on August 10th

Thats right, it was Pooky's birthday -

I wanted to bake him a cake on his 1st birthday, but had absolutely no time because my last final exam didnt finished till 10 at night, and i was busy the whole night packing coz im leaving for malaysia right the next morning.

So this year, i made it up to him - this is the first successful cake i bake too! (i suck at baking)

Peanut butter carrot cake ~

Eyes on cake.........

darling put alot of effort into our brand new baby lawn, and see the brown spot in the middle? that was trashed by all the doggies wrestling because the grass is still too fragile.

and that is skylotte - if you remember this post months ago, she is now fully recovered!

Kenny brought to my attention that he had been smiling at the end of the day - and is TRUE! he was really really happy - I think, I THINK, that is because darling bought him lots of treats in the afternoon + he had few doggies friends and played the whole evening + then followed by a bbq medium raw steak all by him self + Last but not least, his peanut butter carrot cake.

see how much they enjoy it, only we tot ching finished her cake in seconds and when i replayed the video, i noticed skylotte finished two cakes and ching didnt get any!! only the crumbs! i gotto bring her some the next time....


he did feel special on his birthday, i know i know, u must think im crazy coz he's just a dog right? but hey! he is more than a dog to us, he's just like our child.

sweet 16 - long long time ago...

Last weekend, M has couple of friends visiting from vancouver, one of them is this sweet 16 years old girl. She reminded darling of me when I was 16.

I sat back sipping on my beer - thinking , omg, that was me 10 years ago. Im old!

it was a fun night, we drank, we danced, we had chips and pizza. but i was a tiny bit depress.

what had i achieved the passed 10 years? what had i learnt? and how much wiser hv I gotten?

oh man, i need more time to make that list.

or perhaps I dont want to...

I sure miss 16, particularly high school, my good friends, puppy love....

Do you remember your 16?

dont under estimate the power of stress

work has been busy - is just so many tasks to be done at one time..

There was this guy at work, who is like a total workaholic. he doesnt joke, he had lunch in his office while working. He has no patient for questions or what-so-ever.

I was told - he wasnt like that few years ago. He was a really nice guy - not as cold as now.
He joked, outgoing, definitely social more than now so.

see what stress could do to you? In my mind, i feel sorry for him, and i really wonder if he realized that he is now a total different person compared to 4 years back.

When you get heavier work load, bigger responsibilities, you will be all committed n give everything you have. moved like 5 mins walk from the company, probably work from home too.....

sigh, I told myself I will never be like that, but deep deep down inside, i am scare

things are gonna be better!!

Its been a hectic, hectic week, or should I say weeks





busy busy with work......I know this entry is coming when i complained about how bored I was at work.





actually is more than just work load. Work term is coming to the end and for the longest time, i was really worried about: "whats next?"





on top of that dealing with the dresses. GOSH!





felt like i was taken for a kiddy train ride.....

into the tunnel

over the bridge

But then i thought again, all these are suppose to be a beautiful experience.

then this hit me - the most important thing is - we are gonna celebrate our love, we gonna make it official. It is stressful but I still want to enjoy every single of this experience.

the most MOst important thing is, I am the luckiest woman in the world,

I probably havent said this enough.......

I love you darling, sooo sooo much!

my heart crashed. HARD!

Received my dresses yesterday, As I was driving home from the post office, I took them out of the package and they were resting on the passenger seat in a see through garment bag.

My heart kept pumping, but shoot! i m suppose to meet up with bunch of friends for tennis in 5 mins, cant possible go home and try them on.

So we had a good tennis game.

First thing i did when I arrived home - i threw the dress on me without even bother to shower first.


First dress - is not the right fit, need alteration, I can deal with that.

second dress - not even the right style. I want the slim line fitting, kinda like mermaid, but i got an A line instead.

WHAT A BIG DIFFERENCE!

That night, I lost sleep. It surprised and scared me how big this disappointment is.

another self realization

is another unproductive day.. But at the end of the day, I got most of my test and equipments working! so YAY! hopefully by the end of this week , i will get 3 test cycles out of the way.

