I went to North Point to top up on body lotion and lip balm. Then I decided, forget the lip balm, I accidentally left it with my sis anw, I can get it from her some other day. For now, SAVE $$$. But guess what, at The Body Shop when getting the body lotion, the girl convinced me to sign up for the Love Your Body card! It was going for $10, and I do go to Body Shop alot for stuff, so I could probably use the 10% disc.. But still??!! (Recall earlier conviction to "SAVE $$$".)
The funny thing is, while I was standing there paying, in my head I was going through the Attitudes chp on styles of persuasion and decided this is the 'Foot-in-the-door' technique. Hahaa.. Hais.....
Just as I was kicking myself in the butt in my head (figure it out yourself) however, the girl reveals a 'welcome to the club' sorta gift. Well, what do you know.. It's a lip balm.
Who still doubts the power of retail therapy? :)
If only life is really that simple.
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(James Oliver)
Thank you for this moment I've gotta say how beautiful you are Of all the hopes and dreams I could've prayed for There you are If I could have one dance forever I would take you by the hand Tonight it's you and I together I'm so glad, I'm your man
And if I lived a thousand years You know, I never could explain The way I lost my heart to you That day. But if destiny decided I should look the other way Then the world would never know The greatest story ever told And did I tell you that I love you tonight?
I don't hear the music When I'm looking in your eyes But I feel the rhythm of your body Close to mine. It's the way we touch that sends me It's a way we'll always be Your kiss, your pretty smile you know I'd die for Oh baby, you're all I need.
And if I lived a thousand years You know, I never could explain The way I lost my heart to you That day. But if destiny decided I should look the other way Then the world would never know The greatest story ever told And did I tell you that I love you, Just how much I really need you
Did I tell you that I love you, tonight?
iFLEW @ 4:30:00 pm Sunday, October 29, 2006
Raya photos!
(Family minus eldest sis & co.)
(The young and the young-at-hearts: my sibs, cousins and anak buahs)
(Abg Helmi, Abg Hafiz and Queen Moi.)
(Shaja'ah a.k.a. Dream Husband)
(My nephew Mu'az with my cousins Ilyas and Iman.)
(Nephew Thalhah, pronounced as Tholhah.)
(Niece Fasihah.. Probably the cutest toddler in the whole wide world, universe, milky way.)
Can't wait for Library gang, Pbm and Madrasah jalan raya, in that order. Coming soon!
For now, it's back to the books (coursepack, PS, eurgh).
iFLEW @ 5:15:00 pm Wednesday, October 25, 2006
My sister pretty, so pretty pretty...
Selamat Hari Raya, MAAF ZAHIR BATIN!!!! :D
I had a good raya day today. I think it boils down to not leaving chores til last min, packing and sending food to pple the night before, and having a hot bf.
Ok. Minus that last part there. Hahaa...
Hmm raya shows this year abit mendak dun you think... I miss the shows when we were kids, they seem so much more kelakar and entertaining! oh oh.. buden I was so looking forward to Singapura Live today.. For who else.. Taufik Batisah.. Hahhahaa.. Oh man.. Is he hawt or what... And I love his voice lar... I was at my uncle's house when I caught him singing on tv and I was just transfixed, I tell you. My bro and and my cousin were trying to distract me in the bg by telling me he's not gonna marry me but all I did was shush them. They were so disgusted they were looking around for things to throw at me, but fortunately, the potted plant near them was too heavy. So in conclusion, raya shows should invite taufik to perform for them not to be mendak.
Oh I was telling katak that there must be sthg abt pple his age that I like.. The cousin I mentioned above, Abang Helmi, is 23 too and I love love LOVE joking around with him (and my bro). He's so funny! And cool! And we'd always like kutuk each other.. Hahaa.. (Wait.. the thought of calling Katak Abang Kamal, and others.. Abang Idil, Abang Faizal, Abang Md Noor... is REVOLTING!!!!!!!!! YUCKSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! Thank GOD for University!)
Actually right, that family, my mum's eldest bro, wanted to adopt me when I was a baby.. Cos I was too cute, my aunt and uncle couldn't take it, they wanted me for themselves. But alas, my parents decided THEY wanted me for THEMselves (BECAUSE I was too cute) that the adoption never followed through.. Ok ok.. They wanted to adopt me cos that family only got 2 boys and my aunt wanted a girl, kebetulan, at the time of my birth, my mum alr had 2 girls and 2 boys, so I was the 'extra', or in other words, the 'special' one.. Until this day though, my relatives always teased me abt how I almost became 'Anak Wak Ta' (my aunt)..
