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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Mutual respect between friends is an important part of friendship. And one of the things that one should really respect is each other's time.

I've had incidents before when someone says they're supposed to show up at a certain time, they call ahead to say they'll be late - that's fine.

But we've recently came across an incident where someone said he'd be there at a certain time, and when that time arrived, he called and said he'd be late and turn up 45 minutes late. Not only did he breeze in later without a word of apology, when I asked him why he was late, he said he had a lot of phone calls come in so he couldn't leave the house.

I was somewhat ticked off when I heard that. You had a lot of phone calls and therefore you are late? Couldn't you have called AHEAD of time to tell people you will be late, rather than call exactly at the time of your intended arrival to say you're late? There really is a distinct different between someone who says they'll be there a 1pm and:

a) call at least half hour ahead to say he'll be late - this is what we call minimum respect of people's time

b) call on the dot at 1pm and says he'll be late for a 'few minutes' and show up half an hour later and giving a crummy excuse about getting a lot of phone calls in between, and with no apology whatsoever - this shows there was no respect for other people's time and quite frankly, intolerable especially since he's done it at least 3 to 4 times now to me on multiple occassions

There are many kinds of people in the world and I've learned to change the things that I can, and to accept the things that I cannot change. But y'know, even that has a certain level of tolerance.

posted by Agnes on 10:34 PM

We went to watch Ninja Assassin today at GSC in Tropicana Mall.

Omg omg omg, I so loved this movie :) And to be honest, I probably liked it a lot more than I liked New Moon *gasp*.
Ok laaa so I'm bias. The only reason I went to see was coz they featured Rain. The last time I saw him act, he played a boyishly charming character in the Korean series Full House and it was interesting to see him change character from this...
...to this

His English pronounciation was quite good actually, much to my surprise. The movie dragged a little (too much flashbacks, at some point I was tapping my fingers against the seat and muttering "get on with it already").
Yeah, so they only reason I loved the movie was coz of Rain.
The shift of character from the happy happy joy joy guy in Full House to the full angst character in Ninja Assassin was pulled off amazingly. Worth the rush trip to the cinema :)
Ah but then again, I'm bias :)
Oh and on our way out, we passed by this brown Proton parked near someone's house with this HUGE white sign posted there and we didn't have time to really see what it wrote. I think it went something like "you lived just down the road but you've parked here since ...." so when we came back, I took a turn to the road and we re-read the sign again.
Yeap. The car was still there. And the HUGE sign with big big words written on it was still there. Apparently Mister Car Owner had parked the car there like forever and must have pissed some residents nearby there off coz they smacked a sign so big on the windscreen that even a semi-blind person could have seen it - written with very big words to express their displeasure over his ah...indiscriminate parking of his vehicle.
Thank goodness we don't have morons like that on our road :P

posted by Agnes on 6:02 PM

Yesterday morning, I stared intently at my newly arrived cup of Vienne coffee and for about a few seconds there, didn't even know how to begin drinking this thing.


Well for one, it is swirling with cream on the top. If you attempt to have a go at stiring it with a regular spoon ala mamak style, you're gonna see a LOT of cream run over the edges of the cup. And I am so not into messy cups, thank you very much.

So how the heck am I supposed to drink this thing?

I frowned, tilted my head and then started to lightly dunk the cream with the spoon into the coffee from the side. After much careful manipulation (you'd think I was actually sculpting something instead of just having a drink), I finally managed to sink most of the cream into the coffee - and sat back to enjoy a nice, hot cuppa good ol' Vienne coffee. Did I mention it was worth the effort?

We were at The Gardens @ Midvalley yesterday to catch New Moon at Signature GSC. Xmas decos were already up! So nice! Seeing all those Christmas trees and pretty white snowy decoration's putting me in a festive mood already.




I can't wait for Christmas :)






posted by Agnes on 9:40 AM

 

Friday, November 27, 2009

IT WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRKS!!!! Nyahahahahahahah *falls off chair*

I will never get lost again! *I think*

I got my instructions from here . Very clear, very concise (and sometimes even down right humorous) instructions on how to configure your phone. Now, the instruction there is for the Nokia 5800 but you can also use it to configure for your Nokia E52, like me.

Happening. Now I only need to figure out how to use it properly. Hmm...*poke poke* What does this do?...

posted by Agnes on 11:08 AM

I'm downloading some files and will be, shortly, attempting to install Garmin Mobile XT on my mobile phone.

