you'll never know, what you'll get from the web..
that's pretti true tonite, as i go about my usual bouts of facebook and a few of the blogs i've bookmarked...
Ahem, tonite, i was in a way, enlightened to the case of a susan boyle... of the Britains Got Talent fame...
well, i hav to admit ive never followed this on the web at all, and somehow... one of the bloggers wrote about how she just had to go youtube her up, and then some of my frens had her up on facebook too.
the video took quite a while to load actualli, but i felt it will be worth the wait...
a petite lil' old lady she is by now... 47 years of age to be exact...
so you could expect what the general audience's perceptions were...
like uhm, how i'd frown and snicker too.. when i see and 'identified' some star-wannabes on American Idol... (ptfff...)
and you thought you knew better...
yet, we are never short of new amazement these days... truly an age where ANYTHING is possible.
yes, even a little lady from some 'village' (as how she described it herself..) managed to bring tears to the eyes of the judges and so many others in the audience...
when her simplest desire was to perform her best that nite in front of a 'large audience',
she had in fact , managed to bring down the haughtiness and mightiness in so many of them present that nite... and now worldwide via the tube, are humbled by her performance that nite...
i guess, the tears easily flowed the minute she raised her voice... those mocking her earlier were very quickly brought back down to earth... :)
something so pure and simple... (great choice of song nontheless...)
it's like... yea~ Great Things Do Happen...
watch it.. the download time totally worths it...
if not for the song, then at least for the lesson behind...
another itch scratched...
Friday, April 17, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
sudden drive on a friday morning..
Friday morning, driving to work seven-ish… approaching the weekends. Yes, yet another long awaited weekend…
stuck in the jam, I envisioned all the things that I would do come this weekend… no more wasting of precious time and freedom that comes with the weekend.
I would have a nice Friday night drink to cap the work week…
come Saturday I would wake early to give the car a good wash (by the anehs of course), fill in some overdue wind into all 4 tires… reload the touch n go, then maybe go for a hair cut.
then perhaps, spend the afternoon at the malls with sis and yang… just to walk around the rainforest, whiling time away watching the huge school of fish swimming by…
then at night, a quiet night at home… getting to work washing the floors… something which I had planned to do once every week, but had by now spiraled to way past 2 weeks (tsk tsk). then quietly sit at my work desk, and start on that pile of shits from the office… yes, loathsome as they may be, still, I try to do my best… at most of the given time… =)
Sunday… didn’t really think of any plans for Sunday. after all, Sundays are best spent sitting at home with the Sunday papers and my mug of Nescafe… then perhaps catching up on some CSI marathons… (heard Grissom’s leaving CSI… should be interesting).
and yet… it is now exactly Sunday. Night to be precise.
fact is, things don’t always work out as how you would “envision” them to be… :)
Friday night was spent at home. my kakis were tad too biji for drinks…
waking up ’early’ on Saturday did not materialize… so did (not) washing the car and the fillin’ the tires… had dated sis and yang earlier on for the trip to the malls… but after some waiting, all the ’drive’ just drove away I think… I sent her an sms cancelling our date. “are you sure? We’ll take a bath and then come straight over worr…”
“mai jor… next time lah…”
so that was Saturday… what did materialize was, loads and loads of snooze time. Again.
so I read from the papers that to keep a balanced and healthy internal clock within us, we are supposed to wake up at the same time throughout the week… yup, all 7 days of it. Hmm… pretty true… maybe i’ll try that come next weekend…
but all is not lost… Sunday came and jamie sent me a text very early in the morning…
Yes. at least, there’ll be some very minor exercise for the weekend… swimming @ KenD.
which of course, was followed by lunch… Vietnamese beef noodles were favored today, so we headed to 1U…
No, the walk around the fish tanks did not happen… we didn’t make it down that far… only around High Street.
what did happen was a stop at U.R.S. Inc.. and I am 80bucks poorer now…
reaching home in the late afternoon, I did manage to get my haircut though… now that’s a feat considering how I had delayed this for so many evenings. cant help it that tauke-soh is always so full of customers too…
Uh-huh, the floors still need their scrubbing, but I think I’ll k.i.v. that to tomorrow…
The Car still need tending, I will have to k.i.v. that to tomorrow.
right now, I shall attempt to work on the bag of shits from the office…
trying to get a head start to the workweek…
Darn I hate that word…
and hey hey, waddayaknoe... it's raining again... =)
another itch scratched...
stuck in the jam, I envisioned all the things that I would do come this weekend… no more wasting of precious time and freedom that comes with the weekend.
