Happy karaoke

Today Ek and I went karaoke, just the two of us. My uncle and brother said "HUH? Only two? What's the fun of it when there's only 2 people?" But it was fun~

We sang a lot of songs, in 3 and a half hours. And I still felt "not enough". I could continue to sing if we have the time. Haha~ We sang a bit of new songs (we're getting outdated with the new songs!), the songs of our generations and some real oldies, like Michael Jackson's "Ben" which EK never even heard of cos this song is old! It was sung by Michael when he's about 12 yrs old. It's nearly 40 years old! Yet it still sounds so great. Every song of Michael still sounds great. And a lot of Michael's songs are in the popular list!! We sang a few more, like Heal The World.

We even sang Linkin Park's Numb~! It was a real fun time, we had a lot of laughs~ It was just great~

Bodyworld

I went to see the Body Worlds Exhibition with my friend Jessie. It's really funny how I ended up going to this exhibition.

One day Jessie asked if I want to visit this exhibition about human body at Science Centre. She wasn't sure the exhibition name in English so I couldn't look it up on the net. I went to Science Ctr website but I didn't really see it. It actually has a website of its own but I didn't know then. And I have never heard of this exhibition. Neither have I saw it in newspaper nor tv.

But, not many friends enjoy going to see (any) exhibitions, thus I was thinking, since someone asked me to go for an exhibition, I should just grab the opportunity and just go, whatever the exhibition is. hahahaha..... So I said ok, let's go.

Days later I saw it on tv, I was busy with other things, I didn't read indepth about this exhibition. I just went to the website and purchased tickets as it's got discounts if book online then. When I went home, I told my bro I was going to see this exhibition. My brother said "Disgusting." or something like that. I was like, "Huh?? What? What is disgusting? Just an exhibition."

The thing was, I did not know it's an exhibition of real human bodies. I thought it's just wax figures. So my bro said "Yalah, real human bodies." I got absolutely excited when I heard that, "OH REALLY???! GREAT! I LIKE!" hahaha....................

So I went with Jessie and her sister-in-law. The plastinates looked plastic. So, you really don't feel disgusted by it. They looked like they are still wet. You have to keep reminding yourself that those, those are real human being. It's really amazing, how they preserved the bodies and arranged in such aesthetical ways.

I looked into the eyes of the plastinates, and reminded myself, this is a real person's eyes, that once were gleaming with life too. It's a really strange feeling. It's hard to describe, how I felt when I was standing there, looking at dead people in all sorts of postures. And I respect these people. They donated their bodies. Even though once we died, we wouldn't know, but the thought of having your own body being cut and dissected and exposed like that, is not something people will be willing to even think about, especially for Asians. Will I one day be the one who is willing to donate my body? I don't think so. I want my body to be cremated and my ashes be sprinkled into the sea.

There was also a squid, octopus, deers, a horse and a giraffe. The horse was humongous!! Gosh... I never knew a horse can be that big. Those in the zoo, I know they are ponies, but still I never knew a horse is THAT big.......... It's scary... Looks like a dinosaur of some sort. The giraffe was huge too! And really tall. Why is it I didn't really feel anything special about giraffe when I saw it at the zoo...??? Perhaps cos we're viewing the giraffes (at the zoo) on a high rise platform...

Everyone should go and see this exhibition. It's fantastic!

Fun filled week ahead?

Oh next week is going to be a "busy" work week. I said "busy", cos.. it's not all work.

Monday will be our Bring Your Kids To Work day. As I'm one of the committees, will be running here and there. It's a whole day event. We have 30kids from 4-15 yrs old coming! I'm supposed to take photos too. I'm going to bring my DSLR and also my point and shoot... Just in case I couldn't figure out the DSLR. hahaha... I hope I won't need to resort to my point and shoot!

And then Tuesday will be our Safety Day. There will be talks about safety or something by AIA people. There'll be "CPR competition". I want to join this. haha. And we get free foot massage too. I have never tried foot massage... in fact, I have NEVER tried ANY massage cos I don't really fancy it. I believe I will stop the masseur after 1 minute (bcos of the pain). hahahah...

Wed evening is karaoke event. We'll probably leave office after 4pm. Can't wait to sing with my colleagues!

Thursday will be normal working days and Friday is a public holiday! So happy! Finally a public holiday!! Hooray!!

Colourful corns!

My brother planted some different corns. It's very small, and it looks quite different from the ones we eat. It's really really bright colour. This is the yellow one.

Look at this! A red corn!! I didn't know there's red corn! My bro said he also planted black ones.

Close up. Seriously, this is a corn, not palm fruit or whatever.

The colours are really pretty.
Will show the black corn if we have it!

