more more more, how do you like that?

I ve been so fortunate to meet Marisol, Cindy, Raul, and Gary - crew from the hotel.

Marisol n Cindy worked at the concierge service, and after a huge fight with erm, her - i packed some of my stuff n went down to the lobby, Marisol has been helping me with the investigation of those stolen items from my room, i went up to her and tears started rolling down, i had nowhere to go, so brought me to the back n gave me a big hug, then bring me some drinks n tissues n told me to calm down- then Cindy (Marisol`s manager) came along and she said she heard what happened, I requested if I could get a room just for tomorrow night and i could sleep in the lobby tonight (coz it was really late anyway) - Cindy walked off n said she will try to help and started talking to Raul ( the front desk supervisor) , from the distance , it didnt look good. i literally saw Cindy putting her palms together and was begging Raul. Im so impressed with their service and generally nice human beings. Can you imagine going across the country and find out that strangers u met along the ways will try their best to help you wayyyy more so than the person you came with.

is a cruel truth..

So anyway back to my story - i was chit chatting with Marisol while waiting, so she found out that this vacation was originally belong to me and my husband.

She said "ur friend should be the one stay outside and u will get the room, if you want , u have the authority to do that and we can get the security guards to escort ur fren out, n put u in the room! "

Of coz i said no, is my choice not to stay in the room, coz i really couldnt! i will blow and kill somebody i swear - yea not very good temper. Marisol advised that i shouldnt let Cindy know bout this, coz according to her, Cindy is a very straight forward and had very strong principles, "she will put you in ur room and have your friend to leave."

well of coz no, where s she gonna go with her stuff? when Cindy came back n said they can only let me stay for the night and i will have to leave 8 in the morning. Marisol told me to tell Cindy about it. yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaa, no ill take the room just for the night.

I dunno where m i going to sleep tonight, im really worried about the stuff in my room, will they be destroyed? I dunno.... I dont trust nobody no more...

and oh Gary, he´s the night shift manager and him n few guards came rescue me when the wind blow my door shutted and the door got stuck, hahahah seriously, this cracks me up, coz whats next??¿¿¿ M i cursed or what? and Gary let me use his office computer instead of paying 3$US for 15 mins to use the hotel internet (coz he knows that im so broke), guess is their way of compensating my lost? We chatted and I found out so much more about Mexico.

better vacation

hahso yea, i came back and she was crying on the bed apologising, and i felt bad for leaving her behind. so we were good again.

next day, i got bad bad food poisoning from, im guessing the sushi bar. i didnt feel like going out. and she wanted to go to the beach. and i cant go, but then i went downtown to buy medicines and use the internet service to check on job status, or chill and chat with darling etc...(with a toilet roll in my bag =P)

Felt better after the medication and i did some shopping too! got a necklace carved in my name and met this very nice mexican who sent me allll the songs i want through bluetooth to my phone while waiting for my necklace to be carved.

came back and realised that my money 150$US (which i kept at the back of my jeans pocket) and ipod were gone. yea..this vacation is getting better isnt it? reported to the hotel and there were two security guards searched through all the room and didnt find anything...


and today went to chichen itza, we fought and apparently , here goes..

"I felt sorry that you had to step onto a used condom but we didnt do that on purpose so I dont think is my fault. And if you dont like us doing it in the room it is ur responsibility to use ur voice"

can you believe that!?

yup, im sleeping in another room, and vacation just getting better.

You wouldnt believe what happened last night.

I was dragged to a club after gotten so drunk at the lobby - after paying 20usd to get it, it was packed with spring breakers from all over the place...gosh!

