keong hee huat chye

wishing everyone 'keong hee huat chye' ;o)

and i will be away for 2 weeks..! yippie..!! away from work...! hahahaha..

gone

gone!

its all gone..!!

everything's gone..!

no use turning back. there's no way for me to turn back. why must i go through this..!?

cant i patch it all back to be normal again..!? can i revert back as how it used to be..!?

must i go through this agony.. its not fair..!!





can i have it back.. please?


btw.. happy valentine's day to all you all

song in head : far away - nickelback

brighter monday blue

just when you thought you knew everything about anything.. there's more.


The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. [ a real ass ]

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. [ now, thats encouraging! ]

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. [ clean king? ]

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. [ i'm still sticking to my morning coffee ]

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first "Marlboro Man."

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. [ something for the muso/sound engineer to ponder! ]

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. [ gross! ]

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second ? William Jefferson Clinton

And the best for last.....
Turtles can breathe through their butts. [ so, they fart thru their mouth..!?! argh! ]

-[ coffeexifed ]-

just thought of having a brighter monday blue.. well on another note.. chinese new year is around the corner! yippie..!

but then again, what i experienced last year, will repeat itself again. sigh.

song in head : once in a lifetime - keith urban

colourfulness

i always wonder.. can life be more colourful..?

a green eye?

suddenly.. i saw this clip.

its happening and its getting bigger. no doubt that most of us already know about this and it has been informed for the longest time. school children knows about it and adults talk about it. but what is there to be done? what is there to be done about global warming?

as of today:
malaysia : last year, flood striked the nothern of malaysia but the situation was moderate. this year, the flood has strike in johor and has left thousands homeless and 18 death. forecast says that the weather are begining to change for the better. lets just pray that the weather does but if it doesnt, i dont know how many ppl can continue to stay there.

oklahoma : freezing winter storms across the central U.S. plains killed at least 23 people in Oklahoma and snarled transportation across the country's midsection on Wednesday, officials said. read more.

taiwan : underwater earthquake hit and the internet connection was disrupted for almost the whole asia pacific. altho [ thank God ] there wasnt a tsunami like what happened 2 years [ or is 3 ] ago, there was chances it could have happened.

philippines : flood and landslide has hit there and has left many homeless and well, 23 death.

and many more here..

i dont know about the rest of you.. but i'm speechless. sad. scared. many times we would probably say..

left brain : eh.. you saw know about global warming ar.. more serious la
right brain : wahh.. so concern. so greenie. go do something la
left brain : our earth mar, of cuz must concern. if not we die early leh.
right brain : okie lor.. you go do something la
left brain :do what leh? donno la..
right brain : donno then how to do? then how? aiyoh.. come la. we go drink teh tarik first la.. coffee better la.

thats a typical conversation that we would probably have or at least the thought. i have had that thought before. but somehow now i'm a lil more scared.

well, i'm confused now. we are responsible for whats happening, wouldnt you say? but at the same time, the world is developing. new technology and infrastructure taking over. world's population is increasing.

but what can we really do..? for real.. enough about talking and discussing about it and no action.. but now to really do it. to have an action for what we say.

is there really something we can do now..?

[ sorry if it sounded very 'greenie' or factual. but its something i felt when watching it and pondering abt it ]

'we lived in this world and we are going back to where eternity is with God. He created this world for us to stay temporarily. He loaned it to us. are we destroying what is His?'

randomness of random

almost loosing my thought for awhile and dozing off while at work.. eh, i need to relax a bit also la.. help me.

had the best experience in a recent retreat. its a big exposure and eye opener. well, partially during the night cuz i was extremely sleepy. however, learned alot.

been waking up really early these days.. but still dont seem to be able to have enough time to relax before leaving home. and somehow still reach work a lil late.

there's no reason for anything that happens. must there be a reason for everything? if there is.. explain why am i always caught in a jam only to find out there's really no accident or anything after a stretch.

i need sleep.. i need sleep.. i need sleep... badly. listening to jazz or R&B during working hours is not a wise thing to do.

ah.. a lil better already.. as for now.. :) hmm.. now i think i really need to learn how to edit my pictures..

song in head : photograph - nickelback

something new

been trying to change my blog banner for the longest time.. and finally..! hahaha.. but its a bit small.. not wide enough.. anyone can help..?!

oh.. what you all think abt it..? still in the midst of learning and editing it.. :)

oh well, been playing with Serif PhotoPlus - something i normally use in my documentations but i didnt realise it can work like Adobe Photoshop.. and the best part is.. i didnt realise, all these years.. i actually have Adobe Photoshop in my other notebook. sigh! oh well, now something for me to learn.

