2 years down the road....

Yesterday (28/3/08), this blog turned TWO!

Oh my God.

I can't believe I've kept this blog for two years. What an achievement! Yay me!

Read my first post HERE (quite embarrassing okay to baca balik).

Hahaha. I was still doing A-Levels back then.

Wow.

How time flies.

I met up with Nat yesterday. Had so much fun because both of us have been craving for sushi! Yummy.

Oh, this is Nat's (and mine!) current obsession, David Cook from American idol 7. Here he's singing Lionel Richie's Hello:



He's sooooo sexy. His sepet eyes, his shy smile. *swoons*

It's my current favourite song! I love this version of Hello. I like it soooo much better than the original. Emo version rules!

Oh, Zaty has recommended Openoffice as a solution to my Microsoft Office problem.

Going to install it and let's hope it'll be the solution to my problems! *fingers crossed*

Image from ilovecuppacakes.com.

I want cupcakes.

Dunno why.

I just feel like i have a sudden craving for them.

Dammit.

Maybe I should get some soon.

Or maybe I should get them for my birthday.

Whatever it is, I want the cupcakes.

Oh dear.

What's wrong with me?

Random facts

Got this from KB =) :

6 random facts about yours truly:

1. I am embarrassed of my long name

• In school it was inevitable for people to know my full name but nowadays I just go by the name of Alia Azani. School friends still know me as Alia Arwina, though, since last time my name tag in school ALWAYS says Alia Arwina. Most of my Monash friends don't know my full name, and when they do find out, they'll be like, "Panjang gila nama". It's not that I don't want people to know my name, i think it's just embarrassing (and quite pointless, actually) to say "Hi, my name's Alia Arwina Izyani Azani". They'll never be able to pronounce it anyways. Figures why Nat and Zaty still call me Weener after all these years. I wonder how I'm gonna get married if the guy can't pronounce my name properly.

2. I like to reverse park

• Whenever possible, I try to reverse park. I think like 90% of the time when I have to park my car, I'll reverse park because it's so much easier to get out of the parking spot later. I tend to amuse my friends with my insistence on reverse parking.

3. I have a soft-spot for guys who love kids

• I dunno why. I just feel like they'll be good fathers if they like kids. And it shows that they're sensitive, too.
  

4. My favourite cartoon character is Cosmo from The Fairly Oddparents

• It doesn't get any more random than this now, does it? =D I like him because he's soooo adorable.
  

5. I get very amused when people say I look unapproachable

• I don't know why, but people are scared of me. I think I give out a first impression of being aloof, but it's just my shyness creeping in. A lot of people are shocked once they get to know me better because they find that I'm not that scary after all.

6. I don't recommend people watching sports with me

• I really like to watch football, and I can be very noisy during matches. My mum can actually tell who's winning or losing just by listening to me shouting, screaming, moaning and groaning. Same goes when I watch F1.

I have to tag 6 people, but I'm only tagging two because everyone else either has been tagged or are too lazy to actually do anything. I'm tagging:

• Ine
• Zaty

Should be interesting. Haha.

Last weekend has NOT been kind to me.

I'm not exaggerating.

On Saturday, while I was out with Nat (we've JUST got to One Utama), my mum called and said that the Vitara's radiator bocor. The problem is, she was supposed to pick up Alwani from school (pity Standard 6 kids, even on Saturdays they still have school) and Iskandar from Putrajaya. So I had no choice but to send Nat home, and then drove to my mum, sort out the car problems and pick up Alwani. Cancelled off my plans for the whole day.

I was a bit pissed off la cause I haven't seen Nat in ages. I'm going to see her on Friday and let's hope nothing goes wrong this time.

My laptop also decided to go crazy that very day.

I turned it on, but it wouldn't boot up.

I was pressing on the Ctrl+Alt+Delete buttons so many times I think i would have screwed the laptop up even worse.

Took it to my uncle that night, who said I needed to use the Recovery CD to reboot the computer.

Found out he was going to F1 the next day and that he apparently got some nice seats.

I was like, "I want to go!"

And he's like, "why you didn't tell me earlier?"

The thing is, he was supposed to be in Langkawi this weekend, so how was I supposed to know that he was going for F1?

