Documentary of Charleybean

Woke up early today for the MPH WAREHOUSE SALE! Many books yet not thaaaat many coz you can find the same book in another shelf and then in another shelf again. Maybe because it’s the first day and I saw the workers still unpacking books from damn a lot a lot a lot a lot of boxes. The excitement!

Got myself 4 books in 30 minutes coz my friend had to rush to work.
1. ‘Harmony Silk Factory’ by Tash Aw for only rm16 –> freaking awesome price!
2. Mitch Albom’s new book ‘For one more day’ for rm48 hard cover edition. Well the whole world are having the hard cover editions currently so no point waiting for paperback since now they discounted rm20!
3. Jodi Picoult’s ‘Keeping Faith’ for rm 25
4. Paulo Coelho - The Pilgrimage for rm23.

Friend bought 3 books including Picoult’s ‘The Sister’s Keeper’ and we decided to swap our books! Weeee!!! The joy of spreading love around… or rather to each other!!!

Actually the happiest thing is the feeling of having someone who share the same interest. I went to booksale before with other friends but you can tell that they just went there for fun but they are not really into books. So I couldn’t really share thoughts with them. At least today’s book shopping is rather different. We have a certain level of understandings on the authors we like and that made the excitement more exciting!

I think they going to bring in more titles but too bad I couldn’t find time to go anymore as I’ll be heading down south to get my kancil on thurs and only be back on sunday. While tomorrow i.e wednesday, I have classes whole day.

Went to pudu to buy bus ticket to johor. I will not step into that area if I have a choice which eventually I don’t. The pollution inside is terrible and scary. I was holding my sling purse the whole time and people are approaching you offering you different destinations, even free celcom sim cards.

I’m on my own in this getting-my-car trip. I decided that I don’t need bro to accompany me as he had not been giving any positive reply. Beside, my roommate will be with me on the way back to kl on sunday.

To sum up today, it’s good to be at home, fresh and clean, while cooking my dinner.

Christmas was normal coz my beautiful trip ended up with nothing. So even though I had vowed that I would not spend it with him but in the end I did after all. We had dinner with our friends and then we chilled out at a friend’s house watching The Host (a Korean horror movie which turned out damn funny and lame). Laughed and drank till 3am. Then, we went mamak and spent the next 2 hours chatting.

Met up with my highschool/bestfriends on new year eve. Everywhere in Ou was filled with long queues outside their restaurants. So we ended up dining in Secret Recipe. We were hungry and couldn’t be bother anymore with Chillies or TGIF or etcs. There was a countdown concert outside the shopping mall. I had never seen so many lala males and females before in my entire life until that night. The scene just disgusted me. There were quite a numbers of celebrities @ singers/performers invited which explains the crowd. So me being smart, decided to drive out from Ou at 11pm-ish and parked in front my friend’s house which is within walking distance from Ou. So me and my friends walked back to Ou but we just stayed by the roadside as we didn’t want to get involve with the crowd and just wanted to see the fireworks.

And of course we managed to get a very good view of the fireworks. I was damn happy coz I didn’t get stucked in the jam and reached home in less than 10 minutes. Brilliant!

While today, me and my roommates went to Times Square to get a glimpse of Gary Cao, a chinese local singer who grew up in overseas. It was a mini concert introducing his latest album - Superman. It was great as we were really near to the stage and he is excellent singing in live concert! He’s really playful and hyped up the atmosphere really well. It was really fun coz there were not that many people so we felt comfortable instead of the usual sandwiches situations. Besides, we were standing first row from the front of the stage. Initially, there were camera men and reporters standing in front of us blocking our views, but because each of the reporters were blocking other reporters, so every one of them were moving around looking for better spots, while we finally got back our best seats in the house.

On the other note, there’s this photographer from taiwan looks really attractive. He’s the mature/cool/handsome looking type of guy. Especially his short beard! Because the concert was delayed and while waiting, me and my roommates couldn’t help but looked at him most of the time as he was standing inches away in front of us. I think he looks a bit like Andy Lau. We even took his pics secretly! It’s been quite a long time since I last since a truly handsome guy. He made my heart beat so fast! My roommate told me that he overheard us and gave a shy smile. So cute!

To be honest, I feel a wee bit disappointed on how I ended up spending my two festive weekends. I think that’s why I wasn’t in the festive mood at all. So what if it’s christmas or new year? I wasn’t really spending this two supposedly special days with people I want and the way I want it. The worst part was I didn’t even know who I want to spend it with and how I want it to be. And definately, he wasn’t really the person I want to spend the festive seasons with. He didn’t bother to surprise me or putting effort in planning something nice. But neither did I. So I shouldn’t be complaining isn’t it? But again, where are all the enthusiasm of him when he said he wants to give me more and treat me right?

I feel really uneventful on my two weeks holidays. The only thing that makes me proud of myself and feel better about it is the assignments that I completed in this two weeks. Although it still far from the goal I set for myself at the beginning, at least I got myself to start. Not like the usual predictable scenarios where I would plan what I want to achieve during my holidays and ended up with nothing achieved. So doing work and studying actually consoles my lost soul.

*Silence*

Oh my god, what did I just said?!

Anyway, Happy New Year to me and you! May all of us set our priorities right this year!

I almost cry when I was in Dome with two of my girl friends coz I was re-telling them something which related to my previous post.

But chicken mushroom pie cured everything!

I watched Confession of pain right after our late lunch and it was…… artistic? Overall it was a nice movie and I hope Tony Leung will get best leading actor next year. Hehe.

My eyes are tired and tomorrow last paper! I really did very badly in my mocks but it’s ok… Hehe… it’s not going to contribute to my result at all. Coz my actual exam is 100% external exam based. I think only 40% of the students attended.

