For the first time, the bus left me. I think it's cause I didnt flag for it to stop. Well, that was silly. I hate my sense of timing, really. :/

Finally I got my share of papparich. It has been open for about two months now and it was finally my turn to have a taste of malaysianess again. Have been begging my sister to bring me there even before it opened. The first time I went, they had a renovation going on and I couldnt get a meal there. :(

As you can see, I live considerably far from the city. Travelling there just for a single meal seems a tad bit absurd if you ask me. But that was exactly what I did yesterday. Hahahahaha! There seemed to be no fate for me to have a bite at papparich ever since it opened. All the agonising disappointments I get every single time I want to have a taste there, finally paid off. Like finally.

Was so excited about getting there for a proper malaysian meal after so long. The moment I saw the menu, I elapsed into a mild spasm. My friend described me as 'a child at the state who had been lost and has finally found my way home'. Truthfully, I did feel like what she described me to be. The menu here had much more variety than the last time I saw it (which was just about two weeks before arriving in melb). Was so tempted to order almost everything, just to have a taste of it. Then I thought about how much I could actually eat, I toned it down a little. Settled with a plate of nasi lemak with chicken rending and sambal prawns. Also ordered a single slice of steamed bread, with kaya but not the butter (I hate butter.). Though honestly the kaya was a little bit disappointing, but its the closest to kaya that I have tasted for such a long time. The nasi lemak was fabulous!! :D Though I am not too sure what was with the cucumber. Hrmmm. Milk tea as my drink of the day! Awesome stuff!! I couldnt get myself to get that perfect concoction of milk tea. Oh the satisfaction!!! <3

If you do know me personally, I get ridiculously happy when I get my share of superbly good food. It literally writes 'insanity' all over my face. :O It's just that moment where I was trully happy that it shows so obviously that it would end up ridiculous to whoever who is there to witness it. Probably would make people go, 'the hell is wrong with this girl? -.-'. Yes, the -.- emoticon was necessary, most of the time. But I really can't help it, I was trully happy then. What more do you want me to do? Pretend I am not happy? HAHAHAHAH. No. I can never do that. I like the way I am, this way. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA! :D

I wonder why am I saying that, but it makes me happy to talk about happy moments whenever I can. It feels like I am enjoying my life to the fullest, just as how I am actually feeling deep inside. Besides, looking at people who are glowing with 'happiness' makes me happy too. :)

Here's something I have not mentioned ever. Was some sort of experiment for me, actually. Never really thought it would actually work out as well as I initially thought;

It was just a random shopping day with my sister, and she told me, "list down three things that makes you happy for that day, just before you sleep. Seemingly, it helps you feel happier." That, is what she told me. It sounded interesting, that 'concept'. It was simple, it sounded like it was plausible, but I understood it in a different perpective: by writing down what makes you happy for that day, it will make you look ridiculous for listing what silly things that could actually make you happy, cause the littlest things could really make me smile like a child... literally. LOL. I am not done with my sentence. It was a way where you actually have realisation on what life was really worth. The list actually makes your life more worthwhile.

I really thought it was crap, ridiculous, unnecessary. But I was depressed then. HAH! And so, I tried. BUT I WAS STUBBORN AS HELL, I WENT UP ALL THE WAY TO 10 PER DAY.

That's alot to keep up with, honestly. But I did, anyhow. It's been a month since I started. For the first week that I was doing it, it got the attention of a handful of my twitter followers, influenced one of them to follow too. I never thought my happy things would actually give that 'happy aura' to others, never. HONESTLY SAYING, I thought I was only being delusional by myself, being happy on my own on twitter. But hey, it's been about a month now! Every night without fail, I will post up ten things that made me happy for that day. I would normally end up sleeping with a smile on my face. Though I have skipped about a day or two where I have been really down. My friends who followed my tweets, would ask where was my daily list of 10 if I had not posted them for the day. Have got other friends who were influenced to start with list of daily happy things too.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH! :)

Happiness can be viral too! Awwwwh. I never really gave that much thought until today, but I guess the self-tested experiment seemed to prove that it has brought positivity in not only my life, but others around me too.

