Tuesday, January 3, 2012

A New Year. A New...You?

Hai.

2012 sudaaaahhh.

Mesti time-time ni ramai yang sama ada tengah bersungguh-sungguh mengotakan azam tahun baru yang baru disenaraikan 4 hari lepas, yakni 31 Disember 2011 ataupun masih tengah terkial-kial nak buat senarai azam baru. So, in the spirit of the New Year and because I thought I should get back to blogging (uttered for the umpteenth time) mari kita tengok senarai azam baru yang memang selalu guaranteed akan ada dalam senarai oranglah okeh!

1) Nak diet.
Masyaallah, this one memang sangatlaaaaaahhhhhh popular. Especially amongst the ladies. From the younger set to the older set. Bukanlah nak kata lelaki tak ada yang semangat nak diet tapi sangatlaaaaahhhhh jarang dengar lelaki nak diet. Selalu lelaki kegemaran diorang melantak bagai nak rak, kalau boleh makan meja kerusi, semua diorang akan "ngap" (Okay, exaggerating di situ. Not all men okay, maybe just the men I know haha). As far as I'm concerned, this is by far the most popular and the most unachievable by most people. EVERYBODY says they want to diet and then not even 3 days later, they'll be gorging on 2 plates of nasi lemak for breakfast, KFC for lunch and Pizza Hut for dinner. Ape kes, bro?

2) Nak dapat 5A/8A/51A untuk UPSR/PMR/SPM.
Okay, adik-adik sekalian. Bukanlah nak kata azam ni tak bagus. Bagus, sebenarnya. Tapi kenapa restrict diri sendiri untuk cemerlang just for these exams je? So kalau adik-adik sekalian tengah Form 2, so what, it's okay to get 1A 3Bs 2Cs 2Ds? Not cool la like thaaatttt. Take it from me, work your beautiful behinds off and have fun at the same time. Get awesome possum results, go to a great university, graduate and realise that dream you've always dreamt of.

3) Nak kahwin.
Okay, don't laugh but I've a few friends who have made it their resolution to get married like this year. Dont get me wrong, I'm not talking about the people that have a steady boyfriend and have been planning to get married this year, I'm talking about those who are still single and are desperately looking for someone so that they can be married this year. Kenapa semangat nak kahwin tahun ni? Sebab kawan-kawan semua dah either about to settle down or have already settled down. Okay now, this is me okay. The way I see it, jodoh di tangan Tuhan. Kita boleh usaha but kalau dah tersurat kita kahwin waktu umur 40 tahun, kau nak buat apa? Yang penting usaha, nak kahwin, boleh je. I bet our parents pun lagi lega kalau anak-anak nak kahwin but cari jodoh sebab niat kau ikhlas nak mendirikan masjid, bukan sebab seronok tengok kawan-kawan kau kahwin. Hello, memanglah weddings sangat meriah tapi kau ingat marriage tu senang macam makan nasi time kenduri, meriah senantiasa? Kena ingat tu.

4) Get more money.
Ahhhh, money. The root of all evil. The one thing I always think of haha. That is not me being materialistic, that is me being practical. Whoever said that money is not important, try eating sand for a month and then we'll talk. I dont know how one would normally do this. Maybe get a second job, ask more money from your parents or sell yourself (okay, dont do the last two...). But this is one of the good resolutions if one decides to stick to it. I could also do this, provided I can get off my lazy behind and get a move on it!

5) Spend more time with family and friends.
THIS, I am 150% on board with! In this day where our lives are most often filled with burying our noses in our respective gadgets poking someone or stalking your latest crush's profile or tweeting about someone's unruly nose hair, we need to learn that physical human interaction is STILL ESSENTIAL! As much as all these gadgets do help us keep in touch with our family and friends but if we depend on these gadgets to interact, can you imagine what a simple dinner could turn into? Awwkkkwaaarrrddd....

