raya tales and college blues

How was your raya? mine went well, most of the time. but at one point or another, it did suck. i was reminded by my nosy aunties and bitchy relatives why i hate going back to kampung. imagine being asked about your late mother's possesions by people who shouldn't care coz it's not their business anyways. and because my cousin with whom i share the same birth year got engaged on the 3rd of Syawal, i was constantly bombarded with the same question with each auntie, uncle, and elder cousins: "Mira, engkau bile pulak lagi?" [so when's your turn, Mira?] at first it was fine... i happily answered "tak tau lagi la Mak Long/Acu/Auntie... we'll see". but when you couldn't keep track of the number of people who asked you that, and you start to forget if the same auntie asked you the question the night before, you tend to get irritated, and try as hard as you could not to give out a rude answer.

i wanted to scream "i have every intention to get married, but let me do it in my own time and space! BUZZ OFF, you nosy fucker!!!" but of course, i didn't. otherwise, i wouldn't live to make this entry.

gossips are abundant during raya season. who did what, what was said, who's dating who... this year's raya gossipers seem to be working overtime. although most of the things said are true, but the intention of those relaying the news and the way they say it seemed to suggest malicious intent, and in my family, or any family, that's never good.

but my raya did have its share of good times. i got an RM50 duit raya, the first day of raya with all of us sisters, husbands [if any], our dad and brother went wonderfully, and somehow i managed to keep my eating low, but i did munch on loads of kuih raya.

and i'm definitely looking forward to the raya convoy the freaks always have since we were all in form 4. my god... has it been 8 years already?! anyways, i do hope we get to do it this year too, although the prospect doesn't look too good. but we will all try, kan?

let's stop talking about raya now, shall we?

college started again today, and it's almost as if we didn't have the one week holiday. students are busy with their laptops or inside the computer labs, and i just had 2 group discussions for my final projects and presentation. pretty much the usual stuff. and somehow i got dragged into playing win, lose or draw with a bunch of guys while waiting for jack to come by. i had to draw lesbian gorrilas. LESBIAN GORRILAS? how the hell does one draw lesbian gorrilas, i asked the opposing team after i failed to draw anything comprehensible within the given one minute. "Easy," one of the guys, Prakash said. so he drew 2 boobs facing each other, with nipples, suggesting lesbians, and a potrait of a supposed ape, but it ended up looking like a t-rex. i should have known. just minutes before, one of them had to draw homo sapiens, so for the homo part, he drew 2 dicks facing each other. complete with nuts. haih~

my 5.30 pm class today is cancelled, which is good... it means that my group members and i have time to finish up our project, and submit it next week. and it also means that i have more time to prepare the powerpoint presentation for tomorrow. to be honest... i don't like standing in front of a crowd, and talk while everyone is watching. but being a communications major student, that's something i should be getting used to. sigh~ i really should get started now.

so cheerio people, and thank you for reading my blog! :)