another One

i'd made it a point somehow to lament how come every year end, it's always almost immediately that i turn another year older right after i just turned another year older...
geddit??

anyhow... it's now, again. nearing another year end. Another 2 woeking days, and we'll be embracing the new year, the new Decade. Yes. the catchphrase this time around? Happy New Decade.
pretty neat i'd hav to say. it's like, "Yay! guys, we survived another decade!! woohoo~!!"

last december, i remember i'd posted here, in anticipation of the new year, "bring it on, Baby!"
this year though, i'd hav to say the enthusiasm is lesser.
perhaps, woek had been too hectic to bear last december, i had rather the days pass faster, and for work to complete faster.
this year, i had like a full month for me to slow down... before the new year hits.

as for 'the Resolution', well... i still cant make up my mind yet. at least not on anything concrete which requires 'follow-up actions'...
yes, the Days are short : do not waste your time while you are here.
but then again, who knows? perhaps i'll be penning down the same words come another decade later... ~~~

until then, here are some shots taken at a resort, local, east coast ... a 3D2N weekend trip... a LazyChristmasWeekend... a coastal and 'unmistakably malay' village resort...










but ultimately, i still, do look forward to Happy Days ahead~...
ahh, but dont we all ?

another itch scratched...

merry december~!

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indeed~! a merry December~!!

not that i wish to brag about this but still, the many holidays this december definitely helped in boosting the year-end mood! ^^

(not like we get to hav the festivities falling on fridays every december marh~...)

boss said yesterday, "today a lot of tasks ~ dun merry christmas yet ya"... to which i replied with a chuckle, "christmas oredi lorrhh...!"

birthday this year fell on a friday too~ XD

(it being the 'Awal Muharam' national holiday...)

i was therefore entitled to officially, legally, sleep-in on that day.... legitimately No Woek!!!

woohoo~!

bday eve was spent with an outing with dear Sis...

first a good dinner at Finnegan's at Hartamas, with some good main courses and a pint of good'ol Hoegaarden... (went there specifically as Sis was hooked on their Beamish... alas, they said they do not have them anymore... darn.)

the second part of the nite was followed through with a trip to Sis's favourite haunt...

finally met up with Winnie... Sis's friend which i've heard of so much...

well... the environment: something different, to which i'd sort of expected.

i'd just not expected that it'd go So well... i mean, i thoroughly did enjoy the nite..

and i saw that Sis did too.... =)

friday nite: the gang all gave face (especially carol the hot mom) and came out for some drinks at TTDI Plaza... wahts the name of the place again? cant recall.... turned out great too. when u throw in some dices and beer buckets at less than rm40 each... you'd pretty much get the whole gang going.... except Combust who had additional mi hailam halfway through... XD

behold: my bday gift from the K-squares.... my own Ayam:

the office was not left out on the celebrations too...

as per annual practice, the company threw a Christmas dinner on the 23rd...

this time around, they'd 'recruited' all the 'new blood' for the preparations and performance committee. Great. it'a about time 'old' staffs like me sit back and just enjoy the show.

jess... ahh, jess. she was not let off though. she's our santarina for this xmas... ^^

soon, it'd be drawing to a close. both December and the year'09...

but!

do Not let it stop.

as january kicks in, we will have the new year upon us.

and then february, and then the Lunar New Year =D

and then april: it's Taipei for me and Sis... (and bonus month too~ fingers crossed.. And maybe we can hunt for beamish there too~)

woek sumore,,, and mid-year kicks in with a beach-trip to phuket with the gang again...

hahahha!!

gettin' meself hyped up here.. but first: a lazyChristmasWeekend @ Tanjong Jara.. dungun, terengganu.

aren't holidays just great?!!

XD

another itch scratched...

words rang tru...

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The true tragedy of a routinely spent life is that its wastefulness does not become apparent until it is too late ... Nirmal ~ p.144
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She imagined the animals circling drowsily, listening to echoes pinging through the water, painting pictures in three dimensions - images that only they could decode.
The thought of experiencing your surroundings in that way never failed to fascinate her: the idea that to 'see' was also to 'speak' to others of your kind, where simply to exist was to communicate.
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In contrast, there was the immeasurable distance that separated her from Fokir. What was he thinking about as he stared at the moonlit river? Whatever it was, she would never know: not just because they had no language in common but because that was how it was with human beings, who came equipped, as a species, with the means of shutting each other out ... Piya ~ p.159




another itch scratched...

abort formation, engage all hostiles

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the brain's a flur of activities whenever the body refuses to just switch off.
layin in bed still hyper, over-triggered with all of the day's activities,
and of cuz, inzzpired by another fav song on the current playlist,
i'd rather slip outta bed and just gibber away here...
yeah, it's 1:29 am... but ahh, waht the heck!!

it's now at this moment, officially pre-birthday year No.28 :)
as the years pass on, and the person inside grows along,
i guess we tend to take in much more into the mind.. IQ and EQ and all... than what we used to..

working in my current office for more than 4yrs now,
i cant claim that it's one of those big corporate companies,
(however ambitiously they aspire to be),
but it is one helluva company where turnaround in human resources is extremely high.
this is touchy... i dont know why i cant sleep
and my mind wandered back to the office somehow
monica and hristine will be leaving us soon... for greener pastures (im sure of. again)
monica has decided to abort formation, and engage all hostiles (just caught Avatar tonite with the guys, this came from the mouth of the chief-villain-military-in-command. which i thought was kinda cool~...)
she is to us, the 'employee of the year' type (real straight, no hanky-panky, real hardworking)
still..no longer able to take in all the nuisance at the 3rd flr office, she has decided to forge ahead.
hristine has found her true calling after all.
now given the opportunity to do what she luvs most. Sing. with contract and allowance and all.
yay for hristine~! she is after all, only a twenty year old. just what has she got to lose? ? ?
the last time i quit... i chose to not put up with work 24/7. all for some mini sum of less than 3k. to forge and build a brand that belongs to someone else. it just didnt seem to make sense at all.
well... then again, that's just me i guess.
all is not lost i guess... it just turns out darn annoyingly that i've became quite acquainted with these two ladies... sigh... why cant normal people ever stand woeking here .. at least for some time longer?
and gulp, the monthly payroll duties would be rolling back to me then i'm forecasting... geezus....


anyhow.... today is still, somewhat special.
mom and sis got me pressies for this year's birthday .. wuahhahhah...
sometimes, somethings, just make u melt at the core ...
the most important of it alllll..... XD




another itch scratched...

it's my own design, my own remorse..

