Friday, June 26, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Relaxing Indulge: Home Spa
I was dying to have a shoulder massage since last few days ago when I felt a very aching shoulder in the office. But one can never just drop by a Spa center conveniently like dropping by a petrol-kiosk for petrol, right? I'm not sure about others but I'm very particular about spa treatments and the service I will get for the money that I spend. Then, I was dreaming, "How nice if I can redeem my V-Day massage voucher from Scott today?". "Okie, return back to Earth please!"
Today, even a Saturday, as usual, the brain-alarm will wakes me up at 7am but I woke up just to drape the curtains close to cover the brightness and went back to curdle my bolster. Zzz...
By 10am, I was awaken by the door-bell; my mom's friend came to visit. So, I dragged myself up, brushed my teeth, eased my bladder and went down to make myself breakfast after saying "hi" to the Aunty. After scanning thru the Saturday papers, I went to do my laundry.
It started to thunder loudly and I was delighted, "God, finally you're sending the rain! Thank You!! I hope the thunders will follow by rain ah..." I whispered to myself. As I completed hanging my laundry to dry, few drops of rain came and so, I watered my plants by my room windows and open up the windows as it was shut the whole night thru due to the bad-smokey-haze that I don't want it to penetrate into my room.
Then, an idea came to me... it's such a wonderful Saturday so far... and why not pamper myself a little bit with the home-spa-treatment? So, I took out my manicure set and started to work on my nails, filed them and off I went into the bathroom for a shower.
Started with washing my hair and then, leave the hair-conditioner to work it's softness into my hair. Then, the full face to toes scrub starts... I didn't buy any special scrubs, I just used the St Ives facial scrub for my face, my body, my hands and my legs till my feet. It's not my first time doing this and the result never failed me. Well, a few strokes are done for body and legs just so that the dead-skins are really removed.
After rinsing it with cold water, I filled up the baby-tub with the maximum hot water I could get from the shower and pour lavender gel into it. Well, lavender supposed to be calming the mind and make one sleeps well at night. Once the tub is 3/4 full with water, it's time to dip in!!
Hehehe... I know, it's just a BABY-TUB!! But, will do since my house don't have a bath-tub... So, I have to take turns to soak different part of my body & legs... My front part is impossible to have a soak but I could actually soak my whole back with my shoulder in the baby-tub and it was so relaxing.
With the sounds of the rain splattering outside the windows, I almost fell asleep for a quick 5 minutes before I awaken by the thunder! 15-20 minutes after all the soaking, I rinsed off the lavender suds and my hair-conditioner with cold water. It will be more pleasant if I could get ice-cubes with me into the bathroom. *chuckled* But, I don't want to raise the suspicious from my mom who doesn't know a thing that I was up to in the bathroom.
Yeehhh... now, I felt my aches are gone and since I want to enjoy the rest of my Saturday relaxing and without sitting in front of the computer, I better stop blogging and grab my lunch. Wow! Never had such a nice beautiful weather Saturday after so long...
Today, even a Saturday, as usual, the brain-alarm will wakes me up at 7am but I woke up just to drape the curtains close to cover the brightness and went back to curdle my bolster. Zzz...
By 10am, I was awaken by the door-bell; my mom's friend came to visit. So, I dragged myself up, brushed my teeth, eased my bladder and went down to make myself breakfast after saying "hi" to the Aunty. After scanning thru the Saturday papers, I went to do my laundry.
It started to thunder loudly and I was delighted, "God, finally you're sending the rain! Thank You!! I hope the thunders will follow by rain ah..." I whispered to myself. As I completed hanging my laundry to dry, few drops of rain came and so, I watered my plants by my room windows and open up the windows as it was shut the whole night thru due to the bad-smokey-haze that I don't want it to penetrate into my room.
Then, an idea came to me... it's such a wonderful Saturday so far... and why not pamper myself a little bit with the home-spa-treatment? So, I took out my manicure set and started to work on my nails, filed them and off I went into the bathroom for a shower.
