17 Again? No Way (In Hell).

Zac Efron's a pretty good actor when he's not singing at the same time. "17 Again" is hilarious enough to be worth the watch. Catch it before it leaves cinemas!

I definitely wouldn't want to redo my seventeenth year all over again. It's not going great so far. We'll see... Time to remove my lovely purple polish again! Tomorrow there's school and I'm so dreading it.

Back to Planet Earth

Singapore. Singapura.

It was a little claustrophobic at first. (Like Joshua said, they build up because they have no space.) Then it got better when I realized there were no creepy Malay guys staring at me. Wahoo!

For the entire duration of the trip I had an overwhelming feeling of safety. If you're a guy you wouldn't understand. Malaysia is a very scary place for girls. Not attracting any attention has become a skillful art in my possession.

I had quite a few “I told you so” moments in which my dad got really pissed and basically ruined our moods for hours. Anyway, it’s normal; happens every single time the Kong family ventures out of their home, when they are prone to losing wallets, phones, and messing up. (Daniel lost his phone + I think this trip has been the most disastrous ever in terms of misplaced items/almost misplaced items.)

Well, at least I can honestly sing along to the YMCA song, now that I’ve stayed in one of their numerous establishments stationed across the globe. Though I never want to stay in the one I went to again because firstly, the cleaning ladies there put your stuff back in places they don’t belong and make you think you lost your things (not once, not twice, but numerous freaking times!), and secondly, they walk in on you when you’re changing with the excuse of “Oh, sorry! I thought you already checked out. I’m just looking for something I lost.” It’s like, stop explaining yourself already! I’m half naked, GET OUT!

I did the most walking I’ve ever done in my life down in SG. Josh and I visited almost all the malls. I’m talking close to thirty malls (no exaggeration) and we never even took a taxi once. We took the MRT a few times but the rest was just plain feet-blistering, calve-aching, old-fashioned walking. I have around six blisters right now. One’s infected and I might die but who cares, the shopping was fun! I bought lots of things for myself. Nothing for you, sorry.

Last but most definitely not least, watch GLEE. Fox’s new comedy musical TV series just dropped its pilot episode and it is nothing short of awesome. Way better than any HSM crap that was made and ever will be made. 'Nuff said.

Terrible Friends and Stupid Singapore Trips

You know how I always say I'm a terrible friend? I say it because I really am. I'm not the type that remembers birthdays, goes out of their way to buy presents, or keeps in touch if you fly away to another country. I've struggled to do all of the above almost my entire life, because if I didn't the person would feel offended and blah blah blah BLAH. Pfft. I don't really care anymore.
1) If you didn't get me anything for my birthday, I'm definitely not gonna feel obliged to go along with the crowd (peer pressure and all that) and get you a present.
2) Presents/gifts are seriously overrated, and people shouldn't get offended because it's totally the other person's RIGHT to either get you something or not.
3) If you're currently in another country and I haven't contacted you, it's because I don't do snail mail, I avoid MSN and Facebook like the plague, and I'm a lazy ass.
4) I told you. I'm a bad friend.
5) People are annoying. Even God at one point regretted making man. I totally agree with him. He should have NEVER made ANY of us. I'm so happy the fifth Kong never made it into this world. So happy.

I'm getting less interesting by the minute.
I'm losing any interest I had before in living.

I mean, in all seriousness, it's not depression or anything. I just.. even as I was walking home today, in my head I almost came to the conclusion that life on earth, in Christ, etc. has no meaning or purpose whatsoever. Then I realized I'd better stop thinking before I backslide or something. Lols.

Gosh, people nowadays have so many things to worry about- so many things to do. They're so busy with their jobs and appearances that they never slow down and look at the big picture. What on earth am I here for? Why am I walking home right now? Why am I going to school tomorrow? What is the ultimate purpose in all this? Is it to be remembered by one and all? I don't want that. Yeesh, I don't really want much of anything right now. I don't want to go to Singapore. I'm not excited. I wish I was still five and innocent. I don't believe in the whole "we learn from our trials and it's essentially good for us" theory. God meant the world to have no sin in it whatsoever. Which means, we're actually not supposed to have any trials. But why do we have them now? Because the first stupid man and the first stupid woman made some stupid mistakes and screwed it up for the rest of us. Hah. What a joke. In almost every single movie I watch, there we are- destroying each other. Killing each other, with words, swords, bombs, and every other weapon imaginable- visible and invisible. Hurting each other, murdering each other over and over again.

