dinners

hi, gorgeous people!! i had my lunch and a brilliant dessert of coffee with ice cream. it was so good!! i dont really fancy coffee but i heard of this italian-style coffee called and affogato which is black coffee with vanilla ice cream on top and curiosity won the best of me and i got rewarded. my friend is still at school but im home now, just had lunch of my leftover lasagna. my surprise for mom turned out excellent by the way! it took me an hour to make and here's my step by stop: boil pasta sheets, chop onions, garlic and veggies, fry them, add mince meat, tomato puree, water and mixed herbs and let simmer. it was so fun to assemble the whole dish and i managed 4 layers of noodles. sissy and mom loved it! she was so happy! we're going to dinner tonight, to get sushi and then get the ingredients for mom's bread pudding.
yesterday night i made the decision to close 3 of my 5 ear piercings. i had 3 on my right ear and 2 on my left. i got them some 2 years ago when it was cool, now it's just annoying to keep changing all them all the time or they'll smell rancid. i think it's important to care about appearances so you'll always be pleased when you look at the mirror and feel good. to get there, work out, use hand creams, all that minor things. the really pretty you see on tv, all plastic, smoke, mirrors and makeup. be you and no one can take away the amazing person you are. point is, whatever you do, do it for you and not to please the world cause they never notice. im growing out my hair and it's at that awkward stage where it's too short to tie but too long to be untied so i went to school looking like a kindergardener with 2 short ponytails at each side of my head. i thought it was weird but when i brought it up at class, no one had noticed. no one noticed the piercings too, a total waste of cash if you ask me.
today's paper was a good one, with only 2 questions and few subquestions. im counting the days till the 9th to be honest.
i got 55fans on musical.ly now and i showed my friends what the apps all about because they dont know so on the featured section someone did a mannequin dance to juju on that beat and it was hilarious but weird at the same time and course cause it's funny i wanted me and my friends to do it too but we wont.
last night mom gave me a notebook and i used it and i loved it! i always feel the best when i have pen and paper, like everything's all right with life. im so blessed to have words.
im thinking of watching a clip from Shark tank before getting to my work today. also the project with my musketeers are at go!
love my lovelies

lasagna surprise

hello people and non-people! it's almost lunch now but im still full from breakfast for cookies but a genius idea came to me that i can surprise my mom with dinner. yesterday mom made a sumptuous dinner of prawns, chicken and eggs and it was a tonne of work so she said she's too wiped to make dinner again so today she'll be taking me out for dinner but i thought, why not surprise her with... LASAGNA. we have everything in the house: meat, pasta sauce, lasagna sheets and other things. i'll get to it at 3pm because i dont know how long it takes to cook so might as well be early.
yesterday night i attempted 2 new origami models, a rose and a butterfly. key word here being 'attempted'. the rose never made it to the final step because i didnt get pass the 3rd step without being helplessly confused and when i showed my sissy the butterfly, she guessed it was a wilting flower. origami has been a lot of fun and tonight i will challenge myself to do paper cranes blindfolded. oirgami takes a lot to precision and focus and i like it cause it stems the flow of the thoughts youd rather forget.
i made rice yesterday at 3pm and i know because i set an alarm to remind me to get the rice in the cooker. i had a paper yesterday and it ended at 10am but most of the class stayed till lunch and we discussed a class trip. it was the worst discussion possible because every time we decide on something, someone else changes it and back to square one.
when i got home from school i texted my high school bestie and we discussed our short film we're working on. it's going to be about our gang of 4 and how we got separated after graduation. it's a work in progress, but having multiple projects really keeps me busy and i will only do and think things that are lovely and pleasing and not destructive. the NGO project is still on it's way.
i have no class today so im relaxing, maybe do origami and read a bit. sissy is out and will be back late.
i was thinking of how much this blog means to me and then it hit me that i actually had an almost-blog when i was about 7. the computers were big and white back then and i mean desktop computers not laptops. dad introduced me to microsoft word where you type things like formal documents and you can add pictures to it. he started one document with me to teach me to use it and i named the doc, SUSANNA'S STORY. everyday i would write in it like a journal but the funny part is every sentence was in numbered lines. for example:

1. my name is susanna ooi.
2. i have school today.
3. my teachers name is ms crazy.
4. dad will drive the Saga and pick me up at 6pm.

i've changed desktops twice since then so i dont have that document any more but i do recall having at least 200 sentences.
gotta dash. christmas is coming!! love my lovelies

talks by me

happy day to you guys!!! it's monday today and so far so good! i woke up because i had to pee, it was really early but i know that if you hold in pee, you get kidney stones and you have to get surgery. i've been in an operation theater before when i was 10, the procedure was to keep your nose clean or something to do with sinus. im grateful i had it cause i rarely sneeze and when im in class the thing i hate to hear the most is another kid sneezing cause we all sit close and its loud and gross and just bad. sissy woke up the same time i did and she made toast for me!! yay!! so i had toast with a cuppa and then i took my shower, and tried out some new origami which i was just doing before starting this post. i have mastered the crane and dinosaur and the next thing for me is to master the lily. the lily was the worst , the furthest i got was to the part where you mark the diagonals and the halves of the origami paper. i will try again though! i know i can and i will succeed.
im feeling motivational! if you're feeling anxiety, or tiredness and fear. just do something fun!! i was really stressed last night and i had my bad thoughts again but i know how to fight it now. it took me a year to discover it and i hope this helps you. you see, i know that good people who are hopeful for good things and want it bad will have whatever it is that makes her happy. there's good! the excellent future in store will happen as long as in your mind you tell yourself you will do your sterling best for it. thing is somethings your bad thoughts eclipse the good and they tell you all the evils you dont want in your life. if you exclaim. proclaim and just know in full confidence that as long as you DONT ALLOW the negativity in your head, youre actually preventing your scary thoughts to happen. i'm not living to be bitter so dont waste away, just like im trying not to. let I DONT ALLOW IT, be your mantra. IM A WINNER sounds good too. anyways, i needed to keep my hands busy to keep happy so i was going to the thing that makes me happiest, post an update but my laptop was at 7 percent battery and the outlet in my room was charging my tablet. a fun thought i had was to play with my sister's make up because i see her do it a lot but she was out for drinks and i couldnt take it without her knowing. i folded some clothes them ma said she needed a card for a friend's birthday so i got some coloured paper and i had the idea of making origami so that's how this fad started for me. it's fun and i recommend it for the art junkies out tehre.
i had a wonderful meal last evening of chicken curry and apple soup! love it!! also my dessert was what i looked forward to the most. ma got me Butterbeer like the fictional drink that existed in HP and it tasted fantastic!! really sweet, really bubbly and i will definitely get more!
dad's train to KL yesterday traveled there with no problems. so on friday the tracks got derailed and 100 cargo trains went all over the place, messing up the tracks so dad didnt know if his train could take him back on Sunday but it arrived yesterday hurray.
i tried a new snack too yesterday. it's called Gold Fish and they were packed in the cutest paper bag and they taste amazing! i will go much some now and i'll be back. always.
love my lovelies

Doctor Strange beats Dr Seuss

hello you gorgeous people!! im just got back from the cinema and now im in my room, all comfy. i like that feeling when youre so wiped you just lie down and the bed feels 100 times softer and like God fluffed your pillows for you. that's alos how i feel when i just plank on hotel beds -they may not change their sheets, and dont mention the thread count but their comforters are usually perfect for me.  i dont know where you position your screen at, but make sure youre giving that content exhaling sound.