U know I was told that I seem not passionate about my job, I showed no interest in experimenting or finding out when a tool / equipment is not working.

My theory was : if it takes 5 minutes for you to explain to me, and 1 hour for me to play around with it and unsure about the results. Why dont I go ahead and ask , in that case we will save time and money.

turned out I realized my theory is only right when time is limited when deadline is very close by. It might waste 55 minutes to get it working but eventually, I will gain more knowledge and the most important thing is brush up my troubleshooting skill.

Now that is the KEY! that is the passion we are looking for...

and he is right, by experimenting more, I found my job is more and more interesting, well at times the frustration really gets on my nerve, but when you get it right, that sense of achievement is so satisfying...

I need to re-find that passion. The reason why I picked up electrical engineering at the first place.

I dont wanna be one of those who work just to pay rent...

Whale watching trip

Weekend was GREAT!

CH visited from Vancouver and I had this opportunity to take him out the boat - well im not the captain, we ride with "Prince of whale"

thats right baby! we went whale watching, the last time i went was 4 or 5 years ago? Saw whole bunch of orca (killer whales) , even some playful ones jumping around, ahh what a sight.....



Although this trip wasnt as satisfying as the last one - we only saw 1 humpback whale - but bare in mind, it is really to spot humpback around.

Interesting fact : " do you know humpback whale is the creature on earth that make the loudest noise?"

we didnt get the chance to ride in a zodiac, coz they were all pretty full

we rode in a bigger boat with washrooms and snack bar on board :)

Here are few out of hundreds of shot-n-missed photos we took on that day.

his giant mouth

Thanks to Prince of whale's professional photographer with this super zoom lance camera, I am able to publish some of the shots as below:

if any one interested, they constantly update their blog with amazing shots and videos.

oh is friday for god sake!

Once again, is 6.30pm on a Friday evening, is bright n sunny outside and Im still stuck at work.

this is the 4th or 5th Friday that I ve been pulling 9 hours. I know it is extremely normal or even a joke in Malaysia. Lets look at Karen for instant, when she was at her old company, she got home 10pm at night few times a week. But, but the thing is, I THINK, im the only one left in the office.

See some of these tests, nono MOST of these test require days or even a week to run by automation tools, so we must make use of the weekend to finish up as much as I could, there are 5 carts in the lab and im on 3 of them with total of 13 meters to be tested. I dont mind setting everything up at all but the thing that frustrated me the most is when the equipment wont work with me...

I might have to activate the security alarm system before I go... What was I thinking biking in on Friday? knowing the outcome - im gonna be drained at the end of the day.


Thank god I got a caring husband, just that solid "OK" when i whined on the phone "can you pls come pick me up? im too tired to bike"

Will keep my bike in the building for the weekend.

dear all equipments in the lab, please work with me, so i could actually go home ...

alright meters should finished calibrating right now. at least pls do.... work with me!!

what a chillaxing night.

ahh, is nice to finally have the time and mood to sit down and start noting something down.

is midnight and we just came back from this fun, awesome ska festival!

I KNOW, like what the hell is ska right? turned out, i love the music! is kinda hard to describe but is definitely up beat and chillaxing at the same time.

wait actually the concerts we went to was more like reggae music, looking at peace lovers around, and tonight is the first night i ve seen so many Jamaicans in town! with their dread locks and happy-go-lucky easy going vibes , it was nice!

the part that I enjoyed the most is, some of my colleagues came out too, and we finally get to do something different and I see more fun side of them! besides from office fun and sports fun of coz. I can see myself being close friends with them.

A was going to meet up with this bike man with his hybrid bikes for sale - she is interested of getting one and Im not too happy with my mountain bike either, so I decided to tag along..... The bike that I really like worth $140 bucks, im guessing is about 7 or 8 years old? but he turned it to a really good bike. smooth gear changing, brand new brakes and tires.

