Monday, 24 October 2016

Three Dark Crowns book review

hey you gorgeous people!! ive been cooped up in our little apartment for about 48 hours now because there's no school anymore but im in kampar. i got here sunday night after a noodle dinner and when we reached we immediately drive to mcdonals for ice cream, specifically the Reeses peanut butter mc flurry. it was amazing! i actually used to love peanut butter so much that whenever my dad made sandwiches for school(which was everyday), i'd want a chunky peanut butter filling and i was the happiest person alive. also i used to love this Japanese pancakes called Dorayaki and they always have a filling in the middle and i always got one of 2 flavours, chocolate or peanut butter. the best ting about buying it is you may have a chance to see the machine at the stall run when they make a fresh batch and it is so cool to see batter coming out like the bullet through the barrel.

yesterday i woke at 9.30, worked till 11.30 because i wanted to make lunch. i made pasta which was super good but i poached egg didnt work out so i will try again later. today i woke at almost 10 and i had cookies with hot cocoa. i was supposed to make mash potatoes for lunch but i dont think so now because the fridge is void of butter!! i tried searching for recipes that dont require butter and all the substitutes are things that i dont have either like puree cauliflower or sour cream. i might try it with just oil though.

okay so the book i bough during the weekend was Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake. I LOVE IT!! it's the hybrid book-child of Hunger Games and every Rick Riordan stunt ever. the story's about 3 queens, each part of a triplet, and they are the latest generation to follow their culture of each queen having either a power of a naturalist, elementalist  and poisoner. a few months after turning 16, they have to battle, get married and the strongest queen will have to kill her sisters in order to live because there can only be one queen.
the elementalist queen is the strongest, able to summon thunder while her sisters live thinking they have no powers as the naturalist cant bloom a bud and the poisoner can barely eat mushrooms. thing is, the strong queen doesnt want to kill so the priestess say, 'we'll have to kill the 2 queens ourself'. that doesnt go as plan and in the end, the naturalist queen ate some tainted chocolate but didnt die and she finds out that she's actually the poisoner sister.
now, my ma was a bit skeptical about allowing me to buy the book because of the title and the fact that i get scared easily but there's nothing gory about it. if you can get through HArry Potter without pissing your pants, youre good to go. it's really exciting really, all the anticipation for the battle scene in the book. i flew by the pages in 2 days. the talk of magic is really cool, kinda spooky but it's all under good light and i tell you, Black's brilliant for cooking this story up.
i really want the bookworm in you to go to the mall and pick a copy for yourself. you might like it?

i need to try poaching my egg now! wish me luck. love my lovelies

Sunday, 23 October 2016

happy weekend

hello friend!! i'm home alone now but not for long. ipoh's good, it just rained and i panicked about the laundry outside but there was none so everything's fine. i got here at about 6pm friday and we went straight to the mall. dinner was Kenny Roger's chicken and it was a first time for us in about like a decade. not to throw shade or anything but i love nandos 10 times more and KR really needs to up their sauce game. on the plus side, KG's mac and cheese was on point. then i went to MPH to get a book and to collect stickers because for every rm50 spent, you get a sticker and when you have 4, you get a notebook and not that i need one but i wanted one. so i found a book i like and at the counter the lady says 'you get a 25 discount if you buy another item so do you need a pen or something?' then i go, 'that's lit! let me find my mom' then i spend 10-20 minutes looking for her sissy and i could slap her for waiting outside. that's just rude and selfish cause i wasnt done with my purcase, why couldnt she be normal and wait in the not at all crowded store like any normal human. by that time there the cashier was like scanning for another customer so i waited behind. then the cashier asks,'do you collect stickers? there was a customer who wasnt collecting them and said to give it to the next person'. then she goes(all old and drunk) and slurs, 'okay' and with what she bought she had a sticker and got 3 free stickers so she got the notebook. right now im still at one sticker and i dont know if i can ever forgive her. she took a fancy gel pen and made me pay for it. ME urgh. i was just so bitter cause i had wanted it and the redemption date is next week and will i ever get a gift?! again, i do not need it but i do like gifts. trying not to be bitter here!!

