I'm bored

I'm sitting in the library at Monash right now. I'm supposed to be studying, but I'm so tired because I'm fasting today so I'm just wasting my time. Hahahaha.

I have class in like 30 minutes and I haven't prepared yet. Luckily it's just a lecture.

You know what I realised? Whenever I fast, people always tend to talk about food on their blogs, or there will be this article about food on the net and even on the desktop wallpaper here in Monash are currently advertisign about the Monash Business Club's Fundraising sale which means that they are selling (surprise, surprise) food! Soooooo not helping!

Okay, I just wanted to write a little post. I've gotta go study now and get my mind off food! Business Law, here I come!!!! (suddenly so semangat)

Updates & some random pictures

I've seen 2 movies this week! Hahaha. A major accomplishment for me, since I had to send in my Accounting assignment this morning!

Went to watch Rush Hour 3 with Zaty on Tuesday. The movie was okay la......some parts were damn funny. My favourite guy in the film is the French taxi driver. His "control-macho" expression was uber-funny! After than I just lepak-ed with Zaty where we talked about everything from manga (which is a must for her), things that happen on the road, or more specifically, about an accident that I saw happened right in front of my eyes last Sunday and somehow we ended up talking about Islamic banking. Kinda felt like we've grown up. And then we talked at the mamak until we got sleepy. Hihihihi. Lepaking is fun!

Today, I took the siblings to watch Ratatuille. Since my Vitara is such a small car, I swapped cars with my mum when I came back from Monash, so I ENDED UP DRIVING THE ESTIMA! It might not sound like such a big deal, but I am so used to driving my Vitara that the Estima feels humongous. And I had to drive in the middle of KL! Wargh! But, got there and got back safely, so everything's peachy. :D Ratatuille is a nice movie la....they made the rats look so comel!

Oh, and on one of my numerous trips to my grandparents' house last week, I discovered some really old baby pictures of myself (some even from 18 years ago!!!) and some recent pictures taken last year.






My cousin and I...18 years ago....my goodness...

Oh, and this picture below is a picture of my grandparents, my dad, his siblings and their wives and the two eldest granddaughters (namely Tisha and I) with the Sultan of Kelantan, Raja Perempuan and the Tengku Temenggung, I think. Can't remember. It was taken last year.



I thought I smiled. Obviously I didn't. :/ Click here if you want to see the bigger version.

I've got tagged!

Suthesh tagged me! I'm first on his tagged list some more. Cis.

1) Each player must post these rules first.
2) Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3) People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4) At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5) Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

My 8 random facts

1. I like maths. And calculations.
2. I actually do like pop songs.
3. I have a very, VERY short attention span.
4. Most of the time I get too lazy to cut my toenails. (how random is that?)
5. I am an expert at playing Quadra-Pop on my phone. Hahahaha.
6. I have this weird habit of calling all my favourite inanimate objects 'baby', like my keychain, my books, my hairclip and sometimes even my car.
7. I don't love pink, but i kinda always end up having pink stuff. Go figure.
8. I like watching football guys playing football. I am such a girl.

I'm so lazy to find people that I want to tag, so I'm not tagging anyone. :P

I am so tired of being everyone's slave.

I know I have a license to drive, but I hate the fact that everyone expects me to drive them around everywhere.

I mean, I have to drive to Monash everyday and I get soooo tired afterwards, yet I can never fully rest until it's like 10 o'clock at night.

Last week was the worst. My grandparents' maid ran away, so I had to send my maid everyday to my grandparents' house. And as much as I love my grandparents, they are not the easiest people to live with. And we are scared that my maid might run away if she sleeps over at my grandparents' place, so every afternoon I have to go and pick her up. My mum, meanwhile, has to organise a new maid for my grandparents, so that's another story in itself. What made last week so unbearable was the fact that my neighbour, who sends my secondary-school-going siblings to school, had a bad asthma attack and was hospitalised.

So guess who ends up sending and picking up my siblings from school? Yours truly. And I still have to go for classes, okay? So basically the whole of last week I have to wake up by 6.50 and I'll go send Anis to school, go to Monash and come back to pick up my maid and Iskandar from school.

So.bloody.tiring. I ended up crying because I was so tired. And my temper was like flaring 24/7 last week. I hated myself for being so whiny and emotional, but I couldn't help it. The thing that really got to me is the fact that I had to use my own money to drive everyone everywhere and it scares me to know that i don't know how my allowance is decreasing at such a fast rate.

