I feel thin, but I'm fat

I look into the mirror, I feel I'm not really fat. BUT! I can't fit in my skirts, my pants. So annoying.

Today my company had sports day and we went bowling. I haven't play bowling in AGES! My legs are really tired now. I squad very low when I play bowling, sometimes my knees touched the floor.. haha. And then I still went gym after that. And I climbed "staircase machine". So my legs are really sore now..

From next week I will start going gym at lunch hour. Hopefully you will see that I write here "I can fit in my skirts now!" soon!

Unsightly scene always found me

Unsightly "scenes" in the train always have a way to find me...

Just today, a woman, pulled her feet out from her slippers and rested her feet on top of it instead. That's nothing. She then put one of her feet on top of another. That was nothing either. The problem was, her toes... are dried and cracked skin and.. dirty looking. Her toenail looked like it was about to drop off her toe. It was really really horrible. And, wait for it! She was fingering her cracked and dirty toes, in the train, in front of the public..seemingly enjoying the act.. It was painfully disgusting to see... do you understand that??

Thank God she didn't do that for long. Instead she chose to doze off with her legs wide open. And I mean WIDE open. Luckily for the other passangers she was wearing pants but still her legs were especially WIDE open.

Talk about unsightly.

Zoo Sep 09

Went to the zoo again for the don't know how many times. This time I went with ST, Peng and their son Xuan Xi. THis is the first time I went zoo with ST. They were in Singapore for American Visa. Peng's going to work in US for a year or so.

They rented a.. what do you call this... cart? for XX. We couldn't find the tigers' exhibit and XX got frustrated, told us "Don't lose your way again lah"..................

This photo was towards the end. In the beginning XX just wouldn't let me take his photos.

A frog on plant. Pretty isn't it?

The new attraction, boat ride. It's nothing..... not worth the money.

XX making funny face.

He just don't want to face the camera.

Finally....

And another.

XX is so "unfair". hahaha. He became in "good terms" with the staff on the boat in a few minutes' time! And even wanted to take photos with the lady. I had been coaxing him half a day to take his photo..

I didn't take photos of animals as I've taken too many all these years' visit. But this is a real cutie. They came to the glass as they were really curious of us and the bottle when I placed it there.

They are really really tiny and they've got golden hand. HOw beautiful they are huh?
That's it. Nothing more.

Sick of Racial Bickerings

I am so God damn sick of all the racial bickerings.

Yesterday in one of the newspaper, it talked about the "hot" racial issue in Malaysia now. I can't remember exactly what.. pardon me. Getting old... my memory is like.. working for only a 12 hours' range only.

Today there was another. It's sadder than the article yesterday.

The recent matter, if not mistaken, started with a Hindu temple (of 150yrs old!) that was going to be relocated. And then some of the Malay residents in that area (of the new location) got upset and went protested about it. For Christ's sake! Or should I say for Allah's sake!!! There are endless Muslim mosques in Malaysia. Why is this ONE Hindu temple moving thing even an issue??! It's not even a new temple! GGOOOODDDD.

They then took a severed cow's head (cows are sacred to Hindus) and stomped on it. THAT to me, is extremely insulting. After that, there were supposed to be a meeting between leaders of the Indian society and government officials or something like that. The protesters made sure there was no talk whatsoever.

Quote from Straits Times :
"They shouted, booed and hurled obscenities, jumped on chairs or took them away from any Indian who wanted to sit down. They harassed middle-aged women by pulling at their scarves and made threatening gestures at Indians and the officials."
Unquote.

That was preposterous.

And today I was surfing videos of a Malaysian singer who was discovered by producers in the US. She has a very cool and soothing voice. She posted a video of her singing (to show her friend) and some producers saw it and she got signed up for records!!

So I was watching her videos in Youtube and reading the comments. And there it went, racial comments. Not about white people discriminating Asians. She was singing about Christmas. She is a Sarawakian, I can't really say if she's Christian or Muslim. But who cares?! But people, some people might have concentrated on the possibility that if she's a Muslim. If she's a Muslim she most definitely can't sing about Christmas! I wasn't really clear of the comments cos there were too many and I am too sick about all these racial issues. So I didn't read on.

Couple of weeks ago, I had lunch with one of my managers who is an Indonesian Chinese. He asked me why don't different races of Malaysians mix around? He said "You don't hate each other. But you don't really socialise with each other." My first reaction that he was wrong. But when I really gave it some thought, I agreed with him. He said, that was so sad, it's such a nice country. I was a bit taken aback to hear this from an Indonesian. Perhaps we all feel that Chinese, in Indonesia has always been "surpressed"(just my personal opinion). I, if not we all, have always thought the Chinese people in Malaysia are luckier than those in Indonesia. As I feel we have more freedom than the Chinese people in Indonesia. So to hear this from Indonesian Chinese.. was really kind of a shock. Do you understand what I am saying?

Back to the situation in Malaysia. How can we EVER have "1Malaysia"? Not all but I guess most Malays just got too worried and feel they are threatened by Chinese. According to the article's (in Strait Times) writer, one of her Malay friends in Malaysia "was adamant that non-Malays have no right to ask for more rights or privileges."

Some of the Malays (again, NOT all) just can't tolerate anything at all, especially in the recent 5 years. It's really sad to see. It pushed me further from my home country, mentally. I just hate all these racial issues. We are all the same... we are HUMANS.

Malaysia ministers' jobs, are not easy ones. Malays fear their privileges being stripped away, Chinese wants to be treated fairly, Indians wants more helps from government AND THEN Malays' fears increased, feel threatened. M'sia gov needs the votes from not just one race. So... it's really a tough job for them now... I don't even want to think about it.

