Horror Stories...

I wanted to post up a blog these last few days but due to the volatility of the karan here (heheh kes tutup karan balik2 due to old age of the switch box) malas tah ku kan online. Nada mood jua bah, manakan tido siuk ada air-con tapi udah bangun berpeluh kepanasan bawah selimut. This unstable condition lasted for three days, and finally the org karan was called and he did his thingie and the electricity is now back on~ Hopefully~

The above is not what this post is about although having no electricity is a horror story by itself - imagine no TV! No internet! No AIR-CON! I shiver in memory of those days.... This post is actually about a story I heard from my sis-in-law, the type of story that is 'I heard from my friend who heard from her uncle who heard...', so I can't vouch for it's truthfulness but it makes a good horror story. The telling of this was started off cause I brought my niece and nephew to Giant, the superstore just off the Tungku Link Road on Thursday, 20th Nov, and my niece badly wanted to play at the indoors playground they set up for kids. I wanted to let her play but my sis-in-law's amah told me that my sis-in-law strictly forbids her kids playing there. I was thinking "poor kid, just let her have a little fun" but a voice in my head told me not to - and I listened coz it's always right (but that does not mean I listen to it all the time ^u^ ~). So we went home after much pulling and tugging on my niece's hand, almost had to bodily get her away from the place~

We were having a sembahyang berjemaah at home to pray for my brother's safe journey to Vietnam on a naval duty, so there were lots of relatives around and when everyone else went to pray, there was me and my sis-in-law minding the kids among others. So I told her about the Giant trip and how my niece was really stubborn about the playground. My sis-in-law then told me the real story about why she doesn't let her kids play there: There was a story of how once a kid was hidden by jins at the Giant playground...why? coz the parents mistakenly took one of the jin's kid home as it was resembling (not resembled but resembling its own face after) their own kid. This new kid was different than the real one, it did not eat and was quiet all the time - the mom was worried and somehow something moved her to call an ustaz. One look at the kid and the ustaz knew it's not human, so they went back to the store and convinced the security guard to open up the place. Inside one of the play area they finally found the real one huddle up and the jin's kid just disappeared... The lost kid then told his parents that there were lots of creatures milling about the place and how none of them gave him anything to eat.

Just after she finished off telling the story, immediately I said loudly, "Nda tah ku ke Giant lagi lapas ani for a long, long time", and that night malam Jumaat lagi tu, and ada ceta seram kat TV3 - Puaka Niang Rapik - yang hantunya ada every other second of screen (scream?) time. Hahah penakut jua ku tu. People say the area where the store was based is actually karas and a kid once drowned there when it was once a lake. I don't think I'll be bringing the kids there ever again, arah kadai kaling depan simpang rumah durang tah saja mun kan shopping~

Speaking of TV3 Seram shows, I really like the previous one: Kekasihku Seru, about a pair of lovers who were cruelly separated with the death of the guy at the gal's father's hand. The gal then brought him back to life with some mantera and after a while realises that the thing she brought back was not her lover. It spans several decades with her descendants bearing her mistakes and finally vanquishing the evil being. But I didn't like the way it ended though - a crazy aunt was so in love with the creature she brought it back and the story was left hanging there... Boo! Kesian the hero and heroine, nda tah sanang idup lapas atu. The new series of Seram's plot was not as siuk as KS but it has enough juice to tweak my inborn curiousity, and the hantu-hantu was not that scary once you've seen them twice. Still mbagi tekajut jua bila tiba2 melompat keluar out of nowhere~

I have never experienced myself of any otherworldly beings, but there are always stories abound because of the abundance of superstition and ingrained belief due to religion and culture in this country. I believe in them myself but would never want to encounter them~ heheh~ Although nda pernah terjumpa but there was this one time when I myself was thought to be a ghost!

