Hello hello!

How are you readers doing today?
I'm so blardy weird and crankyyy today. Haven't been like this for quite awhile and I think that's why I feel quite out of the box. Lucky me, my lovely mother cheered me up with Mcd and my all time favourite drink - Iced Chai Latte :)) Exam marks haven't been giving me any thrill of happiness to face my holidays, that sucks big time okay! I'm so bummed because although I've worked so hard, it is just NOT enough to achieve them A's. It never was enough anyway.

Oh yes, now that second term hols is very much around the corner, I miss my elder siblings alot. yesss alot! (don't be all so proud when you read this alright, you two ) I miss those times when the whoooole family goes for a major holiday somewhere overseas. Now that reminds me of our year 1999 holiday at Goldcoast, SUMHOW. Although I was little and wasn't allowed to ride ANY rides except the marry-go-round, whatever it is, it was still a holiday to me. I hope we'll have one brilliant one this year - I can't seem to see when tho. hmmm.. I feel like going shopping! Since Malaysia is always with it's Spring/Summer seasons, I have to have summer dresses! I grew up wearing dresses everyday and suddenly when I start going to primary school back here, my tomboy side grew from nooowhere! I wasn't allowed to wear knee-length/short pants nor mid-length/short skirts. I will always remember mom having the right taste and choice of dresses for me to wear when I was little. I simply don't feel feminine when I've to be distanced from dresses    but that's a plus point to not baring my huge tendons hahaha. Simply because I run track, my legs aren't thin/straight/long. I think it's even genetically inherited 'cause both my mom and dad have pretty big tendons..even my tall elder brother & sister.

Back to summer dresses, I shall hunt for some. and oh yes, gladiator flats. I want it so badly I can mop my face on the floorrr! - oh desperation and over too much of tlc for fashion. hehehee. ok I guess that's for now! More updates soooon yeap yeap. Have a marve day yeah readers :)

Yours truly,
hnsh shrl.

For the first term holiday this year, I went to Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Going there after eight years sure is exciting and hectic all in one. I miss hearing the sound of a non-systemised road and the sound of Vietnamese speaking, the smell of the not-so-fresh air and all those that it has that's unique in a way. Architectural sure has improved alot along the way to my 5 star rated apartment, Somerset Chancellor (once was Regency) on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai road. I once stayed for awhile during my on-visa stay back in 1997. The gym is what thrilled me most :)  and the fact that the supermarket that my mom and I used go to back then, still exists and running hella better. oh-memories.. So as each day passes, I thought of recording what happened and how I feel so as etacar. Didn't have a laptop along but I brought a handy flip notebook pens and pencils. I record what I thought, felt, and want? lol. Wrote it at the best place of the apartment, my heaven-like bed HAHA. So here is what I exactly wrote, starting from the first to the last moment of my back-to-HCMC trip.

March 10th 2008: First Day in Vietviet (that's what i call it, ignore it :) 

Did not have the ecstatic-thrilling feeling before and during departure from KLIA. Arriving in Vietnam feels like being back at my hometown (aka kampung).  Believe me, ALOT happened while I spent two years of my life back then. Alot has changed, but as usual, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) -- Saigon is packed with motorcyclists and scooterists. Now, cars too. Even cars such as the latest Mercedez and Lexus that we can't get nor see back in Malaysia too! 
I feel like a little kid again, but yet a biggg girl and old already. After years of drooling of reeeeally wanting to come back and live my secondary school years here in HCMC, I think this is much of a come true already. I know this sounds cliche, but whothafish really cares right? Hmmm. We - Daddy, Mama, little brother and I haven't do any shopping yet. Arrived around late afternoon, unpacked, tired and only feeling hungry of halal Vietnamese food. So we headed to our 10th year all-time-favourite restaurant, Mat Foo's. We had dinner and I feel a few cm fatter since then :)  My Bday is in 2 days time yo! har-har. The pre-bday was em, to be honest, shitty yet the fact that FDee was there and we ladies get to watch Step Up 2, that made my day.
I miss my elder brother, sommmmehow! it's been a year. but oh well, he's coming home soon anyways :p OH OH! Desperately I've to say, I want to school here againnn! or which my point is, have a change in my borrring life. I've to be frank, that'll take a whole cheerleading team to help me do so. Aight, got to pencil off now. It's late & I miss oh *cough cough!   OXXO

March 11th 2008: Second Day

Second day in Saigon is HOOYEAH thur bomb digitygity!!! Well, that is if you don't mind polluted air, noisy/hectic streets and the not-so-sophisticated/glamour environment. Majority of Vietnamese here are deffinitely friendly while the others? yeah you guess   So I woke up during the wee hours.. because my little brother who happens to sleep in the same seperated-bed bedroom, was having THE sleep of his life (dreaming while knocking his head against the wooden head top of the bed) annoying la okay, especially when ure a light-sleeper like me. tsktsk*  As wrong as that head-knocking may sound, I managed to get him right back to his place. Oh yea, aking up with sun shining on my face, loud noise of the honking streets, isn't a good thing alright. Had a terrible breathing difficulty due to the fact that I do not sleep with an air-conditioner anymore, YES I've down-graded in a way!
So I shopped HELLOT today and I think I spent more than 200USDees! Times 3.2 for MYS RM please. uhh-huh first day yo, and my luggage is already um, full? weee. OH OH! *jumping on the bed like a 3 year old, in roughly 2 hours, I'll be bloody sweeeeet and sour sixteen! I feel old already btw. I look like one anyway :(  Owyeah! now that reminds me of the two women that I met during my heaty shopping trip to Binh Thanh Market (haggle-market, I call it). They were both hellosuprisomucho knowing that I am sixteen. um, I wonder whether it's a good thing, or a bad thing looking older than my age.
I just learnt that mom is truely a shop-till-ya-drop kindof person, despite the weather and smell. Hey, "ke mana tumpahnya kuah kalau tidak ke nasi?" in english translation, like mother like daughter. lmao! Daddy is all smiles and laughter today. I don't know why and I wonder. But lets just hope that it'll last till we arrive home and forever. Anyschmuggles, I had a dream about umar lastnight. What a out-of-no-where supriso! Somehow it kept smiling. babi don't ask what okay? it's only a dream. But then I miss the perkiness of this guy I've hots for, more than the day before. weeeeirdooo! Till tmw's update, i'm out. Cheers. OXXO

part of Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, view from my room.

Happy SSWEEET 16 to me??? Not so sweet yeah for the first day being sixteen :| Woke up with lack of oxygen during sleep = waking up tired. First few minutes of the day was okay. The got to where I am always the last to get ready, bummer! Didn't really feel lively, aint sure why exactly. tsktsk. What I learnt about myself from this holiday (period), is that I'm a scarf sucker. From silk to wool, you name it! ohlalaaa.. and..oil paint too! I'm a hardcore lover for colors to the deff. Third day here, RAN OUT of ideas what to do else then to shop shop aaaand shop. We even ran out of ideas of where to go. My parents aren't the adventurous-exploring type. So yeah, it's pretty much the reason why I'm actually laying this all out :) I really do want to go art/painting shopping. but mom & dad is giving me the boring-mode. SO MUCH OF a happy day ay?  grrrr. Oh yeahs, I really want to go hunt for dresses. Day-dresses, y'know? Fancied one on Donh Khoi Street, silk I reckon. I have to go get it!! musto musto! lols. ok chalo ;p