Limited Edition Pets

Flashing back, Husky, our dog in the backyard (which used to be in the front porch until he was banished to the never never land of the backyard), eats car bumpers, signal lights, autogate cables, kumquats fruit, trim off excess plants, ate a whole mini pamelo tree, pandan bushes, destroyed 2 water buckets, 4 dog bowls, cracked open and ate 2 coconuts and I can't remember what else.

Rumba, our Lhasa Apso, in the house, eat her kibbles only out of placemat.  Very cultured huh?  She would  bring the kibbles from her bowl to the floor mat and enjoy them from there.  

Sunshine, our Miniature Schnauzer, has a peculiar habit of her own too.  She thinks she is a cat.  No, she doesn't go 'meowing' around.  What she does is, she would rub her head on our dangling feet whenever she get a chance like how a cat would.  Self service love.  :p

And short while ago, Lucky, our dog in the front porch, though doesn't eat EVERYTHING, actually climbed thru a hole of our grill gate which is approximately 3+ feet high (the only hole he can just fit thru), into our house, when fire crackers can be heard being let off quite a distance away.  Luckily we caught him right in time before he messed up the whole place with more territory markings.  Once, he even got in thru an open window.

After letting Lucky out and cleaning up the mess, hubby went... "Why do we end up with all these 'limited edition' pets??!".  

A dog that eats everything.

A dog that only eats on placemat.

A dog that acts like a cat.

A dog that climb thru window/grill.

'LIMITED EDITION'??  I just broke out laughing my head off instead of getting pissed with all the extra cleaning work...  So not right and yet so true.  Hahahahaha.....

Back!

Had a fantastic freezing week in Beijing.  At the verge of turning into an ice popsicle!  Unbelievably cold.  Just got home late last night.  Awesome, awesome, awesome!  Midst of filtering the 1900+ photos taken and not forgetting the 1000+ taken earlier at Siem Reap, Cambodia!  Gonna organize my brain first.  ;)

My 2days In Between

No, I did not abandon my blog.  Was a little busy.  Still is.  Busy having fun, busy living life, busy clearing the dirty laundries after the fun (the not-so-fun part)... hehehe...  Seriously, I actually have to call the boss to tell him that I won't be going into the office this week (which I told him I would for a day) just so I have time to clear the laundries before the next adventure start or I would end up having not enough clean undies... hehehehe.  I know, I know, I heard of that '1 undies can last for 4 days' technique.  Errm... no thank you.  I rather go commando. :p Lols...  In case you haven't heard of, it is like this:

1) Wear it like normal.

2) Wear with the back facing front.

3) Overturn, inside out, wear it like normal. (terbalik la..)

4) Still inside out, shift the back to the front.

Hehehehe.... According to some 'expert', it was more than 4 wears.  I just couldn't think of it at this moment (zzzz).  Lols... 4 wears already grossed me out! :p

And here's the fun part prior to all the not-so-fun part (i.e. laundries).  Was away in Cambodia for a 3d/2n trip to kiss the Buddha! ;)  It was a great trip despite it being a really short and hot one.  We actually have only 2 full days + 2 nights as we left the country pretty early in the morning on the last day.

Visited all the 'Wats' (temples).  They are amazing.  I'll write more about it with pictures as soon as I get back from my next adventure which is due to depart in exactly 6 hours.

These two days that I had between the two trips is simply crazy.  Besides doing up all the laundries, managed to squeeze in some shopping too.  Got myself some long sleeves shirts when I realized that all that I have in my wardrobes are just singlets (so not suitable for winter) while packing, a new pair of walking shoe to replace my worn out Clark and even visited the Kuala Lumpur Photography Fair this morning and gotten a new addition to my camera before picking up mom from the bus station!   Talking about cekap-ness (efficient-ness)!

And that's not all.  Just got home not too long ago from Frances Yip's concert with mom and my in-laws, courtesy of the later (which was a pink charity event organized in conjunction with the October Breast Cancer awareness month).  Though she is an evergreen singer, I enjoyed her performance immensely!  Her singing were simply fantastic.  I guess I am just an old soul trapped in a young body afterall.  Hehehehe...

Anyway, finally finished packing.  Need to stop now to catch some sleep.  Will blog more when I get back. Stay cool ya!  Be back soon!

A Gist Of Everything Last Week

There are so much to do these days and I hardly have much time to sit down, organize my brain and blog.   I gonna just sum everything up.

The Accidental Agent
I recently decided to join a Unit Trust team to gain more knowledge on my own investment.  I am never a finance/investment person to start with.  It usually takes me longer time to decipher financial stuff.  That's why this decision.  Knowledge gaining.  And, I accidentally passed my Unit Trust exam two weeks ago after attending a one day course.  Accidentally cause I wasn't prepared.  On the morning of the exam, of the 6 sample exam sheets that I have, 50% of the one sample sheet I picked to revise on came out in the exam.  The 'lucky' wind must be blowing my direction lately.  First I got the walkman I wanted for free.  And now, the passing of this exam.  :)  Believe it not, I am now an official Unit Trust Agent.  Lols...  