Another thing I hate is when people make people revolving around me driving them, yet I'm the last to know that I'm supposed to be the driver. It gets really annoying when I have made my own plans and some people expect me to drop everything so that I can run errands for them.

Now I really wish that I never took my license. It's like a curse that I have to live with for the rest of my life.

I know I should be more grateful that I have some luxuries that some people only dream of, but how can I be appreciative when my family takes me for granted? I really feel like I want to move out of this house sometimes.

So much for simplifying my life.

Procrastination. Jams. Songs.

I told myself that I was going to stop procrastinating. So didn't happen.

I had my Business Law assignment due today and I only finished doing it at midnight last night. Hehehe.

You know what they say, "old habits die hard". But to me it looks more like "Old habits will haunt you for the rest of your life" case to me. Sigh.

I really need to stop procrastinating. But I can't help it la. 0_o

We Malaysians have been trained to do everything last minute, especially when it comes to studying. Do you know that I am an expert at cramming everything into my head at the last minute? Years of procrastinating does that to you.

Oh, by the way, today, I got stuck in a jam. Whoopee.

It annoys me to no end to see people cut in line, especially when you have been stuck in the bloody line for 20 minutes. Every time I look in my rear view mirror and see cars cutting the queue by going into the contra lanes, I go like "BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Yes, I am sorry to say that I have perfected the art of cursing in my car. Driving in Malaysia KL tends to corrupt your brain.

I hope those inconsiderate people that cut queues will end up with flat tires. Or have their tires stolen. Or maybe I should do something like in that Carrie Underwood song, Before He Cheats, "Took a Louisville slugger to both headlights". Ahhh, how satisfying. And sadistic.

Oh, I've been listening to 90's songs over the past week....soooo satisfying!!!! Some of the song I listened to:

Bryan Adams - Everything I Do
Allure - All Cried Out
Toni Braxton - How Could An Angel Break My Heart

These songs are soooo old-school! But they're nice songs! Oh, and I also watched the song Memory from the Cats musical on Youtube. Nice song, but for the life of me I can't figure out half of the meaning of the song.

Oh, suddenly I feel like watching Phantom of The Opera. But I have two more assignments due next week. Urgh.

alia, you can simplify your life by cutting back on errands



You're good at taking charge, getting things done, and looking great in the process. But, while you like being the boss of an active life, sometimes you might feel like you spend more time in your car than you do at home.

Wouldn't it be great if you could have a personal assistant to see to your to-do list while you multitasked on the more important things? You know that a star like you is completely capable of running the show yourself, but you may shine a bit brighter if you learn to delegate — even if that just means that the Chinese restaurant down the street cooks your dinner tonight instead of you. Now that's using your noodle!

Huh. Ain't that the truth. Especially the "spend more time in your car than you do at home" part. Urgh.

Oh, by the way, I saw this really funny video on Youtube about cats. It's soooo cute and a must-watch if your a cat-lover (my favourite part is around 0.36 - and 0.38):

My youngest sister, Zara, got a letter today.

Getting a letter might be something trivial to some people, but my little sister is SIX!

So out of curiosity, I checked out the letter la. The letter turned out to be a confirmation letter for her entrance into Standard 1, and she has to go for this confirmation event next week. And then it hit me that my little sister is going to school next year!

Knowing that my youngest sister is going to school made me feel OLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.......I remembered how I used to take care of her when she was a baby (and how heavy her head was everytime I cradled her!) and now she's going to school. Blargh. Time flies so fast. -_-

Oh, Zaty and I got to MMU safely last Friday! We were only diverted about four times when we were in Cyberjaya, trying to find MMU. Hehe. We ended up watching The Simpsons movie...the movie was okay la. Quite funny. Oh, and there's this one line where Bart said something with "I'm a Weiner" in it and Nat and Zaty looked at me and said, "Weenie, they're talking about you la!" Remind me never to put my daughter's name as Arwina. Or give her a long name cause although it might look nice on paper, to have people remember your name as a tongue-twister or a long-ass name that nobody can pronounce is not something any child should live with. That's how I ended up becoming Alia Weener to my friends. Sigh.

