The first time I ever saw an iPhone was last June right when I got home from the States.
And the first person I ever met who owned an iPhone was Tim.
Second was Tim’s mother. Third was Tim’s brother. Fourth was…
Ok you get the idea.
And then after that I met Ming who also has an iPhone. And Pierre.
So I realized that birds of a feather flock together. These people not only like to talk together about how they are going to buy helicopters to escape the crazy KL jam (something that has never even occurred to a strictly middle class person like me), but they also belong to the select group of people who are willing to splurge A LOT to get “cracked” iPhones from overseas to use over here.
Well not anymore elitists!
Anyone who has a Maxis line would know by now (because of the iPhone SMSes flooding the network) that Maxis has become the first telco ever in Malaysia to launch the iPhone officially and legally.
So now starting at RM100 a month for a data plan everyone has the chance to own a proper, not “cracked” iPhone. Click for a more detailed explanation
I think it’s very reasonable since every other country in the world (US, Japan, Australia) all offer free phones in exchange for people buying phone plans with them.
Even if you add everything up, it’s still cheaper than buying just the phone since they provide the lines and phone plans as well.
So now even people like *me* (strictly middle class and ensconced in debt) can get one now!
#25: 11 March 2009
No need to use fake iPhones from China anymore!
Yes it’s true everybody.
Fat Her went to Hong Kong and of all things that he should come back with (at least not bird flu HAHA) he came home with two very clearly fake iphones for me and Mummy.
Mine is pink and very pleasing to my eye. But that’s about all the good qualities it has.
I used to not really like the iPhone cos I found it very difficult to type on it with my nails.
But after two days of using this cheapskate phone, I find myself coveting the real thing.
I’ve gotten used to using the touch screen and so what if the iPhone is not pink and cute! (Maybe Apple will come up with a pink edition some time *bats lashes)
Just think of all its applications (endless possibilities) and all the things it can do. (My fake phone doesn’t even have an alarm. I mean it does, but when I try to set it the phone always reverts back to the main menu FML)
Like how Tim’s Currency Converter app on his iPhone came into super good use when we were shopping in Manila! (I can’t count in my head for nuts)
Not to mention all the times it has entertained him when he has to wait for me (doing makeup, going toilet, sleeping WTF)
And of course the ability to go online at any time (provided there’s a connection of course) so every time we argue on something we can just look it up … or IMDB movies we’ve just watched on the way back.
iPhone + Maxis plan 8549498494, Fake iphone/any regular phone 0.
(Er Maxis do you want to give me a free phone have pity on me la my phone now really really sucks eggs)
Things I learned about Tim while we were in Manila:
1) He actually likes shopping
2) He actually likes sight seeing
HE BOUGHT MORE STUFF THAN ME!!!! How can!
My status as a woman is threatened WTF.
But I like shopping for men’s clothes too so I thought it was very fun to pick things out for him, make him try them out and pat myself on the back when he looks nice in them.
And when we went touring historical sites he was more excited than I was and took full control of the camera.(as you will see later)
OK VERY FAST LET ME DO A PROJECT 365 UPDATE BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP
btw if you can’t already tell I am back and due at work tomorrow to save Desmond *super hero face
#21: 6 March 2009
My work place (very messy story of my life) There’s the pink Hello Kitty helium balloon that Tim gave me /boo
Why I chose this pictures….IS BECAUSE I GOT CONFIRMED YAYYYYYYY
I am official! I finally deserve name cards!!!
But I am um… still not that good at my job WTF.
#22: 7 March 2009. The view when our plane was making the landing into Manila. I was very absorbed in all the agriculture and the beaches that circled the islands and the tiny houses and factories . Very different from KL which is very developed and concrety. The islands surrounding the one Manila is on were all mountaineous and beachy and greeny at the same time wtf.
#23: 8 March 2009. Woke up too late for breakfast bladdy shit. Luckily there was a lounge there that was open the whole day for people to get snacks if they wanted. Look at the guy in orange behind us HAHAHAHAHA no wonder the lady who took our picture was snorting and when we asked her why she said nothing.
#24: 9 March 2009. Went to a very interesting bar where they had a “Rockeoke” session going on. People go there to sing karaoke but instead of going into little rooms like what we do, everyone chooses songs from a list and then they sign up and when their name is called they go up onstage to sing their song with a live band!
