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... of all the confounded creatures i hate, mosquitoes rank the top of my list. I realize that nearly every creature had been put on earth for a specific reason; particularly reasons that do not include being a major annoyance in my life.
To put it simply, even the ickiest most disgusting or slimy creature has something good to offer in the end, which, at times, may even outweigh the whole ickiness factor overall (or not) >.< but as for the blasted mosquito, i just don't see where it plays a crucial part in the entire story of human existance, apart from being one of the many much-hated or feared agents of spreading diseases...
and so... one night.... the bane of mankind decided to harass me... by disturbing my much-needed sleep... i don't know for sure how many mosquitoes attacked that night, but it was definitely enough to make me buy the largest can of bug spray i could find the very next day... to give you a rough idea of how desperately i wanted bug spray, i actually bought it from a petrol kiosk near my house because it was raining heavily that night and it was much too late to get it from anywhere else....
after this, i knew i would win my battles against mosquitoes (as well as any other creepy-crawly which decided to wage war against me) for as long as my supply of bug spray lasted...
These pics were taken at approximately 3 am. Blasted mosquitoes woke me up from a good sleep... just to give a rough idea of how ruthless the persistent little bugs can be, my hands were the only part of my body which weren't snugly tucked under my comforter, hence the only area which suffered their relentless attacks... =.="
My deepest apologies for not being around for so long... haha... but i think things should be back on track pretty soon.... these are a few things which caught my interest since the last time i blogged, but they're pretty much outdated, so please bear with me. >.< The day before i left for kl, the last time i was back, which i think was some time in March actually, i was introduced to a plant which became one of the few plants i began to crave from time to time... behold... the Purple Cauliflower... ^^
this is an organic purple cauliflower, and i'm not sure if it costs a bomb, but i'm guessing it does... then again, there isn't an organic vegetable which doesn't. Lolx.
anyway, it first struck me as something really pretty, maybe even too pretty to eat... but then again, i decided if it was a cauliflowers, then it may as well been steamed, salted and eaten. ^^
and therefore, that was exactly what i did.... the white thing you see in the picture is a microwave steamer. Yes, i'm THAT lazy. >.<>
Salting the veggie... that's a salt grinder at the top corner of the pic.
And finally, cutting it up and eating it. If you noticed, even the stalks of the cauliflower are purplish. ^^
and finally, the verdict: This is one YUMMY vege... ^^ actually it tastes pretty much like a regular caulifower except slightly richer in taste and it has a slightly bitter aftertaste to it too. Well, i discovered that i loved this little plant and i decided that i would look forward to future encounters with it. haha...
Okay, i actually came back to KK about two weeks ago. And since my maid has gone back to Indonesia (apparently she's been cursed... but i'mno expert on these things), i've started taking the responsiblity of doing certain chores, including the laundry. As strange as my habits are though, i only do the laundry at night... yes, when the sun just isn't shining. >.< style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">But anyway, back to the story, i was doing laundry late one night (actually i think it was around midnight), when i suddenly noticed something slithering around on the ground. It wasn't large, but it moved a lot. The lighting in my backyard is pretty much dim (having only a yellow light) and i stared long and hard at this little creature, wondering if it was a snake, or a worm... i came to two conclusions... If it was a snake, then it was a tiny little one... and if it was a worm... then it was a really big worm. >.<
so i put the thing on a newspaper and brought it into the wet kitchen, where the lights are much brighter... and i concluded... it was a snake... probably a baby snake... i have no idea what species. haha...
Just look at the words on the newspaper and you'll get a rough idea how small this thing was...
I'm trying to get a close-up of the head. I could actually see the eyes and the mouth from here, but my camera didn't feel like cooperating... actually it's a handphone camera... my digital camera probably needs replacement batteries.. >.<
Anyway, i threw the mini-snake outside and went around looking for Papa snake or Mama snake or any other siblings in the wet kitchen, inside the cabinets or any other dark place i could think of but i didn't find anything. And it keeps me wondering what on earth that little creature was doing in my backyard anyway, given the fact that my backyard is mostly cemented. =.="
Hey guys... sorry bout being away for so long...
