Up high...

I'm currently on the highest level in my office building. In a huge meeting room with dim lights and nice couches. The blinds are all up and I get a clear night view of the Damansara residential area. The street lights of some highway far away. The lights from the huge houses below. The car lights passing by. Soft jazz music playing from my laptop. And I'm obvoiusly not working la. Waiting to go home and in the meantime enjoying my likings - night views and jazz musics. Wouldn't it be perfect if I had a glass of red wain in my hands?

Seniors have all left, leaving me and another colleague behind. No way I'm gonna be a lousy teammate right? So, we shall leave together. As I watched the cars pass by, the flickering of some street lights below, and listening to soft slow music, life can treat you well at times. Tonight is one of those times.

All right. Got to head home and pack for tomorrow.

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Trip blues

Never have I gone for a trip that's so confusing, so frustrating and so irritating as this one. And it's just the planning stage. We had more than 10 persons for the Malacca trip with my pals and there was no such trouble. Now this with less than 10 people and it's already getting on to the nerves of almost everyone.

First there's this uncertainty of attendance from a few of the participants. Guess what? The trip is tomorrow and up to this point, we can't confirm the number of people who's going to join us. Hence, the uncertainty in accommodation and transportation. Then, there were some misunderstandings among us and someone got real pissed that the person pulled out. But, that person is having second thoughts now and we are kinda waiting for that person's final decision. In the meantime, all planning has been put to a halt. Great. All these just because of one person.

Next, some alternative suggestions caused someone else to be mad. Saying why isn't that person informed about anything that deviates from the original plan. Come on, it's just a plan. One that is subjected to change. And I don't really understand why this trip have to be so formal. With plans here and there. Places to visit. Time allocated for each place. Amount per day for general fund collection. Amount of petrol to fill. Amount of Touch 'N Go to top up. Car allocations that cannot be changed. This whole thing sounded more like school kids going for vacation or something. And there's a schedule for everything. You should really see our itinerary man. Or that costing thing that one of the organizers did. A costing sheet for a trip. Can you possibly imagine that? I appreciate all the effort but you people are taking it way too seriously.

And now, a few people are fed-up with all the arguments. Some people need to be pujuk so that they won't continue to have hard feelings. And more arrangements have to be made. Just by planning this trip is already tiring. I don't know what might happen when we actually go for it tomorrow. I never had to experience this kind of 'hardship' for any trip that I went before. It's even more headache than working. A trip is for you people to chill man. That's the main point in going for a vacation.

Just got back from a pre-trip meeting. A last minute one that is. And yeah. Some conclusions have been made. Seems that everyone has got to agree on something to make this thing work out. And I seriously hope that this trip will be a successful one. No more 'hiccups' people.

I shall bring back more stories and pictures next week.

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Happy tang lung festival

Mid-autumn festival this year was really spent with family and friends. I had voluntarily agreed to offer my place for the celebration this year with my friends. Since all of them were restless and looking for plans for Saturday night. So Piggy came up with this idea that we should play 'tang lung' at MY house. And I said yes.

And it is with this 'yes' that I made ALL preparations by myself. Okay. With some help from mum. Went to buy fresh stuffs from the market. Came back and cleared the house. Got the food ready. Made some extra dishes and my very first red bean 'tong sui'. And my dear friends were an hour late for the 7pm dinner. As usual. Something would be terribly wrong if any of them was punctual. Hah.

Their arrival was sure a loud one. And the noise didn't stop until they left. They sapu-ed all the food that was laid out. Maklumlah, para MPSJ sekalian. Making loads of jokes and craps on the dining table. English lessons konon-nye. Thank God I don't take lessons from you all. You know fully well what I mean.

Then we rekindled our childhood activity of lighting tang lungs and candles out on the porch. But I guess when you are in your twenties, you'd get 'rather' aggressive. We burnt down a few lanterns. Singing and swaying to 'yue liang dai biao wo de xin'. Actually, the guys did that. Hah. I should have post the video up la. It sure was amusing. And not to mention, we had mooncakes. Yummmmm...

And so it ended. This year's mid-autumn fest. Entertaining. TIRING. No full moon. And I got both my friends and my family with me this year. There's nothing more I could ask for. Lolz.

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Quote

"Who doesn't long for someone to hold,
Someone who knows how to love you without being told,
Somebody please tell me why am I on my own,
If there's a soulmate for everyone...."


Nah. I didn't pen those. Got it of a friendster's comment. But it works for me.

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I'm beginning to find it interesting to work in office...

Alright. I'm back. Been busy with work the past weeks that I don't even have time for myself, let alone blog.

Life has been quite happening lately. I'm beginning to like working in office. Not that I'm workaholic, but rather I have friends around who work along with me. People of similar age, people who speaks the same kind of 'language'....people who clicks. Wanna know what we usually do?

