Happy Leap Day!

February 28, 2008

For some, Leap Day is a celebration

By Jim Shilander
Herald-Republica

"ANGOLA, Ind. -- And so Friday ends the oddest of months. Every four years, the shortest month of the Gregorian calendar gets a little shot of adrenaline with a big ending.
Due to the Earth's rotation actually lasting 365 days and six hours, the extra day coming (nearly) every four years is used to correct the actual number of days.
This leap year brings an occurrence that happens once every 28 years. Leap day will be on a Friday this year, an occurrence that last happened in 1980 and will occur again in 2036, said Dolores Tichenor, a professor of mathematics at Tri-State University.
"It's fairly regular, every four years, it changes by five-day cycles continually," Tichenor said. This pattern changes when the calendar hits those century years without leap days."

2008 Resolutions & Goals

I know I know it's already end February but I was thinking if I don't this sorted out, it will just be another year that pass by and I know that I'm maturing by the year :P

I may just change along the way and these are just some of my things that have been on my mind:

1) Lose Weight (trying to not NATO but Just Do It!). Start in Mar 08 & incorporate regular exercises
2) Time Management (less procrastination and apply Murphy's Law)
3) Get Organized
4) Diligently read the Lord's word (buy bible for fun only if I don't read)
5) No shopping! (impossible but must CUT down on luxurious items)
6) Find a Man! (I should put as Top Priority haha... just kidding!) If desperate, sure don't have one.
7) Clear Debts (try not to splurge unnecessarily, eat like a popper!)
8) Temper/Mood Swings (to lower and lessen it, else I may live to regret..)
9) Spend time with parents
10) Prioritisation (interlinks with No. 9)

I can't think of anything else coz overworked today and brain's kind of dead. Signing off....Nite!

Sunday Gathering

It's an interesting Sunday today because it was the first meet up / tiny gathering for me with few of my primary school friends. Man, time really flies. For those who turned 28 already, it's 16 years since we left Primary 6! Haha a few of us are in denial especially those born in the last quarter of the year, including me of course.

This gathering came about because of my good old friend, Siew Kim back in primary school and she's migrating to the US for good. Yay, me got a place to stay in LA, California next time hehehe....so mean I know :P Anyways, I picked Siew Kim up as she lives nearby and headed off to Puchong for Tim Sum at Meixin Restaurant. Directions from another friend wasn't clear but we got to the place in the end.

Later, we paid a surprise visit to our Primary 6 class teacher, Mrs. Yang. Worst of al, I couldn't even remember who was the teacher and how she looked like until we turned up at her doorstep. I shan't elaborate but for whatever reason, no matter where I go, I'm somehow remembered hehe ... ain't sharing if it's in a Notorious or a Famous Way! Well my name's unique so bleh :P

Saturday supposed excitement!

This was the longest that I have ever slept in God knows how long! I actually slept through 11 hours! Haven't really planned out the day yet. Did my laundry, my usual practice on Saturdays and suddenly I got a text to go for a charity drive, getting a spin in your choice between a Ferrari, Lamborghini or a Porsche in Sepang.

So I thought why not?? Something different at least to spice up my weekend a bit. I wasn't too keen initially but then decided to go anyway. I had to make my way to 1U in order for my friend to pick me up. He had to pick other people too who happened to be in 1U / One World Hotel. Everyone was rather geared up for it and guess what....my friend got the date completely wrong, unbelievable!!!!!!!! Then we detoured at KLIA exit as we found out it was indeed my friend's mistake. The event was meant for Sunday.

Feeling bad already, he offered to either have food or drinks in a less noisy place. I suggested Delicious, Bangsar Village. Had the afternoon high tea with Watermelon & Lychee Blast. So filling! Later, headed off to MK to pick up a CD and had dinner together with Darcy, CC & Dato at Tropicana. Since I wasn't that hungry, I ordered Ala Carte over opting for a buffet spread. That's about all that has happened yesterday.

Toyota Rush

Ahh....finally satisfy mum's and my curiosity by going to check out the Toyota Rush. Honestly pricing is rather reasonable for a 7 seater car. Well it kind of have the RAV4's look though it's not 100% close. It's a 2WD and frankly speaking, it's just too big for me but it's a good car for families. Price was RM89K and there's 4 colors to choose from.

If it was a 5 seater, I would have taken it. Well Perodua is launching one under "Terrias" sometime May (i went to check out too) and it seems the pricing will be RM95K onwards. That's crazy and beyond my budget. It's the 2nd generation Kembara and it's exactly the same as the Toyota Rush and it's going to be a 5 seater and it's a 4WD.

Give me an exciting topic please!

I wonder if I can say anything other than work! It's really up to my neck or even forehead now to be exact! Given the fact that I have long neck, it seems far to reach forehead so I will stick to the forehead instead. It's like back to back meeting man! I am really tired physically and mentally. It's really terrible and given the fact that you don't have lovely colleagues doesn't make things any easier.

