This is the 50th post. Like finally. I really did it!!! Yayyy!!! *Opens champagne**Throws confetti* I bet Nat and Flo didn't finish it.

Um, the title says it all, so I have nothing to say here. Bye. Happy New Year's Eve...

Um, yeah I did it. Flo and Nat probably didn't, muahahahaha. Okay this is stupid. It's stupid to have such a dare in the first place anyway... It's just finding trouble... Can someone tell me why did I agree in the first place? Can someone remind me not to in future? Well at least it's over and I kept my word. Told you I have patience and perseverance. Oh well. At least I did productive stuff this hols right. (The earnings from this blog is like, what, 50 cents? But still, better than none... I take it as an acknowledgement that Google still wanna place ads on my blog.)

Anyway... heard the news that school will only reopen on 12th Jan? I know it's supposed to be a bad thing coz it's because of the floods, but I'm guilty to say that I still feel happy... Well I can only say it's the instinct of students to be glad when hols are extended, no matter what reason. So yeah I'll still blog next year.

I shall just put some cute pictures here and that's it. See ya next year...

Eyeliner Guy

As usual, I didn't go out to countdown concerts because:
a) No one invited me.
b) It's gonna jam when the concert is over so my parents will so not agree to fetch me.
c) As I'm Malaysian I still cannot drive :S
d) I don't like Malaysian stars and I probably cannot recognize any of them so it's pointless really.
e) *Main reason* I'm lazy.

Anyway... so what am I doing at home? (Besides typing, obviously.) Actually I'm watching Taiwan countdown concerts. Hey all those famous singers are there okay?

The main point is... I saw this eyeliner guy. *Some of you are probably his fans, just don't hit me.*

 I couldn't take pictures that show his eyeliner clearly but I'm sure you can google that up yourself. And please ignore the messy surroundings of my house.

He is actually wearing a deep V... What I wanna say is, when I saw him on tv I was like, texts Nat immediately: this, my friend, is what we call 妖艳. I seriously have no idea how to explain it in English. Um...glamorous is the nearest word but it isn't really what I mean... Well I finally have to acknowledge that those guys described as 妖艳 in novels, really exist... Seriously, he looks more glamorous than women...without even looking girl-ish. (Except for the eyeliner part.) What can I say when a guy wears deep V but I can't... (I don't have a nice figure, sadly, so no deep V for me. XD) The world is crazy, man.

But mom says at least he looks nicer than other guys =.=

All Those Han Chiang Classmates of Mine Out There... I Have Something to Clarify. Like Any of You Viewed This Blog Anyway.

Shoo go away if you're not my primary classmate. Well you can still read of cuz but I doubt you will understand. You might call me a bad blogger for posting about such weird stuff but actually the reason I choose to post here is because... I have nowhere else better to post ._. I cannot just barge into the fb group and post there right.

Yeah so since tomorrow will be a new year I feel like clearing my name, you know, stop this misunderstanding from carrying on another year... Well actually... I just happened to be flicking thru my primary yearbook and I realized that most people seriously misunderstood me. Including Jen, Nat, and Fox... basically most of the people that wrote in my second yearbook, misunderstood me. And somehow I suddenly feel annoyed. (For your information... I had two yearbooks, yeah, one is for basic information and the second one is for people to leave parting words in.)

Okay, the thing is, everyone thought I hate Tony because we were competitors. THIS IS UNTRUE AND IT'S SO UNFAIR TO ME! Ouch, sorry for the cap locks. But still, I had to stress my point. Granted, I hate him... But I have perfectly valid reasons, kay? Almost everyone wrote to tell me not to hate him =.= and that seriously pissed me off.

Reason 1: He is a violent, irrational, irritable person who vents off his anger on other innocent people. And his pencils. He loves breaking his pencils. Well if you've been following my posts you will know that:
a) I hate violent guys.
b) I hate people who break things.
I don't get how my classmates can stand his temper. I cannot. Well I don't owe you or anything so you are so not venting your anger on me. Just get lost.

Reason 2: He took my money. Well actually this is mentioned in other posts, some years before... I still don't understand what happened that day. It's like, I dropped my shilling and he just won't return me. I was like, what the hell? It's completely nonsensical behaviour, or maybe he actually thinks that the money is his? But it's like, mine!

Reason 3: Teachers were unfair and they all prefer him over me. I know it's really childish but then I was a child but then, what do you expect... And I really don't know what the heck I did wrong but somehow in my whole life teachers just don't really like me. (Especially my Standard 2 & 3 form teacher. But that's a story told before. I think she's just jealous of me XD and also she can really act, until the whole freaking class thinks it's my fault. Yeah I still remember that and I'm still mad at you guys for that. What you tell me you forgot? *Gives you the evil eye*) Well the headmistress in particular really likes this guy. I'm not the only one who felt this, you can ask our junior who were in the same team as us. And she really disregards me and the junior. It's like, if our team wins, it's because of Tony. If we lose, it's because of me and the junior. I think my junior got it worse coz the headmistress didn't really dare to say anything in front of me coz my mum was quite... let's just say, mum supports me fully and won't believe those teachers' crap. Of cuz there are teachers good to me, but mostly those are teachers uninvolved in the administration. But of cuz, me now no longer care about you teachers. >< Still recall that I mentioned before that I never got those 'model students' award that every primary school gives out? Actually to think of it, I'm really not suited to be anything like that because I am too proud to act in front of you people. Maybe teachers hate me coz I despise acting like I actually respect all of you. I don't disrespect all teachers but I don't respect all either. Respect is something you have to earn. Like that chauvinist KH guy in Standard 6? To hell with you.

Okay I realized that I'm actually quite dissatisfied with my primary school. Perhaps that's why I haven't went back for quite some time. Well, for other people reading this, I hope you don't find me too whiny or childish, it's just that it's kinda sad knowing that people has misunderstood you for so long. So yea I'm been thinking to clear this up and I finally did, one thing off my bucket list... =P

Responsibility

Another post inspired by the discussions in Baidu Tieba. Should an emperor abandon his country for his love? (Note for Westerners: Enperors in China had lots of wives and in romance novels the main female character usually cannot stand it, and so they'll be like, you prefer me or the kingdom?!)

Most people says no. Because it's irresponsible. Some say, it's an honor if someone loves you so much that he would sacrifice his responsibilities for you. Even though you would end up being hated by everyone else. (Which brings us to, is it fair to blame the woman the emperor is infatuated with for the falling of the kingdom? My answer is certainly no. But that's enough for another post...) Me be like, I hate emperors anyway, not gonna get together with one even if he abandoned his country for me... But the point I want to make today, is that the emperor has his right to be irresponsible/responsible. What I mean is, neither his people or his love has the right to scold him coz the choice is his... Of cuz, if you're his love, you should just leave him you know ._. It's easier and I'm sure you can find someone else who places you in the first place, not comparing you with his responsibilities... My point is, you have no right to ask somebody else to sacrifice just because it's his responsibility to. He always has a choice to be irresponsible, you know. It's simply a bonus if he chooses to be responsible and to sacrifice, but who are you to criticize a person for not sacrificing? I believe in individual rights, so I believe that the stated emperor certainly has a right to be irresponsible. You cannot expect other people to sacrifice their love, their lives, whatever... for you. Even if it's the right thing to do, even if it's their responsibility.

