Mind your own language

Sitting here alone in my office, listening to my colleagues talking…suddenly a thought popped into my head.

Through their conversation, I unconsciously picked up some discreet hidden agenda. The more I listen to it, the more prominent these hidden agenda stare right back at me.

I am sure it is not intentionally made. Perhaps they just think this is really funny and all, but somehow, I find it rather insensitive rather than funny.

So what do you think I’ve picked up indirectly?

Language.

Truth to be told, most of my colleagues hailed from Chinese education background. Except yours truly. And someone else.

Recently, I’ve heard quite a lot of remarks and jokes aimed at the “somebody” over his language handicap. How they made fun of him and how he might screw up due to improper usage of Chinese words that may be interpreted wrongly and offend potential customers.

Thing is, “somebody” will be going to a place filled with Chinese community and our colleagues here were making jokes over his handicap.

I’m sure they find it funny and harmless. Perhaps, it really is harmless.

But why do I feel so ill at ease?

Personally, I don’t agree with them. I mean, yes I understand that Chinese language is very important today and it is more and more in demand. However, that doesn’t mean English is not EQUALLY important right?

What I don’t understand is how people can go on and on and on.. campaigning on the importance of Chinese language, yet they overlooked/ignored English Language.

Why is it that some people looked down on “banana” people (people that don’t read their own mother tongue) and think that we’ve missed the world?

On the other hand, we have never looked down on people that can’t string a proper English sentence. Have I looked down on people like them?

No I haven’t!

I have not laughed at them or belittled them at all. I certainly don’t think they’ve missed the world!!??

So why is it that you can only master ONE Chinese language and we can’t master only ONE English language?

Just because English is not the language our forefathers speak?

Oh come on!

Grow up please!!!!

FYI: I have the utmost respect for people that can speak both language fluently. I have many such friends and I am proud of them for not belittling either one party that speak only one language fluently.

Kudos to them!

Caught your own dinner before?

Like many city girls in the world, I have never caught my own dinner before. In fact, I hardly ever have to worry about food since my mom always cook at home. As you can imagine, I'm pretty helpless in kitchen as well.

To me, food is purchased from the market or restaurants or whatever. Cooked or in raw form. Never in my life have I ever tried to harvest my own dinner. I have never grow any vegetables before in my life that's for sure!

Neither have I fish before!

Imagine my joy at catching my very own first fish in my entire life!

Whilst we were at Nelson working, on our free time, we followed a friend to go fishing. He's a fishing enthusiast and he offered to teach us the ropes. Definitely a wonderful experience.

I used to think that fishing is boring and it's for old people. But really it wasn't that bad. Frankly speaking, I actually quite enjoyed it. It almost feels like fishing can be my new found hobby. It wasn't that hard to learn anyway.

When I cast my own line at the beach and waiting for fishes to catch my bait, I was gleefully anticipating to catch my own fish. The moment you feel that the rod is slightly jerky as though being pecked, that's the indicating that a fish is hooked. This is when you reel your line back and hoping you had caught a fish and not false alarm.

As I felt the faint jerking, I reeled back the line and voila!

A fish!!!!!

I had successfully caught my very own fish!!! OMG!!!!!!

That was really a grand feeling I'm telling you. Although it's just a small species of fish (mullet) but I am extremely proud of myself. Now I can finally say I have caught my own dinner. Hurray^^

But I don't know how to gut a fish though hahaha so our dear friend here does the honour for me;p Later on we all had a delicious meal of oven-baked mullets for dinner^^V

For the record, all of us caught something as well, Dinosaur caught the biggest mullet while mine, Godzilla and our friend's were mediocre size. Twister was the winner that night. She caught a crab instead of regular fishes.

This I believe is what people call, being different^^

Food experimenting

As you all know, we are a bunch of people that has no prior experience in cooking whatsoever. Among the four of us, I think I have the least kitchen experience. Theoretically, I know how it works, the procedures, steps, how-to, but practical wise, I’m a zero.


