2007 New Year Shang Hai Trip

For the whole February, I think I spent half of the month overseas. 4 days after I came back from Cavite, I flew off to KL to meet my family and flew to China – Shang Hai to spend our Chinese New Year this year.

This is the first time my whole family went for a trip together so all of us were kinda excited. The tour agency told us that the weather in Shang Hai will be cold and we’re fully prepared with all our winter clothing, gloves, scarves, socks and everything that can keep ourselves warm.

It was 8 days 6 nights trip (2 nights on the flight) and I really enjoyed it. I have always been fascinated by China histories, and when I went to the real place, the feeling was just indescribable and I was just amazed and enjoyed the stories told by all the China tour guides when we visited each place. Believe it or not, I actually bought a notebook to write down the stories when we went to all the places as I really wish to remember all of them.

Of course we did not spend our full 8 days in Shang Hai itself. We also went to other places around Shang Hai, i.e. 苏州 (Su Zhou), 无锡 (Wu Xi), 南京 (Nan Jing), 杭州 (Hang Zhou). The places are full of people and the mood for Chinese New Year was just great. You can see lanterns everywhere, and fireworks almost every night. Besides, it’s winter (3 degrees to 10 degrees) and it’s really a total different experience for my whole family. Besides, our mandarin improves tremendously after the trip as the local tour guide used the most correct mandarin while explaining. My family had a real tough time understanding their mandarin as all the 8 words, 16 words, or even 32 words idioms / poems came out in almost all their sentences! LOL....

I can't tell you all the details of my trip. It'll take few days. So, enough crap. Picture time.

Our flight was at 2am on 15th Feb. The flight took 5 hours and we reached China Pudong Airport at around 7am+. And straight away we started our visitings.

Clockwise from top left: View from the flight at 5+am, @ airport waiting for our tour bus, my parents in Pudong Airport, a glimpse of Shang Hai traffic


Clockwise from top left: 上海城隍庙，上海黄浦公园，猪脚，苏州古运河

Top: They said Emperor Qian Long was lost here for 2 hours, 蚕丝(silk worm?)
Bottom: Fantastic place where the Romance of Three Kingdoms was filmed.

The only fireworks pic captured by my bravo bro and sis by standing outside the hotel, freezing and shaking, in the middle of the night on first day of CNY.

Clockwise from top left: They said this is the 8th son of the dragon, Nan Jing's rocks with the names on it, Hang Zhou Tea Farm, Hang Zhou Xi Hu

Last but not least: Shang Hai Night Views

During the trip, we had 2 digital cameras, and guess how many pictures we took for the 8 days trip? 1200++ pics, about a total of 1.6GB. Hmm... I am still thinking of how to filter the pictures to share with other friends. I guess I'll just share through my blog. :D

OK, finally all my holidays are over! It's time to concentrate in work as there're tonnes of things waiting for me to complete!!

Oh ya, before I forgot my promise on my Oakley's picture:

My sister, my china tour guide, me with my Oakley and my mum

Lastly, before the CNY ends, Gong Xi Fa Caii to everyone. Wish all of you have a blessed new year in 2007!

Trip to Manila / Cavite *again*

I just came back from Manila last night. And yes, this is the 2nd time I went to Manila to attend a training in Cavite. Despite the fact that we only have 5 hours sleep as we need wake up at 4.30+am to get onto the shuttle at 5.30am (the journey from Makati - Cavite is 1.5 to 2 hours..), the two trips are totally different experiences.

The first time when I went in March 2006, I did a lot of shopping and spent most of my times walking around the shopping malls near Makati - i.e. Glorietta and Greenbelt. The shopping malls are classy, big, and with great sales. We had good food and took a lot of pictures with a few great restaurants.

As for this time, it was a totally different experience as I went again with two of my good friends from Kulim and ChengDu. We have decided to be more adventurous by going around Manila. On the first Sunday, we took a taxi down to Intramurus. We walked around the area for almost 2 hours (it's a BIG circle) and we went pass a few old churches, and Fort Santiago. The weather was not as hot as I experienced last year. The locals said it's the cold weather now so it's quite a pleasant walk around that area. I have taken some pictures at that area.

San Augustin Church outside.

San Augustin Church inside.
Someone just had a wedding there.

