How To Waste Time January 3, 2012

Being the types of humans that we are (those with an Internet connection), you hardly need to read a blogpost on how to waste time. You are probably experts at it already! Perhaps I should rename this to “how I have been wasting time”. My apologies in advance to my bf – he would be so pissed if he knew. He would say things  like my time would be better spent helping him to mop floors, which actually I did help him do so on the 31st of December. Yes, that is how I spent my New Year’s Eve.

Without further ado :

a. Watch Astro On Demand

My parents subscribed to Astro On Demand, which is a far cry from their days of being oh-so-reluctant to subscribe to Astro because they didn’t want my brother’s studies to be affected. Now, they have Astro b.yond, and they also have Astro On Demand. When I expressed my astonishment at how they have not only pissed on everything they had ever said about the evils of television, my dad said, “Well, the sales girl said it was only RM12 extra a month, so why not.” In case you don’t know what Astro On Demand is, this is my “layman” understanding of it. Basically, they allocate about 5 channels solely for ONE TVB drama series. I am actually not sure how many channels there are, so I just put it as 5, that sounds about right.

Throughout the day, the 5 channels will show 5 episodes from the drama series ON REPEAT, in chronological order. Once you have finished all the episodes in one channel, you flip to the next channel and continue. Obviously, they time it so that you can continue seamlessly.

Should you (for GOD knows what reason) decide to venture out of your comfortable house, you can return and just switch back to the channel where you last watched your last episode, and hopefully within X minutes, the continuing episode will be playing. Don’t worry if you have to miss an entire weekend of catching up – I believe they play the same drama series over a period of a month. Totally enough time for you to catch all 25 – 30 episodes that comprise of your average TVB series.

I was attracted to the glow of Astro On Demand when my parents started watching Curse of the Royal Harem. I wasted an entire weekend on this (I skipped a few episodes in order to get some sleep), and when I think back – why did I waste my time on this series? I totally learned nothing from it. Want to learn how to be more evil also, not really. Cos I think I can think of more evil things than the concubines did in this series. Lol! Not like it’s anything to boast about, but yea… quite disappointing. I think I was just attracted to the wardrobe, but even then, not really. Cos AS IF the royal concubine will only have 3-4 outfits on rotation only. Lol! Pathetic! Don’t you know that Kate Middleton had 30 outfits just for Christmas celebrations alone?

I nearly got caught in the web of Astro On Demand again recently when I caught an episode of When Heaven Burns… thankfully the storyline for that one is so darn dumb and even my mom, the TV addict, said that the storyline moves slower than a snail in molasses in January. Phew! Didn’t waste time after all!

b. Read someone’s entire blog archive (think : 5 years worth)

Not talking about myself because I have 10 years of blog archive to read. Zomg! I did try to read my own stuff, but I got bored halfway through, so I think potential stalkers can also be put off. Did I learn anything useful after reading 5 years worth of someone else’s memories? Honestly … no. I really wonder, can we fault someone for opinions or thoughts or bitchings that they penned so long ago? People change and if one keeps apologising for the past, we can’t live in the future. At the same time, I do think it’s irresponsible to keep blaming EVERYTHING on, “OMG, I was SO young then! Obviously I was a stupid, young girl. LOL! You digging up old shit for what?”. That is such a cop-out…

Blogs that I like to read :

- usually don’t have so much “events” updates cos I feel bored reading about all the alcohol-sponsored events which all the bloggers have the same old “experience” (no, not jealous. But maybe – yes, I’m not young and energetic)

- usually the blogger should be hot so that I can bash my own self-esteem some more. I especially like blogs written by models and when I mean models I mean REALLY models. Not those who are paid by the hour to pose in lingerie in hotel rooms kinda models. Or those who knows a friend who owns a high-end dSLR and maybe he asked them to pose for him once or twice before kinda modelling. I saw a description of someone who said she was a model and turned out to be something like what I just outlined and I was like … VOMIT BLOOD ok.. I felt so cheated…. ;___;

-used to like reading travel blogs but I don’t anymore because travelling doesn’t interest me as much anymore

- I like the cooking blogs but when the blogger is thin then I’m very skeptical

- obviously, like 99% of the population, I like blogs that don’t write much advertisements. But if they write it, I prefer if they don’t announce that it is an advert, so that I can be surprised. Hahaha!

