Oh nooooooo.... it's happening. It's what drives women into a wild frenzy. The very thing that turns any docile female into a clawing cat. It's the 4-letter word that make men sweat and women gasping for more..... S.A.L.E!!!
Yes my friends... the Malaysia Mega Sale has started and it's on for 11 weeks!!! Discounts! Mark-downs! Best Buys! It's everywhere!!! Shopping centres are packed like sardines and believe me, some even smell like them with all sorts of 'strange' people crowding to get a good bargain. Ewwww....
You can almost tell who's married and who's not. ;) Boyfriends will be the eager beavers trailing after their girlfriends while she continues piling more clothes on him as she scours through the store before heading to the fitting room. Husbands are probably 'smarter' or should i say, more 'experienced'. They'll be the ones sitting on the benches outside with the bags while their wives rummage in the 'mad house'. Hahahahaha....
My phone has been rather busy too with calls and sms-es as to which stores have started their sale. I think between Misako and myself, we've been watching brands like the stock market, reporting which have started their sale and speculating when the others will follow suit. Top players on our list - MNG, Zara, blook and Cats Whiskers. From the sound of it, you'd think we've invested in these companies. 8P Maybe... to a certain extent, since we have contributed to their billings with our purchases. Our ROI? A wardrobe full of last season's trend. Hehehehehe.... Doesn't seem to smart eh? But then again, why pay exhorbitant full price when you can get it at half or less, just a month or so later?
With my social calendar filled for the next few months with weddings, this is a good a time as any to indulge..... Wheeeeee.... Thank God for Visa & MasterCard!!! Hahahahaha......
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Busy body
Cannot believe half a year has gone by...ok, fine... almost gone (if u wanna get anal with me). 8) People say Time flies when you're having fun.. but i say it just creeps up and scare the living daylights out of you.
I mean...how many times have you bumped into someone and realized it's been YEARS since you last saw them and suddenly they're married/dragging 2 kids with #3 on the way/divorced/gay/fill-in-the-blanks. Then they ask you in return, "So what have you been up to?"....now, if you've not seen a mumbling idiot before, THIS is where i turn into one. Because in all efforts to sound interesting, the best i can do is "Erm...nothing much". I cannot say i've been jetsetting around the world or now run my own business and opening 4th franchise or that i've given up my job to do charity work. (Heck.. am charity case myself)
Don't get me wrong here. Although i've been kept busy - at work, squeezing in gym workouts, church activities, bridal showers, weddings (no less than 6 this year), i guess i'm feeling a little jaded because i don't have anything physical/material to show for the things i've done. (NO, Siryn... am not referring to the divorced/gay part of things to tell people.. in case u're insinuating 8P)
Maybe i'm being a drama queen here. Think positive, think positive. Erm... oh yes, had a mini gathering at Csu's place over the weekend. Belated celebration for her since she was in Florence on her birthday (FLORENCE!! ITALY!!! Dammit... i want an all-expense paid company trip too). Ok.. off topic again. Anyway... Siryn and i went over the Csu's place earlier to help her prepare the food. Wheee... girl bonding time!!! Was fun 'slaving' together for a few hours, cracking corny lines like "Is it me or is it hot in here?" while standing in front of the oven and shouting "Hot chick coming through" when carrying the plate of roasted chicken out. Hahahaha... Here's what we had.
The apple crumble with vanilla ice-cream is missing from here coz it was still being baked. It was ready when we finished eating and comfortably parked in front of the TV watching Interview With a Vampire (re-run on cable). Siryn forgot to take a pix of it in her excitement. Not sure if she was excited over the dessert or Brad Pitt in tights though. Hehehehe...
All in all, it was a perfectly sweet ending.. if i may say so myself. (The party, i mean) ;)
I mean...how many times have you bumped into someone and realized it's been YEARS since you last saw them and suddenly they're married/dragging 2 kids with #3 on the way/divorced/gay/fill-in-the-blanks. Then they ask you in return, "So what have you been up to?"....now, if you've not seen a mumbling idiot before, THIS is where i turn into one. Because in all efforts to sound interesting, the best i can do is "Erm...nothing much". I cannot say i've been jetsetting around the world or now run my own business and opening 4th franchise or that i've given up my job to do charity work. (Heck.. am charity case myself)
Don't get me wrong here. Although i've been kept busy - at work, squeezing in gym workouts, church activities, bridal showers, weddings (no less than 6 this year), i guess i'm feeling a little jaded because i don't have anything physical/material to show for the things i've done. (NO, Siryn... am not referring to the divorced/gay part of things to tell people.. in case u're insinuating 8P)
Maybe i'm being a drama queen here. Think positive, think positive. Erm... oh yes, had a mini gathering at Csu's place over the weekend. Belated celebration for her since she was in Florence on her birthday (FLORENCE!! ITALY!!! Dammit... i want an all-expense paid company trip too). Ok.. off topic again. Anyway... Siryn and i went over the Csu's place earlier to help her prepare the food. Wheee... girl bonding time!!! Was fun 'slaving' together for a few hours, cracking corny lines like "Is it me or is it hot in here?" while standing in front of the oven and shouting "Hot chick coming through" when carrying the plate of roasted chicken out. Hahahaha... Here's what we had.
