preloved items

Hey ya all...

Sorry for the long hiatus... It's not that I'm not around but... Errrr, I have nothing much to write I guess... All the pouring creative energy is almost gone.... Anyway... here's some updates..

Marathon
- Didn't run for half marathon this year. I opt to go to R's wedding instead because I can always run next year, but R's wedding maybe never come around... Me n gals during the reception... More pictures in my facebook...

Took 1 week leave to rejuvenate... Went to lokkawi zoo n bring these two lil active kidssss... Ulai, babysitting them is more tiring than running 21 kms u know....
Went to Sandra's garage sale as she'll be moving out of KK soon... my nieces got these, all preloved items.... Sandra, hope your move will be smooth :) Looking forward to read your experience from your blog!

half empty

63 days to HALF MARATHON! And I haven't trained at ALL! I'm sure my mental capacity can handle the 21 km after going through this YEAR, but physically I'm sure I would hit the wall at km5...

Okay... Training will officially start tomorrow, 5 km per run minimum for this week, and this will increase for the upcoming weeks... I'm still thinking how to train during fasting month. Hmmm, any ideas? The last time I trained during fasting month last year, I almost faint of dehydration... Errr, plus, being single and all, I can't go home early, totally makes me unmotivated to train like an hour before breaking fast. Hmm, I guess I have to figure this one out soon...

I'm itching for another vacation, but at the same time I'm worried of the mountains of paperwork in the office ( sign of workaholics?)...


Okay, wouldn't want to complain much... Life could be worse, right? And a little optimism wouldn't hurt, plus I don't wanna grow old and bitter...

Have a pleasant week everyone!

update

oh my.. it's been awhile since my last update... Nothing much had been going on, only I'll be taking 3 days off starting tomorrow after a month of working monday-sunday for most weeks last month.

- Run 7k Sutera Harbor (did this yesterday, and omg i almost fainted half-way through)
- Erk, decide whether to run half marathon this year and submit application form for early bird price. With current stamina and level-of-mind, errrrr, I haven't quite decided yet... I might as well join the 800 meter for kiddies.
- Plan my trip to kl 14-17 august. Places to go, people to meet, place to stay?
- Get over ex-boyfriend
- Plan for next year's vacation. Mmmmm, maybe somewhere exotic?
- Get a hair trim, shorter haircut definitely! Does short hair really makes you look young-er?
- Summer clean the closet and finally get rid of the size Zeros jeans ( i kept them in the hope of being able to fit into them one of these days)

Anyway, it's been raining cats and dogs in kk lately, it's a perfect excuse to stay under the duvet!

Let me leave you with this picture of these two cuties... Ayu and Baby Adam who grow so fast! Aren't they such posers?

update

I've started to run again (or maybe walking is the correct word here)....

So.. I'm gonna log my fitness progress here, with the hope it'll actually stay this time around... Although, I'm not really sure that I'm quite capable of running 21 km this year. We'll see...

Tuesday: 4 rounds (walk) ~ 4km
Wednesday : 4 rounds (walk+run) ~4km

Jogging with girlfriends is soo much fun. We don't need to jog faster, we just have to gossip to raise up our heart rate ;)

I've decided I want to have long floooowy hair when I get hitched... And I just cut my hair pixie short, go figure... Maybe the short hair will stick for awhile. So far, I'm loving it!

long weekend

I have already gotten few tickets to get away from where I am this year. Didn't even check the book for events, talk about gambling, huh... Two in October and another one in August. The October one is special because I bought the ticket to see R got married... Tapi sekalinya when I checked my dept's schedule, it's there, written in red BOLD, one of the most important event of the year.

I doubt I could miss it, so.. most probably I couldn't make it to R's wedding :( sob... sob... But I'm wishing you all the best R... Mmmmmm, ever thought of having the wedding webcast via web-conference?

After talking about it for years, I finally gonna do it. I'm gonna paint one of my bedroom walls RED! This is like hot red! While waiting for them to mix the paint, I was talking about hardwood floors and plastered ceiling. OMG, I never thought I get to this point of talking about house renovation and be taken seriously. Er, which makes me wonder, do I look like Old?

All my energy now is heading towards my bedroom... I need to get all my stuff out of the bedroom, and trust me I've got lotsa stuff... After painting job is done, I want to have my very own reading nook. I still haven't found the right chair yet. Something comfy and warm. Also, I will be looking into my digital pictures library for photos to be framed.

This is very exciting!!!

