14 hours of work marathon!!!!

Waaaa!! Just came back from work about an hour ago. Super tired. Headed to work at 6.30am for stock check and finish at 8.30pm. Then the process of going home, eat and shower take about 30 minutes.

OK, let's rewind the day. Dennis dropped me at work in the wee hours. Then into the office I go. I was quite surprise to see so many staffs in the pantry, especially those whom I know personally when I first work there, May Ting, Chuck, Matthew, Vivien and Jerry who resigned some weeks ago. I'm kinda miss their faces haha. My manager called them the 'old stock'. haha. There were also older staffs than them who used to work there a year or a couple of years ago.
Current working staffs also present, Selene, Ning, Daniel, Calvin, Siew Poh, Chien Wei, Siti, Fiona, Shereen, Me. People I met were Nicole, Andrew, Lawrence, Kenny, Gim Lee, Wong and many more whom I don't know their name.
Manager Wendy gave the briefing of how to go about the stock check of the store. Then Thomas showed up late. Yesterday was his last day. Don't ask me why he was late. I don't know. The estimated time for the stock check to end was 6pm. Briefing went on till almost 8am.

Everbody knew what to do after that. Everyone got their 'gun' to 'shoot' on the binc code. There were also 6 laptops with the scanner, and I got the laptop! It's much faster and easier than the gun. The gun looked like a PDA phone with touch screen functions and has a lever to be pulled so that the red light scanner could detect the binc code. And now let the game begin!

It was quite fun at first. Something different and something I never done before. Selene said it will make us a better cashier. haha. I said it's the practice of aiming the scanner at the binc code accurately. hehe. When the scanning get started, the whole store is filled with beeping sound!!!
However, I was yet to get started. I got a faulty extension wire. Two out of the three wires got tercabut! Cannot connect! And Kenny said his laptop's battery spoiled, so have to depend on the power socket. So, I was waiting and helped up Selene a bit.

Then, I finally got it plugged after getting new extensions. I also needed a three plug power supply to accomodate to the many needs for power (electricity lah).

I had the help of Dolly the store manager to hold the book for me while I scanned it. It made the process speed up! After each shelf, I would tick on the paper to indicate that scanning is done, and a person who holds the counter role will count the books manually and jot it down on the tag pasted there on each shelves with it's four digit code number. I got the sports section, maps (not easy to scan!), business tables.

The process just went on and on. Same method. Then everyone break at 10am. Tuna and egg sandwich were provided. Then, we were back to business. With all the scanning sounds makes me think that those sounds sounded like in the hospital where the machine make similar sound to tell the patients' heartbeat.

We were so into our work that I feel that time pass by so quickly! The time taken to scan all the books in one shelf would take about 30 mins to 1 hour, depending on the quantity of the books. As for kids section, the books are quite small and thin, so it's a lot of work to scan them.

At 2.45 we went out for our lunch break. Quite late for lunch. Our usual lunch break is 2pm. At that time, the afternoon staffs came, Liang and Farid. They will be serving the customers after the stock check is fully completed, and those who came in the morning could go home. I taught Liang how to use the laptop and scanner so she could continue the work while I go for my break.

I came back in half and hour time after eating with Chien Wei, Selene and Fiona. We had our lunch at One Eight Eight although our break is for one whole hour. We immediately resume to our work because we want to go home early, as we heard that the branches in KL took a very long time, that is until the following day in the wee hours!!! That time I changed from using a laptop into using the gun scanner. The problem about it is, it only captures old bincs numbers and not the new bincs. As I proceed, I realized I shouldn't choose that particular shelf! That's because most of the books are new bincs number and I had to key in each number one by one! This will take longer time than a laptop scanner.

Hooi Fong came at 6pm. That's her shift. After the front section is completed, we all moved up to children section. That time the store opened at 6 something, and yet we continued scanning only that section. Everyone was crazy cracking joke and fooling around so much. But I was more quiet and focusing on my work. With all the other people scanning from all over the place could make me confuse. That's what happen to me since the beginning. Just imagine, continuous beeping all the time.

Finally, at 8.30pm, eveything was completed. My back ache, arm sores, tired and sweaty. The best part is, I could finally go home for a meal, shower, and online.

