but back to being in kl. so far it's been nothing short of awesome. the weather's been a lot to deal with (going from melbourne's 5 degrees to the scorching and humid 30-something temperature over here is not a feat i enjoy each season) but the thought of being in my own house and chilling with my family and 4 cats was well worth the heat!

speaking of houses, as many of you may already know, i'll be moving out of my kj house pretty soon. i'll be vacating the place i've called home for the past 17 years with mom and hafiz in an attempt to acquire a territory of our own ;) but unfortunately, much work still needs to be done on the house before being deemed inhabitable. so since saturday (the morning after arriving in kl) i've been making the trip to the new site practically everyday to see what i can do to help. though my artistic prowess still leaves much to be desired, i am proud to say that construction is well under way and we should be able to move in before i head back to melbourne.

now to what i've been doing since getting home... apart from helping out with the house... nothing much at all!

1. i've been able to drive my much missed matrix over the past week or so since my month-long driving ban in january.

2. my maxis handphone number - the one i've had since i was 12-years-old - was cancelled by maxis because i forgot to remind my dad to reload the pre-paid account before i got back... but just as i faced the darkened possibility of having to accept a pathetic replacement, dad's mengurating powers managed to get them back for me! wooohooo! now all i gotta do is find the time to take mom to the nearest maxis centre to sort it out (yana does the happy dance ;D )...

3. i've managed to get all my textbooks for the upcoming semester. thankfully my psychology and chemistry units have resolved to re-use last semester's texts, so the only subject i had to buy for was my latest addition of 'functional human anatomy'. and along with the catchy title, an expensive booklist came along with it. finding the first book was easy. the second book proved to be a little more elusive. after much searching... aunty margie found the only copy of my human anatomy textbook at the medical bookstore in university hospital. and for those of you who've never been there... take my word for it when i say that it prides itself on intimidation. the buildings are very elaborate, with sharply-turning corridors that lead on forever and doors that take you to some alternate universe. a bunch of wrong directions saw me wandering the hospital like a lost cause this afternoon as i searched for the store in the wrong building! but after passing multiple darkened hallways and even taking a wrong turn into the paediatric psychiatry ward... i finally got hold of my book and thankfully returned to the comfort of my car. if you wanna know what it felt like walking that hospital alone... think resident evil + pet cemetary + sixth sense... not cool :(

4. met up with hizwan and fariz for transformers the friday after it's premiere... at which point they introduced me to murni and the magnificent roti hawaii and mango special (and also the art of tiptoeing into the house at 3am ;p sorry mom...). i'll be seeing the boys again this friday when we attend cassie's birthday dinner at taman tun. which leads to more pressing issues... what am i going to wear on friday?! formal dresscodes are a little hard to follow when your suitcase contains nothing but t-shirts and shorts. looks like there will be some shopping happening in the near future ;D muahahaha... this circumstance would actually be fortunate should i be one of those girls who actually likes to shop. in the words of saf mohsin "dun say that shopping is painful yana!"

5. the 'issue' i wanted settled before leaving melbourne, i am proud to report, has been settled. it took us a while to develop the strength and the courage to say what needed to be said to each other. and eventhough we knew that the conversation was a long time coming, i don't think either one of us was willing to admit it... even at the cost of our individual sanities and happiness. we will always care about each other, but with the matter settled, we will both need some time apart to sort out the things in our life that we put on hold or took for granted or even shoved away. everything's going to be okay now... and i'm pleased to say that i haven't been this happy in a very long while ;D so yay for me! hehehe...

6. met up with my sri aman friends today. since me and cam came back to town, neither one of us have had the time to meet up with the friends we attended high school with. so with cam heading back to new zealand on friday, today was the last gathering we could all have together before saf attends her first year at the university of illinois. after picking up anya and cammy - and my textbook from university hospital - i arrived an hour late at one utama for my meeting with safiyyah and aminda. we chatted at delicious for atleast 2 hours before anya left, and we decided to walk around and look for something for me to wear on friday :D it was nice seeing everyone again... being able to reminisce about all the things we left behind in high school and as teenagers living in kl. best part of all was being able to see just how much we've all changed. how much we've all grown. but at the same how our differences have somehow still managed to keep us together as friends :)

*credit goes to saf mohsin's blog where all these pictures were originally uploaded :D

so that's been my last 2 weeks pretty much in a nutshell. let's hope the next time you hear from me, i'll be reporting from the comforts of my new room and with more stories to tell about my concluding week in kl before melbourne beckons ;)