Dance class

Participated a new class on Monday night which I somehow always conveniently forgets throughout the day (to the extend of planning what I wanna do that night, movies, or shopping) until I was on my way home from work in the evening, it will suddenly dawn on me and I'll go "Oh shoot...!".  Haven't quite implanted it in the system yet despite of having attended it for the last 3 weeks. :p  What's happening?!

Morning JogAWalk

Our 3x weekly jogawalk started about a month ago has been reduced to just once weekly for the past week and this week.  Past week cause my legs were aching from a new dance I was trying to master and this week cause of the damn flu bug. :(  I actually went for it yesterday morning hoping it will chase the bugs away.  I always have this strange notion that, as long as I keep working, the lethargic-ness will go away.  Sickness will cure.  Unfortunately, it was just wistful thinking on my part.  It actually got worst.  For the whole of yesterday, the only picture that kept popping up in my mind was this 'battery low' icon.  I actually fell asleep on the couch while watching tv.  My batt must be really low.  Finally depleted after so much activities for the past month.  Quite lasting also....

Mambo Jambo-ing

As it has been quite sometime since we last went clubbing (7 months ago), it was time for us to head down to Zouk again to make our presents felt and we did just that last Wednesday.  The excuse was to celebrate our 10.10.10 run.  Yeah, it's lame I know.  Just another excuse to party and drink.  Hahaha.... Despite of the not-so-good crowd, we had a great time & got home only at 3:30am!  Lols.  Not-so-good crowd was because, on the few times that we were there, we actually have bouncers protecting us from all the attentions we had; people buying us drinks, people wanting to dance with us.  That Wed, we didn't get much attention cause the club was filled with gays from an earlier event nearby. :(  So, it was sort of boring la... what to do? We love attention.  We feed on it.  Our way of evaluating our market value.  Our confident booster... hahahaha.... Agree?

Car Workshop & Women

Being an 'ok' automobile-savy girl, I was awoken by a phone call from Flor the next morning after the night out.  Still feeling rather groggy, all I heard was, is it ok to pay RM3k+ for the repair of 2 doors (auto lock  & power window mechanism), a steering wheels plus a brand new stereo?  I was like... wtf?  Overhauling a whole van cost only RM3k and this few things cost RM3k??!  In the end, had her sent the car to our regular workshop and in total, it cost her only RM1.3k.  Should have been able to save more if she have not felt obligated to let the first workshop fix something which cost her RM600+.  Typical daylight robbery.  I really hate all these car workshops/accessories shop.  I think when they see us women driver coming into the shop, all they see is just $$$$$.  Ask any 10 ladies and I bet 9 out of that have experience this.  They are suppose to help us.  Not take advantage of our ignorance.  Tsk tsk! How many of you ladies out there experience an episode with these dishonest workshops?

Horror Flicks

After picking Flor from the workshop, she convinced me to watch this horror flick called 'Child's Eye'.  Having not watch a horror movies since dunno when, I was actually kinda excited despite of my reluctance.  Throughout the movie, 80% of the time, I was hiding behind my shawl.  I tell you, when I went to bed that night, I was already imagining things and spooking myself out.  Lols... I am super useless when come to things like these. Hehehehe... despite of shielding my eyes with a shawl, I can still see shapes thru it ok...lols...  Can't see it's eyes, nose or any facial expression.  Still, it freaks me out.  :p  At one part, Flor went "just look at the dog, so cute cute one, not scary one"... yeah, the dog may be cute cute and not scary, but the dog is barking at the spirit ok...lols *faint*

Went for an early dinner at Italianese after that cause we couldn't resist the delicious smell when we walk pass it.  Found ourselves a nice table with a good view, ordered two latte and a classic pizza!  Blissful. At least it calms the nerves a little after the first self imposed torturing ordeal. :p

Ex-Schoolmates Gathering

From 4 confirmed pax, it became 3, then 2.  Lols...  Went ahead somehow cause personally I prefer smaller group gathering.  At least I get a chance to really talk to that person.  Coincidentally both of us left office early and decided to meet up at a karaoke nearby to enjoy their happy hour rates singing our hearts out (RM18++ per pax for 3 hours) before heading out for dinner.  It was a good stress reliever (not that I am very stressful or what... nevertheless, it is good to scream our lungs out every now and then.  Hehehe...  Eventhough it was just the two of us, we had a great time!