Started with washing my hair and then, leave the hair-conditioner to work it's softness into my hair. Then, the full face to toes scrub starts... I didn't buy any special scrubs, I just used the St Ives facial scrub for my face, my body, my hands and my legs till my feet. It's not my first time doing this and the result never failed me. Well, a few strokes are done for body and legs just so that the dead-skins are really removed.
After rinsing it with cold water, I filled up the baby-tub with the maximum hot water I could get from the shower and pour lavender gel into it. Well, lavender supposed to be calming the mind and make one sleeps well at night. Once the tub is 3/4 full with water, it's time to dip in!!
Hehehe... I know, it's just a BABY-TUB!! But, will do since my house don't have a bath-tub... So, I have to take turns to soak different part of my body & legs... My front part is impossible to have a soak but I could actually soak my whole back with my shoulder in the baby-tub and it was so relaxing.
With the sounds of the rain splattering outside the windows, I almost fell asleep for a quick 5 minutes before I awaken by the thunder! 15-20 minutes after all the soaking, I rinsed off the lavender suds and my hair-conditioner with cold water. It will be more pleasant if I could get ice-cubes with me into the bathroom. *chuckled* But, I don't want to raise the suspicious from my mom who doesn't know a thing that I was up to in the bathroom.
Yeehhh... now, I felt my aches are gone and since I want to enjoy the rest of my Saturday relaxing and without sitting in front of the computer, I better stop blogging and grab my lunch. Wow! Never had such a nice beautiful weather Saturday after so long...
Monday, June 08, 2009
Berjaya Hills, Pahang
As Lily, Charlie & 5th-Aunt from Johor Bahru are in town for several days, it was also a time for me to spend some time with them as Lily & I are now the closest among my many cousins after our INTI-days-together.
Weeks before, several enquiries were made for Pangkor Island's resorts but was very frustrated with the economical hotel's service and gave up trying to book a room during the King's Birthday-Hols-Weekend. Of course the better resorts are too pricey to even thinking to attempt during the peak-season.
We head up to the Berjaya Hills for a one day trip excurssion. This is my 2nd time up to this hill and personally, the cool weather is not there anymore. Maybe, it's partly due to the heat at KL which probably when the weather is not so hot, the hill maybe cooler.
Weeks before, several enquiries were made for Pangkor Island's resorts but was very frustrated with the economical hotel's service and gave up trying to book a room during the King's Birthday-Hols-Weekend. Of course the better resorts are too pricey to even thinking to attempt during the peak-season.
We head up to the Berjaya Hills for a one day trip excurssion. This is my 2nd time up to this hill and personally, the cool weather is not there anymore. Maybe, it's partly due to the heat at KL which probably when the weather is not so hot, the hill maybe cooler.
We detour to Bentong for dinner which happened to be an adventure-drive for me as I took the trunk-old-road from Janda Baik to Bentong that took us to an endless-winding road trip that I think my aunt's heart beat never stop worrying until we reach Bentong town.
After dinner, lucky found the Karak-Highway but it was pitch-dark and I was really worried driving on it. Alan's sms-message asked me to be careful driving in Karak-Highway, did not leave my mind at any seconds until I reach the end of the Highway. For the first time in my life, I'm a little bit in fear to be driving at so-pitch-dark highway. Thank God!
Special thanks to Charlie for taking most of the wonderful & memorable pictures. PHOTO
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Elisa's 2nd-BDay
Elisa will be TWO tomorrow officially.
We had home-cooked food today for Elisa's 2nd-birthday-get-together.
And also a home-baked chocolate cake of her choice.
At the age of two, what took all of us into surprised when my Sister asked her, "What would you like to have for your birthday?" and the replied came out to be, "Kong-Kong to come celebrate with me..." and while her own Daddy is away to oversea for work.
Being "Kong-Kong"; Grandpa in Mandarin (my Dad) the God-fearing figure for Kristen & Elisa most of the time but yet, you could never be amazed with the little ones.
