Baking on the Beach

I got together with a bunch of my old classmates one last time before we all went back to our respective uni's in different parts of Malaysia. Jit Shiongs idea to go canoeing.. one last time..Actually, i think stuff like this is usually his idea. Anyway, dragged myself up at the ungodly hour (okay, ungodly for a holiday) of eight in the morning. Almost thought of backing out to sleep in, im glad i didnt. We gathered at the central meeting spot aka my house and drove down to the water sports center after breakfast.

Bright, blazy, hazy day.. the surf - do you call it a surf?? - was up.. monster big waves .. Big enough to tip terri out of her canoe as we sat in our canoes on the beach to let the waves push us around. After she tipped over, we decided it would be a better idea to get out of the canoe and just roll around on the beach. The guys, of course, had a blast. And so did we.

As promised to Jo, some of the pics taken on that day.

For those of you who dont know, you can see me, shiong, terri, jooi hong, chai, fred and his girl jo.

Uni's started and everyones scattered off. I'll miss the hols.

looking backward

Uni is starting. I am bloody damn depressed for that and other various reasons. Anyway, who wants to go back to a stinky little place in the middle of nowhere. Back to the no life and no sleep routine. Back to the stress and worry of whether or not i make the deans list this time, whether or not i perform up to standard. Back to feelin miserable that my baby wont and cant be around for now. This sucks.

Damn. Damn.DAMN..

What've learnt recently that i probably dont need to know : when youre drink is spiked, drink lotsa cold water first, it slows down the effect of the drug. warm water is a big no no till after you throw up and just before you got to bed. And dont fall asleep.

I DONT WANT TO GO BACK.

Mild Sevens and Dunhill

Today, without the aid of alcohol or Jon by my side, i finally slept in til 4.30pm! Yes, this is a big achievement for me, since i'm somewhat of an early riser. Dead tired (didnt sleep the night before last) and it was a full day after that. So by the time i got home around two, took a bath, had a chat with Terri (who happened to be stayin over) and Chai (who called up) i literally fell into bed between the hours of 4.30 and 5 in the morning. And slept like a baby ( not including the occasional morning messages from Jit Shiong and Kok Yun. Sorry guys, the goddess needs her sleep in the morning )

I think i'm getting old. My recovery isnt quite what it used to be. Sigh.

I have a neighbour whom everynow and then practices the banned habit of open burning. His garden faces the back of my house, same as where my bedroom windows face. Anyways, i leave my windows open in the day time so my room nows stinks of smoke. My mom came into my room, caught a wiff of smoke, gave me this stare and said

Have you been smoking??

Me? Smoking? Do i look like a smoker ?? (sure i might have thought about it before but that doesnt mean i'd actually do it - i might not be able to stop then thats the end of everything) Just cos i like to go out at night, and i like to dance in clubs, i like an occasional drink doesnt mean you can accuse me of smoking, k?

Somethings missing

He's gone back.
Dropped him off at the bus station.
Somethings missing..Just not right..not the same.
I miss him already.

The longer the hols, the harder it is to say goodbye.

Introducing ...

Say hello to the latest addition to my household .. Squeaky Piggy :)

Remember how i said i wanted to get a little critter, like a Chinchilla? That fell flat after i found out they need dust baths, lotsa room to run and jump and that they live for ten to fifteen years. Too much commitment, too much responsibility .. So i have gone and gotten myself *drumroll* a guinea pig. Yup.. thats the little critter. Had a little problem naming it .. he's gone from being called guinea pig to it to joobie to el grenada to kacang .. i have finally given up and christianed him Squeaky Piggy cos he sqeaks (we know that for a fact cos there was first hand eperience) and well duh, hes a guinea pig.

Jon, Michelle and I went shopping for him and couple of days ago. I hand picked him out of the cage myself (service in this particular shop SUCKS, just cos im not buying a dog doesnt give you the right to ignore me). Walking around the store looking for a suitable cage and holding piggy in my hand, i spotted a potential cage. On the top shelf. Being the smart person i am, i reached up with one hand still holding piggy to grab the cage....

...then something from the cage came falling down and landed right on piggys head. I have never heard such a loud squeal in my life. Well, except the time i left my rabbit in the sun and he died of heat stroke but that doesnt count. Anyway... theres a small bald patch on his head now (hope it isnt my fault).

We are now crossing fingers and hoping he isnt retarded. What could be worse than a retarded guinea pig?