it was another one of those mornings...
where i simply did not care for the world or whatever's innit..
to just continue dozing off even when the alarm had done its duty for the day...

with the school holidays in full swing, Yang's having the telly to himself for the entire day
which left me with no other options other than Ratatouille followed by some Powerpuff Girls in action and then sumore of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends... i must say, maybe it was the serenity at home, or maybe it was just me,,, i found that all the animations (a more proper name for Cartoon) to be quite entertaining and not realli that kiddy at all... (i think it was just me larh then~)

along the actions, i found Mojo Jojo singing this very familiar tune. a quick check with Sis online and some googling later, i found that it was Mojo Jojo singing Tears For Fears' everybody wants to rule the world... hahah~! now after listening to the real thing, i think i somewhat prefer Mojo Jojo's version!!! wahhahahh!!


welcome to your life
there's no turning back
even while we sleep
we will find you
acting on your best behaviour
turn your back on mother nature
everybody wants to rule the world

it's my own design
it's my own remorse
help me to decide
help me make the most
of freedom and of pleasure
nothing ever lasts forever
everybody wants to rule the world





the real thing... take yer' pick!




i kinda liked the lyrics to this one..
and with Mojo Jojo's comical interpretation of it,
i'd like to think it all sort of just clicks together, nicely ... For Today.
(^^)



another itch scratched...

up North..

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this is indeed, a merry December~

as the year looms to an end.. we in malaysia were bestowed upon, quite a few long-weekends with fridays off (Officially, as many national and states holidays fall on fridays this year...) ... which brings upon the more-than-usual-few opportunities for longer-than-usual weekend breaks

=)

3D2N

three days, two nights. that's what i'm talkin about...

and nothing of the usual prerequisite applications for 'joint-leaves' from the office... blearrgh~!


capped the month November with a trip down south to our neighbour across the straits, the Lion City.. Singapore that is. took the opportunity to visit bestie, (not to mention to bunk in at her place... free accomo, woot woot!!) and of course, the customary stroll down Orchard Road to soak in its relentless efforts in their annual Xmas decor~ yes, rolled-eyes, but still.. :)

and this weekend.. we in Selangor had the privilege of `celebrating the sultan's birthday on the 11th... yay!! All hail the Sultan~!!

me, Audrey, and Steven took the opportunity to get on with our long-planned break from the offce, up north.. to the Land of Smiles... XD

what started out as a designated trip to Hat Yai to feed our 'cheap-food-and-shopping' frenzy, turned out to be a most unexpected, relaxing one. cheap food nevertheless, Steven being the 'half-local' there, brought us around to places where no huge tour buses past the Bukit Kayu Hitam checkpoint would go...

lunch at the Water View Restaurant.... with attap huts by the lake... NiCe~

accomo was prebooked by Niu at the He Jia Grand Hotel at Ban Dan Nok, in the district of Sadao.. yes, although infamous as a border town dubbed 'mini mehsia' and notorious for its uhm,.. mildly-put, "nightlife" (another story for another day..) still, we had plenty of enjoyable downtime for the entire 2 days around Dan Nok... (~think clean Thai massage and foot rubs..)

day 2: Further up north, past Hat Yai, into Songkhla province...
up Tang Kuan Hill for prayers .. with its symbolic Prathat Chedi Luang royal pagoda..
yes, i prayed too, (gawk) a first for me.. that, and the view around the hilltop too... (gawk 2)... Unexpectedly nice...

lunch by the Samila Beach side....
~good and cheap seafood (and the smoked calamari gets my vote for this meal!)

it being a sat noon, the place was packed. nevertheless, the sea breeze and the ocean view pretty much made up for it...




well i'm beat by now... up Next, the real-deal at somewhere east coast for the christmas weekend. this time, it's goin to be local here in gud 'ol malaysia...
:)




another itch scratched...

another itch..

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how many times have you felt that you'v bought the wrong book?
i mean, just what DO you do when you're halfway (or worse, just started on less than the first 50 pages) of the book, and you realize the dreadful truth that you simply cannot go on with it.
compare that with some feverishly adored titles, titles where you could devour the entire series of four books in less than ten days. say... that would be close to like two and half days per book.. Go figure~!
which brings me back to the first question..
some of these are even "highly recommended bestsellers". either that, or they've been written by some bestselling authors. so not ALL of their works win your heart.. even though they are touted as bestselling.. the irony.
i guess it's more to my personal choice of lit then?
mystery? murder? family themed? or forbidden love?
how do you go about identifying which books to buy then? when even bestselling authors with bestselling titles like The Lovely Bones goes on to produce sadistic, uncomfortable, boring second titles like The Almost Moon?
sigh... books arent that cheap really here in kl... even after the occasional 30% off.. they're still considered kindof a splurge to me... (any single trip would have me ending up with at least three new ones..)
oh well... i guess it's really going to be up to me then.
as you stumble along, you'll learn to appreciate the path more right?
so now what do i do with my Coelho and Sebold?




another itch scratched...

swell~

another great piece of news to usher in December.... one of my favouritesst months of the year (yes, i am quite a bit greedy sumtimes... )

saw this while flipping through the New Straits Times at work yesterday near the tender announcement section....
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Malaysia in Top 10 Countries 2010
MALAYSIA has been chosen as one of the world’s top 10 countries for 2010 by Lonely Planet, the popular travel guidebook that recently published its fifth annual collection of the world’s best journeys, destinations and experiences for the coming year.

The Best In Travel 2010 presents the top 10 countries, regions and cities to visit in 2010, chosen by Lonely Planet’s global team members comprising authors, travellers and writers. Joining Malaysia in the list are El Salvador, Germany, Greece, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Portugal, Suriname and USA.

Lonely Planet describes Malaysia as such: “Diversity is what Malaysia is all about. From chaotic and modern Kuala Lumpur to the near mystical wilds of Borneo, there are mountains to tackle, beaches to bake on, coral reefs to dive and malls to shop. And if this incredible geographical variety isn’t enough, wait till you meet the people. Malays live in rhythm to the mosque’s call to prayer, while just around the corner, garlands of marigolds are sold in front of towering Hindu temples and the sweet smells of incense emanate from ornate Chinese Buddhist clan houses. Top off a multi-cultural day with an Indian curry, Chinese noodles, Malay rice dishes with spicy sambal or the region’s most famous fusion dish, coconut-curry noodle laksa.”

