Friday, November 30, 2001

What a great night. What a great meet. I don't believe I know when I'd laughed more. The musicals crew meets at last. More than three person this time. This time there were seven people. Seven! What a feat! Congratulations Grace ML for achieving this. We had a great time celebrating Alex's birthday tonight. Alex, tonight, was the thorn among the roses, james bond with his bond girls, a maharajah with his harem .... haha ... he was the only guy who managed to turn up. Besides being the guest of honour of course. We had a bunch of starters. Nobody ordered any meals nor did we have deserts. Weird dinner huh? Was good enough though.

So, what does a bunch of ex-musicals course people do after dinner? Sing of course! After cake, we adjourned to the karaoke on the third floor. Sang our heart out. The song changer was chronic though. Had to wait a century before they load our songs. OMG! I love Fang's voice! Wish I could sing like her! Left slightly after midnight. Rach's got a curfew. The rest had to work. Should have done this on a weekend instead but I wouldn't have been able to attend if they did.

Great night. Can't wait for the next meet. Hopefully the next time will have all these people as well rest of the crew. That is, if they can spare some time from their busy life to attend.

I've finished packing for Singapore and am watching Roswell now. Bachelor Girl's song is in this episode. Can't recall the title of the song off my head but it's cool that they are in the show. Didn't know anyone outside Australia knew them. Don't think anyone in Malaysia still knows them either after their mini concert eons ago.

Anyway, will go read Rach's blog now. She's amazing. Love the way she writes.

Thursday, November 29, 2001

Just took two paracetemol. Feeling a little sicky. Think I caught the bug yesterday from Prem last night during our tennis session.

Urgh! Tennis. Played really bad last night. I mean, I don't play well on normal days but yesterday was, like, super bad. I mean, couldn't get anything in the court! Everything went mile high and my double handed backhand ... nowhere to be seen! Horrible. Horrible. Should really just stick to squash.

Hmmm ... just reread my previous paragraph. Sounded a little like my sister, Stef, talking there. With all the 'I mean's and 'like's.

Hope I don't get sick. Suppose to go down to Singapore tomorrow. Got an SMS from Prem & Push after I got home last night saying that they'll be leaving on Friday after all. Their original plan was to leave tonight after work. Thanks guys. Now I don't have to travel on bus. Yay!

Okay time to go pick Mel for lunch with this other bunch of people I hang with. We only seem to have time for lunch and only during work days. Haven't gone out with them anywhere else for a long time now.

Well, I'm off.

Ta.

Wednesday, November 28, 2001

Was just about to eat the chocolates I bought during lunch when I remembered that I've left it in the car. Remembered it when I got back in my cubicle and sat on my chair. Too lazy to climb that flight of stairs and cross the street back to where the car's parked. Thought I'd do it after say five or ten minutes.

That was at 1.30pm. It's now quater to four! Went to the car and got the chocolates out. It feel soft ... really soft ... all melted.Boo hoo. Can't have my chocolates now. I've placed them in the refrigerator at the office upstairs (no fridge in our pantry ... bad!) They're recovering now, I hope. Will check up on them at say half an hour's time.

:( ... I have a chocolate craving. Serves me right for my procratinating nature.

Tough empress, you'll just have to go without for awhile!

A little something I concocted for my friend the other day. I call it a good weather spell. Her wedding was on the 24th. I wrote this before that.

...
...
...

abracadabra ...

hocus pocus ...

zim zam zoom ... *poof* (smoke effect)

viv will have lovely weather
on a day like no other
when she will say 'ay'
pledging her forever and a day
to the man of her dreams
in a dress of ivory and cream.

*no guarentee the spell will work. It's just for fun. :)

Had a gruelling class last night. Was corrected so so so so much by Mr Lee.

No floppy arms! ... Look up! ... Sharper turns! ... Shoulder leads before head and legs follows! ... Cha-cha-cha must be done step-by-step! Don't run through them! ... Create space for yourself! ... More shoulder movement! ... More hip movement! ... Remember to create hip movement before starting! ... etc.

Was poofed after class. Didn't even bother to stay back and practise. My limbs felt a bit unnatural after that.

Argh! So many things to remember! Have will I manage.

Tuesday, November 27, 2001

I have dance class at 7.30pm. Wondering if I should go home or go directly to the studio from work. Do I have time to go home?

Let's see. It's 5.45 now. 30 minutes to get home = 6.15, 20 minutes to the studio = 6.35. So that's almost an hour to spare.

I think I'll go home.

Ta da!

Still healthy. Sickly taste must have just been something I ate after all.

Choir practise was good. We timed 'The Living Creche'. It's about 35 minutes. After that, didn't have much time left to time 'A Night Of Wonder'. Will probably do that next week.

