up, down, touch the ground.

I think I'm pretty much screwed. Ball is a mere six days away and I still haven't decided on my dress. I just don't know how to do outdo last year's dress without having to blow the budget. Technically, this isn't even my senior prom so the need for an over the top dress is greatly diminished. But I don't want to look like a Plain Jane either. And without a dress to be certain of, I can't get the accessories, the shoes or the bag done.

Being a girl is so not easy.

20th June 2008;

I figured that the only way to liven my mood was to actually head out. Took up Nique's offer for a swim at gool ol' Tropicana. Though we barely even swam, minus the less than one lap we did. Instead, we wiggled our legs in the pool pretending it'd burn off some calories. And oh, catch up on two days worth of stories filled with plenty of OMG(s) and other similar expressions.

But we then figured we'd be better off taking a ridiculous number of pictures just because we can. So we did. Picture after picture after picture. And most of them turned out rather pretty :)

Yes, she loves taking retarded shots like this of me.

See, point proven.

Took a dip in the Japanese Bath after we roasted ourselves in the sun long enough. Burnt our legs in the extremely hot jacuzzi then went into the steam room because heck, it's there for a reason, right? Attempted the sauna but then we just got too lazy so we were off for our shower. Before long, Mo was already calling us so we drove all the way to Section 14 and reached pretty much during 'lunch time' like we were asked to, despite a few wrong turnings along the way.

Picked up Mo since the other boys chose MMO over girls (not that I'm really surprised) and we eventually decided to head over to Old Town at Dataran 3 2. Stuffed ourselves silly with good food while the others started coming - Lex, Kim, Cheung Yip and Adlan. The rest of the boys probably couldn't be bothered. It's still CC > Girls. Tsktsk.

It was a pretty damn awesome day. We really should get together more often.

21st June 2008;

Collected another ball dress earlier today before mummy took me for chicken rice balls. I mean, sure, I had to sit at the Maid Agency for over an hour but who can resist chicken rice balls? And plus, we didn't have to travel all the way to Melaka for them!

Went over to Nique's then walked all the way to Jil's for her 18th Birthday Party. Good wholesome fun, man. Too bad a certain Amanda Khoo ffk-ed to go to PD (which Jil&I spent a good amount of time pleasently discussing). Hehe, I still love you (:


Went to McDeez half way through to get some ice cream and McFlurrys' just because we felt like it. Dropped by my house so I could change shoes than Annie and I ran some sort of delivery service. Came back for some more fun and laughter and of course, the mandatory cake cutting ceremony.

Stayed till one++ in the morning talking about Pocky (since Jil got approximately 58765986 boxes of it in different flavours after she blogging about it) and how we're all strangely connected. Charlson's pretty funny (:

Not many pictures from the night since I was pretty lazy to whip out the camera to snap shots. So the above pictures are from either Jil or Nique.

22nd June 2008;

Woke up early to bake apple streusel for Aishah's farewell party later in the evening. Little did I know that today would have been the worst possible day to have baked. I guess I missed the memo from the Baking Gods or something.

First, I realised that I didn't have the muffin holders for the apple streusel. So, I called my dad who was out of the house to buy some only for him to come back home an hour later saying he didn't. Headed out to Giant at one in the afternoon with a whole list of other things to buy since my grandma decided she felt like baking too. Unfortunately, they were out of stock of the bigger sized muffin cups. Scouted all over the place including several baking shops but all the other shops were either sold out of those or weren't even open to begin with.

Feeling rather defeated, I decided to switch to caramel pudding but I couldn't find the holders for that either. It's like someone snuck into my kitchen and stole all of them. Curses. After sending several messages to Annie and counting to 100 (apparently you're supposed to do that when angry), I then thought I'd just bake some plain ol' cupcakes. As I was putting batter into the cupcake holders, I realised I only had 20+ cupcakes with slightly more than half the batter left. I was already running late so I didn't know what else to do but to send more messages to Annie and start counting to 100 all over again.

Thankfully, Nique had come to the rescue and dropped off some cupcake holders from her stock. The balance of the world has been restored - or so I thought. While decorating the cupcakes with icing, my icingthingamabob decided to go all wonky and squirt icing all over the place. You have no idea how many times I had to scoop icing off the cupcake and redo them, just because I'm a freaking perfectionist. Then I realised I didn't have enough icing so I made a second batch. Accidentally poured too much colouring into it so it turned out a rather dark pink. But that didn't matter.

After icing a couple of cupcakes, I then realised I forgot to taste the icing to check if it was or wasn't sweet enough. So I did. And all I could taste was butter. That's because in my hurried state, I had forgotten to add icing sugar with the butter. Slapped myself silly a couple hundred of times and I rushed to finished the rest of the cupcakes. Btw, I don't have a maid at home, so I had to do all the washing up myself. Grandma&mum helped for a bit and by the time I was all done, it was 5.45 in the evening.

I was supposed to leave the house at 5.45 in the evening.

