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incase you can't read the words 'benjamin moore paints'
color tones, got it?

a: oppressed and suppressed :(
j: here we go again...
a: you look at the ads in my blog! i want to be doing that! conceptualize that
j: then why don't you?
a: going into advertising means major paycut
j: well you gotta choose - happiness vs $$$
a: $$$ is also happiness
j: ok, lemme rephrase that. mega job satisfaction with low $$$ vs zero job satisfaction with good $$$
a: you think i don't know that already???
j: do it! do it! you're in the wrong industry
a: let me hit some lottery first. then i'll quit and go into advertising.

oppressed and suppressed...

it is extremely heart-warming to be following the progress of Tun Mahathir in IJN.

every morning for the past couple of months, i click on http://rantingsbymm.blogspot.com to read with delight on marina's updates on her beloved father.

• all mosques in perlis have pledged to pray for tun at every prayer time.
• kubang pasu has shipped over a shipment of homemade dadeh - one of tun's favorite food
• little kids creating cards with words that are so touching you could cry.

*

most of all, i never knew tun was that mischevious, grouchy and cranky!

So I asked him if he'd like some and he said yes. And what's more he wanted some hot Milo. So off the nurses scurried to find the dadeh and make the Milo. Perhaps they took a tad too long because we got a growl, "Where IS that Milo?" Erp! Coming, coming!

He finished the entire glass of Milo and then the entire cup of dadeh, all fed by spoon by me. When he swallowed the last bit, we all - Mum, my brother, the doctors and nurses - actually clapped! You should have seen the look on Dad's face! There was that old "I'll show you!" look, you know?

And just yesterday, he banned doctors from standing around watching him eat. "I want to eat in private," he growled. However according to marina, Such bossiness however is considered a sign that things are almost back to normal. Woo hoo!!

i'm extremely tickled! :)

these were sent to office at 4.15pm

24 stalks of baby pink roses,
snugged comfortably amongst the purple and white daisies,
inside a gorgeous light pink crepe paper,
and wrapped beautifully with a purple wrapper and ribbon to hold the bouquet,
my kinda colors :)

24 roses,
1 for every month,
2 years

thank you, bi

:)

dinner at umai-ya, uptown

1 tempura udon bento set
1 chicken teriyaki bento set
5 slices of sashimi
1 unagi handroll

nice.

and then, he sent me to the clinic.

i decided, thurs - mon of non-stop diarrhoea is pretty serious
having forced to wake up at 5+ am last night to shit is starting to ruin my life
3 sets of pills to pop
yay.

happy la!

- 2 -
medium: graffiti, fb

2 years,

and you're still as:

irritating

annoying

playful

and busuk.

also not forgetting that you're still as:

loving

caring

positive

and kissable.

cheers and here's to many more years to come.

i've had fun.

how about you? :)

mr tay's phone reminder beeped in at the stroke of midnight yesterday
*glee*

you

reached kl around 2pm.

and i am STILL having diarrhoea!!! mr tay is having it as well  
plans to go on makan spree around ipoh and visit kellie's castle went down the drain.
instead, the girl who won't stop shitting spent the whole saturday locked inside room 531, watching malay dramas and chef wan traipsing around kampung baru for kuih-muih, bubur lambuk, ayam percik, and nasi dagang.

the wedding was pretty ok.
bride wore this really nice off-shoulder gown, and then changed into a green gown and subsequently followed by a pink gown.
couldn't eat much.
dish #5 was a WHOLE SUCKLING PIG.

piglet ok.
plus the HEAD, EARS, NOSE, and MOUTH intact.
ewwwww.

i cannot tahan seeing food with the whole head intact (fish is an exception, i grew up with it)
plus, they burn the whole baby pig. seriously hope it was dead before being shoved into hellhole.

the MC was quite crappy la, talked too much.
there was one thing he mentioned that was utter crap, which made me sent a quick glance at mr tay, and he immediately smiled and knew what was i thinking.

"pls remember, marriage is NOT about two people. instead, marriage is about two families being married together."

bollocks.

i marry the man i love, i do not marry his family.
i marry INTO his family.

and then, he went on for like 20 min (ok i exaggerated but it felt like 20 min) on thanking the guests who came outside of ipoh.

with the bridegroom, gary lee

ok, just had dinner as i typed this. mr tay and i tapao-ed KFC.
i took the usual 2 piece set but only managed to eat 1 piece.
the other piece had to be thrown away since mr tay already had 3 pieces.

+:+:+:+:+

it's back to work tomorrow, i'm sooooooooo happy, it shows.

* pink shoe is 20 days away from aeroplane *

can't wait.

i have been firing liquids since yesterday. and my tummy is making funny noises like there's something swimming inside you know.

and it's all because of the satay ayam and otak-otak i had on wednesday evening for dinner. these culprits were purchased from this makcik at a pasar ramadan in damansara perdana.

ewww. so not having satay or otak-otak for 1 year now.

this unfortunate incident has caused me to:

• not shower the whole of yesterday (eh, diarrhoea plus fever ok, how to bathe?) :P
• have zero appetite (which has also inadvertently caused me to boast to mr tay this morning, "bi, i thin already!")
• have a flat stomach (not complaining!)
• work from home, which is quite glorious la, i must admit
• which ultimately resulted in me missing team lunch at Delicious, One Utama today! *grrr*
• befriended Minyak Angin Cap Kapak

it's 3.03pm now.

yawn.

i haven't even packed yet. mr tay and i are going on a road trip today to ipoh to attend his very good friend's wedding. the wedding that caused us an extra of RM800 flight changes for our bali trip :P

i dunno what i'm going to wear for the wedding dinner yet. hmmmmm.

