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Remember about the cow mug I got from my friend as a birthday present? I finally discovered how to make it moo. You got to shake it real hard in a certain way for it to let out 3 moos at a time. The thing is that..sometimes it moos, sometimes it doesn’t.

I left it at the kitchen table and went to sleep.

At 5:54am…Yea, I remembered the exact time because I checked on my mobile phone after hearing a series of unidentified noises. And it didn’t stop. I was afraid really but I had to find out what it was. So I switched on the room light and then switched on the toilet light just after I walked out from the roo, followed by the kitchen light which was just opposite to the kitchen.

What I saw was my cow mug and it’s mooing non-stop. Still afraid because it just didn’t make sense why it mooed by itself and that it mooed non-stop. I took the mug and examined it. Shaking it here and there, hoping that it would stop mooing. It did stop for a while and then I put it into the kitchen cabinet and went back to sleep. Thinking that if it continued mooing, it wouldn’t be that loud and I could still catch some sleep.

But I was wrong. I could still hear it from my room and so I got up again and rinsed it with water. I know it won’t make any difference as I believe that mug was designed to be water-proofed anyway so that whatever inside the mug that is making it moo will always get to moo when triggered.

Feeling fed up, I took the mug and tried looking for a box. I wanted to throw that mug away immediately. But I figured, I should just put it in a plastic bag so that when I throw it away, the mug would break and would eventually die.

So I made my way downstairs to the rubbish bin of my apartment block. Unfortunately, the rubbish bin was stacked so high, considering the fact that my neighbour just threw a party for their one-year old. So I had no choice but to left it stacked at the top of the rubbish pile.

I closed the door of that rubbish storing place. I suddenly couldn’t think of a word for it. Starts with an “R”. And walked back up. But while walking half way up the stairs, it mooed again. I was like ^&*^&^*%*%^*.

I walked down again and this time I took the plastic bag with that mug inside and threw it on the floor. There was a breaking sound of glasses and the mooing stopped.

Thinking my job is now done, (Do I sound like a criminal to you now? 😛 ) I walked back up again but half way walking up, it mooed AGAIN.

O.H.M.Y.G.O.D

But it did make sense because it is that thing inside the mug that is mooing. So no matter how shattered the mug can be and if that mechanical thing is still working, it would still moo.

Don’t know whether to walk back down or just forget about it, I could hear the rubbish collector dragging the big rubbish bin of his to collect rubbish from all the apartment blocks. So I quickly ran up because I didn’t want him to see me.

When I was inside the house and walking pass the kitchen to get to the room, I COULD STILL HEAR THE FREAKING MOO SOUND. ARGHHHHH!!!

So you can imagine how loud it is. It was still and quiet at that hour, which of course amplified the sound. I don’t know what the rubbish collector will be thinking. Some sound coming out from the bin. Was he amused? Or was he terrified?

Anyway, I finally went to bed again, even though I had to wake up in just a short while for work. While I slept, the mooing sound still lingered in my head even though I know the mug is not in the house anymore and is mooing away as the rubbish collector made his round to all the rubbish bins.

The first thing I did was to tell my colleague about it, who laughed and laughed. She told me she would put it into the refrigerator first, then maybe the mug would froze and stop mooing, then decide of what to do with it.

Another colleague listened in disbelief and cannot imagine I actually threw my birthday gift away.

Another colleague replied with “What is that? What is that?”

A friend suggested to soak it in water.

Told my mum too who couldn’t stop laughing and asked why I didn’t switch it off. How do I switch a mug off? Not like there’s an on – off button. Then she asked a very good question, “So how are you going to tell your friend?”

I don’t know how I’m going to tell my friend and I don’t know if I should tell my friend. Felt a little guilty though for throwing the mug away but given the time that the mooing started sounding, I was sleepy and scared and annoyed and fed up, I just wanted it to end.

I cannot bear to go through another similar occurence and to wake up in the middle of a night to a mooing mug.

So, if you were me, what would you have done?

I’ve never bought birthday present for someone as young as one year old. But I had to get something for my neighbour’s grandson as he celebrated his birthday today.

