My 2010 Favorite... * the tangible*

And the list begins....

1. Favorite place on earth

My home of course. i would rather spent a full day at home then going out to fancy shopping mall or restaurant.

2. Favorite Holiday

Christmas of course, duh. I went to Penang for christmas holiday and the town is really charming! And the best is i get to meet up with my GOOD friend- HL after so many years! And she will be married around the same time with me next year, Jack you are a lucky lad you know!

3. Favorite Christmas presents

Stila Smokey eyes makeup palette

I know i am a bit too old for the gothic smokey eyes makeup, but who cares! Thanks Jenny, love ya!

Favorite Movie

Inception

Leonardo is simply marvelous in this movie. I love the plot and the storyline, it holds your breath and kept you captivated for the whole two hours.

Favorite book

Charlaine Harris- Sookie Stakehouse series

Do i need elaborate more?

Favorite Drama series

1. How i met your mother

Its hilarious man! it sorta reminds me of Friends. The whole story talks about how Ted met his wife, which is yet to revealed even after 5 season. I hope i get to know who the mother is in the season 6!

2. Glee

Kurt is super cool in Season 2 Glee. he gaves me a few goosebumps especially when he sang the song "house is not a home" wait, is that Season 1?? anyway, I think the drama will stay for a long long time

Cougar Town

I cant believe Courtney Cox still can pull it off after Friends. Its as though the character Jules is specially tailor made for her. I love the episode whereby she breakup with her younger boyfriend, Josh. The standing in the rain crying his heart scene gives me the ' awwwweeeeeeee' all over.

Favorite album

1. One Republic- Waking up

My favorite in the 1st half of the year. I played the album whenever i'm in the car consecutively for 3 months.

2. The Script- Love and Science

Peter's influence. Love "Nothing" and "For the first time" and the story behind the song.

"The song 'For the First Time' was about a time when we got back after touring around the world. We wanted to press palms with the people who had really gotten us there, and we got home and realised there's a stark reality out there, the recession has hit, people are losing their jobs and their valuable things, and we thought, it almost pales in comparison to your news. We started the song, and it ended up being a bit bleak and we felt we really needed a great message in these, to turn it around... so we needed a message of hope, as people are being stripped of all these things they're realising what's really important. It's all about going back to basics: drinking cheap wine, eating your dinner off the floor. That's when you meet each other for the first time, when you have nothing " Danny O'Donoghue of The Script

My favorite blog

http://thepioneerwoman.com/

The blog was introduced by Audrey, it was really a cool blog for a housewife. It makes me wonder can my life be so enriched like her after married?

i will come with my list of intangible soon....

201210 ROM Photo stream

Thanks to Nana for the great photo stream!

decrypt me! (my name)

Wedding and some of my thoughts

Am shopping for a good photographer for my wedding day now. And for some reason i thought of KL and eve's wedding photographer- Dennis Yap. A bit of google search and i've landed with his site with the blog entry of the newly wed's wedding photo shoot 2 months ago. Click here to view.

In his entry, he commented "It may seemed a little dull if a wedding is a plain process without any emotional elements." which kinda caught me in surprise, i wasnt aware that he viewed the entire process in such a way. I was acting the busy bridesmaid on the day, so it was only normal that i didnt really know how did the outsiders (those who are not directly involved in the wedding process) felt or responded towards the whole event. Did they enjoyed it though its a christian wedding? Do they felt that they were part of the celebration? do they felt like a mere observer rather than a participant? or do they felt out of place with all the 'ritual' and proceedings of a christian wedding?

The busy bridesmaid: Sam, SH and myself

The experience of being bridesmaid (not once but twice!) had taught me 1 thing, that most of the brides just wanna get it done and over during the BIG day. The planning process was tedious and the actual day was pretty much tiring and exhaustive. Imagine wearing the makeup and the long gown the whole day, while wearing the smile and suck in your stomach the whole time so that you look like miss universe at all time under the flashes of the camera.

I think it looks glamor from the outside but sometimes its not really a pretty enjoyable experience for the wedding couple.

For some reason, it kinda makes me wonder would the invitees who came felt the same way too? Of course we all want to be there to give our blessing to the couple, but do all of us actually enjoyed the process or felt that its an obligation?

