License to Grill.

Yesterday Azrin had a get together BBQ for his birthday at his house. So at 5-ish I went to his house to help him start BBQ-ing. The genius that I am, wearing full make up, because who knew bbqs would be so freaking hot, and after 10 minutes my face was starting to look like a rainbow (eyeshadow, blusher, eyeliner have melted and all over my face).

I don't want y'all to drool so I'll just show this picture :)

At 6ish, people started coming. Good fun. Good food.Good company. Meatloaf, lamb, chicken, potatao salad, sausages (I think I might have added a good 5lb *touch wood*). We had people stealing off another person's sausages, girls fighting ala Sex and the City (except, instead of Louboutin, it was lamb), some was hiding food as though this country will be at war the next day. Chaotic. and of course, everyone got a dose of tanning session by the bbq pit. I felt very Jersey Shore yesterday.

When it came to cakes, we had 2 cakes. One, Chocolate Banana and two, Chocolate Indulgence (die!!). I was trying to convince Idzmil that Chocolate Indulgence was fat-free and sugar free. He did'nt buy it, unfortunately.



Around 9-ish people were starting to go home and only "the usuals" were there still. "The usuals" a particular group of people who usually be the last ones to leave any sort of barbeques (or any food-related party, actually) and these are my closest friends. We played the-now-kind-of-a-tradition game of charades!! Team A : Sarah, Hazren, Fazna and myself. Team B : Sofia, Ashiq, Obi and Azrin. Of course, my team kicked their bbq-chicken-filled butts!! Score- 36-24!


Btw, you know how hard it is to charade "Toy Story"?

All in all, good times, tiring, and my hair smells like lamb, damn it.And not in a yummy way.

Azrin's 23!

Tomorrow is Azrin's 23rd birthday, and since I have loads of things to do tomorrow (and by things, I do not mean shopping, unfortunately), we decided to have his dinner tonight.


I picked him up and we went to Alexis, Ampang.




In the car..

Him : *looks under seat* where did you hide my present *looks behind seat*
Me : *annoyed* I thought we agreed that I'll buy u a birthday cake, and that shall be the present from me
Him : *smile* ok
Me : pffft.whatever.

When we reached Alexis..

Me : Sayang, can you go get my black heels from the boot

Him : ok.

....SURPRISE!!

Did he really thought I would just get him a birthday cake?ppfffttt.

Him : OMG! You got me a pink shirt!

Me : No.Its salmon.

Since day one I got together with him, I promise him that one day he will slip on a pink shirt.

This is one step closer. Next year would probably be a bright pink, glittery shirt. Maybe fur too.heh.

Had awesome food for dinner..

For dessert, I really want to have that pecan pie Sarah had the other day, unfortunately they were out. I almost cried.almost. ok, maybe a tear came down.

For the sake of that god-sent pecan pie, we drove all the way to Bangsar's Alexis, praying hard to god they have it.

Me : *run into Alexis and sticks nose to the display case* Do.you.have.pecan.pie?

Waiter : *looks at the display thing* Nope.

Me : *ready to pull off a Tom-Cruise-jumping-on-sofa moment* How come?

Waiter : Oh, pecan pie?We do have.

Me : *applause and fireworks* I'll have one.Or twenty.

This is how a celery sticks should taste like.

Happy 23rd, old chicken!In 2 years, you would need Botox.Love!

Luxury

I have all sorts of handbags. Some are really tiny that even my Blackberry cant fit. Some are huge that I could fit a 3-year old in it. I do not really splurge on handbags (not as much as I do on shoes), but I would still love to have handbags that match my every outfit.

Nowadays, there are all sorts of handbags. We could get fabulous but cheap ones, and then there is the ridiculously expensive ones, which, to be honest, not even that preety. Just because Heidi Klum has one, prices will shoot up like crazy.pfft.

Here are the 5 most expensive handbag in the world (these are the ones that cost more than a house..and a car!)

Number 5 : Lieber Rose Handbag ( US$ 92,000). It has 1016 diamonds and 1169 pink sapphires, plus it has only one edition in the world.


For me, its preety, but if I am paying that much on a bag which can probably only fit a lip gloss, I would wear it on my head, maybe as a crown, and let the world I have too much money to spend.

Number 4 : Lana Marks Cleopetra Handbag (US$ 100,000). It has 18-carat white gold frame, with white and black diamond detailing the frame.


