, but most wonderful years, I’ve finished my studies in UTP. I’m now working. Last week I had my convocation and have officially been granted BSc (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering.

I’m not finished. Early this year, me and a friend got talking about how we have to go somewhere together after graduation. We talked and talked and talked some more. I was afraid that with all the talking, nothing will happen.

BUT. I have nothing to fret about anymore because the return ticket has been paid, accomodation and transportation has been booked, travel plans has been finalized, the bosses and parents approve…

I’m backpacking to New Zealand in early November!

Hoping to get gorgeous shots of the mountainous areas.

In case you’ve forgotten, they filmed Lord of the Rings in New Zealand. Yup… the hobbits, the beautiful elves, the scary huge mountains, the grass fields!

Lonely Planet has also granted Milford Sound, New Zealand as no 1 must visit spot in the world in 2009.

New Zealand would be a great place to get away from it all. The sheep population outnumber humans by 10 times. Which I find really cute. I’m ganna make sure there’s lotsa sheep pictures or I’m ganna have to do something extreme like bungee jumping off a cliff there.

more New Zealand pictures.

I swear if the sheeps run away from me, or god forbid, chases me, I’m ganna cry!

My aunt told me that zorbing (the activity where you get into an airtight ball and they roll you down the hill and you tumble around like in a washing machine) was actually created and maintained by a Malaysian. Malaysia Boleh!

The Sky Tower in Auckland. Just in case you start thinking New Zealanders live in the mountains, wear loin cloths and speak like elves.

Auckland skyline. To answer the burning question: they have towers, buildings and you know, boats.

I’ll update more on this later. Till then, toodles~

Jungle City One Last Time

17.10.2010

Status: Graduated

Congratulations to all my graduating friends. May our memories together not be forgotten. If not in the head, then digital form will do <3

Open Mindedness

You wouldn’t know how open minded you are until you suddenly knock into your boundary wall. I thought I was pretty open-minded until somebody actually confesses to sleeping with another girl while still being married. That really shuts me off and I was steaming inside. It doesn’t matter that the wife knows, or that the relationship was consensual. No it didn’t matter.

I was also surprised by how I reacted when a fingerless lady greeted me at the toll. I jumped a little bit. Worst part is, she noticed. After that day, I never lined up at the same toll booth again.

Sure you tell people, I’m an open book. You can drink, you can go party for three days, you could have multiple girlfriends but I’m not fazed. But when it comes to certain things, I find that I react very negatively. So what is open-mindedness really? Where exactly do you draw the line? Some people might think it’s OK to kill animals, or to stay with the helper while still married like Warren Buffet or maybe to practice polygamy. For the record, I’m not against polygamy but under certain circumstances only. I don’t buy the ‘one-wife-not-enough’ saying. To those, I’d say, go to hell.

I really got confused that night I found out about the affair. Maybe I’m not so open-minded as I thought. But then again, what can be called open-minded?

Malaysian Open

Open what now? To the oblivious, Malaysia is also host to the Tennis Open. Don’t feel too bad, I only knew this year.

I’ve been bad. I haven’t posted, or contribute to the blogging world for 3 weeks. To be honest, this is the first day in three weeks that I have 5 hours to myself. Oh NONO this ain’t a whiny post at all. I just wanna share some pictures of last week before the moment passes.

Youzhny won!

It was a really fun day out. We stayed there for 5 hours. The tickets were well worth it.

The crowd was awesome! Loves it.

Emo Post

I hate it when:

1. People borrow my stuff without my permission
2. People entering my room without my permission
3. People touching my things without permission, then spoils it
4. People touching my things without permission, spoils it and does not inform me, letting me discover myself when I’m about to use it
5. People touching my gadgets and spoiling it
6. People touching my gadgets and pretending its theirs taking it all over
7. People entering my room and touching my stuff without permission
8. Strangers entering my room and roam around
9. People entering my room and start opening boxes and drawers and my memoir boxes
10. People taking my stuff without telling and leave me wondering where it went
11. People making a mess of my space and leaving me to clean it.
12. People sitting on my made-up bed and not tidying it back
13. People rummaging through my make up and jewellery without MY PERMISSION
14. People burning my collection of candles without my permission
15. People using my earphones without my permission!!! (GROSSSSSSS)
16. People using my laptop, camera, handphone, whatever without my permission!&*(^*#&$^&*$(
17. People calling international using my handphone without my permission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
18. People touching my hamsters without my permission
19. Huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Now you know how anal I can be. Done. End of story.