Niece's Birthday Celebration Dinner

On the last Sunday, we were celebrating my niece, Eugenia’s 2 years old birthday and the full moon of my second niece, Baby Euthalia. Weird name, huh! Well, my brother and his wife like the name so much and I wonder why.

Again, my same old favourite phrase. Time flies. Eugenia has grown up so much. All of a sudden, I miss her baby look and the way she crawls or looking at me innocently with her big round eyes. Now she is getting very naughty and keeps running here and there. Seriously, I was attacked by her numerous times. I should claim the medical fees from my brother. Her daughter is way too naughty and tricky! But still looks adorable at times and she’s very clever. When she knows that we are angry with her, she will pretend to be an adorable girl and call us with her sweet and innocent tone. She never fails to get what she demands. Kids nowadays….~

My family and I do admit that we show less affection towards the second born. After all, Eugenia is the first born baby and grandchild in our family so it’s normal that we adore her more in the first place. Now I understand why they will say the characteristic/personality for the first born, second born or middle child and the youngest one are different. I was a second born too but because the first born is my brother so I believe my grandparents and parents love us both that time. One boy and one girl. Balance gender in the family. So did my two younger brothers. There is 4-5 years old age gap between me and them. They are lucky to have brother and sister to adore them as well!

Alright, back to the topic. We were having dinner at Kingwood Hotel, one of the reputable hotels in this small town. The dishes look yummy except that there are number of dishes I couldn’t consume due to my sickness. Some quick snapshot of the dishes (sorry for the poor quality) as they are too eager to eat and couldn’t wait for me to finish my photos snapping.

My Top 5 Most Visited Websites

The moment I step into the office at 8.oo a.m (okay, I am always 15 minutes late. I can’t help it. Guess it has become a bad habit of mine! Luckily there’s no punctuality card in my office), the first thing I do is to open some web browsers while I go make my morning tea or honey drink.

Come on, admit it. I do it, you do it. Everyone is doing it. We all feel sluggish in the early morning and when sit in front of the office desk. We need to surf around to jumpstart the mind again. My top 5 websites that are most visited during work hours are…..drum rolllllll…..ta dah~

Hotmail

I need to check mail everyday, whether there is a mail or not.

Blogger Page

A daily routine to check out the blog updates and read all the blogs that have bookmark in my favourites folder.

The Star

This is a necessarily and a must read to know what is going on around me and the world out there especially the celebrity news.

Online store/Blogshop
Ermm. This may sound unnecessarily but I need an update whether there are new clothes or new style coming in today and everyday. It gradually becomes a daily routine to check out these things and then I will waste my $$$ on it. Get cheated...willingly! =.=

Facebook

I believe everyone will be checking out their FB. It also becomes a daily routine to log in my FB and play my Sim Social. Tsk Tsk Tsk. (Shake head)

Is a multi-tasking job. I will surf around while working. It seriously did not affect my work productivity and efficiency. Again, I insisted that it does not divert my attention from work and I have my own time arrangement and see, I am an organize person so I am clear on what I am doing. In fact, I find it quite enjoyable to work like this. At least, it does not bore me to keep on concentrate on my work, typing, and writing report. So I really can’t stand to have a server down or no internet connection during working hours. It will drive me nuts and reduce my work productivity. No mood to work. No kidding!

Sssshhhhh. Shouldn’t let my boss read this or else I …………. can pack my things and go home!

Pet Peeves

Do you have any pet peeves? This is my first time came across the words (Excuse my poor english~). My definition of pet peeve is something or someone annoyed you to the max, disgusted you or until you puke blood (fake action). Okay, getting serious. According to the online dictionary, pet peeve is defined as a major or principal annoyance or complaint. It’s similar to my definition also what~

The followings are the list of my pet peeves which really get on my nerve (Warning: It’s a long list!):

· Someone standing over my shoulder reading the computer screen. If that person is a friend or someone close to me, I am still alright with it. But the boss from my previous employment is standing right over my shoulder looking at the paper work on my desk or computer screen and he is so close to me till I can feel/smell his breath on top of my head. Now that really makes me feel uncomfortable. In another serious word, that’s called sexual harassment.

· Ah Beng and Ah Lian. I am not trying to pin point that people shall dress up like a fashionista but at least in an appropriate way and looks pleasant or comfortable to the eyes. I really dislike guys who are dragging their foot jeans on the floor and girls who try to dress up like an adult while they are still bubbly young teens or imitating the Japanese street fashion which goes wrong. The way they talk and their attitudes also annoyed me. They like to talk loudly, laugh loudly, act childishly, boasting and adding foul words in their every lines regardless of the time, place and situation. Do I sound bias? Hopefully not.

· People who sit next to me on public transportation even when there are other seats available. I just don’t understand why there are so many seats available but you still want to sit next to me and our shoulders keep kissing. If you are a girl, I can still bear with it. But if you are a guy (not a handsome hunk or my friend) and with a body odour, then very sorry. Can you please move over?

