I thought I wouldn’t be updating until I got my header and background back. I lost them both, and I haven’t the time nor the mood to make a new one. Don’t feel like going through the whole process of taking a picture which defines me, and meticulously editing the saturation and image size in Adobe Photoshop, and then publishing it. The last time I did, it took me more than a day. Because I was simply dissatisfied with minor details, like, the width was a wee bit too long. I’m a perfectionist when it comes to things like this.

I owe my faithful readers a good update about myself. I owe those who come here with hopeful hearts, only to have their hopes dampened  when they saw no updates. I’m sorry.

I figured I should do the tag Diane did in her blog. She tagged me anyways. Good start to blogging again.. I’ve completely lost touch with writing.

The rules:
Each player of this game starts out by giving six weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own six WEIRD things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose five people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave them each a comment letting them know you tagged them and to read your blog!

1. I get a kick out of squeezing pimples. There’s this lovely feeling of satisfaction when after all your ‘hard’ effort of squeezing a zit between two fingernails, and you see the pus comes out somewhat reluctantly. I love it when it’s hardened, and hate it when watery pus comes out, because watery means there’s still pus left in the pore. Whereas hardened ones are solid, and they come out clean.

   I’d like to liken this to doing big business in the toilet. Sorry for the disgusting simile. *grins*

2. i like to squeeze other people’s pimples. But of course, I’m still sane enough to ask the pimple owner’s permission before I go attacking their zits. I enjoy this one better because I don’t have to feel the pain, and I can squeeze harder! XD
3. I buy books but I don’t finish reading them in one shot. I feel like it’s a waste of money to finish reading in one go, because after finishing the book, it’s highly unlikely I’d pick them up again and go for a second round. And that’s like, a waste of money. So I like to stretch the reading period. I once bought one of the Full House series about the character Stephanie in Form Two, I think.. and up till now, I haven’t finished it.

   Same goes with vcds and dvds. But they’re a little different. They would sit in my rack for a long time after I bought them and it’ll be a long time after that when I decide to watch them.

4. I eat expired food. If they still look fine to me, they go into my stomach. I dismiss moldy bread. So far, nothing serious happened to me. I use expired stuff too, like medications.
5. I tucked my fist in my long sleeved jacket so it looked like two no-faced puppets with tudungs and I did a puppet show in the lecture hall! Looked like two Kennys in Southpark. Michelle gave me that “what the..” look and Ju gave the -_-” expression. Amanda went “uh huh.” Yay!
6. I croak like a frog at night! It’s inevitable, okay.. Whenever I go for camps or sleepovers, I forewarn that I croak. There was once in Form Three, I kept a girl up the whole night during a church camp because she heard some weird noises. Obviously, that was me.

I tag

1. Jon Woo (get yer blog up quick, you siput!)
2. Jeffrey Lim
3. Raymond Yong
4. Eugene Mak
5. Jin Fong

I’m not practising any favouritism here okay.. there are only five places! And my sister is kicking me off the computer. I’ll be back! XD

Finally I’ve healed! Being grounded at first was okay for me, didn’t really feel like going out. But after several days, I felt so trapped that I began to desire to get out! Eventually I did. I had a few fierce nurses at home, namely, my mum and my cousin. My sis was the most supportive when I announced I want to get out of the house to go shopping or to go eat, because she just didn’t want to get chicken pox, so she wanted me really far away from her.

So it was really hilarious when she got it few days ago, together with my cousin. =p Obviously, she didn’t find it hilarious. Hehe.. She had been trying so hard to avoid me. The odd thing was, I found myself caring more for her, making sure she had her medication and providing her lotions and gels for her pocks, and being extra concerned when her pocks were extremely large with pus in them. Yeah, disgusting, I know. I even went the extra mile to mop the floor of her room!

It’s just.. weird.

Now that I’ve experienced chicken pox, I’m like the FAQ section for my sister and my cousin. Now they are grounded! *muahahahahaa*

Felt even worse when Song Sing smsed me two days ago during my Production & Publication paper – he told me he is confirmed down with chicken pox. Felt very sure that it was from me, because he came to visit me when i was down with it. I felt so bad and so sorry for him, because he still has to travel to college for his semester finals. Praying that he will get well real soon. At least he doesn’t look as sickly as I was.

