Appreciated

I had a great day =)

I started off my day with an episode of House, did some puzzles in the car, going through the normal routine at office and suddenly my assistant manager appeared. She was supposed to be on leave for this whole week but she came back earlier.

While I was helping to wrap 30 boxes of presents for the reporters in 16th floor (there was a press conference about the change of ownership), the AM came and started pouring pine nuts, walnuts, butter almonds and plums from China on a piece of white paper (reminds me of sinseh) and tell me to enjoy it. It was so sudden and I am not used to her being so nice because she usually is very quiet and don't talk so much to me.

Anyway, had my lunch, an apple and finished the stuff she gave me while reading manga. Then I continued with my crossword puzzles while waiting for time to pass. At about 3ish, the AM came and silently passed me a box of nougats!! I looked at her and all she did was "shhh" LOL!!!

Walked to mom's office in 25 minutes time. Best record so far and continued my crossword puzzle to 7pm, felt like watching Moonlight Resonance so watched through my hand phone TV and I was so lucky because that was the conclusion episode!! Fell asleep at 8.30pm and finally mom finished her work at 10.30pm. While watching the TVB drama, had 2 pieces of chocolate chips cookie and a packet of meiji biscuits. Hence, that was my dinner.

Anyway, it has been a long time since I last felt so light on my feet =)

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This office's staffs are like food distributor. Anyone with food, they'll go distributing it among us. Previously, someone bought some fritters and started walking to each table and go "try try, it's nice." Then there was fried pineapple from Indonesia, chocolate muffin, fried lotus seed from Vietnam, a lot of kuih raya etc. Every time, there is always food to share and it feels nice. Feel like home =)

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The other time, a staff who I replaced was leaving the next day and the whole team had lunch together. They even invited me who was there for a week and I ate for FREE!!

There was extra Hari Raya chocolate biscuits (the one with almond in it) and one of the staff gave it to me for helping her sorting the insurance certs. Hehehe

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16 more days to go and I'm free!!! I think I'm gonna miss this place. I have been here for the past 4 months mind you!! =)

555

This is my 555th post. Whee~~~

Last week, I mopped and refused to talk to anyone even my family. Don't ask me why, I just didn't feel like talking and was feeling rather cranky so to avoid saying anything hurtful, I kept my mouth shut and still got an earful from my parents. Whatever~~

On Sunday, I was recovering from my shut-up-week, started to talk a bit and the next thiing I know, I was having dinner (steamboat) with mom at Desapark City and then I had New Zealand Ice Cream!! I wanted to order the 3 scoops BUT I toned down a bit and ordered the 2 scoops. So mom and I had 2 scoops of ice cream each.

She ordered rum and raisin and butterscotch. All yellowish white.

I ordered rocky road (chocolate ice cream + mashmallow + crumbs of almond) and Chocolate fudge. Double chocolate =)

Monday, I woke up feeling a bit off. I had the feeling of coming down with fever and my knee joints hurt badly maybe due to the fact that I slept crossed-legged. Don't ask me why, I didn't even realised I fell asleep.

Later in the evening, I was walking to mom's office whien suddenly she called and asked me to go home myself. It was vital that I reach home before 8.20pm because I got to replace my ballet teacher's class so I walked into the train and surprisingly it was barable besides having difficulty breathing due to my going-to-be-blocked nose.

All in all, I had a very "normal" day. I can't wait for end of Oct!!!

PS: Because I forgot to tag in some morning (the door was open most of the time, so it was convenient to forget to tag in!!) so my salary was being deducted. Cool right? Shit not.

PPS: I'm hooked with playing puzzles.

I'm going PETA on you and my guilty pleasure

Is a female born to serve?? Why must we work, cook, give birth and bear the hassle of taking care of the household and the guy who made you join the typical life cycle set by a man for a woman? I don't understand why must a woman serve the family after a long day at work while the guys just come home from work, rest and expect hot tasty food served on the table by his wife who worked as hard or harder than him. Where's the logic??

I don't understand why most women embraced this typical life cycle happily? To them cooking for a family, giving birth and taking care of them are like a dream job. I don't see any guy waiting impatiently to jump into this kind of work. Gosh, what's with the women now a days?? We got to juggle 5 or more responsibilities while the guys just juggle, oh wait, just have one job- bring back $ and while at it, go hang out with other guys over a few jugs of beer and maybe throw in some flirting.

