Results

Results came out yesterday.

I got 2 credits, for Marketing and Business Law. I was so disappointed because I really thought I could get Distinction for both. I was 2 marks away from a Distinction for Marketing.

But then, funnily enough, I got a Distinction for my Accounting B, which I so did not expect. And I got a High Distinction for my Business Data Modelling, so my average is still a Distinction.

Luckily I'm not taking Business Law or Marketing as a major because the subjects are going to be harder and harder and so I'm relieved that I got good marks for the majors that I'm taking.

I'm still disappointed, but then there's nothing more I can do. *sigh*

Well, I better do well next semester then! =)

Stalking. Part 2. and exam results, too.

Before I blog, I have to get this off my chest (it's football talk, by the way):

NICOLAS ANELKA, I LOVE YOU FOR SCORING AGAINST MANCHESTER UNITED! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Because of you, Arsenal is now leading! Mwahahahahahahaha.

OK, I think I had just established myself as a psycho-Arsenal fan.

Anyways, yesterday, Nat, Zaty and I were supposed to go out together. Tapi Nat couldn't go out because her parents made some plans for the day with her included without telling her, so she couldn't keluar with us.

I hate it when parents do that. They make plans for us without telling us and they just expect us to drop everything and go off with them. But that's life, I guess.

So anyways, Zaty and I wanted to watch Beowulf. Problem is, the movie started at 12, and we only arrived at 12.15, so we had to settle for the 2 o'clock movie. MBO is definitely a place that we go just to watch movies because there aren't many nice places to eat there. So i took zaty to Old Town Kopitiam at the Waterfront because it was easy to find parking there, even though it's a Saturday and I like the food there. And the place is cute, too!

While we were there, Zaty saw this cute waiter and she kinda ended up looking at him the whole time we were there. She kept saying "Alia, comel la the guy when he grins" and I was like, "Okay"....she even tried to picture of him. Tapi of course the picture didn't turn out nicely because she was taking pictures while he was moving around and when he was quite far. Anyhow, she was so happy because the guy just so happened to be behind the counter when we were paying and he said "Bye" to her when she picked up her change. She totally melted. Hihihi.

Beowulf was just an okay movie. But then again, I didn't like it that much because it was not my kind of movie la, so maybe it's a good movie for people who like those sort of movies.

After watching Beowulf, we went over to Alpha Angle, where I saw 2 ex-schoolmates from Melawati, and two Monash friends who were working there. Small world, kan?

I tried on some shoes in Alpha Angle and I got so.damn.pissed. If I'm lucky, I will fit into size 8 shoes, but then, most of the time I'm quite unlucky and will always end up buying size 9 shoes. Problem is, I found some really cute shoes yesterday, but then when I tried the size 8 shoes in Vincci, the shoes pinched my feet and when I went to Nose, their biggest size was a freaking 7. I feel like my family are cursed with big feet in a land where the average shoe size is a 5 or a 6. It's so annoying to see people just take a shoe off the rack and try it on while I have to see whether they have the shoes in my size. Urgh.

The funny things about going to Alpha Angle was seeing how Zaty got a bit scared by the MPH mascots and the fact that I saw these cute keychains of small stuffed football jerseys and I bought one Fabregas one for me and a Ronaldo one for Anis.

So on the way back from Alpha Angle, Zaty was telling me how she dah "tersangkut" on her cute waiter and how she misses his smile and I almost laughed at her and then I remembered that I am also kinda hooked on this waiter from Sakura Kristal. I have been to Sakura Kristal like quite a few times and this waiter will always be there. And he's really good-looking. Hmmmm. Maybe I should go to Sakura Kristal again to stare at him soon.....ooohhh, that would be fun.

OK, now I know it kinda shows that I have absolutely nothing better to do other than stalking people. Alia, you're weird.

By the way, I was checking my Monash email the other day and they sent an email to students asking whether they want to receive their exam results via SMS.

The first thought that went through my mind "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

Apparently the people who registered via SMS will get their results faster because they'll receive their results on the 29th while the others will get their results on the 30th.

Can you just imagine how it would be like on the 29th if I register for the SMS thing?

I will get this seemingly innocent SMS from some unknown number. Being the curious person that I am, I will most probably check the SMS. And then..........

.............the results.

And I think I will be so shocked to see my results on my phone screen that I'll faint there and then. OK, fine, so I exaggerate. Most probably I will just scream my lungs out!!!!

I don't think getting the results via SMS is really for me. I would rather take my own sweet time to prepare myself and check my results online. I really do not want to be bombarded with my results when I am totally unprepared because that would be so scary. *shivers*

You know what?

