Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Chapter : Assignments

Australia, the place where everything is slow paced and relaxed. Why do I say that you might wonder? Or maybe you know why I have said that in the first place? The assignments given here is hell I have to admit that but heck, the due dates they set is totally slacked. For instance, they would give us at least around 7 weeks to complete and essay which we have to write up to 2000 words at least. I have noticed that my will to do work is dying and half the time I am spending my time watching shows, talking online, reading books or even playing games. Then when I look at the time, I keep wondering, “Don’t I have stuffs to do and complete?” and yet I still ignore my assignments and focusing on unimportant things. I have so many assignments to complete to the fact that the deadlines are approaching and I am still slacking off! I so miss the days in college back in Malaysia where I have to rush my ass off to complete my figures and other last minute assignments. I better write down the assignments that I have to do before I forget all about it.

Assignments

1. 1.Memory drawing, need to show by week 8.

2. 2.Essay on games, need to be completed by week 13 (DONE)

3. 3.Essay on games proposal, need to be completed by week 12 (DONE)

4. 4.Sound design assessment 3, need to be completed by week 12

5. 5.Animation project, need to be completed by week 13

6. 6.WIL project need to be completed…got it!

These are the few assignments that I have to complete and my animation project 1; I haven’t even categorized the stuffs that I needed to do. Man, I should really stop slacking and buckle up! My WIL project is doing any good either because I really need to look for a job for this one but the problem is that half the time I am worrying about other things like; “What am I suppose to write for my essay?”, “How am I going to write for my essay?” , “Shit I don’t have enough references!”, “Argh! This isn’t good. Sounds!!!!”

Now tell me whether I’m pretty screwed because I can’t even settle my priorities. I so need to get back to work. Stop worrying about other petty stuffs and focus on the important things and also I need to save some money so I can get…

1. 1.A PSP

2. 2.A Nintendo DS

3. 3.Some new clothes

4. 4.Some other stuffs which I haven’t properly thought about it.

Gah, shall stop writing now. Should now focus on my character design, it is tough when you lack of artistic skills. It takes ages for me to draw a decent drawing. Thankfully in life drawing classes I can somewhat cheat because I mostly made my drawings really messy till I think it fooled my lecturer that I was doing a good job.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Chapter : Life

I have no choice but to actually write something for my blog. I have been neglecting it way too much and focusing on other petty things like, playing the Nintendo DS or some sort. Anyway, it is already April and I have realized that I have stayed here in Brisbane for more than 2 months. A lot has happened and yet, I did manage to settle down way better than before and also made some new friends. Well, those friends are like my sister’s and housemate’s friends, so you get the idea. Winter is approaching soon, well not that soon but it would mean that semester break is coming and I would be back in sunny Malaysia! I can’t wait. Looking back, I have realized that I did some things which I have never really done it before when I was in Malaysia. Things such as:-

1. Watching a movie alone.
2. Wandering around a mall alone.
3. Attending a huge comic convention.
4. Eating alone while reading to pass leisure time at the mall.
5. Visited the public library way too often as though it is my second home.

It got me thinking that it is really fun to do things alone. It actually gives me time to relax and enjoy my surroundings, observing people and having some “me” time. But I really can’t wait to head back to Malaysia where I would indulge myself with all the food I can eat which would enable me to not crave for it every single day of the month! Things that I must first get when I return to Malaysia:-

1. Pan Mee
2. Lam Mee
3. Hokkien Mee
4. Prawn Mee
5. Banana Leaf
6. Nasi Lemak
7. Anything food that requires cut chilies or belacan
8. Fried Kueh Teow
9. Curry Laksa
10. Hor Fun

There is more and the list would go on and on and it will only stop when I run out of ideas on what to it! I shall call that particular outing, “Eating Frenzy”. I can’t wait! Okay, enough of food because it is making really hungry as I type this which it is not good due to the fact that I have eaten enough meals that supposed to last me the entire day! I think it is because of the cold weather making me eat more thus making me put on some weight. I feel like a little chubby bear. Anyway, on with the story, my housemate’s friend, Ben celebrated his birthday just a week ago and the entire household went to celebrate with him and a bunch of his friends. We went to this fancy restaurant where they serve steaks which are really tasty! We all ate our food, talked here and there and eventually everyone went off to their own homes and such. But some decided to stay a little longer, like my housemates decided to go dancing and then we all “migrated” there just to sit down and relax.

