Wednesday, December 03, 2008

the bet.

The competition is on.

Me and Peks made a bet. Both of us have to shed 3kgs from our current weight before 1st of January 2009. The winner decides the prize (hint: cash). If both of us can shed off 3kgs, then the competition runs for another 3 months, which is to maintain the weight. Whoever can’t maintain loses and will have to pay up. If both can maintain it for 3 months, our partner will have to get something nice for us (hint: must at least worth RM 100-200).

Quite a good deal right?


But remember I promised Smelly that if I can reach 49kgs before his birthday this year, I will get an all-expense-paid trip to Hong Kong for a week, sponsored by Smelly and Ah Mun?

Heh.

Still no trip until now cos I can’t reach even to 53kgs. Bleh! To reach 49kgs is like what.. shed off total of 8kgs leh… you think it’s easy meh… chi sin.

Peks’ idea of a mere 3kgs sound more realistic right?

Denise, ganbatte! You must not fail this time!

Peks is very smart and greedy. I told her max RM100, she said she never bet so small amount. -_- She told me she will ask at least RM200 if she wins. Cis!

Never mind.

I guess this time; Smelly and Kenny will have to pay our prizes!

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

of cravings and gifts.

Ugh.

PMS. Why me? grr..

One thing I hate about being a woman is period. I hate period cramps (who doesn’t?). I hate bingeing on food few days before period (ok la.. maybe I don’t hate it THAT much). I hate being terribly bloated. I hate the awful headaches it gives me. I hate the mood swings. I hate hate hate the sudden emo attack.

These few days, I’ve been behaving like a pregnant woman, craving for weird foods. Yesterday at 11p.m, I craved for scrambled eggs with tomato sauce. I’m still craving for it now cos Smelly forbade me from eating supper. I craved for g geok chou / ginger vinegar pig trotter stew *salivate* . hmm… must ask daddy to cook it this week. Hurhur. (Damn.. I really feel like eating g geok chou now.. ) I craved for Japanese food, particularly at Sushi Groove, which I went with Smelly last Sunday. I still look forward to go there again cos they gave me this cash voucher and a loyalty card. Who wanna go with me? oh.. got discount also… (cos I use my Aeon credit card and they give 10% off… huhu.. at least saved on service charge? Bleh!). last Saturday, I craved for shabu-shabu. I dragged 2 of my ex-colleagues with my to Pudu Plaza just to satisfy my cravings... Right now, besides the pig trotter and scrambled eggs, I’m craving for rich dark chocolate ice cream cake. Very very rich dark chocolate mousse…. Molten chocolate lava cake. Baskin Robbins’ Maui Brownie Madness… Whoa… I’m so hungry now.. sobz. I feel like eating all at one time.



Anyway, we’re planning for a nice Christmas dinner with a bunch of friends on Christmas Eve and this year, we’re going to countdown and have give exchange session over at Kenny’s place after dinner. Since we’re gonna pick our gifts randomly that night, I had headache. I suggested that we pool the names and pick our receivers in advance so that the gift is personalized and useful. But then they still thought that random pick on the actual night is more fun. Gah!! Have to get something generic. We set the budget at RM 20. What to get leh? I have a few ideas already but then all also like.. not very suitable for everyone cos our group of friends have totally different taste from each other. IMO la… example, A like this but B thinks it’s ugly. B likes that, C likes the opposite but not what A likes. Get the idea? Haih.. what if I bought something A likes, but B picked it and don’t like it? sigh!

Our group is so diversify in taste and ideas. Wonder if it’s a good or bad thing. (Definitely bad when it comes to gift hunting). I’ve been searching for ideas online. Here are a few ideas..

- Bathroom towel set
- Candles/ Aromatherapy burner
- Toiletries
- Tea/ coffee Set / Mug. (This is a very classic Christmas gift. Every year sure get/give at least one mug. LOL. Very useful and timeless.)
- Kitchenware/ Nice plates/bowls
- Fondue set. (I’ve seen this last week and almost bought it for myself. Hmmm. Not a bad gift idea huh?)
- Starbucks gift voucher/ Coffee Bean Card
- Okay.. I think I know what everyone will like… M.O.N.E.Y! right right? Who doesn’t like money? Tell me who… heh… good idea!

