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!!!

Retail Therapy

There's this weird habit of mine that I never given it a thought until yesterday. You see, everytime I went out shopping and buy new clothes, I don't immediately wash it and wear it, like the next day.


In fact, what I normally do is I'll put the shopping bag/plastic with the purchase (tag intact) aside at some corner in my room. Until when I feel like it, then I'll search for it and wash it before wearing it.


This is customary for me to wash all my new clothes (lingeries especially) prior to wearing. I find it more hygienic this way. Who knows how many people had tried on the shirts that I just bought?


I think this started eversince I read a forward mail that claims a lady's boob was infested with weird unknown "worm" that were gross to the max!!!!! I do not know whether the photos were real or doctored, but a close up photos of the "infested area" was so gross that the image haunted me for nights.


I don't think I really forgotten about it. Thank God the image is hazy in my mind now or I'll shudder each time I involuntarily think of it. I'm having goosebumps now as I type.


Okay, so back to my problems at hand.


I never once thought that I will have any problem with my little habit as I can always keep track of my purchases. I know what I pay my hard earned money for. I definitely do, don't I?


Apparently, I do forget over time. Must be the age factor. Really, what else can it be? It can't be that I bought too much! Nonsense! There's no such thing as too much. Ho Ho! I am a sensible shopper who buys necessary stuff only.


I do think before I buy okay? i don't indulge in buying like a headless chicken okay???? I consider myself as a sensible shopper *weeee*


So anyway, as yesterday I take out part of my purchase for washing, I realized that there are some "items" which I have conveniently forgot I actually bought! In fact prior to this I was still lamenting that I do not have enough long sleeves shirts for my trip abroad. I have "calculated" wrongly.


Suddenly, my collection of long sleeves shirts are sufficient. You see, I almost never wear any long sleeves shirts save for school uniform or formal business attire. I always thought I looked gawdy in long sleeves therefore I never bother about it. After all, Malaysia is warm enough not to wear long sleeves anyway.


Many years ago, I bought a long sleeves black shirt once as I was going to Genting at night with friends. I looked horrible in it. Suffice to say, I never wore long sleeves shirt anymore.


Let's hope as the years gone by, I will look relatively decent in long sleeves shirts now. Eversince I started watching Korean dramas again, I was mesmerised by the actresses' attire which were mostly long sleeves since Korea is pretty cold.



To be truthful, this year my goal is to change my image. My current admired image persona is Jang Nara in "Wedding" drama. I wanna be as cute and dress as well as she ^^v

News for New Year 2011

My first entry for 2011 !! weeeeeee!!!!!!!!


How's life so far? Oh well, for me work has started to pile in. It's just a matter of time before I'm drowned with works. Haha well, I guess I could have either speed up my work or put in more hours. Hmm, I guess that does not leave me much time to blog or FB anymore...


Today was like a mad circus day for me. Too much information to digest and too much things to do in such a short time. God! I don't think 24 hours is enough for me!


Suddenly I'm thrown off feet by an ex-colleague that says I need to register as an income tax payer. Though I remembered my friend's mom once said that my salary has not reached the line where I need to pay tax. However, I am in uncertainties now.


Gosh! How difficult can life be?


Not only that, I just found out today that PTPTN attempt to change the rates from 3% to 1% is typically a scam.


No, NOT that it does not do that, it does. However there are some very fine prints that many people might overlooked. And THESE fine prints are deadly. Trust me.


It goes something like this " If you want to enjoy the interest rate of 1%, then kindly forfeit your right of going abroad. IF you insist of going abroad, say for whatever reason study/work/holiday, you are required to inform, read APPLY for permission from PTPTN first. THREE MONTHS BEFORE YOUR INTENDED DEPARTURE DATE.


Of course there is exception. To avoid abovesaid hassle, you may opt to settle the loans in FULL. Then you are a free man.


Duh! Like, if I had that lump sum of money, why would I borrow from PTPTN in the first place?



