(RE)VISITING FRIENDS

at first, i thought d*bai is a better shopping place than kl but only when it comes to designer stuff. but the other day, when i got the whole 10 seasons of friends dvd for rm110, it kinda changed my opinion. dubai is really a better shopping place than kl for everything! (well, maybe except for plastic items and tissue papers which are unbelievably expensive!). so right now, i've been watching less tv.

i was a HUGE fan of friends. although the show started showing in 1995 (i think), i only started watching the show in 1998 (i was in boarding school. we couldn't watch tv during night time). apart from it being a very funny show, i think the main reason why i liked friends so much was because of matthew perry. he was sooo cute (especially in the first and second season. got me smitten in an instant .. heheh). i was so hooked up on the show/him that when i was back in uni, i would use my monthly allowance to buy the original videotapes/vcd's. a cd with 4 episodes would cost rm30 bucks and i would try and get them from jusco instead of speedy because i could use my jcard to collect points (eheh). so, everymonth, i would put aside 60 bucks from my allowance to buy the cd's. and i would watch them over and over again like a maniac. i usually tapau my lunch and dinners and i would eat my meal in front of my computer while watching the vcd's. i would ask my friends and family members to get me friends vcd's for my birthday, indicating to them which episodes that i stll didn't have.

but my interest in friends died down after the 7th season. i guess i grew out of it. mostly because matthew perry started to look older and less.. err.. appetising (:P). and phoebe got meaner and meaner. the show became a but less funny. all this, coupled with the fact that the tv was showing the show on (almost) daily basis made me decide to stop buying the original vcd's. i stopped after the 7th season. all my videotapes and vcds are now in my bedroom back in ipoh in a special 'shrine' (actually it's just a bookcase :P), a testament of how merepek my pre-adolescent life was. but at that time, spending rm rm180 for a season of friends (when you are not even earning) didn't seem merepek at all (well how was i to know that a few years later i would be able to get all 10 seasons at 110 bucks!!)

speaking of friends, i'm going to have a few friends visiting me this weekend. 3 of them altogether. one is my standard one classmate who i always had this love-hate relationship with (let's call him W). the other one is my ex-schoolmate when i was in boarding school (a girl, we'll call her M). the third, is B, M's husband who happens to be my ex-coursemate in uni (who, btw is one of my least favourite people in the world. gosh, i do seem to have a dislike over quite a few people don't i? what can i say - i have high expectations of my friends..heheheh)

i wish i could write a bit more about them but i'm too sleepy. i need to wake up at 5 in the morning to pick them up (it's already 1.25 am now). anyway, let's just say that i have my concerns about them visiting me. the two guys have always liked to gang up on me (that's what heterosexuals do apparently) and kutuk2 me. i have been more tolerant of this in the past (maybe because i was a lot more patient then). but after staying here for 9 months, think i have changed a little. i'm more snappy now. seriously. and i'm afraid if they pull off one of their antics, i would lose it. and i would lose it bad. i don't want that to happen especially not when they are my guests. but i'm not sure if they know how to be a good guest...