Dum di dah...

Didn't get to sleep well yesterday.
Most probably for fear I couldn't get up in time for church. Had to go early today as one of the ushers.
End up feeling so sleepy the whole time.
Even when we had choir practice, I wasn't really singing.
*heh!*
I was too sleepy to really concentrate.
Was just singing along with the group.
Was supposed to bring Brinkley over to Aunty Jo's place but overslept!
Some "nap" indeed - if the roof fell, I would still be snoring away.
I think I take Brinkley for granted. I was just sharing about locks with cell members on Friday - today when I came home, I THOUGHT I locked the door but noooooo! The horror when I wake up and see the front door was unlocked. I take Brinkley for granted in a sense that I rely on him to "take care" of the house. *hehe* I'm also taking God's protection for granted!
Baru learnt a lesson in security and now I'm doing it all over again!!! EEEEEEEKS!

*ahem*
Anyway, I wanted to write about cartoons but I just remembered my laundry!

Letting it out

I've finally gotten enough courage to tell (uhm..write, I mean) mom that I'm not happy in Seremban. I still do feel like I'm entirely selfish to tell her that when she's not exactly having a ball of a time but instead of going around whining and complaining, why not tell it to someone who matters, right? I just wrote to her earlier, I don't know how would she react to it. *shrugs*
Actually, some circumstances at work may force me out of Seremban sooner than I plan. Although a part of me secretly goes "Hurrayyy!!" yet a part of me worries on what would happen next. It won't be the first time "leaving" home anyway so it's not about separation anxiety.
At the moment, every day I go through the same routine. It's very very safe (unless they drop a bomb on me saying I'm fired! On Monday!) and I've not much worries except maybe for sales(?). Basically I'm in a comfortable zone already and to get myself out of it would be like me without my safety net. Pfft. Typical for us to say that we need more excitement and yet worry about what's coming. Maybe not all of you would feel this way but I do.

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I like to go look at updated pictures on Friendster. Like what Hazel said before, it's nice to go look at pictures of friends and see how they look like or what they've been doing (judging from pictures). At times (okay, who am I kidding? Everytime!) when I look at pictures of those batch mates who are still in Glasgow, I get the rush of different emotions. I would feel envious. I would feel like the achy sentimental I am because I miss that place (I think I just miss being a student there). I would feel regret (because I didn't do better to be able to even THINK of staying on). I would feel a change of heart (before this I think, "Research?! Pfft! So boring!") - I'm actually missing our labs there okay! They say the grass is always greener on the other side but has it got to be so much more "fluffier" looking?! *hehe*

Or perhaps see pictures of some people who get to stay on to work there. (Why can't I?! GAH!)

Or even some pictures of the different countries that an SIA stewardess could end up in. (BAH!)

*hehe*

I look at some pictures of old friends who have blossomed into such pretty, well-groomed creatures and look at my reflection and go, "GWAAAAH! You gave me a fright there!"
I look at some pictures of friends at different vacation pictures and go, "When will I get to go on a holiday?"
I look at some pictures of friends hanging out with their colleagues and go, "Will that ever happen?" (*haha* I think it will - next Friday we're going dim sum!)

They say a picture paints a thousand words? Well, I'd say for me, a picture paints a thousand awful ungrateful thoughts from me! *hehe*

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Completely off topic.
I saw Charlotte that day for the first time after Anson's dad's birthday bash last year in October. My, my! Who's that cute little girl?
It was such an "awwww..." moment when I asked her, "Charlotte. Where's wow wow?"
She would pick up her stuffed doggie and says in her cutesy little girl voice, "Wow wow! Wow wow!" then lifts the doggie high up in the air (as far as her little arms could stretch) in a triumphant moment (like as if the stuffed toy was a trophy) yelling, "WOW WOW!!!"


Little girl with her wow wow.


Meng Meng grinning from ear to ear. The first thing he did when he entered the house was walking up to his baby sister and giving her a big kiss on her cheeks.

Inactivity

I've been bumming around. So many thoughts run through my head everyday. I want to pen it down. I want to record it so that I won't forget. I'm just plain lazy, yea. Lazy, I am. I've also been...

Hibernating.

Hiding.

Worrying.

Thinking.

Working.

More thinking.

Fuming.

Forgiving.

Thinking again.

Considering.

I hope to write again. It's funny when you say you want to go on a hiatus that you can't seem to get away but when you don't say anything about taking a break, you just naturally do.

