Selangorification

Some pictures depicting how i've been spending my time in selangor whilst here for an internship! Sorry i haven't been blogging, super busy with work! my average day consists of leaving the condo at 625am and returning 8ish 9ish everyday so i do apologise for the lack of attention towards this blog and also towards MYSELF

i do enjoy the city life though because there is less time to mope (: about the ailments of life (if any)

not enough time to think if there is!

mian dui mian!!! i went with shuwen my friend whom i always address shuwen啊... because i used to call her like that in taylor's :) the kl mian dui mian is BETTER than the newly opened miri one

JS MAMAK opens here at night and it brings back memories mostly with my friend Pris who used to come eat with me, and also the memory of me chewing a chilli paddy by accident and almost passing out lol

 taylor's, the turning point dydx=0. read my archives if you wanna know further, otherwise, let it just be named the same. (too much law language read at work)

 MS TAN our class teacher!!! we randomly bumped into her and awkwardly requested a photo. ignore the fact i look really fat such that my face fats are almost covering my eyes

ss15 rojak! good as ever

after-work indulgences with dad!!! dome coffee and biscotti :) 

 seafood spaghetti

 calamarimari

 beautiful random fountain at klcc

 haha so touristy

quote of the day as classified in the papers. yes i read the papers

 CKT super oily max

 茶 time! this was lychee something but i don't really recommend it wasn't excellent tbh

 restaurant toilet concept!!!

 toilet seat as seat at the restaurant hahahahah so strange. my honey and lemon came in a URINAL cup

the sink happens to be the table you eat on lololol with a glass sheet covered above it

 spent some time with family :) cousin's wife and cousins' son :)

 the two cuties ^^

 cutie!!! my nephew!

 cutie! good poser!

 mememe

 sweetie!!

sweetie birthday boy! 

 family came over for a few days for raya and we celebrated MARK'S BDAY!

 handsome, my lil brother

 happy birthday my sweets

 mom and dad forever and ever

 snowflake original!! i was craving it!

 but i had this instead because i just had to try it, prefer the original even though i appreciate the green tea :)

girlies :)

 girlies :)

joey and our beautiful eyes hahahahaha

daddy and littlest brother playing chinese chess!!! (when the family was here!)

 summer internships : top knot, coral pencil dresses, colour blocking!

:)

 ex-roomie from taylor's!!!! so good to see her again !!! it's been too long! she used to teach me math and i used to proof read her essays (and i was the engineering student) hahahahaha

OOTD! mustard, satchel, chunky ring, BIG SMILE :)

that about covers just about half of my time here :)

work experience has been rewarding and i will elaborate more in a separate post although i shall keep it to the bare minimum because of professionalism and client confidentiality.

i also had other amazing meet ups such as a meet up with my lawyer cousin who briefed me a little on what she does and we had delicious paella at changkat! 

and the eateries at the workplace are pretty good too, had beef ball noodles, yummy chapati, chicken rice and assorted malaysian delicacies. am craving for a GCB now though is anyone else craving for a GCB? i know there is heated debate over how good it is (most people don't like it) but i just want it right now and i've already fulfilled my spicy chicken mcdeluxe craving!

oh and i also went to this cosy place overlooking a golf course with a really really old friend! i had salmon i love salmon, the place was really classy, somewhere in ampang!

i also met up with my childhood best friend whom i haven't seen for the longest time!!! so that was really some kind of wonderful (:

OH YES AND i also walked right past MALAYSIAN DREAMGIRL cindy tey at the KLCC convention centre. i was so shy though, she's so tall and pretty! so i just walked past her. and then when i went home i went to check her twitter and she was indeed in the KLCC area. :)

fangirl much? hahaha 

anyway i've got to go to bed sometime soon-ish lest i wake up zombified tomorrow.

i just wanna say thank you to all my friends for meeting up with me and making kl feel like a second home (: thank you all so much i really appreciate catching up and seeing all your pretty faces.

i feel a deep sense of gratitude for being able to catch up this time for real because there are certain friendships so worth preserving :)

singapore in a couple of days!

xx

sj 

Leaps, Lofts, and Life

HELLO

how y'all doin!

i was supposed to blog about italy and my birthday along with all my pics but right now i just feel like typing in a blank white space (: this blog this blog, this blog, contains sooooo much information about me. i mean looking back at it, there was this one time, the air stewardess who checked my bags in for me found me here on this blog the next day and commented to wish me a safe journey!

and another time i met a guy in college who read my blog before introducing himself to me and when he met me in tuition class he wrote notes to me about my life! and we're still friends now, he called the other day!

