Ouch My Soon To Be Powder-ed Fingers.

I have been having acute menstrual pains this year. Acute as in stomach churning, intestines (or maybe the ovaries?) twisting pain which I have to curl up and not move an inch, and if i try to shift my position, the pain comes searing through my abdomen and is so terrible that it even makes me puke out my dinner (I think the twisting must be so terrer that it even affects my esophagus’s peristalsis. WTF. Someone with a better knowledge on Biology please enlighten me.). At that time, I just wish someone would get me a screwdriver to gut myself with.

Anyways, GUITAR LESSON TODAY AGAIN! Yippee! Did more exercises on the 4th and 5th strings *yawns*, 6th string exercise as homework. Then, continued with Goo Goo Dolls’s Black Balloon (my teacher thought it was ‘baloon’ *faints* Lol!). Was telling him that it sounded weird since last week’s lesson and today when he brought the cd and played it, he laughed or more like ‘eheh heh heh’ malu-ly coz it turned out that I had to tune the guitar a flat lower. It’s just freakin funny lar whenever he does ‘eheh heh heh heh’ thingy coz I don’t really expect such a cool lead guitarist dude (have I told you he has long hair which looks really good? Bwahahahahaha!) to act that way. Continued with the song we did. Turns out that the strumming pattern and chords he gave me weren’t that (quoting him exactly) ‘precise’. Lol. He tried to defend himself a little, jokingly lar of course and which was again, FUNNY!

Anyhow, the intro to Black Balloon was harmonics and I hadn’t learnt that before. So he gave me a harmonics exercise where I’d have to stretch my 2nd and last finger wide apart to reach the 7th and 12th frets. *faints*

The unusual tone of guitar harmonics, the actual split-second plucking and even the location of the frets that produce the guitar harmonics are all minute details that take a very long time to master and recognize. Learning the guitar harmonics takes time and patience, more so then many other techniques and while many guitarists use guitar-tuning harmonics, not many players even attempt to produce harmonics until they have been playing a very long time.

MyGuitarWorkshop.com-Learning guitar harmonics

What in the world is he thinking?!?!?!?!? God, this is definitely the most intensive guitar learning ‘course’ I’ve ever been to! He keeps using the ‘you’re on holiday riteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee? *evil*’ phrase. T.T

Okay lar, I have to admit, regardless of the finger stretching mild difficulty, it is actually quite fun learning to produce sounds this way. Very cool indeed! And bloody do I need my finger nails to grow faster especially my right thumb’s. It grows SO slowly! Does anybody know how to make them grow faster and stronger (as in not break easily)?

Another really tough ’skill’ I had to learn today was that half-barre thingy. He changed the A chord to a A/C# chord! *Cries, left hand and wrist cramps, i finger goes numb, finally faints* HOW IN THE WORLD does anyone press it perfectly without unintentionally muting one of the strings or making it go ‘twaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang’ or changing into that chord fast enough? I’d very much like to blame it on my fingers being too fat or short, but I hardly think that’s the case. Sigh. Practice, practice, practice. That’s what he and they all say. And therefore, practice I will. The skin of the tip of my left fingers are turning so thick that I can hardly feel anything with them anymore!

Whatever impression I might have given you after reading this post, I am still enjoying my lessons very much (waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than before with the previous teachers at Mahogany a few years back)! Maybe it’s coz I’m actually learning something and not just playing for the sake of playing a few easy songs. I am so going to miss the lessons when I’m off to HKU. But I swear I’ll continue my lessons when I’m back for my semester breaks and hopefully he’d still be teaching there. Bwahahahhahahaha!

My new H guitar pick.

Whoever that is. =P

1st pick with two stupid cicaks on it! Ew!

Random:

My sacred weapon! T.T One of the buds has gone missing. *sniff* I can’t live without them. Does anybody know where I can just get the earbud? I really don’t wanna get a new set of earphones just because I lost that earbud.

P.s. Emo post coming up tomorrow.

I Think I Might Be A Shopaholic.

Especially when it comes to gadgets, not so much clothes. Went on a shopping spree at Low Yat today with Boss. Our main purpose was to get a cooling pad, and me a new wireless+modem+router because the one I HAD was terminally ill. The wireless thingy was cacated and always went berserked starting from 9pm till next morning like it was haunted or something. And sometimes, I even had to call the internet line to make the adsl light stop blinking and connect! I have NO IDEA WHY but it just works. Reason for getting a cooling pad was because my lappie would heat up really badly after a while (can boil egg!) and even putting my old Samsung phone underneath it to tilt it up didn’t work.

