Farewell Blogdrive. You've been good to me this past 2 years :)

I've back to where it all began:

http://ekaterinatony.blogspot.com

*I couldn't use lacey87, apparently the username was already taken :(

My primary school classmates are getting hitched. Like, erm, aren't you guys my age and you're walking down the aisle? It's like making our love lifes look bad, I said to Yew Mun.

And I heard one of them is knocked up. Last time I checked she had already a handful of ex bfs. And we're still terkapai kapaing looking for one, Yew Mun says

And now we're talking about boys and the whole nine yards. It's been a while I've got together with good ol friends and rant about anything that comes to your mind. We should totally get wasted and air our dirty laundry, I told her

In conclusion, I can tell that one person in particular - I got something you want to have ...

I've had a Wordpress account for some time now cuz I wanted to switch blogs, mainly cuz they have this "categories" and "tags" widget. Lately, Blogdrive incorporated the "categories" function but the problem is, this jakun here langsung tak tau guna. *slap forehead*

But then I also don't wanna leave Blogdrive cuz I sayang my header which I can change anytime I want. Wordpress has that function too, only it's only limited to some templates (which I totally don't find attractive ... oops).

3rd problem is I wanna start anew cuz some posts here are all crappy (solution: delete them lah hor?)

Anyway, don't wanna bore you with my problems lah. Let's talk about school instead. I got my 4th sem results today! *applause applause* cuz I did soooo much better than my 2nd sem.

Mom: Wow, I donated 200 bucks for thanksgiving the other day so it worked on your results!
Yah, maybe if you donated 400 bucks I'd get something better

My thesis has been going well so far. Chapter 1 has been approved, just need some minor adjustments here and there and I'm off to Chapter 2. Which I totally haven't started yet cuz I was too busy indulging myself in The Sims. I'm sooo totally ready for the complete Sims 2 with all the expansion packs.

And thank God I don't need to waste the Internet bill watching Friends on Youtube anymore. After seeing how the price went from 169 bucks to 70 I grabbed Season 5 without hesitating! I mean, this was what I wanted sooo long ago and finally the price came down I HAD to have it!

After a semester long without badminton I dragged my butt to the court to sweat the extra pounds off (though I didn't see changes on the scale) and I've had muscle pains since Friday, or as Derique calls it - masturbate.

Bopet, you playing badminton today ah?
Bopet: Cannot lah, got muscle pain
Derique: Har? Masturbate??

It's been almost 3 weeks since I became Ugly Betty and I still can't chew using my front teeth. I can't even bring myself to bite a prawn! Dang if only I had straighter teeth. I'm stuck with wires in my mouth for 2 years, and hearing the cost of it makes me wanna shoot myself

Huhu I'm blogging from an island
And I know where Lim Guan Eng and Karpal Singh's houses are located
I realized Penangnites are way richer than KLians (you see their houses you faint one guarantee)
For the first time I berjaya mendaki bukit sampai puncak
I absolutely adore Penang food wei
I managed to dip my feet into the sea
Kelly's been a great tourguide, ferrying me to north south east west
I sangat suka the Penang bridge
Getting an express bus back to Ipoh is hard
Appointment with the dentist cancelled tomorrow wth
I'm getting braces ... :(
I'm looking forward to return to college NOT

Farewell Penang. You've been nice to me.

View from the bus. The couple seating next to me must be thinking I haven't seen water before

Hard to take nice pics lah cuz they letak their construction stuff by the road (they're building the new bridge!). The gray poles belong to the bridge, the black ones are the wayars

My first meal - Hokkien noodles. Actually it's prawn noodles you usually see

What if the monkeys steal my food?
Does that count?

View from the hill I climbed in jeans and without water. Geng or not?

