Saturday, October 28, 2006


Dancing like no one is watching...obviously the camera caught my childlike nature (can't really help being childlike when the skirt was purchased from the children's department!). *WiNk*

The SKIRT!



Notice the SKIRT (not the rose), is a new addition to my casual wardrobe. This week I've got 2 skirts, a pair of blush pink 3/4 jeans and a black summer top in my shopping bag. *Note to self: No more shopping this week, please!* The skirt, I got this skirt from the CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT! I liked it the moment I set my eyes on it, didn't really care if I were shopping in the little ones' department, I had to put it on. Having picked up a skirt from the kiddos department, you'd probably think I'd need the largest size they've got there?? Well, you're wrong! =) Somehow this makes my tail wag a little knowing that I can actually fit into a size 12 for children. Now, I wonder...are Aussie kids just big or am I small?? I definitely won't be considered small, considering my love for food and the size of my frame. So kids, you better watch those sugar intake and fatty fries you put into your mouth!

That's all for my moment of glory for fitting into a kids size 12.

I've not been very well since last night. My throat is killing me and I naturally I feel a bit sick. My body's aching and my throat is totally sore. I'm pretty sure we're got some sort of virus trapped in the walls of this place. Not being a 100% today, we decided to come home for a rest after being out for lunch and my little shopping trip. Came home, turned on my lappie and dived into Friendster. I tell you, I'm sure I'm such a Friendster b!tch. But admittedly, why wouldn;t I?? It's been pretty informative. It announces to you, or rather my friends freely advertise their personal life on Friendster, either way I thank the person who created it! Anyway, it's a good place to keep yourself updated with friends getting married, got married, having a baby, making babies, advertising their skills in capturing a self-portrait of themselves, changing partners, etc. While on Friendster, I had this sudden feeling that I miss everyone at home. Like literally everyone. I miss my family (thank God I'm going home in 2 1/2 months time), classmates, school mates, friends, acquaintances etc. Then I got into chatting with Lin Lin and Bee Voon (two very dear friends from school days) and reality just hits reminding me that things will never ever be the same ever again! And Bee Voon mentioned we should really organise a reunion thingy but how much would a reunion help when all our mates from school have been scattered everywhere around the world? Oh well, I guess the moral of the story is that we should really make an effort to keep in touch with people around us. In the end of the day, it's always better to have some treasured memories than to have no memories at all.


Dia jauh di seberang
Kasih tak mungkin kekal
Yang jauh asyik teringat
Yang dekat tak terpikat
Tak kenal maka tak cinta


That is just one of the many parts of a malay song which I can never forget because it's so meaningful and so true...

It translates...

She who is far away
Love can never last
Those who are far away are always remembered
Those close to us always neglected
Not very close therefore not loved

Now it probably wouldn't be as meaningful to you as it is to me. I heard this song on my way to the airport during the very first time I left KL for Australia to study. I remembered how my little cousin (not very little anymore after 4 years), was so angry after he learnt the fact that I was going to leave KL for another country to study. He was just hugging his teddy I got him for Christmas and refuse to even look at me the whole entire day (even at the airport). We just balled out eyes out on the way to the airport in the car and my great friends Jhane, BeeVoon and Alison were at the airport to send me off. Goodness, my heart ached so badly when I had to leave my family and friends behind the terminal gate! From then on I really hate goodbyes because I can never handle them without tears!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Long Story Short

Oh, so much happened over the last month. My life is somewhat proving itself to be more "lifely", kickin' and exciting! *Big smile*

After a brief Melbourne-get-away in August over the EKKA holidays, I have had in mind to "migrate" to that city which (in my opinion) has more character than the one I'm currently in. Melbourne was what I had in mind and I thought the timing was perfect for a change. Anyway, having said that, I'm still in Brisbane at the moment...to cut the long story short, I was offered a position at a college for international students. Doesn't take a genius to figure, I accepted the offer since I've been looking at going into the that line here anyway. And so to make up to my mind for deceiving it that I was going to move to Melbourne, I moved to live in the inner city of Brisbane instead. I would like to think that as a trade off. Well at least I'm now 10 minutes walk away from the city and 5 minutes walk away from work! What a pleasure! Life's sweet! =)

Three weeks into working, my boss threw me into deep sea as she announced that she'll be away for a 3 week holiday! Great! First week was as crazy as it can get. Second week seemed better...Third week...smooth as...!

20th October 2006 marks a special day in my family's calender. Warm welcome to my new little baby cousin sister, Kai En. The name was not decided upon her arrival, but as you could have guessed, her big cousin sister was too eager to welcome her arrival. Sent some flowers home with a little soft toy for new baby girl and grandpa told the delivery man, "Sorry, here no have Kai Ern!" Good one, Grandpa! Justin to the rescue, reminded my grandpa that it was for the new bundle of joy! =) And so the flowers were delivered safely to its destination.

