I call it an investment

Today I once again went to AEON Bukit Tinggi here in Klang. This was the third time so far and we all made the promise on leaving the ground floor this time (since we've spent around seven hours there all together the previous times). Sure we went to the first floor but how far we managed is another story. The three hours that were meant for trying on cute tops and gorgeous shoes were spent at the optician where I managed to spend RM 1300 on a new pair of glasses from Dior. The girl that worked there, Jenny, was the cutest and was as helpful and friendly an optician can ever be.

But obviously new spectacles wasn't enough, so I even bought contact lenses for the first time! I'm actually wearing a pair right now and it's kind of weird but I'll get used to it. However I hope it won't be long until I get used to putting them in which is the biggest difficulty ever! But after a lot of tears and laughs I finally managed quite well (if you can call it that). I'm amazed at how cheap contact lenses are here, three months cost only RM 50 and even though our SEK is very low at the moment it was definitely a catch compared to the Swedish prices.

Mami also bought a pair. Very expensive ones so I don't even dare to write it down, haha. I told her that everything we bought today should be seen as an investment. How would we otherwise go back to Sweden in two weeks and look at the bills...Anyway, I will pick them up (the new glasses) on Tuesday. Very satisfied.

Can a day get more jj?

Of course we see and experience weird things in life but occasionally they all don't happen on the same day! Today we followed my uncle to do some business and rather unusual things happened.

1. There was a big traffic jam on the bridge while crossing the Klang River. Why? Well, because there had been some kind of accident and there were dead people floating around in the river which had to be picked up. The most jj thing here though was that all the busy body people had to pull over to stand there and watch! Watch the dead people being fished up! Who voluntarily wants to see that?!

2. Then, while waiting in the car I was just bending forward to pick something up and my top's strap broke! I, of course, panicked because I couldn't continue the rest of the day with an one strap top, unless I wanted people to really laugh at my sense of fashion...Thank God Vicki was creative enough to turn it into a tank top! Thanks Vicki!

3. When uncle Kevin later dropped us off at Tesco, Setia Alam a while, so we wouldn't get bored, there was a disgusting creepy man stalking us! First I did not notice him besides staring since it happens quite often here (people don't seem to see foreigners that often here or something!). But as he constantly came closer and continued staring like that, mum told us to walk away, QUICK! But as we walked, he followed and popped up just in front of our faces. I was so scared. Luckily, we got rid of him by escaping to the women section. Uncle Kevin later concluded him as one of those psychos.

4. Then, last but not least on the way home we saw a female walking on the road in opposite direction, wearing a towel turban! Hahaha! Had she got herself a bad haircut?, I wondered. My goodness, talk about this day being jj, huh?

FINALLY!!!

You have no idea how wonderful it was to finally wash my hair (and actually being able to comb it)! I think I've never felt this happy about actually taking a shower and washing my hair. After I had the perm done Syu Yi jie jie said I shouldn't wash my hair in three days in order to make the perm more effective. Of course, I could have skipped all those days and washed it the day after, but mum persuaded me into letting it be since my hair was so curly before. Usually, I wash my hair every day so you must imagine how awful it felt not being able to clean it in three whole days! Yuck.

But I'm quite happy I didn't, because I can already see that my hair is straight now but not extremely straight straight. It must be because of the maggi mee curls I had this past year, haha. I don't think I will ever go back to that curly. Sure it was beautiful, but the work and time put on it to get it into such a shape wasn't that wonderful I can just tell you. I won't say that I never will go curly again but that's just not something that I consider for the future at this point. I'm still very satisfied with my new straight (but not extremely straight straight, haha) hair since it is much easier to handle, compared to some other stuff I'm facing at the present moment.

Maybe it's not Audrina Patridge straight but I like it =)

Finally a dinner with grandpa

I can't believe that we still haven't went out to have a real real dinner with grandpa after these six we've been here so far. We've just been to busy being at other places, but happily enough that's going to change tonight. Or actually in the matter of minutes. Okay, now I've got to get ready. Luckily, there's no hair crisis to deal with!

