New chapter + Friday Filler

I want to make it a point, to write when I can without distractions. I need to re-evaluate some things and most importantly, have a schedule I can follow.

I am currently living with my brother and doing my internship at a digital ad agency. Talk about hitting 2 birds with one stone; moving out and getting a job. What comes along with this package? Cooking for my brother and I! It's not a problem, it's just that it requires some planning for groceries and meals for the both of us.The horror.

I can wake up early, sometimes even without the alarm! :) The only thing I miss, is coming home to house with a dog & parents to talk to. We talk over the phone, but, let's face it, I'm a people person. I need people or dogs to function. le sigh

So what is Friday Filler all about? I will be blogging about life/personal entries on Friday. Not saying that Sunday's Blog post is going to be any different, it's just that with social media & shizz, blog post may or may not be interpreted in the wrong way. Long story short : Friday is personal and Sunday is all fun and games! Travel and things. :)

Speaking about travel, can you believe it has almost been a year since I did my crazy 1 month in US trip? I cannot believe how fast time is flying. It's not cool! I mean, one moment you're 17 and you're getting your life in order and before you know it, you're 24 and this is your life. 

Always remember you can change your circumstances, you have the choice. Wanna go skydiving? Tell someone how you feel? Learn a new skill. Yes, I'm also talking to myself when I blog. :P 

I just really want things to flow properly; making vlogs, writing blogs, reading my books (audioble looks really tempting), exercising, eating right, etc. It is possible, I just need to know how I can make it happen. Time to draw a table! 

“The person you want to be does exist; somewhere on the other side of hard work and faith and belief. And, beyond the heartache and fear of what lies ahead” - Lucas Scott.

Satellite Call

This one's for the lonely child
Brokenhearted, running wild
This was written for the one to blame
One who believe they are the cause of chaos and everything

1. Dishonor on your family, dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow, should you get a job in retail.
2. Your ideas were actually great, but I had to hear it from someone else for it to make sense.
3. Everyone else is moving on with their life and then there is you, stuck in a rut.
4. Can't keep any friends since most of them are asses. Hence, trust issues & the frustration of telling anyone the long stories and why you don't exactly have a best friend.
5. Let's compare you to someone and make you feel like crap. *thumbs up*
6. Might as well kiss your dreams of everything you ever wanted goodbye. You're not going to get it anyway.

Thank you everyone for a wonderful performance! You did great.

Wilmington (September 2011) Part 2

I promised pictures of food and other things that we did in Wilmington. Could I just say that, I didn't take decent pictures of my food; it was out of focus and I'm embarrassed. It was also my first time taking my DSLR on a journey, as I'd only gotten it a few month before the trip. #genius.

After meeting Shantel, we went for lunch, generally hung out with Lisa, her son Grayson & her friend Josh. Then she dropped us back at the hotel, kept in touch, cause on Tuesday, we're going to try to meet Antwon Tanner (he played Skills), Lee Norris (he played Mouth), Sophia Busy (how can you not know Brooke Davis :P ) & Austin Nichols (Julian Baker).

A friend on the inside told Lisa that they would be filming at the River Court on Tuesday morning. I told Lisa that I will meet her there, but then suggested that she better pick me up downtown, just in case there is no boat around that time shuttling people from the downtown area to the River Court. Lisa picked my mum and I up & we were on our way to watch some filming!

Lee Norris & Antwon getting ready for a scene

They only put up the backboards when they are filming, so other people can't play when they 

need to use the court. The WB was renting this basketball court  from the battle ship. 

DUN DUN DUN, TRAILERS! No we didn't go near it, so we don't know who was inside. 

We did see the guy who played Xavier. 

And, they tore down the river court after One Tree Hill finished filming. -_-

Antwon Tanner! 

They would not let us take a photo with Lee, cause he had make up & a fat suit on. Basically, they didn't spoilers. pfft. However, there was a guy who was taking pictures. Not sure if he got into trouble or not. Oh well. So after we were done with the river court, we went to the area near Tric, to get a glimpse of Sophia Bush. We waited 3 hours and it was worth it. 

Sophia Bush! Who then gave me a high five when I told her that it took me 24 hours in total

to get to Wilmington, NC. 

