Food and Dad

i finally tried it. that fried mars bar i've been so tempted to try for more than a year now. so after our run *a good one* we headed down to city hall. after getting a serving of fried mars bar and spicy calamari we sat and shared the food while watching that dounut cue. its been months now. wonder when the craze will be over.
back to the fried mars bar, it was pretty nice. looks like a fried chempedak and it tasted good. we chosed vanilla ice-cream so that it wouldn't be too chocolatey. overall nice though i'm sure all the calories burnt are back again.
on another note, my sis said that dad felt during his saturday marketing with mum and it took him quite some time to recall how it happened. its so very difficult to ask him to see the doctor and my aunt who's like our family medical adviser even can't get through him as he gave lots of medical facts which is true. all he said is that he was careless and tripped over a stone. i reminded him how he forced me to see a doctor after i fainted in the mrt and couldn't recall how it happened. his answer was that i felt because i was feeling dizzy while he felt 'cos he was clumsy. well, yes its just a bump but still... i hope my sis can get through him.

My Blog...

+: what are you doing?
- : blogging
+: you blog?
-: yupe :)
+: what do you blog about? i always want to blog but dunno what to write
-: oh, my blog is loads of crap :p
+: huh?

that was a piece of chat i had with a friend while i was blogging my previous entry. it makes me wonder though, what do i blog? compared to friends, acquantainces, and people i don't know but enjoy reading their blog, my blog is a crap. but i guess that is what makes it different - it is full of my personal craps. don't expect to get a life changing moment or something along the line after reading my blog. don't expect to understand anything of it. don't expect to get good information from it. its open to public but its not meant for discussion or something.
so why do i still blog? well, i just want to remember each and every seconds of my life. things i did. plans i had. my failure. my success. my happiness. my sadness. the funny stuff. the annoying stuff. what i did on a particular weekend. how i felt on a certain moment. basically all. i could just open and re-read my blog anytime i want to, remembering the exact thing that happened. it could bring a smile on my face. it could make me frown. but it is my life.

Recap

its been an enjoyable weekend and all without any proper planning.
the volleyball team was featured in the paper few days ago. the organiser was like texting everyone to check it out and when we commented he himself hadn't had a look at it. the 'weekend warrior'. apparently it was done last week when not many people were there, explaining the number of people in the picture. those amateurs looked like a pro there, lol. anyways i got a text that it was cancelled due to some reason. it was mentioned though that the bbq and clubbing afterwards are still on. i was a bit hesitant in joining. first and foremost i only went to vb once but i was intrigue to join them for the 2nd session just for the sake of checking the place out. in the end, i did the bbq as there are 3 others who were in the same boat as me. did some shopping before heading down to bbq. the place we had bbq was nice with the pit facing the river it became a pretty cozy bbq session. the bbq itself was great though i ended up only with chips, salads, corns, and bun :). thank God i came with them as i didn't know most of the people there, including the host as the time when i went for vb, he wasn't around. so there i was in 3/4 jeans, tees, and slippers finally decided to join them for the 2nd session. ah, who cares. done with cleaning the place all of us walked down for the 2nd session. it was great actually, my intention of leaving early got cancelled due to the fun i had. pretty cool place. there was these group of people who dressed in the retro theme, complete with the afro hair . it was fun watching them. pretty pack night too, 'cos groovy armada is playing. i broke my record on staying out late today.
it should be a quiet sunday but the same group of people decided to do simpson so i joined them. been awhile since i played cheeky pranks to friends and it feel so good to have a good squeeky laugh today. went for a coffee after the movie where i had a nice chat with one of the living proof of that 'all the good ones are taken' thingy.
well it was a nice weekend. a little bit too much if i have to say so myself. i need a break before my bones break.

An April Fool Moment

I HATE U!

I was surprised to receive a text with that words from a friend of mine. what have i done? did i say something wrong?. my heart started pounding and i tried giving her a call but the line was busy. so i went back to the message intending to select the 'reply' option and asked her the reason my being hate. after sending the 'Why?' reply i closed the message and that was when i saw there's a continuation to the wordings above. you have to scroll down to see the following message :-

H = hapy to c u,

A = alwayss miss you,

T = take u in my heart,

E = everyday never forget u..

So i really want to say..

" I HATE U..!"

lame! but it still got me. texted her again to say that i found the whole message and she replied saying she was shocked upon receiving it too.
so i started forwarding it to friends that i knew wouldn't receive from her. mixed responses in return. some texted asking 'what happen', some 'what have i done?', 'u hate me? y?' and an 'huh?'. got them!!
i had to take time to reply to each messages to explain. some replied back, one saying she's driving, another on was in a rush so didn't think of scrolling down, most was wondering what had they done, and one taught its because of a drama she told me about. my sister, the i-don't-do-something-wrong-so-why-do-i-care-if-you're-mad-at-me type of a person, didn't response which was not a surprise. but it was just nice to see mixed reaction or comments from you friends.

Judging A Book By Its Cover

'aiya, its part of friendship. the more u give the more u receive. hehe. give and take lor. sometimes u treat sometimes i treat. hehe. im very easy going'

i was surprised to receive that text as a reply to mine asking on the taxi fare i owed her. and to think this came from a local.
ever since moving here 8 years ago and learning on how calculative the locals can be i have learned to live with no expectation. things that we did back home might not happen with your local friends/colleagues here.
i started to retrace past events and i think i can't ignore the fact that not all locals are calculative though. i have an ex-colleague who sometimes made me feel overwhelmed for all the nice things she did for me. there are 2 nice colleagues at present as well, one who always get a morning paper for me to no avail and the other one who's going to lend me a book she rented without expecting me to pay part of the rental fee.
guess what i'm trying to say is there's still hope in finding those nice people in this tiny red dot island.

All's Well Ends Well

thats how i summed up my day.
it started great as i finally came first for breakfast, though i have to wait quite some time as the others were late i'm just happy that my mission is accomplished.
my plan to hit the gym had to be cancelled. the report i was doing became a big problem with some discrepancies that my boss had to join in the 'investigation' though she ended up asking me to continue doing what i'm doing. i mean different source but shouldn't the figure be the same? dang!! it was late and my eyes were too tired from looking at the small numbers there that i decided to continue tomorrow. i sent the file to my yahoo account as well, thinking i can do it from home if i am lazy to go back to work.
apparently my friend was in the office too that we decided to meet up. oh yeah, i'm so up for it. so i met her and we did a little grocery shopping before heading back to her place where she made us smoothie for dinner. no wonder she is slim! i feel like i'm back to my school days when we spent time looking at her pictures, the house back home, her parents, her dogs, her friends. left her place and walked down to join another group of friends that we knew are around that area. while i was there, my colleague texted saying that she rented the shopaholic series and since she needs to read shopaholic&sister first, i can have the shopaholic&baby on monday. YES! finally..after my reservation was being cancelled twice i managed to get hold of this book. thank you thank you thank you.
so back at home thinking of continuing my report. what do you know, i didn't receive the email in my yahoo account. i guess i'm just destined to have a break now and continue the report tomorrow, hence my being here blogging.

