Hello, I feel like I've dropped off the face of the earth! Well anyway, I've had a crap week, how about you? Last week was a sort of bizarre series of unfortunate events movie.
First, Kiara had a serious tick problem.
As in, major tick problem. As in, tiny red critters clinging all over to her fur and happily using it as a breeding ground major.
If you didn't know, ticks are a major issue because they can endanger your dog's life. And once they get into the bloodstream, you can never get rid of the disease. And whenever the dog's immune system is weak, she'll suffer from ticks again.
Yes, so me and the brother proceeded to do a major tick plucking surgery. We took an empty plastic ice cream container and filled it with hot water. Then we sat the unsuspecting little dog down and started plucking.
Kiara looking very innocent and pathetic. Thank goodness she wasn't really very lethargic, which is a bad sign. She did lie down a lot for just one day, but she was roaring around like a fire engine on the next day so everything's cool.
My bowl. These are only a tenth of the number of ticks we plucked. The container was literally swimming with the little critters at the end. Look at the top left side, see the really huge green ones? Massive! I was shuddering while pulling them out because I was half afraid they'd burst in my fingers or something.
Then when you pull them out all their little legs will start crawling around the air frantically. They're damn tough. I tried squishing one with my slipper using my whole body weight but the tick just got dazed after that. :(
Second, my car got injured again.
I know, again right?
Well this time, I wasn't even in the car. /sigh See, I stayed over at Sara's house last Thursday to do our presentation slides. I parked beside her house, and no, the car wasn't sticking out onto the road.
I make it a practice to close my side mirrors every time I parked, and I forgot just this one time.
One!!!
The next day, when we were about to leave for college, I saw my right side mirror bent at a really weird angle. ... It was then I already knew what I'd find. But never mind, have hope.
So I hurried over, and the minute I touched the mirror, the whole thing fell off. !!! So annoying right???? Some bastard driver drove so close to my car in the middle of the night and hit the mirror! The weirdest (and also fortunate) thing is that my door was totally fine. No scratches, no nothing. Just the mirror.
If I ever catch that guy... *rolls up sleeves angrily*
This is how it looked like. I had to drive with my window open, propping it against the top of the door. Worse thing was, we were going to be late for the presentation, so Sara and I just hurried over to the nearest DJ mechanic shop to take the whole bloody thing off.
See, it's dangling by the signal wire.
Post removal. Sigh. Heart pain. The guy must've been driving very fast, half the side piece is ripped off!
Anyway, now I'm in the process of getting quotes from friends' foremans. If you know any good places to fix, do let me know, but I want to order the original part yeah.
So I've been driving around the whole of KL without one side mirror. I swear, I feel like a limb has been amputated. The first few days, I felt such a sense of loss when I glanced at the mirror and it wasn't there. Hello, phantom limb, anyone? And my neck literally felt itchy on my right side. LOL
Plus, reverse parking is a real pain, and cutting lanes on the highway is giving me a major neckache. Sigh. Poor car. Poor me. Haha
Third, I've been having diarrhea for FIVE days.
Yeah, five days of diarrhea 2-3 times a day.
My stomach has always been one of my weakest points, so diarrhea isn't anything out of the common. But five days is really worrying.
I also took lots of the poh chai yuen pills, which are really fantastically awesome Chinese herbal pills that tastes God-awful but has always helped me in miraculous ways before.
To no avail. So today, I finally caved in and went to see the doctor.
The good news is, I don't have food poisoning.
The doctor said, "If you have food poisoning, at the end of five days, you won't be walking in to see me. You'll be dehydrated and half unconscious, and you'd probably be rushed to the hospital."
Hahaha wth.
The bad news is I have accute Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
What's that, you ask?
Sigh, it's an extremely annoying functional disorder. I'll tell you more on that later, but basically it's a group of symptoms that can affect the large bowel.
It can cause gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation etc.
Emotional stress can also trigger it. :s
Yeah, see I've always had a weak stomach like I said, but the doc said this is an accute case, where my stomach is now super sensitive to any sort of food that I put into it.
Which is true, because I haven't been able to finish a meal without needing to rush to the toilet at once.