In my heart i had always wished my wedding is just a small exclusive party for those who we love. A nice little restaurant with afternoon tea and lots of cupcakes, people going around chatting with each other, people giving toast and telling funny stories of us, some may want to sing a song or two. Just a casual afternoon hang out with lots of laughter.

Since when we have all succumb to the stereotypical wedding whereby BIG church and BIG crowd and BIG 8 course chinese dinner reception are a must.

Anyway, just my little ramblings on a very dull afternoon in an empty office (how come everyone is still in holiday!!!). I will post my ROM photos stream in my next blog. Its password protected so please do send me an email if you want to view it! ;)

For your eyes only

All my friends were bugging me for ROM photos. The thing is I DONT HAVE IT!!!! Well, you cant expect the bride dressing in white going around taking photos with DSLR hanging on her neck right? Anyway, my dear bride maid managed to sent me some from her iphone this morning, all the way from Singapore. Being a iPhone newbie, all her photos were ..... hmmm .... lets say if i have a restless leg syndrome, she had the same for her hand k.

hahaha... Jv dont be angry at me. Am so glad you are there with me that day.

To curb your curiosity, am uploading two of the best quality here.

Us, holding the marriage cert like those secondary school kids attending graduation ceremony

Lunch at Saisaki, Hannah, myself, daddy and jv

Anyway, thats all. To all the gu-po gang, Hannah will upload all the photos onto FB for your KIND viewing and comment. Ironically, yesterday i was lectured by a 6 years old (my future flower gal) that "Daddy told me we shouldnt upload private pictures on Facebook" LOL

husband sounds foreign to me

Yeah, i guess the title said it all. Am having trouble to acknowledge the fact that i have a husband now. Yesterday when we sent the car for service, Peter referred the car as "my wife's car" and for some weird reason, i started to smile nervously to the service counter lady, as though i need to act 'normal' so that i do look like a wife.

If you asked me how i felt about being legally married, my answer is "its kinda weird". In my heart i know something is different, yet life still went on as usual. All the hard works in physical (buying clothes, booking of restaurant) and emotional preparations, finally came the ROM ceremony, and then the whole event went passed in the speed of light ..... welcome everyone, lots of hugs, snapping photos, ceremony starts, signing of the certificates, the registrar was overly enthusiastic, congratulation wishes, more hugs, more photo snapping, food, chatting around, more food, final hugs and many goodbye .....

Yesterday morning it marked the end of the entire process when i've finally sent my dad off to LCCT at 5am. After drove back home, I crawled into my bed and slept again for another few hours before i was woke up by the alarm. The moment i opened my eyes, it slowly dawned to me that i'm lying in the same room, enjoying the same quiet tranquility of the morning like any other morning (my home felt much crowded with the mere presence of my dad for the past few days), wondering what to do for the rest of the day. And i felt that i am myself again, as though this is THE real life and the past few days was just a long long dream.

Its really weird.

This whole thing of bearing a new identity as someone's else wife but the life still going on the same is totally weird.

I think it will be long long time before i can get used to it.

10 days to go

Last night i was trying out the white dress and white heels just to ensure that it still fits. And it suddenly dawned on me that its only 10 days to go... FREAKING 10 days! Can you imagine that? 7 years of relationship will be finally concluded on a piece of legal paper.

yeah, its kinda freaks me out now.

Birthday at The Daily Grind

Not my birthday by the way. Its Peter's. And i'd mistakenly wished him one year older than his actual age which pissed him off, lol. Anyway, the Daily Grind is a great place for late evening hangouts and BURGERS. For gourmet lover like me, its heaven.

We had big plate of garlic chicken with fresh salad as appertizer. It was pretty good. Apart from the combination of the nicely grilled garlic chicken and garden salads like the lettuce, olives, it also comes together with the croutons, cheek peas and walnuts slices.

Garden salad with garlic chicken, RM18

Our mains consists of 2 types of burger, mine was down from the farm burger (RM33) and Peter chosen a non conventional Tokyo burger.

My burger set comes with burger with beef patty (bbq sauce), some onion rings, big fat grench fries, corn bun and fresh salads. The burger was nicely done, but i think it taste kinda mild. I was expecting some sort of kick with the cowboys on the horse trampling through my taste buds.