i mean fun quirky interesting stuff happen to me because of this blog. i do wonder though if i will ever shut this down one day. i've been tempted to a couple of times but then my heart just starts to ache and then i chicken out hahahahahahaha

over a blog

chyah

i'm so sentimental over every little thing that i WANT to go back to our old house in holland one day to just peer at it from the outside and try to recall childhood memories (: and i was there like when i was a baby??! for a couple of years? and yet i'm still sentimental over it! i had a dream one time about playing about in this loft of some sort, i just knowwwww the house is calling out to me lolololol sentimentamania :p

my life is same old, i'm starting to dread going back to manchester though. i mean it's just so great at home! when you're sad or lonely or whatever not, you can just go hang out with your siblings! or play the piano! or go for a drive! (which i am getting better at btw WHEEE), or go for a swim (i plan to do that soon) and not be devoured by the cold

i love my life at the moment, i feel my spirit catching up with my core.

i feel like i finally understand a lot of things in life, like i'm at peace. with reference to my previous entry. hahahaha in case you all didn't already figure out "he" was "ME" wtf lol

sorry i like writing stuff like that. i guess that's just who i am. i appreciate artistry in the form of cryptic writing. it expresses the things i cannot bring myself to say in such accuracy, down the very last detail. it allows me to get lost in the head for a bit and then find my way back illuminated (:

anyway, i wonder how things will move from here. sometimes i like to be a step ahead of everything so i don't ever need to feel unprepared. it stresses. me. out. thoughts about internships and about the future and about my career and all those cuhrayzay stuff adults think about. oh lawdy have merceh

at the same time i wanna make sure i enjoy these last few years of my tertiary education, fun times don't come by so often anymore when you start working. or maybe they do, they just appear in different forms and substances (probably a lot MORE substances if you get what i mean) :p

so many questions in my head so many leaps ahead i want to take. but really, sometimes it's best to just take things slow (i mean that's what the priest told me when i went for holy confession, a very blair wardorf moment i must say) hahahahahhaah he told me that my life seemed to move in a really quick pace and he assured me that it's okay to chill out and take a breather.

precisely what i'm doing now, although i can't say the same for the thoughts in my head, they've always been a problem for me!! they whiff around like they aint got no mastah! i really love talking to priests by the way, i think they are ever so wise. and i kind of like the act of reconciliation, i think it is a really genuine, humbling experience. i go once in a while just when i feel like my life needs some cleansing haha guess i'm quite in touch with my spirituality.

what am i even talking about? i'm like jumping from one topic to the next. i should probably go to bed but i slept today from 3-7pm because i'm a monstrous napper monstrous. i love staying up late at night, there's just something so tranquil about the dark and the quiet.

but i'm running out of things to say.

i guess i'm just glad that everything has found its place somehow in my life despite the difficulty i've had to endure to get here.

thanks for reading guys, and goodnight.

much love,

sj

Princess Happy

Good morning, princess.

It's your birthday. You are now twenty two years old. twenty, freaking, two *freaks out by a corner*

how do you feel today? apart from weirded out by the fact that you called yourself princess? if it's any consolation you have an excuse to do so because your name Sarah literally means Princess in Hebrew :)

You have been through so much in your life. Good bad, happy sad. You've known pain and laughter, joy and disaster. I guess you are a splendid catastrophe. You are an astoundingly woolly ball of thread constantly entangling and untangling free.

In 8 years you will be 30. Thir fuhreaking ty. How scary. If anyone knows how quickly time flies it would have to be you. And if anyone knew how excruciatingly long phases take to pass it would have to be you too.

This is pathetic. You are talking in circles and bringing to the table a pile of contradictions. Make up your mind sometime soon?

I guess future Sarah in her thirties would like to look back on this entry in 7 years and discover all sorts of mystery and wonder in her life as a twenty freaking two year old, only to discover that you have always been same old and you always will be. Reinventing new dreams, reigniting new passions, when they are and have only ever been regurgitations of what you've always known to believe in.

You just didn't realise them at the time it mattered. You just didn't identify the pivot point in a field of random dots. Sometime in the future you may find yourself in the very same position.

Nevertheless, future Sarah, present Sarah will have you know that twenty two year old you gleefully accepts life as it is. You've come so far. You're going to graduate in a year. Another milestone! Apart from that, you've loved and you've lost, but you've found yourself, your old self, your true self. Finally the phases of darkness are over and long gone. You've yearned for this day and you've earned it. Your friends are beautiful, beautiful people. You've always had a knack for strong emotional attachments to people so much so that you struggled so much enduring physical distance with your best friend in the whole wide world, Grace Alyssa Chua Swee Ying, as well as your other besties in Puak 13. ( a very cool name indeed )

You have also always had a knack for things of the past, holding every bit of sentimentality so very close to your heart as though they would run away and dissipate if you loosened your grip. But now that you are twenty two, the most valuable lesson you've learnt is that life in all its horrid unpredictability can be such a big  fat obese mess but there isn't a reason, nuh-uh, to stop believing in beauty ever new, every great, ever glowing.

