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I bought from an online shop called La' Zenda. You can design the necklace yourself by choosing font style and adding custom symbols in the website. It is written "Hand made with love" on the card but I don't know how true is that haha. I'm actually not really satisfied with my design when I first seen it this afternoon. Aiks, should have make it more simple :/

This will be a totally EMO post... Haiz I tried to be positive but...easier said than done. Anyways, I gotta write these all out becoz I'm afraid I will gone mad if I don't. I've already have OCD for god's sake (Well, I think so). I can't post this on FB so I only can post it here because only a few people know the existence of this blog. If anyone's reading this and feels like it bothers u then, please feel free to ignore.

This is a good month. No, really. There's been many 'first-time's for me in this month and they more or less spiced up my otherwise boring life.

Ughh but this week is a depressing one. Firstly, my Genting trip might be cancelled again~ Well, thanks to the bus crash. Actually, I start to feel unsafe for this trip even if eventually we continue with our plan. Friends and family advised me not to go...hmm...I think it's up to my friend's parents. If they don't let my friend go then okay we shall cancel it~ :((( It's like my awful fate.

I finally got to know the feeling of having group members who don't give a shit on our assignments! Whenever my friends complained to me about their group members, I have always told my friends: "I'm grateful that I haven't met any group member who's not willing to contribute." WTF now I get it! It's a presentation that contributes 10% to our module leh! And some of them NEVER EVER attend any of our meetings (so far we had 2 only, the supposedly third meeting was cancelled last minute because.. guess what? They don't want to attend) with the fellow members from Nutrition & Dietetics course. The N&D students purposely skipped their class to attend this cancelled meeting and our fellow BPharm friends didn't bother to attend!

I don't understand, really. And I don't want to jump to conclusions because I don't know them that well. I never thought they would think that these meetings are not important. Well, I guess we can't really blame them because we only have few classes this week and they kinda treat it as holidays. Even the N&D complained to our lecturer about the attitudes of us BPHARM students o.O

Then, of course, I have to do the work. I'm not sure whether I should ask them to do or not. As I don't wanna be judged as someone who snatch all the tasks to do, neither do I wanna be someone who boss around asking people to do stuff although I'm not the leader. Dilemma. But it's quite an easy thing to solve. I'll just do the work no matter what because after all, the marks are important for me. I'm trying to boost my cGPA this sem!! And I'm trying to give a good impression to the N&D students here =.= We also feel paiseh for those who didn't attend the meetings.

And I guess people who had same experience as me would understand this: your group members never give any opinions and after you've done all the work, then only they point out their disagreements. Well, this haven't happen yet lah. This is what I fear, cause it would mean that I wasted time on the work.

So to ease my stress, I bought Mocha Mint ice-blended pearl drink when I went out to buy dinner just now. Arghh nowadays I have to think twice when I wanna eat/drink unhealthy stuff because I've just learnt that diabetes mellitus type 2 is highly hereditary!!!! (My dad is taking anti-diabetic drugs) FML. If I don't start to control my lifestyle now, I'd probably get diabetes, hypertension, heart disease...u name it. =.= Oh ya! Don't forget my grandparents (one from paternal side and one from maternal side) also died of leukemia! Wow, I have a wonderful family history.

And as if these stuffs are not depressing enough, why on earth did I click into the blogs of my old classmates at this fucking time? Reading those blogs about the pressies they received for their 21st birthdays, just made me more depressed. Hmm, not that I want people to give me gifts or anything. I don't want people to give me gifts because I don't want to feel that I owe them. I'm totally fine with it until I read their blogs. I don't blame them though, they have every right to blog. My point is the research about Facebook makes people EMO is true. Although this is not Facebook, but it is equally true. No matter how rational I am, I'm still a normal person with a depressive mentality (Am I??). Then I had to tell myself: "It's okay, you can work hard to be a successful and FILTHY RICH woman and until then you can buy ANYTHING you want! You will spend money like water and don't even need to think before you buy anything!" Is this self-cheating?

Fucking life. I don't have appetite for dinner now. I just wanna drink my sweet drink till my stomach explodes! I know it'll all work itself out in the end but I'm going through the tough time now zzz. I need more energy to overcome these! BUT WHY DO I FEEL TIRED ALL THE TIME?! My circadian cycle is screwed up.

Haha...nevertheless, we still have plenty of happy moments in our lives. So, I'll just have to endure and go back to work now!