6) Quit smoking.
Before I start, let me do this first...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Okay, itu gelak sinis namanya. This is another one of the popular resolutions....and one that is almost always unachievable. I should know, I've seen it happen oh about 300 times to my brother and my friends. In fact, about a year ago, my friend Eddy went to China and bought this electronic cigarette for MYR25 and he came back telling the whole office about how he was going to quit smoking with the help of this magical device. 3 weeks later, I bumped into him lighting up a Marlboro after lunch. Tanya kenapa give up his New Year's resolution? "Rokok elektronik aku jatuh kat celah lif laaaa. Nak beli baru, mahal." -_______________-. Sekian.

Sebenarnya, kalau nak ikutkan banyak lagi contoh-contoh azam tahun baru tapi kalau nak senaraikan one by one, sampai ke tahun depan pun belum tentu habis. Anyway, after you've read what I've said above, you may think I'm a cynic. Maybe I am, or maybe I was just being practical. I'm not a resolutions kinda girl, have never done any, would never think of doing any. Tapi I know there are a lot of people out there who still do this. So to you guys, make sure your resolutions are achievable and make sure you ACHIEVE THEM! All the best, may you get to finally cross something off your list by the end of the year!

To the rest of you, I'm going off to that mamak stall right around the corner there to watch people strive not to eat too much in the spirit of keeping to their "diet resolution". Join me?

Oh and Happy 2012, y'all!

Monday, August 8, 2011

#dontjudgeme


Wah, sudah lama tak menaip di sini. Sudah berhabuk kehendaknya
blog ini. Saya pohon kemaafan sebab sudah lama tak menghadap blog seraya mengupdate. Natijahnya, saya malas tahap dewa. Faham tak akan kemalasan tahap dewa? Kalau faham, bagus. Kalau tak faham, faham-fahamkan sahaja.

Okay, anyway, let’s move on to the topic of the day. I was suddenly called, (Cheh, “called” gitu. Rase cam ade suara sepoi-sepoi bahase berkate, “Write about guilty pleasures todayyyyy!!”) to write about jengjengjeng GUILTY PLEASURES!

Actually dah terbagitau topic awal-awal dah. But please pretend that you have not seen it ohkayyyy.

You guys pernah dengar “ keseronokan bersalah”? Atau bahasa omputehnye, guilty pleasure?

Don’t know?! Haaaa, according to my best friend in the whole wide world, Mr Merriam-Webster, guilty pleasure is something pleasurable that usually induces a minor feeling of guilt. Atau dalam bahase pasarnye, keseronokan bersalah adalan sesuatu yang amatlah menyeronokkan tetapi juge boleh membawa kepada perasaan bersalah dalam diri sendiri. Tapi sikit je la rase bersalahnye bukan cam rase bersalah lepas mencuri takut kene potong tangan. Bukan bukannnn….

Usually the guilt is from the fear of other people discovering your embarrassing tastes be it in fashion, books, movies, songs dan yang sewaktu dengannya.

So today, in the name of updating my blog and also to somehow inflict embarrassment on myself even further, I’ve decided to reveal MY list of guilty pleasures.

1) Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

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Here’s the thing, I’m not a snacks person. I don’t salivate over every single chocolates, crackers, desserts that I pass by but this, this delicious peanut butter-y goodness is the epitome of sin! OMAIGOD! This perfect peanut butter goodness will help you grow…vertically, that is. It’s sold in any hypermarkets tapi tak berbaloi beli sebab mak aih gile mahal and dalam satu paket ade 3 cups je. So usually my itchy butts friends yang baik hati (bodek ade makne ni sebab sorang tengah kat Finland) will buy them in bulk for me. CAYALAH KORANG! MEMANG KAWAN DUNIA AKHIRAT! Okay dah Tot, tak payah nak extreme sangat.

