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pretty little things

yes kim, it's sitting on my printer!!!

b-lated update on my b-day

Thanks Deanna!!! Deanna gave me a jar... like a cookie jar. Now I can hide in the jar, and people will have to rub me the right way if they want me to appear!!! (like Christina's song....i'm a genie in a bottle, you gotta rub me the right way)

family alert

The Loos!

I'm 22

It's August 16. It's my birthday, my 22nd birthday. 22 years ago, in Luyang, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, all hell broke lose and a fat boy was born. No one heard heaven rejoicing. All there was were the high-pitched shrieks of a bloody baby. They called him Daron. Daron's first year, was uneventful. There must have been things going on, but Daron can't remember. Daron thinks he was slow in his toddler years. The first five years were spent at a flat with few friends. He had his Moslem friends whom he would follow around the residential area, cursing profanely at passerbys. 6 is a great number. 6 years of being restricted to just Tam Kan Flat, Daron finally exposed himself. Please readers, exposed in the sense of being introduced and not flashing his privates. He was thrown into a Chinese school. Everything went by the book there: from singing a Chinese introductory song (which was supposed to enthuse all the students) to a melodious benediction (with ac...

The Inevitable (what is?)

I was eating Kellogg's cornflakes this morning and noticed something really peculiar. Please observe: If you look carefully, you will see the word 'corny' on that red-colored strip right above the number '10.' I was having a corny breakfast. Right now, I'm looking into my closet and watching my three seldom-worn shirts. One is pink, the other, orange, and another orange. Why did I buy these shirts, and I don't even bother wearing them. The pink is definitely at times too pink for my personality, but the oranges? Maybe I'll save them for Chinese New Year, or Halloween. There is this saying in Malay, "prepare an umbrella before it rains," probably I bought the shirt in preparation for Lerie and Bayu's wedding. Their colors are pink and orange. I'm just a shopaholic. Office this morning was interesting. I got to send my voice over to China and Burma. Talking to very different people. The Chinese was a typical Chinese. PERIOD. ...