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Sunday, August 31, 2003

WAAAAAA!!!! I MISSED IT!!!! MISSED IT!!!! MISSED IT!!!! Ade peluang nak lepas tensen nari and I f***in' missed it... adoi lah.....
Assalamu'alaikum....
What did I do today? NOTHING! Waah... best nye bile tak buat pape, hehe. Best best. Actuallynye, patut pindah comp hari nie from bilik Ayun gi bilik sendiri, tapi ade time conflict sket, hehehe. Pulok dah. Tatau kenape, hari nie punye pemalas nak keluar bilik. Kemas bilik pon baru half habes (then again that part is to be expected lah since I've never been that good bab-bab mengemas nie... it always takes me longer than org lain sampai most of the time, dah fed up pastu keluar joli sakan). Anyway, kesimpulannye... hari nie, tolak part yang melalak nyanyi lagu Siti pastu nari-nari to my "Boys + Girls" CD, I did abso-bloody-lutely nothing. Ahhh... bliss.
This sem I am going back to my first "love" : dancing. Muahaha... tersedak bebudak STF bace, sebab mase kat skolah dulu tembam macam gajah yang baru lepas tertelan hippo (kirenye gemuk lah tuh). Anyway, dah lame tak nari, since PPP dulu kot, mase grad night (nasib tak kantore ngan mak). This sem dah register dah nak amek ade satu kelas nie (course number omitted, hehe) khas untuk lepas gian nari. Pastu, ntah camane ntah, tadi terjebak amek satu lagi kelas. Haaa... kelas nie bakal diambil bersama-sama seorang budak yang ade describe die as "comel lote" (hopefully lah). Waduh dong. Kalau by akhir sem nie tak susut gak, dah tatau dah nak buat ape. Ngeheheh....
Tadi, macam biase, mandi petang shampoo rambut. Pastu dah lepas mandi, dok lepak tgk tv jap. Rambut dah half kering baru teringat, lupe nak letak leave-in conditioner. Gabra kejap sebab bayor mahal nak seterika rambut, kang tak pasal-pasal die kembang balik ke, ape ke. So lari-lari masuk toilet apply conditioner, then tetibe gelak sorang-sorang. Baru realize yang sekarang nie boleh lah nak risau mende-mende remeh camtuh (rambut okay tak, baju matching tak, perfume dah pakai blom...), nanti kelas dah setat, kalau still dapat mandi 2 kali sehari pon dah kire untung dah tuh. *Sigh*.... apsal lah gatal-gatal amek CS, jadi budak catering ke, mass comm ke kan senang. Heheh.. mengamuk budak mass comm org cakap camtuh, ampun yer Koya...
Anyway, ade org tuh fEat. (feat dot... heheh) die hari nie. Perform elok-elok cuzzy wuzzy, bangge aku ade kazen yang bakal famous. To kawan aku yang audition Astro sesame hari tuh, dah dapat reply lom? Muahaha.... at least one of us gets to be on tv bebeh....
Okkeh, dah habes merapu. Me go to sleep now, later peeps.
Wassalam....

p/s: lupe lak... tukar lagu.. one of my old faves amek from comp Teh... sometimes people do feel that way :)