Finally, to make this post not as gloomy as it sounds, I added a picture!

Background pic from Liz Lisa. Pastel flowers ^^

Lalala my phone case came~ :D

I know I blogged a lot recently. That's because many things happened in this month!

As the title suggests, this is my first time buying stuff from the internet! I didn't try online shopping before until now probably because I felt insecure or I didn't know how to make payment o.O

But now I can use my CIMB Clicks! Easy like a piece of cake!

However, the colour that I wanted for the phone case was mint but it was out of stock! And the seller only informed me by sms after I paid :/ Then I chose light pink. Never mind. I'm fine with pink too.

Postage.

MOZ wallet phone case!

My youngest sis suggested me to read the novel, but I watched the TV series. Hahaha. I'm not really a book fan. I was, when I was small. Now I only read when I have the mood. My first impression of Game of Thrones: A FANTASY show! My favourite genre! Its IMDB rating is damn high!

And so I downloaded it. First episode was so-so. Loaded with nude scenes =.=. Then before I know it, I've already unconsciously addicted to this series xD. Not because of the nude scenes, OK?

Game of Thrones is adapted from the novel - A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. It is about seven noble families fighting for a throne - the Iron Throne.

The Iron Throne

It's a throne made out of hundreds of swords, as you can notice if you look closer. Well, for me, it's an ugly throne. But everyone wants to sit on it lol. That's Daenerys Targaryen sitting on it in the picture. I personally hope that eventually she will be the one who sits on the throne.

Game of Thrones - You win or you die.

Now, the show is not just about war. That would be too boring for me to watch then. It's a mix of power, loyalty, honour, love, sex, religion - you name it. I think that's one reason I like it. Besides that, what's fascinating about it is that in every episode, you will discover a new secret of one character or two, and u can expect more secrets to be revealed in the coming episodes :) Many of the episodes end with a twist, where a good person turns out to be a bad person, or vice versa. That's why every time I just can't resist to watch the next episode even though I have other things to do =.=  But I'm a bit sad coz I'm watching the third season already and the fourth season will only premiere in 2014! At first, I thought there are four or five seasons but there're only three. And there are only 10 episodes in a season.

BTW, Game of Thrones holds the number one ranking of fantasy series in IMDB with 9.4/10 ranking, mind you! See here.

Enough about the introduction, now some things about the characters...heheh I like most of the characters, really. No matter good characters or bad characters, there seem to be some good characteristics in the bad ones, and some bad characteristics in the good ones. I don't even know who is good or who is bad coz every time I thought one character is good, the next second it becomes bad! So I decided I just like all of them! lol.

Remember I mentioned about seven noble families? Yeap I'll categorize them into their families here. I like the family names, mottos, place names and the characters' names! Very fantasy-ish!

HOUSE LANNISTER

Sigil: A golden lion
Unofficial Motto: A Lannister always pays his debts. (They are damn rich.)

Yeap. We were arranged for 2-days attachment (19 & 20th August; 10am-6pm) at Guardian Pharmacies around Klang Valley and KL. I got the one at Centrepoint Bandar Utama =.= God knows why I always get those far far ones.

I was kinda worried because I never take LRT relying on my own sense of direction before and this time I gotta interchange two times: LRT-KTM-LRT. However, things went a lot more better than expected. I didn't get on the wrong train, go to the wrong platform or anything! Cheh, yuan lai so easy! Now I can go anywhere I want with public transportation alone liao. But I still don't know how to take bus lah...lol. Bus is more risky; you won't even know whether you're heading the wrong way or not until you're in the middle of nowhere =.=

I quite enjoyed these 2 days! Main reason, of course, is I learned a lot of things that can't be learned in university! Like we don't have to follow exactly the WWHAM to ask customers questions! Then why do we learn all that in university? I have no idea. But before this attachment, we have already knew that we don't have to ask all the questions to customers la...come on...who so free to answer so many questions just to buy a medicine? So, we learned about the questions that are necessary to be asked, and what products can we recommend for many many common illnesses. Surprisingly, quite a lot of customers came asking for medicines. We thought since the place was so remote (compared to KLCC and Midvalley lah lol. And the place looked lousy too), we would not get many customers for us to learn stuff. Well, we were wrong.

