Imbecile.

There are some people out there who you wished you could drag him out of his car via his side window and give him a nice, big and powerful punch in the eye. All these for being a total inconsiderate imbecile who thinks everyone is at fault beside himself.

Patience are being tested to the limits when you have an imbecile next to your car who rather honk continuously and freaking scold the nice security guard who risked his life (who knows, the imbecile might whack him) to resolve the problem. All the imbecile needed to do is reverse his lousy Proton Wira to the side a little and everyone who got stuck could eventually move on. But nooo, he rather honk, wave his stupid arm frantically and probably cursing everyone.

Seriously, if he gets beaten by someone, I will be the cheering.

Not Entirely Wrong!

Just to prove that there is such thing as kuih talam;

And the difference between kuih seri muka;

Mid-Autumn.

I was in Auckland during last year's mid-autumn festival. Mooncakes they sell in the Asian supermarkets in Auckland are either too pricey or has already expired. Kate's friend gave her a mooncake from Tai Thong and she decided to share it with a few of us. Being so far away from home, all of us were happy to have a mooncake on the table. It was a great moment because each of us had a small wedge and relishes the taste (eventhough some of us are not a fan of them). Meanwhile, we were also practically guarding it from a greedy housemate who we thought may rob us of our precious mooncake!

Mooncakes in Malaysia are on sale since June. Frankly, I only had a quarter wedge of the mooncake and it's not even from one of those many boxes I have at home! See how humans take things for granted? Such a contrast from the situation mentioned earlier.

Apparently, "BBQ outside under the moon is a regional custom" (wikipedia). So BBQ outside under the moon is what we did!

Jamie Olivers (note the plural).

Mom and aunt lighting lanterns

See who's eating and who's doing all the work?

Crash and burn!

Memory.

I have this really vague memory about a particular Tom and Jerry cartoon episode which I love when I was a young child. I remember some of the images and with that, I googled it up and found a couple episodes that fits the images. There are 3 different episodes under the same theme but I finally found the one I was looking for. Watching it again after so many years, I don't really know why I particularly love this episode back then...

So How?

All you need to do is talk to the respective party and tell them what you know. It would make a change for the better. So will you?

"Now that I know there's something to know, I can't not know just because I'm afraid somebody will know I know. You know?" - Willow Rosenberg

Crappy.

A start of a new week hasn't changed anything yet. I am getting so messed up that I think it has started to affect my appetite. Funny how I've been eating a little less lately. It may sound bad but I actually don't mind. Been drinking lotsa water to replace my solid food intake, which would probably clean my system a little.

Come to think of it, crappy would be an understatement. I actually feel more than crappy. It's just that I can't think of a better word. Maybe now I can finally get an excuse to drink the Stella.

Okaaay...

The flying book (below) is supposed to make flying easier for me. Just as I was feeling all good about flying, the headline on today's newspaper, ironically, is about a plane crash in Thailand.

2007 seems like a pretty bad year for the aviation business, considering that there were already few reported cases of plane crashes :/

Shocking.

Came across Beslan Siege on Discovery Channel while I was channel surfing on Astro. God, I was so engrossed in the documentary that now I am actually feeling mentally disturbed. The documentary shows real videos recorded during the siege, which made it even more interesting, terrifying and shocking.


So what else did I do on my off day? Read a book on 'flying'. Don't be misled by the title. It's not a funky aviation book, but rather a book about everything you've ever wondered about flying on airlines. Quite informative and easy to read. At least everything I've ever wondered about flying on airlines make sense now.

Emotionally Overcharged.

Exactly what I meant when I said friendship is always something I tend to take for granted.

Hairspray.

Hairspray provided all the entertainment I needed to prevent me from falling asleep after an exhausting day. I yawned numerously but trust me, it wasn't the movie.

You know this situation about how you wanted to bump into someone so much and yet you won't, but when you least expected it, you will? It happened today. Frankly, I was feeling crappy so I wasn't really in the talking mood. Then I bumped into Mrs. Liung (you know who you are) outside GSC's snack counters. A little catching up on our life seems like the right thing to do, aye? After the movie, I bumped into the usual TTDI suspects. Talk about fate.

