MAC and Export

Just realised that friendster only holds 10 blogs at any one time. either that or i cant find my first (few) blog(s). so neways, when i found that out, i decided to switch blogsites and am now also blogging on blogspot. which i think is not as used friendly as friendster but some things in life cant be helped. so for the benefit of all who actually have the time to follow my blog (tres, shant, lora, leslie, amanda, etc.), my blogster is http://anodetome.blogspot.com/. feel free ;-) But whats there is exactly whats here, its just that i want all my blogs kept for good and blogspot has an archive function ;-)

today was hectic (but not fucked up, funnily enuff). skipped lunch to have training in the export dept and had cereal (bananas and nuts) with cold milk ;-) at 2. bookings and amendments were ok, but takes a lot of getting used to.

appraisal went pretty well *big smile* went REALLLY well actually, considering. MAC is getting pretty busy - there's paintball and futsal for sports and some orphanage visit in johor which has to be finalised for CSR (corp social resp). and i hv to come up with a whole freaking yr's budget and see if i can get quotations as well for CSR suggestions. and he wants an event EVERY MONTH. oh boy!!

but CSR's gonna be interesting cos its gonna include orphanages, animal shelters (yaaaayyy for my furry friends), recycling and hospital visits. so mayb i can tap into my inner whatever and see if social work is for me (yeah right) ;-) hence the fact that yours truly want to be involved.
and it would also be interesting to see how i cope with all of this. believe it or not, its 11pm on a friday and i'm STILL in the office.. no life lah kan.. but i hv a life tmrw - my saturday is sooo full-up. i'm volunteering at paws in the morn, hv a lunch appt at 12, and my saturday night is starting at 5.30pm.. early kan? heheheheh..

so i'm going to the export dept (more work), my MISE asgmnts are catching up (more work, less time), CSR budgetting needs to be done and events need to be arranged (even less time), social life needs a revamp (well, slightly ler)... where la got time? 7 days a week enuff meh? doubt it. like some ppl say 2 hands are not enuff. but i digress.

and someone called me today to do proofreading for his thesis on ARBITRAGE PRICING. say what? now i'll have to go google that to get a better idea of what i'm getting myself into.

hv to get in to work early on monday to shift places to the export dept and set up my PC and all.. hope i have all the access(es) ness in place. shit, just rmbrd that i havent paid citibank yet.. shit shit shit shit... where's my cheque book?

vodka, bacardi and dry gin

yes yes, as the title suggests, went to bangsar last night, but couldnt dance cos of the almost sprained ankle so settled for JUST drinks instead. went to one of the kopitiams in ss2 before that for dinner and had thai chicken and kangkung belacan. was nice. oh and almond juice. THAT was gross. i mean it tasted like medicine i swear.. i'm never having almond juice again, i'll just stick to the nut. nuts. always ;-)

really needed a drink last night tho. bangsar was jammed as usual, had to go 2 rounds before i could find Gorgeous a spot. so happened that it was under a tree and when i came bc, there was bird shit on him. shit.. hv to shower with him over the weekend ;-)

had vodka lime (doesnt every girl) for starters. then had a bacardi coke. still ok. finished mine and started on tres' unfinished half while she was bloody flirting with the bartender with ANOTHER vodka lime.. sheesh... then had dry gin and tonic and that was pretty strong cos after that, i didnt feel like going bc to bacardi.. heheheh..

was supposed to club hopping, but after all that, and the fact that both of us had to get up the next morning for work, decided to call it a night ler.. could still drive, but seriously wished i was in bed.

know sometimes when you're high, you feel like just getting back home and hitting the sack. i think thats what hapens when you drink and drive. its not that you're drunk, its just that you wanna get home in the fastest possible time and you make some errors in judgment here and there. anyway, i was driving pretty "normally" yesterday. i mean, i do 150 even when i'm not high so..

come to think of it, high after 3 glasses? must hv been triple shots of each or something!
got home, no game on tv, so just got into bed. woke up half an hour later feeling a bit queasy but just ignored the feeling and turned over and slept. had to REALLLLYYYY drag myself out of bed this morning. felt like an MC but decided against it. pretty good record currently, only 1.5 days taken for the first 6 mths of 2006 :-)

having a late mcds delivery lunch (again).. mc chicken set with apple pie for dessert. got MAC meeting this afternoon and after that got training with the export dept, so the afternoon's looking pretty booked up. darn. and havent started on bloody logistics yet. but last-minute looks good :-)

