So hello there.

I’ve finally found some time to blog again as promised though it will most likely be a wordy post which most of you never bother reading anyway.

Just a random update but here’s what I’ve been up to recently.

I’ve finally gone back to school and in all honesty I’m not really enjoying myself all that much at all. It isn’t the subjects or the lecturers but me and school just don’t gel very well together. Heck, i can easily wake up at 5am to work or at 6am to eat breakfast or even to go swimming but asking me to get up at 7am to go to class at 8am is a whole new feat all together that i have yet to master. Sitting in a classroom or a lecture hall and trying to pay attention drains so much of my energy on a daily basis that i’m normally down and out by 10pm the same day and that is after i’ve taken a 1-2 hour nap in the afternoon after my classes.

Aiya, i know i’ve only gone for a week of classes and already I’m such a whiny bitch but i really can’t help it wei and ironically enough, the only reason i am able to blog now is because somehow for some unknown reason, I’ve managed to get sick and am lying in bed with a fever instead of freezing myself in the classroom. Actually I’m wondering how much more i can even type because my head is starting to spin. HAHHAHA but i shall persevere and go on typing at least a little more just so everyone knows I’m really alive and I’ve not abandoned this blog yet!

Aside from that, did i tell you guys about my addiction with body balance class? It made me lose like 4 KGS in just over 2 weeks. I went about 3-4 times a week but i have to give up most of my classes now since class has started. SAD. And after not going for a week I’ve gone back to developing my sloth like abilities of having my thoughts battle it out inside my brain about whether to get up and go for a session or stay home and lump myself in front of the TV with what’s left of my precious time. Which if you think about it is really a lot of time left seeing as I’ve only got 3 days of classes but those 3 days of classes are making my other days fly by like the wind and all of a sudden it’s time for class again??

I wonder if there’s something i could use to make myself love going to lectures and tutorials. Perhaps i should try a self hypnosis?

OH OH OH!!!

I went to Penang for the first time since i was last there when i was probably 5 with no recollection of the place and i must say that I LOVE PENANG!! wtf wtf. I don’t really know why but that place just feels really familiar and comfortable to me and it’s one of those little cities that i could go wondering about and plopping myself in some random cafe and just stare out at nothing. I guess because it has such a seaside town feel to it and I’m just crazy addicted to the sea. AIYA I KNOW LA ITS NEXT TO THE SEA but what i mean is the infrastructure and the pace of the place lar!!

And for the record, i really didn’t think the Lorong Selamat Char Kuey Teow was all that. SOOOOO overpriced!! There used to be this kopitiam in Aman Suria opened by a penang family and homaigad their char kuey teow is to die for wei!! If you had anything to do with hypertune, you’d likely find the hypertune boys sitting there having their daily dose of it. I’m still devastated that the place closed down and i no longer no where they are. If anyone knows do tell me okay!

And and and I’m addicted to this jagung bakar special thing i ate in Penang. MY goodness it was soooo goooooodd! they actually roasted the corn with some special sauce that caramelises a little to give a sweet and smoky taste to the corn. Just thinking about it is making me salivate and that is on my first thing to eat list if i ever go back to penang again. I got it at a stall in Batu Feringgi outside Sunset Bistro. MUST TRY I SWEAR TO YOU!

Eh okay la. cannot type anymore. nauseas already.

BYE!

It all started a few hours ago when I brilliantly decided “hey guess what everybody??!?! Imma gonna make sugar cookies and gingerbread men/shapes on thursday for christmas!” And so, in the home without my baking goods, I randomly started googling recipes and reading reviews of said recipes.

As the tragedy of being a sucker for cute things would have it, I was reminded that I wanted a recipe where I could make use of my now “missing” cookie cutters. They’re around. I’m just not entirely sure where. And reading the reviews further about the many mishaps of using cookie cutters and the dough warming up into a goey mess faster in humid countries, I was rather detoured from my initial plan remembering the amount of effort and chilling time I’ve gone through in the past.