Peter's Tokyo burger (RM30) has a softshell crab lying between the buns, at first i thought the beef patty must be lying underneath the crab or playing hide and seek with me. but after numerous attempt of search, there is no beef patty at all! its just a big fat softshell crab! The wasabi sauce was great but the taste reminded me the Softshell crab Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancakes) from Zanmai Sushi. It wasn't bad, but it wasnt extremely good either. Just different i guess.

After the dinner, we went to walk around Bangsar and i bought the series of The diary of the whimpy kids for him as present. I don't know if you have this quite disgusting habit, but I think its a good crapping book. Seriously, i mean it literally, its a good book to read when you are crapping in the toilet. Peter does it, me too, as well as my brother. I remember my brother used to put all his book in this old bathtub beside the toilet bowl which we never used in my parent's master bedroom toilets. The books slowly mounting up and fill up the whole bath tub and everytime i need a book from my brother, we will have to dive into the bath tub to search for it.

Anyway, come back to the birthday topic, it was a good and relaxing evening. We were listening to the newest album of The Script while we were driving back. There is this particular songs which is really cool. The singer song writer wrote the song after an argument with his wife on the fact whether love is part of a scientific process of evolution or its purely a faith.

Science and Faith

Tried to break her to a science in an act of good defiance
I broke her heart (I broke her heart)
There’s a pull up on her theories
there’s a watch her growing weary
I broke her heart (I broke her heart)

Having heavy conversations about the frivolous
Constellations of our souls oooooh
We’re just trying to find some meaning in the things that we believe in
But we got some ways to go.

Of all of the things that she’s ever said
She goes and says something that just knocks me dead.

Chorus
You won’t find faith or hope down a telescope
You won’t find heart and soul in the stars
You can break everything, got the chemicals
But you can’t explain a love like ours.

Its the way we feel, yeah this is real
Its the way we feel, yeah this is real

I tried pushing evolution as the obvious conclusion of the start
Anekatips hmmm .. it was all my own amusement
Saying love was an illusion of a hopeless heart

Of all of the things that she’s ever said
She goes and says something that knocks me dead.

Anyway, thats the topic for my next post. Science and Faith. Stay tuned

Xian

Its a slang for boring by the way.

Life has been pretty mundane actually. Everyday is the same as yesterday, work, gym, watching downloaded drama series, weekend, gym, movie, dinner ....

Moving out/in and renovating the house has keep me occupied for a few months. Now, am slowly getting used to living alone (which is one of the best thing happen in my life!!), and since the excitement of moving in finally wear off, its kinda xian when everyday falls back to the same routine. It even felt like the empty pages in New Moon whereby Stephenie Myres had left it blank purposely to indicate how mundane Bella's life was after Edward left.

However, one thing which was constantly good even during these predictable days is my book reading. In fact, since i have move in 3 months ago, i have finished reading more than 10 books.

1. Sookie stakehouse series (book 1-9) by Charlaine Harris

I have a good time reading this. During those night when my adrenaline runs high, i will read 4 hours consecutively until my brain went numb. Its about this cheeky telepathic waitress named Sookie Stakehouse whom encountered all sort of adventures in the world of supernaturals (Vampires, warewolves, witches, fairies etc.). I love her spirits and agility. Am anxiously waiting for the tenth book "dead in the family" to be released now.

2. When God writes your love story by Eric and Leslie Ludy

Its a christian contemporary books on dating guide, its kinda 'mild' for me if you know what i'm saying, but i love the part whereby there are a sort of dialogue between male (Eric) and female (Leslie) which shows different perspective towards topics related to love.

3. Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

It was a book whereby it took me a few nights just to get through first few chapters. Not because its bad, but because of the fact that the words was so real it sends shivers through my spines. Its about a 14-year-old girl named Susie Salmon who narrates the story from heaven after she is raped and murdered on her way home from school. As the girl adjusts in her own heaven, she watches her family members as they try to recover from the feelings of despair that have invaded their everyday lives after her death.

I have scenes and images running through my mind as though i am going through it myself since the book is written from the narration of the victim herself.

"We lay there as I shook, a powerful knowledge took hold. He had done this thing to me and I had lived. That was all. I was still breathing. I heard his heart. I smelled his breath. The dark earth surrounding us smelled like what it was, moist dirt where worms and animals lived their daily lives. I could have yelled for hours. I knew he was going to kill me. I did not realize then that I was an animal already dying..."

