Thousand apologies for my MIA for the past one week or so. I had been busy with...
My work: I had just secured a really huge project. Really huge for the time of recession, I am talking about RM10 million sales so a super close follow up needed and it occupies most of my time now.
My online activities: I will also soon be writing & moderating a blog site soon, will announce when it commences.
My iPod Touch: Just been recently adding this to my big boy toys list, been using up my free time after work to do housekeeping on the MP3s, photos & applications in this gadget
Last but not least - MY WEDDING
A short post though, with so little time to spare, I need assistance from the readers of my blog to help me choose my wedding ring. So here it goes...
I had been missing from blogging action for the whole week thanks to
Lou Sang and
Lou Sang and
Lou Sang & Yam Sengggggggggggggg....
OK, back to the topic above. Now I know arranging a marriage is not an easy task until you really experience it. I will arrange mine in a very simple way and perhaps can share some tips with those of you who plan to get marry soon.
First, the ring or wedding band. As the trend nowadays is towards platinum with diamond, I would advice to purchase both material separately. Meaning to say, firstly, get the platinum ring and then followed by the diamond, then send both material to the shop to make one, the cost will be cheaper 20%-30% from the market.
After the ring, then come the wedding pictures or wedding album. Many of times I heard from my friends who got married on the cost of this ranging from RM2k to RM8k. I will arrange mine in Taiwan though for a cost of less than RM4k excluding the air tickets & ground arrangement. Perhaps to some it is not worthwhile but to me it is a holiday-cum-photo shooting, plus I had always been wanting to visit Taiwan so it will be considered like a pre-honeymoon with a total cost of less than RM10k.
And on the dinner reception, food to me is secondary. Primarily, the overall environment will be the most important. I realized that most Chinese wedding dinner starts at 7PM and by the time all guests reach, the dinner will start around 9PM. So to minimize the late comers, I will arrange mine at 6PM, guests will be served with cocktail and a mini garden party. Dinner will commence at around 8PM. It's a ballroom dinner so I will set a certain dress code. I will also invite Vanessa Tan, local jazz singer to perform that night. So those who giving ang pow, study the market rate ya :)
Phew... I had arranged so much but now I am missing something....
If I still love you, I will walk the journey with you no matter what lies ahead. Perhaps my definition of love is different from many other guys you may have known but I am sure that you know me more than anyone do.
I dare to say no other girls know me better than you. Perhaps this song will best describe me :)
Just normal Friday's babbling.
It's a long weekend this week, safe journey to all my readers who are traveling.
I am too weak to blog. Heavier workload and heavier responsibility but with the same salary. Some readers MSNed to ask why ain't I updating for the past 2 days, tired and felt weak. No worries, I am not being ISAed or whatsoever.
Work, drink, entertainment and by the time I am home it's past midnight. That is the reason I am tired lor. I will be back to Melaka this evening to take a good weekend breakaway. Hopefully I write a longer post tomorrow.
Today someone MSNed me and said she misses me. Hmm... should I be happy or should I not?
Catch up soon. Going to read all the news & update myself. Oh ya in between, Teresa Kok was released 1PM today, thanks for the SMS from a dear friend. Hopefully RPK will be out soon too.
I am dead tired. I almost miss my flight to Sabah yesterday, thanks for the kind people in MAS. Now this is the difference between MAS (MH) & Air Asia (AK). 30 minutes before you still allowed to check in while AK will ask you to go and fly kite.
So, the Malaysia Day is over. It does not happen which means RPK and Teresa Kok will still be detained under ISA. And this also means Dollah Badawi still is the PM. I was in Sabah yesterday, yesterday is also a public holiday in Sabah in conjunction of the Governor's birthday. I had a project meeting with a prominent developer with various developments in Sabah and over tea session we had a chat about Malaysian politics. He too agreed that we Malaysia needs a change, other Sabahan who I met during the session also voiced out the same.
I came back last time, touched down KLIA at about 10pm. A few buddies called to go for a drink and I went. "So it's Sept 16 now, what happen?" a friend asked. With a tired voice, I told them to be patient, few more days to come, we shall see.
