Ho Ho Ho 06

Merry Christmas!

Paris and Newcastle(Pictures)

Gimme wings!

Few more days and I will pack my bags and fly!

=D

I just woke up hehe and the flashes went crazy


The view outside my window (it's 7.40pm right now)

Must Have #1
Must Have #2
Must Have #3 (My ye old faithful companion wherever I go)
Must Have #4, sticking tongue out and double chin =) Good genes from mom? Thanks mom anyway! =D

End of Semester!! =D

Yay! It's almost the end of the semester and this morning I had the last presentation for this semester. Well done! Haha gotta give some kudos to myself for surviving this semester. =)

I'm heading to Paris on Friday next week and Germany on the following Monday! =D It's been three months of hard work after all. Phew....not easy considering the workload and the studying that I had to endure.

I had dinner with one of the girls that I got to know when I first came here. Inger is Norwegian and we really had lots of fun last night. I prepared the dinner and bought two small bottles of champagne to go with the food. I made pasta with beef sauce and pan fried a big chunk of salmon. A dinner is not complete without some bread and butter ala European/Western style. So we had some bread before we started to dig in. My flatmates decided to join us with their sumptuous fare of Thai food. Dinner started around 8pm and Inger had to go to school the next morning so it ended around 12am after loads of crap that we shared with each other. I'm certainly going to do this more often. =)

Everyone is going home for Christmas. What about you guys?

Tom Yum 6am

I'm eating tom yum noodle right now. I shall call it TOM YUM 6AM. Yes, it's 6 freaking am now. I went to bed around 11+ and woke up feeling hungry. Went to the kitchen to cook my "dinner" (because I didn't eat any last nite) and then one of my flatmates (Mr.Ray) entered the kitchen and asked me if I was hungry. haha If I'm not hungry then why the hell am I cooking when everybody else was sleeping. Well so I told him I just woke up and wanted to cook a little breakfast for myself. I made a pot of noodle so you be the judge if it's little or not. =P

Talking about my flatmates, two of them don't like to sleep. I guess it's because they are from Thailand? Can anyone from Thailand tell me if you guys worry about eye bags, about not having enough sleep, about being tired and not able to go to work or school the next day? Seriously they don't sleep. I think that's some sort of illness. Well, again, that's just me.

Sometimes at 4-5am, you can still hear them coming out of their room and entering the kitchen. Next, you can smell the aroma of food. Is it because they are hungry all the time? This leaves me in puzzle. Don't get me wrong, they eat their breakfast, lunch and dinner. I can be their witness. Actually, a lot of folks told me they can't sleep here. Living in this vibrant party animal city, I guess night is when all the people come out of their hibernation. I'm not sure why I'm always sleeping though....I'm like the weirdo here.

Oh no, I'm feeling sleepy again....burrrpppp! ahhh satisfaction...=D

I think I will go back to bed in few minutes...haha...oink oink

Messy!!

Let me introduce my messy bedroom to everyone!!

I have things all over the room and this is a barely 200 square footage bedroom. haha

I hope my mom doesn't go on the internet and reading this right now. =P

Year 2006 is coming to an end.

My resolutions before the year ends are:

-Buy lots of toys and foods for SPCA
-Sign up for a volunteer program in SPCA for next year
-Finish my assignments
-Have a cup of starbucks peppermint mocha =P
-Shop for winter clothing
-Sign up for health club starting next year
-Start checking out the job opportunities
- Go to Levi's museum for my dissertation

I think the most that I wanna do is to give back to the society especially SPCA. Odie couldn't make it this year to join mommy and daddy to distribute toys to the needy. =( All of sudden I'm feeling overwhelmed and it breaks my heart thinking of odie during holiday season.

I'm thinking of going back to SF and make blood donation too. I'm sure I can help in some ways, directly or indirectly. Hope everyone is going to end 2006 with lots of happiness and memories to be cherished for the rest of your life.

I'm going to remember 2006 as the year I lost my most beloved pet in the whole wide world.

Odie, REST IN PEACE. Mommy and daddy will always remember you as our son, our companion and our family.

Odie, I know you wanted that ice cream cone, let me buy you tons of them soon.

Christmas is early, santa is busy

Just had some ciabatta bread for dinner. Another simple dinner and this has been going on for many months now! Funny thing is I'm getting used to it. Just some bread and a cup of hot chocolate will do. =) I love to cook especially when no one is around and preparing sumptuous meal for myself is really comforting. Looking back several years ago, I was really a big fan of making pastries. I was the sous chef in the family, the head chef is of course mommy and she's unbeatable. Mommy can make really really delicious braised pork leg and gosh, it makes me salivate just thinking about it. Dad can cook too and he makes good soup. ;)I love to modify my mom's recipes and call them my own! hehe...

When I started living on my own, I made a lot of good dishes every night and I think I put on at least 10 lbs in 2 months time. Fortunately, the community where I was living in had a gym and I had to hit the gym everyday to shed all the extra weight. I did achieve my goal of having a tone body but haha that didn't last too long!

I'm really tired for the past two days. Maybe because of constant partying? =P Newcastle is a very nice city to live and partying is on top of everyone's list. I just saw a memo on the board inviting everyone to party on the 7th of December. Christmas comes early this year baby! Too bad I'm leaving on the 8th and I don't think it's right for me to party while Gary is here. hahaha...

I'm just too lazy to start doing anything now and this week, I'm supposed to work my ass off for the assignments and dissertation. I'm a little behind schedule and that's really bad. You know, each time after typing and typing and just pouring whatever shit I wanna say here, the motivation comes back! =D

I guess I better start working now or else I'm wayyyyyyyy behind and that's not good.

Good luck everyone and to those who are shopping for christmas presents, don't forget mine. =P

Second Hand Smoke Kills, almost

Wow a little over two weeks my hun will be here with me and countdown to my trip to Paris and Berlin. =D Happiness!!

I'm trying to finish reading all the four modules before going off for my holidays so please forgive me if I didn't answer your MSN messages or your email. =)Work comes first and play is for later.

I just had a big pot of noodles. Yes,A BIG POT! Glutton!Since no one was using the kitchen, I was taking my time to create my masterpiece for tonight. Now I'm left with a heavy stomach and sleepy eyes. =P I'm such a pig. Oink Oink!

I spent quite a lot this week for groceries and all the prepared meals. Again, further proving that I'm indeed a big fat pig, maybe a wild one too hehe. I've spent almost 60 pounds just this week for all the food. I think that's quite a lot for one person eh?hahaha You see, shopping for groceries can also be therapeutic. When you shop from aisle to aisle, looking at all the different packaging and different foods, i just can't contain my excitement! My favorite place to shop for food so far is Marks and Spencer. I love the quality of the food and the nice packaging for everything. The prepared meals are easy and delicious, not relatively cheap but definitely worth the money. The cookies/biscuits are damn good and fat! hehe..

