Archive for August, 2006

31
Aug

Merdeka parade…

Guess where we ended up on Merdeka eve? Haha…having beer & Guiness stout at Finnegan’s Midvalley!! Reason? GSC and her PC had tickets at GSC to watch a movie so we figured it would be most convenient. So we had dinner and drinks at Finnegan’s (and we saw Paul Tan of paultan.org fame  having drinks there as well) before adjourning to Chilli’s instead for dessert (awwwsome high & mighty pie) and another round of drinks : P It was a happy nite i have to say, but what happened to joeeey???!!! Pics later ok ; )

 

the power of three                     anushia’s sex on the beach - not!

 

humble pie, eat this!!                 ultimate beerdom - post merdeka drinks for me

three’s company, four’s a crowd & two arent in the picture : )

I forgot to mention that even after all that eating & drinking, and after sending my 2 angels home *winks* i still managed to get home in time to watch the stroke of midnite fireworks from my window. I could actually see fireworks from all around the Klang Valley!! I saw the fireworks in Bkt Bintang, Merdeka Square, KLCC and Mutiara Damansara. I wouldn’t trade this view for anything right now…except maybe the view of the sea ; p

On Merdeka day i finally got the chance to sleep in late on a weekday. And for the rest of the day it was Jacinta unleashed in Ikano again. I bought so much stuff that it took three trips from my car to my apartment to carry them all!! And i wonder why im alwiz in deficit???

ps: Happy Birthday Katherine, merdeka baby ; ) Hope u had a good one!

30
Aug

Miss Independent…

 

Today is merdeka eve and Gaya & Evie’s birthday ; ) Which makes tomorrow Malaysia’s national day and its 49th merdeka celebration. Since it’s a public holiday and a Thursday at that, a majority of the working community will be off on Friday, 1st Sept including yours truly : ) [egad! i almost had to cancel my leave for a moment there] And as usual, it juz gives everyone another cause to party the nite away and for the infamous traffic jams to peak. I was originally scheduled to go back to my hometown, but since my sis wants to go to either Penang or Ipoh i decided to wait for her til maybe next weekend. I was also originally scheduled to make a trip down south to Singapore, but since the boyf wants to come back, i now dont need to. Darn i wanted to go actually. It’s been ages since i had a proper holiday, so at least my visit to Singapore can be a lame excuse of a holiday.

Joeeey sez there’s gonna be another MATTA fair on 22-24 Sept 2006 but i seriously doubt i’ll be going anywhere with my current financial status after acquiring da house and all its innards (heh). Okay, so i wanted to go to Bangkok at the end of the year but the leave approval will be another issue : P I also owe Yien a trip to London (in fact i’ve been owing her this trip since my student days ; )) and i hope that will materialise by the first quarter of next year haha. But again, i doubt it. After that i will be saving money for my wedding instead. Oops, i let the feline out of the purse ; ) Wonder if my money plants are helping me grow richer? hahahahaha…

                                          

Anywayyyy - enuff bout future plans. Let’s focus on now and tonite. Tonite, im supposed to go out for drinks (in fact the original plan was to go Mambo Jambo hehe) but with teeth-gritting frustration, we’re still trying to arrange that. For now the plan is to go to Oasis in Bangsar, coz we’re trying not to be stuck in KL with the jams coming in and going out. Previous experience has made me truly fear the jams. As long as by the end of the nite u dont find me at home with my own alcohol and watching the KLCC fireworks from my window, then i suppose im good.

28
Aug

Life is like a box of…

                      

I’m tired, tired, tired and extremely lethargic today. I worked til quite late last nite (quite means before 12, late means after 12, early means before 9 on a good day, earlier means before 8 and on the dot means what it says) and went back home to wash my hair and had to wait for it to dry before finally sleeping. I have not eaten anything since lasnite except for chocolate & chocolate souvenirs. I ate a whole bar of chocolate lasnite and a small one this morning, so i dont know if that’s contributing to my lethargy. I was hungry when i got home lasnite, but just way too tired to eat anything. Maybe it’s also coz i kept waking up and going back to sleep this morning. Whatever it is, bottomline is im tired.

Sighs…and im trying to plan out my Merdeka eve rite now with joeeeey, but as usual goodness knows if our plans will ever materialise. I just so miss clubbing and drinking : ) Lunch time is up soon, hopefully will feel better after that.

There’s just too much work to do around here : (

27
Aug

That four-letter word…

The inexplicable four letter word.

Jams.

Arghhhh!!! And im not even talking about the usual suffocating congestions during peak hour weekday traffic, but KL city on a Sunday evening. What gives? The jams are so bad it’s even worse than the city centre on a Monday morning or Friday evening. What are all these ppl doing on the roads on a lurvely Sunday evening? Go home, go sleep, go shopping or something!! Why waste the last remaining moments of your weekend being stuck in something which you can be stuck in twice a day from Monday to Friday?