but i guess, things like these do happen. something new happens. something we didnt realise was infront of us all these time. something that we can deeply appreciate now. all about timing? maybe.. well, i've been experiencing alot of this 'new findings' and its been going well.

change is good - like how pastor would have said it a hundred of times. it is a challenge to look at the new and to accept it. but it is possible. [ altho i still think the old menu at food foundry is better than the current new one.. sigh ] i want new challenges, new perspective.. new look? hahaha..

but i dont want to totally forget the past. i dont mean cling onto and not letting go the past, but to remember the past as how it used to be. as memories. occasionally, i love to go back memory lane again [ not the shop ] and just to smile and remember the moment. i realised that the old film camera takes better shot than my digital shots. hahaa.. oh well.. still learning.

anyways, it is a new year, therefore, a new begining and a new challenge shall be. God knows whats going to happen so, trusting Him in it! ;o)

song in head : the four seasons , wilson philips - 2 songs, donno which ones to put.. so put both la.. hehe

what defines a lady?

[ was watching My Fair Lady, and this song kinda fit this.. why cant a woman be more like a man - Henry Higgins ]

do i need to wear a skirt always?
i'm more comfortable in pants
i better in shorts
but forgive me when i run aimlessly
i'm just a woman having fun

do i need to put make-up?
i'm not the type that will effordly make-up
or interested in the latest shade
but forgive me when you see me plainly
i'm just a woman simple as can be

do i need to be a lady-like?
i'm not soft spoken
neither am i a roaring lion
but forgive me when i act like one
i'm just a woman speaking my mind

do i need to smile sweetly always?
and constantly in smiles?
i will have my ups and downs
but forgive me when i'm expressing
i'm just a woman of expression

do i need to hide my feelings?
i might be good at secret feelings
and i cant hold for too long
but forgive me when i share it with you
i'm just a woman with feelings

do i need to be playing a piano
or even sing sweetly like a bird?
i can croak like a frog
but forgive my inedequacy in arts
i'm just a woman of different skills

nevertheless
don't be suprise to see me in skirts and heels
in make-up and hair tied up
sitting quietly in a corner
i'm just a woman, just being one.
[ blurred esh, 26/12/2006 ]

i never said woman are easy to understand.. just love them! :D oh, BLESSED NEW YEAR to everyone..

may all the resolutions that you guys have planned work out and may coffee continue to taste ever so good everytime, anytime.

song in head : new day - avalon

tv deprived?

[ can someone please enlighten me: why do ppl press down at the lift/elevator when they actually want to go up..? ]

i may be out-dated or just not following the trend thats happening these days in the media. i shall, anyhow, declare it: i have not watched tv drama series for years!

literally 'years' since i moved to kl [ wait, the last series i remember watching was betty la fame - some foreign series ]. anywayz, since i moved out from home and stayed on my own, 'home' has no tv - unless you have your own in your own room. its not like one tv shared by everyone anymore. my parents can testify that i used to glue myself to the tv - to the extend where my grounding was no tv for a week. but now that i'm on my own, i have not watched alot of tv shows.

and with the current tv companies showing all the tv series - english, korean, hong kong - i have missed out even more. aside from the fact that by the time i reach home is around 8++pm [ considered early ], i dont really have much time to watch anything. [ movies in cinema is a different story ] so, when everyone around me is talking about one tree hill, 24, smallville, lost, etc etc.. i'm clueless. when everyone's talking about some character falling in love with another person, some character just killed someone.. i'm blurred. when everyone's talking about the next series thats coming and their prediction.. i'm lost.

its not that i have anything against tv series or that i'm that pathetic to be 'out-of-the-tv-world' but it just came to my realisation that, i have not watched tv series for a very long time. when i'm back to my own home, as usual, i'm glued to the tv. [ eh, need to 'pay back' the months i have not watched tv ] but when i try to watch the famous-talk-about tv series.. i'll switch to axn or travel & living after less than 10 mins.

of cuz shows like [ last time ] 90210, class of 98, ally mcbeal got me 'religiously' folllowing them and always got me day dreaming to think - what would it be like if that were to really happen to me? will a guy talk to me like how it is said in the tv? would i react the same way like in the tv when a guy approaches me? sigh.. it is very dramatic, to think about it.

since i dont have a tv series for me to follow, i guess i'll just follow my life's drama series. [ nope, jelly, no murder or split personality involved.. just coffee ] but think about it, what if my life [ or your's ] one day turn out to be a drama tv series.. how would it be like? what kind of character am i potraying?