You see. Me and rolled sugar cookies just don’t do so well together. I like to take my time baking. And hence my dough always softens much too quickly. Added with the fact my cookies always turn out like shortbread and end up crumbling in your hands if held too hard, I was beginning to doubt my decision. Don’t get me wrong here. My cookies almost always taste awesome but I really just want a more solid sugar cookie I can randomly trash around in containers and frost without having to worry about it crumbling if I poke at it too hard. In my mind, I really hadn’t envisioned my sugar cookies to be crumbly and function like short bread where it actually melts in your mouth. “=_= I want that crisp breaking and that sugary goodness that induces hallucinations of sugar rushed minds.

Maybe I just haven’t found the right recipe, though this may have room for question since I pretty much never follow recipes anyway. The rebellious child in me always just has to tweak everything in accordance to my mood which more often than not is forgotten again the next time I try to bake the same thing. However if you ask around, I think I’m pretty hell good as a cook and a baker from my random throwing in of ingredients despite what my writing seems to want to imply.

Back to the point of the story. So while I was beginning to doubt my decision of making these supposedly simple cookies, it occured to me that I really didn’t have a choice. The inevitable had happened. In the midst of all that sugary thoughts, I had somehow developed a craving. A craving for that sugar cookie shaped like some random item that taste only like what home made sugar cookies can taste like. I am now stuck with that stupid craving no forms of store bought or commercialized cookies can replace.

I need my sugar cookies.

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This happened quite a while back and during that time i was fuming pretty badly and was on the verge of exploding on the spot but felt bad for the agent who was very nice the whole time and had technically been screwed over as well or so it seemed la. I know it’s been forever and i should have let go and forgotten already but i just saw the ad on TV today and went and youtube it again just for double verification and all feelings of annoyance and anger just started flaring up again. CONSOLATION to the whole thing was reading tweets about how crappy the ad was so now i cant decide whether i should be glad they keyed on their own staffs face onto my face or not (ie. edited the pic and stuck on somebodys elses face on mine). then again the video quality is so crap on youtube i cant really tell. maybe they just distorted my face a lot but im pretty sure its the face of one of their staff who handled us.

So the story was like this.

i went for a casting call at Shiroku Productions for the recent Tutti Fruitti Froyo ad being shown on TV. i didn’t get the main or the featured but they called me up and asked if i could do a favour by helping out as an extra. i figured why not. its not like i had anything better to do with my life anyway and being an extra was infinitely less work or SO I THOUGHT.

Even before production i was required to attend a fitting session with their full Tutti Fruitti uniform and this itself was surprising as it is considering that from all my experiences being a features as well as an extra this normally doesnt happen for an extra. i shrugged it off and went ahead anyway since the place was so near where i was staying. the day of the production was another mess all together. i was surprised to notice that the make up artist was my own agent even “=_= but thought nothing of it again.

IN FACT NOTHING OCCURRED TO ME until me and another guy who was also an extra in the tutti fruitti uniform were required to do our own individual picture shoot kind of thing will FULL FRONTAL FACE EXPOSURES. the ad was meant to be like a cartoon kind of thing so they used pictures instead of it being entirely a video. Me and the other guy were really surprised and we started talking about it. i finally went up to my agent and asked why this was happening because i thought we were just extras in the background. This surprised her as well and she went and had a talk with the production house and wtf they had the dumbest explanation ever!!!

I was told that it was all just for the client to see and they wont really use us in the ad but there was internal complications and they had to appear to look like we were being featured as well or some crap like that. i tried demanding for a pay raise because extras get basically peanuts for the fact that we do not even have to agree to having ourselves shown because WE ARE SUPPOSE TO APPEAR NON EXISTENT IN THE BACKGROUND. the other guy was a really nice and shy fella and he didn’t really dare to bring it up but he was definitely unhappy about the whole situation as well and kept urging me to ask about it and so i did multiple times which i guess stressed everyone out especially the production company.