The listing is even more meaningful as Malaysia is the only Asian country in the top 10 countries for 2010. Some of the events and festivals highlighted in the latest guidebook are Thaipusam, Harvest Festival in Sabah and Sarawak, Dragon Boat Festival in Penang as well as the Rainforest World Music Festival in Sarawak.

In addition, the guide has also identified Malaysia as one of the Best Value Destinations for 2010, promoting Malaysia as a clever choice for travellers on the lookout for a bargain.

Details at http://www.lonelyplanet.com/

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i was all smiles right after, and still am now.... XD




another itch scratched...

sing for november...

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i'd slept through most part of it, ipod stuck in the ears, save for the parts where they served the meals and when they stopped for toilet breaks along the expressway..
a solitary ride. yes i guess sometimes some things like these are not that bad after all. i can do solitary after all.
i see people travel in pairs, some a family of four or five, and many, a solitary trip as well.
they eat, they snooze. like me. then they wake up unable to sleep anymore, they start to plug in the huge headphones and join in the cheesy flicks on the drop-down screen...
some attempt to read.. i see one holding a novel from disembarkation until now. reading her "into the wild" on and off. yes, she is sitting just in front of me slightly. others attempt lighter stuffs like magazines. yes, she's sitting just next to me across the narrow aisle.
the others, they just sleep summore. on this home-leg of the journey, i am fortunate enough to manage myself a twin seat. the girl beside me shifted to a seat upwards with a power-point. imagine a pretty girl like her having to charge up her laptop while on a ride home from singapore, on a sunday.. .
now with my cardi up and my sleeves rolled-down, i hav one foot curled up under the other, while gibberishing on this... i just cannot sleep anymore.
and as i am at this, i cannot help dreading how i'll have to check on the woek week in advance once i reach home eight-ish later. yeah, i'll hav to make sure i do not fumble up on the meeting dates again... no, not again.

Work, Play, Life.
unfortunately, i cant seem to make them Not co-exist.


now that was the conclusion i made while i closed my book shut.
right after that the coach halted to a stop... both me and magazine-gurl across the aisle craned our neck out and saw the unmistaking bumper-to-bumper stretching all the way up.
almost instantaneously, we turned to look at each other and blurted out the same word.. "jam~"... and silently laughed at it all.. sigh~
and from then onwards the ride inched forward ever so painstakingly all the way past Seremban before it eventually got better.

what was supposed to be a 5-hour ride had me reaching home almost by 10PM....
that being said
i just luv KL ...
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~along Orchard Rd. the big new tree at the big new mall... ION Orchard...

at Bugis... a soupy lunch @ Ajisen Ramen.... and New Moon's all the rage there too :)


across bugis junction, another queer mall. the ILUMA... which looks like a giant bubble-wrap from the outside...

Chinatown... yeah, been there too but. i still wanted to go so badly.... the anticipation as the street and the sunglight emerges at the end of the long flight of stairs up (escalator larh~)

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another itch scratched...

footprints

we had another training workshop at the office this week.. this time, it was on Customer Service. as usual, i was not involved In the training, only, to arrange for the things preceding it. half day through the first day, our branch head from the pahang branch had to rush back to office.. as he had received news that one of the members of our technical team there had met with a road accident.. a fatal one.

this late morning, while preparing brunch in the kitchen, dad came home from his sunday swim at the selayang public pool. apparently, he cheated death (that's how i thought of it.. ) when an out-of-control cab drove straight into the back portion of his mini-lorry. the lorry was okay, the cab was not. the bonnet was up and the windscreen a goner. the driver looked like he wasnt there at all... dad was unhurt. i imagined all the worse things that could've happened.
for example, like if he was at the doors having his back facing the oncoming cab. or when he was just reversing his ride to hav the cab bang right into his driver side door.

yes, fragile. not in the humorous sense of fuh-gile, but really, life's good and Life Is fragile.

i'd have to remind myself time and again,...
that i shall not be too calculative on the petty stuffs in life.
i shall remind myself that work is after all, just work (it is a miserable pre-monday, sunday night after all..)
loathsome as it may be, WOEK.. i'd still hav to conform to it.. who else is gonna fund my trips and my dinners and my shoes otherwise yea??...

that being said, a recap of my weekend is a must i guess...
SY finally had her wedding reception tonight.. while yesterday morning was the tea ceremony at her parents' home at SD. we were roped in for the jimuis thingy... which we all obliged. turned out not too bad though.. better than what i'd expected. consolation came in the form of the outgoing jimuis... at least, they were less passive than i was (shame on me!).
consolation also came in the form of the old faces i saw from my college time.... Soo and some of the other guys... :)
my my, how things have changed. and yet, they still looked kinda same to me, like we were just hanging out at the mamaks not too long ago.. but then i had to tell myself.. that it's been almost 10years ago. some things must have changed... people grow and people move on.

dinner tonight was bearable... again, more faces from college time.
i cant help noticing too though, that ive been attending dinners lately where i've been seated near the aisle (to the door, that is..). so ive sort of concluded to Bo that, recent dinners had me attending to those of my acquantainces. either all my best and closest mates are married, or they're still very much single. hmm... a pretty simple conclusion, but still.


this week too, me and office mate Hristine had lots of 'free time' chatting away while the bosses were attending to the training. being the avid singer that she is (she freelances at events and cafes).. we very naturally chatted on songs.. from over the years to now. she had the courtesy to extend to me, some mandarin songs which i'd not been listening to for a while now.
well u know, a bit of Sandy, a bit of Shin, and a bit of Billie... :)



footprints.. all i wana say is, i guess... people from all sorts of manners and patterns leave footprints in our life.. at different stages, at different time and different places. school, college, work, holidays.
scattered they may be around our memories... but still.. you cannot deny the presence they once had in your life...
hmm,.. i do wunder how many sets of prints i've left in others' life...






another itch scratched...

the ties that bind..~

we're all grown up now... That, i could pretty much, be sure of, and confidently say...
all of us, cousins, are pretty much grown up by now.
attending marriages (we'v done church weddings and then we'v done some tea ceremonies at hotels too~) and hearing the baby showers of our cousins hav been pretty normal n frequent along these few years too~

we try our best to attend to all of 'em.. me and sis.
be it wedding ceremonies, receptions... or even on a more sombre note, funerals.
yes, of course, aside from the merry occasions of having additional members to the family tree, there would be also, of course again, senior members leaving the clan.. you see, most of the uncles and aunts we have a generation above us, are by now, well over the frail age of 60 plus...

hmm, yes. we made our very best effort to attend to all... well, most if not all.. at least for those we deem close and dear to us, even though, close and dear does not necessarily mean frequent visits and contact. these, i would say, are the ties that bind...

