Archive for March, 2007

Adopting things.

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

When you mix a lot with a certain group of people, you tend to adopt some manner of their way of speaking. With my French soon-to-be-ex-housemate (as of tomorrow), I hang out sometimes with her and her friends (actually truth to be told, they’re the only people I hang out with) and I’ve begun to adopt certain French idiosyncrasies. Saying ‘Oh la la’ (the number of la-la’s depend on how frustrated you are) when something goes wrong. Not Ooh lala. That’s different. And not our Malaysian ‘lala’ either. That’s another meaning entirely.
Cursing in French sounds really cute as well, not that I’m trying to be cute or anything (God forbid). It’s just catchy and polite-ish. I mean, ‘putain de merde’ sounds like ‘Good day to you.’
Those things I don’t use too often. Only when I talk to myself, usually. What I do use a lot is the ‘pfffft’ sound. You sorta expel air quickly through your lips and it sounds like a small fart. I know you just tried doing that. Even if you didn’t, chances are you’re gonna try doing that within the next five seconds. And if you still don’t, you’re lame. Quick now try it.
‘Pfft’ is not too right. It’s more of ‘prrfh.’ It’s a sound of ‘I don’t give a rat’s ass about it,’ ie. ‘Prrfh, so what if I’m lame? I rock my socks!’ I’m a conceited little megapuppy, I am.

Lethargy.

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Know what I miss? Smoking indoors when you’re out. Smoking in restaurants. Smoking in pubs. Smoking without getting your fingers frozen right off your hand. That’s what I miss. Killing myself and in the process other innocent bystanders as well. We’re all dying anyhow, what makes them any more special. Bitterness talking. There’s also a feeling of anticipation. Going to meet Chingchong and silly ex-boyfriend in less than 10 days. A break to good ol’ monotony - sleep, wake up, eat, smoke, contemplate about going for class, napping instead, eat and sleep some more. This is the life, man. If only it wasn’t so damn cold.
I also miss asam pedas. Manchester has a big Chinatown, I remember. Gotta have asam pedas. Nasi lemak. Chicken rice. Wan tan mee .. *rambles continuously about food*
I figured I like small fonts better. I like to imagine your face going like …

Squint_2… just to read this.

Squeee …

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

It’s 4.31pm and I must not take that jinxing afternoon nap although I’m so sleepy I bet I could fall asleep faster than you can say ‘Ah.’ So anyways, let me tell you about my favourite website, www.imdb.com. Unless you don’t know about it already, it’s the ‘Internet Movie Database, the biggest, best, most award-winning movie site on the planet’ and being a sort of a movie junkie, I visit the website on a daily basis. Sometimes hourly basis, depending on how bored I am.
It’s got quotes, juicy news about celebrities, a universe-ful of info about movies and things like that. I’ve watched 70 out of the 250 top films as rated by users. A pittance, a pittance. Some of the movies in the top 250 are pretty damn whacked. Toy Story? Uh .. seriously? Did a thousand twelve year-olds vote?
But that aside, it’s still slightly entertaining. Prior to watching a movie, I’d check it out a bit and sometimes read the message boards and ruin the entire movie experience because some fuckers reveal the entire plot in the message titles and they get flamed by other users like me for it. Just like when I went to watch The Prestige. Someone accidentally let the big huge cat outta the bag, a cat so crucial that it made the movie totally unexciting because I already knew how it’d end and what the twist was.
Anyways, yesterday I believe I cooked the worst tasting meal in maybe six years (roughly six years ago, I cooked some soup and it turned out green in colour). I ran out of rice, so I ran along to the corner shop to buy some. Didn’t realize that what I bought was ready-cooked rice. Ghastly. Never buy those even if you’re starving and if you don’t get anything to eat in two minutes your stomach would start digesting itself. I cooked what was possibly the yuckiest tom yum in the history of tom yum. Put too much lemon and the whole thing tasted so much like horse piss I threw it away.
And big me decided to experiment with the ingredients I had. I marinated my chicken in garlic, sugar, salt and lemon. Dipped the chicken in corn flour and added some ginger to boot. Turned out tasting like nose booger. Not very nice. In the end I had two slices of bread and cheese for dinner. Lesson very well learnt. Lemon is the stuff of professionals, and professional cook I am not.
Also, why am I using a slightly larger font size?
Answer:
I was reading some guy’s blog and his font size was set to small and I got so annoyed by it but it was really interesting I couldn’t stop reading despite the annoyance. Bigger is better, anyhow, innit?
And, for the record, somebody (who thought very highly of himself. pffft. what a joke) once told me that you find out who you really are when you go away from home. I’d like to tell him to keep his b.s. to himself and seriously just cut the crap. He’s embarrasing himself and he doesn’t even know it. Pity.
I pray I never, ever, end up like him. If I do, please grab the nearest tuna fish you can find and slap me across the head with it.
Truth is, I’ve never been more unsure about who I really am since I got here. I’m not too sure about many things anymore. But two things I’m pretty damn sure of:
#1 - Personally, I think that he’s trying real hard to convince himself that he’s a good person and etc. He’s doing a pretty swell job doing that as well but you what? There ain’t nowt underneath it all. He’s so fake he’d beat Paris Hilton in that department with just the wink of an eye. Whoa, bitchings yeah. With that, I close my book on him.
#2 - I miss my someone, and that someone thrills me so much, baby. Really knows how to make me guffaw like an idiot, that someone does.
O frustration.
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Sucker for pierced ear(s).