Monday, December 01, 2008

i'm so random.

It’s December!

I didn’t know there are 4 days of Public Holiday this month until a friend told me last week.

FOUR/EMPAT/四 days! Bonus for me la.. Since I’m not eligible for annual leave until after my confirmation, which will be somewhere around April or May, all I can rely on is Public Holiday now…

*Note to self- try not to change job end of year*

Eh.. It’s very cham you know.. Especially when 99% of your friends are going on vacation this time around all you can do is to listen to their words of joyfulness and satisfaction during their trips and tell them how much you envy them… grrr.. (1% is like.. Smelly.. he’s more cham than me cos he need to work on a public holidays sometimes and his annual leave is like.. dunno when only can take. Heck, I don’t even know if he have any AL).

At times like this, I wished I had worked here for ten years.. gah!!

Damn envy those people who are working in bank lor.. I have this friend who work in bank, she told me that last month, she have to take 2 weeks off. Note: She HAVE TO. cos it’s bank’s policy or something… she told me because her job is dealing with big corporate account (high risk) and they are “forced” to take leave so that the company know that they don’t “use black money” or something… haiya I dunno how to explain la.. The point is, they get compulsory 2 weeks off. Cannot split the leave some more.. Have to take 2 weeks straight… that 2 weeks is not even included in her annual leave.. I ask her how many annual leave she’s entitled.. She told me 30 days.. Damn envious can die. Her bf also working in a bank and they both HAVE TO take the 2 weeks off together (of course, not everyone is entitled for 2 weeks la.. some only a week.. still have to depend on the job risk).

At times like this, I wished that I’ve excelled in my studies, especially anything to do with money, so that I can work in a bank… eh.. don’t play play… I’ve worked with a bank before but then customer service only lah… even so, they have very good benefits lor.. they really take care of their employees. Maybe because it’s American company? I don’t know. I’ve worked with 2 American companies before and they treat their employees really REALLY good (compare with Malaysian cinapek company, namely CiBai Net Station). At least they follow the Labor Law… at least they care about their associates… at least they don’t deduct people’s salary unreasonably and left only like RM 100 after deducting? (I thought Labor Law say cannot deduct more than have the monthly salary?) some more deduction calculated from 3-4 months before. Chi sin. Deduct salary never mind, claims also want to deduct? Woi… claims lei ge leh.. can deduct meh? We’re eligible for claiming entertainment bills ge wor.. we really are entertaining for the right purpose wor.. we entertain and give you sales in return wor.. when we submit claim, not only you don’t want to reimburse back to us.. you want us to PAY YOU BACK WHAT WE CLAIMED? Wth? We submit claims to get back our money, now you want us to GIVE you the money? The money is not even your money at the first place! Now what? We pay to entertain our clients and pay you AGAIN cos we entertained them? What the hell? Then you mei hou hou zhan lor? chi sin geh! Why not I pay you and work for you? hou mou?

Gah!

What kind of world is this? Don’t believe the above story? Well, you gotta believe it cos it happened right before my eyes! It’s not one two hundred we’re talking about. it’s few thousands! My ex-boss really cham lor… I pity him. Not only claims cannot get back… few months’ salary also got “hold back”. “Hold back” means he won’t get back at all already. If the cinapek still insist on deducting people’s salary cos they are late to work, etc, then my ex boss confirm dot com no need get back his money. Maybe he even have to PAY the cinapek back. cos my boss have this late-to-work habit cos my boss work til very very late and come in a lil bit later than the rest of us. Like that how?

Grr..

This cibai company very smart. I think they should be the pioneer company that hires people to pay them and work. Good idea hor?

Eh? Why terpesong again? Never mind.

