annoying

Hand. ♥

Random Arty fact! #34
I like going out with friends. It's just that I don't have many friends that wants to go out with me. )':
Heck, even my brother doesn't want to go out with me. Oh well. I wanna go out! Heh. My weekends are usually spent with family, so I guess it's a good thing as well. :)
But sometimes, you know it's better to just hang out with a couple of your good friends, laughing at a funny movie together. :)

LOL. I think I just ♥-ed my own hand. xD

Picture taken at Yi-Vonne/Laine's 18th birthday party. :)

I've got my Chemistry exam coming up in 4 hours time. I haven't finished studying yet and I'm here in the computer lab not studying. Should I? Yes. I be going nao. Bai. :O

cheerioseets, arty.

despair

*despairrr*

Rawr. I've been meeting too many new people recently. Most of them I met through social networking sites (not Facebook :)) and Twitter. That's definitely a good thing, I guess. Ever since Facebook decided to dump me, I've taken a liking for the second-in-line, Twitter. :)

Heck, even the people on Twitter are less absurd. Absurd in the sense that I don't see people randomly adding people in Facebook and asking, "Hey, who are you?"

Mind you, I used to get at least a Friend Request on Facebook everyday. I know most of them, but sometimes, it's those unknown people that simply adds and then just leaves their account unattended for a few months. When I meet people like that, I'd just view their profile, don't know him/ her? *clicks Remove from friend list* I'm harsh, but it's necessary. :)

Anyways, that being said:

Follow me on Twiter.
@arthurchia

I'm an attention whore, rawrr!

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Random Arty fact! #33
I'm an attention freak. I said that before in Random Arty fact! #27*clikku*. I'm just saying it again because I want people to comment on it. :D
Stupid attention whore. xD

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I have huge hands and a deformed face. *hides*

My trial exam starts tomorrow. Maths P1 and Thinking Skills P2.

No, Maths P1 is not an objective paper. Everything's subjective. P1 just means Paper 1, and Paper 1 for Maths is pure maths. It's just like SPM Add Maths, minus all the statistics part. Cause that's Maths P6. :D

Confusing much? I still don't know why they name them such haha. Maths is the least of my concern haha. Thinking Skills Paper 2 might sound easy, but it's definitely harder than Maths P1. Well, to me it is haha. I'm not sure what other people think, but their opinions don't matter. :D

I haven't started studying yet. I'm not even feeling scared or whatever. Just dead. Brain dead. My emotions are like.. *wait* What emotions? :O

Non-existent ones. :)

Heh. Hopefully I'll do well tomorrow. I've still got shit work to keep up with. Editorial Board? Sighh. Not to mention that my whole Graphics team is quitting. Except me. I can't quit. As the Head of Graphics, I can't really quit, now can I? Well, good thing about that is that each of them have to get at least 2 people to join before they can quit. :)

Joy. :D

cheerioseets, arty.

SMS

I woke up terribly early this morning. I woke up, turned to my phone and checked for the time.

2.32am.

Just as I held the phone in my hand, an SMS came.

Zz. Zz.

Yeah, that's how my phone's vibration sounds like. Hah.

And that brings us to the next Random Arty fact!

Random Arty fact! #32
I sense SMSes before the come.

Have a great day everyone. :)

cheerioseets, arty.

brownie

Brownie's still the cutest ever. ♥

Random Arty fact! #31
I hate it when people don't reply when you SMS, left them a message on MSN, or simply ignores you on a social networking site. It's like, totally rude. Actually, it's very rude. No? :)

Heh. I'm a bit emo today. I had a very unproductive day. I woke up at 8.50am, I kinda expected myself to be up and moving cause I really had to finish all my Editorial Board work done, but nooo, I had to SMS Jie Cong to tell him that I couldn't go for our weekly breakfast thingy. Sighh.

I woke up two hours later, not knowing what I did just then. My mom's call woke me up grr. She wanted to buy me prawn mee and that she forgot the grocery shopping's list. :O

Bleh, I still ♥ my family though. My dad and my brother made this conclusion that the prawn mee from that shop puts drugs in their mee and people who ate them falls asleep two hours later. So, after eating the mee, I went to do some design work, and true enough, I fell asleep two hours later. And I slept for two hours. What the crap!

