My crammed HK plan

wah.. i tell u how crammed is my HK trip...

Thu > after check in Mongkok, buy 24hr tourist pass to Lantau island
see Disneyland (outside only) + go straight to Peak at night in HK island.

Fri > morning still can use the tourist pass, go to Central take the doubledeck tram, then go Ocean Park. Evening take old Ferry cross over to Tsim Sha Tsui by night to view light display of HK buildings (Yehim will be in Tsim Sha Tsui watching World Squash Open, he ask me go watch squash.. doh). Then evening go Lan Kwai Fong. Yehim say he's always there Fri night, drink + dance (he so happening kah?!). He say LKF starts at 12am la.. bummer... i wanna sleep by 12am... then Yehim to send us back to Mongkok.

Sat > go Shenzhen. Yehim suggest i throw away SZ plan.. but my cousin + her friend plan go SZ shopping.. and eat dimsum there cheaper.. evening back to Mongkok visit Ap Liu Kai + Miu Kai. (2 kai in 1 night! :D )

Sun > 6am go Flower Kai / Yuen Bo Kai.. then maybe go back Central again. Have u heard of Golden Bauhinia? Doh.. do everything else in HK island.. then evening back to Mongkok Lui Yan Kai.

Mon > Check out from hostel & ferry back to Macau. Visit the famous st. Paul ruins + San Ma Lou. Also follow my cousin to check in her hotel.. evening take taxi go airport fly back alone.

how's the plan?

for me.. its crammed... its going on a trip with 3 other youngsters who'd just about to grad from college / uni. Sounds like those days when me & YT were trying to crammed everything in 16 days in Europe. Good thing about this trip, I dont have to do much research, as my cousin's friend have done a pretty extensive search! Even the "price" of the train from one stop to another station, she knows. Wow... what's it like feeling like I'm NOT the best-know-it-all girl this time around? I just hope I dun annoy this girl the hell out of my slow-pace/laidback attitude. I'm already considered very 'fast' for some people. Yes.. sleep I actually cant go without sleeping, even in crammed DIY travel.

from Korea & Japan...

| chatting wtih Korean onsite |
me : do you know what is wrong?
kim : i check to user..
me : when can you check with user, to run the agent once?
kim : just now... oops no installation... we will install to user.. so today.. install now...

?!

| email from Japanese onsite |

Hi,
Enomoto confirmed it instead of Kojima-san.

Best Regards,
Yuuki Enomoto

.. then came ...

Mei-san
I move to Motolora office next month. Enomoto-san can help your team instead of Kojima.

Best regards,
Yasuo Kojima

... me blur... why they refer to themselves by their name?!

Ahh.. I finally saw Jay Chou!!!

How crazy can one get at 26 year old?!! Gee.. I'm already 26 and I'd still go crazy over "OH MY GOD, IS THAT A HUGE MEGA JAY CHOU MEET THE FAN STAGE & CROWD?!!!??!"

I was just driving up towards the parking at 1U, noticing how there's exceptional many cars everywhere... so THAT's the reason. I drove straight to level 5, and instead of sliding my SLK into any empty parking space on the top floor, here I found myself making round & turns before finaly settling for a parking lot. When to the edge of the building, almost looked like I was going to jump off the building tip-toeing over the wall to see what's happening down there.

Off I went straight to the ground floor, and before I could get out of the building, I saw swamped of human beings walking towards my way. So said, oh no it's over?! Nevermind, I thought maybe I could catch a glimpse of his car also good. Then I walked straight over, so a HUGE crowd sandwiched through from the end of the building to the stage infront, taking their turn to go on stage for the autograph session. Couldn't see him from my view.. I walked by the side, further up to the side of the stage, ahhh.. that's WHERE all the no-tickets-not-so-crazy people were standing trying to record / catch a glimpse of Jay Chou. So I was there, without my digital camera. Only with my handphone, I just sms some friends... I had to shout out somehow!!