Car Outing

The husband had a car outing on Saturday, having nothing else to do, I decided to tag along.  The weather was crazy hot that day.  In fact, everyday for the past forever has been hot.  Sometimes, I am not even sure if it is me that is having fever or just the weather that's making me feel hot.  The outing was quite a bored.  But luckily met some other friends who were from my car group.  Not too bad. :)  I tell you, all these car outing are pretty lame actually.  All they do is just meet up at a place, go for a drink nearby, then proceed to checking out each other's car.  The thing is, what is there to see?  All cars have 4 wheels, no?  All cars have engine no? Sigh....  Didn't bring my camera.  Shot with my mobile instead.  The light from the sun setting was too beautiful to resist.  It turned out ok.  Love this pic.

Salsaing @ Modesto

As usual, we try to make it to Modesto on Saturdays for some salsa. It was a little packed that evening.  Plus the hot weather, after couple of dances, we were practically drowning in our own sweat.  Drenched thru our undies.  The weather was that hot.  I gonna so bring extra shirts for change next time.  Gonna throw out the dresses.  It gonna be just jeans and tshirt and tshirt and tshirt... 

The Day I Got The Bug

When I woke up on Sunday morning, I knew I've caught the virus from the husband.  My throat was not feeling too good  *sigh*.  I've already warned him not to pass whatever he got to me cause I am too busy to be sick.  And guess what he said?  He said... "love me, love my virus.". wtf? -.-  I made him repair a handheld battery operated fan for me as a punishment for spreading his virus to me.  :p  I know it is unreasonable, but I don't care.  >:-( 

Am glad I finally feeling much better now *fingers + toes crossed*.  Kept popping pills every 4 hours.  Need to get well as soon as I can for I am due for another adventure in 5 days time.  Can't afford to be stopped for H1N1.

And here you have it, a gist of everything last week. Goodnight!

My Nose Ran Too

Whenever someone asked me "Hey, how are you?".  My reply is always, "Great!".  Can't think of anything lesser than GREAT.  I am always great.  Even at times when I am down with a runny nose, sore throat, watery eyes, like how I am now.  Lols.  Yes, I am still feeling GREAT!!!

It may be a little cumbersome having to blow my nose every now and then, a little uncomfortable even with the slightly rise temperature.  All are still awesomely great.  Ahh.... choooooooo! Lols...

Wow... I got an Award!

I got a pleasant surprise few days back when I was doing my usual morning round of blog hopping.  Found out that I was awarded "The Versatile Blogger" title from Mrs K of Learn(ing) to Enjoy The Rain!  Thank you Mrs K. ;)

Believe it not, this is my first award throughout my 3 years of blogging (Wow! I've been blogging for 3 years already??!?  Unbelievable!).  So imagine my ecstaticness when I found out that I was awarded with this one!  No, not to the extend of jumping off the couch running around doing that celebration dance in my thong.  But, close to that.  Close... lols...

Though it is just some unofficial awards that goes around the bloggersphere and it doesn't really mean much to most, it meant a lot to me.  It meant that someone out there notice me! Yay!!!  Hehehe....

There are some rules attached to this award though.  I am suppose to:-

• Thank and link back to the person who gave me the award.
• Share 7 things about myself.
• Pass the award along to 15 other bloggers who I recently discovered and think they are fabulous.
• Contact the bloggers I've chosen and let them know about the award.

So, here you have it.  Seven things about me which you'll never know unless you are someone really really close (psstt.... some they don't even know...):

1) I don't like anybody to touch my brand new magazine.  Only after I've read them.

2) I love sudoku - I'll only do the tough ones and leave the easy ones for mom. :p

3) I have stubby fingers without my long nails.

4) My second toe is longer than the rest of my toes.

5) I hate asian horror movies.  The freaks me out.

6) I dream every night (dreamless sleep are a rare occassions really).

7) I never knew I could cook. I just cook & bake naturally. :p 

And took up the challenge to discover 15 other bloggers who I recently (& not too recently) stumbled upon and think they are fabulous.  Believe me, this is no easy task. :-

1) 3 Bitter Sweet Lemons

2) Sweet Cottage

3) Alina Grace's Journey

4) Memories of my life

5) As Zewt As It Gets
6) Redesign Diva
7) Moon
8) A Little Piece of Heaven
9) Little Woman Little Home
10) Imperfect Perfection 3x
11) Karin's Photography
12) T-Cakes
13) Melting Down, Icing Up
14) Girl From The North
15) From Dead to Dangerous

Ten, Ten, Ten!!! We 'RAN' the walk!