Austin didn't come out to see us :( 

After that, we went for lunch at the Dixie Grill, where a lot of scenes with Austin Nichols were shot here. The food was good! I will go back when I can, with my own money, to do an actual tour of OTH, with the houses and all. In the next 5 years hopefully, for my own closure :P 

Once we were done with lunch, we tried waiting for Bethany Joy Lenz & Paul Johansson. I think they told us to move back a bit/ filming might take longer, so we didn't get to see them.

All in all, it was a good experience. Here are my tips if you plan on visiting a place, just to watch your favourite show film.

1. Do your research on the place you plan to visit. Find out all the locations you want to go to & if you can get to them easily.
2. Dedicated fan forums usually have someone list out if they are filming in a certain location, so be sure to check those out. If you have someone on the inside, even better :P
3. If you can make a friend, like how I was able to, you're good to go. Plus, it will be a friend a for life ;)
4. Last but not least, check your photo's to make sure that you have taken a good photo. The last thing you need is a blurry/out of focus picture, that you can't brag about.

5 days in Wilmington was certainly not enough, which is why I went back in 2013, in the hopes of going to see some of the house & to catch up with Lisa & Kendall. More on that in the upcoming blog posts.

Happy New Year! (I know I'm late)

Happy New Year and I am finally back from my unnecessary hiatus! 2013 was an interesting one with a bunch of travels, adventures & eating things as June reminded me. I well get to my sushi eating experience at the end of this post :)

So, new year, new goals blah blah blah. I need a job & I need money. I also need to make sure I put out content consistently and be elaborate about certain things but maybe keep it short & sweet (what am I doing??)

The life achievements I would like to unlock this year are, (calling them achievements because life is pretty much a game)

1. Finally get my washboard abs by my 24th birthday
2. Start playing the piano again & be able to play Sara Bareilles's King Of Anything, Love Song, Hercules & Brave (getting a wee bit over my head xD )
3. Learn to play the guitar
4. Finish reading the Pendragon book series. 1-9.
5. Cook everything from 1 Jamie Oliver book
6. Master my DSLR & have a printout of some of my awesome shots *thumbs up*
7. Learn to speak Tamil. 

So far, it is the 7th of January, I have not cooked, have not read Pendragon, have not played the piano. I have been learning a little bit of Tamil, however it is not enough to order anything from an Indian restaurant. *shy*

My room has been in a mess, my camera needs to be sent for repair, I NEED A JOB. Should change the title of this post to I need a job, post my resume here and pray for a miracle. I'm joking. Maybe I'm not. 

I also need to make videos. There has to be a way to make this work. D: 

I hope you can complete your goals for the year & virtual high five if you're on track. I'll see you this Sunday with a continuation of my travels to Wilmington Part 1, while I scramble to put together all my other stories. 

Good night!

Wilmington (September 2011) Part 1

I'm planning on doing a couple of Travel posts, because I haven't done them at all, even on my old blog. So here's one long overdue post of my adventure in Wilmington, North Carolina in 2011.

The trip began with a disaster. Mum and I chose to fly with Emirates, so we can arrive in JFK Airport (NYC) by Friday at 7am, to catch a 11am flight to Wilmington. A delay in KL, caused a delay in Dubai, which eventually caused us to buy another ticket from NY to Wilmington. Talk about a domino effect.
This is what happened, as far as I can remember.

Flight from KL to Dubai was planned at 8.30pm. Due to some complications with the plane, we left at 10.30 or 11pm. This would mean, when we arrived in Dubai, it was 1.50am +/-. The flight that leaves Dubai for New York was at 2.30am. They did not let us get on the plane, they put us on a 8am flight, which means the plane ticket we bought for NY to Wilmington, boom, no way of exchanging or getting back any cash. We had to buy another set of tickets to Wilmy & that did cost us quite a bit. Thanks for that Emirates airlines, you guys suck, and NO, despite your replies via emails, you DID NOT do your best to help us out. An Emirates staff at KLIA told us someone will take care of us in Dubai, that did NOT happen. You could have delayed the 2.30am flight but you didn't. So screw you Emirates, I will never fly with you ever again.

After all the drama, arriving in JFK airport, then on to a shuttle bus for $12.50 to take us to La Guardia, the other airport, for our next flight to Wilmington. After a 2 layovers, we finally arrived in Wilmington, North Carolina. Here is the photo of the plane we were on. If this looks small to you, it was smaller on the inside.