If I have the power to recreate the world, I'll just kill everyone on earth, yours truly included so that Mother Earth can live peacefully or should I say recover from whatever damage mankind has caused. Human beings are a bunch of ungrateful living things. Using the word parasite would be a compliment because at least some parasites are useful. Ya life is tough and cruel but who made it this way? Nature? I am betting my life that humans contribute at least 50% to this fact.

And why on earth must we consume the flesh of another dead animal? I mean, if you think eating dead cooked chicken or fish is rational, then why don't you eat dead human corpse? It's the same kind of logic isn't it? Ya we need the protein bla bla bla but we can get our protein from other sources like beans and legumes. If vegetarians can survive, why not the other carnivorous or omnivorous homo sapiens?

Going through the wet market, passing by the chicken slaughter house, walking across the fish seller's stall just made me wanna puke. It's not because of the smell or blood dripping into the pail that was prepared for the melted ice water or the way the chicken seller cut up the chicken. It's because of the smell of fear of the live chicken, prepared to have it's throat slit and how the fish opening it's mouth and gills, killing for air. It's a torture for this animals just because of the so-call-needs of us human beings. I really hate the thought of some animal sacrificing it's life for the sake of that few inches of taste buds and that few millions of leptin hormone to kick in to send signals to our pea-sized brain that we're full.

If you want to start talking politics to me, I can give you more fuel and motivation aka anger to start a scene-- go visit Malaysiakini. Read it with an open mind about corruption, about politics, about the behind scenes of our government's work. Read and judge with your wisdom and don't trust everything you read. I believe that writers are very powerful in controlling people's mind. They can just cook up a cock and bull story and whatever they write can influence the reader's mind and since readers have mouth, they'll go blab everything they read to people around them that will listen and after enough of blabbering, would influence more innocent and ready-to-accept-whatever-you-say-as-fact kind of people. But I'm not saying that all news and whatever stories published are fake. Hence my advice, read with an open mind and judge it with your limited wisdom.

Phew, a short visit to the market can make me ramble so much, I wonder what will happen if I start going to the market daily. Nah, I rather die in hunger than feed this raging fire in me.

Oh, yesterday's dinner was fantastic. Had pasta at La Bodega (check out more here )and a chocolate cake at Godiva.



What I know about La Bodega is it's a Spanish Restaurant and have nice breakfast. My friend who picked it didn't have a clue about it and we kinda regretted when we saw the menu. It's not a place for dinner but very suitable to get drunk. You get me?? Anyway, we ordered pasta each and they ordered another mushroom tapas.

I ordered a Spaghetti Ramazetti which served with grilled chicken in a mustard cream sauce tossed with rocket salad and cost me RM26. The "rocket salad" was bitter and I felt like I'm having grass and the spaghetti was dry, really dry. On the bright side, the chicken was delicious.

My friend's mushroom tapas was well, according to her, bread and mushroom soup LOL. It looks something like this

(Ignore the red colour dish, got this image from google image)

After the food, M said she needs glucose and wants dessert so they brought me to Godiva and she said L will treat since they're flying tomorrow ='( and asked me to choose anything I want because she saw my OMG-It's-So-Expensive face. Each cake cost more than RM15 and one piece of chocolate or truffle was about that range of price too!!

We had this RM15 Godiva Dark Chocolate Cake

(ignore the date, got this picture from google image)

and it was FANTASTIC!!! The top layer was chocolate gelatin, followed by a layer of chocolate mousse, then a layer of mouth melting pure dark chocolate and a layer of chocolate cake (not sponge mind you but thick condensed chocolate cake) served with chocolate, mango and strawberry sauce. I like the mango sauce because it somehow enhances the dark chocolate taste. Gosh, I'm salivating already!!! AND AND the chocolate ball on the cake, I'm assuming it's also melt-in-the-mouth dark chocolate since they ate half each and I don't really like sharing food where it involves exchanging of saliva (L bit half and gave the other half to M).

