Fuchsia/Magenta One-Of-A-Kind : Introducing “Dagny Taggart”!

Finally! After the long battle of emotional disorder to re-paint and beginning-of-acceptance, the nonsensical dilemma of color is over. The Dazzling Red Myvi or simply fuchsia colour of mine has finally arrived at Serendah, Hulu Selangor. Well, what was initially an unintentional “mistake” has now become something to be savored.

Angie donning Carolina Herrera‘s fuchsia gown.

After all, I do want a car with a color that not everybody is using (black, white, etc); I do want a color that strikes a pose; I do want a color that is flamboyant. Oh yes, of course the car was marketed for girls and I happened to ‘mistakenly’ buying it with an assumption that the color would be dark-purple; but yeah, it’s time to embrace it. It’s not fair for me to only see the flaws of the color; and ignore the flawless of its hue. One of a kind.

Fuchsia (magenta) color.

Should I be embarrassed? Maybe a little. But hey, have I not experience anything worse than this? I am a secure and a adamant person. I should held my head high for this initial investment of mine! Presenting; my Dagny Taggart!

P/S : Dagny Taggart is named after Ayn Rand’s protagonist character in “Atlas Shrugged”; one of my most favorite novel. The characteristics embodied.

Needle Punctures The Soft Pillow : The Wasp Screws Childlike’s Neck!

Today, God exposes me to another experience. To live in a suburban “kampung” house in a district which still boasting its au naturel flora and fauna, Serendah is a nest of various types of animals. And that to include my own rent-house. A type of wasps – I am not sure whether they are bees or hornets (but not large) has already nested in the house when I entered the house in early 2010. Ayah was adamant to get rid of the wasps but he was bitten. So, I figure out if wouldn’t do harm to live together with the wasp; I mean after all they lived there first and who knows if they are like some reincarnation of some spiritual spirits. So, we lived together.

Punctured mark. Courtesy of Google Image.

Anyway, this type of wasp love to surround lights and lamps. So, this morning before going to school (already donned my Baju Batik) and getting ready; suddenly I felt as like there was an insect at my neck. My first instantaneous thought was that it was an ant or a mosquito; thus I try to shun the insect harshly from the neck. Unfortunately SUDDENLY, I felt a sting punctured at my neck!! OUCHHH!!! It hurts! Then I realized that the ‘insect’ was the wasp! The sting struck me like a needle punctured onto the soft pillow. Man!

The stung from the wasp.

I decided to still go to the school since I thought perhaps the throbbing pain will recede. Furthermore, the kids are more important and I have set a personal goal to limit my MC-taking for this year. Entered the Teacher’s Room and had a talk with Kak Mazidah & Kak Aireen. I then when to the further D Block for 4 Brilliant English class which starts at 7.10 A.M. and my, the journey seemed VERY FAR! The kids were quite surprised seeing me in that lethargic state- not in the usual fiery and excited mode. Well, either way 2 kids were punished for sending homework later that the expected time. As lethargic I was, responsibility to set discipline is still carried on.

Anyway, after the English class finished, I hurried myself to the ground floor of Block B for my 5 Gallant’s Visual Arts lesson. But I went to Teacher’s Room first. And my how shocked I was to find myself in the mirror! My face has turned flushed-red and now the body felt itchy and very uncomfortable. My ligaments and joints were weaken. My neck has the visible punctured mark.

Without hesitation, I went to see my GPK Kokurikulum, Puan Azian and before I said anything, spontaneously she was SHOCKED and FLABBERGASTED to see my flushed-red face!

“What happened to YOUR face????”

I managed to briefed her about what happened and at that time GPK HEM, Puan Zainon were also there as well. They went berserk and asked to me to hurry up seeing the doctor. Without further ado, I went to see doctor at the 24 hour-Poliklinik Serendah. The doctor was quite shocked seeing me and she said that the wasp’s poison has spread quite fast given the state of my body was full with the itchiness and the flush-red mark! She injected the vaccine at my bumcheek (Yeah, I know! I was a bit flustered to know that I have to expose my bumcheek in front of  three ladies! LOL!).

The doctor said the poison is still confined the body and I would have to avoid seafood for a while. Well, and that all caused me around RM76.00! Hmm..the price for health. Anyway, messaged GPK and told her about everything; went home and had the delayed-breakfast and the allergic tablets.

