18th dec, fri

its a free morning 4 me currently n i tot of jotting down a lil where i went ystd.. central market.. my usual haunt eveeeryy week twice wen i was doing my f6..

well, wat d heck do i do dere every week twice eh? i had 2 attend my tuitions for f6 dere coz it seems back in my hometown kjg, we dun hav much access to good tuition teachers teaching f6 subs especially d science subs... its really ironic considering d fact dat we hav 3 skools housing f6s in kjg.. khs, yu hua n i forgot wats d other called :P.. sumthing 2 do wif utama.. so i hav no choice but 2 go down all d way to kl to take tuitions..

itll take approx 45 mins for d journey tru highway but ive 2 set aside another 45 mins to wait 4 d bus to fill up. d bus i take, sri indah apparently oni moves its arse starts its journey once it is filled.. seat by seat as opposed to rapid kl who waits 4 no1. 1 downside wif rapid kl is dat it go tru aaaaalll d smaller roads to pick up or send passangers.. it doesnt go tru d highway n stops very frequently. as a person wif slight travel sickness, i dun take rapid kl unless wen it is oni accessible wif dis bus.

so, i was lucky ystd n i oni spent a short 5 min b4 d bus starts its journey.. n 45 mins later, i was back at all dese familiar buildings n food.. it had been almost a yer since i was last here.. my 1st stop was central market..

a short 5 mins going ard coz i had 2 wait 4 d heavy drizzle to go away b4 i hit d petaling street..

walking tru petaling street brought back a few good memories of d 'tau jeong sui' stall which christine sumtimes like 2 get sum b4 hitting d class.

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den i came across a chestnut stall which reminds me so fondly how i liked to eat those wen i was younger…

it used 2 by roasted by hand but now it seems, technology hav taken over… I used to looovee them so much, I will finish 70% of d bag of chestnut bought although its supposed 2 b shared by the whole family :P.. dey din complain coz im d oni 1 going nuts over it.. but after sumtime, coming across sweet, soft n evenly roasted chestnut is a rarity n I stop eating it.

After sumtime walking ard petaling street n getting fed up with rude aunties manning d craft shops, I went back to pasar seni. About dose ladies, y I said dey were rude; dey did not smile nor try deir best assisting me getting d things I want. I appreciate d fact 1 of dem dun follow my ass ard like typical annoying promoters in shopping complexes but u know, it is a courtesy 2 ask d customers if u could help dem. D other, even better. She treated me as if im a burglar. I did not come in with a pantyhose stuck to my face (tho it juz looks more perverted den threatening) nor did I came in with any gun or even toy guns but she backed off.. like 100 steps wen I leaned a lil forward 2 show her using my camera d craft material I was looking for… n continued mumbling no no we dun hav dat stuff wen she din even as much as glance at d picture.. ok I could b partly blamed 4 having a naturally angry face expression.. wat! I cant help it ok =.=.. Tsk tsk.. n I tot oni customers r capable of being rude…

Niway back to pasar seni.. i had no intentions earlier on of looking ard 4 christmas n bd presents but by chance n luck, I ended up with 3 christmas presents 4 my siblings n 2 bd presents 4 wen may n xiu wen d december babies.. hopefully deyll like it :). It was about 3.30 den wen I decided dat it was enuf shopping 4 d day. so i stop by my fav beef noodle shop at lai foong n had a good bowl of beef meehoon. I had since learned dat dis stall had been operating since d 1956.. its even older den my dad.. cool eh? Will always love the soup with a slight hint of sourness from d salted vege.. wat n irony eh?

19th dec, Sat

Today, I felt a lil creative.. hahaha wat n arty-farty me XD.. so i carried out my plans 4 a craft I had in mind for quite sumtime aledi..

After lazying ard d whole morning, I decided 2 b a lil more productive. I went ard kjg town wif my 2 brothers looking 4 glass cabochons. Initially I had tot I could find these at craft stores afterall, dese r craft materials.. but I couldn’t b more wrong.. none had it. so I decided 2 look 4 it from…. Guess where? Pet shops. no kidding. I tot pet shops would hav sold glass pebbles used 2 decorate aquariums dat r similar 2 cabochons n true enuf! I finally got d packet of glass pebbles from d 3^rd pet shop I ransacked looked from.. dey sold it 2 me for rm 3 n u couldn’t imagine d excitement I was feeling wen I finally found d items I wanted..

So I head straight back home n start on d craft work… I was a lil skeptical on wether dis plan will work but after a few hours, I reaped wat I sow… sum really cool looking brooch... n I made it all with materials dat cost me less den rm1 for all dese.