Just went into the kitchen and had a meeting with other flatmates. Yes, we were talking about the smoking problem in the kitchen. I told them straight that it does not affect other rooms but it affects mine, so that's really a big problem. I told them to smoke close to the window or somewhere else so that it won't be such big problem to everyone else especially me. Phew just have to keep my fingers crossed now.

Alright gotta sign off now =)

No Smoking

Can somebody please get her to stop smoking?! I'm suffocating here!! =(:::::::

Everyone pays.......for their own action =X

I think I need to get away or at least stay away from the laptop.=S I've been continuously surfing.

I have so many chapters to read on before I can finally retire and go for my holidays. I'm so worried that I might need to bring my books along. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

So far everything is on schedule and I will be working on my dissertation and at the same time my assignments next week. Hopefully those can be done before the end of the month.

Yesterday we had meeting for our presentation on the 1st. I'm so disappointed with one of the members in the group. He didn't come for the meeting last week and this week, he didn't do his work. =( He was given a relatively short part because we knew that he might not be able to do the difficult ones. So much for our sympathy and understanding!

Sometimes it really annoys me but yet, you cannot change somebody overnight. Next week meeting if he's not coming up with his slides for the presentation, then we might need to kick him out of the group. We are adults not some kindergarten small kids waiting to be spoon fed. So act like one please!

Yesterday had great fun with my flatmates and the Thai food that we had was great despite their first time making it, kudos!=) We were bitching so much of that freaking sickening Taiwanese specimen. hehe...whore whore whore! She came into the kitchen couple of times when we were eating our dinner and she didn't even care to say hi. So sick of her! I always stick to this one principle which is "it's impossible to change someone, so to hell with it!

Alright I'm a little motivated to study right now after dumping what I've got to say here...=) a blog isn't such a bad idea afterall.

My empty weekend

I'm slapping myself right now! I can't seem to do anything during the weekend except to sit in front of the laptop and checking out some stupid stuff. The sky is so gloomy outside. Can that be a possibility why I'm feeling so blue right now?

I just had a muffin with a cup of coffee. Hecka delicious! =)

I guess that's basically summarizes how I spent my saturday afternoon. Doing nothing.

I got a strange email from someone today. Hmmmmm......somebody who claims he looks as good as lee hom? Hello???Don't freak me now ya. I did like Lee Hom before but not anymore. Now is more like I like listening to his music rather than going goo goo gaga over him. Well, to me, he's just another ABC =P. Sorry if I offended someone but I think his nose is too big. hahahahaa



Like in this picture, he's holding some red packets, i'd rather have the red packets than him. =P I did see him in vegas last year when i went there but sorry, I ain't interested and even forgotten about this already. So pls, stalker just go away. Lee hom is not my cup of coffee...=P

Oh and he might probably be gay too.

Enough of my harsh comments, I think I shall get back to working. I already did the damage.

Byebye and have a great weekend! =)

Stress

Today I would like to touch on "stress". You know, the moments where you feel the world is right on top of you and crushing you in any minute.

To me, a little bit of stress is actually the driving force to make me get my ass up. I think I tend to slack a lot especially when you look at your calendar and you have months left to hand in the work. I'm not saying I love to work under pressure but I think sometimes we take things for granted and I for one am definitely taking things for a ride.

There's a friend of mine who complains everyday that she's very stressed out. She's not talking about stressing on her homework or research, nothing of that concern. She's stressing of her life here in the UK. From my observation, I think it's because she's been pampered too much at home that now she's feeling lost when she has no one here to take care of her. It's becoming so serious that she losses her sleeps. I feel sorry for her but I cannot help her if she doesn't wish to help herself. I cannot blame her for missing home but she should be more responsible for her own action. Her parents didn't force her to come here nor anybody else. So she must live up to her own words and apparently, she's not able to handle it. Maybe it's time for her to get busy and to forget about being daddy's little girl? Honestly, I don't have time to breathe because of the workload and I think she can get herself occupied and forget about home for a little while. I wish her well.

I'm a little bit affected by her because of her constant whining of being bored and missing her family. Sigh...

It's time for everyone to move their asses and get things done. It's definitely better than sitting on the chair and thinking of how bad the world is treating you.

GOOD LUCK ;) Christmas is coming, a time to plan the activities for you to spend with your family. Just a thought. Don't worry be happy.

Excellent Dissertations!

I'm reading a really useful dissertation book and it opens me to new ideas! I'm quite impressed. If anyone of you who are scrambling on writing your dissertation now, try this:



The author is Peter Levin and ISBN is 0335218229.

This book really helps me in outlining my dissertation and giving me fresh new ideas which I'm going to try when I start the structuring part.

It's fairly cheap for such good work. Around £8 but amazon has some outside marketplace where you can purchase this for £5.

I think a book is one of the ways to motivate you into doing something. I think I wasted quite a lot of time slacking and now it's time to get myself moving.

Thomas and friends

I'm really tired today. First was the health inspection of the common area. Well didnt do really good. Had to clean the cooker, the carpet and defrost the freezer. =S
Supposedly we had to do it together but I did all by myself. Filthy filthy! Still not able to get rid of the chocolate mousse stain on the carpet.

I received a gift today from that someone. =) Thanks. You know who you are. It's really wonderful. Still treat me like I'm a kid!haha





Nice?Thomas and friends ;)

Cleopatra is ALIVE!

Terrible terrible terrible. The most childish thing has unearthed today during class. As usual, we had our marketing research seminar with H*** K (name not disclosed because of privacy shit and because I'm afraid of getting caught writing this =P). Well today she's kinda normal for the first half of the class. haha....Well yeah, she's an oddball. Let me give a brief description of her while my memory of her is still fresh like the vegetables from the garden.

Ahem...Ms.K, well, she's plump first of all. Not quite short, not quite tall, around 5' 5". She is of mid eastern descendant and she's not wearing a ring on her finger =P. "hint hint". She's tan and you know, sometimes when I see her, she reminds me of this popular queen (minus all the jeweleries):



YES, like that in year 2006!WTF! Does anyone still do her make up like that?You tell me.

Ok enough of Ms.K. Let's get to the point. The second half of the class, she started talking about exam and she was giving us the exam questions. OOooooo nice of her and she thought everyone was so in love with her at that moment. She gave us an example on how long we should be writing for our exam and she grabbed some of the papers from a pretty friend who was sitting next to me. She put it up and let everyone visualized what she was trying to tell. In 30 seconds, all of a sudden "KABOOM" she yelled! She said "YOU GUYS NEVER LISTEN TO ME!' and she continued to mumble off. She THREW my poor friend's papers on the floor and headed to the door and "BANG"! No she did not die but that was just the sound of the door ok?=P WHAT A FREAKING CHILDISH IMMATURE RETARDED SICKENING SPECIMEN! and she calls herself a lecturer? She certainly does not live up to that title!! I sincerely hope she will get stung by bees!=D wahahahahaha...evil evil...

