replacement day

Okay. It’s Saturday today and I’m in the office. It’s been a while that I have to come back to work on weekends. Had my share of working on the weekends and I don’t miss it at all.
It’s freaking Saturday and I’m working. Well I should be working right now. Hahaha….
Well I guess you can’t have the best of both worlds. Because last Friday was an off day given by the company due to the haze. We had to replace ‘that’ off day today. Yeah… it’s just like back in school.. Replacement Classes.. sigh… I should be in bed now… sleeping on my wonderful bed with my lovely pillows.. dreaming away..

And my sinus is back just right after I walked into the office. I think it’s a sign.. lol…
I’m allergic to working on Saturday’s.

work

Have you ever feel that you need to compete with your colleague just to come out with something better and nicer just to impress the boss?
I have not, till now. I feel that he wants to show the boss that he can do a better job that me. I was clear of my job scope from the very beginning when this dear company hired me.
But ever since, “my” senior colleague got a promotion. He begins to take over what I was hired for. It made me question what am I here for. If he’s doing all the things that I’m suppose to do. What am I here for? It all begins when he was just there to help me out when I have too much work to do. But then slowly, he started to do all the stuffs that I’m suppose to do. Except for the things that he has no interest at.

It made me question my decision the other day. I was offered to go back to my old company. I rejected the offer. 500RM more then what I’m earning now plus 1 month bonus. Where else, I’m getting 2 months bonus here, yearly increment, paid over time plus a change to travel to Japan.
Anyway, talking about my old company. Back to publishing. Back to the wee working hours, no life and high stressful life. I had my share of suffering in this rat race. Of all the complains, there are some happy, cheerful and enjoying moments from there. I miss the people, working environment and the place, everything. Except the working management style and the pay! Every time when I think about going back there, flash backs hits me. I think I had a mental breakdown a few times. I broke down and cried. I don’t want that again… Do I? noooo……

What I have now is a fix time. Even thou, I have to work over time, I’m well paid here. Coming back on weekends to work!. Yeah sure! I get paid double/ triple!!. I haven’t done that yet. tee hee hee….. I get to travel. *Hopefully* So far I’ve only been to Penang. But I’m praying and hoping Japan would be the next destination.

Okay.. back to my colleague. I guess if he wants to compete. I’ll give him something to compete.!

wish list

My wish list for the end of the year:
IPod Photo and a New Cell Phone.
That’s it!

Preferably a phone that can isync to my ibook. Not a big fan of a camera phone. Why do you need a camera phone when you a real camera? Some night say that it could be useful when you come across something and you wanna take a pic of it.. But then again.. it’s not like you can do much with the pic that is taken with you .5 mega pixel or the highest 2.0 mega pixel camera phone.

The friendship thingy is in my head lately. What makes a good friendship last anyway?
Ingredients:
Tender loving care
Time
Afford
Understanding
Timing

Basically, it’s like having a relationship with another person. Don’t you think?
Minus the physical part. Some friends are meant to last for ever and some are just….there.

break time

I think I’ll take a break from blogging. My blogging spirit is really dry.
Hmm.. I wonder why….
Anyway, I just came back my Sarawak trip. It was relaxing. The Kuching International airport is not so international after all. Probably we’ll have to wait for another 4 years. Stayed in the Damai Beach Resort. The shuttle service was great. Being shuffled around even better. Kuching Holiday Inn was a bt of a disappointment. The room was smaller compared to the Damai Beach room, at least 6 ppl could sleep it there.
The bathroom was a bit small. Actually the bathtub was small. We had to squeeze into it. But it was fun. Pictures can be seen at my flickr.
If anyone is reading anyway.

さよなら!

GT Sepang

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the begining
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go go go
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the last meal on sunday
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Sunday was super tiring. The gathering time was postponed from 10.00 am to 12.30pm. Thank God!. If I had to wake up by 10am, I would have been a zombie yesterday. I thought I was late since I left right after lunch at about 12.15pm. Speed to Shah Alam and was hoping that I wasn’t the last person to arrive. Especially when my boss is around. To my surprise I was the second person to arrive! So I guess I wasn’t that late. More good news….. boss couldn’t go cos he said that he was having diarrhea and fever. Woo Hoo!... It would have been more boring and tiring if boss were to go. Mental Stress!!...