Hasta la vista!

Sophia Bush haircut xD

(Peek-a-boo before I have a picture at the real stuff)

Finally I've got that straight hair I've been longing for for such a long time. I was so tired of fixing my huge bird nest every morning that I had moments when I just thought that wouldn't life be easier if I just cut it all off and wore a wig!? Luckily enough, I did not do such a thing and here I am today with my silky, smooth and tremendously straight hair. It's what I call sexi-mama hair, haha!

It wasn't really planned that I was going to get it done today but since I had nothing better to do I followed Syu Yi jie jie to the hair salon where she works and two and a half hour later I walked out with hair a la Brooke (Sophia Bush) in One Tree Hill. That means that it's cut to the shoulders, yes but I'm getting used to it and I realized that I really like it even though I was terrified when she grabbed a pair of scissors (since I've saved my hair for so long) and said that I really needed to get rid of my split ends. Anyhow, the fact that Vicki keeps looking at me while sighing:

- You look exactly like Brooke...You're hair is soo pretty...

doesn't really make me that sad either about my hair being slightly shorter. However, when mum and Syu Yi jie jie said that I looked younger...I have no more comments to add, haha! =)

A piece of everything

I'm such a lazy blogger, I have lots of things I want to write about but I'm too lazy to sit down and really make it happen. Actually I was going to post something yesterday when I got home from supper, but PS's house was one among the five houses that just had to get a power outage (at midnight!). First, I thought I was going to die when it actually struck me that I had to sleep without air-condition, but then it got worse when I came to realize that there wasn't even a fan available! Good lord, the only luck I had was the fact that I'm not afraid of the dark. Luckily, about 01.30 am. someone came to fix it (by then I was half dead and had three mosquito bites already -.-) and I could get some real beauty sleep, kind of.

- That bed is as hard as a rock! PS has some jade mattress with heating lights (that we finally persuaded not to have on while sleeping. Honestly, I will melt to death in my sleep!) on it to improve blood circulation and strengthen the skeleton, but that really must be bullshit! I'm 16 years old and I have my first back pain!

Anyhow, Genting was great but soooooooooooo crowded! My goodness, I will tell you everything later when I have the pictures to share my story with. However, even though there were so many people there, I couldn't find anyone really cute! All I could find was a tacky sense of dressing! Horrible, horrible...-.- It shouldn't be allowed to buy clothes like that - anywhere! Oh, and I went to sing karaoke with Vicky and mami for the first time! Gosh, that was so much fun...

Genting Highlands next! xD

Wohoo! Tomorrow I am finally off to Genting Highlands. I'm not this excited because I'm a gambler, I'm just excited because I kind of like it up there. Briefly said, haha. Anyway, I'll be there Sunday to Tuesday, so I will see when I'm back to update. Promise that I will take a lot of pictures but I can't promise that they will be posted until I get back to Sweden though (if you read my blog you should know the stupid reason why...-.-).

Becoming a Swedish meatball???

(However, I'm still allowed to think that the chocolate fudge ice cream at Baskin & Robbins is devine...)

I love my Malaysian diet but at the same time I hate it and what it will do to my body in the long run. I might be having vacation and on vacations you are suppose to eat what ever you want, but eating above your needs (and then I really mean it!) during two months time is a little bit to exaggerating according to me.

Sometimes I would call myself very blessed here since we're constantly surrounded by people that love food, which means that we get to taste a lot of yummi stuff when they take us out eating, but on the other hand, it's quite awful at the same time because they are always expecting us to be starving when they are ordering...So in the end there's a lot of "I insist you take another bite! They don't have this in Sweden, huh?" and "Eat, eat, eat! When you come to Malaysia of course you have to eat, then when you go back you can go diet, okay?". This is kind of cute and actually very kind of them to say but sometimes I just wish they weren't that cute. I have no intentions of being rude but: Hello, I want to fit into my jeans when I get back to Sweden!