His mother told me about the party last night and invited me to drop by the poolside in the afternoon today. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend as I had my plans all laid out today. I was going for a movie and to catch up with my hometown mate whom I haven’t met for quite some time. I’ve even bought the movie tickets online so I had to stick to my plan.

But of course, I must get that little boy a pressie so I went to Jusco’s toys department. I think the last time I actually have a good look at a particular toy department was ages ago. It was pretty crowded today. With the school holidays, the weekend and Christmas coming, you see so many people getting gifts.

I managed to get a car set with 5 cars in it. It was quite fun hunting for gifts. I actually like hunting for gifts very much. At the cashier, people queueing in front at the back of me are parents buying toys for their kids. To my right, stood a pair of brother and sister. Little brother wanted to play with his sister but the sister just didn’t want to share the toy with him. So they were pushing and yelling and the little brother was wailing and pushing some more.

At the back of me stood a man who kept swinging the plastic bag he was holding towards my butt. Crazy!

Went to Jusco’s Customer Service Counter to get my present wrapped.

My friend was one hour late but it was alright as I spent that one hour walking around the toy department. We then had lunch at Vietnam Kitchen and I ordered the same thing I’ll order when I eat here, which is Beef Brisket with Tomato and rice.

Next, it was movie time. The Kingdom. It was pretty good.

I also got my belated birthday present today. A mug with a cow and it moos. Yea, my mug, it moos. It took me some time to discover how to make it moo. Also got a souvenir from Chiang Mai, Thailand, which opens up to a mirror and a place for you to store toothpicks. Hehehe. I’ll take a picture and show you probably tomorrow.

I love the decoration in the centre court of One Utama (new wing). There’s a big drummer boy standing there. Very nice! I would be going there again just to look at that drummer boy.

Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum

It rained the whole day today.

The morning was fine but the afternoon at work was just lousy. Office network was sluggish and I almost went berserk. I had work to do and I wanted to get it done but the network wasn’t helping and then I started feeling bored because there was nothing that I can do. So, I started looking for things to do, read news online, practically every headline that I can see on The Star Online. I facebooked until I got so fed up. Played Scrabulous but I was still bored. Looked for more news to read. Read blogs. Still, the network was still shitty.

I practically counted the minutes before I can go home. And when I can go home, my colleague was in a middle of something and I had to wait for him. I waited for 40 minutes. Today is just not a day to keep me waiting. I wanted to go home to cook but I know it might not happen since I’m leaving work late.

It was raining when I drove home. Traffic jam. I drove for 1 hour and 30 minutes and for the last 30 minutes, I was in tears. I was bored, restless, angry, disappointed, you name it all. Not really because of me waiting for my colleague but it got accumulated the past few days when my calls have gone unanswered by Mr.Boyfriend.

And in fact, I told myself not to call him anymore until he does so. Do you know how lousy it feels when you call someone you love and he doesn’t answer your call and it drags on for a few days? I don’t call him like 5-6 times a day. I always limit myself to only one call per day and for the past week, only 1 call in 2-3 days. And yet, he doesn’t pick up the phone and doesn’t reply to my SMS. So, do you think it was just normal for me to get angry and moody?

I was about to reach home but it was so jammed up at the traffic lights, people cutting queue in front of me. If I had a sword, I would have throw my sword towards them.

And suddenly, he called. I didn’t want to answer because I was still angry. Then he called again and yet I still didn’t want to answer.

Then, there was an SMS but I wasn’t reading it because I was still driving.

In came another call and still, I wasn’t picking up the phone.

Angry to the point that the tears came rolling down.

I was telling myself “I’m not going to answer his call. I want to make him feel how it is like to have your call unanswered!”

“I don’t want to answer”

“Don’t want!”

“Don’t want!”

After reaching home past 8:30pm, I read his SMS in the car before getting into the house. Sprawled myself onto the bed and let the tears flow freely.

I looked at my phone and gave him a return call. So now you know how I’m being wired. Sometimes my heart just softens. Most of the time, it softens.

YET, this time he didn’t answer the call again. I actually threw my phone on the bed that I was lying on. Because I love my phone, I threw lightly lah, not like I wanted it to crush into pieces.