But I must also admit that I may have conflicting personalities. In novels, the kinda person I despise to most (next to emperors... For some reason I hate emperors. I think you can hardly find a decent one out of 100) is spies who fell in love with their target. Of cuz, you can always tell me, according to what I wrote above, that the spy has a right to ignore his/her duties because no one has a right to ask him/her to sacrifice for his/her assigned tasks. But then... I just cannot help but feel that it's stupid to do so. It's like if you have to do something then do it well and finish it, don't give up halfway... Or maybe it's just because, for most of the time in novels, the spy who fell in love rarely gets a good ending. Mostly, the person he/she fell in love with, knew that he/she was a spy and was just using him/her. Well... People are actually really annoying and devious creatures. You know what, just get yourself a cat and be done with it. Forget the people =.=

p.s. Please, please, please leave a comment when you read my blog. It's kinda disheartening to just talk to the air... Don't just stalk me and float away, kay? Say something...

Values

Okay recently I've been loitering on Tieba a lot... What I like about Tieba is that there's always someone with the same interests as you, read the same books with you, like the same characters as you... In short, there's always someone you can relate with, and discussions you can take part in...

Anyway, someone brought this up and confused me... Apparently I have a complete different set of values with most readers of that novel...

Well, here's the story. I read that novel a long time ago and so the details are not quite clear but just try to get a main idea of the story. Oh and it's not rational, but just ignore that for a moment would you? (And the story is kinda... extreme. Oh whatever.) It's set in ancient times by the way.
The families of A(female) and B(male) are enemies. A's father framed B's father and resulted in B's whole family being killed, but B escaped. B came back for revenge and killed all of A's family except A... Then B raped A ._. and A committed suicide. C, who committed suicide in the modern world, crossovered to A's body... B didn't know that, of cuz, and was amazed that A survived. To further his revenge, he sold C/A (will be referred to as C afterwards) into prostitution .-. but C was lucky coz D, a general, fell in love with her and so no one dared to bully her. This angered B so he popped up here and then to mock C and to threaten her. And somewhere in between... B fell in love with C... (It's a lame love story, whaddaya expect?) However B didn't say, C didn't know, nor did she have mutual feelings. (In fact she liked D.) One day, C realized that she was pregnant... with B's baby... (D never did anything to her, D is so nice =.=) (I told you birth control is important.) C wanted to get rid of the child but B did everything to stop her. D and C quarreled because D thought C wanted to keep the baby. While D is still mad at C, D's family secretly hired assasins to kill C coz they thought C was the reason D kept neglecting his duties. B saved C and realized that he was in love with C. <I shall skip non important parts.> In the end, C used her connections with D to frame B and B was killed.

To be honest... I'm really happy that C killed B (tho not directly but still). I almost gave up the novel halfway coz I thought it was just another cliche story, C was going to fell in love with B and forgive him and all, coz B seemed like the classic type of main male character I hate but many love. So I'm so glad it didn't turn out that way, that the main female character finally had some brains and decided to take revenge~~~ In a nutshell, I 100% support C for killing B~~~

However, it seemed that the majority disagreed with me. They think that C is a terrible person to kill B, that C is morally wrong, that C betrayed B, blah blah. I really don't get their logic. Isn't it obvious that B hurt C first? That B is the one who doesn't deserve a happy ending? Why does so many people support him? Do they actually think that as long as B regretted and fell in love with C, whatever heck he did can be forgiven? I certainly do not think so, I think he deserves to DIE. Well maybe I just have different values from them. I was beginning to doubt myself but my mom assured me that I have better logic than those people......

Do tell me what do you think.

p.s. Just for your information, I stopped at halfway thru book 2 coz it was getting boring. The story above is Book 1. At the end of Book 2, B and C got together... Apparently B did die, but he crossovered. *looks annoyed* I told you it's irrational.

Violence

I think I might be a bit too observant. Or rather, if you put it in another way, I like observing people. When I have no one to talk to, I usually sit back, make my existence as undetectable as possible, and start listening to what other people around me is saying... Lol I sound like a creep. Mind you I never pry on purpose I just happen to have a good hearing. It's not my fault you talk so loud. The downside is, I have to try my best not to laugh at their jokes.

Anyway... back to the topic. (Seriously I'm writing so slow here coz I kept reading stuff in my Baidu Tieba and felt so lazy to write...) Recently I have a habit of observing the kids in my art class. And so I have made this observation:

Boys seem to be born violent.

I'm not sexist... I'm just telling you my observation. Really. Haven't you ever realized that, boys seem to like stuff like guns, fights, knifes, killings, monsters, destruction, bombs, etc... Violent stuff like that. Like, they like to draw people dying... Stuff like that. I don't think anyone would be crazy enough to teach their children that sorta thing. As a girl I never experience this sorta sensation before so I truly don't understand. And somehow I find this sorta 'boy behaviour' annoying. I dunno why. Well, why would anyone in their right mind wanna destroy stuff for no reason? It's just weird.

There is indeed an alternate explanation, such that maybe online games and tv shows exposed them to violent behaviour. But as someone who grew up watching drama series that involved sword fights, gun fights, whatever stuff, instead of cartoons, I seriously doubt that it's the media's fault. Or maybe there's some chim/deep explanation that males have aggressive genes coz they used to hunt for food... whatever.

Any guy out there wanna explain something? Or maybe I should ask Nat, she is the most boyish of all my friends XD

Fitting Rooms

I went to Gurney Paragon with Nic and Flo today. Did pretty much nothing, just hang around, chat, eat, and try out some clothes. We had lunch at Chili's, the food came in really big portions. The Oreo smoothie is nice and creamy, and very filling. Basically after drinking the smoothie I'm already full. Thankfully me and Nic just shared a snack plate so it's okay. And for some reason, Flo is always able to pick expensive restaurants. So expensive that we three spent RM90+ even tho we only ordered two main courses...

Anyway we originally want to watch a movie but there wasn't any decent ones available, except those Flo had watched without us... Plus we don't have time anyway. So we went (window) shopping instead. And in Cotton On, Nic challenged us to try out random clothes just for fun. I think the shopkeeper heard her... My observations:
1. I take a long time to change clothes compared to Flo and Nic. You cannot blame me I'm wearing jeans.
2. Nic, Flo and I have really different perspectives of what's too big and what's not.
3. Flo spends a lot of time in fitting rooms. She does her thinking there.
4. I'm really too skinny.
5. Clothes only look perfect on models. Sadly I'm only human.
6. Nic enjoys selecting random clothing for me to try on but my random selections for her are all rejected.
7. It's (almost) impossible to find a plain top in Cotton On.
8. Nic has expressions so creative they should be used in memes.

Kids

I'm back from my art class, you know, the place where I get to know kids younger than me, and the place that makes me lose faith in human kind's future......

Is it normal for teenagers like me to despise younger kids? Like, kids in primary. Every time I go there I feel like I'm old and there's a huge generation gap in between me and them.

Seriously, kids nowadays are so annoying. I don't recall going thru such annoying phrases, neither did (most of) my classmates. Well... at least I'm positively sure I did not go thru the destructive phrase. I never destroy anything on purpose. You can ask my mum. I don't get why anyone would want to break something on purpose. In fact I kinda get upset when something gets broken even tho I didn't do it. It might have something to do with what I wrote in "I Admit that I'm Weird (Part 1)". Recalling it, I do remember that some classmates like to break things. They're usually the classmates I dislike...

I have my first try at baby sitting kids today. Thankfully, it's just 3 of the earlier session kids. There are two sessions in my art class, and since I didn't go last week, I stayed for both of the sessions. In between the sessions there's a half hour gap. One of the teachers were absent and the other teacher had to walk a boy home. (Originally she asked him to wait but he kept crying.) And so she asked me to help look after the other 3 kids left. It's okay I suppose, but Pei Jiin I admire your patience to deal with kids for the whole class... 10 minutes are okay for me but that's about all. The earlier session kids are okay, but a boy from the later session was a complete maniac. He kept screaming for no reason. No whatsoever reason. Seriously I suspect that he's crazy, coz he screams in the most... way, like a ghost resides in his body or something... And he was trying to show that he knows a lot of foul words. But he kept getting them wrong... Kids.