So back to reality now, it's past 916. Everyone wants to see 916 after so many shits happen in this country. Much before the Permatang Pauh by-election and all these ridiculous ISA arrestments, nobody will talk bout the 916. And after Anwar successfully convinced the people about 916, majority of people in this country want to see a wind of change, some desperately like me. But what's going on? I feel like singing this song now...
Off to bed now... hopefully when I wake up later and open up Malaysiakini, there will be further good news...
ps: A fellow blogger friend quits blogging. I hope she will change her mind.
I am a regular to Chedet (if you haven't know, ex-premier Tun Mahathir blogs here), today I will try to blog like him (in point form) which I think I will fail miserably :P
1. My last post was on Friday. Had a really busy schedule.
2. Had unpleasant things happened in office. Pressured like pressure cooker in mamak special. So that night decided to drink with my secondary school buddies Jason & Chris, so coincidencely they called.
3. Was drinking with them at The Joint, Sunway. Not a bad place afterall. Met up with a sweet girl Avis there. After 24 bottles of beers & 4 bottles of Stout, we continued to Red Box Sunway continue to sing till about 3am. Enjoyed myself after so long did not catch up with my old buddies.
4. Ex-gf called to inform Auntie 7 passed away, heartache to know that as Auntie 7 & her family treated me well when I was dating her niece. She definitely left some really fond memories for me.
5. Was involved as a sponsor in MATTA fair. Was there during the weekend, damn I hate crowded place. I rather pay more for my holiday than to brush shoulders with some kiasu aunties. Went there with Roy & family.
6. After MATTA on Saturday, went to Kuala Selangor for a project. Overnight there. Did not hang out much as it had been raining whole day. Had some great sea food there though.
7. Came back to KL on Sunday, went for Jack Neo's second edition of Money Not Enough, enjoyable if you understand Hokkien. Had a good laugh after Zohan, prefer the former though.
8. After the movie, bought a bouquet of white daisies & lilies. Got back home, had a quick shower and went to Auntie 7 passing on ceremonial held at Nirvana, Kuchai Lama. Can't hold back, shed tears. Met up with my ex & her family. Her family still are warm to me, something I had never had with any other girls. Great to see them. Miss you!
9. KL buddies called me, complained that I have not been seeing them. Been busy with a lot of things, hung out with more of business contacts instead of social buddies. Sorry we shall catch up soon ya.
10. Jo Ling who left a message on my chatterbox need some information, here you go. Nice condominium in Sri Damansara, it's called Paradesa Tropika, I attached the artist illustration & map there. Hope this helps. In between, I am abandoning my plan to buy there though due to unforeseen circumstances (not financially but some personal reasons). Targetting Kota Damansara area landed properties - thanks to some strong recommendation from my brother. God willing, by November or December. I cannot afford it all by myself. Need a proper planning.
11. Since it is the beginning of the week, guess this would be a gentle reminder to all Reds & Devils out there. This Saturday, don't forget the clash of the titans at Anfield. I had sent out facebook invitations to all my buddies. Just in case you have not receive it, please click here if you have facebook account and RSVP your attendance. I will be there to have fun as it is one of the Tiger FC venue. Hopefully Berbatov will make its debut against the Corpses. Join me and let's kick Liverfool's ass ya.
12. The UMNO Ahmad of Penang refused to apologize for calling Chinese & Indians "pendatang" (immigrants) of Malaysia. It's ok Ahmad, we shall see when Sept 16 comes. Its only 8 days from now. Malaysia belongs to Malaysians, not Malays. I do not expect a political party like UMNO would have racists in their party. I love my Malay friends, I do not care how rich, how does he/she looks like, as long as the governence be fair to all Malaysians and not benefitting the already rich UMNOputras.
That's about all over the 3 days postings made into 1. Ahhh... it's wonderful to blog with a pint of chilled Stout.
