Damien Rice's 2nd much-awaited album - "9"

His highly popular song in the first album, The Blower's Daughter was one of the factors that brought Mr Tay and I closer
Closer.
Incidently, this song was the theme song for the movie, Closer featuring an amazing cast of Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen.
Brilliant movie, if you have not watched it.

So, "9" is out.
I'm doing some sampling first by doing the illegal downloads
I must say he does have weird titles for his songs.

1. "9 Crimes"
2. "The Animals Were Gone"
3. "Elephant"
4. "Rootless Tree"
5. "Dogs"
6. "Coconut Skins"
7. "Me, My Yoke and I"
8. "Grey Room"
9. "Accidental Babies"
10. "Sleep Don't Weep"

Coconut Skins????
(I hate any food that has coconut in them by the way.)
I love the album cover though
Very artsy.

Interesting facts about the album 9 from Wikipedia:

• There is a hidden track on this album. It is a rough demo of "9 Crimes" hidden in the Pregap.
• Elephant was originally titled "The Blower's Daughter Part 2".
• The album ends with 16 minutes of a Tibetan singing bowl being played; an instrument with alleged healing powers.

I must go download 'Elephant' now.

For a FEMALE la, that is.

And, a GREAT shopping mall too, if I may add.

Today I decided to skip lunch as I wasn't feeling hungry.
Grabbed a junior cup of Baskin Robbins Rum & Raisin (my favorite flavor in any ice cream brands of all time!)
Decided to do some window shopping and cuci mata a bit.

La la la, while happily licking my ice cream, I saw something.
Literally stopped at my tracks and froze.

S A L E

DISCOUNTS UP TO 70%

How can like that.
How cannnnnnnnn...
I thought sales have just finished.
"Christmas la," the Devil on my left shoulder said to me.

Eeeeeeee I so wanna enter lah.
Took 3 steps, entered the shop a bit, then U-turned balik keluar.
Hehehehhehe.
Angel on my right shoulder said,
"Why do you need so many clothes for? Remember your wardrobe couldn't fit all of them and you had to throw 4 bags full of clothes away?"

So ok, didn't buy anything.

But I did French Manicure la
RM38 damage saja

Just like this...

So pretty kan!

Source from:
http://babeinthecitykl.blogspot.com/2006/11/have-you-started-baking-your-christmas.html

And I have one of my favorite Christmas tunes by side.
Again, this site is best viewed and listened to on IE.
Mozilla makes my template go haywire.
And Mozilla doesn't play my song.

Ho Ho Ho!

Little boy: You cannot eat Mentos and drink Coca-Cola.
Little girl: *tak layan him*
Little boy: Because when you eat Mentos, and drink Coca-Cola, your head will *BOMMMM*. Burst out all open.

*LOL*
I cannot tahan.

Today is Kids @ Work in the office.
Held only once a year, this is when parents bring along their kids to work, to mingle around, and to show them off
The lobby is PACKED with them!
Little monstas I call them, so darn cute

Apparently, according to Mr Tay, most kids will flood the 17th floor (my floor) because the huge-ass employee lounge is there.
Yippeeee!

OMG, more are flooding in!
Doors are still keep opening and closing.
And them, little monstas are still prancing in and out.
They have activities one ok.
Upon arrival, I saw they were given game sets like ... Janbo? (not sure whether I saw this right)

If I had one, I would sit my little one right on top of my desk and heh, watch mommy work 
And then throw her away and have her running amok around 17th floor till she's floored out. Haha.

My boss brought his kids yesterday instead.
His 2 yr old son, was a DARLING.
Boss said, "Later when he comes, ask him 'can you fix it?' and see what he says."
So ok, Sue, Deva, Mimi and I waited for little Shaun to come and then Sue went,
"Shaun, can you fix it?"

Then in a so cute can die punya voice he went, "Can!"

Then, my turn my turn.
"Shaun, can you fix it?"
"CAN!"
So damn cute lor that little bugger.

Before boss ciao-ed with kids, we asked him,"Fix what???"

"Got la, our little secret."

My guess is, Shaun kena influenced from 'Bob The Builder' la.

Like this:

(chorus)
Bob the builder
Can we fix it?
Bob the builder
Yes we can!

Heh, I pro at kids songs k, don't mess with me

Monday has been quite a busy day.
Boss is finally back from Sydney so did a lot of catching up.
I had to run up and down to get my ThinkPad fixed.
The OS has kaputed so got it reformatted.
Help Desk lady said my hard disk is making noises so I'm getting a new hard disk later

Anyway, Mr Tay looked so lengchai today with his new white shirt and freshly cut hair.
Very very nice

I think I shall go and spy on him now.
(again)

And I have reasons to believe that my throat is allergic to pork balls.

I am seriously not kidding!!!

The first time that this happened, I never did suspect that the irritation would have been caused by pork balls.
Now, being the second time around, it was DEFINITELY them, pork balls.
Don't get me wrong, I am NOT allergic to pork.
I love my bak kut teh very much, thank you.

I think I need to describe a little on the irritation.
See, when I am consuming pork balls, the irritation doesn't hit me immediately.
It's when I have finished my meal, go home, prolly have a shower and only THEN, it starts to irritate the throat.

