Tuesday, 31-Dec-2002 1:01 AM

It's almost New Year's! Can you believe how fast the year has gone? I certainly can't, but I'm glad it's over in a way. Looking back at the year, it's been a long, tough one. What with my cousin living with us and all the irritation she was causing the rest of us. Still, I guess there was good in her staying with us. My brother and I had that extremely huge fight which got us much closer. I'm glad one set of exams are over however I CAN wait until the next set =/

I'm spending New Years with my parents and brother. We've booked a room at a hotel and made reservations for dinner at KLCC and then lunch the next day at the KL Tower. I hope this year will be good. I spent 2001 with my parents and it was a shocker. My dad ended up being so grumpy that by the time we got home, he said to us that the next time we want to celebrate new years, to do it without him. He can be so unfestive sometimes. Last night when mom was asking the two of us what we wanted to do for new years, he ignored her and just kept flipping through the channels on tv. I could have gone either way at that point. I hate being the buffer. I wanted to say that I wanted to spend new years back in sydney if they were going to be grumpy but I decided against it and said that I wanted to see fireworks, something I can't ever resist. No answer..so then I ask my mom what she wants to do. She was being uncoorperative. Then she says in this horrible tone - 'I just want to be HAPPY.'

That was the clencher for me. I wanted to get out of the room.

BUT that was yesterday and today is a new day and lets hope that everything goes well. Really, I wish for a good start to a new year and a happy family to celebrate it with.

Sunday December 29, 2002 4:26 PM

Just got back from the gym with my dad. I think I overdid it :( I'm still a little sick with the flu. Lots of throat-clearing. I hate that. The girls at the gym are getting SO vain. They're no longer afraid to show off their bodies. One girl was going crazy with this step machine. She was baring her whole torso (she had real nice abs, I'll give her that) and was bopping along to the music from her discman or whatever and dancing at the same time. She looked like she was going to fall off the step machine any second. She looked ridiculous, to put it bluntly.

And here comes even more bitchy remarks from me. I was feeling rather inferior looking at these girls, with their nice muscles but later I realised that they could only lift about half of what I could and I'm not exactly superwoman. That made me feel a whole lot better. I know that going to the gym is about working on yourself and focusing on yourself but most of the time it's rarely that that gets me motivated. I can't help but notice other people and I get a lot of my motivation from them. Like this one european woman there today. She was walking really fast on the highest incline...for an HOUR. My dad said she would have reached the top of Mt Everest already. I'd believe that..hehe..nah, all the best to her. She was doing her own thing, minding her own business..just like it should be.

This other girl was stretching in front of the huge mirrors and using firstly the railing and then the gym mat. I got so irritated by it I ended up going right next to her and using those slant boards and did two sets of sit-ups. Not that she cared but at the time I just wanted to do something that would say 'hey, I don't give a damn about what you're doing, you super-bendy girl.'

I haven't even started on the girls in the changeroom. I've come to realise that everyone loves looking at themselves. Here I was drying my hair in front of the mirror and I notice this girl walk in. She seems to be looking for something and is walking fast. The moment she passes by the mirror, she slows way way down and checks herself out. Then she starts walking fast again once she passes the mirrors. She came back for seconds btw.

Anyhow, I'm tired and I have the whole place to myself for about two hours so I might be a lazy bum (after the hard workout!) and watch a dvd :)

Friday, 27-Dec-2002 1:54 AM

Talk about being burdened with headaches. This one is a migraine I think. I've had it for about 12 hours now. Anyhow, my sister flew back to Sydney tonight so I have the room to myself for the next few weeks.
Fraser's Hill, for anyone intending to go there, is more for little kids and old people :)
The drive up there is very windy. I'd have enjoyed it more if I wasn't feeling nautious to begin with. There's lots to do for the little ones such as archery, horseriding (basically two ill-looking horses with sunken backs that walk around in a small fenced-in oval field), paddle-boating, playgrounds, mini-golf etc.
There are treks and easy walks you can do which most of the adults and older adults were doing :)
We stayed at The Pines Resort which was supposed to be self-contained apartments but there were no cooking facilites whatsoever. It was REALLY damp in the apartment. The room my sister and I shared was so musty, it was hard to breathe and it felt like sleeping in a wet bed. My sister tried to sleep with her legs in the air. It was funny..tried not to laugh though because that would only make me consume more nasty air.
We played golf the first day we arrived and my dad had hired the local golf pro to caddy for my brother but he ended up tagging along with my sister and I, giving us 'free tips'. He was so annoying that everyone tried to hand him off to us, the bastards. At first I found him quite amusing..I was humored. He was pissing my sister off so badly that by the end of the day, my mom and brother had left us and went ahead, and I ended up really dehydrated and moody. I never intended on playing and was only there to walk with everyone and maybe hit a few shots. With the caddy's insistance, I ended up having around 3 attempts every single time. When I'd finally had enough and said I was sitting out on the next hole, he kept saying 'nevermind, have a go, nevermind. have a go, nevermind!' in his strong indian accent. I politely said no, then NO, then I made it clear by shouting that I didn't want to and that I was tired. Silence. I ended up ditching my sister, dad and the caddy and caught up with my mother and bro. I'd had enough of golf.
Here's an example of how damp the place was - we hand-washed our clothes after golf on the first day and they still weren't dry three days later.
That night we ate at The Smokehouse Inn - CREEPY place. Very creepy. It looks like the kind of old english house setting where visitors come for dinner and to stay the night and someone ends up getting murdered. My dad and I tried to find the bathroom and ended up outside in some abandoned house which had a jug of water and two cups waiting for what seemed like nobody. The rooms were empty. It was freaky as all hell. I wanted to get out of there, and the food hadn't even arrived. We asked one of the waitresses and she told us to go upstairs. So we did. Creaky stairs leading up to a square hallway that has rooms around it. The sort of rooms that had their own names on the door. In the hallway was an empty cot too. What the hell? We started heading back down the stairs and another waitress saw us and looked at us oddly, probably wondering what we were doing up there. She told us there was no bathroom up there and was surprised when we told her about being sent up there by another waitress. Creepy..anyways...
Everyone else went to play golf at another golf course the following day except my sister and I. We walked on over to the town centre. There's nothing much there, the food isn't exceptionally nice either. We stopped by the paddock on the way back and fed the poor horse, which could be mistaken for camel if looked at from behind..the poor thing was so poorly kept. Watching the strain their neck out over the fencing to get whatever bit of grass they could made me feel so sorry for them. I wanted to pluck every damn blade of grass I could and feed it to them.
That night we went to eat at The Pines Restaurant. We were going to order ala carte but they came and told us that we could still order it but we only had a choice of 5 dishes. When we asked them what dishes they were, we realised they were the 5 dishes that were cooked for the buffet earlier. They were probably going to reheat the damn stuff from outside where we saw it, and serve it to us. We decided to leave and eat somewhere else. The other place we went to was The Shazan Inn or something. Everyone was having steamboat so we asked if we could have it too and they told us no, that usually we could until 11pm but today they wouldn't serve it after 8 or unless we had a booking. Greeat. When we had finished, my brother asked for the bill. They had no idea what it was. "Bill? Cheque? Money?" he said. They finally got it and tried to give us another tables' bill. They had ordered ostrich meat, fish, duck etc...all the expensive crap. What happened was that table ended up getting away with quite a lot of money because they had been given our bill. Ah well. A Merry Christmas to them, eh?