I'm on leave until wednesday next week, so I'm gonna enjoy my very absence from the office ;)

random post

One week had passed, I don't know where do I stand... Am I in denial or do I couldn't care less about it? Can people be denial about being in denial? What I know is, changes happen, you can't stop just because things don't happen as you want it to be. I can't be greedy and have it all right? I hope I won't have to go through stage 4, but it's there written in the rulebook. Can I get express boarding to the end of this?

update

I'm still here!!!

Sorry for the long hiatus... I had been 'kinda' busy at work - does that 'kinda busy' means that I'm not delegating and prioritizing enough? The truth is I had been spending more and more time at work lately. More always means spending 11 to 12 hours at work and Saturday is spent at work. Not only I don't allow myself off-day on Sat, I also ask staff from the office to come on Saturday. Yes, I can practically admit that I basically don't have a life :/ (as well as depriving other people their lives!)

Despite my whining, there's one thing that I feel comfortable with work, it's so tangible and comprehendible. Although with the mountainous paperwork on my desk, I feel like they're beyond my control unlike other things in life.

Oh yeaa, I just realized that we have reached end of January. So what's the progress with your new year's resolutions? Erkkk, I've forgotten some of my resolutions. I remember one of them is spending less time at work and finally get a social life. That one is certainly not going well, but I'm not so worried, I'm a late bloomer anyway.. Hahahaha...

Talking about late bloomer, I feel like I'm so stuck in the middle of teenage-hood. I always imagine when I'm 25/going to-26, I'll be that calm lady who already figured things out, including an expert in juggling work, family, friends and relationship. Certainly not someone who's still struggling with hormonal changes before that time of the month and also fickling with decisions daily. I somehow think all of these are associated with the middle child syndrome! (It's always easy to blame on something else rather than yourself kan?)

Eh, enough drama-talk. I'll continue with more updates tomorrow. Tisha's 2nd birthday, new nephew (yg milkaholic) as well as upcoming off days!

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It rained yesterday evening so I didn't get to jog :(

I needed to get my blood flow moving, and that was exactly what I did last Tuesday... I hope the wide-spread myth about regular-donors will gain weight is not true...

update:
"Hi! No, I don't believe that donating blood contributes to weight loss or weight gain. It does, however, cause your heart to replenish the lost blood with a fresh new supply which can be healthy in exercising your heart and giving your body a fresh new supply of blood to work with, which I'm told is healthy for you. Donating blood won't help you to lose weight, but it won't make you gain any, either and can help contribute to a healthier body in at least a minor way."

from here

I am in the pms-mood ever... I feel like chewing everybody's head off!!!

kiss and run...

from cartoonstock....

on (young) adulthood

I can't believe how fast time flies! I don't even realize it's been almost THREE years since I started working. Back when being a student, I can't wait to end the all-nighters crazy with assignments and exams. Right now, I can say that time was one the best time in my life. Cheh, dulu bestlah, thinking to start working , earning own money n get to spend on whatever you want (kononnyalah). But now, with the paycheck credited in the account mostly going out to expenses, bills and other responsibilities (sampai want to buy SKII pun fikir 20 million times)

I don't even go to shop much lately... Because I only droool on gadgets!!! Tops, jeans, shoes and bags are mostly out of the drool list because I only shop mostly when I go on trip - either KL or wherever. Despite how drooling the shoes in Charles & Keith- Yes, we have Charles&Keith in KK even before KL has it, tapi... just looking at the pointy 4 inch stiletto, I can feel how it's gonna kill my feet. I take the stairs mostly in the office because I think the elevator is too slow, so there's no way I'm taking the stairs with that stilleto or else I'll be at risk falling down the stairs and break some parts of my body, not to mention the unbearable embarassment. So don't care lah that I'm wearing flats when I'm around in the office, and the girls know this, we all have our flat slipper and '3 inch meeting shoes' which is the shoes we wear to meeting or out etc... But we can't deny how sexy we feels wearing those heels kan girls? Herda wrote about the price of wearing heels here.

On day-to-day: I have to keep myself busy or else I'll be fidgety n crazy. This is a typical taurus-ian. With this lifestyle and the stubborn-headed like mine, I might have to learn to love cats to be my companions when I'm forty. Suddenly I was reminded by a paper that we had to write in UiTM, it was on ideal man/woman and we had to do peer reviews. That time I was the peer for Aneem, and she wrote exactly the description of Wanzaw... Okay, maybe bukan exactlylah (can't remember pun the exact things), tapi mostly he fits perfectly in her ideal man. I mean how lucky is she?