Ahaha, I'm so, so screwed up. You have no idea the state my mind is in.

I'd better stop now. Sorry if you read all that.

Love isn't the real battlefield. Life is.

I'm so sick of my parents. Just so, so sick of them. I don't think I even love them anymore. I guess I'll know when they get into a car accident or something. But right now, I'm thinking I would just leave my mum or my dad lying on the road. You know, walk away and never look back. If they survived, they'd probably kill me but.. what's left to kill? I feel like a shell. There's nothing left in here, nothing more to give, no new experiences to share.... nothing.

That's all the emo I have for today. Come back tomorrow if you still want to read my crap. I guess you do.. all that about you being my friend and all. Sheesh. Life goes on, and there ain't nothin' you can do about anything.

Should I post this? Do I even want to? It's just another one of those rants. I guess I will.

Love,
Rach.

Oh, and please download the new super-catchy song from Cobra Starship featuring the one and only Leighton Meester (Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl). Yes, she sings. Get over it.

GOOD GIRLS GO BAD

Self-discovery?

Lulz...guess what I found out about myself today? Drumroll, please! *suspense*


I NO LONGER ENJOY TALKING ABOUT BOYS!


:D


No, seriously.


I realized that when girls talk about guys, it always ends up in any one of these three categories:

1. They want to brag about this guy or that guy lavishing them with attention in any way, be it in a friendly way, a stalker-ish way, a romantic way, a crazy way, etc, etc. (They usually do it nonchalantly to make it seem like they don't care. When they actually do.)

2. They want to discuss the usual "who's the hottest guy" deal, whether it be the hottest guy in school, church, or even Hollywood, etc, etc.

3. ... Or they just want to talk about sex-related stuff. =.=||


So I realized.. that I don't care. About any of those things mostly. I don't care enough to want to talk about these things mainly.


*switches subject abruptly* On another note, aren't Malaysians just so creative with their wireless networks' names?

[iPod touch screenshot]

'Cause the more that you try, the harder I'll fight, to say goodnight.

I've had medium-length hair for too long now that whenever it gets long, ...it gets irritating. I need a haircut!!!! Gahhh, stupid irritating annoying hair.

And before I manage to procrastinate this any further, here are the manicures I've been meaning to post up for ages:

"This one's recent. I took it off yesterday. Glitter is such a pain to remove!! But isn't it awesome? It's the first time I've done something like this. :) Base coat, two coats of my first ever blue polish, two coats of clear glitter, and top coat. Not that you'll get any of that but, yeah."



"This is my current pedicure. I've been on a glitter roll lately. Usually I only wear cremes (the polishes that aren't metallic or shimmery or anything, just pure lovely color). Glitter polishes remind me of when I was a little girl and didn't care as long as my nails were shinyyy. :D Haha, bringing out the inner child yet again.."

"Many thanks to Karlyn & Phoebe who were so thoughtful in getting me nail stuff for my birthday. It was a total surprise when I opened the wrapping paper back in January. Lols, and I still remember you guys wrote my age wrong on the note. Tsk, tsk. :) Haha, so these are the nail stickers they got me. I did this quite a while ago. No extra polish. Just a base coat, then the decals, and finally the top coat. No color. :P"

"A pretty, sheer pink that looked so polished and/or refined when I had it on. Base coat, one coat of polish, then top coat."


"A not-so-recent attempt at a French. I can do it better now. :) But meh, time consuming!!"

