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Monday, January 31, 2005
haircut
I had a haircut yesterday in my mother's shop in Puchong (my mother owns the shop, the lady rents from us. It's not much money though so we're not exactly rich, thanks). I have this habit of not thinking about my hair until my brother says, "Isn't it time you had you hair cut?" and we go to whatever hairdressing salon he goes to, and I get it cut. The last time I had it cut, it was a short boy-cut, and that was something like a year and a half ago. (The hairdresser in Box Hill is from Hong Kong, with blond spikes and loud Cantonese, and I think I nearly gave him a heart attack when I said "A year" in answer to his query of how long it had been since I cut my hair last.)
This lady Ah Mei is Malaysian, and she works in an area where not-so-rich people live anyway, so she was not aghast at my hair negligence. I asked for it to be long enough to tie, so it's not very much different from what it was, and doesn't look any different in photos (either that or I'm a lousy self-photographer) but it looks "more style" in real life. So says my mother, anyway. Mei admonished me, "Don't tie it up so much, okay!"
Hooray, hair cut. No need to bother with it for another year.

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Saturday, January 29, 2005

guitar

Ladies and gentlemen; may I introduce you to my elder brother, and my younger brother's new guitar, all the way from the US of A.

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Cool! a new guitar





trying to play it




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giving up already?




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Don't kill the cameraman!!

PS: I got my sari! I got my sari! I got my sari!! *turns cartwheels*


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equation of the day
headache
+ Brian
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analgesia
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Friday, January 28, 2005
head. ache.
I have a headache so bad that my front tooth throbs with every heart beat. I dunno, maybe it's caused by ... lots of things ...Worrying about the Met ticket prices. Worrying about the car in Melbourne. Worrying about getting back to Clayton from the airport. Running about in the heat to pack. Running about to get to lunch with Tiffany on time. Getting aggravated at the horrid, horrid traffic in KL - loading a truck in the middle of the road? come on, you people - which made me late for lunch. Getting aggravated at my brother. Getting annoyed by the plaguing mosquitoes who so ruined my sleep two nights ago. Getting aggravated at being considered irresponsible by my own mother. Getting annoyed with myself for not knowing KL town better. Getting annoyed with the maid for having eaten all the damned Panadols in the house. Getting annoyed with people who sit in their dark cars outside my house with their engines on and their brains off. (What are they doing? Go away, please.) Getting annoyed because a headache means I can't read, play Palm games, play computer games, or watch anything - basically I can't do anything for a long stretch of time, right now.
I feel awful and I would like to go to sleep but it's only 9 pm and I'm still waiting for a phonecall which I cannot miss. My little brother's guitar depends on it.

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traveling
My brother flew home from Melbourne last night; he sat next to David Nalbandian on the plane until the tennis player was upgraded to first class halfway through the flight.
I'll be heading back to Melbourne on Tuesday night.
I started packing today, and I'm making reasonable headway; I realize I have very few things. I own about half the amount of clothes and shoes my brother does! But I'm happy with that amount. What would I do with so many things crowding my tiny little room?
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One child goes away, another child returns. The last child returns, and the other goes away again.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005
annoyed
I'm annoyed at the sari lady. Last week I told her, I'm going back to Australia in early February, I need it by then. She said, no problem, call me next week. So I called her this morning and ask her if the pink sari is done, and she goes "Oh no, that one is not done yet. One more week. I wasn't open yesterday," and I blew it. I go, "You told me a week! Next week I'll be back in AUSTRALIA!" and she goes, "Oh.. when you going?" I snapped, "Tuesday!" and she goes, "OK in that case.. come on Sunday." And I repeat, "Sunday?" and she goes, "Oh make it Saturday, I mightn't open on Sunday."
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Want my sari.
She'd better have finished it by Saturday.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
But then again it was Thaipusam yesterday so she probably was on pilgrimage, or something. So maybe she's not been working to her full potential lately ... I'll give her the benefit of the doubt, and expect that she can get it done by Saturday.

