mission impossible...

There's nothing wrong with writing two entries in a day, right?

I am not joining the 7th Sutera Harbor charity run this year, which will be held on 7/7/07 at 5.17pm at lot 77, Sutera Harbor. So... I need new mission! After watching the show "renovate my wardrobe" on channel 77, Astro, I said to myself that's exactly what I need. Researching on closet organization tips, I have some idea in mind. First of all, have a place for everything, this would make searching for things easier. Like most girls, I store everything from the old days until now. ( I still keep hockey game stubs and movie stubs from RPI days). All of them have sentimental value. When I look at the almost fading prints on the movie stubs, I remember those were the days after hard days of signal & systems exams. While looking at the hockey ticket stubs, I remember the "let's go red" screams at Houston Field house. I'm a sucker for old memories :|

I am very protective of my belonging, so all books are being kept in my room instead of in the common bookshelf. Books are arranged by author and size. hardcover books with hardcover and paperback with paperback. English/Malay would be separate as well and college textbooks are safely kept in a box. Maybe I should have some sort of system for my books. or maybe that's a little too much, huh? Hehehe... I have 4 photo albums from RPI, plus another 2 albums that I just printed here. All digital pictures HAVE to be burned on to dvd or cd, chronologically. Who knows what might happen to hard disk right?

Clothes.... tricky for women... The idea is to organize closet by season. Okay fine, we don't exactly have 4 seasons here, but just use the concept as an excuse to keep your closet organized. Use the same hanger color so that it will look organize, and facing one way only (why do you think clothes shop look so organize?). If you want to be a neat freak in folding your clothes,use a standard paper (i previously used clip folder) as a standard measurement to fold your clothes. The turnout will be... your clothes will have the same width, and will look very very neat.

A tips from my friend mel is to arrange your handbag like you arrange your books :D For shoes... if you have way too many... you can put them in shoe boxes, stick Polaroid of the shoes at the side, and just stack em on top of each other.

This is a little too much huh... Where does the accessories go? Art supplies? Magazines? All-sort-of-creams? Mani/Pedi kit? Teddy bears? Gifts from people?

Oh.. and this is why I call it the mission impossible... or maybe I'm just an anal retentive person, huh?

financial iq..

It's my first week at my new job. It's not so bad actually. I get to reach home at 515pm everyday. That means, i can be a social butterfly at night, could be movie night on wednesday or bowling night on monday/thursday. Previously, I usually reach home at 640-700pm. Jogging is out of the questions since I was totally exhausted. Now, I'm putting exercise back in my daily planner :)

Since i haven't been assigned any task yet, i have the time to google and bloghop to many-many sites.. Then i found this website on raising your child's financial iq... I'm sure most of you have heard of the book "rich dad poor dad". Here are some basic lessons from the book...

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1. The rich don't work for money. "The poor and middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them," he would say to me. The rich buy or create assets that work for them so they don't have to.

2. Why teach financial literacy? You need to understand the difference between an asset and a liability. An asset puts money in your pocket and a liability takes money from your pocket. The rich understand the difference and buy assets, not liabilities.

3. Mind your own business. Many people confuse their profession with their business. To become financially secure people need to mind their own business. Your business revolves around your asset column, as opposed to your income column. The rich focus on their asset columns while the poor and middle class focus on their income columns.

4. The history of taxes and the power of corporations. The Tax Code of the United States provides many vehicles for people to save on their taxes. Most of these vehicles are available to anyone but it is the rich who usually look for them and use them because they have learned to "mind their own business." For example an individual can utilize the tax advantages and protection provided by a corporation to get rich much faster than someone who is an employee or a small-business sole proprietor.

5. The rich invent money. Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind. Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them. The rich have learned to recognize opportunities as well as how to create them.

6. Work to learn--don't work for money. To become successful you must learn how to manage cash flow, systems and people. Being in the Marines taught me leadership and working in sales for Xerox taught me how to sell and how to accept rejection. All of these skills were important for my success. Look for jobs that can help you develop the skills of managing cash flow, systems and people rather than just pay you well."

Read more here...

anjappar restaurant review

Today, I was invited by GoShop to review a local indian restaurant, Anjappar Restaurant. My review will be featured in the "makan-makan" section of the GoLife. I'm psyched :D

When i first walked into the restaurant, i realized the nice and relaxing ambience. It is suitable for family or friends to just sit down and have a good meal. Me and few others were served papadum once we were seated. We were given some time to look at the menu, while waiting for the manager. When I looked at the menu, I can see variety of food served here and they are also reasonably priced from RM3-RM18. They have south indian cuisine, north indian cuisine as well as chinese indian cuisine. This is very educational since I didn't know that they have chinese indian cuisine.