Conductor wasn't there yet again. Second week in a row. He's performing in 'The Fantastiks' in Bangsar. Replacement performance for the cancelled show due to the King's death.

The small choir's going to have practise again this Thursday. Yups! The same day I'll be meeting with the musicals group for Alex's birthday dinner. Oh yes, the small choir has a temporary name now. It's called 'Streetvoiz'. Cris has even set up a yahoo group for it!

Anyway, I'll be skipping that practise. Told them I'll practise at home myself ... yeah right!

I'll be off to Singapore on Friday! Yay! This time to watch Porgy & Bess. Hmmm ... still haven't got the bus ticket. Let's see if I have time to get it tonight after dance class.

Monday, November 26, 2001

Eeewwww! I've got the sickly taste on my tongue.

Why's that? I though I've had enough sleep to recover from the marathon.

Not sick yet but the bad taste should be an indication of the coming doom. Bones not aching yet though, which is a good sign. Maybe it's just something I ate.

Had a sleeping marathon yesterday.

Well, really needed it due to the VCD marathon early Sunday morning. Aunty Gnoh was gonna take the Korean series back to Ireland with her so I had to finish them before she leaves for the airport later that morning.

I think I watched from about 1am till 5.10am.

Then at 7am, my dad woke me up. They needed another car to go to the airport. Urgh! Bleeding brother won't wake up so I had to drive.

After the send off, felt hungry ... went for breakfast but couldn't eat. Not enough sleep I think.

Got home. Slept till 5pm.

Saturday, November 24, 2001

Have to call Adrian. We've been planning and scheming a rescue mission. The mission is to get him to come out with us and the aunties without the parents.

He's quite a mama's boy and Aunty Maggie loves going on and on about 'My Adrian'. How smart he is, how sociable, how tall, how good looking ... etc.

Urgh!

Agreed he's smart. He went to Cambridge and all but the rest of us are not total idiots ... thank you very much.

Will make that call now.

Harry Potter was, as my 10 year old cousin would say, brill!

Daniel Radcliffe was so adorable albeit a little rounder than what I had in mind for Harry Potter but adorable all the same. Throughout the movie, I was going ... they've skipped this part, they've skipped that part, they've changed this part and they've shortened this part. Aunty Jackie says that if they do film the whole thing as per the book, the film would be 5 hours long.

Hmmm ... guess they should have made it into a miniseries instead.

Anyway, I liked the part when Harry went to Ollivander's. Loved it when he blew things up testing his wand and also the effects when he found his wand. Only complaint would be that he found his wand a little too quickly. Not that they should show them going through each and every wand but maybe just show a pile of wands of rejected wands after testing the first few wands before finding THE wand. Ollivander didn't quite fit what I had in mind as well. He was a bit too moody. I had a cheerier person in mind who speaks a little fast and would scurry from one side of the shop to the other.

The quidditch game was amazing even though the special effects could have been much much better. Plus, there should have been more quidditch games. Doesn't look right for Harry to be so unstable in his first game. He's suppose to triumph instead he adding fodder for critism for Malfoy.

They one character that I think was superbly casted would be Hermione. She's exactly what I had in mind. Irritating!

Oh yes, when I saw Snape, I kept wondering what the actor's name was. I know I've seen him in Sense and Sensibilities with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet but just can't seem to recall his name. I asked my aunt Chris who was sitting on my right who he was and she said he's Snape.

Haha ... I know he's Snape but what's his name.

We stayed until the cast credit came on and I finally found out his name ... Alan Rickman! Yep! It's Alan Rickman. He's also in one of Texas's music video. What was that song called? Don't remember. Nice song ... I think.

So, in conclusion, Harry Potter is definitely worth the watch. It's BRILL!

Friday, November 23, 2001

Oh no! It's raining!

We were suppose to have BBQ tonight! How are we going to do that if it's raining?

Come to think of it, how will I get to my car? Don't have an brolly with me.

Darn!

I managed to get through to the booking. Alas, Harry Potter tickets reserved for phone booking have all been booked! Have to go there in person.

The cinema's were closed. Didn't get to watch Harry Potter. Couldn't book nor purchase tickets for today from the counter when I checked at the cinema. Weird.

Found out why I could never get through to GSC MidValley. They only have one phone line open for phone booking.

ONE!

Can you imagine that? There is almost 18 screens there and they only have ONE phone line for booking! It's no wonder nobody can get through. It's like calling into a really popular radio station.

Trish will try to book some tickets for tonight's show at GSC Summit ... closer to home but not a very cool place to hang. If she can't get them, I'll have to go to MidValley to purchase them during lunch.