Plus, it gives me stress when I'm out, because who the hell likes to poo at a public area right? So the stress will make my stomach hurt more, Then I'll stress myself out more trying to rush home.
What a sad, vicious cycle. Hahaha
And IBS really affects your life, you know! As a kid, I could never finish playing Hide and Seek. Hahaha so pathetic. But true!!!!
First, I'd feel stress because I was worried they'd find me. Then I'd feel impatient because they hadn't found me yet. Then my stomach would start hurting.
Then I'd always go, "Okay okay, stop I give up! Don't want to play already. Stomach ache la.
When I had to sit for exams, I'd have stomachache.
It's the waiting that I can't stand. It's horrible. It's enough that I don't have a lot of patience, but add that with stress = horrible stomach pains.
Piano exams were the worst. For the practical exams, you have to wait in a hotel room about an hour before your exam.
Imagine waiting an hour in stressed anticipation and nervousness in a bloody cold hotel room???
Not a good combination, I tell you.
So anyway, he gave me some meds to stop the diarrhea.
Hopefully that's the last of it I'll see for a while.
This is the first time I've turned my laptop on after a week.
And I don't feel Internet deprived at all! Yet another proof that I was born in the wrong age. (The first bit of evidence is that I really don't enjoy this generation's music. Too much noise.)
Okay, okay I do feel lost when I don't check my email daily but besides that ten minutes, I don't need to go online at all. Besides, my laptop's so slow, I can go run ten laps, come back and bathe, and it'll still be loading. No, really. I keed you not.
So anyway went to Ole Ole Bali at Solaris Mont Kiara to celebrate Angel's 21st birthday earlier. Happy birthday Angel! :)
Jess, Risa, ANGEL, me, Sara (Fafa took the pic)
Was really good seeing Jess after ages. Haha. Nothing refreshes me as much as a good bitching session with her. Hahahaha! I swear I haven't laughed so hard in ages.
Jess, who always buys us souvenirs from whatever beach she's at at the moment. Hahaha
Yay, another one to print!
This is our practice for Europe pictures smile. Hahaha. Substitute the table beside Charissa with the Eiffel Tower kthx.
This one definitely print! Hahaha
These 2 are the best people to bitch with. Jess laughs like a hyena and Fafa laughs like she's gonna have cardiac arrest. Haha I have such cute friends lah.
This sem is hectic! Seeing my lecturers four times a week per subject is terribly exhausting. But the most amazing thing is that I haven't fallen asleep in any of my classes yet! And that's really something because my Monday schedule is 8am - 4pm with only an hour's break in between. T_T
Oh oh oh, and I went window shopping today. Why are all the new stuff in Topshop and Miss Selfridge so freaking gorgeous???? Sigh. I need a new bag. I need new clothes. I need an ORGANIZER. A nice pretty one. I swear I'm getting older by the second. I often find myself forgetting stuff! Like, "Eh, so this Friday can make it kan?" Sara or somebody will ask, and I'll suddenly feel like, I thinkkkk I can make it, but I also think that I already have something on at that time! It's horrible. I need an organizer. T__________________T
Or maybe ginkgo biloba. Does that really work?
I just realised this is a really random post. Nothing really links, because my mind's just rambling all over the place. But never mind. I need to share this happy news! I just bought 5 books for RM10!!! 2 bucks for a book, can you imagine? I practically came when I saw the price tag. I was running around my head screaming two freaking bucks for a book!! with bright green neon signs pulsating wildly like a freaky mental disco.
And one of them was a Tom Clancy novel. Sigh. Good deal, good deal. Oh, and I also read Stephen King's Thinner. Fantastic. I loved it. Haha sorry, I'm just a total Stephen King fan. I love the way he writes. Clean and clear with great depth and complexity of characters. For those who wanna try reading King, I recommed you start out with easy to read pieces like Rose Madder, Thinner, Firestarter, Eyes of the Dragon, It and Insomnia. Bloody fantastic.
Okay people, go and read Stephen King! It's really not all gore and horror. His books represent almost everything in life, I think. The supernatural and the fantastic blends effortlessly with the ordinary mundaneness of everyday life, and he can truly make a breathlessly wondrous plot out of nothing.
Okay I'll end here before I end up waxing lyrical on Stephen King's books. Assignment's calling!
