memories

no, not that kind of memories. i'm talking about my memory that's totally left me!

how can i forget someone else who was my roomie in ppp altho it was only for a short spell?

KAK NORESH!

yes, she was my roomie after yasz left for the states, right kak? and she was also my senior in ssp and was the cool prefect! yes we have history :) (no she didn't demerit me until i went dry ;)

so - hey there how are u, hope u're fine. heard that u've been in brief contact with kayun about her housing loan. how's bad? hope everything's fine and do share your blog if u have one. thanks for reading mine. they're totally notorious thots aren't they sometimes? oh well.. i was always the rebel and the outspoken one. blame our school for that :)

glad to hear from ya!

introducing... the chatter box!!

my dear fren diana did her magic again and inserted a tag board on the left side of my blog. but woe is me, my office firewall denies me access to the tag board.

so she did another thing - there's now a brand spanking new chatter box (beneath the disclaimer)!

THANKS AGAIN BABE! love ya :)

observations...

as promised, i went shopping yesterday. stayed the whole day at the golden triangle area and my parking meter was RM14.50. not bad.

shopping aside, i made some observations of many things...

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i was looking for a bra and i specifically informed the salesgirl that i was a cup C. the salesgirl (a rather aged woman) said she doesn't have it so she suggested cup B. i said how can i go to cup B when i'm a cup C? that's just wrong. and then she said for cup C and above, there's only a few designs to choose from, buried deep down in the bin. u know how the designs looked like? the ugly ones lah - skin/brown colour, ugly shape, even my aunty wouldn't wear them. so i looked at the salesgirl and said "do i look old to u?"

at another bra counter, the salesgirl (another old one) handed me a cup A. what the hell is wrong with these people? no wonder they work as salesgirls all their lives.

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i finally dyed my hair to brown black. it looks mostly black to me. well maybe in the sunlight u can see a tinge of brown. but i like it nonetheless, i look fairer and my teeth look whiter haha. ez said my hair looks healthier now *that's the look i was going for in the 1st place! yay to ez for getting it right* and kayun asked me if she should dye her hair too.

dye it before u die (pun intended). u only live once ;)

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why is it that parking lots are monopolised by one race in malaysia? i was thinking, if i had a plot of land, i'd convert it into a parking lot - seriously. can u imagine if it was in kl, i'd make millions! then i can retire with a huge smile on my face and a big fat bank account :)

let’s do the math for eg: the parking lot beside heritage row. in the day, they charge office people RM3 per entry. on weekday nights, they charge party goers RM5 per entry. on weekend nights, they charge RM10 per entry! and the land is not small. at any one time, it can hold i think up to 500 cars. on one weekend night, the owner of the land gets RM5000 untung bersih ok! where got major overhead to pay for except the minimum wage of his kulis yang actually take care of the parking lot, right? no need to pay for electricity, no water bills, no telephone bills and many other no's. even if there is, it'd be too trivial to talk about. so... imagine lah wei.

u gotta have a dream, right? so does anyone know how to go about this?

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my boss is also a gemini. some geminis u can instantly click with, but some are hard to understand. i mean, did i not say that i am the ultimate geminian? i am the definition of what a gemini person should be. but he is somewhat of a different creature than the ones i'm used to. maybe i only know women geminis eh? maybe men geminis are from mars, just like the rest of 'em. he puzzles me, he really does.

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i love love love christmas songs. they make me hum and sing along and i feel instantly happy. i should get a cd of xmas songs lah. but i don't like the modern ones, the old ones are the best. where can i find this? it was a good thing that the malaysia sale is in conjunction with the year-end festivities. so the shopping malls were full of the jolly old xmas songs. people were looking at me funny when i sang along.
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oh ya this is another annoyance. is it a bad thing for someone to be singing to themselves in shopping malls? i don't sing loudly, i mostly hum. but i always get stares from other pedestrians. is it bad that someone can actually be happy? is it bad that a person can actually express their happiness through singing? is it bad to sing at all?

there were these 2 kids and their mother who were obviously staring at me while i sang and hummed and trying on some shoes at the same time. what the fuck is she teaching her kids? to be rude?

staring is rude, by the way.

