Of Delicious Scrumptious Heaven

Hey. I'm in Malaysia right now. Yup, right this second. I'll be here until the 26th! That'll be two weeks of being in Malaysia. Wow. It's freakin' hot here! Haces calor! I forgot how hot it was. Until I was perspiring like a pig the moment I stepped out of the airport. Gosh, no kidding, it is hot!

So since I've been back, I've been eating alot. I mean ALOT alot. No kidding.

The day I met Julie KLCC, I made her walk with me all the way to Pavilion because I miss walking so much, so yea. We ate at Tony Roma's!!! I ate their ribs. OMG, it was purely heaven! Words just cannot describe how good it is. Even now, when I'm nicely satiated, my mouth waters at the mere thought of it. It is truly a piece of heaven on earth. I sooooo recommend it to anyone and everyone. Even if you're a vegetarian because it's just a meal too damn good to pass up. Even while writing this, I fell very tempted to drive my car to Sunway to get another beautiful plate of scrumptious ribs.

OK, enough about ribs. Although I still can't get it out of my head. So..... Next delicious meal: Last night! Somewhere in Ampang (Or near Ampang, don't trust my sense of direction), there is this Arabic restaurant named Rawsha. And believe me when I say it serves the absolute best lamb mandy around. Best in Malaysia, at least. This meal is too good to pass up. Too good that your time on earth is wasted if you never tasted it. It gives meaning to your life. Please please, I'm inviting you to indulge in another piece of my heaven. And if you're going, please bring me. I'm begging you!

Alright. Sorry I don't have pictures to accompany those descriptions. OK. But who the hell has time to pause and take pictures if the meal is that good??!! I'm not a bloody magazine food critic. And besides, eventhough a picture says a thousand words, it can't say anything that has got to do with taste. That is fact.

OK, what will be my next delicious meal? Give me an idea of where to go that has food sooo good that my mouth will water whenever I think about it months from now. Please tell me! And please let it be meat. Beef or chicken or lamb or maybe even quail, if it is that good. And not just western. Include Malaysian food, thai food, japanese (OMG, did I mention how good Sushi Groove is??), Indian, even Indonesian. Oh, and please make it Halal.

Any other thing I've been up to other than eating food? Well, yes, of course. I made tiramisu today. It was good! OK, it's a little bit lumpy. But that was not my fault! I left BF/exBF to be in charge of whipping the cream, and he left to long in the middle of whipping until it separated into milk and butter. So it became lumpy, and too runny and I almost cried. Next time, I'll do everything. Not asking anyone to help me with anything important, especially not a man.

OK, I'll be looking for the next good meal in this country. And if it's sooooo good that I can't not mention it in my blog, well, then, you'll know it'll appear here. Till then.


LoVe~
MzP<3

The Assignment

Week 7 in Uni. Wow. Time flies so fast, I wonder where it went. I'll be coming home on Saturday. I wonder if I'm looking forward to it. Well, can't be looking forward too much since I'm wondering. Initially, I was overjoyed to go home, and keep on counting down the days. But now I'm not so sure. Especially when my memories of my home and my family for the past 2 years keep on haunting me. So, is there no place like home? Probably. But home doesn't just refer to one thing, does it? What am I saying? Well, my house here is becoming home to me, slowly but surely. I no longer feel like I'm in another country. I feel like I'm at home. Wow.

So I'm in my ISYS123 practical class right now. Waiting for my turn for my assignment to be marked. That's in another 30 minutes. So I've got a little time to spare, after all these endless work and assignments and classes. My time is so packed that this is the first time in weeks that I can sit in front of the computer with nothing to do. Technically, I do have something to do, but I'd have to home and do it on my laptop. So this constitutes 'free time' to me.

Update: I have for this past week been doing the hardest assignment I've ever done: building a website. With entirely html. It's been torture. Pure torture. I wanted to make it simple at first, until Debbie told me that seh saw some of her friends' works and it looks like actual websites. That got me so scared that I put extra extra effort in this website. One problem though: People get months to make a nice website, I got a week. One week. Una semana. Muy dificil!!!

So today is judgement day. Spent 3 hours in between classes to put finishing touches on the website. Here I am, in class waiting for the seconds to tick on my turn. When I walked in class, I saw some students opening their self-made websites, and guess what? None of them looked very professional to me. I mean, it looks like websites alright, but websites by companies that wouldn't want to spend too much. I'm not bragging or anything, but mine is too good. Too good that I regretted all the time spent on it. I should have made it really simple. Like really, really simple. Oh well, no turning back now. The site is done. I wouldn't say it's anywhere near profesional, but it's better than I thought it'd ever turn out.