Oh ya.. where's YT my friend.. haha... she's somewhere looking for parking.. probably in Level 5... finally after the I-gotta-see-Jay-Chou live in 1U frenzy, I finally found my friend waiting for me to go for a Wed movie :P

Zathura was fun. Just wish I'm not so critical in actor's skill. Thought it's like a B-grade film because the boy actor was so amateurish. Got the free tickets from xfresh, and if I know who HONKED inside the carpark while the rest of the world were waiting patiently for their turn to exit, right after the movie.... he/she gonna get it. If it is EVER a X-fresher doing THAT uncivilized act of HONKING SO LOUDLY FOR SO LONG... God save Malaysian's teen community. I can never forgive that barbaric act. Every single driver is already helpless stucked behind the driver seat, inside the standstill jam inside the car park. Sure wish I know which idiot honked. I could get down from my car, signal him to stop doing that or else you can run over me.

Ishh... enuff... imagine how patient Jay Chou was on stage trying to sign like hundreds or even thousands of autograph in one night. Ah... patient patient...

Another insurance?!

how many insurance policy am I buying?! hopefully this is the last... difference is this time it is monthly payment basis, so that I am realy doing force saving. Is it over my budget? Well, yeah kinda.... if I dun get my new job or I dun cut down on other stuff!

Hopefully the insurance buying process will take a long time to settle, while I settle with my job change. *keep the faith* always. Yes, I do believe that if you want something so badly, you pray for it each time of the day that you remember to, you might positively get it!

Was speaking with dad, althought he's always showing his dismay on my unwillingness to sponsor him flight tickets on a yearly basis -- how many children could afford THAT?! I'm still gonna find ways to sly my way through... when I know he could afford it himself to go to places he wants to do, why wait for me?!

... hai... will you put your parents highest in your priority list? Should I forgo my own travelling budget, so that I could afford to send my BOTH parents to go somewhere near?

confession...

i gave people the hope that I'd attend their wedding, and even become their photographer, as the wedding ceremony will be very special... well different culture of course.

The day has come... it was pouring... I still dont know where is the place, somewhere in Shah Alam, and I'm quite blur with Shah Alam.

After looking at the map found in my inbox, I realise I'm STILL not familiar with that road, the map is not very helpful.

Then came the stupid excuses running through my mind like "I'm gonna be driving there all by myself..." and "I dont know anyone..."

With that.... I sms-ed the bride to say sorry that I couldnt make it for her wedding.

WHAT KINDA LAME PERSON AM I?!?!?!! Do I wanna create this 'brand' for myself famous for 'ffk' ppl's wedding?! I remembered how I couldn't make it for another ex-cllg wedding (even after talking so big about myself being the photographer), all the way in Johor that becos of valid reason that I had some incovar-related stuff unavoidable.

But NOW.. I only have lamest excuse for not turning up for not-so-close-friend wedding!

is there a God thingy that could pardon my lame excuse?! cos i really dont feel nice about flying-ppl's-plane (how u say that in english?!), but if i got no heart to go then I wont go!

Brrr.....

wah.. dreaming of travelling...

first i was going thru doze of new zealand wonderful picturesque photo album... then another friend send a link full of snow-capped mountainous range pictures that made me go "mommmm.. come and look!" (ok at home I dont call 'mom' i call 'mi')

too bad for slow streamyx at home (cant be it's supposed to be 1MBps speed right?) still the slideshow was taking ages to load for me mom to see.

my mom say "haiya, i go Nepal take pictures of the Himalaya mountain for you to see la"... that is if she knows how to use a digital camera! I'm not letting her use mine. She's gonna use the film camera, hopefully she knows how to operate that.

before she's back from Nepal, I'll be off to Hong Kong... not very enthusiastic about it, cos basicallly it's just Hong Kong. What is there to see in Hong Kong that I can go "whohhoooaaaaahhhh..." but basically its another trip where I'll squeeze it through on a shoestring budget.

yes, i need a new job, an increment in salary to cover all my never ending wishes to travel all around the world.

