Tough Cookies

Dear Family,
It's been quite a week over here in KL. I'm so glad we discovered Skype and can now chat with each other more frequently because finally (FINALLY!) my internet at home is up. Apart from that, much of my week was concerned with friends and school. There's a lot to cover in class now, and that goes for all my classes, so it's important that I'm awake. In terms of my friends, I think I need to give them the silent treatment for awhile, because right now I feel quite alone. Everyone talks to Mahdiya and sort of ignores me, which is of course making me angry and I just don't know how to talk about it with her, because she already thinks I'm this whining little girl sometimes. The fact that I'm not even making a move towards my crush has all my friends saying that I need to do it soon. On this topic, I've got some thinking to do, because I'm scared to. Anyway, I know you guys don't want to hear about that, so I'll just shut up on the subject. I went to the Open House thing and felt completely out of the loop with my fellow Malays who were so at home teasing each other and everything. I'm definitely not going to fit into the Malay crowd at Taylor's anytime soon, and I've actually got quite mixed feelings about that. Bottom line: I need to do some major growing up soon, so that my friends will stop thinking so little of me and actually talk to me more. One of the ways I plan to show them that? By being a little bit more quiet and a lot less loud. They can't change who I am, but hell, I'll show them that I can be mature if I wanted to. I especially want to show this to Mahdiya, and right now I'm not sure if I want to argue with her about this or just keep quiet. Don't get me wrong, she's a good friend, but there are times when I just feel alone. That's why my title this week is Tough Cookies, because I believe I have some major internal hurdles to overcome before this semester is over.

Talk to all of you on Monday.

Signs at TCSJ

Dear all,
This past week has been quiet eventful for yours truly. I started it off a little tired and bored and wishing that it was Friday already, but nonetheless, I was okay. My Contract Law and Legal Skills professor, Ms. Sunitha just returned from Reading so we had extra classes, but thankfully it wasn't anything much, else I'd have been so out of it. So, back to my title. Signs, they were everywhere at TCSJ (Taylor's College Subang Jaya FYI) this week! It's been raining everyday, and as a consequence, I've been soaked through a couple of times. Either that's a sign that I've seriously got to get an umbrella ;) or a sign of something else, though I'm not quite sure just what yet. Another sign that's been coming up frequently is the amount of cases we have to read before each lecture. Teachers are getting superstrict about reading, and I'm starting to feel a bit daunted, but at the same time, I know I have to pull through this. This sign is easy to interpret: harder times ahead. On Wednesday, I received a sign when the bus was late at the end of the day. (Warning to parents: this is a cheeky sign ;) I had been complaining the whole week that I hadn't seen "You Know Who" and Maddy (a.k.a. Mahdiya) suggested that mayhaps the bus was late so that I would be able to just catch a glimpse of him. Creepily enough, I did get to see him, since I left college after giving up on the bus and decided to take a lift offer from my classmate, Aarthi. No worries, like Melvyn, she's a good driver. And that coincides with the next sign: drivers. Something tells me that I should start considering taking a driver's course during Christmas so that I can stop waiting around for lifts, and I can get around KL a lot more. However, I'm in no rush, it's sort of a hope. Okay, that's about all the signs I've had this week, and who knows? Maybe next week I'll have even more. Love, from your favorite sister/daughter.