Title-less

Interesting. First up, thks Tres, appreciate it ;-) yeah, bitches can go fly kites wherever they want to ;-) And paws on sat is on ;-) up for sat night?

so.... interesting. had a MAC (maersk activity club) committee meeting this morning, turned out pretty well. got a bit high on that actually ;-) finished my investment asgmnt (thks shant) ;-) FINALLY. and bloody Logistics is due next week. went for futsal yest, got kicked in the shins and almost sprained my ankle, and still had the audacity (is this the correct word used in the right context?) to wear heels to work!! yeah, beauty is pain.. no, thats shallow. but wearing heels feels great, know what i mean? altho i'm gonna get backache when i'm dead. HAHAHAHAH.. wonder who's turning 6 ft underground?

yeah, mood improved dramatically from yest :-) in a great mood currently and i almost know it'll last right through to monday. no wait, sunday night's more like it. monday might be shitty cos i'm going to a new rotation in export (no amanda, i'm NOT doing Walmart i swear). but i'll cross that bridge when i come to it. will try to enjoy the next few days.

going out with a dear person for dinner today. wanna go clubbing after that cos its ladies night in bangsar and i've got some pretty appropriate clothes in Gorgeous ;-) but see how it goes la. should be ok tho, cos the sky's looking good too.

hungry la. odd, cos i had chap fun for lunch. oh yeah, forgot to have a tea break.. no wonder. where's my oreos? *chup* mmmmm.. i love oreos w peanut butter and choc filling. its like all good tastes rolled into one. like walnut cookies. and baskin robbins. and cheescake (with coffee or chocolate or caramel). or apple crumble with ice cream. or brownies with vanilla ice cream. or tiramisu. i could go on.. or bananas and nuts for breakfast.. hahahaha.. what were you thinking? ;-)

Its been a long time...

(Exhale)... (again).. (deep breath)... Monday was shitty (again). today is Tuesday. I couldnt even sleep well. Shit. Still feeling the effects of Monday on Tuesday. thats not good. the sun's supposed to set on everything before you get into a new day.

So forget monday, lets talk abt the happier things in life. had a McDs lunch on Friday (a happy meal - see, thats happy). as soon as i got bc to the office, there's a power shutdown again. Lasted for abt 2hrs (i think) and i used the time to network among most other depts. That was good, went to see IEL, spoke to Export, yakked with SVD for a while, checked in with Airfreight. Then the electricity resumed (shit). ;-) Kinda miss blogging actually (oh god i have no life). but i already accepted the fact that i have no life as a MISE anyway :-(

Friday evening was good altho it took me one and a half hours to get to KL from Shah Alam cos of the traffic and the rain. was supposed to go club hopping but tak jadi cos of the rain, so malas la. thank god i didnt take the federal cos a friend messaged me saying its shit jammed, so took jalan damansara instead (i think, or was it jalan duta?), slow but at least it was moving. met up with some friends and just sat drinking in muse. had rum and vodka. not enough la, wasnt even high. in fact it was like i didnt even drink for crying out loud.. my alcohol tolerance must have reaaalllyyy increased!! could even drive straight ;-) sent my friend back, then went home. was a good trip tho, met up with some of the more (give me another word for important, something less than important but important nonetheless).. aaaahhhhhh: significant [thank you MSWord] ;-) people in my life.

drove back on saturday morning and both my parents were home (yippeeeee) and gave them a big long hug each. needed that actually. wonder why Asians dont hug so much (its like a crime). wait a minute it IS a crime. rmbr klcc? no wonder. i should migrate. or emigrate. even checked merriam webster for the difference between migrate and emigrate and it doesnt seem to be making any sense. whatever. (monday's spillover, shit).

so to move on (i'm forcing myself here).. went to the market with my parents (mind you it was 9 in the morning, i'm supposed to be in bed!). then my dad took me to one of the body workshops in town to get Gorgeous knocked. mechanic said he wouldnt ever look normal again (boohoo), but he'll be alright. so he explains the whole procedure and dad agrees and i ask him how much and he says $50. In my heart i'm going like "yippppppppeeeeeeee" ;-) so he asks me to move gorgeous into the workshop and he starts undressing him (as in dismantling, what WERE you thinking?). its like its taking forever and first his bonnet comes up, then his skirting and then his lights and his radiator and about 2 million screws along with it. then he gets knocked a little (thank god the mechanic uses a hammer with a cloth to minimize the scratches, and the paint ALMOST doesnt come off).

