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I’ve been playing Chocolatier 2: Secret Ingredients since last week. It’s very addictive, just like its predecessor, and I’ve actually just finished the whole thing. It also has cool additions to the game, like creating new recipes among other things. It’s a two thumbs up, and if you liked the first one, you’ll like the second one.

Back to reality now, I guess.

It’s a long weekend for us here in Brunei, but it’s going to be a very, very extensive (and intensive!) one for me.

My (first) cousin’s getting married. You have to understand how intensive a Malay wedding can be, so I won’t be updating much, and won’t be out and about with friends much this weekend either. So back to this wedding, my cousin’s nikah ceremony was this afternoon, and even now I am exhausted.

It was very hot, and I was sweating through my light baju kurong. I couldn’t wait to arrive home, change, and rest.

Liz is holding a birthday BBQ over at her boyfriend’s place, but I couldn’t make it because I’m really tired. I really wish I could go. I haven’t been socialising much. I really need to set a date with my girl friends, and maybe my former colleagues at the Statutory Body, to have lunch some time.

I’m not even busy, I just have really bad time management. LOL.

I’m off to sleep now. Updates next week, if I can help it.

I’ve been looking for a great laptop bag (offline) which does not show I’m carrying a laptop. It’s been a difficult feat, but I found one that I’ve fallen in love with. Alas, it’s online. Sigh. To add to that, it costs US$199.99.

Please, please, please someone buy me this bag!!

Look at all those compartments! I WANT!!

I got tagged by Tiq (who’s coming home for good soon enough )

1. Do you think people will judge you by the answers to this questionnaire?
Hmm, I think people judge me by my blog on the whole, let alone a questionnaire.

2. Where will you go if someone sponsors you a tour ticket?
London, England.

3. What’s your favourite thing to do?
Having great conversations with my closest friends over a meal.

4. Do you think money can buy happiness?
If you’re materialistic, yes. Even if you’re a wee bit materialistic, you’ll find happiness with money.

5. How do you vent anger or stress?
Cry about it with my other half.

6. Do you believe you can survive without money?
No. I don’t believe I can.

7. What are you afraid to lose the most?
My family, and my other half.

8. If you win $1 million, what would you do?
I answered this question somewhat when I replied to a comment, and my answer was, clear off my loans and my family’s debts, bring my friends and family on a holiday.

9. What is the strangest reaction you had gotten after you see someone’s set of pictures?
Getting a tummy ache.

10. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you?
She’s funny, she brought me Krispy Kreme (which taught me to appreciate the real meaning of heavenly circle with a hole in it), and she’s talented.

11. What makes you happy?
When I am mentally relaxed after a long, hard day at work.

12. What type of person do you hate the most?
Insensitive people. People who only care about their own feelings and not others.

13. What is your ambition?
I wanted to be a graphic designer, but I think now, after I have started working, it doesn’t matter. I just want to be a good person. (And I’m not just saying.)

14. What did you regret doing?
Not getting a good haircut the last time I did. (So I’m going to fix it soon.)

15. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
My life! LOL. OK, no. Erm, maybe the people around me.

16. If you were a car/bike what would it be?
I would be my car now, Mazda CX-7. Big, voluptuous, and sexy. Hahaha. Who am I kidding? Just big.

17. If you have a chance which part of your character would you like to change?
My temper, especially around the people I love.

18. What music have you been listening to recently?
Chris Brown, and sappy, Indonesian songs.

19. What is your least favourite animal?
Pigs, not because they are haram, but because they are membarigali in their sty. Even when they’re not, I saw pigs being cramped together at the back of a white Toyota Kijang, and I was grossed out.

20. What is your ultimate addiction?
Blogging. I am trying to stop, so you can see the sparseness of posts.

Instructions: Remove 1 question from above, and add in your personal question make it a total of 20 questions. Then tag 8 friends. I tag: Atul, Amani, Jirin, War, F, Alif, Nazmi, and Siti.

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It has been exactly a year since my dad passed away. May felt like it didn’t happen without him here. My birthday felt like it didn’t happen either. I don’t know. There’s still a void there. I’m not sure if anything can fill it in for a couple of years.

I’ve been doing a lot to keep his spirit alive. Not that it’s too difficult, but sometimes if I do it, it makes it hard for me to breathe. A good example would be Manchester United emerging as UEFA Champions League champion. If he was alive today, I can imagine the grin on his face for the rest of the day. He is the biggest Manchester United fan in the world. How he would jump for joy, I can only imagine. That is why I love the two cups that the team has won this season. Because I know he would be happy, and that in itself makes me happy.

What also makes me happy is I know which David who won American Idol season 7. (Spoiler after the jump.)

