慧玲

Love my food, hate my tummy

2006-06-25T17:21:00.000+08:00

It's been awhile since my last post and somewhere in between, i've been eating damn alot and getting irrevocably fat. Hate feeling my clothes getting tighter and uncomfortable. Really need to start keeping track of the junk i put in my mouth else i'll probably grow beyond recognition. Even Adrian who sees me practically every day says i'm getting fleshier. Sigh... why isn't my weekly swimming attempt proving useful? Damn! Anyway, following pictures shows why.

Dinner with my sisters and *ahem my sisters new bf at none other than my favorite Korean restaurant in Jalan Ampang. ;) I know you guys just started and all. But I hope he is the one for you and that you can be happy this time.

Dinner at BBQ Plaza with Engwei. Look at him. Dem happy bbq-ing the beef. We ordered the mixed(pork + beef + seafood + chicken) set. Kindda regretted we did not just order the beef plate cos it was just so much nicer than the rest. ;)

Staff dinner at Crown Princess the following day. As usual, we were the rowdiest and we grabbed all the good food. All the salmons and sushis and mussels and prawns. Too bad the sushi and salmon wasn't all that fresh. The bbq stuff were great though. And the ice creams topped with melting chocolate, peanuts and crunchy wafer. Mmmmm.... simply mouth watering!!

You would have thought that was the end of it and it was time for my tummy to rest but no. That weekend i met up with some old friends and boy we talked and talked and talked. And our bottomless food and drinks at Chillis never stopped coming too!!!

Dinner with larling, engwei and andrea at 1U. Lots of 'seriously lame joke' and as usual the joke's on Engwei hehe -_-''' Stayed over at Kat's place after that too. Reminds me of those days when i used to go to your room and talk nonsense 'cept that we are no longer in mlk and no longer getting any younger! Anyway, it was nice catching up with you. Pirates of the Carribean 2 next ya!! :D

Edit: Faintly recalling going to pasar malam (Night market) last friday and all the food i gorged on. Hmmm.... the list goes something like this :- fried sotong/fish/meat balls/nuggets, fried chicken wings, ha peng(prawn crackers), sate, fried carrot cake, asam laksa, sweet corn and drinks. Am i crazy or what?

Blood+

2006-05-16T10:30:00.000+08:00

Dem semangat to do work while listening to Blood+'s OST...

Bangkok

2006-05-14T18:12:00.000+08:00

It seemed like an eternity ago since my Thailand trip.(29/4 ~ 5/2) You know, arriving at the Land of Smiles, walking in the dusty roads, travelling in Tuk-Tuk cars, sweating ALOT almost to the point of cursing the extremely hot and humid weather, crazy shopping frenzy, and well... just spending some quality time with my sis. I won't say I truly miss my holidays there but it certainly isn't the place to go if you want a relaxing and enjoyable(unless you consider sweating while shopping enjoyable) holiday getaway. Anyway, here are some pictures from Thailand. Not really in the mood of writing so it's gonna be lots n lots of pictures. ;)

First in the line of kiasu ppl to board in LCC
Our first stop - The 4 faced Buddha. Unfortunately though, it has been replaced with only a picture as it has been smashed by vandals. Urgh.
Awww.... cute elephant!! :P
Pratunam Market - Lots of food, clothes and accessories.

Fried quail's egg! Looks so delicious eh?
Errr some local delicacy. It taste okay only. Not really nice

Dumpling
Looks like shit eh? Don't be fooled, it's pork actually. They sell pork everywhere! I think it'll be hard for a Muslim to taste road-side stalls local delicacies as it probably won't be halal.

Mayonaise kuih
Delicious fried fish cakes. Taste almost the same as the one in Bangkok Jazz. But simply yummy!!

My sis.. see the resemblance? ;)
They serve raw crabs!! Urgh... Needless to say, I didn't try those

The streets are full of surprises. Was enjoying my road-side stall food on the sidewalk and suddenly there's an elephant!! Scared the hell outta one of us. :D
Enjoying a foot massage right outside a mall. Darn cheap... RM10 for an hour. What more can one ask for?

Our Tuk-Tuk car experience hehe.
Chatuchak market map. Dem the place is H-U-G-E!!! Seriously, I never quite got my directions right despite the map and being lost is there is like the norm. It's quite fun tho' being lost. 'Cos you get to discover lots of different shops and it was a really interesting experience.

Shopping in one of the many itsy bitsy teeny weeny little shops there.
Having a coconut after shopping there is like Heaven!! It's hot, humid, stuffy and just plain terrible to shop in the heat. My new found love in thailand -> coconuts :D

Taking a ride along the Chao Phraya river. Lots of main temples are accesible through this river.
Temple of Dawn or also known as Wat Arun

Me n ma sister at the Temple of Dawn. Taken right after we alight from the boat.
Nice big view of the Temple. It's kindda weird blogging about this now as I'm watching the 12th episode of ANTM which just happens to be at the very same temple!!

Wat Pho - Temple of the Reclining Buddha
The magnificient looking gold-plated Reclining Buddha.

Silly photograph in taxi
Look Ronald Mcdonald's in Thailand haha...

Thai Massage. The best on earth. Seriously!! I love love loveeee it!!!
No trip to Thailand would be complete without a visit to the red light district. So there we were in Patpong. Gullible tourist visiting the center of prostitution just waiting to be cheated. And got cheated we did. Supposed to pay a mininimal amount to watch the infamous Ping Pong show. Got a freaking inflated bill after that. But well it was an experience and it's really GROSS!!! Urgh... i mean i kesian them la, but also it's disgusting. Yucks! Imagine they put the ping pong balls in their *ahem* and start shooting it at you. Come on we are all girls, can't u see that we are NOT interested?? Still keep shooting some more. I was like playing dodging all the way through the show. Dodging everything that they threw at me. Not a pleasant experience at all!

After a long and tiring trip, it was time to pack and go home. Bye thailand... Bye holidays.....

Distracted

2006-05-11T11:51:00.000+08:00

...

... The phones are ringing incessantly.
... Someone is talking on the phone.
... Someone is talking with another person.
... Someone is making calls with the phone on speaker mode.
... Heavy and light footsteps thump ceaselessly on the carpeted floor.
... Clanking cups signal the arrival of the cleaner lady making her daily rounds.
... The continuous tapping of the keyboard occasionally followed by the familiar backspace tap
... Papers are torn and thrown.
... Dot matrix printer is buzzing irritatingly in the background.
... Loud stamping noise marking the end of a filed case for some.

Oh a call for me… And here I’m wondering why I can’t seem to concentrate on a single thing.

Edit: I need a stress ball. *hint hint*

Be warned, post contains vulgarity

2006-05-06T04:35:00.000+08:00

Got pissed off by some damn fucking bastards today. Bastards cooked up some story and thought everybody's intellectual capacity ~~is lower than~~ matched their 3-year-old half-assed dim wit brain. No matter how great u bastards think you are and no matter how much greater heights you can achieve, the only respect and recognition you can get is earned through treachery and deceit.

Congratulations!!

2006-04-27T22:02:00.000+08:00

A word of congrats to my long time friend... Ms. Apple

I'm still alive

2006-04-26T16:23:00.000+08:00

I'm gonna break my blog-fast now cos i'm so extremely sleepy and the only thing that can keep me awake is to write nonsense. :P I haven't been blogging for such a long time. Wonder if anybody still reads it. Lots of things have happened though. Past 2 months have been hectic and definitely served as a lesson well-learnt. But let's just leave it at that and move on to happier things.

Gosh, so many things to update and i don't quite know where to start! Going way way back to after Chinese New Year, came back from holidays with wonderful news. Bank Negara came out with a ruling of 5-day week for banks and all its groups. And so... No more compulsory working Saturdays wishing i was still sleeping at home! Hee hee... As though that isn't enough, my company organized its annual dinner right after that and the company was abuzz with people talking and planning for the upcoming trip. It was a 2 days affair where we headed off to the sandy beaches of Cherating, Terengganu. The theme for the event was Aloha aka anything Hawaiian and No, i don't own anything that is even remotely Hawaiian! :D There are some who really went all out and specially rent Hawaiian costumes and all. Super-semangat! Spend money to RENT IT! Me... I just wore something flowery. Only Aloha thing on me was this fake flower pin that my roomie loaned me hehe. Even though the food that night wasn't all that great, it was really fun having a bonfire dinner by the beach and it was especially so when you spend it with the crazy people you work with! Ha ha... Our table was definitely the rowdiest and considering that it's an all-girls table, the guys should be ashamed! I guess being loud and noisy must have brought us good luck since the winner of the grand prize of the lucky draw for the night was from our table! Congrats congrats libelly. :) I also got something. But compared to her 34 inch tv, the oven i won was nothing lah. Not like i use it anyway.The thing is, I DON'T bake. Anybody wana come my house to bake? I provide oven and makan service. Lai lai lai....

Err after that, it was bonus & increment time. (Hmm now that i think back, company was spending lots of money at that time) I tell you, when it comes to sensitive issues like that, you can see the gossip-mongers at their best. How they fake around to find out who got how much, who got promoted, who got this, who got that. You name it, they know it. Really take my hat off them man. Seriously, how could people lived life for so long already and yet still behave so naively??? I guess they serve as a good reminder of who NOT to be when you get older. >:)

Oh, almost forgot.....

BANGKOK HERE I COME~~~~!!!!
Yes, yes, yes i've booked myself a holiday and flying off to Bangkok this weekend!!!! Motivating myself now.. thinking of all the shopping i can do.. *Adrenaline pumping!* all the cheap things i can buy... *Adrenaline pumping!* All the food i'm gonna eat... *Adrenaline pumping!* All the places im gonna go *Adrenaline pumping!!*

Happy New Year of the Dog!

2006-02-01T01:40:00.000+08:00

I'm too stuffed to be writing coherent sentences for this entry. So...