Everybody was astonished with her childlike behaviour. How can somebody who teaches in a university acts like she's 3? Environment certainly does not prove to be a factor for a person to act more normally. She's the worst lecturer we have for this semester and her oddball behaviour is definitely disturbing. Plus, she's always late for classes. Not one time she's been punctual. I thought I was the one to be late today but she was even worse than me? Oh come on! Don't talk shit with us when you yourself needs a lot more improvement!

To my classmates who are reading this, we should definitely curse her when we see her. OK? Haha..at least what we do is more adult that what she did to us today. =P

Sorry Marine, you gotta be careful with this evil Cleopatra! Maybe next time it's your cellphone =P Don't ever let her snatch it from you..hehe..

Something to make you fall asleep

Words

I've been bombarded by enormous workload for the past few weeks. It's very tiring but what can I do right. Life goes on and the clock is ticking. Now here I am looking out of my window, with fireworks blazing the sky, studying international marketing chapter 3. Gosh, I wish I'm the type where I can just slack without being tortured by countless guilts.

A week is almost over. Whew...and today is officially the 1-month countdown of my hunnie coming here for a visit and my europe trip is just around the corner. You know, it's not the europe trip that excites me but it's the time where I can just forget about deadline, homework and assignments that really really driving me to work. Just a little bit of motivation to steer me away from slacking I guess.

Believe it or not, I still have three DVDs sitting on the table calling out my name. Now I'm planning to reorganize my time and my schedule a little bit so that I'm able to better prepare myself for any circumstances that come along the way.

I wasn't feeling too well yesterday and today and hopefully my body is able to take the dramatic changes of the weather. Funny to say but I'm quite looking forward to my trip to vegas this year. Really really missed the foods and the glitz of vegas.

I haven't been doing a great job in uploading more pictures and I know words are boring and it's like opening a can of worms where things get more complicated.

I'll try my best to upload more pictures once I get my camera up and running again. I'm still waiting for the charger which Gary forgot to send with the previous package.

I have a presentation coming next week. Wish me luck! ;)

Flash!

 

I received the camera sent by Gary two days ago. As soon as I used it, it ran out of juice. GARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The picture depicts my feeling at the current moment. 

Happily Reunited

  

HALLOWEEN 2006 but this post is irrelevant to that

This post was deleted by me.

Edinburgh One Day Tour

Some grass, trees near the monument



Edinburgh Castle (Took this picture using phone =P)



Myself, after the trip, exhausted...excuse the backdrop

Just another boring update

Just made myself some miso soup. It's nice to drink soup again. Afterall, it's been two months since I last had it.

I have lost concentration on reading some of the past lectures again.
I'm constantly thinking of the trips in december. And now I'm planning another trip 2 days after returning from edinburgh.I wanna go Bath. Well the main tourism spot is stonehenge. I guess I will go there this december just to check it out. I was reading the website about Bath and it's actually warmer than most of the places in UK. Well, that's good to know because I think winter in UK is quite depressing. Maybe because it has those thermae spas? Whatever it is, this place is definitely a must go.

I think I really need to bring myself together and start reading again tonight. Well I have only one more lecture to go and I'm done reading all the past lectures (4 weeks). I still need to work on my research and the assignments. School is not fun but it definitely gives me the leeway to map my travel plan. hehe..

Oh ya besides Miso, I had some of the british fishballs that I bought from Marks and Spencer. I would say the texture is more filling if wanna compare to chinese fishballs. Well, it's like "crab cakes" I think.

I'm looking at the clouds again. They are moving really fast. One week is almost gone. Gotta go back to school on monday. I'm not happy nor I'm sad.

Ok, reading time!

Dodging bullets

I have so much to say yet so little to type....haih..

It's just some personal problem which I don't want to reveal here. It's been bothering me for many many years and I don't think I'm prepared to face it YET. Talk about trying to shadow reality...so silly right?Someday someday..maybe?

What the TOOT

Kaput laptop =(

sigh..

Million Dollar Baby

Too violent for me...

but clint eastwood, morgan freeman and hillary swank, thumbs up for their performance!

8 STARS OUT OF 10

CRAPPPPP

Crap! I typed a long post but blogger succumbed to some sort of internal illness and did not upload my post!GRRRRRRRRRRRR DIE DIE DIE!

I'm feeling blank now. *LOOKING AT THE CEILING*

Byebye.

2006 is coming to an end..........

I'm officially getting my one week break. Hmmm, what can I do in this short one week?

Study? Yeah, I have tons of papers flying inside my room and books collecting dust waiting to give me asthma.

Travel? Well, not to the extreme of hopping all across europe YET. hehe...Planning to go edinburgh next week though. So that's something to look forward to.

Eat? You guys know what, today I'm so free and marinated some lamb chop. Eating alone isn't that nice though.

Cleaning? We always procrastinate when it comes to cleaning right? So I'll wait. hehe

Decorate? I'm planning to decorate my dull room a little bit this week. Probably a nice love shaped rug would be nice to add a little spice to it. I can just sit on the floor and rub my toes or something. (sorry a bit yarky)

I think my week is mostly occupied with studying and doing a little bit of upgrading and improvement here and there.

I can't wait to summarize my final trip to europe next monday and then get all the accommodations and tickets ready. =) We are also going to vegas again for the one millionth time. I even said today I wanna go there at least once a year! No, it's not about gambling! It's about the carefree atmosphere and the FOOOODDDDDD! Wynn is totally awesome! The buffet is splendid! Anybody going there should definitely give it a try. I give it a 10 out of 10!

OKee gotta run now!

Window

I'm waiting to go for my HR class right now. Sometimes I think the clock ticks really slow when you are waiting for something. Wonder why? Maybe it's not the clock that sits on the table but the clock that's inside our head?

The weather is really bad. It's drizzling and at the same time, the black clouds are overtaking mr.sunshine. It makes me feel gloomy as well. I used to love gloomy weather. haha. It's the best weather to fall asleep on your comfortable bed with your dirty old blankets.

My room faces good view of the millenium bridge and at night, you can see the night lights of the city. It's pretty cool but it's just not as cool as my own home of course. Oh, besides, I can also see the baltic flour mills from my window. I wonder if they spy on me or something. hahaha...

Okay I think it's about time I wrap it up and head to class.

Late!

Mission Possible

Completed another important mission today! Ta dah! I went to see my lecturer to talk about dissertation!

Since when Im so hardworking...

Tonight I'm going to the library to look at some old copies to give myself a better idea.

I just had roast chicken and damn sleepy right now...

tata

Sleepless in Newcastle

It's getting cold over here.

Can't wait for my trips in Dcember.

I'm not able to sleep at night.

I can finally start doing my dissertation.

Feeling all stressful because of insufficient rest.

I'm trying to drain up my energy so that sleeping won't be too big of a problem tonight.

Nite nite everyone ;)

Halloween coming up!

Small plane crashed into building

I was quite shocked yesterday as I thought 9/11 repeated itself. Well "fortunately" ( I do feel sorry for the family of the people who died in the crash) it was just a small plane that struck a building in New York. I do not wish to see such thing happening again as it really creates a lot of fear.