Reading this took me another 3 day before i can pick up the book again.

And no, i have yet to finish the book.

4. Vampire diaries series by LJ Smith
I know, i know. You will think that now i am a vampire fan or what (come to think about it, i finished all the twilight series, sookie stakehouse series and vampire diaries, cheesy..), actually i do like the thought of having the supernaturals co exist with human, it never occur to me that romance between two species (do you call it species?) can be quite addictive to read. Anyway, the story focus on Elena, a human who was turn to vampire by two vampire brothers, and her after life in a small town named Fells church. Anyway, it was interesting but too teenage-ish, like Sookie series, it focus alot on killings and blood sheds with a twist of romance in between, but somewhat less realistic compare to the former.

Anyway, anyone wanna join my book club?

Life as a busy bee

Hello my fellow earthlings!

It has been 2 weeks since my disappearance from the surface of the earth, and yes i have been buzzing around working my a** off for the company (even throughout weekends!!!) like a busy bee. Finally, sweet finally, i have landed on the solid ground and able to be myself again.

Just to show you how hard i've worked, my colleague said that i am emitting a scary aura like a sunray effect

My friend used to told me that the number of my blog entries i've posted is the indication of my status of either being free or busy. Well, by now you would have realized its a case of inversely proportional, whereby the more free time i have (and therefore the happier i am), the productivity increases i.e. the number of published posts increases.

Pardon for my absence and here comes the snippets of what i've done for the past 2 weeks.

1. Finished and submitted my 12 page IP assignment and i am one step closer of getting my Professional IP Manager cert!

2. Tried currywurst, Swedish Pork Sausage, German Prok Knuckle (which was a BIG let down) with Peter and my brother in law at Weissbräu, Pavillion.

Sausage sausage and more SAUSAGE!

3. Bought my wedding gown! (yeah i've mentioned that in my previous post)

4. Tried the food at Barbarillos near to Wangsa walk (which tempted me so much everytime i passed by the restaurant after my gym session), and unfortunately it's kinda sucks.

Upper: Nasi cordero (Garlic fried rice with grilled lamb in somekind of Tandori sauce) RM 18.90, Bottom: Cheeseburger (with fried pouch egg sitting on top of the beef patty, which is kind of funny, anyway its tastless) RM20.90.

5. Bought a big oak color bookshelf, which is now residing happily in the study room housing my TONS of books.

6.Invited my fellow homemakers to my home for dinner and monthly meeting. And guess what, although its pretty bare, but they like our home! Especially my lovely bathroom and study room. Wuahahaha ...


So here comes the things i am gonna do next, since i am finally free and i need to really compensate myself for all the hardworks for the past 2 weeks.

1. Bought ticket for Peter Pan musical (showing at Sunway Lagoon), am going to the Neverland!

2. I want to watch MEGAMIND! Am so impressed with the trailer and the non conventional storyline. Anyone willing to accompany this poor lady for a movie?

*pleasssseeeeeee*

wedding gown

Bought my wedding gown, wuahahahahah... Thanks to my dear, my bridesmaid and Hannah accompanying me running around to tryout the gowns. By the way, i bought the gown in just 1 hour, which nearly made all of them dropped their jaws. I even forgot to bargain until Hannah reminded me. I think Peter is super lucky to have such a no fussy lady to become his wife. *wink*

I will post some picture of the gown (without the bride of course), soon. ( or maybe i shouldnt, thats make it more exciting isnt it. THE WAITING GAME). well, at least you can check out @ http://atleast1.wordpress.com/. And don't guess, cuz my gown is not published on the website. The owner Miss Eka is a super sweet lady, i'm greatly charmed by her friendliness and courtesy.

Anyway, busy busy week. will come back to blogphere soon. till then.

The study room

Am grinding and squeezing my grey matter over the past whole week trying to to figure out how to decorate my study room. (So now you know that my 2nd favourite room after the bathroom is the study room).

It wasnt a big room to start off with, hence am mighty careful in trying to get the combination of right furniture in order to make it functional yet without choking up all the spaces. Well, the study room serves 3 functions:

1. To accommodate my tons of books and Peter's tons of books, which makes MANY tons of books. Hence a big bookshelf is a must.