Maybe.. because of that, somehow that family became very attached to me (no kidding, my aunt influenced her elder son to name his daughter "NURIN Huda", after yours truly, of course).. And I got quite attached to Abang Helmi.. It helps that he and my bro are like buddies too.. Haha.. Long story short, his house is always the last house we go to on 1st day of raya, and it's the best possible way to end of the day. Always a blast.
Oh remember dream husband? The cute 4 year old kiddo? Oh my, he's cuter than ever! I'll post photos once my bro has uploaded!
And I lurrrrrrve being the youngest in the family because we get alot of mullah $$$$.... Hahahhahaha..... Older siblings = $$$. Yea.........
And it's really hard to have a PERASAN-Turkish/Arab/Italian bf.. I think I get so many dosa alr from just agreeing with him. ;D
Have a good week ahead, yall! iFLEW @ 12:30:00 am Friday, October 20, 2006
Every Little Thing
Anw.. I just wanna make a shout-out to my Gdfrens, who helped me with the brownies carrying on Wed.. Haa.. Even though I'm now $17 (!!!) poorer.. I redha.. Hahaa... Kidding.. It was fun talking like old times. :)
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(Dishwalla)
Let me in to see you in the morning light to get me on and all along the tears they come see all come I want you to believe in life but I get the strangest feeling that you've gone away will you find out who you are
too late to change?
I wish I could be every little thing you wanted all the time I wish I could be every little thing you wanted all the time some times
lift me up just lift me up don't make a sound and let me hold you up before you hit the Ground see all come you say your all right but I get the strangest feeling that you've gone away- you've gone away and will you find out who you are too late to change?
I wish I could be every little thing you wanted all the time I wish I could be every little thing you wanted all the time some times
Don't give me up don't give me up tonight or soon nothing will be right at all salvation will you find out who you are too late to change?
I wish I could be every little thing you wanted
iFLEW @ 1:31:00 am Thursday, October 19, 2006
Winter wonderland, or smoker's trachea?
It's like the haze just refuses to go away. More rain please!
I'm just on to my 3rd brownie!
Hais.. How slow is that.... I want a bigger oven. It might make me more domestic.
And double hais, I just had my social psych presentation just now... There I was telling my distressed group mates after the presentation, "It's ok, it's ok," but actually, I also feel anxious abt it; it dint really go too well. Thanks to Vicky Tan who SLEPT halfway thru our presentation lar!!! THANKS EH.. THAT, coming from a SOCIAL PSYCH PROF lar.. Shouldn't SHE, of all people, know, that whatever she does may influence the performance of her students?? Haha.. oh well. It's over! No more projects! No essays! Only 1 test left and that's in Nov! (ok.. it's PS, the YUCKS mod.)
How has your Ramadhan been? I think mine was worse than last year's, which is bad isn't it.. Isn't the aim to always better urself, not to mundur balik ke belakang.. Oh well, it aint over yet, so pple like me (us, haha..) don't give up hope! 4 days to redeem ourselves. Insya Allah..
Anw, ha.. recently I was having a conversation with the Katak, and we were joking and laughing and suddenly I thought, hey, we're like, what, 7 mths alr, and we're still joking! Can you see how jaded I was.. I've always been wary abt long term relationships, or fearful, maybe.. Yea.. I've always assumed that after 3-4 mths, you get bored.. the feelings die.. you run outta topics. etc. That I was actually impressed and pleasantly surprised..
Lucky me.
Alhamdulillah.. :) iFLEW @ 11:41:00 pm Sunday, October 15, 2006
Team who?
Last night despite my initial reluctance and lazyness, I joined some pri sch friends over at J8 coffeebean. There was Rushdy, Yusri, Azhari and Shahidah, who actually left after pri 4 when her family moved to Tampines and I dint meet except for 1 time at Tp's Manifestasi 2003. Ha.. It was funny how Yusri found her. Or rather, how she found Yusri. But nonetheless, it's all good!
I was pleasantly surprised at how easy the conversation went, we were laughing a lot.. Reminiscing... Especially abt Malay class (and Cikgu Samnah, hehe). We were all amazed at Azhari's photographic memory. He remembers EVERYTHING, even the exact words Cikgu Lorena used in demonstrating imbuhan beR- in pri 3! He's scary! Oh, and he remembers alot abt pple's skirts apparently hmmmmmm...... Haha..
It's also quite funny how we always have to associate pple with their classes before we can remember them. Like in describing Amelina, we'll be like, "you know, from 1C, den 6C". Yep. Pri 6 and/or pri 1 class. So there was Husaini 1C and 6F. Farhana 6G. Izdawaty 1B, 6G. That kinda thing. But sometimes, no amount of description can help. We just can't remember..