Sub ChineseNewYearPreparation()
     For Time = 8AM to 5PM
          If Time = 8Am Then
               WAKEUP()
          ELSE
               Dim pineappleTart as NotYetMade
               pineappleTart = Mould
               pineappleTart += AddJam
               pineappleTart += AddDecorationOnTop
               BakeTart()
          End If
     Next Time (Hour)

     If Time = 5.30PM to 10.00PM Then
          Dim EverybodyFinishCutHair as boolean = False

          While EverybodyFinishCutHair = False
               CutHairTillEverybodyFinish()
          End While

          Dim Shopping as InfiniteVariable, Money as LimitedAmount

          While Counter = 1 to Infinite
               SHOPPING!!!!!!()
               Exit Loop When Money = 0.00
          End While
     End If

     If Time = 10.30PM to 12.00AM
          WrapHamper()
     End If

     ChineseNewYear() 'Goto ChineseNewYear
End Sub

Sub ChineseNewYear()
     Dim IsitStillChineseNewYear as boolean = True

     While IsitStillChineseNewYear = True
          Eat()
          Eat()
          Eat()
     End While
End Sub

Pre Chinese New Year

2006-01-25T23:09:00.000+08:00

Starting from 5.30pm tommorrow, I'll be officially on an extended leave from work for CNY. And yet things are still strewn everywhere. Haven't had the time to start packing yet. Soiled clothes piled at one corner, new clothing for CNY not yet sorted out, piles of work and research waiting to be done and etc etc. Who said holidays are always fun??

Thieves

2006-01-24T09:30:00.000+08:00

After work last Friday, I was in a good mood as it marked the beginning of the weekend and my company had also decided to bank in our salary earlier in lieu with the upcoming Lunar New Year. Which means, i was happy AND richer.

It felt good and like any normal person, i decided to treat Adrian & myself to a nice pot of steaming curry fish head at a restaurant near his place. Bad move. As we were waiting for our food, a car alarm suddenly started ringing incessantly. After hesitating for only about 5 seconds before checking it out, the thief had already broken into Adrian's car, open his boot and stole his laptop. Everything happened so fast we didn't even see anyone running off with the loot!

The day ended up with a plate of fried kuey teow for dinner, beating flies at the Serdang Raya police station and both of us very much depressed. So to all you guys out there who always carry your laptop around, word of advice: Never think that it's safe to put your laptop in the boot. Apparently these thieves (i guess they're probably a syndicate that goes around stealing laptops) have devices that can detect the presence of a laptop regardless if it is off/on.

And to the thieves who stole the laptop, i hope you lame bastards get bang by a car and be crippled for the rest of your lives! HMMPH!

Guilt-ridden Weekend

2006-01-16T17:37:00.000+08:00

It's Monday again and yet what happened last weekend seemed like a dream. Well more like a nightmare. In only an hour, i've kissed goodbye to all the money that i've been saving up for my beloved W800i. :( There's no one i can blame except for my greed and of course the Estee Lauder Companies Staff Sale.

It was really crazy! The sales boasts brands such as Estee Lauder, MAC, Stila, Bobbi Brown, Clinique, DKNY, Tommy etcera etcera and the prices were bloody cheap!! It was a WORKING Saturday and yet i woke up even before the break of dawn so that i won't be late meeting up my colleagues at Renaissance. Started queing up at around 6++ and since we were so kaisu and yet paise to admit, gave away the first spot in line to a group of Aunties. There, at least those Aunties seem more desperate than us! :D When the doors to the grand ballroom opened, it was like a stampede. Even the guys guarding the door had to move aside least they were pushed down.

The prices of the stuff in there are seriously very marked down!!! Especially the Clinique and Lauder products. Lemme see, the Clinique perfume was like RM50 for 50ml and i almost got it before discarding it for the Beyond Paradise perfume which cost 130 for a 50ml bottle! I think retail price for that is like almost 200 so definitely a bargin. Then got myself the Clinique body butter for only RM20 and guess what the retail price is 110! Haha even cheaper than my Body Shop's body butter! So buy lah, anyway sometime in the future when i finally finish using my Body Shop body butter i'm gonna need it. Then got this concealer from Bobbi Brown. It's really good for covering and concealing undereye dark circles. Cost just as much as the body butter so of course it's a buy. There were lots of Stila shimmery powder, illuminating foundation and also lip colors but had to give all those up for my MAC eyeshadows. Haven't tried out the color yet but the casing is soooo nice!!! It's a shiny metallic purple case with the word "MAC"studded in jewels on the cover! It even came with a velvet purple cover so that you don't scratch the metallic casing. Couldn't resist it so didn't have the heart to throw it into the "Can't Buy" plastic bag. I grabbed lots of bottles of perfume too. Especially those gift packs. Very very worth it. But then again, stopped by insufficient funds. :( In the end, had to put back most of the things i wanted to buy. Sad lah. Money tak ada, shopping also tak cukup puas. Hmmm but at least better than my colleague la. Spend even more than me and EVERYTHING is makeup!! Haha bet she feels even more guilty than me. Nyek nyek.. After only about 1 hour of sinful shopping, we have already paid for the goods and hailed a cab RIGHT back to work!

Went for dinner and Memoirs of a Geisha later on with my sis & couz at night. Had dinner at this shop called Mama Kitchen Restaurant at Damansara (i forgot which part) famous for its Claypot Lou Shi Fan and Marmite pork ribs. Mmmmm... delicious!! Memoirs of Geisha was quite good too but it had a little too much of Zhang Ziyi in it. And i kindda forgot the ending in the book already. Was it the same as the movie's? Didn't remember Sayuri having blue eyes either. Anyhow, it was wortha watch.

SO, CNY shopping spree this weekend!!! Anyone?? Anyone?? ;)

Plants are good for earth

2005-12-26T17:00:00.000+08:00

It's going to be a new year soon and since Bill Gates and his wife are donating like what, 37 billion dollars to those in need?? Might as well chip in a little right? Bought this little cactus from the Caring Corridor in Mines. All the stalls there are opened by disabled people who are trying to make a living by themselves without having to rely wholly on other people. I guess buying stuff from them beats donating money to charity funds without knowing what is done with the money. ;)

~a little touch of greenery in the room~

Merry Xmas & Happy Boxing Day!

2005-12-26T14:28:00.000+08:00

I lurrve holidays!!! It's such a wonderful feeling lying down on the sofa blogging and surfing while watching the TV without a care for the world. No worries about work, no stress, no deadlines, not having to wake up early... so relaxing!

Had a mini Xmas celebration yesterday. It was just a small gathering of family, friends & relatives. Not that any of us were Christians, but we were still very semangat. Met up early in the morning at Adrian's place and went ingredient shopping at Giant. It was tough making sure that everybody stayed together and that our objectives are reached. A big group of GiRLS in a shopping mall, ya get the picture.

Anyway after lots of dragging and keeping everyone away from the ladies department, we finally bought all the stuff we needed and headed back home. Cooking was a mess! Haha I guess its true that too many chef spoils the broth. Eh wait, not spoils the broth, its more like the Chipsmore advertisement, "Now you see it, now you don't"! Once the dish is prepared, it just slowly dissappears! Haha...it's just so convenient to pop a nugget or two in the mouth while ur cooking or just dropping in to see how the food preparations are coming huh? All in all, we prepared lots of food. There were cheese cake, mashed potato with garlic butter, chicken spaghetti, caesar salad, chicken (ready made from kenny rogers. our SUBSTITUTE of turkey haha!!), fruits, dessert and lots more!! Everybody even brought Christmas presents to exchange. Awww so sweet rite? Hehe had loads of fun yesterday just eating, chilling out and playing all those crazy games with the gals. Muakss!! Love ya guys~!! :D

Hey sister!! Forks are meant for food. FOOD!! Not gold digging ler...

the lee-chans with the kawaii santarina hats hehe

err...err.... -_-'"

Hooked!

2005-12-22T21:59:00.000+08:00

Adrian's tv is FINALLY fixed and i had a sudden urge to play PS2. Actually i had wanted to try the Katamari Damacy game ages ago but havent got my hands on the game yet. It's basically my type of game as it's a pretty brain-less game.

Katamari means 'clump' in Japanese and in the game, the player will be given a clump (Katamari) and all there is to the game is just roll and roll the katamari everywhere and collecting stuff while rolling it to increase the size. It's quirky but i'm just so attracted to the fact that no brain power is required. :P Just like some of the Yahoo games that i got addicted to, Dynamite, Insaniquarium just to name a few.

Anyway in the end i settled on NFSU 2 even though i've played it before on the pc when it first came out. Boy am i addicted again! The feeling is just totallly different! Viewing it on big screen and playing with the joypad, banyak oomph larrr hehe. Definitely beats having to play in low quality mode just because my PC has a lousy shared memory graphics card! blekz!

NFSU 2 here i come again!!!!

Just around the corner...

2005-12-22T14:17:00.000+08:00

'Tis the end of year and the season of many merry festivals.
Really...it's year end and spirits are running high. Over here in my office, even though everybody's on long holidays to finish their annual leave, everything still spells festive mood!We have people making glutinous balls in the spirit of 'tang yuan' festival, christmas decor hanging from the ceiling, blinking and flashing christmas lights everywhere, and even christmas trees with faux presents under the tree! Even though it's not my department but i guess it's just pretty infectious and im in a good mood now.
I wana have holidays!!
I wana get Xmas presents!!
I wana listen to Xmas songs!!
I wana eat turkey!! :D

Edit: I've changed my mind. I want Prosperity Burger and Twister Fries!!! *drooooool......

Just for laughs

2005-12-02T18:04:00.000+08:00

Smart kiddo!!! hahaha...

I'M FAT!!

2005-12-02T13:29:00.000+08:00

Last week was payday. Last week i went shopping. ;) Had every intention of getting myself some nice tops but i've been putting on quite a lot of weight recently. Until i get rid of those unsightly rolls of fat, i think i'm gonna have to put that on my 'To Buy' list.Thank god though for shoes and for a pair of feet that doesn't grow sideways, I got a new pair of heels.

Nice ain't it? All right, it does look pretty simple and plain. But i like the sole and heels. Its shimmery and in a nice shade of pink! Haven't had the chance to wear it yet though. Wearing a pair of new WHITE sandals during the rainy season is one foolish thing i won't do. But i love the rainy season! It rains without fail every night. Love the cold weather. Love going to bed every night wrapped comfortably in my blanket, a book on hand, and lulled by the soft trickle of rain on the window. Heavenly~!!

