Hello dearies. I have written 2 emo blog posts previously so I thought I’d write something that’s not serious now. I’ve also decided to blog about this to keep my sudden obsession from driving me nuts. Picture heavy entry ahead.
Have you guys watched “THE VAMPIRE DIARIES“?
Very long rant ahead. Just to get things out of my chest before I explode.
I have been tired this past few days. I ended fucking up my sleeping pattern again; staying up all night and sleeping all day. Anyways, next Monday I have my dermatologist appointment again so I’ll be back in PJ this Sunday. However, lately, there has been bad thunderstorms in Malaysia. Few days ago I went out to buy stuff, and food for break of fast, and suddenly it was raining extremely heavily, and shortly after, my house was flooded. It was knee-length and the water got into the car too… the next day the gear couldn’t be shifted. Luckily there wasn’t serious damage and the mechanic came and fixed it for free. In another state, 3 people were killed due to heavy storm ruining a bazaar Ramadhan when people were buying food for break of fast.
Another thing is regarding work. I’ve been asked soooooo many times about job. Can’t one take a break from the hectic college life, after stressing yourself for 3 years, ruining your body and skin from nonstop shooting day and night, rushing for deadlines for 3 days straight without sleep? Most of the annoyance comes from my family/relatives. God, I’m so sick of being asked when am I going to start working by my family, my mom especially.
Here I am to answer yours and any stranger’s questions regarding my job. YES, I do want to work, and I WILL work, and I AM working, sorta. I’ll explain now. You see, if you’re/was a film student, you know how much work we had to do. I get pissed if people compare practical students with theory students. You see, when you have to study, you’ll only torture your brain but if you’re a film student, you’ll have to torture your brain AND your body, jeopardizing your health. So that means both mentally and physically. I have been studying nonstop since I was 19. From foundation in business, to executive secretaryship, to SUPER MAJOR UBER EXTREME MENTAL TORTURE Japanese Pre-U studies, then to film studies. My brain is extremely tired after 8 years, and now my body is majorly tired and weak. I’ve been getting sick like more than 3 times since June. I am STILL sick right now but not as bad.
So I had a long talk with myself few months earlier, took a long time to decide that after I finished my college, I am going to take a break until my convocation. At first, when I did my final last December, I thought I’d start working in January. However, when my former faculty dean told me I have to finish one elective subject, and then later told me I couldn’t join my batch for convocation due to my assessment being held 2 days before the convo, I was very heartbroken. But I was then told that they’d have another convo this October (I hope) so I was happy that I don’t have to wait long.
Now why did I decide not to work now? I have my reasons. Contrary to people’s beliefs, it’s NOT, I repeat NOT because I couldn’t get a job. I COULD get a job if I want to. In fact, early this year I have been offered full time position or contract based job by my internship boss to continue working on their film (which I took part during my internship). I’ve also been called for interviews. I also could work part time here. Honestly speaking, I have a different plan, which no one knows except my mom, so don’t bother asking because I will not tell. But I’m extremely tired. I can’t handle more stress from work, crazy deadlines, pressure from people, the drama from people. I’m just simply very, very, very tired. I do wish I could go away on vacation but I’m broke.
Broke? You hear that a lot from me. I whine about it everyday. Yes, I am very broke right now. Reason? My mom and myself overspent, more than our budget this past 3 months. Reason? Very personal. This past few years I’ve found ways to support myself and ease my mom’s burden. However lately, we’ve had a lot of personal and family problems that we had to fork out more than we could afford. I do have part time work online, but because I have been sick a lot lately since I’ve been back in my hometown, I couldn’t concentrate much so I haven’t been getting much work done. I have however been concentrating on my test project for something else I’ve been planning to do. I’m not sure if I would stick with it, but hey, at least I’m not wasting time at the moment.
2nd thing, I have been trying to learn stuff a lot. You see, 85% of projects/stuff I did at college resulted from self study. Honestly, we did not learn a lot, we had to research on our own. We never touched Adobe After Effects program at college, but I learned how to use it myself a little bit. Same goes with my other mates. We did not learn much on 3D Studio Max. So to summarize, I don’t have enough skills at the moment. I’d love to be a motion graphic designer.. but how can I be one when I lack the skill of Adobe AE? Or maybe developer for something.. All the jobs I’ve been hunting for requires knowledge of programs that I have never touched. How can I apply for those jobs? How can I even impress the people with my unimpressive resume? I’m not the kind of person who just grabs whatever low-class job I can get. Sorry I have to sound a bit arrogant here, but I have relatives, friends, neighbors who are doctors, lawyers, university professors, property managers, engineers, interior designers, entrepreneurs etc.. how am I supposed to show my face at family gatherings if I say “Oh I’m working as part time crew at McDonald’s” or “I’m just a clerk at the office“??? They’re not bad jobs, but it’s the mindset of my family & relatives who WILL think I’m such a disgrace. Also when it comes to work, I do what -I- want to do, not what -other- people want me to do. This is my life, I control it, and I won’t force myself to do something I will never enjoy and will regret. I made that mistakes before, never again.
Regarding my health, if you haven’t been noticing, I haven’t been in a good shape. I haven’t been healthy. Hence why I’ve been staying in Ipoh, the reason is partly related to my health. I’ve mentioned part of my health problems online, but that’s just PART of it. You don’t know the rest of it. I decided to mention this now so in case I die you’ll know. Honestly speaking, there has been days in this past 3 months where I was literally only a step closer to meet with the grim reaper but managed to pull myself back.
