Year: 2009

I had an enjoyable evening on Saturday, watching Fish Leong’s concert. Went with 2 other girlfriends and we bought the most expensive tickets. I’ve never bought the most expensive ticket range to any concert before so this is my first and I thought it was worth it. It was an indoor stadium, with air-condition, good sound system and a concert planned with such detail. There were some sentimental moments that melt your heart. I loved the part where there was only the sound of the piano and her singing, which consisted of a medley of her own songs and other artists’ songs. Lovely!

Michael (Guang Liang) was her guest singer and they sang a duet of the song “Zhang Xin”. Ah Niu made an appearance towards the end of the concert (the encore part) where Fish invited her friends to come on stage. I love Ah Niu too, still the same funny guy! Made us laughed so much. Z-Chen was there too, along with Fei Bi (Phoebe), Ah Fai (one of the singer of the band – Baby).

I had a great weekend with the girls until I came home today and received a letter (final reminder) for a payment which I owe to Telekom. I was thinking very hard of how such thing could happen because I do not have any existing phone line registered under my name with Telekom and I didn’t receive any bill or reminders for payments prior to this…and now I’m getting a final reminder. My eyes were like bulging out reading the contents of the letter.

Called Telekom and they said the account was a valid one (I was hoping it was invalid one and it was just a fake letter to scare me). Then, I questioned on why the final reminder that come with a letterhead of that of Telekom but a third-party company. And it puzzles me further when I was told the account was terminated in year 2002…and I’m only getting the reminder now in 2009?

So, I had to rewind my mind a bit and think hard and all I could collect of is that I once borrowed my name to a friend who needed my name and IC to register for a fixed line. I do not remember for what reason he couldn’t use his but I know I allowed him to do so because I was just thinking of helping a friend. And now, this is what’s happening. I do not want to jump to conclusion that fast but it is not a small amount so that is why I was tracing my friend down and asked him if he ever remembered terminating or not paid for the line.

Anyway, I know my friend is going to settle it if it’s the same phone line that was registered under my name that I could think about. I do not know for whatever reason this phone line ended up this way but I seriously didn’t like that I was thrown with such a “surprise” after a few years. And I think I’m also to be blamed for trusting someone too easily. My friend is not a bad person. In fact, he’s helped me in so many ways back then which resulted in me not really mind helping him out with that phone line.

BUT, I would just like to say that, no matter how you trust your friend and no matter how good he/she is as a person, I would say DO NOT ALLOW SOMEONE TO USE YOUR NAME TO REGISTER FOR SOMETHING WHICH IS NOT YOURS because you just wouldn’t know what you’ll be getting in the end.

Like now, my name is already been blacklisted by Telekom. Sucks you know?

Lesson of the day, sometimes it doesn’t pay to be kind. Not in this way.

I just want my name to be cleared from the list and I hope my friend pays for whatever he used to owe. It’s late and I need to sleep but I just couldn’t until I write this out. I think my fengshui lately ada yang tak betul. From tomorrow onwards, I’ve got to work out a plan. Need to re-invent myself. Need to be smarter and more alert and not to be too kind anymore.

I feel better already and I know this case will be solved soon. MUST BE SOLVED.

Just wanted to share this with you, not so much to portray my silliness but so that you don’t fall into the same situation like I did.

My braces…they are one year old. I’ve grown accustomed to having braces that I feel I could actually live with it for the rest of my life. It is already a part of me. The routine of removing the elastic bands when I have meals, putting it on again after meals, waking up from the bed when I realised I forgot to put them on (sometimes telling myself it’s okay to skip a day, if I was really lazy to get out of bed to get those bands), brushing after meals, smiling with braces, changing toothbrush more often than I need to and the list goes on.

The initial timeline was 6 months to go but I doubt it with the current progress and situation so I’m actually looking at another year but I’m fine with that. I just want the process to go as smoothly as possible.