The thing is, i dont exactly have the budget to get a new bike, and hunching on my old mountain bike for an hour ride is starting to kill my back. So I proposed to trade in my old one. and It worked out perfect! of coz i had to top up some money.

so, yay! i cant wait to try out my new-used bike tomorrow :)

alright is getting late, bed time.. tomorrow is friday!

Habitat

So last weekend I participated in another "Charity" event - Habitat for humanity

Schneider is one of the sponsors, it works this way

This foundation is helping family with kids that arent qualified to get mortgage from the bank because of their low incomes and lack of down payment.

When I first arrived at the site - I was amazed and felt kinda cheated - i mean look at

THIS!

Isnt this too beautiful for charity and luxury for charity!?

anyway the explanation was: the land was donated located in this nice housing area, so they have to match the rest of the houses, cant just build a small stinky house. By the way this is a duplex, so we are helping two families.

Thanks Jim for taking all these beautiful photos.

So it felt like 30 degrees out there, hot hot weather...

we have :

the Carpenters

Then landscapers

The lumbers

and The painter

I think the crew built the fence on one side, level down the front yard and back yard, and put the stepping stones along the side yard.

quite a big achievement. BUt, but, but... I WANT THAT HOUSE!

bring them on! I will do better next time

had a bad day at work, took me quite a while to figure out the comm automation tool, lotsa roak blocks, but hey I learned more things ")

One issue that I been really trying to work on - my confidence level, i think it had gotten worse since I am the "foreigner" of this land running by the community who used to be the foreigner many many years ago.

Anyway - it was brought to my attention again today, I need to booze it, cant get to get intimated even though i was so sure about my work. Once that question with higher level of tone "ARE YOU SURE!?" , i dunno maybe im new in the team.

I am not exactly getting treated with the "right tone" by certain ppl, but like Godfather said " it is strictly business". This is another good chance to also show my professionalism.

I was told there will be a position available soon - "please apply"

I will - this job is very challenging, my technical skill, my troubleshooting skill which is very very limited as well as my people skill.

Is not necessarily easy , it is another challenge , I believe I will gain alot from this challenging experience.

Asshole of the year

I ve been short tempered lately, things that i usually bite my teeth and let go tend to piss me off twice as much!

i just had a big fight with this stranger man in the field near my house, he is the first stranger i ever yelled yet, i mean from the top of my lung, I mean he freakin kicked my dog coz pooky was chasing after his kite? Is not only that, his tone from the very beginning was very very rude,

"your dog doesnt come back when you called"

"you will have to keep your dog in the vehicle, and keep your dogs away from me"

"if he comes near me again, im gonnna F***** kick him"

and of coz pooky continued to chase after his kite and he kicked him...kicked a small dog infront of his two daughters and me, I really feel like whacking him with a baseball bat.

what kinda asshole is that!?

"what a great father you have! " thats all I kept yelling back at is daughters.

I seriously dunno what else can I do... deep deep down inside, I feel like beating him till death with his blood splashes across the football field. but obviously that is not the solution - not coz i have mercy towards this kinda asshole, is because that will got me into trouble. (and lets not also forget the fact tat he is twice my size)

Came home, not having to bitch about it happily and seems like crying out loud doesnt make me feel any better.

ohhh noooo , not another one!

Im sure alot of you had experience this and complaint about this before - but but MY C drive got wipped out! completely clean right now, my pictures, i dont care bout musics, we can download that again but but ALL MY PICTURES!!

maybe i saw that coming therefore im still keeping my convo pictures in the memory card.

Think i might had downloaded some corrupted files during the process of downloading all the hk series - on the first beat (thanks to veoh) - terpaksa upgrade my pc to Vista and i was given a "disabled" choice to select keeping my files - whats the use of the choice given but it is not executable?! im gonna keep trying to track down at least my pictures - must be hidden somewhere....... (edit : found it! actually not only pictures the whole old window is still in the system....so, yay to me !)

