Malaysian Culture: What is "Queue Up"? I tak tahulah!

It irritates me at how Malaysians love to cut the queue. The most frequent crime scene? The toilet!
Every time when I enter the toilet/water-closet, there are bound to be people coming in later and obtaining a stall first. It makes me go WHAT-THE-HECK I was here first and I have to pee first okay!

Malaysian women have this tendency to wait in front of a specific stall. They just walk straight in without seeing who was here first and zup! Once they see a cubicle door open, they rush straight for it. GRR.

The management of any malls in Malaysia should seriously put a yellow tape that says "QUEUE UP AND WAIT FOR YOUR BLOODY TURN".

There are people like me *ta-da* who have the politeness and courtesy to observe and know who was here first and let them use the cubicle first. These polite and courteous species are ALWAYS BULLIED. Heck, the word 'often' cannot even be used. I very often hear the polite and courteous species complain about the rude and no-mannered women who just rush for the stalls without waiting for their turn. Even FOREIGNERS complain! What a way to build a good image for our country.

Countries like Japan and Korea do not even have yellow tapes that says "QUEUE UP" but the people there automatically line up once the cubicles are all taken, each waiting for their turn. They are all so courteous and disciplined!! WHAT IS THIS MALAYSIA!

When I was in Korea, the toilet was filled up so everyone was queuing up patiently and there was this lady who I am 100% sure was Malaysian (because she held a red Malaysian passport in her hands and she looks like a Malaysian and she spoke Bahasa Melayu to her friend) just cut the bloody queue, walk straight in and wait in front of a cubicle! THE HORROR! So embarrassing you know!
All the Korean women were exclaiming "Bo-yah igo neun!(what is this/what the heck!)" and shooting the 'go and die' daggers from their eyes. Everyone was frowning at her. This Malaysian girl damn thick skin. She looks around, feels uncomfortable, sorta know what is going on but didn't do anything! Just wait there and went in when the person came out from the cubicle.
When she came out, a Korean lady who could speak English looked at her and exclaimed, "Do you have a bad stomach ache? Diarrhea? Or you do not learn how to queue up in your country?"  OHOHOHOH BURNNNN!
The Malaysian girl looked at everyone staring at her and she still had the nerve to tell her friend "I tak tahulah perlu queue up. Perlukah mereka tengok saya macam tu."
ERM HELLO?? ARE YOU BLIND OR SOMETHING? CAN'T YOU SEE EVERYONE IS QUEUING UP??

Just yesterday I was in tHE Spring (a shopping mall in Kuching) and I went to the toilet. A lot of people were waiting in front of the stalls and in came a few more people who just walked in, occupy the stalls before those who were already there for quite a while could go in. Surprise surprise. There was this pregnant lady who had been waiting there for quite awhile and the people who just entered the toilet quickly zoomed past her and occupy the stalls. WHAT THE HECK. What happened to humanity??
Pregnant women usually need to pee more often and they just brushed past her!

It is essential and COMPULSORY for every mall in Malaysia to put a yellow tape/line that says "QUEUE UP". We need fairness in this country. Everything is so unfair here already. We need to at least have this little rule and courtesy.

Youth Convention 2012

Sarawak Methodist Youth Convention 2012 (SMYC/YC) was held on the 3rd of December at Wesley Methodist Church Sibu. It was an awesome awesome experience! The theme was iHOG (i Hold Onto God). hee-haw, howdy!

The event itself was truly powerful. Right on the first day Pastor Arnold Oh (theme speaker) hit right on the spot. Never have we all encountered being touched by the Holy Spirit on the first day as it always happens on the last few days of the event. You can totally see how different this convention is from the past ones. All my youth members came home so passionate and fired up for God. They were all so ready to spread what we experienced to those who did not manage to go.

My youth members are usually introverts while I'm the black sheep a.k.a the extrovert. Oh boy how they changed! Jumping, singing with their heart, doing actions and clapping with joy have replaced the standing still, emotionless and the unwillingness to move about and do actions!
As SMYC is held only once every two years, we get to meet both old and new friends from previous SMYC and also the current one.


