My Sundays
Hola!
Let me tell you about Sundays. First of all, I dont have to work. Second of all, I can pretty much do stuffs for leisure..well..like maybe for ten minutes or for jz half an hour if Im lucky, before my mum starts giving me orders. But of course, being me...if I can complete the task or tasks which I have assigned myself to do like for example, organising my shit load of digital life articles, it would be rather taxing once it reached the one hour timeline, it will be like two three or even four weeks (that's a month!!) before I would remember what I last did. hehe..I know I tell myself constantly that this shouldn't be the way to control my life!! I should complete a given assignment from the start and see it finish till the end! what the hell...and life is what you make of it. So how do make my life? By procrastinating every single time! Haiz.....I want to be productive! I want to adopt that 'every second counts!'...and 'time is money!'..uhm...what do you call that? yah, life mottos!
Nevertheless, Im rather proud of myself! hehee...and this I said after a paragraph of yakking on not making my time productive. I was trying to make space in the drawer so I have a bit more space to put in clothes and that space was taken up by old magazines which I had bought last year coz I just cant resist buying magazines. I dont know if this is a 'known' thing but I do like reading magazines! Especially those which provide great reads without the bulk of advertising pages. Oh, and also when they're affordable with the spare cash I have after spending on, say, groceries. 3 dollars? 'HRm..what do I do with it? Eh..wow..i don't mind reading this..ooh..and that..and that..' and soon, that very magazine will be in my hands and I am done reading them up in less than an hour...sheesh. The next hour, I will be super bored..
But u know what I notice? Even in the midst of reading the magazine, I will start getting bored coz erm...the article or articles which I bought the magazine for, were rather disappointing. You can almost hear me shout..'liar!'...but hey, over time, I realised that magazine content just got better and better and finally they do more research and not just pluck from anywhere and then promote them on the cover to dumb asses like me. Oh..oh! And also, sometimes as I 'skim' through the articles, the overwhelming explosion of colours, beauty products which I don't have that much interests in, or adverts, I kinda missed some key articles. During moments when I felt like picking up a magazine to read and fill my time up, I would browse through and realised that I didn't read certain stuffs. Oh, and those that I have read, they are worth a second read...which is good, definitely. And I also subscribe to CLEO magazine of which I have been a fan of them for a few years ever since I gave up reading the local magazines called Teens and Teenage. But anyway, I shifted to Seventeen magazine..keke...yet another magazine targetted at teenagers. And only because they do have nice stuffs in them which are rather inspiring in terms of grooming my creativity. Still, I like CLEO better.
By the way, wanna what happens to the old magazines from the past years? Okay, besides ending up in the rubbish bins eventually (i imagine green enthusiasts slamming later for my lack of awareness on recycling), I actually dissect them..hehe..with a pair of scissors. Come on, I don't pay 3.50 or subscribe for nothing! I must make my money worth every dollar and cent! Okay a good tip here: you can actually cut down on unnecessary spending on expensive scrapbook art materials or embellishments by cutting instead interesting pictures from these magazines. I'll show what I do later. Oh, coupled with stickers which I got at loyang point for almost half the price of those established shops in shopping centres, voila! I have a snazzy piece of artwork called a scrapbook! Well, if you are rather tight on budget or simply want to save money, the best bet is to simply make do of stuffs that you already have. I actually thought of acquiring those specialised stickers or embellishments from scrapbook shops but they're mighty expensive and I am not about to start an expensive hobby! SO what if my scrapbook isn't as nice as them...with a touch of plain creativeness and memorable pictures..it is personalised and 'so you'...and end of the time spent on scrapbooking, you will proud of urself.
