1. Do you live close to where you grew up? Why?

2. Have you ever been so angry that you almost lost control?

3. Are you a fan of a musical act that slightly embarrasses you?

4. Is there a movie that always makes you cry?

5. Who is the most famous person that you've met?

6. Before you leave your home, what must you have?

7. What do you miss the most about being a kid?

8. Tell us about a passion of yours that your readers would not expect.

9. At what age do you think you'd be to think, “I've had a great run”?

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Scales again *happy*
I've seen Arashi's "Training Camp"!!! Love the sight of Arashi + piano. And WHOA. I was impressed by Sho's piano rendition of "Hatenai Sora". For a moment I forgot that this is the Sho who always fail athletically (on their variety shows anyways, I don't know how athletic he is in real life XD) , he looked so...[Read More] ===============================================

Instead of choosing October or December, I chose November as my NaBloPoMo month. I’m totally new to this but there’s always first-times for anything! Hopefully, I’m doing it right. Why November? Hmm… It’s actually a part of my BoP plan which I’ll blog about later after I thought deeply of the matter. Anyway… I thought it’s a good way to get to know other bloggers around the world (I do read some of those on the blogroll). It’s also a way to bring more readers here… though I don’t really have much to offer other than the stories of my life and my opinions. But I love the NaBloPoMo site, it’s a really nice place for bloggers to get together and discuss about blogging. I haven’t participate much on the site though (commenting etc), but I plan to do so during my semester break.

Also, starting from this post, I’m using a new kind of commenting system. DISQUS. Other than being attracted to the comment form interface, I had always wanted a comment system that enable readers to use their Twitter account to comment.

Twitter and tweeting… I still do it daily and recently I dragged another friend of mine to tweet! She had a good start… though she was a few weeks late to follow Miley Cyrus. Oh yeah. That name reminded me of something I just read yesterday. Apparently a fan of hers (or several? I didn’t take time to read through the original site) threatened to eat her/his cat, Fuzzy, if Cyrus doesn’t return to Twitter. My first reaction was this. Nasty, nasty fan(s). And bad influence. Sorry, @Neylev if you’re reading this. I’m really not a fan of hers. If she brings such influence (animal cruelty?)  to her fans then it’s better if she stay away from Twitter. Anyway. I’m more concerned of the cat actually and I don’t blame Cyrus entirely for this.. the fan(s) should’ve thought of better ways to reach out to her if they have brains to think.

 

Leaving that pathetic issue aside…  What do you think of re-tweeting someone whose twitter account is private/protected? I do RT some of my friends when they tweeted something interesting and suits my current thoughts. But one of those cool tweets belong to a friend with a private account. Evan Williams (Twitter CEO)’s tweeted :

I read yesterday that Kutner died in the latest episode of House!
Yeah, I read House Spoilers all the time.

Oh, gosh... AXN just reached Eps 5.. I wonder if I could bear to watch him now... (I will pay attention more to his character from now on...)

I really love Kutner!

I thought I wouldn't cry until I saw the episode myself. But, tears just came out naturally when I visited the FOX site (or here). I think it was really good that they want the audience to learn something about depression from Kutner's death.

It's interesting to note that Omar Epps' character in ER also committed suicide. His character was overworked (if I remember it correctly) and Benton and Carter's attitude just made it worst. Kutner's death, however, wasn't something you've expected to happen.



**Actually the reason his character was killed off is this. (Congrats, Kal Penn!)

Post: March 3rd, 2009.

Erm. It's March. I will start my driving classes this month.

Post: March 7th, 2009.

A tiring day of doing nothing but sitting and listening.

Post: March 11th, 2009.

I haven't read my KPP book.

What happened to my driving lessons?

I was given 1 week to read the KPP book. I took 2 weeks to start reading it. Then it dragged to another week because I was too sad to study the road signs and rules. Last Monday, the driving tutor called and I (kind of) panicked, and said (impulsively) I'll take the 1st Test (the computer test) this Saturday.

Which is today.

But... Yokatta!!!!!!!!

Well, I "crammed" the days between Monday and Saturday... and I scored 1 point more than the pass score (42/50). I almost can't believe it because I didn't put much effort. Forty three?! The effort and result do not seem to add up.

Anyway. I can't go to piano class tomorrow because the tutor suggested to me to do the "bengkel" class in which I agreed. Oops. Will do that next week, not tomorrow.

Oh, yeah. Last week, Ms Chong asked me if I did my practice.. I was playing the song I said too cheery for me to play. I answered yes because I did practised that song a day earlier, when my mum was watching a show I hate in the night. *sigh*

I really need to set my priorities correctly.

But, the thing is...
I'll just say this shamelessly. I know I'm a smart person but I'm also very lazy. It's always 0 or 100 for me. If I started on a project early I could finish it faster than anyone else but when I did it last minute... I may be the last person to hand it in.

*Stupid, stupid bad habits*

That's one more thing to change about myself.

