A photo, an opening, a musical and love stories

The photo

I was in the middle of a clients’ training when I YM-ed Timmy during a break. His YM says ‘My princess is richer by RM50. Congrats!!!’ I asked him ‘Where?? What??’ but I suspected it was the pic I sent to The Star. And it really was! My picture was finally published in The Star. Not only that but it got me RM50!

I’ve been sending pictures to the thumbnails column but they never ever get published. The closest I got was someone calling to ask where did I take the picture of a bus driver with 6-inch long fingernails, whether it was local or overseas. While stuck in the flood that delayed my breakfast with Timmy, I thought that the Star people would love this type of boring pics that depict ‘current issues’. The initial plan was to blog about it cos the jam was real bad.

So here is the pic..

You can see it appear on The Star's website here. Waiting for my RM50!!

The opening

It was actually the opening ceremony of a pub called Hang Out in Cheras. Timmy wanted to go there cos his car kakis will be there. So we went, we ate and we stared. What’s the hype about the event was that it was a JSOC (Japanese Sports Owner Club I think, correct me if I am wrong) gathering where sports’ car owners would be there to meet, drink and park their cars there for people to drool. For me, yeah the rows of sporty cars were (sometimes) nice and I ate a lot of satay =D And the beer was diluted, cheh.

More interested in posting the pics..

A Nissan GTR that Timmy said costs RM1 million. We kaypochi-ed and looked at the road tax, it costs RM5k+ compared to my RM90! But from the pic, it looks like a Myvi only what =P But it was really a huge car.

An NSX with a WiFE 8 number plate.

A Ferrari that made us all ternganga when it arrived.

The row of RX8 butts with Timmy owning the one left most.

The group pic of the RX8 Club Malaysia members and their cute gfs. I suddenly realised that I am very tall =P

UGLY GIRLS!! One looks like a transvestite =D I dunno where these 2 appeared from, it was no GT or F1 but they syok sendiri and posed here and there. The guys enjoyed taking their (ugly) pics too. James said they are lala girls, whatever they mean. So ul-gy laaa…

Members get free T-shirts and Timmy chose this orange one. Good for wearing to sleep and it took my bro 5 shots to get the shot I wanted. This isn’t really what I want though but can-lah.

The musical

After the JSOC, we went to KL Convention Centre to watch No Limits. It’s the first Malaysian sci-fi musical. It was directed by Low Ngai Yuen of 3R fame and Joanna Bessey was acting in it as well. It was about some electromagnetic thingy that swept the earth and everyone lost their memory. So Moon wants to restore their memories and past but her assistant Kingsley thought that they should start anew since their past is all bitter and sad. Well, he’s got a point, it all depends on the memories you have =)

It was an experience, there was singing and dancing every now and then with it being a musical. Guess I don’t have the patience to endure the dancing to just get on with the storyline. Seems like Bollywood. But halfway, I wondered if I would like to dance in these kinda plays =P At one time of my life, I listed my ambition as a dancer =D Timmy said he dun wanna watch it anymore =D Hahaha, but it was an experience and a good time spent together.

And when I was just about to post this, there was this guy Kingsley Foo who skyped me trying to promote some get-rich-from-home thingy. How funny! How often is it that you meet people called Kingsley?

Love stories

On Monday night after work, Timmy ajak me to Mid Valley for pakthor session. It was very nice of him cos I was feeling very depressed that day. The fcuking roadblocks made me late til Timmy couldn’t wait anymore and I refused to go for a course and needless to say, my boss isn’t very happy. Felt very rotten, not as rotten as on Saturday, but just rotten la.

It was nice to meet Timmy, all the troubles go away. And we haven’t been to MV in a while as well. When he got there, he got me some Famous Amos. Feel so touched cos he knows I love them and how can Famous Amos not cheer you when you are down? =) The we had dinner and went shopping where he got me a sweater from Romp. Just like those courting days before =) Felt so touched cos he was trying to cheer me up. Yes I was!

These are my favourite images..

I've reached Timmy's office already.. These are my favourite buildings and I just love the sight of them!

This is also a favourite sight. Every morning as I turn into the carpark, I look to see if Timmy is already there. He usually is, and his car is also a favourite sight!