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shoe photo!
I know my feet aren't as pretty as Dianna's *grin* ... but this is the only way I can show off my new pair of shoes.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005
shopping spree
*counts money*
I left the office with RM265, this morning. Now I have RM16 left... it's amazing how fast one spends money when one has it at hand.
Calculation of spending:
For Steph = RM 53 + RM 40
For Wen Yeen = RM 20
For me: Long-sleeved shirt = RM 20
High heels = RM 49.90
T-shirt = RM 32
Goggles = RM 26.91
Lunch = RM 6.10
Monorail ticket = RM 1.20
Total = RM 249.11
Wowness. Hahaahaha I don't think I've ever spent so much in one day!
Now my feet are tired and beautiful in my new high heels, I'm going to finish editing exam questions. Ah. Accomplishment.

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Monday, January 24, 2005
to make me feel better
May I draw your attention to the bacteriophage on my shirt.
My hair's hiding its DNA sequence, unfortunately ...

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daze
Bleah. Warning. Complaining post ahead.
My head hurts and my eyes are sandy. I think I've been sleeping too much these days. It's either that, or too much coffee - I had some before leaving Kuantan yesterday. Or, more likely, I've been dragged out of sleep halfway through my sleep cycle, by the room being too hot (this is always what happens when I share a room with my cold-fearing mother) or by the telephone ringing (that was my uncle at 8 am this morning). Typing exam questions in my mother's office doesn't help, although truth be told, if I were sitting at home reading, I'd probably end up with a worse headache.
My hands are too dry these days - too much harsh dishwashing liquid - and I tried putting moisturizer on them but the Rosken Skin Repair cream is very smelly and so I'm not happy with it, it makes my head hurt worse..
.. the only positive point I can make is that Brian called me last night, a few minutes after I called his house and found it engaged. Since his house phone doesn't have a Call Waiting function, I can only assume that we are psychic. Ahh.

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Sunday, January 23, 2005
photos
I put up photos of the trip to Kuantan!
http://kuantan.mypicgallery.com - go look!
My cousin's daughter Li-Ann

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Thursday, January 20, 2005
grads card
This afternoon I called my mother's travel agent to confirm my flight back to Melbourne on the 1st of February. She pointed out that my MAS Grads card (student card, it enables me to get student prices on flights) will expire on the 30th of January. Doosh! so I called up the MAS office, and the lady there informs me in her sleepy voice that the procedure for renewal is the same as the procedure for application. Which meant I needed a couple of passport-sized photos, my student ID, and the signature or stamp of the university registrar. Which are all in Melbourne! I was frantic. Why are they so silly?
I did the best I could, anyway. I just drove myself to a nearby photo shop take instant photos (and was so anxious that I scraped another car. Oops. But what can I do?) and printed out the invoice for my fees - if thatdoesn't show I'm a current student, what does, right? - and pray for the best. I'll need to go downtown to the MAS office this afternoon. Oh horror. Downtown KL. I hate driving through downtown KL ... don't let me drive, mommy ...

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Wednesday, January 19, 2005
sari
So I went to the market this morning armed with five metres of pink Indian sari cloth and a vague direction of "upstairs near the cake shop" from my friend Halimatul. After wandering a few rows of shops, I came across her - the Indian tailor lady working on a green blouse inside her shop. She looked up and around as I waved and smiled to catch her attention from outside the glass doors, not quite trusting that a Chinese girl should want entry, wondering if perhaps I meant to catch the eye of the Chinese shopkeepers in the next stall. When she realized I was looking at her, she opened the door and I began my questions about saris and blouses and whether or not she made them.
She was quite alright after the initial shock of a pure Chinese girl wanting a sari ("You Chinese ah? Your mother Indian kah?"), efficiently taking down my measurements and phone number, giving me her card and instructions to go buy a petticoat skirt "from Indian shops in KL" and to call back in a week.
I think saris are very nice items of clothing, and I look nice in them, if I do say so myself. Not being Indian has nothing to do with it. I'm Malaysian after all; when I have my sari I shall have one of each of the traditional costumes of the three main races. You know, it helps that I've got the features I have. I'm only obviously Chinese when I'm wearing things that are obviously Chinese; I can wear a Malay outfit and pass for Malay; and perhaps in a sari I might pass for a Chindian.