Since it is my phone, and everything that I touch always turns out to be a major disaster, I ensured that I backed up everything before I attempted the installation. You never know lah, kan?

Incase you're wondering, that Garmin software thingy is the one with the GPS functionality that along with the correct maps, you can plot where you wanna go and they'll show you on the screen. And have some fancy voice tell you:

"After 150 metres, turn left you moron!"...ok, not really in THAT manner but you get the idea.

Justin managed to install his without a problem. Pouting with determination, I told myself I'd try also. If Justin can, so can I! Or die trying.

There are quite a few sites online that will tell you step by step how to install Garmin on your phone, and to get it running successfully. Some of these folks were nice enough to post the 'best practise' methods especially after much pain and trial and error on their part.

I'm currently plastering my eyeballs to one particular site that has simple enough instructions.

Let's see if it works ;)

posted by Agnes on 10:05 AM

 

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

There are two ways to solve a problem.

You either sit on it and wait for it to blow up.

Or get on your feet and stomp it to death...or die trying.

:) No prizes for guessing which one I'd choose.

posted by Agnes on 1:14 PM

 

Monday, November 23, 2009

The Melaka adventure pictures are up!

Plastered all over facebook starting with....this picture


posted by Agnes on 7:48 PM

 

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Back From Melaka

We have returnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeed! *strikes a pose*


Melaka's Jonker's Street is amazing! I just regret the fact that I was still recovering from a bad stomach so I wasn't able to eat too much of everything, lest I end up running to the bathroom continuously again.


Ah but no matter what I just had to, had to, HAD TO have a few sips of this



Good ol' Melaka cendol! I know, I know, its crazy to eat this stuff when the tummy is still doing its own acrobatic stunts but I didn't finish it :P You can't go to Melaka and NOT try the authentic, genuineeeeeeeee 100% loaded with gula melaka cendol there. It is practically unthinkable! *gasp*


Oh and another darling I discovered in Melaka are the pineapple tarts. Hang on. Not just any pineapple tarts. The ones made with butter, not marjerine. We found only one shop so far that made the pineapple tarts of THIS shape and size with butter. The rest were made of marjerine and although decidedly more healthy, but didn't taste quite as nice as the sinfully rich butter base one :)




I took one bite, shot to the moon and back and we went back to buy some more :)



We stayed over at Puri Hotel, which was a pretty neat place with a very heavy Peranakan feel to it. I liked the nostagic feeling of walking through the building.




The rest of the pictures are being loaded into Facebook.


The room was nothing to shout about but cosy enough. One thing I gotta say is the bathroom is so squeeky white clean, much to our delight. Location wise, it is a great hotel to stay at coz it is walking distance to Jonker Street (which is just behind) but not TOO close that any loud music etc will disturb your sleep.

All in all, it was a great weekend.
There were tentative plans to head off to Ipoh next. Hmm...when will that be, I wonder....

posted by Agnes on 8:13 PM

 

Saturday, November 21, 2009

jonker's street is an amazing sea of shops, stalls and people. we walked so much that i can't feel my feet anymore. i think we bought more than we can carry. pauline and i have beaten a hasty retreat back to the hotel while cheryl and justin are still shopping. good heavens.

posted by Agnes on 9:16 PM

i've arrived go melaka! But it started raining so we had to go have lunch in Melaka Parade instead. Rats. I'm seated in Nando's tapping into some wi-fi signal to make this entry. The rain had better stop soon, i didn't come all the way here to hide like a mouse.

posted by Agnes on 2:05 PM

 

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

I'm tired. And I feel sick. And I just wanna go hooooooooooome *whine*.

2.5 hours to go. Time is passing ever so slowly.

*stares at the clock wistfully*

posted by Agnes on 2:43 PM

Half day down, half more day to go.

I've been swallowing panadols since this morning like nobody's business and have thus only felt SLIGHTLY better.

Someone hid the remote control of the pantry's aircond. When I get my hands on him, I'm going to kill him.

I keep imagining what it will feel like to be driving home this evening, knowing I'll be off work for 4 whole days and that I can finally go home and get some shut eye. *sigh* :)

posted by Agnes on 1:05 PM

It started yesterday evening.

I remember driving the car on the way back from work and feeling a little - I don't know ... strange. Chilly. It got a little bad during dinner so I popped 2 Panadols in and went to sleep at 9:30 pm.

I woke up this morning and every single bone in my body protested, including my eyeballs. Gawd, I think I'm sick today. It is the last working day for me this week. I have meetings in the morning, meetings in the afternoon. I can't afford to fall sick, gawdammit. Hell, I can't afford to take MC since I won't be back in the office until next week. *drops head face down on keyboard* I'm so screwed.