Back to sprawling on the bed.

He finally called again and this time I answered it.

He very much knows how I feel and so I complaint to him lor. He wasn’t having a good day either and so I just forgave him. You know sometimes all I need is just a simple SMS to update me on his whereabouts or how he’s doing. I mean maybe he’s not free to call but at least just pop in something to me lah. He doesn’t want me to worry but doing this and not letting me know anything worries me more, okay?

Anyway, everything’s back to normal now. I have voiced out my disappointment and I finally get to hear his voice. The heart says it is okay now.

I’m just tired today.

It is very absurd but I am actually feeling dreadful about the coming Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Years Day. People around me have got activities lined up. I don’t know what I want to do. Well, let’s just say I know what I want to do. I want to spend time with him. I’ve got a wedding dinner of my neighbour’s on Christmas Eve and I want him to come with me.

The thing is I don’t know if he will be free and I’m afraid to ask because the answers from him aren’t positive lately. A bit dejected. Very dejected. Absolutely dejected. Totally dejected.

Dear Santa, send me some love!

1. Did you know what Miss World 2007 is Miss China? You can read Miss China, Zhang Zilin’s blog here.

2. A friend was telling me he’s going to cook Lou Shu Fan (Mee Tikus) for breakfast tomorrow and he found this MamaChineseCooking.com while searching for his mee tikus recipe. I’ve been cooking consistently for the past one week or so. I’m very impressed myself, not too much about how tasty or how good the food turned out to be, but the effort and discipline that I am actually cooking on my own. Yesterday, I had choy sum stir fried with slices of chicken meat. I’ve never cooked this before even though it looks simple. I tried cooking it yesterday and I don’t know but it just tastes so good to me. I felt so happy. 🙂

Now, I have green beans cooking in my crock pot (slow cooker). It should be ready by morning when I wake up.

Over the weekend, I had ABC soup, not EFG this time. 😀

You know how sometimes you just cannot imagine where to find the time to cook? I always have this in my head…but lately, it sorts of starts to disappear.

3. My colleague was asking me if I knew the name of the song to the song that was playing on the radio yesterday. Today it played again and I managed to find out the name of the song. It’s Bubbly by Colbie Caillat, who got famous through her MySpace profile. A very nice song. You can listen to it here.

4. There has been lots of meow-ing going on these past few days. Much to my delight, there’s a mother cat and 3 kittens nesting outside of my balcony, among the bushes. Took a picture of it on Sunday, very quietly but later got found out by the mother cat, who stared at me with such fiery eyes.

They were meowing again just now and when I stood at the balcony, I saw the 3 of the kittens jumping about, playing among themselves. It is past 11pm and they are still jumping jumping pada waktu buta malam ni. Very cute ok?

The picture is only showing 2 kittens because the other kitten is inside the drain.

5. I’m going to wear a new top to work tomorrow. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!

The plan of the day was to stay home, drink boiled soup and just relax.

However, there was a twist to the above said plan.

At about 2 something, Pappy called, telling me someone’s going to send over 2 VIP tickets for Live & Loud KL 07 – Turn on the Pop concert at Bukit Kiara Equestrian Park. He got it from his business partner, who got it from his friend, who is one of the organisers. The boyfriend is not around and is not back from his work outstation. Had to quickly grab someone to go with me or the tickets will go to waste. Concert supposedly to start at 3pm as printed on the tickets..till late.

I managed to get Tim to come with me. Thank you Tim! 🙂

Went there at about 6 something and managed to find a parking spot at Securities Commission, Bukit Kiara where you got to pay RM10. No cameras were allowed and Tim had to walked back to his car to put his camera while I managed to sneak mine in. I escaped the first screening and I had to be checked the second time after Tim returned without his camera. The guy asked if I have a camera in my bag. I looked at him, smiled and said no. I escaped again this time but you know what? I didn’t dare to take out my camera after that. Didn’t want my camera to land in the hands of others, just in case I get caught.

And you know what? The tickets that I have actually cost RM1500 each. I was like 😮 . Pappy certainly didn’t tell me about it. It was the guy who tore my tickets that told me not to lose them because it’s RM1500. So you see, if I didn’t go and I had known about how much the tickets cost, I would have killed myself. But I’m glad I went!