its weird how mom said "i think you have my gene like, you like to travel, just like me, not like your father"... Doh...

for all my monthly salary, the budgeting goes around accommodating plans for travels. everytime i'd sly my way with my parents to cover up my car insurance or anything I could sly with.

nah.. im just gonna eat roti in HK, i'll still see HK!

to write or not to write..

i see this comment from ~chao~ well I can guess its who, but surely my blog is not meant to be read by so many people out there! Already I'm finding it hard to write about certain things concerning certain people for fear they're read this. Blehh.. how now?!

basically things come, go, pass and there's another day. today i thought of writing something, as I log in... (usually at work), then on the other laptop i'll be busy doing something you may wonder how many different windows I can open at one time.

today i just felt sooo restless, to the extend of 'showing' it... didn't help to have another colleague from another team, trying to be non-diplomatic with me, its stupid (pardon my language, i dunno how to use other milder adjective) to say "maybe you dont understand what is xxx Comment" (like Doh, xxx Comment is what I tell you to put, and now you want to teach me). And its been a few months here and she'd still use this phrase as her opening conversation with me "maybe you still dont understand..."

I cannot tell this to anyone in my work place, I have no deep true blue kaki here(like back in Ac when we just kutuk other ppl kau kau among own gang). I just wanna tell someone, how s****d she is. As you may have known how I'm suffering from DMS. When I cannot understand why people are just s****d, the hardest part is they dont know they're s****d.

Die, I wonder if ever I become a manager next time (that's what I hope for!) how I'd treat my staff, will I go crazy?!

Please dont reveal this to my work related people ok?

I think the day didn't get any better, when I encounter with a China user, who speaks Mandarin, who dont know what is "printscreen". I was on the phone, speaking mandarin... and I cant translate "printscreen" to Chinese. You tell me how, I should bang the wall, or band the phone? I cant even show him which is the printscreen button on the keyboard... becos his netmeeting program failed to start.

I think I might have looked like I'm in distress... after settling down.. my teamlead ask "what's with the long conversation you had with the user?" yeah.. how can she solve it, she cant speak Mandarin. And yes... as you're getting restless and moving your hands all over the sky, your voice can probably tell?!

In the end... he manage to replied my email with the printscreen, if only I'd let him be. He must have understood written English, and not my spoken Chinese-mix-english.

Later on, had another s****d chat with you dont wanna know who, that I try hard not to bang my head, but it is another human being that is making me annoyed inside.

I was trying so hard not to raise my voice at my teamlead! Because she's such a softspoken lady, who would suddenly turn head and talk to me. Well she's weird but definitely very nice lady that I really dont wanna mess with.

Unlike the other Engineer-lead sitting on my right side, of another team... who "mumbles" to himself when he talks, I have to go "HUAAAH!??!"...

and then there's people who's level of english is... errm.... you know. And they use that sort of wrong-grammar english for their corporate email correspondance. I go... WTF, here I go trying my best to karang something simple, dumb-user-readable and correct in grammar. There I have my own teammate, sending out email in a long winded manner, with unchecked grammar, that given my MOM would get annoyed reading it.

I'm not even going to care to ask why am I being paid much lesser than him!

So seems like its all complains about work-related stuff, no mistake I'm comfortable with what I'm doing, and potentially to be offered doing. If only I have a little more patience to wait... just wait for the moment I could just resign.

Without taking advise from some friends, to switch off my handphone over the weekend, I received a call on Sunday night, asking me to finish do something and hand in by Monday morning. What can I say?! I went "HUAAAH!??" nope it didn't work on him. Just simply do the job la... as in if I knew how to "simply" do something, as my mom noted, 'you cant pretend to be stupid and present something stupid to your boss right'. yeah... how nice if I could just not try to get smart.

last Saturday... encounter with another 'agent'. This is NOT a stupid encounter, I never look down on insurance agent. And I gave in my time and allowed her to fill in the form and to measure my whatever stuff she call it. Actually, the interesting part was she is someone I knew very long ago, during my 1st year in uni, and she was.. or she is.. my i-cannot-stand-her-estranged-best-friend's cousin sister! She used to fetch me back from campus to PJ, and I even attended her convo and I knew she's married now with a 3-yo kid.

