Yee ‘O Lost Souls

Katan sent me a letter!! Through what methods I cannot tell you because that’s a secret between Katan and me. But does it matter so long as you get to read the letter? Here goes!

Dear Mistress, (he calls me mistress that sweet little phone XD)

How are you? I hope you are coping well without me. I apologize that we had to be separated this way. I wish I could have alerted you, but there’s only so much a phone could do.

Anyway, after our forceful separation, the bastard turned me off. He even put me on his ears several times. But I totally did not enjoy it. The bastard had the face of a thug, badly needed a bath and obviously had never heard of cotton buds. His ears are a sight better left for horror movies and nightmares.

The thug was indecisive whether to use or sell me. But in the end his greed got the better of him and decided to sell me for some quick cash. And he got a pretty nice amount too. It was mostly due to me being in good condition because you, my mistress looked after me very well. The only thing that irritated me was how the bastard and the urchin removed my black armor, the one you specifically bought for me. Till today I miss my armor.

So here I am, stranded in a glass panel along with other has-beens. But it’s not too bad. I feel kinda vulnerable without my armor, but I met a lot of new friends here. I’ve been spending my days talking to this Nokia and we trade stories a lot. I told him about how much fun we had. I even told him about Mr. Kuja the laptop and Kaoru the printer. And of course, not forgetting Senior Kujong, the PS2. The Nokia was fascinated that I came from a big loving family. He was also surprised to find that I have a name. Out of all the phones in our brood, I was the only one with a special name. Needless to say, I am very proud of it. Thank you for naming me Katan.

So have you found a new phone yet? I know it would be inconvenient for you without it. But I also know you would quite enjoy the solitary. I supposed that’s part of the reason why you often forgot to charge me. But that’s fine by me. I am but your servant.

You did say you are going to get cats after you graduate. I am saddened that I won’t be there to take pictures of your adorable cats. You said your first cat will be named Kuja. Just like Mr. Kuja. I wonder, will you name a cat after me too? I sure hope if you do, that cat will behave as good as I did.

Well, that’s all from me, Mistress. You might pass by me in a glass panel somewhere. You might not know me, but I would know you, for sure. But then again, maybe it’s not a good idea for you to come here. This area is a dodgy backstreet with lots of thugs hanging around. It’s not safe for a lady like you.

Lastly, I just want to say, I’m doing fine. It’s not the same as when we were together, but it’s not too bad. Take care.

Your faithful servant,

Katan

Isn’t he just adorable? Well I’m just glad Katan is actually exploring new horizons and making new friends. Good for him!

I’ll write to him back after I got a new phone hehehe.

Ta’ra!

I finally bade farewell to my long-time companion, Katan. So long old buddy!

Yeah I know I lost him on the bus on the way home from college and I might even have been mugged, but is it wrong of me to prefer to think that he’s just off on a journey to explore new horizons and not in some bastard’s slimy hands (who most probably is enjoying my L’Arc en Ciel songs and pictures of colorful desserts. Or just sold him off to make quick cash. Bastard.)

But it’s not like Katan is that new anyway. He’s well over one year plus and had served me well.

As usual, my superhuman frustration recovery rate kicked in. I wonder if it’s all that exercise. But still, I tried to cry over him, then I felt stupid and decided to start shopping for a new phone instead.

BUT!!

Do not delete my number yet! I have recovered the number and the new sim card (free upgrade to 3G :D) will arrive with motherhood on Sunday. I’m not sure how many numbers I will retain since I am not sure how many I actually saved in the sim card. One look at my bill statement will help me recall the numbers I recently called or SMS, though I will most definitely need the numbers earlier than that.

See? It’s not all bad using post-paid, hehehe.

In the mean time I can still be reached through house phone. It’s not very reliable, since that phone goes dead every second or so. But it’s better than nothing, right?

If you want my house phone number, drop me a message or something.

I didn’t wanna blog about it earlier because I was too pissed off to think clearly and I would have spouted a lot of swear words around.  And that’s not good for the fasting month is it? XD

And besides, the next day, I felt rather peaceful. Just the previous day I’ve had to teach someone how to count through SMS and that pissed me off big time. When Katan is no more I was thrown into a state of peaceful obliviousness. I didn’t tell the person I was pissed off at about Katan too, simply because I was pissed. But they’ll learn. I’ll tell them later or something.

