Lil sista all grown up

First n foremost.. i wanna scream out on top of my lung "i'm freaking proud of u sis!!" I've always been so proud of her but recently she've made our whole family proud coz she has FINALLY graduated! woohoo!~

It might not be a very big deal graduating but to us it is because she's the first from both my dad's n mom's clan to graduate abroad. She's been studying abroad for many years and i missed her presence around me badly when she was not around. But everything is worth it when i see her slowly turning into an adult and learning to be more independant and am able to take care of herself so well now. She's even the one taking care of me more than me, as the elder sis, do. Whenever i visit her, both Goldcoast or Manchester, she'll always be the one taking care of me and cook for me (f.y.i i only know how 2 cook maggie.. fml)

Hence, for the sake to witness this glory moment of hers i do not mind travelling 13hrs all by myself just to attend her graduation ceremony. It's kinda like a once in a lifetime thingy so i die die also must attend! It's not that bad flying all by myself; just a little bored because i've no one to talk to for 13hours and i've to transit at Dubai airport for 3hours. I've flew alone to visit her in Goldcoast before just this time i've to spend way longer hours in the plane. Anyhow i also want to take this opportunity to thanx 'someone' for upgrading me to business class so i don't have to get cramp up in the economy seat filled with all kinda smells.

21/07/2011 was the day my sister graduated. She was so excited about her graduation ceremony she spent the whole night choosing what clothes to wear on that day what shoes to match n iron nice nice.. lol! Since she have to be there early to get all her robe rental and stuff ready i only walked over to the graduation hall in the afternoon. Thank god her apartment was only 5minutes walk to the hall. Upon reaching, the place was already packed with students and family members; all taking pictures of their own child/sister/brother's prestige moments.

When the ceremony started, i was the one who got nervous and excited pulak. The ceremony was actually just a short one but waiting for her turn was the longest! Her batch was actually one of the last to go up the stage. When her name was announced i was so touched and happy i almost cried but i sucked it on because i didn't want to embarass her.. XD I even planned to shout "I LOVE U SIS!" when she walked up the stage but when the moment came i got too into taking pictures of her on stage i forgot to shout =.=|| After the ceremony i became her private photographer helping her to take pics of her and her friends.

We had a simple dinner celebration with her friends and all went home after that because all of them were too tired for an after party. This special moment of hers might be short but it'll always remain vivid in our memories. Once again, i love u sis and i've never been this proud of u!

the ceremony hall

all these people looked like harry potter-ians 2 me XD

sis waiting for her name 2 be announce.. she looks so tiny lar.. hahahaha!

ceremony completed! woohoo..!~~

outside the graduation hall.. swarmed with happy families and newly graduates.. reli "mountain people mountain sea"!

Congratz sis!!

Sis n her classmates

*throw throw throw*

i is graduate too..!! XD

Manchester Town Hall for sis's Cocktail Party Celebration. The architecture of this hall is superb!

Dress by http://www.room8008.blogspot.com/

Sis's official graduation cert.. <3

she's gonna kill me if she know i upload this video =p

My Top10 wish list~

*jingle bell jingle bell* i love December! Although it's the ending month of the year but it's also the festive month where all the joyful celebrations like Christmas, New Year eve, and also me and dear's anniversary fall.. under the month of D.E.C.E.M.B.E.R *jumping with joy* But apparently, sad to say, the x-mas decorations this year are not really that nice.. most of the malls are recycling their last year's decors. In a nice way they're so-called 'recycling'; saving mother earth, but in another way.. they got no budget! wth! But anyhow, decors i saw in Mid Valley, 1Utama, and Pavillion still make me feels like "ooOOhhh... x-mas!" made me feels so happy like a lil girl everytime i walked past their centre stage.

This is also the month where everybody is out for x-mas shopping; buying presents for their family and loved ones, while places like IKEA is super crowded with families on weekends scoping for nice house decorations and new furnitures. I'm not a Christian but yet i enjoy celebrating x-mas; not in a traditional religion way. Who doesn't enjoy buying and receiving presents from the one u love? Besides your own birthday, i bet x-mas is the only excuse that u can use to buy gifts for people or ask your own bf/gf to buy one for u.. *here's the main point*  XD

You know the hardest part is not forking out that certain amount of money to buy the presents.. but it's the thinking-what-to-buy part is the hardest! Seriously, i don't know if it's just me who's fussy or it's just THAT hard thinking of something nice, memorable, and suitable for that particular person. I don't wanna buy something for my family, my dear, and my friends who'll end up not using it because it doesn't ngam them.. n it'll b wasted.. y'all know what i mean? It's not about the money, it's about the effort!