i'll work on a book report for my book soon.

we went to get some drinks for the house and i got a root beer for fun and i havent had one ever so it seemed like another night for discoveries. i drank a bottle at 9pm and that was the biggest mistake of my life. the sugar kept me running till 5am and i had to be up by 9 the next day. one good thing that came out of it was that i got to thinking about youtube videos and what i want to do to expand my channel, content wise. ive got many things planned for my year end holidays and i have this to add. i am legit super pumped to keep moving.

the next morning i had a dim sum breakfast and we were at the restaurant by 9.30 and it was pouring and there were so many people and we found a good table that we traded for a smaller one cause an old frail lady demanded so. i hate it when old people talk like they're so helpless but it's okay cause it may have been her last day and we didnt cross her or anything. i actually dont intend to live beyond 40 years. im only half way there and i dont imagine myself go all hippie saying, 'life's a gift' while i pet my tree. life's fantastic for me now so maybe i shouldnt think too far ahead. dim sum was great. i had tea and sticky rice and fried cakes so all nice.

i went home and at 2 sissy asked if i wanted my eyebrows done this week because not long ago i told her i wanted her to bring me along next time she gets her's done. thing was, i was tired and i had my book and the internet and it was so hot out that i said i didnt want to go.
dinner yesterday was fired rice with a chicken drumstick.

i woke up early today cause of sissy's alarm and i had a pocky breakfast and then i did the laundry and showere. pocky is the best food ever! thing is when i was a kid i would bring them to school almost everyday and they were called Rocky and there were only 2 flavours of choc and strawberry. i had a cookie and cream one this morning.
lunch was a yummy pretzel and i wish i had ice cream now.

i need to pack. see you soon my lovelies

Thursday, 20 October 2016

little discoveries #1

hello everyone!!! it's 2pm and ive been awake for about 3 hours now. happy friday guys. i dont usually get up at noon but i had a late night fighting crime in the city. HAHAHAHAHAH i didnt. i had my lights out by 12am but i couldnt sleep till 2 so i stared at my ceiling, singing songs and working on ideas for my youtube channel . i really do like filming and editing and the most fun -is funnest a word?- idea i had was me learning how to skateboard. i thought that since i know how to drive a car, ride a bike, why not learn some tricks on a skateboard. i thought about how to execute it and some issues came up. 1)i havent owned a skateboard since i was 10 and2)i dont want to get more scars on my legs. but it was fun to think about though. i dont even have a good camera yet.
i woke up unnaturally today and i read that waking unnaturally makes you more easily tired during the day but i dont think so. the phone rang and it was my mom calling me to say shes going to pick me for lunch and it was a fun lunch because we both got noodles. unlike most people i can wake up and eat whatever. like my appetite wakes with me and i dont have to have a warm up of like an hour before my body can digest food.

yesterday night was a night of discoveries (my favourite kind of night).
1) MattyBRaps. he's another Jacob Sartorius just better looking and he's been famous longer. he raps and does youtube and like i do for celebrities i fancy, i dug up a backstory. mattyb was news since about 5 years ago when he rapped to defend his sissy with down syndrome from bullies. that's pretty cool.
2) i did a bmi test and the range for normal was 18 to 24 and beyond 24 is overweight, below 18 is underweight. the formula is weight(kg) over height(m) so for me it would be 48/1.56 which gives 30 so apparently... i cant even say it but i actually do feel it. screw it though, i think the world has unreasonable standards for women now. congrats, Trump.
3) nothing will stop me from doing what i want as long as i work towards it.
4) i want to start an NGO one day. i even did some research on how to do it. it's not in-depth yet cause im only so young but here's what i know: i) you have to register yourself online at some malaysian governement website, ii)have at least 7 members iii)pay a registration fee and a yearly fee iv)your ngo's name must be in Bahasa because this is Msia after all and v)you must have logo.
what will my NGO be based on? that's for me to know.

i was just watching some youtube and then ma whatsapp me this link and i check it out. if youre too busy to open it, it's news about a refugee boy doing swell in his studies and gets a degree and he credits a foundation called Dignity for Children for his education. im pretty well verse with the organisation as 4 years ago i did a fundraiser with some friends and directed the profits at them. it's nice to think that the little we gave had a role in this guy's career.

i'm heading to ipoh later in the evening and im excited. i've got some things to think about. since i have a week break i could fit a book in my time no problem. question is, which one? see, life's full of being spontaneous. gotta pack. love my lovelies.