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.

I am Princess Leia?

Take the quiz: "What Star Wars Character Are You?"

Leia Organa
You are hot headed and very stubborn.

Yes, i was bored.

So apparently im a Princess Leia. Or i could have been Darth Vader.(??)Or Lando Calrissian. The Princess Leia with the two buns on her head. In the little slave bikini.

So, does anyone find it hot??

I have yet to get my ATM cards. Had to go all the way to town to get my ic done (which took like forever) then i stopped on the way at the nearest Public Bank, which made me wait. And wait. Then sent me to the branch where my account came from. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BLOODY ISLAND. Anyway, bla bla bla, got my license done, bla bla bla... went all the way to the other side of the island, sat on my ass for another half an hour and guess what. They tell me i need my birth cert!!!I dont even know the last time i touched the bloody thing.

Yes, i am officially broke.

SHIT.

I hope he gets run over by a lorry

This is exactly what is going through my head right now.

%*&^*@#$%

Was on my way to gurney, after having parked the car at our usual spot by the field. College Square, or Lebuhraya Maktab as some call it.Anyway, terri, see mun and i were on our way to gurney plaza for dinner when some fuckin bastard came from behind me on a bloody motorbike and snatched my bag. MY BAG. My bag, with my wallet and my handphone and my lip balm and an assortment of some other junk. The bag was a present, the wallet was a present, the tissue paper holder was a present. Im only thankful my camera wasnt in there as well. MY BAG. On the day i had my phone in it, on a day i actually had cash in it. Heres what you call shock - i dont recall it hapenning, i dont recall how it got snatched, i only remember the bastard riding off with it. And when i got to the police station in Pulau Tikus, my hands were still shaking. I now wish i had known what was happening, and given the bike a good kick.

&$(*##@!

There goes a perfectly good phone with a perfectly good digi line in it, a rather new wallet with my ic, license, atm cards, insurance cards, membership cards, photos, and CASH. Close to a hundred bucks. And when youre a student on a budget, its a hundred bucks i cant afford to lose.

Im still spitting curses in my head, and i hope he gets run over by a lorry. Of all the nerve. On minute i was holding my bag, the next minute it was gone. He yanked way too hard, i couldnt hold on, though i tried. And the fucker had the nerve to turn around and look back as he rode of with my bag. I hope he gets run over by an excavator.

Anyway, it took me almost two hours a file a bloody police report. Shows just how great our Malaysian police system is. Had to file one report at the district police station, who took forever to type it out, sell me a copy for four bucks and then send me over to the main police HQ in Patani Road. Where i had to wait another half an hour for someone to attend to me, and to retake my statement. Which he handwrote, and reasked me everything. Then he ran out of paper, so he counldt print out the letter until whoever it was whom he called came back with paper. So efficient.

I started out hungry on the way to dinner, completely lost my appetite after my bag got snatched. By the time the i finished (finally) making a report, i was about to die of hunger.

Only other news of interest : Went to watch a movie yesterday along with Chai, Terri, See Mun and Yu Ming. I have learnt a sneaky new way to obtain really good movie seats when the cinemas fully booked.

Highly recommended - watch it and laugh your self silly.

Two More Days

I managed to get onto my not so free wifi spot and this is what is found:

This pic captured my eye. The photo managed to show the contrast between the poor and the rich. The kid that gets his shoes shined and the baby asleep on the back of his mother who shines the shoes. The fat little sitting in the chair and the sleeping baby who might never have to luxury of drinking a big bottle of pepsi. The sad part? The chance of the little sleeping baby crossing over to the higher society isnt that high. Guess life isnt always that rosy.

More food for thought. Look at the determination in her face, the amount of effort he has to put in, the willingness for them to work together and not give up. Take away the superficial layer and the materialistic edge away from life as we know it, maybe this is what love is.

Two more days and there will only be three of us trainees left. Yup. Girl 1 has sucessfully completed her training and leaving us while the three of us are left behind. Sigh. I first stepped into the office not knowing what to expect, but im glad i met her and im sorry to see her go. Who knew that the four of us, from different parts of Malaysia, would meet here in IJM and get along so well to the extent that we skip work together, plan to meet up again, eat ice cream together and just hang out.. Do all sorts of nonsense together, shop together, drink coffee, eat nasi lemak, take wiered photos...
I guess this training will definitely be something i wont forget.