Dear blog,

I'm not sleepy at all. I had coffee in the late afternoon and the caffeine is still so strong. I'm feeling so awake right now. I've got to wake up early the coming morning, and with high hopes I would not suffer so bad with the panda eyes.
Guess I'm glad to have a blog to ramble about things. I know, I haven't been updating for the pass couple of weeks, it's because most of my time is filled up with my work hours.

Yes, I had been working in a bookshop lately. Nothing to complain about. Quite like the job tho. Shelving books, cashier, information, etc.. and of course, collegues and friends =) Some said I lose weight..but i doubted it. Most of the time I just eat my usual portion of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, or maybe supper if hungry.

At times I couldn't catch up with my "ME" time. How I missed reading some good books, hiking (especially), vacation, spring cleaning my room, photo shooting, time out with friends, practice my piano and guitar, listening to music, etc. Am trying to find time for that but there's none. =(
OH, besides that, time with my family. Everyone seemed super busy with their own agenda. Conversation less. Spent time lesser.

About the weather, I believe that most of us are experiencing the humidity, bad air quality = haze, open burning; dryness, flu, stress..All I'm hoping for now is for the sky to pour down lots and lots of water.

To my boyfriend, throughout all the difficulties in life, thank you for being there for me.

To God, you're always in control in our lives =)


(This blog post is still not curing my caffeine effect........)

A dear friend deeply missed

A friend of mine whom I met during my intern in The Star had went back to the Lord this morning as early as 5.15am.
Although I just got to know him for a couple of months, he will truly be deeply missed by me and many others as he touched a lot of people. He is a man of much experiences and would share it to people around him, with cheerfulness and friendliness with a good sense of humour.
It was really quite a shock to me as the last time I saw him, he was healthy and strong.
He taught me photography skills and composition and some photoshop. Now what is left is just memories.

May you rest in peace with the Lord and we'll one day meet in heaven.

Rediscovering

Day by day it pass me by
From the rising of the sun to it's going down
Then comes week by week
And then month by month
Till when I realise it, it has already passed a year
One year come and gone after another

Looking back how I was years back
When I was a toddler, a child when I wished that I was an adult
Young and naive, not understanding how the world works

As I emerged to a teenager
Things around me got stranger as I rediscover myself
Like a young bird learning to fly
Being pushed by mummy eagle that taught me to fly in a nick of time
But, there are more to learn

Now that I no longer called a TEEN-ager
And life just go on and on
Sometimes I hope that time would just roll back, like what anyone else would like
Or even freeze at the moment to captivate the fond memories that lifts up my soul
Though they are little and rare
I hope that this year's birthday
Would be something more than the usual
And that would be...(fill in the blanks yourself).

Out of the blues,

Gail

What comes to your mind first when deciding on where to eat for lunch time?

Usually where do you head for lunch break during office hours or after church service? You would crack your head, thinking of the many possibilities, but there's only one place that comes first - New World Park.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to promote the place, but, in fact this food court draws alot of attention from the majority, with my own experiences of course.
I always bump into a lot of familiar faces be it from church, relatives or workplace. But as for today, it is particularly not a simple "Oh, I know you!" that kind of thing.
It was after an assignment I had in in town area, so on the way, me and another two colleague decided to meet a place and have lunch together, and decided to head for New World Park.
I reached there, and first bumped into another colleague. So I sat there and wait for the other two.
While waiting, suddenly I saw my uncle followed my cousins, another uncle and my grandma also came to the place! What a coincidence. Or not?
I got shocked when I saw my granny's left arm being wrapped with a white cloth around her neck.
From there I found out that she fell on that morning and fractured her left arm.
It's quite serious cuz operation is required to fix her arm.
I can see that the fractured arm is definitely painful for her.
Liagiba hope that granny will get better soon!

Working Experience II

Here I am staring at the blank screen..I had alot of things in my mind to blog about but don't know which one..alright, I'll start about today.

Before going to work, I reluctantly drive myself to MPPP at PISA to pay the fine. I thought it'll cost like RM 10 after discount from RM 15, but it wasn't. After discount was RM 20 instead of RM 30 before discount. I'm like apa ni? My RM20 just disappear in thin air! I'd rather spend this money filling petrol to my car.