What’s so special about the VIP tickets is that you get to sit instead of stand. You get an elevated view and you are higher than the ones standing on the field. It was an outdoor concert so it was nice to get an ocean view of the stage and the people standing below.

By the time we got comfortable settling down on our seats, Project Pop, a band from Indonesia was next in line to perform. I don’t know this group but I did tonight. Other performing artistes singing were Nikki, Mode, Azan (Ruffedge), Lah (VE) , Jaclyn Victor. Didn’t get to see Dina and Hannah Tan sing, guessed they sang much earlier before we arrived. Elliott Yamin of American Idol was there too with his hit song, “Wait For You”.

Anuar Zain totally took my heart away. He was so handsome and he sang so beautifully. I’ve never listened to him singing in English before as he usually sings in Malay..so when he sang “Get Here” by Oleta Adams, it was just so good. I cannot believe it is him singing. This man can sing.

Noryn Aziz was stunning too with her rendition of “I Will Survive”. It ended with a medley by all the local artistes performing and they sang “That’s What Friends Are For” which is also one of my favourite songs.

Next on the list was Shaggy and I would say this was the best part of the concert. He was funny, entertaining and he made the crowd go wild, especially when he sang “Mr. Bombastic”.

By the time Whitney Houston made her appearance, it was already 12:30 midnight. Yeap, it was that late. Loved her purple dress and her daughter came along too, they sang “My Love is Your Love”. Whitney ended her performance with her classic – “I’ll Always Love You”. The crowd was asking for an encore and she did “I’m Every Woman” which ended the concert for the night.

By the time the concert ended, it was past 1:30am, about to hit 2 am and I’m one happy lady.

 Had the same breakfast I had yesterday. Told you I can eat this everyday.

Had lunch at Kampung Buli Sim Sim. That wasn’t my first choice as I had wanted to go to New Century Restaurant in Grandview. But they were closed at about 2 so the next nearest eating place is Sim Sim and so I went again to the same fish selling place. I’ve been here to buy fish with Mummy but I’ve never eaten at the restaurant next door so it’s good to try a new eating place.

After that, it was “pao” making session. Made “choi pao” (vege pao) with my mum. My first time learning how to make pao. It’s no fun doing it alone. Minimum to have 2 persons because it is a lot of work. What I enjoyed best was filling up the pao dough and wrapping it up into a bun.

Dinner was at New Century Restaurant. Yeah, I finally got to dine here. It is one of my favourite restaurants in Sandakan. Had starchy corn soup, clams, prawns, fish and Sabah vege (Shu zai choi), it is a kind of vegetables where you can find it when you eat your pan mee. Usually you only get the leaves but here we have it with the stem as well, which you normally won’t be able to find it in KL. The best part is actually the stem. Big and juicy.

I must say the dinner was so good, it makes me wanna cry. Haha.

Today I spent the morning eating “Kon Lou Min”, the best breakfast ever in the world at Mile 1.5 market. I can eat this everyday.

Then, we went to Kampung Buli Sim Sim, I think I’ve blogged about this before but it’s alright. No harm repeating. This is a village where houses are built on stilts. I went to this one house which is the furthest towards the sea than the other houses. They sell fish. The boat goes up to the sea and comes back with fish, crabs, prawns and etc. So, you usually get fresh seafood several times in an hour or so. I was sitting on the bench, enjoying the sea breeze and watching the guys carrying bags of fishes and pouring them out.

This is where my mum gets her seafood. And next to this place is a restaurant, a simple wooden house. So what you do is you pick your fish and you eat next door.

I’ve always loved eating at shabby places. The kind that looks a bit dirty yet you know it’s clean. I don’t know how to explain this but I hope you know what I mean.

The only thing I did while I was in Sandakan is EAT. Seriously, that is the best thing one can do when you’re here. Just eat.

For dinner, we went to Ocean King Seafood Restaurant, and this is by the sea too. Very very crowded tonight. We had dinner with my parent’s friends and their friends. I don’t know half of them but then I was there only for the food. hehehe.