the actual knocking only took like 10-15 mins, the other 1+ hour was spent undressing and redressing. and altho he doesnt look the same, he does look pretty normal. i was almost tempted to pay the mechanic more, but takpe la. its not like money grows on trees anyway ;-)
(tues morn): just went for a quick hug but it doesnt really make me feel better. well, mayb a weeeeee bit, but not much. could do with another one. really need to talk to someone right now. tres, dinner tonight? or tmrw night? need a hug from you too.

shit i shouldnt be feeling like this. like 'tak sedap hati'. like you know there's something wrong and you CAN place it but there's not much you can do abt it. like if you do something abt it, you'll prob drag yourself deeper into the shit hole. but if you dont, you feel like your insides are being ripped apart (well i'm exaggerating, but i wish i could take an MC today). like you're caught in between with no option out. fuck.

backtrack to sunday - baked walnut cookies. well, they're supposed to be walnut cookies but i spent 2 HOURS searching for walnuts and no one had it, so i settled for cashew nuts instead. that was good. was dying to bake over the weekend actually and EVERYONE (underline everyone) said it was nice. *big smile*
also watched the england-ecuador game (beckham's goal was so damn cun, swear it was one of the better goals of the season).

monday: finished my meeting minutes, finished my appraisal and started on my asgmnt. finally. but there's still a lot to be done. MAC has also arranged for futsal today and i can only play if i finish my asgmnts which is due tmrw. shit again. went for a dept dinner last night to Dome - had mocha loca, fish and chips, a little bit of tiramisu and a little bit of a choc brownie with ice cream. came back to work just to start on my asgmnt. finished 1 question and left the office abt 10.45. went back, watched the italy-aus match for a while, were no goals and i got bored so went to bed. almost couldnt sleep and woke up this morning still feeling like shit. god, i'm ranting like some old crone.. came to work early and someone asked me if i've got a meeting today cos i look fancy (and all i was wearing was this maroon kebaya with 4-inch heeled slippers ;-). FANCY? i mean come on.. ok whatever.

tres, dinner sometime? i'm desperate :-)

Oh, someone just messaged me asking me how i am. thats sweet. sometimes all you need is someone who cares. someone who doesnt take you as a machine on autopilot. oh wait. there's someone now. someone who's emailing me asking me whats up and why i feel like shit. ;-) gotta go. there's always a silver lining on every cloud. and my heart's lifting already. just needed some time and a person after my own heart i guess ;-) now to get down to that fucking asgmnt or i wont be able to play futsal tonight. cheers.
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Dammit woman! Pick up the phone and bloody call me already! =)
Posted by: Theresa June 27, 2006 04:54 AM

Wed(nesday)..

..was good. Sent Gorgeous for servicing in the morning at 8, got a colleague to pick me up from EON since we both had a seminar in Holiday Inn. Got a table, then went out of the ballroom to see if there was anything for breakfast (it was abt 9-ish) and *GASP* there wasnt!! And there was another seminar going on in the next ballroom and their table had coffee and mee and croissants. I honestly thought it was for us as well so I grabbed one, then half way thru the croissant realised that I was the only one eating.. Oh well, no harm done ;-) Then we had a break at 10+ and had sandwiches and tiny hors d'ouvres (sounds fancy doesnt it?).. Was so full i couldnt eat lunch, just had a Choc Sundae in McD's drive thru (AGAIN).

Went back to EON to get Gorgeous and the bloody bill was $240 (or thereabouts)!! And better yet, the bloody LABOUR CHARGE was $110. And i cant send him to an outside workshop cos the dear guy's still under warranty, so no choice ler.. Thats why i'm secularly employed - it helps pay the bills. If i didnt have any bills, i'd just as well stay at home..