Sniff Sniff

Oh hell.. Im sick. Managed to wheedle out a holiday from my boss for all of us for Monday (Its supposed to be a replacement for Wesak Day; unfortunately not all holidays are recognised by construction workers. FYI, Wesadk Day celebrates the day Buddha was born, died and found enlightenment) unfortunately i somehow managed to contract a flu.

What started out as a sore throat on Saturday morning - i thought it was the effect of too much barbeque steamboat turned into a full blown flu by Sunday which has dragged on till today. So much for a holiday. So much for going out all day. I have a fever, a splitting headache, a nose that switches between runny and stuffed, a sore throat, a cough, watery eyes... the list goes on. In short, i have a flu. Arrgghhh. Whats the point of being sick when you cant take an off day cos youre already off??????

Sorry, I get really really unmanageable when i get sick. I want Jon...

Look before You Leap

Was browsing through my photos and found this. Taken a couple of years ago, when most of us we were still in school. Since form five, its been a ritual to go up to Mt Pleasure every year.

Today, the Pajero was here. So we snuck out (begged a staff actually) to let us follow him out to the admin centre. Maybe our pathetic faces were really effective cos he agreed and took us for a spin.

Went to admin. Nothing interesting there.

Went to a highway project. The second phase of the Jelutong Expressway. And once again, i prove just how little i look before i leap. It was extremly muddy (think reclaimed land that still sinks and springs back up everytime a lorry drivers over it) and girl 1 was without her safety shoes. So we were looking for the best way to get to the other side of the site where boy is (he doesnt care about his shoes and pants) when i spotted mounds of earth piled up along the side of the site. So i figured, hey thats not muddy and it runs all the way to the other side..maybe we can go through there. So i went and stepped into it. Big mistake. It felt a little mucky, like it wasnt solid. But i fiugred, hey it can hold my weight. Sort of. So i took a few tentative steps. Bigger Mistake. Think QUICKSAND. My whole bloody foot sank in till my ankle.. So i panicked and tried to hop out. Yet another mistake. My other food sank into the mud past my ankle (Oh, my shoes and jeans). I didnt know what to do so i made the split second decision to jump out of the muck. WIthout looking. And landed into a puddle of watery muck. I have no luck. The more careful girl 2 was behind me, where the earth was still relatively solid and the even more cautious girl 1 was standing firmly on land analyzing the situation. The rest of that evening, my feet were really really heavy. Black mud caked onto my shoes up to the ankles. Ewwww..

And all that happened in less the 2 minutes. Major embarrasment especially since there were workers right next to where i was. Only positive thing i can think of is at least i provide plenty of entertainment.

Mosquito Musketeer

Our so called work. This is what we do, when we're bored and we just have to get out of the office. We run wild around the site taking photos in pretence of actually doing something.

There are four of us trainees running around the site so the safety guard (we call him uncle safety) whom we were having a little chat with this evening has taken to calling us the four musketeers. With boy as the bad musketeer. Anyway, chinky china boy (he's a very nice boy though) has never heard of a musketeer, he doesnt know what one is and never came across the word before. So he was going like what?? mosquito?? what four mosquitos?? im not a bad mosquito...

The two of us laughed till our sides were about to crack and i was about to pee in my pants.

The 'bad mosquito'

Back to The Start

If you've noticed the posts are becoming rather sporadic its would be because someone has blocked me off the wifi spot. It wont accept my DNS add. Damn.

Its been a magical weekend. Nothing big, nothing special, but great. My baby has come.. and gone.. and its back to a new week of work. If you can call it work.

I've drunk three huge packets of milo today, which was quite an effort cos i dont like milo. And my stomach is now on the verge of bursting, filled with way, waay too much milo, and waay to much junk. Girl 1 was on sick leave today, so that left me and girl 2 (the rather lazy ones) and boy (he got his semangat back, so hes really enthusiastic now, damn). So we did alot of sitting today - at the office, in the guard house, at the canteen, at the little stall near the gard house, in the shade.. Anyway, for some reason today we've been offered lotsa free drinks.

Meal 1 : i went to the site canteen wth girl 2 and boy (standard) where i took my little packet of nasi lemak, not intending to drink anything. Then my site supervisor came along and went 'aiyo, not drinking anything ah?? come la, go get a drink..' . Then he buys milo. Okay, im thankful, i can live with a packet of milo.

