Me, Watashiwa, Ya

yes i have finally gotten meself my tattoo..its a horse. a little wild and beautiful horse i must say. i am so happy!!! 2008 has been a year that i have been doing things. Going greater heights. I love it so far! but healing of a tattoo is so tedious.. and scary.. it feels like the whole design is ripping off, but its just the scabs
some asked why horse? my answer “i am a horse. Born in 1978 making me in the chinese zodiac a horse. Horses always represent strenth and speed.. so more horse tatoos i have on my body, i have more horse power.. kekek muahahah

more changes are about to happen to my life.. i know i can feel it coming. sorry i did not update in yonks! but here it is:
1) i am moving to my house!!!! my bf buy house di in greenfields .. happy happy
2) started saving money - really
3) finally started work on my own business

more things to come..

so here I was brushing my teeth, getting ready to hit the bed, and suddenly my boyfriend asks me , “Did you feel that?” I was like.. “huh?” yes.. my mouth full of foam and completely taken aback, he continued, “do you feel the building shaking?” well to that, I immediately stood still and fair enough, I did feel it.. yes, the building was shaking.. slightly.

This is the second time I am feeling the tremors of a faraway earthquake. The first time being after the tsunami hit us, back in my house in Brickfields. That was weird, and feeling it again was even weird.. One thought raced to my mind, “We are going to die!!!”

Yeah yeah, call me drama queen, but have you ever wondered about it?I was thought back in school that we are not part of the whole “Lingkaran gunung berapi” (I dono what it is in English, as this was during my days, the KBSR days) hence no earthquake can shake us. but I guess even geography can be wrong.

Here is another question. Are all these natural disasters a sign of Mother Nature’s outburst to what we have done to her, or is it just a change in climate? And why does it almost always have to be Asia?

Well, some of you who know me, I don’t normally discuss serious matters over my blog, however, this made me think. If … IF IF IF IF we had treated Mother Nature the way our forefathers treated her, would all these be happening? Or is this normal with the course of time? hmm honestly, I really dono.. Don’t want to think so much, headache only.

Sigh.. all this SLIGHT tremors I am feeling also make me wonder.. should I continue buying that high rise condo.. or stick to a low rise one? I really dont know.

Anyway, on a lighter note.. I have my new laptop, thanks to my company a nice coach handbag, thanks to Michelle.. and the icing would be a new handphone.. but that can wait.

I have been taking work a little easier this time, coming home earlier whenever possible and chilling with family and my beau.. but apart from that life is good and am enjoying it..

Oh by the way, Perhentian is WAY better than Tioman.. REALLY!!!

By the way, what did YOU DO in your long weekend? I finished a book *reading it Sharon*

I have been away a lot lately. Basically been travelling for work and leisure. I believe the last I spoke about travelling was when I went to Bali. This time around, I went to Sabah and am heading to Tioman.

Sabah was an okay trip. I managed to have some rest, like for occasional 30 mins or so when my phone did not ring, and of course when I decided to have my once in a blue moon doak in the bathtub!

Why I was in Sabah? I was representing the Miss Malaysia World organisers for Miss Sabah World 2008 pageant. My job was to ensure a girl with some quality was chosen for the title so when she comes for the pageant in KL she would not be left out. However, my trip and my job was made easier thanks to my travelling partner, Miss Deborah Priya Henry, Miss Malaysia World 2007. Thanks Deb! "What would I have done without you?" ha ha

Anyway, we stayed at the Magellan Sutera Harbour Beach and Resort and all paid thing, so it was quote good lah of course!

Anyway during our return flight to KL, our luggages went missing!! Stressful.. as all my clothes and stuff for another event upon return, APM was all there.. so imagine lah.. I was sitting in the hotel fuming.. thank god it was sent about 6pm, ample time to get ready.

APM? Oh that went well, except that I was not on duty.. so was a bit boring, but I managed to take pics with my favs, Judika from Indonesia, Faizal Tahir, Anuar Zain and Taufik Batisah from Singapore.

Next trip, I am heading over to Tioman this weekend with my baby.. as a gift for his 30th birthday. He wanted the beach, so I give him the beach lah =)

So more updates after my trip yeah!

