Sunday, February 11, 2007
Dumping, donating, packing & cleaning....
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Yup tat kinda summarizes my day event! It's Sunday so i had the opportunity to get up late... Even though my eyes are wide open @ 9am, i would purposely just lay in bed looking out of the window and watch other people do their morning exercise. It feels refreshing just by watching them.. Hah! But at times i do felt guilty.. I should be working out too! This body is getting out of shape as we speak now.. haha! Well the other reason why i get up late is because i could skip both breakfast and lunch and go straight to snacks for tea time. Clever? I noe.. It's the best diet plan ever! I heard it from Kendra who is one of the Playboy playmate in the show "Girls Next Door". do they have tat show back home? i like tat show.. This girls hor, look only pretty but actually blur blur one.. ahahak! Ok wait a minute, i shouldn't be watching that kinda show.. it just makes me more terrible den how i already am now. ermmm well nvm...
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I don't usually get up late when i'm back home. even on weekends i'll be up by 10. All thanks to my Ibu, Ayah and my two bros.. hai~! Has your mum or like my nenek for instance told you something about girls who gets up late will have bigger butts? Those two women uses that line on me ALL the time.. There isn't any scientific prove to all this. They are just trying to scare us. I was scared and worried last time.. But by looking at my back now, i think i need to sleep way longer.. hehe! I need the extra surface area to fit snugly in my jeans. Being flat both front and back do give some girls low self esteem ok.. I'm not talking about me hor! =) Anyway i have a solution for you girls who are experiencing those kind of judgement remarks. Simply lie facing down. Your butt don't get bigger and hopefully the ones at the front will do... hehehehe! I'm gonna use tat line back at nenek and ibu the next time they wake me up on a Sunday morning. =)
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Ok back to where i started from.. Was planning to clear up my closet so that i could pack and send back home some clothes that i do not need here anymore such as old work clothes, my baju raya, my winter stuffs and some other outfits that have not been touched since i got here. Then there are also some clothes that i do not want anymore and so the idea of donating them came up. But i always have problems donating my belongings because i kinda have like so many sentimental values on each of the item. I would come up with 101 reasons why it should be kept like 'my first ever yellow work top' or 'a pants bought with my very own pay' or ' my favourite top for the first half of year 2006' or ' a top bought by someone special' (even though it doesn't fit and there are still a few other clothes bought by him. haha!). By the end of the day i managed to pull out 2 high piles of clothes to donate as i kept telling myself that the half empty closet is a sign for me to get more clothes. I still have new clothes packed in paper bags because i have no room to hang them and my drawers are too full to fit them in. Terrible? i noe.. haha! Finally the clothes in the closet can breathe once again..
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While i was packing just now, i was feeling very excited and happy cause it felt like i was getting ready to go home. But the truth is.. I have another 111 more days before i get to leave! Yes, i actually counted.. see how desperate i am to see you all again! hehe.. actually i'm thinking more about the food and my bed! =) Anyway 111 days chicken feet la.. Open close open close, you'll see me by ur side irritating the hell out of you! Den you'll wish i would leave and stay away for another year or make it 10 years... muahahahaha!
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Talking about clothes.. I would have to say that my shopping experience have changed since i got here. Now i need to think twice before i buy any clothes. Not like before, i just buy it because i like dem. Most of my clothes was hand washed by Aunty Kus. I feel so bad.. But dun worry, i promise to invite her to my wedding in the future.. =) Here i do my own laundry and ironing. So there's no way i would buy a top that requires any ironing at all.. hahahaa! i wouldn't buy those that needs to be hand washed either. I would say laundry is chicken feet for me. I dump all my clothes in the washer, add soap and turn the knobs. Tadaaa! 15 mins later, DONE! (But hor, what's the difference between cold, hot or coldhot water? For me as long they use clean water to wash my clothes can liao.. hehe!) For the past 10 years or so i have always tot that the washing machine is a complex household equipment and therefore i was not allowed to touch them. haha.. Anyway after the wash, i would place some of the clothes in the dryer. I actually had to pick out and play the guessing game like which clothes will not shrunk in them. I did shrink many.. haiz~! That's why there was alot to give away. hehe.. But one think i like about the dryer is that i don't have to iron the clothes. It comes out just like how it would after you iron them except for the elaborate ones la.. (IBU, we confirm gonna get a dryer wen i get back. I still have the fear of hanging clothes out of the window. I felt like i was gonna fall out together with the bamboo poles. actually tat would be a funny sight.. hehe!)
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Ooooh! i gotta share with you guys the experience i had in Tanjung Pinang while doing my YEP. I have to wash my own clothes ok.. With Soap, water and my bare hands. For 2 weeks+ i had to do it on my own! But actually i didn't do much washing cause i bought new clothes and the dirty ones was placed in a laundry bag to bring back home. Tat explains why my bag doubled in size on the way home.. hehehe! And hor, this girl by the name Ulfah amazes me.. She knows how to scrub her clothes well.. She'll do it privately on the bathroom floor like a pro. I would have paid her to do mine but that wouldn't be too nice of me.. =) haha.. Ulf you the best ah! I do miss those days ok.. Eating biscuits and cereal under people's laundry in our private room! I do know on some days u had trouble waking me up too.. sorry darling!
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Well tat's it for now... A pretty long entry hur? Bored ma, nothing to do.. Oh ya, i just caught the grammys at 7pm.. GREAT performances by Shakira (shake shake!!), Chris Brown (HOT dance moves.. ahhh too bad, he's young for me) and of course Mr JT (two songs leh.. Nad, go catch the repeats okie!!). Tat's all folks.. till den, Ciao!
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XOXO,
Liana Tay
Counting down: 111 days to go...