The mysterious prawn mee shop that drugs their customers! Zomg! Scandalous! :)

cheerioseets, arty.

again

On the way to Yi-Vonne/Laine's 18th @ Luna Bar! :)
21st August 2009 ♥

Random Arty fact! #30
I've always wanted to be a dancer. It's just that I'm flat-footed and always lose my footing. )':
Toe touches had always been a dream, and I'm not sure whether I'll be ever to achieve that HAHA. :)

Yeapp, starting Random Arty Fact! again! :D

-Click here for the older ones-

Yes, people. I'm back. For good. Kaki Blue is over, Jog For Hope is over, and my trials are just next week. Woot! But sadly, I've gotten the after effects of a production ending.

The part where you get all lost because you suddenly have nothing to do every night and that you lost that sense of belonging. Then you suddenly get desperate to relive that feeling again, by searching for someone to want you. Well, in my case, yeah. I feel a bit desperate la, but I guess it's who I am.

Wanting things that I can't get and getting emotional over it. Like, seriously, even at this age? Yes. Especially at this age.

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That aside, I'm unsure on what to do after my A Levels. (Provided I get good results and actually *pass* my exams.) I'm confirmed that I'm going to Australia to do my Architecture degree and then masters. But what university should I apply for and what about my portfolio? Haha, I'm so screwed. :)

You can say that I haven't started on my portfolio cause I really have nothing that I can show off about having "skills in Architecture" or basic structuring. I've never built a chair before, nor have I touched.. Nevermind. :P

I have a few choices in mind, though. Australian National University, Melbourne U and Sydney U. My mom doesn't like all three, but I don't really know anything about that. :D

Let's keep that aside for now, shall we? :)

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My first pair of jeans! :)

I bought two belts today! Woot! I've never used a belt after my last one corroded from all the sweat from my secondary school pants. (Lawl, so disgusting HAHA.) The black one that I used to like, mm.

Now that I got my first pair of jeans, I BOUGHT TWO BELTS JUST FOR IT. WOOT. :)

Yeahhhh, they're so comfortable! x) Levis 523.

I'm crazily in love with my jeanssss. :D

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I'm getting used to my camera now.

I wonder if I'm good enough to take pictures that people would pay for. What do you guys think? (If you still read. :D)

I'm off to finish 3 books that I bought for RM10 at the Times warehouse clearance sale in HSC. :D Toodles, people.

Be happy, be Arty. HAHAHAHA *stabs self*

cheerioseets, arty.

drove

Kat! :) Moar below.

Random Arty fact! #29
Believe it or not, I like cars. LOL. XD
I mean, it was kinda expected la, me being a guy, but then again, people around me wouldn't know cause I don't talk about cars AT ALL. x)
Iono la, they just seem so.. beautiful. :D

Arthur Chia is officially an official driver on the official roads! Without adult supervision, of course. xD I already received 3 weeks of advice from my mom driving to college every morning. So yeah! I CAN DRIVE ALONE! XD

So yeahh, today, I drove behind Katherine when her mom came to pick her up to let her drive haha. So funny, really. It reminds me of how I was just three weeks ago. :)

ANYWAYS. Sunday! Which was like, yesterday. I went out with Kate! I like, drove to her house. Picked her up. :D The pic above was taken at a traffic light on the way to our tuition teacher's house. LOL. Yeah! We camwhored even whilst driving! :P

Mehh, I felt so good! xD It's like, homg, I'm driving people around! Her dad didn't even mind haha. :D We went to Selayang mall and I PARKED! XD Perfect reverse parking. I must say that I've became relatively good at reverse parking. Even this morning at college, I reversed parked into a small space between two small cars! :D And I did it in one try! x)

Katherine is seriously farny. Eccentric. Weird. It's hard to find a word to fully describe her. :P When we reached our teacher's house, she immediately commented on her dog. It was so funny. xD Then then, she saw her baby. Prichita. :D SO CHUTEEEE. So pinchable omg! XD

She's so pinchable until Katherine held her stomach and started vibrating her hands. Imagine:

[*wiggle* {hand{{babystomach}}hand} *wiggle wiggle* ]

LOL. XD

Then Katherine started making funny scat-like sounds. WHICH failed to attract the baby's attention. She was more interested in my facial expressions. And my very very movable eyebrows. xD

Omg, so cute you know, the baby. We ordered pizza and all, so when it came, she always leaned towards the pizza to grab a slice but all of us would stop her before she could even reach it. C'mon, she's less than 6 months old! xD But yeah, like her mom, she's an awesome eater. :) M'sian ftw!