The pharmacist there, Nicole was very nice to us! She is 20 something and graduated from UM. She taught us a lot of things, albeit we were reserved and hesitant to ask questions. Haha she said we were too quiet and keep asking us to be confident and talk more! She gave us opportunities to serve customers but we didn't have the courage and confidence (like OMG WHAT IF WE GIVE THE WRONG MED or embarrass ourselves?!). So eventually we didn't really talk to any customer lah (thank god Nicole didn't force us lol). There were a few times customers asked us for drug while we were studying drugs at the counter and Nicole was somewhere else, then we freaked out and said "sry we are just students blablabla" and faster called Nicole over lol! I wonder did the customers feel weird when they saw 3 ppl (four if Nicole was around too) in white coats standing at the counter ? =.=

We met some weird customers like one asking for something stronger than Panadol for pain, Nicole suggested an NSAID then she said she tried before but not effective, then eventually she bought Panadol =.= The thing is, NSAID is stronger than Panadol... Other than that, in these 2 days we encountered one customer asking for Postinor each day! FYI Postinor is an emergency contraceptive pill! Hahaha I know we shouldn't judge but...I couldn't help but observe their bodies, clothes and everything LOL.

First day we had lunch at Subway, second day at Black Canyon. Food at Black Canyon is quite nice and affordable. They are around RM10! I think I start to like taking pictures for food already. Nah, pictures.

My BBQ chicken fried rice. I liked it!

Hahaha I copied the concept of adding stickers to the pictures from a mobile app. The stickers were not free so I drew myself :P

My two other friends' meals were not pretty so I don't wanna put here lol.


Every time after lunch when we went back to the pharmacy, Nicole wasn't back yet. So we looked around the stuffs on the shelves there (very much like shopping). We looked at cosmetics, skin care products, shampoos (yup...everything but medicines lol)... JA opened the cap of almost every brand of shampoo to smell them lol.

Then when the time was near the end of our attachment, Nicole filled in the evaluation form for each of us. She so good gave us 4/5 for all aspects! Then we took pictures at the counter :)

Once u go in you'll see all-white design~ like AirAsia aircraft lol.

There are LCD screens showing the next station at anytime you want to check whether you're on the right track.

Route Map

This is what I like the most! The route map in the train shows clearly which route the train is taking and which is the next station! Much better than the old trains!

Watched Insidious yesterday night! Its a horror movie by James Wan, who is also the director of The Conjuring! Suddenly posts about The Conjuring are all over Facebook. Is it that nice? Well, I watched it around my birthday that week. The first half of the movie was quite scary, managed to scare a few tiny screams out of me o.O I didn't know that I can scream. I suppose the "clapping hands" are the scariest part, although they were the hands of an innocent boy ghost and did no harm to the family. I think it's not really scary but it was just because the hands suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Although the scare scenes were predictable but u will still get scared lol. It has something to do with the timing and the atmosphere I guess. And a good director haha. It is based on a true story! I believe that o.O

Insidious was...not as good as The Conjuring IMO. The first half was quite intense but when the demon and the ghosts were revealed then it was not scary at all anymore! The demon and the part where all the ghosts reaching for the body were so fake. I think the most important essence in a horror movie is the suspense. Without suspense the movie is just bleah.

I realised that as I grew older I became more sentimental and timid =.= I will semi-block my eyes with hands and pull out my earphone when scare scenes are expected =.= But hey, I'll forget about the movie the next day usually ;P I don't know why I suddenly watch so many horror movies recently (just two lol). Downloaded The Orphan but can't find a right time to watch. So many things to do :( Haiz but on the bright side, this sem's exam timetable is out! Only one week of exam yeah (last sem 2 weeks)! And also, we have three whole weeks of study week!!! Lol not much for some of you but last sem we had two weeks of study week only T.T

BTW, I'm working on a blog post about Games of Thrones, the TV series I'm addicted to recently :D It's almost done! For those who are interested, stay tuned! lol.

Went to IKEA on Hari Raya! The last time I went was like, when? I couldn't even remember. My dad wanted to bring us out to KL during Raya because according to him, there would be less cars in KL because all the Malays balik kampung already. Uhm, I didn't feel like going out coz I had so many things to do! But I thought: life is short, u don't get much time with family and often people regret when they realise this. So WTH we went to IKEA on Raya with lots of time wasted on finding a parking slot, finding a table at the restaurant, queuing up for food, etc.

