damn maintainence checks

ok so heres my problem.
today i was looking forward to playing MapleStory, but unfortunately my dad was at home when i came back from breakfast so i just couldn't go straight to the computer and play now, can i?

oh, yes i can do whatever i wanted to do, just that i may get this dirty look that says
"wah-at-the-computer-again-aren't-you-supposed-to-be-studying?"

anyways, i myself know that i am abit behind on the assignments and notes (ok, not THAT FAR behind, but what the heck, you get my drift) so i sat down like a good girl and did Tort notes.

yay, finally, finished and with lots of anticipation and glee i turned on the computer and started to play Maple for about 10 minutes when the program started to LAG terribly.

when i tried to restart the game, you know what it said????

i think God is trying to tell me something *sob*

of short tempers and overdue apologies

today joycey n i were looking at the books on the shelf and were discussing about what books we wanted to buy. i have already planned to buy 3 out of the 4 textbooks.

joycey: why do you wanna buy the books summore? i thought you already have the photocopied books already?

so i tried to explain to her my reasons for doing so but i think she didnt hear me. so i think i kinda snapped at her and said

"can you please listen to me first!?"

and proceeded to tell her why i wanted to get original books.

i feel so bad lah.
joycey, i'm so sorry.
i shouldn't have said that to you in such a brash and rude way :(
*hugs*hugs*hugs*

been sooo busy.....

yeah
ive been so caught up with other things these past few days, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with my new classes or assignments.

yep, i've been playing maple story.
of all things, ive been playing an online game which turns out to be damn pretty addictive til i can play till up to 3 in the morning O_O

smile for the camera :D

first you start off as a beginner (erm, rather obvious dontcha think) and you of course work your way up to be either a thief, a magician, a bowman or a warrior. in ordder to be one of the stated, you have to fulfill certain requirements and travel to specific towns in order to take up the job. i thought that magician was too common, warrior too troublesome (cuz you had to travel all the way to the other side of the map), bowman to be rather boring so i took thief :D
you fight monsters and from there you will gain experience,mesos (maple currency =.=') and items to help you throughout the game.
i like this game lots.
too much in fact that i play it from the moment i get up in the morning.

dating in henesys town ><

the thing about this game is that you are playing it simultaneously with other players from around south east asia but most of them ive encountered so far are from singapore and malaysia. of course you will have the really nice ones and the damn stuck-up ones but i think it all comes with the territory of playing the game.
ive made lots of new friends and its fun having to meet all the different types of characters..sometimes these people i know have really silly antics that their conversations will leave me laughing on the floor..

you dont need to pay to play this game but in order to customize the appearance of your character, you can purchase items from the cash shop (cards are sold at Popular bookshops , RM 24 for 10,000 cash). i gave my character a makeover so as a result, there have been players coming up to me and asking me if i could be their maple girlfriend. O_O

i only have one word to say to these people:

NO no NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO no no no no noNO NO NO NO NO no no no no no no no no NO NO NO NO!

come on..i know its for fun but i cant help thinking that these people are so desperate or what hah.. and most of them playing are around 13 to 16 yr olds..crazy lah. you ask an old mak cik (auntie) to be your girlfriend?
eew.
thats like me asking a 30-something yr old player to be my boyfriend on maple.

SALAH MAN.

why? in real life cannot get girlfriend so you can only get it in virtual reality izit..huh
i mean its different if you are buddies first, then eventually u ask, that also is ok.
am i being too narrow minded?
geez..

the characters are cute though so there are times when i see a particularly handsome character, i'll go say 'hi' and tell them i think their character looks good. but thats about it..most of the players whom i compliment end up being on my buddy list anyways,and so far, they are really nice people.

however, of course there are idiots that you may meet.
what i really dislike is when say a certain player who is at Level 30+ goes to the hunting ground where all the newbies are trying to fight to gain experience and bloody SHOWS OFF. say to kill a mushroom, a newbie at lvl 10 has to hit it constantly, so imagine, you are working hard, hitting it and suddenly here comes this show off who just kills it with one hit.
thanks, but no thanks.
you took most of the experience points away and the poor fella is left with only 3 experience points out of 10.

ya ya, i know you damn powerful all that, but please, give others a chance, can?

this is a picture of a maple wedding. yeah, you CAN get married in Maple. provided you wear a wedding outfit and pay a fee. wah, just like real wedding huh.. =.='

what if you one day decided that you no longer wanna be married to that character?
get a divorce-lah.. its possible, provided you pay ONE MILLION MESOS.

serious, no joke.

walking in hell

i have 6 blisters on my foot.
SIX, mind you.
SIX.

no thanks to..
these shoes from hell.



imagine? on sunday i was already late for class (yes, you read correctly, i have classes on SUNDAY) and i thought these shoes will do fine..

so i am rushing from the parking lot to the lrt station, and running up the escalator in order to catch the train in time and walking as fast as i can from the lrt station through the streets of petaling...