Back to public holiday… so we’re gonna have holiday on the 8th, 11th, 25th and 29th.

I’m thinking of straightening my hair during the holidays. Again.

Curly hair is boring when you have no time to style it. After curling it, the only style that I had on is a ponytail. Damn boring. Sometimes, curly hair made me look 30 years older. Especially without make up. Like those aunties who woke up early in the morning to go wet market to buy fish for dinner, thinking that nobody will notice her messy curled hair and ghostly bare face. Tsk tsk… I hope I won’t have to become like one of those ghostly aunties in the future.

Shall I straighten it again? Shall I chop it off again?

Hmm.

Decision. Decision.



Sei … my boss just told me that I might need to come back for meeting on the 11th. Whole-day meeting. Oh well…

Sunday, November 30, 2008

have you started to take me for granted? i tried to convince myself so many times that you're not. i tried so many times to prove myself wrong.

yes, i've made up so many excuses to prove that you have not. it made me feel better. almost every time.

sometimes, i wished that you're a little bit sensitive.

afterall, i'm still a girl.

Friday, November 28, 2008

question from a 7 year-old.

i was browsing through Uncle Adrian's blog archives these few days cos i'm very kaypoh bored and reading his posts are better than watching TVB drama series his post are very interesting and funny (but sad and dulan after reading some posts) and best cure to boredom.

so anyway, something caught my attention.. there's this question his daughter asked while doing some coloring..

"Daddy, what do you call the color when you mix pink and yellow together?"

when i read it, i thought... "hmm... should be milky/light orange la.."

but damn.. i was wrong!!!

kids nowadays are damn creative.. i kalah... i surrender.. i admit i'm getting old and boring. tsk tsk..

can anyone guess what is the answer?



p/s- Uncle Adrian, if you're reading this, you cannot answer...

Thursday, November 27, 2008

which one?

*updated*
ok.. i showed Smelly the SE K850i yesterday and he told me that the real phone sucked. the keypad color will wear off and it's definitely a failure product!

no wonder i can't find this model in their US website! so i guess LG Q is my only choice huh?? anyone got better recommendation?

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i seriously need a new phone. i can sense that the backup phone that i'm currently using is getting more and more emo. wtf..

i found some phone models on the net... which i really really like!

Sony Ericson K850i
nice right? i'm lazy to talk about the specs cos i think most people out there already know it la.. the reason i chose this because it's Sony Ericson. i'm used to using SE and i like it very much. and it has 5 megapixel camera and xenon flash!! too bad the choices of colors are limited and they don't have red.. boo! but then it's cool la.. i like it a lot!!! i can BLOG with it too. whoa.. i can imagine how busy i am already.. *snap snap* blog blog *snap *blog* wakakaka!


LG KU990 (Viewty)
nice hor?? i like it because it's RED! (but i found out that Malaysia only have boring black..) and it has 5.0 megapixel camera! at least better then my old SE W810i la.. only got 2megapixel.. (my backup phone lagi worse.. no flash one.. Nokia's first clamshell phone.. neh.. the one with leather-like cover like Coach prints that one la.. *shh!! later my phone emo again*..). but this Viewty is LG. i never use LG phone before... i wonder if it's user friendly or not. one thing about this phone.. it's touch screen leh.. sure very mah fan when type message. just like iPhone la.. i think everyone who use iPhone sure complain mah fan. especially when driving.. cannot reply message. but the thing that i like about this phone is.. it has cool camera! (ok la.. i admit.. because it's RED).

