Hulllo....Long time no seeeeeee

I'm bored at work (doing the same routine stuff... my eyeballs are about to pop out!)

I'm more bored at home...No computer/laptop, no internet connection, no postpaid mobile number, no telephone line, no money, no boyfriend, no time to blog... blah blah blah...

BUT LIFE IS GOOD ANYWAY... no (not many!) problem... no sickness... no high expectations anymore... and my naughty cats keep me busy... so no (idle) thinking! heh heh heh

Well...since I'm online.. I'm taking the opportunity to wish all dear friends out there... SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDIL FITRI.. MAAF ZAHIR & BATIN. Semoga keceriaan and kebahagiaan Aidilfitri berkekalan sepanjang tahun.

And also... Happy Deepavali!... may the LIGHT continue to shine brightly for you and your loved ones.

My MEME

My friend asked me to do a meme on my blog. I kinda get what meme is in general, but exactly what, is beyond me. So, quickly off to google site, and apparently, it is a scientific term first used by Richard Dawkins, a British biologist and author in his book titled "The Selfish Gene" (sorry, to lazy to cut & paste the definition).

However, in the context of blogging as per weblog's definition, meme is an idea, project, statement or even a question that is posted by one blog and responded to by other blogs. Although the term encompasses much of the natural flow of communication in the Blogosphere, there are active bloggers and blog sites that are dedicated to the creation of memes on a regular basis.

I'm still not clear, but what the heck! Here goes my MEME ...

Argghhh: aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgggghhhh (sorry, I'm having a slow start here).

Bake: I was going to bake a butter orange lemon cake tonight. Creamed the butter and sugar then discovered that I do not have the flour!! Went to 7-Eleven but they only have normal tepung cap wau! There goes my "would be perfect" cake with my secret topping!

Cat: I have another pet cat (currently staying with her adopted mother cat). A young kitten which I have named Cik Piah.

Dungus: Peng's favourite word at one time, not so long ago.

English: I still suck at this language even after donkey years of using it. My Malay is not any better either. Maybe I should pick up another foreign language so I can have excuse for not being good at any.

FOAD: Favourite word in my Uni years in UK which means... F&#@ Off And Die. Haven't use it for a very long time.

G-string (???): Used to wear it in younger years. Yup.. the lacey type as wel!. If I were to wear one now, would seriously lacerate my backside. Also can cause gatalness.

Hahahaha: I'm still progressing at a slow speed after the slow start.. bugger!

Ice tea: I just love ice drinks on a hot day and hot night! Ice tea, ice lemon tea, teh tarik ais, kopi-o ais, iced watermelon, lencheekang ais (sorry, a bit carried away here, but all so yummy!)

Janda: Reminded me of the SMS from a friend who concluded that married Malay men thinks janda is an easy target for them to menggatal. I totally agree!

Kemek: One of the names of my cat.. he has flat adorable face (I love you baby!).

Lemon and Lime: My favourite fruit/vege... so refreshing!!! I love key lime pie, lemonade, fresh lime drink, lemon sorbet, lemon cake, etc etc etc. Best remedy for motion sickness, IMHO!!!!

Meow: I myself call my cat by that name, not that it makes any difference!

Nangka: A fruit tree my mom used to plant around the house. You basically know that it is nangka tree when you see the fruit "wears" clothes while still on tree. My sister swears eating it will give her gas. But I wonder why it is called Jackfruit in english! Did jack discover it or looks like jack's "fruit".. whatever that is!

Orange: Also loves orange as I do lemon and lime. Prefers orange to apple! I'm now thinking of my butter orange lemon cake... yummy!!!

Papa: Not referring to father, but to the malay word that gives meaning to being very poor. I feel papa and I am papa!!!! I'm feeling depressed now.

Queen: As in Queen the rock band with Freddy Mercury!!! I wish FM still around so that I can go to their concert. I am convinced it would a BLAST!

Rambo: I once wished I had a boyfriend like Rambo... not so much for Stallone but the idea of having a macho and strong man by your side (then maybe I won't be be having this phobia of sleeping in the nude!)

Sebastian: Another name Meow is known as!!! Sebastian the Stud... heh heh heh. I feel like a mama san already!!!

Thailand: Great place to go for short break. After all it is so near and yet so culturally different. Tom yum and shopping!!!!

Uhuk-Uhuk: An old computer games I used to play in the office when I was working for a merchant bank. It was an awesome game. I think I might still have it somewhere in the boxes in my study room. Yay!!!

