dear diary,

*last nite i was wifi-ing alone at ss15 mcD till dawn
*sidia went to melaka to see his besfren toban. i wonder how on earth he can go to melaka late nite just lyke dat while making many excuses when it comes to subang. nuff said
*overlapped asaimen tensed me up. 3 of it dateline before raya
*owh have i mention, im in a spooky cc rite now? still alone by myself
*i can just called a friend right away to keep me a company, but i tend to be alone at this moment
*mind me my besfren is a boy which makes life's more complicated but yet i cherished this friendship wholehertedly. Girl friendship is dayamn plastic! trust me
*i dont avoid my uitm's fren but i dont think i can stand hypocrites any longer
*i hate people who friends for benefit. you know who you are...
*its okay, if u dont like me. just tell straight to my face and lets dont be friends anymore! Stop being double faces, n talk shit behind my back. i rather have no friends than coping wif u BITCHES!
*Seyesly im counting days to finished college and grads. cant wait
*cant wait for raya as well, i miss all my besties back home lyke sooooo much!! people who dont backstab yew.
*love, sabya

HO!

Despite living in a cluttered and generally unkempt room, i have a secret neat freak within me. A highly repressed one at that. Unfortunately, it will occasionally rear its ugly beautiful neat freaky head.

I think the trigger is the Clutter-o-meter. :D Once it hits bursting point, neat freak me will take over and chuck clothes into laundry, arrange all dvds, wipe all dusty surfaces, mop floor (well, it's a small room and takes only a few swipes...) etc.

Sometimes i will make insane checklists and itineraries and to do lists like this.

Write it on my whiteboard, snap a pic and i'll have it with me all day. And you know what? it works! Somehow, i will manage to complete most of the stuff on the board. And when it's all done, at the end of the day, i will get a satisfying feeling you get upon completion of a particularly productive day. Oh man i'm going crazy.

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Random pics.

This, fellers, is the Monash Research Assistants' room! Awesome! Y'see, i always get extremely extremely frustrated when i find the library full to the brim (like today, rainy day, everyone had to duck indoors), and the com labs all occupied!

Now! I don't have to struggle with the masses! I get vacant computers just waiting for me to log on! :)

Lockable cabinets at both ends. I can just chuck my stuff inside, lock it and take the key. xD Not sure whether this is actually allowed, but that's what i did! I'm a terrible employee. Oh. While we're still on the topic... the RA room is hooked up with the printing room... Of course, my printing are all relevant to the research as specified by my research supervisor.

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More random pics. I was feeling really crazy for desserts some time ago, so i managed to drag people to Delicious cafe...

Chocolate Brownie. Sigh. No need to elaborate, hor? Oh father, yes i have sinned...

Peach Frangipane. Now this is quite interesting, and just as marvellous. Much lighter as compared to the brownie, the frangipane has a slightly burnt peach taste to it, with a crunchy crust.

Pics getting darker and darker wtf. My apologies, there was only 1 light source on top of our table and i must have shifted the desserts around..

Anyway. Sticky date pudding with butterscotch sauce. Freakishly sinful. The butterscotch sauce. Horrifically sweet though, and somehow the sauce just overwhelmed everything. But if you're craving something hardcore butterscotch-y, this is the one man!

Delicious has got a lovely (yes, lovely, dammit!) array of desserts. I was seated right in front of the dessert display and was practically going out of my mind. There were just too many! And all looked so deliciously tantalizing. Freaking desserts, all sitting there, calling out to me, drawing me into their... blargh!! I wanted one of each! Doesn't matter... I'll definitely be back.

GPS

Uwargh!! I need a GPS, god damn it!

I got lost in KL yesterday and it was a major fiasco. I was supposed to be at Thean Hou temple, which is pretty near Mid Valley. Fastest way would have been to Sprint, then Kerichi my way over.

Unfortunately, i took the wrong turn, and ended up at... Jalan dunno-what. I can't remember the KL road names, but Jalan dunno-what is the one that i take if i wanna go to Bukit Bintang / PWTC. By the time i realized my mistake, i was already stuck in jam, jamming my way to KL! at 6pm no less.

Second fastest way, known to me of course, as i only know 2-3 roads in KL, would be to continue to Bkt Bintang anyway, then take the petaling jaya exit to Jln Syed Putra near Kuen Cheng Girl's School.

Unfortunately, after my way inch-by-inch for quite some time, i saw a sign pointing right to Old Klang Road / Syed Putra!! I immediately went right, but there were no subsequent road signs to guide me further. Fucking KL road signs!

I ended up driving all over. I swear at some point i was freaking out when i saw that i was driving to Seremban, and i quickly took the nearest road leading away from it. I called Nico who GoogleMapped me over the phone, but not too much help coz i didn't even know where i was to pinpoint my direction. Eventually i ended up at Jalan Tun Razak. "Oh Jln Tun Razak, that'll bring u to KLCC"...

