Confessions of a Shopaholic

mr happy adicolor yellow series shuz
ihayat tune: Suede; Beautiful Ones

hard-core chick lit fans might hav heard of Confessions of a Shopaholic. the bestseller novel by sophie kinsella [official site] which i hav never got round to buying...coz i'm..yes, the dreaded B word for shopaholics world over; broke. :'(

so all i can do is read excerpts from the buks in the site juz to get a good idea of what i shud look fwd to 1ce i finally hav the dosh to buy em. while i was hapily readin away, i came across this little [excerpt] where i felt like...i am this Becky character. or at least on the verge of becoming her. O_O

yesterday, after 3 days of no sleep n hard labour, i went out to chill wif d gossip folks. wat else could i possibly do but shop? here's the catch tho..i only had 40rm's wit me. n tht shud cover dinner, petrol, a movie and starbux. so i did the other dreaded word for shopaholics world over..it starts with a W this time; i window shopped..!

it works on releasing some stress though. but the thought of me being able to buy that cute orange reef bag or that mr happy adicolor shoes and the floral patterned summit shuz and the gorgeous pdi top and the east india jeans to complete it all if i had the dosh..oh, the agony!! [puts hand on forehead in a very drama queen-ish manner]

"The rug was £200, come to think of it. But it was definitely worth every penny..."

i've known myself to hav sed such things when i buy stupid expensive things...a good example is my giordano bermudas which i only wear at home/college n the only time i wear em outside is when i'm driving back home from college at nite with hope that the pak gad doesnt stop me at the entrance gate and make me get out of my car. heh..i feel some guilt rising now..naaah..itz juz the heat. i forgot to turn the fan on... o_O

i hope i dont end up in that sticky situation the Becky character lended herself into. mebe i shud juz ban myself from using credit cards in the future. or make my mum hold it for me n then i'll have to beg her to gimme when theres sumthing i think is worth buying. no, mums hav a lot of mercy when they see their kids beg. i shud give it to the most merciless person in the world...[note to self: make a list of my most merciless frenz]

better solutions to this would be:
1. get filthy rich...
2. get a rich boyfren cum husband-to-be.
3. throw me into a "shopaholics anonymous" asylum
4. buy the cheap faux stuff [the dreaded F word for shopaholics world over]
5. think happy thoughts so that i wud hav no reason to release stress by shopping.

i personally like solution 1 n 2. lol~ i love me!

selamat berpuasa sumer~

ihayat tune: scissor sisters - laura

on the tube: 5 things u need to know abt scissor sisters

scissor sisters' lead singer bole tahaaann.. XP oh..no wonder...fact #3: jake the lead used to b an exotic dancer. i've been in utp the past weekend. n d pain frm the 8 hour travel aint over yet considerin tht itz d first day of ramadhan...had to wake up erly to help the mummy then i hit the sack again then the mummy returns n woke me up again not much later to teman her to angsana coz she wanted to buy curtains. the joy and wonders of angsana and curtains.

so now i'm all flat out on the sofa [all hail the inventors of the laptop] netting away. [women in the past wud b knitting away..lol] utp experience was interesting. i salute the architect for comin up with such a great design for a university for a bunch of losers. [no offence utpians] i fell in love with the library. i think if i was loser enough [again, no offence] to get into utp i'd devote my life to library worship. i'd eat sleep n live there. hrm..mebe 1 day when i'm a certified civil engineer i shud pimp utm's lame psz. i mean,the books in psz are heaven. i love old books...it has more wisdom, but the lib design...makes me yawn to an extent i'd stretch my big mouth half a cm everytime i lepak there.

ooh~ event of the whole trip! i drove around tronoh..hahah..for an amateur like me, tht's pretty hebat. soo proud of myself. ^_^ i met up wit my bes frenz eena n hud there n they were too tired to drive since they juz got back frm ganu the day i was there. lepaked at the maplai n watched happy gilmore. my mum made me drive her to angsana today. iman's driving rule: NEVER drive when ur parents r in the car. so i made up stuff like i'm too tired n woozy to drive. which i am. ha~!

itz almost 6 now. breakfast iz in an hour..now the mummy's nagging me to suggest a good place to eat for breakfast. [i wonder if the laptop inventors hav tot of inventing hav a nagg blocker...i luv my mummy anywayz.] i only hav nasi kerabu kaler biru frm tmn u's ramadhan bazaar in my mind rite now. itz ben a while since i sed hello to the mek...plus i'm too tired to enjoy a grand meal today. we'll save tht for later days...so nasi kerabu it is. or mebe my cikgu's nasi jagung...eep! i'm makin myself hungry! o_O hav a nice ramadhan everyone~

roaches should be extinct!!!!!

ihayat tune: itz oh so quiet; bjork [too quiet if u ask me...]