Random Blurt

i finally decided that this book is not a good companion on my train ride as i always end up with teary eyes. few people told me that this is not his best book but somehow i just like the topic mentioned. i can't help but thinking of my own mum. i know we have to seize every moment we have with our parents, but i don't think i can call them simply to say 'i love you'. guess its just the asian culture. but still, i love you mum and dad. i know that you guys know it too even wheni didn't say it loudly. but sometimes how i wish i have the nerve to say right to their face.
the news was talking about facebook now, guess facebook is indeed the 'in' thing now. i'm still not that familiar with it, i only have 2 friends there anyway. friendster. multiply. myspace. hi5. and now facebook. narcissism at its best.
anyways, reading this book kinda made my mind up of going home during the national day week. but yesterday i found out that my sis might be joining them together my niece, still unconfirm though, so i think about it again and i guess its best that i wait 'til my youngest sis gives birth before heading home. anyways i think its nice playing it fair since i went home for my niece and nephew. think i'll better give mum a call now.

Sorry or Thanks?

is it sorry for the trouble or thanks for the trouble?
i always feel the first one is the correct way of expressing your sorry for troubling someone. the latter seems to be a bit sarcastic, don't you think so?
but how come so far 2 people chose the latter to express their gratitude? hmm

Timeout ...

i finally got a time to take a break. hmm, sounds dramatic eh? ah, don't care.
it was a pretty hectic day yesterday. boss came and asked me to do some analysis for the tax partner. well, actually she asked me on friday and i managed to complete it on tuesday. it's just that yesterday she told me that i had to incorporate data from the old system in to get the whole financial ye data 'cos the partner wanted it that way now. the problem was that 2 different system with 2 different data structure i know i'd be going in and out of her room for this. but, after telling me what to do she asked me to liaised with the partner in case i need more information as she'd be on pm leave. very nice! i spent the whole day massaging the data and it was not a pretty picture. a lot of crosswalk need to be done to get it in the same pictures. i really tortured my eyes looking at 8000ish rows of data that i myself felt floating. called the partner for some confirmation only to get more request, sigh. took a break to attend the d&d meeting. yupe, i was asked to join the committee again and i think, why not. will be in charge of the table arrangement again plus food&beverages. now this is fun. so after brainstorming on the theme *still undecided* and done with my part i had to excused myself out of the meeting to continue my report. i felt so utterly lazy looking at the figures but i need to get it done. i gave up around 7ish because i had another commitment. well, work will always be there tomorrow no matter how hard you work on it, right? met my friend for dinner. walked to clarke quay. waited for another friend and then we headed down for the ladies nite. one of them decided to leave as she was not feeling well so only 2 of us stayed. we went there early but apparently it was still closed and we were asked to come back around 9 to 9.30. so went for some ice-cream *we shared the ice-cream to avoid feeling guilty on my side*. i enjoyed talking with this friend of mine as she's one of those go-getter with some good views to share though sometimes it is more do-able for those who have nothing to loose. after spending time there we headed back to the club. it was quite a surprise that each of us was handed a goodie bag. is that a normal thingy on ladies nite? we're not sure. to be honest ladies nite has never have any effect on me, non-alcoholic beverages always come in full price. we ended up in one place where the music wasn't that loud so we still can do our own catching up and enjoying people-watching at the same time. the reason she asked us to go for this ladies nite thingy was the candy floss provided but she ended up with none, hehe. reached home only to receive a call from the girl who left early. its quite a surprise, in a nice way, to get a call from her especially that we ended up chatting for almost 2 hours. we're not that close but i can sensed that she's starting to open herself up more.
slept at 2.30, woke up at 6 this morning. my mind is still disturbed about the report thingy. left the house at 6.30 and on my journey to the office i realised something, something that could make my night a little bit peaceful. i remembered boss saying about trying to get the detail out and send to the partner for approval before proceeding to the summary. at that time i said to myself, what's the point on doing so since the detail is what takes lots of time. but after thinking about it again, i assumed what she meant was try to come out with 1 partner first. well, that was what the 1st thing i did when i reached office. 'beautify' the extraction for 2 partners first and sent it out. 8.30 came and the partner called. asking for this and that to be included, some of which seems a bit tricky and required lots of eye-balling which i had to seek my boss' advise. now she's talking about this new channel thingy with the partner and i am left with waiting for the final decision.
oh.. i so wish i can just go home and hide myself under my blankie now. i feel soooo lethargic.

Night Owl

bloody body! when i was online earlier i felt very tired and sleepy that i had to ask my sis to continue testing whatever she's testing thru' skype tomorrow. now that i'm all ready to sleep, i can't. my body is tired. my mind is tired but i just can't close my eyes. seems like there's a lot of things going on in my mind. think about this. think about that. plan this. plan that. its tired but it refuses to take a rest.
sometimes i do wonder if i really become an owl. during schooling time mum always said that we're an owl whenever she caught us watching tv instead of sleeping at night. probably during one of that incident, an angel who happened to pass by overheard it and asked God to grant mum's wish. hmm

Roller Coaster of Life

from maria's diary :-
i spent today outside a funfair. since i can't afford to fritter my money away, i thought it best just to watch other people. i stood for a long time by the roller coaster, and i noticed that most people get on it in search of excitement, but that once it starts, they are terrified and want the cars to stop.
what do they expect? having chosen adventure, shouldn't they be prepared to go the whole way? or do they think that the intelligent thing to do would be to avoid the ups and downs and spend all their time on a carousel, going round and round on the spot?
at the moment, i'm far too lonely to think about love, but i have to believe that it will happen, that i will find a job and that i am here because i chose this fate. the roller coaster is my life; life is fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it.
it isn't easy being far from my family and from the language in which i can express all my feelings and emotions, but, from now on, whenever i feel depressed, i will remember that funfair. if i had fallen asleep and suddenly woken up on a roller coaster, what would i feel?
well, i would feel trapped and sick, terrified of every bend, wanting to get off. however, if i believe that the track is my destiny and that God is in charge of the machine, then the nightmare becomes something thrilling. it becomes exacly what it is, a roller coaster, a safe, reliable toy, which will eventually stop, but, while the journey lasts, i must look at the surrounding landscape and whoop with excitement.
- paulo coelho, eleven minutes

