PackedIntoOne.

We went to KLCC and visited the Petronas Towers as we do everytime we come here. Exactly like tourists I know. 
But we always need a reminder just why we are so proud to be Malaysians [;...

Our trip into the CBD.

 Picture Perfect Moments..

I made a vid, but unfortunately it took FOREVER to upload. SO. I gave up after a while.
Yes. I made a vid because I was in a cbf mood to bother typing about it.
I'm lazy and quite lame, and unfortunately my 1 year of Media studies did not contribute to how I made this video.. because all I did was 

1. Select videos
2. Cut to my liking
3. Select my chosen videos
4. Clicked "Movie" In Picasa. 
5. And Added audio track. 
6. Waa lah !~

You think Ms Bogle will give me an E for it? 
Whole years lesson compacted down to size. Take that Miss B.

Yes, my lack of efforts to do ANYTHING lately has been reflected through my poor efforts in creating this video. 
I seriously am so lazy to do anything now. Maybe it's my recovery from my fever, but I seriously can't be stuffed even to get out of bed in the mornings. I just sit there pondering what the ef am I going to do on my laptop today, and just browse through my Ipod. 
BUT. 
We did end up going out at nights, so that was okay I guess. 

 Can you see the CNY in the air? Heh...

Today we went to Mid Valley. 
Which is probably catered to fairly rich people. 
In all honesty... Even though I do love me some bargains in those fairly over crowded malls where absolutely EVERYTHING is on sale.. I do have to say, I prefer malls like in KLCC, and Mid Valley than other places like Sungaiwang and around Time Square.
I just like the whole atmosphere.

1. Aircon
2. Its too fucking expensive and overpriced for what a typical Malaysian would  purchase things from, which means less people.
3. They have western stores.
4. Madam Kwan. 

You don't see Madam Kwan on the road sides at Hawker stores. 

nor do you see her being the CEO of big cooperation. But Hey.

I also made Butter Cake with my cousin for my brothers birthday tomorrow. 
As much as I can't stand cakes, I don't mind baking them. 

so long as I don't have to eat it [:  

We melted this cocoa block to make chocolate :) 

 

 And then we poured them into shapers

 Then let it cool and popped them out :P 

Yes it ws quite tasty for sho xP

Then we covered the Butter cake in whipped creamy 

goodness :3

And did a lil DIY Deco . Finishing product ! 

For a chick who doesn't cook or bake often, this was a pretty good effort (Y).

So anyway I went to Pavilion as well. A place also for all the foreigners and rich Malaysians to hang. However. I'd LOVE to hang here anyday. It was so glamorous I loved it.

You should have seen the line of cars parked infront of the mall...

Also. We love Malaysia for this particular cafe..

We enjoyed this thoroughly [: ....

 Best range ever. 

Anywho. I'm off to Singapore tomorrow morning at 8:45am. I hope it shall be an eventful few days. Won't be bringing my laptop along so will catch up after I get back and before I head to Penang on Tuesday.

I feel so rushed but hey, least I get to go Singapore which I haven't been in quite a long time. 

Sentosa Island here I come! 

JustAnotherPhase.

So another day in paradise. 
As if I need anymore reminders. Days have gone quite slow. I feel like I've spent a week here when it's only been 3 or 4 days. 

Is it suppose to feel like this?

Or maybe it's because I've been sick these couple of days...

I wish I had photos to show you how 'fantastical' my holidays been going. But so far not so much :(....
Besides the awesome shopping malls filled with tweens.
Its honestly like New Market. But an asian version. 
(I'm not even talking about midcity...)
I'm talking rich tweens... dressed up like they have a purpose in life to become those chicks you see on the cover of magazines. 
My cousins part of "the crowd" 
But she has cute friends [:

(Cousin Jay on the left. Middle her friend. Right yours truly)
I stand out so much. But what 'evs. I can be asian. I'm freaking asian for gods sake. 
I should get back my old hair. The one with the exact same fringe as my cousin. 

Maybe it's just because I'm more white for my own good. 
White washed over and over and mixed with other many different colours. 

All it is is just tweens trying to grow up faster than they should. 
Maybe it's because I'm nearly 18 that I don't feel the urge to want to grow up.
Oh well :(...

Considering she's my cousin, shes pretty cool at times. So you gotta love that. 

My 14 year old cous. x


In other FLASHING NEWS.


Shannen Dyed her hair.
Gasp. Shock. Horror.


No no. I did not dye it a totally bright spectacular colour again. 
Keep yo pants on.


I dyed it dark brown. I feel more... well I wanted a change.
I don't like feeling 'normal' or feeling like I've been like this for ages. I hate being boring. Which is why I always changed my hair colour or hair style. 
But what ev's. This hair colour shall last me. 
I'm content. 


