Of ShoppinG, NeW Hair-Do and the UpcominG TriP

Phew...since Monday (the day i moved into this new house; in which i rent a room) until today, i've been going out non-stop! Gone in the morning n come back at night... i drove to quite a number of places, ventured out even to places i had never been driving alone before (like Shah Alam)...etc2.. i should be proud of myself right? As a Kedah-born-'P'-driver PLUS a chicken on road, it's quite a BIG achievement for me i think...

Forget about that..i have been going out to buy some new stuff for my room... and every day, ada je menda yg rasa cam belum beli lagik.. and yeah, naturally, ma money runs like a fast-flowing river right now. It's quite the same phenomenon when i first moved into my apartment in Stafford House in Welly before. i hope this shopping madness will end real soon!

Today, finally i had my hair cut in Times Square... i could not deal anymore with ma damaged discoloured hair with zillion split ends. i looked like a lion, seriously! so just now, i simply walked into a salon.. n asked the stylist to cut my hair...layered as usual. if u know me too well, u know i am not that adventurous when it comes to hair styles. So just a bit shorter, better layers, and the usual side fringe. but i'm happy. although no one recommneded me this salon, but i'm very satisfied. quite murah..n the junior stylist's skills are not that 'junior' after all. ;)

For some of u who do not know yet, i am going for a ONE day trip to Singapore this Saturday. Yerp, i can only afford a day trip for now (although the Air Asia's London Promo deal really made me fidget in excitement... but dah sedar diri dah...). So, finally, i will be going to Singapore!! i had only stepped my foot on the Singapore land (only the airport, to be exact) in 1996, on my flight transit to and from Auckland, New Zealand (masa tu MAS xde direct flights lagi kot to NZ). That's all.. But damn!, I couldn't believe that the currency exchange rate for Singapore Dollars is higher than the New Zealand or even Australian Dollars!!! gila ah! so NO shopping in Singapore for sure...

will update bout the trip when it's over...

Ciao for now..

I am a PERFORMER???

got this frm Sharon Bakar's blog... pretty interesting..although not entirely accurate.

u can go to

http://www.typealyzer.com/index.php?lang=en

to check what type of blogger you are... Below is mine:

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The analysis indicates that the author of http://hairyazzy.blogspot.com/ is of the type:

ESFP - The Performers

The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.

They enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.


Comments:

Entertaining? I'm not so sure.. Friendly? i AM indeed! heheh.. i am attuned to pleasure and beauty? Looking at my passion for fashion and interior designing, i reckon that the statement is pretty accurate.. ;)

About planning ahead...I'm not that sure myself...sometimes, i am a VERY well-planned person. At times i tend to plan ahead even the simplest petty things, simply to minimise any possible damage due to my absent-mindedness (the same reason underlying why i try to be as organised as possible too...).

But sometimes, i do enjoy spontaneity. The risk, the thrill, the challenges, the new discoveries and insights. All of these are equally amazing... And they make life even more colourful, not just bland with sameness and predictability.

The fact that i like to help other people, most of the times, doesn't mean that i want to show off that i am a Miss Goody-goody. But, it just so happens that it is the nature of the things that i am inclined to. Like my major: EDUCATION.. of course i am helping students out in the most concrete and visible way. and also, I love Psychology.. and i once dreamt of becoming a counsellor who has regular columns in newspapers, helping people out in resolving their conflicts, as far as i can, through writing. Hrmm... so yeah, there's truth in the statement.

About avoiding conflicts..That is SO true... I hate my 'serious' side. and i hate the fact that i don't sound convincing and am not really good at 'debating' issues, what more in refuting statements, verbally. So, I only initiate confrontation when deemed very necessary and only if i know the person concerned can deal with confrontations, criticisms, and feedback, positively and maturely. And even so, with utmost care and prudence. If not, i will just keep all my feelings and views to myself or pour them out to my blog.

So yeah, it's true that i can't see myself in management positions, what more working as a boss..no way!

That's all peeps!

of Exams, Packing, and Moving Out

oh yeah, the exams were a history now...