That aside, couldn't resist the temptation when i came across this stall that sells this neat collection of dangling earrings. It was a real bargain and all the female race there were drawn to it like bees to honey... flies to rubbish... haha. Thanks to the earrings, i finally brainstormed a cheap yet effective way to store all my dangling earrings. It's so simple and i wonder why i never thought of it before! All i had to do was hunt through my dust-collecting old magazines and take out all the glossy brochures. Pick afew of the brochures that i like (its normally thicker than the normal mag pages). Take all my dangling earring and poke through it in whatever way i like it to be arranged. Finally, just take some of those blue-tac thingy and paste it on the wall. And...this is the end product

It's neat and well organized, easy to add more earrings, easy to remove earrings for wear and also easy to hang it back.Ahh.. I'm soo smart!! :D

Memoirs of a Geisha

2005-11-28T16:21:00.000+08:00

Currently this is my wallpaper at work. Zhang zi yi looks so gorgeous in the kimono!!Makes me feel like having one too! Hmmm wonder if it will be hard walking in a kimono though. All the television shows always show women dressed in kimono walking as though they have "pak kar". U know, it's the torturing process where chinese girls' (kids, mind you) whose fee tare tightly bound since they were young AS it was considered beautiful during those times. Hmmm...

Today my colleagues and i were coming up with a code-name for something new. And it really wasn't as easy as i thought it would be. Coming up with codenames, many things have to be put into consideration. For example, Raymond found this website where this guy took the liberty of translating VISTA to Virus, Infection, Spyware, Trojans, and Adware!! Muahahaha what a joke!!! Anyway, general guide to giving a codename would be something that doesn't really mean anything. And sadly my list of suggestions including michalangelo (my fav ninja turtle) was rejected :(

I've Moved~!

2005-11-20T04:43:00.000+08:00

I've moved into the new room today. Packing and moving ALL my stuff and junk made me really grateful that i wasn't moving to another place. That would've been hell!! Sometimes it just marvels me how some people could live with only the bare necessities. It's a definite NO no for me. I'm a junk-keeper. Everything that i buy, i keep. Which also explains why when i suddenly have the urge to clear my room, it almost always fail. Every little thing might just serve its purpose in the future. And i'll just keep it somewhere in the room, forgotten, never to be used in future. Put it shortly, my tiny 'lil room is FULL! don't even have much space to move around :(

ohhhh finally this weekend both adrian and i are not working. Went out for some Korean food and movie today. Mmmmm....Delicious food and a midnight movie is just so wonderful. Although Adrian did have a nasty stomachache after dinner and had a hard time containing it while driving back. Haha it was just so funny in the car seeing his "I need to go now" look and listening to Simple Plan's Untitled where the chorus goes like:

How could this happen to me [why must i be stuck in a jam at a time like this??]
I've made my mistakes[gosh i shouldnt have ate so much... :(]
Got no where to run [i NEED a TOILET!!!]
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I just wanna scream [TOILET!!!!TOILET!!!!]
muahahahahah.....

Went to catch Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire after dat. Although the effects are really good, i would say the movie was only so-so. Lots of the story in the book were cut and the movie seems rather hurried. Even the part in the beginning where they had the World Quidditch Match, there was no Quidditch scenes. Only the players were introduced and after that was the part where Voldemort's symbol was released. Besides, Harry, Ron and Hermione are getting older and let's just say i prefer their looks when they were younger. And..it does look like they're tooo old for the roles. Just my opinion though. Enough bout dat, wana go sleep now... zzzzz

Workaholic in The Making

2005-11-18T19:06:00.000+08:00

I'm turning into a workaholic! Although it's interesting to be doing new project and stuff, it ain't good 'cos I've been working late into the night for at least a month now and in the process I'm getting fatter and fatter! Feels as though I'm in the "Super Size ME" show. Have been dialing the trusty 1300-13-1300 number every night and ordering McDonald's for dinner. Urgh! I hate it now. With the exception of McD's breakfast, you'll have to kill me to make step even remotely near McDonalds!

On another note, I've finally come to my senses and realised that the master bedroom i'm renting is too big for me. Tomorrow, I shall move into a smaller and cheaper room. It'll be in the same house though, just that i'll be moving into the small room and of course i'll have to give up my attached bathroom! *sob sob*
Other than that, i guess my life has been pretty routine. Other than work, it's still work. I don't really wana sound like a geek but i guess i do since the most exiciting thing that happened to me since i last blogged was......

the launching of......

MICROSOFT PRODUCTS!! muahahahaha... [*yeah... N.E.R.D...]
Went to the launching of Visual Studio .NET 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 by Steve B. Pretty grand and the products have a whole lot more features than the current one. Will have to try it to know though. And in case if any of you are wondering, I'm taking off time to blog not cos im free but 'cos I'm waiting for confirmation on user requirements on my part. haha really no life man.

YAWN....feeling so sleepy and muddle-headed now. Oh btw, got me hair a digital perm. Basically, it looks pretty much the same as before. Just that I don't need to go through so much trouble to style it anymore and it looks naturally wavy. Just some hair oil and grabbing is enough to make everyday look like a good hair day! :D Was actually feeling pretty worried that i might turn out looking "auntie" but luckily the salon i went to (in batu pahat) was *can u believe it?* some sort of a branch of Creative Studio in melaka. So the hair stylist is pretty skillful and my hair turned out pretty good. All righteee...gotta go now.
Work has come has come has come.... <- turning crazy haha

I NEED THIS!

2005-10-13T16:12:00.000+08:00

*This is weird. I've already activated word verification for comments and yet i still receive spam comments.

KL Blues

2005-10-13T10:10:00.000+08:00

Got stuck in a ridiculous traffic jam this morning. Nothing makes a morning worse than having to wake up early to AVOID the jam and yet somehow end up in a crawl pratically right outside the door! Apparently some 'smart' people decided to close off one lane of the road leading to KL city centre for road construction during morning peak hours. Can't they just do it at night after work hours?

On another note, i'm going back hometown this weekend! Thinking of getting a change of hairdo. I know this might sound weird but just as i was about to doze off last nite, it suddenly occurred to me that i'm kindda sick of my hair already. Ended up staying awake for quite sometime thinking of what to do with my hair. It's so troublesome to always have to style it and make sure the curls look okay. Ideas, anybody?

oops..

2005-09-23T08:19:00.000+08:00

Accidentally *bumped* into a car this morning. :( Was feeling kindda blur so early in the morning and wasn't really looking. I knew it was very close though. Luckily it was just a small *thud* on the bumper AND that car is a Pajero AND the owner wasn't there. :D haha so faster faster cabut la. Okie dem hungry now.. wana go buy my breakfast and continue on with the monotony of work life.

feelin' bored

2005-09-15T08:14:00.000+08:00

Here i am... early bird in the office, again. So sleepy but well i was online doing stuff the whole nite so couldn't help it ;P

Well as i was strolling through low yat yesterday to get my modem, guess who i met? it's none other than mak and ah wee. What a coincidence huh? They're malaccans and only came up to kl to do some stuff and i 'happened' to be at the same place with them at the same time. haha...anyway it was nice catching up. Low yat seems to be a common point for many MMU students. Just the other day i met my sayang there. (Aiy...ur hair sangat cantik la. Short, long.. semua pun cantik! :-* ) Even saw some very snobbish MMU fellas' at the ATM whom i smiled to but just stare back at me like i'm made of glass. hmmph!

Oh... i finally am going to have a chance to wear my cheongsam!!! Just received a red bomb yesterday *translate: colleague's wedding invitation*. Hehe... so happy to now have a reason to wear it. BUT i seem to have gotten fatter after started working. wonder if i can still fit into it???? Shit...need to go back and try it liao later. Sigh... why cant people remain the way they are when the clothes are made?

i'm connected!!

2005-09-14T23:32:00.000+08:00

after much obstacles....i finally made it! i'm back in the broadband community!! :D bz bz downloading stuff now hehe...

Alone in the office...

2005-09-14T08:10:00.000+08:00

Gosh i'm sooo extremely early!! I'm the only soul (other than the cleaning lady) in a 50 metres radius. haha...feel so dumb...But no choice. Have been staying over at my friend's place in Seri Kembangan these few days and if i don't wake up early (*woke up at the ungodly hour of 6.40 am this morning) i might end up like the other day and reach office at 9.30!!! paise lah... walk in so late right under the nose of my boss. Luckily my boss wasn't in 'tho that day. On another extremely sad note... *sob sob* , yesterday streamyx called in and say my (adrian's actually) streamyx application has been approved. *YAYZ!!!!!* Was so excited to go back and finally get connected. BUT mana tau... both my modem and router spoiled!!! ARGGGHH!!! It was working fine before i went to china. Dunno what my daddy do to it. So... That's my sad story of the day :((

Android

2005-09-13T11:22:00.000+08:00

'She' is a 'female' android. Can u believe it? Gosh she looks so real!!!!

Got it from here

quickie from the office

2005-09-09T23:18:00.000+08:00

la la la...blogging while i'm waiting for my colleague to go back together. Seems like my department are the only souls left in the whole building. <- A glimpse of the life of people who are in the IT field. Never-ending amount of changes and always trying to keep up with technology. Sigh...

*so tired. Shall go back now. Home... here i comeeeee!!!!!

crystal frenzy

2005-09-07T15:17:00.000+08:00

crystal report...
does anybody find it as annoying as i do? what with the lack of resources online and totally erratic behavior, its even harder to understand than ~~the inner thoughts of a woman~~ why man has such huge ego!!! (*better gals? :P)

on another note...finally completed some stuff and it is at the moment being presented. Well even if there are mistakes, invariably it's just a part and parcel of a beginner's life to make mistakes rite? *nervous nervous

gosh...i'm really good at self-consoling aren't i? sigh....

home sweet home muaks!

2005-09-03T02:18:00.000+08:00

Was reading through my friend's blog and this link caught my eyes. Very funny and entertaining! Gives me an excuse to me dumb!! haha... 'tis for all ya programmers out there...
Why Good Programmers Are Lazy And Dumb

On another happier note, i'm back in bp! :D Gonna feed myself fat with all the home-cooked food and download all the stuff i want. Which also explains why i'm still awake at this hour :P

...depression???

2005-08-24T13:15:00.000+08:00

Have no idea why but i'm feeling pretty down today. Somebody... give me my dosage of naruto, bleach and yakitate japan please!!! Seriously, i need a life. :((

Itchy hands

2005-08-20T02:09:00.000+08:00

Arrggh...my hands are so itchy!! I have a really interesting entry that's fulled of very interesting pictures from work. But it's currently saved as draft cos i dun have the permission of the people who are in it. Sigh... Anybody who wants to see it. Please please please go beg the stars of the pictures. :D

Humour in the office...

2005-08-19T17:04:00.000+08:00

Today was another normal and quiet day at office. Everybody was busily(or at least they are trying to ;P) looking at their monitor and typing away. Everything was peaceful until jayce suddenly walked in with a bouquet of roses!!! Surprise surprise....Following are the events that ensued...

