Merrrry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!!

I will be heading to Melbourne today - in the afternoon, spending 7 hours in the car is so going to be tiring for me and the worst part is, we are going with another friend, so i have to make small talks and not be sleeping like I always do, on road trips to anywhere.

Will only be back on the 4th of Jan next year, so here's wishing you a Merry merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year......

Shopping here I come.....

To do list:
1. Benefit
2. Satch Jeans
3. Food
4. Food
5. and more Food & Shopping....... huhu!


xoxoxoxo

10 Days till Christmas

I'm so happy...... christmas is a time for giving and sharing.

Since I'm over the sea and not in my hometown celebrating Christmas, I feel the Christmas mood has kick in since end of November. This year, we are doing it the ang mor way - buying and exchanging of gifts in office as well as home.

Oh yeah.... hubz got me my Christmas pressie and it's................................ a ..........................
hehehe.... can you guess?

hmmmm by now you should have a clue right??
yesss... that's my Iphone 3G that I've been bugging him since it first launched. Don't ask me why i heart it and crazy about it but to have the function of a phone, organizer as well as calculator - normal and scientific, ipod and cool functions all in one gadget.

Since i'm not that 'ladylike' to take care of phones, I've gotten a Mossimo leather casing to protect it since the shop mentioned that they ran out of screen protector.


I heart my Iphone..... too bad he didn't get it for me in White (my dream color) but then what can I say when "Santa" has gotten me one of the wishlist item.

For his Christmas present, I got him a Mybook from Western Digital - 1 Tb to store our movies and whatever data that we need to store (mostly movies, animes and my korean series) ^_^ and also a 24" LCD which has yet to come. Will post the picture when we get the LCD.

So that's what we got for ourselves as Christmas present..... hehehe

Christmas dinner, no plans yet since I'm not sure whether I would be in Melbourne or Sydney or even in Canberra. If i'm in Canberra, then I guess a home cooked meal/roast/bbq party would be what I'm having.

p/s: by the way, forjotted to tell you, the phone and bills all footed by hubz..... hehehehehe
am I the luckiest gal in the world or what????? ^_^

my man-a-gher is an @$$h0Le

what can you do when someone is the bosses' pet? Can you run and complain to your boss to say ur man-a-gher is a fooked up 'grown boy'?

If i were to express my thoughts to my boss, can u imagine what i'm doing to myself? I would be out of my job in no time for sure as what that fooker has done to my previous colleague.

I found out he has financial problems and a criminal record. What the fook? How can they hire someone with that background and the worst is that he doesn't have a blurdy HR degree and yet he's also holding the post of the HR Man-a-gher. fook fook fook......

Can you imagine a guy who is 34 and yet he can't pay off his study loan? His previous job was paying him about 8k a month after tax and yet he can't pay that off? What a LOSERRRRRR!!!!! Not to say that my company is not paying him well but he's earning more than what we do, by just submitting 'great ideas' and mucking around the office to see if who is working or not, to check the internet frequently to see the share prices dropping or increasing, to make lunch for the bosses (mengampu to the max) and keep saying oh, as a man-a-gher, i'm looking after you guys so that you would have a happy working environment..... i just S-M-I-L-E but in my heart, i wanted to say oh yeah... Fook U!!!

The worst thing is that besides the senior staff getting a pay increase (mua inclusive), the new staff who is not even confirmed and has barely work with us for 1 month got a pay increase as well? That's not the worst, she's getting the SAME PAY as me... FOOK FOOK FOOK!~! But then again, i did not mention that she's his GF!!! FOOK U, U Fookin Man-a-gher!!!

Oh, the sweetest part of revenge was that I found out he is NOT ALLOWED to drive anywhere in Australia as his driver's licence has been REVOKED by COURT ORDER!!!! Yet, he drove like a maniac when we went to Berry last weekend, overtaking a car or 2 or 3 or more I can't remember, in a double line lane and speeding along the way in a 90kmph zone, the fookin @$$h0Le was doing a 150kmph or more i can't seem to keep track. One of my colleague got a scare and told him to slow down, you know what he did, he purposely do more of what she asked him not to do. He was zooming along the dangerous road of Kangaroo Valley (the road is something like the Initial D hill where there are sharp turnings, narrow road and next to you, you will see the cliff) and I'm still amazed that I was not scared sitting in his car but more like PISSED OFF!!!!