back to the cousins...
the elder batch has all gotten married now. yes, with the final one of the elder batch being rudy chen. happily hitched with a hongkie and leaving for home, london, soon. i got the chance to mutter the salutation 'ah sow' when i greeted them new couple and received my 'single status' cousin angpow. yes, i dare say that would be the only time i'd hav the chance to greet some stranger as ah sow. well, of course, stranger as she may be to me, she's now part of the family tree.

i cant say we cousins have a firm or in any way, affectionate grasp on each other. no, we're all somewhat strangers to each other too~ the only ties that bind, of corz, we cant erase that in any way either...

one thing for sure though, i'd be happy for All of how they all turned out to be now.. All meaning all the good and bad of it.
those married, and blessed with a brood, well i see on the primary that they're happy. well blessed with young and old in the household. i cant b bothered to scratch anymore beneath the surface... they still paint a happy picture to me.
those unmarried but in a 'its' complicated' mode, well, queer and boggling as it may be, still, i gotta giv it to them for their frankness and boldness in stepping up to it all.
those unmarried on papers, i see them nonchalantly forging ahead making a name for themselves too. not at all maiden-in-distresses, these cousins of mine are ferocious and independently carving out their own fortune..


well, well,... what am i trying to say here then?
nothing concrete... just some gibberish recap after spending a full day at holiday inn glenmarie, attending a first cousin's big day.. right from the 11am tea ceremony to the 8pm dinner reception.
yes, this one is Big. bigger than all the other cousin receptions.
rudy's the only male child of our generation. and his dad is the eldest of our uncles.
this one is a Big one where all aunts and cousins congregate. the one where i get to snoop at all their faces, and that of their spouses, on and off paper... =}


and im not gonna start with all the well-meaning queries on when i would be next.. .
i'd rather go swat a fly...




another itch scratched...

blurry

everything's movin' at lightning speed these days...
everything except me i shuld say.
is it just me? or is it just the rest of notme?
i'd say it's just me...
had i been so oblivion to things ard me?
to not notice them go unnoticed?
that suddenly it's november.. nearing december.. nearing another year...
that i find im nowhere nearer to anywhere than i was back in january.

i guess this doesnt realli specifically, literally implies on this gregorian calendar year..
but rather, the state of how things are .. revolving ard me.. like a mass of revolving dust, particles, unsettling, whirling around me... while i m but still, motionless in the epicentre...
yes, the universe revolves regardless.. like how it's certain night falls come every evening, and the sun comes up at 6ish everyday... regardless of whether i m still stationary.. regardless of whether i did not set the alarm to wake at 6ish.

it doesnt matter.. ~the rest of the world gets up and go... and the dust never settles...
vicious at times.. but amazing at most of the other times...





another itch scratched...

devilicious.. .

i cant really recall the last time i'd chased after the pages of a book so fervently...

the most recent prior to this, .. that was anything close to this, was Gyles Brandreth's Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death... yeah, tackily titled.. but still, it revolved around a detective (somewhat) in 1892 London...

anyhow... i guess ive just came to the conclusion that.. my taste for books hangs more loosely to the bizarre side...

ten days... it took me ten days, well.. not without sleep and woek time included of course, to complete all four books of the Twilight Saga..

i'm not sure whether 10 days is an impressive feat for 4 books... but still, i cant deny the rush and thirst for the story to unravel, eventhough i've somewhat known how the ending'd go..

still, at the same time, i hadnt really wished for the story to end so soon either...

hmmm... anyhow.. i am still glad, pretty much, to have stumbled upon this story.

fong has tipped me that there is a 5th book on hold... this time, "Edward's point of view", she said... Yes~! the whole book through Edward's perspective... (*grin*)

ive managed to download the unfinished copy from author Stephenie Meyer's site...

this one, i shall savour.. instead of devour...

crazy... i know.

another itch scratched...

alive.i.am.

getting a little project goin on the sideline.. almost always does more good than harm
it keeps your mind off the daily grind... you know, work, and all things daily ...
the least it could do, divert your attention a `lil... to things less ordinary and magical.
yes , magical.
:)
the moment when you feel your heart inflate with warmth and happiness, sometimes joy beyond words when the euphoria just kicks in with much Aliveness~!!

haha.....
anything goes... as long as it grabs your attention, and takes you on a high...
.. getting absorbed in something new... books for instance.. and tv serials too... :)
vampires are of rage lately... at least with me they are...
nothing new coming from ethan tho.... ^^"
.. goin for a jog in some green lung helps too... the serenity and amidst that the rush of the run too... when u have the best of both worlds together, the feeling to me: is Contentment.
.. planning for a trip. hmm... nothing beats the high of this one. not when you've been restricted for so long a time... let loose and just go!


this is a good night...
it'd been better if it was a frinite....
oh jeez, what am i thinking?
it's the weekend after tomorrow~!!!

=)




another itch scratched...

let the chips fall where they may..

Migraine and Rain...
ughh... too lazy even for me.

the day started off pretty swell... with the boss being away for some few days... and it being a day preceeding the great weekend.. yay~!
what culd go wrong?
~So wrong!!!

the body went through a few collectively different phase today.. in fact, in just few short hours, it went from blurry-right-eyed, to throbbing left-brain-ache, and hit crescendo with nauseating urge to throw up nothings... which i did.. albeit at the parking lot.
great, they do not require any cleaning, and they dried up pretty fast under the glaring sun. it was, after all.. 12 something, P.M.

a quick stop at mediviron, and i was diagnosed with migraine... i was to go check my eyesight (went blank at the question on when was your last eye check?) and i was to never skip breakfast again.. . Fine. all was well, i got my time slip, and off i went steering my wheels towards home... more specifically, my bed. ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.............



but before all those drama in the morning....

i had taken a liking to The Killers' singles lately... and most recently, their soundtrack tie-in with the Twilight Saga: New Moon.... their 'a white demon love song'....
another haunting and incredulous one from them..
as how humans work (as i presume goes for all humans), one thing leads to another quite naturally, and curiosity often does, gets the better of us.... i wikied on the twilight saga... and found detailed info on all four books. apparently.. all four books published had long been bestsellers... and more recently the second book too, made it to moviedom. ... i did catch news on the inhumanly pretty robert pattinson starring as edward cullen, the love of protagonist isabella swan... however, i had sheepishly, brushed them aside as mere fads out to win more children book titles, and perhaps bank on the waves of pattinson's charms.

so wrong~! again...
as i am now totally hooked on bella and edward...
i had intended to check the mph online for the price of the saga...
as fate would have it, their server was on reconstruction...
next thing that came along, was my search at google which yielded twilight saga ebooks ...
now how great is that? could that truely be it?
Definitely; a resounding YES!
now, all four books are in my possession.. . albeit in pdf forms...
easily taken care of, with our comcolor at the showroom, in place magnificently, waiting for the day to come where i'd be utilising its powerful speed and features, to cut me a neat paperback, with all 270 plus pages of the first book nicely arranged into 69 sheets of A4... :)

the rest will follow, i am sure... for i have now, finished devouring close to 70% of the first book.

how some things achieve success of such magnitude is of anyone's guess..
how some things manage to catch my infatuation is even more bewildering...
timing is of great essence, i believe.
for if i have not the time to google this morning, my fat for twilight would not have blossomed so feverishly...



another itch scratched...