Meal 2 : We did a little exploring and walked round the site. Then girl 2 and i decided to sit (too damn hot) at the guard house. Where we meet the guard.. who then decides to feed us some more at the little stall where he's havin breakfast. I TRIED to decline.. i said ive eaten, im not hungry, im not thirsty, its okay ..... didnt work. I ended up with another HUGE packet of milo. Which i drank till im sure i turned green.

Meal 3 : Lunchtime at the office - someone went to pangkor and brought dried cuttle fish.. which once again we ate. When i wasnt planning to eat anymore.

Meal 4 : girl and i walking around the site. Worker comes up to us with a plastic bag and gives it to us and says 'for you all'. We obviously say no thanks, its okay, we dont want it to which he replies 'if you dont want then i'll have to throw it away'. No choice.. another two big packets of milo and a packet of pisang goreng. Oh man. On a day im not even hungery.

Meal 5 : We go back to the office and someone just brought two bags of some chinese pastry. And we had to each have some (polite, you know?) cos these older people think all young people need food. And lots of it. OMG I CANT WALK ANYMORE.

I am never going to drink milo again. Most people lose weight when they start work.. stress, busy lifestyle bla bla bla.. Im pretty sure youre not supposed to gain more weight. Something doesnt seem right...

Things I Bet you Did Not Know

Did you know that one cement mixer truck can hold up to 5 cubic meters if concrete? And that it costs RM750 per truck? Or that fourteen twelve meter thirty two millimeter diameter bars weigh slighlty over a tonne. Bet you didnt.. Bet you also didnt know that a concrete nail is made of steel and that all vehicles leaving a construction site must have their wheels washed??Didnt think so.

This is what ive been learning. Though what relevence it is to me at the moment i have yet to find out.. but as my boss says, its all part of training and i'll thank him someday, cos no other training sites will bother to teach this much. But then again, he also says I talk alot (pandai cakap) and that im happy go lucky (im a first year student, im supposed to be happy, arent i?) so yea... Five more weeks to go and counting. I dont know whether to feel happy or sad. Happy cos i'll finally be free, sad cos it would mean the end of my hols. Whatever it is, i'll miss the mad times the four of us trainees had together.

Shit. He's too tired to call. I dont know whether its just my imagination or does this seem to happen really often?? Maybe i should start keeping track. Then I would have some sort of concrete proof and there will be no need for an argument, i can reason it out in my head. Or maybe i just shouldnt bother and go out more. Hmmm.. the possibilities are endless. Right now, going out more seems like the best option. Seems like its been ages since i had a good chill. Seems like ages since i had a good anything. A good meal, a good nights sleep, a good time, a good chat up with my girls, a good mamak session, a good starbucks session, a good workout.. Then again, when you do nothing but work nine hours a day, six days a week with limited social contact, you tend to lose your sanity somewhat.

Screw everything.

In five weeks time, i'll be let loose. Its time to stay up all night and paint the town red before i settle back into the routine of being Lisa, the wiered, lazy, messed up hair and perpetually late for class deans list student that cant speak Chinese yet is a Chinese. And may not be on the deans list for much longer. Once again, I'm gonna say screw it. Nothing will stop me from enjoying whats left of my hols.

Two more days till the my much awaited Sunday. Maybe tomorrow we'll go to Tesco to waste yet some more time. It rained this morning when we were on the site. For lack of anything to do, and cos we are lazy bums anyway, se ran across to tesco and spent the afternoon there :). I think im a bad influence.

New Number

ANNOUNCEMENT : I have changed my phone number

Yup.. picked up my new number yesterday.. pretty funky number too .. so you can now drop me a line at

0164455636

Been a rather busy few weeks..been running short on sleep for the past couple of days ( ten hours in two days?!? ). Hate workin saturdays. This whole hols has been a rather dissappointing one so far.. or maybe its cos it just doesnt seem like a holiday at all. I get less rest than in uni. In uni, you can at least skip classes when you need to sleep.. or when you dont feel like going. Down here, no such thing. Shit, i get up earlier now than i did during term time. Sigh. Lost what little drive i had to work. Seems the other three of em feel the same way though - we spent this afternoon sittin in KFC

The Roots

Oh will somebody just kill me right now and end my thoughts.

