Fairytales do come true.

Yes, so I’m supposed to be back only tomorrow, but here I am! Happily ensconced in my comfy room on Sunday night! Weeee! Yes, I am quite aware that I’m only due back tomorrow, and no, I didn’t take a bus back to KL out of desperation. My grandma wasn’t feeling too well, so she didn’t make the trip back to Perak. So it was just my parents, brother and sister and maid who went back to do the prayers rituals. It’s not really safe to leave my grandma and another maid in the house all alone, so we decided to cut short one night and come back today instead.

(Hooray!)

Anyway, remember that I wished that the journey home will be like this?

Well, FAT CHANCE! The reality was a complete opposite.

It was a nightmare…so jammed until my dad decided to turn off the highway and use the trunk roads instead…a longer route but at least it’s smooth flowing. Oooh and can you see all the cars at the left side of the pic? All illegally using the emergency lane…tsk tsk.

Heh. So we turned into Rawang and had breakfast there. The whole way I was making lotsa noise about not getting to eat dried barbecued meat and voila! There was a stall selling them just next to the food court where we stopped. So to shut me up, my dad gave me some money to buy 200gms of dried meat….which came to only 4 measly pieces and costed RM10! o.O I never knew it was that expensive

The paper bag containing my yummy indulgence! To eat it only once a year is so not enough!

I slept most of the way back to Chenderiang, Perak. Hehehehe. Well, I was up late the night before…as usual

“Chenderiang? Where?” I hear you asking.

No fear, I am here to show the world where the benefactor of my superior genes *ahem* is from…PRESENTING MY DAD’S HOMETOWN OF CHENDERIANG, PERAK:

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Heh. It is a one street town. What fun eh? The only pro about this town (I don’t even know if it qualifies as a town) is that food and drink is just a stone’s throw away, literally!

Went back, cleaned up the house and I slept the evening away. Missed a few relatives visiting, but we were going to visit them on CNY so it doesn’t matter. My cousin’s daughter is so cute! Very pretty girl. The CNY Eve’s dinner can hardly be called a reunion dinner, seeing that it was only my immediate family and my maid My cousins ere eating at their own house and the rest of my relatives on my dad’s side were all overseas - one in HK and two in NZ. So yeh. No grandiose celebration this year. Not that we celebrate CNY grandly every year anyway…I think we only had ONE proper reunion dinner (meaning EVERYONE flew back to Malaysia from where they are staying) in my (faulty) memory.

Went to this famous temple on New Year’s day…which we do every year. Then makan at Woolley’s Food Court, which we also did last year. I had Western Food, which is also what I had last year… yes, Foong Jin is a creature of habit.

Went back to my grandma’s house, SLEPT till 7pm, ate dinner and then off we came to KL!

A happy FoongJin right outside her house’s gates!

[ edit - oooh, coincidentally this is post no. 88 on this blog. is this supposed to be a good omen? *grin* chinese and our superstitions ]

Will be going back to the boring state of Perak tomorrow, where in my grandma’s house, there is no clear TV reception (we’re going to bring back the Astro Smartcard to try if we can somehow watch Astro with the decoder there), no INTERNET!, no air-cond…

Everytime I go back to Perak, I sure get pimples breakout wan. Damn shitty I tell you. Sigh.

So will only be back on Monday. After that, I might write a tribute to the top dog in my life - Jarod. (customary explanatory note:He’s born in the Year of the Dog.)

Or I might not.

Depends.

I might try writing more fiction, because I enjoyed doing that me-me thing down there. I just love the rush of piecing beautiful words together, to find that one perfect word that fits into the jigsaw puzzle called fiction.

Or I might not.

Hmmm. In typical Malaysian tradition, see how lah!

Happy Chinese New Year everyone and have fun!

edit: Here’s to hoping the drive home will be as below!

Taken when Jarod and I went a-picnicking at Cyber/Putrajaya!

I’m so in love with Adobe Photoshop I knowla, my photo-editing still abit the amateurish compared to KinkyBlueFairy, but I’m learning, ok? Im also spending waaaaay too much time editing my pics. Bad FJ!

Met up with Sinthi today and went to Sungai Wang to shop! After that we went all the way to KLCC to try Bakin’ Boys‘ cookies! Yummy! I have found a perfect substitute for the now-no-more-available-in-Malaysia Mrs Fields brownies! I tried their classic cookie, the Solitaire…mmm…crunchy on the outside, with a soft melty butter cookie inside and a dark chocolate centre! When you bite down on the dark chocolate centre, it is EXACTLY like Mrs Fields brownies! The cookies are going from RM 3.20 (different prices for different varieties) and the muffins about RM 3.60 I think. The next time I’m in KLCC, I’ll try their Cranberry White Chocolate Muffin! *drool*

Anyway, a few (read: little) pics from today and my purchases: -

I think the pic pretty much explains it all

I love my new jeans! I have always wanted to buy a new pair of low-slung jeans similar to my Diesel ones, but the ones I like (also from Diesel) are always RM120!!! If I can’t even afford to buy a RM46 shorts, where to find money for RM120 jeans leh? Luckily, we went into this shop called Beans a few shops next to Radioactive and lo and behold! They are selling low slung jeans like nobody’s business. EVERY SINGLE PAIR OF JEANS THERE IS LOW SLUNG! Prices are reasonable, less than RM80 (well, I didn’t see one that is more than RM80…but I didn’t look through the entire rack, so I could be mistaken). My darling faded grey jeans costs RM 68 (including RM6 for alteration at the tailor right next to it). Ahhhhh….so worth it, even though I am NOT SUPPOSED TO BUY ANTYHING TODAY!