I would have a nice Friday night drink to cap the work week…
come Saturday I would wake early to give the car a good wash (by the anehs of course), fill in some overdue wind into all 4 tires… reload the touch n go, then maybe go for a hair cut.
then perhaps, spend the afternoon at the malls with sis and yang… just to walk around the rainforest, whiling time away watching the huge school of fish swimming by…
then at night, a quiet night at home… getting to work washing the floors… something which I had planned to do once every week, but had by now spiraled to way past 2 weeks (tsk tsk). then quietly sit at my work desk, and start on that pile of shits from the office… yes, loathsome as they may be, still, I try to do my best… at most of the given time… =)
Sunday… didn’t really think of any plans for Sunday. after all, Sundays are best spent sitting at home with the Sunday papers and my mug of Nescafe… then perhaps catching up on some CSI marathons… (heard Grissom’s leaving CSI… should be interesting).
and yet… it is now exactly Sunday. Night to be precise.
fact is, things don’t always work out as how you would “envision” them to be… :)
Friday night was spent at home. my kakis were tad too biji for drinks…
waking up ’early’ on Saturday did not materialize… so did (not) washing the car and the fillin’ the tires… had dated sis and yang earlier on for the trip to the malls… but after some waiting, all the ’drive’ just drove away I think… I sent her an sms cancelling our date. “are you sure? We’ll take a bath and then come straight over worr…”
“mai jor… next time lah…”
so that was Saturday… what did materialize was, loads and loads of snooze time. Again.
so I read from the papers that to keep a balanced and healthy internal clock within us, we are supposed to wake up at the same time throughout the week… yup, all 7 days of it. Hmm… pretty true… maybe i’ll try that come next weekend…
but all is not lost… Sunday came and jamie sent me a text very early in the morning…
Yes. at least, there’ll be some very minor exercise for the weekend… swimming @ KenD.
which of course, was followed by lunch… Vietnamese beef noodles were favored today, so we headed to 1U…
No, the walk around the fish tanks did not happen… we didn’t make it down that far… only around High Street.
what did happen was a stop at U.R.S. Inc.. and I am 80bucks poorer now…
reaching home in the late afternoon, I did manage to get my haircut though… now that’s a feat considering how I had delayed this for so many evenings. cant help it that tauke-soh is always so full of customers too…
Uh-huh, the floors still need their scrubbing, but I think I’ll k.i.v. that to tomorrow…
The Car still need tending, I will have to k.i.v. that to tomorrow.
right now, I shall attempt to work on the bag of shits from the office…
trying to get a head start to the workweek…
Darn I hate that word…
and hey hey, waddayaknoe... it's raining again... =)
another itch scratched...
Thursday, April 9, 2009
go home~!
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what amazes us??
what takes our breath away?~
what simply makes it allll melt and go away??...
GOINGHOME that's what it is!! =D
what amazes us??
what takes our breath away?~
what simply makes it allll melt and go away??...
GOINGHOME that's what it is!! =D
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
like a fever you can't sweat out..
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if a reason (or excuse wuteva..) will make this all sound more sane... then yea~.. there was a meeting scheduled at 8:00am... with some big fellers of the co., and since it was already raining steady rain so early in the morning ...
a jam wuld surely be in place... 
hence, a scenario like this would be so ungodly...
i promised myself that i would make a note of this... whenever this strikes... kinda just for records i think...
woke up at 7:01... found that it was raining soft rain... soft, but steady rainn.. somehow, it seemed just too~ serene and unworldly... for something so mortal like Work to break it undone.
Shit~
Shit~
yup... there goes again, another fever ... that you cant sweat out. i guess that's how im gonna address this madness from now on...
coolly walked to the loo and back to the room... after some sms-es, it was snooze time again.
Unacceptable ... i know.
but then again... what the heck~!!!
if a reason (or excuse wuteva..) will make this all sound more sane... then yea~.. there was a meeting scheduled at 8:00am... with some big fellers of the co., and since it was already raining steady rain so early in the morning ...
a jam wuld surely be in place... hence, a scenario like this would be so ungodly...there... happy??...
at least i am today... =P
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another itch scratched...
Saturday, April 4, 2009
4 to 6
for a very long time, there were only 4.
there was always, only the four.
growing up, my actual formative years in the nineties, we had always only knew that there were four.
and for a very long time, the thought of a fifth never really came through.
it was as though, it will always be the 4th. i mean, fact is.. it had always been the 4th since ‘81.
the 4th was the only one where we ever knew of in fact.. in the flesh and all. the rest of the 3 were really more to like figures in our history syllabus. like, what 5th? the 4th would always be around rite?
then ‘03 came… finally, it was time for the 5th.
it didn’t really registered much at that time… but soon, ppl started making comments and everyone suddenly became expert politic reviewers. at one point of time, it was like.. Every common man on the streets had something to say…
you could say it was like a very uneasy period of transition. after all, it was after more than 20 years of the previous administration. what would you expect??
and now, finally today i read the newspapers… yes, after all the recent hoo~haa, i finally sat down to read the Saturday papers… and yup, the 6th is in.
looking back, it was like just yesterday that the 5th had stepped in.
never given much thoughts to the 5th, coz seriously, 5 years+ really does seem to pale in comparison … =S
anyhow, so now the tagline is 1Malaysia.. People first, Performance now.