So in conclusion is, to enjoy 1% interest rate, there will no longer be any inpromptu trip to Thailand/Singapore/Bali or any part of the world for the matter. Everything needs to be planned AT LEAST 3 months ahead.


Oh, with the speed of our g*vt workers, better make it 6 months in advance just in case. I'm sure you do not want to be detained by the Immigration Office prior to your departure right?



I think, this is their way of tying people down to avoid those who did not pay back the loan. By joining force with the Immigration Dept.



Hey! but don't you think this is a little unfair for those who paid diligently?



A penny for the thought. . .

I had a dream

My goodness! I can't believe I dreamed what I dreamed yesterday night! This dream of mine is totally out of the blue and I have no idea why he suddenly appeared in my dream. Where on earth did this Mr X spurred out from????



We are like, so history. I haven't seen him for the pass 5 years I think. Despite we practically lives in the same city, however I don't think we have ever bump into each other before. Okay, maybe we did coincidently appear in the same vicinity once. And that once, I walked the opposite direction once I realised it's him. Don't think that he saw me though.



Haha seriously, I have no idea why I did what I did then. I think it's to avoid the weird atmosphere where once you make known that you saw each other, then you try to make small talks out of politeness/courtesy/whatever. I think it's weird.



Confirmed weird lor!!!



Well, I guessed 5 years ago we did not really part on good term. So maybe this explains why I think it would be weird if we were to meet again. But anyway, when it comes to exes, I admit I do tend to protrays weird behaviours all the time. Most of it I can't explained why I did it, but at the spur of the moment I will just do the weirdest thing. Like, runaway from a confrontation?



Does that count?



I guess I really don't know how to handle exes well. I admire those who can maintain healthy friendship with their exes. i never did with mine. I don't know if this is good or bad thing. I don't particularly wish to befriended my exes back, but at times, I can't help but to think, hey, should I?



Nope, I still don't have THE answer.



The only justifiable answer I can find is that I don't really have the fortunate/unfortunate to meet back my exes face to face in situation that we are complied to acknowledge each other. Maybe by then I will know if I can befriended them. Or not.



Okay, so maybe there is this particulat ex of mine that I have met before in the past after we broken up. Let's call him Mr T. He wishes to resume our friendship relationship but due to some reason which purported us to fell off, I can't seemed to get over it. Therefore, I reject his offer, coldly. Yeah I guess I still hate him. Hate what he did to me before and my classic line is "I forgive, but I don't forget"



Muahahahahaha........



Okay, somehow I just can't find it in my heart to befriend this loser. In fact, now that I think back, I can't believe why on earth would I "fall in love" with him in the first place. Blame it on my naivetee and youth. I was an idiot back then. I must be. Enuff said.



Eversince I had this dream of Mr X, I found myself thinking, what if one day out of pure coincidence we unavoidedly bump into each other? Or worst scenario still, we are to be colleague in the same company. Hahahaha this should be interesting.



I think my reaction would really be interesting. I wonder how would I react/behave? Would I be friendly and gay? Or would I freak out and distance myself??? Hahahaha given my tendency to do the stupidest things when it comes to exes, I have no idea LOL!!!



Yup, I guess that would be really, really interesting.

Wedding 2005

Currently, I am totally addicted to Korean dramas and movies and OSTs. Like, a huge Korean wave, I'm telling you! Super hooked!

I had just finished a drama "Wedding" recently and I'm so in love with it. It's a quite old drama, dated to 2005 actually. As it was released the same year as "My Girl", hence it was kinda underrated.

Honestly speaking, this was quite a nice drama. It dwelt on a more serious issue of marriage life. Instead of fairy-tale-happy-ending, this drama gives an in sight of how marriage works. It takes a lot to sustain a marriage.

"Wedding" is a drama that practically starts with a wedding between a couple (Jang Nara and Ryu Shi Won). Theirs is considered an arranged marriage hence "love" was not in the equation. At first. Haha this is afterall a love drama, so sooner or later love is thrown into the equation. It has to!

