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Friday, March 04, 2005


A Daily Adventure To Lunch

If you're not a student at Taylor's College(or even Inti and Metro), you will not understand what I am trying to say today.

There is a very narrow road just outside the college where students throng almost every hour to make their ways to cafes and restaurants for RM3 meals(if you're lucky). Cars are parked left and right and students with big bags are jostling each other around.

MPSJ towtrucks will be towing P-stickered cars that are parked illegally and one will have to be wary when a truck passes by because the platform's wheels could easily roll over your feet. Don't worry, the MPSJ people will have the courtesy to yell out warnings as they are approaching. "Hoi, tepi sikit!!"(If I'm lucky enough to have foreign visitors, that meant, Hoi, to the side!!)

It doesn't help with the fact that the afternoon sun maintains a very high intensity of glare(got such thing ar?) and can actually temporarily blind you, leaving you in a daze as you make your way back to college against the on-coming traffic of other lunch-goers. Hence somemore knocking with fellow collegemates(that you can't even see).

As you walk by the side, you have to be careful of YOUR bag(the area is very prone to snatch thefts), your hips as it will be the same level as the side view mirrors of the parallel parked cars(why, some of them have been pushed the other way too.) and of course, your poor feet as the MPSJ towtruck comes rolling by with some illegally parked spankin' new car.

If you slow down your pace you're afraid to create a disruption in the rhythm of the long line of college kids walking behind you. If you walk too fast you're afraid of banging into the on-coming traffic of lunch-goers. It takes skills, yo. You need to know when to swerve and to estimate the size of your bag and your college mate's bag so that when you pass each other it doesn't entangle. 

However, there are very inconsiderate people standing along the way. A group of friends will stop to chat hence forcing the long line behind them to walk AROUND them.
And when you walk AROUND them your rhythm is lost. When your rhythm is lost, you feel a little dizzy. When you feel a little dizzy, there's a higher chance in getting rolled over by the MPSJ towtruck. When you get rolled over by an MPSJ towtruck, the RM21000(unless you have some sort of scholarship) your parents paid to put you through college will go to waste. Oops, let me digress here. Do I remember something about someone saying that if you jump off the roof of the college and injure yourself, they will pay for your leg-repairing fees? Haha. Hmm.

Now if the cars were to zoom by that tiny road everyday, I can assure you the mortality rate of the students of that college area will be so high it's not even funny. That is why I am grateful for the cars to go really slow and it is as if we have some sort of understanding with the cars that pass by that road everyday. After every car that passes by, a small group of students would be able to cross the road. I don't know why, but it just happens!

Things would be better if overpopulation is not an issue. A very good example of overpopulation would be when I was walking back into college after lunch at Burger King, I saw this girl with the prettiest earrings ever!(have taken to looking at others' dressing in recent times.. me shallow? Nah,just no money to buy fashion mags) She had those long chained ones that ends with a sweet pink goose feather. AWWW. And then I banged into this girl who had a fake accent who went, "OuH I Ahm Sou Sorrey.." and she peculiarly repeated it with her friend as they walked away laughing.

By the way, fashion in Taylor's College and the areas surrounding it has become far more interesting recently. Like today, I saw a beautiful tweed pink bag and asked the owner(a complete stranger!) where she bought it from. Times Square, apparently.

All I'm asking for is that I end my days here(as a college student la, CHOI!) as soon as possible before I fashion-watch myself along the busiest road in SS15 to an early death.

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Wednesday, March 02, 2005


Sepet

Because I didn't want to waste anymore time as the exams are so near, I decided to watch the show by myself as the girls couldn't come with me. I needed to get presents for Mel and Justin too, so might as well.

Decked out in my new baby blue Old Naxy jumper, I made myself comfortable in my allocated seat and didn't feel alone at all.

Then the opening credits came on. A very unique one at that.

Please do not read on if you are one of those who like to be "surprised". If there are more of you like me out there who want to know everything about a show before watching it, then highlight the words below and read on.

The opening credits was presented to us in such a unique way. A long line is drawn forming the names of the cast and crew in its wake. Cute squiggly drawings that doesn't break off from the line decorates it's presentation. An old chinese song plays comically in the background.