Today I was at this prominent hotel in KL.. attending a Secretary’s Week Press Conference.Starving, my client and I headed over to the coffee house to grab a bite before the event begun. Oh my god! Was I in for a surprise… The service at the restaurant was totally disgraceful. I had to wait 45 minutes before my food arrived, and it was not a complicated item on the menu, sandwich!
I could not bear it as my clients’ meals arrived earlier and they were done with their meals.. so you can imagine how long lah. I did not let it bother that much, but made a comment to the Restaurant Manager anyway, as this was a hotel I know I would visit in the future. Anyway my nightmare of ridiculous service did not stop there. To make things worse, while I was paying the parking ticket.. this is what happened:
me: (handing the attendant RM5 notes + RM1 shilling + validated parking ticket)
attendant: (has earphones plugged to his ears + was leaning against the chair, with no cares in the world)
he takes my notes and the parking ticket (clearly missing the shillings), my hand was still outstretched from my window, holding the shillings (fine he may not have seen me).
attendant: “one more ringgit”
me: “here” (pointing to the coins in my hand that was already outstretched since just now)
he takes the shillings from my hand, missing out a 10 cent.
me: “hello” (normal tone) “another ten cents?”
attendant ignores
me: “hello!!!!” (yells much much louder, concerned that he could not hear me, especially when he ignored me danggling the 10 cent like a lunatic from my window and having his ears plugged with earphones)
attendant apparently heared, me sort of screaming, …… throws the 90cents shillings from his window (yes some hit my car) and passed me the receipt.
Yes, the above story is a true story, and I was appalled. He probably thought I was some chic coming here to eat with her buddies in her little kenari and I would just drive away fuming. He was sooo messing with the wrong person!
I was fuming!!! I picked up the phone and called the Director of Sales, not knowing whom to call. I told him calmly what happened and I APOLOGISED that I had to give him ill news of the hotel where he works. He assured me that he will go to the fella and see personally what the hell was he thinking about behaving like that. He also went to to explain that the parking was outsourced.
I said I understand that it was outsourced, but since he was REPRESENTING the hotel, this was not acceptable. He completely agreed.
What happened to the fella after that? I dono.. but I sure will find out and let you know!

i can be soooo forgetful sometimes. Until recently i was having dinner with a girlfriend of mine, that i remembered there are a few things that i have not updated yet. So here goes:

Number one: my hawaiian trip! it was a real blast! i met backstreet boys, had a couple of drinks with nick and howie, and i had the vacation of my life. Coupled with some "my time", that was beneficial to my professional life and personal life. I love the new me. Hawaii is a great place for holidays. The people are nice, the weather is fine, and the sunset is beautifully breathtaking! for pics, please surf my facebook site. Sorry no time to download it here

Number 2: jay chou live in malaysia. Before i write anything here, i need to say a huge thank you to MICHELLE LEE!!! so much for the tickets. there were RM398 tickets each, i had 2, and i brought along my best mate, evelyn with me. The concert was one of the things i wanted to do in my life, to watch jay chou in concert! and now i have a million more dreams to achieve (hey if you can dream, dream not only big, but more!)

Number 3: bali trip. i was in bali for 4 days for my company trip which did a lot of good for the whole company. After a very long time, we all left the comfort zone of the office and head to bali and had a blast of a time! there were so many unforgetable memories, and i shall forever treasure them! special thanks to Razlan, Rafil, Amin, gwen and Stephanie!

Number 4: my shoot. I decided to start my acting again, thanks to a very nice director, MS Kalai, who was kind enough to offer me a role in his latest drama "kaloori pookal" - directly translated as university flowers. go figure! i play this character, Ashwini who is a loner, quiet, but rather feisty person. It is scheduled to be out on TV2 sometime in April, i think. I really hope get to watch some of it, if not all

well there you go. now it is back to my boring life.. office, and home. My baby is in london now and will only be back on the 31st and i miss him loads! *sniff sniff*

hey all! i have been so busy even keeping this blog seems sooo hard!! okay just a quick recap of my life:

after backstreet boys, i went to bali for my company trip. i have not uploaded the pics on friendter, but if you are on my facebook, please feel free to check them out!