And err…if you’re wondering why I’m wearing my sunnies in both pics, it’s not because :-

a) I fought with Jarod and cried so much until my eyes bengkak

b) the sales person punched me for taking up too much time in the changing rooms

c) my sister accidentally kicked me in her sleep, thus causing a swollen black bruise that is so horrifyingly ugly

d) I contracted the pop-eye disease (which is really GROSSNESS to the extreme!) from handling my poor molly too much…

It’s because THEY ARE NEW! I bought them today! I’m so happy! Today is such a productive and satisfying shopping day, even though I wasn’t really enthusiastic about going out, because I’m almost broke. Considering that I didn’t plan to BUY anything at all today, the haul is very gratifying Things I have always wanted and can’t seem to find the perfect candidates

Anyway. Sinthi and I were in Lot10 before going to Sungai Wang Plaza and Isetan was having this “Casual and Sports Fair”. So I went to check it out and a rack of sunnies were there…to cut a long story short, I bought the sunnies after much hesitation, because I wasn’t sure if it had complete UV protection (i.e UV 400). After much deliberation (actually, not really, because I really like them!), I decided to buy themla…RM29. What’s a little cataract compared to looking cool, eh? JOKING. It’s not cool to get blinded by UV rays, yo!

Anyways, I came across England Optical in Sg. Wang Plaza and wanted to ask them to check my sunnies for the UV protection. The lady there was really nice and helpful, but she was talking to another customer, so I said I’d come back for the checking later. BUT I FORGOT! *weeps*

Luckily, we were heading to KLCC after that, and there is a Focus Point in KLCC, and my spectacles are from Focus Point, so I decided to just be brazen and ask for the UV check. The 3 ladies there were extremely nice and THE GOOD NEWS IS THE SUNNIES ARE 100% UV PROTECTED! UV 400! Wooo! Who said you need to buy branded sunnies to get complete UV protection? WHO?

Now I can wear my sunnies without fear

Oh, and the FCUK specs frames were really nice! So colourful! But damn expensive…RM500++. WHY OH WHY IS NICE STUFF SO EXPENSIVE? WHY OH WHY AM I SO BROKE? I WANT TO JUMP OFF BUILDING NOW!

DON’T TRY TO DISSUADE ME! WORDS CANNOT CHANGE MY MIND!

(If you really want to save me, please start a Fund For FoongJin Shopping Expeditions. Thank you. )

Since I know you all miss seeing my eyes, I shall generously *ahem* insert a random Hong Kong Disneyland pic that has eyecandy for the girls, especially

Click here for larger image.

Ahahahah, doesn’t Tarzan look like he’s not wearing anything? Damn Disneyland, corrupting the locals with their *ahem* kebudayaan barat and kuning and whatnots.

Mmmm…I miss Hong Kong Disneyland…didn’t have time to finish exploring the whole place I WANT TO GO BACK TO HK!!!

Weee! Today is my lucky day!

Anyways, I have been tagged, as mentioned in the CNY WISH LIST post, so here it is. Sorry for the lateness, Beer Brat!

The rules:

The unfortunately tagged have to write an entry of between 100-200 words, with these words included once, and only once:

1. I
2. me
3. blowjob
4. grapes
5. random
6. power
7. loneliness
8. water
9. robot
10. blue

The entry:

“I am sick of this degrading life that seems to stretch on hopelessly. To prowl the streets hunting for fools who are willing to part with their hard-earned money for a blowjob or two, to don revealing outfits that attract lecherous stares…it hurts, but nothing hurts more than the knowledge that these men are only treating me as a sex slave, a mere robot who exists for their perverse pleasure. Don’t they understand that even we need love? That this life of loneliness and ‘wham, bam, thank you mam!’ is not our choice? Even so, even if someone were to proclaim his undying love, we can never be together. Men are weak and succumb to sexual power too easily. You might exclaim ‘you’re just being sour grapes because no one will ever love you’, but that is MY truth, the way of life in MY world…a world where random thoughts are not given voice, where no amount of water can wash the consuming bitterness away, where the skies are blue, but our souls, bluer…”

Wordcount:

175 words

Tag:

Cheneille!

Adrien!

Charleybean!

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Hurhurhur. Men, always an easy target.

I blame the mass media (TV dramas, internet, tabloids, Hollywood…) for perpetuating the idea that men are sex fiends who are willing to do anything and go to any lengths to get sexual pleasure. But as they say, no smoke without fire, yes?

:P