Freaky

My instructor told me just now there was an accident.

Apparently an indon girl newbie didn't know anything besides stepping on the accelerator, fully. The handbrake pulled by her instructor was of no use thus and the car just rushed out. It leaped over the huge drain and banged onto a tree.

Smoke puffed out. The door was damaged so it's hard to open to get them out. However, the indon girl was just mildly injured and the instructor was not hurt. Shocked though I supposed. Maybe she's considering to quite the job now.

Seems like I'm the only one who have been posting like brabis...

Excited

Having a driving lesson at the main road at 130pm is seriously no joke. My gears are constantly at 1, 2 and neutral. That's it. And I have to focus on the road so I knew if the car was moving, even if it's just 5kph, or not moving at all, even for 1 second. Coz I have to change my gears and do all the clutch and accelerator shyts.

Effing hard, and so tiring.

Btw she brought me to the highway again and I went up the overhead bridge near batu bersurat. It's so syiok and I drove above 80 haha.

Final lesson tomorrow!!!

Then exam in the morning. Apparently the spaces for parking during the exam r bigger. Made the whole thing easier then.

My instructor said her car tayar pancit again before I had my lesson just now. She then found two nails in it. lol.

Hard drive

There is a massive reductions at concepts at the new kiulap. And I bought a 500GB acer hard drive for $168, from $198. It comes with a case that totally fits and both the case and the hard drive look good. Not awesomely good but definitely presentable. And it's so light like what man.

No matter if it's divided by 2.3 or 3, it's still cheaper than in England. Now I just hope it's as great as other brands. And it's compatible with my Mac.

Btw, do you guys back-up with your hard disk? Should I?

Tayar pancit

So effing embarassing to have your tyre flat when you were having a driving lesson at a main road. We didn't realise it till someone horned at us and made some gestures.

It happened just when I was going to turn into a lane which would lead to a junction. It's quite hard to describe but basically, I had to stop in between two lanes. On my right side is the main road, and on my left side is a side-tracked road.

Then my instructor called other instructors to help us. A policeman who drove past then helped us to change the tyre. And all bruneians would stop and look when they saw a big police car stopped in the middle of the road and got disappointed when it's just a 'tayar pancit', and not some road accidents.

Even the policeman said if it were an accident, everyone would roll down the window and ask for more details. Then all the instructors were a little bit hyper. They exchanged quick burst of brunei malay and made the gestures to slow down the traffic, as if they were the police, while bellowing, "PERLAAHAAAANNN!!!!"

I think this is the first time I heard Bruneians mummies burst out brunei malays. I've just realised most of the brunei malay words ended with 'a'.

Then one of the instructors parked her car on the other side of the side-tracked road so basically that road was trapped in between two driving-lesson cars. So all cars had to slow down no matter what. And for some reason, it happened to be quite busy with a number of trucks. SO EMBARASSING!!!

Like I totally refused to get down from the car until I really had to.

And it was not a good day because it rained and there was a road block at where I had to drive repeatedly.

My driving test will be on this thur. Wish me good luck mates.

ps nowadays I saw license plates 4444, 666, 6666. wtf...

Albums

I have just downloaded *counting* five albums: Jason Mraz's Mr. A-Z and We sing, we dance, we steal things, Taylor Swift's Fearless and Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway and All I ever wanted. 

It's a big deal for me coz I've nvr downloaded any albums, but only singles. Usually I grabbed songs from the others. lol.

I personally think that Jason Mraz We sing, we dance, we steal things contain a few good songs besides I'm Yours, though many ppl might disagree with me. Lucky, Butterfly, Love for a child are really good. 

And from the album Mr. A-Z, Mr. Curiosity is EFFING GOOD. It's just my own taste so don't hope for something almighty good, it's, however, for me, especially the piano chords. Gosh!! So beautiful. I like Life is wonderful and Song for a friend too.

I'm addicted to Mr. Curiosity.

25/7

Si pisang punya birthday yo. Without braces sudah thus it's utterly different. And she was late...

