I am still pasty green over dinner yesterday. A little background information, it was a business dinner so some formalities are in place... PLUS more importantly, I am a rather picky eater and I never ever take seafood simply because it disgusts me. This is what was served yesterday:

1. Winter melon soup with shark fin. (blech... I so hate eating sharks because it's cruel plus it's like chewing filaments)
2. Clams with vegetables (ewww... the clams were rubbery and gooey and I had to swallow mine with tea or risk puking)
3. Grilled cod with mayonaisse and onions (fish is tolerable... thank God it's grilled...)
4. Roasted country chicken with spicy sauce (WOOHOO! CHICKEN!!! GOD BLESS POULTRY!!!)
5. Abalone with fried beancurd (oh gawd... I totally skipped this and ate the beancurd... beancurd was good... couldn't stomach any more seafood though... blech)
6. Prawn porridge (GAWD! enough with the seafood already! BLECH!)
7. Guillinggao for dessert (as much as I like cold jelly desserts, I really don't fancy one made from tortoises... disgusting!!!)

I finished the cut chillies, the sambal and had at least 15 cups of chinese tea to get by without turning green or puking. I really couldn't care how much it costs, seafood is really really disgusting. I am so thankful there weren't any legged ones like crabs or lobsters. I'll die if I had to eat mantis prawns (DISGUSTING!!!). Dinner was had with business partners who are British and gawd, they could eat! They ate and ate and chewed and chewed and made my stomach turn twice over just looking at them. Please please please let there be no more dinners like that! GAWD the agony!!!

I feel sick all over again...

It has been an eventful morning in the office filled with drama and potential lawsuits. Being a co-signee on all official documents will not be good for me when I get a subpoena. Gah. (keeps fingers crossed).

First up, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZEKE! Many happy returns for the day. :) I hope you have great plans and a huge fruit cheesecake with generous spreads of blueberries and strawberries with chocolate chunks and fresh fruits. :)

Secondly, I need sleep... late nights these past few days are not helpful and I'll have another late one today. Have a business dinner at Eastin. I hope it's not too formal coz my formal etiquette knowledge really needs work.

Can't wait for Friday. At least it's the middle of the week already. Sigh...

Had a talk with my cousins last night. Here are snippets of the conversation:

David (6 yrs) : Come and watch TV with me. The house number is '5' '1'. Can remember?
Debbie (3 yrs): Come back to room.

Gosh... will make it a point to visit them at least once a week. As bratty as they are... it's always good to be missed and they are close family.

First official night alone yesterday was eerie. Having no background noises like people talking and the TV blasting takes getting used to. After getting a quick sandwich dinner, I locked myself in the room and killed time with Magic on the PC. Reading an article on ghosts in the Star did not help my imagination. This is why I don't watch horror movies.

New week, new home. I have finally moved and I spent 10 minutes last night watching the water come to boil. I miss the TV.

Had a good weekend. Did more shopping to the woe of my credit account. Went to Summit, Giant, Carrefour, Subang Parade, Tesco, 1Utama, IOI Mall and Ikea. Phew.

Not quite in a blogging mood today... so till I'm inspired... tada.

Bleary eyed Thursday. Never a good way to start the day being groggy. Came back last night so had to stay up to catch the repeat of Charmed. Which thus lead to oversleeping and general lack of sleep.

I came so close to being kept within my budget seeing how April is so near. But alas... I just HAD to go into a mall yesterday and all the things I want just HAPPENED to be on sale. Ah well... only consolation is that the things I got are really needed though it would have been nice to be within budget just this once!

Horrors of horrors. I might have to go to Kedah again on Sunday. This time just the boss and I. Sigh... it's such an exhaustive trip and I am so hoping it gets postponed. At least do it on the weekday so my weekends are not ruined. Darn these PAS-led states and their stupid weekend system.

Am watching Hot Chick over the Hours this weekend. I am so shallowy mainstream.