Today, 26th October 2006 marks another special day in my family's calender. Warm welcome to another new baby second cousin sister! How cool is this! A baby boom happening! Welcoming new arrivals every week?? I'm totally impressed by the timing! Congratulations to KFC and Karen for the arrival of Little Missy Lee and congratulations to Munhon korkor and wifey for the arrival of Little Missy Wong!

One month from today, Jhane will turn 23, 3 weeks from today, I turn 23, add 2 more day Karwye turns 23! I'm loving the month of November! Start saving those loose change ready for big pressies! And most of all, see you in KL in 2 months and 3 weeks time!

Monday, October 02, 2006

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Today is a very special day. A day where we celebrate my special man. Thank you for giving me all your love and all the fun you've shared with me. I truly appreciate our special father-daughter relationship which cannot be replaced by anyone/anything else in this whole wide entire world. I thank God for such an incredible being like you. You feed me, you love me, you clothed me, you pamper me, you please me, you care for me, you respect me, you carry me through, you stick by me, you cheer me on, you listen, you forgive, you sacrificed, you fix things for me, you pull my hair up, you tie ribbons for me, you buy me girly stuff, you drive me around, you play with me, you encourage me, you praise me, you keep me safe, you give you everything I desire...you're just incredible! And for all that you have done for me, I'd like to thank you and I'd like you to know how so very much I love you and how so very special you are to me! To the very special man in my life, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Daddy, I wish you happiness and good health and you will have many many many good returns and many many many special birthdays more to come! I love you daddy! -XOXO- mich.

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Trinity...

TRINITY...Presenting my latest creation. Lately, I have learnt and loved the new hobby of designing and making my own beads. These freshly baked handmade beads were put together as a mobile charm for funky, cool mobile phones! It can also be put together as a keychain or a decorative charm.

*Trinity can be purchased upon request. Please email or send me a message for further information*

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Happy Birthday, Malaysia!

Tanggal tiga puluh satu, bulan lapan, lima puluh tujuh,
Hari yang mulia, hari bahagia,
Hari kita menyambut merdeka!

Mari kita seluruh warga negara,
Sama sama menyambut hari merdeka,
MERDEKA!

Bulan lapan, lima tujuh, tiga puluh satu,
Hari mulia, negaraku merdeka!


Selamat hari jadi ke-49, Malaysia!
Semoga negara aman damai selalu!!!!!!!!!!!!
(So patriotic!)

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

When "IT" stops flowing...

stag‧nant 
–adjective
1. not flowing or running, as water, air, etc.
2. stale or foul from standing, as a pool of water.
3. characterized by lack of development, advancement, or progressive movement.
4. inactive, sluggish, or dull.

mo‧not‧o‧nous 
–adjective
1. lacking in variety; tediously unvarying: the monotonous flat scenery.
2. characterizing a sound continuing on one note.
3. having very little inflection; limited to a narrow pitch range.

boredom 
–verb (used with object)
1. to weary by dullness, tedious repetition, unwelcome attentions, etc.
–noun
2. a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.
3. a cause of ennui or petty annoyance: repetitious tasks that are a bore to do.

Stagnant, monotonous and boredom...three words which best describe ineffectiveness and lack productivity.

Stagnant, monotonous and boredom...three very familiar words lately.

Stagnant, monotonous and boredom...wonder when will they go away??

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Whinge...

If the sky is your limit, why then am I limitted to doing so many things?
If you are all that you can be, why am I still me?
If there is a will, there is a way, where is my way?
If you should reach for the stars, why am I reaching for the earthly necessities?
If all that you should do is believe, then why am I not believing?
If there is a light at the end of each tunnel, then I think my tunnel has no end...

I wish my world is not painted with shades of grey...

Monday, August 28, 2006

8:30pm...driving around, looking for a bin...

