Yup, that’s right.

The NaNoWriMo craze is back in town again and this time, I bet ya, it’s bigger than ever! Now before I go on with it, lets just get the basics out in the air…

NNWM, as we crazy Nanoers call it, is the abbreviation for National Novel Writing Month. It happens every year between October and November, but usually the real thing starts 1st of November.

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NOTE: Foul language up ahead. Very foul, by thescarfer’s terms, that is.

You know…having parties is not a crime. Making some happy noise isn’t either. I know how ‘young’ people need some fun too (as if I’m that bloody old).

But shooting bloody loud firecrackers until car alarms go off at 10pm is not my idea of how to prepare for a good night’s sleep in order to get up at 6am in the morning the next day to get to work OR the idea of ‘party’. I didn’t hear the screams coz I was living a few doors away but I bet you the neighbours weren’t exactly too happy with the noise.

And oh, to the joker who told my Mum that “it’s not twelve yet, auntie”…well, your excuse IS NOT valid, especially NOT on a weekday when people have to go to work or school the next day.

If you were part of the bunch of moronic kids partying away a few doors from my house in Paramount Garden last night, I’m not afraid of saying it here:

“We people have work and school/college to go to unlike you buggers who only know how to have a good time at the expense of others. Grow some brains. Your parents never teach you anything ar? KNNCB. Pukimakengkau.“

Last week, I got Nil to get some yarn for me - since I don’t have any scarves for my impending trip to France. He gave me a call when he was in Spotlight and we picked yarns - with me on the Internet looking at the brand catalogue and him in the store.

We ended up with nearly 15 balls of yarn. Here are a few pictures of the stuff he bought - which incidently, he claims, is my birthday pressie.

First up, I must apologize for the quality of the pictures. My camera has gone kaput and I had to settle for Mum’s, which IMHO, is not so good. I really need a new camera. *hint hint*

My ‘birthday’ pressie!

In between the brownish-green yarns (on the right) and blueish-green yarns (on the left) is my current knitting project - a scarf with 2 knits and 1 purl stitches. Very lovely texture. Knitted with one 5mm needle and one 9mm needle to give it a more loose (but not too loose) feel.

The scarf (left), Woolball (middle) and Feathers (right)

Three balls of Patons Feathers No 30 with two balls of Panda Woolball 50 gm No 118. Feathers has a short soft eyelash texture to their yarns and is 65m long, while Woolball is a little on the coarse side and is 92m long. My scarf is currently about six inches wide and I’m planning to use up everything and make it to about six feet or more long.

Scandal (left) and Rhumba (right)

Five balls of Panda Rhumba No 8661 with four balls of Panda Scandal No 48. Rhumba has a very delicate yet soft long eyelash texture to it and is 36m long (which explains why I need about five balls). Scandal has a more bumpy, loopy-like texture and is 46m long.

All the yarns above except for Patons are around SGD5 per ball. Patons Feathers retailed for around SGD6 per ball - which is considered cheap when you discover that these brands and textures do not exist in M’sia - to my knowledge anyway. Even if they do, they are around RM40 to RM80…hardly worth a buy, actually.

The grand total? Nil rounded it up to SGD80. Not bad for 14 balls of yarn, eh?

Ever had a list of things you wish you could do? You know, the kind where you would dabble in IF you could just drop everything and go off - just like that; without a care in the world - or even if you have a million bucks to spend.

It is during the most hectic times at the office that I start daydreaming - secretly. Well, we can all dream now, can we?

Here’s my list:

• Go on a neverending holiday around the world. First stop: Europe, then the Carribean and THEN Africa plus New Zealand.
• Relax in a lush green garden patio with a glass of my favourite cocktail and read a book.
• Swim in the coolest, bluest waters of the sea - anywhere in the world.
• Spend some time playing with puppies/dogs in the great outdoors.
• Camp AND sleep under the stars - did it twice; would love to do it again!
• Go for a museum marathon - arts, history, anthropology, culture, heck, even the zoo is fine.
• Have a picnic in the Sydney Botanical Gardens.
• Buy a yarn store like Spotlight or Lincraft and knit all day long.
• Learn to cook from people like Jamie, Nigella Lawson, the “Never Trust A Skinny Cook” guy, and Kylie Kwong.
• Go for some really needed spa treatments at the Cyberjaya Resort Sembuyi Spa - just because it’s so bloody expensive.
• Cheat and go to a spa to lose weight.
• Take pictures of myself in fantabulous wedding/evening gowns!
• Set up an animal shelter and attempt to educate people about animal care and safety.
• Design and decorate my own house - I’ll leave the ‘building’ part to the experts.

and finally…

• WRITE.

What’s on your list?

Sometimes it’s subtle. Sometimes it hits you dead centre in the face. Sometimes they don’t even realize it. Those are just one of the many things that that researchers, psychologists and the layman (that means me la) think people do just to get some instance, hot-loving fame. *cough*

1. Grow their hair to incredible lengths - Okay, so I know that hair is a woman’s crowning glory but growing it up to your butt, refusing to cut it for over four years (and not take care of it AND getting it streaked BRIGHT PINK/PURPLE/BLUE/GREEN) just so people can stare at you, go “OH, that’s so and so” from a distance, or worse, fawn over your ‘lovely’ locks is seriously too much for ANYONE to handle. Yeah, we know that long hair is sexy but not when the ends touch your butt, not when they look really horrible and not when they split. Gawd knows what they pick up there too.

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I don’t really like to make posts about how and why people should blog, simply because I’ve always felt that it is not my place to tell newbies how and what to do with their stuff. Recent events and conversations with heaps of other people have led me to put a foot in and just make a comment. No, no plug-ins, and no references…not even a ping. Besides, have you realized that I only ping certain entries?

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NOTE: Don’t even THINK about plagiarizing or using the content I’ve just put up anywhere coz mind you, I’ll HUNT YOU DOWN like a dog. :devil:

With NaNoWriMo looming ahead - it starts on 1st November - I have decided to throw all caution to the wind and jot down some ideas I have for my next NNWM novel. Or rather, whatever ideas that I have in the first place. Some of them may sound down right strange but at least it’s better than nothing. By the way, these are working titles.

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