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- After looking at Stabilo colour pens for about 15 minutes, I walk off deciding not to buy any cause they cost RM3 each and my bro says 'Come back and pick one. I sponsor you la.' LOL how pathetic is that? Needing my 17 year old brother to sponsor a pen for me?!

- After I refused to eat any more sunflower seeds, my dad goes 'But you were eatinging with me just now what..' If you are wondering if I made a typing mistake. No I didn't. Daddy did, in fact, say EATINGING.

- After 10 days in Malaysia, Sherif, my very cute Egyptian friend 'Wo ai ni, leng lui la la!'

;D

ps: I am dreading February 19th. When I have to return to the hellhole that is Perth :'(

Shan Min @ 12:29 AM v Comments (1) v

Of IELTS and Absolute 'Jakun-ess'

I got my IELTS test over and done with last Saturday, the 23rd of Jan. The listening/reading/writing sections went well I would say and I'm pretty confident of getting the bands I require. I wish I could say the same for my speaking test though. The test was at 5pm and considering the fact that I had to wake up at 6am, my brain was on the verge of shutting down by the time it was my turn. I didn't come up with as much points as I could have, given a fresh mind. lol I expected to get an English interviewer but ended up with a very intimidating looking Chinese lady =/ I was nervous at the start and pretty sure my face was shaking as I mumbled answers to her questions. lol But we'll see what happens. Please just give me the band I need. I am not keen on spending another 300 AUD to retake the test! Fingers crossed!

After the listening/reading/writing test in the morning, Mum and Dad treated me to a high-tea at Corus Hotel. I haven't been to a high-tea for ages and man it felt good to stuff myself full of all kinds of food :D I had fried rice, mussels in some kind of coconuty sauce, curry chicken, fish, salad, mushroom soup, rojak, ice kacang, cakes, tarts, fruits, coffee and ice cream topped with lots of chocolatey stuff :) Choc sprinkles, choc flakes, choc syrup.. everything chocolate! Yum. It was a surprise that none of us got stomach upsets after that, considering the different types of food we stuffed down our throats at one go! LOL

2 funny incidents happened, that I'd like to jot down. The first one happened when me and Dad tried to make some ice kacang. It was a DIY one. So, okay I went to the ice shaver machine and pushed the bowl against it, as is shown on the sign. But the machine was so unbelievably loud I jumped back in shock. And me and dad just stood there laughing. Seeing how useless we were, this lady who works there grabbed the bowl from me and did it for us. After saying thank you and feeling incredibly useless, we tried to stack the ingredients on top of the pile of ice. A few minutes of this and Dad suddenly says 'Eh, aren't we meant to put the ingredients into the bowl first then put the shaved ice above it?' And it dawned on me that 'Oh right. Ya I think that is the correct way!'. No wonder I haven't seen anyone else make ice kacang using so much effort before. lol That was noob incident Numero Uno.

The second one was when we and Mum wanted to make a cup of coffee. I wanted to try their 'Macchiato', not really knowing what it was. Now, the coffee machine looked something like the one in the picture above. Notice the little metal tube at the right hand side? The only difference is that this tube was right next to the white part with the 2 little tubes sticking out. So, after pressing the Macchiato button, I held the cup and had no idea where to put it! Under the 2 little white tubes in the centre? Or the little metal one at the side? I was shuffling between the 2 of them and finally I decided to put it in the centre. Milk started pouring out into my cup and I was relieved =p But then, the milk didn't stop til my whole cup was almost full! Then I thought 'Eh, where is the coffee?!!' And the whole dilemma started again. 'Maybe the coffee is meant to come out from the metal tube?' So I put it there, but nothing happened. Not having any other choice, I put my cup in the centre again and this time, coffee started dripping out :D There was so little coffee compared to milk though! But after a very uncertain 5 minutes, I finally got my coffee. LOL! Mum and me were laughing so hard and felt like such jakuns!

