Home

I am so sleepy. I came home late from work yesterday to an annoyed hubby who was waiting for me for dinner. But the annoyed hubby didn't complain because the annoyed hubby is a nice hubby.

At night I forced myself to stay awake because I wanted to watch Home, the film about Earth. The first 10 minutes was boring, but the rest of the film was eye opening. If you haven't watched it, you really should. When I watched it, it reminded me all those civilation stragety games I used to play where the people look like little ants. Except that this is all real.

Some people don't care about going green at all. Some people blogged that Earth Hour was for idiots. Some people used Earth Hour as an excuse to countdown to a street party.

But whatever you think about it, it doesn't change the fact about what's happening to our earth.

People don't care because they are living in ignorance or couldn't be bothered or they feel that they wouldn't make much difference. But using that as an excuse doesn't make it right. When I saw Ian bring his own carrier to the restaurant to takeaway food to avoid using plastic bags, I was inspired. When I saw Mun Yi make a stop at a petrol station to throw her trash into the recyling bins, I was inspired. So you'll never know who you are inspiring by just doing your own little part.

Anyway, I babbled so much about the film to Yin How the next day. And he's now inspired to do his part. I'm not planning to turn into a green freak, but at least now I think twice before I throw stuff straight into the bin and I try to remember bring my big green bag when I do grocery shopping.

It just feels good doing a teeny weeny part for earth.

I bumped into....

I went to Queensbay for lunch and guess who I bumped into?

Mun Yi!~~

For a moment I was stunned and confused wondering when Mun Yi changed her job to become a credit card seller. Took me some time to realize that she was there promoting her dad's e-learning site.

For RM50 a year, you get to go online to answer primary and secondary school questions. It auto-marks and explains the answers given. It emails you the scores and records the scores of all the past tests you took.

If you go to Queensbay, go and give her your support ya. But unless you're a primary or secondary school kid or have kids of your own, or you suddenly have this need to prove that you are still capable of answering primary and secondary school questions, you can't really enroll in her programme. ;)

I tried a Form 1 Science Quiz...
http://www.mygir.com/icd/ICD(Flash)/ASP/User/main.asp
And didn't do so well. Hehehe.... But in my defense, I wasn't really trying very hard when I answered the questions (though if I was trying very hard, I'm not sure whether I would have done any better).

Mun Yi and her team will be at Queensbay opposite the JJ foodcourt today until Sunday. And when I say her team, I really mean her team as in she interviews them, hires them and leads them. So cool huh...

Have a good weekend!~~ Unfortunately I'm going to have to spend it finishing a paper. Makes me feel like I'm back in college rushing to pass up an assignment. Sob!

Sometimes I just stop and realize... I have the best hubby in the world

For the past 2 or 3 weeks, I've been working late everyday. And everyday for the past 2 or 3 weeks, hubby came home from work and cooked dinner for me even when he was sick for a few days this week.

Cooking his "famous" char bee hoon

Also, I was out most of this weekend. Hubby cleaned the home himself and bathed the two doggies.

Thank you so much ha.....

P/S - I read a newpaper article that most woman get attracted to their husbands when they help with the housework [click]. So guys, if you're looking for a way to get lucky with your wife, you know what to do la (better still, when you mop the floor, do it without your shirt on) ...

;)

Today's challenge

See... *blink*, *blink*, *blink* and it's Friday already... not that I'm complaining about it. :)

The challenge for today -> to arrive for dinner later at 7pm SHARP.

I am DETERMINE not to be late. I have realize that making other people wait shows that I don't value and respect their time and I feel bad. Bad bad bad thing to do.

I know Mun Yi is skeptical that I'll be on time, but I shall prove you all wrong! Yes, I will!!~~

At least I hope so….

;)

But if I am late, please remember I'm coming from Bayan Lepas through the Friday jam all the way to the other end of the island ya...


**Update**
I managed to reach on TIME. I left a little later than I should because Yin How's family dropped by for a surprise visit. So already a little late, I was forced to take the scary Vale of Tempe road(which I have driven there only once myself when I was desperately late for Shu-Yin wedding). Parked my car, and ran like crazy to the restaurant.

I arrived at 7:01pm with my hair messy. I'm so proud of myself. :)

You know you're getting older....