Chinese New Year’s coming! I want to go look for those branches where I can attach fake sakuras on the twigs and hang those gold ornaments on. When I was little, people used to sell the branches, but nowadays they don’t. Mum said that people are lazy to go climb trees to cut them. My cousin who stayed in a kampung place used to go into the edge of the jungle to get really nice and tall branches. She painted it white.

But for now, I gotta study for semester finals first.. argh

Nothing is more tormenting than tossing and turning the whole night in bed, trying to ease the itches of the spots. When I choose to lay still, the itch gets stronger and stronger, and finally it makes you twitch. I was so proud of myself that, at this age, I still haven’t gotten chicken pox, until I discovered the spots three days ago. I was at JR house, down with fever, when I lazily reached behind my back while watching 24 with Rowen and felt a huge pimple. Without thinking much, I popped it. Several minutes later, I found another one on my stomach. Again, I didn’t think much of it, but this time I didn’t pop it.

At midnight, I discovered another one.. and suddenly it just hit me that I have chicken pox! It takes seven days for spots to appear, and another seven days for them to dry off. Today’s day 3 and I’m like, I wanna die adyyy. I can’t even sleep! The doctor gave me Chlorpheniramine to ease itching, but it’s not doing any good. =( Powder does the trick, but not always.

My sister is treating me like some infectious virus, throwing out my stuff from her room. Sigh. And whenever I walk past, she would jerk away. How sweet. =.= Song Sing, Amanda and Jon came to visit me, all of them kena chicken pox before, except Song Sing. =p Thanks for visiting, and for kidnapping me to Subang. Hehee! Mum still didn’t know I was out. Hahaha!

What a way to start 2007. I got chicken pox, mum accidentally pumped diesel into her car, and my cousin ter-snapped out her toenail by accident. I can’t wait to heal!!

i’ve not updated this space for so long to the point that i was afraid to visit here again. in short, i’m alive, i’m back and yes, i still wanna blog.

my cousin has been staying at my place for some time already, and just today, she moved into Millennium Court – some sort of temporary place she’s staying in while studying in UTAR. tomorrow’s the first day of her orientation at the campus. it was kinda fun helping her move her stuff and unpacking.. amanda was there as well. made me wonder how it really felt like staying somewhere away from home. mum didn’t let me stay near my college, she said she’d have to fork out extra money for rent and food, and she pointed out that i’m such a messy person that people won’t be able to stand living with me.

i’m glad that i can bring her to church on sundays, and saturdays. she’s willing to go too. =)

finally, more room in my room! XD gotta get rid of the dust. wonder how she’s coping there. she has two other roommates, who weren’t in when we visited the place this afternoon.

it’s the start of the new year.. i can start my Bible reading plan – all over again! never finished it. =s this is the first time i feel indifferent about the arrival of a new year. i used to be all nostalgic and reflective, thinking about the memories of past years, but this year, i felt indifferent. cold. it’s just, another year, another day passing by. have i grown cold and insensitive, i wonder. i used to have goals too, in other words, new year resolutions la. but this year, i didn’t bother making any.

even when i’m typing this, i feel cold, indifferent, sarcastic, a bit moody. just not my cheerful self.

My class starts at 12pm today and I’m already in the CIT typing this at 9am. Yes, I’m in college at 9AM!! ooOooooO.. this semester, I want to be better. I don’t want to miss any 8am classes anymore and risk myself getting barred from sitting for exams. I want to pay more attention in class and be initiative in assignments instead of waiting until the last minute. There’s just something inside me which is crying out loud for self-improvement.. lol. If that makes sense. But yeah, just wanna make a change.