Dinner Talk

i made a detour before going home as i need to collect a book from the library and also because i want to buy the kebab. supposed to be returning a book as well, but i haven't write down the quote from that book, which i'll do as soon as i post this blog. so, i was looking at a stall selling a supposedly "authentic indonesian" ayam penyet when i saw a kebab stall just across it. oh, there's few kebab sellar now, i thought. then i saw the old man. it is the egyptian kebab. wonder where are his kids though. don't get me wrong, but in this country seeing a not bad *not bad! mark my chosen word .. not even quite good* looking male is like a breath of fresh air. there was a queue but it wasn't as long as it was before. and guess what, it might just be my luck, i got a lot a lot of meat! so i ate it on my way to the library. halfway through i noticed another kebab stall. apparently they have 2 stalls in the pasar malam. i guess they learned from their previous experience that it's better to have more than 1 stall. the seller was some boy which was not bad looking, but i couldn't see the face clearly. next time i'll buy it there. reached the library. got my reserved book and walked home. and i saw yet another stall near ntuc. this is where i saw the son, apparently he's stationed there. i'm just happy there's 3 stalls now. i don't have to feel embarrassed like last time when i queued almost everyday for kebab. now i can rotate between these 3 stalls.

I 'heart' Myself .. Not

its just beginning of the week and i had made quite a number of stuff that i am not proud or even happy about.
firstly,i woke up early just to switched off the alarm and went back to sleep. gone were my plan of starting good
secondly, i know that hp wouldn't be running today, hence my reason of being two types of gym wear - in case i'm in the mood, i'll run myself. else i'll hit the gym. which one did i do? none!
i went home straight away and since i was so engrossed with the last chapter of the book i was reading i decided to continue my train journey until i'm done with it. and it was tampines. so i went out and planned on heading to giant for some grocery shopping. after thinking thoroughly, i cancelled my plan *which was the only good thing i did today* as i'll be having dinner outside for the next 2 days. i spent time in tampines mall looking for the perfect black sandal i've been searching for months now. after getting myself a tops *yay*, i went home. just when i reached my unit i realised that i left the key at the office. bummer! what annoyed me more was that when i took out the token id put in the keychain's pouch i kinda talked to myself that i could forget to put it back in my bag. and i did that!
so i took a trip back to the office, took the key which was apparently hidden under the small pillow i put on the desk, and went back home.
had i go to the gym after work, i'd realised that i left the key when i want to open the locker.
i'm so very indiscipline, unorganised today and i despise every bit of it!

Nite Nite, Sleep Tight

i woke up with a 'cnut cnut' in my head. must be the lack of sleep this week. this made me fel reluctant to go for the volley ball. i kinda told the leader that i'd come today so i was quite in a dilemma *taela*. anyways, to cut it short - i didn't go.
so i spent the whole afternoon resting and left the house to meet yol for a movie and dinner. haven't seen her for quite a while too. apparently something changed - our clothes' size!!. movie was pretty good, pretty funny, and of course pretty gross.
now home relaxing though i have to be sleeping by now. i seriously think i really have to sleep now or else i'll wake up late tomorrow. somehow i feel that tonight is a school night :\

The HP7 Craze

i just realised i got a text message

i got the book! i got e book! i'm e frist in punggol at 8 am!! guy knocked e door 3 times n we were all in out little dream land n didn't hear! by the im realised there was something at the door, he left a note! i ran downstairs in search of his van and got my book! hehe. the guys even said, u r very lucky if not your kid would have been upset. haha, i told him im the kid! n yes i would be upset.

the harry potter craze. few friends of mine are planning on a weekend in to read it, so that no spoilers can affect their excitement. geez, thank God i'm not that huge fans. i haven't even read the 1st 3 books we have at home. i'll just wait for the movie and just borrow the book later. i'm sure they'll come out with a collection set, from book 1 to 7. now that might be worth buying. so for now let's just not tell me if he lives or he dies.

i then remember about another friend who's supposed to be queueing for the book today that i texted her to ask. her answer was

not started yet! only got up half hour ago .. fingers crossed can get at borders

she still hasn't learn the lesson by now and join the culture. i'm pretty sure a lot of people has start queueing since last night. i wonder when will juwi get hers...

update at 11.32 am :-

got it! only had 2 queue 4 ten mins in borders. Going straight home 2 make a start..

now that's pretty fast.

Monthly Rental Wanted

mba' anda is coming to singapore. together with 2 of her friends they'll be here for a 3 months research, one will only be here for a month. i was happy that she'll be here eventhough in a short period. she's not only my senior, she's so-called our spiritual mentor during uni days. she's so very very patient with us. at first our mentor was someone else who gave up on us and that was when mba' anda took over. i remember during one of the topic she talked about, we kinda challenged her asking if the 1st glance is a bless and the glances afterwards are the 'work' of the devil, what if we pretended to accidentally glance all the time? hehe.
anyways, i know i couldn't find a place as per her requrement but i'm getting more and more worried now that even neglecting all her other requirements, i still couldn't find someone who's renting a place for 3 months. i wish they can stay with me, but there'll be a wedding soon and my whole family is coming down. i even tried calling 2 agents to no avail. how ya?

That's Kiasu

met my friend before heading for dinner earlier. upon reaching the station where we're alighting, this boy kept on pushing me. the train hasn't stopped and yet he was so impatient though i looked at him saying that i was going down too. he still pushed and managed to squeezed himself right next to me. that was when my friend realised and being a blunt girl that she is, she asked me loudly 'why is he pushing you?' to which i replied loudly as well, 'kiasu maah'. she laughed and the boy looked embarassed and stopped pushing his way out. once out my friend told me that she didn't expect me to answer her question. well it is good i answered it loud and clear. it made the boy realised how annoying his action was.
suddenly i remember this incident. and now i can remember the boy's embarassed face

Nicely Broke

my budget for this month has exceeded tremendoulsy. with all the shoppings i've been doing, well i justified myself by saying i really do need that stuff and i actually do, i know i've betrayed my own plan. but after tonight? well, i consider myself officially broke.

it all started with an email from a friend about a dinner at one of a nice place in town. smart casual. if there's additional people you must confirm with the chef at least one day in advance. that kinda posh place. we've tried the other 2 slightly lower end place from this company, so it is kinda nice to complete the experience, that's how i reasoned myself.