1. When the radio plays an old boy band or girl band song from your decade and you start grinning like a maniac
2. When you start saying things like, “You know ah… during my days, McD value set only cost RM5… now it’s so expensive!”
3. When you start scanning through your face to find any new wrinkles or spots
4. When you start getting gray hair (Sob!)
5. When you find Miley Cyrus, the Jonah Brothers and High School Musical irritating
6. When everything you eat goes straight to your waist… and decides to stay there.
7. When the mother-in-law starts to get anxious why there’s no production of grandchildren yet
8. When work gets tougher and tougher and you start thinking about what you wanna do for the rest of your life
9. When the main conservation you usually have with friends are about who is married and who has kids already
10. When you go out for a late night out and look like shit the next day
11. When you cannot remember the lyrics to Negaru-ku, or the title of your state song, and totally cannot recall what your school song used to be
12. When you cannot solve a simple maths problem without the use of your handphone calculator
    
13. When (if you’re a guy), you no longer have the guts to say “Phew-wit, can I be your friend?” to pick up a pretty girl (a strategy which the young Yin How used to use)
14. When you start going through weird phases, like suddenly wanting to draw and color pictures everyday for 2 weeks, and suddenly stop, leaving the color pencils to collect dust.
15. When you're smiling while reading everything above
    

Yes, my friends, we may not be so old yet... but we are getting older... ;)

On a hot Saturday afternoon

The past weekend was ridiculously hot. And I know a lot of people were feeling the heat by just looking at the "I'm so hot" status updates at facebook. So what would I do on a ridiculously hot day? I went to the beach and sat there under the hot 5pm sun. :P

Yin How wanted to go fishing because he bought a new fishing rod wheely thingy. And I only agreed to go because I wanted to play with my new camera.

When we reached the beach, he suddenly realized, "Oh no, there's no pail to carry back the fish." I just smiled knowing very well how this fishing trip was going to end.

There wasn't any shade on the beach, so we sat under the hot sun. It was so hot, we could hardly open our eyes. Yin How was happy and excited.

He threw in the bait into the sea.

And we waited

And waited

And waited

I started getting bored and found taking photos of my feet more interesting

Each he pulled back his hook, the prawn disappeared. He tried about 3 or 4 times again. And waited...

And waited... no longer looking so happy and excited anymore....

And eventually gave up.

We went home hot and sweaty and fishless. Yin How's "fishing" trips are always trips to feed the fish in the sea. This is why I never bother to remember to bring a pail. :)

In a blink of an eye

It’s Monday again. And the cycle begins again.

Sometimes I feel like I fall into such routine which keeps repeating again and again that I’m struggling just to keep up.

I wake up on Monday morning, drag myself out of bed, get ready, drive off to work, all it’s all so routine it almost like I do it unconsciously and the next I know, *blink* I’m already in my cubicle sighing.

Then the whole working day goes by with me just trying to keep my head above the flood of incoming work, *blink* it’s time to go home and *blink* I’m already home. If I’m home first, then I’ll rush to cook dinner, if not hubby would have cooked. Then there’s the washing up to do, cleaning up after the dogs, feeding the dogs, *blink* it’s already 8pm. Watch TV, bathe, *blink* time to kiss hubby and say goodnite.

Then *blink*, *blink*, *blink* and it’s Friday again and I always remember Fridays because it’s the day of the week where I’m always in a good mood. And finally the glorious weekend arrives.. ahhhh….. But the weekend is busy, doing chores, running errands, grocery shopping, meeting up with friends, visiting relatives and *blink* it’s Sunday night where I usually will cook my pot of soup and prepare food in the freezer for the whole coming week.

And *blink*, here I am in my cubicle on Monday again. Where the heck did the whole week go? #@$@%

And the scarier question is, how much more busier will life be in the future when I enter the next stage of life?

And will I one day blink and find that most of life has already passed by but I was too busy?

Some shots

I particularly like the photo below :)

Have a great weekend. :)

Finally the finals

American Idol results are out. I’m dying to know who won but I want to find out when I watch the finals tonight. Somebody already sent me a link to who won which has triggered my curiosity even more. Every year I always try to avoid finding out who wins but fail.

First I have to avoid going to any website like MSN, Yahoo, etc which would publish the news.

Then I have to go through a whole session of Yin How gleefully threatening to tell me who won knowing whether well I don’t want to know.

And after going successfully going through all that, I always fail at the last stage when I’m driving home and the radio DJ starts shouting out congratulations to the winner, leaving me cursing. Today, I’m going to switch to a Chinese station. I doubt they care about American Idol and even if they do, I won't be understand a word they say. ;)


I absolutely LOVE this season of Amercian Idol. I even considered taking a day off to watch the finals live but one thought of my list of To-Do’s at work made that thought disappear immediately.

I so want Kris to win (after Danny got voted out, I switched my loyalty to Kris). But everybody loves Adam, so I’m guessing he’s going to win?

Whatever it is, don't tell me. I want to enjoy the anticipation when watching the finals tonight. :)

**Update** - I'm so happy Kris won!!~~~~~~~ :)

A few lessons learnt

Private bla bla bla

The last thing I took home from the family gathering was an advice that my uncle gave me which really hit something within me. Before he hugged me and said goodbye, he said,

"Yin How treats you like a princess. Make sure you treat him like a prince."

Something I will constantly remind myself from now on.