Monday, March 19th, 2007

You know what else rocks my socks? Pierced ears on men. Don’t you find it sexy? That bad boy element in such a feminine accessory. I absolutely cannot resist it, if the guy has the face and body to boot. If he doesn’t have the latter two, well, the earring is big enough a boost already.
Some examples.
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Damon Albarn. He sparked off a lot of thoughts today.

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I don’t normally dig bald guys, but #1 - this is Ewan ‘huge’ Mcgregor, and #2 - pierced ear, check. And he’s Rentboy, woot!

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Yo-ho, yo-ho, everyone’s favourite pirate.

Cristiano_ronaldo Finally .. my favouritest boy .. oh god .. just looking at him makes me .. makes me .. purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr …..

My g-g-generation.

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I wonder when will there be a revival of the nineties, of fashion and music and literature and television. I bet by the next decade, the eighties would be hip enough to be revived. God forbid hairspray. Shudder.
So right now what we have is a sort of a revival of the seventees, yeah. Correct me if I’m wrong. Huge belts, beads, tunics, flares, cowboy boots. Tight T-shirts, big collars, skinny jeans are in again. Boy I’d love to see boys in skinny jeans, if they have a tush that is.
If we have a revival of the seventies in the new millenia, three decades from now they might have a revival of the early new millenia - ie. us. But what the seventies mainly is, is the future. Everything’s futuristic. Look at the films - A Clockwork Orange, Alien, Close Encounters with the Third Kind, Mad Max and who can forget, Star Wars. Philip K. Dick, Douglas Adams, just to name the people I actually read. Of course their work spanned a few generations, but nonetheless, they were producing fiction in the seventies as well.
But anyway, what I’m trying to say here is that if we have a revival of the seventies now, and if the future generation has a revival of us (we can label ourselves the seventies-wannabes), then what they are mimicking is actually a very pale version of what they should be like, because the era of the sixties and seventies (yeah, your pops’ time) was actually trying to be as modern as possible, as ‘millenic’ as possible, as futuristic and plastic as could be done at that time. Get what I mean?
I don’t know what sparked this thought off. I was just listening to Blur when I thought, nineties music rocks my socks.

Paddy weekend.

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

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A lot of people wearing green and stuff, a lot of people drinking, partying, etc. Damn my sore throat and under-the-weather-ness. No drinking for me, not even by myself. Drank half a pint of beer yesterday and felt like dying so bad I went to my room and comatosed instantly.
It’s weird, I remember after Songkran festival, Fifi and I went to Subaidah and had ourselves some roti and teh and ais manis. Here, we went to a cafe afterwards instead, where everything costs a bomb. The portions are humongous though. My sandwich looked like it could feed 2 horses. Naturally I couldn’t finish it. Only an Irish could finish it I suppose. Even the French girl couldn’t finish hers.
Blah. I’ve become a recluse. I don’t feel like going out much. I just feel like lying down .. plug in my headphones .. put a song on repeat .. and sleep .. zzzzz ..
It’s Paddy weekend for cryin’ out loud, and I feel like staying in. There’s a fly in my head, a great big fly.

Certified genius.

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Maybe I should stop taking afternoon naps, because everytime I wake up, something disasterous happens.
So what did I wake up to yesterday evening? Some connection problem - the bloody thing just wouldn’t connect to the internet. Might’ve been a blessing in disguise, because I spent the whole night writing. Almost the whole night anyhow, in between sleep and frustration.
This morning I got my ass to the student help centre and configured my wireless to the uni connection. Also got my student verification thing settled, so now I can officially print stuff. Another good achievement. I feel so accomplished.
Went to the library where because some bangadoo kept on making me laugh to myself so much, I should avoid Boole library, first floor for some time.
Then I came home and called up the internet service provider people, whereupon they told me that they could only get back to me on Tuesday. O, the horror of horrors! What was I to do for the entire weekend! So to console myself, I called up a few people and felt slightly better. Then took a nice milk shower (yes, milk shower) and whilst I was dressing, the internet people called back, and gave me directions on how to fix the darned problem.
Hence now I sit here in front of my lap top gloating away about my genuis-ness.

Krakelingens.

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

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Subliminal things. And I just ate the last one. Bummer.
Today is Julia’s extremely filthy day. She hasn’t showered in more than 24 hours. She doesn’t care because she’s not going out today. She wants to go to town to find more Krakelingens but it’s a miserably rainy day.
Whee … I feel so exhilarated. I think it’s because I just made a good decision. Might be because of Krakelingens. They’re like 85% sugar.
I’m sorry if this has bored you. It bored myself too. I’m gonna go chat with Mandy now. Mandy, you hear me? I’m gonna go chat with you now~~~~

Cool.

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

I get to keep my internet connection after all.
I’m walkin’ on sunshine!
Although it’s been raining the whole morning.
Ooh might have a cute tenant. Fingers crossed, toes crossed, cross-eyed.

Better blog, time running out.

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Book: Hitchhiker’s Guide to th Galaxy - The complete edition.
Song: I Miss You, Incubus.
Mood: Extremely sleepy but
must hog internet.

I hear the clock ticking away. Tomorrow, sweet internet will be gone. Time to bring out the big guns - books, PC games, books and more books. Also DotA.
Something interesting.
P3130025 My name in Ireland has become Julia Tan Jo-Mei Tan. I have no idea which one my surname is. Should be the last Tan, but god knows.
This is like death row. Waiting for the end. The end. O the melodrama.