Full House

3 days in a row playing cupid, giving up precious time to be with some wonderful people in the world, is a nice place to be.

Berbagi Suami, obviously not being a Hollywood blockbuster plus an early show at 7pm on a Thursday evening, topping up with the fact that little appreciation noticed from the mass market for a slow pace award winning piece of art, it is no surprise why it wasn’t even close to full house. With my half pass six Malay, the first supers appeared ‘Jajang’… eagerly yelling 3 seats on the other side of me, to my Malay translator, ‘hey, what does that mean?’ …. She yelled back.. ‘it’s a name of the actor, dude’ !!! Minute later, gf next to me whispered ‘gal, what’s that again?’ supers on screen was DOMinique. I mimicked ‘that’s a name of a person, dude’ !!!
So we learned.. not every supers on screen is a malay word. After the show, with sweet Sangria at Laundry, we all settled that men are horrible horny bastards.

On Saturday, big bro R took us to .. drumrolls.. concert of the Korean hip hop R&B icon.. though none of us knew his songs neither do we know much about him…. And some had to check the internet about this dude. Kaka.. So, I met some new friends, son of a minister whom last words to me before he left, ‘don’t forget your number’, as he insists those with mini skirts that night are coz it’s easy to take off their thongs (penned with telephone numbers) and swing it over the stage to Rain. 4 more new friends include a lawyer, bag entrepreneur, and a furniture maker cum competitive cricket player, btw, a great chef who cooked us dinner 10 times better than dinner the night before at Hot Chocolate. But of course my favourite new friend is Ella, the 8 month old playful jet black Labrador… we simple can’t get enough of each other!

After 3 glasses of moet and 1 shot.. we were ready to be chauffeured..


Full house, the concert was packed, the first familiar face was my ex boss.. and then, someone from my sales team.. we hugged and started to enjoy the heavily invested ½ million mind blowing sound system and visual effects.. there was 7 big screens all together with one unique ½ circled. A blasting 1.5 hours of world class hip hop dancers, with the heartthrob showing off his sexy moves melting thousands hearts of the 17 year olds. (while I imagined Clean & Clear branding). After this night, all the dance schools are going to be full house. Most impressively was his 5 minute Rain-ing effect, 20 feet above him, shower came straight down as he perpetually being drenched in his see through white shirt… beautifully choreographed. Anything more sexy than that will have to wait.. I just hoped for him that it was hot shower.



At the end of the night… cupid or no cupid… I still had hell lota fun.

Career Gone

Finally outa the office... Westin Langkawi, here i come!!

My Sunshine

After a long exhausting day having had back to back meetings, I only managed 3 hours of sleep before I had to drag my tired soul out of my small kiddy size comfy bed at 4:30am getting ready to gather at the office as we were heading to Langkawi for our company conference. A record breaking drive of 15 mins, I arrived at the office (btw, Klang is my home), greeting Goodie Morning fishies groggily… They were all still asleep at the bottom of their home staying closely to the pebbles and corals. Made sure I fed them before they go on a 4 days fasting.

Meow Meow was the best thing during the visit of 'Beras Bakar' ! more like the kitty is bakar.

Local Oil.. my competitor in the island

Eagles from afar... great zooming my canon...

Laichee vodca spirit... daylight drunken

me and ah gal's room..

nice n clean on check in day.

hey u know gal.. there's this hot guy @ tesco...

malaysian... oopss.. Bathtub Idol

4 days 3 nights of nothing but blissful fun and piercing laughter in the Zen-like designed 1 month old new Westin Hotel, with the sun shining bright and cheerful as we run the AXN challenge confronting our physical strength, teamwork and speed. The groups were aptly named Vitoto, Yanomami, Birata and Gayabo along with our trip themed Amazon Victory. Running around the hotel, mind you there were thousands of steps all over, for 2.5 hours non stop panting intertwined with killer achin legs, just took my breath away and my footie stamina could only do that much! Later did i realized that, it is our first training to climbing Mt KK in September!! J YES YES, we ARE going to peak Mt Kota Kinabalu… the 6 months training plan announced by HR continued to surprise and impress me as much as the thought of the destination, it is afterall the highest mountain in South East Asia. So what I aint a mountain person topping up with the phobia for heights… I am determined to do it with my JNJ family. As, there’re 3 important things I picked up in the inspiring speech of our ever-charming MD:

1. Say it like it is – Honesty/Transparency
2. Beyond Comfort Zone
3. Enrich Life Experience

Amongst this, there were another piece of incredible news. We will have short working Fridays officially, the day ends at 3pm, effective 1 Feb. hurraaaaaaaaysss!! The positive challenge is, how do I manage my workload ?? only time will tell if I’m able to practice this benefit provided..

Pretty pool side dinner

Unique Chess set @ the lounge

Island hopping with Mr Barney .. Boo... (his surname) sitting by me on the boat

After a few islands.. there was a fresh water lake..