I'm so tempted to report him to the police.............. but then again, karma might hit me back for being so nasty to people. How how? I sooo blurdy geram d, till i cannot take it but then again, i can't do much except to be the blind guinea pig in the office. I cannot even approach any of my big bosses as they seem to be on his side and that fookin white pig can never do no wrong.

AAAARRRrrgGGGHHHhhhhh...................

Teambuilding weekend in Berry

We had a team building weekend with all the staff in Berry's Sport Recreational Facility in NSW.

Unfortunately, some staff did not managed to make it due to personal reasons but yet we still had a good time but it would be better if they were there. The activities that we were supposed to do was High Rope course , Campfire and Canoeing. I was looking forward to this weekend as I get to do something that I've not tried before.

We left for Berry on Friday after lunch and it was a freaking 2 hours drive 'sardine' ride to get there in my manager's WRX. When we reached, we took a walk to 'survey' the sport recreation area while waiting for the other staffs to reach.

Friday Night was ad lib so we just sit around, chat and played "bored" games. Everyone had an early night as we gotta wake up by 730am for breakfast at 8am and High Ropes at 9.30am. Breakfast was typical continental so I did not take a lot of photos about the food as it was .....

High Ropes, yours truly, the royal highness has recently discovered that she's scared of HEIGHTS!!! I was the last to go and the minute i climbed up the ladder, I realized, WTFOMG have I done to myself. It started with 2 metres high and ends at about 5 metres high. Some even took the higher obstacle course but for me... NO THANK KEW!!!!



After going through the ordeal, I found my bruises on my arm and some light bruises on my collar bone. It hurts when I shower and it still hurts till now. Dammyaaammmm

After the High ropes, we had a company meeting blah blah blah and after dinner we went to this "cookout" area for our little campfire where I get to taste the "damper". It's super yummy with the golden syrup. Check out the amazing sunset view.


The second day, we were supposed to go canoeing but instead they opted to go for archery as most of them do not want to get wet and cold. I was so looking forward to that water sports but because majority has voted for Archery, we do not have a choice but to go for that. It was good especially since it was my first experience and i did not 'targeted' the shed, the building's roof etc.




After archery, we had some BBQ lunch and we headed back to Canberra for the much needed rest after a weekend of mayhem. Before leaving and while waiting for my manager, Nicky J and myself did a few funny poses and took pictures as we were just 'wacky'.


That was my pose of how scared I was when I was on the ropes.... arrgghhhh.... if you were to ask if I have another chance, would I do it again? My answer??? HELLLLL NOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Horroweeennnn =^_^=

Happy Happy Horrowwweeennnnnn!!!!

May you gals enjoy the Horroween Party with your costumes.

Remember to take pics to show me ok?

muaccckkkzzzzzz

daylight savings officially started today

Woke up at 12 something without realizing that daylight saving has already started. So officially I woke up at 1 something and not 12 something. So sad, one hour loss when i can do so much in spring.

Anyway, weather was good and mood was good. So I had a good cooking fiesta day. After lunch, I baked some choc choc chip cookies which is a bit terrible as i do not have the proper equipment and utensils but tasted awesome. Reminds me of the choc choc chip ice cream at haagen dasz.
Then for dinner, hubs and I cooked tau eu bak (pork stew in soy sauce) and too thor thng (pig stomach soup) and had deep fried tau kua.

I didn't really enjoy it as it was too meaty and I miss my mom's tau eu bak as I had to 'adjust' my tau eu bak according to hub's taste with the 'spare parts' - cheong (pig's intestines) filled with egg.

The too thor thng also did not really taste like how my grandma used to cook. Not sure where I gone wrong but it was still edible.
and my deep fried taukua....
The menu planning was a bit off but it was still good. Next weekend, I should be having poh piah if i can find mangkuang, loh bak and kiam chye thng... *salivating*

Long Weekend

Woke up early today to go shopping at Gungahlin. Not the normal shopping but grocery shopping. The asian grocery market there is bigger than the one we normally go to in Belconnen and more choices too.