There’s a lot more I want to say, but I don’t want to write 10 pages long of boring problems. I could you know. I decided to spill everything out because I’m spiraling down towards deep depression again from all the pressures I’ve been getting lately. Job, life, health, money, marriage, appearance, bla bla bla. So please don’t mention to me about job anymore. There’s a limit to one’s patience. I am currently doing something, and I have my own plans. It’s just that I haven’t been mentioning it to anyone so it appears as if I’m just relaxing here… I’m not. And even if I get a job now, it will only add to my currently piled up issues. No one knows about any of this except those of you who managed to read this up to here. Not even my mom is aware about half of my problems and worries. So yes, I’d appreciate it if everyone (especially my family) would just shut the fuck up about me getting a job or whatever other issues that might arise and let me have a peace of mind.
Speaking of job, mom told me of this news yesterday which is great!
SOURCE: The Star Online
JASIN: Part-time workers will be able to enjoy better benefits, such as Employees Provident Fund contributions and Socso coverage, under a new regulation beginning Oct 1.
Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam said the regulation under the Employment Act would allow some 18 million Malaysians to work part-time with better protection, which would in turn reduce the country’s dependency on foreign workers.
It is expected to benefit some 12 million locals working in both the private and public sectors, and 6.5 million Malaysians who can be productive but are not working at the moment, including housewives, students, undergraduates and the disabled.
“The Cabinet has agreed to the implementation of the new regulation.
“It will ensure that the protection of part-time workers’ rights and benefits is carried out in a clearer and comprehensive manner.
“Malaysians can now work to earn extra income under better protection,” he told reporters after attending a meet-the-client day programme here yesterday.
Dr Subramaniam said part-time workers would now be given salaries and other relevant benefits, such as EPF contributions, Socso coverage and medical entitlements, on a pro rata basis.
“The regulation also provides a clear guideline with formulae for employers to calculate the figures correctly,” he said.
Besides reducing dependency on foreign workers, Dr Subramaniam said the new regulation should encourage more Malaysians who were currently not working, to enter the labour force.
“Most of them are skilled and educated. If they can be included into the workforce, this will not only boost our local labour strength, but will generate more income domestically,” he added.
That sounds awesome. This way I could still work and get benefits like full time workers, while at the same time I still have time to work on whatever I might be doing in the future. That is just great news. Speaking of extra work, I wish I could get myself a mac soon.. I’m hoping by December (PC Fair hopefully) as a Christmas gift for myself (sad isn’t it?). My PC and my laptop are simply losing the capability to edit videos now.. it just lags like no one’s business. And I wish I could go somewhere for Christmas.. I wish to have a white Christmas, and see Christmas trees and decorations, with colorful C9 led christmas lights lighting up houses on the streets.. yes even though I’m a malay/muslim, I do celebrate Christmas.. no, not for the real reason which is celebrating the birth of Jesus, but just the celebration itself only. I somehow feels Christmas give me some sort of tranquility… well I’m very traditional so that means a white Christmas with presents under the trees, people caroling in the street…Christmas decorations everywhere.. choirs.. Santa…*sighs* I used to have that when I was a kid, now I have lost it all.. it seems that everything from your childhood will disappear when you’re an adult. The tradition is now gone as year 2000 enters.
Same goes to Eid Mubarak/Hari Raya celebration.. used to look forward to it when I was a kid… the joy of visiting relatives, getting money, eating the food, listening to Raya music and watching Raya shows on TV.. playing with firecrackers etc, houses lit up with oil lamp or torches (something like Tiki torches).. now my celebration is like shit.. half of tradition gone.. no relatives would come to visit us because either they’re all grown up and have moved out and have a big family, getting too old or already dead. Half of my close family have passed away.. grandma, grandpa, my 2 aunts, my 2 uncles, and lots of other relatives who died of old age. Hari Raya has no meaning to me anymore.
I don’t even know who would come to my wedding in the future, if I have one.
My house used to be full of people on Hari Raya…
…Now it’s just empty.
Gotta go. This is too emotional for me.
I wanted to blog this sooner but I fucked my sleeping pattern so I’ve been tired but YEAAAAAAAHHHH! Spain won the World Cup 2010! It’s still fresh news right?
It’s weird to care about it. I wasn’t into the world cup earlier. The last time when I was really into world cup was in 2002 when Brazil won. I was supporting Brazil all the way, and I had my online friend to talk to about the world cup so it kept me interested..
The only picture of me during FIFA world cup 2002 that I
could find at internet wayback machine. I’m not sure
if I still have my old webcam pictures… 
…but 4 years after that, I was in Japanese school, didn’t really care. My Japanese school life was killing me. Now for this year, I didn’t care UNTIL the match between Germany & Argentina. Usually I’d just check out the score the next day. I was shocked that Brazil lost! That day I hung out with my friend, and somehow she texted me about the game after, and I started to watch it.. luckily local tv was showing it live. Then I got more and more interested because I had someone to talk to about it.. and kept my interest going. Unfortunately, the next match on that day between Spain & Paraguay wasn’t shown live here, so I was texting with my friend to keep me updated with the score. At that time, I still didn’t have my internet.
Celcom, my cellphone telco, had this limited edition world cup
bear and it was only RM10! So I went and grabbed my ‘Bearzil’
even though that morning, Brazil lost.
Argentina vs Germany – I was rooting for Argentina! My friend too.. but when Germany kicked their ass like no other, we were shocked, and pissed O_O Then Spain won, so that’s something good. I hated Germany for kicking Argentina’s ass.