Back to back meetings and lots of presentation to get ready. I still managed to go teach the Tuesday class. Wednesday and Thursday was mad because I had less than 5 hours sleep so Friday, I was knocked out completely. I did some shooting well for personal reasons. I will blog about it if it was successful ;)

My company's Sports Club organized the CNY dinner and it was in Sheraton Subang. I was well NOT really fashionably late but good thing I came later. Reason is that the dinner can't be started until at least few directors arrived coz they need to 'lou sang' haha!! We had 6 tables in total. Food was so so only. Here are some pics from the dinner with my colleagues.

Beloved Cousin

This is a belated blog about last weekend whereby I spent some time with my cousin who came back only once after 5 years and going back to the States soon. It was a really a surprise visit when she came back. Well she tried surprising me but I guessed I surprised her in return by not being around during CNY. Sorry dear!

Only met her once i am back from my CNY holiday and on Sat at the airport just before sending her off. She came on Friday night to meet me once more before she left. Here's some pics.

Laziness - update since I got back from hols

I know that I am supposed to be blogging about my getaway but it's been really tiring and I will end up staying really late nights and be non-productive at work in the daytime. Can't take it. I will try to keep up ASAP before I forget what took place. Basically I have been really busy with work, work late and lack of sleep as I try to keep up with my blogging or replying to emails, msgs or doing something with Facebook.

Not doing justice to my eyes really. I am yet to check with the specialist! I just feel something's not too right. Oh well, am going to bed now for once a bit earlier as I would like to go to work earlier.

Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis

Oh man, I am so addicted to this song! Been listening to it and repeating god knows how many times! The music videos that I tried to download seemed to get stuck halfway and I managed to find a full song video and it's live, who cares!

1 day earlier Pre CNY Dinner

Because I well was guiltily leaving for my holiday the next day, I had the pre-CNY dinner one day earlier. If I literally translate from Cantonese, it's the 29th night. Dont ask me what it means, I have not idea. We had our dinner at Teluk Gong, Sunway. It's not the one far far away in Klang. There's one that is opened in Sunway.

Hairstyle Change

Oh I can't believe that I forgot to blog about this. Been quite lazy and it's much to upload everything and just write short description in facebook instead :P

Well, I decided to have a change in hairstyle and went to see my hairstylist on Federal Territory Day and had my hair permed. Yeah man, you heard me. It's permed! I was always afraid of the fact that you may look more mature or older once you do that. I decided to do it before I aged even further so I can still have the option to have it turned around! :)

Glad that I have finally done what I said I wanted to do, though in phases. First was eyelash extension and now hair restyle.

Happy Valentine's Day!

To All My Beloved Friends and Families,

Here's wishing you a very HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY to those who are attached and to those who are single, no worries as it's Happy Hugs Day you!

I went back to work today after a long break, happiness!!!!

I'm back!

Ahh...back and er got toasted even more! Will blog with pics later on. Now, to rest for work tomorrow. It's going to be fun!!!! (yea rite)

Gong Hei Fat Choy !!

Here's wishing all my peeps and buddies and everyone else a very Happy Chinese New Year! Will be offline for a few days and will blog about where I went :)

Back to Reality

To sum up the whole 1 week after being back from Phuket - WORK! That's it, nothing but work. Helped mum and dad at the shop too for the past 4 weekends. This will be one of the shortest post ever. Only nice treat is that I went to Prime for lunch and the food wasn't too bad plus also treating myself to a good dinner packed from Sri Ayuthaya. Am I spoiled or what ? muahahaha....

Last Day at Fooket

It was such a fast and compact trip. Only 1 free day which was power packed and we were all set to go today. Once again was tired because there were 3 separate fights but I had to wake up earlier to have breakfast and then took another last walk to the O Top Shoppers Paradise just to see if there's anything we can get. I managed to get a pair of bikini for myself which I hrm doubt if I would ever wear. It was a good negotiation or so I thought from a whopping THB850 to THB280. That means RM28. So be it la can wear or not coz it's inexpensive anyway.

Packed up and left the hotel about 11am. Had some short city tour via the bus hence the reason of having to leave early. We stopped by at the famous Cashew Nuts factory where you can all sorts of flavors mixed with cashew nuts and juice even! It seems it's some new discovery. I bought myself one. Not cheap man, well it was supposed to be knit where you mix with soda and ice. I liked the taste as I tried the sample there.

Fantasea

After having a good day out at the beach and shopping, we went back to the hotel to get changed for group photo session and getting ready to go for our seafood dinner before the famous Fantasea show. Guess what, I saw that everyone was wearing so casual so I headed quickly to have a change of clothes and tada......ended up missing the photo shoot. Oh well, nothing much I can do about it. Here's some pic of us in da bus wearing my newly bargained slip on dress for dinner and show. Thank God I changed, it was hot!

2nd day at Phuket

It was a Free and Easy day for us after breakfast. Man, I only had less than 4 hours of sleep and was having a splitting headache. Didn't exactly plan and let things be spontaneous as everyone seemed to have their own thoughts so we try to gather up people with similar interests doing the same thing.

All 6 of us headed towards Patong Beach. There are 43 beaches in total in Phuket. That will take us 43 days to cover if we take up 1 beach per day. 3 of us did water sports and the 3 went shopping. Well since I wasn't exactly prepared for swimming, I just wore my halter Billabong top that I bought in Dec and borrowed my colleague's trunks haha...yes you heard right! It's a pair of trunks! At least it's the kind of material that dries up fast.