Paint My Life Colourful: It's December!

Hello, I’m back from the long hiatus because I feel like updating my little space here. While I was bored at work this week, I randomly picked some of my old posts to read and I was smiling when reading them- some posts are silly. Hah! Then I suddenly had the urge to update my blog, just to jot down some thoughts that I have in my mind, so I can smile when I read it in the future.

So here am I doing this, updating my blog after two months. Yes it’s been two months since my last update cuz I have too many drama series and movies that have kept me away from updating my blog. Hah! Beware, this is gonna be a looong post but pictures are included! Haha! So here comes the month of December. It is the month to review what we have done in the past eleven months, the month to spend $$$ because of the year end sales, and also the month to think of or set the 2013 New Year’s resolutions. Excited?!

This year, a lot of “Firsts” happened. I started my first permanent job in April with a recruitment firm and received my first 4-figure paycheck in end of that month. I’m working with nice bosses and colleagues in a not-bad working environment at an expensive place while getting paid peanut every month. So yep, I just summarized my first job. Boring right?! Haha! So let’s talk about something Crazy now. I’ve done two crazy things or I should put it into another way- I have done two things that the sane me wouldn’t do. First, I took part in the 9th PerhentianIslandChallenge in October, and it was the most spontaneous and fastest decision I ever made (within 24 hrs!). I only did a little research about the challenge before we register in August, all I knew was that we will be staying in a tent for 3d2n and the challenge/ race will be in Perhentian Island. It was my first time joining a race/ marathon. My actual goal was to go find Francine and visit the island, so I didn’t prepare for this challenge at all. But as I did more research about this challenge after the registration, I found that this challenge is totally beyond my expectation. I started to worry and wonder why did I sign up for this?!!! ohgodwhy.jpg

Since I have already bought my flight ticket so there is no turning back. Hence I flew to Kuala Terengganu on the 11th October together with PuiLing, MeiMei and her sister- LaiKuan. We played tourist in KT for a day, Francine and friends brought us around for makan- makan and sightseeing. Then we woke up very early in the next morning to leave KT for Perhentian for the challenge. Reached the campsite in the afternoon, set up our own tent then went to check out the public restroom. I was stunned when I saw the public restroom, I never thought it would be this bad! I thought the toilet at my late grandparents’ house was bad but this was worse! The toilet at my late grandparents’ house was made of cement floor with huge insects crawling on the wall, and cockroaches and frog would stare at you when you bathe, which was quite similar like the public restroom. This, I can tolerate because I’ve been through many-many-many times. The thing that I couldn’t tolerate was the water supply for the public restroom, the water supply was very little, as a result the water flow from the pipe was really slow. You gotta wait for the water to drop on you to wash yourselves and sometimes it would take a few minutes to reach you. And that’s why the toilets stink and that’s also reason why I drank only around 500ml water per day during my stay there. Hah!

Since the first day in Perhentian was free & easy, so we did what girls do at the beach- taking pictures like nobody’s business and dipping ourselves in the sea under the hot sun. Hou song ahh!!! Then we received shocking news during the briefing session at night. We were told that this year, the trail for Novice Women category was freaking 21km long!! Holycrapwtf!!! I was shocked la! First, ahem, according to research I did, last year was only 14km long! Second, hello, this is my first marathon and it’s not 5km but freaking 21km!!! This is insane!! The moment I heard this news, I begun asking myself the same question again. Why am I here? Why did I sign up? Then I told myself I will just gonna walk since I never expect to complete the race anyway, I’m just here for the beach and friends. Hahaa! Keep Calm and Have Fun yo!! So everyone went to bed early that night to get ready for the race. The weather turned bad while we were all sleeping. At first it was drizzling outside then it was drizzling INSIDE our tent (!!!) because it was pouring outside. As a result, most of my clothes got wet, including the long pants which I was gonna wear for the race and guess what….. the center part of the pants was the only part that got wet! Argh!!! If I wore it, I would look like I peed on my pants! How am I supposed to wear it?!! Hence I got no choice but to wear shorts, which I’m truly regretted and which is what I’m gonna about talk next.

