My 28th Birthday!

Halo..... I know some of my frens have been waiting for my birthday post. Of cos on this special day, I want to post something special and memorable into my blog. So I have been waiting for a programme of this...... to edit my pic into nice nice one and post it into my blog. Special thanks to my beloved fren Tracy.... *muah*..... u know me la... I really hardly into computer thingy... so i really take an effort to edit the pics and post just to thanks them! :)

Thanks to all my gang for the wonderful birthday celebration they given me! :)

September 2008

September 2008 was the busiest month for this year. Why I say so?? Hmm… my dealine submission of budget is this month and also my frens wedding, like a marathon…….Let me recall……..

Basically, for the whole month (nope… starting from July), I was working every Sat & Sun and every night, I go home earliest is after 930pm. Listen to this already feel tired for me dy, right???

31/8/08 – One of my close fren got married and the wedding reception for Miri is during that night….. of cos some of the frens will come back from other places and therefore, we have one tea session (in view of 1/9/08 is a public holiday)……..

2/9/08 – One of my close fren wedding and I am involved in the morning ceremony… of cos as a ji mui… the chief ji mui!! Arranged a series of games to paly during the day time…. Then follow her to her husband house and then to church and then back to her own hse…… wow…. So tiring man! Whole day gone le. Then at night, of cos me “pan liang liang,” attending the wedding dinner la… but guess wat, its time to revenge la….. the buddy asked me to drink red wine…. One go…2 glasses (it makes me thought of another wedding dinner of my fren, Alicia’s wedding. I got the same treatment too). I got drunk…. But thank GOD, I reached home before I feel dizzy

8/9/08 – My fren came back from Aus, guess wat, she is getting married as well…… I am the bride maid of hers….. today I bumped into her during lunch time and she actually invited me and other frens to her house for dinner… to discuss about her wedding…… so I have to stop work at 7 pm and go straight to her house for dinner……

12/9/08 – Celebrating my frens’ birthday…. Had dinner at Miri Café, and then proceed to frens hse for cake cutting….. actually I have another date at night with fren for Karaoke…. Fren came back from KL…. Have to entertain a bit….. so can only go back at about 1 am….

13/9/08 – My fren (who came back from Australia) wedding ceremony in Miri. I was invited for lunch….. we will am really busy with work…. Though it’s a sat, I still come in office as early as 7 am to work. Leave office about 1145 to go to my fren wedding lunch…. Stayed there for 15 mins… and then I have to rush to town to pick a ex colleague of mine…. To go to a house warming lunch together….. the route is from my office to Taman Yakin, then Tmn Yakin to town and town to Interhill, where the hse warming lunch is…. Guess wat I also stayed there 15 mins and back to office. On the way back…. I drop my car at this Lutong car wash, near my office for car wash and polish….. then I go back to work…. At about 2 pm….. after a while, I need to go and do my nails (as a bridemaid, of cos I need to be perfect also, so have to colour my nails lo). I actually have to reach the wedding reception venue at about 530 to help up with ushering….. but my car only finish polish and also my nail finish coloured and 530. I have not choice but to take a quick bath and change into my dinner suit… then I make up in the car…. This is my first experience, making up in a car…. Seen this in movie le… and now tat I really experience myself…. I can really understand those busy ppl in HK, how come they have no time, and even make up in the train….

14/9/08 – ha, today is the day. My fren wedding… I am the bridemaid….. guess wat, I woke up at 330 am (yes 330 am!) to go to her hse for make up…. (for all the ladies out there, pls dun select a date which is considered a very very good date where u need to queue up for make up….. u will have to wake up at 330 am !!). My fren as I finished make up at about 430 am… and we can even go back to sleep.. so we just chit chat and do whatever we need……. I follow the wedding car to Seria and the whole ceremony ended at 330 pm….. I was like fainted when I finally get to the hotel. But I can only rest up to 430pm cos I have to wake up and go to help my fren up with changing her clothes etc etc (not easy to be a bridemaids ya)….. and then I finally get to sit down on the dinner table.. and enjoy the wedding dinner for the second time (one in Miri last night, one in Kuala Belait).Whole event ended at ard 1130 and I really need to get back to rest…. Cos tomolo need to go back to Miri early… work at 8am!!!