Am having some problems with my Maybank2u account now. I seem to have this technical curse that jinxes all my online transactions. Gah... have to go and reset it shortly. (no hackers this time, silly old me forgot the password)

I left early yesterday and reached home at the pleasant hour of 6pm. Was about to go for a jog when I decided to lie on the bed for a while. Next I knew, it was 8pm. So bathed, ate then went to sleep again till this morning. Was more exhausted from the trip than I realised. I am such a lousy traveller.

I've given up watching CNN, which I think is so biased and silly, not to mention crassly commercial, that any news value you get isn't worth the watch. There should be a global news agency with no country affiliation. Until that happens, no news is ever the truth. And we should all remember that. Always two sides to a coin, and news writers will tend to inject personal opinions whether consciously or otherwise.

War seems to be set for a long run. May peace and common sense prevail.

Am finally back from a 2 day work-trip to Penang and Kedah. As tired as I am, it's always good to start the official work week on any day but OogaBooga day. :)

Click here to see pictures from the trip

War's still on and increasingly massive. Here's something to ponder over:



Have a good day.

The war has begun. I guess it was inevitable and both sides have logic to their argument. Though if the shaky US coalition does succeed in disarming Iraq, I will definitely be just a wee bit happier.

The techno buff in me is somewhat intrigued with the war. I know we really don't need one and it's really sad with mass losses of life, but I can't help but admire the technological advances in today's warfare. I have a sudden compulsion to read a Clancy book.

Anyway, I have heard enough doomsayers and nonsensical prophecies that I'll probably sock the next person who mouths it. Wars are inevitable for humankind... we are just too diverse and too caught up with ourselves. And whatever the future holds, life is still very much precious, so best live it in the present than let it be guided by lunatics from the past.

Somber Friday this... hope you guys have a good weekend. I'll be off to Penang on Sunday and then to Kedah on Monday for work. Will blog again Tuesday.

Is it just me or is this monogamy vs. polygamy issue being tossed about locally is really silly? First there's comments about how responsible Muslim men should take on single mothers as wives in order to fulfil their needs and then there's if men can take 4 wives, why not the women? And now it's monogamy should be stressed and taught and polygamy abandoned but woe... it's written in the Quran that 4 wives can be taken so that can't be debated about. SILLY! Don't these people have anything better to do? What's with this need to control everything? Whatever happened to individual freedom within constraints of common sense? Ludicrous times we live in...

War looks set to begin. May God bless us all for the rash judgements of a few.

Convo details are finally up. Crappy... looks like a day leave needs to be wasted and RM75 down the drain. Gah...

I have so much work and aunt kindly piles on me HER office work for me to help with. GAH! Can't she use her staff??? It's not my problem if they're inept. GAH! I can't wait to move out. Thank gawd that's only 2 weeks away.

Met Jacq for lunch yesterday, with Beng of course. Had a decent lunch which as usual, had me all sweaty. Crowded coffee shops with sparingly few fans and a steaming bowl of mihun curry is not a good combination for someone with active sweat glands.

(I am grumpy today... I feel like biting someone... public be warned)

I notice that I tend to start my blog by stating the day. I should refrain from doing so from now on, with exceptions on the two special days, which no introduction is needed. Ah Friday, where for art thou?

Gym was weird this morning. Outside of the fact that I have been a pig this past few days and have been neglecting me diet and thus be grossly out of shape... the gym was really weird. The spooky old guy (he likes to sit and stare at people's posterior) and the gym instructor was engaged in a conversation about the following:

1. the vicious flu epidemic that they think Saddam let loose and will eventually kill us all.
2. prostrate problems and all issues regarding male urination.
3. which eventually led to a heated discussion on erectile dysfunction (complete with real life examples).
4. and hot nurses and the hospitals where they're from.

Now, instructor was at one end of the room and spooky guy at the other so they had to converse at very loud voices. And who was in the middle but me, nicely trying to mind my own business but turning beet red nevertheless. Gosh... I need to come in the evening when younger people are out in force. (happy thoughts, happy thoughts).

(back to work...)