oh well.. stay tune for the next episode of 'blurred about life's simple complexity' ;o)

ps.. having said all that, i do wish to get a plasma/lcd tv when i have my own place, of cuz.. hehe

song in head : searching my soul - vonda shepard [ theme from ally mcbeal ]

blurred christmas ramblings

there's a point in time when sometimes its good to just trash out everything at one shot. just for the fun of it.. well, okie.. just another excuse to update my blog when i'm not sure what to update.

christmas is around the corner and i'll be spending this yuletide season in KL..! [ oh, yippie..? ] not too sure if its a good thing or not, but after talking to my mum.. i realised, i dont want to spend my christmas in a 6 freaking hour bus ride! now, thats sad. well, of cuz i'll miss my family but then, i've got a 'family' here too that has taken care of me.. so, here's to this year christmas in KL..! whats my plan..? i havent gotten a clue yet.. hmm, i've got some voucher thats going to expire soon.... [ *dum dee dum dumm...* ]

christmas shopping can be fun :D that is of cuz if i'm loaded *sigh* this time for the first time i actually did my christmas shopping for a few days and i still havent gotten anything much. i'm lost for ideas. but i saw some pretty cool clothes and hats for myself, though.. hehehe

[ gotta focus on getting present for ppl, not for self.. focus, girl.. focus.. ]

[ okie.. i tried! ]

i bought for myself a book. my christmas present.. haha. Go Girl! by Mardee LeDai. sounds like a feminist-anti-guys kinda book? well, rest assured.. its about girls travelling - whether alone or with a partner, missions, business trip, holiday or just a trip down town. seeing God in all the trips that we go and just being a pilgrim on a pilgrimage. the book is a bit more focus for girls cuz girls are more adventures! yeah! hahaa.. okie la.. also cuz girls tend to think a lil too much when just planning a getaway. Go Girl! encourages girls to just live out for travelling dream, pack your bag and GO!

"So issue an invitation to yourself. Challenge the everydayness of the familiar. Take a trip. Go somewhere. Go anywhere. Go where nothing matters but the adventure itself." [ more ]

now.. where should i start my first travel.. i'm still thinking about places like bali, vietnam, nepal.. maybe terengganu, kelantan, labuan.. or maybe i'll just start off in the offskirts of kl.. any one interested? :D
[ and i'm at chap 4.. progress! i just got it abt 1 week ago.. haha ]

on the off note.. i learned.. that Scotts tissues is rough and bad for the nose.. Kleenex is nicer, softer.. better for runny nose and sneezes.. i guess now i can be singing rudolph the red nose reindeer if mine turn's red.. talk abt getting christmas present for myself!

how's your christmas mood coming along? share!

song in head : colors of love - boyz II men

its time

let it fill the air

and the hearts of every men

that its the time of the year

where christmas is to be celebrated

[ song in head : my grown up christmas list - clay aiken ]

jump! jump!

feeling light.. feeling like jumping.. feeling happy..!

reason..? nothing
not that i've got nothing to worry
not that i've got all my trouble gone
do i need a reason to be happy..?

=)

[ be coffeexified ]

song in head : on the street where you live - ost from my fair lady

out!

hahaha.. i'm out and out and out..!! *i'm lovin' it.. padappapadaap*

okie, to be exact i'm going to be on leave for a few days. [ yippie..!! *firecracker* ] i'm so looking forward for this break. i've got so many things that i want to do. so many things that i need to do. so many things that i wish i could do. hmm.. lets see..

1. camwhore [ for once a bit syiok sendiri ]
2. lepak [ when the whole world is working ]
3. shopping
4. go travel around KL
5. do some hse cleaning
6. change my wardrobe [ well.. dont think this can happen la ]
7. my long overdue writtings
8. christmas planning, other plannings
9. timeout session
10. do sth crazy .. maybe do these..?

one thing i love when i get to go out and just lepak, hand-loose is i can be in casual clothes and sometimes.. just sometimes, i can wear something i dont normally wear - no, no skirts! muahahaha.. also, i can just move around, do something with no specific agenda. no specific time to end my day. [ now i feel like jumping around ] anyone want to join..?? *grinning*

actual fact.. i've only got half the day to do all the crazy stuff. then UNITED LIVE will be coming to our church for concert.. well.. then my other stuff that i need to rush for - camps.

sigh..

so much for wanting to do all the crazy stuffs.. unless.. [ looking at calendar.. ] ;o)
have a fantabulous early weekend ahead..!!

song in head : i'm loving it - justin timberlake

sleepy friday

me : sigh..! seriously stoning..
friend : hahaha, go do something about it
me : ~o) .. tahaning till 2pm for it
me : initally suppose to be 3pm.. then 230pm..
friend : now 2pm lor... make history
me : ....... 10 more minutes.. 10 more minutes..

stoning at work today.. should i still lepak today after work..?
0_o"

anyways.. what is the best way to stay awake at work..? please share..!

