A Long Pointless Day

Yesterday = Nightmare


I woke up around 7. Enough said right? But okay I woke up around 7 cause I had the Undang test for my driving thing. I kinda didn't bother studying this time cause I knew we'd have plenty of time in the car and all for that. Not to mention there's only so many times I can go over the same 500 questions. So dad sent us to the station and we took a cab from Sri Rampai to the driving school. And awesomely, I paid for all our train tickets and the cab without getting my allowance for the week. 


We ended up at the driving school about half an hour early :s So yeah we just stood around 'studying'. Or rather, sis was studying while I did my best to ignore Joash who as usual was the most confident of the 3 of us and didn't have to study. Incidentally, he failed the test but then retook it with my money. So yeah, joke's on me. 


Thankfully I passed. Got a 46 out of 50. Not bad for someone who only studied the night of the previous Friday and then sat for the test on Tuesday, right? :)


Then the driving school auntie told us that since we passed our Undang we might as well get our 6 hour theory/amali lecture out of the way.


Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


I was totally unprepared! Didn't get a full night's sleep so I could stay awake, didn't charge my phone so I could listen to some music, didn't pack some food so I wouldn't have to go back to the bloody canteen in that accursed place, nothing!! But needless to say, I just wanted to get it over with so to Segambut we went.


The lecturer for the theory part was so annoying. He was telling us everything that I had just studied for the bloody Undang test. And he kept shouting for no apparent reason. I mean the class was deathly quiet and there was less than 20 people there. I assure you there was absolutely no reason to shout. It's not like he was struggling to be heard over our enthusiastic cheers and applause. 


The only good thing I have to say about him was that he finished the lecture an hour early. Not that there was anything to be happy about. It's not like hanging out in the canteen was that much fun. So after that at 2 we had our amali part of the lecture. This very nice lady from the driving school was teaching us and we were out of the fridge that they called a classroom. So that was a relief.


After that was done we were just sitting and loitering in the office waiting for someone from the driving school to pick us up. It was an interminably long wait and I fell asleep. It wasn't a pleasant sleep cause I kept waking up and was thinking that the office people must be laughing at me. But then again they're probably used to people showing up sleepy and bored.


When I got home the first thing I did was look for food. I was so starved for edible food. Thank goodness that the next time I'm headed to the bloody place in the middle of nowhere I will have a warning in advance. I am not looking forward to going back there. 


Kill me now.

Almost there pardner

I had a great weekend. And I'm pretending Friday didn't happen obviously.


I was supposed to take my theory test for my driving on Saturday. So Friday night I somehow powered through like 400 questions in that stupid book we have to read. And Saturday morning over breakfast and on the way to the driving school I actually finished the remaining questions. I was so proud of myself and I felt so prepared. And Joash didn't do anything at all so he was freaking out. But, as always luck was not on my side and the Internet at the bloody place was down. So finishing those 500 questions was a stupid waste. It had better pay off tomorrow when I'm really taking the test.


So after that I had to take Joash to Bangsar to the salon. Yes, I had to take the poor overgrown baby to the salon cause he was incapable of going himself. All by his almost 19 year old self. It was hilarious seeing him looking so out of place there. And I made sure to tell the guy to blow dry his hair cause I wanted to see what it looked like straight. All I can say is, Joash was not meant to have straight hair. Ever.


After that my day got much pleasanter. Went to Times Square to meet up with some school friends. Joash tagged along for what reason I don't know. He looked so bored I was tempted to offer my services in a mercy kill. It was great seeing those girls again after so long. I think the last time I saw them was Deepavali. Wow. How sad is that? Anyway, it was hilarious. I spent most of my time laughing my ass off. Sham was being a clown as usual, Jeni looked like she was already practicing being a lawyer, Nisha was just being Nisha, Asha was so freaking sarcastic it was hilarious, Sharanya got skinnier, Khir became stick thin....I should really lose some weight. 