Fort Santiago @ Intramurus

We walked on it. It felt real good as you can see great views over the fort.

Views over the fort. A lot of couples were dating there.
The weather was good with fresh, cooling breeze. The walk was just very relaxing.

The grand old Manila Catheral

On Thursday, we went to another place in Manila which is called Quiapo. It's a free market underneath the bridge. Apparently, the hotel people was telling us it's not recommended as it's kind of crowded and it's not safe. But, being adventurous, we got on a taxi and went there after our breakfast (Training was in the afternoon). I won't say it's impressive but it's another experience. There's a market nearby so it's dirty, smelly, crowded, and hot. I had to be very careful when I am walking as there are pot holes everywhere and you wouldn't want to step on any unpleasant things.

One of the streets @ Quiapo Ilalim

Clockwise from top left: Quiapo Church, Statues of Christ, Street snapshot, Kids playing on streets

On Friday, most of us have used up all our cash. We wanted to go somewhere further or different, but the day tour was just out of our budget (~USD100 per head). Besides, the weather also turned hot. So, we only went to China Street at 4pm. Well, all I can say it, it's quite a bad experience. The place is crowded, noisy and smelly. And the place was just filthy with all sort of people all around. Buses and jeepneys stopping everywhere and shouting for passengers. I had to be extra alert while I was walking as I could trip anytime. The shops are small, and you have to give way everywhere you walk. It's just not a very pleasant experience.

Clockwise from top left: Statue of Ong Pin (I guess it's a hero), carriage on the street, fire engine out of no way, Binondo's church

On the street in China Town - looks crowded to you?

Welcome to Manila China Town

Lastly, when we tried to get a cab back to our hotel, we couldn't get a taxi. How great right? Ended up we stood and waved for almost an hour then only we managed to get into a taxi, and paid the driver almost double the taxi fare as he said the traffic to Makati is terrible. Out of desperation, we did. Anyway, the taxi fare wasn't that expensive.

I can't imagine that I need to go there again in April. It will be my third time in Manila again and tell you what, I have decided to stay just in the Hotel and maybe just do a little shopping like dried mangoes and pearls. I am not coming out ANYMORE!!!!!!

Grow Old With You

I like this song. It's so cute. :)

Grow Old With You (by Adam Sandler)
I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
All I wanna do is grow old with you

I'll get your medicine when your tummy aches
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks
Oh it could be so nice, growing old with you

I'll miss you
I'll kiss you
Give you my coat when you are cold

I'll need you
I'll feed you
Even let ya hold the remote control

So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink
Put you to bed if you've had too much to drink
I could be the man who grows old with you
I wanna grow old with you

So sweet... *blush*

后悔

曾经，自大的说，我的字典里没有后悔这两个字。

曾经，自大的说，所有发生的事情背后都有它的原因。

曾经，不可一世的说，不要回头后悔，要勇往直前面对未来。

事实上，当意料不到的事情发生时，一切已经后悔也来不及了。

第一次深深感受到如此的无助。

狠狠的哭，后悔，懊悔，忏悔。

无补于事。

如果一切可以重来，那，结果会不一样吗？

曾经何时，也说过，这世界上是没有如果的。

歌

那天，找到了旧的CD。里头有周惠和燕姿的MP3，让我忆起在越南工作的时候　－　那时的伤心，压力，沮丧，放弃的心情，仿佛我又回到那时的生活。

我喜欢在工作时听歌，陶醉在自己的世界。喜欢听伤感但却又有震撼的歌词。就像周惠的这首：

话题

面对面坐着的是不是你,
爱情还在不在进行.
想问你是不是想要放弃,
却害怕你也在问自己.
分手是我们唯一的话题,
却没有人愿意提起.
如果一开口变成了结局,
我的心就会离开身体活在过去.
爱不爱结果都叫人伤心,
我不知道该怎么做决定;
分手应该是要先哭泣,还是先忘记.
你是否也有相同的难题,
你的勇气里有我的命运,
我不知道你会不会决定.
我想我现在还不够清醒,
该爱着你,该离开你,
还是继续--逃避