WHEEEEEEEE~~~~ :D

Why not start your list of happy things too? You can start of with the minimal of 3. Simple rules: they have got to be different every single day. Also, you can't think too much about what made you happy : you bought an awesome outfit today, don't think about how expensive it was or how you might not be able to wear it often, SIMPLY SAID: fact that you bought that outfit, makes you happy, then that is YOUR HAPPY MOMENT. ;)

Happy days! <3

5.14am. Listening to the newly released single, Twinkle by SNSD's TaeTiSeo. It's about 9 degrees celcius at this very moment. It is cold to the bones, where I should be nicely tucked under my comforter, sleeping, probably dreaming about something nice. But I am here, blogging.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Insanity. I was doing my biology essay which is due on Monday midnight. Why am I doing this at this hour of the day? I guess you can say that I am doing my work at the eleventh hour and making unnecessary sacrifices by staying up late and jeopardizing my health. It's been the second night that I am doing this. Haven't done this, staying-up-extremely-late thingy for quite some time now. Not too sure why I am doing this, when I actually do have time to do this during the day. Maybe I just wanted to get this over and done with as soon as I could? I really have no clue why am I doing this. :/

Besides, as I was typing this, my darling laptop crashed on me. Poor thing, my laptop. It had been on for like ever since I first decided to start with this assignment of mine. I didn't want to risk loosing all those journals I found and thus, I left my laptop to hibernate. Though really, I think it deserves to shut down completely sometimes. However today, it probably did overrun a little too much. Had some problems with the flash player not too long ago, and now I have Google Chrome.

Some boring post this is, just me writing some random stuff to fill that temptation to blog something. Does feel like my blog is some kind of drug to my mind now. :O

Anyhow, have this thought of blogging about the bersih rally that took place Saturday afternoon. Something worthy for me to write some stuff about. heheheh.

I, just need to find time for that.

Thinking and writing can be difficult sometimes...

There is something about musicals that entices me. Not too sure what it is, but if it is produced lavishly, and with it having a good story line within it, it would be exceptional. Once watched, it would eventually stay in my mind forever. Maybe it's the music that I was interested in, maybe it's the whole package. Not too sure which, but I am very certain I have this special interests in musicals/broadways.

Not an expert to tell the difference between musicals and broadways. But I know I can't watch Operas. Operas are just not my thing. I can never understand what they are trying to tell. At least with musicals, we have a story line, with addition of music and probably good choreos along with it.

What really captures my interest would be the genre whereby the girls wear skimpy outfits yet have powerful vocals in their performances. For one, would be Moulin Rouge. I honestly CANNOT remember what the story line was, but whatever music that was in it, I could remember, maybe with muffled lyrics, cause I was really young then, but I remember that movie was the one that I rememebered most. And this was back in... 2001. It was probably deemed as inappropriate for me to watch then, with all those girls in skimpy revealing outfits prancing around into guys or somesort. REALLY, I cannot remember what the movie was, all I remember was the whole movie was dark, and it was in some place, and the main actor was a writer and the main actress was a part of the skimpy dressed performers who dies in the end. I really need to rewatch this movie someday. HAHAHA

I AM VERY SURE that my interest in musical sparked from there. From then on, I would be extremely excited whenever a musical-like-film hits the cinemas. Would try my best to get to those movies, but I am very sure I have missed a whole chunk of it, and it probably wasn't as good. HAHA Some movies were too focused on the emotions while others were too focused on the music, thus there never really was a spectacular one... yet? Dreamgirls was a big hit though! So was Burlesque, but somehow, it didn't give that same impression as I did with Moulin Rouge. :O Though honestly, I have no memory of the story line, all I remember is the music from that movie. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

It was just this year that I spent quite a sum of money, to watch a Broadway show, 'Wicked'. It was one of the famous broadway shows in the States and they were there in Singapore when me and my friend were there. Seemingly it was a one-shot thing, I figured that it would be worth it to spend about 200 Singapore dollars on the show. It is alot, I am aware. But we went ahead with it. It was somesort of a dream come true when I was there watching it. IT WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST EXPERIENCE EVER! The story line was perfectly pieced with the music and choroes. SUPER LOVE!!!! :D

...

heh. I just felt like talking about it. :P
It's Friday today! Have got two essys due next week and I am having troubles with them. Am not the kind of person who does academic writing properly. Probably because I have been to used to writing informally and casually, ACADEMIC writing doesn't work for me. I know I should be working on improving it, but I also know that it could actually change my writing habits altogether. This actually happened last year. Which is scaring the crap out of me, just in case I would actually elapse back into that phase again. WHICH CAN BE SCARY. I scared myself with my own writing. HAHAHAHAHHA :P

There's nothing going on about these days. More on the studying side and relaxing a little more. Had been sick for the past whole week. Oh, the joy.

Ah yes! I can tell you about the magical wonders of the heater! HAHAHHAHAHA!

