An ~artistic~ shot from my hotel.

Hi all. I’m back from KL.

My stay there was alright. The hotel staff, we stayed at Hotel Equatorial, were friendly and helpful. They pretty much obliged to our every request. One of the bath towels smelt slightly sour on one night though but that’s ok.

Anyway, with Ade, my brother, left in KL to study, I’ve been feeling quite pensive. I remember how I used to be irritated with him because he made me adhere to a set of rather strict rules. An example is no internet except on weekends. When I’m allowed to use the internet, I’ll only have like 5 – 7 hours per day. Of course being the ~rebellious teenager~ that I am, I’ll be online for more than 7 hours. And of course he’ll reprimand me and I’ll be sulky with him.

There was also once when I was in my last year in primary school and I had to take my PSLE [It's a national exam] at the end of the year. To prevent me from using the computer, he actually took away my mouse! I was furious with him. I mean, he was allowed to use the computer whenever and however long he wanted and I wasn’t? Where was the fairness in that? Mum explained to me that he could use the computer whenever and however long he wanted because he had finished his national exams and was in polytechnic. I still found it unfair though.

Now that I’m older and more mature [haaa], I see things in a different light and I suppose I’m not as petty as I was a couple of years ago. I’m also grateful that Ade limited my internet use and whatnot because if he didn’t, I would’ve done quite terribly for my primary school and secondary 4 national exams.

I’m not the sort who writes entries about my relationship with my family and friends but it’s an exception today. It’s a special time for me. My brother’s left home to study in Malaysia and my other brother’s left home ages ago to live with my aunt, work as a bartender, and experience freedom and bachelorhood. It’s just my parents and I now.

Apart from slight changes in my family, I’m also experiencing changes in my social life. No longer am I going out to town with my school friends and trying to be all grown up. I’m busy working at my uncle’s art gallery, even on the weekends. Next year, I’ll be enrolling in polytechnic and for sure my secondary school friends won’t be with me. I’ll be in uncharted territories and I’ll have to make new friends, work with new people. It’ll all be new.

I used to believe in best friends forever and staying friends with the same people until the end of time when I was a kid. But after a few years, I realise that BFFs aren’t all that fantastic. I mean, why continue being friends with someone if the relationship has turned sour? I really don’t see the point of it. You can try to fix the relationship but if it can’t be restored, then they might as well become acquaintances or sever ties entirely. It’s better, in my opinion, to make lots of friends from different backgrounds, share some lovely moments with them and then make more friends. That’s better than being in a miserable relationship with a few friends for a long time anyway.

I’m not saying that we shouldn’t have best friends but just don’t be let down when your best friend doesn’t behave like a best friend anymore. They are human, after all, and they’re bound to get bored sooner or later. We all hope that it’s later rather than sooner but hey, sometimes it just doesn’t work that way.

Ok, that’s enough sentimental thoughts. I really don’t like writing about this, I prefer writing about other things like my ambitions, my weird dreams at night and lots of other random stuff. It’ll be a long time until I write another post like this and by then, I’m hoping I’ll accomplish lots of things and be a better person in many ways.

TL;DR: My bro’s studying in university in KL, I’m the only child left living in this home, I’ve experienced rather major changes in my life and I’ll be experiencing more and I don’t usually write sappy entries. The end.

Guess which Arsenal player’s birthday falls on Boxing Day. Here are some hints to help you.
- He’s got brown hair
- He’s a midfielder
- He’s Welsh

That last one totally gave it away. Anyway, if you guessed Aaron Ramsey, then you’re absolutely right! Ding ding ding ding!

Yeah, so it’s his birthday today. Ika thought he turned 18 today but that was last year so he’s 19 now.

Here are a few pictures of Aaron, in case you haven’t a clue how he looks like.

Hahahaha, he’s hot shit, isn’t he? Taking photos of himself like that. Go Aaron! Ahahaha.

Unlike someone I know, this guy looks good with facial hair.

He likes to do this thing with his tongue. Cheeky.

More cheeky stuff from the Welsh wonderkid.

And finally a magazine scan of him looking all innocent and hard-working. And I’m sure he’s innocent and hard-working.

I actually scaled the pictures down so if you wanna see them in their original size, just right click and select view image.

Anyway, I’m off to attend to my bleeding forehead and my clothes. I still haven’t finished packing my stuff for Kuala Lumpur. And I’m leaving tomorrow morning, ahaha! Luckily the trip is only like 4 days. I’d call it a holiday but…eh…I’m accompanying my brother there cause he’s gonna study in university there. Either way, I’m gonna enjoy myself a little because I haven’t been out of the country since I was like 10! Even Fabian Vettel has been doing some travelling! He’s only 10 and he’s already been to F1 races and gone to Hungary and Spain to watch said F1 races. What a lucky kid.

More when I return from KL! If I bring my laptop to KL then I’ll probably update there. I’ll think about it. See you all.

Decided to add bits and bobs to yesterday’s picture. Here’s the hot mess.

This Santa likes his little helpers to be women. The one wearing green and red hats are Santa’s ~special~ helpers, hahaha.

Old Sims 2 pictures that I edited with Photoshop. When I found the photos, they were already in poor quality so I cut out the people, pasted them together and tried to sharpen the image as best as I can. I’m new to this Photoshop thing ok?

Anyway, that’s all I have to post. I have a nice story to share but I’ll write about that on another day.

Mark’s greetings:

Sebastian’s greetings:

Trust Red Bull Racing to come up with stuff like this. I love you guys so much, I think I want to work with you all in the future. It’ll be cool to do what Britta’s doing, but for starters, I don’t mind being the coffee girl or something. Seriously, no joke.