Germany vs Spain – This was shocking! Haha and it was so much fun. A lot of people were rooting for Germany, and some were sure Germany would win. Yes, there has been predictions on Spain but come on, Germany kicked Argentina’s ass with 4-0 score.. so it’s not impossible they could kick Spain’s ass…luckily they couldn’t! Haha! 
I was so happy Spain made it to the final! Nobody cared about the match between Germany & Uruguay… I mean like, whatever right? Don’t really care who won.. but Germany did so whatever lol.
The Final Match: Netherlands vs Spain
Oh God, it was the most intense match I have ever seen! The match was aired at 2.30 am Malaysia time, so I was screaming and shouting in the middle of the night… it was nerve-wrecking when no team has scored and they had to add extra time! And it was even shocking how the Dutch played the game! They played it dirty.. they played it rough.. they lost their integrity. Seems like they don’t want to be respected for playing good, but just want the damn cup. The most shocking part was the super kung fu/karate/ninja kick to Alfonso’s chest by De Jong!
That was just super brutal, dude! The worst tackle ever. Poor Alfonso. If it was a kick to the knee or ankle, that’s normal.. but the CHEST?! He’s lucky that he’s still breathing. He might be suffering a broken rib though. What pisses everyone off is that, the stupid fucking referee only gave De Jong a YELLOW CARD? That should have been a damn RED CARD! Shame on you, De Jong. This match was also the only match that I’ve seen with so many yellow cards given! 14 yellow cards! And 1 red card. It was so annoying that every few minutes, there’d be something happening… either Holland played rough or Spain made a bad tackle.
“Haiyaaaah!!! Feel my super kick of furrrryyyy Alfonso-san!!!“
PAUL THE PSYCHIC OCTOPUS
Haha I’m sure you’ve heard of him… the psychic German octopus!
Even though I’m not supposed to believe all this psychic mambo jumbo.. but I can’t help but be amazed that out of 8 matches (7 involving Germany, and one for the final), he got all 8 predictions right! He even predicted that Spain would win the cup, but after almost 2 1/2 hours of no goal, I was starting to doubt Paul until few minutes before extra time ends, and Iniesta scored a goal! I was like omg Paul was right hahaha. If I had bet a lot of money on Spain, I’d be rich by now! So to honor Paul and his super psychic power & prediction /sarcasm, I promised not to eat octopus for a month haha.
Now I know why people with heart attack are not recommended to watch world cup … at least not alone. I nearly got a heart attack every time they tried to score a goal but the ball ended up outside..so close, soooo damn close.
Well world cup is over, I need to get back my normal sleeping pattern. Let’s see if I can still gain interest in the next FIFA WC in 2014.. it’s gonna be held in Brazil so I hope Brazil will win!
Pregnant? Get your prenatal vitamins.
I’ve been on a download frenzy mode since yesterday. Too bad in Ipoh, fast connection is not supported yet. In KL, I could get my internet speed at around 2 Mbps or so.. but here, I can never get pass 1.5 Mbps.. and of course, it’s still slow as hell. But I’m still happy that I can still be online 24/7. I also rather download torrent at roughly around 140 kB/s with streamyx broadband instead of 25 kB/s with my celcom broadband.
I’ve been so addicted to Glee’s soundtrack since I came back here because of no internet..there was nothing I could do but sing to kill time.. and yesterday I remembered the soundtrack I used to be obsessed with when I was about 12 or 13… EVITA.
Evita (starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas) was an epic movie. I just love the songs so much… sucks that I didn’t bring any DVD back except for my Golden Girls DVD and Glee DVD so I wanna download Evita..except… I”M RUNNING OUT OF SPACE! Gah. I have like 3 GB left… -.- PC Fair will be in early August!! So I’m thinking of making a day trip to KL by train haha. It’s easier rather than having to drive back to KL.. the train will stop at KL Sentral, and from there I’ll take the LRT train straight to KLCC (Petronas Twin Tower) to the convention center for the PC Fair. Hoping to get a either a new portable 500 GB external HDD or a new media player.. western digital maybe? Or should I get seagate? Hmmm decisions decisions…
I went shopping today! And I bought cakes
Secret Recipe cakes are t3h awesomeness. Their cheesecakes are just so good. I bought a slice of strawberry marshmallow cheesecake and a slice of peach cream cake. The cheesecake is just so damn good like omg.
Have you heard of irvingia gabonensis?
It’s apparently a tree like a mango tree which is healthy.. the benefits are: Weight loss supplement, lowers blood pressure, lowers harmful cholesterol and promotes HDL in blood lipis. Sounds good.. the thing is, I’ve never heard of this before.. anyone know if it’s available in Malaysia? Speaking of weight loss… in last few posts, I mentioned that I’m on diet pills right? Okay.. you see, for 3 weeks since I’ve been back in my hometown, I’ve been sick. I couldn’t eat a thing except drink water. I had absolutely no appetite at all. I weighed myself at the mall last month and there was no weight loss at all! I figured I hit a plateau.
So yesterday at the mall I took the scale and weighed myself and I blurted ‘WTF!’ out loud. 4 scales I tested showed that I have lost 10KG (22 lbs) in a month. Wtf! Ok, one scale showed a different one so that’s why I feel skeptical on the result of the other 3 but holy shit, if I’ve really lost 10KG in a month (mind you, without any exercise at all) then I am so fucking happy! But it kind of sound a bit too good to be true? I don’t feel like I have lost weight.. so I’ll wait until I can get a hold of a better, reliable scale. I have a feeling I’m gaining weight again because I’ve been eating fattening stuff like cheesecakes -______-
Also, at the moment my teeth are aching so bad… ARRRGH!