We had home-cooked food today for Elisa's 2nd-birthday-get-together.
And also a home-baked chocolate cake of her choice.
At the age of two, what took all of us into surprised when my Sister asked her, "What would you like to have for your birthday?" and the replied came out to be, "Kong-Kong to come celebrate with me..." and while her own Daddy is away to oversea for work.
Being "Kong-Kong"; Grandpa in Mandarin (my Dad) the God-fearing figure for Kristen & Elisa most of the time but yet, you could never be amazed with the little ones.
Elisa reading with "Kong-Kong" with both of them yaking-away at almost the same time.
Elisa will always be the first to warm up with any member of the family, either my brother or myself. Then, Kristen will follow as she is usually more reserved and tend to let Elisa take the first step despite she is the elder one. *chuckled**********
To my surprised, Kristen actually wanted to take a picture with "Ah-Ma" wherelse, Elisa ran away from this photo-shot. Hehehe...
ALVIN D'CHIPMUNK & BUSTER also joined the party!
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TIME for the birthday cake ceremony after dinner... Elisa was so excited and eager to blow the candle and she totalled up blowing THREE times!! And the funny part was, she forgotten to go thru the cutting-cake part after removing the candle, the flowers & the Happy-Birthday; that Grandma has to help her to put them back again and do the cutting-cake ceremony. What makes me admired her was she said, "I want to help..." with cutting the cakes into small pieces and distributing it for everyone to eat. Then, she sit down quietly on the dining-table and enjoyed her chocolate-cake and wanted more than 2-servings!
A Family Portrait (without Elisa's daddy)
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Marley & Me : Book vs Movie
I generaly love the book better because it allows me to imagine what things would look, sound, smell like, on my own and it goes so much more in depth than you can even in the best of movies. But, the movie still brings things to life in a way that simply reading can not. It makes things seem more real sometimes.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Big Bad Wolf Books Sales
Sweating... *Phew* ~ Catching my breath...Just got back from an amazing warehouse book sale. Took me 30+mins to get my books paid… hehehe… its pretty common. I don’t have much time to browse thru books at all. I just go hunt around for Kristen’s & my sister's shopping-book-list.
After 1 round that took me around 20 minutes searching for their books, I failed to find them. So, I went back to th only corner that attracted me upon my entrance in the first time; that was the long table with books stacked-up quite high with John Grisham, Stephen’s King & Barbara Taylor that are familiar to me. To my surprised, when I returned, the books stacked high is very low and some of the authors that are not familiar to me are finished! This author; Jodi Picoult was grabbed like hot-cakes and I managed to grab all the last 3 books of her. Sister said she read once her book but she don't like 'em. After reading each of the book's synopsis, I find it alright so I hope I won't regret grabbing them all. Hahaha!!
I couldn't find any Danielle Steel nor the other new popular authors … and just on my way to the cashier, I saw the "Marley & Me" book that I was planning to look for today. Since the book attracted my attention in KK's airport last month, I had wanted to get it. Once again the book just "called out" to me so I grabbed it. I'm very sure the book was not there earlier, someone must have put them back because there are some "dog-ears" on the cover and a few pages. Definitely not too good a quality but I don't mind.
Lucky I managed to get back into office by 2pm. Actually, I wasted around 15 mins looking for the location of the building and indeed I had wasted quite some precious time. If the map given would have mentioned Xerox; where I used to work, I would have not taken the other side of the road and make a big-circle from behind. Would have just gone straight passed Jaya 33 and take a right-turning. Also since I have quite forgotten the area after so many years, also my own fault too but it's an adventure to learn them back again... It's also pretty normal for me to get "lost" sometimes at unfamiliar places; as long as I willing to learn and remember them the next time, that's nothing wrong about it.
