Legally 21

Oh god, I’m old.


This year’s birthday is special because I’m turning 21. “You’re only 21 once.” But then again, all birthdays are special, because you are always “only (insert age here) once” in your lifetime.

Anyways, had a few rounds of celebration with different people. Yeah!
Last weekend, I got drunk celebrating at Zouk Club, KL.


Photo taken at the carpark, when I was still perfectly sober.


To read about how dead drunk I was, plus a little info on alcohol-induced-blackout, read this.
This weekend, we celebrated me and Yasmin’s birthday at Secret Recipe with some of our high school friends and our favourite high school English teacher, Pn. Chan.
And here’s my favourite part of telling a story: the photos!

 With my darling Yasmin, the other birthday girl! ♥

My bestie – Yi Ting ♥

Miss hot stuff bestie, Audrey Ho ♥

[Missing photo??] (hahaha Ms. Peh Ge! I forgot to take a pic with you!)

Another bestie, Peh Ge ♥

♥ Audrey, Yasmin, me; Audrey, Peh Ge, me.

♥ The 4 of Us ♥

I fucking ♥ this photo. Cause I love each and everyone of you in the pic! ♥♥♥

This is me, Peh Ge and Yasmin’s creation: Cream Durian Heaven! Would you like to try? Hehehe…

Sort-of Class Photo. Hahaha!

At night, my family celebrated for me. ♥

 Philadelphia Cheese Cake!

 My younger bro is so much taller than me now he can pass off as my elder brother!

Dad, mom, bro and me; Grandpa, grandma, bro and me. ♥
 Mystie gave me a hug as my present. ♥
 Me!


On the night of 21st, had dinner with Marcus at Oregi. Had a lamb chop (It’s Professor Toothy! LOLOL). Didn’t take any photos cause I was too hungry. Gobbled up as soon as the food came.


The Boyfriend enjoying Oregi’s Strawberry Signature Drink.


And then, there were presents!! Yay!!

Thank You #1 : Galaxy S Advance from Daddy and Mommy! ♥

It’s my new love. Most of the photos in this post are taken with this phone! Including the box above. Hehehe. I have decided to name it Sam, as in Samsung/S Advance Mobile(S.A.M). It’s unisex so there is no need to define whether to call it he or she. Okay, now I’m just being stupid, naming my phone and all.

Thank You #2 : Bikini set from Marcus ♥

Wore it to Redang. Yeahhhh!

Thank You #3 : Top from Yasmin ♥

It’s so versatile, so awesome!!

Thank You #4 : Dress from B-E ♥

Really special. You can wear it both ways for 2 different styles!

Thank You #5 : Red packet from Grandpa and Grandma ♥


Thank You #6 : Handmade Crocheter’s Pouch from Mommy ♥


Thank You #7 : Everyone who was at Zouk and/or Secret Recipe
Thanks for your presence! ♥

Thank you #8 : Everyone who wished me
Be it face to face, through calling, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, etc. ♥

I am now officially 21.

Handmade Hairclip

Went shopping with my friends 2 days ago and saw some really nice accessories, which then became the inspiration to this:

My very own handmade hair accessory.

Not that I’m bragging but I think it turned out to look really nice!

    

Me wearing my own creation.

Going to make more with various designs and colour schemes soon for sale.

Visit, ‘like’ and stay tuned to Catnip Crafts if interested. =)

Angeling

Angeling

Little angeling amigurumi car deco. Pattern by me, handmade by me.


Disclaimer: angeling is owned by RO!

Getting drunk.

Now that I can feel my own feet on the ground, I have decided to read up on something which truly amused me while I was recovering from a horrible hangover.

On Saturday night, I went clubbing with my friends to celebrate my birthday. As usual, the birthday girl/boy is sure to get drunk and totally wasted. Before my mind goes completely blank that night, the last thing I remember was hugging my 2 best friends, Yi Ting and Peh Ge. The next thing I know, I was lying on my bed, still in my party dress, someone tied my hair up, my make up smeared and I smell awful. The whole room reeks of liquor and cigarette.

The first thing that came to my mind when I woke up was ‘what the hell happened?’. I realised I was sleeping next to a roll of tissue. I started wondering ‘did I puke?’. Checked my phone and there was a message from my boyfriend saying my house key is with him, and a message on facebook from Yi Ting checking to see if I’m okay.

Wow I must have been dead drunk.

Yi Ting told me my shoes are on the shoe rack outside the house, that I puked twice in the club, where the 2nd time after I puked I could not even walk properly someone had to come and carry me back to our seat. Our car was the first car to leave(thanks to me. So sorry guys..) and I puked outside my house and in the waste paper basket when I got home. Apparently I kept saying "I’m sorry I’m sorry", "I want to stay sober", "please sober me", "i don’t wanna get drunk", "stop it this is painful" and finally "I wanna go home".
I thought I just K.O-ed without actually doing anything else since I could not remember anything. I thought not being able to recall a thing means I was unconscious throughout. But I was wrong. I managed to talk, to walk(a little), to puke, etc. I wasn’t just sleeping. So how is it possible for someone to be able to talk and walk but not remember a single thing the day after? What state of consciousness is this?

