Aww what a lazy day. Not my day today. Starting my day at noon, then tagged along to visit a manager at Klang and another colleague at PJS. Went home already night time. Along the way home, at the infamous U-turn junction at the main road connecting BMC to Sungai Long, I kissed into someone's car from behind. Lucky I wasn't driving very fast at that time when skidding on wet road at no brake. No scathe on his back, while I had broken car plate only. I learnt that a straight road when wet could cause skidding too. Now I wondered how fast was fast on wet road.
2nd day of CNY as expected went to Nenek House. Since Yee Sang been done on yesterday no Yee Sang today welp. Nevertheless still got yum yum. Oven-cooked salmon was so good yet still got many left over. Due to stupid argument with dad yesterday, I insisted on leaving house at 12PM. Clearly he didn't know much claiming everyone in the village be waiting for you... I got to enjoy piano today too. Today I tried Auld Lang Syne easy version. Sometimes I ain't sure it was muscle memory at work or the playing of notes in head trigger finger to press certain key. I meant I really couldn't remember all the CDEFGAB arrangements of any song, yet by practice fingers could hit the keys. Weird. Also I was somewhat happy being commented that I was still fit unlike the distant cousin with beer belly (I forgot his name Zhi Yan maybe) who came visit Nenek's house every year together with his family, after they had left. Then Uncle Yan jokingly said he would feed me plenty of supper.
What on earth has happened today.
Dad sure got anger management issue and when I tried to confront about why he raising his voice, lashing out, and couldn't control his emotion, he would divert the situation and claim he could control very well such that he didn't beat up the aunt down the street with violence. I thought, I too was feeling shit throughout today, but I didn't lash out unlike you. Throughout all these years, I have been telling myself that his scolding meant shit to me as I had been deeply hurt before, slowly numbing myself against it. Despite that I hate to admit I still care that tears would still come even if my minds was paralyzed against it.
I was tired of getting told big life lesson from Biao Jie's husband on issue like getting married and having kids. He claimed that it is a natural cycle. I am really wondering these people must have been blind their whole lives. The fact that boomers have stolen the future from their young is a cold hard truth that most are reluctant to agree. Just look at the data of housing prices against median income of the last several decades or by feeling just look at your grand parents era that a single working parent could support a kids of 4 to 10. Then the next a single working could support kids of 2 then both working to support a kid. Where else do you think this lead to? And I am also pissed that kids, me included as I had heard from dad, are raised as an insurance to parent. So the taking care of parent is an obligation rather than out of kindness from heart.
At dinner, Li Gugu tried to force her belief on me that shaving arm and leg would make me see ghost. I heard this claim before. I talked back I don't believe in ghost or whatever superstitions, but plenty of bad people out there. So I got told I wasn't listening to adult. Then I got asked why I shaved them. I answered it is my preference and I like it. I got told I wasn't listening to adult. She showed me "See I also didn't shave." I held back from shooting back. What I really wanted to say was: "That was your preference like I give a shit to what you do shave or not shave. Now get off from telling me what to do with my body." In addition, I was asked of why I was impersonating woman. I was like what, since when I impersonate, I was still being me all the time. Surely today dad been talking behind my back cuz this all happened from me getting back from toilet I was dumb founded of how suddenly this was brought up. I was getting annoyed though I didn't mention this speaking behind my back.
I learnt that Li Gugu really like using TikTok and her recommending it to younger kids claiming we could learn stuff from it. I was awkwardly taken aback. I couldn't find my words. I could only explain TikTok, introducing short shorts, was the source of reducing attention span in people. Maybe I couldn't word it properly due to limit in my mandarin vocab. Same goes for dad, I learnt that she saw China was getting really strong. I meant she wasn't wrong as that was what seen from the media on the surface. Yet I had a very differing view on China. I could tell average people from China is suffering way more tension that we could imagine.