Anyway we shopped like crazy. Being in Times Square kinda drives us insane when we see the crazily cheap merchandise. It's a cheap shopper's paradise :) I bought so much stuff. I finally got that studded belt I wanted. Been looking for it for goodness knows how long. And no I'm not one of those people who camwhore wearing their new clothes. I'd have to actually be thin to do that :) 


Then when they left Shu finally got there and helped me complete my final leg of the shopathon. After that we went to KLCC to meet Larry for dinner. Or rather I had dinner at Nando's while they watched. Those two clowns were full from eating I don't know what. Then we headed to The Apartment for dessert. Oh my goodness they have the awesomest baked chocolate pudding I have ever tasted. Seriously. It was heavenly. Divine. Godsent. I could go there for dessert every single day for the rest of my life. 

Then we met Larry's sister and one of his cousins. It was absolutely hilarious. We had an awesome time. Then they had a baked chocolate pudding too so obviously I stole some :) I'm a pig, I know.


So after that we sent Shu home and then Larry dropped me off. It was a good day.


Sunday. Sunday was so nice cause MICHAEL'S BACK!!! Well only for 2 weeks but still :) He came for 10.30 service. And the Vijiarungam siblings finally showed up too. And I saw our possible future car!! It's a Nissan Sunny but who the hell cares?? IT'S A CAR!! And it may soon be ours!! :D Okay I'm calming down now.


Oh and I saw Chris too after so long. Speaking of the almost-seminarian, I have a shocking announcement. Whoever would have guessed that this clown who even my dad calls and I quote 'a cool dude' 


.....


liked *NSync. I was so shocked I couldn't even summon enough energy to display a shocked expression. I was just blown away. For the first time I didn't have to explain who JC Chasez was. No wonder we're friends lol. 


*sigh* Speaking of the ever dreamy, ever drool-worthy Mr. Chasez, it has been 20 hours and 5 minutes since JC. When Hannah and Beth came over on Sunday they ended up watching an *NSync concert on my laptop. I should really stop drawing them into my craze. Nobody of their generation seems to get boybands. And today Hannah actually asked me if they could continue watching the concert cause on Sunday they had to leave while the concert was just starting. I had to take a few deep breaths before I very strongwilledly told her that I was giving up watching JC videos during Lent. 


Another temptation was when I saw a link on Joash's wall on Facebook. It was a video of some dance crew on ABDC. America's Best Dance Crew is JC's only current project. He's one of the judges and the only reason I even watch it at all. I suppose the crews are pretty good but the critiques are all I'm interested in ;) Season 6 just started and its LENT so I can't watch it. Which is sad. 


Damn I can't wait for Easter. Just 2 weeks away.  A mere 2 weeks. I can do this right? 


Right? :s

3 more weeks then EASTER

I'm feeling so JC-deprived right now. It has been 11 hours and 50 minutes since JC.


I don't get it. I mean I know *NSync was huge but they had sooooooooo many interviews and videos to be watched la. I thought I made a pretty good dent in a huge pile of media that had to do with them but I recently discovered a mass of videos that I haven't seen yet. Wow. They sure kept busy while all the *NSync hype was at its peak. Which was all the way from 1995 to about 2005. Okay so its a long time but I'm still shocked at how many things they did in that time.


On a brighter note, I just discovered that the Sunday after next is Palm Sunday thank goodness. Lent is drawing to a close for the year. And again I say...THANK GOODNESS. The giving up meat thing is surprisingly getting easier year by year. This year my only complaint is that it's difficult to find vegetarian food. Other than that, being vegetarian isn't that bad at all.


Maybe it's because I have something I'm suffering over more that being vegetarian seems like a trivial worry. Okay I know not watching JC Chasez seems pretty trivial, but depriving myself of him is what made things worse. *sigh*


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway April is off to an excellent start. April Fool's day was hilarious. Larry actually had a list of 'targets'. Yes, he had a literal piece of paper with names on it. He literally crossed names off his list after he April Fooled them. And he had a 'strategy' list too on how to con everyone. It was just so funny.


I was so proud that his strategy for me simply said 'Challenge'. I'm so honoured to be deemed a challenge to prank. He tried too. Hard. Lol when we were at TBR having lunch he and Joanna tried to Fool me, saying that Joanna was chatting with this guy for hours while he was spilling his guts to her. Larry's face was priceless. Then when I got home I was texting Larry and I asked him his opinion on something I sent him that I had written and he said that he hated it. When I saw the text I couldn't stop laughing at his increasingly transparent attempts to Fool me. Shu tried too. She texted me saying that she was watching an episode of Desperate Housewives and Susan died. I almost believed her but then I realised the timing was a little too perfect, what with it being April Fool's and all. Then Joanna tried calling me from an unknown number and asking me what kind of girl I was making out with her boyfriend all. I couldn't help it; I burst out laughing.


