Houston Rockets Vs Seattle Sonics

Last nite, after work, the weather was getting chilly and I was getting sleepy.
There are two more malaysians here - well the same rank with me not someone like manager level. Since all 3 of us live in downtown , we usually meet after work and go for dinner.

Yesterday, one of them was invited to watch the Basket game at the Toyota Center which is pretty close to the office. And it was suppose to be boys nite out for his team. But 2 people backed out and he went to ask his boss whether he could bring us. So in the end, his boss, him , myself and another malaysian guy went for dinner and the game.

First we had dinner at this place called Massa. For once, I actually ate more than half of the food served. Imagine that..... The food was delicious.

The game was suppose to start at 7.30pm but we got there abit late and my friend's boss was such a nice guy. Unlike a boss at all. jokes and all. Very kind man. We walked to the Toyota Center and we sat at the higher level of the stadium. Game was good... got to watch all the things they had for the interval. The funny stuff the maskot did. The crowd was so responsive. when the Commentator said to make noise to support their team, they did just that. Asked them to stand, they did just that. Throwing t-shirts to the crowd from the center of the field and all.

It was such a great experience. Thanks to my friend or else I would have ended up sleeping at the hotel. Not sleeping actually, trying to fall asleep is more like it.

p/s I realized what I miss most in the US! I miss the shopping bit esp for beautiful leather shoes and handbags which are so cheap here compared to malaysia and they are my type those chunky heels ones.... mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn..........................

Comparison

Okie dokie, so far people has misinterpreted what I meant by unfriendly. Unfriendly in comparison to those americans I have met in the MID WEST and WEST COAST! Got that? I thought I put that in my previous blog too. But I guess people can just choose to filter out what they want to read and understand.

Of course, you as a person is entitled to your own opinion as I am with mine.

People tend to affiliate their experiences to things they encounter. Everyone's experience just isn't the same even if you were at the same place at the same time.

So.... learn to appreciate the difference and not always think that its just the way someone look at things. Maybe its not the way I look at things , its just the way I have experienced things that affects what I think of certain things.

Enough said!

Hello Houston

Hello Houston!

I touched down in Houston on Sat 19th Feb 2pm Houston time. The flight was long and tiring. But at the port entry which is Dallas Forth Worth airport. I went thru the immigration pretty quick and with no hassle either. A malay colleague was right infront of me and she breezed thru it too.

So all the worries for nothing. I know I know - what you're going to say ringgit.

Anyhow, I realized I miss the USA alot but I find the TEXANS arrogant and unfriendly. So unlike the MidWestern and the Cali people. I miss the feeling of carefreeness and alot of other things. I just miss it thats all I can say. So its a great opportunity to be back here but if it was permanent it would have been better. But beggers can't be choosers so take what you can get.

The portion of food is huge here. I can barely finish my meal everytime. Its such a waste. And I have been awake for more thatn 24 hours now. Its scary. Coz I can't sleep.......... Still jetlag.

Will write more later....
downtown is dead... should have stayed at uptown... the happening place.

Almost the end of the road....

Alpha is almost at its end. But unfortunately, I will missing quite a number of topics as I will be away. one of the most important topics which I really really wanted to know was " What do I want to be for the rest of my life" But unfortunately, that one will be held at the away weekend which I have paid but unable to go. Hence I am giving it away to anyone who wants to go but can't afford it.

But my friend who is one of the facilitator said that I can go for the next new session and specifically attend the topics which I missed in this session. lets see how it goes.

The last topic discussed was How does God Guide us? which I find pretty good.
I have to say that eventhough I have had my doubts along my journey of faith but I can at times that God is holding my hand and guiding me. Eventhough I may not like the outcome sometimes.

Sometimes when I am angry with God, I realized that I can never hate Him. Coz I still go back to Him no matter what. He is our heavenly Father who has craved us at the palm of His hand. I think no father would want the worse for His children.

I am blessed to have him guide me. I am blessed that he has given so much. Even little things like parking space when I am dire need of it, I say a short prayer...

May my faith always stay true.

Been Fooled

Remember my previous blog? I wrote about the new seating arrangement in the open concept office? BLOOODEEEE HECK! I got con!

Those two twirps fooled me. They actually hadn't seen the plan. But they lied to me, one of them confessed before I left from work today. He said since you're going off, I going to tell you that we lied to you about the seating arrangement. We didn't seen it YET eventhought the TL promise she will show it to us..