The drama unfolds with the groom - Seungwoo, still holding a torch for his "first/only love of his life" but entered a marriage with the hope to achieve happiness. The bride - Sena, has fallen head over heels for the groom and despite knowing that he does not share her feeling, proceed with the wedding. Her hope is to one day, make Seungwoo falls for her.

Apart from the wedding that binds them together, they are as diferent from each other as the sun and the moon. Sena is a bright girl coming from a wealthy family that has never faced any hardship before in her life. Seungwoo, a diplomat that comes from a humble family background whom intends to do everything - the right way.

They both tried to lead a happy life together but alas, life is not a bed of roses. This is a drama afterall. Both of them carries a dark secret that will bound to ruin their "happy life" together. Once the secrets are revealed, all hell breaks lose!

The question is: What do you think is the most important thing in a marriage?

Watch it and you might like it. Well I do. In fact, I think I liked Jang Nara more now. I think both Jang Nara and Ryu Shi Won had delivered well in this drama.

Ooohhh I especially loved the OST! I loved Sena's parents too! They are just so cute together. Truly the epithome of great marriage.


Disclaimer: All photos are taken from Google and not by any means belonged to me.

Nightmares

I am so darn sleepy today. Goodness gracious! I did not have a good sleep yesterday. In fact, I had nightmares!


At one point of the night, I woke up to find a sore, stiff neck because my pillow is no longer cushioning my head. My pillow was actually "stolen" away from me n flung off a side. No prize quessing who's deed. Not the first time anyway *sweat*


Then throughout the night I had nightmares. I dreamt that I was on the verge of not making it to my flight. In fact, I was late and yet still at home and not at the airport yet. Furthermore, I had not packed my bag. I was in a state of panic already.


Then the dream jump to another scene where I have not tender my resignation and I was about to fly. Again I was in a panic state as I have just realised that I have make a wrong flight booking on the date or that I have neglected to inform my management about it.


Just about any possible bad things that might happened before I can actually board the flight, happened in my dreams.


So imagine my horror!


This is really a bad, bad dream.!


I wonder why would I dreamt all these things now? Is it some sort of unconscious wake up call? So that I shouldn't procrastinate so much?


Let's just hope, by March come, everything will be smooth sailing please.


Good bless!

Harry Potter (part 1)

Went and watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows yesterday with bro and Sly. Ahem, Iron Dinosaur and Godzilla were there too, albeit slightly behind because we booked the ticket differently. Ahem, well, things happened :p

It was an okay sort of movie, well a typical Harry Potter movie, if you know what I mean. Apparently the last installment of the Harry Potter series was way too thick hence they break it into two parts in the movie. Another way for the producers to earn more.

To be honest, this Harry Potter thing had been going on for more than 10 years. So naturally, I have forgotten most of the story already. In fact, I think I stopped reading the book years ago. I thinked I stopped at the 5th book...Whatever!

Honestly speaking, apart from Hermione, whom is a great beauty, I can hardly dub Harry Potter or Ron Weasley as handsome. In want of a better word, they both looked kinda average. And I think I am being generous here muahahahaha.

Heck, at times I don't understand the relationship shared between Harry and Hermione as well. It is well known that Hermione liked Ron, and her affection is returned. Yet, I think Harry is still kinda confused about his relationship with them. One moment Harry is kissing Ginny (Ron's youngest sister) and next Harry is gazing longingly at Hermione.

Get a grip! What on earth are you thinking, Harry Potter???

Oh, there's plus point for knowing how to use magic. I particularly liked Hermione's small burgundy reticule. It may be a small delicate thing on the outlook, but it sure goes deep inside. It reminds me so much of the Doraemon's pocket. YOU can find all sorts of things in Doraemon's pocket. And so does Hermione's reticule. Cool!

Another thing that I liked in the movie is the tent. Seriously, from the outlook, the tent looked very very normal and small. However, the inside is well equiped. Not surprisingly, the inside of the tent is spacious, complete with wooden table, chairs and bed. Make you wished you had magic too, don't ya?