We need to get the dark soy sauce that is not sweet for our tau eu bak but can't seem to find any, so that's why we had to go there to see if they have it and yes we found it (fingers crossed - as there's none that says it's thick dark soy sauce and some of them are dark soy sauce but not thick or some are sweet. Anyway we gonna cook that tomorrow and with our too thor thng or either the green curry.

So we were hungry when we reached so we decided to go to Central Cafe for lunch. Hub's colleague told him that the mix grill platter is awesome and it's for 2 person but hubs was too greedy, he ordered the dish to himself, i ordered an entree which is the calamari and I thought it will just be a plate of calamari but it came with salad and chips. But when hubs saw the other diners with the mix grill platter and he said greedily that he can finish the whole plate to himself and asked me to order their lemon chicken just in case i'm hungry. So we ordered.

When the food came, I just knew the Lemon Chicken would be too much for the 2 of us. Luckily the chef hasn't prepared it yet so we canceled it.

Just imagine this is what we had for lunch, hub's mix grill platter.

and this is the salad that comes with the mix grill platter
and this is my Calamari entree
if you're wondering why all half eaten, that's because both of us were too famished till we forgot to take a picture till halfway hubs reminded me. hehehe..... I know, we both sound like gluttons but then food was good just that you have to wait a while and a while meaning at least 30 - 40 mins for your food to come. But then it was worth it. We didn't manage to finish the mix grill so we had to tah pau the other 2 pieces of meat back for dinner tonight.

My first Ralphie

Heeeeeeeellllllllllooooooooooo..................

I know i've been MIA but then again, I was just too tired and lazy to post up my 'happenings'


Anyway I know my Melbourne trip was ages ago but those of you who know me will know that the pictures are all up in FB. Trip was good and can't wait for my next trip to Melbourne again which is just next weekend as I have to fly into Melbourne for a conference.


So yeah, with the title I'm sure you want to know what I actually got? I've got the Ralph Lauren Blue Label Canvas Medium Tote in Red & Black coror. I so heartin it as it's casual and classy at the same time. If i hide the pony, no one knows I'm carrying a ralphie.

Nice boh? I so heartin (10x) it and am carrying it everyday to work but then again, I shouldn't coz then I will spoil my bag but what can i do, i heart is so much.

Now I'm waiting for the next bag to come to my post box ..... what bag? You will get to know in my next post. ^_^

Melbourne Here I CoOOOooooMMmmeeeee........

I'm feeeling soooo excited to be in Melbourne. Am flying in tomorrow evening and will be staying there till Sunday noon. Definitely doing the makan-sutra and of course the night scene as well. How can i miss that? If i miss it, i'm definitely not Lynette anymore. :)

I am so excited that I actually pack my bags earlier than what I did before coming over to Canberra. For instance, flying to Canberra, I only started packing like 5 hours before leaving for the airport, that means i didn't have like enough sleep coz I procrastinate till the 'last' hour before chucking in things into my luggage. For the Melbourne trip, I started packing 2 days before my trip... so now with these examples, I think you can imagine how excited I am NOW!

Anyway, will be bringing the cam, so am gonna take a lot of pictures and upload it to show you my adventures in Melbourne, if I can... hehe.. sometimes I get too sexcited that I might forget. ^_^

Outdated Updates

Over the 4 weeks that i've not posted, I felt like I'm so out of touch. I was procrastinating day after day to blog but finally, I got my ass down and start typing to fill up my boring journal. There's so much that I want to write here but I don't want to be so 'cheong hei' so am going to cut it as short as I can.

Firstly, I got a job within 3 weeks of coming here *congratulations to me*. I'm working for a small online holiday accomodation company and my duty consists of answering emails, phone calls and admin work. It's basically like an IT support job, just that i do basic IT support. My working environment consists of less than 10 people in the Canberra office and they are nice people, if I compare them to my ex-company. Been working for 2 weeks now and I'm still learning new stuff... what to do ar... i've been termed as the New Kid.

Secondly, we got rid of the 'dirty' hsemate. *hallelujah* I will be moving into her room though since it's bigger and has a built in robe. The room I'm staying now is not enough to handle my clothes. But there's lots of cleaning to do before I move in. I need to clean the room, the toilet as it's too yucky to even mention it here but I did mention it in my last post though.