A small taste of Cameron Highlands

I know that these might not be the best quality pictures I took on my weekend in Cameron Highlands but it's all I can offer with my phone's camera at this moment.

Tea plantation we stopped to take a picture of on the way home...

Me with the yummi strawberry ice-cream (still very happy)...

Which changed when I looked like this Sunday night. -.- See the watch mark!?

Looking like a tomato -.-

Seriously I can't believe this, honestly said now, bullshit. Never in my wildest dream had I expected to get a tan on a trip to the mountains. Or I can't even call it a tan, because a tan is something that is sexy and glowing, something that Eva Longoria has. What I have is tomato skin! I never turn red, I always turn brown directly! Did I say ALWAYS loud enough? Okay never mind if I'm red because I will turn brown later, but the real issue isn't that. The real issue is that I'm not evenly sun-burned since I was crossing my arms walking around in that morning market, so I have a freaking watch mark on my left arm! It's so ugly! Besides, it reminds me on my fair skin that I managed to keep so long before this trip totally ruined my plan of not getting brown until my last week here. I'm sooo vexed right now...

If I wouldn't have listened to my aunt and my uncle Alvin that said that Cameron Highlands isn't cold at all, then I would have brought my jacket with me to that awfully cold place and also, I would have worn it to that market no matter how bright the sun was and then I wouldn't have ended up like a this. - This is called discolored! -.- (I'll post a picture when I get access to bluetooth at PS's laptop later this week).

Cameron Highlands tomorrow

Wohoo! Tomorrow I'm leaving for a weekend in Cameron Highlands, where I've never been before. Probably I'll be back on Sunday or the latest, Monday to blog. I will try to snap some photos with my phone, I feel like this poor little blog starts to become very plain without some shots (and I don't mean the ones you drink if you haven't got that yet -.-. Hehe.)...Ciao!

MJ Live in Bucharest

Omigod is all I have to say. Right now I'm lying in PS huge bed watching Michael Jackson Live in Bucharest that AS bought yesterday when we went a quickie to Carrefour. First of all, I never thought that that much people can be filled into an arena, but obviously people from all around the world came to watch it. Secondly, I really don't get how they can act as crazy as they do! Okay, you can scream and sing a long but honestly, cry like a baby, tear out your hair and try to climb up on stage is a little bit too much, ain't it? Then when some have to be carried away by paramedics...I wonder is it really worth to what, get a heart attack just by going to that concert!? I can't even imagine getting out when the concert is over, if you haven't got hurt by someone crazy during the actual performance no doubt you're going to be smashed while getting out...-.- I said earlier that I love live music, but to the extent of seriously ending up injured, I'm not so sure anymore. Okidoki, now I'm gonna get back to watching this wild circus. I must admit that it's really amusing, hahaha.

Seafood supper

One thing I've learnt here in Malaysia is that Chinese people will do a lot for good food. An example is today's supper with PS (my mum's cousin that we're staying with now) where we went all the way from Klang to Kuala Selangor just to eat seafood supper. The drive took like 40 minutes with the Formula 1 driver AS (it would take more than an hour for sure with my uncle Alvin!) who speeds like crazy and she's driving an SUV, not a sports car! Haha...Anyhow, the food was delicious, especially compared to the one piece o durian I was forced to eat today, but I'm still amazed that they are willing to go that far just for supper! No wonder Ho Chak (food program showing all the delicious things to eat in Malaysia) is so popular here, I still remember our own Ho Chak food trip to Seremban last year. However, those new hosts that replaced the old ones really suck and they are not at all cute like the others!

Well, well, as long as these good suppers are continuing during night I must really work off those calories during the day. But that won't be too difficult I suppose, I can just shake it off with their i-So. God, I wish I had one of those at home. Exercising would be my favourite thing to do then! Haha...Can't believe I just wrote that.