Nevertheless, I must say I kinda enjoy this outing because 1) Long time never visit IKEA. Can see lots of designer furniture. I like to see pretty things heheh.    2) Meatballs.

Why don't my house have those stylish furniture?! Why can't my parents be more appreciative of tasteful furnishing and decor? I quietly promised myself that I will have a perfectly designed house in the future. But before that, I must make sure I can earn sufficient money to buy what I want.

I have a lot of things in mind that I wanna have throughout my 21 years of life but, I've never really been eager to have them. Somehow I managed to relate it to my parents; perhaps because since small my parents taught us that we shouldn't have this, we shouldn't have that, or we don't need those things, I've learnt to control my lust. Then, as I grow older, I don't even have the courage to crave for something; fear of disappointment, perhaps. So one month ago, if you asked me what I want? I couldn't give you an answer.

Not long ago, a friend said that 会花钱的人才会赚钱 basically means that one only knows how to earn money if he spends a lot of money. I don't entirely agree with it, but she's got a point. And then I figured out that maybe that's why I'd been so unmotivated then. So I must become a spendthrift? No lah. Maybe I should stop thinking that I don't deserve those expensive stuffs although I really really like them. Maybe I should stop making myself believe that branded stuffs are just a waste of money.

Branded stuffs. I've always been fond of branded stuffs although I don't own one. None that I remember. And then it came to a point that I didn't think about branded stuffs anymore; thinking that it's just a waste of money and I can live with cheaper but also good quality items. My mind is gonna change again today coz this is what I learned from my business (also a pharmacist) lecturer: Price is what you pay, value is what you get. He gave an example of iPhone/Samsung phones versus some cheap phones. Although iPhone/Samsung are over RM2k+, there are still more people who buy it than those cheap phones. Why? Because of quality, the texture, and the satisfaction that customers get from it. Satisfaction, that is the most important, isn't it? So, if branded stuff can gives me satisfaction and makes me happy, why not? But of course, I have to earn money myself lah.

Well, on my 21st birthday, I've given myself a dream. Something to be used to motivate myself! LOL I don't know if this is considered a dream as it is quite easy to achieve, I think. My dream is to visit the faraway places that I like, particularly Paris.

Yeah! So this time our gathering finally happened! BUT three of our friends in our gang didn't show up :( MAKE SURE THE NEXT TIME YOU THREE COME AH!

I can't believe we haven't seen each other THAT long! Like, 4 years eh?! One is going to be an optometrist, one is going to be a civil engineer, one is an accountant-to-be, and one is going to be...a woman extraordinaire in business? lol and I'm going to be a pharmacist. OMG! Back then, who ever thought that we would choose these paths?!

We went to Sunway Pyramid for ice-skating. My second time of ice-skating. Sore feet. Fell on the ice rink for the first time and the only time. Haha I have quite a good balance after all. Gotten frustrated quite a bit after 3 hours coz I was still moving in baby steps. F3. The other three gave up earlier than me haha! Only HL, whom determination and perseverance I admire very much, refused to leave the ice rink! Haha!

Oh yea, before we went for ice-skating, we ate breakfast at Auntie Anne's. Stupid! I dropped my whole pretzel on the floor with its bare skin exposed! Well, I still ate it coz I trust my immune system lol.

After ice-skating we went to TGIF! First time also! Then ah...The food quite nice lah...I took photos but I lazy to think what to write about food. So I just put the photos here. Don't waste my effort mah...lol

My OSSO BUCCO

OSSO BUCCO
What u get: nice tender lamb + nice mashed potato
Eater's comment: Not bad! But the portion was too big for me until I felt a bit disgusted. Good to share if you're not a big-eater.


I know I said I'm not gonna write about the food. Okay I just suddenly feel like writing a bit heheh.

KEY WEST WHITE FISH

KEY WEST WHITE FISH
What you get: Nice fish + very sour sauce + lots of broccoli and red pepper + tasteless herb rice.
Eater's comment: SOUR! But a rather special foreign taste. Either you like it, or hate it.

CHICKEN AND SHRIMP DIABLO

OK I lazy to write liao because the rest were just meh.

I forgot what is this.