Therefore now is the best time for us to experiment with food. We improvise the cooking recipe as we have limited supply of seasoning and ingredients. Truth to be told, our limited cooking skill is not a limit to our creativity. IN fact, I think our food turn out rather well if I may say so.


We started off with easy to make dishes. Gradually, we try on the harder stuff. We make a few phone calls back to mom asking for cooking tips and recipes. We had Godzilla here whose specialty is pasta. Then we have Twister here who does Hokkien style dishes. Dinosaur just loves cutting and chopping and dicing. Whereas for me, I tried helping in every area that needs attention. I’m good at giving directions, advice and how-to ngek ngek ngek ;p


To date, we have been experimenting with many varieties that would make everyone proud of us hohohohohoho~ Our experiments results in new “dishes” that I would like to share with you here.


1) Hokkien Style Fried Spagetti
How did we come out with this dish? One day, we wanted to cook Spaghetti Bolognese. Therefore we cooked the pasta and opened up few cans of spaghetti sauce. Only thing is, the cans of spaghetti sauce is not what we thought it is. It is actually cans of spaghetti IN sauce. We were like, “Oh, Lord! What are we to do?” We definitely have too much pasta noodle on hands expecially since the pasta is already cooked. Then suddenly some genius (can’t remember who) suggest that why don’t we do fried spaghetti like those in HK café in Msia? Then we save the cans of spaghetti for the next day. Hence the birth of our very own hokkien style fried spaghetti.
Ingredients: Spagetti, dark soy sauce, soy sauce, chicken, onion.
Optional: carrot or any vegetables, egg,


2) Potato Salad
Wow this is truly a gem! Thank God Dinosaur learned something useful during his time in D&P. He learned how to make a mean potato salad! Simple to make and can be kept for a couple of days if needed to. I really like it^^ In fact, yesterday I had my first try at mixing it^^ Fun I tell you!


3) Roti Canai
Actually we have no idea at all how to make roti canai like those in mamak ones. However, we were adventurous enough to attempt it. In the end it wasn’t really a success as we only uses plain flour, oil, salt and water to make the dough. It didn’t end up like the soft texture we always see the mamak when they toss the dough and all. Our dough seems more compact and harder to “fold”. Nevertheless, it doesn’t tasted too bad. It’s quite like roti canai, except not as soft and fluffy. We suspect we need to insert baking soda to make the dough more fluffy. However, we really have no idea and we doubt the mamak people would share their recipe with us. We’ll just have to improvise ourselves and experiment more on it.


4) Fried Rice/Porridge
Okay, this is kinda a failure really. You see, we haven’t had any rice for more than a week and we missed it. Truth to be told, we are all kinda rice bucket (fan tong) but here in NZ, it’s not easy to find rice cooker. People here boil rice either in pot or in microwave which as you can guess, is not our specialty. Yours truly attempt to cook rice in pot over the stove. We mix brown and white rice together and the result is disaster. The water is too much because we thought the brown rice was not cooked! Little did I know that brown rice texture is harder compared to white rice. Therefore, the pot of rice turned out half lumpy, like porridge but less water. So left with no choice, we just have to fry it. So it kinda in between fried porridge and lumpy rice. Still rice cooker is the best!!!


Apart from new experiments, we also do the normal dishes such as chicken rice, stir-fry vegetables and rice. You know, the things that our mother normally cook at home. The only thing is, right now we need to dissect mom’s dishes in our mind to figure out what ingredients she put into the dishes in order for us to re-create the dish here on our own. Well, of course sometimes we do call mom up and asked for recipe. But most of the time, we just rely on our own judgement and do “Jamie Oliver” style. *Secukup rasa*


Seriously, asking mom about recipe is pretty much Jamie Oliver style too. Like, would they tell you how much sugar and salt you need to add to your dish? Now you understand me^^


Let’s see what else we have cooked so far…. Erm we cooked bah kut the (yes, we can cook a decent bah kut the ok?), steamed chicken rice, stir-fry chicken in sesame oil, grilled venison steak, salami, fried vermicelli, stir-fried variety of vegetables, ABC soup and et cetera et cetera…


Due to time constraint and limited internet usage, I am unable to load any photos for viewing. For photos of our creations, please view the photo album posted by Dinosaur in FB. You may contact me for more info. I am more than happy to share my knowledge, or lack of it^^

A short note to all

As usual, I will updates multiple post one shot due to my limitation on the internet usage. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I writing it.