I believe we had a free taxi, from the hotel come get us at the airport. The airport was nice small & cute. Will update the pictures of the airport on my next trip in September. After arriving at the hotel, my mum asked the concierge about the discount she could not get online. They were really awesome, they gave her the discount that she was talking about. BOOMZ! Holiday Inn Wilmington, you rock! :)

Here is the picture of our breakfast on Saturday! Awesome pancakes & awesome orange juice. Again, will update price & pictures this year :P

Screen Gems only has studio tours on Saturday. SADLY, we could NOT take pictures of the set, as the show was still going on. We saw Red Bedroom Records, which pretty much has everything to function as a real recording studio. We also went into Brooke's beach house & Nathan & Haley's house. 

Dinner on Saturday was at Arby's, a fast food joint, which had some of the cutest notes on their food boxes.

The next day was Sunday, mum and I went downtown to check out some of the iconic places that you'd see in "One Tree Hill".

Karen's Cafe.

This is not a hospital, but they used the exterior of the building for that shot. 

The intersection just outside Karen's Cafe.

Artsy Fartsy wall. Not sure if they finally renovated this, because you can see this in season 5, 

in a deleted scene of Luke & Haley walking past this.

The fountain that Brooke & Jamie had ice cream at, same one where Haley performed with girl who 

sang the song for Tangled. *my memory is so bad* 

The fountain where a lot of Keith & Lucas scene's were shot at..

The RIVER COURT! Where it all began for Lucas & Nathan. 

They tore the place down after the show ended :(

The "don't say I never gave you anything" spot was actually just placed somewhere else :P 

On Sunday I found out that OTH was going to be filming at Topsail beach on Monday, 1 hour away from Wilmington. I really wanted to go, because there was a good chance of meeting Shantel VanSanten & Robert Buckley. Thanks to twitter & because kindness rocks, my new friend, Lisa who was going to check it out, picked me up from the hotel & we went to Topsail beach. I asked Lisa if she could give me a ride, on twitter :P and she was awesome & she did!

Clay & Quinn's Beach house! 

A paparazzi shot. D: Failed one at that haha!

The very gorgeous Shantel VanSanten.

We didn't meet Robert :( but hey, better something than nothing.

In my next post, the food I ate, more OTH stuff & more pictures with the cast. 

Phantom Of The Opera (Singapore 2013)

On the 26th of July, my mum and I along with my brother (Kam), his girlfriend (Joanna) & her mum went to watch 'The Phantom Of The Opera' at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. It was quite a race because Kam, Jo & her mum were running a bit late. They went to pick up the tickets for the show first, then joined my mum & I at Jamie Oliver's Restaurant (will blog about that place in another post)

So, Phantom of the Opera.

 

 I remember reading the short version in Form 2, as it was compulsory. I was basically trying to recall the story as I was watching it. Not something I advise you to do. I did bring a copy of the book, the full version, but didn't have time to read it as I was in Legoland or resting. *cough* excuses *cough*

We bought the 145$ tickets, the green zone. I felt that our seats weren't the best. It was a full house. Really wished I spent an additional 20$ (Singapore Dollars) for seats in the front, unless they were already booked. Back to the seats; maybe the speakers were not working that day? I don't know, but I didn't really enjoy it. Until I got back home to Shah Alam & listened to the songs again on youtube. Then I WAS IN LOVE WITH THE MUSIC! *fangirling*

Should you go watch it? Yes, spend the money & get good seats. Since it's not often that Malaysia gets to stage a Broadway show *cough* very rare *cough*, head down to Singapore to go watch it. I'm hoping to watch it again, maybe in New York.

Not convinced? I took this from youtube. This is from the Brit Awards last year. I couldn't find a proper mic-ed version from the press preview.



Excited? Show runs until the 1st of September! Get your tickets right here!

Genius at work back in action

Greeting fellow earthlings. I know it has been months, but I am back for good. With blogpost every Sunday, updates via the Facebook page > www.facebook.com/iamsuemitraa and not forgetting the Vlog on Wednesdays on Youtube > http://www.youtube.com/iamsuemitraa

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I will be back with a kickass post next Sunday & a super awesome video on Wednesday. 

Over and out ;)