There was this guy who began lastik-ing the monkeys.
So cool I want

The place I was nagging Kelly to bring me to

The pic I took in a rush cuz you're not allowed to snap the animals
They tell you not to knock the glass too but we still knock lah

Glorious food, the char kuay teow and laksa

View from Kelly's apartment

How come lah it's always during exam I'm so rajin to blog? Still got one more paper to gun down and I'm already in celebration mode. Apalar. My roomie sudah kluar celebrate dah so her laptop's all mine. Hah! I damn benci lah the slow connection but as long got entertainment I dun wanna complain.

Exam's been good to me so far. I can always boast to people that everything I read came out. That's because I actually read ALL of 'em. For the first time ever! Ngek ngek. I sayang sangat the orang who buat the exam schedule this time. Gimme enough time to read ALL and goyang kaki at the same time.

My roomie ask me go Penang visit her during the break. That's probably a done deal. First thing I wanna do is buy more DVDs. I dunno why lah her movies all so clear and subtitles are correct. Sungai Wang punya all rosak at the end and subtitles like written by a pre schooler.

I can't wait to go home and snooze all day. The difference is that my grandma is no longer there. She died on Sept 10 at 10.10am. What's with the 10, I ask.

I pokai-ed on Sept 13 on the way to exam and still hobbling around. Macam mana lah nak pergi Penang on Sept 18? It'll prolly make the wound worse when I dip my leg into the Straits of Melaka. Haha don't expect much from the beach lah, Kelly says. I'm thinking of not going lah cuz somehow somewhere I gotta watch my spending.

Yawn.

Hostel life memang boring.

*kicking myself in the gut*

I overslept and the clock showed 17.02. Crap! Kenapa lah no one bang on my door? I got finals this Thursday okay I should be studying not snoozing. Usually sudah ada orang tarik me off the bed already. Somemore grandma is back and still sick I'm pretty sure my mom will come banging on the door oi bangun lah go see your grandma and relatives lah! Instinctively I went down, nudged politely at my mom and whispered izzit 5 already? why never woke me up lah? you know I got exam right? And then, boo yah! I went through that emotional phase again where tears started streaming down cis! kenapa lah boleh nangis cepat sangat? Ya ya, gua emotional. So hard to believe hor? In front of my aunt and lil cousin.

Then mom follows me up to the room and I kena loh. But I know lah it's my fault. But at least I didn't yell right? So, yeah, I misbehaved again so I apologized profusely and then mom says she's embarrassed to go downstairs and explain what happen cuz my relatives must be thinking kenapa lah never scold your daughter? you spoil her lah. I dunno if they'll be thinking that way, but I know one particular relative would. After all she's pretty much vocal about my bad attitude. Ai yah, whatever lah. I know my mom pun kena jaga muka kan?

So then both my aunts from my mom's side came up to see me and my messy room. I sayang them a lot lah cuz they're nice to me. Especially Aunt Ruby cuz she's like one of us. I told her what happened and how my mom kena jaga muka and she was like ha? really ah? why like this one? Ai .. apa nak buat? But I understand lah my mom spoils me and yeah, I shouldn't have barged down like that with everyone in a sombre mood.

She's also disappointed that she'd been looked down as a mother cuz it seems someone said I think I wouldn't wanna raise my kid like how you raised your kid. Whoa whoa whoa you wanna take it down to the wire you come tell me single handedly lah. Why involve my mom? It's me being disrespectful so completely nothing to do with my mom okay? Yes, I've kena from my parents countless of times and how I should act more like an adult and control myself so there you go, my parents did my part. If I didn't listen it'd be my fault.

So okay lah I went down and helped around and show my face lah. If not they'd bising why lah grandma sakit never come down bla bla bla. I buat lah what I thought was right. Then volunteered to go out and buy diapers for grandma. Even though I sucked in reversing I just keluar lah. Nanti orang cakap saya tak kisah tentang nenek saya. Good thing Aunt Ruby came out with me. If not dunno how many motorsikal I langgar ledi while gostan-ing from the parking lot. *shakes head* Sometimes I memang tak dak guna.

But at least my relatives tau I got exam so I'm excused. Aunt Ruby came telling me how my lil couz told her I was studying cuz ada finals next week. Whoa since when people stood up for me lah?