The apple crumble with vanilla ice-cream is missing from here coz it was still being baked. It was ready when we finished eating and comfortably parked in front of the TV watching Interview With a Vampire (re-run on cable). Siryn forgot to take a pix of it in her excitement. Not sure if she was excited over the dessert or Brad Pitt in tights though. Hehehehe...All in all, it was a perfectly sweet ending.. if i may say so myself. (The party, i mean) ;)
Thursday, 14 June 2007
Such pigs...
These are our newly acquired friends at the office. When stress levels are high, they provide cuddly comfort. Yeah yeah... am closet sweetie.. shh.. don't tell!
THIS is how we often feel after lunch every day. 8P Wouldn't it be nice to just flop and be utterly unproductive sometimes?
Parlez vous anglais?
A few friends asked why i've not been blogging as often as i used to. To be honest, i really don't know. Maybe it's because i've not had much inspiration...or perhaps, i've also been too caught up with everything else going on around me. Then again, the last few posts i started on were on negative notes..being pushed over the edge yet again by some annoying person. Once you exercise self-censorship, there's nothing much else to publish. :P
Not sure if it's the age thing. Was told that people mellow as they get older. I must be on the wrong bus then...coz i sure am going the opposite direction. 8) Then again, maybe i'm a late starter (yeah yeah.. try to console yourself). Like all positive things that develop, there's the negative side too. Lately, i've been less and less tolerant/sympathetic to others. I don't remember being so easily agitated over things before, but then again, maybe it's coz it's the same people bugging me.
Right now, my approach to things is "Problem? Got solution? Then fix it. No solution? Then find alternative. Done? Move on". Granted things are often not as simple as that, but once you learn how to draw the line between what's important and what's urgent, everything else is pretty much trivial/collateral. It is when people start hovering instead of doing their part or start worrying over the unecessary issues & bug you to no end about it, that really gets to me. ESPECIALLY when i've already given them alternative solutions.
UGH!!! Will you please get off the 'rocking chair of worry'?!?! IT'LL give you something to do, no doubt, BUT it won't get you ANYWHERE!! Worst, not only are you making me not like the person i'm turning into but you're also making my friends fed-up with the same rants i tell them EVERY time you annoy me.
So if you can't be a positive influence or make me a better person, please leave me alone. If you don't like the fact that i'm blunt, please don't ask for my opinions. Honesty, i can do. Real need, i can help. But if you want NICE, then may i suggest France?
Not sure if it's the age thing. Was told that people mellow as they get older. I must be on the wrong bus then...coz i sure am going the opposite direction. 8) Then again, maybe i'm a late starter (yeah yeah.. try to console yourself). Like all positive things that develop, there's the negative side too. Lately, i've been less and less tolerant/sympathetic to others. I don't remember being so easily agitated over things before, but then again, maybe it's coz it's the same people bugging me.
Right now, my approach to things is "Problem? Got solution? Then fix it. No solution? Then find alternative. Done? Move on". Granted things are often not as simple as that, but once you learn how to draw the line between what's important and what's urgent, everything else is pretty much trivial/collateral. It is when people start hovering instead of doing their part or start worrying over the unecessary issues & bug you to no end about it, that really gets to me. ESPECIALLY when i've already given them alternative solutions.
UGH!!! Will you please get off the 'rocking chair of worry'?!?! IT'LL give you something to do, no doubt, BUT it won't get you ANYWHERE!! Worst, not only are you making me not like the person i'm turning into but you're also making my friends fed-up with the same rants i tell them EVERY time you annoy me.
So if you can't be a positive influence or make me a better person, please leave me alone. If you don't like the fact that i'm blunt, please don't ask for my opinions. Honesty, i can do. Real need, i can help. But if you want NICE, then may i suggest France?
Saturday, 9 June 2007
Shape of things
Woke up early this morn to drag my bedraggled self to gym.. only to reach there and find out my class was canceled. AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!! While i stood there frustrated, my fats immediately invited the calories and threw a celebration party. 8P
Since it was too early to go anywhere, i decided to come home and do laundry instead. While waiting for my clothes to finish it's 'spinning' (heck..at least some get a workout), i flipped through the newspapers... GUHHHHH. An article about the Beijing Olympics 2008 and this is what it said:
For women hoping to become hostesses at next year's Olympic Games medal ceremonies, here come the criteria: no tattoos, no big bottoms, and cut down on the earrings.
Tattoos and earrings tend to look sleazy, while big bottoms could stick out too much, state media reported yesterday, quoting officials selecting candidates for medal ceremonies and other protocol activities.