I think my art class people contribute greatly to my phobia of having children. The other half is probably a result of Form 3 Science.

Creepy Phone Call (?)

Not really creepy in the sense of a ghost called and yelled at me. (Choi.) Neither in the sense that someone called, I answered but no one reply and there's just this wind howling... Too much imagination huh. Actually when I was in UKM a random number called and didn't say anything when I answered. But it does not sound creepy.

Okay back to the topic. (I got carried away.) Actually (I think I use a lot of 'actually's in my daily speech and blog.) it's not creepy at all, at the most a bit of a coincidence. It has a perfectly logical explanation, it's just that Nic kinda freaked out. Oh well, she freaks out at everything.

So... let me tell you something about the background story first. I, have a smartphone. Not surprising. And it's the only smartphone in my family, my parents aren't tech-savvy. I didn't really subscribe to a new package or what when I first got the phone, therefore my phone had no data, but I don't care coz my house has wifi. One day, my family wanna go to KL. To avoid getting lost, we wanna use Waze, you know, that GPS app that Shu Qi also has I think. This means we need data. So we chose a Maxis data plan that is cheaper. So I gave this new number to all my friends and changed my Whatsapp number. All is fine until I forgot to reload my phone plan during exams, coz I offed my phone as usual, and for quite long too. And so the number expired and I couldn't use it anymore... So the next time I had to go out of Penang I applied for another number. But I'm too lazy to tell my friends or change my Whatsapp number, in case the same thing happens again......

Just now, Nicole received a phone call. From my old number. And she thought it was me. So when she asked me and I said no she freaked out. There are actually 2 explanations.
1. The person who bought my old phone number accidentally called Nicole.
2. Someone (it's presumably a scam or something) called her but did something to alter his/her caller ID, to make it seem that someone from her contacts is calling her. In that case a random contact from her phone will be chosen randomly... That happened to me once, some idiot called to borrow money, and the number shown was Nat's father's mobile. I asked Nat if her dad's phone got stolen or something. The second time the caller called, it was shown as my headmistress calling.... Talk about speechlessness.

Baidu

Anyone here has a Baidu account? Add me. Jeez I sound like Flo asking people to visit her Ask.fm or something. Well... Whatever just add me. I'm a new user there and I'm not really active coz I know no one and I'm kinda too timid to suddenly pop in and say hi to a group of people who are already familiar with each other... Especially since they're all from China... So mostly I'm just there to look at whatever stuff they post. Which is really interesting.

So... What makes me sign up for a Baidu account all of a sudden? Actually I used a lot of China apps and stuff coz they are free, but not Baidu before, coz my internet was too slow. And now that we changed the computer, it became a lot faster, although I dunno why, but it's a good thing right. And since you have to be a member of Baidu to properly see the stuff they post in Tieba （贴吧）, I might as well sign up. The main reason I want to view Tieba is... there are a lot of stuff about the random novels I read in Tieba. Yeah I finally found people as random as me...! Actually my reading taste is not that random right. But I still cannot find some of the more random books ehehehehe.

Yeah so if you clicked that link to add me just now, you would have seen the Tiebas I'm following. 2 of them is about a novel series, and the others are about cats... (I'm sure you can differentiate which is which, right?) Anyway I'm really obsessed with that novel series recently. I came across the 2nd book in my e-book app, and thought it was awesome, but there were parts I couldn't understand, so I googled it and it lead me to Tieba. Apparently it's part of a very long series. Still awesome anyway. It's about ghosts and daemons and such, you know, my kinda stuff. It's actually a horror+fantasy+mystery+romance. Nice book, complicated plot. (Very.) Most of the whole book is available online... You can find the links in the Tiebas I follow. You'll like it if you like 都市妖奇谈.

p.s.Guess what's the most popular Tieba in Baidu about.
      Answer: Cats! Miaow~

PT3 Results

I went to school to get my results today. Well if it's up to me, I wouldn't have gone... I'm too lazy a person. (Serious. I won't get up early if I have a choice, even if it's to chat with friends, watch my fav tv program, continue my e-book... NO means no.) But my father seemed very curious about my results. And since mom was too lazy to cook, we went to a restaurant near school and collected my results on the way. Straight As, fortunately. To be honest I'm not nervous (Don't hit me.) since we have known our marks a long time ago, only that it's not official.

Only 11 people in our school got straight As this year. Compared to the usual 100+++ straight A people in PMR... That's really bad. But then it's good enough compared to other schools. To speak of which, most schools refuse to talk about their results when interviewed by the papers. But, humans have antennae. Unfortunately mine is not very long and it's too awkward to ask other people, so I hardly know how my friends did. I don't even know who got straight As in my school... The cons of being away when results are announced.

The government let everyone die, literally. I didn't expect that, neither did most people I think. You have to get 80 marks to get an A, and that's high for Malaysia standards. Not the case in PMR, I think. So at first I told my friends not to worry... But then word came out a few days before that 80 is the lowest for an A. A lot of people are upset, I think, especially Nat, she sounds really depressed in her blog. I'm not good at comforting people so I dunno what to say... Anyway, congratz to Nicole, Becca and Jen~

Quite a lot of people I know got 9As, and they're usually the most upset of all. Most "died" in Science and Lisan. Science is hard, really hard. As for Lisan... I think most didn't do well in the listening part. Well I'm lucky coz my English tuition centre gave us a lot of listening exercises since young, so although it's a different language, I've had some basic experience I guess.

The thing I hate about PT3 is, the K-BAT (higher order thinking skills) questions. And it's all because of PISA or something, you know, that international assessment thing in which Malaysia did badly. I have nothing against high order thinking, but if you gonna ask them, don't you think you better start teaching them? It's like, we have been taught to memorize all our lives and now you want me to think of answers to random questions not on the book. And if I can't it's my fault. Okay fine. If you have to do that, then at least use logic when marking our answers, instead of a marking scheme. The marking scheme is a dead thing but we are not. And we do not all have the same brains. So how can we all be thinking about the same thing. Higher order thinking is supposed to encourage us to come up with our own opinions, not force us to guess what the person who set the question is thinking. It's just not right to mark un-mainstream answers as wrong. Oh whatever thankfully it's all behind me now, I certainly do look forward to a new year and a new life. Good luck juniors, try your best to survive.

p.s. I can't stand the someone who said she loved PT3 coz she can think for herself, when the reporters interviewed her. I doubt so and I bet she's just seeking attention.

p.s.s. Jen I'm still angry at you for destroying our plans!! Originally we planned to gather together today with primary friends. We planned for a long time, but suddenly she couldn't make it, so we cancelled it since it's kinda pointless without her, as the rest of us are in the same school. Duhhh.

Back in Penang

So yeah after five days of camp I'm finally home, on Christmas. Hmm, I'm not gonna talk about Christmas today because it's too cliche. Plus, I'm not a Christian anyway. Actually. my family doesn't really celebrate Christmas. We don't get turkeys... Whatever. Sometimes we buy gifts but then we are too lazy to wrap them up. In those cases we usually go shopping together and buy everyone something. It saves the trouble of buying something that the other person doesn't like... And Jesus isn't born on Christmas anyway, not to spoil your festive mood, but that's a fact. What's special this year is, Fay sent me a Christmas card, yay! So sweet of her. And she actually wrote me a Maths formula that says merry christmas.

Anyway... I feel sleepy now so I gonna stop here. I survived! Yay! Actually the food is not bad if you can eat curry, and beef, coz they have curry beef very often. Which is a good thing for me since I rarely eat beef, as both my parents don't take beef. Plus, they provide 6 meals a day. And I love the spring rolls. (Yeah well I basically love every spring roll on Earth.) It's awesome. The only thing I can't stand is the bathroom. If we have a bathroom in our room everything will be perfect. The camp taught me a lot of things to be honest, including Maths and non-Maths stuff. Anyway I'll say more in following posts, I'm sleepy... I'll upload photos but not food ones. Except the rainbow rice. Whatever good night.

p.s. I know I haven't blogged about the Melaka trip. Will try my best not to be lazy.