Walked around before entering gate. There weren’t many things to see to my surprise. I was expecting to see more stuffs… whatever that it may be.

I was excited for the first half hour of the race, then the boredom came in… I want to see car crashing!!. Dammit!!.. Tai Loh couldn’t stand it anymore after the first hour and decided to walk around and check out the grand arena stand area.
Timing was right, they begun to allow people to go in. Woo hoo again… Went down and another session of walking under the sun… woo hoo…. sun tan….

The sound of the car racing was killing me slowly. Walked till the end of the grandstand area. 1 car flew by… no problem… the 2nd and 3rd came… wow!... I could feel that my ear drum was about to pop right out. I couldn’t take it… Told my self that I at least have to take a couple of pics before I leave. Some came out pretty bad… Earplugs would have helped. Walking back to the exit was freaking far, plus the sound of the GT race. I wanna take more pics!!! Before I knew it, the race was about to finish, went up the seating area, trying to find a spot to take a stand and watch. The next thing I know, the race ended. Who’s the winner? I have no freaking idea. I was glad that it ended. I just couldn’t take to noise anymore… People started climbing down from the seats rushing down to the finishing line. My jaw dropped and the first thing I asked Yap is “Can they do that?” I wonder how they manage to get back up .. hmm....

Apparently anything is possible for Malaysian… yeah… Malaysia boleh!

My legs are killing me right now… I didn’t realize it until I drove to TGIF for the last session of the day. It was an experience. Good excise and sun tanning session.

change

NOTE TO SELF!
Got to change my working attitude!

yasmin ahmad

I finally met the mother of advertising. Well, actually I just saw her. Face to face.
It’s funny how a women like that can come out with all these ideas that works so well..
We were like 5 cm apart. She was in a hurry to attend the Japanese Film Festival in GSC, Mid valley. I was queuing up to get the freaking Batman Return.
“Excuse me, Sir.” she said.
That was because KY was in her way.

I so wanted to say Hi and congrats her on her winning and tell her that she’s done a great job and keep on doing what she’s doing…

She was in a hurry so I’ll spare the embrasement on both sides. Imagine that you’re rushing to so somewhere and out of nowhere this girl comes up and telling you what you’ve heard millions of times before.


Anyway, Tail Loh has bought the GP tickets. Woo hoo … can’t wait for the day. It would be my first time going the ‘Se Pang”. Sunny sun, here I come! Woo hoo….


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killing time

Things you do when you're bored and there's a lovely PowerShot G6 next to you....


the cup
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name card
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love plant
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lovely plant again
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friends

It’s funny how close friend can drift apart from each other after some time for not spending time with each other. Why is that so? I always assume that there more to talk when each other are apart for some time. Things happen. You tell the story. Simple as that. But noo…… When you do see these close friends, there’s nothing much to talk about. You just don’t have the mood to tell them your. Or probably it just me. I’m a kinda of person who likes to listen then to talk. Why is that so?

It’s interesting how some friends’ work. Well, some of my friends are like that. And some are just so jolly, happy go lucky, yappy kind that you do envy them deep down inside. Just gimme some so that ‘happiness’ baby!! GIVE IT TO ME!!

Well, that’s life.

the plan

After having a long talk with ‘tai loh’. My question in life started to arise again. What do I want to do? Then I remembered what I wanted to do since 2001. I do have a plan in life. Woo Hoo…. Actually I do have a few. The only thing that I need to do is sticking to my plan as what my “tai loh” said. Executing it, is the only thing that is missing. Either, I go for my MBA or really start thinking of getting a traveling and working visa to UK.
Both requires a lum some of money, which I do not have right now. I’ll have to eat bread and drink water to survive. That is what the Chinese says.

