So I bought a bag

(A warning: A really girly long post about nothing funny nor wise nor experience worthy. Wheeeeee~~)


And its not news.

Last week had been pretty hectic. My project was going live, so we had to stay at office up till 11pm to meet the target. (that is nothing compared to some people who I think gone back at 4 am). My poor fiance had to pick me up cause I have a phobia against muggers and dark night. Hahaha. Well... all is not lost to him because in return he got a proposition from a pondan-pro and a KFC chicken and burger from me. (Leftover from the dinner provided from the company). Heee. I am indeed a cheapskate.

So it seems the target was not met. (Bah for that but it's not our fault. Really :P) So I had to work on Saturday too. I usually am against working during hols days but this can't be avoided, and I can claim the extra day as holiday. There's nothing to be done anyway. Also don't really mind as I got free lunch of pizza and Starbucks breakfast of green tea latte and biscotti (I brought back the biscotti, as a biscotti without a hot tea or coffee to cicah in is kinda bland to me). Or is my drink actually green tea blended? But its bloody good!

I don't devour too much of the pizza as my mouth was salivating after the nasi ayam and kerabu mangga at Bukit Bintang. Simpan perut yaa. And its even better than I last remembered.! But the last time I went, its kinda crap anyway. Guess they had upped it a bit so its as delicious as from way before. We ordered the BBQ and roasted set. Kerabu Mangga lagi banyak daripada dahulu. But that perhaps is because the price had also naik quite considerably. Sigh.

I overly mentioned food in this blog eh for today? That's because I am fasting today. I got another 2 days to 'ganti' the puasa and another extra 9 days for the puasa nazar I set for myself. Better to start doing the nazar puasa as well as eh. But I didn't put any time limits in my nazar but I can die anytime too, so might as well start now and informing other of my nazar. (Updated: Argh... Period la plak kan. Takpe takpe. Consider as diet. Lalalalala) Huhuhu.

This is the fourth paragraphs and I still haven't start a word on bags! Well, eating nasi ayam is my 2nd purpose to the most jam-congested road ever. But I am also interested in buying a bag.

My old bag frankly is old. (Its one and half year old! Gasp!).

My bag looking decrepit

The lining is beginning to tear. I can't put anything in the pocket anymore. Everything I drop into that bag. And as there is so much rubbish in there, its beginning to resemble a black hole. It took forever for me to find my keys at a time. Kalo tak tahan nak pee tu kan, mula la terlompat2.

Then I propped it up for a more manly, staid pose.

I think my next aim is to buy an extra little bag in there. (Don't worry, that is going to come out from my own pocket ) My friend is amaze at my bag collections. I have a pouch to hold my mp3 player. I have another pouch to hold only my lipsticks. (But I lost one and the other I had to use as a makeshift envelope for duit 'gifts' at a wedding) I also used a bag to store my minyak angin and tiger balm. Also sometimes I have an extra bag inside the big bag as so if I malas to lug around a big bag, I lug around the smaller one. So they think I am tad bit insane. Bags-crazy maybe the words.

So it is only natural I would want to buy a new bag. (Don't worry old bag. I won't throw you away just yet) Actually its a treat from the fiance. I requested for a cheaper meal and a bag instead of a big meal at a pricey restaurant. (Don't gnaw your fingers, my pricey restaurants is prolly somewhere along the line of Chillies. Hoho. )

We walked around Sg Wang from 1 shop to another until all shops beginning to look the same to us. I discovered one bag I really like. An imitation of Miu Miu. However, the logo looked like it was about to fall off. Then I found another Miu Miu imitation which is very very nice, which I have to ask the sales assistant twice for the price.

Me: So lawa. How much is this bag eh?
Sales assistant: Just arrived. Wait arr *she conversed with another shop assistant/owners in Chinese*
Sales assistant: 500 ringgit.
Me: *falter a bit* Arr... Sorry. How much it is again?
Sales assistant: 500 ringgit.

Insane. I put back the bag and said not interested. I was floored for a moment. Guess I am not one of the person who think it is wise to fork out more than a RM100 for a fake imitation good. We went to another shop, and found a Jimmy Choo imitation going for RM800. Sorry la weh. If I have RM800 to waste, I won't spend it on an imitation good. Type A or Type Z, I rather buy a no brand or a lesser one than buy imitation. I guess I just don't like it. My fiance remarked that Sungai Wang had raise its standard. I think its more like high end version of Petaling Street kut.

Well... it then comes to a choice of that really cheap fake MiuMiu which is around RM60++ (a price I do not mind paying but as I said, I don't really like imitation if I have the choice), and another bag which I love that have loads of pockets but kinda have a shoddy look about it (benang terkeluar sana sini), another bag which is nice but really don't know why I am not into it and this bag from Nose.

Shiny new bag! You are here! I dreamt about you! Plastik pon tak bukak lagi. Malas punye pasal. Thought of doing the "Karen Cheng pose" but my camera + shoddy lighting in my room make my reflection on my full length mirror looks blurry, so not clear. This will do.

Guess if I have the picture then I bought that one.

They did no wrong...

except just generally grosses me out.

Spitters
They are EVERYWHERE. If I am stuck at a traffic jam, there would always be some lout rolling down their windows, hacking and spitting out. Euw. There are even some that I noticed that is just gross and instead of aiming at the road, the spit come a rolling down the side of their car. EUW.

And walking at the pavement is like a hazard. Walking around everywhere at KL or JB or senang kata the whole Malaysia la kan, I have to sidestep someone else's spits. I don't even want to think about the one I didn't manage to sidestep. Its gross la weh. Spit tempat yang senonoh sikit boleh tak? Inside a drain ke, in a sink ke. Do you really need to spit it out right there and then as if you have no control of your body?


Not washing hands after coming out of the toilet
Ok. So not all people went into a toilet cubicle to get rid of their bodily waste. But I can hear la weh, the toilet flush, and I noticed that you just nonchalantly goes out from the cubicle, straight out the door.

I do not mind as much if its a public toilet. Not because I think more of you. But I wouldn't see you again. So long! But if its in a workplace, toilets teeming with bursting co-workers. Say you need to shake her hands one day, and you know she didn't wash her hands after a trip to the loo. Ade la sedikit ick factor di situ.


That one lady in the surau that keep on burping
Effi wrote about the group of masjid people he was annoyed with. I betcha you never encounter a burper. Time solat tu, especially next to some middle age people it is not unusual to hear some weird noises. Wheezing. Groaning. I have no idea why. But it happens. And lagi pon time solat. So I live with it.

But this makcik keep on burping like every 10 seconds. Its just not natural. I was fine with it for a few burps, but sepanjang my last 2 rakaat it didn't stop. And when I finished and bersiap to get out of the surau. It didn't stop either. I encountered her like 3 or 4 times and I never really care to look carefully at her, but I know she is there by that incessant burping.

I mean I am sure she does not have some medical affliction where she burps continously throughout life. Did she does this only in the surau? Does she kumpul all her burping desire and release it while solat? It is just too weird. And not to mention it kinda make me want to puke. If you think I am overreacting, you have not been next to someone for more than 3 minutes hearing them burping all through that time.


p/s: I can only think of 3. See... I am not asking too much out of humanity to behave decently.

p/s 2: Also because I am bored so I am writing this semi-rant, since have to stay late at the office. Have to stay late, but there's nothing to do. Ha-hurmph.

Indeed Dark. But definitely not a Knight.

Report: 'Batman' accused of assaulting mom, sis

LONDON - Batman star Christian Bale was to be questioned by police over allegations he assaulted his mother and sister the night before the European premiere of his film, "The Dark Knight," British media reported Tuesday.