How does the irritation feel like?
Ok, you have eaten pork balls right? Duh
These pork balls that I am talking about are not the commercialized ones where lots of flour are added in the mixture.
Instead, these irritants are handmade and rolled into huge balls of pure babi-ness.

The next time you have a handmade pork ball, bite it into half, chew and feel a little more.
You will find that the texture is slighly grainy, stringy ... arggh I don't know how to describe it!

But that grainy and stringy texture is exactly how my throat feels like after consuming them, pork balls.
And gawd, it is very VERY IRRITATING.

Only, this time, it is even more irritating, because it ONLY BLARDY IRRITATES MY THROAT ON THE RIGHT!
I can't stress enough on how annoying and sometimes, painful it is when this happens to me.
Painful, is when you are awake in the middle of the night with a dry throat.
So can you imagine when I do get up at night, with a sore RIGHT-SIDED THROAT?

It has been days since I last had them.
And it is still irritating the shit out of me!

NO MORE PORK BALLS FOR ME!

Not even those found in steamboats.
Die die also don't want to eat pork balls anymore!

Last night's revelation came as a surprise.
I thought you knew that I waited the whole night.
And here you are, after 5 years, finding out about what happened that night from Jessica.
Really, you shouldn't feel sorry about it.
The part when you said you didn't know how to appreciate at that time, I say to you - it's past now.

Hope you pick yourself up with this current break-up of yours.
You did it before, surely you can do it again.

9.09 am

People who created the myth that biting lightly on your new pair of shoes before wearing to avoid getting 'bitten' aka blisters should be SHOT DEAD.

These people include, my Mom, Gowri, Anne, and etc.

Seriously. I AM DEBUNKING THE MYTH RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.
It doesn't work people.
I finally gave in to stupidity and decided that ok, maybe I should bite them before wearing.
And here I am seated on my desk with plastic wrappers of plasters all over the desk.
3 wrap-around plasters on my toes and 2 on each back of my heels.
Them new shoes 'bit' me so bad that even the liquid inside in the blistered area burst out while walking to work just now.

Just great lar.
I'm gonna wear pantyhose everyday now!
Coz according to Mimi, it worked for her.

I'm gonna have so much 'fun' in the showers later when the water hits the blistered areas

P/S: Guys, don't bother trying to comprehend what I've just wrote. Your macho brains are not designed to digest stuff like these

... and I am still trying to adjust myself to this alien world they call IBM.

Apparently people here do not use the word 'email'?

Devata: My first day here, my boss asked me to send a note to someone else requesting something to be done.
Me: Uh-huh. Then?
Devata: So I took a piece of paper and promptly wrote down the request and send that piece of paper all the way to the person who was on a different floor!
Me: *still not getting it*
Devata: In here, send a 'note' = send an email.
Me: *pengsan*

Which happened to me just now la. Thank God for this talk with Deva during lunch yesterday.
I called facility help desk just now requesting for something.
The fella responded by asking me to 'send a note' to Office.
I stiffled a laugh because if it wasn't for the conversation with Deva yesterday, I would have really written a note on paper to the office!

*LOL* - sorry still laughing.

I showed Mr Tay the amount of blisters on my feet.
Took off my shoes and showed him the sad display of plaster-wrapped toes.

Girl: Stupid shoes.
Boy: Not stupid shoes. STUPID FEET!
Girl: !!!!!
Boy: Your feet has been too pampered la. For 1+ year, you need not wear shoes for 9 hours straight you know. So, now it's like sudden shock to them la.
Girl: Hmm, true also. Makes perfect sense

So, blame the feet not the shoes  
Must remember to top up my plaster supplies now.

Some people here are weird.
Got this perfectly great complex here within walking distance, underground so don't have to kena sun and all, and STILL they wanna drive out and eat?
The other day, Joyce suggested driving out to Damansara Kim for lunch, I was like, "but but but.... One U... is just next doorrrrr..."
We went out anyway, and I had kon lou pan mee and both Sue and Joyce had loh pan mee, yummmm!

Pssst... yesterday during lunch, Deva said David has a nice smile.

"When he smiles, his eyes seems to smile too!"

I want to die laughing now lah. Hahahaaahaha!
Not that I disagree, I just find it amusing when I hear this kinda statement coming from someone else

There's this little stationery shop on my floor.
Employees can go there and request for stationaries.
New employee like me will go there and are given the basics - 3 pens of different colors, an eraser, sharpener, pencil and a long ruler.
I have made friends with Mr Ho, the person in charge there
Every other day I drop by and request for something new.
Yesterday I requested for stapler, Mr Ho said no, only bullets are given.
So ok, I asked for a blade
Just now, I went over and and before I could ask,

Mr Ho: Hahaha, what do you want now?
Me: Hee hee, just one notepad please *sweet smile*
Mr Ho: Sooner or later, everything in this shop will be taken away by you.

Still no Hot Guys sighted.
According to Mimi, most of them are in the Sales team on 19th floor.
"They dress extra nice coz they have to face clients mar."
Must pay a visit soon