It has just dawned on me that my results are coming out in 5 days.

Oh my God.

I am so not ready.

Passport!

I went and made my passport today for the trip to Hong Kong. Scratch that. My five siblings and I made our passports today for our trip to Hong Kong.

Can you just imagine how chaotic it was for my mum to make the passports for the kids since everyone is below 18 except for me? Anis is only turning 17 the day we come back from Hong Kong.

I dunno why, but the immigration officer behind the counter gave my mum a special number that I think is reserved for senior citizens and other special people because even though I had to do mine first (and separately from everyone else since I didn't need any guardian consent), the kids got their passports first. So instead of me waiting for them, everyone ended up having to wait for me. Geez.

By the way, the said officer was a bit rude and was snappy and looked like he only got three hours of sleep last night. What's pretty ironic is the fact that he's wearing this badge that says "Service with a smile". Service with a smile my butt la!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You know what's funny? I have never, and I mean never, left this country since I came back here from Newcastle as a 5-year-old back in 1993. So in my old passport, there are these two photos: one black-and-white photo of this cute little baby (hehehehehehe) that was taken in 1989, and another one of this smug looking 5-year-old girl, taken the year i came back. Anis' old passport had this picture of a 2-year-old sweet-looking girl.

So, since the last time we used the passports were in 1993, it means that Anis and I have not left this country to go anywhere overseas for FOURTEEN.LONG.YEARS. Wow.

I dunno which tempurung I have been lying under for the past 14 years.

It kinda depresses me that I can't even remember the last time I used my passport.

I will make sure that I WILL USE MY NEW PASSPORT UNTIL THERE ARE NO MORE PAGES LEFT.

I don't care how, I don't care when. I WILL USE IT.

And there's nothing anyone can do to stop me. Unless I don't have the money to travel la. Which will probably be the case. *sighs*

Laziness and boredom is so not good

I dunno why, but I have this thing yea, whenever I'm on a break or a holiday, I tend to NOT blog.

Which is ironic, considering the fact that I have more free time during holidays and can use it to blog.

But then, I didn't blog for almost four months in April and only started to blog again in August, even though I had a three-week break during June-July.

I was starting to feel that way again, but then since I was lying idle and doing practically nothing, I decided to write this post.

So...this week has been a somewhat busy week jugak la to say. I met my dad's future tenant, the "suspicious" Russian guy, yesterday. He's actually not that bad and he's renting the house with his girlfriend. What I like about him is that he wants to redecorate the house and I was soooooooooo happy. Why am I so happy? It's because the house is designed to be almost like my grandmother's house, and so the guy hates the design because it feels old (I quote, "It feels like grandmother and grandfather style. I'm 47, but I like modern style"). Teehee. So he asked my parents to connect him with electrician, interior designers and stuff so that they can give the house a makeover and make it more...modern, and not so stuffy. Finally! Someone with good taste! He is my saviour!

Last night, Zaty and I went out for dinner. She was supposed to pick me up, tapi got some transportation problem, so I picked her up. I dunno why, but everytime we get together, we will always end up talking about nonsense that sometimes none of us can remember about it the next day. Oh yeah, we also talked about what we would be doing in 5 years time. She was also bitching about MARA and about how stupid they are. We talked about how guys in boybands tend to be gay (which is not surprising, considering the type of songs that they sing) and we also got around to talking about voting, since she's turning 21 next year. It's funny how we end up talking about the most random things with people that are close to us.

Today I went to pick up my new IC since I dented the chip on my old one. I also promised Ara that I will teman her for lunch at Dayabumi, where she has an internship with MISC (her sponsors) for the holidays, because she is new there, so she didn't have any friends yet. So to get to Dayabumi, I took the LRT to Central Market. I stopped by KLCC for a while, since I had to kill some time before it was Ara's lunch hour, and I remembered the days when I was in HELP and had to take the LRT to KLCC almost everyday to meet my mum. And it kinda depressed me. Blargh. Oh, but I bought a book in Kinokuniya and that lessen the "depression" (fine, I'm exaggerating :P) that i felt.

So I met up with Ara at 1 o'clock, where she told me about the gripes of working where the people kinda don't appreciate you because you're too young and the main reason you're there is because you're a scholar. Ouch. She was a bit depressed and geram la with her colleagues, because some of them are not really respecting her. Pity her. I would so hate being in her situation.