So after I got my new phone whom I have no idea what to name yet, I may need to ask some numbers. Or normally I’d call the ‘hub’ and ask her about all the relevant numbers XD. It is convenient to have someone who has everyone’s numbers hehehe.

Choosing a new phone is a headache. Since I never actually go and ‘choose’ my phones. My phone would just appear in the market. I could take one look at it and I instantly knew that phone is mine. That happens when I need a new phone usually because my current one is no longer usable and such. I usually do only minimal research because I already know you see. It won’t be the same browsing shops looking for anything that ‘will do’.

But one thing for sure, once you’ve had a SE Walkman phone, there’s no going back XD.

Besides, the first thing daddyo asked me when I called him yesterday was "So which phone are you going to buy?" XD

I may have a new phone by Sunday though. This time I’ll prolly get a chain for it like I do my wallet. And start a new trend while I’m at it.

Though, I do miss having an alarm clock to wake me up.

Ta’ra!

Yesterday was like a double treat for me. First we break fast at the Grand Milennium Hotel (previously known as The Regent). The buffet here is probably the best. I’ve been to several Ramadhan buffets at different hotels, but this place is the best. Then we went for a foot massage. But more on that at 12 Habits.

As usual, I start with the dessert.

There wasn’t any strawberries specifically for eating. But  I got some anyway.

So if you’re wondering where did all the decorative strawberries went, you now know what happened to them ;).

Today we ate at Bangsar Village, at this Thai restaurant somewhere inside. Not too shabby, not too shabby. But of course, they don’t have strawberries.

Heh heh.

Ta’ra.

Most people would just gobble up anything and everything in sight, but there is a certain art to break fasting. Especially when you’re break fasting at a buffet.

There’s a lot of things on offer, and your goal is mainly to try and eat all of them. The key is to eating a bit of each, of course.

I start with dessert.

What most people take for granted as they are too busy piling their plates with rice and roast lamb is that, the desserts will always be there after they are finished with their main course.

Unfortunately, unlike the main courses which gets re-supplied after they are finished, the desserts are a one-time course. If they are gone, they are gone.

Eespecially that yummy cheese cake slices :D.

But this of course, comes after filling yourself with water.

After that, wait for a minute for the food to digest. Then go on with small portions of everything like this:

And then, end with dessert again. But usually by this time, the yummy cakes are probably gone and you’re left with only fruits.

So it’s dessert-main course-dessert.

Enough about food. You’d be drooling if you are fasting and reading this in the middle of the day (or late at night). Let’s go on to the two most important things a college student should be able to do.

1) Talk, and write excellent English.

2) Do a correct Harvard style referencing always

3) Not having to be told about the above

Yeah, I listed three things so sue me.

Honestly, if you fail in the above departments, I’m sorry to say your future looks bleak. So neglect those issues at your own expense.

Ta’ra.

Yes, I have been given the BEST TALKING BUDDY award!!

*Frames it, then hangs it on the wall proudly*

THANK YOU GARY!!

*BIG GRIN*

So happy :>.

All these years of planning and obsessing, the only thing that stood between me and great wealth was a thing called international wire tranfers of funds.

I already knew how to trade, and was ready to lose money over it. But how to trade if you don’t have money?  And I was done with virtual trading too.

I asked around about how to transfer fund to OptionsXPress. I asked my dad (bad move), I asked my lecturer (and even badder move), I even asked my clueless friends (a desperate move).

Why a bad move you say? Because my dad doesn’t trust online money handling, and he’s suspicious about options trading. (Yeah right, he was the one who paid 4k for me to join the course :/) Asking my lecturer was even worse!! He was suspicious of the broker! "Who’s the guy? How good is he? How do you know him? Online? What if he’s a fraud? Options is risky. Don’t do it."

Gaaah!!

I’m asking how to wire funds! NOT asking you to tell me that I’m crazy and being defrauded!! Even so - it’s my money. I’d rather put my money into trading and lose rather than into some crappy MLM program (on that note, Amway sucks).