Needless to say, I was NOT in a good mood on Saturday night. I think being in a foul mood would be a better term. I was so pissed off you wouldn't believe it.

I ended up watching the F1 race at home this year.

How boring. It's just not the same as watching it in Sepang. Everyone's like, "why bother going to Sepang? you don't even know who's leading and stuff. And it's just cars going round and round"

I know that. But I like it. I can't explain why. You have your passions, I have mine. So be it. Stop asking me these questions. It pisses me off.

I'm going next year. By hook or by crook, I WILL GO FOR F1 IN 2009!

Oh, after the race, I tried using the Recovery CDs (there was a bunch of them) to reboot the computer.

Didn't work because there was something wrong with one of the bloody CDs.

So I had to take it to Low Yat for repairs yesterday.

Went to pick it up today, but there was another bad news for me.

The computer is running and stuff, BUT,

They couldn't re-install Microsoft Office.

I panicked. I seriously panicked.

Apparently there's a missing CD that I need to reinstall the Microsoft Office, but I dunno where my dad put the CD.

Right now I have to wait until my dad can find the CD, take it back to the repair place in Low Yat and hope to God that they can reinstall Office.

I have TWO assignments due in 2 weeks. How am I supposed to do any of it if I don't have Microsoft Word and Excel?

I'm really worried.

I want to cry.

Oh, it also didn't help that Arsenal lost over the weekend.

I'm so depressed right now.

Oh, but this ad I saw in the paper kinda lifted me up:

I can't believe it's coming!

Beauty and the Beast is my ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE Disney movie ever!

I love, love, love, love the movie!

I want to go for the show! The songs are going through my head right now.

I don't care if it's childish, but I want to watch it.

Such drama in my life. I hate it.

Some information on cervical cancer in Malaysia, which I got from THIS site:

• Cancer of the cervix is the second most common cancer among females in Malaysia after breast cancer
• The incidence of this cancer is 11.6 per 100,000 populations, with the age standardized rate of 16.2 per 100,000.
• It is estimated that approximately 440,000 new cases of cervical cancers occur worldwide annually, and 80% of these cancers occur in developing and undeveloped countries.
• The association of HPV (the organism that causes cancer of the cervix) with cervical cancer is very high, much higher than the association of tobacco smoking and lung cancer.
• The younger the age of the woman in indulging in sexual activity the higher is her risk to get HPV infection.

So why am I touching on such a sensitive subject?

My dad read about the risk of cervical cancer and decided that Anis and I should take the vaccine to prevent us from being infected.

I guess it was a "better safe than sorry" measure.

Truthfully, I didn't know that it was the second most common cancer among women in Malaysia. That's a scary thought.

So anyways, the vaccine is really expensive. It's like RM400 per injection (but that's because my dad got the doctor's discount, so I think it would be more expensive for others) and we have to be jabbed like 3 times. I think it's like a jab every 4 months or something like that.

That's like at least RM 1200 per person for the vaccine.

I guess it's better than spending like tens of thousands on cancer treatment that might not work.

Anyhow, Anis and I both had our second jabs of the vaccine last night.

And I realised that I am not very afraid of needles.

But I really hate waiting for the shot because I tend to get very anxious and I start getting all these exaggerated thoughts on how painful the shot's going to be. I remembered how I used to be like one of the first in line when we were getting our tetanus shot in school because I couldn't stand waiting for the shot.

And seriously, I don't think injections are that scary. Funny, coming from a chicken like me who is afraid of watching scary movies.

I guess being a doctor's daughter helps. I've been trained since young not to be afraid of needles.

Oh yeah, while we're on the subject of being a doctor's daughter, before giving me my shot, my dad asked me where I wanted the injection.

His choices? The arm or the buttock.

I was like, "arm, please".

There is no way I am baring my butt to my dad for the shot.

Dah la he said there might be some bruising from the injection.

I would rather have a bruising on my arm rather than on my butt, thank you very much!

The shot didn't hurt so badly. But now, after 24 hours, I can still feel the soreness in my arm.

Well, I guess it's better than having a sore butt.

At least I can still sit down.

