saya ada isu dengan facebook. saya merasakan ia tidak berguna kerana komputer riba saya sering tergantung tidak bertali apabila saya membukanya. tetapi pada hari ini, saya dengan penuh semangat waja, telahpun membuat sebuah kuiz yang menawarkan hadiah bagi sesiapa yang boleh menjawab kesemua soalan yang saya berikan.

berikut adalah soalan--soalann saya (yang saya fikirkan dari waktu petang dan ambil masa setengah jam untuk siapkan)

1) Saya paling suka lagu?
a) saya anak malaysia - dr sam (tak bole blah ni. padahal last dgr semasa masih naif)
b) just the way you are - billy joel (lagu thn 1985)
c) flowers in the window - travis (video clip agak ngeri)
d) if you don't want to love me - james morrison 9mcm bese, peberet artist)
e) geek in the pink - jason mraz (encik mraz pun saye sayang)

2) Buku kegemaran saya bertajuk
a) ranjau sepanjang jalan - shahnon ahmad (sedih oke. tp hilang g mane tah buku tu)
b) BFG - roald dahl (i know i know, buku bdk kecik)
c) where the rainbows end - cecilia ahern (sweet sgt-sgt)
d) salina - a samad said
e) Introduction to Physics - Giancoli

3) Apabila saya makan pizza, saya paling suka habiskan
a) nenas ( ke nanas?)
b) sup
c) olive
d) timun
e) pizza crust

4) Saya akan mengatakan ini jika boipren saya adalah jason wade, lifehouse (ni ala-ala soalan bonus gak ni)
a) 'you cannot sing to anyone anymore'
b) 'you are not permitted to sing anymore as of now'
c) nothing. too mesmerized
d) 'you cannot speak, you are only permitted to sing'
e) all of the above

5) Mood saya paling buruk pada waktu?
a) waktu berbuka puasa
b) waktu asar
c) 11.39 malam
d) tengahari
e) pagi

6) Ini adalah impian saya (ni pun ada baiknye saya kasi jwpn terus)
a) pergi ke Champs-Elysse, France
b) menaiki keretapi Trans-Siberia
c) mempunyai perpustakaan peribadi sendiri
d) bercuti ke Necker Island
e) semua sekali sebab saya tamak haloba

7) Jika anda mahu saya gembira, anda cuma perlu beri saya makanan ini ... (dgn jayanya menyembunyikan mknan kegemaran sendiri dr rakan-taulan)
a) Prozac
b) seketul ayam goreng berjenama KFC
c) caviar (ha-ha)
d) kentang goreng
e) twisties perisa BBQ

8) Jenis sukan kegemaran saya adalah
a) berenang (kalo nak buat skang, dlm sinki je la jwbnye)
b) window shopping (bole bakar kalori juga oke)
c) kuak lentang atas katil
d) cari duit dalam tepung
e) berjalan-jalan di tgh remang senja

9) Saya tidak percaya pada kewujudan
a) santa claus
b) kebolehan psikik
c) leprechaun
d) piring terbang
e) hantu

10) Saya mempunyai darah (ni soalan saje tanak org menang hadiah. ha-ha)
a) A
b) B
c) AB
d) O
e) raja

so, i had lots of fun today and again i had that naan. and fries. ahh..the taste of it. and i'm positively tired tho. and can't wait for july.

i am unstoppable when it comes to books
i know perfectly well that i shouldn't be buying the 'Queen of Babble' from Meg Cabot buy no!
i was unstoppable when it comes to books
i was bored and i figured i havne' got the new readers digest
so i walked confidently into a bookstore, with the wishful thinking that i will not buy any books
but i just can;t
and the purchase i made on the book is not those of buy 3 books for 2 or something
it's for the hwole price

ouh and of course i'm fully aware that i have 20 or so books to read
the reason for the increase in number was when i realized that i haven't finished the books i bought back in 2007"
so, i have to finish this one book and the rest of the books to

and you know what?
pay less books is having another clearance sale in july
and this is not good news because before i know it
"i will be marching confidently to the book sale and buying God-knows what
urgh
somebody please tie my arms from picking any books

on another note
i had fun seeing old friends
and talking to old friends
:D

it's the teen angst thingy
ouh yeah
i know
you are free to drool all over the table now

i know i can't see it but i'm positive that my heart has just been trampled by a herd of bulls
and after trampling all over my heart
they threw i in the pond where a huge alligator lives and the alligator chews on it merrily
yes, that's how much it hurts
and why do i get this feeling that the example is inappropriate

'it's just another heartbreak. you'll get better'
right. please get in my shoes. then talk
'you'll be oke. you are given three days to cry over it'
can i take three years?

