Sep
29
A Rejuvenating Experience~
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I almost forgot how it feels.
The exhilaration of glancing it every now and then.
To feel it smooth texture.
To admire its lovely design.
To slip into it again and again.
To be delighted over a simple pleasure of a pair of new shoes.
Yes, I was a shoes junkie; notice the ‘was’ instead of ‘am’. When I was working in KLCC for more than 2 years, it was quite impossible to resists the temptation to buy new shoes every month, averagely.
On some months, I even get 2 pair of heels and it sort of rejuvenates my soul. It is all I need to have the high and happy feeling for a couple of days. All I need is a glance at the new shoes are parked at the entrance of my room so I could savour the wonderful feeling each time I enter my room.
But this year, I have been very good as I vowed not to waste unnecessarily on heels again. After all, I hardly wear heels now unlike in my previous office where I wore them at least 4 days a week!
Nowadays, 95% of the time I am on my comfort ballerina shoes or flat boring pumps or my flat sandals. Duh, it is boring but I feel less motivated to wear heels in this company and besides, I have to walk a lot. And heels are bad for my weak knee! And back too.
And yes, I haven’t bought any heels this year! Well, the pair of Nike sport shoes which I bought in US and the white flat pump from Singapore don’t count. Or the pointy, shiny, flat black shoes from Kuantan don’t count either. :p
I get to rejuvenate my soul last weekend with a pair of wedges from Vincci at 20% off! Well, it is not a heel either but at least it is about 2 inches of wedge, which is the highest shoes I ever bought this year!
And yeah, it sure does feel good to rejoice the wonderful feeling of a new pair of shoes again. I couldn’t help but to slip my foot in it again and again. (^.^)
And I think I need another pair of comfy flat pumps. 
Sep
20
Journey of The Bracie Ben~
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When I was just mere 7 years old, I remembered cheating the class teacher that I have seen the dentist as I was really afraid of stepping into the dentist room. Yeah, so you can imagine my phobia of dentist. I hate the smell of the dentist clinic and I totally hate using metal cup as it would remind me the dentist. >_<
But in Year 2006, I gathered all my courage to go to the dentist with my housemate for check up. For your info, I haven't been to the dentist for like 10 years!
And the rest was history when I decided to brace my hideous teeth once and for all (after years of nagging from my relatives and friends). And so on the 28th Oct 2006, I had my braces put on and the journey of the ugly betty bracie Ben began.
Apart from the food-always-stuck-between-my-teeth/braces incident, 5-minutes-of-cleaning-routine-every-night and the bracket-fell-off a couple of times; I merely sailed through the journey of bracing. Except for the first couple of weeks where I couldn't chew hard food but I could practically eat anything I want after a couple of months. (^.^)
And now I proudly declared that my bracie is finally out on the 5th of Sept 08! Woohooo~!!!!
At least partially, only the top braces. I guess my dentist couldn't stand me asking him for the 100th times when I could take them out and he finally volunteered to take it out on the very day that I decided not to ask. Just in time for my best friend's wedding too! =D
But the lower braces are still there and I have to put on retainers after this, for as long as possible, he said. After that I have to do post-crown for my slightly-darker-front-tooth-due-to-chipping and it gonna cost me another hefty RM700 (which he really emphasized how complicated and expensive is the material and thus an expensive process). (=.=)"
And yeah, that is about 22 and half months of bracing journey for me. No more hideous teeth! A process that I should have done 10 years ago but I couldn't quite afford it and lack of courage. Better late than never though! =)
Sep
16
Yun’s Big Wedding Day!
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She was my first roommate in the hostel. I have been praying for her to come as I was so alone in the lonely hostel room on my own when I just went to uni!
After being roomie for a year in the hostel, we moved out to a rented house and she was my roomie for another 2 years. Next we had internship and after that we were housemate for another 5 months.
Yeah, so we were pretty close to each other and she was like an elder sister that always take care and look out for me. She was a huge chunk of my life during the uni year. After graduation, we went on with our path of lives but we never fail to keep in touch constantly. =)
And now she is finally married! I am glad she finally found the special someone and settling down! Well, I hope she would have a happy and loving life with the lucky groom! =)
It just feels a little strange that my good friend is now married and become someone’s wife. Someone that I do not know that well but pretty sure he is a good guy and will treat her right. I hope our friendship remains as strong as ever.
Well, here are some pics that we took during the wedding dinner at Batu Pahat.
Here comes the pretty bride and the lucky groom!
Let's take a picture of sisterhood~
Sep
9
Matta Fair Sept 2008 Super Deal!!!
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More hapi stuffs happened to me on Friday! I felt that I am on top of the wheel of life. Sometimes you are on top and sometimes you are at the bottom.
