My biological time is ticking even when I'm eating...

so, Tioman I'm coming!

*Woot woot!

Last Sunday = Ikea + The Curve + Forrest Gump.

Ikea really look like a warehouse. No, Ikea is actually a warehouse. It is indeed a beautifully decorated one.

Forrest Gump: A film character which means a lot to me. I was particularly surprised and excited to find a restaurant built based on the film and him - Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

Did a little research on Wiki. The chain of seafood restaurants is totally inspired by the 1994 film. There we went, Captain Bubba!

"Run Forrest, RUN!" - Sometimes, running isn't a bad resolve to problems.

Menu on a ping-pong bat; the action board; the costume used in the film, on the day Forrest met Jenny, and he said: "I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. She was like an angel." There are also his famous quotes painted on the walls in the restaurant.

Like the shrimps. But not really the cold cocktail type.

There's singing band outside the restaurant, down the road at The Street. They were performing the song "You're my everything". It must have been really romantic moment for two. Aha! Too bad.

Today is 发记-day. It's a tradition of almost 10 years. (More, or less? Not sure.)

发记 is like our family-trusted restaurant for normal saturday night dining, or even special event dining.

They just put on a new wall picture. 老妹 was criticizing the people in the picture, and questioning the logics behind.

It's a good point that she found out all people drawn in the picture seems like having eyes all closed, and she described them as "having meal while sleeping".

But I think maybe it's because they all have small eyes and single eyelids le. The gene of small eyes and single-eyelid runs in the family. Aha!

See, my logic is better.

T.G.I.F!

But hey, I still haven't gotten used to the idea of not working on Saturday, and not having to answer office calls after working hour.

(Which is good, I bet a lot of people would have to agree with me hah!)

They just have a new Tesco in Semenyih. It's probably the new after-work hotspots for my aunts to grab groceries.

I was having a hard time looking for muesli. I think it's relatively not easy to get it here than in Africa. It's like everywhere in African malls. Haha, I always remember the recipe of muesli + yogurt.

Today, I had lunch with colleagues at Sooka Sentral. Never realise its existence before I started working around there. But the name "Sooka" does remind me of a cartoon character name. Anyway, it's quite on a par with Mid Valley in terms of the feel. Next time maybe I should check out what's inside.

Every new staff has to go for a medical check-up.

The doctors have an issue with my eyesight. So they asked me to return with glasses for a re-check. Blah!

(But for the safe side, I've already made my glasses just now)

Doctor: "Please pull down your underwear."

Me: "..........."

*A moment of silence*

Me: "... all the way down?"

Doctor: "Yes."

Yer. Really don't feel comfortable.

I was wondering if it's really necessary.

A message popped up before me, by a very familiar yet now almost foreign nickname. Yes, Kiki the Dai Ga Jie just chatted with me on MSN.

It's been the longest time I haven't met her!

The last time was at her wedding dinner. So ever since that day I'd ask her about her baby every time I met her online. Haha!

Recently, I'm starting to miss those days. Things seem to be so nostalgic ever since I accidentally found my high school class attendance list in my closet.

Posted them up in facebook, and tagged as many ex-classmates as I could find in my list. The first comment appeared, and then followed by the next, and then the rest. More than 60 comments, as if the whole class was again in full attendance waiting to sit for the final SPM.

What a meaningful getting-together moment I've created from just a simple name list. Aha!

No money involved, no food, no planning, no scheduling or booking for a lounge, no RSVP.

Maybe that's why I always think that it's meaningless to buy souvenirs when traveling.

The best souvenir is the thing that can recall memories, but is not created for that purpose at all.

Today is my first day working in the new company.

It's so quiet in the office, and I think it must have always been like this.

I asked: "Seriously, it seems like people here don't really talk to each other. Or everybody is actually chatting using Skype just like us?"

J: "Ya. They are too busy to talk."

But then I heard people making jokes later. So it's not bad after all.

*Generation Gap? Opps.

I was told twice that I won't be having a honey moon period like a newbie.

So today I knew they really meant it. Waseh...