The theme is blue but she wore yellow and black dress. To stand out I think. Then you could see so many camwhores. Mubin was in charge of the dance floor, thx yoo. 

And cali brabis si Khaliq. Cb brabis, I just couldn't stop laughing when he talked and did something!! 

Yeah, caught up with lots of anime and japanese stuffs with huan hui and zakiah, till mal gt pissed off, 'ARE YOU GOING TO EAT!???' And some people from our table gt pissed off tuu. And I'm sorry Nisa, haha. 

Anyway, happy birthday to the banana and hope you'll like my present which I didn't write it's from me lol. 

More driving

Celaka, I drove at the main road at a peak time. Now and then there were some cars who didn't obey the rules and I had to brake and everything. Fuck them.

Then I had to wait for a very long time at junction or just moved to the another lane.

Not that I'll use manual after I passed my driving. pffttt. So annoyed when you have to stop in the middle of the road coz there was a car which braked suddenly then I had to change gear. And it took time so when the car in front of me moved, there was quite a distance in between us before I began to move. *middle finger

The good thing was it didn't rain when I was driving but only after that.

'Lim, cana tah driving mu ni? 10 hrs (as in do I wanna take the total time)?'

'Mana saja. Liat lah.'

'Bah, liat lah kami cana. Boleh extend tuu one or two hours.'

lol, I don't want yo.

If the clouds don't clear...

... I can't do my fucking laundry. It's annoying that I have to pick a nice day to do my laundry unlike in England where you just chuck everything into the dryer. Here, I personally prefer sunlight, natural UV ray to kill all the microbes. Then there is or was this stupid haze due to a fire in Seria.

I hate it when my youtube loads stuffs so slowly. Come on, my life depends on youtube now coz I have no TV. When the loading's halfway done, I'll click on the link to the next part of that video, I'm sure you guys know what I'm talking about here. But then, due to this Mac, when I wanna right click on the link to next part, I actually left click it so I need to load the whole thing again. It happens so many times, and I gt especially pissed off when it's loading like a siput.

That's why I like to youtube in the morning like from 8-11, coz it's really fast. I think coz my bro's not using internet; he's sleeping. That's why I sleep at 11 and wake up at 8. Though I woke up at 6am just now for my driving lesson then I went swimming till 930. And my parents were late as usual, at least it's just a 15 min late. I was angry however, coz they nvr texted me they were gonna be late. Five times. 

p/s wonder when can I take my driving exam??? So fed up now. 

Few days before I left Shr

All the paper I threw before I left SHR School. I threw all my Bio and Chem ppr, C1-C4 M1 and S1. And the notes from Si Chong and Si Azrul which I brought from Brunei.

The receipt written with Chiao is Azim's and with Chaio's friend is mine. Celaka wahh si Azim to say his name is Chiao. Then when the lady asked what's my name, I said, 'Just write the same name.' Then she wrote 'Chaio's friend.' 

It's my name and she spelled wrongly when she wrote on MY receipt. How ironic!

Yesterday and today

I'm so damn tanned now. And stop your 'Could you get more tanned?' Yes, of course I can. My music teacher and her colleague said, 'Why everyone gets fairer when they come back from england but seems like you are as dark or even darker?'

Lol, the same things repeat every time I come back. Pretty much used to it.

Anyway, I went to the Berakas beach with the CHMS gang yesterday. Just like last year, I didn't know many of them but wtv hahaha. At around 3pm, a horrifying strong wind started blowing suddenly. It looked raining but when you looked carefully, it's not rain but small leaves/flowers. 

Ervyone there got quite panicked, and we kept on looking at the sea for fear seeing tsunami. Lol, tbh, I won't b surprised if I saw it coz the wind is really scary. You just had the feeling something bad was gonna happen. However in the end, we just made use of the wind to take some stupid cool photos. 

p/s I saw my points on restaurant city 44444. So soi. 