This is a picture-less entry. It had been a real good holiday. For readers who are not Malaysian, 31st August is Malaysia's Independence Day, so it is holidays to all. I had a good mahjong session with my family, ate a lot of home cooked food, blasted the toilet many times. And today, my colleague & his family came down to my hometown, Melaka which I am proud to say that this historical city had just been listed as a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO recently.
Ok, I will put my posting on my hometown to another day when I compile more great pictures to share to all. I had just read the latest posting from Malaysia-Today which had been "blocked but not censored" by the Malaysia government. In case, some of you are finding difficulties accessing the original Malaysia-Today site, here is the optional link.
Ok, here's what prompted me to write the above title, if I were to call someone a pig, does that mean I am insulting the person or am I insulting the pig instead? Let's be fair, pigs are mammals too, at times certain people just made me felt that I am insulting the pig instead of them. Perhaps pig is more respected than them. Hmm... worth thinking...
This morning I received an SMS from an unfamiliar number. The SMS exchanges sounded like this,
Ex: Michael ;) u 4got to wish me happy birthday :) my birthday 2day Me: Sorry. I lost my phone (lame excuse) so i lost all contacts. Who is this? Ex: ur ex-gf Venus (not real name) Me: Ohhhhhh. Sorry, my mistake. Happy birthday. Ex: is ok. every yr also i remind u 2 wish me Me: Aiya. Small thing mar. U also got bf d wat, he wish u can d lor. Ex: darling :) even me have bf d :) u still can wish me :) if u have gf me also still wish u! U my ex! Me: Ok. Ex: even me wanna find u, also scare u dont want go out wif me :( Me: I busy mar Ex: is not a reason k
Then I did not reply d. Hope she had a great birthday. It is my fault to be ignorant about her birthday? I do not think so right?
Self promote: I am a good guy, my ex-es still call me once in a while. And my current special one knows this well (muka tak tau malu)
Past 2-3 days been crazily busy. No updates, not even for today. Hopefully, I will be back tomorrow. Cross fingers. Politics been juicy lately. I believe many would have known or rather believe that the whole Anwar buttfucking Saiful is very much a conspiracy.
Hello peeps! My weekend was pretty hectic, got no time to update as much as I want to. Took a few pictures during my weekend at Melaka.
Remember my previous post about Salami? This is the continuation from the previous post, I received an email from my ex-colleague who insisted me to correct the previous post and insisted me to publish the contents of his email. This post is purely copied from the email. This is seriously a post with a lot of explicit words which will not be suitable for juniors. Here is how the email sounded like this...
"Braler, I do not know if salami equals our happy stick, dependent on who is saying it, I believe female’s ‘male-docking-station’ can also be refered to as
1. Mei Mei 2. Camel Toe 3. Puh Kee 4. Hai (pronounce in Cantonese) 5. Ch**bai / Ch**pet 6. Pet Pet 7. See Ham (cockles) 8. Pau Yue (abalone) 9. Clams 10. Pussy Cheerio Nachio,
I was having dinner with my ex-colleagues & a female friend last night at The Curve. It had been a while since I last meet the bunch. We had great time and like many others who are close to me, they are very interested in my private life, like if I found a gf or not.
D: "So Mike, what's new in your life?" Me: "Been busy with works, what do you want to know?" D: "Though busy with works, once in a while you got to get service your salami" Me: "Huh?" N (a girl): "Mike, your antenna very short-lah"
Then when I got back home, I did a wikipedia on "SALAMI" and.... "Salami is curedsausage, fermented and air-dried. Salami may refer specifically to a class of salumi (the Italian tradition of cured meats), where an individual sausage or style of sausage (e.g. Genoa) would be referred to with the singular Italian form salame."
Then I finally know what he meant by servicing my salami. Hmm... interesting.
It had been a while since I last got my salami serviced. Right now at the moment, my salami perhaps look like this.
Got caught up in the net. If they can regard guy's part as salami, I am wondering what do you call for the opposite sex? Any idea?
ps: it had been a great fun night, thanks to dave for the dinner & guiness draught.