It happened when I was staying in Brunei Hall, London during my last weeks in UK. I had just came up from the laundry room in the basement and was on my floor heading back to my room. Out the elevator and I was pushing the connecting door leading to the rooms. There stood this one girl holding a plastic bag of food, waiting for her friends I guess, at the other end of the corridor. One look at me and she started banging on her friend's door and her voice was quite frantic even though I couldn't make out what she was saying. I was stumped, holding my laundry bag staring at her through my bangs, "Gila kali anak ani" was the only thought in my mind. I ignored her and didn't think much about it until the next day. It finally dawned on me that morning that she may have mistook me for a hantu coz of my long hair (just brushed haphazardly after my shower, no one to impress anyway) and the way I was cradling my laundry bag (white plastic bag from some store), but if she looked closely she may have noticed that I was wearing 3/4 shorts and a t-shirt, and was quite alive (unless she thought I was a hantu of a recently deceased modern day girl). Kureng asam~ Ada aku yang bisai2 ani diucap hantu gentayangan... chiss!

Hahahaha~ looking back it was quite funny the way she started to bang the door. Belagur2 bah tambah lagi sama suaranya yang macam kan menangis bunyinya tu. And aku dengan selambanya mbuka pintu bilik ku pakai key card and ignoring her after the first few seconds of kebangangan~ Probably by the time aku sampai udah balik ke sini, a new legend of the-nonchalant-hantu-with-a-keycard is borned~

Huahuahuahuahahahaha ~

Walk~walk

Macam biasa buang boring bawa jalan2 round Brunei. I went to the Mall after my civil service test on Tuesday just to see how it was at 10.30 am - turns out banyak kadai alum buka. What time is it slalunya kan kadai ani buka? So round2 lah ku and noticed that some of the shops are putting up christmas trees to celebrate the oncoming festive season, even Grand Utama is selling christmas ornaments. I guess christmas is just no longer exclusively a one religion thing seeing now that its celebrated almost globally whatever the religion with Santa Claus being the main mascot.

This handsome specimen was seen loitering around in front of iWalk. Apparently he was trying to catch the eye of a pretty in pink next door at the iTop (which i think the store name was~).

"Hey there suga mama~ I saw your bling2 and couldn't help noticing how it makes your leaves curl sexily~"

"My, my~ such a sweet talker you are soulja~ I don't mind me being on Santa's naughty list this year with such a hot thing like you around"

*I leave the rest to your imagination. Suffice to say, Pretty in Pink certainly got on~ the naughty list I mean (-o^)*

So back to my walk-walk, there was nothing much out of the ordinary that day. I did meet Ihsan though, she was taking her two sisters out just to relieve them of the post-exam blues. We chatted for a while, and she told me she applied for a post in UBD as a lecturer but didn't get a reply yet. It seems to me a lot of people I know applied to UBD for a teaching post - I doubt I can do it since I'm such a pemarah and all. Heheh~ my younger siblings can attest to that, they've been on the other end of my temper when I once tutored them on their homework (and that was the end of my career as a teacher to them~).

Today I went to Bandar just for a change of scenery, I'm getting rather sick of the Mall Gadong - probably just gonna go there to watch a movie or just to see if the latest manga arrived yet after this. It was hot and luckily I wore a short sleeve tee (jangan marah Ma & Bah~ hopefully u never discover this blog of mine), and pretended to be an Asian tourist with no knowledge of Malay~ buang tebiat~

Heheh siuk jua, andangnya tourist season kali, asal ku masuk kadai kena bawa speaking omputeh: "These earrings ah you buy 1 for B$3, 4 for B$10 and get one free on top of that ah~ buy lah, so pretty right?" said this one Chinese taukeh to me when I just barely stepped into his store. I wanted to look around Tamu Kianggeh but since I was already lapar and didn't bring my camera with me (ada buleh tertinggal atas meja?! Udah ku recharge the battery the night before...), I went back home - my tummy always win over my curiousity. Iatah klo kamu nda mau ku betanya pasal secret2 kamu, blanja ku makan~

Before I end my post for today, I'll leave you with a picture I took today with my mobile phone tof a man caught with his pants down and proud of it!

Hahahaha~ Sori ku meliatkan kamu gambar ani~ jangan mengigau malam ah~. Ku terjumpa masa ku round di Milimewah arah Teck Guan Plaza. Antah apa kah kebendanya, it was the only one of its kind and placed at the figurines shelf. Why they didn't just remove him already just for being downright ugly (on top of being offensive), I don't know - after all who the heck would buy this anyway?