There's nothing worse than hauling your body to the office when every molecule in your body is yelling for you to just turn the car back, go home, snuggle into bed and close your eyes.

Pleeeeeeeeeeeease let today past quickly.

posted by Agnes on 7:22 AM

 

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Tonight, the air is chilly and the soul is tired.

A purrrfect night to curl up and sleep.

I'm headed to Melaka this weekend.

We will eat.

We will shop.

We will sleep.

And we will go berserk. Heheheheh.

Watch out Melaka...here we come ;)

posted by Agnes on 8:55 PM

The Jakun & The Mobile Phone

You see, this is what happens when this half baked potato is so used to using an old school phone. Suddenly I get a new up-todate phone and I turn into the world's biggest jakun.

Like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, got GPS wan ah? *I don't have to get lost anymore*
Like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, ring tone so nice wan ah? *sounded better than my car stereo..but then again I drive a really cheap car with an even cheaper stereo so...*
Like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, the alarm tone so polite wan ah? *my old phone had a 'f**k you, wake up gawdammit!* alarm tone that could wake the living dead, this new phone sounds like a little dove fluttering on your window to wake you up only...*

For example, this morning I was typing an sms when the display dimmed slightly. I squinted at it, thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. Continued to type my sms and then the display came back up brighter.

Jaws drop. Omg omg omg, barely a few days old and already it was faulty! I asked sis "Eh must send back to shop la, the display light is not consistent la"*sulk* Why me? Whyyyyyyyyy me?

And then a few seconds later, I surfed it up in google to see if it is a known flaw. And read that there is such a thing called an ambient light sensor on the phone. So that's why the light sometimes dims - the thing was adjusting to the lighting around me la.

Oh...

*sticks head in hole in the ground*

*so shy*

I'll go back and hide in my cave now.

posted by Agnes on 1:32 PM

Oooolala

Ok, coz its school holiday season and etc etc etc, they're charging a little more for the package so at least check, it reads:


Ok laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. At this point in time, I'm just looking forward to a vacation. A nice, relaxing, aweinspiring vacation.

Why hadn't that agent emailed me my confirmed booking yet? *pout*

Lucille thinks very highly of Pangkor Laut Resort and said I might end up in the news, clinging on to a pillar and refusing to leave the place once my vacation comes to an end.

*hiaks hiaks hiaks*

posted by Agnes on 12:07 PM

The Great Year End Question: Where To Go Lah
Money=limited.
Level of desperation to just go somewhere for the year end=critical
We were still at a lost of where to go with the modest little budget we have for our year end holiday when we asked the rest and then Lucille who was also there, suggested that perhaps we could go Pangkor Laut Resort.


At first, I balked. The last time I checked the prices there, it almost gave me a heart attack (and mind you, I have a very strong heart). Ya gotta be kidding right?


And it was then that she told me the resort occassionally have packages and there are certain other websites that market these packages online, not the direct site of Pangkor Laut itself.


*tilts head curiously*


Reeeeeeeeallly?


I went home and checked it out. True enough. There were packages! At something around RM799 per person (this is like before the peak season prices lah), you could get the package where they bundle your meals in with accomodation and that ferry ride thingy from mainland to the island.


*jeng jeng jenggggg*


I searched in vain for packages that are valid after 19 December 2009 but only managed to find it in one other site. Apparently, the rate after 19 December 2009 is RM850 per pax (and you need to tambah RM200 coz its school holiday season). So on a high level calculation, it'll work out to be about something like this:

Oh the upgrade's for the Hill side units upgrade. Figured that might as well go for a better view than the Garden units. Ok laaaa, kan? Tol and petrol, belakang kira. Bwaahahah.
My maths good or not? Good hor. Now let's see my luck good or not. We're booking so late, I don't even know if we would be able to book a room or not. *sigh*. Try la try. Let's hope today they pick up the phone when I call and give me good news :D

posted by Agnes on 7:51 AM

 

Monday, November 16, 2009

It's not even my birthday yet and I already feel so very festive.

The gang yesterday called me out for lunch which I went not knowing that it was a pre-birthday lunch thingy to celebrate my birthday ahead of time, since I most probably won't be around on that day.

And then, I came home and my sisters dropped a big surprise early birthday gift for me on my bed.

A new Nokia.

