Hellozzz from Hat Yai, Thailand

The train station smells like a thousand street children under the sun. But it's all good. You pretty much get used to it. Buuuuut we're not there right now. We're in some internet shop. In a while I'll be logging out and having my passport xeroxed yeah. We're off to Bangkok on a non-airconditioned train in about 1 1/2 hours. Last night we nearly froze to death inside the train from Kuala Lumpur to Hat Yai. If you're planning to make the KL-Butterworth/Padang Besar-Hat Yai trip do not wear shorts, short pants etc.

Soooooo I dunno, Ayisse is writing a pretty lengthy LJ post beside me. Just check out her LJ.

We got about an hour of footage. Hahaha Some are pretty funny. Some are transition shots. Blablabla. Self-interviews. Blablabla. Blablabla. Blabla.

I pretty much haven't anchored myself yet in this trip... although how are you supposed to do that when you're still in transit? We still have a day or two to go in transit before we reach Cambodia and settle in for 2 nights. You know the feeling, you know you're not home, you can feel that you're not home. Yet, even though you're somewhat comfortable in this new environment, you don't feel like you're here.

Ok I don't want to pay like 60 baht for this whole thing. Hahaha The Mister DOnut here have way better doughnuts than there in the Philippines. I think every other country's MisDo have better doughnuts than in the Philippines.

We've made a few disposable friends btw. Like the train conductor and this man sitting next to us on the floor of Sentral KL train station, waiting for the train to Hat Yai last night. But no disposable backpacker buddies yet.

Aaaaaaaaah. It feels like one long day rather than 2 separate days. Ohmygod we'll be stuck in a train for 16 hours to Bangkok. Omfg.

Last post before I leave perhaps?

How come alot of people I come across, when they lose their wallets they worry about the memorabilia, etc. Me, I'm not gonna lie I'd worry about the money and my wallet itself cos where do I get the money to buy a similar one? And then I'd stress over replacing all the ID cards inside. Being the passive person I am though we all know that in the end I'm gonna go, "Meh whatever, it's just another expensive experience/mistake."

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I'm leaving on Sunday and I'm not yet fully packed and JENA TEXT/CALL/YM ME PLEEEEEEASEEEE. Though you're not gonna be able to read this probably :( Oh well I'll call her cellphone tomorrow.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. I don't know whether to bring a video cam as well as my slr. I can leave the vid cam out but... Aaaaaaaaaack.

meme. meh.

I've been doing updates here regularly cos I'm on my sembreak and waiting to leave for Mamamalaysia. And eventually to Vivivietnam. Uhhh whatever yeah.

1. WHAT CURSE WORD DO YOU USE THE MOST?
Hmm, I don't know.

2. DO YOU OWN AN IPOD?
Nooo. They're evil. (Just kidding. I've been meaning to give up the iriver for a nano although whatever, they both play music and that's what matters.)

3. WHAT PERSON ON YOUR TOP 8 DO YOU TALK TO THE MOST?
Remika hahaha Cos Ayisse doesn't want us to know where she is on myspace. Meh, all I do there is myspace-hop from one stranger's page to another.

4. WHAT TIME IS Y0UR ALARM CLOCK SET TO?
6am on some school days, 8am on some other school days.

5. DO YOU STILL REMEMBER THE FIRST PERSON YOU KISSED?
So... was it my mom or my dad?

6. DO YOU REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE ON 9/11/01?
Well it was night time here or something when it hit and I think I saw it on CNN while tv surfing...

(Funny story when Saddam was caught, I was tv surfing and noticed all the international and news channels on cable showed the same waiting room of sorts full of people, I think it was on the german channel that I finally realized it had somethign to do with Saddam. Not that I understand german, I don't.)

7. WOULD Y0U RATHER TAKE THE PICTURE OR BE IN THE PICTURE?
Take the picture ;)

8. WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
GREEN STREET HOOLIGAAAAAANS! I'm watching Children of Men in a while tho.