Waiting for Jackson's funeral

In about two minutes the big big funeral begins. In Sweden it would be the perfect time to watch it (07.00 pm.) but here it's kind of late. But since I don't go to sleep until 03.00 am. anyway, I will watch the big event or what you should call it. I still haven't got the fact that he's actually gone. Neither that he converted into Islam like a year ago. Michael Jackson a Muslim, that really surprised me when my uncle told us while fetching us to eat roti canai the other day. Not that I'm against it or anything, religion is up to each individual to decide for himself/herself but since he lives in the US where people can be very "cruel" unchristian people, I just got a bit surprised. Oh, starts now! Ciao!

Just what I needed ;)

Finally I got a truly happy go lucky day that felt on the edge to perfect, but since nothing ever is perfect there of course had to be something not so good - like biting myself in the cheek just now when I ate my vegetarian noodle dinner. Maybe it sounds a bit late for eating dinner but when you are out shopping time flies! Four hours were spent at the ground floor didn't get any further of AEON Bukit Tinggi (the biggest Jaya Jusco in Malaysia) and some shopping was really necessary considering the big SALE signs making our eyes (or at least mine) sparkle...But don't assume that I was the big shopaholic today. No no, I only bought a green top (even though they had pink!) from Hush Puppies while mum (especially her) and Vicki were the ones who really spent money. However, after her purchase mum claimed that the GUESS top and bag that she just bought were going to be our future birthday gift to her, so that made me go above my budget shopping anyway.

Actually I was planning to buy a GUESS bag too. One of those small brown clutch sling bags, but since I questioned myself several times whether I needed another GUESS bag in my collection, consisting of two bags and a wallet (that I never had the time to use yet), I figured that I didn't really love it that much (to the extent of not being willing to let go of it to the bitchy girl with ugly colorful shoes, who also elbowed me two times!). But besides that, the day was a success! Okay, now I'm going to get back to reading Saving Fish From Drowning and stop babbling about my awesome day. See, I have the feeling that a lot of mosquitoes are on their way to feast on my Eurasian flesh...

Lots of stupido moves here -.-

When people ask me if I want to go to the places connected to the jungle I always laugh it away with a big smile before I get serious and kindly decline their offer with - Naa, that's not really my style...Today, however, the city girl in me had to step outside its normal areas, and the most stupido thing is that I forgot a camera to capture the big moment! Me bathing in a waterfall (near the big tourist attraction, the Batu Caves) that almost made me freeze to death would had been a picture perfect environment to indulge in. I bet that even Tyra Banks would have been a bit jealous about not having brought the Top Model team there yet. Nonetheless, I most admit that I wouldn't have been able to show the pictures directly since the camera cable is in Sweden, which also was kind of a stupido move. -.-

Anyhow, if we now return to the jungle waterfall bathing I just have to point out how horrible cold it was. I thought I would get used to it after a while but as my toes began to turn blue, I knew I wouldn't. During the entire time I've been here I've had warm hands and feet (which I don't have in Sweden, so see why M'sia is so good for me!) until today when I sat my foot in that jungle water. However, I can't deny that the whole "bathing in the waterfall" still might have been an experience I now at least will remember experiencing, even though my body disapproves.

Lucky us

Just saw that Akon's concert at Sunway Lagoon tonight is postponed to October 24! I ran to my sis to deliver the news just now.

Me: How lucky aren't we that we didn't buy tickets!
Sis: Lucky? I wasn't planning to go, it's only you who thinks those kinds of thoughts.
Me: Huh? What do you mean...

Maybe my illusion of standing in my new purple/red bikini top, swaying my hips to "Hey baby drop it down I just want to see you touch the ground..." while watching the sun go down is only my illusion after all...Many people don't like live music, they say it's bad quality and that there is no pleasure at all only trouble with the queue to get in and the queue to get out. One of those people is my mum who decades ago decided to join my dad to a Prince concert. (Obviously he was pretty famous with his stupid Purple Rain back at that time...and my dad embarrassingly adored him...-.-). Anyhow, after that she never went to a concert again. Which I by the way understands, since we're speaking of a Prince concert...

However, it's such a shame that she had that bad experience and decided to stay away from live music thereafter. After my first concert, Rihanna at Hovet in Stockholm, there was no turning back with my love for it, however.