I am Hermes and I am learning how to blog

Hello everyone. My name is Hermes.

I am here in front of the computer scratching my feathered head wondering what is so great about this world called "Blogosphere" that my mistress Yumimi is so obsessed about.

I assure you that this is me.

This is really me.

Please don't laugh.

You are still laughing.

Why are you still laughing? I am a newbie! Don't bully me!

Haih.

And here I am typing out a story for a bunch of people who are laughing at me. What? You think it's easy to type with feathery hands? One of which forever attached to a Jack-O lantern?

Even HE is laughing at me! *smacks Jack-O lantern*

Alright.

I am actually from Starbucks. You know the American cafe that everyone loves? Especially its Mochas? Hehe the Mocha Frappucino with Java Chips is Yumimi's personal favourite, often with a dash of hazelnut syrup.

Anyway I was bought by Yumimi's boyfriend one day along with Pumpkin and Ginger.

And we were handed over to Yumimi to care for. She picked me up, pinched me on the nose and body and all over, and named me after Percy Ignatius Weasley's pet grey owl from Harry Potter, Hermes. The other bears were named Pumpkin and Ginger respectively because...

Well, they ARE Pumpkin and Ginger. HAHA!

Anyway, Yumimi is feeling drained and tired after a day of work. She says she is in no condition to blog so she asked me to fill in for her instead.

I proceeded to tell her that I did not know how to blog but she has already fallen asleep.

She also told me to include some things she would like to tell her readers.

I asked politely for her to tell her readers using her own words.

She slapped me.

So here I am, typing this out with my feathery paws. With a burn on my cheek.

I shall start by stating Yumimi's disgust at what society is making of her and her blog these days.

Apparently, readers would pick on her blog when she is being bitchy, showering her with spiteful comments and challenging her on their own blogs.

But when she makes an effort to blog about something nice and fluffy, society gives no damn about it.

I must say this is rather rude of you readers. No matter how bitchy she is about inconsiderate smokers, it is her complaints and just a girl's rants. And just because we are already breathing in smoke (since the air is already polluted) it doesn't mean that it is okay to breathe in MORE smoke.

Yumimi also asked me to point out that since the air is already polluted, humans should be working to improve the environment, instead of making it worse.

Yumimi also suggests that, the next time somebody slaps you, you should just turn your face right around and offer to let them slap the other cheek. Because apparently, "scolding people like they are so smart themselves" is wrong when someone else started the fight.

She asks of you to imagine what you would do if your boyfriend's ex-girlfriend comes right into your house and slap you. She herself scoffed that she will smack her around the head and proceed to burn her (the ex-girlfriend's) hair over the stove.

She would also like to express how funny she finds it when, rejoicing at the fact that she is getting into her dream university, people actually says she is being inconsiderate.

Because she did not consider the feelings of those who had failed to secure a place in the local uni.

She finds this statement absolute bullshit as she cannot find any part of her blog entry offending to non-uni-gonnabe-students. She did not openly insult them, nor did she say she is above them. So why can she not express her joy and happiness in her own blog?

She would like me to say that this is ludicrous and stupid that people would turn a harmless post offending. It seems to her, and to me also, by the way, that these stupid people are plainly just trying to find fault with her, no matter what she blogs about.

On the other hand, she also told me to, after dissing stupid people who cannot appreciate her, to say thank you to people who DO care and know she is just another harmless girl on the street. Yumimi says a hearty "Thank you" to Eve, Emily, Leonard, Brendan, Chester, Ann-Marie, Jimmy, Mrs Khor, Tan, Wan, and Cat. You all have been nothing but lovely. Even a stuffed toy like me knows. Hehe~

Aah~ I hope I have written enough. Yumimi says that I must write a good long post for her to wake up to in the morning. Or she will stuff me into a dark corner of her closet for the rest of the year.

Please pray for me -my- readers.

