Just finished a 3-hour telecon with the ASEAN team. Topic of discussion was 'Q4 Planning Marketing Activities'. The Malaysia team gathered in one room to dial in to the call, which was led by the ASEAN team, based in SG.


Before it's time to call in, Boss took a look at the presentation deck sent down by ASEAN and said, "Midmarket, you have lots to do." The rest of the team members took a look at the deck and all wished me good luck, especially M who kept chuckling away. Seriously, all the other programs combined (like STG, SWG, etc) were fitted into a one-pager slide. Midmarket - took the ENTIRE one-pager.


Quote of the day:
"Angie, starting in October, you need to start camping in the office. Bring your bed and clothes." My Boss


And I thought Q3 was bad. I'm going to have so much fun.


* on a happier note - Sue & i are going shopping at bangsar after work later. then she'll overnite at my place to watch a couple of bimbo girly DVDs. ahhhh... much needed, much needed.

Last night, thanks to Gracie, bf and I were invited to the SATC movie premier at GSC Midvalley. I will not comment on it cause bf and i have watched the full uncensored version before. Celebrities there were Elaine Daly (loved the dress she wore!), Serena C (err not quite the celeb but anyways), Jojo Struys (gorgeous in real life), Harith Iskandar and gang, etc. They censored so many scenes! To a point I got quite restless and felt compelled to explain to Grace, who sat on my right, what happened etc.

Today and tomorrow, I won't be in the office. Away for a workshop at Uptown and today, being Day 1, surprisingly I thoroughly enjoyed myself! I was actually dreading this workshop and was finding ways and excuses to escape from it. To make matters worse, work was piling up so, being away for 2 whole days for the workshop wasn't really a good idea but it was a compulsory workshop, so.

Made new friends. Very nice bunch of people and the facilitator was really interesting as well. For the first time, I didn't find myself fighting hard to stay awake throughout the sessions. Looking forward to the last session tomorrow.

At the end of Day 1 today, I've never felt prouder to be part of the IBM community. For the first time in my entire working career, I actually felt great being an IBMer :)

No seriously, I mean it.

* Looking for a good album to buy?
I found one - Back to Love in Bossa Moments

Songs in the album, all rearranged into sounds of bossa nova:

01. Bleeding Love - Rachelle Spring
02. You're Beautiful - Marcela Mangabeira
03. Back To Black - Monique Kessous
04. Your Song - Marcelo Rezende
05. Don't Stop The Music - Marcela Mangabeira
06. Bizarre Love Triangles - Marcelo Rezende
07. You Raise Me Up - Cris Delanno
08. I Should Be So Lucky - Tahta Menezes
09. Lovin' You - Marcela Mangabeira
10. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) - Bob Tostes
11. Let's Stay Together - Liz Menezes
12. Just The Way You Are - Marcela Mangabeira
13. As Time Goes By - Cecilia Dale
14. I Say A Little Prayer For You - Taryn Szpilman
15. Over The Rainbow - Pery Ribeiro
16. The Look Of Love - Patty Ascher

Oh well, I might be bias since I'm a great fan of the bossa nova genre.

Also, another great album to buy would be, seriously, The SATC movie soundtrack.

Currently hooked on:

Jem - It's Amazing
Kaskade - I Like The Way
The Bird and The Bee - How Deep is Your Love
Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis - Auld Lang Syne

It's amazing, it makes my heart sing
Now it's up to you

After work on Friday, 11 July.

 

"Let's go!"

"Go home and put your notebook and change first la."

"No need what, I don't need to change!"

"Go home first ok?"

"Ok."

 

And so, this was where mr tay took me to dinner.

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Dinner @ Home
Chef: David Tay

where are the serviettes or napkins baby?!
mr tay bought new LCD tv, can see? hehe

 

white wine to go with the yummy fish
mr tay's wearing the red canterbury shirt alexwan got him for bday

 

*cayang*

 

 

But I just have to say this.


Sex and the City - The Movie is FABULOUS. Don't ask me how I got it, ask the bf :)


I have 4 people waiting in line to borrow this full, uncensored version, so gotta wait awhile longer if you want. The probable censored scenes in the cinema are a must-watch, hehehe!