· Guys never flush the toilet after use and leave the toilet seat up. Come on! I bet all the female out there agree with me on this. If possible, I try to avoid going to public toilet. It’s so damn smelly and dirty.

· Jerks who take up 2 parking spaces. Hello! Be more considerate lar. Unless your car is super super big size and it needs 2 parking spaces then I won’t comment any on it. If there are many empty parking spaces, then alright, I also won’t complain.

· Women who wear a thick make up. That’s look horrible with an extremely thick, white powder on the face, red lips, dark shadow eyes and a long, thick fake eyelashes batting there. Unless you dress up for some Halloween party or you are a geisha. A light and simple make up will look nice and pretty already.

· People with body odour or putting on a strong smelly perfume. It’s air pollution.

· People who invite me to somewhere then cancel at the last minute. This really annoyed me unless you have a very good reason to cancel the appointment. I am a busy man as well and besides, you are wasting my time. Because of that appointment, I am blocking the time slot just to meet you but you are cancelling it at the last minute without any good reason.

· Do you understand what I am saying? Oh my goodness. I am going to tell you my experience with a cab driver when I was in Taiwan. This uncle, okay, he is friendly, BUT he tormented me persistently with his ‘Do you understand what I am saying?’ on the whole way to Jiufen (if not wrong, it's around 20-30 minutes drive). I didn’t know how many times he repeated the words and my head really felt dizzy for hearing his talk. I just want to shout at his face saying that 'YES, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING!!' He’s actually trying to persuade us to take up his ‘cab travel package’ which brings us to the place of attractions along the way for some photos snapping. We had politely declined the offer and just told him to drive us to Jiufen instead. But he won’t give up and kept on explaining with every sentences ended with ‘Do you understand what I am saying?’. He charged us so expensive for the cab ride. Even we had to pay NT900 for the cab ride from Yehliu to Jiufen. We felt cheated. It’s so damn EXPENSIVE for a short distance ride!

· People with bad table manners. I am not talking about those traditional Kopitiam. More likely indicating those decent restaurants with an expensive menu.

· Drivers who drive slowly on the fast lane, and move slowly at the green lights and the motorbikes ride in the middle of the road. For your own and other people's safety, please lar, try to follow what you read or learn during your law/driving test. If intend to drive slowly, then move to the left and motorbikes also don’t ride in the middle of the road or on the fast lane. People who drive fast or didn’t see you might knock you down and then whose fault is it. The traffic is quite jammed with cars in a long queue but those drivers still move slowly at the green light like no other people business. #%$*@#$!% (*puke blood*)

· People belch without covering their mouth. That’s very impolite to belch without covering the mouth or excusing themselves. The sound of belching and especially long burp quite annoyed me. My dear always burp in front of me and is a long burp which really annoyed me to the max. I have told him numerous times to stop doing that but he thinks that it is fun. This totally deducted mark on my impression on him. He seems not understand this whole impression mark thing because he thought that we are together for so long already and that’s not a big deal anymore. Sigh. *Guys only leave a good impression on girls during the wooing period, once you are belong to him, he’ll shows you all his fugly habit and dirty lifestyle*

· Typical Malaysian’s habit to cut other people’s queue and continue pretend like nothing’s wrong. Don’t you hate this especially when it is a long queue? They are not even asking your permission to cut your queue. If you are a senior citizen, I mean real old, I understand and forgive you. We are all a busy man and rushing with time as well so not only you frustrate with the long queue. One thing I like about Taiwanese is they really queue up whether they are paying at the counter, waiting for the MRT, getting in the bus and etc.

Alright, you must be bored reading my list of pet peeves. Wait, it's not end yet. I'm still have a long list on hand but in order not to make my list of pet peeves become your pet peeve, I shall stop here. LOLZ. Anyway, what’s yours?

最熟悉的陌生人

当初
我们在一起的时候
从陌生人间间的变成爱人
又从爱人变成亲人
我们是多么的熟悉对方
以为对方就是那一个
可以手牵手走完这一生
陪旁在彼此之间
永不分离
我们说了很多的梦想，约定跟将来。

如今
但心变了
一切就变成没意义了
当初我们说好的将来，约定
也变成一场空
你也从最爱的亲人变成最熟悉的陌生人了。
也不能在听你的声音，牵你的手，拥抱你
几年后
我们在遇见也只是点头之交或形同陌路了。

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I am practising my chinese writing. My pin yin still quite poor. Some of the words I can't remember its pin yin and didn't know how to read.

It's actually about a relationship that had broken up. Not mine. Someone close to me had broke up recently. I felt quite pity for their relationship to be so easily broke up. They are such a sweet couple and look compatible. But relationship thing is really hard to say sometimes.

Okay, translation of my thought. I was saying that once two strangers met and fell in love. Then from strangers become a lover and a family. They were once so in love and having lots of dreams together, promise to build a future together. And when the heart is no longer beating for you, everything become meaningless. Once a lover and a family become a familiar stranger again. They go on a different path. After few years when meet again, they are just a 'nod' acquaintance or totally a stranger.