That was it. We said our goodbyes, and prolly I'll drive Kate back there after we get our SPM results. :) AND our teacher will be cooking for us. I never knew she can cook. xD

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Marcia. :)

I made this paper pop up thing for Marcia! Cause she asked for it, so yeah. xD Made her one. :D

I'm accepting requests! RM2 for one. :D Customisable, tell me, I'll make for you. x)

cheerioseets, arty.

results

LAWL. x) Found this on JD's profile on FB. xD

Random Arty fact! #28
I've always wanted to get a pet. Funny thing is that, I'm allergic to fur. So YEAH. LOL. It's kinda mean. As much as I love dogs, cats, furry animals-alike, I'm still bloody allergic to their fur. Which I find just so mean. O:

HOMG. I had the funniest dream ever! XD

We all know that SPM results are coming out next next week on a weekday, right? But we don't know when exactly it's coming out, right? x) SOOOO, I had this dream yesterday. It started off with the daily newspaper being sent over to my house, and just as I opened it, I saw this huge ass blue poster in it. On it, was written,

SPM results
on
11th of March 2009
(Wednesday)

LOL. I was like, sheet. xD

Then I woke up. I turned over to check my phone. 6.02am. Stupid alarm. :O I continued sleeping until 10am. :)

These past two weeks had been very hectic for me. Just the night before, I had only 3 hours of sleep, 3 meetings to attend, 1 Chemistry test and I was in college for a whooping 11 hours. Not to mention the drive to and fro from college. Exhausted. Totally.

cheerioseets, arty.

P/S: I've been feeling really bored recently, so please drop a comment in the cbox about what kinda poses you can suggest for me to pose. XDD :D

yay

Random Arty fact! #27
I lack attention. I think everyone should know that by now haha. :P I guess it's not really a random fact if everyone knows. x)
I'm basically an attention seeker haha. :)

Rawrrr. KLMUN Conference was funnnn. The debates are over and YAY. :D I met new people and lotsa lotsa lotsa international school students..

..Which is great! Many benefits from that. Like, accents, accents and accents! XD The guys aren't really hot and the girls a bit hard to rate. O: I guess I like asians moar. x)

HOMG. I wanna like, start a choir! TCSH Acapella choir. :) Anybody interested mail me at artychia@gmail.com! :D

That aside, let me just go do my Further Maths homework. I'm 2 weeks late. O:

cheerioseets, arty.

tiringism

What a pic I found. xD Sept '08.

Random Arty fact! #26
I didn't have much friends in Form 1 and Form 2. Cause I was.. Anti-social? I didn't know that I had to even make friends. Primary school was worse. I only had 2 friends. O:

Therefore, talk to me everytime you see me! :) Let us be friends! :D :D

Rawr. I watched the best episode of The Simpsons ever today! HOMG. So awesome. It's like, they did it in the style of the TV series, 24. You know, where they have like, this time ticking and ticking. xD And Bart had like, this shadow-ish cel-shade. :D

College today was.. Tiring. I was on MSN with SIAAAA last night. Stupid thin boy. O:

Ohh, we had lunch today with our mentor! Haha, it was kinda awkward la, I guess. Cause even Kah Fai, Pei Chin and William joined us for lunch today. xD Iono, our class a bit.. Special. WIDEE variety of people, different types with just a few people. Awesome. I HEART you guys. x) PS1! :D :D

Mm, I've been busy lately, Ed Board webpage design, KLMUN topic research. O: Wish me luck. xD

cheerioseets, arty.

cupcake

Happae Valentines Day! :D Shari gave cupcakes to her friends. O: How nice. xD

Random Arty fact! #25
I love accents. They're like, the best. My favourite accent would be the Scottish accent. SO HAWT. XD Ask me and I'll show you. x)

Rawrr! I think people should wake up being happy. I find people who wake up in a bad mood are very.. pissing off. Cause I'll get affected by that and try to tahan not to be pissed off cause they'll be pissed off at you for no reason. O:

THAT ASIDE. Thanks Shari for the cupcake! :) It was.. Sweet. Literally. And tasty. XD