Jolin's 大丈夫 in her latest album 花蝴蝶：


VS

The Original Version:

Which version do you think is better?

I prefer Jolin's version because of the her jazz street dancing (as what it's called by Jolin).

I think the original version is not bad though. It's more of a 肉欲 version, so it's more biologically attractive to men? AHAHAHA! Well... well... But honestly, I find that many western pop videos are trying to convey the concept of being "hot" and "sexy" with good and probably half naked bodies and sexy dance moves. So I think most of the kids in the West have been growing up thinking they have to become hot and sexy when they are all grown up, except those kids who are going to end up becoming like the singer Enya.

It's like very superficial hor? Like there's nothing about inner beauty or something relating to unique personality.

But hey, I think Jolin is trying to be hot and sexy in the video as well.

So I guess the Hot and Sexy is the mainstream right now? Hmm.

But still, I haven't actually heard any chinese-educated friend said they want a sexy girlfriend. But instead they just want the pretty ones.

The English-educated ones, or those who have come back from overseas, however, always wish to have the sexy ones.

See. Still have the differences there.

Meet old school friends today. Had a cup of coffee, was talking, talking and talking. And went for karaoke with just one of them.

JH is no longer single! *GASP* I was surprised. Still surprised.

It's just weird to hear him saying: "Things are not about only me anymore. I have to think for 2 persons when it comes to about everything."

The one who used to sit just next to me in the class, and who I thought was quite a nerdy good student that always can make me laugh with his funny funny + weird ideas, has already found his loved one.

Suddenly I felt so left out =( Don't know why lo... hah.

Gosh. We sure have gone old. Pretty much. It's time to start expecting red booms.

By the way, PC is really good in singing. I mean really good.

Men are generally classified into a few categories:

1. the Alpha males - men who are powerful or having a high social position, e.g. the successful males, the leaders, the bosses. They generally are dominant males with good looks, leadership, authority and financially rich or stable. Often tagged as "the successful men" in the society, or "the perfect guys" that most females would like to marry.
2. the Beta males - second to Alpha males. They are the second in command after Alphas. Physical appearance, leadership, authority and financial status is lower than the Alphas, but they have the potential to replace and become Alphas.
3. the Gamma - males not classified as Alpha or Beta. In other words, the average men.

Which class are you? Hah.

Just watched the movie "Knowing". Not very interesting, but it's enough to fill your appetite if you would like to watch just a normal thriller.

The only surprise you'll get is like what Dennis said - "Normally this kind of movie will have a hero to save the world. But this one, the hero died."

So I think the hero have got to be the aliens who saved some of the humans. Ahem.

In this film, the prediction of the future comes in the form of numbers. In Heroes the popular series, it comes in the form of paintings (e.g. Isaac painted the future), and in some other films I've watched, it comes in the form of dreams -

the prediction are all in the form of either numbers or visual representation.

I'm wondering if there's other forms of prediction...

Came across these from one of the blogs i read:

Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent
Uploaded by dwarthy

See, people always "decide" what talent we "should" have by just looking at our face or physical appearance. Now Susan and Paul would teach most people a lesson. Hah!

On the other hand, I think that most people have double-standards - that is, the standard to judge our own talent, and the standard to judge other people's talents. So sometimes, when people don't recognise our talents, we tend to say things to knock their heads like "don't judge a book by its cover". But then when it's time for us to recognise other people's talents, we unconsciously judge them by their covers, thinking: nah... this old lady sure is not going anywhere with this look.

Ahem, ironic isn't it? Haha.

But, it's inevitable for human to judge by covers because that's part of our natural instincts.

People who don't judge others by appearance are those who understand that visual representation of a person might be ambiguous to own interpretation, and they will know how to adjust their mindset consciously to not having biassed thinking.

So technically, everybody judges books by covers, at least at first.

Hands up?

Seriously, can you imagine a 35-year-old ah-beng with colourful hair, selling mobile phones in a small tiny little counter in a small mall in your home town, telling you he can sing opera and hoping to become a pro opera singer??

No need to think twice - you've already got an answer in your mind before you finished the last word of the question.

