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It’s barely a week old and my awesome pocket scrabble has lost its awesomeness. It’s missing an A tile!

I’m going to buy a new one. Yes, I’m that upset.

Wonderfully Wordy Weekend

This was at half time, waiting for my dad to come out of the loo to go his turn. My new awesome pocket Scrabble’s got me tied to my couch – on a Saturday. Hello, geekdom (hey at least it’s not chess)! Like an attention deprived kid, I got the parents to play with me. I can’t even remember the last activity we did as a family, so this was nice. And hilarious, not to mention.

After what took like forever because of my parents’ incessant phonecalls, my dad emerged the winner by a landslide. He’s a real pro, I tell ya. He loves to form words that make other words, that in turn leaves us opponents in a state of incredulousness and exasperation. It doesn’t help that he’s familiar with the Scrabble dictionary either. We were like, hello, what kind of a word is ‘et’? Smugly, he asked us to check the Scrabble dictionary – and it apparently exists!

He finished off his tiles with the word ‘Qadi’ (‘kadi’ in Malay) – for 52 points, which my mom and I also thought was ridiculous because we hadn’t heard it being used in an English context before. Confidently, my dad even offered a variant spelling: cadi. And whaddaya know, he’s right.

Me: (amazed) How do you know so many words?!

Dad: (clearly very pleased with himself) I fifty years old already whaat.

I think I’m hooked to Scrabble. Its new, fresh smell makes me want to do nothing but.

Smelly cat, smelly cat. What are they feeding you?

I think Ashley might’ve been human in her previous life. I fed her the leftover milk filling hello pandas from yesterday night, and she’s totally digging it! I bet she’s never tasted something so unique in texture – it’s always been either solid or semi solid, never solid and liquid. After she took a bite and the milk filling came oozing out, she was undecided on how to go about eating this strange but delicious thing – do I lick it or do I bite it? Initially she decided on licking away the milk filling first, finishing off the rest of the crumbs after, but being the fast learner she is, she subsequently took hearty bites, savouring the two textures together. She ate four whole pieces before she suddenly galloped crazily away. All that human food is definitely getting to her brain.

Some of the weird-by-cat-standards food Ashley’s consumed: bread, teh tarik, ribena, french fries, some kueh with gula melaka. She even likes to chew on coriander leaves and spring onion.

Ashley’s one adventurous kitty!

Hello, Panda

I am determined to cover another 3 chapters tonight, even if it means sacrificing dear sleep. And my vanilla coke and hello pandas (I checked, no melamine) are going to help me do just that.

And then come morning, I’m having long john’s one-inch toast breakfast. After the hearty meal, I’m going to sleep. And when I wake up, I’ll study another 3 chapters. And my life will be sleep wake up study sleep wake up study until the exam on Friday.

I can’t wait to try out my new pocket Scrabble!

Poisonous Bonds

Effortlessly suave men like Bond make even the most gorgeous and intellectual alpha females stupid. Because they’re so smooth (and hot), you know for a fact he knows you’re not the only woman he could have and although chances are he does have a few, you can’t help but still want him nevertheless.

Your own stupidity eats you up inside but as soon as another opportunity at a godforsakenly tasty Bond morsel arises, you pounce right on it. Poisonous drugs these Bonds are.

Fortunately there are few poisonous Bonds (dismayingly even fewer good Bonds), but when you do run into one…well, may god help you with whatever needs helping.

Power Serve

So that’s me, the fallen soldier, a few seconds following a fast and hard hit right smack on the forehead. Thank god we had the volleyball deflated a bit after the guys got carried away inflating it, making it hard as a rock. I can’t believe Ad got this on camera. It’s too damn hilarious! You can see who’s really concerned (Haffiz, because he served) and who’s smirking (basket, look at Nazzmie’s expression!).

Don’t you just looove candids?

Bitter Goodbyes and Sweet Hellos

I’m saying goodbye to the first and only blog I’ve ever had since 2004. It feels like I’m leaving an old friend and it’s sad, but sometimes you’ve got to follow your heart.

I can’t wait to see how things turn out.