Run, Bunny. Run!

Category: Life

  • Well-Being

    Today is self-maintenance day. I went for facial and I was so lucky to find a parking place in a middle of a painfully-hard-to-get-parking area during a everyone-is-working-except-for-gracie day. 😛 After that, I went home and cooked lunch. I’m just trying to eat home as much as possible and it’ll do my braces good. Each time I eat, I have to rinse at least or best brush my teeth..so eating at home is the best thing I can do.

    After getting my face done, I felt like cutting my hair also. It is thick and bushy so it needs a little loving treatment. So I spent 3 hours in the saloon. The hairdresser even showed me the image of my scalp and it’s not nice and not very healthy. I have a sensitive scalp, can see red spots and blocked hair pore by stubborn oil gland which is causing hair loss and dankdruff. 🙁  I want to treat this before it gets worse.  I think the skin of my face is the same as my hair scalp. Due to long hours spent in the saloon, my initial plan to watch movie alone after my haircut had to be postponed.

    Need to do some personal errands tomorrow before I start my new job on Monday. I’m glad I have at least a few days off else I think it’ll be quite hard starting a new job immediately. Tried that before last time. Not nice.

  • Monday

    Went to work earlier today so that I could drop by the post office to renew my road tax. While everyone is happily collecting their cash rebate, there is nothing for me to cheer about as I’m not eligible for the rebate considering the fact that this car that I’m driving is registered under Pappy’s company name.

    There were more people than usual at the Cyberjaya post office and most of them were there to collect their money. You get to listen to conversations coming from the back with the keywords, “cannot survive”, “got money sure come to collect”. When it was my turn, the guy at the counter told me, “Hari ni kamu datang memang banyak orang.”

    “Kereta ni boleh claim rebate tak? ”

    “Kena tunggu phasa seterusnya.”

    “Tapi ni daftar bawah kenderaan syarikat, ada rebate juga?”

    “Oh..syarikat..tiada.”

    DOINK! RM140 of road tax flew away.

    After that I drove back to the office to continue to be a good employee.

    Tomorrow will be my second last day in this workplace. I don’t know how I’ll react when the last day comes. The first time I resigned from my first job, I CRIED. The second time I resigned from the job before this, I SMILED AND LAUGHED. Yea, such drastic change of emotions.

  • Happy Father’s Day!

    This is Pappy and me at the Kota Kinabalu Airport’s Golden Lounge. Pappy set the camera on timer and here we have a picture. I think this is the first time I was travelling/flying with Pappy without Mummy around. My dad is handsome, no? 😛

    Click to enlarge.

  • Xixili Warehouse Sale

    …is very crowded and filled with women of all bra sizes BUT worth every sweat dropped and every penny spent!

    I was there this morning. Had earlier invited a friend to join me for bra-hunting but she wasn’t free so I was left alone and I’m just so not going to give this sale a miss. It happened at a very right time as I was planning to buy some lingerie for myself. The warehouse sale starts at 10am and I was there around 10:15-10:20am and oh my, the place was sardine-packed.

    Maybe everyone was thinking the same, go early to get good deals and more choices and perhaps more sizes available.

    I got myself 6 bras and 5 panties. Bras cost about RM15 – RM 35. For some reason, I love the cheapest RM15 bra that I got the most. Simple and does the work. Panties are very comfy and it goes from as low as RM 8 to RM 10..some RM 20. If there were more of my sizes, I would have bought more. I got what I could grab and then counted the total cost. It has to be lower than RM250 because that was the amount I allowed myseld to spend on and I’m a very good girl, I got 11 items for RM221. Average would be RM20 per piece. Ok ma right?

    No fitting room available. I can see why. Should there be fitting rooms, it would have been more of a disaster. But for people who have not bought Xixili bras before, it would be a risky buy since you wouldn’t know if the bra cut and size would fit you well. As for me, I’ve got 2 Xixili bras before this so I know my size and what to look for, which is why I was there at the warehouse sale at the very first place.  🙂

    I love their bras. Fits me very well I would say and very comfy. Have never tried their panties though but by the look of it, it makes me feel so comfortable already.

    I was done squeezing among the crowd, choosing and grabbing by 11:10am but I only managed to pay at 12 noon. That was how long the queue was or I should say the number of bras bought per person. If you think mine is a lot, you should have seen the number of bras the others were getting. Some had to store it in a box. hehe.