My earlier blog was not published. Gah... here goes the second revision. (it's definitely OogaBooga day... for the record, I'm also an hour late to work today... darn)

Had a good birthday makan last nite in celebration of Meng's belated birthday! Thanks Meng for the treat. We ate at Little Bali at Sri Hartamas, food was decent but I could have ordered something better than fried noodles in thick gravy. We also had the chance to meet Bobbie Tan! Decent chap... a tad furry all over and he's so small! :D I can see why the parents are so proud. Bobbie is so adorable!

On another note, a more depressing one, my old yahoo account has officially been stolen. I feel violated. My account was hacked into and password changed. Yahoo! can't do anything about it as there's no way for me to prove my identity. So ah well... I really miss that account. It has been with me for a long time. Sigh... hackers are evil. :(

Lots of work to do... so I should start. Take care all... and live long and proper... (hehehe)

You have exceeded the maximum number of login tries for the Yahoo ID xxxxxx. The account has been temporarily locked for your security. You can wait 12 hours before trying to login again, or recover your ID and/or password by confirming your private information.

GAH! Bloody email account. I'm guessing either it's a Yahoo problem, my password has been hacked or that my account was made screwy when two yahoo accounts was opened on my computer simultaneously yesterday... (it's apparently not allowed). Meng however said that I sent her a flurry of badwords... that kinda inclines towards the hacker theory... so please disregard any messages from me prior. I hope it gets resolved but in the meantime, please do not send me email via that address. Ask me or Meng for my new ID for the interim. Thank you.

Watched Star Trek Nemesis yesterday. :D It was good... Flashy effects, decent storyline, and all the crappiness you come to expect from a Star Trek movie. :D

Anyways, tis a Friday!!! Have a good weekend all... ciaos!

Interesting meeting this morning at Nikko hotel. A little pooped though since brain had to start grinding so early. Tired tired tired.

Was on the way to the hotel in the car when I realised that the car had such an overpowering fragrance. Don't ever remember seeing an air freshener and I know boss distinctly dislikes artificial scents so left me wondering quite a bit. It took me 15 minutes before I realised the fragrance was my cologne. Gah. It's never a good thing to have overpowering cologne. Darn. I feel so humiliated. (though I do smell good)

Meeting up Chun and Saw this evening. I hope no wretched wrench finds its way into my plans. And woohoo... tomorrow is a Friday. :)

Good morning. It's a mighty sleepy Wednesday and I have a bee sting on my scalp. Didn't hurt that much surprisingly (and that's a GOOD thing). I hope the rest of the day will be uneventful.

Am feeling better today. And that's because I have work. I get restless when I'm at work without work.

On yesterday's sentiment, I still think us humans as a species really needs rethinking though. I read in the Star the other day about this competition where students compose and present their essays, this time titled something like whether venturing into space is worthwhile. I don't know why but this really gets to me. It is true that a lot of money is spent on space research and travel and money could be better used here sometimes but space is an investment that we cannot ignore. Earth is but a puny planet and if we think us superior, the race is doomed (which is why I don't think religion makes sense outside of some emotional security). I am positive that life outside of earth is not just feasible but very much likely and they probably think themselves superior as well. We can't even decide on a universal system of belief back on earth, and what, we had centuries to fight it out. But venturing into space I think will be very unifying. If we can see ourselves beyond a country, race or even religion and as a small member of the vast universe, maybe people have better sense then.

Anyways, enough space/theological babble. Everyone has a right to their own beliefs, just as long as they don't delude themselves into thinking that they're supremely right and begin imposing on others. Open-mindedness I think is something that all religion lacks.

Have a good day now.


(woohoo! Star Trek Nemesis opens tomorrow! woohoo!)

I would like to take this opportunity to wish Meng a very Happy Birthday. May the year be blessed and may good company you keep.

I am in serious philosophical bouts, particularly why life is the way it is. Who on sane terms define slogging behind desks for hours on end to earn enough money to be able to waste it again in order to be happy? If lemmings are lame, the human race isn't so far behind. That plus this bloody war campaign, politics, prejudice and everything that makes the world go round is for no apparent reason, grating on my nerves. Humans suck.

Weekend was like the weather. Generally good with intermittent occurences of really sucky events. I hate gamblers, especially old ones. I even pushed an old lady who can't seem to queue and instead prefers to jostle her way through everyone. The casino will wait for you. Get a life and talk to your children instead.