I 'thought' i would feel good that everything is over, but nahhh..i feel worse... General Linguistics, the paper that i thought would be the least intimidating one, turned out to be a nightmare! and it was my last paper on Friday. banyak gila salah.. but I have no one to blame, not even myself!!! coz all the mistakes that i had done were beyond my control. I mean how on earth could i ever know that 'radar' is an acronym??? (ntah2 korang tahu...waaaa..). and how on earth ME who have never learnt Science in English before could ever know the meanings of technical words like 'concave' and 'convex'?? seriously, my vocabulary is not THAT high... and a lot of my phonetic transcriptions also contained quite a number of minimal and major errors, and i dunno how strict the marking will be...waaaaaaa!! i HATE this feeling. it's exactly the same feeling i had after my SPM. *wek*...

so it's pretty clear that i will be harbouring these feelings of uncertainty, worry, and doubt until the results come out... mannn, malunya kalo General Linguistics pun xleh dpt 'A'!!! It was like my ONLY hope!

enuff about that...

i will be moving out tomorrow from this hostel (Kolej 11 UM)...initially wanted to move out today, but being totally ME, of course i didn't occur to me that the office is not open on weekends. so yeah, tomorrow...

I started packing yesterday... and by now, i am like 90% done. I've been transferring my stuff to the new room gradually bit by bit since yesterday...coz i was afraid my car couldn't accommodate all of my oh-so-important stuff at one go. But it turned out, it's not the car, but me who cant really deal with the continuous heavy lifting (carrying things alone from my room at level 3 to the carpark--NO lift-- for about 4-5 times up-and-down-the-stairs sessions, two days in a row). PLUS a few more sessions of lifting the same things from my car to the new house. Tomorrow will be the third and final day. phew...

Not that i'm complaining, coz i seriously CAN do it...it's just that today, i start to suffer from this unbearable backache... I've never suffered from such a horrible back pain before.. in fact i dun even remember the last time i had a back pain! i feel like a granny! i have swallowed one dose of Nurofen so far-- maybe more tomorrow if the pain still persists. Never mind, the pain will ebb away sooner or later.. (i hope).

so... that's it...

Bubbye Kolej 11, Bubbye Hostel-life... and Bubbye my lovely roommate..i wish i could smuggle you together with my stuff into my new room...hahahaa.













-gmbo 2nd ni, ha blakang tuh la blok aku..blok A KUAZ...huhu

-ciao-

Everyone has a little dirty laundry...

I've finished watching the whole of season 3 n 4 of Desperate Housewives DVDs during this whole exam season (dun u even dare asking me about my studying progress...).

So now what?

I'm desperate for some pre-exam entertainment. All DVDs had been watched... The last one being You Don't Mess with Zohan (which is totally funny and awfully obscene!)... Then, nothing more....
hrmm, maybe flipping the IKEA catalogue isnt such a bad idea after all.. ;-)

Never mind...

Talking about Desperate Housewives, I'm utterly DESPERATE and itching to watch its 5th season, which is now airing in the US, starting last 28th September..


The one being shown on Malaysian TV now is season 4... This new season will be totally spiced, with everything being fast-forwarded 5 years from the events in the finale of season 4. Yeah, the storyline is getting exceptionally intriguing with JUICY transformations and even more underground secrets and vicious lies.

I'm positive that it will take ages for the local TV to air DH's latest season... So i just took a tiny lil peek of its first episode on youtube!!! I really then literally had to take my hands and fingers off the keyboard so as not to watch everything there, or else everything will b spoilt... Considering my serious difficulty of following storylines in fragments, especially serial shows, I choose to be patient. *sigh*...


Why do i like this show so much??? There are plenty of reasons... First, it's FUNNY! I LOVE the dialogues and I like how each of the characters is portrayed and developed, all with their own distinctive peculiarities. Yet, the show depicts REAL issues that these ladies have to deal with and the dark secrets that they go to great pains to keep in their daily encounters (not easy when most of them are determined to worm the secrets out of everybody). Yeah, some are exaggerated and irrelevant in our eastern culture (especially the unnecessary sex scenes) but surely, more than half of those issues i can well relate to, although i dun have any husband/s or kids yet and have never lived in such a suburbia before (but I intend to..hahaha).