9. DO ANY OF YOUR FRIENDS HAVE CHILDREN?
I have friends old enough to have children but nah, they don't. So no I guess.

10. HAS ANY0NE EVER CALLED YOU LAZY?
Why, of course.

11. DO YOU EVER TAKE MEDICATION TO HELP YOU FALL ASLEEP?
What about to help me not fall asleep?

12. WHAT CD IS CURRENTLY IN Y0UR CD PLAYER?
Well in the car I have Oasis's Morning Glory, OLP's Gravity, and Muse's Absolution.

13. DO YOU PREFER REGULAR OR CHOCOLATE MILK?
I'd like to say either but that's not really a preference is it... So chocolate milk it is.

14. HAS ANYONE TOLD Y0U A SECRET THIS WEEK?
This is starting to bother me... Why are all the Os typed as 0.
Hmm no, people rarely tell me secrets :(

15. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HAD STARBUCKS?
We have beans you brew at home so...

16. CAN YOU WHISTLE?
No.

17. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX?
I really don't know. Or I'm just not up for wasting brain cells thinking about it cos I TAKE THESE MEME SURVEY THINGS SRSLY. :lol:

18. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO?
My two week sojourn into insular southeast asia and all the cheap curry and cheap beer and (supposedly) pretty & (hopefully) deserted beaches.

19. DID YOU WATCH CARTO0NS AS A CHILD?
Good god was this survey typed out with a cellphone keypad???
Yes I did and still do.

22. WHAT MOVIES DO YOU KNOW EVERY LINE TO?
TROY. hahahhaa Just kidding. But I watched it 3 times in one sitting once so I-used to-know all of the lines in some parts.

23. DO YOU OWN ANY BAND T-SHIRTS?
No.

24. WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING IN ONE HOUR?
Being the loving, selectively responsible sister that I am I'll be picking up my younger brother from school.

25. IS ANYONE IN LOVE WITH YOU?
Duh, we all know the answer to this: no. hahaha

26. WHAT WAS THE LAST SONG YOU HEARD?
Hot Chip's Down With Prince.

27. HAVE YOU EVER CRIED AT SCHOOL?
Yep.

28. ARE YOU ON A DESKTOP COMPUTER OR A LAP TOP?
Desktop.

29. ARE YOU CURRENTLY WANTING ANY PIERCINGS OR TATTOOS?
No.

30. WHATS THE WEATHER LIKE?
Pleasant. Not too hot. Although I figure the sun will decide to be evil and fry us all this afternoon, in this part of the world.

31. WOULD YOU EVER DATE A BOY/GIRL COVERED IN TATTOOS?
Dunno. I don't even have the network to meet somebody covered in tattoos tho so I guess no.

32. WHAT DID YOU DO BEFORE THIS?
Checked e-mail, bloghopped, then breakfast.

33. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SLEPT ON THE FLOOR?
Dunno.

34. HOW MANY HOURS OF SLEEP DO YOU NEED TO FUNCTION?
6 is pretty normal. 3-4 hours I still function. But I always have Vitalert hahaha.

35. DO YOU EAT BREAKFAST DAILY?
Yes, sometimes I have it three times a day.

36. ARE YOUR DAYS FULL AND FAST PACED?
Right now they're slow and uneventful. Normally they're slow and uneventful.

37. WHAT DID YOU DO LAST NIGHT?
I think I went to the gym cos I've been sitting on my ass in front of the computer since I woke up that morning. Literaly yeah.

38. DO YOU USE SARCASM?
No.

39. HOW OLD WILL Y0U BE TURNING ON Y0UR NEXT BIRTHDAY?
19

40. ARE YOU PICKY ABOUT SPELLING AND GRAMMAR?
YES THESE RECURRING 0s as Os ARE BOTHERING ME. (But really, I think I am. I don't hate people for having bad grammar and spelling tho... altho it's a convenient reason hahaha just kidding *shifty eyes*)

41. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO SIX FLAGS?
No.