Most of my Malay friends are very nice people. We got along great at work. Interactions outside of work, maybe not a lot but there were interactions. Like an answer of a Miss Universe's contestant : "I wish for world peace." I wish for peace in Malaysia. I wish for no-racial-bickerings in Malaysia. I feel sad to be "pushed" further and further away from my home land. . But I guess no-racial-bickerings is not something that is likely to materialise in near future.

I don't like to sleep early..

I really don't like to sleep before midnight... It's too early....... Don't get me wrong, I can fall asleep in no time. But I feel it's such a pity to sleep so early. But I have to wake up at 5:45am.... And my eyebag and black eye circles are horrible...........

BUT I STILL think it's such a waste to sleep so early...

Wrong english!

Just a short post. I've got many things and photos that I wanted to post. But I am quite busy and tired these days with various things. So.. no mood to write.

I just want to write about the course I attended today, Business Writing by British Council. It's a two days course.

I never realised, a lot of words and phrases that I have been using for so many years and so frequently are so cliche and ... OLD FASHION......... For eg : "I hereby attached...", "Please be informed..", "We regret to inform you...", "Any inconvenient caused is regretted", "Should you require any further information please don't hesitate to contact me".. etc..

The last one, "Should you require any further information please don't hesitate to contact me", I used it a lot. Our trainer said we should just say "If you have any question please contact me"..

"Thank you for your kind consideration" is also WRONG.

There are still many others, can't recall everything. Left the textbook in the training room. It just made me "open eye" (pardon the Singlish) about so many mistakes that we made. The course is really cool.

One week at new job

Wah, I have 666posts (excluding this one) in my blog now. That's devil's number. kekeke...

I have started working at my new company for a week now. It had been a really pleasant first week. I mainly have to make travel arrangements for the marketing team. They have quite a lot of trips and changes are frequent... so I really have to make sure I check and re-check everything... Time passes really fast in this job. It feels like I only work 6 hours.

I quite enjoy this job, so far. The working environment there is about the same with my previous company - very peaceful. It's the kind of company I would want to work for a long time. Hopefully I will :) I really don't like to change jobs.

Food for thought

It would seem, it's better to "force your wife to be prostitute" than "to drink beer (for Muslim)" in Malaysia. Look what Raja Petra Kamaruddin said : "So, there we have it. RM5,000 fine or imprisonment of 3 years and 6 lashes for consuming alcohol. And RM4,000 fine or imprisonment of 2 years and 6 lashes for forcing one's wife to be a prostitute!"

Read it all here : http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/26170/84/ Very insightful, very funny and most important of all, very true.

I really like this Raja Petra Kamaruddin. I just hope he won't end up being caught and send to prison again. Well, if he did, maybe one day he'd be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize huh? But I sure hope he will not end up in prison. How about, he becoming our PM? hehehe..

dilemma of short legs

Today's one fine day. My 3rd day at work's not bad at all. Plus, today I saw a hunk~ hehe. He's so cute. He was in the office for orientation, so we went through the session together. He has Alex To 杜德伟's kind of eyes. He speaks excellent English. He's from KL but his accent is a bit like angmoh. He actually studied in private school and then university in Singapore. Too bad he works in the plant in Jurong, not the main office. So this might just be the only one time I ever get to see him. hehe. Anyway... he's a lot younger than me.

Took express bus back to Toa Payoh instead of MRT today. It was only 5-10minutes slower than the train. Oh, but if I take the train, I still need to take feeder bus. So it comes up the same. PROVIDED no accident on PIE. It's more expensive to take this express bus... but.. peak hours in the train, very crowded and there's no empty seats most of the time. I am just too tired to stand for 45min.

I think I will take the bus instead of MRT to work too. I actually will get places to sit in the train, in the morning. But, since years before, I get headache and felt so horrible if I have to take long rides in the train, early in the morning. I guess because you have to sit and hold your body up right. Whereas in the bus you can just comfortable lean over to the window pane or things like that. And you know what... I am just too short for the train lahhhhhhhhh. My legs are just so short and I can't comfortably sit there without fidgeting. Because ah... my legs can't really touch the floor if I don't wear high heels. kekekeke. laugh... go ahead and laugh.. hehehe... If I want to sit comfortably like those ppl who have long legs, I need a high heel that is 3 inches tall. And it makes your feet tired easily with 3 inches high heels so I mostly have heels of 2inches only... AND besides that, girls have to hold the legs together.. else people opposite might see your underwear... when my legs not long enough.. it's an effort to hold them together tightly. Aiya....... you tall people won't understand de lah. kekekee.

Whereas in the bus, you can sit with your legs wide open and nobody will see. Of course I'm not talking about those seats which face each other lah. So... I guess I'll just have to pay more and take the bus instead... I really hate the tiredness and headache after I sat in the train for more than 30mins early in the morning.............

Dead tired

I'm dead tired today. Second day of work at new company. New environment, needs time to get used to. My whole body aching here and there. I was so tired until I can hardly speak when Gab fetched me to gym.

I want to sleep now. But my chin had to chose today, to throw her "tantrum" and refused to go back to her cage. I can't sleep until she does.......

Halo Lady Luck!

I think Lady Luck has finally found me, has finally came to my aid ~~

I am very happy today

Reader's Digest files for bankruptcy

Reader's Digest US filed for bankruptcy...........

Guess I shouldn't complaint huh...