Actually the food was just okay. I blogged about it just because it's one of the expensive foods I ate. The nice thing was, we actually got a FREE DESSERT from the branch manager of TGIF! LOL the story went like this:

A guy suddenly came and asked for our feedback. He said something about his restaurant is no.1 in service...and he wanna maintain it...so he wants us to rate frm bad to excellent. HL said it's in the middle. He said no, he wants excellence! So he proposed to treat us any dessert from the menu! We were like: Wh....What? (In our hearts). Then we chose the most expensive one! LOL Pardon me I don't know what's its name but it was very very nice! I guess free stuff can be nice too huh!

Free dessert

The chocolate cake very nice (UPDATE: It was a brownie!) !! There were layers of crispy stuffs in the cake I think lol. I think the dessert was better than all the other main courses! Hehe I guess that made me a sweet-food-lover then? Haha then he explained to us that because they had received two complaints about their service today so he's trying to save their reputation! LOL Lack of man power during Raya I suppose. OK whatever, we had free dessert lol. Well, IF Joanne didn't suggest to eat at TGIF and IF HL didn't be honest with the manager and "shoot" the manager with her skills, we wouldn't get to eat free dessert! So THX to both of you! (Joanne insisted that I thank her lol.)


Lastly, I really hope we can gather again very SOON! And it'd better be a full house reunion!

(Started typing on my birthday itself but it was too late at night so I continued typing today.)

I want to blog about today because I want to remember it for life!

Because......it's an important (kinda) day for me! My 21st birthday!

Well...usually I don't celebrate birthday because I don't see it as a day worth to celebrate...but I think 21st is quite an important milestone in our lives I guess.. I was also quite worried that other people find out that today is my birthday =.= I'm also not sure why lol.

First of all the day went really really well! I think everyone's lucky on his/her birthday huh? Coz I literally got one question wrong out of 20 for my CAL test (yea I had test that afternoon =.=)! About 6 questions I wasn't sure of the answers one!

Yeah...And after so long..finally there are people who celebrate my birthday with me lol (except last year when my cousin came all the way to my hostel to give me a piece of secret recipe cake and forced me to listen to her "Happy Birthday" song!) So 3 of my uni friends (YX, SP, Hannah) had a small birthday celebration with me :)

We went for dinner at Mi Na Rae Korean BBQ restaurant at Sri Petaling! My first time eating real Korean cuisine! When I mean REAL Korean cuisine I really mean it!! It is run by a real Korean family (there was also a Korean family occupying a table not far from us)! So I get to eat authentic Korean food without having to go to Korea! haha. The best part was the food is actually GOOD (Y). Totally worth the price! Well, I'm not much of a food lover and I'm not one who likes to snap dozens of pictures when the food is served. Therefore, you should be thankful that I actually snapped a few pictures to show you...lol



First one served: Soju!!


Also my first time really drink alcohol. I don't like any alcohol (except Anglia / Jolly Shandy) unless I discover an alcohol drink that is not bitter in the future. But nevertheless when we heard Soju all of us agreed that we must try it! The moment it went down my throat I can feel a hot sensation followed by a strong bitter taste together with a little sweetness. OMG SO BITTER WTF. At that moment I swore I won't drink alcohol again. And LOL Hannah's expression after drinking one shot was so funny!!! I bet mine was funny too LOL. Quoted from my friend YX: "It's exactly like the expression they made in Running Man!" Hahaha well, maybe not word by word but she said something like that. Then we realised that if u drink it in one shot, the time the alcohol is in contact with ur tongue will be less and so u wouldn't taste the bitterness. And so we started drinking like that!

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Well I still felt the bitterness! So I just drank 3 shots that day (one shot = half of the cup).
In the end, YX drank about half of the bottle because we 3 couldn't tolerate the alcohol lol. Her face all redden !! Then after that she got really bad side effects >.<


NEXT, our FOOD:




Full set!! Just like the one they had in Running Man! OMG I've always wanted to try this ever since I saw these in RM! The BBQ pork belly (if I remembered correctly) was damn nice!! Some of the side dishes were also nice especially the Pumpkin Pancake it's everyone's love ❤

Kimchi Jjigae

BEST KIMCHI I'VE EVER EATEN. hahaha I know the photo sucks. We were so hungry that we couldn't wait to start gobbling! Actually this photo is courtesy of YX. I didn't take a solo shot for KIMCHI JJIGAE because I didn't know it was SO NICE mah!

BBQ Pork Belly

Lettuce [picture taken by YX]

Water jug [picture taken by YX]

Hoo hoo~ And lastly my birthday cake.........