I have come to the roots of all evil - thought and feelings. Think about it, if we were all mindless zombies, we wouldnt think, we wouldnt feel therefore we wouldnt know and we wouldnt react. We wouldnt think depressing thoughts, we wouldnt feel depressed therefore we wouldnt commit suicide. We would feel jealous, wouldnt think up evil plans and wouldnt commit robbery and snatch thefts. So there you have it. The root of evil.

We should all be mindless zombies and stay content

Oh My..

Been having a really shitty headache since last night.

Ever went out for a night of chilling, had one too many shots of whisky, a few too many beers and way, way too much vodka, only to go home feeling like shit and having the worst hangover ever? The kind where the bass just wont stop playing and the world just wont stop spinning even thought youre lying still on your bed at home. The kind where the floor jsut dont seem solid anymore to the point where you feel seasick just standing there? Yea well, i have. And last nights killer headache was worse than that.

Snuck up on me last night, just as i was about to snuggle into bed with a good book. Then boom, my head starts splitting into two and spinning at the same time. *@#$. Completely ruined my night. Worse thing was it kept me up till around 3 last night, so woke up this morning feeling absolutely shitty. Still with a nagging headache. Which has accompanied me all day. And I still cant sleep.

ARrrghhhhh.

Ahhh...

Its Monday. And thanks to Labour Day, I have no work. Two days of break instead of one. Im telling you, you dont know how important weekends are till you work eight thirty to six, six days a week. Ive been working till i dont know the days of the week anymore, Fridays and Saturdays feel like any other day..

But, Ive spent the past few nights with my friends, had plenty of sleep and am now taking a breather from everything, to prepare myself for another week ahead. Sitting in my bedroom, all clean and cool, with the air conditioning on, music playing and a hot cup of tea... ahhh.. pure bliss..

Im singing praises to the person who came up with the idea of labour day.

Anyways, went up to buy wrapping paper in Lovely Lace Gurney Plaza today. Did you know they sell wrapping paper for RM5.50 per half yard!! Gosh, thats robbery. Its enough for me to eat lunch. Do some basic math; to wrap a smallish present would roughly equate to a large McValue meal complete with a McFlurry.

Belated Birthday

Oh my... I posted up Ishuet bday pics without posting Chais.. Sorry ah...

Hadnt any connection at that time so... never got around to doing it. But now with my * ahem * new wifi spot...

Anyway, Chais bday would have been in March, but since we waited for everyone to come back and settle down after the end of the second sem of uni, we did it almost a month late.

This would be the birthday girl.

And this would not be the birthday girl. Ishuet is just very proud of the cake she baked.

In the kitchen of the new house. We had Ishuets spaghetti instead of her moms. We still think her moms spaghetti tastes better, though...

And this would be all of us, gathered once again in her house. Happy Birthday Chai :)

My Doggy

Another integral part of my life - my dogs. See stupid dog on the left and smart dog on the right.

For as long as i can remember ive always had dogs. None as stupid as stupid dog, though. She's so stupid, every night when we feed the dogs, she runs to big dogs plate and gets chased away. Even though she has her own plate. Every night. She can dig under the fence and run out, then cant figure out how to get back in. She go bit by my guinea pig. Beat that. Let this be a lesson. Never do things on the rebound. It just doesnt work. (Shes a rebound dog)Not rebound guys, rebound shirts, rebound guinea pigs, rebound dogs. Cant ever be the same.

Anyways, thats Apple as stupid dog and Rex as smart dog. But i love them anyway.. and mini pinchers arent well known for being smart.

Everythings Better When Its Free

Guess what!!

I found a free Wifi Spot!!
*Thanks Chai*

I was MSN-ing with Chai one night when she told me she found a wifi spot in her room - her wifi switch is always on, mine is usually off. That night, i unplugged my laptop, switched on my wifi and started on a quest to find wifi in my house. Like a complete idiot, i walked around in semi darkness holding a laptop in the middle of the night in my house. Anyway, idiot or not, it paid out.

I found my wifi spot!

After walking through the whole house, stubbing my toe on something and freaking myself out cos a lizard ran across my path, i found my own little wifi spot in my bedroom. Should have just started searching there and saved myself the trouble. So now, I can once again go online from my bedroom!`:) Hahaha.....screw dial up where the connection speed is in kilobytes..One drawback though. The wifi only seems to appear at certain times. Namely sometime after midnight, every night. As Terri would say, 'Ghosts, maybe??'

