Who would have messaged me as early as 6:20am in the morning? There were possible and hopeful candidates running through my head, /;P but I would have never guessed the correct sender, my aunt! The only times she messaged me was when there’s occasion/ celebration, or when she can’t get through to my mum (then I become messenger). So, for one freezing moment I thought there was some kind of big urgent news and she couldn’t get it to my mum. … Opened the message…
“THE VALUE OF A WOMAN:
A woman came out of a man’s rib. Not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior over, but from his side to be equal. Under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved. Have a blessed International Women’s Day!”
OK… Happy International Women’s Day to everyone. I didn’t even know this day’s existence before this. Whatever it is, go girl/women/female power! Hehe…
Last night was the first time I stepped into Kenyalang after having returned to Kuching for 14 weeks. Yes, I can remember since I have to do weekly report! It looked pretty much the same. Oh yeah, I went there to do some ‘shopping’ for my ‘project’. Not the internship project lah, some artwork and needlework. Okay, you can pick yourself up after you are done roaring on the ground. Done?
Yeah, I know my needlework is bad. The only time I ever used needle was during Kemahiran Hidup (Living Skill) ERT projects. Gosh, how I loathed it back then (till now but maybe less?)! The sewing machine seems to hate me even more since it is always tangling up the threads into impossible knots! Anyway I was looking for this shop that sells all kinds of artwork and needlework material. I got a tip from my sister that the shop was called ‘Shen Ling’ which literally means ‘Jungle’. She went there for her KH project. But knowing her, she can’t remember where the shop is. Actually I do have idea where the shop in Kenyalang is, only I don’t know if it is called ‘Shen Ling’. When I asked my ‘helpful’ sister about it, she said it was not that shop (the one I remembered). So when both of us stepped into Kenyalang we don’t know which way to head. In the end I asked a taukeh-nio (lady shopkeeper) of a junk food shop. She was real helpful.
Me: Excuse me, may I know if there is a shop called ‘Shen Ling’?
Shopkeeper: Shen Ling…. Shen Ling… (trying to recall) oh you mean Shu Lin hia?
Me: (Turn back and gave my sister a questioning look)
My Sister: Oh, I think so.
Me: (Turned back to the shopkeeper) We think so.. haha (a paiseh laugh)…
Shopkeeper: Oh the one that sells artwork and needlework materials right? Walk to the other end. It is a bit pass the 100% Discount Store.
Me: Okay, thank you. Thank you lots. (Waved goodbye at her)
I walked out of the place feeling like a foreigner finding way in Kuching. ~_~
Well, walking through Kenyalang, we passed 3 shops which had the name S.L co etc. etc. And two of it had the name Shu Lin (Chinese version of the shop’s name)! And my sister was surprised because the first S.L Co. (Shu Lin) shop we saw is an ice cream shop. But the nice lady shopkeeper had told us to walk pass 100% Discount store. The Shu Lin ice cream shop was before the 100% Discount store so I thought there might be just more than one. The second S.L Co was the shop we were looking for. But unfortunately it did not have the weird materials I needed for my project. So, this time we headed back to the shop I asked my sister earlier on. On the way back (to the other end), we passed the third shop which was S.L co… etc selling computers and stuff. I think, Kenyalang shops need to brainstorm for more creativity on their shop’s name. Don’t know what is so nice about the jungle that everyone is fighting to use that name. *Shakes head*
Anyway, I found most of the stuff I needed, though not the exact ones (replaced with something else), in the shop. But I was still missing some so we entered the air conditioned part of Kenyalang shops. When I walked pass a shop, they had this variety of cute gift boxes. I picked up a black one. It was about 5cm x 10cm x 3cm. But when I flipped for the price tag, I had a shock of my life. Guess how much it is? RM29.00!!! I dropped the box back into the pool of boxes. My sister was just saying that I was holding a nice box then. I told her that box is out of question since it is RM29!!! Anyway we dug on for a nicer but cheaper box. The rest, were prices at RM2.50 and below. My eyes never left the black box I dropped back after being shocked by the price. The other black boxes (of the same kind) were stacked up nicely in one corner. I did think that they might have priced it wrongly but at second thought it was after all a gift shop. And gift shop seems to have unreasonably expensive things. Somehow, we came over another black box which seemed to have been knocked of the stack it was suppose to be on and it was priced at RM2.90. I guess they did price the other one wrongly. So I immediately bought it.