What a mentally draining day today. A Bai Nian is actually a gathering of the ignorant old to the young. I believe I am a well-read though not Mandarin, well learnt person. I am glad I am still sane, if it is at all. Can I just add that no wonder lots of offspring from this group of oldies just not there to tolerate this shallow facet of Bai Nian.
Finally a day where I could rest up. I didn't clean house nothing too tired and lazy today. Maybe I would clean my room or something on the 3rd day on CNY. I don't take bs on whatever superstition of how we cannot clean floors or shit. I am gonna make this clear. I dun believe in religion nor God nor demon nor ghost nor bs wealth God. I dun blindly follow traditional custom without question. Like how lighting incense hurt irritates the eye and nose yet people still do. And I am already breaking norm anyway without how I dress already. I question shit. I dun take an answer of since everyone is doing it this way, I should do it that way.
Heck what funny thing happened today. After shower, I showed up in a knee-length shorts and dad was delighted and immediately approved. Not like I needed his approval anyway. Then I picked up a dark brown scrunchie which he kinda said nah that ain't very obvious better than me in a skirt. We headed to NSK BMC. On the way walking at a pedestrian an aunty who was carrying her grocery, noticed me, her eyes watching as we walked past and smiled. I returned with a smile too, despite being clueless what caught her attention when I was already in a kinda masculine shorts and polo shirt already. My handbag, scrunchie, nails or hair style I wonder?
Night time had a dinner with my employee at a restaurant in Telok Gong called Coconut Flower Garden after fetching him from his home. Due to heavy rain, a lot of roads leading to his house were flooded. I tried something I thought was practical today, well I had no idea how to proof otherwise either. That at flooded road, use low gear. I pulled the gear in Axia to 2 before getting into the flooded road. My reasoning being it is best to step onto the gas pedal so that water cannot get in via exhaust pipe due to the pushing force of gas coming out. But we couldn't go fast on the road due to slow traffic there even if need to go heavy on gas pedal. So a lower gear ensure we could step harder onto the gas pedal without gaining much speed. I kinda feel funny like whatever hazardous situation, the solution was simply to use lower gear. For eg. going downhill, use low gear to reduce speed gain. Cannot climb a hill, use low gear for better power.
I got my nails done today. I tried to avoid using the acetone to remove so I peeled off mine but I accidentally peeled off a thin layer of my own nail of my right thumb's. Although I used the cuticle oil afterward, I noticed my nail was still a little dry. I decided to let my nail rest for a while like a month or two maybe after this batch over. Currently I got my left nail with base light purple and pattern red while right nail with base white and pattern black. Teng did all. I am quite satisfied with the base color paint - just top pattern drawing can still be improved. No worry no blaming I couldn't ask for more. Haha I was a happy target practice.
Uncle Yan playfully applied a single layer of very light pink to his left pinky which he kept deliberately long. Guess he just wanted the fun of painting as he didn't use base coat nor top coat and kept a single layer of color which was totally not enough to make it last. Aunt Kuan on the other hand applied carefully on her one left pinky. Base coat + light pink + broad white at tip + top coat. Heard she claimed she applied 6 layers of color to make it bright enough. Out of my 5 colors here, where the red was a little off where I was buying a wine red but ended up getting bright red and yes it is bright, a layer or 2 make a huge difference enough. My red, white, and black colors are of this bright color properties. While the other 2, light pink and light purple need more layer to be bright enough.
Lin was seen dyeing hair red. Speaking of dyeing hair now I know my brown color hair was so commonly seen out there. Cuz their color had faded away. Like Aunt Kuan's I forgot what her color she mentioning - ended up becoming brown. Same goes to Uncle Yan's Lin-dye blue becoming brown too. And sis's experience. I got asked if I wanted dye too. I declined.
A month after Xmas and CNY drawing near. I wondered if to replace this banner image with something more flavorfully festive with red as its theme.
I went to work alone today hopefully easy work today as of time of writing still sitting here waiting at 8:20 AM. Wanna clear work fast and go home to continue cleaning whatever I see fit, most prominently dad's bathroom today.