We spent the nights playing mahjong which was great. I really enjoyed that. It was just the girls in the family. Dad slept early both nights since he was sick. We tried to teach my mom how to play 'the big 2' card game too.
Breakfast at the Pines was really crappy. You get a poor selection of food. Accompanied by a whole planet of flies. Food's so poor I won't even mention it. Plus their eating area smells like cat's pee.

It wasn't SO bad though. I really did enjoy the walk that day to town :) The weather, when it wasn't raining was nice and cool and the sun was out. The drive back down was nice. I saw a monkey :)

Wednesday, 25-Dec-2002 0:29 AM

I'm back from Fraser's Hill. Hmm..I'm sick too :( Or almost there. Think I've got my dad's cold and cough :( Either that or it's the incredibly musty room that my sister and I slept in (the beds were so damp). Ugh. Anyway, update later. For now, a Merry Christmas to everyone! I'm jealous of those in the cold countries who get to make snowmen and wear boots and winter clothes :) I have a thing for stomping in fresh snow :D

Sunday, 22-Dec-2002 2:15 AM

Well the family is going away to Fraser's Hill tomorrow for two nights or so, just to have a little break because Dad has taken a few days off and we thought we'd stay local since he just flew back from New York and has been flying overseas every week. I can't believe how fast the time has flown. It's almost Christmas and I still haven't bought her anything, well excluding the LOTR one ring which my mom says is bad feng-shui..sooooooo...any suggestions for a good and affordable present for the dear sis? We were out shopping today, everyone minus my brother and it was hilarious because my dad wanted to buy my sister this cd, and she wanted to buy him the same one. I was with my dad and my mom was with my sis and they tried to get us to stay at this store while they went off and I guess Dad took that as his opportunity to go to the music store to get her the cd. Well, you don't often find more than one music store at a small shopping mall, so naturally we bumped into them. Dad was heading over to the top charts section, where I had seen my mom and sister while walking into the store, so I tried to lead him to the other side, which I later realised was all about foreign music or something. My sister was telling me that she had bought the cd and now my dad can stop trying to get it for himself. I thought that was hilarious..just kept my mouth shut :) Alrighty, better get to bed since we have to leave the apt before 8am! Yikes. And I'm in the middle again. I hate that the youngest always has to sit in the middle of the car. For me, it's not economical since my sister is the shortest in the family. I always have to duck my head to get it out of the way. Blah, anyways,be back in a few days :)

Wednesday, 18-Dec-2002 10:04 PM

So I've been feeling incredibly sick. My mom and bro went to Malacca today, leaving my sis and I here in KL. I spent a lot of time lying in bed, some time doing coding and the rest of the evening and early night was spent at Megamall. My sis helped me buy a christmas present for my dingleberry dad :D It was so hard trying to buy something for him. He seems to have everything, well the man essentials anyway. I ended up getting him boxers and hush puppy socks - boring and unoriginal, I know. But all the other years I've been pretty original so I think it's time for a repeat of boringness. We ate at this Japanese place where all the chinese guys working there would yell out some japanese words everytime new people came in. It was ridiculous. My sister said they didn't know what they were saying, that none of it was making sense. I just figure that they must have said it so many times that the words start to mutilate. Them raw green beans sure are tasty! It was the first time that I've sat on the barstool with the food going around in little trays. It was nice :) Except for the remnants of food poisoning pain that I have, I had a good day. To end it, I'm going to watch Whose Line Is It Anyway since my sister hasn't seen it before. Night !

Monday, 16-Dec-2002 1:12 PM

Ahoy! Here we go with 'The Ferris Wheel Project'. I've finally figured out how to get that scrollbar thing working on my own without having to borrow someone elses! Nothing much up for now because I haven't had the time to do any links. For some reason I can't get any of this working back home, so the site I had originally created back in Sydney isn't anywhere to be found. It's kind of fun starting fresh again anyway. More things to come, including the usual 'about me' link, some art maybe, photos when I get the chance, a guestbook and some other nifty things! Suggestions are more than welcome =)

Hehehehe I'm excited and grinnin like a cheeseball :D