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i ran out of moisturiser so being the faithful and loyal Olay user, i looked at the new total effects for blemish skin range at Watson's. as i was reading the label on the box, the promoter girl came up to me and started her speech and gave me advise on which moisturiser to go for and how to take care of my skin bla3. her skin was flawless (albeit a bit dark) so i was actually mesmerised by her. but u know what? beautiful skin is not enough. i looked at her teeth and i knew what she had for lunch! major yucks!! i almost said to her "dik, memang betul kita nak kulit kita cantik, tapi gigi tu pun nak kena jaga".. hehe i didn't at the end cos she gave me a free starbucks voucher for purchasing the moisturiser *thanks ya dik ;) lain kali boleh bagi lagi*

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will i stay in this marriage long enough to see our kids get their own kids? or will i just be another figure in the divorce statistics?

i'm losing faith. God help me... what is my destiny? :'(

....uni days....

pre-braces days - don't freak out on the vampire teeth, if u can see it. and check out the eye-brows, very unforgiving lah my genes.

my first 2 years roomies, yasz dah fly kot masa ni, or she wasnt around, or she was the camera person :)

ADP Convocation 1997, almost 10 yrs ago. i was effing thin back then man :S

5 June 1995 - registration and first day of induction at PPP/ITM, Shah Alam for the ADP3 batch. first 2 year's roomies were Rina, Raja Jurina, Yaszrina, Hazrin, Intan Nahariah. Intan moved out soon after and Amylia came in.

6 June 1995 - Rina's birthday. i think i also started calling her "Chik" somewhere around this time. i dono why i called her that, maybe cos it started as "makcik" or smthg... now it's stuck on her haha.

1997 - convocation and the heart breaking news that business students will not be able to fly to the States. i've already accepted my attendance certificate from USC, California and the gut-sucking news just broke my heart into a thousand pieces. i suffered from fever for 2 weeks after hearing it, and cried for almost 7 months. u see, my lifelong dream is to go to the States. i still want to. but now i've landed on level ground and if i'm fated that i can't go (due to financial reasons), then i'll accept it. but back then, fuyoo. u just don't know how much i cried.

so then, i continued my degree with PPP/ITM. the next 2 years' roomies were Rina (again? aren't u bored of me chik? hehe), Sikayun, Sonya, Shahreen and Lina. Lina left for the States shortly after so there was only the 5 of us. with the addition of ezria, we've stayed frens since back then and these people have become my support system, sisters, buddies, whatever u may call it.

1999/2000 - received my Honours Degree in Marketing, 2nd upper class. during my time, to get 1st class u'd have to get 3.75 cgpa and above, i wasn't that smart lah. i only got 3.4 *terrer jugak aku ek? hehe* but who cares what cgpa u got when u graduated (except if u're an employer hiring a fresh grad lah). what matters most is what have u done with your life...(?)

life from thereon - not bad. ada ups and downs, normal lah.

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yasz is now in penang working for motorola. she said she's happy at the workplace, but the island doesn't agree with her taste.

jurina - last time i met her, she said she was with this ang mor (dutch ke swedish) and said that maybe he's mr. right. dono what's happened to her now. babe if u read this, keep in touch lah. email/sms me or smthg. i haven't changed my mobile number u know.

hazrin aka jie - i havent kept in touch with her... not in a bad way though.

intan - her either.

amy also has a blog and maybe i should not be her narrator. go read about her yourself at http://amyzul77.blogspot.com :)

still keeping closely in touch with chik. in fact we email each other everyday together with kayun, sonya, ezria & shahreen. chik is my longest-serving-roomie :) she knows most of the things about me, altho my life is not that much of a secret anyway...

sonya just delivered her first baby 2 months ago. she just got back to work after her maternity leave. juggling as a mother and wife.

sikayun is getting married, well, registring her marriage to glendo(ly)n (hehe) on 21st Dec 06 in sabah (am i right on the date?) and her church wedding will be on this cantik date: 070707. cool huh? technically until the church wedding, she's not married yet altho dah register. but whatever it is, good luck and have fun on your registration wedding! sorry we can't be there...

shahreen works in tnb and she's forever busy. she's got a bf for a year now and she's kept it a secret from us *hands on hips with upset face* why la u keep it from us? how could u??? hehe i'm telling the whole world here.

ezria is the luckiest biyatch of all (in the best meaning of the word, ez hehe). she's not so much of a housewife cos the hubby is forever away for work and she herself doesn't work. but sometimes she flies off discreetly to LA to take up a temporary job from her old boss. and sometimes she goes off on a holiday or follows the hubby on a job abroad... don't take this the wrong way ez - u've got my kinda life =)