And so it was 8:30pm, we were driving around looking for a bin. Great! Why is it so freaking hard to get rid of unwanted goods = junk?? Driving...STOPPPPPP! Construction site! Surely there has to be a bin around...*peeps*...*neck stretching*...*eyes narrowing*...spot it! And along we it, we spotted a padlock sitting nicely like a smile beeming at us on the gate entering the contruction site too...definitely a no, no! We don't want to get caught trespassing. Keep driving...driving...up slope...come on Barina...keep pumping fuel...keep driving...FOUND ITttttttttt! A BIN!!! Whoops...no, don't stop...it's a chanined up bin! *What the...!!* Continue on second gear, keep driving...keep driving...StoPPPPPPpppp! BIN! Heck, it's contained in a 4 feet high wall...another *What the...!*-experience. Keep driving...suddenly a jerk in the car and a sharp change of direction, Mr Leonard found a BIN! Well done...a bin that had a chain around it, but we've decided to be uncivilized if by all means this bin is also chained, we were just gonna leave our treasures on the ground next to the bin. But wo, wo...we got lucky! The chain was somewhat for decorative purposes, it had a chain around the bin but the padlock was (fortunately for us) undone! Finally we began our operation...doors opened, four removalists hopped out the car and our operation begun! Throw, throw, throw!! Never have we experienced such satisfaction in disposing our garbage before! It's nuts here in Brisbane...can someone please explain what is the logic behind locking up bins and not sharing space for trash to stay in a place where they belong?!??!?!? Such an experience! If disposing your trash in a bin is what you ought to do, then why do we feel so bloody illegal disposing ours?? Another strange-but-true expereince!

Friday, July 14, 2006

I'm at work just like any other normal, working, responsible adults! Well, except that my work gives me so much free time yet I have to look busy! So, I decided that I should go online and do nothing but at the same time do something so that I look like I'm working really hard! Get it?? Currently, my facial expression is so serious like as if I were preparing some financial budgets for the decade...Truth is, it so contradicts with my mind! I have the doing-nothing-but-pretending-like-doing-something syndrome!

Anyway, while having that syndrome bugging me all morning, I received a pretty hilarious email from mua DadaDadaDadaDadaDaDarDee! Well, feel bad for my grandpa but the way my DarDee puts it...ahahahhahaha...evilicious!

My Dardee to me...

My next project will be an Arowana or Golden Dragon Fish!! This project will have to delay slightly as RM1400 of my money has gone somewhere to Yamaha. So it won't be this month but maybe next. KFC friend the workshop next to the Setapak police station one have a golden one for Rm1500 but yet to see it. He wanted a red but his friend got him a gold one from JB so he ask me if I am interested for Rm1500, and naturally I will say see first.

So how is the job market & since Alvin is no more working there it's not practical to go so far as transportation will kill you. And where is Alvin going? Is there any vacancy there? Seems to me the job market is only luke warm after all you have being looking for a job for quite some time.

And John is he jobfull or jobless? Seem that the whole jink gang is out of job at the same time. maybe you can all call yourselves "The Jobless Gang" very funny.

Latest up-date KFC with Miss Kelantan & your mei yee and family smashed the Accord! Feedback from your KFC is that they stop at the traffic lights and a Mitsubishi Chariot came smashing into their back. That's not all, the best part is that the car belongs to your kong2 and KFC managed to persuade your kong2 to go make a police report, that's not all, the super best part is that your kong2 license has been expired since 2005. So you just imagine what your por2 has to go through or rather going through. Yesterday when we were there for dinner his face was blacker then my tires cos my tires got some mud stained but I think if not also cannot compare with his face cos his face was like completely matte black. So he is going to produce his drivers licence to the police again today again to the police. I think they will summon him and he will jump higher.

Shall up-date you tomorrow.

Thanks & Love you

Your best onn tap.


Eric


What can I say about my Dardee, or rather my family!

Index (my family's lingo...)

"Project" = My Dardee has ongoing projects from time to time. It's funny, he invests lots of time, effort and money into his "projects". And gets very proud of each and every one of his handy works!

"KFC" = Kow Foo Chai (Little Uncle), sometimes I get confuse coz my Mommy works in KFC and have a KFC at home too! No wonder I'm always confused...!

"jobfull vs jobless"?? - That's just the way my Dardee expresses his creativity, by altering words! And no wonder my England so power la!

"Miss Kelantan" - My uncle's wife my Kelantan.

"kong2" - Mommy's Dardee = my Grandpa

"Por2" - Mommy's Mommy = my Grandma

"Blacker than my tires" - An expression that means "worse than"...

"Onn tap" - Some strange nick name my Dardee gave me since I don't know when!

Okay...not too early, not too late...the time is just right for LUNCH! Lunch time! Me Ciaoz!

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

So imagine you're a busy girl with one thousand and one things to do??

At least I've managed to achieve a few things on a day that I'm supposed to be sick and in bed...Yes, indeed it's a working day, that's why workers are entitled to sick leaves! Because you do fall sick once in a while although you're physically well, you'll have to pretend you're not...you just have to force yourself to fall sick, be it mentally or physically. If not you'll have totally no time to run errands for yourself!