Went to search around for my modem router first. Gor Gor asked me to look for Linksys’s WAG200G which the cheapest price was RM238, if not Dlink’s DSL-2640T which was cheaper. Now Boss’s knows what kind of a shopper I am. I am really really shy, my brother says so. I usually wait for people make eye contact with me and ask me what I want and dare not say ‘excuse me’ or whatever out loud to get their attention. Anyways, at the first shop, somehow each and everyone of the shop’s people didn’t take the initiative to ask me if I needed anything and I just stood there like a stooch. Sigh. I suck. Anyways, started to ask around for Dlink’s price and it was shocking!

Mostly every store I went to said the best price was RM230 or RM225, around there, but then two stores, gave me RM200! WTH! So friggin much difference! Boss even suggested maybe they stole it or something. But I still bought it at Rm199 in the end with a Mini Ver.2 Multi-slot Card Reader , total cost was Rm230. Sigh. Okay lar I guess.

I really like the card reader! Specs: High speed USB 2.0, accesses all different cards without any adapters (except for T-flash)! AND it looks really good! XD

After getting the two, went hunting for the cooling pad. Went to Sri Computer. There was this Malay hippie-yo! looking dude who was freakin’ stingy! Only reduced the price by 5 bucks! I was sure that he was ripping us off. Argh! Luckily Boss saw the one he wanted to buy at a lower price at another location of the shop which was much more secluded but still the same company. The skinny Malay guy gave more discount, not much lar but at least still 10 bucks! At least I don’t feel ripped off that much. I HATE THAT HIPPO! Grrrr!

My lappie on the cooling pad, ngam ngam ho! =)

Had lunch after buying all those stuff at Causeway Bay. I had Beef Brisket Noodles, French Toast and Cold Yin Yong. MY APPETITE HAS RETURNED! Oh my beloved food! I missed you so SO MUCH! I’ll start training to get my bottomless pit back again! There goes the weight I loss!

Then we hurriedly went to Sg. Wang to get our guitar stuff. I wanted to get picks. And guess who I saw there! The guy who used to work in Mid Valley’s Rhapsody! Another guy (who was very boyishly cute! LOL!) was telling me that if I did more strumming I should be getting a softer pick. But then I was like ‘But hor! Daniel wants me to use a hard pick! Why har?!?!?’ Then, ex-Rhapsody guy told me that maybe because Daniel (as in my hot guitar teacher, I seriously hope he won’t by any chance stumble upon this or I’d be dead! ) is a LEAD GUITARIST and wanted me to do more plucking or something. WTF! OMG! That’s soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo friggin cool man! Fuyoh! I’m am so going to practice harder, play properly and learn more from him this coming Monday! Must get all my money’s worth before I leave for HK! LEAD GUITARIST! OH MAN! XD

Gripless Fender cacated shaped pick which I lost hold of and let it fall into the guitar and had Daniel shake the guitar vigorously for more than a minute for it to fall out =P, Chipped pick, New picks! (Clockwise)

All my picks: 1st pick, given by the Indian guitar teacher from Amcorp Mall’s Mahogany, (according to lead guitarist) a cacated shaped pick I found inside my bro’s guitar case, teacher’s chipped guitar pick which I sorta HAVEN’T returned, yet, 2 new picks I bought today! (From left to right.)

My guitar that Mr. Guitar thinks sounds really really nice! Bwahahhahahahaa! Gor Gor, I’m so going to bring it over to HKU! Say sayonara to it! Muahahhahaha!

Hurriedly made a last stop to get my sleeve case because Boss’s mum was chasing him home worried that I’d rape him or something! LOL! Bwahahahhahahaha!

New clothes for my lappie!

When I got home, I felt really happy and satisfied! Hands all full with these stuff! I just get really high when I get new techy gadgets! Like the new 120Gb external hard disk with a really really nice sleek casing that I got for my birthday! Thanks guys!

Aiming to get:

• a new webcam
• (maybe) Ipod Nano (I WANT A WHITE ONE! How come now only got silver,black and yucky colours?!?!? Whatever happened to WHITE?!?!? Noooooooooo! I hate the 2nd generation ones. Ugh.)
• a 1 Gb DDR Ram for the desktop in the living room (it simply CANNOT SURVIVE on 1.25 Gb with Vista installed in it!)
• a 4 port USB hub

during August’s PC Fair before I leave for HKU. Thought of getting a PDA phone, but then maybe there’s those contract thingies in HK too! Free phone! Muahahhahahaha!

That’s all, for now.

P.S. Bugging bro to find me that white Nano on Ebay *prays hard*

Facebook-ing.

