One of the biggest things I resent about not growing up in Malaysia is how awful my BM is. It wasn't a problem in high school because everyone spoke English, but in college, a lot of the students are good ol' Malay-speaking SPM graduates. I don't even know how to casually ask someone for their name! Nama awak siapa? Siapa nama? I'd really like to blame the language barrier for my deficiency of friends, but I'm not doing so well in my most confident tongue either :P

There are some questions that will obviously arise in the first introductory conversation, questions whose answers may lead to confusion rather than clarity.

Are you Malaysian/Malay/mixed?
I'm Malaysian, despite not ending my sentences with "la", "ma" or "sumore" :P I joke. People have thought me mixed, Arabic, Indian, Egyptian, Sri Lankan and even Indonesian-Indian. The truth is I'm as Malay as Malays get :)

Where are you from?
Admittedly, this question was much easier to answer when I lived out of the country because "Malaysia" was a good enough answer then! Usually I'm from Ampang. That's where I lived for the last three years before moving into my dorm room. Sometimes I'm from Melaka, as that's one of my kampungs and a place I call home. Last week though, I told someone that I was from Cheras. Haha, next I might just be from Perak, which wouldn't be a lie either since that's my other kampung.

Where do you live?
I live on campus.

Where's your house?
I don't have a house, I'm homeless :/ Yeah, I meant it when I said I live on campus. This answer might lead to the question, what do you mean you don't have a house?, which often requires me to relate my life story to strangers-cum-friends (with as little detail as possible).

I know I said I wouldn't blog for a while, but I couldn't help myself. Hope everyone's well :)

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These are all unedited candids from the day we shot our Slurpee videos a couple of weeks ago. Sure, we didn't win, but we all had a lot of fun in the making and gained our first experience of a sort of scripted skit thing, if you know what I mean. From that, we decided that we would definitely like to do it again. Youtubers by the likes of Natalie Tran of communitychannel must enjoy making videos because we did while making ours.

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A proper blog post is coming next week, insyaAllah. I'm really itching to have my laptop back and share what's been going on with me in the past two weeks, as uneventful as my life is. Well, I suppose that's what makes you a blogger, huh? To want to share things with people. For now though, some non-related, pretty pictures will have to do. (Clicking on them will lead you to the source.)

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I need to ask you guys for a favor. A small group of us entered the My Funniest Slurpee Video Contest twice. The four of us would reaaaaaaally appreciate it if you voted for our videos :)

Vote for The Abuction here.

Vote for Battle of the Slurpee here.

To vote, you need to sign up for an account, but don't worry, it's super easy. Just enter your details, check your e-mail to verify the account and you'll be able vote! :)

THANKS SO MUCH TO THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY VOTED AND THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO VOTE!

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I won't be online for the next two weeks, so leave me some love on Formspring and I'll get back to you as soon as I do.

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With a math test tomorrow and a bio test the next day, now's not exactly the best time to get a sudden burst of inspiration. A few hours ago, I was struck with what I believe to be a brilliant idea, and I can't wait to get it down on paper. I just spent way too much time surfing the Internet in an attempt to enhance the picture I have in my head instead of preparing for those tests!

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Trials: 10 days away

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