C'est la vie.

Yesterday was my last class in Monash. Ever.

Even my lecturer was saying yesterday "Today is our last class and I would not see you anymore after this. And I think it's the best for all of us". Definitely a LOL moment.

Funny to think how for my last ever class in Monash I was falling asleep in front of the computer in the lab while I was doing the tutorial. (I was surprised that I could still do the tutorial even though I was half-asleep. Hahaha.)

Funny thing happened last weekend while I was visiting my friend at Ampang Puteri with the boyfriend and his best buddies.

Basically what happened was that when we were leaving, my friend's parents came in with some guests.

And then it turned out that the guests were my grandparents' best friends, so being a good granddaughter that I am, I went to the Auntie and introduced myself.

And then I went to greet her husband and then he asked me,

"Awak anak Aza? Kenapa awak pendek?"

T___________________________________________________T

Saya tak pendekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

See, among normal girls, I'm actually considered to be average. In fact, at 158 cm, I'm slightly taller than most of my friends.

But when you are born into a family where your father, siblings, grandfather, uncles and cousins are on average taller than 170 cm and you have your mother's genes, being 158 cm is definitely like getting the short end of the stick (all puns intended).

Now that I think of it, my girl cousin who just turned 13 2 weeks ago is already taller than me.

And all of my siblings, except for Zara, are either at my height or are taller than me.

Even Zara, who's not even 9 yet, now stands at my shoulders.

FML.

Oh yeah, although I'm not an "Idol" fan anymore (I think I stopped watching after Season 5), I read this article on why Crystal Bowersox won't win American Idol and I read these lines:

Says one anonymous "Idol" insider: "I've realized lately that the 'Idol' voting fanbase is now totally dominated by 40-plus soccer moms and their tween offspring. It explains the past few years' winners and the weekly voting patterns."

And then I realised that in my house, the big "Idol" fans are my mum, Wani and Dina, all of whom fall into the said age groups. So I'm guessing whether you're in America or Malaysia, it makes no difference then. Lol.

Oh, just now I went on Nat's fb page and saw that she has Liked this page called "Born To Make You Happy".

I was such a HUGE fan of the song before it came out, and then i realised that even with the huge amount of songs that I have stored in my laptop/EHD, I don't have this song (please don't kill me Nat), so I downloaded the song and I felt like I was in Standard 6 again. Lol.

And then I found another version of the song that Britney recorded when she was younger and downloaded that one too. Sounds almost the same, just less auto-tuned.



Pop songs back then are the best. I pity the kids nowadays for the songs that they are exposed to.

Oh yeah, I was listening to the radio the other day and this song came out:



And now when I listen to these lines from the song:

Be a little bit wiser baby,
Put it on, put it on
'cause tonight is the night
When 2 become 1

I'm like Oh.My.God. I was NINE when I heard this song and I was actually listening to a song about having SAFE SEX. Wtf.

And now that I think about it, I can't believe my parents allowed me to watch Grease when I was 8 years old, what with the smoking and teenage pregnancy scares and dropping out of school. Nasib baik at 8 years old the only thing I cared about when watching the movie were the songs:





And just now when I watched this above scene on YouTube I can't believe my parents actually allowed me to watch a movie where a dude says "Oh come on, you don't wanna hear all the horny details".

OMG.

Oh well. C'est la vie. Lol.

Bored, bored, bored.

I am sick of being sick.

I have been stuck in the house for the past 4 days.

I don't know how much more of Plants vs Zombies I can take. I've played until the final level already. =/

I seriously need to get out of the house for longer than two hours, even if it means infecting people with the flu.

Thank God for tutorials tomorrow.

I CAN'T WAIT TO GO FOR CLASS.

Oh yes. I am that bored.

Ever since the EPL season ended two weeks ago, everyone's been gearing up for the World Cup.

It's actually quite ironic how a lot of Malaysians are England fans considering that Malaysians used to hate them back when England was colonising us.

Last time they used to physically invade us, now they're mentally invading us. Lol.

I am supporting Spain. And Germany. And I would still be supporting my birthplace, England.

(I never said I was immune to being mentally invaded. Lol.)