Cheezzzeee I got Fooled. and its not even April fool's day yet.

So peeps there's still hope.... pray pray pray....

Pray for me good trip too..

Ciao....

Bad News

Just this afternoon I received some bad news. If you remember in an earlier post, I mentioned that I was praying hard that I won't have to sit with Bonnie M? Well i have bad news, Not only I will be sitting next to bonnie M but my face will be infront of me and my team lead on my other side. Doom man... and my monitor will facing the aisle.... main aisle whats more. So people have you been praying for me? Guess not huh!?!?!?!

totally depressed. On top of that, I am due to leave on a business trip tomorrow and I am having this nasal congestion. How to travel? Damn I hate it... when things goes bad, it just gets worse.

Losing the inches

Sigh, yesterday I felt abit depressed. Why? coz its the first time I have measured my waist since I quit gym about 1 year + ago. Guess what!!! OMG! Its grown 3 inches!!!

Damn! Got to do something about this soon. Or else it will keep expanding and I will be an obese person walking down the streets. Can't let that happen.

I will have to formulate an exercise routine soon. But joining another gym is totally out of the question lah! got to save and not spend more money! Thought of joining yoga! But that doesn't make you lose weight.... damn....

Okie adding to my list of things to do!!! Loose the bloodee inches.

Also, I think I should give up the word SHIT! for Lent! wonder if I will be successful hahahha! SHIT SHIT SHIT.. lets say it until I am puas now! Lent begins now for 40 days and then comes Good friday and then Easter!!!!!!!!! How fast time flies... dang!

ke-ching!!!!!

Alrighty!!!!! Its already that 5th day of CNY. Tomorrow its back to work.. sucks man. But what choice loh. I need to settle somethings at work tomorrow. Abit scary if you ask me as time is running out.....

This year's CNY collection is not bad wor!!!! Ke-ching ! Ke-ching! XXX figure wor!
Can cover the cost of my boots hehehe yahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.. but of course I will be putting it all in the bank ;P HAHA! Yeah rite!

I'm not crazy but I'm just a little unwell...

Have heard that before , you must have, it plays on the radio occassionally and sung by match box 20.

I'm not crazy but I'm a just a little unwell..... :)

This caught me one day when I driving to work. I was also feeling depressed then I realized that sometimes we say a person is crazy la siow lah.. blablabla lah... but then its a nice way to look at it that the person isn't crazy , just feeling unwell at that particular phase of his/her life.

I like it... :)

Constantine

Yesterday, i went to watch Constantine with my friends at MV. Well, the movie was not too bad esp when you have a handsome guy to look at. Well I have to say keanu reeves being 41, he still look really really good!!!!!!

The story itself is quite intriguing but of course how Angle Gabriel was depicted in the movie isn't very nice. Anyways, should just watch just as a form of entertainment. I like the part where the movie ended with the phrase - God works in mysterious ways. Isnt that true?

My Once A Upon a Time Life

Sometimes I think about the phases of my life that I went through. Its not easy really living thru the years.Sometimes I dont' know what I am living for. I walk thru life in a state of blurness, if there is such a word.

There's the Primary school phase, I can't remember much about it but I remember some of the faces esp those who were in my circle of friends. sometimes, out of the blue, I will think about them. Its amazing, how I can still picture how they look like very clearly. That's the amazing part of my memory. I can remember faces very well. But I can also say, of late I choose to remember things I want to remember. There were some significant events during that part of my growing up. I remember during standard 4, going to school with a big patch of bandage on the left of my face. Couple of stitches due to the reason, I fell from the bike being the pillion not the rider. My brother was the rider. Bike as in Bicycle. Anyways, that scared me for life. Even when I started working, people saw the scar as fresh. Some even asked me whether it was just recently I had the fall and when did it happen. How to explain hor, that it happened when I was in primary school?

of course, from the age of 5, I learnt ballet, piano, organ - you name it. I enjoyed ballet classes till I ws 12, almost completed all the stages they had but due to the constant complaining of stomach ache, my mother decided, its not good for me so I quit. Piano continued till I finished grade 8, I even started the diploma classes half way, then I quit. Why? Coz I didn't know what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I finished Grade 8 when I was in form 4. Well what do you expect, I started piano when I was 5!!!!.