God
i miss jolie and pitt!!!

my feelings are so jumbled up
i don't know what to do
it's like..it's coming coming coming!
i just could not let go when i really actually want to

you know it's not healthy when you keep comparing what you have with someone to the other person
it's not healthy
but what can i do?
i don't know
i feel like shouting at that person's face 'of course you can't have what we have with other people. every single friendship is unique'
maybe that is the very reason why i become more and more emotional
because you are a no-no yet you keep coming back
it's like my number is on your speed dial

and then i hear yu repeat what i said to you 5 months ago
omg
that is like so dejavu and scary because
you are on my 'No-No' list

i don't know
do you really think each and every relationship will be like this?
the moment you refuse to make it more complicated
the other party will be more than happy to make things complicated
saying 'something is holding me back'
something? something?
it doesn't make it any better when you keep saying 'what wee have is bla bla bla'

no, no
that's not okay
omg seriously
was it the drugs that makes me feel like this?

Riding the recession the shopaholic way

The title explains itself. Shopaholic. Addiction to shopping. And during this dire times, the thought of parting money may not be that appealing to shopaholic.

But sometimes people don’t understand us. Spending money makes us happy, makes us walk on air but what do they know? They don’t understand that our obsession is therapy, our yoga, pilates, meditation and how we socialize.

I understand the difficulty of having to keep the purse to oneself when one is constantly being reminded to ‘save’, ‘careful with the money’, ‘buy what we need’ and so on and so forth. And there is the answer to end all shopaholic miseries. Buy what we need.

Admit it, we need food. Without food, we can’t exist (but careful not to turn it around to we exist because of food). If usually we are more comfortable with buying shoes and clothes, maybe it’s time to change our shopping habits. And believe me, mom will be happy with the change too.

Secret is? Buy groceries instead. Take it as another form of choosing for clothes. It offers us with much more choices in multiple colour and sizes, we will find ourselves dizzy having to make the decision. And there were endless shelves of such products and they can extend to luxury brands too. The economical brand for soap will be along Lux and Johnson&Johnson, luxury will be Crabtree & Evelyn (kindly correct me if this is wrong).

Need to buy something? Pick up the cooking oil. Need something healthy and green? Pick the organic products. Need to buy something and also donate? Pick something from TLC, a Malaysian company that will also contribute their income to those in need.

See? The possibilities are endless. Just don’t stop at cooking oil because you can really help your mum with other things like fridge deodorant (or something), biscuits (I love McTivities), fruits, healthy snacks (can’t get enough of baby carrot), shampoo, toothbrush (I have this addiction of walking up and down the shelf just to see how advanced they have become) and so on. See? You‘ll need it sometime so it’s like insurance. And mum or anyone may not say anything much because it’s groceries, it’s essential.

So, have fun tiding the recession waves. The chip demand in Singapore is increasing and this may be the sign of recovery. Manufacturing industry will be hit the hardest during the recession to chip demand = manufacturing demand. See the connection?

OK. Got to get ready for a brand new day. Have a nice day people!

Who ate my tuna bun?

No, that was me trying to mislead you people. And I know one person will be mad at me and say ‘Can you stop being an elephant (as in remembering all things that happened. Bwahaha!) What I want to say is…I love being a Malaysian.

No, honey. This is not sarcasm. And no buddy, no political remarks or reviews here. I’m bored to death about it. Sorry to burst your dream bubbles so early.