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
baby talk
I stumbled into my mother's room this morning at 6.30 am, saying "Someone needs to sedate that baby, and sedate her now."
The baby in the house at the back was crying again
- well, more like shrieking really.
Don't waaaaant! Don't waaaaaaaaant!!
Do not ask me what she did not want. The two Filipino maids cannot keep her happy, and she shrieks all day for her mother. Now she starts shrieking at 6.30 am? This is too much. My house is the back room. I wish I had earmuffs.
I slept from 6.30 until 10 in the master bedroom and was disturbed by the sounds of the primary school in front of our house instead.

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Monday, January 17, 2005
office work
I'm sitting in my mother's office, abusing her Internet again. I went with her to two of her Year One lectures today, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and made myself useful by giving out tutorial questions and helping to click the mouse when the Powerpoint showed up on the projector screen but not on the computer screen. Hooray for technology! I think I might just go read Jane Austen instead.
Have the song Tonight from West Side Story in my head after hearing it on the radio. Only you, you're the only thing I see, for ever ...

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Saturday, January 15, 2005
photos
I put up some photos of Brian and I in KL! New photo album on sidebar. Not many up yet, this is my little brother's computer so I didn't put too many on his disk drives.

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Friday, January 14, 2005
there he goes
He's just left, after four days of driving, walking, and eating our way around KL. I think I have never seen so much of KL before! We went to 1-Utama, Central Market, KL Tower, KLCC, Petronas Twin Towers, Petaling Street, Bintang Walk, Dataran Merdeka, the National Museum, the Railway Station, the High Court, Universiti Malaya, Cheow Yang Pasar Malam, and Sunway Pyramid.
Of course we ate lots - nasi lemak, roti canai, ais kacang, teh tarik, Hokkien noodles, yin yong noodles, long yoke, chee cheong fun and yong tau foo, and kaya puff. We've gotten fat already! (That's why we went walking in the exercise park near my house this morning.)
Plenty of photos but I'm not sure if the Internet connection will let me upload anything!

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Monday, January 10, 2005
tomorrow
Tomorrow;
tomorrow;
tomorrow;
the Brian comes tomorrow;
it's only a day away...!

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Sunday, January 09, 2005
battery
My mom and I went to fill the car with petrol, yesterday, but when we stopped at the petrol kiosk the car wouldn't start again. (The alarm did, though, and with wild abandon too.) The petrol attendants refilled our battery water with no result, they tried to pushstart the car with no result (it being an auto car); nothing worked until one of the attendants was so nice as to bring his car over and put his battery into our car to enable it to start. After that we gave him back his battery, thanked him profusely, and drove off carefully to a service station - without turning the engine off - where the mechanic decreed the battery dead, and sold us a new one.
People can be nice, can't they? I'm glad. They could have easily said "Too bad, go call a mechanic" but they didn't, and helped us using their own time and resources as well!
But I blush for the coldness of my own race because I know that had the attendants been Chinese, we wouldn't have gotten that much help. Thank God for Malay people.

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Friday, January 07, 2005
seanless kl
Mom and I drove back to KL today, so I'm back home now.
Missing my little brother because he's in Singapore and will be there for the next two years while I go back to Melbourne ... whenever we see each other we've got so much to talk about, we bounce off the walls making noise and debating points. We're so similar yet so different, and we get along really well because we use each other's knowledge as reference points. For instance, I can spell, he can't; he can play guitar, I can't; I can sing, he won't in public; he can act, I can't. And I'm four years older so I know some things he doesn't, and I guess he can respect that, while at the same time, as a teenaged boy there are some things which he takes for granted which I have never experienced.

Hope you have a great time in Singapore, Sean. May you get the best out of the JC system, and may you leave its worst points there.

Sean and his friend's cat.

