Feezin in the cold

Currently in Starbucks with Terri happily using the free wifi *thank god for free wifi*. oh wait.. benny just walked by *Hi Benny* :) Yup.. i have degenerated to the point where ive taken to using *free wifi cos i have none at home. Sob. So im here... enjoying my tall Rhumba frappuccino with no cream, courtesy of Hanxens gift vouchers. Ahh... my third Rhumba in two days. No matter..ive been badly missing my Rhumba.

I have decided that im gonna bring back a lil furry pet to campus next week. Hope my new roomie isnt scared shitless cos im gonna get a Chinchilla. This cute furry little ball thing with a tail. Oh wait. Maybe i'll get myself a guinea pig instead. Hmmmmmm...

Itching and Peeling ..

Yup.. I'm back. From the beautiful island of Lang Tengah (for those of you that still dont know, thats between Redang and Perhentian in terengganu) and i have not only managed to get way darker, and rather sunburnt, but i have achieved what i thought impossible - i sunburnt my ass. Amazing, aint it. had a great time there .. and for you folks that like the sea or the beach, i highly recommend it. Cos seriously, when i got there i had no idea that such a place still existed in Malaysia. A place where the fish swim right up to the shore, a place where the water is clearer then a darn swimming pool. A place where corals are within range of the beach (think little mermaid or finding nemo kind of corals .. amazing).

As i said, the water is so darn clear, its amazing. Ishuet and I were feeding the little fishies right at the beach.. where the water is shallow enough to wade into. And the resident squirrel? Its tame enough to take food right out of your hand. Doesnt really fancy Mr Potato, though.

See the black thingy in my hand? its a sea cucumber. A black, kinda slimy, suprisingly solid pudgy kinda thing. A kind of animal that clings onto the seabed (we dont know what) and its pretty gross to look at..but tolerable to hold for a while. Loads of these things down there. And dont throw em around, they can bleed and they can burst.

Just for the view.. By the way, it isnt the sunset. The yellow round thing was the moon. It came out yellow that night so we ran down to grab a shot..

Ishuet and I, taken in Terengganu at the Palace Entrance. Trust me, doenst look anything like a palace. We thought the little garden outside it was some sort of comunity garden or park. Hahaha.. And just to fill up the space, some other random shots.. And did you know, that Coke is still sold for 1.10 here?? Guess inflation didnt hit this place. Then again, neither did the nature conservationists. They sell turtle eggs in the market. Speaking of which.. there were turtles.. and sharks.. and clown fish... Go give the place a visit if you can .

Fine Dining

Went with the girls to for a Barbeque Steamboat dinner last night. Yummy :). I can safely say i've had adequete experience in eating barbeque steamboat, so i present to you ...

Lisa's tips to the Barbeque Steamboat dinner

1. Go easy on the steamboat stuff. From experience, most of us just go straight to the barbeque part. Steamboat fills you up too fast and it doesnt taste as good as the barbequed stuff.

2. If you take it, eat it. So if some smart dude decides to cook ten hu-wans he'd sure better be eating at least half of em. Saves you the trouble of having to hide the food with tissue paper so they dont fine you for wastage.

3. Always peel and marinade prawns before cooking. Better still, throw em into the steamboat soup to get sea food tom yam.

4. You can never use too much butter.

5. Stand up while you eat. You save your face from getting burnt and you get to eat alot more cos your food digests faster. Besides, just looks much more hip n happening when you have ten people standin around a table waving chopsticks around.

6. cant finish you food? Put a little in each bowl and cover with balls of tissue paper (looks like you put your used tissue in the bowls). Or, look around for the friendly cat and feed.

7. Never take the mee. Why waste stomach space?

8. Eat alot, and talk alot at the same time. Thats the chinese way ...

8. Dont bother trying to be neat and polite and hygenic. You cant. If it drops, pick it up and continue to eat as if nothing happened. Remember the five second rule. Why waste good food??

9. Dont bother washing your hair before you go, and always try to wear something dark (never white). No matter which direction the wind is blowing in, you will definitely leave reeking of barbeque. And oil will always splatter. Be prepared to get scalded.

10. You paid good money for all that so walk away feeling content. Then, walk around the car for ten minutes before actually getting in it and driving off to prevent heartburn.

Raise you chopsticks and enjoy!

Coming soon .. essential things every DJ should know .. compiled from the resources of the EBB :)

I will be off to Lang Tengah this week with my baby. And to bump into ishuet along with her family and her boy, who are already there. For those of you who dont know, Lang Tengah is the island situated between Redang and Perhentian. In Terengganu ( no tank tops and short shorts - PAS ? ). Off to bask in the sun, snorkel in the clear waters and become a beach bum. Ahhhhhh... pure bliss.