After the movie, we ended up talking about marriage in McDonald's. How we ended up talking about marriage is also a mystery to us. So Zaty was saying like how her dad was asking why she doesn't want to get married and her mum is fussing over her asking her to wear all sort of things to make her look more feminine and stuff. For me, since my parents married young, they adviced me not to get married at a young age. Not that I want to anyways. Right now I only want to enjoy myself. I can't even take care of myself, let alone a husband! Marriage will come in later....I think 25 should be a nice age to get married and have those two girls that I'm "supposed" to have based on Zaty's "necklace prediction". I still want a son, though.

Oh, I read this (Bad Thai cops to endure Kitty shame) funny story that made me laugh so hard! The horrors of Hello Kitty *shudders* I don't like Hello Kitty. She's freaky. Dah la takde mulut.

Okiedokie....I want to go to sleep now. Nitenite.

Oh.My.God.

I turned on the internet just now, and when I opened my browser, the first thing I saw was THIS news. Basically what it said was:

It's a girl — again — for the Duggars. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar welcomed their 17th child, and seventh daughter, into the world Thursday.

Of course it freaked me out when I read that. I mean, 17!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I read through the article, I found out that:

a) All of the children are biological children, and not adopted;

b) The eldest son is my age;

c) This happened in America, and not in Malaysia where having 17 children is weird, but not unheard of.

Can you just imagine how the eldest son must feel when people ask, "So, how many siblings do you have?"

And here I thought having 5 younger siblings was funny enough.

I will never ever curse my luck again.

I don't want 16 siblings!

Sorrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I swore I would never do it, BUT....

I abandoned my blog!

Oh My God!

I'm so sorry, bloggie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I dunno why la...but I got so lazy to update! Not gonna happen again, I promise! I'm going to blog at least once a week! You're free to nag at me if I don't! Hehehehe.

Oh, by the way, this is my 100th post!!!!!!!!!!!!

Started 2nd semester at Monash about 3 weeks ago....and I think I finally got the hang of the way things work in Monash. And we have our own campus now, instead of that one dull, creepy block in Sunway Uni College. Finally! I got sooooo excited on the first day of classes because I finally felt like I was in a university! (I sound pathetic, yeah? -_-)

There are like 12 computer labs in Monash, if I'm not mistaken, and the internet in Monash is fast! Well, it has to be fast, I guess, since all the lecture notes are online. The library is fun, with these cute red sofas (I think they're sofas!) and glass wall. Oh, and last time at the old campus block (where they used to sumbat everyone in), the tutorial rooms were so depressing cause there were no sunlight coming in, and the only view we get is the gray brickwall. Now, I can see The Summit from my tutorial rooms! Hihihihi.

Oh yeah, the only downside to the new campus is that we only have one small cafeteria, with quite expensive and somewhat unappealing food. Most of the time I end up eating outside. BUT since we have to start paying for parking starting next week (I think), my days of eating outside are numbered. Sigh.

Oh, by the way, results for Semester 1 was supposed to come out on the 13th of July, which was a Friday. I felt a bit depressed because well, who wanted their results to come out on Friday the 13th? Talk about inviting bad luck. So anyways, back to the story, I was quite curious about my results, so a day before the results came out, I went online to see if my results were out, even though I knew it was supposed to come out the next day. And guess what? the results were out! I got the shock of my life seeing my results that I screamed my lungs out! I think I scared Anis half to death that night.



I was so happy because I got all D's and a HD. D stands for Distinction, by the way. Hahaha. I was so scared that I was going to fail the papers because for the 3 papers that I got D for, I didn't exactly finish answering all the questions. So yeah, I shocked myself by getting all D's. My aim this sem is not to leave everything until the last minute because for the sem 1 exam, I remembered studying for like 8 hours straight for my management paper. I felt like vomiting after the 8 hours of studying. Never. Again.

Oh, and in this 3 months that I abandoned my blog, A LOT of my friends turned 20. Nat, Zaty and Yana among them. And it really got me thinking, I'm going to turn 20 next year! It sounds quite weird, you know, approaching 2-0. It wasn't something that I thought about, but then when I hung out with Nat and Zaty and they talked about turning 20, it's like, "hey, it's gonna happen to me soon!" and it's a bit of a scary thought. In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy being a teenager! =]

Oh, I'm going to Cyberjaya with Zaty tomorrow to kacau Nat in MMU. We're kinda going in blindly because I know how to get to Cyberjaya, but neither of us know how to get to MMU once we're in Cyberjaya. At least I have a friend if I get lost. Wish us luck!

I'm going off now. I have to start on my Marketing assignment. I have to send in one Marketing assignment every week. Oh such joy.