听了应该有３年了吧。还是那么喜欢。多么真实地感觉。多么震撼。尤其是那句　“你的勇气里有我的命运”。

燕姿的我不难过也是一首让我深深感动的一首歌。

又站在你家的门口 我们重复沉默
这样子单方面的守侯 还能多久
终于你开口向我诉说她有多温柔
虽然你还握着我的手 但我已不在你心中
我真的懂 你不是喜新厌旧
是我没有陪在你身边当你寂寞时候
别在看着我说着你爱过 别伤痛
我不难过 这不算什么
只是为什么眼泪会流 我也不懂
就让我走 让我开始享受自由
回忆很多 你的影子也会充满我生活
我并不懦弱 你比谁都懂
虽然寂寞 这会是我最后的宽容
抱紧我 再抱紧我
这一份感动 请你让我留在胸口
别再说是你的错
爱到了尽头 是非对错 就让它随风
忘了所有 过得比你快活
不要再说 或许这是最好的结果
现在分手 总好过你不爱我一拖再拖
松开你的手 离开你左右 我向前走
这会是我 真正的解脱

多么真实。每次听到这首歌，我的心里就会有一股暖流流过。那种感觉，非笔墨能形容。

最近吹起了失恋风。常常听到谁谁失恋了。希望失恋的人们能重新找到他们新的目标，重新站起来，面对更多的未来。也祝福那些在热恋的情人们能恩恩爱爱，长长久久。大家加油！

The Flight That Fought Back

I was watching Discovery Channel in Astro last night.

The title of the show was “The Flight That Fought Back”. On 11th September, 2001 attacks (also known as 9/11), the terrorists hijacked 4 flights. Two crashed into World Trade Centre, one crashed to Pentagon and one more - United Airlines 93 – crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

In the show, they reconstructed what happened on United Airlines 93 from the phone calls the passengers and the crews made through the GTE airphones. They played the actual recording of the phone calls.

Those on that flight fought back, as stated in the title. They fought against the terrorists and took the last bet trying to save their own lives.

Everyone knows the ending of the show. Everyone knows that there’s no survivor from the crash.

It really moved my heart. I feel so sad everytime when I tried to imagine how they felt on the plane when those on the flight called their loved ones – their partners, their families – to tell them they love them at the very last moment of their lives. My heart aches everytime I recalled the looks in their families’ eyes when they tried to recall the incident that day – when their love ones called them from that flight.

My imagination started to run wild and I started to think what’d I do if I am on that flight? Who would I call? What would I say?

I just… feel so sad….

Life is just so unpredictable. No one in the flight would even expect that. I remembered one of the passengers said “I can’t believe that this happened to me”. We never know what’s going to happen in the very next seconds.

So, like what a friend told me before, live everyday as if it were your last, then you’ll appreciate more.

My New Baby

It has been a busy month – with Christmas & Birthday all in December, planning of CNY trip next year and etc. Work has also been piling up with new expectation by the year of 2007.

Anyway, I have finally gotten my Oakley as my birthday present. That’s why I was excited. :D.

I have been walking around and around with EG to find a model that fits my face. My typical Asian face gave me a real hard time to find one that fits my face well. Most of the glasses are hanging halfway on my face as my nose bridge is not tall enough, and my face is too small. Besides, I am quite fussy in the design, frames, lenses and color. For the price that we are going to pay, I want it to be all in one - practical + fashionable. I almost gave up but EG kept pasturing me to keep choosing. He’ll keep an eye on all optical shops with Oakley rack and forced me in to try all sorts of models.

Until, finally, EG saw Oakley Dart in Oakley’s website.

So, I, again, went to try at a few places to check out the price and discounts. They’ll always tell you Oakley is a controlled price item and they can only give you 10% discount. Finally, after all the hiccups and all the hoo-ha, we finally went down all the way to Perangin Mall to get Oakley Dart Berry/G40 Black Gradient after work on one fine day, from the same shop where EG got his Splice – his birthday present, hoping that the my Dart has not found its owner yet.

The best thing is, this model comes together with its casing, especially for women. I love the casing to bits, it looks so elegant, although it’s a bit big for me to carry around.

I have been wearing this all around – hoping that it's sunny when I am outdoor. It’s cool. Very solid. Great coverage. Color is very good. I don't get headache anymore when it's sunny. I just can’t wait to wear it for my CNY trip with my family to Shanghai. I shall post more pictures after the trip.