The Yellow Mini Cooper

Today I was on my way home from work. The road i take, Jalan Masjid Negeri was, as usual, jammed. I was stopped at a traffic light, so i took a look out the window at the car next to me ( Yellow mini cooper wei... how can i not look??). Anyways, the road was slightly inclined down and as i stared out the window, i noticed the yellow mini cooper slide past me. And the first thing i thought was how on earth is the mini cooper sliding backwards when the road slopes down.
Then I felt a little funny.

It took a while before i realised my car was sliding forward.

I am selfish..

Its my 27th day of work. Im finding harder and harder to drag myself to work everyday and im finding less and less things to do. No drive. Nothing to look forward to, i guess. Things tend to get like this for awhile after he leaves. And i wish he hadnt. Yes, i know im selfish but i still dont see why he had to go. Oh well.. his choice.

Finally broke out of my coccoon though.. Counting the days till i can finally say goodbye to my job.. till he comes back.. and unfortunately till i have to go back to uni. Still faced with the difficult decision.. should i transfer? Will it be worth it?? Will it be better or worse?? I dont know... I cant say... Can only think.

I think im PMS-ing. I WANT TO BE SELFISH. I WANT HIM TO COME BACK

Its my 26th day of work

Todays been a rather odd working day. Happy dude, the most hardworking among the four of us has suddenly gone funny. Apparently no mood to do anything. We suspect he has a girl problem, but being the man he is he refuses to say anything. He just pretends to be happy but every now and then lapses into sudden moments of silence. Anyway, since he didnt feel like doing anything, we spent most of the day on site observing the latest changes and asking questions ... then in the canteen with our breakfast coffee... then to Tesco to get somethin to eat.... then we went for a little joyride down to the Jelutong expressway site..then to E-Gate to take photos and do nothing... to the guard house to chit chat with the safety dude.. then back to Tesco for drinks. Then we went back to the office.

I hope we have another day like this. Most enjoyable :)

Anyways, i did promise pics so...
This would be me in my very own safety helmet. And i get to keep it :)Yes, I know its a little too big.. but I have a small head, cant do anything about it. This pic was taken at the IJM concrete plant in Jelutong.

Yup... These would be our safety shoes. Solid and heavy (think steel toes - a car could roll over and you wouldnt feel it), its one heck of a chore walking to and fro from the site every day since i cant afford to drive. Its like wearing weights on your ankles...and its about all i can do to drag myself uphill after spendin half the day out in the sun.. even the contractors have noticed how black ive gotten... *sigh*

This is the view from one of the recently completed projects E Gate.. Its right next to the project im stationed at, so whenever we get bored, we come here to loaf around in the shade and take photos. As you can see, the views a rather pretty one...didnt think the coastal highway looked like this, did ya??

Did this all by myself..Took me quite some time to get everything perfect, and yes im very proud of my very first drawing done in the site office so im putting it up anyway

This is half of the site im on. It was taken a couple of weeks ago, so theres much more to be seen now... ground is done, and first floor comin up. Its hot and dusty... and the labourers work all day...Till I came here, i never new that much effort had to be put into building... And I still dont understand how they can work all day in the blazing heat cos after a while i feel like dropping. Now i carry an umbrella. I dont care if its looks stupid, its HOT!

Ishuet celebrated her 21st Birthday a little over a week ago.

Happy Birthday Shuet!! As usual, we gathered at her house to celebrate.. and we came home with our own souveniers. Ishuets place would be the only house where you celebrate her birthday and you come home with something for yourself :)

This would be what we came home with - bracelets. And our own plate.. with food... Ishuet's moms spaghetti rocks! For a few days in a row, i had it for dinner .. and im still not sick of it. Actually im gettin hungry now....

If you've noticed i havent been updating, its because Jon came back for his hols so ive been spending most nights with him (or with my girls) .. and he left to go back for his short sem yesterday morning :( And i miss him. I really, really miss him. Three weeks to go and counting..

Oh yea... if i look bad in the pic its cos its after a night of chilling...

Happy Dude

Theres a dude in my construction office training with me. A funny, happy dude.

Everytime i say something, he laughs. When I do something, he laughs. When i try to clamber overbeams, he laughs. When I walk to the site holding an umbrella(hey its hot, cant blame me), yup.. He also laughs. He even managed to crack up at my bosses attempt at making jokes. Such a happy dude.

He's really nice to all of us though .. and we have on various occasions managed to wheedle free drinks off him :) And for want of nothing to do, I get to hold the measuring tape .