Oh oh! I just found out Facebook-ing can be quite fun! Especially the really convenient and fast application of creating photo albums! Tons better than Friendster! XD

Sorry, I’m just too bored lately. Gotta keep myself busy with stuff if not I’d start thinking about crappy stuff again. =(

• Link to BBQ Gathering feat. SN6p + UNiM Mates Photo Album
• Link to the Karaoke with UNiM Gang at Green Box Photo Album
• Link to the Visit Back to UNiM Photo Album

The photos all are caption-less though. Maybe one fine day I’ll type some.

Recent addiction: Lily Allen!

A Visit Back To UNiM.

Written on : 12th June 2007.

WARNING: Extremely LONG post. You guys don’t have to read this post because basically I’m recording this down so I would never ever forget this day.

This gang of friends I made in the University Nottingham in Malaysia is definitely making me regret my withdrawal from UNiM. I love them all!

Today classes was supposed to end at 1pm for them and so they said I could come kacau them at the BBQ last Saturday. Took the KTM train (Seremban line) from KL Sentral to Kajang station. Then, they came all the way from Semenyih to pick me up and drove all the way back to Broga for my (okay lar, EVERYONE’s) favourite Pan Mee! XD Jake, Vince and Jen Haw had already finished eating but waited for me to arrive and Chaw Yee and Khong waited for me to arrive to eat together.

Dry Pan Mee, Thick Noodles, Small, Add Egg. My usual order, topping it off with the usual ABC. Pan Mee was delicious as usual but ABC too little syrup. Uncle with a coin in his ear, NEXT TIME I WANT MORE SYRUP! XD Even the uncle and auntie at the stall were very friendly today and joined in while we were looking at the BBQ photos Jake was transferring from my new Western Digital external hard disk (birthday present from the TARC gang! =) ) to his laptop. Oh oh! And after eating! I even got to drive Jian Wen’s car back to the halls (which I drove in the beginning without releasing the handbrake! *FAINTS* And the whole time I was wondering why the car’s pick up was so damn slow! *DOUBLE FAINTS*)!

Went to Jian Wen’s room where we all dumped our bags there and then visited Jie Qiang’s new room (which later we found out might be termite infested cause of all the white ants on his table tennis bag). He has a piano in his room! Grabbed the Green Box photos from him, hanged out for a while and headed back to Jian Wen’s room to grab movies, more photos, computer games and copy Prison Break Season 1 of his laptop.

Poser Jake!

After we finished, we headed to the sports complex for….. TABLE TENNIS aka. PING PONG!! XD Played for quite a while from 3 something till 6 something in the evening! XD I was in jeans and t-shirt but thank god the table tennis room was air-conditioned! Bwahahhahahaha! Had lots of fun. Except for the part where…… Dr. Ng (my ex-tutor) passed by! According to Huey Jing, he was walking past by but suddenly braked and gostan-ed as he spotted me. (I withdrew w/o informing him *a lil guilty*). While I saw sitting and resting on the floor with Chaw Yee, I was chanting softly ‘Please don’t come near me… please don’t come near me… please don’t come near me…’ But in the end he still did. The usual questions and my usual one word answer ended the conversation as quickly as it started. Bwahahahhahaa. I sure hope my results don’t pass through his hands.

Later we met up again with Jake, Vince and Jen Haw (whom I think was at the library doing some work or something) for a little crazy basket-balling and taking pictures of the various spots around the campus. Jake was extremely hyper today, taking loads of narcissistic shots (maybe it has something to do with him being appointed as the new class rep. BWAHAHHAHAHAHA! XD)! Took photos at the bball court, SA, telephone booth, lake, front and back of the administration building etc.

All of us at the basketball court.

Yay!

Toopid boxer guy spoiling this nice photo of Khong!

STAR JUMP! XD

A crescendo Star Jump! I’m happy!

Xiong Gong Gong being narcissistic.

F8! LOL!

Chaw Yee kena bullied (normal already lar..). Bwahahahaha!

Tau Foo Far Chaw Yee shooting. Don’t play play, he’s Mitsui tau!

Jake driving Vince’s Satria.

JQ trying to hitch a ride!

Vince’s car!

Two of my favorite cars around Semenyih! =P Missing the Yellow Bug though! (Left: Jian Wen’s City. Right: Jingle’s infamous Waja with that paint scrapped off on the left.)

Me and the cutest picture of Hujan Man Khong! =D

Class rep and I.

Nottingham Van.

Corridor to the halls. Really nice lightings at night.

Notice: Jian Wen’s finger. *censored*

Poser Jake, again.