It's not my birthday as yet. Attended my colleague's wedding dinner last night. He is 32 and it was a grand & beautiful night. And many asked when it will be my turn. I have plan. You know everyone got his/her plan, just the matter whether the plan will come true or not. I need to focus more on what I am good at for the current moment, with the economy turmoil that we are facing now, it needs even a greater effort to work extraordinary hard for survival.
For the past 2 years being single, it had been really tough time to pick up my bits & pieces here and there but it is a good challenging time. I learned the hardship and people who are close with me can see the lousiest time of my life. This 2 years also, I had built up my network from all people regardless of industries & backgrounds, met really nice & beautiful people around.
A breakthrough needed - hopefully the breakthrough will come through :)
OK, a good rejuvenating Monday for me today. Am on leave, forcing myself to clear leaves accumulated since last year. Come tomorrow, I will be on a very heavy schedule.
I am going for Dark Knight later midnight show with my buddies.
It is interesting sometimes to have close female friends who can talk to you about anything under the sun. I had an evening outing with few close female friends and we were talking about shaving & waxing. Well... not on the leg part but we swayed towards the more naughty area of private part.
One of the girl claimed that she has never shave or wax that part before. My immediate reaction to her, "Eeeee... then it will be bushy". She then rebuked claiming that she did trimming. Being a guy who had been in a serious relationship before, I know all this facts about shaving & waxing as I am the paymaster to all my ex-gfs when I demanded them to get rid of those hair under. Charges then for waxing was in the region of RM80-RM100.
I am not sure about other man, I would prefer girls to shave or even wax all hairs on their body. I felt that this could be a turn off when comes to intimate moment with your partner. Even guy like me shaves.
How about you???
PS: Blogging consistently this week will be a little hard as I am tied up with many work commitments this month. Will be away for full day training on Thursday & Friday. A fellow reader just MSN-ed and asked if I am going to the Nuffnang party, all I need to do is to post something on my blog. Well, when I am not inspire to write something I do not want to write, I rather give up going that party, but I do not mind if Nuffnang can specially invite me as special guest though. To those who are going, enjoy!
The topic has nothing to do with the TV series in fact. A female who read my previous post, called me just a while ago and asked, "Can I rape you?" *sweat* You do not find many girls talked about sex openly, when a guy starts to talk about it, some girls will see them as pervert while some girls when they talked about sex, they can go on beyond your imaginary *sweat* Do girls labelled guys who talked about sex as pervert? I am wondering...
This post is specially dedicated to one of my best friend in high school, Michael Ang. This post is to welcome Yu Chen to the world. Buddy, congrats & I am seriously happy for you.
Not many of my close buddies who I grew up with have settle down. I have not seriously thought of settling down after my previous relationship. But I do open up myself to welcome a fresh start for this girl who I am fond with but unfortunately she still felt doubtful on certain things about me. To all my readers who thought I am attached all this while - No, I am not attached. Yes, I am seeing someone as a 'special' friend. How long does this 'special' friend relationship be dragged, I am unsure myself too.
Seeing my best buddy's first child on video did gave me a certain rush of emotions. I love kids, I always do. Even the girls that I got involved with in the past commented that if I ever have kids, I will neglect the wife. I like to be surrounded by kids, I like the way they pester you at times to play with them. Then I think to myself, is this a sign that I am desperate to have a family of myself? My family, I know my dad & mom eagerly waiting for that day as I am the eldest in my family. Mom & Dad, if you are reading this (they are my readers as well), your son is working very hard towards it.
I had mellowed down a lot on my work. I used to work late hours, forcing myself to be in office although I can be home. But lately, I felt tired with work. Tired at times having to face pretenders in workplace. It is hard to find people who can work with passion, I can see more pretenders who are hungry for power & politicking in the office. Nobody will remember the milestone you achieved for long and when a slight error inflicted in your work, people tend to put a death sentence to you. So I had made a vow not to let working life kills off my quality lifestyle.
I am spending more of my after work time with my chilling with my buddy talking about business opportunities, discussing about my new house, parasiting his family life while I am single & spend more effort pursuing my next piece of jigsaw puzzle in my life. I spend more time reading blogs & posting at least a post a day to share what is it in me everyday. Blogging has phenomenonly inspire my life and amazingly it had been the best listener for the past 3 years for me.