i watched this movie i heard about from my sissy about 2 days ago and prior to that i have never heard the movie, Doctor Strange(DS) before. she's a movie junkie and said it was good so i gave it a shot mostly cause Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock Holmes!!) was in it. today's a public holiday so the crowd was expected but we got great seats. DS checks all the boxes for every superhero/supervillian movie: a) protagonist is rich, b)protagonist is smart, c)protagonist gets into unexpected incident, cheats death, hits rock bottom and d)gets powers no one else has. also, e)has a love interest because they can't be rumored to be gay. unlike most superhero/supervillian movies, Doctor Strange gets his powers via magic, not by some science experiment went wrong. my favourite thing about the movie is the special effects, hands down. there's talk of infinite universes, separating body from mind, and bending space and time. mostly, the big screen showed the other end of the kaleidoscope. imagine the buildings started rotating around you and you were just a pedestrian... i often wish i could get cast in movies, but the entertainment industry doesnt exist where im from. 

i asked my mom her favourite line in the movie and she said it was by the Ancient One, "you dont lose your demons, you rise above them''. mine's by Mordo and he said, ''fight like you're fighting for your life, cause one day you might be''. it's a great movie, rotten tomatoes gave it a 96%, i'll give 95% just for kicks and if you're looking for something to watch, i say you have my blessing and give yourself a break. it's action and humor in a food pyramid diet, all proportional.

i got an early start to the day at 8am and like every normal person, i checked my phone and i see a text in our fam chat group with sissy asking for a morning call the next day and i was going to then i realised that i dont have the house number for our other house so i go to my parents room and they said they saw the text too but it's for tomorrow then i argue saying today's the next day even if the text came at like 1am last night. in the end, like most times, i was right and the call was meant for today. breakfast was beef noodles and fried wanton-just for me- and it was good though the restaurant was a sardine can, and we waited quite a bit. i like sardines.

last night's dinner was both rice and noodles and i liked it. good choice for dinner!! then we wanted to walk for a bit so we went to a mall, got Arizona tea, and this new drink i found that's supposedly the drink of my dreams, butterbeer from Harry Potter, except this is butterscotch beer from the flying cauldron as opposed to the leaky cauldron in the books.

i bought an umbrella cause it's been raining and now it's snug in my bag.

i really do miss my sissy when she's not around. ma is calling for tea, i have some sushi to munch on and i think i heard her say rice. be back. love my lovelies

festivities and apps

hey! hey! you! you! it's Thursday and i have a surprise coming for me this evening! dad's arriving from KL and he got some Halloween candy for me. yess (i dont plan on sharing, sissy)!! im proudly Chinese and my clan's culture doesnt delve much into the whole westerner's celebrations like Halloween or St patricks day. imagine a venn diagram, there's one circle with what i celebrate and another what my favourite american tv shows (like Friends, Glee and iCarly) show to be super important holidays. it'll look something like a null set but in the tiny area where they overlap, not visible with the naked eye, you'll find Christmas. hahaha!! im super mega excited because no one can ever hate on FESTIVITIES!!!

yesternight was a night of discoveries and here goes:
a) musical.ly - ive know about the app for forever, or at least since RiceGum started the series, This Kids Must Be Stopped. never intended to try it for the obvious reason that i dont actually have a phone and my tablet would make it super hard to record myself lip syncing. but i found out that there's 50mill downloads on the app store so i tried it! and i love it! admittedly it's hard when you're using an 8'' screen but i like the whole acting out part. definitely a must try and i have no regrets. it's all tweens and teens so course it's rated U. HAHAHAHA
b)i realised i have not cut garlic in almost 3 years. i was helping out ma with dinner -we had fried rice with soup- and i needed to peel and cut the garlic and i thought... it's been a while.
c) i really want to start working on my channel again.

right now my lips are drier than icky jerky so the skin is peeling off and im feeling like those crabs when theyre molting.

on tuesday our dinner was a luxurious one of pan seared salmon with mash potatoes and gravy. ma did the fish and i worked on the potatoes. we went to a store to get gravy mix and there was none so we went to another and we found it. potatoes with gravy makes me happy.
the adventure to stores was fun though. i was stuck at home the whole day.

i woke at 8.30 today, an hour earlier than normal and i had my fruit, my drink and some cookies. i want to make a burrito for lunch and we'll see ho wit turns out. sissy's at school but she's going for a movie tonight so i will be the only child for dinner. what we are having is still a topic to discuss. i gotta dash. love my lovelies

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

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