Especially To Mel: A Tribute To Taking Care Of Our Books

My sister just bought The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, part 2 of the LOTR triology. And so we dug up my many-year confiscicated part 1 book from the bunk of my mom's car. And what we saw was this slightly battered, yellow-paged modern classic novel. And it even had an obvious line at the spine of the book (which is obviously my doing many years ago when I was just a little girl).

!!!!!

I am going to prioritize taking care of this book (and maybe Harry Potter 4 as well), not only because this book is by JRR TOLKIEN, but also because I feel so bad for torturing my poor book.

If Mel were here she would go for a big "AIYAAA" and probably give me a good lecture.

Anyway, speaking of books, I bought reference books on Form4 Math and Sejarah. But nothing on Physics, Chem or Bio, because I'm not even sure I can get in Science next year. :/

But ANYWAY, Sej wasn't as boring as I thought, or at least it didn't SEEM boring. Because we're actually not focusing ALL of our chapters on Malaysia, but also a BIT about Southeast Asia, I think. So we won't exactly bore ourselves to sleep in class next year (seriously, we're gonna be 16 and we're still studying the history about our country. How ridiculously childish is THAT?!)

Arrgh my right foot it numb!

I could very well sink it in a tub of ice.

And I have to go shopping for trackpants. I'm going to PortDickson for 3 days! ;)

Oh, DARN.

I'm wrong and I heard wrongly.

It's the 7th Harry Potter movie they're splitting into two parts. They're keeping the 6th movie in one part.

And the 6th movie had better be good, and I expect it to be good, because most of the events in the book were in the movie. So, it had better be bloody good.

Oh, and British accents are so hot! >.<

Agnes: "Its The Anticipation"

Oh, that reminds me!

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE IS DUE NEXT JULY!

Which is a really long time away, and that's the sad thing about it.

But I saw a few scenes from the trailer while watching E! News and it seems so nice! At least, nicer than the 4th and 5th, I hope. :D

I hear they're spliting HP6 into two parts, and I hope that's true. Because I can't stand to see the whole story squished into another 2 hour movie. It's not enough!

I found a few trailers and I'm lazy to post it here on my blog. So I recommend you to go Youtube and go search for those trailers.

Or you can click the links if you aren't lazy enough to go see it.

Trailer #1

Trailer #2

Trailer #3

And don't worry, this isn't a spoiler of the movie. It's just...trailers, that's all. :D

And this is exactly the kind of Harry Potter movie I've been waiting for.

Get Your Christmas Trees Out And Decorate 'Em

I saw this video from Nickelodeon yesterday, and I just thought it was so funny and cute.

And it's exaggerating, as usual, to be expected of Madagascar.

I think this happened before the four friends escaped from the NY zoo and got shipped all the way to Madagascar.

Did I mention I love the penguins? They're cute and cuddly. :)

Presenting: The Christmas Caper

YESSSSS. Mwahahaha.

Aha! I got a new typing record.

And so far I know nobody who can break that record. Actually, I don't even know anyone who can break my last record.

But nevermind.

I'm grinning like an idiot now. And I deserve to, because my arm hurts.

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"YOU GOT IT WRONG!"

Yesterday was.....rather fun.

We had a very long afternoon, but in the morning we first went for more bah kut teh.

And then we hunted for Cluedo characters all afternoon in my bedroom, and after that Chel decided she would hide the characters and leave clues for Andrea and I to go look for the characters.

She made it something like the Amazing Race Asia (which Ida and Tania came in third. :( ) and we had to do Road Blocks and stuff. I had to skip 50 times without stopping, or I would have to redo the whole skipping thing again (which was quite easy la) and Andrea had to do the Rubik's Cube (which she was new with but she did it well).

Night was absolutely noisy.

My godbrothers Andrew and Chris came over to watch Romulus, My Father, which was showing on StarWorld that night but we played Cluedo at the same time so we weren't paying attention to the movie (which didn't bother me much because I've already watched the movie).

I ALMOST won in Cluedo and Andrew Chris kept accusing the wrong things, which we yelled when they did and laughed until our stomachs ached.

AND THEN, we played HeartAttack, and I won both rounds of the game (AHA!) and Chris cheated by hiding this big pile of UNO cards behind his back (ohh, darnyou).

They left at 10.45 and I missed America's Next Top Model Cycle 11. :/

If You Like Prawns Don't Read This

I mean, I know a lot of people probably know this already, but I certainly didn't until today.

Right before steamboating prawns, they don't really kill the prawns completely. IT'S RAW AND ALIVE. ALIVE!

I was having steamboat for dinner, and this staff from the restaurant was helping us put the prawns into the steamboat pot, when I swear I saw one of the prawns' legs move. IT FRIGGIN' MOVED!

