World Without Yvonne

What would the world be without Yvonne?


On Friday, at the office, I saved Ardhan from this total blur , "sweat dripping", "kan cheong" moment with the computer (I thought I was bad enough) and he was so thankful. Then I asked, rather loudly, "What would the world be without Yvonne?! Hahaha!" without expecting any reply and probably expecting some eyes rolling behind my back.


A very quick and soft respond came, "It would be very quiet."


I was like *blink blink*... *laugh*... "I wasn't really asking but... so you are saying I'm very noisy?!"


"Erm yes... a little..."


This came from a rather low profile, quiet, 30+ guy, Mr.Kenneth, who has been chilling with us for the past 5 days doing his cross-cultural training. I guess these 5 days have changed him. His office is in no way like this. It is very quiet and all that. He has come to the right place. Things were rather wacky in our office. It is like what Murni would describe as "Kapal Pecah". An Indonesian way of describing a place that looks like a tornado has just past through. It is really funny imagining our office as a ship that is attacked by a giant octopus and everybody is running around in formal attire with files and papers and computers and crazy hair and accusing each other (without regards to gender here) of keeping that Hot Guy's Resume (Philip,we know it was you). Mr. Kenneth has been inspired to implement this "wacky culture" into his office come Monday.


Anyways, I asked around somemore. "In your own words, what would the world be without Yvonne?" The replies were:


Ardhan: Kiamat (end of the world)

Sanny: Very dull, you know, less colourful, less lively, quiet... (At this point, Philip who was following me around while I asked said, "eh, why are you all so nice to her ar?!")

Philip: Nothing la. No difference. Right, Murni? (because I have been bullying him)

Murni: Boring

Shiow Ling: I'll think about it first (because she thought it was a trick question because everyone was now listening intently)

Ms. Presee: Boring.

Burn @ IT office: It would be a little bit more boring.

Shiow Ling: Boring la...


So, my existence does have an impact in this world. Not bad... :)


Anyways, Mr. Kenneth e-mailed us. He has learned to use the word "chillax" and one of his messages was , "Shiow Ling, I hope the interns don't drive you up the wall."

Lastly, he said, "Have fun cleaning up the storeroom!"


No wonder he left on Friday. He knew what was coming for Saturday. Cis. Anyhow, it was quite fun. Partly because the storeroom was a venue for more gossips... ooh...

-omg-



-Safety First-

Also, an update: 2 more weeks till dissertation submission!

I have only just distributed my questionnaire yesterday. I know. Crazy. Impossible. Stupid. But I still have faith. Now all I need to do is learn how to use SPSS and actually get to install it into my pc!! It seems it is not Vista compatible. I want my XP back! I also hope I get back my questionnaires on Monday. I distributed to more than 15 sections. I tried my best with their managers.

"Mr. ____! Good morning! Wah, very handsome today. Look so fresh. Really! What did you eat this morning? Ic ic. Good ah. Anyways, I need your help. You have 45 SAs right?...Erm, yes, all of them."

"When can I get it back?"
"End of next week la"
"Erm, can earlier? Very fast one! They only need 3 minutes to fill in everything! Serious!"
"Thursday?"
"Erm, what about Monday?"
"Wah, cannot la!"
"Can la. Try la, sir. Can one. If they are off today, you can give them on Sunday. Then Monday kao tim la."
"I try la."
"Can ya. Try ya. Can one. No problem. I'm sure you can do it."
"yayayaya."


Wait, till they find out I need to interview them too. Hohoho. I'm still in deep shit.

skive? what skive?

An assignment was handed out today... but it somehow went out of topic during the execution. Heehee! As usual...

Title: "Caught in Melancholy"

Title: "Are you sure?"

Title: "Emptiness"


Title: "Hanging Gardens 2"


And here comes the best( or worst...)
Title: -_-

Introducing Philip (the one on the left) who is 17 and is currently crashing in with us at our department. Fortunately, he is as much a cam-whore and "off-centred" trainee as us! Haha.

"Finally, a person who loves self protrait more than we do!"
*note that he's the one holding the camera. Wow.

Murni, Ardhan and I are all playing big sisters and brother to him but apparently we were not doing a good job.

1) "New trainee?! Yay! Come, come! Assignment for you!"
2) "Oi, 5pm already. Let's go home lar!"
3) "Sorry? No,man, we don't buy sorry here."
4) "Very good la you. What's your name again?" (this is, of course, in pretence of being the boss)


ahem.

Anyways, Philip, if you are reading this (and you'd better be), so sorry about your Tamagotchi and about being stuck with us. Haha! Be strong! We love you!

Obviously I'm not over Prime yet...

I mean, who is? Anyways, I spotted a cute form of Prime in TheSun papers today and it reignited my Transformers hype. Seriously, I don't know why I'm so hyped up either. Go along with the crowd? hmm. I think I'm in a state of denial of my high stress level.