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Well... this do not bode well for the dark knight? I understand the allegations of abuse of spouse (though still I condemn it), but if your own mother and sister make a report of you assaulting them at a police station, you must have a VERY nasty temper indeed.

If its true, and I really hope it is NOT true as I had love Christian Bale ever since Little Women. (And I still maintained that Jo would do well with Laurie), well let's just say... sigh.

Gamba Abid... and some insane ramblings first

Yesterday I kinda got a panic attack. I realized there are about 2 or 3 unread books left at home. I. Am. Aghast!

A truly horrific terrifying turn which can traumatize a person. Exaggeration aside, after finishing with that delightful love story which always, always leave me feeling why wouldn't the heroine go marry that second best guy, I am left with only these 3 books. The Geographer's Library, Middlemarch and The Other Boleyn Girl.

As I am waiting to see that Natalie Portman movie first before reading the book (you know, avoiding feeling the books is alwayyssss way better than the movies), that leave me only 2 options. Middlemarch looked thick. And I am kinda not feeling like reading a classic novel, not before I got some murder and mystery going. That left only one. The Geographer's Library. I found that book while rearranging my books and looked at it frowningly, not remembering ever seeing it at all. At first I thought my mom must had bought it and forgot it. That is what I thought for several months, until today.

Since I am picking it up for my reading list this week, I was perusing inside and found a receipt from Little Penang Cafe at KLCC. In the receipt, there is one dish that *I* especially love to order from there. So that must had been me. But the price tag on the book is RM10. No RM10 book exist in KLCC. Which makes me think of Ampang Park, on how during my shift-working days where I roamed KLCC during your normal people working hours, I sometimes goes to Ampang Park and they sometimes have this really cheap book sales. Mystery solved! And I am such an old woman!

Also... I am currently at a loss where did the book The Resurrectionist gone to. I bought it at Amcorp Mall from that Xcess book store. And I can't find it anywhere! I am thinking really hard if I somehow left it at Amcorp Mall... which was months ago... so my really shaky and obviously senile memories is not much used. Gah! I am sure in about a year time, then I will find it again, or it can be something like a missing clothes. Like you always wondered what happen to that clothes you always wore on college but you know you didn't throw it out.

Well anyway, A SHOUTOUT TO KAK LIZA. Below is a pic for my sister at Qatar tu. Click on the pic to go to the fotopages (yes... that rarely updated one) for more pics showing him in slightly different angles. Heeeee.

Why I think that I will not be watching The Hobbit

1. Hobbits are short

I found that it is hard to find pics of the hobbits and the regular tall people. Prolly my search skills sucks

2. They are short with gross looking hairy feets


3. Guillermo del Toro disappoint me with Hellboy II. But I guess I have big expectations after Pan's Labyrinth. (Tho to be fair.. I am in awe with with Hellboy II, just the plot kinda blah)



5. I couldn't be bothered to read the 2nd and 3rd part of LOTR. Much less Hobbit.



6. I never really like Bilbo Baggins in the LOTR movies.


Why I would watch anyway IF the rumours are true?

*swoon*

p/s the first: I think this is mainly a filler post

p/s the second: Also looking through the scary world of the inter-web, I found this fan-made pics (for wallpaper I guess?)


p/s the third: I found another much much much scarier pic which I think might be someone representation of a hobbit's dick ( I didn't enlarge the pics to peruse carefully). But I am much too ladylike to post it to you children out there.

Neil Gaiman... oh...

So... I had been reading Neil Gaiman's, 3 books in succession. Good Omens, American Gods and Anansi Boys.

Good Omens was deliciously good. But I will stand in my opinion that my favorite book in his whole collection would be Neverwhere. I am still thinking if I like Stardust more... but I don't like the ending that much. I like the ending in the film though. Heee.

On a side note, I still haven't read Sandman. But I really loathe to part with my money to buy expensive graphic novel. So unless I feel a real need to read it or somebody gonna donate me the graphic novels or if there is some warehouse sales for graphic novels that house this... maybe I will change my mind. Back to the books again.

American Gods was dark, at times disturbing but very interesting. I kinda like to read the short stories about the 'gods'. However because it is dark, it took me quite a bit of a time to finish the novel. A tad bit depressing at times you see. But I like Shadow. Especially the love of Shadow and Laura. There's no one dimensional feeling in that relationship. Love. Hate. Disappointment. Protectiveness. It is one of the more beautiful thing about the book . I would love to see how Shadow goes on.


However I am now reading the 'spin-off', Anansi Boys with great relish. Not too dark, reminded me a bit of Good Omens. Very tongue in cheek at times. So I found myself picking the book up at every opportune moments.




I have to say I really like Anansi Boys. Currently in the middle of the book. So I don't know how the ending would turn up. Love how unexpectedly some of the twist in all of the books came up. So, hush for now. I deduced that I will finish reading the book by the end of this week. I will announce if it will be my favorite.

My next book is .... a romance. Haaa! I think I had tire myself of reading dark, forbidding, disturbing books that currently I kept on having really disturbing nightmares. My fiance said said my nightmares are like Neil Gaiman books, (that I am influenced by him in my dreamland). I say that is absurd as I had been having nightmares as far back as I can remember and as frequently as other people drink coffee every morning.

Anyway, as I feel it had been such a long time since I read romance, I am picking a really cheesy one. Victoire by Clare Darcy. I think this romance novel is kinda like a Georgette Heyer novel.


See. Isn't the cover such classic? Heee. I kinda fell in love with reading Georgette Heyer romance book. Most of it are set in the Regency period. And Georgette Heyer is a romance writer who do not write sex scenes into her book. Ha! See romance writers! You can write romance book without including a trip to the erotica and we would still enjoy it ok!

I bought the lots of Georgette Heyer books that I have currently, at a flea market during my trip in Scotland. So I got it dirt cheap (maybe even free as my sister might had been paying at the time.. ) but the books are kinda in a frail condition and some of the pages had been missing (not missing when I bought it but I read and reread it like 50 times, some must had slipped away unnoticed and lost forever! Sobs! I am not careful enough with books. Trying to be). Been hunting Georgette Heyer's books at Kinokuniya and I kinda yelp when I saw the price. The paperback of 1 book cost around RM50++. Crazy!

So I was looking for chopsticks at a secondhand stores (kinda unhygienic I know, but I am going to wash it and all and not all of em had been used!), I found the above. As it mentioned "Enchanting romance excitement in the GEORGETTE HEYER tradition" (HAHAHA.. enchanting romance excitement.. I just have to laugh but I like this type of book so shut up) ... well... I just have to buy it. And at a price of RM4, apa salahnye test run the book to see if I like it eh.

And no. I didn't buy the chopsticks at the secondhand store. I ended up buying it at Giant.

UPDATED at 15 JULY 2008
Already finish with Anansi Boys last night! That was faster than I myself expected. So starting on the romance novel already.

Favorite book of Neil Gaiman? I will have to say its still Neverwhere but this and Good Omens and Stardust are second favorites. Can there be 3 second favorites? Who cares!

I feel like eating KFC but I am too broke

I got a lot of things to do... which I am lazy to start or finish. Basically its not done la. But hey. I am lazy? That is old news.

Very mengantuk some more. I am getting sick with liaising with this particular person regarding this labeling thingies. I mean la kan. I thought that when you start with the requirement early on the project, you had already agreed on the labels that are in the system. What I DO.NOT.NEED is someone to keep on changing the bloody labels in the hundreds so near to the live date. I think whenever this person is particularly free, his thoughts would go like.. "Eh... I am so free ar. What gonna do eh? Ah yesss, let's go over those labels again and see what more things I want to change eh?"