LG KS360 (LG Q)

i tell you... i'm in love with this phone!!! (of course because it has RED) it has QWERTY keypad, it looked very cute AND it has touchscreen... i know touchscreen is useless la.. but it's very easy to type message! very cute... with its round design.. can sms like IM. and i can IM with it too! i like! BUT.. only 2megapixel camera and cannot focus geh... NO FLASH, no 3G. but then considering the price they're offering (RM699, maybe lower now), i think it's like that lor.. cannot complain. of course, it's damn shyiokk if this LG Q has 5mp camera with xenon flash and 3G like SE K850i... or lagi best if SE 850i have qwerty keyboard!!! hahaha! siao!

sei mou... phone that is perfect (SE K850i) is sure very expensive... and cheap LG Q doesn't have the core thing that i want which is, obviously, high megapixel camera with flash... ugh!

how? tell me how lah?

it comes in pink too. sweet right?

good idea!

him: why not you use my LG phone? (Smelly bought it just to answer business calls)

dy: duwan! no camera.

him: nvm.. i tie my camera with it la..

dy: (wtf??) duwan!!! no mp3 also...

him: never mind! i tie your ipod with it also lah.. good right? got phone, camera and mp3 player!

dy: -_-! grr! don't want!!!

him: wakakaka...


why my boyfriend so boh liao.. T__T

Since my phone is spoilt and Smelly discouraged me to repair it cos we sent it to repair for thousandth times already and it still not in order. Supposed, he asked me to use his old phone, which died on him not long after he said that. I wonder why when one phone dies, it seems like all your extra phones commit suicide at the same time as well. It’s a curse to poor people like me. I asked Smelly to get a new phone for me since both of our phone spoilt…

“so you’re going to buy a phone for me right?”

-_-

“we buy same phone… if webuy two phones at one time, they will give discount geh… so nice!”

“duwan same phone la..”

“why wor? Can get cheaper ma..”

“duwan lah.. today my colleague come to work, he sei tiu (curse) cos he took his gf’s phone. They have the same phone. Same color, no handphone straps... exactly same lah… Some more both also sell car one… damn mah fan

“ceh! If we get same phone, we don’t get same color lah… or we can put those handphone strap to differentiate ma. Hehe..” *damn happy, can get new phone*

“-_- no money… duwan buy.”

“you promised d wor….”

“bluek!”

“LIAR!!!!!!”

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Today, I Feel Like Doing a Tag.

4 Jobs I have had in my life:
Shampoo Girl - I started shampooing other people’s head since I was 10/11 years old. I was kinda “forced” to learn cos I had to help my dad out in his salon every weekend. I “worked” til I was out for college.

Promoter - I’ve sold clothes, where they would ask us to take out very old stock and keep the new ones during Sales season. I’ve sold cosmetics, the place I hate the most cos I’ll look damn ugly next to other promoters cos I don’t use make up. I’ve sold fragrance that smells terrible. I’ve sold instant soup for only one day cos I found out that they have ugly uniform.

Starbucks barista - my FAVORITEST job to-date. I love LOVE LOVE being a barista. It’s the place where I learned a lot of things about working. It’s the place where I learned that instant coffee taste blunt. The place that made me hate ice blended drinks. The place where unforgettable love story happened.

Personal assistant - the first PA job in an online game publisher. Where every time people asked where I work, I’ll have to explain for 10 minutes what online game publisher means. The place where I gave up a higher pay job and accept their lower pay because I was damn happy working there. The place where I learn more about working, office politics, selfish directors, stupid owners, very supportive boss, damn happening colleagues.


4 Places I have lived:
Imbi
- I think I lived in Imbi when I was still in mommy’s womb…

Cheras - I lived with my babysitter for few years. They lived in government flats that only have 2 small rooms and they have 4 daughters living with them that time.

Kuchai Lama
- place where I grow up.

Puchong - Smelly’s house. Bleh!


4 Countries I have been to on vacation:
Singapore
- I think all Malaysian must have been to Singapore at least once in their lifetime. Right? Right?

Hatyai (Thai) - been there only last year.

Bangkok (Thai) - this year. I wish I can go again. I wish to go there once every year cos their clothes are so so SO cheap!

No more.. cos i'm poor... I don’t have money to travel often. Purposely separate Hatyai and Bangkok so that it’ll make my list look long! Muahaha..