Oh yeah! Have to get mummy's present as well. I'm thinking ... those chains that's attached to your glasses and hangs around the neck. She should have one. Always misplacing her things. This from someone who keeps saying that papa needs to eat Gingko to improve his memory and that all of us are not ... what's that word??? 'Mindfull'. Another word for awareness, I think.

Not sure where I can find those chains. Maybe one of those stall that sells knick-knacks. Otherwise, I'll check at the optical shop. They should have some right?

Thursday, November 22, 2001

Hurrah! Tis done. I can go home. It's still light outside. Been a long time since I've gone home while the sun's still shining.

Yay! Can have lunch now. Stef actually called to ask me to go home for lunch over an hour ago. Now I can.

Hurrah!

The King is dead

Well, it's a public holiday today ... and again, I'm at work. This is turning out to be a really bad habit. Can't really help it when that idiot keeps giving me things to do and not the time to do it. What does he think? I don't have a life? And to have all this work when my Aunts are down for a visit is just extremely bad timing!

Might not be able to watch Harry Potter today. All the entertaiments in the city area's suppose to be close as a sign respect to the dead King. Not too sure whether the cinema's are open. *fingers crossed* Please let them be open.

Wednesday, November 21, 2001

Still at work ... AGAIN! SMSed SM to cancel dance practise. Not sure if he got it. Will call him if he doesn't reply by 8.15.

C'mon! Hurry up and finish, emp!

Harry Potter

Woo hoo! I've just booked 6 tickets for Harry Potter tomorrow at 6pm. It's opening tomorrow and I've got tickets!

Hurrah!

Plus ...

it's been declared that tomorrows a holiday. Double hurrah! Shouldn't enjoy that too much as the cause for holiday is cause the King is dead. Should be a solemn day. Not one for celebration .... but then ...

I don't know the King personally and we are a country run by the parliament to it's not too much a biggie.

Yum ... no more growling stomach. Stomach feeling contented.

*Grrrroowl*

That's my stomach. I'm so hungry my stomach's growling! But alas, 30 ticks left till lunch.

grrrroowl ...

shhh ... hang in there. Only 30 minutes more.

My Aura Color
Groovy, baby! Your aura is a bright, shiny Gold — which means you're a kid at heart with a happy, generous nature. - Emode!

Haha ... kid at heart is true enough. Not so sure bout the happy and generous part though. I'm a bit of a scrooge.

I had a dream ...

It's not often that I have a dream when I go to bed at night. Even more so, a dream that I can remember when I wake up. Last night, was one of such rare occasion ...

I dreamt that I was at a party. No clue whatsoever what the party was for but ... everyone was drinking champange or something and talking and mingling when out came the guest of honour? Not sure but he seemed to be the one that everyone was waiting for.

It's Russell Watson. He came in and was requested by someone to sing for us and he did. I don't remember what he sang but he sounded great.

And then, he requested a volunteer to sing a duet with him. Guess what? To my surprise, I volunteer. My dream self seems to be a very brave soul indeed.

So, I went towards him and was given the lyrics.

It was in Mandarin.

I don't read Mandarin. So I told him and the guy who gave me the lyrics my dilemma.

I was so embarrassed, me being a Chinese and not being able to read Mandarin. Even more so when Russell spoke in Mandarin espressing his surprise at my lack of knowledge of my own mother tongue.

The two guys were nice enough though. They translated the lyrics to hanyu pin yin, Mandarin written in English letterrings. And we're ready to go.

Russell starts the duet and then it was my turn.

Don't remember how I sounded but I remember I've started at least a line of the lyrics before I woke up.

Couldn't get back to sleep after that. Tried but failed. I laid in bed and sang Russell Watson's songs in my head until my mobile phone's alarm came on.


I wonder what that dream was about? Was it to tell me that I should learn Mandarin? Should I be taking up vocal lessons? Or is it that the Barcelona CD that I've won a month ago, that I thought was lost in the mail, was finally going to arrive?

Tuesday, November 20, 2001

30 minutes more to go before I get off work. Can't wait!

I won't stay back today to finish my work. Nope! Not gonna do it. I did that the whole of last week and I'm sick of it.

I'm gonna go home and lay on my bed. My back feels like it needs cracking ... y'know like how you crack your knuckles. I wish I could just pull it out and just give it a nice good stretch. *CRACK*

My aunt says that there's this machine that they sell in the US that allows you to hang yourself upside down. Maybe that'll help me in stretching my back. Can't seem to get a good stretch no matter how I twist and turn.

Started a new blog.