The life story of my mum and her parents

Something happened to my grandma's family which I couldn't remember and so she stayed with her mum's brother's family, aka my great-granduncle's. She worked like a slave there; they only bought her a pair of not-so-good shoes once every year but expected her to do all sorts of things. 

My grandpa who came from Spore and started a big business in Limbang then wanna marry someone I think. So my great-granduncle saw this as an opportunity to marry my grandma to my grandpa. 

My great-granduncle was one of the filthy richest guy in Limbang. SOAS III and him were friends so SOAS III would pay him a visit when he went to Limbang. They were English-educated so as the way they dined. During CNY, he was the first one to be paid a visit. He had a long dining table covered with a white cloth. If the food was not tasty enough, he would waved his arm across the table and crushed all the plates along with the food to the floor. 

He had a daughter who was married to a mentally-illed guy. This mentally-illed guy would go crazy every full moon (hahahahah mcm werewolves) and would beat his wife up till she was greatly wounded. So she escaped to her dad's home. My great-granduncle was licensed to have a gun and he pointed the gun to this guy and said, 'Dare you come near her again and I will pull this trigger!' Yoiiii, that's so cool. 

I forgot the stories abt my grandparents. I would ask my mum again. I knew something happened during WWII. 

The life story of my mum and her brothers

I had eight uncles at my mum's sides. And you do know that guys were treated better in an old Chinese family coz they could be of better uses  in terms of labours and they inherited the bloodline. 

So basically, they were more spoiled sorry to say this. They took dignity more than anything else. Most of them were educated to a primary school standard, a few to a lower secondary. My 5th uncle however went to Kuching or Spore and obtained a degree in Electronics. However, his dignity prevented him from working under the instructions of someone else. So he went back to my grandpa's shop and worked there ie taking care of the shop. He then taught in a school opened by my grandpa in Limbang or is it which he donated quite a lot of money into. My mum said my grandpa contributed a lot to the education institutions in Limbang. 

Btw, my mum was just guessing on all these dignity stuffs bcoz no one knew the reason he refused to make use of his expertise. The obvious characteristic of this uncle is he smokes using the thingy Sherlock Holmes used. You might have seen him for the shop was one of the shops you could see once you arrived in the town. I was pretty familiar with the streets and shops and some shortcuts of Limbang coz I always went there when I was young, not now anymore though...

My dad had the same life as this uncle of mine. My dad obtained a degree in electronics in Taiwan too but then he ended up taking care of my grandpa's shop. It's all coz he applied to the American uni to further his education but the best one didn't accept him but only the sort of second best. So my dad felt angry and he came back to Brunei. Then Brunei didn't recognise the education qualifications of Taiwan.

Anyway, my second uncle was now staying in Labuan. My third uncle and fourth uncle in KK. My third uncle used to stay here, taking charge of the cinema in Bandar. None of you should know it coz it was closed when we were pretty young. It was owned by our relative too, who is the owner of the Terrace Hotel. My brother and I used to sneak into the cinema to watch some films, which they rented from Spore. 

My eldest uncle stayed in Kuching and I have never seen him before. The others are now staying in Limbang. 

The life story of my mum and her sisters

This is just a random conversation in bet my mum and me. And I decided to post it coz I know I'll forget it soon. And I find it rather interesting.

When she (second eldest daughter) has finished her upper secondary in Limbang, she waited for my 3rd auntie to finish her education too then both of them left for Singapore, without informing my grandparents. They left when my grandparents went to somewhere. They travelled by boat for three days and went to a college which they knew from Borneo Bulletin. They obtained their school fee from a customer of my grandpa. It's quite clever. 

Only then they realised it's not a boarding school so they had to find a relative and stay in his house, which was already sort-of full coz he had six children. They then applied for an accommodation in something like Young Christian Ass. thingy. Food was included. $180 per month. She said they were treated like princesses; servants stood around the table and when required, they would come over to pour some drinks. My mum and aunt didn't know any of the rules to dine and they couldn't speak english too so it's rather hard for them. 