Best thing about yest. was the power cut in the office, was pouring donkeys and elephants (as opposed to dogs and cats) in the afternoon, and i saw this brilliant lightning and after that, the whole office was in darkness. so we thought it was just temporary, and we were just sitting around chatting. this was about 3.45pm, and at 4.50, boss told us to go home.. yippppeeeeeeee :-D

and since yest was futsal day, we played early. was so much fun but damn tiring. even tho i only had a sundae for lunch, i wasnt feeling hungry, playing on adrenaline i guess. and 3 cans of 100plus of course. scored a few goals too ;-) Then went to this mamak place in Shah Alam for dinner, but i was only half way thru my roti telur bawang when i stopped eating. not to say wasnt hungry but just tooooo tired la. had to shut out for a while. went home, had a good shower, sent out a few messages and knocked out.

and when i got up this morning, every bloody step i took sent a cramp thru my calves. it was like my whole body was shutting down! was seriously considering crutches ;-P all's fine now tho. i think. but my body disagrees. oh well, the mind's always been stronger.. cheers ;-) the weekend's closing in.

Foosball

For all those of you who actually FOLLOW my blog *big smile*, my boss said my project was good and he thinks i should show it to other departments so that they can be worked on.. (Score 1 for Tuesday) So while it was downhill in the morning, it picked up a little. Had a good game of foosball (mixed doubles) and lost a McDs lunch (damn it, i should stop eating McDs so much).
have to rmbr to bring my futsal clothes for tmrw evening.

As for Gorgeous, he'll be all right. called my dad and told him abt the accident (giving him VERY scratchy details), and he said he knows someone who does body work and i'll have to get that done on Saturday, just bloody hope it doesnt cost too bloody much). Damn pokai la, what with my servicing, my accident, McDs lunches and June being a birthday month. That reminds me, I owe my sister a gift. And to think she wants Ralph Lauren's Romance. Romance my ass, i checked out the price DUTY FREE and it cost bloody 200 bucks. So i think she'll settle for a book and a reload coupon or a pair of shoes.

Damn, just rmbrd that i havent uploaded my latest pics of Gremlin yet (if you dont know who Gremlin is, what are you doing reading my blog?) ;-)

Freaking Accident

Got into a bloody accident this morning. Just along the LDP, was bloody jammed cos of the rain and there i was crawling along. So since i'm crawling along, there shouldnt be a problem putting on make-up and driving right? so i start on my face and the next thing i know Gorgeous (my car's official name for the uninitiated) is jerking and i'm going like "fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck".
then i lift the handbreak and look in the front and its a bloody iswara aeroback. so she gets out of the car, and i get out (mind you, it was still drizzling), and she starts inspecting her car, and there's nothing on her car apart from a few minor scratches WHICH SHE RUBBED OF WITH HER HAND!! so there's no damage to her car right? so then i start inspecting Gorgeous and his number plate's chipped off a little at the top. so i'm ok with that, it was my fault after all, and its nothing that cant be fixed with some super glue anyway. thank god she didnt ask for money, that would have been such a waste for an ugly car.. heh heh...

so then i finish my makeup during a few traffic lights with no other incidents. then i get into the basement and get out of Gorgeous to inspect his front to see if there's anything i've missed.. (no dirty thoughts please, i've never done it in Gorgeous before ;-); and guess what? his whole bonnet's crooked!! i'm serious, its like a V (about 160 degrees each side - if you know what i mean).. i cant believe i didnt see that..

so since i'm already ALMOST late for work, i go up, tag-in, switch on my PC and go down to check Gorgeous again. And guess what? I forget his keys, they're still upstairs (this is usually what happens when you're stressed). So I go up again (thank god for lifts), get his keys and come down, then try to open his bonnet and its a bit jammed, get it open anyway, not much damage except to his exterior. will have to take him for some hard knocks today (sniff, sob..), and he's due for his 30k servicing anyway. will prob hv to use my AMEX, dont have time to get to the vault ;-) I will always love you, Gorgeous.. Until i get my Audi that is.. ;-)

I HATE MONDAYS - by Garfield

I love Garfield, and Garfield hates Mondays (and as we learnt in SPM Maths), if you love Garfield and Garfield hates Mondays, hence logically, you should hate Mondays. But technically I like Calvin and Hobbes better, man.. Bill Watterson is great. Esp when his cartoons are from a child's point of view but it makes you think cos there are underlying ideas or issues. i subscribe to this little boy and his tiger everyday.. Like there's this brilliant one where he doesnt do his homework and Hobbes asks him abt it and he says he hasnt done it but it doesnt really matter cos no one's life is gonna hang in the balance. and then he continues saying "even if there were lives hanging in the balance, it would depend on who's lives they were".. and another brilliant one i cant rmbr, but which i printed and pasted somewhere (cant rmbr where either).. isnt my memory serving me wisely? ;-)

had cereal for breakfast and fruit and cheese for lunch (weird combination i know), so feeling reeeaaaalllly healthy. wore this black pinstripe Edmunser skirt to work with a white pinstripe blouse and a black Padini jacket and my Hushies and makeup and got like 5 compliments.. Woohooooo!!!