Have fun^^

Hellor from NZ

hey sorry for the uploads in a short while...all have to be load at once as getting internet access is darn tough here...so have fun reading all of the below la..

will upload more whenever i get to go online...

toodles!

Weather Today

Hello everbody! Today's topic is - Weather.


Lately the weather in Klang Valley is so unpredictable. Normally, when it is close to Chinese New Year, the weather would be hot and sunny all day long. But, right now the weather is gloomy and and the sky constantly threatened to pour.


Not only are the clothes on the line not drying properly, rainy day makes the traffic congestion highly unbearable as well. Gloomy grey sky makes your spirit down as well.


Let me share with you the epitome story of unpredictable weather that I have just recently experience it for myself.


Sit back, grab a cup and enjoy. . .


This afternoon, my colleague and I went to SS2 PJ for lunch. In the midst of luncheon, it rained.


Fine.



We waited until the rain stopped and once it did, we quickly foot the bill with every intention to walk to our car which was parked nearby. We just managed to step out from the eatery shop and two steps later, it rained again. On us.


Not some pitter patter rain, but pouring type of rain. Imagine our comical expression as we dashed back into the shelter of the eatery shop. I'm sure we had this bewildered look on our face as we contemplate our ridiculous situation.


We were wet and I am sure we looked pretty ridiculous for all the patrons there. Seriously, this is really unexpected. It was fine and the rain had stopped..... until the moment we step out from the shop then the sky suddenly pouring rain again without any warning.



Then, less then 3 minutes later, the rain practically stop again. Like, is this a prank or something? Did we just got wet for nothing?


The employees there are symphathetic with our plight and they offer us umbrella. So sweet of them. Despite their food is just so-so, but their service is definitely worth 5 star!



So here you go. My story of the unpredictable weather. I'm sure at this moment I am more than qualified to talk on this subject


LOL!!!

Randomly chosen

WHOOT today I saw a car with car plate "WTF 98xx" Haha only the other when I saw a car with car plate of "WTC", I was wondering will it be WTF??? Snoopy say sure won't have because it's acronym is so universal hiak hiak hiak....but guess what? there is ler, WTF??? Heh heh, what's the first thing that come to your mind when u see WTF car plate?

World Taekwondo Federation? Heck! Who are you kidding? Please hor! *eyes rolling*


On another non related note, there's something I want to highlight too. Everyone knows how much I adore playing FB game rite? Specifically Cafe World lor.




So while I was waiting for the game to load, I browse through la all the ads at the side bar etc.... Guess what I saw?


Jeng Jeng Jeng....


I saw this!!!



I mean? WTF? This is from an educational institution of higher learning which I supposed is in London or at least promised a UK degree? WOW their England must be very powderful! (a joke in case you don't get it)


Just great! One of the "best" educational institution in London this MOI is (Unheard of MOI college London lor in my whole life). OH please go study there, I am sure you will get many "oppertunities" to improve your powderful English.

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IF this ad is by any other people, I wouldn't have bother really. But by an institution that claimed they provide "distinctive" higher education?


WOW!

Great. Just great! Makes one wonder what kind of "pathway" do they open?

updates of me so far

My life has been exhilarating recently. There's so many ups and downs that I almost thought this isn't my life! This is somebody else's life or this is something we only see in the movie. But well, no this is my life after all. Because every time i wake up, everything is still the same.


