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living my life like it's golden

isn't it scary how fast the year has gone by! but it feels great to have accomplished what i've set out to do and enjoying myself in the process.

waking up early + lying in bed + tea = HAPPY

un-happy feet

these past few weeks have been a blur. been running around folding, sewing, ironing, hemming, heavy-lifting, you name it! sad to say the ones suffering the most from my internship are my feet. my toes have made friends with bunions and don't even get me started on my poor cracked heels :(

solution: sea salt scrub

1 tablespoon olive oil

+

4 tablespoons sea salt

+

1 lemon

=

happy feet!

how nommy is this!

see it all here!

i need a dollar dollar

finally a day off! but gotta spend it studying :(

guilty pleasure(s) of the month: audrina, made in chelsea and geordie shore!

sigh i love trash tv.

see you in the summer

sun is shining

my mind's wandering

work is piling

my heart's left wanting

i'd rather be lost than have nowhere to go

With exams, graduation and the end of my student life creeping up on me, I am not afraid.

I have a plan; whether successfully executed or not, I doubt I will have any regrets.

Though you may not understand and mock my efforts along the way, I say, fuck you. I'm happy, are you?

I have a plan and am following my feet. Whose shoes are you in? Mine may be a tad too big for me, but I will grow into it one day. More importantly, they are mine, not anyone else's. Can you say the same?

I am not lost, I just chose not to settle.

the end of the noughties

happy new year! :)

i don't believe in resolutions but i make 'em anyway! it leaves me feeling shit at the end of the year thinking about how many of them i've actually kept. but since i always make them, i've come this far and my life doesn't entirely suck haha (it could be worse!).

i won't share them with you cos i'm too shyshyhushhusheyetoeye. also, i may not keep all of them and then i can't use my annual i never made such a ridonkulous resolution act, cos now you know and he knows and so does she. and we can't have that now, can we?

my advice: break your resolutions into small steps. studies show that people with goals as resolutions have a lower success rate compared to those who broke down these goals into separate stages. okay lah doesn't take a genius to figure that out but i didn't realise it myself until someone gave me that piece of advice himself and i was a bit skeptical about it, till i read about it in theguardian and theguardian knows all so my friend must be pretty smart then haha.

i'm not gonna pretend and say this year is gonna be different. i don't know about you but i'm always like on-fire-ready-to-goooooo after new years and then completely pfft-later-lah. so i decided this year.. is gonna be the same as last year and the year before that and the year before that. i sound like such a scrooge.

my point is: this year, i'm taking the back seat, i'm going to follow my feet.

so happy new year from me to you.
adieu adieu auf wiedersehn goodnight!

hoot hoot

Floo powder power floo powder power!

Can't wait for July 16th!!!

stretch

it's so good to be home.

my american apparel children

Yes, my kids are going to be cuter than this. And yes, they will model for American Apparel too!

don't wake me i plan on sleeping

malee antuanette ah

I think Kirsten Dunst is the epitome of annoying actresses. 2nd to Miley Cyrus, but Miley Cyrus isn't really an actress, she's more of a joke. But yeah la you get what I mean.

So Kirsten Dunst played Marie Antoinette, and you know how she says "let them eat cake". Well apparently she never said it and even if she did, she didn't mean to say cake. "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," which means, literally, "Let them eat rich, expensive, funny-shaped, yellow, eggy buns."

Hmm.

I'm sorry I'm rambling. I'm just really hungreh and trying not to think about dinner but this brioche business doesn't seem to be helping.

just a thought

I still think God wears sandals and has long hair :( sigh. What do you think God looks like?

anas zubedy

Dear Malaysian Politicians,

Please stop the power chase, call for a truce and focus on the economy.

I do not claim to speak on behalf of all Malaysians, but I have strong convictions that many share my sentiments.

Our concern today is not who rules the country or heads the state governments but the looming bad economy.

Whether Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Rakyat leads, it is meaningless if Malaysians have no job to go to, no money to pay rent and no means to put food on the table.

