Week 16, 2026

• Drove to deepest, darkest Shah Alam to get a vacuum hose on Monday
• Woke up one day to hear that there's gonna be an NCIS: NY coming in the fall, with LL Cool J back as Sam Hanna, but with Scott Caan as a different character altogether. I guess enough time has passed that we could collectively forget that Hawaii Five-O existed (Sam was more friends with McGarrett than Danno, anyway). Meanwhile, LL has been all over the the Hawai'i spinoff and the mothership (just not Sydney, nor hopefully Origins)
• Saw two A24 movies over the weekend - The Drama and Mother Mary

Mother Mary

Second A24 movie in two days, this time at the 1U TGV because you know why. It was me and probably 5 other people watching it at the time. 

I dunno why we got this movie before the wide release date, but hokay... 

20 minutes of ads and trailers before the movie started properly at 11 a.m., give or take. 

While I'm glad it's under 2 hours, but at 1 hour 50 minutes, it still feels too long. 

Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer, Sam Anselm, on the eve of her comeback performance.

It's just the two of them trauma dumping unto each other after a terrible falling out and estrangement when Mary asks Sam for a final look. 

On one hand, I thought this would be better as a play cos it's mostly a two-hander piece in a single location, but with the other stuff going on, I get why this had to be an actual movie.  

• They were not joking when they said they watched a lot of other pop stars' concerts, etc, but for the most part, I felt that there was a lot more Gaga than anyone else? 
• So THAT'S Mrs Chris Evans.. 
• Now that you know the final look is an Iris van Herpen (credited at the end of the movie), it's hard to unsee the influence everywhere else... 

There's some nice looks in this movie, but I'm not sure if I appreciated the veer into goth horror halfway through. 

The Drama

Got a ticket to watch The Drama at the TGV in Jaya for this morning, knowing full well that I'm probably not gonna like it. But sometimes need to get out of the comfort zone la, you know? 

There's been some marketing hype around this, mostly cos of the twist that's not been openly revealed, and that this is the first of three movies Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are in that are coming out this year, other two being Dune: Part 3 and erm, The Odyssey. But I don't think they'll be scene partners in the latter two as much as they are in this one. 

Without giving too much away (or if you're like me, would like to know going in, just read it on Wikipedia), all I would say is that it's mostly Alana Haim's character's fault lah, ini dia punya pasal. But the title is damn apt in that the drama is erm, self inflicted? Trigger warning for certain populations, I would say. 

Honestly, it was a tough watch - did some second screening and even took a toilet break, which I don't often do. Not sure if I would do it again, even if it was in a hotel room years afterwards. 

Week 15, 2026

Weather has been straight up hot as balls. Slow week. 

• Finally got the tax refund
• Went to Tropicana Golf and Country Club late Sunday afternoon after several decades, lol

Week 14, 2026

Rollercoaster of stress and emotions this week, work wise. 

• 'Rents are off to Hainan this week, had to pick them up very late on Saturday night/Sunday morning
• Spent my Sunday at home feeling bloated AF, unable to get the gas out of the system. 
• Finally got around to listening to a voice note I got a few weeks ago now, and it was to let me know that they were getting married in a couple of months, and they wanted to know if I would be able to attend. It's been a few years since I've attended a friend wedding, why not? 
• Did my first Pilates class this year - maybe I'll finish off the points/class and be done with it.
• Signed up for a skincare masterclass on how to use Drunk Elephant products over the weekend at the TRX store. Good to know.
• Went to Pav DH for the members' day at Kino on Friday night... only cos parking was free after 6 p.m. on weeknights. And to get the original clear cover for the Hobonichi Weeks that's 15% off.
• Went back to the clinic on Saturday (appointment? what appointment?) to find out the results of the Hep B screening test (had to draw blood again cos the lab didn't do the test the first time round 2 weeks ago; lucky they didn't charge me again) to find out if I needed the vaccine. TL;DR - yes. I guess only plus side is that I'm only paying for 2 out of 3 doses? At least this time I know when to go in for my follow up doses.

Week 13, 2026

Short work week.

• Went to Sunway Square on Monday, primarily to find a particular book at BookXcess. 
• Remembered to use the RM5 Qra voucher on Monday
• Tried the new Harry Potter Starbucks drink on Monday, mostly for the extra points.
• Tried roast goose this week. Bit wasted on me, to be honest
• Managed to unload the free pink pen case I got, yay
• Attended a documentary screening about perimenopause in Hartamas. Kinda salty that I had to have "light refreshments" during dinner time, so had to find something more substantial at around 9 p.m. 
• Got health screening results back on Saturday. I'm mostly fine, some things to look out for, but the abdominal ultrasound was something else; cysts and stones were found. 
• Woke up way too early on Sunday for cheng beng. 

Week 12, 2026

We still dunno when Raya is actually starting at the beginning of the week, but PM already announced ad hoc holidays for both situations (A if Friday Raya, or B if Saturday Raya), but sounds like any how will have a 4 day weekend. 

• Decided to finally cash in the health checkup vouchers I got before they expire EOM - went to get blood drawn, and urine taken, etc early Friday morning cos it was a (ad hoc?) holiday and I had nothing else going on (had called ahead, and was told that I can just walk in). After all said and done, made an appointment to review the test results following Saturday afternoon. 
• After all the "drama" (had to wait until Thursday night for the announcement), Raya was gonna be on Saturday. 
• Finally got around to collecting the umbrellas from OUG market on Saturday morning
• Did not know the J&T dropoff at Megah Rise already closed, had to go all the way to Ara Damansara to make the return. 
• Went to the Customs office for the first time in my life... to ask about SST matters. 
• Went to Bookfest on Saturday, collected my gift. 
• Pyramid on Sunday.