Well I feel tired to continue blogging even though I planned to talk about much more but I’ll continue later.
I wanna see TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE! Team Jacob FTW!
Ok, I”m a little late but I’ve just heard that they’re remaking FRIGHT NIGHT.
I DESPISE remakes of the classic horror movies. I hate them. They always butcher the classic. Till this day, I have yet to find a good remake of a classic horror film. I was shocked to know that they’re remaking one of my fave classic 80′s vampire flicks of all time – FRIGHT NIGHT. WTF. Not Fright Night too! -___-
Fright Night is a teen vampire flick (oh no, do NOT think of Twilight) that tells the story of Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) who is a big fan of Peter Vincent, a TV celebrity who host a show called ‘Fright Night’ and calls himself The Vampire Killer. One night he saw something suspicious about his new neighbor, and eventually believes that his neighbor is a vampire. His gf Amy (Amanda Bearse) and his buddy Evil Ed (Stephen Geoffreys) don’t believe him of course. So trying to stop their friend’s crazy imagination, they asks the help of Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) to prove to Charley that Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon) is not a vampire but found out the truth.. so later Jerry would kidnap Amy, and Charley and Peter join forces to stop the vampire once and for all and save Amy.
Now, I fear how they’re gonna butcher this movie in the remake which will be shown 2011. HOWEVER… I have heard that DAVID TENNANT will be playing Peter Vincent. OMG. If David is playing, no matter how shitty the movie is, I’ll love it!
I abso-fucking-lutely LOVE David Tennant. He’s totally fuckable. He’s well known as the 10th Doctor from the series Dr. Who, and also appeared as a villain in the Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire. Absolutely adore his Scottish accent ;D
Now the thing is, I don’t know how well he’s going to portray Peter Vincent.. well I can imagine him being in that character though, because he was good in Dr. Who but Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Evil Ed?!?!?! SERIOUSLY?? Don’t get me wrong, I like him but seeing him in Superbad and Role Models, he’s so totally not Evil Ed. Stephen Geoffreys was awesome as Evil Ed (he’s also fricken cute, was a fan of him for few years since I was 10, ignoring the fact that he went and did gay porn -__- ), and the character is a bit wacky and crazy, badass, innocent, funny etc.. Chris as badass? Uhhhh……. Oh no, I so cannot see Chris playing as Evil Ed x____x
CUTTTEEEEYYY.. You’re so cool, Brewster!
Evil Ed’s lines that became catch phrases in the 80′s – “To what do I owe this dubious pleasure?” & “You’re so cool, Brewster!“. You see, Evil Ed is special. He’s not ordinary. He seems like a badass, but not.. he also seems innocent and you want to pity him.. you won’t understand what I’m talking about if you haven’t seen the movie. Now all those characteristics are going to be portrayed by —-
– him?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??. Like seriously! I’m speechless. I mean come on, out of all actors in the world, HIM? No offense.. but urrrrghh. I just can see him as ‘nerdy, dorky, geek, loser, goofy, klutz, mentally challenged, funny, slow’ kind of characters.. but NOT Evil Ed X____X Like chud.com, this article also agrees that “EVIL ED WOEFULLY MISCAST IN FRIGHT NIGHT REMAKE“. Maybe they’re rewriting the character to be different..
And Collin Farrell as Jerry Dandridge the vampire?? Hmmm.. I have doubts, because Chris Sarandon had this some sort of sexy seductive look as all vampires should have that totally can make you swoon… so Collin Farrell? Hmmmmmm………….. I have no comment on the actor that’s going to play Charley Brewster.
Well, I just can’t wait to see David as Peter Vincent.. it would be veeeeeeeery interesting The only thing I can look forward to because they killed Evil Ed.. Unless they make him look very old just like Roddy McDowall’s version of Peter Vincent then uh.. rotten tomato anyone?
David Tennant = YUMMAAAAAYYYY
Roddy McDowall as Peter Vincent (right) = NOT YUMMAAY
I feel like watching Fright Night now.. wow surprisingly my broadband is still connected for like 3 hours now.. oh and suddenly I just remembered that my friend mentioned paying for car insurance reminded me that I need to renew my driving license this month.. NOTE TO SELF! Oh and buy some mosquito repellent mats.
Oh yeah, football/soccer fever has started! .. Too bad I’m no longer interested in football like I used to be when I was younger..
Last Wednesday, I had an eye exam at the college’s new faculty in the morning. I’ve been having bad allergic reactions since I’ve been in KL since 2006. So i’ve been doing a lot of rubbing on my eye. So I got worried and since the new Faculty of Optometry & Vision Sciences is opened and they offer free full eye exam at the moment, so I said why not, right? I mean it’s free. So I went to set up an appointment.
The eye exam took like an hour because it was a thorough eye exam. So you know the usual stuff – they used the machines to check the eyes, the vision, then the blurriness, check for color blind etc.. it did take like an hour-ish for it to finish. So the verdict? I’m short sighted. Which I already know.. and told him my glasses have been crooked for like ages, so I’d need a new one, but their place to sell it haven’t opened yet so he’ll give me a call when it does. Other than that, nothing wrong, which is quite a surprise to me since I’ve been having a lot of allergies. He did say I have like tiny bumps on the lid or something, which means I do have allergies so better to go to clinic to get it checked. They can only give artificial tear drop but it would be just a temporary relief.
Finished at 12 pm. Then I called my friend and we went to Ikea for lunch and had hotdog. Their hotdog and curry puffs are ‘the awesomeness’. The only cheap alternatives when you’re so damn broke haha.