Italian dinner by the harbour... Jo Jo, i call her Ms Skinny, my pretty trade marketer

Sorry Marketing Director, what did you say again?? increasing my sales target? AGAIN??!!!!

On the second night.. kakaaa… blushingly I must say… I should stop after 3 glasses. But it didn’t help when your boss persists to drink as a team …. one after another, and another and another bottoms up of not beer but wine, apparently my memory lost at about 9:30pm (yes, that early)… too pissed to remember anything that happened after that. So, I depended on all the tales that were told to me the next morning such as, sitting on some VIP’s lap, rocking and jamming the broom on the stage floor (I was the rock guitarist in the dance performance, ahem..it’s rehearsed, except jamming on the floor wasn’t part of the plan, though some people thought it was the actual play as I passionately rocked), a baseball throwing act with my adidas sneakers… it flew miles away, both of it. I should spare you more embarrassing details… however there’s one that completely blew away my career – puking on your MD’s shoes, isn’t just a candid behaviour, it was utterly humiliating.. more so when you have zero memory about it !!! jesus crist!! The next day, he came giving me a big bear hug and asked with concern, how are you feeling chinyi?!! With his oz accent. We both burst out laughing, as he described the incident.. so he was trying to carry me up from the chair, and I showed him that I didn’t like it, by performing the classic unintentional piece of act. my career.. had officially ended.

Top: So David (MD) ... did not fire me afterall... Right: Kevin the bee gees, you rock!

'Clear Vision' 9:30pm onwards

My nanny who took care of me.... Hugie Hugs THANK YOU!!

Time to check out and.... home sweet home.

What Goes Around

Was hitting the sack at midnight and some bugger decided to give me a missed call which totally screwed me up and missed my night cab… another don’t know how many hours to kill before the next one comes by.. it’s nearly 3am now.

So.. here I am again…

A bizarre minute long commercial of Coke done by Mother. Besides the typically strong red branding all over, camera opens with a solitaire girl in striking red hair, red dress red shoes followed by all the other talents in red scarf, red stripped shirt, plus visible red props i.e red balls, red blar blar blar….. yes, Brand Manager is darn getting their investments worth no doubt but what I like most is the song wrote exclusively for the giant fizzy cola, by Jack White who insists, Love is the truth/it’s the right thing to do. Nice lyrix:
"Love is as good as it gets/ And you'll get more if you give it/ It's the right thing to do, and you know it/ It's inside of you, so just show it" and "In the arms of a mother and father/ In the eyes of a son and a daughter/ It's everywhere, you just have to care."

After

- A perfect weekend.
- Slothful Monday-Wednesday with endless challenging deadlines, finally completed the A&P budgeting
- Celebrating an overachievement, lunch at San Fran running into my ex Hitler boss.
- Two nights of amusement and realization by Nigel – author of Fat, Forty and Fired. Cheers mr yellow beetle, am delighted with the book exchange.
- Being harassed by ’your highness’ (mum and dad) and driving like a speed demon rushing home …. Just to …..choose the paint colour of our new home!! Look who’s the ‘your highness’ now.
- Apple fans finally seeing the New iPhone
- Long chats about nicknames and how long the list could go, when I get to know vege mamak a lil better.
- Heartfelt sms by my Sunshine. Thanks I love you so much! Don’t think I can live without u. *smile* please stop puking.
- Two nights in a row of Maggie pot noodle dinner, save the cash to marie france. I now weigh 42kg. Blimey. Which means, it’s time to pig out. Muahahahaa.. Choc Choc Chip Haegen Dazz... yum yum...
- Airasia decides to giveaway 1 million free seats which I have yet to hear anyone who managed to book it.
- A spontaneous decision to go for the rainforest musical festival in July.
- Leave approved for Perhentian. YAYs !!!
- Entertained by GB’s dum dum gimme gum gum article, u dumb dumb.
- Planning a BBQ at ½ deaf dude’s, for GTS project. Someone is horny and listening to 80s songs. *wink wink*
- Sleepless in…. Palm Grove Garden.
- Try switching to another radio station with a new pair of radio DJs during drive time (when I’m still trying to locate my fav since they vanished.. so much so for trying to break the mundane life) and listening to all the formulated slapstick games one after another trying to make the audience do silly things to entertain the listeners..
- Clocking in 14 hours of labour a day punching meaningless alphabets and numbers.

I now.. long ….for a blasting night out. Sunshine, get your dancing shoes.

And then… a good night sleep….