Vincent: A song about a psycho artist who cut his own ear!! Well.. also a gentleman by that name took me to my Senior Prom. Ahhhh.... those good ole days!

Wawa: It was a term used by an expat family I used to know to refer to vagina (in particular, the mother's vagina!). Yes, I have my fair share of knowing weird people!

X-rated: Have you ever watched a qood (quality) x-rated movie? I haven't (not that I have watched many... yet) and wondering if there is such a thing! And I wonder how they do rating for this kind of movie.

Yasmine: One of fav names for my daughter (if I ever have one). The other one is Ayesha/Aishah but my niece already have that name. Also love love love the flower.

Al-Zalzalah: One of the surah that I had to memorise (together with its terjemahan) for my Islamic Studies paper!! I think zalzalah means horse!!

Phewwwww....

Ok... I'm definately off to bed now!!! Buenos noches!

My cat burped but I haven't heard him fart!

Yeah.. I know. What a boring subject, but I swear. It was the first time I heard a cat burp!!!

Which brings me back to many years ago, when my cousin swore that cats fart like human when I scolded him for farting quietly when I'm around (if smell could kill, I would be dead at a very young age).

I'm still not sure of whether that is true, as I have no first hand experience of hearing one. I have smelled something sometimes back, but I wasn't sure whether it was the cat or the person that I was with! I just don't know how to bring up the question, and it is definately not a question you casually can ask an aquaintance... "eh.. did you just fart? smell awful by the way!"... nah... too awkward of a question!

Some people think farting is hillarious, while some think nothing of it. There are also those that swear it is so impolite!!! I think I fall in the category between... and depending on the exact situation. I mean, how can silent fart in a small, crowded and slow elevator can ever be funny!?!?! Worst still, when there are 3 people (including yourself lah) in the elevator and somehow everybody just eyeing each other with dirty looks. No matter how innocent you are, you will always be a suspect to other person who isn't guilty like yourself! There's no escape, I tell ya!

Same as burping... sometimes I feel disgusted by loud burping even though I shouldn't because it is quite a common thing in this part of the world.

But I definately think that my cat's burp was cute!!!! Yes, I am a certified nutter!

It had been a stupid week... ever!

You know you are stupid (even temporarily) when ...

1. You looked at the jar and wondered why the sugar granules was so fine!!! And you thought, it could be one of those diet sugar. 2 spoonful and 10 minutes later when you sip your tea, you left your collegues wondered about the funny expression on your face (yes... that fine granules was salt, you dummy!)
   
2. You normally drive wearing slipper instead of your decent work shoes. You parked your car, switched off the engine and change the footware, locked the door and started walking to your office. A few seconds later, you walked back to your car, opened the door and sat in the car again, because you have to get the other pair of the shoe. You were walking with one foot in the work shoe and the other still in your slipper!!! (a big time duhhhhhhhhhhh).
3. The morning before, you also went through the same routine. Your parked your car, switched off the engine and changed the footware. You wondered why it took you quite some times to fit into them. But you thought, must be one of those days where you're running late and suddenly nothing run smoothly! Off you go after locking the car, then somebody noticed your eyes nearly popped out. You felt funny walking that day, then you stopped dead in your track!!! Because you saw you had your left shoe in you right foot and the other shoe in your left foot!! (OH MY GOODNESS!!! You just thanked your lucky star that you had some sense left to came earlier to work that day,as there were less people around early in the morning).

There were other interesting incidents I went through during that week. But let me not start rubbing more salts into my deep wounds! The salty tea was enought to provide my sodium requirement to last a week.

Back from our road trip....

I have to say, we had a good trip to Temerloh... taking the East Coast Highway until Lanchang when we decided that the highway was so boring! There was nothing much to see except for oil palm trees and more oil palm trees after we left the Karak Highway.

Sebastian enjoyed the trip very much... when he was not busy sleeping that is! Ever so often he would change his place... the front seat, the back seat and the back dashboard! Ever so often also he would just sit on his cage looking out of the window... observing the green hills and other vehicles on the road that he normally don't see when I drive him around Klang Valley! The big lorries, the slow old cars which model ceased many decades ago, the kampung bicycles, etc.

Anyway, cousin's place was very hot... be it at night or during the day! I mean... it was sauna hot inside the house. We slept with 3 fans on simultenously and we were still prespiring! Needless to say, Sebastian was panting the whole day the first day we were there! His cute and small tounge was out all the way. By the second day, he acclamatised a bit ... and the fact that he was allowed to play outside was a great help to his mood in that weather.