Damn tiring today work was very rushed. Not having much time to eat lunch either. I planned to have only 1 trip then went home as today Sat. And got 2nd trip loaded up at 1PM something despite usual Sat Ace closing at 12:30 PM. I reached home at 5 something today. Grabbed some leftover buns, and cleaned dad's bathroom. I didn't understand his logic - he bothered to wipe clean the dust on top of the TV cabinet but didn't wash his bathroom.
At night, I made a mistake of going to Aeon Cheras Selatan at 8:30 PM. It was so packed unprecedentedly unseen before. Traffic jam going in, and I decided to leave right away. Worst I been charged RM 1 parking fee through TNG card. Now we no longer need to get parking ticket what a relief.
Dad smelled something on me in the morning when I got into lorry. Confused, I asked whether it was the mum's Gatsby hair gel or the Neutrogena moisturizer. He couldn't tell. I jokingly teased how could he not tell when mum been wearing this gel for ages. Later at home, I opened both container and brought to him, now he could tell it was the hair gel...
I cleaned my bathroom today, planning to clean dad's tomorrow after coming home from work.
Hao was really anxious of getting his controller connected to PC in which Aunt Kuan couldn't do. As I didn't go upstairs yesterday night, today, even at 6PM something, my Whatsapp already beeping with messages lmao. After dinner I troubleshoot it alas finally wirelessly connected and taught Hao how to do so. I learnt from YouTube that to connect, on the controller, had to hold the power button and share button, while PC in the Bluetooth setting add device detecting device.
Coming home early and went with dad to see a house below Uncle Yoo's place. His biggest attraction to the house was the convenience of MRT from walking distance. I can't say that I like. What's the use of MRT when not having the optimism to frequent it anyway. Dad was the one keen on going shopping anyway. This arse hole asked me what time could we reach there, decided on a time then went astray to pick up Kacang Wangi along the way, ended up with far lesser time at home. I didn't finish shaving still left my right thigh and little bits here and there and hurried out. Coming home at night I was tired already that I didn't bother to continue what's leftover and I forgot to call off Aunt Kuan upstairs that she looking for me for her controller setup or something. I straight jumped into bed. Still I was looking forward to weekend for I heard Lin still awaiting Teng to help do nail. It should be fun if I can tag along too.
Today I found out about the source of the bad smell I been smelling for a while at kitchen area. For days I thought was the trash or my starting-to-rot pak choi that I placed in the water bowl. While all along it was coming from the egg that dad bought. A rotten and maggot-infested one in the middle that dad didn't know. I was even surprised he managed to open the egg packet cover top, took out 2 eggs every day without noticing the broken rotten one for days. What in the hell was wrong with his nose and speaking of how good eyesight but fail to notice black ants on broken egg? No wonder table been having black ants lately. These pesky black ants been busy scavenging the rotten egg. I took photo and video of that broken egg but felt like not very good to send over to sis unless she asked me after reading this.
I went home after a day of tight schedule at work tired at night and didn't do much. Stuff procrastinated until the next day.
Did light cleaning for my room in the morning what a pain in the 4ss.
After having lunch with aunt Kuan, aunt Ying, Lin, Kai, Hao at a food court in Eco Majestic which is aunt Kuan's workplace, I went to Nenek house staying until night time while enjoying myself with fully charged Kai's piano. I learnt to play Ode to Joy, Swan Lake, Fur Elise, Amazing Grace, again after long no play from old phone's piano app. It was a god damn enjoyable experience after managing to play the easy one. I was then considering I should learn / practise other classical sheets in their easier forms or go on to do harder version of the ones I had already known. I learnt that even easy version of Ode to Joy could be played different way than the one I had learnt from my phone piano app. I learnt what the black strips on piano called too. Their names followed the one to the left and then adding a #. I still didn't know they were read as.
On my way there, I brought along with me my gadgets for nail polishing to Lin. She was really hyped to experiment after her last paper on the 20th. Good luck to her. Anyway I had got the removing agent along for them so in case any mistake could be removed using that agent.
