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Saturday, November 24, 2001
05:07 a.m. Kuala Lumpur Standard Time

So sleepy, but I must blog properly because I won't be blogging for a few days. I am off to New York tomorrow. While you are all comfortable sitting in front of your computers, expecting my blog, I shall be instead, stuck in the economy seat of some miserable Boeing.

Today, I broke-fast at Mega Mall with Tina. I bought an Eid card for Tariq's parents. It is a cute cartoony card. Thought about getting a more formal, all-pretty one, but that felt too formal and so "business-acquaintance" which was not the effect I was looking for, for sure. Tina and I also went into the sex shop on the top floor of Mega Mall. I bought this very cool keychain in the form of a mini whip. Haha. Run when next you see me, for I now wield a whip!

After that, Tina helped me pack. Now, it's only toiletries left to pack. Tina is a good and amazing person. I admire her very much, because I could never be that helpful to another. My idea of helping another person pack is to give a running commentary of that other person's actions while lying down on that other person's bed. After that I drove Tina back to the house. Then Akak called, and asked me to go out with her clubbing, there and then.

I didn't have much time to change. I went in my navy blue dress hand-me-down from Kak Mi. Thankfully I am amazingly hot and sexy and I look good in any old thing. I picked up Akak and we went to a club called Orange. They normally play your typical pop songs and somehow make 'em sound worse than ever. This time, there was some Jay guy. (Oh dear. I knew his name, but I'm too sleepy now.) Good music. Fun music.

I also discovered that my blue dress is good for swirling. My skirt swirled and swirled, but this idiot bad dancer in a white t-shirt kept dancing near me in hopes I would dance with him, and thereby cramping my space. He just wouldn't get the hint that I wasn't looking his way at all.

After the DJ left, Akak, a few of her close friends, and I went to Brickfields to eat. I had ghee thosai. Is that how you spell it? I'm not sure. Good food. Dropped Akak and friends at friends' apartment, then came back. So very sleepy now.

Shall blog again as soon as possible, so keep checking, okay?

Thursday, November 22, 2001
11:12 p.m. Kuala Lumpur Standard Time

I went out with Yu San today! :) I picked her up and we went to SS2 whereupon I returned my romance novels and got money. Then I went to Georgetown and bought eyedrops and baby powder. Yu San and I had fun just looking around the store at all sorts of stuff. We looked at shampoos and conditioners and make-up, of course.

Then we headed for my apartment and we watched half of Legally Blonde, before hanging out on my bed, just gossiping. Yu San is impressed by the organization of my wardrobe. It is organized by type of clothing, then by hue of colour. Well, the hanging ones are organized by hue of colour. Anyway, I told Yu San all sorts of things she didn't want to know, and she refused to tell me all sorts of things that I wanted to know, and we had loads of fun.

I drove her home and went back to my house. I slept. Woke up, did a little reading while waiting for fast-breaking time. Akak and Abang Hussein came over! I ate lots of rice and chicken and japanese beancurd a.k.a. tofu and mango, of course. Then we prayed together as a family, which I haven't done in a long while, and it was good and nice. We played around with the nephews a bit, looked at the wedding photos of Babang/Kak Lina and Abang Hussein/Akak, and then the latter couple left.

Tina and I went to 7-11. She bought me a small Cadbury's milk chocolate. The 40 sen (cents) one. I lugged my laundry and my suitcase into the car, and chugged off to the apartment.

Time to pack! Tomorrow's the last day for Malaysians to pester me until February!

Wednesday, November 21, 2001
11:32 p.m. Kuala Lumpur Standard Time

I was pulling an all-nighter just for fun. See what happens when you have nothing to do but read romance novels, sleep and surf.

Unfortunately I succumbed to sleep around tennish, I think. In the morning, of course.

So it was only around four or so that I got my ass out to college and got my mother's paperwork done. See, United Nations pays a part of her children's education expenses, so they need all sorts of paperwork for it. United Nations is a bureaucracy too, unfortunately. I was running around and around and around. College is a bureaucracy too. At least it wasn't as bad as in NYU. They only have four offices here. NYU had a million.

I finally got all the papers filled and signed. Drama over, I went off to reward myself with romance novels. Rented two.

I picked up my contact lenses next! Lovely new permanent contact lenses. But indeed, they are great commitment. Renu Multiplus multipurpose solution is not enough for permanents. No, I must use super-strong CibaVision pile of crap. Different bottle for cleaning, different bottle for rinsing, different bottle for storing, and the stupid once-a-week protein tablets. They didn't mention all of that. If they had, I would have probably said, "To hell with contacts!" Then again, I might have said okay in most meek manner. Sigh.

After that I went to the house and read romance novel, as has become my routine. I ate fried chicken, curry puffs and burgedel (this fried potato/egg concoction). Still too lazy to eat rice. I start fasting tomorrow!

After finishing a book, I watched The Practice and ate mangoes with Tina. Seriously, people, these are good mangoes and you should buy 'em. RM10 for 3 kilos. ;)

Now, excuse me, I gotta go figure out how to clean and store my goddamned new contacts.

Wednesday, November 21, 2001
12:15 a.m. Kuala Lumpur Standard Time

If you go to Tariq's blog, you can read his version of what happened in the wee hours of the morning. Kuala Lumpur Standard Time, that is. It was evening on his side.