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Wednesday, January 05, 2005
TJC visit
I went to TJC today, to see teachers and hoping to catch the choir rehearsing so I could see my choir mistress again. Unfortunately it's Orientation week, so the choir's not in session until next Tuesday. I left Ms Tham a note with one of the chorister boys, so I guess that will have to do.
I got to see my teachers however - and they all remember my name! Amazing. I had the good luck to be there just when they were having a tea break from some seminar, so they were all congregating under TRC. I said hi to Mrs Kitty Tan (physics), Miss Rita Wong (chemistry), and Mrs Beetsma (ASEAN teacher-mentor). Mr Edwin Lim (GP and class teacher) has gone to Indonesia so of course he wasn't there; Mrs Ng Chee Yen (biology) had gone home and I couldn't find her. Mrs Beetsma didn't know if Mrs Lim Ling Ling (maths) is still teaching in TJC at all. Of course I saw all the other teachers there as well but I didn't dare to greet the ones I didn't know personally, like the PE teachers, in case they all didn't recognize me!
It was quite nice to go back and see the place, and to see the first years running around (I didn't see my little brother but he must have been around somewhere) learning the Mass Dance (which is to the Retarded song this year) and jumping left right and center.

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funny ah mom
Looking at this photo, my mother suddenly goes, "Why is he playing in a left-handed manner?"
Um, mom, because he's left-handed ...

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Tuesday, January 04, 2005
cute
It's quite an unusual thing ... staying here in NTU with my parents I feel like an only child (except that we talk about my brothers a lot, one being presently in Singapore and the other about to come to work in Singapore). Also I think my dad is very happy having a new job, a new apartment to furnish (more space to fill in true packratty style, yay), and more challenges to keep him occupied after his retirement age, so he's been very cheerful these days, and I'm not used to that either. My dad, the professional pessimist! Third unusual thing: NTU is very slopey, and as we walked up and down the hills to Canteen 1 for dinner last night I got to see my parents holding hands ... I had to wait 21 years to see that.

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Monday, January 03, 2005
wander singapore
Singapore's not hard to wander about in; Melbourne's still better because the streets are parallel to each other, but they both beat Malaysia any time for accessibility and lost-less-ness *grin*
Mom and I went to Queensway and bought me shoes; we took the train to Orchard and bought some bedsheets and some plates for dad's apartment; then took the train to Boon Lay and got some floor-mopping soap solution from NTUC. After that we got the bus back to NTU, and walked to dad's apartment carrying all that stuff! Good exercise, we walked all day and my mother is very tired now.
At lunch (at Burger King in IKEA building) I saw a boy who looked so familiar, and he was darting little looks at me as well so I went up to him and said, "Do I know you, you look awfully familiar!" He turned out to have been in my junior year in TJC choir, so we had a little chat about things and what we are doing at the moment; he's in the army, and he was telling me about his plans for uni when he's done with National Service. My mother commented that if I can run into someone I know on my second day visiting, Singapore is very small ...

To Brian: I miss you and want you to hold me but I know I'll see you soon. Enjoy Japan.
Update: Dinner cost $7.50 for the three of us. I like NTU canteen food prices :P

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Sunday, January 02, 2005
in singapore
I'm in Singapore, staying in my dad's apartment for a week while Mom and I visit. It's raining, it's literally been raining all day. We went to Sean's hostel (Dunman High Hostel, which to me will always be Dunman Jail) to deposit him and a few belongings after having taken him out to stay overnight in Dad's apartment in NTU. The office was closed when he left yesterday, and it's still closed today, so nobody needs to know that he was ever out overnight ... la la la la la.
It's hot and humid and I have a headache ... blah.
My dad's apartment is really, really huge for one person. It has three rooms, a tiled floor, two bathrooms, a kitchen, a balcony, a living area, and a dining area. Plus there's a covered parking area underneath, and a lovely view of green fields around. If only it would stop raining, perhaps we might be able to go and do some shopping and sightseeing and stay far away from places which stir up mixed memories and emotions which are buried deep within me.
But it's nice to visit.

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