Photos will be up if i look good :)

Yummy

Finally... after so long.. after the countless cravings...

I ate my Maggi Ayam Tambah Telur Atas!!!

Stupid, I know.. But I've missed my Maggi so, so much. Sigh. My craving is sated. For now. Had myself a nice big bowlful yesterday. And i would have finished every drop of the yummy soup if not for the horrified glances of the girls at my table. "You're not going to drink all that???? Think of the ajinomoto... Your hair will drop out, think of your kidneys..bla bla bla " Oh well.. its only once in a while, right?

I drank most of the soup up anyway.

I have figured come up with a theory why drunk drivers die in accidents. Its not just cos their reflexes are shot after a night of boozing, its the speed. Yup, speed kills. When you've had a little too much to drink, everything floats by you in slo-mo. So even if you're driving around at 110 on a normal road, youd never know it.

Not that i did it, you know..

The journey ends

With the end of my training comes mixed feelings.

Relief - Thank god its finally over
Joy - Finally! I can go out, i have time to myself and i dont have to wake up at 7.30 in the morning anymore. Oh, and i dont have to walk around in the sun anymore.

But

Theres also a tinge of .. i dont know..sadness?? I will miss the trainees i've been working with. The makan sessions, the ronda Tesco sessions, the ronda Penang sessions, the sit-in-Popular-and-read-magazines sessions, the making-sneaky-phone-calls-from-the-office-during-lunchtime sessions (okay, so only the girls did that), the pretend-to-look-busy-while-talking sessions, the hide-in-the-guardhouse-or-canteen sessions..alot of things to look back on and smile. And I will in a way miss the workers, yes, they are very nice to us .. my boss and his neverending stories..The fruit fiestas we have in the office (think 30 durians, 3 crates of rambutans, mangosteens).. the KFC tea times, the Pelita breakfasts, the McDonald ice creams..Though I'm glad its ended (finally) I dont regret going.

The road less travelled

I like taking drives on a long, clear road.

With just me in the car and a stack of good chillout music to keep me company. I could go on forever.

I'm not heading to anywhere in particular, just driving. And driving. Going on and on to nowhere. Feels good, y'know? I dont know what im leaving behind, or where im going, but it feels good.

Just to be getting somewhere. Leaving something behind, going forward to something new.. Just going.

Too bad petrol is now 1.52 a litre. This expensive habit can only be saved for the rainy days.

Did anyone realise that this is still Penang? Cos i didnt :). Somewhere in Balik Pulau, when a lunch break turned into a 3 hour 'long kai'. Im at the top of a hill, at restaurant. I think its called the view? Pretty nice place, with a great breeze. So if you're really bored, go look for it. If youre using a really old car though, take my advice and walk up. Unless you want to risk sliding down 100 meters, which is what we almost did. This is what bored and lazy trainees do, when work is about to end. We went on impulse to Balik Pulau, where one of the trainee lives. To eat durians (she has her own dusun) and rambutans and pineapples and mangosteens etc etc. Pineapples do NOT grow like potatoes. I didnt know that either. There is no such thing as a pineapple tree.

Psychotic

I was bored at work.

Wait a minute, im downright sick of work. Especially with all the trainees gone.

Sigh

This is what you do when you're bored.

You Are 50% Normal(Somewhat Normal)

While some of your behavior is quite normal... Other things you do are downright strange You've got a little of your freak going on But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself

How Normal Are You?

I was right all along. Im weird. Oh well.. goddesses cant be normal, can we?

hahahhahhha.
Oh, by the way... i just fell in love with this word.

Psychotic

Dont you think?? Psychotic bitch, psychotic dude, psychotic cat... so many uses...

Musical Baton

I know, i know.. it took that long to get this done. But when you no longer have a wifi spot and the pc runs on windows 98 with no speakers.. how can you pass on a musical baton when you cant here anything?? Right??

Anyway, here goes...

Total volume of music on my computer:
Wait.. lemme count .. 2.14GB plus another 3.28GB OH MY THATS A DAMN TOTAL OF 5.42GB!!!Now i really have to sit down and go through all my music files.. i doubt i've even heard all of them more than five times. Damn, thats alot of space taken up..

