Tuesday, December 8, 2009

My Birthday Gift – Acca Kappa

Yesterday I bought myself a birthday gift that I have been wanting for a long time since I was a teenager. It’s an Italian brand named Acca Kappa hairbrushes which existed since 140 years ago. I like its fine quality with ergonomic wooden handles and timelessly stylish. Well it’s not that cheap luckily they have a Christmas promotion set for RM250 for three types of hairbrushes (for wet hair, normal care and for travelling). I can massage my scalp using this hairbrush. The actual price is RM400.

My desire for a really nice and lovely comb started when I was 12 years old. I read a short love story titled ‘The gift of Magi’. The story is about a young couple who is very much in love with each other, but can barely afford to support their life due to their bad economic situation. So, one day Della, the wife, decided to buy her husband, Jim, a chain as a Christmas gift. The chain is for his prized pocket watch given to him by his father. However, she doesn’t have enough money to buy the chain, so she decided to sacrifice herself by cutting off her long beautiful hair and sold it to make a wig. With that money, she could buy the chain. Meanwhile, Jim decides to sell his watch to buy Della a beautiful set of combs made out of tortoiseshell and jewels for her lovely, knee-length brown hair. Although each is disappointed to find the gift they chose rendered useless, each is pleased with the gift they received, because it represents their love for one another. Sometimes we need to sacrifice something precious for love and we gain from it later.

After reading the book, since that day I have two wishes in my life. First, keeping my hair as long as possible (when I was a kid, my mom always make sure my hair is so short like a tom boy) and secondly, buying a really nice hair brush. When I was 15 years old, my hair was already below the waistline. Since that whenever I go for shopping I will always look for the best hair brush that suits my type of hair. Even every time I travelled to overseas, I will look for the hairbrush. But unfortunately it's not to my liking. As I grew older, my preferences changed from not only beautiful hairbursh but it should be fine quality and good for healthy scalp.

I’m happy now since I have fulfilled one of my wishes. I love my long curly hair. *_*

Monday, December 7, 2009

Today is My Birthday - December 7

This year I celebrated my 43th Birthday and had a great fun. I want to celebrate it for the whole month of December. I don't want to have fun just for one day.

Last week I got a surprise birthday cake at a restaurant named Chef & Brew. We had a business lunch. My face turned red when suddenly I saw some waiters brought the cake and sand a Happy Birthday song. It's so embarassing because I didn't expect it. What a pleasant surprise.

Yesterday one of my closest friends gave me a treat by celebrating my birthday at the Conlay karaoke. It's was great too. She also ordered some nice western food from Jansens & Rawlings.
Anyway because of her, for the first time I sang in a karaoke. Usually I am a very shy person. I would prefer to select song insteds of singing. My friend said that I had a nice voice. I think my voice is like 'serak serak manja' or sweet husky hee hee. I like to sing a duet with my partner. He has a nice voice and he taught me a lot. Thanks B and especially R!

Today another close friend of mine gave me a lunch treat at a new restaurant that has just opened recently called Citrus at the Bangsar Village II. We had a nice Pakistani salad, Chicken Briyani and Penang style Char Kuey Teow. It's yummy! Thanks S.

Tomorrow I'm going to celebrate my birthday with my colleagues at the office. The menu will be Chicken Fried rice with prawns, Fried chilly Padi Chicken and salad. It's a home cook even the salad dressing is a home made. Thanks my darling chef!

Next week I will celebrate my birthday with another friend of mine who is also just one day after of my birthday. We are Sagis. This time the function will be held at the Kampungku Nelayan Restaurant at Lake View. I hope I will have a great time.

Next two weeks I will celebrate my Birthday again with my family. Cool! I'm thinking of buying either Blueberry Cheesecake or Black Forest. Not sure..my favourite is chocolate cake. But since I'm going to make chocolate fudge, I think Blueberry cheesecake is a better choice.

This year is the best birthday I've ever had....maybe I will get more surprises..who knows ^_*

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Back to Basic 2 - Using CMS?

Content Management System or CMS is a system that is supposed to simplify your work for web content management. But sometimes I would prefer go back to basic by using html and design the website manually. I'm not an IT savvy but I did learn some simple html or xml. I remembered during mid 1990s, I can create a simple website and update it without having problem. Now, the new CMS is more complicated and not that easy to manage.