Wednesday, 19 October 2016

i love my life

hey you gorgeous people!! i missed being online so much it actually physically hurts to not post an update. it has been the longest fortnight in forever but i have been away because of my A levels. they started last week and tomorrow is the last paper for the week. next week will be a break and then resume the week after. i realize that the papers are a huge deal to the eyes of the world but to this blog means more to me than anyone will ever gauge.
if i had to state my latest obsessions:
-barbie songs!! my favourite is the sound track from barbie princess and the pauper and barbie the island princess. i like singing along to it(like i always have) and the lyrics are so profound and it really speaks to me like my fav from p&p is from written in your heart ('you're always free to begin again; youre always free to believe') and my fav from island princess is from I need to know(' i have to know these answers, i have to find my way; seize my tomorrow; learn my yesterday'). i needed a blast from the past to make me feel a lot better about myself and that i am who i am!
my friend doesnt agree about the whole barbie is inspirational deal. she's working on building her youtube channel making covers and she said i get to pick a song so she cant go back on her word just cause barbie isnt her thing. well i dont like phantom of the opera much anyways.
-crosswords! ive said here many times before that i love love love puzzles and i love word search but crosswords are a whole new territory and i and enjoying it. im not at an advanced level yet but i will get there. also the name of the dots on dominoes are pips.
-the next one goes to all the fam... dark chocolate with almonds!! we've been getting a bar a week thanks to dad and they're spectacular. the best are wittakers from newzealand.

the past weeks have been really ordinary. ive been doing pass year papers, notes and praying basically. so the first day of exams i text my best friend from high school, hows the paper been? and then she goes, oh dude we dont do the same syllabus and i totally had no clue. the days are fine and sometimes i fit a nap in or if it's a gym day, me and sissy get our workout. we actually went today i got to try out something new. it's this machine that is like a standing up bicycle because you pedal but you grab the handles and your hands push back and forth. real fun.

i guess i should talk about ma's super awesome food about now. lunch was spaghetti and i found out that yesterday was national pasta day so we should have got a medal. we had pizza and squash soup sometime this week. over the weekend i had a mcd breakfast, a reeses ice cream and the best duck rice ever. i am legit blessed. thanks family!!

if youre enduring exams right now, there may or may not be under a dark cloud but here's somethings to think about.
-you dont have classes anymore. go home.
-pretzels dogs are the bomb and halal is a term to distract malaysia from things that actually matter like a better school syllabus
-troye sivan is the best gay person ever. LGBTQ long live
-I AM GOING FAR!!

