Thursday, October 23, 2008

Jai Guru Deva....Ommm

The Beatles were obsessed with India. Met the big guns,the gurus and all and sang this song for him ..well till he was accused of molesting a young girl...then they sang another song.

Right so... DEEPAVALI is near!and its probably the best time of year for me. Taiping, food makes you gain 10kgs, new clothes, family. there's absolutely nothing to NOT like about it. One small thing MAYBE would be that its always around exams of some sort. Last year it was STPM,this year its my 1st semester finals....but that doesn't change that it's Deepavali and strictly no books allowed!

So college has started, well for two days before it was back to having a break again.

Tuesday, i realised that i liked travelling on the train these days. Sure it's tiring and takes me almost 2 hours (1hours on GOOD TRAIN DAY) to get to college but it's not that bad. I've actually met quite a number of interesting people. Quite a number of strange people too. and Friends i haven't seen in ages. and "Friends" i DON'T want to ever see =). and Everyday something interesting happens on the train. oohh and KL central is trying the new cue system which is cool once you figure out where to cue. There's red lines and green lines and blue lines and the door always seems to open somewhere in the middle but i suppose its not that bad. Oh ohh and they have a new train-voice "kita telah tiba di stesen seputeh. We are arriving at Seputeh station" . i miss the driver saying it at times though cause when he(havent heard a female driver,hmmm) says it, it's all attitude! you KNOW it's been a GOOD day or a BAD day. and they add in a little pzzaass!I've actually started laughing to a few too. Automated voices, well leave nothing to the imagination.

Wednesday, Deepavali mood made me want to clean up the house a little. (i have to watch my words here in case my sister reads this ) it's amazing what semangat-ness can do. Thanks to it, my house smells like Ajax Fabuloso! I packed for my much much anticipated trip to taiping.

Thursday, my baking day (hopefully!) I try to make it a point to bake at least ONE item every year. Deepavali-ness makes me want to bake. Shockingly, i actually seem to enjoy baking a LOT, more than cooking anyway.. just simply for the fact that things you bake doesn't taste half as bad as things you cook when it goes wrong!heheheh...and that happens a LOT!

Friday. Travel day.

Saturday to Wednesday. TAIPING. There's nothing more serene and calm than Taiping. Everything there is just easy....The lakes, the traffic, the everything! It's always a vacation for all of us when we go back there. All i do is sleep and eat and eat and sleep. Oh i do jog more when I'm there, probably knowing the fact that it wont last long ;-) and places you visit once a year has a way of making you wanna do the impossible, make EVERY minute count! Back here, there's always tomorrow.

Next Week... pre-finals preparation! Eeeeekkk......Week After, finals.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Over Food

Not only did I get the idea of actually going through with blogging over a nice plate of chapati and chicken curry (DUH the name...taadahh**), but I'm starting to realise that everything GOOD in life, well my life has happened over food.

Outings with friends. Its impossible to get SO MANY important things out there while you're rushing for a movie or looking at a nice pair of jeans. But when we sit down for a meal, gosh we take HOURS to leave the place, even if our plates are getting dry. I can't tell you how many times most of my discussions have happened over some kinda meal. Talking about politics, religion, urgh-ing boys, and just about anything else under the sun.

Weddings. The BEST thing in a wedding for me, is definitely the FOOD, and probably for most of the people i know too. I think couples are actually JUDGED on it sometimes, cause it sure seems like a very big deal in Indian weddings. But it is, FOOD is the reason half of them are even there, i know that's true for me....IF i cant even remember who the people getting married are or if we are even related?

Birthdays. Every birthday, from 12 years old and above, we have always gone out for dinners. Frankly, it seems like the best present i could ever want. What says HAPPY BIRTHDAY more than a hot sizzling plate of sweet sour pork? lol, SERIOUSLY! Of course, i still love the gift getting but with family especially, dinners are always the best.

Celebrations of any kind. After STPM, we got together (cousins and all) and treated ourselves to a fancy dinner, well fancier than our usual MAMAK get-togethers. And the whole night was spent on talks about futures, crappy soon-to-results =P

Relationships. So I have this weird tendency of coming up with really weird "what-if" questions. I find myself knowing more about a person a lot more after like a series of these questions, just something i do. And I've noticed that these "talks" have all happened over food too. Recently, my two friends and i went out for some rojak and cendol, and wooowwweeee we were sitting there for hours and i found out so much about them that i had no idea about. The type of relationships they were looking for, the type of person they were to some extent, and just EVERYTHING. The only time i find it "appropriate" to ask someone about a relationship or a break - up is over some yum-yums. Well unless its someone I'd smack on the head for dating a male-chavounistic-pig!

Feel Good Time. So we've all heard about feel-good food, and I'm a true believer. Through some of my very bad times, low times, i think I've turned to food for comfort. Anything chocolate mostly, ice-cream! and it did make me a feel err "comforted". It did not make me jump out of my chair and do an Ellen - wakakakakah but i felt LOVED. It could be anything and it worked. Lol, that accounts for the two flabby chunk of meat hanging off my legs and ass.

Happy Tours. We went to melaka, on a clinical posting NIGHTMARE but that's a different story. Not that I'm foreign to melaka (got a close aunt there) but I'm probably foreign to the outside-food there. We usually stop by with just enough time for my aunty's amazing cooking. So, when my 3 friends and I were there, our weekends were just spent on EATING! And everyone asked us how melaka was when we got back, and we said, the FOOD was great! A lot of places are defined by its food too. Anyone from anywhere else calls, among the first things i ask them is "how's the food?" Malaysia is a wonderful place, cause of the FOOD! er, only the food?

Doggie Tricks. The only way we house-trained Pepper was by giving her treats every time she did something "good". The only way we thought her to "sit" or "shake hand" was by loading her up with her favourite biscuit every time she got it right.

So FOOD is my good place! when everything else comes crashing down i know where my mom keeps the chocolate chip cookies**


And what FOOD (amongst many other things) must mean to the suffering people in Africa or anywhere else around the world. Think of that too over your next meal, your next plate of 5 ringgit chicken rice, before dumping it into the trash.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Academic Papers

1500 word essay, on a topic that i've only heard about in one lecture. But i would probably get around to it eventually, inevitably. Now the thing i dont get is the "academic" writing that seems to be so so important. Yes i get it, you need facts to back your ideas, but EVERY idea? then where are the SUGGESTED ideas?

I look at my essay and it has got to be the most boring thing i have EVER written, not even something i would read if i saw it in a journal. Every two lines or so, i HAVE to refer.

And the research?!?!gosh, so you have LOADS of ideas of twisting and turning then giving it a hindi-movie ending, but no no...the RESEARCH alone takes up more time then the actually writing. And finding the research to MATCH your own twisted ideas? hmmm......

The days of 4am onlining i've done is quite enough to guarantee i use glasses the next week.

I get research , i get evidence-based, i get PROOF, but when then are we allowed SOME , just a TAD bit of creativity? To SUGGEST something? SUGGEST something that could be perceived to be mere common sense?

Right now, it just seems that every paper that is going to be written by me, are all just very professionally plagiarised pieces of work of some very VERY hardworking-researchful person who got their papers published in a journal.

Up , Up and Away....

Monday, October 6, 2008

Dawning of a New Blog

All my friends seem to have a blogspot thing going on.

I dont particularly know what to write or blog about just yet. But i figured i just HAD to do this. Let it just be here till i actually figure it out, over my NEXT chicken curry and chapati.

Holidays do crazy things to you! Anything to get my mind and attention away from my much more important work, my assignment!There ive started

The blogging begins ...... Hopefully =)