[ not telling the answer to the mind teaser yet.. hehehe ]

song in head : the way you make me feel - michael jackson

blurred me..?

i've been reading some pretty interesting news..

it was under the perculiar posting in msn news and what caught my attention was.. it would have been more perculiar if he survived the blast.

wonder what was he thinking when he did that.. gosh.. madness..

------- [ coffeexicating ] -------

if ads were creative, its sure to catch someone's attention. and we're all asked to 'think-out-of-the-box' most of the time.

so, this Hong Kong ad to promo yogo was really an interesting idea to show flexibility.

and its definitely.. catchy.. not like i'm in any creative also la.. hehehe..

anyways, there's this other ad that i find it.. well, perculiar too..

Life-size stickers of people were stuck on automatic sliding doors at a mall in Mumbai, India. When someone approaches the doors move apart and it feels like the people on the door are moving away. The person enters to find the message 'People Move Away When You Have Body Odour'.

ouch..

------- [ coffeexicating ] -------

anywayz, here's a little quiz for you to try out..

Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it’s only strong enough to support two people at any given time.

Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes?

hehehe.. i'll tell the answer the next time i post up something.. at the mean time..

coffeexified, y'all

song in head : take it all - hillsong united

dialing thoughts

will we talk again?
i have seen you from afar
i have heard of you for awhile
i have wanted to call you
when will we talk again?

something like my previous post but of a different view.. well, at least i think so.

when a friendship [ or a relationship ] is broken or distant for whatever the reason, i'm sure there are some thoughts that come across your mind..

thoughts of what happened in the past
thoughts of the smiles and laughters shared
thoughts of conversations and secrets shared
thoughts of what that person might have been doing
thoughts of how it ended [ fullstop ]

either its just me but i've think quite too much [ when i should be thinking of my work! ] but yea, just thought how friends relationship can be made and drifted just because of a wrong words, action or just no effort to follow up. and sometimes the hardest part is to build that relationship again.

time might be able to help to build that relationship again but it might not be the same as it used to be. the openess and the gap may be a lil different. but its still workable.

provided there's the initiative to start.

recently, i've met up with some extremely long lost friends. some when i was in highschool and to hear their updates, its amazing. and to calculate how many years we've not kept in contact - freaks me! [ shows that i'm actually getting older ] but i appreciate my friends that called me and we've kept in contact again. there's so much to talk about and just to update one another about their lives and their upcoming. teasing each other about the past goals that never achieved. and just to see how each of have changed from younger days to now, moving to adulthood. and the best part - to be able to meet up again.

but there's also some friends that i've met and heard from afar. friends that were once close and now drifted far. must i wait for a few more years again before we dared to talk to each other again? when will we talk again?

my mom told me that relationship is the most important thing in one's life. thats why we need to build our relationship with our Father too. but if we have problem building relationship with our friends we see, what about our Father thats unseen. well, just a thought on a blurred friday.

song in head : all over again - ronan keating & kate rusby

dinner at 8pm..?

went shopping a lil, got home from one whole day out, did some chores, suppose to meet up for dinner with some friends, then.. it rained outside. oh well, good time to just laze on my bed. then.. *beep beep*

friend : to your opinion, what would you define as a perfect date?
me : O_o hmm, main motive is just to spend time together. if about environment, maybe jazz music, not a crowded place, somewhere comfortable and coffee! hehe.. which hot chick you trying to date la? hehe.. (^_^)
friend : no movies kah? no la.. i'm just trying to understand girls better.
me : oh.. haha.. my advice is dont try to understand them, just love her and you'll know whats the perfect date to have with her.
friend : har? *sigh* sad to say but i hafta agree with you.
me : *grin*
friend : i guess at d end of da day, it's still down to da personality huh? whether can click or not, able to communicate or not.. go with da flow, baby
me : haha! main thing is if you really love her and she loves you in return la..
[ wah... like a script line from donno what lomantic movie ]
friend : uh huh.. but wanna spark it ma.. hehe

when my friend asked me that question, i was thinking - fine dining, wine, a performance, walk down the beach, all beautifully dressed up - those sorta stuff that you see from the movies. but then, every girl would define their perfect date differently. so, if we know what the other person would enjoy and i guess to see the smile at the end of the date, that would be the perfect date.

then it got me thinking, what would be a perfect date with my Father?

currently in church, we're doing 'hearing the voice of God' and how samuel really desired to be with God. how he really 'just wanted to spend time' with God. we could be spending time with God with our devotion, reading His word.. but at the same time, thinking about lunch, about the jacket you saw the other day, about what someone said, etc. so much for a 'perfect date' with our Dad, huh?

so, what's your definition of a perfect date?