I want to go Hong Kong, Japan and New York… hopefully within 5 years. (please let me hit the Jackpot!)

4 of my Favorite food:
I’m not choosy when it comes to food. My taste bud change from time to time… but if I have to choose, my all time fav are…
Japanese food - Love sushi and sashimi! I can eat sushi everyday without getting bored.

Pork noodle - the one at Imbi wet market. Still my fav place. Oh.. it’s actually pork intestine noodle.

Ayam masak merah - first choice if I’m at mamak or malay restaurant.

Salad - any type of salad except coleslaw.

4 Places I would rather be right now:

New York - for many reasons.

Home - I wish I could work from home. So that I don’t have to think what to wear, which shoe to match. (I wish I don’t have to work and money grow from tree. Wtf!) actually, I just want to sleep all day. =P

Anywhere as long as I’m with Smelly. I love to be around him. I’m superglue. (If can, I want to be his PA! Wtf! Hahaha!) I know it annoys him but I like to annoy him cos he’s so cute when he’s mad. Wtf!

I can’t think of anywhere else.

4 favorite places to hang out:
Seputeh Heights – haha! Current fav place to hang out is our friend, Kenny’s house. Cos it feels like going to a resort… with pool, karaoke, ps3, bed! Lol!

Station One OUG – because it’s near my house and the only few places that I’ll go for yamcha. Oh.. because my current fav drink is their Iced Longan Milk!

Any mamak – cos it’s the cheapest place to hang out.

Home - still the best place cos I can watch porn no need to use money. Hahaha!

Monday, November 24, 2008

i'm his JEWEL!

We cuddled on the sofa lovingly and chatted. Which is something that we don’t normally do in front of friends. “Why are we so romantic today?” he asked.

“Don’t know… but it feels nice.” I said.

We’re in our own world. Neglecting friends who are present that night.

“Bie… I love you, you know?” I said in a very baby tone, I feel so pampered with his arms wrapped around me; his fingers playing with my hair, occasionally stroke my face. A treatment I don’t get to enjoy very often.

“Yes, of course I know,” he replied, kissing my forehead gently.

“You love me too?”

“You know…” he paused. “You are my jewel. You are very precious to me,” hugging me tighter.

“Is it?” smiled sheepishly.

He never said that to me before. He’s not that type who sweet talk and say mushy stuff very often. It was one of the very few times hearing those romantic words from him. I’m overjoyed. Though it was nothing, but I’m really happy. Yes, I’m easily satisfied.

It made my day.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Daddy's birthday/lostday

Went back for dinner yesterday. It’s daddy’s birthday. We supposed to go out for vegetarian dinner nearby, but he called last minute and asked us to take away KFC and eat at home cos he’s not in the mood to eat out.

He lost his gold chain. That gold chain followed him ever since I could remember. He stopped wearing it for a while and kept it in his bag wherever he goes before keeping it in his drawer when he pack for Japan last week.

So yesterday, he found out that it was missing. “That was the last gold chain that I keep and now it was gone…”

My heart broke, hearing what he said. The economy is bad, business is not good and he’s trying hard to make ends meet and suddenly, one of his most valuable things that he owns decides to disappear. Gold is very valuable now.. My godbrother told me that his gold chain is estimated to worth around RM6-7K now… and will go higher because the price of gold is increasing…

I can imagine… it’s like… when you only have RM2 left in your pocket to take a bus ride home, someone decides to rob you. It’s like… when you’re very hungry and wants to eat the last piece of chicken, the lizard decides to shit on it your dog decides to snatch it away and chew happily… it’s like… when your newly painted beloved 20 year-old car got stolen right at your doorstep while you’re sleeping soundly in your room… it’s like… okay… lame metaphors.. But you get the idea…

We don’t know how it just gone missing. We don’t know when, why, who and what made it vanished…
I hope he will find it back soon.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

emo.

Have you ever take some time and think about what I really want and need?

Do you know what’s in my mind if I never take the initiative to tell you EVERY SINGLE THING?