Translation:
Female:
Tell me, marry me or not??!!!?

Male:
yyyee....*seductively*
ppl shy shy mar...
*blush blush

Male:
yyeee.... *seductively* wana propose also no sincerity one....
yyyee... *seductively* don't even have 10 carat diamond...sooo suey one...

Female:
Marry or not? Yes or not??? If not, give me back the flowers. Don't come begging me if nobody wants you!

Male:
ok lah ok lah...accept lah..
must treat me well ar..
i'm still a v****n wor
*blatantly lying*

Female:
hee hee hee... Mission accomplished!!!

Female:
Good boy...good boy...
sayang u larr...
*muaksss!!!!

hahahahaha....

loneliness... :((

2005-08-18T13:11:00.000+08:00

Lonely im so lonely,
I have nobody,
To call my owwnnn

Office is seriously quiet and gloomy today. I'm the only developer left. All the rest has gone for training at PD. They're staying at the very expensive Avillion Water Chalet for free!! The chalet is built on water and they have this open shower concept where u get to look up and see the stars when you are showering!!!

see de place is so nice!!!*Envy envy...

AND i'm stuck here with no one to talk to..Aiy...weekend pls come faster...

Car wash

2005-08-16T09:12:00.000+08:00

I've learnt a car lesson last weekend. Never go for a car wash before removing any stuff that's even slightly valuable in the car. After last week's car wash at the "Snow Car Wash" downstairs my condo i've lost quite a few things!

On Monday, went to work as usual. Reach parking and opened my money compartment to get some spare change. And guess what? ALL my money was gone!!! The only thing they left there was my car amulet "hu" that my mom got for me from the temple. All right fine. Kena tipu. Coins and money all gone. *sob sob

Come Tuesday...Adrian called my handphone while i was driving. Natural reaction, get my handsfree and plug on to my phone. And yes..it was gone too!!!! Arrgghh...i'm sooo furious. Those stupid people. It's only a cheap, fake handsfree that's Made In China for goodness sake . Did they even have to steal that??? X-( *so bad mood now...

oh and on Monday....my car was full of leaves and branches already anyway. *duh!*

Attention people: In Case of Emergency

2005-08-12T18:01:00.000+08:00

A campaign encouraging people to enter an emergency contact number in their mobile
phone's memory under the heading ICE (In Case of Emergency), has rapidly spread
throughout the world as a particular consequence of terrorist attacks in London.

Originally established as a nation-wide campaign in the UK, ICE allows paramedics or police to be able to contact a designated relative / next-of-kin in an emergency situation.
The idea is the brainchild of East Anglian Ambulance Service paramedic Bob Brotchie and was launched in May this year. Bob, 41, who has been a paramedic for 13 years, said: "I was reflecting on some of the calls I've attended at the roadside where I had to look through the mobile phone contacts struggling for information on a shocked or injured person. Almost everyone carries a mobile phone now, and with ICE we'd know immediately who to contact and what number to ring. The person may even know of their medical history."
By adopting the ICE advice, your mobile will help the rescue services quickly contact a friend or relative - which could be vital in a life or death situation.It only takes a few seconds to do, and it could easily help save your life. Simply select a new contact in your phone book, enter the word 'ICE' and the number of the person you wish to be contacted.

*Found this tip kindda useful. Never knew if something might happened so no harm in doing it rite? ;P

What to do when you're stuck on something?

2005-08-12T17:50:00.000+08:00

The worst situation i'd faced was when i was still in uni. In those days, i really dread it when exam week's just around the corner. It's the week where we poor students have to cramp our brains with ALL that we've learned or rather slept through in lectures and tutorials. And it just so happens that this is the prime time for my brain to go to sleep. i guess the only people who really understand how bad the situation was are my housemates. Come to think of it, was quite funny how I've always fooled them into thinking i was studying. I would lie on my bed, hold the slides and position my hand so that the paper wouldn't fall off even if i fell asleep. haha...its not only until my handphone alarm ring and wake up the whole house until they actually discover that i'm asleep!!

But of course it's no laughing business since this means i was sleeping instead of studying!! i think the funniest way i tried to overcome this was by munching. Used to buy the very delicious chili kerepek from pasar malam to munch while studying. And so there i was, lying on the bed with notes on one hand and the other reaching out for the kerepek, which is on the table beside my bed. Surprise surprise, the next thing i knew 2 hours had passed by and my hand was still holding on to the same page AND there were even some pieces of kerepek on my bed!!!! Ahah…those were really funny times. ;P Of course I don’t do that anymore since I don’t need to study anymore.

But now, once I hit into any problem, first thought that comes to my mind is Google. Whatever I wanna know, just type it in the little textbox in the sparsely yet tastefully designed page and wallah…there you go…thousands of responses to our questions. Isn’t that just wonderful? (Am I beginning to sound like a nerd or what? Hmm…first studying…now googling…) Ehem….Anyway, my colleague told me about this google lab application “My Search History”. Find it very useful ‘cos it keeps track of all our searches, the results and also clicked results. It's pretty organized and since while googling i always lose track of what i click and stuff, it really helps alot. *beam* Besides it’s also something like My Yahoo. After signing in, I could personalize my homepage with stuff like weather, quotes, news and also gmail!! So…it’s pretty good. Oh gosh there I go on and on and now it’s time to go back. Even my boss who usually goes back late is packing up now. All right, shall go pack up now..

Haze...Jerebu....Genting

2005-08-12T13:24:00.000+08:00

Haze condition is really bad here. Whenever I look out of the building, feels like i'm in genting (with the cold air-cond) but with only one thing different, the smell of smoke. Urgh... And that's not as bad as the walk to the very far and thus cheaper car park. I dunno if my mind are playing games with me but i felt like i had difficulty breathing and my heart was fluttering! [hihi doesn't that just sound as though i saw someone i have a great crush on??] >:)

Oh yeah.. this morning i saw some really evil people. The haze condition is already so bad and yet there are people who still conduct open fire burning!!! Those crazy people burn so near to my house some more! Wanna burn also must find the right time mar. Not that i'm a very environment righteous person but those people are just sooo inconsiderate. *curse them! curse them!*

sigh... i'm gonna get a mask today and if you guys see some stranger with a hideous mask waving at you, its probably me! haha...

*Current API
Kuala Lumpur, W.PERSEKUTUAN (11am) - 365*

Department of Environment(Malaysia)

Convocation

2005-08-10T18:16:00.000+08:00

My convo was at Seri Melaka last weekend. I guess MMU really wanted to make it a memorable event for us by keeping us really busy! So many things had to be done before the convo. Queue up, wait, queue up, wait, go take robe, queue up, wait, take robe, queue up, wait[people pengsan], verify card...blah blah blah Basically that was how i spent my day on the eve.

*before i continue, finally solved my datagrid problem!!! yayyy!!!!

All right, back to convo. It was really nice to be able to meet up with old friends. Everywhere i went it was like, "hello how are you? long time no see!" or "don't you think so and so is fatter now?" or "so and so looks so pretty now!" and the most important question that everyone asks, "Where are you working now??" ;P Admist all the confusion, it was pretty fun. First time my dad attended a convo since my sisters' was in Canada and only my mum attended. In fact, even my uncles and aunties and cousins were also there! haha... yes the whole 'big' family is there to see me graduate. All in all, happy to see my parent's proud and contented look during the convo. ;)

Me receiving an empty box from our uni's chancellor, YB Siti Hasmah ;D

The whole big family. hehe...
Is it just me or does everyone share my sentiment that my mortarboard makes me look like a vampire? hmmm.... just a thought.
oh no...it's 7 month now rite...so better touchwood. *TOUCHWOOD!!! haha

Mega Sales!!!!

2005-07-31T00:34:00.000+08:00

It's mega sales season and despite my promise to myself to start saving money, i've been contributing a whole lot more than i should to the sales!! In the name of sales, i've given excuses to myself to buy anything that's only related to work. That's right. If i can't use it at work, then it's not even in the picture. And so i've maxed my ATM (yeah i'm too poor to apply for credit card) on every single thing i could think of. In fact, just went shopping at klcc with Kat today. Even though our "goal" was to get something for convo, somehow we just got sidetracked. We ended up using a large portion of our money on body shop stuff. You see the people over there are really smart. They give discount based on the amount of items that we buy. SO it's like buy 2 get 5% discount, 3 get 10% discount and so on. Initially we both only wanted some eye cream for our aging eyes and somehow we ended up chosing the same one. The lady told us we couldn't get discount if both the items are same. [Again, note how smart they are!] And so we started to look around for different things to 'add' into our collection for the discount. (yea... gullible) In the end Kat changed to another range of more expensive eye cream and we each added an item to our collection; leaving the store with a considerable lighter wallet. Just like that, we kena tipu into buying things that we haven't sought out to buy. Sigh.. I predict this month is gonna be a bad month for me since i usually go to klcc after work to wait for adrian. And yea....in the process of waiting...spending!! Argh...

Ahh.. on another note, wana thank someone special for making my weekend last week a memorable one. Thank you dear for everything and i really appreciate it. *blush blush* :">

Which is worse?

2005-07-27T23:16:00.000+08:00

Sigh...such a frustrating day at work today. I dunno which is worse. Not knowing how to program something, or having ur PC playing games with you. It might be the fengshui, it might be the user. Whichever it is, the PC is seriously f***ed up! In the morning, i wasted time kacau-ing my colleagues cos i couldnt log on to the pc. When i finally could get some teeny weeny amount of work done, it's lunch time. Needless to say, it totally just hang-ed after lunch. From about 3 onwards, my finger got lotsa exercise rebooting the PC. It was official declared dead at 6.15 *sigh sigh sigh*

Another Day In The Rat Race

2005-07-21T13:01:00.000+08:00

*yawn.... (-_-)

Yesterday I played board game for almost 3 hours until midnight!! Even I can't believe it but no, it's NOT a childhood reliving game. Instead, it was an interesting experience. The game that I played was created by the famed self-made millionaire: Robert Kiyosaki. They call it Cash Flow although essentially it felt like Monopoly. The goal of the game was to get out of the Rat Race which consist of getting ur paycheck (and in the process paying off all monthly expenses), buying expensive things to treat urself once u get ur pay, getting business opportunities and market tips once in awhile and of course if you're unlucky, face the horror of retrenchment. We started the game with a career (mine was a pilot) with a good income and ungodly high expenses Have lots of liabilities and have to pay off my debt every time i got my paycheck. :(

To get out of the rat race, i have to depend on the market tips and business opportunities to earn enough money. With all of us stingy and very cautious with our money, we really didn't get very far. But then things kindda lighten up after we began to earn small money. Everyone started to go out on a limb and take bigger risks, spend more money and get more assets. Hehe...six of us played the game, only 2 managed to get out of the rat race (I’m one of them *beam*. Of course i had the help of other people since I’m a proven financial-idiot haha). End result of the game: Learned lots of things about my own state of financial that I swear I never even gave a thought to. Should start planning my finances now! *motivated*

Stress: Can you handle it?