Today I don't have particularly any assignments, so I occupy myself by writing last Saturday night's story, two of them. Writing them is totally confusing me cuz doing two things at the same time and also I had to make contacts for both events for further information, calling them like several times that they even know that it's me who's calling them by just addresing me "Yes Abigail?" everytime I ring them.

After much writing and thinking, one of the news can't really be used as it is already old news since it had happened a couple of days ago..but nevermind, I take it as a learning process.

As for some people who might love their weekends, it's a different case for me. I just simply volunteered to work on Saturday night shift as it was a merdeka eve and I thought it'll be interesting to cover those news. However, who would expect that it would turn up to be a the other way?

Drove myself all the way to Tanjung Bungah to attend two functions at two different hotels. I reached at the first hotel quite early (7pm), so I thought maybe I could feed my growling stomach with the nearest hawker centre. The food tak boleh makan and very mahal!

Since the hawker centre I perceived that it's quite near the hotel, I took my chance to walk there as I expect that the car park would be full. With my big, bright orange handbag clinging on my shoulder, I walked as fast as I could and observe my surroundings.

There, I met a nice and friendly reporter from chinese press. There were food provided. But after much speech by the VIP, I move on to my next mission. I'm really grateful to the reporter as she offered to drop me at my car.

Upon reaching (8.30pm)the other hotel which is further up, food if provided. I bite my lips as I already filled my stomach with hot claypot noodle and 100 Plus. The food are quite tempting, which is shark fin soup with crab meat as appetizers. As for main course, chicken, curry fish, mutton, beef and some veggie. Boy, how I regretted I ate so much at the hawker centre. I should have just stuffed myself with some pao or some other light stuff. At the end of the day, I'm just bloated and refused the dessert, which is a platter of tropical fruits.

Then I reach Gurney Drive at 11pm to take a peep on what's going on there on merdeka eve. Nothing much. Just that it's pretty crowded where every gap along the pathway are seated. There are also hand made beads, ice cream, etc sold.
It's really really boring especially when I'm all alone. I'm not actually alone as there's a big crowd there but lonely as there's nobody to talk to. =( Dennis was away at his Kerachut getaway camp and don't have signal at all.
So, I started sms other people. Only a couple of them replied. I'm really glad that my colleague, Winnie kept me company in chatting with me thru sms. She even laughed at me for my voluntary action..cis..She's also pretty good at pranking me. She got me a few times =.=

After 1 and a half hour at Gurney Drive, I decided to go back as there's nothing extraordinary. Just some group of motorcyclists waving flags, honking along Gurney Drive. There were also 4-5 cars which it's top is fully saturated with miniature flags.

Did I mention that I parked super far away from Gurney Drive? I parked beyond Sunrise McD, opposite Wendy's house..so imagine..in a dark, cold night, I was walking all alone..not exactly alone cuz there are other passer-bys, but I always kept an owl eye.

Reached home at 1am and lied down flat on the bed :P


PS: Thanks dad for keep on calling me to check out on me.
Thanks mom for your concern too. Luv you both!

2nd PS: Dennis..I should have followed you to camp at Kerachut..huu huu...So jealous you got to see little turtles at the right timing, with the sunset and stars at night.. :(
If I remembered about your month-end BB Camp, I would keep my saturday and sunday free.. :(

Continued..

Hope you don't get bored after reading so many words until here, but I think only a few will make it until here.

After all the hecticness of working life, glad that Dennis brought me out for a relax ride. Sunday and Monday was my off day, and we utilize it to the max.

Sunday after church we went QB and he treated me Sakae Sushi. Thank you so much! I intro it to him since he never tried it before.
Eat until so bloated. That is why QB is wide enough for a good walk after dinner!
Then, we went to GSC and watched The Mummy 3. I would rate it ok only.