Seeing the dentist gave me another reason to be very happy about. Something that I have waited for quite some time and impatiently! (^.^)
And about MATTA fair, though it is a challenging one, I do savour satisfaction from it at the end of the day after five hours of battling the crowd and scouring for the best deals ever!
To Huei, do STOP reading or else I can’t stop you from going to the Matta Fair! Don’t blame me! =D
I know what I want before I went to the Matta fair; which was to get a Bali Package and a local package (either Langkawi or Cameron Highland for my family trip which I couldn’t much recall we ever have one except the time we were kiddos).
And the Bali and Langkawi packages I got. And additional packages to Bangkok and Hangzhou/Shanghai/Suzhou/Wuxi! And it’s cheap, cheap, cheap!!!
I booked a Go-Go-Combo ground packages to 3 countries at only RM499 per pax (of course not including those tipping, insurance and visa) and it is valid till next December 2009 from HwaJing Travel & Tours. NO KIDDING!!!
(They have limited of 500 combos and by the time I booked at around 4pm, more than 200 has been sold!)
First destination is of course to Bali, a 3D/2N free and easy with half day city tour at quite cool hotels. Second destination is Bangkok, also the same 3D/2N free and easy and half day city tour! I have found another reason to go splurging there! Muaahhahahaa…
The third destination is to Hangzhou/Shanghai/Suzhou which is 5 days full board tour package! Not free & easy!!! Yupeee~ I found from other tour company, the cheapest I could find with surcharges is about RM550 and some are even at 700 (excluding flights)!
I thought my father wanna go to those places in China as I asked him the very morning but actually he was telling me that he has been there. Yeah, communication breakdown do happens between father and daughter. So, I guess it will be the first trip for me and my mum. Ahh.. pretty nervous when I think of that!
And the Langkawi package is per person for 3D/2N with stay at Hotel Helang and 24 hours car usage as well as Firefly flight tickets (including taxes & stuffs) at RM376 per pax. Quite a good deal, eh?
Total damage is about RM2504 for four trips~ (^.^)
Oh, I love Matta Fair, don’t you!?!
Jul
30
Cape Rochado Day Trip~
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It’s funny how seldom I go for trip with my bunch of besties, although we know each other practically our whole lives; some since we were like 6! Apart from the school trips, so far I only went to Genting and Tioman with them. Tioman was like 5 years back! (=.=)”
And after persistent D trying to organise this one day trip (it is tough to get all of us together for the whole day as some has family and work commitment), we finally made it to Cape Rochado (or the less glamour name of Tanjung Tuan), a secluded area which is 10km from Port Dickson.
It was a chatty trip, with everyone updating each other and also discussed about the politic! Man, are we getting older or what? I don’t remember politic being one of our major topics when we got together. Anyway, being the one that couldn’t care less about the politic, I did learn a lot of info from them. Like the son in law of … well, I am sure you know.. 
The hiking was a rather short one as I think we could have completed the one way journey to the light house and down to the quiet, private beach within half an hour. But we took our sweet time and thus took nearly an hour.
And I involuntarily offered my both bare arms as buffet for the millions of mosquitoes that were in the jungle. It doesn’t matter that I already spread both of my arms with layers of axe oil, they just kept coming back and suck blood out of me merciless! Damn!
We found the spot of quiet beach which was clean, beautiful and peaceful! Nobody was there except for us, which reminded me of Tioman Island where there wasn’t other visitors except for us! Which naturally means we could make as much noise as we want, chat and do stupid pose on the camera without having anyone eyeing on us.
I just felt relaxed and happy and contented and wondered why we didn’t do this more often. It was a simple trip but it not the destination that counts, it is the participants that make you feel different and happy. (^.^)
And after about 2 hours, we walked to the main beach which have many people; picnic-ing, swimming, banana-boating, jet-skiing, building sand castle and canoeing!
Again, on D persistent, I finally tried the canoe for the first time in my life! RM15 per canoe for an hour and I succeeded fighting for Pmes as my partner from Ren. The stupid sun that has been hiding for the whole journey decided to came out when we stepped into the water at around 5.15pm! Man, I felt that I was baked, without any sun block protection at all! (=.=)”
Pmes has experienced in canoeing which makes me quite relax, forgetting my mother advice of not going into water. It was fun, relaxing and also tiring when you paddle too much. But it was a private time where I get to chat with her, which was nice.
And yes, for the record, we lost to Ren and D when trying to get to the other end (smirk all you want) and we our canoe got stuck at the shallow part of the water. We have to get down and push our canoe to the water again and went to another way to reach the beach. Home by 10pm. Totally exhausted but it was fun. It was good. =)
Jun
6
TGIF!!!