Went to Nenek house for dinner alone while dad out eating on his own. Hao was there. I wondered how he immediately realized my glasses was new. I was flattered as Lin took notice after Hao and complimented how it suited my face shape. Praise to the guy in the spectacle shop for recommending this shape to me. Well this was my first time getting glasses of this shape anyway so maybe that's why it kinda looked fresh. Saw aunt Kuan and uncle Yan home dying with the help of Lin a really dark blue color. Yet after washing hair, the color was barely any visible at all. Maybe it had been stored for too long gone expired or so they guessed. I learnt that Kai had had a piano for over 2 years. It was left forsaken in red Axia until now they cleaning house to realize it even existed.
Filled in on 21 Jan, I had forgotten what had happened here at this point.
Tomorrow be last day before school holiday. Is it too late Aunt Kuan to now only shop for controller at online shopping lol. Traffic was incredibly good in the morning too. At 9 AM, from Tuck Meng Motor Works at Chan Sow Lin, Grab costed RM 29 while Air Asia Ride costed RM 32. How preposterous that Air Asia Ride costed more when it was smaller and lesser drivers than Grab. Grabbed dad home. Uhh I been procrastinating on cleaning room for quite some time. I gotta pulled my ass over it so that after getting manicure next or next next week or so for CNY, I don't accidentally peel it off during cleaning. In the Maths's Equation of Cone, I just realized I had to use the corner of the cone as the arbitrary point for the equation of the line passing through the middle of the cone. Actually this wasn't the first time drawing equation of cone. It was perhaps the 2nd times. How time has gone that I become rusty but this should be a well off booster dose.
Dumb me didn't know lappy was on sleep mode when I packed it into bag. When outside, opened its lid, hit power button and it shut down. I thought was out of battery. Gone home only realized it still got 40% battery. Wasted an hour at Giant DC in the morning didn't utilize the time for lappy. Today's early morning was surprisingly good as well. Guess was due to school holiday approaching soon. Weird that Aunt Kuan showing interest in a wireless controller for PC cuz afaik she didn't allow Hao to play game on PC. She mentioned to play together but I really doubt how it would actually turn out. As there are lots of factors to go into consideration. Hard to explain through Whatsapp I would see if I can get more details in person when meet maybe in Nenek house.
I learnt that cotton pillow case is not very good for hair due to its roughness and breathability, so hair touching would get drier on cotton pillow case from friction and removal of moisture from its pores. I been trying to grow hair longer a little cuz I was saddened to see what I believe to be receding hair line at the point directly above the end of my right eyebrow. I guessed I would better tried out longer hair while I still got plenty of hair no? So I had got my 1st smooth satin ice silk. Such a good feeling to it. I strongly encourage you to try one.
As of writing, 10:51 AM, I wonder what to eat tonight.
7:11 PM. I am home. Now waiting for dad coming home. I am tired and hungry. The song that came to mind now is the Nordic wolf song Varsangen about a wolf being hungry and not allowing them to eat your children.
10:36 PM Hopefully this Revive + Salt method I learnt from Nenek house can help clear throat.
I made a small page called Special Characters to ease up on writing about stuff containing them. Also grouped Oddly Satisfying and Funny as Shid into Feel-Good Clips. Merged Notification Tones and FM Radio into music. Started writing about equation of a cone where I had discovered how to do, but now I have become rusty and stuck.😅
Breakfast with dad, Uncle Yan, Teng, and Lin at a shredded chicken hor fun stall in Pudu near Tsun Jin. Then I followed them to Nenek House while dad drove off on his own to Uncle Yoo and deliver peanuts. I learnt that Teng and Lin are interested in nail polish after finding out from my nails at the stall. Lin still has 3 papers to go for her last exam in school so has to wait until after 20th Jan to paint. We aiming to paint to CNY. Lin looking for black. Also I learnt from Teng that she got experience painting from what she told me she got exam painting nail last time. (I guessed that was from her last job). I am booking Teng to help paint mine especially my right nails as my left hand's holding pen-like brush was a mess. I had decided to get mine to blood wine red for CNY. Guess this is somewhat a symbiosis - where I am sharing my paints with them while I get to see how to actually paint one and painting services XD. Would be glad to get sis to paint along if you dun mind. As expected Nenek showed disapproval - well, I just answered "Cuz I like it". Even if the truth is it is my finger nail and my money I kept silence about this fact.
