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Currently obsessed with this game. It's really fun, kinda hard-ish though when I'm stuck I usually consult the walkthrough, hahahaha. The graphics are cute too. It's my first time playing the Zelda game, and I'm quite tempted to buy the Wii just so I could play the other games in the Zelda series, AND don't even get me started on Mario Kart, Cooking Mama and Super mario Galaxy for the Wii. Let's just say that the Wii is on top of my Wishlist.

I really wanna play Final Fantasy too, but..I dunno. I tried playing it but it was kinda...repetitive. I'm gonna give it another try, just for funsies. Other games I'm playing includes :

This game is kinda scary, especially when you're playing it alone in a dark place with full volume. Very haunting music. I'm not done with this game yet, for obvious reasons, haha. BUT I'm not that scared anymore because I keep dying on the infant ward so I have to keep coming back but when the zombies pop up I'm not as scared anymore.

I have two dogs, Rufus (after Rufus Wainwright) and Charlotte. Bolehla tahan game ni but it gets old. I'm only playing because I have to feed it everyday and entering competitions to win $$ so I could buy a loft. It's kinda like a tamagotchi, only here you get to actually interact with the dogs, for real!

Up next is:
A spin-off from the Zelda series! The graphic looks cute, don't you think?

I should spend less time on my Macbook + DS Lite and do something productive, but laziness tends to get the best of me. Can't you tell?

Selamat Menyambut Ramadhan! Unfortunately I won't get to fast a full 30 days like I did last year..sob.

I don't know why but I have slightly unhealthy fascination with the Holocaust. Which is why I read and watch anything Holocaust themed.

A+. It's written in such a way that you could *almost* imagine yourself as the victim. I wish it wasn't so short. The ending teared me. After I finished the book I actually sat there, astounded. If you're a fan of The Pianist and Schindler's List (the movies), you should read it. Yes, it's a true story. Not just "based on true events", it's real.

Bought this book during the Book Fair in Egypt. I got the one with the ugly cover, not this one. During one of our arguments *cough* my twin tore the cover so I'm definitely buying a new copy. Yes, it's that good. Rating: A.

I just found out about this book today! *gasp* It's been made into a movie, starring David Thewlis. I'm definitely going to read the book BEFORE watching the movie. Not gonna repeat the same mistake I did with Atonement. That movie was so sad, I regretted not reading the book first.

To get in the mood of reading about the Holocaust, try reading it while listening to Schindler's List OST. Such a beautiful and haunting score. I loooooove it.

Whoa, I haven't posted here in AGES. Just a few updates:

I passed 2nd year of med school.
Two thumbs up for me. Seriously, I didn't think I'd make it. Passing med school exams is tougher than SPM...believe me.

Been home for nearly two months now.
And did nothing. Except CHORES. Our maid went home to Indonesia for good and its taking ages for the replacement to come. So everyday it's sweeping, cooking, laundry, water the plants, kemas kemas rumah. Sigh. It's tiring. And I don't even get paid.

Got a Macbook!
Yes, you heard me right. I'm a Mac user now! I loooooove my Macbook. I'm addicted to it.

I used to get bullied a lot during grade school. And high school. Well, I wouldn't say bullied exactly, but..what do you call it when people treat you like you're trash? Especially when those people are your so-called friends. Friends who manipulate you. Friends who STEP ALL OVER YOU just because you're this nice kid who never said a mean thing to anyone.

These people, they're on my shit list. Well, some of them. Some of them I forgave, some I won't.

It makes me really mad when I think back about the stuff they did. What makes me even more mad is that I never stood up for myself. I let them step all over me. I let them treat me like dirt. Like trash.

And what's even shittier is that now when we're all grown up, you talk to us like we're BFFs and nothing really happened.

People, if a friend or somebody for no reason snaps at you, you snap back. When they yell at you, you yell back louder. Being nice isn't worth it.

Because people suck. Even your friends.

Studying for a 100-lectures subject in the span of 2 weeks is doable.

Tiring, but doable.

On another note: Pilates sangat best, tapi sakit badan. Which proves that you're doing it right!

Oh did I mention I'm on a low-carb diet? Like, super low. I eat prolly less than 100gm of carb per day. The original plan was the South Beach Diet, but somehow masa ni la your friends buat projek seperti baking and you have no choice but to at least eat some, right? Right. :)

I've been single for quite a long time now. I've even forgot what it's like to be in love.

Well, not love, per se, but the feeling of liking someone so much and to be liked back. So far, I've had only one serious relationship, the others don't really count because they're more of..infatuations, if you will. Plus, 1 month doesn't count as a relationship does it?

Why, for me, being single rocks:

1. Because you can go around and say, "I'm single" instead of "I'm taken". "I'm single" sounds so much cooler, doesn't it? Plus, if people gossip about you they'll say "oh she's single" and they'll wonder why you're single because if you're in a relationship, people don't exactly wonder why other people are taken, do they? Unless, of course, you're a troll.

2. No obligations or responsibilities to the significant other.

3. Save save save money.

4. You don't have to spend every spare minute of your day wondering why he doesn't call/message or thinking about calling/messaging him without appearing to be clingy.

5. More "me me me" time.

6. You're not indulging in sins! Ha.

Don't get me wrong, even though I think being single rocks, I do wonder when my Prince Charming / The One is finally going to appear in my life. Occasionally.

Which might bring me to do a whole post on Why Being Single Does Not Rock.

So Death Cab's highly anticipated latest album is finally out (although it leaked a week ago). While many fans are debating whether this could be their very best or very worst, I conclude neither.
The first single from the album, I Will Possess Your Heart starts with a nearly five minute powerful and emotional intro that builds up to give way to the first line, "How I wish you could see the potential/the potential of you and me" before, as Rolling Stone reviews, becoming a love letter from a stalker. Ia!
My favorite track however, is Grapevine Fires. Here, Gibbard sings about the 2007 California wildfires, and how a man spends the day with his lover and her daughter, knowing that "everything will be alright", despite the fires. This melancholy and bittersweet tune reminds me of another Death Cab song, Brothers On A Hotel Bed, musically (not lyrically).
It has some depressing moments, though. Cath..., though an upbeat tune, tells the story of a woman who always falls in love with the wrong man, and when Gibbard sings, "But you said your vows and you closed the door/On so many men who would have loved you more" you feel that you could relate to this woman.
Another upbeat song but classy sounding song, You Can Do Better Than Me, has Gibbard singing about a man who's thinking of leaving, but can never do because, like the title says, "You can do better than me, but I can't do better than you.
All in all, amazing album, but it still can't come close to the melancholic and heartbreaking Transatlanticism.
That's just me, though.

Next review: Manchester Orchestra - I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child