Mm, cupcakes are the best. They're so sweet, so nice, full of calories, and it just makes you so happy when you receive one. x)

Ooh! I watched Valkyrie yesterday. OMG SO SAD. O: I cried at the end. D= Then I watched Titanic at night. I cried again. :'( OMG. All these movies should be played everyday. They're so nice. XD

I drove to OU to watch Valkyrie with Kee Aik, Bobo, Jess and Kit! xD I just met Jess and Kit yesterday but I must say la that they're pretty crazee. Laughing at everything. O: But they're nice people! :) Valentine's Day not spent alone. Well, first time with friends. Okay-ish, I guess. :)

And I'm EXTREMELY BORED. I need to do my Ed Board assignment. O: So boring. D:

Shari and I. With the cupcake. But her eyes closed!

So we took another picture again. The cupcake couldn't masuk the picture. O:

OHH. My name appeared in the papers today. Star Education centrespread. xD Clickkk.

cheerioseets, arty.

three

Random Arty fact! #24
I'm sick. I'm PERVERTED. RAWR. XD

Eh, crap. I'm still at college. HOWEVER, I'm using my brother's laptop to come online. I brought it along to college cause I used it for the Tree Huggers booth for the ECA drive. :) It managed to survive for a whooping 4 hours! HOMG. And it played a video for 3 hours and a half. *pats back of laptop* Good job! :D

Homg, but damn funny right cause this laptop, without a power supply can only last for about 5 minutes. The last time I tried it just tried to enter standby modef and died. LOL. Can't help but laugh.

But then again, we used two laptops for our booth cause we wanted it to be a paperless environment and entered thier names straight into the Tree Huggers Database! It was fun to make. I can't believe that whatever I learnt for ICT for SPM actually came useful. :D *proud* So, for now, we have about.. 70 members? Yeap! S-E-V-E-N-T-Y. And I still haven't formed the choir yet. O:

OH. I was playing O2Jam on Bobo's laptop today. XD OMG. I'm still pretty good at it. :D I'm happy enough for that. At least my gaming skills so quite okay. :P

Anyways. I'd better pack up now, since my mom would be coming anytime soon. :D

To all of you who have that special someone,

Happy Valentines Day!

And to all of the single people like me,

Happy Single Awareness Day!

AND if you like hugs,

Happy Free Hugs Day! :D

cheerioseets, arty.

hee

*shy*

Random Arty fact! #23
I'm pretty selective to the type of people I talk to. O:
I try not to, but now I guess I'm okay-ing already. xD
We must be nice to people! XDD

Omggg, I can't log on to Facebook! IT'S TORTURING MEEEE. T.T

Rawr. He said hi today. Mm. She said hi too. Mm. x)

OH. Tomorrow please do come to the Tree Huggers booth and register yourself to our Tree Huggers Club! :)

cheerioseets, arty.

A.

Awesomeee, right? xD
'Twas when I drove to Jie Cong's house. x)

Random Arty fact! #22
I like the number 21, but forgot to mention in the previous Arty fact. O:
Therefore I have another fact. I iz fat.

Thanks Leash for my new header! XD I asked her to make a new one for me cause I don't have my Photoshop! *gasp* x)

Anyways, we had our first Ed Board meeting today! :P Explained everything and all. xD

And so we're given our first assignments! :) I don't wanna say it here! But I must say that the graphics team is a team of very talented people! xD Homg, Yi-Vonne's graphics is awesome! xD So it's Petrina's. Haha. xD

New task a bit hard la for me, but let's work hard at it! XD

ANYWAYS;

Happae A day! xD

I was at Kim Gary on Saturday as usual and I ordered the French Toast set. xD Soo yeahhh. That's what it is. Cause it's awesome. :P

cheerioseets, arty.