2) Justin Bieber My World 2.0

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#dontjudge but once upon a time, when One Time was first released, I watched it and thought, “Cute girl. Boy? Err, not so much”. You see, JB wasn’t even on my radar, I was in fact eyeing the girl in the MV. Then Baby came out and all the girls went gaga over him and I thought, “Meeehhh.” Manymanymanymanymany months later, I was in my sis’ car and I was flipping through her CD collection and rightly stole some of them, including JB’s My World 2.0. Trust me when I say, I delayed listening to the CD. I actually played and overplayed other CDs first until one day, I thought “Whatthehell, lets give it a try…” Then, terus tersuke dengar Favourite Girl. Bukan saje TERsuke, malah selalu TERhum and TERnyanyi bile duduk sorang-sorang. Okay, BOOOO DEKAT DIRI SENDIRI! *Boo diri sendiri sebelum orang lain boo adalah taktik terbaik untuk mengurangkan rase malu*

3) Power Rangers

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No thanks to my sister who used to shoo me away when she played house and Barbie dolls (Motif kau nak salahkan Kak Long?! Haha), I grew up as a tomboy, playing Legos and building space stations with my brother. Sooooo, my favourite show of all time when I was younger (and also a few years back) was Power Rangers. Doraemon pun kalah time tu. Memang tiap-tiap hari Sabtu, pukul 6, TV2 mesti tengok Power Rangers. Without. Fail.

4) Scrabble

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YES I’M A NERD! Scrabble is probably my most favourite board game of all time. Monopoly, Life, Cluedo etc semua tu tak boleh lawan la. Another reason I don’t like to play these games is because I never win any of them. So saye ni agak (agak? AGAK??? Sangat, more like) competitive and I don’t like to lose, everytime someone proposes that we play any of the above games, I’ll wander off somewhere else. Dahlah suke main Scrabble, pastu seboleh-bolehnye nak bolot semua triple word score. Kalau orang lain dapat, memang boleh mendatangkan kemarahan! Therefore I reiterate, YES I'M A NERD!


5) Starship Troopers 1 & 2

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3 words. Casper van Dien. One of the reasons I watched it when I was younger. Gatai naa hang, kecik-kecik lagi dah usha mamat hensem naaa. Buruk perangai sungguh! That was the time when I knew about NPH tapi time tu die nerd lagi, takde “SUIT UP!” bagai.

Starship Troopers 1 & 2 are cult classics, B-grade, but cult classics nevertheless.


6) Code Red

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Code Red was a British boyband formed in 1996. My sister was a fan and I stumbled upon them because I thought one of them was cute. *cough* You’ve no idea how embarrassed I am to even admit to that. But yeah, I couldn’t care less about the songs, they were catchy pop tunes, typical of boybands I guess. Just thought one of them, I didn’t and still don’t know his name actually, was cute.


7) Road Rules/Real World Challenge

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I’ve watched them all. The Gauntlet, Fresh Meat, Battle of the Seasons, The Inferno I, II, Battle of the Sexes. I’ve rooted for Abram, crushed on CT, cringed at the Mark & Robin hook-up and went “AWWWWW” at every Abram & Coral moments (these two are TOTAL bad asses but they “wuvved” each other. AWWWWW!). Eh actually, I’m not embarrassed to admit that I’m a big fan…

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Okay, I just have to post CT's picture. My favourite Bad Ass EVAH!
Goddammit he's hot.

8) Sonny with A Chance

At the age of 23, to be admitting that I enjoy watching Sonny with A Chance (I’ve even subscribed to a Youtube channel that uploads the latest of this series) puts me in danger of being labeled as, “Lame” or a loser or to be picked on at every outing with friends (hence I didn't put a picture for this guilty pleasure. CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW EMBARRASSED I AM RIGHT NOW?). BUT since this list is called the guilty pleasures list, I guess I have to put it on this list. Somehow I have a feeling that admitting to this guilty pleasure is even worse than admitting to listening to JB. Okay, please don’t unfriend me.

Well you can’t expect me to bear with this embarrassment all on my own right? Mane aci! So come on, what are your guilty pleasures? =)

Monday, April 25, 2011

Can I have a personal trainer pretty please?

I pegi gym semalam.

Ewaaaahhhh! Sudah maju ye kau,
Tot?!

Actually I went because a friend of mine joined and she gave my number to Fitness First. So, Saturday afternoon, I got a call from an Ashwin inviting me over to check out their facilities and see if I'm interested to join.

Truth be told, I've always wanted to join a gym. I think it will be a nice change to be doing structured excercises under a professional's supervision rather than doing some random cardio workouts on my own.