Done:
Finally got a PR visa label stuck on my passport
Applied for medicare card (although I swear not to ever speak to people by the name of Kristen ever again!)
Picked up a few things from Sportsgirl
Called Astrid
Arranged for a time to call Astrid
Called mom

More things to do:
Continue to respond to selection criteria (damn selection criteria!)
Deserted clean clothes waiting to be folded
More clothes waiting to be ironed
Freaking messy room needs urgent attention
Make up needs to be removed
Ear phones still missing
Tonight's dinner menu - plates and cutleries??
All jeans and winter clothings need a swim in the washing machine
Extra health cover(in case I break some parts of my body, I won't need a loan to fix it up!)
Vacuum cleaner is starving (Ages ago since I last sucked up dirt in the living room!)
Book for accommodation for Melbourne trip
Buy toothpaste or maybe I can try using bleach

Sigh! I really wish life could be simpler! Damn selection criteria! It's really sucking too much energy out of me!

I'm not actually doing anything, but I feel so uneasy and stressed up?!?!? What the efff is wrong with me?!??!?!

I think I need a break!

Monday, June 26, 2006

GOSH...Gosh, how long have I been gone?? I suddenly feel like I've somewhat dissapeared from the face of the Earth over the last few years. Work has been the craziest thing that has ever happened! I've been the crankiest pot boiling around and things seems to be spilling everywhere! Every little thing seems to be pulling my hair! When I try laying the sticks straight, they just somehow break the line! You know, I feel like I've not had a rising sun for the longest time...I miss springing off bed once the alarm goes off, stopping by the belcony for a what-a-lovely-day thought before rushing up the bathroom for a warm warm shower! Somehow you just know it when you'll have a fantastic all-good day! But these days, I not only snooze till my phone's battery runs flat, I drag myself along with my towel up to the bathroom and then scare myself by the refelction I see on the mirror, thinking "goodness, this girl looks terrible!" And when you begin to sense something like that, you'll smell danger just around the corner. It's days like that when you realise your favourite undies are still sitting in the laundry basket, your stockings have ladder running up and down more like snake-and-ladder (embarrassingggggggggg...*warning to all girls, please do not wear holey stockings coz if you get caught it'll be totally EMBARRASSINGGGGGGG!*), your clothes are not ironed, and to add to that, even mascara doesn't seem to behave! They clum up and swishy swoosh on your lids making you look like a freaking Cleo Patra! Oh NooooOOoOoOoooOoo!

Well, basically I've just enlightened you with my very routined boo boo days lately! Moral of the story: You just know it! You just know it when you'll have a boo boo day because...because even your toe nail won't behave!

Monday, June 12, 2006


Wondered where have I been?? (I'm out of the closet now...!) Anyway, last few weeks have a quite a roller coaster ride at work...Things have been happening at a pace which seems rather hard to keep up with...All in all, my workplace has been pretty dramatic and we were at a stage where we just had to be ready for whatever that's coming...One day, I get news of promotion, next day the company is shrinking, following day, company is buying another entity, and so on and so forth...Everytime I was called for a meeting, it would only make me cringe...not knowing what was going to happen. Anyway...I've decided what to do...not exactly an easy decision as I've been working with very very nice employers and colleagues...nevertheless, the most sensible thing to do at this stage, I guess is to leave and to move on...Sad, but life has to go on...The employers were so nice that upon receiving news that we're leaving, they actually contacted a recruitment officer to come and have a chat with us tomorrow, just to hopefully help us get our desired jobs as soon as possible. According to the GM, it's the least they can do as a token of appreciation...to me, it's really a bonus! *sigh* My first employers and they are really setting the standard too high for my next...*sigh* But anyway, I'm not discouraged, I see it as at least I've had a go with these nice people! =)

BLACKCURRENT...Purple glass beads and hand-painted teardrop beads. Ladylike and gentle...reminds me of olden Anne of Green Gables days...

MUSHIE...Another earth coloured creation! I seem to have a thing for earth coloured clothings and accessories lately! Could it be winter blues?? Anyway, Mushie is made of coffee coloured pearls look-alike, brown glass beads and fresh water pearl pieces. Slightly different wirework to extend the length and to give it a more "dangly" effect! Mushie is also a good match with Brownie! =)

BROWNIE...measures up to my waist. Combination of brown glass beads of different sizes. Can be worn as a long necklace, twirl it up and make it 2 layers, or even as a bracelet. Miss Versatile! =)

Saturday, May 13, 2006

*WARNING*
Do not proceed if hungry! =)

BLUE CORAL...A gift from me to Su Ann.

Jhane, we have loads of good food here! Come and visit me please?!??! and I will make sure you won't regret your stay! *WinK!*

SIEW MAI experts at work! =)