Thus this blog is ended. Mood will pass. No patronising comments please. Have a good week all.

My previously green bananas are a golden yellow today... :D it has just gotta be Friday.

More meetings today. One very soon and another in the afternoon. Ah well. Gonna have lunch today as well for colleague who's leaving. Sigh. She sits just beside me so one good thing is that now that she's gone, I've hurriedly put up a partition between the tables for some privacy. Couldn't do it earlier for fear of hurting her feelings! I feel so cozy and enclosed now in my semi-partitioned cubicle. :D

Last week my boss and I went to a meeting in blue... thought nothing of it since I'm always in blue. Then we had a photo taken with me accidentally blinking so one eye was partially shut. So was my boss. Then last week we went to a presentation in grey. Felt a little peculiar but brushed it off. Now yesterday, we went to another presentation both in white AND similar gold ties. FREAKY!

Anyways, I can't wait for the weekend. Going to Megamall tomorrow for some exhibition AFTER I help Saw with house cleaning and then it's off to Genting on Sunday thru to Monday. (am doing the dance of joy). Have a good weekend all... :)

First up, a big congratulations to Chun, Saw and team for clinching first place at the Talenttime! :D (applause all round)

Came back from the presentation. I don't think I did all that well. Stuttered, fumbled, and spoke in garblygook until Q&A. I actually love Q&A and I'm always ok answering questions. It's presenting that gets to me. Then again, I don't really practise and like to wing it. Must make it a point to practise speaking! (I only present well when I am not intimidated, but most of the people we present to are so scary).

Boss came back yesterday from his trip so it's whiplashing back to work. Left work about 730pm yesterday to clear up the sudden deluge. Only thing kept me going was Irish Cream Truffles (with liquer) that boss brought back. Can anyone say 'sugar rush'? :D

Today is a day of mixed emotions. One of my colleagues resigned. And don't mean to be biased, but in an office of 6 people, it's good to have 1 that you can talk to. A little sad that she's gone but I can understand her reasons. Two new people will be coming though, one programmer and Beng, Jacq's significant other half. (I guess I can make that known now since boss has confirmed it). So office dynamics is going to change and there will be somewhat of a hierarchy in place. Change is good but too much change is befuddling.

Gonna go to new house today to help Saw clean. Will move out in April only though. Am looking forward to the 3-day weekend (God bless Selangor and its many many holidays). Am going to Genting to watch Sinbad and destress. Thank gawd for life's little pleasures.

Morning. Today feels like OogaBooga day. Tis sucks.

Am tired and a little disoriented with significant changes of plan. Like Saw said, it's infuriating when you get a wrench thrown into nicely laid plans. As you might have guessed, house moving has been delayed due to unforeseen circumstances which in turn messed up my weekend plans and then boss dropped a bombshell and needs me to go to Kedah anytime. That plus a big presentation tomorrow which I'm not particularly prepared for since it's a new product is giving me bad nerves. Days like this really make you feel like going into early retirement.

Anyways, best of luck to Chun, Saw and team tonight at the talentime! I'm sure first is an attainable goal just don't sprain anymore wrists or ankles along the way!

Ooga... Booga...

Thank gawd it's a holiday tomorrow. This is probably the most pleasant of OogaBooga days ever. :) No boss, half of the staff on leave and a day off following. Woohoo...

Moving out day tomorrow. (that is if all goes well). Haven't heard confirmation from Saw yet so I'm still not too sure. However, I'm all packed, ready, and raring to go. Went for a drive to look for the house yesterday. Found out after a good 25 minutes. Pretty cramped area seeing as how the roads are double parked but house seems cosy like. :D Watch out for updates.

Weekend was pretty good but gawd, it was sooo warm! You could sweat just doing nothing. Phew... hot hot hot. Went on a mini shopping spree though in preparation for moving house. Lots of things that I use are my aunts so gotta get me stuff for meself. Got me a plant as well, in consolation for not being able to get a dog. Sigh.

Anyways, happy day off tomorrow. Anyone wanna help clean house? :)