I think for people who can afford to get the vaccine, they definitely should go for it. It's definitely worth the money. I got this info from www.medicine.com.my:

A combined analysis of all the four clinical trials shows that the vaccine:

• Prevented 100% of cervical pre-cancers and non-invasive cervical cancers (CIN 2 and 3).
• Prevented 100% of vulvar and vaginal pre-cancers caused by HPV types 16 and 18.
• Prevented 95% of low-grade cervical lesions (CIN 1) and pre-cancers (CIN 2 and 3) caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18.
• Prevented 99% of genital warts caused by HPV 6, 11, 16 and 18.“With this vaccine, we’ve also demonstrated the longest duration of efficacy of any cervical cancer vaccine to date. We saw that through five years of follow-up, the vaccine prevented 96% of HPV 6, 11, 16 and 18-related infections and disease,” says Dr Sattler.

Sometimes I'm so glad that my dad is a doctor.

I felt so tired today. My dad said it might be a side effect from the vaccine.

Tomorrow I'm going out with Nat! Haven't seen her since the day we sent Zaty off! Can't wait.

Okay, I'm going to bed now. I.am.so.tired.

I hate carpooling.

No, scratch that. I DESPISE carpooling.

To make the long-ass story short, Anis has enrolled in Sunway, after getting her SPM results (which are better than mine. She had one more A than I did for my SPM! =D )

So to put it into equation:

Anis in Sunway + Alia in Monash = CARPOOL

And the thing is right she starts at 8.30 every morning. And finishes at 4 everyday.

Except for Fridays, cause she doesn't have classes that day. Luckily.

So, since she is basically license-less, no prize for guessing who's doing all the driving.

I have to wake up at bloody 6 o clock everyday so that we can get to Sunway in time.

Dammit.

Just when I've laid down my timetable nicely.

Dah la on Thursdays I start at 3. What the hell am I gonna do from 8.30 till 3.00?

Oh, but my mum has offered to send Anis on Thursdays so that at least I get some respite la that day.

Thank God.

But i don't think I can ask my mum to send her every Thursday. A bit kesian la.

Oh, by the way, the strangest thing happened today.

Two of my friends asked me, "do you have a boyfriend?"

And the thing is right, it happened at separate times.

I never get people asking me those questions, suddenly two people asked me that question in a day.

How weird.

Ah well. Stranger things has happened before.

Oh, I found this Pepsi ad and it has Cesc in it! And Henry, too! It's damn funny. Oh yeah, there's this other guy called David Beckham in it, too.

I especially love the part when Cesc puckers up to Henry! My hubby is such a cutey. Hahahaha.

Oh My God, Alia, you're so lame.



Oh, and I don't think I'll be going to F1 this year because no one wants to go with me.

How sad.

Cannot cuci mata la like that this year. Damn.

Dear Long Hair,

As I am typing this, I know I'll miss you. Maybe.

We've always had this love-hate relationship, didn't we?

Like, I really loved you, but you just hated me and so you will frizz up every time I let you down. You will always be very pretty just before I go to bed, or when I'm lazying at home, but every time I want to go out, you will either lay limply or frizz up. Such extremes you go to just to show how much you are in control.

Which forced me to tie up my hair almost 24/7.

You have also begun to leave me strand-by-strand and it is breaking my heart (and it hurts my vanity, too).

And so, after months of being in a dysfunctional relationship with you, I have decided that I could take no more.

And so, I had to let you go and make way for another.

And I want to introduce everyone to the new love of my life, my short hair.

Goodbye, long hair.

Guess where I am?

Doesn't it remind you of an Ikea showroom?

Believe it or not, this is my dad's clinic.

Seriously.

My dad's clinic!

How unfair.

I want a room like this!

This is like a total 180-degree makeover from his last clinic!

Most of his patients like the design. But a patient called it "garish". Hahaha.

The seat's are really comfy, by the way.

I wanted to sleep on them.

And it's quite funny because my dad used to be like, "ermmmm..." when we look at modern furniture.

Huh. Total turnaround, no?

Why am I showing these pics?

Because I just felt like it! Hehehehe.

Since nothing exciting is happening in my life.

I'm boreddddddddddd.

I know I'm supposed to be studying, but study-mode so have not kicked in.

And it's already my 3rd week in Monash!

Oh My God.