I have no idea how many languages there are in Malaysia and mind you, this is just based on me staying in KL, not moving to other parts of the beautiful country. Some of us speak Bahasa Melayu, English, Chinese and Tamil. And in my honest opinion, there are other languages being spoken too. Please, if you may so kind to remind me, do jot down the other languages we speak apart from dialects. But what strikes me the most was, despite out differences, our inability to pronounce certain words in a correct way, (I have trouble saying inferiority complex for example. I will say it inferity cornflakes) we will always find a common ground to speak in one language.

For example, a friend of mine has this language barrier with his grandparents. He is a Chinese but he didn’t speak Cantonese or Mandarin. He speaks English at home and Bahasa Melayu. And in order to communicate with his grandparents, he uses Bahasa Melayu because that is the only language that they can understand.

Isn’t that great? Despite our differences, we will always be able to settle on a common ground.

I love kedai mamak. Speaking from experience, one of the places that I can agree with when having several people of different races, background and sanity levels (I’m not kidding) is mamak stall. It’s like this universal place where everyone can sit and eat and drink. I’m not saying that we can’t dine in places like KFC but we just had to bond over a glass of teh tarik or something.

Bless the mamak stalls in Malaysia. Now I’m craving for a tall glass of the tarik. Gackt!

And the most important thing…Malaysians love food! It’s amazing how people can go on and on about food while having food in their mouth. Ok maybe it was just me and my colleagues. There will always be free food every week that I think my work hazard has to do with expansion of the waist line.

Never mind. Will start buying them cholesterol-laden food so they will be the ones who are bulging with food. If I can’t be thin, they have to be fat right?

OK then. Enough fooling around. Get back to work. Yes, yours truly is working on weekends. So tade life.

Boys will always be boys and of course, girls will always be girls.

Too often we see girls cry at playgrounds when they play with the boys. OK maybe that was during my time because nowadays kids are usually confined in their room with their PS2, PSP and what not. I’m not sure on the latter because I made that up. But back in those days, girls cry a lot when boys were in the playground. Sometimes, it was because the boys are big bullies and we know of their reputation. Most of the times, the boys were our friends but still we cry.

Why? They tend to get physical. A pat on the back is nice. A shove into the drain is not generous. And the attempt to trip someone is of course, calling for war.

But that’s it. Boys will never get it. Boys will never understand that while we may try to rough up, actually we hate being pushed, shoved or boxed. It hurts. And getting someone hurt is not the best way to make friendship.

That was why girls have the tendency to resort to games like jongkang-jongket and waited patiently for the swing to be empty because we are not rough and our ideal way of playing does not involve physical contacts (which are of course, almost to the brink of violence). It was just not us. Boys tend to punch their buddies a lot because they enjoy it. Girls don’t do that just because we don’t. We don’t understand why you have to get physical (again, almost to the brink of violence) and please, we don’t need it anyways. Girls are gentle creature, in case you haven’t noticed from all the domestic violence posters.

When I was a kid, I never had the chance of mingling with the boys. I was grounded since I was small (and still have curfew until now). I was never the receiving end of the multiple shoves and pushes and thank God for that. But as of recent, I have finally understood why girls cry a lot when they were playing games with boys.

Because men, boys, guys, they tend to get physical; unaware of their own strength. Sometimes your playfulness are equivalent to a little lion cub (imagine those sharp teeth and claws). It’s like going on a scuba diving lesson with a shark, like going hunting with a panther, like trying to walk through a shopping mall with lots of SALES sign with a shopaholic. Ok that one does not apply.

Well in a nutshell, boys will always be boys. Their idea of fun will never change from kindergarten up to their 30th year on earth. Their playfulness will never cease to be dangerous. And girls will always be girls. We will always feel hurt and confused by the shoves and pushes.

Point in writing this: I was just bored. I was confined in the room working. I need therapy like writing. But do share with us your experience. It might be of handy.

I don’t believe that Malaysia does not have 4 seasons. We have musim banjir, musim tengkujuh, musim kemarau and pilihranraya (it’s sound so much crude when you use Bahasa instead of English). And now, we have kemarau. Its scorching hot and I felt like melting once I stepped outside of my building. Wait. That may not be due to heat. Maybe I am a vampire.

OK kidding.

Its imperative for us to save water at this moment. So, here are some things that you might want to do during this season.