WORLD PEACE EVERYONE!=)

Another boring post

I didn't realize my blog is up for a year already...

so here you go, happy anniversary BLOG duh!

Sorry ya everyone, this blog is mainly for me to crap...hehe

Whats going on today?

-Lost my key to my room F*CK

-Had class from 10am to 6pm Another F*CK

-Had to walk back to school to retrieve my lost and found key F*CK

-I think I was so lost in my class today F*CK

Oh God, please forgive me for being so very F*CKing rude with all the vulgarities.

You know, while I'm away, my baby bought me whole bunch of stuff because I cannot stop complaining that I'm bored. He bought me Nintendo DS (ok im not really a big game person except for age of empire and civilization but SUPER MARIO, KING KONG??umm =P). Thanks honey for being so nice to me.

He bought me NINTENDOGS. I haven't seen it yet but I think it should be quite nice to play with an electronic dog when you can't have a real one.



He said I'm able to feed it,play with it,train it and all the things a real dog owner would do. Well I saw it quite some time ago but never gave it a second thought.
Maybe it's fun. Who knows.

And then my new panasonic digital camera. I think I'm quite weird because I'm too afraid to carry any thing that's over $200 with me. I always have this fear or losing it and being really upset about it later on. Am I normal? I'm worried I might lose this camera =( I'm a big fan of panasonic digital camera because of its image stabilizer. You know how blurry a photo can be when you shake even for a little bit.

I'm glad Tuesday is over because wednesday I only have one class and I don't have to go to school on Thursday. So that's my bonus day and my day to catch up with homework, cleaning, laundry and all the shit that I procrastinated of doing.

Okay gtg now...*sip tea*

FOOD and some updates

I'm so nice to myself lately that I've been making good food for lunch. For example, today I made two angus beef quarterpounders with egg. It was so yummy!

I lost quite a bit of weight staying here. I guess around 5-6lbs at least. It's nice seeing myself shrinking =P but in a way, I felt terrible because I'm not treating myself to nutrional meals. Sometimes I would go without food and sometimes I would just have some tea or something. Gosh! I love to cook but as previously mentioned, the kitchen has a bit of a problem. I saw three flies happily savouring on the bananas today. *yuck*

I bought whole bunch of stuff from www.asda.co.uk and that's because I can get free shipping for orders over 50 pounds. So I bought 59 pounds of stuff and that will last me more than a mth.=P I don't think it's worth carrying whole bunch of groceries walking 30 minutes and coming home with your two legs swollen like you are in your trimester. I'm out of everything and that includes toilet rolls, oil, meat, veggies. All that's left in my space is just a pack of celery and some carrots.

Class was so freaking boring today especially marketing research! Our lecturer was out of town and she got a librarian to replace her???? WTF! He didn't even know how to teach even though she provided him with the slides. He was definitely wasting my time. All he taught us was how to use the electronic library. HAHA...

OK thats it...i've found a topic for my dissertation. I'm sure it's going to be a blast!

LUV YA ALL! ODIE I STILL MISS YOU A LOT :(

My lunch

I just made pesto with chinese noodle.

How did it taste?

It tasted wrong lor what else!

Ain't no trust in this world

I'm terribly exhausted right now. Slowly piece by piece I'm trying to patch myself back to reality.

I'm in disbelief and shock.

Why it is so difficult trying to trust someone?

My Flat

My first week of school wasn't really that bad. I'm just so free! My timetable has a lot of empty slots. I need to start being creative and fill in the slots.

So far, the best and most interesting subject is marketing research. Partly due to the fact that the lecturer is very motivated and informative. I bought my printer yesterday and whoa, I had to carry that monstrous 8kgs printer from city center back to my room. My arms were shaking terribly when I finally reached my room. I could not even hold the chopsticks. Man, I feel for those people with parkinson. It's really disturbing not being able to control yourself. Simple task becomes a chore.

I'm having problem with my flatmates. Apparently, someone left the cooker on and it did not happen for one time, but TWICE! The kitchen is also a mess right now and they left the cookie jar, the mooncake on the countertop, whilst whole bunch of flies feasting on the food! It's really gross! I wonder if they ate the food. They really need to go for some cleanliness bootcamp. It's simply unacceptable. We are talking about some adults here not some 3 yr old kids. They should be really ashamed of themselves. Another annoyance is that two of them are chain smokers. The management came up to install the restrictor for the window the other day and it's been chaos ever since. They continued to smoke but the window opening was restricted and that triggered the fire alarm. I'm going to just point fingers at them if management decides to give us a warning. Well I won't hold responsibility for something that does not concern my tenure here. It's simply difficult living with people that are not on the same line. I have stopped using the kitchen at night to give them the chance to mess it up.

I need to catch up on sleeping. I'm yawning continuously.

Good night everyone.

A letter to my Odie

Odie, where are you now? Are you happy where you are? I just spoke to your daddy on the phone. He mentioned that he left a lot of food for you. Cookies,madeleine,biscotti,those buns from your grandpa and lots more!WOW, what a lucky dog! =) But please behave ya my son. Eating too much junk isn't really that good for your teeth and for your health. You know when you were little, you hated your food. Mommy had to jump up and down, made lots of funny faces and noises, had to feed you like a monkey and you still never wanted to eat your food voluntarily. Sigh, mommy was really mad. Did you know that? It's a chore feeding you back then. But mommy never loved you less.

Two years went by, you celebrated your 2nd birthday. Mommy witnessed something different in you. You were more mature. You ate your food like a hungry wolf each day. Must be the hormone kicking in. Hehe. Mommy was very glad. But you were still acting like a kiddo! You stopped chewing your daddy's shoes but you dragged mommy wherever we went! I could only see the leash but not you! You were already 2 miles ahead of me! Daddy asked mommy when can we let you offleash. Mommy said "NEVER"! That's because mommy was afraid, you might run away. You made your 'gu jeh" tripped and fell. You made mommy crazy trying to chase after you. But odie, mommy never loved you less.

Third birthday. You ate your birthday cake. You ran around the table, waiting to blow the candles. It was as if you knew the cake was for you and you were the star of the day. Mommy said cake was bad for you but we still gave it to you anyway. Sigh, who wouldn't want to spoil you my dear. =) You were bigger and your coat was really beautiful. I'm a proud mommy. Everybody complimented how beautiful you were. I guess maybe that's why you were quite a snob. haha..but mommy never loved you less.

Odie, your fourth birthday. You were a mature dog, we thought. We went hiking together. You ran like a wild rooster!!You ran up and down the hill! Mommy couldn't help shouting at you for being naughty. You were supposed to show and guide mommy the path but you went berserk like a crazy dog! Mommy remembered the flea bites from hiking. Mommy had to bring you to the clinic the next day. We went to Tahoe. You loved the snow so much! You ran like a mad cow this time. Gosh! You chased after mommy that day. haha...daddy still has the clips from that day. =) Mommy threw snow at you but you didn't know how to duck. =P
You ate the snow. Daddy said no. Mommy said yes. You ate a lot that day. I bet your stomach must have felt uncomfortable. You slept with mommy and daddy in the hotel that night. You snored and you woke mommy up. It's okay son, mommy never loved you less.