I really wanted to change my cacat-ed blogskin however Im totally hopeless in codings and html etc. My blogskin is so cacat-ed that Im embarrass to people who come and read my blog. Don't worry, I'll try to fix it a.s.a.p. Now the problem is finding someone who reads html thingy^^


Went over to Penang last weekend and had an intensive training in stuffing food in my tummy on an average once every two hours. That's calculation base on average, however, at times it could only be a half hour gap before we stuff in the next meal. This is the time we actually consider eating is a torture. What to do? we had limited time to spent in Penang YET we wanted to taste all the nice foodies there. Afterall, Penang is famous for its variety of delicious food.



Every time we go to Penang, we surely will stop by at Ipoh to eat their famous Tauge chicken rice (Ngar Choi Kai). We usually rotate between two famous shop, either at Lou Wong or Onn Kee.. Honestly speaking, I'm getting bored at this routine. Is there anywhere else we can stop by to eat? Any suggestion people?



That practically sums up my week. Nothing much too exciting or out of the ordinary's happening. Other than the fact that the writer is kinda troubled with a lot of things to thought of. Things like decision making which the writer hates (because she scared that she might make the wrong decision). So yeah, that's all for me.



For now.

"Perfumed" Bag

I have yet to pack for my coming long overdue graduation trip. And yesterday I've finally muster my lazy self to start getting things ready (not pack stage yet). So I get mom to take out my red-chio traveling bag.


Having been stored away in a box for so long, it surely gets musty so I aired it out. To speed up the process, I even thought of a brilliant idea of putting my car Ambi Pur perfume inside my bag, hoping the perfume would make my bag smell nicer, faster. (Don't ask me why, it just seems right at that moment!)



BIG MISTAKE!!!


It never occur to me to tell mom about it so mom accidentally "moved" the bag from the original position and so does my "perfume". And so there goes my Ambi Pur leaked into my bag and make my whole room smell SOOO much nicer.



The worst thing is, NO ONE even noticed something is amiss!!!!


Mom actually asked my bro, "Eh, you spray perfume is it? Smell so nice lar", to which my bro replied, "Nola, got smell meh?"


. . . . . . . .



Til I come home from work and "realized" that my room smell extraordinary nice, on instinct, check on my bag. And sure enough, the "nice" smell comes from there.


So after wiping the excess oil which also doesn't help much, I make it a point to make my whole house smell nice too, by lugging my bag to the living room and let the "fragrance" evaporate everywhere...



Now I don't have to worry about smelly bag make my clothes stinks, my clothes for sure are gonna stay "fragrant" for a long time. In fact, I think my "perfumed" bag will have the nicest smell amongst all the luggage that there might be.




Now, since my clothes wont be smelly anymore, I think I can concentrate on how not to make everyone faint from my "perfume" which might be abit overpowering.



Good luck to me-.-"

CONVO

Received a letter from Uni today. It's bout CONVO. YAYYY!!!!!!


There's a long tiny prints of details which I find it confusing and can't be bother to read it word by word from front to the back, duh! I think a simple phone call to any of my mates would be faster and more kind to my eyes.



Well, from what I gathered, my Convocation Ceremony would be held at Wisma MCA (like, what else is new?) on the first week of AUGUST!


Like, what the hell? All these years our Convo were always the last week of August and now? a change of President brings a change in Convo date as well?



Damn! @@.... First week of August! I can foresee now that many people would have their convo around that time too. I'm sure some of our other's friend's Convo would fall on the same date which means, we cannot attend respective Convo. And if that's not bad enough, our mutual friends would have to split to attend everyone's Convo.


And there's so many people graduating this time of year *whined*



Double Damn!


Of all thirty one days in August and IF Snoopy's Convo just have to fall on the same date as mine, it would definitely be triple DAMN!!!!




Anyway, just to repeat myself, my Convo would be held on 8th August 2009 at Wisma MCA, Jalan Ampang. Time I really don't know. It is 730am for me, but for all friends out there, I think 930am should be alright, no?



So, anyone coming for my Convo???? ^^v




p/s: a subtle reminder, YOU better be ^^V

Unexpected discovery

School holidays were a crazy time for me. Since it's holidays, every students are exceptionally free, they, or rather their parents will flood their kids at my work place. Last thursday was the worst of all, the place was so crowded and noisy that I thought I was in a mad circus! So many students that we don't even have time to go to the toilet. What a day.


