The day started crabby enough. I had a 38.7 degree Celcius fever the night before. I quickly drove myself to the clinic to get medication bcos I cant afford to fall sick since I will be taking half a day leave in the afternoon. Fever had gone today, just a slight headache. I've got a lot of emails to answer before I leave at 1300hr. When I hang up the phone at about 1015, I was summoned to the boardroom for an impromptu meeting. I turned to the Senior Manager (SM) and gave him this questioning look that said why/how come/tim kai? I'm scheduled for another meeting at 1100 later, I wasn't told about this one? He said that our GM had this guests from HK and wants to see what's our Quarter 1 2009 timetable look like and I need to be in there. I muttered s**t under my breath and rushed to the photocopier to get the schedule I just printed for FY09. And the photocopier got stuck! Grreat!?! Hurry up ... he said. I said I only able to print till March will that be okay? he nodded and rushed to the room. I scrambled and saw my GM sitting behind the door and signalling me to hurry up. Ohhh..I'm so not ready for whatever to come..who are these clients anyway? How come I'm not told earlier? The SM said something about Iron Chefs show and suddenly SURPPPRRISE!!! Goodness gracious, everybody was there. In my rush, I failed to notice that everyone was not at their cubicles. So they sang, I ahd to cut the cake and luckily there was only 1 candle there. I was overwhelmed, touched and embarrassed - all at the same time. The secretary said that they had to change their original plan when they found out that I'm taking half day leave in the afternoon. Well they got me! I was very surprised.
Received handmade cards from my boys. Took them 2 whole nite to finish it. Hubby took me and kids out for dinner. We had it at this restaurant called Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. As the name suggest their speciality is in shrimps but the food we enjoyed most was not their speciality lol. It was ribs something... delicious. Followed by dessert at Big Apple Donuts. mmm..heaven.
I had fun today and I'm happy to confess that I am still thirty something this year ^_^ To everybody who smsed/emailed and called to wish me (you know who you are) thank youuu.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Visitors from across the straits
I had a very hectic weekend. My relatives consist of my aunt and uncle, three cousins, a cousin wife and one second cousin from Singapore came down for a wedding. Two of my cousins, I haven't met for almost 20 years!!! Their port was my house. So over the weekend we had 7 extra people in our tiny house. Since their visit was short so the schedule was quite packed. My days were filled with chaperoning them from one place to the other. It was 2 days filled with chaos and laughter. I guess even my house had a shock. This is the first time we had that many guests stayed over at one time. But it was a blast. All of us attend a cousin's wedding on Sunday.
Since Singapore ban the selling of chewing gums so when my cousins came the first thing that they bought were what else .. chewing gum. In every shape and brands they can get their hands on. I witnessed it first hand when I brought them to the nearest mall at my place. There was this one small boy at the paying counter who can't stop looking at my cousins basket in disbelief. lol
Since Singapore ban the selling of chewing gums so when my cousins came the first thing that they bought were what else .. chewing gum. In every shape and brands they can get their hands on. I witnessed it first hand when I brought them to the nearest mall at my place. There was this one small boy at the paying counter who can't stop looking at my cousins basket in disbelief. lol
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Collection added
Hubby's friend went to South Africa and got me a magnet from Capetown. So onto the hall of fame on the fridge it goes !!!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
of white cake and roses
Hubby and me went to a wedding reception at Hilton KL last night. I dont know the bride and groom. Bride's mother is my hubby's automobile dealer. Whom I met for the first time, last night.
The theme was white and dramatic. The hall was decorated with many, many real white roses!!! Breathtakingly beautiful. To emphasise drama, the cake was 7 tiers!!
My favourite item of the night was the white rose arrangement on our table.
However, as of many Malay weddings held in hotels, it tend to drag past your dinner time and this one is no exceptional. Dinner was serve close to 9:40pm!! By the time dessert arrived, it was almost 11:00pm. Luckily both hubby and me came well prepared. We had Wendy's earlier with the kids at about 7:00pm :) So unlike most of the guests, we were okay.
We arrived home at 11:30pm. Just intime to watch the delayed transmission of MTV Asia Awards, held in Genting.
The theme was white and dramatic. The hall was decorated with many, many real white roses!!! Breathtakingly beautiful. To emphasise drama, the cake was 7 tiers!!
My favourite item of the night was the white rose arrangement on our table.