Someone told me I look more mature than before and that I was aging. AGING. And that I should get someone and get married before the SHINE wears off. :-w

Whatever lor. For all I know, I cannot stop the aging process but I don’t feel old. I think I like my life now than how it was a few years ago during my early twenties, which is full of uncertainties, worries, doubts and silliness. It’s not that I’m all certain and geared for everything that comes my way…but I would say I’m in better control and I will strive to have a better grip. I just want to love life and in return life will love me back.

I may be single but I will be someone lovable so that I’ll fall in love with myself first before someone else does. And I really do think that if a person loves you, he will love you for you. Mummy has never failed to complain about Pappy to me, throughout the years, it has always been the same thing. I know she knows it but yet she still wants to repeat it over and over again. Sometimes my ears get a little bored of it…so I’d tell her…”Ma, Pappy is like that and will be like that. You know him. And it all comes in a package, the good and bad.”

I talked to Mummy just a while ago over the phone and tomorrow’s her birthday.

“I’m very scared and worried right now.”

“Why?”

“I think your dad forgot that it’s my birthday.”

“But your birthday is tomorrow. How can you be so sure he forgot about it when it’s not even tomorrow yet?”

“I don’t know. He just seems busy and all. I hope he doesn’t give me any surprise. And please…don’t remind Papa about my birthday. I don’t want any surprises. But I’m still scared and worried.”

OH GOD. FUNNY OR NOT? EHEHE

I can’t wait for tomorrow. I’ve got a date with a girlfriend after work. We will be holding some rich conversation which will be filled with laughter and all my sorrows will seem so far away. I’m going to a concert over the weekend and then to a warehouse sale even though I’m officially broke.

C’est La Vie

I’ve been having more muscle cramps lately and I don’t know why. It used to happen only when I get down to the swimming pool, when I try to get down to the deepest end of the pool and then try to push myself up so that I don’t hit the bottom of the pool. Then, the cramp will come. Knowing this, I’ve tried to get into the pool more gently and so far it’s fine.

Now, I get them when I sleep and sometimes I don’t even have to do anything to get it. I had one yesterday. Was talking to Mummy over the phone and then I was walking and then landed on the bed and then I turned around to the other side, the cramp came and it was so painful, I cannot even hold a conversation, I had to tell Mummy that I’m in pain and I will call back. I waited for the pain to wear out and was sweating a little and by the time the pain was gone, I was tired that I fell into a short nap. I woke up with a sore butt. It’s a bit painful when my butt touches the toilet bowl seat.

Anyway, because I stayed home the whole day yesterday so I was feeling weird already for being cooped up in the house so I drove to a nearby mall alone, took the new ramp which linked to it..which I think is awesome because it shortens the distance and parking is free. Came back within 2 hours and watched Korean movie..”Baby and Me”. A friend borrowed the VCD to me because it features Mason Moon, a super cute baby.

Let’s side track a bit..I was greeted by someone on MSN one morning, asking me how I am doing. And when the topic came about to updating her about who’s tying the knot. She commented that marriage was the best thing that ever happened to her and asked me when’s my turn. I said I’m single and she said I’m hopeless and that she knows I have got a lot of boyfriends. I don’t know where she got the information from that I’ve got a lot of boyfriends. I just couldn’t look at the word “HOPELESS” as she typed it. Give me a break lah! Why do I even have friends like that? I mean…it’s all nice and then when they get married, they just got to spoil it!!!

One thing I really hate about some people who are married is that they think they are one class higher than the singletons. I don’t know what makes them feel that way but I really hate it. It ranges from “My hubby me buys me this [designer brand] bag the other day]” to well….”You’re single and so hopeless”.

BLOODY HELL.

One thing’s for sure…I won’t be acting like them when I get married.

Okie, back to the good stuff, I chanced upon this radio channel when I was driving and without looking at the radio, I just simply pressed on the number button to tune in to my desired radio channel but I pressed on the wrong one and it brought me to wonderland. ONE FM 88.1 IS GOING TO BE MY RADIO CHANNEL FOR NOW.

