the bells are ringing

today is by far the most boring day at work! that's the downside of working at an investment bank.. when there's not much trading activity since it's the school holidays now and with the world cup around the corner, there's nothing much to do! because of that, i got pranked by my colleagues >.<>i guess it's not easy to go through years of ups and downs with a particular person, sharing all your life experience growing together as an entity. it's a blessing to be able to make it through and bring the relationship to the next level.

*melts*


Jim Brickman & Tara MacLean - You

I never felt alone
I was happy on my own
And who would ever know there was something missing
I guess I didn't see the possibility
It was waiting all the time
But it never crossed my mind
Till you opened up my eyes
Now all I think about is

You in my life
In my dreams
In my heart I know it's true
That I belong with you
Because of you in my world
In my arms
I have everything and now
I can't imagine what I'd do
Without you

I never thought that love could be
Such a curiosity
But what attracted you to me
Was so unexpected
But it was waiting all the time
And it never crossed my mind
Until you opened up my eyes
Now all I think about is

In my life
In my dreams
In my heart I know it's true
That I belong with you
Because of you in my world
In my arms
I have everything and now
I can't imagine what I'd do
I can't imagine what I'd do
Without you
Without you

i just had a hell of a day.

for the first time, it felt as if i was from gheyland and not the island. i actually spent 10 hours in total at that place and drove around as if i knew the place at the back of my fingertips. (maybe a little laa) i give myself some credit for being able to actually make my way to sunway from inderawasih without any help. so this is what my day summed up to:

• sunway damn boring to jalan. though i heard those departmental stores crying for my attention, i didnt find anything to my liking =/
  
• all segafredo franchises should like seriously stock up on their tomatoes! if you dont have 'em, dont put it in your menu! at least let your customers know what's available and what's not to avoid disappointing them and put them into another dilemma in deciding what to order again. one more time they tell me that they are out of tomato tonic, i'm going to go to the market, get a tonne of over-ripe tomatoes and have a La Tomatina with all the segafredo franchises in penang.
  
• Guinness has got this sourish weird malt taste to it. not bitter, but SOUR like malt really gone bad. lols and mind you, my taste buds are perfectly fine.
  
• gheyland's got pretty much some nice food and the duck egg fried koay teow in BM (Bukit Mertajam) is da bomb! the smell of it is just.. mmm yumms~! cant wait for the next time there again. heck, cant wait for food trail!
  
• the bridge's so much pweetier at night. pweety street lights all lined up in rows while overlooking the other pweety lights from the island and gheyland. *hearts* i cant even remember when was the last time i traveled across the bridge during the night.
  

on another note, i might have drowned earlier tonight? yes, i love the water and might want my ashes to be spread out in the sea as well, but i dont think i actually had drowning in the 15ft end of a swimming club pool in mind.. i've been helping dad out at his pool lessons, taking over some of his classes when he's got too many students to handle in one night, for a few years now. but tonight's lesson was by far the most challenging, one which puts all my years of experience to test. to cut the story short, the worse case scenario? it's either the fella ends up on the surface like what he wants BUT with a punctured lung or i drown. meh.

while we're at this topic, bare with some of my rants which i've put some thought and observation at for quite some time now. scuba diving isnt a sport or an activity which u seek glamour from learning it. it's not about how many dives and how deep you've gone or where you've dove before. it also isnt about feeling more superior just cos you've had your hand in a sport which not everyone has the chance to experience. yes, i admit it's an expensive sport but so what? it's not for you to show off. and now with cheap and fast courses the other commercialised diving school are offering (which i shall not mention in detail here), every tom, dick and harry can "proudly" say that, "i can scuba dive". i can feel and sense that it's starting to become what i would call, "overrated". the way how i dont like it with the iPhones (will touch on that another day). i do see people around who boast that they can dive but they dont even know nuts about appreciating the underwater world. do you even know how to take care of your gear or nottt?? do you even know how to set up your tank properly or nottt?? no righttt?? then shhhuutttuppp.

on an even random note, i miss our quartet i miss our quartet i miss our quartet. i saw ming and yan's vid recording of 'more than words' for sonia darling's birthday. sweeet =) and oh! i found videos from sookie's camera of the english week back in form5 - our drama, singing and the stupid things we did at the hall after the event. sadly, sookie's digital camera back then didnt come with the voice recording so the vids i have are like the ones of charlie chaplin's films. sigh. i miss singing with the girls like SO much! how we would work on the songs together and practice for over a million gazillion times just to perfect it! =) we so need to get together and make a comeback! lol

look what i dug up!