Okay, I gotta dig in my old boxes and find that paper of mine!

Have a pleasant day everyone..

insomnia

Eh, do they actually call it insomnia when it's still early? For whatever reasons, I think the caffeine I consumed this morning is still in my bloodstream, so I'm kinda on the edge even by midnight.

I just finished up my things-to-do list for tomorrow (obsessed!!!).ERK, this live by list thing sometimes drives me insane, but without them macam lost pulak. I just went through my 2007 organizers, GaWd, didn't I write about everything! Tapi yang funny is... macam every month got this line "Start jogging"... Talk about unresolved resolutions (coz this year also got that line every month). Thankfully I didn't find any "eat only 1000 calories today", or I would've said I was a lil 'not right' last year.

Anyway, sports day was officially over yesterday, I only joined two events- a run and bowling. Don't mistaken me as a fit person just coz I finish half marathon, I wasn't really!!! I was gasping for air the last 200 meters of the run and almost seeing stars! Bowling though we didn't win, we did better than the practice, so it was all good. Maybe with proper training, we could reach the 150 scores (nothing wrong with hoping, right?).

I'm thinking to start running again after taking a break since last month, but running alone, alaaaa so boring... I need to hear some hot and steamy gossips to get my heart rate up! Hahahahha, that's what girlfriends are for... Rather than like guys who look so serious while jogging, and doing that phew-phew breathe-thing, we girls do it the fun way...

Oh yea! Times is having Books Warehouse Sale @ Asia City Complex until December 5th... I went to have a look-see on Saturday but didn't get to browse all the sections- SO MANY BOOKS! Will go and check it out again this week. Newer books are having 30% discount, while older ones you can get for RM10-RM15. Truth is, I get tired easily by reading some heavy novels (eg Margaret Atwood, Jeffrey Eugenides etc) meaning too complicated prose and vocabs. So mission is to find some light chick flick that can easily be finished in 2 hours and without dictionary in my other hand :)

4 more working days....

DTR

That's the Defining The Relationship talk... I suddenly wonder why do we need this? Usually it's women who wanted to bring this up, and most of the time it's men who would avoid this conversation.

But now... in the era of "just-talking", "just-dating", "together but unofficial", "together but not serious" are totally different things- who wouldn't get confused, right? I somehow think in the beginning of a relationship, things are much simpler. Those are the times when getting to know each other, how every phone call is exciting and every day is such a mystery. But as time move on, when things are predictable and so stagnant, you begin to wonder as where's the relationship is going?

Okay, maybe this post is inspired after watching SATC episode for the x-th time... But relationship needs re-evaluations. Whether friendship or love. The best-est friends who you used to pour you heart out in high school might be someone who you feel awkward to now... Maybe it's human nature to know that two people are on the same page with what the future holds. Whatever it is... if it has to do something with your future, you must ask the question!

school holidays

I love school holiday! The road is not as jammed as during non-SH, I reached the office in 35 minutes (compared to normal 1 hour)... Another reason to snooze a little every morning :) I need my sleep to stay sane...

I spent last weekend just staying at home, part time babysitting the little ones. I was running out of energy and patience! Two hyper toddlers equals to a tired aunt. I respect those parents out there, especially those with many many kids.

I'm allergic to hugs, don't hug me!

Yesterday, went with Aesya to Imperial Hotel at Warisan Square for its new promotion RM9.90 hi-tea buffet. We got there around 1pm, immediately seated in the air-cond area. Food-wise are okay-lah. Selections- not so many. As for entrees, they have fried rice, friend noodle, potato, chicken nugget, mini pizza and cuttlefish balls. Then, desserts, as usual some cakes, pudding and fruits. Since it's rm9.90 buffet, don't expect fancy french pastries or unique delicacy yeah!

To those who are running in Borneo International Marathon, why don't you join the Sutera Harbour 7k Sunset Charity Run to test-drive your stamina and endurance. The run will be on the 5th July (Saturday). I'm not sure about the route, but two years ago, it was from pan-pac area towards the end of sutera-harbor (near the super-big house!), then out to wawasan plaza, then go back to pan-pac. Usually you have to finish the run in 77 minutes (average 11 minutes/1km) to qualify for the lucky draw tickets. Half marathon is 21 kms and 3.5 hours, I don't know how I'm going to survive that! Also, running clinic will be held this week in likas sports complex, I can't go because of family event. But for those who are going, pls share the info yea! And can you pls ask for me, how to run like energizer bunny?

the day before a long weekend

Today is the last day of working this week, as sabah gets holiday from the harvest festival. I haven't blogged this as people might think I'm a shopaholic (irk, maybe I am...) But.... I couldn't resist to buy a new SHOES two weeks ago! I've bought myself a super-comfy, super-cute running shoes. It's grey with pink! Okay, it's a motivation for me to get into the running mode. I still can't run for 10 minutes without stopping (always gasping for air).