i saw the ads today and they had 2 different versions. the other extra had a lot of face time and i really hope they paid him later on for it or something but i reaaallly doubt it because even the mains and featured didnt exactly get much. hell, he even appeared in both versions!!! he’s the tall guy in the tutti fruitti uniform that is like the ambassador ya. NOW YOU tell me does that look like a role of an extra to you!?!

and then i found myself in the traffic jam ad as well. ONLY IT WAS JUST MY BODY because my face had been replaced by someone elses. their own staff for that matter of fact. why didnt you idiots just do that in the beginning then?? i have a suspicion they were afraid to use my original pic because of the scene i had already created during production itself. but i really think everything had been handled very unprofessionally. and its impossible that the pic was taken again because i was there the entire time and the other talents in the picture had left way before me.

here are the 2 ads btw.

Productions houses like Shiroku Productions really give malaysian companys a bad name wei. and such a horrible ad seriously “=_= not like the ice cream is some cheap ice cream can find on the streets. i think its even more expensive than haagan dazs wei!!!

actually hor. i know i was suppose to post the domo shoot but im swamped with things to do right now and editing photoshoot pics is like the last thing on my mind right now. and im really hungry and this was sitting on my desktop in queue waiting to be posted anyway so i figured might as well skip the heavy picture editing pics first and go back to the normal spams of non edits. which was also kinda of a bad choice because i am really really hungry. and. yeah well you get my point. i dont even remember when was the last time i did this. haha. we are coming closer to that milestone of being a year backdated now. WTF man.

i never stop being amused at places that serve my tea in teapots. wtf. easily pleased.

i love peas. i dont know why people hate them =(

soft shell crab.

my onsen mushroom pasta in sesame sauce. I THINK.

since jamie took pic of this with my camera adi i just post la.

her first time here and she was so brave T_T she ordered the natto onsen pasta. not many people can take the natto wei. summoh she went and mix it into the wholllee pasta. powderful.

excited child.

impatient hungry child who ate and over ordered. HAHAHAHA. but finished it still =X i love pasta zanmai T_T dontchu. which reminds me. i havent been there in a while. HMMM

unagi onsen!

i actually kinda miss my pink flip phone =X it was very cute okay. got dancing lights all wan.

because chris doesnt believe me when i said his skin was a lot worst last time =D

geeky jamie!

and finally the last installment of the Hat Yai pics!! LOL and this are mostly camwhore moments. eh must la. the whole album almost don’t have my face wei. got la. in TJ’s ohhsumm D3X except every pic he takes i never ever get them unless i upload them on the spot so i have already given up trying to get them =( even though there were some really realllyyy nice ones that i super super like. buts its okay. i accept this sad fate that is my pictures. as long as the fotoworx crew took it. they are never gonna see the light of day!! PFFT

happy thai boy cant wait to go home and see his girl =X

reminiscent

hi there! it’s been a while!

out there.

in here

cute walls of this lovely cafe we found. er..the name i kinda just forgot so ladidadida!

havent seen this guy smile in a while =X

whooo.. wtf

this interesting drink he ordered. i cant remember what it is but the colours were so vivid 0_o

eating his audi keys “=_= wtf

eh the drink is really that colour okay!!

his favourite “=_= nasi goreng USA. WTF!!!!

my vegetarian green curry!! which was damn nice!! eh weird la. i remember taking pic of the place so i’d remember it but its not here 0_0 maybe its in his cam

WHEE!! free kitty kat bottle when you order a drink!! Vvens fav steamboat place!! MK steamboat!

shooting stars =)

er..thai boys uncle insisted he take pics of us..

to apparently show his leet ex photography skills. he was the one that got thai boy into photography apparently. no pics of him cuz he shy =p

little girl at the bus place.

and her adorable brother!

i ish child stalker.! bwahhahaha

he has lovely eyes for real!

happy =)

this the bus we took!! only 40 bucks lor!!! or possibly less! IT REALLY LOOKS LIKE THIS!! NO JOKE!! damn nice and comfy wan!

his leet hamburger square face .__.

the 2 missing peeps

random water bottle. wtf

feels nice to have someone who has a much bigger head than you! ahahhahah! eh i darno where my little hat clips went =(