However, as of many Malay weddings held in hotels, it tend to drag past your dinner time and this one is no exceptional. Dinner was serve close to 9:40pm!! By the time dessert arrived, it was almost 11:00pm. Luckily both hubby and me came well prepared. We had Wendy's earlier with the kids at about 7:00pm :) So unlike most of the guests, we were okay.
We arrived home at 11:30pm. Just intime to watch the delayed transmission of MTV Asia Awards, held in Genting.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Sex and the City
Unless you are a fan of the series or any of its characters, it's quite hard to finish the movie. But for a disillusionist of reality, fan of everything beautiful and romantic sucker like me, I can tolerate the 2.5hr long of beautiful people, fashionable clothes, branded shoes and handbags and best of all friendship. I watched the DVD with my hubby and would you believe it ... cried several times! Amongst all, what I love about the movie, be it shallow or not is the strong bond between these four women. Althou' I must confess that I can relate to 'just give me a big closet' LOL but of cos the content is not necessarily be as lavish as Carrie's (but a girl can dream right?) ^_^
Nevertheless, unlike fashion, friendship never goes out of style. I second that anytime.
Nevertheless, unlike fashion, friendship never goes out of style. I second that anytime.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
How I Feel Right Now - tagged!!
When I surfed the net to read other blogs which have many, many visitors each day and minute, compare to my 'unknown' blog, I always see the blog owners getting tagged by their blogsphere friends. How fortunate to have people recognize YOU as the blogger other than your daily (be it professional or non stop hardworking soccer mom) life. So I fantasize to get one some day and
a few days ago or was it few weeks ago, such fantasy materialized for me.
So here's describing how I feel right now (in 6 words??) ... well maybe with lots of description next to each word.
1. Flattered - that Kim recognises me and my blog to include me as one of the 5 people she tagged. Thank you. *blushes*
2. Blessed - last night I hang out with 2 of my dearest girl friends. One is in town for a 2 weeks summer vacation from Washington DC with her 2 boys and another one is a 11 years old colleague cum shopping buddy cum neighbour cum everything else in between which although we work in the same company, we hardly see/bump into each other at work. Three of us talked, laughed, reflect, laughed again, at one point cried and talked again. Thru out our conversation, I realised I am indeed really blessed to have my family and friends.
3. Full - I had nasi lemak for breakfast, then followed by a kenduri lunch by a friend, next hubby and me drove all the way to Rawang to buy the king of fruits - durian, and I've been eating this fattening and calorie filled fruit non stop.
4. Anxious - I have this utilisation report I need to compile, so I guess this will take whole day of my working time tomorrow. I hope the server will not act up again or it will take me forever to finish the report.
5. Guilty - I 've been eyeing the treadmill since this morning but still haven't done anything that my body can be proud off instead I keep stuffing food into my mouth.
6. Bliss - It's Sunday afternoon and I 've just finish the reading the day's newspaper. I've already went thru my son's spelling homework. And tonite my family is going for dinner at my sis-in law place. Perfect to end SunDay.
So there my 6 word(s). No wonder I can't score in summary. Have a good week everyone.
a few days ago or was it few weeks ago, such fantasy materialized for me.
So here's describing how I feel right now (in 6 words??) ... well maybe with lots of description next to each word.
1. Flattered - that Kim recognises me and my blog to include me as one of the 5 people she tagged. Thank you. *blushes*
2. Blessed - last night I hang out with 2 of my dearest girl friends. One is in town for a 2 weeks summer vacation from Washington DC with her 2 boys and another one is a 11 years old colleague cum shopping buddy cum neighbour cum everything else in between which although we work in the same company, we hardly see/bump into each other at work. Three of us talked, laughed, reflect, laughed again, at one point cried and talked again. Thru out our conversation, I realised I am indeed really blessed to have my family and friends.
3. Full - I had nasi lemak for breakfast, then followed by a kenduri lunch by a friend, next hubby and me drove all the way to Rawang to buy the king of fruits - durian, and I've been eating this fattening and calorie filled fruit non stop.
4. Anxious - I have this utilisation report I need to compile, so I guess this will take whole day of my working time tomorrow. I hope the server will not act up again or it will take me forever to finish the report.
5. Guilty - I 've been eyeing the treadmill since this morning but still haven't done anything that my body can be proud off instead I keep stuffing food into my mouth.
6. Bliss - It's Sunday afternoon and I 've just finish the reading the day's newspaper. I've already went thru my son's spelling homework. And tonite my family is going for dinner at my sis-in law place. Perfect to end SunDay.
