Make it.. Merdeka ?

Does anyone else feel that Merdeka this year is so totally un-Merdeka-y ?

Totally no Merdeka spirit this year from most people.

51 years of independence and barely a hint of enthusiasm.

Must be because of all the political screw ups.

Yup, that is so it.

People are just so fed up with the political system in the country & it's such a marvel and irony that even after 51 years, we still can't function well and it may be even more backward than how it used to be last time. Politically, that is.


The funniest part is, us SubangJaya people, are actually looking forward to the event after Merdeka.

Merdeka is just brushed pass, so that we can get to puasa month lol.

I mean, friends are asking one another when puasa month is just so that they can go to the puasa stalls, also known as Bazaar Ramadhan. Lol.

People actually can't wait for Monday to come, cos that signifies the start of the bazaar, not Sunday, which signifies 51 years of independence from our colonial masters. Ironic.

So, Merdeka is upstaged by Bazaar Ramadhan, the highly anticipated event.

Because, why ?

Food lah what else lol.

There is absolutely everything in the Bazaar Ramadhan in SS18.

And by this I mean, Melay food, which I absolutely adore.

All the kuihs & ayam perciks & drinks (mainly sugarcane & coconut water) & famous nasi lemak kukus ! & so manymany more ! I'm looking forward to coming back from college so that I can walk out to the bazaar. My house's very near the bazaar, which takes up the whole SS18 road stretching from one end right to the other end. All filled with tents & smells of glorious food mm-mmmm-mm !

There's western food too I think, but why buy it when you have curry puffs & kuih bakar & ikan bakar & satay & cendol & anything else you can think of ey ?

So to those out of towners/not locals/not from around the area but go to Taylors/Inti/Metro/wherever, get your local friends to bring you to check it out ( : It's your chance as you may not be around next year to try the food ( :

It starts as early as 4pm, but you risk not having a good selection as many stalls will be preparing, not yet open. 5pm's okay, better than 4, but 6pm would prolly be the bestest. It's when everything's open & there's so many people (I always always bump into friends) & you totally feel like a community. The mak ciks are so nice & you get to see youngsters calling out "Beli beli !" or "Nasi lemak, nasi lemak !"
But this is also prolly why people go earlier even though not all are open yet cos it's insane pack from 6pm onwards & if you're claustrophobic, you might wana go early. Gotto admit not everyone is polite and people do push & shove.

Obviously it ends about 7/7.30pm cos they need to break fast too. If you plan to go, try not to drive. It'll be so jam packed that there's absolutely no space cos so many ppl are already parking everywhere, even blocking off one lane of the 3 on the main road. So walk, or park opposite in SS14. Totally much better idea. There's a field right next to this bazaar where people normally go, armed with cloth & all, to have a "picnic" where they just basically eat & watch people play futsal/basketball/kids at the playground.

I'm thinking that even though puasa month starts this Monday, the puasa stalls will only be up later that week cos it's already Saturday today, and I don't see any signs of the tents being set up hmm. Unless, oh no, there's no Bazaar Ramadhan this year ! gasp :O
Impossible.
Keep your fingers crossed anyhow !

I look forward to it as I've always had since I was in high, even primary, school. I'd purposely walk back with a bunch of friends so that we can go to the puasa stalls & have fun picking out what we want to it & scouting around to see which is cheapest & waiting in line even if it rains. My mum wouldn't cook & she trusted my bro & I to bring back a selection of food for dinner, my brother never failing to bring back lamb/beef murtabak haha. There used to be a lot of school kids at the bazaar cos there are like 3 schools with a km of the bazaar, my high school incuded. But I'm not sure about now.

Oh wells, I hope you guys get a chance to go for Bazaar Ramadhan in SS18 ( :
It's the nearest one from SS15 and it'll be there for a month tehe.
If the food's not good, go for the atmosphere ( :
Go for the company.
Go to experience the joys of choosing your food & making small talk with the friendly mak ciks.
Go to experience what is truly Malaysian.