Came out of the shower and realised that I hadn't picked out what to wear for the party. If you know me well enough, you would know that I take almost forever to decide what to wear. Texted Annie once again only for him to laugh at me :(. But I eventually did get dressed and made up except it was now raining so heavily my dad kept on telling me my friends would be eating rainwater cupcakes.

But everything turned out alright in the end. The boys managed to finish the cupcakes and hopefully no one died of food poisoning. Even if they did, I blame it on Nique's rice krispies. You would never know.

The party was rather fun too. Just like the good ol' days where we had pool parties at Annie's house except this time the girls were greatly out numbered by the boys.


I think it's safe to say that Aishah was surprised despite our lack of enthusiasm. In all fairness, I did tell everyone else she was about to arrive.

Everyone at the dining table eating food.

Aishah walks in.

Someone says, "Oh, she's here."

Everyone else looks up from their plates and goes, "Err, SURPRISE!" then quickly goes back to their food.

Fresh meat @ UITM, Melaka.

SPONGEBOB!

Apparently at one point, we ran out of seats. Just look how happy they are. Hee :)

Kids at heart.

Headed over to Old Town White Coffee again but only just for a bit. Thank you to a certain someone who offered a certain something even though we're not as close as we were before. Really, really appreciate it.

No pictures from me again so all the above were courtesy of Lim Dominique Jo.

23rd June 2008;

I have to admit, sometimes I do miss college. Or maybe I just miss G Mamak. So I headed over to college today with the intention of collecting Ball tickets. That didn't work out since our table isn't full, so instead I went to Mama's kitchen to accompany David&Derrick for lunch. Annie eventually found his way to PBD and off we went to Mid Valley.

I had to walk across the carpark and half way through the mall like I had some sort of disability with my leg since one side of my pretty flip flops broke while walking towards Annie's car earlier. I thought I'd just buy my shoes for Ball so I wouldn't have to buy two pairs but I couldn't find them in the shop. (Thankfully I didn't though because I decided against that dress). So I bought this pretty pair of black shoes which even Annie approved of! Due to my extremely bad luck, we missed the 12.30pm screening of Maid of Honour. Settled on the The Incredible Hulk.

Ate at the closest place - McDeez. First actual meal since lunch on Saturday and I only ate because Annie forced me to. I had Starbucks earlier la but apparently that doesn't count as a meal.

The movie wasn't bad at all. I do have a soft spot for Edward Norton anyways. I superbly love the ending but heck, no spoilers here. Can't wait for the next Marvel movie, right Annie? :)

Now, to solve my dress dilemma.

say cheese.

I let myself drown in thoughts of you today because exactly a year ago, I, for the very first time knew what it felt like to be giddily in love. I surrendered myself to fate, I surrended myself to you.

I can still remember screaming my lungs out, just for you. The blue tee you wore which I giggled over like a little school girl (granted, I still was one). I can still remember every moment we crossed paths - near the entrance, in the hall, by the classrooms, outside the compound - hoping you'd look my way every time we did (little did i know you were hoping the exact same thing). You thought chasing balloons was funny yet you kept on looking. I can still remember your smile when I looked at you just as I was getting into the car. And the best part is, you can still remember everything too.

23rd June 2007 - I had fallen for you and there was no turning back.

I think that out of all the guys I have ever dated, you were the one I experienced the most firsts with, the one I truly let myself fall for. And no, I certainly have no regrets.

You really are the best I ever had.

take you there.

So much to do (as one of my widgets clearly proves) and yet so little time. Hence why there's only a couple of things crossed off the list. Oh well.

12th June 2008;

I swear, I l-o-l-o-l-o-l-o-v-e the holidays. More time to be spent with the best friend. Way too much drama can happen in six days. Went over to her place where we spent a good half hour deciding where to go. From plans to head over to AC to Pyramid to god-knows-where-else, nothing could be decided on because boys are seriously indecisive. So, we decided to detach ourselves from the pack and head over to OU for lunch at Chilli's, just because I was craving the beef bacon burger (:

Since there was nothing else we wanted to do in OU, we got back into the car and drove all the way to Jalan Athinapan 2 to pick up Aqil. Drove to Rasta, parked, sat in the car for a good minute then drove back out because we didn't want to be their second customer of the day. Granted it was four in the afternoon la. So we went to Decanter instead.


Plenty of chit chat and photo taking through out the hour we were there. Had to pick up Aqil's sister from tuition, you see. So Nique drove and drove till we came to that lady's tuition place whom btw, is not cooler than Mr. Cheen. No one is cooler than Mr. Cheen. Continued with more photo taking in the car where Aqil claimed to be a 10 year old boy.

Yes, he is kinda weird.

Quote of the day, "It's BANANA!".

Heh, inside joke.


13th June 2008;

Okay, so maybe I do see Nique a little too much. Based on your standards, that is. I think I don't see her enough. So I headed over to Nique's place yet again for my daily dosage of best friend-ness. Spent awhile working out a plan for the day since well, I love plans. Searched for the car keys and off we went for lunch at Starbucks. I wonder why we never head off to cheap places.