at first, i was a bit worried of not being able to blend in when i realised that not most but all the invitees are either from uk or lived there for ages before moving here. but well, what the heck .. i'll just go, after all the one organising it is one of my own buddy. dinner was good .. really good! there was an incident when the order came out wrong. instead of taking it back to the kitchen the staff put it in the middle of the table saying, 'it's on the house'. how good is that. and don't get me to the dessert. i broke my own routine by not ordering tiramisu and had the chocolate degustation instead. and of course the company was great as well. i am actually motivated to go back to exercise routinely after hearing bea's story on how she motivated herself. very inspiring. its always nice to hear stories and reflect back to yourself. but when the bill came it was not good for my pocket. $931ish! blimming expensive. at first we decided to share the bill equally but then one of them rejected as she ordered quite a number of drinks and i ended up paying $89. still bloody expensive. but it's all worth it and it's not a regular thingy. payment type is always fun for me, because each of us will take out their wallet and start counting the amount they need to pay. once all the money is on the table someone will do the counting, if its not enough we'll divide it equally among us to cover it. once it's done we'll hand it to the waiter who's waiting patiently for us. it might sound very troublesome, but it's fair to everyone. unless somebody has no cash, then it'll be charged it to that person's card and we'll do the same way of counting before leaving the place. if it's a close group than we'll just simply divide the amount equally. so everyone always leave feeling happy.

once done with dinner, i joined 2 of them for the friday night gathering. not that i drink or what, but passing this place everytime i'm around the orchard area really makes me curious to check it out. the drinks is pretty cheap here compared to other places i went before, well, at least my cranberry juice is. my intention was to stay there 'til 11 but we only reached there at 11.20, thanks to the taxi driver who until now hasn't call me! so i decided to leave at 11.45 instead. apparently there were few familiar faces there and the crowd was not that bad that i ended up leaving later then intended. luckily one of the guy who stays at bayshore left at the same time and offered me a taxi ride home. at least i safe my transport fee, hehe.

but seriously speaking, i have to cut down all this fancy dining stuff next month to redeem my overspending this month. i've already told them that i won't be joining the weekly brunch. why? they asked and my answer was it's too pricey for me. come on $78+++ for a buffet brunch with a free flow orange juice? i'm not an expat eh, i'd be selling my organs if i join them that often.

Keep The Dreams Alive

the greates blessing of life is the existence of tomorrows and having dreams to realize

everybody has dreams. not everyone will work hard or do anything to make it happen and the path towards achieving it might be different for those who do something about it. some can achieve it fast, some need years to achieve it. some could just move from one country to another, buying property in each country while others have to save extra hard so that their parents can still survive when they leave to achieve that dream. indeed some dreams are not cheap but do-able. it's just a matter of time. as long as you don't loose your focus on that dreams and you really really work hard towards achieving it, and of course as long as it's a reasonable dreams, it will come true. after all we are the masters of our own destiny.

even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you do not deviate from that path in any way
never give up on your dreams - follow the signs

to a friend who is realising her dreams soon :- good luck
to a friend who is completing her study :- all the best, i'm sure you can achieve that one day
to myself :- focus darling, focus...

ps. all quotes courtesy of Paulo Coelho

Morning Talk

yes!! its finally friday. i am so waiting for friday this week, mainly so that i can wake up late tomorrow.
started the day with the usual weekly breakfast. seems like foodbarn has become our regular breakfast place whenever no one has an idea on where to go. and scramble egg and bagel with cream cheese is what i always order there.
anyways, just want to blog a bit while waiting for some confirmation from finance, its their turn to be the indecisive party now. about nothing important, nothing much, well, nothing at all actually. just that i want to blog it down to remind myself that you can never ever make everyone happy. sometimes it is just okay to only think about yourself. yes you might feel bad but time will make you get use to it. and its true that compartmentalising things is necessary at times. i've decided to start practising it from now onwards.
on a side note, cin lend me a book i've been so wanting to read for long. i don't want to buy, i don't want to rent, i simply want to spend money reserving it from the library. on a budget constraint, eh. but my reservation kept on getting cancelled due to the long waiting list. and now i have two books to read. i might as well cancel going to the volleyball tomorrow to read these. my excuse for doing detox was not fully accepted last week, hence my saying to come this week. but now, with two books in hand as an excuse? hmm..

Living Your Dreams

just received a text message from a friend.

i'm done with dinner. he send his regards. i'll see you tomorrow. nite.

suddenly i remember. my friend went out for dinner with our mutual friends. a farewell dinner. this friend of us bought a one way ticket to a new country for a new life. leaving his families, his house, his business, his friends - basically his life - behind. though i'm not that close to him, in fact, unlike my friend who meets him regularly for golf, i only meet him 5 times since i know him june last year and the rest of our correspondencies are through email, its always fun hanging out with him. though i'm against his lifestyle, i always feel comfortable around him. its true what they said about gay being the best friend a girl could ask for.
anyways, i just admire his guts to leave everything behind for a new life in a new country. to be honest, we're not surprise if he ends up in hongkong or sydney considering his lifestyle. but this? i guess when you have your mind made up its best to just follow your heart and prepare to face whatever challenges coming your way.
wish you all the best there!!

He's Back

i took a detour to bedok interchange area before going home. looks like the 'pasar malam' will be back this weekend. what makes me happy is that i saw few guys i've been wanting to see for so long - the kebab guys. yupe, the egyptian kebab stall will be back soon. i can't wait!
on a side note, i just had a chat with my nephew. the first thing that he said was, 'aa baby, why now you so fat? fat is not good, you can be sick'. and i can hear my sister laughing full of satisfaction in the background. bugger!

Great Minds Think Alike ;)

i love wearing mango's tee to work. few years back hp asked me about the tops i have. from then onwards we have few colours in common but never were we ever use the same colour at the same time, which is pretty good. but not today where both of us wear black pants and yellow tops! it's like a uniform, wonder which orphanage do we come from. so funny. and to think that we're heading for pilates during lunch time together!!

3rd Time Is A Charm?

i can't sleep. my body is tired, my eyes are tired and my brain feels like it could explode anytime. and yet i couldn't enter the dream land. this is the 3rd day of sleepless night. wonder how will i survive at work later. i made an embarassingly careless mistake today. luckily my boss, being very detail due to her accounting backgroud, spotted it and told me about it. in her exact words, 'lucky you send it to me first. the partners will laugh when they see your analysis'. yeah a very stupid mistake as i include an unneccessary criteria. but i seriously must master my boss' way of identifying suspicious figures that fast. so i've made a pledge to redeem my pride for the next 2 days by providing a perfectly error-free careless-free fee-billed analysis that was handed to me earlier. but if i can't concentrate tomorrow, how could i achieve that?
oh well. they said good things come in three. i reckon bad things come in three as well.

