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it's the end

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

my digital camera broke down a couple of months ago. and i'm definitely not buying another one 'cos: (1) i'm sick of compact cameras, and (2) i'm sick of digital photography. i think it's more of the latter. don't get me wrong, i love photography. i just want to be more dynamic. and less shallow. 'cos digital photography made me take photography for granted. i could delete bad, blurry pictures. most of the time, i wasn't even in the mood to shoot anything. always waiting for that perfect moment that never came. it also cost me a friendship, although i'd rather not elaborate about that here. it's ultra gibberish anyway, silly girly stuff. until i have enough money to buy a used SLR, i won't update this fotopage. it's been on hiatus since time immemorial anyway. i'm just rambling here alone. so goodbye.

candle night

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

http://www.candle-night.org(candle-night.org)

there are some things money can't buy

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

mobile phone number top-up credit to call the car rental guy: RM 10 car rental for a day: RM 70 cost of car wreckage and other additional things: RM 900 my 843465th foot injury and my FIRST CAR ACCIDENT: priceless happy new year everyone! :-D

20050831

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

so she thought it was just enough to stay and watch the celebration inside the campus. but something was missing. so she and her friend rode the lrt to KLCC and got there two minutes before 12 o'clock. they never regret it. ever.

crazy Night (not light! and it's about Harry Potter!)

Sun, 17 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT

i am so sorry for the first two extremely blurry pictures. my camera is only a simple one you see, and the night mode was switched on to capture the whole scene or else you wouldn't even see a thing. anyway, for those who are not Potter-maniacs, this was what it was like at the launch of the new Harry Potter book, entitled Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. i won't give a spoiler here about what happens in the book, but i wish that the seventh book would be launched tomorrow so that i wouldn't have to wait for a few more years to know what would happen in the end. anyway, technically, i was among the first to line up. i waited at kinokuniya at 9pm on July 15th. so i had the chances of being among the first 6 who were to get the free books. WRONG. they had signs all over the place saying that the official queue would only start at 5:10am on July 16th. anyway, after i arrived a lot more people started to wait in front of kinokuniya while the workers were decorating the entrance. some even slept on the floor, played cards etc. i saw some bringing little pillows and sleeping bags, but never saw them lying anywhere. the guards ushered us a few times to the security room at the ground level to get the passes and then to give them back the passes. i went there for like, four times -_- 'cos i had to escort people, forgot to take my driving license back (yes, they required us to hand over our identity cards or driving license in turn of those passes!). anyway, going to the security room is like going to a dungeon, seriously. and then somewhere around 4:30am(?), the guards ushered us downstairs to somewhere around BCB. they had us standing behind a fence. and then later they chased us OUTSIDE the building, right outside the MPO hall. when it was around 5am everyone was anxious. the workers were there from an early breakfast and they were sort of telling us to go in so everyone ran to the fence. but even the workers couldn't get upstairs for work 'cos the guards were being idiots. at last, we all saw the people waiting at the other side, the KFC side to be exact, had run upstairs at 5:10am but the guards didn't notice them, they were angry at our side instead and in a split-second i saw flashes on my left and right, people were already jumping over the fence and the others including myself were pushing it but it wouldn't budge. i was already burned out at this time so i had to slip by the side to escape the fence. we were all running for the escalators. by the second floor i already felt like dying. when i arrived i saw people who didn't deserve to be the first six, 'cos i saw them coming at 4am and didn't suffer as much as some of us had. i had to pay rm99.90 for the book, the 20% discount didn't even apply on it and i find the rm25 voucher to be lousy 'cos not only it can't be used on Harry Potter books and merchandise, it only lasts only until the end of this month. and they gave a free 'magic' wand to the first 300 people. i don't find anything magical about that wand. if i knew better i would have bought the book at Times which still offers 10% discount and a certificate, 'cos i find the voucher useless as Kinokuniya doesn't even sell any books by Diana Wynn Jones. i don't even know whether the voucher applies to the Japanese section, 'cos if it does maybe i can get another j-rock magazine or something *shrugs* see? they only want people to buy more from them. next time, i'm just going to pre-order the book. seriously, my limbs are still aching badly, even sneezing is painful. i slept in the LRT and the Putraline, and i spent the whole day in bed afterwards. the only upside of the event was that i made a lot of friends, yay! they didn't mind as much as me that none of us were among the first six (i wanted the free book 'cos i'm really, REALLY broke this month), and in the end getting THE book was more important than getting it free. i'm not even saying that i regret paying for it, but i could have come at 7am and still be among the first 300 people, you see? but it was really a CRAZY night and i don't want to experience it EVER again.

3 dishes

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

feast your eyes.

mushroom soup for the sleepless soul

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

last night i had Thai Fried Rice, which was heavenly. so delicious, that i didn't sleep a wink. on top of that, my stack of CDs fell on my laptop and the 'A' letter just flew out. very small component, yet fatal. so the next thing i knew, i was already waiting for the bus to bring me to the LRT station. i was 5-cent short for the bus fare! can you imagine? all the other coins i had were the 1-cent pieces! i didn't want to pay RM1 for the RM0.50 Putraline fare. >.<;; so i prayed hard to find a 5-cent piece somewhere, maybe on the ground. then i saw this pile of coins just beside me, and there was a one piece 5-cent among it. so i placed my five pieces 1-cent to the pile and took the one piece 5-cent. it's called exchanging :D after getting a shadow play puppet as Sugizo's birthday gift and posted it to Kuri, i headed to Shakey's for some lunch. hoped this mushroom soup could cure my sleepless night. later after walking to Low Yat and got the keyboard fixed, i fell asleep in the LRT on the way back. so when i got back to my room, i slept some more for four hours. and now i'm here posting my entry :-)

LRT again

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

i used to hate travelling alone. it gets so lonely and you're in danger for being a target of pickpockets, sexual harassment, or you just think about it. now i just don't care anymore. everybody does her own business here. people just want to go out with me if they don't know how to get to the place, or they want to buy new gadgets, or they just can't find anyone else to go out with them. sometimes i'd lock eyes with my own friends and they'd pretend like they didn't see me. sort of kill my smile, and then i get people complaining of me frowning or scowling most of the time. frankly, if they'd have acknowledged that they'd seen me, like looking at me or nodded or something, i'd be more than glad to smile and ask how they're doing etc instead of having a sour expression on my face all the time. today i went to Wangsa Maju. actually i just went there like 3 days ago. i'm so lazy to travel far nowadays and my only reason to go out today was to get some screwdrivers. what happened? last night while watching a movie on my bed, my precious Lareine tour VCD just slipped between the bed and the wall. apparently the bed was screwed to the floor, it wouldn't budge at all and my hand couldn't get inside the tiny slit. so i told myself that the first thing i'd do after i wake up today (plus bathing), i'd head somewhere, just anywhere to get the screwdrivers. so after getting them, and walking around to find something to eat (my main problem is food), i came straight back to college and unscrewed a part of the bed so i could move it and reach for the VCD. it turned out there was a lot of junks in there as well, obviously lost by the previous owners of the bed. i found some notes of islamic law, a little thin book, basically a lot of papers. nevertheless i'm so glad to have it back, and i'm never going to sort out my CDs on the bed again.

river + paddy + sky = beauty

Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

as usual, taken while i was on the bus from Alor Star to Kuala Lumpur.

ikan apakah ini?

Sat, 04 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

sometimes a trip to pasar malam can be fun ^.^ like the red banana below.