I moved on to cards. That shop had a lot of weird cards. Yes real weird. I was looking for birthday cards. There are so many birthday babies coming (some past with me totally forgetting, I’m SO sorry)!!! I’m quite a lazy shopper (antonym of Bia), so I usually get most of you guys gift and cards together. Haha…
Anyway, back to the weird cards. All the birthday cards somehow sounded like… well, you tell me how it sounds like after I tell you. I suppose if I sent Jasmine this card saying “Happy Birthday, I can’t live a second without you” I think she’d have a heart attack (or maybe not, since we are so fren? ;) ). Or, “Happy Birthday, I like you”, “Happy Birthday, I will be yours forever”, “Happy Birthday, I will wait for you forever”. There just wasn’t one single normal Birthday Card! And even if I was getting it for my better half, all the messages sound so fake and eeyeer type. So Mint, it’s not my fault I can’t get you a card! Haha.. No lah, later in the end, I was getting so frustrated so I asked the shopkeeper.
“Erm, do you have birthday cards?”
She looked to the corner I was squatting at searching madly just now.
“I mean…(thinking how to phrase it) normal birthday cards…”
She pointed in another corner.
Well, the cards here are more normal. But it still is, weird, in a funny sense. There’s this card company that makes its card with all the stupid lame jokes. I was thinking of getting one, but it was all in Malay and it just seems not so appropriate for some un-BM-ish ppl. So I settled for normal cards. The Halloween cards were quite fun. My sister and I had a go at all. We opened most of them. It is a 3D design card. Like when you open it, it will structure into something. I can’t give out too many details here because I bought one for one of the ‘lucky’ candidate out there. Yeah it’s ‘Halloween’ theme transformed into birthday card. Can’t waste such nice cards right? (Insert Noob’s evil laugh~Hiak hia hia~) Anyway, it’d stand out in your collections of birthday cards mar. If not, every year get Memory Lane cards, not fresh at all. ;P So if your birthday is near, eg: Jas, Su, Olive, Jess… Beware… Haha…
Oh, when I passed a records shop, there was this boy about 7 or 8 years old. There were key chains of Chinese artists. He was pointing and exclaiming at one.
“Eee, chu shao tian!!”
I think (no, I think I know) that’s one of the F4 members. Well, amazes me how kids know artists names at such young age. I think I first got any interested in this entertainment artists and stuff when I was in Form 3? Even then, I only listen to songs and seldom know the names of the artists. But I guess the era has drifted faster than we ever realized. Well, that was most of if from the weird encounters of my first real shopping in Kuching.
This morning, I nearly had an accident. Well, not only me la, and the fleeting lot of speeding cars. If it happened it’d probably be a long accident of 15 to 20 cars. And we all have this white Wira aeroback to thank. Okay, this is going to sound long but it actually happened in a split of a split second. Serious, it was so fast yet so detail as if in slow motion. Luckily my heart is still young enough to take it.
I was turning from a roundabout into 1Si at quite high speed (told you it’s a highway speed). The car (a blue Iswara) in front of me had abruptly stopped! Yeah from about 100kph to 0kph! In the middle of the road. Yeah, near the turning point too. Meaning right after the turn, it stopped. I didn’t blink which is a good thing cause if I did I’d probably bumped right into him. Oh man, but I managed to stop in time. I think I was exactly 1mm behind his bumper. But before I even recover from the shock, I immediately became intense and anxious (for the car in front of me to move on from his sudden stop) because I was now exactly at the turning point where people turn at fast speed from the roundabout. The car behind me was a 4 wheel drive at a speed even faster than mine turned in and all I could do was watch it crash (or I thought going to) into my back. I was staring at it from my reflecting mirror. My heart actually beat so fast that it seemed still. The driver was so near my car, I could see his angry and shocked face but in the last second he managed to swerve to the other lane (though he looked like he lost control of his car for a moment). So, he’s safe but right after he swerved away another silver Atos appeared (it was right behind the 4WD)! I guess the Atos was shocked too to see my stationary car after the 4WD swerved out to another lane. I watched him again as if replaying the 4-wheel drive (but now different and relatively smaller car) crashing into my back.
