Somewhat done with my second protein review. :s But I still feel very... worried. Work is such a pain.

I can tell this entry is turning into an unproductive ramble (when is it not, eh?), so you can go now, and save yourself some time. Ahah.

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Um, just wanna post a HeySayJUMP vid.



How is it that HeySay gets such a cool vid and NEWS gets a cartoon-y one!? Okay, maybe it's in the context of the song, but still! This PV ekes coolness. Why can't NEWS have more cool. JE needs more cool and less lame sometimes (although the lame is part of why they're so entertaining), and this worked. Also: wow. Yamada and Yuto all grown up. @_@ I don't think I need more things to spaz about, thank you.

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Why did the APEX raya thing not happen? Sad. But I was too busy anyway to go ask or anything. My head's been such a mess lately. And the semester has reached the typical breaking point - the time when work is stretching everyone thin and everyone is just waiting eagerly for the term to end.

I think I need some shuteye. Finally finished referencing the protein review at 12+ last night. Only slept at 4 am after composing crazy long email to Duckie (hello, I really cannot wait for you to come back home already!) and then woke up at 9 am groggily to tutor Faisal with math. Some rest would be good.

Yu Jie] Toma roasting corns as a boy says:
watching for the 29349399439439th time!
so OTP it hurts says:
ARE YOU INSANE.
so OTP it hurts says:
OVERDOSE.

I'm not gonna lie and say I'm still sick. Am not at all. Think I'll wake up fit as a fiddle again tomorrow. And so now I have no more excuse about pushing aside my protein work. It's just agonizing: looking for information, and then realising just how much of it there actually is, and having to figure out what's important and what needs to be written down and what doesn't. And deciphering a million acronyms like MX and EM and SAXS and SCDS which all stand for crazy long names for protein elucidation methods. And having to read up on each of them because I really don't understand how they work. This is so crazy.

And it so does not help when JE is just at the edge of my thoughts every time and I'm ceaselessly wondering if Yu Jie has spammed my inbox with more emails filled with spaz and links and translations from Baidu. By the way, Baidu is a treasure trove of untapped JE information. The english-speaking fandom cannot catch up. I think my brain needs rest from all the over-the-top squealing and fangirling. Too much excitement kills. :P But since when have I ever taken care of my health?

Oh, the joy of roping people into your fandom. :D Have you ever tried it??? It fills me with crazy excitement.

Just ask me to talk about any of the things I've fangirl-ed about. I think you'll be so shocked at how much more alive I become. It is insane. Haha. Like the time I bumped into Izzati on the way home and I started to tell her about Lymond, and she went like @_@. She had to hush me and say, "Okay, okay, relax!", cause I think my eyes had started popping out from the excitement of telling her of the awesomeness of Lymond. >.<

And am also slowly dragging Yujie into the wormhole that is JE. Haha.

Yu Jie: ohgod save me from this demented obsession, shamiah!

Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Okay, on a totally separate thing: Eunice's birthday! On friday, Oct 10th, once I was done with my rather traumatic biophysics midterm, I went over to have sushi (again!) at Downtown East with Eunice, to celebrate her 21st. :) I handed over the singing card from the birdieocracy to her.


Success! I think she was happy with the card. We had good sushi. I totally love sushi now, that I'll actually crave it at times. How could I have missed out on such awesome food for all my life before this? And me and Eunice talk like we always do - non-stop. About everything and anything. About people's boyfriends and like 'why can't people be sane when they're in a relationship?!' (I suppose love does weird things to your head.) And bashing about Sarah Palin. And the stupidity of people. Ahak. We indulge ourselves at times like this. Awesome lunch/dinner.

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On something else: I've mentioned in passing how my littlest cousin has grown very prettily and is now the best-looking boy in my family (IMO! :D) and looks like Ikuta Toma! Haha, maybe just a little. Anyway, photos from the Sakura lunch back in May, when we celebrated Mother's Day together.

My brother is the one in the black shirt, and Ikuta lookalike is in blue.

Emo shot!

I think the resolution here is quite bad. But basically, I made the boys cam-whore for me. :P Using my camera's multishot function.

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This weekend has been a total waste with regard to schoolwork. I spent the whole of yesterday out raya visiting. Then when I got home, I fell sick. Still feeling a little under the weather. Had a little flu, and my throat feels like the Sahara. And the whole of today was an open house affair with little gap between guests, and though I intended (key word being 'intended') to do some work and even printed out my stochastics assignment worksheet, I ended up playing with Aliyah who is so uber pretty (and who apparently looks like chibi me - I am flattered :P) and pouring drinks and chatting away. I love family. And I love cute babies. And I am still feeling heck-care about school at the moment. What with Yu Jie being online and distracting me about Maou. :P

This is pretty little Aliyah, my cousin's daughter. She's so prettily fair; like pink fair. So cute. And pretty long lashes, shielding uber kawaii eyes. And gosh, I love her eyebrows; they're perfect.