Hi. I just emerged out of hibernation to tell you that I finished the Twilight series because I heard it's amazingly addictive.
My verdict is:
Bella is quite possible the most annoying girl on earth. What's up with her and ultra masochistic tendencies??? She blames herself for every single thing, and I think she must have said sorry at least a million times to Edward and Jacob.
But never mind. Even MORE annoying than that, is the fact that she faints. Yeap. She faints the minute she thinks something has happened to Edward, and oh wow that's so helpful isn't it, fainting just when people are going through a crisis and now they all have to swarm around the oh so helpless and fragile Bella. And she faints at the smell of blood. And she faints at the thought of anything happening to Jacob too.
And when the actual crises happen, she's frozen into horrified immobility. Then when everything is over, she'll go through shock and trauma and Edward will have to coax her back into the real world. And then she'll go through bouts of self-recrimination and hate herself for her uselessness and then she'll start whispering "sorry" all over again.
*deep breath*
Okay. Besides that, I have to say that the series isn't half bad. Twilight was very mediocre. The words flashing in neon signs across my mind were "This is for pre-teens to read." For such a thick book, I was astounded that the movie actually followed the story pretty closely. Which is basically Bella and Edward meet. Edward spends his time looking revolted and avoiding her. Then they decided to throw caution to the winds and start going out. Then when they're playing happy vampire family, the bad guy shows up and starts hunting for Bella's blood. Then they save her. The end.
New Moon (2nd book) was better. Actually, all the books got better consecutively. The werewolves thing is an interesting concept and I particularly liked the bit about how the pack can keep no secrets from each other because their minds are so intricately linked. I also liked the part about the Volturi, and how some vampires seemed to manifest certain unique talents. Of course, in the first half of New Moon, I spent half my time wishing I could strangle Bella.
My favorite has got to be Breaking Dawn (4th book) because things move so much faster. Thank God.
First of all Bella and Edward get married! Who doesn't love weddings? Sigh, I wish I had an Alice to do mine. Soon after that, Bella gets pregnant, and nearly dies giving birth to the half human-vampire. And to save her life, she finallllllllly gets turned into a vampire which deserves more rejoicing because she finally stops apologizing and being all whiny and weak and stops fainting too. Bonus points there.
And of course, everyone lives happily ever after. I love happily ever afters.
So yes, half the world I know hates the Twilight series and the other half loves it. I would say, reserve judgement until you've read it, because they are quite surprising books after all. They appeal to each person in unexpected ways. Worth a read.
Okay, back in KL and all that but the real important announcement of the day is to...
watch Angels and Demons because Ewan McGregor is pure hotness there.
All I can say is, thank God he isn't a real priest! Hahaha.
Oh, and the show is pretty good too BUT I must emphasize that this is because I didn't read the book. Both U-Waye and I concur that we might have had different opinions if we did read it. So from the point of view of one who totally had no clue what the show was going to be about, it's quite good!
Look at those baby blues. /sigh
Okay, I needed that surge of bimbotic mindless adoration for the hottest guy on earth because I have classes from 8am - 4pm tomorrow.
T_____T
With only a break from 11am-12pm!!!
Pleasegoddon'tletmefallasleeponmyfirstdayamen.
+ Isabelle
I'm a sunshine child by nature. I look at life as a canvas that is being continuously painted on. I believe in living with no regrets.
I have this restless desire to see the world, to delve into foreign cultures, to learn to love my own more. I love the small details in life which set people
and things apart from the rest. Books are my ultimate escape, my comfort food. The rain makes me melancholic.
There are fewer things more important to me than the precious people in my life.
I love selectively, and when I do, it's with all my heart. I love originality. Creativeness never fails to inspire awe in me, and I love the fact that it is something that
can never run out. I'm an all or nothing person. Which is also why I really hate tidying my room.
I appreciate wit and sarcasm if it's tastefully applied. I
love writing in itself. The notion of putting thoughts into words, and committing them onto paper has always charmed me. After all, they say writing is a form of immortality.