As you may or may not know, it is closing to winter here. Just as my brother left back for Malaysia, it started getting extremely colder, with the addition of rain, it wasn't a pleasant feeling at all. Almost felt like the Sun and Heat had followed my brother back to Malaysia, everybody back there seem to be complaining about how hot it is in Malaysia now. D:
After spending the day out in the chilly cold weather, with the rain spilling on our heads for the whole day, returning home to the nicely heated home, it felt kinda nice. Though my head seemed to be disagreeing with me as much as it could. It seems like the sudden change of temperature from extremely cold to HOT was a little too much for my head to handle for now. Not sure how am I going to survive WINTER here, really. Fingers crossed everything will be alright. :)

AM SO EXCITED THAT I WILL BE HOME IN ANOTHER TWO MONTHS TIME!!! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
anyone coming to pick me up? :O

Creole Lady Marmalade~

I discovered that I like baking. Being ambitious, I am tempted to try to bake cinnamonrolls someday this year. Though I still need to get my hands on a rolling pin and probably a electronic mixer. hrmm. That shall wait. But as for today, it shall be me baking, and how my journey with baking is like.

When baking...
HER: Oh! What are you baking?
me: Banana muffins! Would you like some?
HER: Yummm! Sure!

After baking...
HER: Ah! They smell so good!
me: I KNOW RIGHT?! AND THEY LOOK SO ADORABLE TOO!!! WOULD YOU LIKE SOMEE?! :D
HER: nahh, I just had my lunch.

Honestly. This is my third time baking. And each and every single time I bake, I offer, and I get turned down. SO SAD!

Here was the convo we had on my first batch of muffins;
HER: ahhh! They smell so good!
me: YEAP! Pretty sure they taste good too! CHOCOLATEEE!! :DD If you guys want some, go ahead and have some! :)
HER: nahh, we had too much chocolate.

First batch was done during Easter break. They had chocolate overdose the night before, I would understand.

Nope. Am pretty sure she is doing it on purpose to break my heart. :(

I don't get it. If I don't offer, I will seem like some bitch. But if I offer, and get turned down like that, I get heartbroken. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?!
-.-

It is not like I am offering them burnt food or anything.

OH GOD WHYYYY?! :((((((((

See that 'P' symbol there on the left side of this page? The one right below the title bar? Please don't tell me you're blind! D:

I shall do a little rambling about that little 'P' symbol in this post. :D

It is actually the symbol for 'Pinterest'. Now not many people know of it, even I didn't until I stumbled upon some random person's blog and read that she was going on and on about Pinterest. Which got me interested, because whatever she posted about Pinterest... sort of lifted my heart a little. Bizarre as it sounds, but it makes me feel that tang of internal happiness, the pure kind, where it really is very difficult to explain or express, really.

So, I clicked on it, and I went on for the whole day, just browsing through, looking for pics that made me happy. Then, suddenly it became an addiction. In order to participate in this Pinterest thingy, you actually need an invite. Which I felt, makes it much more personal. Hehe. When I first thought that they only allow invited people to join Pinterest, I thought I wouldn't have a shot. But I was already satisfied with the fact that this THING actually exist, so I gave it a try anyhow. Silly me, I got super excited when I was accepted. HAHAHA

Was going on and on about it on Twitter, that a friend asked, what is with the outrage of Pinterest. Then I mentioned that it was somesort of photo sharing website where you share interest and like them and such. She then said, 'isn't that like Tumblr?'. I guess it does. But the fact that tumblr has so many random pics of random things, it just didn't feel at all... personal? It was more of a place for people to show off what makes them happy, more than 'finding' what makes them happy.

LOL! I JUST SAID THAT! showing off vs finding.
That's big of a topic, isnt' it? :P

Then not too long ago, I was talking about Pinterest again with a friend. Which made me wikipedia what it really was so that I need not explain in detail where I would get a frustrating response : isn't it like Tumblr? Then I found out more interesting facts about Pinterest. HAHAHAHAHAH. Interesting enough for me, that it is so personal, yet it is ranked. Though it may rank much lower than Tumblr, but since it gave me that personal touch, it just made it even more... PERSONAL! :D

I would spend hours upon hours, just searching for things that had made me happy before, or to even randomly browse and find something that would make me smile.

There is also another website, 9gag? But 9gag is more on the entertainment side. Where I would waste ample amount of time, browsing and fall upon something to laugh at. It's different.

What do we do on Pinterest?
Basically we just scroll through the site, until we find a gem. When we notice that gem, we can choose to like it. Not liking it, is fine too, but what I normally do is that I would create a 'board' as the folder and then 'repin' that gem onto my board. This way, I can come back and view my board again and find everything that made me happy, on that board. :)
There come times where people would follow your boards and see what happy things you have, they can repin your gems and then the process repeats.
It is basically a sanctuary for you to find your common interest with strangers. Which is JOY! :D
BTW. my term of gem really meant 'PINS' in Pinterest terms. :P
You can upload pins too! Whether for your own likings or for sharing, it's still do-able.
Create more boards and fill those boards up with happy things.

Pretty much unlimited.

OH! You can upload videos too!!!

Find happiness. It's everywhere! <3