Got the car back from bro and it is so dirty! Hmm… I will definately go somewhere this weekend and it will definately be either me alone or me with somebody else, but will never be me with him!

Have to clean Lazy’s litter box.

The killers’ new album is rather disappointing. Hmmm. Sounded so cincai-ly made. Hot fuss was damn addictive. But Sam’s town… tsk tsk tsk. Maybe I should try listen again.

I want to watch Sin City!

Jessica Alba is so hot!

And I love this song so freaking much!

HERE!

But I think the instrumental one is nicer. and I HAVE IT!

There are quite a lot of classes this week and I hardly have time to breathe!

Today just had a very tiring and mind-exhausting lecture from 5pm till 9.15pm. And guess what? I’m going to have four lectures from 10am till 5pm tomorrow (SUN)!

I reached home around 9.45pm and went to bed straight away so I can get some sleep before heading to GSC for a late night movie with my roommates who were there already.

The movie was at 11.20pm so I had about one hour. Set alarm but my brain decided to ignore it and I slept till 11pm when I supposed to wake up at 10.40pm. Woke up, got my jacket and keys, ran straight out to my car, rushed to the cinema and made it on time.

There was a second I thought I was going to sleep through the whole movie because I was really sleepy and tired. I thought I was going to drive home from college half asleep but lucky I didn’t. Well, the movie was ok. Well, at least I like it even though friend said it was just a bunch of sexy girls fighting. I love Holly Valance!! She so hot!! And her slang!! I have no idea what slang is she speaking but I just like it.

After movie, I went and got my ramlee burger at Tmn Tun. Omg, it’s been so long since I last had a superdelicious chicken burger special!

Now, I have this suffocating feeling. Because there’s not enough time for me to take a break! It’s like almost everyday has classes and I feel so tired when I come back home and if I take a nap then there’s not much time left and the next thing I know is I have to sleep early because there’s class the next day.

:(

With all these sacrificing and suffering and more are coming on the way, I better earn good money in the future man.

*yawn*

I still have one chapter to read for Land and five chapters for Commercial before tomorrow. Oh, look at that! It’s 2.11am now.

Dammit la. I’m just so tired and stressed up.

Watched Snakes on the Plane last week with my dad. If NOT FOR MY DAD, I wouldn’t have watch that movie with all the snakes in it…… OMG still couldn’t believe I really watched that movie.

Seriously, all snakes should have allergy against oxygen and just die diE DIE!!!!

Dad drove a car from JB for my brother and brother is not back yet, so the car is currently in my possession right now. So, I went Ikano to get Lazy’s litter sand and food. Bringing Lazy to grooming tomorrow.

Hsemate is getting selfish-er and selfish-er. Something wrong with our internet router and its like only one person can go online at one time. So he’s connected then just keep quiet and doesn’t bother about others. Then when he couldn’t, he just showed his charcoal face.

My handphone’s keypad doesn’t work so I gave up sms. Sent it to service just now.

Next week, I have night lectures by a professor from far far away land. *yawn*

Dad offers HP IPAQ rw6828…

in exchange for my ZEN VISION: M.

He wants to give it to my sister.

My ZEN is 30GB and IPAQ is 1GB which is an external mini SD card!

I was like, “Hello?! 30GB and 1GB??!!”
Dad, “You can buy few more SD cards!”

Besides, IPAQ is NOT a MP4 player!

But it’s a quite cool PDA-phone.

I have time to think about it till Sunday when he’s back to Kl from JB.

Argh!

I hate barter system!

Hmmm, wonder will my brother give up his Ipod video for IPAQ.

But dammit… Why my ZEN?!

We were sorting out our old junks the other day. I found my favourite Walt Disney comic book which I remember treasured it a lot when I was young. But we were sending our old stories books to recycle so my comic book is now sealed inside a box and that’s bye bye forever. Then, to my surprise, I found my collection of letter-writing papers! I almost forgot that I used to collect them.

I used to write to my pen pals and that’s how I started collecting different designs of papers and nice envelopes that came along with the papers. But I didn’t finish using all my papers as now I only write to one and mostly with postcards. Then while I was arranging my collection into a new folder, I realize that actually I do have a lot of letter-writing papers and some are still new. So I encouraged my sister to write since it will be wasted to not use those papers. Somehow it turns out to the idea of we writing to each other after I go back to KL. It’s an interesting thing to do between sisters and I’m looking forward to it.

I used to collect stamps and first day covers as well. I stopped after I left to KL and my sister takes up the hobby. Besides that, I found my old diaries that I shared with my best friends. We took turns and wrote about anything. There were three of us and we read each other’s bad days, talked about boys, bitched about arrogant top ten students in our class and more. It was sweet because there were encouragements as well.

I have three diaries with me and I wonder how many are there my other two friends keeping. I don’t remember anymore how many diaries we wrote.

Yummy!

We had seafood for dinner at our famous seafood stall in Tawau. I love Praying Mantis Prawn! My sister was asking me what the hell is a praying mantis prawn. So my parents asked us to go inside to have a look.

Mom: As a Sabahan, you also don’t know how does your seafood look like before they are cooked.

So both of us went to the big giant tanks/aquariums with fishes, lobsters and lots of other living things from the sea.

They keep the praying mantis prawns in separate mineral bottles because according to my dad, they will fight with each other. So fierce yet so tasty after they are fried.

Recent years, I think because there are more foreigners come for the seafood, that’s why all the labels are written in English now. Sea chicken, Flower crab and etc.

And now they give free tongsui! Eat as many bowls as you can!