15/9/08 – 21/9/08 – this is the busiest week….need to finalise my budget and have a final meeting with the Partners to endorse my budget figures… Due to Hari Raya, this year submission was 8 days ahead of the normal deadline. We out to submit on 22/9 rather than 30/9…. On 20/9 itself, basically my office turned into “book factory”. Basically whole dept of mine help to print, photocopy, punch whole, arrange, bind and pack the budget (Special thanks to all my colleague)…. But I am rather happy, cos I know it finally come to the end of my busy period! Of cos in between the days, my frens from aus and KL do ask me to go out to do some catch up…. No choice, need to entertain them, back to office for work after dinner….

22/9/08 – FLY to KL to hand deliver the budget! Hurayyy!! and MEDERKA!!

29/8/08 – Another birthday celebration! Fren back from Singapore and in time to celebrate his birthday before he fly back to Singapore

That is basically how busy am I during Sept 2008!! Budgetssssssssssssss and weddingsssssssss

What on earth am I here for?

I bet this question came across to each and everyone's mind. But how many of us got the answer to this question?

About 2 years ago, one of my friends gave a book to me.... called "THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE" by RICK WARREN.

This book consists of 40 chapter and the reader is encouraged to read a chapter a day. I read Chapter 1 and that's all. Well, to non-christian believer like me, this book is very difficult to understand and it won't catch your attention. I should also blame myself as I am not a gal that is really into reading books. I guess, all this while, I only read 3 - 4 books.......pai seh pai seh....

2 years after, my friend asked me if I am interested to join a course organised by a church. Well, all this while, i really wish i can join christian. To me, kids that grows in Christian family is always well behave. Maybe because since I am young, I mixed around with lots of Christian friend and many of my Christian friends are really knowledgeable and well behave.

At first, I felt a bit reluctant to join the course. This is because I dun wan to have aggressive people who always push me. So i rejected. However, I still see the flyer given to me...... when i read carefully, I saw the book "THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE" printed on it. This really caught my attention. Therefore finally I decided to join....partly also, my boss keeps asking me to join..... :p

My class is actually every Friday, 8pm to 11pm. It will end for 7 weeks.... to date, i have attended 2 classes...... yesterday class really makes me think that series of events happened for the past 2 weeks brought me to that class..... for the past 2 weeks, there are some "unreasonable" colleagues ane makes me real angry...... feel like crying..... but yesterday, I learnt during our discussion..... love those who hates u and bless those who curse u.... this really makes me feel better.....maybe i should not angry at them, but just cool myself...... like what is stated in the Bible .... Matthew 22:37-39, Jesus said the greatest commands are to love GOD and your neighbour and including your enemy....this is really my take away during my class yesterday..... so from today onwards, I sould always practice love those who hates u and bless those who curse u.......

From today onwards, I would share what I learn every class in my blog... so shall wait for next week class and see what is my take away.....

Farewell

This colleague of mine is quite special. The first day he joined my ex firm, my ex manager asked me to bring him out to client office to audit. Guess wat, the first client he goes to is Marriott!!! We are very lucky in the sense tat we got a very good treatment from them. We get to eat buffet everyday for lunch at his restaurant.... i really loves the cheese cake man.... !! and this cute colleague of mine even ask me, do we get all this free food everyday??!!?? What a innocent kid... :p well, from tat day onwards, he is being assigned to assist me in most of my audit..... well, at very first, i dun really like him. I complain him here and there, up and down. The thing i complain most is... his handwriting.....!!! Well, Mr. N, can u pls write better next time??!!!??? After few audits, and after a longer period of time being together, i found that he is a good assistant cum colleague. We used to work at client place til very late... as late as 2pm in the morning..... i remembered when my ex manager said, "all the assistant must not go home until the senior goes home" and his expression was "yes.... (*pause to think*) urrrhhhh.... , erm.... ok". He urh arr urrhh arrhh there cos he knows i definitely work til very late and he has to stay back cos of me.... hahhaha.... well, i did not torture him, i did ask him to go home when its about 10pm... but then he don't wan. He stayed back together with me, worried me, being a gal alone in the office til late night...... i should really say thank you to him... and also i am really touched by wat he has done to me all this while..... As time goes by, we are not just colleague, not just senoir and junior (btw he is my junior in secondary school) but i think a close fren... hahah yam cha kaki..... well, its time for him to go his own way (*on the very first day we meet, he already make known to the whole world tat he is going back to Australia for his PR in 2 years time*).

