Some MAY Updates

MAY....did a few things.

During the 1st week I was down in Shah Alam and PJ for some official reason. I went to 20 places ard SA and PJ in 2 days. Damn tiring! Luckily manage to get a cab that's quite reasonable with his hourly rate. Else I cant imagine waving down cabs for 20 times! Which is also impossible considering i only have 2 days.

The month of May also marks the anniversary of my grandparents' passing. Two years already. Grandpa was on 1st May and grandma was 24th May, both in 2007. Tough year. Grandpa has got heart prob. Other than that he's healthy. Despite being in ICU, he's still very aware of anything around him right til the very morning he passed away.

After grandpa left us, i resign from my job at PISA so that i could take care of my bedridden grandma. ( I live and was brought up by grandparents) I could not send her to the senior's home as i dont want her to feel abandoned. She left us on the 3rd week i was serving my 1mth notice. I guess she must have missed grandpa too much. She said she keep seeing him after he passed away. She passed away in her sleep. One morning we woke up and found her no longer breathing.

Both me and my mum went to put flowers on 1st and 24th May.

I MISS THEM SO MUCH!!

I went to get a haircut too. Cannot stand too long, hot and my hair kept dropping!

Nice?

Okay, update some more later. Gotta go do something now.

Laters!

Cody

Cody's usual reaction when there's thunder or any loud sound. It was raining quite heavily for a short while this morning. Then suddenly got thunder. With his ears down n pulled back he went straight under my table n place his chin on my foot.

Next time will try to get a shot of him when he jump onto the sofa whenever they come and spray the denggue repellant. I've heard about my cousin's doggies hiding under their beds when this happens too! Hahaha!!

Young pretty lady wishes to marry rich guy. Fantastic reply from financial person

Just sharing a forwarded mail i received. I dont know how many of you have read this before. Funny but true. Here goes:

Title: Young and pretty lady wishes to marry a rich guy. Fantastic reply from a financial person

A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:

Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?

I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York . My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you? Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden ( ? ) , $250k annual income is not enough.
I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:

1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the n ame s and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)

2) Which age group should I target?

3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking? I've met a few girls who doesn't have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys

4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)

Ms. Pretty


Here's a reply from a Wall Street Financial guy:

Dear Ms. Pretty,

I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyze your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I'm not wasting time here.
From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain. Put the details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of 'beauty' and 'money': Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square. However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It's not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worried 10 years later
By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a 'trading position'. If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term – same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or 'leased'. Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps.

signed, J.P. Morgan

HAPPY BELATED B'DAY YC (aka Mr.Tiara)

Happy Belated B'day to Mr. Tiara!!

I was supposed to go makan with 'em(Ping, Ling & YC) last night! But i caught cold few days ago. Cheh! Wrong timing! Somemore have to makan dinner all by myself at home. I thought i could feel well enough to go last night. That morning, i went to get a cake from Jenni Cake House thinking to myself happily that i can hang out with them at night. Mana tau suddenly i start to sneeze badly again. Even today i'm supposed to go watch Wolverine with Zhe. But now kena quarantine at home. Arrghh!!!

Have to rest myself well to go KL next week.

Ping, post photos for me to see yah~

Movies

I have been so lazy to even open up my laptop these days. So lagging in updates here and FB. Seldom can see me in MSN too. Been going out a lot and busy re-organising my house.

On the very first day i stopped working, I went to watch Confession of a Shopaholic & Hotel for Dogs with Ee Zhe. 2 movies in a row. Haven't done that in a looong time. And it was quite a while since i been to movies with her. I remember we frequently go for movies at Gurney after class or after assignment submission.

Confessions of a Shopaholic is okay.....

I prefer Hotel for Dogs. I cannot imagine how much effort they put in for this show. Training the dogs needs a lot of patience. I definitely give the movie and ppl behind the scene thumbs up.

Then abt a week after, i went out with two old buddies from school(Seow Pei & Huey Shyen). Had brunch at Winter Warmers and then went to Popular Bookstore for a while. Shyen had to leave early. So me and Seow Pei decided to go for Fast & Furious 4. The sound effect was GREAT!

