Therapy, Therapy

Last week, I signed up with Nuffnang because of my sister. She said, if I ever make any money out of that, it should be given to her, for my soon-to-be niece (yeah, I hope it would be a girl)....since it doesn't take a lot of effort so I signed up...no expectation to make money at all, let alone to have any ads here...

So a few minutes ago, I was quite surprised to see the Maxis Hot Ticket ad melekat kat atas tu...tapi biasala, perangai jakun dan tangan gatal is not a good combination...entah apa entah aku letak kat settings terus benda tu hilang...tiba-tiba rasa sedih.. huhu, bengong betul...sorry baby, Wawa just lost you your diapers' money... haha... Wawa is what my soon-to-be niece would call me, that's how the first-borns are called in Sarawak.

Anyway, I was quite upset at work today at office A, so after lunch I went to office B to de-stress and to update my competency profile as well....tapi dah namanya pissed off, mana ada mood nak kerja, so balik awal dan jalan-jalan tengok tudung kat KL Sentral... pastu balik bilik dan menggedik try tudung-tudung itu...inilah gambar hasil tangkapan dan gedikan hari ini ye... kata nak release tension, haruslah menggedik posing ambik gambar sendiri, ok. Jangan mare...

beli 2 shawl dan 2 inner... both of the shawls are the last one, so akak tu jual murah, patutnye RM25, dia kasik RM15 satu, akak tu pun heran sebab aku boleh jumpa shawl ni yang dia sorok letak kat belakang-belakang the new arrivals...

trying the first one...this is my favorite color, but I think I have to figure out how to wear this shawl in a better way..

pakai semberono macam style arwah nenek aku la pulak...hmmm

this black shawl material dia stretchy.. sedap gila dipakai, and boleh pakai macam-macam cara.. begini..

begini... match it with the black and red inner that I also bought..

atau pakai begini sahaja..

sambil buat muka kena rasuk....hahaha, kan aku dah cakap aku tension hari ni..

and by the way,

time tengah jalan-jalan time lunch break tadi masuk butik FOSSIL dan nampak ini:

nakkkkkkkk sangat....patut ke tak patut pegi beli?

things I doodle when I got sleepy...

Inspired by Madam E...

itulah padahnye bila banyak sangat kena attend meeting..bila ngantuk je, I'll try to distract myself by drawing things in my notebook... and what I doodled change with how many years I've been in the company...and yang obvious sekali, masa mula-mula masuk, 1st and 2nd year gitu, buku nota adalah bersih daripada doodle...apa kah...?

super bear....I thought nobody noticed, but when I asked my colleague, most of them knows I like to draw bears during meeting... hu hu

leaves...like the pattern I got on my ring

super rough sketches of my parents' retirement home (insyaAllah)

menangis (sebab stress), blooming tree (hope is still there)

sunshine...kalau rajin, I draw it with sunnies and a smiley face...like HERE

my school song, in BOTH Malay and English version, haha

random doodles which is then shaded alternately in black

planning travel itineraries

planning my travel budget

attempt in potraiture....this was supposed to be... Ella?

practicing my Hangul (Korean writing)

cats, bees, flowers...

how about you? do you doodle?

gemuk genit macam tempayan

saya jarang ada kat office di Miri sekarang ni, so I feel flattered jugakla bila ada manusia-manusia yang ngumpat pasal I masa I takde....yelah, they spent a few minutes of their precious time (work time to be exact) just to talk about you....masa itu emas, so they're spending gold on me, tak gitu?

Anyway, gambar ni lah yang menjadi topik perbualan mereka:

kenapa? well.....diorang cakap saya nampak cerah dan kurus dalam gambar tersebut dan ini bukanlah gambar saya.....siap beriya-iya cari gambar saya yang lain untuk banding-bandingkan.....amusing la diorang ni.....if they miss me, cakap je la kan.....macam some of my friends yang tiba-tiba hantar message tanya "when r u back in Miri?" huhuhuhu....tetiba terasa diri disayangi. 