Okaaayyy... i'm already annoyed for not getting a workout today. This definitely doesn't help either. Not that i'm hoping to be a games hostess or anything of that sort.. but when you're sitting there feeling sorry for yourself, any little excuse is as good a reason to wallow in self-pity. ;P
Of course, this is too 'juicy' a topic to savour alone, so i sms-ed Mal & Siryn about it. Mal just went "Sigh... sorry babes, guess that's one more career option gone for us eh?". Hahaha... wherelse Siryn replied "if they want to discriminate that way, then big boobs should be out too since they could 'stick out' too much as well". 8D Riiighht.... there's another strike out for me then. ROTFL....
Nothing like a few girl-friends to lighten up the moment. I love my 'optimistic' friends.. in every size/height they come in.
Heck.. and who's to say we lack shape or curves?!?! 'Round' is a shape and it's a never-ending curve. So there!!! ;)
Since it was too early to go anywhere, i decided to come home and do laundry instead. While waiting for my clothes to finish it's 'spinning' (heck..at least some get a workout), i flipped through the newspapers... GUHHHHH. An article about the Beijing Olympics 2008 and this is what it said:
For women hoping to become hostesses at next year's Olympic Games medal ceremonies, here come the criteria: no tattoos, no big bottoms, and cut down on the earrings.
Tattoos and earrings tend to look sleazy, while big bottoms could stick out too much, state media reported yesterday, quoting officials selecting candidates for medal ceremonies and other protocol activities.
Okaaayyy... i'm already annoyed for not getting a workout today. This definitely doesn't help either. Not that i'm hoping to be a games hostess or anything of that sort.. but when you're sitting there feeling sorry for yourself, any little excuse is as good a reason to wallow in self-pity. ;P
Of course, this is too 'juicy' a topic to savour alone, so i sms-ed Mal & Siryn about it. Mal just went "Sigh... sorry babes, guess that's one more career option gone for us eh?". Hahaha... wherelse Siryn replied "if they want to discriminate that way, then big boobs should be out too since they could 'stick out' too much as well". 8D Riiighht.... there's another strike out for me then. ROTFL....
Nothing like a few girl-friends to lighten up the moment. I love my 'optimistic' friends.. in every size/height they come in.
Heck.. and who's to say we lack shape or curves?!?! 'Round' is a shape and it's a never-ending curve. So there!!! ;)
Friday, 1 June 2007
Take your best shot!
You know i've been really really tied up when you don't see anything in this space for a while. Ugh...can't remember the countless times i've started a post only to be interrupted by something. And it's no use coming back to the draft coz i would've lost my train of thought or lose interest in the topic i started with. :P
My friends know i'm really s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d when i start craving caffeine late into th
e night. Believe me... it's a big deal for someone like me who doesn't drink coffee. Yes...in case anyone has keeled over in shock... yours truly has been caffeine-free for years... till recently, that is. And what's worse... i don't want the usual coffee-shop stuff. I want THIS!!! Sweet. Calorie-laden. BAAAAAAAAADDDD for me and even WORSE for my wallet. Costs about RM12 a cup and that's a LOT to pay for coffee. :\
Thought it was bad enough that i react to stress this way... till i met up with M
al & GC last night. Been a while since i saw them so decided to grab dinner together along with Khai. Lo and behold, the moment Mal sat down... THIS was what she ordered. TWO G&T and FOUR tequilas.. and it was juz for her and GC. Hahahahaha... Thought she was ordering for all of us but obviously not. :P
Anyway, was good catching up with all of them. We polished off everything on our plates (OINK! OINK! If you've ever seen the portions at this place, you'll be horrified at the amount we consumed) AND ordered dessert as well - Brownies with BIG scoop of vanilla ice-cream.
IF anyone should comment about the calories we have consumed, shut up now OR i'll feed you to the 'anorexic' models!!! Have a FATTENING weekend everyone!!!
My friends know i'm really s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d when i start craving caffeine late into th
e night. Believe me... it's a big deal for someone like me who doesn't drink coffee. Yes...in case anyone has keeled over in shock... yours truly has been caffeine-free for years... till recently, that is. And what's worse... i don't want the usual coffee-shop stuff. I want THIS!!! Sweet. Calorie-laden. BAAAAAAAAADDDD for me and even WORSE for my wallet. Costs about RM12 a cup and that's a LOT to pay for coffee. :\Thought it was bad enough that i react to stress this way... till i met up with M
al & GC last night. Been a while since i saw them so decided to grab dinner together along with Khai. Lo and behold, the moment Mal sat down... THIS was what she ordered. TWO G&T and FOUR tequilas.. and it was juz for her and GC. Hahahahaha... Thought she was ordering for all of us but obviously not. :PAnyway, was good catching up with all of them. We polished off everything on our plates (OINK! OINK! If you've ever seen the portions at this place, you'll be horrified at the amount we consumed) AND ordered dessert as well - Brownies with BIG scoop of vanilla ice-cream.
IF anyone should comment about the calories we have consumed, shut up now OR i'll feed you to the 'anorexic' models!!! Have a FATTENING weekend everyone!!!
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