Things I Miss (in no particular order)

# Filipino Soaps - Gone are the days of warm afternoons sitting in front of the boob tube watching Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas, Mula Sa Puso, Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay...

# My Late Paternal Grandmother - Dita binti Cartney, you will always be remembered. RIP~

# Gramma's Friday Sambal Telur - Coming home from school every Friday and greeted with the her sweet and hot sambal telur. Boiled eggs halved and put in sambal... No one makes it like you...

# The very first, original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers - Mastodon (Black), Pterodactyl (Pink), Triceratops (Blue), Sabretooth Tiger (Yellow) and Tyrannosaurus (Red). Followed later by the Green Ranger. The very cartoon that started my childhood obsession with dinosaurs and the Prehistoric ages.

# Having Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney Channel on Astro - First it was CN, with Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, Cow and Chicken and others. Then the new wave of cartoons moved in and pushed those cartoons off the mainstream. Remember the time when CN would end at 9pm and there would be an old movies channel taking over? After CN, I fell in love with Nickelodeon. All That, The Amanda Show, Hey Arnold! (practically spurred my love for jazz music), The Wild Thornberrys, and the show where they shoot contestants with green slime. Disney started off later, with me watching That's So Raven and occasionally the Disney Movie (when I'm interested in it)

# Primary School Days - representing the school in various competitions; a storytelling competition, fully-clad in a bright yellow deer suit for "The Golden Deer" (snagged FIRST Place) and Arabian attire for "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" (grabbed second). Later on going for BM Grammar competition and getting 1st place for Lahad Datu District (followed by 11th place at state level). Poster-drawing competitions: Peace Posters, State Library-sponsored annual events. Bringing the school and the self glory gives a sense of achievement and pride...

# High School Days - Friends GALORE... Crazy times, bad decisions, mundane routines... Plenty of fun times, lovely teachers, hanging out at the teachers' lounge to chat with teachers, afternoon tuition classes, tonnes of homework...

# My late maternal grandmother and grandfather - Chin Mui Yun and Chai Thien Fook, respectively. RIP...

Those Were The Days...~

Random Thoughts

- It's SO HOT in Lahad Datu, especially the afternoons - it is so hot that waking up from an afternoon nap with the fan aiming at you still results in profuse sweating...hurrrmmm~

- PLENTY of mother's love...there's nothing like MOTHER'S LOVE. So I've decided to put (part of) my diet to the back burner and have plenty of mum's lovely cooking... Within reason, of course...

- It's astounding how fast the 5GB bandwidth limit can be exceeded when you have three person (me, my brother and my sister) playing three Facebook games each.

- Slept at around 7.30pm and woke up at 9pm tonight - and now I can't go to sleep because of it. Midnight workouts are in order~

- Channeled Allison Iraheta...You'll know what I mean in a few days' time.

- Missing all the old stuff of childhood - homework, uniforms, weekday routine, riding the school bus, cartoons, hanging out with friends on the weekends.

- Missing the hectic life of a university student too - at least I have something to do.

- Can't wait to get my hands on a DSLR of my own... I hope they still sell it by the time I get my money.

- I. WANT. MONEY.

- Spent the five-day long weekend (Wesak Friday plus weekends plus Kaamatan substitution holidays basically doing nothing. Babysat two cousins, and KK plans were a bust. Semporna too. UGH...