Anyway, I am not about to give up my virtual interest as well. So, right now..one of my friends is into photography..especially black and white and digital photography. I mean..that's good...someone to compare notes with..haha..although, at times she has to stop me or i'll be this plain girl with an 'always blur' looks suddenly talking in geek terms..yikes! Im supposed to keep the knowledge up there...not out of my mouth! Sheesh...oh another specialty of mine? Practically making one bored with my useless information especially when Im hyper excited about something and I'd yak like nobody's business. That's what happen if someone were to get me started talking about csi:miami sypnosis or episodes and I would probably start from a to z while the person merely asked a question on who was the killer! hahahahaha......I mean, come on! You don't just want to know who was the killer..u want to know why the victim was killed....what is the relationship between the killer and the victim...why the killer turned out to be the unexpected victim...why horatio caine aka david caruso can be so hot at times despite his wrinkles magnified on screen....Hey, if I ask a fan of desperate housewives, I doubt they'll just go..'oh..she had an affair with so and so'...they'll probably go 'well...actually he came on to her first..and she tried to avoid it..but they ended up together..in bed..blah blah blah'...This is called 'passion' man! No, I mean passion as in huge interest in something not as in passion in bed....
Anyway, on Sundays also, I would usually catch up on my readings since weekdays I'd be pretty zonked out. YES..I know most times I stay up late even till past 3am in the morning doing what I like most which don't include drooling on my pillows. I can't actually put a finger to it like wat I do exactly at such late freakin' hours besides blogging but one thing for sure I can say: I am actually at peace like for once, nobody instructs me around or im doing things that I dont like but they're still a must....oh, and then blogging also provides an insight into my own life and I don't blog to attract people to come in and read and make me famous till I stop writing real but glorified entries. Blogging is like an outlet to me. I know I don't usually show much of my real feelings to people that very often, people misunderstood me but still, I don't really find that an issue. Im so used to all kinds of remarks, of which some are rather nasty, and some are so not true, but this is just part of life. Either people don't like you, jealous of you, unkind to you....or they're just idiots. As long as they dont destroy my day, make me lose my job or lose a limb, they can buzz off.
Know what? sundays also give me time to rejuvenate things that have been lying around helplessly in my room. I jz rejuvenated my scanner of many years and that damn thing is useful but did I see through its usefulness? No...I let it collect dust. So I did it quite a lot the last time but after upgrading my internet server where things can be downloaded much faster and I can more images online without resorting to scanning pics from physical materials such as magazines. But earlier, I gave life to it back by wiping it clean...reinstalling the software to make it workable again..did some scannings...and once I had given it a good wipe down, I covered it in a cotton like bag which came with a bag purchase from a shoe shop. When I mentioned to my friend about the usefulness of investing in a scanner, which is also getting cheaper due to its falling popularity coz of the 3 in one machines (e.g. print, scan and copy)...i suddenly thought about my own scanner and my promise to it. Okay, so I don't talk to machines but still, they're very precious to me..and I felt bad for neglecting them. They're my babies! *okay freak talk there*
So okay, im back to scanning and gosh, memories just keep flooding back as I was scanning bdae pics from 21st birthdays. It's really surprising that in a few years time after that, people change. Friendships tightened as you see who are your real friends, friendships broken as third parties come in....my own friendship with my bestfriend of so many years falling apart. Oh, and me getting fatter over the years right after the year I left school...which is 20 years old and above which affected me really bad. Anyway, it will be great to have a gathering with these people again as we relive those good ol' moments when we were not too bogged down with so much work and commitment. People got married..graduated..got new jobs...a new laptop..new friends...then before you know it, we're not longer together coz our busy schedules have kept us apart. For me, having been thankful to them for accepting me the way I am, all weird, fat..and what else they thought of me as, and still treating me as a friend all these years, I will always try to make time for them. So figures why I am always there most times during gatherings especially the big ol' ones like birthday gatherings.
Oh, if you want to check out the pics, and see the progress of people's looks and er..fashion sense..like my darn 'coconut' shaped haircuts..geez...can take a look at my newly revamped flickr.com website. Gosh, now people are so hooked on to the internet and then finding things like these sort of websites that actually existed for some time already, such sites are getting recognition and the traffic. But we're getting more internet savvy and more 'open' towards widening our social circles like making new contacts through sites like friendster. I mean, hey..if it makes the world smaller..why not? Jz don't get too near the weirdos who are only out to destroy the fun out of making life long friends.
So by the way..the address is http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahayupopz/ so happy browsing and drop comments if you can too..not that I need them! hehe...