    A guy was queueing up behind me while his girl went to get more bras. I think he was rather impatient but I do appreciate his patience or willingness at a minimum level to queue up among the ladies. Not every guy will do that. Not in a lingerie sale. He was sighing from time to time. Why? Because I could feel his breath blowing towards me.

    Anyway, today I got my first bra that opens in the front. Only realised it when I came back home.

  • Macarena Macaroni

    I’ve decided to make way for another category for my blog, dedicated to my entries on braces. It’s called “Bracie Gracie”. Out of the 6 days that I’ve been wearing braces, I’ve wrote 5 related braces entries, so I really do need to have a category for that to document and collect my braces journey.

    It feels much better today and I think I can chew a little more as compared to the past few days. Lunch it was Bubur Ayam McD because a few of my colleagues wanted to give me a farewell so it was just a simple lunch with the 5 of us. For dinner, I had macaroni. It just came to my mind while I was driving home and because there was no parking near the mini market. I just went home, parked my car then walked out to get my macaroni and Prego sauce, and some potatoes, for future mashed potatoes making session.

    Did a demo and training at work to the whole department. Never done this before, at least to the crowd of my department. More so, now that I’m with my braces..sometimes it feels like I can’t pronounce certain words properly. Like whenever I say the word “F”, you can hear a slight sound of wind blowing at the end of me pronouncing the word. Maybe it’s a good thing, I don’t get to say the authentic 4 letter vulgar word starting with F because it sounds too cool to be considered a foul word, if it were to come out from my mouth with braces.

    Anyway, before putting on the braces, I always thought there was only one kind of braces. When my sister got hers two years ago, she had this elastic band across her teeth and after every appointment with her dentist, she comes back with different colours of elastic band and proudly telling me that the dentist even let her choose the colour she preferred. So I thought since when did braces get so fashionable?

    I don’t know what is the name of her braces and I don’t think she knows as well, considering the fact that she never once mentioned about it. I didn’t go to the same dentist as she did because my instincts just wanted me to stay loyal to my current dentist. Mine is known as the Damon System. The dentist gave me the brochure when he suggested that I consider braces. I did not take action, until about a year later, which is now.

    So whenever I feel that putting braces is a pain, I would always visit the website and read the good things about this Damon thing. I managed to find a short clip that shows you how it works. Like magic I would say!

  • Mashed Potatoes

    There are many cars on the road today than usual. And when I was picking up my colleague at Kelana Jaya LRT Station, the parking was already full by 8:15am. Scary you know? Because it wasn’t like this before this. I guess more people are utilising the public transport since the hike in fuel prices.

    Traffic jam along LDP was horrible today. Started in Puchong, right up till the direction towards Kepong. 2 accidents. 2 stalled cars. So bayangkan lah.

    By the time I reach home at around 8:30pm, I was thinking whether to make mashed potatoes as planned or go for instant soup or porridge. Decided to stick with my original plan and today’s the first time I actually made mashed potatoes and it’s not bad. ahhahaa.

    I only make do with one potato, butter, salt and pepper. Some people add milk or cream to make it smooth and fluffy but I don’t have the two ingredients at home so I skipped using those. But nevertheless, my potato tasted fine so I guess I can just stick to my own recipe. After all, nobody else is eating but me.

    For the first time ever since I’m with the braces, I actually feel full after finishing a bowl of mashed potatoes.

    With that, my lunch at the office tomorrow will be mashed potatoes. Need to wake up early tomorrow to prepare.

    I’ll be leaving the current workplace exactly one week from today. So far no sad feelings yet but I have something that I was made to do before I leave. So, I’ll try my level best to do and give my very last shot.

  • Gigiku Tak Boleh Gigit

    I’ve just finished dicing the pear and tried eating it but I just can’t. It’s so pathetic.

    I’ve put it back into the fridge and I believe tomorrow it will go into the bin.

    I can’t bite and that’s for sure.

  • I Can Sing a Rainbow

    I was still recovering from my state of gloominess over what happened yesterday that I looked very mad according to my colleague whom I picked up this morning. He dare not even talk to me upon seeing my face. I didn’t know I looked so fierce but I slowly started to perk up a little when I saw a huge rainbow just after the Sunway toll which was still shining right up till I took a left exit further up towards Puchong. I take this as a good sign.

    It was very cold in the office because I have forgotten to take the jacket with me for 2 days in a row. And because I was cold, I got hungry very fast which isn’t helping really.

