Me and You

i know you like it when i act like a kid on purpose sometimes..

i know you like it when i make funny faces..
i like it when i see your big head on my face when i wake up every morning.

i know you like to tease me on purpose all the times.. just to see me whimper..

we spent our first chinese new year at genting. a one day trip with friends.. it was a happy moment..

you said you like it when i smile widely...

i also know you have no idea why i like smile sheepishly.

you came to my house for chinese new year to meet my dad even though i know you were not ready that time.. but you still made it.. i do appreciate that..

you brought me to your close friend's open house. and i met all of your friends there.

i spent my 21st birthday with my family, you and your friends..

we spent my birthday this year with my family...
you used to sit in front of the tv all night, playing ps2.. you don't even care if i took an ugly photo of you..

i know you hated me for eating so much cos i get fat easily. and you once told me you hate it if your girlfriend is fat. but sometimes, i did it on purpose.. cos i need some attention..

we go almost everywhere together... raves, parties, dinners..

we went for road trip with a bunch of friends.. it was fun fun fun..

i love it when we hang out together.. be it at the beach..

fishing ponds,
with no fish in it...

or at home playing with Alfie.. i still remember the first night we bought Alfie home.. i still remember how i convince you that he'll be a darling... and how i promised that i'll take care of him..
even though i know we don't have much time since we're both working, we still spend time with Alfie. though you always said that you want Alfie out of the house when he did something wrong, like bitting off the big pillow and eating back his own poo poo, i know you don't mean it. he's too cute to be thrown out..

they said that we look alike, though i think i'm prettier than you.. :P it's nice to know that your shoulder is there for me anytime, everytime, if not, most of the time.

you know i like it when you kiss me..
=)
i know you like it too...


two years ago, i met you.

i'm glad i did.

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boo!

Boo!

heheh... scary eh? hehe.. it's shortie's wedding shoes..

=)

i'll just keep everything short.. lazy to type.. see photos lah!

look like school boy and school girl ? *akad nikah day*

and now i "confirm" both of you are legally married.

nah..

MUAHHX!!

Yay!!!

the pelamin..

nice?

culture shock.. many of us (chinese) dunno how to merenjis..

newlyweds and close friends..

daisies that i ordered.. nice eh?

what's with that expression?

family potrait.

what's a wedding dinner without "yam seng"s???

we travelled together..

beautiful lilies that i got all the way from cheras the night before.. *proud*

waiting.

here i come.

tradition.

want. to. get. my. sis. must. go. through. obstacles.

who's this?

must. drink. (sweet, sour, bitter & spicy= honey, lime, beer & sabah chilli sauce!)

"i won't wed again"

cak!

hi tech tea ceremony with mom on the webcam..

he won't be here for me and bro's wedding.. =(

another family potrait.. *with mom waiting in the webcam*

only 3 girls there to catch.. but look! only adi's hands were up.. wakakkakaa..

end of story.. lazy to write. bleh!

it's about the size, not the brand.. dumb blonde..

girl : how much will you charge to polish this Merc?

ming: rm xxx.

girl: wah.. why so expensive?

ming: -_-:

after a while, girl brought another car to quote price..

girl: what about this one? (Toyota Estima)

ming: rm xxx. (only rm30 more than the Merc)

girl: WAH!!! why this one more expensive geh?? Merc is more expensive than Toyota right?

ming: -_-

speechless.


kuang kuang kuang....

today when i tuned in to a chinese radio station, they were talking about one of our country's richest man, Lim Goh Tong, or Uncle Lim. At firs, i heard the person said something in mandarin, about Uncle Lim's past.. i thought, "wow! this station shares something different today." i wonder if it's their new concept... to talk about some millionaires' past, how hardworking are they before they become rich. i wonder who's the next person they're gonna review.. so i went for breakfast and when i was on the way to work, i heard the dj on the radio announced that Uncle Lim actually passed away last night, or was it morning... i can't remember.. i reckon that when a person passed away, sure we will only say all the nice things about that person. this morning, they interviewed few people who worked with Uncle Lim before... all of them said that he's a very nice man. likes to keep himself in his employees' shoes. because he worked hard for what he have now. not that i didn't agree on them but.. is there really nothing else other than nice things?

why do we only appreciate someone afther they passed away? why do we only say nice things when they're dead? why not say it when they're still alive and able to hear it? if some of you read Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie, there's a part where he gathered his family and friends when he knew that he's slowly dying, and ask all of them to do a speech. a speech when you give during a funeral. he said something like.. he wanted to hear what everybody will say about him when he's still around. because when he's dead, he can't hear them anymore.

which i think it's very true.

when a person is dead, they can't hear us. why say it when a person is not around anymore?

i do admit i'm the same as well.. and i do believe that it's very normal that we only say nice things when a person is gone rather than when they're still around. cos he's already dead. let's just remember the good things rather than bad ones.

