arlyne's Xanga

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:30:51 GMT

Looking out, looking back across the sky

SELAMAT HARI RAYA TO WHOEVER WHO READS THIS AND CELEBRATES THE OCCASION.
MAY IT BE A GREAT ONE FILLED WITH LOVE AND LAUGHTER AND GOOD FOOD.

The university is taking a week off for the Raya or Eid Mubarak holidays and I had no plans of going back to Kuching. Raya holidays have always been best celebrated in Kuching (I personally think so) with the abundance of good food and equally wonderful hospitality.

On another note, I hate being broke. It's such a horrible attribute.

A less depressing event - last Wednesday evening, Karth celebrated her 22nd birthday a week earlier at Mist, Bangsar since most people will back home for the holidays.
Here are some photos (there were 100++ photos in total) from the evening:

(Been posting photos as blog entries. A bit lazy to blog, I must admit. So enjoy looking at them yeah? K thanks bye! )

I was the science nerd among the law geeks. UM is one!

Oh, but Varun the other science nerd arrived later so I was not the only nerd. Hehe!

Karth-loves-to-pose

The accidental camera angle photo taken by Tharish. Mwahaha!

Surjit and Varun

Then Surjit tried to show Tharish some moves - mostly hand gestures lar

Amreeta, Jira, Tharish

Jira started to be rather happy and contented and bubbly..

And this is the happy JIra

P/S: Lousy Xanga cannot upload portrait-view photos. At least provide a button to rotate them! *Emo*

Monday, September 14, 2009

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:50:44 GMT

I've made a mess of me, I wanna get back the rest of me

Initially, I wanted to rant but am too exhausted mentally to do so because this morning's Organic Chemistry quiz on enols and enolates practically sucked a whole lot of life out of me. I only had 4 hours of sleep.

Some updates. I..

..went for camp,

..said goodbye to Lee Fuan who left for Singapore to work,

..said goodbye to Sarah who went to the UK for the final year of her law degree,

..and went for a karaoke session with my university seniors and friend to spend some time with Anand before he leaves for Johore.

So I've been feeling pretty emo lately since I had to say quite a number of goodbyes and some things in university and life hasn't been particularly smooth-sailing.
Once again, I really dislike year 2009.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:51:27 GMT

The Annoying Saga: Episode 1?

Lets just assume it's episode 1 even though I'm well aware that it's probably episode xxx-th.

Person Number One: "How many pages long should the LC (liquid crystal) assignment be?", "How long is yours?" etc.
So I haven't got to writing the essay for the assignment on the application of lyotropic liquid crystal in drug encapsulation using nanoparticles for a more effective drug carrier system (I'm a geek. OK, I get it.) but stop asking me whether I've done it or not. Argh!!!!! *Roars*

Person Number Two: Gives off a "holier than thou" vibe. I'm too irritated to describe. Once an utterly Caya-ish person, will always be an utterly Caya-ish person no matter how one tries to appear more sophisticated and intelligent. Sorry. But a bit of epic fail here.

Person Number Three: "Do you have *this* and *that*?", "And please help me to do *this* and *that* and *that* because I am so busy entertaining a certain being whose pockets are pretty stuffed with papers marked with a former head of state that I am not able to do a whole bunch of other stuff which includes responsibilities?
Not in those exact words, but yeah. Somewhere along those lines. Sometimes.

Hrmm.. Why am I irritable?

Uh oh. Might be hormones.. *Thinks*

Lousy hormones!

Friday, August 21, 2009

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:43:54 GMT

Looking Asean

Someone knocked on my door this afternoon and tried to sell some coupons.
"I have a friend called Arlyne," she said. "But she's a Filipino."

Well, at least this time she didn't think I'm Filipino as opposed to my almost weekly encounters with people around KL who casually mistaken me for a citizen of every other Asean country except Malaysia. With the Philippines being a favourite choice.

Taken at Tanah Lot, Bali

Always the foreigner in my own country. *Sigh*

On another note, I often come across official forms giving options for race as "Malay, Chinese, Indian and Others".
I obviously fall under the "Others" category, but so do actual foreigners in this land.
So, there isn't much difference between myself and say for example, a Vietnamese?

Back to my previous point, somebody please do educate the West side of the country on the looks of the natives on the East side.