But then, you'll realised there's a possibility that talented people were born in the wrong place and at the wrong time, and they were not given an opportunity, or maybe they were not even prepared for the opportunities in the past and they missed them.

So anyway, Susan and Paul are totally talented and inspiring. Their stories are good for times in our life when we were rejected, squeezed and humiliated for our dreams that seem unrealistic to others.

But I wonder...

How about those people really without talents but with dreams?

Ahem.

There's a difference between 天才 and 地才.

A New Acer Desktop for a new POS counter at aunt's hardware shop.

RM1260 for a complete desktop with 20" screen (excluding speakers) - Not bad.

Aunt May said it looks gorgeous. But I don't think so. I think I'm already used to the hardware design of Mac.

*Note: PC and Mac are almost the same - they both create problems once in awhile. It's just that Mac shows the problems in a more elegant way heh.

My own time record of putting together a desktop is around 10 minutes. Kind of slow hey?

Bla bla bla. Who am I racing with?

I ma efficient IT Technician aha.

Bought a new working bag and some shirts. Burned a hole in my wallet.

It's time for some PHP revision classes. New job starts in next week.

Happy Birthday to 老妹!

Bought a perfume for her from The Body Shop. Next time I'll buy a real branded one.

I'm back from JB. It's nice to see my old friends again :)

Thank you so much Phaye and Sc. I know it's totally hectic to organize this trip and to entertain us. Haha.

While editing the photos, I accidentally found out something really amazing about my computer -

I opened 91 photos with photoshop in one-shot, and it didn't hang!

Not very important, but still.

I say: my 5k on that computer was very wisely spent, eheh.

Arrived at KL Central. Had a cup of tea while waiting.

Ah Hock! (Sounds very "prosperous" haha)

Ah Lim, our 韩国帅哥.

Arrived Kulai in 2 and a half hour. Very fast.

Visited Phaye's house, and we headed for lunch. Me and Ah Hock were very very hungry.

(That's my unfinished chocolate. It's still in the frig right now :P)

Crispy Chicken Rice and Toufu - GOOD.

Dessert: ABC with Special ingredients. Oh my - NICE.

Left for Johore Baru right away.

That's a good thing to spend a lot of time driving because you get to learn new skill. Now Ah Lim can drive his auto car using only left leg for both brake and speed pedal. Geng.

I told him next time maybe he'll be able to use only his hands for driving. Aha.

It started raining.

Arrived in around 1 hour (? Don't really remember.) SC's house.

Phaye's.

Heading for Dinner.

It's a Orang Asli restaurant.

Very authentic.

The food was so good that I didn't want to spend time taking photos, so that's the only photo of the food that night. I was so hungry like 饿鬼.

We returned to the house and rested before heading to cinema for the movie The Fast and the Furious 4.

Surprised to see them in the mall. I thought nobody is using already.

Guess whose ones? Definitely not mine.

The next morning: Singapore.

Breakfast.

MRT, we went.

I think the name "Toa Payoh" sounds like swearing. Like Toa CB like that. AHAHA.

RED + YELLOW + GREEN. Ya, we definitely got inspired by traffic light. -__-

Esplanade. Passed by this.

Phaye should know that monk cannot get married, even if they are leng zai. hehe.

You too, Ah Hock.

City Hall?? I think I messed up the names. That's still Esplanade.

You'll be surprised by the number of passerby carrying DSLR. I still can't accept this bulky gadget. No-no. hmm.

Beauty and the Beast (Phaye said one hoho)

The Love Birds.

Our 韩国帅哥 Photographer is a pro.

Left Esplanade and out for a walk.

Don't-remember-the-name Church. A wedding was taking place.

Mei nv pose.

We spent quite some time resting at the garden.

The wind was blowing. Phaye managed to give a Marilyn Monroe's pose.

SC 暗爽. AHAHA!

Ah Hock, please stop molesting me.

韩帅.

GUESS Spring/Summer 2009 Collection.

Next destination.

Vivo City for gathering.

Lee Shi.

Mei Mei.

Dinner Time.

Wasn't a good experience. I didn't get to eat because they forgot my order. Haiz...