I was supposed to pick mom up to send to the clinic after lunch hour, but after countless tries phoning her and she didn’t pick up, I decided to watch a movie with Claudia. She wanted to watch Kick-Ass while I want to watch Shrek in 3D. You see, I’ve been a fan of Shrek movies, and since Hollywood now are so crazy with the 3D trend, I thought hey, why not watch Shrek in 3D. Besides, I want to watch it in 3D before I go back to my hometown next week because the cinema at my hometown is sooooooo lame that they don’t have 3D. Kick-Ass movie is no longer showing so it was either Shrek or A Nightmare on Elm Street. Oh I so wanna watch Nightmare on Elm Street because I wanna see how they remake the classic – even though it won’t be the same as original as Freddy isn’t played by Robert Englund (he’s the only best Freddy!) and no hot young Johnny Depp :P But Claudia didn’t want to watch scary movie so I had to force her to watch Shrek in 3D :P After all the forcing and pleading she gave in hehehehe.
I don’t want to give extensive review on the movie because I have another website for my movie reviews. The movie is good! It’s soooo hilarious. I actually love this better than the 3rd one. On the 3D review, I love watching movies in 3D. Some says 3D sucks because you don’t get like stuff coming towards you and make you go WHOOOAAA, but it’s not all about that. 3D gives you the depth also.. makes the surrounding and characters come to life as if you’re there instead of flat 2D. There are some scenes where you feel the elements go ‘out of the screen’ like smoke, those magic particles.. and like stuff almost coming to you. Overall, 3D Shrek is better than 3D Alice in Wonderland. I’ve also watched Nightmare before Christmas 3D before and it was awesome because you see the snow falls right in front of you.. the verdict? Watch in 3D if it’s ANIMATION MOVIE, but don’t watch 3D if it’s just a normal movie unless you don’t care about the effect, and just want the depth.
I wonder how they’re gonna make the last Harry Potter’s movie in 3D? They better make it good!
My favorite part of Shrek 4 is when Puss in Boots give the sad puppy dog eyes to Donkey 3 times! OMG I couldn’t stop laughing at that! OMG thinking of it now makes me laugh. That’s the funniest part ever because when my Ipoh friend and I watched the first Shrek movie, we couldn’t stop talking about how Puss in Boots did the sad eyes in the first movie.. now they made it longer so it’s even more hilarious.
Go watch Shrek 4! It’s t3h-awesomeness!
Oh yeah, while waiting for Shrek 4, we spent a long time at Daiso and discovered a new toy that is so addictive.
We spent a long time playing this at Daiso until after the movie, I decided to get this!
This is Claudia (her hand actually) playing with it after I bought it. When we played with it in Daiso, everybody was looking at how crazy we were with a baby rattle looking thing in our hands. So what the hell is this? It’s actually a brain training game!
How do you play this? If you can’t read the Japanese, I’ll roughly translate it for you. Basically it says the aim of the game is to have one color separated at each sides. So you have to start with all the balls mixed up at one side, then shake/roll/swing whatever you like to move one color to the other side. I find it easier to play once you have the toy out of the packaging and I find it easier to roll instead of shaking the thing. For example, you want to have blue colored balls at the right side and orange colored ball at the left side. When it’s done, it looks like this!
Done!
Haha I love that girl cartoon! That’s how I look like when I play the toy. It makes you frustrated, it makes you cuss, it makes you happy, it makes you giggle.. basically the toy will fuck with your head. Haha. Love it.
Only in Daiso! Geez, the Japanese and their crazy inventions.. even a simple toy that looks like a baby rattle that cost RM 5 (100 yen, or around USD 1+) can make you addicted. But it’s fun, so what the hell. I actually played with this when I went shopping with mom after that and everybody was looking at me.
Oh I also got the book “Pride & Prejudice & Zombies“.. yay! Finally. I love anything with zombies. I’ve read “I am Scrooged: A Zombie Story for Christmas” before and I loved it! I’m the kind of person who hates reading books unless it’s very interesting.. so zombies? Of course it’s interesting Since I have not read the original Pride & Prejudice, so this is the time right? With a little bit of zombies to add the spice.
It was AWESOME-NESS!!!!!!!!!
Haha!
Be prepared… soon to be LONG entry with videos & pictures!
EDIT// We were on the news!
(I’m somewhere behind a guy =___=)
Picture credit to Shafik Ismail
Okay, it was a bit obvious because there were loads, I mean LAODS of people joining in at the last minute.. it was kinda obvious.. plus everyone has been taking pictures with the Glee sign, some dressed up, some with big cameras.. so we screwed up a bit with the random spontaneous flash mob part.. but hey, we had a BLAST and everyone enjoyed it!
The mob was held at The Garden. Everybody thought it’d be at Midvalley. We all met up at the ballroom, and was given number. This would separate us into groups. I reached there at about12.20 pm and I was put in 2B.. which would be for 2nd floor.. aww too bad I wanted to be near the kids lol. Anyways, we waited with our group and around 12.45 pm or so we walked to Midvalley and waited there. Then we walked back to the secret location… and my group was near the bridge.. and EVERYONE, I mean EVERYONE was leaning against the railing/bridge etc looking down! Talk about being too obvious! Hahaha.. it’s so funny when passerby started to look down wondering what the hell is hudreds of people looking at and there’s actually nothing???….yet. Busted.
Suddenly the music started at around 2-ish pm and that was it! SHOWTIME!
