Saturday, May 10, 2008

Short Talk: Craving

I am craving for nasi lemak! Been craving it for awhile but have not found anywhere I know that I can find good ones....

Semi or Full Synthetic Motor Oil?

I am broke and it is only the 10th of the month! OMG! Babe & I took the car for its much needed service today as planned. We thought since this is the first time we change the gear oil, we better go to authorised service agents. After all, they are the one that know the car better than any other service center. Of course, we already expected it to be more pricey than others. In fact, we budgeted RM400 and that is already double of what I will usually pay to service my car usually.

However, little did I know, I will get the shock of my life. When we arrive, immediately this girl dressed in uniform and looking rather manly approach us with a clipboard, pen and calculator (I should have known when I see that calculator). In the car, before we got there, I reminded babe to asked how much everything will be first before we proceed to let them do their thing. Instead of telling us all this, the girl said, please give me 10 minutes so that my technician can check the car and we will let you know what we recommend.

I thought, hhmm..this is rather good. After all, how many mechanics will do that for you. All they will do is change whatever you ask them to without bothering to check if the rest of the stuff is ok. Of course, I was having some doubt already in case they start to give a long list of chnages recommended without having actually need to change them. True enough, that was what happened! At the end of the list, the total damage came up to RM630! Immediately I said, please ask him, I dont know anything about car. (CLEVER?)

Hahahaa..the reason is because babe is more fierce mar and better at saying no than me. So, he just right out tell them, please just change what I asked you to change and provide me with a list of what you recommend to change. So, instead of RM630 or the RM400 that we budgeted, end up paying RM500 for motor oil , filter , spark plug , gear oil , and air filter change. Inclusive, of course roughly RM50 for service & diagnostic charges! Geez

That was using Caltex semi-synthetic motor oil by the way. We thought we try the cheaper option and see if there is any difference compared to the full-synthetic motor oil. Price is RM93 and RM1903 respectively. The mechanics told us that it is recommended to change semi-synthetic every 5,000km or 3 months whichever first. For full, every 10,000km or 6 months whichever first. I think it all depend to how and where you drive the car to. And of course, different car will find different type of motor oil seems to be more effective for their car than others.

So far, after the gear and motor oil change, I am glad to report that the car is performing fantastically. Can hardly feel the gear change and pick up is much better. Before the change, the pick up was really sluggish and slowing down. It is worse when going up a hill and even a small slope will seems like the car is really struggling to move. So, I am glad to have done the necessary and I think maybe it is too soon to tell if the semi motor oil is good for the car. I will definitely let you all on the progress, if I remember....

After that we went to the IT Mall at PJ to shop for our wifi modem/router. Babe is starting to complain that I am hogging the laptop and internet. (Dont have ler! I let him use mar most of the time. I only use them for a short while only! Honest!!!) So babe paid RM225 for the modem/router and I paid RM40 for a USB port so that my blasted kuno wifi on my laptop can use the G type.

So, right now, we are sitting on the dining table in front of each other, doing whatever we want to do at our leisure. And of course gossip with each other in public using YM! Sitting right in front of me boh. Crazy or not? Cant believe that we see each other everyday and then talk everyday and yet can still talk on the YM when we are both online. hehehehehe...

Friday, May 9, 2008

Another Friday!

Ahhh….That was a happy contented sigh! Always am happy when the next day is Friday! I feel like going neh-neh-neh, tomorrow not working but I better not. Don’t want my new colleagues to think I am eccentric! I know most of you feel that way too! So, don’t laugh at me okie!~

Today was a pretty relaxing day. Since babe’s friend’s wife is back from Kch and cooks dinner, I decided that I might as well bring leftovers from the dinner for lunch the next day (if there is leftover lar!). This way, I can save money as well as know exactly what I am eating mar. Of course, occasionally I would like to go out with the colleagues to eat too but mostly, I prefer to bring lunch.

Our office here has lunchbox delivery service everyday except Wednesday. Usually around 10.30am, someone will pass around some papers with the menu for the day and another paper to write down the orders. Then based on the category ordered, and then pay accordingly. Pretty clever if you ask me. I wonder if this will work if done in Kch Samajaya free industrial zone. Maybe but the food is non-halal though. But I guess since Kch is so convenient to go anywhere, then maybe it wont work. It is only for poor people like us that find it too expensive to eat at 1U daily and too inconvenient to drive anyway.

