Officially gila buku~

I am so proud of myself! I managed to walk all the way from to Amcorp Mall from where I'm staying, approximately 40 mins in total to and fro... :D and all for wat you ask~

After reading in the newspaper the number of ppl who went bright and early on the first day to grab at the books, I decided that it might be worth going to take a look.. :) and it really was worth the walk.. Eventhough it was almost ending by the time I went, there was still a steady supply of brand new books on sale (tho i suspect a lot of the bestsellers had already been grabbed cos I did see ONE book by Jeffrey Archer, which i already have which means that there should have been more previously).. for only rm8! Which is ridiculously cheap... (many ppl were buying boxes full of books O.o...)

I only got 3 tho.. on a tight budget... so 3 is considered a big haul already by my standards... :) I still cant get over how cheap they were, cos the cheapest books I have gotten so far cost me 99 pence, which is around RM6, but they were second hand, just RM2 more for brand new ones, unbelievable! I swear that I will go again next year if The Big Bad Books Sale ever comes round again :D

Judge a book by its cover??
1) Brokeback Mountain on the cover- actually contains short stories that will make interesting films, if anyone bothers to make them... @.@~

2) Patchy, naughty looking dog- a diary written from an alpha male/ inobedient dog's point of view

3) Eerie looking spindly things - Murder mystery where the crime is solved by investigating bones left at the crime scene.. This is actually part of the books that inspired the series Bones that I'm so crazy abt... :)



PS: I just finished Bad Dog's Diary, and two thumbs up~~ :) I wanna read the prequel so badly now... Time to lurk around Borders Bookstore, hehehe...

PPS: Flavour of the week is Dreamcatcher by Alexandre Desplat, track #15 of the score for New Moon~

Rendezvous at Mid Valley/ The Gardens~

Something else from 2 weeks ago... sigh... suddenly realised i'm so backdated, i can't catch up with myself... >.< Met up with my ex-roommate whom I shared a room for 4 years with.. No mean feat, considering how many friends have since become enemies after living together...

Had lunch at rak thai at Mid Valley, damn weird, like i love the place so much that i have to go everyday... haha...

I recommend their tomyam beehoon, and green curry chicken rice.. :)

(next time must remember to take pictures before we start eating.. not after a few bites have been taken.. haha)

and so we spent thewhole afternoon, chatting and chatting and walking and chatting some more, until we had to take a break...

with Lilian, who borrowed a camera just for the occassion.. :)

with Wendy~ or you could call us bulat and panjang.. hehe

All in~

I dunno why, but i like this pic very much... :)

Hear you're coming up to KL again next month gal.. Hope to see you again soon~ :) More gatherings!!!!

Air Supply-Two Less Lonely People in the World...

I dunno why but im suddenly obsessed with this song..

Two Less Lonely People in the World

I was down my dreams were wearing thin
When you're lost where do you begin
My heart always seemed to drift from day to day
Looking for the love that never came my way

Then you smiled and i reached out to you
I could tell you were lonely too
One look then it all began for you and me
The moment that we touched i knew that there would be

(chorus)
two less lonely people in the world
And it's gonna be fine
Out of all the people in the world
I just can't believe you're mine
In my life where everything was wrong
Something finally went right
Now there's two less lonely people
In the world tonight

Just to think what i might have missed
Looking back how did i exist
I dreamed, still i never thought i'd come this far
But miracles come true, i know 'cause here we are

(chorus)

Tonight i fell in love with you
And all the things i never knew
Seemed to come to me somehow
Baby, love is here and now there's

(repeat chorus)

Loneliness puts funny thoughts in your head.......

LUNA NUEVA!! :)

This has been a draft since ages ago and I have to sit my ass down and blog it right now or it'll be stale stale news pretty soon...

Finally watched a movie i'd been waiting for 6 months for on 27th Nov -- New Moon~*squeals*


For once, being kiasu is a good thing, cos I booked my ticket the week before, and lucky that I did so too, cos when I wanted to book an extra ticket for the same show the next night, guess what?! Not only was there suddenly another showing at the same time slot (that wasnt there the day before..), but both shows were too full for reservations... O.o... and I was watching at the cinema that the least ppl go to as well..