(sounds eerily similar to my fav morning coffee brand’s slogan too~)
and the 6th’s public address to the ‘young nation’… very well written, but very well said?? Opinions vary…
another itch scratched...
there was always, only the four.
growing up, my actual formative years in the nineties, we had always only knew that there were four.
and for a very long time, the thought of a fifth never really came through.
it was as though, it will always be the 4th. i mean, fact is.. it had always been the 4th since ‘81.
the 4th was the only one where we ever knew of in fact.. in the flesh and all. the rest of the 3 were really more to like figures in our history syllabus. like, what 5th? the 4th would always be around rite?
then ‘03 came… finally, it was time for the 5th.
it didn’t really registered much at that time… but soon, ppl started making comments and everyone suddenly became expert politic reviewers. at one point of time, it was like.. Every common man on the streets had something to say…
you could say it was like a very uneasy period of transition. after all, it was after more than 20 years of the previous administration. what would you expect??
and now, finally today i read the newspapers… yes, after all the recent hoo~haa, i finally sat down to read the Saturday papers… and yup, the 6th is in.
looking back, it was like just yesterday that the 5th had stepped in.
never given much thoughts to the 5th, coz seriously, 5 years+ really does seem to pale in comparison … =S
anyhow, so now the tagline is 1Malaysia.. People first, Performance now.
(sounds eerily similar to my fav morning coffee brand’s slogan too~)
and the 6th’s public address to the ‘young nation’… very well written, but very well said?? Opinions vary…
another itch scratched...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
monday high ...??!?
the haus is empty tonite... reached home onli to find everyone out on their own sprees~
it's a Monday nite, one where i left the office only at 8 in the p.m.... darn those SAPs and SPPs
it's been pouring too.. rite on the dot, after i got into my car at the office (seriously need to change my windscreen wipers soon... and maybe check my eyesight again on being nocturnally myopic.. )...
and yet. i feel kinda ALIVE tonite...
=)
Sis has got some awesome treats for me on this monday nite... =)
yup, she had managed to download the whole of RubberBand's Apollo 18 album (yay!!~ ^^)
the whole album's on repeat mode on my playlist now...
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the whole house is Quiet tonite...
it doesnt feel mondayish at all...
no other sound other than those from my Windows Media Player...
no other sound other than the fan spinning rotundly from my room's ceiling...
no other sound other than the streams of running water from the living room aquarium...
bliss~... (on a Monday nite?!!)
for some reason too, i found the updates on the wall of my FB quite warmiing tnite...
one was getting married, after so many years now...
one was getting pregnant, tho' not that close anymore but hey, it's always good news to hear bundles of joy on the way...
a few were having their birthdays soon and near...
one was growin' out of his teenage phase... and yet he had already experienced so much. good for you Hong~! (LOL!)
few others were seen having the time of their lives ~on vacations~ ^^
and then there were the usual few who had their work grouches on updates, even from as far as the streets of London..
some enlightened me with new infos and quirky news...
some just plain reminded me that LiFe~ is simple.. and beautiful, in many possible ways...
it's pretti peculiar.. that i wuld hav such serene thots on a monday nite...~
another itch scratched...
it's a Monday nite, one where i left the office only at 8 in the p.m.... darn those SAPs and SPPs
it's been pouring too.. rite on the dot, after i got into my car at the office (seriously need to change my windscreen wipers soon... and maybe check my eyesight again on being nocturnally myopic.. )...
and yet. i feel kinda ALIVE tonite...
=)
Sis has got some awesome treats for me on this monday nite... =)
yup, she had managed to download the whole of RubberBand's Apollo 18 album (yay!!~ ^^)
the whole album's on repeat mode on my playlist now...
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the whole house is Quiet tonite...
it doesnt feel mondayish at all...
no other sound other than those from my Windows Media Player...
no other sound other than the fan spinning rotundly from my room's ceiling...
no other sound other than the streams of running water from the living room aquarium...
bliss~... (on a Monday nite?!!)
for some reason too, i found the updates on the wall of my FB quite warmiing tnite...
one was getting married, after so many years now...
one was getting pregnant, tho' not that close anymore but hey, it's always good news to hear bundles of joy on the way...
a few were having their birthdays soon and near...
one was growin' out of his teenage phase... and yet he had already experienced so much. good for you Hong~! (LOL!)
few others were seen having the time of their lives ~on vacations~ ^^
and then there were the usual few who had their work grouches on updates, even from as far as the streets of London..
some enlightened me with new infos and quirky news...
some just plain reminded me that LiFe~ is simple.. and beautiful, in many possible ways...
it's pretti peculiar.. that i wuld hav such serene thots on a monday nite...~
another itch scratched...
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