It feels good to go for movies. Hardly went for movies when i was working. O-Kay...I better go do some housekeeping now. Lots of stuff to get rid of! Laterz!

Tired Neh~

I jus got back from hip hop class. This is the first time i went to the class at New World Park since they moved there on 1st April. Mei Mei, Pei Chin and few others already quit cz too far for them as they're working hours finishes after 6pm. But still ok la, got few other 'pioneers'. Hahah!

As i was looking at their blog at danzityproductions.blogspot.com, i saw newly uploaded videos..Tengok tengok is our class eh! Wah lau weh! Luckily din see much of me. More to Sean the instructor. Abo so memalukan! If dance pro liao nvm la..ini baru begginer neh~

Today's class was fun. It felt more tiring than usual, i dont know why. But i enjoyed it tho =D

Looking forward to the next class~!

It's now official

My resignation was being officiated yesterday. Yea, one week before I leave. My contract says I only need to serve one week notice. I voiced my resignation to my superior and boss about a month ago. I knew if i were to leave immediately one week after, a lot of things will not be done properly and knowing how much workload my superior has, i couldnt just throw everything back to her and leave. Afterall, she treated me very well and taught me a lot. AND not forgetting she's a very VERY patient person.

I do feel more relieve BUT at the same time, as the date draws nearer, I feel excited and happy(finally can do wat i like), yet nervous, sad and worried (becos no more fixed income).

Assignments' weekend

Been busy over the weekends. I had to rush my assignments again. Seems like every month passes by very fast. Before i knew it, i need to submit my assignments again. My course subjects are getting tougher and tougher now. I'm starting to find it hard to cope. Especially when I'm someone without a related background experience. Most of my coursemates are already working in related field. The only reason they are doin this it's because they needed the degree. There was once they even corrected our tutor!! Whereas i dont have the slightest idea if i was taught correctly. =.="

Assignments are so tough this time around. I hope I can pull this through. Else, it'll be a waste of money.

Blog Skin

Oops! Was fooling around with some blog skins. Now i'm back to the plain template. Incase you didn't notice, some of my elements and gadgets' missing! Have to set and arrange them again!

Oh well, at least i learnt some things during my attempt to change the blog skin.

It's interesting to experiment and see how your blog looks like when in a different template. However, I havent found one that i really like yet..

If you have a blog, you might probably want to gif it a try at www.blogskins.com

Happy experimenting~!

Misi Mustahak

I was looking at Upin & Ipin's(Malaysia's 3D animation) website earlier on. Then i remembered abt the 3D animation, Misi Mustahak done by the creators back when they were still students of MMU. Went to search in YouTube and found the video. Here it is:




Hope you enjoyed it!

Pepsi New Logo

I dont have much to do lately in the office. I either ended up chatting, surfing net, or even worse...games! But less of games cz don't wanna be too obvious la. =P

Anyways, I was looking around and saw this article "Does Pepsi's New Logo Work?" at Before & After Magazine's Design Talk section. John really really gave a good analysis on it. You guys can read it at http://www.mcwade.com/DesignTalk/2009/02/does-pepsis-new-logo-work/

Pepsi new logo

As how John has shown the below image on his page...It made wonder how much Pepsi has paid the designer.

Pepsi's new logo vs. Korean Air logo

Many comments voiced their dislikes, about how disastrous the logo is and gave thumbs down for the new logo. One commentator even posted a link to this image:

Can you believe they made the logo with the face into tshirts n sell them? Haha! This i give a thumbs-up!

Heavy morning

This morning it was so hard for me to get up and prepare for work. I know many mornings are like that. But this morning i felt particularly heavy to get up.

Ever since I was sick last week, my shoulders and neck weren't behaving themselves. I would have a very sore feeling on 'em by the end of the day.

I usually would go for a traditional chinese massage nearby my place. It doesnt cure for good but at least it gave me temporary relieve. It's very painful tho. Have to bear with it if i want to feel better.

