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Monday, December 31, 2001
01:04 a.m. Eastern Standard Time
Today, we went shopping!!!
It is a very important event, shopping. Anyway, the night before, the family had planned to go to Woodbury Common, this open-air kinda shopping outlet. As in, each shop had it's own building, and you had to flit in and out of shops. However, when people started trying to wake me up, I refused to get out of bed because it was too cold and I was not going to go flit in and out of the bloody cold!
So they finally agreed to go to Jersey Garden Mall, instead, which is a nice, all-indoor mall. Ahhh. So I got out of bed to go shopping!!!
My wonderful mommy bought me all sorts of stuff! She bought me my nice new coat. Black, of course. 100% wool, which is very important. It has huge pockets and a very cool hood. I also got black Timberland boots. Yay.
Other purchases: bright red earmuffs, a purse that turns into an evening bag, and tons of bras, panties, thongs, and socks.
When we came home, Dorah and I de-tagged everything, and tried some of the clothes. I put on her denim skirt, and she decided to give it to me. She put on her red skirt with knee-length boots and she looked most deliciously tacky. It gets on my nerves that my mother only finally allows us the cool winter shoes after we're about to experience our last winter. Sheesh.
Anyway, tomorrow is New Year's Eve! I'm looking forward to it. In slight confusion about what I'm doing tomorrow. May not be blogging that night, because I may be out all night, obviously. But then again, I might. Who knows? Will see.
Saturday, December 29, 2001
10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
So today, I got screamed at to wake up. Out of no where, I'm told I have only five minutes to get ready! Crazy, insane people. Of course they don't really mean it so I go off and shower and stuff. All these lies people tell me to rush me. I don't need to be lied to to hustle! Sheesh.
Anyway, we went off to Connecticut to go a-visiting Kak Zahirah and Abang Malik for Eid. I got extremely car sick on the way. Misery, misery. I do not like being in the back seat of a car anymore. Even when I'm a huge, rich bigshot one day, I'm going to be in the driver's seat of a BMW 318i or the current-date equivalent, thank you. No limousines with drivers for me.
Anyway, we got there and had good food. I ate two helpings. Sort of. More eclairs than wholesome healthy food. I went online over there. Abang Malik has Windows XP now. Let me just say that it is bright. Bright blue, bright green, and bright vermillion red. Urgh. Well, it was definitely fast. Sigh.
Right. Back to the point. After three whole miserable days, my boyfriend finally e-mails. Oops, he says. He didn't realized I had already sent him an e-mail. Or something. If he were here, I'd kick his butt for the misery and agony he put me through. I'd kick his butt, bite his neck, and squeeze him breathless. Males are morons.
When we got back, parents went out to some other Eid function. I sat in front of the computer.
Ladies and gentlement, my pictures of Mexico are ready for display! Please block out a huge chunk of your time to visit:
Warning, there are a lot of pictures and a lot of words to go along with the pictures. You can bet for the past three days, it has been a challenge to make 'em.
I expect feedback. As in e-mail.
Saturday, December 29, 2001
01:44 a.m. Eastern Standard Time
Apologies for missing a day of blogging. Parents slept before I could blog and I woke up too late the next day and decided to wait until its end to blog.
Yesterday Kak Mi, Dorah and I lined up for one and a half hours at the TKTS office in hopes of purchasing cheap Broadway show tickets. Unfortunately, when we finally reached the office in what was a long line in the middle of freezing winter, we discovered that we didn't want to watch any of the shows they were selling tickets for. Sigh.
We went home and I drowned myself in Kak Mi's book, The Villa by Nora Roberts. It was excellent and very nice.
The next day, I ate the last can of corn, and baked up some of those TGIF's cheese teasers, while reading old books of mine. We were supposed to eat dinner at Carmine's tonight, but after much calls and stuff, Mom decided against it. Sigh.