Not so much as a blog as a list of what I eat everyday. Blophie85 advised me to keep a list of all the things that I eat for my weight loss attempt. She says it helps when you know what you've eaten and how some of those things could be cut down to keep off the blubber. Also advised me to keep off the carbos. Kinda difficult being a chinese and not eating the carbs. Rice is eaten almost everyday and if it's not rice, it's some sort of noodle.

Will try though ... will try.

Just got back from lunch. As usual am really full and sleepy. Haven't started on any work today. Have been busy replying mails that are more than a week old!

Got a mail from Cris from the Philharmonic. She needs another soprano for the small choir for Christmas and asked if I was interested. Since I don't have plans, told her I was. Will be getting paid for this gig. It's about $50 bucks a pop and there's 3 gigs so that's $150. I'd do it for the heck of it but I never say no to money. ;)

Practise is this Thursday at 8pm at Susan Ho's. Still waiting for Cris to reply with the address. Will have to call her if I don't have the address by Thurs morn.

Dance practise tonight at 9pm ... maybe ... if I don't feel too lazy.

Back in my cubicle

Have had 5 days of holiday. I feel even more tired than before the holiday started. Didn't have the type of holiday I'd consider a good holiday.

Was awaken everyday in the morning by papa to go for breakfast ... ideally, won't have to wake up till noon but that didn't happen ... nope, not even one of those five days did I sleep past noon. Urgh ... bad.

The eating part was good enough. Could have had more hawker stall food but that was limitted by papa's friends who wanted to treat us for dinner. Plus, the food prices in Penang have shot up considerably. It's almost as expensive as KL ... another bad.

Nothing much happened during the holidays. No gorgeous guys sightings as like last year. Not enough of assam laksa and durians eaten. Not a very good Penang trip, I would say. Too much sitting in the car heading somewhere or the other.

Luckily we didn't have the day trip to Haddyai as originally planned. That would have included waking up at the ungodly hour of 6am, a drive of 1-2 hours to the Malaysia-Thailand border, non-stop shopping (window shopping for me) of sub-quality? items and then another 1-2 hours drive back home to Aunty See's place. Bleah! That would have been dreadfull for me.

Hopefully the trip to Kraabi would materialise next year. Don't mind a few days of lazing on the beach. In fact, that's my idea of a holiday. Nothing but lazing and playing ... no rushing off to anywhere for whatever reason. Ummm ... have that song by All Saints playing in my head now. The one they did for the movie 'The Beach' with Leo DiCaprio. Don't remember the song title. Movie was total crap but the beach looked absolutely brilliant.

Oh well, that's not till next April ... maybe

For now, tis back to work. Was just given another deadline. End of this week ... rather by Thursday. For another stupid hack job.

Sunday, November 18, 2001

Penang

Am currently in the land of food, food and more food ... oh yeah ... there is the beach as well but don't have a chance to get to it yet. Don't think we'll make it to the beach this trip.

Waiting for my sister to finish showering so we can go for breakfast.

OK ... she just finished. Now ... for her to dress and then we'll go downstairs to wait for my aunt.

More about this trip after I get home or when I get back to the office. Should be going home tomorrow. Maybe I'll take Tuesday off as well. A break to recover from the holidays?

Until then.

.

Wednesday, November 14, 2001

Finanlly!

Next stage ... TESTING

OH NO! It's already 3pm and I'm still coding!

Still need to test the program.

I'm in the office.

Working.

On a HOLIDAY!

Darn! I was hoping to finish my stuff before today.

Last night at about 8.20pm, had to rush off for the squash dinner. We had dinner at Madam Kwan's at Bangsar. Nice atmosphere. I had the assam laksa. It was so-so. Not exactly good but not bad. Not everyone was there. Melvyn's wife must be in town and whenever she's in town, you'd not see him - she's a flight attendant. Solomon's gone back to his wife's hometown to celebrate Deepavali. I don't know where JC is ... nobody told me. Probably had some important dinner with VIPs and don't have time for us little people.

I told them I had to get back to work after the dinner. Even told my friend that I couldn't make it to his Deepavali open house. I ended up agreeing to stop by at the karaoke for a few songs.

Huh ... some few songs! We ended up leaving at 2am. I had wanted to leave around 11.30pm but we went to the karaoke place in one car; my car was parked near Madam Kwan's. After about 12.30am, I gave up the idea of going back to work that night and we continued singing. It was fun.

So ... here I am. At work on a holiday.

Won't be going to Penang until tomorrow ... maybe

Tuesday, November 13, 2001

Fuh! I'm stuffed.

Now I'll never wonder again how people can have just a salad for lunch. I just had a ceaser salad and a twister at Dome with Stef and my aunts. Very nice.