Uhh forgot to take photo of Aunt Ying's cook today. I started compiling data on Shell stations along North South Highway. And today I learnt what AH2 means in highway. It is a short form for Asian Highway 2, connecting from Thailand to Bukit Kayu Hitam to Singapore.
I learnt from them about how Revive + Salt or fridge white pear are good for throat when throat is itchy to cough.
I got my ass to optic shop in BMC after nearly a month of using a broken off nose support. Phew. Reluctantly I wait til at night only I went due to cooler at night but risking they closing. Lucky me arrived at 8 PM as its closing time written on Google Map was 8:30 PM, but when I asked the boss there, he answered since he was waiting for his son tuition so he was gonna stay there anyway.
Hmm what happened here already I wonder ...
I found a quite unusual tau foo fah in BMC at the corner of Public Bank. Probably sold by a middle aged China woman from what I heard from her accent. I was asked if I wanted white sugar solution or the brown colored one (not brown sugar). I couldn't tell what she said at first and answered brown sugar. At home to my surprise it was ginger sugar smelled good. Felt a bit like Tang Yuan style. At night, despite being tired and lazy I still dragged myself to cut 4 mangoes for dessert cuz dad wanted and I figured we needed some vitamins. I am puzzled why some people not preferring to eat raw fruit but instead choosing vitamin pills. Yeah I know it can be pain in the butt to prepare fruit after a long tiring day. Nah raw fruits still taste absolutely better than pill.
Today, I finally visited the long awaited one of the only few if not one castle in Malaysia - the Kellie's Castle. I could feel the medieval luxurious design still resonating in its atmosphere. An halfway underground wine cellar with a few small openings to the ground outside as airflow and a sealed chamber where I couldn't get any further. It was naturally cool in this cellar despite having no fan nor air cond. Then its ground floor serving as dining hall and living room. 1st floor as master bed room followed by daughter's room and son's room. 3rd floor and 4th floor having guest room. A corridor that could be said as balcony connecting different rooms. There even got secret passages connecting to outside from their bed rooms. A roof top tennis court maybe. Also a lift in there but not connecting to ground floor. A guard house and horse stable next to it at entrance. A big portion of the yard had crumbled. A few narrow spiral staircases here and there.
Went to Penang today. Got dad to eat Jawa Mee for the first time according to him. Jawa Mee kinda has a unique flavour to it like a tomato paste mixed with Idk what. Then some friend cracker and crushed peanut on top to enhance its flavour. We dined at the so called once famous Misai Jawa Mee in Butterworth. For only RM 5, despite portion is a little small it was still way more cheaper than around Klang Valley. At night we dined at a restaurant called 大街小港. Its "three cup chicken" was tender and boneless.
Came home early today as no doing 2nd trip as tomorrow morning heading to Penang for work / holiday. I finally took action on a page that I been planning to do for a while - Under Maths > Exact Value of Trigo stuff. Also a golden ratio was filled in in the mean time between difficult topics in the exact value stuff.
Damn hard for me to come home early but the optic shop that sis recommended off on Mon.
Today morning in Bukit Fraser was colder than usual due to some rain to drizzle in night time. As usual breakfast at Puncak Inn's Cattelya Cafe. Today was somewhat quiet not many people seen there. It was one of the fewest people - Sunday seen so far. Weird? And not a single soul seen in the Kayak area Allan's Water. I finally tried the sup kambing in one of the Malay stalls in food court. It was okishly meh still leaving to be desired. Dinner went to the Yong Tau Foo at Rawang. 4 eggplants and a tau foo for me XD. This time was my 3rd time going outside in 70cm black thigh high stockings. Looks like everything went fine. It even gave some warmth especially early in the morning.