:~

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another itch scratched...

the songmaker says it aint so bad..~

hmmm.... my weekend to-date.. . .. .

work fridays are usually off at 5pm.. Sharp. Yup, me and colleagues make sure we log off dutifully at 5 sharp come each flyday... .

but this friday, i stayed back a little and helped audrey a bit on the sebuthargas... not anything out of obligation, more to feelin' like it. audrey. she's my comrade at the office. Great..

met up with bestie for some late dinner slash supper right after... at MY honeymoon, their kepong branch.. cuz i figured it'd be less rushy to get to their 1U branch... and we culd hang around for longer too..

with the regular media prima advert booklets lying around the haus, i'd been wanting to get my hands on those few mouth-watering-looking desserts on their pages...

yeh, i sorta ordered what i saw on their pages... their mustavs i guess. (pictures hijacked from some flogger's site..u knw there's always plenty of 'em around the net -tq!) behold, the Durian pancake and the Sweet balls coated with crushed peanut. :)

and no, im not turning into a flogger anytime soon...

the desserts are not too bad at all... a lil' pricey, and they hav nuthin' other than desserts. make sure u go on filled stomach. dont say i didnt warn ya...

the only complaint me and bestie had was, Obviously, their endless plays of ballads from (old) boybands~! Ugghh!!!!.... BSB, westlife, boyzone, even i-swear came out!!

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anyhow.... woke up feelin like a hundred dollars on saturday morning... :)

everything seems to be so Alive and Kicking~!!!

nope, had no caffeine fix or beer-out the nite before..

simply, the weekends are just Great!!!

got a call from Zuk soon after... my, my, this pregger is really feelin free and itchy these days... and so we loafed around at jusco, kepong... did some brunch and snooted around for some materna clothings.... haha~! and i learned that Enfa Materna is for the pregnant lady, not the kid... ;)

some light shoppin around the supermarket, and i ended up 60 bucks poorer... darn the supermarts! they're eville~!!!!!

drove mom to KB for some fruits and prayer items for tomorrow. yup, it's Chor-Yat tomorrow.

and mom even ajak-ed me for a trip to the temple tomorrow... for the 'nine emperor gods' prayin fest. tink i got that right...

'i'll see', i told her... sis and hubs will be taking her anyway....

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jog session was cancelled... i do admit i was being a bit laidback about that. but the skies gave me enuff reason to! heheheh.... i do realize too, that once bestie goes away for some time, it'd be somewhat not the same... especially the weekends... especially the jogs at frim.

but heck with it.

3 months is still bearable.. i guess. somehow it has to.

but anytime longer than that? or something permanent? boy, i'd hav to make some huge mindset adjustments on that.

i guess, hence all the earlier post on nothing stays the same forever... :)

and hence also, i especially liked tonight's bucking session....

nothing stays the same forever...

yeh, bit long windy here....

but culd u blame me for that?
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really, nothing stays the same forever! and we tend to overlook that so often in our lifetime.

not implying anything here. not hinting any either.

just clear cut that: i need to remind myself.

every moment is to be lived for.

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even now.. at this hour. with the sky rumbling outside. (which reminds me of Combust's sukuru rumburu..) and mom religiously worshipping the psp outside... Sort of simply, refusing to let the moment go.

is this waht caffeine does to people???

or is it just me?? ?

another itch scratched...

note to self:

nothing stays the same forever,
Live The Moment as every moment is a deserving one..
nothing stays the same forever,
Dont Sweat Petty Things...!!
nothing stays the same forever,
Forgive and Forget, LiFe's great after all!
nothing stays the same forever,
Seize The Day~!


i'm sure these are all things that we are aware of.. but just that, every now and then, you'd wake up to a great day (note: Weekend), and feel that somewhat, LiFe's gushing with all sorts of possibilities, IF only you're earnest and posi+ive enuff to make it work !!

with that being said, Weekends are just GREAT~!! XD



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kid again.. .

well, i cant remember much waht we did together as kids.... with the most vivid being mid-autumn festivals where we light candles at our back'yard'.... and that's about it (that, and also the part where we kneel there the next day to scrape off the cooled wax.. tsk!).
5 years apart make a world of a difference when one's a blur-12 and the other a happening-17..
=) Undeniably.. .


but now, lately, we've been Kids again....
and now with Yang in tow, it's legitimate for us to go wandering into places like the national zoo and this, the KL Bird Park... (just another stone's throw away from kepong.... graaeet!!)




^@^





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(young) & reckless ? . .

driving home these 2 nights from dinners.. cruising down the bare LDP somewhat tipsy, Miley came on the airwaves.. . on both times, with her kinda infectious 'yeaahhyeahh, it's a party in the USA!' ..
i know, u know, she's a SYT... but seriously, her tunes though not thaat lasting, but still, sort of gets to you with her fresh crispy voice.. .
and this one, it has got some sort of edge to it... like .. being young, and reckless, stoopid, Loud.. just goofin' around making a fool of urself, havin' fun being the bottomline... :)
and yes, i think this one's kinda catchy too... with her 'yeaahhyeahh...' kinda outta-tunish....

so i tried lookin' her up on youtube.... my, my, miley sure has grown...




well, just to prove that this Tune IS, kinda hot after all... some clever soul got hold of it and turned it into a somewhat more meaningful version of it.... and now it's 'yeaahhyeahh, everything's gonna be okay!'....
well, if you just so happen to loathe miley, well then, maybe you could just take a look at this one. same tune, same catchy feel, with some whole load of well-meaning, positivey lyrics.... :)




LiFe.... does not Judge~!!
;-}



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blu moon.. .