The picture is of me onstage pretending to be Britney because Jing put my name in so scary omg T3T
#25: 10 March 2009. In the airport while waiting to board, Tim fell asleep on my lap and I was reading a book / taking pictures of myself. Then when I looked down on him I saw that he was sleeping with his eyes open WTF. (pic edited because I decided nobody is allowed to see my baby asleep except me wtf *obsessive)
Hahahahaha I got a shock myself. I mean I knew he sometimes sleeps with his eyes open but they’re not usually open that wide and right after that I usually fall asleep too so I don’t stay up to look to see if his eyes open bigger wtf.
So tempting to say “Peel the potatoes” at that moment and win once and for all.
Hello!
Guess where I am!!
Okay la not hard to guess I am in Manila!
That’s why I haven’t blogged in days. I didn’t bring my computer (too heavy) and Tim hogs his all the bloody time wtf and when he’s not using it I don’t like to use it either WTF because I hate friggin Mac computers! No idea how to upload pictures from his computer to photobucket either so this is a photo-less post.
So Project 365 tergendala for a while ok! While I try to figure out this darn laptop / until I go home and can use my own computer wtf.
Anyway Manila is very interesting!
When Tim first asked me to come here I was a bit like errr… because all I know about Manila is that people get kidnapped here a lot -____-
But apparently it’s not very true anymore because the police have cracked down on crime a lot recently…
Things about Manila:
1) I think it looks like a mixture of Bangkok, KL, and Mexico
2) IS IT JUST ME or do the toilet bowls in shopping malls have no toilet seats WTF. I went into one at SM Megamall and holy crap I had no idea how I was going to pee T_T And I’ve been too used to Malaysian malls who actually have toilet paper in abundance now so I was stumped to see that there was no toilet paper in the bathroom! Not even paper napkins for when you wash hands. Don’t ask me how I managed to pee that day ok I don’t wanna talk about it! wtf
3) There is still alot of poverty here:(( When we were walking around looking at historical sites, so many kids and old people came up to us and put out their hands for change T_____T And Carol was right too when she told me that people would walk around cars at traffic stops to beg or get them to buy stuff haih I felt so bad that I closed my eyes cos I didn’t know what to do (cowardly wtf) and fell asleep WTF seriously fuck myself wtf.
4) The city’s history is amazing! We went to Intramuros (I think) which is the old city of Manila and it was simply awe-inspiring. The Phillipine government were so smart to preserve and maintain so many of the historical buildings (which is more than I can say about Malaysia wtf) even though so many buildings got destroyed during WW2 and the Battle of Manila … the whole city still had a lot more culture and history compared to say… Malacca wtf.
5) Everyone here is super polite! Even people on the street call out “Hello sir” or “Hello mam” to us! (although sometimes I feel like saying eh can you please not call me mam it makes me feel about 40 yrs old wtf)
6) I think I have diarrhea wtf. Brbbbbb
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Okay I am back!
It’s after lunch now, Tim is going through some contracts and here I am, on this godforsaken Mac again.
Let me write a lot now since I still don’t know how to post pictures and I haven’t done boring detailed posts on what I’m doing at the moment for a looong time.
I’m itching to go shopping or or go for a manicure! My nails are chipped and I heard that manicures here cost less than the average one in Malaysia. But I am supposed to listen to something to errr give my thoughts on it so I can’t leave just yet AIH I think they give me a lot more credit than I deserve. Because what I know is actually nothing wtf.
Okay so more about Manila! The Phillipines is the first SEA country I’ve been to (Singapore & Thailand not counted because EVERYONE goes to Singapore & Thailand)
Manila is… very Southeast Asian. I dunno how to describe it. There are people walking along the highways (ALONG ok not beside them on the sidewalks) and there are um underprivileged people going up to cars stuck at jams to try to sell them things like feather dusters and tupperware.
But then there’s also all these huge shopping malls filled with Banana Republic and Ferragamo. So I guess there’s still a huge disparity of wealth.
OK LA TIME TO GO BRB AGAIN
We’re in Taguig City right now which is a very new, spacious well-developed area of
#20: 5 March 2009
It ees true T_______T
Based on an 8% interest rate and a 3.8 USD exchange rate I have a RM 140,000 loan to pay off T___________T
I just wrote my mom a RM4k check for my first payment T_______T I am so goddamn broke right now T______T
And since the loan repayment period is for 10 years it ees true… I can see myself not having savings for 10 years.
Tim asked me “how to go shopping like that?” cos I planned to go shopping this weekend.