I think he finds me amusing .... Oh well.. Least I can do is provide entertainment, even if i cant read structural drawings.

Rebrand What?

Recently Telekom Malaysia has rebranded itself to TM. Something to do with being modern and up to date and having a whole new image.

I think they need to do much more than rebranding.

For the past few days, I've been recieving calls on my cell phone from the oddest people (think peoples parents??) whom i do not know and ive never heard of and i dont recognize the numbers at all. Each ask me who i am, do i know so and so, have i been talking to so and so, are you sure you dont know who he is, your phone number is on my bill do you know this number are you really sure you dont know what about so and so, you know him??

Bloody Telekom Malaysia and its crosslines. Its annoying me. Especially when some wierdo calls you in the middle of the night lookin for some one that you dont know.

Onwards to Vision 2020. Hah.

My brother has managed to convince my mom that he needs a laptop very badly, so much urgent work to do. So he's gettin a laptop. I, on the other hand, managed to convince my mom that I need a new laptop more than he does..an intergrated graphics card cant support all the design work i do (YES ITS TRUE). SO.....

I got a new laptop :). Farewell to my trusty Acer Travelmate which has kept me company for so long, Hello to my new Toshibe Satellite.

Some things cant be fixed

I did something i shouldnt have done. I hurt and betrayed the one person in the world id never want to hurt. And im not even sure why.

Im sorry.I didnt mean it. But i cant change what happened. No matter how many times i say im sorry, how many times i try to explain myself, that i didnt mean it, fact still remains i cant change anything and i cant fix it.

And that is the worse feeling in the world. To know you hurt the one person you love so much, the one person who gave so much to you, put so much into you, believed in you..All because you didnt think. And theres nothing you can do about it to make it better.

It just sucks.

I love you. Im sorry.

Ice cream??

Now that there are four trainees in the office, we're allowed to go to the site by ourselves, whenever we have a reason to. We have decided being bored is a valid reason :)

We were on the way to the site when i commented how i felt like having McDonalds. Then someone commented on how near Tesco was to us..And someone came up with the idea of eating ice cream an Mcdonalds. Then we realised we were unsupervised....

And the evil thoughts start coming .. ..

As you can guess, we didnt spend that much time on site. Instead, we took a little detour to McD's where we each had our ice cream. (Though three girls had no money, one guy did :)) And returned back to the office just in time for the day to end.
And we'll probably be doing it again ... Now we just have to remember to bring money with us....

Rain Rain go Away

A massive storm a couple of days ago fried my pc modem. Now im stuck havin to connect with a lousy laptop one. Sigh.

Anyways, there was a massive storm on monday, the kind where visibility is so low you cant drive, the sky is all red, loads of wind, thunder and lightning. I was on the com when the power got cut off. So being me (so smart) i turned it back on again. Well..guess it wasnt that great an idea cos about fifteen mins later the fuse tripped again (is this why the modem fried??) so i gave up and spent a sleepless half hour in my bed till i decided it was safe enough to venture out and flip the switch back on. I got out of bed, walked to my door, opened it and stepped out ..

Right into a puddle of water.

Yup. My house flooded. Rather nasty shock at one in the morning considering its never flooded before. Heck it just got renovated. My first thought was that the toilet somehow overflowed which wasnt too comforting especially since there was no power so i had no idea what i was stepping in (imagine HUMAN WASTE. Oh yuck). Anyway i opened my mouth and made enough noise to wake my folks up, plucked up enough courage to walk to the fuse box in all that water and flip the switch back on ( rather stupid realy, i could have been electrocuted come to think of it ) and found myself staring at enough water for fish to swim in. Okay okay, enough water for peacock fish to swim in.

My mom: the water came in through the windows, who didnt close the wondows, see now all the water came in through the windows, aiya aiya why didnt anyone close the windows..
My dad: Its coming from underground, maybe theres too much water in the soil and theres a crack in the tiles *poke poke around looking for a misterious hidden spring* stop making so much noise it cant be coming from the window water can come from underground ..

I walked around the house and found out the water was coming from the roof. Haih. I spent that night moving all my waterlogged stuff to a higher level.

Today, i have yet again been reminded how uneligible my writing is. As industrial trainees, we each have to submit a report and keep a logbook.. so naturally we swapped notes. And at least once for every page, someone comes up to me and asks me what i wrote. And sometimes i cant read it either. Guess all that writing in primary school didnt help much. :)

With my pc down, i cant upload any pics. All i can say is that safety helmets and me just dont go. I feel like a maggot.