2005-07-19T17:49:00.000+08:00

Few days ago I received this forwarded email (yes forwarded emails are back again!) from a colleague that test how well a person handle stress. How one see the following 3 pictures depict how well a person handle stress. ;P

Explanation:
The slower the pictures move, the better your ability of handling stress. One teacher said, "I felt like they were all moving...but slowly. Kinda like they were breathing."
Alleged criminals that were tested see them spinning around madly; however, senior citizens and kids see them standing still.
None of these images are animated - they are perfectly static.

Big Apple

2005-07-19T13:31:00.000+08:00

Dinner was held at Times Square's Big Apple Restaurant. It was a dinner with no hassle or speeches. Just lots of food, big hearty laughs and camera flashes. *wink* Ate to my stomach's fill, talked non-stop except to pop something into my mouth, and laughed my head off. Thoroughly enjoyed myself! Felt kindda like a big happy family :D

The whole bunch...

With seniors and bosses ;P

My breakfast partners...

Staff Dinner

2005-07-15T14:00:00.000+08:00

Staff dinner tonite.. ;P Will be back with lotsa updates and photos! hehe...

Naruto... & scarecrows!!

2005-07-14T13:39:00.000+08:00

Recently added some new Naruto figurines in my room... Aren't they just sooo adorable?? Absolutely love it! :D
The first one is a set of 12 keychains produced by Bandai. They even came with sweets with Konoha logo!! At least i think those are sweets. Don't dare to try them in case its not edible

Second one here is a set of 8. Although its cheap and made in china, the quality is surprisingly quite goood. Definitely a good buy!

Can anybody guess what is this?? Just thought it looked cute and funny ;P kindda like a scarecrow. It's actually a wine holder but apparently substituting it with a mineral water bottle wasn't such a good idea after all.

Work Life

2005-07-13T13:30:00.000+08:00

Interest in blogging seems to be fading out fast as a result of an extremely boring life. Everyday is a routine and my biggest worries consists of *wide eyed* finding parking lot outside my apartment, *gulp* going down early to the cafeteria to 'bungkus' food before all the nice food are sold out and also waking up to the bone-chilling experience of shower without heater. haha ain't that interesting?

anyway here are some pics of the crazy and fun-loving bunch at work ;P

Expensive Friday!

2005-07-09T09:20:00.000+08:00

I love Fridays!! 'Cos it means the weekend and the weekend means sleeping and shopping! To add to the excitement, i was going to meet up with an old friend at KLCC. So after work i happily took a taxi there and it freaking cost me almost a full tank of petrol!!! Can you believe it? The short ride from work (Jln Tun Razak) to KLCC (which is like so extremely near) cost me almost RM30??? I seriously vow never again to take taxis who rob the daylight out of people. Am so broke now. Sigh...

Wonderful Weekend

2005-07-03T04:30:00.000+08:00

Wow it has been a busy busy weekend for me. Watched two movies, "Batman Begins" and "War of The Worlds".

Batman Begins was kindda sucky. The scenes are kindda incoherent and it was pretty slow-moving. For a movie where lots of action are expected, it's pretty much misguided. The only action i see in the movie was during the end during in the train. Other than that, it was pretty much boring and totally not recommended!!

On the other hand, War of The Worlds was quite good. As all Steven Spielberg's movies, the special effects were good and what i love most about the movie was the potrayal of the characters. The mood and emotions of all the characters were creatively captured and i almost felt like i was in there. Instead of the normal hero-save-the-world kind of ending, the conclusion was rather appalling though. Well some might think that it's special but it didn't really seem very believable. That's the only thing about the movie that i didn't like.

Oh i also went to a korean restaurant for dinner today with Adrian... err i meant yesterday. Few years ago, Japanese food was all the rage. Sushi's, chicken teriyaki's, sashimi and etc. But now it has been replaced by Korean food. So can't resist NOT trying it out right?

Marinated pork rib BBQ, kimchi and beef. What can i say? It was simply DELICIOUS!!!! mmmmm... makes my mouth water just by looking at the pictures. (This was at a Korean restaurant in the Korean village so i guess the food is pretty authentic ;P)

Tired...

2005-06-29T23:00:00.000+08:00

No idea why i feel so tired today. Eyelids feel like they weigh a tonne!!! I suspect the cause might be the monitor i use at work. The refresh rate is 60!!! The tortoise-like rate causes it to flicker so much which is probably why my eyes are so tired. Tried changing it but that's the maximum rate the monitor could support. Maybe i gotta blink my eyes like 80 times every second so i won't feel the flicker. haha...silly me

Star of the day: my Sony Ericsson

2005-06-28T21:00:00.000+08:00

My handphone must be tired of all my grumbles and so it decided to give me something to do. It just threw a tantrum and decided to stop working. Well it would have been okay if only the battery is spoiled but no. Why throw a tantrum if it could be solved too easily right? So it must have ran to the bathroom to take a bath or something while i was asleep. Why else would there be water in my phone?? Anyway cost me 50 bucks to fix it. Could've used the money for something better sigh... Anyway, since i was at sungei wang, decided to make it worthwhile and bought a few dvd's to past time while Adrian is happily enjoying himself in hong kong. *sob sob poor me.
DVD's that i bought... i) Star Wars:Revenge of the Sith (err..kindda fell asleep halfway while watching so don't really know how good it is ;p ), ii) ConAir (yeah i know the movie is like sooooooo long ago but sadly i never got the chance to watch it, so i bought it), iii) Cooking master boy (it's an old anime about cooking. Not on the top of the list of animes that i wana watch but my friend did mention before it was quite good so i bought it. For those who have watched yakitate japan, i somehow feel the story is about the same except that one deals with chinese cuisine and the other with bread) Last weekend i finally forced myself to stay at home and clean my messy room. Now its spick and span... hehe :D *pictures of my room and view from the window

Another Uneventful Day At Work

2005-06-27T20:30:00.000+08:00

Another uneventful day at work just passed by. Uneventful. Is that going to describe my life here on and out?? I wonder. Work has definitely stumped the growth of my Internet addiction which has now given way to other new addictions. Since I can no longer just stay at home downloading and watching my beloved animes, I've turned to the worst addiction one can have. Shopping!!! Nowadays i'm spending money like it's water. Somehow it comforts me alot just to be able to get something new. Doesn't matter if it's a new book(which i plan to slowly read in the next few days but somehow i just flipped the last page not too long ago), new furnitures (got this really cute pink children's stool from ikea for my bedside), groceries(lots and lots of junk food since i'm sooo lazy to takeaway), clothes(everybody dresses up so nicely at work and till now i haven't seen the girls in my office recycle their clothes yet) or cosmetics. *Sigh... Kindda miss having holidays... In a way, i'm also glad that i didn't jump straight into working life after graduation.

Life is cruel...

2005-06-21T20:53:00.000+08:00

S.I.G.H
Life is so cruel to me. Just moved to my broadband-less place in KL. Started work and things just got even worse. No checking mails and chatting online at work!!! Really can't believe it. Checking web mail such as yahoo and gmail (one of my fav past time) is a big NO NO there. Quite alot of websites are blocked too. gaming,xxx and etc...

Other than that, 1st two days at work has been quite uneventful. Lots of reading and fishing *wink. Lucky for me I have nice colleagues who are friendly and helpful. Keeping my fingers crossed for things to turn better... ;P

Hello Malaysia

2005-06-18T11:10:00.000+08:00

Back from hongkong and i'm now busy packing, re-packing and downloading my 20-days-abandoned animes. Gonna move to my new place in kl today. No more broadband *sob sob. Sigh...

hongkong and china here i come!!!

2005-05-26T12:28:00.000+08:00

oh gosh oh gosh...today will be lots of first time for me. first time i'm gonna board an airplane (yes the very first time... can u believe it??), first time i'm going overseas (let's just leave singapore out of the picture so first time overseas), first time i'm going to hongkong, first time i'm carrying and going to shop around in foreign currency...arrgh this is sooo exciting!!! Only thing on my mind now is shopping, shopping and more shopping!!! haha....yes i'm crazy..and this crazy me will be away for 20 days...touring hongkong and shanghai. Bon voyage to myself haha!!

Room Shopping

2005-05-24T13:25:00.000+08:00

Went shopping for a room yesterday. Thanks to my good friend, Kwee Fang, found the room of my dreams! It's really perfect 'cos its on the same floor as her, kindda cheap for kl price and the place is newly renovated! Marble tiles floor, big TV outside (possibly astro), new furniture, bla bla bla you get the picture. The best part is, i have my own attached bathroom!!! No more fighting for bathrooms and i can put whatever i want in the bathroom. So looking forward to decorating my new room! hehe...

Multi Level Marketing: Too Good To Be True?

2005-05-21T03:03:00.001+08:00

Yayz! I'm finally employed. Went up to KL for an interview on Tuesday and just confirmed my employment two days ago. Now that the burden is off my shoulders, I can put my mind at ease and properly enjoy my upcoming graduation trip. Trip to KL was quite fruitful. Besides finding job, managed to meet up with old friends and had the opportunity to participate in err... Multi Level Marketing 'sharing' (that's what they call it) sessions. Basically the organization was supposed to be selling Lamp Berger products (which I thought was grossly overpriced). However, the 'sharing' sessions was not even remotely discussing about the product. It was mostly about money. This was what I learnt...

