Category: Life

A girlfriend stayed over last night and when we woke up at 8 this morning, we went to have a walk in the park. Very nice. I must do this more often, even if it means walking alone.

Just feels great to start your morning early and a little sweat .. out.

Then, we had dim sum at Menjalara, Kepong. Also very nice because I’ve not had dim sum for quite some time. After brunch, we went driving around Desa Park City. Very nice houses they have there. Sometimes, I just like to look at nice houses and dream.

Next, it was jalan-jalan time at The Curve. Went to this Japanese place in Cineleisure called Midori for a long talk. I like the white table and cute pink square stools. Bought a car sign…and I like it! Been trying to look for one and I think this one that I found is pretty good…for me.

Then, sent friend to the LRT station and I went to the pasar malam alone. Bought sayur bayam (for my iron supply), jagung kukus (because sometimes I love to bite horizontally), tomato, carrot and grapes.

Now it’s time to bathe and iron my clothes!

I like my Sunday today.

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Why is it that when it is that time of the month, your pimple suddenly disappear and you look a little more prettier than the other days? When that time of the month is approaching, you feel symptoms, like your stomach gets bloated and you think you are fat but you’re not fat, it’s just that the stomach is bloated. But lately, I “see” a symptom, which is no more pimples and the face actually glows. I don’t remember reading anywhere that this happens.

So maybe the next time when I wake up to a pimple-less face, I must know the pipe is going to burst anytime soon.

It’s like everything bad and dirty flows out from the face as well. And when the pipe runs dry, the face accummulates all the bad stuff again to build pimples.

The thing is that even though there is this pimple-less period, it doesn’t really come at a very good timing. When it is that time of the month, it is tiring. Even though you’ve had enough sleep, it still feels like you’ve missed a good few hours of sleep. It’s tiring.

When you look tired, then you don’t look pretty so…I think it’s still the same.

And maybe now that it is that time of the month, it explains why I suddenly got so emotional and lonely the night before.

PMS is very scary. But don’t worry, most of the time, I will not bark or shout at someone, unless you’re asking for it. I will just suffer in silence. I prefer it that way.

The previous night, I was so lonely that I cried. Ya, sometimes it gets to me lah. Staying alone. No one to talk to. Only the television talking to me and then I didn’t want it to talk to me so I switched it off. Thought about my sister. Thought about him. Thought about everything that I do not have to think.

The only convenient way out was to cry. For those of you who have read me long enough, you know me.

So, yesterday I went into the office and a colleague asked me if I went out to catch any chicken last night. A Cantonese way of speaking, if you know what I mean. I told her I didn’t get to catch any. I cannot tell her I cried lah!

Today, she asked me the same question again so I think I must have looked really sleepy.

I will not allow her to ask me that question tomorrow. I’m going to bed early tonight. Drank nen nen already so I think it should help. hehe

3:-o

Met an insurance agent today. Although I have yet to get a premium, I’d like to refer her as my insurance agent. She’s a friendly lady, 5 years older, so she’s able to give me some tips.

I don’t really just meet new people like that, more so an insurance agent. But there was just something in her that made me feel comfortable and I just suddenly had the urge to meet someone new.

I already have an insurance plan which Mummy took up for me when I was still studying and of course I do not know anything about insurance back then and not that I’m very well-versed with it now. So, maybe I’m not going to take up another premium, unless it covers something that my existing policy doesn’t cover. I’m actually more interested in savings/investments kind of plan.

Just the other day, while jogging with Pappy at the park, he was talking to me about shares, investments, unit trusts…

He asked, “Grace, how much do you save per month?”

“When I was young, I didn’t know anything about shares or investments. And I didn’t even save my money. So now that I’m learning about it, I want you to learn too because I know it’s good for your future.”

How nice it is if I can have someone to think about my future and protect me. I’m sorry but I haven’t really met anyone who’s like that. Most of the time, I have to worry for the other person and that person is not worried at all! Very sien.

I don’t really know how much I save in a month but I know and make sure I do not overspend more than what I earn. But I think it’s about time to do some “forced” savings. Like opening up another bank account, set aside some money, dump it in and then do not touch it. Must not have any ATM cards linking to that account. It’s just a see-only-no-touch account.

Currently, what I have now is just a basket and it’s not good to put all your eggs in just one basket.

Since I may not end up marrying a rich guy, or that if I ever marry one, he should decide to leave me, or even if I marry one and he’s sticking with me for the rest of our lives, or worse, a husband that I have to feed (seriously, I don’t need this!!!) I think I need to have something to fall back to at any time of my life when things are not so merry.

But maybe it’s not really about that, I think saving money gives me a sense of security and that I enjoy looking at growing numbers in the account.

I’m hungry and I shall go make myself something to eat.