So at the end of the day, Larry called and told me he hated me. April Fool's next year's gonna be a nightmare lol.


Then on Saturday Larry and Joanna came over then after that we went for this play. It was hilarious, I had so much fun. I felt like I finally had a social life too, which was great :) Oh and I have something worth mentioning here. My parents didn't call asking where I was until 11.10pm. 11.10 pm!!! I was so proud of them. So now I know the cutoff point when they start to get worried. It's good progress, from 7pm to 11pm. I'd say that is amazing progress indeed :)


On Sunday mom took us to Amcorp Mall after church. There's actually some really nice stuff there. And so I did some shopping. Pretty minor shopping but still. Unfortunately retail therapy's a super addictive drug. Now I'm mentally listing all the things that I need to buy. So naturally one of these days I will be paying Times Square/Sungai Wang a long overdue visit. 


So until something interesting happens I guess this is it for now. Laters...............

So Over Drama

What with my Financial Econs test today and the fact that I've been watching Gossip Girl, I think it's pretty safe to say that my noble goal of giving up swearing this Lent has gone bust :s


I do not want to speak of Financial Econs ever again. And as for William Sue....I have no words for that man. I'm not listening in his next lecture so there.


Gossip Girl.


Oh my goodness.


I just watched Season 3 of Gossip Girl and boy am I sick of drama right now. These people are absolutely insufferable! I can't watch the next season until....well I think at this rate I need at least a year to get over my hate for these two clowns Serena van der Woodsen and Jenny Humphrey. And if I spelled their names wrongly, trust me I could not care less.


Serena van der Woodsen is a self absorbed, 'I think I'm all that', 'I know all' kind of girl. And she has daddy issues (boo hoo) so somehow she's never, ever, ever single. It's just guy after guy after guy and she screws every single relationship up. After 22 episodes, you just get to a point where you either hate her or despise her. I'm well past despising her, I'm somewhere around the 'loathing' area right now. 


Jenny Humphrey is a little girl who thinks she knows everything and sticks her nose everywhere it doesn't belong. She causes endless amounts of drama in almost every episode and is a total jerk to everyone, including the only person who can somehow stand her-her stepbrother. And you know what? She still has friends. It's amazing. And after all the ruckus she caused-almost causing her parents to split up, trying to steal her stepsister's boyfriend, lying to...well pretty much everyone........


In the season finale she's sitting and crying about how everyone hates her. 


Really? She seriously didn't see it coming? If you're gonna be a bitch at least admit you're one right? 


The other characters are pretty okay. I love Chuck Bass, he's awesome. Blair's the only one who really sticks it where it hurts with Serena and Jenny which makes me love her. And Nate is played by Chace Crawford so I don't think I need to say much here :)


On another, much sadder note, it has been 72 hours and 52 minutes since I last watched JC :( I had this dream where I had a terminal disease so I flew to LA to meet him. Boy, was I sorry when I woke up.


Going to uni today was fun despite the test. I missed Vadakai (Larry) and Shu and Anna and Qades babi and Joanna and Beh Jian Fung and Christina and Aaron and Jordi and....I think that's all. Yeah...I think that's all.


But yeah, it was fun. 


Sigh got an early class tomorrow. So lazy. And for some reason sleep eludes me tonight.


Oh well I should probably study. That'll put me to sleep in minutes for sure. Ah there it is, even the mention of studying and my eyelids are drooping. Wow, I think we may have a breakthrough in insomnia medication here. I'll think about that in the morning. I mean it is morning now, but whatever. 


I'll try and be more interesting next time :D

Another Long Week

It has been so insane this past week. I had two tests, Advanced Calculus and Financial Econs. They both turned out pretty all right but its been quite exhausting.


Our Calculus lecturer, as it turns out, is just like all our other lecturers. By that I mean that whenever he says a test is 'easy' it really isn't. And after all those reassurances of "I don't know what your other lecturers mean when they say the test is easy but mine is really easy" he told us like 5 seconds before the test that there were some things in the test that weren't in the tutorial (gasp!) but that we had discussed it in lecture (stare at him angrily for figuring out that I never pay attention in lecture). It wasn't a disaster, I could still answer most of the questions. But still, he said it was going to be easy. I thought he was different *sad face*.