43. DO YOU GET ALONG BETTER WITH THE SAME SEX OR THE OPPOSITE SEX?
It really depends on the person. Yo.

44. DO Y0U LIKE MUSTARD?
Yes.

45. DO Y0U SLEEP ON YOUR SIDE, STOMACH or BACK?
Back. I have premature osteoperosis.. just kidding.

46. DO YOU WATCH THE NEWS?
Yes. I can't be blamed for not watching local news enough tho cos all they report are sensationalized bullshit we don't care about like this man who raped this girl, or this guy who got hit by a late night delivery truck. Seriously.

47. HOW DID YOU GET ONE OF YOUR SCARS?
There were 3 of us on a bicycle and we were trying to maneuver the thing up a steep slope.

48. WHO WAS THE LAST PERS0N TO MAKE YOU MAD?
None. My sister probably.

49. DO YOU LIKE ANYB0DY?
Oh you know, the usual people on theater and tv screens. I think I like myself too. HMM.

50. WHAT IS THE LAST THING YOU PURCHASED?
Food, I bet. Last time I was out was Monday though so food, definitely, and a movie ticket.

51. DO YOU LOVE SMALL LITTLE HAMSTERS?
No.

Probably, no one will understand this post

GREEN STREET HOOLIGANS WAS AWESOME. It may not be entirely truthful about firms, chavs, hooligans, etc. as some people claim but whatevs, it was entertaining. There were only about 8 or 10 people inside the theater with Ayisse, Martin, Remika, and me. Needless to say we were the noisiest hahaha Laughing at the characters, laughing at our own inside jokes, blablabla. Ayisse cried noisily at the end, I badgered everybody about how Swill looks like has to be one of Shaun's workmates in Shaun Of The Dead (I checked IMDB and yeah it's him), I tried to force Remika to agree with me that Danny should be in this movie given that he was presumably chav-like in his younger days, we'd constantly try to stifle immense laughs like in that one scene with Bovver sulking by the river after the late-night Millwall hijack of sorts and Remika goes, "Tapos biglang lalabas si Fergie... kakanta ng London Bridge. (And then Fergie'd appear out of nowhere singing London Bridge.)", Remika suddenly shrieked when someone got stabbed, and we would all laugh at the general awkwardness of Elijah Wood as a hooligan... Mind you, I think he was purposedly awkward given the story and his character and he actually did a great job on being the odd one out, like he didn't even have to try I suppose!

Best moment in the movie was when they rushed the 'Major' into the hospital after the old, miserable dude from Millwall stabbed him in the neck with a broken beer bottle. Elijah Wood yelled as they entered the hospital "(Somebody help us!) He was fucking stabbed!" I've never witnessed anyone swear more awkwardly than him.

Or when Bov and Pete start harassing Matt (Elijah Wood) for being a "Journalist" and keeping a "Journal" in his laptop...
Matt: IT'S JUST A FUCKING DIARY.

Journal...ist. :lmao:

the scary pit of boredom

Dixi: You know you're really bored when you start taking up crafting.

Not exact but something to that effect. Cos I bought fake pearls and I'm looking to buy bracelet and necklace hookes and stuff for accessories. Might be picking up some swarovski too if I have the money. And then I'll sell them online or something. As for the plain shirts Ayisse and I need, I'm just going to get them from somebody I know since it'd be easier and cheaper. I must be very bored. I've no more final tests to take and I'm officially on semester break. This just proves that the only settings I function in are school, in front of the computer, and the mall. How sad. When school was still in I'd be like, "Okay what are my subjects tomorrow, what school work do I have to get done, etc etc" It was a routine I well appreciated. You know, just so I have something to do. Now I've only have the internet and the mall.

But tomorrow we're driving west or something to Manaoag (there's this church there) after that we'd probably hoard stuff foodstuff and other grocery stuff from the duty frees in Subic. I dunno, I'll go take pictures. Cos I'm bored. And I think it's about time I start taking photos again. After this post I'd go pick out what to wear for tomorrow as well so I don't fuss over it in the morning, we're leaving the house at 3am tomorrow.