This was how the guy explained how things work over there.
Basically in this real world, its very hard to set up a business. One needs funding, careful planning, good partners and consider many other factors. Which is why, they are offering us a business plan. We can start a business by investing a capital of RM2500. But of course in a business, we need reliable partners to make it work. So we need to find 5 other partners who each are willing to pay RM2500. Once
we have the 5 peeps, we can start our own 'franchise'. Of course one cannot be satisfied with just a franchise. To make it big, each of our partners will need to find 5
people each who are again willing to pay 2500 and so it repeats. So how do we earn money? We gain commission which is a certain amount of percentage that we
get from the downline. In short, the money that we get is multiplied because at each level, the people who are joining are multiplied. Quite interesting. But my friend pointed out that it sounds like a pyramid scheme. And the guy quickly launch into a story saying that every company also practises pyramid scheme. In each company we have the CEO at the top followed by probably CTO and COO and then followed
by managers and then normal workers and such. Sounded quite plausible rite? But according to wikipedia,
A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that
involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, usually without any product or service being delivered
So in this case, is the guy admitting that it IS a pyramid scheme and is trying to cover up or is he sincerely trying to tell us that pyramid scheme is not what
wikipedia defines what it is? Anyway, it can't be pyramid scheme right? They ARE selling products. Lamp Berger products. Supposed to have healing power of some sorts. But well, the 2nd guy begs to differ. He told us outright, "I don't sell Lamp Berger products. Even my friend asked me to sell to him. I refused. I told him I don't sell products." After much pestering from his friend, he finally gave in and GAVE the product for free to his friend to prove his point. Kind guy huh?

Anyway although its quite tempting to see that these guys who explained to us wore suits and ties and come to work in BMW and Benz, but for now, I guess I'm quite satisfied with my life. Maybe next time (according to the guy) I might regret not joining earlier else I would have been a millionaire in a few years time but well...one can never know what will happen right?

Was reading up on it and here are a few good links:
What's Wrong With Multi Level Marketing
Wikipedia: Pyramid Scheme

A Visit to National Service Camp in Pagor

2005-05-16T13:30:00.000+08:00

I never thought I would say this but I must admit that the national service camp was quite good. Was really bias and apprehensive about it when my younger sister Michelle went to fulfill her obligations as a good citizen. (it was compulsory anyway, it's not like she can reject it or anything) However, followed my parents to visit her in pagor yesterday and i was quite shocked to see my sister. She's now soooo dark, have some problems with her face complexion and acts somehow tomboy-ish. Despite all that, I could feel the changes in my sister. She seems more confident, more outgoing, tougher, and more sure of herself. She's no longer the shy, quiet and timid girl i used to know. Glad to see her grow up the way she did *a sister's pride

hehe see how happy my sister is despite the harsh living conditions. She could actually come back earlier since she got the offer letter to continue Form 6. But I guess she's having too much fun there. Opted to stay for 2 more weeks until the very end.

bad hair day..bad hair cut

2005-05-14T22:41:00.000+08:00

Went for a haircut yesterday cos i was too sick of having strands of hair from my fringe pricking into my eyes and continually annoy me. Really makes me wonder how can some people actually have their eyes literally covered by their fringe. It's quite surprising how they could actually find their way with their eyes half blocked..*how exasperating!! Well, after much hassle finding out about my sister's hairstylist whom according to her is quite good..the salon was CLOSED! bluekz..ended up getting an expensive hair cut in a very nicely-decorated salon (they should've saved the money on decorations by giving their customers more discount) which didn't end up very nice. The curls on my hair no longer look like natural waves...instead they look like they were abruptly and roughly cut off, hanging limply in the air. So much for a nice hairdo before going off for my graduation trip at the end of this month..

philately - the study of adhesive postage stamps

2005-05-14T04:08:00.000+08:00

I used to be a stamp collector when i was young. It was one of my hobbies but i soon grew out of it when i got to secondary school and varsity. Didn't think of it until i came across my old stamp collections the other day. Felt kindda proud flipping through pages and pages of my carefully kept and arranged stamps

Some of my really old stamps... Statue of Liberty, Abraham Lincoln etc.

Anyway, i was looking through the American Philatelic Society website and i found some interesting facts. According to The American Philatelist, February 1985, there are significances to how stamps are pasted on the envelope:

Stamp upside down in the left corner - I love you

Stamp crosswise in the left corner - My heart is another's

Stamp straight up and down in the left corner - Goodbye sweetheart

Stamp upside down in the right corner - Write no more!

Stamp in the middle at the top - Yes!

Stamp in the middle at the bottom - No!

Stamp diagonally across the right-hand corner - Do you love me?

Stamp diagonally across the left-hand corner - I hate you

Stamp in the top corner at the right - I wish your friendship

Interesting!!

r-a-i-n

2005-05-12T05:28:00.000+08:00

Woke up in the middle of night -early in the morning actually- feeling extremely thirsty. So here I am blogging and drinking a cup of cold honey. mmmm...simply delicious!!! And the best thing is, it's raining outside! Ahh...how i love the rain... *playing in the background: The Rhythm of The Rain by The Cascades

hot weather = 0% productivity & 100% restlessness!!!

2005-05-11T17:27:00.000+08:00

The weather is seriously hot and humid these few days. I had to keep reminding myself to drink more water least i die of dehydration. There's been problem with water supply too. My area has been experiencing water rationing for quite some time already. The authorities will cut off water supply everyday either during morning or night. Sigh... got so bored at home, so i decided to take a pic of my handphone's new companian.. it was flown back all the way from sabah courtesy of kat...*thanks!

awww...isn't it just cute?? my very own rock lee!!! my aim now is to get sakura (lee's love of a lifetime), naruto, sasuke and gaara to accompany him. hehe.... hmm which reminds me, should i get gai-sensei as well?? maybe i should...dun think lee can live without his beloved sensei...hahaha

happy momma's day

2005-05-09T22:32:00.000+08:00

Spent a weekend in KL just relaxing and shopping. Have been cooped up at home for quite some time so I really enjoyed myself this time. Went to catch a movie - "Kingdom of Heaven" - at KLCC and went shopping afterwards. Isetan was having sales so I bought lotsa stuff at discounted price. Oh yeah adrian brought me to eat korean food too. Very Very nice! Simply love the beef. So sweet and delicious that i kept saying its pork haha. For a person who doesn't eat beef like me, i probably just can't accept it that pork i mean beef could taste so nice cooked in oriental style.

Rushed back from KL to celebrate mother's day yesterday. It was a day full of laughter, surprises and funny moments. From me lying to my mum that i was only coming back on monday to my sister calling back to say that she was hit by a "durian" when she was going to the toilet (my younger sister is currently fulfilling her duty at national service as a good malaysian citizen at pagor, johor), my mum sure had a good laugh and was pretty happy when i suddenly came back. Anyway it was a special day and i just wanted her to know on that special day that i really appreciated everything that she has done for us and that i love her very much.

Mother's Day Cake...Blueberry Cheesecake

my momma and i *muaks

home sweet home

2005-04-29T22:15:00.000+08:00

after weeks and weeks of uncertainties, i'm back home in batu pahat!! yes i'm back in this old sweet town which was named after the act of folks chiselling stones. i've said goodbye to my room of 3 years in malacca and hello again to my room of urm...*my age* (which can't be disclosed) years.

its really good to be back 'cos now that i'm back, i have no excuse not to study for my CCNA paper. i freaked out the other day 'cos i couldn't finish studying and had to call in last minute to reschedule my paper. so here i am studying AGAIN~~!

despite all the love and warmth i feel at home, i'm faced with new sets of problem. i discovered that i'm actually an addict! Well... while studying, i kept staring at my pc which is still lying on the floor as i haven't the time to set it up. my fingers also itches to go online. No particular reason for me to go on the net but i just FEEL like surfing the web. "Surely these aren't signs of addiction", i convinced myself. I just needed more time to adapt to life at home. Its certainly much more different than a student life. Well, a few hours later, i was restless and pacing around aimlessly in the house - LOOKING at my pc and thinking of all the websites that i NEED to visit. After much self-control which did not work, i gave up. Yes i admit, i'm an Internet addict. There it is, discovery of the day.

a day with me, myself and i

2005-04-22T23:31:00.000+08:00

Spent a day outside by myself today and surprisingly it felt quite good. I had always thought that it was gonna be very boring to do things alone but i guess i was wrong. Went to jusco today and sat there studying for my CCNA paper which is on this coming Monday. Compared to my futile attempts to study for the past few days, i consider today a big achievement. I studied for 3 whole hours today!! haha not much i know but for people who have short attention span like me, it's really a big deal.

Anyway, i'm so so devastated now. Anwar Robinson was voted out from American Idol!!! How could America kick Anwar out and leave people like Scott Savol and Anthony Fedorov in the competition???? Anwar has such a wonderful and strong voice and i really really love his rendition of Moon River and What A Wonderful World. Who wouldn't? I DEFINITELY agree with Paula and will be the first in the queue to buy his record if it ever comes out.

Although i must admit that Anthony is quite good as well, i just can't help but to be reminded of Clay Aiken whenever he sings. His style resembles Clay's so much that i think he must be trying to BE Clay or something. Why do Americans vote for him then?? Are they treating him as Clay 2 and rooting for him since Clay didn't win in the second season?? Highly possible!! Well at least he's not as BAD as Scottie. ARRGH!!! Why is Scott still in the competition? What's so good about his singing? I've come to dislike him so much that i always fast-forward whenever it's his turn. Every week i just keep expecting to see him being voted out but he's still sailing through strong and its really a mystery to me. To think i felt pity for the poor tv viewers who have to sit there and listen to his singing. Scott DOES have a good voice i must say, but his singing is only average and it's not like he's charismatic like Constantine. Sigh... Anyway, now that Anwar is gone, i'm rooting for bo bice and vonzell. Really hope either one of them will be the next American Idol.

2 people you met in heaven

2005-04-18T12:13:00.000+08:00

Went to keen yee's house last night to watch the show adapted from mitch albom's book "5 people you meet in heaven". Well eddie maintenance was supposed to meet 5 people in heaven but i only saw 2; the blue guy whose death he unknowingly caused and the little girl who pulled him up to heaven. As for the others, i dunno why it wasn't showed. Sooo weird!!!