Yes, as the title suggests, this post is merely going to be a rather short picture-less update...
However, it may not be as dull as it sounds ( or so i hope) >.<
Anyway, i paid a visit to a nearby Guardian Pharmacy recently and noticed a rather strange promotion sign...
Amidst the bustling people, i caught sight of a sign promoting Guardian's home-brand bottled Handwash. Although i cannot recall the exact price, i'm sure it was somewhere between 3 - 4 bucks.
Anyhow, what really caught my eye was the HUGE BLACK print which screamed
"GUARDIAN HANDWASH!! PROMOTION!! NOW... BUY 4 FREE 2!!"
Well, that had me thinking that it was a rather good deal and i promptly approached the promotion shelf for a better look... which was about when i noticed... in fine print ( or rather tiny print), partially obscured by the Guardian's bright theme colours of orange and blue, a small sentence that read...
"...limited to 3 bottles per customer..."
Apart from making me raise an eyebrow about who would actually get the '2 free bottles' as stated in the promotion, it got me wondering if anyone had even seen the fine print in the first place... and perhaps what the cashier's reaction would have been had i taken 4 bottles of the aforementioned handwash to the check out counter....
Sadly, however, while i was busy wondering whether she would tell me that i was limited to only three bottles per transaction or whether she would give me an additional two bottles, it was time for me to leave. Ah well...
However, if anyone of you guys do actually get a chance to see the outcome, do let me know k? ^^
Hey ppl
apologies for being gone for so long.
My laptop isn't functioning at the moment, so i've kinda stopped blogging for now.
I'm hoping it's temporary, but anyway there hasn't really been anything worth blogging about recently.
Anyway, i'll keep you guys posted if anything interesting comes up.
i am so so so so sorry that i haven't updated this blog in awhile... no, the blog isn't dead, just in a temporary coma.... the thing is, my laptop has died on me and i haven't gotten around to doing anything about it just yet, therefore i have been unable to update this blog as all pictures and anything else worth sharing would obviously be stored in my computer... ah well..
However, on a quick update, nothing special has happened lately... and i think the only thing that i ( as well as my classmates) can think of right now is how ridiculous exams are, given the current circumstances. However, there doesn't seem like there is much we can do about it right now... therefore... as my dear dear friend said to me...
" if you can't score, just think of a way not to die so badly" ( literal translation)
I know this doesn't sound promising, but again, hope for the best...
and this is how i feel and have been feeling lately...
Exams are coming. Yes, they are... soon... and the best thing to do now would be to study my ass off before settling down for holidays - undoubtedly the best part of college life anyway... However... the idiots/ sohais/ numbskulls at the library had other plans for the day : Ruining my plans...
I guess it started off pretty much normally, as i got there relatively early... more importantly, before the crowd started pouring in. And, being the ever anti-social being i am, i hid somewhere at the back and was content in my isolation... that is, until the noise started building up....
Some useless people were sitting at the table behind me... one was apparently tutoring the other... something about traveling, the difference between first class and second class... COMMON SENSE could help me answer that question... yet, his friend being the ever-so-well-represented-idiot that he was needed him to repeat the same point over and over and over again... by their accents i knew they were foreign without even looking back at them... i didn't mind him teaching his friend... but seriously needed to realize that only his friend needed his coaching, not anyone else, and most certainly not me... therefore, a little volume control would be nice... to make matters worse, they were joined by another horribly loud creature, who by her accent, i would say was a Chinese as in China Chinese, who definitely did not speak English as her first language... i needed them to shut up. If they wanted to discuss, that was fine... but in a way that didn't make me feel like turning around and whacking them smack in the middle of their freaking faces.
I soon began muttering beneath my breath at how the world must be full of idiots... at which point i noticed that the library, as a whole, was getting noisier and noisier by the minute... soon it almost seemed that my own table was talking to me... being hidden by one of those tables which screamed "PRIVACY PLEASE", i didn't notice the conditions in the library, and standing up to have a look made my expression turn somewhat like this : =.="
Wanna see what i saw?