sometimes when I think back, I had the opportunity to choose a different path, like maybe be a piano teacher or something. But at the point in my life, I just didn't want that. I wanted the glamourous life of the corporate world. Did I really?
From standard 4 till standard 6, I was a prefect in school. Then in standard 6, I was elected to be the head prefect for the school. So young yet the responsibility so high. Maybe that really cultivated the serious nature in me which till today I can't shrug it away.
Secondary school, move from a saint named school to a methodis girls school.... Some of my primary school friends were in the same school too. But we were not in the same class. Funny, how my mind always drift back to the times in secondary school sometimes. I remember faces, the happy times, the sad times, the times that changed my life forever. Its so important what the teachers say to you during that time. How my confidence was crushed and was never recovered totally. I should spend more time going thru the times of my childhood maybe then I will be able to identify what made me like this.

Almost made the head school girl again when I went back during Frm 6 but i didn't want it, didn't even want to be a prefect anymore.Tired of it lah. almost my whole school life I was a prefect. never can break rules but always have to uphold them. So I declined the position of a head girl but remained a prefect until the day I left secondary school. I was a sprinter in school. Also Badminton and netball were my games. As for netball, I always played center - a role where you have to run alot. but i like it. I want to share with you this experience I feel when I run. I feel so free so spirited. So light, so free from all the burdens. But I used to suffer alot too. I used to have knee pain all the time. When it rains sometimes my knee feels like so painful - almost like someone who has rhumetism. At least its much better now.

That was my life during my childhood days. If my parents didn't stop me from being so involved in games, I would have maybe taken a different path. I would say that my parents decision, has actually affected my decisions on being what I want and being what they want me to be. This goes on even till university. Being born in an asian culture, we are so torn in respecting our parents decision or in following what our heart tells us.

This career wasn't one which I would have chosen for myself. Before I left for the States to study, I told my father that I like psychology. I like dealing with learning about people, about society, about the things that deal with communication. I wanted to Study Psychology. You know what he told me? If you were to use my money and I am to send you so far for your education, I will not allow you to study psychology. so it was either accounting or computer sc. I hate math. I hate math I hate math..... But I had no choice, do I did it. I compromised, I did a major in Management Information Systems. I would say that I breezed thru the humantities class, the social sciences class and the business class with no problem. No problem with math either - algebra, calculus. Basically I did very well in Univeristy. Abit of struggling with programming tho - had a really traumatic experience there but I did okay I would say. But I still am afraid of it.. Its plagued me all this while and still is plaguing me. I still am not able to cross that hurdle that my very first manager told me. I see in you, you can do it.... once you cross that hurdle you will do well. I cant' cross that hurdle, i still have nightmares about it.
Over the years, I lost touch with the person inside me. I dont' even know who I want to be anymore? I long for a life far from the corporate world. But due to the demands of this world, I have to carry on.

But life shouldn't be that way. right? There should be more to all this.... Will I ever find courage to cross the hurdles placed infront of me. Will I ever be able to bury "fear" from my life and move on with faith and courage? Only time will tell.

How much for a hair cut?

Just came to my mind that I had watned to write about this but unfortuatnely due to restriction on internet access it kept slipping my mind when i am actually infront of a pc.

Recently before chinese new year, my friend went to Mid Valley. She went there to get herself a hair cut and to color her hair. Guess how much did it cost her?!?!?!?!? RM400!!!!!! okay I have to say the highlights as what she calls it is very nice. But isn't it a hole in the pocket to spend so much on your hair???

Do you know how much I spend on my hair cut? Just wash and cut? RM12 !!!!! hahaha yeah exactly and if i wanted to go somewhere more expensive its about 30 ringgit. That's all I spend.
If i had a perm , i would have cost me 100+ but less than 150.

So I don't think I can bring myself to spending RM400 on my hair!!!!

I have colored my hari before but I bought it from the pharmacy and did it myself! Which I felt turned out pretty well too.

But since close to 3 years now, I haven't colored my hair nor perm my hair.... due to some reason which I don't care to mention in my blog....

I am not bad mouthing my friend but I have to say this though. She always complains that she doesn't have money and she has maxed out her credit card but she she still has the heart to spend so much on her hair. Amazing mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn..................

Anyways... there is onething I have had to tahan each time I went out with her and her sister is that they always try to parasite on people. like pretending to pay you back for the movie tickets or the meals when one person paid first. Initially when that happened, I didn't quite bother, I thought maybe they genuinely forgot loh. But after that day when i found out about the 400 ringgit hair dressing escapade, I realized.... i am the bodoh one!

