A Celebration - Really?

As today is the last day of the year 2007, the media - radio, tv, newspapers, mags are all blasting with ads on celebration blablablabla.

Is there really anything to celebrate? Its been years since I last set foot out to a party or just to hang out to usher in the new year. Couple of reasons to that.

Firstly, I hate the human traffic not to mention the actual vehicle traffic on the roads. And the most horrendous of all, the parking congestion. Even if you managed to find a parking spot - not necessarily a good one, you may still be forced to fork out much more than you would normally do.

secondly, the age is catching up to me.

This year I am plagued with anxiety. At the stroke of midnight, I will now be categorized under the late something category. Thats one of the reason I am not so not looking forward to the new year. Neither am I looking forward to be the spinster :(

As for resolutions!!! I have plenty, but I have long given up writing up any, as its hardly ever fulfilled. hehee.

Many things had happened in this month of december, have been wanting to blog about it a thousand times, but just the lazy bone caught up with me. Will see what happens. I will heading back to work on 2nd Jan.. dang man, how time flies. Hardly did anything and in a blink of an eye, its over over *sob*sob*

But not wanting to be a cynic, I shall wish everyone a Happy New year!!!!

Evan Almighty

As we all know this movie will never come to our shores due to the reason, that certain people think that the people of this country is easily swayed.

Anyways.. i just wanted to say that this movie is a great one. Go watch it if you have a chance.

It says a lot of things....

But one thing that stuck with me is
How to do you change the world?
one Act of Random Kindness at a time. ARK.

Yeah.. man...............

Weak....

I know I haven't been blogging since bfore the 20th of December. I wanted to but the lazy bone in me just forbade me to do it. hehehe.

Anyways... as the title says, I have been weak. Been purging since this morning at 7am and by 12pm, I would have already visited the good old little john 10 times!!!!

When it started, i took some chinese tablets - poh chai yuin. Not sure if you know what it is. Then even after 2 friggin hours i was still purging. What to do!!! there is no lomotil in sight in the fridge. Called my sista who is away fixing her car... ahh she stole it and put it at her house when she had the bug couple of days ago. Thank goodness she lives like 2 doors away. got the medication, took it.. and mama mia.. still visitng the little john leh................

Now another different bug attacked... the puking bug. I could feel the cram in my tummy. The pain ws more like gastric pain rather than anything else. :~~~~~

I decided to still eat , at least a bit - even if its a tiny bit. i took bread. like maybe quarter cup of milo without milk and went to snooze. Holly shit.. couldn't coz stomach was uneasy. my brother kept asking me whether i wanted to go see the DR. I said maybe wait it out for awhile and after that.. everything just subsided. Thank You Lord... at this time i am typing this, i feel better....

But what a waste of my 1 day leave. hehehe.

not realy hor, coz i am have wasted my 1 week at home doing nothing...... nyek nyek!!!!

BUT BUT i had plans today, to clean up my room. but i guess someone decided getting sick was the priority.

p/s my dad asked the maid to cook coz my mom has been away since sunday. I think it must be something not clean or stale. I woke up around 3.30pm and my bro stated that he also had the virus. SCARY... i want my mommy back!!!!

Finally

Thank God. Finally the issue is resolved but not without numerous calls to TM. And kept following up.

Little by little things start unearth. What surprised me was i upgraded to 1mbps in sept and after a week since i logged the ticket, the Call Center person told me that the technician has asked me to upgrade my package to 1mbps to get a higher speed. I was appalled. Excuse me, i am already using that package. hence my ticket was to complain about the inability to get that speed that i paid for or rather am paying for. Crazy right.

Anyways... finally got fixed today afternoon. Thank God. As of yesterday I started to pray different for this issue. Before that i kept asking Lord to please let the issue be resolved. The report is now already in its 8th day. Then I decided to ask God to guide the person who is solving my issue. May God grant him the wisdom to see whats wrong and fix it.

Glad its finally resolved but I do pray it stays this way.

Today is also my last day of work for the year!!! yahooooooooooooo

Today my mood was exceptionally bright and chirpy.

Short Changed

I feel so cheated.
Sometime last Aug, i upgraded from 512K broadband line to 1mbps line.

Guess what??? I am getting MODEM speed seriously. this is the result frm the provider's speedometer at their site.

for the past week, I have been calling them every friggin day and they never seem to be doing anything.

I feel really ripped off. I can understand that you are not able to reach the ful capacity of 1mbps but having to settle for modem speed is extremely bad!!!!!!!!

You Look Tired

Thats whats 2 different people I met this week told me.

Hmmm.. don't know whats wrong with me but I am darn tired all the time.

Something wrong with me?

Kids these days

Sigh...
what is becoming of the world today and what more the kids today.

Every year end, the co, will have this community proj event where they invite homes to come and then have the children make their 3 top wishes. The event then will be held at some hotel where kids meet their sponsors.

This year would be my first year participating in this event. By the time, i got to the board, all were left were bigger kids and I decided to sponsor a kid who is 15 years of age.

Pretty simple 3 wishes.
1) jeans + tshirt
2) sport shoes + socks
3) basketball.

We were given a budget and if it exceeds that we can replace that with another gift. We are encouraged not to spend more than RM300.

Anyways, I went shopping and bought what i thought was nice and reasonable priced.

oh boy! i wasn't prepared for the shock i got when i gave the kid the gift at the end of the event.
He asked me whether i bought him either quick silver, billabong, nike tshirt or what? I was like... open n u will know. He didn't want to and I mean Thank Goodness for that lah. If not he will know that did not buy in branded stuff but stuff that was nice and affordable. What are becoming of kids these days.

These are orphans, suppose to be poor?? i don't think so no more. These days. these ppl are too materalistic.

shocked what is becoming of the kids.

Next year if i were to sponsor, i want to sponsor younger kids.

Oh might i add, he was a rude kid, more like a delinquent type. Rude , rushed for food. Took alot of food, and couldn' finish.. and kept taking... totally ill mannered. I talked to some people after the event and was told that some of the other kids from that home were equally ill mannered. So thats it.. next year byebye no more sponsoring kids from these homes.

When and IF i become a parent, i will teach my kids to be thankful to have a roof over their heads, a shirt on their back. I want them to appreciate what they have. And look at things beautiful not bcoz of the price or brand... but for the thing is beautiful in itself regardless of brand or $$$ tag.