They play a wide variety of songs, from the older pop songs to the latest hits…they play Chinese and also English songs…which I think matches my taste so well. I mean, you get the best of both worlds in a channel.

la la la

Good night.

Clad in a sleeveless top and a short pants, I’m going to spend my Saturday at home. Probably Sunday too since I’ve got no date.

One of the things I’ve got to do is to painfully go through every photo folder I have in my PC, sort it, delete those blurry ones and duplicate ones, and burn them into DVD as a backup. The last time my PC crashed, I lost all my photos. So no matter how tedious the process may get (it’s going to be very tedious anyway), I have to make sure I complete this task this time.

I really like this song and video. Watch it, okay? You need to know Mandarin to know the first half of it though.

我爱你
爱在心里不说
可我知道你都能懂的
我像任性小孩被宠着
再失落也有你能依靠
是你啊
我的爱 我的朋友
一辈子和你慢慢走
是不是个幸福的奢求
你总为一切而担心
为我忘了还有自己
恨不得啊
把我放在你口袋里
只能属于你

How I wish I could confess to you
You have made my world full of wonders
Like the sun bursting out from the clouds
Your laughter chase away all my doubts.
Life is harsh but I was never told.
Ups and downs like on a seesaw
Sits this abandoned and lonely soul.

You’re a magic shining upon me.
Shutting out the chills and warm me.
In my pocket
I’ll keep this love
To treasure forever with me…

Today is one of those days that I didn’t feel like going home early, don’t feel like sleeping early and I just want to do something, just anything.

It’s back to me and myself again with no one to nag at me to go to bed at this ungodly hour. So…I’m kinda abusing the freedom that I have. Haha!

I can’t stop listening to songs by 王若琳 (Joanna Wang). Clicking on every song of hers that I could find on Youtube. Very jazzy, very dreamy, very tasteful. I love it! Love her voice!

And I came across this song..Nat King Cole’s “I Love You For Sentimental Reasons”. Oh God, it’s so lovely!

I love you for sentimental reasons
I hope you do believe me
I’ll give you my heart

I love you and you alone were meant for me
Please give your loving heart to me
And say we’ll never part

I think of you every morning
Dream of you every night
Darling, I’m never lonely
Whenever you are in sight

I love you for sentimental reasons
I hope you do believe me
I’ve given you my heart

It’s 3am. Night!

Hello! 🙂

This blog has moved to a new host. It survived the transition with a little hiccup. For example, I assumed the random quotes you get to see on the right sidebar would be backup as well but it’s not. However, I can still trace the list of quotes..it’s just that I got to add it manually which would require time.

My countdown timer is reset so I had to dig back my previous post to remember the exact day I put on my braces…and it’s up and running again now.

My last 2 entries are gone because I exported the blog into XML format before I wrote the 2 entries but it’s fine. At least, the rest are there which is the most important thing of all. Else, I would have gone into a serious breakdown.

My blogroll links are also gone but I’ll add them back.

I would like to thank Siah for allowing me to have my blog hosted on his account for FREE throughout the years since purplewabbit.com started. Now it has grown up and should have its own burrow. Thanks again Siah, you’re the man!

You really got to bear with the mess I’m creating at this site.

I’m sleepy and I’m very tired but I LOVED my weekend. It was just so awesome.

Went on a 2-night trip to Kuantan with my ex-colleagues, whom I refer them now as my friends. One of them is born and bred in Kuantan which was why and how the idea of this trip came about. I’ve never been to Kuantan myself and I really like outing like this with friends so on Friday, we left KL after work and because there was a stupid roadblock along the KL-Karak highway, we reached Kuantan at almost 2am.

We put up at a home stay facility which costs only RM20 per person. The room comes with an attached bathroom, a water heater, aircon, TV and a DVD Player. This, to me is better than staying in a hotel. The 3 of us shared the room which is fit for 4 persons.