I love taking slow walks when there's a balmy breeze, while having long absorbing conversations. I love the smell of libraries. They smell of secrets and dust. If I could choose
the job of my dreams, it would be as a curator, a historian, or a teacher. I love the thought of arts and crafts, but somehow never get around to actually doing them. But I will, one day. Oh, and really, I'm a terrible procrastinator AS WELL as a perfectionist.
So yeah, imagine the havoc that wreaks on my mental health during deadline times.
On a lighter note, I abhor celery and spring onions. I don't like pastel shades, they give me a headache. Sunflowers and lilies always bring a smile to my face, and
my life's ambition is to settle down in some quaint little villa in Tuscany where they have sunflower fields as far as the eye can see. :)
Hello, I feel like I've dropped off the face of the earth! Well anyway, I've had a crap week, how about you? Last week was a sort of bizarre series of unfortunate events movie.
First, Kiara had a serious tick problem.
As in, major tick problem. As in, tiny red critters clinging all over to her fur and happily using it as a breeding ground major.
If you didn't know, ticks are a major issue because they can endanger your dog's life. And once they get into the bloodstream, you can never get rid of the disease. And whenever the dog's immune system is weak, she'll suffer from ticks again.
Yes, so me and the brother proceeded to do a major tick plucking surgery. We took an empty plastic ice cream container and filled it with hot water. Then we sat the unsuspecting little dog down and started plucking.
Kiara looking very innocent and pathetic. Thank goodness she wasn't really very lethargic, which is a bad sign. She did lie down a lot for just one day, but she was roaring around like a fire engine on the next day so everything's cool.
My bowl. These are only a tenth of the number of ticks we plucked. The container was literally swimming with the little critters at the end. Look at the top left side, see the really huge green ones? Massive! I was shuddering while pulling them out because I was half afraid they'd burst in my fingers or something.
Then when you pull them out all their little legs will start crawling around the air frantically. They're damn tough. I tried squishing one with my slipper using my whole body weight but the tick just got dazed after that. :(
Second, my car got injured again.
I know, again right?
Well this time, I wasn't even in the car. /sigh See, I stayed over at Sara's house last Thursday to do our presentation slides. I parked beside her house, and no, the car wasn't sticking out onto the road.
I make it a practice to close my side mirrors every time I parked, and I forgot just this one time.
One!!!
The next day, when we were about to leave for college, I saw my right side mirror bent at a really weird angle. ... It was then I already knew what I'd find. But never mind, have hope.
So I hurried over, and the minute I touched the mirror, the whole thing fell off. !!! So annoying right???? Some bastard driver drove so close to my car in the middle of the night and hit the mirror! The weirdest (and also fortunate) thing is that my door was totally fine. No scratches, no nothing. Just the mirror.
If I ever catch that guy... *rolls up sleeves angrily*
This is how it looked like. I had to drive with my window open, propping it against the top of the door. Worse thing was, we were going to be late for the presentation, so Sara and I just hurried over to the nearest DJ mechanic shop to take the whole bloody thing off.
See, it's dangling by the signal wire.
Post removal. Sigh. Heart pain. The guy must've been driving very fast, half the side piece is ripped off!
Anyway, now I'm in the process of getting quotes from friends' foremans. If you know any good places to fix, do let me know, but I want to order the original part yeah.
So I've been driving around the whole of KL without one side mirror. I swear, I feel like a limb has been amputated. The first few days, I felt such a sense of loss when I glanced at the mirror and it wasn't there. Hello, phantom limb, anyone? And my neck literally felt itchy on my right side. LOL
Plus, reverse parking is a real pain, and cutting lanes on the highway is giving me a major neckache. Sigh. Poor car. Poor me. Haha
Third, I've been having diarrhea for FIVE days.
Yeah, five days of diarrhea 2-3 times a day.
My stomach has always been one of my weakest points, so diarrhea isn't anything out of the common. But five days is really worrying.
I also took lots of the poh chai yuen pills, which are really fantastically awesome Chinese herbal pills that tastes God-awful but has always helped me in miraculous ways before.
To no avail. So today, I finally caved in and went to see the doctor.
The good news is, I don't have food poisoning.
The doctor said, "If you have food poisoning, at the end of five days, you won't be walking in to see me. You'll be dehydrated and half unconscious, and you'd probably be rushed to the hospital."
Hahaha wth.
