{"id":167,"date":"2003-10-23T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2003-10-23T12:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2003-10-23T12:32:12","modified_gmt":"2003-10-23T12:32:12","slug":"indulge-in-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Indulge In Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel secure. I&#8217;m not broke any more!<\/p>\n<p>I hopped by college after the shortest fever ever (2 days on an overdose of 2 pills 4 times one fine day) only to find a lone collegemate and a holiday. <b>Freedom!<\/b> I headed down to the ATM for my bundle of joy. The numbers would make my fingers rub my eyes again and again.<\/p>\n<p>The day was still young, and I decided to head to Bintang Walk again. Window shopping and all would not feel so painful. <b>Taxi!<\/b> Taxis would be cheaper than taking the monorail and LRT there. Really. I&#8217;d have walked otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>I walked into Bentley. <i>Shaun<\/i> wasn&#8217;t there so I didn&#8217;t get to watch him do his speedy licks under the pretense of showing off how good a guitar was to a potential customer. Neither was the yummy lickable <b>butterscotch Ibanez Gio<\/b> I wanted to get. Then again, I hadn&#8217;t the full amount to get it just yet. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>A quick ring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xfresh.com\/shazfm\" target=\"_BLANK\">Shaz<\/a> my conveniently-so lepak buddy revealed that he was heading towards my area. He was there to meet his cousins at Ezone for some cybercafe action. It had been a while for me too, so I figured, why not?<\/p>\n<p>We bummed around in the cybercafe lounge for about half an hour, catching up on the grandfather story and half. He got a call from his cousin, who so conveniently was in Ezone&#8230; in Midvalley Megamall. Saved money that was!<\/p>\n<p>I used the Starbucks voucher, and we had that jelly frappucino drink. Or was it jelly with icing on top? It got pretty irritating trying to <b>not<\/b> finish with just jelly. Thankfully this time they gave the correct straw, with the spoon end like on 7 Eleven Slurpees.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t much crowd to watch, and the Berjaya Times Square Starbucks <b>wasn&#8217;t<\/b> packed with lookers. Alas! <i>Isis<\/i>, if you read this, the legend is not true!<\/p>\n<p>My sentences are coming out funny. Maybe it&#8217;s the absurdly unnecessary happiness. Maybe it&#8217;s caffeine. Maybe it&#8217;s time for me to don the purple costume. Ho ho ho!<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes. Learn the ways of the lazybum&#8217;s smiley!<\/p>\n<p><b>=]<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t used it in quite a while. It&#8217;s the <b>equal sign<\/b>, the <b>close square bracket sign<\/b>, and the <b>Enter key<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right. Press the equal key, then slide it down and to the right till you reach the Enter key. Try it!<\/p>\n<p>=]<br \/>\n=]<br \/>\n=]<\/p>\n<p>Look at the little happy faces! It&#8217;s therapy for you! All in one graceful slide of the finger! I prefer using my right middle finger, though you can try using any other.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/lazysmiley.jpg\" alt=\"Lazy Smiley - how it's done! (lazysmiley.jpg, 3\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel secure. I&#8217;m not broke any more! I hopped by college after the shortest fever ever (2 days on an overdose of 2 pills 4 times one fine day) only to find a lone collegemate and a holiday. Freedom! I headed down to the ATM for my bundle of joy. 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