sunny day?

another long overdue update. i mean, it's not like i'm super busy or anything, i just can't seem to find the time to update the blog. i do update my twitter quite regularly though, so if you have an account, follow me :D

yeah so as you know, i'm doing my student attachment with a well-known law firm here in kuching. last week was my very very first time in court. i was so super excited. until i was told that the dress code was strict black and white. my eyes widened in dismay. i do not wear white i.e. i do not have a white shirt hanging in my walk-in. so i dragged my adik sayang with me as we (i) drove around bandaraya kuching to look for a decent white shirt (preferably of cotton-silk blend) and found none. yeah found a few linen ones but no way in hell am i gonna wear a linen white shirt into court. but i digress. i FINALLY found one - it was the last one in the store, praise the Lord it was in my size *phew* so i bought it immediately. so last week, i made my first appearance in court looking like:


and i promise you, in the near future, there will not be many more chances you'll get to see me in white. hahaha.

then on saturday, i attended the Rainforest World Music Festival! w0oh0o~ i had so much fun there. there were like 245674748343209 people (i swear i'm not even exaggerating). i was mask-free, but took like, a super huge vitamin C tablet beforehand so i'm not infected with H1N1 *coughsniffsneeze* here's a photo of the awesome crowd on saturday night. haha incidentally also known as, 'the night aaronparan had too many tequila shots.' ermm, but that's another story for another time :D heh.


i need new sunnies. i mean, yeah. i think i do. not really sure lah, but i just *think* that i *might* need them.

i'm thinking of getting wayfarers. awesome retro with a slightly macho edge, a tribute to the first metrosexuals - though they prolly didn't know it back then. i mean, at least that's what i'd like to think. heh. also preferably something cheap lah. kan daddy, kan mummy? heheh.

so random this post. i like, i like.

the best of bolehland

yesyes i've gotta say..

.. that malaysia definitely boleh.

*growl*

oh godddddd. i miss home.

milan, come to me.

i'm into the third week of my internship now :D hehe. so far, so good (i think). i kinda like wearing the long sleeved dress shirts and ties etc, though i gotta say: i miss the freedom of movement that tees and jeans give me. yesterday during lunch i went for a game (or five) of pool and my aim was all out of whack. haha. but i digress.

in my free time last week i was browsing thru some websites. as you all should know (should, should, should) the milan fashion week was just concluded and this season, men's clothes were more or less at the forefront of many designers' shows.

here are a few that caught my attention:

Emanuel Ungaro

Emanuel Ungaro

Moschino

Emporio Armani

D & G (by Dolce & Gabbana)

Dsquared2

incredibly awesome. so for my birthday next year paham-paham la yea? teehee~ *sigh* what i wouldn't give to walk around looking that fabulous.

i'm on fb as i'm typing this out and the topic over there seems to be nasi lemak -__-" it's barely even 11am and i can already hear my tummy growling. gaah.

this is a very very random but nonetheless well-thought out post, no? LOL.

only in miri.

i'm not homesick.. but i have to admit, i do miss certain aspects of life in miri. being away from home is never easy, but i guess it takes some getting used to. as time goes on, routine takes over and thoughts of home are no longer in the mind. which is not the point la kan?

hahaha. anyway my main point is - and you'll see how it has almost nothing to do with the opening paragraph - there are some things in miri that are not replaceable. only in miri can i have this:


good old mee goreng basah. super gila nyaman, i'm telling you *sigh* sinfully irresistable.

mum, dad, since i got thru my exams in flying colours, can i come home for a weekend, please? pretty, pretty please? :D

blessed.

i know it's physically impossible but i feel so blessed, i'm practically floating on air now.

about a month ago, i took a major gamble and took 10 papers.

today, i found out that it wasn't such a daft move after all. after tensely waiting and twiddling my thumbs, the results were (finally) released today.

i passed each paper. each and every single one of them. words cannot express how thankful and grateful i am for your thoughts and prayers. your support means the world to me :D i'm on top of the world and it feels awesome.

yay! <-- no, seriously. yay!

that phone.

this phone..