I am blessed to have Timmy =)

I'm drained..

The drive from work can be utterly sleepy,
Fighting hard to keep awake,
Finally an evening off to nap today,
but suddenly none for monetary sake.

People sleep in during the weekends,
And then off for shopping and brunch,
Mine’s off to tuition, Taekwondo, tuition,
Rushing from class to class.

I just want a day to sleep in,
No need to be awaken by the clock,
When I’m just ready to call it a week,
It’s already Monday morning at 6 o’clock.

At times I feel like I’m going to collapse,
But always the money pushes me,
I really need a day of rest,
for rest, for family and dear Timmy.

I console myself that it will one day end,
and things will be better too (not in the near future, in fact think I'm getting busier next month),
I haven’t even started on my day job woes,
I think I haven’t the energy to.

Ok, so I haven’t found a new job,
Worse, I got sent for a course,
I turn it down, lest I get an offer,
In the process, I pissed my boss.

There’s really been no offer yet,
Think the pay I wanted was too high,
I’m desperate to move especially after I pissed her,
I really gotta get outta here quick, I feel the pressure.

There’s nothing I can but to leave it in God’s hands,
But the thinking is killing and my body’s aching,
Some pays are fine but the job’s shitty,
And do I really wanna do banking?

(Composed while sitting on the stairs waiting for Edwin to open the tkd centre after going for a tuition interview after work yesterday)

Lunch with Timmy

Hahaha, even lunch with Timmy is so exciting that it’s worth a mention here =D Cos Timmy came to my office for an interview! So we had breakfast together! Until 9am! And then we had lunch together! From 12pm to 1.20pm! And the best part was both bosses were away, so I can not only have lunch with Timmy but an extended lunch hour! How schweet…!

I was thinking that it was kinda untimely for the bosses to only go off to Athens on Monday. How was I going to teman Timmy until his interview at 10? How was I going to have an early lunch, before 12? And then, boss announced that she is not coming today. How nice!! Yay!!

Timmy's initial plan was to have chicken rice and mine was to have pumpkin. But since we were too early, there was no pumpkin yet and Timmy said all the coffee shops are dirty. Ok what? Considered one of the cleaner coffee shops already lo. So we ended up at a cafe again. After eating, I forced Timmy to have some fruits which he selected pineapple, which usually only girls eat and also girls who wanna abort babies =D Then I sat in his car and off we went out from the carpark, cos I let him use my parking pass card to cheat MBPJ of their money =D

Timmy's interview went well. He thought that it would end in half an hour or an hour but it ended after 2 hours. Which was fine cos it was just nice for lunch time. There was the same arithmetic test that I had to take as well and we made the same mistakes =P Even though I told Timmy the mistake I made, he answered the same question wrongly =D We are so made for each other hahaha. He even told the interviewer that he is early because he is here everyday to eat breakfast with his gf who works in the same building =D

Btw, everyone was making lunch plans yesterday upon knowing bosses were not coming. MS and the gang planned to walk to A&W while James and Kin were talking about either McD or Sri Melaka at Amcorp Mall. They asked me along but I said I don’t want to. After more bugging, I said I have an appointment. James wanted to know, “With who? With who ah?” Kin said “Her boyfriend la, apa lagi?” Yay!! Another long lunch can be arranged again next week!

2nd post of the day, very happy! It's only just the first day of bosses' absence. There are another 7 days!

The Horriblest English I've Ever Seen!! (Yet)

I'm so amused, horrified and excited on this piece of text found that I need to share it immediately!! (I've only blogged at work from scratch once or twice, most were drafted at home, so you know how excited I am).

While looking up a tuition centre, I found this tutor's profile. He is a Statistics graduate from UPM and advertised his tutoring services. Below is his description of himself..


Motto
"Generate more bright and excellent student"

Self Description
Friendly,Outgoing,determined to born a lot of A's students but i'm a serius character person while in studies.

Proven Track Record
I have helped my sister to score 7A's in PMR and 9A's 1B in SPM.I'm currently a part time tutor giving Tuition in statistics for applied sciences in UPM.