But not anymore. Because as I registered an OX account today (My account this time. No longer my sister’s because I’m already over 18 and can cheat on my years of trading experience but thanks to my sis for letting me borrow her information all these years) I found out that aside from wire transfer, there is a thing called good ol cheques.

I had thought of cheques before, but my dad said in order to send cheques you have to open a current account and current accounts have fees. After that he gave me a lecture on how risky the stock market is and how suspicious he was towards this ‘online thing’. And then proceeded to tell me how IPTA students often gambled their PTPTN money on certain online money-making programs.

I rolled my eyes and numbed my ears.

HOWEVER!

If not because of my new revelations towards cheques, this post won’t even be here. The thing is, I have found out about the beauty that is Cashier’s Cheque.

Cashier’s Cheque is also known as bank check, official check, teller’s check, bank draft or treasurer’s check. In Malaysia it is known as Cashier’s Order (CO), or Banker’s Cheque.

So how exactly is this cheque beautiful? I’m glad you ask :D! In short, Cashier’s Cheque/Order, allows you to send money in cheque form to anywhere in the world. And you don’t even have to open a bank account in the bank you’re using the service for. These banks will normally have its own foreign currency exchange and will immediately convert your money into the desired currency you wish to cheque’d. I have recognized several banks:

AmBank - this bank calls it Cashier’s Order

CIMB Bank - this bank refers to it as Banker Cheque

EON Bank - Cashier’s Order

Alliance Bank - also Banker Cheque

Different names, same thing. Makes me wonder why they bother using two different names for the same thing. Banks like to mafan themselves.

I might skip Alliance Bank and go to the first three banks. I found out that there’s a standard charge of RM 2 for issuance plus 15 cent stamp duty. If not due to my own desperation, I wouldn’t even know there was a thing call a Cashier’s Order and that the everyday banks all (or most) offer it. Why am I so left behind?

So let’s review: I already printed out my form, located the nearest bank for my remittance, now all I need to do is raise enough money to start trading :D. I actually don’t have to ‘raise’ money. I already have enough money in my reserves, but I’m giving myself until the end of the year. By then I would have already reviewed all the materials from my course and be ready to make those Debit and Credit Spreads, whee!

By next year, look forward to seeing a lot of chart print screens here hehehehe.

I am aesthetic.

Oh and if you have nothing to do, please head over to 12 Habits.

Ta’ra!

Hello!

Recently I started a new blog named 12 Habits. Here my mission is to break and cultivate one new habit every month. It is a challenge I set in order to improve myself.

It is hosted by pandadiary.com, a site owned by Mr. Leaf :D.

If you guys have so far enjoyed my random rantings on Yee ‘O Lost Souls, I hope you guys would enjoy 12 Habits just as much because it’s more constructive. It’s also easier to comment on because it doesn’t require you to log in or anything like that. Please comment. I like comments :D.

Still, that doesn’t mean I’m taking down this blog. I will continue to update it frequently, as usual because this blog has better reach.

Yes, it means I’m managing two active blogs. I’m fine with it. So please join me on my journey towards that 12 habits! Thank you so much and here’s the link again.

See you at 12 Habits!

My mother suddenly appeared yesterday, on her rendezvous from Saudi Arabia for Umrah back to Kuching. She left me some stuff. Honestly, I think these things were just left for me as an afterthought because they would be too heavy to bring back home.

Anyway, here’s what she left: a box of dates, and two boxes of turkish delight.

It’s been a long time since I had some of those. And the fasting month is coming! I have dates - sweet XD!

I bummed her taxi ride that took me straight to KL Central where I take my bus. On the bus, I saw this girl who had the appearance of a very polite and proper person.

I spotted her since she first got on the bus. And she stood, since there was no more seat. Not long after, I decided to join her coz I got up when I saw an old woman boarded the bus. The woman promptly took my seat and I took the chance to worm closer to the said girl.

I was yearning to make a connection with a random stranger that day, you see. So I screened my mind for the best pick up line I could use. Can you believe it? I was going to pick up a girl! On the bus!

The hilarity of it amuses me.

So then, it was raining. So my pick up line was:

"Do you think this rain will last till night?"

And that did it. I spoke to her gradually. Asking basic stuff, and figuring out that she was going to stay at her friend’s place, looking down at her ‘luggage’. I’m sorry I peeped into your bag :|. It was wide open.