i hope the hotel we're staying in provides a clothes iron upon request. and i certainly hope my appetite will return tomorrow evening because, even as i visualize sharks fin soup now, i will puke.

and pls la, it's IPOH we're talking about...

kai si hor fun, steamed chicken with fat bean sprouts, J mentioned satay babi at kong heng (ewwww, NO SATAY!), white coffee, dim sum, and CKT.

let's just hope my tummy will resume its normal self and stop turning everything that goes in within 5 min... into shit.

quite excited la about the road trip! i love road trips, if you don't know already. but Sue warned that, if my tummy continues to misbehave, i might have to squat at the bushes to do my thing later.

which is why, i've sent mr tay out to buy me some ammo - 5 bottles of poh chai yuen

i will be back on Sunday! now i must go shower, pack and yay, just embrace the weekend :)

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- diabetic love -
medium: graffiti, fb
inspiration: when he says the sweetest things :)

the ever romantic boy says,

"die."

"what are we doing on the swing?"

"how do we get down?!"

p/s: this piece was done with sarah mclachlan's answer playing on the loop, therefore automatically marking this piece as having the most sentimental elements of all

:)

i was on leave yesterday and was at klcc.

had a 2.30pm 'appointment' with six.am.

registered myself at the concourse area and got into the elevator. elevator stopped at fitness first gym. took a quick glance at the watch, 2.20pm, i've got time. got out of elevator to check out the gym. membership fee for fitness first gym is RM170.

RM170 vs RM149 (the one i am currently paying at celebrity fitness) with NO towels provided. hmm. gotta admit, for some twisted reason, i still love my gym. nope, not because of the occasional celebrities spotted in the gym, but really, i love my gym. maybe it's the corporate purple color it bears? i dunno. so, when i do eventually have to switch to fitness first, klcc... i will be so broken hearted.

got up to six.am. sat down and checked out the reception area at level 8.
first thought that came to mind, "impressive meh?"
that's coz mr tay said, six.am's office is nicer than eye-bee-m's.
i don't think so lor. looks pretty normal and standard to me.
i mean, how can you beat ogilvy's creation of the butterfly wall at eye-bee-m's level 19! :P

they play creepy classical music in all their elevators. don't get me wrong, i love classical music but for some reason, at that moment when i was riding up to level 17 for the 'appointment', images of psycho killers torturing their victims amidst the sick atmosphere of chirpy classical sounds came to my mind.

think, hannibal lecter. muahahhahaha.

anyways

the 'appointment' lasted a good 1 hr and 15 min.
for some reason, i was not thoroughly excited like i used to be when attending these sort of 'appointments'.
i've lost it. i know it, mr tays knows it.
we both soooo want to quit our 9-5 jobs, quit earning peanuts and start doing something by ourselves.
which by the way, the fellas at six.am said my current salary in eye-bee-m was too high for them to match and had asked whether i'd mind a paycut.

HELLO???

yes. i do mind actually. my personal rationale is pretty simple:

damansara perdana to eye-bee-m - 10 min away by car
damansara perdana to six.am - horrendous traffic, 45min?

but of course, this wasn't mentioned during the 'appointment'. i don't mind traveling that 45 min, but seriously the paycut???

pretty shocking to me, really. to be asked for a paycut when all along, i thought i was being paid peanuts over here. hehe. mr tay said no. a firm NO. don't accept if there's gonna  be a paycut. he was actually more pissed than me

i don't know. she will come back to me within this week and we'll see how it goes.

working for eye-bee-m is afterall wayyy cooler than six.am, i reckon 

+:+:+:+:+

there's this guy, by the name of VialentinoTay who has just requested to be added into my list on facebook.

VIALENTINO TAY. not even valentino but VIALentino.

wondered whether it could be one of mr tay's cousins trying to be funny.
so checked his profile out.
nahhhh, definitely not related to mr tay.
we have 1 common friend though - ryan hew. hmm.

sunday lunch buffet at shangri-la
- daddy, mommy, brother, mr tay & yours truly.

for RM75++ per person, i only ate food worth RM40, i think.

i took:

some fresh oysters, ate 3
1 mussel
2 huge ass abalone slices, which was yucky and was then discreetly discarded away under the piles of bones and shells
a pile of asparagus, only managed like 5 stalks, then discreetly discarded as well
a couple of steamed dim sum
a few spoonfuls of fake shark fin soup
some mushrooms
mr tay fed me with a lot of sashimi, yummm
mr tay fed me a spoonful of beef rendang

that was it. totally did not even try the noodles, pasta, fish, chicken, lamb, briyani rice, satay, and 1 million of other foodies there.

and it was all because of these:

i love the colorful swirly marshmallows!

these, i never touched. not a fan of tarts

i love this shot

 
we kept stalking this pink-dressed little girl

the bottom right - chocolate brownie fudge was soooooooooo gooooood

chocolate and vanilla creme brulee in minicups :)

daddy and mommy behind senior and junior cuppies :)

brother amist the chocolate mess caused by yours truly

boy: wuahhh, damn full!
girl: uh-huh
boy: think i go take ice cream now
girl: *speechless*

baby's 2 spoonfuls of vanilla topped with strawberries, nuts, gummi bears and drizzled with chocolate sauce
i had to finished ALL the gummi bears because he went, 'ewwww' after trying one and because i made him add the gummi bears in the first place

"hello!!! i'm back!"

"no. don't want to look at kor-kor's camera."

"oklah, one last pose for you. stop stalking me!"

thanks baby, for the treat
loved

+:+:+:+:+:+

sunday night at sky bar

life is indeed good