My Sarawak uncle is back and I asked mom to inform me when he comes outta my grandma's room. So I can greet him lah. If not I sure kena again.

Grandma is hooked to the oxygen tank but is able to talk and converse. They said she still recognize people but I dunno lah if she recognized me. She squeezed my hand for a while before letting go so maybe she did.

Back to studying mode. +_____+

My 94 year old grandma was admitted to the hospital a few hours ago from alleged dizziness and the fact she fell from the stool in the morning. But my dad said she could still walk so he didn't suspect much and told her to rest. I wasn't home til around 8 so I can't elaborate much on what happened. It wasn't til around 9 or 10 when my parents asked to open the door cuz they were bringing her to the doctor. I wasn't fully aware of her condition but she was pretty weak and could hardly lift her legs (cuz she was afraid of falling). I didn't follow cuz my parents thought it wasn't necessary.

My dad then got a phone call from the hospital around 1am asking us to see her. So I tagged along. My parents were discussing about it the whole way and I was pretty much invisible lah. It's like when I ask or say something they never hear. So I thought fine lah you're the adults and I'm the kid and at tension moments like this kids are supposed to not interfere. Whatever ...

I haven't stepped into the hospital for years. The last time I did was in Form 1 when grandma fell and fractured her arm. Dang the hospital scares the crap outta me. It's not as fancy as those hospitals in House or Scrubs - it was darker and moodier with patients coming in and out and the worse part was attendants pushing out empty beds. Damn people have died on it +_____+

So I messaged Jen abt it and she replies you're gonna be on it one day also wat. =.= Say something more encouraging can or not?

There was this one dude who had his feet tied to the bed and he tried getting up to untie it. For a sec I thought he was gonna lunge at his buddies and grab them by the throat ... why lah people like to be doctors? I prolly won't be afraid of blood but the patients instead.

Grandma was in the critical zone (and the sign was in red ... adding fear) and that she had a weak heart and it wasn't beating at a normal rate. She wasn't responding to the medications earlier so they increased it to the max. She was ill but was conscious. And she was pretty much in agony, I dunno if its cuz of the surroundings itself or her illness.

My take would be on the surroundings. You're like all alone on the bed and all you hear is beeping sounds. Way to go to get your spirits up. When one goes flat you'd be thinking crap my turn next. And plus you don't know anyone there.

So the doctor told us it was either putting grandma on medications or injecting a wire into the heart to help it pump at a faster rate. The wire was to be inserted through the neck into a vessel and go all the way to the heart. But there's a risk she might not make it cuz she might not be able to handle the procedure itself. Plus, after the procedure she has to go to IJN and they may not give her a new heart or so I think lah. Cuz no one would tell me what's IJN (it's the National Heart Institute I think), I was ignored most of the time.

Anyway my dad has to call up his brothers and ask for the opinions in the morning.

On the other hand I told my mom not to call me if anything happens cuz let's face it lah I got finals to handle. I tak tau if I'm gonna be emotional or not but I've gone through 2 deaths in the family before .. and I was okay. First was when grandpa died (I was 3 so I don't recall anything) and then another grandpa at 13. Do you see a pattern here? Hmm ...

Sad to say I've never really bothered about grandma. Everyone says she sayangs me a lot and I'd be like yeah okay. Yeah I know, kinda late to regret it. And it doesn't help either when my parents come complaining about her fussiness and cleanliness and I'd be like jeez enough with the complains lah.

But yeah, she sayangs me a lot cuz she jaga me since I was a kid and handled my tantrums like a pro. When I was in primary school she used to feed me lunch. I mean like, fed me. Spoonfed me while I watched TV or read comics. Spoilt brat, yeah I know I know.

At times when the bus forgets to pick me up she'd call a cab and take me to school. I used to recall this whenever she irks me and my parents rant about her habits. It's like forcing myself to think about all the good things she's done for me. Heck, once when I ter-did my business in my pants she was there to clean it up for me.