I will be travelling more.. in april to sabah for 3 days.. sigh.. happy and not so.. as it is for work

have started my acting again.. yes i am back on track.. and realised that i am a little rusty when it comes to acting already.. well it has been like almost 2 years…

personal life has never been better.. still madly in love with my baby.. even after 2.5 years!

work.. almost resigned.. long story.. well as you can see it says almost, hence i did not lah.. hard and difficult but at the same time confused.. so much to do so little time.

i am now in between my shoots and working, hence there are so much of things i would love to tell, but i cant due to time constraint. infact i am now sitting in my office during lunch, skipped heavy stuff and had my herbalife shake instead and writing this blog.. so imagine that!

recently a lot of things happened in my other life with friends.. i dono what happened or how it happened.. yet it did. my take on it? if you are friends you want to cherish for the rest of your life, then you better bloody cherish it!

-peace-

wow.. it has been more than a month since i last updated.. so there is a lot to tell.. really.

Okay first of all, i won a contest on Red 104.9, to watch the backstreet boys live in hawaii. I know i know. it is the biggest prize i have ever won.. my my! now the biggest task was to get my US visa, which fortunately i got this morning, when i went for the interview and the interviewer was a nice old american who gave me the ticket instantly .. i so happy!!! now i need to do my japan visa.. why? ha ha  my flight has a 1 day transit in Osaka.. i wanna visit japan too!!!

Now, the next part of the story, i celebrated my christmas with lincoln in penang that was nice, but i don think he enjoyed himself that much, think all the food got into him..he prefers melaka now.. ha ha ha wait till he sees sabah..

what is your new year plan? it has been long since i celebrated with my best mates, so this year we are doing barbeque and having a little thing of our own.. that is going to be sooo awesome!!! cant wait!

yes, kuaci. that little annoying black..no wait.. is it white and black.. ahh yes..the little small striped little things that people bite.. no you obviously KNOW what it is..

anyway the reason i am blogging about it now is because recently i have had a little addiction to kuaci. But you know what the worst part, i like the normal white and black stuff, the scented ones, the pumpkin seends as well as the black melon seeds.. hey i am not weird!

well my boyfriend thinks this is brilliant as he says "wow. i did not know you like it so much, else i would have bought it for you everyday". Confused, i ask him, "what do you mean?" to this, his surprising answer was "well you are quiet!" ahhh imagine that. *no prizes on what happened to me bf for saying that*

work has been a real bitch! no serious. I am coping well, and now i have a teammate! so things are not *i hope, as it is still early* as bad as they used to be.. but lets see ok?

apart from that, seriously guys, i don have anything to update you all, but promise io will update more often than i used to!

i was at a friend’s wedding recently, whom i used to be very close to. He was one of the buddies. Buddies were *notice the past tense* a group of 11 of us who always stayed close together and always hung out together. You usually have this sorta group of friends who are normally gals or guys, ours was unique, it was mixed both in culture, color and sex!
I would never forget the days when buddies were around, todate, it shall always remain the finer times of my young adult days. They were there when i had my first breakup, my first proper job, my first hair straightening, oh yes… my eating disorder.
Let’s just say, that NOT always you have happy ending. we parted ways when "something" happened some good almost 5 years ago in April Fool’s day. But despite it being a long time ago, no one came forward to explain or apologise.. anyway that is an old story.
At the wedding, there i was seated with 3 of my gal friends who were once buddies too and we are still close as we used to be. I was thinking and also hoping that maybe we all (buddies) would have been seated together *oh well who knows for old times sake* I was so wrong. 2 buddies were seated at a separate table, and the guys, 2 of them were seated at another table. 8 buddies were present there that day. 1 was in australia for work, 1 was honeymooning *i did not even know he was getting married, sigh* i asked myself, we all could have been seated together… but why separately? It intrigued me, till today.
when i was there, watching him get married, telling his wife how much he loved her *ahh chin geh?!!! was my expression, saying all this lovey dovey things*, somehow, the wedding did not feel personal to me. Why? why did i not have this awww feeling when it was my best friend *once upon a time* getting married? What happened?
Then it hit me! "Kajai, he is a big boy now. he does not need you. he has his own life and he will be starting his own family soon. what do you expect from him?" Nothing! was my alarming question, despite deep down inside i know what i want.
i want to have been the one planning his wedding, being one of those who kept awake the whole day prior to the wedding getting everything for my friend,  the one who helped him plan his honeymoon, oh god! so much i could have done.. could have.. those two words lingered.
sigh, it has come to this. To this, where my best friend was getting married and all i can do was go for the wedding as a guest, give angpow, and leave. Not waiting for all the guests to leave, not doing what i am known to be good at, which is PR, not doing so much of things..
sigh it has come to this…