[:

Haters gon hate. But that is my hair colour now. 
My hair feels so fucking rough though. I don't know what they put in that malaysian hair dye.
The lady said it was aparently sulphur free. 
Whatever that means.

It doesn't smell as bad I suppose? 


Oh well...


Guess I can go visit my grandparents in a few weeks all free and happy now. Don't need to get lectures on  my hair colour of choice. 

It's 'decent' enough for Chinese New Year [:...
Which by the way, is so very soon! 
<excitedasfuck>

My appetite hasn't come back yet. But I hope it does when Chinese New Year Comes.

I'm going to Singapore next week ! To celebrate my dearest brother's 14th birthday. 

I think he's 14....... oh snap!
:S !

How bad of a sister am I .... :\ .. 

Well. Lets hope it's fun!  
Let's hope it's something to blog about.
However, I haven't been to Singapore in like 11 years. SO of course it will be fun. 


Lets have a toast for the good times to come.


Maybe.

Shit. Did I say typhoon? 

I meant Monsoon.......

HONEST MISTAKE. 

Which reminds me of the Tokio Hotel Song.. 

"Running through the monsoon..beyond the world.. till the end of time..where the rain won't hurt..fighting the storm..into the blue..and when I loose myself I think of you.

Together we'll be running somewhere new.. Through the monsoon.. just me and you..."

Lovely.

FlyingDovesAndCavemen.

I have to say, it's quite chilled in Malaysia right now. It's Typhoon season which means it rains every single night, but I'm kind of thankful it does. I didnt get the sudden heat rush when I stepped outside of KLIA. It was slightly windy with probably 20% humidity. (Might lack accuracy but hey, I was relying on my toes to feel the weather. )

As you do.

Best time of year I would say. 

So how was my day you persistently ask..?
As if you would be remotely interested in how my day went. But I guess this is my blog. 
And I'm talking to myself, or atleast a figment of my imagination... (maybe I should give you a name. like. Blob. Or Hailes. I like that name. Don't you?) 


Well of course you do. Because that has officially been assigned to as your name. [:

God i'm such a weirdo.....

So. I had to wake up at the most earliest hour yet. 
8am.
It was tough. It was daunting. 

But I did it. (-YUS!-)


My To Do List.

• Hand in Study link and try and find my record of results for NCEA Lvl 3.
• Go to clocktower to ask about my Uni application and why hadn't they received my damn documents.....
• Go buy my brother some last minute stuff.
• Go fetch forms from ASB for mum.

Be back before 11am. 

Oh yeahh. That was an accomplishment. I felt like Xena the Warrior princess after I was done with that shit.
Less glorious of course.
Nevertheless, my day was filled with me running around like a crazy person trying to get things done.  
It didn't feel like I was about to go on holiday at all in all honesty...
I use to get that feeling you get the night before you go on holiday.. that knot in your stomach because your so damn excited to be flying out to some place more foreign than your own. 
Flying was my favourite part of my holidays (as odd as that sounds.... )
It still is, I'm just not that excited about coming here anymores..


Nevertheless..
the flight to Melbourne was... entertaining [:

 My view from my seat. 
I hate getting seats next to the wing. It pisses me off because I can't see jack most of the times. 
Its hella annnoying.
Add THAT to 'Shannen's List of Pet Peeves'
<heh>

Oh. And i would also like to share with you this.
I may sound REALLY old fashioned or.. like I've been living under a rock for the past century...
but. As I was flying economic class...
DID YOU KNOW THEY HAVE SOCKETS AND USB PORTS AND SHIT?!
I was utterly amazed at that. 
That made my day. 
You don't see that on MAS. 
Or.. maybe you do. And I just haven't stepped out of my rock in decades. 

I thought these only exist in First/business class :( ...


Anywho.
The trip to Melbourne was quite fun. I slept most of the time onboard. BUT I did watch Letters To Juliet. 
That was a good movie I guess. 
Amanda Seyfried is such an extraordinary actress. She does so well in these kinds of films. I never really got her character in Mean Girls.. But Mamma Mia was truly amazing. So was Dear John.


So the food onboard Emirates...
I would rate that 6/10. Not so much for my liking...
It lacked... flavour.
However, this is airplane food we're talking about. But heck. MAS and Singapore Air has amazing food. 
Maybe I'm too bias.

When I reached Melbourne I realise how amazing Australia looked at night compared to New Zealand. Maybe because of the big population difference but it seriously looked so beautiful with the surrounding lights around the airport.
Maybe I should consider living there instead of Canada. However it might be too hot and humid for my liking. I like it Cold. ..Yup.