Alhamdulillah, at this juncture the itchiness and flush-red marks are gone although the punctured mark is still visible and I still feel quite lethargic. Well, that’s an experience. The wrath from a small insect of God’s creation. Small; but lethal. Alhamdulillah for all.

“Maulidur Rasul” & Valentine-ism. Serenity Gulf & Cape @ Port Dickson. Mighty Empires @ Malaysian Islamic Arts Museum.

“Maulidur Rasul” or loosely translated as the birth of Messenger of Allah SWT for this year fell on Tuesday, 15th February; marking the historical 12th Rabiulawal. As the last prophet amongst the 25 Chosen Ones (prophets) right from the lineage of Prophet Adam A.S. (Adam), the forefather of the human race to Prophet Isa A.S. (Jesus), Muhammad SAW- a mere man was chosen as the Last Shepherd; not to preach his own philosophical theories, but merely imparted the dogmatic revelation he was told by God SWT with the intermediary of Archangel Jibril A.S. (Gabriel).

Anyway, so happened that Valentine’s Day was around the corner; merely a day before the anticipating day (14th February). As of lately, the ignorant Moslems youngsters who like to be perceived as ‘modern’ and aspiring-to-be-Westerner-Wannabe-but-in-reality-are-just-foolish-and-stupid see Valentine’s Day as the day for liberal sexual escapades and a day ‘to prove my love to thee’. Because of this stupidity, sexual escapades sky-rocketing high during Valentine’s Day and those Moslem youngsters are no exceptional. This what ring the alarms to the clerics committees who are very concern with this unhealthy matter and thus, launched antivalentinism-campaign. The intention is pure and noble because it is to cleanse the bad influences from the Islamic community; nonetheless to preach the relevance of it by bashing other religion is clearly insensitive, for me.

If you ask me, I support 100% with the campaign as it is not my nature or my upbringing to celebrate Valentine’s Day and I also support 100% of what the clerics committees and organizations have done by launching the antivalentinism campaign. NONETHELESS, I oppose the insensitivity  act of affiliating other religion as the CAUSE for all these sexual escapades in preachings or sermons. Those happen because of STUPIDITY; not because of THEOCRACY. I hope nobody will misunderstand this as an act of kufr. I am just being honest and living in a multiracial and mutireligion society makes me very concern over delicate issues. But of course, Islam has always being the one who everybody likes to regard as the scapegoat- For example, the insensitive and narrow-minded ex Singapore Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew unabashedly blamed Islam for problems in integration process.!! Well, the stupid and ignorant heathens play fire, why should we play fire? We give them rains of snow. The fire will die, soon (,”).

OK, back to my social calendar. With that one day off during “Maulidur Rasul”, I take the day as an opportunity to explore the beaches and gulfs scenes at Port Dickson. It was indeed tranquil place with tourism business booming immensely. You can see that there are hotels, motels, chalets and homestay in every nook and cranny you go! Besides that, Port Dickson has been herald as The Town Of Malaysian Military/Army; so the scenes of seeing countless army camps scattered is just ubiquitous! The lagoons and the sandy beaches are serene (Tanjung Biru ; Blue Lagoon) and also had the chance to explore the Portuguese-built lighthouse at Cape Rachado (Tanjung Tuan) which happen to be an exclave of Melaka province in Negeri Sembilan! The blue-yonder scenery was breathtaking; seeing ships sailed across the ocean from the topmost part of lighthouse and cliff- I felt like I was in Bali! Subhanallah!

Around 4.30 P.M., pushed off back to Kuala Lumpur and managed to visit the magnificent Malaysian Islamic Arts Museum at Lake Gardens, near the Islamic complex and National Mosque. Breathtaking relics and antiquated treasures from the Islamic empires are exhibited and replicated in the most beautiful way ever! Kudos to Malaysians for able to come up with this type of museum! I have to say that, it was a worthy visit to see the lineage tapestry of Islamic empires in different parts of continents around the globe (India, China, Turkey, Spain, Arab, etc!)

On whole, I think that the more journeys I take, the wider my horizon would become. Like I said, I have make a promise to make myself amenable to explore and see the world by traveling either locally or abroad; just to give myself chance to experience the various cultural-tasting as well as to open my eyes about the world as it; not to be entrapped in the chrysalis world of my own forever. Alhamdulillah, safe journey y’all.

Unearthing The Raw Alter-Ego In : Chains. Whips. (Pain Is Pleasure) – S&M.