Next day early in the moring was started off with a good hike at Bukit Hijau with Rachel, Dad, and Dennis. After washing up, me and Dennis went to QB again for lunch. This time we head to Old Town as I felt a craving for it. Mainly ordered toasts. In fact, we over-ordered. We ordered peanut butter toast in which the peanut butter was spread in a thick layer, ice polo bun with a large slice of butter (I like it cuz the bun is crispy!), curry chicken with toast(this is superb as the crispy toast blend in very well with the spicy curry), aromatic garlic bread, and ice cream with bread. As for drinks, we had cham (coffee mix with tea) and coffee hazelnut. Then we roam in the mall, hoping that the food will digest better.
Soon, Walle is about to start, and off we go to GSC at 3pm. It does carry an important message although many reviews said the plot wasn't that good. I would rate it as boleh tahan.
Dennis, thank you for all the good food and movie, wishing you Happy 3rd month anniversary!


So, that's it, the end of my two weeks of internship, and now, it's the third week. I don't really hope that time will go slow or fast as each day will set it's own pace accordingly. I just want to learn as much as possible, improve myself, and do my best.

Working Experience

I would say that I learn more or less, in my gathering news technique and writing skills. Learned a lot from the editors and seniors. But there are more to come. Throughout, I met a lot of people, spoke to them. It has taught me bravery, quick thinking, act quick, and use my advantage to an extent.

There are articles that I covered were published in the daily paper and online. I wouldn't say that I had reached, but I would say that I'm still in the process of learning. Indeed, writing news is not as easy as I think. One must write and rewrite and rephrase a sentence to make it sound sensible and easy to absorb (short, concise, straight to the point).

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As of today, the article I wrote came out:

Saturday August 30, 2008 - The Star

Convent Light Street head calls it a day

CONVENT Light Street principal Amy Tan plans to catch up with some reading, cooking and baking following her retirement yesterday.

The dedicated educator was given a rousing farewell amid cheers and appreciative goodbyes from scores of students.

Fond farewell:Students shaking hands with Tan at the school.

Tan was promoted to the post of principal in 2001 after having taught Commerce and English from 1992.

“After this, I’m going to read, cook, bake and take up Mandarin,” she said in Penang.

“I wish to invest in meaningful things while I’m still mentally and physically able and do something challenging to keep my adrenaline active.

“I also wish to spend more time with my husband and family.”

In her farewell speech, she advised her students to have the right attitude and discipline in order to succeed.

Apart from thank you speeches, Tan was presented with gifts such as a card and students’ messages compiled in a book. The students and school staff also surprised her with a birthday cake and song.

The choir group also presented her with a song and cha-cha dance.

They later bade her farewell as she made her way down the school corridors for the last time accompanied by husband Tan Phaik Guan and two daughters before riding off in a shiny dark blue car.

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Yay for me, this is my first by line:

Saturday August 30, 2008

Students spice it up for N-Day

By ABIGAIL TAN

GEORGE TOWN: Students of a private college here have come up with a “spicy” Jalur Gemilang – believed to be first of its kind in the country – to show their patriotism.

They took one week to make the 4.2m by 9.1m flag using dried chilli, white sago and yellow lentils (dhal) glued on white cloth.

The chilli and sago were used for the stripes, the lentils for the crescent and star. Sago, which was sprayed blue, was used as the background.

They used 17kg of chilli, 250kg of sago and 20kg of lentils costing RM800 to design the flag.

Unique mix: Segi students putting the finishing touches to their Jalur Gemilang in George Town yesterday. It took them one week to make the flag.

Segi College Penang Business Executive Club committee member Ch’ng Hoe Soon, who headed the project, said the 26 club members spent sleepless nights to complete the project.

“The aroma of the ground chilli caused us discomfort and we even wore masks,” he said.

Principal Jeffrey Goh launched the flag at the college lobby in Jalan Greenhall yesterday.

“Just like there are different spices, Malaysia has different races and cultures. But we are all Malaysians and proud of it,” he said.

Lecturer and club advisor D. Parimala Devi said she got the idea for the “spicy” flag from the different spices used in nasi kandar restaurants.

