Archive for July, 2007
caffeine wuss
Posted on July 31, 2007, by soph, under It's a Girl's Life.
Hot off the press: very strong coffee makes my head feel all funny.It’s either because I’ve only begun to drink coffee in recent months (Starbucks and Coffee Bean ice blendeds notwithstanding) and so I’m only starting to notice it now, or my body has reached its caffeine limit for this lifetime. Bet you it’s the former.
The good news is, I’ll never become a coffee addict.
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So because we are already at Starbucks…
Posted on July 29, 2007, by soph, under Web Stuff.
I must say my weekend of frantic surfing/blogging/cyber-networking has tired me out. Or to be more specific, tired my eyes out. But since I’m already stuck in Starbucks with my laptop and I don’t even have a book to read because I’ve just finished Kite Runner and I thought I’d be a little enterprising and earn a couple of pounds working here but the programme won’t work for some mysterious reason… I am forced to do more surfing and blogging. Bummer.I really hope I’ve cured myself of my sudden urge to cyber-network. In the past 48 hours alone, I’ve updated my Friendster and signed myself up for both Facebook and LinkedIn. With all the bits and pieces appropriately filled out, I now expect these pages to just be, till such moments I decide it’s time for me to cyber-socialise again. Tomorrow, next week, a month from now - who knows when that will be?
(I was so itchy-fingered/crazy/obsessed I even volunteered to set up Y’s Friendster and Facebook. I think he has more friends than I do, but if you’re hoping he’ll poke you and send you fortune cookie applications, I wouldn’t get those hopes up too high. If I’m the occasional-cyber-nerd, he’s a full-on hermit.)
That means in the past 48 hours, I’ve set up four brand-new online community accounts and updated one. To be honest, I also set up an account with this new website which apparently consolidates all your blogs/websites for easier tracking but it’s so new and unknown I’ve forgotten what it’s called and I can’t seem to find it again. Which is really ironic. Maybe if it becomes really famous and everyone starts talking about it, I’ll be able to get it back. I think it starts with the letter ‘e’. And it’s so new I even got ’sophia’ as my username. If anyone can help out this particularly smart cookie, say something!
I scare myself sometimes.
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Because dear cousin said we should pak toh…
Posted on July 29, 2007, by soph, under Uncategorized.
Y and I are hanging out together in Starbucks. Just the two of us. For the very first time. With our laptops. Because there’s been a blackout and there’s no electricity in the house.
I’m pretty sure this wasn’t what she had in mind.
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Democratic candidates, anyone?
Posted on July 28, 2007, by soph, under Politics.
So I’ve been keeping an occasionally straying eye on the Democratic Presidential race over in the US of A. If that, indeed, is what it’s called. Basically, the Democratic party will be electing someone to run for President, and right now, it’s down to Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards. What makes this one super interesting is the fact that the American people, or at least, the Democratic Americans, will now have to choose: a white woman, a black man, or a white man who really isn’t doing a very good job of keeping up with his counterparts in terms of popularity, prominence and general image.See, before, I would say that the white man would be a shoo-in. I don’t think America is ready for a black man to be their President, nor are they ready to have a woman lead them into the many wars they so like to wage.
Of course, wanting to avoid those wars might be the very reason they vote Hilary - women may (generally) be pettier, sneakier and bitchier, but as mothers and the more compassionate species, they are also less likely to send thousands of sons and daughters into a foreign land wielding machine guns and what-not. Her hubby Bill, if he could only have kept his little man in his pants or at the very least didn’t get caught out shagging Miss Monica, was also among the smarter of the Presidents and no doubt would be a valuable asset - the cynic in me always suspected she stayed with him for a reason; though how ironic it would be for Bill to go back to the White House and be referred to as the First Gentleman while his wife goes around eliciting respectful ‘Yes, Mrs. Presidents’.
Anyway, the race is on and it’s pretty damn intense, but what brings it up a whole new level is a report I read in the newspaper today - blogs and the online community will influence this presidential race like never before. And it shows. All three candidates have MySpace pages, some have both MySpace and Facebook pages, and you only have to do a quick scroll-through to see the extent of campaigning that is being done online. You also quickly see who’s popular and who’s not with the online crowd, and - this is inevitable - who hired the better person for the job of maintaining their pages.
It’s all here: Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards. Obama gets my vote - he’s the youngest, the most outspoken, and statistically the least likely to get nominated even though he’s so damn popular, but I have a thing about seeing blacks rising up to conquer the white world. It’s also why I like Lewis Hamilton. Plus, it’ll be uber interesting to see how (black) Obama runs his administration and he’s frickin’ smart - check out his university credentials!