After meal, it is the usual walk to the carpark to move the car and re-park to avoid having to pay RM2 for every subsequent hour after 6 hours. The first 6hours is RM1. So, come in to work around 8.15am, drive out around 1pm (that is about 5 hours). Drive in and parked again around 1pm and leave around 6.30pm (that is about 5 half hours). So, usually, parking will be RM2 per day. Unless I work OT, then it will be RM4. I bet this is something that my friends in Kuching can never imagine.

Actually neither did I. When I first accepted this job and came to work, I assumed that we will be provided free seasonal parking in the office complex itself. Instead, I found out that we have to pay for our own parking, i.e. roughly RM150-180 per month! So, you can understand why I am reluctant. Can do a lot of things with RM150-180 wor. Some colleagues here are actually parking at a parking that is about half hour walk from here but only RM1 per entry. So, no need to move car during lunch time.

But after witnessing the snatch thieves in action yesterday, it further confirmed my decision not to park there especially since I will be walking back there on my own in the dark if I do need to do OT. No point risking safety just to save a few bucks.

Oh yah, another advantage about having to re-park the car during lunch, I get to exercise without much pain. I can say that it is definitely working and I actually look forward to my daily walk to my car ^_^

p/s: Sorry sound so boring today. I am sleepy!!!

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Wake Up Call

YAHOO!!! I am blogging from home! YAP! My streamyx is officially life now and this is the first blog that I post from my brand new modem! Am I excited? Of course I am. This mean that I will be able to access the internet anytime I want, at work or at home. This will mean that I can start blogging actively again and use this much love activity to earn some extra income *wink*.  Of course it will also mean that I can actually watch tv online! yahoo!! All those series that I missed on Astro!! Ok, enough bragging and on to the real story.

Last night was a awakening for me that life is fragile (No! Dont get funny ideas!^_^). Babe and I decided to go out for dinner last night at one of the foodcourt at Puchong town. Nothing spectacular happen while we are having dinner. The food was not that great either but babe like that place because there is stall that serve pork soup with rice. We ate and left around 8pm to go to meet p with the agent that will show us a place for rent somewhere in Damansara.

As we were driving out of the parking, we suddenly realised that someone has fallen in middle of the road. At first, I thought it was a little girl fall down and babe thought someone's kid fall off a bike. Then we realised that it is actually the two men on the bike that just passed us before we got into a the car a minute ago just snatched that poor gal handbag! And I suspect she must have hanged on to her handbag because her slippers were 1 to 2 metres away from where she fell!

OMG! That could have been me! I have my handbag with me last night and I was definitely not paying particular attention to what is going on around me. The bike just passed us a moment ago and the only reason that they decided not to touch me could be becuase I was not was not alone or I just happen not to be in their path! I think babe was also in shock. He keep reminding me to be careful whenever I am alone. Today, when I told RK, she was also worried and start to remind me to be careful!

So, yah, it was definitely a wake up call to be more careful, alert and aware of my surrounding at all times. And I am calling to all of you out there too. Be on alert and make sure that you are aware of who is around you especially when you are outside. The snatchers can be anywhere! Even the most unexpected places, actually, ESPECIALLY those places.

ok lar, enough for now. Babe is getting irritated because he say it is his turn to use the internet! hahaha! I think we better get our wireless modem soon or else we will end up quarrelling with each other!

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Short talk: We don't know what we don't know. So, we thought we know.

My Money have Wings

Alamak! My mind is totally blank! Don’t know what to blog about today. All I know is that the God of Thunder must be angry at something because I keep hearing him playing his drum and beating it so hard that lights are coming out of it. Luckily now is only 4.20pm and hopefully by the time I want to go home around 6pm, it won’t be raining or else I will be looking at reaching home after 8pm again.

Really must get back early tonight because babe & I had an appointment with a real estate agents (yup, with s at the back because will be seeing 2 places). The place is pretty near here but not within walking distance. Need to go and see the place to see how convenient it will be for babe to get to the NKVE highway to go to work. As for me, since it is near to where I will be working, definitely will save a lot on petrol. The agent quoted RM850 and the place have 2 units of aircon, 3 units of remote fan, build-in kitchen cabinet (top & bottom), stove, hood, bedroom wardrobe.