okay it's dinner time and mom made rice! yummys!! gotta dash. love my lovelies


Thursday, 6 October 2016

monks and bridges

yoo hooo!!! hey you! i just had tea of cake and orange slice cookies and i started feeling great for a minute then i thought about how it probably didnt help with my getting fit regimen which is still in the initiating process and now i think i probably shouldnt have eaten so much(cake was a dessert for lunch too) also i had cake for breakfast. why so much cake, you ask? all leftover from a birthday. 
i had a revelation a few days back when i was putting on a pair of jean i liked because it fit so nicely. it doesnt fit like a glove anymore unless gloves were meant to be so tight your hand stayed at infant size like an inverse of the chinese tradition of feet binding. wait i have to go on a tangent here. once someone told me a story and it goes like: there were 2 monks about to cross a wobbly bridge over a river when a very pretty lady came, and she had her feet bound so she couldnt walk straight and she asked help from the monks to hold her as she crossed. one monk was all oh we cant be in close proximity to a woman cause its bad and he may have said non-halal but im not sure, old story. but the other monk, a nice one, carried her across while the bad monk watched, angry. they left the woman at the other side of the bridge and for a long time, the bad monk went on a long rant on how he-who-helped defied their religion and was unsuited for monkhood. the nice one, chill as ever, said, 'i left her at the other side, why are you still thinking about her?'. i think the moral was to always do the right thing even if society goes against it. also to not carry around anger like the bad monk.
okay back on track, my jeans wouldnt go over my butt, couldnt button it, and i saw i had a pseudo-pot belly. clearly i was upset, and now im trying my darnest to lose a few ponds and then some. im just so in love with eating especially candy that i think to keep away requires a strait jacket. i just want to fit into my jeans again and not feel so much blubber around. 
yesterday i went to gym with sissy and i lasted 70minutes on the threadmill and about 2 minutes on the cycling thing.i like they gym, the staff are friendly and i dig the view from the second floor. sissy is all about squats and i dont see the point of it but she does her thing and its all good.
im not going to school anymore but i went yesterday to play around with my friends and at one point we played charades and there was a racist moment when the word 'black sheep' came up but its fine because its funny and we get that it's not to be rude but just funny.
im feeling like an episode of The Flash now. gosh Grant Gustin is the most gorgeous man alive! love it!! also i think his best friend is the Arrow who is like Hawk eye's descent. funny.
see you whenever lovelies

Tuesday, 4 October 2016

happy birthday ma

hey everyone online! youre fantastic!! it's a special anniversary today and it's so important that you all know that it's my ma's birthday!! YAYY happy birthday ma!! she's perfect and i love her so much! i am now going to make up a super special poem for her that i thought of 0.1 seconds ago.

ma, you're my best friend,
the core of all my happy memories,
and an excellent role model
always have been, always will be.

i want today to be the best day it can be
because you deserve the best in life

on your birthday,
heaven and earth part ways to make way for a recherché celebration.

you've always worked to make my birthdays special:
a KFC party, movies and days off school
this year, for you,
balloons, dinners, soaps, a joke hand and cake were what we did
and it's important that you have fun
every day of existing

on your birthday,
be reminded that you are smart, funny and pretty,
all qualities that me and sissy inherited
and im mostly happy about the pretty part haha

unashamed i voice to the world
i cant sleep without a certain pillow,
that was sewn with so much love.
i also couldnt sleep alone till i was 13 but im glad
in those late nights,
we played games, talked and it was the best times of my life

your gonna have many more adventures,
with me and with the familia,
im excited
and we've got each other's back
i love you
...

taadaa okay not my best work but it took 2 minutes and its decent.

i just got back from a korean hot plate dinner and it's so yummy. it's called dakgalbi and it's chicken, veggies and dough rolls in a pan simmering in a sweet-spicy sauce. i had a drink of banana milk which i was so excited about but it was really sweet and it smelled so strongly of banana and turns out it wasnt anything exciting but i like being excited about something cause it's fun.

we had our cake before going out to dinner and it was yummy raspberry cheese cake. i love cake!
hours before our big feast tonight, sissy and i had our first experience at a gym. we now have a membership card like fitness junkies do so i guess we're fit. i spent an hour at the threadmill doing cardio and it was so cool because the gym was on the second floor and the threadmill faces the floor to ceiling wall that shows the view below and it's nothing compared to a view on a mountain but it was a scene looking down and i liked it. i havent had the muscles at work in a while so after an hour on the mill, my adrenaline was really pumping and when i got down, wayy to excited, my legs were vibrating from so much happy. that probably isnt real science but helloooo

i had a lunch of fried rice with chicken soup. thanks sissy. ma left her phone at home during lunch so i went over to pass it to her and it was kinda weird because i dont go there anymore but i smiled at a couple of juniors so it's okay.
breakfast was special and i found out i liked waking up at 7am. i ate orange slice cookies and they were good. yummy cookies.

so much talk about food, i really needed the gym. let's see if an exercise regimen works.
i need to nap now. goodnight lovelies

Sunday, 2 October 2016

surprise im still here!