The opening scene sees Ah Loong having a light hearted chat with his nonya mother. Very spontaneous speech. He converses in cantonese whilst his mother speaks in malay. Interesting:). The only other nonya family I've seen is Mel's. But it's her grandma who speaks malay in the family and she speaks to her grandma in malay too!
I'll cut to the chase: Orked looks like she comes from a middle class malay family whereelse Ah Loong seems poor. His housing condition shows it all.

Something about the show makes me feel that it's of a different era. Probably because the location they used was Ipoh, what is deemed to be a small town area. When Ah Loong gave Orked his telephone number on a slip of paper, I can't help but wonder, "Why telephone number? Why not e-mail address? They could probably chat on msn first or something." I realized it was nothing that we Klang Valley kids can relate to, something so old school but still beautiful. The story doesn't tell us exactly when they really got it on but it's just the sweet things that they do together that makes you go awwww.


Picture from The Star Online

If that movie was filmed in 2004 and they were waiting for their SPM results, that means the characters took their SPM in 2003, just like me! :D Oooh!!


Picture from The Star Online

That's one from my favourite scene. He asks her,"How long does it take for someone to fall in love?" and she says, "A minute." She asks, "How long did it take you to fall in love with me?" and he says something like, "Less than that." Oh I don't know if those were the exact words, but my tears just cascaded down like a waterfall.

I like the scene where Mak Enom and Pak Atan dances on a full moon night. LOL. So funny. Any scenes with the both of them were great. With Mak Yam in the picture, it got funnier. Especially the Maghrib part. He looked defeated when all the women in the house had their period and couldn't go pray with him. Teeheehee. Another nice scene was one with Ah Keong and Ah Loong talking in the hospital. It was so real, no pretense at all. Haha, and especially the part where he says, "Malay girls in wet sarongs eh.." and reaches into his pants. LOL. Well, I see we're going somewhere eh, Malaysian Censorship Board.*claps hands*.

The touching scenes were like when Ah Loong put his head on his mother's laps and wept into it not knowing what to do. When Orked finally decided to read his letter on the way to the airport and crying as she was halfway through the letter.(yes yes, I was sitting in a puddle of my own tears by then) and of course the last scene.

I think Ng Choo Seong's portrayal as Ah Loong was a genuine one. Every smile and every shy stare. Very refreshing. He will be the man who single handedly brings thick eyebrows and chinese eyes back to fashion. He.is.hot. I like his soft spoken tone. It makes you feel like you're alone with him. Like the world has no one else. Funny at times, down to earth. But oh so solemn. I like. By the way, just as I was typing this, Justin told me something that got me going, "OH YEA!"

Doesn't he looks similiar to Choo Seong?? Hahaha. He said one day the kitchen staff(He works part time for Manhattan Fish Market) was reading the papers and they said, "ehh! ehh! You look like him!" Hahahaha.. Yeah!! The eyebrows and the eyes man. Damn, Justin, just dye your hair la:) hahahaha. But me thinks Choo Seong would have dyed his hair back to it's original colour as he will no longer be in character. Or maybe not?


Justin said he looks sad in this picture. Well he has every right to be; Chooi Chuan was leaving for Melbourne. Since I'm doing connections with celebrities here I may as well throw this in. Chooi Chuan is Michelle Yeoh's niece. Anyway, yeah. So he gave me another picture.


He says he looks happier here! He's first from right. Well, Justin is really 19. Just like Choo Seong's fictional age. Apparently a few people were looking at him curiously when he walked out of the cinema.
 
Sharifah Amani, I expected her to be somewhat demure and timid. The shy blushing lass. Oh, but no! She was so cheeky and basically said whatever that was on her mind. I especially loved the part where she was scolding Lin's boyfriend. Great crying skills and (sometimes)good cantonese intonations. I didn't know she was Aleya's sister!(the girl who hosted Malaysian Idol). Funny girl.

When the credits started to roll, I wondered, who was that on the phone? Was it a flashback? According to some interviews with Yasmin Ahmad, apparently, at that point, the movie belongs to the audience. It is up to us to decide what happened.
Some guy sitting behind me said, "Boleh jadi Spielberg la dia tu".