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UPDATE

Yumimi says sorry if she really misunderstood. Hehe~

RESULT'S OUT AND I AM GOING TO UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA!! XD

YES eat THAT suckers!!! XDXDXDXD SEE! I am not a hopeless bitch in life lo UM wants me!!! XDXD

Ok I shall stop here I rejoiced enough at Twitter already @_@


I started writing this post at 3pm and I am continuing at 5:23pm. OMG I just realised that I am so tired I spelled "continuing" wrongly =_= But I did the spellchecking thing so now corrected already ROFL =D

Back to Uni. Wah I am going back to school @_@ I've totally forgotten how it feels like @@ You know those days when we have maybe one week or two weeks' break from school? You'd be thinking of all the holiday bliss on Friday before all your plans and on the last day you'll be wishing you have more time off from school because you didn't do any of your holiday work XD

Then when you finally sit in your classroom again you'll be wondering why your handwriting looks so ugly because you hadn't held a pen all week. HAH! I'm right aren't I? XD

Wow I DO remember what it feels like to go back to school =_+

But this time it's different! It's not just a two-week break from school. It's SIX WHOLE MONTHS AND MORE worth of holidays!! O______O Time flies.

And my handwriting is not ugly because I use a pen everyday at my workplace.

And I am now brain dead because I have been sleeping badly these few weeks =_=

Plenty of things to do! I just read the UM entry requirements online and I think that's where all my brain energy went =_= I have to go for X-ray and health check-up, go to Bank Islam to pay up God-knows-what-junk, do some insurance thingie I will have my dad help me with and develop SIXTEEN passport-sized photos of myself O_O wtf SIXTEEN??? For what??? O_______O

Oh and Lina made it too!! We'll be studying in the same class! =D But a pity because we are assigned to different hostels T_T Which means we cannot be roommates T_T So is a friend who I met at my Japanese major interview. I am assigned to hostel 7, Lina hostel 8, and YingHui hostel 3.

Speaking of YingHui I am so ashamed of myself @_@ Since I went for the interview and came back to Penang I've been receiving messages from YingHui and I'd be wondering who this person is and I dare not ask who she is because there is a name there O_O So I opted to NOT reply instead.

This went on until 3pm today when I was talking to Lina on the phone.

YingHui sent me a message again asking what I got @_@

And I was wondering aloud to Lina who this girl is until it hit me that she was the one-day-friend I made the first day I stepped inside UM O___________O

Oh my God can you believe my forgetfulness?? O_______________O I think I've already forgotten half my primary school friends @_@ Or maybe all of them +_+

HAHA I remember her as the girl who complains about feet-ache for wearing half-inch slippers for the interview @_@ Half-inch!!! Obviously she's the tshirt-jeans-sneakers kind of girl who uses only cleansers on her face and doesn't use lip-balm (her lips were cracking and it really bugs me because I just cannot stand cracked lips) but she is a really nice girl and I really liked her =D

Heck, she didn't realise she is talking to a girl who wears three-inch heels to shopping malls and spend hundreds on skincare ROFL XD

Which reminds me. To my dear beloved friends. Stop saying I am rich because I buy expensive skincare and shampoo ok? Just because I spend more bucks than you on my face doesn't make me any richer than you =_= Do you know how much balance I have left in my bank? I slaved for 5 months in this shop and I earn an average of RM950 every month, and now that we've reached this part those of you with calculative brains unlike me will know that I.....

Wait.

*grabs calculator*

Okay you lot will know that I should have roughly RM4750 in my bank account. Minus perhaps everyday meals and petrol I should have more or less...*grabs calculator again*...RM2750.

Just a rough figure everyone.

And no I do not have that amount in my bank account. I have way less than that. Enough said.

And by now you should be tired of reading about me boasting about how much money I have or you could also have skipped over all these chunky paragraphs wondering how long more I am going to type.

My point, my dear friends, is that I have to cut down on many many many other things I enjoy in order to buy my skincare products.

And most of you would be saying now that drugstore products are just as good as those high end face washes that charges extra because of it's label. So I shall retort by saying that had drugstore products worked for me I wouldn't have splurged in the first place.

I only have one face, peeps, and I want it to look good =_= Hence the endless search for effective moisturisers and scrubs disregarding the price tags.

Did you know that I have to cut back costs on entertainment? And shopping? Cat will be telling me about the new tops and jeans she bought with her mom at don't-know-where and I'd listen wishing I have more cash in my bank =_= She'd go for movies almost every week and I can only go when my Baby is around to take me.