- I don’t like reading food blogs, because I usually go online at night, and I skip dinners (most of the time). If I read food blogs, then I’m just trying to get myself gastric…

- I like reading blogs of people who are damn unfortunate. This is schadenfreude, and I feel really bad that I’m admitting to this.

- most of all, I like reading blogs of people who I actually know in real life…. it don’t matter if you don’t know me… *stalker mode on*

Anyway, yeah. Once I find a blogger that does fit into all my whims and fancies… wah.. I can spend whole weekends reading their old stuff. It doesn’t matter if the old stuff contains inane things like song lyrics and forwarded jokes. If you wrote a post about it, I would click it. And if you noticed that your blog traffic spiked madly over the weekend, that was me.

c. Online Shopping

A great time waster for me in my books, because this is how I shop online :

1. Buy everything in sight

2. Wait for it to arrive

3. Two months down the road – no packages arrive

4. FFFFUUUU and complain to the customer service

5. $ refunded.

6. Go back to step 1.

That happened to me for ASOS.com. What a waste of time and worry. Here’s another one :

1. Buy everything in sight

2. Look at the amount at the checkout counter and balk

3. Debate heavily over each item

4. Imagine self in the the article instead of a Victoria Secret model

5. Click “X” to remove item from cart.

6. End up with 2 items in cart that is not *really* what I wanted anyway

7. Debate over whether I really want to pay shipping for 2 items

8. Click “X” on browser.

Or here’s another classic one :

1. Buy everything in sight

2. Go downstairs to get water

3. FFFFUUUU when I find that the shopping cart is empty. Buy everything in sight again.

4. Got distracted by some other blog / Youtube video / Gchat

5. FFFFUUUU when I find that the shopping cart is empty. Buy everything in sight again.

6. Finally get to checkout!

7. Forgot login password.

8. Click on “Retrieve Login Password”

9. Never receive new password.

10. Tried to create new account.

11. “Email address is already in use. Please choose to retrieve login password.”

12. FFFFUUUU.

d. Get Caught Up in a Vortex of Nostalgia

You will end up stalking all the people you “used” to know… or like me — end up Youtube-ing all the songs from your childhood. It was really thanks to an outing with Fuzz & Dull at Chillout Bar. The deejay there had a propensity to play 90s music, and I was going, “OMG! This song was from half-my-age ago!!” And Fuzz and Dull were not happy.

Here’s one song that I kept re-playing again and again after that night…. *ashamed*

Actually, when I was younger, I was super scandalised by this video because they were all not wearing bras.

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Super irritated at myself for getting so easily distracted. No more, no more. In 2012, I will avoid all these “potholes” that will stop me from doing what I *really* need to do.

By the way, having watched that video so many times, I know how to do that dance sequence in Wannabe already… zig a zig ahhhhhhhh.

How To Spend 12 Hours In An Enclosed Space June 27, 2009

I just realised that in my previous entry, I didn’t mention what “secret” I had that had me on my best behavior for the whole of 5 days. If you thought it was related to my job, you are wrong! Hahaha… what happened was my dad asked me to renew my AAM card, and as I was rummaging through my bags, he said, “Better check your driving license… see when it expires…” [I think you can see where this is going...]

As it turned out… I had been driving with an expired license for more than a month. :O So after I found that out, I had to drive very carefully on the road… cos it would be just my luck that I would get into an accident when I had an expired driving license.. or in fact, no license at all because I gave it to my dad to help me to renew. Hehehe. Sigh… as I told Raymond, a boyfriend has to help me to do all the “manly” stuff in the relationship – send the car for servicing / repairs, in charge of licensing, deals with plumbers / contractors… I honestly don’t mind doing so-called anti-feminist stuff like laundry, ironing, cooking, mending, etc. It’s not anti-feminist if I actually enjoy doing those things, right?