Achievement
I'm a undergraduate from UPM at degree of Statistic.Won a lot of certificate in study through out my secondary school.I'm a top students in school,class,Add-maths,physique,history n etc.I'm involved n participated in biology,chemistry and physique quizzes represent my school at the Petaling district level.Conclusion I'm can be considered as a scholar.Now i graduated with an second upper class degree in my university at my convocesyen.

Utterly atrociously horrendous!!! What's wrong with this fart? Hahahaha.. Can't even spell 'convocation'. And the worst part is.. I think I know this guy!! He's a coursemate as well as boyfriend of an ex-form 6 classmate cum coursemate-turn-enemy =D

Well there are many factors that made me think it is him:
Age 24 : Correct
Race Chinese : Correct
Gender male : Correct
Staying location Shah Alam : Correct
Marital status Single : Correct
Transportation Yes : Correct
Statistics grad from UPM : Correct
Part-time tutor at Jabatan Matematik UPM : Correct
Part-time tutor at ... tuition centre in Klang : Correct (cos his gf stays in Klang and he can teach after dating her, yucks)

(Shudders!) This guy is sort of like the country bumpkin of the Maths and Stats course. I remember that we were having doubts on taking Mandarin as an elective subject, fearing that it could be tough. Jenny was saying "But even LH also can get A- wor?" And we went "Wah..!!" So that is his reputation. But after we got all our results, I thought that getting an A- for a Chinese is very err.. dumb? =P Especially when he speaks Mandarin and I speak none.

So when this ex-classmate cum coursemate hooked up with him, we were kinda shocked. Mostly because of his reputation. I wouldn't wanna tutor my bf and watch over him in uni to make sure he's not failing =D But then, this girl had no friends either, so she might as well. At least she now has someone to talk to in class rather than spend her entire 3 years in solitude in uni. I wasn't that lonely and desperate to find myself a bf there (cos I already had one at that time =D) cos all local uni guys are strange! Hahahaha..

When I'm feeling nasty one day, I shall reveal her name but the form 6 gang should already guess who is it and share my sentiments since we all don't like her =D =D

Back to the utterly atrociously horrendous English, muahahaha!! (rolling on the floor with laughter) Yucky couple!! (rolling on the floor with laughter)

Buat malu UPM saja!! Makes me geli til I got goosebumps. I got the same goosebumps when Timmy told me this morning about a rat that had become keras in a pail of water in his bathroom. That word keras really makes me shiver!

And anyway, why am I so free today? Cos both bosses are away! And Timmy is having an interview 15 floors below. Yeah, in the same building. Same building where I work! So I'm waiting for him now while I do my 'work' in the office.. =)

My blog drafted on MC day

I am back to work after a day off. How much more miserable can you get with a runny nose, blocked ears, heavy and blur head, an ulcer in your mouth and a swollen toe?

So this was what happened over the past few days..

1. Unbelievable luck at 4D
I’ve been buying my car number and Timmy’s for the past few draws in the past few weeks. It was last Wednesday’s draw that I didn’t buy and Timmy’ number came out. I can’t believe it; I even bought that number for both draws the previous Saturday and Sunday. I just didn’t buy in that one instance out of the whole stretch and it had to come out. Can’t believe how unlucky I am. It even came out in Toto, the one I usually buy. If it hadn’t, I wouldn’t be so pissed.

2. My first real refuel since the fuel hike
Why is it ‘real’? Cos I adamantly filled RM50 the last time, refusing to increase the usual amount despite knowing that I would get less for my RM50. The most I had gotten so far was RM74, so I asked my mum and bro to guess how much would a full tank be this time. Mum guessed Rm89, bro Rm81 and myself RM85. The bloody pump stopped filling at…

What the @#!?