It looks like most clutches I've seen everywhere, except that it has real diamonds. Im not a big fan of clutches, and this is just an average design. They could at least make it more artistic, design-wise.

Number 3 : Hermes Crocodile Birkin Bag (US$ 120,000). The bag has a white gold clasps with 10-carat diamonds just to add some dazzle.

This is love. Love, love, love. I would die if I have one (I want the silver one Victoria Beckham has). Every A-list celebrity is rockin the Birkin look and right after I rob the bank near my house, I will get it too. Or I could just rob Victoria Beckham's house and steal all her Birkins.

Number 2 : Louis Vuitton Urban Satchel (US$ 150,000). It has all sorts of junks on it, like gums, water bottles and ciggie packs. It has a gold shoulder strap and it is the most expensive LV bag.ever. Oh, and there's only 12 made.

I may be artistically retarded or somthing, because all I see, is trash! If I were to look in my dustbin now, I could make that exact bag in an hour. I would probably make it more fabulously because I could paste 'belacan', 'petai', 'minyak angin' bottle, 'rafia' strings, 'kilometrico' pens, you know, make it 'urban'- Malaysian style.

Number 1 : Chanel Diamonds Forever Bag (US$ 261,000). It has 334, 3.56 carats diamonds. with 18-carat white gold frame and made of aligator skin.


This is absolutely gorgeous. It screams out luxury. You could wrap yourself in a towel, and if you carry this bag, you will still be super duper fabulous. Love!! Well done, Chanel. LV, learn a thing or two from Chanel.

Most of us could only dream to even be touching these kind of bags (of course, if I could touch it, I would probably run with it.heh). Maybe one day when the public transporation system is perfect, I could just not buy a fancy car, get a fabulous handbag, and take the train to work.

Shrek

I should start studying.I should.

Someone smack me with a 3-inch stiletto.Just a 3-inch, please.

Instead of studying, I went and watch Shrek : Forever After. I have been a big fan of Shrek, mainly because my 2 best friends, Sarah and Sofia, looks like Shrek and Fiona respectively.hahaha.Seriously.

Y'all might not see it, but I do..

As usual, the movie was high-larious!! However, it was not as good as the first three movies, but still awesome! From a fat puss-in-boots, weird annoying witches, baby shreks, it really cracked me up like crazy.

Btw, I want to keep Donkey's children as pets.Sho cute!!



I got a bit teary towards the end because this is the last Shrek movie. Thank god I have friends that reminds me of the characters everyday (I love yall, Po and Lala) heh.

Ok, back to geek mode. ciao!

Its back!

Few months back, I had tendonitis, due to too much of wearing super high heels. It got better after a while.


Now, its back. All thanks to my fabulous shoes who gave me sad puppy eyes for not wearing them, so I had to..really, I had to.


Mama : Why don't you just give away your heels.
Me : Ssssshhhh! They can hear you. And none of my friends wear the same size as me. Its a sign from god that I should keep em. Or god is trying to tell me to get new friends *waves at Sofia and Sarah*


Its just something about wearing a pair of heels that makes feel confident, awesome, and taller than Azrin.heh.


The last time I went to the doctor..

Doctor : You can't wear these kinds of fashionable shoes *points at my shoes*
Me : *evil look* Uhuh.. *looks at her shoes*
Doctor : You have to wear those comfy shoes, like from Scholl.
Me : *Do u also need me to knit and sit on a rocking chair with my grandchildren?* Ok.


So now I limp my way through shopping malls, with a pair of flats. So unfabulous.


For it to heal..

Dab on a bottle (or two) of Voltaren


Elevate my foot (now no one can move me from watching Fashion TV)


And don't walk.

After all these ends, I'm going shoe shopping.

Mama

On Tuesday, my mom was admitted in Damansara Specialist Hospital because she had to do this thing called "angioplasty", which at first I thought was a kind of exotic dessert. Since she have high blood pressure (and it won't go down) so she had to do this minor surgery to open up the blood vessel (yikes!)

Her surgery took about 1 and a half hour, and right after the surgery, while she was half sober and half under-the-influence :

Mama : Adik, where were you from?

Me : College.

After excatly 8 seconds..

Mama : Were you from home?

Me : Hehehe nope.college.

After 5 minutes..

Mama : Adik, where were you from?

Me : *light bulb* Africa.

Mama : *confused*

She looked at me as though I was high.