Workload is piling up and things get messier. Hopefully I did not lead them astray...



On another note, I met a HOT guy!


I mean, he's really cute. He's quiet and aloof, but in a good way because it suits his character. Not that I know his character or something because I have not spoken to him but that's not the point. His looks portray intellect and sensibility. His aura spells quiet charm that seems to attract moth to fire. Well in this case, I'm the moth and he's the fire.


His casually stylish dressing just all the more make him more charming and distinguish. His hair which where slightly wavy is like inviting females to run our hands over it. His slow but steady stride just oozes confidence and maturity. His tall, lean frame is just right. Not overly thin, not overly lanky. Perfect!


Oh man, what a gorgeous hunk he is! And the best bonus of all is he is splendidly rich. Or rather, his parents are super loaded! Don't you think he had it all? He had charm, brain and money! And I swear he's very much real!


However, we were both two different world apart. As stylish as he is, I'm very much a plain Jane. He speaks an impeccable English while I speak a barely coherent Manglish. After SPM, he went straight to Aussie to further study, and had been staying there ever since. As for me, I haven't even been to oversea. Bummer!


He will be back in Malaysia during holidays for visiting whereas I will be working during holidays to gain some $$$. He's so worldly while I'm like an ignorant frog. Being anywhere in the same room as him also makes me inwardly cringed in shame and inferiority.



Oh did I mentioned where I've met this charming boy? At a most unexpected place ever imaginable to meet cute guys. At my uncle's home.


During his funeral.





And he's my cousin that I've only met a couple of times in my entire life.




What a shame.



I'm drooling over my relative -.-"




Haiz, lucky for all girls out there that might be his girlfriend and eventually, his wife.

Dream

Damn! I was having this fantastic dream and wham! the next thing I know, I woke up. Bummer. Why do all dreams end up like this? Why can't I complete my dream? Even after i continue sleeping, this same dream don't continue anymore wuwuwuwuwu....


Usually, I don't really dream in my sleep. Even if I do, I have the vaguest idea about it. Rarely I'll remember the details of it. And this is one of those rare time. Everything was so perfect, of course until I wake up that's it. It's kinda like the Cinderella story kinda dream, but in 21st century setting in Malaysia too ^^


Haha I shall not divulge too much of my dream or else the dream won't come true hehehehehe (pssst, i learned this from Cinderella cartoon).


Sigh, what we can't have in reality we might as well enjoyed it in our dream no?


I wonder, tonight if I sleep earlier, would I be able to continue back my very own Cinderella dream? At least, let me know the ending lar, or continue the flow of the story? Hehehehe and of course, my charming dream hubby!!!!!!!!


Okay, I shall go to sleep now hahahahaha or maybe not cuz it's only mid-noon now....sigh...




Come to me, my dream hubby, come to my dream tonight~~~

Finally...

Finally!!!!!


Finally my FYP is done!!! Finally its all over!!!! I have finally submitted my first draft~


Hahaha...eh don't look down on my first draft ok? it is still countable for marks and to me, this first draft is as good as final draft... Hopefully godmom will be satisfied with it and tell me, "You can now submit the final draft. No changes is needed,"


YAYYYYYY!!!!!! ok ok i know i'm dreaming....but i fervently hope so.... save me trouble....


You guys have no idea how much i have sacrificed for my FYP... I was so "engrossed" with it til i fall sick... I have been sick on and off for about two weeks now...on and off....on and off.....


But the funny thing is, i ONLY fall sick at night... that is to say, in the morning i wake up, my fever will be "gone". But when it comes to night when i'm preparing to sleep, my fever will automatically creep "back" make me fret in my sleep. weird right?