Yesterday, on Sunday evening, I was stuck on Jln Parlimen leading towards BNM roundabout for almost an hour. It cost my other half an RM70 coach ride back to Singapore. Elch!! So we didnt have a choice but to detour to eecky eww Puduraya to try & get another bus. The road leading there ie Jln Tun Perak was another road disaster, literally.

Then halfway the low fuel indicator on my dashboard popped up and i almost fainted when it dropped to only one notch. Not again!! This is the third time im caught in the middle of a KL jam with an almost empty tank.

 

The fuel level is almost at Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

Dropped another notch?! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Thankfully the fuel was enough to carry me to the Shell station at Jln Raja Chulan. I know there is another Shell station opposite the Puduraya bus station, but i didnt want to take the risk as the second time i was low on fuel, i drove over to that station and it was closed !!!!!! : | Gawd. Never again, never again i tell myself. My car is really fuel efficient, but i tink i took it for granted hehe…

25
Aug

A girl’s best friend…

Yippee its Friday again! And its the end of the month drink up day again too ; ) Time to eat, drink & be merry…then back to work. :o)

Now here’s something to waste your thinking cells on.

Girls, why bother with asking your guys for a diamond ring when you can have a diamond studded Merc ? Check this out : 9

Ooooh, now wouldnt you like to cruise in this baby…

An ass to die for…you can tailgate me anytime, sugah!

The best engagement proposal ever. Who said diamond’s are a girl’s best friend? Now it needs to be re-defined to be diamonds on a car are a girl’s best friend. With fur trimmings on the seats!! (but make sure its faux fur, yeah)

Have a great weekend everyone !! ; ) And yes, drooling over other people’s cars & diamonds are allowed.

I want an rx8 !!!! (I’ll never ever be able to afford the car above, so we gotta aim for the possible, rite? but the possible still needs to be a sports car tho *smiles*) So to sum it up, in the words of Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives - I want what i want what i want. Ooh, and more diamonds wouldnt kill too. hehe…

24
Aug

I’m talkin’ bout…

Loser_1 Doughnut_1 Channel_v_1 Pound_sterling

                                                                                                                    Whoooh, it’s 8.00pm and i finally have a bit of time to breathe a little : ) It’s been hell of a frantic hectic day but let’s not talk about work.

Thanks everyone for your concern, yes i’m much better now thanks to panadol, chicken soup and a good nite’s sleep ; ) I’ve since applied for Aishiteru online *snigger* and they should be coming over to install it this Saturday. Reason being we just can’t seem to locate an antenna cable for the darned plasma tv in the stores which means we have not watched any TV yet. So we figured the easiest thing to do would be just to apply for satellite TV and watch the normal channels from there. Though im only happy when it rains - not!!

Stats: 46-46-46 : ) yes, we originally planned on getting an LCD tv but this baby stole our hearts…and our money!!

This Saturday the furniture people will also be coming over to install the glass panels in my divider. When they brought my last piece of furniture last Saturday, the glass panels didn’t fit. I get the feeling the divider doesn’t really wanna be in my home… And the renovator’s last job: to paint all my door frames into the colour of leather (well, that’s what it’s called ok. im not making it up. it’s actually a deep brown shade). Also need to apply for a phone line and broadband. So everything will be happening concurrently this Saturday.

 

do u finally see the divider? yeah, it doesnt really wanna be in the picture. reckon it’s camera shy…

For everyone’s info, yes i’ve moved in da house to stay already and no, not all my stuff have been moved over. One at a time, one at a time… Oh yeah, many of you have also been asking bout when’s the housewarming, and my response is that it wont be anytime before October i think. Will keep you darlings informed, ya. Watch this space! ; )

   

look at what’s at the bedroom entrance! awww…i heart you : )

   

They say that girl ya know she act too tough tough tough
Well it’s till I turn off the light, turn off the light

i can’t wait to grow up and become all bigger so i can fit more clothes…

 

my T.Dog door stopper. looks too cute to be used as a door stopper really *woof*

21
Aug

So sick of…

                   

I was sick again on Sunday evening and Monday. Man, the amount of times i’ve been sick this year. Must have cleared off all my MC’s by now (as opposed to clearing all my leave coz someone has difficuly in approving them especially when it itself has a dire need to clear its leave. But i only have 9 out of my 23 days left : ) i had fever again due to (my deduction) lack of sleep and being overworked during the weekend moving/cleaning/shopping. And i know the O’biatch probably didnt believe i was on MC for real yesterday, Ptuui to it. Wanna check my temperature? Even today im not fully healed, and i’ve come back to lotsa outstanding work. Woe is me.

