Introverted? Soda!

I like to have a little time to myself... which is why I aptly named this blog "sitting in a teacup" I guess. Sitting in the cup and looking up to the world, thinking and reminiscing.

I've been tired for the past week. I realised that "tired" has been popping up in my blog a lot, haha. But seriously I'm the kind of person who needs 9 hours of sleep a day to function properly. I like going out once in a while, and I'm seriously spoiling for some proper shopping soon. Yet, I like being kind of free yet scheduled. Planned, not so spontaneous. Makes me feel secure and content, in that sense. God knows how many of my friends have made me from the rigid, pissed-off, omg-I-must-follow-my-schedule-to-the-second into a middle ground of kind of planning but if it doesn't go it's ok person. And I really thank them for that. Don't know what I'll do without you. But then again I guess I can't really cross over to the 99% spontaneous side because that's just not in me.

I'd like some time to read some really interesting books. Haven't gotten around to reading anything that's not fiction crime related or cheap with Popular's discount card. Something like kite runner and life of pi or stuff like that. It's been a while. And God only knows why I need my weekend shooting zombie sessions to destress, haha. Assignments, dance practice (oh, let it be april 9th please soon), reading, socialising... loads of fun, but it drains me out totally as well. I guess this makes me an introvert. Born an introvert, is and introvert, always will be an introvert.

For some very very weird reason I've been craving soda. I don't really go for soda usually, maybe once in a while... And even if I crave something cold it's usually non-carbonated.

SODAAAAs!!

Life is like a can of soda, you never know when it's gonna fizz over.
Life is like soda, it's sweet... except when it goes up your nose.
The good things in life are like soda, it's sweet, but man, can it seriously fuck you up.

And yes, I made those up. Must be the lacking of sugar. Or yay I can get a sugar-high without sugar? xD

Hah! Am i updating?

It's been a while since the last post.

Yes, I vaguely remember still having a blog that requires updating.

The holidays were long. Long enough for me to settle into one of those vegatative states that you really don't want to bring yourself out of and drag your sorry ass back to actually doing things. Being back has been quite a whirlwind of activities for me, what with socialising and dancing and uni and socialising more. I'm happy to be around people and having fun, just that I seem to be in a perpetually sleepy state for the past week doesn't help a lot. Blame it on the oversleeping during the holidays zzzzz...

I like dancing. I love my great friends who happen to be in dancing as well. I need to work on my dancing. I've always wished that I had better motor skills... ever since I was young I think. That was random, I know but just because it's been on my mind for the past few days, so I thought I'll just... write it down.

Anyway CNY's come and gone, Valentine's come and gone, and here we all are in March 2009. That was fast. I'm starting to feel old. And that got me thinking about the phases of life. You don't really think about working for your living and earning your own money much when you were in high school, at least, not me. Somehow when you reach that certain age then thoughts of your future start flooding in, and the best/worst part is you're seeing it happen - people going out to work, looking for jobs, prepping you for interviews and communicating skills, having steady relationships, marrying, getting cars and houses... It's just natural, isn't it? I mean about what we do. What everyone does. We just follow what "life" is: getting education, graduating, working, having a family, etc. Or is it just a trend of survival?

Or is it just as simple as "going with the flow"?

Whichever it is, I'm thankful to be where I am right now. I know it sounds cheesy, but I guess life is a journey. It's not really about when you are getting there or what we're going to do when we do "get there" and whether there even is a "there" for you to get to... it's about just getting there.

And I think maybe some of us, but definitely me, needs to remember to enjoy the view while it lasts because you can't really see the very same thing ever again along the journey.

I'm back? For the moment at least.

Since someone kindly pointed out to me that I was letting the blog die a slow deteriorating death, I decided to give it a little breath of life. I was quite enthusiatic about blogging about my Egypt trip actually, planning out two posts: one being a guideline of the actual trip and the other being my thoughts about the trip. I even saved it in a file called "blogegpyt.docx". Seriously.

Then I got lazy.

The day when I got back from Egpyt, I gave myself a bit of slack - I mean, I just arrived, sleep-deprived in some stinky clothes I wore and sweated in and just recovering from "mummy's tummy" which I gratitously picked up while there. It was either the cheese or the salad veggies, methinks. Ah well. Anyway, first day... no, first two days, actually, I ended up sleeping most of the time. Then it was dance class and going out with friends and spending money on fattening dinners and getting home around midnight.

Okay, so why didn't I bother updating when I got back to Sabah then?

I totally blame it on the games. Not the casual puzzle games that you can finish in a few hours, but those long-winded RPGs and First Person Shooters that I can't get around to playing during non-holidays because this is what happens:

-On holiday-

Me: Oh yay, crisis core is a really great game! ( few hours non-stop gaming)

-Semester starts-

Me: I feel like playing, but I have to finish this crap assignment, or sleep... sleeping sounds nice.