I did not went to the doctor because i don't know how to tell him. Because i know when he look at me (in the morning/afternoon) he won't be able to detect any trace of fever in me...He probably think i'm just there for the MC...and feign sick-.-"


So anyway, i just hope my whatever sickness will go away eventually...and make it fast too... i can't bear to be sick anymore.... I believe i've been sick for the whole year's quota....so from now on, my sickness quota for the year should have been fulfilled...so no more sickness for me right??? ^^



Back to FYP, right before i fall sick, i spent RM40 alone just for the printing....so expensive lor printing nowadays....my printer's adapter rosak liao so i was force to print outside...and obviously they charge me an arms and a leg lar.....so now im so broke...and i shudder to think about final draft printing cost, where binding alone would already cost RM24........brrrr



Then as if im not in a horrible situation already, my house telephone line choose to go dead now. So now i can't online at home...well until my line is fix anyway...


Just great...just as i thought i deserve some entertainment after my hard labour of FYP...darn...now i cant even online -.-"



As yours truly write this post in uni, her fever had just relaps the night before... and as she drive today, she realised ONE FACT that she has been pondering for quite some time. This time, she practically tested and proven it too...and the fact is;


SICK PEOPLE TENDS TO DRIVE FASTER BECAUSE THEY CAN'T FEEL THE SPEED AT ALL



it's funny, it's as though one's senses are numbed.....

Puppy anyone?

Fancy having a dog in your home?


How bout a Golden Retriever??? A pure bred Golden Retriever no less!!!!


If you are interested, please visit this site: http://ownapup.blogspot.com/


Even if you do not want a puppy now, do still go and have a look at those cute puppies. It will definitely made your day ^^


p/s: all relevant information about the puppies is stated clearly in the site. do click it ya!

Tagged~

I'm alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah i know i haven't been updating regularly cuz i was so busy with my FYP. But hey, i'm updating now and i'll finally do Eileen's tag alright?


Haha kinda like kill two birds with one stone eh?


so here it goes; the alphabetical tag~



A. Attached or single?
I'm currently single, but not available haha...



B. Best friend?
A few, hopefully they will last for life, so that i don't have to search high and low for new BFF(s)



C. Cake or pie?
CAKE!!!! i just love tiramisu cake!



D. Day of choice?
Friday because it s.p.e.l.l. weekend to me YAY!!!!



E. Essential item?
My handphone. Can't seems to live without it



F. Favorite color?
It's BLUE people, not pink ok? although i'm quite fond of pink too ;)



G. Gummy bears or worms?
Definitely gummy bears because they are so cute and colourful and it makes me happy hehe;p



H. Hometown?
I'm totally born and bred in Klang.



I. Favorite indulgence?
Fine dining. I just love extravaganza meal at exquisite restaurants with wonderful ambiance to set the mood right. That's the perfect way to dine baby!!



J. January or July?
January of course because I'm a January baby!!!! You know what? all these while i never have to go to school/uni on my birthday before because it is always within the holiday period heh heh heh....



K. Kids?
Would love to have 3 kids. Preferably first born is a son so that he can take care of his younger sister/brother but then, Snoopy preferred first born to be a girl -_-



L. Life isn't complete without?
Love. Sounds cliche i know...



M. Marriage date?
When you receive my wedding invitation card, it shall be printed there for your information ;)



N. Number of magazine subscriptions?
None- i'm addicted to novels instead.



O. Oranges or apples?
Apples! I'm the apple of my parents eyes. And Snoopy's too!



P. Phobias?
Reptiles and insects! They are totally gross!



Q. Quotes?
"When you gain something, you will lose something" (TM!)



R. Reasons to smile?
Apart from me waking up alive to see the world? Well i guess then it have to be seeing all my loved ones well and happy and very much alive too :)



S. Season of choice?
In Malaysia, there's no season. There's only summer all year long. So how would i to know? Is festive season like Christmas considered? I love Christmas you know....



T. Tag 5 people.
Aileen, Mich, Jenna, Kevin, and whoever wanted to do this!




U. Unknown fact about me?
I love cam-whoring!!!




V. Vegetable?
Vegetables is good for health so eat more, people!




W. Worst habit?
Procrastinate. I just can't seems to shake it off and it is weighing me down...sobs!




X. X-Ray or ultrasound?
Depends on why it is needed lar duh!



Y. Your favorite foods?
Snoopy's homemade fried ice-cream specially for me only ;p



Z. Zodiac Sign?
Capricornus - one of the faintest constellation

Merry Christmas ho ho ho!