Things that Has No Need to Exist at All

This is part of the random stuff I'll post here while I'm away. On the way home, still alive hopefully. So... it's one of those meaningless lists today.

Things that really don't need to exist. Hmm, unfortunately life is full of such stuff.
1. This blog post. (I admit it, it's pointless.)
2. The Facebook Messenger app. (It really annoyed me that I have to download another app just to chat on Facebook. It is a waste of space... And there are tons of other apps for chatting. The good news is, Facebook also realized this and the last time I checked, my messages are safely back.)
3. Online Chinese novels depicting CEOs and their fake wives. Or thugs and random girls. Or rich kids and poor girls. Or female CEOs and their (male) bodyguards. Or royalty and crossover people. Or vampires/zombies/werewolves. (That applies to English novels as well.) (If you never read Chinese novels online, it'll open your eyes just to glance at a few of the titles. They're really... dumb. It can be quite entertaining tho to scroll through a list of titles, as some are laugh-out-loud funny.)
4. School rules. Especially our school's. Hair, socks, pins, correction tape, you name it, we have it. (You Westerners live in so much bliss.)
5. Hostel rooms with no toilet, or bathrooms with no hot water supply... (It's cruel. It's inhumane. It's sad. it's awful.)
6. Creepy wolf monsters. Creepy stories about wolf monsters. My crazy neighbour who insisted to remove the new tiles in the name of feng shui.

I think that's all. 

Luggage Packing

Tomorrow will be the last day of the camp, so I'm probably packing up my stuff now. I hate packing luggage, whether it's on the way there or on the way home. Especially when I have to do it on my own. I'm always super afraid that I'll miss something important. Before leaving a hotel I rummage through cupboards like mad.

Packing up luggage is hell for me. Or rather, for people with OCDs like me.

This is the first time I've got so much luggage, coz its the longest time I go away alone. 5 days are a lot for me, someone who never goes to summer camps. This is not a summer camp anyway. The last time I stayed without my parents was going to a competition in Perlis. We stayed 2 nights and I only brought a backpack. This time I need a luggage box.

Anyway I'm looking forward to home and hot water.

If Nothing Goes Wrong...

If everything goes right, this would be the third day of my stay in UKM and I should have done these things (in no particular order):
1. Gain maths knowledge.
2. Accept the fact that my maths will never be as good as the other participants.
3. Get used to cold water baths and not catch a cold.
4. Learn to love curry, curry and more curry.
5. Get acquainted with my roommate.
6. Give my roommate my blog address.
7. Get nice photos to post/interesting stuff to talk about.
8. Attain the good habit to wake up early.
9. Learn not to disturb other people by offing the alarm clock as soon as possible instead of trying to sleep through it.
10. Finish my Brazilian bracelet for Nat. (I plan to do it during the two hours of free time we have. That is, if I don't feel too tired and decides to sleep instead.)
11. Make some friends...? (I'm shy by nature!)
12. Stay away from the forest which may contain creepy wolf monsters. Forget all those creepy campus-based horror stories I've read.
13. Survive.

p.s. In case you're confused by the constant reference to the wolf thing, see the post I Admit that I'm Weird (Part 2).

More Brain Teasers

Since I'm probably wrecking my brain over math problems in Bangi, here's some IQ questions for you too! *Smiles wickedly* Don't worry I'll post solutions along with the previous ones when I come back.

 

Hints:

Example 2.1.3 is a popular IQ question and it's not hard, just don't limit yourself too much. The same applies to the rest. To be honest, only 2.1.4, 2.1.6, 2.1.8, and problem 9 requires math. Some of the questions are kinda...... cold-joke styled. Freezing, in fact. Well, have fun.

I'm Not Here. Literally.

That's right! I'm in UKM, Bangi, by the time you see this post. (You know, the foresty place I'm been mentioning for so many times. Hopefully no wolves. A cute cat or two would be nice.) For all I know, I might be quit being alive already lol.

So... why am I still here blogging? nah it's not my spirit. It's just that... I scheduled this post to be published today. Yeah blogger can do that. Don't you just love technology? And I'm such a responsible blogger! I actually saved up posts starting from a week before. But basically this post is just crap. From now on until Christmas I'd be posting really unimportant stuff just to keep the posts going. I doubt I'll be able to complete the dare with Flo and Nat unless I just post a sentence in each post. But that's too pathetic.

Anyway. Just hope that I'll survive through the camp, don't get too worn out by maths, encounter no wolves, get accustomed to cold water hair washing... Whatever. I desperately need luck I think, although I'm not a fan of fate. Ish.

Some People Just Won't Keep Their Word

I'm still in Penang. Nat would be like, what, and you said you cannot come for duty today?! Well, it's seriously not my fault.

The thing is, we decided to set off tomorrow morning. To save a night's accommodation. And we can stop at Foh San to have breakfast anyway. But why did we make such a sudden change of decision? Because someone didn't keep his word.

At first, my dad's friend offered to let us stay in his other apartment. Notice that he offered, not like we asked him or what. And all of a sudden, he texted today to say that he can't let us stay there. Good thing we haven't set off coz otherwise we'd have nowhere to stay as we haven't book a hotel! And so we had to book hotels from 20-23 Dec online immediately. Thankfully there are still rooms in some of the less famous hotels, mostly 2-star ones.

The point is, how can someone be so irresponsible? Like, wth. Yep I'm totally pissed off.

Short post coz I have to sleep early and yet I still have to finish posting in my other blog with Nat... Bye.

Novel Stuff

Erm if you don't read mush online Chinese novels you can just ignore this post. Or if you do, but you read mainstream ones you can also ignore... Coz this post is going to be about novels I've read recently, which is not mainstream nor has it to do with CEOs... Since I've nothing else better to blog about anyway.

For some reason, although I choose books to read quite randomly, (It's sometimes recommended by my e-book app, or on less popular online forums. But mostly, I simply load e-books that are on offer and thus can be downloaded without having to purchase it. Although I can earn app credits simply by logging in every day, I mostly only pay for books I've read half way and like it. I don't purchase new e-books coz who knows, I might hate it and waste my credits.) this recurring theme kept popping up recently: reincarnation.

I dunno if it's my problem or what, but this is the third book with this reincarnation thing that I've read in this hols... Maybe it's because if you filter out CEOs, royalty, schools for rich kids... All that's left are slightly weird, un-mainstream ones, and reincarnation is not mainstream, I guess? And also, reincarnation books usually feature ghosts, deities and demons. Well it's reincarnation whaddaya expect? Also, reincarnation is usually paired with love stories, in a tragedy style, often with no endings or open endings, or they only get together after a long time. The good endings are usually that the characters remain inseparated even after being reincarnated.

So I shall now talk about those novels... scrolling through my book list (Yes I actually have a Word doc dedicated to links of books I've read. Useful when Nat/Pat asks for links/recommendations.) I realized that I've in fact read a total of 5 books on this not mainstream topic. I shall not give links coz either I've linked them before or it's too weird I don't want you to see it.

My current fav of all: 墨烬斋. I can't even give a description, it's just too complex. Almost as complex as Inception. I haven't really understand the whole book. But basically it's all about reincarnation and crossing dimensions. Fantasy with a satirical touch that makes you laugh occasionally. All the characters have live in them instead of falling flat. It's not romance, more of rediscovering yourself and reconnecting with your (dark) past.