SEE! I DO have to make sacrifices ok so stop saying I'm rich in that sarcastic tone lo! I think I am growing allergic to it because I'd feel a migraine coming whenever I hear it =_=

Okay I don't know how I can talk from UM to migraines so I shall stop abruptly here.



p.s: Wow O_O I wrote quite a long post! Yes it is pretty much pointless but considering the fact that I am brain dead these days this is a really huge achievement XD

p.s.s: I have a sudden desire to blog like a Dumb Blonde but I shall leave that for another post. Perhaps when I am complaining about Ah Bengs XD

p.s.s.s: Okay I'm done.

Mice and Me =D

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Just for laughs XDXD

Credits: Mama the master behind these super cute "miku pao", and Yumimi the photographer and photo editor XD

Two fluffy bunnies hopping in the woods~

What? I did say I will blog about two fluffy bunnies =_=

*receives unbelieving stares from all directions*

HAHAHA this reminds me of a lullaby Eve and I wrote... I think last year @_@ We each create a sentence after one another until something comes out of it. It was hilarious XD

Okay I will copy and paste the "Two Fluffy Bunnies" lullaby here XD

Two fluffy bunnies hopping in the woods,
One with a spear, and one with a hood.
The one with the spear poked the other in the eye,
And the other fluffy bunny tripped the other with its thigh.
Both fluffy bunnies writhed around in pain,
Until it started to rain.
The rain fell pitter patter,
The tripped bunny felt bitter, because it's getting wetter.
Both bunnies jerked and shivered, and squeezed together.
Then while longing dearly for food,
Realisation hit them that one of them is wearing a hood.
And so 'neath the hood they lay and fell asleep together.
So now we come to the end of the Two Fluffy Bunnies' Adventure.

Good eh? XD I love this one HAHAHAHA And yes we both know it is just plain stupid we laughed throughout the process of making this one up XD

If you are interested in Eve's writing, Click HERE =)

Speaking of which... I just read through some of Eve's old works, and it just dawned on me how long it has been since my last composition @_@ It was a no wonder some part of me seemed to be missing! O__________O

I should start writing again =D

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Four more days until university intake is confirmed O_O Time really flies T_T Lord I am scared!

What if I don't make it into Uni? What would I do??? I am not ready to start making a living just yet T_T

Funny, I was just thinking of study-working in KL if I made it into UM @_@ I seriously doubt if I can make it this time. Lina is also freaking out @_@

It is nerve-racking, especially when most of our peers have already left to further their studies @_@ Plenty have alreay gone to UTAR, some to private colleges, and some are going overseas.

Crap. And we're still stuck here nearly nervous to death.

Why can't the damn thing be announced faster???!!!!!!! TOT

Yes it's a lame post =_=

More on Smoking

As I expected, someone is angered that I criticise smokers.

Okay to be honest I am not used to backlash. When I read her ridiculously long entry I am shaking from head to foot, whether from hunger or fury I cannot tell. All I know was that I cannot keep a straight face while talking to customers. I cannot smile properly at them and I think it probably looks more like a grimace.

I sat at the office thinking about it all. I took my time. I read her post again. I leaned back and think. Again.

Should I retort? This is exactly what I expected from her. Had there been no reaction from her part, I would have been fairly surprised. Still, it wasn't exactly pleasant.

Oh well never mind. I hit the "Publish Post" button knowing this will happen. I just have to suck it up.

There'll probably be more of this in the future anyway. And Baby said that a true writer should know, and be prepared for all of this.

Oh by the way did I tell you all that I am extremely proud of myself when I read the previous post and saw that I did not swear at all? XDXDXDXD Because Eve was right. Swearing your head off is soooo mature XD

Beyond THIS line is also a direct reply to AnnHime
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I never imagined that I would live to see someone justify smoking. Duh? Who doesn't know smoking relieves stress? One of the easiest ways to relax and destress is by lighting up your cigarettes. I ask this though. Is there no other way?

Is there no other way to destress other than smoking which even 3-year-olds know would be bad for you? Is there no other way to take your mind off problems? Other than breathing in nicotine? Exercise maybe? Indulge in some of your favourite gourmet cuisines? Read a good book? Play games maybe? Anything?

Yet you choose to damage your health. Oh *slaps forehead* I forgot. It's your choice.

But then again. You are wrong. You are soooooooo wrong. Everyone who smokes is going to say the same? Did you think everyone thinks like you do? I asked around because I know everyone's different. I have already talked to people who intend to stop, only they are taking baby steps.