P/S: I cut it like that. :P

car

Random Arty fact! #21
I like to watch people but I'm scared they'll stare back! Homg! xD

Homg, I just got my car! Well, it's not really mine, but I'm "borrowing" my cousin's, Kennie! :D

Mm, it's so hot. I'm gonna go drive the car later. :P

cheerioseets, arty.

thaipusam

Random Arty fact! #20
I love the rain. It calms me down and makes me forget all the bad things that happened to me during the day. :)

You know, those animes, where you can always see cats walking on the rooftops? I've always thought that it only happens in anime. Then I found out today that it happens in real life! XD Seriously. Observe:

I know, right? x)

So damn cute right? XD

I'm a bit sad, though. Cause I didn't get to put my logo there cause I lost all my files. =( Anddddd, my comp's spoil, so I don't have photoshop. :D

Anyways, I kinda hated today. Cause I couldn't leave the house! The Thaipusam jam! Every year WITHOUT FAIL. IT'S SO ANNOYING. @.@ But I havta tolerate it in order to build a nation where everybody is integrated. (Read: LAN topic) :P

OHH. Alanna came to my house just now! :D Cause Kat had people at her house, so Alanna had to wait at mine until it was okay for her to go. :O But we had fun! Played the piano for like an hour and a half, SMSed Julius who's in NS with his mean replies for me :O, prank MSNed one of her camp friends, and much more talking. xD

Nyeh, 'twas fun. Then havta fetch her to Kat's house. Yeap, that's all I did today. x)

I've decided that my first road kill would be a PANDA.

cheerioseets, arty.

yes!

Random Arty fact! #19
I think hugs are the best physical contact in the world. It gives you that feeling. I don't really know how to explain it but you should really try it!
Free Hugs day on the 14th of February! Spread the word! x)

I PASSED MY DRIVING EXAM! :D :D

I can freaking drive now! X)

Sadlyyy, I don't have a car. And I can't drive yet. Cause I haven't got my license yet. :D BUT I PASSED! NO MORE STRESS!

Anyways, I'm tired. Nak tidoh. OHHH. I made it into Editorial Board too! XD Under Grahpics department, of course. :)

Meh. Since I'm so tired, I'm just gonna shut my mind off and blog.

I woke up at 6am this morning and waited for my instructor to come and fetch me and sat in the car for an hour and a half drive to the driving school to take my Bahagian 2 exam. :D

Then I PASSED. HOMG HOMG HOMG HOMG. All of them saw my parking and 3 point turn. ZOMG. Purrfectt. x)

Selepas itu kan, my instructor's wife fetch me balik home tauu. Kat 10.30am. I took a 5 minute bath, change my clothes and out I go again! Back to college, of course. I took a cab at the bus station near the main road and was sweating like crapp. :O

I managed to reach college in time for class. :D If I missed another Further Maths class, I wouldn't be able to catch up. It's SO hard. =( Today we learned further about Mathematical Induction. Lawl. Basically it's like, we have to proof stuffs that have already been proven. SO STUPID. XD

After that me, Kee Aik, Bobo and John went to eat Jap food! At Nagomi. It's a syabu-syabu restaurant but we had cheap Bento though. x) It was.. Cheap. XDD

Lunch took an hour, but we didn't have anything else after that. We stayed back for our Tree Hugger's Club's first club meeting! :D So we started playing cards and Bobo plugged his comp into the speaker system in the class and all of us started singing! LOL. :D We couldn't really agree to a song cause John is evillll. He hates all the nice oldies. =( But that was fun too, the quarreling, of course. xD

I brouht Brownie to college today, again. But today before the club meeting, he was seriously abused. Bobo and Kee Aik tied him up in my spare long sleeved shirt and hung him on the projector string. Hanging there! Pfft! So mean. :'(

And I'm the Tree Hugger's Club's Vice President! *yay* x)

Okay, dah habis dah, my stupid short boring rant. :D

cheerioseets, arty.

I wasn't able to talk. Didn't even see.

sigh

Random Arty fact! #18
I'm afraid of people looking at me. I don't know why.
When I see people walking in hallways and called me out, I'd be scared. And cringe. :O

Lawl. My comp's dead. No pictahs! ):

OH! I finished my essay! xD I'm happae! 1649 words. It's an achievement. I finished it in 3 hours last night. Meh, it caused me to sleep late! I was so tired when I woke up in the morning.

Sigh.

College today was.. uneventful. It's getting more mundane, and more mundane. The pattern is finally showing. Like, Everyday = same. I didn't get to go lunch with my class today, cause I had to leave early. Why?