Hmmm ... I wonder if I just have salad everyday for lunch, would I be able to lose some weight? Of course, it's gonna cost a bomb to have salad everyday at Dome's. Not to mention the 15 minutes drive just to get there and another 15 back to the office. Maybe I could make some salad myself. But I'd have to find a nice salad dressing to go with it. Time for some grocery shopping.

Ah well, will start trying this salad thing next Monday; after my holidays. You can't go to Penang and be on a diet. You just can't! Too many good food in Penang.

Mmmmm ...yum ... assam laksa here I come!


Oh yes, the squash celebration dinner is finally on. It' gonna be tonight at 7.45 or 8 ... thereabouts. Kudos Lorrin for managing this feat!

Just received a slew of mails from the musicals groups as well. Some of them will (hopefully ... fingers crossed) be meeting up to go watch 'Charlie's Aunty' this Saturday. And this time it's not just gonna be the three graces (ie. Grace L, Karen and yours truly) meeting up. If all goes well Rach, Alex, Fang and Grace ML will be going. Bad timing though. I can't make it. Will still be in Penang on Saturday. Have a fab time you guys!

Monday, November 12, 2001

Arghhhh!!!

Another discussion, another frustration. I should stop discussing with TL!

Almost everything he said I shouldn't do for the program, he now says is viable. Said that wasn't what I said the other day! WHAT THE FUCK!

I was so frustrated I had to go for a walk! Couldn't talk to him any longer. I'll just do things the way I think should be done and he just have to fill in the database they way my program works! I don't care! It's totally acceptable to have data formatting in data!

I'm gonna work at home. I don't think I can be in the office with only him and me. Might feel like punching him till he bleeds if I stay in here longer.

Ta.

Yay! Compile successfull.

FINALLY! Something to test out.

It's not the complete codes as yet. Just one of the multiple selections have been coded but if this work, the rest should be a matter of cut and paste.

Wish me luck.

And now ... back to work ...

Today I'm in a mood. Even my colleague noticed. Maybe cause I was very abrupt with her when she asked me a question.

It's all due to my lack of sleep and the fact that I'm suppose to have my program done by not but am still NOT done with it! TL gave me a new deadline. 'Till the day after Deepavali.

Thanks but no thanks! Deepavali's on Wednesday and that's a holiday. Plus, I'll be on leave on Thursday and Friday. Won't be back till Monday next week. Which means ... I'd have to finish this thing by tomorrow evening. Written, compiled and tested!

Hope I'll be able to make it. Lorrin hasn't called whether the squash dinner tonight or tomorrow or ever. Mogan called to invite me to his Deepavali open house. I'll try and make that if I'm done with my program. Guess I'll have to skip choir tonight. Unless I stay up late tonight to get some work done ... again.

I think almost the whole family plus my two aunts have gone up to Genting today. Not too sure whether grandma's gone with them. My brother's got some tickets for the Lion Dance competition that's going on there. Should be quite interesting.

Wednesday just can't come soon enough. I need a holiday! ... like RIGHT NOW!

Urgh! Forgot to get my cup of coffee from Coffee Bean during lunch earlier. Eyelids are swooping shut right now.

Sunday, November 11, 2001

Mummy's in one of her moods again. Stef pointed out that she gets this way everytime my aunts come for their holidays. I didn't even notice that it's cause the aunts are coming. I thought it was just one of her moods. Stef can be quite astute sometimes. Maybe it's due to all the time spent at home with mummy. She can read her moods better I suppose.

Papa's on the way to the airport now with Stef and Aunty Ko. Aunty Ko came this morning. Gave me a wake up call this morning at 7.30am saying she close to the train station near my house and to come get her. I was so sleepy. After I got her, went straight back to bed. She was hungry but I just couldn't get myself to go out and have breakfast with her. Too sleepy. Wonder if she did get something to eat?

Anyway, I'm about to go for my facial appointment. I take it that I have to drop my grandma off at the church first since she's still at home. Nobody tells me anything. I have to make all these assumptions. If I'm not free to do the stuff, I'll be on everyone's bad side then.

Ah ... ces't la vie.

Friday, November 09, 2001

Well, celebration dinner with the squash team has been post-poned ... for the third time. This time, Anne can't make it. A case of possible chicken pox. ... and there I was thinking that it was really late for me to get chicken pox when I was 21. While on the phone with Lorrin about the dinner confirmation, I'd warned her that it'll be a really tough job trying to get everyone together for anything. I should know cause I've been trying to get the musical group together for the past year without much success. Best of luck Lorrin.

Oh yes! I forgot. Happy Birthday, Papa!

It's papa's birthday today! Happy 55th!