There was this one question that I think no one knew how to do. It was a proving question. He must have pitied us cause he gave us hints on what we were supposed to be proving. The hints didn't help in any way but oh well, at least he tried lol. 


Financial Econs.....I'd say that I don't wanna talk about it but how else could I display to the world my intense dislike for William Sue, our beloved lecturer who gives us very helpful suggestions on committing suicide? He had just finished Chapter 4 the week before our test and it was actually being covered in the test. As if that wasn't disastrous enough, the tutorial for Chapter 4 was THE DAY BEFORE THE TEST. Yeah, we had less than a day to study Chapter 4 tutorial answers. Wonderful. And the questions in the test looked nothing like the tutorial questions. Thanks a lot William Sue. 


And that's not the last of it too. The test was last week. Just a week later, we're having a quiz. On Chapter 5 and 8. Chapter 5 which we just finished, and Chapter 8 which we have not. We have not covered ANY tutorial for Chapter 5 or Chapter 8. Isn't William Sue the best?


On a brighter note, my siblings and I have finally registered for our driving classes. We had our 5 hour lecture yesterday, a Sunday of all days (how dare they take away 5 hours of precious JC time from me?? *angry face*). I think it's safe to say that the guy lecturing us was kind of a psychopath. He was so lame and yet the entire class was laughing at his jokes. I mean, even I was laughing at first but after 5 hours? It gets old really fast. And the food. I almost died. The one day a week that I get to eat meat and we had to eat this sorry excuse for edible food. Such a waste. And I thought some fruit would help but having the watermelon was like drinking water. It was totally tasteless. Goodness, the horror.


I am not looking forward to the next lecture we have to sit for, fortunately only for 3 hours. The other three hours is 'practical' work, hopefully away from that horrible place we went to in the middle of nowhere. Not looking forward to that either, but for now I'll just focus on the test I have to pass. 


Oh when I was in the lecture, Chris of course had to remind me of all the fun I was missing at church. He told Leanne that me, sis and Joash all had dengue LOL. And then he said Lisa was there too and he should tell her that we're having diarrhea. I was struggling to laugh quietly in the lecture, it was so funny. And they actually might have bought it, because the next thing I know Lisa is calling me. And when I got home Leanne called me too. I couldn't stop laughing.


It has now been 12 hours and 32 minutes since I last watched JC. Spent a lot of quality time watching JC videos early Sunday morning (almost up to 3am) then as soon as I got home from the 5 hour lecture fiasco. It was enough I suppose. But I miss his adorableness already. I discovered this thing called 'The Reel NSync'. It's on YouTube. It's just a collection of videos that one of the NSync guys took in the first years of their fame. They're mostly goofing around and its totally hilarious. *sigh*


So yeah, Shu and Larry are coming over later. We're gonna get started writing a script for our musical that we're doing at uni. It should be fun, if my experience at writing the script for our drama in foundation with Shu is any indication. I just hope they don't finish my Cream Crackers. 


Until I have something to report then, I bid thee farewell.

Half A Week Down..

Almost 20 hours since I last watched JC. Mere mortals like me were not meant to try and give up beholding things of painful beauty like JC Chasez. 


So yeah, half a week down. About a million more to go til Easter. Not very encouraging but I'll take what I can. Sundays are not included in Lent for some reason so I had a good time. Surprisingly, having meat wasn't what I was looking forward to the most. All I wanted to do was sit in front of my laptop and watch JC Chasez videos. Shocking isn't it?


Saturday was fun. It was dad's big birthday/anniversary of ordination party at Dr Chong Su Lin's place. She has a very nice house. Big garden and mini zoo :) Yup, you read right. Mini zoo. She has all kinds of parrots and other animals. And the garden was absolutely awesome. 


Needless to say, I waived my resolution to give up meat when we got there. The food was absolutely mouth watering. So none of the young people from church were there. Thank goodness for Hari and Sarath. Where Hari is I always end up having a good time, and this time Sarath and I spent a fair amount of time dissing UTAR and talking about how much it sucks. Hannah and Beth took to them pretty well. At one point they were both walking around Joash, Hari and Sarath in circles casting a spell it seems to turn them into frogs. Fortunately I was spared. 


