Shopping in the local Chinese supermarket is an adventure of its’ own.

My colleagues adamantly told me to leave my small bag where I kept the usual purse, passports, phone, DS, jewelries etc behind in my room before we set off to the nearby town(???) area behind our company’s factory ground. I’m using the word ‘town’ very very lightly here because the place is really rather tiny and it’s like a few strips of shops and night markets area flanked by a brand new supermarket probably the size of The Store in my hometown. Apparently there were many cases of snatch theft around :\ And my female colleague will not go there alone unless she’s with a guy. Scary.

The two of them picked me up from the building where I am staying in and made our way across the hostels area in the factory. This kind of reminded me of the University hostels environment but of course, there were far more people here than MMU ever had in a semester XD;;; I was informed that they both have a room for themselves whereas the workers from the factory stays in shared room of 6 people. Some people working in the office building itself has to share room as well. Didn’t have a chance to peek in the dorms and rooms myself so I had no idea how it was. Since I’m a guest I am staying in the guest rooms in the office building itself, my own room is like that of a hotel room with attached bathroom and people doing my laundry everyday XD There is a double bed, a fridge, working table and television and air conditioning :3 Apart from the awesome room in Macau last May, this should be the best hotel service I’d ever gotten so far XD

After getting the necessary supplies, the three of us decided to stalk the food department. I was amused at the way wine are just displayed on the shelves right next to things like fruit juices ( because we can’t, in Malaysia ). Since both the colleagues are Taiwanese, they had fun showing me the strange stuff around while being freaked themselves as well. Following my colleague who was shopping for spices and interesting local products as he’s heading back to his home country for holiday the next day we ended up spending the longest time debating which packet of seasonings to get.

Her : Which one tasted better?
Him : Some told me to look for the one with the face of a fat guy.
Her : This one?
Me : There’s some on the next row too
Him : Why are there so many types? O_O And they looks the same!
Me : You know what, the bloke looks kinda different on this packet
Her : Waitaminute .. the text is a bit different. It’s the other way around.
Him : A COPY PRODUCT?!
Everyone : O___O !!!
Me : Uhhh, look for the one with better printing quality? 8D;;;;;

Apparently, they produced imitation their own local famous product too. Including seasonings and stuff XD;;; And yeah, I think we spent a good 15 minutes debating that above XD

Unfortunately, no pictures because I wasn’t allowed to bring anything else apart from myself and some cash and my handphone D: Woes.

PS : Oh yeah, we didn’t get any seasoning with the picture of the fat guy afterall. We got something else altogether. Just to be safe XD;;

PPS : Since my flight are booked, confirmed and paid by the company, I’m gonna take the chance to run around in Hong Kong again next weekend 8D WISH ME LUCK AND LOADS OF FUN!

A little break from the travelogue ( which I had been procrastinating .. and yet I definitely need to work it til Day 05 — simply for a long belated Siam Shade concert report >_> )

My mum called me last night to inform me that my hometown is flooded. It had been raining non-stop for the past two weeks and the water level had rose drastically :\

I’d only experienced actual flood only once when I was in Primary School. My primary school is located right next to the long and treacherous Pahang River so having panic over water level rising is kinda the norm ( our school field is right next to it ) and it made the students happy because school might just closed for the week until the water subside.

The only major flood I’d heard was from my GrandAunt when she tells stories of old from time long forgotten in a galaxy far far away about the time when they practically had to be rescued via motorboats from the flood.

I’m thankful that it’s not even half as serious as my Grandaunt’s story but it’s still pretty depressing to see and recognise landmarks and places that you know being under muddy water like this:

This is the ‘main’ part of the town actually. There’s the major traffic junction just a bit ahead. Yeah my hometown is really tiny and uhhhh …. not pretty XD;;

Pictures from a dear friend and ex-classmate who’s in Mentakab. More pictures from this forum ( but is in Chinese though you can see the pictures )

What truly worries me is that my Mum said water supply had been cut off ( and will probably continues to be so for at least three days ) and there’s not much food around >_>; I hope everyone is alright at home.

ETA @ 5:00p.m. : Apparently the main roads are all under water too O_o; I can’t even go home if I wanted to since it’s all blocked. There’s no water. Nor fresh meat/vegetable. And the departmental stores are all stripped clean of their instant noodles and canned food.

… it’s another embuggerance alright >_>

ETA 02 @ 8:00p.m. : My Mum just called to inform me that TNB had announced that they’ll cut off electricity for the town tonight. The water level had reached the generator area ( some my ex classmates and families stay there too! >_< )

So there's no water and no electricity. The petrol stations all over are empty too because they can't refuel and most people went off to pump it dry already for emergency purposes. Not like they can leave the town either because the roads towards the two major highways to reach the town are under water.

And the biggest slap in the face? State water authority is forced to empty the dam soon. Yes. A DAM because it faces the risk of breaking from the inside due to the water pressure and level. Guess where the water will flow to? I can’t imagine an extra several feet of fast moving water in my hometown now. The newly updated pictures from the forum I posted above are already gnawing at me.

I hate to be so far away from my family when they’re facing something like this. I can’t even find proper word to describe my fear of flood now because I thought my Mum was joking about it last night. I grew up in the town for a good 18 years and I’d never seen anything like this. Massive flood used to be something that happens to OTHER people on newspaper to this oblivious town-kid.

