Week 11, 2025

Four day work week this week.

• 'Rents went on a road trip to go see an old friend of his (possibly for one last time?), and had to make an ad hoc hotel booking in Melaka just to use the voucher. It's a whole thing.
• Took Friday and next Monday off and had a self-declared 6 day weekend. 
• Used the free night hotel stay at Intercontinental KL on Sunday. Could I have moved the booking to the week before when the wedding was on? Perhaps. 
• Dunno why the Qing Ming was early this year, but guessing from the small-ish crowd, we weren't the only ones with the same idea. 

Week 10, 2025

Meaningless gesture from the neighbours this week - wedding invitation to the last kid's wedding. Any time those mangkuks throw a party, it's never a good time for anyone else, especially the next door neighbours. But the icing on top is the audacity of them to set up a canopy right outside our house every other time they've done this. And blocking people who also live there from parking. Dad declined the invitation, citing family visit or whatever, but really, he knows my beef with the mangkuk grown ass kids, and the litter they leave behind after the late night, outdoor drinking sessions. (I passive aggressively collect the litter and dump them at their rubbish bin)

Anyhow, decamped to the PJ Sheraton on Saturday cos I figured it would be better than me stressing out from the lack of sleep and parking. It was pretty quiet, all things considered, even with the LRT going past. They have some nice stuff to swipe too, so I did and also because I already paid for it. The scent of the in-house toiletries is not really a favourite of mine personally, so ehh.

Spent Sunday night with the 'rents at the other house, at least didn't have to spend money on dinner?

Week 9, 2025

• Spent Tuesday on this online training for e-invoicing. Apparently, they've erm, extended the e-invoicing deadline for everyone else?
• Sad, but not sorry that Spotlight is closing and are having their closing down sales for the next few months. Honestly, I didn't buy much. 
• Redeemed HWC Coffee birthday voucher on a CNY drink cos can't caffeine any more. Opted for complimentary pastry instead of a second drink. 
• Turns out it wasn't too hard to get a bank manager's signature for certain forms.
• One of the paternal aunts have passed away on Thursday, so some of the weekend was spent at the wake and funeral. I can only imagine how tired her immediate family must be during this time. Nirvana 2 near DBP is fancy AF. 

Week 8, 2025

Start of the new school year this week. Honestly, I can't wait for the school year to go back to normal. 

• Had my last follow up appointment for my hiney, which included getting one last blood draw for the liver function test (as some of the numbers were too high during admission), and they came back normal. To be fair, he did ask me to stop taking supplements at the last appointment to make sure that it was the supplements were causing this, and not liver failure. As for the butt, there was a little bit left to heal, but that will take some time and more application of ubat. At least also managed to drop off packaging at Stickerrific (once I found street parking), lunch in the area and also redeemed birthday drink at Chagee. 
• Used the RM10 app voucher on a pint of passionfruit sorbet at Inside Scoop
• Finally got excuse to try the menstrual cup. It's definitely a learning curve. 
• Saw A Real Pain at the GSC in Starling on Thursday night.
• Finally saw Captain America: Brave New World at the Pyramid TGV on Saturday. 
• Also went for the belated CNY residents dinner happening at the SKTM hall on Saturday. 
• Finally got to try out the Urban Retreat at The Curve on Sunday to use the birthday offer (extra 30 minutes head and shoulder massage on top of any paid 60 minute massage)

Captain America: Brave New World

Second movie this week: Captain America: Brave New World. Decided to watch it at the Pyramid TGV. It wasn't that packed, probably because it came out the week before, or because it was still early, I don't know. 

Going into this, you're probably gonna have to have seen Eternals, (probably) The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and erm, some of the earlier Hulk movies. 

• Was wondering when they were gonna address the Celestial in the ocean.. 
• Ok, so why didn't Sam take the super soldier serum again? 
• Always forgot that Bucky is a centenarian...  
• "Bucky's full of shit" made me laugh. 
• Liv Tyler and Sebastian Stan had glorified cameos, lol 

If nothing else, I'm glad it's not that long, to be honest. It was fine, moved the overall MCU plot along a little. 

A Real Pain

It's been awhile since I've been back to Starling for a movie.

Which I guess is just as well, because the 1U one is being upgraded, so... it was kind of a pleasant surprise that my local International Screens is there. 

Anyhow, wasn't very crowded. Could be cos it's a Thursday night, or it's not that maintstream a movie. I dunno. 

The movie is about 2 cousins on a Holocaust/Jewish heritage tour in Poland using inheritance money from their late grandmother.

It's a fine little movie, I guess. I can relate to both sides of the the cousin relationship between Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin's characters. The info dumps that goes on during the movie is kinda necessary for context. It was kinda funny in some parts, in that I LOL-ed. 

Thankfully, it's also only about 90 minutes, so I didn't have to pay more than RM1 for parking, so yay...!

Week 7, 2025

• I guess I can confirm that HSBC will consolidate your credit card limit if you have multiple cards and want to cancel one of them. Unfortunately, I would have to wait another 3 years to cancel the card I wanted to cancel cos I went and used it for a 3 year payment plan. Ish. 
• Saw Love Hurts on Tuesday cos it was Thaipusam and I didn't have anything else to do. It's also one of Ke Huy Quan's starring roles since his Oscar win.  
• Finally got to check out the new Third Space Pilates studio in Megah with the free credit I got left. 
• Collected the altered pants from Levi's on Thursday. 
• Bought a fountain pen at the Faber Castell warehouse sale on Saturday for the lols.
• Kinda sad that Pos Malaysia has discontinued their Prabayar Ekonomi option :( 
• Someone finally bought my copy of Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, lost some money having to pay extra for the prepaid Poslaju envelope. 
• Tried out the mini facial at the Fresh store in Pav, albeit in the middle of the store and all. 
• Also got a free menstrual cup, so yay...
• And remembered to use the Oriental Kopi birthday voucher (RM20 off min. RM50 spend), but already had lunch so I had a dessert and bought a box of pineapple tarts.