.. once in a blue moon, me and my mates do go for concerts... well, either they're darn cheap, or they're entirely free.. but sumtimes, we Do Pay for those that we adore...
the Peas were in town recently, ... for this...

well, what can i say.. the Peas hav always been marvellous with their works, no doubt about that.
their new single Meet Me Halfway really hit all the right notes with me then..
and then there was the all-time winner Where is the Love .. :)
cant help with the flash backs to the times when me and mates go clubbin.. . 1 bottle 6 glasses... =D


and then there was today.. . another blissful Sunday.. .
while lounging at Assam Pedas @ the Curve, catchin' up with Ling,
we chanced upon this fabulous group...

playing among all other fabulous tunes, ... the jazzy ~Blue Moon.




.. . Gimme More SUNDAYS~!!!
^@^




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random shots.. .

11-August-2009 : Dad upkeeping the aquarium.. Yang kepoh-ing in true little boy style.. . (pic taken by Sis..)
my comment?: some things in this world are Priceless... :)

17-September-2009: @6.46pm, left work a.s.a.p... to beat this.. .

11minutes later: well, at least im safe and dry inside the car yea??.. .

22-September-2009: @5.16pm... our weekly jog at FRIM.. .

my say?: ive discovered that discovering a new album on the ipod while jogging through a track without another soul in sight (well, in front of you that is..) is kind of therapeutic... the said album?: khalil fong's Timeless...

.. the simple pleasures in LiFe.. . :)

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the stars align.. .

it's the first day of the 4-days long Raya holidays... :)
friends, colleagues, and Sis too, will be goin' away for some well-deserved breaks all around the country.... eating trip down south to Malacca, hangin' out slow & easy in Ipoh, hill-trips to breezy Cameron, beach retreats at our east coast Terengganu, and even waterfall treks at Sungai Lembing ... :)

yes, these are but a few of the many plans my dear acquantainces will be indulging themselves in these 4 days... in a nutshell, they've pretty much covered all the popular weekend retreats available here in dear ol' Mehsia... we hav the city, the food, the beaches, the islands, the hills (pure hills and also the one with the casino), the jungles, the caves, and if you'd like to flex your passport a little, you culd always, drive north to Hadyai, or down south to Singapore.. :)

i know it's a 'lil over the month August, but i'm being all patriotic here shouting I LUV MALAYSIA~!! hehehh.... awh, come on, dont you??!!? :D


back to september... it's the last day of the fasting month Ramadhan today..
dear dad has been following the practice of fasting since day one of Ramadhan.. .much to the amusement of friends and colleagues (me & sis's) at work.... dad's been doing it since the previous Ramadhan in '08... we feel proud of him for keeping at it for a full month, consistently wakin' up at 4 in the morning, and not breaking fast until at least 7.30 in the evening. he even forgo his daily and weekly rides and jogs, cuz really... im sure no one wuld be able to cope. 'stead, he does his cycling at about 9 in the evening... there was one evening when me, mom and sis were strolling home after bakuteh dinner nearby, and saw him wheeling his ride out... we were kinda boggled. like, "where's he goin at this hour???"

the most in-the-face one actually happened this morning.
was still starin' at the telly way 'early' after late night at starbucks ended... and dad came out from the room at exactly 4 in the morning. i asked what was he doing up so early? and he told me as a matter of factly: "Sahur marh~!"
=S

so i made way for him to do his daily stretches in the living room... for the record, he does perfect 180deg folds, stretching his arms upwards then bending all the way down, forehead to kneecaps. `salute! to dad!

and right before i slipped off to bed, i managed to see what he made for his Sahur meal:

.. seriously, it was something verri close to this.

happy Eid ul-Fitr everyone~~~

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owned.. .

thank goodness for there's this beautiful thing called Sis...
thank goodness too for i hav an elder sis to boot ...
not just any sis but one who reads mandarin as well ... ^^
my source for downloading chinese, mandarin, even japanese songs.. . :)



Mavis Fan ~ song: Zhu Ren (Master) .. .
~album: Innocent




Shiina Ringo ~song: Shun
~album: Sanmon Gossip



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luved enid~!

i dont know about others, but when i was way back still a kid, i used to luv her so much.

i culd seriously name her as my first literature hero(ine) since the days i started understanding entire paragraphs. yeah, back then they were filled with fat-ugly-goblins, black-as-soot-golliwogs, mischievous-pixies, and magic-talking-toads... :)

and this, is the collection which i still keep on my desk until today.. . it is still, such a darlin' to store into boxes~!!
well, the boss isnt in today, so i was snoopin' around the world wide web.. googling and wikiing down to the very last bit of my curiosity... and i found this.. .

The Faraway Tree is a series of popular novels for children by British author Enid Blyton. The titles in the series are:
`The Enchanted Wood (1939)
`The Magic Faraway Tree (1943)
`The Folk of the Faraway Tree (1946)

In modern reprints, the names of the children have been changed:
* Jo is changed to Joe, because the character is a boy and this is the more commonly used spelling of the name for males;
* Bessie is changed to Beth, because the former name is seldom used as a nickname for Elizabeth;
* (now dig this..) Fanny is changed to Frannie, because the former name is slang for 'vulva' in the United Kingdom, and "bottom" in the USA.
* (and this too..) Cousin Dick, who appears in "The Magic Faraway Tree", has been changed to "Rick" as "Dick" is American and British slang for penis.

awh~... i know she's good but .. didnt know dame enid was such an advanced wordsmith... Just who wuld've thot that simple, angelic names wuld one day be associated with such important parts of the human anatomy... hoohoo~!!



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speechless~

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words do not describe this enuff.. .


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[V] tunes

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sunday afternoons with channel [v] never fail to yield some good finds...
well, some of the songs arent even available on youtube, but this, this i found to be of nice quality from the guys at youtube.
Keep on posting, people!!!



Tizzy Bac... the names ppl giv their group gets funnier and funnier these days...
but hey, Quirk Sells...
:)


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wait til ur older..