Anyway, today I finally drove to Pavilion again for gym purposes… have to really make use of my “passport” membership. Right now it’s ridiculous how I have a passport membership but I only wind up going to Taipan because it’s so convenient. Used to go to Jaya33 at least once a week, but haven’t for quite a while because of the Jaya supermarket building collapsing and causing traffic jams due to re-routes. I remember being quite gung-ho about the Jaya33 swimming pool. Told myself to swim at least once a week and I even got myself new goggles and all that jazz. Wound up swimming about 5 times? And now I don’t go because I want to look fantastic in a swimsuit before I would jump into the pool. Hahaha.

So back to Pavilion… wah, I really spent the wholeeeee day there. After gym, it was shopping and more shopping!! There were sales everywhere, but mainly spent my time in Padini (seriously, the concept store in Pavilion is super addictive) and in sportswear stores. I can’t decide whether the poke-your-eye-out psychedelic colors from the latest Nike range is something that I can like forever or am just into because it freaking catches your attention. I plan to get this pair of shoes after my performance bonus… if I get any… *bitter* :

Really like this series of shoes cos it’s SUPER light. Like how a car of a certain build can be more “aerodynamic”, I also believe the gear that you wear can make you stronger, faster, better! Believe the hype! There’s another pink and white pair that is pretty incredible too… but can’t find a picture of it for you.

Nice leh?? But anyway, that’s not what I wound up with after a full day of shopping. Only these :

White long-sleeve top with ribbon ; yellow trapeze jacket (this is really nice and comfy!!!), pink knit top with sparkly neckline, pink and white stripe cardigan, “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult, blue super lightweight long pants from Reebok… sorry, the pic sucks, hence the extensive explanation.

I really like my white ribbon top… I saw something similar from Victoria’s Secret.. of course the VS one is much sexier. :

I’m super stingy lor! Last round when I went to Pavilion, I saw even more clothes that I liked, but didn’t get because there was no sale. Now there’s lots of sales (all my clothes that I bought today had discounts) but there were some stuff that I adored last time that I couldn’t find anymore. Well, that’s the way life goes, and in a way I hould be grateful, else I’ll be spending even more!

Oh yeah, was supposed to keep a lookout for bridesmaid-y / chinese wedding dinner dresses, but nothing called out to me, except for one super bejewelled, be-sequinned, beaded affair from Alannah Hill. Yeah, I would totally get it if I’m willing to shell out RM2000… which I’m not. :B

Ate herbal chicken soup noodle at Food Republic. It’s nice! Recommend it! That was my lunch… hahaa. For dinner I ate noodles again… pasta actually. At Pastamania! Not recommended unless you want something cheap and quick. Sigh.. there’s a lot of nice restaurants in Pavilion… wish I could try them all! But this place is really not that convenient for me. RM3.20 toll to get there, and RM9 parking for the entire day, and that’s only because I spent more than RM100 on a single receipt, so I could get RM6 off. Otherwise full day parking is RM15! Madness! Sigh sigh sigh…

Herbal chicken soup noodle at Food Republic… I heard their mushroom duck herbal noodle soup is great too!

Spicy chicken spagghetti at Pastamania… not awesome, but no horrendous either.

After all that satisfying shopping and fulfilling feeding frenzy, I watched 17 Again! Hahaha.. it was either that, or Terminator Salvation which a lot of people have said is not really good. Anyway, 17 Again is mostly a “let’s see how talented Zac Efron” is kind of movie. He just shows off from start to the end — his basketball skills, his basketball SPINNING skills, his dancing, his acting.. hahaha. Not that I’m complaining since I chose to watch this just to ogle. But the movie does have it’s funny moments too, mainly thanks to Mike O’Donnell’s nerdy-best-friend-turned-millionaire best friend.