Alright, enough about Oakley. Before the clock ticks 12 midnight today, I wish all my dearest friends a very happy new year. I hope year 2007 will bring good lucks to all of you and may all of you stay healthy, pretty & handsome, and happy always. Muahhh…

I am excited

I am excited today.

My heart is pounding faster and harder. I can't wait to leave office today. I can't hide my excitement. I am... just excited.

You must be wondering, why?

Is it...
Because holiday is coming? No....
Something good happened? Not really....
I got lottery? Neh.....
EG going to propose? Maybe next life....
Because my birthday is coming? Hmm... Maybe....

Since young I have trained myself not to have too high expectation on everything as the more you expect, the more disappointment you'll get at the end when things go wrong.

But this time, I hope there won't be any disappointment.

So, you're eager to know why I am excited today?

Hehehe.. Not going to tell you today! *Blek*. :P

The Good Old Days

I was cleaning up my old stuff that I brought with me from KL last weekend. EG was telling me to throw away things if I don’t need them anymore. Well, he always thinks I keep rubbish. *blek*

I was going through my CD folders and the old CDs that I burned in Uni. I saw pieces and pieces of colored CD-Rs with title “My MP3”, “My MP3 (English)” and etc. It brought my mind back to the Uni time.

MMU is a University in the middle of no way that provides LAN and free internet to all their students. For us who stayed in the hostel, we really fully utilized it, and fully enjoyed it – downloaded albums, movies, mp3, and a lot others from the net, or other’s sites. For the guys, they took almost 70% of the bandwidth for LAN games (What else?!). And the most common things that we did was online chatting.

I missed those days, very much indeed.

Few days before, I was helping my friend to type out some proposals for church activities. He commented that I type very fast. I thought it’s very normal. Why? It was because in hostel, we chatted throughout the days and nights. It was our main communication tool to save our phone bills! I remembered my record was 7 yahoo messenger chat boxes on my computer screen at the same time. My fingers just flew over the keyboard and kept typing and typing for the whole night. Not to mention the blinking ICQ icon at the bottom right of the task bar. I even chatted with my lovely roommate even though we’re less than 2m away!! Talking about my piggy roommate, she can type with 2 fingers and she’s faster than anyone else. I wonder if she still types with 2 fingers now. :P

Those were the days. Crazy days.

Those were the days when we woke up, the first thing that we did was to on the computer before we went to the toilet to do the rest. When we’re back from the toilet, the lovely computer would then be loaded with all the messengers like yahoo, ICQ, and everything else online.

We have graduated since Uni for almost 5 years. All the memories still bring a big smile to my face. Those were the days when everything is sweet, and funny. Those were the days where you can find the purest and most sincere friendship.

I remembered how we had the birthday bash for Shizuka at the playground. I still remembered how cruel we were since we know she can’t run (she still can’t!). When all of us were running after her with flour and eggs, she squatted down and said: “Jiu Ming ar… (Help in mandarin)”, but her all good friends showed no mercy and the next thing she knew was, at least 10 eggs and X packets of flour just poured onto her head. Her poor roommates had to help to take out the flour + eggs on her hair for the whole night (till 5am?). She got to wash her hair for 3 times if I am not mistaken. That was the best birthday bash! We also gave her the most unique birthday present – a book of wishing cards. I hope she still kept it.

I remembered Piggy and I always played the MP3 in the room. And we always sing in the room. Then, she’ll always give me a Garfield look (she’s GOOD!) and tell me don’t sing with my 45 degrees eyebrows. That’s just hilarious when I think about it now.

Before we went for the prom night, Papa, Valerie and me had to dance Para-Para Sakura every evening in the room to keep ourselves fit! Me and Papa would also walk around the campus (had no stamina to jog!) to lose some weight. Sometimes the guys drove pass and saw us, they honked loudly at us. And we both will shyly try very hard to hide our faces away from them.

There’re just lots and lots of stories – in Library, in Lecture hall, in Tutorial, during dinner and etc etc. EG and I sometimes just can’t stop talking about it and keep laughing for the whole day esp. when we tried to imitate how other people, such as Soo, acted.