Do I detect a little patriotism here ?
Hmm, I guess one can't help being proud of what one's country has that other countries don't huh.
Even with all the political crap happening.
So yes, Happy Merdeka !
Or should I say, Selamat Hari Merdeka ?
Whichever, have a good Merdeka people ( :

Make it seem like milleniums.

Hahaha. Hah hah hah. Hah hah hah.
heh :D

Been quite a while eh ?

I decided to come on and check out my blog & I see omgwthhello !
Last post : July 16.

And I was like, wei, that's like.. milleniums ago wei ! LOL

I've had so many blog entries that I wanted to post yknow, I mean like really, I prepared all the respective pictures lah & like a list of what I wanted to post about (including my brother's departure back to Aus, which was like on the 27th of JULY) hahahaha.

But could never find the time to.
Maybe it was because I'd place more importance on other stuff tehe.
Reading, movies etc yknow.

And yet, I'm not gona post up any picture-filled, emotion-induced, intense blog entries now haha.
Cos I have no time.
When I do specific entries I like time to be on my side.
So I can leisurely think what happened & what to type & so on.
But today will not be the day.
Because time is not on my side.
HELLO. LAW TRIALS TMW hinthint.

So today will be just any ordinary post of only words ( :
Economics exam was today.
MCQ sucked like insaneinsane.
But I found that the essay section was fine, cos I like macro, so I could answer the exchange rate question. Data response, I don't know if I did it well. Hard to say.

Right now, it's 6pm here in the small cozy urban area of SubangJaya haha.
And may I say, I am currently really loving the weather.
Not many people know this, but I love the rain ( :
It's raining & it's cold & it's so soothing & I just love it when it rains. I just love to hear the rain.
With the exception, of course, that I am not going anywhere or am in a place where I have to go out & walk in the rain when dressed up nicely.
But otherwise, I like the rain when it's so cold & it just puts me in such a comfortable state.
So snuggy & makes me happyhappy.
Which is funny, because I don't think of myself as a melancholy person, or one who is dreary ( though who says that ppl who like rain are dreary ? heh, it's an assumption) or even one who doesn't like the sun cos it makes us sweat, makes us thirsty, makes us tan etc.

In fact, I also really do love the sun ( :
You get to go out and jog & play games.
It's more convenient to go places.
It feeds the grass which feeds the cows who feed me. Hahaha lol.

But I'm always always in a better mood when it's drizzling & I can hear the pitter patter of the raindrops & it makes me wish that I'm in England cos then I'll be sitting by the window sill looking out the window at the meadows (if I'm in the country) and see little animals scuttling about trying to get shade under thornbushes or at the streets (if I'm in a city) and see people scurrying about with their umbrellas, running errands, and trying to seek shelter under the awnings of bistros.
It's such a change of atmosphere.

And I lovelovelove the aftermath of a rainy day. It's so pleasant just to stand in the garden where the floor tiles are still wet with raindrops & you can literally see the fallen raindrops clinging on to the leaves before it loses it's grip and hits the cold hard cement floor and splatters into a million diamonds & it's still a little chilly & the air just smells better. Or at least I think it smells better. If it's acid rain I tell you, crush everything I've said earlier. But then again, there is only ever acid rain here in Malaysia haha.
Okay, fine, maybe not only ever, but most of the time.
Oh well, I still wana look at it as if it's not acid rain but good ol' harmless rain ( :

Some people think it's so depressing to be in cold weather, like when it's raining, and it's always nice to wake up & see the sun shining & yadayada, especially when it's winter.
But I like both I think.
Not sure bout winter, but I reckon I'll be okay with it ( :
Cos it's nice.

I can't believe I just typed all of the above paragraphs (if you can call them paragraphs) about the weather. It reminds me of like an awkward situation between a guy & a girl (most of the time when a guy likes a girl) and when it's so silent (tension silence, not comfortable silences you have with friends/loved ones),
the guy goes :
Soo.... nice weather today eh ?

She goes :
Er.. yeah.. uh-huh.

He goes :
Erm, yup, okay I gtg.

As he walks away a monologue's raging in his head :
Wth, you talked about the weather ? The weather ? Ohmygoodness lah(applies onnly if he's Msian of whoever that uses 'lah') how lame can you get wei. One chance & you blew it. One chance & you talk about the weather ?! Can die of shame lor.