My three youngest siblings are not around since they're at my uncle's house, my mum is busy with the tenant for my dad's house, and my dad's in Germany. So that meant that Anis, Is and I were left with our maids at home today. I told my maid not to cook to let her rest, so Anis, Is and I went out to eat. We ate at this food court called Dagang Avenue I think. It's near Galaxy Ampang, and a few shops away from Wang Solo. The food was not bad and the place wasn't so crowded. The last time I tried to go there with Nat and Zaty, we got scared because the place was too full, so today it was just nice. We had nasi goreng tom yam, yee mee, claypot chicken rice and sotong kangkung. Yummmyyyyyyy.

I want to find a job. But then, I can't find a job now because I'm going to Hong Kong on Dec 4th, so I can only get a job after that. I don't know what I'm going to do with my free time because I am getting very, very restless. Sigh.

I'm sick.

I think I caught the bug from Zara, who got it from my mum, who got it from Anis, who got it from my cousin, who got it from my uncle.

Wow, a family that stays together, gets sick together. Whoopee.

I'm going to stay in bed today.

Urgh.

I had a busy day today.

I sent Anis to her friend's house to study because her paper only started at two o'clock. We went for breakfast at a mamak stall before that.

After that, I went to Monash because I had to go to the Business School to ask them to help me in re-enrolling for next year because I couldn't do it online. I'm actually quite annoyed with the Monash system because some units are pre-requisites to other units, so you can't enrol into a unit unless you've already passed the pre-req units. And you won't know if you've passed until the day the results come out, which is on the 30th. Problem is, we have to re-enrol by the 26th, which means that that you might not meet the requirements for the units that you want to take. So it's quite stupid la the system. And if you enrol lambat, you have to pay a RM 100 fine.

Gedik betul.

I just realised that I so have a love-hate relationship with Monash. I love it sometimes, but other times I'm damn pissed.

I felt like buying jambu air after I picked Anis up from school. I don't know why, but I've been addicted to jambu air (or water apple, if you may) since I had it during my Study Week in Monash. So we went to Great Eastern Mall cause I saw some really nice ones the other day (and since Anis wanted to go for a drive), but there weren't any good ones in Cold Storage. :-( I was disappointed, but then I got myself some popiah from the Crispy Popiah stall, which I am sort of addicted to. Usually I buy the popiah in Sunway Pyramid, but then I saw the stall in Great Eastern last week and got so happy because now I can satisfy my craving whenever I want to....mwahahaha. The popiah is sooooo yummy! I've managed to convert Anis into a fan, too!

Anyways, I've just finished helping my parents in amending an agreement for this Russian guy to rent my dad's house, which means that we won't have to move into that house next year. Yay! I think I talked about the house in this post. I had to help my parents because they need to sign the agreement by tomorrow and since I:

a) am without a job to do since I've finished exams,
b) have an access to a computer and
c) have an access to the printer

...I was roped into helping my parents into amending the draft.

So anyways, when I was helping my mum with the agreement, the Business Law student in me actually understood all the things that were mentioned in the agreement. And when I saw this line in the contract:

26. The provisions of the Agreement cannot be changed orally.

The Business Law student in me thought, "Huh, the parol evidence rule applies in this contract." Lame, I know. But I couldn't help it! I guess I got excited because what I learnt is actually practicable in real life.

But you know what's interesting about the tenant of the house? The house is huge, yea, because it has like 5 bedrooms. The guy renting the place doesn't have his family with him, and the reason why he wanted to rent the house was because it is spacious and he can entertain a lot of guests in the house. Funny thing is, he's not even going to live in the house because he's living in an apartment right now and doesn't feel like living in the house. Basically he's going to pay the rent just to keep the house vacant! I was shocked when I heard my mum said that. But we're happy that someone is actually renting the house, because we won't have to move now! I think moving houses will be such a headache because my siblings are all settled in their schools.

I think I wrote too much already. Don't know what else to say anymore.

Oh, I still want my jambu air.

Avillion + youth

My dad took us to Avillion in PD last Saturday. It's definitely one of my most favourite accommodation places to stay (accommodation sounds a bit too hostel-ish to me, and I do not need to be reminded of uni right now...) but it is super, super expensive.

A night there will cost like RM600 - RM 700 per night if you're staying in one of the chalets. since there are 8 of us, we had to take 2 chalets.

Luckily my dad got one of the chalets for free because he was there for some council meeting (hence the reason we were staying there in the first place). The chalets are damn nice because they're actually situated above the water, so you feel like you're floating on sea. *long sigh*

Pictures of our chalet:







I'm sitting on the bed that faces the window that looks out to the sea. I slept on the bed and I loved it because when I woke up the first thing I saw was the sea. I told Anis that if I could build a vacation home, I want a view just like what I had that morning and she had to spoil my bubble by saying "Good luck when the tsunami comes." Cis. For once I wanted to be optimistic, and she just had to be the pessimist.