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Saturday, August 30, 2003

Assalamu'alaikum....
Ngahahahaha... first blog since kaki jejak balik bumi bertuah Michigan. Nyahahah (gelak setan). Baru balik from Maijer Madness... mmg "madness" sebab sume org yang pegi tuh sure mereng balik umah... ramai sgt org kat situ. Nak bergerak susah betul. Kalau bukan sebab tambang free, takde keje aku nak gie shopping tgh2 rush ramai org mase tuh. Ish ish ish...
Hmm.. nak dibuat cerite, hari nak balik tuh, flight kene retime, from 9.30 am jadik 10.15 am. Org yang kat counter (it was a mamat, so you can imagine what's coming up next, stoooooopid asshole) tuh dengan penuh konfidennye pegi cakap "Alah, sempat nie nak kejar connecting flight. Tak payah risau". Heeii.. kalau dapat lah jumpe mamat tuh lagi, akan ku cekik-cekik lehernya sampai mati dong. Tak gune betul. Mane tak, flight took off dekat nak 10.30 am, then landing-landing je, dah terlepas connecting flight. Adegan paling best: bile pegi kat Northwest punye ticketing counter and die gitau "The next flight out is at 10.40 pm"... that was 7 hours away. 7 HOURS!!!! Die nak suruh aku park my butt kat mane? Mase tuh muke dah pucat dah. So lepas bug Kirah byk2 kali with numerous phone calls gitau flight delay and mintak phone number budak USC, I slept on a bench depan all the world to see for 2 hours straight, then gie shopping kat duty free beli a box of Godiva chocolates yang tgh 30% off (bile things dah so f***ed up camtuh, you need to splurge on something... at least I do lah heheh...). Pastu makang fish fillet kat Burger King, bace buku cerite, akhirnye 7 hours to berlalu jugak.
Sampai Detroit, amek cab (pokai aku USD42) sampai Ann Arbor around 7.30 am camtuh. Sebab office tak bukak lagik, pegi lah ketuk-ketuk pintu org tgk sape dah bangun. Nasib baik Bashir-Adlee bangun awal, boleh pinjam phone diorang call Ijat. Masuk bilek Ijat je, Ijat kate leh lepak kat Ayun nye futon.... and I was unconscious sampai lah pukol 5 petang camtuh. Nasib baik takleh solat mase tuh, I don't think I could've gotten up.
Anyway, by today dah masukkan most of my stuff dalam bilik baru (or lame, depending on how you want to think about it). hmm.. nanti kelas nak start dah, and right now homesick siket teringat family kat umah. Cedih...waa waa waa!!!
Okay habes dah sedih... Sept 1st nie (Monday I think) ade pre-class bash (*cue the 10% devil grin... nyahaha* ) Last year terlepas sebab tertido... this year I intend to GO!! Lepas geram before start kelas!
Okay, dah penat nulis. Later peeps! By the way, Sue purdue, if you're reading this, I miss you girl!! Email me your phone number ngan address kat purdue, aight?

Wassalam...
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Thursday, August 21, 2003

Assalamu'alaikum.....
Haiyak, feeling shitty betul now nie. It's only damn 8 in the morning and I'm already up after only going to sleep close to five o'clock last night. Must have been the coffee. Anyway, backtrack kejap. So my cuz Hann decided to pick me up and out of impulse, drive out to Genting, one of his usual places nak hang out. Well, for some reason, my hp and his both tak dapat reception after kol berape entah (it was fine earlier because Nabe called, and I could hear her just fine). So anyway, we borak-borak kat Starbucks tuh until we lost track of time. By the time I realize dah pukul berape, I risau jap sebab kat rumah, I never come back home at such an ungodly hour without calling first and bagitau where I was. True enough,dapat je reception on the drive back, my cuz dapat mesej from his mom saying that my mom called tanye I kat mane. Aiyo, I was close to freaking out already. So I called home then and there jugak, and sure enough, my mum tak tido lagik. *Sob*, now I'm feeling guilty nak mati actuallynye for worrying her, so I'm going to be extra good today (dunno how, but I will). Hann lah kesian, he got nervous jugak when my mum called his and I repeatedly said sorry sorry sorry... lupe plak that this isn't Michigan and tak boleh sukati nak keluar bile balik bile. But anyways, up until that fiasco, I was having a pretty good time actually doing nothing except borak (surprisingly). We were kinda freezing though, Genting time malam can get reaaaaallly cold, dah lah gatal tak bawak jacket. So lepas balik umah, I couldn't sleep, somy cuz called and sambung borak lagi sampai die ngantuk dulu andI told him to "go to sleep lah Hann".
Anyway, my day started innocently enough. Lepas naik angin sengsorang sebab takde BSN dekat-dekat my house, I blew off a king's ransom at this hair salon to get my hair permanently straighten. Those yang penah nampak my tresses can attest to the fact yang my hair jenis tebal and frizzy, susah nak manage. Well, there's this new hair treatment thing called Xtenso from L'Oreal, where if you apply the cream without ironing, it immedietly tames your mane, and kalau with ironing,you get pin straight hair. Since I wanted something yang easy to manage, yang I boleh just sikat, sumbat bawah tudung and go (rambut tebal, I pakai anak tudung pon kengkadang my hair still can stick out), I decided to have chopstick straight hair. Verdict: lepas 4 jam duduk kat kerusi salon, bayar the kind of money I did, nasib baik I like the effectvery, very much. And this lasts me up to a whole year, minimal care. So well worth the money for a one time thing, I think :) .
I am so, so bloody sleepy... dentist appointment kol 11 I think so I'm gonna force myself nak get some shut-eye. Later peeps.
Wassalam...
Assalamu'alaikum to people yang still membace... :) ...