Let me tell you about Sundays. First of all, I dont have to work. Second of all, I can pretty much do stuffs for leisure..well..like maybe for ten minutes or for jz half an hour if Im lucky, before my mum starts giving me orders. But of course, being me...if I can complete the task or tasks which I have assigned myself to do like for example, organising my shit load of digital life articles, it would be rather taxing once it reached the one hour timeline, it will be like two three or even four weeks (that's a month!!) before I would remember what I last did. hehe..I know I tell myself constantly that this shouldn't be the way to control my life!! I should complete a given assignment from the start and see it finish till the end! what the hell...and life is what you make of it. So how do make my life? By procrastinating every single time! Haiz.....I want to be productive! I want to adopt that 'every second counts!'...and 'time is money!'..uhm...what do you call that? yah, life mottos!
Nevertheless, Im rather proud of myself! hehee...and this I said after a paragraph of yakking on not making my time productive. I was trying to make space in the drawer so I have a bit more space to put in clothes and that space was taken up by old magazines which I had bought last year coz I just cant resist buying magazines. I dont know if this is a 'known' thing but I do like reading magazines! Especially those which provide great reads without the bulk of advertising pages. Oh, and also when they're affordable with the spare cash I have after spending on, say, groceries. 3 dollars? 'HRm..what do I do with it? Eh..wow..i don't mind reading this..ooh..and that..and that..' and soon, that very magazine will be in my hands and I am done reading them up in less than an hour...sheesh. The next hour, I will be super bored..
But u know what I notice? Even in the midst of reading the magazine, I will start getting bored coz erm...the article or articles which I bought the magazine for, were rather disappointing. You can almost hear me shout..'liar!'...but hey, over time, I realised that magazine content just got better and better and finally they do more research and not just pluck from anywhere and then promote them on the cover to dumb asses like me. Oh..oh! And also, sometimes as I 'skim' through the articles, the overwhelming explosion of colours, beauty products which I don't have that much interests in, or adverts, I kinda missed some key articles. During moments when I felt like picking up a magazine to read and fill my time up, I would browse through and realised that I didn't read certain stuffs. Oh, and those that I have read, they are worth a second read...which is good, definitely. And I also subscribe to CLEO magazine of which I have been a fan of them for a few years ever since I gave up reading the local magazines called Teens and Teenage. But anyway, I shifted to Seventeen magazine..keke...yet another magazine targetted at teenagers. And only because they do have nice stuffs in them which are rather inspiring in terms of grooming my creativity. Still, I like CLEO better.
By the way, wanna what happens to the old magazines from the past years? Okay, besides ending up in the rubbish bins eventually (i imagine green enthusiasts slamming later for my lack of awareness on recycling), I actually dissect them..hehe..with a pair of scissors. Come on, I don't pay 3.50 or subscribe for nothing! I must make my money worth every dollar and cent! Okay a good tip here: you can actually cut down on unnecessary spending on expensive scrapbook art materials or embellishments by cutting instead interesting pictures from these magazines. I'll show what I do later. Oh, coupled with stickers which I got at loyang point for almost half the price of those established shops in shopping centres, voila! I have a snazzy piece of artwork called a scrapbook! Well, if you are rather tight on budget or simply want to save money, the best bet is to simply make do of stuffs that you already have. I actually thought of acquiring those specialised stickers or embellishments from scrapbook shops but they're mighty expensive and I am not about to start an expensive hobby! SO what if my scrapbook isn't as nice as them...with a touch of plain creativeness and memorable pictures..it is personalised and 'so you'...and end of the time spent on scrapbooking, you will proud of urself.