There was a dog this morning, running around a bush. Running towards and over the bush. And it keeps repeating the whole process. I cannot see what it is actually chasing. This happened at the divider next to a very busy road.

That’s like the only interesting thing that happened today.

tata!

Woke up at 8 to have breakfast with Pappy.

Then, I had to accompany to meet a friend of his, for some money-earning opportunity. His friend was late and I was sitting there waiting, while reading The Sunday Star till I got so sleepy! His friend came but he spoke so softly that I couldn’t even hear what they were talking about. Or maybe…I was too focused on reading the papers. But then again, it was a really silent conversation.

Like whispering….

hello hello. can u hear me? keke

Helped Pappy to carry his luggage downstairs while waited for the taxi to come. Wanted to send Pappy to the airport but he doesn’t allow me to.

“It’s too far”, he said.

But then you know, that’s how far I drive to work every morning.

Slept on the sofa after seeing Pappy off. Just 30 minutes but it did magic.

After that, it was laundry, throwing things away, vacuuming, mopping, laundry, changing bed sheets, washing the toilet, throwing more things away. You have no idea how much expired food I have in the house. Some are stuff from the previous Chinese New Year, things you get in a hamper and you think you’ll going to eat them. But you end up not eating them.

Survived a day without him calling me. Don’t know when I can see him again.

It’s time for bed and I have to work my ass off tomorrow.

It speaks for itself.

Pappy was asking me what is the latest phone in the market. If you ask me, I don’t know. But I do know, of late, there’s this Nokia advertisement in the cinema. So I just told Pappy it’s Nokia 6300.

We went for movie last week and that Nokia ad was shown again.

“Is this the one?” He asked.

The other day, Pappy went to collect his phone at the Nokia Service Centre and he asked me which one is it that was shown in the advertisement we saw in the cinema. I pointed and showed him that phone model at the display.

And today…he came back with a new Nokia 6300. JUST FOR ME!

I wasn’t expecting him to buy one for me and if I had known, I would have stopped him from buying it for me. My Nokia 3230 is still workable and I love it. Actually, it kind of resembles Nokia 6300, just that 6300 is a little slimmer and looks sleek. And to date, I’ve never actually own a phone, as in paying with my own money. Which is why, I didn’t want Pappy to get me one because I’m a big girl already.

Well, I think I’m in love with this new 6300 too.

Pappy, he’s got 2 phones. Same number, different communication service provider, same phone model, different colour. One is white. One is pink. Yeah, pink! I still don’t understand why he needs two phones.

My pappy can be quite cute sometimes. At the front dashboard of my car, used to sit a toy frog which head came off due to the burning hot sun. Pappy didn’t like the sight of it. He threw it away and he said, “Bye bye” to the frog. I would have done the same thing too. I mean saying byebye.

“Grace, I’ll get you a dog.”

I thought and I thought.

“Pa, don’t need. I have a dog.”

Which explains why Patrick, the red dog is accompanying me in the car and he travels with me at least 76 kilometres per day. Not bad for a toy dog. keke

Anyway, I wanted to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) in the cinema with Pappy but he’s busy and he’s flying off tomorrow. He’s getting busier and busier. It was Pappy who introduced me to this TMNT thingy. I still remember the time when Pappy would bring Mummy, Iris and I to the now defunct, Rex Cinema in Sandakan to watch the ninja turtles. Pappy’s favourite character is the rat, Splinter. Hamato Yoshi.

There was this hype of the Ninja Turtles back then and Pappy bought me a t-shirt with a big Raphael on it. I didn’t display any affection towards the ninja turtles to the point where Pappy had to get me a t-shirt but since he got that t-shirt for me, it became one of my favourite t-shirts back then.

It felt like… Heroes in a half-shell. Turtle power!

I think I have a few more visitors than usual. So this is a hello from me to you! :-h

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On my way to work, saw a 6-car accident at the curve when you exit to Cyberjaya. Yes, it’s 6 cars. All kissing one another.

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Sometimes, I like my sister because we can talk like this..

Ham Hammy!

Hammy!

How are you oh?

Ok ler but not so good also. As hoping that I can talk to you. I have been in a weird mood lately.

Why are you in a weird mood?

I think it’s a combination of being away from home, miss the comfort of home and also because worried about exams.

And then you know lah, my close friends are not here. Over here I’ve got no friends who I can fully open up to or feel really comfortable with. So I feel very lonely lor.

You must focus on your exam and tell yourself we are going to bring you comfort in July.

Yalor, that’s what I’m trying to do. Hehehehe.

If you are lonely, you look at Foo Foo and think of me. Foo Foo can fly at night one. So she will fly and whisper to Ducky. Then Ducky will tell me lor.

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Happy Good Friday! If I were to be in Sandakan today, it would have been a public holiday for me. Anyone knows why Good Friday is a public holiday in Sabah and Sarawak but not in West Malaysia?