3. Post-UPM
Occasionally I think about my uni days, of the halls I used to attend lecture in. I think of showing the place where I studied to Timmy one day. I don’t miss those days, it’s just that I just think of them, particularly the halls where we walk to and fro daily. Somehow all I think about of uni is the halls and the walking =)

And then came a letter from uni one day. It was the residential college’s 25th anniversary, some Sinar Intan Jubli something. How timely! It’s a good opportunity to catch up with uni mates as well as mengenang kisah silam and show Timmy around too! And then I saw the RSVP form: RM80 per pax, RM150 if bringing a partner. Straight away all kisah silam flew outta the window! Timmy would rather go and watch Super GT instead =D It was stupid as well that the event took 3 days in total and I don’t see anything exciting on the itinerary, most were free at leisure. But one day if Timmy and I were really bored and happen to be around there, we would go to UPM =)

4. After This Our Exile
Last last Sunday, I set a reminder to watch After This Our Exile on Kirana. But when the reminder went off, we were at Jusco, so I thought that that was the end of it since the repeat would probably be at some ungodly hour. Then one night, I picked up the Astro guide out of boredom (I really hardly look at it) and guess what, it was showing that night itself! And turned out that it was the first show of the month, so why did I ever set a reminder last last Sunday? Until now, I fail to solve this mystery.

The point here is: It is very strange that I set the reminder for that day, and happens that the show was on when I looked at the guide. This happened to my mum before as well, she wanted to watch some programme but there were no more repeats for the month. One night, she switched on the tv and there it was showing. Checked the Astro guide and it wasn’t even scheduled on that day!

And the hype about After This Our Exile? Since it won some awards, I just wanted to see what is it about. It made me realise that despite the increasing price of stuff etc, at least we are not bogged down by outstanding loans, especially to Ah Longs. I was irked by the scene where the father ran off after his young son was caught stealing for him. The part where the enraged son bit off his father’s ear was shocking too. But yeah, at least we are not pushed to the extent where we have to come up with money in a limited time.

5. Super GT Series
Timmy and I were at Pyramid last Saturday cos he wanted to see the cars on display as well as catch up with his RX8 club buddies.




It feels erm..proud (?) to see people admiring and posing with the car when Timmy has one to take all the pics he wants to!

6. On MC day
Sent bro to school, continue my sleep, head to post office to renew my road tax, waited for an hour there and Mr Foong there, went to the clinic to get an MC, got a call and went to meet a potential part-time opportunity, and Timmy messaged that my company called him for an interview!

Imagine if we were to work in the same company albeit different floors. We can not only meet for breakfast but also lunch and dinner and whenever in between! Food is in abundance there and cheap too and Timmy need not starve anymore. We can have pumpkin rice and Timmy can have his favourite chicken rice!

My ‘interview’ turned out well and I was be given some small classes soon but details are not confirmed yet. The pay is higher than what I currently get and I don’t have to drive to town as well. All’s looking good!

2008 Malaysian Media Awards and other stuff

2008 MMA scored many firsts.

The first dinner of the year. There are similar award nights like this organised by different bodies and I think we shall see more of these later this year.

There are no door gifts nor lucky draws. The first dinner that is being so cheapo! Other people were comparing it to last year’s too. Fuel now is very expensive, is it? I searched for my invite and triumphantly shouted when I found it, for nothing. Cheh.

The same old stuff, so I decided to start snapping pics instead of doing nothing. Here goes..

Phat Fabes and another guy from Fly Fm were the emcees. Which reminds me of when I shamelessly asked Fly Guy for a pic =P

The scene at the lobby where everyone ‘socialised’ but we stood hermit-ly in one corner to avoid the cigarette smoke.

I like these kinda Chinese tea cups that has a cover. It’s like those Wong Fei Hong days where you have to err..hold the cover just above the cup when you sip the tea. Haiya, I dunno how to describe la!

The first time I’ve seen sharksfin soup served with tauge!! So strange.

And this is my favourite: I wear branded one ah! Muahahaha..

That’s all about the dinner. One thing that amazed me was this girl who blew tunes out of a leaf for the Media Got Talent event. Yeah, a leaf. And she won the first prize of RM5000. Wow!!

*****

Since that there were no nice pics of food up there, here goes! Though we have had these at Kim Gary many times, they looked so ‘photogenic’ that I can’t resist taking a pic!

Bro's E-Mix set. Or is it A-Mix set?

Mum's sizzling steak

My HK fried spaghetti with pork fillet, looking the dullest among all. Furthermore, the fried egg is from my brother.

Always come out from Kim Gary with a stomach ache from eating too full!

