Noel is in Mulu. I is here. I is bored.
I need to buy new bras. I need a haircut. I'm going to cook Japanese rice curry and potato croquettes this Friday for lunch.
I don't want to go to work tomorrow.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
first post for june
kerana bosan
Kerana bosan, I am posting a list of useless things for you to know about me:
1. Indian food, or the closest to, in my whole life had always been eating roti canai at the mamak shop. When I was 20, I had my first taste of Northern Indian cuisine at d'Tandoor. I tried banana leaf rice only when I started working at 23.
2. I hate weddings. Weddings are absolute taboos. You can mention them BUT DON'T YOU DARE INVITE ME TO ONE. Especially if they concern people I don't know. I hate wedding food. They're bland and oily. I'd rather if they served Ayamas chicken nuggets with Kimball tomato ketchup. Can't go wrong with those.
3. I don't like Malaysian fruits or tropical fruits to be precise. To tell the truth, I've never even tasted most of them because they look weird and smell weird. Mangosteens have the look of squashed brains. And jackfruit tastes like barf (and smells bad). I eat starfruit and mango on occasion, watermelon sometimes and pineapple too but what I really, really want are the safe stuff like nectarines and plums and cherries.
4. I wish to take off my top in public sometimes, just out of sheer boredom. I like being unconventional, I like stirring controversy and I like people to point and stare. More like I'm just used to being pointed and stared it. It's all part of who I am and that's because I'm not normal, like you.
5. Usually forgets to put the salt in her cooking.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
your hand in mine
It's nice, having a hand to hold. A hand that is large enough to cover mine, grasping my fingers gently. It warms my heart to be held that way.
unpretty but tolerable
I'm having my period and so, I am experiencing the most grossest things a girl has to go through every month. Like, the constant flow of blood, sometimes mixed with congealed blobs of bloob that would have turned into a zigot had the egg been fertilised (today, something that looked like a miniature version of the chuuka iidako or baby octopus came out!) and diarrhea for the first few days of menstruating. I'm being absolutely gross here but the grossness factor just doesn't end there.
Try wearing a sanitary pad, damp with blood and pressed to your skin the entire week. It's gross. A cleaner option is to wear a tampon but many do not have the courage to get it up into the vaginal canal clearly because it can be quite the traumatic experience, what with blood flowing down your fingers while you are shoving the thing in as deeply as you can.
Anyway, my mom and two youngest siblings jetted off to Japan this morning. They must have reached my grandma's place by now.
So here I am, being minimally domestic. Cooking nuggets, doing the laundry and feeding the pets. I'm going to make Japanese curry rice and potato croquettes for when Noel and Nadirah come over for lunch sometime soon. And I bought a box of strawberries to indulge myself.
AND!!! I got myself a red double decker bus charm for my Tomas Sabo charm bracelet! It cost me a friggin' RM259 but oh well, I bought it on a whim because it reminded myself of London and all, the time we went to the London Zoo and then the squirrels bit my finger at this little roundabout with a single tree on it and then they nicked my London Zoo edition zebra-icing Dunkin Donut.
I wanted the cherry charm but they didn't have stock. Dammit.
I think Noel's eyes near bulged out when the saleslady announced the price. It's ridiculous to be paying so much for a trinket, yes, it's not even gold and I could get something for that price, like a simple pendant at Poh Kong maybe but there are times when a girl must reward herself, because who else will? Besides, it is MY money. I didn't ask Noel to buy it for me (unlike the typical girlfriends who will insist on a pricey gift every month or else, boohoo, my boyfriend doesn't love me anymore), by the way.
Speaking about Noel, he's jetting off to Mulu for work tomorrow. Three whole days without me! Oh bliss! (For him, yes, definitely.) I'll have to try my best not to bugger him because he'll want to spend all that time hanging out with the orangutans.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
sotong bakar flies
Ah, happiness.
I spent nearly four hours at a local council's full board meeting, had late lunch for about an hour (and it was some sort of yummy Thai fried rice) and in less than two hours, I'm done with work! Yay! I'm good! And the first person to finish work again!
God, I am so effective. That is the power of not procrastinating (so much). See, it's because I don't have a small bladder or smoke so I don't need to run to the loo so many times or go for frequent nicotine-inducing breaks.
I only had a short break to sip my coffee bought from the vending machine in the pantry, to watch the YouTube parody vid of Pokemons battling Michael Jackson in a fake game battle (do check it out!) and of course, sneaking in minutes of Restaurant City in between typing paragraphs.
I'm good! I feel good!
HOI CEPATLAH PAKCIK NOEL. LAMBAT SANGAT BUAT KERJA.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
because we love toasted ass
H/L: Getting into the cosplay groove
Byline: MM
Date of publication: 29/12/2007
I THOUGHT I'd met my knight in shining armor, but after he took off his headgear, I realised that he was a man in his late thirties, with a chubby face and thinning hair.
This is not meant to insult, mind you, but more of a sneak preview of what cosplay entails - that anybody could be anybody as long it is what the heart desires with results that will shock even those you are closest to. Take for example, the lovely blonde cosplayer wearing a unique costume that bespoke volumes of regality and noble bearing: She is a character from console-playing game Tales of the Abyss, the proud Natalia Luzu Kimlasca-Lanvaldear... or so you thought. Take another guess, for Nadia is actually a guy in costume.
For the uninitiated, the idea of cosplay sounds almost scary. Some may liken it to a freak activity for freaks. There may be a grain of truth in this.