    Breakfast: Sponge cake brought by colleague and a glass of milo mixed with Nestum.

    Apply lip balm.

    Lunch: Oatmeal.

    Apply lip balm.

    Apply lip balm.

    Apply lip balm.

    Tea: A glass of Milo mixed with Nestum. Then, someone opened up a packet of Twisties and he shared it with other colleagues, when that packet of Twisties came to me, he said I was only allowed to smell it. Which I did with all my might. Hahahaa

    Apply lip balm.

    Apply lip balm.

    Dinner: Steamed egg with fried onion. Nice!

    Dessert: Chocolate Ice Cream. This is a reward to myself for sticking to the no-meat 3 days diet. I think I’m going to extend this myself for a week, until I see the dentist again this Saturday.

    I’m thinking of making mashed potatoes but it would take at least 30 minutes because I’m doing this for the first time. If I can get up early tomorrow, I’ll make this for lunch.

    And now, please excuse me while I go dice a pear. I’ve not been eating fruits since I got the braces.

    Oh, noticed the number of times I apply lip balm? The lips can get exceptionally dry now that I have braces So I got to make sure I drink enough water and that I reapply lip balm to my lips every now and then. When I sleep at night and can’t afford to wake up every hour to apply lip balm, I let Vaseline Lip Therapy to do the job. Tell you, it’s fantastic! It contains petroleum jelly and I applied it the very first time last night. When I woke up this morning, my lips was still full of moisture. My lips also appear thicker now because of the pouting I guess since I need to extend my lips, protude it to cover my mouth.

    Oklah, the pear is calling me.

  • Why He So Like That?

    When it comes to problems, be it a problem at work, problem with the car, or now problem with my teeth, I think I can still handle it. But when it comes to problem in relationship, especially one that I’m in now, sometimes I just wished I know how to deal with the boyfriend.

    He is giving me more pain than the braces is giving me. In fact, after I came back from the dentist on Saturday, I came home and gave a good cry because I didn’t know what else to do to make him talk to me. About a month ago, he asked me for dinner but he later had to postpone it to the next day. However, on the following day, there was no sign of him. No one answering the phone. No one replying to my SMS.

    I often wonder why guys treat me like shit.

    I only heard from him a week after that, only to find out his aunt passed away, after I spammed call him.  Do you get angry or sympathetic? I don’t know which I should feel.

    This shitty feeling has been dragging on for a few months now.

    I also have problems that I cannot share with you which makes it even harder. Anyway, today I spammed call again when I was driving home because I was just so angry.

    No reply. No answer.

    When I finally got home after work, I saw him on YM and I messaged him. No reply wor. So I just tembak with, “If you are a man, please answer me.”

    The next thing I knew, he appeared right in front of my house door. I really hate using ways like that to talk to him but I really don’t know what else I can do. I have been sending him SMSed acting macam priest, macam counsellor, macam beggar, macam lover yang dah buntu jalan. So I did what I did and I know it will work because he’s too ego a man to admit he’s not a man. So he die die also must appear.

    When I saw him standing at the door, I was happy for maybe a few seconds. When I opened the door and I see him standing in front of me, the first thing I wanted to do is to PUNCH HIM REAL HARD. AKU GERAM LAH!!!!! TERSANGAT TERAMAT GERAM! GOD.

    Let’s just see what he will do next. And I am very sure, I am no longer the Gracie that he knows. Since being kind, nice and understanding doesn’t help, I’m not going to give a shit anymore.

    Tomorrow will go on just life should move on. I have been trying to get on with mine without thinking about him all the time or focusing of how bad my love life is. Although he has definitely ruined the kind of love and relationship I really would like to have with someone, I will still try to hope that one day, I might just find the right man to settle down with. And should I not be able to meet that someone, well…

    Do you know that whenever I see a loving couple, I envy them very much. And if you’re happily in a relationship now, all I can tell you is you are blessed and so very lucky. It may seem simple for others but it hasn’t been entirely easy for me.

    It is hard writing this because when you want something so much and it doesn’t turn out the way you want it to be, you have to face the real thing that is happening. I hate to write bad things about people that I love. I don’t know if I still love him because he’s certainly doing things that make me hate him day by day but I do wonder where I get all the patience and energy to actually wait and hope that he could just turn around, look at me, talk to me and just love me.

    Now that I’m done crying, it’s time for bed because my braces are sleepy. Don’t worry, I’ll be fine.