Online link - The Star

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I must say that driving around this area (jetty, dewan sri, and green hall, jln. masjid kapitan and pitt street) had help me to understand these road in the hard way. Going to these destinations caused a lot of trials and errors like driving round and round the place over and over again and also a love letter from the council :P

One thing that is concern is the high petrol consumption, especially I have to make trips up and down town, almost everyday. There's one day I was assigned with two assignments that I had to complete. In the morning, I had to drive all the way to Penang Chinese Town (PCT) hall, and then in the afternoon to Balik Pulau area. The driving is killing me. In addition, my car air-cond is not working properly, so it's very stuffy inside with the air-cond cooler going downhill with only hot fan. At times I had to wind down the window, but that only invite unpleasant air inside the car. Let me tell you more.

After coming back from PCT in the morning, I came back to office to write about it. Then, I depart an hour earlier from office to get to Balik Pulau schools. I reach there super early, which is 50 minutes before the event. Supposedly to start at 2.30pm. Now I'm there and there's not many people yet. Slowly it picked up and I interviewed some teachers and students for details. Almost at the end of the ceromony, it rained heavily. As the rain subsided, I went into my car, and my front and back window was fogged with water vapor. That's because when I arrived there, it was so sunshiny hot, what more with my non-working air-cond. And now, with the sudden rain, it had created water vapor. Immediately I wiped the front and climbed to the back to wipe it as well. Then off I go. But the fogging picked up again since my air-cond is HOT-cond. Glad that my car got a heater for the back window, but not for the front. I had to constantly wipe it with my hand while driving, cruising along the windy and slippery road with a bad vision :( It's not fun at all! But I thank God that I safely arrived office.

This is just my second week coming to a close, another 2 months and 2 weeks to go. Oh ya, being a journalist, the schedule is uncertain. You won't know your assignment in advance. It's a day before notice. Besides, you even have to work during your weekends and get off on weekday. Oh..working life! With this, it makes me think of my college days where I had ample of free time, play time, and freedom..only no $$ :P

Ok, gtg..working night shift today..CYA and HAPPY MERDEKA!

P/S: I miss my hiking days.. :(

Fire!!

2nd time this had happened at my apartment.

FIRE!

Well, not that my house is on fire, but the apartment's trash that is located near the stairs.
I was in my living room when suddenly I smelt some haze. So, I supposed it was the haze that came by Penang few days ago, so I don't bother.

Few moments later, the smell became intense. My mom and uncle realized it and went out to check. Smoke were flying up freely from the trash room, beginning from 8th floor. My other neighbours also came out from their house and checked. I even saw the very smoke seeped into my room through the living room.

My mom called the management, and the management called the Bomba. That was like 10 sth in the morning. My mom suspected the cause of the fire is a cigarrette since she saw a man smoking at the staircase. But we don't really know for sure.

Eventually, the smell lessen but it did not subside. The old stench smell of the smoke still lingers around in my house.

12pm. Time to fetch my brother to school. I opt for the stairs since the lifts are working like tortise. As I reached the ground floor, I saw firemen in orange and black stripes walking down the stairs. As I walk towards them to go to my car, I saw their dinasour. Their majestic truck with thick wires of hos to channel water. I saw one unplugging the rubber hos from the yellow water hidrant and some rolling up the water hos. The whole place was wet. They had finished their job and was packing up. I witnessed this at that very moment, but, unfortunately, I didn't bring down my camera! Aiks! If not, this post will be illustrated, and indeed, a picture worth a thousand words. Oh well, what a wordy post this is, I must say.

They're Home!!

At last, my parents and Ruth came home, with a BIG surprise. Well, what can u
expect in KL themost? Shopping of course! They bought a lot of stuff from Ikea; furniture, furniture, furniture!!

My dad bought a RM 300 + leather office chair, the one dat usually is found in a boss' room! Verycomfy lor! There's also a leg rest furniture, a four-legged, stout green round chair, a clock wall, etc..

Of course, Ikea is not the only shop that they buy so many goods. They bought new shirts and shoes for me and Rachel, web cam..hmmm..what else..oh yeah! a pretty pretty laptop bag! It was discounted to half price.

But the nightmare to all these is I had to help them clean up! I'm so tired, exhausted, and fatigue, running around with errands since this morning..