Aunty Jo gave us the score for the new song today. Choir's going to start again - it feels weird leaving so early for the past 4 weeks.

Anson told me about his plans to promote some of the products thru the MontKiara's flea market with Bobby & Nakajima. He said he hope I could help him. I wish I could because I want to do something else. I remember going there to set up a stall with Julie last time. I ended up buying more stuff than selling. *heh!* I know I'm also selling things at the moment (everyday, for that matter) but I want to sell something different. I don't know why but I feel like having my own makan place. I did ask him about setting up a cafe again. Maybe and maybe not. I told him it'd be great because then I could go and eat for free like at Squeeze last time. *haha!*

Quirky Seremban

What's wrong with that picture above? Well, for those who don't know...this particular road is a one-way road. Note the direction of traffic. So if it's a one-way road, how come the sign is facing the opposite direction? Unless they plan it for those who didn't know it was a one-way road...at least they won't turn into the opposite direction of another one-way road, is that it? *hehe*
I saw this sign as I was walking to collect Anson's glasses. I took this picture only when I was coming out of the lorong behind the shops.

Hb Test (lots of pictures ahead)

We find that Wednesdays are too quiet for the pharmacy's good so Mr.L now puts all the free checks on Wednesdays.
Today it was a test of Hb (Haemoglobin) count. Not a lot of people were interested in it. We got to sell about 4(?) bottles of Iberet-Folic.



We used a machine called the Reflotron Plus - you can do a lot of different tests with it as long as you've got to right strips. You don't have to change the setting (of tests) because the machine will detect the strips on its own. Interesting! (At least to me it is) Scroll over for captions.









Dang! I'm not anywhere near anaemic! I guess I'll just have to admit that I'm plain lazy. I thought if I could prove I'm "anaemic", I could be excused of all the "tiredness" and "sleepiness" I'm always experiencing. *heh!*

The prick on my left middle finger was by the Roche representative, PuiPui. She came by to collect to old glucometers (for trade-ins. You could trade in your old glucometer for a new one - for freeeee! The catch is that you have to purchase two boxes of the test strips. I think it's quite a good deal since the Accu-Chek Advantage comes with a lifetime warranty, okay! And you need to use those test strips anyway.) At the same time she showed us (or rather, me - since at that time I was the only one asking and listening. Not to mention putting my hand out for her to prick my finger!) Roche's newest glucometer - Accu-Chek Go. Quite nifty. Needs even less blood than Advantage. Pricing is the same as Advantage! Though the strips are cheaper yet still with the odd 25-strips pack. Don't know why. *shrugs* Why can't it be 30-strips? Makes more sense (if you test once-a-day).

Happy Belated Mother's Day!

I chose to send flowers after Mother's Day itself because - I'm a cheapo. *hehe*
Hey! I ordered flowers online so that it could be sent to her ASAP. I didn't want to send this citrus bunch (because I prefer this other coral arrangement - which looked much sweeter) but it was the only nice looking (within my budget) arrangement which was available for the same-day delivery. I was excited for her to get the flowers ASAP, you see. It wasn't exactly cheap either - USD40.98 - which comes up to about RM156?
Okay-lah. If I were to buy flowers on Mother's Day here in Malaysia it would cost more than that, I think. She emailed me on the same day itself saying that she received them. I hardly buy flowers for mom - in fact, you could even go to the extreme to say "never". The only way to "surprise" her would be to send a bouquet over her way in sunny California, I guess. I signed off with "Love from Leo, FeR & Brinks" *hehe* I bet she misses the big goof.

She's not exactly sobbing her eyes out over in the States, okay? She's more happenin' than me. I'm just here pening-ing only.

The beginning of the mail went like this (unedited)...

Dear Leo and Fer.......and Brink,

Thanks for the lovely flowers - roses, baby breath, lilies and the green ferns.....they were very lovely and it never crossed my mind that my children will go all the way to send their greeting to me in such a thoughful way. Thanks again and I really love it.
I will be going to LA tomorrow (05/11/05) and will be staying in the Alpine Inn for 6 nites. 2 days I will be in Disneyland, 3rd day I will be going to San Diego sea world, 4th day (sunday) will be going window shopping with Aunt Alicia and Aunt Janet., then on Monday I will proceed to Universal Studio.The next day will be going back to SF and to begin back to work on Wednesday.

See? And it's not like she's not been to those places before. She's now going there as if it's just going over to Sunway Lagoon okay. *hehe*

On this "auspicious" day...