So... in order to make life easier for the people who love me, i made up a TOP10 x-mas wishlist as a references for them. hahahahahhaha! i know.. i memang tak malu sial.. but wtf! i'm just trying... hoping... they'll get the idea! aahhahahaa! But basically it's only meant for 2 person.. they shud noe who they're.. or at least i hope they know i'm talking about them.. do u? Whatever it is.. here's my top10 list:

1) Canon S95! I've alwiz wanted a camera of my own and this wud be perfect because it's affordable yet the results are amazing!

2) Chanel Chance - me n mom's all-time favourite.. she introduced me to the importance of perfume and until today, i can't live without it.

3) This is more like a daily use compared to Chanel Chance.. 'coz it's cheaper.. =p but i really do love the sweet apple scent..deliciously yours: DKNY Green

4) I've been craving for this bag since last year! But just couldn't save enough money to buy it.. coz i suck at managing my financial! Hopefully i can buy it when i go to UK next year, and hope it'll be cheap.. *cross my fingers tight tight*

5) Double G belt.. simple and nais

6) Blythe doll - dai dai oso i'm gonna buy 1 1day! i love u blythe!!

 

7) I want a new family member! A sugar glider or maltese... my dad's SO gonna kill me.. but I DUN CARE! I WANT!!

8) A soothing and pampering holiday getaway... anywhere lar as long as it's out of m'sia.. just imagine: chilling in a hot jacuzzi tub with dear and a glass of champagne.. followed by a nice massage.. hmm..

9) This is what every girl wants... a complete new wardrobe!

10) Ok.. this is supposed to be on my Top3.. but then somehow, dear kinda read my mind and bought me a new lappie as our anniversary present! thankiu dear once again.. i lup u..

Shophaholic on the loose!

My sis asked me the other day if i'm down with a disease and if i need to go see a doctor or not.. i was shocked at that question and during that moment i really thought i was sick without me realizing it myself! so i asked what disease did she think i got and she replied "shopaholic disease!" wtf!? scared the hell out of me! i brushed it off but she continued saying "really wat..! everything u see u also wanna buy.. u can never stop shopping for once! u say lar.. if u'r unhappy will u go shopping?" and i replied "of coz lar! whenever i'm unhappy i'll go shopping.. BUY BUY BUY and then i'll be happy back!" "SEE?! u confirm need to see doctor alredi" so i went back home n think.. true also what she said.. but i'm happy with this disease! how?! Sitting here alone in Starbucks with my laptop on and don't know what to do.. i've been thinking and thinking about what should i write since i've not been updating my blog for awhile.. then i realised Starbucks now are doing a tumbler collection in conjunction of Pike's Place; the first Starbucks in Seattle. I've been to that place and the only thing that i remember about Seattle is shopping; which i can't do so right now because it's already almost midnight.. hence i decided to search back some pictures while i was in Seattle where i had my first massive shopping spree.. surfing through those memories sure did cheered me up.. XD

Me n my sis followed a local tour agency's trip to Seattle back when we were in Canada last 2 years. Although it was just a 1day trip but it was indeed a fun n memorable one 'coz me n my sis really basically sapu-ed quite alot of stuff there! We called it a shopping trip for the itinerary includes a stop to Seattle's biggest factory outlet and their duty free mall. Our first stop once we passed the immigration was to the factory outlet. The tour guide only gave us 1 and a half hour to shop there (included lunch)!! Honestly it was NOT enough!! Me and my sis decided to skip lunch (time is precious!!) and used it fully on shopping. We even marked our shopping route in the map given to us earlier so we can save more time in finding the shops blindly. Imagine how semangat we were at that time.

BUT... but but but but but...! Something happened in the middle of our shopping craze... WE GOT LOST!! Or to be exact: me and my sister got separated!! and she forgot to bring her phone out and i couldn't reach her! I spent at least half an hour searching for her.. but in the end when i realised the time running out and i'll not be able to do any shopping if i continue waiting like that, i thought to myself: "F**k it lar.. she's big enough to find her own way to the bus later, i might as well go shop for my things first maybe i'll bump into her or i'll just meet her back at the bus later" Hence, i continued my hunt while keeping an eye on my lost sis.. i swear i oni went to those shops that i'm interested at and never bother to linger to those non-interested shops; i remembered when i was queuing up to pay for my last shop stop my phone rang, IT WAS MY SIS!! "OI! where are you oh??!! the whole bus is waiting for u leh!!" I was like "huh?? waiting for me?? now what time already oh??" I looked at my watch; FARK! ADI LATE HALF AN HOUR!!! The queue was so damn bladi long and when it was my turn to pay the cashier was like "hie how are you? how's your day? where are you from..? bla bla bla..." in my heart i was like "can u PLEASE hurry up?? i got a bus full of people waiting for me at the entrance..!" Once i was done, i basically ran all the way to the entrance with a handful of shopping bags (yes i don't k about my image anymore because i is super late!) those people must have thought that i'm one of those gone-mad-shopaholic on the run.. *haih* whatever lar as if i'm ever going back there again in at least another 5 years time.. i saw the tour guide waiting anxiously for me (he thought i was lost because my sis lied) but i stupidly went and bocor my own rahsia by saying "sorry i was late the queue was super long" (-.-||) As usual when i got up the bus, those irritated angry glances shone at me brighter than the sunlight.. i was  like "woahh.. panas!" macam slumber i just put on my shades trying to avoid eye contacts, quickly sat down, and turned to my sis so excitedly telling her what i bought XD