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well... i feel i gotta say sumthin abt work here coz i feel i had to. not too much time and space to be spent on this point though, somewhat necessary but not that important. yes i am gibbering but thats waht i do best. so.. work sucks as usual, nothing earth moving... life goes on, until waht comes next, that is.

fri night was spent rushin' back to the office to lock the gawddamn door... which the boss forgot to. anyhow, ill put the blame down to miscommunication. yeah, that's simply the easiest excuse, sorry, Reason, to give when things screw up. fine. enuff lines for work.

joined sharon, ray, and pin for dinner soon after... so apparently pin n sim did their ROM on 09.09.09 too... great. a lot of ppl i know did the same. somewhat makes the day not entirely thaaat special anymore innit?? ? :S

imagine ten years down the road... "we registered our marriage on the legendary 09.09.09, cheong cheong gao gao ma!" .. "serious? well us too!!"... and then comes "oh u know waht? we did too!!!"

okey, that was crap. call me jealous, pessimist, watever...

skipped "work" on saturday. ya that's today. and ya it's a saturday. was asked to "drop in" to the office while the team runs their training. that's right. their training. so what has it got to do with me? to "drop in" for a while... what in the world forrr???

went for K-session at Curve with sharon, evelyn, and their fren james instead.

that 2-hour slot was no means to satisfy the chords.. and the headbanging ridicule from Work. so, i left it to most of them to showcase me some mando- and cantopop... esp. james. wth? how culd anyone get so emo with alllll the songs?? ?

anyway. this pretty 'lil thing came up the screen a wee bit later...

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.....................feel 100% (1996, ekin cheng, sammi cheng)......................

Oh wow, Oh wee.... my my my, from waht zaman did this come from?

i shot a look at sharon n told her... "this was sumthin from my blue pinafore days..."

she nodded and returned the look.

gosh.

well you see, you cant really blame us for picking the old songs to sing.

that's where all the gems are really... and this one, got me started thinking back on a lot of things that happened in the old days..... not 100% good old days, but still, preeety good ol'days.... :)

days with no tangible worries, other than passing the add.maths papers...

days with daily afternoon naps... and timely chinese dramas on tv2...

:)

but then ... as i said, life goes on.. at least until the next big thing happens.

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got exceptionally, and extra mushy tonight while watching this on astro celestial.. (dad's out for his weekend night ride... so the tube's all mine :P)

.................. Wait 'til you're older (2005, andy lau, karen mok)...................

"... even if you have only one day left, live life and make the most out of it..."

darn this lau tak-wah feller... the tears welled up so geng, and before i knew it, i culdnt reach for the tissues fast enuff...

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great. with these bengkak eyes of mine now... it'd be best i not do anything else for the rest of the nite.... :)

the perfect nite in.

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sights & sounds..

it has been another shitty day..
it hasnt been this shitty since the last leave application hooha..
i wonder if it culd be me... but no, im positive ...
and just when it seems that things cant get any shiittier, they always do..
and when im at my best tryin to be not a jerk to the ppl around me,
that's when i run into most at the same time.
i try to chant my mantra, and i seemed to be able to see some genuinely nice people in the midst too.. well, either that or they're really some bunch of xtra-positive lot.

i try to not bring the gloominess home..
that's when i turn to sights and sounds for calm..
well, moderate chats seemed to help too..

beth rowley's sweet hours does the trick for now.. .
that, and plenty of laffs at home with sis and yang...
and O~ .. a nice chat wit nic who so happened to be online...
and for sharing amazing pictures like this.. .

he called this, sunset in buda..(pest obviously).. more unbelievable pictures at http://www.flickriver.com/photos/nicholaslam/

"what is the best shot that you'v taken to-date?" ... "the one that im going to take tomorrow.."

lurve that..... so i'll try to keep that in mind, and look forward to my best day tomorrow... if not then maybe another tomorrow, and the day after that.. heck why not make 'em all the bestest too? :)

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it's sumthin`annual..

every year on the lunar seventh month, we'd get some pretty amazing sights here on my street in one-part-kl...
it's the annual por-tohh fest here on our street, and yup, the whole street is decked with zinc roofs and engulfed in lots of incense smoke..
at one end of the street, some giant effigies wait to be 'processed' as the fest reaches its final night (that would be tonight)...
and at the other end of the street, a neat lil' stage packed with some getai performers...
(Note:- a quick check on Wiki for 'Getai' yields: Literally song stage; Is a usually boisterous live stage performance held during the Ghost Festival commonly held in Singapore & Malaysia, in contrast to the generally solemn mood of the festival.)

as the fest reached its final night tonight, i reached home after dinner at 8plus to find the streets blocked with some RELA members flicking some blue torchlights signalling me to turn. yeah, yeah, i know, i know.... but then this time around, i must say, i've managed to find myself parking spots on both nights... not bad at all....

and tonight being its finale of sorts, the street is lined with tables stacked with offerings, and i mean STACKED with offerings.... roast pork got my attention obviously, crates and crates of beer.. tiger, carlsberg, heineken, u name it! i just didnt see any hoegaarden la tho`.... :P that, wuld be massive... lol..
and the made-up livestock offerings propped on the tables... gosh.. the army of roast chicken, enuff to feed ... O, im not supposed to go there... :~

well, this post is gonna be all words and no colorful images... cuz you see, itchy as i may be, i still culdnt bring myself to actually snap pictures of the whole thing. nop, not even using just the phone... cuz, really ... who knows whats out there ya? and i just wouldnt want to risk disturbing any ... at all ...
:S

better go clean myself now before the whole sky turns auburn with the flames....


another itch scratched...

'easy as a sunday morning..'

when in most part of the country, the nation is working...
even as im typin' now, my street in one-part-kl is thrivin' with its daily busyness.. (the annual 7th-month 'por-tohh' is on again..)
i am at home, :)
listening to this....

ahhhhh~~~



who says mondays are always bluu??? ;)
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our fed.gov

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a mondayish tuesday...

a damp, mondayish tuesday...

a lazy and damp, mondayish tuesday...

the office is notoriious for its tender and projects submissions.

make that eleventh hour tender and projects submissions.

and today's mission?

to reach our federal government at putrajaya in 30 minutes ... from sec.19, pj ... =.="
of course, it wasnt me who drove... so, audrey was put to the test...

i hav no idea how these 'pro' sales people do it, but they can really time their journey pretty darn well... she decided to jump a red light in order to reach in 30 minutes flat. and she did it. the white viva was already swerving to my side on the left but no, audrey was 100% sure it wouldnt even come an inch close to her wira.... fine~~~

it took us 30 minutes to reach putrajaya at 12pm for the tender submission... and then it took us gawd knows how long to return to the office... :)

3pm to be exact....

.. coz we took our own sweet time checkin' out the sights at our fed gov... i came to know they hav these attractions like the Lake Cruise, the Wetlands (is it still there?), and some Taman Pertanian Warisan or sumthin' like that...

the giant mosque was really gigantic... that famous bridge was easily spotted from afar... yea, that one where all the brides and grooms flock to hav the wedding shots taken...

this was all i could manage... well, it was a damp, rainy day after all....

the view from Manhattan Fish Market @ Alamanda Putrajaya (the shopping mall...)

yeah, woek life was bliss for that short few hours while we digged into our garden herbs-baked and grilled platter for one...