P.S. I cut my hair~ pendek sampai bawah telinga~

Layout Change!..... Again~

Heheh~ I changed the layout as you can see. The previous one atu payah kan di modify dan colournya oren atu bukannya feveret ku banarnya. So I used the provided template 'Minima' and messed around to give it some colour. Main background sama main-wrapper background ku ani ku culik dari PatternCooler but I screwed around with an image editor programme and changed the raindrop from a somewhat crowded look to a simple basic one since the main body udah ada crowded backdrop:

Yang original, lawa plang but it has too many raindrops menyasakkan the page. I think I'll use it again later in its original form udah ku boring ngan my current design.

This image is supposed to be repeated throughout the background but it's too complicated to create a repeated template - the image keeps over lapping. This is my third attempt and though it didn't go quite the way I want it, it's not shabby either.

Header atu actually I wanted to use a simple abstract cloud image but couldn't find any and since I'm too malas to create the exact one I have in my head, I just typed in 'Clouds' in google and Tada!~ this one pops out~so why not, it's cute in addition to having clouds.


That's all for today folks~


Btw, I wanna get a haircut.


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Things I bought recently - Part Deux~

Kes buang boring, nada kan di post so I brought to you Part II of the Purchasing Chronicles (this part must be said in a booming voice)~

Sis-n-law ku said that she saw this coin-bank sold for B$13
I bought mine for B$5~ Heheh lucky me

(Model: Froggy the Frog Bank, Location: Atop Han2's bookshelf)


My current shades are for ornamental purposes only, so I
had to buy REAL ones that does the job as well as make me
look good~ Mission accomplished!

(Model: A pair of Hersheys Bars - which unfortunately was consumed due to the their seductively tempting curves, Location: On Han2's desk)


Also bought several hair clips that I just could not resist~ So cute~
Since nada model yg willing to pose with them I had to force Diego the Bat to wear them for me. Sorry Diego, they do not make you look gay, I swear!

Angel Wings

Devil Horns

Rabbit Ears

(Model: Diego the Bat, Location: On the Bed)


I rarely use the study desk my dad bought me since its so crowded with my stuff and there's hardly any space left. I'm thinking of buying a small dining table for my I-don't-know-when-it's-gonna-be-completed own room as a study table where I can bersepah all I want~ So I'm currently using a small foldable table and bought these two pillows/cushions for my backside. Sakit kali ah duduk berjam2 ani - I think my ass has developed calluses from all those times I've not been cushioning 'em (>O<)

(Model: The Floor, Location: Also The Floor)


And Finally,


I


unveil


to


you


my


greatest


splurge


ever...


....


..

Jeng Jeng Jeng!~

Ahaks~ I did say that I've nothing better to do~

Cute folder icons~

I was going to post about 'things I recently bought part II' but the pics are still stored within my camera's internal memory and said camera is with my brother. He borrowed it yesterday and is probably wanting to upload his pics to his own blog - which has not been updated in a while so I'm letting him hold on to the camera for a while. Speaking of cameras, I've been itching to get a new one since my current cybershot doesn't take a nice zoom in pic - it gets all blurry and the object still appears far, which is a bummer if I wanted to take pics of subjects that I cannot physically get closer to. This happened when I wanted to get a pic of Prince Charles on stage at Nas' convo, and ended up with a stick figure instead (which is why I didn't upload it).

Ok~ I got off track as usual~ as per the heading, here's a link to cute folder icons some of which I use myself just to make my day when I open up my file: Pixel Girl Presents


Hahah~ As you can see, I usually have more than 1 program running whenever I'm on my computer which has caused some major slowdown of the system. Manakan, I'm running Windows XP OS with usually 5 programs open on a 512 MB RAM. My internal storage capacity is only 80 GB HDD - so ancient compared to current PCs and Laptops punya in the market (there's been times when the computer gives out signal that I'm out of memory~ malas bah kan transfer ke portable HDD, I prefer to watch my shows yg kena store dlm internal memory lagi laju uploading). I think I'm gonna get a new one when I start working depending on my current workload - klo nda banyak computer stuff I'm gonna stick with my Vaio baby sampai ujung nyawanya~ Hahah~ Sounds like a marriage vow - in sickness and in health....

Just so you guys know, aku masih mengusahakan kebun anggur ku~ probably gonna start a craft project just so I don't get out of my mind....