So good, that I've uploaded it up on the internet. So you guys can see it. Yay. Haha. OK, so here's the address and link:

www.geocities.com/zulaikhaaisya

Enjoy it, OK?

I'm feeling the toll now. So tired and just want to go home and sleep. Dream a thousand dreams.

Oh, I just hope the examiner will give me full marks for it. My effort doesn't deserve any less than the best offered. Let's just hope I don't end up stabbing the examiner in the back if she/he gives me 4 out of 5. Or even worse, if I end up crying and shouting and being arrested by the police and get admitted to a lunatic assylum. Ouch. Now that's bad.

Oh, and by the way, I'm going to the SIN dance party on Friday night. Sleeping over in the city, and going to the airport in the morning. Did I also mention that I have a test tomorrow? Somehow, my life seem so crap, but I'm currently loving it. Well, except when I forgot to do an assignment and have to cram it in last minute. Oh well, but that's life.


LoVe~
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p.s. The title sounds like a horror movie. Oooooh the assignment that haunts. How ironic.

edit: I found out that my website doesn't open with IE. Only with Firefox. Oh, and Safari. Weird. I wonder why. So if you do open it with IE, you'll basically just see dots...

Today.

Today my life hit an all time low of all time lows. It qualifies very very much into the worst day of my life. The worst day of my life. Worst ever. I'm scared to say it can't get any worse than this because I know that life will somehow creep up on you and hit you in the face when you least expected it. No matter how prepared you are.

So yes, to follow up my worst day ever is probably my worst week ever as well. I have tests tomorrow, and the day after. And an assignment due early next week. Plus another homework which I don't have any idea how to do since it's a recording homework. Like, I have to record my voice and email it to the lecturer.

My exam tomorrow is at 10a.m. but I'm so tired I don't think I can even make it.

My mom just wouldn't give me a break, would she? And here I am, feeling like a miserable depressed asshole that just never got lucky. I would maintain that I was (and am) innocent. Guilty in some ways but still innocent enough. Innocent enough to not deserve all this. Hah. Yea, if life was as simple as erasing things I just wrote. Then this world wouldn't have a purpose right?

I wish people saw how hard I tried. Then you'll know. Then she'll know. Then they'll know. All of them. All of you.

I had better study now. I'm not planning to fail my Finance paper. Or my IT paper. Or anything else for that matter. Not to prove them wrong. But for self-satisfaction. Myself.

I'll make it happen, even against the odds.


LoVe~
MzP<3

Easter!

I don't know why I'm so happy about Easter for. Well, maybe it's because of the long weekend. No classes on Friday and Monday. Nice. The only thing not nice about it is that I have tests next week!!! And skipping ISYS123 lecture isn't that nice either. Especially when the topic presented is supposed to be really important.

However, I'm not going to let those things dampen my spirits. So, holiday!! Wow. Tomorrow we're either going to the beach for a picnic or to the city to eat desserts. Yay. Sounds nice. And guess what? A certain someone's going to visit me tomorrow. Double yay. Only he'll be staying for 10 days. I think that's a little overstaying his welcome. But, whatever. At least I wouldn't have to cook for 1 for the next week or so.

Speaking of cooking, tonight I made Honey Soy Mushrooms for dinner. It was really yum! Glad I made it. I look for lots of recipes on the internet these days. There's like a whole variety to choose from, and some of them fits my budget nicely.

Speaking of budget! Reminds me. Note to self: Get a job!

I bought posters at the poster sale in uni last week. I've put them up in my room, and my room feels cozier, a lot more like home. Because it was too empty. And emptiness in my room just reminds me of the emptiness of my heart! (OK, didn't mean to maudlin here). OMG, can I live for one minute without drama?!? Guess I can't. Yes, I'm one of those girls who has a life full of drama, and alternating between two extremes.

My posters:Yup, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn. You can see my laptop on my desk in the Hepburn picture. And the small picture next to Marilyn is the perfect thing. Julie's gift. One of her paintings that I helped her with during Form 5. Love it!!! Even my housemate said it's really nice.

Today I have new friends: Steve and Belinda. Knew them from Debbie. It's nice knowing new people. I should take pictures. Next time though. OK? I don't feel like whipping out a camera when we're eating lunch. Haha.

OK, gotta shower now. It's so late already. I guess everyone's filled with festive mood because I hear people partying outside. One of those days. I bet they'll still be partying at 4. Oh well, holiday right? Let them. It's kind of nice to hear drunken screams and shouts in the middle of the night. Someone out there is having fun!

I better get some rest now. It's pretty late. Going to the city tomorrow! No beach though... *sob* But th city's good enough. Especially in terms of food...

Good night!

Muah. Mwah. Muax.