And with me being an urban (from towns with population 10,000 and above, according to my company’s definition), I have never seen bananas sold in tandans like this. I dunno if this is called a tandan cos it’s not really full of bananas. Whatever. I must say that bananas in tandans do look more attractive =D

*****
I’m amused by a colleague who angered, pissed and annoyed herself with her own stupidity. The problem is that she thinks the anger, piss and annoyance are caused by us who are apparently utterly dumb to be asking her stuff that are already in the manual. Cos we are not even asking that! It’s amusing that when we ask A, she answers B-Z and then thinks we are so annoying and stupid to be asking B-Z. Who’s the stupid one? Hahahaha..

Moral of the story: I think it all boils down to having a better grasp of English. It will save you from angering, pissing and annoying yourself.

*****
Meanwhile, I have learnt more morals of the story:

1. Do not be eager in showing your efficiency cos you will only end up looking shitty.
I did it right this time! I waited until the data is amended before informing the client. Cos previously, shit happened and I had to tell them “Sorry, though we promised to amend your data that day, now we can’t.” This time I decided to wait, and yes shit did happen but I learnt my lesson!

2. Honesty is not always the best policy, cos ‘What you don’t know won’t hurt you’.
I’m still confused about this one. It’s not that there were lies involved, just that there is nothing worth mentioning and causing unnecessary conflict. So I guess I should have just shut up? But ‘When you finally know what you don’t know, all hell breaks loose’. So I’m still confused.

3. Be no kay-po and do no good.

More morals of the story will be posted as I eat more salt in life.

*****
I have become really good at searching for people online. I managed to find MS’s blog a long time ago and now, I found Chen Hong and Wei Chern on Friendster! It is so triumphant especially when the person doesn’t wanna reveal. Ummph..!! And after finding those, I thought it scary when all sorts of information is revealed about yourself and of others too. Everyone in your network is exposed. Now I realise how much there is on my blog as well. Suddenly got scared to see how people are linked, who is discovered and what I’ve discovered. You can see people’s boyfriends and girlfriends and wives and husbands too.

I discovered someone (from links of links) who is now very ladylike. From a self-admitted tomboy last time. And I’m not the only one who shamelessly declares my love online, for this person labelled one of her photos with her bf ‘The love of my life’. Even I am not that cheesy hahahaa…This also means that I can maintain my professions of love huhuhu..

What a day to start the new school term…

6.20am : Wake up, determined to beat the traffic to have an early breakfast with dear Timmy

6.35am : Car broke down in the middle of the road in front of TAR Hospital

Yes, just 15 minutes after I woke up, the car broke down.

6.38am : Called Timmy though he is too far away to do anything, cos I really don’t know that to do being stuck in the middle of a main road at an ungodly hour of 6.40am.

6.41am : Called the mechanic, luckily he is up already. A Good Samaritan helped to push the car into the hospital compound cos he said I would be causing a jam. He pushed the car single-handedly, wow…

7.30am : Mechanic arrived and sent bro to school. Quite touched as he didn’t have to, at that peak hour jam and he has just came from that area too. Had I known he was going to Teluk Pulai from Botanic, I would have asked him to pick my bro up half way.

8.15am : Back to Bukit Tinggi to pick up the delivered distributor. No one knew of the existence of such a part in their cars. Since the mechanic can only leave his shop at 9 when his worker arrives, I head home to sleep, sleepy and traumatised.

9.20am : Leave to fix the distributor at the car left at the hospital.

9.45am : Done but had to go back to the mechanic’s shop to do the timing.

10.15am : Finally done and off to work.

11.00am : Had to go up to the 3rd floor of the multi-storey carpark. The engine stalled cos the clutch wasn’t balanced. Then a queue formed on the slope up to the next floor and I had to stop on the slope. That’s when I started to go weak. Despite 6 years of driving, I still have trouble making the car move forward after stopping on a steep slope. The bloody engine died. Fcuk. I’m certainly in no mood for this and there was a car right behind me. Slide back and I’m totally fcuked. But yeah, I restarted the engine and did it, no sloping back. Phew.

11.10am : Have no time to catch my breath before being whisked off to boss’ room for a short meeting on bloody ratecards that don’t tally since last week. I have no head and no tail on what was the issue since morn, so I just entered the room and given another set of stuff to check. Urgh..