Oh yeah, talking about World Cup, I want one of the Celcom's Blue Bears.

They're so adorable!!!!!! And I'm not even a fan of teddy bears.

I want the Englbear one (which my mum thinks should have been named Great Bearitain, lol), the Bearmany one, and the Esbearanyol one. Not a surprise, right? =)

Oh yeah, in addition to being on two radio stations for the World Hypertension Day, my dad was also on TV2 this morning to talk about hypertension and obesity.

It is SO WEIRD seeing my dad on tv.

My mum's first thought was, "Wah, I can see your dad's receding hairline."

And mine was, "That seat he's in sure looks uncomfortable."

Oh yes. A very supportive family we are. Lol.

I recorded all 10 minutes of my dad's appearance on tv.

Yeah, it was a short appearance. But still, couldn't have been prouder. =)

Oh yeah, the boyfriend has been taking songs from my thumbdrive and he has basically introduced his brother to the awesomeness that is Delta Goodrem.

It's so sad how a lot of people has never heard of Delta cause she is a good singer.

And I remember sitting in a cinema a few years ago and getting all excited because I saw this ad:



Oh yes, I am still a big fan of hers. I really hope one day I can go to Australia and see her in concert cause there is no way she will ever come here when only about 0.002% of the population has ever heard of her.

Haih.

PS: THIS is awesome! We actually managed to break into the top 10, in front of Germany and UK! =D

Post No. 340. Wow.

I really hate auditing right now.

It made my life a nightmare 5 months ago, and now it's still making my life a nightmare.

For two Fridays in a row now my boyfriend has had to take a raincheck because of his work.

I do understand cause I saw first-hand how the auditing world was, but understanding doesn't make it any less frustrating.

And so right now, instead of having dinner with the boyfriend, I am studying for my test next week.

Joy.

But it's not so bad. I really like my lecturer for this unit, and I find the unit really interesting. And challenging.

Anyways, during class today, my lecturer was telling us about the upcoming test and assignment.

And he had this to say about our test next week:

"You don't have to study so much on VBA for the test because it's either you know it or you don't. And the questions tested are going to be easy, so if you're expecting difficult questions you will be disappointed"

And he was saying this so earnestly that the whole class couldn't help but just laugh.

If getting easy questions means being disappointed, I would like to be disappointed all the time, thank you very much. Lol.

Oh yeah, last Wednesday my exam timetable came out:


And thus, ladies and gentleman, this means that my last day as a Monash student (pre-graduation) will fall on the 16th of June.

It's definitely bittersweet. That's all I can say. =')

But since the exam finishes on the 16th, this means that I'll be able to watch most of the World Cup matches. =D

Checked out the Group Stages timetable, and saw that I won't be missing much.

In fact, I'll be able to watch Spain's first match since it'll be on the 16th. And the match is gonna be at 10 pm, so yes, I'll definitely want to watch that match outside to celebrate my freedom. Lol.

This also means that I'll have a month of lazing around doing nothing before heading off to the UK with the family in the middle of July. YAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, Anis and I saw this on our way to Sunway this morning:


A RAINBOWWWW!!!!

We were soooo excited when we saw it.

It was definitely a nice way to start the day.

And apparently Liyana also saw the rainbow on her way to Sunway and got excited and took pictures too. Lol.

To me seeing a rainbow is one of those things that gives me unadulterated joy, and if getting excited when I see a rainbow makes me childish, then so be it.

At least it shows that I can appreciate the simple things in life. =)

Oh, this song is my current favourite song:



Yeah, so it's another Glee song. Lol.

I love this song. I've been listening to it on repeat non-stop for the past three days. And nope, still not bored of it yet.

Don't Tell Me That It's Over.

Credit to Idris' Fb page

My boyfriend graduated on Wednesday. And I am so proud that he has graduated. =)

And as much as he wished that I graduated with him, I still think that I made the right decision when I decided to extend. Lol.

And I was properly introduced to his parents at the ceremony and surprisingly, he was more scared about me meeting his parents than I was.

Actually it was quite strange that I didn't feel scared about meeting his parents.