First thing in the morning is fetching my sister to school. Then, went to granma hse, had breakfast, and went for shopping in the wet market. Grandma bought 5 pieces of whole chicken, and it's very heavy! My fingers were melting! Then, went to PISA to settle my parking ticket fine.

Came home, I had to take all the shoes, bicycles, and other stuff into my hse cuz there's gonna be block cleaning whereby they will wash the whole apartment using water hose.

Then, after resting, I gotta cook lunch for Daniel and Rachel. Cutting the veggie ain't a pleasant thing to do. What more, I had to rush cuz Daniel is about to go to school already.

After makan, fetch him, then fetch Rachel much later. I then went to grandma hse again to help her with veggie cutting. Then only found out that grandma had fever! It's not really a good thing as grandma had to cook for her whole family (children and grandchildren) for reunion dinner.

It's really a hectic day for me today...anywayz, I'm going for BJ Hill hike again tomorrow with Ruth and Letticia! Here I go again!! Gonna utilize the lessons I learned from my previous hike...lol...

Mirror mirror on the Car...

As usual, I came down from my apartment to get my car and to set out to college but just to find that the Iswara has gone mirror-less on the right side which is the most vital car parts especially when you're driving!

It happened when Ruth drove the car to Sg. Petani on Sunday evening for a party. See her blog for details.


A closer look at it. As you can see, the internal plastic in the middle had broken, so, that explains why.

How to see behind from my right side? Very difficult for me to potong kereta lah!
All I can do is to rely on my back mirror (glad that the back mirror is wide, even blind spot also can see).

A Day With Felix Before Going to Langkawi

Woke up this morning, and got a late birthday present.....

......from Ruth!
and yes, it depends on light energy source to cause it's head to tint left and right.

Then, we all (mom, Rachel, Ruth, me and Felix) decided to go out for food at Giant Hypermarket.

Here's Ruth and Felix waiting for the lift.

In the lift


Then, met my uncle (in cantonese, is called ah fu)

But Felix don't seemed to have a good mood with Ah Fu

Ruth and Ah Fu

Rachel and Ah Fu

"I'm gonna get you!! Ngeh, ngeh, ngeh...."

"Nooo! I don't like you!"

Me, Felix and Rachel

Me, Ruth and Felix

Felix and Ruth

Rachel and Felix

The ride to Giant Hypermarket

What caught Felix's attention was the playground near to the food court. (Click on the image for enlargement)


Felix Ride 1




Felix Ride 2

And he do enjoy himself really much!

Tomorrow is the day that my family and I are going to Langkawi till Sunday. That's why we snap a lot of photos with Felix.

The World Will Still Go On

Here I am again..writing my thoughts to you all after for a long period of time of my struggling in exam, and then, after exam, i'm just too lazy to update it..ahahah...Let me brief you some of my daily routine during my exam:

My mom and Rachel (younger sis) went to a camp as a volunteer to help out the event in the camp, and that Felix's parents is unable to take leave to take care of him (Felix is a 3 year-old child that my mom babysits), so, I had to take up the responsibility to help my mom take care of Felix, and what's worse is, it's on my exam week!

I was wondering, how am I gonna concentrate on my exam when on the other hand I had to take care of Felix. The good news is my grandma will come over to my house, or even my uncle who's living with my grandma to take care of Felix. But, however, I had to fetch my grandma from her house at Jalan Tengah to my house. So, every morning I would wake up at 7am to wait for Felix to arrive, then only go to my grandma's house. When reach there, I would have breakfast with her, bringing along Felix with me. Then, she'll go to the wet market to buy raw food to cook for lunch.

Although my exam starts like 3.30pm, yet, I still made it a point to reach college by 9am where the library starts operating so that I will have more time to study. And indeed, it was tiring, having to go on with this same routine. So, this is Felix, at the coffee shop below my grandma's house:

He's pointing at the coffee! A coffee addict he is!

Who's the person behind making him a coffee lover? It's obvious in the picture!

"Cak!!"


(keep an eye on his cute facial expression!)

After breakfast, we hopped into the car, waiting for grandma to get something from the wet market. Here's cute Felix..isn't he adorable? And of course, you need a good photographer *ehem* to capture such moments when he's at his cute actions!