Sorry for the long tak up date part, nie pon dah ade org tegur baru teringat nak update :P. Heheh... actuallynye baru balik from Pangkor semalam, vacation dengan my parents. Verdict: fun!! Nak gie snorkeling, tapi memandangkan my sis-in-law tgh pregnant, so takde org nak temankan. Boo-hoo.... so instead I did something yang boleh wat sorang-sorang and went jet-skiing instead. Muahaha.. duit habes manyak nak sewe but well-worth the money... up until the part yang tetibe habes minyak tgh jalan and I was stranded dekat dengan Pulau Raja. Haiyok.. mase tuh nervous Allah je lah yang tau, muahahahaha. Last-last kene tow balik ngan ade satu pakcik sampan nie. Muahaha... chett, cuti 3 hari pon dah ade dah mende2 merepek camnie jadik.
Okkeh, backtrack kejap to the day before berlepas gie Pangkor. It was Sunday, so being bored, I decided to book org back to back to take me out. Pagi tuh kemas umah, then petang gie shopping kat Mid Valley ngan Bie. Hehehe... best shopping ngan Bie, gie try out mende2 merepek, last-last I bougt a dress from Sommerset Bay yg tgh discount 20% (pink of course, my cousin dah usik-usik kate nak jadi Elle Woods lah plak, but what can I say, dress tuh kaler pink je ade, buat jadik baju raye), pastu pujuk Bie beli baju kaler purple nie which is really, realy nice. Bie nak rasmi baju nanti gitau org! Then Bie introduced me to Rotiboy, arguably the best bread I've tasted in a really long time. Sedap sedap, nyum nyum... rugi tak kenal awal-awal, selame-lame nie gie Mid Valley tatau pon roti tuh sedap.
That nite, my cousin Farhann bawak gie makan kat Monty's. Jakun me malam tuh first time merase escargot, selame-lame nie kalau my friends nak order I buat muke yucks, but Hann kate sedap, so try je lah. Hehe... mmg sedap, never thought snails can taste so good, but probably sedap because of the sauce lah kot. Very delish. Actuallynye kitorang makan slow sangat sebab lagi banyak borak, sampai that place dah nak tutup dah. Hehehe... sian kat waiters kat situ, kene overtime japs. After kitorang drive around KL, since according to Hann I'm "a saint" (wha..?), so die bawak gie tgk area yang bapuk slalu lepak pick up customers. All I can say is, it's amazing what plastic surgery can do. Body serious cantik, though kinda obvious jugak boobs tak authentic. Gilos, elok-elok jadi laki nak tukau jadi pompuan.
Something yang Hann showed me that nite kinda gave me fuel to drive myself to do better next semester. He brought me around area Ampang and Bukit Damansara, showing me all these big houses (some tuh masuk taraf mansion), yang ade underground parking and goodness knows how many cars. I told myself, I want that. The material stuff. The big house yang my parents can enjoy, the fast cars (Hann bawak kete macam maniac, nasib baik fun), the loads and loads of money so that I can buy whatever I want and my mum and dad pon tak yah nak keje penat-penat dah. Verdict: since I'm not a fan of marrying the rich (entah nak kawen entah tak) since it's not gonna be my money, so kene find a way to make it on my own. Heheh... "I have a dream...."
Balik malam tuh kol 12.30, terus packing, pagi-pagi besok tuh dah bertolak gie Pangkor dah. Sampai sane, kene bawak my nephew gie mandi kat pool sebab die freak out bile gie beach. Pulok dah. Mama ngan papa die amek gambar Ajiq jek, gambar Mak Su die haram jadah tadek, chett. Kitorang duduk kat banglo at Teluk Dalam Beach Resort. Verdict: Resort cantik, service not so good, buffet blah, tempat isolated sangat. Teluk Nipah, where I stayed at the last time I went to Pangkor with my friends, lagi best. Kat Teluk Dalam tuh, nak gie island hopping pon susah. First day tak buat pape sangat, second day kitorang gie shopping kat bandar ngan gie sight-seeing. Shopping normal stuff lah like ikan bilis and such, pastu sight-seeing , gie Dutch Fort and this place yang ade replika Tembok Besar Cina. Yang paling meriah time keluar tuh, sape lagi kalau tak budak kecik Ajiq. Padan muke die nanti bile dah ade adek, mengade sangat skang nie.
Balik bandar, me went jet-skiing. Hehe.. org lain slalu yang baru setat jet-ski nie main kat pantai jek, kite gie bawak kat open sea sampai nak gie Lumut dah. The only reason tak gie further sebab nampak sign senapang kat situ, so patah balik, naye je kang. Selame-lame nie tak penah tau jet-skiing can so much fun. Berbaloi duit, though I did get 10 bucks off sebab stranded tuh, heheh.
Last day, just balik kampung jap kat Bota Kanan, jumpe Opah Noh. Lame sgt tak balik, I think dah nak 2 tahun jugak lah. Rindu kampung.
Today, nak kene basuh baju and gie get my hair done (I think). Pape pon, I need to pack real soon. To AA people (Ann Arbor, NOT Alcohol Anonymous), see you guys in a few days :)!