2. A nice sofa bed where i can continue to spoil my eye sight by lying down and read my books leisurely. The sofa should also serve as a bed in case my girls decides to stay over for a pajamas party.

3. A good computer table set to accommodate Peter's computer and it should be mighty comfortable that even after he spends hours playing with his darling MMORPG (not me), he wont develop any backache and will still be sober enough to spend time with his darling (that's me)

My thought was having a bookshelf with an attached desk initially in order to maximise the space. And i love the design on the right as the bookshelf blends literally into the wall. However, after surveying through quite a few furniture shops, i have no choice but to abandon the idea. The standard bookshelf-table set which was offered by the shops was too much of office feel to my liking. Custom made is not an option unless you are willing to burn a hole right through your pocket. In the end, i'm placing an order for a simple 5 rows X 3 columns bookshelf without the attached desk.

On the bright side, the sofa bed was finally delivered last Saturday, and it looks exactly what i want. It was sturdy and comfortable and the brown color match well with the Picasso walnut laminated floor.

No picture still, cuz i want to present the entire study room as a whole when the room is finally complete. Finger cross that i'll get it done fast to reveal the final look!

For my sisters

Last Tuesday night was the night of farewell, as well as the night of reminiscence. My soon to be brides maid found her dream job in Singapore so there she goes, "all her bags are packed and she is ready to go... cuz she's leaving on a jetplane, dont know when she'll be back again..."

okok, cut the emo crap. Sincerely, am happy for her, from the bottom of my heart. She had always yearned to go back to research job and after taking such a BIG step of faith by submitting a resignation letter on her current post without any secured job offer in place, she deserve it 100%. However, it still make me sad somehow to know that now she will be in some faraway merlion roaring land at 300++km away. Although i know she is a lady of her own now, but for some reason, we just cant stop worry about her (dont you feel the same, ky?). Will she get along with new housemates? will she fit into the new church? will there be a lot of work pressure in Singapore? I think no matter how old she is, she is still our dear mong-cha-cha sister.

When i'm slowly getting to accept the news of her soon departure, i heard another news that supposedly-my-other-bridesmaid-if-she-is-around-in-KL went through a very tough time in UK. Maybe its the fact that she had always took the extra effort to fly back and spend time with us as often as possible, i'd always felt that she is somewhat in vicinity (although physically she is not). However, after the online chat with her that day, it began to dawn on me that we are actually very very far away from each other, and though my heart ached for her, and no matter how much i wanted to give her a hug or even just to be close to her, it is physically impossible.

Sometimes i just cant belive that it has been 4 solid years since we waved goodbye to the little house we shared in albany road, Kensington. Those happy and wonderful moments are simply too short. We were still very young and dont know much about the reality of life (especially the working life), and the only thing we worried about is eat, play and sleep!

It has been a long journey since then. We have found our job, settled in a new church, visited more places, expanded our circles of friends dadada... And frankly we are walking on different paths now, and maybe even towards different direction. However, i know we will always keep each other close to our heart, and no matter where we are and what we are doing, we will always have faith in each other, and doing our best in our position and in our life.

So, til we meet again!

Finally.....

Finally...

training was done and over. A class photo, couple glass of sparkling juice, warm good byes and best wishes, that marks the end of journey for IP manager training.

Anyway, time flies relatively faster in the time of busy. A few months ago we are still talking about the preparation for Eve and KL's wedding. In the blink of an eye, its done and over. Many funny and memorable incidents happened during the process and i am sure all of us will cherish the memory for a long long time. The endless walking up and down the isle during the rehearsal; the midnight decoration of the gazeebo for the garden wedding; the "chip san neong" session; the song presentation (which we forgot to turn on the mic) during the dinner reception and etc. Those may not be very significant events, however, it was the little things which made the memories even fonder.

To the dear newly wed couple, am so glad you guys had finally tied the knot, all the best to your marriege life! ;)

And the life goes on

I know its been a while since the last time i've updated the blog.... well, it will be more than just 'a while' before the next post come.

