exaggeration and tall tales galore

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

here and there

this post will be scattered all over the place, so bear with me if you're actually willing to read through it,yea? lol, i'm sorry.

i spent quite a lot of money over the span of this holiday. in all honesty, i spent my allowance surplus as if dah abis A levels terus, sedangkan belum habis second semester pon lagi. but it was so much fun! in truth, this holiday feels like one of the best i've ever had.

not to say that i did anything special or go somewhere exotic, because i didn't. in fact, i spent most of the time at home. but that's the whole beauty of it! i did all the crap i wasn't able to do before because of homework or studies or classes. i bought 2 cds and actually had the luxury of just lazing around on the bed listening to them while checking out the album cover and reading the lyrics. i went out and had BLUEBERRY PANCAKES WITH ICE-CREAM with an old friend. i stayed up all night to WATCH TV. i played a few pieces on the piano. i washed my car, giving it the full works, vacuum and all. there was time to read the papers!

I went out with me mum yesterday, and we bought this bag at 50% off, the bargain being half the reason i'm happy with it. the thing is, on the bag there's this design made out of gold bolt-head thingies, studded into the bag. i thought it was some sort of random design, looked a bit like a flower. skali tgk(mom had to point it out to me), it's actually in the shape of a tengkorak. a skeleton head.

right. i bought the bag, which is moderately large in size, to alternate as a school bag, and also to use when i go out with friends on a day trip so that i can stuff in my telekung(i've had enough of using the telekung available in places like midvalley, or klcc). now that i think of it, i'm going to be carrying my telekung around in a bag that has a tengkorak on it.

yeah well, whatever. what difference does it make,anyway? i'm not superstitious, am i? no, i'm not. pfft.

but starting from now i'm seeing it as a big smiley face on my bag. that, or it's a picture of a wrestling mask.

oh, i watched this v-log of an autralian woman on youtube, and she said that many austalians like tim tams, the way americans like oreos. betul ke aijud/anna? have you guys been aussified enough to have developed this habit too?heh. so, based on her video and the comments she got, there's this thing called a tim tam slam, where you bite off each end of the tim tam, and use it like a sort of straw to suck up the hot beverage you're drinking(coffee/tea/milo/whatever), then, with the tim tam softened, you pop it into your mouth. i was so curious about this that i bought some tim tams that day from the supermarket. they even had intructions on how to do it printed on the packaging! so i tried it out. it's quite good. a tad bit messy though, since the chocolate coating the tim tam will melt and slide around and leave smudges on your fingers/mug/lips.

i want to watch Blades of Glory. Nothing like a good Will Ferrell movie to laugh to.

I really should start remembering that my AS is coming up.

one more thing. i cry too easily when watching movies. if someone dies in a movie, i cry. if someone's cat dies in the movie, i cry. if the movie is about some ants on the sidewalk getting troden by a shoe, with proper panning and a good soundtrack, i WILL cry.

how the heck do i overcome this?

5 comments:

aman23 said...

you're just emotional. haha.

anyway, Malaysian Tim Tams < Aussie Tim Tams.

bleh.

Anonymous said...

Kak yang. Lets go watch Titanic again..or maybe kuch kuch kota hei, would like to know your facial expression. I bet U'll be moody and wouldnt want to talk to me after that.haha.. yea off to genting!!

mostlyepiphanies said...

i noticed the tim-tam thing here.It was mentioned some time ago in my uni magazine.hehe

Did u know that tim-tams here come in like loads of perasa?there's like triple chocolate,mint,strawbery etc.
Im not that amused anyways.hehe

But i did try doing the timtam-turned-straw technique ages ago in school,hehe.It does seem somewhat messy.

I cry when i watch ladder49,just so you know.lol

Anonymous said...

oh well. you why i never bother to bli tim tam here? because kat malaysia pun ader tim tam. and you should really see the advertisment on tim tam. punyer la over till i thought it was cadbury or stuff like that. hehe. padahal, tim tam je. (okay, i think im a bit memperlekehkan tim tam here).
im more towards loving twix and maltesers tho.

okay, why on earth did i start crapping on chocolate?

okay ateqs. crying when watching movies is not a crime. but when somebody seeing you crying watching movies definitely is. at least for me lah. nak nangis pun sorang2 la kan? haha.

my exams coming in. jun nih. cant wait. i mean seriously.

A said...

aman: i'm not emotional, just in touch with my feelings :p

but yeah, i've heard that malaysian tim tams are nothing compared to australian ones. they had the imported tim tams at cold storage, but too mahal la. i'm not willing to splurge on biscuits,heh.

syefik, tologlah. both movies will have me bawling at the end, i tell you. if ur watching it with me i'll try cover la, but i might start hyperventilating from trying to hold back tears :p if i'm moody, it'll be because malu since you caught me blubbering.

aijud:ooh yeah, i saw kat supermarket hari tu the choc,vanilla and mint(*shudder*) flavours. you knew about the tim tam slam since school?advancednye! who taught you how to do it? ke u mmg innovatively decided one day to just use it as a straw?

you cried watching ladder 49? aww!heh. that's the one where joaquin phoenix's character dies at the end kan?

anna:ooh, but anna, i heard aussie tim tams are way better then malaysian ones. Arnotts(the company that produces tim tams) are based in aussie, kan? so, give a packet a try la! but besides tim tams, i like Arnotts punye raspberry tartlets. superb ah. yums. haha, jangan perlekehkan tim tams anna!you might offend the australian govt and get deported back to malaysia. lol, kidding :D

ahah, i try my supreme darndest not to cry when i watch a sad movie with someone, but so far, the best i can do is try and cover baik when tears pop out with hopes that they won't catch me bawling. so,solution? save all sad movies to watch on ur own, watch all the comedies wih your friends.

about a month plus2 to go before exams,ey? my exams extends into early june too. i can't wait either. can't wait to get it over with, that is. u too?