Another thing was that i really had no heart coming to work. Sheesh! Terrible me! Serve one month notice nia also want to complain so much. I cant imagine those of my friends that need to serve notice until 3 months! Well, supposedly I only need to serve one week notice but looking at the condition, I don't think it's enough time for them to get a replacement.

I'm so good right for giving them more time. Hahaha!!

Anyhow, I'm counting the days down. Cant wait!!

Shaanxi Grand Opera House (Tang Dynasty Palace Music & Dances)

Beautiful place. It's an Opera House where we can have our dinner too. It's like in those days when the Emperor is having his meal, there will be entertainment. Same concept goes for this.

We were served with mostly with dim sum. Tastes really good. Not like those you get in Malaysia.

There were 10 shows being put up that night. Dances, singing, music instruments...all shows has its meaning and story behind it.

Okay, I'm not gonna upload all the photos here. You can see more at my Facebook.

China Trip-Part 2

24/2-Driver-cum-tour guide came to fetch us at 8am from the hotel. Then we dropped by Shuyuan hostel(we engaged tour from hostel) to make some payment and also for them to pick up 2 more ppl(Jeya & Silpa from London). The hostel looks cozy. We started to feel that we should have stayed there rather than in hotel. Too bad we've fully paid the hotel abo can move to the hostel. Save a lot u know!


Okok..back to my tour. We went to the Rare Animals Research Centre. Quite far-off. Two hours drive from Xi'an. I fell asleep in the car. When we reach the centre, wal lau weh...so damn cold! Nearly froze. Mostly there to see the Panda. Since we're in China, sure don't wan to miss out seeing pandas.


After we've finish touring the centre, it's already 11something. So we adjourned for lunch at somewhere nearby. The cold weather really makes us hungry. Luckily, lunch was great. Really tasty n full. By the time we got back to the hostel it's already abt 2.30pm.


Another guide was waiting for us already. Her name's Snow. She took us to the Drum Tower & Bell Tower then to the Great Mosque. All located near Muslim Street.



Both towers looked abt the same, they r located near each other and both have performances at certain timing. Not very interesting. Only thing there is u get to see the view of the city.

China Trip-Part 1

22/2- Last minute packing before leaving for China. Depart from Penang airport to LCCT at 10.30pm. Reach LCCT abt 11.25 and took a cab to Concorde Inn to rest for the night.

23/2-6am depart from Concorde Inn to LCCT again. At least we got some rest. Departure at 8.15am but checked in at 6.30am. Waited for the flight for 1 and half hours before boarding.

The flight took abt 5 hrs before reaching HangZhou. AirAsia X's cool as we can watch movies and got some entertainment. But of course you have to pay. It doesnt matter as long as it kept me company for the whole 5 hrs!

Watching Devil wears Prada

Reached HangZhou airport at abt 1.20pm. So hungry so we settled for lunch at McD before departing for Xi'an at 4pm. Wahlau, the McD's menu all in chinese! Both of us 'cheh kong'! So we jus simply pick. Guess wat? The McD so much better than in M'sia!


After lunch, we went to check in for our flight(Hainan Airlines). I waited so long for my turn. Then when almost reaching my turn, then only i realise many ppl there just don't queue!! Damn! So one person will gif the passport and i hold the lugguage. Have to squeeze with old ladies! Luckily, the person at the counter knew they weren't queueing up. So we got our turn 1st. Muahahah!!

After check in, we proceed to the departure hall waiting for boarding. Then when it's time to board, many ppl jump queue again =.=". I mean c'mon la..got seat number leh!!

The plane wasn't a very big one. Very hard to understand the air hostess' english. And i saw the card for emergency purpose being labelled "JUST IN CASE". I was puzzled when I first saw it. Wakakaka!

We arrived at Xi'an airport at about 6.15pm. Our driver was waiting for us already. I tried to go to the toilet at the airport and guess what? Cannot lock eh!! So forget it la...go back to hotel then only go.