All I have to do now is wait for 2007 to achieve my dreams/plan. If I do live up to 2007!!

after 29

It just hit me this morning. I’m freaking 26. What am I going to do for the rest of my life. I’ve just started my new job this year. I told me self that I would stay here for at least 3 years. Then I’ll be 29. What the fuck am I going to do when I decide to leave this company. I have no idea. Jack of all traders and master of none. That is me. Who would want to hire a 29 year old designer? I know my own ability, or do I? sigh… I need so help … what the fuck am I going to do with the rest of my life!!??

my stomach

My dad turned 54 yesterday. He didn’t want to go out and eat for his birthday, instead we have a steamboat session. Due to my dad’s golf game and it’s his birthday, my parents decided to have the steamboat on Saturday instead so he can play his game in peace and not had to rush back home to have the dinner.

Went and bought presents for him, and some for myself too! The Speedy shop was just too irresistible. Though of getting some DVDs because Wong mentioned that they are having this promotion thingy. CHEAP DVDs!
But instead of getting DVDs, I got FRIENDS, season 8. It’s cheap! 2 for 12.90RM
Was contemplating to get the whole freaking FRIENDS since it’s so cheap. But I had my credit card bills to remind me that I’m still in debt. I can’t stop thinking of getting the rest of the season of FRIENDS now.. hellpp…..
I’ve got the RAM thingy to upgrade and the power sleeves to buy for my baby IBook.

I need more MARNEE!!!.... But then again who doesn’t!

So I stopped myself with just the season 8 of FRIENDS and head back home to help my dear mother to prepare the food for the night. It didn’t stop till 10 plus. My stomach was crying for help after the crabs, prawns, fish…… due to the afternoon lunch that I had. The famous Chili Pan Mee at KL. How can I not eat the Pan Mee with the dark red, hot, spicy chili! Yum yum….

That was the reason that I had to go back and forth to the toilet yesterday. Oh what a Sunday....
Freaking Chili Pan Mee! My poor stomach was crying for help the whole yesterday. I was crying for help! My ass was crying for help!

And it’s still crying for help now. Maybe I should go get a MC … hmmmm…..

friday night

Friday was a hectic night. Went to a friends surprise party at Thai Bar. She wasn’t surprised at all. Dance for freaking 2 hours plus till my legs gave up on me. It’s been a while since I was on high hills. Or probably I’m getting old. Decided to go down and get some fresh air and a decent place to sit. Less then 30 minutes people started coming out like flies. I thought that there was some fights, but it turned out to be a police raid. It last about 35 minutes. Apparently, there was a huge fight last week and they were there to identify the ‘gang’ who was involve in the fight. I waited for the whole fiesta to end before I could go back in to use the toilet and look for my friends. On top of that, the guy who sat next to me was having an argument with his friends. All I could understand was his vulgar words in Hakka or Manderin…. He was about to smash his bottle of Heineken against the table when his friend told him something while looking at me… DAMN . It was freaky. Tried to avoid eye contact but I couldn’t help by looking at what he was doing. Thank God nothing happen! If not I would have been the innocent victim at the scene. LOL

I swear i'll never step foot at Thai Bar. The place isn't my cup of tea.

I should have walked away as far as possible. But my legs were still killing me. The guy cooled off and sat back at his place and started scolding his friend. I think he was scolding his friend… hmm…

Reach back home and did some extreme exercise before going to bed. Don’t ask me what exercise but some heavy crazy exercise. (As if you’re going to ask me. I wonder is anyone reading this … hmm…..)

Went to bed just slightly before 5am.

Had to wake up 9.30am the next morning to do some banking. Couldn’t feel my legs. It went numb.
I only got back 80% of it this morning after ‘some’ rest.

'P' sticker

It does make a different when I stick on the ‘P’ sticker onto the car. People doesn’t honk. They don’t stare at you that much. But you do get people who likes to bully the ‘P’ drivers ones a while. And I manage to drive all the way to work with out the car dying on me. Woo hoo…
Damn! I really do miss being chauffeured around like last time…. Sigh…

It only happened to me today when my leg was giving out on me. This is due to the previous day when we had to reshuffle the sitting position at the office. We had to reposition our sitting place because the new boss wants a closer sitting place for everyone.

New Boss, New Era, and New Style.