Btw check out Zat's post on Wed, 12th Nov (just click arah Venus910 on the Blog links)~ Lawak banar anak atu~

Hanging Out with Friends

Yesterday, Sunday 9th Nov - Zat, Nas, Mas, Rab and I went to PhotoPlus in Gadong to have a studio photo taken of us who had graduated this year. However, Nas couldn't extend the rental period of her graduation gown so it was down to only three of us: me, Zat and Mas.

The plan was to meet up at the studio at 10, but macam biasa~ aku betebiat~:

7.30 -
Woke up due to a message on my mobile. Replied then proceeded to Dreamland again

8.30 -
Woke up, stared at the ceiling for a few minutes feeling disoriented

9.00 -
Ready to go... waitaminute! Robe ku abis kumuh... kurang asam~

9.30 -
Robe ironed: check, camera: check, breakfast: no can do as I was running late, start engine... drat! my shades... (a few minutes later)... jam tangan ku lagi!.... eh! wallet ku mana?!

9.50 -
Arrived at Nas'... Astaga~ panya lagi tia betebiat~

10.20 -
Went and picked up Rab

10.50 -
Arrived at the studio

Kesian cZat and Mas, they had to wait for over an hour since they arrived well before 10.00. But they're good sports and we all went had breakfast at Ahan Thai first before the photo session. The session itself was pretty hilarious - Nas and Rab were asked to sit while the rest was standing behind them when the photographer guy realised Nas was not wearing proper shoes with her baju kurung: ia pakai kasut casual yang unisex (ala2 kasut sport)~

Hahahahaha~ Atu bising the whole studio with cNas and the guy bickering the whole time~ Baru ku pernah seumur hidup bergambar d studio riuh cemani~

Unfortunately, I didn't have time to get pictures of us getting ready for our shot since I was panicking about my robe - heheh biasa ler robe nya atu barat payah lagi tu kan dipinkan. I'll post up a pic of the studio photo once its done, but... only if it turns out well~

Afterwards we went to Escapade across the street to have lunch:

Before Escapade, pigi kadai cina - Nas choosing which tablecloth is to her taste

Seriously contemplating... apa kan dimakan~

Oooiii~ we're ready to order~

Nas is actually enjoying her soup...

The After Picture~ Kanyang~:

Of course, after lunch you gotta relax and let the food digest happily in your tummy, so we went to Rab's house to watch a movie since there was nothing of interest playing in the cinemas. We browsed through Rab's dvd collection - made a comment on some of the movies' plot along the way: "eh, buruk ni jan tah di liat" "membazir masa ku saja mendownload" "ani siuk, aku recommend" - and finally settled on My Sassy Girl (US version) after some shoving and scuffling (nada wah~).

The story closely follows the Korean version but somehow it didn't have quite the impact the Koreans did with theirs. I guess it was because as Jackie Chan said: "When I made English movie, it's strictly for US audience and when I made Chinese movie, it's mainly for chinese audience." meaning that the west and the east have different frequencies on what they understand on humour, action and all those stuff that makes a good movie.

Since the rest of my day went typically routine after all of us went home, I'll end my post here. Bubbye~

Things I Bought Recently - Part I

I tweaked with the layout a bit since I didn't like the way the page was stretched with the old one. Blardy CSS, ngalih ku main pakai trial and error sampai at last I got it to my satisfaction:

The old look

The new one

Not much difference - I just compressed the page so that there's a column of space on each side, removed the right sidebar and added an orange dotted outline. It should be simple but nooooo~ (said with a mulut munjung), this blog site made it so that I have to search for the codes to adjust in a jumble of words that I don't even know what they mean.

Still don't, by the way.