The tour guide brought us to a few other tourist spots including the Seattle's Space Needle Centre. Upon reaching there, i went to the tour guide n told him that me and my sis are not going in because we want to continue shop walk around. Honestly it was because i saw a Coach retail shop down the road and was actually quite dulan i didn't manage to buy myself ANYTHING from the Coach at the factory outlet earlier! But before that, i was SO hungry after all the walking, shopping, sis-hunting, and running, we had to get some food for our poor starving stomachs first n thank god there's MCD everywhere. I remembered it was changing season that month: Winter-Summer and Seattle was super HOT compared to Vancouver. We spent a night at The Sheraton Hotel Seattle, the hotel was beautiful, and their services was awesome! They have limousine shuttle services to the nearest shopping malls and to this big-ass super huge supermarket that is almost heaven for us.. the minute we entered our jaw dropped (abit like jinjang joe) we can find EVERYTHING there!! They should actually replace that 'ding-dong' sound (like wat 7-E has) with that omg-i-saw-jesus/the light soundtone like the ones u normally hear during scenes like that in a comedy. I'm serious! We shopped like nobody's business there buy this snack lar buy that chocolate lar this ice-cream i also wan lar.. everything lar!
The chauffeur treated us very nice because he thinks it was very brave of us to travel by ourselves.. nah this is what i call service! They don't discriminate or looked down on us because we're just some teenage brats who might not have the ability to tip! Somemore this is a F.O.C service!! No tip needed!!
The next day we visited a few more other tourist spots like the Seattle's Aquaria, Seattle's Argosy Harbor Cruise and The Plane Museum. And i'm gonna skip explaining about what's there to see at those places because it is boring n it does NOT make me that happy. i wan talk about shopping oni i don't k! Our last shopping stop before we head back to Vancouver was the Seattle's Duty Free Shop. I almost went crazy (again) in there because the perfumes are selling at an extremely unbelievable low price! The price for 1 Chanel Mademoiselle here = i can buy 2 there..! I sapu-ed (AGAIN) macam orang giler.. until i never even bother to check properly what i took, for when i reached back my aunty's house in Vancouver only did i realised that i took a Chanel allure body lotion instead of the perfume.. WTF! never mind lar.. can use also (although until now i haven't start using it yet).

I had such a once-in-a-lifetime shopping experience there it can even make me feel so hyper excited recalling back those scenes to my friends, myself, and by writing it down now. I feel happiieee naw!!~ i wanna go back there again..!

The Seattle's Space Needle..

The home of mariners.. the tour guide said this road gets super packed with people everytime there's a game going on..

Look! Super cute police patrol car!

Somehow this old couple blend into the wall decor of this infamous fish&chip restaurant next to the Argos Harbor Cruise.. XD

Sis had the last plate of the fish&chips.. =(

While i seattled for fried scallops.. but it was still nice coz it was sooo fresh!

Argos Harbor Cruise..

Seattle city view from the cruise boat.. :D

The Plane Museum...

Our room in Sheraton Hotel.. super nice ambience! i like!

Snack shopping at the supermarket near to our hotel.. so many varieties of snacks that KL dun haf.. *heaven*

i wanna introduce this chips.. it's called hawaiian baked chips or something like that.. damn nais until i almost finish the XL packet! missed it sooo much.. it's way better than Lays!

Our fruitful shopping spree!

And i bought a Coach dog collar for my Benji too..! Only rm60plus.. worth every single cent because they don't sell it here in M'sia.. XD

Bangs or NO bangs??

I've been having this middle parting long curly hair for 2 years already and i think it's time for me to change my hairstyle again. But i ain't gonna cut it short!! You girls should know how so damn hard it is to grow back your hair long after you cut it short - it takes FOREVER!! so nope! i'm NOT cutting it short.

Having been a regular reader of japanese fashion mags such as Popteen and Vivi, it seems like bangs are still the current hairstyle for them; besides middle parting of course. The more i go through their pages every month, the more semangat i get and the more they made me have this urge of getting back my bangs... but my sis and boyfriend is banning me from doing so due to their own reasons - dear said i look childish with it and my sis got scared after i had a little spirit experience when i was having bangs years back. SO HOW??!!! i don't know i'm in such a dilemma right now! I managed to find back some pictures of me with bangs and compared it to now... i like both! Can u guys gimme some suggestions whether should or should i not do it again??

And my current hairstyle naw...

I think having middle parting makes me look a little more old mature... what say you?? I really can't decide.. but i really do feel like cutting bangs back right naw!!