Everybody was dancing like there’s no tomorrow! So much fun! Couldn’t see the kids though because there was too many people that we were spread along the bridges.. so I just kept dancing to the end. Then after it’s done.. some people forgot to disperse naturally.. everybody was rushing down, taking pictures and stuff.. of course tv people was there covering the event. Then after a while, suddenly the music starts again! wtf. I was queuing up to do the promo thing. Then everybody started screaming and dancing again.. an encore! Haha only in Malaysia’s flash mob :P 2nd round because Glee is just too much fun.. so it was just a random spontaneous dance … and everybody was just like dancing like mad. Then everybody was screaming “WE WANT MORE!! WE WANT MORE!!” Hahaha… too bad, had to end. Then pics and stuff.
(I’m at the left side, behind checkered shirt girl, picture credit Shafik Ismail)
“WE WATCH GLEE ON STAR WORLDDDDDDDD!!!!!!“
I felt like a temporary celebrity! Except no one asked for my autograph. Shucks.
It was so hot, I was so sweating. And I also made a new friend! Finally broke out of my antisocial awkward phase. After that went to buy food with my new friend then we went back home. And I took a nap because I only had an hour sleep. Too excited okay!
Overall, it was a MAJOR fun event! Reconnecting Glee fans in Malaysia, expressing our love for Glee! I can’t wait until they show the TV version on Star World this Wednesday before the new season of Glee starts. Thank you Random Alphabet for this opportunity!! This has been the my highlight of the year and I’ve never had this much fun in ages.. since I absolutely love dancing!
Some people might think, after watching 1 video with the kids video and quickly assume that it’s a failed flash mob.. well we were spread out silly! You only see one part of it!
Check out twitter with the hashtag #GleeKL (do a search), everyone’s buzzing! Still waiting for pictures to post.
I found this picture in RA’s facebook. Wtf the angle makes me look like I’m obese haha (but I’m not that fat ok!) but oh God, I look like I was in a super Gleek hyper mode! Actually I was just doing the L sign because everyone was doing it.. that’s my new friend beside me who was probably watching me in disbelief or laughing at me for being a camwhore.. or a diva? o___O;;;? Nah…….!
This entry will be updated constantly with pictures and videos that I’ve found online. And I will write about my first flashmob experience very soon so come back to this entry again! But to start, here’s a video someone uploaded, which is a promo for Astro’s Star World TV (Asia’s channel that airs Glee) and this was my group’s shot! Haha. Can you spot me???
Finally found a video with the bridge view.. can see myself dancing! (I’m next to a striped shirt guy, with white sling back) Can you spot me??
This is the ‘encore’ part, where we did a 2nd round! Haha, I don’t think that’s been done before?? Usually after a flash mob people would just disperse and that’s it.. but I guess this is Malaysian style? ENCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!
The encore part was the most fun! I was somewhere at the back in the video, but you can’t see me.. but it was hella fun, because that was not planned, and it was spontaneous fun..!
EDIT// OMG Can’t keep up. So many new videos and photos emerged! And most of us are still NOT OVER #GleeKL yet! Everybody misses it including me and watching all the mob videos posted on youtube brings back tears.. it was THE BEST DAMN EXPERIENCE
For a complete listing of videos & photos posted, visit Dkevo‘s post.. thank you DKevo for all the hard work of compiling EVERYTHING! It’s awesome!
Click for a bigger picture.. I’m behind/next to a guy with a Malaysian flag hat.. you can’t miss him.
EDIT 5/11 – The Star Online (newspaper) has uploaded their news coverage on the flash mob.. ! And full story about the flash mob will be in NST this Wednesday!
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As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts, that this past couple of days I’ve been joining the rehearsal for Malaysia’s own Glee flash mob in KL organized by Random Alphabets which will be held today, Saturday. I’m so excited as this is my first flash mob and I’ve been dying to join one for ages! I’ve mentioned before that I wanted to join a Michael Jackson one but they canceled. I found out about this on Monday, and they had the first optional rehearsal on Tuesday.. I mastered the dance in an hour but I couldn’t join them for the first rehearsal because it was raining heavily in the evening, and I took out my uncle who came from Ipoh out to eat. So instead, I joined them on Wednesday.
The 1st rehearsal was held at The Garden’s Hotel ballroom at Midvalley so it’s all cozy with aircond but suddenly on day 2, they told us that they’ve been forced to change venue and the place was at Bukit Bintang Boys High School. Luckily it’s in PJ, which is nearer to me than Midvalley so I was glad…but boy, was I wrong. Traffic was smooth, and I was expecting a traffic jam at sprint highway but nope. Rehearsal started at 8 pm and I left home at about 7.20 pm.. and I reached there 15 minutes before 8 pm.. it was nearby the digital mall and luckily I’ve been there before so I knew the way.
Once I found the school, parked my car and I was surprised to see the number of crowd. There were lots of people and majority was with friends and I was alone. Suddenly I felt REALLY, REALLY awkward and I turned antisocial >.< I wanted to make new friends and say hi to someone but uh.. everyone seems like they have a group of friends so I got scared. Haha. So all I did was just wait alone, and played with my phone refreshing twitter and facebook hoping someone would update. Lame, right?
It started drizzling and I thought, oh no.. what if it rains heavily? But luckily rain stopped after a while so we could start the rehearsal.
Because there was a lot of people, we were seperated. This is my group..
