Archive for March, 2006
greetings from Dimsumland!!!
tis gonna be a short one cos after i post them i’m going to go back to bed and mope. and mope and mope some more. why, you ask?
COS I’M SICK AS A DOG AND HAVE BEEN SINCE THE MOMENT I TOUCHED DOWN IN HK!!!
it started off with sniffles and a very red nose. fine, that i can take, seeing how the weather here is like 11 degrees anyway. so a runny nose should totally be expected. i accept that. i’ve got tissues. no problem.
but then i had to get a fever. a high one.
and then i had to get an eye infection!!!!! which hurts me like crazy everytime i blink. (tze ching, it’s exactly the same problem you had the last time!!! what did you do to cure it?! got 24hr cure or not!?) grr. my right eye is stinging like mad even as i write this now, but i will go on bullying it with the laptop’s flourescent screen because i am one vindictive bitch.
oh wait who said i was done. did i mention the fact that i speak very lousy cantonese with an accent that used to make my grandmother cringe in her sleep?? well yes, the situation has completely worsened (or improved by leaps and bounds, if you’re my grandmamma), cos now i cant speak cantonese at all. I LOST MY FREAKIN’ VOICE!!!!!!
(i absolutely hate losing my voice. i’m now completely disarmed in a world that is too highly dependant on verbal communication. people either think i’m a man or i’ve got the bird flu. and the crowning complaint is that all forms of my favourite comfort food are complete no-no’s. ice cream, chocolate, yuk gorn, deep-fried anything, candy … shit i think i just inflicted the worst of self-torture upon myself.)
*rant rant rant mumble grumble scream argh*
my 2nd day in HK is ending soon and i must say the past 48 hrs have been most unproductive, with almost 3 quarters of it being spent in bed with eye drops, vita C, cough syrup and panadol as bedpartners. am most upset about it. i am inconsolable. dont stop me now.
siiiiigh. not only is losing my voice and having gila headaches a deterrent to Mad Fun In Hong Kong, it’s also a major obstacle in the path of public speaking, or practising for it. so i’m pulling out of that darn competition because there’s no way i can pull myself together (or a 2nd speech out of my ass, for that matter) in time for the 11th of march. bah. English Speaking Union of Malaysia, perhaps next year. this year just aint our year….!
hong kong (or what little i’ve seen of it) so far has been great though. there have been a few major screw-ups in terms of difference in msian/hk rhetorical cantonese, but nothing too drastic.
oh and HK has the cutest guys!!!!! hot dudes on every corner, man.
March 3rd, 2006
to pull that college-in-Canada thing once more would be just mean, not to mention utterly lame of me. plus i suspect that y’all are not about to be duped a 2nd round, so this time i’m just going to come right out and say i’m going on another vacation, but to Hong Kong this time :P am leaving in about 30 minutes.
no superb concert this time. i’m just there for the sights, and the shopping of course :D also gotta try some of that authentic chau tau fu and their dim sum for myself before i die, man!
i promise not to embarass all of malaysia by acting out a scene from Triumph In The Skies (a HK tv series, for the less-informed and the non-tv-watching among you.. not that i watched the series myself) upon arrival at the HK Airport. though if i ever make my way to Victoria Harbour, i’m sorry, but i’m DEFINITELY going to pose there like a lovesick loony no matter how many Hong Kongers are gonna look at me weird. or i could cling on to the back of my boyfriend while he rides a bicycle thru the harbour, with a blissful look on my face. or, um, start pushing carts in the middle of Mong Kok when the police come! maybe check out the hospital and do a scene from Healing Hands.
hahahahaa. quick, gimme more typical HK-drama scenes to do there!!!
ooh and if i see Tony Leung, you can bet your ASS i’m going to jump on him and demand he take 50,000 photos with me. Big bro Chris, will Phil please hook me up with Tony Leung?! i’ll be nice, i swear!
do you people have something you want from HK? so far i’ve got orders for lou por paeng, Taking Back Sunday’s latest album, Elyse Sewell’s book, a Street Fighter movie and … Leo Ku. the last one’s gonna be a bit tough, but i will try my very very best. maybe i’ll just bring back a chicken from a dai pai dong if i cant find the real thing :D
so yes, if there’s anything you want, just text me at my number if you have it. email me if you dont!