Then my bratty little sister decided to go see Lord of the Rings, which really annoyed me, because I wanted to see that on Christmas Eve, but she was the one who said, "No, we should wait until we can use the cheap tickets!" Then she pulls this crap on me.
So just to kick her butt, Kak Mi and I went to see Ali, the movie that she has been wanting to see like crazy. Take that! Hah!
Just a little warning to all those who would see Ali. Read about him before you do, or it might not make sense. If you don't know who the hell is Elijah Muhammad or Malcolm X or Bundini or the current events of Muhammad Ali's life (like the Vietnam War), you have no business watching this movie, because you won't understand a thing that's going on. This movie assumes you know the facts about Muhammad Ali as if you studied him in your middle-school textbook.
Key instructions: read up about Muhammad Ali before you watch the movie.
I would love to know what Ali thought of this movie of him....
Wednesday, December 26, 2001
10:40 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
Another wonderful day! Though quite cold. It went under zero Celcius today.
Kak Mi (who arrived the day we came back from Mexico) and I met Mom and my little sister at Cosmetics Plus at 52nd Street and 3rd Avenue to enjoy the second last day of the shop's existence. Yes, people, my favourite make-up store in New York will soon be gone. Farewell, professsional hair stuff, fancy make-up and sexy perfumes! Hey, at least I now have whole piles of make-up to rival a professional make-up artist. Never mind that the quality isn't up to the standard. We're looking at quantity here!
After that we ate at McDonald's. The guy who served us, ironically, seemed to have just come from Mexico. Couldn't understand our orders very well. Sigh.
Then Mom dragged us to Odd Job, this shop of cheap stuff, but I didn't find anything of interest to me. Mom went back to work, while Dorah, Kak Mi and I dragged all the stuff back to the apartment, where we promptly hibernated against the miserable cold.
I woke up to realize Mom had started cooking dinner. Yay. We had sweet and sour turkey and fried rice! Yum! Happy joy. Shall hunt up some stuffing later. Maybe mix in a little corn with that....
After dinner, I went online to mess around with a new page I'm making to display my photos of Mexico. No photos displayed yet, because the batteries of my digital camera inconveniently died. Recharging, however, worry not, and I should have the page up and ready for display around tomorrow or the day after. If you want to see the layout, go ahead. I'm not sure if it's the ideal layout, but it's all I got right now.
Do you think I should put all my pictures on one webpage or break it up into several pages? E-mail me and let me know your preference.
Wednesday, December 26, 2001
12:58 a.m. Eastern Standard Time
Today, we paid homage to the Bristish Christmas by having a Christmas lunch. It was delicious but very filling. Turkey and corn and mashed potato and baby carrots and stuffing. Yum. Other people also had brussel sprouts and cranberry sauce/jelly. I was so very stuffed.
We watched The Godfather on TV part-way after that, then went to visit family friends ten blocks down and finished the movie there, while having more food.
Godfather II started playing and so we made our excuses to pay homage to the American Christmas by going to the movies. We watched Ocean's 11 at the cinema. It was awesome. I had a great time.
Today was a good day. Make sure you read all about my Mexican holiday!
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Hello!
Name
- HANI
Selamat
Gender
- Completely female.
Birth date - Mid-Capricorn 1981.
Occupation
- Student
acquiring a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing.
Loves of my life - Me,
Myself and I. Plus Tariq.
Living Arrangements - An apartment in the city of Kuala Lumpur and a house in the suburbs of Petaling Jaya.
Latest News - Back in New York, celebrating Christmas!
Picture of the Week - My family, behind the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan.
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Special - Mexico
NOSE
by HANI Selamat
My nose is falling off
I can feel it
I can nearly see it
My nose is coming off Don't tell me
otherwise
Such words are all lies
My nose is falling off My nose hasn't
fallen yet
I've been waiting and waiting
It's still there just hanging
My nose hasn't come off yet I couldn't
wait
It got too late
So I cut my own nose off
Pitas.com
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