We are all visual animals

Kinda miss my long hair, now its short and hmmm well...... short.

Am looking at this photo we took in Singapore last christmas, and miss my long hair dearly.

A few days a go, my boss was looking at my face for quite a while (nearly caused me a nervous breakdown k) and said: "Susan you cut your hair is it?" Surprise, surprise, that was quite unexpected. Well, i admit that i am fairly diligent when it comes to work, but i am far from being a star performer or his favorite employee, and to be frank our usual scope of conversation only limited to work related topics, so its kinda surprise when he suddenly commented on my outlooks.

That reminds me of another incident happened last weekend.

I am shopping around with Peter when he saw this girl with long curly hair and very short STRAIGHT fringe, like those typical college girl who try to imitate the Japanese 'kawaii' style or babydoll look. And he asked me what i think about that kinda of hair style, well, i told him its nice but wouldnt suit me cuz my hair can never be that fluffy unless i did hair extension. The conversation ended there cuz i am least interest in discussing about another person hair (especially when it reminds me of the Beatles's hairstyle in the good old days).

Anyway, it makes me ponder, human is such a visual animal, arent we? We can spot the difference of a person's external appearance in a short glance. Whether he/she become chubbier, hair shorter/longer, bigger pores, more freckles, heavier makeup etc. and whether you like it or not, sometimes the first impression do last, especially those with a more visual appealing features. Majority of us have the habit of seeing a person and make snap judgments about them.

"She looks like a bimbo, probably she is the ah lien type"
"He looks nerdy with the uncle shirt"
"Why he still wear the cute T-shirt when he is already in 30s"....

Hundreds of thoughts running through our minds every minute and probably 80% of it is ignited by visual perception. If you are truthful to yourself you will be surprise to find out how critical / judgmental our mind is towards other people's external appearance. Well, of course most of the thoughts left unspoken.

We all know inside matters more than outside, no argument there but how many people you know putting an effort or have the luxury of getting to know the inside before they see the outside?

The fact is that we all like beautiful faces and figures. The 'favor for beauty' operates in almost all social situations, its a deep rooted belief and potraited even in the fairy tales, i.e. princess is always beautiful and the witch/stepsister are always ugly. I am guilty as well because i like Daniel Wu and loves to apply black eye liner. And is this something to be ashamed of? maybe not. Most of us are obsess about our external than what we would admit, who doesnt want to look in their best everyday? But one thing i am constantly reminding myself is that God looks beyond the appearance, at the heart. I am sure if the inside is beautiful, the outside will take care of itself.

My Spiritual cleansing-Nasi Lemak and Hugh Fearnley

My morning usually starts early, by 715 a.m. i will be reaching my office at MINES Waterfront Business Park. I love taking the slow walk from the MINES Car Park to my office which cut through the MINES lake. The lake used to be the world's largest open-cast tin mine, but amazingly it was turned into one of the most luxurious area in Malaysia, with its own resort, golf course, shopping malls, business park, convention centre, expensive and exclusive (secluded) residential area (where Tun Mahathir and CEO of Nirvana, Sapura live).

Anyway, the green roof building is where my office is. I wished i could take a fish eye shot of the scenery, however this is all i can offer considering i am shooting with my 2.0 megapixel phone camera. Plus, i better stopped this before the guard get suspicious over the lady in a formal business suit scouting around in a funny gesture taking photos with her camera phone.

My friends always asked me how come i have time for blogging when my workload is humongous. Well, the 1 and a half hours before the actual work start at 9am is my breakfast cum bible/book/newspaper reading cum email checking cum blogging time. The fact that having some quiet time for myself before a busy work day started always settles me emotionally. Its like going through a religious equivalent spiritual cleansing process, whereby my mind subconsciously preparing herself before indulging into the hectic work and endless business meetings for the rest of day.

So here comes the best part of today, a great book-Hugh Fearnley "Fearlessly Eats it all" and a pack of yummy Nasi Lemak for my spiritual cleansing moment. LOL, and the funny thing is coincidently the title of the book just matching the food. Here comes Susan's Word of wisdom for the day:

"Fearlessly eats the Nasi lemak, although it will gained you another one hour of aerobic to burn off the calories!"

I promised i will love you till the very end

Peter has two children, one girl and one boy. For them, he is the best daddy in the whole world. I never see him adores anyone else the way he adores them. He spent time with them, playing with them, hugging them whenever he can, and he always like to ask for 'kiss kiss' (in a very manja voice) ;p

I cant called myself their mummy cuz they already have a mom, who is also Peter's mom. Well, i dont care too much about the title, as long as they are also mine, my dear dear doggies.

tata... this is Miko, she is an old lady, 12 years old, in dog's years, she would be 7X12= 84 years old (even older than my grandma), a mixed terrier. Her name Miko was given by peter after pondered for days and nights, initially he wanted to give her a sophisticated Japanese name curtesy of a Japanese Princess named Yumiko something. However, since dog can only recognised few vowels, so it was gradually changed to Miko.

Miko have a strong character (maybe thats why we clicked so well). She loves when people scratch her belly. In approval, she will brush her leg on my hand when i do that to her. She get irritated easily when cat is around and she catches rat too! She follows me whenever i go and love to jump on and off my bed at night. However, dont get cheated by her cute figure, she is actually very fierce and will turn into a lioness when it comes to two things that she hated the most, grooming and bathing. She has a secret hideouts underneath the chair whereby every Saturday morning she will go disappear to avoid the weekly bath. Its amazing that how she know exactly when is Saturday and when is not.

This is Kui Kui and is 11 years old, he is from the same parents as Miko but a different litter, so they are biological brother and sister. Maybe due to the fact he was nuted at a very young age, so mentally he stay like young boy although he is physically matured, he is a mommy boy and he loves people carry and cuddle him. A year ago, he had underwent an operation to removes a small lumps in his neck and thats why he is wearing the head cone. But arent he looks cute with the cone on? reminds me of 伞蜥蜴. hehehe...


Peter and I love dogs, and we love watching dogs themed movie as well. Recently we went to watch a Japanse movie called "10 Promises to my dogs"about the story of a young girl called Akari and her dog, socks. Akari's mom made her to promise to obey the 10 commandments if she wanted to keep a dog. The story of the two started when the mom passed away and as years after years, they accompany each other through the growing days. However, the depiction of their relationship is quite ordinary in every way, just like you and me, with our doggie, in our everyday life, and thats why it felt dearer and closer to the viewer heart i guess.

Anyway, the 10 commandments are:

1. Listen patiently to what I have to say
2. Trust me, I am always on your side
3. Play with me a lot
4. Don't forget that I have feelings too
5. Let's never fight, someday I'll win
6. If I don't obey you, I have a good reason
7. You have school and friends, but as for me, I only have you
8. Stay my best friend, even when I'm old.
9. I'll live for about 10 years, so let's make every moment count.
10. Never forget our time together, keep this in your mind. So when my time comes, please be by my side.

Peter and i both love the movie, it reminds us to spend more time with our doggie cuz for them, we are all they had and their time is ticking faster as each day passed by. To an extent, thats the biggest fear i had when it comes to keeping a dog, cuz their life span is so much shorter than human, and there will be a day when we had to say good bye to them. In fact, i heard alot of people said they will never keep another pet after went through the heart breaks for putting their pet to sleep.

Am still dunno how to face it when the day come, but for today, i wanted to live out my one and only promise to them.

"I Promised i will love you till the very end"