Saturday

Today I went with Subject X (who requested to remain anonymous) to meet up with Howard and Jonas at Sunway Pyramid.

Subject X and I went over to Sunway College, then took a taxi ride from this very kind Indian taxi driver who charged us RM4.00 instead of the usual RM5.00 to Sunway Pyramid.

Taxi Driver: You two are a couple?
Subject X and I: What??! No. No!!! No! We’re NOT a couple!
Taxi Driver to Subject X: Why not? Are you gay?
Subject X: I’m not gay!
Taxi Driver: You know, you mustn’t be gays and lesbians you know. Now, so many of them! You know, staying here *points out of the window* are two lesbians!

I had Sarawak laksa at this hawker stall near Sunway Pyramid. Tastes just like the real thing back in Sarawak except that it is RM5.00…

I realized that I am pretty awesome at plumbing. My apartment toilet bowl can’t be flushed for the past few days. That means I cannot *ahem* do my business in my apartment toilet. So I got rather annoyed and opened up the toilet bowl tank. I yanked at any part that could be moved and tada, I fixed the toilet bowl. Now it can flush and I can do my business.

Female Rights?

I handwashed my thick, fluffy bath towel today and I nearly broke my arms. Who knew that a wet fluffy towel could weigh that much? Again, I nearly broke my arms trying to wring it dry.

Had my very first Chemistry and Biology class today.

Went to Sunway Pyramid today to buy Vitamin E, which ate up RM110.00 from my wallet. I had a seaweed pretzel for lunch which, cost me another RM3.20 and did I mention that the taxi ride to Sunway Pyramid cost me RM4.00?

Dinner composed of Mongolian style chicken, sawi fried with garlic and rice… another RM9.90 flew out of my wallet…

One day, I spend about RM15.00 on food alone.

That means I spend RM450.00 a month.

Did I mention that JPA gives me RM430.00 per month?

I think girls should get more allowance than boys…

Boys can use one bar of soap from head to toe while girls have facial soaps, bath soaps, shampoo and hair conditioner.

I have other points in mind but I am not going to blog them out.

Update

Woke up at 5.50AM today to hog the bathroom. Mind you, I am sharing one bathroom with five other housemates. Then, we caught 7.40AM bus to Sun-U. I will be taking the bus everyday since Casa Subang is 2km away from campus.

Orientation, tours and etc. Then…BAM! Out of the blues, we were told that classes starts for us at 2.30PM, Malaysian Studies. Malaysian Studies lasted from 2.30PM until 5.10PM.

I was damn tired by then, had the Chinese cafe in Casa Subang send kangkung fried with garlic, sesame chicken and rice up to my room. Room service. I paid RM9.90 for that.

This is my bed…

This is my study table…where I am currently blogging from…

  This is my closet…

Sun-U Registration

Yesterday was time to register in Sunway University College. There were plenty of JPA, Petronas and MARA sponsored students. Then we were brought over to Casa Subang around 1.00PM to check-in to our rooms. It was a super long queue that ended around 5.00PM. Not to forget that it was freaking humid to queue up in the condominium parking lot. And so this is where I am currently staying at, Casa Subang. Sixteenth floor.I share one house with five other girls. My room is air conditioned (thankfully) and I share it with some girl whom I have not met her yet. The living room is air conditioned and the bathroom has a water heater. Not bad I’ll say. Then, I went over to Mydin with my dad and sister to buy some necessities…After that, I went to have dinner at Gasoline. It is located at Ampang Lookout and overlooks the whole of Kuala Lumpur city. The view from the restaurant. A random picture while shopping in Pavilion today.