I’m still holding on hoping that it’s something my friends and family blew up the proportion when they tell me of the news because yanno, Mentakab is so DAMNED BORING. I don’t know what’s worse; me being too far away and helpless and worried here or my family and friends being helpless and worried facing the flood.

Guess who locked herself out of her bedroom AND inside the apartment? [ the all important keys are in the bedroom by the way ]

*HEADDESK*

And she was just recovering from bouts of puking from food poisoning the day prior. Whataley XD;;

I’d got out of the fix already though by breaking the lock with as much grace as a monkey on helium. It’s HAMMERTIME! =DDD ( though I’ll have to get new lock asap T____T I *liked* my pretty door knob damnit! )

Oh, since I’d inflicted L’Arc~en~Ciel’s MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM recently on the one and only whiterabbit; I’m plugging a bit more stuff on the song. ( Shush I know their new single’s video is already out; but I still liked this song better okay? )

And.. youtube video of the Korea PENTAROCK festival live performance for MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM ♥ ( the one whiterabbit and I were going all SADFACE about earlier this year because L’Arc [ for me ] and MUSE [ for her ] are performing XD;; )

I’m a huge wuss I tell you. I ALWAYS feel all emo and teary eyes watching this particular performance ;3; But damnit, his voice is just too gorgeous here waaaaa *is a proud fangirl*

I’d finally got around to posting the lyrics ( in kana and romanji ) and a rough translation I did of the song here. Mind you it might not be 100% accurate though. I tried to avoid sounding too literal for the translation because it just kills the beauty of the song *coughs* Scroll down the page for the translation y0 ^^

I’d just got a call from my Mum. Apparently our family home in the hometown was broken into. There is a hole in the main gate now and the glass door is broken. And my GrandAunt’s room is a giant mess now.

The incident was found out by my little brother who was the first to get home in the afternoon. He was fooling around with the souvenir brought home by my GrandAunt a few days back in the living room; before he headed up to his own room and met the thief halfway up.

My little brother was playing with a set of katana. Unsharpened and of course, for decoration. But MAAAAANNN, if only he was still holding on to that when he went to his room. Even though he can’t really hurt anyone with the blade, at least he still can bump something nasty on the bastard’s head when he saw him…

I’m just glad that my brother was not hurt though. Thief ran past him as soon as he was discovered and I was really glad that he didn’t have the time to go through the other rooms in the house yet >_> ( mainly my parents’ room. Mine, is a-okay as long as he didn’t touch my DVDs and music CD collections @_@ )

The whole day passed so very slowly and all I can think of and looking forward to at the end of the day is to watch Sunshine with Aimo, Onion, Booya and Eisu.

Yes. Boring looooooooooooooong Wednesday.

So, I met up around 8p.m. ++ with Booya in Summit while waiting for the others to arrive for dinner when Booya received a phone call. It sounded all fine until he went “You WHAT??!!” on the line.

Apparently Aimo’s car caught fire. Yes. Not your usual breakdown and what not — it caught fire. Cue me going “Her car WHAT ??!!” at Booya. Ditching dinner plan and waving bye bye to Cillian Murphy, we headed off on a rescue mission to get to the stranded ones in the middle of Cyberjaya highways ^^;;

Calling Onion on the phone on our way there, she responded to my call with a slight giggle and said “Apparently Cillian Murphy is SO HOT, our car caught fire heeee”

……

Well, I’m just glad that everyone is okay enough to be making jokes. But that line needs to be immortalised somewhere I swear XD

Tis be an interesting night after all ^^; I just hope the repair doesn’t cost poor Aimo a bomb =_=

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Wanna go so goddamned baaaaaaaaaad T__________________T

『Are you ready？ 2007 またハートに火をつけろ！』
“Are you Ready? 2007 Light my Fire once more!”

WHY WHY WHRYYYYYYY ~!!! I *LOVE* Light My Fire 1997(?) 1998(??) tour *WANGST LIKE NO TOMORROW* Why do you have to use this line to dangle this enormous EXPENSIVE CRAZY CARROT in from of my faceeeeee ???! *headwall*

But I’d just decided two days ago that I’ll not even attempt to go since I have several more important priorities ahead for the next few months. And this comes EAT ME STRAIGHT IN THE FACE |||ORZ

*is now convinced she was born in the wrong continent*

This is the first weekend that I spent here in my apartment since my housemate left not going to work. I’d just realised I don’t

really spend my free weekends in my apartment as I’ll usually end up going to work or when I don’t have work; head back home to my hometown.

Despite the fact that I would dearly love to wake up late on Saturday, I had to rush off to One U before 11:30 ( fine fine, I know 11:30 a.m. isn’t exactly early but gimme a break okay, it’s WEEKEND <3 ) I finally managed to watch The Prestige ♥ that afternoon with Jade and Jeff. And I’m damned happy that I did managed to. It is extremely good and kept me wondering what the will they do next to out-trick each other. I wanted to watch this waaaay back for very obvious shallow reason ( Hey, there be Bale and Jackman, I’m THERE! ) but the movie really just surpassed all my expectation there is to it. <3 Met up with Booya after the movie and headed to a late lunch together. I bid the rest bye-byees after that since they're heading for a 2nd movie that same day which I'll be watching on Sunday.

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