SEPET are my eyes

Finally.. after so, so long.. i watched Sepet. And i have to say, its a must-see. About a thousand times better than Be Cool. So if you have to watch a movie and you havent caught it yet, go for Sepet.

Guess what .. i have a dental appointment tomorrow. Yay!
Now usually i absolutely despise visits to the dentist. Lying down on that freaky chair, with the freaky pain inducing instruments and bright light and your mouth streched wide open with some lady, no matter how nice, poking into it is NOT my idea of fun. Doesnt even come close. Its somewhere right down at the bottom, alongside the things i hate to do eg going for medical check-ups. But as its tomorrow afternoon and the dental isnt open on weekends and the appointment was scheduled a year ago, i get the afternoon off!! Yay!!

Only wish i could get the whole day but lets not be greedy.. i get an afternoon off!! Thank god for small pleasures.

I was having ice cream and talking to a friend of mine, Kok Yun (we think he has a girlfriend but he's yet to admit it in public), when he said the most surprising thing to me:

"If you were my girlfriend, you'd be so easy to get along with."

That alone, was enough to blow my mind away. Anyway, being the kaypo i am, i had to ask why. To which he replied

"You're so easy to please/make happy."

And i just had to laugh. Anyone who knows me and my relationship knows im far, far from being an easy girlfriend. Heck, Jon would be the first person to run out with a megaphone to announce it. And yes, i know i have a habit of being dificult. Blame in on hormonal imbalance. Just goes to show that the grass always looks greener on the other side.. But then again, Kok Yun probably thinks that all he needs to keep me happy would be a large tub of ice cream .. THINK AGAIN. Not everything can be fixed with a bribe.

But then again, a good pint of Baskin Robbins does have the ability to put a big, fat, happy smile on my face and a sugar high to last me all day :)

Third day of work

As im writing this im sitting in Chai's house with all the girls. About to eat spaghetti and junk food and watch tv :)

Anyway, today would be my third day or work/industrial training at IJM and its gotten pretty fun. Well, today at least. For those less informed, as a scholarship student i have to complete ten weeks of training every year. And this year, they took pity on me and let me do my training at the Bayswater Resort Condominium. Thats right next to Tesco. And its still in consrtuction. So here you have a first year Mech student who knows absolutely nothing on a construction site. And i have my own little safety helmet and safety boots. So every now and then i get to go on site and into buildings and explore. And if im not doing that i get to sit in the office and do absolutely nothing. Actually im supposed to look at construction drawings and read up on all sorts of systems but it doesnt really matter. Only downside about havin no proper work to do?? Bloody boring. Oh well... for 500 bucks a month what can you expect. Im basically gettin allowance for doing nothing but observing and asking questions. And after 3 days i know more amount the practical side of civil engineering than about my own field. But going on site is fun. For the moment. Added bonus is that there a couple more trainees with me :), we trainees follow the big people out to eat so i never have to drive.

I hear spaghetti calling my name .. pics coming soon..till then, im gonna stuff myself silly.

Rainbows and Sunbeams do not exist

Just when you think the whole world is okay and everythings going smoothly and you wake up every morning, if not all bright and chirpy at least not dreading to get out of bed, it comes crashing down around you. Leaving you standing there in the rain like an idiot with your ass hanging out of your pants, wondering what the hell just happened and how. Leaving you feeling like the shoo-in for the greatest idiot award cos you've just been telling the dude next to you how great the world and everything in it is. For the past few weeks. Just seconds before it fell out from right under your feet. In three seconds what you used to know, you arent sure of anymore. You dont know if it still safe in your old safe place, if the ground is still safe to walk on, you dont know who to talk to, who to trust. Not anymore. You cant tell which is the real thing and which is a mere illusion.

Maybe if you werent so convinced that everything was okay the fall to the ground wouldnt hurt so much, wouldnt be that much of a shock, wouldnt make you feel so darn stupid. Maybe if you were already prepared for the worst to happen it wouldnt be that bad when it did. Maybe a dull constant pain is better than a sudden drop from a sky high to a low. If you never let yourself fly you would never have to feel the fall. You would never have to feel the pain. You would be safe.

I want to go to bed and not wake up. Preferably for a long, long time.