All sound rather attractive ESPECIALLY the aircon! I think I will be the happiest person and will sleep till my heart content the moment we move into a place with aircon! Last few nights has not been very pleasant for babe & I. It was so hot and stuffy in the bedroom although we turn the fan full blast and basically is letting the wind blow directly to us. But no matter what we do or how we turn, we can feel the heat all around us.

I can still imagine the discomfort because sweating and feeling sticky. And we cannot even resort to moving everything to the living room to sleep since it is not our own place. Not nice mar for the owner of the house and his wife to walk out from the bedroom and see the 2 of us in our pajamas (blush!). So, yap, even if we moved into a place without aircon, one of the first few things to buy (together with fridge, washing machine and tv), is definitely aircon!

YAWN!! I am feeling so sleepy. Wish today is weekend already. Or at least Saturday so that I can sleep in the morning while babe goes to work. I know I wont be getting any opportunity to nap this weekend as well as babe already planned that we sent my car and his bike to the workshop for servicing. My car especially is really overdue for am oil change and also babe suggest to change the gearbox oil. I am can imagine another RM300-400 growing wings and fly away.

Actually, we are still in dilemma whether to use fully or semi synthetic am oil. Previously, based on babe’s relative recommendation, we switched to fully synthetic and the car perform superbly but the am oil is really expensive. RM200 for 5 litre which can basically be used for 1.5 times only. But pro is the period is longer before the next oil change if using fully synthetic.

But now, babe’s friend who is crazy about car commented that it is not necessary to use fully synthetic. Instead, semi is good enough. So, I also don’t know lar. I guess we will have a look at the price of both and see which one is more cost effective. As I understand, fully synthetic, 5 litre = RM200, can use for either 6 months or 10,000km before next oil change. As for semi, not sure the price but can use up to 6 months or 7,500km before next oil change. So, I really don’t know. Any suggestions anyone?

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

My Hero!

Simply can’t resist to login and blog a few words today. Babe said something that really touched my heart this morning. It was a simple matter but the thought reminds me why I decided to take the big leap in faith and relocate to KL. It was such a small matter that when I tell you about it later, I can guarantee that you will have either one of this reaction:

What!? Like that only

OR

OOhhhh, ain’t that sweet?

So the story: This morning, had to wake up 15minutes earlier than usual so that I can be the first one to take a shower and get ready for work. Had to be in the office by 8am to sit in the usual weekly conference call. So blur blur me go take bath and by the time I am done dressing up, the water boil liaw in the kitchen. So, I go make babe’s tea and oatmeal for his breakfast (as usual lar). After that, bring both to the room and proceed to put on my make up. After awhile, babe also finish taking shower and changed lar.

We both sit in the room, relaxing before rushing off to work. Then suddenly I realized that my right hand is bleeding abit and quite pain lor. At first, cannot remember where I get the cut. Actually not just a cut. More like a chunk of the skin was ripped off. Ok Ok, exaggerated but it was really pain mar. Showed to babe and then I suddenly remember how I might have gotten the cut! It was when I was trying to open the condense milk can with the blasted can opener. I really really hate those type of can opener. You know, the type that instead of clamping it on and turn, this is the one that have sharp pointed tip that you basically use to cut the can open.

Well, I don’t really know how to use it mar! And always worry that I will cut myself somehow. (yar yar clumsy! Bluek!!!) But this morning since babe was still in the shower, I thought I give it a try lor. And true enough, my hand somehow slipped. At the time I didn’t realized a chunk of my skin was sliced off mar. I was just glad I managed to open the can big enough for me to dip the spoon in for some condensed milk for the oat. When I told babe, he say next time ask him to open lar, don’t open it myself. Wahh sehh!!! So sweet of my babe!!! Usually he will laugh and say me clumsy mar!!!!

There! Laugh all you want...hmmpfff!! Dont care:P

Right! Back to work now. Short posting this one because I can’t help myself and not blab about what happened this morning~! Hahaha…later ppl..mucks!

Monday, May 5, 2008

Am I Boy or Gal?