And I wonder if anyone still remembers the Lady in Red story. I found the old emails while browsing my yahoo mailbox. We were discussing on how we’re going for the graduation in Malacca in 2003. I remembered I just laughed out loud when I read the email while I was working in Vietnam even though I was the victim. And guess who wrote that email!

Once a upon a time, in a land called MMU; there was a princess called Winnie. One night she was hungry and had this urge to go eat supper. Usually during weekends in MMU there aren't many people around so she kinda ran out of options.

So happened her good friend Prince Ah Bi who messaged her on Yahoo!; and after some initial ehem** u know crocking :) he asked her out for supper cos he has not eaten dinner and was awfully hungry. What a coincidence. Arrangements were made and Prince AH bi was to pick her up at HB3.

So, our Princess Winnie dresses herself up putting on those little cute red slippers which would guranteee to get attention even though it was in the night. Having done that she walks to the placed agreed upon earlier and waits.

Guess who actually came to meet her; it was EuGeen, Bruce and AH Long. Turns out its was just a prank eg pulled off. Man was the princess furious; well this is an old story that somehow was missed in our numerous storytelling sessions. So this is how the title lady in red was made up. I bet it would've been a really sweet supper session if it was actually Prince Ah bi that picked her up. But thats another story... if I remember which is called Prince Ah bi and Princes Winnie goes to Penang.

ahhh... the wonders of internet chatting. So much for the red slippers

Those were the days! The good old days!

An Unhappy Happy Person

I wonder how many of my friends actually see me in my unhappy moments. Maybe those that who're really close to me did.

I can be quite emotional, with no reason. Well, that's a girl's privilege.

My mood today is just BAD. Real bad.

I can talk a lot. But when my mood is bad, I'll be very quiet. Just like today, I didn't speak a word to anyone around me. I am just very transparent.

I am drowned by my own expectations. I am stressed. I am feeling helpless. I am frustrated. I am depressed. And I just think everything is not right. Things are not going as what I wanted them to be. *Sigh*.....

Instead of making myself feel even worse, I chose to do nothing but just watch TV. I ate maggie, and egg tart, and chocolate, and whatever things that are unhealthy that I can find to fill my stomach. Then, I feel better.

How stupid, right?

Why? I don't know. Maybe it's PMS. Another girl's excuse to be emotional.

D*mn. I should go sleep now.

My First Dish in PG

My first cooking in PG! Looks nice right? *Shy* *shy*...

Ok, this is not the official first cooking after I came penang. I did hard boiled eggs, half boiled eggs, or even 3/4 boiled eggs & toast bread for breakfast (Yum Yum). I did mee kolok (means dried mee with soy sauce/pepper/oil) for dinner also. I also did Microwave Potato Chips. *wink*.

I finally officiated the "opening" of the Vision Frying Pan that we bought form Langkawi two months ago. The pan was, sadly, hiding in the kitchen cabinet and probably playing with some lizards.

Comment from EG? As usual, he won't give too much compliment. "Ok la... not bad..." and next he inspected the whole kitchen to check if it's oily after the frying....! Grrrr.....

Oh, by the way, in case you guys can't recognise what the food is... it's just fried eggs with sausages. *wink*.

Choices

Realise it or not, we're facing choices in our life, everyday, on everything.

Some said, it's better with more choices - I guess, that applies to shopping malls most of the time. However, when a shopping mall has TOO MANY choices, then all the guys will get headache as they'll need to walk longer with their girlfriends as they'll take longer to choose their dresses/clothes/what-so-ever.

Some of the example of choices that I have made (or still trying to make):

• To buy Wira or Satria?
• To stay at USJ or move to Sri Kembangan?
• To work for money or work for interest?
• To move to PG or stay in KL?
  
• To follow my heart (emotional) or follow my head (rational)?
• To cut my hair short? Or to keep it long? Straighten it? Or curl it?
  
• To go Gua Tempurung and come back with cuts all around or stay in office and just enjoy the air-cond?
• To always please people around me or just make myself happy?
  
• Which country should I go during CNY with my family? China or Taiwan?
• To be a miser or be fashionable?
• Which sunglasses worth the $$ the best?
  

If there's only Mc Donald, I don't even need to choose whether I should go KFC or Pizza Hut. If there's only Guardian, I don't even need to check the price @ Watson as well to make sure I got the best deal. I guess, it doesn't apply to all. Life is never so simple.