They had an “Ode to Art” exhibition at Pavilion… I really like this painting! I can imagine that in my currently-not-in-existence-aside-from-in-my-mind house. Too bad it costs RM13,000. Where to find rich man to marry ah!

Okay… short update because all I really wanted to talk about was my driving license, hahah!

I Feel Like Dancing… ((((yeahhh!!))) March 9, 2009

Craplah, I really have to start going to sleep earlier each day. I’m really wasting my weekends (and public holidays) waking up so late that half the bloody day is gone. Ish ish ish… really hating myself here. At least I did manage to go to the gym… and I spent most of the day reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I’m convinced I never read the book before, but why is it so familiar? I think it’s the same as Kafka on the Shore!!! What’s with all this cat hunting!! Anyway, it’s very relaxing to read this book… I don’t know why… hahaha. Maybe I feel as lazy/calm/trudging-along-slowly-in-life as the protagonist in the novel…

5 Random Things About The Past Few Days:

1. I’m very excited about the upcoming Dragonball Evolutions movie… not because of any Nuffnang thing okay wtf. It’s because back in high school I was continuously teased for being “Dragonball” (which wtf, stupid fcukers, it’s Son Goku okay. Dragonball is like the THING that Son Goku collects. SON GOKU IS THE ONE WITH THE FUNKY HAIR, NOT DRAGONBALL. DRAGONBALL IS A ROUND THING AND I AM NOT BALD AND ROUND THEREFORE I CANNOT BE “DRAGONBALL”). *breathe in, breathe out* Anyway, it’s still cool y’know? Even though Justin Chatwin is playing a Japanese midget with funky hair and he is in no way midgety or Asian… but who cares about things like that?! I just wanna see the movie pls pls pls let’s go see!! I was thinking that I would even pay tribute to my high school years and style my hair like Goku… but I think I’ll end up blocking people in the cinema… heh.

And you know what… I should’ve gone to school last time with my hair styled like that. Seriously. Now I can’t do that because hello, it’s much longer. Dang. Wasted opportunities.

2. I signed up for this thingy that a lot of bloggers were advertising for. See, SOME of them adverts were very informative and well-writen… haha but I’m not writing about it since I’m not advertising for them. Basically, it’s a service which “gives” you a mailing address in US to use so you can mail stuff you buy online to that address, and then this company will then forward the packages arriving at that US address back to your real address in Malaysia. You know what? SERIOUSLY I was thinking about doing something similar to what this company is doing now. That is, providing a service for shipping stuff back to Malaysia / neigbouring countries. I swear, not ganking on their idea or anything… it was just something that peeved me off when I went online shopping, and I’m glad that there’s this service now anyway. The reason why I didn’t do anything about my “idea” was because to me it didn’t seem very feasible, and a hell lot of work to gain a tiny profit.

At the moment, I haven’t actually used the service, so I don’t know how good it is and I’m actually going to do more research and see if it’s cheaper to have this company ship the stuff back to me or cheaper for me to just get some of the websites to ship directly back to Malaysia. If this service is only useful for sites that don’t ship back to Malaysia, then I have nothing to say… hahaha. If it’s even cheaper to ship back to Malaysia via this company instead of through the company itself, then why bother, hahaha.

Cos in my failed “business model”, I was thinking about having all the things repackaged (not removing them from their original packaging … but like, lumping together with other stuff) into bigger boxes, and shipping back a lump sum instead of many smaller packages. I think you can save $$ that way… because based on certain weight ranges, the post office charges in a certain way. (Therefore, a 500g and 300g package posted separately may cost more than one lump sum package of say 800g together.) Anyway, then when the “lump sum package” gets back to Malaysia, then my Malaysian office will redistribute and send to the customers. Anyway, I don’t know, this was a failed business model, remember!!? I don’t know how this company does it and I’m curious to find out.

I have already plans to buy :

New spring colors from Everyday Minerals. I really love the colors in their eyeshadow range! :3

Full Custom Kit!!!!!!