Am extremely busy for the past 1-2 weeks. The thing is i need to spent like 3 days a week for 3 weeks to get myself certified as an IP Manager. I will talk more about this in my subsequent posts. Imagine the amount of work pile up after being absence for so many days. On top of that, i have assignments which involves me visiting MyIPO office, presentation, literature review on topics such as IP valuation. And man, it has been 4 years since i've attended classroom lectures for more than 8 hours in a row, and to make it worse, its not even science related. Strategic planning, product valuation blah blah... All the formulas and financial models such as DCF, cost replacement, Monte Carlo Simulation are really getting on my nerves.

And you know what, once i've been certified, i need to start to implement IP institutionally, according to my dear boss, its my KPI. Damn, who invented this whole KPI thingy! (I do know the person who popularize it in our country though, dear PM, thanks ya! (-___-)

Well, i have another 4 days of training to go next week and two assignments are due next month. The flooring contractor is coming to work on our bedroom's laminate floor this Friday. And i'm going to be a bridesmaid again this sat!

Am pretty much overwhelm by all the works now. so do pardon me for being gibberish.

On choosing best man and bridesmaid

Peter and I had a 'constructive debate' a few days ago when we talked about choosing our bridesmaid and best men. For me its a no-brainer exercise, the numbers of girlfriends i have can be counted by fingers, minus out those who are not in Malaysia (yes, thats you, ky), who had already/going to get married, obviously the only one who is available is Jv (Hahahaha, am joking Jv, please don't be mad and ditch me on the aisle, you are the first one came into my mind when i thought about my bridesmaid).

So, mission accomplished.

Peter's part was a bit more complicated. Apparently he got three candidates. His first choice was our matchmaker, the second one is his yum char kaki and third one is his ex college mate. It was a long discussion, whether this person is a better candidate compare to the other person, whether will he felt obliged if we asked, or maybe he will be too busy to do this etc. Well, i must said its funny to see the way Peter do his mental calculation over this.

Anyway, my point is how come i can choose my bridesmaid as easy as pie, but its a hell lot difficult to choose the best man.

I think women and men are really earth and sky, when i asked my girlfriend whether she want to become my bridesmaid or not, she was smiling like a chesire cat and 100 times more excited than the bride herself. But for guys, guys are just COOL about it, cool like ice lemon tea (insider joke). They wont send you "100 guides to wedding".pdf during office hour, they are not concern about the color theme of the wedding, they dont asked whether have you started any facial treatment or not.

*At this point, Peter was protesting loudly: "Imagine if my best man come and ask me: 'bro, what can i do for you, blah blah blah... OMG i am so excited!". Well, the thought of THAT gives him goosebumps all over.

So i went googled, and found out there are so many guides on how to choose a best man. So here comes the checklist:

1. Would he be happy to accept the duty
2. Does he have the ability and enthusiasm to carry out the detailed talk of organizing the event.
3. Can he make a speech to a large group of people?
4. Is he quick to deal with any emergency? Can he handle any slip ups that may occur
5. Can you rely on him to safeguard the ring, will he remember where he kept them?
6. Does he get along well with the bride?
7. Is he available to take part in the ceremony? does he have time to help in the pre planning?

I was laughing my heads off when i saw point 5. its hilarious. I think i should i ask this questions to Peter's best man.

The living room

As promised, here comes the photos.

This is my favorite spot at the living room-the single sofa seater which facing the wide open balcony. Since our apartment is on the highest floor so we really do have a good view. It was nearly 5pm when the workers moved in the last piece of the sofa, and i remember well the satisfaction feeling i had when i sit on the sofa, having the wide view opened before me.

If you compare this against the before-renovation living room. My oh my, i have to say boy we have came a long way.

The marble floor had been polished, new marble skirting (it cost a bomb!), the plaster ceiling was up, new fan, new balcony tiles, new paints, AND.... the seagrass sofa set!

If you notice the striking green wall along the corridor, well, that's the feature wall which we intend to create. However, things didn't turn out well as it happened to be too green to our taste.

In fact i have re-painted one side of the green wall back to lavender white, (It will be good if i can have the song by Celine dion "All by myself" as background now....), which tone down quite a bit of the greens. However, its far from satisfaction and there is still a lot of interior deco to do. Maybe some picture hanging along the corridor will do the trick.

Anyway, that's it for time being. And yes Kim, no house warming yet as the place is far from ready and all other rooms are still empty ;)

Gibberish

I felt gibberish today...