I like its originality: especially the way it is narrated by the characters' dead friend, Mary Alice, who committed suicide, and once even by one of the character's (Bree's) dead husband (who by the way, was poisoned to death by Bree's x-bf). Here's the pic of Mary Alice:

It's amazing how each episode from Season 1 never fails to make me ponder deep about life, predominantly through the way each episode starts off with a general introductory narration that is closely and cleverly interwoven with its closing narration in a very simple, yet powerful and insightful way! I wonder who writes the script for the narration... It's simply brilliant!

I like how each episode manages to make me reflect on my life and others', laugh my kidneys out, nervous with its unpredictable plot, and sob away in pure empathy in response to what some of the characters are going through. There's a right mixture of comical acts, heart-stopping and gut-wrenching thrilling actions, and real drama in this series that simply glues me to the screen. Every season is about unveiling the mystery of the people in Wisteria Lane. and along the way, both the other characters and viewers together come to discover new things about the neighbourhood and unearth the long-lived mysteries that are often sublimely astounding! There're always mysterious issues raised in the beginning of each season, with them being resolved along and by the end of it. Nonetheless, this gives rise to the emerging new and related mysteries all over again, which will have to be dealt with in the following season. It's an unending cycle!

Not to mention, i can watch all of the episodes again and again without feeling sick at all...
Each episode displays and reveals what it really takes to be a woman: the fun, the beauty, the gossipping, and the pain, the responsibilities, the challenges, the struggles, the love, the loyalty, the jealousy, the friendship, the family, the survival, the emotions, the hardship, the secrets, the offspring, and the MEN! (this justifies why MEN need to watch this series too). Anyways, Tom Scavo (below) is my favourite guy character in the show.

What i like most is that each episode is loaded with implicit and explicit moral values which are essential for human civilisation (something that is seriously lacking in today's media, don't u think?).

And, i can relate myself, though not entirely, to all of the characters. As i said before, there's a lil bit of Susan, Bree, Gabrielle, and Lynette in me (not Edie though). They are all just so REAL! (and i like most of the ensemble donned by the characters). Of all, nonetheless, I like Lynette the most. I think she holds the strongest character in the story. Lynette and Tom Scavo are simply the cutest couple (from which i learn a lot!)!

Most of the times Gabrielle is just a plain ignorant, selfish, and mean sexy scandalous dumb-brunette, but once she pours her true hearts out, i feel so touched to the point of crying 'with' her... Susan is a total klutz, which is parallel to my absent-minded character in a way, and Bree is a perfectionist, which is also a part of who i am (when it comes to housekeeping and studies--so far...). But i am not a marvellous cook like her, although i would love to know how to bake real scrumptious banana blueberry muffins and lemon meringue pies one day.

All of them have their own pasts, strengths, and weaknesses that make them naturally human.


To those who have never watched Desperate Housewives before, i would highly recommend you to... On the surface, you might think it is just another sex-based dramas, but if you watch the series from the beginning of Season 1 to Season 4, you'll realise it's more than just a drama... It's perhaps one of the most fun and effective self-reflecting tools and stress-busters!

Try to ignore the hot scenes (if you can...) and be immersed in one of the most wickedly intelligent serial shows ever! (in MY perspective).

Everyone has a little dirty laundry. So do I... ;-)



P.S. The final season of DH is said to be in 2011, that is Season 7.. well, we'll see!

P.P.S. I only own the 3rd and 4th season DVDs.. i think i want to buy the 1st and 2nd seasons' as well. i love rewinding to and replaying my favourite dialogues and scenes al ovvveeerr again...weee!

Bibliophile??

VOCABULARY LESSON:

By definition, a bibliophile is a person who loves or collects books.

In general, i am a bibliophile..

In reality, i am more of a book 'collector' rather than a full-time consistent reader.