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This is uber-cool.

Must have used a lot of paint.

American Idol: I’m disappointed with David Cook this week. Performance-wise, Simon Cowell was right, it was a knockout, and David Archuleta emerged as champion. If we were solely looking at this week’s performances, David A. would win. But overall, I love Cook more. I’m OK with an Archuleta win as he deserves it as much as David C. does, but I’ll be ecstatic if the latter wins.

We shall see in the results show tomorrow.

Mazda: Anyway. These pictures are for the curious

The dent, the chipped paint..

.. and the cracks.

The bumper is fixed now, heated and molded back to its original shape, spray-painted to cover up the chipped paint spots, and alhamdulillah, it only costs B$80. Big thanks to my uncle for bringing it to the workshop. The cracks on the taillight is yet to be fixed, but if you didn’t know, you won’t notice that they’re there. So I’m happy. Maybe my bonus in December will see me with a new left taillight.

It doesn’t look so bad in the pictures, does it? Faz has looked at the damages when the car was parked at The Mall on a Saturday night, and she had a reaction. LOL. I guess it’s just hard to handle the fact that it’s new.

Me: I have another picture, and it’s a candid. See more candids here, taken during the BBQ last Sunday. You can also see my name (among others) on a birthday cake! Thanks, guys! Read the rest of this entry »

I want a lot of things from the Internet.

I want that and so many more. Why can’t I be filthy rich, just so I can buy all the ridiculous things in the world?

Currently reading Sophie Kinsella’s Remember Me e-book, and I’m halfway through. Thank God for technology, I say. I mean, it’s not even much, it’s an e-book, but it’s the only way to satisfy the need to read Kinsella’s novels without having to wait another day.

How’s the book? So far, it isn’t as funny as her other books, but I love it anyway. It doesn’t clutter up my mind with words I don’t know, so that’s always good. In addition to that, I don’t have to reread certain paragraphs to make sure I understand what’s going on, especially when my mind goes to a temporary blank and I don’t know what I’m reading. Don’t mind me. I’m such an airhead when it comes to reading, that’s all. Can’t wait to finish it. (I’m getting back to it after this post.)

Anyway, in response to her comment, I have watched Iron Man. I watched it on a Saturday night with my mom, sister, and the maid. Yes, the maid. We doubt that she understood the whole movie especially with the absence of Malay subtitles, but she said it was good fun anyway. I’m guessing she’s basing it on the action scenes. Haha. What I thought about the movie is, as usual, unimportant, but I’m going to say it anyway: I LOVE IT. It’s like Transformers all over again. I expected it to be not so great mainly because of the high expectations I had when I went to see it (what with the rave reviews, how could I not have?)

But really, I loved the movie, and I initially wanted to watch it again with my girl friends on Sunday like how I planned at first, but something came up, so I told the girls to just watch it whenever they’re free (which really is whenever since their exams are over.) It’s two thumbs up. 5 out of 5 stars. OK, maybe 4.75, but I’ll round it off.

If only I can make the boyfriend watch it. Hmph.

I want to watch What Happens In Vegas, but I have a feeling I’ll miss out on watching it in the cinema.

My Mazda is currently at the workshop, my uncle said that it’ll probably be done by tomorrow, and I hope so. It feels so weird to not have it around. I miss it already, so to say. What’s funny, though, is people come to me (online and offline) and they express their frustration at how I couldn’t get the girl to pay for damages. I’m over it, I tell them. I have to be anyway. As my mom said to me, “Semua yang di dunia ani kan binasa jua, so jangan tah luan dipikirkan.” Well said, babu.

Anyway! Sophie Kinsella’s book beckons.

It’s about fifteen minutes to lunch, and I am already very hungry. Since early this morning, however, I’ve been craving for ice blended coffee with loads of whipped cream. Loads.

Had a horrible headache yesterday, after watching Narnia: Prince Caspian with the kids (read: sister and cousins). Headache aside, the movie was OK. It wasn’t great, but it’s like a filler. You know, when you don’t have anything to do, and all they show at the movies is this movie. Something like that.

Although there were a few movies I haven’t watched that I want to, like Iron Man, Speed Racer, and What Happens In Vegas, but I felt Narnia was great to watch with the kids. Plus, I already have plans with other people to watch Iron Man with. I digress.

Yea, the movie felt like a filler. Wouldn’t say it was bad either. I’ll give it a rating of 3 out of 5. Prince Caspian (right, played by Ben Barnes) was cute though. I found it funny when my cousin, who sat next to me, said that the boy who plays King Edmund was, and I quote, ‘hot’. I wouldn’t use the word ‘hot’ for King Edmund, would you?