You asked if I am a social worker. No I am not. You asked if I am Mother Theresa. And I don't understand why you highlight that one. Should I even answer that? Like Duh? My name isn't even Theresa. If I said yes what would you do? Laugh right in my face, or in this case, right at your computer table.

Did I even mention that I am trying to change anyone? I merely asked James why he didn't quit. I am not in any way related to James. He will not listen to me. Nor will all the smokers who I barely knew. I GET IT.

Oh but I must agree with you though. After tonnes of thinking, I have concluded that yes, you were right. If I caught my boyfriend smoking, I will scold him, make him stop, force him to stop, and if he still insists on smoking, I will leave him.

Only I find it troublesome to explain that much at the time, because in the end I will still leave him if he doesn't quit.

What was that? If I seriously love him I will sacrifice myself and BE a second-hand smoker? Or start smoking myself?

SORRY. AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!

I am NOT like you. My life does NOT revolve around love and love alone. If my guy insists on smoking I will NOT put up with it. I may love him madly deeply passionately but if he expects me to smoke or breathe in all his second-hand smoke then he obviously does NOT love me enough to think what harm he is doing to me.

Oops. I just said it. Alright I'll let you sit back and watch if my Baby ever starts smoking *winks*

That being said then why should I stay by him and "quietly accept anything and whatever he is made of"? BULLSHIT. I am not giving up my health and my life for a man who thinks only for himself. I do not live my life for a man.

Unless of course he is terribly rich or terribly handsome or if he is going to inherit America then yes I will understand the sacrifice. But then again, that's for money, not love.

I will like to make it clear though. As long as a person who smokes does his or her business away from everybody else and get rid of that smell (spray on perfume or cologne or bathe or whatever) afterwards, I would have said nothing. But no! They don't! They smoke around others or return from their business smelling absolutely gross and expect people to put up with it.

I have another question.

I made a choice not to smoke.

You made the choice to do vice versa.

You head out to smoke, come back smelling of smoke. I don't want to breathe in that stench.

So who's supposed to get their choice???

You go and "destress", and I don't breathe? Or I breathe and you don't smoke? Or smoke when you go home.

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UPDATE

Okay I am getting sick of this. No more smoke-posts until I find any reason to complain again. My next post will be about white fluffy bunnies hopping in the woods.

I said it before and I will say it again. Everyone is different. Your perception of TRUE love, seems to me to be sacrificial love, where one party will sacrifice everything for the other half. While the other half continues happily doing whatever he or she is doing.

I am not saying that love does not need sacrifice. I, too, have sacrificed things to keep my relationship strong. My beauty sleep, for instance. But I suppose that's a trivial sacrifice compared to what soooooooo many other girls have done =_=

To me, though, a relationship is supposed to make me (and the other person) happy, and if the sacrifice I need to make to keep it going spins in an unreasonable direction I will choose not to pay the price.

Back to smoking. I think I'm not making myself clear enough. I am not saying I hate ALL smokers. I am talking about those who expects other healthy people to breathe in their second-hand smoke and those who don't care that they are friggin smelly after they smoke, even if they don't do it around healthy citizens.

We non-smokers just do not like the smell. It's almost like breathing in second-hand smoke already.

That's all. Really. I am not one to go around forcing random people who I barely know to stop smoking, but I am, I guess, allowed to say that it is not pleasant having someone around smelling of tobacco. Yes even if that person is my friend.

I promise no more smoke-related topics after this. And I will not read any -smoker's- blog until the month is up.

Timing, Smoke, and Queenie

I am, as Firesky likes to call me, the Girl with the Worst Timing EVER @o@

Because whenever I call her, she's ALWAYS in the shower =o=

And whenever I call Lina, Lina's ALWAYS at HER house =O=

Personally I have to agree =_________= Because I always call people at nonstrategic times =.= I'd call Jes when she's gaming. I'd call Lina when she's sleeping. And I'd call my baby when his parents are around.

=O=

And worst of the worst, I'd be racing on Pet Society in my store when my boss is online.

=O=

And I cannot even pretend I didn't see his instant message because I had stupidly excitedly irrationally posted up photos of Queenie winning mere minutes ago =_=

Jimmy (my boss): Oei! What are you doing? Not working er???