I promised you updates right? Actually I planned to go online from home yesterday since I had no classes until 4pm. So I switched on the computer, and to my horror, the BSOD (erm, blue screen of death) appeared! I restarted a few times and Windows just wouldn’t boot. That’s it la, time’s up for this old computer already. And mum hasn’t gotten the new one yet. *sigh* 

So, the mood to type a long post about it also vanished. Sorry.. so I’ll let the pictures talk by chronological order.. Almost. =D

Found this on the ground.. it was trampled by many people before I picked it up. The hugest leaf I have ever seen.

This critter was found on our tent after a downpour, which sent Chris, my tentmate, shivering with geli-ness. =p Now I know why it is called ulat bulu.

That’s Amanda! =) In her own world as she perched herself on those rocks.

My favourite shot. =) Anyone has any idea what plant is this? It’s the common touch-me-not, mimosa something.. ahaha. They always fascinate me.. so shy and so protective.

The view of I-dunno-what tree from the river. I first discovered this view when I was lying on my back in the stream with a bunch of girls, before washing our hair. Got scolded for shampooing our hair in the river cuz we were not supposed to; the Orang Asli who live down the river drink from it. Whoopsie.. The next day I took these shots. Looked more beautiful in real life la. Greener.

The Brethrens! Hehe.. Solomon, me, Darren (my group leader) and Jonathan. =)

Whee!! Like cartoon only. =p That’s Edwin and Amanda.. prolly she’s too hungry. Hehe..

The river I commited my sin of shampooing my hair in. It’s called Sungai Liam.

I loved the rushing waters when they flowed down the rocks..

Our first workshop mission was to find something you think is beautiful and draw it out. As you can see, I can’t draw for nuts. Really! So I dowan to put bigbig. =p Apparently I didn’t upload other people’s drawings and they’re at home, so I can’t put them here. Summore didn’t ask permission, so, better not. =p

My buddy Amanda and me. =) Erm, in the second picture we were trying to pose ourselves just like how our camp speaker and his bride did in their wedding photo which he showed us.. minus the smiles. =p

My tentmate Chris, Amanda and me. Chris was the one who went around putting mosquito coils around the campsite.. there were only five tents so it was a small kampung. At every tree she would plant a mosquito coil. =p

Us! With our TAR College bus! =D Before leaving for Setapak on the last day of camp.

Next update comin’ up: My cousin’s wedding. =D Stay tuned!

how long have i avoided you.. how long have i run away from you. i’ve challenged you for so long, and i was doing very well, to the point that i felt victorious. i have won. when i just feel a little bit daring, i turn back to look at you, just a little longer than a moment. i dared myself to look at you and not fumble; it’s all over. it’s the past. but i never stared long. i didn’t wanna.. i’m still winning.

and after some time, it’s exhausting and tiring to challenge you. fine, you win. go ahead of me. i know i can catch up. i know i can. i’m stronger than you. i think.

i was just reading someone else’s blog about markdowns, and i remembered this.

during the previous mega sale, ikea was having crazy markdowns as well. there was this framed poster which i really had my eye on since i first saw it, which was probably two years ago. its frame was green with a silhouette of the side profile of a mushroom-haired lady singing into a microphone. looked rather chic, and i think it’d look even better if it weren’t GREEN. there were two other designs which looked much better – red framed with a silhouette of a spikey-haired guy playing the trumpet, and the blue one which framed the silhouette of a saxophonist.

each costed rm39.90, normal price. *shudder*

during the sale, the price of the frames were marked down from rm.39.90 to rm29.90. still expensive.

the next visit, i found it to be rm19.90. almost tempted to buy, but thank God i was quite broke at that time.

then one morning in class, i saw in someone’s newspaper.. that exact frame was marked down like this: rm19.90 rm9.90!! woah.. yes yes yes!!

so i made my way to ikea and got meself a green one and a blue one. it feels so nice to be able to purchase big stuff in ikea.. haha!

i commend guys for their logical thinking.
waiyee: i think they mark rm10 down every week la. like, from rm39.90, it became rm29.90. then rm19.90 and then now rm9.90.
benyue: wah, if lidat then you wait few more weeks they’ll give you back money ady!
waiyee: -_-”