So there my 6 word(s). No wonder I can't score in summary. Have a good week everyone.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
INTJ woman like me
I’m an introvert.
I remembered coming home last week after I had this psychology test and told my husband, do you know that I’m an Introvert? And his replied was ‘isn't it obvious?’ It is???
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing or anything. But it is somehow confusing. Not only to me even my colleagues went like you are? An introvert?? Well you sure don’t look or behave like one. Which I agree. That makes it more confusing!!!
When I was in thirteen, my music teacher was explaining the zodiac signs to us. How she can accurately guess some of her students zodiacs just from their daily behavior and character. She got mine wrong. It was way far off from her character assessment of me. I told her my birth date when she refused to believe me. But you don’t act like a Leo, she said in exasperation. Listening to her at that time, I thought I had committed a big sin of not conforming to the obvious. But what she forgets or maybe didn’t acknowledge at that time was that I’m not the typical leo, which of cos is very normal.
Back to my present day assessment. In addition of being an introvert, I'm also psychologically known as an INTJ. It stands for Introvert, Intuitive, Thinking and Judging. That’s about 1-2% of the world's population and if you are a woman, the percentage is even lesser - I was told. In a room of 60 people of our managerial team, there were only three of us (one is my reporting GM) and I'm the only female. I agreed when my boss said 'we are indeed an endangered species'.
In the coalition world of creative, glamorous and famous wannabes aka my workplace, it's easy to see why Extrovert rules at least in numbers. This was the first time I really felt outnumbered but exquisite at the same time :)) I'm also quite thrilled to learn that I share the same psycho profile with famous influential names like Rudy Giuliani, Colin Powell and President John F Kennedy and not forgetting some infamous fictitious character like Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs) ... hmm what's for dinner? lol
Management had some fancy consultants to help guide and humor us during the test especially when the war between Introvert vs Extrovert became too intense but similar test can be found at Jung-Myers-Briggs personality test. Happy discovering yourself!
In an unrelated test, we were told to choose a symbol between square, octagonal, pyramid and circle. Long lectures and description were told for the other 3 symbols but for many who chose the symbol circle including yours truly - we were told that we are a bunch of people ... are you ready for this? ... people who are obsessed with the opposite sex. Full stop.
All I can say to that say is yeah baby!! ;))
I remembered coming home last week after I had this psychology test and told my husband, do you know that I’m an Introvert? And his replied was ‘isn't it obvious?’ It is???
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing or anything. But it is somehow confusing. Not only to me even my colleagues went like you are? An introvert?? Well you sure don’t look or behave like one. Which I agree. That makes it more confusing!!!
When I was in thirteen, my music teacher was explaining the zodiac signs to us. How she can accurately guess some of her students zodiacs just from their daily behavior and character. She got mine wrong. It was way far off from her character assessment of me. I told her my birth date when she refused to believe me. But you don’t act like a Leo, she said in exasperation. Listening to her at that time, I thought I had committed a big sin of not conforming to the obvious. But what she forgets or maybe didn’t acknowledge at that time was that I’m not the typical leo, which of cos is very normal.
Back to my present day assessment. In addition of being an introvert, I'm also psychologically known as an INTJ. It stands for Introvert, Intuitive, Thinking and Judging. That’s about 1-2% of the world's population and if you are a woman, the percentage is even lesser - I was told. In a room of 60 people of our managerial team, there were only three of us (one is my reporting GM) and I'm the only female. I agreed when my boss said 'we are indeed an endangered species'.
In the coalition world of creative, glamorous and famous wannabes aka my workplace, it's easy to see why Extrovert rules at least in numbers. This was the first time I really felt outnumbered but exquisite at the same time :)) I'm also quite thrilled to learn that I share the same psycho profile with famous influential names like Rudy Giuliani, Colin Powell and President John F Kennedy and not forgetting some infamous fictitious character like Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs) ... hmm what's for dinner? lol
Management had some fancy consultants to help guide and humor us during the test especially when the war between Introvert vs Extrovert became too intense but similar test can be found at Jung-Myers-Briggs personality test. Happy discovering yourself!
In an unrelated test, we were told to choose a symbol between square, octagonal, pyramid and circle. Long lectures and description were told for the other 3 symbols but for many who chose the symbol circle including yours truly - we were told that we are a bunch of people ... are you ready for this? ... people who are obsessed with the opposite sex. Full stop.
All I can say to that say is yeah baby!! ;))
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