Anyway, I am not about to give up my virtual interest as well. So, right now..one of my friends is into photography..especially black and white and digital photography. I mean..that's good...someone to compare notes with..haha..although, at times she has to stop me or i'll be this plain girl with an 'always blur' looks suddenly talking in geek terms..yikes! Im supposed to keep the knowledge up there...not out of my mouth! Sheesh...oh another specialty of mine? Practically making one bored with my useless information especially when Im hyper excited about something and I'd yak like nobody's business. That's what happen if someone were to get me started talking about csi:miami sypnosis or episodes and I would probably start from a to z while the person merely asked a question on who was the killer! hahahahaha......I mean, come on! You don't just want to know who was the killer..u want to know why the victim was killed....what is the relationship between the killer and the victim...why the killer turned out to be the unexpected victim...why horatio caine aka david caruso can be so hot at times despite his wrinkles magnified on screen....Hey, if I ask a fan of desperate housewives, I doubt they'll just go..'oh..she had an affair with so and so'...they'll probably go 'well...actually he came on to her first..and she tried to avoid it..but they ended up together..in bed..blah blah blah'...This is called 'passion' man! No, I mean passion as in huge interest in something not as in passion in bed....
Anyway, on Sundays also, I would usually catch up on my readings since weekdays I'd be pretty zonked out. YES..I know most times I stay up late even till past 3am in the morning doing what I like most which don't include drooling on my pillows. I can't actually put a finger to it like wat I do exactly at such late freakin' hours besides blogging but one thing for sure I can say: I am actually at peace like for once, nobody instructs me around or im doing things that I dont like but they're still a must....oh, and then blogging also provides an insight into my own life and I don't blog to attract people to come in and read and make me famous till I stop writing real but glorified entries. Blogging is like an outlet to me. I know I don't usually show much of my real feelings to people that very often, people misunderstood me but still, I don't really find that an issue. Im so used to all kinds of remarks, of which some are rather nasty, and some are so not true, but this is just part of life. Either people don't like you, jealous of you, unkind to you....or they're just idiots. As long as they dont destroy my day, make me lose my job or lose a limb, they can buzz off.
Know what? sundays also give me time to rejuvenate things that have been lying around helplessly in my room. I jz rejuvenated my scanner of many years and that damn thing is useful but did I see through its usefulness? No...I let it collect dust. So I did it quite a lot the last time but after upgrading my internet server where things can be downloaded much faster and I can more images online without resorting to scanning pics from physical materials such as magazines. But earlier, I gave life to it back by wiping it clean...reinstalling the software to make it workable again..did some scannings...and once I had given it a good wipe down, I covered it in a cotton like bag which came with a bag purchase from a shoe shop. When I mentioned to my friend about the usefulness of investing in a scanner, which is also getting cheaper due to its falling popularity coz of the 3 in one machines (e.g. print, scan and copy)...i suddenly thought about my own scanner and my promise to it. Okay, so I don't talk to machines but still, they're very precious to me..and I felt bad for neglecting them. They're my babies! *okay freak talk there*
So okay, im back to scanning and gosh, memories just keep flooding back as I was scanning bdae pics from 21st birthdays. It's really surprising that in a few years time after that, people change. Friendships tightened as you see who are your real friends, friendships broken as third parties come in....my own friendship with my bestfriend of so many years falling apart. Oh, and me getting fatter over the years right after the year I left school...which is 20 years old and above which affected me really bad. Anyway, it will be great to have a gathering with these people again as we relive those good ol' moments when we were not too bogged down with so much work and commitment. People got married..graduated..got new jobs...a new laptop..new friends...then before you know it, we're not longer together coz our busy schedules have kept us apart. For me, having been thankful to them for accepting me the way I am, all weird, fat..and what else they thought of me as, and still treating me as a friend all these years, I will always try to make time for them. So figures why I am always there most times during gatherings especially the big ol' ones like birthday gatherings.
Oh, if you want to check out the pics, and see the progress of people's looks and er..fashion sense..like my darn 'coconut' shaped haircuts..geez...can take a look at my newly revamped flickr.com website. Gosh, now people are so hooked on to the internet and then finding things like these sort of websites that actually existed for some time already, such sites are getting recognition and the traffic. But we're getting more internet savvy and more 'open' towards widening our social circles like making new contacts through sites like friendster. I mean, hey..if it makes the world smaller..why not? Jz don't get too near the weirdos who are only out to destroy the fun out of making life long friends.
So by the way..the address is http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahayupopz/ so happy browsing and drop comments if you can too..not that I need them! hehe...
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