Emmanuel came with his dad and sister so obviously sis was kept occupied until they left. Auntie Hayma and Auntie Kalai were very excited that they finally got to see Emmanuel.


Speaking of which, Uncle Michael Northcott, dad's old lecturer and good friend, thought that me and Hari were a couple LOL. Here's how the conversation went...


Uncle Michael: (to Hari) I like your vest there. It's very stylish.
Hari: (looks at me and wonders what to say) Thank you.
Uncle Michael: (to me) Is he your friend?
Me: Err...yes. (Clueless as to why Uncle Michael was smiling very oddly as he asked)
Uncle Michael: (smiling) You made a good choice...


And I'm sitting there like an idiot wondering what choice he was talking about. By the time I figured out what he meant it was too late; he had already walked away, leaving me and Hari to stare at each other and laugh hysterically. Later, even Beth asked me if he was my boyfriend. I couldn't answer; I was laughing too hard.


After dinner me, Sarath, Hari and Joash spent most of our time looking for a place to sit and talk. And when we finally found a spot in the garden obviously we were joined by Hannah, Beth and Thanesh who provided the evening's entertainment. 


When I got home that night I waited up until midnight so I could watch a video of JC. He's so hot. 


Mom was so semangat in the morning, waking us up at 7 to go to church. Sis was the only one conscious enough to point out that mom had told us the night before that we were going for 10.30 service. So we went for 10.30 service and spent some time after that with Bryan and Leanne and Chris. Stephanie made a guest appearance for a couple of seconds before she had to split to head for ACA. It was fun.


Uncle Michael came over for dinner in the evening so mom had us all busy in the kitchen. Hannah and Beth joined in on the 'fun' when they came over. And when Uncle Michael was there mom and dad laughingly set him straight about me and Hari. Or the lack of a collective pronoun when it came to me and Hari. 


Shu and Larry came over today to 'study'. Meaning of course that as soon as they got here they asked for food then spent the rest of the time talking. It was fun though. 


And I'm just hanging in there, waiting for Sunday when I can finally watch JC again. 


This sucks.

Lent

Ah here it is, that time of year again.


Lent.


To those of you who are unaware, Lent is a period of time observed by Christians before Easter as a reminder of the time that Jesus spent in the desert fasting.


In honour of this, I usually give up something that I love. It's difficult as hell, but that's the entire point. I mean there are people around the world starving, what am I complaining about right? Last year I gave up meat and attempted (and failed miserably) to give up swearing. It was tough cause for some reason I become extremely unpleasant when I don't have my meat. Fortunately I have very patient friends lol. 


So this year, I am giving up 3 things.


Firstly, meat. I know, I know I'm gonna become downright repugnant in behaviour again. But Larry's the most patient person I know. And if these past few days are any indicator, meat isn't the hardest thing to give up for me :s


Secondly, swearing. That's right, I'm gonna give it another try this year. I'm doing very very very badly at the moment so I'm hoping I'll get better. It's just awful how much I rely on swearing to express myself. Kinda scares me how I completely run out of adjectives when I don't swear. You'd think after the millions of books I read I'd be able to find other words to say what I'm trying to say. Weird. And again, swearing isn't the hardest to give up either.


Thirdly, watching JC Chasez videos. I am DYING!!!! I need help. As in a psychiatric facility kind of help. I CAN'T STAND NOT WATCHING HIS DROOL WORTHY HOTNESS!!! AND IT HAS ONLY BEEN THREE DAYS!!! *sigh* To those of you people who lived under a rock during the nineties and don't know who JC Chasez is, here's what you do:


1. Jump off a cliff please.
2. If you survive, go watch a song called 'Pop' by NSync. He's the hot one in brown with long hair. *drool*


So yeah, apparently even giving up meat is easier than giving up JC. He's just too hot. Darn. I've watched all the NSync music videos and concerts so much that I can picture him in my head when I'm listening to all those NSync songs on my phone. Even Hannah and Beth are hooked on NSync now. What have I done?


So yeah, Lent. A most painful time. I'll let you know if I survive. 


Oh and you know what sucks? Tomorrow there's gonna be this big bash for dad cause he's turning 50 and its the 25th anniversary of his ordination. And I can't eat meat. 


Wonderful.