Oh oh, and when the raw prawns were finally in the pot, and the cover was closed and the water started boiling, one the prawns started splattering its tail around, and that caused water to splash all over the inner pot cover.

And then when I told my dad he said it was just the effect of the boiling water over the prawns. The bubbles of the water caused the prawn to jump about. But I knew better! My niece, Andrea saw it. RIGHT? RIGHT?

And to prove my point, when the table behind our table got their prawns in their steamboat pot, they cried "Ah, it's alive!" and laughed.

I tell you, I didn't dare touch my prawn after that and I felt so nauseous. My uncle had to peel the prawn for me and I ate it, slowly. With a lot of soya sauce. I only ate ONE prawn. The rest of my dinner was filled with sate (more, more sate) and lumpy crabsticks and quail's egg.

Plus, the restaurant had this little pond of fishes near the entrance, and they provide you with buckets and fish nets to catch the little fishes. But you'd have to put the fishes back in the pond after you've caught them of course. It's just for a little entertainment.

So, Andrea, Chel and I went to the fish pond a couple of times to try to get some fish. But the fishes outsmarted us. They swim SO FAST! I promised myself I would catch one fish with that broken fish net if that was the last thing I would do, but those stupid, puny little fishes are sooo...FAST.

Darn, darn those fishes!

It Sorts Of Defines Me

I like it. I like it a lot.

I like the colour, I kindda like the pattern and I like the brand name.

My aunt bought this for me in America. This bag was shipped all the way from America. :D

THANK YOU AUNTIE. <3

It's just the right size. I can fit my purse and my phone (these two are the most important things) and the bag is just my size. MY SIZE. :D

Anyway, my aunt and uncle, my cousin and my niece just arrived today from Singapore. We brought them for some Hokkien mee for dinner and I craved some sate, which turned out to be not so nice after all (blearrk).

Pardon the picture of my brand new purse, because its not so nice and also because I couldn't wait until morning to show you my purse (I must have taken over 100 pictures of it and I chose this one. The lighting wasn't good. At all). :)

A Winner's Smile

This is definitely a spoiler for whoever who doesn't want to know about the results for The Amazing Race Asia: The Toughest Race Ever.

IDA AND TANIA LOST.

It was all so disappointing! They had such a good chance of winning but they kind of screwed it up in the airport. But all the same they were such good sports, and according to them they "laughed from the start to the end". Which is so true.

I really admire their spirit. They never had one big arguement, unlike Geoff and Tisha (blleargh).

Oh, and SeckWei showed me this video of this Pantene Commercial. It was very very nice and very inspirational. I loved it so very much! So go watch it, and call me crazy if you want to, but before you do that read the comments written by the many people who watched the video and call us ALL crazy!

Thumbs up, Chel, and Smile. :)

Soooo, the UPSR results just came out yesterday, at about 12pm.

My sister agreed that she would sms us once the results came out, and we were as anxious as she was (well, DUH).

Yea, so, at 12, my phone was still empty of Chel's text message. So I sent one to her, and she didn't reply me.

And SO, at about a quarter to one, my parents and I walked all the way to her school and to her class to see the results she got.

And it was so.....weird to have walked back into my old primary school schoolground. It felt so awkward, not refreshing, but awkward (because I didn't miss my old school that much).

The students there looked so....small. And the classrooms looked so....old.

Well anyway, that's not the point.

The point is, my sister got 6A's and a B for her result.

And I don't give a damn what other people might think, I'm still very proud of her.

She could've gotten an A for her BM Penulisan, but then the other 4 people in her class who was in the same examination classroom as she was during UPSR all got B's for their penulisan. And so they strongly suspected the, er, examinor who marked their exam paper. Because they didn't think that all 5 of them could've gotten B's for BM penulisan as a coincidence.

Yea well. My sister worked hard. Hard I tell you hard.

And we all suffered the consequences of her oh-so-hard-working (really).

And so it was a bit unfortunate that her hard work didn't really pay off for one paper, but at least she got an A for chinese, and chinese was hard.

:)

Gingerbread Houses

I found this from Amanda's blog.

And it's cute. This draw house thingy.

It's this website where you go and draw your weird looking house and they will ask you questions from there.

Here's my analysed personality, and it's pretty true. Haha:

Based on your drawing and the 10 answers you gave this is a summary of your personality:

You are sensitive and indecisive at times. You are a freedom lover and a strong person. You love your house and your family. You are a gifted artist as well. Once you have a problem, you need a friend with you. Your life is always full of changes. You are a very tidy person. There's nothing wrong with that because you are pretty popular among your friends. Your life is always full of changes.

When it comes to love, you shut yourself off. It's difficult to win your heart because you have decided to keep your feelings deep inside. You see the world as it is, and not as you believe it should be.