2nd: 潼光. A love story about deities and demons. Contains a lot of conspiracies. Chim. But then again, all reincarnation stories are chim (too deep to truly understand). I really liked the book coz it remained suspenseful without being torturous. And also, keep in mind that whenever reincarnation is paired up with deities, the emperor that rules heaven is always the bad guy. But then, that shouldn't be surprising since even human emperors are bad anyway.

3. 奈何 I believed I mentioned this book many times recently. It's a tragedy disguised as a comedy! It's only ranked third coz it's less complex. I loved all the characters. But my fav one committed suicide. And also I liked this book coz the plot was loose. As in, the main plot isn't obvious. A romance actually, but there are lots of other stuff. But the ending is kinda confusing. If you stopped at the main book she ends up with guy A. But in the epilogue she ends up with guy B after three reincarnations together with A ._. The emperor thing applies even though this book has more ghosts than deities.

4. 三生三世，十里桃花. Classic deity romance. I finds it kinda boring but somehow it's really famous. The rule applies as well. Emperors are bad, trust me, but weirdly, not their sons/daughters.

5. I won't even bother to tell you the name of this book. The ending is too lame. I'm kinda upset that it ended so abruptly and in-elegantly, after following the progress so quite some time. But the author has nice style. But still the plot sucks. In the ending... guy A & guy B turns out to be the reincarnations of same deity, whose soul was somehow split by the emperor as a punishment... Again, the golden rule applies. And that deity reincarnate after A & B all die... The female character says that she wants A & B back, and the deity actually does as she says by splitting his soul again coz he loves her =.= but then she still cannot decide whether she wants to get together with A or B.Such a bad case of split personalities, huh. My fav supporting character, C, ends up totally ignored. The author didn't even bother to mention him again. D, also a character I like, turns out to be a spy and is killed. I don't get why the author made it that way, it doesn't actually helps the plot, maybe she just wanna get rid of him. Worst ending ever.

And somehow, complex storylines never stop at romance or country politics, they usually include family secrets. Dark ones too. Why is that so, I wonder? Is it because every family has a skeleton in the closet? Or simply because the secret people finds most shocking is never about UFOs or terrorists, but about their own families? Hmm.

Patience

Some (most?) of you might not agree but I consider myself a patient person. At least, compared to the rest of my family members. Nic will probably snort or something coz she has seen me being very irritable. Especially when I haven't finish my homework for the day and the bell is gonna ring and the teacher kept giving more homework. Somehow I really cannot stand it when I cannot finish my homework before going home. It's ironic, I know, but I have this mindset that homework should be finished at school, not brought home. My home is reserved for fun and relaxing stuff not useless homework. (I honestly think homework is useless. It certainly does not help me in revision.) Anyway, let's not get carried away too far.

1. I'm really patient when I queue to pay stuff at supermarket counters... I never switch lanes! I'm so loyal... I don't get the point of switching... You might end up slower... Who knows?
2. I'm really patient during traffic jams. My dad hates traffic jams. As in hate hate hate. But then, maybe it's because he's the one driving... (Usually I sleep... XD Or play music from my phone.)
3. I'm really patient while waiting for my phone to charge. Too patient, perhaps. if you had read the post about my old phone charger... It took like, 8 hours to fully charge. But I'm patient XD (Actually I'm just too lazy to buy a new one.)
4. I'm really patient when I wait for the teacher to call upon my name for the aural test. (Actually I hope she won't have enough time to reach me.)
5. I'm really patient waiting for web pages to load. Er... I usually have a lot of tabs open so I didn't really notice how long it takes. But this new computer is significantly faster.
6. I'm really patient when doing menial tasks like keying in stuff. (Nic you complain more than I do.)
7. I'm really patient when waiting for an online novel to be updated. But it's really sad that the one I'm reading haven't updated for two days.
8. I'm really patient about alarm clocks. I can let it ring for a long time without feeling disturbed. LOL.
9. I'm really patient when I'm trying to learn a song. I can listen to the same song for a whole week.
10. I'm really patient when it comes to blogging! It's a miracle I haven't give up. I hope I can accomplish the 50 posts dare.
11. I'm really patient when it comes to waiting for Nat to reply messages. She never does.

Crazy Neighbour

Okay my neighbour is really crazy. Remember that we renovated (changed pipes)? Well thankfully it's over but sadly not completed. We still need to patch up everything, especially the holes in the corridor outside, or the management will fine us.

Well, that's where the problem started. Even before we finished, our dear neighbour is already complaining that we should hurry up and fill up the dug up patches in front of HER doorstep. The contractor was like, *inserts appropriate troll face here* NO.

Anyway, we were patching up the broken mosaic tiles yesterday. The workers were here with the mosaics and stuff. Just to give you a clearer picture, as we changed the pipes, a line was dug along the corridor rather than holes or patches. The original tiles are light beige, kinda brownish.

The contractor said no more tiles with a similar colour can be found, so he used white tiles instead. The management approved, as this is the case for many units that changed their pipes. Well, after the workers finished patching up everything, the crazy neighbour came out, saw it, and objected forcefully. Reason? She pantang (had superstitions) coz white lines are supposedly bad for feng shui. Seriously?! And in the end she managed to persuade my parents to dig up the tiles again. I have no doubt that the contractor thinks that she should be put into a mental institution. I agree with him.

If it was up to me I would definitely ignore her. It's MY tiles, MY money, MY choice, MY decision, YOU GET LOST. (Lol I sound so possessive.) If YOU get bad luck it's YOUR business. If you can't take it, go complain to the management. Don't come barking in front of me, I won't do anything about it.

Actually I don't care if she hates the line or wut. I just care about my money. Just because of her stupid request we have to pay excessively, to A) Buy new tiles. B) Get charged RM50 per day for renovating when we could have completed it. C) Probably get compounded by the management for not getting the corridor back to good condition in time. D) Pay the workers. As an idiot, she didn't even offer to pay at least some of the costs. You wanna change, you better freaking pay. If you pay I don't care if you use rainbow coloured tiles or tiles from pure gold. Do what the hell you want, just pay.

I'm seriously rendered speechless by this sorta behaviour. She's like, what, 65 and can't you behave in a more mature fashion? Is it just me or all neighbours are simply annoying? I'd admit that I can be annoying, for example, playing music (and slighty weird ones, maybe?) at this hour (10pm?) somewhat not-so-quietly. Well, I hate earphones. They're bad for health. Plus it's not like anyone cares. I certainly don't care if it disturbs that particular crazy neighbour. Her gangsterish son plays louder radio anyway, with weirder music. And the neighbour downstairs has a dog that's barking right now. The quiet-loving couple upstairs who refused to repair their leaking air-cond is not in Penang. Oh well.

Ancient Songs

Er, not as in ancient ancient, perhaps old songs would be more appropriate?

As someone my age (15), it wouldn't be very surprising to know a few old songs, since we probably still remember the songs we heard our parents singing when we were kids. That's quite normal, right? But then, it's not normal when you know some old songs that your parents claim to have no idea of. Well that happened to me, the weirdo as usual. I still have no idea as to WHY or WHERE did I hear the songs before. Maybe I just have an awesome memory when it comes to tunes, I always remember tunes I've heard but not the song names. And sooner or later the tune-without-a-name will pop into my conscious brain. XD But it's kinda annoying especially when you just can't remember what song is that. It's even more annoying when, after having a hard time searching for the name of the song, you realized that it's from some random old song. AND it's even worse when even your parents have no idea what song is that, although it's obviously from their era. The main thing is I'm really curious as of how I came across the song.

I'll include some links but *makes a dubious face* I doubt you'll enjoy any of the songs. It's not that they're bad it's just that it's not fashionable music.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wux003tnK2k  I chose the least weird one. Serious. The others were... too weird. Don't you find this mv kinda cute? Especially the white fox/dog/cat. Although the mv doesn't connect to the song much. But still. It's cute!