I met up with LC for dinner on 05/05/05. I couldn't meet up with her on the weekend before because I already had plans and she had to work on Sunday. Her trip back to Seremban and my trip to KL couldn't be altered so we decided to meet on a weekday. I felt that we should meet up - not so much on guilt of not being able to see her on the weekend so I feel like I have to make up to it - more on I feel like she needs to talk about some things (and I want to be there for her) and I needed to tell her some things.

When I met her in front of Burger King, she was holding a flower. I thought CWK gave her flowers before she left work. *heh!* Turned out it was for me! One white African daisy aka Gerbera. She said that she told the person to wrap two stalks - it's okay. One is good enough! *hehe*


She also gave me a card with some reeeeally hairy hamsters. Please tell me whyyyyyyy do you people think I look like a hamster?

My Dearest Fer,
Even though we don't see each other
that often, you're my most "comfortable" friend.
I'll always love you (in a non-lesbian way *winks*)
and thanks for being my Bestfriend!

Cheeee! *blush* *hehe*
We (as usual) don't know where to eat. Either that or too polite to say, I don't know. *hehe* We went to that California place thingy. Kitchen Pizza or Pizza Kitchen? Or non like mentioned? *shrugs* Although I feared that my breath would smell, I didn't regret the fettucini with garlic cream sauce. *yum!* Oh. When the trainee (I didn't notice he was a trainee, LC did) didn't budge after we told him our choices, I thought he was too polite to interrupt our chatter so I asked, "Uhm...so you want to repeat our orders?" Apparently he was just about to take some tissue for us from his apron-thingy when I asked him that. I meant to say if he wanted to repeat what we ordered...not asking him to repeat it. Oh well. *heh*



We talked and talked and talked. At some point, LC told me, "Eh, makan laa.."
We continued our catching up at Starbucks. I tell you, there's nothing like catching up/sharing/chatting with your best-girlfriend. You can say what you want, be how you want. They know you in and out, listen without judging you, comforting you when you need it (they can sense it!), slapping you with the real deal when you beat around the bush...they are just great.
You are just great to me, LC. *beams*

Back-blog.

Sunday
May 1st! We celebrated HuiPing's birthday at Zen. I've not done the page up so there wouldn't be any links yet. We had short time together during dinner (as compared to the year before when we spent the whole day with her - we zapped her out of all the energy she had!). We thought of having ice-cream after dinner but we (well, at least, I was) were tired already. I've not had ice-cream for quite some time. Hmmm...

After dinner, went back to Hartamas. I tell you, no one would understand why I would call it a "good" weekend when so many arguments happened. This time is was between him and his dad. Chee!! I never heard his dad yell so loudly before. It was bad. Basically (as usual) he didn't keep to his timing and his dad was up waiting for him to come home. His dad also did not give him a slot of chance to explain because he was angry (he usually goes to bed early! It's a big deal to wait nearly 4 hours for him to come back - and we're not talking about noon to night, okay. It was night to morning. I don't think it's my business to post up the whole story here online (although I want to write it down so I can read what happened - I'm not being a sadist, it's just that what happened is related to what we talked about thereafter). After getting yelled at, I talked to him till about 7/8am? I don't really remember. Then it was...

Monday
No work for me! *yay!!!* Woke up at 3pm?! *GAH!* Wasted most of the time sleeping. Hmmph. Wasn't too pleased. He ignored his mom on the way out (because he felt that she was a batu api for his dad to shout at him) so I told her that we were just going out to have something to eat. He asked what I wanted to eat, to which I go, "Anything will do." Tell me, what can you eat at near 4pm in the afternoon/evening? Right?

"Let's go mamak okay? I can put my car to wash."

-_-"

I should have guessed. Since he had a bad time with his dad, I said okay.
While having breakfast-lunch-tea rolled in one, KayKuan passed by and perhaps saw us. He called Anson and asked to meet him and Jessie at Penang Village.



The guys both agreed on watching a movie together - double date thingy. One thing I noticed about these two guys, they don't know what it means by having to spend quality time (sometimes preferably just the two of us) together. They always have to call up and invite those who tells them that they are free. *heh!* I decided to be an "angel" and not fuss about this matter - I want to choose to be happy just to be able to spend time with him (like what I told LC later on that week). *hehe*
We went to MidValley to watch "Divergence". Only Anson didn't really speak Cantonese and had to rely on subtitles while the rest of us are pretty much okay with the dialogues (although I have this habit of reading subtitles. If they are there, I read them and if they are not, I'm not bothered by it either.) It was an o-kay movie - some funny moments *hehe!* and some "eh?" moments.
After buying the tickets, we had about 45minutes to kill(?) - we went to Starbucks and saw BenChia&Rina. Only when we met up with those two that we realised we were all wearing white tops (the four of us). Rina pointed it out, "Hey! Was there a dress code or something that I missed out on?"