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had fun attending uni... shall keep the memories and the frenships that i've formed for a lifetime.

oh ya, the pix above are courtesy of mrs. amylia abdul hadi =) tenchoo!

ps: ok, from now on kalau nak bagi komen, sila click on the little envelope icon below and just email to me. aku dah tak kuasa nak perbetuikan this blog lagi dah. busan.

the scene at home

early detection of alzheimer's

sometimes when i look at jim, i feel a wave of unfamiliriaty rush over me. like - who is this man in this strange bedroom? is he my husband? really? i'm married? is that how he looks like? who is he? i felt like that last night. masa nak tidur, i felt like - is this the man i'm supposed to sleep with every night?

i'm not kidding ok. it's like i tak kenal his face, tak kenal dia langsung. takut ok.

i'm a candidate for alzheimer's lah and i'm scared. maybe i just need to take smthg to improve my memory? i'm already taking pharmaton, it has some ginseng extract in it which is supposed to be good for memory.. or was it some other thing? aiyoooo how laaa...

what i'm most scared of is that i won't be able to recognise the faces of the people that i love the most.

or is it because that jim and i haven't even known each other for 2 years pun? macam too sekejap like dat terus dah kawin? aik? macam culture shock tau.

u know what i mean?

maybe u don't :(

nothing much after lunch...

had lunch with onny and heidey, treated him japanese for his belated bday present ie yesterday.

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on another topic, i like reading books, i don't love it. i say this cos i only read when i have the mood to. i am moody, u know (but not with frens, only with loved ones, which is a bad thing :S ). right now i have a few books that i bought previously when i was in very high (reading) spirits, but halfway reading them my mood seemed to disappear. so there are several books beside my bed that need to be re-read (dah lupa dah what the stories are about).

so anyway, while jim went to extract his wisdom tooth yesterday, i went to ampang point to have my late lunch.. after that, i happened to wander into popular bookstore and i was browsing the latest books there. i found an interesting one titled: Hex and the Single Girl - it's about this witch who uses her powers to matchmake strangers with each other and she gets paid for it. the book was was cheap so i bought it.

i love stories of paranormal activity. i loved watching Charmed and when they did those magic stuff, i was wishing i could do the same hehe (my secret wish is to have magical powers :).

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this sunday the hubby has made a plan for us to go watch deja vu with his frens. i said ok to this cos i'm gonna be spending the whole day on monday shopping at Isetan, Lot 10 with me girlfrens! it'll be a public holiday for us who work in selangor so yay to the sultan for having his birthday on a monday teeheehee we can skip the monday blues altogether and snigger at KL people for having to slave off on a day that we don't have to. now where is it that i can park without having to pay a bomb for it there? *scratching my head*

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i also people-watched yesterday. i like to observe couples in shopping malls. i always wonder how they met, in what situations did they meet, how did they fall in love, did they encounter any problems, do they fight, do they still love each other, etc etc... i saw this couple with 2 kids who were buying tickets to watch Happy Feet (i knew what they were watching cos one of the kids was wearing a penguin costume hehe so cute). the wife was taller than the husband, and they weren't much lookers. but they were wearing matching coloured outfits and instantly i knew that they are in love even after 2 kids...

i always wonder how God pairs us with our other halves. some people that i see don't match each other at all in the looks dept but i'm sure they are compatible and complement each other in other ways.. i know i shouldn't pull a shallow hal and think that the only thing that matters is looks, but isn't it important? sometimes i see a couple, the gf is a damn good looking chick, but when i put my eyes on the bf, masyaallah, muka tak siap langsung. what is it that pulled them to each other?

whatever it may be, it's definitely not paranormal... or could it? some desperate people can always use charms/black magic to lure the person they like to like them back.. like in my new story book. or it could be that one of them have the lure of the green (read: money). we do live in a material world now kan... sigh, that's even shallower than hal.

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i need a new hobby... this blogging is my current pastime. i am seriously thinking of taking up knitting. i found a shop that sells sewing supplies in ss15 and heidey said there's another one in ss14. supplies are already near, why haven't i launched the hobby yet? i used to knit in school. i remember the feeling of knitting - i like it :P

maybe i'm just bored.

later we're bringing chipsikel to the dr again. cute chipsikel, poor chipsikel, fiesty chipsikel =)