The bad news is I have accute Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
What's that, you ask?
Sigh, it's an extremely annoying functional disorder. I'll tell you more on that later, but basically it's a group of symptoms that can affect the large bowel.
It can cause gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation etc.
Emotional stress can also trigger it. :s
Yeah, see I've always had a weak stomach like I said, but the doc said this is an accute case, where my stomach is now super sensitive to any sort of food that I put into it.
Which is true, because I haven't been able to finish a meal without needing to rush to the toilet at once.
Plus, it gives me stress when I'm out, because who the hell likes to poo at a public area right? So the stress will make my stomach hurt more, Then I'll stress myself out more trying to rush home.
What a sad, vicious cycle. Hahaha
And IBS really affects your life, you know! As a kid, I could never finish playing Hide and Seek. Hahaha so pathetic. But true!!!!
First, I'd feel stress because I was worried they'd find me. Then I'd feel impatient because they hadn't found me yet. Then my stomach would start hurting.
Then I'd always go, "Okay okay, stop I give up! Don't want to play already. Stomach ache la.
When I had to sit for exams, I'd have stomachache.
It's the waiting that I can't stand. It's horrible. It's enough that I don't have a lot of patience, but add that with stress = horrible stomach pains.
Piano exams were the worst. For the practical exams, you have to wait in a hotel room about an hour before your exam.
Imagine waiting an hour in stressed anticipation and nervousness in a bloody cold hotel room???
Not a good combination, I tell you.
So anyway, he gave me some meds to stop the diarrhea.
Hopefully that's the last of it I'll see for a while.
This is the first time I've turned my laptop on after a week.
And I don't feel Internet deprived at all! Yet another proof that I was born in the wrong age. (The first bit of evidence is that I really don't enjoy this generation's music. Too much noise.)
Okay, okay I do feel lost when I don't check my email daily but besides that ten minutes, I don't need to go online at all. Besides, my laptop's so slow, I can go run ten laps, come back and bathe, and it'll still be loading. No, really. I keed you not.
So anyway went to Ole Ole Bali at Solaris Mont Kiara to celebrate Angel's 21st birthday earlier. Happy birthday Angel! :)
Jess, Risa, ANGEL, me, Sara (Fafa took the pic)
Was really good seeing Jess after ages. Haha. Nothing refreshes me as much as a good bitching session with her. Hahahaha! I swear I haven't laughed so hard in ages.
Jess, who always buys us souvenirs from whatever beach she's at at the moment. Hahaha
Yay, another one to print!
This is our practice for Europe pictures smile. Hahaha. Substitute the table beside Charissa with the Eiffel Tower kthx.
This one definitely print! Hahaha
These 2 are the best people to bitch with. Jess laughs like a hyena and Fafa laughs like she's gonna have cardiac arrest. Haha I have such cute friends lah.
This sem is hectic! Seeing my lecturers four times a week per subject is terribly exhausting. But the most amazing thing is that I haven't fallen asleep in any of my classes yet! And that's really something because my Monday schedule is 8am - 4pm with only an hour's break in between. T_T
Oh oh oh, and I went window shopping today. Why are all the new stuff in Topshop and Miss Selfridge so freaking gorgeous???? Sigh. I need a new bag. I need new clothes. I need an ORGANIZER. A nice pretty one. I swear I'm getting older by the second. I often find myself forgetting stuff! Like, "Eh, so this Friday can make it kan?" Sara or somebody will ask, and I'll suddenly feel like, I thinkkkk I can make it, but I also think that I already have something on at that time! It's horrible. I need an organizer. T__________________T
Or maybe ginkgo biloba. Does that really work?
I just realised this is a really random post. Nothing really links, because my mind's just rambling all over the place. But never mind. I need to share this happy news! I just bought 5 books for RM10!!! 2 bucks for a book, can you imagine? I practically came when I saw the price tag. I was running around my head screaming two freaking bucks for a book!! with bright green neon signs pulsating wildly like a freaky mental disco.
And one of them was a Tom Clancy novel. Sigh. Good deal, good deal. Oh, and I also read Stephen King's Thinner. Fantastic. I loved it. Haha sorry, I'm just a total Stephen King fan. I love the way he writes. Clean and clear with great depth and complexity of characters. For those who wanna try reading King, I recommed you start out with easy to read pieces like Rose Madder, Thinner, Firestarter, Eyes of the Dragon, It and Insomnia. Bloody fantastic.