Big Bad Wolf Books rented a floor from this vacant building next to Kodak. After trying to look for a parking along the road, nothing available. Without wanting to waste more of my time, I decided to check with the Guard of the building because I could see from the road, there are ample parking spaces inside the building compound. And Pak-Cik Guard said need to pay him RM3 and I was like, "huh?" and I think the Guard "masuk" into his own pocket wan... Because, I actually parked at the Kodak's visitor's space.
Quickly make my way up to 2nd-floor, already see lots of people coming out with plastic bags full of books & magazines. Some even carting big boxes!! And it’s with air-cond. It’s quite nice to browse thru if you have the whole day. I saw people pushing their market-cart and books are pilling up in them. Even saw 2 people carrying the "guni-sack" type of bag; huge!! when I was lining up to pay for my books.
WwooHhoo!!! I’m satisfied with my purchase!! I bought 5 books for myself and 1 book for my sister. Just dissapointed that I couldn't get anything for Kristen.
After 1 round that took me around 20 minutes searching for their books, I failed to find them. So, I went back to th only corner that attracted me upon my entrance in the first time; that was the long table with books stacked-up quite high with John Grisham, Stephen’s King & Barbara Taylor that are familiar to me. To my surprised, when I returned, the books stacked high is very low and some of the authors that are not familiar to me are finished! This author; Jodi Picoult was grabbed like hot-cakes and I managed to grab all the last 3 books of her. Sister said she read once her book but she don't like 'em. After reading each of the book's synopsis, I find it alright so I hope I won't regret grabbing them all. Hahaha!!
I couldn't find any Danielle Steel nor the other new popular authors … and just on my way to the cashier, I saw the "Marley & Me" book that I was planning to look for today. Since the book attracted my attention in KK's airport last month, I had wanted to get it. Once again the book just "called out" to me so I grabbed it. I'm very sure the book was not there earlier, someone must have put them back because there are some "dog-ears" on the cover and a few pages. Definitely not too good a quality but I don't mind.
Lucky I managed to get back into office by 2pm. Actually, I wasted around 15 mins looking for the location of the building and indeed I had wasted quite some precious time. If the map given would have mentioned Xerox; where I used to work, I would have not taken the other side of the road and make a big-circle from behind. Would have just gone straight passed Jaya 33 and take a right-turning. Also since I have quite forgotten the area after so many years, also my own fault too but it's an adventure to learn them back again... It's also pretty normal for me to get "lost" sometimes at unfamiliar places; as long as I willing to learn and remember them the next time, that's nothing wrong about it.
Big Bad Wolf Books rented a floor from this vacant building next to Kodak. After trying to look for a parking along the road, nothing available. Without wanting to waste more of my time, I decided to check with the Guard of the building because I could see from the road, there are ample parking spaces inside the building compound. And Pak-Cik Guard said need to pay him RM3 and I was like, "huh?" and I think the Guard "masuk" into his own pocket wan... Because, I actually parked at the Kodak's visitor's space.
Quickly make my way up to 2nd-floor, already see lots of people coming out with plastic bags full of books & magazines. Some even carting big boxes!! And it’s with air-cond. It’s quite nice to browse thru if you have the whole day. I saw people pushing their market-cart and books are pilling up in them. Even saw 2 people carrying the "guni-sack" type of bag; huge!! when I was lining up to pay for my books.
WwooHhoo!!! I’m satisfied with my purchase!! I bought 5 books for myself and 1 book for my sister. Just dissapointed that I couldn't get anything for Kristen.
I love the wolf-paw-print on the plastic-bag!!! Oh yea, anyone who reads my Blog and interested to borrow the books in my collection, you're welcome to let me know. You can have 'em anytime.
"Sharing is Caring, Caring is Loving."
Note: I'm not promoting for Big Bad Wolf Books but if you're book-lover or even magazine-craze, go check them out! From 14 (Thu) to 18 (Mon) May 2009 : 10am-9pm. Big Bad Wolf Books is brought to you by the people behind BookXcess as they truly believe in helping people read more for less.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Dinner @ Manhattan Fish Market
Dinner with Jaime, Alan, Siau Wei & Yoong Han after a tiring Monday...Everyone were tired & exhausted after the first day of the week kick starts...
