When life hands you insects ...

... Pray that it's a Volkswagen Beetle. Pray hard!


The Beetle I drove past today. I held up traffic on campus parking grounds by insisting on taking a picture :P

Sometimes I think life is openly taunting me by putting a YELLOW Beetle in my line of sight every few days. The last one I spotted was just 9 days ago! Maybe it's a more common car than I'd initially thought :(

Anyway, every Tuesday at 12pm, I'm supposed to have lunch with Jenny and Shang. Neither of them showed today - Shang has to prep for her theatre gala (The Reluctant Saint: The Musical starts running this Wednesday night :D) while Jen overslept due to a flu med overdose. So that left me with an empty hour between classes with nothing to do and my other friends printing assignments :(

Luckily, I bumped into Jacqui - my editor from my college newsletter and now an Honours student at Monash! :) She asked me if I was going to Dr Julian's book launch. Talk about serendipity, hehe!


Dr Julian C.H. Lee's first book launch: "Islamization and Activism in Malaysia", circa RM30

The book launch was really interesting! :D I know, I know, you probably think I'm the biggest nerd since Urkel to spend my lunch hour in a room full of hardcore academics, but this was the first book launch I'd ever attended - and even if it wasn't like those fancy book launches we see in Hollywood movies or TV programs, it was still a cool experience! :D

It was kind of structured like a lecture, eventhough it didn't feel like one. I learnt some stuff about the Islamization of Malaysia, the peculiarity of the fatwa, and some key conversion/"apostacy" cases, and how there seems to be a way forward via activists joining forces on legal, social and political ends. Interesting, right? :)

At least it was a fun, non-assessed way to start the week :D Gotta work on my Law Debate now :/ Ho hum.

P.S: I won't make any apologies for being a self-involved, stereotypically shallow 21-year-old, but if you're someone other than myself reading this, I'm sorry you have to read about how thrilled I am that my hair is growing long again ... when there are so many more important things going in the world right now :P To add salt to your morally-offended wound, I'm also going to add that when my hair starts turning grey/white, I'm going to dye my hair a very dark shade of brown :D


I also realised that photos taken directly are clearer than photos taken via mirror reflections. Hmm. Lol.

"If it's yellow let it mellow. If it's brown flush it down."

A landmark move in water conservation, according to Urban Dictionary. :D

Anyway - it's The Weekend! :) Lots of homework and reading to do, but at least there are no classes for the next two days!

Today, I decided to break into my aztec leggings (the RM15 ones!) with my favourite ridiculously oversized crisp white shirt :D



And then I must've gotten my internal navigation system caught in the patterned print of my pants, because I outdid myself today in terms of going to the wrong classroom.

My tutorial was supposed to be in Building 6, Level 2.
I wound up at Building 2, Level 6.

I wasn't even in the right building!

Luckily I bumped into my lecturer, who then led the way to the correct classroom :(



I accidentally signalled myself into the same lane as the SYT (Slow Yellow Tractor, not Sweet Young Thing) today. Usually all the cars avoid it, but I decided to take five and practise some patience by deliberately following it for the next five minutes. :D It was really nice. Life was suddenly moving at a rapidly slower pace.

And then I saw my dream car a.k.a. Yellow Volkswagen Beetle whizzing past me with two doors and an unbelievably lucky girl behind the wheel:



Seriously, how much does that car cost here? I really have no idea, but I'm guessing it's a lot because it's 9982938291 times less common than a Myvi or Proton! Can you believe that a used yellow VW beetle is only $5,875 in America? They get all the good prices there! :( If I really can't ever afford one in real life, I'm totally going to get one for my SIMS 3 the next time I play it! :P

Or maybe settle for an alternative and significantly cheaper yellow car :D

Yellow Archie Grand notebook from Ade of ilovesnackfood.com :)