It was a good chance for me to ask her about how's "she". Atfirst she didn't wanna mention about her, because she herself (the insurance agent) cannot stand her (the i'm-right-God-is-with-me-just-u-wait girl). Then I told her about how I've stopped talking to that girl, and wow.. it was a good doze of pouring session we both shared! Hah.. so its not just me and other friends. Even her own family members and her cousin sister is so disappointed in her. The mom shed tears when talking about this eldest daughter, the dad get furious when you mention the word 'marriage', the grandmother gets the most pissed off.

I dunno, in the name of God, and the sacrifices this girl is carrying out to turn her back against her own family and her used-to-be-goodfriends... can you tell me how can I not feel how S****D this world is.

I'm now going to sleep.. from having nothing to write... to jumbling up all the messy thoughts in my brain... it makes no difference if I didn't write at all... as tomorrow (or today) will just be another same day... calling user calling past participants.. calling... somethings that I cant run away from!

I see weird people

they're everywhere! haha... ok dont laugh at people... and since people will read my blog... its just amazing how I meet these weird people.... why are they weird? well... for me, i just know who have problems inside, who dont and who's just naturally funny... sometimes i wonder, how if I could have a magic wand, and how I could use it to help *prrrinkkkk your problems away as you approach me.

cos my ears are really not that clean, and my heart is always pounding so fast... its ...its... its.... high time i finish off my stupid work that's due for my stupid boss...

Finally something to blog

Well, nothing new happened, except today, at work my teamlead went on MC and there was a conference call at 4.30pm and a counterpart in Singapore knew I could sit in for her.

So, here's my chance to show (not that there's anything much to say, if you really have NO idea who are these people anyway), so I just hanged on to the receiver (gosh, now I see how wonderful a headset would be) just listening to how one Singaporean cili-padi ladyboss trying to fry another cina-apek singaporean person-in-charge for many things.

How is Malaysia in the picture? Most of the boring low-level positions can be found here, while the Singaporeans deal with the big client directly or the big boss in USA. Still... why should you be screaming on top of your lungs on the telephone?!? Not that I did anything wrong, I was trying as hard to defend my teamlead (if the need arise), but I didn't know how 'hot' is the cili-padi when I've not tasted it.

And if only every different group are seeing eye to eye, and see the whole point together as single big set, then the cili-padi wont be jumping around with such a high pitch. For a moment, I really felt 'frozen', wow... cannot imagine I could feel 'afraid' of people... I guess you just have to learn to speak up as clearly and fluently as possible, minus the "urrrhh.. urrmrm.. urrr" as much as possible. Giving an answer that starts with "That depends..." and try to tai-chi.

But at the end of the day, if people are out to tai-chi, and saving their own ass, what is this cili-padi is trying to prove / show? Maybe if I were her, I would understand her position better. And it's all interesting... the way a high-in-power lady lash it away on all the guys... : P haha... haiya, the last thing I want is to get tongue tied when being confronted, as I could be sly when situation requires.

A note of warning to myself, I do not know "when" is a "situation" to be sly, as I'm kinda bad at judging people. Who ass should I be helping to cover? Of course my own first of all, but I'm already doing my best that I personally could, to perform. But it's gonna be 'too much' if I try to outperform others?

I guess its just best if I just be me. I could still smile with you infront of you and not laugh at you behind your back. Like, when a 'teamlead' from another team would come asking me how to 'rename a zip file'. On impulse, I would 'DOH' but at work... *phew... controlling my 'Doh' :)

I wonder if there would ever be a chance, when I can tell nicely to the cili-padi "why do you have to shout?".

Let me paint a scene, a manager, E from another team was on his mobile with cili-padi, on questions concerning my team, by right my teamlead will answer, but she's on MC today. So that manager E came to ask if I could answer those questions... so said "...ooook.."