I am a business owner, like other business owners and managers of corporations I have a responsibility to ensure people under my care and payroll continue to have jobs and a decent income to take home. We work hard and willing to go the extra mile to make sure our nation not only survive this crisis but come out stronger and wiser. We need your help.

Let me explain. I am in the business of Training, Development and Consultancy and have 20 people in my team.

Saedah is 42. She keeps the office clean and helps organise the training rooms. She has four children and her husband is unemployed. She was first hired on a part time basis, because she is very hard working and has a great attitude, we offered her a full time job to help provide a stable income for her family. Even then, when her third child started school this year, it was a struggle for her to buy new school uniforms and other necessities. Saedah lives on a ‘kais bulan, makan bulan’ basis, so, if she is jobless, her tap runs dry.

Samsuri is 27 years old. He lives with his sister and her family in a low cost government flat in Sunway. He does our despatch, helps with various clerical works and occasionally acts as a driver. During the first week at zubedy, we learned that he not only did not have money to buy new clothes and shoes for work, he had no money for lunch. Like Saedah, if he has no job, his tap runs dry too.

Alicia in Client Servicing turns 26 this year. She lives with her dad who is 71 years old and retired. Her mom passed away when she was little. Alicia is a hard-working team member, has a gentle caring outlook and fun to be with. (We like to poke fun at her as she blushes easily). Last May her dad went through a major operation, thank God he has recovered well. Alicia needs a job, both for herself and her dad.

Sudesh, 38, is one of our facilitators. When his father passed away last year, he moved back and lives with his mother in Seremban. He shuttles between Kuala Lumpur and Seremban daily, leaving home sometimes as early as 4 in the morning and returning late at night. He is no stranger to hard work and sacrifice, he knows what he needs to do to survive and to care for his mother, but he too needs a job.

Like fellow Malaysians, every one of us in zubedy needs employment, those that live from hand to mouth like Saedah and Samsuri and others like Alicia and Sudesh with family to care for. We Malaysians need the Malaysian economy to be strong. We need you, our leaders, to work hard and to work together to make our economy viable.

So this is my plea.

Pakatan Rakyat, please stop your attempts to take over the federal government and persuade BN’s lawmakers to join you. Stop all legal proceedings, no more 916 and let go, just let go. The nation can wait till the next general elections if they want change. By doing so, Malaysians will see your party as caring, unselfish and gracious and give you their support in the next elections.

Barisan Nasional, please stop any attempts to take over PR states and win over PR’s lawmakers. You have proven your point with Perak. The nation can wait for the next general elections if they want your party. Focus all your talent, energy and hard work in steering the country out of an economic downturn. By doing so, Malaysians will see your party as caring, unselfish and smart and give you their support in the next elections.

BN and PR! Call for a truce. Get together and compromise. Someone has to give in. Or has hate consumed your heart till it blinds you? You can do it. You have enough intelligent people between you. I am sure you can find solutions. Take the nation to heart. That is why you are in politics in the first place.

Focus on the people.

Focus on the economy.

Anas Zubedy
Managing Director
Zubedy (M) Sdn Bhd

let's try..

#1: Rocking it out when you look like shit.

















#2: Bubblegum in the sun lookin all silly and fun.

















#3: Floating

















#4: Jumping.

nothing-in-nottingham, PFFT

Recently I went to Nottingham for a day, to.. SHOP. Surprisingly enough, Nottingham's stuff were really SO CHEAP. And everyone there dresses so kookily, I was tempted to ask them where they got all their clothes from. I was so happy to see one of them at the store I went to visit, so I saved myself the embarrassment of having to ask :)

It was amazing. Super duper cheap stuff seriously. We went to 3 stores; Cow, Vintage Warehouse and Wild (if only we had more time...) A mountainous amount of clothes and bags, lines and lines of shoes and boots, buckets of braces and ties! IT WAS AMAZING.