.. is mine =)


this black nokia E71 is totally my new BFF. we're still learning about each other but here's hoping that this is going to be a long, meaningful relationship. w0oh0o~

english is not important.

so basically, is english important? many many kononnya purist malaysians think it's not. i used to think that it is a matter of utmost importance. used to.

judging from the photo above, i find myself inclined to agree with them. seriously. this totally made my day :D the fact that he was allowed to actually enter a place of worship wearing such a 'blasphemous' shirt just proved their point that that learning english is just not of any importance whatsoever.

this photo just put a smile on my face. so damn proud of being an english-speaking malaysian right now.

minta maaf jikalau anda tidak memahami apa yang telah saya luahkan di sini. namun tidak mengapa, yang saya taip itu, ianya tidak penting. cuma menghargai komposisi warna yang indah dalam gambar yang telah dipaparkan.

hahaha since they don't understand kan? oh gosh i can't stop smiling!

edit: the shirt says, 'BORN TO ROCK, DRINK AND FUCK.' quite apt, if you ask me.

phone-less.

okay so here's the thing. i don't have a phone now, so if any of you are wondering why i'm suddenly very very quiet, well.. now you know.

on my last day at Dave's, the staff decided to pull a practical joke on me. only i didn't find it funny. at all.

in fact, it got me super pissed. but more on that later.

anyway they ambushed me with flour, coffee powder, batter mix.. and prolly just to make sure they all stick to me, they literally poured iced water on me. i'm telling you, i was not only soaking wet, i was also covered head to toe. hell, you could probably have deep-fried me directly. the idiots.

some smart-ass decided it would be a matter of utmost hilarity to pour water on my shoulders. which meant the water flowed straight into the pockets of my jeans. where both my phones were.

they both died immediately.

my barely one-month old prada wallet was soaked. even the money inside was wet!

even by beloved louie was not left unharmed. my topman felt cap and my vintage chucks were also casualties of the crime.

i even had coffee powder and flour in my eyes - which stayed red like, forever, as i had my contacts on.

i'm usually very very patient and it would take a lot to royally piss me off but that was too much for me. i stormed out and went home. fuck those people. all my pay from working there would not be enough to replace all the stuff that was damaged.

gaaah. but i'm gonna take a deeeeeeeep breath, treat it as a bad incident and move on. heh and the next time my mum asks me to get a part-time job, i'm gonna ignore her. i'm emotionally scarred and i now have trust issues.

thanks, staff of Dave's Deli. thanks a lot.

update..?

i'm still alive, y'all.

haha been supremely exhausted lately so i barely even have time to update my FB and twitter, much less to say blogger.

and the 3G connection at the new house sucks too so i'm quite malas to get pissed while trying to connect. hehe.

xx.

hmmf hmmf hmmf.

i think i may be experiencing the symptoms of depression.

then again, maybe it's just my appetite. or me being me. i think it's the latter. which is totally beside the point. since i've been back, i'm been religiously stuffing my face non-stop at all hours. i wouldn't say i was deprived of food while i was in kuching (hell, very very far from it -- *someone* gave me TWO nicknames before i came back i.e 5-tonne lorry and 46!) but the availability of awesome awesome miri food is just too much for me to resist.

let it be known that i am a weak, weak man.

so just now, my sister (whom i think i'm beginning to love) passed me something that put a huge smile on my face. the photos will do the rest of the talking *burp*




100% pure cocoa butter. seriously, better than sex. haha. there, i said it. i literally ate the entire thing alone, out of boredom. plus, i'm pretty much the only one in my family who eats dark chocolate. then again, is there any other? :D

my kawan, alau is flying back to KL today, leaving me all alone in miri. she's pretty much the only friend in miri i can depend on, with most of the rest being quite sik boleh harap (unless they harap something from you) and miri is not going to be the same without her. girl, i miss you already. heh.

home. ain't no place like it.

i know, right? finally. update :D haha.

i've been awfully busy, hence the silence. but i malas to justify my lack of updates. heh. 10 papers, RKS kelabit academic excellence awards in between, thereafter updating my night/social life upon the completion of the 10th paper, PACKING, then back to miri. i just got back on saturday, then headed straight to jazz festival -- which was truly awesome, btw.

the parents bought a new house and moved in a few months back. since i've not been in it, i've spent most of my time back tryna adapt to a whole new surrounding (like, finding it out the room next to mine isn't the toilet, but my sister's bedroom for example) and familiarising myself with my new room, and new bed. everything's totally foreign to me, especially having lived in the old house for as long as i can remember.

but everything will be okay, i hope. just a matter of making a house feel like a home. it's great to be back in miri after sooo long =) i miss all my friends in kuching, though. but i'll be back soon enough, in the meantime i'mma get myself miri-fied.

gaah.

i su-werrrr i can be so blonde sometimes.

or maybe i lack a reasonable attention span, one that's expected of every normal human being. either way, the events that transpired in constitutional law class today just went on to prove that one should never introduce a new topic when i'm talking. seriously.

the lecturer was asking the class in general to describe the facts of a certain case. a few moments passed and no one responded so i looked at my case book and saw a sentence which read 'a severely disabled lady was detained..' and i began reading it out loud but the lecturer (apparently) didn't hear me and said, '.. or do you guys want me to call you by cartoon characters again?'