With this cancellation, I'd be able to have the birthday dinner with him after all. The siblings were planning on what to do for papa's birthday last night. This is what they came up with ... I wasn't much into participating last night ... too tired after the dance practise. So, it's to have a family dinner somewhere and the we'd get the Gold Class movie ticket for him and mummy for 'The One', Jet Li's new movie. All siblings will then be able to do as they please. I have dance class at 10pm so I'm occupied.

This means I'd have to go home early. Meaning I have to really concentrate of finishing my codes before 5.30pm ... that's like in 4 hours time! I don't think I'd be able to make it! Looks like it's gonna be a long day tomorrow at work.

Okay. Have to get moving on those codes now.

Ta.

They must be doing some maintenance work at the office. Where's the memo on that? Didn't get any. For two days, after 5.30pm, the proxy was down. No access to the net. No blog!

Not that I have much to blog about the past two days.

On Wednesday ...(flashback)

ermmm ... can't really recall what I did at work today. More table designs for the extra functionality for the project ... I think ... or was I wasting time chatting with people and searching for places to stick my resume on the web??? I think I did do some thinking on the tables. I'm not a total slack at work, ok?!

After work, went home and later on went for dance practise. Forgot the steps we changed last Friday. Timing's a little off and balance is still missing. Must check with Mr. Lee later on the new steps. Went to bed quite early at about 11.30pm.

Thursday ...

Yay! Finished my table designs. Spent quite a lot of time explaining and reviewing it with TL who's in charge of the project. Added some other fields and changed some of the datatypes. After that, typed up the whole thing in doc format for KB, the database guy. He's in another office which is about 45 minutes away from mine.

Tried to send in the file via Yahoo! Messenger but that seems to fail ... don't know why. Has anyone tried sending files with Yahoo! Messenger? Does it work?

Anyway, I mailed him the doc and then asked him to review it. He's the database guy, I'm not an expert in that field. In case I created some useless stuff, I'd like to know about it. He wanted me to explain how the tables would be used ... so we had a short chat. Short cause by 5.30pm, everything stopped. Connection lost! KB's still confused on how I used the fields I want created to get the stuff that I need.

It looked like it was about to rain. So I went home before it started to pour. It didn't though, but I'm home anyway. :)

Had dinner, watched Roswell and then off to dance practise ... again. Mr. Lee was there so we checked with him on the steps that I was unsure of. He must be so tired of me rechecking my steps again and again. I keep forgetting one part or another of the routine everytime I go for class. Must find a way of writing the routine down ... and then write it down!

Back to the present

Several things to do today:
  1. Call Lorrin to confirm regarding celebration dinner/karaoke ... will do this right after I post this blog!

  2. Start coding on the function

  3. Change leave application ... must try to get it approved before boss leaves ... tomorrow?


Well, that's not too many things is it?

Tuesday, November 06, 2001

ARGHHHHHHH!!!!



Why is it that everytime after I've discussed something with him I feel like screaming and pulling my hair out!?!!??! It's so frustrating!

ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!

I don't think I'd ever work well with this co-worker of mine. Urgh! Still frustrated. I need to smash something!

Let's try another topic.

My mom just got her mobile phone number. My dad's friend gave him a mobile phone for his retirement during the retirement dinner they threw for him. He's retiring on the 9th, this Friday. They actually asked him what he wanted as a retirement present. 'Would you like a watch?', they asked. 'No, I just got a watch from my brother recently. How about a mobile phone?', says Dad. And they gave him a phone! So nice of them. And then, my dad gave the phone to my mom cause she's the only one in the family, besides my grandma, who doesn't have a mobile. Awwww ... so sweet.

It's not like my mom really need a mobile. She's usually at home. Her only busy day would be on Sunday when she helps out at the Vihara (Bhuddist temple).

Hmmm ... where was I? Had to go move my car out of the parking lot to avoid paying double the fee.

Okay, I think that's all I have to say today. I'm going to go home now. My eyes are so dry and a little red from staring at the screen all day. This happens occasionally.

Ta.

Monday, November 05, 2001

Oh yes! I'm also on the lookout for my latin costume. If anyone sees one over the net that looks nice, reblog me the link.

Thanks.

Jogging

I'd originally planned to wake up at 6am for a short jog before going for work this morning. My memory's quite vague as to what happened this morning. Don't remember if my mobile phone's alarm went off or not but I missed my jog.

The next thing I knew, my mom was waking me up. It was 7.30am. My usual wake up time for workdays.

Why I am jogging ... (Planning to jog anyway)

I saw pictures that this other dance couple took for their competition entrance next weekend. The girl, in real life, is this skinny long limbed dancer's body kind of girl. In the picture, she didn't look that skinny. Maybe it's cause she's not very toned, especially her stomach, quite flat but not toned ... does that make sense? Anyway, if I can see her stomach in those pictures, I wouldn't like to see what mine would look like! I've gotta find a costume that hides this but I really like those latin costumes that have slits here and there on the waist area. Really sexy!