I didn't buy THAT MUCH, my friend had like 4 bags and spent like £150. HAHA! THANK YOU JIE SHI FOR BEING CAMERAWOMAN AND FOR ORGANISING THE WHOLE THING!

VINTAGE WAREHOUSE; notice the mountains of clothes and the SUPER CHEAP PRICES!

COW; very very cheap but not as much stuff as VINTAGE WAREHOUSE, of course.

To show you how cheap everything was, here's a whole price list of what I bought.

1. Red leather bag: £5
2. Yellow knitwear top: £7
3. Tortoise shell wayfarers: £9
4. Kiruba the Elephant: £3 pounds a month (okay I didn't get her in Nottingham but I thought she deserved a feature. Adopt one here: WWF. )
5. Flannel shirt: £9
6. Grey braces: £3
7. Camera necklace: £12 (MOST "expensive" thing I bought.. seriously!)
8. Blue knitwear top: £5
9. Leather ties; grey, black & electric blue (notinpicture): £5 for all
10. Dirty grey all stars: £6

GRAND TOTAL OF: £61

OK no more shopping for another.. 6 months. Maybe 3.. possibly 1.

emo maksimum

May Yeng, Lato, Mimi and Liz
You are my pillars, my firm foundation. We've been through so much together and I've loved every moment of it, whether good or bad. Although we don't talk as much now, it doesn't really seem to matter. Why? Cos I know when we see each other, it's like we were never apart in the first place. We may all have changed in more ways than one, but we're still the same people.

Bernard and Jen
I love you two more than I seem to show it. You are the ones I come home to after a horrible day, cheering me up with your cooking or your korean videos :) I may be calculative and fixate on petty things a lot of the time. I'm sorry and I am more than grateful to have you putting up with me all the time.

Fazril
You are so big, you get a category of your own. You are so big, I thought you were scary before. You are so big, but you are the only one I know with such a small ego. You are so big, but God still gave you a heart twice as big. You are so big, you are my big friendly giant and I hug you tait tait :)

Hidzuan, Zafie and Chia Hsien
Ladders and vibrations, stress and slaps. You guys are my snow days. You are my 'days off from work'. You are my summer holidays. You're my Saturdays. Thanks for everything and here's to a lot more memories to come :)

why yes, i do use a mac

Yes, we, Mac users, think of ourselves very highly. We are converse-wearing, picture-taking, indie-music-obsessed snobs.

We often feel the need to advertise for Apple, be it their Macbooks, iPhones, iPods and whatever else Steve Jobs has got planned to take over the world. Exhibit A: recently, my flatmate's HP Notebook died-ed and I found myself constantly persuading her to buy a Mac. It went along the lines of "You'll never get virus wan, you know" and "It's not that hard to use, seriously" and "The white colour wan so niceeee".

And when we are not advertising, we wait for someone to talk about it, so we can prove how much we know about Apple products. It'll probably sound something like this, "iPhones have blablabla and its damn useful when you need to blablabla" and after every statement, you pause, as if letting your audience digest the awesomeness of THE iPhone and give them time to think "DAMN, this guy is so cool cos he uses an iPhone".

I must admit, when I take out my Macbook in public, I feel quite good about myself. When I see fellow Macbook users in public, I feel like we are somehow connected, like we're all part of a conspiracy that no one else knows about and in my head, I'll be like "oh yeah, that guy confirm damn cool wan". I know, quite sad right. But then, when I see a Macbook Pro, I stoop down 3 levels lah, so I do have a little bit of humility.

I find that when it comes to Apple stuff, you can either be a lover or a hater. There is no in between, just the two extremes. BUT, I shall sit my skinny butt on the fence and tell you that Apple's not that great. I recently came across an article about 25 reasons NOT to buy an iPhone, which deserves a read cos it is hee-lah-ree-us! Read it here.

Okay whatever, Sa. Bottomline is, my Mac can kick your computer's ass and you ain't got nuthin on me!

go fly kite la you

So when you ask kids why they come back so late from school, don't be surprised when they say "fly kite". They really ARE "flying kite".

Read more here..