Short Chapters in Life

It has been almost 1 and half years since I blogged. So many things had happened and in another four months 2011 will end. I want to be more happy, contented and grateful with what is going to happen, soon to happen and will happen.

A glance at what things that had happened:-

1. I had been in and out of the job
2. I had registered and officially becoming someone's wife, daughter in law and sister in law
3. I had become a private tutor full time and now turning back to part time up to now
4. I had find myself a job and been working since then
5. I had been to Hokkaido, Japan with the co for a week during the winter 2010
6. I had been to Seoul, South Korea for a week to visit the husband

Is that a lot for 1 and half a year.. nope I don't think so.

My Book List

I am sure most of you have heard of BBC’s must read book list. It seems that the average person would have read 6 out of the 100 listed books below. The red highlighted are those that I have not read. Those that I had watched, I will consider read too!! Ha Ha.. Cheat!

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (I watched the movie)
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling (I watched the movie)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee ( I read halfway and I never got to continue it)
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (Finally, a book that I had read and I forgotten what's it about)
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens ( I forgot about the content too!)
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (I read this too, one of my favourites!)
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling (I watched the movie)
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling (I watched the movie)
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling (I watched the movie)
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (I watched the cartoon)
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery ( I watched this, one of my fav!)
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (I thk I had watched this)
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden (I watched this)
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dicken
s64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding (I watched this)
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot (I watched this)
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie


Look like I watched movie more than I read... haha. How about you?

Something Cute

I am not the usual me nowadays.. I have been doing a lot of stuffs out of the ordinary which I don't do usually.


Eg. I won't be tempted to buy any cutie stuffs sold in the market but this time I did.


I bought something very cute during my visit to the night market last saturday.


Ta daaa!!!









Cute little pumpkin, bunny rabbit and porcupine bun. Each contain custard, lotus paste and pandan leave paste...


Ordinary taste but I bought it because it's cute....


Cute or not??

Tactical Meeting

It's the tactical meeting for all the sales and marketing personnel in Unilever. The whole theme is military holding on to the believe 'Command and Conquer'. To me, it's more of fire fighting internally rather than fire fighting in the battlefield among the other competitors. Sad isn't it spending the time and effort among one another rather than focusing on enemy.

Lunch time moment! My colleagues and me

The whole group with military attire. For the marketing dept, it's FBI. In full, it's follow boss's instruction!! So obedient!

1st day of work!

I started work on the 1st of April, yeap it was April Fool's Day.

Guess what, my new colleagues pull a prank on me by calling each other different names. I only realised it after lunch...

Another thing was, they placed 3 bets on me... 1st will I be wearing pants or skirt, the second was how old am I and the last one is am I single or married... Some win and some looses....

Haha... wacky colleagues I have here... overstressed I guess.

Trying

This is what I found from the net:-

7 Habits of People Losing Weights and Keeping It OFF Permanently!


1) Expect failure, but keep trying
I'm still trying...

2) Don't deny yourself
I'm not denying

3) Weigh yourself often
I'm doing this right!!

4) Exercise regularly
If only my heart listen to my head...

5) Find ways to add little bits of physical activity into your daily routine
Still trying too...

6) Eat a high carbohydrate, low fat diet
Am trying very hard...

7) Eat about five meals a day starting with breakfast
hmmm.. not much time though............

- from "CNN Presents: Fat Chance" based on research by Dr. Jim Hill, Director, Center for Human Nutrition, University of Colorado


Well, what can I say. I'm trying!

March babies

I received many forwarded emails and this is one of it.


March Babies
Attractive personality.
Sexy.
Affectionate Shy and reserved.
Secretive.
Naturally honest, generous and sympathetic.
Loves peace and serenity.
Sensitive to others.
Great kisser.
Easily angered.
Trustworthy.
Appreciative and returns kindness.
Hardly shows emotions.
Tends to bottle up feelings.
Observant and assesses others.

So true..............

c'est la vie!

Life can be very cruel.
Life can be very unfair.
Life can treat you badly.
C'est la vie!

Well, to some people it has been a bed of roses, they just had the lady of luck by their side taking things for granted...

For instance, my sis had been very lucky on her career path. After graduating with a master certificate, she had been offered a job in Klang working with a public listed company. I would said her pay was good among her friends who had same qualification and studying the same course. They are getting much lower then what she is getting. Every year, the company had given her at least 4 months bonus every year and yet she complaints! Never in my life, throughout 11 years of working never... Let me said this again, I NEVER received a 4 months bonus... well, ....

Now, she got another offer, eventhough is this dark and gloomy economy, mind you... yes, she got a better offer and yet higher paid salary.. The other day, the hr from her new company, just called and said they are offering RM300 higher then what they are offering her before.... I was like WTF!!!

What can I said? She is just damn lucky lady. I'm not envious of her, happy for her the matter of fact..

Guess what, her boyfriend had also just been offered another j0b with higher salary and better future...

Her bf got!! She also got!! Why I don't have?!?!?!? I want it too!!!!!