Melissa brought a guy home and i remembered jokingly said that she could kick me out of the room if she needed it and which i kept my ¨promise ¨

i brought my blanket and slept at the lobby, after half an hour of deeply asleep, i was waken up by these two french men who just came back from party asking y m i sleeping in the lobby - after explaining to them they tried n tried to get me to go to their room!! like wtf? so i started telling them love story about me and Darling - and they are still trying! then finally gave up and asked how my fren looked like, is she wild, is she open??? gosh am i suppose to pimp like fucking 5 ´clock in the morning?!?! Then these two french women showed up and they started talking in the language that i dont understand on the place i was sleeping!! FUCK man!!

anyway i got so tired and after breakfast, i called the room, twice, and rang the door bell but nobody answered, so i had to get the bell boy to open up for me, and i went to bed - hadnt completely fall asleep but heard them doing it again right beside me!!! how gross is that!?!?! that was not cool at all man! and i woke up at 10 am stepped onto a used condom beside my bed! this had completely ruined my vacation...i mean dont do it on the bed im sleeping !!! i dun even wanna fucking stay in that room anymore , im sitting in the an internet cafe downtown, grumpy, tired, sleepy, burnt and this is turning into my worst vacation ever!

When im back , im sooo requesting a room change!

IM BURNT!

Im in this internet cafe in one of the mall call Las Americanos, but what am i doing staying inside instead of on the beach?

I spent 6 hours outside yesterday and im soooooooo damn burnt right now, i did splashed lotsa suntan oil on me, but there werent any spf...im so roasted and crispy right now, ouch!

I guess in a way is good coz i cant try on any clothes when i go shopping, means i wont be spending money!!

gosh i ve signed up for tours, many tours,,,, more updates later...

adios!

Good to go!

hooooorayyyyy IM done done done done done!

Just came back from the project Lab and handed everything over to the rest of the team, and i think we are pretty good to go! Sorry Dave that you have to do the re-wiring by yourself, but im sure is an easy task for you...

1. Assignments, checked;
2. psyc research studies ,checked;
3. project, party checked;
4. interview, checked!

waiting to hear back from them on Monday. On and all, the interview went well and I really hope they ll pick me! *finger crossed* coz they just posted the job and im sure they will be receiving more applications and more candidates coming in. Pray pray pray!!


K ill be offline for 10 days, off to packing now!! hooooorraaaaaay Cancun here I come!!

So Mazda5 it is.....

After couples of reviews and forum we read from the website, the biggest complain we have for CRV is apparently the fuel consumption - which is what we fear the most!

and coz Mazda5 is pretty new, there werent many of them, but somehow the complains focused more on the "uncomfortibility" of the interior , arg, but what the heck, i think is ok...

Dont mean to show off but gotto show off a little bit on the first new car =P

Lets look at the exterior, initially we wanted a black one, look more sporty - but there werent any stock and we cant wait any longer without vehicle, plus we gotto pay more for the bk one. so.

Then the interior, 3 row seats and shifting options, manual or auto if you like....storage compartment underneath the seat! good to hide things away from bored doggies in the car.

How do I look in this?

Last but not least - the self potraits (ahem, pls again bear with me) - Here I come Cancun, Mexico!

Russell Peter expression impersonate

Will Lex be gone?

So yeah, I had posted an ad to sell Lex - because apparently everybody in the house dislike him. I know how darling feels - he felt like he's betraying Pooky - and he always said Pooky will always be the only one - and I hated it when he said "your dog, your dog!" - It is our dog, I know i promise to take bigger responsibility - but Lex is so much more easier to train compared to Pooky.

And I cant stand the look from Pooky when we were cuddling with Lex.

But yesterday and today, they are bonded - they ve been playing and do everything together...

sure he's a puppy and he chews on everything - but thats our fault coz we didnt get him a chew toy! sometime he had accidents at home, but he mostly did it on the paper.

arg, i dunno, I havent really got time to spend with them as Im so busy with my project. If someone responds to that ad and willing to pay the money - Lex will be gone then?

I love him to bits but whats the point if im the only one? think of this as a second child, will you love him less because ur first child will always be the one? NO? as parent we should share the love equally. Pooky had to learn to share the attention and love his little brother too.

Im not in a good mood today - just read about a friend's post bout his mom - stay strong z.

I was told that Greeks are very nice, very "Asian" as Kelly described. Im lucky to have D to help me with my project.

Are they really bonding ?

Pooky and Phuket chilling out...err sorry I mean Lexi

Are they really bonding? seriously i dont think so yet, coz Pooky had tried to attack him twice today, one is unprovoked - another one clumsy Lex stepped on him while he was asleep and trust me it hurts!


Its so hard for us right now coz we had to sneak behind Pooky's back kissing and cuddling Lex, otherwise ull get that kinda look that will just pierce through your heart from Pooky , something like :

" why~ you dont love me anymore? why are you doing this?"