Good food, good company and good rest.. then back to KL on Monday!

Coming back, we decided to take the federal road (I somehow like to refer this as trunk road.. not actually sure why though) all the until Karak. It was a more intersting route with hustle bustle of kampung life along the way. Temptation of stopping at interesting looking roadside stalls were great, but was constantly reminded of low $$$ in the purse (saw nice looking jambu and coconut, weaved basket, rattan furniture, goreng pisang stalls, chendol stalls under shady trees.... lovely!)

Before reaching the house, we were stopped twice at roadblocks. While waiting in queue, I was trying to get Sebastian to sit properly in his cage, which of course he refused to do! So was having some kind of arm wrestling with him.

First roadblock - managed to get him on the floor at the back. The JPA man thought he was in the cage at the back..... sheeshhhh...

Second roadblock - he decided to avoid wrestling with me and settled under my feet (thank God he wasn't in the way of my driving!). The policeman couldn't see him.

Looking back now, I wonder whether there is a law prohibiting your pet running loose in the car. Maybe not... since children in car are allowed to be let loose without the safety of child carseat. But then again, who know for sure about this kind of thing... and even if we know, how many of us really think it is for our own good and actually follow that safety regulation. Who are we kidding eh!!!

I suppose Sebastian was glad to be back home! It is by far cooler and airy.. and plenty of space for him to run around. However, I do think he misses the company of my cousin's daugther who dedicated a good part of her waking time playing with him.

Then last week my place was filled with people! My brother and family came up from the South, and then my sister-in-law's brother and his family came over to visit. And that was a busy time for Sebastian, as he had to entertain all the cat lovers who just adored him!!!

Anyway... this week has been quiet, so Sebastian has been well recuperated from all the excitement. Life for his is back to a quiet one.

I do wonder sometimes whether he would like to have more company at home, besides me that is. I wonder if he gets bored as I can, any time of the day at the house, out do him in sleeping/napping!!!

Hitting the road with Sebastian ....

Later today (hopefully not late of the day), me and my cat are going to hit the road and drive to Temerloh (apparently known as land of ikan patin or something like that) to visit my cousin and her daughter.

I can imagine the weekend already, lepaking at her house eating and eating and eating and laughing and laughing and laughing over nothing in particular!

Her daughter will be busy playing with my Sebastian (hopefully)! Normally she would be busy asking me loads of questions that she knows the answers to (because she's a very smart girl but sometimes she pretends that she's not!).

I can hardly wait!!!

Here's wishing everybody a good weekend ahead...

What a fine actor he is!

I recently watched Constant Garderner (thought I have to confess that I skipped a lot of talking scenes in there....blame it on one's inability of watching intense drama late at night)!!!

Oh... what a fine actor he was in this movie. Such intensity through those piercing blue eyes... a man mourning his beloved wife who was brutally killed, making sense of her life and his journey of understanding what had happened to her that lead to her killing.

I saw him as a man with compasssion, a man falling in love, man in love, a man still in love and a man continue to be in love with the woman until his final days.

Such talent and such intensity can only be found through British actors (my 2 sen worth of opinion!). Also comes to mind are Anthony Hopkins and Hugh Grant, though they are in different element of characters/actings... (okay, okay.... Hugh Grant is in the list because he is cute!!).

I don't think the Glamour Hollywood actors can potray such characters as intense (Rambo and Incredible Hulk do not count!) Granted.. yes, they are good looking, macho and whatever else nots (no.. I don't mean Rambo and Incredible Hulk), but rarely to the level of these A+ list of British actors.

So, I guess my two thumbs up goes to the Brits.

A body like Liz Hurley

If my body looks like her's, I would not bother to wear clothes!!!

What's the point of wearing them when you know anything and everything will look good on you regardless! It would be so boring and predictable!

I will most probably be in bikini all day long anywhere and everywhere, especially in our lovely hot and humid weather!!

If I have a body like her's, I think I could save a lot of money from not having to shop for clothes. I could be wearing rag and still looks hot in it! And we know how cheap rag costs! Then I'd be able to save plenty of money to take myself to that "trip of the lifetime around the world until I have enough of travelling and just want to come home for a change" vacation.

Heck, I probably have men offering to give me the money just to hear me mentioning their names when I thank them for making it all possible!

YUP!!! There were a lot of IFs in my mind when I saw her pictures in the magazine today.

Sometimes I ramble too much!

ONE WAY CONVERSATION WITH ME, MYSELF & I (on Friday night):

I wish I can write something really funny that you just cannot help but laugh reading it...