Lucky I booked early, cos I got to sit right in the centre.. Excellent view of the screen :D

Erm, my thoughts on the movie?? (that I have watched twice, btw >.<) Edward looked nicer in the first film... :) and you can see Jacob shivering in the rain if you look closely enough, hehe... My favourite scene was the one where Victoria is being chased through the woods/ Harry Clearwater has a heart attack/ cliff jumping, i think the music matched perfectly, and made me end up liking that weird song called Hearing Damage.. :) Oh and the part in the beginning with the moon turning dark was nice too..

Honestly, I still prefer the movies to the books, cos theres too much repetition and long-winded parts in the book for me to enjoy it.. Plus you get to see hunky guys with their shirts off in the movie as well... Stupid Malaysian censorship Board tho... If you wan to cut then cut it all out, if not then jus keave everything... whats the sense in cutting a bit and leaving a bit?! Makes no sense at all... and I hope parents/ girlfriends would not bring their uninterested kids/ boyfriends to watch the movie lor.. I saw one father closing his son's eyes everytime a kiss came up (the poor kid finally fell asleep in the end) and lots of guys aking up when the end credits came up and asking their other halves "apa ending?" sigh...

My opinion is that its half good half bad.. some of the dialogue was pretty tedious but some of the scenes looked really nice... so if you're a fan, go watch it or you'll regret, but if you're not, then you're better off watching something else instead of watching then complaining afterwards... :P

with Lilian~

Oh and first time I've been to a 'snowing session' with really fake bubbly/ foamy snow, hahahaha....



I have fallen in love with O' Briens sandwiches on my first try.. Really damn yummy :) and the service is very good as well... or maybe cos there weren't many customers *shrugs* I dunno~

Chicken Triple-decker :)

Crambo Club Shambo (Shambo is the funny bread shaped like an alien spaceship... :D)

Anyways, I wouldnt mind going to O'briens at The Curve again... :):):)

Re: Tricor Staff Party - 20 November 2009

Pardon the title.. Since this is a job related post, i thought it would be cute to do it the way we type emails at work :) Anyways, i'm sorry to say that the stuff in this post happened more than a week ago.. what to do.. lazy + busy recently :P

I consider myself pretty lucky that got to attend a staff party so soon after starting work.. I remember when i was an intern, i also got to go to their annual dinner even though i was just there for 3 mths.. hehe.. In actual fact, this stupid staff party was giving me headaches way before it was due to happen.. The reason being that it was a themed party, and of all themes?! Masquerade >.< already broke lah, still need to spend money to get a mask.. nice ones aren't that cheap as well.. luckily i managed to find an ingenious way to solve my problem.. and my kind roommate lent me her shoes, since i didnt bring my own up to KL so didnt have to buy.. :)

before leaving the office..

In the end i decided to get those party pack ones and modified it myself, and it only cost abt half of wha normal masks cost :D The workday ended at 4pm so that ppl could get ready for the party, for the pageant contestants, they could leave at 3pm.. but that day of all days, one of our stupid clients had to make an announcement to Bursa, so i still stayed till after 5pm, sigh~ fully utilised my time tho, went window shopping before changing and had ample time left to saunter over to Boulevard Hotel just across the road...

Buffet dinner at Wild Rice Restauant~

Before going in.. i felt so hot wearing the mask >.< With Esmei and Vi Dea~

Phone camera can't show the nice interior properly :(

Everyone got one of those cute wobbly clips as a doorgift.. My frog is now staying at my place in the office :)

The agenda was simple, CEO made a speech, everyone had fun with a treasure hunt game where we had to find pieces of paper hidden under our chairs to form the name of the company, karaoke/ dinner time, pageant, best mask awards and everyone's favourite, the lucky draw~

our CEO on stage~


All the pretty ladies~

Contestants from the male category of the pageant~ spot batman?

this guy went all out with his outfit... but too bad he still didnt win.. our hero, batman won instead...