Lushhhhhhhhhhhh. I miss my American Cream conditionerrrrrr…. T___T Retread just doesn’t compare, srsly.

L-R : striped skirt, silk & cashmere tie-back sweater, shawl collar cable sweater jacket.

Cardigan tee, sequin poncho !!!, off-shoulder top.

Mesh squareneck top, one shoulder polka-dotted top, pleated lace blouse.

Want to drop by the Benefit counter and get the following. Is there a Benefit counter in 1U? I only remember seeing one in KLCC. :B
Ooh La Lift for my old woman eyebags, B Spot – a scent that smells absolutely delish, Body So Fine or Touch Me Then Try To Leave Me.

Sigh…. you have no idea how I dread to spend the $$ in my bank account, man. Hahahaha. Some days, I wake up and when I’m bored at work, I tell Raymond crap like, “I feel like spending money!” But when the weekend comes around suddenly I’m Miss Stingy and I can’t even step into a mall.

3. The mall made announcements looking for someone with a car number plate with just one number different from my car. The last number. It freaking freaked me out. I ran to check on my car just in case I parked like a tool and it was blocking someone. But there was totally nothing wrong. No bumps. No scratches. No blockage. I’m freaking out! Anyway, because of that I lost the chance to purchase Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Almost Everything for RM19. T__T Oh, and I was debating over whether I should or should not buy Confessions of a Shopaholic when I read this post by FA. Thank God I didn’t buy it after all!!!! Cos I read the first few pages, and I already was thinking that this Becky Bloomwood character is quite sial… but there are sooooooo many girls out there who like her and like these series? So… what is the saving grace of this book, really? For those who have read it. Cos either way I’m not damn knowledgable about super branded designer goods, so I can’t salivate or nod in total fervent agreement at the choices that she makes.

4. I was damn happy when I saw that TGIF has a 2-course meal combo promotion instead of their 3-course meal promotion last time. I can do without desserts fine, besides I think they’ve altered their desserts menu. I don’t know… it’s been agessss since I last went to TGIF. I only got the hankering because Dull went there, and Fuzz and I were talking about it at 11pm on Sunday… a day when I only ate one whole meal the entire day. T___T So of course I was hungry as a horse come Monday. Anyway, I really do not recommend the fried mac & cheese cos it’s totally not cheesy… The portions are still too big… either that or I’ve managed to shrunk my stomach (yay?) cos I think the 2-course meal combo is still 2 much. Hahaha.

Free badge that they gave me…. er….

Fried mac & cheese… thingy. Not recommended ya hear me?!!? Go for the boneless buffalo wings or clam chowder soup instead!!

Cajun shrimp & chicken pasta. Quite nice. Very filling. Worth it, I guess?

5. During the weekend, I tripped over a cable, and then heard my external hard disk crash to the floor. Obviously I got damn worried about the thing, because it’s already starting to become wonky. I plugged it in yesterday, and kept switching it on and off, but the computer couldn’t detect the external hard disk. I kept trying it for the entire time that I was using the PC, but it seemed quite dead. Today, I tried again and still — nothing. Was damn sad. I didn’t have a backup of that harddisk… and if I did, I think I would have like, 100 backup CDs or something. There’s THAT much content there….

Then I looked down and I saw that the USB port for my external harddisk wasn’t even plugged in. -___- It must’ve yanked out when I tripped over the cable cos its ALWAYS stuck there. Anyway, super char dou moment. It’s actually totally fine… hahaha!!!

Fashion Fashion – VS Sales! :D February 1, 2009

The VS sales ended about a week ago, did you manage to get anything? The sales came at a time when I had just received some reallygood news in the office, and I decided to reward myself. Besides, I’m part of their online newsletter, so I was getting about one email a day reminding me just how many more days there were left til the sales ended. What can I say, I succumbed to temptation.