Anyways, introducing Optimash Prime! (a.k.a Mr. Potato Head :)

-I quote : "More than meets the fry..."

So cute!!!

-He smiles too!-

Cool stuff. I want one!

*Eye-roll alert!* If I can find the time, I might also try to dress LMB up in Optimus gear. :) Kawaiiiiii!

Transformers

I'm very busy trying to save my ass and get my degree but I think it is necessary to take 5 minutes to say this:


I love Transformers!


This movie is just so stylish. Seriously. Don't know how else to describe it. I would watch it again. Anytime. That is, when the people stop queuing up for the tickets. I have also decided not to sell(on eBay) my little Transformers toy which I got from McDs a few years back.

Bumble Bee is so adorable! I almost cried when Bumble Bee was strapped down by the cops(during that one emotional scene). I know. Crazy.

The seats have been mostly sold out for a good two weeks. Even for the usual low peak periods.Why is that?! The first attempt to get tickets ended up in watching Die Hard 4 (which was actually a nice movie too). Luckily my sister got the tickets somehow. I think it was a major achievement.

Next feat: Harry Potter!

:)

Malacca

My trip to Malacca!

Chicken rice balls, Jonker Walk, really old buildings, wooden clogs, pineapple tarts, A Famosa, "Gula Ketuk", trishaws with boom boxes, 'dodol' and 'Ultarman' tees. That's Malacca. Ooh, let's not forget hot and sunny.

-New Haircut-

Oh yeah, I got a new haircut! Drastic change indeed. Everyone is sort of shocked. Well, I just felt that washing my hair has never been such a breeze. :)

Anyways...

-Obviously he's not too happy about something-


-Dad, mum, susan, lisa and me-

-I think some pirates are buried here-

It was a good trip and great to spend time with my family. I just got darker by 2-3 shades in all that sun.

cramps crap

It is when I am busy with important things that I tend to focus on unimportant things. Notice the totally random and emotionally imbalanced post of "song I don't get sick of". Anyways, this time, it seems unimportant but it turns out to be actually important.

I have this believe that once you turn 21, you are classified under "adult" and thus all health problems related to "adults" will start to apply to you. A colleague recently revealed a shocking health problem and said that his doctor said that there is no such thing as illness for the elderly anymore. Everyone of any age can get sicknesses which we used to think happens only to the veterans. Which confirms my believe. Better watch those hips, people.

I recently experienced leg cramps at night. One day it is the left leg. The next day it is the right. Then, back to the left. These are really painful cramps in the calves and I had to wake up and massage my calves and keep them warm and all that. What really bothers me is not the excruciating pain. It is the waking up. What if I was dreaming of Takeshi? You'll never know.

Anyways, I did some googling and chose www.patient.co.uk and found two causes which could apply to me.

1) Over-exertion of muscles
2) Dehydration

Have I over-exerted myself? Erm. I know I have been walking a lot lately but it has been this way for the past few weeks. Why only now? Have I been so pampered by the buggy rides that when I attempted to walk that 400m last week, my legs decided to throw a tantrum?

About dehydration... yeah, I don't drink 8 glasses of water a day. Who does?

It seems many things can cause this problem. Some of the rather extreme causes which probably does not apply to me are:

- Lead poisoning
- Under-active thyroid gland
- A list of medication I cannot pronounce
- Excess alcohol (would have died of allergy by then)
- Rare disorder of nerves
- Pregnancy (in the later stage somemore)
- Cirrhosis of the liver (terrible, this one)
- Sarcoidosis (tsk tsk)


Anyways, I remembered that my dad once told me that cramps can be caused by insufficient salt (sodium) or bananas (potassium). It is also stated so on the webby. So I added an extra pinch of salt into my daily breakfast omelette but have decided that maybe I shouldn't risk my kidneys this way. As for bananas, I couldn't find any small ones (pisang emas) and big ones are not sweet and just too much to finish. I don't particularly favour bananas anyways.


So I'm left with 2 choices which are to keep hydrated and to do some stretching to prevent these cramps. A recommended exercise from the website is as follows:

-erm.....-

Three times a day! 7 am, 3pm, 11pm. This totally clash with my daily schedule. Like, I sleep at 9pm these days, dude. And 3pm means during office hour. It IS a rather awkward position, I must say. Erm... better not. I'll do double shot once I get home. :)



*note to Gary - Any medical advice?

song I don't get sick of

A song that transports me to another world, another time, another space... a dream, a fantasy. Common, overplayed on the radio... and , erm, singer not cun. Still a fantasy I wish was true. Songs are meaningful again.

"Chasing Cars" - Snow Patrol

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel

Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

OK, back to reality, back to my big D. -_-