Fifth birthday. Sadness was surrounding us. You were not well my dear. Your rear leg wasn't co-operating with your right. You had a tumor in there. Mommy and daddy brought you to sausalito. You acted like your usual self. You tried to catch the wave!! Mommy snapped a lot of pictures. =) Mommy knew, your fifth might be your last. Never thought our days together would end so soon my son. Mommy knew you were in pain. Yet, you were strong and ready to fight it! Mommy was so proud of you. Mommy and daddy would bring you to the park everyday, remember? You loved to eat the grass. Mommy started naming you "cow". You still ran despite the tumor restricting your movement. Son, tennis ball was your life right? You would do anything for it. =)
Daddy named you charlie chaplin. haha, and let's not tell people why. Mommy never loved you less.

Now that you are gone, mommy wept. Mommy never wept so much in her life. I'm sorry my son. Mommy could not be with you to share your agony and pain. Odie, my heart beats for you now. Every single heartbeat. Each day, mommy will look at some old pictures of you. Mommy can't stop smiling. You brought a lot of joy to mommy's life. You were such a good son. Only you have the power to make mommy smile and cry. We will see each other again someday. Mommy will never love you less.

My first f* day in school

I intended to post today but a conversation with my hon made me such a forgetful loser. I totally ignored the computer screen in front of me. So I'm back wanting to introduce my first day of class to the world. Well, too bad, it sux. Yup, I woke up religiously at 7.30am to prepare my breakfast and prepare myself for my class at 9am. Eve and I walked together to school today with the fog growing thicker and thicker, and we bitch-ed happily for the entire 20 minutes journey to our faculty.

Whole bunch of people were waiting in front of class NB056 when we arrived around 8.50am. Good timing! 10 minutes to ambiguously glare and stare at others from the NB056 bunch. 9.15am, still waiting outside the class, with the crowd decreasing in size. Some were outside huffing and poofing. Smoking la! Aiyo not bring down the school.

9.30am, still in front of the class. Dumbfounded. Started talking to the guy standing next to me. He's Michael from Denmark. Wanted to make sure I'm not stupid enough to be standing in front of the wrong place. No, that's the right class. Waves of people started walking in and out of the faculty. There we were standing in front of the class like the guards from buckingham.

9.50am, haha, class is about to end in another 40 minutes. Still there waiting! I'm so freaking patient I tell ya. Who would wanna stand one hour in front of an empty class???KNN!

Well.....as my patience was running a bit low, there was this lady, she introduced herself as Claire. Okay so I was thinking, maybe we all should really beat the crap out of her if we found out she's the teacher and she's late!Turned out she's just some sort of timetable lady.=P So the usual crap, oh wrong timetable,just for this one week, don't worry, will get better next week.................and the excuses went on and on...She took us into the classroom, finally my ass got some rest. You know, how heavy ass can be. Then a lady with heavy heavy CHINESE accent came in. Her name is ROSE. hahaha Reminded me of the old ancient chinese movie, with the rose rose song. Okay, back to Ms.Rose. She's going to be our teacher for that one particular subject. She further introduced herself as a really really really really EXPERIENCED marketing manager and some other shit. She dwindled and dwindled. I was about to tell her "hey you are here for job interview?" She said "goodbye".=P

So we got out of the class around 11am. No more class, not until 12. So one hour of free time. So what do we students love to do during such short break? LADIES!! yeah, we were whoring the ladies room. It wasn't that nice actually. You won't want to see it.

Went to the next class and it was pretty decent.

What a good first day. Came back to my room and started jamming some music and made myself some freaking salty noodles.Yuck. Still in the fridge if anyone wants.

To be con'd..

@FFJDIU((@#^#)(_F Where's justice!????

I have a big dilemma right now. I'm going back to San Fran in December for christmas and Gary is coming to visit me before my school term ends. The best price I scoured from the internet was $377 American Airlines but with one stop. Thats not for me, but for him departing from san francisco. $377!!:O yes you heard me right. It's that good of a deal.

As for myself, the price is even :O !!!!$700!!I was like WTF????How come it is so cheap for him to get here and when I have to go home, it is $700! Justice plssssssssss!

I know some of you might say the BS tax shit at the airport and all that crap but $377 comparing to $700???hey, now that's a big difference!I can buy another ticket for him to fly over! Almost!

Now I am seriously thinking whether I should boycott getting on an airplane and swim home?

Where are you now?

Today is the 4th day since Odie been gone. Does he still remember his family now that he's gone to the best place on earth?

Odie, wherever you are, please do not forget your mommy. Mommy will always be here if you are hungry, thirsty, sleepy, just anything that you fancy.

It's really disheartening knowing that Gary is still keeping Odie's blankets in the car and making Odie's bed every night. Ivy is getting a golden retriever plushie to be kept beside her bed and Queenie is still crying over Odie's passing. I know it takes time to forget but I do hope everyone is able to move on. Let the past be the past and Odie will forever be the angel of our heart.

RIP

To all my friends and family,

Odie had gone to the bridge on 20th September 2006, 11.30pm.
He was a wonderful pet,family and friend.

We will never forget him and the memory will always be kept tightly inside our heart.

Have a wonderful journey my son. Mommy and daddy will cherish all the memories and joy you had brought us for the past 5 years.

Love,

mommy & daddy

My beloved Odie

Odie,

I feel your pain
Your agony as shown on your face
Yet I never heard your whine
I will never do
You are leaving for eternity soon
Your journey to your freedom
A world where no pain is recognised
You take your little step
And slowly you rise
with a pair of wings like an angel

Odie,

Go on and fly
Fly as high as you can
Don't look back
Your friends are waiting
You will get all the joy
Your favourite green green grass
Tons of blankets on the floor
Go on boy
The bridge is waiting
You are finally free now

Shopaholic with Sore Feet

I had a successful day. Why?I accomplished my mission of getting most of the necessities needed for this and next year.Even managed to add a new contact to my friends' list. It's really awesome.

Today is just my second day but I've been given the chance to explore what this city has to offer. So far, people here are quite friendly I would say. Thank God everything went so smoothly.

I bought so much stuff that I couldn't pass through the gate to my dorm.Bummer! The stuff here are not excessively cheap nor expensive. When you compare it to Malaysia, then it's ridiculously expensive but with USD, it's still around the same. I'm still able to bear with it.

My feet are still sore from all the walking since this morning. I think I might need a new pair of sneakers. Sponsor anyone??=P

Shopping is supposed to be therapeutical but after today my view has indiscreetly changed. I never had such sore feet before. Ouch!

Today I conceived a chance to walk around the campus as well. Extra weight to my poor feet hehe. The school is really huge and the buildings are quite confusing. My memory only tells me that the school comprises of some old english brick buildings that are church alike. I will spend more time soon and give myself a complete tour around the campus.

Oh ya, I still need some hangers for my clothes. Oh well, tomorrow then...