As of writing, now I am waiting on a bench in Ace. Hopefully today easy peasy. Just now dad got sparked interest of a Idk what eatery stuff in Bukit Tinggi at the foot hill to Genting. Yet this place seems off track from the route to Bukit Fraser. Hmm let's see how will stuff unfold.
Went to Bukit Tinggi for a dinner at Hong Heng Seafood Restaurant - Steamed "Wan" Fish Tail was good, a slimy smooth egg "tin chet vege" was ok, while the last pork feet vinegar was worst. I ended up feeding lots of stray dogs there with bone and thick fat. Then proceeded to Bukit Fraser from this side of the road for the first time. Arrived at kinda early at 10:45 PM where people were still seen hanging around at the Clock Tower. I concluded that going to Bukit Fraser from home passing through Bukit Tinggi was a detour making the whole route longer than usual straight up from Rawang to Kuala Kubu to Bukit Fraser.
Dad's hooked to Brew House frozen mug beer and here we went again. As usual he got the grilled chicken chop while me got its Signature Pork Chop and add on a Spaghetti Carbonara what a glutton I had become today. Heard we going to Fraser on Sat night, then deliver goods to Penang on Tue and staying over til Wed I was getting mildly excited looking forward to them.
Last few weeks was my right arm having pimples, now that they are healed comes my left arm though not that much than right arm last time. More like they are itchy to cause me to scratch them over.
Dad's purposely sissy version of my notification tone - "我好怕呀“ was so funny but he was scared as hell when I tried to record it. It could have made a good laugh down the road... sigh.
Bloody hell today got a cockroach again on the floor in front of fridge. I killed it with plastic bag wrapped over my hand. I could still smell its signature cockroach smell upon killing it. Eeek!
My honey melon winter melon mix was surprisingly refreshing after being put into fridge. Holy cow good taste way better than served warm.
Morning tagged along with Uncle Ken and his family to eat durian in Kuala Pilah. While they preferred the ones in fridge I chose the non-fridge as a superior one imo was way better than even the freezer one. Even a dull looking pale yellow one "bamboo leg" tasted actually good. Mainly this place selling "kunyit durian".
First time outside in a thigh high stockings with dad. He claimed it was woman cloth again as expected while hands covering his mouth when saying it like jokingly embarrassing. I paired it with one of my denim short shorts and sneaker. This time I had my sneakers a padding inside to feel more comfy than last time. Also another thin ankle socks to reduce chaffing to toe. I didn't know which one worked out in the end cuz this time no longer got toe bubbling like last time went to Mid Valley with it.
Evening I gone to nenek house for dinner. I brought over my sugarless mixture of winter melon and honey melon. Uncle Yan claimed I should have put rock sugar in while aunt ying was ok without sugar. Also started taking my first photo of my meal for a blog section.
Hao been captivated by my Counter Strike CZ in laptop lol straight out asking for it right after I arrived. What incredible allure from such old games despite barely knowing how to play. I found his reading ability still quite lacking when I was trying to help him navigate the menu by saying out what to click on. Granted, he did not have any semi decent games to play - all were imo playstore trash.
Aunt Kuan, aunt Ying and Kai were testing out a little crypto stuff with an app wallet thingy called World coin thingy. I did not have good faith with crypto wallet now. Since they asking me for advise, I could only told them the possible risks happening like what been through with Celsius wallet. And recommended paper wallet as a long term hold solution if they need.
Looked like no one had the patience to really really give it all to solve Jiu Lian Huan in which I brought over. Even Aunt Ying that requested for it last week that I brought it over to play. Not to mention Hao.
Bloody house got mosquitos for the past few days from me getting bitten from sitting in kitchen. At night I killed one inside sis's room with electric racket and one more killed in toilet with hand.