you can make a difference....

Sigh... Had another long day today... It's Monday, so I guess everybody has his or her own very long day...

Weekend was uneventful. On Saturday, like my normal routine, I would go back to my parents house which is 50 km away (it's not that far!) . When I drove home, it was already dark outside. While I was driving, I tried to change the radio channel, then suddenly I hit something on the road. Not something big, just something small that made my car skidded like 5 inches or so. And my car even had that skidded sound! My heart was beating so fast after that, since I was caught off guard. Not only that, halfway through, it started raining super heavily until I could barely see the road :( So, I had to drive with a speed of 40kms just to be safe.. By the time I reached home, I was super-tired with stiff and achy shoulders. Who knows that driving in super-dark street with super heavy rain can be that stressful?

I was traumatize by the whole experience up till I was sleeping. I even dreamt of running my car off to a lake that night, how scary is that! I think it was karma paying back of my evil and aggressiveness on the road. So today I've became a nice girl on the road and reduce my routine cursing on the road. Also, I won't be picking up phone calls when I'm driving. So if I haven't been picking up your calls, you know I am probably driving (or just an excuse to NOT pick up your calls :p)

Last week alone, I saw two accidents while on my way to work. Nothing major, just bumper to bumper accident, which probably can be prevented by watching their distance. Also, saw two cars getting summoned by the police traffic for hitting the red lights. Not a good time to go out and cruisin' around...

Last advice.. Remember these three words...

"Stop on Red."
You can make a difference....

On last note, check out this interesting link . It will give you reasons to treat your handbag like shoes and not to put your handbags on the dinner table/kitchen counter.

tva

I think there should be a tva (stands for tvholic anonymous)... I'm uj1, and i'm a tv-holic. Sometimes I think I spend way too much time with 2-dimensional people than 3-dimensional one :D Humans are 3-dimensional right?

Anyway... Here are old tv shows that I used to watch....

F.r.i.e.n.d.s

I love friends!!! It's a story about 6 friends navigating life in NYC. I missed the first few seasons when there were aired, but thanks to phynd (large campus network sharing), I got to catch up on some old episodes. It was aired every Thursday on NBC. I remembered watching season finale of season 8, most people were staying at barh, everybody screamed when Joey found Ross's engagement ring, and Rachel said "yes" because she thought Joey was proposing... Such a cliffhanger huh?
What I think about the season finale? Like how it should end. Ross & Rachel are together, Chandler & Monica got their adopted twin babies, Phoebe was married and Joey pursuing career in LA. Oh and because of Joey of friends, Had1 got his name, Hadi Joey :P

Dawson's Creek

I have a thing for teenage drama. Maybe I'm compensating for the lack of drama in my teenage years. Dawson's Creek, or I think it should be called Joey's Creek because most drama revolved around Joey anyway. It's the usual teenage soap of Dawson, Joey and friends. Surely the way they talked is very matured for teenagers. I don't think teens actually have that wisdom, or can be so articulate in conveying their thoughts. They will have that line, "we need to talk". Then, they would have a long heart-to-heart conversation about whatever issues they had in mind, and then ended it with hug. So much for real-drama huh?

My favorite characters are Jen & Jack. They're so cute together. No, they're not a couple, Jack is actually Jen's gay best friend, kinda like Will & Grace. For the whole 6 seasons, Joey had been battling with the Pacey-Dawson dilemma. She started with Dawson then, Dawson with Jen,then Joey with Pacey, then Dawson wanna be back with Joey. It's the usual love-triange/rectangle. In the end, after a heart breaking death of Jen Lindley (I think I cried when she died..sheeehhh.. It's just a teen drama uj1!!), Joey finally made up her mind to be with Pacey. Come on Joey, it took you 6 seasons to figure that one out!!!

Felicity

Thanks to Mel who introduced me to the show felicity. The show is about Felicity who went to NYU (at first to pursue her high school crush, Ben). The story revolves around Felicity and friends dealing with adjustment and all sort of crisis through college and moving into adulthood. It's another show with the love triangle, Felicity-Ben-Noel.