Couldn't resist ch. ecking if I am still a tomboy. When I was in school, I remember I was definitely a tomboy. Somehow, for some reason, I told myself that I hate wearing a skirt or dress. So, the only dress or skirt that I would wear then is the school pinafore. Other than that, it just shorts or pants. Oh, and at one point, I actually had my hair cut real short. I think my parents are secretly glad that I want short hair, save money on shampoo and hairclips! hahaha

So, the result of the test, I am more feminine than tomboy~!



You Are 30% Boyish and 70% Girlish



Even if you're not a girl, you're very feminine.
(Jenjen: Lucky I am 100% girl! I checked! bluek!)

You're in touch with your feelings, and your heart rules you.
(Jenjen: ALAMAK! I dun wan to let my heart rules me lar. Sure alot of heartache! No wonder I am so softhearted)

A bit of a emotional roller coaster, one moment you're up and the next you're down.
(Jenjen: aiyehhh..now I sound like someone with depression problem)

But no matter what, you try to be as cute and perky as possible.
(Jenjen: eeee..CUTE!! hahaha! I can never run away from that word)

My Loneliness

Babe back from Kuching yesterday!!! Cant believe how boring life is without him here during the holidays and weekend. I basically didn’t step out of the house much at all. I guess you can call it astro series marathon. The time babe is away was actually suppose to be the time I go all out and have fun on my own. But instead, what I did was laze around the house most of the time. Even on labors day itself, I did not step out of the house at all.

What did I do? Let me see. Woke up around 10am and then make myself some breakfast. Cant even remember what I ate. Then was so bored that around 2pm, I decided to cook for dinner. Yes, it was 2pm, that was not a typo. Took out the chicken and prawn to defrost. After leaving the frozen food in the kitchen sink, I proceed to watch 2 show on astro. Around 4pm, I marinated the chicken with salt and pepper. I intend to deep fry them and nevermind that I am frying more than quarter chicken just for the myself and babe’s friend. I intend to bring the leftovers to office for lunch the next day.

Of course, by deep frying the chicken, I essentially also broke my plan to detox while babe is not around. I was going to be a good gal and eat only healthy food for the few days that babe is not around. I figure that was the only time I could do this without tempted by babe to sabotage my diet plan yet again. However, I did not factor in that I will be so bored that I cannot help but start foraging around the house for food! Any food to fill up the empty void!

And on Friday, work! I was never so happy to go to work. That is when time will actually pass faster and at least I will have something to do. My plan was to walk around the mall near my office right after work and have dinner there when I am tired of walking. Maybe eat something light or something. After all, one day binging is more than enough for the poor stomach! Not to mention the fact that I been resisting going to the washroom at home unless I absolutely have to! (squatting toilet remember?ugh! Ouch!)

Anyway, I did managed to go round the mall but after walking for more than an hour, I realized that nothing captivate me anymore. WOW! This is actually terrifying. After being here for under one month, I am actually bored of the mall! Maybe this have something to do with the fact that I can’t simply indulge in impulse buying since babe and I am on a tight budget. We have to be if we want to save up for our new place and also our wedding plans later. Or perhaps, I am really am bored of the malls? Nothing looks fresh or interesting anymore.

ARGGHH!!! PANIC ATTACK!

BREATH!!! BREATH!!!

So, Friday, ate Burger King (yar yar! Boriiiiiiiinnnggg! Don’t care! Bluek!!!) And then went two door down to buy the Big Apple Donut that Kuchingnites are currently raving about. Bought 6 pcs for RM9.50. And then go home lor. What else! I gave up actually. The old wing and new wing just looks the same to me after a while. I reached home around 9pm-ish and the road was absolutely empty.

Even the Sunway toll was free of cars. I was truly happy and relaxed. It was a well known secret among friends in Kuching (and my parents & their friends..sigh!) that I absolutely love to drive fast. I mean super duper fast. Of course that had to stopped when my dad swapped my Honda Accord for a Kenari. I remember when I was doing my Masters part-time in UNIMAS, when we were leaving the campus around 8 or 9pm one day, I actually raced unintentionally with one of the classmate that was actually driving a sports car! (by the way, I WON! Hahaha)

So, I was definitely very happy when I can drive my Hyundai Accent RX-S on the nice big smooth highway! But I don’t get to do that much mainly due to the traffic jam whenever I am actually on the road. But also because if I am driving with babe in the passenger sit, he will give me this grimace and I can imagine him pressing on the imaginary brake with his feet! Heheheh..