My work station

Few weeks back, attended First Aid Course sponsored by company. Should have brought my camera there. This was taken by my mobile phone. These are the "victims". Luckily I volunteered to be the victim one task before this. This looks really ugly. hahaha.

Now, my workstation, this is my cubicle.

Bought some plants to decorate my workstation.

I like this plant because it looks like it's got red veins.

Look at the tiny leaves, so cute.

This is my cactus "baby" from JB. It's so weird, because its "brother and sister" growing differently from this.

Over one particular weekend, it suddenly grow this much! Seriously, it wasn't growing at lot before this. One Monday I came back to work, I had a shock!

This was over another weekend, that means after 2 weeks, it has grown "up" 1cm! Its "brother and sister" are growing side and outwards, but not "upwards"... Bro said air-cond room is ideal for cactus. I thought cactus needs a lot of sun.....

Decorated my cubicle with a little Christmas tree~ Bought these from Daiso, tree $2, decoration balls $2, little Santas $2, total $6. So cute, right?

And! My KING - Michael. Angel bought me this magnet. I stick it on my partition so I can look at him everyday :)

Another letter to Reader's Digest

I subscribed to Discovery Magazine last year. Little did I know that it is a magazine managed under Reader's Digest. If I KNEW, I would NEVER have subscribed it. NEVER. I would rather go to bookstore to buy it every month, because I loathe Reader's Digest. As I mentioned before, I hate their marketing tactic, telling you you have won RMxxx,xxx.00 in their every mail.

My subscription started from Aug 08. In March 2009, the book dealer's(I think not directly from Reader's Digest) staff called me and told me my subscription is going to expire soon and asked if I want to renew. I was like ...????? It was March! My subscription is supposed to end in Aug 09!!! I told him : No. And I don't intend to renew it at all since RD started bombarding me with their stupid mails.

Today I received the magazine and in it, the usual "you can win RMxxx,xxx.00" letter and also a part asking me to pay for the renewal. I am really pissed. So, I wrote them an email :

My name is Ng Wei Li. I received a letter from RD asking me to pay RM149 to renew my subscription of Discovery Magazine. In your letter it was stated "A few weeks ago, with your last issue of Discovery Channel Magazine, I wrote to remind you that your subscription to the magazine would be continued as promised for a further year..." .

I received no such letter. There was no letter enclosed with the magazine.

Previously a staff from Transforma Sdn Bhd has called me and asked if I'd like to continue my subscription and I gave him a clear answer : no. It should therefore be rightly considered that I am stopping my subscription after the last issue of my 1 year subscription. I had never agreed that "my subscription be continued unless instructed otherwise".

I DO NOT wish to continue my subscription for Discovery Magazine. Please cancel my subscription immediately. Should you want me to return the magazine I just received I would be more than happy to do so.

Ironically, RD's email address is : friends@rdasia.com.my. I ain't wanna be no friends with Reader's Digest, I'm telling ya.

Just last week or so, I discovered a new magazine, published in Singapore but it's under BBC. It's called "Knowledge". I'd be much happier to subscribe to this instead. It's a pity that Discovery Magazine is published under Reader's Digest, such a pity.

Happy 2 months!

How time flies! I have worked in this new company for over 2 months and 2 happy months those were! I hope there'll be many many many happy months ahead!!

I've just joined here 2 months, and there had been so many activities and courses. I feel like a frog that's just came out of a well.. so this is how it feels to work in a big and people-oriented company!! It feels great!!

So far, I have attended Business Writing course, Defensive Driving course, First Aid course. And we've had Mentoring session at Hilton. And we've had bowling, badminton session. And we're playing Wii during lunch time. I'm one of the organizer, we're going to have Wii competition in the company. And we're gonna have Bring Your Kids To Work day, it's a full day event. And we're gonna have another development workshop at Botanic Garden. My colleague said, so many events and courses and workshops.. there's not enough time to work! ahahahahahha.....

Most important thing other than these "extra benefits" is, I like my job functions. My superiors and most colleagues are nice. There's nothing more I can ask for.

Happy!!

Michael Jackson This Is It movie

Finally, Michael Jackson This Is It unveiled.

Michael was happy, focus, enjoying every minute of rehearsing for the concert. Well, I don't know the truth behind, but at least he looked like he's happy. He was brilliant, the dancers were brilliant, the whole team was brilliant, the creativity, everything, AMAZING!! Just SPEECHLESS... I miss Michael so much. Michael, I love you!

I thought I would cry but I didn't, because Michael looked happy and I am happy for him. I am still mourning over his death, to tell you the truth. I still listen to his songs every other day if not every day....

During the movie, there were a few groups of Caucasians and they made a lot of cheering, which was really nice. We saw the funny side of Michael, the polite Michael, the extremely talented Michael, the kind hearted Michael... Michael is truly an angel. He had always been so polite, since he was a little kid, so kind, so much love....