To make dese brooch, I glued d cabochons on d selected stamps with PVA glue. Den I carefully cut away d excess stamps sticking out, Den glue it to a pin using a strong glue.. my youngest bro tried it out too but instead of using stamps, he wrote down d names of his friends on a paper before gluing it to d cabochons..

Creativity can nvr b more rewarding as a satisfied heart…

it was a a cool morning i woke up to n wen i was about in d kitchen preparing my own breakfast, my sis came in n asked if i could send her to work... O_o hell i was reluctant.. i m very direction blind n i hav my dentist app in 1 hour time.. but out of sympathy, i had 2 send her coz she bang her car in2 another car n its now being repaired.. she said her brakes were working a lil slower dat day.. id say, i know how she drives n she is sumwart comparable 2 wen may.. n she drives like how stitch would drive his spacecraft.. d rest is up to ur imagination :)

so, i sent her to work using d silk highway which was ironically congested wif cars n moronic bus drivers overtaking me without any signal. it was good dat d rest of d drivers were quite ok wif my drunk driving style due to my sis's varying direction guide.. it was always "left! no to ur left!" 1 sec n "no la its to ur right i juz told u dat sumtime ago" 3 secs later. whew.. i managed 2 send her to work in 3 pieces. d car, me n my sis. n now, 2 get back 2 kjg... well she drew me a map which provided useful

oni 4 d 1st 300 meters...

n after dat, perhaps it was bcoz of d rain but i lost my way n end up at d entrance of UPM gate 8. beats me how i got dere. it beats me even more how nerdish i can get dat wen im lost, ill b lost at n educational institutes entrance. so i had no choice but to call her up n make her coleague n her guide me 2 d highway to turn back to kjg... well i made it back to kjg n juz wen i tot i was late 4 my dentist app, apparently d doc is not in yet.. whew

so it was my turn n d doc performed a gum surgery on me.. i was not aware dat my appointment today is 2 do d surgery.. so i went in unprepared n bcoz of dat, i din hav time 2 panic or get nervous.. well surprisingly it was not painful.. but watever was going on during d surgery mite not b stomachable for most. i was only under local anaesthetic (LA) not general anaesthetic (GA). dat means i was fully awake n aside from my numbed mouth, all my other senses r aware of wats going on. i din hav d guts 2 look however :P 2 cut d process short, dey 1stly injected LA to 4 points of my mouth to numb it. den dey clean my mouth by scalling it n ive 2 gargle sum antiseptic mouth wash... which i was spilling d gargle everywhere bcoz of my uncontrollable numbed mouth.. den dey slice open my gum n start scrapping off my keratinised tissue which i assume is really tough n hard bcoz i could hear dose really loud scrapping noises.. it sounds like sharpening a pencil wif a knife juz dat ds time its my teeth not a pencil... after all d scraping, dey stitch it back in place, camwhore took  pics of my mouth, pack it wif sum bubblegum-look-a-like-compression n it was done.. all in less den 1 hour..

i went back home wif sum prescribed pain killers, mouthwash n a numb mouth n took a sum really long nap.. heck, its more appropriate to call it sleeping.. to wake up n find d numbness gone but surprisingly, d wound dun hurt at all.. juz dat i cant move a muscle of my mouth unless i wanna die in agony.

needless to say, i can oni eat porridge but dat din stop me from sneaking in sum tambun biscuits n a few bites of chicken meat :P n so d day ended wif me getting stuck to red river, a really chun historical manga. ah d ending for both d day n manga was nice :D.

25th nov, wed

i was scheduled for a review for d surgery as early as 8.30am n i turned up 5 mins late... 2 oni really meet d doc by 9.45.. tsk tsk.. bad time management.. dey cleaned d wound which was n agonising process for me.. she stretched my lips too far... initially i wanted to skip going out wif my frens coz i wanna pig out on d living rooms sofa but out of missing dem so much n wanting 2 catch up on d latest gossip, i joined dem still but 2 hours later from d agreed time.. dey had deir lunch earlier n so dey hav 2 go look 4 lunch wif me.. which was a pain in d ass. initially i wanted 2 take d poridge from McD but it was d mcvalue  offer lunch time so d crowd was overflowing.. so we had no choice but to look ard 4 any food dat doest require chewing in  d gardens.. d stalls wif d poridge either serve poridge wif seafood or ran out of other soft food like chee cheong fun.. as much as im reluctant to, i adhere to traditional medicine n all deir old housewifes dos n donts concerning illness or surgery.. so derefore i cant eat dose seafood poridge.. well we hav other soft food ard like puding n thong sui.. bleargh.. im not such a sweet tooth to hav dose as a main meal tq.. so its back to square 1.. wat to do wat to do... back to mcD la...

after having a really slow lunch dere, we went shopping like duh.. we were on a mission dat day however, unlike dose previous meet ups where we walk ard aimlessly in d shopping complex waiting 4 our movie to start.. dis time;

JY: oh im looking for a top for my wedding dinner

HL: *drops jaw* u WAT???!!