Ignore my cameras incapability to focus correctly. I swear to you it looked amazing. 
:( 
Why couldn't we have gone on holiday to Aussie. After spending 6 hours lazing around Melbourne Airport, i went to go walk around the shops at like 12am at night and started talking with this guy who was a shop assistant. 
MAN his accent was amazing. Aussie is starting to grow on me. 
Anywho. Australia is quite expensive. While I was surfing the stores, I came across a cafe. 
Like no kidding. They had pies for $8. Which is probably like $10-$12 NZD ? 
Are you serious? 
Internet was $2 per 15 minutes. 
Fuck.
Their standard of living must be amazingly high. However their salary makes up for it no?
Anywho. The 6 hours went by fast. Did a little light reading. Watched My Sisters Keeper on my laptop which I would recommend EVERYONE to watch. Shopped around with the Aussie money I had.. slept a little. 
Alls well ends well. 


Not too excited. But I guess if you go on a trip with high expectations, you're not going to really get the most out of your trip. 
Hopefully the best is still in stall for me [: ...


p.s.

Did you know they built a mini Jungle inside the KUL arrival area ?
 




 

Disneyland.

So, here's what went down.

I didn't sleep a wink last night and ended up in the living room watching CNN with my dad at 5am in the morning. It's not something I'd usually result to when I can't sleep at night. But the company sure seemed far more appealing than sitting in my room staring aimlessly towards the darkness like an emo kid.

I was nervous, frightened, scared out of my pants, but somehow the flickering lights from the television comforted me. It meant that life appeared normal. It felt like an ordinary night, just watching television with dad.

I grew up with high school movies from back in the day, where one of 2 things happened.

-Young boy meets young girl. They date. Are completely in love. Boy gets football scholarship to a university and girl gets accepted at Harvard.  They Part. -

..for me... when I was a child..

I envisioned me standing there, opening my confirmation letter, feeling as accomplished as ever.

Imagine fireworks on the 4th of July. 

However, I experienced neither.  :\

I wish my life at that point was just like an 80s movie.

So what really went down? .. 

As irrelevant as my title may seem, Disneyland was the one thing that came into my mind after skimming through my 2010 end of the year NCEA results and acceptance/approval confirmation. 

What I remembered? 
Not the fireworks displays. Not the adventure rides or my dressed up character idols. But my innocence. Me, as a child, having the ability to find anything fascinating. Having this child like wonder about things. I use to be the happiest kid alive. Pure, and extremely hyperactive. <heh>
But it finally hit me. That the 'big bad world' that I'm about to enter is just a step away.
That life was going too fast and I wanted it to slow down. To stop to a hault. 

After reading my results and calculating my points I realised... Is that what life is going to throw at me now?
Are the good days truly over? (not to sound overly dramatic..... )

<sigh> 

I keep telling myself it's just the beggining. You've got the rest of your life ahead of you. And you know what? After contemplating what I've gotten through so far,
I god damn do. I have the rest of my life left. So this shouldn't even leave a scratch on my life's journey.


I don't want to be crying over spilt milk. 

What's done is done. I just gotta look forward, and hope that whatever happens is for the best [: 

On other matters...

It's a night before I leave to Malaysia, and I'm stuck with documents that I have to fill out. 
Apparently I totally forgot to fill out my application for studylink.
Oh boy. 

Life's a climb huh Miley Cyrus?  

 

JoiningForces.

Hi. 

Dear Diary.

To Whom It May Concern.

<Select best option from above> (preferably whatever tickles your fancy)

I guess a starting message to any blog consists of an introduction. Something that would give insight to why I may be pursuing a new beginning? I'm not really... I just don't want to spam my Tumblr followers with constant uploads of photos and my long rants about how my day went. I guess I got the idea from Wenyu. <Thanks^^>

It's not something I'm use to. Writing a blog or a diary or a journal (take your pick).
I've always wanted to keep one. A diary that is, and fill it with my wildest imagination with the most fanciest handwriting that kind of had a unique century old cursive style to it. (kind of like Elaina from Vamp Diaries)
However, I'm not really the type that keeps to things that often.
"You're only 5 minutes hot" which is what my dad says to me when I get into my 'phases' of liking things obsessively. (It was amazing how I kept to Tumblr though. The reason why Tumblr has been with me since the start of last year was the photoblogging that became quite addicting after a while).

So here's to newer beginnings. Maybe. 
I've always wanted a online personal blog. And with my efforts so far with Tumblr, I think I will be able to keep updating this one.  

..Hopefully..

Yikes. 

Eh well, documenting my Uni life is definitely one step closer to keeping myself sane. 
Appreciating life through a bloggers eyes. Yep. Thats me. 


'quoted and copyrighted by Shannen' 


Happy Surfing.