We got up very early for the next day to prepare for the race, I barely slept because I was too frustrated over my wet clothes. Lol. Around 7am, all of us got transferred to another island where the race took place and the race started around 9:30am. Everyone started running, I too tried to follow their pace. Kiasu mah. Then slowly reached the jungle, then it was all about jungle trekking and hiking which was another thing that I didn’t expect at all!! I must be insane when I decided to join this. My legs got attacked by tons of mosquitoes (so sick and itchy!!) and the hill was very steep and freaking slippery due to the rain on the previous night. I was sooooo regret of wearing shorts entering the jungle. Sigh. Then I got dizzy and weak when climbing up because of lacking stamina. This is the consequences of staying indoor too much la!!! Sigh! I so wanted to give up but there was no turning back cuz if I decided to stop I had to walk all the way back to the starting point ALONE. So, I told myself die die also must to reach Checkpoint 3 to surrender alone even if my friends wanted to continue. So after all the climbing, sliding, falling, grabbing, tripping… I finally reached CP3 with Francine and we surrendered. This was the best decision I made! Hahah! I was knackered and physically worn out after all the tarzan stunts I did and all the mosquitoes attacked. Boy, I’ve never been this tired in my life before!!!

Happy me is happy on the first day.

Me reaching CP3. I was really happy cuz I saw drinking water!! haha!!
Btw, take a look at my pants!!

The aftermath.

Poor legs with 40 over bites and cuts, so horrible looking!! My family, especially my mom was shocked when they see my legs. I’m still sad to look at them, those scars are still on the healing process. Wish speedy recovery!!! So yes, that’s all about my first marathon/ race/ challenge experience.

Two weeks after the race, I did another crazy thing. Here goes another story. I heard BigBangAliveTour is coming to KL and I got really excited. At first I was hesitant to spend about RM200 for the ticket (too poor) then I thought why not, I’m 24 already and haven’t experienced a freestanding concert before (too poor for VIP and too cheapo for seating zone). So I changed my mind and decided to go to the concert with MunPing. The concert started at 8pm but we decided to go there early because we were being kiasu, wanted to get nice standing spot. So on that day, MunPing and I reached the stadium around 2:30pm and the queue was already damn long. Some of them were there since the night before!! We joined in the queue and stood for around 4 hours till the gate opened. Crazy I know. The weather was terrible too, it was sunny then rained then sunny then rained again. Concert started around 8:15pm, and luckily the rain stopped after a few minutes. Phew! And I continued to stand for another 2.5 hours until the concert ended at 10:30pm. After almost 8 hours of standing, we still gotta walk to the LRT station and guess what, we walked the wrong direction. Hahaha!! Silly us. It was another unforgettable day for me. I’ve never stood for so long in my life! There goes another first. Lol. I can’t believe that I have stood for almost 9 hours just for a concert! This is totally crazy because the sane me would never ever do that. The concert was really amazing!! It is also my very first freestanding concert, I sang, jumped and screamed like a fan girl under the rain on a muddy field. Haha! I got really excited over the crowd and their live performances, definitely the best concert I’ve been and will definitely go to their concert again if they ever come back but I will not go early to queue anymore. LOL!! Ahhh! I hope Coldplay will come to KL next year!! Here are some proofs of my attendance. Hahaha!

Wrinkled ticket that I have no idea why I’m still keeping it.

MunPing and I and my yellow raincoat. Lol

Here’s another “first” story to share. I had my first foreveralone movie night a few days ago, the experience wasn’t as lonely as I expected, maybe because I’m used to watching movies and dramas alone in my room. I’m impatient when it comes to watching movie in the cinema. I prefer watching new release movies, if a movie has been released in cinema for one week, I wouldn’t feel like watching it anymore, even it’s a movie that I’ve been anticipating. Because I think it’s not new/ fresh anymore, so I would rather wait a few more months to DL it. Haha! (Am I the only one like that?) My little sis and I went for a movie together last Sunday, I suggested Life of Pi but she doesn’t like the movie because she thought it would be boring, so we ended up with Breaking Dawn. Waste of money. I really wanted to watch Life of Pi since the day I watched its trailer, so I asked my friends around, unfortunately most of them are only free next week. Hence, I decided to watch it myself on Wednesday. Foreveralone.jpeg The 3D is beautiful and the movie is really meaningful. Those who haven’t watched, faster go watch!

My foreveralone movie ticket. Hahaha!!

So, Christmas is just around the corner, I’m still thinking what I should get for myself. I know, this is just another excuse to shop. Haha! How I wish Santa is real!

"Dear Santa,

I wish to have a watch that I’ve been eyeing forever from Marc by Marc Jacobs, either Amy Strap 36MM (Navy) or Black Patent Blade 40MM. They are much more overpriced here than in the States and I’m unwilling to splurge on it. So I hope you hear my wish as I’ve been a good girl this year. Please and TQVM! =DD

Good girl, H.Yen"

Let’s start doing New Year’s resolutions for 2013! Set your goals peeps! I’m gonna do it privately again, because I don’t wanna jinx it. haha! I think that’s all for today, imma stop writing and end this post by posting my vain selca. =P