Luckily for us, there were no cars in the other lanes and the opposite direction lanes. The silver Atos managed to swerve again like the 4WD guy but I guess he nearly knocked the 4WD. And after that there was like a pool of car at the roundabout because everyone was swerving everywhere and going out of the right direction. Pretty soon, the traffic all slowed down, as it was impossible to speed through the jam.
So I looked onto the front and saw that there were actually 4 cars ahead of me. The white Wira was the one stopping I think, causing the rest to follow the suit. The Wira finally made its move towards the side of the road. I don’t know why she (I saw the driver when I drove past) decided to stop so suddenly, but if it’s not because of emergency or problems like car breaking down, it’s really a bad move on the road.
Okay, I admit. My memory is bad. And I think I don’t even have the slightest idea of how much it has deteriorated. So I’d like to apologize for all that I’ve forgotten. First of all, it was like one month later when I remembered my ‘sister’s’ birthday. We were practically sisters how in the world did I manage to forget that? Sorry yeah… And I thought I remembered in time some other friend’s birthday but obviously I did not. If you thought that’s the worse, I even totally forgot that I forgot another friend’s birthday until he actually (yes, he did) reminded it to my face. He said he waited a week, but obviously my memory was lagging more than a week. I guess I deserve a smack to wake me up? Haha.. Sorryla… You know what. It’s all Friendster’s fault. Last time they used to show people’s birthday in the main page. Now it’s all about the profile updates, new testimonials, and birthdays are only shown when you go check. How can I go check everyone lah??
Oh, KC just popped up with a packet of food. Taiwan food. It looked like enlarged tadpoles. Black eggs of goodness know what. She insisted I take it even though I was hesitant. After I take one she added “You’re not allergic to eggs rite? It’s quite nice actually.”
It was then when I remembered. Well, honestly, I am allergic to egg. Or maybe to be specific, allergic to overdosed of normal chicken egg and allergic to any weird eggs. But having the thing in my palm and she seemed insistent to watch me pop in my mouth, so I did. I know it tasted salty. That’s all I know. When she got out of sight I took it out and put it away in a tissue. Sorry mate, I, er.., am not adventurous for challenging food.
Today’s post is so long. Longest ever maybe! But I guess I just have too much to say. And I didn’t even finish saying all I wanted. ;P
“THE VALUE OF A WOMAN:
A woman came out of a man’s rib. Not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior over, but from his side to be equal. Under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved. Have a blessed International Women’s Day!”
OK… Happy International Women’s Day to everyone. I didn’t even know this day’s existence before this. Whatever it is, go girl/women/female power! Hehe…
Last night was the first time I stepped into Kenyalang after having returned to Kuching for 14 weeks. Yes, I can remember since I have to do weekly report! It looked pretty much the same. Oh yeah, I went there to do some ‘shopping’ for my ‘project’. Not the internship project lah, some artwork and needlework. Okay, you can pick yourself up after you are done roaring on the ground. Done?
Yeah, I know my needlework is bad. The only time I ever used needle was during Kemahiran Hidup (Living Skill) ERT projects. Gosh, how I loathed it back then (till now but maybe less?)! The sewing machine seems to hate me even more since it is always tangling up the threads into impossible knots! Anyway I was looking for this shop that sells all kinds of artwork and needlework material. I got a tip from my sister that the shop was called ‘Shen Ling’ which literally means ‘Jungle’. She went there for her KH project. But knowing her, she can’t remember where the shop is. Actually I do have idea where the shop in Kenyalang is, only I don’t know if it is called ‘Shen Ling’. When I asked my ‘helpful’ sister about it, she said it was not that shop (the one I remembered). So when both of us stepped into Kenyalang we don’t know which way to head. In the end I asked a taukeh-nio (lady shopkeeper) of a junk food shop. She was real helpful.
Me: Excuse me, may I know if there is a shop called ‘Shen Ling’?
Shopkeeper: Shen Ling…. Shen Ling… (trying to recall) oh you mean Shu Lin hia?
Me: (Turn back and gave my sister a questioning look)
My Sister: Oh, I think so.
Me: (Turned back to the shopkeeper) We think so.. haha (a paiseh laugh)…
Shopkeeper: Oh the one that sells artwork and needlework materials right? Walk to the other end. It is a bit pass the 100% Discount Store.