So yeah we test drove a Honda CRV today, oh my god, gorgeous gorgeous! we were very close of closing the deal - and that guy gave us hope by quoting us 2000 dollars less! then he realised he made a mistake written the number down - he meant 550 a month, not 520, booooo to that! so is 11k more, we could ve almost get a second car for that amount...

Mazda 5 it is , test drove a matrix and that still isnt that big enough. Actually, we had closed the deal with Mazda and kinda forced them to give us a loaner car - a freakin CX7!!!!! an even better SUV than CRV - gosh how will we feel tomorrow in that mini mini van? well...i think ill be happy =)

We are human, and we are one greedy creatures - thats how it is in this society, all that competitions, it all comes from greed and self center satisfaction. dont you think?

Mazda CX7

Stressful but fun day~

Got up 7 something this morning - excited as a little kid, but i decided not to torture myself tryin g to kill time by myself where everybody else is deeply asleep.

so the solution is - drink a double-shots and went right back to sleep.... Woke up 10something feeling bit drunk n bit sober...

Anyway - tasks of today

1. check out a new car.
2. pick up puppy.

Pooky , ur such a sweetheart and u will always still be our dearest and we will never love you less...


sure, whatever~
Then we stopped by Mazda, Toyota and Nissan
we really like this mazda 5 mini mini van (thats right! double mini) and for incredible price! only 23k - coz now tat we got two dogs...(one of them are huge!)

So we had narrowed down to Toyota Matrix or Mazda5 - they are about the same price but mazda is much more spacious than Matrix - really still debating, so whats your vote?



There are few that we are also looking into - but these are higher end, maybe 30k and above - but we really want a reliable and long lasting car - of coz we were told TOYOTA is better than MAZDA, now what about CRV?

anybody out there who could give some reviews? ( or own any of these vehicles?)

Say hello to Lex

isnt he a cutie? and he's soo good and obedient, i think he will be easy to train

Pooky meet Lex

"Pooky; Lex, Lex; Pooky"

yup! from now on we have two little kids - and maybe years from now we ll have our real two kids and then Pooky and Lex will be our dogs....haha nono we ll have 4 kids then!

anyway think im getting tired, peace..

Bye Winter, Hellow Spring!

cherry blossom - ah my favorite time of Spring~

Springy Victoria

Empress Hotel

China Town

Parliament Building

Inner harbour

Project saviour and what are we guna do with that piece of junk?

What a day !

Firstly, something is very wrong with the van, it has this funny noise from the engine and sometime it wont go even is in the "drive" gear. I drove that piece of junk around getting honk all the time!

"Calm down !!!! cant you see the double signal!?!?"

sent it in to the workshop and is the gear box! - when you hear gear box you think of $$$$$ with wings.. it cost bloody 3k!!!! seriously for that piece of junk? we might as well get a new car.

Darling is so stress with this right now, I think we gonna renew S's car insurance and use it for now until she's back. At least or hopefully ill be working for few months already then and got some income... I promise darling ill get you ur car.

But the good news is, I found this guy online and he's incredibly helpful with my project - He's expert in AVR chip and been a great big help !! Even more so than some of my team members. urg! anyway, thanks alot Dimitris.

I know I probably didnt say this enough....

My darling is the best!!!!

and I love him more and more each day......(and I love you too Pooky)

Last few days...

Last couple of days....

Yoke is gone (miss her...)

Darling found out that his passport is expired thus he cant go to Mexico, so Melissa is going with me, maybe Candyce, maybe Kelly will meet me there!

So instead of a romantic trip with darling, is an All girls trip! anyway, is all good, felt bad for darling though but that oughta teach him a lesson. At least he got two cute puppies to accompany him... ( I better stock up the freezer with pasta and curry)

Last night, I added more color to my hair...

and coming Saturday.......

We are coming to get you sweety~

We are getting this sweetheart

Time is next saturday~~

He's a F1 Labradoodle

Some GR cutie we meet last week in the park - thats a sign...

Pooky resting next to my lunch, how could he ever fall asleep?
Pooky - one of the pirates at daddy's birthday party - pirates who mob all the food when ppls were drunk~!