For the past few days I've been having this urge to cook pasta in the middle of the night btw. I don't know whether I should start worrying about a chronic lack-of-something-to-do or if I'm turning too domestic like cooking, crafty kind of domestic.

Our kitchen's done btw. Here are a few pics. It's just a tad more orangey than the new SM grocery stores hahaha. (And I just wanted to take a shot of our old oven.)

My passport's ready. I should start digging up things and little gadgets I have to bring along with me to the trip. It's less than 2 weeks away, wow. ~*~Insert cheesy time moves fast quote~*~

I went to the doctor's office yesterday and I was told to call again today for the exact meds I'd be needing for the anti-malaria pills. Turns out it's not expensive and I'd be drinking it a week before I leave and then 4 weeks after I come home.

I'm still waiting for the exemption results for my european languages and civs class, I don't want to take the final test really. I'm not taking it for any of my other subjects. I know I'm a lucky biatch. (I'm annoyed at my possible 2.0 grade in Bio 1... an unbelievable class where all we do is share news articles related to Biology and our long tests are composed of True or False questions regarding the news headlines.) I prayed for all of you my dear friends who have to take up your Biology, Maths, and Physics. I hope you don't hate me for having a light workload. Shift na kasi kayo eh hahaha Okay, just kidding.

Okay this is weird... It just started raining. Okay now it's er... gone.

What is up with my running commentary. I'm boring everybody.

I didn't go to my org's prod work today cos I was a bit sick this morning with colds. My mom told me to take the day off so yeah that's what I did. I was looking forward to the prod work :( But whatevs. I'm better now. I've lazed around enough the rest of the day: breakfast, internet, cook lunch, internet, read book, watch tv, internet, second breakfast. Off to hit the gym in a while yeah.

Hopefully Ayisse and I can get out tshirt business thing off the ground with 20 customized shirts as a start. And dunno... Hope we can go to Divisoria to buy the stuff we need this saturday. Oh I really hope your Physics thing works out :) So you don't stress yourself during this whole sem break.

Had my hair cut... The full bangs are back but I kept the length since I'm growing it out yeah. :sigh: I've nothing else to do really except bum around my room with its stupid opaque curtains (I've always kept heavy dark curtains) wearing sunnies because well... I find it a bit too bright in here really. Or I'm just bored.

Edit:
I was looking through message archives and found this hahaha

AM (7/6/2006 12:20:48 AM): OK IM GOOGLEIMAGESEARCHING LAHM AND RONALDO SUDDENLY APPEARS http://sanbra.kaywa.ch/files/images/2005/6/mob94_1119591874.jpg
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:21:00 AM): hahahahaa
AM (7/6/2006 12:21:14 AM): ugh hello bling earing
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:21:20 AM): thats bc he's hot
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:21:20 AM): hahaha
AM (7/6/2006 12:21:45 AM): with a huge ass bling earing he's not
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:21:57 AM): *** is going to london!
AM (7/6/2006 12:22:08 AM): whos that?
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:22:32 AM): si ***
AM (7/6/2006 12:22:46 AM): ooooh
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:22:56 AM): ronaldo is such a badass
AM (7/6/2006 12:23:12 AM): he's so hiphop
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:23:15 AM): i love him when he's playing, with no highlights, unlike this ugly photo hahahaha
AM (7/6/2006 12:23:38 AM): i cant take it i can now imagine what he wears on a normal day. buti sana kung parang yung sa fashion ad campaigns eh no kaso mukhang hindi...
AM (7/6/2006 12:23:51 AM): ahahahha oo nga ang pangit may highlights... plus bling bling.
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:24:21 AM): but that means he's just very simple and down to earth! lol
AM (7/6/2006 12:24:24 AM): WTF @ *** $10k on photography in ONE MONTH???
AM (7/6/2006 12:24:32 AM): buti sana if he bought a whole new set of gears
AM (7/6/2006 12:24:54 AM): bling bling = simple and down to earth??? whaaha
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:25:01 AM): no I meant Lahm
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:25:03 AM): hahaha
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:25:07 AM): wow
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:25:15 AM): you can really make good money
Ayisse (7/6/2006 12:25:18 AM): move to hong kong
AM (7/6/2006 12:26:34 AM): aaaah haha but yes he seems simple and down to earth. compared to mr bling here.
AM (7/6/2006 12:26:54 AM): what will i do in hongkong? down in birds laway noodle soup.
AM (7/6/2006 12:26:58 AM): *drown in