Will & Grace

Me and Con liked this show, kan Con? Heheheh.. It's a sitcom about Grace, an interior designer and her lawyer best friend, Will. Like described in tv.com, they actually have a bond together, more than friends, but less than lover. The twist is Will is gay. In addition to the two main characters, there are Jack, funny gay best friend of Will and Karen, sarcastic and spoiled.


Other shows :-
everwood - I know Sha actually liked this show! Marcia (Bree of DH) was in this show for few episodes
gilmore girls - yes, we love rory & lorelai. I don't know how they can talk so fast!
charmed - stopped watching the last season. It became boring after awhile. I liked it best when Cole (Julian McMahon) was in the show! He's adorable!!!
alias - another confusing show, but jennifer garner was kicking ass in that show.After watching the first four seasons, I've lost track of the rimbaldi, prophet 5 thing. Does anybody actually understand?

What's your past time tv shows?

Links for the tv addict
- http://www.givememyremote.com/
- http://tvgasm.com/
- http://spoilerfix.com

Men & Women

i received this from Rina. Thanks Rina!

Men:

1. All men are extremely busy.
2. Although they are so busy, they still have time for women.
3. Although they have time for women, they don't really care for them.
4. Although they don't really care for them, they always have one around.
5. Although they always have one around them, they always try their luck with others.
6. Although they try their luck with others, they get really pissed off if the woman leaves them.
7. Although the woman leaves them they still don't learn from their mistakes and still try their luck with others!


Women:

1. The most important thing for a woman is financial security.
2. Although this is so important, they still go out and buy expensive clothes and stuff.
3. Although they always buy expensive clothes, they will still say that they never have something to wear!
4. Although they never have something to wear, they always dress beautifully.
5. Although they always dress beautifully, men hardly care.
6. Although the men hardly care, they still expect men to compliment them.
7. Although they expect men to compliment them, when men do, they don't believe it!

Greys Anatomy S3 Finale

I know this is very... very outdated.... I just finished watching my re-run of the GA season 3 finale. Summer Hiatus is great for re-runs :D

So here are my favorite takes and what to expect next season....

McDreamy & Meredith.

Didn't your heart almost melt when mcDreamy being all mushy and all? Quote:"Meredith, I do love you. Don't you see? Don't you understand? You're the love of my life. I can't leave you. But you're constantly leaving me. You walk away when you want, you come back when you want. Not everyone, not your friends, but you leave me. So, I'm asking you, if you don't see a future with us. Please... please just end it because I'm in it. Put me out of my misery."
Yes meredith. Please put me out my misery too! I hope next season McDreamy will be with somebody else, this Meredith/McDreamy drama has been dragging on since what, 3 years already???

Alex Karev & Jane Doe(Eva/Rebecca)Hopefully next season Alex Karev will somehow found his Eva back. It's nice to see him in his attentive and nice mode.

Funny eyebrow-less Christina Yang

Burke left Christina at the altar.... Isaac Washington was fired from the show because of his homophobic comment towards co-star T.R.Knight. More info here.

Upcoming expected regular character. She is Meredith step-sister, Lexie Grey.I'm soooo not a big fan of Izzie ever since she slept with George. He's married!!! Wait.. hmmmm... why do they always make the girls having affair/feeling with married men?

Next tx-shows marathon will be one tree hill. I know... I know.. it's a high school drama with over-matured-teenagers, but it's fun to watch... I am so glad that Dan is finally in jail. No matter where you run, guilt always comes after you....

travelogue

Thank you for the get well wishes, but I did not have eye surgery recently. It was couple months back. But thanks anyway :)

I was looking at old pictures, and it stirred some travel memories.


This picture was taken by the official travel photographer, Sha. This was me buying a crepe, and while i was posing for the camera, the guy actually was asking for payment. As you can see Mel was giggling looking at him :P


Look at the yummm-yummylicous Fauchon chocolate in Paris.

18+G

I know today is Friday, and I'm supposed to write about something happy, jolly, and uplifting since TGIF. Instead, I'm going to write something gross and possibly could make you nauseous. So, for those who have weak stomach, mmmm, maybe it's time to stop reading.