London Tour

I'm in london right now. The weather is nice but a bit too warm for me. The host of my trip has been doing an awfully awesome job. Kudos Siu Mun!!

It's nice to come here to check out the old architecture and put history to a better picture.

Will be uploading more pictures in the future. I'm flying to newcastle on wednesday!! =)

ciao ;)

Bye Bye Birdie

I'm leaving tomorrow at 4.30pm..I'm going to miss everyone =( Especially O-Dog

A Virgin Adventure

Finally ticket has been confirmed. UK, I'm coming!My first time to UK...YIPPEEE!!

How am I feeling right now?

*Anxious Anxious Anxious*

I'm feeling really anxious right now since I will be leaving very soon. I haven't done any packing, basically just procrastinating. I have submitted my request to follow 'international marketing" path and hopefully I'm going to love it. Well just a matter of months of studying, so I'm not too bothered by it.

Believe it or not, people still treat it as if I'm staying and trying to steer away from the topic of ME LEAVING. Well, to be honest, I am hesitant to leave too but my future is at stake. Am I too selfish that I chose "MY FUTURE" rather than taking into considerations how people would feel and how are things after I left?

Deep down inside me, I'm so ready for a great new adventure ahead. Afterall, I'm a geminian. Geminians don't stay. They love to explore. The only thing I am extremely concerned about is odie. What a bad mom I am! I am leaving him when he probably has few more months to live. Sigh..........Life.....

Pics as promised!!

Group Picture-with some uncles and aunties



Me and Ms.Ivy



With "grandma", she's 80

Pictures

Pictures coming up tomorrow.

-went to banquet yesterday
-odie is doing perfectly fine
-been busy working
-i need to get a pair of boots from camper shoes
-i need to confirm my tix

okay that's all the updates!

tata

Life so far...............

haven't been doing any updates for a long long time..

what has happened?

-odie went for his 2nd chemo, both his legs are swollen because of water retention, he gets his daily massage to aleviate the swell,chemo should be able to prolong his life for additional months

-I'm so anxious thinking about leaving san fran for UK...i'm sure it is going to be a blast over there..hehe

-so far things are going fine except for some hiccups along the way, life can never be too smooth I guess

-I'm moving some of my stuff back to Gary's home temporarily until I get back next year

-I'm saving up to buy a home next year, hopefully ;)

-Why am I thinking of "unemployment" already even before school starts?=|

Hope everybody has had a great time so far this year..

Okay laundry is waiting tata!

Family of Odie

I'm a humpty dumpty

I was looking at the reflection of the mirror and there's this figure which I could not recognize. Pathetically, it's actually myself. Okay what was I thinking.

I'm in desperate need of losing weight here. For the past month, I've been eating non-stop. Usually my dinner contains highly saturated fat and big big portion! I don't eat lunch, sometimes yes sometimes no. Very very inconsistent. Supper is a must have. My unhealthy eating habit is destroying my metabolism. And I've been drinking CORONA almost everyday! My jeans are getting tight!OHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! My seven, true religion, diesel! I must exercise and lose weight for them! I cannot let them rot inside the closet. They need my ass! My normal ass instead of my "irregular" ass right now!

I MUST stop drinking alcoholic drinks, stop eating supper, stop drinking milk tea everyday. I MUST exercise more, eat healthily and SERIOUSLY NO SUPPER!! I'm going to start jogging tomorrow, instead of the usual 15 minutes, make it 30! I've been a super duper lazy bum for the past few mths. No wonder my ass is getting bigger. Shit!

Okay new mid year resolution, LOSE WEIGHT!Who says we can only make resolutions during new year?+P

Please take away those frozen roti canais from my fridge. Thanks.



I am feeling like humpty dumpty

Get,Set,Go!

I am one step closer to UK.

-School ok
-Accommodation ok
-Visa submitted
-Ticket NOT ok (will wait till I get my visa)

What else?

Clothes and all that last minute =P

Yes I secretly...............

I WAS SUPPORTING FRANCE! WTF!

I woke up, didn't even brush my teeth, sitting in front of the tv yawning until the first goal scored by Zidane! GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The rest, history......"dumb struck" piak piak piak..

Why?! Why?! Zidane! Why????@!!!!!!

I have.........

I was questioned about the things I have in my handbag.

Okay so here you go:

-Wallet
-Cell (But don't waste time calling me because I won't answer)
-Old receipts (Just in case I have to save them for tax shit and all that, it's piling up)
-Some business cards from people I don't even know =P
-Lipstick (I've been using it for at least 5 years haha I don't like putting on lipstick)
-Pens

Honestly, the things that are in my handbag, the most important would be pens!!! I always need pens because people around me would ask for them, or ask me to jot down things. Ahhh, old receipts are the next handyman! You have pen but NO PAPER? Write on your face can?

Okay so the lame ass items of my handbag are revealed. Nothing notti like condoms, tampons or whatever weird stuff I got in there. hehe

H.O.R.N.Y

I SO WANNA DATE A CUTE GUY! I think the guy on superman is cute! =P Besides who doesn't love a man in a different outfit! Marvelous!

ITALY AS WORLD CUP CHAMPION?

Gee, still can't believe Germany lost...bummer!

Mad as a bull!

Do you have this problem when you are talking to someone, that person quickly talks about another thing without giving much of his/her input/feedback? It makes you feel like a loser because your topic does not generate any enthusiasm for response. It's shitty! It is worse if you are talking to someone you are bound to spend the rest of your life with! Okay simple reply like "yes", "no" is sufficient to end the conversation in a correct manner. WTF! Instead don't give me the blank look and then talk about something else. It's very rude! Why the conversation in the first place?!
&%e()bndwu(*^$dlj:d

It's difficult to find someone to talk or listen nowadays. I rather talk to an object or my dog. At least odie blinks his eyes and I can make assumption that's an answer from him.

This month I still freaking owe $800 for my credit card and I'm working thrice as hard to recoup the funds to pay it off. It would be nice if barter still available. Talking about being insane.hehe...you know, my backyard has a lemon tree. wouldn't it be nice if I could use the lemons on the tree to pay off my debt..haha I shall bring a basket filled with lemons to the bank.

Let's blame the chinese for inventing $$$$. It has caused us human a lot of problems. And plastic makes matter a lot problematic. Which fU$ke& invented that?! I'm not a big spender (=P ya right) or anything like tat but I used to have a record of $4k in a month. Damn! I know, I know dont give me that look please. And the most inane thing was I couldn't even remember what I bought! Shit, I think my problem is the lacking of memory space available inside my brain. Plastic can really make your life upside down. Sometimes don't even realize that you have spent that much until you see the statement by the end of billing date. You starve youself, you work non-stop, you feel guilty over and over again.

If you are having the same problem,welcome to the plastic world and you are victim # "infinity".

Summer has started!