My side of the story? He just hit a sensitive spot. Like making fun of a man's small dick. I hate being made to wait. Makes me feel quite inferior.

I tried going to sleep since I had been waiting forever, but I couldn't go to sleep because my self-esteem was being battered by being made to wait. So I got up and started talking to Tariq. He was, like usual, too busy making himself feel miserable to make me feel better, but he did make me feel a little better.

He finally went off to find food (at least I think so; he may have not). I still couldn't sleep, so I decided to pamper myself with the facial mask I bought along with my boy's facial wash last week, when I went out with Nina. I did the full works: facial wash, facial mask, tone and moisturizer.

I even put facial cotton soaked in warm milk on my eyes. That is an amazing trick for reducing the eyebags, let me tell you. You just warm a little milk for fifteen seconds in the microwave. You put a facial cotton or just any cotton pad, for that matter, in, squeeze out excess, then put on your eyes. Leave to dry. When you peel it off, eyebags are practically gone. Well, significantly reduced, anyway.

Pampering myself made me feel much better. Nothing like treating yourself nice to remind you that you are worth being nice to. I set my alarm clock early because I had made an appointment to send my car for service, then I slept.

Got awakened by several calls. Yu San called first, asking for help. I was barely awake. I managed to tell her that I couldn't help her because I had an appointment. Unfortunately, I fell asleep again and missed my appointment. I realized it when I got a call from my fellow master of ceremonies for the University Foundation Program Graduation Night. The event had gotten cancelled. I looked at the clock, cursed and went back to sleep.

I only awoke much much later. I brushed my teeth, showered, and got dressed. I haven't gone straight into the bathroom from the bed in so long. It felt good.

I dithered and dathered around the apartment for a long time. Finally pushed myself out at around 5:30. Went to rental bookstore like usual. Decided since the day was nearly ending to rent only two books instead of the usual three.

Went back to the house and read one of the books. I ate a little more than before for fast-breaking today. They had fried noodles. Mee, as Malaysians call it. We also had great curry puffs. Babang only bought three, however. I ate a lot of mangoes. We have a lot of mangoes. Daddy's selling it. Anyone want to buy? RM10 for 3 kilos, which is a good deal for mangoes these good.

I went back to my romance novel after fast-breaking. Got a call from Kak Mi, asking me to pick her up from the airport at eleven. So later on, I went off to pick her up.

I got my flight ticket to New York! I'm leaving Saturday afternoon, people. I'll arrive in New York on Sunday morning. I'll be back in Malaysia on 12 February morning. I really should start packing....

After that I followed Babang to the ATM for money for my contact lenses. We went to the Maybank at 222, with the drive-thru ATM. That was quite fun. There should be more drive-thrus. It fits with the KL life-style.

Now, I'm back to waiting for my boyfriend. Sigh. I hate waiting. I wish I at least knew what he was doing so I could tell how long to wait, when to wait, what to do while I'm waiting so I don't feel so much like I'm waiting. What happened to the girl who could treat guys like pieces of shit? Oops. Right. She was a figment of my imagination. That sucks.

Monday, November 19, 2001
11:25 p.m. Kuala Lumpur Standard Time

Today began with a chit-chat with my boyfriend. Tariq's back in London! Who'd have thought I'd ever have cause to be excited about such a statement? Anyway, the good thing about it was that he was back at his computer and able to talk to me! I adore him so much and I can't wait to go visit him!

After that, I went to exchange my romance novels as usual. I was just going to go in and go out. The books were already pre-selected. All I had to do was pick 'em up, put all the books on the counter, give some money, and go out. Just my luck, as got out, the ticket guy had passed my car. Of course I got a whopping ticket of RM100 for not paying for parking. Argh. I was there for like five minutes!

I took advantage of the ticket and parked somewhere else and bought myself McDonald's. It's already been a week but my period doesn't seem to be anywhere near ending. I just know I'm going to end up replacing two weeks of fasting.

I went home and started reading. Then Daddy said I should go buy the dessert for fast-breaking. So Babang, Daddy and I went. I drove. It was fun. Such a strange outing with the two men in my family. They're not really close, Babang and Daddy, while I'm very affectionate. So there I was, bouncing between the two of them, while they kept up this emotional wall between them. Maybe I shouldn't be airing out their business to the public but I love 'em and they're silly. Guys are silly. Nah, they're cowards. :)

Then I went straight back to my book, which got interrupted once more by fast-breaking, which I wasn't hungry enough to eat anyway. It's amazing how with a mere two weeks without aerobics, I'm back to square one when it comes to my appetite. Well, it saves me money. I'm broke. Just got my Maxis bill. Not as much as last month, but still RM130....

As soon as it was polite, I became anti-social once more and went straight back to my romance novel. I finished and joined Tina half-way through an old Malay movie called Ahmad Albab. It's funny how nowadays there's all sorts of rules limiting Malay movies. Malay movies today can't show a man's naked chest, nor show indecent women, but the old movie had a woman holding her baby in the thinnest excuse for a dress. You could see her shape right through it for certain. It was more a negligee than a dress. Then there's P. Ramlee (famous Malay actor and director) in Sarjan Hassan displaying a glorious naked chest.

I fed Sidji the kitten who's not so small anymore and came back to the apartment.

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.

Picture of the Week - Commemorating my boyfriend's birthday...

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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

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