My forced leave

I'm so glad that I was forced to take half a day off today. After QF and WY went back to work after having lunch together at Kim Gary, I was alone in QB and since it was JCard day I thought, hmmm... I'd just take a look.

And me just taking a look took me almost 3 hours. :)

The atmosphere in JJ was choatic... and I happily jumped in to all that choas hunting for cheap clothes. There were sales people sceaming on the top of their voices, "HAPPY HOUR, HAPPY HOUR, 80% OFF ON ALL LADIES BAGS... ONE HOUR ONLY... BE CAREFUL... DON'T PUSH... DON'T PUSH.. MORE STOCK IS COMING OUT". It was like a war zone and I made sure I kept my distance away... I didn't want to get killed...

Went up to the 3rd floor and it was just as chaotic with sales people screaming out discounts on the bedsheets. Started to get a headache from all the noise so went down to the 2nd floor to the Gents department to see whether I could get anything for Yin How. It was nice and calm there, no one was screaming, totally different from the ladies department... :)

Anyways, after more than 2 hours of hunting, I got these.

I bought this dress for Rm24.... RM24 for a dress.... can't believe it!~~~



The top is RM40, tube top RM8, shorts RM 23.


And for spending RM103, I received RM10 voucher. I'm soooooo happy!~~~

The is the first time in my life I shopped by myself and I have to say I really enjoyed it, not having to worry about a very bored looking hubby following me around like a lost puppy.

If all forced leaves are like this, I'm looking forward to my next forced leave. :)

Meet Looi

Meet Looi. He is a good-est guy I know.

I remember when I went on the department team building. I'm usually the weakest physically but I felt that Looi always kept an eye on me throughout activities. There was this one incident where it was raining heavily and we were running around Taiping Zoo on some treasure hunt and we had to complete a task which required us to take off our shoelaces. When the task was done, we had to quickly rush to the next station but I had trouble putting back my shoelaces because my fingernails had cracked from being wet in the rain for so long and it hurt. The whole team just stood there waiting for me, but Looi knelt down in the rain and helped me put back my shoelaces while I stood up watching him. I was so touched.

Also, there was a swimming challenge where I had to go off and swim in the sea. When I reached the beach, Looi immediately reached out and pulled me out from the water. As he pulled me out, I collasped again because I was too tired to stand and wasn't able to run off to the next station. Looi made sure there was somebody to stay with me while I recovered since he had to run off to the next station.

So to me, Looi is one of the good-est guys I know. Some guys only do things for you only if they are interested in you. But Looi is the type of guy who will take care of you even though you may not even be a close friend. He is loyal, caring, honest, humble, funny, and kids just absolutely adore him.

I could sing praises but I guess you have to get to know him to know what I'm talking about. I'm sure those who know him will say the same thing. :)

So..... hopefully one day you'll meet Looi. :)


P/S - this is a lousy cartoon of him... I drew it in a rush last night because I wanted to watch NCIS which had already started. The real Looi looks way better. ;)

My sisi wisi, Genny Wenny

Nah... the cartoon I owe you. I've corrected the eyebrows so you don't look so evil anymore.

I'm sensing that my "draw-and-color" phase is ending soon... now I'm starting to get into calorie counting, healthy diets, tummy exercises, skin care, going green, reusable bags, recycling... all after effects of watching Oprah... Googling about it a lot lately... :)

The happy Friday post

I woke up in the middle of last night and for a while, still in the confused state of being half awake and half asleep, I was wondering why my head felt so heavy and I couldn't move when I tried. Took me a while to realize that Russell was sleeping on top of my head across my pillow. The chicken dog was afraid of the thunder so he found it safer to sleep on my head. Dumb dumb dog.

Anyway, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday and I'm doing my "I'm happy it's Friday" chant. Have a good weekend!~~~~ :)

Forced to take....

Which employee has to be forced to take a day off from work because the number accumulated leave is about to reach the maximum limit?

Yours truly, ME (I can hear some people saying “siao wan” and I KNOW WHO YOU ARE hehe).

For the past few weeks, I’ve been getting weekly reminders to take leave and each week I’ve been ignoring it.

Until now… because if I don’t take leave by next week, my leave is going to burn. And even knowing that my leave will burn if I don’t use it, I was still hesitating to apply for leave next week. I’m so STINGY. If I could cash out my leave like what I did before, I would. But can’t exchange leave for money now… so sad… so I’m forced to take leave. I’m weird. I know.

After considering for some time, stingy me finally applied for half day leave next week. But I’m gonna be forced to take 1 day of leave every 3 weeks to prevent it from reaching the max limit again. It’s not that I’m a workaholic who refuses to take a day off. Just that I feel that it’s such a waste to take a day off just to stay at home. And I’m too lazy to plan something else. I’m weird. I know.

Boss of course gleefully suggested that I burn off my leave since I don’t really want to take leave. Well I’m weird… not crazy… would you ask a stingy person to burn money just because that person is too stingy to spend it? No right…. so it’s the same concept. I’m weird. I know.

I think I need to take a long holiday somewhere.

My cartoony hubby

After I started drawing faces, I'm starting to notice and observe the features in a face like the shape of the face, eyes, nose, mouth. So forgive me if you catch me staring at your face a little longer then I should be especially during boring meetings. It just means I'm wondering how I would draw your face. :P

Anyway, my latest little piece, finally managed to draw Yin How's face. The one below is considered ok compared to all the horrible Yin How faces I made last weekend. :)


Then I made it more cartoony and colored it.

Mr. Bad Mood

I tried to draw Yin How's face last weekend. I can draw my own face in 15 minutes, but couldn't get his face right for hours. Even when I drew the wedding cartoon of the two of us, it took me the whole day to draw his little cartoon face.

Tried to give him a smiling mouth in this drawing but couldn't get it right, so gave up. He's always in a bad mood from Monday to Friday anyway so it suits him. And I couldn't give him a cartoony look so I abandoned this drawing. Posting it here anyway.

Dinner at Chillis

I had dinner with Mun and Shu-Yin last Friday. And we didn't take any photos. :( But since I was in my "I-need-to-draw-and-color" phase, I drew this to remember the night. :)

Based on my memory, I think this was what we were wearing that night. Was my memory correct?

For one weekend, I turned into a kid

Can you remember when you were a kid and your parents bought you those 24 or 36 color pencils set, and that would be the proudest thing to have in the class, and during art classes, you would take it out from your schoolbag and proudly display it on your desk, and when you opened it, you get that little rush of excitement looking at your new color pencils, and every time you used it, you would make sure you arrange all the color pencils back according to their color?

Thinking back, all it takes to make a kid excited is a set of new color pencils. And for 2 days, I became a kid again. :)

My coloring craze explained

There... this is why I've been coloring. Drew a little cartoon of myself, thought it looked cute so I decided to color it and make it into my blog header.

I'm liking the new blog look. :)

And Russell ate up one of my color pencil, the one where I took half an hour choosing which one to buy. Dumb dumb dog. :(