Relatives. and Mandarin woes.

I get pretty annoyed when relatives ask me what am I planning to study after my SPM, and after I tell them that I do not know(yet), they give me that "Hmm..now what shall we do with you.." look.

Not that I'm planning to do nothing, I just don't know what is it that I want to do yet. Yet all they give me is this disapproving look, like I've lost my direction in life or something.

Then I have this granduncle in Penang, who asks me the same four questions every time we go to visit him.
We visited him last week. Right before entering his house, I told mum exactly what he was gonna ask me. True enough, the moment we were all seated and served drinks, he asked me(in Hokkien):

1.Do you go to Chinese school or Malay school? (answer:Malay school.)
2.But can you speak Chinese? (answer:Nope, I can't speak Mandarin. No.)
3.Then are you going for Mandarin classes? (answer:Right now I'm not.)
4.You can speak Hokkien right? (answer: A little. after all, i had been answering him in Hokkien, wasn't i? i almost heard him breathe a sigh of relief after hearing my fourth answer...)

Then he goes on about how I should go for Mandarin classes, what with China rising up as a nation, and in the business world and all that.

I would like to learn Mandarin someday, in fact. Just that I haven't gotten round it. YinYin, Karin, Addin and I actually went for ONE class last year(a teacher recommended by Yinlee). But yea, that was it. One class. Haha.

And as some of you know, I chopped off my hair last Friday. And the hairdresser could speak a teeny weeny bit of English. He asked me if I could speak Chinese anyway, and gave me this incredulous look when I answered.

Then I thought, why can't THEY speak English. Almost all the hairdressers I went to my whole life couldn't speak English. And I had to fumble with Mandarin(more like my mum had to, ahahah). They all learned English in school, didn't they? So isn't it more expected of them to be able to speak English, than me speaking Chinese, since not everyone learns Chinese in school?

Pfft.

Speaking of hairdresssers, I might be going to reshape my hair today. Add some layers. After what the previous hairdresser did.

Wish me all the best, won't you?
And say a prayer for me too.
That rhymes.
HAHA.

Okay, byebye.

Guess what?

I just watched New Moon with my parents(yes, it has come to that. Not that I think it's an embarrassment to be watching movies with them or anything, just that New Moon's not exactly the kinda movie u watch with your parents, is it? haha. Anyway.).

It's their anniversary today and mum felt like watching a movie..and the only movie I felt like watching was New Moon, so I suggested it, and dad actually wanted to watch it too. Haha. He could even remember the story from Twilight! He was explaining certain parts of the story to my mum and all. LOL.

And guess what?
I did not hate it; I loved it! It was definitely better than Twilight, as opposed to what the others think.

Nope, I didn't regret a single cent of the RM33 I splashed on the movie(paid for mum and dad's tickets too).

I think most who read it wouldn't have hated it.Well Tiff and Esther didn't LOVE it, but they said it was okay..Then again, Lyn didn't read the book either, but she still thought it was okay. Hmm.

And now that I've watched the movie, I think Bella is an even bigger idiot for not choosing Jacob. Ughhhh..
maybe it does have something to do with Taylor Lautner after all. heeee.

But okay, even if Taylor Lautner was not acting as Jacob Black, Bella and Jacob obviously has the better relationship. Hmm. Okay, shall not go into that whole topic again..

Well, yeah. Just wanted to tell the world my opinion on New Moon, which is, I don't think it sucks.

Night, world.

The new conclusion about Bella. and Jacob. and Edward.

I just read like, a whole load of bad comments about New Moon on Facebook!!! (how can this be?)
I haven't watched it, okay.
And I'm still going to, anyway, anyhow. Hmmh.

Anyway, I read New Moon again a couple of days ago, and now I think, Bella should totally go with Jacob Black instead.

I don't know how I came to that conclusion, since I practically hated Jacob the first time I read it.
And I DON'T think it has got to do with Taylor Lautner acting as Jacob Black(since the movies weren't out yet the first time I read the Twilight saga..). Haha.

I don't know, but I wonder why I hated Jacob the first time. He's so much better for Bella. They get along, they laugh, they have a good time together, and he makes her happy.

Bella and Edward, on the other hand..what do they do? All Bella does is gush about him and his 'beauty' and his 'Greek god looks'. (Seriously, I think the line "..and my(bella) heart skipped a beat when I saw him leaning against his car, looking like a Greek god..." appeared like a million times in the book.)

And all Edward does is want to protect her all the time, because he finds her interesting, and that's because he can't hear her thoughts like he can hear everyone else's.

She's just obsessed with him, really.

So obsessed, that she doesn't acknowledge the fact that she actually loves Jacob. Oh no, she does. Just that quote,"...but the love I had for him was only a tiny fraction of what I knew I was capable of.." (or smtg like that.)

I almost want to grab her by the shoulders, shake her, and ask her to wake up from the little delusion she's in.

Aih.
I suddenly got from being all-Edward to all-Jacob. Haha.
Anyhow, Bella doesn't end up with Jacob in the end, so. Too bad. What a shame. As long as she's happy I guess. *rolls eyes.

