The Story of My Best Friend

I used to have this best friend.

Me and her went to the same primary school. I don't remember exactly how me and her met, but ever since me and her got along, me and her were inseparable. People would constantly mistake me and her for sisters. Me and her would be hanging out together in school all the time. She was sporty, I was nerdy. Me and her would stay back in school for P.O.L. lessons which we dread, then me and her would scribble pinyins under every Chinese character in the textbook and recite them without knowing what we're saying when the teacher calls us. Me and her will have awesome sleepovers at each others' houses. Me and her would update each other on our ever expanding collection of plushies. Me and her would rave over Akazukin Cha Cha, the Powerpuff Girls and Britney Spears. Occasionally, me and her would get so pissed off by each other, that me and her would practically shout at each other. To date, she remains the only friend that I can say I've truly ever quarreled with, over reasons that I don't remember. Me and her would then occasionally pretend to fight just to scare our friends. I don't know about her, but I liked how me and her were. Gradually, unwittingly, me and her began to drift apart. Me and her went to the same secondary school. But our friendship was never the same again. I'm not gonna pretend like I don't get overwhelmed with a sense of loss whenever I think about her now, nor am I gonna pretend like I don't get surges of longing whenever I see pictures of her with other people. Jealousy, some might call it. Indeed, it is. I do miss her. For all the times me and her spent together, I don't even have a picture of me and her together.

Except for our Standard 6 class photo.

And though it's impossible to return to how we were back then, I'm definitely cherishing the memories we made, of me and her.

So I used to have this best friend.

And there's never gonna be another one like her.

KSM's Weekly Updates

Saturday was when a group of us volunteered to help out with the July intake of the new batch of JPA scholars. Dressed in our grey Taylor's shirt, whose cutting is freaking ug-lay by the way, we were hanging around at the college car park, gawking at the college freshmen whom we once were. Luckily for SKY+kakak+some others, we were in charge of registration, unlike some Ms. Luggages mwahaha. Needless to say, we handled the registration outside the MPH like the totally organized, cool and awesome professionals we are. C Floor became the awesomest vantage point to snap pictures of a lecturer below, spaz over a leech and a tigerball, and inevitably... camwhore!

KSY

YSK+kakak

So SKY+kakak, the pelahaps, did go to the cafeteria a bit too early for lunch, but we didn't escape fast enough after that, and unwittingly ended up cleaning tables after the students' parents. There was this one person who snapped his fingers at me like I was some full-fledged waitress, whoa! Quite fun admittedly, but one hour of dirty dishes and cutleries was all I could take.

Great lengths (sort of lah) were gone to in order to have this picture taken

Some kay poh chis then went to brand new Casa Subang to check out the residences of the students while I headed home to recharge for the reunion with Yee Mun sans Manglish.



Sunday was when I bought an XL-sized sweater. I now have clothes of sizes from XS to XL. Beat that.

Monday was when we got preoccupied with filming our shoes.

Tuesday was when Yuvha and I trespassed Inti for the second time.

Wednesday was when I had a sudden mental image of myself having a catfight with the girl on the sofa in front at Starbucks. I can't even recall her face, I don't even know if she said what I think she said, or if she's referring to me for sure, but I'd love to have a catfight with her anyway *scratches*. Wednesday was when I survived the day with a piece of cake, a slice of pizza and a bowl of soup. Wednesday was when I had to go to 7-11 to buy honey lemon candies to get coins to use the public phone to call Fu Han to call Darren to tell him I left my phone in his car. Wednesday was when Soon Wen envisioned a chain of restaurants called OSIM that could rival that of TGI Friday's. Erase the thoughts of iGallops and uZaps, OSIM stands for Oh Sh*t It's Monday.

Thursday was when I woke up at 3 a.m. to study for the Spec Maths test only to spend half the day retching and being on the verge of collapsing. Thursday was when the class video was finally submitted.



Thursday was when I got so nervous I could only eat a nugget, fries, three honey lemon candies and three quarters of a dumpling the whole day. Thursday was when Yihhaur and I went to Cineleisure. He's a natural at being awkward :) or it could be only me and my paranoid analyzing :S

Friday was when I had my annual intention of wanting to treat her like it's her birthday everyday.

Busy, crazy, fun week with extremely frequent flashes of nostalgia. And I can honestly say, I'm happy :D

End of Week Review

Turbulent week indeed.