As soon as she sober-ed up, she asked me to buy flowers for her, from herself. Yeap, everytime she is in the hospital she'd love to see her room full of flowers, so I am her personal flower shopper (she also paid my labour cost.heh).

On another note, her surgery went well, alhamdulillah. Blood pressure more normal now, and she was discharged this morning. Get well soon, Mama.

"Adik, go and take my purple shirt and jeans from the drycleaners. I don't want to wear this hideous outfit" -Mama.

Hahahaha.

There is a Comedy Festival that has been going on for almost a month at Jaya One, Pj, where they staged many comedy theatre throughtout the month of May. Some are for kids, some are adults only. And for the final stretch of the festival, they are staging a show called Caught In the Middle: Part 4, and I got free invites to watch a special preview of it (I'm beginning to love getting showered with all these free invites).

The performances for the festival includes famous local comedian like Harith Iskandar, Ida Nerina and Douglas Lim to name a few..

I got 2 free ticket, and decided to bring Sofia, but we decided to drag Azrin and Hazren (heh.their name rhymes!)

At the ticket booth,

Me : Do you sell any extra tickets for the show tonight?

Ticket Lady : Yes, yes we do.

Me : I need 2. How much?

Ticket Lady : 1, 5 ringgit. 2, 10 ringgit.

Me : I'll take it for RM 8 *big smile and droopy eyes*

Ticket Lady : *thinking* OK!

Darn it, should have said RM5!

It was held at PJLiveArts which is a new place for theatre performances, but it was suprisingly small (my first time there).

Before the show,

Azrin : Is this a stand up or a theatre

Me : Its a theatre.

Azrin : Wait, so we can't laugh??

Me : Its a comedy festival, laugh all u want

Azrin : But it's a show!!

Me : *cricket sound*

The show that I watched was more about "political issue", so sometimes, when the whole room laughed at something they said, I looked around, confused, with many many 'huh' and 'what??' moments. They made jokes of everyting from politics to politicians, from opposing party to the government. Its good that they are not bias towards just one party, instead all of them got a taste of their sarcastic-sometimes-'ouch' jokes. From the beginning, I was not given 5 minutes to not laugh. I guess the professional actors and actresses who have decades of experience in theatrical performance, made the whole thing very relaxed, natural and it almost looked unscripted.

Among great actors for this performace was Zaibo and Mano Maniam..

This show will go on everyday until the end of the month. So if you have some free time, go watch it, it will release your stress and give you a great time, I promise you that.

Click http://www.jayaone.com.my/promo2.html to check it out.

The Descent 2

I got 2 free invites to a special screening of The Descent 2 which means I get to see it before you, well, most of you.

Azrin and I were a little bit late to collect the tickets, and the line was super long, so we thought we were going to get sucky seats, but we did manage to get awesome seats.

Oh dear god, the movie was so scary, disgusting and brutal I regretted having dinner right before the movie. When comes to movies, give me any kind of ghost- Japanese, headless, black, white, whatever, I can deal with. But if u were to show me a pint of blood (even if its just red paint), I will throw up on your shoes, even if you're wearing a pair of gorgeous Manolos (thank god I did'nt watch this movie with Carrie Bradshaw). Yes, I'm scared of blood.Unless its purple and glittery.heh.

Since I did not watch the first movie, Im guessing this is the continuation of it, where it is about a rescue team in search of the girls that dissapeared/died in the first movie. Apparently, a few girls decided to have a trip into a cave, for god knows what, and most of them dissapeared, except for one. This one survivor, than join the rescue team to look for her friends in this part of the movie. And the gruesomeness continues...it is screwed up scary, believe me.

This is why I would rather go on a trip to the beach and enjoy a spa with a fanta-bulous view of the sea. Why do you want to go for a vacation in a cave? For me, thanks, but no thanks. Unless Mr. Karl Lagerfeld hid a super duper limited edition collection of Chanel bags at the end of the cave, I would consider.

The scary part of the movie is when these people are being attacked by these creepy little creatures, where blood gushing out, splatting everywhere *barfff*. I find them kinda cute, like pet cute.Maybe with a couple dose of botox, and braces would do them good.

All in all, it was a good movie. I say it would be worth your RM10.

Just don't eat before you go watch.

Finals

Final exam timetable is out.

I dont like the look of it.Really dont.

My whole life, every semester, the finals timetable always screw me over. What did I ever do? Maybe I should give flowers to my Programme Lady.Or a handbag.Anything.