Wassalam....

Sunday, August 10, 2003

A'kum..
Semalam tgk Akademi Fantasia punye last concert. Dissapointing sket, but Vince menang!!!! Hahahaha... best best. My 2 fav. "students"...

FAVORITE GUY

Nama: Vincent Chong Ying-Cern
Umur: 24 Tahun
Asal: Kuala Lumpur, WP.

FAVORITE GIRL

Nama: Rosmayatie Bte Sidik
Umur: 19 Tahun
Asal: Kuantang, Pahang

Hari nie bertungkus-lumus kemas stor, buang barang yang tamau ngan carik baju yang nak donate.Big acheivement lah kononnye kemas stor tuh, unfortunately stor ade 2. Tak larat dah lepas kemas 1.
Anyways, semalam gie jumpe my father's older brother. I think it was last winter yang die kene stroke, he looked really frail. Lain sgt die skang nie compared to my memory of him, he used to be so full of life. Semalam tak boleh nak stay lame sgt sebab his wife kene gie hospital to visit her father, but I did manage to see my cousins. Diorang nye family terbalik with mine, where you have 2 girls and one boy,and the boy is , naturally, the youngest (and the one I'm closer to ). Tgk the second girl tuh, who's now 30 I think, rasenye perfect sgt die. She's extraordinarily beautiful, with long waist-length straight hair that's shiny black, flawless complexion, amazing smile and perfect figure (kite nie, buat pembedahan plastik ke, pembedahan besi ke, pembedahan nylon pon, takkan nye rupe cam die). Kalau bukan sebab petite, dah lame dah kot jadi model. As it is, she's doctor, even better. Family kaye nak mampos, rumah ade due tige and sume banglo. Mak datuk aih, kirenye sape yang kawen ngan my cousin tuh beruntung gile. Which brings forth the question "ade bf tak die?". Answer: nope. Huh? Pelik, package lengkap, kawin belum lagik. Then I found out sume2 tuh by her own choice, malas nak kawen dulu kot. Which makes me salute her even more. Independent women are so appealing.
But she's not the one I'm closest to. I get along better ngan adek die, for some unknown reason. Nak kate byk sgt mende in common, tak jugak. In fact, our lives are totally different. "US didn't change you at all, did it? You're still a saint " die cakap. Hahaha... oh boy, I guess comparatively ye lah kot, though I don't feel that way. I'm guessing we get along well sebab he would tell me all this stuff and I don't faint, or "cramp his style". And he get's the fact that I can be critical but it's only because I care. Anyway, it was good catching up with my cousin, die perangai gile siot.
As usual when I go there, I would come back RM100 richer. Big deal considering the Megal Sale, heheh.
Darn, my nephew needs a bath.




Friday, August 08, 2003

A'kum...
Great news from the home front! My sis-in-law is 1 month pregnant. best best best best best.... dapat lagi sorang anak buah!! Woo-hoo! Okkeh, kene bersiap nak gie shopping (shopping lagik! ). Wassalam...

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Thursday, August 07, 2003

GEGAMBAR GENTING

Haaa... memakcik yang dah lame bising pasal tadek gambar, amek ko bawah nie..


