PCNYMS

Happy Year of the Tiger to all! Cheers to the fearsome Roar. May it bring wealth and prosperity to all other Chinese zodiac animals like Panda, Fish, Sea- Cucumber, Giraffe, Zebra, Abalone, etc etc.

The 2 golden characters in the jpg above... google-translated "double-jays". Hahahaha. I'll bet it makes no sense.

Yearly zodiac animal guides should not be taken seriously, but can act as a base on how to change one's self. Here's some of them extracted from a "reliable source".

Year of the Tiger for Pandas (Years born 1981,1987,1993,2000)

People born in the year of the Pandas are picky people. They only eat certain things and stay in a single area. Avoid debts and be more opened towards change to open more doors for better opportunities. For better wealth feng shui, place bamboos on top left corner of house facing north east. Be cautious of little girls or they might try to hug you fuzzy wuzzy. Compatible with mouse and tiger, as they can do kung-fu together.

Year of Tiger for Fishes (Years born 1982,1988,1994,2001)

This year for Fishes, be extra aware of your surroundings. Sometimes you might feel you are trapped in a bowl. Seek freedom upwards, but be careful to not jump too high this year, or you might find yourself in a ditch. Avoid rocks for good feng shui for better health, or else you might get stuck between them.

Year of Tiger for Sea Cucumbers (Years born 1983, 1989,1995,2002)

People born in the year of sea cucumber are normally soft, emotional, good thinkers and good listeners. Beware of people being born in year of brocolli and abalone, as they can mean trouble and may lead you the frying wok. For good health feng shui, drink lots of water to avoid being dried sea cucumbers.

Girls get PMS. I get PCNYMS.

PCNYMS

abbreviation:- Post-Chinese-New-Year-Mood-Syndrome

Chinese New Year has not ended yet officially, but unofficially for me it has since I'm back to work on 4th day.

It's quiet in the office though, as some people are still on their new year leave, allowing me to cam-bastard (not whore) myself without being noticed. PCNYMS is when you keep giving yourself the same reason when you're lazy to do something. eg. "I should be doing this...nevermind, it's still new year till chap go meh".

New year was fun in Kuching, where I got to meet LOTS OF NEW PEOPLE, which is a bit scary. I try to help around as much as I can, but seems like I got more in return in ways of ANG PAOS. I received more angpaos in Kuching than a CNY in Miri. Hahahaha.

Ok..I'm lazy to continue. Seeya guys and enjoy the rest of the new year! (Whats left of it)

February

I know it's only the 3rd day of February but there's so much to talk about. Am feeling so excited. And no it's not because of CNY. Talking about CNY, it's about time we had a new wallpaper. So outdated. Alvin's working on one now as I am writing this. Anyway, this is what's happening that's making me so excited:

• My brother's coming back this Saturday (for 2 weeks!).
• Cousin David and wife Grace will be back from the UK together with my little baby nephew Conrad this Friday until 4th day of CNY.
• Cousin Gillian and husband Barry are coming back from the UK too! Together with baby Linus & Daniel (Am seeing the 2 babies for the first time!) They'll be here till March.
  

Pic 1: Koko Conrad with little baby cousin Daniel
Pic 2: Koko Linus feeding cousin Conrad (how cute!)

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• Cousins Susie and Vincent with their other halves would be here together with their "little" ones too (Tricia, Julian, Timothy, Chloe).
• Melanie and baby Melvyn will be here too with Mummy Alicia.

Pic 3: Grandma's other great grandchildrens - Chloe, Julian, Tricia, Timothy

Pic 4: Melanie with baby brother Melvyn

• The house is going to be cram up with so many people!!
  
• We'll all be celebrating grandma's 90th birthday on the 3rd day of CNY.
• There's going to be a mini reunion karaoke with my good old friends (Khang, Alan, Elaine, Diana, Bryant and whoever else is coming!).
• And I'm moving to a new office (my very own room...this Saturday).

BUT what's more exciting is this ...

"OMG What happened to your hair???"

Frustrated and Confused

I always knew what I wanted,
Since the first day I stepped foot into GCS,
No, it was not about the money,
More of a good job,
And experience? Maybe.

But after eight months of highs and lows,
I felt so lost for the first time,
Questioning and doubting myself,
He also saw it in my eyes.

I felt so frustrated,
Confused.

I fought hard to get back on track,
I knew what I wanted,
I knew what I needed to do,
He was happy, but undeniably concerned.

He told me not to get too involved,
This was so unlike him,
Again, confused.
Does he really want me to progress?

And just yesterday,
He stepped down from his position,
My future just became blurrier,
The seas just got rougher.

The other told me to wait for February,
Be patient as the tough times will pass,
Everything will soon be sunny.

Just be patient.

Or.
Maybe the grass is greener somewhere else?

Even dogs know it

**Picture abstracted from some random people in Facebook.

"Why do you look at the past, when the future holds infinite possibilties?"