Yesterday should be one of the main highlights for me in 2010.  An extreme HIGHLIGHT indeed with those fluorescent yellow/green shirt.  I am still feeling the 'high' from it.... lols

The atmosphere at 6:30am in the morning was electrifying with JJ from the Hitz Morning Crew prepping and motivating us up for the run.  Usher can be heard blaring out OMG from kick ass huge speakers every corners.  It was so loud that we actually used our walkman as earplugs.  :p  You can imagine.  Pity those rich folks staying in those expensive/exclusive condos nearby.  But then again, they might have dreamt they were at Usher's concert... lols  :p  

Photo from JJ's blog.

It was horrifying seeing the tees for the first time when we collected it last week.  But yesterday's morning, seeing it with thousands of heads bobbing up and down painting the town fluorescent yellow green as we ran along, it was super duper fantastically AWESOME!  I should have brought my camera (all photos here are taking thru my mobile and stolen from friends)! The sight were mind boggling.  Especially when the street lights went off at the breaking of dawn as the sky turned from black to dark blueish, we actually GLOW in the dark!!! Thousands of us went..."Wow................." simultaneously.  Lols......

 That's us after completing our 5km - Florence (partially hidden), yours truly and Mambo

This one here with all our faces in it taken from Mambo's mobile.  Wanted to take a photo with all the runners for our pledge but unfortunately,  everyone look the same yesterday.  Difficult to locate people.

We do not have a separate run number bib as our numbers are all pre-printed on our tees.  But we are each given a canggih monggih (hi-tech) use and throw strip like this one here which has priory been tagged to us to be hooked thru our shoe laces.  What it does was, it record the time we crossed the start line, the kilometer markers, the finish line and automatically compute the total time we took to complete the 5km.  All I've to do now is to just key in my bib number at their website and I'll be able to see how I did at the run.  Neat stuff huh?

The fastest time recorded for our 5km category were as follows:

Men's Open - 18:06

Women's Open - 23:15

Men's Under 25 - 19:23

Women's Under 25 - 19:01

5km in 18:06!  Goodness me.  3.5min per kilometer.  Must be sprinting all the way non stop.  Where did they get all those stamina/energy??  Shorter than half the time I took.  :p

Our group did pretty well too.  All of us completed what we set out to accomplish. :)  Achieving results better than what we expected!  Well done girls & boys!!

Gladys Lee a.k.a. Redbabe (5km) - 40:31 (approx. 8:06min/km)

Jo Lee (10km) - 60:00 (approx. 6min/km)

Lilian Yeo (5km) (t.b.a.)

Charlie Chia (10km) (t.b.a.)

Evelyn Ang Loo (5km) - 37:02 (approx. 7:24min/km)

Florence Lee (5km) - 46:27  (approx. 9:17min/km)

Mambo Ng (5km) - 47:24 (approx. 9:28min/km)

The organizer distributing bananas out to the monkeys runners at the Nike Carnival site :p.  Supply of energy and potassium.  We were searching for the banana booth high and low when we saw lots of people munching it down.  Not that we are hungry.  We were just greedy.  I had two which had me bloated with gas after that :p.  When I got home, quickly rushed to the toilet and farted the longest most disgusting fart in my entire life which reminded me of that FROG mtv.... prattt pratttt prattttt.... :p  It must have been a result from banana + 100plus + drinking water + breakfast and etc... lols.  A sure 'gas' concoction!  Yeah, I know, this part is pretty EWWWW.....hahahaha...

Went for a hearty breakfast at Levain along Jalan Delima, KL, after that (after the run.  Not after the fart. Hehehe :p)  It has recently been my favourite place to hang out.  Been there 4 times just the past two weeks. :p  They served freshly baked bread, cakes as well as lunches.  Very cosy place with colourful petunias everywhere. 

Together with our cafelatte, we had this bun which we called the 'alien' bun cause we thought it look cute. 

And this strawberry tart too cause it was pretty (tasted yummy too).

No, not just that alien bun + strawberry tart.  Those were just appetizers.  We each had a sumptuos breakfast plate too. :p  Yeah, ran only for 5km but ate like a king and queen.  What the heck... lots of effort ok for first timers.  Lols...

Florence & I got Ari (the purple guy above) as a memento upon completion of our run at the finish line.  I thought he looked sleepy and boring but Florence said he is not sleepy, he is just looking 'cool'.  Hmm.... -.-

I saw some other runners got Jay which was wearing really cool shades and I thought it might be because the time we took to complete was categorized under 'lousy/slow'.  That's why the sleepy  Ari character.... lols...  But when I found out Mambo got 'Jay' too, I knew it must have been random. :p

Thinking back, it was a little hillarious.  We were all so hyped up for this run.  All the trainings, talking, excitement and was even a little nervous a day prior to 10.10.10.  As if we were running 50km. Lols... all those excitement were just for a 5km run which lasted less than an hour.  Hahahaha.... 

But then again, whatever it is, most importantly, WE DID IT! We didn't just talk the talk but we even 'ran' the walk!  Good job!