I had been a contact lens wearer since 2000, and continued until now. But I have no idea why my eyes have been acting very rebellious against me since I came back here. To quote history, I've had conjunctivitis and two Hordelom since then. I wonder if it's because they can't see hot men walking by anymore? Hehehehe. I sure hope that's not the reason.

I never had any surgery done (thankfully), until I had my Hordelom minor surgery. Hordelom is the clinical term for commonly known as stye or in malay, ketumbit. The old people say, you'll get ketumbit when you peep people or in other words, watch something that you shouldn't have. I guess now it's out there that I am a peeping tom. Hehehehe... The home remedy by old people is to wear a black string on one of your fingers, or rub gold on your eye.

That didn't really work out for me. So, I had two eye surgery done. First, the doctor would inject a local anesthesia on your eyelid, depending where the stye is. The moment he injects, you can actually feel like acid going through your eye area. It's that painful. For both times, I couldn't help but cried because it was painful. The worse thing is that you can actually see the doctor doing it on your eye because you have to keep your eye open during the entire process.

After 10 to 15 minutes, once the LA kicked in, the dr put a device on your eyelid to keep it opened while he digged up the good stuff. When he has the access, he cut through the affected area, and did the drainage (Warning:Do not click if you have weak stomach) with small little scoop-like equipment. During this, there would be red blood oozing out of your eyelid. This part wasn't that painful, just uncomfortable and gross. Thankfully, I had someone who's willing to hold my hand after the whole gruesome process :)

When the whole thing is cleaned up, you'll have the pirates bandage on your eye. So that's kinda cool.



Love your eyes!!!

rules and regulations...

I don't know why certain workplace still think women wearing pants/shirt are inappropriate or informal. If women can wear shirt and skimpy skirt, why are pants wrong? Maybe they're afraid the guys would feel emasculated or threatened by the world of alpha-female taking over them. Then, its not really the women's problem, isn't it?

When I first came back to KK, I was so surprised by the amount of aggressive, ruthless, impatient drivers on the road. But after two years under the bright sun of malaysia, I've become one of them! Hahahaha.. I figured that's the way to survive around here. Btw, driving with a speed of 60km/hr on a monday morning is considered NOT OK. Some people don't have the time to drive with a la....la...la..la... music in our head, we have to get to work, OK!!! Our punch card is waiting!

With my new office hour, I have to get to the office precisely before 8am. Even when I left at 730am from home, there's guarantee that I would reach office on time. Previously, I used to leave home at 8am and get to reach the office before 830am, and my old office is 5 kms away than my current one! Sometimes when I feel like I didn't have enough time or suddenly the traffic became unbelievable I would cheat on the road (cut through from the unused railway track) to get to my office sooner. It's horrible to be doing crime on a bright daylight. Of course while doing the "unlawful act", I had the thought of somebody's taking my picture, or maybe the police could be there and I'll be caught red-handed. Opssss....

Last night, I had another session of self defense class. I learn how to kick, elbow punch and some escape strategies. Oh and we got a preview of next week class, how to escape when a guy is lying on top of you (sexual assault). The techniques that he showed are from Jujutsu, basically you don't have to use your strength, just use your body weight to counter the guy. And from my preview, if the technique is done correctly on a real guy, I can see the guy would go home with a broken arm, twisted wrist, and strained neck instead of the big "O".

I'm off to get some lunch and coffee and be a lawful citizen..

flowers flowers everywhere....

various thoughts...

I need to keep my schedule book filled out so that I won't be out of my mind soon... I get bored with routine fast. So, I'm guessing I am in the category of non-committed person (if there is even such thing). Or maybe this could be adult ADD huh? I was thinking about various things, one of them is about how something can turn into sour/lukewarm/cold. How do you know when to call it quit or to keep going?

My friend ms Lana is 7 months preggie. I still can't believe how fast time flies... While I am at home doing god knows what all these while, lana is growing a human inside of her. I am excited to see how he(?) looks like :) Lana, are you having a baby shower soon?

Few friends from college are getting hitched this year. It makes me think of my primary school crush. I wonder if he is still cute :p