This is the other group at the opposite ‘field’…
And some were separated to at the 2nd floor!.. It was mad.. haha. But once we started dancing, that’s when the fun begin. It was so much fun. I was being too energetic so I was sweating like there’s no tomorrow. I was SOAKED. So was everyone else. Since it was outside, with NO AIR BLOWING.. the atmosphere was humid.. it was so hot.. and everybody was sweating like a pig, the whole place smell of sweat.. and FEET. I don’t know why, the whole place smells of FEET. It was extremely gross.
So the rehearsal ended at 10 pm, and I went straight back home. After resting for a bit, I couldn’t wait to get into the shower because of how gross and icky I felt.. and my whole body smell of feet. Haha.
Because I overdid the dance at the 2nd rehearsal and was being too energetic, I had the worst leg cramp and body ache ever. I couldn’t even bend my knees. It was enough that my practice on Monday left me with a minor body ache but after the rehearsal, it was BAD dude. So, luckily the 3rd rehearsal was held at the ballroom.. so comfortable place with AIRCOND. Rehearsal started at 8 pm and I left house at 7 pm, and I was expecting bad traffic jam.. and sure there was a slow crawl at Bangsar but it wasn’t that bad. I still reached the place and could still find parking and still reached there in time. It was my first time ever at the ballroom.
The place has carpet so I didn’t have to wear my sports shoes.. I hate wearing my sport shoes because during 2nd rehearsal, my feet was sweating and it was so gross. Felt so uncomfortable. Again I suddenly became antisocial and still couldn’t manage to speak to anyone.. I got so scared. wtf.
During the first dance, there was no or barely any aircond.. golly… I thought it was gonna be the high school atmosphere all over again. Everybody was sweating like mad, and soon the place will smell of sweat. But phew, shortly after, they fixed the aircond and the place was really cold so no major sweat! And no disgusting feet or sweat smell!
After a short recap of the dance, turns out there was quite a number of newcomer who wasn’t at the previous rehearsals and did not practice at all. So we were separated into groups to learn the dance base on the part of songs. The songs we are doing include:
So those who doesn’t know the steps can learn step by step at that point. Since I knew the steps already, I took the chance to take pics and video of the rehearsal.
Then we started dancing by groups. It was fun.
For the rest hour or so, we were practicing and practicing until they told us that we’re doing the ‘Don’t Stop Believing’.. so we have to learn the steps on the spot. So while we were learning the new simple steps, the kids under 18 was learning a different step. Turns out the kids would start the mob instead of adults and they have their own dancing. Haha, surprisingly the kids learned faster than adults! And it was good intro for the mob too.
It was so much fun… best part of it is that I love dancing, and I’m dancing with people who wanna dance, and we’re dancing about some we love which is GLEE! The rehearsal ended at about 11pm-ish. I guess in two days with all the sweat and exercise, I must have burned a lot of calories but I prolly screwed that because when I got home I had a late dinner which was McDonald’s. Haha so bad. Oh and also, Marina Mahathir, the daughter of our ex prime minister was there and was being cool and supportive .. she was with her family and she and her kids are joining in too.
I don’t have a picture of myself at the rehearsal because I was alone and taking a pic of myself would be awkward. However, there was one pic from each rehearsals that people randomly took and I was randomly included by accident, haha.
I was accidentally in the background, and I did notice the camera and I was smiling.. and little did I know that he had depth of field on so I was blurry This was taken before the rehearsal started on day 2. Picture credit to Khairul Nazri.
OMG. CHUBBY BUNNY.
This however is a clear picture of me except it was taken at a VERY BAD ANGLE (it was very low angle). T________T I look so chubby here and my hair was all messy because this was after the rehearsal. We were sitting there listening to a short ‘briefing’ by Zain HD, the main guy who’s handling this. SORRY IF I BROKE YOUR MONITOR FROM THE UGLYNESS & CHUBBINESS. I saw the guy was with camera pointing towards me.. I didn’t know if he was gonna take a picture of me in the first place but I quickly put the ‘L’ sign, with an awkward smile then he just quickly took a snap and moved on… T_______T Picture credit to RandomAlphabet.
I can’t wait for today’s real thing! No idea where it’s gonna be at .. I’m nervous yet very excited. So I’m gonna take a rest now and sleep and hopefully my legs would stop aching when I wake up.
If you’d like to know more about the Glee KL flash mob you can visit the official site, in twitter you can search for #GleeKL and also in facebook.
(I camwhored a bit with my webcam before the rehearsal)
Nite!
That’s right bitchessss.. I’m in the dean’s list
To some it may not be a big deal, to some it may be the biggest deal in their life. Mine is the latter. It is a very big deal to me. Allow me to be vain for a minute to have a temporary enjoyment.
If you knew me since I was little, then you would know I have a bad history when in comes to academic life. I hated studying. I didn’t want to study because I lack the interest in subjects I took. I made the biggest mistake in transferring to technic school just so I could be in science stream. I loathe math or anything that has to do with numbers. I never cared about additional math, physics, chemistry let alone mechanical engineering stuff. That’s for guys and I’m also never gonna use it. I studied foundation in business.. I flunked accounting and business math.. I took executive secretaryship, I aced most of the subject but flunked in guess what subject..? BOOKEEPING (simpler version of accounting). I’m not cut out to be working in an industry which involves a lot of numbers. I can’t force myself. I liked to skip school. I was homeschooled which in Malaysia is equivalent to being a high school dropout.
However if I love doing something, I do it at full force. I’ll give my 150%.
When I entered my current college, many of my relatives would think ‘Oh no.. not again. She’d just quit halfway like in everything else she does‘. Well I proved everyone who thinks that wrong. Especially my mom. I finally finished my studies and guess what? Without failing any subjects and repeating them. My lowest grade that I’ve gotten in this college is C+ for two subjects due to production, technical and well, personal problems. And I was surprised when my friend told me that my name is in the dean’s list.