I, on the other hand was all-up & non-Monday-blues when I got up this morning...
Decided to dressed-up and had been feeling all-positive and looking forward to the evening...
I, on the other hand was all-up & non-Monday-blues when I got up this morning...
Decided to dressed-up and had been feeling all-positive and looking forward to the evening...
We departed and says our goodbyes...
And, I'm left with my own thoughts... once again...
And, I'm left with my own thoughts... once again...
Monday, May 04, 2009
I'm three-zero...
As the title describe...
I can't believe that I'm 30...
Not to say that I'm boasting about it...
It has been just another day at work today...
With the past few days being the long weekend...
Nobody did anything for me... as Dad is away to KK too...
Mom treated me to Sushi King last night but I wasn't in much mood to eat...
Even today at lunch, nobody suggested lunch but I decided that I want to have lunch outside of the Company and decided to head out for the famous char-siu rice... *yummie* and I returned back to office with a very full stomach... *chuckled* and in a sleepy-mode after the meal.
Just had dinner, Mom cooked my favourite "tomatoes stew porky" and since I'm still full from lunch... I had very little of it...
I'm not sure what will the years be install for me...
Joining the club of 30 with 3 of my closest friends, our last birthday-meal for Siau Wei already discussed about the "signs of aging". Hehehe...
I don't think we need to wait exactly for us to be on-the-dot-three-zeros to feel and experienced the differences that is/was going on in our life... It's obvious and indeed very obvious!
Looking back to a year ago... I can't help feeling that "awesome loneliness" lingering in my heart today. I guessed that's also the reason why I decided to blog... just to keep my feelings recorded and written out; one day... flipping thru the pages of my blog... I will know how I feel today...
Many women out day will die to get the youthfulness-look when they reach 40s and above. But, someone just think that I should "grow up" and "make up" and don't look like I'm a 20s. I don't think its a sin to have a youthful-look and I should give thanks to God for it!!
I can't believe that I'm 30...
Not to say that I'm boasting about it...
It has been just another day at work today...
With the past few days being the long weekend...
Nobody did anything for me... as Dad is away to KK too...
Mom treated me to Sushi King last night but I wasn't in much mood to eat...
Even today at lunch, nobody suggested lunch but I decided that I want to have lunch outside of the Company and decided to head out for the famous char-siu rice... *yummie* and I returned back to office with a very full stomach... *chuckled* and in a sleepy-mode after the meal.
Just had dinner, Mom cooked my favourite "tomatoes stew porky" and since I'm still full from lunch... I had very little of it...
I'm not sure what will the years be install for me...
Joining the club of 30 with 3 of my closest friends, our last birthday-meal for Siau Wei already discussed about the "signs of aging". Hehehe...
I don't think we need to wait exactly for us to be on-the-dot-three-zeros to feel and experienced the differences that is/was going on in our life... It's obvious and indeed very obvious!
Looking back to a year ago... I can't help feeling that "awesome loneliness" lingering in my heart today. I guessed that's also the reason why I decided to blog... just to keep my feelings recorded and written out; one day... flipping thru the pages of my blog... I will know how I feel today...
Many women out day will die to get the youthfulness-look when they reach 40s and above. But, someone just think that I should "grow up" and "make up" and don't look like I'm a 20s. I don't think its a sin to have a youthful-look and I should give thanks to God for it!!
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic: D'Movie vs D'Book
Out of 5 Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series, I have completed reading 4 of her series books. And her 1st book was adapted into a movie; "Confessions of a Shopaholic" is screen in all the cinemas recently. Tonight, I decided to watch it and my initial intention was to have a face to all the characters in her writings. Of course, the genuinity still is the book characters and not the movie's characters. But to my shocked, the story line is so different as compare to the book!!1) Becky actually got the £20 from Brandon in a conference and not in a hot-dog-stand.