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yeah i realised it’s another post about ikea. holidays are bad. they make you spend a lot of money. i’m quite an impulsive buyer myself. shop with me and you’ll know.

even with the holidays around, i have so much to do. i wrap myself with lots of craft projects that i’m starting to get a hang of it every day. and once i get started with something, i can’t put it down. i must finish it from start till end, even if it means skipping meals and sleep. well, that’s the extreme side of me. there was once i made handmade papers from pulp, and i just couldn’t stop. i worked for almost 24 hours, with occasional breaks for snacks. even when my whole family was asleep, i was still scooping pulp from the big vat, arranging gerbera petals on them and pressing water out of the pulp.

when i’m not crafting, i’ll be reading. there are so many books which i’ve picked up and left them halfway read. and when i get back to them, i’ve forgotten what the first few chapters were about. and i need more space in my bookshelf. or maybe a new tall bookshelf. but i have no more space in my room. maybe i just have to give away some books. but.. sayang la.

i wanna relax during this holidays but i just can’t. i feel like there’s so much to do, so many responsibilities to take on. i even feel guilty for staying at home now. i have a nagging feeling that i should work, but the body is weak. lol. i’m lazy.

it’s so fun to rant aimlessly.

when you see this!

they are just so adooouurrrable, don’t you think? and they’re in one of my favourite colour combinations! same colour as my coffee mug too, which is lime green inside and turquoise on the outer part of it, finished with an orange rim.

these little plushies are new stuff from ikea. when my sis and i first saw the pictures of little blue, white-fanged sharks, docile-looking turtles, bright orange squid and stripey white-and-red fish, we went crazy, snatching the  catalogue away from each other, both of us wanting to have a nice drool over the pictures of them. i think ikea’s theme for the children this year is something oceanic. other things available that i noticed are bigger squid, crab, shark and turtle plushies, orange crab chairpad (which i’m having my eye on, for my blue stool cum bedside table), adorable little finger puppets of starfish, seahorse, turtle, crab, fish, squid (which i’m having the other eye on) and turquoise fish-shaped rattle for the toddlers.

looks like i just helped to promote ikea. hehe..

anyways, i switched from being a window shopper to impulsive shopper mode and ended up selecting the best three turtles and a squid. on the way to the cashier, i suddenly felt that i shouldn’t be getting so many turtles. so i thought of leaving one behind, maybe just leave it with the cushions or the vases.

whoever came up with the design of the turtles are smart la. they designed them to be innocent-looking, no expression nor smile, somewhat innocently blur.. you know, that kind of face which makes you feel worse for leaving just one somewhere, all alone and friendless.. and you’ll end up bringing it home too.

i can never bear the sight of seeing the turtles alone. so i clustered all three together, piling their heads atop another, just like how puppies huddle together. and they look totally adddooouuurrraaable. =D

Wai Yee is in a photographic mood currently. Spent the whole late morning (well, almost) coaxing this amber dragonfly to pose for my camera. It was supposed to rain, but the sun appeared. Thank God for that little bit of cloudiness, which didn’t exactly block the heat.. I was actually trying to stay away from direct sunlight because excessive sunlight would cause scars on my squeezed pimple wounds, and on this glorious day I sacrificed my *ahem* beauty in the name of photography. Heh.

Isn’t it beautifuuuuuull? =D

Makes you wonder how God created those delicate silvery lace-like wings.

Armed with the camera, varying between macro and supermacro modes, it wasn’t easy shooting this little fella. It seems that its favourite places were always the laundry line or the pegs on them. At first, I made huge moves, which was a mistake with flittery creatures like this one, because it got scared and started darting here and there before landing on the ropes again. Every time I got near it, it would fly away. But the good thing was, after darting round and round in the air, it always came back to the lines. So I had to move reeeaaalllyyy slowly towards the dragonfly. Which worked several times. I think I looked like some weird freak to my neighbours. Or maybe they thought I was stalking someone.

fast fliers: *click* ada, *click* tak ada.

Pei Ling noticed that I blog more whenever we’re having exams. It’s true. It’s just me trying to shirk from revision.. =D