After all, one would have to be mad enough to dare wearing a Sailor Moon outfit out in public. But for those who adore this wacky subculture, it's all about bringing your biggest childhood (and for others, adult) fantasies to life.
And bring to life many of them did, like the quartet of girlfriends who were cosplaying as the heroines from Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (PSSM).
"PSSM has always been a childhood favourite of ours and it had been a sort of secret dream that one day, we, too, could become just as beautiful and heroic as the Sailor Scouts. Today, we're living that dream and it's been great," said the gang's leader Nor Hashimah, 20, a cosplayer of six years.
At this year's most anticipated ACG (animation, comics and games) event, Comic Fiesta 2007, she cosplayed the Soldier of Water and Intellect, Sailor Mercury. Nor Hashimah's costume is based on the version from the final arc of the series, the Shadow Galactica arc. The event was held at Berjaya Times Square Kuala Lumpur on Dec 15 and 16.
Her childhood friends from Bangi, Nur Aina, Nur Asyikin and Nur Dinni, are dressed up as Eternal Sailor Moon, Sailor Pluto and Sailor Mars, respectively.
When asked on why there were only four instead of nine people in the group, Nor Hashimah said as theirs was a last minute plan, the other friends in the group were not able to have their costumes done in team for the event. The four of them took one month to get their costumes ready and even then, they were missing the elbow-length gloves which are part of the costume. On a side note, the Sailor Team is actually made up of the five Inner Soldiers and four Outer Soldiers which added up make up all the planetary bodies in the solar system.
"People wonder why we settled for the Shadow Galactica arc instead of going for the first arc, the Dark Kingdom arc, and this is because nobody else in Malaysia has cosplayed any of the series' characters from the last arc. (The writer happens to be the first in the country to cosplay Sailor Mars, with the costume being from the first arc by the way.) We also loved how there is a uniformity between the costumes of all the characters. In the previous arcs, each character had accessories which
were exclusive to only herself," said Nor Hashimah.
Next on the list are Yau Ju Anne, 18, and Marina Shukry, 20, who were cosplaying Esther Blanchett (White Queen version) and Seth Nightlord from the anime series Trinity Blood.
Their elaborate costumes, reminiscent of the Victorian era, had cost them RM800 and RM900 respectively.
Both are not newcomers to the cosplay scene: Yau has been cosplaying for three years and has cosplayed Tifa Lockheart (Final Fantasy VII), Miyu (Vampire Princess Miyu) and Karin Koenig (Shadow Hearts: Covenant) while Marina, a diehard fan of Trinity Blood, has four costumes belonging to two characters from the series, Abel Nightroad and three versions for Seth Nightlord due to her absolute love for the character.
However, these were only a few out of the many that had come proudly in their costumes, to the delight of the crowd upon identifying the characters cosplayed. Although still on a somewhat small scale, there is no doubt that this is a fastrising subculture what with the many new faces coming onboard to embrace this passion for role-playing and dressing up.
What makes an inspiring cosplay?
CERTAINLY not when you're wearing a rush job which clearly shows that it is. You know, a rush job.
While not everyone can work miracles on a sewing machine, it does help a lot when you make the effort to find yourself a good tailor. Not an idea that will bode well with those with lean wallets though as an elaborate costume will have you forking out a crazy sum like RM500 for something that you'll wear like what? Once, or twice, a year?
There are also those who have no imagination, coming to such events as Gothic Lolitas, which isn't much challenge as far as cosplay goes. Just put on something black with layers of lace, tie a frilly apron round your waist and then plonk a mini crown on your mass of curls. Oh, and don't forget the platform Mary Janes and the knee-high beribboned socks. Or what about the kind of cosplay where the character is wearing clothes so normal that you cannot distinguish whether the person is cosplaying or not? That's quite uninspiring, too.
However, an inspiring cosplay does not come entirely from good tailoring. Just like buying the right shade of foundation to match your skin tone, choosing the right character to portray is just as important so it is quite unfortunate when there are those who choose to cosplay a particular character because of whatever hype that is attached to that particular anime/manga/ game the character originates from at the moment.
That is why cosplayers who are able to give me an in-depth description of the character and elaborate what makes the character special to him/her get my seal of approval instead of those who tell me that, "I like this character but I don't know why. He/she looks cool, I think", because you know that with the amount of passion the cosplayer has for that certain character, he/she will do a better job portraying him/her because the character has been studied so well, it becomes like a second
persona. Like how actors `become' their characters, the same should go for cosplayers.
But then you argue, what of people who are too obese to cosplay Sailor Moon but go ahead with it anyway? No matter how good an actress she is, she'll never be as close to the real thing. Well, my dears, that's another story for another day and didn't your mother teach you not to discriminate the horizontally-challenged people?
things that make me teary eyed
Or people, like my colleague Nadirah who was once our intern and now strings for us.
Being a typical girl, I relayed to her the 'natural' development of my day-to-day life, the love, the gossip, the drama, etc. And I told her about what Noel had told me in regards to the Fat Farm (she calls them the Phat Farm).
Naturally, she was outraged.
"If they are going around 'warning' him about you because they're his friends, then I am warning you about him now because I am your friend," she said indignantly.
Finally, we decided that the Fat Farm and the Hindraf Gang are just a bunch of jealous cows because they obviously won't look as good in a bikini.
At the end of the day, they can go and take nude photos of themselves but they'd know they'd never look as good as I do in the buff either.
Really, Noel is lucky to have a hot girlfriend with a nice body.
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