Pre SUC

So as you can see, this is my hostel room in Sunway College. Twin-sharing. RM6300 per month and fully air conditioned. Whereas this is the cafeteria in my college… I brought this guy over to Kuala Lumpur with me… Anyway, that was all a hoax. That’s my hotel room in Coronade Hotel and Food Republic in Pavilion. I did some shopping in Pavilion. I ate by the roadside… I went to Dome… I went to a bar restaurant just to hear some old man sing… but I had carrot juice which, cost RM11.40… slit throat price but nice atmosphere.  I took lots of photos of my sister and I because she insisted. We were standing in the middle of Pavilion while camwhoring *inserts sweat expression* and well, now I am in the lobby of Coronade Hotel. I paid RM10.00 to use the wi-fi service for 1 hour because you see, my greedy mum ate rambutans when she knows she can’t eat rambutans.

Leaving Today

I decided to organize my mobile phones by buying one of those that are big enough to fit two phones. Last minute shopping. I regret getting a light pink one though because it would get dirty fast. Pies that Franklin gave with the claim that after I consume all that yucky medicine, I have to consume tasty food like pies. I think Chinese physicians classify pies as “toxic” food? But they were delicious.And SOMEBODY decided to surprise me before I leave to college by “borrowing” my calculator and then spraying it pink and bling-ing it. Interesting. I never had anything bling-ed before. Now it seems like I own more and more pink items.My suitcases are packed and I am all set to go. I would like to pack my piano with me and as for my blog, it might not get updated as frequently but it won’t die.

I skipped the Yayasan award ceremony yesterday morning just to make one last trip to my skin specialist over my allergies. Seems like my urticaria cleared up today just like the old lady at the chinese medicine shop said it would… or perhaps it was the modern medicine… or perhaps it was that Holy Novena that apparently never fails… hmmm… who knows?

I Skyped with Perry and I found out that he’s planning on growing his hair long. Shocking.

Oh and since I won’t have internet service temporarily for quite sometime to do a birthday post, Happy Birthday in advance to Stefan Lim. So here’s a Birthday tribute to you in advance…

1. You owe me dumplings!!!
2. Go learn how to wake up late.
3. Thanks for sparing your ears all the time. ^_^V

Traditional vs. Modern

I was supposed to go out with Franklin and Stefan for Xiao Long Bao dumplings hunting spree at Mitsu, Tarot and some other place (I forgot what where was the place) at 8.00AM this morning. Unfortunately, I had a urticaria relaspe at 2.00AM so I bailed out on them.

I was on Loratadine, Prednisolone and topical Fluticasone Proprionate (Cutivate) for five days. From my own observation, Loratadine and Prednisolone only seemed to suppress the inflamation. However, Cutivate does work miracles and the redness goes away pretty fast but that only seems to work for the face. Other parts of the body, after the redness subsides, there would be a faint shade of purple. Almost like bruises.

So I ranted to the Old Ones (also known as my grandmothers) and Grandmother 1 gave me a packet of Xia Gu Cao tea while Grandmother 2 asked me to take Lemon Balm plant baths.

Honestly, I have never believed in traditional Chinese medicine but I doubt that too much modern medicine for a continuous length of time is good either. So oh what the heck, I shall just give alternative medicine a try.

I had a whole pot of burdock water to myself yesterday, the purple bruise-like marks completely.  O.O

Urticaria disappeared as well but like I previously said, it relapsed.

Then, Aunty 2 recommended that I pay a visit to this traditional Chinese medicine shop at Jalan Padungan. Apparently her son had urticaria recently and after taking traditional Chinese medicine, it was fine the next day and the many days that followed. O.O

My dad took me to the shop this morning. The old lady there scrutinized me and then, came up with a concoction of liquids and powder. So I will conclude after several hours if traditional Chinese medicine or modern medicine works better to cure urticaria. This is so ironic coming from a student like me who’s preparing to study modern medicine.

And that old lady who is about 80 years old, she has no wrinkles at all, no liver spots at all, really fair and huh, has complexion better than those you see on the Elizabeth Arden commercial billboards. I wonder what she eats and uses everyday… O.O

Footer: I think being sick actually makes me smarter since it teaches me about drugs and symptoms.