After that very heavy lunch, we went to KLCC to kill some time before my speaking test. At which I ended up spending an amount I don't want to mention on stuff from the Body Shop. I never understood why people were willing to spend so much on stuff from the Body Shop. I mean, I knew their stuff smelt nice and all but what are people paying so much for? Only recently did I come to know of all the different types of things they have to cure any problem you might have with your skin or on any part of your body. LOL jakun-ess. I love their Sea Salt body scrub thing. After using it, you really feel like the layer of dead skin on your body has been removed and you literally look fairer and cleaner. LOL Their cocoa butter lip balm was pretty amazing too. I had insanely dry and cracked lips walking into the shop, but the moment I tried applying some of that onto my lip, I could see my lip absorb the moisture immediately. It normally takes some time with a normal lip balm doesn't it? :D Expensive stuff but effective!

Anyway this was an uber long post about my Saturday! Quite a fun day, excluding the speaking test. I'm so happy to be home! :)

Shan Min @ 4:09 PM v Comments (0) v

Oh essay writing skills, where art thou?

I had to practice writing essays for my IELTS test tomorrow. And gosh it's been ages since I last wrote a proper essay. My brain finds it so hard to conjure up points and my flow of writing has been impacted so badly. It's horribly hard to come up with good introductions and my points just plain suck now, if compared to what I could have come up with say 3 years ago when I was still in secondary school! This is horrible and very worrying. Wish me luck tomorrow!

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Shan Min @ 1:42 PM v Comments (0) v

Retards

I absolutely hate people who play music out loud on their hand phones in trains. It's just so inconsiderate and annoying. Saw this stupid guy today who was playing some moany Malay tune and relaxing/sleeping while everyone else was giving him weird looks. OK maybe not everyone, but I kept rolling my eyes. I mean, come on, get a pair of earphones and don't think that your music is GOLD and expect everyone to listen to it!

Retards.

Shan Min @ 8:27 PM v Comments (0) v

Amateur

But bear with me :) I'm happy with the way this one turned out.

Taken at Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse, Augusta, Western Australia.

Shan Min @ 1:40 AM v Comments (0) v

BACK IN ACTION!

I've finally decided to get off my lazy bum and start writing again. Oh joy. Not that anyone reads this blog anymore. But lately, certain things have made me feel like writing short posts, just to pen down what little thoughts I have =p

So.. Summer. Other than being filled with work, worrying about finding a better paying job, ~~worrying about going home~~ and sweating my butt off under the 30 degree Perth weather, I've started watching Supernatural again. And man, season 4 was such an epic season. Lots of demons, conflicts (between the brothers and within themselves) and the characters have grown so much compared to when we started off at Season 1. Having been to hell and back, the Dean we knew ie the cheeky Dean whose eyes never fail to light up at the thought of women, the cool, confident Dean was replaced with someone who was weak and angry and felt sorry for himself (as he was the one who broke the first seal - if all 66 seals are broken, basically Lucifer will walk free). And Sam, well to be honest, I think Jared Padalecki is not too good an actor at all. He always has this one constipated look when he's hunting that annoys me so badly. So let's ignore him. A great addition to the show, however is Castiel, the angel played by Misha Collins. This dude has STYLE baby! He started off being cold, ignorant and forceful but towards the end, the character really grew and became a bit more human, he had feelings and started questioning the ruthless and sometimes brutal orders they were getting from their superiors. You see, in Supernatural, angels are portrayed very differently to what we are used to. They are brutal, willing to kill and honestly, don't look like they care much for human life at all. To sum it up, they were jerks. MASSIVE JERKS. All of the angels are pains in the arses but Castiel has really captured my heart. He's just such a great character and I can't wait to see what happens in Season 5.

I do not know why I just wrote a review of Supernatural. lol It's just that I have been thinking about how the show has changed and how far they've progressed since Season 1. After watching Season 4 of the show, I am a huge fan once again. The show has the right mix between light, funny episodes and full on, serious and intense demon busting ones. If you've seen Supernatural but have not caught up to the latest season, I think you should start now, cause you have no idea what you're missing out on.

More blogposts soon hopefully! :)

Shan Min @ 1:06 AM v Comments (0) v

For the final time

It's so sad hearing Ronan break down in tears :"(

RIP Stephen.

PS: Hate those stupid girls who were holding roses in their hands and SMILING! Why did they bother going in the first place?!

Shan Min @ 1:51 AM v Comments (0) v