... So ... that's why I'm jogging. I'm trying to lose fat! Since reducing my food is next to impossible for me, I thought, if I exercised more, I'd still be able to loose weight or at least tone up. How's my hypothesis? Workable? Let's hope so.

I'd missed my jog today. Must remember to do sit-ups tonight. I'll try the jog again tomorrow.

Hmmm ... remind me to borrow my sister's discman for my jog.

Sunday, November 04, 2001

*Yawn* really sleepy but I thought I'd blog a bit before bed.

Woke up this morning when my sister came in with Dee Dee looking for a panty liner in my cupboard. Couldn't go back to sleep after that so I just laid on my bed and finished the book I was reading ... and pretending that I'm still asleep. Whenever anyone comes in, I'd drop the book under my quilt and close my eyes. Don't fell like getting up yet.

Gave up pretending after I finished my book. Since I can't get to sleep, I might as well get up and do whatever I have to do today. I needed to go the bank to deposit the cheque for my credit payment. There's only one branch of that bank that has 24-hours banking and drop-in cash and cheque counters; and that's in the city. My mom needed the car, she's going for a perm, so I was going to take a train near my house that requires me to change train. Luckily my dad came home just in time and was going to a place near a station with direct train service to that bank area.

I felt so stupid trying to fill in the fast cheque form. I didn't know what I was doing. Had to ask people around me what I am suppose to fill. Hopefully I've filled it in correctly. *Praying*

Then I went for a little window shopping at KLCC ... one of my favorite past-times. Saw two really gorgeous dresses. They were similar dresses but had different cut on the neckline. You wouldn't believe what it cost! Over a thousand dollars! What can I say? I've got expensive taste. They are really gorgeous but I might not be able to carry them off. It'll look nicer on a person whose slim and tall. I'm neither of those!

Found a new shop there. An aromatheraphy shop. Sells candles and incense and oils ... you get the gist. I bought a purple candle holder and three woodies - little scented wooden balls. The woodies and at work right now making all my clothes smell nice. I've placed them in my cupboard. Candle burner's at work as well. I'm burning my strawberry scented candle in it. The scent from the candle's gone though. It's been a long time since I bought those candles. Just haven't had the chance to light them up.

Rushed back from the city to try to make the 4 o'clock appointment my mom has with this vocal teacher she's planning to take lessons from. The teacher has placed a flyer in the music school's notice board for singers for his choir's Christmas programme. I was late. My mom's left without me.

Later, I went out for dinner with my brother and Stef. Came back from the dinner, had a quick shower and I'm off to my choir's Annual General Meeting (AGM). I thought I was late for the meeting but I must have gotten the wrong time for the meeting. I was sort of early. Meeting hasn't started. Forgot they were providing dinner so I didn't have much cause I've already eaten. After the dinner, we had a singing session. Some people would go up near the piano and sing. I'm too shy to sing in front of this bunch. Most of them have vocal trainings. I'd never had a vocal class in my life. But it was fun just singing along to them. Some of the guys were singing in falsettoes! Lots of laughes.

The whole thing ended almost at 12am. Call Prem to check where they were. Brendan was having his birthday party at the same time of the meeting and I said I'd see if I could make it. I missed the party. Prem was in Jenny's house bumming and watching VCDs. I joined them. We watched 'Heartbreakers' starring Sigorney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt. I'd seen it before but I don't mind watching it again if only for the clothes that Hewitt wears in that movie. They're great! I must be really tired cause I dozed off for a few seconds while watching the movie. After the movie, we left Jenny's place.

And now, ... here I am.

Off to bed now. Ta.

Saturday, November 03, 2001

Just got back from dance class. We've finished our cha-cha routine and will be polishing up on techniques next week. I feel a little unstable on some turns. Most of my turns are done on my weaker foot, my left foot. I even have to do a full pirouette on my left. Must remember to spot! Oh yes, must remember to look up as well ... another reason for my lack of stability ... I don't know why I keep looking on the floor. I'm not even looking at my feet! Will have to practise, practise, practise.

Prior to class, I met up with Grace and Karen ... as I've predicted the only two who will turn up for the meet from my musicals clique. I had my shepherd's pie ... mmmmm, yummy. Grace joined us later, she was meeting with a prospect. She works in insurance. She didn't have anything to eat though. I asked her about the Stage Management opening I mailed her about a week ago. She said she received a favourable reply and that the position is actually for Deputy Stage Manager. They guy offered her the job and the rehearsal for the play is to start in Nov 10. She declined saying that she's going to Australia but the guy said that as Deputy Stage Manager, she only has to start work in January. The position's still open to her ... I think ... but she did give the guy contact numbers for other people that she knows that could fullfill the position. Awwww ... wasn't that nice of her?