So yesterday, I went with my sister to AEON Bukit Tinggi, Klang. Gigih kaaaauuuu! Tak tau jalan bagai, tapi sanggup ber-GPS dan mengharungi perjalanan yang mengambil mase dalam 1 jam one way! Lemme tell you, the drive to Klang nearly drove me crazy (See what I did there? No?...Oh nevermind.) Sangatlah boring tak terkate..Radio pun tak dapat membantu okay.

Anyway I digress. After about an hour and 3 tolls later, we arrived at Klang and went to Fitness First. Itulah first time I stepped into a gym. Memang la jakun kannn. Looking at the treadmills, cross-trainers, steppers in what they call the Cardio Theatre, I felt like I'd died and gone to fitness heaven.

Then, Ashwin took us over to the Group Exercise Room. Honestly, when he said group exercise, my mind conjured up this image of an aerobics class with makciks and an instructor standing in front of the class in neon-coloured leotards shouting, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 8 lagi!", yeah...that one. Sangkaanku salah. Because when I peeked inside the room, the participants were pakciks and makciks BUT there were also youngsters. AND AND AND instructor die sangat HOT! Young and muscular. *wipes drool* Oh and they were doing BODY FRIGGIN' COMBAT! Sumpah I jealous. =(

Anyway, shortly after that, Ashwin explained to us the joining fee, the membership fee. To cut the story short, basically if I were to join yesterday, I'd to pay RM319 and a monthly fee of RM205. Ahhhh, memang hancur la kan harapan nak join. Gaji pun ciput je, if I'd joined, memang stok makan rumput la tiap-tiap bulan okays! They were really cool, they tried to cut the price even more for me because they could see I was very interested. They even offered a one-week trial but the problem is not that I was reluctant to join. It was because of the monthly financial commitment that I've to make if I were to join. So unfortunately I had to turn down the one-week trial.

Dahlah I couldnt join, lagi menyakitkan hati was that my sister joined! I'll explain to you guys why I was shocked and a wee (okaylah a lot) jealous.

The girl who refused point blank to go jogging with my parents and me in the mornings at the Polo grounds, who considers walking leisurely from Point A to Point B a form of torture, who cringed when I asked her to join me for Adidas King of the Road last year, that girl committed to a year of exercising with Fitness First yesterday. I told her I'd personally kick her ass if she even considers skipping any of her workout sessions. Yes. I. Was. Serious.

Nevermind la, lets put it this way, I can sponge off fitness knowledge from her after a couple of months kan? Ye, ayat untuk memujuk diri sendiri (dah takde orang nak pujuk, yedok?!) Even if I dont trust her (just in case instructor ajar die buat A, karang die ajar I buat B+C karang tak ke naya? Because she has the attention span of a 5 y.o...Eh wait, I think that's me) I have to try to trust her la kan because I just found out that my metabolism rate is that of a 48 y.o. woman.





Okay dah tak sanggup nak sambung dah lepas keluarkan statement tu.

Bye.

OH OH HI ADILLLLLL!

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Oh Dammnnnn....

Susu: Siti, what's an e-invite?
Me: *stares in disbelief*
Rei: Yeah. What is it?
Me: *still staring in disbelief*

After like 68 seconds;

Rei: Can eat wan ah? If can, can I have cheese with it?
Me: YOU TWO STOP TRYING TO GIVE ME A HEART ATTACK CAN ANOT?

Dahlah kerje urgent. Boleh pulak buat lawak antarabangse. Memang la kene sumpah seranah lepas tu kannnnn.

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W: Where's Rei?
SW: Extracting water.
Me: Extracting water??? What?
N: Peeing la.
Me: Then, shouldn't it be dispensing water? I mean you dispense water from your body, you don't extract it. Right?
W: Eh, true also. When you say extract, it's something being pulled out..
N: There's this thing called gravity, it extracts the pee maa...

"WOI, STOP DISCUSSING ABOUT MY PEEING!"

Lesson of the day?
Dinding kat ofis sangat nipis, mamat dalam toilet pun boleh dengar kitorang kat luar.

Habis tu, yang selame ni kitorang asyik mengutuk orang tu?






Ahh sudaaaaahhhh...