Fridge magnet episode

Kak Long, my eldest sis-in law went to Cairo, Egypt and as usual when she goes anywhere she never forgets to get us the siblings (and me the out law :p) souvenirs. I said I wanted King Tut's fridge magnet. And this pharaohs one almost close to one. Isn't this cool? I like...Oooh I'm so happy to add it onto my 'fridge' collection:)
My youngest sis in law collects Star Buck's city mugs which display the city's name on it. Oh wow, it's the first time I've seen it. Kinda like the Hard Rock Cafe's t-shirt or merchandise. Quite expensive thou'. Anyways I'm very much contented with my magnet. Thanx K.Long.

This Guy's In Love with you - Faith No More

Okay as promised few days back, here's the cover version of the original song by Herb Alpert, which in my humble opinion 'really not bad at all'. In fact, Mike Patton's voice was awesome. And mind you this was perfomed LIVE! Cool.

ps/ I was watching the movie 'Failure to Launch' starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey last night and this song was in it, what a coincident!

Crab rassam, mutton and banana leaf rice

Last Wednesday, my colleagues and I took Cristina out for lunch at a banana leaf rice shop in PJ. This is one of the most authentic shop I know or have been introduced to. It is not a posh place but food is awesome. The eatery is actually an old bungalow which half of it has been converted to a shop. We reached there at 1:00pm and the outer session of the shop was already occupied with diners. The shop's speciality is crab rassam. It is really out of this world! It was quite spicy even for some of us (me particularly) but Cristina loved it. We also had mutton curry - delicious!! Some of my colleagues took ponni rice (non carbohydrate rice). Even our plain water which was served in metal cups had some herbs in it. How authentic is that? Our expat friend surprised us by displaying her knowledge on how to properly wrap the banana leaf 'plate' after her meal. Needless to say, we found it very difficult to concentrate in the office after our hearty meal.

Cristina will be flying off to London tomorrow.

I can't sleep

It’s 4 o’clock in the morning and I can’t sleep.

The stress of making sure the training I’m organizing and attending at the same time is finally taken its toll. For the past 2 days, I’ve done nothing else but scrutinizing our scheduling software with the consultant from London searching for solutions and cleaning up messes in the data management. Everything must be completed or at least I must get the know–how by Friday (bcos that’s the last day she’ll be here). And I have this sickening feeling that time is not on our side. On top of that, I still have to go thru all these work related emails and the last time I checked there were about 179 still un-cleared in my inbox.

I reached home from work at 8:30pm just now. Fell asleep at 10:15pm and at about 0320am was wide awake. No amount of make believe dream can lure me back to sleep. I usually try to think of something good to dream about before I fall asleep, not that it help me to dream a good dream bcos I hardly do nor fall asleep for that matter but it’s just something which I normally do. Am I making any sense here? Excuse me but I guess this is what happen when insomnia kicks in (I think). So that is when I decided to go into the ‘net’ instead. Alas, my internet connection is down (just my luck *sigh*).
Oh well, I’m writing this in Microsoft Word to be paste in the blog later. Meaning this can only be posted tonight.

Maybe this is all but a dream or worse … I could be sleep walking!!! Ha! Ha!
Okay I’m gonna try the internet connection again and sleep trying.
For everybody else out there (depending where you are on the globe)... have a good night sleep and rest.

This Guy's In Love with You -Herb Alpert

I heard this song when visiting sophie's blog .
Oooohh..it brings back childhood memory when my uncle use to play Herb Alpert at his house. Thou back then, I was too young to know who he was. But how I adore this one. It's the kinda of song which I like to hear on rainy weekend morning, while sipping tea or coffee for that matter. *sigh* Heaven!

I also found a modern remake of it which I will post later to compare. But until then, hope you enjoy this one.
It is still 4 days away from weekend...

Rain on me

This event happened a few weekends ago. Believe it or not but I'm a fan of Rain (yeah at this age!!). There you go, my confession - I'm out of the closet. Ha! Ha! My other blog, which was created much earlier compare to this current blog can testify to that! But to be honest, nowadays I already toned down and more calmer. More or less come to my senses and behaving like a normal fan and not a fanatic anymore. Much to the relieve of my colleagues and people around me.
Anyways, the said party was to celebrate Rain Msia (MJJH) 2nd birthday. And I'm happy to share that I'm not alone (even at this age) to be crazy over Rain. We are like one big happy family there in MJJH. We intially met in the internet forum and the young girls actually help me to navigate my way around the 'net' world. So I learned and we bonded. Thru Rain Msia, we had many small gatherings like this one.

Sarangheyo Rain ^__^

another work excuse

I'm so out of touch with blogging. Can hardly allocate time to do so. In addition, the network was down since yesterday, so there was nothing much I could do.

I really miss blogging. Usually I blog at night on weekdays. But for the past few days I was so tired that I felt asleep just after 10pm. There was one time, I felt asleep while my boys were still jumping on the same bed next to me.

Starting tomorrow, I'll be involve in a 5 days training which I have been organising since 4 months ago. After that, hopefully my work pace will slow down a bit.

I feel bad for the boys bcos it is school holiday and we don't actually have a plan to go for any holiday. I still have 15 days of leave still due for the year. I can only carry forward 5 days to 2008, meaning I have another 10 days to kill or it will be waste. I don't consider myself a workaholic but there are just too many stuffs to be settle. Okay, I'll stop whinning now!