Wahahahaha! Control your laughter lar Gong Gong!

Now, this is more like it. BOO! =P

In front of SA building.

Don’t stare, it’s rude. (Love the look on JQ face!)

Admin Building.

Campus Map.

This class rep thingy is really giving him wayyyyyy too much confidence! Lol!

Jake says: Bow down to me! I’m the King of Bball! Muahahahahahaa!

Admin Building with the clock tower on top from the back.

Chilling.

What’s Harry doing in the bushes?!?!? *snickers* =P

Nice butt JQ!

The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.


Look at that narcissistic Jake! *faints*

Ah pose somemore lar Jake! Now catch you scratching your armpits on camera already! Bwahahahhaa!

Admin Building from the front. Looks like a 5-star hotel doesn’t it? =)

Random pic taken by Gramps.

Look to the right, you’ll see the silhouette of the Cursed Tau Foo Far of UNiM! LOL!

At the lake side taken without flash.

Taken with flash.

It was already 7 something. I promised my mum to be back by 8 or 9. So I kept chasing them to quickly go back to their room, take their shower and head to Kajang for satay and drop me off at the KTM station before I miss my train. By the time we found the place to eat, it was already close to 9pm! Oh well, . 6 of us ordered 45 ayam, 40 ikan, forgot how many rusa, how many arnabs and 3 lembu. Deer satay was DELICIOUS! Absolutely! Juicy! Rabbit was good too, however I kept thinking of that Rabbit ‘FUNland’ in Broga and imagining which tender part of the poor rabbit’s body I was eating… the thigh maybe?

He can make anything look like it tastes good. (For the record, the drinks at this place really sucked, BIG TIME!)

Satay not here yet. Waiting in anticipation.

Posing for Huey Jing. Very ‘gei mian’ that he posed with the peace sign already even though he wasn’t smiling at all. It’s understandable since that room is freakin warm and hot with all the satays. Poor guy.

By the time we finished eating and reached the KTM station, it was already 10 something. There was a train there when we reached. I SPRINTED ACROSS! As I reached out for my Touch N Go card, the train passed me by. Too late. T.T And the next train was going to come at 11.23pm which would be the last train. I had to wait at least for an hour because there was a train from Singapore coming up. Jian Wen, Xiong Gong Gong aka. Mr. Way-Too-Nice-Guy offered to send me home. HOME HOME! All the way from Kajang back to Seputeh. *TOUCHED* But I knew my mum would rather me wait there because she didn’t want to waste their time coming back and forth. Somehow, He who has The Magic Tongue managed to convince my mum that it wasn’t a problem at all to send me back. *SUPER TOUCHED* In the end, Jian Wen, Chaw Yee, Huey Jing and Jie Qiang altogether teman-ed me back home.

When I reached home, they all got down from the car to ‘tackle’ my parents. With all their sweet sweet tongues, they managed to leave with my parents being all happy and grateful to them instead of scolding me like hell for disturbing and troubling them. According to Jingle, the poor driver had ticks all over him from rubbing Max all over. Kesian. LOL!

As they were getting into their car and leaving, I got all teary-eyed and was really really happy. I don’t really know what came over me. But finally I realized that these are the people which make me happy all the time. Therefore, I’ve decided to be happy (meaning getting my appetite back ), emulate the happy-go-lucky attitude of them. Why do I want to make myself feel miserable because people who do not give a crap about me treat me like…. crap!

That’s just stupid, right?

I do not have anymore time and will not waste my time on people who I used to think cared that obviously do not care anymore now.

Yay!

Another long (maybe) post coming up on the gathering! Sorry!

I’m A Little Teapot, Short and Stout.

Okay, so my birthday just passed 2 days ago. I’m another year wiser (that’s what I’d like to think ). Nah, just older. It’s my last year of being a teen (quotes Eva). I’ll be in my twenties next year! OH GOD! Nooooooooooooooooooo! (Er, no offence to those who already are! Bwahahhahahahahhahaa!)