Oh, why are you so pretty.

I'm ending this entry here. With prettiness. Why am I so lame. Okay, ja!

Matt Damon, one of my favourite actors, talking some sense about Sarah Palin. I think 'Bad Disney Movie' is a good description of the situation. LIKE SERIOUSLY. IS THE US SERIOUS ABOUT PUTTING THIS WOMAN IN POWER??? And the rest of the world has to be more aware of how much world peace is in jeopardy right now. Oh my god. This is just so scary, I can't believe it. right you are, Matt Damon - this is just ABSURD.



She also said she would never second guess Israel's military decisions or moves??? Does she need me to hate her more??? Goodness. GOODNESS!!!

I hate it when people say how Palestine rebels are evil and mad for proclaiming their desire to wipe Israel off the face of the earth; wait, wait: no, I'm not condoning that Palestinians and Israelis let the animosity persist and fight each other forever; quite the contrary. Everyone, deep inside, wants world peace, eh? I just want people to realise and understand how the Israeli state got created in the first place. -___- Do you know? Do you, do you? (If you don't, I suggest you find out.)

Then you tell me who the bad guys are. Sarah Palin. Stop talking crap.

I can't seem to spare time and effort for my blog these days. So I'm going to make this quick. This is the adorable Upin and Ipin from Malaysian TV, going through the ins and outs of Ramadan. SOOO CUTE. Links to the other episodes are easily available. :)

Tengok, jangan tak tengok! This is the Terawih episode. I love the part where Upin scolds Ipin: "Tengah sembahyang mana boleh cakap!" HAHA.





Slew of random Raya and Ramadan photos.

Spot the Ikuta Toma-kun lookalike below :P! Haha. I swear, my cousin looks like Toma. He's the one nearest the bottom right-hand corner. My littlest cousin, now all grown up and prettiest of the boys in my family. Sis and me have taken to calling him Ikuta-kun in code. Ahak! >.< (I wonder if Yujie is protesting vehemently now. Haha.)

I hate how I'm the smallest and therefore get shoved to the front of the picture everytime! I look so out of place.

And here's a bit of APEX @ Irsyad!

This was during the iftar (= break fast) together on 26th Sept, if I recall correctly. It was damn nice lah, eating and praying out in the open. Look at all the bags of porridge and dates all nicely arranged.

Then we had APEX phototaking and farewell, cause the kids were going to have PSLE already. We spent about an hour saying goodbyes and cam-whoring, mostly. What sweet memories APEX gave.

I think someone commented here: "Eh, macam models untuk First Lady seh!"

Totally love this shot. And we have so many variations of this, cause we spend like don't know how long draping ourselves around the flag poles. Haha.

That's all for now. And that took longer than I meant to! Argh. INFP again eh - I Never Follow Plans.

SELAMAT HARI RAYA!!! :)

I should probably be putting up raya pics (close to 300 from the first day itself, I tell you! *LE GASP!* oh, the hazards of the digital camera era.) but since when have I done what I should be doing? Just thinking of putting up the photos here, waiting for blogger to upload it and all, already makes me impatient. So. When I have the mood to put up some pretty here, then I will.

But now. I am feeling a little happy and a little high because for the first time in a long, long time, all birds (a.k.a my friends) are in attendance for an msn convo, reminiscent of old secondary school days. It is a wonderful feeling. :D and as usual, crazy conversations abound. Times like this, I feel like I've never grown up, and I never will.

I had a good day today. Because my second driving lesson went well. And am looking forward to more driving. And Eunice and me had a crack of a time coming up with the theory that girls may be known to love romance and sappiness, but the ultimate truth of it all is that, guys are the true saps. Really. Just think about it. Do you have a father/brother/friend/boyfriend who secretly loves Cecilia Ahern novels, sobs over the tragedy of Jack and Rose from Titanic or listens to sappy ballads on repeat before they sleep? Come on, I know you know a guy like that. And if you think harder, which gender has been churning out sappy love poetry throughout history? Men, of course. Female poets rarely wax lyrical about the eyes of their paramours being like stars in the heavens or comparing their lovers to flowers or the moon or other splendours of nature. I mean, just look at Sylvia Plath and her scary and morbid themes. Most of the time, men are the ones going on and on and ooooonnnn about how I can't live without you and you are the sunlight in my universe etc.

And ladies just look on in wonder and go, oh, okay. *blink blink*

This just so corroborates my theory that men are also extremely needy. Ahak. But I shall stop here before I ramble endlessly and inadvertently offend the opposite sex further. Not that I have ever consciously acknowledged the fact that I may have non-female readers. Hm.