Life is so unfair... Well, that's life babe!

no longer virgin

With this title, I strongly believe that more perverts and strangers are lurking around this blog. Why, cause the statement itself caused a lot of peeps to be curious.

I reserved a session of brazilian wax and IPL (Intense Pulse Lightning) for both myself and a friend of mine to Strip, Curve on Sat eve of CNY's eve. Brazilian wax is a type of hair removing method for the unseen area. In this case, it will be 'the muff'. IPL is another permanent method electric current is used to destroy the hair pores. Brazilian wax take about 30 - 35 mins and IPL is about 15 mins. So my friend went in for her session while I'm looking around the shop. It's made out of carton box material for the wall with a cement floor. Very bare and interesting industrial concept for a shop like this.

My name was called, and the strip therapist lead me to a room.

She said, "Remove your pants and panty". She is a lot friendlier then what I'm trying to portray here.

She left the room. Obediently I followed her instruction and laid on the bed covered myself.

She showed me a packet of personal hygiene wax pack, where the Stripette ( that's what they call their customers) will have their personal wax pack containing some cottom buds and some waxs strips to use. It's individual packed for hygiene purposes.

After examined my muff she said, "It's too short to have brazillian wax. Furthermore, you had been shaving and when you wax it will give you a slight pain. The pain will be slightly more than the usual due to the thickness of the hair".

She added," Your skin is too dried and wrinkled. It's like a 40 years old rather than my age."

My expression was horrific... -_- Like wtf ....

She explained further over cleaning will caused the skin to be dried and wrinkled. Well, I had been using feminine wash for quite some time for cleaniness and now she told me I over cleaned. It's not recommended to use it daily, however I can use it during the time of month. Washing too much is another cause of overdrying. Gosh, I'm just trying to be clean and I am too clean!?!??!Ridiculous, yes?


Well, She recommended me to do IPL instead it would not be to harsh on my skin.. plus it would be painless.

Agreeing to her suggestion, noting the price of IPL is so expensive

Changing to another room, where the IPL machine is located. Here I am laying on the bed waiting for the therapist to do her job.

She shaved all the hairs. Then, she used a piece of steel to place at the area. The steel plated is very cold against my skin. According to the therapist it is to numb the area so that I don't feel the current when she is doing IPL on my muffs... She did it repeatedly. I can feel the current on my skin when the utensil is working. Short current lightly bolted across the skin, it's not painful....
According the therapist, the hair will drop only 50% and to some individuals it would be more. I would need to come again for another round so that it work but looking at the price point, it's really expensive.

IPL needs 6th sessions to make sure that pores are death and no more hair growth and a yearly maintenance.

Updates: After 10 days and more, hair can even be plucked/ pulled out easily by fingers. No tweezers or what nots needed. It's fun.. hehehe
Now hair is growing...

Shall I go for another round??

dream wedding or dream off!!

Both of my favourites actress are on screen together! Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway. Bride Wars is the usual chick flick which I won't be doing a review about the movie. It caught me thinking. Normally for a gal, she should had or already had and knew what she wanted for her dream wedding. For me, eventhough I have been living on this earth for 31 years (in another 1 1/2 months) I had never thought of what I want for my dream wedding!

Surprise? Yeah, that's me. I could not imagine myself in a bridal gown or even marrying to someone at all. I enjoyed looking at bridal magazine though. I would consider myself as confident elegant young woman in reality do not have the slightest idea of what I want for my dream wedding. I know clock is ticking and the shares are declining....

Huh! Take That! *Slap at forehead*

Maybe it's time for me to figure it out...

Je m'apelle

Received a email where the content as following:-

Instructions : What you do is find out what each letter of your name means.Then connect all the meanings and it describes YOU. If you have double or triple letters, just count the meaning once.

For Example : KISHORE
K =You like to try new things.
I =You are always smiling and making others smile.
S = You are very broad-minded.
H =You are not judgmental.
O = You are very open-minded.
R =You are a social butterfly.
R =You are a social butterfly.

A = You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.
B = You are always cautious when it comes to meeting newpeople..
C = You definitely have a partier side in you, don't be shy to show it.
D = You have trouble trusting people.
E =You are a very exciting person.
F = Everyone loves you.
G = You have excellent ways of viewing people.
H =You are not judgmental.
I =You are always smiling and making others smile.
J =Jealously
K =You like to try new things.
L = Love is something you deeply believe in.
M = Success comes easily to you.....
N = You like to work, but you always want a break.
O = You are very open-minded.
P =You are very friendly and understanding.
Q = You are a hypocrite.
R =You are a social butterfly.
S = You are very broad-minded.
T = You have an attitude, a big one.
U = You feel like you have to equal up to people's standards.
V = You have a very good physique and looks.
W = You like your privacy.
X = You never let people tell you w! hat to do.
Y = You cause a lot of trouble.
Z = You're always fighting with someone.

and which translates my name to

You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.
You like to work, but you always want a break.
You have trouble trusting people.
You are a social butterfly.
You are a very exciting person.
You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.


SO TRUE, SO TRUE............