Anyway, busy busy day ahead for me. Need to start packing and throwing stuff. Sigh it's such a hard task!! I have junks collected from 4 years of staying in malacca. How can one throw away such stuff?? ALL of it has SOME sentimental value and brings back some memories...

the good, the bad and finally... the memories

2005-04-16T07:57:00.000+08:00

After 4 years of studying in MMU, i've realised that i couldn't have lived through it without my housemates and friends. In a sense, they are almost like close family members since they are the people i spend most of my time with. Since young, i have been quite reserved when it comes to my emotions. Had always bottle up everything and at the very most wail about it in my diary.
But struggling here alone, i've slowly come to depend on and trust the people beside me. When i'm sad i could always run to the next room and just let out all my anger and frustration; when i'm lonely and depressed there's always someone here to 'disturb' me or accompany me 'till i fall asleep; when i'm happy i'm not the only one on cloud nine 'cos they're also there feeling happy for me; when im feeling grumpy and dissatisfied about every little small thing there's always a listening ear; whether i'm happy or sad, those are the people i share my happiness and confide my troubles with. And now...it's the end of this short yet memorable journey for all of us and i just want to thank all these people for touching my life with their precious friendship.

heizzee sayang, i miss u sooooo much!!! miss going into your room and 'kacau' you; miss scolding u when u do things that you shouldn't; miss you listening to the songs that you like again and again; miss you studying in my room!! wana know the thing i miss most? its the crazy times that we spent together; just me u and kat haha...as u always say...we will still be as 'kejam' as ever. all the best ya sayang, dun forget about our date in kl k? muah muah love u too hahaha

kat larling!!! although in this picture we're both facing different directions, one thing remains undeniable, we had always got each other's back covered! It always amazes me how we always think of the same thing, how we response to each other that it seems soo natural, how i'm always the paranoid one yet you remain calm and reassuring to keep me collected, how we both get crazy over simple things (i.e. games that keeps us clicking our mouse away ), how we could just go into hyper self-denial mode just to defend our actions, how you and heizzee always 'pakat' to 'steal' my stuff without my knowledge, how you could so non-chalently disappear into the background unnoticed (this is especially useful when she wana kidnap ppl's stuff, i'm one of her frequent unfortunate victim) and most importantly, i have always been amazed at how you manage to always stay so pretty and elegant and yet underneath it all there's this warm, kind and smart person whom everybody loves!!!

chin yee larling!!! haha..this picture is just soooo sweet that i have to post it here! A moment with you is NEVER dull!! You're always so fun to be with and soooo full of life. I guess ur the best person to be with when i'm down...cos i can never be down when i'm with you. You are such a natural at making ppl happy and putting a smile on everyone that's near you. Hmm makes me feel as though it's a sin to NOT to be happy when i'm with you. Ahah anyway, see you in kl too ya...muah muah
P.S. Remember to buy SOUVENIR from beijing for me arrr!!!

keen yee oh keen yee...see she hugging kat happily here? ahaha...soo hard to get a picture of her smilling so happily 'cos she's always half smiling in photos which doesn't reflect her personality at all!! Honest and loud, she never fail to let her opinion known and that's one of the thing i admire most about her!! When you're with her, you know that she'll tell you what you need to know and not what you want to hear. She's a no nonsense friend who will tell u the truth instead of some lies just to make u happy. Thanks for always giving me reality checks even though i may not welcome it. haha...just ignore me..just tell me what i need to know ya. Hehe luuuurve her too 'cos she's ALWAYS willing to offer public bath services (we don't have heater here) and most important of all, letting me sleep on her bed with the air cond on full blast!! muuuah! muuuuah! hehe dun care if u hate lesbiany acts

the last mile...

2005-04-11T17:24:00.000+08:00

yippie!! tomorrow is the last day of exams and after tomorrow i'm no longer an undergraduate!! haha all these years of toiling, studying and burning midnight oil just for a piece of certificate that proves im a degree holder is finally coming to an end.

Despite it all, I'm a mess now though, filled with a mixture of excitement, sadness and anxiousness Let me see...i'm excited 'cause i'm finally gonna graduate; anxious 'cause i'm still as last minute as ever and trying to cover as much as possible for the two papers tomorrow; and sad 'cause soon it will be the end of this carefree student life. Guess one just can't have the best of both worlds huh?

Arrggh what am i doing pondering all these here?? i better return to studying now. Else there goes my piece of paper!!

exams stress~~~

2005-04-09T11:28:00.000+08:00

Exams are so irritating!! Studying is terrible boring especially when I have to re-read what I already studied for midterms and I have to keep late nights. Only good thing that comes out of exams is that....I get to sleep alot. Well, i just can't resist studying on the bed and when i do, i almost always end up sleeping. To top it off, i always SEEM like i'm studying even though i have already fallen fast asleep. My housemates always complain that i fall asleep grasping the notes tightly and straightly...(as though i'm still reading it). Only hint is that, the paper is not moving

I must agree that exams can make even the most sensible person do crazy things. Take my housemates and i for example, we must have been struck hard by the exams bug since instead of studying, we were busily going in and out of the salon to change our hairstyles! haha...changing hairstyles have never been much of a interest to me but thanks to a certain girl heizzee, its suddenly a craze for me. All the occupants in the house save heizzee went to the hair salon on the same day!!! And we didn't even plan that. Ahah this just goes to show how mentally bonded we are. tsk tsk

Our new hairstyles (I added the names for clarity since kat says that its like a 'guess-who-am-i' game without the names)

光良天堂

2005-04-05T20:38:00.000+08:00

this is such a sweet and beautiful song...really love it!!!

牵着你在天空飞翔
这样看世界不一样
有了你在身旁笑的脸庞
世界或许
就这么宽广
忽然就忘记了慌张
人海之中你最明亮
无意间的影响
渐渐扩张
你丰富我生活感想
何必寻找所谓的天堂
原来我因为你
不想再去流浪
情愿平凡
不拥有一切也无妨
有了你在心上
已然是天堂
已然是天堂

cockroaches and centipedes

2005-04-04T10:43:00.000+08:00

Yesterday had been the most gross-ed out day i've ever experienced in my life here in malacca. Weather in malacca for the past few days had been insanely hot and humid. To everyone's relief, it finally rained heavily yesterday...but not without a big sacrifice. Our house was flooded with cockroaches and centipedes!!!

As the rain was quite heavy, the drains were flooded and all the pest escaped to our house. Probably due to the house structure which is already old and full of cracks, they easily made their way into our kitchen from the outside. Poor kat whose room is just right beside the kitchen had to go through the worst nightmare of her life. Cockroaches were practically swarming around her door frame trying to enter her room as she frantically chased those who succesfully entered her room with the aerosol.(first thought that came to my mind was the movie 'The Mummy' where this person was chased and devoured by swarms and swarms of cockroachy looking like creatures. Beetles or something...) Anyway, all this happened while i was calmly studying in my room. (I thought my housemates were just having fun screaming around!!! ) I only found out what happened when i went to find kat and found a pile...no a big pool of half-dead cockroaches in our kitchen. YUCKS!!!!

Oh yeah..not to mention, there were also centipedes too...They weren't as many as the cockroaches but they sure ARE tough to kill. We found them sneaking around in kat's room after all the cockroaches were exterminated. Heizze and I had to resort to squashing them as aerosol doesn't kill them. Heard from a friend that pouring dettol can kill them. But...what's over is over...Anyway, that's the story of the day.

My earthquake experience

2005-03-30T13:50:00.000+08:00

Midnight yesterday I was dazedly staring at my monitor trying to finish up work that seemed neverending when all of a sudden I began to feel dizzy. Everything around me was shaking. My computer table, the wall, my fan and everything else!! I thought i was falling sick and probably gonna faint soon so I quickly went to lie down on the bed. After awhile, the dizzy spells disappear and I brushed it off as mere fatigue. Well I was scared actually cause I just finished watching the movie Constantine earlier and who knows those scary monsters are really true right?

Anyway, 5 minutes later, my fren Chin Yee message me on YM and ask me did I feel the earth shake and my first thought was....phew...luckily i wasnt seeing ghost or anything :lol: Only then did I know that an earthquake actually happened at Northern Sumatera measuring 8.7 on the Richter Scale!!! :shock: News of the aftermath of the earthquake can be found here -> http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/3/30/nation/10547498&sec=nation

Nightmare of graduates-to-be

2005-03-25T17:18:00.000+08:00

At long last, i f-i-n-a-l-l-y have time to sit down and take a breather!! Life had been so hectic the past few weeks. Had barely been sleeping for the past few days juz to get ready for final year project presentation. I don't know why but things seems to lurrve turning against me at the very last moment. Take for example my project's sytem. After painstakingly setting up the environment and migrating the files to the laptop for presentation, the system was finally up and running in the laptop. I'm not sure what went wrong either but at the very last minute(i think it was 40 minutes before presentation), everything stopped working!!! luckily we have a kind lecturer and managed to get extension to go last instead of first. If not for our backup plan, I think I might have had a heart attack and drop down dead.

With final project finally at the back of my mind, it's time to unwind and enjoy some good food Yesterday a bunch of us went to eat tomyam buffet steamboat at Malim. Other than the fact that the tomyam soup tasted more sour than spicy,the food all tasted like its spoiled since the soup is sour, it rained heavily when we were eating halfway and was forced to move indoors, the food that we fried with margerine keeps splatting back at us and hurting everyone in the table(other tables don't seem to face this dangerous situation and i really don't understand why) I would consider it ok.

Prize-winner of the most memorable splattering experience definitely has to go to..... GUIXIAN!!! She made a fishball popped, jumped about 2cm in the air and landed nicely on the aluminium foil and in the process spalattered everyone especially me with drops of hot margerine oil. Way to go xian!! Oh yeah...smartest award winner goes to...*drumroll...GEOFFREY!! hahaha...since we were all so hungry and feeling greedy, our table was filled with food enough to feed an elephant!! But as we painstakingly plowed through the food reality began to dawned on us. We can't finish the food and for that, we have to pay!!!! so...smart as he is, Geoffrey took more food and in the process return all those untouched food from our table to where it originally came from. muahahahaha.....thanks geoffrey....or else we might still be eating now like how tweeren sufferred with the toufu.

Not to mention, we celebrated too last week That was for the submission of our final project report so it's different hehe. Went to eat at sampan, its beside the sea and is supposed to be breezy and romantic. And so we went early thinking we would get a nice seat with a good sea view and breeze. Lucky for us we got just what we want! Minus the seaview as it was low tide and minus the wind since there's no sea. In the end, all we saw was sand and was attacked by insects!! Sigh... the only saving grace was the food which wasn't all that great either...
Pictures from sampan....

See the ultra-delicious looking cendol?? Its my favourite cendol!!!! Top with loads and loads of gula melaka, its the best cendol I ever had in my life!!

gong xi fa chai!!!

2005-02-07T17:48:00.000+08:00

Chinese new year is 2 days away and I'm FINALLY getting into the festive mood!! Shopping malls have been soooo quiet that i almost forgot to do new year shopping. All my friends are already done with their shopping except for me!! Im such a failure. sigh....