Recently, I found out that jogging at Likas Lake is not safe at all... Especially those who leave wallets, laptops and other valuables in the car. So, I've decided to jog near my workplace. It's a good place, and I can watch the sunset after running. What a great view!

I've been shopping a lot a bit! So, if I have no money to buy food, I wonder if I can trade my shoes + shopping stuff for food. Eh, do people still accept barter system?

*** I just found out people came to my blog from google search. Some examples... a)hidden message behind teletubby (hmm teletubbies are weird, and i dont watch them), b) gossip kippc (i don't do gossipz in my blog yea! i just prefer to do that in person. hahahha) c) wrong reasons to be in a relationship (nor I'm a relationship guru! i'm a wreck myself) I guess, with google, we can search everything :)

Happy Holiday! eh for those who don't get cuti tomorrow, happy working :) hehehhe

running

I've finally gotten my running shoes! So, gonna go for a short run after work tomorrow, 30 minutes of walk-run for a start if weather permits... Motivation is super-low right now, but I'm just gonna do it. Plus, I miss the adrenaline high I got from running. I also have a weird thinking that jogging somehow would clear my deep, dark n twisted head...
**I need suggestions of safe and ok place to go for long distance jog in kk. Anybody knows?

today iz holiday

little angel sleeping.. Baby Katrina 14 April 2008 ~

Photo taken from postsecret

So why don't we start our monday with a little kindness?

post-secret

I've always wanted to post my secret to postsecret, I just don't know when and which secret... If you read postsecret, you might be surprised (or not) with how dark and deep some secrets are... There are just things that we can't tell the people that we love. Some secrets are best left behind, isn't it better to just face forward instead of keep looking back of what had happened?

** the things that keep us sane are the people that we love

I was watching Gossip Girl last night, okaaay, first of all, stop thinking all chick flick movies/drama are shallow and superficial and sooooo fake. Serena had a deep dark secret which she didn't tell Blair nor Dan. This girl Georgina showed up in her life unexpectedly and wanted things to be the same before Serena left for boarding school. I feel for Serena, she did things that she regretted and tried to do things differently. But her secrets finally catching up with her. Yes, Dan is a super-sweet guy, and I can understand why Serena didn't want to tell her secrets. What if the moment she tells Dan her secret will be a turning point. The point when Dan will never look at her the same again or it could bring their relationship to even deeper level... So things happened in the past, should you share it with your present?

dont ....

Hey y'all..

I'll be away for a week for a shopaholic extra-curricular.. Yeay! So until then, no updates....

Don't miss me while i'm gone ;)

you know you love me ;)

laziness strike

I've become so lazy to write nowadays. Even my sp*nsored posts rating has gone down. Haih, how to get more money like this? Hmmm, I guess I just have to be patient and more creative in the future.

Right now, I am excited for my shopping trip to Bandung which is less than a week! Will singgah KL and meet friends before flying off to Bdg. Two more days for this week, and then I'll be off from work for a week, hence the super-laziness..

Until then, I have to sort-out my life-in-transition. Hopefully all goes well..

World revolves around who?

Remember my post on selfish people? Here's another cathartic post on the same subject...

I know sometimes people can get kecik hati, frustrated or even angry when I don't pick up their calls or reply their sms immediately. Technology doesn't mean you're supposed to stick to your handphone/laptop 24x7. I wonder if handphone is supposed to be for my convenience or other people convenience. Because of handphone, work can call you and disturb your long-awaited-supposedly-relaxing vacation. Because of your handphone, people can call you and ask you to go somewhere and pick up stuff on your way home (or office). Because of handphone also hmmmm people can treat you like a walking atm bank. Another example, it's a good thing that with online banking you can pay your bills online, transfer money if you need to, and check your statements (and reconcile with quicken!). But also inconvenience if people treat you like a walking atm.

Example of selfish people...
"Bank in money NOW!"
"Pick me up NOW!"
"Do this ammendment NOW!"
"Buy this NOW"
"Pay this NOW"
"Reply email NOW"

Sigh... I wonder lah what's wrong with these people. They have this mindset thinking that the world revolves around them...