... and my sentence came out, 'a severely disabled CARTOON..' o.O noooo. i kid you not, the first thought that came to my mind was, oh shiiiit.

as if that last part wasn't bad enough, i was thinking aloud.

prayers needed.

one of my young cousins (fine, nephew) was admitted to the Sarawak General Hospital last night on suspicion of having contracted the HandFootMouth disease (HFM).

Dexter Tadam Desmand is now sitting in quarantine, with his mummy, my kakak Priscilla Kaya. he just celebrated his 3rd birthday a few weeks ago.

dear readers, your kind thoughts and generous prayers to the Almighty is greatly appreciated.

xo.

edit: after extracting fluid on his spinal cord, the doctors concluded that no damage was done to his brain, heart, or any other organ. F and i went to visit him today -- he was running around like any healthy 3-year old would. thank you for your prayers =)

overdue.

i've FINALLY got the time to edit the photos and upload the videos from earth hour into youtube. my schedule (as if i've really got one) has been super hectic with exams starting on the 27th of this month and, as if that wasn't enough, i have 3 last minute assignments that are literally to be handed in next week. i've pretty much got tons of revision to do -- although i have to say so far i've not hated myself for taking up law. yet. i might and WILL change my mind about that just before my constitutional paper.

it's not that i hate constitutional law. i just don't get it. at all. especially since the UK does not have a written constitution to begin with. but to make myself feel abit better, i've conveniently pushed thoughts of constitutional law to the back of my mind and currently i am still procrastinating on revising the subject :D don't worry, i know it's gonna come back and hit me in the face.

back to earth hour :D we had a lot a lot a lot of fun. so i'm posting up the photos and the videos for you guys who couldn't make it.









till next time.
xxx.

after-hour.

last night was awesome. there were sooo many of you out there, and despite the (relative) darkness, i could still see the faces of everyone from the stage. awesome, just awesome. anyway passive.fire played four songs last night and they were, in order:

We Are The World (OA USA For Africa)
Hallelujah (OA Leonard Cohen - covered by KD Lang, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Alexandra Burke)
Turn & Walk Away (OA Passive Fire)
High And Dry (OA Radiohead)

the response from the audience was amazing and there were a few times i had goosebumps when i saw people singing along =) so niiiiiiiice!

i don't have the photos and videos from last night just yet. but i will put them up when i get them yea? finals in a month so i'm going to be quite busy with revision and such.

but till then, anyway, here's a video of the 1st passive.fire song, taken during wordsworth III, in november of last year.
i wrote the song and the music was composed by mike and arthur. enjoy!

countdown.

one more day to go! make sure you come tomorrow night, by 8.00pm with your candles and/or lighters yea? bring along your friends and family, too as there will be a candle lighting ceremony so you might not want to miss that. and for those of you who might not be able to make it (or are not in the kuching, as it may be) check out your local programmes, there might be something going on in your town. to my fellow mirians, i know there's something going on at miri's grand old lady (facebook is soo informative) so please do drop by and join them. please, please do support earth hour. turn off your lights for one hour. join us in the global vote to fight against climate change.

oh, and if you do make it, do say hi :) your support means a lot to us, and i wanna thank you in person. all of you (although in all probability there might be, like, two of you.) heh!

talkity-talk.

disclaimer: all the real names of people, places and events have been altered or abbreviated to protect the innocent. namely, me.

C: ask me where i went to reload my phone just now.
A: okay, where did you reload your phone?
C: ask S.
A: o.O

ritch bich.

you can call me rich bitch. although i can't exactly see any money on me. hehe.

i'm easily spending RM200 a week nowadays. which might not be much for most of you but should you consider i used to only get RM50 per week before that, you might appreciate what i'm talking about. hahaha.

1 taxi ride from my apartment to the campus costs RM15. so that's 2 taxi rides a day @ RM30. which, since i have classes from monday - saturday, adds up to RM180 a week. which freaking leaves me with only RM20 on food (!) for the entire week!!

owh, as if that wasn't enough. my taxi bills add up to a very nice figure of RM720 a month.

haha. i guess the solution my parents found for my transport problems turned out to be a wee bit dear. but then again they're not (really) complaining.

ahh well. like i said, you can call me rich bitch.

earth hour '09

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia with 2.2 million homes and businesses turning their lights off for one whole hour. Only a year later and this event had become a global sustainability movement with up to 100 million people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square, all stood in darkness, as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.

In 2009, at 8.30pm on March 28, we are asking people across the world to turn off their lights and join together in creating the vital conversation about the future of our precious planet. Earth Hour is a message of hope and a message of action. Everyone can make a difference.