KK&Jessie were wearing white tops with khaki/brown bottoms. Anson&I were wearing white tops with jeans bottoms. *hah!* Ben said perhaps he should take off his flower-power shirt. Eck? *hehe*

After the movie we met Lee&Shannen/Shannon (I don't know how is it spelt) - we decided to go SS2 to makan. Ben joined us, bringing along Riana (I think that's how it's spelt?! I don't know. And I don't know how come he keeps bringing friends with almost similar names. *heh*). I was reserving my tummy for mango-loh, so I just pinched a few satay sticks from KK&Jessie. We went to KTZ at about 11pm? I saw a few dead roaches. *shudder* Icky la! Didn't remember it being like so the last time I went there.

La di da! When we went back, he didn't want to stay downstairs with his parents (he was still on ignore mode because he said he didn't do anything wrong but yet he didn't want to explain himself to them! Sheesh!) so we played Scrabble in his room. *hehe* It's been quite sometime since I played Scrabble - no one's interested. *sigh* (Leech has been missing-in-action so I couldn't arrange any Scrabble-meet-up with her). I lost by 2 points. (The funny thing about this Scrabble travel set that I have - none of those who got me this gift for my birthday is interested in playing it with me.)




And by that ONE good time on Monday (both of us agreed that it was a good time spent), it cancels off everything bad. See! And to think he says I'm difficult to please. *hehe*

Good weekend

I had a good weekend. So good I wished it didn't end. I had four days off work!!! *haha*

Friday
I skipped free cell on Friday. *eeeps* I didn't see him for nearly two weeks, was excited about the long weekend. I sent Hazel back to her place at Gurney Heights. KL was all jammed up! Took us about 1.5 hours to get to her place (perhaps even longer). Took me another half hour to get to Hartamas from there - by the time I reached Anson's place, he wasn't there.
Peter (his eldest brother) wanted to go buy a bag(?) from KLCC (because he saw a suitable one from the store there) but I told him that I was coming from KLCC and it's packed like a can of sardines. I waited for the both of them to come back. His parents wanted to take Joshua & Joseph to the store to buy VCD. They said they'd be back in 10 minutes. They didn't come back in 10 minutes.
When I called Anson to ask when is he coming back, he tells me EK is coming to the house. So I had to wait for his friend at his place. Two of us sitting like dungu farts. *heh!* When Peter & Anson finally came back, we went to Zen for "dinner". I said I was so hungry I could eat a horse. (Apparently they didn't get the luggage bag after all because they "rushed" home after I said I was hungry. Anson was afraid I may get gastric pains *heh!*) Both Peter & EK took their dinners already (heh-lo?! It's already 9.30pm?) and Anson just wanted to bring Peter there before Peter leaves for Singapore to work (previous visit was when he brought his parents there).
I had tempura! Jyar jyar. All flour but yummy! Everything's good when you're hungry. Peter said, "That doesn't look like a horse" when my tempura set arrived.
We sent Peter back to his house and went to Devi's to meet up with his parents & the kids (who were running around in pajamas, drinking F&N grape). EK then left and actually promised to meet up the day after to go to Ipoh together - just to eat.

Saturday
You guessed right. We went all the way to Ipoh to eat. Thank goodness when we left about 2.00pm, the traffic was pretty smooth sailing. We waited for Anson to come back and the 5 of us sat in the 4WD with EK behind the wheel. Imagine that! What was their son doing? This...



