Category: Life

Insect is flying mercilessly, I’m going to bed!

I am so sad to announce that I have thrown away a round tin of Swiss Chocolate. Siapa suruh simpan-simpan dan tak makan cepat-cepat? Tengok sekarang ni, nak makan pun tak boleh dah!

I threw it away because I tried opening another tin of Swiss Chocolate and discovered something. The reason why I bought it is because of the silver tin. Very nice. Anyway, it’s called “Swiss Classic Collection”.

Remembering what Mummy told me about the chocolate bar she opened that has got worms in it, I figured to examine the chocolates I was about to eat to make sure I don’t eat any worms. Usually, I don’t check my chocolates when I eat them.

When I took out one small piece of chocolate still in its wrapper, I found something sticking on to it. It wasn’t a worm but something like an insect’s nest or whatever it is. Just a small one. Like a caterpillar going to morph into a butterfly. Just that this is not slimy nor moving but static and dead.

So I threw it away because to open the wrapper, I would have to touch that thing I don’t have a name to give it. I took another piece and tore open the wrapper to find a worm wriggling happily on the inside wrapper. So, I tried my luck with another piece and to be given the same fate. So I didn’t want to open the rest. Threw the remaining chocolates away, not many though and keep the silver tin.

Then, I wanted to try my luck with the round tin, which I just told you earlier that I threw it away. When I opened the tin, something flew out of it. Yes, something FLEW out of it. Can you imagine that? I cannot. But something FLEW out of it.

I suspect it to be a moth but I cannot see properly because blocking it from flying into my face or my eyes with my hands. Then I quickly close the tin and peeped inside through the transparent cover to find something similar to the first chocolate I had in my hands. The insect nest thingy or whatever shit it is.

This is a little bigger and surrounding it was something cotton-like, a web or so. So I just threw the whole tin away even though I know I could have braved myself to take out the chocolates in it and try to unwrap one by one and eat those without worms. But I dah tak larat dah.

I don’t know why but yesterday a bee came to visit me while I was watching the news on the tv. Heard something buzzing but couldn’t find it. When I turned and looked at the pillow next to me on the sofa, a bee was resting on it. Wah!

I jumped like a lady in ecstasy.

Took the pillow and bang it against the grill door but bee ain’t moving. Why? Bee? Why?

So I threw back the pillow on to the sofa, bee flew away somehow.

Tonight as of writing this, there is an unknown insect flying around within the surrounding of my computer. I’ve never seen this insect before so that’s why it’s scary. Can please fly away or not insect? I don’t want to kill you so please don’t harm me. Just fly away.

Enough already!

Ada tak orang yang panggil saya Monster instead of my name Grace?

Ada.

Memang ada!

And you think it’s very funny, kan?

And so…I tak nak jadi monster dah.

Sebab mood aku bagus, I want to list down my new year’s resolution, whether or not it will materialise is another question.

1. Be more patient. It’s like it’s never enough. Sometimes I think I have lots of it but then I need some more.

2. Learn a new language. I’m waiting for a friend’s signal. He say go, I will go. Muahaha!

3. Indulge in McDonald’s Prosperity Burger. This is simple because I completed it today. Hehe.

4. Dress up to work. Although there is no potential opposite sex in the office to attract, I’m just doing my self-confidence a little boost. The working environment is more casual than my previous workplace but at times, I put on my formal three quarter long sleeve shirt. In stripes. I have so many stripe shirts. Cos why? I suka.

5. Work like I don’t need money.

6. Eat more fruits and vegetables.

7. Exercise. I’m so bloody lazy one lor, you know or not?

8. Get married. You can pretend you didn’t hear or read anything.

9. That I would be good.

Because I didn’t wish Mum goodbye today before I left for work.

And I didn’t wave goodbye as what I normally would do from the car.

However, I came home and called out to her as loud as I could and she responded from the kitchen. Sometimes, when you don’t know what else to do, just forget about what happened and start with a clean slate.

Don’t know how long this would last because I know it will bound to repeat as it always do. But till then, I’ll try to please her in every way I can. Pleasing others can be a difficult thing to do when it means making yourself feeling unpleasant. She’s my mum and I don’t have any choice, do I? I make it sound like so bloody hard like that. But don’t worry. I’m alright. Not the first time, ain’t going to be the last.