Me: Okay, thank you. Thank you lots. (Waved goodbye at her)
I walked out of the place feeling like a foreigner finding way in Kuching. ~_~
Well, walking through Kenyalang, we passed 3 shops which had the name S.L co etc. etc. And two of it had the name Shu Lin (Chinese version of the shop’s name)! And my sister was surprised because the first S.L Co. (Shu Lin) shop we saw is an ice cream shop. But the nice lady shopkeeper had told us to walk pass 100% Discount store. The Shu Lin ice cream shop was before the 100% Discount store so I thought there might be just more than one. The second S.L Co was the shop we were looking for. But unfortunately it did not have the weird materials I needed for my project. So, this time we headed back to the shop I asked my sister earlier on. On the way back (to the other end), we passed the third shop which was S.L co… etc selling computers and stuff. I think, Kenyalang shops need to brainstorm for more creativity on their shop’s name. Don’t know what is so nice about the jungle that everyone is fighting to use that name. *Shakes head*
Anyway, I found most of the stuff I needed, though not the exact ones (replaced with something else), in the shop. But I was still missing some so we entered the air conditioned part of Kenyalang shops. When I walked pass a shop, they had this variety of cute gift boxes. I picked up a black one. It was about 5cm x 10cm x 3cm. But when I flipped for the price tag, I had a shock of my life. Guess how much it is? RM29.00!!! I dropped the box back into the pool of boxes. My sister was just saying that I was holding a nice box then. I told her that box is out of question since it is RM29!!! Anyway we dug on for a nicer but cheaper box. The rest, were prices at RM2.50 and below. My eyes never left the black box I dropped back after being shocked by the price. The other black boxes (of the same kind) were stacked up nicely in one corner. I did think that they might have priced it wrongly but at second thought it was after all a gift shop. And gift shop seems to have unreasonably expensive things. Somehow, we came over another black box which seemed to have been knocked of the stack it was suppose to be on and it was priced at RM2.90. I guess they did price the other one wrongly. So I immediately bought it.
I moved on to cards. That shop had a lot of weird cards. Yes real weird. I was looking for birthday cards. There are so many birthday babies coming (some past with me totally forgetting, I’m SO sorry)!!! I’m quite a lazy shopper (antonym of Bia), so I usually get most of you guys gift and cards together. Haha…
Anyway, back to the weird cards. All the birthday cards somehow sounded like… well, you tell me how it sounds like after I tell you. I suppose if I sent Jasmine this card saying “Happy Birthday, I can’t live a second without you” I think she’d have a heart attack (or maybe not, since we are so fren? ;) ). Or, “Happy Birthday, I like you”, “Happy Birthday, I will be yours forever”, “Happy Birthday, I will wait for you forever”. There just wasn’t one single normal Birthday Card! And even if I was getting it for my better half, all the messages sound so fake and eeyeer type. So Mint, it’s not my fault I can’t get you a card! Haha.. No lah, later in the end, I was getting so frustrated so I asked the shopkeeper.
“Erm, do you have birthday cards?”
She looked to the corner I was squatting at searching madly just now.
“I mean…(thinking how to phrase it) normal birthday cards…”
She pointed in another corner.
Well, the cards here are more normal. But it still is, weird, in a funny sense. There’s this card company that makes its card with all the stupid lame jokes. I was thinking of getting one, but it was all in Malay and it just seems not so appropriate for some un-BM-ish ppl. So I settled for normal cards. The Halloween cards were quite fun. My sister and I had a go at all. We opened most of them. It is a 3D design card. Like when you open it, it will structure into something. I can’t give out too many details here because I bought one for one of the ‘lucky’ candidate out there. Yeah it’s ‘Halloween’ theme transformed into birthday card. Can’t waste such nice cards right? (Insert Noob’s evil laugh~Hiak hia hia~) Anyway, it’d stand out in your collections of birthday cards mar. If not, every year get Memory Lane cards, not fresh at all. ;P So if your birthday is near, eg: Jas, Su, Olive, Jess… Beware… Haha…
Oh, when I passed a records shop, there was this boy about 7 or 8 years old. There were key chains of Chinese artists. He was pointing and exclaiming at one.
