V Day

So today is Valentine's Day. To me, no big deal. My colleagues were shocked that I had no dinner plans tonight but hey, this is the time when all the restaurants will hike their prices and make you spend like there's no tomorrow.

But let me just say this, today marks my 9th Anniversary of KS and I for our very first date, back in good ol' Hamilton, NZ at a corner shop where I had Chicken Schnitzel while he can't remember what he had. Of course, that's when he discovered I hate greens so he proceeded to eat my zucchinis.

Damn Bus

Last night on our way home right after KS picked me up from work, a bus grazed into my car on the right side. The car jolted and the bus paused before proceeding to move on. KS, who was driving, indicated with his hands for the bus to pull over into a smaller lane to check it out but of course the bus ignored us and went straight on. I jumped out of the car, since we had already turned into the lane and sprinted to catch the bus. They had just dropped some passengers off and had quickly moved off until I slammed the sides repeatedly with my palms.

Those buggers just looked at me, "What?" while I shouted "Hey, you knocked into my car and didn't even bother to stop!", "Where got? Tak kene pun?! Where got scratch your car also? Nothing lah!" and drove off.

I have the bus number but the damn system here is that there is no place I can complain. Would the police bother? We tried calling the Complaint Line numbers behind all buses and lorries but no one picked up.

My car isn't too bad, just dented and with a 2m scratch which can be easily fixed with repainting my car. But oh, I am so angry with those idiots!

Half-Blood Prince

Thanks to Monster, I now have with me... the 6th Harry Potter book! I can't wait to read it but have to pace myself otherwise I won't sleep this weekend. However, the important bits I already found out from Wikipedia so reading the book is just more of filling in the blanks. Heck, I'm still excited though.

Speaking of weekend, I have to go to a client's annual dinner this Sunday. Yeah, right after a fortnight-long of stuffing my face and sleeping most of the time. None of my dresses fit. Heck, what-to-wear has always been a stressful thing for me because most of the time, my sense of dressing is so faux pax. Gawd, I still roll my eyes and cringe whenever I think of what I wore for my friend's brother's wedding.

Anyways, tomorrow is my first weekend off due to the 5-day week given to all banks and I have two choices: to go look for a dress for Sunday dinner or to go look for a new computer. Yeah, we've got our phone line AND Streamyx is knocking on our doors. Ah! Fast Connection! Sweet sweet words.

U2 Immersion

I’m so elated that U2 won 5 Grammies! Grammies was never a big thing for me but this time around, boy, was I pinned to the tv last night just to watch their performance! I found Bono to be very tired and his voice strength seems to have weakened. Poor thing.

Over the week long holidays, I immersed myself with everything U2. My sis-in-law got KS the U2 Vertigo Tour filmed in Chicago since she didn’t manage to get us the U2 tickets in Australia. We watched it, then again, and again and again. For me at least. KS was satisfied at watching it once. Now I have almost memorised the actions for all my favourite songs in there.

Also, I started reading the book U2 and their spirituality. Haven’t gotten far since I’ve been so tied up at work – today’s Friday past 7pm and I can’t be bothered to look at the reports I’m supposed to churn.

Of course, to top it all up, I’ve been listening to all their albums, especially the Best of 80s, 90s and Vertigo.
Worst thing is, no one in my office talked about the Grammies. Instead, they talked about Rain (the Korean famous singer), that other famous Chinese dude who acted in Initial D, Jay Chow and Daniel Wong or whatever. I was silently screaming U2! U2! while they discussed. Sigh…

Monster Club

Back in my old company, the few of us who regularly eat lunch together would be very fond of eating, well, to put it mildly, more than the usual helpings others would. Sometimes, when one of us goes even beyond the “more” level, we’d name the person qualified into the Monster Club.

In total, from my 7 years there, there were about 3 or 4 of us, including myself.

Yesterday, I shocked my colleagues by eating rice at lunch, followed by me buying 2 char siew pau’s. In the Monster Club, this is considered normal but you should have seen eyes popping and jaws dropping with exclamations of “Where does that all go to?? Plus you don’t eat your veggies!” I’m medium built but certainly not thin. One asked, “What did you use to eat back at your old firm?” Haha, if only he knew of all the food we’d munch on even after having large servings of noodles/rice.

Dad's OK

Thanks for your prayers. I was checking the internet and found that the procedure isn't very risky. Just that there were a few people who told us of friends/relatives who had strokes or their hearts stopped during the process which scared us a bit but Dad is now fine. No need to do angioplasty, which is the more risky procedure, I read.

Angiogram

My Dad's going for an Andiogram this weekend. Please keep him in your prayers even though the procedure is said to be fairly safe.

Sorry, been really really busy at work. No time to blog or go pangsai also. Worse, I've been dreaming about work (the SF Syndrome - my ex-colleague used to dream of work and we'd look at her weirdly).

Melaka Photos

Hmm, I haven't put some photos for some time now on this blog.So here are some photos that I took while I was in Melaka over the holidays. Yes, although there was food, Food and FOOD, I didn’t take any.

Anyways, here is a picture of Ah Jin, KS beloved dog who made me his victim number 153. He bit me in 2001 after I tried to wake KS up. If it weren’t for his mum and sis who pulled him away but not before one tooth sank into my foot and spewed blood all over the kitchen. Now we have an amiable relationship, he only comes to me for patting when there’s no one around or when I have food in my hands. He still gives me the “evil eye” as we call it when he’s not in a good mood, that’s when either one of us will be locked up behind doors and grills. Here he is seen almost begging for the piece of chicken off the dinner table with his lifting a paw to shake hands, a little trick before he gets his treat.


This is a photo of the lotus plant my father-in-law has in front of the house. It blooms every day and the process is so fast that you can actually see it blooming if you stay there watching it long enough.


And this cute little puppy belongs to one of KS cousins. This is in Masjid Tanah and he is really adorable. KS was so tempted to bring him home with us but of course I don’t think his cousin would have been too happy. Ah Tin looked so scared when I took this photo, poor thing.

Buck Cluck

When Chicken Little was advertised at the cinemas, we weren't too keen to watch it as Chicken Little himself didn't look too cute. In fact, he came across as more irritating than cute.

But after many of our friends watched it, they all came back with the same comment, that Chicken Little's dad, Buck Cluck looks like KS. Apparently his mannerisms also closely matched him. Now I think I might want to watch this movie just because of Buck Cluck.

Frog Under the Coconut Husk

"Mum made pai tee for the guests at Chinese New Year"

"Really?"

"Yeah! But you know what? Mum used this REALLY cute basket to put in all the pai tee, it looks like a little small cup"

"Er... that's what a pai tee is, turnip stuffed into a small crunchy cup-like cone. Mum, I think you better take Jan out more often"