P.S.
In case you gals were wondering... I own very few bottles of expensive polish, mainly I use the cheap ones (and they suck). I do nail art now and then but I'm still not very good at it. I'm still learning how to put polish on properly, still need to learn how to do a proper, full-blown manicure (I only know around half of the process). Plus you know.. I'm not ambidextrous, so that too. :3

Becoming a manicurist is right bang in the middle of my list of things I wanna do after homeschooling. One person has already laughed at me. Sigh. That hurt. I guess these are the kinds of jobs people look down on. But I don't care. As long as I'm happy, I don't care if all you doctors and lawyers wanna laugh at me. Go ahead. Just maybe.. you'll end up paying me money to do this. Who knows? Your future wife/girlfriend might love her monthly mani/pedi. *wink*

P.P.S.
Yes, I do paint my nails almost every weekend and take them off the night before Monday. Iz zo sad! I wish I could wear nail polish to school.... T.T

It's just laziness...

__It's not that I have nothing to blog about, it's just laziness. :)

__We all got our phones back last Friday. Well, not all of us. I didn't take mine back until today. Don't ask me why, 'cause I don't know. Now my phone's even more scratched because it was in my mum's bag for a few days. =.=|| It's a jungle in there. Anyway, after we got our phones back (in the car after they picked us up from school) we headed straight over to Ikea, where my dad verbally abused their staff because of a faulty lamp they had bought.

__They (my parents) then proceeded to enter Ikea and buy more of their furniture after saying Ikea is rubbish about a thousand times. =.=|| =.=|| =.=|| I was actually tremendously depressed while all this was happening because I had started thinking about things again. You all know how that always ends up.

__But it was fine 'cause later when we were at the cashier, Jared pushed me up and down one of Ikea's many long aisles in one of those huge, flat trolleys and then round and round till I was dizzy. That cheered me up. :) It was like a mini rollercoaster. Wheeee! I'm so doing that again the next time we go there. Which we're probably never going to do since after we came out of Ikea, my dad again announced that Ikea is total rubbish. I do not get them at all.

__Since everyone was hungry, we headed to The Curve to eat something- I ended up eating prawn mee for the fourth time that week. I don't mind! I love it and could eat it every single day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for an entire month. Not a year though. >.>

__Naturally after having already visited the other two malls in the three-mall-connection, we went to Ikano Power Centre. That was when I heard the familiar strains of a ukulele. (I adore the sounds that come out of this instrument. Sometimes I even like it better than the guitar. After the saxophone, the ukulele is my next fave instrument. :P) The next thing I saw was a woman sitting on the floor playing said instrument, plus a guy on her right with really cool dreadlocks playing a bongo. It sounded good. Then, oh! She started singing in Japanese. In my head I was going, too bad Jaryl isn't here to see this!! Sigh. Haha. Turns out they were the 'Bonyari Band', a group of Japanese musicians that backpack to various parts of Malaysia in order to play their unique music for others to enjoy. On this day in particular, they were playing for the JustLife Earth Day Carnival. It's being held at Ikano from the 16th of April till the 26th. Go check it out if you have the time. They have some pretty cool stuff there. :)


__The first song I heard the Bonyari Band play was 'Kono Hoshi No Ue', and it was divine! The other songs were okay as I don't usually listen to their genre of music, but I liked the first one I heard the most. They performed three or four songs I think. The Bonyari Band is supposedly composed of five or six members but the only ones that were there were Sada and Kiko. I think they're husband and wife. (The woman's name is Kiko and the guy's name is Sada.) After they had finished performing one of their songs, a caucasian woman (which I think was their manager) came out with a little cupcake with candles stuck in it. Apparently it was Sada's birthday.. so everyone sang Happy Birthday for him. Lols.

__Their album was for sale for RM10 and we got one. And after their little performance, Josh got their autographs. (Apparently, it was their first time giving autographs.) And it so happened that I had a green Sharpie marker I had just bought. Yeesh man, what a coincedence. Green Sharpie markers for Earth Day autographs. LOL.

__In case you totally don't get anything I'm saying, I found another blog article about them performing there and you can read that. :) Click here. If you still want some more info, click here.

__Here come the pictures, pictures, pictures.... (Josh took a video but I didn't upload it. :0)

"Sada on the left, Kiko on the right. Kiko is prettyyy."

"The rest of the cover is.. um.. censored."

"Starry scribbles."

"It's a smiley!!"

"Track No. 4 is my fave. :)"

P.S.
I may have left some stuff out + next post will be full of manicures. Skip it if you're a guy. xD