Sometimes, we'll take quite some time to make a choice. Reason? Because everyone wants to make sure that they make the right choice with the best deal. Or another word - Kiasu (scared to lose).

For me, I'll just think that more choices just make life harder....

If I give you a choice, will you choose a simple but boring life, or another interesting life with all sorts of complicated things bothering you at all days? Can you choose?

Can you? Can you?

Deadlock.

乱乱说

最近我的心情起伏不定。时而高兴，时而忧郁。感觉上有很多事情在脑袋里，但是却不知道应该做什么。头痛。

时间滴滴答答的过。人慢慢变老，变懒。好可怕。

12月要到了。圣诞节要到了。我的生日要到了。

还记得去年在太平庆祝生日。前年在Sri Kembangan 庆祝。大前年在越南庆祝。大大前年在Puchong F1庆祝。再之前？不记得了。

不知不觉，5 年了。大学毕业就要 5 年了。中学毕业 10 年了。好快。好可怕。

今年出席了最少5个婚礼，收了最少10张请帖。。好多人结婚了。时辰到了。大家都到了谈婚论嫁的阶段。真的好可怕。在多几年，大家应该是在谈孩子吧。o_O

12 月了。明年我会在那里庆祝生日呢？明年我会变怎样？明年会发生什么事情？太可怕了。

My Tickle IQ Test Report

I was surfing Google for the solution for "ODBC General Error" that appeared in my excel when refreshing a query. And then, a window popped out asking me on some IQ questions, and i clicked on it and started to answer all the classic IQ test in Tickle.

My IQ report (Summarised):

Your IQ score is: 129 You scored 129 on Tickle's IQ test. This means that based on your answers, your IQ score is between 119 and 129. Most people's IQs are between 70 and 130. In fact, 95% of all people have IQs within that range. 68% of people score between 80 and 120.......... Your Intellectual Type Is: You've got a very experiential way of learning and a strong mathematical mind. You're able to whittle even the most complex situation down to comprehensible component parts. In short, you have mastered the art and science of precision. That's what makes you a Precision Processor. For you, life is a series of equations. Your brain is naturally predisposed to intense mathematical acuity, and your understanding of numerical problems is unparalleled. It's second nature for you to cut to the heart of an issue, so that you can discover quick solutions to problems while others get bogged down in unnecessary details. Your Intelligence Scales: Mathematical Intelligence (combined ability to reason and calculate): 90%-100% Visual-Spatial Percentile (ability to extract a visual pattern): 60% - 70% :( Linguistic Percentile (include reading, writing & communicating with words): 50%-60% :(( Logical Percentile (ability to think things through): 90%-100%

Hmm... Interesting right? So don't complain that I am calculative, because I am born in this way, to live with numbers... My life is a series of equations.... Hehehehe... *sound so boring... aarrrgghhhh....*

One of the questions in the IQ test:
1. John likes 400 but not 300; he likes 100 but not 99; he likes 3600 but not 3700. Which does he like:
a. 900
b. 1000
c. 1100
d. 1200

A piece of cake for all of you. Right? If you're interested, can always try to go for the full test @ http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiq/index_main.jsp. Somehow I remembered you'll need to pay to get the result, but this time, I paid nothing and I get the full 15 pages comprehensive reports. Well, I don't know how accurate it is, but heck, it's free... :P

Give it a try! :)

I feel so old......

I am 26 years old this year. To be exact, I am 25 and 10 months and 25 days old as of NOW (as I am writing this).

Still young right? 26 is such a sweet number.... Hmm.... *scratching my head*

I was having dinner with friends, and while talking, we found that we're old already....
1. We have been working for almost 5 years!!! Oh my god.. oh my god.....
2. We cannot sleep late anymore, have to wake up at 8am automatically.
3. If we try to sleep more, you'll get all the backache, waist-ache and whatever ache....
4. We cannot stay up late - must sleep before 12am...

Gossshhh... We're OLD already....

In fact, for me, I realised more things that changed within me all these while...