Periplaneta americana; iman hayat's biggest enemy. so there i was happily doing sum exercise on Lagrange's Interpolation Fomula while lissenin to bjork when i caught sumthing horrendous at the corner of my eye crawling on the wall headin my way. b4 i knew it, the bloody thing was flying towards me and crashed landed on my math notes!! it can fly!! O_O curse u stinkerbell~!

naturally being a roach hater, i screamed n got away from my desk. i wanted to whack it to death, but unfortunately for me the roach was smart. my notes were on my laptop's keyboard n there is no way am i riskin splittin my laptop in half. d last encounter i had wif a roach caused me to break a plate. not a good experience esp when Min keeps bringin it up everytime i face a roach, scream n run like a girl to her [tht doesnt sound right]. n then comes superMin to the rescue with her bug spraying eyeballs!!

she didnt manage to kill it tho...she came back with dissapointing news..."i think itz either behind ur laptop or hiding beneath ur notebook." great... d roach prolly had lagrange's ghost innit or sumthing comin to help me with my math... o_O so i told min to sms mas...superMas to the rescue! n she killed it..! i gave the roach itz last breath of death by supersprayin it..nyahahahahaha...so much for being an aminal lovin hippie.

now i'm all paranoid. every form of flying bug freaks me out, a bit of dust brushing past my feet makes me jump n i cant help but look around every 10 seconds in case the roach tht superMas anihillated was a different one n tht d 1 wif Lagrange's ghost is still lurking abt....

fin ende

ol skewl rocker~!

ihayat tune: bloc party; positive tension

i set foot into my ol school yesterday [the last time i did was a year ago, wif fikri to get our spm results] to find tht itz been uber-pimped. it makes u wonder, "hey, how come they didnt think of pimpin the skewl while we were still here?" after all, we were a bunch of good students. o_O [i know my frens were anywayz..lol]

it was rly funny walkin into school having an "official biznes" to run. so there i was, left alone at class 2es1...standing there, figuring out wat to say to the dazed and confused lukin kids. i juz wanted to hand out sum stupid questionnaires to em. so i went straight to biznes and i think i was very teacher-like. the way i talked to them, the way i dressed [except for my shoes] n the formality between me n them. plus i even fooled them enuff to call me teacher. hahah~

i couldnt stop laffin when they called me cikgu..! so while they were havin a hard time answering my uber dull questionnaire, i told them to stop calling me cikgu n call me kak iman insted. [altho tht makes me wanna laff n barf at the same time too] turns out tht most of the gals recognized me coz their older bros n sis's went to skewl in my era. didnt know i was miss popular. otherwise i would have used my hidden powers to rule the skewl! nyahaha~

yesterday's experience hav taught me several things:
- i miss school, but i wouldnt wanna go back to school.
- i want to hasut fatimah to do her practical in smktun.
- i lernt how to keep a bunch of monkeys in control [nah~ they were great kids.]
- being a teacher is not an easy task
- i am popular..even the generations waaaay below me know me~! ^_^

ihayat's top 10 chill out tunez for the driven

since gettin my herbert, i realised tht there are certain albums tht r frequently spinned on d cd player. ere's a list of me top 10:

1. Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
~> gr8 for late nite drivin.

2. Orson: Bright Idea
~> for when i'm feelin brit

3. Radiohead: OK Computer
~> no comment

4. The Mars Volta: err...every existing album i ges...
~> hav no idea y, but asilos magdalena is my "driving song".

5. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
~> for when i'm feeling super brit~! ^_^

6. Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand
~> refer no. 5

7. 311: The Greatest Hits
~> gr8 for fun in the sun..hahah

8. Beethoven: Masters of Classical Music, Vol. 3
~> eheh...i like~! esp moonlight sonata.

9. Jamiroquai: Compilation
~> when i'm up in the clouds imaginin tht i drive
a jaguar wif a built in disco. @_@

10. No Doubt: Most albums...
~> Girrl Power!!

berabut-rabut

ihayat tune: brown paper bag; roni size

an incident occured to me yesterday tht made me put a paperbag over my head juz like in the pic above. yerp. thts me alrite. i've been driving and wining n dining and walkin arnd all day lukin like that. if u were wondering, thts a pic of me at utm's lake. the buildings in sight iz merely a backdrop left by the photographers during the recent convocation. it gives a sense of space for the not-so-big lake.

long story cut short, i've created a new word tht i think i'm gonner submit to the dewan bahasa and pustaka for approval of itz definition and use. i've made the use of the word official yesternite anyways. who knew tht i, of all people wud invent a new word in bahasa melayu? [with help frm a fren who defined the word] i'm so proud of myself i had to bury myself in the depths of the blanket of shame.

i think i wud score an A1 if i took the spm bm papers again, despite the A2 i got. bcoz i'm sooo good at makin up werds n usin em in a sentence. woohoo~

today's theme song

ihayat tune: jamiroquai; canned heat

this song reminds me of napo...man! i juz gotta lern the dance skills nunchucks~! note to self: remind mas to bring the dvd over to college.

itz been 6 dayz since the holidays started. n i dont think i've done anything productive since then except for being a drebar yg berkaliber. oo yea...i tried to study at the library yesterday. it worked! but i forgot to bring my headset wif me, so the usually quiet lib iz quieter... o_O yawn~

so i ended up at fatimah's house, ate free chicken chops..man those girls can cook! [must lern to cook frm them next holz], laffed my arse orf coz aliaa was around too, then i ended up studyin at starbucks. n today, more drivin arnd n eatin n netting n readin n sleepin. must get myself to the lib tomoro.

the most exciting event of the past week? being united wif my brand spanking new black gen2 n going to n fro to the proton werkshop coz the car's a female version of herbie...herbitch. lotsa probs in the beginning. itz like the bloody car's possesed~! but all is well now n herbitch is no longer a herbitch n have become a male. much more appropriate fer me ^_^ n still unnamed he is...