I had my driving lesson. Sigh. My exam's tomorrow! Pray that I pass! :D

And I've been sighing like mad these days. Kinda depressing. I need a best friend. An outgoing camwhore preferably. =\

cheerioseets, arty.

pop

This is Brownie. :D

Random Arty fact! #17
I play the piano, guitar and drums. I started playing piano when I was 6. I bugged my mom until she had to bring me to this old fart of a fierce, lousy teacher. I didn't like her. =( I started drums in Form 1 and guitar in Form 2. I stopped both of it in Form 3. But I still play, of course. xD

Today! Not as boring as yesterday. :D I went to Midvalley, as usual. For some strange reason, my mom loves Midvalley a lot. We go there almost every weekend for breakfast. Kim Gary.

But we didn't go there today, because my brother wanted to eat PHOP. No, it's not a kind of jelly, nor it is faeces human droppings, they're actually a shop that sells Pancakes!

It's been a while since I ate at Paddington's House of Pancakes. The last time ate there, I remembered that I was REALLY full after just one meal. o_o So yeah! Pancakes CAN be savoury AND filling. It's awesome. :D

I was browsing through the menu, gawking at the prices, looking for something savoury and less dessert-ish. I ended up getting this:

Australian something Burger.

It's FREAKING huge! Homg, I was soooo full after eating that. *cry* The bill came and it amounted to a whooping RM98.95. LOL. :D Just pancakes. Imagine that. x)

Mehh. We ended walking around Gardens instead of Midvalley cause we decided that Gardens pwns Midvalley. x) Walk walk walk. Camwhore sikit here and there. :D

I wore my KLPac Open Day shirt! :D
Ugh! I look so fat! T.T

So yeap! That's practically what I did today.

I_need_something_to_do. I've got a lot of things I should be doing. Like, homework and all, but I'm just too darn lazy to do it. I just wanna enjoy myself. T.T Shouldd I? xD Maybe. Dunno. Why am I talking to myself? xD

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Bull crap. I'm gonna mati soon. No reason, just lack of social interaction. =D

I wanna talk to you but you're not saying anything to me. *cry*

cheerioseets, arty.

out

Boo. :D

Random Arty fact! #16
Soft toys are LURVEE! The soft toy on my blog's banner is Brownie! I got it for my 14th barfday, I think. :D Mehh, it's so soft! I like it so much it sleeps with me sometimes. x) Shh. No one needs to know that.

Homgg. I'm in a bit of distress right now. I haven't done my assignment that was given by the Editorial Board. I'm supposed to design a page template for the magazine and it's dued next Tuesday. My computer's dead. I can't bloody log in at all. That means no photoshop. Therefore I can't use it to design a page. Mm. Crap. I'm asking Jie Cong now. :D

Lawl. I'm gonna use Jie Cong's sister's. XD Woot! :D

Anyways, I've been feeling better now. Thanks to all the TV and the 4 hours chat session with Yi Wenn last night. LOL. Homg, she's crazee. xD Chatted on MSN first then she added a Facebook picture into the chat. I think Shari received like, 50+ notifications on that picture alone. XD

Homg, I wanna go visit people! I need to get out of the house! =( This is seriously killing me. I need to talk to somebody. It was so proven when Jojo called me yesterday. I was stuttering! o_o And she's like, my camwhore buddy! I needa go outtt. A movie or anything will do!

Well, I'm going out later for my cousin's birthday. I'm not sure where, but at least I get good food. x) Homg, I'm so greedy. xDD

- - Edit - -

I went to Sushi Tei at Tropicana Mall! Zomg. So niceee. And 30% cheaper than Sushi King. In your face, Sushi King! :D

cheerioseets, arty.

asphyxiate

Random Arty fact! #15
I used to think that the world is revolved around me. That I'm the only person that's conscious and as long as I pray to God and wish for nothing bad will happen, it won't. :D
I was only 6! Pfft! Can't blame me. x)

I'm okay already. Thanks to everybody who cheered me up. =)

Sad thing is that I can't go around visiting people to collect ang paus and go visit my cousinssssss. No camwhoring at all! T.T This is so depressing. Sighh.

I need to go out. I went to the National Blood Bank today to eat breakfast with my dad. =D It was tasty. A tad bit sweet and a lil' spicy. But still awesome. x) Then we came home. Andddd, that's all I did today. I'm incredibly bored. Like, b-o-r-e-d! =D

Nobody's replying anything on Facebook. MSN's dead. And -- OH! Shean just came online. :D Bai. x)

cheerioseets, arty.