The next morning we had Curry Mee at Restauran/Kedai Kopi Hoi Yin, near Teluk Cempedak. Then, dropped by Teluk Cempedak to enjoy some sunshine and enjoy the seaview. Next, we went to Berjaya Megamall just to jalan-jalan while waiting for my friend’s friend who will be acting as our tour guide throughout our stay in Kuantan.

We then drove to Kemaman to meet up with him. A very nice guy. Very friendly and quite good looking. Each time I see a guy like that, my heart gets a bit messed up, especially when you know he’s single. I don’t want to elaborate on this because it can mean something temporary, just a sudden good impression about someone that would linger on for a day or two.

Kemaman is in Terengganu so I was very excited to know I was actually setting foot on 2 states in a day. It’s about 45 minutes drive from Kuantan, which isn’t too far.

Had lunch at Tong Juan Restaurant which serves stuffed crab and followed immediately with a yamcha session at at Hai Peng Kopitiam. My stomach started to act cranky, probably because of the spicy curry mee that I had in the morning. Sometimes my stomach withstands spicy food, sometimes it gives way. But I was alright after letting it out…but I was careful with whatever I ate after that.

Because why? After that yamcha session, we were then brought to another place to have satar and otok-otok. It’s something like otak-otak but they name it differently here. I took a small bite just to get a taste of it while the other savoured in full contentment. Didn’t want to upset my stomach further.

Headed to Cherating just to see what Cherating is all about and then went to my friend’s house to have dinner. Her father insisted on cooking dinner for us. How very nice!

And the eating session didn’t just end there. We went back to our rented place for a refreshing bath and then came out again to have seafood. I know….we sound like we’ve not eaten in 10 years.

Finally our day ended at about 12 midnight and the best part is we have to wake up at 3:30am the next day because we’re going to Sungai Lembing to climb Bukit Panaroma and enjoy the sunrise.

The torturing part is I’m already up ay 2:30am and I couldn’t sleep again so…I only had 2 hours of sleep before I had to get prepared to depart to Sungai Lembing from Kuantan, which is also around 45 minutes away. It was still pitch dark but there was already a crowd starting to climb the hill. I’ve never sweated so much in a long time. I was so happy to smell my sweat.

Took us about 45 minutes to climb up but the sunrise was blocked by the clouds so we didn’t actually get to see sunrise. Climbed down the hill, this time very much faster because it’s bright and we wouldn’t need to depend on our torchlights anymore.

Went to have breakfast at the foot of the hill for the famous noodles, white taufu, roast pork (so awesome, I can die but because I was already stuffed with the noodles before that, I couldn’t have more of it)

Continued our adventure in Sungai Lembing by crossing the suspension bridge and walking along the village in Sungai Lembing. I tell you, I love this place. It’s so kampung, so classic, so authentic….I just love watching the wooden houses. I wouldn’t mind spending a night here at one of the homestay or resort.

Because all of us had only a minimum of 1 hour sleep and a maximum of 2 hours sleep, we were totally feeling flat by 9am. Headed back to Kuantan, showered. Had assam laksa and then drove back to KL.

I was in charge of driving half of the journey and we took turns to sleep to recharge the attention span needed for driving. I was driving my friend’s car so I wasn’t really used to it so I really had to be very alert and adjust to the car. We reached safe and sound to KL and I came home at around 5pm.

So smelly and tired but I just have to upload my photos to Facebook. That’s me lor. Die die also must gaodim the photos because if I missed today, I won’t be even doing it.

It’s 9pm now…just want to wash the dishes, hang the clothes and then hit for the bedroom.

I love my friends, I love the trip, I love Sungai Lembing. And I can’t wait to go on for another adventure!

TADA!!

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It’s a hot night tonight, ain’t it? I’m sweating like a cow and the mosquitoes are biting me all over.

GOD!