And what's funnier is that the parents decided to ask him questions about me rather than asking me themselves, so it's nice that he was interrogated on my behalf. Lol. (But you do know I would have gladly answered those questions myself right sayang?)

=)

Oh, SPM results came out yesterday and my siblings came home all excited and said that two girls from Melawati managed to get into the Top 10 list. So I was reading The Star online and I saw this list below:


And I am so proud that these two girls are on the list. Shows that Melawati is a good school after all. =)

But so sad that we're not yet in the Top 10 schools of the country.

Oh well. One step at a time.

Oh, I've started my RA work and basically right now I'm doing a lot of data entry because we're still at the stage of preparation stage. But I don't mind cause at least I can take my own sweet time doing the data entry and it keeps me occupied. Plus I'm getting paid more than I was in BDO. And I can go back anytime I want. So yeah, I really don't mind doing this. =)

Seeing how I need to perpetually keep my mind occupied, I've transferred some songs from my laptop into my pendrive so that I can listen to some songs while I'm keying the data in.

And I am so obsessed with these songs right now:

Lifehouse - Sick Cycle Carousel



I know it's an old song, but I've just discovered this song last week. Yeahhhh, a bit too late. But better late than never right? The chorus to this song has been playing in my head these past few days. I swear to God I think I listen to this song like every 30 minutes.

Amy MacDonald - Don't Tell Me That It's Over



This is another song I'm obsessed with. I've listened to her first album and liked it, so I was pleasantly surprised when she had a new song out. I absolutely love this one.

By the way, even though I love these songs, I'm still not sure what they're singing about. Hahaha.

I think that's about all I wanted to say in this post. I think.

Love laods. =)

PS: While I was typing out this post, I was listening to songs on my Winamp randomly and out of the 1053 possible songs to be played, this song came on:



How appropriate. Hahahaha.

PPS: I had no idea what title to give for this post, so I decided on the title of the Amy MacDonald's song as the post title. Yes, I am that lazy.

Maybe I should do that more often. Putting up song titles as my post titles.

Hmmmmmm.

Happy happy joy joy

Oh My God.

I was asking my dad last week whether it was possible for him to get complimentary tickets to the Babyface concert this coming Friday, and he said "I already have 5 tickets."

I was jumping for joy obviously cause I like Babyface and free tickets are awesome. LOL.

So this morning my mom came into my room and asked me to keep the tickets for the concert cause my dad just got the tickets yesterday.

Nosy person that I am, I checked out how much these tickets would cost had they been on sale.

And I found out that each ticket caused RM453. *pengsan*

AND that these RM453 tickets are sold out.

So yes, I feel very lucky. I'm starting to like you very much, March.

Hahahaha.

Alia's random post number God-knows-what.

Like I mentioned in the previous post, these are the pictures of my siblings performing at my grandparents' 50th anniversary. Zara looked so adorable. And mischievous.

Other pictures from the night. Lol.

Wanna talk about random? This is VERY random. I was cleaning up my car and managed to salvage all these receipts from parking at the office. Yes, it's RM6 a day. And I have the majority of the receipts from the last 6 weeks at the office. It's annoying how around 20% of my measly salary went to paying for parking. Bloody hell.

Yep, I can be a bit bitter when it comes to work-related stuff. Lol.

Oh, by the way, I am SO ADDICTED TO GLEE. God, it's so addictive. I love the songs that they sing on the show.

One of the songs I love the most from the series is this one:



I seriously had tears watching this part of the episode.

Oh yes. I'm a total Gleek. So sue me. Lol.

Musings.

I had soooo much fun over the weekend.

Went for the "Da Vinci - The Genius" exhibition at the Pusat Sains Negara with Natcho and Yana and I was so thoroughly amazed by how much this one man had done in his lifetime. They didn't bring in any of his arts, but there was one section of the exhibition that was dedicated to just the Mona Lisa. The number of inventions that this man made in his lifetime is astounding. He basically thought up the original parachute, the prototype of the modern car and helicopters, made war machines, set the foundations for drawing the human body and lots of other stuff.