Guess which one i got?

Very sad to say that i didnt get the grand prize of RM1000 cash, or the other stuff i was interested in, like the isetan or jusco shopping vouchers and the 3D2N trip to langkawi.. Missed out on the bbq section of the buffet as well, felt full after only 3 rounds, which is so unlike me.. haha..

Picture time:

With big boss, mr yeoh who sponsored the grand prize, a bewildered foreigner, my colleague who was one of the pageant contestants, our next head of the co sec dept, ms annie wong and my manager..

With another of my groupmates, Kim and Aunty from the pantry in her crazy mask~~

with Azlin, another groupmember..

with Esmei and See Mun.. yet another groupmember..

With Eris from HR...

Just a thought.. I dunno why i felt so much more exposed in my dress this time round compared to when i wore it in Liverpool... cos its Malaysia and we're supposed to be more modest here?? hmm.... or maybe my dress just got loose in the wash... @.@~

Lucky number 21~

and taadaa... i got an aunty prize... >.<>

All in all, a pretty fun night even though i was quite reluctant to go at first, even considered asking other ppl to go as me, since they wouldnt be recognised in a mask anyway... :P

Year end sales... I'm coming~

M-YES! or Malaysian Year End Sales is here.. yay! need to stock up on wardrobe essentials... :) Some pics from last week where i went queuing up to get a goodie bag from Robinsons..

The queue was so long we were at the middle of the floor , behind us the line stretched past Coach and almost to Isetan at the other end.. Interestingly, there were many many uncles there, not only aunties go for free stuff :)

They should pay me for advertising @.@

'goodies' in the bag, mug, pen, notpad, hahaha... better than nothing since it was free anyway~

I really really miss my camera.. pictures taken with a phone just can't compare... (darling, mummy's coming to get you soon...) Although my phone's camera did good on the pics below.. :)

view of where i'm staying from the bus stop~

I missed 4 buses yesterday cos of the stupid policemen who conducted traffic in such a way that pedestrians couldn't cross the road.. had to watch my buses zoom pass right before my eyes on the opposite side.. how sad...

cute kitty that i think is owned by the security guards here, fat and cuddly and has a collar...

Blogging sucks without a camera.. waiting for pics from the gathering last fri, the scrapbook pages, the meeting with my ex-roommate and my company's annual dinner... Boohoo...

Anticlimax~

Attended my very first Board meeting today, not as a participant but more like a tag-along.. :S to think i was so nervous, it actually turned out to be absolutely anticlimatic..

First of all, after rushing like mad through the rain and the crowded roads to get to the meeting place, we found out that the time had been changed from 3pm to 3.30 :S Discussions finally began with the directors all munching on pisang goreng... What was even more maddening was that after we expected to be able to finish and go home early, the Chairman insisted on making an announcement to Bursa even after my manager explained to him that it was unnecessary, so we had to rush all the way back to the office to make it in time and prepare everything for the announcement to be made before the day ended..

Got to rack my brains tomorrow while i prepare the minutes.. Cos it was a last minute meeting, and we couldnt get recorders at the last minute, had to write down everything by hand.. Going to spend most of the morning deciphering my manager's notes as well as figuring out what the hell i wrote down myself :*

My next meeting better be more up to expectations~ hahaha...

Summary?? 8/11-14/11/2009

New Flavour of the week to set the mood for the event i am waiting for at the end of the month... hehehe... Alexandre Desplat- The Meadow~

A summary of the past week:

- Stayed back till 7pm for abt 3 days to help with a scrapbook for a director who is retiring in Dec.. Each group was given 5 pages and told to decorate them to be joined together into a scrapbook.. Lots of cutting and pasting and people laughing at my inability to draw straight lines >.<

-Finally got an EPF account! So great that i could legitimately skive off during work to go to the kwsp branch in PJ, driver included as well :)

-Met up with the Gang!!! Woohoo.. we should all make an effort to meet up more often.. I am super free during weekends I must add... :P

-Went to a Robinson's Members' Day for the first time.. The queue reached the Coach outlet at The Gardens O.o.. Lots of kiasu uncles there as well, and all for wat?! A goodie bad wit a mug, a pen anda notepad.. hahaha.. Guess who i went with?! The director and senior manager of my group no less.. So funny...