I like to have gaps between my papers so that I can divide my time and study one subject at a time (when I say gap, I meant 7 days between each paper). But this is what I get instead...

15 June 2010 Investment and Portfolio Management.
17 June 2010 Advanced Financial Accounting.
21 June 2010 Auditing
22 June 2010 International Banking and Finance.

4 papers in a week! A WEEK!! 7 DAYS!! *&^%$#$%^&*!!!

Im going to make a deal with my brain.

Dear brain, if you can cooperate with me and easily absorb any kind of information I decide to force into you (even if it means I have to eat the bloody book), I will reward you with many many things,

- I will bring you to a relaxing holiday.
- I will not force u to be up until 5 a.m watching malay dramas.
- I will eat more raisins so that you'll be smarter for my next semester.heh.
- I will let you make my decisions, instead of lust, for our shopping trip after the exams (I will listen to you if you say I do not need the same shoes in 3 different colours)

Deal?Deal!

Btw brain, if I do not have enough capacity up there, you can overwrite the 'Fashion Week' file.

God help me.

Sepet.

Being half Arab and half Malay, does not come close to how I look. I wish I had malsy skin tone, with big, brown alurring Arab eyes, not forgetting their mile long eyelashes that curls up to the forehead. Unfortunately not.

This is the situation that happens often :

Me walking around in a mall..

Chinese lady : *serving tester roasted pork* *speaks in chinese*

Me : *tries to open eyes as wide as possible (so that they realise I'm not chinese)* "wo...pu...che...tau."

But Im thankful with what god have given me..

God knows whose genes I got, or which ancestors of mine came from China, but reality is, I look like a chinese. It does come to a good use though, like during the fasting month, and when I can't fast, buying food would not be a problem for me.heh.

As much as I like all these funky make-up that they paint on all these hollywood stars, most of it I can't apply on myself. I have a pair of very typical Asian eyes. The thing with asian eyes is that,

One, it is very narrow and long, or we call it sepet, so we need make up to open up the eyes, which means work towards the brows, not sideways (unless u want to look like you have one straight horizontal line across your face). Also, to widened eyes, line top and bottom lashline with black eyeliner.

Two, we have very little space between eyes and brows, so nothing much to play with, so use of colours is very very important (go with light colours like light pink, earthy tones).

Three, we dont have visible, obvious crease, which is usually used to create 'shadow' on the eyes. Therefore, we have to create an illusion of the crease by using darker shadow where the crease is suppose to be.

Four, we have lashes that doesnt curl, and for me, I think my lashes have invisible dumbell hanging on it, because no matter how much I curl, and put maskara to it, it will still not curl like those maskara ads on tv. This is important, because to make eyes look bigger, we need to curl the lashes, therefore, invest on a good curler, and go all out on maskara.

See, who says being Asian is easy? Whatever it is, we should feel blessed with what we have and make-up is just to enhance and highlight the beauty that god gave us, right?

Instead of trying to copy make up that Eva Longoria or Jennifer Aniston has, try following celebrities with asian looks :

Scary Freddie

Yesterday, Azrin and I watched Nightmare on Elm Street. Honestly, Im not a big fan of hollywood horror films, but since this is Azrin's favourite movie of all time, and he won't stop bugging me until I watch it with him, so why not.

First half of the movie, it was kind of boring to me. I fell asleep a couple of times (no, i did not dream of Freddie), this whole one-by-one person dying thing ala Final Destination is starting to put me to snooze mode, really. Towards the end of the movie, than it got interesting, to a point I wanted to take my 5-inch stiletto and smack them right out of their sleep.Smack em. Can't imagine not sleeping for 3-4 days. I would just fall asleep and be friends with Freddie. Probably be his personal stylist because that horizontal-stripe sweater does make him look fat. He should settle for a nice black, Burberry trench coat. Hot! Something like this :

For those who have not watched this movie, I would rather not spoil the whole thing for you, so basically its about this ghost/blast from the past name Freddie Kruger who kills people in their sleep. In my opinion, he is one kinky, horny, creepy ghost. Kinda funny at times :)

This movie, to me, is AVERAGE, espiacially with all the hype about it before it came out. just average.

Happy Weekend, everyone!

Twenty Eighth

12.05.2010- 28th monthersary for Azrin and I.

Even after more than 2 years of being together, we still have the initiative to celebrate every month, even if its just dinner. or go watch a movie. or to just walking around enjoying each other's company.