I can’t remember what Ben and I were talking about but in the end, he actually lends me his Nintendo DS for me to play! If I was a cartoon character, my eyes will turn into heart shapes and I will turn into this little small human and start dancing around him. It is really shocking for him to actually loan me his DS due to the fact that I somehow just met him and barely know him well enough and yet he is nice enough to lend it to me. I am still in the happy state because I have the DS in my hand and I am constantly playing the games that are stored in there. I am actually playing the DS everyday when I am waiting for the train, inside the train, walking to class or while waiting for lecturer to come to class. That shows how “obsessive” I am with it. I should learn self control now!

Anyway, assignments are piling up as usual and I am really lazy to actually complete them because I feel so relaxed. The air here is cool and nice, I am always alone in my room and well, it is easier for me to fall asleep because of that and also that I normally stay up late just to chat and then have to wake up early for my classes doesn’t seem to help also. Seriously, why do they tend to make us write really damn long essays when half the time we don’t really understand what we just wrote? If you are asking us to keep on drawing stuffs, I understand that it actually helps you with sharpening your skills. Okay, maybe I am just bias. So sue me.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Chapter : Brisbane vs Malaysia

I have been in Brisbane for more than a month now and I can’t wait to go back to my own country now and I think I don’t even want to come back to “Sunny” Brisbane anymore. Why do you ask you may wonder? Why do I say this? You might be thinking, how could you prefer Malaysia compared to Brisbane? I know, compared to Malaysia, Brisbane does have some redeeming qualities that are way better. For instance, the air is fresher here, the place is cleaner and the people are well damn polite from what I have seen. I mean, over here the people actually patiently waits for you while you cross the god damn road! Sorry to say but in Malaysia, you don’t see that often. People would just blast their horns at you and scream at you to get the fuck off the road. You know what I mean and pardon my language. People here in Brisbane would greet you politely and ask you how’s your day and heck, they are just people who works at the cashier! At Malaysia, people don’t give a damn to know how your day is and just give you a cold stare and waiting for you to pay up. That’s how life in Malaysia is.

But the thing is I guess Malaysia has some good redeeming qualities too. I mean, it looks as though I’m dissing about Malaysia but heck no, I’m just explaining the difference that I have experienced here. Malaysia of course has the food; you can’t deny that for a fact. You can literally find all sorts of food there if you know where to look of course. Not only that, there are always shops open till 4am! If you are feeling hungry and want to grab something to eat but feel too lazy to even cook and well, it would literally bother your parents in the house clanking those entire saucepans just to cook something up, but anyway getting back to the point here is that you could just hop into your car and take a drive to the nearest shop and it would still be open! Even all the McDonald’s here are 24 hours, not forgetting KFC. Here in Brisbane, everything closes at 6pm or maybe during their so called late nights, 9pm. Well, the movies would still be running but heck, there is no such thing as late night shows here. Well, I don’t think so that’s for sure. How do people survive here? I know I’m struggling surviving here without my late night hang outs with my friends. Everything here in Brisbane is so dead. Literally.

At Malaysia, you have unlimited usage of water and internet which is a good thing because heck, you can bathe as long as you want and use the internet to the maximum to your liking. Over here in Brisbane, you have water restrictions and bandwith limitations. For an example, you are only allowed to bathe up to maximum 4 minutes and further than that is a big no-no. Also, you have to watch how much water you use because each house is giving a certain amount of water to use and if you used up the water that was given to you; you will have to pay the extra charges. In Brisbane, you are not allowed to water your plants as much as you want nor wash your car to keep it all shiny and clean. Why if you may asked? Simple, the answer is water restrictions. To speak on the bandwith limitations they have here, you are given certain about of usage to use for a month and if you have used up the usage, you will be facing dial-up internets. So technically if you want to download some things and it is taking up so long, I’m afraid that you will have to do some rethinking whether that particular “thing” you are downloading is important or not. Like in my case, since I was facing without the internet for almost a month and I could barely talk to anyone because heck, I JUST GOT HERE and I have really no friends at all so you know.