We updated ourselves on an hour worth of stories before we went off to Pavilion. The two of us took the train, believe it or not. And no, it was not my first time thankyouverymuch.

I was standing in the toilet for god-knows-how-long cause I really needed to pee but Belle was telling me stories over the phone.

Walked around the streets of KL&Pavilion like we planned before meeting with...Aqil. Walked around in search of a father's day gift for Mr. Aqil's Dad but he got distracted with the men's section of Forever 21. Oh, Aqil has just as many stories as I do. Now that's scary.

I think the three of us should find new friends.

I liked it how it was seven in the evening and yet so bright.

We then proceeded to Hard Rock Cafe since plans to go there previously got canceled. I haven't been there since Bangkok last year, so to say I've been craving it is truly an understatement. But Nique&I were still so full from Starbucks, so we shared pasta - which was still so humongous. We entertained ourselves by playing IQ games that Aqil could barely figure out. Then we played that "Seven" game where I kept on bursting out in laughter for no apparent reason. Maybe because it reminded me of you.

And then Julian joint us after awhile.

Headed home pretty early considering it was a Friday night in KL. Julian kept on telling us stories on rapes and drug addicts that were supposedly lurking around the road back to the train station. But we managed to get home safe and sound. Yeay us! (:

14th June 2008;

Today marked our last official event in school. Yes, school. Seems like a distant memory, no? Managed to drag myself out of bed at some ungodly hour despite only having four hours of sleep. Talk about eye bags. Slipped on my brand new baju kebaya which was tailored for this particular event because I do not own formal decent clothes. I rather tailor something than to have to wear those spare baju kurung(s) they keep in one of the classrooms for "indecently dressed" ex-students.


I was reminded today on how much I hate certain teachers. I'm pretty sure one of them heard me bitching about her to my friend sitting in front of me. Oh well, not like I ever have to see her face again. Like can you sense the bitterness?

But it was good stepping foot on familiar ground again. There's just something about knowing where everything is, how your legs just walk without your mind having to tell them where to go. And seeing almost everyone was pretty damn good too, catching up on where everyone has been for the past six months.

Putting that aside though, I think today's MPPH was probably the most boring one I've ever been to. Maybe it's because I couldn't pretend I had some urgent prefect-y duty to do and run off to hide in the Prefect Room or that I couldn't just go for my award and leave for an Interact event afterwards.

*shrug* Actual height difference.

Everyone dispersed after countless photo sessions. The plan for us all to have lunch together failed...miserably. In the end, Ieka, Zhen and I were the only ones left together so we headed off to OU for a quick bite. I emphasize the word quick.

Rushed back home to get ready for my weekend at Ipoh for my cousin's "coming of age" ceremony in Ipoh. Sure, it's a few years late but it was necessary for her to have one to graduate from dance -or so her teacher says.

I don't have many pictures from my camera because I was made to do some bridesmaid-like duties. Seriously.

See, I really am (half) an Indian!

My dad was really quite happy playing with this kid. Eek.

I just realised I wore a cheongsam last week and then a kebaya and saree today. Multicultural, baby (:

It was fun having the family all back together over one weekend, the thirteen of us under one roof. But trust me, one weekend was enough to last me until Deepavali.

Oh, and the nasi ganja I had the next day for lunch was oh-so-good.

17th June 2008;

I procrastinated having this lunch since forever due to clashing time tables. But since the majority of us are on break, the usual group of girls headed out to D'Italliane Kitchen for lunch.

May I add that it's not very polite to come for a lunch an hour late? I wasn't being pms-y. I just find it plain rude to keep people waiting for that long. Time management, people. You're lucky you're my friends!

So while waiting for all of them, Nique&I drooled through the menu, flipping the same pages over and over again just looking at everything that was so good to eat.

Beef stuffed with cheese.

Aishah was the first to arrive despite being thirty minutes late. Everyone else eventually arrived so we wasted not a minute more to talk about almost everything under the sun. And that also tak cukup. I still haven't updated Ieka and Sarah on you-know-who stories!

Girls being girls, we then went outside to take close to a million pictures before finally parting ways. Oh, and for the record, I hate Jaya 33 parking which totally conned my money. But whatever.

Just to annoy Zhen (:

Na came straight from class at UM. Hence, the baju kurung.

Went over to AC to meet up with Annie and Lingesh since Kim (unfortunately) had to go back home. Vid came with a friend afterwards for a quick hello(insert stories here)goodbye.


Remind me never to visit Vid at AC again. It's just bad luck (:

19th June 2008;

Yesterday's arguments lead to a very bitter morning. I finally finished my father's day gift and left it on my dad's bed while I go for yet another piano class. I placed a little post-it on it saying "Thanks for 'understanding' ". I'm pretty sure my dad didn't understand the inverted commas because he came to me all grateful and stuff. I admit, that did make me feel guilty for awhile, but then he continued on telling me how I could have improved the gift I spent hours on. Gee, thanks dad.

Well, apparently nothing has changed considering it's a Thursday night and I'm not at Bar Celona with the usuals.

Heh, what to do?