Why I Prefer To Eat With Chopsticks Instead of Cutleries.

Earlier, I was having dinner with a mate from dance, her siblings and mom. We ate in Dragon-i (good place for Chinese food. Yummy !). On the way home, I was thinking about some wonderful cold-cuts that I ate in an Italian restaurant in KL.

And I was missing it. I don't know why was I still thinking about food when I just ate.. But yeahh.

I realized that eating with chopsticks might just be more elegant and polite in comparison to eating with cutleries like fork, knife and spoon. See, when you use fork, knife and spoon to eat; you have to violate the food to pick it up (poking, slicing etc.). With a chopstick, you simply position them skillfully between your fingers and gracefully lift the food.

Sooo.. It's more polite to eat with chopsticks. The relationship between the tool and food is more diplomatic.

:)

Sofia

Updates.

Well well..
Hello :)

This blog has been pretty dead. But rest assured, it's not a reflection of a lack of events in our (Ash and I) lives. In attempt to breathe some life into this place, here's a quick update of what's been goin on !

Quick Update :

1. I recently performed for Caprice at the 23rd April Hennessy Event at the Loft, KL. I danced a short choreographed routine with a few other girls and just moved freestyle to compliment some of the songs he performed.

These dudes with shades on at night indoors are from Paris. They call themselves 'Starz Angel'. They're pretty cool. The guy in the middle adds flavour to the house/occasional hiphop mixes of his DJ buddies by adding a touch of reggae vocals. Good vibes.

This dude is Shamik Dynamik, a beat boxer from Vancouver. He's pretty cool too. It's amazing how anyone can train their vocals to make 2,3 or more sounds at once. Taught me and Kathryn (girl in black dress) some basic beat-boxing techniques. Watch out for us on youtube. We might just create a video soon. Lol.

Let me properly introduce Kathryn (girl in black dress). She is not a dancer, but she has enough flo to be one if she wanted to. Kathryn is a great friend of Ashley and I. All 3 of us went to the same college and we bonded over junkfood, assignments and whatnots in our college days. Kathryn is great. I hustled her in for the event. Ashley was supposed to be there too. But.. Yea. Anyway. That night we 'escorted' Caprice in a BMW 7 series around the block to walk a mini red carpet-press conference-like entrace and ate some of the food. It was an interesting experience.

Ashley was supposed to be there too. Grr. But I still love her.

Anyway. That's Caprice. Of course, he was also in the list of entertainment for the night.





Kat and I.

A piccie of the disco ball. LOOK CLOSELY. There's a Jack Skeleton like smiley.

2. My next dance performance will be on the 10th of May for a charity event. So the Black Rose dance crew is gonna dance for free. It's for an annual fund-raising dinner with the issue of Down Syndrome disease in mind.

3. ALSO. Unrelated to the Hennessy event thingy. . . This was the last time Ash, Kat and I were seen together. :( I think this was about a month ago. We were at a cocktail party near KLCC for Skin Club by Dermagenesis. The work place of Ashley and I on weekends.

4. Ashley just started her FIRST YEAR UNI in Raffles last week. Yay for her.

5. Architecture school has been very challenging in terms of the hardwork expected, creative-challenges, broad-knowledge-needed and also philosophically. And it's only the first month and a half ! But the thought of acquiring the skill to design a built environment for fellow humans, to serve humanly functions, private and public; feeds my drive to work work work. It's cool. My reasons for submitting myself to this hell is pretty fundamental me finks. Should be enough to keep me pushing for the years to come. My aim is to be a pragmatic artist in the best way I'll learn to be.

6. Hey! Write comments to spark up discussions or wtv. This place is DYING.

:)
Sofia

Public Restrooms.

Hello.

The other day, I noticed something in the toilet of the library that shocked me. After casually relieving myself of some biological wastes, like what many humans do;I walked out of the cubicle to wash my hands, like the hygienic lil cutie pie I am. While washing my hands, in the reflection of the mirror, I noticed that water was splashing from the bottom of a cubicle door in very unnaturally large forces, producing too much noise for simple relieving biological transactions. A woman walked out, looking like she just showered. I just froze for a minute and smiled at her when I realized she must think I'm crazy for staring.