(Sleeps)

Me: Let's play! Oh crap forgot to charge it.

(Charges)
(Sleeps)

Me: Let's play!

(An hour later)

Me: Why am I where I started? What the hell am I supposed to do now again? Crap, I forgot everything. (Gets fed up and sleeps)

Me: Okay, I'm free-ish tonight, lemme play some.

(An hour later, looks at the clock)

Me: What?! I just beat a tinsy-winsy little boss! That took one hour! Damnit I really need to sleep.

(Sleeps)

And hence, I tend to be able to complete games during the holidays only. So I love to make full use of it.

You know what, I blame it on everything except me (although I'm blaming it mainly on laziness, does that count as "me" or another entity entirely? haha). And to compensate for the lack of the long, lovely holiday post, here's a picture of the pyramids - I TOOK IT WITH MY OWN CAMERA. SRSLY.

Whee, the pyramids of Giza!

Anyway to sum up the trip: very very interesting, loved the history even though I wasn't a history buff at all, hot down south around Luxor, not a place to go for fun but rather more for experience. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the trip, but it's not exactly the place to go for kids, or if you're looking for someplace to unwind and have spas... or maybe go to amusement parks and shop and things like that. The culture is rich and so different and the ancient civlisations are amazing though.

So I'm taking up a month's job at my cousin's firm at the moment. Growing sideways, trying to stop eating and complaining about being fat but still refuses to go exercise. And apparently losing a bit of my sanity - judging from the way I wrote this post, haha.

Exams are over? Like, really?

I'm back here to bore you with details of my life, haha. We'll start with a short and sweet recap of the melaka trip we embarked upon after our exams. I'll spare you the excruciating details =p

We took two cars to malacca, and guess what, both drivers were the guys and they had the responsibility of driving their dad's cars. Jo male's mum mentioned something about the two 'dum dum's tagging along as the girls' drivers. Don't worry, we appreciate you guys -- as great drivers and cameramen =p. Poor johnson even had to become a handbag rack for us when the girls were taking their photos.

Anyway it was overall a great trip, even though I don't think I have recovered from my sleep deprivation yet as of now, haha. On the first day we had fish head noodle soup around Jo male's place before leaving towards malacca. Arriving there -- after a while of turning around in the jam and the one-way streets -- we managed to make it to the town centre where all the tourist attractions were. Visited the usual Stadhuys, Christ Church of Melaka which was unfortunately under renovation, and took a trishaw ride around to see the sights.


So, this is a photo of day one -- the only photo, I think, that has all of us in it. The guys had fun taking pictures with the cannons there *ahem*. Went to the supermarket to get us some groceries.

Then we headed down to Muar, where Peggy's grandma kindly lent us her uncle's empty house to wreck, i mean, stay in. We all decided beforehand to do a steamboat thingy so the moment we got there we had to prepare all the food and ting's multi-purpose cooker.

Do note the amount of cabbage sitting there. Tijo, you sure got your fill of A LOT of vege. As usual, we bought too much food and ended up finishing the vegetables by playing the "killer-spy-civillian" card game thingy and using it as punishment. Alcohol, check; water, check; this was seriously the first time I've done it with vegetables of all things! Hahaha.

On the second day we drove down to A' Famosa to do all the touristy things. Paid RM38 for the animal safari thing where they lock you in a caged trunk to be brought around and seen by the animals in the zoo. Being science people, we just had to make stupid comments about the animals , haha! It was cool, but I had this sad feeling that the animals weren't that well-kept and were stressed, but that's just me. Since we had this huge breakfast at Muar, we decided to drive down to malacca to eat dinner. Had the famous chicken rice ball and strolled along Jongker Street. Then headed to a "satay celup" place to have supper. It was my first time trying it out and I enjoyed it a lot. I think I almost exclusively ate "yao chao guai" -- deep fried dough -- with the sauce.


Woke up around noon on the third day. Had bak kut teh in Muar as lunch before heading back. Johnson had a bit of misfortune with the dad's car, so we got delayed a bit before leaving. We stopped by Port Dickson, per suggestion of Jo, for the beach, and took a load of silly pictures. By the time we reached back we ended up going for dinner in SS2 together before going our seperate ways.

Thanks everyone for making it such a great trip. Wish you were here with us, Crystal, and we did miss having you along!

I'm going on vacation with my family starting tomorrow. I'll try to get souveniers for you all, baggage permitting =) I'll be back in KK around beginning of December to start rotting. That's all for the update of my post-exam life at the moment. Ciao.

Break time?

Dear Blog,

Due to the recent exams and the fact that I'll probably be gallavanting around not-so-aimlessly after the exams, updates will be postponed til later. Does not mean I'm dead (not yet, at least)

Thank you.

-Patricia