I really should be panicking.

Oh well, maybe later.

Elections. What else?

The news that everyone's talking about left, right and centre is about the Elections results.

And Oh My God, they were shocking. Drama EVERYWHERE!

Actually, shocking doesn't even begin to describe how everyone felt once the results came out.

And it's like news everywhere. I even found this article on Time.com about the election results. I guess it definitely means something when your country's election makes news on sites like these.

To me, the most shocking part was when I woke up this morning and found out that even Selangor has fallen into the opposition's hands.

It was like there was a total revolution.

And it totally proved that the elections this time around is fair. I mean it's unexpected, but fair.

And I think that most people that voted for the opposition were not supporting the opposition, but it was more like they're just voting AGAINST BN.

I was looking around the other day and I thought that the country looked like an absolute warzone with flags hanging everywhere.

I guess I wasn't that far off the mark.

The election was definitely like a warzone.

I was quite baffled when I found out that around 22,000 people actually voted in the Bukit Antarabangsa state seat. I didn't know there were that many people here in BA that would actually vote. That was shocking, too.

Now that I think about it, I am actually thankful that I can't vote yet. Because seriously, if I were to make a decision on who I was going to vote for, I would have absolutely no idea because right now, I just feel like an outsider, looking in.

Maybe by the time the next election comes, I'll be ready.

Here's to the future of Malaysia.

What a scary thought.

Reminiscing.

Total randomness post.

I was getting bored of my blog skin.

I felt like I should change it.

So, I was looking at some skins on BlogSkins and I totally fell in love with THIS skin.

But I started thinking that that skin is sooooooooooooo not me.

And then I saw THIS one, which I totally like, too.

But then when I think about it, I like my blog skin.

Huh. Must've grown attached to it.

And I was going through my old posts, and it felt so funny to reread what happened like a year ago, or back when I started my blog like 2 years ago (the blog will be 2 on the 28th of this month. Oh My God. I can't believe I'm still blogging AND I can't believe people are still reading. Incredible.)

I can't believe I was moaning about turning 19 last year when I'm going to turn 20 next month. Oh my God. I would like to say I feel really old, but I think I'm still a baby compared to most people I know.

But I used to think that being 20 was being like all-powerful and independent and stuff.

Right.

I'M STILL LIVING AT HOME.

Oh, and I was looking at this post, and I felt that I just had to post this up.

Annoyed
Suffocated
Scared
Idiotic
Grumpy
Nutty
Miserable
Enraged
Nasty
Terrible

Teehee. It was such a childish thing to do.

I feel like these particular lyrics sum up how I feel right now:

I miss those days and I miss those ways
When I got lost in fantasies
In a cartoon land of mysteries
In a place you won't grow old in a place you won't feel cold

Da da da da da da da da da da da da
Seems I'm lost in my reflection
Da da da da da da da da da da da da
Find a star for my direction
Da da da da da da da da da da da da
For the little girl inside who won't just hide
Don't let me see mistakes and lies
Let me keep my faith and innocent eyes

- Delta Goodrem, Innocent Eyes

Oh yeah. Let me keep my faith and innocent eyes.

Too bad my innocent eyes have been tainted by those bangkaks. -_-'

Oh well.

I gotta go back to my tutorials. Blargh.

I feel like I'm back to doing my Management tutes. How boring.

Guilty pleasures can be bad for your health. seriously.

I went to see the Backstreet Boys on Wednesday.

And I actually enjoyed myself, despite what happened after the show. Story below.

It was in Sunway, and the ticket was just RM88, and since i was already in Monash, I was like, "Why not?" I mean, if they come next time, the might be down to just like 3 people. Hahaha.

So anyways, it was really like a guilty pleasure / walk-down-memory-lane sort of thing because I was too young to go last time, and I was like thinking you know, let me go just ONCEEEE in my life to a BSB concert. I screamed my lungs out because they sang a lot of their old songs and found out that most of the people there were people my age.

And I got to stand like somewhere near stage. If only they didn't have a barrier between us and the mosh pit. Blargh.

And so, my childhood dream has come true. Hahaha.

I didn't get good pictures, though. But luckily I have a tall saviour in the form of Anis. She kept on taking videos the whole night and some turn out really nice. I might just post them up later.