So my boyfriend was nice enough to spend all his money just to call me and even though we only lasted for 10 minutes each call, it was worth a lot to me. So from that day onwards, each night I look forward for his call before I go to bed because I know that he would definitely call me. But I felt really guilty because he is spending so much money on me in a day. Then luck was on my side because the internet was finally up! The next thing I know I was sharing video calls with my boyfriend each day for hours just talking or stoning literally but just because I really wanted to see the face of someone I love. Every day without fail I would go to my classes in university really happy because I know when I reach home I would be seeing my boyfriend online. Then I guess I was basking in my luck way too much because now I can’t share any more video calls with my boyfriend which hit me really hard. The only happiness I look forward each day is taken away from me. I kept asking God why he does this to me.

I mean I have to endure all those restrictions with water and all and I can take that. Bandwith limitations okay, fine since I won’t be able to download the things I want or go online as often. Now with that particular rule, I’m forced to give up my one and only gateway to communicate with my loved one and not being to see his face each day causes me such pain. I’m trying my best to survive in this strange world with new surroundings. I have turned myself into a loner and I don’t like that. I shut myself in my room, talking to no one except to my friends back home and yet some of my friends are not online because they are busy with their own things.

The only socializing I do is talking to my boyfriend each day sharing our laughter and jokes through our video calls and it makes me smile and live through another day just to see his face smiling back at me. Now, since it has been taken away from me, I will have to struggle surviving again alone in this cruel world. At times like this I’m on the verge of breaking down into pieces and I’m afraid that I wouldn’t be able to patch myself again. I really don’t know how much longer I can take. I don’t want to go into the path of depression just because of this. I really don’t want too. I’m beginning to regret my choice of furthering my studies here. I wished I have found a job instead. At least I would have a social life and I would be so much happier.

Friday, March 28, 2008

Chapter : Jin and My blog.

Yesterday I decided that I would let my boyfriend read my blog. Funny thing is that I never knew that he didn’t know that I have actually a blog that I write occasionally onto. It all started with a conversation on Skype. This is how it went.

[12:31:48 AM] eujinrawks says: trust me, being screwed by me would be the least of your worries when you get back

[12:31:59 AM] eujinrawks says: i was actually thinkin that you'd make me wait

[12:32:13 AM] eujinrawks says: why'd u think it took me so long to ask that random question?

[12:32:22 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: washing cup

[12:32:25 AM] eujinrawks says: i did some serious thinking since that night at ttdi plaza

[12:32:28 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: then i just pop into my mind o.o

[12:32:34 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: *it

[12:32:42 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: what serious thinking o.o

[12:32:53 AM] eujinrawks says: about whether to pop the question

[12:32:58 AM] eujinrawks says: to ask you to be with me

[12:33:00 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: I POPPED THE QUSTION

[12:33:07 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: IT WAS WEIRD OKAY

[12:33:08 AM] eujinrawks says: i didn't worry about how

[12:33:09 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: HOLY SHIT

[12:33:11 AM] eujinrawks says: no it wasn't

[12:33:12 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: DID U READ MY BLOG?!!?

[12:33:14 AM] eujinrawks says: i was gonna ask

[12:33:20 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: OH YES I DID

[12:33:20 AM] eujinrawks says: what blog??

[12:33:23 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: alwizhyper.blogspot.com

[12:33:24 AM] eujinrawks says: YOU HAVE A BLOG???

[12:33:27 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: PFFT.

[12:33:28 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: DORH.

[12:33:34 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: u never knew

[12:33:35 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: ahahahaha

[12:33:39 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: u will laugh ur arse off.

[12:33:41 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: ahahahahahahaha

[12:33:43 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: now i regret

[12:33:44 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: shit

[12:33:46 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: noooo

[12:33:47 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: dont go

[12:33:48 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: stay

[12:33:49 AM] jesc aka alwizhyper says: read convo!

But sadly, he didn’t return back to the conversation and decided to be engrossed in the stories that I wrote in my blog. I started this blog years back when I was with another boyfriend that time but that didn’t work out and I found a new one to share my life with! I was trying my best to distract my boyfriend from the blog but I failed to do so and instead he kept asking me to stop doing that because it is making him to start reading the entries from the start. Talk about making a person blush!

