Bye bye exams...forever! muahahaa....

No more exams for meee! Sat for 2 papers today, my right arm and fingers hurt from writing too much. Which is a good sign right- at least I have 'stories' to write :P Plus, tomorrow and day after is HOLIDAY! Yippie!!!!!!! *grin*

I'm feeling on top of the world right now...am going to laze in front of the TV while waiting for D to take me out for dinner....tralala...

Happy Food

No, it doesn't jump around and make funny faces. It's the first thing that came across my mind :P Got this from a link in yahoo.com:

Top Ten Happy Foods - bon apetit!
1. Wild salmon (rich in omega 3 fats and vitamin D)
2. Spinach - (rich in folic acid and soluble fiber)
3. Skim milk - (rich in Vitamin D and B12)
4. Ground flaxseeds (rich soluble fiber, omega 3 fats and folic acid)
5. Blackberries (rich in soluble fiber and folic acid)
6. Omega 3 fortified eggs - (rich in omega 3 fats, Vitamin D and B12)
7. Sardines ( rich in omega 3 fats and Vitamin D)
8. Soybeans - (rich in soluble fiber, folic acid and omega 3 fats)
9. Beans (rich in soluble fiber and folic acid)
10. Brussels sprouts (soluble fiber and folic acid)
Plus an extra for good luck!
11. Sunflower seeds - (rich in soluble fiber and folic acid)

Going downstairs to make myself a large glass of ribena berry juice...yip!

* Yes yes back to studying....

Study Week

I'm off today till next Thurday, preparing and sitting for my last 2 papers. In the month of May and June, I will be busy wrapping up my dissertation and presenting my findings to a panel of lecturers for grading. My dad's comment was 'Wah so easy, told you it's going to be breeze'. I'm taking he's JOKING. Hee...yes the past 2 years odd of studying required a few major sacrifices (e.g. Friday after work drinks with my buddies (on semesters that I had no choice but to attend Friday night classes issh), friends having to adjust our gathering time to suit my class schedules, less girlie dinners, taking annual leave to study (lucky my company gives me 6 examination days off, else its even more miserable to take leave to sit exams) and torturing Kel's ears with my complains (on days when it's a bit too much to handle). I'm going to miss classes, not lectures per sa, but the time spent listening to interesting presentations (I feel we learn more from each other than the course syllabus), laughing at each other's boo boos, sharing latest happenings in town during dinner breaks and sitting together in class and gossiping about our work and the course :P Like in undergrad days, we still keep seats for our friends (I really appreciate this cause I'm always late heee). The few weeks before the end of lectures, our key topic was what we should do after completing our MBA. Many inspiring and interesting ideas- can't wait!

Until then, I will need as many hugs as I can get to keep me going till the end :) Have a great week everyone!

Must watch!

Just saw it in Cineleisure last night. Couldn't stop laughing! William Macy at his best! The synopsis:

A group of middle-aged friends decide to rev up their routine suburban lives with a freewheeling motorcycle trip. Taking a long awaited break from their stressful jobs and family responsibilities, they can't wait to feel the freedom of the open road. When this mis-matched foursome - who have grown far more used to the couch than the saddle - set out for this once-in-a-lifetime experience, they encounter a world that holds far more than they ever bargained for.

Don't leave the cinema until you finish the song. The last part is rather corny :P

Fa Tat

Yes, D's family dog name is 'Get Rich' (direct transaction from Cantonese). I took this picture last weekend, he came into the house when he smelled fried yam and 'tee kuih'. Eats practically anything, likes to be scratched and enjoys chasing after cars. He reminds me of Bart Simpson's dog- Santa's little helper. I think both are the same species. Very cheeky and silly at times ;)

random office pic

Was taken an hour ago by my collegue, using my hp. Didn't realise my phone has the function to take multiple pictures with one click. Here's 2 of the picture taken- the rest were blur. The guy in the picture is one of our section head, who's currently scouting for a new hp- was asking me about my phone, I wasn't much of help:P

Too much stuff on my work desk, time to clean up (again).....

* Just completed my work- I'll be relaxing till it's time to head home...aahh....

Our first deposit

We signed up our wedding package with 'Touch' bridal house (Jln Imbi) last Saturday. Quite spontaneous, since we only took 2.5 days to consider before we signed on the dotted line (after much haggering on the price and freebies heee). It started on Friday night- we took Jensen to One Utama for rock climbing and we came across the advert on this bridal fair so we thought no harm to 'look see'. Touch was the first booth we approached as their gowns looks simple, from browsing pictures in a friend's blog. The quotation for only renting the gowns is expensive, it's far more cheaper to sign the package with studio pictures, car deco, hand bouquet, large photo frame and other things I can't recall right now. Unlike Ivory Romance, whom couldn't understand why I want to look like myself in the pictures and not some super babe, Touch pictures are quite natural and candid. On Saturday, we did a quick survey in LV and Vogue Collection. They have some simple white gowns but their evening gowns are so gordy. eek! Fairytale dresses, bow motive dresses and dresses with shiny beads- not my cup of tea. Packages are so so only, relatively more expensive. On Sunday, we went to Touch and to my relieve, the gowns are simple and nice (of course they have some that is kuah cheong). Rushed home to meet up with 2 event photographers then rushed to One Utama to check out Touch again. We signed our package at 9pm, in time for the 9:30pm lucky draw. Of the 18 prizes, we won consolation prize 11! It will be a lot nicer if we won the free trip to Hong Kong, hee..shouldn't ask for too much- it's lucky enough for someone who usually don't win anything:)

Apple Guava- what a con job!