Argh. So demotivating la weh. How I can proceed with my other works if I keep on receiving emails daily on why does this label have not been change yet and what does this mean. And more labels to be change even though we had gone over it 2 or 3 times already! And if its a new applications or labels I might understand! But its ALREADY in there for the past 3 month!

Argh. I rarely rant so much about work. So there. Abes.

In a more stress-less note, I am FINALLY at Level 2 for my violin class. And NO! I am not posting any file of me playing it. I am improving but my playing would still sound like a whale mating. I am a bit menyesal why did I not take piano. But nak beli piano pon satu hal. You think piano is so cheap meh? Anyway, violin is definitely a challenge, and bad as I sound, for a few hours in a week, it would drive out any other thoughts that maybe swimming around in my head.

Oh.. and yes. I had finally finished reading American Gods. Only at the ending that it pick up the pace a bit. Not to say that it's not enjoyable. I like the short stories of the 'gods' and the belief that Gaiman intricate in there as a sort of backstory to Shadow journey. My next book would be Anansi Boys. But the book is a hard cover one. I do not like hard cover book. I prefer the paperback copies as I can carry it around easily in my bag. I like to read everywhere, especially while waiting to cross the road at Maju Junction which at times can stretch to the longest 15 minutes of your life.

I am blogging more often eh? More things for you to read! Even if its nonsensical!

Some people are incompetent

I read the story of this woman murder and was left feeling ... despair.

It tells the story of a how a woman try her damnedest in all her physical and intelligence power to survive and ask for help, yet still doesn't come out alive.

What saddened me more is how the case is also botched by a missed 911 call. The case of where dispatchers forgot to inform the police on the streets who is on the lookout for this girl, of the 911 tips they received and agents not following up. I don't know the stressful working environment of an emergency line call center (911, 999, whatever emergency line set up), so maybe people and me are judging them harshly.

However, if an important call somehow get lost through, there is usual some kind of repercussion. And this call probably had indirectly caused a life lost. The agents should have at least follow up. They didn't. They should have logged it in the system, they didn't (in my previous job as a call center agent that is ground for dismissal especially for critical customers). There are so many BASIC things that as a call center agents what more ;a 911 operator and police dispatchers where calls are about life and death matters, should know that I understand how people much less the family of the deceased can get angry. A 60 hour suspension... seems trivial.

This make me think of a past local news story on how a domestic problem not being taken up seriously and resulted in a girl's death. I can't remember the full details of the story, but as far as I can remember a girl called the police or 999 and informed that the boyfriend is going on full pyscho mode on her and was trying to kill her. But the police simply raked it up as a simple domestic problem ( perempuan manakah yang mengada2 saje2 je call polis cakap boyfriend saya nak bunuh saya?) and didn't send anyone. I think her father or abang discovered her bloody body the next day. She was stabbed repeatedly. The father expressed his sadness and displeasure on how the case was handled but I can't remember reading it any longer. This just prove the complete incompetence of some people when handling an emergency call.

I myself remembered calling for help, when a "Mat Salleh" woman was stabbed at Petaling Street few years back. The call center agent is such a moron that I myself kinda hope that she had change her job as a sales assistant where the most she could botched up is by looking dumbly at a customer while people are asking her question. She kept on asking me where I am, and I informed her. She kept repeating the same question, and at the same time sounding mighty pissed off which make me pissed off . She tell me where in Petaling Street exactly. I said I have no idea, I am new in KL. I think I said some of the thing which I saw which she dismisses. I mean hello... I was like 19 I think, so I maybe a tad bit gullible at time. But couldn't you have lead me a bit on how to help, how exactly I can describe my surrounding. Do you expect people to immediately know this while a woman is screaming in pain in front of them while her husband is going around panicky asking for help.

Some people are such an incompetent fool that it amazed me why people are paying them to do such shoddy job. Imagine my relief when a police officer emerged so I just ended the call immediately. I doubt that the idiotic agent is the one who send the officer.

I left Petaling Street that day with a complete faithlessness in our emergency response agents.

At last

I manage to change the look.

But I don't think it is quite... stable yet.

The template looked kinda messed up in my laptop. But fine from my desktop. IE and Firefox tested. Firefox had a little white space in it.. but at my laptop had a whole lot of white space. (If anyone found my blog looking like this pls inform).

If there's a whole lot of complaint from your end (just inform me if it looked messed up) or if its still looking messed up from my laptop I may change. But that gonna take weeks. Heeee. Not that I tinkered much with it; after all this is a ready made template, but I.AM.LAZY.

Also updated the link list a bit. Buang the blog links that seems to 'terkubur'. No point in keeping those around eh.

Sunday already eh? Weekends are too short.

TV Gossip is my coffee

So early this morning, heard that Shannen Doherty is in talks to come in the remake/rehash of the new show Beverly Hills 90210. Whooop! Yeay all around. I miss Shannen Doherty. I no longer watched BH 90210 when she no longer around back then (the college and the working years sucks too). I even miss her in Charmed though I don't hate Rose McGowan (as she is so white-liciously babelicious.. and yeah, the fact she used to date Marilyn Manson drop her points a bit, but she still a babe) I was just thinking that I could afford giving the show a miss. But Brenda back again to terrorize the people at BH? Hell yeah, I will be watching!

I do hope that the actors won't go into strike! Its going to sucks if we would have a 10 eps per season again.

So I heard the awesome movie which is REC which I have YET to watch (SO NO SPOILERS PLZ) but the DVD is currently languishing at home waiting for me to pick it up are going to be reamericanize remake by Quentin Tarantino. Hurmmm... Maybe I will watch it this weekend. Maybe not. Hmmm as long as I watch it first before the Tarantino's one is out.

Oh.. read somewhere that they (had/want to?) sign up James McAvoy in doing a Wanted sequel ( of course, since they got loads of profit from that movie). The down side is that it seems really far fetched (not to mention spoiling the first movie) if they somehow manage to revive Fox again and another thing. The fear of the curse of a sucky sequel! The up side, James McAvoy! Yeay! Though I kinda doubt he wanted to sign up again for the sequel. Let's see if tis rumour hold any grain of truth.

They are really pulling all kind of stop for the this upcoming Batman movie eh? All sorts of posters had come up even as early this year. I am kinda harumph with all of it but I kinda like this one.




Racking up my brain for any e-news related thingies that I want to squeal about. But couldn't find any... Anyway will be watching Hancock tomorrow.

When life get tough... sell it out?

So a man frustrated with his life.. sold it for USD400,000 ++. [Source]

I wonder who's the sucker that would want his life. But considering it also included the furnitures, car, motorcycle, jet ski... it doesn't seem that bad.

If the house is big enough, furniture non-horrible, good car and motorcycle with not so many miles and properly maintained... that seems like a bargain. Though I would certainly hold off on the job and the introduction of the friends.

Imagine the conversation "So this is X, he bought my life. So long... I am not going to stay here anymore and leave to some exotic place with the money you gave me in exchange for my shoddy life" ?

So perhaps it is an OK bargain. Though I did raised my eyebrows when I read this excerpt "I guess I'm a little bit disappointed at the final price, I'd hoped it to be a little higher than that,"

You want to leave your life of disappointments and despair and you are a disappointed why people are not jumping on the chance to throw more money at you to get your 'life'?

But I guess most of us would disappointed if our life is not worth millions.