Those who know me too well know that this is not an understatement.


As a result of my yesterday's visit to MPH Midvalley, my own un-read novels list has become longer.

Here are the the two new members:

No. 1:


Actually it's just one book by Meg Cabot that i bought, but it's an omnibus, combining both of the above novels (couldn't find the image of the exact book in google). i have never read any of Meg Cabot's novels before. But since it's an omnibus, and it's just RM 22.90, i bought it. I think it's pretty cheap for TWO stories! i like the titles (obviously).... And, Zira has bought the first one in Welly before, and i remember her review was quite positive, saying that it's quite funny. U know how im fond of funny storylines! so tht's the rationale of my purchase.

No. 2:

Oh yeah, i like the title too, and not to mention, the cover. But it's a non-fictional book. in fact, it's a pretty uncategorizable book. in one bookstore, it's put under the 'Economic' section, and in another yesterday, it was placed under the Travelodge section.. pretty confusing. but i had this love-at-first-sight thing the first time i saw this book in MPH Bangsar. Since then, i'd been looking for it all over different bookstores, n only yesterday, i finally found it again, and bought it. I dun have any idea about the author. But when i read its back cover, i couldnt help giggling like an inebriated starfish.

You can read the synopsis here:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4518095a26666.html

it's almost d same feeling when i first bought 'Confessions of a Shopaholic'. Joe Bennett is a New Zealander, who was born in Eastbourne (yerp, Wellington).. and his writing style seems funny as well.. so that's y i grabbed it.

i hope i will enjoy reading it (although my knowledge on economy is nil, what more about China's economy and geography) and will be able then to really understand it (a well-founded worry, given my typical difficulty of understanding most storylines). Usually i have apparent receptive problems when it comes to fantasy stories (that's why understanding Harry Potter and Narnia movies could be a big issue for me). My past and current roommates have given up trying to make me understand the Matrix and LOTR trilogies!
To the extent that i seriously think that there's a slight defect in my Wernicke's area! (yeah. self analysis + final exam revision).

Perhaps, "Where Underpants Come From" would be a light starter for me towards reading more 'serious' books in the future (as if...).

When i'm gonna read all these??? u know i can never answer this for certain.

For now, i'd say after exams.. yeah, having exams is always the greatest excuse.

That's all the updates for now..

Savouring this short-lived freedom with relish

yeah...the 2nd paper was over yesterday.. i suffered from a massive elbow discomfort for having to write non-stop for 3 hours for two consecutive days. this feeling, along, with a terribly tired brain and degenerative brain cells, however, ebbed away with a short 3-hour window-shopping in mid valley with my roommate last night, right after my exam paper ended.

it wasnt enuff... i didnt have enuff time to even browse happily in carrefour (for potential new-room items) and relax in MPH to discover new book titles (like i'm gonna read one anytime soon. as if..).

i thot i was just going to 'merdeka' last night n continue studying for my next 2 papers (the tests on 20th n 21st nov) starting today.. but heck.. my brain isnt ready to absorb new information yet larhh..

so i'm planning to go out again this afternoon, after settling the last payment of my hostel at the office here later. dunno where...maybe mv again..huhu..

but, i havent even taken my shower yet.. hurm, i like this feeling. the feeling that my future is not controlled by any sorta stupid exam papers.

uh.. how i shud savour this short-lived freedom with absolute relish...

uhuk...

Human Communication Disorders...

dataaaaaannnnglaaaaaaah!!!!!! *screaming in sailormoon's high-pitched tone*

i'm doomed....

Unending anxiety

im feeling rather intoxicated..perhaps a wrong mixture of anxiety for tomorrow's paper and the relief felt for having done the first paper (Applied Linguistics-->the most difficult of all) this morning.

This inebriated feeling is also implicative of my one-hour afternoon sleep after the examination ended just now. Now i'm feeling rather stoned... and am wondering what effects this might have on my paper tomorrow. wish me luck peeps. may i be able to endure this unending anxiety with ease and in style. phew...