Oh, I also got to meet up with my old friend from school who I remembered as a really HUGE BSB fan. I was just thinking about her during the concert when she tapped my shoulder and said Hi. I was like "Oh My God". I'm psychic. Mwahahahaha.

So anyways, after the concert, I was happily heading towards the entrance to Sunway Lagoon when something happened after the concert that made me lose my slippers that i just bought last Saturday. Roar.

The story goes like this:

After the concert, Anis and I got on the escalators. We had to go up like 4 levels to get back to where we parked, which is inside Sunway Pyramid, so there were like 4 sets of escalators that we needed to take. So anyways, at each level obviously there was one escalator that was going down, while another one was going up. So the sunway people actually set up both escalators to ascend since obviously nobody was heading down towards the park anymore. This is the part where it got strange.

After we got past one level, we all found out that only one of the escalators were moving, and the other one is stationary. I guess some people were waiting for the stationary one to move and because of that people coming up on the previous escalator bumped into the people in front. It was quite scary because the landing between the two sets of escalators is really small and people kept on coming while only less people are going up.

So during the commotion, I managed to get onto the moving escalator and I was looking down, trying to find Anis, when suddenly, the escalator stopped for like a second, and then it STARTED GOING DOWN. FAST.

My heart was in my throat at that time. I remembered everyone started falling down. There were loads of screaming and shouting. Scary visions like getting my foot stuck at the escalator was going through my mind. And that was when I lost my slipper.

Suddenly, the escalator stopped.

The moment that escalator became stationary, people just ran for their lives up the escalator. I saw heels being left behind on the steps. People were just moving and moving, running, trying to get up as soon as possible before anything else happened. Everyone was scared. It was quite chaotic. I took off my shoe and ran up the stairs. I couldn't care less if my feet got dirty. I just knew I had to get away from those freaky moving stairs ASAP.

I was so glad I didn't get injured. But when I managed to reach the top, I saw one guy who had to be carried because he got injured when the escalator went bonkers.

Anis was just laughing because she wasn't on that freaky escalator and she only had to watch us.

I felt like strangling her. Badly.

So basically, I had to walk barefooted back to the car. Ick.

Luckily I got an extra pair of shoes inside my car.

And so, like Cinderella, I have one shoe to remind me of what happened that night.

Unlike Cinderella though, there is no happy ending for me. Grrr.

Oh, I was also forced to change one of my units because there was this unit that is only available every Semester 1 (Feb-June) and I can't fit it into my Sem 1 next year, so I had to take this unit this year. Anyway, let's name this unit Unit B.

So I was happily going for the lecture on Unit B on Monday when during the lecture, the lecturer dropped a bombshell and said that we have to take Unit A concurrently with Unit B, or prior to Unit B. WTF????

I was planning on taking Unit A next semester, since we weren't told beforehand that these two units come hand-in-hand.

So after the lecture I became frantic because I so did not want to be stuck with a class on Friday. I quickly dashed to the library to use the computers to reallocate myself.

I did get stuck with a class on Friday at the beginning, but then I managed to get a class on Monday.

Phew.

Thank God.

Oh, and I got a new phone!

My dad has been promising to be me a new phone ever since his Dopod K.O-ed and he needed my iPaq. And it just so happened that my dad has collected a lot of points by using his credit card that he managed to redeem two phones, one for me and the other one for Anis.



And so I got the Nokia 5610 phone, which I am absolutely in love with! =)

Oh, I also went bowling, for the first time EVER in my life at Berjaya Times Square with my ex-colleagues. They insisted on me going. Funny. And I sucked during the first game, but I got better during the second game. I didn't get a strike, though. I would love to go bowl again. It's fun!

I also want to go for archery in Sunway, go hunt down the ATV place in Kemensah, and find a time and place to play paintball.

Wow. I sound like a sport junkie.

So not Alia.

Now, I think I am going to buy another pair of shoes to compensate for my losing those green slippers because at this moment, I have no comfy shoes for Uni and I am in dire need of some comfortable shoes because I refuse to wear heels to Monash and my old shoes are not fit for people to see.

Okay, all these talk has made me sleepy.

I'm gonna call it a night. Good night!