The East side rocks. Now, we're TRULY Asia.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:01:25 GMT

Relationships and the opposite sex

So my friend, Sebby posted on Facebook,"who needs girls and relationships when you have root beer and donuts?"

To which I replied,"who needs guys and relationships when you have chocolate and shoes?"

Somehow the conversation ended on how to open jars.

And I won. Haha!

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:33:29 GMT

To the heart and mind, ignorance is kind.

I'm so drugged by sleep that it hurts. Ouch.

Here's a quick (I hope) rant since I have class at 9.00am later.

It has been awhile since I last encountered a person who particularly irritates me on a scale of 1 to 10 to actually fall within the high 9 to 10 range. I suspect that the person reciprocates the very same emotion (although I have had no recollection of how I've wronged the person) because a number of people is also aware of it, even novices to our common institution. Therefore, I ain't being paranoid this time of round.
I noticed that he (or she, but take your pick) has a tendency to insinuate superiority and is pretty unpleasant more often than not. He is occasionally nice as opposed to being PERPETUALLY nice to a certain friend of mine, which has even spark speculations that even my friend has noticed since she (or he) is not a dumb duck, mind you. Besides the obvious display of favoritism, I do appreciate his contribution, passion and zeal to achieve a shared goal. Well, on another note, I previously couldn't get along with the person's sibling (I did try on my defence) who apparently is not too fond of the person either but family squabbles are none of my business.

So I guess I'm being pretty patient and shall remain so as that person may not be in town much longer. I'd prefer to limit the possibility of a messy confrontation. For I like to live in peace.

Patience and peace, baby.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:52:13 GMT

I've been lazy.

Like seriously lazy that even a cat of the Siamese breed would be more industrious in comparison.

An overdue industrial training report regarding my experience and work with canned concentrated milk stares at me incessantly while I distract myself with different things often unrelated to it. I feel.. Unenthusiastic.

Frankly, I'm just sick and tired of my course.
This arduous and pretty torturous course of three years - and I took an extra semester to nicely space it out (didn't seem to work considering I'm taking two papers which I initially refused to, but what other choice do I have?) thus prolonging my mental and emotional suffering.
Although, I suspect it would not have been so painful had I not set standards for myself. Yet I do not work that way. I have standards.
I was a brilliant kid (WAS is a past tense verb). So now the least I could do to salvage the downward spiral I lead myself into is to finish this course by doing more than just fine - a second class upper graduate, baby!
But I'm no self-masochist, mind you.

It has not been an easy year so far.
This lost of enthusiasm, mainly contributed by other less than pleasant occurrences and issues.

I supposed faith is all that I have left.
Hanging by a thread called faith.
Yeah. I need miracles.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:21:56 GMT

Speck vs Log

It seriously irritates me when someone criticises another person for being a Christian who acts in a certain unacceptable manner yet unknowingly not realising that judgment is being made and that he/she also has unpleasant traits which displeases others. The snort and the comments even had whiffs of pride.

Who are you to judge a person you've just met or barely know?

Who are you to indirectly belittle me without knowing who I am and what I've been through?

I am utterly disappointed.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:42:52 GMT

Halfway through the year 2009

And I haven't had one exceptionally good day this entire year.

Just when life appears to be improving a little, it throws you another curve ball. *Sigh*

Most stressful and faith challenging year so far!

Am I not good enough?

It always seems so.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:09:10 GMT

Help needed.

I guess the perk of rarely updating one's blog and the diminishing number of readers (although I don't exactly get much traffic to begin with) is that I can whine and rant on the occasional day I feel like it without having people to actually read it. Ranting entries are more for therapeutic purposes rather than for others to read. Hehe!

This coming Wednesday, I'm scheduled to fly off to the exotic island of Bali for a 6 days 5 nights holiday with my old school friend, Judith and her university mates.
Part of me is excited for the trip. I mean, it's Bali! Hello? Beautiful beaches and places and people?
The other part of me is feeling pretty low since I'm having some shortage of finances for the trip. The company where I'm currently undergoing industrial training has not given me my allowance for last month and my parents are experiencing some shortages as well since it's towards the end of the month. I supposed I could choose not to go, but Judith would kill me since she wanted me to accompany her in the first place since her friends are a couple. Moreover, it would pain me to not go since the plane ticket was extremely cheap for an international flight!

How now brown cow?

How to raise a few hundred bucks in a couple of days without resorting to illegal means?

Alright.

Father in Heaven, please help!!!