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I finished "Emma" a few days ago. Finally. I started on Feb 23rd... and it took me one month to finish reading it. Luckily I don't hate Emma. I'm neutral to the title character. Till the end, I'm still loving Mr Knightley!

But...
I'm sorry to say this but the story didn't really work for me. I mean, I don't find it as romantic as "Pride and Prejudice", not that exciting like "Northanger Abbey" either... I even seem to prefer "Sense and Sensibility" to this...

Well. Not all people like the same thing. People look for different things in books.

I haven't read all Jane Austen books yet, but "Pride and Prejudice" is still my favourite, followed by "Northanger Abbey", "Sense and Sensibility" and "Emma".

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Erm... One more thing.

Have I said it here that I'm a big fan of "Camp Rock"? (To myself: How old are you anyway?) I already tried to avoid liking anything new... but I can't prevent myself from liking Camp Rock, Demi Lovato... and Joe Jonas...

If you look at my last.fm profile, Jonas Brothers has taken over NEWS in my "Top Artists" chart!

Which may explain why I wasn't bothered (why should I be?) at all when Mel-chan fell in love with Yamapi. *Sorry, Mel! I have to say that here.*

Haha.

This is only a fever/crush or.. something. It will go away, eventually. I hope. Or not... I think my NEWS fever will be back because they are going to have a new single this month! Koi no ABO! What a title! But I can't wait, anyway!


Obviously someone is in a good mood today. 

Did this on quizilla (I think) which doesn't exist anymore...?




Oh, gosh. I got Elizabeth Bennet! (I love her! Okay. That was after I watched Jennifer Ehle's performance...)

It looks like I survived reading "Sense and Sensibility"! I've said before that I didn't finish reading it in the past. Does it show anything about my own character that I love Elinor more than Marianne?

And the last one...

Sophie! I love her too!

Leaving aside the matters from the previous post for a while...

Here I am... in KL. This is our family's choice of end-year vacation for this year.
Yeah. For people who from KK who always travel there, this is nothing new. But for our family, it is. At least, mostly, to my siblings. We are only an average family - we can't afford to travel overseas.

I had mixed feelings on the day we were to leave Sabah. I'm going to miss my cats, I'm going to miss watching several TV programmes... Most importantly, I'm going to miss 4 days of piano practice. Hmmm...

Oh well... Tomorrow we'll be returning to Sabah (ureshii!). Our flight is around 4am so we'll have to be at the airport very early. We'll reach KK around 6am, return home and get ready to go to church. I do wonder how exhausted we will be when we show up at the church...

Anyway, this post isn't going to be entirely about 5W+1H questions... What or where we'd eaten. I'm bad at describing that. I just want to write[type] down some things that caught my attention.

Following will be an encounter of someone not familiar with KL.
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Taxi... I remembered a couple years ago how [disadvantagedly] my mum and I fell prey to tout(s) (they also call them ulat = slug, I think) at the KLIA airport. They brought us to a comfy car (can't remember what type) then drop us off at a petrol station where we'll have to take the normal cab. At that point, I've grown slightly suspicious of these people (they are *ehem* b-u~m_i@s) but as it was surprisingly hot that day, I only think of reaching Melaka as soon as possible. Didn't think much about it.

But, actually, you have to care and think much about taxi fares. My family don't use taxi much in Sabah because we have a car. The only time we need it is when my dad's not home (out station) or the car sent to the "workshop" (should be garage)... My mum usually straight-away asks how much to _________? The taxi doesn't use the meter thingy at all... and I'm not even sure if it has one...

Ermm. Back to the topic.

We met another one. After traveling on foot to Suria KLCC (I never imagine it to be this huge and so crowded!) we decided we want to return to the hotel with taxi. As we consist of 5 person, we should be on two taxis. Then this taxi driver said he'll sent us all in his taxi with a special price and he'll take responsibility if anything happen (What can happen? I'm curious.) Then this driver turned out to be a Sabahan! From Sandakan. With his erm... [semenanjung] slang, I thought he has been in KL for at least a year. But, no~ he's here for 6 months already! Wow. A person who can change this fast must be a really opportunistic creature. His character has been decided - he is a taxi sagishi.. haha.. I'm glad my dad didn't call him the next day to bring us to the zoo.

Today we did met two nice taxi drivers. The chinese one talked a lot about many things. He said he had been in Sabah before. And from his conversation with my mum, he seems like someone who paid attention to happenings in Sabah/Sarawak... but it might also be because he read newspaper a lot. Hmm. I was surprised when he suddenly exclaimed (he raised his voice) something about the zoo in Singapore.

The indian taxi driver we met on the way back to the hotel from Mid Valley also talked a lot. He and my mum talked (or should I say discussed?) mostly about politics. This uncle seems to have strong opinions on some politicians and "people up there".

