Category: Life

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I woke up in the morning with an assignment to complete.

My assignment was to KILL a cockroach.

I was sitting on the toilet bowl, doing this thing called, “O Xu Xu” and suddenly I saw a small black moving thing.

I was still without my contact lens so you could say I was blind.

I quicken the “O Xu Xu” process and immediately put on the contacts.

Hua la la. A big, fat cockroach!

Went in search of weapon of mass destruction – Shieldtox, custom made to kill cockroaches. I must say this is good. Better than those which can kill mosquito, cockroaches and so forth.

Sprayed at the cockroach mercilessly, an amount enough to kill myself. I think I wrote this line somewhere before. Sounds so familiar.

Then, I threw it into a big plastic bag, tied it up and threw it into the dustbin outside of the house. The logic of throwing it into a big plastic bag instead of a small plastic bag is that when the cockroach is already in the plastic bag, it would seem like it’s far away if it’s in a big bag, seeing that it’s wider and deeper as opposed to a small plastic bag. Yes, I’m a bit chi-sin but sometimes that’s how things work in my brain. I could have waited until the plastic bag is filled with other rubbish before I threw them all away but the dead cockroach must not spend any second longer in my house.

So, that indeed woke me up and soon I found myself in front of the post office. It was still closed of course but all I needed to do was to put my letters into the red, masculine post box. Kuala Lumpur sahaja. Lain-lain tempat.

But before that, an elderly lady was looking at me from outside the car and I looked at her waiting for a response. When I finally opened the car door, she spoke to me in Mandarin saying, “It’s only open at 8:30.”

“Oh..I’m just going to send this letters.”

“Aiyer, 8:30am only open.”

Then, she drove off and I drove off.

Left office only at 8:15pm because of the heavy downpour and after that my neighbour in the office had to wait for her friend to pick her up and her friend is working late too. And it just felt right to accompany her so that she won’t be alone in the office at night. So, I managed to clear up some of my work, which I want so badly to be completed before I balik kampung.

So, I didn’t have time to get the red ribbons today. Esok saja.

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Went shopping today because practically it’s the last day to shop. Next weekend, I’ll already be in Sandakan. Had breakfast with a friend who stayed overnight because I insisted so since it was already late and I didn’t want her to take the LRT and then walk back home alone in the middle of the night. We had dinner together last night, had Thai food. Enak sekali.

After that, we headed to One Utama at 11:30am. My initial plan was to go by 10:30am but I didn’t have the heart to wake my friend up so early. By 11:30am, Level 3 and 4 of the new wing car park was already full. Unbelievable! There was a security guard who was signalling for the cars to go up another level to level 5. I managed to get a parking and in seconds, the other empty spaces were taken up too.

When you go to Jusco supermarket, there was already a long queue at the cashiers. I wonder how early all these people come to do groceries.

I bought a skirt, a top, 3 earrings. That’s all I could get because I couldn’t find anything else that I like.

After sending my friend to the LRT station, I felt like walking some more so I went to The Curve, praying hard that it won’t be as packed as One Utama. There is a new road leading to One Utama before the traffic lights where you turn in to The Curve if you’re coming from LDP. Not open yet but this is good, meaning the next time I can just use that road to get from One Utama to The Curve. To whoever who built that road, you’re brilliant!

I’m just lucky today because I found a parking after a few minutes. I was smiling in the car for a while after that. Just like this morning, I found a parking too when I had breakfast because sometimes it’s hard to get parking there. And like the other day, I found a parking space in One Utama when I went with mum on a weekend. After parking the car, I was laughing for a good few seconds. My mum thought I went crazy. But you know, it’s pure joy. Happened last night too, I had dinner with my friend at One Utama. So many cars in front and the back of my car and then suddenly this uncle came out from the lift and pointed his car to me. So happy.

Back to The Curve, I met two ex-colleagues of mine. Was good to see them again.

Shopping is done except for red ribbons. I need to decorate my plants in the house.

Ok, dinner time and then I’ll have to start packing.

*claps hand*

yay! the lights are out!

yay! the lanterns are up!

yay! THE LIGHTS AND LANTERNS ARE UP!

*prances around*

“Why do you look so tired today? What did you do last night?”

The delivery uncle asked me when I opened the office door for him today.

I just smiled, showing all my gigi. Actually, I had the answer but I wasn’t sure if he wanted to know.

When he left, I walked to my colleague’s desk and said, “Just now when Uncle asked me why I look so tired, I could have said, Uncle, because last night I lausai!”