Anyway, gambar kat atas tu was taken after I lost 4kg because of heartbreak (T_T), ambik guna camera handphone yang low resolution so tak nampakla jerawat dan yang sewaktu dengannya, dan lighting yang perfect boleh membantu keadaan. Sekarang ni saya dah gemuk genit macam tempayan, tapi saya rasa masih boleh kot nak dapatkan gambar yang nampak kurus, ok tak kalau guna contoh kat bawah ni:

Petua untuk kelihatan anggun di dalam gambar (walaupun anda adalah sememeh di luarnya):

ambil dari pandangan sisi

pilihan warna tudung yang sesuai untuk tidak mensuramkan wajah

lighting, lighting, lighting

senyum kena nampak gigi, kalau senyum simpul tutup mulut akan membulatkan pipi

be always aware that the extra chins tak keluar

bangkitkan memori gembira untuk gambar yang nampak gembira (apa kes?)

smi-eyes: smile with your eyes bak kata Tyra Banks. haha

ok, have a good day people

Story Mory: Metabolisme

I have a friend/colleague. She's petite and athletic. In short, body dia memang lean dan smart....and womanly at the same time....not voluptous type....but with a cute butt. Mind you, she's very athletic....kalau setakat 5km tu, dia lari laju macam pelesit....so we had this conversation one day.....dia tengah mengeluh pasal dia gemuk.

Friend: I gemukla....tengokla muka I ni. Bulat giler...


Me: Apa yang bulat? (Rasa nak cekik je minah ni)


Friend: You have to believe me. I dah gemuk (showing me a not-so-old"kurus"picture of herself).


Me: Kalau you gemuk, I ni apa? I must be overly obese then.


Friend: You takpe. High metabolism.


Me: (I so disbelief this girl)....why do you say so? Sebab I kuat makan, malas exercise, and yet I didn't membesar macam Syanie?


Friend: (looks like she wants to agree)

~sigh...

Grand Old Lady a.k.a Miri Well No.1

a bit backdated, copied and pasted from PC Sign-On.

It was exactly a century ago, on August 10, 1910, that a group of curious local inhabitants of Miri in Sarawak gathered on top of the hill overlooking the small fishing village. Back then, Miri consisted of 20 scattered houses and a few shops.
The villagers were watching a small party of Shell employees and thirty local labourers undertake the slow and laborious task of drilling by the old cable tool method, first used in AD 421 by the Chinese to extract salt. While the occasion was cause for great interest, none of the onlookers could have realised what tremendous consequences the event would have for Sarawak.

lazy bum-bum...

Good morning....another day of fibre optics, temperature logging and backscattered light...blearghh, why can't I do something I really like for a living instead?

p/s: I slept like a log last night...more than 8 hours...what an achievement! 

Pak Jamil & Me

Tadi, my project lead datang ke cubicle aku nak bagitau that the morning meeting is canceled. Ini adalah drama sebabak kitorang yang selanjutnya…


Me: So, what’s the update on the meeting that we’re supposed to have in KL?


Pak Jamil: It’s postponed to next Tuesday.


Me: Oh…who’s going?


Pak Jamil: Since you were not that keen on going to KL, it will be me, X and Y. (sebenarnya pakcik ni memang nak aku pegi, tapi aku jual mahal sebab masa tu aku tengah penat asyik naik plane saja….siap menggoda dan menghasut dengan ajakan shopping lagi, pun aku masih tak berminat)


Me: Errr….that was if the meeting is this week. I’m OK if the meeting is next week. (sebenarnya, dalam hati aku pun tak sure aku nak pergi ke tak, tapi rasa macam dah lama tak naik airplane….10 bintang untuk mengada-ngada!)


Pak Jamil: Why the sudden change of heart? What agenda you have in mind? Shopping? (sambil tersengih-sengih sinis)


Me: (*light bulb moment* - boleh shopping tudung!! Wedding adik and raya dah dekat!) errrrk….NOOO…it’s not like that, it’s just that I’m not that busy next week, and I’ll be on leave on Thursday onwards anyway….


Pak Jamil: Hmmmm, let’s see how it will affect the travel budget….in the other hand, I don’t think having all of us 3 e****s is such a good idea for this meeting…and I’m sure you know better if they start asking about yada, yada, yada….


Me: **fluttering my eyelashes** See….you need me to be in the meeting. If my innocent face worked with the immigration officers (this is another story), it will work with them too.


Pak Jamil: **I’m-not-totally-convinced-face** Let’s make a deal…if you finish the write-up on permeability multipliers before Tuesday, you’ll get to go.


Me: OK. *tetiba rasa macam budak sekolah bila pendekatan carrot-and-stick itu digunakan ke atas saya*


So, there you go. My motivation to work for this week - nak pegi KL beli tudung cantik to match the dress that I’m going to wear on my sister’s wedding! Hehehehehe…..sayang Pak Jamil!!