[ this morning my friend asked me *again*, would you expect a flower from ur date? O_o ]

song in head : the way you look tonight - tony bennet

blur off days - kk pt 4

[ okie.. i might just continue blogging.. unless.. ]

i promise this will be the last about my KK trip. altho i've got tonnes of interesting experience there. haha.. i'm still waiting for the pictures from the others that went so, you'll have to wait together with me.. haha
okie.. a quick one..

after nearly breaking every muscle from the climb for a few days, we went white water rafting. my first time i totally love the experience - 10km, 7 wackos, 1hour in brown sabah river. hahaa.. we were screaming our lungs out, falling out from the raft swimming and being 'saved' by our guide. and i got a cert from that! haha..

when we going to the destination, we had to get on a train. it was really an ol' fashion train. said to be the fastest in KK [ cuz it was the only train ] and if you're lucky, you might just see some chickens or ducks on the train too! so, when we had to go back from the rafting place to the train station, the train broke down. we ended up waiting for 3 hrs before the we got on the train [ and missed the chance to eat crocodile meat. darn! ].

anyway, on the train, managed to catch up a lil with stephen - cuz the rest were dozing off. well, after the screaming and energy used while rafting, stephen slept on an empty seat. i was looking out the window - gazing at the fireflies and ponder on some thoughts.

thoughts about what has happened.
thoughts about what could have happened.
thoughts about why it happened.
thoughts about why it didnt happened.
thoughts about how can i make it happened.

oh well, ultimately, its about submitting my days to Him. whatever that has happened in the past has happened. many times i wished i could turn back the time and make the changes [ maybe like actually study for my spm..haha ] but now, to see what has happened as stories in my life.
not easy to submit especially when you want things your way, but its to have the trust in Him. so often that statement has been said and now its time to actually live it out. :)

[ want to know what i was pondering about..? hahaha.. over coffee la ]

other quick update on my kk trip

burn, baby burn : i had sun burnt. i didnt put enough sunblock and went swimming at the clear sea water - so smart of me leh. it was so burnt that i could still feel the heat after 2 days. my dahling hsemate had to help me peel my dead skin.. eeww... but it was fun. [ some #!*^%$ chinese girl in a mall asked me if i'm a chinese..!! ]

revelation : i found out a cool remedy. when you climb mount k, you're sure to have extreme muscle pain. go swimming. seriously.. swimming help ease the pain. you at least can walk properly - unlike a crab on labour. so yea.. so snorkel or swim or whatever. its really good.

so yes, thats for my kk trip experience. fuh~ syiokness.. i enjoyed myself.. but i dont think i want to climb the mount again. hahaha!

[ darn... cant upload my pictures.. oh well.. ]

song in mind : put your records on - corinne bailey rae

to or not to..?

to terminate my blog or not?

currently, my company just moved to a new place.. and i had some difficulty accessing blogger. proxy? firewall? whatever.. its not as easy as it used to be. so, it harder for me to blog now.

even now my current sitting place is not as.. erm.. secured, private as it used to be. so.. chances that i might stop blogging is higher..

i'll give it to end of this year and we'll see how it goes.

[ sigh.. need my 2nd cuppa already.. and there's not hot water dispenser here..!!!! ]

hugz

hugging is healthy.
it helps the immune system, cures depression, reduces stress and induces sleeps.
it's invigorating, rejuvenating and has no unpleasant side effects.
hugging is nothing less than a miracle drug.
hugging is all natural.
it is organic, naturally sweet, no artificial ingredients, non polluting, environmentally friendly & 100% wholesome.
hugging is the ideal gift.
great for any occassion, fun to give and receive, shows you care, comes with it's own wrapping and, of cuz, fully returnable.
hugging is practically prefect.
no batteries to wear out, inflation-proof, non-fattening, no monthly payment, theft-proof and non-taxable.
hugging is an underutilized resource with magical powers.
when we open our heart and arms, we encourage others to d othe same.

huggiez to y'all

song in head : the gift - martina mcbride & jim brickman