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Thank God It’s Flyyyyy-Dayyyy~~~!!! ^.^
Mar
21
One of My Best Night~
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Friendship is like wine, the older the better.
How true is the proverb! I met up with my "old" friends last weekend, some which I've known for.. oh-my-God, 22 years which was 80% of my lifetime! All of them are there and it has been a long time since we gathered all together! Finally all are back and around. 
Of course, being in Malacca, we must go for the famous satay celup for the gathering! Yummy yum!
How we chatted and chatted, from the recent elections to the politician, to our lives, what laptop to buy and where to travel, to our paper-stealing-cases-in-school and everything things that crossed our mind! It was fun and I just felt comfortable and contented being with them.
We managed to 'kidnap' Renu from her-earlier-than-Cinderella-curfew and went to the most-happening-place-in-town-Jonker-Walk, a sort of night flea market that sells everything on weekend and always full of desperate-Malaccan (like us) that has no place else to hang out.
As we were jostling in the crowds to find a cafe, Pam grabbed my hand and asked if I saw Faizlin, our long-lost-friend from primary school. "No," I said, barely remembering her face but I remembered her name. She said she just saw her, passing us by.
We quickly turned around and run after the Malay girl with tudung and I called out her name and she turned!!! Oohhh. It was really her, our head-of-the-class during Standard 5 and we haven't been meeting her for 15 years!!!
It was amazing that she still could remember me by my full name and I was really excited that someone remembers me! I sat next to her in Standard 5 and back then, she asked me to blow my nose when I was having running nose. She said Pam look the same but I look different!
I amazed myself when I remembered her last name too, when I was entering her phone number into my mobile! I don't have Alzheimer after all!!!
Hope to see her again and keep in touch.
Ended up in Harper's for a yum-cha (tea) session and LY managed to join us after she finished her meeting/talk at 10pm! We continued our chatty session and catching up and also planning to have a "real-trip" together, before any of us are tied to the happily-ever-after-lives, which I predict very soon!
We finally left Harper's after midnight and talked to loud and laughed too much on the way to the cars, not wanting to say goodbye! Well, hope our trip will be realized!
Jan
24
Shop Till U Drop~
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Of course I was looking forward to buy branded stuffs when I was here. It is much cheaper here compared to Malaysia but then again, everywhere else is cheaper than M'sia, right? Not that I fancy much of branded goods but well, I wouldn't mind a piece or two… if it's cheap.
So we went to this premium outlet stores in Gilroy on Sunday which was really a huge place with lots of branded name stores, like Coach, Banana Republic, Timberland, Nike, Gap, Levi's and etc. I went into some of the stores which I didn't dare to step in when in Malaysia. We reached there before 11am and shopped till 6pm when they closed (with lunch break in between)!
The prices are indeed much cheaper! Stuffs that I have bought either for myself or someone else are : Nike Sport shoes (at extremely good deal and am real happy bout it), Nike Duffel Bag, 2 Nike T-shirts, Fossil watch, Fossil purse, 2 Levi's jeans, Bass purse, Jansport pouch, 2 Gap shirts, Vit E cream and Vit A & C supplements.
Some of the pictures.. :
My Fossil watch, with interchangeable ribbons~
1 Fossil & 1 Bass Leather Purse..
My NIKE shoes, love it!
One of my 2 Gap shirt, another is just light pink long sleeves..
My Jansport pouch, though I don't like to use pouch so much but convenient to have one here..
My Levi's~
All of above cost me like USD207 only! That is under RM700 for so many items which are a real bargain. I wish we could go again but the place is like an hour drive away and I think the sales ended last weekend. And my money is running out, very fast! >_<
Update : Spent another USD100 today for Levi's jeans, a small bag for myself, 2 belts, 1 Nike shirt & 4 mini Victoria secret's perfumes~ I MUST stop spending!!!
Jan
14
First Job?
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“So this is your first job?” my new colleague asked me as I was walking to the LRT station with him.
“My fourth job!” I exclaimed.
“You look like fresh graduates to me. How old are you?!” he asked.
Wah… I am very happy to hear that, coming from a stranger (or nearly a stranger, just got to know each other few days). Practically floating on the air~
As we grow older, I guess we just want to be or look younger. But when we are young, we want to grow older and to be in control. Right?
Dec
29
Good Bye..
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I’ve been busy lately. There is just so many things to do. In my head, there are many stuffs that I want to blog about but the material just trapped in my head as there are higher priorities of stuffs to do. It is rather frustrating.
Now, I finally have time to sit down and write a little.
First, yeah, my previous post was about the application for United State’s Visa. I finally met up with my new colleagues (and they look quite nice) and 3 of us went to the embassy to apply for the visa. Both of them got on the first day and it was nerve-wrecking to be the one without it! 