So to maintain peace and not give my babe high blood, I might as well slow down to what he consider as acceptable speed. So, yah, I enjoyed the trip to LCCT yesterday to pick him up! I drove the car up to 100-110kmph but could have gone faster were it not because I was worried I miss the turning! Sssshhhh!!!!!!

Thursday, May 1, 2008

What Shall I do Today?

Hhmmm....what will I do today? Shall I go out? After all, as babe's sis said, I will not be having many of this opportunities to be on my own in the future. Initially, I do agree with her but after some more thinking, I am pretty sure that I will because my current job might require some travelling. I doubt babe will be able to follow me everywhere that I might be traveling to. We did discuss that if I go to places that we both want to visit, all he had to do will be to buy the air ticket and go with me. After all, he will not have to pay for the hotel and so forth. Kind of like a semi-sponsored holiday. But then, of course he wont be able to do all the time or else his boss will most likely kill him! hahaha

Ok, so back to the topic of what I will do today. I was tell RK that I think I will just stay at home alone. I mean it will be perfect as I most likely will have the house all to myself for this few days because babe's friend's wife is also back in hometown and most likely babe's friend will be out visiting his friends and having fun. So, this would mean that I can relax and do not have to be so lady like! I know some of you might not be able to imagine this but I look forward to be able to go around the house without my bra (HAHAHA!) and sit anywhere and anyhow I want without worrying about indecent exposure!

Also, since there is no one here, babe will not always have to whisper, "Your things showing." That is his way of telling me that my cleavage is showing. He does that alot actually even when we are in town. I mean, we go out together mar, and he sees what I wear BEFORE we leave the house, if he thinks that it is too low cut or revealing, he could have said something then and I can decide to change into something else or not.

Instead, he have to whisper that and tell me to do something about the cleavage while we are somewhere in the mall or food center. How in the world am I am going to change then?But sometimes I will purposely lar wear something a little more low cut than usual when I am with him because I know he will get irritated. So mean and naughty of me *evil grin* Well, it is fun to know that your man get jealous of other men looking at his girl mar! bluek!!! (I know, you guys reading this will never understand that^_^)

Anyway, today laze at home, tomorrow is work as usual. Plan to stay back after work and go for a walk around 1U. Perhaps have dinner on my own with a good book. Plan to go to the PayLessBook for some more second books at 1U. It is on the 2nd floor of the new wing, some where near Jusco. If you are coming from the old wing, just walk pass Big Apple Donut and you should be able to find it on your right. (This is for those that is interested to get good second hand English books).

Saturday planned to stay at home again, sleep, eat, watch tv, read books. Boring I know but dont get the chance to do that much during weekdays. I was just complaining to my friends in Kuching how long the days are here during working day. Although technically speaking, the working hour for me here is actually half hour shorter than in Kuching, but plus the commute time in the morning and evening, really stretched out.

I will wake up at 6.30am in the morning and leave for work at 7.30am for my job that starts at 9am. Depending on the jam, I will usually reach roughly half hour earlier, 8.30am at the parking. Then walk to my office will take about 10minutes. Office hour is officially till 6pm but I almost never leave on time. Mostly around 6.20-6.30pm then take the 10minutes walk back to my car. (Oh forgot to mention that I will take another 10min walk to my car during lunch time and move it to save parking fee and 10min back to work of course). Depending on the jam again, I will arrive home around 7.15pm. If it rains, I might even arrive home AFTER 8pm.

Then if I cook, we will eat around 8pm-ish. Clean up, laundry and bath. By then most likely around 10pm. Watch TV and sleep around 11-12pm. Then the day start itself again. It is only during weekend or public holiday the routine will change. Even then, the past 3 weeks, we didnt spend time at home much. Instead, we went to the mall for 4-5hours. Gasp!

So, next few days, going to take the opportunity to stay home as much as possible. Thinking of going to the Giant supermarket nearby and buy some lamb for dinner. Eating alone mar. Easy. Whatever also can! hehehehehe..ok loso (nagging) from me.