We had activities such as Fun in the Sun, visit to the Methodist Heritage museum and a trip to Sibu's pasar malam (night market). There were lots and lots of durians (king of all fruits), longans and kalangs (asian olive) all around Sibu. As it rains quite often in Sibu, we were all given an umbrella. Sadly, mine got taken away by someone else  :(

From left to right: Ashley Tang, Ashley Lai, Audrey, Selina, Selina, Heather

As usual, Bibiana and I love to camwhore

With Joshua. The buddy I met at the previous SMYC. He's so vain and loves to camwhore too!

From left to right: Sean, Andrew, Wilson, Zech, Johnno, Darren, Jason, Sean with awesome hair.

Top to bottom: Joshua and I, with Jason and Wilson, with Wilson

Johnno

With my team. Team Phillip!

Peter the awesome worship leader.

Joshua

 Team Philip!

Jason the panda lover.

Sean with a new designed specs.

Group picture with everyone in it!

 My team doing ballet.

Groupie of my youth bunch at the airport.

We had hot cup for supper. So Josh and I decided to do some commercial shot  :P

I feel artsy for Christmas! ♬

So I helped to decorate the office today for Christmas! The theme is of course a Christmas theme! When you think about Christmas decorations, it's always Christmas tree, mistletoe, giant socks, candy canes and.... *drum roll* snow spray!! (my country doesn't have snow, gotta make do)
I was feeling so inspired and you can hear me whole morning shaking the spray can up and down, climbing up the chair (because I'm not even 5ft tall), and cutting cute designs to spray on and create designs ♬
Here is the final product!

Girl Talk #1

Okay, for the opening ceremony for my first post in a new blog, I shall not talk about how this is my first post, asking you to visit often and bla bla bla. *release some fireworks* there! opening ceremony done!

I shall immediately move on. Okay boys, now if you are easily disgusted and squirmy about girl talks (body, feelings, etc), I suggest you not to read this and move on somewhere else (this is my first post after all, there is nothing else for you to read. so shoo..!).

GIRLS! I am going to talk about ARMPIT HAIR!

Yes boys, see that? Armpit hair! Read on at your own risk.

Fact: Girls have armpit hair. Yes boys, if you didn't know that.

I find it ultimately annoying to have armpit hair. Girls do not have facial hair so I do not get the point why don't we just don't have armpit hair as well. Saves all the trouble. I asked my mom about it and she responded "Maybe in the ancient times, having armpit hair is a form of attraction.*laughs*"  Seriously, mom?? A form of attraction?? Whatttt??

Whilst talking about armpit hair, my mom and I found out about this MIRACLE DEVICE called an epilator. For those of you who had this gadget long long time ago, good for you!

(I just recently found out about it thanks to my mom who loves to go on the internet to search for electrical appliances which makes your life easier. *my mom is very modern* And yes, the epilator has definitely made my life easier!)

For those of you who used this once and vowed never again to touch it, READ ON!

An epilator is used to remove your armpit hair. It has no blade. It does not shave the hair away. It PLUCKS. For those of you who manually pluck your armpit hair using pincers, the process is long, literally a pain in the neck and it gives you a sore arm AND you have to pluck it ONE BY ONE. Imagine the whole bunch of armpit hair (okay not that much/scary), and you have to pluck it one by one or it won't be clean!

The epilator practically solves your problem. They have a roller head about 4-5 cm wide. The rollers have in built pincers. A whole row of them! You don't have to pluck them one by one! The epilator will finish the whole row for you in less than a minute!

For those of you who shave, you might face a very common problem faced by those who shave. DARK UNDER ARMS. Seriously. We girls have a price to pay for something we do not want. It's either neck pain, waste time or dark under arms. What is this. Punishment??

I myself use the method of shaving because I am an extremely lazy girl. As a result, yes, dark under arms. It's gradually improving now. I will share with you the secret on how to eliminate your darken under arms later.

So to give you an idea on how an epilator looks like, here:

The Miracle Device!

