What A Bliss..

My manager is a very generous man as he likes to belanja us makan (treat us foods) from time to time. I’ve just transferred to this department for less than 3 months and he treated us at least 4 times (if memory serves me right, it is not very efficient recently, u know)!

Today he treated us some snacks (junk food) and also cornetto ice cream~ And he will be treating us a good lunch somewhere next week as we managed to get the financial module under control after a professional test. ^.^

Am I lucky or what?! Having a good manager makes me not like leaving this company. So I am still here, not motivated enough to leave, but not loyal enough to deny any offer that might come in the future~

Today I learnt a bitter lesson at the expense of my friend’s health. I am plagued by guilt as I failed to help her and it might make her condition worse. She’s having some sort of knee problem and I wanna help her. So we went to see a master, who then suggested that she undergo a massage. Without enough information, I brought her there to a traditional massage. We tried to explain to the massager the condition of her problem and without much explanation, he already performed the massage on her and it was painful.  Today she told me that her knee and thigh had swollen and suspected that it got worse.  She still went to her Chinese traditional doctor today and he gave her more medicine in hope that it would get better soon. I really regretted my rush and hasty decision of bringing her to the massage center at the first place. I can now only pray and wish that her knee would get well soon.

God bless..

Yesterday, at my dentist service my braces, de doctor put on elastic rubber at my crooked molar (geraham) teeth to straighten it. It is very troublesome and started to sore.

Today I took extra long time at lunch to chew the plate of chicken rice plus mushroom. I think it was a mistake to add the mushroom as it was lengthy to chew on them. I could only chew at the side of my mouth where I lost the elastic rubber this morning. where was the elastic rubber?!?!? It ain’t in my mouth anymore.. I didn’t even realize when I swallowed it…! >_< Reminder to myself : To remove them before every meals!!!

Finally after finishing my lunch and laughing with my lunchmates over some jokes, I have a quick gargle to clear all the food in my mouth. Then we were happily walking back to office when I realized suddenly,

Torn between the love of coffee and the need to be healthy, I’ve decided to integrate both need and want together for my morning sip .

I mixed a small cup of delightful coffee with half a packet of Dutch Lady chocolate milk and stir them; yielding a rich, creamy aroma of chocolate coffee milk which is smooth and simply delicious~ *yummy*~

Last week, I stepped into Kinokuniya after lunch with my colleague. I picked up a book titled Pleasant Things in Life (or something to that effect). There are many nice and short articles on the many little yet pleasant things we could do with our family or friends or during an outing or such. There was one article that caught my attention and worth trying.

It says when the writer was young, summer was very warm and it was difficult to sleep at night. Her parents let them put their sheet (I assumed was bedsheet) into the fridge during the evening. And when it came to bedtime, she would spread the chilled-sheet on her bed. And the bed would be cool and nice to sleep on! When the sheet on the part that she slept on was warm, she would turn to another side of the sheet. Genius, isn’t it?

And hey, it is really hot recently at night and I couldn’t help myself trying this trick. That very night, I folded my bedsheet into a very small size and put in a plastic bag and shoved it to a corner of my fridge (just in case my housemates saw it and freak out with what I did). And I took out by bedtime and it was cool for a little while. But soon, it became warm again. Maybe the bedsheet wasn’t cool enough to begin with.

Today, I am gonna put my bedsheet into the freezer compartment in the fridge! Let’s hope it stays cool for a longer period of time.

I am extremely sleepy at work today as I haven’t had a good sleep for the past week. Yesterday midnight, the electricity went off again and I woke up a while, feeling so hot but slept back as too sleepy. And find it so difficult to get up in the morning. Maybe time for me to take a spoon of Dome every night. Anyway this morning I was glad to remind myself it is Friday again! For the past few days, I’ve been waiting and counting patiently for this day..

Last Friday after work, when I was so looking forward for my weekend, I overheard two ladies conversation in the Putra LRT train. One sighed and said “Two more days are Monday again..” *sigh*

I was like, “what the..” Today is only Friday and just right after work! How optimistic can a person be?

Much as my parents love to travel, they hardly ever travel together. Reason is we have two dogs, 2 tortoises, a black cat and a big family of stray cats that are feed by my mother every single day. How do you leave all them behind with no one to take care for a whole week?

All my siblings and I are staying and working in the city, which is two hours away from our hometown. We could go back for a couple of days but not too long. So it is rather difficult to have somebody to watch the pets for them. So most of the time, they take turn to go for vacation! Or if they’re going together, it has to be a very short trip and we could stay at home for short while to look after those pets.

I think the arrangement is not ideal at the moment and I am still looking out for a better alternative.

I was told to wrap it with newspaper when you put in the refrigerator. And I did just that, cutting my broccoli into half and put half into the refrigerator after wrapping it. I wanted to cook another half and then decided the half was too much. So I cut another portion and put it in a plastic container and put it in the refrigerator.

After 5 days, I took out both broccolis. The one wrapped in the newspaper is yellowish and soft. But the one in container is still green and fresh~

P/S : On another attempt, the broccoli maintains its freshness after 7 days in the container and fridge!

My latest haircut about 3 weeks ago was a quite success; quote a colleague of mine, as many people in my office noticed them. Even the kakak (cleaner) in my office noticed it and said it looks good on me~ *happy* Well, actually I just cut new fringe and have some of the hair at the back trimmed which wasn’t anything major~

But hey, I was glad to change my hair parting to accommodate my new fringe. Reason is I always felt that a small segment of my hair, right at the center is.. well, not actually bald.. but let’s put it this way; that there’s less hair over there. Few years back, I have this habit of pulling out my hair, the crooked and stubborn hair that was super curly or wouldn’t be part of other hairs. And I keep plucking them off and now I realized I could have damage the hair follicles. And so the reason for less hair right in the center.. *sigh*

Well, I don’t have reason to be very worry about my hair at the moment as I still have plenty of them at other part of my head. *smirk* I hope there will be no days arrived for me to have the need to undergo any hair transplant.

I promise not to pluck anymore of my hair anymore (well, unless it turns grey, that’s it!)

My grandma on my mother’s side passed away when I was about twelve years old, on the National Day. Although I couldn’t remember much about her, in my memory, she had always been sick as my mother said she had diabetic. She could not muster words clearly and could barely walk. I remembered my brother and I always enjoyed visiting her on Saturday and walked to her house which about half an hour away~

She stayed with my aunts and uncles but as she got sicker, some of them have not much time to look after her. I remembered on a quite a number of occasions, my mother brought her to our home to look after her even though she herself was quite busy. My mother had to bathe and feed my grandmother which was not able to do them by herself. It was a sad to watch as my grandma became helpless and weak.

That was my memory of old people, weak and sick. I hope someday I would age gracefully and not become dependent on others like my grandmother. Although many of the old people I know need extra care and mostly seek help from outsider. It is important not to discard but to cherish the old people who once have taken care and provided us with love and affection~