Lucky for me though i have such wonderful friends who were willing to bring me around boutique-hopping in melaka raya. Compared to shopping in malls (in mlk there's only mahkota parade and jusco) I must admit that boutique-hopping is definitely much more interesting!! You never know what you might see and although some clothes are really not suitable (ugly i might say), everything will be worth the trouble once you find your perfect top!!

Despite all the excitement about stepping into the rooster year (apparently chinese horoscope says that it is a bad year for cute 'lil piggies like my friends and i) there are loads and loads of things to be done!! Like all final year students i m struggling with the thought of the amount of work to be done! Yes.. I'm only thinking about it and doing NOTHING about it!!! Procrastination...its part of my life. Any cure anyone??

Oh by the way, here are some pictures that was taken during tee ling aka shi jie's birthday Had a really great time catching up with my old friends especially since they're all studying overseas and barely come back to Malaysia. Really miss you guys!! *muaks muaks!!

=say cheese and peace to the world! im 22 years old now!! =

=elaine(sia)+elaine(me)+teeling+kweefang=

=hey!!! whats going on???bday gurl gone crazy or something?? =

the five people you meet in heaven...

2005-01-20T21:15:00.000+08:00

despite the fact that i've been REALLI bz lately....i finally found the time to finish this book that i've borrowed from chin yee!!(hmm actually kat borrowed it and i juz kindda took it and read it...) ahaha no difference anyway...its a book by Mitch Albom and its called the five people you meet in heaven...sounds interesting eh de title? well he was actually the author of another bestseller...tuesdays with morrie and it seems that the book was really good...din read it tho...cant blame me..de title sounds boring!!!

ahah anyway its bout this guy Eddie who died and went to heaven and met 5 people who would teach him something about his life...i like it cos i think it is really interesting in the sense that the author's idea of heaven is something fresh...instead of like juz dying and going to heaven and enjoy life...the author talked bout how dying is also the beginning....the beginning to understand why was their life the way it was...basically i think its very touching...especially the ending...altho the main character Eddie was a very normal guy who worked as the maintenance handyman at an amusement park, the work that he did, insignificant as it was...impact others' life in a way that he never knew.. hmmm...makes me wonder bout mine tho...can sleeping alot like impact other ppl's life?? *thinking hard... hmmm i think i wouldnt wana noe de answer after all...

time and tide waits for no man...nor woman

2005-01-19T01:05:00.000+08:00

today has been a day full of obstacles and procrastination!! im racked by guilt now...woke up at 8am today, thinking that i have one WHOLE day ahead to get started on serious stuff...its almost 12am now and what have i been doing?? lemme see..

blog

read stale news (past 7 days' news from thestar )
lost ALL my entries

found back my entries again

accompanied engwei to enquire about his 'saman'

gave engwei a 'lil tuition :wink:

revamped my blog

de-clutter my room (i have sooo many things!!! wonder how am i gonna bring all these stuff back when i graduate??)

run Ad-Aware

realised that repeatedly running Ad-Aware doesnt solve my prob (so being the genius i am... i erase ALL my internet cache files :lol:)

restart pc

run Ad-Aware AGAIn n my PC is fine again!! :D

blog

see this basically sums up what i have done de whole day. i cant believe it!! i have 16 full hours (inclusive of de 2 hours of classes that i skipped ) and yet i still cant be productive..i need help!!!!

lost n found!!

2005-01-18T09:47:00.000+08:00

wow!! i have not been blogging for like...centuries!!! most of my friends already know dat i've abandoned my blog...hehe however im juz in de mood to blog today...not sure why either...maybe i juz got de blogging bug again *blush blush

well here i am...early in de morning, blogging AND feeling guilty bout how i had slept off last nite instead of doing some work that i had PROMISED myself and my lecturer i would do...*sigh i guess old habits juz dun change huh? so what had happened since i last blog? hmm....SOOOO many things had happened...some good...some bad....and some...unexpected.... guess life is not a bed of roses and juz gotta take things as they come

dat said...here are some pictures from miss sparc mmu...was there for the event last friday with kat, chin yee, keen yee to support our friend, Contestant No 8 Gui Xian... great deco and very grand...even got to meet Vick from Malaysian Idol!!! *drool drool...altho i've nv been a great fan of his...but i became one when i heard him sing up close and personal!!! wahahaha....

me + chin yee + vick + kat + keen yee

Pearl of the Orient

2004-09-22T04:28:00.000+08:00

Wow it has been so long since i last blog!! Well couldn't really help it since I was back in hometown for the past two weeks and my dad's pc was sick and had to be sent to clinic *wink... viruses are so troublesome!! so it kindda spoil my mood to blog...anyway, moving on to my trip to penang...it was superb!!!! This trip's goal was to EAT, EAT and EAT!!! We were so 'kiasu' and had so many meals a day that i can barely remember wat we ate. The 'asam laksa' at penang road was soo yummy!!! Very much recommended...mmm...can still remember the taste of it...makes me long for penang.... *sob sob

Anyway our tour guides in penang are Gui Xian and Eng Wei. Xian was the one who brought us to eat the superbly delicious asam laksa and engwei brought us to this place called Genting Hill. True to its name, the place was really high and the road there equally steep!!! Scary scary ride there but thanks to engwei's good driving skills, we were safe... (phew!) The restaurant there is open air and sells Thai food. Although we had wanted a seat by the edge (the view was really nice and we could even see 'padi sawah'...so cute!!) it was fully booked so we juz took a seat without the view. The food there was also quite good... I think i liked the green curry chicken (engwei's recommendation) the most.

Here are some pictures we took there...

This was at Genting Hill with Kat

Me, Xian, Kat

Me and Kat at the Penang Bridge. I know the background seems like a black sheet so juz have to imagine the bridge there as it was night time and the bridge cant be photographed

home sweet home

2004-09-02T22:06:00.000+08:00

sigh sigh...being at home is heaven!! ahah...lurve sleeping on my bed..lurve being spoilt...lurve my tv...and most of all lurve my mom's cooking!!! nyam nyam...even the thought of it makes my saliva drip...[yes...i am very very deprived of home cook food!!]

anyway...its holidays now [3 weeks i think...isit?? hmm im not very sure] should really CONTINUE writing my final report! ahaha...yes yes im lazy...got started sooo long ago and till now it's still not done yet...hmm wonder when will I get it done...since im going to penang!!
yayz!!! all the penang food!! yum yum!!! crap there goes mei seen and my diet plan!!

arggh...we've been putting on weight ever since we started industrial training..sigh sigh..i wonder wats wrong with the food we eat?? didn't think it was that fattening...hmmm...i guess i can only start doing it after the trip to penang...yess...penang here i come!!!

farewells...and then there was freedom~!!!

2004-08-27T17:18:00.000+08:00

27/8/04 <- Last day of training!! [thank God! kow tow kow tow] and it's time to bid farewell to the bitter sweet moments for the last 4 months..

still remember when I first entered the company with great expectations and high hopes to learn something that's gonna help me score the grade in final year project..sadly though, my hopes were all dashed and all i ever learnt was...was... (hmm scratching my head thinking hard!) was...I hated working life and all the early mornings!!...so thankfully i'm finally going back to campus and can start waking up at WHAT EVER time i wish!!

i guess my only consolation was the company I was in...Mei Seen and Marvin (you guys are great!!) haha they never fail to make EVERYONE laugh!! hehe who could resist? mei seen wanted to strip for marv(marv's face turn red every single time we talk about mei seen striping!!), marv wanted to kiss mei seen (or is it vice versa?? i cant remember), mei seen killed by marv in the past life while trying to poke marv to death and the list goes on and on and on!! ahahaha see...who wouldn't die of laughing??

anyway our farewell (just the trainees) was last night at mei seen's house... ;P it wasn't exactly a farewell though, just more chance for marvin and mei seen to quarrel! the plan was to have a movie marathon and we were all excited about it!! (yes marvin too! *haha) we were happily buying tid bits and everything in giant and thinking 'bout the night ahead when it suddenly struck us..WE HAVE NO SHOWS TO WATCH!!!

haha...that's so so typical of us not to plan things properly (it was only confirmed on the night before) haha but our night weren't just gonna be spoiled like dat as luck was on our side and turns out that there were many new shows at mei seen's place! *yippie!! and so we started our marathon... hmm i think we started watching at 11pm and after three movies (was it 3/4 am?) we retired...ahah feel kindda lazy to explain wat happened during the movies here...if anybody is interested, you can read it in mei seen's blog dated today too btw(the link is on the left bar)... ;P anyway it was really fun(despite de fact that we only lie down watching movies)
oh yeah there was a farewell lunch by our colleagues today too...well, many staff were leaving and everybody is happy so I guess in a way it IS a good ending to this chapter of my life cheers~!

friday i'm in love

2004-08-24T17:40:00.000+08:00

music really does work wonders! there I was feeling gloomy and all then suddenly this cheerful music was playing and now I'm all hyped up again!! the song is called "Friday,I'm in love" and its such a happy tune especially since tomorrow (Friday) is my last day at work!! yippie!!

its FINALLY the end of a horrible 4-months training in a company whose people (hmm isit only me??) is biased against girls!! everything that is remotely data entry ends up on my desk..really..I'm like an office gurl here even though I'm supposed to be here as an IT trainee!! On the first day this gurl came to me with some work[file papers] and can you imagine how she explain to me? de gurl : "Can you help me with some filing work? I need these papers sorted alphabetically...Understand? [despite my nodding indicating that I understood she carry on] So sort it alphabetically ok? See this is Company A so you put in front..All right next is Company Y so you find X and put after it...Understand? sigh...what I really don't understand is which part of me looked like a kindergarten kid!!!

anyway, enough with that and move back to present and happier events.. we're going to mei seen's house tonight!!! *yayz!! its something like a farewell since when we return to campus she'll be in cyber and me in melaka...*sob sob* gonna miss her loads and loads...she's always the chirpy and happy one among us. Training would have been hell without her!! [hey mei seen don't kembang ya?] sigh..guess I'm gonna be missing lots of other things too!!! mei seen and marvin quarreling [every single day without fail man!!], marvin and his philosophical talk, mei seen and her ability to make all things turn against her, my wonderful wonderful roomie siao fong [hey i dun think i can get used to not seeing you watching tvb or shaking the hoola in the room!] and most of all our friday nights out!! well I guess all good things come to an end eventually *sob sob*

慧玲

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