Na na na
Come on
Na na na
Come on
Na na na na na

Feels so good being bad
There’s no way I’m turning back
Now the pain is my pleasure
Cause nothing could measure

Love is great, love is fine
Out the box, out of line
The affliction of the feeling
Leaves me wanting more

[Chorus x2:]
Cause I may be bad
But I’m perfectly good at it
Sex in the air
I don’t care
I love the smell of it
Sticks and stones
May break my bones
But chains and whips
Excite me

***
Oh
I love the feeling
You bring to me
Oh, you turn me on
It’s exactly what
I’ve been yearning for
Give it to me strong

And meet me in my boudoir
Make my body say ah, ah, ah

I like it
Like it

“Backpacking” Travellogue @ Uniquely Singapore : Universal Studio, Merlion Park/City Hall & Orchard Road!

Now, everyone can go abroad provided time and brilliant financial budgeting. Traveling either locally or abroad is good; it opens your horizon to an alien atmosphere and let you to have a peekaboo of the cultures and heritages lie on these places you are never being exposed towards to. I have make promise to make myself amenable for all these diversified cultural-tasting experiences; just to enrich my thinking horizon and explore the world out from my cocoon!

Initially, it was planned that 3 families would be joining the trip but due to some technical eleventh setback, only our family proceeded the plan. With the one-way flight ticket already bought and canceled (thank God it was merely a one ticket and purchased during the promo pricing! LOL!), we (Kakak, Abg Zam, Rifqi, Abg Zam’s niece-Along and me) headed to Johor Bahru via car. Arrived at Danga Bay’s Tune Hotel and then eased ourselves whilst at the same time cracking our skulls trying to figure out how to plan our trips to Singapore. Apparently, Tune Hotel provided a trip-with-bus to Universal Studio Singapore but it was only available for those online purchasers!

Kakak, the main itinerary planner was a bit flabbergasted with the sudden revelation but remained poise. We then asked one of the Tune Hotel staff named Fyda (go find her! She’s good!) who kindly explained to us an alternative route/transportation to go to Universal Studio Singapore. Honestly, we were a bit anxious to travel using public transport in a country we’ve never been but given Kakak who already travelled back-packing style in Aussie, we were quite confident of the en route.

The next day on 2nd February, we went breakfast at Kotaraya II Terminal and then around 9.45 A.M., we boarded a hop-in mini van to Universal Studio Singapore. It only cost RM5 per person. The mini van carried us until The Southern Integrated Gateway where the customs and immigration procedure is being carried out. Obviously, we like in bewilderment and did not know what to do when suddenly, everyone boarded out the mini van and rushed all over to the elevators! We simply followed them suit and finally reached the immigration checkpoints. After that, we rushed back to the mini-van only to find out that we were the last passengers (well, we’ve learned to be fast after that! LOL!). At the Woodlands Checkpoint, I was quite mortified with the stringent immigration procedures of the Singaporean officers; not that it’s a bad thing- they were meant to safeguard their country’s borders, aite? Only that the customs are not really “public-friendly”, still that’s the nature of being a custom officer, I guess.

Universal Studio Singapore is located at Pulau Sentosa, a small island at the most bottom part of the main island of Singapore. At the entrance (HarbourFront) of the causeway/road linking between Pulau Sentosa and Main Singapore, a shopping complex called Vivo City is located. It is the largest shopping mall in Singapore; you can also take MRT to head for HarbourFront and then take a bus to Universal Studio Singapore from Vivo City. Anyway, we arrived there around 11.45 A.M. and….. off to Universal Studio, people!

The main welcome icon would be of course the big round globe, the epitome of Universal Studio emblem. The amusement park is segregated into several sections such as The Madagascar’s, Shrek’s Far Far Away Castle, The Sci-Fi City, Ancient Egyptians, The Lost World (Dinosours), The Old Hollywood, Old New York and many more! We didn’t hesitate and tried :

• The Madagascar pony-rides;
• Photographing with the stars of “Madagascar”, “Shrek” and Old Hollywood starlet;
• Exploring Shrek’s swampy hut; entering Enchanted-Roller Coaster-Ride Airways (I was freaking scare that I hold tight to the iron panel in front of me and murmured prayers! LOL);
• Far Far Away Castle (3D experiences where you have to wear the 3D glass and get the feel of Shrek’s adventure. Example, when The Donkey sneezed, you felt the water upon the face!);
• The Dinosours-Fly-In-Me (awesome! I felt like I am one of the pteranodons!);
• “Lights! Camera! Action! Hosted by Steven Spielberg” should be one of the best ever (you can witness with your own eyes of how basic GCIs are made! Awesome!)
• Battlestar Galactica : Accelerator! (Nice one. Spun in a cup-like space and tossed around in jerky manner! Hehee)