Can you at least pretend that you’re sorry? Or at least admit what I said about you was right?

Why do you always get away with it by smiling?

You know it doesn’t take a lot of effort to persuade me, right? You know I’m THAT easy to give in, right? That’s why you bully me.

You know I can’t be angry for long.

You’re a selfish person.

You only think about yourself.

Have you thought at least a lil bit of me?

Have you prioritize me at least ONCE in any situation?

Have you at least cared for a bit?

Is it me or is it because I’m too sensitive to think that you never care?

Does it hurt when I say you didn’t care, right to your face?

Does it hurt when I told you you’re selfish, right to your face?

Does it hurt when I say you don’t love me as much, right to your face?



Cos it hurts me when I said all that.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

my must-buy book wishlist.

i saw some books that i really wanted to get..

Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series.. i've been wanting to read crime genre but never really had my hands on it. the last crime/mysterious book that i've read is Christopher Pike's Final Friends Trilogy (which the 3rd book still can't be found in any bookstore in Malaysia. hmmph. )

i don't know how good is the series but from the reviews that i read, i think it should be quite a good read. to date, it already has a total of 20 titles. i saw some of the title is in our bookstore but it's not complete. they only have some of the most recent titles. so i'll most probably get it online.. i'm going to start from the first book, "A Is for Alibi". hopefully i'll like it and keep a complete set of the series.

which again, reminds me that i'm currently on a book ban. i have to finish all the 20 new books before i can start buying again.

i hate online shopping sometimes.

too convenient to resist.

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let's see what are the books that i still haven't finish reading...


1) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (abandoned after reading few pages)


2) Saving Fish From Drowning - Amy Tan (read halfway and borrowed it to Shorty)


3) The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings - Amy Tan (few more pages to go. yes!)


4) Grotesque - Natsuo Kirino (halfway. yay!)


5) How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill (halfway. yay!)


6) The Prodigal Daughther - Jeffrey Archer


7) As The Crow Flies - Jeffrey Archer

8) If You Could See Me Now - Cecila Ahern

9) To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee

10) Specials -Scott Westerfeld

11) Extra -Scott Westerfeld

12) Stories We Could Tell - Tony Parsons

13) Man And Wife - Tony Parsons

14) My Favourite Wife - Tony Parson

15) The Life of Mahatma Gandhi - Louis Fischer

16) The Diary Of A Young Girl -Anne Frank

17) Marley And Me - John Grogan

18) The Secret Of Scent - Luca Turin

19) Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer

20) New Moon - Stephanie Meyer

21) i forgot the title. something by Jeffrey Archer. i think it's either Shall We Tell the President? or Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less.

whoa!!

that's 21 books to be finished!

hmm..

ok... let's challenge myself.

one book a week?

fair enough right?

since i only prefer to read on weekends cos i have the whole day to finish one book. ok.. two whole days.

reading on weekdays are a big no no to me... cos i tend to get carried away and i'll lose my sleeping time. (sleep time is very very important to me now.. )

let's see what i have in my must-buy book wishlist...

The Kinsey Millhone series (20 titles) - Sue Grafton
Teacher Man - Frank McCourt
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
Out - Natsuo Kirino
Empress Orchid - Anchee Min
The Last Empress - Anchee Min
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho
A Walk To Remember - Nicholas Sparks
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Nifenegger
Pretties - Scott Westerfeld
Uglies - Scott Westerfeld (just to complete the set. hehe.)
The Turn Of The Screw - Henry James
The Other House - Henry James

ok.. those are the titles that i can think of right now.

i hope i can get all of it before next year...

Sunday, November 16, 2008

and the lucky one is....

It’s the first time I’m giving away a book online! (Well, it's the first time I’m giving away SOMETHING online!) And I’m very excited about it!

