bringing it all back...
Monday, June 04, 2007
before i go on about how perfect the past 3 weeks were with my family here, i'd like to share with all of you an audio miracle :)
have you ever heard a song that just sets it off for you? a song so brilliant in composition and lyrics that it triggers a wave of instant emotions and memories relating to the happiest days of your life? i know... a bit much for a 3 minute session... but this song did just that for me!
it's everything by michael buble. after having heard joel rave about it for weeks (and with my internet bandwith having been recently reinstated ;p) i decided to check it out. and though i shouldn't have doubted buble's brilliance in the first place, this song sent me dancing around the living room in my pyjamas with max :D memories of singing out loud in class or just going nuts dancing in the apartment... every time i laughed till my stomach hurt... every time i realised how amazing life was... each blessed moment that made last year great... and every moment i laughed and cheered with mom and hafiz... each came flooding back from the minute i pressed play ;)
*previous visitors would have been able to access a music player for the song... but due to some messed up problem with activex lately... you're gonna just have to take my word for it and get the song :D sorry people!
now back to my family's visit. what more can i say?
as previously reported, mom, hafiz, mak tok and kak nur arrived on the 14th at 7.30pm. having kept his promise, hizwan picked me up at 6.30 and we grabbed some kebabs before heading to the airport. though the flower-acquisition ordeal i had to endure beforehand wasn't too pleasant - with everyone between bridge road and church street staring at the awkward krumpler-slinging teenager with the huge bouquet of red roses - i was pleased with the fact that i managed to keep my annual mothers' day duty.
a large amount of hugs and screaming later, everyone laid their eyes for the first time on
apartment 808 after me inhabiting it for 4 months ;) and as far as i know... no comment is always a good comment :D max was undoubtedly apart of the winning party... ever grateful at the multiplied number of people to play with! for the first time since i've moved in here... i got up each morning to the sound of people's voices and breakfast on the table. and eventhough it was annoying back in kl, having my little brother play ps2 while i was still asleep came as a welcomed relief.
home was making a house call :D and the timing could not have been more perfect...
over the next 3 weeks we did a HUGE amount of shopping, with my closet now stocked with less blacks and plenty of dresses (for some reason mom thinks being 19 means i need to start dressing more like a girl... where she got that notion from i have no idea ;p). mak tok met up with her dear friend mr. tattersalls and kak nur managed to have her first holiday away from malaysia since leaving indonesia. best part was... everyone was happy. something none of us had experienced in a long while :)
unfortunately the weather sucked! it rained everyday, thereby forcing us to stay indoors. our previously made plans to go for picnics and ride the ferris wheel at southbank were postponed to make way for the heavy daily downpour.
instead we spent our days roaming the halls of chadstone shopping mall and curling up on the couch at home watching chick flicks :D for three weeks i didn't have to take the tram to school or worry about oversleeping in the morning. because for three weeks... my family was here... and everything just seems to get better when you're family's here :D
the night before leaving, me, mom and hafiz went to the borders bookstore on chapel street near the house. as usual, hafiz ran off to the comic section and i grabbed a handful of magazines before joining him. we spent no less than an hour at borders, as mom stocked up on cookbooks and manuals for her new kniting fad ;p with no more books to read, i wandered to the section with picture books on cats. before long, the three of us were in a laughing frenzy (there was one of a REALLY FAT cat lying on its back wearing a toddler's overalls! ;D), all the while ignoring the staring glances and the limited time we had left before they had leave.
so yeah... the past few weeks have been great. auntie margie has taken over the 'babysitting' shift and will be keeping me company till i head home on the 22nd. all i have left on the to-do list for now is to study for the finals and get my freaking acceptance letter from melbourne uni...
happy listening and i hope michael buble brightens up your day as he did mine ;)
... hello mr. chemistry notes... sigh...
have you ever heard a song that just sets it off for you? a song so brilliant in composition and lyrics that it triggers a wave of instant emotions and memories relating to the happiest days of your life? i know... a bit much for a 3 minute session... but this song did just that for me!
it's everything by michael buble. after having heard joel rave about it for weeks (and with my internet bandwith having been recently reinstated ;p) i decided to check it out. and though i shouldn't have doubted buble's brilliance in the first place, this song sent me dancing around the living room in my pyjamas with max :D memories of singing out loud in class or just going nuts dancing in the apartment... every time i laughed till my stomach hurt... every time i realised how amazing life was... each blessed moment that made last year great... and every moment i laughed and cheered with mom and hafiz... each came flooding back from the minute i pressed play ;)
*previous visitors would have been able to access a music player for the song... but due to some messed up problem with activex lately... you're gonna just have to take my word for it and get the song :D sorry people!
now back to my family's visit. what more can i say?
IT WAS AWESOME!
as previously reported, mom, hafiz, mak tok and kak nur arrived on the 14th at 7.30pm. having kept his promise, hizwan picked me up at 6.30 and we grabbed some kebabs before heading to the airport. though the flower-acquisition ordeal i had to endure beforehand wasn't too pleasant - with everyone between bridge road and church street staring at the awkward krumpler-slinging teenager with the huge bouquet of red roses - i was pleased with the fact that i managed to keep my annual mothers' day duty.
a large amount of hugs and screaming later, everyone laid their eyes for the first time on
apartment 808 after me inhabiting it for 4 months ;) and as far as i know... no comment is always a good comment :D max was undoubtedly apart of the winning party... ever grateful at the multiplied number of people to play with! for the first time since i've moved in here... i got up each morning to the sound of people's voices and breakfast on the table. and eventhough it was annoying back in kl, having my little brother play ps2 while i was still asleep came as a welcomed relief.home was making a house call :D and the timing could not have been more perfect...
over the next 3 weeks we did a HUGE amount of shopping, with my closet now stocked with less blacks and plenty of dresses (for some reason mom thinks being 19 means i need to start dressing more like a girl... where she got that notion from i have no idea ;p). mak tok met up with her dear friend mr. tattersalls and kak nur managed to have her first holiday away from malaysia since leaving indonesia. best part was... everyone was happy. something none of us had experienced in a long while :)
unfortunately the weather sucked! it rained everyday, thereby forcing us to stay indoors. our previously made plans to go for picnics and ride the ferris wheel at southbank were postponed to make way for the heavy daily downpour.
instead we spent our days roaming the halls of chadstone shopping mall and curling up on the couch at home watching chick flicks :D for three weeks i didn't have to take the tram to school or worry about oversleeping in the morning. because for three weeks... my family was here... and everything just seems to get better when you're family's here :D
the night before leaving, me, mom and hafiz went to the borders bookstore on chapel street near the house. as usual, hafiz ran off to the comic section and i grabbed a handful of magazines before joining him. we spent no less than an hour at borders, as mom stocked up on cookbooks and manuals for her new kniting fad ;p with no more books to read, i wandered to the section with picture books on cats. before long, the three of us were in a laughing frenzy (there was one of a REALLY FAT cat lying on its back wearing a toddler's overalls! ;D), all the while ignoring the staring glances and the limited time we had left before they had leave.
so yeah... the past few weeks have been great. auntie margie has taken over the 'babysitting' shift and will be keeping me company till i head home on the 22nd. all i have left on the to-do list for now is to study for the finals and get my freaking acceptance letter from melbourne uni...
happy listening and i hope michael buble brightens up your day as he did mine ;)
... hello mr. chemistry notes... sigh...
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