=)
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another itch scratched...

merdeka`

i hav no idea where i was and what i did on merdeka day the previous year...

i culd hav just stayed home, i culd hav gone out for some revelry.. the blog at friendster has been deleted as i hav opted to cancel my account.. i checked my photo albums but nope, there's none dated 31aug'08. So, yeah, i guess there's no way of finding out now.. :)

this merdeka day however, coincided with a long weekend. Great~! it doesnt even feel monday now..

was at malacca with the gang on saturday and sunday... the banglo we took at A Famosa resort was a steal at RM400 for one night. with four fully ACed rooms, super large beds, and very clean everything, we all nodded approvingly as we arrived and nodded even more as we left on sunday..

each lot comes with its own pool (chest-deep... we found out later)

airy spaces with lots of window panels... with kitchen and very clean too~

the pool came in handy when the beer games kicked in~ go figure!

as the night got younger, and the beer ran out, alex and christine drove out for more...

beer sessions aside, this trip to malacca, we did somewhat covered the town area as well... the gang's quite a shy lot, so photos are far & few.... :)

instead of the usual mustavs chicken rice balls, we opted for this.. Nyonya cuisine... which was also, packed to the brim... Ole Sayang~

we tried to hav satay celup at Capitol for supper... but the queue was just too mindboggling.. and it seemed to grow longer as the night did... anyhow, compensation came in the form of some thirst-quenching ice-kacang along Jonker street...

the mustgo Jonker Walk... yeah, if you cant beat 'em, join 'em ya?

so we braved the crowd and finally, this is the first time i actually walked the whole length of the street, to reach a nice spectacle... some group of ladies were having this open line-dancing activities of some sort .. haha~ yes, i guess malaccans are truly an active lot...

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reachin' kl in less than an hour after parting ways with the gang in seremban, dicing session kicked in at hartamas with my usual gang... :)

to which i must say, hartamas is now a far cry compared to like some few years ago..

as we all recalled, available parking spots were a privilege then, and you'd hav to jam your way across its narrow one-laners...

but last night... hmm... we culd practically choose our parking spots, and sadly too, many of the outlets werent even opened.

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Black Hole... that's where we were last night... it seemed to be the only outlet decent enuff to park our a$$es... :)

but then, the highlight of the nite.... taa-dah: the sup kambing at PELITA... hahhahah... it was indeed marvellous~!!.. its been ages since ive had sup kambing this good... :)

and i shall find my way to be back for more...

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maybe that's why when we reached the block at Segambut by our men-in-blue, when asked "dari mana cik?", our dear fren replied.. "pelita". im sure they would smile approvingly and let us through.... hahah!!

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the illusion of grandeur`~

it's another wrapup for the woek-week... and as im sayin' that, the weekend comes agushing in~! well, albeit a bit slow, as in more to like trickling in actually... well, well, what can i say, the Frens are a tad preoccupied with Dear LiFe! to sit for some kohii tonite, so i guess the night will be spent lazing around the haus... and packin' for my 1nite trip to malacca tomorrow... Yes~! 'Celebrating' the merdeka weekend in malacca with the ex-gang from office... :)

i think, it'll be somewhat fun, not entirely relaxing (in anticipation of the merdeka crowd flocking to malacca too~).. but i think it'll be mindboggling, as it always has been for our previous trips to locale weekend haunts (Cameron.. been there, Ipoh.. done that)... :)
either way, the beer crates are sure to liven things up a lil' come night time... now is that good or bad again???


anyhow, today, i must blog.
of my dear office.
well, it's the 28th of aug today, and, it's the last day that we are entitled to park inside the office building's compound... the demolition works will be starting next week for the 2 blocks behind ours... and that will probably take like at least 12 months before we will be allowed back in to the grand spanking new 5 stories annexe.... well, who knows what'll happen in a year's time hur~?... Uhm, but then again, speaking of which, i have indeed been here in this building for most of the 4 years of my working life now...
that feeling of dread just crept up from inside the gut nonchalantly this morning while i was standing at the first floor of the old office....

.. me and yatie were asked to do a final round of check on the junks still there before they like, finally seal off the building.. gulp. i never imagined that kind of dread while making my way from block A to block C, shielding my eyes from the glaring sun. ive been making that same path everyday from my parking spot behind block C to block A, but today, the view just seems so different. it's a view i'll never get again. so what if it's just a stupid old building...

i made my way up the stairs to the first floor, where my old office used to be. as i was going up the narrow stairs (everything is bigger and grander now in Block A)... i was tiba-tiba flooded with madonna's this used to be my playground... shit. hahha~!

as usual, i culdnt help it, and took a shot at it. this is where our cubicles used to be for the 'sales department'. i tried not to, but i culdnt help feel a tinge of nostalgia too~

25th aug 2005, the first day i stepped into this office as i reported my first day at work. never intended to stay for long, and now it's like exactly four years later. it feels kind of weird for me to be standing there at the same spot, 4 years later, with so much difference and many of the then sales team members already not with the company. yeah.. never intended to stay for long, but then again, maybe that's what prompted me to stay for so long... ?? puzzling? yeah i think so too~~~

another itch scratched...

swell~

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this is another one that will go down well in time...





(p/s: Seriously, how do we get by without Youtube and all its contributors??)

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hooked~!!

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this is crazy.. am getting nuts over this game.. Cake Mania~!
it started out pweety easy-peasy... i managed to sail through the 'first year' of business plus 'acquired' lots of new baking equipments and even some upgrades from the default oven to the "Bakemaster 3000"... fuhh~!!

after that, and some other fancy upgrades later, which included some extra services of adding candles and flowers to the cake decor for the extra bucks, 'second-year' of business was extended to a cabana setting by the beach side... fuhh~! again..

the cake shapes were getting more 'kua-jeong' .. xmas trees and ghoulish-pumpkin shapes were added to celebrate the many 'seasons' throughout the 'year'... hehehhe... not to mention a growing variety of 'customers' .. from brides to draculas.. yes!

but here, at the beach cabana, i am s.t.u.c.k. .... to be precise, at October... to imagine that there are two more 'locations' to achieve ...

this, and then this...

i am beginning to lose precious sleep!!! the psp has to be plugged to the wall now cuz the battery cant cope with my enthusiasm! Gulpp... =.="

again, i know.. this is crazy.... but then again, waht the heck ya??!

another itch scratched...