In my defense I couldn't tahan okay? I was like, what, 8?

And she sticks up for me too. When I kena from my parents she'd voice up. Sometimes I'd seek refuge in her room cuz I didn't wanna kena more. Once, when my mom bought me lunch I didn't like I threw it away. When my dad found out I kena lah so when he went upstairs I lari into her room. And she'd take my side. Heh

Well the hospital called again, saying she's stable and transfering her to the ward. Gotta go ...

Lace is sleepless for 24 hrs at Eugene's, 4 hours away to a deadline, dealing with a possessed laptop, being duped, played doctor and infested with viruses.

After curi malas-ing a day I'm awake for the next 24 hours rushing for a news deadline in 4 hours time. Everything should all fine and dandy la cuz now we tengah record VO which wouldn't take long (right ..) And then Lydia's laptop seems to be possessed. When we're playing back the VO it repeats itself and grows louder each time. Not just once, but multiple times. Frankly it's 5am in the morning so cannot blame us for being all paranoid sial. We were also being duped into thinking we could witness a historic event. News about seeing Mars and the moon on Aug 27 at 12.30am were circulating so we thought we might check it out so all 6 of us walked around the apartment like weirdos staring at the sky with MY holding Nic's injured finger. Like pimp y'know? He got his finger stuck between the wall and elevator door and was dripping blood all over. YY who wiped his bloody hand was inches away from puking. Some of us ran to the guard house and I requested for a plaster and the guard gave me a huge plastic bag. So me and Lydia later played doctor la like washing the wound and bandaging him up. The plasters from Seven Eleven were so cute I want to curi all back lah. And all of our pendrives are infected with worms and trojans and RavMons. Sakit hati sial.

*pics later ah*

3.44am in Cheras. Second straight time I'm sleeping at dawn. So wrong. Finals is around the corner. Haven't started editing news yet. There's a possible feedback meeting later *expect fireworks* A possible meal with Ryan. Probably won't be going home this weekend. Won't be going home next 2 weeks during finals either. +______+ Where can? Will be burying myself into a whole pile of editing these few days.

Cheers

Presenting Miss Teen USA 2008, Stevi Lauren Perry - the chick whose haircut resembles mine and my fav from the get go

I'm getting pretty good at choosing the top 15. 7/13 and I got the winner. *woot*

In the Olympics, Michael Phelps got his 8th gold, therefore surpassing Mark Spitz's 36 year old record of 7 gold in one Olympics. Everyone calls Phelps the greatest swimmer and Olympian for a reason - he's the only dude out there with 14 gold medals from 2 Olympics. The closest athlete has only 9 gold.

Just when everyone thought Spitz's record was unbeatable here comes a US dude who not only won 8 gold, he broke 7 world records and 1 Olympic record in the process. At the podium, he wasn't only honored with his medal but a certificate that acknowledges Phelps as most outstanding 2008 Olympian. Listening to the Star Spangled Banner didn't hurt me either. But in lots of ways, he's just one of us. He hits the snooze button in the morning and wakes up 30 mins before training. Hee.

Phelps, Brendan Hansen, Jason Lezak and Aaron Peirsol (I think he's kinda cute)

Malaysia's golden dude, Chong Wei however failed to defeat the army saluting Chinese Lin Dan. If you've watched the game you'd prolly say Lin Dan was the better player on court but credit should be given to Chong Wei I admit. I dunno how many of you out there supported him but certainly no one in my house did. Heh. Mom kept complaining abt the 1 mill which could be used for better things (like give it to me already)

Shawn Johnson was leading throughout the floor competition when the last competitor grabbed gold from her. I'm not sure how many more apparatus she has tomorrow but I look forward to seeing her win a gold.

Johnson, Sandra Izbasa (I totally forgot Romania practically grabbed every single medal in past Olympics) and Nastia Liukin

I watched some volleyball and kept saying dang, why the heck do they make it look so easy?