us performing at Vanilla's Place during the French Arts Festival, 2004.♥

quick update

ouh mee gawd. amy must stop procrastinating and get her wobbly fat ass back on track! stop slacking amy! *slaps* i had the most challenging week ever in this semester.. well, in regards of school work that is.. but all thanks to me laziness, i brought procrastination up to another level.

work assigned: 2 months from deadline
work started: 2 days from deadline

i was trying the impossible.. i had to take up clark kent's job, to be superwoman for 2 whole days. =/ and mind you, it isnt as simple as a "cut and paste" assignment. but requires a lot of research and reading on the current issue of implementing the new Goods and Services (GST) tax in Malaysia, which i dont like. lol and it constitutes 50% of my grade. meh. but thank God i was allowed to do it either in the malay language or english. so i saved a whole lot of time not having to translate my work into the malay language. haahaa i managed to pull through in the end.. but with the total of 10 hours of sleep in 48 hours plus the over-scheduled weekend before and the tiresome drive back to uni.

all in all, taxation's a bitch! even accounting students will definitely agree with me on that. =)

other than that, been busy filling up my schedules! cos i dont need free time in my hands which only leads to self-destruction, kamikaze mode. meh.

oh well. eenie minie moe. this is going to be interesting *smirks*

he ate my ♥

u make me smile like the sun

first thing's first, i'm back in uni. the good part of it is, apparently i'm not "emo" about it. the bad part is that it suddenly struck to me that I HAVE HEAPS OF WORK TO DO. which also means i cant even go home this weekend even though it's a long weekend off! but i guess i can at least spend more time with my uni friends since it's the last semester i'll ever see or even get to know them better. i've been up and about ever since i got back. but yet, i'm taking my own sweet time here, blogging. lol

embrace yourself people, i've turned over a new leaf. lols it seems to me that my tolerance level just climbed up a few notches. may it be for alcohol or just being patient. okay, i'm referring more on the latter. we shall discuss more about the former on another day. lol the past few days had been, pleasant. i wasnt stressed up over the pile of work load waiting for me, neither did i get agitated with the other drivers on the road while driving back to uni (and amazingly i didnt even went more than 120 km/h), nor to the fact that i cant even have my dear lappie turned on for more than 10 minutes before it decides to act spastic over and over again.

bottom line, i was and still am in a good mood.

to the point where i can laugh and smile at my own silly-ness rather than get all worked up with myself. me likey =) yes, i have been very very silly these days. i just spent an hour walking in circles trying to find a non-existent room of the wrong faculty. i swear, i could have just burst into tears if someone were to taunt me right at that moment. lols


my facial muscles are soon going into a spasm and will be stuck in that position if i continue to smile like an idiot all day long.


i better head off with my work. the upcoming 3 weeks will be a blast. shoot.

2 more hours. 120 more minutes. 7200 more seconds. =(

fairytales do come true!

was up and about with the usual spring cleaning routine when i got bored and decided to turn on the house pc and just surf around the numerous favourite links i frequently browsed back in high school. stumbled upon xiaxue's blog and came across the sweetest true love story i've ever read, here. how two total strangers from different sides of the world (well, sort of) came together. how Mike, xiaxue's fiancé, took that bold chance of meeting the girl of his dreams and now they are happily engaged. i think angmohs are more romantic lor.. haha. asian guys are just so... cinapek? no wonder romantic novels and such are written by whites. lols

the proposal video:
http://www.clicknetwork.tv/watch.aspx?c=1&p=8&v=268

i teared watching that vid. i dont know why but i just did.

but the bottom line is, FAIRYTALES DO COME TRUE!! =)

the things which makes you think you've matured.. a bit.

i just wasted spent about 2 and a half hours bowsing through my old blog. yes, the one that suddenly refused to work properly after all those years of attention and love i had poured into. but thankfully i'm still able to access the archives of those long forgotten post from donkey years ago through my account.

apparently, reading only about a selective quarter of a total of 342 posts somehow put a smile on my face and gave me hope. i managed to pull through those dreadful days months back then. what is it that's stopping me now? those days were erratic and just plain awful. but i found a few particular posts very encouraging for myself. one of them being:

"it's hard to learn to take the first step yourself
babies struggle hard to balance and take their first steps
the first few steps always end in falls
but they have support, their parents are there to guide and to help them
slowly step by step, the baby soon learn to walk
once they start to walk, they will not crawl anymore.

if i hadn't learn to love and find happiness, it wouldnt be so hard now
i won't have to fall back in fear, i would have continued walking on just as i was

but life isn't about 'what if's and 'maybe's.. what's done has been done.
it's just a long road to walk on whether you like it or not.

keep walking."

i used to write very much better back then. my stories were nonsensically hillarious, even those that were meant to be written when i'm pissed and unsatisfied with something.

though it may be somewhat a little different this time, but i'll still keep Johnnie Walker in mind.. lols =)

iNerd

today is a day to be remembered, seriously. i had my first clean sweep through every floor of the 4-storey university library for the very first time considering the fact that i'm already in my last semester. i even borrowed 2 books non-related to assignments or whatsoever that i'm studying! yes i know, be amazed. LOL well, apparently i've been hearing numerous comments throughout the semesters on how complete our library is, having one of the best collections among the rest of the local universities. so yeah, i decided to check it out myself since i finally have to do some real research for my assignment.

i was actually quite impressed with the near complete collection of journals in all fields of study, dating back to the 18th century. but i'd say it would be perfect if they are actually able to update and get hold of those from the more recent years, at most till year 2008? the latest one i could find for my assignment was from year 2006. we're already in year 2010. =.=" well aside from that, i'd say they have a decent range of books on social sciences, law and etc. but relatively, they have a wider range of books on business. i guess they have a standard to keep up with considering the fact that the uni is trying to promote their business school. the fictional section on the other hand, is just so... saddening. only about 3-4 short isles filled with seriously outdated books. i didnt find interest in them so i didnt even bother to peek but i could tell by the looks of the condition of those poor books.

apart from that, i did come across a number of interesting books like an autobiography of Shirley Temple Black - the Child Star, true stories of the Marilyn Monroe case, and even a collection of psychotic mental disorder books which includes anorexia, trauma and etc. not forgetting the all-time famous books for dummies. i was actually more interested in books on baking and interior decorating. but sad to say, i was a little disappointed. not only were those books terribly outdated, but also the size of those sections were so small! they only had one shelf of books on interior decorating while only 2 shelves on baking and cooking put together! sigh.

on a brighter note, out of those 2 pathetic shelves, i managed to find this! *grins*


52 recipes on cookies which includes white chocolate and dried cranberry cookies, fudge-topped toffee cookies, cream cheese cookies and many more mouth-watering ones! yumms.. perfect timing for the coming chinese new year. =)

while this is the other book i borrowed:

something that doesnt really describe me, i just dont like making decisions. but there's something to it which i find very interesting and true while flipping through the pages. i got this from the preface:

"... difficulty with decisions complicates all aspects of our lives. It blocks emotional growth and development, leads to multiple failures - especially in relationships - and contributes to the repression of feelings, sowing the seeds of poor health."

i couldnt agree more! i used to know someone who seriously, desperately needs to read this book. but oh well, no harm for me to gain more knowledge as well =)

but for now, it's back to business. my assignments are wailing. i can hear them in sync chanting, "stop procrastinating, time to start working!" lols.

i cant wait to get back and start baking! whee~

yes, amy's alive!

they say a picture paints a thousand words..

so, nah...

i shall let the photos do the talking. since all these occasions occured at least a month ago which obviously had already been blogged about in my dearies' blogs.. i'm the slow poke. =)

clockwise from top left : New Year's Eve @ ming's, pre-CNY partying @ MOIS, CNY @ ming's, camwhoring @ E&O, Ming's bday @ SoII and Steamboat buffet for January babies @ Xuan Xin.

apart from all those wonderful gatherings, my dull life revolved around my uni. was apparently on "auto-pilot" mode the minute i got back to uni. don't remember much. except for being super busy with assignments, projects, presentations, mid-sem exams and stupid quizes all at one go to the point that i even forgot about dear sooch pooch's birthday.. am so sorry sooch dearie *hugs*

on another note, i'm actually in a dilemma.. deciding on whether or not to continue on getting my Masters.. sigh. will elaborate when i have the time..

till then,

home sweet home =)