Save Tonight

Go on and close the curtains

All we need is candlelight

You and me and a bottle of wine

Going to hold you tonight

We know I'm going away

How I wish....wish it weren't so

Take this wine & drink with me

Let's delay our misery

Save tonight

And fight the break of dawn

Come tomorrow

Tomorrow I'll be gone

There's a log on the fire

And it burns like me for you

Tomorrow comes with one desire

To take me away....it's true

It ain't easy to say goodbye

Darling please don't start cry

'Cause girl you know

I've got to go

Lord I wish it wasn't so

Save tonight

And fight the break of dawn

Come tomorrow

Tomorrow I'll be gone

Tomorrow comes to take me away

I wish that I......that I could stay

Girl you know I've got to go

Lord I wish it wasn't so

Save tonight

And fight the break of dawn

Come tomorrow

Tomorrow I'll be gone....

NY's eve party

Game rule: anyone with the smallest card drinks

Gillie Bean: heheee.. Ash, you have a 3, muahahaa (happily pouring heapsa wine with confidence) (not realising she actually has a 2 LOSER!!)

next round, even with a 6.. she looks blardy scared... haha!!

chinyi: glad that i down 1/2 a glass of wine for you babe?!

Am i lucky or what?

First day of work in 2007....i'm nothin but a zombie trying so hard to catch up with the chaotic report deadlines. I received one great news and one bad news. Starting with the good one, I closed my sales numbers of 2006 overachieving the targets. Wuhooooooo !! Fat bonus please come come come to mama. Just as I was in high spirits, jumpin for joy and dancing like a crazy gal, guess I was happy too soon… coz my boss just sent me a new figure, talking about efficiency. Now I’m freaking expected of a HIGHER targets of the original 2007 target… omeegoood…. Sigh..does that mean I get a higher pay?? I need a breathing aid, or some muscle relaxant would be helpful. Time to breath in some nitrogen and get the endorphins flowing in my blood. Seriously.. I have no blardy clue on how to achieve those numbers.. On a positive note, we will not discover the ocean untill we have the courage to lose sights of the shore. So, let's go for the kill !!
In the meantime… I shall just chill out for a bit, and worry about it when it comes while I, shall now focus on the things that makes me smile.

Anyone studied chemistry?

So chemical reaction is a process that results in the interconversion of chemical substance and such reactions can result in molecules attaching to each other to form larger molecules. I don’t know what substance can react to one another… but I surely know the chemical reaction between 2 human beings. Ok ok… kakaaa.. I’m sounding a lil cheesy I know… but really… have you ever experienced an instantaneous connection with a complete stranger, that somewhat, forms a special bond. You…. kinda share certain commonalities that enable two people to click in a second within a snap of a finger. You could acquire new interests outa d blue with no apparent grounds. Every now and then, two people experience this phenomenon of intensity towards each other at the same time, usually when their eyes meet. Maybe frequently experiencing a pulse reaction.
Soon I wholeheartedly believe, there’s nothing more beautiful than that.

Darned Tired

Amazing last few days of 2006 left me a tired body but a crazy mind widely awake, running at hi speed 100miles/hour…. It kept me thinkin in all of the after party late nights and missing the last hourly flight out to lala land. It’s 5am, when you really should be sleeping and looking forward to another day full of sunshine, but the past few weeks had been tough sleeping for many reasons… which of course started with heaps loada crap at work triggering my brains if I’m doing anything meaningful at all in my life apart from getting a cheque that pays for petrol food, and materials.. oh yeah and also my expensive dive trips, which happens only blardy 3-4 times a year, so the other 48 weeks of the year?? mean anything at all? most likely not if u ask me now (but most times I’m irrational anyways and blame it on the wee hours), coz 10 years down the road, I swear I will not be regretting it if I quit my job now.. so I started to wonder, what is that one thing, that I may regret, if I don’t do it now.. will it be traveling round the world? Doing voluntary work? Helping the misfortunes? Cleaning up the reef? Swimming with the dolphins? Having a career I actually enjoy doing? Going back to studies, (please, no PHD dad!) and this time sign up for a creative class no matter what my parents say. Picking up that dust-collecting beautiful guitar again? See Tibet and Nepal? So, one thought let to another, I boarded the plane to dream-catcher land instead… day (in my case night) dreaming… (minus the snoring & drooling, and the legs kang kang).. subsequently when I run outa ideas.. devil’s advocate starts playing its role and begun to interrogate the practicality and the source of guts, which more often than not is resisted by the strict Chinese standards of being expected to grow up, be an accountant, get married, and have kids all before the age of 30. Boy do I not hate people asking me when am I getting married.. folks mind your own life would you? Is marriage the only way out to happiness and contentment? Well, I have perfectly good company which I thoroughly enjoyed in the last few weeks, catchin up with old friends plus some new friends. Need not be a married accountant mummy to have fun.

Please… my mind.. let me get some sleep. Anyone, be so kind to hypnotise me..chinyi chinyiiiiiiii.. go 2 sleeeeeeeeeeep… stop dreameeeeeeeeeeng. Go 2 sleeeeeeeep.