Broke, again

It's barely a week since I got my paycheque and I am broke again. *Bummer!* I don't know how on earth does money slips away from my hand -.-" I guess it's back to bread and water for the remaining of the month (which is like, 3 more weeks to go).

Went to Penang to spent my holiday with my dear and not surprisingly, we went on a shopping spree! *it was planned that way actually* What I didn't foresee was that I was the one running mad with *nearly* all the purchases. That weekend alone, I nearly swiped RM500!

Hehe, there was sales everywhere and everything just seems so cheap and affordable! Can't resist the temptation in the end. And you know what, President was actually encouraging me to buy! He was like the devil beside me keep pushing and insist that I should buy this and that ;p I swear, I have not met a man more insistent than him hoho!

But then to be fair, it was on sales la and everything was really so cheap and affordable. Just that weekend alone, I got myself a new chic hiking bag, *wailed~ it was on sale, 60% some more mind you! who on their right mind would resist it?* long johns, harddisk, and some clothes. Yeah, I guess that pretty much sums it all.

I did resist myself in getting a winter jacket ok? That will have to wait.

Thank God in the end, most of the items purchased are sponsored by my dear President. Hoho, he can be so kind and generous sometimes^^ or else I can't even afford bread to go with water

Over the weekend we watched a movie in Gurney Plaza, "You Again".

It's really quite a hilarious movie. Entertaining. The storyline is pretty much the same, predictable - nothing original here. But it was funny, just something to lighten up my weekend.


The plot basically goes something like this:


The protagonist, Marni was an ugly duckling in high school and she always got picked up by the popular girl, J.J. Yeah high school was difficult but she drew the strength from her brother's encouragement and managed to succeed in life 8 years later. Ugly duckling has transform into a beautiful swan.


A call from home says that her beloved brother is about to get married and she flew home, only to realised that her future sister-in-law is none other than her arch nemesis, J.J! Only this time, she doesn't goes by that nickname anymore. She's Joanna now.

Marni vs Joanna

And the rest they say is history! Haha the story progress from here and in the end, it's happy ending. Ta-daa~


Quite a nice movie to chill out and relax. Do watch. The slapstick comedy will make you laugh for sure.

My experience with the Immigration Officers

Yeah as Godzilla suggested, let me share with you my story. More like my brief encounter with the Immigration officers. Several, in fact.


Ok, here goes nothing.

Small Gas, I believe you watched this show before right? Acted by Roger Kwok. It's about the Immigration in HK and stuff.

Remember there's a part that the officers would look at the passports of China ppl entering HK? If the people looked suspicious, the officers would ask a few "general" question right?

Sample Questions:

1. Why are you coming to HK?
2. How long do you intend to stay in HK?
3. Where do you plan to visit in HK?
4. Are you here with friends or family?

From here onwards, I think you should be able to guess where I am heading right? YUP, I have experience it all. First hand. Like, seriously.

Somehow, I am the only one kena all these questions again and again.

Honestly speaking, at first, I was terrified. Why am I gotten all these questions while the rest are able to pass the Immigration counter scratch free?? Why ME???

In fact, I remembered a specific incident clearly as it is quite embarassing hurhur~ You see, the Philippines are using the American format when addressing people, namely by their last name (surname), first name and middle name. So go figure how to write our Chinese name in the form.

So what happened was like this:

• Officer: Ms Lee Leng?
• Me: ... ... (look around the airport absendminded)
• Officer: Ms Lee Leng? *louder* Lee Leng??
• Me: ... ah yes?? yess yess??? *huge saucer eyes that looked bewildered*
• Officer: (laugh good naturedly) where do you plan to visit?
• Me: Bacolod
• Officer: You come with friends or family?
• Me: Friends *at this point I was stretching my ears to hear him*
• Officer *saw President waiting for me* with boyfriend?
• Me: yes

Then only I'm let go. Seriously, you have no idea how I have to strained my ears to listen to him. The bustling airport is not exactly quiet and the office voice and tone is so soft. Don't even get me started on his accent which I find it a little hard to get used to.