And of course, we now get other people wanting to do the same where for e.g. there is one woman wanting to sell her house and a shot at marrying her (the guy who is buying the house tho I am not too sure if she will accept guys who do not want to buy the house but just marry her).

The ad says:

“If you want to live the never ending dream and experience the real love, life and the romance you have always felt was a fairytale then this is the vibrant outstanding woman of your dreams! To sweep this European Loving Lady off her feet send in your application right now.”

Any takers? You got a wife readily available?

I do suspect that perhaps she actually macam keberatan nak jual rumah die but need the money. So she sell the house, marry the person who buy the house, she get the money + house + husband.

Brilliant!

Ignorance is bliss

What do you do when you are faced with a sight that make your forehead crinkled?

I turned away.

I remembered seeing a beggar with a child, the woman is soothing the child from crying. One part of you ... you wish to help, to give some money to help so the child could eat. One part of you ... feel angry as why would this woman be here, is there some kind of explanation, if there is some evil organization that deemed its necessary to get money from charitable people by exploiting a woman and her children and why would people do such a thing.

One part of you... you look away, it maybe that you feel helpless, maybe that you feel pointless, or maybe you wish you didn't see it at all. But you don't dig deeper for the feeling. As for sure, after 10 minutes you are walking, the drive home, the things you need to buy... all about your wonderful self-need / self-want would drive away these feeling of guilt or helplessness.

As what I did when I see a headline on yet another news of global warming. I wish I didn't see it. I don't wish to know it. But I clicked it anyway. I mean... what exactly can we do about it?

Then I close the window and open another window of Eonline.

An introduction...

Chapter 1, Part 1...

"Tap" " Tap..."

She looked out of the windows and felt her heart dropped a little. It had been increasingly dropping these past few days.

"Persistent ugly bastards.." she swore quietly and looked on. This time ignoring the creatures, she looked around the outskirt of the house.

Scanning the area, she quickly calculated her way out. Too easy, too dangerous, not good, no escape route, easy to be overpowered... She dismissed it one by one until she found just the right one.

"Such a bad idea.." talking to herself. It’s a habit that is hard to break, but she found a comfort in hearing the voice of a human being. Even if it’s her own.

Letting out a sigh, she closed her eyes for the moment. Eyes screwed shut and with fist clenched, she stood still as if contemplating her next move. Few seconds trickled by. A distant resounding crash was heard and her eyes flew wide open. She looked out the window again and saw that the neighbour car windows are now shattered. Her mouth set, she gathers her thoughts or more like courage, she thought grimly and went down to the kitchen.

Whistling a songless tune, she went through the kitchen cabinets and drawers. Foraging and tossing things out needlessly. The clatters and clangs of kitchenware falling to the floors and tables created a din that erased the nearing persistent tapping sound that she dreads.

When she went out, she is wearing a makeshift belt with several types of knives including a butcher knife tucked snugly in. She walked upstairs to the study and opens the door to the balcony.

Standing at the edge of the balcony, she looked down. The creatures are still tapping softly the onto the entries of the house. They still didn't notice her, she thought.

"Ready. Steady. Go..."

She sucked in a deep breath and jumped.

Testing 1.. 2.. 3??

I am testing out this Windows Live Writer.

It felt weird. Like writing on a Wordpad. Hey! At least its a step above Notepad. Don't mock that application. It served a nifty all-purposes note taking abilities. And it don't take up a lot of space.

Anyway, my brother should be getting his ass back to KL on an ungodly hour of 2 a.m. Being the lazy sister everyone expected of me, he would come straight to the front door around that time. If  he is lucky enough, I will wake up to let him in. Hahaha.

Pointless.

I am contemplating changing my blog template. Never really fancy this one, but I really liked that lotus flower which is why I kept it for so long. So maybe a new change heading your way. Or maybe not. Couldn't find a nice enough 3 column, so prolly sticking with the 2 column for a while.

Getting pretty bored that everyone who is anyone is going on a holiday or just got back from one. EXCEPT MOI. I am sadly counting my leave and decided that I can spare none. All need to be used sparingly.

I really malas to cook meh. Going to slap some chicken onto a bread later on.

This is a quick update. I should be able to update more at the office, but then I thought my time to loll around in idleness is sadly not to be as there seems to be more changes and translation works need to be done.

Shhhh. Don't tell anyone, but I kinda liked repetitive, monotonous, mind-blowingly boring, meticulous, pain-stakingly-full-of-details work. But I don't tell any of that in my interview.

Ok. Am going to timbang my fat self and lower my self esteem further.

 

p/s: I am out of topic to blog. Can't you tell?

Wanton Blogging

I am angry tonight. For reason somewhat known but I will dismissed it later on and not voice to anyone. But I will only voice it now. It doesn't matter. Just angry.

Just finished watching Get Smart. Funny LOL. Didn't expect that it is going to be really funny since I kinda hate Steve Carrell. But he's OK.

Doesn't it annoyed you that here you are looking for a nice comfy shoes. You search like 2 or 3 months and after much search and dragging your driver along from one shop to the other, you finally found one that is close enough to the one you want. You bought it. Few weeks later, shoes like the one you want is popping up everywhere .. in colours you love and price that cheap. Either I am really fashion forward or it just plain sucks.

I am now in a search for a nice looking, not too high nor low pair of black heels. Of course I can't find it anywhere except for the one pricing above RM60. This means several weeks of searching. I bet that after I bought it, I will find loads even better and cheaper everywhere else.

My selsema had somewhat abated. Going to pop in the pills afterward.

Firefox 3 is kinda slow. And I absolutely loathed its "Smart Location Bar", its big ass title and logo/img is preventing me from seeing the link. Well not really preventing, more like limiting, distracting and altogether just pissing me off. Not too mention that whenever I typed in a url of a site it gives me insane results and is more of a hindrance than a help. What is so awesome about this ? Ugh. It is now "loathed". Currently am doing some quick fix to get that thing off my screen.

I am tired now.

Am I THAT bored?

Note: My comments are highlighted in blue

What Your Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich Means

Your eating style is gluttonous. If you like something, you're going back for seconds... no matter how full you are! <- totally me.. though I am trying to change You don't really have a sweet tooth. If you go for dessert, you tend to go for something light. <- yups2. Correct Your taste in food tends to be pretty flexible. You may crave sushi one night, and your favorite childhood recipe the next. <- Those who know me knows that I can get this insane craving for out of nowhere food whenever the mood strikes You are probably a fairly normal, upper middle class person. You don't rock the boat too often. <- not sure about the upper middle class. I lived humbly :P You are a tough person who isn't afraid to live life fully. There isn't a lot that scares you. You are laid back and extremely easygoing. You never make a fuss, and you try to enjoy every moment. Not sure about the other above 2 statements

What Does Your Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Say About You?

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You Are Fairly Normal

You scored 55% normal on this quiz Like most people you are normal in some ways... But you aren't a completely normal person. You're a little weird too! Why You Are Normal: You prefer fiction to non fiction If given the choice, you would choose to have more money over more time You think glasses can make someone more attractive You think fishnet stockings are trashy You prefer ruffled potato chips Why You Aren't Normal: You are no longer with your first love (I think it is even rarer that people are with their first love) You eat the cupcake first You don't keep up with your horoscope (Its not even true meh...) You prefer your family to your friends If you had to, you rather live without laughter and still have music (with music... I can laugh)

What's Normal About You... And What's Not?