I love the walk-in closet, I love Lily, I love the Vivienne Westwood wedding dress sans the stupid bird on Carrie's head, and I abso-f***ing-lutely love everything about it! Imma gonna watch it again!


ever thine
ever mine
ever ours

9:45PM


He says to go to the study room. "There's a letter which just came for you while you were at work."


She potters over to the study room to collect her letter. "What else? Must be the usual credit card bills," she sighs.


But no, it was a white envelope with no stamps or writings over it. Completely blank.


A few anxious rips at the edge of the envelope, this was what revealed to her...


A cute littlle self-made card.

It was July last year that I won the Club Med, Bali trip and a Sony Bravia LCD. 8th day into July this year and I've won a free meal from Pick n' Brew, One Utama. Coincidence or what?


Pick n' Brew is one of the latest restaurants in One Utama and the menu is pretty good. A little probably like Delicious. They are having this thingy where you dip your hand into this bowl to fish out a voucher. This voucher entitles you to either a Free Beverage for 1 year, Free Meal or RM10 off your entire meal.


I ordered this set meal - Roast Beef with Spinach Gnocchi which comes with Baked Oysters with cheese for starters and coffee. Sue ordered a yummy looking Avocado with Shrimps Salad.


The deal is this - you are only allowed to open your voucher when you're paying for your meal. So I opened mine, and won a Free Meal. We were asked to pose to have our picture taken, haha. Had to hold the voucher thingy while posing, haha so lame :P


And then we went to Watson to buy lipsticks. I bought L'oreal's new Color Riche range in Pink Romance - Eva Longoria while Sue got hers in Deep Rose - Gong Li.


My horoscope in a magazine for this month says:




If that's gonna happen, please, bring it on! I've set July 20 on alarm on my handphone with subject - Rainbow Day! I know it's silly to believe horoscopes but it's all for good fun ya! :)


Oh happy day.

Gemini Likes: talking, novelty, variety, anything unusual and working on multiple projects at the same time.


Gemini Dislikes: being alone, being in a rut, mental inaction, conventional learning and feeling tied down. <--- how true.


General features

Gemini, the Sign of the Twins, is third in the Western Zodiac and extends from May 21 to June 20. It is also an Air Sign. Typical Geminies are very lively and charming, and excellent conversationalists. They are possessed of very active minds and bodies, and are often much younger-looking than they really are (ahem! i don't think so!). Invention is their stock in trade. On the down side, they are also restless, easily bored, and unable to concentrate on any one thing for a prolonged period of time. (i cannot stress more how true this is)


Forever changing their mind at the drop of a hat, they are notoriously undependable. There is also present a tendency to manipulate others to serve their own purposes. But a Gemini will be more than make up for any negative qualities though the sheer scintillating entertainment value of their very presence.


Typical Geminis are very lively and charming and excellent conversationalists. They are active mentally and physically and are often much younger-looking than they really are. They are restless, easily bored and unable to concentrate on any one thing for a prolonged period of time.


Since they are restless and keep changing their minds, they are notoriously undependable. The intellect dominates Gemini and all things that are intellectual are valued greatly by them. As communication is also important to Geminis, knowledge is never a thing to be hoarded. Geminis are the most versatile of all the sun signs. They will decide on an option and completely change their mind next day (how to run events??). Nothing is ever written in stone by Gemini. They are free soul, driven by curiosity and desire to know (in other words, 'kaypoh') Geminis rarely get deeply absorbed in any one task and anything they haven't touched intrigue them the most.


I, Angie Low, is proud to be a Gemini :)

I'll tell you why.


He secretly changed my calling name of "Leng Lui' in his mobile into ---> Hilang


His idea was to:

1. have me attempt to change my calling name again in the next couple of weeks only to...
   
2. have me fumble aimlessly at the name list with "Leng Lui" missing which will then see me...
   
3. repeatedly ask him, "Where's my name?" "Where's my name??"
   
4. only to have him repeatedly reply, "It's hilang." "Hilang already."

And you can't really fault him for that. Because seriously, I'm now known as Hilang in his mobile.