10/6/2007 3:24:18 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco talk to you oso.. aih
10/6/2007 3:24:19 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco suan le ba
10/6/2007 3:24:26 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco blur blur .
10/6/2007 3:24:29 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco like little boy
10/6/2007 3:24:30 PM Draco 翠霞 Ostry no…i’m ur poision medicine
10/6/2007 3:25:02 PM Draco 翠霞 Ostry sometime b a little boy is better than b a mature boy ya noe
10/6/2007 3:25:10 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco lol
10/6/2007 3:25:10 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco yes
10/6/2007 3:25:11 PM Draco 翠霞 Ostry no worries…
10/6/2007 3:25:14 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco i miss being a little girl
10/6/2007 3:25:14 PM Draco 翠霞 Ostry always happy..
10/6/2007 3:25:17 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco yes
10/6/2007 3:25:18 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco i know
10/6/2007 3:25:31 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco i wanna be childish again too!
10/6/2007 3:25:32 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco TEACH ME!
10/6/2007 3:25:37 PM Draco 翠霞 Ostry -_-”"”"”"”"”"”"‘
10/6/2007 3:25:46 PM Draco 翠霞 Ostry -_-”"”"”"”"
10/6/2007 3:25:46 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco
10/6/2007 3:25:50 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco nothing lar
10/6/2007 3:25:55 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco i miss being a kid
10/6/2007 3:25:58 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco seriously
10/6/2007 3:26:03 PM 翠霞 Ostry Draco oh oh..
10/6/2007 3:26:04 PM Draco 翠霞 Ostry i should hv throw u into the pool tat nite..

Lol.

After a little crapping on MSN with Chaw Yee, he made me realize how much I miss being a kid. Being a grown up really really sucks.

I wanna be a little kiddo that
-hates having to hold hands with boys during line ups
-has no worries nor problems apart from the occassional homework and mum forcing me to wear frilly dresses (ugh!) and uncomfortable plastic heeled shoes (ew!)
-does not have any important responsibilities
-runs around like a monkey but yet adults find it cute instead of psychotic
-does not need to deal with complicated relationships be it friendship or whatever-ship with other human beings
-is easily contented and happy with just little sweet treats

And the list goes on.

Maybe I could still be a kid at heart. Be a little girl instead of a ‘mature’ girl. No worries, always happy!

P.s. Will blog about the was-supposed-to-be-SN6P gathering + UNiM buddies party when I have all the pictures with me (hopefully soon with the memories still fresh in my mind)! (and Jing: Remind me to get the ’spastic’ photos on Tuesday from Uncle Lim! XD)

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Kopi-O License.

Incident/Accident (I don’t even know which is the proper term to use..):

1) Drove the left side of the car up a curb and dented the bottom left part of the car which (thank god) was hardly noticeable unless you squatted down to look on Mum’s Day because it was slopey, couldn’t see it and was too busy looking out for cars of my right to turn out. Sigh.

2) Drove (yes, DROVE, not reverse nor anything) the left front wheel (and yes, the LEFT side, AGAIN) into a drain at night. Again, it was slopey and I was waiting anxiously for the HUGE Rapid KL bus to pass by before slowly easing out. But oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, KONK! I drove right into the drain and swore – ‘FUCK!’. My parents and godparents were in the car. Luckily, my dad was too angry and busy yelling at me and the rest of my family were more concern about the car. Anyways, the drain’s width was smaller than the wheel’s diameter so no dents or anything like that, just scratches. Two guys and my goddad lifted the front car up while my dad hit on the accelerator to reverse the car back and it was okay. Sigh.

3) Drove(?) up another curb, this time on the right side. Was not so horrible this time as the curb wasn’t so high and I was just touching it unlike the other time where the car basically went UP and DOWN again. BUMP BUMP! *faints*

Damage count to the Vios : 3

Sigh. Yes, it’s true. I’m a horrible driver. I wish my brother was here to teach me because the way my parents do with ‘drive slower!’ and ‘be more careful!’ and ’see how I drive!’ doesn’t really help much at all. Unlike my brother who tries to teach me how to have a better judgement on MSN with actual theories and not just vague advise like those.

I wish I had the chance to wreck up a ciplak car while experimenting all the turning circles, angles, whatever and not have to bang up the Vios. Everytime, my heart sinks when I realize I damaged it again. Sigh. And it doesn’t help at all when my dad shouts and yells at me. How come he doesn’t realize that I’m already in sorta a shock and know that I’m wrong and that I AM trying to improve, not make the same mistake again? Give me a break.

I’m still wondering why Malaysia uses Kancils as driving test cars. See what kind of people (meaning me) they give license to! It’s amusing too, now that I observe that whenever I damage the car, it doesn’t involve collisions with other cars or animals, just INANIMATE OBJECTS! Things that are STATIONARY!

GOD I SUCK!

Hope my brother sends those sensor thingies which I’ll install on the car quickly over from Australia!

Insomnia.

Woke up at 3:33a.m. just now.

And now it’s 4:36 a.m.

I can’t sleep, obviously. There’s too many things going on in my mind. Complications. My life was and is supposed to be simple. I’d like it to stay that way.

Complexity makes my head hurt.