But I still want that vacation home because I know that if I live by the sea everyday of my life, I will get bored of the view, even though I absolutely love the sea.

The younger ones loved going to Avillion because there's a pet farm (that is super infested with flies) where they can play with the pets and even bathe the pets. They were so thrilled when they got to bathe the rabbits!

Pictures of the kids with the rabbits that had just been bathed:





It kinda looks like they were holding babies, right?

Oh, Anis has started her SPM.....and it made me feel old because I remembered that my SPM started on the 2nd of November, 2004 (yes, I remember the date because one of my friend's birthday was on that day. And we had our Add Maths paper that day. Boohoo) and it has been three years since then.

I can't believe this year's the 3rd year I left my high school life behind.

I feel so old.

Yay!

Earlier this way, my dad has said that he wanted to take us somewhere overseas this school holiday season because well, we've never been overseas before as a family.

I think the only time we've been overseas was when we were in England....but since Anis and I were both born there and the 4 younger ones weren't born yet at that time, I don't think that counted. And we came back when I was five, so I barely remember how it was like in England.

So since this year might be the last year before Anis goes to college and has a screwed-up calendar like I did when I was in HELP, and since I'm free during this summer holidays (because I'm planning on doing an internship during next year's summer holidays), my dad decided to take us for an overseas trip this year,and after much thinking, we decided to go to Hong Kong and my dad wanted to take us to Shenzhen, too.

That was in September.

But, even after looking through so many leaflets and brochures and calling all travel agencies, my parents still hadn't finalise anything.

Suddenly, today, my mum announced today that she has confirmed with the travel agency and we're going to Hong Kong on December 4th! I am so thrilled!

We're going to Hong Kong Disneyland and then we're going to Shenzhen in China! And best of all, it's a Muslim package thingy, so we don't have to worry about food! Phew!

So now I am counting the days till we're going to Hong Kong! Yay! ^_^

But it's really ironic that we actually decided to go overseas during the Visit Malaysia Year. Huh.

Oh well. I'm going to Hong Kong!!!!!!!! =D

A stalker is me.

Fell in love with Tori Amos' A Sorta Fairytale song today. Totally loving it! Wonder why I've never heard of it before...

I don't know why but I felt like a stalker last night. It happened accidentally, though.

There's this guy, yea, that I kinda look at when I'm in Monash. I first saw him when he was one of our Buddies during my Monash orientation in February and I've since dub him my "Cute Buddy". But he's just like an eye candy that I will look at whenever I see him. I don't go out of my way to see him la. And my Monash friends don't think he's that cute, anyways. I don't think he's that good looking also, but like I've said to my school friends, Monash lack good-looking guys.

The thing is right, I kinda think he notices that sometimes I look at him. But then kan, I don't go seeking for him but we just end up at the same place coincidentally la. Like the time when I went for the Muse concert, I saw him there. And that day, when I was walking to my car with Ara, I just so happened to be walking behind him. And by the way, I didn't know anything about my stalkee (since I'm a stalker, he shall be my "stalkee", kinda like employer and employee....hehehe) the whole time I was in Monash.

But last night, I was bored, so I logged onto Facebook (which I have been doing quite frequently these past weeks....) and I looked through the Monash group to see if there were any friends of mine that I could add up. And then when i was browsing through, suddenly I saw this picture of a face that looked familiar. And I was like, "Hey, this kinda looks like my Cute Buddy...." and so when I clicked on his profile....

...oh yeah, it was my stalkee alright.

So now I know my stalkee's name, which country he's from (he's not local), know he finishes the same year as I do, but I dunno his age cause the boy didn't put his birthday there. And suddenly I felt like a total stalker, like that cousin of mine. Hahaha.

So yeah, it is kinda weird finding out about the guy accidentally through Facebook like that. Hahaha.

Today I went out with Zaty for the trillionth time since she finished A-Levels to watch Stardust at MBO.I liked it a lot because it was so funny! I haven't watched a movie in ages (I think the last one I watched was Knocked Up, and even that was like 2 months ago) so it was fun watching this movie.

So after the movie, Zaty and I went for lunch at Great Eastern Mall cause we couldn't find anywhere to eat park at Ampang Point, so I was like let's just go to Great Eastern and eat at Cozy House. I mean, parking in Great Eastern is like free for the first hour and only RM1 for the second hour, so it wasn't so bad. I had the Kung Fu kuay teow (God, I need to learn how to spell it right) cause I have not had any in such a long time. The service wasn't bad and the food came fast! I felt so bloated after the meal!