Anw, Shahidah told me yesterday that she's actually Gamar's cousin lar!! What a small world!!! She was from tkg too so she must know like the millions of other tk pple we know.. So interesting! Oh now she's in NTU. Lucky NTU guys man she's HAWT!!!!! Ok. Sweet. No. Hot. Aww, can somebody be BOTH? Cos she is. Oh, love her face!
Ok I've been wanting to comment abt Nick Lachey's and Jessica Simpson's new singles after they become, well, single. Notice the difference in their song lyrics!
Nick says: But how could we quit something we never even tried? Well, you still can't tell me why.
Jess says: It's just you gotta know that it's got to be right baby, Before I open up my heart to you
Nick says: You're not the person that you used to be, The one i want who wanted me. And that's a shame.
Jess says: Love don't mean changing who you are to be, Who somebody wants you to be, Nobody's got to belong to nobody
Nick says: Take what's left of this man, Make me whole once again
Jess says: I don't need somebody to complete me, I complete myself.
Ouch. Nick. Get a life. I love your songs and all, I love your voice, but it really pains me to see u all crumpled up like this. Jess, I'm not a fan of your acting- although your latest vid was awesome, pple tell you that? - but I think you're hot and that's enough to make me root for you.
So Team Jess I am. You team who?
Hehee..
(songs are from Nick Lachey's "I Can't Hate You Anymore" and "What's Left of Me" [What kinda loser titles are those?? Aiyorrrr...] and Jessica Simpson's "I Belong to Me" [Woohoo! Go Jess! Watch the vid! It's really nice!] )
iFLEW @ 11:24:00 pm Sunday, October 08, 2006
The Way You Look at Me
this is for maly.. the very very sappy song I know you'll love.
Christian Bautista..
iFLEW @ 1:51:00 am
Move over, Polar Cakes, Royal Cakes' the way to go!
SO remember that, ladies and gentlemen, for my upcoming 21st birthday.
We celebrated my parents' 1st cucu's 10th birthday! hahaa... So old ah, my parents.. But it was quite nice. My bro in law got this closest-to-Sin you'll find in Ramadhan in the form of a Strawberry cake. Woho.. That's the way to make cakes man.. Creamy and soft but not too sweet.
And I cooked too! Haha.. Ok.. More like help out.. But I did quite alot.. Even siang the ikan! Haa.. I'm ready man. KIDDING! Kidding... Hehee..
So anw I was (attempting to) study for my soc psy test this monday and my text is saying sthg abt how similarity between partners has an overriding importance in determining the success of a rs as compared to complementarity.. It just so happens that my sis was in my room then, so I asked her whether she feels she is more similar or complementary to her husband. Then she said complementary! And I nearly gasped out loud in horror la hahaa..
Then I realised that certain characteristics are different but similar, not necessarily opposites. Furthermore, she elaborated that they do share the same principles, values, ways of doing things etc.. Phew......... Hahaa.. Oh she also said that they are certain things that you just gotta adapt, if you cannot, then it's just gonna be really hard for the both of you to live together.. I guess so.. Haa.. I always like to see my sis and her husband. I think they are very the lomantic...
Ok ok.. No more of such talk!
Hmm... I reaaaaally wanna eat otak-otak now.. Otak-otak.. otak-otak..........
Oh btw, I'm really quite disgusted with myself but I like the combination of pink and blue and purple lar.. haha.. how pri school right... But don't ostracise me ok, esp YOU hafie.. Not my fault I dun like green and yellow and orange highlighters right.. I tried ok, I really did.. It was just too clashing with my tastes. 2 days without my usual set of highlighters and I was having serious withdrawal syndroms. Now I have my colours with me, life's good again!
And one more thing, I really love talking to Maly. :)
Ok! I'm done here.
Adios Salamos.
Get well soon! iFLEW @ 12:11:00 am Friday, October 06, 2006
dengdeng + otak-otak = love.
But despite the good food, I'm in a lousy mood now.. One of the few nights that I'm free (no datelines tmr, no tests, no presentations) and what am I doing? Staying up.
I have lots of things to say, and I keep telling myself to blog it down every chance I get, but I'm feeling lazy.
But not lazy enough to say I HATE to see designs that I'm NOT proud of. It makes me wanna puke. I hate it you know, my friends.. I appreciate some of you telling me it's nice and the colours are nice, but I hate it... I don't wish to see it anymore, I hope the term ends soon so I can stash all away. Please PLEASE keep it (them) away from me. But I love yall for being so nice.. :(
Ah.Gem, you.
*hides and cries* iFLEW @ 1:58:00 am Monday, October 02, 2006
