rainy days ahead~

these days the weather is rather predictable.. not that im complaining

just that before you know it, once you look out the window and the rain is already pouring..

just that you thought you've heard some thunderstorms and thought that it's goin to rain soon, just to find out that it's already raining cats and dogs outside..

just that you know that somehow you need to get to the car in time at 6pm sharp in order to beat the (almost always) mad rain..

just that the weather toolbar almost always shows this...

yes, welcome to our november.. and maybe even december...

makes good weather for bedtime tho'... =)

another itch scratched...

cords to ears~

most songs somehow sound somewhat better and more intoxicating when blasted directly to yer eardrums with the cords stuck to it..
all the more when performed in the sultry voice of ms joanna wang . . .


some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighborhood. hop a flight to miami beach or to hollywood. but i’m taking a greyhound on the hudson river line - i’m in a new york state of mind. i'd seen all the movie stars in their fancy cars and their limousines, been high in the rockies under the evergreens, but i know what i’m needing and i don’t want to waste more time... i’m in a new york state of mind. it was so easy living day by day.. out of touch with the rhythm and blues, but now I need a little give and take, the new york times, the daily news... it comes down to reality - and it’s fine with me ’cause i’ve let it slide, don’t care if it’s chinatown or riverside, i don’t have any reasons, i’ve left them all behind ... i’m in a new york state of mind




another itch scratched...

road trip~

like seriously, did i really spent close to an hour in the bathroom? thawing out myself while waiting for one of them to start fidgeting, showin' signs of an early breakfast perhaps?...

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the air conditioning was unforgiving unexpectedly, the sheets were just a tad too tiny. and the door.. as blocked as my nose was. the bathroom, was my only respite. not like i didnt try holing up myself on the bed, it just couldnt work, and dozing back to slumber wasnt an option neither. so the warm rays of light through the bathroom window is all i can remember now of our lovely boutique hotel back on Jonker Street.. :)

but enuff about the bathroom. it was cosy nontheless, the hotel.. for one night.

and the location exceptional.

the cafe next door was pretty quaint too. okay, it would've scored better if the people running it were less frenetic.

other than that, it was perfect in fact... for our little excursion to a highly packed holiday town on a busy national holiday weekend.

it was a nice feeling, fuzzy even, watchin' our local folks peddling along this redbricked street.. made me wonder how long have they been there along the red giants?

the fountain ~ which had me practically pushin'em both in front of the camera~!

the river. some major cleanups mustav taken place. i remember peeking over the bridge near Chung Wah's then and imagined spotting maybe a croc amidst its floating logs...

and climb the hill we did. with my 10x zoom olympus, i managed to capture a piece of the malaccan straits..

fancy not recalling this at all during our school trips then.. ??

guess it must have been a long, long time ago then...

you know that must be the case when you realize you cant even figure out which side the main fort entrance was at... it all just gets very unfamiliar when you decide to go about the place topsy turvy..~

well, it was a blessing in disguise indeed... with the sun burning down our backs, we saw the inviting 'north entrance' of some mall right opposite the fort entrance =)

one which we dashed straight into after taking our group shot.

well, not a very romantic way of ending this quaint post, but still, great pictures aside, the cooling A/C of Conventional Mall wins hands down against the Great Ruins a n y t i m e.

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another itch scratched...

bali.20102010

walkin' round the room singing Stormy Weather
at 57 Mount Pleasant Street
well it's the same room but everything's different
you can fight the sleep but not the dream


things aint cookin' in my kitchen
strange affliction wash over me
Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire
couldnt conquer the blue sky



there's a small boat made of china
it's goin nowhere on the mantlepiece
do i lie like a loungeroom lizard
or do i sing like a bird released




everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you
everywhere you go, you always take the weather...

@bali ~ 20.10.2010...

another itch scratched...

i gotta say..