Cracking my head now..I'm in the midst of preparing a CMS training manual for Arabic website. *_*

Sunday, November 29, 2009

10 THINGS THAT MAKE YOU NOT COOL WHILE CHATTING

1. INTRODUCTION.
‘Asl please’ I hate this question. Usually when people ask this, I will answer it in sarcastic way. It is really annoying. You are the one that started the conversation and just ask ‘Asl??’ I am not a product or machine. Is it really important to know my age, sex and location at the first line of your sentence? Eventually, you will know that I am a woman, my age (which I never hide it) and location when we chat more. Just view my profile and website. Appreciate it. That’s the purpose of having profile section and website so we don’t have to waste our time to intro ourselves. If you are an interesting person, I will always look for your profile too. Read it and try to understand you. Some guys said, “I want to hear it from you’. Argghhh!! Hey man! I have other things to do. I can work and chat at the same time but not wasting time. Why don’t you just do a proper introduction first and be gentlemen. You will look mature and wiser. This is like ‘first impression’ when you first time meeting people. Sometimes, I find it is cool though when people just ask a question without any intro. However, depending on the question too. Question that could challenge my mind to find the answer would be the best.

2. PERSONAL INFO.
Some chatter doesn’t know how to differentiate between privacy and shared info. Why do you want to know the family background? If I have kids, why do you want to know about them? Do you want to chat with them too? If I have a husband or lover, do you want to chat with them too? You are chatting with me. Just concentrate on me. Well if you love so much about your family or lover, you can tell me, I am okay with it. But don’t aspect me to share my personal life with you. Same question about work too, if I don’t wish to tell about my work place, please respect it. I remembered there was one guy that forcing me to answer all these personal questions and said ‘I want to find a genuine friendship and real people’. Can you imagine that? So I told him, get out from this chatting system and find your genuine friend in real life. Not here. Not in Yahoo, Skype, ICQ, MSN or whatever. Meet them and try to get their personal info if you can get it. Fortunately, he indirectly admitted that he was wrong and understood my message and don’t bother me anymore.

3. DEMAND ATTENTION!
Please don’t demand my attention by buzzing or flooding messages. If you really want to chat with me, just shoot the question. Don’t ask me whether you want to chat with me or not; or whether I like to chat with you or not. If you are in my list of friends or even not in my list, of course I will reply to your message. Don’t send any sulky words because I won’t send any sweet words just to cheer you up again. I am not good at consoling people. Sorry guys.

4. PHONE.
I would prefer if the caller has the courtesy to ask me first whether he can call me through skype, yahoo etc or not. It really makes me boiling every time I have to reject calls while I was busy with my customer or when I was in the middle of doing paper work on the computer. Don’t you understand when the first time I reject the call, it means I can’t talk right now. Oh yes, don’t hope that I will give my handy number. If I gave the number, it means you can send sms or call, but don’t look forward to receive any reply from me and maybe I won’t answer the call. If you have my other number, you are just lucky that day.

5. ALL CAPS.
I don’t know why some guys they just simply type in ALL CAPS! Don’t you know that all caps mean you are shouting in writing? Worst some put it in RED. Just type in small caps if you don’t know how to type. Just type s l o w w w w l y. No problem. I am not running away. Maybe I might fall asleep while waiting for you to finish the line. It’s OK. I usually online about 12 hours per day. I won’t miss your message.

6. ASKING TOO MUCH!
Some guys, there just want to see my picture first or even worst ask me to send my photo. Whattt laah! I don’t understand. My pictures are every where on the yahoo display image, Skype and my website. Still not enough? Still want me to email my picture? Man…I don’t really understand you guys. I am using Yahoo, Skype, ICQ isn’t it enough medium to chat? Why you want my MSN? Since we are already chatting. Yes I have my MSN but not for you or anyone else. I am just waiting for one person to be online in my MSN. I will wait no matter how long it will take even for many years. WEBCAM? The most annoyed question. I am not into web cam. I can’t see web cam because the firewall system or whatever terms is at office and home will block it anyway. I am not interested in web cam unless to communicate with my brother who is in Japan now.