12.30pm : Ta pau-ed lunch and checked the ratecard conversion factor. Turns out that there was a wrong factor and a few wrong channel codes. Did some other queries and managed to get a half hour of rest by surfing for jobs and reading the news.

2.30pm: Meeting on new version. 1 query pending for boss’ approval and another being run by a stupid slow laptop.

5.00pm : Meeting ended. Turned out that I left the laptop uncharged and it has conked off. Took half an hour to restart it, can you believe that?

5.30pm : Start running FPO that is super slow and ask Wendy for some figures. Finally called the client to say that there’d be a delay, who said that I could actually do it tomorrow. How thoughtful =) Replied the other email and off I head home.

6.00pm : Head home, late by normal standards. Feel sad and frustrated and badly need a hug =(

Why is it that my car gives trouble at this time when prices of stuff all go up? I just spent 1k on repairs that still gives me sounds from the back despite spending that much. Now the distributor and then the mechanic informs me that I have to change some cables too. When you draft a blog, you have to post it the very next day or else things will change and that draft will be irrelevant. That is why I have 2 unpublished posts. One was saying that there is no reason why I should feel poor, and there was the fuel hike the very next day. Another was saying that I feel totally burnt out but after a 13-hour sleep marathon and a few classes off the next few days, I felt rejuvenated.

Actually, after calculating how much extra would I have to spend using the ‘petrol calculator’ that has been circulating via email these few days, it turns out that I will spend an extra RM30 monthly (after deduction of the RM625 subsidy). Doesn’t seem so bad since I already save RM30 per month on phone reloads =P And we are no longer eating the most expensive brand of rice anymore, mum said she cannot tahan. Thought I am the one who is not supposed to tahan? Hmm…

I’m on the lookout to switch jobs as well as to look for another part-time job. The switch was already planned before the fuel hike and now it is even more inevitable. I wanna go to banking but I don’t exactly know what I wanna do. Something like operations, I guess. No marketing of loans, mortgages or credit cards and no credit recovery. But that’s all I ever see in the ads. I don’t wanna start as a management trainee as well cos that would be wasting a year of my time and I would have ‘graduated’ by now. Initially I thought Subang is still ok but after the hike, I’m only going to work in Klang. Now I think searching for the ultimate job is going to be a task, and it’s not even a dream job. Sigh..

On a lighter note, I found it highly amusing when the mechanic’s 3-year-old daughter climbed onto my lap on the way back to the mechanic’s shop. She’s only seen me a couple of times but I doubt she recognizes me. Suddenly she is in my lap and leaning against me like I’m her mother =D So I decided to take a pic cos I was amused… =)

I feel motherly, hahaha

Back at the shop, she asked me if I have the energy to carry her. So cute! Then she climbs onto a motorbike and asked me to hop on, saying she wanna fetch me somewhere. Refusing to do so, she has no choice but to make herself ‘at home’..

When it was time to go and fix my car at the hospital, she became so attached, clutched my fingers and asked me not to go. So mengharukan =D Then she just opened the car door, climbed in and followed us to go fix my car. Once there when her dad was busy with my car, she climbed to the front seat, switch on the CD player, removed the CD inside, dug through her father’s CD collection saying that she wants to listen to something else, found what she wanted, removed the CD from the sleeve, breathed some air onto the CD, rubbed in on her shirt and inserted it. So cute! Like a mak nenek, heaving onto the CD and rubbing in onto her shirt.

And what song started to play? Chinese New Year songs! That was why Timmy heard loud CNY songs in the background when he called me =D

Mak nenek wearing one cap to the front and another to the back

Shikin asked if I paid the Good Samaritan for pushing the car. When I said I didn't, she said 'Aiyooo..!!' Well, I didn't ask him to push it, he was the one who wanted to. And with the bad economy now, no need to pay lah! =D

And when all fails, nothing is better than knowing that I have a boyfriend who loves me so much and whom I love so much as well =) I love being baby sue, baby princess or darling. Being baby sue is the nicest in the world!

This cake can only be eaten by me cos I am Baby Princess Sue!

Last weekend I had a nice bercinta session as well. It’s not that all previous ones were not nice but it seems that we haven’t really gone out for some time, probably due to my tkd classes. It was nice just walking hand in hand =)