My colleague laughed. Almost wanting to burst and she kept controlling her laughter. I like to make people laugh when I don’t expect the effect to be so great.

I lausai since last night and woke up at 5 something in the morning to let out some more and then finally at 7 something, the finale. Luckily, it was just that. I’m okay now. It’s good to lausai once in a while, clean the stomach, let out all the bad wind.

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Iris wrote an email to me today, telling me that Cardiff is snowing right now. :d

This year is going to be the first Chinese New Year that Iris will be away from home. I don’t know what it is like without having Iris around to celebrate Chinese New Year but I do hope that she’ll have fun in Cardiff and I’m going to have a roaring new year in Sandakan.

Sometimes, I cannot imagine myself living in a foreign Western land. Firstly, it’s about the food. I cannot go on with western food for a month long so I don’t know what I’ll become if i were to stay there for more than that and beyond. I’m very Asian, you see? I like Chinese food, Japanese food, Thai food, Korean food, Malay food, once in a while Indian food, so that makes me very Asian. Western food should only be taken once in a blue moon. I like Western food too just that I don’t like it so much to eat it everyday, if you get what I mean.

Her email to me ended with this paragraph…

“Bunny…I’m so glad that I have you as my sister, and that I can talk to you about everything…If I didn’t have you, I don’t know what will happen and I don’t know what to do..because I know that you will always be there for me, and you are my sister so you will definitely help me and listen to me and care about me…thank you bunny!”

make me want to cry only..*sob sob*

1. I don’t know why I wrote what I wrote yesterday.

2. Since I’ve written it, it will remain written.

3. I don’t like my tummy today.

4. Or you could say my tummy doesn’t like me today.

5. I keep burping and farting and burping and farting.

6. And I went to the toilet several times today. And I think I’m going again soon.

7. I think the Mcdonald’s prosperity burger ad, the latest one, with the lion dance, is cute.

8. I don’t like it when a friend whom I’ve known for 7 years ask me when I’m going back to Kota Kinabalu.

9. That’s because I’m not from Kota Kinabalu. I’m from Sandakan.

10. Sandakan.

11. Someone at work has been asking me questions regarding work these few days and I’ve been helping her out.

12. Today she told me I can be a good team leader in the future.

13. I’m so very flattered.

14. I like helping people and I like it when people are not afraid to ask me the silliest questions.

15. Because I think when someone ask you a silly question, it has got to be someone you think you can count on, someone you can trust, someone who wouldn’t laugh at you, someone who wouldn’t shoo you away.

16. I know that because when I want to ask a silly question, I ask someone who’s not going to laugh at me. OK, maybe it’s ok to laugh if it’s funny but it’s not okay to jeer or ridicule.

17. Sometimes when a silly question is answered, it puts things into perspective.

18. I’m going to the toilet now.

Pernah tak kamu cinta orang dari jauh?

Lepas tu, kamu tak tahu namanya cinta atau hanya suka.

Sebab kamu tahu kamu tidak boleh mencintainya sebab dah ada orang kepunyaannya, tetapi kamu masih suka menyukainya.

Saya harap sangat suatu hari nanti, saya dapat bersama orang seperti kamu yang tulus dan baik hati, kelakar (yang ni ciri yang paling penting. kalau orangnya kelakar, susah untuk kita tidak menyukainya). Melihat kamu saja dah gembira, dah memadai…walaupun ianya dari jauh.

Saya tidak pernah cinta orang dari jauh tapi saya rasa agaknya macam ni lah rasanya.

I’ve been tired these few days. Maybe it’s because I have to think a little bit more now. Do more things now. Like I’ve got to think of what to eat tomorrow morning for breakfast, what to eat tomorrow night…Yeah, I have to think one night in advance so that I can prepare/plan whatever that’s there so that I can be sure I’m going to have dinner as soon as I get home. When Mummy was around, all I had to do was come back from work, sit down and eat.

I’ll get myself tuned soon, just need to get more sleep.

Workload is heavier now and it is getting a little bit more challenging too, which I like very much. Makes me want to go to work every morning to get things done. I like very much where I’m sitting at work now, sandwiched between two angels. When the butt is itchy, can go knock knock and peer head over to the next cubicle to ask question, to share ideas, to teach, to learn and to laugh silently, to say goodbye, to smile.

Ok, sleep.

Listened to the song “Melodi” on the radio. It’s a duet by Sheila Majid and ???. It is so good but I don’t know where else to listen to the song except on the radio. Can’t seem to google it out of somewhere. So, if anyone of you come across this song, please tell me!