hey beautiful world!! i have missed you so much and i havent been offline for this long since forever so officially i need to say a very grand hello. here goes: HEYYYYY!!
according to my immaculate memory, my last post was on Tuesday meaning im going to be typing for a while. on wednesday i missed school and i went for lunch with ma and then she picked me up again to get me to school because a teacher missed me so much and needed to see me that day and rewarded me with a super fun test about organic chemistry. i went home late that day and then i had a maggie dinner which was so good. thanks person who created maggie, but then youre evil cause the MSG did crazy things to my hair and skin so im a host to a dang pimple now. anyways that was about it.
on thursday i went to school, had a bio practical and totally aced it. then i had a lunch of tuna pasta and it was amazing.  later fought with my best friend over chemistry homework. story goes...she was like, 'i didnt do my homework so you probably didnt do it too' then i felt offended and then we were yelling but i checked she was right so we laughed it out in the end and now we're cool.
then we went to the lab for a chem practical and it was not to hard mostly because the same questions come out s=every single year. then my friend had an extra math class and i had to clean her bench for her which was a first because she normally helps me clean my bench but i got praise form my lab technician so that was cool. dinner was claypot rice with tomyam lala and that was soooo good and then i had honey tea and we went to rent ben-hur dvd. that night i couldnt find my chem text book so i thought it was at school but it wasnt there the next day when i checked and totally freaked out and i was so scared but i have senior's textbook now to use until i find mine and im praying that its soon.
on friday i had the same pasta for breakfast this time and it was just as yummy as it was the day before. i got really tired during a physics lesson but that wont surprise anybody. had lunch with my class and i had the best curry chicken in the history of curry chickens. okay legit i am so thankful for good food. then i played a badminton game with my friend, not the one i fake-fought with because she was absent that day. i got a poem from a teacher and that was cools. i actually went over to her house first, then we played for like an hour before i got tired and waited to go home at the staffroom. by then sissy was back from her kl trip and she was so much fun to have around we went to celebrate at a new sushi place. it was the cool high sophisticated conyevor belt sushi place that i like and they had pickled ginger which ma loved but i liked their fired wantons best. we picked pa up from the train station that night and had fried rice and noodles as a late night snack. sissy got us tea and pa got us chocolates and grapes so i am really happy with life hello!
next morning i had a mcd breakfast and the rest is all a blur. except when i went for a movie that night. me and ma went to see STORKS and it was the cutest movie ever!! so it's about storks -big whoop- and they used to deliver babies but they dont anymore so they deliver mail like a FedX. and they stopped delivering babies because they missed a baby delivery and she had to grow up among the storks and they dont raising humans that much so this human(orphan Tulip), is sorta a clutz and she accidentally activated the baby making machine which totally put a certain stork's promotion on the line and so they try to fix it by delivering the baby themselves and course they have to go through plenty of obstacles to get the baby sent right. the baby has pink hair by the way. i thought it was cute but ma pointed out something really smart: kids who dont get the science of where babies come from might get the idea that they actually came from a factory and was sent by a stork and they'll embarass themselves 5 years along the road in science class when they really learn reproduction of plants and animals. but cute movie, yummy popcorn.
today i woke to spicy fried beehoon noodles and i like noodles a lot so im happyyyy!!
we went to the mall to get a receipt checked out and then we went to get some balloons and a finger pointer for ma's birthday. it's an extended arm so she can use it for her lessons and also some backscratching. when we got home i did something i was dying to do for so long, i made my own candles with pa! they are so neat. ma and sissy will do theirs tomorrow. it was so much fun and incredibly easy. we didnt get the wax pallets that require melting, we got the wax beads which are colorful beads that will keep the fire burning like a regular wax candle! lunch was fried noodles again, you know my diet! for dinner we went a bit grand because all birthdays are a grand occasion. we went to a western place in a mall and they're sorta special because it's a restaurant in a high end super mart for all imported goodies. i had mac and cheese, ma had chicken, sissy had pasta and pa had fish and chips! they were all so good! the meal, perfect! we walked around, bought ma shoes, and had a cendul dessert. we went home after for gift opening and it was mighty fun!
we had a good laugh at the finger pointer. its already morning so i should get some shut eye but i will miss being online. see you in a bit. love my lovlies, goodnight