7. SEX CHAT.
Not for me. Not interested. No way. It is not that I don’t like sex. Some funny guys gave a statement that if I am open minded, it means I must talk about sex with them. Aiyaaa!! What a statement! Once in a while, I don’t mind to talk about sex but I am not interested to detail it out. Light and easy is ok. Who doesn’t enjoy making love? But not everyday we talk about it. Don’t you have any other topics that are more challenging and interesting to increase your knowledge? BODY STATS? Is it really matters to you to know my body statistics and my weight? I can bluff you anytime by giving any Miss World figures. It's funny when man can easily believed it, feel excited and aroused. Is that what you want guys? My anger is red hot now. I think the next time if any guys ask me about my stats, I will say like this, ‘Best viewed with Browser XXX or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixel’. You are looking at your computer anyway not me.

8. LANGUAGE BARRIERS.
This one I can’t really help you much. Honestly, I would prefer to chat in English because I want to learn the language. It’s kind of sexy if you have good communications skills in English. I have chatted with some chatters who can’t even speak English but in the end we manage to chat by using other languages like German or Mandarin. If you meet me in person, we can even communicate in sign language. I know a bit of American Sign Language. However, if you can’t properly spell like, mostly chatters in theMiddle East, they wrote doter = daughter, hoer u = how are you? I am really cracking my head to understand what you are talking about. Sorry guys I can’t chat with you.

9. READ THE SIGNS.
Like driving you must read the sign otherwise you will get involve in accident. Same with chatting, if I put the sign ‘I’m Away or I’m Busy’ it means I don’t want to be disturbed and busy with my work or not in the mood to talk. If I put customized message, please read it too. Then you will know how I feel that day. I am glad when people read my Blog and give their comments when chatting with me. At least there is something to talk about when you have no idea what topics to chat.

10. ATTITUDE.
I hate cocky attitudes, people who make fun of others shortcomings to make themselves look or feel better. I can't stand with people who are unethical, egoistic, give immature remarks, prejudice etc. I hate if someone that is closed to me but actually he/she is a cheater, liar and dishonest. In this case, I just block and remove the person from my list. Don’t contact me. Leave me alone. No regrets.

Monday, November 16, 2009

When the Top of Management has conflict of interest..

This is actually what happening in so called a principal government agencies. The top leader only thinks of her own self interest. She exploits and use her power to grab all the profits and opportunities.

But who can help us? Everybody knows but no one dare to take any action because everybody has to take care their own little rice bowl.

Arschloch!!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Go back to basics

Last weekend I watched a TV programme called 'Meet the Natives: USA' at National Geo. It's about a group of five men from Tanna, Vanuatu travelled to almost half part of the world.

I enjoyed to see their experiences and their way of thinking and perspectives. They live in a simple life. They have freedom, happines and love. Money don't exist in their world.

Our world is in a mess now. We should go back to basics and live in a simpler life.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Brain

Never let the brain idle. " An idle mind is the devil's workshop."

Friday, August 21, 2009

Es tut weh...

Ich habe mir den Fuß verstaucht.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Hoffe

Mein Schatz ist krank. Ich hoffee dass es dir gut geht.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Working culture

2nd meeting with a new boss...it went well. My unit becomes important again.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Unjustice

Today my boss felt that I am long due for promotion as well as excellence award... I am demotivated and burnt out. Tired of explaining myself. Office politics are so strong. Hypocrisy people has blinded the Management.
I just don't care anymore....

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Sudden Death

Recently there are so many news on people who died too young or the cause of the death could not be determined.

Moral of the story... Don't work too hard..Nobody notices anyway.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

H1N1 at my office

Today I got a news that one of my top Management is tested positive for H1N1. We were advised not to panic especially those who has personal contact with him and visited him at the hospital earlier. H1N1 symptoms are fever, flu, cough, cold, dizzy and joint aching etc.

All I can wish is a speedy recovery for him.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Just be honest

Sometimes it's better to speak our minds aloud and be honest.
Everyone has different opinion.

Just because the other person has a higher status than you do or richer than you, we have to control what we are gonna say. I believe we should have an equal rights in saying our views.

Barulah adil. Kalau tidak asyik ditindas selalu.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Forgot Password

I've created this blog but I forgot the password and even the username the next day. I couldn't believe it. All this while I think I am quite IT literate and problem like this shouldn't be happening. Anyway I'm glad now..today is my lucky day. After testing it for days..I got the correct username and password. :-)

Monday, June 1, 2009

Hello World!

Hello Malaysia...hello World!

Just created my first eblog website.

1 June 2009