Self-Made 指绘.

Off to Clarke Quay.

This longkang stairs also the SG people willing to spend money to put in light bulbs. Geng.

Scary. I think if the string broken, they'll land in Sentosa. Aha.

That would be the last taken photo. We went to Karaoke the next day. And then had a little picnic at home before going back to KL.

It won't be long before we meet again :)

Can't wait for the coming Tioman Trip. Huhu~

Heading to Johor and SG in 10 hours. Yay!

Got teeth cleansed at the dental. The plaque... gosh~ It explains why my gum has been bleeding so frequently that it no longer gains the same level of attention from me as before.

So, today, once and for all. Good.

But I think the dentist really put quite an effort on my gum. She even gave me some liquid to gargle in order to so-called "fasten the recovery of my gum, to become healthy again". So I guess my gum has been quite sick. Yikes...

It's been at least 10 years since the last time I went to see a dentist, you know.

(Geng right? For someone who always skips brushing teeth at night.)

I genuinely thought seeing dentist is not something to be afraid of. But today when I heard the machine in her hand going "zi~zi~zi" like a chainsaw trying to saw a tree, suddenly the once familiar scenes in psycho flicks e.g. torturing by hitting foot's thumb with hammer or pilling off the nails from fingers, came to my mind.

And when she is "digging" my mouth - Sei lo... I was really afraid that she'll poke my gum and go straight to my brain from my mouth.

Ok la. Not that terror la. Exaggerated a little :P

But the truth is, even though the pain couldn't be totally considered as a "real" pain, the idea of some machine wandering in my mouth and around my tender flesh is just kong-pu.

What if her machine accidentally senget jor ha?

A big hole in my mouth lo. So my mouth will have 2 holes instead of one. Aha.

But seriously, don't think I wanna go anymore UNLESS it's necessary. So I think I'll be very hardworking brushing my teeth after food from now on.

Really don't like to open my mouth wide and can't properly swallow my saliva like usual. Don't really know how other people feel about it, but I think I'll get choked by my own saliva if I kept my mouth opened continuously for 10 minutes.

But intelligently enough I realised they are actually using a sucking machine to suck my saliva.

Damn that assistant dentist must be not doing her job properly that I felt like choking!

But I forgive her. It's less ridiculous than people who come for interviews without resumes!

Hah.

Good night.

p.s.: Why tooth fairy likes to collect teeth ha? Siao fairy...

I'm now sad and angry about a family problem that I can't get to solve.

And it's true that men cannot express themselves very well. So I shall go to do workout, while waiting for Friday's JB SG trip to come.

p.s.: Seriously, I'm starting to understand why people can consider their office workplace as an escape even when there are people trying to get away from there. Sigh. Problematic family.

Dad's birthday is today. We got him a new wallet.

In my previous impression, the brand Bonia is something for old people. You know, like those old aunties handbag with gold and blings. (Probably influenced by Auntie May.)

But today I totally changed my mind after visiting their store at Alamanda - the designs for men bags are indeed awesome!! I especially like the men bags for work. They are so fine, and probably affordable for me. (I haven't check the tag price, but then, I think the idea of investing in a high quality piece shouldn't go wrong here.)

Maybe I should get one before I start working.

(Toting around with a Converse sport handbag isn't really that pleasing when I'm in formal wear. Ahem.)

I always think it's difficult to buy what we really need. My thought is that shopping is only based on our own taste and instinct - that doesn't work all the time, I realised. :( So what I recently do is to tell the shopkeepers my whole situation and wait for their recommendations. To my surprise, that's a lot easier. Haha.

Shopping idiot is in the learning.

Found out about Jamiroquai from the F1 Ads on TV. He's coming to Malaysia for a concert tomorrow. Don't know who he is, so I downloaded his collection.

Starting to like his beats already...

I'm feeling the need to do exercise recently. I'm so unhealthy. Muscles are all "under-developed". And it has taken a toll on my facial skim. Huh.

Good. Dennis said start with running + push-up.

To write articles with the same topic over and over again - that is, 4 times (hence, 4 articles lo...) - is totally out of league for me.