He told me that it was the sweetest thing anyone has done for him and making him feel much more better and secured because I don’t post our pictures up on Friendster and it causes him to feel insecure as though I didn’t want anyone to know that I was with someone apart from having the status “in a relationship” part. I decided to give him time to read my blog and asked him to start from the first entry of my blog and he was reading it and talking to me occasionally while I tried my best to keep myself from blushing. I was actually thinking ways how to kill myself from being this humiliated in my life and I actually thought up a few ways to do it and it ended up killing self with a corkscrew. Don’t ask.

Then today I asked him again how far has he gotten to reading my blog even though he self proclaimed himself that he was now a big fan of my blog and just to find out that he skipped through all my entries because he got bored and started reading from the part where I mentioned him. A few entries that I wrote about him, how we met and what do I think of him. I knew that one day it would come to haunt me the moment I posted up those entries and proclaiming my feelings towards him. Why Lord! Do you enjoy yourself doing this to me? Am I such an amusement to you? I know I am for someone and I could feel him smirking as he is reading this.

Chapter : Tired

Today is seriously a tiring day. I have decided that my group which consists of Kelsie and Wayne to record our sounds for our assignments which is due on the fifth week. Early morning I woke up around 6am, shutting my phone alarm and thus dragging myself from my bed. The morning itself was pretty cold because it was raining heavily and it is actually tempting me to fall back to sleep and not go to university today but alas, I have responsibilities that I have to oblige. I left the house around 7.00am and reaching the train station within five minutes, bought my train ticket and waited for the train. The moment the train arrived at 7.15am I didn’t hesitate to board it because the rain was getting the best of me, ruining my shoes and clothes.

Standing in the train crowded with people with their drenched umbrellas and raincoats hoping that the rain would stop. Reaching at the station where I am supposed to change train to reach to my university, I realize that the rain hasn’t stop a bit and it actually gotten heavier cause me to feel really moody. I decided to sit for a while hoping that the rain would stop and take the 7.45am train to university. While waiting, reading a book I almost miss the train because I was pretty engrossed with the book I was reading but luckily I finished my book in time to realize that the train has arrived.
Reaching my university way earlier than I expected, at first the rain was just a start of a drizzle then later on it just got heavier when I was walking towards the entrance of my university. I decided to walk down to the convenient store to grab something to eat because recently I have fainted in church due to low blood pressure or maybe lack of sugar or possibly having no food in my system. I didn’t want the same thing to happen to me again and on such an important day too, I decided to stuff myself with something regardless whether I was hungry or not.

Walking back to university again, and found myself a place to sit while I ate my breakfast and started on a new book I brought along to read while waiting for Wayne to arrive in order for us to go to grab our sound recording equipments. Wayne arrived around 8.30am and we head off to another building on the campus where the sound recording equipments are and I was pretty tired and was still feeling under the weather due to the rain and lack of sleep.

Once we got the equipments, we took the bus to Kelsie’s house and when we reached the designated stop, I called her to pick us up. She and her boyfriend came in a car and we scrambled onto it because we realized that we are wasting precious time to use the equipments since we only have 10hours to fully utilize it. When we arrived, I noticed that Kelsie was staying in a nice town house with her boyfriend and her boyfriend’s sister. We decided not to waste so much time and we got on with our work.

We started off recording the scene in the car where we “hijacked” Kelsie’s boyfriend’s car and drove around the townhouse in order to record the sound of a person driving home from work. It was pretty amusing because all of us were in the car while Kelsie was driving and I was holding the mic and Wayne was hearing the sounds. In order to achieve the sounds we wanted, all of us were required to put our phones on silent mode and not make an utter sound. Sneezing included. I was imagining those times when I was trying my best to control the sound from my stomach because I have gas in there making my tummy bloated and it tends to have the gurgling sound coming out. It is pretty embarrassing.

Later on once we got the track that we wanted, we changed our scene where the person is opening the door, drinking a cup of water, talking to her friend on the phone and then hearing a sound of a breaking glass. It was pretty funny because the first try we tried it, Wayne broke the glass and the shattered pieces flew everywhere around. I was nagging at him because he created a mess and didn’t allow me to finish the water I was drinking. We bought the glasses in a reject shop that cause $9 for 18 glasses and we decided to break the glasses in order to get the sound that we wanted.
Honestly speaking I wanted to break those glasses myself because it seems a very great stress reliever but I was afraid because I might cut myself or probably haven’t gotten the strength to break the glass apart. We started around 10 something in the morning and ended around 2 in the afternoon. I was tired and felt my eyes drooping close but I tried my best to keep it open. Kelsie and her boyfriend dropped us off at the mall nearby their place and Wayne and I carried the equipments to the bus stop where we took a bus there back to the university.