Whereas my 4th auntie went to Canada and obtained her degree in Computer Programming. She then came to Brunei and worked with my mum. However, she couldn't stand the heat here so she went to Aus and married to a guy named Jacky. They then gave birth to a son and a daughter. They worked in a restaurant and Jacky always instructed my aunt to do all sorts of things in a bad manner. He then said the children were a burden to him. They divorced. Jacky got married then divorced then got married again to a Hong Kong mum who has had a child already who he met on internet. 

Their son lived with his dad but then his grandma (father's side) raised him up coz Jacky couldn't take care of him. However, his grandma was not a great lady too so he returned to his mum, ie my aunt. Her life was quite hard coz she has spoiled her daughter so much that her daughter would actually punch and pulled the hair of my aunt. She was only scared of my youngest aunt who slapped her hard on her face once. 

And about my this youngest aunt, she went to England to further her education. Knowing no one there, she asked the sister of my mum's friend who was staying in England to fetch her. Bear in mind that they knew nothing about each other, not even how they looked. She is staying in Brunei and married to a guy here too. He is not a Bruneian pulang. He was in charge of the Rainbow Stationery Company branch in Brunei and many big companies of Hua Ho level ordered stocks from them. So basically I went there to buy stationeries at a retail price which is much much cheaper. She is now staying in Aus though, coz she much prefers Aus than here. She has once stayed there before too for a few years after she left England.

Whereas my eldest auntie was staying in Kuching. She has a son and two daughter. The daughters are now working in KL. One day in Limbang, she left a note on a desk and was gone. Yeah, she ran away from home. Then my mum had to suffer coz she was the next eldest one. She had to wash the clothes of everyone else, including my eight uncles. This story took place quite a long ago; there was no washing machine. She hand-washed all the clothes, which my ex-maid sometimes was required to do too coz it was cleaner. She then said something she needed to boil some glue and spread it over the clothes so the clothes could be set hard and it was easier to press. Then something about leaving your clothes on the grass overnight would make them look perfectly clean coz the dew would have cleaned it. She then had to make some food like fried banana, cakes for sale. 

Driving lessons

Eh, OMG, so freaking hard. During my first lesson, I wore my one thick shoes so I couldnt feel if I have pressed the clutch and the accelerator. So yeah, mati engin all the way. The instructor then asked me to drive to the main road. I was so damn scared. Like please green light all the way. 

I have just had my second lesson just now at 7am. My instructor lives near my hse so she drove the car to my house and WANTED ME TO DRIVE TO STADIUM. Shyt man, then there was a bus in front of me at a red light, and I gt so panic that I stalled the engine, at a main road. It's so embarassing.

Parking is damn hard!! Like turn the wheel to the left twice then right, then clutch brake acclerator bullshits. Like bullshit lahh. I think it will take me two weeks to get me to the exam. HAHAHAH.

I'm pretty pissed off by my dad who doesn't wanna teach me driving, and my mum who doesn't wanna teach me cooking. 

My next lesson will be at 7am on sun again. Bet she'll want me to drive to the stadium again. Good practice though... I don't mind such an early time coz I usually wake up before that. lol, what a holiday to wake up before 7am and sleep at 11-12pm, naturally. 

Livejournal

I went to my livejournal just now and read quite a number of posts. OMG, it's so funny. I can't believe how much fun we had back then. All those reckless and ruthless days. Insulting everyone who got into our lives then discussing abt the insults that we've just made, without any guilt at all. Then before my flight, I quickly made a big apologies post coz I'm scared of flight. 

There are some events that I totally forgot and I was like, 'Huh? Did this happen?' or 'Hey I remember this. It cracked me up last time.' or 'Shyt, what a twat I'm to act like that!'

Hahah, and the way I typed was so disgusting. It just made me feel like retyping all the posts with a more proper english. I do admit I acted like a twat. But hey, you can't blame me, blame on the stressful education system and the heat wave Brunei is constantly suffering from.