The very first thing when i got into the car, i really tak biasa with the driver's side. It's on the left. Our's is on the right. Then i was also quite surprise by the traffic there. Scary lohhh! Like no traffic rules punya. Ppl can cross at anywhere anytime they want. Cars can even go at red light.

Finally reached hotel at 7.30pm like dat. Soooo tired and hungry. Decided to go outside to find food. So we went to Muslim Street to see if we can find anything. There were so many ppl at the place. Something like wat we call pasar malam here. But lots of makan stall. We tried the dumpling in soup. The soup a lil spicy. Oso ordered cold noodles. I preferred the cold noodles. Dumplings tasted weird. Somemore so big bowl.

We walked around for a while then took a cab back to hotel as we were tired already.

Sick sick again

Gosh...Still feeling sick today...coughing my lungs out! Was on MC yesterday. It was real bad yesterday bcz of the fever, flu and cough. Really slept the whole day! Cough is real bad that i feel so tight at the throat area. Y am I so weak leh?

Doc says i caught overseas germs. Haha!

Back to work

I'm back to work today. Nth much piled up thanks to my colleagues. Anyways, din haf much to do from now on. Another colleague taking over my job n training hers to do mine.

Will on my own from April onwards. Happy but a lil worried at the same time.

Will update my photos in facebook n friendster soon. Hopefully tonight. Haven't filtered out yet. Was too tired on Monday night itself when i got back. Then Tuesday had to run some errands and only manage to load the photos to comp at night.

Most of my photos at Terra-Cotta's blurred. The pits were too dark and i don really haf a user friendly cam. Managed to buy some postcards from the souvenir shop. At least can still see something la right.

Hopefully can upload them all by tonight!

Hello again

Here i am again blogging from HangZhou, China. Nth much here as compared to Xi'an. Hangzhou is a much more developed area than Xi'an. I like Xi'an more for the attractions, ppl and shopping. And things are much cheaper there!

Taxi's here are so expensive. Once u get into the cab, it costs u RMB10. Whereas in Xi'an, its only RMB6. Hangzhou got dono wat fuel surcharge somemore so extra RMB1. Xi'an is a smaller area, so u can jus walk from one place to another and no need to rely on cabs. In Hangzhou, we had to take cab every destination. seems like one place to another is quite a distance.

I jus came back from the West Lake boat tour. Got a lil seasick. Then now back in the hotel for tea and online. I'd much rather be in the hotel resting than goin out there.

Blogging from china!

Hello everyone! Haha! Jus saja wanna say hi while in China! Having tea while i use the hotel computer. Had a good time here. Many 1st time experiences. Snow, crazy traffic, customs, food & many other crazy stuff! But all in all, home is still the best. Coming home in 2 days time.

The next time i travel, i shall try doing backpacking!

Will update again when i get back.

Decision made!

Yikes..I finally made that decision after much consideration. In the beginning i did feel a lil worried. But i really hope it can go well...no risk no gain right? Many frens supported my decision. Many thanks to those who did!

I think tmr will be the day i make official announcement abt it. I need to take that final step!

Can't wait!

I cant wait for Sunday!! Going to Pulau Jerejak with some old friends. I think more than 10 of us by now. They have games and activities there...long time since i have those kind of outing. It'll be a day trip. RM50 for ferry, one meal, n few games. Kinda worth it. Hope the weather is fine on that day =P

Cody oh Cody~

I know I havent been posting for a while....been reaaalll bz........CNY this time is fun bcz had gathering with a few old frens....but now the main purpose of this entry is actually my dog Cody...cant tahan him sometimes...


I cut my finger just now, then i cant find plasters anywhere in my house! cant believe this! then i had to use bandage for my finger and yea, typing with less 1 finger is hard! dats y other details abt gathering will be later.

So as i was 'wrapping' my finger, Cody came to sniff ard as usual...the kaypo-ness of him..then mum oso cannot tahan him n made an 'X' shape with the tape n plastered it on his nose! wakakaka!!