pseudo-reflections

It's the eve of new year's eve, and this apparently my 100th post. Woo!

Right now, I'm sort-of-not-really watching a football game with my brother (Manchester City vs. Liverpool), which is weird cuz a few weeks ago, there was no way in hell this would be happening. The cause of the change? PS2 FIFA. Football suddenly became tolerable.

It seems like it's the time for reflections, and resolutions...but seriously, who are we kidding? Does anyone actually stick to resolutions they make? You have all these things you want to do, but how many actually get done? And reflections? Pfft.

I spent last new year's eve with a friend, who insisted on us making resolutions even though I told him I'm not really into that sort of thing. So I sorta did, just for fun. It wasn't a strict resolution with rules (e.g. I must lose 5 pounds in 3 months or something...), I just wanted to make sure that I had a good, fun year, even with all the people leaving and stuff. I think I've done pretty okay. There were shaky moments, but I'm here. The thought of facing a whole new year is exhausting, but I've come to a decision to take things one at a time. Anything else would be madness.

So here's wishing for health, happiness and peace - have a good one.

the beach

We went to meet a bunch of aunties, uncles and cousins at the beach today, with 'the beach' being P.D., but a beach all the same. It was actually, pretty decent. The water looked okay (although no one went it - refer to the prawn incident), it was hot and windy, and I went swimming twice, which was gorgeous! The last time I was in a pool was in Bali - July this year. Considering how much I love being in the water, that's just wrong in at least seventeen different ways.

The past few days, my cousin from Switzerland has been staying with us cuz her parents went to P.D. a few days earlier than everyone else and her brother and his girlfriend have gone to Penang and Langkawi. We went to Sungai Wang (in sum = strange clothes, hair saloons, tattoo parlours) one afternoon. We went out for dinner, watched movies

...and now I've got stuff to deal with.

shopping and yodeling beavers

So it's been a while...I think I have a habit of saying that. The last time I did this was ages ago, before Diwali, which is when Charlie got really sick and I got really exhausted and this felt like the last thing in the world I wanted to do.

The semester's over, and all I've been doing is playing PS2 FIFA (go figure...) and shopping for and wrapping Christmas presents (with hand-made gift tags in the shape of Christmas trees) I was in One Utama five days in a row. I first went with my brother to get presents for our mum, dad and cousins, then the next day we went with my mum to get presents from all of us...then the day after that I went back with my mum to pick up some more stuff (this was after spending the afternoon in Midvalley with Hannah), then the next day my dad came back from India and we had to go with him to pick up my mum's present, and the next day I took my cousins who are here from Switzerland. So yeah, no One Utama for me for a while...

My phone isn't working. I have to take it to the shop later to see if it can be sorted out =/ It went weird while we were at church on Christmas Eve. Before that, we had dinner at home (mushroom quiche and pasta salad) and afterwards we took my cousin, who was with us, to A & W cuz she wanted a root beer float.

The next morning, we did the usual presents and breakfast with my aunty and her family, minus my uncle who was in Ipoh. Breakfast was sausages, scrambled eggs, toast and bacon. The pile of presents was pretty cool :)

I got earphones, Famous Amos cookies and gummies from my brother; The Namesake (the movie), more gummies, a new dreamcatcher and an Aeroline ticket to Penang from my mum and dad; a Fridays/Italiannies gift voucher from my aunty and uncle (mmmm); White Musk Body Shop shower gel and body lotion from my cousins; a yodeling beaver (at least, I think it's a beaver...) from Switzerland, and a bunch of moolah. Ooh and from Hannah, I got a starter pack from this new prepaid service called Happy, which is sort of an inside joke, but you can make calls for as long as 45 minutes and pay only 99 sen :)

Christmas lunch was in my aunty's house where we had breaded mushrooms, salad, paella (which was made by my uncle in a special pan he brought from Switzerland), prawns, wild boar (as requested for by my cousin) and roast chicken. Dessert was a gorgeous chocolate cake, apple crumble, ice cream and Swiss cookies.

For dinner, we stopped by the house of a family friend to deliver a turkey from the restaurant, and later on we went to an open house of a relative.

I don't think we're doing anything major for the next couple of days, except being bored. I'm bored even doing this. Blah.