*I was still busy racing so I pretended not to notice for a while HAHAHA I was winning ok?!?!?*

Me: Oh hi Jimmy~ =D I was racing and feeding my pet but now I stop already =D

Jimmy: Racing lo.
Jimmy: Feeding your pet lo.

Me: I stop already la~ @_@
Me: Shirley (my manager's girlfriend) ask you to add her.

Jimmy: Who's that?

Me: Ah Tan's girlfriend la!

Jimmy: I don't add people wan ok people add me heakheakheak~

Me: What?? You added me in the first place!
Me: Oh wait did you add me so you can know whether I'm on Facebook? @_@

And the chat stopped there @_@

I'm probably the only one among my friends who can chat on Facebook with my boss during working hours =o=

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I think I'm running out of ideas for my blog O_O This is BAD!!! I'm aiming to earn some good bucks from this blog!!!

Okay okay I will squeeze all the droplets from my brain and use them to force something good in here! I think this post will be a pictureless one for now I need time (which I have very little of) to photoshop some pictures @_@

Okay okay since nothing has happened to me in a while, I shall continue complaining. My God this blog is becoming more and more bitchy by the day.

Let's see......Alright.

I hate Smokers

This is gonna freaking anger many people, including some of my friends. Those who smoke, that is.

Cigarette packets have pictures of coal-black lungs on them. Scientists worldwide have confirmed that smoking brings all harm and no good. People are dying everywhere because of lung cancer. Children are hospitalised due to severe asthma because their parents smoke.

So why does society still do it???

*Okay upon reaching this part I had a sudden thought and turned to my manager who is sitting right at the next computer and asked him about drinking.*

Me: Tan! Why do you drink?

Tan: For fun la. Why?

Me: Do you drink a lot?

Tan: Not sure. Sometimes a lot, sometimes not so much.

Me: Isn't drinking bad for your body?

Tan: Well smoking isn't good for the body either but people still do it don't they?

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Right =_=

Recently a new staff came to join us here, at 168 Communications DSS and since Day 1 he stepped in here he's been having smoking breaks once a day and he'd come back 5 minutes later smelling of smoke =_= I will not even begin to describe how bad his breath smells when he opens his mouth to talk.

Worse still, him being part of Anastasia's clique, the two of them would go out together to smoke. And then they'd come back smelling of smoke =o=

These days I'd sit at the customer service counter all day just to avoid the smell.

I did not want to say much about this because my Dad used to be a smoker, even after his marriage and the birth of me and my brother. But he quit and to this day I am proud to say that my Dad quit smoking for the sake of his family =D

But after serving customers who smell so strongly of tobacco I cannot breathe properly I need to rant about this =O=

Why the HELL do these people smoke when they KNOW that they will most certainly die early??? Why do they smoke KNOWING they may get cancer and suffer a painful death?

Why do they smoke KNOWING that people around them hate their smell?!?!? Why do they smoke knowing they may harm other people while they do it?!?!

This can go on and on so I'll stop here =_=

Other smokers I "interviewed" had different opinions about quitting =_=

The new staff, James.

Me: Why do you smoke? (This is getting ridiculous)

James: When I'm stressed, I smoke lo. It sort of calms me down.

Me: Oh wow you must be stressed all the time then =_= (note sarcasm)

James: No la...

Me: You know aaa, I don't understand society these days. They know smoking is bad but they still do it? Why didn't you quit?

James: It's very hard to quit okay it's not easy.

Me: But it's not impossible either! My dad quit.

James: Good for him.

Me: Yeah it damn well is. I ask you aa. If you have a girlfriend now and she asks you to quit smoking would you do it?

James: No I won't.

James: I'll only quit when I found out I have cancer.

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*crows flying overboard, crowing*

CAN YOU BELIEVE WHAT HE SAID??????

By the time you finally find out you have cancer you might as well smoke until you die la!

WAIT!!! There's more.

Me: I will never date a smoker.

James: What?? So if your boyfriend starts smoking now what would you do?

Me: I'll break up with him.

James: Even if you really love him?

Me: Yes. I stick to this principle like Superglue.

James: Haiyo...... Very hard to change your mind.

I don't want to change my mind James thank you very much.