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The True You

You want your girlfriend or boyfriend to be together with you always, no matter when or where. <--- arrr? With respect to money, you spend as little as possible. <-- Hahaha. More like as much as I can with little money I had. You think good luck doesn't exist - reality is built on practicalities. The hidden side of your personality tends to be methodical in your ways - with trouble adapting to the rules of society. <- yups. Methodical I am. You are the type of person who assumes that the world revolves around yourself. <- My fiance would totally hype this up and repeat this in CAPITAL. When it comes to finding a romantic partner, you don't have any particular type in mind, but you are inclined to look for someone who will say yes when you ask him / her out. <- Don't we all?

Who's The True You?

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You Passed 8th Grade Science

Congratulations, you got 6/8 correct! I AM NOT A TOTAL MORON

Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?

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You're Pretty Stupid

You got 4/10 questions right! It's probably time to get your head examined. You hardly know left from right. BUT MAYBE I AM A MORON AFTER ALL

Are You Stupid?

D is for Devastating

Early yesterday morning, I received the news that Death Cab most probably will not be playing at Malaysia. But at Singapore! Gah!

This cause my love for Death Cab to diminish a bit as they seems to prefer the land where no chewing gums are allowed. Due to my tight budget, it seems really unlikely that I can forked out enough for a trip at Singapore to watch them play. And of course, the cuti that need to be apply where as I don't have enough cuti for this year to go around. I mean... if its Radiohead... wedding or no wedding budget, I would go. Haha. Need I say more Radiohead fans? But unfortch, money-wise and time-wise, bad timing indeed to make any trip to Singapore.

Ugh. This sucks big time.

I think I am coming down with a cold, which might account to my snappiness to everybody around and my really hazy muddled thoughts. So bear with me as I still wish to type more.

But my mind turned up blank except the thoughts of that big Green. Nah. The incredbile Hulk meh. How I love Edward Norton and for the first time I found Liz Tyler somewhat annoying. Even though many said she did great in the movie and I myself am a tad bit in love with her before this. It must had been because I am somewhat jealous of her being all smoochy with Norton. Yups... yups. But Jason Dohring does look uncanny-like Edward Norton, which account for me to be in great despair that I will not see him again in Moonlight. But I will imdb him later on to see where he will pop up next.

But apart from the awesomeness which is Edward Norton, I quite love this "Incredible Hulk". The beginning scenes start quite nicely. And like many others comment, the CGI is still too cartoonish. There are times when it seems to reminisce to the scenes of King Kong. Now that's a great movie that people don't say much about. The battle between Hulk and Abomination is entertaining enough though end in a rather anticlimactic way. Ooohh and Abomination is not wearing any pants! Heeeee.

Anyway... people are somewhat excited by the appearance of Tony Stark. (What? Spoilers? Shutup). Not moi. But that is maybe because I haven't yet seen that "Iron Man". I may have to catch that later at a TV or computer accessible to me.

Ok. My brain is still hazy. Penning off. Typing off. Whatever. And I still have that German translation thingies to do.

The wedding bells tolls

Eh. Not yet for me.

Anyway. I am still feeling particularly sluggish on this really gloomy looking Monday ( I meant it literally).

The past weeks was where everyone was busy attending weddings. I missed out on an ex-colleague one to attend my good friend / 2 pupu wedding at JB. She looked the loveliest as I had ever seen of her but she is the same ol girl who joked and laughed without restraint which causes for some severe admonishments from the usual uptight relatives. (Eeekk relatives... don't read my blog).

Gamba(s) dicilok from Mariam's batch of photographs. I looked decidedly fat. But who cares about fat ol me! The bride looks radiant! And looked ... 10 years down the line... Sarah's now with a jolly daughter, Yam's child on the way, Nai supervising the running of a petrol station, Farah soon to settle down.

The past weekend was Fain's wedding. It was a lovely affair from the nikah ceremony to the grand reception at Dewan Perdana Felda. I was reasonably stuffed at both events. Thank you Fain's and family!

Photo taking session would not be complete without a group shots of the usual gang with the happy couple.

The above picture is courtesy of the fiance, after the nikah and makan2 ceremony.

Anyway glad to have made it to Dewan Perdana Felda as at long last jumpa jugak with Noris and her baby bump. Loves.

Well.. this is a particularly rare post of pictures filled posts, (and pictures of moi too... )

So I will end it here before I changed my mind and deleted this post.

p/s: oooohhh... got lilies. The weird thing is.. after I got it.. my throat then is kinda sore.

Change lifestyle = Hunger pangs every 1pm

I am still translating document. I had done with the German language.. translating German to English. Dunno how it would turn out. I haven't get a feedback on it yet. Haha. Maybe it will turn out like that completely insane subtitles we usually have when buying pirated DVDs.

Currently am translating French. French is harder. After a while.. you get a hang on on how all those phrasing and whats not in when I am doing it in German. But French even a and au which means the same thing is different. Gah!

I currently am being a good Samaritan while holding on to a lost phone. Did I consider to take it? Nah. Its an old model of a Nokia phone ... unless if its a N95 or N80 then I will be sorely tempted. And I don't have anyone that I feel the need to call. I am not feeling particularly goodish. But then I know that I will have the niggling feeling of guilt that will go on through the day and will spoil my mood in finishing up my work. And if you need to go to the toilet, leave your phone at your desk lor. Or firmly lodge in your pocket. As long as not in your back pocket as there are countless people everywhere who had dropped their phone into the black hole beyond where only the unclean or gloved hands dare to enter. (I am not one of this person... as obviously my back pocket is filled with my fat ass and nothing else can be fit in snugly except for the few tissues and receipts. )

That is a completely disgusting topic to go into.

Anyway was welcome to my office with a huge news bulletin on that humongous screen at Jalan TAR regarding the rising price of chicken.

That is not a surprise.

I might as well be a vegetarian. Think thin!

Everybody is beginning to get used to the 2.70 per liter of oil price nowadays. However the sight of a government car being escorted by the police dengan lajunya every morning at the MRR2 make my blood boils.

Change my lifestyle? Fuck you. You can't even make the effort to wake up a little earlier or drive your own car which
1. Makes you a lazy hypocrite ass. Change your own lifestyle.
2. You deemed it is necessary to waste the government money and resources in escorting you every morning.
3. And the waste of fuel. Hello!

God. Everytime I heard a government statement saying that we need to change our lifestyle I feel like flinging something.

I mean there this one morning where government make a statement on how "NO EU or US OVERSEAS TRIP for GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS" or "FUNDS IN GOVERNMENT EXPENSES ARE REDUCED" , then the next morning we are greeted by a news headline featuring many menteri (and the many wives of those menteri with a smug smiles) and (isn't it Najib one of em) smilingly getting a plate of food (of course I will bet my wedding finger on it is for free) at a restaurant in London.

Change lifestyle indeed. There is no lifestyle! I don't eat lunches anymore. I don't even have meetings where we are provided with free food. What more changes do you expect.

Gah! What a bunch of fat ass hypocrites.


p/s: oh my my. what an angsty person I am this week meh. Nah... I am jolly enough, though I am kinda bad tempered in the past few days.

Another angry post

Fucking blogger.

I keep on typing and it turned blank.

NO MOOD TO TYPE ANYMORE ! BAH!!!

Gah!

So blah

Well..

Whatever.

Am just feeling so over it right now.

Like how insignificant you are to everybody. Yups2.

So. You know. Whatever.

Training. Karaoke. Eating. In no particular order nor sense.

What? Oil price hike? Heck... you are coming to the wrong blog dudes/dudettes if you think I am gonna complain about it here.

In the middle of training currently. And am typing this via notepad which I will copy to blogger later in the day.

Mind awandering to thoughts that should not be thought of in the first place. Heh. Oh my, but still... an enjoyable way to past the time.