Spent the whole afternoon shifting and cleaning up the place. Now the place looks crammed. Everyone is placed in the middle not like before when everyone was at the side. It’s for the better, at least we can communicate with each other better and easier.

driving

Got my car since last Wednesday, and ever since then I’ve been driving my self to work. It was a freaking good work out for my heart. I haven’t been driving a manual since I took my driving license. For the first time in my driving life, I was actually afraid to drive. Can you imagine that!. My car at least died once and not to mention being honked everyday while driving to work. Why do drivers like to tail other drivers back on the road!? Don’t they know that the other driver in front might not be so “expert” in driving yet! I finally bought the ‘P’ sticker just to let other drivers that I’m not an ‘expert’ driver yet! The ‘P’ sticker did give me the courage to driver better on the road. I guess it’s a physiology thingy. But what ever it is. It works! And I’m glad that it did.

The 3 days holiday was used to the max. I had my precious sleep, did some intensive work out. Semi spring clean my room and did some bonding with some ‘extra’ special people. But I didn’t manage to paint my room. Hhmmm…. Still thinking about it.

I want more holidays…..

blogging

I found this quit interesting...

"You may be blogging, but is anyone reading?
It has been said that blogging is like a tree falling in the woods. If no one is there to hear the tree, did it make a sound? And if no one reads your blog, did you deliver a message? There's not much point to blogging if no one is reading, is there? That is never a problem on Multiply, and that's why it's the best blogging site around."

Well, partly I think it's true but then again I don't really think so, to me at least. I just wanna express myself. LET ME EXPRESS MYSELF! With out any one judging me.

But then again, even with blogging. Like anyone I know will read this, I’m still not really expressing myself. Hmm….
Why do i feel so confined ..... I’m really contradicting my self here….

Sigh....time to chill.

some interesting facts

Something that i would like to share.....

The main causes of liver damage are:
1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are the main cause.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.

7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil.! Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is very fit.

8. Consuming overly done foods also add to the burden of liver. Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store. We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to "schedule."

Because:
Evening at 9 - 11pm : is the time for eliminating unnecessary/toxic chemicals (de-toxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes).This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on health.

Evening at 11pm - 1am : is the de-toxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 1 - 3am : de-toxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 3 - 5am : de-toxification in the lungs. Therefore there will sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the de-toxification process had reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with toxin removal process.

Morning 5 - 7am : de-toxification in the colon, you should empty your bowel.

Morning 7 - 9am : absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you should be having breakfast at this time. Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30am, for those who are sick. Breakfast before 7:30am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast, they should change their habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late until 9 - 10am rather than no meal at all. Sleeping so late and waki! ng up too late will disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals. Aside from that, midnight to 4am is the time when the bone marrow produces blood. Therefore, have a good sleep and don't sleep late.

my throat is killing me

I’ve been sick for the past week. Coughing like shit… can’t even sleep in peace. It could be the weather or it because of KY. Amazing how kisses can do to you.
Went to pay my deposit for the car yesterday. Yup, finally getting a car. After all these years, I’ve been a true supporter of the public transportation. I have to join the crowd in the world of the drivers and their untamed wild behavior. Finally committing to bank loans, and installments. Ahh… isn’t it wonderful how life is…. Paying and loaning for the rest of your life. Then comes the house……..

Damn… the coughing…. I need my coughing sirup…

Probably, I need to quit smoking…..

trying to be one...

I just realize that I’m a bad matchmaker.
How do u define a good matchmaker? Set them up then leave the rest to nature? Went out yesterday which two friends happen to be single. I had the intention of setting them up in the beginning. But things didn’t go as it was plan. Hmmm… I guess the ‘spark’ wasn’t there for both of them. Neither of them spoke to each other, until I excuse my self to the ladies. They had to, other wise they just have to stare at each other till I come back. Hahaha…. As I was walking back to the table, I saw them talking to each other. Woo hoo…. Score! Do I see ‘sparkles’? Just as I sat down on my seat, the conversation stopped. Damn. I should have walked around instead of going back to the table. It went pretty okay after that. I brought up whatever topic that I can think off. I guess you just have to leave to nature to do its thing.

te su to

This reminds me back in the old days where I use to do all my last minute studying.
Sigh. There’s a test today. I haven’t been ‘hardworking’ for the pass few weeks. Probably my enthusiasm for the Jap class is decreasing every week. Soon it will be 'zip'..nothing… I’M GOING TO FAIL!!

Tried doing my revision between work. Hopefully it helps.