At least drinking is way better than smoking in my honest opinion =_= At least the alcohol you consume doesn't harm anybody else. Maybe until one day you get married and your baby has high alocohol content in his/her blood or something @_@ Oh my God that's so cruel of me! Babies are innocent I shall slap myself for this X_X

I think I've said enough, for now @@ Will continue some other time.

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And just to cheer up this exceedingly bitchy post, here's a picture of the world's cutest feline =D

Queenie!!! ^O^

In a new Summer outfit!!! XDXDXD And I changed her eyes too! I like to think she looks like a romantic beach kitty! XD

I finally made all the changes I wanted for her =D I've been wanting a new outfit for the longest time and also those romantic sparkling eyes *_* Oh my God why isn't she a real cat I want one like that!!!

p.s: I am only talking about inconsiderate smokers who smoke when there're people around to breathe in their second-hand smoke, or smell them. So if you're not one then you can be sure I'm not yelling at you.

Random Thoughts

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I named this post random thoughts because I have no idea what I wanted to say in the first place =_=

Erm...

Uh.......

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Damn I need to get a blogbook =_=

I promise a longer more solid entry in the (very) near future ok? Sorry my very lovely readers T_T



p.s: Sea of Poppies is turning out pretty boring =_= Too many descriptions. But I haven't reached even a quarter yet so nevermind I shall continue reading.

p.p.s: Random:~My washing machine is still spinning and it's 12:53am and I will so face difficulties waking up in the morning T_T

OFFDAY!!!

I haven't been this excited about an offday for a long, LONG time T_T

Because I will be spending this ENTIRE day in Baby's company!!! YAY!!! =D

From 10am till 10pm! =D Hehe~

Okay I can hear some of you saying What's the big deal? I go out with my bf/gf all the time! Well, good for you then you're always with him you can hug and kiss and have all the FUN you want =_= My Baby and I just happen to have lives of our own, and we love each other without feeling the need to spend ALL our time together =D

So anyway we left for Gurney Plaza as soon as he reached my house =) I haven't been to Penang Island in the longest time so I was very happy when Baby agreed to take me all the way there =D

I'd prefer to go to Queensbay actually but Baby didn't really know the way @_@

Doesn't matter! XD More importantly my Baby was there holding my hand all the way XD

So anyway long boring story cut short. We went to Popular, bought Seventeen, went to MPH, bought the book Popular doesn't have (The Other Boleyn Girl. Seriously why doesn't Popular have this book it's like such a big thing on screen already =_=) Walked all over the place looking for an ATM machine (we got lost in the basements twice) Went for a snowy at 600cc (Baby got rather sick of it's level of sweetness but he still ate it anyway ^^) then bought some stuff at Watsons and went home.

I was wearing three-inch heels and by the time we found the ATM machine I was whining unbearably because it hurt so much @_@ Baby told me off for wearing high heels and commanded me never to wear them out again @___@

I made my innocent puppy-face and told him I'd still wear them out anyway ROFL HAHA he looked at me like I'm some kind of a retard XD

So we went home, watched some animes and went out for dinner at Manhattan Fish Market =D My first time there XD I know it's sad =_=

My Baked Fish with Herbs

Baby's Fish and Chips, or in this case, rice XD

And he sent me home after that T_T I started missing him immediately after he left ToT

I just realised, after a lovely day out with my Baby, that this is the first proper date we've had in months and months =( Always our parents would be standing in the way whenever we want to spend some quality time together =( Even now that exams and schools are over.

So now you tell me how can I NOT be overjoyed that I'd get a chance, even if it's just one, to spend an ENTIRE day with him?!? TOT

I'm currently reading Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghost, I mean Ghosh @_@ Needless to say it's the front cover's illustration which caught my attention at first but after reading the summary at the back I thought I'd give it a try =D So far so good XD

Will start on The Other Boleyn Girl after I finish Sea of Poppies =) Both are rather mature reads I think, which is good because it gives me more exposure, which means I can actually learn a lot more than the average romance books =_= Yes I am ditching "teenage" books @_@ They're starting to bore me! =O=

So ends this very boring post =_=



p.s: I just found out that ship captains in the olden days are tipped right into the ocean when they die at sea =D I always thought they'd be given a proper funeral when the shipmates reach the shores, but no! They're bodies are just thrown overboard XD

p.p.s: I cried upon reaching home because I have no idea when Baby and I can go out on a proper date again ='(

p.p.p.s: I love you Baby ^O^ *muacks*

Tweet tweet~ Tweet tweet~

Tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet~!