like both of my grandfathers.. when they're still around, i seldom talk to them and say some nice things about them very often. but when they're gone, i say only good things about them. do realise that they are nice people. but i never share it out so often. i do ocassionally tell my friends that my grandfather(father's side) is a very strong man. he still can climb and chop down a tree at the age of 95... i do tell my friends that he likes gardening and he's very creative also.

but i never tell them that when i was schooling, i dread staying at home during the weekend cos i have to take care of him. not that i need to bathe him or what, i only have to do simple things like heat up the porridge for his lunch, boil water for his thermos when it's evening cos he likes to drink hot water. but i still stay at home cos i believe in karma. so i do take care of him when i'm still living with him. and when i moved out live with ming, and started working, i go back every weekend and buy kuih, egg tarts, or tong sui for my grandparents for their tea time.

so for me, i think it's not about what we say after a person is not around anymore. is what we do for them when they're still around.

well... i'm not a bad grandchild after all, huh?

永远找不到我要的东西

Last saturday was my off day.. woke up around lunch time, had lunch with ming and ah mun and went to digital mall myself to meet my cousin. actual plan was to get a 1gb memory stick and change my phone case to a white one (currently using black.. and got bored of it..). but when i reached there, he said have to wait til this weekend cos he forgot to order it. so went for a drink with him and got my iPod a screen protector before i left. since i'm already there, might as well look for a pda cos i need it for work now.. so many meetings and things to do. right now, i'm using a normal notepad and everything is everywhere. most of the time, i forgot what i need to do. i saw the one that i want online last week.. it's white. my iPod is white and my phone will be white soon.. all will be white!! so nice huh? hehe... so.. the one that i saw..



which is this one.. Palm Z22. my sister had a Sony Clie last time but she didn't know where she put it, so i tried looking for a new and cheap one... and the price in their official website is rm499, which is affordable. so i went from floor to floor to look for it... most of the shops in digital mall don't sell pda. most of them are selling pda phone. they told me it's better. "all in one. very useful". but i only want a pda. not a pda phone... so i thought, maybe i go to low yat, they'll have it...

i called my bestie and lucky me, he's free so i went fetch him out and when we're there, the people who sell Palm told me that they only have the latest model. all of them told me the same thing and they said it's been discontinued in malaysia.

maybe because most of the people now don't use pda without phone function.

but hey, z22 is affordable and cheap. and it's like iPod size.. so the salesperson told me look around in those shopping mall that have less people. they MIGHT have it there. ugh... i thought of sunway or ioi mall or maybe subang parade... but we decided to go to the curve. lagi teruk. only found ONE shop who sells pda and they're only selling Palm TX. it's too expensive for me... :(

so i thought.. maybe they're right.. perhaps i should get a pda phone.. i saw this online as well...

sony ericsson m600i. click here to try the phone... i think it's nice.. perfect size for a pda phone. not too bulky and it's available in white too... hehe...

so we went to cineleisure's sony ericsson store.. i asked the fella there and he told me they don't have it too! they're pushing a newer model.. damn.. what i want is what i can't get...

i'm so desperate for a pda that i called harvey in US, and asked him to look for me. i told him wanted the z22.. and he said he'll look out for me.. :) so lucky to have friends oversea.. just hope that they won't say no stock or stop producing anymore..

so after dinner at Charm, (they serves delicious halal oriental and western food. like pan mee and asam laksa..) we shop around at the flea market. i wanna get ear rings at first but couldn't find. saw a belt similar to the one that i wanted.. so i asked the lady whether she have the design that i wanted.. "sorry ah miss... that one is old design, now don't have already..." -_-

him: why you always like OLD things geh?? so does it mean that you're outdated..? hahahaaa!

grrr!!!!!!!!!

so i got the similar to the belt that i wanted... in white! heh..

haih.. so hard to get things that i wanted..

A Person Not To Forget.

The first memory that I had of my grandfather is that... he likes gardening. He likes to plant bonsai when I was little. And orchids. He likes to mix few different colors of bougainvilleas, let them grow into a big bush and cut them into shapes like airplane, birds and in a shape of bonsai. Oh, few months ago, he shaped on of them into a sea lion. No, he didn’t tell me what it was… it just looked like a sea lion. Very creative huh? But then around five years ago, he sold most of his bonsais to people who pass by our house every evening when they brisk walk. I remembered my dad was furious about it. Part of it is because he sold it very cheap to them. Part of it it’s because we had it for like…. 10 or 15 years? Since we moved in to the house. So we only had bougainvilleas.

Grampa likes to catch birds. He’s very creative in bating the birds into a cage that he made himself. He likes o hear them sing. But he never keeps them very long. I remembered there was one time; he caught a blue greenish bird. Very beautiful. But he freed the bird few days later...he said the bird doesn’t sing.

I also remembered when we’re kids, he likes to make puzzle toy for us. He used key chains and those thin steel wires whatever they called it. Very creative. Well, daddy said last time when grampa was in China, that’s what they make to entertain themselves.