The prawns were delicious!!! Fat and juicy. Yum!!! I love prawns! *hehe* I was so hungry and excited to eat that I didn't take any pictures. Bleh.
Nothing much to tell. The whole day was pretty much taken up by travelling alone. His father wanted to put up a night in Lumut but saw my horrified face (I was worried about leaving Brinkley for so long) and decided to come back (while teasing me with my dog, saying he is a VVIP).
KK called Anson out and told him to bring me along. Jessie wanted to meet me (that's what I've been told) and we had a row just because of that. So silly!
We were watching a Chinese movie on Astro, he said we'd leave after the show. The phone kept ringing (KK calling) and he nicely ignored it because he wanted to know the ending of the show (Daniel Wu was in it - *ooooh!*).
When the show was finally over, he said, "Let's go!" I asked him where to (y'know girls need to know where they are going so we can dress appropriately, right? I know I'm like that)...I was in t-shirt and shorts. He told me I could just go like that.
I asked again, he got pissed because he said we were late, he said I was delaying, he won't force me to go if I don't want to, I asked why is it so difficult to just tell me what we were doing and where we were going, he threw a fit, threw his keys and phone on the grass, went huffing and puffing, his mom staring all these while, I couldn't care less already so raised my voice at him, he said we were late, I said can't he wait just one minute so I could change into something "presentable", told his mom we're going out and off we went to Amcorp because the guys (KK, Chris, Turbo, Jessie) were there playing pool.
Now was that so difficult?
Met Jessie, thinks she's really nice. Poor girl was all alone playing with KK's smartphone (Bejeweled) just because she doesn't play pool. *heh* And also with no one to talk to, she was the only girl.

Here I come to save the day!!!

Bleh. We talked and talked. KK came over and said, "Wah! You all look like as if you've known each other for ages, talk so much!" This is called chemistry. Or perhaps socializing effort? *shrugs*

I shall continue with the other two days later. Going off to bed. Woke up late today just because was online till about 2am yesterday (May 4th - I'm back-blogging, okay) and didn't hear the alarm!!! *snores*

The month of May

It's the month of May already! Just got my pay cheque today.

Feel so kurang ajar because I had 4 days off work and today, I just took off at 1.30pm after JS arrived. *hehe* Hey! It isn't like how you think it is. (Off topic for a moment : Roe called me right when I was leaving the pharmacy and he said, "WAH! You and Ju the same also!" regarding me leaving work. *heh!*) Okay. I admit I wanted to take an extra day leave because I was all lazy the whole weekend. I told Anson that I don't feel well and I can't go to work. *heh!*
Nolah. It was because my dad wanted some medication passed to his friend (who's leaving for the States on Thursday) who is in KL - I had to send the medication today if not it will not arrive on time for his friend to bring it over. The funny/odd/irritating part was that if mom could message me to ask whether I received her email regarding the medication, why can't she just message me to tell me WHAT medication he wanted. When I messaged her the first time last week, she didn't even reply! I wasn't home the weekend (most of the time) so I couldn't check my mail. Finally I had to ring her from my mobile to her mobile. Eh! International call, okay! Cheese me off. I took off to go to DHL to send the things to PJ. Went to the bank and the optometrist as well to get some things sorted.

See, I may not have the stress that other people face from work (ugly boss, killer deadlines, difficult colleagues, do-or-die projects, etc.) but trust me, I'm all stressed up. Other than worrying about my own bills and what nots, I have other things to worry/think about. Today itself I had to settle 2 things which didn't have much to do with me. Sort of. First call was from the optometrist because Anson did not go to her to collect/exchange his lenses (which were under warranty - his cracked). I had to go and choose another frame (he hasn't got spare pair of glasses at home! It's only when the present one breaks, he goes and "fix" it - meanwhile being "blind" for a week or so) for him. Since the optometrist moved to another place, it's difficult to get a parking around that area (main road lah!).

The main road. When I came out of the optometrist, it rained. Great. Then there was plenty of parking spaces available. Hmmph.

Second call was from my parents' friend reminding me that the Ford's insurance/roadtax is expiring this month. It will cost a bomb. I don't have a bomb. *heh!*
See?!
Then I get bills. Statements. Pay up, pay up. GAH!!! My parents seem to have forgotten that other than just instalments, all the cukai and other charges need to be paid for also (I've got bills from MPS, Indah Water, maintenance office, etc.) I can't afford to keep up with all of it. I'm going crazy. I don't need this. I don't mind handling my own finances. Already I'm all blur with what needs to be paid and what needs to be fixed (see, dad left the car unserviced - it's all rattly, I need to fix that. It's behind service by 10,000km). I can't do everything alone.

I'm going to do some back-blogging. Maybe not now. I need to sleep.

Jusco's progress

They work night and day, rain or shine, 7 days a week. I'm quite worried for the workers. Will they just fall out because of exhaustion? *hehe* Don't know if they will have an underground parking but I saw them building a ramp - quite definite that there'll be a rooftop parking. I've not taken any recent pictures but I tell you, there's a lot of different in two weeks!

April 5th


April 13th (working late at night)


April 15th


April 21st (YeeChin's birthday!)


May 3rd (the view from the other side - coming back from town)