Once we reached there, we quickly head up to the computer room and transferred the sounds that we have recorded and felt quite please of the outcome of the sounds and I personally hope that the lecturer would accept the sounds that we created though. After returning all the sound equipments I felt that we were free from one burden but still have more to encounter later on in the semester. Wayne and I decided to stop by the mall nearby my place to grab something to eat because we haven’t eaten anything since we started recording. My stomach was making a hell of a noise but thankfully it wasn’t making a scene gurgling out loud in public.

After grabbing our bite, we departed and I head to the public library to return the books that I borrowed and borrowed new books again. I saw some comics that I wanted to read but there weren’t the volumes that I wanted so I decided against it. When I reached home, I was too tired out to do anything and actually dozed off to sleep for a while because being woken up by my dad telling me to get ready to go out for dinner which I feel so reluctant to do so because I was already reaching my limit. My dad noticed how reluctant I was and scolded me. I was thinking that I was really tired carrying the dumb equipments, well, I wasn’t actually. It was Wayne but my bag was pretty heavy with the other things but heck, I’m tired from my day’s trip! It doesn’t help that it was raining and I don’t have a car to drive around feeling dry.

My dad bought a car for my sister and I could tell that she was really happy about it but she was being such a brat when I asked her some questions about her car. She was answering me in a tone as though I am not suppose to know what car my dad bought for her or whether I am suppose to know all the answers and not bother her with it. I’m thinking, am I physic or what? Seriously, don’t people actually realize that a person here is tired from all the work she was doing and wants a good rest? Talk about being inconsiderate.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Chapter : A New Entry. Finally.

I haven’t been updating my blog for quite some time because I have been busy with well, dating and preparing my stuffs before I leave for Australia. I have gotten all my stuffs such as my laptop, essential stuffs, extra clothes and a lot more. Well, based on my previous posts, I would say that it should be well-known by now that I am attached and already been with my current boyfriend for three months. It is quite a new thing for me to date someone who is younger than me. Well, maybe it is because I have such a conservative thinking that most of my “men” should be older than me not younger than me, but in the end I have decided to give this special person a chance. To be honest, I actually treasure this special person of mine.

Chinese New Year is around the corner, and I have packed my stuffs for me to head back to my hometown, Malacca. This time of the year, I wouldn’t be staying at my hometown for a long period of time due to the fact that I’m flying off to Brisbane on the 14th of February. It is pretty depressing to find out that I will not celebrate my Valentine’s Day with my boyfriend now. To be honest, I have never really celebrated Valentine’s Day properly. I mean I have gone out for a date ONCE with this guy before and it was okay. Pretty depressing, right only going out once on Valentine's Day throughout twenty plus years of my life. We did the usual thing, dinner and just hanging out. But I have never actually celebrated it with my loved ones before. It is because I would have broken up with them then, and I would be celebrating my Valentine’s Day with my trusty computer or best friends. At times, it is because I have something on that day and this is one of the rare occasions that I have actually a boyfriend which lasted up to now and I’m flying off to Brisbane on the special night. Oh well, so much for hoping.

I think I remembered once that my best friend, Joey joked about my dateless times on Valentine’s Day. She said, “Hey Jessie, I think I know a solution to your problem.”

“What do you mean, solution to my problem?” I asked.

“Well, if there is someone who is courting you and wants to get together to you, like around the early year, you could ask him to wait till the end of the year, like probably around November than only you get together with him.,” she said.

“And your point to fixing my problem is…” I said.

“You wouldn’t be dateless for Valentine’s Day any longer!” she said with a smile.

I nearly fell off my chair that time when I heard that. But who knew that I would actually get together with a guy around November last year? Talk about coincidence!