Whatever la what can I do! Not go shopping or spend any money for the next 10 years ar are you out of your mind wtf. Imma just live my life dangerously Life is too short to suffer! *foolish
There’s no way out of the loan anyway. I read through the terms & conditions and the loan will only be canceled if:
a) I join the army WTF
b) I join the police force
c) I join the Peace Corps
d) I be a teacher for at least 5 years for students from low income communities wtf
e) I am permanently and totally disabled WTF
I really wanted to I could run from the loan (since I’m not in the US) but that would be a terrible thing to do:(
What if someone defaulted on THEIR loan and because of that the school didn’t have enough money to give me! I would never have gone to college!
Damn the devil to hell. Someone just hit me with a car already (make sure to get my legs) WTF NO LA NO LA ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME GOD I AM JUST A BIG JOKER wtf.
#19: 4 March 2009
My picture today is not a picture but a video.
I was talking to Jammie this afternoon about old TVB dramas. One of my favorites was one called “Time before Time” which was about a very very sweet love story between a guy and a ghost trapped in an umbrella for like 20 years or something wtf.
Ok la sounds stupid but I loved it ok! Very funny and sweet I promise.
Anyway Jammie and I were googling TVB clips on youtube and I came across this video.
It’s a ghost story right, and it was set in the 1940s so the song in the video was one of the songs in the show.
And the video (no connection to the drama at all) is fucking creepy ok! I love horror movies and don’t usually get nightmares after watching scary movies but this video just freaked me out I dunno why!
It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this kind of fear! wtf. (Fear that I’ve lost my wallet and things like that doesn’t count.) The kind of fear that makes you afraid to even look behind you lest you see something you don’t wanna see T__________T
Even now when I’m linking the video here, I can’t bear to have it load fully and I paused it right at the beginning so I don’t have to face any of that scary shit again wtf.
After watching it, I said to Jammie: “uhhh so what happens now that we’ve watched this scary ass video….”
Jammie said “you mean what if the ghost comes and looks for us?!”
We got even more paranoid when we found out that the youtube user who posted that video only had that one video up and nothing else T_________T
Doubtless, Jammie who hates all horror is more scared than me. But she had a great idea wtf. “Let’s post it on our blogs so when everybody watches it the ghost will be so confused and won’t come looking for us” WTF
So there you go everybody happy watching and let’s all be safe in our beds tonight ohmmmmm. *huddles
#18: 3 March 2009
My eyeliner was smudged. And I got sick of my hair and did what I always do — pick up some scissors and snipped at my bangs.
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Ok let me blog about stuff I never got around to while I was still back at Mt Holyoke!
Senior Ball!
Senior Ball is a ball held at the end of the year for seniors (duh)
(now I remember why I didn’t want to blog about it! Because I looked like shit dammit Big Event Syndrome. The only nice thing was my super nice beehive hair. But makeup and face sucked)
Me and Suet boohoo miss her T3T
Mild and Shanshan!
Putting the finishing touches on my makeup
Angela doing Mild’s hair using my clip T__________T awww I miss those times where we lent each other stuff just because we’re all girls wtf T_______T
Now who can I share stuff with? Tim? wtf
Group picture! (except where is Jeannie and Suet had to close her eyes are you trying to show off your eyeshadow Suet wtf)
HAHAHAHAHAH BEST PICTURE EVER HAHAHAHAHAHA CHECK THIS OUT ANGELA HAHAHAHAHAAHHA
Doing the er…robot dance. Why am I so serious and determined to make myself look like an idiot all the time.
Suet and Angela they’re so pretty and their outfits kind of matched T3T
Again what am I doing. Shit I forgot the name of the girl on the far left even though we ate lunch with her for a year. She’s the girl whom Angela and I could never hear cos she talked too softly and we always just nodded and pretended to be listening WTF.
Monet! Who’s now working at Bloomberg in New York *awe
Kissing pretty Angie /shy
Still trying valiantly (and failing) to wink.
I look so tall huh! And so young *wistful
The other day my mother said “you do your makeup really fast these days huh”
I said proudly “yes I’ve trained myself to do it in seven minutes”
My mother said “yes but it’s not as nice anymore. I think it was nicer when you just got back from the US”
Then she peered more closely at me. “I think it’s because you’re more haggard now” WTF so subtle
I think I am too FML T_T
#17: 2 March 2009
A package from Bangkok arrived for me today!
From Mild who so nicely remembered her promise to send me all her photos when I thought I lost all my files T3T
I looked through all her pictures and remembered that there’s still so much I haven’t blogged about when I was back in Moho! Maybe Imma do a Moho Recollections series wtf.
*long entry warning*
Some of you were right!
It was Jewel Pink Yellowglen champagne!
And there were balloons tied to the champagne!