My mom bought some 'apple guava' from pasar malam yesterday and this morning we realised it's merely guava cutted in the shape of an apple and dyed with apple essence! The fruit seller told her it is a new breed of 'guava and apple' fruit, and gave them a slice to taste. The slice they had was seedless and the guy sold them 3 'apple guava' for RM7. The plastic bag is now filled with fluorescent green liquid *eek*.

Looks like an apple?

Skinless guava stained with apple flavoured essence!.Product from Thailand.

Beware of what you buy in pasar malam.

Now 29...

next year the big 30. Believe it or not, I'm actually looking forward to reach my 30s. My coursemate mentioned that she had the best time of her life when she was 30- 35. Time will pass so fast that I won't know what hit me! Hmm...that I have to experience to see.
I spent my birthday at home, doing my dissertation. My sister had to work that Saturday, so we postponed the cake blowing and lam mee lunch (It's a Hokkien tradition to eat this during celebration- at times it's called Birthday Mee) to Sunday. D took my car when he went for morning hill walk and returned it with a new cd player! What a nice surprise :) I'm actually quite used to my trusty radio cassettee player but it sure is a bonus to listen to my favourite cds while stuck in traffic. D gave me one of his old cds which he had during secondary school, it's a compilation of some of my forgetten favourites- songs by SWV, Soul Asylum, Take That..and more (not to forget,the theme song of Beverly Hills 91210 hahaha) sure was refreshing listen to these songs again. Kel, Yvonne, Teng and Chia Hui- thanks for the birthday wishes! I'm so glad we are good friends, it sure is lovely to receive your greetings each year- I'm never sick of it! Heee.

The rugged cross...

We may not know, we cannot tell
What pains He had to bear;
But we believe it was for us
He hung and suffered there.
—Alexander

(quoted from the Our Daily Bread)

Picture: flickr (by Cieleke)

Day 2 of Silence

God, please make my voice come back..and if it's not too much of trouble, pls remove this piercing pain from my throat too. Amen.

I'm experiencing how it's like to be 'dumb'. Today, I went to Suria KLCC over lunchtime to buy Jensen's birthday present (yes it's today, at least I'm not late rite?). I just realised it's very challenging to buy presents for teenage boys. How difficult is it to buy a T-Shirt? I tell you..first, the prints- it either have 'indecent' language written on it (I saw one with 'I rather be HARD at work', and another with 'Fly with Rubberman' with a picture of an innocent cute flying alien, when looked closely, is wearing a helmet in the shape of a condom) or has splashes of designs at odd places , overlapped with meaningless words, such as 'Love run away' or 'Chill Street'. OK. Then I recalled he liking this polo design t-shirt with two collars (D and I bought it from Hong Kong, not realising it has 2 collars of different colours, and apparantly it's an 'IN' thing- we didn't tell him that, since he now thinks we are cool heee) so I tot I get something similar just a different colour. Now, after much searching, I found the pinkish orangie version in Padini. Stupid enough, the T-shirts were hanged so high that even I have to jump to reach it. Not wanting to jump since I'm wearing a shirt, I had to ask the sales assistant to get it for me.
Obviously she can't hear me, so I screamed (but still sound very soft) and she had to move close to me to hear me say 'I want one in XL pls'.

Ok that's settled. My throat is now red and sore (after much screaming at other sales assistance for other things I saw which I thought was interesting), I rushed to guardian to buy honey. Couldn't find it, so asked the sales assistant.

AL: Can pls show me where's the honey?
Sales Assistant: Harr?? Whatt???
AL: HONEY!!!!
Sales Assistant: Money???
AL: Ok, MADU
Sales Assistant: Harrr? CAR?
AL:!!!! WAIT
*Opened my handbag, took out a pen and wrote 'MADU' on a piece of random receipt (which I should had done a long time ago
Sales Assistant: Ohh..sorry couldn't hear you. She looked at another Sales lady, then the lady asked me..
Sales Assistant 2: How can I help you?
AL: !!!!!!!!? *sweating*
Sales Assistant: Oh she looking for Honey.
*At this point, Sales Assistant 2 looked at me at a funny way....

Sales Assistant 2 did show me the honey section, and I got CAPILANO in a 'easy to squeeze' bottle (coz it has a really cute waving bumble bee printed on the label..and of course, its convenient to use in the office since I don't have a teaspoon..hee). I'm v impressed, it don't drip, as stated on the label (Non Drip, No Mess). Hurray...

Now my collegues are eating dodol, Sue just asked Steve if Ai Leen could have some and Steve said NO.
Sue: Ai Leen, you tengok kita makan saja hor
AL:!!!! ARRGGG (in the heart, too painful to scream after all that...)

:) Hope the day is kind to everyone