Yes I am obsessed!

Posessed!!

And ......................

Erm

I have no other word that ends with "sesd" so nevermind ^_^llllllll

And my friends all say I'm mad because I tweet ten times a day @_@ which I think is completely normal XD and which I think is untrue because the first day I signed up I tweeted twenty times MUAHAHAHA XDXDXD

Okay back to Twitter @@lll

Right now I only have a miserable total of 7 followers T_T So I was actually rather relunctant to put up the Twitter widget on my blog (embarrasing la...T_T) But in the end I decided to put it up anyway HAHA =D

So FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER NOW MY DEAR BELOVED READERS WILL LOVE YOU ALL TO DEATH XD

Oh and also, don't be surprised or annoyed to see me posting up stupid random irrelevent updates because that's how I reach 10 tweets a day HAHAHAHA XD

Home

This morning I woke up around 10:00am and turned on the TV without even brushing my teeth, and saw the movie "Home", which is supposed to aired on TV worldwide at the same time =)

Wait let me just go find a poster of the movie @_@

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I can't find it!!! TOT

Oh never mind =.=

Anyway this movie is more like a documentary mainly about how we humans are disrupting the earth and the planet and its climatic balance. The glacier at the Arctic is melting very fast, and 13 million hectares of forests are disappearing every year, and all sorts of other disasters are happening, because of us humans.

Mother Nature is showing her teeth now because of what we have done. Look at all the tornadoes.

I nearly cried by the end of it, I almost forgot to go to work.

It is extremely saddening to see all the lush green and beautiful forests burning black against the darkened sky, and animals being forced to vacate their natural habitats because it is no longer there.

I think I don't have to talk much about the movie @_@ The world's probably seen it anyway.

It is some comfort, though, knowing that countries worldwide have taken measures to reduce these catastrophe.

I am feeling down now. The movie is really making me choke on the road, all the carbon monoxide.

But then again I cough on the road all the time anyway so not much difference there =_=

Now my bother and I are carpooling =) That's a start I suppose~

Hola Blogosphere~

I don't really have anything in mind so I shall update again tomorrow.

Blog Peeves

I don't know about other people but I've been blog-hopping a lot lately =D All thanks to the new XChange widget by Nuffnang =D Nuffnang's the BEST!! Love their service ^o^

So yeah. I've been blog-hopping a lot lately and aside from the usual blogs I visit I.......

Oh wait. The alarm just rang =D I'ma go watch Ugly Betty now will continue later =) *runs off*

Updates at 12:11am

Okay it just went to 12:12 O_O

I seriously lost track of time!!! I was reading some random person's blog and my eyes just went more and more blur! One of these days I'm gonna go blind @_@

Okay as I was saying before my phone reminder distracted me, I've been blog-hopping a lot recently and there are just so many blogs that annoy the hell out of me.

Okay just to make things clear here I don't open up a blog if I see that the girl wears a tudung, or to make it simpler for non-Malaysians, the big wrap that Malay girls wear as headgear. I also ignore blogs that say "Kepala Hitam" or *checks XChange* "buku nota". I won't even go to the next sentence if I see a Malay word in the first. If you've been following me you will notice that I never use Malay words in any of my posts (Or if you have then show me because I really cannot remember)

Yes I am racist. So sue me =_=

Okay (I seem to be using a lot of "Okay"s in this post @@) so I will now complain about the many things I see in blogs that just make me super pissed off and shut down the damn thing and never go back again. Perhaps I'm being sarcastic. After all a blog IS someone's personal space so really that person can do whatever they want with it.

But it just really gets to me whenever I see a line that goes, "This is my blog and I'll do whatever I want with it. If you don't like it then SCRAM."

Oh really? Then make it a private blog la why the hell do you want to put up the XChange widget and lead people there? =O=

Hmm. I just typed out Blog Peeves Number 1 @_@

The Arrogant Celebrity-wannabe Blogger

Really lo especially if you know them in real life and they're not as impressive as they make themselves sound in their blogs =_= Not all of you of course. Just some.

"HUGE ASS" Fonts

Second blog peeve is this "huge ass" fonts you see sometimes. No most of the time. Seriously unless I know the blogger I wouldn't even bother to read these minuscule fonts =_= Who the hell can stand squinting at the monitor screen anyway? Don't you people know that this is bad for the eyes?