Waiting In Vain

i pressed the 'publish post' button rightaway when i saw my sister on skype while i was blogging. i so wanted to have a chat with my niece/nephew. apparently my nephew is already asleep so i had to wait for my niece who's still downstairs. waiting for 30 mins to no avail, i checked. she's now in her room changing. waited for another 20 mins. i wonder what took her so long so i asked my sis if my niece was also getting a makeover considering 20 mins is much too much for an infant to get dressed. finally my sis type 'the princess is coming'. started my webcam and saw her smiling suddenly 'bruk bruk' and the called ended. my sis called again and i couldn't see anything. apparently she took the webcam and somehow it didn't work now. my almost 1 hour wait for a chat with them only ended up in 2 mins or even less.

Something New

i slept at 2.30 am this morning chitchatting with my friend before she left this morning, so after 2 days of sleep depriviation i skipped gym and went straight home. the weather is quite lovely, the heavy downpour earlier was a total heaven sent.
thanks to a friend, i found a new thing to spend my time with. she sent a link of her getmapped and i was totally impressed of the places she's been as i am a believer of the more you travel the more experience in life you have. i checked the website again once i went online earlier and ended up registering myself there. it's kinda cool for you to trace back places you visited and lived in. i believe i've completed mine and i aim to have more reds and greens on my list in the near future.
another thing that pick my interest is facebook. it was one of the things talked about during the photography exhibition. at that time i was clueless and just listened to the conversation. i actually did try to search for it when i went home that night but somehow i didn't find it. i searched for phasebook if i remember correctly. kinda forget about it until last week when a friend invited me to join so i did. created an account, yada yada yada and never visit it again. and today i decided to spend time checking it out.

lunch talk

i went out for lunch thinking of getting a take away from kfc, hence i didn't bring my book along. while walking there i suddenly thought of the pizza we had last monday so i quickly changed my plan and headed to club st. i ended up in a halal-certified japanese place which was quite secluded. sometimes the best way for an indecisive person to have lunch is to go alone, that's for sure.
food was okay though i'm still annoyed with the fact that they use egg noodle for the ramen. anyways i took the set that comes with salad, drink, and ice-cream *and who wants to loose weight again?* so that i have plenty of time sitting there people watching. tired of people watching i simply sat there staring to nothing and anything while my mind started wandering around. its always nice to be able to find a place of your own even when you're in a middle of a crowd. i simply love it.
on another note, today's my nephew's 2nd day in primary school. i still can't grasp the fact that he'll be 6 in 2 weeks time. gosh, how time flies. i called earlier and asked if his heading home from ladybird and his answer was,'aa baby, i'm now in primary school you know. esde!' . so cute. my sis told me that he asked my mom to go back and leave him alone there on his 1st day. boy i miss seeing him.

random thoughts

some people has all the opportunity the world has to offer, all the freedom others can only wish for turns out to be confuse with all the too many options to choose from. while others who don't have that many opportunities, that much luxury, that freedom to choose, seems to be someone who knows what they want when the truth is that they are left with no option but to accept whatever life has to offer at that moment.

Rambling

i'm sleepy. i slept at like 5am this morning. it all started with me drinking coke during the meetup last night. coke at night, i know what the result would be. on the way home, i made a detour to pick a friend who's been waiting for me since 8 pm. and i only picked her up at 10ish! well she was supposed to arrive yesterday but her flight got delayed so she missed the connecting flight. then she told me she'd be staying at her friend's place for the night before moving to my place today. and suddenly during my meetup she called and said if it was okay to stay at my place instead. of course it is, but, problem is i was in the middle of a meeting.
picked her up and we went home straight away. i missed the 1st few minutes of the new series on TV. when my friend saw it she simply said, 'hey, this is airing in ireland too. oh the dad is still alive' NO!! i guess some people is still unaware of how much i hate spoilers. told her not to give anymore spoilers to which she complied and switched to giving hint mode. sigh.
anyways so we spent time talking afterwards and i left her to sleep around 2am though i could only fell asleep at 5. and now i'm sleepy....

The Book Club Gathering

went for a singapore bookclub meeting earlier. the topic was historical narratives, so we were asked to bring one book in that genre or simply to come with an open mind. it turns out to be an interesting gathering, if i can call it that considering only 4 people came. we started the gathering by sharing info about ourselves (well for me, since i'm one of the two newbies), our favourite author and why. since there's also someone from russia, he was asked to share any russian author whose book worth reading. i was pretty clueless when it comes to indonesian author, thank God the other girl who turns out to be my country mate answered the question. we then talked about a particular book from that genre and since the rest came with an open mind, it ended up with the organiser sharing information on the book she brought. apparentl radiohead's song, 2+2=5, was inspired from this book . other interesting stuff about this particular book was shared with us. i am no. 2 in line to borrow the book, hehe.
it was a nice gathering in a nice place and since its a small group it's kinda cozy as well. after enough talking about books, we started talking about things that interest us. it was great to find out that one of them was into french movie too that we then talked about paris je t'aime.
apparently the russian guy was my neighbour, well in terms that his in south tower and i'm in the north. no wonder he said i looked familiar, we might bumped into each other before. well since 3 of us are working around city we might just go out for lunch one day.
watching a movie will be the the activity for the next gathering. still unsure when will that be though, since the regulars are out of town. i hope its not that early. judging from my 1st time attending such a gathering, i need to expand my reading horizon.

Day 03 - RIP

okay, bottomline is :- again, i failed!
was doing good this morning until 11ish. i couldn't help but ate the breakfast provided by the company. then around 12 i sametimed my colleague asking if she wants to have lunch together. after lunch while waiting for her queueing food for my boss, i got myself a glass of lime juice. then after getting my dad's vitamin i got myself a bottle of mo far kor. no wonder my ex-pt gave up on me. i too gave up on myself.
anyways, suddenly i remembered one of the things we talked about during dinner. passport stamps. you know some country, say singapore, not stamping passport if you're a citizen, permanent residence, or if your holding an employment pass. good for me that my country still practice this stamping thingy, so at least there's something in my passport identifying the date of me leaving and entering it. some of my friends didn't have it at all. some even didn't get it, due to their citizenship, when they go to few other countries. so their passport are as clean as a new one, safe for the page of multiple-entry stamp from the immigration. you can be in and out, in and out few countries and it'll still be shown as if you never travel out of singapore your whole life. interesting.

Day 02 - Kaput!