So what happened was…
He picked me up after work. I was fretting over having to leave a little earlier than usual and still thinking about what I had left to do on Monday. So I was actually quite stressed and er not very excited over whatever he had in store for me *shifty eyed
And he was grinning like a kid throughout the whole car ride! He kept asking “where do you think we’re going? where where?” and I was too tired and I could only say “are we going to sit on a ferris wheel” WTF I dunno why! Maybe in my narrow chick lit-fed mind the only out-of-normal romantic thing I could think of was ferris wheel cos Sze Jiann and Minami went on one in Osaka before. And so did Angela and Masato!
(Actually so did I on the same Osaka ferris wheel! But with a very big and smelly asshole aih FML story for another day)
Then he turned into Bangsar. And I noticed him looking out of the window in anticipation. So I looked out too but didn’t see anything (actually I was half expecting a hot air balloon spelling my name or something wtf)
Parked in Bangsar Village, then he dragged me out onto the Telawi Streets.
And stopped outside the staircase leading up to one of the 2nd floor stores.
There was a sign in front of it.
It said: VIP Shoes Shopping Experience. Enjoy the experience! and then under it, “Princess Audrey”
And then he and 2 girls from RedRibbon Days (which is the company he engaged to help plan this surprise) bundled me upstairs to the store.
And this is what I found waiting for me! A basket with flowers, a champagne bottle, plastic champagne glasses with Hello Kitty phone chains in them, and balloons!!
(er ignore myself in the back of photo wtf this was actually taken after I had been in the store for some time)
So anyway, the surprise, according to the RedRibbon Days girls, Nik & Sherin, was that Tim had booked the whole store for me to shop and be personally assisted by the designer, Anusha.
The whole purpose was to give me a VIP shopping experience so I would feel like a celebrity where they clear out the store so I can shop in peace and drink my champagne wtf. I would have the store to myself for one hour to try on and play with shoes and at the end I could choose 3 pairs of shoes to take home with me (!!!!!)
I said “oh….okay.”
I was confused! I was thinking why must close the whole store for me I don’t get it wtf. And what if they don’t have shoes my size because I’m a size 3. Or what if I can’t find 3 pairs I like? And what if I don’t have enough money to pay for them WTF.
So I just said “oh….okay.”
And Tim turned to Nik and asked “eh is this normal is this the reaction other girls give when they receive this surprise”
And Nik said “no usually they cry and hug their boyfriends/husbands and tell them they love them”
Tim said “ya my girlfriend is not very loving” WTF
I was just confused ok!!! T______T Not that I wasn’t happy or grateful T_________T *feet shuffling. Anyway whatever la I already paid him back in kind WTF.
So I tried on the shoes…
And played with the balloons…
And took camwhore shots…
And more shots I made Tim take…
And we drank the champagne…
And I tried on more shoes and drank more champagne…
Some of the shoes I tried on. They actually have my size *teary eyed
No wonder the other day he said very casually, “eh you told me before right that you don’t like buying Vincci shoes… why ar?”
I thought, no I never told him that before wtf he probably read it from one of my old entries. I told him “ya cos very mainstream. And don’t have my size” *holding grudge
But actually he was trying to figure out my taste in shoes! I never told him I like shoes either but he figured it out cos I have dozens of pairs of shoes and only two bags wtf and girls either like BAGS or SHOES. So he guessed I’m a shoe person!
Quite smart ar he! I always told him he has terrible taste in girls WTF but his taste in women’s shoes is surprisingly quite sophisticated *sayangs
I got two pairs from the picture above (and another pair of flats to be practical). I asked him which 3 pairs should I pick and in my mind I already knew what I wanted. And he chose the 3 I like best! So smart *sayangs more
Later Vincenzo in Bangsar for dinner.
So that was my surprise! I was very touched and overwhelmed actually T___________T I didn’t think I deserved anything like this lor cos there wasn’t even an occasion for this *cries
And now I keep thinking if I ever wanna give him a surprise I really really have no idea what to do for him! What can top this? Close off a video game store and ask him to choose Xbox games ar WTF. Hire a stripper? Rent a bank vault and let him bathe in money? WTF
But…I don’t think I’ll ever forget this experience:)
i wuv u baby:)
#15: 28 February 2009
On Jonker Street with Ming, Estee, Lay See, Pierre (taking the picture) and baby.
28th was also my grandfather’s birthday. Happy birthday Yeh Yeh (whether you’re reincarnated or not)
#16: 1 March 2009
On our way for our second meal of chicken rice balls. It was sweltering.
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