I had to work today but tomorrow should be day off. Summer has been great so far. Tomorrow is the longest day on earth, which is my birthday too. It's going to be a warm day and we aren't going to celebrate or anything like that. After being in a foreign country for such a long time, bdays aren't really celebrated anymore. Why? Because not only I don't have my family here, I do not have too many friends. Well it's not really like when I was growing up. It's easy to make friends because we have such innocent and pure heart. However, it's different now. People talk $$$, buildings, real estate, investments MORE than talking about being with friends and just chilling out. Maybe it's just the wrong bunch of people I'm mixing with.

I have another three months before my departure to UK. I'm not nervous, at least right now. I guess I'm quite relaxed and calm when it comes to being away from home. It never struck me really bad the first time I had to leave home. I was, well, enjoying it. =)

I can't believe I'm given a second chance to enjoy the pure innocent feeling of being in a different place. I like the "new" feeling. That virgin feeling is just unforgettable.

I mailed out the acceptance letter this morning. Felt quite good for accomplishing something. I'm going to take care of my accommodation matters tomorrow. And hopefully nothing holds me back.

Like I said just now, nothing major will go on for my birthday. Just regular dinner with my "family" especially my doggie.

Yes I'm older, but I'm definitely wiser. =)

Will try to take some photos to post.

Yippeeee!!

I'm going to UK this September. Got the letter from the university yesterday yay!

Fish and Chips, Beer, Beer and more Beer? And best friend =) Ummm, perhaps guys too..shhh

Wait da minute, the main objective is to study why I'm thinking about travelling already..=P 9 months of heaven HOPEFULLY!

hehe

Chemo episode 1

Odie went for his first round of chemo yesterday. Woke up at 7am and reached the vet around 9am. It was in fairfield, california. It's called Veterinary Internal Medical Associates or short, VIMA. The oncologist is Dr.Sara Schachter.

We sat down and saw a chubby 40-ish woman with her husband. The husband has a blank look on his face. The woman was smiley. She smiled to me when I brought odie in. Then a door from behind opened and came a nurse with a dove white cat wrapped with a pink blanket. The cat was beaufitul with red paws and long whiskers. The cat did not open her/his eyes nor make any sound. I told myself the cat must be just taking a nap or had a painful surgery. The woman quickly grabbed the cat from the lady nurse and put him/her on her shoulder while using her face to rub against the cat's head. The cat still didn't move. The lady nurse with a forlorn face said "we cleaned her a little bit" and proceeded to close the door. The husband was standing by the counter to remit his payment. The smiley woman suddenly broke into tears. I could see the tears rolling down her chubby cheeks. The smile turned into pain. Then I knew she was carassing a lifeless cat. I felt sorry for her. I didn't know what to say. She looked at me and cried out silent tears. I opened the door for her and she said thank you. I was still speechless because I was in deep thought. The whole morning I could not forget the face of the woman and the cat. I was frightened. What if?What if I'm next to rub my head against odie's lifeless body??=(

World Cup is here!

OLE OLE OLE!

=P

Reflection of life

Odie went for his third x-ray yesterday and it wasn't looking too good. He came back this morning and as usual, he was wagging his tail, licking my face and I gave him the permission to sleep right next to me.

Now it is up to a point where I should try everything to prolong his life even for just one day. The clock is ticking and I know God will come and take him away soon. It's just a matter of when.

This morning I sat on the chair, looking at Odie, and let myself slip into deep thought. Odie. So if odie was human, what kinda human would he be? Odie was still sleeping like a baby with the IKEA bee I bought many years ago for myself but surrendered it to him because he liked it so much. Few more seconds, I came up with the answer. My Odie would be a man with no place for pain and he would be somebody that's so optimistic with life. People been telling me horror stories that dogs with osteosarcoma would suffer in pain, may sometimes whine or cough, or nose bleeds are common BUT my brave odie never heaved even a sound of pain. He never complained. Sometimes I might have neglected him because of my own chores or work, he would still sit closely to me and monitor my movement.



I won't shed another tear because of this. Odie is my inspiration. He's just a dog, yes, but he's one brave k9. He will always have a part of my heart and sooner or later, we will meet again. I am very glad that I was given a chance to take care of such a wonderful doggie.

To all my friends that have dogs, prevention is better than medication. We all love our k9 but we must not love blindly and neglect everything else around us. There are many things we need to know about our k9. It may be too late for me but I would strongly advise feeding raw to your dog.It's the best diet ever. DO NOT TRUST those commercialized dog food or treats on the shelves. If you have lived in asia, you would know that dogs or "wong choys" they die because of old age, not because of cancer or any disease that's deadly as soon as it's contracted. WOLF diet is highly recommended. If you guys need tips on how to feed raw, you can email me strawhoney@hotmail.com and I would be glad to provide information.

Cheers to life.

True San Franciscan

I never knew san francsico had so many flights of stairs until today.

As you know, San Fran is a hilly city and it can be quite devastating if you only use your #11 bus to commute. Today we parked our car somewhere near Lombard and took a walk. Not a walk but that was SOME walk! Honestly, I never been this tired! I think it was more like a hike than walk. Going down was no problem but climbing the stairs was heck a painful experience!But one great experience because if I didn't take this hike today, I wouldn't be a true San Franciscan.

We brought odie along and he was a gem. He didn't complain one bit and in fact, he was co-operating despite the cancerous tumor in him. For those who has been following, odie is doing so fine right now that nobody believes that he has cancer.
I've been monitoring his health everyday and feeding him raw, even raw eggs. We gonna fight this together! Well, all the organic groceries burnt a big big hole in my pocket but it's all worth it.

Can't really believe this

Credits to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yong_tao_foo

Yong tau foo (酿豆腐; pinyin: niàngdòufǔ; Cantonese: yong4dao9foo4, also Yong tao foo, Yong tau fu, Yong tau hu etc) is a soup dish with Hakka origins commonly found in Singapore and Malaysia. In Malaysia, the Ampang region of Kuala Lumpur is particularly famous for this dish.

Yong tao foo is essentially a soup containing a varied selection of food including fish balls, crab sticks, bittergourds, cuttlefish, lettuce, lady's fingers, as well as chilli, and various forms of fresh produce, seafood and meats common in Chinese cuisine. Some of these items, such as bittergourd and chilli, are usually filled with fish paste. The diner selects their favorites and they are then sliced into bite-size pieces, cooked briefly in boiling water and then served either in broth as soup or with the broth in a separate bowl. The dish can be eaten by itself or with any choice of egg or rice noodles, or bee hoon. Another variation of this dish is to serve it with laksa. Essential accompaniments are spicy chili sauce and a distinctive brown sauce for dipping.

The dish is popular among the health conscious people because they can select the vegetable items and avoid meat and oily food.

DIDN'T KNOW THEY HAVE YONG TAU FOO LISTED IN WIKIPEDIA...SPEECHLESS!

Big Leap!

I have just made a big leap in my life. A knot in my heart was released.

Hopefully the remaining months of 2006 are better.

Happy Mama Day

Happy Mother's Day!

Do you know the history of mother's day? If not, you should do a google search now!

Mission Impossible is possible once again!