...... and once in a while, I wish I could write something that makes you start thinking of what's important and what's not in your life.

... sometimes, I just wish I can write a perfect sentence without having to check on the grammar and the flow.... words flow effortlessly from my brain straight to the fingers typing them. (actually, I hate re-reading what I wrote).

AND sometimes, when I thought I was able to do all the above, my thoughts went astray while my fingers could only manage incoherent words.

I wish I could show people how much smarter I can be... I wish I could show people how funnier I could be... BUT I am neither smart nor funny to begin with!

So I continue writing my worthless thoughts... just because I can (only do this)!

I LOVE ......

... (besides my cat that is...)

... the new Petronas advertisement for the F1 team Petronas Sauber BMW (or something like that), where the father was telling the son not to make too much noise and instead he should be doing his homework (or something like that). And the son replied something to him in German!!!! The stunt on the father's face....hahahahaha...

I thought this is the funniest one on TV commercials at the moment.

Another Tuesday... my thoughts are left to wonder again...

Effective today, petrol price has gone up by another 30 sen! It is now cost nearly RM2 per litre. I am glad that I don't have a car... and the borrowed one I have is not a big one.

Seriously, with the petrol price hike, everything will just follow like the fall of the neatly arranged domino pieces. Then before you know it, inflation hits you! You could earn a lot but where's the value? Worst still if you earn pittance!

Maybe short/medium term solution, for a start, I can get a bicycle to get me places! Not only I save on the petrol, but I'm sure the gym membership can can be left unrenewed! Hopefully though, the benefits of physical activities far outweight the bad effect of breathing city air during cycling. As with life, there's always another side of everything! Such is life....


In the meantime, the weather has been hot and humid. My cat and I are practically sprawling on the marble floor when at home! It is hard to believe that there was a big flood not far away from here!

On a hot day like this, I just think about big juicy watermelom... so refreshing and so yummmy! Long time ago in a far away land, I loved watermelon in a hot summer day. Sitting at the open patio eating big watermelon wedges and spitting the black seed back into the garden alongside somebody that I kinda had a crush on that summer! LOVELY memory!

I would love to go to the supermarket for watermelon right now, but to cycle in this hot is never a good option. Driving there just for it would be an energy wasting activity. So, watermelon will have to wait (anyway, I had a big juicy watermelon all to myself last week!). For now, I just settle for cold Yeo's Green Tea + Aloe. I just love the aloe bits in there. My young nephews introduced it to me and insisted it is the best tea drink in a can ever!!! Yes.. the wisdom of children!

Why lah we bother

I was browsing, and saw CNN.com - 20 great jobs that don't require a degree - Feb 24, 2006

However, I couldn't believe it that Sir Richard Branson was not mentioned in the first/opening paragraph of this article!!!

Anyway, the big question with a capital Q is.....

.... WHY LAH WE BOTHERED AND ALONG THE WAY ABUSED OUR BRAIN CELLS WITH EXAMS, COURSEWORKS AND HOMEWORKS !?!?!? ...

Movie Versus Reality

This is one of my current favorite movies!! I love watching it, althought it is a so-so movie!

Call me shallow! Call me stupid! Call me whatever... and forget about clever/intelligent movie lines, breathtaking sceneries.. or whatever it is that separate good movies from bad ones

....Dermot Mulroney looked really nice in suit in this movie . I simply cannot help drooling over him!!!

(Indeed... a good suit does make a man!)

There were also memorable lines (to me)

- "every woman has the exact love life that she wants"

- "I think I'd still miss you even if we had never met"

- "I'd rather fight with you than make love with anyone else" ... (yes.. corny, but still....)


There were also a few British humor in the movie (don't you just love 'em!)

However, if movie does present reality... people looking for love are really screwed!!!

Why?? What makes me think so? Because the message from this movie could be ... to fall in love with that perfect somebody, you need to hire a hooker first to make it possible!!! (...think also of Pretty Woman the movie!)

Anyway... excuse me while I go back to drooling over "Nick Mercer".

The smell of jasmine in my garden

I love the jasmine scented night breeze on my balcony! Sitting there with my cat late at night..... it's peace... tranquil... and suddenly, everything seems ok for that moment!

Words that I cannot comprehend ...

Two words that I kept running into in the past few days ...

1. Gargantuan = very large, huge, big, collossal, elephantine, giant, gigantic, humongous, mammoth, massive, monumental, titanic, towering, monstrous, mountainous, vast (extracted from Collin Thesaurus)

(earlier, I was trying to see if such word exist in Malay that is being used by other language, eg. orang utan, amok, sarong,etc... duh!)