In short, i saw people... EVERYWHERE... this is most definitely the first time i have seen just sOoOoOo many people at the library... the noise what out of hand... which left me glaring menacingly at some people.. who were quick to shut it... sadly, i couldn't stare at each and every person... * sigh*
I don't actually mind the number of people present... if they just knew how to shut up... logic told me that the sudden rise in numbers would be due to the upcoming exams... but if they came to actually study, i wouldn't care.. it seemed like they came to do anything BUT study... to which i say.. I curse you people to fail miserably for the next five semesters until you either run out of patience to go on or funds.. whichever comes first... good riddance...
No, i cannot describe the noise.. but this should give a rough idea. now just multiply the noise level by like... 30 times...
And yes, i finally surrendered and headed outside ( where there is no air conditioning) to study... it was nice and quiet there for a change.. that is, until the same idiots, who were having exams nearby, finished their exams and came out of the exam hall... they brought their useless noise with them.... until they were finally shoo-ed away by an invigilator of another exam hall... use your little-used brain for a change next time... when other people are having exams.. don't go outside shouting and hollering... no, the rest of us don't care if you couldn't answer the questions.. and no, the rest of us don't care if you think you're gonna fail... you wanna go jump, just go. Don't stand there being all dramatic.. because.. the rest of us don't care.. and the rest of us think you are a real nuisance..
and yes... i wonder what happened to that librarian who used to come telling us to shut up every time we had a discussion... i mean a real discussion, not like the nonsense in the library today... he used to glare at us and show us his ever-so-menacing face... but when we really needed him to a pain ( in other people's neck), he sat quietly, temporarily deaf... what is his problem? don't ask me... ask his psychiatrist. * sigh*
So first and foremost I'd like to apologize to my loyal supporters ( if i have any) for the long delay between updates. I've been rather busy, or just rather lazy lately... and i know this post is long overdue... in fact, the event which i'm about to talk about happened quite some time back... okay... coming to think about it, it happened a long while back. However, it's worthy of a post all the same....
I'd like to take the opportunity to Mr Chung Jing Yung for the awfully 'surprising gift'. Long story short, we were chatting one night, and i jokingly remarked that he seems to avoid me a lot at college... and therefore, we decided we'd meet up the next day. Somewhere in the conversation, he asked if it was necessary to present me flowers at our meeting. Jokingly, i remarked that it would be absolutely necessary, adding that i wanted black roses, no plastic flowers and about two dozen in number.
However, unbeknown to me, who had been kidding all along, he had actually taken the initiative of locating means to comply to my request.. and when he began asking me where the florists was, i still hadn't caught on as i guess i had been too absorbed in the jest to notice he meant what he was saying. In this manner, i had also commented that he should meet me dawning a neatly pressed black suit and a white tie... Anyway, long story short, we made arrangements as to the place and time of our meeting and he asked casually if i wanted chocolates to go along with the flowers.. and i responded "yeah, why not?"
Anyway, the next day, i waited for him at the specified time and place, and even added an extra 10 minutes, but he didn't show. Laughing it off, i didn't think too much of the matter till i received a message from him asking where we should meet and saying that he would be slightly late. I guess this was when i really caught on to the whole matter. Well... what happened after that???
Chung showed up, holding a bouquet of roses... which were awfully pretty.. ^^ ( he did not, however, dawn the suit and tie ensemble). >.<
And a box of chocolates from a place called 'Chocolate World', wherever that is... he told one was liquer filled... but i haven't eaten either till now... i tend to keep gifts rather than eat them...
So i'd like to take this chance to say "Thanks soooo much, Chung!! ^^"
This would be the first time anyone has actually bought me flowers.. >.< yes, i know i'm pathetic... lolx... but... yes, it made my day.
And so, i went home.. and the flowers became my table ornament...
And... that's where they remained till today... although... they don't look quite the same anymore... >.<
Nyehehehe.. ah well... i'm still going to keep it... perhaps till it really disintegrates... >.<