Ok, to clarify. I often see women showering in public toilets. Especially in my work place. Routinely, after evening shifts, there's a woman that showers in the toilet of my workplace in a traditional Malay sarong. The same sort that her mother or grandmother probably wore when they showered in the river back in their day. Sometimes, I see a younger woman showering her daughter. It's sad but true. They probably do that to save a few extra ringgits from their monthly water bill or they probably don't even have a sanitized water source compared to the public restrooms of their workplace to take very basic refreshing baths in. So, I have absolutely no reason to be shocked to see another woman looking like she just showered in a public restroom.

But i was.

And for the past week or so, while at work, in class etc. , my mind has been replaying that specific scenario over and over again. I think what struck me is that. . . I was in a university campus, in a solemn, proper prace like a library. In comparison to my workplace (Carrefour), which you'd expect to see all classes of people roaming about. I didn't expect to see that in an educational environment.

I don't know what to think of it. I don't know what should be done. I just know this: It's not a way to live. I've seen ladies looking in disgust or getting mad when they observe ''public bathers''. I understand both parties concerns.

On-looker ladies that observe in disgust :
1. They've waited substantial amount of time in line for someone to shower in an inappropriate shower place.
2. When there's a kid involved, they're probably thinking things like "No money, no make babies lah."
3. Or they're thinking "Great, now the toilet is wet and disgusting. As if the stench isn't bad enough."

'Public bathers':

"This is life."

Maybe I might carry around some of my favourite fruity/vanilla/floral flavoured scrubs for the next time I see such a thing... Might share my favourite bath things.. Or experience taking a public bath myself if ever I'm in a rush..

Some time in early March, I saw this man in KL. I was really embarassed to take this picture. He's probably more embarassed to have been recorded in carbon. I asked for permission anyways.. and there's a message behind it. And if you see this guy, buy him a drink or a meal.

I don't have a pic of women showering in rivers in their traditional sarong to share. But I'm sure you can imagine it. I'm sure it's quite an elegant sight.

When the mothers or grandmothers of women in the village allowed their daughters to leave for the city in search for a 'better life'. I don't think they thought their daughters would still don the same traditional sarongs to shower, what more in public toilets. Not even a rich river.

Food for thought,
Sofia.

I just realized.

That Ashley and I are probably very easily mistaken to be
Wild girls.
We're actually

Domesticated, friendly girls.

As you can see.

MEANWHILE

While some people enjoyed the sun, salty water and exposed buns, others slaved away in the backgrounds of society, trying to finish assignments. The battle never ends.

Right now, I'm focusing on the ''weirdest'' assignment. I have to create an 'architecturial garment'. The purpose is to familiarize myself with the way the 'design process' works. I have to start with a concept, decide on a material to work with and a technique to use on the material. No glue allowed. Materials are limited to foam, wire mesh, paper and chopsticks.

The concept has to be ONE personality trait of mine that not every person might have. I decided to focus on my personal trait of being a dreamer. But I'm abit more practical than a dreamer. Maybe an escapist/idealist.. I don't know. I just know I can be quite the imaginative lil bunny. Anyway, I started playing with wiremesh. I did origami with wiremesh successfully. But it's a painful process. So I decided to use the most basic material of the lot and try to be a genius :P

This is my progress so far :

From basic white sheets of paper

I messed around with the Japanese art of origami

And got this.

Trust me, there's logic to it!! My siblings think I'm crazeh.
I question if I'm sitting on a rocky chair dangerously between the lines of sanity and insanity too.
I won't explain my creation til I'm done... Back to work!

pikchaaass!

ooh, I think I can see my house from here!

.....The Simpsons.. *The Simpsons melodious theme song playing in the background discreetly*
(inside joke)

Just for the LOLs! tee-hee =)

sunning my bum-buns.. or lack there of.

Daddy, I want that one for christmas!

"blow" me.


like a candle, dancing in the wind.

"ahoy, maytee!"

Fiierrce!!

lovin' the breeze in my hair!









....and that pretty much sums up my trip to Langkawi! =)

Holla!

Sorry for the long hiatus,

I'm back from LANGKAWI baybays!

I got all boozed up and sunned my buns to the tender hue of ROAST TURKEY!!

I fell asleep under the sun for a tad too long and now I'm GOLDEN BROWN!

Well, actually I was as red as a lobster before, so I guess being brown ain't too bad.. (observe below, the striking resemblance of my skin to the color of the watermelon)



I bet I already have skin cancer.

Although I have been told I look less sickly, I think it'll take awhile for me to get used to this.

However, it was a painful experience the first few days after being grilled under the sun;

I had to go around town bra-less for 3 days *shy-shy*

Owh well, it was a rather "liberating" experience overall =) tee-hee