We alighted at the same bus stop and parted ways. Man, did you know how easy it is for a girl to pick up a girl? If it was a guy I would look at him strangely and move away slowly.

After all, it’s a fact that girls are generally more trustworthy than guys :P.

Anyway, this picking up thing is kinda addictive. I saw a handsome ang moh on the same bus trip, and he just got out of the mosque from Friday prayer *wink*.

If this girl wasn’t there, guess who my target would be eh?

If you guys want my advice on picking up girls, ask general questions first, and look as if you’re annoyed at something, and looking to her to share that same annoyance, like your worry for the rain, maybe. And ASK NAME LAST!!

And for the record, I did finally asked the girl what’s her name. Although it would have been fine if I hadn’t known.

Ah well, I’ll bring my camera around next time hehe.

Ta’ra!

p/s I am so enjoying my new purple nail polish.

Today, due to an impulse decision, I went to the Matta Fair with my cousin and her friend. While my ‘escorts’ were too busy flirting with each other, I went around as much counters as possible, asking about as much as possible. My areas of interest in particular, are those island holidays, especially those in the Peninsular. I had planned to go snorkelling or diving with my friends on some island somewhere here so might as well check out what’s on offer. I found a few interesting ones :D.

I also checked out Borneo holidays. Which is an odd thing seeing as I am from Sarawak. However, Sarawakian I may be, I have never been on one of those ‘rainforest adventure holidays’ that our state boasts about so much. So I decided that this year end I will go exploring at least one cave!! And go jungle trekking. Have a feel of the rainforest of my home state, you know :/.

There was a lot to see at Matta Fair, so I went ‘international’. I’ve always wanted to go to Japan ever since my last trip there on 2002. I saw a lot of interesting travel packages, but none of them go to exactly the places I want, like Nagasaki. And also, if you guys aren’t familiar with tour groups, they are a hassle. It’s always full of either old Chinese aunties or old Malay men. And they tend to ‘take over’ the tour.

I don’t know where the males and females of either races are.

So I stuck to my original plan: go on a free and easy tour of Japan on my own, with friends, after graduation. So I texted Totchi and told her to start saving cause we’re going to tour Japan after graduation XD.

I went to the Japan International Tourism booth and got myself some brochures, including a detailed map of Tokyo and Japan. I have about two years to start gathering funds and plan my trip. But funnily enough, the best part of the trip is not the actual trip itself, but the planning, especially the financial part. This trip will only encourage me more to start making money passively. Part of my life plan is to already be making money before I graduate.

I’m excited to to see how they will turn out hehehe.

Ta’ra!

My cousin went back to her uni today probably for the remainder of her holiday. I have class so she found it boring to stay around XD. But I’m not complaining. I finally have the bed back! After five nights or so of sleeping at the edge (literally) I could finally rest easy.

It feels a little lonely but that’s okay. It’s easier managing things when you’re on your own. And I could finally concentrate too.

Yesterday we went to the movies for Rush Hour 3. After that we went to UM for their Convo Fest. It was my first time stepping into a public university and is that place HUGE! You’d need some kind of vehicle to navigate the area. A bike, at least. But of course, you guys would know it better than I do heh. I’m just awed at the whole thing, but still doesn’t intrigue me enough to want to study there. It’s too much like school there; not a lot of personal space in the dorms. And the fashion sense is not much different either…

Also, I noticed recently two things could make me uneasy in a day; not exercising, and skipping class. When I go to class without prior exercise in the morning, I get uneasy and get mood swings easily. It’s like being without a drug. And when I don’t go to class, it’s the same thing. When I didn’t do both, I get twice as uneasy and restless. These usually result in me being moody and critical of people around me. The best solution for such a case is usually to take a nap. I’m like a hyperactive child who gets agitated when he doesn’t get his afternoon nap.

After I wake up from my nap, my mind has been defragged and I could think clearer.

Currently I’m talking to someone who’s critically analyzing what’s going on in my mind. He said there’s 2 things in my mind. 1) studies and 2) comics.

Just goes to show how much he knows me :P.

I only read comics in my spare time. In fact, I relish reading a good fantasy novel more than any manga.

Anyway, Ta’ra!