*again* there goes my detox.
everything was in order this morning. a pear and few grapes and orange. scrubbed the toilet. continue reading the book. went out earlier than planned so didn't grab anymore fruits. watched harry potter, which i find pretty okay. i didn't read the book so i have no complain on it being shortened or modified.
a friend that's supposed to be in-transit before flying home called. her plane got delayed so she'd be arriving tomorrow morning instead. now there's no reason for me to leave early during dinner. dinner? yeah! steamboat and a can of coke. it was a nice one and to be honest i didn't regret it. it was afterall a steamboat, but the can of coke! reckon my willpower is not that strong, eh. sigh.

Damn!!

was chatting with a friend online and ended up talking about gym. she's signed up with planet fitness and i told her to try the combat and pump class. told her about the mega combat as well and i went to the site to see if the schedule is up. i didn't see any info on this on the paper. and ...
it is TODAY!!! speechless. sad. gutted. annoyed at myself for not checking it out earlier. cursing. swearing. damn!!

Day 01 - on your mark, get set, GO!

its almost the end of the day and so far so good. i cancelled joining the volleyball and cleaned-up the house instead. its been more than a month since i scrub the kitchen floor. still couldn't control my munching that i ended up taking grapes every now and then. cheated a bit, when i soaked the pear with salt. just to give it a little pinch.
called my friend and good that she's doing fine now, planning on a city tour and what type of bread for breakfast when i spoke to her. have fun there, girlie.
every now and then i on my machine and re-watched the k-drama, searching for those episodes where the lead actor said something nice. i know i know, i'm a romantic fool. somehow the idea of a prince charming still appeals to me eventhough i know of the fact that all that only happens in movies or dramas or novels.
anyways, day 1 is pretty okay. a friend who's also detoxing texted and we kinda update each other on our fruit intake. another friend texted giving support, haha very cute but thanks for the thought. hope i can stand the temptation on day 2. i failed the last time on day 2, hope it wont't happen this time around. now i think i'll just get back to my reading.

Day 0 - Preparation

friday night finally comes. decided not to join a friend visiting singapore art museum as i've been harassing my body for the whole week now. dinner, dessert, online movie until 2 am for the last 5 days. 2 huge dinners and 2 desserts within a week, without any exercise. my oh my. so anyways, i think its just nice to be home early and let my body rest. the museum will still be there but not my health, right?
so after managed to escape boss, i went to sunmoon getting myself fruits for tomorrow. Detox day!! hopefully it starts and ends as planned. 3 fiji apples, 2 golden pears, 1 pear, a pack of grapes, a box of blueberries, and a pack of oranges. this should be just fine for tomorrow. else i'll just go down tomorrow to get watermelon and probably mango.
had a foot reflexiology before going home as my whole body was so not feeling well. the sign of sickness. the sign of ageing. while having it, a friend who's on business trip to chennai called. poor girl, she fell sick on the 1st day. she's been working like mad for the past week and i reckon the body just couldn't take it any longer. she told me the doctor there was 'highly sophisticated'. the consultation was done through phone and the verdict was she's having a jet-lag. duh! 2.5 hrs of time difference, what jet-lag? told her to visit one and insist on doing the consultation face-to-face tomorrow. i hope she's doing fine there.
now back to detox. my plan on doing some activity for this was not realised. apart from not having time to sit down and write an email about it, i still have no idea what to do aside from picnic at botanical garden. but few friends knew about this and so far 1 will do together with me and the other 1 awaiting my result before diving into it. i've told them up front though that my main reason of detoxing is purely to 'clean' my internal organ. of course weight will be one of the objective too but i believe the amount i'm going to loose from this detox thingy is purely water not fat. saying that, i still weight myself though. as at 8.27 pm:- 56.2 kg. probably 57 after my last supper? wish me luck!!

Done!!

1. i'll be back to work later. i can't wait for morning to come and the day to end
2. i'm done with winter sonata!! finally!!!

thanks to gayeonx3 who uploaded it to youtube! i was so excited last night to finish the drama and was quite sad to find out that 18 wasn't the last episode and he/she didn't have the last 2. but then a link was provided. so i guess i have to thank this laurent guy as well for uploading the whole drama. i notice there are few other drama in his blog, but no - enough. no more k-drama, unless i am bored?

Before I Start

i reached home early as the class ended early today. happy happy. i started the day feeling very sleepy, thanks to the k-drama marathon. i still forced myself to sleep at 2 this morning so i can concentrate in class. not cheap man, if i ended up sleeping in class. so that today the class ended early, i decided to skip attending the volunteer talk - i kinda know what's it about anyway - and rush back home. nope, not to sleep but to continue the drama. i miss the train by few years i know, but who cares.
while i was checking my mailbox, a guy approached me. early 20s if not late teens. he asked for $5 as his parents passed away and he has no money to eat. i really despise this kinda person, how could you use that kinda excuse. i harsly said no and moved to the lift. he grumbled grumbled while i did my own grumbling while staring at him. he thought i was talking to him so he looked at me. i then told him that if his parents really passed away he shouldn't be wandering around with a bike looking like a hooligan, he should go to the place of worship and pray for them. i know its harsh but i really hate this kinda people. still young and living his life irresponsibly. he was quiet shocked with my comment and thank God the lift came. i quickly went in and kept looking back while opening my door. he could've followed me up, after all he looks like a gangster yo.
okay .. time for my you tube-ing :) hope i could end all this today!

A Craze A Little Too Late

i've been watching more and more movies online this year. even during lunch break, when i am not in the mood to go out, i'd simply buy one and get back to my desk and continue watching whatever i am watching. i had covered quite a number of indonesian movies. last week was tusuk jelangkung, and this week was berbagi suami *i have to say this is one good local production*. so today, after deciding to break the habit of ironing in the morning, i went online and somehow typed korean drama before hitting the 'search' button. i then saw a title which was a talk of the town few years back. winter sonata. what the heck, lets watched it. i got hooked on it. spent almost the whole day today watching it. once my food is delivered, i'll continue. God, have mercy on me. no. i'm not gonna be a lazy bummer. this will be the only k-drama i'd watch. no wonder lots of husbands threatened to divorce their wives because of korean drama. so addictive.