How the 1st Day went?

Well, i had the worse nite last nite. The stupid FireWORKS and not firecrackers was blasting till almost 2am. 2 of my inconsiderate neighbours kept playing chain fireworks the whole bloodee nite. It finally stopped at around 2am. And I found out from my mom, a police patrol car did turn up hahaha. Server those buggers right!!!!

On top of it all, its Ash Wednesday and have to wake up by 6.30am to be in church by 7am for mass. As that's the only mass for Ash wednesday and the next one is for CNY mass which is 9am and the other Ash Wed mass is in the evening. I didn't have enough sleep, it really cheeses me off.

Came back from church I haven't sat down till now. Had to help mom with alot of things as relatives comes over on the first day and friends too......... well, I haven't had friends visiting me since the day I left school so it doesn't make much different :P

Stood the whole morning frying this sotong balls. Have to put it in egg yolk and then in the jacob cracker ( which I had to pound to find power like). Then fry.. all bloodee 4 packs ah.. dont' play-play. So now my feet is aching.

That's the first day of new year... what a start...

3 Significant Event today

Today symbolizes 3 main events. Firstly, its my dad's birthday. Secondly, its chinese new year eve and thirdly, its my sis-in-law 6 months death anivesary.

Today as its both CNY and my dad's birthday, we will be having the usual potluck at my uncle's place. Maternal side. We have stopped going to our paternal side after my step grandmother decided that she is too unwell to be visited by us and she rather spend it with HER daughters. Anyways, doesn't affect my life :) . My grandfather passed away the final year of my university abroad so i never did get a chance to attend his funeral that was abouot 9 years ago now. But I remember offerring a mass for him and I did speak to the Priest at the Catholic Student Center.

CNY doesn't really have much impact in my life these days esp after I grew up in a sense. I used to look forward to CNY but these days , I only look forward to it becoz its public holiday and we get two of it.

this year, I only got 1 pair of new outfit, but its work attire. Sigh.... didn't really find anything nice and furthermore. .imagine everyone will be wearing the same old stuff... that's the bad part about commerialized goods.

Anyways.. may this year bring us alot of prosperity and good luck and good health.
And may this year be the year I find the mission in my life.

GoD Bless.

Chic Lit

Yesterday I was at the mall, I went to the bookshop.
If you have read odissi's blog before she posted about this book Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro. I wanted to get that book. I walked around the fiction section and I couldn't locate it. Then walked sommore and bingo! i saw the book. Guess what beside the book there was this shelf label sticking out that states : CHIC LIT.

Never knew such category existed. HAHAHA. Ringgit was there too and he was surprised there is such a thing called Chic Lit.

something new to add to your vocabulary.......

Food for Thought

Recently, I have had alot of thoughts that I felt i should blog down. But due to some reason, not being able to get online everyday, I was not able to. As you all know, sometimes you have these great thoughts and wished that you could pen it down immediately. Coz you're afraid you might just forget it... thats what happened to me.

I leave for work pretty early in the morning and when i reach home its almost dark. I was in a traffic queue after work today and this car infront of me had this bumper sticker which read

There are No Great Things. Only Simple things with Great love

Isn't that a beautiful phrase? I guess you don't need to do great things in life, just do things with love. Then again, I hate working life so how can i do it with love hehehe. Go figure!

Then just a few days ago, I was driving to work and it was still pitch dark - around 710am and i was at the traffice lights and I turn to my left and saw this words as part of the billboard. I couldn't read the first part but only the tail end part of it and it read "Hidup ini mesti ceria"
Interesting huh? Did you guess what ad it was for? Well, Cabdury Chocolate!!!!! :) Isn't that cool?? I am sure you guys have driven pass this billboard many times but yet didn't really see it.

Okie I have to make my hidup more ceria.

I have to admit, the missing link is still missing in my life. Yesterday, I went to alpha and had a chance to speak to Lynda, the lady who intro me to Alpha. I mentioned to her that recently I feel very distant frm God. She asked me " You feel like there is a missing link?" I said yes exactly that. She said its good that you recognize that, pray that God will open your eyes and ears and heart. Ask him to help you cross that link to be closer to Him. Now that's a mission!!!!

Just a little update on Bonnie M, I guess I only have to tolerate him for another month before we move floors. Well I am gonna be positive that I won't be placed near him. Please Lord, please help me. Or else I might just go insane.....