Just mailed my aunt. She's braving the possibility of a hijack and will be flying home from Ireland for a holiday. Must remember to apply for a leave of absense on Monday.

I'm quite tired. I even forgot to stop by the bank to drop in my cheque for my first credit card payment. Will have to remember to do that tomorrow. Due date for payment is Nov 5.

Off to reply a mail from a quite yummy guy I talked about a few weeks ago.

*Yawn*

Nite!

... ermmm ... Morning.

... whatever!!!

Hasta!

Friday, November 02, 2001

Have you seen this video? Click on launch video and watch Enrique Iglesias's music video Hero.
Enrique Iglesias
Hero


I love it. Enrique's gorgeous and so is Jennifer Love Hewit ... MAN! Wish I had a bod like hers.

My co-workers, Danny and Kevan, ditched me during lunch. They each had face-to-face reports to make to their other halves. ;-)

Without a car and with no other co-workers who owns a car around, me and another co-worker, TL, had to eat at the cafeteria. TL doesn't mind eating anywhere so long as they have rice! I hate rice. Especially for lunch since I'd be having rice at night anyway. I'm Chinese. We have rice every night. Come to think of it, most races in Malaysia have rice during dinner anyway. Malays, Chinese, Indians ... we all have rice. Maybe not the Indians so much cause they have other carb based food, ie. the various type of 'roti'-s (bread), like nan, roti canai, chapati and such.

Anyway, tonight, hopefully, I'd be having shepherd's pie at Finnegan's. Yay! No rice!

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

They're not showing the third season of La Femme Nikita. *sob* Maybe in a year or two they'd bring it back ... maybe ... hopefully ... PLEASE!

I was late again this morning. It's becoming a really bad habit. About as late as yesterday. My dad's car should be ready by tonight. LET IT BE READY!

A car is so convenient. Oh how I miss it now that I don't have that convenience. Can't even go to a mall during lunch for a bit of window shopping. Have to depend on where ever my other co-workers are heading for lunch.

Having dinner with Karen from the musicals group tonight before my dance class. It's not confirmed as yet and nobody else in the group has replied to the mass mail. It'll probably just be me and Karen and maybe Grace ... AGAIN. Only the three graces, meeting again.

Thursday, November 01, 2001

Found a limitation in an old program that's currently being used by one of the internal department. Huh ... will have to modify the codes of create a new module to add the required functionality in. Haven't coded in PHP for quite awhile. Hope I still remember how to do it. Will try it tomorrow.

Dad's downstairs now. His car's in the workshop and so, he's driving my car. I don't know why it's there for overhaul? Don't know. Have to go now.

I quit ...

Not like I really started anyway. I'm talking about my diet. The one my dance teacher advise me to take up.

I've realised that since that day, the more I try to watch what I eat to make sure I eat less, the more cravings I have. For chocolates, for cakes, for sweets, for ice-cream ... I even eat bigger portions during meal time. Don't know why that is but it is. It's like when your parents or an authoritative figure tells you not to do something, the urge to do the forbidden gets greater. Know what I mean?

My squash team is trying to set a date for a celebrative get together. Originally planned for tomorrow, Lorrin just called to say that some of the others are busy and would like to change it to Monday. Well, I'm busy on Mondays. Mondays are choir nights. So that's out. Azlan can't make Thursday and I'm sort of only free on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Might have dance class on either Tuesday or Friday so I didn't put those days out as my free days. Hope this get together works out. I have another group of friends, the musical group, that have been trying to get together for the past year but to no avail. Everyone's always busy on various different days. Hopefully we'd be able to meet on of these days.

Why is it so difficult to get together for something is not compulsory or of not much importance? We didn't have any problem getting people to attend training or classes? ... but otherwise, there just doesn't seem to be time. Priorities, I suppose.

Went to the mall last nite after dinner to look at furnitures.

Yups! Still looking at furnitures. Remember my list? Well, I have yet to get a single thing from that list.

Alas, nothing came out of this venture. The furnitures there were too serious. Teaks and stuff. Definitely not for my room.

Got to work 45 minutes late this morning. Forgot to wake my brother. I was too busy shifting through the new cable TV guide to check out new programmes to watch for this month. Hmmm ... what looked interesting this month ... there's 'Blonde' - a story on Marilyn Monroe, 'Prince Charming' - I think it's a frog prince story with time travel ... a few more which I don't remember the titles.

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