Last Cd purchased:
Cant remember.. would've have been years ago. I am a staunch supporter of piracy and praise the dude who invented the cd burner. Why spend forty bucks buying a cd when i only want twelve out of the eighteen songs? Why not spend a dollar on a blank cd, rip and burn whatever you want and take that extra thirty nine bucks to keep your belly full for the rest of the week.. logical right??? HAIL BLANK CDS AND DVD BURNERS!!! The last time i bought a cd was when i was sixteen. Before the age of cd burners, and before the age of broadband - Red Hot CHilli Peppers : Californiacation

Song playing right now:
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979. My taste in music is very varied. Dig deep enough into my hard drive, you'll find everything ranging from Michael Buble to Four Strings to Frank Sinatra to Travis. From Christina Aguilera to Sarah Maclachlan, Diana Krall to Green Day and Oasis...chillout music to anime themes... anything goes. Maybe thats why i have so much music ... hmmm..

Five songs that mean alot to me:
Okay.. this is hard.. ummm...in no particular order:1)Alanis Morissette - Ironic. I dont know why, but i just love this song. Maybe the earliest songs you know make the most impact? But i just like the fact that its well so... ironic:)
Old man, just turned ninty eight; won a lottery, then died the next day;
Its a death row pardon, two minutes too late.
And isnt it ironic?? Dont you think??

2)Puddle of Mudd - Blurry / System of a Down - Chop Suey. Reminds me of the mad days i had back in sixth form with the girls and the guys, but mostly with Terri and Vila. We were a category of our own. I can now look back and laugh.

3)Green Day - Time of Your Life.
Another turning point;
a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist;
directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test
and don't ask why.
It's not a question
but a lesson learned in time.
It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

This would basically be my thinking right now. If it wasnt, id have jumped off the uni library during my first sem.

4) Leanne Rimes - Soon. At least, i think thats the title. I was going through a rough patch, and it did NOT help that Mix Fm played sappy love songs every night. I remember the lyrics when something like i'll have shed my last tear soon, I'll get over you soon, i'll make it throught the night without you soon..(independent, huh?)..till you realise she's singing 'soon as the mountains turn to rivers, soon as the seas turn into sand, soon as the sun comes up at midnight', thats how soon. And till then, i'll just pretend that i'm okay and wait for that someday soon. Damn, its a phobic song. Think sit by the radio pathetically in tears. So if you're miserable, dont listen to mix fm cos it will probably make you feel worse.

5) Frank Sinatra - LOVE. I just like it, and i like his voice. Called me old fashioned, im a Frank Sinatra person. And im still waiting for the rest of my V'day song....

Five people im passing the baton to:
Jon
Drey
Michelle
Justin
My brother. which is doubtful he ever will, but hey might as well give it a try.

There you are, Tzelin.. the musical baton, successfully carried on. Cheers!

Milk good for health??

Heres a rather nasty shock to the system. Early this morning before going to work, i poured myself my usual bowl of cereal and milk. I noticed that someone hadnt shut the fridge door properly, so figured the milk wouldnt be cold enough, no biggie, i can survive. But nothing perpared me for the intensely rude shock i got when i shovelled the first large spoonful into my mouth and then realised that the milk had gone sour. OH MY. If you've never had a big mouthful of sour milk, you will never know how bad it tastes. I obviously didnt swallow, just kept it in my mouth till i could get to a sink and spit it out. But it smelt and tasted just too bad. When i spit out my mouthful of cereal, the twisties i ate last night came out with it.

UGH. I dont ever want to go near milk again. Lesson : Even milk in an unopened carton can be sour. STAY AWAY FROM MILK! I did not need such a bad taste in my mouth so early in the day. Sigh..

Oh by the way... im in the office.. secretly going online while everyone has gone for lunch. Sixteen more days to go.. MUahahahahahha

OMFG

Yes, i have work tomorrow. Yes, i know its late. Yes, im still awake.

Because my hairdryer wont work. Everybody knows that you cant sleep in an air conditioned room with your hair wet. And if you didnt know, i bet your mum knows. Or your grandmother. Cos i've heard it often enough from everybody. So im heeding the advice about head colds and bone aches and im sittin out here at two in the morning waiting for my head to dry.

OMFG, im so bloody tired now. Actually, ive been bloody tired since last week. To the point where walking on the under construction second floor of my site project gave me such a bad feeling of nausea/vertigo i felt like falling off the building. Which would have been a bad thing cos 1)there would be an awful big mess to clean up and 2)my mom only gets 50 grand from IJM, and i think im definitely worth more than that. I will stay away from the edges.

I need to get a new phone. Im currently using a borrowed relic from the past. An ancient Nokia 3310. Remember the times when it was such an in thing?? Yea, well.. its sad to have a phone that doesnt fit into my pocket anymore, and rattles - i believe there is something loose inside, im only hoping that it wont explode while im on it.

I need a new phone, dammit!!And i want to eat my maggi goreng ayam tambah telur atas.

My project manager has gone to Europe for holidays.. with his whole family. He unfortunately doesnt take temporaroly adoptive kids. The guy he left behind in charge is a bitch.