Then the mind suddenly came upon this dress that I should have totally buy at the Curve. Damn it. Le sigh. Maybe I will go on the next weekend. But I kinda doubt it that it will still be there.

Shit. I am so not paying attention to this training, eh.

Ok. The below is now type after training session end.

Oh yes, an announcement to be made. For the very first time in my adult life, I sang in public. Dils do karaoke. Gah! Kinda anti-climactic as far as announcement goes. But whatever. Back to the karaoke, I have to admit it is kinda fun. Felt like was in some Jdorama as some of the guys are as cute as the one in Jdo where we always see where they sing earnestly *blush* Anyhow our team decided to do some team activity via karaoke-ing last Tuesday. So there we were at Pavilion Kotak Merah.

I have to say that I am impressed by the facilities. But I think that they may had book the more expensive room which might account for the roomy room, the comfy interior and a personal washroom. The buffet... was so so. The choc cakes was nice. Tasted the oyster and I vowed to never put that vile stuff down my throat again. But who went to Kotak Merah for makan-makan session anyway. So the outcome are? Karaoke? Well.. not too shabby, with the right kinda group. But I will still avoid it if I can. Heh.

So that was Tuesday. Yesterday, the project director is kind enough to send some extra moolah for our hard work so in true Malaysian style, no celebration is complete without some makan-makan session. This time it is held at Japanese restaurant at Pavilion (Again!).Mid range restaurant, not dirt cheap nor too high end too. You and me can probably afford it, but with the new oil price hike, I might want to think about it once or twice before going into the restaurant.

I ordered the set and it come with a quite decent amount of soba and rice. The waitress was so lying when she said it is not too much for 1 people. The soba was delish... but tadek isi sangat, But the rice with onion sauce and chicken fillet. Ohhhhhh... la la.

However I am kinda sick of Japanese restaurant. I wonder why they keep on selecting Japanese restaurant. Damnit, people. I want some good nicely cooked red meat here. And no.. the Japanese grilled steak/meat tu one is wayyy too expensive to order and its out of our budget a bit.

Gah! So all this makan-makan talk and no pic to show you guys? Oh puhleez. You guys would have expected it by now.

Hmmm. Going back to JB this weekend. Have a nice lovely long weekend. For those yang get the cuti on Friday la kan.

Death Cab for Cutie in Malaysia?

Picture taken from their wsite. Heee.

Oh... let it comes true.

Yups yups. I told you I still haven't decided if I like Narrow Stairs. But some of the songs are delicious.

Am already brokenhearted that I can't go to Japan for Radiohead. Hahaha. Kid kid. More like why doesa lot of bands when they do a world tour, the Asian tour only include Japan meh? Got other countries what! Singapore! Thailand! And of course our very own Malaysia. Huh.

Anyway.

My fingers are crossed. And from what I can see in the blogosphere, us locals here are getting excited. Woot!

Though I haven't seen anything in their tour page. I did a once over around last week and the last time I seen is the Japan tour. Now they had included Australia tour. Would be awesome if I would look at the page next week and see Malaysia.

Source

mmMMMmmmm

Oh. Madness

Its like the air is closing down all around.

Butterflies should be killed upon meeting.

The door will be forever lost.

No one would ever find it again?

Fairytale ... is for the foolish.

And I smiled. I wondered if any of you would understand.

Randomly I told you

It seems like Jannah had tagged me again. That's fine Jannah. I will think of it as.... tagging is caring. LOL.

But she also make a special request (8 random facts about planning the ultimate wedding day?). Haha. I believed this request is being done to torment me . I kid.

The Rules :
1. Each blogger must post these rules first.
2. Each blogger starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. Bloggers that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged, and to read your blog.


Fact 1:
Whenever anyone asked me on my preparation for my wedding... I feel an onslaught of a panic attack. I need to breathe deeply ... then I answered.

Fact 2:
I believe in a simple wedding. Simple food for consumption. A simple decoration. A simple dress. Basically it is just simple. A guy at a boutique kinda pissed me off when he disregard my request for a simple dress. He said "Saya memang respek la bride yang pakai lavish2 ni. Nanti kan ade guest yang lagi lebih dari pengantin, mesti pengantin menyesal". Erm.. I don't know. If I come to a wedding, my eyes is only for the lovely couple no matter how grand the guests looked.

Fact 3:
Its a fact well known that whatever the bride want, she rarely get after being offered suggestions and criticism from well meaning families, planners, friends and the whole legions of opinionated people.

Fact 4:
The many shades of white, pink and brown totally overcome me. I never realized how truly many type and shades of colors are there out in the world. I am afraid that my color combination would make the whole thing looked like a color blind set designer decorated Alice in Wonderland.

Fact 5:
I always, always get cold feet. There's a thousand questions running through my mind that I can't or afraid to answer.

Fact 6:
My wedding will be at 2 houses. The guests will 'makan-makan' at another house and the bride dais will be at another and will be separated by a drain and 2 fences. That doesn't make sense, does it. Let's just say... people are were perplexed when we used this 'concept' for my sisters' wedding.

Fact 7:
I hate photographs. Let me rephrase that. I hate photographs of me, meself, I. I feel like I look like a 'hag' :P . Which is why I try to look for the best photographer. Irregardless of the price. But still dread all those taking picture part.

Fact 8:
Everyday my feet are getting colder.



CHOOSE THE NEXT 8?

I don't feel like choosing the next 8. I was thinking to tag Shima to tell me what is her ultimate favorite fact about shoes, or Seri on the fact and fiction of dadih making, or Gohan on 8 fact on why you think Kame is so hot.

Oh you guys can still do that. By all means... treat the above paragraph as a tag request.

But I need to find something to warm my feet.


p/s: Have a happy weekend!

Edited: Oh Jannah... Haha. Tis is a simple post without pics. Seems a lot... but the thing is I couldn't dreg up any fact. As a lot of things are still TBD and YNS. (To Be Done & Yet Not Seen). Also I kinda get a panic attack typing this up and my feet are ice cold. So I looked into the post bit by bit.

Thou art the moon

You are The Moon

Hope, expectation, Bright promises.

The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.

The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Surfed through here and there while making sure some of the systems are working correctly, and I came across this.

Am feeling a tad bit melancholy, so it seems like this blogthing seems to suit the whole atmosphere surrounding moi. At the moment.

Also am almost finishing up Good Omens. Tis is delicious. Almost finish on the tag too. Its not a whole lot. But I it takes a bit of time to think. Haha.

It sounds like a good idea but...

I can give no reason as the above title is vague as hell.

Still awake. Fingers tapping in rythmn with Radiohead "Karma Police". My mind is in turmoil. The turmoil? Oh, dear blog. No question asked, no lies given.

Kinda disappointed on how the Season Finale of Greys turned out. I mean all these blogs and sites promised of this "Big Kiss". Gah! I saw it happening for all of the couple. I even kinda anticipated the kiss George have with Lexie. Though my imagination is more long drawn and more creative and in line with the Greys tradition... but hey! (and let's not get off track here) I did anticipated it. So nope, not surprise. Nor any of em is really big or make my insides all in knots... but the scene with Alex and Izzie is gut wrenching. And that scene... my insides goes all in knots. Tho I did anticipate that too.

What's the point of this post again? Oh. Yeah. Mind in turmoil and Radiohead cranked up high for my own personal emo time (That's how I deal with it.... so deal with it).

So Yoda. Yeah. Let's give this Indy 4 some review/thoughts.

Ohhh.. also a little warning : Spoiler line below..

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These line of thoughts was taking event last night at 10pm till midnight at MBO Galaxy.

