Nice Surprise

Been quite a depressing week for me (wind in my tummy plus some emotional disturbing news)-even buying our dream sofa at Lorenzo couldn't cheer me up. Yesterday, I received a call from an ex-MBA uni mate (she graduated last year) at my office phone. She wished me congratulations and gave some advice on what to expect when I walk up the stage this Wednesday. So sweet of her, I hardly know her yet she took the time to call me. Today, we received a congratulations email from her with a cookie picture. So cute, instantly put a smile on my face :) Its great to know that everyone is making initiative to keep in contact and to meet up as often as we can. Really appreciate the KLCC lunch appointments and outing arrangements, think I'm going to stop shying away and join them more often. It's going to be great.

Books you don't want to read

Both of my vacation books were sucky :( I was trilled to find 'The Place Called Here' at the resort library (I became a huge fan of Cecelia Ahern after reading PS I love You and If You Could See Me Now) but it was terribly dissappointing! I finished reading the book in a day- practically flipping the pages after 2/3 of the book. I bought 'Still Thinking of You' for the trip, as I was happy with the other Adele Parks's novel I read a few weeks back. 'Still Thinking of You' is so unrealistic- too much drama between friends and lovers. The characters are good friends back in high school. Got together for a 5 days SKI trip and to withness the marriage of Rich and Tash. In the story plot, there's the revengeful ex gf (one of the guy's lil sis who tagged along coz she recently broke up with her bf, who so happened to be Rich), super high flyer friend who was sack for insider trading and has not guts to tell his wife, Mia who is desperate to get pregnant and planned a scheme to be impregnant by her good friend cum ex bf....I think I've made my point :P Adele Parks is way to ambitious this round.

p.s. I've checked the comments for both books in amazon.co.uk, both has 3.5 stars rating. I think they deserve a 1 star (ok, 2 stars). Then again, the ratings can't really be trusted, since most books are 3.5 stars...hmm!

p.s.s I'll blog about my trip to PLR soon...once i've gotten hold of the pictures ;P

The weekend passed in a flash!

I'm totally exhausted! Just managed to take a long warm shower (with a good scrub down- you'll know why later) and am waiting for my hair to dry while blogging :) Friday evening, I left work on the dot, had my 2 hours facial and quick dinner with D at the Black Canyon (had interesting fusilli cooked with seafood and chillis). Saturday morning, had v. yummy nasi lemak then went to the hardware shop with D, F-FIL and F-MIL to buy paint for the place. Settled for ICI Dulux Pearl Glo, Lily White for the hall. Yup, we decided to paint the condo by ourselves! Got the other necessary stuff, then head to the condo to clean up, check what need to be done up plus count the lighting points. Rushed home, took shower then drove to Bridal Hse to choose our wedding pics (too lazy to blog about our picture taking experience..maybe some other time heee). Our appointment was at 2pm, we reached at 3pm (got stuck in a bad traffic jam in KL, due to road diversion) and we chose our pictures till 7pm (including time off in between to eat lunch)! Definitely much more tiring than choosing the gowns! We had so many things to decide- not only the pictures we want in our album, but also the look and feel of the album, picture placing design, which pictures to put on 10R frames, type of frames, which to print out as chee mui pictures and other stuff that I can't recall now. Lucky F-MIL tagged along- I was numb after 2 hours, she was there to alert me of my wrong decisions :P The picture choosing was fast for us. We spent most of our time in choosing the Family Shots and which 3 pictures to put on the big frame. YES, I'm so relieved that it's over. After all that, we rushed home to take shower and dress up for Per & Jien's wedding in Ti-Chen, Saujana Subang. Nice ambience to have a small wedding. As the wedding is small, our terribly late 'grand' entrance was v. obvious! My friends were surprised cause I'm usually not late for weddings, oh well, unforseen circumstances haihz. Saw D's aunt and uncle at the wedding too, small world. Got home at 10.30pm, took a quick shower, collapsed on the bed and snored immediately. Woke up at 8:30 am on Sunday, dragged myself up for breakfast and paint session. On our way, we stopped by (ok, not really on the way) the mitsubishi showroom to check out the new Lancer. Pretty cool car. Took quite some time to drag D and F-FIL out of the showroom and get them focused on our agenda :P We managed to start painting and finished the walls in the hall (yippie, it looks so cozy now) with a lot of help from F-FIL and Seri. Got my good pair of shorts covered with paint hee. In between, D and I went out to pick up my cousin, WP from the LRT Station (she couldn't get a ticket back to Kuantan, the poor girl had to hang out in the condo while we finish our paint job...thks for being so patient, WP. Lucky she had her Harry Porter book to read). Cleaned up the mess, then rushed to the airport to pick up my parents. Went for dinner, got home and chit chat with my parents, then shower...ahh....my hair is almost dried now, think i'll hit the sack, nitey nite...zzz...

p/s Gosh just realised I've not blogged about Colin's bday party, will do that soon...

I'm graduating...again!! hee hee

Just read my email, I've officially graduated! wooohoo! The convo is on 5 Sept. The feeling is simply overwhelming..and much much more satisfying than getting my degree. Probably because there's more personal sacrifices involved, like attending evening classes (3 weekdays) instead of sitting at home relaxing and watching telly/ read my book, no happy hour drinks on Fridays (gosh, I can still hear your complains...hehe), dragging myself to uni on weekends for group assignments...and paying for the course fees myself :P It really helps to have very understanding people around me- my parents of course (they practically schedule their activities following my timetable), friends who r never tired of listening to me grumble (haha...I like to believe that :P) and of course my motivator, D. It's simply great, and I truely recommend studying part-time to those who are up for the challenge. Sure, there's a lot of work and sacrifices u have to make to attend night classes- but all is worth it at the end (yeah I can say that right now...haha).