Don't you think that all this relationship 'chemistry' thingy very unique? It's like an unexplainable theory. It pulls two strangers together and the bond between them is getting stronger as days passed. It took longer time to build the relationship but once the chemistry gone, the string that tied two person together also getting loose or just snap off with a brisk. They gradually become a stranger in each other's life again.

-Shi Fen-

If you happened to visit to Jiu Fen and have an extra time, you can pay a visit to Shi Fen township located along the Pingxi line.

I couldn't remember the name of the station, should be Rueifang Station, if not mistaken. We took the train from there and get off at Shi Fen station. Shi Fen is a small town and popular with its sky lantern. So in every shops there you will see the local people will selling the small lantern which is quite expensive, NT100 per piece. If you are lucky, you might get a NT90 per piece. I like this small town and its rail road. Very nolstagia feel and nice scenery for photo snapping. Many tourists came here to set the sky lantern that allows you to write your wishes on it. We didn't set the sky lantern. I didn't have any wishes and besides, to set one sky lantern also cost dearly.

The small sky lantern looks really cute and it's an ideal souvenir for your family and friends.

-Happy Birthday!-

Yoohoo! It’s my birthday. The born day eventually become meaningless except the age is growing each year. Birthday has been reminding us that we are getting older and we didn’t have much time left in this world. Alright, it sounds depressing but it’s true, what! So enjoy your life to the fullest and with no regret!

I was flipping through the old photos today. All the memories came flashing back to me. They reminded me of all the good times I had during high school and college years. There were once we were so close (I mean, my friends) and always hang out together, gossiping and laugh. Those days were always full of laughter. Now some of them we had lost contact and everyone is busy with their own life. We were falling apart as the time passed. I missed those days where we could talk about anything and always be there for each other. We could talk on the phone for hours. I missed those days.

How long did I not laugh anymore? I couldn’t remember.

Alright, stopped all those memories talk. One thing I realized was I was so fugly that time. I looked so naïve and innocent. Not to mention, my fashion sense. It was so so so unacceptable although now I couldn’t confidently say that my fashion sense is trendy. But at least has some improvement larrr. I couldn’t believe that I could wear those clothes and thought that it was pretty in those days. Oh my goodness! Looked at those skirt I wore. It's so long and over my knee. Looked at that shirt. It was so ugly. HOWEVER, I had a very good skin and slimmer that time. I didn't have pimples. I was so petite and ..... small in size.

A lonely birthday for me again this year. Nothing special except some dinner and lunch with family. Felt comfort and happy to receive friends’ wishes. That’s the best thing of social network. It connects you to everyone out there no matter where they are and makes you feel that you are not alone but actually you are alone.

Okie. Enough for all those ‘depressing’ talk. Happy Birthday to Myself!!! ^.^

-Organized Life a.k.a. Boring Life-

Dad: You are buying the flight ticket again!!! Don't forget that you have to get marry by end of next year arrr.

Me: ..........

Dad: Or you go for the 'wedding abroad'.

Mum: No. We should have a proper wedding ceremony and reception for the first two borns. The youngers one are up to them if they want a wedding abroad.

Me: ...........

Mum: *Looking at me* What?! You MUST get marry next year. You are not young anymore!

Their words were hitting me hard to reality. Ya hor, I have to get marry next year. Although we have been talking about the marriage issue quite often, but when there is an action going on or telling me the date, I am getting cold feet. Oh sh*t! Will I become a runaway bride??!! OMG.

I was paranoid. All kind of feelings rushed to me at the same time - confused, lost, worry, scared, panic and etc. Okay, I need a plan. I need a proper schedule. %^*&$#@#*& Damn, I realized that I can't live without a proper schedule. At times, my emotion will go haywire when my life is not going as planned or given a short notice. Am I sick?? Something like a control freak. *Taking a deep breath and staying calm* Ya, I still need a schedule.....to make myself feel better and calm. So I took out my organizer and start jotting down all the important dates in 2012 while making some assumptions. Counting my annual leave whether is it enough for my travel, marry and honeymoon. See, I only have 14days annual leave plus the 7 days marriage leave. Always not enough for me. And not to forget, my savings. Quite a big hole in my pocket if the date is so close to each other. I have to cut down my shopping budget and stop visiting to the decent restaurant. Bla bla bla bla....... Another way to calm myself is talking to someone. But no one to turn to. So I go rambling in here.

Oh yeah, I know my life sucks! But just bear with me for that one moment when I was in a paranoid state. Once the moment gone, I am back to normal but I still need the plan/schedule in my life as in telling me what should I do next. I felt comforted in that way. If there is no plan, I will lost my direction. Seriously! So life with me is boring and at times, might fed up as well. I guess that's normal. Who will not? Well, I'm still trying to loosen up and there's a slight improvement.

One thing worry me, why am I still getting cold feet when it comes to marriage. I thought I was prepared for it after all these years. Ain't I? Sigh.