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUoS1cR_LB0  I chose the newest, least old-song type of video. The video is not cute. So if you must click a link click the first one ok? It's cute you know. I'm amazed at my ability to find cute stuff even for random songs like this.

And also, I have the tendency to remember male singers as female singers. Erm wait that sounds weird. Let's put it another way. I have remembered songs as being sung by a female voice, until one day I searched it up and listened, and realized that it has been a MALE voice all along! Can someone explain this weird phenomena to me? Coz I don't get my wacky mind.

p.s. My phone couldn't charge this morning so I went to Komtar ICT mall to repair it. The VIVO shop salesgirl is super nice. In the end it turned out to be the charging wire's problem and I bought a new one. And my phone charging speed has now increased by 10x. No kidding. Actually my wire has problems for some time but I'm just too lazy to buy a new one, as long as it can still charge. Well, laziness is bad for health.

Low Blood Pressure

Most people get high blood pressure some point in their lives, usually when they've aged. I'm one of the 'lucky' ones who get LOW blood pressure.

So today I woke up at twelve as usual (It's the last day coz from tomorrow onwards I have to go to school at 9.30. Sad case. And then after that I've camp. And when I come back it's almost 2015 anyway. ) and walk upstairs. Then suddenly I feel dizzy. Not like, feel like fainting cannot walk dizzy, just... I can see stars around my head dizzy. And my parents totally freaked out. But after sitting on the ground for a few moments (I'm only dizzy when I'm standing.) and a few cups of milo, I'm alright. And we concluded that based on my symptoms, it's a case of low blood pressure.

Actually it's not really surprising.
1. My father has low blood pressure. It's said to be hereditary.
2. I sometimes feel dizzy when standing up. But then, so does Nat.
3. I haven't been eating much meat recently, thanks to the renovation going on. Actually this might point to a not-so-serious case of anemia.
4. I always have cold hands and feet since small.

So well on the bright side at least I don't have to worry about eating salty food.

I Admit that I'm Weird (Part 2)

So let's continue where we left off. I'll show you a horror story that chilled me for no reason. A team of soldier was assigned to guard a forest area. During Chinese New Year (the story was set in China), everyone else went home except for A and B, coz their hometowns were too far away. One night, A heard someone knocking on his door. However, as it was winter, he was too lazy to get up from his bed to open the door. And so he simply asked, who's there but no one replied. He then shouted that if whoever outside didn't reply, he wouldn't open the door. But no one replied. So he ignored the knocking. Then, the knocking outside stopped and whoever it was began knocking on A's neighbouring room's door. A thought to himself that the person knocking must be stupid since the occupants of the room next door had gone home and there was even a large padlock on the door. The knocking sound went further and further, apparently the knocker knocked from door to door. But of course, there were only A and B in the camp, so no one opened the door, until the knocker reached B's door. A could hear the sound of B opening the door and the knocking finally stopped. But after half an hour, it began again. A was annoyed and thought that someone must be playing a prank. He didn't open the door coz he's still too sleepy. The knocker repeated the routine of knocking on every door. The third time the knocking came to A's room. he was finally frustrated and cursed. He reached for the doorknob and suddenly realized that there should be no one around but he and B. Feeling slightly unnerved, he looked through the peeping hole cautiously before deciding whether to open the door or not. Instead of a human, he saw a wolf pounding on the door with its front paws! A immediately realized that B must have been eaten. Luckily, he had fire crackers in his room since he bought some for Chinese New Year. He threw them out of the window and frightened the wolf away, he then rushed outside, grabbed a gun, and checked on B, who had became a half-eaten corpse. It was day break by the time and A rushed to the nearest village for help. The villagers then told him that there had been such monsters around for quite some time.

Hardly a frightening story by typical standards, I doubt it would scare any of you, since it's unrealistic (seriously, even I don't believe it) and set in a condition (soldiers camping by the forest) we will hardly experience anyway. But then for some reason, it just gives me the creeps! And it's the only horror story I could remember out of the 400 in that book. I don't understand why I'm freaked out by such weird stuff instead of the normal scary stuff. I get it that, well, I might be just weird.

I stopped reading horror recently since it's unhealthy for someone who is going to a maths camp in the middle of a forest. (UKM, which is literally in the middle of a forest, and the hostels have no toilets, and the toilets have no hot water. I shall try my best NOT to die. And I will tell my roommate to say a password when she knocks.) So now let's talk about something else. Songs, maybe?

Right, so here are a few songs I listen to that I bet you've never heard of. All in Chinese coz my taster of English songs is perfectly normal (Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry...) and is thus not worth describing. However when it comes to Chinese songs I listen to a wide variety of weird ones. Maybe it's because my app recommends a lot of China songs that no one else knows. And also, more than a half of the Chinese songs in my playlist are the theme songs of movies/series. And about a third is from series set in old times. Maybe that's why they are so rarely heard of.
1. 半城烟沙 (It's an anti-war song from an online game. It sounds kinda weird to be honest but it got stuck in my mind during exam. And for some reason, a lot of novel writers recommend this song in their stories. That's why I heard of it in the first place. )
2. 巴黎夜雨 (From a movie no one knows. I find the tune kinda catchy and my phone loves this song, as in it always chooses to play this song when set in random mode.)
3. 雪花红梅 (From Scarlet Heart 2. Again, the tune got stuck in my head and took me a long time to find out which song it is, coz I apparently got the lyrics mixed up.) As for why the link is in Thai...I don't know.
4. 真永远 (Of all the songs from series set in old times, this song is my fav. But actually the reason might just be that at that time I watched it at 8 years old with my mom, <have I mentioned that I was raised on tv series, not cartoons?> one of the actors is the first guy I regarded as handsome.)
5. Lydia (The most normal song in this list. Except that it's quite a few years ago, when even I haven't started watching dramas. I think it's from a famous series but I dunno which one. Actually I just heard it this morning in the radio, realized that I've downloaded it before, and started listening, and is currently a bit obsessed over getting the correct tune.)

This is a long post. If you know me personally you probably know that I have even more weird stuff about me than I wrote about, such as my distaste towards kings, especially China ones. But I think that would call for a post on its own. Anyway if you decided to click on the links just don't freak out?

p.s. Remember the novel 奈何 I mentioned the other post? It's actually quite sad. But it's one of the rare ones where I didn't choose the supporting character over the main one. But that's probably because although I finished, I still dunno which guy is the main character... Okay actually my fav character committed suicide. Whatever I told you it's sad. T.T

p.p.s. We found the ceiling board. The worker put it somewhere random on the ceiling but not the correct place.

The Mysterious Case of the Vanished Ceiling Board

So, the good news is, the construction works in my house is finally over! Yay!

I hate construction works. Why?
1. It dirties the house.
2. It makes the air smoky. (Or maybe it's because the workers are smoking.)
3. It's noisy. (Okay, not that I really care since I can still sleep.)
4. I have to wake up early. (My daily schedule: Wake at 8.30, get dressed, wash up, continue to sleep.)
5. My house has Bangladeshi songs on. (The workers have a radio or something. And they use smart phones.)
6. It costs a lot.
7. I have to safe keep my belongings.
8. I have a lot of chores to do. (Mop the floor etc.)
9. I don't have the energy to blog after mopping the floor. (But I'm still here coz I'm responsible.)
10. There's no food. (To get food I have to get out of the house coz mum didn't cook.)
11. There was no hot water supply for a few days. (They changed the heater and it can't work. I don't like washing my hair with cold water. I know it's good. But it's too... COLD.)