Funny how both parties verbally attacked me over things about someone else, which I myself wasn't sure about. Smile and 'I don't know' is the best I could do :/

Get a grip!

My life is slowly drifting back to the pace that I am familiar with. It hasn't been too long but it is indeed hard to revert back to normal. My first off day for the month is this coming Sunday. No idea what to do yet but I guess I'll just hang around.

My dad had his left eye operated today at Vista for cataract. They'll do the right eye next week. Just a simple operation so there's nothing much to worry about. A typical workaholic, if my dad have his way he would go back to work tomorrow!

I hope to get my shortsightedness corrected too. The technique sounded scary but the outcome turned out well for my brothers!

Mystery.

I woke up this morning with total disbelief. 7 hours earlier, I remember having about 4Gb of spaces left in my hard disk. Once I finished downloading my 88Mb bittorent file, I noticed that I have only 700Mb left in the hard disk. Like, wtf! Taking it as a sign of old age (for the computer, I mean!), I shut it down, hope that it was only some technical error and pray that my Gbs comes back, someway, somehow.

Instead of reverting to normal, it stayed at 700Mb. Then few minutes later, it went down to 300+Mb. Then 70+Mb. Then damage control took over. Thanks to WhatSize, I managed to clear all the useless logs and redundant files. Voila! I now have 11.89Gb in my hard disk. I still couldn't find out what causes the Gbs to go missing at the first place though.

Totally unrelated, I think I had just annoyed a friend over a little hangout time. Working for 28days per month kinda break a person mentally. I apologize for my insensitivity. Sorry.

Eczema.

The two scaly patch behind my right palm has finally been identified. A short appointment with a dermatologist finally confirmed that it was not fungal infection but skin eczema. I've heard of eczema but never understood it until I google it up. Apparently its common and not contagious, thank God. Vaseline and the medicated cream from the dermatologist is my current best friend.

Oh by the way, the black-ish toenail I got from descending Mount Kinabalu is falling off. Not entirely out but I can lift it up to check out the brand new toenail I'm gonna have. I am so going to keep that nail in a jar and remember it as part of my Kinabalu nightmare ;)

Tribute to friends.

A particular friend once asked me what do I mean when I said "Friendship is always...something I tend to take for granted". I can't remember exactly how I explained that but I think its along the line of how I did not keep in touch. But that's only a portion of the truth. Many times I tried, numerous times I failed. Disappointments are plenty but I don't show it. I don't talk about it. I just hope it goes away. Eventually.

Personally, it's not much about keeping in touch. "Two's company, three's a crowd", I just don't want to be the crowd. I hate being the crowd. I've learned to back off. Maybe its the 'back off' that people sees it as failure to keep in touch. Please don't get offended. It's just the way I am.

Despite that, I am glad to have a bunch of really supportive friends; those I grew up with, those I met in college, and those I stayed with in Auckland.

Cheers to those who are still sticking around!

^_^

What a pleasant day at work today. A mafan regular customer and her daughter really made my day and I was beaming the whole time, to the point of annoying the boss (who was clearly jealous of me).

The conversation was something like this:
Customer (mother): Hi, the usual please.
Annie: xx sandwich and regular low fat x?
Customer: Yes. She (daughter) likes it when you make it
Daughter: *smiles
Annie: *beamed (suddenly they don't seem so troublesome anymore...)

It was a great compliment (with added pressure). Ironically, I just mastered the technique to make that particular drink not too long ago.

Work gets fun sometimes (and attempts to burn someone's bulu mata was definitely one of them) :D

Emotions.

What's up with that anyway? A while ago everything seems fine. A while later, everything just doesn't seem right.

Piscean. Go figure.

Inspired?

I was on leave last Monday and took the opportunity to enhance my limited culinary creativity by icing some cupcakes. It doesn't require me to sweat it out in front of a stove but it felt as if it was as difficult! I am more certain now that I want to be a chef and not a pastry chef!

The cupcakes were yummy but the icing were just too sweet. The reason why I still have 2 cupcakes in my fridge...