Around 10.08ishpm:
Goody. It start. Ah.... desert in the middle of US. Ok. Maybe we'll get some Native American history-adventure.

Around 10.10ishpm:
*pieces of jigsaw rapidly locking into their places* Desert. Middle of US. Army Base. God damn it. We have an alien story in our hand. And ooohh.. Cate Blanchett looked weird.

Lost track of time by then:
Nuclear Blast? The fuck? A refrigerator? Double f..? *facein1palm* They could make it an underground basement. An underground nuclear shelter BASEMENT that was being used regularly (ok.. prolly only by fanatic idiots) in the 60s by terrified US citizens of Russians nuclear attack and could be used in this scene which will make me forgive the senselessness of this. But no. Some writers obviously got lazy and just make refrigerator fly away from the blast unharmed while bigger and heavier thing obviously got turned into dust. Any natural laws of physics, chemistry, nature or anything that is remotely sensible is now thrown out for 2 hours.

Half an hour through the movie I think:
Yes. We geddit. Aliens obviously build all those Mayan pyramids and created the Sun calendar.

Some more times passed through:
Ooohhh. Karen Allen. Looked surprisingly unchanged. Grin still infectious.Hmmmm... Wondered if she dyed her hair.

An hour or more flew away:
Watching scenes of Indy going through the old temple of the Mayans. Scenes of National Treasure 2 seems to flash by in my mind. Scenes of Indy groping Mayan statues. Scenes of National Treasure 2 flashed through again. Scenes of Indy. Scenes of National Treasure 2. Hmmm... Spielberg prolly didn't anticipate that National Treasure was going to go through this plot line too.

Somewhere 10 mins before the credits rolls:
Gah! Why need to have flying saucer one. Why! Why! I accepted the alien readily after swearing silently. I accepted the crystal moving skeleton without question. Why do you have to ruin it for me by making the flying saucer fly!

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I was thoroughly entertain. I treat it as a ride. And it is enjoyable and I wouldn't mind seeing it again FOC. But damn alien flying saucer thingies ruined the ending for me.

But Harrison Ford would always be the "Now, Then, Forever" for me.

Dils Version of E-News Update

Am still incredibly bum out on the cancellation of Moonlight. Sobs.

Just watched eps 10 of Reaper. Agreed. It is getting better.

Season Finale of Grey's looked promising. Nice to see a change of pace for that irritating Meredith is a wreck plotline.

Heard some of the songs from the new album "Narrow Stairs" by Death Cab for Cutie. Currently loving 'Bend to Squares". Still unsure on the album and the rest of the songs.

Watched a video of James McAvoy acceptance speech. I almost squeal out loud in the office like a little girl receiving pony for birthday hearing that lovely lilting Scot accent.

Which brought me to this amazing poster of Angelina Jolie for the movie Wanted. Can't wait for this movie. If anyone can convince me to have some lady love... Angelina Jolie would be it.


There is no decent poster of James McAvoy for Wanted. Gah! How can this be! So puny, one! I demand better view of him than that!


Wait... I still haven't watch The Other Boleyn Girl. Argh! (How that is relevant to James McAvoy is irrelevant)

Added: Had you seen Joss Whedon's new series Dollhouse trailer? It looks like it gonna rawks! Something like Alias + Dark Angel. Oh... but its gonna be hard to think Eliza Dushku as anyone else but Faith.

Wicked enough

Finally, I had finish reading Wicked (The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of West) by Gregory Maguire.

Not the usual book cover, but the cover for the musical and also for my book. I do love this poster/cover, the way the lip curl upwards like a sardonic smile.

Love the first part(well the book had a lot of parts and chapters ).Well not exactly the first part. More like the early middle... the stories on how the Wicked Witch Elphaba and Galinda met at their university campus and how they become friends. I believe that is the only light part of the book (and maybe the only part of the book which I can pretty much relate to). I guess I like it because it have so much potentiality.

Afterwards... the stories got darker... and more twisted. It felt like a political uprising goes wrong. And I don't like Elphaba at all. She is perverse (even in her justification to make things right). But perhaps the author do not want to make Elphaba as misrepresented. More like to understand why she is so angry and for us to understand her reason for murder.

Oh dear. I can go on and on about this. The story is interesting even though at times its seems to feel like hints of the world current political situation and a tad bit preachy in a CS Lewis kinda way. However there a lot in the books I don't quite understand. Such as why does the Wizard gave the magic elixir, what exactly is the Grimmerie, what exactly does Doctor Dillamond studies, did the shoes came from the old Witch and if Galinda is really a powerful witch or merely a thoughtless one and what is Liir potentiality.. did he really speak to the carp?

A lot of the questions that plagued Elphaba and readers seems unanswered. Maybe the next answer will be in the next book?

I am not sure if I am a fan of his work. Am thinking of picking up "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" to see if I would continue reading.

Anyway, currently am reading Good Omens and I have a jolly good time reading all those 93 pages ( I am currently up to that particular page) so far.

There are some things that are better off only on the screens

One of em is being a mean bitch to another person.

We all love a good bitch. They translated deliciously on the screen and let's face it. We also secretly aspire to be one, like the girls in Mean Girls and Gossip Girl. Making clever snide hurtful remarks and dishing a good cold revenge served on a cold silver platter. However that prude called "conscience" always win.

I will admit I am kinda a bitch myself. I was sometimes part of the group, that made fun of that weird girl that won't shut up about how awesome things are. I used to tell myself that I let a certain 'fight' happened between 2 girls because I accidentally let a certain information slipped. However if I looked hard into myself, I know that it is just because I hated that girl and just like to see 'fireworks' happened for my own enjoyment. I knew perfectly well of the consequences. Ooohh I was a spiteful little thing.

But as I grew older, I like to think that I learned better. I am appropriately ashamed if I think about my behavior then. And I felt bad for some of the girls that I openly mocked of. I am still spiteful at times, but conscience or politeness or whatever positive hindrance it might be, made me bite my tongue. At times.

And I believe that is what most adults and especially mothers should know and learned. That we as teenagers are bratty. Emotional. Could not care a tuppence of others except own leisure. But we should know better right, when we grew up? When life experiences and karma had teaches us a lesson or two. That when we grew up, the basic line of right and wrong should be at least clear.

But I guess not all people benefit from adulthood. So when I learned of the Megan Meier case, I was horrified. I followed the Megan Meier case with interest few weeks/months back and now that the mother is being indicted it would be interesting (to say the least) on how legal laws are going to approach bullying in the WWW.

Those who are not familiar with the case, the summary is that a mother was impersonating as a 16 yr old boy to chat up a 13 yr old girl (Megan) in MySpace just so she could know what Megan was talking about her daughter. Basically what she did was built Megan hopes up and then sending it crashing down by sending cruel messages which led the depressed and suicidal girl to hang herself.

There are some disputes that she may not write the nasty comment but at one point or the other she was involved. And the thought that an adult think that it is fine to impersonate someone else to get information from a 13 year old girl... it seems petty, hurtful, childish and immature. Even when I was 14, I balked at such ideas.

Clearly common sense is not exercised by all human.

Who's Saved...

I am that lazy in updating. This is the 3rd time that I opened my blogger thingies and came up with nada.

So as usual... Random Rambling y'all!

Even my random ramblings seems to me ... quite hard to type. Thanks to Celes/Soraya I am now well aware that P Ramlee the Musical is now on. Yeay!

So girls.. (you know who you are). I am single next month (I think) ... so mari-mari lah dating2 tengok musical. I think it had been so long since I saw a stage play/musical. I am running out of things to write criticize about in this blog.

