Culturally Preconditioned

Well, so much for the anticipation. Ntv7 has failed us (yet again) in showing the Survivor premier. They failed to show the preview for the Outback as well. At least this time they showed us the “Meet the Survivors” preview, so next week we’re gonna get back-to-back episodes one and two. Even though we didn’t get to see Episode One yet, it has been known to the rest of the world that Peter goot the boot. That’s definitely a Survivor first - a male getting the first boot. Not much interesting stuff happened, so I’m not that pissed that we didn’t get to see the first episode. I’m just wondering how much of Sarah we’re gonna get to see on national tv (We didn’t even get to see MuthaPrune in her thongs last episode - Thank God!)

Didn’t do anything exciting last weekend. Ooh.. we had the usual Malaysia Mega Sale again last weekend. Initially I wanted to go off to Midvalley on Saturday but I had to send the car to the workshop. It’s the bloody exhaust. Apparently some part of the exhaust came off when I accidentally reversed into a curb early last week. So I had that welded and now it’s fine. Anyway, only managed to get it all fixed after lunch time. By the time I was on the Federal Highway, the traffic jam was unimaginable. So I had to force myself to make a U-turn and headback home. If the traffic was that bad, I cannot imagine what the crowd would be at Midvalley.

So I went to Midvalley the next day (woke up before 10 am on a Sunday morning - that’s a first this year). Managed to get a parking space and proceeded to MPH. They have a 15% storewide discount : I was in bookworm heaven. Or at least, that’s what I thought. Apparently the collection that they had was not anywhere near what Amazon, Border or Barnes & Nobles has. This coming from an ex-MPH employee, for shame! Well I did buy myself 6 books anyway (one of which was entitled : 2001 Chicken Recipees - that claims I can cook chicken for the next 5 years using a different recipee each day). What? I’m a bookworm, can I blame myself?

Yesterday was Mum’s birthday. I called at 8:00 pm at night. She said it’s not her birthday yet. Apparently she was born at 11:00 pm. So she still wants to hang on to 65 for as long as she can . I feel bad for not buying her anything. Well when I go back to JB next month, I’ll get her something.