MERRY CHRISTMAS PEEPS!!!!

HAVE A BLAST ONE...



REMEMBER TO GET ME MANY PREZZIES WILL DO ;P



MUACKS!

*jingles jingles jingles*

Value of grass

Do you know that grass can be sold for USD420???!!!!!


Maybe not your average backyard grass, but the grass that were cut on the Bird Nest Olympic stadium in China. Yup, those grass that were cut on the night of the closing ceremony of Olympic in China. OF course, plus a model of Olympic torch made from some left over steel that framed the Bird Nest stadium (unused left over steel).


Packed nicely in a clear box, the combination of the unused left over steel model Olympic torch and some grass, it is expected to fetch over 2,900 yuan.


Isn't this unbelievable? I mean, would you part with your hard earn money (a whooping USD420 no less) to buy some grass?


Grass would still dried up and withered no? Well, maybe the grass has been stepped over by Yao Ming and Beckham for all i know but then, USD420????


Well, maybe that's just me.


Since they are preparing like 10,000 boxes of those thing, i am sure some better-to-do people than me will buy it. I think. As a souvenir. *cough*


Click here if you wanna read the news






Say, what if i cut my own backyard grass and sell it at a fraction of that price, like RM420, would anyone buy it? If anyone is interested to buy my grass, please email me;p

Say NO to plastic bags

As the title mentioned above, its self explanatory.


Obvious reason? to safe the environment, of course! Protect our mother nature!


This campaign was done by Aeon Shopping Centre, or better knowned as Jaya Jusco.

Do lend a hand and support this campaign ok?

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It's pretty simple, just bring your own bags, any bags and yes you can reuse those plastic bags you have at home when you want to make some purchase in Jusco from 2-4 December! This way, you can (1) reuse your plastic bags yang berlambak-lambak at home; (2) save the environment by using LESS plastic bags (not all plastic bags are biodegradable and even if they do, it take a long long time) and (3) you are doing a good deed for you, your family, and your future!


Starting on January 2009, every 25th day of the month is "Say NO to plastic bags Day".


For more information, please click on the pictures shown.

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I know my rights!

Today hor, my mom woke me up just to get my J card. She happily call me continued my sleep as she went Jusco herself. Alone! How can??? How can she go without me??? hrrrmmppphhhhh!!!!!!!!!!



When she came back, she sees me grumbling, so she offered to go Jusco with me again! *weee!* Even that she have to casually dropped remarks like isn't i'm supposed to be studying for my exams bla bla bla?...Look, i only go to accompany her ok? she invited me ok? its so not the other round. I did not tempted her at all*fluttering eyes lashes madly*


Lo and behold, here's the exciting part! We went to a renowned pharmacy and checking out prices for some beauty products (girls mah!) when something caught our eyes! (fine we purposely searched for it, happy?) The price is good, definitely more worth it than other stores so of course buy la!


When the cashier scanned the item, the price shown on the machine is RM5 higher! Nabeh, think my money easy to cheat is it? So being a smart consumer, *ehem puff up my chest proudly* I talked to the cashier, nicely. Truly!




The conversation goes something like this:



Me: Excuse me, how much is this product again?

Cashier: RM4x.xx

Me: But the price tag there clearly shows that it is RM3x.xx

Cashier: ........somewhat dumbfounded, calling other people to check

A (rude) Malay promoter: Miss, this is the(expensive) price. The price that you have seen is no longer applicable because the promotion has ended. This is not our fault, I mean it is our fault, but you can choose to purchase it or not to purchase......

later she added that the promotion is for Merdeka Sales.


She just dug her own grave! Merdeka Sales??? Hello??? Now is like, December. Christmas Sales d lor!!! Means how long they did not change the price tag?????


By then quite a number of people already lining up behind me and witness the whole incident.