I am currently listening in to Blake Lively interview. I love Gossip Girl. It is such a pleasure! And I am not guilty about it. And am so excited that Blake Lively and Penn Bandgley are an off screen couple too (even though they bored me to death on screen. But they are cutes sometimes... have to give em that. Especially the eps Hi, Society)

What I am bummed about is my favorite guilty pleasure Moonlight is getting the axe. NoOOOoooOOOOooOOOOoo!!!!! I love that show. It is ... well.. there's no word to describe it. I am now soooo looking into True Blood (I am not sure if the name is correct) to get my vampires show fix. Though I am confused if that show had been broadcasted or not.

Am also bummed that Women Murder Club and Aliens in America are not getting renewed. But I did expected it. The WMC's was done somewhat badly in the first few episodes (and turned many people off.. but I did love it afterwards) and Aliens in America just could not find the right viewers. It is a very funny and intelligent little show that many would not appreciate. Was afraid that Miss/Guided would get the same treatment. But it had been renewed! Yeay! Very cute show. Love it.

I am expecting Cashmere Mafia to follow suit in saying adieu. Though I have to say... I love Cashmere Mafia more than Lipstick Jungle. It is a light airy show. Ridiculous at times but don't take itself too seriously. Lipstick Jungle at times rankled me. I love the characters in Cashmere Mafia... oh... but I am not holding any hope.

Ooohh... ok. My thoughts somehow end here.

p/s: I have no idea what's the hell wrong with my code lorrr.... Shit. (Work stuffs, not blog template code)


Update: It seems Miss/Guided also is gone. ARGHHHHHHHH!

Onslaught

During the weekend, I was seized by a sudden attack to clean up my room. (Actually the girls were coming and the house is in a mess) Hahaha.

So from just wanting to bare-sweep the whole necessary surface and putting back a heaped piles of clothes into a respectable pile, it turned to upturning furnitures and moving boxes, stuffed lambs and bears and books and the many many bags out of the room to attack the dust bunnies. I am so buying surgical masks next time I am seize with this rare spring cleaning bout.

Anyway.. the spring cleaning is not that complete. As I am continuously distracted by many lost and found items in my rooms.(There are loads of thing that need to be buang and bills and important documents need to be labeled and simpan correctly which I simply got too malas after all that cleaning up ceased. And the house is still in a mess as I simply did not have time and of course too lazy to continue the bout of cleaning everywhere else). Seems like I have a lot of ... things. Am well aware that I am a garbage collector. I still have some of the tickets wayang from 5 years back and rifling things to put aside, I came across my old perfume. The GAP Blue 655. It still have some of its perfume left.

I couldn't snap the old bottle pic. It came up unclear when I snap. This is the best I could find. Maybe if I get a clear pic, I will put that up.

God. How I love that perfume. People used to comment on how awesome it smell... and I totally agree. It is my favorite and I used it sparingly (a.k.a hot dates .. well of course the occasional get together) since GAP had discontinued that line (or producing perfume itself? ). I bought it years back when I was at UK, and I couldn't find it anywhere at Malaysia. I also could not find any other perfume that can rival my absolute love of the smell of this perfume. CK Euphoria Blossom does come close though. But not quite there yet.

I sprayed some of its liquid mist on my wrist and continue to work. After 6 - 7 years, the perfume still smell as awesome as it does. And as I continue to resume attacking the dust bunnies, onslaught of memories of UTP days came on full attack as well. Nothing triggers memories faster than a whiff of a forgotten smell I say.

I remembered my old room back at Village 4 with its vivid color of yellow and blue, the room at the highest floor right at the corner mengadap the field and the old block of USM resident dorms building. I remembered the bi-weekly cleaning up of the room ... getting rid of the "serangga hijau" that sting like a bitch when it bites, off my table. I remembered sitting on a bed facing my laptop while snuggling my blanket and pillows typing away at my old laptop, smiling, replying to whatever nonsense that we are chatting about in the MiRC. I remembered getting ready for a night out for mewayang session with the girls and the guys. I remembered sitting in a car going out for dinner, and the guy remarked that my perfume smell great.

Oh, that small bottle of a perfume. How you are possessed with memories past.


p/s: If anyone know where I can get this perfume.... locally... do tell.

Girls Weekend Out + 1 Bodyguard

Whoa!

I felt like it had been a long time since I keep this updated. So I am back. After a not so long holiday and a busy week at the office.

I am still busy. Ni tengah sembunyi2 tulis blog ni.

Went to K. Terengganu the last weekend with the usual girls. The bodyguard ituh adalah husband Sheema yang datang from Kelantan to join us at Terengganu. The plan was for shopping and suntanning. Yeah right. *snickers* Like I am going to tan myself. Nope. The plan was for berendam di dalam air macam badak.

But it was a joyous weekend all around, because for the first time, sampai jugak di rumah Lini after planning it years after years. Now let me list the thing we did, pick it off from my head.

Shopping
We went shopping. (Duh!) That is actually one of the main reason mahu ke Terengganu. I bought songket(s) and a little something for the family and family-to-be. Also keropok ikan parang mesti jua in the must buy list as been reminded by my mom again and again. The others, well... I don't really keep track the things I bought, need I keep track on what others shop?

Eating (Every trip will not be complete without at least 1 sumptuous meal thrown in)
The seafood was delish and cheap. Gosh. I don't care if its subpar as long as its cheap. Jangan ikan itu rentung sudah la. Not a picky eater here.

Island visit
Went to Pulau Kapas for a day trip. Most of us are broke for various reason. Therefore day trip is the best for us as we are staying at Lini's house.

The cost around 45rm per head for the boat trip and snorkelling. Went to Kapas Island by speedboat.



A much better transport for me yang cepak 'mabuk'. Not bad. Beautiful sand and a much more beautiful water. The water was clear, emerald green loveliness and the sand is well.. sandy la kan. (Apekah perlu aku gush pasal pasir jua?)

I didn't take the snorkelling thingies, but I did try it out and I guess you are right Seri. It is fun to see all those fishes and I guess with the right underwater visibility, it is quite ok. As long as the fishies stay the hell away from me.

Didn't get enough time to really 'berendam' in the water like a dead log, but I finally get to kayak after several years of wanting to grip the paddle again. More than satisfied, as I realized that I am not as fit as before and after 20 mins in the water I then just remembered the usual skills to quickly navigate the canoe. Tsk. Tangan and badan adalah sangat perit afterwards. My muscle are obviously screaming from disuse.

What can I say more? It was great. I manage to buy the thing I want. I manage to canoe and berendam. I didn't even get sunburn. Semestinye lah kan after menepek a vastful amount of sunscreen and whateverumaycallit to all exposed skin. *skin cancer is a serious thing, ehem*

I did however get a little tan and it is to be expected. And I kinda like the slight tan look. Huhu.

So that's my catitan for the day. Sebelum saya berundur, saya ingin mengakhirkan post ini dengan gambar saya yang tak brape clear di pantai yg nikmat.

I look mighty short! And dumpy! Gah!

Sekian, Terima Kasih.


p/s 1 : I hope I still would not need to remind readers that my posts are usually severely lacking of pics due to me not having any camera and sometimes camera phone is just not suffice. Also the gamba provided above is all from Shima very nice and effective camera. Heehe. Aku cilok ye shima, and kali ni aku tak letak gambau2 yg tidak snonoh :P


p/s 2: Gamba clear hanya dishare bersama org tertentu sahaja. Heeee

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p/s 3: Thanks lini, kerna sudi kasik kami crash di rumah anda and membawa kami yang banyak songeh ni berjalan merata2 .