<):)

A friend commented that I have been a bit down recently, ever since the new year. You know, you may be right. My temper is very short-lived these few days. I snap very easily. I’m tired of holding back because the same thing keeps repeating over and over again. I was writing a ranting post but have not completed it and may not even complete it because it would be too hard to read. But I feel better now anyway after writing about it even if it goes unpublished. In short, Mummy and I am not getting along really well to the point where I talked back. I hardly ever talk back but my patience has got a limit. I think I’m turning into a monster.

I want to have a better week ahead. I really need it.

Anyway, this is Sheepy, new friend of Foo Foo and Pooh in Cardiff. Say hello!

Uncle came again today and this time he told one of my colleagues, “Send your resume to me. You forward it to your manager so that he can send it to me.”

Then, he came into the pantry to make sure we got his message.

“You know what is a resume or not? Not a working resume you know? But your personal resume. I’m looking for a daughter-in-law.”

“Remember ah, the three of you girls.”

When he left, all three of us looked at each other and can’t help but smile.

I think he’s very serious about it.

Sorry Uncle, but I don’t think I can forward my personal resume to you.

I won’t be able to sleep if I don’t write this. So we shall begin…

Even though 2006 is no longer in sight, I feel like walking down memory lane again like what I’ll always do. If there’s only one thing I’m good at, besides crying, it would be brooding about the past.

January: Gong Xi Fa Cai! I was back home in Sandakan, enjoying lion dance performance, ate delicious seafood and world’s best kou lou min. You cannot find any kou lou min like what you get in Sandakan. You can trust me on that because you can never find such kou lou min in KL. You really have to trust me on this. Same goes to fishballs and fishcakes. You don’t know what is the real fishball until you come to Sandakan. I never eat KL’s fishball. It’s like forbidden food. I will eat if there isn’t a choice but I will feel one kind because it feels like eating plastic.

February: Watched Actorlypics!

March: Broke up…..again. Seriously, I’m tired and until I meet the right one (Each time when you meet someone, you think he’s right but it has ended up the wrong one for me for a few times already. Sometimes I wonder if there’s going to be someone right for me because my requirements are getting higher after each break up. It’s just natural. I don’t usually have a list what my guy has to be like but rather a list of what I don’t want my guy to be like. I want someone who is pleasant looking because I need to stare at him for the rest of my life. He doesn’t have to be ultra handsome but pleasant looking and that is so abstract, right? He MUST make me laugh. He doesn’t need to try hard to make me laugh. He just have to make me laugh lah. You will know if you have a great sense of humour. He must bring me go makan and go jalan-jalan. Don’t kacau me when I say I do not want to be disturbed. I respect his privacy and I trust him so I don’t like if someone do not put the trust on me. Above all, he must be interesting because I need to be with him for the rest of my life. And even if you fulfil the above requirements, I don’t know if you are the right one because sometimes you need a spark to start a long-burning fire. The don’ts..I don’t think I’ll list them out here.

April: Moved into a new office (relocated) and worked very hard!

May: Tendered my letter of resignation.

June: Resigned. I cried like mad. Started new job one day after resignation. I must say I am crazy. Never ever work for the money if you have a choice. I wished I had stayed the entire June in my first job than hopping so quickly into the 2nd one just because they calculate bonus by the date you join the company and so I thought I ought to get it lah.
July: Resigned with style. The best thing I ever did for the whole 2006. You have no idea what my life will be like. This is worse than my first job. In fact, sometimes I think I did enjoy my first job despite the heartaches. It taught me so much.

August:Got my first ever saman!

September: Attended job interview. Became Iris’s driver. Went to Western Europe for a tour with my family and went to Cardiff and other parts of UK. Parted with Iris and cried on the train. No time to feel ashamed because when true feelings gets to you, you have no way of hiding. Got a job! They called when I was sleeping at 4 am local UK time.

October: I think this job is closer to what I was thinking of doing. Now that I’m into my 3rd job, I’m glad that I worked in the 1st company because if I didn’t, I wouldn’t view things like I do now.