Earth Hour 2009 aims to reach more than one billion people in 1000 cities around the world, inviting communities, business and governments to switch off the lights for one hour at 8:30pm on Saturday March 28 and sending a powerful global message that we care enough about climate change to take action.

As such, Green Heights Mall joins the cities and towns across the world by turning off the lights for one hour on that day as a symbolic gesture to show our concerns about global warming.

Show your support by bringing a candle and joining our candlelit activities starting with a candle lighting ceremony, fun yet informative trivia on how you can help save the environment and our special feature, an eco friendly acoustic concert by candle-light showcasing local bands Evenstarr, Mayze, Passive Fire and Venus & Mars.

Spread the word and see you there!

blown. away?

disclaimer: all the real names of people, places and events have been altered or abbreviated to protect the innocent. namely, me.

(as we were driving along to town.)

A: F, why you smiling to yourself??
F: i'm not smiling la, the aircon is blowing my face.
D: omg so funny bah you two!!!

aah. it's those little random moments in life that make it so worthwhile.

crave. crave. crave.

oh. my. effing. gawd.

help me.

i'm in love.


i neeeeeeeeeeeed to have the bag.

i don't know what i'm gonna need it for or why i abso-freaking-lutely haaaaave to own it. yet. but i promise, i'll come up with something.

but for now, i waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant.

oh *ahem* that's the super talented marc jacobs btw.

PF @ BOTB.

hello again. sorry for the hiatus. it has been a busy busy week.

anyway, i have some photos from the battle last saturday. heheh. i've resized them so hopefully they won't take too long to load.


we had such an awesome time up on stage. it was as if no one was there (about a million people were present) and though the sound system fail kao kao, we sure did make our presence felt -- having a blast while we were at it, no less. heh.



and to anyone of you reading this who was there that night, thank you sooo much for the cheers and the screams =) that meant the world to us.



there were 16 bands that night, and we placed 5th. which was totally unexpected, given that it was our first time (and have i mentioned the sound system? it SUCKED!!) and we had like, 2 practices. haha.

but we're like, so happy :D 5th place, not bad eh?

point.

i don't understand why you think i'm putting too much pressure on myself. i can do this. and i don't need your approval. i never have. you can say what you want, do what you want, tell whomsoever you want about me -- i don't care. come to think of it, i never have :) and that's all i'm going to say to you, okay? *attempts to whistle*


on a lighter note.. passive.fire has a battle today. yippee!! our first battle. at the moment i'm an exotic concoction of nerves and excitement. and a dash of good 'ol vodka for good measure. we're gonna cover a song that i never, not in a million years, would have dreamt i'd be singing. but i like how the band arranged it. we were jamming in a studio just now and it sounds fabulous. you guys gotta come to UNIMAS tonight to find out what song it is. heheh. *grins*

i've been pretty busy with my life this couple of weeks so i'm rarely able to find the time to actually sit (*ahem* lie down) and tap out a new post for my blog. i feel like my dedication to actually write down stuff for the blog is actually wavering. which i will not let happen. so i promise, i will rant and bitch more :) cross my heart. there are 24 hours in a day, i will find the time.

more assignments are on my table now. heheh. i guess i should have seen that coming when i signed up to read law. but it's do-able. i'm writing (and speaking o.O) more and more legal jargon as the days go by. the other day i was trying to explain a concept to a friend and i caught myself using words that i (or anybody else, for that matter) would never use in a general conversation. she was looking at me with a blank but undeniably horrified expression on her face. then she said, 'i have no idea what you just said, but you sound smart.' -__-" i will not reveal who she is. you know who you are.

*sigh* i should get to sleep now. i popped 2 clarinase tablets for my cold but it doesn't seem to be taking effect.

hmm. does anyone see the direction this post is taking? i sure can't.

those blonde moments.

-bi@n3o33- says:
i wanto type fast fast oso knt

aaronparan says:
hahahahah nonid wanna type fast2 thr u.

aaronparan says:
later salah spell

aaronparan says:
percuma kenak laugh again

-bi@n3o33- says:
got meh

-bi@n3o33- says:
where got

-bi@n3o33- says:
cincai say oni u

aaronparan says:
i said LATER.

-bi@n3o33- says:
no no no no

-bi@n3o33- says:
not now

-bi@n3o33- says:
nt even laer

-bi@n3o33- says:
eeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

-bi@n3o33- says:
later****

aaronparan says:
i rest my case.

-bi@n3o33- says:
shudap

-bi@n3o33- says:
don wanto tok to u dy

-bi@n3o33- says:
huh

-bi@n3o33- says:
i watch movi

-bi@n3o33- says:
movie****