Oh Pretty COLOURS

And then we also have RAINBOW fonts. Wah everytime I step into a blog with a black black background with these kind of words my eyes will immediately go haywire. And the colour combinations are just terrible!!! What are you trying to highlight??? If you type like this who's gonna stand it?!?!? Again unless I know the blogger I wouldn't even bother to read it =_=

Music Music MUSIC

Don't' we all love music??? We have so many sorts too! We have rock and jazz and hip hop and rap and so many more! So we really DO appreciate it when we open up your site and hear LOUD percussion merging with the lovely classics coming out of our speakers!!! We get a whole different class immediately! Fantastic!!!

Shut the fucking thing off okay! Not everyone goes blog-hopping without their favourite music already ON =_=

Pop-ups or "Welcome Messages"

When I go blog-hopping I like to open up a few blogs at once, since websites usually take some time to load completely. I like to open up a whole row of tabs, then go back to the first blog while the rest are loading. And then this dumbass of a "welcome message" will pop up saying Hi! Welcome to my blog! and pull me back to the last tab which is completely blank and I'd panic thinking my computer jammed or something.

Imagine my annoyance when I see that it's just a stupid welcome message just asking me to "Click OK to proceed" =_=

Emo blogs...

Everytime... I see someone type like this... I get so bored... Thinking why on earth they sound so sad... When they just came home from a girly outing... They just bought new laptop... new clothes... new make-up... yet they still talk like the world is ending tomorrow... Why leh girls...? Why har...? Is life really so sad...? Or are you trying to appear deep in thought...?

Because if you are then you are failing miserably =_=



p.s: I give up looking for a nice background for my Twitter =_= Will see if I can come across some nice ones in the future.

p.p.s: I will probably put up my Twitter widget by tomorrow =D Goodnight blogosphere!

Digi Roadshow *Now more about Photoshop*

Author's Note: Okay this post is not going to be about the Digi Roadshow because I left this page after typing out the title and obsessed over Photoshop instead XD

I've been trying to learn how to do various editing through online tutorials, but failed miserably =_= I searched for websites giving specific instructions on how to smooth out skin and get rid of blemishes, but either their instructions are too hard to understand owing to all the Photoshop terms, or I am just plain stupid =___________=

And then *snap* the solution just came to me.

YOUTUBE!!!

It was sooooooooooo easy I can't believe it took me such a long time to figure out =_=

But then again I'm a person who likes to take a big roundabout instead of the straight road so there @_@

Anyway I decided to photoshop a VERY unflattering photo of myself, just to mess around with the brushes, and I am surprised to see how easy it is once you get the hang of things!!! Really wan! I'm not lying! @_@

Okay so this is the before photo.


SHUT UP!!! I told you it's unflattering! =O=

This is a photo of me after Day 3 of Roadshow. See how friggin tired I was? Even my eyebags decided to resurface after I thought I taught them a lesson =_=

Anyway I saw this awesome video on Youtube teaching people how easy it is to smoothen out the skin and it's really good! I always read on those stupid websites instructions telling us to make a new layer or duplicate a layer whatever nonsense and I'd be so blur after reading just one sentense =.= Really wor! If you really want to teach people teach everything la a lot of people visit that specific page for the first time hor!

And they had the nerve to label their posts Photoshop Tutorials for Beginners.

My ass.

Anyway for this photo my main goal was to clear up my skin. You can see in the above photo that I have skin discolourations and blemishes and a whole load of blackheads so I attempted to get rid of them all.

And the end result...

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Can you see the difference?!?!?! I used the Spot Healing Brush Tool to remove as many bumps and blackheads as I can and did exactly what IceflowStudio said! Okay maybe not exactly what he says @_@ I did some adjustments to the radius to better suit my picture =D I finally got the hang of it! YAY!!! XDXD

Oh and while I was at it I made my jaw just a tad smaller too =)

It's not perfect obviously but heck I can get better can't I? >D

Wait let me put the two pictures one on top of the other so you can see properly.

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A little too small maybe @_@

But anyhow you can still see some difference right??? =D

I will start photoshoping my pictures from now on! (I might wanna learn to apply make-up too @_@)