Teacup.

Between the last post and this, I went on a vacation to Malaysia and Thailand for about four weeks … and I’ve seen and learned a lot, I guess. Of course, I snapped a lot of photos. I’ll post some of them here once I’m less tired.

I also did a lot of shopping. I think in total, I must have spend something like NZD $1500+ in both countries together. It was a lot of fun. I definitely recommend going to Thailand for a holiday. It is incredibly beautiful.

Post more later.

Well, hello world! I’m typing this on my brand new laptop. I have to say, the keyboard is a bit of getting used to. It’s much more “square and set” than my previous ones. And the arrow-pad is the hardest. The left and right keys are normal sized. The up and down arrow key is half the height of the left/right arrow and is a bitch getting used to as every time I want to press up, nothing happens because I’m pressing the Shift key! And when I want to go down, the screen “jitters” because I’m pressing the up and down button. It’s so freaking tiny! Why, HP, WHY YOU DO THIS TO ME. The dead laptop was a HP pavilion as well, so I don’t understand why the ugly change on the arrow pad??

The stupidly-designed arrow pad on my brand new baby.

Anyway, moving onto more delicious things! A couple of incredibly kind soul (Bekki & Eva) finally identified the incredibly sexy dance clip in this post. The track is called ‘Abandoned’ by Jay Park and Dok2. Gah, I’m all squeee about it, still.

No matter how many times I look at it, everything is hot. I don’t recommend checking out my Last.FM profile for the moment. If I’m not listening to Stephen Fry’s Harry Potter audiobooks, it’s full of Jay Park’s Abandoned. Seriously. Just one tiny thing. I love love love the ending (no singing) and the slight drums kinda…roll. They roll, I roll, that’s how we roll for the time being.

Why my lack of angsty posts lately, I hear you ask? Well, let me introduce my brand new baby, the HTC Desire HD.

I got it about two weeks ago, and the Martin Fields screen protector has already been applied to the phone, though you can’t see it because it’s the awesome powers of a Martin Fields screen protector at work.

Right, description about the photo clockwise…top-left is the main page. I changed the background from that really colorful default looking background to a more subtle-toned so as to not hurt my eyes too much. There’s a bar in the middle there and I don’t know what the middle icon is for. The ugly-pink bar is just covering some sensitive information. Don’t think too much of it…

Top-right features one of the “side-screen”. I call that my music screen for incredibly obvious reasons. I like the fact that the bottom bar which contains links to all your applications, phone application and personalization settings are there in ANY screen. Just as I was taking the picture, my dad sends me a message so, pink bar to cover sensitive information, as per usual.

Bottom-right is the back. The usual culprit makes it’s appearance (camera, flash, loudspeaker). The black panel on the side is where the battery pack is (I’m 99% sure) and let me assure you, it is a real bitch to remove the panel to access the battery. I literally had to PRY the panel away using my fingernails until I thought something would snap. Nothing snapped…except my heartbeat stop for a moment when I thought I went too far and broke something.

Bottom-left is the landscape keypad layout. I find this way much easier to txt/email than the squished version when using the phone normally. But even in landscape, I’m still having some difficulty getting used to touch-screen typing. I’m afraid to say it…but this baby is too sensitive sometimes…*ducks flying knives and pitchforks*

One thing that is a bit weird I thought is the lack of video-calling capabilities (re: lacking camera on the front). My old Sony Ericsson K800i had that feature, why couldn’t the Desire HD have it? It’s no biggie but I just thought it was weird. On the other hand, if the Desire HD does have this capability, can someone let me know where I can find this?

OK, this entry took me two hours and it’s now 23:59, Sir Awesome here, signing out!

This happened a few days ago. I wanted to dig a hole in the ground and bury my head in there and never ever surface. Well, maybe I’ll surface when I’m over this dieing shame and embarrassment of mine.

My father took the whole week off so him, my brother and I went to a mall. Nice family day out. I walked into a clothing store…when I saw this pair of denim shorts which were like a creation from the crème de la crème of designers. It was calling my name. I hate to say this but they were perfect! I had to try.

So I took a size 8 and excitedly went to the changing rooms to try this creation created just for me. That’s when things starting going down hill. I could only get it up to mid-thigh (how ironic) and it just. Wouldn’t. Go Up. Anymore. So I thought to myself, “OK, maybe the regular-sized Cookies & Cream Mega Shake from Wendy’s the day before wasn’t the best idea.”

I walked back to the rack with a bit of worry and took a size 10. On second thoughts, I took a size 12 just in case. I really really really wanted those pair of jeans. The 10 only came up 2cm more than the size 8. And now I’m panicking, size 12 have to fit. Otherwise, I will have a small portion of dinner and go crazy on Zumba. If I had Zumba that is.

I managed to wear the size 12 properly but I worried the seams at the butt-crack would split if I sat or squat too long. At this point, I just went “Fuck it. If I went up 4 sizes in a few weeks, I do not deserve that pair of jeans which just screams my name.” So I put both sizes back and stormed out of the shop. There was a size 14 but…hey, I just thought I went up four sizes. I did not deserve to try it on anymore.

So I went out and told my dad about that horrid shopping experience. Then my brother said casually, “Maybe it’s the kids section…” And I went…ldfhalcskhfFUCKFUCKFUCKldskfjgahlsdjfhDAMNDAMNDAMNldkfjghlsjdfDIEDIEDIE. This was the stupid store’s layout. In my defense, there was NO signs/banners that said it was the stinking kids section.

I thought…    ? ? ?  Actual Store Layout

I won’t say anymore about this experience. I might be tempted to go back, run into the store with a balaclava, quickly pay, run out…AND WEAR THE STUPID PAIR OF JEANS THAT SCREAMS MY NAME and gave me so much grief. By the way, this is a poor poor example of the jeans. It was roughly like that but plain black and the lower hem wasn’t rolled up. It looked very simple and nice.