As usual, I didn't have enough time to finish the Econs paper, even though I wrote like, what, 5 freaking centimetres per second. I'm now looking forward to my "C" or anything worse than that. No comments on the debate. But then again, saying "No comments" is a comment itself, right? I'm missing my runny nose. Having it reminded me of something, I don't know what, but it made me feel like the most contented person on Earth. Now I practically jeopardized AND dramatized the strange relationship with a certain someone. The confrontation never happened, never will. And I made the biggest blunder yet today, which was oh so embarrassing, I really can't quite decide whether to laugh or cry. 10 litres of tears in the making. In other news, we haven't started on the editing of the class video and we're supposed to hand it in next Monday?! And why is the S and Y of the SKY not online during these rough and stormy times?! Then, I've taken playing mind games to the psychotic level, scary. Yesterday, we got all fired up b*tching about one really b*tchy salesperson. My mind went a bit kuku for the past few days, it seems that I've been leaving my sanity at home urgh. And if I just stroll into Taylor's with my jamban slippers, the guard wouldn't even know. Or care. Anyway, the diet and exercise regime is failing more miserably than ever, great.

And now, good night.

Overload of issues in the brain

I need a Pensieve.

• Upcoming Econs test and 5 minutes is all I take to read a sentence from my notes. It's pathetic, I really really don't wanna score a "C" and a "See me." for the third time in a row T_T

• Last-minute as always, I've yet to prepare my script for the ESL debate thingy. Father-son relationships are messing me up. So is the Accounts simulation study. Actually not, I'm just writing because it sounds sophisticated.
  

• I'm barely even finished with the sore throat, and now I can't do without stuffing tissues to my nose every few minutes.

• Then I practically jeopardized my very strange relationship with a certain someone. To top that off, I've got a sinking feeling I'm gonna screw up the confrontation this week. That's if the confrontation actually takes place this week. Or if ever at all.

• In other news, SKY Productions is facing a sort of crisis with the class video. We haven't started filming to begin with, we aren't even 100% convinced that our ambitious ideas are gonna work, and don't even talk about the video editing.

• I've been playing too much mind games lately.

• Apparently, there's a pervert on the prowl in college.

• My mood went to the playground and sat on the swings.

• Effective 1st July, slippers and flip-flops aren't allowed in college. Letter of Advice on first offense and possible refusal of admittance on subsequent occurrences. A few days back, I was getting gung-ho about wearing my jamban slippers for the last time tomorrow, but not anymore sigh.

• My diet and exercise regime is so failing due to self-indiscipline. And besides, as much as I want to abide by the regime, it's hard when I just can't detect a fraction of any positive results. But nothing's gonna change if I just keep rambling here gah.

Turbulent week ahead. I don't need a Pensieve after all, I need a Time-Turner :'(

Because I haven't posted in a while

So Jalur Gemilang-ish right? And the best thing about it? We didn't even plan to wear those colours beforehand. Talk about being patriotic at heart!

The blues who were apparently too tired to pose pfft

The putih melambangkan kesucian. Not

The yellow french fries

And the red-hot-so-hot-they-need-to-stand-next-to-a-fire-extinguisher duo

ANYWAY, I finally bought a bag today! Sadly, not the Eastpak, but a handbag after being handbagless for months on end! As usual, was supposed to be walking straight to where the mum's waiting to pick me up at Curve, but decided to take a detour and my super bionic laser eyes (useful on many other occasions too) spotted THE BAG. Then, dragged my mum down from the car (wearing her uber cool blue flip flops) for second opinion (because we have the same taste and we're cool like that) and OF COURSE... for her credit card (haha). Wtf it's like seriously shopping gila this month. Rm300+ and still counting. Now what will I, the one with obscene levels of testosterone, do with a handbag? Shove it in your face maybe.

ANYWAY, after the talk today (and yes, I must announce this to the whole world), I think I'm going to be an andartu.

Of glitchy sound systems, nice shoes, wuxi finger holds, comment spammers and I love polos :3

Through much coaxing, YD managed to drag only 4 of us to watch SAM Idol last Friday. And despite snatching all our voting papers to vote for her man, he didn't get 1st place. But absolutely no points for guessing who's the winner in her heart.Moving on to a slightly related story... Welcome back, Izzati! Too bad, you totally missed all the yc action on stage.