There she goes yakking so high pitch on the phone, and that's when I realise my fingers were stiff! I could answer up to my capacity, but when I said "because E said so..."

BAMMM!! The voice on the phone shouted back "is E in the same room, can I kill him?!"

Then I said quickly "oh yes, wait" and I passed the mobile back to E for him to continue...

hahaha... one term I learnt from another colleague, that some people here can be hyper-critical, now I'm getting it.

*phew... no wonder the enter Server team is always talking so loudly... think our team will learn to make "sound"?

But that it would be quite embarassing for me to talk loudly on the phone, esp when I'm conversing in MANDARIN with the China / Taiwan user.. my phone hand will be moving, trying to express the words that wouldn't come out in Chinese.

I just learnt whats "restart" and what's "process"... wait.. I forgot! Bummer.... but I do appreciate how some engineers are REALLY patient with me, speaking so slowly in Chinese.

It's a different story talking to a 'mat salleh' filehfelleh... I also filehfeleh with them... and 'mat salleh' always sounded more chirpy or high spirited!

Ahh... talk so much... for what! If only they'd hire me asap and see how 'valuable' I am for them... not many can troubleshoot can dual-language! Hahah.. BRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr... i hav a due date for the stupid process documentation for my OTHER employer boss.

Cross my fingers... I'm beginning to join 'conference call' meetings with the bosses! :) cool...

encounter with a freak

You know you're not crazy afterall, when you met a girl who is completely 'out of this world'. I wonder to laugh or to cry when I hear her speaks of herself. (ok I cant think of a character in this world to use to replace writing her name :P)

Ok I feel really bad writing about this, but I just cant imagine how different a girl can be from me! You just want to bang your head on the table listening to her babble about what she was doing and what she wants to do next. It's not exaggerating, it's true what she shared. Searching for people's information... I couldn't write it here...

Alright. Think "we value individual expression"... that is why I am able to meet up with freaks of all kinds! Yet, still abstaining from judging... brr... not easy... but maybe subconsciously I'm already judging, else I wont be having all the ally-mcbeal syndrome of mentally-visualizing-head-banging-extravagance.

Gosh.. now I miss ally mcbeal so much... not that I'm as skinny as her or wanna be a lawyer, but I really do have "visuals" in my imaginative mind, when I encounter with freaks, how I would go "dohhhhhhhhhh" all the way inside my heart, and how I'd be pulling my heart laughing, but the facial expression is trying to be as modest.

AAaaaaaaaaahhh... crazy people! I see crazy people, they're everywhere, they dont know that they're crazy! Hehehe... :D Snap out of it...

*raya break been sooo down to earth. my parents went away for the long weekend, and I'm dog-sitting. before this, the dog actually barks at me everytime he sees me... my dad would say that I was probably a dog killer in my past life, and my mom would sneer that i have no compassion that's why the dog barks at me and not my parents or my bro.

my dad even taught me how to be nice to the dog.. gosh, those trick, I dont even use with little naughty cousins who wont listen to me. but to really get close with the dog, esp over the period of dog-sitting, I gotta try. I did what my mom would disapprove of, giving the dog 'human's food' :) haha.. u know stuff my mom cook and its not meant for the dog. That's it!

one tiny pork meat from the soup for bobo... next thing he's jumping, flying, swinging, sniffing at me. at night when I realise there was a rat in my bedroom cupboard, that's it I slept in the living room with the dog :D haha...

during the boring afternoon, turn on astro channel 111 (jazz music) for both of us to enjoy. I'll leave the music on even when I go out for awhile.

the last thing I didn't do yet with the dog is to bath him. cos how can he be shoeless roaming outside sniffing everything, yet come home to the living room? Bleghh... dont really know how to bath a dog knowing it is afraid of water!

yay... atleast i made it possible for myself, to be a friend to a dog! hahah.. bobo and I now friends! give me 5.. *snap *snap...