okaaaaaay, now i just hope that my absolutely pathetic Cantonese vocabulary will keep me afloat for the next week. if not, argh!!!!! i’m just trying to convince myself that if i can survive in Thailand knowing only 7 Thai phrases, i can take on Hong Kong anytime.
kar yau, me! (even if it’s going to cost me RM0.30/litre more)
March 1st, 2006
yes, after like 17 years of the same old boring hairstyle, i went and drastically (or maybe not) altered my hair a couple of days before i left for bangkok. i wont go into the long boring details of why THIS particular hairstyle, but i will say that it was completely unintentional and the result of a screw-up on my behalf. oh and also my incompetence when it comes to communicating in the chinese language. but whatever.
so i’ve got myself BANGS now. when the stylist was done, i was so shocked i didnt know what to say. not that it looked bad or anything, but i just couldnt adapt to it fast enough. see kawan-kawan, when it comes to my hair i’ve never done anything more radical than red and pink highlights … so the reality of having bangs just came as a big shock. and i felt like jumping off a building when my mom came home, saw me from the door, and then said,
“hi! are you su ann’s or wai ken’s (my brother) friend?”
@#$%^!!! MOM, IT’s ME.
i look very different meh?! you be the judge!
BEFORE
AFTER
actually, there must be something about this particular haircut. i’m getting compliments every day, and i’ve been picked up a crazy amount of times this week both in KL and BKK. suddenly only everybody wants to buy me a drink at Coffee Bean or help me carry my shopping bags. strangers want to take photos with me, even the girls?!?!?! i think even my dad seems to have fallen for the new ‘do cos he just slipped me some shopping money, kekeke. $$$$
take that, alvin choong and old man Chi!!!
(the only two people who had something nasty to say about my fringe. ahem.)
to all girls considering getting bangs - and the guys too, if y’all can pull it off - i’ve totally gone out of my way to draw up a list of pros and cons of The Fringe. even though i really should be getting to work on finishing that evasive 2nd speech, dammit.
Pros of The Fringe
1. you look 5 years younger. that’s a good thing if you’re 30. not a good thing if you’re 17 like me. not that anyone can tell that i’m 17 now or anything, because i currently look like i’m frickin’ 12 years old.
2. if you’ve got a forehead like Tyra Banks, wah, this is the perfect hairdo for you, dont even hesitate
3. you totally save on foundation, concealer and makeup base cos no need to apply makeup on your forehead anymore!
4. your old friends wont recognise you, which can be a good thing if you wanna start a new life or something…
5. you will completely blend into the crowd ANYWHERE in KL (bangs have been the trend since sometime last year i believe), totally good if you want to avoid people or stalkers
6. people will buy you drinks :D
7. your dad will give you money even when you dont ask, just cos you look so uber cute in a dollfringe
8. when you sweat, it actually looks good ! (i know, so weird, right?)
Cons of The Fringe
1. 50% of your vision is obscured all the time.
2. now that you look younger, it’s going to be so much harder getting into places with an age limit. does not apply if you are actually of legal age. duh.
3. your photogenic-ity will drop like a bloody rock. for real. it’s so hard finding good angles for someone with a fringe. dont believe me ah? go point your camera in the face of someone who has a fringe and see how many pics you can get that actually make her look attractive.
4. you will totally blend into the crowd of sungei wang girls. this is SO NOT a good thing, man. especially when you are not one of them. sieutheng has already very gladly tagged me with the ‘lala’ label, never mind the fact that she was the first one in our circle to get a fringe.
5. umm yeah you’ll look like a 12 year old
*******
all that said, i cant believe i just wrote a post about my hair. i feel so bimbotic!!!
okay let’s switch topics. Music of the moment : Switchfoot - Always Something. man, this is the best song ever. if you liked their other songs like Learning to Breathe or Let That Be Enough (!!), you’ll love this song. oh, i wanna marry Switchfoot.
Flop Poppy - Suzeila. local band, wei!!! Hitz.tv played their song and i immediately scrambled to the tv to see who was playing. they’re really, really good, also check out Cinta and Aku Dan Kamu by the same band. (hey Azwin Andy from Hitz.tv is a damn good VJ. cute, too!)
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