Moving on to a totally unrelated story... Kung Fu Panda is seriously the funniest thing ever! Now THAT's the kind of movie you should watch on pseudo-dates ahem.

Moving on to another totally unrelated story...
What is this! I shall not tolerate SHINee discussions in the comments! But I do agree Steph, they're quite a pfft sort of group. You can tell that to Sarah Izzati. Their debut song is FAR from being pretty nice - it's repetitive and senseless! Hey, my company has been doing well until they decided to debut SHINee. Wrong move, wrong move... Okay, I've just gathered up enough courage to replay Replay and after further analyzing, I've discovered the problem - they smile too much. They look like smiley pre-puberty kids. Yes, that's the problem *nods*.

Moving on to yet another totally unrelated story...
Q : What happens when you buy a white polo shirt for RM45 last year, and due to some washing machine malfunction, it becomes all yellowy?
A : Bleach it three times. Failing that, buy the exact same white polo shirt for RM29 this year and dye the old one yellow, voila!

Now that I have another 3 added to the collection, I'm gonna declare Polo Week at college.

5 Reasons I Appear Offline

on Windows Live Messenger. Know how people start sending you messages the moment you come online? Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate our err... online bonding but there are occasions when I feel compelled to prostrate to the brilliant genius who made appearing offline possible. People regularly attack with lines like "Can you stop appearing offline?!" (actually can, but I won't) but in my defense, I appear offline on rational and solid grounds *HAHA*. I'm sure many others utilize this feature, for varied reasons as well. From recent observations and in no specific order, I present to you...

*throws confetti* SM's 5 REASONS TO APPEAR OFFLINE *throws more confetti*

1. Dodge the bombardment of Youtube videos!
Notice that there is this particular breed of people, who passionately provide you with URLs to Youtube videos. Specimen #1 never fails to find the most random videos like this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this. Not to mention the most ridiculous games like this, this and this. Specimen #2, on the other hand, offers links such as this, this, this, this, this and this though I deem 6 out of 6 videos unwatchable. Whilst Specimen #3 insists that you watch this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this. Did I mention that I'm part of this breed as well? Cheesy, but I highly recommend this, this and this! Kamsahamnida for the influence, Specimen #2.

2. Don't risk high blood pressure!
I sometimes have this strong urge to strangle Specimen #4, who manages to sound so bored, like he has seriously nothing better to do than disturbing people online. Seriously can bei nei kik sei. A typical online conversation with Specimen #4 starts with him sending me a message calling me a "noob", then replying in the most brief or vague manner with dismissive "haha"s or "zzz"s or "lol"s after I've typed up a whole grandmother story. And dude, the ratio of what you typed as opposed to mine is 5:9 *grumbles*. But you won't be reading this, having exams right, right?

3. Prevent shoulder aches and dehydration!
Heated discussions are often prevalent in conversation windows with combinations of Specimens #1+5 and Specimens #5+6. Yes, the presence of Specimen #5 who doesn't drink water and has kulit bersisik makes it hard for us to keep up with her stamina to talk non-stop. Thank goodness Specimen #1 introduced pee and water breaks. AND I was supposed to watch TV last night but instead, ended up spending 2 whole hours having a nonsensical chat with Specimens #1+5 which resulted in severe shoulder ache, thank you very much.

4. Avoid getting scolded for replying slow!
Hello, how am I to reply everyone at once when everyone demands immediate replies! But I do reply faster when I appear offline, right, right? Specimens #5 and 6, will go to annoying lengths just to get you to reply faster, with their annoying never ending nudges. I'm saying this for the umpteenth time, the nudges are seriously jamming my computer. The more you do it, the slower I reply you, padan muka. Then there is Specimen #7, who uses tactics like "i am going to campus soon so reply quick" and almost an hour later says "eh so i am going to school aready".

5. Some things are better said face to face!
For instance, Specimen #5's scandalous holiday adventure. There's only so much words you can get across by typing for hours, it's frustrating. So I've came up with ahem a priority replying system, where I'll reply first to those I see in person less often. Brilliant, isn't it! So Specimens #2, 5 and 6 can expect to have even slower replies in the future! Don't say I didn't warn you.

So there you have it! I expect NO MORE queries on why I frequently appear offline. With all that said, I still love the specimens. When they're not so exasperating, that is.

p/s: This post was made possible only by appearing offline.