2) Brandon is from Brandon Communication and not Successful Savings; and thus Becky never work for Brandon in the book.
3) Alicia supposed to be Brandon's personal assistant and not someone working in another Company and not Brandon's girlfriend in the book.
4) Tarquin already Suze's boyfriend in the movie. And I don't recall that Becky actually sold-off her bridesmaid dress after being taken away to be sold in the book? Further to that, Suze is never angry or upset with Becky ever in the book.
And the list goes on...
I think there are more differences from d'movie versus d'book. I do not understand how a movie can be adapted from a book with so much difference in the story lines... Just didn't expected this to come... The movie ended in a very funny way when Becky exchanges all her money from her auction into pennies and put them all in jars to leave them all in Derek Smeath's office. Of course, in the book, Becky actually did deposit her payment on a normal way.
I shall get back to my 5th series of her book...
Monday, April 27, 2009
Exhausted with Life
With the April month coming to an end...
I couldn't help feeling that it has been an exhausting month...
My KK trip kicked off at the very beginning of this month but upon returning from that... seems that things just took a turn in a few ways; friendship and relationship. It was not the same...
Despite that I tried to make an effort but I'm not sure what happened...
I'm quite surprised that being away for 4 days from office and all of sudden, this month I had so many "assignments" that I have to rush thru and look into. Well, I'm enjoying the shipping-task but as for the inventory-task, but till today, I couldn't meet my own-target-dateline. Oh... and I only left 4 days this month to tackle them.
Last week has be tremendously exhausted with me getting a motorbike knocked on my driver-side last Wednesday. So, I had to go around hunting for quatations to fix it. Finally, I surf up and "click", I found this website: Dent Repair and its in Puchong. And to cut the story short, the technician did a good job on my 3 dents but they could only recovered 70% of the serious-dent . After doing the polish myself, the scratches are invisible for the 2 dents but as for 1 dent; paint-touch-up is required. Thus, I have to go look around for paints... and Dad suggest to get a polish-machine-mechanism instead of sending it to a professional to work on.
I feel that... no matter how much rest/sleep I take, my body is not satisfied... And my brains will always have the auto-alarm to be awake at 6am every morning eventhough it's a Saturday & Sunday. What is wrong? Why being a human can be exhausted till like this.... ?? I know there is no happiness for eternity but sometimes, I wonder why things just can't be normal. I'm not asking too much, am I?
I couldn't help feeling that it has been an exhausting month...
My KK trip kicked off at the very beginning of this month but upon returning from that... seems that things just took a turn in a few ways; friendship and relationship. It was not the same...
Despite that I tried to make an effort but I'm not sure what happened...
I'm quite surprised that being away for 4 days from office and all of sudden, this month I had so many "assignments" that I have to rush thru and look into. Well, I'm enjoying the shipping-task but as for the inventory-task, but till today, I couldn't meet my own-target-dateline. Oh... and I only left 4 days this month to tackle them.
Last week has be tremendously exhausted with me getting a motorbike knocked on my driver-side last Wednesday. So, I had to go around hunting for quatations to fix it. Finally, I surf up and "click", I found this website: Dent Repair and its in Puchong. And to cut the story short, the technician did a good job on my 3 dents but they could only recovered 70% of the serious-dent . After doing the polish myself, the scratches are invisible for the 2 dents but as for 1 dent; paint-touch-up is required. Thus, I have to go look around for paints... and Dad suggest to get a polish-machine-mechanism instead of sending it to a professional to work on.
I feel that... no matter how much rest/sleep I take, my body is not satisfied... And my brains will always have the auto-alarm to be awake at 6am every morning eventhough it's a Saturday & Sunday. What is wrong? Why being a human can be exhausted till like this.... ?? I know there is no happiness for eternity but sometimes, I wonder why things just can't be normal. I'm not asking too much, am I?