Now if you excuse me, I gotta continue my PSP God of War. What a life @ 30?!?!?!?
This week is pratically an awful week for me, it seems like I somehow lost the touch & inspiration in whatever I do including posting a blog. My brain always seem to have never-ending thoughts that I love to share but for this time around, I am a bit lost & tired.
Tired of what happening around me. Tired with my country, with all the No Action Talk Only (NATO) politicians endlessly battling themselves out publicly. Tired with the underpaid and long hours that I have to battle through Monday to Friday. Tired of paying my monthly commitment to the bank. Tired of friends & colleagues asking me silly questions that I have no answer to it. Tired to love and tired of waiting to be loved.
I cannot wait to end this week, it is definitely a week I want to erase and get my engine started again next week. I refuse to talk bout politics & my work, I want to make it a point I leave the office 6.30Pm sharp today. Next week - looking forward to my sister from Hong Kong, looking forward to my holidays with my family in Port Dickson. Forgive me, I am leaving now.... for.... RedBox, Curve. Happy weekend everyone. Cheers!
As you entering your middle age, for those who are working & climbing the corporate ladder, job motivation & satisfaction play a significant role to push you up to another level. I had just gotten my evaluation and the results are not up to my expectation.
To many who knows me through my blog will thought that I am a highly paid manager after throughout these years I spent in the same company but to many who knows me in real person would commented that I am underpaid based on the contribution & hours of work I spent in the office.
I am always hesitated to write about my job but the uneasiness I am having now prompted me to vomit what I felt inside me. Looking back on the increment & promotion, at times you wonder, why certain individual seem to be appreciated more than the others? I am not particularly super upset over my increment & promotion, I feel it is only fair for me to be evaluated again next year as I am holding a new portfolio altogether this year and I am pretty sure my department will fair well this year. Life is about 2 choices anyway, I had sent ultimatum to my immediate boss and he agrees that my increment is not justifiable as well, I am keeping my option open and at the same time my passion for my work is still burning as ever. I just hope it will not die off, I see myself to be somebody here and I want to make the best out of my career here.
As a consolation to my bad days last week, I pampered myself over the weekend, I put aside all my job assignments and took time off to try out the Fish Spa. I tried the Sampuoton Fish Spa located in the Merchant Square, Tropicana. I took the Fish Therapy package which comes with an hour of fish nibbling my whole body. It does feel akward but it was a good experience.
After the fish therapy, I went for 2 hours body massage at The Sokushindo, Bandar Puteri Puchong. It was really good, highly recommended, I felt so much refreshed on a Monday where many would be experiencing Monday blues.
Congratulations to my colleagues who got a fair bit of increment & promotion and to those who felt like shit me now, patient... Life is all about 2 choices, isn't it?
Not too long ago, Karpal Singh, the DAP Tiger was regarded as disrespectful for allegedly "QUESTIONING" the powers of the Sultan of Perak over the reinstatement of state Religious Department director Datuk Jamry Sury, who had earlier been transferred by Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin.
The above mentioned were splashed all over the major newspaper and created such a hoo-haa among the UMNOputras. Even our 'Flip-Flop' PM urged the Attorney General to speed up the investigation of the case when there are far more cases yet to be solved in this country. Malaysian Youth Council (MYC) secretary-general, in the press statement commented, "...it was unbecoming of Karpal, who is also Bukit Gelugor MP, to release such a statement, which could THREATEN RACIAL STABILITY. His statement not only insults the Sultan, but also the Malay Rulers institution and the Constitution. He is RUDE and should apologise to Sultan Azlan Shah for issuing such a statement." Izin-kan saya yang berhormat, excerpt from Malaysia-today article, "...Rosmah phoned His Highness the Sultan of Selangor and scolded him. Rosmah spoke to His Highness the way you would scold a dog that shit on your new carpet." Read the full stories here. Can someone tell me the definition of "RUDE" now? Kurang Ajar!!!
.jpg)