Life's looking good here even though it's a dead state. Too boring for me to enjoy but then again, my colleague is going to bring me out for the gal's night one of the weekends when her fiance is not back to visit her. Oh and yesterday, my boss just mentioned that we were suppose to go for a business award night in September and guess what, I'm going...... gonna be plenty of booze, food and PARTTTAAYYY!!! Sad thing is that now I have to scout for a cocktail dress to wear.... :(

Oh yeah, another update, I've finally gotten myself a camera. It's a Canon Ixus 70 and I'm so lovin it now. Been cam whoring myself but because I look so blah.. I cannot post it up yet. Will do so when I have the opportunity to 'fah chong' and become my old self again.. the cw. *snicker*

p/s: my SIL and her bf with the cousin n husband is coming over to Melbourne next week for a holiday, so hubs n I are going over to Melbourne to meet them and do the whole tourist thingy there. Soooo excited I can't even wait to pack my stuff :) Will be reaching Melb on the 12th and coming back to dead city on the 17th noon.

w|cked weather

The weather has been so wicked that i'm not even recovering from my flu. It has been 2 weeks now and i'm still having my flu that comes with a package(blocked nose at night, running nose in the day time). I've taken medication but it doesn't seem to be WORKING!!! I'm getting frustrated with this influenza of mine coz nothing seems to be working.



Anyway on a happier note, I'm thinking of purchasing a digital cam. This would be my first techie gadget that I'm getting for myself as i've always been a princezz in the family. I like the Sony Cybershot T70 Cam and it's less than RM1K back home and it comes with a 2gb memory stick plus casing. The colour i'm getting is WHITE! Hah....... Classy-a!!! Still doing my marketing research as I believe the prices are lower now. So I'm enlisting my 'aide' guidance to source for me the cheapest T70 back home. Can't wait to purchase this as this would be my first prize possession using my OWN money! ^_^



Thank you my darlins for helping me!!! Love you guys!!

Toodles~~

XOXO

Cheszter my adorable glutton American Cocker Spaniel

I miss my dog so much that i've decided to write all about him in this post.




How I got Cheszter? Well, it's fated that after so many years of unsuccessful dog rearing in my place, I got Cheszter; a pure breed and a show dog FOC. I do not know how but I somehow got to know this breeder who incidentally was in my MSN list eventhough we did not add each other.






Of coz I went through an interview to determine whether i was a suitable dog owner by the breeder. Things went on so smoothly that I was about to be given a pair of ACS (male and female) but because my place is not big, mom insists that I can only have one. So I have to decide whether the male or the female, I love the female coz she's so 'girl-girl' but PMS trouble would be another problem. So, I've decided to have the male one.


He came back with me to his new place on the 3/10/2006 with his mangled fur, smelly and sad puppy eyes. Oh, when we took him back, I let him sit on my lap with the windows opened as I know dogs love that but that stupid eediot has decided to shit on me coz he was too excited. Had to endure the shitty smell till I reach home.



Next day, I took him to the groomer to be shaven all of his old mangled fur. He came back looking so scrawny and malnourished. After that cleaning, he was christianed Cheszter and had everything new. Bro was so excited that he took dad to buy his bowl, his shampoo, his food etc.


Of course when i took him back, my dad was asleep but when he woke up and cheszter started barking as the dog thought there were strangers outside and when he rushed out, dad was giving me his most 'thunderous' look of death and keep telling me that keeping him is not a good choice as our neighbours will be giving us problems.




Day by day, my dog won my whole family over with his klutzy fatty bottom and his glutton tricks. Now I wouldn't consider him a dog but a family member now. Dad always pamper him by buying raw chicken wings back from Tesco so that Mom can cook the wings with rice for cheszter's dinner. Sometimes when I'm home, I caught mom giving him half boiled eggs for breakfast or even cornflakes or sandwich. Can you imagine how pampered my dog is now? Not to mention, he's fatter than before. He was about 11kgs when we took him back and now, he's a heavy 14kg dog which is a bit fat for his breed. He eats little for his meals, but the 'in-between' snacks my dad feed him is a lot. Best part is he knows how to 'beg' for his food, 'behave' for his food and become a maniac when he sees us lifting his blue bowl. Because he's such a glutton, teaching him tricks were a breeze. Lately, my bro n dad has been teaching him to 'bark' to get what he wants from them. It's not the threatening barking but the silly whining and barking just to get his favourite treat.