You added a flower to your drawing. The flower signifies that you long for love. We also see that you are sensous, sexual and privately passionate. You don't think much about yourself.

Pointless But Fun

Oh, cool. I got tagged by Pei and Yuli.

How you do the Letter Meme:

Dear (the last person who left a comment on your blog).

I don't really know how to tell you this, but ___1___.I think I realized it when ___2______3___ and I saw you ___4___ ___5___. I'm sure you're ___6___ enough to understand ___7___. I'm returning ___8___ to you, but I'll keep ___9___ as a memory. You should also know that I ___10___ ___11___.___12___.
Loves;
-Your name-

P/S: You are so lifeless, ___13___, -The name of the person that tagged you-.

1. What's the color of your shirt?
Blue - Our romance is over
Red - Our affair is over
White - I'll join the monastery
Black - I dislike you
Green - Our horoscope doesn't match
Grey - You're a pervert
Yellow - I'm selling myself
Pink - Your nostrils are insulting
Brown - The mafia wants you
No shirt - You're a loser
Other - I'm in love with your sister

2. Which is your birth month?
January - That night
February - Last year
March - When your dwarf bit me
April - When I tripped on sesame seeds
May - First of May
June - When you put cuffs on me
July - When I threw up
August - When I saw the shrunken head
September - When we skinny dipped
October - When I quoted Santa
November - When your dog ran amok
December - When I changed tennis shoes

3. Which food do you prefer?
Tacos - In your apartment
Pizza - In your camping car
Pasta - Outside of Chicago
Hamburgers - Under the bus
Salad - As you ate enchilada
Chicken - In your closet
Kebab - With Paris Hilton
Fish - In women's clothing
Sandwiches - At the Hare Krishna graduation
Lasagna - At the mental hospital
Hot dog - Under a state of trance
None of the above - With George Bush and his wife

4. What's the color of your socks?
Yellow - Hit on
Red - Insult
Black - Ignore
Blue - Knock out
Purple - Pour syrup on
White - Carve your initials into
Grey - Pull the clothes off
Brown - Put leeches on
Orange - Castrate
Pink - Pull the toupee off
Barefoot - Sit on
Other - Drive out

5. What's the color of your underwear?
Black - My best friend
White - My father
Grey - Bill Clinton
Brown - My fart balloon
Purple - My mustard soufflé
Red - Donald Duck
Blue - My avocado plant
Yellow - My penpal in Ghana
Orange - My Kid Rock-collection
Pink - Manchester United's goalkeeper
None - My John F. Kennedy-statue
Other - The crazy monk

6. What do you prefer to watch on TV?
Scrubs - Man
O.C. - Emotional
One Tree Hill - Open
Heroes - Frostbitten
Lost - Scarred
Simpsons - Cowardly
The news - Mongolic
American Idol - Masochistic
Family Guy - Senile
Top Model - Middle-class
None of the above - Ashamed

7. Your mood right now?
Happy - How awful I've felt
Sad - How boring you are
Bored - That Santa doesn't exist
Angry - That your pimples are at the last stage
Depressed - That we're cousins
Excited - That there is no solution to this
Nervous - The middle-east
Worried - That your Honda sucks
Apathetic - That I did a sex-change
Ashamed - That I'm allergic to your hamster
Cuddly - That I get turned on by garbage men
Overjoyous - That I'm open
Other - That Extreme Home Makeover sucks

8. What's the color of your walls in your bedroom?
White - Your ring
Yellow - Your love letters
Red - Your Darth Vader
Black - Your tame stone
Blue - The couch cushions
Green - The pictures from LA
Orange - Your false teeth
Brown - Your contact book
Grey - Our matching snoopy-bibs
Purple - Your old lottery coupons
Pink - The cut toenails
Other - Your memories from the military service

9. The first letter of your first name?
A/B - Your photo
C/D - The oil stocks
E/F - Your neighbour Martin
G/H - My virginity
I/J - The results of your blood-sample
K/L - Your left ear
M/N - Your suicide note
O/P - My common sense
Q/R - Your mom
S/T - Your collection of butterflies
U/V - Your criminal record
W/X - David's tricot outfits
Y/Z - Your grades from college

10. The last letter in your last name?
A/B - Always will remember
C/D - Never will forget
E/F - Always wanted to break
G/H - Never openly mocked
I/J - Always have felt dirty before
K/L - Will tell the authorities about
M/N - Told in my confession today about
O/P - Was interviewed by the Times about
Q/R - Told my psychiatrist about
S/T - Get sick when I think of
U/V - Always will try to forget
W/X - Am better off without
Y/Z - Never liked