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Addi Habit
Posted on July 28, 2007, by soph, under Web Stuff.
It finally struck me at half-past twelve last night, after I had spent the last almost three hours going from blog to blog to clicking random links to updating my Friendster page which I haven’t so much as looked at in months and I really only started because I was trying to track down my high school friends when I got married - I have (newly) acquired the habit of random Internet surfing. Mostly, but not limited to, blogs.
The fact that I actually dabbled with my Friendster, googled comparisons between MySpace and Facebook (because I was feeling rather itchy-fingered - oh no, again!), checked out a dozen blogs I normally don’t visit/didn’t even know existed, and scrutinised every corner of my Flickr account, all the while with the express intention of blogging but resolutely procrastinating for clicking pastimes, is evidence of it.
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Warning: Gubra spoilers ahead
Posted on July 25, 2007, by soph, under Movies Music TV.
So I know Gubra was released last year and this is way past its use-by date, but I only just managed to watch it last weekend. And I loved it! I think I was in the mood for it, it might be one of those films like The Life of Brian, which J and I thought was the funniest thing and G simply fell asleep. But because I was in the mood (if that indeed was the case) and I thought it was great, I can’t tell you if I would have felt differently if I was in a foul disposition.
Anyway, the film is fantastic. I’m starting to really, really like Sharifah Amani. She’s very good. Trust me. And if you don’t, ask J. He has more to say about her than I do. Gubra is the sequel to Sepet, but I like this one much more, thanks to my penchant for the melancholic, dark and depressing.
I really like that Orked leaves her cheating, son of a bitch, ugly, old uncle husband. I absolutely love how she forces her husband to confront the mistress and say all the pathetic things he said about her behind her back, and then very calmly walks out on him after. (I really love that last line she said to him but I can’t remember it verbatim so I won’t ruin it.)
I love that she is reunited with Jason, her dead love, through his brother and a box of photographs and letters. And I thought the film was hilarious - not all the time, but enough. I suspect I’m not used to comedy in a Malaysian accent and that might have made it even funnier. I love lines like ‘Serves me right for marrying a Singaporean’ because it’s so politically incorrect and irreverent. I liked it so much I might actually consider watching it again (although I suspect it would be less funny the second time round), and that’s credit due to Yasmin Ahmad who both wrote and directed the film.
Well, I felt like gushing about Gubra so I have.
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Newly determined
Posted on July 24, 2007, by soph, under Psychobabble.
Of late, I have had urges… to throw myself into something and give everything I have to be the best I can be. I say ‘urges’ because the determination flows and ebbs. I say ‘of late’ because I don’t think I’ve ever felt this way before. Well, not in recent years anyway.You could say I’ve been wandering happily, if a little too complacently, through life. I don’t really have much ambition, I don’t really push myself hard to achieve anything, I’m happy to just be. I know what I’m good at and I’ve been lucky to land this gig, where I wake up each day and don’t really mind going to work at all - hell, sometimes I even look forward to it. I love doing what I do, but I’m just not well, striving to be the best, I guess.
Does it matter? I don’t know. But I’m wondering if maybe I should give this whole ’striving’ thing a shot. You know, put more thought into my articles, find something I’m passionate about and give everything to be better at it. I interviewed a local celebrity two weeks ago, and she said the key to being successful is to be ‘very hungry’. You have to always be hungry. I think that’s my problem - I’m not. Should I be? Does it matter if I’m not? Will I be? I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know. Do I care? Hmm… I don’t know, either. But will I try?
Maybe I should just go with the flow (and ebb) of this newfound determination and see where it leads me, eh? It’s just that sometimes, I wonder what it feels like to really really want something and to work madly towards achieving it.
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I think I am addicted to…
Posted on July 20, 2007, by soph, under Uncategorized.
Watching words being typed out in size 10 Arial font.
Now isn’t it a good thing I’m a writer?
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food for thought
Posted on July 19, 2007, by soph, under Uncategorized.
My colleague commented today that I was more garang (or fierce) compared to before I went to Australia.
Hmmm…
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On Impulse
Posted on July 18, 2007, by soph, under God.
While randomly trawling devotional websites today, I came across this prayer wall. One of the posts read:
Ashley, G.A., 6/18/2007 8:26:02 PM
Please pray for my friend Katie. Her mother was murdered this morning. Pray
that she be comforted and that she turns to the Lord.