I have done many life changing decisions in the past, without realizing it's life changing. Even deciding whether to eat chicken rice or economy food for lunch today could be life changing. You never know who you're going to meet while eating or what happens to you if you chose the latter. Whether it's studying something I know absolutely nothing about after form 5, to going abroad to further my studies, to close down a shop, or even starting a job revolving around the stock market. We all just have to be like the dog. Looking into the horizon awaiting what the future would hold for him during the sunrise.

"You have at your command the wisdom of the ages" - A phrase stuck to my colleague's monitor

Happy New Year!

,It's finally the new year, and man it was such a great way to kick off the year (or not!). Looking back, 2009 was an exceptional year, starting my very first official job, Alvin moving to Kuching to work, and definitely, not forgetting to mention the main highlight, the 15m free fall jump I took in Sentosa.

I am not going to bore you with our event log for 2009, just on what we've been up to since Christmas.

Christmas: We attended Christmas midnight mass at Holy Trinity Church, Kenyalang. Mass starts at 11.15pm but we were there at 10pm and no we were not that kiasu just to go there early to get front row seats!! They were having caroling 1 hour before mass. We had a small simple family christmas dinner. I made mashed potatoes and salad. A lot of food for just 5 people!! My mum cooked fried rice, fried chicken and lamb chop. Alvin helped make the mushroom soup.
New Year's Eve: Went out with Brandon, Belle and Huilin for dinner at Sharing Planet. The cabonara that night was over salted, my 2nd time there. Later we decide to head down to travillion to watch the countdown. When we arrived our reaction was "OMG...this ppl aint our crowd at all. They are so YOUNG!!". Anyway, on the way there, we received a msg from Debra. Congratulations to her on her 2nd baby girl, Danielle!! We are so proud of you girl!!

New Year: After watching 4 countdowns at form different pubs/bars, we decide to go back to our favourite Jalan Song and drown ourselves with beer. It was awesome!! No side effects till...

2nd-6th January: until Saturday. We got sick..flu, cough and a bad case of diarrhea !!! And what's worst, I had my company annual dinner that night!!! Did not really enjoy myself but tried my best. Theme was Wild Wild West. The picture below is currently the only pic i have of that night...need to get the rest from my GCS Ah Kong. I look so drowsy. hahah..

Happy new year everyone! And hope it'll be a fruitful one =).

Fa la la la la

Christmas gets more and more meaningful for me every year. Not only the day itself, but more importantly the weeks before Christmas where there's a fuzzy feeling inside me, with all the decos everywhere. Au Contraire for Chinese New Year, the mood dies down every year. lol. Maybe it's cause I receive lesser angpaos every year.

Anyway, for the fun of it, let's count down to Christmas. Supposedly this Christmas Countdown widget plays a loud GONGG when it reaches 0:00:00:00. So if you happened to be at our blog at that time, you'd hear it.

*Disclamer: Double-jays will not be liable for any health deteriorations or even death caused by the GONGGG.

Introducing Kaypoh...

Since I only started working in March, I get 12 days of annual leave. I barely can finish them...and am using the rest of my 3.5days this month. Taking every Monday off..so I only need to work 3.5 days every week till the end of the year! yay! Did not even take any sick leave this year either.

So, now I'm sitting at home...waiting for lunch time. Will be going on a date with grandma and Alvin. In the meantime, I want to introduce our adorable and smexy cat, Kaypoh. She's been with us for the past 1 year. She's getting more and more mischievous day by day, catching rats, birds, bugs, lizards, climbing up and down.

The other day, Kaypoh ran away with her new found toy, a male cat. I was so sad, calling her name out every hour from my window, hoping that she was just lost and couldn't find her way home. Alvin even took the liberty to shake her food container outside the house (she knows its cat food in the container and she'll run towards the sound wherever she is).

Well, she came back the next day!! And when the male cat came near her she chased him away. You go girl!! Must have been a terrible date... We love you Kaypoh!!

Do not use towel or skirt to try the pants

My aunt from Miri is in Kuching. It gave Tania and I a reason to go look see in places around Kuching like pasar malams, India street and all those side store shops that we never bother going. Even though they're packed with all races 1Malaysia and noisy, they are somewhat quite entertaining and interesting sometimes. I know it's bad karma to make fun of things . . but meh . . lemonade from lemons . . .

What does it mean? Do people actually wear towels around while taking pants and just try them on, on the spot? I've never seen anyone doing that before, but I'm sure there's a lot of them since they took the liberty to put up a sign that says not to do so.

I'm guessing they found lots of baby doo-doos on their clothings.

It's also entertaining to read those China made shirts with random words on them. Want to save on advertising costs? No probrem~ just print advertisement on the product.

"I receive a lot of comment on it. A great product". Indeed it is . . . .

PRODUCT DESIGN FAIL. Even if it is on purpose, drinking some water that looked like it came out from Kermit the Frog's ding-dong is not something very hygienic. What if you decide to put air bunga. Still fail.

For those of you who say "NO WAY, I DON'T BELIEVE YOUR AUNT IS IN KUCHING". Here's a picture.

From left: Mr. Boat, Aunty, Tania's grandma.

I was reading Calvin and Hobbes in the toilet the other day. Came across a cute and amusing strip which I think totally sums up working life. Click to enlarge . . don't be lazy.