Tuesday, February 28

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!

Monday, February 27

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".

Saturday, February 25

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!

Thursday, February 23

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!


Wednesday, February 22

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.

Saturday, February 18

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.


Wednesday, February 15

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

Monday, February 13

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!