Last Christmas

Sure.. i may take the name of a well known song.. but it's not about love.. cause it's lame..
Anyway.. last Christmas..

I remember.. it was just after finishing the first semester of College.. and it does feel good going home for the holidays.. seeing your parents talk bout your experience in College..

I missed last Christmas.. cause i spent in My dad's home town? what do you call it anyway.. cause i wasn't born there.. so i can't call it my home town.. but i do have memorable memories there..

Lahad Datu.. the place i call home.. well not home home.. just a home for my heart.. cause that's actually the one place that is able to gather my whole family for Chrstmas.. i mean just the thought of them going that far from KK to LD is a lot.. taking time to spend with your family is something that we should and make tradition of.. that's a long journey.. talk about 8 hours.. that is if you're driving fast.. last time my mother drove it took exacty 12 Hours to get there... and that's actually the exact amount of time you need from Mukah To Kuching.. All in All it's worth it..

Weird thing bout Christmas in Lahad Datu.. even though it's Christmas which is a Western holiday i guess... but we had Malay foods which is Rendang, Curry Chicken, Fried Potato's and lots more.. but that was for the mid day course.. oh yeah.. i forgot.. during Christmas all we do is eat.. i mean it's pretty hot to do anything there anyway.. so most of the time we would eat and sleep.. yeah that's one way to spend Christmas..

But last year was special i guess... cause my dad attended the ATI course for six months.. and suddenly he became like this amazing baker.. i didn't even know he could cook, sure the ocasional eggs.. but ever since he started that course.. he was baking cookies, cakes, pizza's, making soup.. and last year.. he made Pizza's.. something we never had for Christmas before.. and it was home made.. Pizza is a delicacies in Lahad Datu.. cause there's no Pizza Hut at Lahad Datu.. and everytime my cousin came to KK they would always eat Pizza Hut.. and there's the incident which my dad cooked mushroom soup and put something too much and all the people who ate the soup ended up stomach aching and going to the bath room a lot.. there's was something like herb which he shouldn't put a lot.. but all in all the food was great.. it was memorable...

Hmm.. what else happened last Christmas.. ooh yeah.. i got my First Laptop... well for the first semester.. i used my dad Laptop which is a Compaq.. which is a big mistake i guess.. i mean buying ta Compaq laptop.. at that time.. i just cared for a cheap and a fast processor.. cause Pentium 4 sucks.. cause it always lags and the transferring rate is pretty slow.. so over the years i finally convince my dad to buy a laptop which is the Compaq.. big mistake.. cause.. that laptop is actually expensive.. about 3K.. and only for a Core 2 Duo processor.. if we saved that money and buy some laptop at this time we could've get a Core i7 processor.. well what's done is done..
Okay not only that it's expensive.. but it's also hot at the left palm rest side.. which is where the hard drive is located.. and it's pretty uncomfortable when you're using it.. cause it tends to get how after few minutes.. and more weirder.. people do complain bout HP and Compaq which is under one roof... well at least i learned something..

So i bought my first laptop.. at that time i didn't even know i would be getting a laptop.. so we looked around on Christmas and i saw the Sony Vaio F series which is incredibly big i guess.. 16.4" and most laptop was 14" and my friend just bought a 15.6" so i guess it was big.. then i asked my mom if i can buy it.. and weirdly.. she agrees.. she never normally agrees to buy anything.. she always says stuff like "How many ears do you have" if i was insisting on buying a phone.. or "You should wait cause it's only gonna get cheaper and better next year" .. but then my uncle said something.. but that was after i bought the laptop which is " So when would you buy one?" but i got it anyway.. my own first laptop.. well i'm still using it.. in fact i'm using it now.. but i never bought it to college cause it was big and heavy.. it's pretty big and hard to bring around.. Of course there's the alternative..when i was planning on buying the Sony.. my uncle suggsted that i should buy the Mac.. well i don't think i'm ready for that.. sure the Mac is great.. but honestly i don't really know how to use that thing.. and more honestly.. i think it's just to show off.. okay.. the Mac is envious.. and if i bought it then i might actually be able to work on building an App right now.. but that's for later i guess..

So i bought my laptop.. and i brought it to Lahad Datu.. well first of all i don't know what to do with a Laptop except watching Movies, Listening, Surfing, Downloading.. i mean there's more that i could do and should do like .. Programming, err... Networking?.. and .. yeah i'm out..
Long story short.. i didn't do much with my laptop there.. erggh..

Ooh.. Last Christmas they made this Avocado Ice Cream which is the Avocado being Blended like milk and being filled in a long tube plastic and frozen in the refrigerator and it tasted great..
yeah not so much bout that..

Well my dad told me yesterday that there's actually snakes in the home in Lahad Datu which freaked me out.. cause i never saw a snake before and i hope that i won't ever see a snake in my life ever.. i'm terrified of those things.. those things can actually kill you.. well that snake got killed.. but now i'm having second thoughts about spending Christmas there.. what if.. i can't even imagine it.. well that's pretty much what i remembered happened last Christmas..

Happy Holidays..