Ooolala....I was in heaven but I didn't dare eat much since I'm not the one paying and the more I eat, the fatter I get. Anyway, while waiting for 4 waiters to serve us this godsend cake, we were discussing on how to pronounce Bally. How do you pronounce it? Bailey?? Bolly?? Well that was their pronunciation were so I went into the shop and asked the manager how to pronounce the shop's name and ahem, they were both wrong hence they shared the bill!!! Hahahaha

anger and disappointments

Anger
I know what's anger. I've been feeling angry since forever.
I'm always angry towards the people around me, towards the government, towards the computer for not having a stable line, towards the screwed up KTM and more so I'll admit that I'm a very bitter person. But lately, I've been exposed to another strong negative emotion-

Disappointment
I'm disappointed with my family members, and now hatred, anger and disappointment towards a person unworthy for me to call friend.

I despise people who break promises and despise people who are not punctual all the time.

This unworthy person's story is very straight forward.
A is flying off to UK this coming Sunday --> A, B and C on Monday made plans to have a farewell dinner on the coming Friday for A --> On Friday, A asked if they can meet at KL instead of Kepong and B was OK BUT C replied to A that she has something to do so won't be going.

I know that
a) C don't want to take the trouble to come KL (she said yes to Kepong because C stays at Kepong BUT A stays at Puchong which is very far from Kepong so now to make it fair, KL is the best place and will there be another chance to meet A??)
or
b) she was asked by the ballet teacher to replace a night class (not acceptable because we made this plan earlier this week and there are other students who can replace the class)
or
c) she is just stingy and don't want to waste money (I say so because she won't reply or call you because to her it's a waste of money and hence the stingy personality).

Anyway, I'm even more angry because A suggested that maybe C suddenly have something to do and so my question now is, why didn't C have the courtesy to actually inform us that she's "suddenly" busy?? And thus I think option (a), (b) and (c) can explain her not coming for the dinner at KL.

Well, this is not the first time I'm feeling so much anger and disappointment towards her but I'm going to make it the last since I will try not to talk to her so much because

if you don't care about that person, you won't feel angry, disappointed or hate

I know I'm being mean and cranky but trust me, this is mild compared to what I'm going through.

anger management

Seriously, I think I need someone to slap me a book on anger management or send me to some of those class. The longer I stay here, the more cranky I become and the more easily I can get annoyed. Can someone just make next month April???


So it's been a long holiday and the good thing that comes out from this Raya break is WONDERFUL traffic. I can afford to leave house at 7.30 am and reach office before 8am!! Usually, I leave house at 7.15am latest and reached office 8.10am earliest!! How I wish this good traffic will remain until end of October. Besides, the office has never been this quiet and I'm loving it because I can study, read mangas, blog and facebook as long as I want because someone is always on leave and I don't need to worry about being caught doing all these stuff.


I have been spending time at Kinokuniya reading again 2 days ago (this week mom has been going home early so I didn't have the chance to start a new book) and within 2 hours, I finished this book called Divorced and Deadly by Josephine Cox.
This book is hilarious and I have been laughing my head off from the start of the book. I was sniggering at first and I think I even snorted while trying hard not to laugh out loud.

It's a book on a guy called Ben Bushkin (what a name) who just divorced because he claimed that he's too good looking and blaa bla bla to not attract any woman. Actually, he was caught pants down by his control freak wife. So he moved back with his parents and his mother is another nut job. Whose mother will lock and keep their 30something years old son when he plans to move out??

Anyway, I really enjoyed myself reading the book and the people who sat near me started smiling and 2 of them actually asked me if that book was really that funny LOL.

Yesterday went to Metro Prima and while my mother and my aunt spent time shopping for clothes, I went and indulge myself with another book- Dorothy Kroomson's The Ice Cream Girls
I managed to read till the 2nd part and realised that I won't have time to actually finish the book and Kinokuniya's The Ice Cream Girls still has the plastic wrapper on (I only read books that have no plastic wrapper) so I jumped to the last part and found out the truth. I know doing this is the worse offense an avid book reader can commit but I was desperate and I don't want to wait for weeks before I can go back to this Popular to continue the story!! Sorry.

Next, I wandered around and I found this book by Elizabeth Noble. I managed to read the 1st 38 pages when my mom called so I was forced to tear away from the book and went home. This book is about a mother who was dying and was planning her funerals with her daughters. I only got to the part where the girls wore their promised bright colour dresses to the funeral. The story has yet to pique my interest so I can survive without reading the rest of the book.

Now for

when will it be out?!!