WM:*in a joking manner*  wat ur getting married n u din even invite us?? how could u do dis to us jia yiing!!! T_T

JY: oh no no.. i mean im looking for a top to attend a wedding dinner.. hehehe.. ^^..

id say.. jia yiing hav been studying too hard she forgot how 2 properly express her tots among her frens.. tsk tsk :P.

d thing is, i think she already hav in mind wat she wants.. but nvr d less, she still likes to drag me n wen may ard 2 look 4 clothes wif her... n i dunno y dey always ridicule my choice  =.=.... but later d day, deyll agree dat i made d better choice.. tsk tsk.. wat kinda frens r dese lah? well, she ended up not buying anything.. coz d thing is, its nvr worth it 2 shop in MV.. come on la.. i can find better clothes at cheaper prices in bangsar or uptown.. or even times square. d oni time i shop in MV was bcoz i wanna look 4 sum really plain t shirts for classes..

so time did not exactly fly wen we were shopping in MV.. heck, choices r so limited considering d budget we hav.. n soon it was time 4 a movie.. we watched christmas carol.. supposedly a movie fit for all ages n by my judgement, a movie wif children as d targeted audience...

dat movie scared me witless ... i mean.. i was shocked from time 2 time.. it was not exactly all pink clouds n cotton candies type of movie but it had more of sum dark elements in it.. reminiscent of d all time fav classic disney movies like aladdin, snow white n sleeping beauty. a good try in reviving d feel of dose old golds or perhaps dey were following veeeeryy closely to d original book. i think it was d latter.. dey used d old english which i dun hav problem wif since d bible use dat too. d visual effect was great.. its almost real.. but overall.. aside from those, it was scary at most point..

jia yiing who was seated to my left, jumped at certain scenes.. wen may on my right, was more amused wif jia yiing n her attics.. coz she watched d movie earlier.. n me, seated in d middle, is trying my best to keep a straight face on.. coz d wound on my gum hurts. even if im shocked, i could oni manage 2 faint wince. i think i heard sum kid crying in d cinema.. so to d faint hearted, even d adults, dun watch it n save up ur heart attack..

wen d movie was over, it was peak time at d train station.. dat means office ppl n deir rush hour.. sumthing im not so fond of being reminded wif =.=.. wat to do 2 spend d time? dinner of course... n thus begins another pain in d arse mission searching 4 a joint dat houses food i wont break my teeth in. we ended up at nandos.. to realise d softest food dey serve dere is beans wif fresh capsicum... my frens must b trying 2 kill me. so wen may, my sweet fren had 2 go all d way 2 kennys n tapau mac n cheese juz for me.. not exactly a filling meal but dats all i can make do 4 d moment.. den begins another torture session.. d gossips n conversation.. u c.. im blessed wif a bunch of funny, spontaneous n cheerful frens. which proves to b more of a curse in situations like this =.=.. n 2 make it worse.. dey find my suppressing of my smiles n laughs n entertaining feat. gosh how i wish deir in my shoes too..

ahh.. den we were at d train station by 8.. to find a large crowd at dere.. perhaps bcoz it was a wed n its holi, but we din expect d crowd to b sticking ard till 8.. luckily dere were 2 trains coming our way. we managed 2 squeeze into d 2nd train.. n time did fly wen we were on d train talking bout everything ranging from other ppls businesses to sue anns failed attempt in cooking poridge.. dat came unexpected.. coz i nvr knew any of my frens to b such a bad cook.. ok except for samantha :P.. n soon, it was adieu again to my frens n till next time T.T

d holidays is oni unfolding d 1st week of d 5 weeks i get to spend at kjg but it seems, itll b rather imposible for all of us 2 b out again at d same time unless its sat.. 5 weeks seems so short but at d same time long.. ARGH!! *slaps myself* snap out of it helen! uve sum holi assignments n projects to finish b4 u can start emo-ing T.T

till den :)