IT IS NOT FUN.

and its damn hot,yo.

and the damn shoes are 5 and a half.

the story behind the shoes: my mom bought it, and she is a size six so when she tried on her size it was a bit too big. the sales girl thereafter recommended a size 5 and a half instead.
mom didn't like the shoes after wearing it once so she handed em down to me.

DAMN THOSE SHOES.

i had blisters at the back of my feet, cuz they keep on rubbing against the edges of the shoe and the inevitable happened.

the blister, broke.

nice fury of expletives erupted from my mouth when that happened.

and oh, woe is me i TOTALLY forgot to bring spare plasters with me (i usually do, but i just didnt have any at that time)

so i have blisters on each of my little toe.
one each on the back of each foot.
a few random ones on the other toes.

DAMN THOSE SHOES

the journey back to the lrt station from college was a slow and ardous one.
each time i walk it hurts like hell, but then as you get into the momentum of things it gets better.
but then everytime i stop at a traffic light, the pain returns and as you begin to walk again, the pain is intensified.

kept telling myself "little bit more to go.."

once i reached home, i went to wash my feet, cuz it was so hot and swollen at the edges, and one of the blisters broke *grimaces*

too tired to curse, i cried instead.

damn those shoes.

was watching GREASE to pass my time and i love this song that Rizzo (Stockard Channing) sang

There are worse things I could do,

than go with a boy or two

Even though the neighborhood thinks I'm trashy and no good

I suppose it could be true,

but there are worse things I could do

I could flirt with all the guys,

smile at them and bat my eyes.

Press against them when we dance,

make them think they stand a chance

and then refuse to see it through,

that's the thing I'd never do.

I can stay home every night

Wait around for Mr. Right,

take cold showers everyday,

and throw my life away,

on a dream that won't come true

I could hurt someone like me,

out of spite or jealousy,

I don't steal and I don't lie,

but I can feel and I cry

In fact I'll bet you never knew,

but to cry in front of you,

that's the worse thing I could do.

i find myself missing someone terribly.
but there is comfort in knowing that he is only a phonecall away.

geri's resolution

today i woke up and i looked at myself in the mirror.
the person staring back at me had messed up hair, sleepy eyes and seriously oily skin.
at that point in time i had a lot of things running through my mind but the one thing that was most prominent was

"i must try not to talk bad about others anymore"

i guess everyone does it, its human nature to say something about another person. i know that petty gossip and idle chatter (usually about someone else) can lead to a lot of terrible things, so why do we even bother to do so anyway?
out of envy? for me sometimes when i see someone really beautiful, i try to find her one flaw that doesn't make her beautiful anymore. but isn't that sad, cuz that is something that comes almost automatically.
most of the time we are said to be blinded by another person's beauty but in fact, it is not the beauty that makes us blind, no, it is the envy that we feel..

from the beginning of time, beautiful people have been always put first because they are more pleasant to look at, and perhaps this is the reason why this envy is in existence by the other not so beautiful people? sounds pitifully shallow, yes, but with all due respect it is the bare truth is it not? then again, they did not ask for these so-called good looks isnt it? of course it made life abit easier for them but still i believe they have to deal with more criticism than others because there will be more people bitching about them to no end.

but this problem is not just stuck to only beautiful people. when i say that i'll try to make a conscious effort to have positive thoughts about people, i am also talking about all those who i no longer talk to because of some misunderstanding we had previously in the past. however there is a part of me that is reluctant to let go completely and be on speaking terms to those people again but i think i shall try to be a bit less cruel in my thoughts and in my words with regards to them.

so i think from now on i shall try to make a conscious effort to be a little bit more pleasant with what goes on in my head.

after all, making peace with oneself is the first step to making peace with others.

fishy tales

went for an early birthday dinner just now, cuz its mom's birthday tomoro..
its customary for my family to go out for birthday dinners so just now my dad called us to tell us that he is taking us out for seafood.

"its in some kampung somewhere"
"huh? seriously?"

honestly, i had MAJOR doubts about what my dad had in mind.
so here we were, in the car..driving along in some dark deserted path..you see houses, workshops, warehouses..then suddenly, you see this HUGE place which is brightly lit and there are SO many cars parked there..so obviously the place is popular.

consider me, at that point, UN- doubted.

they have this tanks from which your dinner was alive till it was time to be served to you.. *sounds so sadistic..feel so guilty now*

ok, i'm really full from the meal so i can't elaborate on what we had for dinner. some other time maybe. but then again, maybe not..
but what got me interested was these really really ugly fish that they had on display. they are really ugly. and HUGE.

i didn't notice them till my mom pointed them out to me..they looked like rocks..

is this a piece of wood?

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no, its a fish. *can you feel my enthusiasm?*

but at least this fish knew how to smile for the camera *cheese*

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heres an embarassing titbit.
i'm afraid of HUGE fish. when i say huge, i dont mean those huge tenggiri fish that one can find at the fishmonger, i mean the really huge huge HUGE ones that you can only find in zoos or like..this..

i have this thing about them eating me up. even as i am typing, my fingers get a bit shaky and i can't breathe normally...

excuse me while i go hide under my blanket *runs off shamelessly*