So while i hate Mondays, it didnt really turn out badly. Finished my project and boss said he'll look at it and revert tmrw, so i hope thats ok. played fusbal (or foosball, whichever), and won a McDs lunch from a colleague (10-8). played with another colleague and all was going well (altho i was losing 9-7, but thats excusable cos this guy's really good), then he decides to play for dinner and i dont agree cos i know i'll lose. he even levels the playing field by making the score 9-9, and not using his line of attackers. but i still said no.. i dont know, i think in life, you have to take risks, but CALCULATED risks. where you know you have a chance of winning and even if you lose, you can look back and say "that was a good game".. anyways...

also signed up for the Maersk Ladies Futsal team, training with the guys every Wednesday (ooohhhh yeah - blood, sweat and tears.. ;-).. prob gonna get hurt a little but whatever doesnt kill you only makes you stronger.

til the next blog then, really need to get down to my asgmnt, its bloody due next week. pretty ok for a monday overall, so cheers. and skol to a great week..

TGIF

Today's Friday.. Friday is a good day. Pretty good day actually, considering half the week's been shitty at best. Went for a dept dinner to TGIF yesterday and had a mudslide (i swear they make the best ones, mmmmmmm).. finished up with a choc fudge brownie with ice cream. was out with a colleague for lunch today and he told me i live to eat, and he's probably right ;-) Food is good.

Still havent gotten down to my assignments, procrastinating as usual. played fusbal and my defence is actually getting better, i should consider increasing my defenders' wages.
there's a puppy olympics going on at 1-Utama coming sunday so i'm volunteering at the PAWS booth to raise some funds and interact with stuff thats cuter than babies (know what i mean?) For the uninitiated, i love animals and i dont think babies are cute and animals dont talk back and they've got soft fur and i could go on and on and on...

but i'm ranting again, so i'll stop. have a nice weekend. i'll try.

....

Today has been a pretty much fucked up day.. And i was reading a few blogs online and just realised that blogging is not for me cos i cant open up enough. someone once told me that i'm a closed book and thats pretty much true i guess. everything i blog about is surface stuff. see, i cant even write WHY today was such a fucked up day.. shit.

DVC

Finally watched The Da Vinci Code yest., (hereby referred to as DVC). i know i know i'm late, everyone's watched it milleniums ago, but i was intent on finishing the book first (as MOST of you know) ;-) It was a pretty good adaptation of the book right up til the last 20 minutes or so..
But to really understand it, you'd have to read the book first and everything will fall into place. If not you can pretty much get boggled (another way of saying confused..)

Have tons of work (as in MISE asgmnts), havent started any yet, have to arrange for my vessel tour, complete a project before i move to another dept for my rotation.. Oh well, i've always believed that i work better under pressure ;-) Seriously.. Cos if you have time to do something that needs to be completed, you tend to push it and push it and push it til the last minute, and when the 11th hour comes along, you work towards the finished product with a vengeance and it'll probably be complete (and good, hopefully) due to time pressure..

Sorry I'm ranting.. Feel free to ignore me, its a free country ;-)
Just had a Milo for breakfast and my poor stomach is feeling the effects.. Neways..

Friendster

have actually been blogging for abt 2 wks now. but was blogging on friendster. then realised that friendster only allows you a max of 10 posts. after that the later ones fall away. which is shitty cos i wanna know what i wrote 2 yrs ago (if). so will now try getting used to blogspot.

and will also cut and paste all my 2 wks worth of blogs from friendster to this space..

Getting on the bandwagon

Finally decided to start blogging. and you know what got me convinced? the fact that i went for this elephant conservation programme, and everybody i met there actually blogged!! at first i'm like "these ppl have waaaay too much time on their hands". then i figured i should give it a try myself. i mean, nothing's definite till you've tried it right. so here i am. will try getting used to this ;-)