Anyway I'm really glad they finished. However, while clearing up, we noticed something weird. A piece of the ceiling board is missing. No kidding. Which is weird since the board is of substantial size, and we would surely have noticed if someone took it away. Plus, it's not like anyone would want to steal a ceiling board! What for? But it seemed to have evaporated (or rather, sublimed, since it's a solid... whatever) into thin air and we just couldn't find it anywhere. (In case you're wondering, we did remove a few pieces of ceiling board to fix the pipes, but then all the other pieces were found except for this one.)

So now my toilet ceiling looks like this.

I'm starting to doubt my memory. Maybe it has always been like this but I just failed to notice. But in my mind the toilet always had a complete ceiling. Plus, even if it was removed at some point, it must still be somewhere. No one would be so crazy to throw it away right. The problem is, where the hell is it??

I Admit that I'm Weird (Part 1)

Fine, I admit that I'm weird (and proud of it... kinda).

I shall skip the not-conventional-girl thing since I've known people that are worse such as Nat. And as for my personality... I don't actually know myself well so you'd have to ask Nic or the others. As for views and opinions... All I can say as that I can be a bit extreme if I want to.

Mostly I'm going to talk about my taste. Not as in fashion sense. Not that I have a good fashion sense anyway. Well you can't blame me since I have a low budget for clothes. (Or anything else, duh.) Okay, back to the topic, taste as in choice of books, (no hidden meanings, Nic/Nat) movies, and songs.

Books.What books does a teenage girl usually read? Romance is what Flo will answer. Fantasy + romance is what Ching Ching will answer. (Typical young adult fiction.) Erm, me? Well, I don't dislike romance or fantasy, but then I think typical romance is boring. Meaning I won't read a book just for the romance storyline. I mean, what's there to read about since we all know that the two main characters are going to be together. Plus, I always ended up supporting the supporting characters instead of the main characters. It's really annoying. I don't get why people support the main character. Just because the author likes him doesn't mean I must too. And also, I tend to like books that my friends (Nat) find boring. I like books that are kinda confusing. As in, inception-ish kinda thing. Confusing yet enthralling. Oh and I like funny books. Sometimes I'll read a book that humors me even tho the story line is really bad. And I believed I mentioned before that I don't like predictable story lines. I rather the book has no story line...

Here are a few books that I like but there's no one to share with T.T (I'm so kind I include links.)
1. Blink of an Eye. Awesome book! I don't get what Nic doesn't like it. She said it's because of the weird food descriptions. But that's not even the main  point!
2. The Witch of Portobello. Nat finds it really boring. I find it somewhat intriguing.
3. 墨烬斋. It's about reincarnations and is really confusing and has the most complex plot ever.
4. 奈何. The most recent book that makes me laugh hard. It's a comedy disguised as horror/fantasy. The main plot is kinda sad but the way it is told is simply too funny. But then, did I ever mention that I have also a weird sense of humor? I think my sense of humor is kinda dark. (Nat's is weirder. But still.)

Movies now. I like horror movies. None of my friends do. Enough said. But actually I like all horror stuff. Stories, movies, whatever. But then, reading horror stories is unhealthy especially for someone like me who gets scared easily. Actually no, not really easily, but the weirdest stories scare me. Most people are more creeped out by horror stories that seem more real, as in, happening in daily lives. But not me. I mean, I won't be scared but a ghost who wants revenge, in fact I would even think the victim deserves it. And as for ghostly shadows, I don't find them threatening as long as they did no harm. I think the stories that scare me the most has to do with unrelated people dying. Death frightens me. As in, the concept that one could just stop existing in a split second chills me. To an extent, even things that I lost without realizing unnerves me. Like, something could be there until suddenly you just noticed its absence, and you would never find it again. Like how someone you just met yesterday could die today. Or how you lost your favourite t-shirt in a trip. Or maybe it's just unpredictable stuff that put me on edge.

I'd write more but I'm so sleepy now. More tomorrow. Good night.

Neopaganism and Why I Will Never be a Christian, No Offense.

I'm finally found a religion that I agree with. (Up till now, I'm still atheist.) Strictly speaking, neopaganism isn't a religion, more of an ideology. Or rather, it is a non-institutionalized religion. Of course, neopaganism has many branches, the most famous of all being Wiccan, which I'm sure you've all heard of before. But then again, the main concept of neopaganism, is that we are all born from a predominant female deity, the Goddess, or rather, Mother Nature. Instead of creating this world, it's more like the whole world is part of her.

Anyway, what attracts me to neopaganism, what I can really identify with it, is this:
1. We don't need a particular ritual of worship, instead, anything such as dancing, writing calligraphy, listening to music would do, as long as it allows you to concentrate, even if you're simply concentrating on breathing. And while concentrating, we're able to connect with our inner selves, reach a higher level of spirituality and let the Goddess guide us.
Sounds mystic, huh? The thing is, I never believed that particular forms of worship meant anything.
2. We should enjoy every moment of life and do everything with a passion.(Even if you're scrubbing the toilet.)
This is certainly my kind of ideology.
3. We all have limitless potential, it's already there, you just have to discover it. What makes this different from the 'positive energy' idea that is popular right now is that, the 'positive energy' idea believes that first, you have a positive thought, you give out positive energy, and that's why you'd get a positive outcome, instead of thinking that the potential is there in the first place.

So yea Nic if one day I stop being atheist you'd know I took up neopaganism.

As for why I shall never convert to Christianity... (Even if you think being a Christian is cool, Flo.) (I thought since I'm talking about religion I might as well get things straight here.) Again, no offense, guys.
1. They (used to) burn cats. (And woman.)
I doubt cats will ever forgive you. And as a cat lover, I don't. (And as a female, I don't.)
2. They are sexist.
It's true. Before you object, go read the bible. It says "Men are the head of women." Wth?
3. I'm too lazy to go to church.
4. My mom disapproves of Christian names. I dunno why.
5. It wiped out pagan religions before.
Early Christianity, blah blah, go Wikipedia.
6. It's used a lot to gain political power.
Power play tools. From ancient times till now, religions rarely get separated from politics. Jesus wasn't even born on Christmas. Christmas was simply on Dec 25 to coincide with a pagan festival in order not to lose support of pagans. Sorry to spoil your sweet world but still.
If the above reasons are not enough to convince you I dunno what will?

p.s. I hope Shu Qi won't think I'm weird after (if?) she reads this post. 

GST

For your information, GST stands for Goods and Service Tax. Well, I hate it. Due to the implementation of this tax, my family has been spending lots of money. You might be confused why, since the tax will only be implemented next year. Well the thing is, we are using this time to buy new ones for almost everything in our house. So far we've got a new fridge, sofa and computer. And a new heater, since the plumber in charge of the construction works currently said that the old one might break down any day. We're also planning to get a new tv and washing machine. And maybe a tablet. And sadly, everything costs a freaking lot.

Don't you agree that everyone nowadays is simply craving for money? For example, the management in my condo. (I seem to be complaining a lot about them in recent posts.) They kept finding excuses to raise the management fee and the sinking fund, whatever the heck that is. And they silence objections by claiming that if the management doesn't have enough money, we might need to pay a bigger sum if something (lifts, lights, gym, swimming pool, I dunno) breaks down suddenly. Well in my opinion then charge us only when it happens duh at least we can keep our money safely in the bank for a little while more. Actually that's not the main point. The thing is, the management kept wasting our money. They spent RM200,000++ to build a 'grand' guardhouse that's 24-hour air conditioned. (Hey, I don't even have that luxury in my house!) I really don't see how this improves the residents' quality of life? It's not like I will go inside and sit all day right? To be honest I half-suspected that the person in charge might have 'swallowed' some of the RM200,000 used. Frankly, I don't think he's so kind to build an air-conditioned guard house just to improve the staff's comfort. And for some reason. the swimming pool kept having problems recently. Not as in, someone fell in and died lar, just that it kept closing for maintenance. Again and again. It's closed yesterday and will only be reopened on Sat. And when I walked by I noticed that the water was murky and disgusting. Ew.