Everyone gave the movie a round of applause at the end. Everyone didn't want to leave the theatre when it finished and was showing the credits and crews... Everyone just couldn't bear to leave the theatre, leave Michael.................

My heart is still aching. But at least he looked happy.. before he died...

A 6 year-old

A 6 year-old girl Elena in Chicago, had only few days left to live. Too sick to speak, she hid notes and drawings all over her house telling her parents and her sister again and again 'I love you'.

Quote from Straitstimes :

Elena's parents found the first notes in a backpack. Others were hidden between books on the bookshelf, in the corner of their dresser drawers, between dishes in the china cabinet or between photos stacked away in boxes.

'We started to collect them and they would all say 'I love you Mom, Dad and Grace'. We kept finding them, and still to this day, we keep finding them,' Mr Keith Desserich told WLWT television in their hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.

'Literally, there are hundreds of notes that we found.' Mr Desserich and his wife Brooke each hold onto a sealed note they've never opened. 'We always want to know that there's one more note that we haven't read yet,' he said.

Unquote.

How touching... She's just 6 years old... My eyes were wet upon reading this news... She left a very very good memory for her family. May she rests in peace.

My first DSLR photos!

Got my DSLR on Thu! Have been snap snap snap all the time~ Yesterday reached home late so only got to try the camera at night. Took a shot in my room.

The next morning, can't wait to go out and take photos. I WANT a macro lens. This was taken by the 55-200mm lens.

My main interest, is really macro loh. This is as close as I can get using 18-55mm lens.


First time I use a DSLR, amazed by the clarity of the photos!!! And it's so fast and steady, hardly any photos are blurred.

This weird fellow, funny looking right? Got a bird's beak, HUGE eyes and furry tail...... REALLY REALLY weird lah..

I think probably this is the male or female of the same insect. They got same eyes..





With the telephoto lens I was finally able to capture photos of lizards.




Background not dark enough, doesn't stand out.
So tired keep squeezing my left eye so that I can take photos with my right eye on the viewfinder. Using LCD screen to take photo is more comfy but can see better with viewfinder. Finally I understand why people like to take photos with viewfinder. I am unable to just shut one eye lid, some people are born with this ability. So enviousssssssssssss, so jealoussssssssssss.... I'm going to have more wrinkle's on my left eye................................ sob sob...

I love photography!!!!!

Lizard rescue mission!

We put a fly trap that's full of glue on the floor. It's very very sticky. A lot of flies got stuck onto it which is really good!! But this morning, a house lizard got stuck onto that paper!!

So poor thing... It must be really fast because it's not half body but whole body stuck onto the fly trap. It must have struggled a lot when it got stuck. When I tried to free it from the fly trap it didn't struggle a lot. The paper is really really sticky, luckily it's not toxic.

Its claws are so fragile.... I had to be really careful.. After I removed one claw I put tissue beneath so not to get stuck again. The toughest part was its abdomen area... The skin was really thin. I think it must be in pain...
Luckily it was still alive. But after I removed it and placed it on my hand it didn't move much.. Guess it was really really tired.... I then placed the lizard on wet floor so to make the tissue and glue to go away. It started moving after a few seconds and soon it ran away~

I wonder whether it can still climb on the wall though......................

Tiger Airway SUCKS!

Tiger Airway SUCKS BIG TIME!! Don't EVER buy Tiger tickets AGAIN! NEVER! They are a fraud!!! #*(&#$^$#*%&#$()#*$

The promo several months ago offered very cheap tickets, with tax only $12 to Kota Kinabalu and other cities. So I bought tickets to Kota Kinabalu and also to Kuching. The tickets to Kota Kinabalu sold out in 2 days or so.

Not long later, the flights to KK had been cancelled completely!!! Without any reason. Of course airline has the right to cancel flights. But the tickets were all sold out, they can't say the flight is not full and they have no choice buy to cancel.

Now it's like you announced very attractive offer of your products, when customers came and want to buy, you throw them all out of your shop. What the fuck?!

There are of course, people who have bought the tickets and booked and paid for hotel. And of cos they are pissed but there's nothing we can do about it.

And now my Kuching trip was supposed to be on 31 Oct, today is 10 Oct and now they are telling us our flight timing has changed! And it's either we go on Sun, Mon back or Wed back..What's the point of going there for 1 night?! And it's not worth it to go Kuching and use up 3 days of leave! What the fuck!

I will ask for refund. And look at this, the call centre numbers are in gray and soooooooooo tiny. I have trouble reading the numbers!!!

Tiger SUCKS BIG TIME!! BIG TIME!!!!

I WILL NEVER BUY TIGER AGAIN EVEN IF IT'S FREE!!