In Memory

pak udin passed away
a text message from my sister few minutes ago. innalillahi wa inna ilaihi roji'un
ah pak udin. suddenly i remembered all the incidents we had with you. i just want to blog it down so that one day when i re-read this blog, i remember you.
pak udin was an 'ojek' driver near my place who happened to be my mom's friend's neighbour. since he can drive cars we contact him whenever we need an extra driver, especially when i'm home. mom always said, 'why waste your money for taxi, use pak udin. just make sure you show him the way'. and to no avail he would come whenever being called. with both dad and my brother in-law always out on business trip and the drivers living very far, pak udin was one of the person we can count on in terms of emergency. when our cat was sick we'd called him saying we need to go to the hospital. he would be at our place in few minutes time, thinking it was my nephew who was sick.
he was kind but he has some issues that makes dad kinda reluctant if we said pak udin would be the one driving the car. firstly he was totally direction-blind. apart from rawabelong area, don't ask him to go somewhere without navigating him. i think i know the way better eversince i engaged him. asked him to turn left on the next road before you see the road would end up with him missing the turn. 'ah, pak udin forget deh' would be his response. there was once we went to the shopping centre and he didn't know how to take the ticket from the machine. he was very blur that the locket officer kinda scolded him and asked him to get out of the car and retrieved the ticket itself. not that we didn't tell him to, he's simply blur and drove on when we asked him to stop and collect the ticket. and mind you, this happened again and again. normally there'll be some issue with the car whenever pak udin was done driving it. the water was dry or some other things. and the ultimate incident was when my sister went to taman anggrek. upon returned to the carpak, pak udin realised he locked the car and the key was still inside. he called dad asking how to get into the car now. dad who was annoyed asked him to enter through the knalpot (exhaust hole?). funny part was he took it seriously and asked my sister how could he do that. dad had to travel all the way to send the spare key when our reason for engaging him was not to disturb dad. eversince that incident dad always said 'try to find other driver first before engaging him'.
ah pak udin, that story always makes me smile. the last thing i heard was you were sick, pretty bad. mom always called and updated me on your well-being.i remember mum saying you cried when my younger sister gave you something from her first paycheck. you regard us as your own kids i know, especially my youngest sister who spent most of the journey with you. may you rest in peace and may all your kindness be rewarded by God.

To End My Day

Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry.
Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake.
Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake.
Laughter always follows tears.
Blessed are those who understand.
Life blossoms wherever water flows.
Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown.
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"

*from Daily Muslim Wisdom

Live Earth

do you think this concert will raise people awareness on global warming? if you ask me i would say i dont think so. they'll come for the concert, listen to the messages, then go home feeling satisfied or not from the performances they just saw. any other way to raise the awareness then? to be honest, i have no idea. we heard a lot about climate change, carbon emission, but have we take part in reducing it? i'm sure we do or at least we try. once i read an article on how switching off your machine could reduce carbon emission. i forwarded it to few operators in my dept who are known never to off their machine. they do now. at least it shows their concern.
i remember reading somewhere about how this country try to participate by getting companies or building to switch off aircon during lunch time. not sure if this works but definitely not in our building.
sometimes i am a bit skeptical about the locals here. i can speak about how animal is abuse and they'd just listened then continued what they're doing. no sign of compassion. nothing. i actually talked about this to hp and her answer was, 'nothing we can do mah'. sigh oh well, not going to complain about people. rather i'd focus on what i can do. switching lights when i'm leaving the room. setting the timer of my aircon. switching off the electrical equipment, not living it on standy, whenever they're not in use. the only thing on standby are the fridge and the phone. i know i can do much more, but i'll start with doing all this small little things first. let's increase our level of awareness. oh look, its linkin park now!!!

Sun, Sand, Beach, Ball

it was raining this morning. almost cancelled what i've been wanting to do. but in the end it kinda help in terms of weather. so i met claire , took the monorail then walked to km8 for the beach volley ball. we were the 2nd person there and after few minutes of waiting one by one people started coming. the last time i did volley was like what, my primary school days? but thank God they were all nice, very welcome to beginners. i was pretty lucky to be in the same team as mark as he taught me few quick lesson in between servings. 3 guys in the area asked if they could join the game. they did and i was lucky when the brazilian guy ended up in our team. he kinda helped everytime the ball came my way as i tend to dunk everytime it came. a bit panic, but hey i scored 4 points for my team from all my serves. not bad, huh. took a little break after playing 2 sets and when i joined the game again the team was already a mix of people from our group and other guests of the club. everytime i just looked at the ball they'd made fun of me 'you gotta move girl' so i tried a bit harder and it was a big cheer whenever i scored a point. very fun. by this time it was pretty hot and me not wearing sunglasses kinda get in the way. i decided to stop after the match was over and spent time with those taking a break or simply there to cheer us. after i felt i had enough fun for the day i decided to go home. nice game. nice way to spend a weekend. i'll join them again in the future, that's for sure. see how sore will i be tomorrow.

Arty Farty

a friend and i went to an art exhibition. a photography exhibition to be precise. a pretty interesting exhibition by a pretty young lady. the place itself is already interesting, very un-singapore i shall say. we were welcomed by two big pictures from her collection. there were audio guide to guide *well, obviously* you through each and every photos, including the family christmas cards which i truly find interesting. at the end of the show was a slide displaying selected photographs of her families and friends while the audio guide plays james blunt's you're beautiful. very creative, very nice. we were then handed a book displaying photos which she told us was bits and pieces of her upcoming project. its like the evolution of mankind, so to speak. how your thoughts and dreams would change as you grow older. you will see photos of people's behaviours in different stage of life. a bit cynical. 'idealist tends to grow up being cynical', was her response when we expressed our view. true indeed. what i like about her collection is that they focus on normal people in their daily activities. it also made me look at photos in a different way. never had i thought that you can understand what's on people's mind based on the body language or pose shown in a photo. the audio guide really helps me in understanding each and every photos.
i have to say i admire her for knowing what she wants in life. for going a totally different direction. i for one, still unsure of what i really really REALLY want to do.
we then sat and chatted with her and another guy who was there just like us. from talking about how she ended up in this line, to a bit of palm reading *it appears that i am a creative person, well if imaginative is part of being creative, then yeah i guess i am*, her future plan, dragon boating, to the website which i think is like friendster called photobook (?). had a pretty interesting chat with the guy about indonesia, sulawesi in particular. i just knew there's an island called hobo (?) which is part of some reef conservation. imagine a foreigner knowing your country better than yourself, tsk tsk tsk.
her exhibition will end this sunday and bangkok will be her next destination. again kudos for a girl who really knows what she wants. and not only knowing, but goes all the way to achieve it.
*a big thanks to a lady who went all the way and guided us to the art gallery. very kind of you!

