LAYSAN-ISMS

Christmas Tree II - Decoration

ornaments from Fenwick, Marks n' Spencer, Primark and X'mas Box wit the naked tree

Jo and Ven setting the lights up..

Lotsa 'ouch(es)!' fr Ven because of the needles of the tree..HAHA!

wit only the lights on

wit both the ornaments and the lights on - Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

snowflake?star?

glass angel

ball?sphere?

fake grass wit flowers and lights

and FINALLY.

Christmas Tree

We received our REAL x'mas tree today!!!

It's a Norway Spruce..app. 6ft tall..costs us a grand 35 pounds for both the tree and the stand..

and THIS is how it looks like..

and yes, it touches our ceiling..

me wit the new fren

More pics will be uploaded after the decoration is done..gold and purple (or black perhaps) are the colors we r planning to go for..and a REAL wreath is on its way..woohoo~stay tuned.

this is where i am staying right now..

The bed

My room

The incredibly small study table

Door + my study table
My personalised notice board..and the gal is kate moss..i got it from topshop that day..HAHA
We dont have a hook, nor a proper small desk..so we decided to make a box, being covered with a bedsheet, a small desk to put our mirror on..

Living room without a tv.

Kitchen + living room
Kitchen 1
Kitchen 2

The staircase

The second door after the entrace

The entrance. erm..the floral cloth is actually the remainder of vendee's curtain that we used to block the glasses so that ppl cant c us fr outside..

Happy Merdeka!

i have never been a patriotic person but i must say that the specials Astro did for Malaysia's 50th birthday has somehow touched me in someway. so i guess maybe i shld drop sth here to commemorate this special day.

apparently, Astro has come up with the idea of finding 50 persons, aging fr 1-50, who were born on 31/8 for interviews abt their lives and experience. so each interview was to be shown each day, starting fr the 1-year-old infant until the 50-year-old uncle. sorta a countdown so to say. i know this sound quite normal but do save ur comment until the last part of this entry. (mayb u will feel like the way i do after u have finished reading it. i hope u do, at least.)

so today, they were showing the making of the specials. i watched and i really think that they have done a great gob. in the making, they showed us first, how the 50 persons were found. before i saw this, i never found it hard to find them because for me, u could have just paid a visit to the name registry o whateva and asked for the list of names who were born on 31/8. easy rite? but surprisingly, they were not 'discovered' in that way. instead, each of the crew called their friends, their friends' friends', their friends' parents, their friends' parents' friends and the list went on, in order to look for these people. pretty manual i must say. and it did not just stop there. having found the people u need did not mean that they would do whateva u asked. most of the peeps found were very reluctant to broadcast themselves in tv whilst some (emphasis on people ranging fr 30-40) went very suspicious abt ur call and kept asking u questions to confirm that u were genuinely inviting them to show up in tv and yet, give u a big no in the end.

according to the crew, the hardest part was the shooting of kids. they were blardy uncontrollable and of course, they lived in their own world so what u said din affect them much actually. and fr what i saw, i can feel that the crew could have lost their patience at any time but they just couldnt let it out on the kids because first, the parents were there keeping an eye on u and second, scolding them would only make them cry like hell and it would do no good. so definitely a credit here for the crew members.

and there was this part where i found it pretty funny. a Malay man was interviewed and in his part, he was supposed to read a script that had been prepared beforehand. he just couldnt remember what he was to say and his friend had tried to help him by telling him whats next behind the cameramen. i could see that the man had tried his best, because he said, "kali ini pasti boleh!". and yet, he still couldnt do it. HAHA! his fren went 'urgh...' and in the end, the man wrote his script on a board and his friend held it in front of him (behind the cameramen of course) for him to read. good take. finally. a 5-second shot can really turn out to be a day of work man. crazy.

and they had also found a couple who were both born on 31/8. so the crew asked the husband to say 'happy birthday' to the wife and it went like this:
"zhu ni sheng ri kuai le..umphfffffff....HAHAHAHAH!". the husband broke into a hysteric laugh himself, leaving the wife in shock and dunno what to say. HAHAHAHA! classic man. i laughed like mad when i saw this part and my granny asked, "jiang hao xiao meh". -______-"

speaking of the stuff Astro did, i must say that their advertisements are really good. their ads are dramatic yet meaningful, funny yet touching. very well done indeed. my fav piece gotta be the 'love knows borders' ad. i like the indian ah ma man. so cute. HAHA! u guys shld really c that.

i hav still hav quite a lot to say but i feel kinda tired now. so this is to be continued...hopefully.

Tuesdays with Morrie

Just finished watching the tuesday with morrie movie and this is what i think:

1. Morrie asked: "Whats wrong for being number 2?".

A simply-worded question indeed. But hell, YES. whats wrong for being number 2? People are striving to be number 1 BUT what the reason is really. Fame? Pride? To avoid the sarcasm and shamefulness that you are gonna face for being defeated by number 1? Doesnt the person who gets number 2 always get the chance, or should i say the advantage, to do better next time? You might think that 'Ah, its a plain excuse for not being the best.' HAHA. True enough. But where does being the best get you to anyway? Happiness? Yea a short-term one maybe because there might as well be a person who beats you down later on and makes your so-called happiness vanish in a 'Puff!-all gone' way. Of course, competition might bring you improvement. But thats only ONE of the many sideeffects that might arise. Say, in the end, you won. And so what? You might have lost something when you gain the other and the circle goes on and on and on. I know this is a bit out of line with morrie's question but i just feel like writing something. HAHAHA.

p/s:
I have come across a person's blog saying that 'never be satisfied' is his favourite quote, reason being that its not that you will 'never be happy' but that you are to strive to be better always. True enough and it suits quite well with the 'whats-wrong-for-being-number-2' question isnt it? Well, at least i think so though.

2. Funeral/Hospital seems to be the very place where people tends to meet up --> how sad.

Man, dun u think that people tend to show their kindness, or maybe love (and i doubt that very much), when someone is dying? You will see a whole bunch of people gathering around the dying bed of a person, trying to show their concern to the dying man. Well, if you really care about that person, why do you show up only when he has got few months or even weeks left to live then? Is it that you feel so guilty that you think that a 10-min-visit will make you feel better when the person is dead? If this is true, my inference of that mindset will be that you really think that a 10-min visit will pay off what you have not done for the past. And instead of trying to bring some joy to the person of which the whole purpose of the visit is supposed to be, you are making yourself feel better. SHALLOW, not to say selfish.

3. Morrie said, 'Death, Love and Marriage are the three things that most men are scared of.'

How true. We are afraid of death because thats the end of our life. There will be separation and if you are fortunate enough, there will be people who will cry for you. We are scared because we are leaving without anything that we have had. Worse, we dun know whats gonna happen after death. As morrie said, people are scared to love and be loved because of the fear of being hurt. Its like if you know there will be divorce at the end of the day, what is the point of marriage in the first place. How pathetic and negative.

4. Morrie said, 'Silence makes people uneasy.'

HAHA! Totally agree. But why? No idea.

Enough said. Time to EAT. My all time fav. HAHAHA.