When I gathered my things and started to leave, I saw Alan Yun's name as Ah Loong's brother. Wha? The guy's like "Malaysia's Top Model"(or so says the search engines) and he only got two lines of dialogue? Ahaha. Poor thing. He looked so boring in the show when in actual fact he's this yummy candy of a man. He's the guy who was in the Pepsi Ad(the one where he dashes out in the rain?) back in 2000.

Oh right. As I was coming out of the toilet after I went in to cry somemore, guess who was walking out of the men's at the very moment I walked out of the ladies'? Barry and Suet Li decided to catch the same movie at the same time. Sigh. Hahaha. Oh, malunya. They were like, "Aiyoooo, why never tell us....".. Hahaha. Shame. But anyway it was a good experience and it was really worth it. Don't think I would've cried so much if I wasn't alone. Shy nye. The both of them saw how red my eyes were. To quote Barry, "Dahlah Mata Sepet, cry somemore lagi sepet." Looks like someone got media influenced.

Jayelle's back and neck ached at 10:53:57 pm
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Monday, February 28, 2005


The Earring Monster

While waiting for some photos to load, I guess I'll start by blogging about some stuffs that happened today.:)

First off, bio class today was quite something. LOL. Our teacher felt so shy to linger on "out of our syllabus" issues on Sexual reproduction. Heeheehee. There was this detailed illustration of a man and a woman going at it missionary style. You could see the outline of the bums and everything.(But with detailed drawings of your sexual reproduction structure and all). They did make the clit look a tad bit too erotic. Heeheehee(childish giggle). And before we could put our pens to our paper to copy the diagram(the only diagram I bothered copying. Heeheehee) he swiped it off the projector and he was like, "ahah, censored". Geezuz kristus(a swear word I picked up from Korkorbear Chan when we exchanged novel-esque emails back in 1999-2001), that man is a biology teacher. WE DESERVE THE EDUCATION THAT WE ARE SO DEPRIVED OF.

Heeheehee.

Throughout the entire lesson, he kept referring to the penis as Penn-nass. And we were like, "hm, weird pronounciation." And Barry being Barry wanted to butt in quite a number of times. Eventually he raised his hands and said, "Teacher, it's pronounced as Pe-niss. Not Penn-nass."

It was so pityful. A silent moment flooded the entire class. Poor teacher's face was like a child, befallen. He stammered, "U-h, I-I'm so used to pronouncing it that way. Well anyway, as long as you write it correctly that's all that matters."

There was another time where Barry was being a funny ass when teacher was explaining about the female's reproductive structure. Barry raised his hand and pointed at the diagram, "Teacher, what's a Grafenberg spot?" Teacher just stared at Barry for awhile while the whole class went, "Heeheehee" and teacher cleared his throat and said, "That's not in the syllabus."

LOL.

Honestly, Barry should NEVER sit next to me in class. LOL. Happened during my mid term. We made so many disturbing jokes and we didn't pay attention to the teacher.

When we were learning about contraceptions, Barry asked, "What would you do if you were pregnant? Would you abort it?" Without batting an eyelash, I said, "Yes."
"Are you on the pill then?" he asked. Horrified, I said, "NO!". He said, "Well, it gives better skin and it HELPS lessen period pains*points at text in textbook*". I was like, "Erm, don't I have to be having sex to be taking pills?" Well, apparently not. He said he knew people who took it because of medical conditions. So I told Barry, "Well, in that case when I start having sex I'll call you and tell you I'll be having pills. I'll probably be 45 and call you and say, "Barry, I'm taking the pills now." And you would probably say, "Well, congratulations, you're having sex." And I'll be like, "Yes, that is true."." Hahahaha. It could happen you know!

As we were walking out of class, we came up with a conclusion as to why our teacher pronounced penis that way. We decided that it was because he was so used to his nickname for his lil teacher that he sub-conciously said it to us. Heeheehee. Yes, that must be it!

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I went to collect my prize from Seventeen in Petaling Jaya today and got Melody to come along with me as I didn't know the way to her old work place. She needed to get her cheque from them too. Small building that, but nevertheless, quite interesting. I even went into the studio to see a Sarah crushing makeup. Coool.