A Small Treasure called Internet

internet was down since morning.
'it may take more than a day to fix week, probably until next week', said the IT guy.
few of us started complaining but not me as i am on leave next week. so i spent the whole day concentrating on work and whenever i need a distraction or simply killing time while waiting for the process to complete, i do what i like most, scribblings on paper i always put in front of me. somethings missing, yes. life seems to be incomplete without internet. but life goes on. or should i say, work goes on.
'internet is up' one of the network guy shouted.
yes! life's back to normal. our spirit went up. started the browser, checked email. done. back to work. i'm sure i'll be concentrating back to my work after i publish this.
but often we take things, small things included, for granted. until its gone then you'll realise how life is incomplete without it. even when you only use it every now and then.

While I'm Waiting

woke up late this morning. well not really, actually. i woke up early and went back to sleep. i woke up again, looked at the time 7 am, decided to sleep again. woke up again, 7.20 am, sleep again. another 5 minutes, i thought. well the 5 mins turned to be 50. i jumped off the bed, literally, had a quick shower, got changed and left the house. called my boss saying i'd be very late today and i was waiting for a cab. she called back few mins later asking me to take train, as it's hard to take a cab in the morning. at that time, i was already in the cab. at least she is nice. apparently the universe is conspiring against me. massive jam in ecp due to an accident. i reached office at 9.20ish, almost the same time if i took a train. $17 burnt just like that. tsk tsk tsk. once at the office i rolled my pants and started applying moisturiser. no time to do it at home. hp told me that boss went out and asked her what did i do yesterday until i woke up late. hehe.
while working the girl staying at my place texted asking if i was free for dinner. i asked her to reschedule it as i wanted to watch the final season of heroes. couldn't find a day that agrees with our schedule, i suggested on next week instead. that was when she told me she's leaving on sunday, her 1- month will be over next tuesday. time does flies. i thought i could watch the re-run at 12.30 later so we went for dinner. went for fish 'n chips at penny black then we went to fullerton, merlion, and ended the night with calamari at harry's. we stayed quite some time at harry's as they're playing some jazz songs.
so now i'm just hanging around for the 2nd re-run of heroes. another hour 15 to go. i hope i won't be late again tomorrow. i'm sure boss will ask me if i am. no more another 5 mins for me. at least for tomorrow.
on a side note, after the monday run my left knee was doing better. i didn't run the whole way though, i am still sane. once i felt some pain in the bone i brisked walk. i still continue wearing the knee guard at home for precaution sake. during tuesday combat i could say my left knee was okay. i was puzzled though when i couldn't balance everytime i did kick or even set-up the round-house kick on my left. seems like there's some problem with my right knee. i always ended up wobbling or after kick i couldn't pull my leg back, it'd directly touch the floor. wonder what's going on i wore knee guard on my right knee as well. this morning i woke up and felt some soreness around my ankle. its okay during the day but it came back again while i was walking from boat quay to esplanade. now i had two knee guards and an ankle guard on. talking about ageing gracefully.

Place is Reserved .. Chop!

there was a slight argument while i was queueing for shower at the gym earlier. apparently a middle-aged woman who left the shower cubicle told the lady who was 1st in the queue not to use that cubicle. she's heading to the steambath room for 10 mins or so and will use it again. of course the lady was annoyed and commented about common courtesy but the middle-aged lady seemed not to care and just walked to the steam room. i was thinking if i was the 1st or even 2nd in line, would i just walk into the shower?
i remember last year or so when i was searching for an empty cubicle and i found one but there's a cup of coffee near the curtain. i didn't care and just used the shower. while showering a middle-aged woman came and told me that she put the coffee there as a sign that the cubicle was reserved. since i was in the shower i simply shouted telling her that i didn't see any name printed so i used it.
hmm .. talking about reserving place surely bring me to the biggest problem during lunch time:- tissue. though i can't say it's a culture shock, using tissue to reserve a seat is definitely something surprising for me when i just moved here. bring a tissue (or umbrella, or paper, or whatever you want), put in on the chair or table and go order your food. of course, i join the fun. but if you think about it, while you're queueing for food that can sometimes take you more than 10 minutes, someone else might've use the seat for their meal and might be done once you got yours. well, there was once that this tissue thingy didn't work. we came back to our place only to find a caucasian lady having her meal at our 'supposedly' area while our tissues are put in one corner. guess she hasn't learn the 'culture'. will this habit ever change? i don't think so. not in the near future. so why not join the fun, eh? the tissue that is, not the shower cubicle.

Hole Everywhere

call me greedy but i'm always wanting to try something new. at least once. after all we only live once. already in line rock climbing before going for the level-2 certification, salsa, wakeboarding *i still want to be able to stand longer*, roller blading, and so many more. i give up ice skating for now but i want to try it some time in the near future. and now itchy me sent email to the dragon boat team who's aparently looking for more people for the race. i do have friends in the bono team, my 1st wakeboarding mates actually, but they practise twice a week. i'm not gonna sacrifice my combat, hence my reason for approaching the ballack team. and tada, the captain emailed asking for my particulars and gave me the schedule. eeerrkkk... i am still not sure if i want to commit myself here. so another white lies needed. i can't make it for the next 2 weeks, is that okay? hehe...
all these activities in my to do list, eh. not only it creates a hole in the pocket it also creates a hole in the head.

Finally

i'm done watching tusuk jelangkung on youtube. i wanted to finish it last night, but being home alone and stuff i decided not too as i still want to have a peaceful sleep. so annoying that there was once or twice whenever something was about to happen in the movie, either someone messaged be or someone went online. hence the 'ding' sound from the machine kinda like the sound effects. anyways, i managed to complete the last 4 clips during my lunch break. not that scary, but then again i was watching it during daytime in the office, and story line was okay. next on my list? bangsal no. 13

Their War. Our World.

few weeks back when people was talking about the movie transformers my comment was 'i can't be bothered to watch that movie'. 'you're the first person saying that' was one of the response i got. so it was kinda surprise that i agreed on catching it with a bunch of friends. it turns out to be a very entertaining movie - funny at times. overall i give this movie 3.5 out of 5 for entertainment and 4 out of 5 for the effects. went for a coffee afterwards where i met my cousin's son which makes him my nephew. he works there part-time and i'm not sure if it's a mistake or not but somehow my order of tall chocolate frappucino came out in venti. no wonder he asked if i wanted a piece of the cheesecake, luckily i said no. i need to start watching my diet. my left knee is starting to give me problem again, twice this month. i really need to loose weight to avoid this thing keeps on happenning. my mom's side has a history of leg/knee problems, mainly because our bone structure is small, hence when we gain weight its the leg that get all the hard work. i'm seriously looking into this detox group thingy, hopefully i can get more people (anyone?).
on another note, i managed to reach home and catched the maylee show. it was the episode where we went, the one that were supposedly aired on June 12. i guess we made a right decision not to sit at the front row yesterday. that's all i can say.