“Eee, chu shao tian!!”
I think (no, I think I know) that’s one of the F4 members. Well, amazes me how kids know artists names at such young age. I think I first got any interested in this entertainment artists and stuff when I was in Form 3? Even then, I only listen to songs and seldom know the names of the artists. But I guess the era has drifted faster than we ever realized. Well, that was most of if from the weird encounters of my first real shopping in Kuching.
This morning, I nearly had an accident. Well, not only me la, and the fleeting lot of speeding cars. If it happened it’d probably be a long accident of 15 to 20 cars. And we all have this white Wira aeroback to thank. Okay, this is going to sound long but it actually happened in a split of a split second. Serious, it was so fast yet so detail as if in slow motion. Luckily my heart is still young enough to take it.
I was turning from a roundabout into 1Si at quite high speed (told you it’s a highway speed). The car (a blue Iswara) in front of me had abruptly stopped! Yeah from about 100kph to 0kph! In the middle of the road. Yeah, near the turning point too. Meaning right after the turn, it stopped. I didn’t blink which is a good thing cause if I did I’d probably bumped right into him. Oh man, but I managed to stop in time. I think I was exactly 1mm behind his bumper. But before I even recover from the shock, I immediately became intense and anxious (for the car in front of me to move on from his sudden stop) because I was now exactly at the turning point where people turn at fast speed from the roundabout. The car behind me was a 4 wheel drive at a speed even faster than mine turned in and all I could do was watch it crash (or I thought going to) into my back. I was staring at it from my reflecting mirror. My heart actually beat so fast that it seemed still. The driver was so near my car, I could see his angry and shocked face but in the last second he managed to swerve to the other lane (though he looked like he lost control of his car for a moment). So, he’s safe but right after he swerved away another silver Atos appeared (it was right behind the 4WD)! I guess the Atos was shocked too to see my stationary car after the 4WD swerved out to another lane. I watched him again as if replaying the 4-wheel drive (but now different and relatively smaller car) crashing into my back.
Luckily for us, there were no cars in the other lanes and the opposite direction lanes. The silver Atos managed to swerve again like the 4WD guy but I guess he nearly knocked the 4WD. And after that there was like a pool of car at the roundabout because everyone was swerving everywhere and going out of the right direction. Pretty soon, the traffic all slowed down, as it was impossible to speed through the jam.
So I looked onto the front and saw that there were actually 4 cars ahead of me. The white Wira was the one stopping I think, causing the rest to follow the suit. The Wira finally made its move towards the side of the road. I don’t know why she (I saw the driver when I drove past) decided to stop so suddenly, but if it’s not because of emergency or problems like car breaking down, it’s really a bad move on the road.
Okay, I admit. My memory is bad. And I think I don’t even have the slightest idea of how much it has deteriorated. So I’d like to apologize for all that I’ve forgotten. First of all, it was like one month later when I remembered my ‘sister’s’ birthday. We were practically sisters how in the world did I manage to forget that? Sorry yeah… And I thought I remembered in time some other friend’s birthday but obviously I did not. If you thought that’s the worse, I even totally forgot that I forgot another friend’s birthday until he actually (yes, he did) reminded it to my face. He said he waited a week, but obviously my memory was lagging more than a week. I guess I deserve a smack to wake me up? Haha.. Sorryla… You know what. It’s all Friendster’s fault. Last time they used to show people’s birthday in the main page. Now it’s all about the profile updates, new testimonials, and birthdays are only shown when you go check. How can I go check everyone lah??
Oh, KC just popped up with a packet of food. Taiwan food. It looked like enlarged tadpoles. Black eggs of goodness know what. She insisted I take it even though I was hesitant. After I take one she added “You’re not allergic to eggs rite? It’s quite nice actually.”
It was then when I remembered. Well, honestly, I am allergic to egg. Or maybe to be specific, allergic to overdosed of normal chicken egg and allergic to any weird eggs. But having the thing in my palm and she seemed insistent to watch me pop in my mouth, so I did. I know it tasted salty. That’s all I know. When she got out of sight I took it out and put it away in a tissue. Sorry mate, I, er.., am not adventurous for challenging food.
Today’s post is so long. Longest ever maybe! But I guess I just have too much to say. And I didn’t even finish saying all I wanted. ;P
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