exaggeration and tall tales galore

Thursday, September 13, 2007

we all live in a yellow submarine

the wombats.

click play already.click. CLICK DAMMIT!heh.

let's dance to Joy Divison,
and celebrate the irony,
everything is going wrong,
but we're so happy!


an excerpt from The Wombats' 'Let's dance to Joy Division'. how appropriate! i've pretty much bombed my mock exams, but things are just dandy. let's dance to Joy Division!though technically, i only know one Joy Division song, and it's not even that danceable too. oh well.

things have been a bit hectic lately. after we'd done our econs paper, as we were walking out of the exam room, diyana gestured to her head and said, 'nampak tak asap coming out of my head ni?', which describes perfectly how things have been going. on overdrive. but i'm on break for a week and a half, wheee. and happy ramadhan,y'all. i find it extremely reassuring to think satan's in chains at the moment.

have you ever gotten that feeling where you have an issue with someone, things go awry, so you try to solve it, but at some point, despite your persisting unsatisfied
feeling that things are unresolved and you still want to say something, you know that inevitably, whatever you say will just make things worse? yeah. i don't like that. but i've learnt, the hard way, that it's just better to shut up and act normal.
and there's really not much point worrying about it, so don't.

a couple pictures:

a bunch of college friends came over for a kenduri we were having, cheers for that. a lot of my aunties were commenting 'lawanya semue kawan kakyang dari sekolah', haha.

and finally, a recent and decent family picture. we all actually look normal here!

i haven't gotten any offers from the australian unis i applied to, but no matter. i'll leave that to Allah. things WILL work out, i am honestly starting to re-believe this. plus, i bought a bright yellow t-shirt with 'The Beatles-yellow submarine' emblazoned across it with a cartoonish picture of a submarine, and new headphones too. you shouldn't be worried when you're wearing a bright yellow t-shirt, listening to The Wombats on your new headphones. it just contradicts the nature of sadness.

haha, you know what?i got a couple of backdated issues of Galaxie magazine for free hari tu, and i'm flipping through them. and they have those 'get personal' pages at the back, where you can send in your address and details to which they'll publish in that section so that you can look for pen-pals!haha, i didn't think these things still existed. do they actually work? can you REALLY acquire proper friends through this channel? i'm reading the 'about myself' lines the people attach with their details. 'Sophisticated, open-minded, decent and simple Malay guy seeking friends from all over the globe. I'm into Feeder, MCR, Muse and BSB too'.
Right. 'Sweet and adorable Malay girl seeks friends from around the world'. There, we have a match already. My favourite is: 'let's just day hello and become friends'.

sigh. i'm going to have to head for the books again soon. not yet though. take a break, everyone. go singgah bazaar ramadhan.

5 comments:

whilewhiting said...

i wish id live in a yellow submarine. because its kind of cute. hehe.
anyways. happy ramadhan too! bet the mood of ramadhan in mlaysia is heaps and all around. people barely know the existance of ramadhan here. i think. i just assume like local people dont know we're fasting and stuff. oh wells, new experience. but it's nice to hear that other chinese and indian malaysian are like concerned with the bulan ramadhan. cute.

what i wanted to say again? ahh yes.. no wonder your blog is kind of out of post. exam rupenyer. same here kut. but mine is like less trivial. and i m cuti-ing next month too. yeah for us.

i bet the yellow tshirt is great! i dig yellow like.. a lot!

and yeah.. erk.. bazaar? hum we dont have that here. poor thing. but thank god iam surrounded with people who loves to buat2 kuih2 and stuff. you know what im saying>/? xD

-tutorgirl-
:P

aman23 said...

eh why my muka tak sampai separuh pun. sedihnye ;(

ah, sometimes people just need some time off. what i do when things go awry, is try to solve it to a certain extent, and then when i've done all that i could, i let go. after that i leave it to that person ;)

anyway, i'm prolly jamming reptilia and mardy bum sometime during the hols! woot! i'll try n get a video of it :D

Anonymous said...

finally a post! =P happy ramadhan~ We need this break... before our head cracks! make full use of it ah..study study study

mostlyepiphanies said...

"we all live in the yellow submarine,the yellow submarine,the yellow submarine.."

Sing it with me now! We all live in the yellow submarine.hehe.

The Beatles.Woot!

Anyways,ur in the middle of exams?Patutlah no updates,so I updated like crazy these past few days to fill the gaps of absence.Hee~

All the best!!And sadly no bazaar ramadhan for me.

A said...

tutorgirl:yellow is an awesomely happy colour.i think it's cool u get to experience ramadhan in a foreign place. too bad there's no bazaar ramadhan over there, tapi ur indeed lucky to be surrounded by kuih-makers, haha.ko sendiri tak buat kuih ke anna?heh.have a merry ramadhan!

aman:haha,tulah!there were about 2 or 3 pics of us kat balcony tu, n all of them pon ur muke was only separuh. this was the pic that had the most of ur face in it :p

mardy bum!i love that song. excellent song selections to jam to, i must say. hope u can post the videos nanti, would love to see them.

shao:found a smashing bazaar ramadhan yet?this week is like a....study holiday.sheesh, what a contradiction.

aijud:i'm singing, i'm singing!haha. yes, the exams were the cause of the blog hiatus.it's over for now, but u should still blog like crazy anyway!too bad takde bazaar kat sane, but aijud, u should SOOOO do that thing where students send in their pics and dedication to the newspapers like Berita Harian or something in the 'salam dari perantauan' section,heh.