I can't kena rain anymore. If i do, I'll get headache and slight fever.
My pimples are taking longer (2-3 weeks) to heal compared to uni time (2-3 days!!!).
I fall sick very easily.
If I fall sick, it takes longer to recover (1 week compared to 1-2 days!!)
I have no mood for long hour shopping as I feel tired walking for too long.
I prefer to stay at home doing nothing than go under the sun.
I'll feel dizzy if i walk under the sun for too long (esp. after lunch).
I get headache very easily, so easy that I can get it immediately when i open my eyes if i don't have a good sleep the night before.
I'd love to sit in EG's car compared to my own car as his car is more heavily tinted.
I don't know where to go when I am bored, so I'll rather stay at home and cook "tong soi".
I have no mood at all for clubbings or pubs or beer or any alcohol drinks.

*Cough*, and I am having terrible sore throat now!! Geeeee..... Guess I am facing my quarter-life crisis.... I feel SO OLD......... :(

PS: Ok ok, not so serious la... :).. But I really cannot deny that I can't do things that I used to do when I was in my early 20s... That makes me sad a bit. Hmm......

My Supposed-To-Be Detox Dinner

My dinner last night!!

We were running out of ideas of what to eat out after we did our catering for almost 3 months.... Then we thought we have been eating quite a lot of rubbish for the past few days - Mc Donalds, bakuteh, etc etc... So we decided to have a detox dinner to cleanse our body system!

So we only have honey dew, oranges, tomatoes and cucumber with vinegar and sugar (forgot to take that) and 2 big mugs of fresh soya for our meal. NIce or not ar? Ah well... after a while you'll feel bloated for it. So we were thinking that these fruits might not be filling enough for us. So we decided to make our HOME-MADE MICROWAVE PATATO CHIPS!!!!

Looks good isn't it?? We did some trial and error and finally the result is NOT BAD... We didn't have the correct utensils to slice the potato chips thin enough, so some are not as crispy, but it really tasted quite good. Interested? Hehehehe... Ask me for the recipe. It's superbly easy!!

I know, the next question that you guys will ask next is sure..... can tahan meh? Ah well, we boiled another 2 sausages around 10+pm because EG felt hungry and I just couldn't stand the temptation... -_-"....

My First Year Anniversary

It was my first year anniversary working in PG yesterday! I can't believe it. Time flies. My colleagues were congratulating me on "completing 1 year working" here... sound like a big task right? :)

In my 4 years of working, I have never owned my own cube before, until when I move to PG. My previous jobs requires me to move around - either I was working in offsite for development/deployment or I was loaned to other companies as a third party vendor.

Until now, let me proudly present you my cube!! :).... I am a very messy person and my cube was always been messy with all the papers/files around. But I just added some of new members to my cube and hence now it is kinda tidy than usual.

Things on my cube
1, Flower from EG - drying up already
2. Tortoise on my laptop docker - got it from Fenny in KL I think
3. Tissue box
4. Crabtree & Evelyn body lotion - for my delicate hands after doing my washing
5. Sebamed Lip Balm - for my always-cracked lips
6. Some leaflet with very cute face gotten from Perangin Mall
7. Key Chains - sourvenirs from colleagues from Sabah and Thai
8. Holder for all my pens, stapler, scissors, etc....
9. Calendar - with all important dates circled, such as pay date....
10. Peanut butter - for my breakfast with bread
11. Letter holder - but I used it to hold the 3-in-1 drink given for free for breakfast
12. Piggy note holder from Parkson
13. A recognition plaque gotten early this year
14. PENGUIN - got it from my Auntie when we visited Philip Island in Aus
15. Bear Bear that came together with the flower from EG
16. Piggy mousepad
17. Some notes sticking on my top cabinet for my quick reference

A typical girl's cube right? With all the soft toys and useless things sticking all around. *shy*... But well it helps me to feel "homey" and gives me more motivation to work. Hopefully I can complete the 2nd year here!!!!! Wish me best!!!!

凤凰四重奏

I saw this movie in TVB website for quite some times, and read about their good comments also. During Raya holiday 6 days break, I found the DVD at EG's place and started watching it.

The series describes the love stories of the main actress and actor (佘诗曼 and 马德钟) in 4 different generations, i.e. 1900, 1954, 1975 and finally 21st century. The show consists of 30 episodes, which is quite long, I thought.