There was once, mom took some sausages out to cook for dinner to defrost. She left it on the kitchen counter and the next thing she knows, my dog has somewhat pulled the bag of sausages down and managed to eat all of them while my mom took a nap in her room. Mom was of coz furious but she still laughs about it.




Now i'm in Ulu land and Cheszter is back in Malaysia, I miss him so terribly with his silly antics and how he used to snuggle to sleep with me at night. I miss him so much till i dream of him and it was so realistic that I thought he was sleeping next to me. Can't wait to be back home and playing with him and letting him sleep next to me all cuddled up that you even have your own fur face heater. ^_^ *sniff* *sniff*

unbelievable but true

It's been nearly 2 weeks in Canberra and i'm still not out venturing new places but staying home most of the time. It's been depressing but I know I will pull through this one. It's just a matter of time. Can you believe it that i've not been shopping for anything since my first day here besides the usual groceries and toiletries?? Unbelievable huh?

Anyway am looking for a new place to move into my own as staying with 'dirty' hsemate is a nightmare. I've got a gwai lo and a yellow hsemate and they are both females. But of course my gwai lo hsemate is a lil cleaner than the yellow one. Just imagine this scenario where her soiled pads are still in the rubbish bin in the toilet and bathroom, unrolled and hasn't been thrown away since like... my first day or maybe earlier than that? It's so gross but she's barely around, so i don't see her much to tell her off. Should i write a note? It's gotta be embarassing for both parties especially when you get a note from your hsemate asking you to please throw away your soiled pads. It's not only in the toilet but it's in the bathroom as well. So just imagine how many months of soiled pads has she accummulated before she decides to throw it away. *shudders*

I would like to so post up the pics for you to see but then again, if you see it, you might not have your appetite for like 3 months, which is a good diet thingy by the way. :p

Besides that, she is like this scrawny yellow gal but yet she walks like this huge rhino+sumo+the rock+elephant+goths and whatever rojak loud things that walk loudly. I can hear her climbing up the stairs, i know her movement in the house as well. Coz this silly yellow likes to slam & bang the doors (bathroom, toilet, bedroom, main door) and walks like an elephant and I bet elephant doesn't make that much noise when they walk. I actually like my current rented place but staying with an ickie housemate is a NO NO!!!

I've been here for like 2 weeks now and i still see the soiled pads and liners in both toilet and bathroom, so you can imagine how grossed i was and still is when i share the bathroom/toilet with her. She is one helluva woman i tell you. If she was my mom's daughter, i bet my mom would have killed her for being such a "dirty gal". No pun intended. Anyway i'm giving her till next week to throw her 'soiled' stuff away. If not, i'm going to start leaving mine around as well. Just to let her taste her own medicine, but then I would be so gross out that i would definitely NOT win this 'dirty' competition.

Officially a year older yesterday...

Officially in my late twenties now. But then, age is just a number. Went out with friends for dinner, which surprisingly, they got me one of my favorite flowers; orcheets ^_^. Was surprised like how they knew it and the best thing was it came in different colors and one even had a blue paint sprayed on it. Nice le......

We went to belluci's for dinner, everyone had good food except mine. I ordered the lousiest dish ever. The oyster kilpatrick wasn't the same as the one i had in Chappellis. My fettucine al pesto was worst off, it was so creamy and oily that i only had 5 spoonful of that fettucine. The rest of the night, i was feeling so nauseated from the creamy greasy food. Actually it's not tasting just that i'm not used to creamy and greasy food combination. But of course i was with friends who are great company in ulu land. So i can't complain more, but i rather be back home with family and friends for dinner. Doing our usual, dinner-drinks-clubbing-zonked out and of course it will only be the GALS!!!

Oh yeah, if you're wondering, why there weren't any pictures of my celebration at B? We were too hungry to take it. The first plate of food that arrived on our table were finished in seconds *embarassed* We are not P-I-G-S but were too famished to take pics. I took the pic above after dinner as well. So sorry hor... no yummylicious food pics to post up. But if i do venture to new places, will definitely remember to take n post the pics up.