Somehow i reached Bukit Bintang anyway, and it finally led me to Syed Putra and Thean Hou Temple, after more than an hour's driving.

Horrible.

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Anyway. Thean Hou Temple.

My parents were representing one of the contributing restaurants for this Taiwanese Food Festival thingy held there in conjunction with Sin Chew's 80th anniversary.

I was supposed to be there to show some moral support, and to sample.. taiwanese food! :D

Thing was, i didn't really know that there was a dress code... And i was wearing some cargo shorts, and mud-sandy slippers... parking lot was muddy from the rain. After attracting some disapproving glances, i snuck into the kitchen instead -_-"

Hmm!!

Aaaaanyway! I got the research assistant job. I was wandering around the staffroom the other day (when i'm bored, i'll just float around the staffroom...) when i terserempak dengan Grace Lee and she asked me whether i was still interested in the job.

Apparently she'd lost my resume and couldn't call me. -_-"

I've submitted all the necessary rubbish for my application processing and i can start asap. Pretty crappy. I'll do mostly literature reviews, journal readings and all that ridiculous stuff. Just that i get paid this time! Ha!

Hmm! I'll get access to the printing room, and RA room (not that i'll stick around and use the room anyway.. i get to work from home) and so on. Hopefully, access to the staff parking lot as well! :D That would be freaking awesome.

List

Everyone has their own list of things that they don't like to do.

For instance, i don't like to

• hang clothes
• eat celery
• dispose of dead lizard carcasses*
• eat vegetarian Bak Kut Teh with ZY (doesn't that completely defeat the purpose of BKT?!!)
• do homework**

Above list is randomly arranged la. Somewhere on that list is...

• look for stuff in my mum's handbag

Now. Why don't i like to rifle through my mum's handbags? Let me tell you. She's a fan of these horrendous multi-compartmented handbags. Deaths traps, i call them. So freaking many compartments.

Let's say this is the handbag's "floor plan" so to speak. Hideous, i know, but illustrative. Seems like a pretty simple "W" shaped layout with 2 huge compartments A and B. Perfect for large just-throw-it-in items, like books, newspapers, cameras, whatever.

But Then!! The divider in the middle can be opened up to reveal compartment C! Slightly smaller, suitable for smaller items.

Then you find small little elf compartments hiding around. Like D, which is right outside. E, zipped, accessible via A. and F, and G.

Wtf... 7 freaking compartments. It's like the non magical version of Mad-Eye Moody's 7-layer trunk.

Now. My mum makes things worse coz she is something of a semi-meticulous person. She wants to be meticulous, but sometimes chuck things in randomly. Let's say D is right on the outside so she says it's for name cards, papers, and a pen and whatever. But i can find her name cards sometimes thrown around everywhere.




It might seem like i'm just bitching for nothing (which is kinda true, and i was playing with photoshop xD) but if you're in a hurry to find something, these death traps are annoying as hell. I spent ages searching for her ringing phone the other day, unzipping compartments and everything.

* Dead lizards are grotesque. I found one apparently squashed to death between the hinges of the refrigerator door! Fuck! Refrigerator! Can u imagine... hopefully it didn't contaminate the contents but anyway so it was there, there... dead-looking and plastered on the door.

Trying to avoid any direct contact with the creature, i had a plastic bag ready underneath, and attempted to scrape it off with a newspaper-wrapped metal ruler. That was when it came alive! ALIVE! It fell around my legs and lizarded away with lightning speed while my dad laughed himself silly nearby.

** I never liked to do homework, yeah. Who does!? But now that i am so god damn free, i am forced to finish my tutorial work out of sheer boredom. I would say that my performance this semester thus far has been surprising. I have yet to skip a class, and never late for more than 10-15 minutes. Amazing right? It's like a 180 from last semester.

over the rainbow...

Dear Sabya,

What is bothering you?

Was it because
of the workloads of assignment
that you have been delayed for time over time

OR
Was it because
of your bank account balance
which has been rapidly downsizing pathetically

OR
Was it because
of your workaholic boyfriend who work late all over the week & WEEKENDS
until you dont even know where to fit in

OR
Was it because
of your "used to be friends"
who smile to your face and talk shit about you right behind your back.


*what goes around comes around. Semoga ramadhan kali ini membawa seribu ketenangan dan keberkatan kepada kita semua. AMIN

Shows

Holy crap! September is gonna be awesome, and by that i mean late Semptember. That's when all of the new seasons of shows start.

14/9 - Gossip Girl (S3)
17/9 - Fringe (S2)
21/9 - How I Met Your Mother (S5)
21/9 - Heroes (S4)
27/9 - Desperate Housewives (S6)
9/10 - Ugly Betty (S4)

Ohoho!! I'm gonna be downloading with a frenzy!

BTW, I'm gonna go catch Pixar's UP! :D

Speaking of movies, there are quite a few interesting ones that cropped up. Like Surrogate. And Gamer. I'll be waiting.