Hahahahaha.
But too bad, my situation's different.
So I'm entitled to talk about the weather.
Cos it's something I like, not some teenage odd situation. Lol

And just as I was typing about how I think I won't mind winter & how I like the melancholy weather, my mum just told me my auntie's going to Ireland for Christmas !
And I'm like whattttt. It's gona be winter then ! Omgoodness lah how cool is that.
Literally how COOL is that haha. White Christmas !
And Ireland ! With the Irish & their wonderful accent.
And the Irish countryside ! Ohmygoodness lah.
And everything is Irish !
Irish cars Irish chocolates Irish food which you'll eat & the waste product will be Irish poo ( I wonder if it'll be green, cos somehow the Irish're always connected to the colour green : think shamrocks & leprechauns haha) Irish GUYS & Irish GIRLS (for the guys out there haha) Irish animals Irish flooring tiles Irish grass Irish everything else !
I'm so westernized lol.
And after typing it out so many times, I feel that the word 'Irish' looks so weird to me now. Haha do you get that sometimes ? When a word just starts to look funny for no particular reason lol.


Oh well, that's just bout all the thoughts I have to give today ( :
I shall be back with a vengeance (think : loads of pictures [related to the blog entry, of course] & loads of events that I didn't post about [which means alot of stories to come ( :] & more of me rambling on tehe) during the holidays which is after my AS trials.

For now, I have to hit the showers (not the books yet lah) & makan & then hit the books.
Oh speaking of books, nothing related to studying haha, MPH had this 30% & 50% off certain books (but the range was big) and I got new books & I'm very happy ( :
Just done reading The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time by Mark Haddon, and in my opinion, it is an exceptional book. No wonder it's a Whitbread Award Winner & international bestseller. I've always seen in on the shelves but never really bought it cos somehow forgot or smtg, and I got it this time & I absolutely positively love it.
That's just my opinion though, cos I found out that my friend didn't like it that much, she never really got the story.
One man's meat is another's poison, I guess ( :

It's about an autistic child, and the whole book is written by the autistic child in the story. Not narrator. It Christopher Boone, writing out how he sees life as he solves the murder of Wellington, his neighbours dog. It's actually quite spectacular cos you get to see how an autistic child's mind work. He labels the chapters with prime numbers, so the first chapter starts at '2' I think this is so ingenious. The child is a total star in Math & Physics even though he may be lacking other areas because of his autism but most autistic children are like that. They have something they're really good at, either drawing or they have a way with animals of they're math geniuses like Christopher.
So it's a good read, I would say.

The other 3 books are Please, Daddy, No. Which is about the author himself who was abused by his dad, and his dad left after abusing his sisters. He comes back one day, and the author finds himself unable to hold back his anger.

Then we have The Book Thief which I think will be a good read too.
And Can You Keep A Secret. Just chic lit & it's pretty old but I haven't read it so I got it. In the middle of it now & it's proving to be... just like any other chic lit lol.

It's still raining. And I feel so happy at this moment haha I just like it alot ( :

Special thanks to BenJon who is constantly reminding me to update my blog ! HAHA.
I feel so bad, cos he's all the way in NZ & he reads my blog & I haven't been blogging.
Do not fear, I shall blog more frequently during the hols ( :
And I see FionaGan has also started reminding me to update : D goodie. I have 2 update-your-blog-personnels hahahha.

Okays I got sidetracked because of the books, & so am off to continue the rest of my mundane life. I always wonder why I can't have special instant life changing instances in my life like : I receive this letter from some long lost grandfather or uncle or whoever that's like a millionaire & I've inherited some big money because he recently passed away, or like I have a long lost twin sister somewhere in the Amish country separated at birth lah somehow or any other crazy instances you can think of. Because life right now is pretty as per usual. Mundane. Wake up go college study come back study eat sleep. Exam period : Just switch the first 'study' with 'examing'.

Okay, I digressed again heh.
Right, really off this time.
All the bestest for your upcoming trials fellow A Levels people !
Take care, enjoy your day ahead as I'm sure to enjoy mine ( it's still raining !)
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