I practically slept the entire day yesterday. Woke up spontaneously around 9am+, checked my messages and immediately fell asleep again. Woke up again at 11am+ with a horrible headache and stomach cramp. According to my mom, she tried waking me up that morning cause she wanted to borrow my socks. She pushed and nudged me and I did not respond at all. I didn’t even know that happened. Had only a cup of plain water + 1 single piece of toast for lunch. Couldn’t walk in a straight line. Went home and sleep again. Woke up again at 7 and went out for dinner. Head still throbbing, my whole body feels numb. There was a needle-and-pin sensation in my arms and legs. Both my baby toes hurt. The skin on my left baby toe is torn. Someone must've stepped on me. LOL. My stomach felt quesy. I constantly feel like I’m going to puke but nothing comes out.

It was my mom’s birthday, so I sat around and celebrated with the rest of the family while trying my best not to move myself too much. At 10pm+ I was feeling tired as hell, my limbs felt worn out but I couldn’t fall asleep due to the horrible headache and dizziness I was feeling. Woke up around 10am+ this morning. Still feeling a little light-headed but overall I guess I could say I’ve recovered from the ordeal.

Which leads me to moments ago where I turned on my laptop and did some research on being drunk, passing out and not remembering a single thing.


This site basically explains everything:

What are alcohol blackouts?
Alcohol blackouts are periods of lost memory during times of alcohol intoxication. Although the terms blacking out and passing out are often interchanged and confused, passing out actually refers to a loss of consciousness, while people who later blackout on memories were fully conscious and often carried out complex events during the time of their memory blackout.
You can't blackout on memories formed while unconscious…there aren’t any to miss!
No one would know to look at an intoxicated person during a time of memory blackout that he or she was in fact in a memory blackout.

Fragmentary and Complete Blackouts

There are 2 types of alcohol induced blackouts – fragmentary and total. People who have experienced a fragmentary blackout may not recall the events of a period of intoxication until they are reminded or cued about them.
People who have experienced a total blackout will not remember, even with memory cues, any of the events that occurred during the period of the memory blackout.
Blackouts can last for hours or even days. Memory blackouts do not affect memories formed prior to the onset of drunkenness.

Why Does Alcohol Cause Blackouts?

Alcohol is a systematic drug that affects nearly all systems of the brain. The hippocampus, a primary area of memory formation and retrieval, is no exception.
What seems to happen is that alcohol disrupts the brain's ability to consolidate short term memories and process them into long term memories.
We have 3 types of memory.

1. Process or immediate memory
2. Short term memory
3. Long term memory

Process memory lasts only a few seconds, and allows us to perform daily tasks with ease.
Short term memories are slightly more significant, and are stored in the brain for a few minutes.

Short term memories that are very significant, and that are "practiced or thought about quite a lot" are moved into long term storage.
Alcohol seems to block the brain's ability to take salient short term memories and move them into long term storage.
What this means is that since short term memory storage is unaffected, an intoxicated person can maintain a conversation as per normal (Where the flow of the conversation rarely demands that you recall facts for more than a few minutes) but if asked to recall events of an hour before, or the night before, the intoxicated person would have much more trouble.

What Influences the Occurrence of Blackouts?

Blackouts, like memory in general, are a very poorly understood phenomenon. Research indicates that genetic variables influence the experience (Some people who drink at alcoholic levels never seem to experience blackouts) and the speed of onset of intoxication also seems to influence the occurrence.
The faster you drink, and the faster your blood alcohol level rises, the more likely you are to experience a blackout.

So basically, I blacked out due to alcohol intoxification. I’ve never gotten drunk before. I have never puked so much and lose my memory before. All the while I actually pride myself for having an above average alcohol tolerance. Because everytime I go clubbing I only get high and I’m taking care of someone else. This time, people took care of me. I died and came back a zombie. Hahaha.

Honestly, getting drunk is no fun at all. I could understand that partying and getting high is fun but being unable to remember what you said or did feels horrible. It’s like you were there but you missed all the fun and had to wake up with the most awful headache and stomach cramp.

No clubbing and alcohol for at least a month. Traumatic. I don’t wanna get drunk, ever again. Tipsy’s the limit.

Nonetheless, it was a good experience(now I know how getting drunk feels like.) and thank you to all who came! <3

Button-up Clutch

Button-up! Clutch by ME!

Took me an entire day. To design, cut the fabric, sew and stitch the fabric, attach button and whatnots.

My first 100% handmade clutch bag. ♥

Don't know why I've decided to call it Button-up! Clutch. But it sounds kinda awesome, doesn't it? Hehe..

It is, honestly quite pretty.