-Finally have a decision abt my CIMB-MAICSA direct access platinum card.. Be patient, I am coming to get you! Teehee~

-Oh, and I missed my own Advanced Diploma convocation.. Planned to go look-see, look-see at first, but in the end decided it would be a little too weird to watch my classmates in their caps and gowns as a spectator... Will go for my degree and external paper ones, enough for me lah..

Next week is coming fast, got a meeting with Wendy to look forward to, an extraordinary general meeting to attend and a masquerade staff prty/ annual dinner (that i forsee will be torturous for me) to go to... Wish me luck~~

Watching a movie alone~~

Looking forward to many more 'firsts' in my life... Can cross one off the list now tho-- watching a movie in the cinema by myself~ :) So proud of myself that I didnt feel pathetic or lonely, and I really enjoyed the movie very much! The cinema did feel a little too cold tho..

Watched Law Abiding Citizen last Wednesday (cheap tix at GSC :P) Nobody i asked wanted to watch this not very blockbuster movie when there're so many other choices recently and I'd really really wanted to watch this very much ever since I saw the awesome trailer some time ago..

Its basically abt a guy called Clyde whose wife and daughter are killed during a break-in at his home, and when the justice system did not provide the proper punishment to the killer and his accomplice, he decides to take the matter in his own hands by murdering them himself.. The way he kills them is damn smart but quite horrifying at the same time, imagine being cut into pieces while still alive?! >.<

Then, what is even more interesting is that he manages to keep killing government officials who were involved in the sentencing of the 2 criminals while he is actually locked up in jail! Watch it just to marvel at the clever ways that people can be murdered.. O.o~ haha.. but the whole movie is super exciting, I felt so kan cheong throughout... Must watch! Plus I think I lke Gerard Butler (from the movie 300) even more now.. I was wondering how he would be able to show off his muscles in this movie, but don't worry, there is a scene where he is half naked, hehehe.. and is well worth the anticipation... *giggle*

Check out the trailer~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMoP35u8oN0

All in all a nice experience, but i'm pretty sure the next time i watch a movie, i'm going to go with someone else besides myself :)

1U Adventure~

After lamenting the whole day about having nothing to do on Halloween, Lilian came and saved the day~ :) but not before some drama at One Utama's parking lot, where we locked ourselves out of the car.. wasted a whole hour in the hot carpark before we managed to save ourselves and finally get some air conditioned comfort.. haha..

Dinner at Penang Flavours...

Suddenly fallen in love with asam laksa, i never used to like it before, weird...

After dinner, we went to check out the actual reason we went to 1u in the first place:

Oktoberfest! Which if you didnt know, is an annual beer festival in Germany~ which is something rare in Malaysia, cos it allows alcohol consumption in a public place.. >.< only people above the age of 18 and non-muslims were allowed to enter the enclosed area.. Foreigners will think we are real weird..

Ok, the main reason we even ventured there was cos OneCard members could redeem free beer at RM1, which is even cheaper than in UK.. hehe... unfortunately we had to use 50sen coins, so since we only had 2 coins between us, we only got one bottle.. not a bad thing actually, cos the Löwenbräu beer wasn't that nice.. a bit bitter.. :S



There were games and performances, but still a very subdued event, made even worse by the rain... We only stayed till 11pm cos it got kind of boring after awhile..

The emcee and his games stand~

Tiny stage in front~

Not very well known local band with scary make-up... :S
Just found out they have their own wiki page, wow~
Dragon Red so i shall change it to just 'band I don't know' :D

After listening to the band mumbling their songs for awhile, we decided to go back home.. and thus my trip to 1U ended in just 3 hours.. hahahha... better than nothing lah~