And Mayure would probably kill me if she ever sees this post. heh.
She doesn't read my blog anyway, so.

Am planning to watch the movie this Wednesday, despite the bad reviews I'm getting from my friends.. My sis loved it, anyway, so I don't think it could be that bad..We usually have the same opinions on movies.=D

*Edit*: Not watching it on Wednesday after all. Hmmh.

And they can fall through too.

I'm sorry, but this is another rat-related post.

Cause, I found out quite recently from two different people with two different homes who've had rats running in their respective, two different roofs, that the rats can fall through the roof.

One person(Karin) told me that a rat fell through her grandmother's roof and bit her cousin's hand while they were sleeping in that room(Okay it sounds pretty funny now but can u imagine if that actually happened?? Gross or what.).

Then another person(ex-teacher who teaches in mum's school)told my mum that the rat/s once fell through the roof into her room. And she lives five houses away! And since her house is somehow connected to mine(terrace house), it's probably the same rats running in our roofs. Which means they have the same capability to fall through my roof.

Well. But since the rats fell through her roof, I guess it's a different batch of rats running in the roofs now. But still.

I refuse to co-exist with the rats.
I don't want them in my house, on my roof, in my roof, near me, any way, anyhow.

If Ratatouille were to fall through someone's roof in a cartoon, I would probably laugh. It'd be cute.

But this is real life, and it's my roof! Uh-uh. No rats for me...

Rats go away!!

Rats, rats, RATS.

Eeeeek!
They disgust me, they reaaally do.

Recently, there have been rats running around in the roof(not ON,but IN.get it?). There was a season when they kept coming, and then they were gone; now they're back again.

So when you're sitting in your room, minding your own business, a horrible pitter-patter-stomping-whateveryoucallit-sound would come from the roof.

But they'd just be IN the roof la.
You don't see them.
They don't see you(maybe they do, from some unknown peephole in the roof).

A few nights ago, when I'd just gone to bed, suddenly I heard something...sort of drop on the roof. And I THOUGHT I heard something scurrying.
I quickly switched on the lights, and carefully, albeit fearfully(heh.), drew the curtain aside to see what lay behind it. But there was nothing there.

So I went back to sleep.

Then I was in my room just now. And there was that pitter-patter-whateveryoucallit-sound again. I ignored it.

Then this time I really, in my fully awaken state, heard something drop on the roof. And there was scurrying, and then loud squeaking right outside my window. I looked to the window, and there it was. Two fat rats. Climbing up and between the window sills, right in front of me. Oh. and they were fighting.

Eeeeeeeek....

Well at least they're OUTside. There have been some INside before. Don't wanna talk about it.

Maybe I'm overreacting.
Anyhow,they still disgust me.

Dang. Extra class.

We, in Form Four, are exempted from going to school from today till the following Tuesday(In my case, Wednesday, since I don't go to school on Wednesdays. =D)

However, our dear Bio and Add Math teachers have arranged extra class for us for today and tomorrow. It was supposed to be both subjects on both days, but my Bio teacher decided to come in only tomorrow.

And the reason why my friends and I even bothered going today was because of Add Math. So if tomorrow's gonna be Bio only, we figured we won't go. But THEN, my Chem teacher walked in and told us that she's gonna be taking some time tomorrow as well to teach Chem..

Ah,that complicates things.

Not that we think we can totally ace our Bio papers already. Not that we hate our Bio teacher either. I don't even hate the subject. Just as long as I don't have to take an exam for it.

And I know if I go for class, I'll just sit and dream/talk. I'll catch bits and pieces of what she's saying, and I'll focus on the screen every now and then, but other than that. Zoned out. I think Jess is right. The lab takes away a student's(yes, even a nerd's) concentration. Yea, blame it on the lab.

Anyway. I'm thinking NOT to. See how. Maybe I will. Or not. w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r...

Who doesn't KNOW when they have fever, right?

Omg. I actually had to attempt signing in three times before getting through. Twice wrong password. And three times wrong username. Dang.

Anyway, went to visit my grandaunt yesterday, with mum and granddad.Supposed to go to Lagoon/Pyramid with my friends, but tak jadi la. For some reasons.

I was feeling fine in the morning, apart from feeling a bit sore from running three days in a row, having not done that for some time.

Then we proceeded to my aunt's. By that time i was starting to have a headache, and a lil backache as well( i sound so old. wth.), but just waved it off as the after-effects of the running and blah( pretty stupid, now that i think about it.).

After dropping my granddad back at his place, i was starting to feel like i was...radiating heat. Like fever la. If u know what i mean. Still, i figured i was making a big deal out of nothing.

Followed mum to Jusco, trimmed my hair again because i feel the need to do that every hol. And cause i secretly want to do something drastic with my hair, but don't, so instead i have regular trims.

I even managed to get something for Whay and Sangari's birthday.

Then i came home, and tried taking a nap.

Moments later, my hands and feet got numb. And my temperature was 39 deg..

Anyhow, woke up this morning and they were no longer numb. So goodie.
Was supposed to go over to Tiff's though..
Oh well.