Isn't it sweet that we still do that? Or is it annoying. Either way, I see it as a way recapture the sparks that have dissapear bit by bit throughout the years.

Of course, the first couple of months of the relationship, I would get bouquet of roses and all sorts of present, but I can't expect 2-year and 2-month relationship to be the same, can I? I guess honeymoon's over.

This time, we just had dinner at MFM, because we both had cravings for a while now, just havn't had the time to eat there. And thought of watching a movie after, but Nightmare on Elm Street was only available at 1130 pm, so we passed.

It has been a great 28 months. This is particularly special because its the 28th month. My lucky number! This will be the only time we celebrate a 28th month anniversary, next- 28th anniversary, insyaallah.

Happy 2years4months anniversary, sayang!

Fashion TV

Few months back, TM came and installed this Unifi thing in my house, and I had bragging rights of how fast my internet at home was to my friends.heh. I have no complaints on this Unifi thing. They also gave like free phone, and many many more free stuffs.Love love.

So this morning, they came again, this time to install this tv decoder, which offers about 20 something international channels. Why I say 20 something, is because since this morning, Ive been hooked to only 1 channel. I have Fashion TV!!

While TM guy was explaining the channels and manual and how to use the remote, I was busy shrieking to my dad. " OMG!Fashion TV!!" and grabbed the remote from TM guy.. "Its ok, mister. I got this." So now I dont know how to change the channel and what not. I guess the whole house is stuck with FTV. The least they could do is install it after my exam. Now I've to study Auditing while watching FTV. Not a good idea.

Plus, everything is in HD! Now we can find every pimple on this models.HAH! they're not perfect, afterall. But seriously, how do you become that skinny?

...and oh, Hello Karl. To our many many more meetings. Cheers.

" Oh no, you're not gonna move..ever, arnt u?" -Dad

Im gonna build my own little hut in front of the tv.

Bedazzle

I love sparkly things. Phones, laptops, pens whatever I could bedazzle I would. I tried bedazzling my phone once, but after a week, one by one crystal started to fall off. I guess I have an inner Kimora Lee. I love that woman. She could wear diamond bracelet up to her elbow and still be fabulous. Btw, loves her diamond stapler.

At one point, someone will just take bedazzling to another level.Weird, creepy level. First of all, for all you baldylocks out there, there's baldazzling, where you glue on preety bling on your bald head. Why, you ask? Maybe in case you got lost in the middle of the sea or something, people from miles away could see your head shining. Or you could use it as a built-in helmet. Very convinient, this thing.

For the boys, they have penazzling. One word-CREEPY. If a guy comes up to me, with a penazzler, I would run before he could finish saying "bedazzled penis". Its not as bad as you think, though. At first, I thought, it would be like bedazzling the whole penis, thank god, its just this.. So not sexy, boys.

For the ladies, there's vajazzling. It works the same way a penazzling does, only we could go as low as we want, honey.




Seriously, how preety can a penis or vagina be by sticking jewels on? Sooner or later, I bet you they will invent things like, an Ipod perhaps, for your private parts to, you know, keep it entertained down there while you're at work or something.

If you dont find that weird, they have the latest product, Clitter- Clit+Glitter. Watch the video below!!.Its HIGH-LARIOUS!

Colourful Garden

Ive heard so much of this i-city place so decided to drag Azrin along to check out the place. When I reached there I got annoyed..

" That's it?Offices?We came all the way fro buildings?Pffffft."

After going in circles for like 10 minutes, I saw preety preety colourful trees! Wheeeee! My first reaction was " I wanna live here!" I really do. It looked very wonderland-ish. Everyone knows I like colours, right, so this is like bringing Angelina Jolie to an orphanage. Yes, I want to adopt all e trees.Or lights.Whatever you call that thing.

First up was this snowy, wonderland thing. It really felt like christmas, plus they blasted up the air cond to make it cold

Then there is this prosperity garden thing. Apparently can bring luck. Very chinese-themed, with lanterns, oranges. It was a bit warm in that room though, maybe China is a very warm country, i dont know.

As we walked further out, they had a forest of colourful trees. I like!

I would love it more if they covered all those boring white buildings with preety coloured light. Then people would be all perky and cheerful to go to work. I would.

When I have my own house, my garden will look like this. Easy. No need to water plants.Plug it in and..tadaa!! Also very easy for my friends to find my house.

"Just look for the house with the rainbow jungle"