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Humpday Ramblings

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I Cried Because I Had No Shoes, Until I Met A Man Who Had No Feet

Joanne Choo from A Cut Above with her midas touch is the only person I allow to cut my hair.

This morning, I decided to blow dry my long curls by wrapping sections of my hair around a round brush. To my dismay, my attempt to unwrap one section failed. No amount of tugging and pulling did any good as I stared at my reflection, comical as it may appear, with a hairbrush hanging tightly to one section of my head. Panicking, I ran to the bathroom and applied a large amount of shampoo and conditioner to loosen its hold. That didn’t work either. I contemplated taking time off from work to run to Joanne Choo to have my problem rectified, but the idea of walking in Midvalley with a hairbrush in my head seemed too ridiculous.

There was only one thing that I could do. I picked up a gleaming pair of scissors, and with tears dripping down my face….

….I snipped off that entire section of hair.

That marked the beginning of the worst day of the month. I had encounters with bad drivers, traffic jams and made wrong judgements.

In a moment of self-pity, I let out my frustrations on a friend, only to find out that my friend was going through something 10 times worse. I felt like an idiot.

I guess I have to be thankful that I still have 90% of my hair on my head.

Disneyland, California

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I’m back in Malaysia, but an unknown stomach illness has caused turmoil in my life and prevented me from eating all the lovely nasi lemak, char koay teow and thosai that has been beckoning…calling my name….Lemongrasssssss…..Alas! Until I recover, bear with me as I entertain you with tales of my vacation in the US.

On 1/1/07, we went to Disneyland. I’ve been to Disneyland before, but the child in me gets the thrills and the shivers, just thinking of meeting Snow White in Fantasyland. I attribute this excitement to The Mickey Mouse Show which I used to watch as a kid (which kinda gives you an idea about which generation I belong to!).

To those who are planning on visiting Disneyland in California, I recommend the 1st of January as it is less crowded due to the large number of people choosing to visit the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena and an equally large number of people choosing to stay at home to watch the Rose Bowl game.

I have a VERY strong aversion to rollercoasters, the level of which gets increasingly higher as I grow older. My first taste of rollercoasters was in 1997 in the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Canada. The mall houses the world’s largest indoor triple loop rollercoaster. Having never experienced a rollercoaster before, and seeing the excitement in so many other faces, I decided to go on that ride, alone, in a moment of insanity. After that ride, I swore off rollercoasters.

On my first trip to Disneyland, I must have suffered memory loss, and I accompanied Tim on the Space Mountain ride, a high energy twist and turn ride in blackness and neon coloured surroundings.

The same memory loss affected me again on this trip. When I saw the unbelievably short queue at the Matterhorn, I did the macho thing again and went on that ride. It was fast, but having experienced the triple loop before, I merely closed my eyes and screamed all the way until the ride ended and I walked off on legs of jelly.

The Indiana Jones Adventure ride was as promised; I was thrown around like a raggedy doll on a bumpy jeep. It reminded me of Tim’s driving.

Surprisingly, I was beginning to enjoy these thrills.

But when I saw Splash Mountain, I knew it had to end. I wasn’t ready for a 52-foot, 45-degree, 40-mile-per-hour plunge. I abandoned Tim.

Not everything was fast-paced. In typical Disney style, a lot of the attractions were cute and creative as displayed by the following photos.

Also, when in Disneyland, don’t forget to try the funnel cake.

In the diffused light of twilight, as the sun set, Disneyland turned into a fairyland…

We ended our day in Disneyland by watching the Christmas Parade. We had front-row seats…on the pavement! Only in Disneyland.