November: Met with a minor car accident. Have never been so angry for so long. I shouted on the phone to a stranger. bleh.

December: Went to Bali. Went for full body massage and body scrub. I was told to undress but I never expect her to massage my chest as in I had to lie face up after lying face down. Didn’t know what to say because I’ve never been touched that way before by a lady. If you go to Bali, please try their nasi goreng, mee goreng, ayam goreng. All their gorengs are very nice. And I definitely would not forget the bowl of Rawon I had in Bali Airport. It’s beef soup with rice. The soup is black in colour. If you don’t know, it looks like air longkang at first sight. But it tasted like heaven. It has been such a long time I tasted beef and beef soup as tasty as that.

2007 is going to be a great year. I’ll be 25 and it’s like I have been alive for a quarter of century. I think that’s cool.

I know this is a little late but HAPPY NEW YEAR. HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I’m supposed to write an entry of 2006 recollection but did not have the time to do so….so, we’ll just start from here for 2007, okay?

While most of you went to work for the first day today, it was my third working day.

Your expression now —> 😮

How was it like working on 1st January? Quite special. Given the fact that I’ve never worked on 1st January. And because I had to work I wasn’t seen in any countdown parties. I just went to Pappy’s friend’s house for potluck dinner (Sometimes I wonder if I have friends because I’m always at my parents’ friend’s house?)

I brought tom yum mee hoon which mum cooked for the potluck dinner the night before to work. One box for me and another box for my colleague. We were the only two girls in the department who came to work. In the afternoon, another girl came in unexpectedly. We also had lemang and rendang. My neighbour gave it to us on Hari Raya Haji. Sedap!

Internet connection is slow but it was very fast on 1st January. Maybe because everyone’s either out there having fun or sleeping. 2nd January, it was back to slow mode. Today’s better though.

Pappy flew back today so yesterday we had a family dinner with the relatives. Pappy then went out with my uncle and cousin brother for a short discussion so Mummy and I had to hang out at cousin brother’s house for a while. I was kept company and entertained by my 3 year old nephew. This is my first close encounter with him. Before this, he was just a baby when I saw him.

He is so adorable. So friendly. So cheeky. So cute. So playful. I wished I had a kid like him.

He took out two cars from this playing box. I waved to him, signalling him to come towards me. And with just that wave of hand, he continued to play with me for an hour or so. He tooked out every single toy car in that box of his and showed it to me one by one. He even took two cars by his hand and then knocked them, telling me it’s called accident.

Pandai, kan?

His smile is so pretty.

There were a few times where he stood really close in front of me. Then he caressed both my arms with his little hands. I don’t know where he learnt that but it melt my heart and because he didn’t only did it once but a few times. My heart melted until cannot melt already. And when he caresses me, he smiles so prettily. It was a warm and fuzzy a little feeling. Can I have this caress forever?
:”>

There’s this uncle who delivers food during lunch. Sometimes we tapao from him, like today.

Instead of leaving after delivering as what he normally does, he stayed on for a while. He followed us to the pantry and interviewed us, the three girls.

He looked at me and asked, “Are you a student?”

I was like…

I mean I don’t expect someone to ask me that question when I’m in the office.

You see. How lah now? Should I do something about my face?

Seriously, I get that question a lot. And when I tell them I’m already working, they look at me again, as though they can’t believe what I’m saying is true. Why? Tell me why.

He carried on asking where I stay, where I graduated from, how do I come to work. Then, he told me an alternative to LDP. Take the road to Bandar Kinrara, then you come out at Old Klang Road, then you can go straight home, no jam. Only takes 5 minutes more. So sesiapa yang tahu laluan ni, boleh shed some light? I have no idea how to connect Bandar Kinrara to Old Klang Road.

After asking the three of us, he said, “I just want to see who’s talkative, who’s quiet and who’s …” I can’t remember exactly what he said.

“I’m actually scouting for a daughter-in-law.”

😮

I’ve never seen anyone being so direct. Normally you see mothers trying to hook up their son or daughters with someone. In this case, it’s the father. So funny!

I wanted to laugh throughout the conversation because that uncle is funny. But have to tahan, cannot simply laugh. We were so hungry already but have to listen to him talk. He speaks perfect English.