Okay first thing is that it is NOT LIKE A BALI trip you all would imagine. I was there for my Baby’s cousin wedding, Elizabeth Wong.

Now about the wedding: It was a beautiful balinese wedding. The full works, apparently it was a Hindu ceremony, (notice the WAS) but nothing about it was like the local Hindu nor the India Hindu ceremony, but there were very few similiarities.

Day 1: It was our 2nd year together. Yes Lincoln and I have been together for over 2 years now, and it feels amazing! *love you much b* we arrived in Bali (air asia lah) at about 3 something and we arrived in our hotel, Puri Mersari at about something. The hotel we lived in was a boutique hotel and it was beautiful. It spelled Bali all over the place, I particularly loved the toilet!*no camera, guys, sorry* we chilled in the room, enjoying the undisturbed few hours together, without my phone ringing *since taking up the new job, I hardly have peace (notice its peace, not rest)* at about 5 something, we visited Elizabeth who lived next doorm, yes she lived next to the hotel.  She has about 7 dogs, and they were all tame. Nice.. after visiting her, Lincoln and I took a walk around Sanur (the town we lived in) and had our anniversary dinner at this balinese restaurant. The food was ok ah.. then we head over for the tea ceremony that Lincoln had to do as he was older than Eliz. We arrived there at about 8 something, the ceremony began at 9 something, then we adjourned for dinner (with everyone from the family - about 20 of em) we had, really not so impressive italian food in bali (i know). then finally we came home, and i realised oh my god, no one in the family actually knew it was our anniversary, and there was a moment when even i hardly felt it. Yes, it was a sad moment.

Day 2: the wedding. woke up in the morning at 9 something, and about 10 we were at the wedding ceremony. I could write lots about it, but the thing is that, i would have prefered to take pics and show u guys, so sorry about that. Will try to get some pics from Lincoln uncle, Alex and see if i can post some k? after the ceremony, we were served lunch, which was cool, cause they had satay, some rice, vegetables.. it was yummy food. I know i enjoyed it. After the wedding, lincoln and i came back to the hotel, and slept a bit as we had a late nite the previous night and just wanted to rest. we woke up and we had dinner invite again, this time with both Eliz family (all of us) and yogi (her hubby) family, comprising mostly of americans (yogi is mixed: American father + balinese mother) and trust me, this is one mix you may want to consider *wink* I had the chicken ala Kiev which was okay, not bad lah.. but funny how only lincoln and i had balinese food while we were staying there, I guess we took into the local;s culture and ways of life, we both feel intrigued by things like that. had a night cap (minum lah), then we came back to the hotel and slept. next day, back to kl

Day 3: woke up early the next day cause it is broad daytime at about 6 in Bali. yea i know.. being the light sleeper i am, sensitive to light as well as sound, i woke upo at 9 something, took my bath and went over to have breakfast by the balinese pool in the hotel. That was so good.. so peaceful and relaxing.. i still feel it now. I was sipping on my chocolate milkshake (which was my almost staple food while i was there). took a piece of my sandwich for Lincoln who was up in bed wide eyed, looking for me. he wanted to take a dip in the pool, while i was chilling by the pool reading my book. honestly, that was such a serene nice feeling… then eliz visited us, and she brought us to see lincoln’s bro lionel (the rest of the family were staying in sanur beach hotel, which was like 15 mins walk from where we were staying). We did nothing, but watch TV. It was time to bit everyone bye bye, we went back, packed and left bali.

ps: for those of "you" who may something anything, i had to say family as i am almost part of his family. so shut up!