And also... I can't stand the parking system in Penang. We're residents here and we deserved the land and we most certainly deserved to park for free! According to Haji Abdul Rahman Limbong, you know, that farmer guy we learned in Form 2 history, tanah hak Allah, bukan hak kerajaan. (Land belongs to God, not the government.) So, we should be able to park for free! Singapore government is so efficient that they can EARN money and distributes the earnings to their people, whereas here in Penang the government takes our money whenever we park. Duhhh. And it's more expensive compared to Ipoh or Melaka. And less systematized. In Ipoh you just have to put coupons from 9-6, but here it's different for every street. So you have to walk around to find the sign that dictates the time in which you have to put coupons. Plus, coupons are so not environmental friendly. Seriously what harm could there be if we are allowed to park for free?? Saves trouble for everyone, and it even reduces the workload of the traffic police! (They now have to give out fines to people who didn't put parking coupons.) I think even I or Nicole can be a better politician. =.=

p.s. Here's a random link that's really funny. And has nothing to do with this post.

Art and Craft

Christmas is nearing and it seems that every art class has Christmas themed art and craft. As do Nat's. As do mine. Unlike Nat's, we didn't paint candles... We made paper cup angles... *Life is so random, ikr?*

 It's actually kinda cute. (Well that's what I think.) There wasn't blue or white hair available, sadly, or the color scheme would match better... Actually I'm not an artistic person so I really had a hard time deciding on what patterns to draw.

 

  

Owh and I found this two things below in my house. They are actually art and craft I did in kindergarten! My mum still kept them. XD They are both kinda wind charms or something, I dunno...

 

And this one is something I did while going to a church camp in primary. I bet you're surprised that an atheist like me would go to a camp held by a church. Actually I'm also surprised. It's just that my tuition teacher was the organizer and  she kinda persuaded my father. And I actually met a primary classmate there. Whose father is the contractor for the current construction works in my apartment... Penang is seriously small. Anyway I'm getting sidetracked. The point is, the cute doll picture under is actually a peg. And for some reason my mum thinks its really cute.

And you can ignore the magic brush effect thing. I was just experimenting with my photo editing app... I'm sad to say I'm not skilled at this kinda thing.

Construction Works

My house is changing water pipes so we have construction works on now. Not like, now of course since it's night here but as in, these few days.

As we live in a condo, the management required us to pay a sum of deposit, in case we broke the lift, the tiles, dirty the corridor, blah blah blah. It's not unreasonable, what's unreasonable is the sum. They charge RM3000 for it. The point is, the whole construction work costs less than RM6000. Which means that the management charges more than 50% for the deposit! Of cuz, the money will be returned. (Hopefully.) But still, isn't that a bit too much?

Anyway... I discovered something new about myself. I have recently gained the ability to sleep through even construction work noise... Yay?

Okay this is a short post. I've nothing else to say so yeah.

Bonus for You Cat Lovers

Well I have discovered that posts that contain cat pictures attract the most views. So... Here's more cats!!! (Kittens!!!) Lol. Actually these are bookmarks I made to give out as small gifts during my Living Skills presentation last year. (The teacher threatened to deduct marks if she is not satisfied... So to encourage response from my classmates we had to prepare presents.) Well yeah and the Pusheen one is for Nicole coz it's rare that she'll admit to liking cats! Well, you are free to use the bookmarks if you want, so just enjoy~~ (Cats are so cute, I know right.)

Brain Teasers

Before we start... add these two things to the list yesterday.
9. Everyone fells in love with the main character.
Almost everyone. Of cuz, it's mostly just the opposite gender. Unless it's Yaoi or Yuri...
10. Supporting characters are way better than main characters.
At least, I always fall for the supporting guys instead.

Okay... Back to the topic. So I was finally doing something productive, that is, to start my reading assignment for the IMO camp. And in the "Art and Craft of Problem Solving" book I saw some interesting but not too overly difficult questions that I feel like sharing here. So yea... See if you have a high IQ~

Not to boast but I managed to solve both of these. XD I'll post the answers here but maybe not so soon? So don't worry you guys have time to think it over~~ Have fun getting frustrated~~

p.s. Trust me, both is solvable.

What I Learnt from Novels

So yeah the thing I've been doing most this hols is reading novels online. Thought I might as well do a list about it. (The long-time-no-see list obsession personality is here again.) Actually, discover is a more accurate word than learn... Whatever.
1. It's really agonizing to read a serial novel that is still not finished.
Really. Agonizing. And. Frustrating. For one, I kept forgetting which chapter did I last stop. And also, I can't remember the storyline properly.
2. People in novels rarely change their clothes.
No kidding. Or perhaps they have similar clothes that look the same. Haven't you noticed that for the most part, a character is described wearing similar clothes? It's ALWAYS that white shirt. (Which never gets stained with blood. Or curry.)
3. There are seriously too many China novels depicting cold-blooded CEOS.
Fine, we all know everyone wants to be rich, and also that everyone hates the rich, but still, I seriously wonder why readers won't get bored? I would never read one of those. (At first, I thought it simply depicts male CEOs, but recently there are female versions!! Same story, CEO falls in love with a poor person. Guys nowadays, haiz.)
4. Schools for rich kids have poor security.
Every single species you can think of (vampires, demons, foxes, snakes, ghosts...etc etc etc) can mix into the school. Well, my school (PCGHS) has way better security. I bet you can never find a vampire here. Wait, you can't, right?
5. Some animals are considered romantic, others are not.
Well Westerners might find it a bit hard to understand but I'm sure people who read Chinese novels know about 妖. (The closest word would be daemon. It's an animal who, after hundreds of years, can change into human form. Unlike were-animals, it was born animal, instead of human.) However, the majority of these 妖 that appear in novels are: foxes, wolves, snakes, rabbits, felines, deers... Animals you won't see are: insects, cows, crocodiles, snails....... Well actually it's understandable coz most of the time this characters appear as romance interests, so yeah...
6. People from the royal family are bad.
Trust me, in a novel, they always have conspiracies.
7. The main character usually has a secret.
Don't ask me why. Maybe authors are too bored.
8. The aforementioned secrets can never be safely kept.
Have you EVER read a novel in which a character's secret was safely kept by him/her throughout the book? NO. Some point there the secret will certainly be revealed. Sad case. Fortunately this doesn't happen in real life. I think. (Novels are so unrealistic, but then, how can dramatic stuff be realistic?)

Natalie's Kitten

On Wednesday I went to Nat's house... to see her cat, no, kitten. It. Is. Super. Cute. And so tiny!! He's not particularly afraid of strangers (me) but he doesn't really like me to touch him, unless he touches me first. And he prefers if I don't move. (He will then try to climb onto me... Naughty kitten.) Someone said that cats are proud on the outside but actually loves to be pampered. Well, doesn't really suits Lap Sap Mi. (As for why he is named so weirdly... check out Nat's blog.)
 
 Most of the pictures are kinda blur coz, well, kittens move fast, what do you expect?

That. Is. Just. So. CUTE.

Just love that silhouette.

He finally looked at me~~

The only clear picture. Haiz.

Kittens are just so playful.

...Miaow...

Lap Sap Mi is shy...

"What is this?"(It's actually a broken security camera.)

Camouflage~

Yeah well basically I'm just here to spam you with cute cat pictures.

p.s. And yesterday I went to a bar/restaurant with Nat and Jen. And had alcoholic drinks. Jen got kinda drunk. (She got all red-faced, even her elbows and neck were red... And she was really high.) The point is, she actually got drunk on apple cider... Well, I wasn't drunk. And beer is kinda bitter by the way.