Surprise party

I ve been planning this surprise party for more than a week, and everything turned out PERFECT! thanks to those who helped to coordinate this..

Happy 25th Birthday darling... Love you!

Shocked!

Kenny's idea, (guess who cleaned up after them)

The real cake...

Presents, darling is all gear up for the summer....

Me impersonating.....(watch the video below)

Vik the rockstar....

How long does something expire on human's brain?

Sometime ago.... I sent out this email to the undergraduate adviser...

Good day,

I hope you don’t find this amusing but I has just spoke to my mom on the phone (in Malaysia) after having my wedding banquet booked for January 08 (it has to be booked one year a head due to peak season). My initial intention is to tell her the good news – that we found a date and a nice venue.

It came to my shock when she found out that my convocation is going to be on June 2008 and INSISTED we have our wedding after school- my convocation. I didn’t think it was going to be such a big deal to her. And there is no way I could do this against her way.

Anyway, the only reason that is delaying my convocation is ONE course – Elec 380 which is offered once a year (in the fall), I will really appreciate it if an exception could be make to replace this course with any of the ELEC Elective List A offer in the summer, so I could make it to the November 07 convocation, which will be perfect for our wedding on January 08.

Please kindly help us with this issue as a penalty will be charged if we would to cancel the booked banquet. Your help is highly appreciated.


Yours truly,
Nicole Su Lee, Ng
04 22239

and after spoken to both the adviser, Christine and acting chair, Dr Zielinski in ece department...

It sounded pretty positive coz they both are very supportive about this , however the decision is not made by them, is the chairman - Dr Dimopoulos.

which by the way, dont you just love the name of all this wise men in ece department

Dr Antoniou
Dr Dimopoulos
Dr Zielinski
Dr Agathoklis
Dr Papadopoulos
etc.....

anyway back to the topic - as i was saying..everything sounded pretty positive until I met up with Dr Dimopoulos - the wise guy who made the decision and he said NO to me! (mind you, the course I was going to take instead of 380 is a fourth year course which needed 380 as one of the pre-reqs)

I was told that he's a very very conservative man, he doesnt approve program mod very often. But is he made out of rock or what after knowing that there is sooooo much penalty needed to be paid!?!? and seriously what is that one lousy course gonna do to our degree?

After all the pleading, and persuading - he still said no...UNLESS! I could prove to him I ve taken similar course before...turned out, yes! I ve taken it, why didnt I think if UTM, I was there for 3 years, 5 semester, 30 courses!! thats alot more than any other regular diploma - but when i was preparing the course outline...I looked through my old Transcript from UTM, " wow, how come I dont remember any of these courses I ve taken? What had I learned?"

And does it f***ing matter that I ve taken this course, uuummm..said 5 or 6 years ago? COZ I ABSOLUTELY DONT REMEMBER ANYTHING!! and why does it matter so much or even bother to check on something that I dont hv any trace of memory on?

Doesnt make sense - anyway whatever works (hopefully) and makes him happy...

*finger crossed* hopefully we ll hear good news on Monday.

Cancun Mexico, Here we come!!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember sometime ago I mentioned about Naoki and Yoko's incident in Mexico? some hotel overbooked them and they had to wait in the lobby for 4 hours and finally find other hotel.

It was a bad experience for them but they compensate them with a free week stay , thats right, ONE WHOLE WEEK! plus ALL MEALS INCLUSIVE!! Open bar!

Thus, they worked very hard to get that voucher transfer to Darling's name, after all the complains and whining , and they did it!!!!!

When we decided the date to travel - the hotel didnt have any availability , and they are giving us a even better hotel!!!

Traveling two weeks from now -

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ~ Mexico, Beach, Sun, Margaritas, Burritos .....

here we come!!!!!!

you know whats better than margarita? UNLIMITED MARGARITAS!!

tennis, water sport, gyms, shows and events, ALL INCLUDED!

Introducing the Grand Oasis Playa 5 star hotel

We gonna snorkel, sun bath...and and and....oh gosh do so many things in 1 week!!

Now, I gotto get that piece of circuit board done before Im allowed to take off !!

Stress, Stress But very motivated at the same time....