..dont know what's been going on with my time in october, and now it's the 20th of the month already.. i'm due for another round of away-time... yup, come 830AM nanti (in more or less 9hrs from now..) me and mates will be off on MAS to b a l i :)

the sweetest feeling to-date for month octo? that short (uh-huh, short) drive from office to home after work today.

pleased. . . i guess that was what the feeling was after all.

been banging around the office these past few days to make sure woek is done (or at least almost done) in time before the long weekend away.

payroll's due this week.. i tink i aced it just in time.

the 1st half meeting presentation slides (which i will Not be here to attend..) are due this week.. with me not being in town this weekend, will also mean i'll be spared of this friday's whole-office-hiking-trip-to-Broga-Hill-at-430am as well ;D

and the team's claims M U S T be processed a.s.a.p. now that Helen's last day is at the end of this week too~!!!

and of course, a whole bunch of other 'suddenly urgent' stufs since the boss remembered i'll be away for 3days straight. . .

so a slow drive along the ldp, with the rest of them cars flying by on the right lane, proved to be quite a therapeutic exercise i discovered today. unrushed, that's what i was... with woek concluded for the week and behind me, and luggage packing not due until it's late late tonight, i took my own sweet time manuevering along the highway... bliss. guess the unwinding has already begun.

but of course, before i come back with some bali trippin stories next week. here's a simple recap-to-self on life-recently ...

our play for the company's annual Raya & Mid-autumn Fest dinner ~Chang'er & Houyi~ went well, uhm.. save for the end part where the moon just wouldnt show up... O.o

timed-out with the gang at Velvet on a thur nite.. something different, something new. and yes, they should keep it at thursdays coz the fact that the next-day-is-a-friday is truly great consolation. (and now i cant get justin bieber's song out of my head whenever i think back to this night... ♪you know you love me, i know you care♪~)


the once-in-a-lifetime TenTenTen~!! how clever of these people to come up with a Fun Run huh? and just the right thing too, for me and gang to actually come together for again, something different :)

caught this with the gang on a fri night. a funny one, absolutely necessary for an after-work-movie. and one-half-main-act Mark Walhberg? remember what he used to call himself?

yep.. Marky Mark it is.

and finally... jess' wedding at ipoh. another road trip was called for this.. courtesy of steven, had me and audrey both hanging around most of ipoh's must-go-to-shop places on a sunday afternoon... (salted chicken, heong peah... yep, you get the gist... )

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another itch scratched...

oh,look!

we "secretaries" are supposed to check the papers daily during lunch for tender announcements and such..
flippin the papers towards that section, we are bound to come across the comics and horroscopes part (is it just me?)
it is almost always inevitable that i would get curious enuff to check out my readings for the day.
i know it's all just some unreliable predictions and such, but yes, i always, do peek (do you? do you?)
and look what's in store for me today ... :

"you are longing for distant shores and may feel like getting on a plane and jetting off to an unknown destination. life cannot always be that exciting, so try to come to terms with a life that is more pedestrian."

O.o
i couldnt help but smirk while staring at that tiny paragraph next to the comic strips.
a life that is more pedestrian ??
what a drag . . .



another itch scratched...

weekends are for R&R!

i just dont get how some people choose to simply occupy their weekends with chores and running arounds.
i mean, weekends are for rest, people!
is it them or is it just me then ? ? ?

i'd just spent my friday evening and saturday running about .. albeit doing nothing earth-moving, but still, i'd barely had time for MEtime... you know, simply lazing around the haus , flippin through the papers, enjoying my mug of nescafe, or just channel surfing!!

i'd tried not to procrastinate.. so while spending these weekend times with family and friends, i try my best to enjoy their company, and put away 'me-thoughts'. i try my best to not hurry them, to not hurry myself... i try my best to laugh with them, soak in the humor and easy-breeziness of it all... i try.

but when i find myself even making the effort to try, it simply brings home the message that something is not so right somewhere within..
nothing chronic, but still..
i guess i gotta get to the root of the problem, and figure out things before i look back and see it all a waste of time and age. . . trying.


a good rest. maybe that's all i need. and that is exactly what i'll allocate my sunday to.
oh btw, hav you guys heard of that guy who won the 48mil toto jackpot?
gosh... bet that'll solve all my problems huh ? ? ?
=D



another itch scratched...