I’m all packed up for my flight to Brisbane but I, myself isn’t prepared to leave Malaysia so soon. I felt that I haven’t been spending time with my best friends, and plus leaving my boyfriend when I just got together with him. I have so many things on my mind and I really don’t know what to do. My best friends said that everything will be fine because I’m Jessie and it is easy for me to make friends in an instant and what not. My boyfriend assuring me that our relationship will be better because this is an obstacle for both of us to endure. But why do I have this heavy feeling in my heart?

On the lighter note, I’m glad that one of my best friends is also flying off to Brisbane with me, although that she would arrived later due to the fact that she bought her tickets later. It was pretty amusing to find out the date of her flight because it was the day of our orientation day. My best friend, Kelsie sure does know how to put a smile on my face every now and then. I’m glad that she is coming to Brisbane along with me. At least I won’t be alone now. Technically speaking I’m not alone to begin with because my sister is already in Brisbane along with few of her housemates and I have met all of them too. I just hope that my stay with my sister throughout the months would be fine and wouldn’t have any arguments erupted. I shall just keep it simple, my sister and I are not really on good terms. It is like you do your own thing. I do my own thing and keep out of the way and you are fine sort of relationship. I don’t really remember how our relationship turns out to be this way.

Oh, I did something drastic to my hair before flying off to Brisbane. I have hacked all my long locks and have quite a short hairdo this time. This is actually the first time I have decided to have short hairdo on my own account without having any family member influencing my decisions. At first I felt that it looks weird on me but surprisingly I have a pretty good feedback from my family, best friends and boyfriend. I didn’t know that they actually love the hairstyle on me. I guess this time I know how to style it and make it look good on me. Most of the time I feel that my hair is all poofy and making me look more like a mushroom headed person instead but my friends kept saying that I look like an adorable small boy. On the other hand, my boyfriend jokes saying that I’m much more handsome now. He suffered a few whacks from yours truly.

Just when everything was settled, my laptop decided to attract the deadly annoying virus, Trojan and with my anti-virus installed it doesn’t seem to kill that annoying thing. It keeps popping up in my file and it got me so pissed off that I nearly wanted to throw my laptop off the 13th floor which I’m staying. The cause of me getting the virus is from my boyfriend’s thumb drive and when I told him about it, he went into ultra-depression mode and kept apologizing. Such a poor boy, I guess I shouldn’t have told him that my laptop was affected by that virus and try to solve it myself by throwing the laptop down the 13th floor. He stayed up so late trying to find solutions to fix it and also got his cousin who works as an IT person in UK to call him to help fix the problem and still it wouldn’t work. In the end, he suggested that I should just reformat my entire laptop and reinstall the drivers again which sucks because I just got my laptop and it is all shiny and new and I have such problem popping up in such an early stage.

To top it off, I actually forgot the most vital thing which I need in Australia is papers. My sister and I would be using massive amount of papers during our stay in Australia and I have forgotten to inform my dad’s secretary to pack up two rims for us to bring there. Now that it is Chinese New Year break, it would be too late for me to ask it now because I know that I wouldn’t be able to get it in time. So in the end, my mom said that I have to go to her office early in the morning to retrieve those rims and bring it back home before any of us forgets again. Can you believe the amount of nagging and scolding I gotten from both mom and sister? I felt like throwing myself off the 13th floor in order for me not to hear them again!

It is 4am and I’m still wide awake and knowing that I would have to wake up around 6am for my trip down to my hometown and I’m still not sleeping. I guess I shouldn’t have taken a late night shower to cool myself off. Maybe I shall close my eyes and hopefully doze off to sleep but I fear that I wouldn’t be able to wake up then. I guess I shall stay awake till 6am and sleep the entire journey through. At least it would “entertain” me throughout the massive jam that my mom is going to face later.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Chapter : He Popped the Question

It seems that Friday was pretty much a very eventful day for me. After a busy day in the morning, and hanging out with Joey and Yuki in One Utama and then met up with Jin, Peggy and Maria later on. Well, more like they joined us later in One Utama. We ate at William’s and then I send Joey back home because she was waiting for her guy to come over to visit her later.

After when I reached home, I called Jin to pick me and Yuki from my place because Ben, Mervin and Chee Hao (I think that it’s his name) were coming from Johor to celebrate Ben’s and Jin’s birthday. We sat at McDonalds’ and were laughing and chatting with each other. Unfortunately, Ben was really sick and Mervin was just recovering from it. Mervin has changed pretty much because the last time when I met him he was so quiet but that night itself he was so noisy to the extend I actually wondered whether they were the same person.