Okay people, go and read Stephen King! It's really not all gore and horror. His books represent almost everything in life, I think. The supernatural and the fantastic blends effortlessly with the ordinary mundaneness of everyday life, and he can truly make a breathlessly wondrous plot out of nothing.
Okay I'll end here before I end up waxing lyrical on Stephen King's books. Assignment's calling!
Hi. I just emerged out of hibernation to tell you that I finished the Twilight series because I heard it's amazingly addictive.
My verdict is:
Bella is quite possible the most annoying girl on earth. What's up with her and ultra masochistic tendencies??? She blames herself for every single thing, and I think she must have said sorry at least a million times to Edward and Jacob.
But never mind. Even MORE annoying than that, is the fact that she faints. Yeap. She faints the minute she thinks something has happened to Edward, and oh wow that's so helpful isn't it, fainting just when people are going through a crisis and now they all have to swarm around the oh so helpless and fragile Bella. And she faints at the smell of blood. And she faints at the thought of anything happening to Jacob too.
And when the actual crises happen, she's frozen into horrified immobility. Then when everything is over, she'll go through shock and trauma and Edward will have to coax her back into the real world. And then she'll go through bouts of self-recrimination and hate herself for her uselessness and then she'll start whispering "sorry" all over again.
*deep breath*
Okay. Besides that, I have to say that the series isn't half bad. Twilight was very mediocre. The words flashing in neon signs across my mind were "This is for pre-teens to read." For such a thick book, I was astounded that the movie actually followed the story pretty closely. Which is basically Bella and Edward meet. Edward spends his time looking revolted and avoiding her. Then they decided to throw caution to the winds and start going out. Then when they're playing happy vampire family, the bad guy shows up and starts hunting for Bella's blood. Then they save her. The end.
New Moon (2nd book) was better. Actually, all the books got better consecutively. The werewolves thing is an interesting concept and I particularly liked the bit about how the pack can keep no secrets from each other because their minds are so intricately linked. I also liked the part about the Volturi, and how some vampires seemed to manifest certain unique talents. Of course, in the first half of New Moon, I spent half my time wishing I could strangle Bella.
My favorite has got to be Breaking Dawn (4th book) because things move so much faster. Thank God.
First of all Bella and Edward get married! Who doesn't love weddings? Sigh, I wish I had an Alice to do mine. Soon after that, Bella gets pregnant, and nearly dies giving birth to the half human-vampire. And to save her life, she finallllllllly gets turned into a vampire which deserves more rejoicing because she finally stops apologizing and being all whiny and weak and stops fainting too. Bonus points there.
And of course, everyone lives happily ever after. I love happily ever afters.
So yes, half the world I know hates the Twilight series and the other half loves it. I would say, reserve judgement until you've read it, because they are quite surprising books after all. They appeal to each person in unexpected ways. Worth a read.
Okay, back in KL and all that but the real important announcement of the day is to...
watch Angels and Demons because Ewan McGregor is pure hotness there.
All I can say is, thank God he isn't a real priest! Hahaha.
Oh, and the show is pretty good too BUT I must emphasize that this is because I didn't read the book. Both U-Waye and I concur that we might have had different opinions if we did read it. So from the point of view of one who totally had no clue what the show was going to be about, it's quite good!
Look at those baby blues. /sigh
Okay, I needed that surge of bimbotic mindless adoration for the hottest guy on earth because I have classes from 8am - 4pm tomorrow.
Kiara looking very innocent and pathetic.
My bowl.
This is how it looked like.
Post removal.
The one nice picture I got
My dream home.
A long walk along the beach.
The smell of old books.
'70s pin up posters.
Jess, Risa, ANGEL, me, Sara (Fafa took the pic)
Jess, who always buys us souvenirs from whatever beach she's at at the moment. Hahaha
Yay, another one to print!
This is our practice for Europe pictures smile. Hahaha.
This one definitely print! Hahaha
These 2 are the best people to bitch with.
Look at those baby blues. /sigh