OMG, I look so fat!

From Felix's point of view

Emo a bit

Here comes grandma with her goods (follow the subsequent photos below)

"Hey Felix, did you behave yourself??"

(cramp face)

"Hmmm?"

"Of course I behave myself well!"

Then, when we reach home, Felix revealed his secret weapon.......his new baby scooter (3-wheeled!)


(look at how he scoot!)

Having Felix around was surely a stress relieve, cuz he's so cute to play with! But sometimes when he's grumpy or wanted something very badly, he'll start whining and making noise...anyhow, small children are like that!

Since my exam is over, it's not the end yet...there are two more sems to go before I go for internship and graduate as a diploma. Then, it's a crossroad..where to study, where to work..bla bla...The world will just keep on moving, waiting for no man...Life has to go on...

The Worst Accident Ever??

This is what happen when anyone did not follow the undang-undang:

How did it happen? you might wonder...that's why i'm here to tell you the story..
My elder sister took the Iswara (My beloved Iswara =( ] to Sg. Petani for work. On the first day she drove there (last saturday), two brainless drivers knocked into her. She just did nothing wrong. She stayed on her lane and out of a sudden, the car from her left tried to overtake her, but his/her estimation was incorrect, it eventually knocked the Iswara front and Ruth with all her might step on the brake to avoid the car. So, in the middle of Sg. Petani, she came down from her car and talk with the fella.

After 5-10 minutes, another car knocked into the Iswara back. BOOM it went. Now Ruth had to settle with two fellas who knocked her front and back. Pity her. She had to go to the Police station to report and that took hours....Anywayz, of course she's not in the wrong...she just do her own driving until these people came in.

The back is not that damaged.

When I heard about the accident on the Iswara, I'm like "OMG!!". How could this happen to this very car that I used to go to college everyday? I kinda had a bond with this car...it's ambience, it's feel when driving it, my "P" sticker, my little spongebob....

So, to everyone, please drive carefully on the road (especially this rainy season), stay alert and always check all of your mirrors (back and sides - 360 degree) before making any decisions...don't follow to near behind a car, don't just simply overtake a car without much consideration..all these little things must be taken into account seriously...This message is brought to you by Liagiba!

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Aaarghh! Sien-ness!! I'm now at college's canteen sitting between Winnie (my left) and Wendy (my right). Basically, we're all on our laptop doing our own business. At first, I was so enthusiastic to continue my CSS project, but somehow, things doesn't go my way and I ended up like Wendy...gave up on CSS...truly it's a heartache doing it..especially on the positioning and designing part..Anywayz..I wanna show you all a picture that I took of my younger sis, Rachel, who was busy studying for her final exam form 4:

And I diligently edit the picture by enhancing the contrast, rub off the pimples, and add a little text on it:

Nice or not??? (click on picture for enlargement)

ps:forgot to mention...i'm havin fever!!Nooo!! I don't wanna fall sick on the eve of my birthday!!

On the Road

Pretty much of an experience..experienced while i was driving with pedestrian who wanted to cross the road....

Yesterday, I was driving with Ruth, heading to college. While I was on Yeap Chor Yee road near Island Glades, heading Greenlane, it was quite jam. So, there is a yellow box to indicate that no cars are allowed to wait there as it is a junction. It so happen that I saw an old man in a blue raincoat with his four-legged steel tongkat trying to cross the road. When I almost reach the yellow box, I stopped behind it, and this old man walking at his own pace, crosses in front of me with his thumbs up! Then when he reached to the other end of the road, he put his thumbs up again. Ruth and I who was in the car was laughing away! He looked very funny with the way he walk and how he put his thumbs up. That day I felt that I did something good..hehehe...

However...today in the evening after class...I almost bang a little boy(around 5 years old) opposite the BJ Kompleks bus stop! Again, I was with Ruth. This little boy was pulling his mom's hand and was walking very fast...I'm glad I stopped in time....whow..scary...

The Blacks (Object)

These are the black objects I took (see previous post):

Wendy's laptop

My laptop and mouse

Michael's thumb drive

I like this picture...it's Dedy's SLR

His Konica Minolta

Jing's key chain (heart pierced)