What a great way to end my almost 3 years of studying!
I’m not an overachiever. I just wanted to prove my mom that when I’m doing something I love, I’d do my best. Yes, my mom was against me taking arts course so my mom was against me taking video & animation course. She (and my uncles) was part of the reason I made the huge mistake in high school of switching from art stream to science engineering stream. She’s the typical conservative parent that thinks if you’re not a doctor, lawyer, architect or engineer, then you’re nothing. She also thought that when I entered this college, I’d flunk halfway. Guess not, huh mom?
I thought I would to. When I had a huge problem with my team mate and caused a commotion and had a lot of people against me, boycotting me, even by the staff and lecturers and was ‘blacklisted’. Yeah, I was a rebel, so sue me. Haha. I had to quit being a student leader and had to keep low profile for a while.. sorta just like disappear into the background instead of getting attention. Slowly I made new friends with my juniors, we all became very good friends and I got back up on my two feet again. It was a struggle during my 2nd year of studies. With all the problems I had in college & relationship, I thought I was gonna commit suicide from the depression.
So this is why I am proud of myself for overcoming my own depression (which I couldn’t in my other studies before, with the same problems of team mate problem, people boycotting etc) so being in the dean’s list is the greatest achievement I had in my college life. At least I’m part of ‘something‘ I never had the chance to be.
Coming up — photos from the dean’s list party!
As of last Thursday, I have officially finished my studies!
And yesterday was the faculty’s first convocation. My batch had their convo yesterday. Yes I’m very sad I couldn’t join, because they told me I COULD join the convo unless I have an exam based subject and they LIED. They like to lie to your face, giving you hope then crush it later. Anyways. My final presentation for DTP was on Thursday morning. Before that I barely got any sleep trying to finish my DVD cover design because they quoted me that I’d need at least RM200 to print a custom maltese cross digipak boxset.. Are they CRAZY? I’m NOT spending that much for a first semester elective subject. I mean even if I did shit, I’d still pass it with an average.. so I had one day to redesign everything and get it printed before shop closes on Wednesday.. From supposedly RM200, my revised design with standard DVD cost me only RM33 (+RM5). Not bad. I had a DVD box, 3 covers, one 8 pages booklet and 2 CD labels.
Yeah my presentation went well. They were expecting a good design from me anyway cuz hey.. I’m a senior.. a supposedly graduated senior.. if I give shit work, then I should ask myself this: “What have I learned in the past 2 1/2 years??”
I did however wasted RM5 to reprint my cd label because they got it wrong.. the print was off.. even after fixing, they STILL got the printing wrong. Wtf. So basically I wasted RM5 and I didn’t need to reprint. I should have just showed them the other one, cuz that’s the one they took anyway. Now printing part. I sent my stuff for printing on wednesday afternoon around 1.30 pm.. and they told me they couldn’t finish on that day, wtf. I was panicking so I begged them to print my stuff first because the other 2 printing shops nearby there are shit. One couldn’t print and one prints like shit. Oh yeah, story about the other printing place!
This place is called AD print shop or something.. in dataran sunway. Not only I was greeted with a sour grumpy cranky face by the Indian lady, but everytime I told her what I need and how I need my stuff printed she would sighed and mutter to herself in Indian which seems to me like she was cursing or something in TAMIL. EVERYTIME. EVERY FUCKING TIME I told her I need this and that she would become a whiny bitch. WTF BITCH. I’m a paying customer! You’re supposed to follow my demand because it’s MY project. If you print it wrongly then I’m the one who is screwed and having to pay for your mistakes! If you want to be a grumpy sourbitch, then don’t fucking work. Thank you.
Anyways.
At 5 pm I went back to the printing shop to see how they print my stuff .. well.. images turned out great, except for some photos which were too dark because I couldn’t estimate the brightness setting after printing.. but small matter. There were a lot of mess-ups like cd label print was off, the box was a bit small, the cover was too small then too big.. the booklet was off a bit.. but after hours being there, I solved most of my problems.. my friends joined me to print and we stayed until like 8 pm there because they, too, had problems. Then one of them took out a pirated dvd because the dvd case I bought wouldn’t fit and guess what? His casing fit! So I was searching for my dvd casing until like 11-ish pm.. luckily there’s a pirated dvd store nearby my place and I asked him if he would sell me the casing but instead he gave it to me for free Nice dude.
So overall… I’m satisfied with my final work. I have blogs and photos to post later so stay tuned.
Oh yeah, here’s what my DVD looks like! Sorry I forgot to take a photo of the cd and booklet.. silly me.
DVD Box - FRONT
The front of my DVD box.. the inside case cover is the same except the graphic is toned down.. the cover doesn’t have the name titles.. but instead they’re at the back.
DVD Box - BACK
The only thing I’m not satisfied for the back cover is the dark pics and the bottom text.. again, I couldn’t estimate the size of the text and it ended too small! Working on the covers I barely had any sleep.. and my college years have seriously left me dark circles and wrinkles under my eyes.. I do have eye cream for dark circles which is treating my panda eyes sloooowly but for wrinkles?! I look 10 years older with tired eyes! T___T Help.
Tany. 20-ish. Just graduated college majoring in diploma in Video & Animation. Video editing, graphic design & production freelancer. A horror movie & zombies freak. Loves to dance. Shopaholic. Loves to hang out. Emo. Crazy. Talkative. Hyper. Sensitive. More?