P/S: Sebab kat department aku banyak mat saleh…so kalau kitorang nak cakap pasal diorang dalam bahasa melayu, nama diorang pun dimelayukan sekali, so kat ofis tu ada Pak Jamil, Che’ Mat, Ridhwan, Karim, Kamaruddin and last but not least, Pakcik Panjang! ...okla tu kan, bukannya nama yang tak elok pun, Jamil tu makna dia cantik apa dalam bahasa arab…

of getting old and cynical

There will be a new graduate hire in my discipline. My senior (who has to be in charge while boss is on leave) was looking for a "buddy" for the new guy. He asked me to be the guy's buddy...after 5 years in the company, and a few buddies later, I don't think this is for me....so I 'taichi'-ed the honor and told him to try and ask somebody else.

So he went around telling my boss (jokingly, I hope) that I gave him a HORRIFIED look when he asked me to be the new guy's buddy....my boss went to my desk to look at my HORRIFIED face. This happened on Thursday. Come Monday, and they're still talking about how HORRIFIED I am.....boleh gelak-gelak lagi tu....aishhh....

source: postsecret.com

Aiyyooo.....I'm not as enthusiastic as I was before la.....the same way I hate it when being around depressed/negative people drains my energy and positive aura out of me, so do I don't like to be around enthusiastic, hopeful graduates...I want them to experience the ups and downs the way I did....I don't want my cynism to make them lose the momentum they need to do their job excellently. And being around energetic young people for too long makes me feel tired. Yes, dears...I'm OLD.

pakcik kayooo

Al-kisah, tadi aku gi keluarkan duit dekat ATM kat lobi ofis. Kebetulan aku punya colleague tengah keluarkan duit jugak. Aku sengihla dengan dia sambil cakap " Hello Boss"...

Senior aku tu sengih-sengih sambil cakap ada 300 ribu lagi kat dalam bank ni.....

Dia ni memang suka buat lawak macam ni (walaupun aku tau dia memang banyak duit sebab pandai invest dan hidup berpada-pada....tapi aku ingat org simpan duit banyak kat ASB je)....

Pastu aku pun cakap, "Mana? Tengok jap..."

Memang sah ada 300 ribu lebih kat dalam tu.....aiyoooo....patutla bila aku mintak belanja, instead of aku yang asyik tanya, dia yang asyik tanya aku bila aku nak makan free....huhu....pakcik, pakcik....aku nih kalau by the time hujung bulan kalau ada lagi 3 angka kat dalam bank tu pun dah kira cukup bagus dah tu... :P

please blog so I don't have to talk to you

scene: the dim sum place in Mega



as usual, TC the geek got his smart phone out to browse the internet while waiting for our order to arrive..

"eh...how does your blogging career go?" (he once said that if I started one, I won't keep it, and I won't be able to write more than 3 lines....kejam kan)


"so far so good la, I try to update it every day."

"what's your URL?"

"I've told u once, and I'm not going to tell u again, especially when u are going to read it in front of me..." (grrrrr)


"hmmm....it's amalia and amidala....I don't know la why u use that amidala name....Star Wars?? ewww"


"sukati I la"

"I'm googling it (type in 'amalia amidala')...eh, what did u write about? how come this is the first result?"

I had a look... 'How to arouse a woman'.....apo kobondo ni...(pada masa article ini ditulis, the first thing on google is different already)

"Youla....tak taula apa yang u selalu tengok...my blog's link is the 3rd one."

So there he goes, reading my blog....in front of me...it's weird looking at people reading your thoughts in front of you

"Hmmm....if I follow your blog, then I don't need to talk to you again la..." (with a smile)

?!!!!??????

*it's kind of true, but I prefer human interaction, whenever possible

"have you ever got yourself into trouble?"

I asked this question to my cubicle mate, yesterday.

"What kind of trouble?"

"Like...you got yourself involved in a fist fight or something."

"Oh....yeah....once...."

"Only once?"

"30+ years ago...and the guy ended up with broken teeth (I can't recall what else was broken) and stayed in the hospital for 2 weeks."

"Really?!" (me, starting to get excited)

"He started it first. It was in a bar and I was talking to a girl and suddenly that guy came and punched me in the face..!"

"Was the girl you were talking to his girlfriend?"

"Ermmm....well....at that time, but now she's my wife!!"


P/S: don't you think life has its own way of things?