After lunch and going on a detour to Cold Storage, we stopped by my house before I sent her back cos I had to send Anis to tuition. While we were waiting for Anis to get ready to go to tuition, Zaty was "entertained" by the rambunctious bunch that are also known as my siblings. They just love sucking up to people. Cis.

So after sending Anis, the 15-minute drive to Zaty's house became a 30-minute drive. I was a bit the annoyed la. Outside Zaty's house, I got so geram cause she has like all these really fat cats that are so gebu and gemuk that it made me want to squeeze them tightly. I took pictures of them:









I so want to squish them. Such morbid thoughts I have. And because of my stubbornness and persistence on touching them, my eyes got watery like an hour after i played with the cats cause the cats triggered my allergy. Sheesh. Luckily the itchiness went away after a while. Despite my allergies, I really do like cats....all of a sudden I feel like I want a kitten! :-(

Anyone can spare me one?

Freedom.....what's not to like about it? =D

Currently listening to - Roxette - Listen To Your Heart. *Heard the song on the radio last week and was reminded of how I used to love, love, love this version of the song*

I've finished my exams! Happy happy joy joy! (OK, that's a bit lame, but yeah.....happy happy joy joy! =D )

I am now free for the next three months. Just now, when I came back after my paper, I could finally pick up a storybook without actually feeling guilty because I haven't studied! And it felt sooooo good to be reading a storybook! I haven't touched a storybook in ages! Guess I'm savouring my so-called freedom.

Ohhh, I'm going to Zarith's open house this weekend! I can't wait because I haven't seen her in ages....I think the last time I saw her was last year! Man, time sure flies. Talking about how time flies, I can't believe I've been in Monash for 9 months already. Wow. If I was pregnant when I started in Monash, I would have burst by now. Hihi. ;-)

Now, I have to start planning the units I'm going to take for my second and third year by the 26th of this month because everyone has to re-enrol by then. It is quite the annoying, because if you don't plan your units properly, you might just end up staying back for another semester and paying for another semester, which is such a waste.

I'm supposed to go out with Zaty on Thursday, but I hope we could reschedule to tomorrow cause I just remembered that Thursday's Deepavali! My dad confirm nak bawak keluar pegi his friends' houses. Haih. I will definitely serbu the murukku that day!

I don't know why, but I've been having like weird dreams lately. Can't remember what they were about exactly, but I know it was like really nice at the beginning and then just when I thought everything was peachy, the dream will turn into a nightmare sometime near when I'm about to wake up. It's like my brain is saying, "Wake up, woman. Face reality". See, even my brain doesn't like me.

Sudden random thought: I feel like making stuffed mushrooms. Haha. Totally random, I know. And I suddenly have this craving to eat tom yam. Weird food cravings I'm having.

I feel a bit peckish suddenly....so I shall now go scout for food. Tata, people.

I have my last paper next Tuesday, and I haven't finished studying yet! No mood la.

So, to remind me that I must study, I'm putting my last sem's results up again....



....to remind myself that if I don't study, I won't get a good result like last sem's.

I've had THREE PAPERS this past week.

I felt so suffocated. It was definitely worse than SPM. And A-Levels.

Dah lah all the papers susah. Blargh. Lucky my last paper next Tuesday! I can at least take a short breather!

So, after my Business Law paper yesterday morning, I had to de-stress, so Zaty, Nat and I went to the Eye On Malaysia.

And it wasn't that special. Seriously. But KL looked pretty la from up there.

And oh yeah, since there were only 3 of us,and the thing can fit like 6 people, these 2 Chinese girls joined us on the gondola.

The best part is, they were a couple. As in, a couple. They didn't make it obvious, but there were some subtle things that my friends and I noticed about them. It was quite cute, once you get used to it...and they were nice la.

And oh, by the way, I managed to run over my MyKad and dent the chip. The best part was, there was only a small dent around the chip area while everywhere else was okay. So i had to spend like 3 hours today in the JPN office in Melawati to make a new one. Yeesh.

And last Sunday, I did something totally impulsive. I read in the papers that this company, MSIG, was organising a Sudoku competition. So i menggatal la check out the site. And then I found out that the last date for the Sudoku registration is on the 31st, which was yesterday, so I just filled in the registration form la.

So guess what? Today I checked out the site, and lo and behold, I am registered for the competition, which is on the 18th of this month at One Utama. So, right now, I actually have a chance of winning RM1500. But I dunno wei. Tiba-tiba macam takut la pulak.

So I guess after my final paper next week, I shall be doing Sudoku puzzles everyday?

See, this is why I hate being impulsive. Didn't even think about this thing over properly.

Wish me luck for my paper and the competition!