1. Cut your frequency of talking. Save your saliva.
2. Move less because movement will create sweat and you’ll lose water in your body. Then you’ll have to consume water and do you realize that our dams are short of water at this time because there is no rain? See my point?
3. Cut your bathing frequency from twice to once during weekends. I realize its not logical to do so during weekdays if you are working.
4. Instead of using the bath tub, use shower. Maximum 3 minutes. Soap yourself, brush your teeth and wash your face at the same time. And tell us if you are able too because frankly, I’ve never tried it. Can’t wait to hear the result.
5. As I said before, we might want to cut on the water intake because everyone are short on water. Hence, cut your movements too. If usually you drink water and stop at the pantry, read an article or two and then walk to your friend's table for a chat, cut it all. Email you friends. It’s much more convenient that way.
6. If you always walk to the toilet located in other floors because you want to stretch your legs, stop doing it. Go to the one on the same floor. You can’t possibly gain weight in this global sauna. Ouh wait, that was me going to the 14th floor toilet. Thi hi hi. Cancel that
7. Thinking makes us tired. When we are tired, we drink. So, stop thinking.
8. Eat things with high water content. Meaning: let’s ditch all our diet and eat ice cream because the ice will melt in our mouths and there you go! Water.
9. Spend as much time possible in a building with air condition. Better still if the temperature can be mimicked similar to the North Pole.
10. Get yourself hypnotized. Make believe (until you believe that there is no heat).

So there you are! Ten simple, do-able steps. So have fun trying people and save the water.

Crap, they say the heat will stay until September 2009.

breakfast is the most important meal of the day because it gets you started. skipping breakfast is not the best or ideal way to start a day, albeit you are a worker, employer or who sits idly in the house (read: grape planter. mcm wujud la kan term tu).

Everyone's diet is different. If we live in Singapore, the choice off food for breakfast may be different, in China another thing, India another meal will be eaten during breakfast (and I'm thinking about capati. darn).

Nevertheless, it is best to consume high energy meal during the start of the day. Preferably, I would not like to eat something with oily content like curry puff or nasi lemak. OK once in a while is acceptable like twice a week but not every single day. I would not like to slump on the table in front of me, especially during weekdays. I usually opt for something with high wheat content like wholegrain sandwich. Not usually, I can say almost every day with some exceptions on days i feel like eating pulut kuning. Yes, I had pulut kuning for breakfast. Pulut kuning and rendang daging. marvellous.

Why do I have the feeling that this entry has turned into some information-laden-wannabe kind of entry? Point being is, I don't usually take the food made from home because usually it consist of oily food. Of course, with the exception of curry puff and roti sardin (which is actually oily but hell, it was so good, i almost cried). And i can actually see the expansion of my waistline so I prefer those while wholegrain in the morning. I don't hate your cooking grandma, I just HAVE TO resort to other food.

ok dengan beria sekali menulis blog ini dengan harapan nenek atau atuk akan membacanya ke?

But before I forgot, Happy Mother's Day nenek and emak. Thank you for everything.

I have too much time in my hands

Need proofs? I have been thinking about useless things and things that really do not need noticing

1. Why does boy bands and girlbands (do you even have that term?) have a lot of members
My theory: because they can’t really sing. Having a lot of members means that they will have one who can sing fairly good, not really good, horrible or can’t sing at all. Hence, if the lead singer can’t really sing, the terrible singing quality of the other members will make the singer end up looking like he or she can sing quite good.

2. Continuation of the above question
My theory: there will be one or two seriously good looking or hot member(s). These good looking ones will be the one who will attract the buyers.

3. As kids have the tendency to change their name to some trendy nicks to be used online, I will be naming my kid D4ni37 as in Daniel. So, he would not have to change his name online. He only needs to use the given name as a nickname.

And I will be naming my daughter Thoraya but of course it will be pronounced as Suraya. It’s just that I changed the spelling of my name to look a bit unique online. So I am actually doing her a favour.

I hear someone say ‘Have mercy on your unborn child’ but I’m just trying help this little guy and girl.