Al-kisah kat KL Sentral tempat mule trip. Ade 5 orang: Farah, Aaliyah (Elle/Koya), Syikin, Intan (Riri--geli jek) nagn ade Elle, Nabilah. Dalam gambar nie (from left, me, koya, syikin, intan) ade koya tukang amek gambar.


first picture taken bile sampai kat Genting


Gambar depan rollercoaster, hehehe.... Tuh yang kene penyek ngan Intan tuh adek Koya


makang kat Burger King lepas penat main, hehehehe. Favorite gambar sume org sebab lighting "cantik" (translate: suram so nampak memasing "sweet" semacam)


Squad Pemanah Warga Tua Malaysia Tahun 2050


Gaye je lebey, kene tengah sekali jek! Siot tol!


Haaa... nie aksi Koya takde keje gie amek gambar senirik.


Fun-Kart baby! This is me zooming by in my green kart. Picture curtesy of Syikin-Reuters.


Last ride of the day! Sebelah tuh Koya nagn Nabilah

Haaa... nie ha a few pics. Pueh ati?

Assalamu'alaikum?

Above are just a few of the pictures that I promised my friends that I would upload. Heheh.. all the others are within my custody ( nanti aku pass kat korang ek, tatau camane, tapi nanti aku pass ek.. ).

Today Yanie and I went shopping, our first day of raiding Mid Valley Megamall. Aaahh?K I love the Malaysia Carnival Sale. Emm, but today, dari pagi sampai ke petang penuh ngan trials and tribulations. Mane tak, pagituh, before org gie mandi, all the men of house sume ade kat umah. Bile org dah habes mandi je and need a ride gie LRT, alih-alih sume ilang. My hopes yang my second brother tinggalkan kete so I don't have to take a cab and naik LRT were dashed bile tengok kete takde. Aish, susahnye lah bile share kete ngan org keje nie. Nak tanak kene naik cab, gie LRT and tunggu Yanie kat stesen. Kite pulak tersalah timing, last-last tersampai awal and kene tunggu kat stesen for about 20 minutes. Hehe?.. kirenye Yanie dah balas dendam ler nie for having to wait for me bersiap selame nie.

Akhirnye bile sampai kat Mid Valley, thank goodness takde pape mende merepek jadik. Ooh.. jumpe Baini ngan bf die (Baini pakai baju kurung ayu siot!) . Shopping ngan Yanie best, sebab same-same sakan masuk keluar kedai, same-same paham bile kite tanye ?§Baju nie okey tak??¨ (translate: baju nie tangan die panjang sangat ke, cutting padan ngan badan tak , kaler tak kusam sangat tapi tak meriah cam nak gie sambut *toot toot* tak, baju nie panjang sangat ke, baju nie pendek sangat ke, agak-agak kalau pakai baju nie orang tengok semacam tak? )?K.or kalau try seluar, ?§Seluar nie okay tak??¨ (translate: pakai seluar nie bontot nampak besar tak?). Heheh.. Yanie nie one of my few friends yang boleh celen kite shopping, same-same vain, but of course die lagi lawa :).

Malangnye, mase nak balik tuh, ade lagi satu "trial" that I had to go through. Call Yong kesayangan mase tgh tunggu bas (lame tak borak, saje je), but I got more news than I bargained for. Hmm.. Takpelah, some things you just can't run from, dah lah dunie nie kecik je, hopefully time will heal all wounds, kan? Pusing-pusing keliling tuh jugak. But until then, I accept dan redha dengan the fact that some things will sting, kalau tak then when I find that pot of gold at the rainbow, I won't know how to appreciate it, tak gitu?

Oooohh...Farah's favorite things: top/shirts by Nicole (cantik), and riz:reni facial products. Alhamdulillah....riz:reni, where have you been all my life? Pakai seminggu je dah nampak difference yang amat sgt, all though it'll be a long time still for my skin to clear up completely, at least I don't look like I'm carrying the map to the Himalayas on my face. Ooh, and one more favorite thing: Cleopatra's Demodex Cream, so great for spot treatments, just letak kat places yang agak-agak nak ade jerawat so that dietak sempat nak "jadi". *Sigh*?...balik Michigan nie, no more mandi lulur, no more facials, no more treatments, no more inexpensive haircuts?....

Tadi Sue call ("peminat setie blogger ko?" die cakap). Die balik Sabtu nie. Best catching up stuff ngan die. Miss Sue sangat sangat sangat .....jgn lupe visit org kat Ann Arbor bebeh?....
My nephew kesayangan dah buat muke nakal, time to layan die "praktis?" wrestling (kecik-kecik dah pandai body slam org, papa die punye keje lah ajar )?... Wassalam..

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