>laway = saliva
pangit = ugly

there must be something about this food talk

So I thought I'd be going to the mall, getting my much craved for smoked hotdog, and starting with my paper for real. But I didn't. Instead I finished half a baguette, tuna and my younger brother's untouched packed lunch of instant nuggets.

I passed a rough draft of the paper last night. Which was around 780 words long when our group had 1,000 words to divide between the 5 have us. It only took me 20 minutes to write hahaha Word vomit. So actually, I've nothing to write until I discuss the paper again with my groupmates, which just happened around 5:00 this afternoon.

Anyway I'm set to edit all of our write ups and stuff. It's approximately 2 short bond pages long, 1000 words. Oh god, how the hell do I make that short a commentary on a Tony Crowley book about English in history and its standardization? I never thought I'd be expending much time trying to shorten something. But I don't really have that big a problem with it and I'm taking it as a challenge. After all, your mastery of something shows if you can summarize or describe it in one sentence. Oha, haha.

So the coffee maker is done doing its job. I feel like writing and stuff yeah. So yay for me. Hot coffee and doughnuts tonight, while yoga awaits tomorrow morning. And I'm accompanying Bmatz tomorrow she's gonna get a faux hawk hahaha. All's good then.

PS
Bikram Yoga here in metro manila just opened a studio in Quezon City :O

Just another mindless blabbering

Currently: Eating peanut m&m's, reading z!nk, and trying to get my laptop to work.

One day I will get an overdose from eating too much m&m's. The workers are finishing our kitchen and I want to prepare some sort of pasta dish but they're still there so... even if I'll be working outside in the makeshift kitchen. I'm trekking over to the mall in a while, eat smoked hotdogs and hole up at Starbucks perhaps and drink their expensive coffee even if I can make coffee at home. I just need a place where I won't fall dead asleep while trying to write my paper yeah. I know I can do it in a food court or something but... Wait, I think I won't have problems falling asleep in a food court, it's a big place and the people won't bother if you waste that space by not eating there.

But first I have to charge my laptop which has a battery lifespan of 1hour. I know, wtf. I'm thinking whether I should get a digital slr first. (I'm looking to buy a 20d altho the rebel xt/300 must be tons cheaper now especially that they released the eos 400. Yeah sure there's the 30d but I dunno, kinda out of my budget.) But I really want an ibook to edit future dv movies on. And just because those macs look nice. Haha

I like planning my next few hours like this.

I missed yoga this morning by the way. I woke up at 5:30 thinking it was 6:30 so I can catch a session in the morning but when my phone alarmed at 6:30 I remember shutting it off but I didn't get up so... I got up at 7:30 :( Ugh. Oh well there's always tomorrow. And besides, because I didn't go anymore I just watched Prison Break's 7th ep which I finished downloading sometime this early morning. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Everyone must watch Prison Break too.

I've ran out of those chinese cupcake-sized chicken pies too. Everybody has to go to Dec's chinese deli and buy their chicken pie. I swear they're really really good. Tasty and subtle on the taste buds at the same time. Why do I keep posting about food?

I called you Remskeedo and you're still asleep and I don't want to call Ayisse since I know she might be studying/has a test and therefore I will just be a huge distraction haha. Yeah there are only 2 people I talk to on the phone on a hyperextraregular basis.

While I charge my laptop, I'm watchign HAPPINESS. I'VE FOUND MY COPY AT LAST. I just found it while looking for the charger O_o heehee. Oh and might pick up contact lenses later on too since my dad told me to get them instead. The guy hates eyeglasses. Altho I think eyeglasses are much better in that you really don't have to expend much energy putting them on hahahai'mlazylikethat.