O boy. My kids will be beaten to pulp in the playground. They will even have to turn into bullies to defend themselves.

4. I hereby conclude that free food at the office does not count as calories. The free foods in the office (namely cakes, biscuits, chocolates (from Dubai T_T) , butter cakes, sesame buns etc) are nothing. They are free food and do not contribute to the expansion of the waistline.

See? I have too much time in my hand. Why do I even bother thinking about all these stuff, I seriously have no idea. I have nothing else to do, apparently. And my brain has this ability to think multiple stuff when I was busy doing work at the office.

Bukan yang kita jangka

‘Ye kak. Nak minum ape?’ pelayan itu bertanya ramah-tamah. ‘Eh, sorang je?,’ pelayan lelaki berambut perang bertanya lagi setelah menyedari siapa aku. Pastilah susah untuk melupakan wajah ini yang hampir setiap hari duduk di sini menikmati sarapan pagi.

Mata kau dah kenape? Tak nampak ke kedai makan ko ni penuh dengan orang? Aku datang dengan diaorang la sebenarnya. Saja aku duduk sorang-sorang kat meja ni. Salah ke?

Malang sebab itu cuma bisikan hati aku sahaja. Tak terluah dek mulut aku

Aku senyum. ‘Biasa,’ sambil tangan dengan pantas membuka suratkhabar yang sebenarnya lebih layak untuk aku buat alas tempat duduk sahaja.

Aku arif benar dengan maksud soalan tersebut, faham dia ingin bertanya tentang apa. Aku cuma tidak mampu berhadapan dengan soalan Si Rambut Perang tentang Hafiz. Aku tidak punya tenaga untuk bersoal-jawab dengan sesiapapun tentang di mana Hafiz. Di mana teman lelaki aku yang selalu aku usung ke sana ke mari.

Mungkin sebab itulah emak berpesan supaya jangan asyik masyuk bercinta. Sebenarnya, ayat emak berbunyi begini:

‘Ha, masuk yunibersiti tu jangan mengada-ngada nak berboipren-boipren. Habiskan belajar dulu. Karang boo! sana boo! sini dengan boipren. Lepas tu tak habis belajar. Satu hape pun tak jadi.

Sibuk sangat bercinta sampai lupa dunia, mak bapak, adik-beradik. Ingat sikit, kamu tu perempuan. Ape-ape jadi nanti susah. Sayang ke orang ni berpada-pada. Biar dia sayang kita lebih, jangan kita sibuk nak bergolok-gadai sebab dia. Nanti jadi apa-apa, kite yang susah.

Fokus ceramah selalunya berubah-ubah. Kadangkala ia akan lebih kepada aku. Kemudian, ia beralih pula kepada kita. Kadang-kadang emak juga berusaha untuk memberi fokus kepada pemanasan global.

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I’ve been having this feeling of becoming an android because I have resorted to placing things into my eyes. I know I know, I was slow on the uptake of contact lenses. I thought I would not be wearing it anymore after ditching them nearly eight years ago. Wow, that’s a really long time.

So my astigmatism has increased. Doubled in fact. It has been hindering my eyesight for quite sometime but I always had a good reason of not going to the optometrist. I’m busy, I want to get home early, I’m too hungry-so-I-went-for-dinner-and-the-store-is-closed-when-I’m-done and global warming. OK, that last part was really a pathetic excuse.

So I went up to check my eyes and I really have to embrace myself because I have long realized that my eyesight was failing. I just don’t want to go and check it, that’s why. Furthermore, the spectacles I’ve been wearing was one from four years ago or so.

As a result, I had my very first Toric lenses. Darn, I hate having to struggle to put the lenses in my eyes, especially the right eye. Grr!

But it does actually feel better. I mean, I don’t have to deal with the empty spaces when I’m wearing glasses. It makes me feel better. But of course I had to be really careful in terms of taking care of the lenses. Well, it is something to be placed inside the eyes and stay there for at least eight hours. So, I have to be really careful. Dirty hands are a big no-no and nails had to be kept clean (looks at the nails and make a mental note to go cut it after coming back from the movies).

Ok, got to get ready.

On another note: saw Conan yesterday. Yey!