When we headed back to Subang, we decided to go to this cheap shop Mel was raving about. Apparently the accessories there were so damn funky. We spent nearly half an hour there I'd say. Goddamn. Here are the pictures.:) Enjoy. The shop is called MTM and it's in Summit USJ. Took me quite a bit to explain to the Malay sales assistant that by taking pictures of their products I'm actually giving them free publicity and I don't know why.. but when I'm speaking English to someone who doesn't understang English very much, I tend to speak it extra well. It's a bad habit. A strange one. Then I switched to BM and she could understand, but my BM was so rusty I couldn't even understand what I was saying. Damn that B3 for BM SPM. Damndamndamn! At the end she allowed me to roam free with my cameras\. But they were talking about me by the counter, I knew. BUT I'M GIVING YOU FREE PUBLICITY. No, :P, I just want to share these lovely sights with you people. Behold.


Necklace+earring+bangles set going at RM4.90 per pop. Funkaye!


OH MAN..CANDY BRACELETS HEAVEN!!!! *air liur meleleh*Price ranged from Rm1.90 to Rm3.90.


Rm1.90.. :) yumm.


The main attraction(to me)!
funkyearringsfunkyearringshundredsoffunkyearringsatashoppingmallsoneartomyhousefunkyearringsfunkyearringsilovethee. <3 <3.


A closer picture.


Hoops of all shapes and sizes and colours. RM1.90!! BUYBUYBUY!!


The sweet dangly earrings in plastic bags. RM2.90 and above.


More bangles! They are abit more pricey though. About RM7.00 for one.


Beautiful sweet belts!! RM12.00 or something like that. SO NICE SO NICE!


Nothing I'd wear but I'd use it as a decorative item. Perhaps curtains for my doorway?:)


The usual trinklets. hair clips galore..


OOOOH. Beautiful butterfly clips of the bigger variety. :) I think I'll be back.


The wallets are so classy. It's nice to look, but it's quite flimsy. So what's a girl to do? Why, buy four or five of it of course.:) Only RM5.00. Unbelievable? Believe it. *kills self for being so lame*. *kills self for being lamer with that phrase just before this sentence*.

*will just stop talking*.


These are better in quality. RM8.00 I think. RM3.00 sure makes a world of a difference huh? *looks at Chicken porridge in a new light*.


A vanity case, only for Rm18.00??! I didn't believe it myself. The usual price was RM45.00. It's true, even when I was with Chee Kiang in langkawi last year,we saw one that was nearly RM50. *clucks tongue*. Rare.


My purchases! Sob.. I bought 8 earrings a week ago and today I have another 11 more. Plus two bracelets, a toering and a necklace. Rm37.00. Quite okay. But why the guilt?


I don't know what are these, but they are pretty. Mel suspects tattoo.


Was raining heavily outside. Taken from the road leading out of Giant USJ. Wanted to capture this huge puddle of water. But oh well, the raindroplets across my window is pretty nice too.:)


My prize!! The two tix are supposedly for Aviator. But I don't think they are still showing it anymore. If I'm not mistaken I can use it for any show. A Return of The King Vcd set. And a poster. Who wants the poster? *hugs the vcd set tightly*


The necklace and earring set that was only RM4.90.

 
Candy bracelets. RM1.90 each.


RM2.50.


RM1.90.


RM1.90. ala Swarovski crystals. Why pay more?


RM2.50


Rm2.50. I liked it so much I did something most girls would do in times of intense indecision.

 
I bought it in a different colour:D


Rm3.90.


RM2.90


RM2.90

Mel and I saw some clothes outside Fajar. We usually deem it tacky, but we thought what the hey, might as well. And we were so lucky!!


This pretty nighty was only going for RM8!


RM8 too!!


OOOH.. And an Old Navy(imitation, I don't know?) thick terry-material jacket(perfect for classes) for only RM13.00! In Baby Blue. *smacks forehead* How much better a deal can this be?!

Last night I was in Subang Parade with my family and I bought these beauties. Been meaning to get around to it. Donations proposed by Amanda, Su-Hsien and Shevie are still welcome! And anyone else for that matter! Stumbled upon a DIY earring website and they suggested using Barbie Dolls shoes as earrings. Intrigued by the idea, I decided to go to Toys 'R' Us and YAY, they do stock only shoes! Unfortunately it's for Kelly, but better than nothing. Only Rm6.90 for a set of 6 shoes. I found the earring hooks in Evergreen(SS14). When I'm free enough I'll get around to do it.


Pretty little shoes in rows of keys.:)

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