The book that I’m going to giveaway is ‘Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt. I’ve read McCourt's book when I was still in high school. The first book was Angela's Ashes. In fact, it's the first autobiography that I’ve read. I’m really glad that I bought the book cos it's one of the books that made me laugh and cry so much. My bestie, Ann was reading it that time and she told me that it's very good. At first, I don't believe her cos she has a "thing" for Ireland/Irish guys and I prefer reading Chic Lit and Horror at that time. Plus, I’ve always thought that autobiography is boring. But McCourt proved me wrong! I definitely LOVE his book and immediately bought his second book, ‘Tis, after I’m done with his first book. And that, was when I started to leave Chic Lit behind and get my hands on some memoirs like June Chang’s and Adeline Yen Mah’s (oh.. i LOVE LOVE LOVE Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie!). I love reading memoir-like books like Amy Tan’s (do they even have this genre? lol!). I know very little about books. I normally read books that are easy to understand and as you can see, I normally read those “commercialized” books and recommendation from friends…Just to play safe. =P

I don’t consider myself as a person who loves reading if compare to most people out there, but in my family, I’m the only one who reads. So in my family’s eyes, I’m considered as a booklover. I remember during my 16th or 17th birthday, I turned down my dad’s offer to get some clothes at Topshop and asked him to buy books for me instead. =P my mom even said I’ve got so many books that she can use it as my dowry next time. -_-! Very exaggerating right? I only own like.. 60 or 70 books (which is A LOT for a non-reading family like mine..) if she knows Alice, then my 70 is nothing.. (right Alice JieJie?? Lol! ) . even Smelly almost ban me from buying new books… cos I normally buy a few at one go even if I still have unread ones with me (which reminds me now that I still have about 20 books waiting for me to be read).

I wished that I picked up reading earlier though.. I only started when I was 15 or 16.. though I DO borrow books from the library when I was still in Primary school.. but that’s because we (me and my friends) always compete who’s the fastest reader and read most of the books. If I started earlier, and read more consistently, I think my books collection is triple of what it is now.. sigh~

Ok, back to the giveaway… Well, the reason I’m giving away this book is actually because I already have the book. I went to MPH warehouse sale the other week and I thought of getting Teacher Man. Actually, I THOUGHT I bought Teacher Man. But when I reached home and happily snapping photos of my books, I realized that one book looked VERY VERY familiar… then only I realized… I took the wrong book! But I guess it was fate… lol! I remember I went back to the shelf and look for another copy of Teacher Man cos the one that I took was torn. I guess because the color of the book is almost the same, I didn’t realize that I bought the wrong one…

Since I already have a copy, I thought… “Why not finding a new and better owner for this book?”


I know most of you is also very excited and can’t wait for the result already… sorry to bore you guys with a long story before announcing the winner.. hehehe… (like usual, I got carried away when I write.. bleh!)

So, the book's lucky new owner is….

Jayme of 365daysinthetriangle.blogspot.com.


Congratulations Jayme!! =) I hope you will enjoy ‘Tis as much as I did. Do share with us your thought after reading it yea? Will post it out as soon as possible. Email me your address? my email is denquerida@gmail.com

P/s- I bought this book during a warehouse sale. It’s in good condition but doesn’t look very “new” though. Hope you don’t mind!

P/p/s- Thanks Alice JieJie for hosting this giveaway!

p/p/s- Sorry for the late announcement. internet was down these few days.. *winkz*

Thursday, November 13, 2008

The Warmth

i think i'm falling sick.

i can feel terrible sore throat is coming to my direction and very bad headache is looking for a good spot to park behind my skull.

ugh.

luckily tomorrow's Friday. only have to stand one more day before i can have REAL rest.

being back at home this week is not as bad as i've imagined... but it feels very different to wake up on a single bed ALONE. it's been 2 years sleeping in and waking up with Smelly beside me.. it DOES feel weird these few days.. nobody's there to fight for the comforter and the extra pillows.. no snoring sound in the middle of the night... no wrestling and kicking before sleeping.. i think the worse feeling is.. to know that there's no warmth beside me when i'm feeling cold in the middle of the night. i miss the warmth.