I think for the first time in my ever-so-talkative life, I was rendered speechless. I guess they got tired of waiting for me to overcome the cheapskateness attitude in me in my 'big plan' to upgrade my phone and decided to just get one for me anyway haha.

The E52 is a relatively new model with a whole kampung of features I've not yet had the chance to explore.

I've never really had anyone give me something expensive for a birthday gift before so I think 2 hours later, I was still in shock haha.

So I guess turning 33 isn't that bad after all. Despite feeling like a thousand years old, I've got people who still remember and still care and that, is probably one of the best gifts of all. Oh and of course the nice little new phone ... ieeeeeeeeeee I'm so excited! Excuse me while I become a Jakun of the day and go explore the new features. If you've seen my older phone, you'd know why I'm so gung-ho about the new phone. Let's just say my old phone looked like something even the garbage can rejected. On a good day. Yeah.

Well, it's Monday again. A short working week for me since I've taken Thursday and Friday off to er...embrace the reality that I'm one step closser to being labelled ancient (if not already).

Taaaaaa.

posted by Agnes on 7:18 AM

 

Friday, November 13, 2009

SMART way in, SMART way out

This is going to sound stupid but I've always been able to take the SMART tunnel to KLCC but never really knew how to take the road that would lead me BACK to the SMART tunnel to go back.


As a result, I always bypass the jam to KL but end up sitting in the road going home.


Today, I went down to KL for a meeting with one of our vendors. The session finished at around 5:30 pm. I glanced at the clock. Maaan, I'm going to be sitting in the road until next year if I embarked on my journey home now.


But how? Wait ah? Dowan. I might end up buying more books *migawd, I already have 5 spare ones to read...did I tell you I can finish one whole freaking book a day? no? Well aren't you impressed now...hehehe*


I asked my vendor how exactly do I get back to the SMART tunnel from the KLCC parking lot coz I can't remember even which exit to take. And her explanation went a little something like this *ahem*.


Oh, you take the exit to Jalan Tun Razak hor.

Then hor, you put ticket in machine hor.

You will see got two roads hor. One go up, one go down.

Take the road that go down hor. You will see a tunnel hor.

You go into the tunnel, you come up, you see SMART tunnel lor.


Well I'll be! *grins stupidly* Did you count how many hors and lors there are? She's a sweetie that woman and quite funny sometimes :) Aaaaaaanyway, I tried following her instructions and...


It worked! I got stuck in a slight jam but after I entered the SMART tunnel, it was clear all the way home. *yay!* I'm a happy camper. With my 'excellent' sense of direction, you obviously thought I was gonna get lost, weren't you? Nyahahahahah, I proved you wronggggggg *sticks tongue out*.


Whenever I get stuck in traffic jams, I've got a habit of glancing at the folks in the cars stuck next to me just to see like...whazaaaaap, you know?


Today, I was stuck next to a nice white 6 series Beemer. Car was nice. Owner was a bit lansi though. He didn't looked the least bit friendly, had an absolutely forbidding frown on his face as he glanced straight ahead. Chill up la yo.


I glanced at the rear view mirror. The lady in the car behind me had an equally forbiding expression on her face. Well I guess I'm the only idiot on the road who's pulled my handbrakes, blasting Michael Buble on the radio and tapping me hands in time and going all out-of-tune shrieking "...and in this craaaaaaaaaaaaaazy lifeeeeeeee, and through these craaaaaaaaaazy times, its youuuuuuu its youuuuuuuuuu..."


No I was not drunk. Everyone else just seemed so sour pussed.


We're going to play pool tonight! Again. You'd think the number of times I play pool in a week, I'd have easily taken on anyone and trashed them silly at the game. But noooooo. I still get trashed. This is embarassing. Maybe I'm cock-eyed. Hrm. I shall charge ahead again...to war! *or so I'd like to think*. Take no prisoners.


Or in Gallivanter's words "Take it by the balls and power through".


Seee..I learn a new phrase :D




posted by Agnes on 9:04 PM

I am slightly apprehensive about tomorrow. I am looking forward to it, but also slightly apprehensive.

Y'know how I sometimes throw caution to the wind and dive in to do something that I would never do on a regular-well-behaved day?

We'll see how it turns out tomorrow. If it doesn't turn out to be a 'omg-lemme-dig-a-hole-and-hide-inside' moment, I'll blog about it.

...

Infact, whether it turns out well or not, I'm still gonna blog about it. This should be interesting. And nooOooooOOoo, I'm not saying anything until tomorrow! Shhh.

posted by Agnes on 9:02 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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