Because indeed, that is what you have found, so far, of late, after years of pining and indecision. You've learnt to keep the friendships of old, knowing just knowing they are forever, and you've learnt to let go of anything that eats at you as you open up to even more amazing people and amazing things.

Your family is an amazing amazing family and you should know by now that the eyes of the twenty two year old you glisten with gratitude and sparkle as they thank the God above for your lucky circumstantial standings in the world as a daughter of the two greatest beings on this earth.

Oh and law might possibly be the best thing to happen to you.

Anyway, princess, the point is, you've made it. You've made it to a place of normalcy and routine and you might even have made it further than that. Contentment isn't all too shabby but it certainly isn't a mere contentment you are feeling deep within the corollary veins of this organ they call heart.

You feel peace. You feel calm. You feel strength. You feel all sorts of things, one of which might possibly resemble this famous expression they call.... happiness.

Loving in Kuching

Ok i decided to blog again hahaha

this was me and my family's kuching trip during the summer while i was back in malaysia. i didn't blog about this sooner because i knew that if i were to look at the pictures so soon after i had left malaysia i would be all sappy and emo :p

so i kept this on the backburner but now i think i should blog about it even though we didn't do much there since mom and i were really SICK! mom was worse, she had vomiting and she pretty much couldn't digest any food. and i had stomach problems which got worse when i flew back home. oh yes and it was bad on the flight too which we all know is the WORST especially when you need to drop your kiddies in the pool when there's a long ass line outside the airplane lavatories HAHAHA

TMI TMI TMI

picture upon reaching Four Points by Sheraton. i think our stay there was free because my dad had accumulated like some travel points from all his work travelling

with mark and mom :)

and michael . HAHA grumpy

mike jumping on the bed!

checking out the view! we could see planes taking off. and this really fascinates mark because he loves planes

bathtub which i could not utilise because i had period :( HAHAHAHA i just thought of a very gory image suitable for halloween HAHAHAHAAH EWWWWW

nice spacious shower

lobby

cutie!!!

bros :)))))))))

cutie!!!!

my mom and a catholic nun. ok so the main reason why mom wanted to come to kuching was because she wanted to visit one of the nuns who had moved there. apparently this nun was one of my mom's old school principles in her missionary school.

awww, so cute. it really touches me that mom spends her life doing things like these. this nun is getting elderly and she doesn't have any kids to take care of her, she lives in a convent with a couple of younger nuns. but old people need love too.

mark HEHEEH his smile is so goofy

oh hai

with my aunt at one of the church grottos

:)

reading a book at the hotel

camho sorry lol

mark by his favourite spot

kuching chicken rice. prefer the ones in miri

oh yes then we went to a museum

some tribal art

and some errr tools

more tribal stuff

OH this was the skeleton of a whale found on the shores of MIRI :)

love my expression!

epic BUTCH!

muzium etnologi

scenic picture of one of the historical spots

met up with jordan at the spring!!! was great catching up!!!! he told me lots of stories and then we went shopping ^^

three layer tea!!! it originated from kuching sarawak btw and then proliferated to west malaysia. i don't think they have this in singapore yet, it's damn good! singaporeans come malaysia and try!

sarawak noodle. this is kampua, the one which is very famous in sibu

and this is kolo mee, the one famous in kuching and sarawak. sorry focus fail :p

they look the same but a true sarawakian can taste the difference !

camwhore pic wtf

oh ok anyway kuching has much more good food but i didn't take pictures of some and i didn't manage to eat the really yummy ones like sarawak laksa or kueh chap (which i dislike) because i had stomach problems remember.

i pretty much stuck with liquids HAHAH DAMN SAD LA

oh yes and we also went swimming one day in the hotel. the hotel swimming pool was weird, like it was right in front of the hotel restaurant and like people eating can look out and see people in bikinis which really irks me because i'm insecure about my body in a bikini HAHAHA

overall, it was not a very productive trip due to both mom's and my illness. but it was nice family bonding time :) and it was probably my 5th or 6th time in kuching so it's not like i really missed out :p

oh also, my cousin took us out for seafood at TopSpot and it was really good :) so yea, nice bonding time with cousins too.

i miss my family now! sobs!