Not like I bought hella loads of sexeh stuff, since I was rewarding myself for work-based things, I ended up getting stuff that I could wear to the office, bar one item… which is for a cruise! That me and Dull keep talking about! Sigh, my next entry really has to be about my meet ups with Dull, Fuzzy and Iza… they are really funny people! (Funny = strange in this case. ) Oh, and I can’t wait til the 7th of this month! Have something planned, and hope all goes well. Hehehe. If you don’t know what I’m jabbering on about, then you’re not cool enough to be in the know. *snubs nose at you*

“Anchor’s Away” tattoo bikini; black turtleneck with lace sleeves.

Terracotta silk tie-neck blouse ; aluminium silk charmeuse button down top.

Printed silk chiffon pleated blouse with removable belt.

Yeah yeah, I really like those pussy-bow type of tops. Anyway, as long as they are removable or flexible, it doesn’t have to look the same all the time.

Quote from Raymond, “Everyday, sure can hear Leech taking photos of herself with her phone…”. Trust me, I have tonnes of these kind of photos. Hahaha, I’m quite proud of my “Joker Face” (to be sung to the tune of “Poker Face”)…

Oh, and those shoes you see on your left are my semi-new Guess shoes that hurt like a mofo. They are realllllllllyyyy pretty, that’s why I got suckered into buying them, but I just can’t “break” them in. Well, they are made out of wood. How do you break wood in, unless with an axe. -___- Anyway, they were on sale… less than RM100… but when I *do* wear them, I have to make sure that I don’t plan to do a lot of walking around that day.

Sigh, and when I was in the States, I told you I bought like, 4 pairs of shoes right? One of them were leopard print ones, which are seriously one of my fave pairs now. But now I read about how many hundreds of other bloggers also having pumps exactly like these and I’m quite sien over it already. -____- Oh well, it’s not like anyone has a trademark over a print or whatever, it’s just that a print that is already seen everywhere is even more omnipresent.

Now for the “fuckery” (Ben’s term) that I get up to when I don’t have anyone sitting next to me in the office. Crap! That just reminds me… there’s a new staff coming in tomorrow…

Left : with my free Lao Beer jacket… on new year’s eve in Laos.
Right : pissed off with my a-tad-too-long fringe in the office, and improvised with my scarf.

Hahaha, the picture on the right looks like one of those WWE wrestlers talking trash to the camera. “YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME??”

Awwwwwww… and here I am looking normal again. (Except in the 3rd pic which surprised even me, I can tell you that.)

Feigning a toothache ; inspired by Blair Witch Project (only with less -dripping- nostrils) ; TVB dramatics.

T-shirt love! I love t-shirts, the #1 item I have the most of in my closet.
L-R : green clown shirt from Sg about 2-3 years back ; “Don’t Blend In” penguin tee from Rue21 in US ; “I LOVE SPARTAN BOYS” tee courtesy of Simon.

“Professional” at work… yeah, I like stripes, how could you tell?
In the first pic you can see a bit of the Harrods heart necklace that Iza gave me for my birthday!
Oh and in the 3rd pic, I was very proud because I had both a laptop and a PC for a day. But what is there to be proud about? Just means that I’ve got more resources to do MORE work. -___-

Wah… I look soooooooo “dedicated” when I answer calls. Actually, I just have this user who is reallllllly “cheong hei”. Basically I already have the gist of what he wants but he just wants to go on and on. Sometimes I have to give him counselling too (kekeke), so while interjecting his spiel of sadness, I camwhore!! Oh, and I’m not trying to pout in the 2nd pic… I put on his “lip plumper” thing and it STUNG like mad… crazy things that women do for the sake of beauty.

Didn’t your mom ever tell you that if you keep making faces like that, one day it’ll get stuck?

Clockwise from top left : just don’t think it looks anything like me now ; I think this looks really androgynous!; this pic reminds me that I have to go and find out what happened to that RM20 chiffon top I bought from Target ; I’m trying to do a “lookie me shifting me cheek implants” pic here… hehehehe. Bad Leech!

Sigh… so much self love! It’s good for you! Try it! At least, it’ll exercise the muscles in your face.