I'll let you in on some:

1) If possible, sit near to each other for more convenient gossiping (about anything and everything)
2) Sought help from each other in times of trouble (either work related or private ones)
3) Disturb each other during slacking hours ( and I mean real disturbing )
4) Play online games together
5) Regulars for lunch, tea and DEFINITELY dinner on late nights
6) Pep talk once in awhile whenever anyone of us is feeling low
7) From colleagues turn friends where we hang out for movies, drinks, sports and some clubbing...and a upcoming trip
8) Keep each other company during times of need

I guess if you have been browsing through my friendster, you'll get the idea who are they. Yea. My current gang. Sort of known to be as a gang in the work place. Cause we hang out together too often.

I can be very eager to stay in office because of them. And I don't seem to dread working late too if they are aroud. Isn't it a miracle of what your friends can do to you? Working has been fun nowadays. I've always said, sometimes it's not so much about the work that you do, but rather it's about the people that you work with. That's what's important. Although we don't know each other for that very long, I mean, compared to my other friends, they can be considered new friends in my life, but I do see them the most these days. Every other day. Every other night too. They are an amusing bunch.

We work together. We play together. We eat together. We car-pool together. There are times where we can spend the whole day doing everything together. They can be pretty insane too at times. "Dangerous" people. Hah!

Time amazes me sometimes. On the way it moves. It leads you on and on. But never going back. Never bringing you back to amend the mistakes you made. Never bringng you back to re-live the days that you treasured so much. So, as the saying goes, "Make the most of every moment you have now, as you will never pass this way again"

I appreciate them. So I am just going to cherish every moment I have with them now. Cause you will never know where life will lead you in the future. Even if we do part, and I mean we WILL part someday, at least, we had fun before. I am going to have all the fun there is now.

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"Dream" came true...

Was out to the movies with my little bloop one evening. We were too bored and decided to just buy the tickets to the next available screening for that night. It turned to be a romantic movie. Yea, all right. It was Jay Chow's "Secret".

The cinema was empty when we walked in. Obviously la. Since it was weekday and the movie has been on screen for quite a while now. A few minutes later, a young couple walked in. And then, another couple walked in. Then another. And another. Very soon, almost all the front seats were taken by couples. I turned to my goldfish and joked, "Ahhh, how I wish a cute guy would be seating next to me. Why la am I seating next to you in a romantic movie?" She jokingly answered, "It's still early and you are already dreaming."

A few minutes passed, the movie have not started and the whole row where we were seated were still empty. I crapped with my sis and we giggled. Then, a couple of young guys plopped down next to bloop. I smiled at her. She whispered to me,"Jie, your dream came true." "They are not next to me. Those beside me are still empty. How about we switch places?"

And just after I finished my sentence, a group of guys came in and guess what...they took the seats right beside me! I turned to bloop and we both burst into laughters. "Wishes" do come true, huh? And nah, they were not cute la. Ahah!

P/S: The movie was okay la. Not really very romantic. Not touching enough. And Jay's acting wasn't what I expected it to be.

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All mixed-up

No idea what my mind wants me to do. No idea what my heart wants me to do. Been wondering what I really want to do. Or whether it's the right thing to do. Or whether I should do the things that I want to do. After finally getting a clear picture that I should do the things that I want to do, my actions don't quite coincide with my decisions. I end up doing things that I don't mean to do in the first place. Or I failed to put into actions the things that I thought of doing. At the end of the day, I wonder why I did or didn't do certain things. And I kick myself for not knowing what I wanted to do.

Confused la in short.

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Totally worn out

That would be me. After going through one crazy, mad and rush week. Stressed. Lack of sleep. And emotionally unstable.

Been leaving work around 12 to 1 am for every night the past week due to a rush job that I was involved in. Not only that, I have to be up around 6 everyday for training. That left me around 4 to 5 hours of sleep every night. It was a consolation that I had some of my gang around to keep me sane. Hah. But I was still stressed up.

Then I did a mad thing of going down to Malacca TWICE in 12 hours. On the eve of Merdeka. Once to accompany a colleague back for a sudden emergency and another time for a planned trip with my friends.So there goes. I celebrated Malaysia's 50th year of independence in Malacca with my colleagues. And then went to all the tourists attractions there again the next morning with my friends. Nice. That night which we stayed over there, I slept like a log. Dead tired. All I can think of is the bed. The bed. The bed. Nothing else.

So you can imagine how worned out I was this whole week. Physically and mentally. Each time of late nights brings emotinal distress to me. And then friends comes into the picture. When I realised that I couldn't find anyone to let it out, I get lagi distressed.

I 'predict' that the coming week is going to be something similar. Without the Malacca part. Hah.

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