So here's to another year of beauty, brains and booze....... cheers all!!!

It's been a week.....

I can't believe that i've been here for 1 week now. How time passes by so fast, that i'm not sure. I only know that i wish father time will hold the time still for a while... let me savor another day being an young adult before reaching my late twenties-hood.

The place i'm in now is more of a westernized putrajaya but then again, it's better than my ulu land when i was studying so many years back. I'm feeling so miserable here... i miss my family, i miss Cheszter, i miss my friends and our lunch/dinner/drinking/shopping/mamak sessions together.

I miss having the freedom to do what i want back home. No worries about $$, no worries about what i do and whether i have people to hang out with when the weekend approach. Now, everyone is busy with their family or they have an assignment to finish. I should learn to take the bus so i can just easily hop on one and go anywhere i want without getting worried about ending up somewhere else. ^_^ ( i have a tendency to do that :P)

Everytime it comes to dinner time, i am too lazy to just cook but i know if i dont eat i will have my gastric. So, no more take outs, no more fast food, guess what... this monkey have to cook herself. Sometimes i'm just too lazy that i'm only cooking rice, vege & bacon/spam mix stir fry. That's all i had for dinner... maybe sometime additional eggs to enhance the dish. I'm so M-I-S-E-R-A-B-L-E...... I want my roti planta, i want my teh tarik halia, i want my briyani chicken, i want my thosai and chicken tandoori... I'm also craving for Curry Mee and Hokkein Mee :(

Oh well, maybe i should try to cook chicken rice tomoro since it's Sunday and buy the roasted chicken to accompany it with. Anyone who knows where i can get Penang hawker food recipe online so that i can cook during the weekends????

I just realized, i'm no longer a-so-called-yuppie... maybe i should change the name of this blog as well...

PLEASE HELP!!! SAVE ME.........

Finally.....

Today is my second last day at work..... so tomorrow would be my LAST!!! w00t!! You might be wondering why tomorrow of all days is my last day. The reason is..... *drumrolls* Friday is the 13th of June and me being the pantang wussy decided not to have that Friday as my last day just in case anything bad happens :) I'm being silly right?

Anyway my company took me out for dinner with a few of our ex-employees and i had a great time. I'm so gonna miss a few of them but definitely not Ms Jay!!! Food was good, good company but something is missing and i just realized... there's no ALCOHOL damn it!!!

It's only 1 more week before I fly off and I am starting to feel that i'm rushing into this....I should have waited for 3 more months before buying that stupid air ticket. I'm so gonna miss my family, my dog, my friends and my FOOD!!!!! I'm missing my life as it is even though i'm still HERE!! *sob* *sob*

Am i making the right decision by choosing this life path? Taking 2 huge leaps in a year is just too much for me but then again... who knows what the future has in store for me... *ponders*

Lost & Found!!

I can't imagine that i'm getting OLD.

I dont even remember having this blog and i really hope that i'm not getting the early signs of Dementia.

But since i've found it, i guess i will start blogging again.

From the last post till now, a lot of things have happened. For an instance, i'm quitting my 'current' job, moving overseas and settling down (oh yeah i forgot to mention that i'm MARRIED). After working with 'the' company for a while, i'm actually missing my job but not the people there except for a few whom i've found a friend in. Working with them has taught me invaluable lessons but then again, there's no space to grow in that forsaken company where new ideas are not well received and 'oldies' sticking to their own method of what they would proudly call their 'customer service'. I do seriously hope that this company will stay strong and continue it's tradition for excellent service but then again, with the 'oldies' around, it's hard to wish for that.

Currently, i'm having fears of moving. I like that place but then again, will i be able to get a job that i really like; a job that really motivates me to wake up early, take 2 different buses just to get to office etc.

What if i can't do that? What if i'm too pampered here and moving away from my 'comfort' zone will make me become the lesser yuppie than what i'm used to. Arrgghh... the what ifs questions....

Anyway this has been quite a lengthy post and i will continue updating as long as i remember that i have this 'lil online journal' of mine..........