The head epilator head can be taken out so that you can wash away your plucked hair. Please be aware that you cannot wash the whole body because it will spoil the motor. When the head of your epilator is wet, you cannot attach it back to the body. You have to wait till it dries.

When you epilate your underarms, make sure your underarms are not wet and don't put any lotion before you epilate. Apply moisturizer or lotion only AFTER you epilate. Oh, and tie your hair up or else the pincers will pull at your hair too! Best epilate after shower. Your skin would be smooth and not sticky. Also, it's advisable to epilate at night when you are not going out because your skin might turn a little red or pinkish.

The epilator functions on two kinds:

1. by electricity. (wire, chords)

2. by battery

I am using the one with wire attached because I couldn't find the one with batteries.

I chickened out many times before I suck it up and tried epilating for the first time. I had to hold it off many times because the minute I turned the epilator on, the sound of the motor *brrrzzz* made me sweat. My armpits became wet and I did not want to be electrocuted (from the instruction leaflet).

So one day, I just pick it up, read the instruction and placed it on my armpit.

DID IT HURT??

For the first time? HELL YEAH!

It's like you feel your skin being rubbed raw. The hair all pluck *plit plit plit*

My armpit turned red and it felt like it was on fire. I immediately put some moisturizer.

I have a high threshold for pain but it still hurt. Prepare for the worst.

During the second time, it did not hurt anymore. Your skin becomes accustomed to it and wala! No more pain! An average epilation for both side only takes me about 5 mins max.

The epilator can be used to epilate your LEGS (or even body hair/ hand) too! But I have not done it, because once you pull/shave your leg/body/hair, they will grow longer and longer. When you leave it be at original state, the hair will be in hibernating process. They won't grow any longer. Status quo. I am too lazy to maintain it so I rather not.

Now, for those who have those sad dark underarms, here is what I did. I won't say my underarms are of poster-models quality but compared to before, it's much much better.

1. rub some sliced lemon on your underarms and leave it be for about 15 mins before you shower.
2. face-wash works! because face-wash is for your face *duh* it gives gentle care and smoother complexion therefore lightening uneven skin tone. they do the same to your pits. mmhmm.
3. exfoliate exfoliate exfoliate. any scrub etc, use it. they remove dead skin cells and so on.

The reason why your underarms become dark from shaving is because when you shave, the blade shaves of a layer of your skin and all the dirt/dust clings on to the exposed surface. It becomes worst when you shave then you immediately use deodorant.

I got mine from Singapore and after conversion to MYR is costs about RM120.

For Cat-city-ers (Kuchingites), I saw Parkson @ The Spring selling it. It's a different brand. Mine is Phillips. Parkson has Braun. They do have Phillips' sometimes but it is always out of stock, partly because it is cheaper I guess. Parkson sold the Braun one for RM 200+ and RM 300+ (the 300+ has some additional function or something like that).

There ends my armpit hair/ girl talk.

Toodles and pluck away!

Men should appreciate sacrifices women make to look good!
They should give epilating or waxing a try.
Bahahaha.

Pfft, to all you women AND men out there who say that appearances doesn't matter at all as long as the heart is an angel and you do not make an effort to wear presentable clothing (yes, those people who always look like they sleep, eat, go out, and live in their pj's all day long) and have a decent/proper/neat hair, YOU ARE WRONG. Appearances DO matter but it is not the most important.
Like seriously, if you were your pj's with a just-woke-up-disastrous-never-combed-hair, do you think the employer would actually want to employ you? You look like a freak, a couldn't care less person and a sloth. It shows the employers on how you don't even bother to make an effort in things you do, so the same thing will happen in your work field.
I mean, you don't need those falsies (eyelashes), a 5cm thick foundation or the thickest and blackest eyeliner on your face, designer labels, high-heels that would kill you when you fall/help you break a leg, or those salon-ed-styled hair, but at least wear neat clothes, neat hair and a pair of comfortable shoes (not your furry house slippers). Nobody cares what you wear at home, you can be naked for all I care.


Conclusion: Appearances DO MATTER. You cannot argue with me. I don't care what you think. Blehh.