The weekend was as usual ~ Saturday was particularly hectic. Can u imagine rushing from Old Klang Road to Midvalley to Sunway Pyramid and then to Ikea/Tesco in one evening? It was Ikea’s last 2 days of sale. We shopped til 1am and cleared stuff at home til 4am before we finally hit the sleep button in our lurvely new bed hehe. Sunday was again rushing to move some stuff over (now the toiletries, hehe) and to send my bf off and then with my sis to BTS to collect this HSBC credit card gift, a double strand pearl necklace. The salesgirl was blatantly rude. Then i had to drive around on low fuel (again!!) looking for a petrol station in the middle of KL and making illegal turnings just to save fuel, before having dinner and heading back : ) No wonder i got sick. And my back hurts like heck.

But i am, basically, sick of life. *jacinta complains too much*

   Heeren_street

My dad called me and told me he spotted my ex-Kelisa in Heeren Street, Malacca! What a coincidence! I traded it in with Honda who sold it to a PJ dealer and so doing the maths, they must have either shipped it off to a Malacca dealer or else it was just pure coincidence that a Malaccan bought it *smiles*

18
Aug

I like to mooove it…

Yesterday i sent my car for servicing and guess what happened to it ???

  mooooooooooooo

They turned it into a cow !!!

Haha…no, im just joking. It still looks as beautiful as ever ; )

 star trek wannabe on the road

One lesson to keep in mind is to not buy too many clothes. i had a field trip moving just my clothes alone to my new place !!! And even that i had already sorted out the ones which i wanted to give away to charity. I used five travelling bags alone for the foldable clothes and i hand-carried those on hangers to save time. All in all i had to make two trips in a car and about 12 trips from my car to da house. I looked like i was going to stock up a boutique or something. All this while i managed to convince myself that i didnt have enough clothes to wear, and so i bought more and more. No wonder im having a frightful back ache after only shifting 1/10 of all my belongings !!!

  mum would be so proud…not!

17
Aug

Pillow talk…

   contour pillow

This was what i was advised by the physiotherapist to use to help prevent my back problem from recurring. Specially dedicated to Li Yen ; )

Ps : Im suddenly extremely busy at work now, everyone is calling/messaging/emailing/visiting me and it’s oso coz im on leave tmr so hafta clear clear clear stuff. Have an appointment to service my car tmr morning (wooh, she’s at her second service now. dat was fast) and need to pack my stuff to begin moving to da house.

Cheers and have a wonderful weekend, everyone!! A day early ; )

16
Aug

In da club…

Ok, upon request - more house photos ; ) I took these when i went to my condo last nite to do a little bit of cleaning and to collect my mail.

 

this is the first thing you’ll notice…the gate which i chose : )) *blows horn*

   

there’s my main door & the opening to the kitchen. the main door frame still needs to be painted dark brown, tho

 

my kitchen - see i said it’s still in a mess (look how i concealed the scratch on the fridge : )

   

the wash area & retractable "clothes line" & the main bathroom

and finally, the master of the universe!! nah, it’s the master bedroom ; P

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I just realised that for the past few weeks my whole sad life has revolved around nothing but my house. For ease of reference, let’s standardise the term. Instead of calling it my condo/apartment/house/home, let’s just refer to it as da house hehe (even tho its not reeeally a house). Yeah, that gives a gangsta ring to it *grin* Anyway, back to what i was saying. All my weekends are filled with nothing but catering to da house’s needs. Where i used to go for movies without fail every weekend, this has now been replaced with trips to Ikea, furniture stores, electrical outlets, hardware stores, supermarkets and wherever da house’s needs take us to. I mean, the last movie i watched was Superman !! I dont even have time to watch that Scary Movie 4 vcd which i bought aeons ago. I’ve lost count of the number of reserved movie tickets which i just let go and the free movies my sis got for me that i didnt watch. All bcoz of da house. haha but yesterday when i checked my mailbox i found that i’ve won 2 movie tics to watch Click. Luckily didnt go to the free screening then ; P Man, it’s been yrs since i won anything. Used to win stuff all over the place, but that’s another story : ))

Anyways, i think da house has somewhat destroyed my social life. Even Yien has complained that i dont have the time to yak with her on the phone anymore hehe… And the amount of money spent on da house. Eeek. I could have gone for countless holidays and bought tons of designer items with that money. But as joeeey says, this is something permanent. Maybe im just feeling so coz i bought da house a little too early into my working life. Luckily i didnt buy a house, if u know what i mean. With that i think the expenses would have doubled hehe…

Silly silly me…ahh life. Maybe i should just stop complaining and be contented that at least im lucky enough to be able to buy da house at this stage of my life when im just beginning to earn a living (hey, im not rich u noe) and thankfully i wasnt forced to buy one with a lower price tag just coz of financial constraints. Wait, im being rude. Oh, screw everything. Someone just dropped another bomb on me today. Looks like we’re gonna be missing some good help around here real soon… sigh. On days like these, life really socks. Yeah, socks u right in the eye.

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