It's amazing how one man can think of all this things. Makes me feel that we who live in this modern world are so inadequate compared to him. Yes, i am in awe. And I realised that I actually like going to museum to look at all these exhibitions. Some of them can be quite interesting. I might start making more trips to museums in the future. LOL.

After that, we went for karaoke/lunch at Red Box Plus in Pavilion. Felt like it wasn't such a bad deal to spend around RM32 per person since we haven't seen each other in ages and we got to use the room for close to three hours and we got buffet lunch at that. Food was so-so, but we had sooooooooooo much fun singing.

I felt a bit greedy though. I wanted to sing on all the songs. So basically my routine was sing one verse, eat one bite, continue singing. Repeat till end of song.

Took me forever to finish off my food! Tu la. Tamak lagi. Padan muka, Alia.

But I realise that I really love singing, but only with people that I'm comfortable enough with. So if I've started melalak-ing in front of you, whoever you may be, that means I'm comfortable enough with you. LOL.

OH, by the way, Liyana Samlan and I (I really have to start giving nicknames to my friends. It's hard when I have two really close friends by the name of Liyana!) went to Great Eastern Mall the other day for dinner after work, where she took me to Penang Village.

OMG. I absolutely FELL IN LOVE with the place.

The decor is so minimalist and it looks sooooooo pretty. The view pun quite nice. And the food is around RM10 to RM15 per dish, which is a bit pricey, but okay la for that sort of setting.

And they have the best bandung cincau cause it's so pink, but it's not sweet. Just the way I like it. =)

Will definitely tarik someone to go with me there one day. I don't care who. Lol.

Oh yeah. Let’s talk a bit about work.

I’m into Week 7 now, and I have 4 more weeks to go!!!! Omg. I can’t wait for the internship to end.

But actually right, halfway through it now, i realise that auditing might not be so bad after all. But I’m still not sure whether I want to do it as a profession later on. My mind’s still leaning towards the “DO NOT BECOME AN AUDITOR” thoughts, though. Lol.

The other day I was telling Sham that I didn’t want to be an auditor after I graduate from Monash.

And then he said something that completely surprised me and made me feel so much better.

He told me that his senior was impressed with the working paper that my senior and I have done for our interim audit cause ours looked neat and organized and thick. Yep. Not the most environmentally-friendly, but definitely hardworking twosome. Lol.

And somehow that made me feel sooooo much better, knowing that there are people who are impressed with the work that my senior and I have done. =)

Oh, and I seriously feel like I’m being spoilt by my senior cause she never lets me go home past 6.30 pm. There was one day when I had to help her and had to stay in the office until 7.30, and she was asking me “Are you sure you can stay? You don’t mind?”

So yeah, while some of the other interns sometimes only get to go back at like 8 or 9 or 10 plus, I’m usually gone by 7.45 the latest. And usually when I’m in the office, she even lets me go back at 5.30 sharp. LOL.

But I guess it also helps that I am competent when it comes to using Microsoft Excel, cause usually when she gives me a task, I can finish it off by the end of the day. Hence why sometimes I still have time to go on fb while in the office. Lol.

And she doesn’t treat me like I’m incompetent and she helps me when I don’t understand the work I’m doing. Now that I think about it, this is the second senior that I’ve had that’s been helpful. Yeah, I do feel lucky right now cause some of the interns got scary seniors that expects the intern to know everything.

So yeah, nice seniors make going to work a little bit better. Haha.

But I am so ready to go back to being a student. Joining the workforce permanently can wait for another few months. I’m in no hurry.

OH, but talking about going back to becoming a student, I can only take ONE unit next semester. 4 hours of classes out of a possible 13, so yes, I will be VERY free next semester.

And Liyana came up with the most brilliant idea.

She suggested that I try asking our Econometrics lecturer whether it's possible for me to work as a research assistant.

And I'm actually seriously thinking about it, you know.

I mean, rather than me going to Monash and wasting my time doing nothing, I might as well use this opportunity to see whether I want to workin the Econometrics field or the accounting field after I graduate.

So yeah. We'll see how things go.

Funny how I might end up doing something totally different than what I'm currently doing at work.

Okiedokes. Need to get back to work. LOL.

Using my lunch hour to write this post. Haha.