Category: Life

When my neighbour rang on the bell, I was still in my pyjamas and my hair uncombed. I dashed to my room to change and all but when I got to the door, there was no one there. Not knowing if it’s the neighbour, I just continued watching television. And I was so lazy, I went back to the room, lying on the bed. Then, it came an SMS from the auntie next door, telling me she’s left some goodies for me on the table of my balcony.

So, it wasn’t wrong that it was the neighbour ringing on my doorbell. She gave me a very big portion of lemang, ketupat, rendang, kuah kacang (to go with the ketupat) and some kuih raya. It was very good and also a lot that I couldn’t finish it. I’ve got to eat it on a second round the next day.

Wished my Malay friends a happy Raya and one actually replied, inviting me to her house. But guess what? She sent out the message at about 10 something in the morning but I only received it 5 in the evening. So, I didn’t get to go her house. 🙁

This is the first half of Raya day. The second half was spent at a friend’s house, where a friend cooked Bah Kut Teh and about 8 of us had dinner together. It was good too. It has been such a long time since I have had a “group” of friends. He was out attending a wedding dinner so I was lucky to have my night out too or I would have rotten at home. Sometimes, I dread the weekend, especially this one when it’s so long. Now that I’m with him, I’ll always be waiting. I don’t know if he’s going to be free or he has something up next…but I know if I’m home and he’s free, then I’ll get to meet him. But then I’m actually getting a little tired and bored of waiting. And the fact that I’ve been waiting since Thursday night isn’t helping.

So…it was good to be somewhere, making new friends, enjoy some good food and company. After dinner, we played Monopoly. I was clueless about this game and was trying to pick up as we played. After that, we went to the nearby Old Town kopitiam and I had my favourite Polo bun.

After all the food, I actually came home and felt hungry.

Selamat Hari Raya! 🙂

It is 12:15 am and I’m still awake.

Listening to a sad Korean song which I don’t know what it’s about. I only know it sounds sad. And I always have this tendency of listening and getting addicted to sad songs, especially when I’m alone and I want some peace. Sometimes, I get very restless and I just want to let it out but I don’t know how…so listening to sad songs help. It helps to move the tears and when the tears have done its job, I feel better.

It’s like how sometimes I like to watch sad movies, movies that make me cry, or it can be happy movies but with touching moments which makes me cry. After watching and crying, it feels good after wiping off the tears.

Why am I like that?

Today is one of those days when I don’t feel like working. It’s the festive season and half of my office is on leave, or is that more than half? It’s going to be worse tomorrow because I know I will be even lazier than today.

Today is also one of those days when I don’t feel like sleeping…you know..like I said just now, I feel like I’m already on holiday. And I also know the fact that I’ll have trouble waking up in the morning and I’ll be telling myself that I should have slept earlier. Happens all the time!!!

Today is also one of those days when I would be standing in front of the mirror, lip syncing to the same song that I’ve repeatedly repeat for the past one week. It’s always that same song when I like the tune of it. Happens all the time too when I’m lonely and bored.

Someone said I sounded like a pervert when I wrote the previous entry. :-w

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I cooked rice for dinner using a small cooking pot on stove instead of the electric rice cooker. Since it’s just me, I thought I should use the small cooking pot so that I don’t have to wash such a big electric rice cooker that is cooking for only one person.

But I ended up eating crunchy rice…all because I was impatient. And that was because I was hungry!

Seeing that the rice was about to be ready, I actually turned on the stove a little higher to speed up the rice-cooking process but…it got dried up at the bottom, hence the crunchy rice.

Practice and more practice…I should be able to do away with crunchy rice.

I’m tired today.I’ve been working till 7 pm for 2 days already. Maybe it’s still not that late for some but to me it is and I told myself to leave at 7 pm just now even though my work for the day is not done yet. There’s this trend where once you are free, you are very free…but when the work load starts pouring in, it pours in non-stop. I hope it’ll subside by tomorrow.

Now that Mummy has gone back to Sandakan, I’m back to doing things on my own. Back to thinking of what to eat and taking care of myself. There are stories to tell but my eyes are not co-operating with me. They want to sleep.

Anyway, I’ve been singing to this song for like 2 days already. A very nice piece.

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And with that, good night.

I’m full just thinking about the dinners and lunches that I’ve got to go during Pappy’s 2-day birthday fiesta. I call it a fiesta because he had just celebrated with his tennis friends in Sandakan. Then, he flew over to KL to celebrate it again with his KL tennis friends, relatives and of course with Mummy and I.

Dinner was at Sam You Restaurant SS2. Pappy wore one of the the long-sleeve shirts that I bought him as a birthday present. He initially didn’t want the dark red colour shirt because he said 3 things was very wrong with the shirt. First, it’s the colour. Second, it’s the material. Third, the size.

The size of this dark red shirt is the same as the white shirt with black stripes that I bought for him…so I would just say he didn’t like the colour of the shirt. Even though I told him it’s nice, he didn’t want to try on it.

It was when I was at work one day and Mummy asked him to try on the shirt that he finally took it, after much persuasion from Mummy that I chose it and I like it very much and that it’s nice.

He wore the dark red shirt today and I really think it looked very good on him.

The food was good and there were bottle of wines going around. I drank a little bit of beer and was seated next to Pappy. There’s this friend of Pappy whom I’ll always try to avoid because I just don’t like listening to what he’s got to say, most of the time, especially when it’s about me. He has once asked me about my job, from the day I’ve got a job till the one I’m in now. He kept complaining about how better it would if I wasn’t working for that first company and bla bla bla. And after I’ve resigned from that job, he came telling me that it was actually a good company to work for and asked me why did I leave the company. Right! You have no idea of pissed I am.

He likes to talk a lot that I guess it has been a tradition for him to give speeches during special occasions, like birthdays and farewells. So what happened was, everyone sitting at the table had to give a speech. I thought I could escape but it got to me in the end. I was the last to speak before Pappy ended the dinner with his.

I’m not the kind who can give speech in a pronto and because I was with Pappy’s friends, it made it more difficult. I always give myself unnecessary stress and pressure. That’s why! But I tried anyway, thinking of what to say, just in case my turn comes, which actually came in the end. Seeing how everyone talked about how they came to know my dad, I thought maybe I could use that too.

So, this is what I said, “I’ve known Johnson for about 25 years.”

And this line was enough to make the crowd laughing, even my mum didn’t expect me to say that.

One of Pappy’s friend exclaimed, “You sure you’re not 20?!!”

And then I continued, “Throughout the 25 years, he has been a loving and very caring dad, supporting me in everything that I do. I just want to wish him a happy birthday and that I love him very much.”

It was just that, short and simple.

Pappy then lifted his glass of beer and we touched each other’s glasses lightly as a sign of a toast. I couldn’t help smiling because my speech is over.

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