The day went with awesomeness. Initially planned to eat at the so-called Bryani Rice Shop at Ancient Egyptians but we didn’t see any (well, better save the money and eat at JB!). Took the mini van of 4.00 P.M. and off we went back; but the traffic was so ever congested on the Johor-Singapore Causeway due to the fact that many Malaysians who work in Singapore were queuing up to go back to Peninsular Malaysia for Chinese New Year!

That night we went to eat at the so-called famous ‘Singgah Selalu” Restaurant at Johore Bahru. It was an alright/OK. The foods were not that spectacular but were alright. After that, Kakak and I planned out the itinerary for tomorrow as we were planning to take public bus and Singapore’s MRT to venture into the island once again- with neither of us ever explore the island. With certain amount of information obtained from Internet and some bloggers transcription of their own back-packing adventures in Singapore (see, blogging does help others! Thanks a bunch!), we managed to carve out the itinerary.

On February 3rd, we breakfast once again at Kotaraya II Terminal, then hoped into SBS (public bus) bus which was heading towards Singapore’s MRT Kranji. The MRT (mass rapid transit) is something like Malaysian’s LRT, STAR or ERL- only that it comprises nearly 90 over stations located all throughout the island of Singapore! I love the MRT, to be honest. It’s fast, sleek and easy. The bus stopped at MRT Kranji and then we took the MRT straight to the Raffles Place (which by the way is situated at the south part of the island- nearly 10-11 stations apart!). The Singapore law practices “deposit” method as opposed to the Malaysian’s law of “penalty”. We pay more for the MRT cards inclusive of deposit 1 Singapore Dollar for each cards; after arriving at the destination, scan the MRT card and the machine would refund the 1 Singapore Dollar. There is no people selling MRT cards like in Malaysia; only customer services. Kinda cool, huh?

Raffles Place happens to be the financial hub of Singapore. It is like Malaysia’s Jalan Raja Chulan-Jalan Sultan Ismail. All the big, local and foreign banks are located there (including our Maybank Tower!). I am captivated by the New-York aspired Raffles Place’s Centre Square – the moment you go out from the MRT station, you will see it. I honestly feel as if like I was in New York! Not far ahead is the Esplanade that houses the Merlion Park, The “Durian” Esplanade-Theatres On The Bay and from there, we can witness the amazing Marina Bay Sands, the 3 tall buildings with a big horizontal ships on the top of them at Marina Bay! A victory to both Kakak and I for finally succeed in our planning to set footsteps of the soil of these landmarks! *Highfive!*

With Starbucks coffees sipped, we boarded MRT to Orchard station; meaning to go to the famous Orchard Road. Originally, we planned to go to Arab Street which is said to be located in Orchard Road (little we knew that the road is one heckuva LONG road!). Upon arrival to the famous heart of shopping haven of Singapore, we didn’t see any signs of heading towards Arab Street. We then asked a friendly guard who then told us that Arab Street is situated at the farthest side of the street and we have to board bus/taxi to go there! Since we are planning of going back to Putrajaya within that day, we couldn’t manage to board the bus. I then was told that we can simply take the Bugis MRT station (well, perhaps next time!) for Arab Street which is said to be famous with its Sup Tulang Merah. We simply strolled along and had a peekaboo of the shopping lots there- Wisma Astria (something like Pertama Complex), Ion Orchard (extravagant exterior landscape : Starhill’s twin sister) and many more.

We took the MRT back to Kranji station and then the bus to Johor Bahru. Around 6.30, we dined at JB then off back to Putrajaya. Alhamdulillah, it was an eye-opener and horizon-enriching experience. I have to say I LOVE the clean landscape, the sleek-corporate accentuated feel of Raffles Place  and the Penang-feel which is heavily accentuated with colonial aura…BUT, I hate the fact that Singapore emulates what the Westerners do- no water in toilets! They simply use tissues, I guess. Ewww, right? Luckily I didn’t feel like pass motion. Ewwww…. Hehehehe (,”)