After the little meet up, Jin sent us home. He dropped Yuki off first and then me. But we hung out for a while at my place and we sat near the pool area talking. We were just talking pretty much about everything and laughing with the jokes then we started telling each other about our exes. I was telling him about my experiences with my exes and how many I have dated and what not, and this particular part I joked-

“Well, if I have dated you, you would be my eighth if I taken in the part that I used to be coupled with a guy for mere few hours.”

“Well, would you?” he asked.

“Hmm?” I said.

“Will you be my girlfriend?” he asked.

“Is that an invitation?” I replied.

“Yeah,” he said.

“Are you serious?” I said and stared at him in disbelief.

“Yeah, I am serious,” he said.

“Err…Erm…Err….,” I stuttered.

“You don’t have to answer now, I mean take your time,” he said.

“Okay, you got me speechless here,” I said. “That was…err…unexpected.”

“Well, I wanted to pop the question for some time already but you made it easier for me when you started to joke about it,” he explained.

“Oh…” I replied and I was blushing like a beetroot. “But I am leaving to Australia, for one and a half years…”

“Well, we could just try it out. I mean I don’t mind if you find another guy there but I would feel thrashed though,” he said.

“Oh…Kay,” I replied. “But I am not a good girlfriend, I mean, err…I won’t be a good girlfriend.”

“That is for me to decide, wouldn’t it?” he said. “Are you trying to scare me off?”

“No, I mean. I’m just explaining!” I exclaimed. “I admit that I am attracted to you but I never expected this.”

“Like I have said, you don’t have to answer me now, I can wait,” he said.

“Err….” I stuttered. I was too lost for words.

We sat there for a while more before he walked me back to my house. I was still in a speechless state and I didn’t know what just happened until I lay on my bed and thinking back. To me I felt as though he was just giving me mixed signals and treating me as a friend. Then next thing I know, he just popped the question causing me to freak out and left me astounded. I mean, freaking out and being astounded in a good way. That moment when he asked me, it was so random! I could feel myself reddening from my cheeks all the way to my ears but not that it is visible due to the fact that it was pretty dark and the yellow light just made me look yellow.

But before that he did explained to me that he was attracted to me at first because the moment we met, we clicked and according to him, that felt really nice because he don’t normally clicked with people easily which I find that pretty hard to believe. But for me on the other hand, I told him that I thought that he and Maria were dating and such and he explained that he and her are nothing but really close friends and he did admit that he fell for her which I jokingly said that he now chose me as a rebound which caused him to start saying that I am not his rebound because he was already attracted to me first and what not. He did explain also that he decided to back off from Maria who has a boyfriend for five years and it felt uncomfortable for him to just continue liking her and being the main cause of the reason of the break up and he didn’t want that to happen and he finally settled with his feelings and treated her like a friend which he said that he thinks that she gotten the message.

Well, I felt that she should get the message due to the fact that whenever we meet up he would just sit next to me or would be talking to me most of the time and such. Like a mere example when he, Maria and Peggy came over my place to hang out while waiting for Ben, Mervin and Chee Hao to arrive. At first Maria was sitting in front of his car and when we were heading off to McDonalds’ that night he just asked me like this-

“You, get in front.”

“Huh? What?” I asked looking really blur.

“I mean, you sit in front,” he said.

“Err, okay?” I said and just gotten into the front seat.

Later on, during the time when he was explaining to me, he also said that after he decided to back off, the next thing he knows, Maria came confessing to him and he was saying that she should just stick to her boyfriend because he is always there for her and such and hopes that they could just maintain as friends. It was pretty matured of him to think that way on the account that I did met some people who reacted differently when they came down to this kind of situation. During his explanations, he would keep repeating that I wasn’t a rebound in hopes that I wouldn’t misunderstand him and I assured to him that I gotten the picture and asked him not to worry.

I still haven’t given him the answer and we are some how on this dating basis thing where we like each other but not yet in a relationship. Well, that is how I look things this way. I would admit that if he found another girl that he suits him better I would feel sad but I wouldn’t mind because he deserves someone better compared to me. After all, I did say that I am leaving to Australia for a year and a half. Who knows what would happen throughout the time when I am there. Right?