2. Obelisk = a tall stone column with four sloping sides and a pointed top, made in honour of an important person or event (extracted Cambridge Dictionaries Online)


Oohh.. I would like to thank my friend who send me Dan Brown's Robert Landon Onmibus from across the big ocean. The best present ever, since I celebrated the millennium!

Thoughts in the Garden

A few days ago, looking down at my dirty hands and fingernails while gardening at my sister's house, I wondered... whether I should go back to nature, getting my hands dirty, and start breathing a fresher air, away from this polluted city.

As I was looking down at my dirty hands, some thoughts went through my minds...

..... I don't mind getting my hands dirty with soils/dirts. In fact, most times I enjoy it.

..... I love watching something grow, especially plants. It amazes me everytime and give great pleasure in knowing that I have something to do with it.

..... I would love to feel contentment, and I haven't feel that from any job I had in the past. And I wonder why!

..... I would love to go back to nature, live a simple life in a quiet place... me, myself and I (hopefully then I would have less reasons to feel bitter about other people). I think my cat too would love the quiet life with me.

..... Maybe I should just give up on expecting to find that perfect job working for somebody (.. anybody).

I feel I should give that life a try! And I am still thinking... and thinking... and thinking... and I still haven't reached any conclusion.

Music that I want to listen to right now....

For a while now, I have the itch to go to a music shop and get myself Michael Buble's CD!!! Don't ask me why, but I have the urge to listen to his songs over and over again until I could not listen to them anymore.

One particular song that I would like to drown myself into at this moment is... "Home". It is slow, very sappy and easy on my ears. I don't have to think about anything, just close my eyes and enjoy the tunes and melodies and the lyrics of course.

Another summer day
Has come and gone away
In Paris or Rome
But I wanna go home
Mmmmmmmm

May be surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
Just wanna go home
Oh I miss you, you know

And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you
Each one a line or two
“I’m fine baby, how are you?”
Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that

Another aeroplane
Another sunny place
I’m lucky I know
But I wanna go home
Mmmm, I gotta go home

Let me go home
I’m just too far from where you are
I wanna come home

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life
It’s like I just stepped outside
When everything was going right
And I know just why you could not come along with me
This was not your dream
But you always believed in me

Another winter day has come
And gone away
In either Paris or Rome
And I wanna go home
Let me go home

And I’m surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel alone
Let me go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

Let me go home
I’ve had my run
Baby, I’m done
I gotta go home
Let me go home
It'll all be alright
I’ll be home tonight
I’m coming back home

So, what's stopping me from running to the shop? Lack of money to buy both the CD and a good Hi-Fi system to play the CD!!!

In the meantime, I just have to listen to it from my trustworthy laptop.

Thoughts for today....

.... I LOVE MY CAT SOOOO MUCH!!!! ... Meow a.k.a. Kemek (i.e. flat) a.k.a. Ewok a.k.a. Sebastian.

There were other names given to him but by people who doesn't see him often! I still call him Meow though... hahahaha

Woo Hoo.... I'm back!

Yes... Got my laptop fixed and paid up my broadband outstanding bill (also telephone bill) so that I can continue to be online from home!!!

But for now, I'll be busy downloading all relevant drivers (this one ... very painful experience lah) for the laptop as I couldn't find the damn CD!!!

Otherwise... life is quite wonderful for now!

Happy Valentine's Day... to those who celebrate the occasion!

Bored

I am bored! Despite having plenty of time to clean the house, file documents, arrange my study room, fold the clothes and groom my cat, I am doing none of those "overdue" stuff.

Instead, I continue to stare at the ceiling, the tv, the wall or nothing in particular.

This new year I should expect better things from myself! Procrastine less for once, would certainly help me! But what can I say... I did not make any new year's resolution to that effect. In fact, I have not been making any resolutions for the past few years.

Many years ago, I stopped making any, but I did make a point to buy myself a new year's present. Something cheap but would be of many use to me, or at least bring more plesure to my simple existence. The best so far I bought myself was a radio cassette for the bathroom. So, waking up early was more plesureable with the music playing while I brush my teeth and take my shower.

But that was many many years ago. I don't even bother to think about what I need anymore nowadays.

But lets face it... I'm beginning to sound like an abnormal person now.

I should procrastinate less... definately.!!! Do this, and many good things will follow!

I'm sure of it, but then again.....