When I was watching the first two generations, I almost wanted to kill myself as the story was bitter, very sad and very long winded. In the first generation, both of them were in love but she had to marry another shitty guy in order to save her father's business (same old stories). So, in the movie, she loves him, he loves her, and their loves were only conveyed to each other through their eyes when they look into each other. She had a daughter in the end (of course it's with her real husband) and both of them died together in some accident.... Haih.....

The 2nd generation, the daughter (acted by 佘诗曼 also) was a student and the guy (acted by 马德钟) was the teacher. It's the era when chinese were fighting against the japanese or the other invaders to China. And it's also the era when the younger generations were fighting for freedom in love, rather than letting the parents to decide. So how? Run away lo... and long stories in between where they were working hard for money and bla bla bla bla bla.... Finally they got seperated again because the guy joined some secret community to fight againt the japs and left the wife and their daughter in China... and then somehow the wife, the daughter and the granddaughter moved to Hong Kong.

I almost gave up when i finally finished the 2nd generation. However, if you know me, I won't give up so easily so I went on!

When it comes to the 3rd generation, things started to get interesting. This is the generation where guys are super ego, and girls are expected to only be the housewife and be very obedient. Conflicts happen when the wife, again the same actress, went out to work and become her husband's, the same actor, boss. This generation is very funny. The way they talked as well as the way they walked can burst me into laughter. EG is watching it with me every night as he's addicted with this generation and immitated the way the guys talk every night. It's irritating but it's really funny!

I still have almost 10 episodes to go to finish the show but, as usual, I have read the sypnopsis for the whole drama so I know what's going to happen in the end... Hehehehe...

Anyway, this is a real interesting drama showing the main difference between the 4 different generations, and how all our mind has actually "evolved". If you have time to stick to the TV, do give this series a try!!

Funny Conversation In Office

It's lunch time.

I picked up a call. Stood up. Took off my jacket, put my handphone into my pockets, took my wallet from my drawer.

KW: Hey, going out to eat with your BF again?
Me: Yeah....
KW: Your BF doesn't go lunch with his colleagues one ar...?
Me: Erm.. he has to see me every 6 hours... *trying to be cheeky*
KW: You BF thinks you're his medicine is it...? Every 6 hours must take medicine.....
KS + CC: *Laughing their asses off*....
Me: -_-"..... Byebye... :P

What a great place to work!! :)

Post Trip... Audit (?)

In my Langkawi trip, we kept all our receipts and entrance tickets. Not for any memory purpose, but for AUDIT!!!

We did an audit after the Langkawi Trip - to check on our total we have spent in the trip.

We even drew a pie chart for the total expenses that we spent in Langkawi.

(I am not good in playing with graphics in Blog, and I have no idea why the pics is so small.. anyway you can click on it to see a bigger chart. :P)

We actually spent 56% of the total expenses on SHOPPING!! Oh my gosh.. Followed by the logistic (car, petrol, tolls, ferry fares, etc). And pathetically we only spent 5% in our food. Well, both of us don't really eat much and our breakfast was FILLING enough for us to have light lunch.

You must be wondering, what the heck did we buy in Langkawi?! Hehehehe....

To make the story short (everyone knows I can be long winded in telling stories...), below are the few things that we got from Langkawi:

• Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gio - Men's perfume
• Issey Miyake Limited Edition 2006 (I LOVE IT) - Women's perfume (very good deal, 100ml for less than RM200, some more limited edition..... )
• Dom - RM75 compare to RM92 outside Langkawi
• Chocolates - Of course!!
• 2 cute handphone bags
• Billabong wallet for brother
• Sembonia leather wallet (for myself)

And last but not least

• VISION FRYING PAN!!!

I know I know, most probably you'll be thinking why the hell we bought a FRYING PAN from Langkawi. Well... it's really cheaper there and my dear has an obsession for nice looking kitchen ware. I even suggested him to sleep with the pan since he loves it so much. *wink*. Anyway, the pan looks really nice as it's made of glass. Heavy, but looks elegant! I think I might use only when I am ready to cook, probably after 3-5 years? Hehehehe....

Also, after my trip, I also had more pimples - I FORGOT TO PUT SUNBLOCK ON MY FACE!!!!! My face was dry with small little irritating zits, and old + new pigmentation all floating up!! It freaked me out for a week until my lovely dearest Jourdeness saved it last week. *Phew*