Those days are really fun, and yes, we were acting immature. Ryt, ws, rue and chien hau? Lol, mcmth we r so mature now~~

One fact that I picked up: Simpsons movie is a legend.

huh?

I entered a youtube link. And I gt this: This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions.

WTFFF IS THIS PIECE OF SHYT!???

Investigation

Hey hey hey, I need as much data as possible. It's regarding jetlag.

At the moment u arrived in Brunei at 9-10am, please tell me yur sleeping patterns till yur jetlag is over. Your replies are greatly appreciated and will be of massive use. Thanks. 

Yer~~~ formal!!

Last summer, I didn't have much issue coz I think I slept in the afternoon when I arrived. However, in the last easter and this summer, I didn't do that; I held myself till 12am or later only then I slept, thinking it'll solve the prb. And maybe that's the problem.

Cold

I'm pretty sure that I caught a cold, not the swine flu. So dreadful coz the combination of jetlag and congested nose is just so not good. It's very hard to sleep, and I checked the w-website abt cold (lol, jobless), the symptoms will only resolve after 7 days. My god!!! It'll be better if I gt a flu, not that I want to, coz at least you will have a fever which aid sleeping. lol.

I just hope that I didn't get swine flu or I might get the same symptoms in addition to fever after i recovered from the cold. celaka. 

p/s I have just known that cold is caused by virus...

Coincidentally, it's one of my names...

On the last day in school

I saw this bullshit. What a disgrace!! I thought a Third-former owned it, which is enough to embarass himself.

To allow u guys to have a rough image of its size, it's compared to Poh.

It's found outside Rigg's, so obviously you know who owns it if ur a Salopian.

Symptoms

I have runny nose now. Sort of sore throat but not exactly at pharynx/larynx, but somewhere at the end of nasal palate. Stiffness at my neck and some parts of my body.

I hope these are due to dehydration, and carrying heavy luggages followed by uncomfy postures on the plane. I always get the runny nose and sore throat thingy when i gt seriously dehydrated.

Well, it's not painful joints ryt. And no fever, headache bullshits. 

Come to think abt it, I don't seem to have flu since ages ago. The last time I have fever is due to prolonged diarrhoea and then dehydration. 

Random stuff

Poh accidentally smashed the machine instead of the drums once. so funny!!

Sarah dropped her tomato, top burger bread and an onion ring at Westfield GBK. She is not meant to eat a tall burger. 

Amazing sales

I'm not thin

Check this out.

Look at their legs.

Summer in London

I'm still staying in BH in London. My gawt, despite my fear for swine flu in London and on plane, I won't regret staying here for such a long time. What a sale!! Xmas sale is bullshit man as compared to Summer Clearance Sales. Oxford Street, Regent Street, Old Bond Street, Selfridges, Harrods are on 50% sales. Designers like Prada, D&G, Versace, Polo, Ted Baker are on 50% sales. 

The annoying things are they r mostly XL or XXL, or simply ugly, or still omg-expensive like some D&G sportwears yg lawa but the long trousers are 200 quids and the sport jacket is 100 quids. But I still managed to find something (Y)(Y) from polo.

And I can use unlimited oh-so-fast (courtesy of rue) internet in my room, using Gresham Hotel 1 Wireless. Tq!! I've just finished watching Kekkaishi and downloaded so many MacGames, which are mostly sharewares...

Sighh stupid swine flu. I wanna learn driving asap but for public health concern, I think I'll qurantine myself at home for 1 week after I've reached brunei. It'll be a whole different story however if I've gt swine flu and need to be quarantined in Tutong. If there is internet in tutong, mana saja pulang. Lol. Touchwood nevertheless.

As for BH, it's so damn hot in the afternoon, but it's alright for me in the night. I can sleep comfortably. The boiler is broken so there is no hot water, which supposedly does not affect us coz it's hot ryt, but we r wrong! It's not cold water we have, it's freezing water. So yea, it's not easy to take a shower. And heard that the PRs here have been suffering for weeks. Irony.