The Indian officer was really horrible!
What a mean guy!
Why did he have to pick on me?!?
I went through another sleepless night and for the whole day; my head was filled with visa-anxiety, even when I was doing yoga! But hey, thank God I managed to pull through the next day!
Hooorrayyy!!! I GOT MY VISA!!! :D
But..
BUT..
Another things to worry now is getting the flight tickets as CG said it is running out. *sigh*
We don’t have much time actually as we wanna be back to Malaysia by Chinese New Year which is another 5 weeks!
Anyway, I actually wanna write about my last day in my current.. uhmm.. previous company. I woke up on Friday and I really wondered what got in my mind when I tendered my resignation letter to my manager! Till now, I didn’t have the urge to leave the company; in fact I really start to wonder if my decision has been a correct one and if I would regret at the end of the day.
Whenever my friend asked me why did I wanna leave my company, I felt like I am being defensive and giving reasons that sounds more like convincing myself than just answering them. Which leads me doubt my decision even more.
Anyway, on the last day at work, as my day was extensively brightened by the visa approval, I felt jovial throughout the day. I didn’t even feel like I was leaving the company! I thought I would reduce to tears but perhaps I didn’t feel it as I was going to farewell dinner with my best-friends-colleagues. The gloomy feeling I was expecting didn’t creep in.
Which feels even odd! I am supposed to feel sad as I hate to leave.
I need a closure.
I cannot imagine I won’t be going to the nice pantry and make my coffee every morning.
Saying good morning to the kakak (cleaner) who like to tease me.
Or seeing my whole lots of colleagues daily, looking forward to see some but cringing when I meet the others. Having whole lots of friends, like in school.
Or making the toilet trip with SS.
And missing my Belly Dancing and Yoga class.
And shopping during lunch and after work. Knowing that I can get anything at work.. even bank or post office.
And I shall miss them dearly.
Dec
10
How Easy it is to Earn Woman’s Money~
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My colleague and I were just in the mood of exploring cosmetic last week. Both of us hardly makeup to work or even to casual outing so we don’t have much ideas about makeup!
She wanted to find a nude color lipstick that makes her lip pale but it was tough to find one that really gave that natural nude shade after applying as her natural lip color was rather pinkish.
We headed off to Estee Lauder in Isetan during lunch time after a quick lunch at the food court. The promoter put on the lipstick for her with gloss and she even tried the black eye shadow for smoky eyes effect. Finally she chose a piece of nude lipstick and I was happy for her.
We thought that’s all she was getting and before we knew it, it was more than an hour after lunch time and we purchased more items that we were seeking for!
Both of us purchased the makeup set of “Good As Gold” that consists of a palette of eye shadows, lipstick, duo blusher, eyeliner, lipliner and a dinner bag (that worth RM460 but only at RM148 if we purchased above RM150, which of course we did!).
On top of that I also bought a Brush-on Illuminator that cost RM100, which suppose to cover my dark circles but somehow I felt that my Maybelline liquid foundation does a better job! >_<
Anyway, splurging really does make me happy, just at a higher cost. Though, I still think it is rather a worthy set and if the illuminator is really effective, then it should worth it as well.
And I have a long way to learn the art of makeup to make myself prettier~ ^.^
Nov
25
Flat & Straight~
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Well, Angie and Wuching suggested me to cut it and Min suggested perming or cutting it too! But hey, I always have long hair, except when I was little and when I was in my first year of university where I cut it short (which means above my shoulder) but hey, I really love having long hair! So, cutting is not an option at this moment..
I’ve thought about perming too as it is such a trend now with so many of my colleagues perming their hair, either big locks and curls or simply Maggie-mee style! Knowing myself well, I am a lazy person who does not like to spend much time on maintenance. Yeah, better spend more time on the bed in the morning..
So, I did again! Rebonding for the forth time! This time, I made use of the Mystyle sms voucher at Sense Studio, Uptown. The rebonding cost RM400 (so very expensive!!!) for my long hair and RM45 for trim (I felt cheated coz normally it is free when you do rebonding) and Keeyit permed her hair again as she wanted to make it more curly (and she has much more to complain)!
So, after the 50% discount with the sms, the total damage is only RM225 (even though more expensive that the one I did at Sungai Wang last year at RM190). But then again, that was just a small salon, not like this classy salon.
After 3 hours, my hair is super straight and flat! Initially I felt that my fringe look kinda funny as it was too flat and short. But now it is rather okay but hair is still quite straight. Thinking of washing it off on Monday night, rather than waiting for 3 days. I do not need super-straight hair, just as long as it is not fluffy or frizzy..
*happy*