LoVe~
MzP<3

Land of OZ, Chapter 2

Guess what? I baked cookies last night! Chocolate chip cookies. OMG, that was soooo tiring, but when it's done, it was well worth it. My first batch got a little burnt though, but my second batch was nice enough. My friends say it's quite nice. But to me, it still needs work. The cookie dough is superb though. I feel like like eating the whole bowl instead of baking it.

Tonight I baked another few cookies. So here's one delish pic.The first batch I made today are the bigger ones. It' softer than the smaller ones. The smaller one are very crispy. I can only upload one photo as I think there's something wrong with the internet. Maybe it's just too slow. So it does look quite delicious right? Yummy.

That was the first time ever I uploaded a picture I took myself. That feels good. I've just recently got my laptop, and also my own camera! It's pink!!! The new Sony Cyber-shot with touch screen. And my laptop is the new Sony VAIO CR. The one in pink!!! With 200 GB hard disk. Super cool. I love them. Soooo much. Too bad I can't put in anymore pics. I might do it later.

So, my transition to university is still underway, even after 4 weeks of class. Some subjects I find quite easy and others, relatively hard. Or maybe I'm not working hard enough. But I'm trying to! Seriously.

One thing's improved though, as you can see. My cooking skills. Maybe I should just change courses to culinary arts. That should be interesting.

Oh, and my Spanish skills have been improving too. Si. I've been annoying people by chatting with them in Spanish. That was quite nice.

I've also been quite close with my housemates. Especially Lidya. With Phing and Nicole and Claire. They're great housemates. Probably some of the best you could ever ask for. Then there are classmates too, Debbie and Nina and a few others whom I forgot their names. Then, of course, there are my old friends here who are always fun to hang out with. But I do really miss my friends back home. I wonder if the next time we meet, will we change or still be the same? It's quite scary when you come ti think of it. We all might have moved on.

I'm still trying to click my heels and say, 'There's no place like home." But at least now I realize being stuck in the land of OZ is not that bad anymore.

I've soo got to sleep now. It's like, 2 in the morning and I've got an early class tomorrow.

So, good night! Or rather, good morning!


LoVe~
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The Land of OZ

Guess where I am right now. In Christine's house in the middle of the city. I came to the city at, like, 11.30 in the morning for the Maroubra Beach BBQ. Got stuck here because some people wants me to join them clubbing. I guess now I'll be going out in a few minutes. So maybe I'll try to update.

Australia turns out not to be so bad once the culture shock stops. Made some friends. Met some old ones. But that transtiton took a million events to get my mind off home, and remind myself that home's probably quite overrated anyway. That sounds easier than it seems though. So yeah. Here I am now, trying not to be homesick.

Since I've been here I've been to heaps of BBQs and a few city outings, including a Mardi Gras parade. The Mardi Gras was quite cool. I mean, there were lots of gay people. More than I've ever seen in my life. Even 5 hours before the parade starts, I see gay people everywhere I turn. Sorry for being quite 'jakun' but it's quite new to me. There are gays in Malaysia, but they're still quite in the closet. Then, 1 hour before the event starts, there were gay people going up and down the street half naked. That was.... interesting. There was even one eccentric in-a-purple-thong guy going up and down the street saying 'Happy Mardi Gras, darlin' to everyone.

The parade itself was incredibly interesting, with men and women in underwears and thongs dancing around while walking and on those moving parade thingies (what were thay called again?). There are instances where men cuts off sections of their pants or underwear to show their butts. And topless women with their partners. The whole thing is quite interesting and (surprise, surprise) informative. I mean, now I know there are whole organizations dedicated to gay counselling and gay laws and even police officers give a special mention of protecting gays and crimes towards them. Wow. They really do widely accpet it here.

You know what? I realised lately that I'm in The Land of OZ. I mean, Maybe I should just click my heel 3 times and say, "There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home...."Nah, not working. Well, I guess I'm stuck here.

So, I'm off to go out now. I actually bought an LBD for this evening since the only thing I brought re beach wear. Actually, my friend bought it for me. Sounds nice, but it's actually just from Supre, so yea, it's like, below 20 bucks or something.

I'll try to update more often once I get my laptop ok?

Muah. Mwah. Muax.


LoVe~
MzP<3

Sydney

So, the week starts on a Sunday right? If that's the case, I can safely say this is probably the worst week of my life... so far. No kidding. And it's just Monday.

I'm in Australia right now. Arrived on the 13th of February (I just realised that in itself is not a very good date). My parents left me here on the 17th. Which was yesterday. The culture shock was so incredibly bad for me. And then, my mother had to go all mushy mushy on me. Which made me all mushy mushy as well.

I got to go now. Busy busy. I'll update when I have the time.


LoVe~
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