We used to breed chickens at home. And I’ll watch him kill it when they’re big enough to make a dish during Chinese New Year. Oh, grampa also likes to grow vegetables in or backyard. He’ll use his urine as fertilizer. Sometimes, he’ll ask my brother to urine on the plant.. He says its better! So every time my dad cooks the vege that he planted, I don’t dare to eat it. But they said it’s normal to use urine as fertilizers. But I couldn’t help thinking about it and I swear I can even smell the stench of urine whenever daddy cook the vege... or maybe it’s just me.

Grampa’s 95 years old this year. He’s asthmatic and he complains of neck pain very often since last year. we took him to the hospital few months ago due to lung infection. I was in the ambulance with him. From HUKM to Klang GH. I remember the first thing he said when we got down from the ambulance is “Where’s my shoes? Remember to take it.”

I was damn nervous that time and when he said that to me, I don’t know whether to laugh or what. That’s my grampa. He doesn’t like people to hold his hand when crossing the road. Even in the hospital, I hold his hand when we’re walking to the toilet, he let go my hand and held the handle bar along the wall instead. I think he did that because he wanted to let us know that he still can walk on his own. He wanted to let us know that he’s still strong.

Yes.. he’s still very strong... few weeks back, he still have the energy to cut down a tree at our backyard. Few years ago, he still climbs up a coconut tree to get the fruits.

Grampa likes to take pictures.. he always smile whenever he sees a camera. taken in 2005, my birthday.

Debb bought a walking stick for him from pharmacy last 2 years for father’s day. He didn’t use it.. He still prefers to use his own creation of walking stick, from a guava tree branch. He didn’t use it to help him walk. He can walk perfectly fine. But he just likes to hold it when he goes out for brisk walking in the evening. To shoo those stray dogs away..

2007 Chinese New Year.

Last Thursday, I got a phone call from my youngest aunt.. “Your grampa passed away. Come back now”. I’ve heard so many of my friends lose their grampa at a very young age. Some never even saw their grandparents. I’ve never thought about not having my grandparents around. I feared this call for so long that when it came to me, all I know is RUSH!

I rushed back home and while driving, I thought of the times when I talk to him by just doing hand gestures cos he has hearing problems, shouting doesn’t work. I remembered how we tested him in Chinese New Year, asking if he recognize each and every one of his grandchildren. He has a very good memory and eyesight. At age of 95, he doesn’t need to use glasses when he read the paper.

I really wanted to cry. But I didn’t.

He went to a better place.

When I saw him lying on his bed, he looked normal. Like he’s sleeping..

I grew up with grampa and it’s weird not having one now. I’ll definitely tell my children about their great grandfather, like how I used to dislike eating his vege, how he used to climb up the trees, how he used to like drinking Stout. Everything about him.

which one?

"Fatal bid to 'save' handphone
KUALA LUMPUR: A woman who lunged to grab her handphone that slipped from her hand plunged five floors to her death at Sungei Wang Plaza yesterday.
Beauty shop operator Pauline Lye Yuan Min, 32, was sitting on a railing and talking on her mobile phone on the fourth floor of the shopping complex at 7.15pm when the phone slipped from her hand.
She then tried to grab it but toppled over the railing and fell on a table on the lower ground floor, resulting in severe head injuries.
Many shoppers rushed to her aid but she died on the spot."

Source: NST Online



So i thought NST reported a more specific news than The Star.. but then, i was wrong...

i was having breakfast with my colleagues today and we talked about this incident. he read in China Press that a Malay woman saw the whole incident.

Apparently, Pauline's husband sells crystals on 3rd floor. she went to 4th floor to make a phone call. the malay lady saw her dialing her mobile a few times, while doing that, she walked back and forth near the railing. when she started talking on her phone, she stepped on a chair beside the railing and sit on the railing and continue talking on the phone. after that, she slipped, and fell down.

that's what China Press reported. she didn't drop her phone. but she slipped and fell down.

so, which report should we believe?

firstly, her husband's shop is on the 3rd floor. assuming that she was there to see her husband (cos she's wearing casual and it's a holiday), why she went one floor up to make the call?

secondly, if there's a CHAIR there, why she didn't just sit ON the CHAIR, but chose to step up and sat on the railing, ON FOURTH FLOOR, instead? logically, if it's ME, i'll choose to sit on the chair. it's meant to be seated on, right? and, 4th floor is VERY high! it's dangerous. logic people like me wouldn't sit ON the railing in 4th floor and talk on the phone. right?

there must be another story behind it.

click here.

i saw the body.

i was there i think around 10 or 15 minutes after this lady fell down. i took the escalator down and saw it. the cops were taking pictures by then.

we all thought she was alive when the ambulance came around 5 mintes we knew about the tragedy... but then they went away with the stretcher without the lady. which means she was already dead by the time the ambulance came.

i saw a pool of blood around her head. her face were covered with her hair. body facing down. tragic huh?

we thought she commited suicide. but some said she was pushed down. some said she fell down. like in the news, she fell down. right on the middle of the stage.

how can she fall down in a famous shopping complex?