Me: BUT this is the price tag shown!
Clearly, i refused to butt in. Think i am stupid is it? Of course they have to honor the lower price la, prick!


I even talk loudly with my mom, (in Chinese) that they are cheating people's money and have no intergrity and how i have my rights as a consumer which stated that i can sue them to NCCC or MDTCA. Even FOMCA! (Don't pray-pray arr).

I don't care if the whole world thinks i am a nasty customer (at times i can be) but here i am just practising my rights as a consumer! *chant: be bright, be right, smart consumer, fight for your rights*


Later, she called another lady, assuming is the supervisor of that shop, or even manager i don't know, retold the whole situation, and this nice lady, also a Malay, say they will honor the lower price. She was smiling all the way as she did the transaction. Genuinely. See, this is what i call good customer service!


That rude promoter keep talk loudly so that everyone can heard her, "Rugi lagi, Jual murah, rugilah".


Heck, as if i care! I was contemplating should i rebutt, but i think better off it. I don't want to stoop so low to her level. If she don't care about her image, i do.



Sometimes, there are solid reasons as to why some people forever stay where they are.


Attitude.

With those attitude, how can one go far? Don't get me wrong, i am not discriminating promoters, just HER. I myself have been a promoter countless time especially during the school breaks or holidays to earn extra pocket money so i know how it feels to be a promoter. There is absolutely nothing wrong with choosing promoter as a profession, even long term profession, as i have many promoter friends up to now. We still keep in touch and are in good terms.


I don't anti promoters in general, just HER!


And of course, i feel very happy and proud of myself! It is so satisfying to be able to defend yourself instead of meekly get cheated i tell you. I deserved a pat on my back, don't cha think so? ;)



P/S: the conversation was actually conversed in BM, and i translated it to English for easier reading but I promised, the content is really absolutely the same. No changes or whatsoever has been made to the content. NONE whatsoever. The whole incident and conversation really happened in that way.

Double happiness

Today is a good day. Quite good. Really.

It could have been better of course, but can't complain...



Happiness no. 1:
Not too long ago, there's these three girls betting on who will get the higher marks for a particular assignment. One of the girls were pretty upset and negative....keep thinking she'll die and fail her assignment. That is utter rubbish of course because she is capable to pull it through, despite what she thinks of herself.

To cut the story short, three girls then have a bet to motivate each other. The bet was, IF the girl get higher marks (means she win la) she will treat the other two girls a Secret Recipe's cake each. But if she lost the bet, the other two girls will have to buy her Starbucks coffee. Fair enough.


And of course, she won at the end of the day, by one mark! Hahahahaha so Secret Recipe's cake is on her lor ;p And this girl is crossbun.


Hahahaha i think she must have felt kinda torn between happy for getting good marks and annoyed for having to fork out money buying us cakes....The ones that walks away with the cakes were yours truly and Mary hahahaha....EJ kinda annoyed for not making the bet as well so he missed out the chance...ngek ngek ngek...


Thanks for the cheese cake, Crossbun! muacks!



Happiness no. 2:
Out of the blue, Dior Mobile truck came to our uni! Okay okay not really to our uni, but nearby. Practically just across the road (outside Jaya One).


Yes, Dior. As in Christian Dior. THE Christian Dior.



So this mobile truck was actually here to promote their new mascara, Diorshow, Iconic. All you have to do is try out the new mascara (Dior girls will applied it for you), fill up your particulars and voila! You'll be given a small sample of mini Iconic to try it out at home.

google-d and found this picture

Just like that! Simple isn't it? Now tell me, which girl won't go "wahhhhhhhh" when Dior is giving out free samples??? It's not cheap ok? One wand of mascara cost RM98 lerrr....and it can only last you for three months...after three months you have to discard it whether you finished using it or not (to avoid contamination, breeding ground for bacteria which will cause skin allergy).




So yayyy!!!!!!!!!! double happiness.......to know more about Dior Iconic Mascara or their mobile truck thingy, click here



Okay folks, I'm off to eat my cheese cake now, so tata!