Since I still got nothing better to do, I brought you the list of stuff I purchased recently (not all, since I think you guys don't wanna hear about brapa liter minyak ku bali or my stocking up on pads - not the ones you write on, I assure you... >.<)

I bought a new phone - SE W910i
coz I need a 3G phone since the reception at my place is horrible
and just because I want a new phone~



Now that I have a cool phone,
I need to have a cool dangling thingie to go with it~
Hahahaha~ that can mean sooooo many things
(If kamu corrupted macam aku, paham2 tah tu~)


I got this one for my other phone -
it's a cute apple shaped jade-like mineral

Ooooh, and I have a story to go with this: I handed over my two choices of phone charms and the nice chinese store attendant lady took them.... and put them in a golden bowl. Without warning, she clanged a pestle against the bowl making this huge ringing sound. Aku apa lagi, bangang tah meliat - and I think my mouth was hanging open kekejutan - while she was praying away with her hand clasped in front of her. Hahaha~ kan terlompat kanya ku lagi masa ia tiba2 melatuk pestle atu~ Gerenti blur usulnya aku masa atu masa membayar and when I walked away I was thinking: "WHAT the blardy (insert bad word here) just happened?!"


On to the next item:

A simple pair of black sandals which every girl should have - they work
well with casual as well as semi-formal.
This one is actually similar to Djah's and I liked hers
so much that I bought the same brand but different design and colour
(Mana bleh sama~ kena ucap nda original tia karang)



Also, I got myself a new wallet since my old one is kesian udah.
The one on the right is the new one. I could've bought
a cheaper one tapi nda mau2 jua yg satu ani. Apa bleh buat,
psshheng~ nya panah cupid love at first sight tarus~


Oooo... detachable section~ ahaks sakai~


With that I bring you to the end... for now. I'll continue later sebab klo ku taruskan abis tia material ku kan di blog kan~ Hahahah mbari kesian bunyinya.

Recent News

Last weekend was quite a hectic one for me:

• Friday, 31/10: My friend, Far, had a majlis kesyukuran for her achievement of the Silver Medal and Book Prize as well as obtaining 1st class on her bachelors degree. Congrats Far~ After that, another friend of mine, Erny, had a Raya open house (haha baru ya, kan abis kanya lagi Syawal). Udah balik hujan labat lagi tu, can barely see the road in front of me and had to drive super slow, ngalih eh.

• Saturday, 01/11: Birthday Izyan, but couldn't reach her - either ia tukar nombor mobile nya atau sibuk brabis since I heard she got a job. Been a long time since I've heard from her (Izyan~ where are youuuu youuu youu --> ada echo~). C-Nas and Haime had a graduation ceremony with Prince Charles as the guest of honour - soooo jeles eh~ I want one in Brunei too, dapat jua ku bergambar with my parents. Nda apa lah since already did the studio photo with them (^U^). Oh, and kami kena blanja makan oleh famili cNas, makan free sama yg nda mau~
  

Nas on her big day~ macam kan kawin saja bunyinya~

Her relatives sibuk mengusai2 robe dan topinya, abis bercucuk sana sini

Masilah trying on topi cNas, mau jua~

Only me n Mas can make it, yang lain ada acara sendiri
(berkilat wah muka ku jadinya pasal spotlight
basar kana pasang ah - kurang asam)

Hahaha~ bahagia cNas ah

Ada jari org atu interframe~

Heheheh~ macam tangga... (jangan marah Mas~)

• Sunday, 02/11: Nonoi, Col, Far, Djah, Bilah n Me had a non-formal photo session in UBD just to commemorate our graduation (and banarnya kan merasa exchange graduation robes~ I don't have any pics but I'll post up a link of them later - curi dari website kawanku~). Hahaha~ we went crazy with our poses and to top it off masa atu ada org kahwin d Chancellor Hall tapi kami buat derk saja bergambar gila2 depan the wedding family. Tapi udah atu cabut when guests start arriving and sambung the session d FBEPS plang~
  

• Monday, 03/11: I've went through the written test for a job I applied for. I got lots of tips on what the subject might be - ranging from the various functions of the different ministries to the General Orders of 1961 to the awards and honours bestowed by His Majesty. Hahaha~ skalinya the test was far simpler, not gonna go in-depth of what it was about coz I think there was a rule against informing others of the subject. Suffice to say, it was quite general and in context of Brunei of course.

Now that all those stuff out of the way, I'm getting bored again menanam anggur ani. Hopefully jadi plan cZat kan bergambar ramai di studio this coming Sunday, hahahahaha alum puas bergambar~ Haven't even had the full BruSheff students studio photo session yet - usulnya mcm nda jadi since everyone have started their jobs now...aiii.... oh well, at least we have our Sheffield graduation photos.