Cheap food, ACCEPTANCE, dress shopping and Miss Ng

Today, we had no Maths class because all my horribly lazy classmates made a collective decision to skip Maths.

TSK TSK TSK. I had absolutely nothing to do with that decision, and heartily condemn ANY skipping of classes =D


This means that we had absolutely no more classes from 12 onwards. Yay! I mean, uh...

So anyway a different bunch of us decided to eat at JoJo again, coz the food was good (their chilli is fresh! and food places with fresh chilli are usually worth going to again and again!) and it was cheap.

IT WAS SO SAD THAT JOJO WAS COMPLETELY CROWDED! Very very disappointing.

Then Fook Zhen had the bright idea of suggesting we eat at the Pasar, which wasn't exactly a pleasant experience the last time (at the beginning of the year), what with the flies and cats and all that.

Still, I was outvoted. Kinda. Except we didn't actually VOTE.

Anyway, I am officially a convert. That place is wonderful!

It's far away, sure. But it's so so cheap! And it was much cleaner this time. I mean, if i had the same meal at AC's Economy Rice stall, it would have cost me RM 6, not RM3!

RM 3 is ridiculously cheap, especially since I ordered Sea Coconut with it.

If I was extremely poor or wanted to save money, I would eat there everyday =D

After that Eunice, Fook Zhen and I went to The Web, and Tracey joined us after that. I got to catch up on Malaysia Today news, and I let Eunice read Hannah Yeoh's (Subang's MP) latest blog post about HER version of 1Malaysia, which was very inspiring and so so true!

Instead of TOLERANCE, our government should be teaching ACCEPTANCE.

They may SEEM like the same thing, but they're actually SO SO DIFFERENT! Thank you Eunice for agreeing with me =)

I mean, you TOLERATE something (usually unpleasant) because you HAVE to, like how I tolerate it when my mother forces me to eat brinjal or bitter gourd.

ACCEPTING something is so different. It's usually something that you know you can't change (just like we can't change our races) but you don't let it get in the way of other stuff. You ACCEPT it.

I don't know why Nilai Penerimaan is not taught instead of Nilai Toleransi. Not that memorizing all 36 of those stupid nilais' makes a difference anyway.

And Hannah Yeoh is so right about how the Race card should be completely abolished. We're all MALAYSIANS. For TRUE unity to happen, we can't differentiate ourselves as Malay or Chinese or Indian or whatever. If we keep segregating ourselves according to Race, we will never be REALLY united as Malaysians.

I need more multi-racial friends =D The current ratio is, sadly, about 2:1

I hope this doesn't mean I'm racist. Because I'm not =)

Anyway Tracey and I decided to look at the dresses in nearby boutiques so we could have an idea of what we want when we go dress shopping tomorrow (yay!).

So we hung around The Web while waiting for our lunch to be digested, because it would be a HORRIBLE idea to try on dresses right after eating unless you look like the many aneroxically skinny girls that walk around Taylors.

We went into so many shops! But I only spotted ONE dress that is under my Possibilities list. Tracey found one possibility too, and it's so ironic they're BOTH black, since we started out vowing we would NOT wear black.

Then, we passed by this convenience store call Speedy 99 or something like that, and I bought a lot of groceries. Including a huge, lemon-scented bottle of Dettol body soap. Yay =D

In fact, we were so relaxed, I completely forgot I had a 3.40 pm appointment to see Miss Ng!!! THE HORROR!!!

THANK GOD for eunice, who called me (I didn't hear) and THEN tracey to remind us about it. It was 3.45 then, and I wanted to DIE. Then she said that Yu Ling was still having her session with Miss Ng and the sun started shining again.

Thank god I made it on time. In fact, I had to wait quite a while outside the consultation room for them to finish. Thank you Ashlea for telling me WHERE the session was being held, because (I am the most absent-minded and forgetful person in the whole world) I forgot.

I was completely unprepared. Unlike Rei Chiel, whom Miss Ng praised so effusively =P

Still, it was surprisingly easy to talk to Miss Ng. You could even call it FUN =) She was very helpful, sarcastically funny (occasionally), and NOT PMS-ing! I enjoyed the session, and it was really beneficial.

Oh and Tracey says my List of Symptoms for dengue is so so so long. She refrained from saying "TOO LONG", because she's NICE.

Let me clarify that it was my way of describing my whole dengue experience. It is NOT NECESSARILY SO that you will get an angpow from your 81 year old grandmother during her birthday dinner. Nor is it a certainty that you will be given yummy dim sum for breakfast the next day.

3 more weeks to the SAM Finals! =D

P.S. I FINALLY bought F&N Zappel, which i've been craving for since I got dengue last week. Carrefour Express seems to be the only place selling it =(
Still, yay! =)

P.P.S. As you can see, it doesn't take much to make me happy.