Tonight is the night! The night to farewell!.... arranged a farewell dinner for him and i guess he is touched ...... the most happy is we ended our "first meet" in Marriott together with the same audit team..... Ms J and Mr N.... of cos there is an alien, Mr B....... 4 of us... hahhaha

**yummy cheese cake**

** Marriott Auditors**

Credit card usage

Credit card usage..... hmmm...... I open this for discussion. Well, some of the ppl think using credit is very dangerous... cos as if using future money... which I think is true. U are not paying the goodies u buying instantly. U can defer ur payment til one mth earlier, or even if u are very good, u can manage in such a way tat u only need to make the payment one and half mth later...... but, how sure are u tat u will have the amt of money to repay when the time comes?? This is rather dangerous. Most of my fren, I heard, really "overuse" their credit card and they are actually in net liability position. Have a some of money in fixed deposit and on the other hand, having a debt under credit card....... but, do u know that credit card interest is actually higher than fixed deposit interest?? ...... so please amke sure, u withdraw ur fixed deposit money to repay ur credit card debt if there is any......

For me, I use credit card for insurance, hand phone charges and also petrol... I think this is good enough..... recently, one of my credit card point reaches 29,000 points..... hmmm..... i am thinking of wat gifts to redeem la...... actually credit card gift are real hard to redeem...... need lots of point. My point now is not too much, but not too less..... but i still need about 7,000 points... hahah thinking of redeem Philips Micro Hifi Player.... with RM393 + 36,000 points..... u think worth ma???

Friend....

I don't know if you ever face such a prob.... when u have a close fren, u tend to share everything with him/her..... u will sms him/her everyday, though u guys are working in the same company and seeing each other daily..... cos u have just too much to share...... too much thoughts in common..... However, u will feel tat there is a period, when u guys start to feel the distance..... no longer so close... no more sms, hardly talk, harly share thoughts.... even in MSN, when u see each other, nothing to talk......

When this condition arise, no worries..... just voice up.... just be open and talk to ur fren again.... this is wat i did! I actually tell my fren I felt the distance... and my fren agreed too!.... then we start to think back wat happened... and we both agreed tat, though we hardly talk to each other, we are still very very good fren... and still have many thoughts in common..... Guess wat?? after we sopke with open heart, we managed to turn back to good fren. We even date each other out to talk heart to heart with a jug of beer! I really thank God for my courage to brought the issue up! I regain back a good and wonderful fren!

WHPH

Wat is WHPH?, well, if u talk to ppl working in my company, they will definitely know. It stands for WORK HARD PLAY HARD....


well, my company really promoting work life balance..... so Company is giving us half day off to do some team building activities every 3rd Friday of the month...., isn't it good?? Normally, there are team/dept who organise activities during this WHPH afternoon....Last time, whenever I see other department colleague go to join the activities, I would be sad seeing myself staying back to do work...... so sad...... this year, maybe cos most of my colleague are young and energetic, I always follow them to the activities.... and i found it real happy to have some fun and games.... even if we have to go back to office to work (not a must, but its up to individual work load) you will feel very fun and relax.... hahah..... Let see, i have actually attended 2 WHPH activities so far... one in May and another one was last Fri (June WHPH).... hehhehe May one was dodge ball.... quite a fun one... but last friday one was just great. We had this treasure hunt...... sweating and fun.... hahha then we have this kind of give us a clue.... hahha... u really cannot imagine how can an gesture of an elephant, spiderman, ice cream, ear mask, baseball can pass down to be different thing.... i really laughed my head off man.... hahhaha....