I went for a movie today, MI3. Well, explosive! Action packed, explosions,lots of em and a movie that's worth to drag my lazy ass off the chair.

It tells a story of Ethan Hunt (as if you guys didn't know) or Tom Cruise going through lots of chaotic moments trying to save his girlfriend from dying in the hands of the foe. Well, it's sorta lame but you know the story, the good guy always wins!!

Good ending, my type. I hate those sad ending stories. It's so ironic. Sometimes the leading actor/actress had gotten so much torturing that eventually he/she wiltered and died. So tragic! It makes me want to poke the cinema screen.

A lot of cool gadgets in MI3. I bet you guys must still remember the Oakley Rims that Tom donned during the previous MI. It was so darn cool that almost everyone had to have one. Damn! Advertising does work.

For this movie, there are few obvious ones such as Casio watches, Nokia handhelds and some tourism shit. Okay, the bad dude was using the coolest gadget ever! My favorite Nokia N92!! You know, it's not even out even though they announced the making of N93! After watching MI3, it all became crystal clear. They were waiting for MI3 to show in the cinema so that they can get bigger audience to know about N92! No wonder people so easily get silver hair nowadays. Waiting for a cool gadget to come out can be quite disturbing.

So what about N93?Which movie is Nokia sponsoring next?hehe..From the prototype pictures, N93 sure looks good to me. I'm guessing price range is around thousands.
Who needs a laptop when you can get all the functions in a small little guy.

Oh Nicole, if you are reading this, I asked Gary about your hard drive, he said you can buy an internal hard drive to replace your kaput one for relatively quite a low price. Have you tried looking on ebay? Just a thought. $300 is indeed too much!! I would slam the door twice as hard if I were you or drink more of those spirit just to make myself feel better. hehe..

Time to go to bed again..till then ciao!

A video on NOKIA N92

Goodbye America, here comes an intruder!

Go away Britney, Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson....goodbye to american pop! I never liked it anyway! =P

I've always enjoyed listening to british pop songs. Before I left for US, this girl band was hot and they still are!



ENJOY! Sugababes with "push the button"

I'm a mean and neat machine

It's 12.18am. Sleep or not to sleep? 12am is still too early for me to wander to my monkeyland.

Maybe another 30 minutes. I am surfing the web aimlessly. Suddenly something struck me. The internet is such an immense medium of information yet I'm thinking of which website I should go to? Omigod...I must be losing my mind. Do you have the same problem where you sometimes just stop to think where and which website you should go to? Probably google can help. But what topic!???

I can hear people snoring. I have a friend whom can fall asleep within 3 seconds. How amazing is that!

Whenever I close my eyes, my brain automatically log-ons to unnecessary scenarios which can seriously cause deprivation of sleep. Maybe I sit in front of the computer too much that I'm becoming a robot? I need to fix my server? I need to reboot? Omifuukinggod!

I AM A ROBOT. I AM MADE IN THE USA. I WAS BORN IN A LAB. MY "PARENTS" GAVE ME A NAME. I AM CALLED DETONATOR. I HAVE THE TENDENCY TO DETONATE ANYTHING AROUND ME IF I AM FEELING AGITATED.



I want to be a cute robot =P


Shit..I guess I better try to go to sleep...hehe

GOOD NITE WORLD!

Vacation, where have you been?

I want a vacation. I'm aiming for one for my birthday in June. This year has not been too smooth sailing even though I've moved a step forward.

I just found out that I'm a freak! People pointed out that I'm so obsessed with the things and work that I'm doing. I'm putting too much focus on working that I tend to neglect everything else around me. I've definitely forsaken that there's a thing called "enjoy" while trying to accomplish an arduous task.

The world has changed. Just give me a computer (internet capable) and I can live without anything else. I eat in front of the computer, while I'm playing my PS2, I'm checking what I've sold for the day. I ship out stuff everyday while doing my research for my paperwork. I flip the browsers, here and there. I check the regular entertainment news while chatting with 3-4 people simultaneously. The world indeed has changed!

I can still remember I used to sit on a chair, with my food on the table and I ate my food bit by bit. No rush at all. Now it is totally different!! I eat like a monster or even worse, a cannibal! I used to spend more time in the shower but now a shower becomes a task. I need to complete it in certain time or else I'm doomed. When I cook, I don't think. I open up the fridge and put everything in a claypot or a pan. I don't even cook a proper meal!! What has happened to me!???Arghhhh...

This is a disaster. Well, I'm sure I'm not the only one who is facing the same dilemma. Now that Odie is sick, my life is more routine. But he's important to me so I gotta do what I gotta do to make sure he's healthy and happy.

My tuesdays are gone. Tomorrow (Tuesday) odie is going for his swimming lessons. =) So here you go, my simple yet chaotic life.

I cleaned up the clutter in my room today! Hooray! It's so spacious and clean now. ;)

Listen to Katie's NINE MILLION BICYCLES!

love ya all enjoy your weekend!

Katie Melua

Some SHIT company

I'm seriously going to complain about this Reaxxy Trxx company from LA. This company called my house for at least 10 times a day! Freaking marketing calls!

I've unplugged my phone because of the disturbing calls. Just wtf you want from me?

I'm just trying to get some sleep! FUCK!

Sorry for the profanities.

Some Pot and Bowl story

I was reading an article today on IKEA's success.

IKEA. A scandinavian company that creates a comfortable living space in your home. The furnitures are of mediocre quality. They are not too high end nor bad enough to crack in just few days of usage. They have stores worldwide and their stores are GIGANTIC!

Personally I love shopping at IKEA. It's fun browsing all different types of furniture in a comfortable huge space. Their stuff are innovative. I bought a pot scraper for $1.99 and instead of the usual "hole" you see on the bottom end (where you hang your stuff), you get a suction area where you can just place it on your sink and there's no need to use a hammer, find a nail and then hang it on the wall.
It has created quite a commotion in my house. HAHA



Any takers? $9.99 for a wine rack. Not bad.


One must wonder, such a giganto company with stores all over the world, there mustn't be a place where IKEA is not accepted. If you think Mcd restaurants in India are frequently patronised by indians, then you are wrong. Indians hate McDs because of some serious issues with the oil they are using.

Believe it or not, IKEA is not welcomed by Japanese people. I mean, come on, just some furnitures and they aren't different from any of those sold in the japanese market. Honestly, I myself don't really get the reason behind this. I know japanese people only require small little space to live. And that's pretty much the information I have because I have never lived in Japan. Was it because of the style of the furnitures? Was it because of the huge IKEA store? Was it because they love to support their own local made products? Was it because Japanese people would prefer sushi to be served in the IKEA food court?Oh, talking about the Danish food, I love the cinnamon bun they sell.=P

Now they even have home appliances such as refrigerators, gas stove etc IKEA brand. =)

Maybe japanese people need more retro style. You know, afterall, Japanese people love to dress up really retro-ly. Their sense of fashion is different from the rest of the world.

Japan is a really difficult market to penetrate. I wish IKEA good luck!

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