11. What do you prefer to drink?
Water- Our friendship
Beer - Senility
Soft drink - A new life as a clone
Soda - The incarnation as an eskimo
Milk - The apartment building
Wine - Cocaine abuse
Cider - A passionate interest for mice
Juice - Oprah Winfrey imitations
Mineral water - Embarrassing rash
Hot chocolate - Eggplant-fetishism
Whisky - To ruin the second world war
Other - To hate the Boston Celtics

12. To which country would you prefer to go on a vacation?
Thailand - Warm regards
USA - Best regards
England - Good luck on your short-term leave from jail
Spain - Go and drown yourself
China - Disgusting regards
Germany - With ease
Japan - Go burn
Greece - Your everlasting enemy
Australia - Greetings to your frog Leonard
Egypt - Fuck off now
France - In pain
Other - Greetings to your freaky family

13. What is your favorite activities when hanging out with mates?
Gathering for drinks - Ugly pig
Foosball - Silly duck
Shopping - French kisser
Dulging for food - Cranky banana
Movies - Smelly armpits
Snacks - Horny wolf
Snooker - Tiny nipples
Bowling - Sexy grandmother
Outdoor activities - Vain pot
Having a long talk - Nose plucker
Taking pictures - Dumb bitch
Other - Burn yourself

Dear Yuli,

I don't really know how to tell you this, but I'm selling myself. I think I realized it when I tripped over sesame seeds in your camping car and I saw you sit on Manchester United's goalkeeper. I'm sure you're middle-class enough to understand how awful I've felt. I'm returning your ring to you, but I'll keep your mom as a memory. You should also know that I always have felt dirty before a new life as a clone in pain.

Loves,

Rachel.

P/S: You are so lifeless, French kisser, Yuli.

I tag: Everbody/No one, whichever you wish. :)

Teapots and Teacups

My kitchen is currently under renovation. And therefore all the pots and pans and jugs and teacups and plates and cutlery are being put on my dining table.

My supposedly dining table. We don't dine there but it's still called a dining table. Look at the number of jugs and teacups that I have. I can serve you anything here:

Taadah! Its not a garage sale people so don't go asking about the prices.

And here we have the chinese teapot set. I think it's made with eggshells.

And another one.

And another.

Aaaand another.

And another.

And here we have wine glasses.

And here's my partly done kitchen. I love it a lot. <3>

Cheetahs

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Haha beat that people! :P

As Promised :)

Aha.

Paddington House of Pancakes.

I went there a few days ago for dinner, since my dad thought it would be nice to have a change to have pancakes for dinner instead of rice.

And he was right! :D

So anyway, I found out there were a few types of pancakes in the Paddington House.

Pancake #1: Pannekoek, pronounced as "pan-ne-kook". I ordered this for dinner.

Pancake #2: Galette, pronounced as "gah-let". I read it from the menu and took the liberty to remember it.

Pancake #3: Poffertjes. I have no idea how to pronounce this. I tried searching the menu for it but I must've missed it.

And then there were the drinks.

Mine tasted pretty nice but I wished I had gone for the ice-blended cappucino instead.

Dad's order: Fizzy Mango with Ginger. I forgot what it tasted like. Probably mango and ginger.

Mine!: Fizzy Berry. You can see all the berries at the bottom of the glass. I don't really like that. :/

Chelsea's order: I don't know what it's called but the blueberry pancakes were good.

And Mom's: Some cheese pancake thingy with prawns and erm, steak?

Oh yeah, it was very hot, so they gave us a label to warn us.

And my pannekoek! It wasn't all that nice, and Chelsea took away most of my cheese, so yeah. :/

Oh, and Dad's pancake-burger. I didn't try the burger but the fries were yummy. See the Paddington flag on top of the burger?

Oh and I went to Petrosains today as part of my after-PMR activities. We only had 2 and a half hours to browse through and I didn't get to play with most of the stuff. :/

But we did catch the sneak preview of the world's first humanoid robot- ASIMO. He was cute. :)

And if you want to know what's in Petrosains, go there for yourself.

And just for you sillies who don't know where it is, it's in KLCC. ;P

The End.

Oh and I got my phone back!

The End.

To solve a Rubik's Cube

I. am. so. so. so. bloody. stupid.

Do you want to know WHY?

Oh I'll tell you why.

Because I stupidly used my phone in the canteen when all the afternoon session teachers and students were making their way back to the staff room and classes and unfortunately, a discipline teacher caught me using my phone.

So I was brought to the room and she gave me a very long lecture about how I wasn't supposed to bring my phone to school because it was against the school rules bla bla bla.

And she also complained about how troublesome it is for her to fill in all the paperwork for confisicated cellphones (sheesh, then don't do it and just let me go this once lah!).

And tomorrow, my mom has to go to school to pick up my cellphone and I hope the discipline teacher doesn't remember who I am so that she doesn't give me a long lecture again.

Because that is the last thing I need right now.

But on the bright side, I learnt how to solve a Rubik's Cube today.