I don't have my phone with me the whole day, and i felt totally disabled. I have to come out with some lousy excuse whenever client told me "i called you just now, you didnt pick up the phone!".

Signal reception issue, very bad one...

Thats my standard answer. (And yes, I know its not making sense at all). But it strikes me that nowadays we are relying so much on all these digital gadget and communication tool as though our life depends on it. Take away my computer and i wont be able to work for the whole day.

I wonder how the old generation can stand the long turnaround of snail mail.

I wonder how can i live through life without a handphone as a teenager.

A good thing to ponder indeed.

...........

My body is aching all over today, i bought a new curtain for my temporary guest-room-turn-bedroom yesterday at iKEA. The no-curtain-bare-window is really getting on my nerve as the wide open window makes me felt vulnerable as though i've been watched all the time.

i was climbing high and low to put on my new curtain rods, iron the curtain and hang the curtains. The day before i had re painted one side of the green wall to lavender white. Now i really cant survive without the 5 steps ladder.

I wanted to show the photos i've taken for the new curtain and new sofa, but heck, i dont have my camera phone with me today.

.............

which bring me back to the same question, i wonder how people can survive without having a handphone.

The chasing game

What will you do if someone 'carded' you?

That's the million dollar question which i read from the "lifestyle" section, Star newspaper last week. Cheek'd is the new dating gimmicks in town. Stranger coyly slip business card with cheeky message such as "feel free to stalk me", "i dare you" to those who catch their eye. The receiver will go to the networking website and check on the fella's profile/contacts and if you feel up to it, wallah! you have a date!

If you feel totally lost, don't sweat, cuz i felt the same. And that's not all, i came across September social and Skout the other day, and was totally taken aback by revolution of the act called "dating". Apply for a date through blog? location based iphone mobile dating apps which allow you to detect singles within 0.5 mile radius? Frankly, it was really an eye opener for me (maybe i am really from STONE age). I didn't now that dating had become so sophisticated nowadays. People are taking advantage of the new media technology and social networking to the maximum and the normal rules of engagement which used to apply to the previous generation (like me!) has somewhat became invalid.

Although i am not that old, but during my days (which is like 6-7 years ago), the entire dating process was very much depended on physical (not virtual) interaction, i.e. he/she is either your friend/classmates/churchmate OR your brother's friends OR your friend's friend (thats how i met Peter, hahaha... ) etc. and the modus operandi is always the same: exchange glance, show interest, sms/chatting online, finding excuse to ditch the rest of the friends and go out alone with him/her, more sms (maybe in tons), and finally comes the peak of the entire process, which is the love confession, its either a face to face "Will-you-be-my-girlfriend?" or a 10 page love letter which quoting all the lyrics from the love song you heard before.

Maybe i am the dinosaur here, but i still think that nothing can beat the feeling of a guy asking a girl out the old school way. If i am still unattached now, i probably end up being single forever, cuz i dont think i can keep up with the dating-pace of this generation. It seems as though they are simply making new rules as they go, wait.... is there any rules at all?

I asked Peter once whether did it ever crossed his mind that he may want to have a new girlfriend (you know 6 years is not short so he might getting itchy or start to develop wandering eyes syndrome). His answer was a firm "no", and here comes the reason: He is too lazy to go through the chasing and flirting game (a.k.a guy go all out playing Romeo, girl playing hard to get) all over again.

Priceless.

I think we are really made for each other.

My first 'house warming' present

I was drowned in joy when i saw the surprise present peter bought for me the 1st day i moved into the new place. He was greatly amused by the half dreamy half stupid (i-cant-believe-you-secretly-bought-for-me-this) smile which i carried for the rest of the day.

"This is for you to kill your time in case you felt boring in your new place", said Peter.

Behold, Charlaine Harris's True Blood series (7 books)!

Boy how i LOVE the present! and within 2 days, i had finished the 3rd book " Club dead". Yeah, i kill not just free time, but A LOT of time by reading it.

Well, i owned another copy of the first 2 books, if there is any interested takers, i'm wiling to let go my old ones half the price i bought. ;)

Am starting on the 4th book tonight-Dead to the world (yay!). Eric Northman is having memory lost and Sookie will find him hard to resist.... Ignore my gibberish, am still in hyper mood.