Vista's layout is so cool though - the default color is very cyber feel - canggihnyaaaa....There's window defender which im guessing is some kinda new security system. besides that, there is also window sidebar , cardspace which im yet to figure out that they are....

well , to look at the bright side, at least it is not any hardware problem that i have to bring my computer to the repair-shop, or deal with futureshop again, especially i didnt buy their warranty plan.



is canada day today, theres gonna be 140 non-uniform / undercover police strolling around downtown - constantly pulling ppls over checking their bags ( for drugs and booze) , im still pretty beat up from last night and going out tonight for fireworks , downtown is gonna be pack with drunk n rowdy ppls....i guess that is the definition of long weekend you get to go out two nights in a roll? sighh i think im old, two nights in a roll is just too exhausting, cant really take it anymore....

in need of a bed - a king size bed...

Lex peed on the bed few nights ago - wet the mattress really gooood~ although is dry now but still filled with germs, LEX's germ!

we are bedless now, back is hurting from sleeping on the hard cold floor :(

anyone hv an extra bed to donate? preferably king size :)

Do I suck that bad? why cant you understand?

How was your weekend?

On Friday night - ping pong at Nicole's

Maybe I can shoot the ball out of this blow gun...

la la la la....

On Sunday... went crabbing at Fishing pier in Sidney...

The Cuties - Ros and Athena (maybe + Nicole? :P)

Beautiful pier.... cant help but to snap few more picture

Red rock crabs filling up the bucket(ok some of these buckets belong to crabbers around us :P)

the Korean crabbers next to us pulled up 1 crab + a giant king of thorns!!

Domino of red rock crab

He's really thinking hard whether to eat that chip or not...

one of those.............again

I just heard about Botak chin today and know who he is - how ignorant am I ? gonna read up more about him but here are 11 new botak chins.

Again, this is one of those forwarded emails entry - I usually get them from I Jean and here are the few that I found interesting...

So for you out there who's suffering from "Internet" addiction ( and that include myself - I know darling cant agree more on this ) . You might find the following comments amusing - or some what offensive :)











Like I said - there are a few email so you might find the content of this entry not exactly relevant to each other.

Here's another funny picture....

All I can say to this lady is - get a monster truck!

And why bother with the helmets when you are going to do stunt like that?

yay!

On Monday - I was so bored bored bored that I could almost die....

Tuesday - There were few meetings and things to do, not too bad.

Wednesday - Received new meters from Production and busy with wiring up and calibrating them the whole day

Thursday - Super CRAZILY busy and I LOVE IT!!! doesnt matter if i leave the office late and nobody was around.

I feel content, I feel happy, I feel satisfied.

Although today I almost got myself electrocuted trying to unscrew/tighten the screws of live wires with 24A passing through them. Not only ONCE but TWICE!! this is dangerous, I gotto learn to turn the machine off b4 touching anything.

Things are looking better and better now at work, I cant wait to fully accelerate ( oh well, wait till i busy until cannot breath and stay tune for my complains then :P)


If you are at work and been listening to the same musics from your pc or Ipod over and over again , or you are in need of new playlists but dunno what songs to add in :

Please go to HarpyListens

My Best friend - Kelly with great talent in musics has her little own radio show now!!!

Cant quite understand the language in the website above but I do recognize her chubby cheeky bandit face though! She struggled through in her career - everyone kept telling her being in industry this is not going to bring her anywhere. But she kept her strong faith in herself and her musics. Of coz supports from her family.

She is spreading her arts in London now. And i been listening to her podcasts at work.

Thank you kelly for such wonderful collections - will never get bored even though i had played the beatles cover show over and over again!! Miss you babe!


i know sometime ago i tried this celebrity look alike site - with special software tool-face recognition.

Here's mine


Geez - I dunno most of those japanese celebrities but some of them look like porn star though!
And gosh! Jet Li and Koko - Leslie Cheung! MUAHAHAHAHHA


Ahem, zhang ziyi - what a joke!! haha

try out yours at My cool celebrity look-alike collage from MyHeritage.com.

Im gonna upload more of my pictures till i get one with above 90%!!