I mean like, who on their right mind would call me Lee Leng??? How on earth do you expect me to answer to that call? It's not exactly familiar you know. Not that it was the officer's fault, but still, our name does not function like that isn't it? -.-"

After much pondering, I think I figured out why I was singled out for this unofficial investigation. My own justification were that in my passport, I had long sleek hair. But on the said time, my hair was curly and I had my specs on. So I must have kinda looked "different". So there, all figured out!

Oh, and the moral of the story is, please named your future kids with an English name to avoid half of the trouble I had to go through. Ergo, you must have realised why the other couple managed to sailed free.

There, I hoped you guys are entertained. Please do not fell off the seat just yet. A final kick: Another reason Iron Dinosaur sailed throught the Immigration is because, well he is at home. He blends in well afterall ;p *just kidding*

Back from Pinoy Land

Had a long wonderful week relaxing in the Land of the Pinoys. Oh yeahh~


Finally had my long overdued holiday break in 2010. All the while I was envying others that went to many places such as Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Shanghai, Liverpool etc and posted many photos in FB. At last it is my turn.


Up to now, I still wonders how all these people can afford to go so many places at once? Was it they earned a lot, or is it because my salary is below meager? Honestly speaking, I can hardly afford my said trip to Philippines actually. Many thanks to my dearest for sponsoring part of my expenses hehe! *blow a kiss*


A short summary of my trip - Day 1:


We had our fair share of adventure and misadventure. Not all my planned itinerary worked out the way I imagined it should. Partly to blame are the weather and the luck.


The week we are scheduled to arrive in Manila so happened was also the time they are expecting the typhoon. Hah, what a luck we have. BUT, luckily, we managed to avoid the typhoon almost completely. How, you say?


Oh well, thing is, our first stop is not Manila to begin with. From the beginning, I have planned that we will arrive in Angeles (Clark), then travel to Manila to take an interflight to Bacolod. Reason being is because on that week itself, Bacolod will be having a yearly event - MassKara. This is like a street dance party (mardi gras-like).


But our fortune stops here. When we reached Bacolod, it was raining and dark. Our flight landing was not entirely smooth (to the shocked of some people), and worst still, the taxi charges us higher than expected and don't even mentioned about the traffic.


No, i was not talking about vehicle traffic, I was talking about human traffic. Goodness gracious! Can you imagined your taxi driver trying to drive by with people walking in every direction to/from your car? I almost worried that our taxi driver will inadvertantly knocked down some. It was that scary. The people walking by was very very near to the moving vehicle *albeit the vehicle was moving slower than a turtle crawling"


Then our driver refuse to drop us at our hotel due to the traffic. So we have to lugged our luggage and walk a short distance to our hotel. In. The. Drizzling. Rain.


Once checked in, we went out to have our dinner and explore the town a little. In. Our. Ponchos. Because it was still slightly drizzling. By the time we were there, the MassKara was over and what remains was a dirty streets, some vendors selling variety of items from food, drinks to masks.


We thought it's okay, we'll come back another night, earlier. However, our dream was crushed when the next day our tour guide told us that this was the highlight night and it also signify the ending of MassKara. -.-


Bummer!


Also, we did not have a very good experience with the hotel. First of all, the room we got looked much smaller than the photos shown in their website. And it was supposed to be able to fit 3 ppl, but they refused to comply and insist we pay for extra 2 ppl. So we were additionally charged!!! Not only that, in the begining they tried to charged me a higher rate than agreed upon.


Talk about cutthroat! Trust me, with the amount we paid, it is definitely not worth it. With the price we pay, we could have gotten a better hotel with better room. So my verdict is, don't go to this hotel with the initial S.M. (pm me for the hotel name)


So, that's the sum of our first day in the Land of the Pinoys.