After awhile, the manager came and introduced himself as mr joseph. He talked about the history of the restaurant. Apparently anjappar is a worldwide franchise restaurant. It has few franchise in singapore, middle-east, india, canada and few others.

He recommended the anjappar menu which has a little of everything. It's a value meal set that can be enjoyed any time of the day. The meal consists of basmasti rice, nan,papadum, lollipop chicken,soup, and also butter chicken. It is served with lassi as the drink. At first, when I tasted the lassi, it tasted a bit sour. It's yogurt, so it bounds to feel sour. But after second sip, I can taste the sweetness, and very creamy. The soup taste like chicken soup with strong spices flavor. Lollipop chicken is the appetizer, it is crispy on the oustide with marinated taste of spices. What I love is the butter chicken, it tasted like the chicken i used to have in troy :) It's very creamy. not spicy at all.very delicious to be eaten with the nice-smelling basmati rice :) This value meal is valued at RM15, so it's worth every ringgit. If you are a small eater, you can even share this with another person!




Here is my GoShop review form. This is what I wrote....



"I feel welcomed as soon as I stepped into Anjappar Restaurant. The customer service was good, they were more than happy to recommend me their popular dishes. Meals are reasonably priced to be enjoyed by customers. Food is delicious, you will feel satisfied and fulffiled after having a meal here!!!"
Okay it doesn't turn out to be exactly like the food taster review. I should have included the word scrumptious or orgasmic. Well, I'm saving those words for my future food review :)
I came back to the office feeling full, fulfilled and satisfied, emotionally and physically. Owh.. i guess i can say that the meal was kinda orgasmic huh? hehehehe...

It's monday.. again...

Weekend was great. I met with my girlfriends and just chit chat about everything and nothing. There's nothing better than girlfriends, gossips and cup of coffee :D
On Friday, me and girlfriends went to Pizza Ria which is in Damai, the environment is very cozy, suitable for family meal, or perfect for first date dinner ;p We had a taste of their lamb chop with black pepper sauce. The portion is a lot for one person and quite a generous amount for RM18.90. I found the gravy was a bit on the salty side, well maybe that's just me. But I loved the puccio turkey ham. Basically it's a crispy biscuit-like bread with turkey ham fillings+fresh tomato+salad with thousand island sauce. For the price of RM13.90, you can share this meal with another person, and it will leave you fulfilled.

After being ushered out from Pizza Ria (it was 1030pm), we went to Jesselton Point to have a good dessert and share some more gossips. Since there is a futsal place there, most of the cafes/restaurants close kind of late. I think it's a good place to hang out after all the shops are closed :)

bo

I was wandering around in a mini market and saw this.

Wow, who needs an expensive RM9.00 Rexona body deodorant when you can get bo powder stands for Body Odour Powder for only RM1.00. It claims to get rid of body odour. All you have to do is wear a camisole, and add some water in this powder. And taraa.. you will have odourless arm pit...

shopping therapy

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tv show crushes....

Milo Ventimiglia (M-eye-lo Ven-tim-il-ee-ah)

I started to have crush on him since he was in gilmore girls. Now, playing as Peter Petrelli in the hot new tv show, Heroes, I'm falling more in love... Ah, how can you not be....

Patrick Dempsey

Aaah. Dr mcdreamy. I wouldn't mind getting sick, so that he can hold my hand and tell me everything is going to be okay. hahahha..

Wenworth miller

Look at those eyes. It actually piercing right through you. No need to say more, he's a hot prisoner :P :P

Decision... Decision...

I am not a fan of making big decisions or any decisions in fact. I wonder if long run would help clear my head. Probably it would happen like in the movie, at the end of the long run, I finally had an idea of what to do. Or maybe shopping therapy would help (hmm.. i doubt draining my already low savings account would help). Maybe swimming ( hmmm.. well clearly that would help, if i do swim and accidently drown, that would solve all sort of problems, wouldn't it?)... I guess there's nothing else to do than get up, and just face the music...




Maybe instead of dreaming to be an alpha-female, I should stick to the ordinary girl dream. Spend an hour in front of mirror fixing my face, trying to get hitch with a super-rich husband, have kids and be a stay-at-home mom/madam tai-tai who spends her tuesday at the spa and wednesday doing her nails. Well... there's nothing wrong with dreaming right?

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