I'm not saying that the *ehem*.... are bad, opportunistic taxi drivers... but so far this is what I'd seen and experienced... Imagine paying RM 50 for a trip that will just be around RM 20 if you are on a taxi with meter (thingy. I don't know what they call it in english). I don't know you, but I'll be angry with myself for being fool enough to be swindled. I can buy a book at Kinokuniya with RM 30!

Speaking of books... I finally "met" Kinokuniya! I've brought several books from them online and I love how fast they get my books ready - The fastest I received the book was the next day after my order was confirmed!

I love Kinokuniya! I can be there all day. If only I have the cash...

Since recently, books have been my big weakness. I want to buy books I want to read, books I think good to read, books I'm not sure if I'll read... and books I'd read with beautiful covers (lol)... People say "Don't judge a book by its cover." I have my own saying derived from that: "Only judge a book by its cover when you already read it."

I also went to Mid Valley's MPH bookstore. The feeling was almost the same when I was at Kinokuniya but lesser. There's book everywhere. I feel like I'm in a book heaven! If only they open at the 1Borneo... *smiles dreamily*


~ Finally own a Lat/NST 2009 calender (from Kinokuniya). Can't find this anywhere in Sabah (or maybe it's only me who missed it). Lazy to order via post too...
~ The other pic is my MPH shopping bag. A piano score (book) and some notebooks. Nothing special.

~ And... my Kinokuniya shopping bag.

Today, I had my 3rd trial exam. The questions on the papers were all so similar that I've started to forget what is what. It must had been some kind of "Jamais vu".

The first two classes made me nervous for no particular reason. But today's nervous-ness was the kind where you feel nervous while anticipating something good to happen to you.

I won't deny that I enjoy my [music theory] trial exams. I won't let myself pressurized by the "get 100%" thing (I think I was too harsh in speaking about it as an obssession in the previous post. I take back what I said before. It doesn't hurt to have a dream... or several of them...)... although I do find myself kept rubbing to get a sharp or flat sign perfectly drawn. This I blame my monk side.

Anyway. I'm glad I re-enrol to my music school. I made a stupid decision at that time. I quitted before I even started anything. This was the only thing that I ever regretted about in my whole life. Then opportunity came: My sister wanted to attend guitar classes. As we were browsing for a suitable music school for her, the idea of all three of us attending piano classes just came out from I-don't-know-where. My mum has a friend at church that knows how to play the piano and that helped her to self-learnt (I think) playing guitar. I must be the only one who's completely happy with the piano because my siblings obviously adore guitar very much & don't give a damn about the piano. Now and then, they would either lament verbally that this wasn't their [1st] choice... or physically by showing a sour face on the day of our piano lessons. I really hate that moments... I can feel their resentfulness and it always makes me feel down during my piano classes.

Isn't if funny that I wish to pursue this skill at an age of twenty?
Isn't it too late?

"It's never too late to learn something new!"
(Lame but very accurate.)

I started reading books again a few months ago. I don't mean it as I've never read books during my form 6 days - only that, I scarcely read any fiction books at that time.

I have many unread books in my bookshelf. Mostly are classic novels... I've become fond of classic ones since I read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë in Form 5 and been buying classic novels whenever I have money.. I've read Wuthering Heights but don't have much thoughts about it.

*sigh* I've forgotten how much reading books can be exciting and addicting. Surprisingly, I found it more fun than watching serial dramas because it's all happening in my mind - I can pick or create any cast I like according to my preference. It's a very peculiar (in a good way) experience to me actually. There are times I have to hold myself from continue reading because I want to keep it for tomorrow... but at the same time, dying to know what happened next.


Hehe... recently I'm into Diana Wynne Jones (DWJ) books once again. Hmmm. I've started reading her books while I was in form 2. There were plenty of them in the school library. Now to think of it - I am glad the library teacher bought them. I think I started off with "Charmed Life"... and I love it. It's one of my favourite for the Chrestomanci series. I did try reading "Howl's Moving Castle" but I returned it to the library early and didn't bother to re-borrow because I thought it was boring in the beginning.

But, - oh, man - how wrong was I to think it's boring. I borrowed it once again in form 5 and determined to finish it. I regretted not reading it earlier, you know. I am permanently in love with it because of its characters. That's a very nice twist in Sophie's character. Come to think of it, most DWJ books are like that. You were given the impression of dull, normal, uninteresting etc characters in the beginning.. and then suddenly, as you read on, the story becomes more interesting and intriguing - and that's when it's hard to put the book down. You just must finish it on the spot.

The sequel to "Howl's Moving Castle", "Castle in the Air" didn't give much effect to me but I still find it enjoyable because most of the characters I like in "Howl's Moving Castle" are there. I can't wait for the latest sequel which will be out this year in June! Hmmm. I wish I can find a hardcover version locally.

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Originally posted on Saturday, March 12, 2005 in my old blog
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I'm taking a break---

I stumbled upon this forum [Xia ri li de chun tian / spring in summer?]