Need more time

I remembered when I had my holidays, my lifestyle was a bore, everyday I do the same thing. But at least I enjoyed it, I rant of boredome once in a while but still it was ok. I loved what I was doing and sometimes I thought I had a lot of time in my hands. Lately, with work I realise I need more time, hopefully 36hours a day. I have done some calculation on the time spent for everyday.

Traveling to and fro work : 3 hrs
Working : 8 hrs
Lunch : 1 hr
Get ready b4 work : 30mins
Dinner : 30mins
Sleep : 7hrs
Time left : 4hrs

The total time left is 4 hours but seriously I don't feel that I really have that much of free time to spend. Everytime I come home and eat dinner, then I shower and I look at the clock it's almost 10 and then I sleep at 12am. Where the hell all those hrs and mins go. Haihz, I wish I could relax more every night before I go to work next day, then I will feel more refreshed and motivated to work. I miss my holidays, I want it back!!!! Now I really wished I was still studying, somehow FYP doesn't seem hard and assignments are lot comforting than the work I have now.

How's work in Shell?? Traveling to Cyberjaya is draining my life slowly, my parents are planning to get me a car soon, I hope they do it quick, public transport is so crowded sometimes. Oh well, last friday was fun, Accenture had this EWF/SWF community day. Enterprise and solution workforce combined and I had a fun day. We had presentations in the morning, then lunch is provided. Then we had games in the afternoon according to teams. Nicholas left before lunch was served. The first game we had was human cluedo, which requires the team to go to several places in 1 utama new wing and search for clues to determine who is the kidnapper, weapon used and lastly the venue. My team was there first with the correct answers so we won for this game.

Before the second game started, everyone was give a 1GB kingston thumbdrive, it is red in colour and it was the thumbdrive with the newest design. Captain ball was tough and tiring. I participated in the 1st round we had. The opponents were very aggresive and I was crashed into by a colleague and got step on the leg at the same time. After that round, I was too tired to take part in the next one. By the way we won the 1st round but lost the following one. It was a fun day. The day ended with the lucky draw competition.

I won 1 of the lucky draw prizes and I was so blur when they called my name. Anyway the prize was a big box and I couldn't guess what it was. Went home and opened it and it was a toaster oven. Was really tired when I got home so after dinner I just rested on my bed and read. Looking forward to the next event, annual dinner and dance.

2nd day of CNY

Today I got to woke up around 10:30 am and then my mummy says we'll be visiting a family friend. They are the people my parents used to hang out with when they were dating, sadly, the kids dun do that haha :P. After that we tarpau lunch and head to grandma's place.

Today my aunty went back to her mum's place in Cheras, so no kaki for mahjong :P. My sis and I decided to go out for movie, since cineleisure damansara so near. My sis drove and we got a parking quickly and head to the cinema floor. I thought it would be quiet in KL, but suprisingly there were many people there. We bought tickets to watch CJ7, it wasnt that good of a movie, not that funny at all. Kinda disappointed. After that we went to The Curve to take pictures and then head home and have dinner. After that we said goodbye to my aunty who lives in Belgium.

Below are some pictures taken for these two days:
Mummy giving ang pau to me
Daddy giving ang pau to sisFamily photo at the Brickfields temple
See all the ang pau's :P

Me playing mahjong

All those were pictures taken on the first day of CNY. Now is the second day one :P

The center of The Curve

My sis and I at the swing

Group picture with cousins

Family photo before aunty leave for Belgium

Of course there are many more photos, too many to upload.

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

Gong Xi Fa Cai!!! Xin Nian Kuai Le!! Those are in mandarin :P. I have been very busy this whole week, including last week so I haven't been able to update my blog. To update a bit on what have happened, last last saturday I went to Accenture Open Day by invitation and it was my first interview. Before my interview, we had a test (either java or c#) and followed by a IQ test. Then I had my interview and I was told that they will contact me within 2 weeks. The following tuesday, they contacted me and I had my phone interview. That night itself we had a surprise birthday party for Eu Gene, so before we went to his place, I went shopping in 1 Utama but nothing to buy.

On the same week thursday, accenture called me on wednesday and I had my final interview. Went shopping abit after a 30 mins interview with my sister in KLCC. She waited for me while I have my interview. I got the job!! Will be working for acccenture starting 11th Feb. My workings days are beginning and I didn't get to enjoy CNY much. Sadly, I have to work in cyberjaya too.

Oh well, not all things will go your way. CNY eve went to grandma's place for dinner, it was a long night and I didnt have enough sleep for the previous night. Today itself I had to wake up early, like 8 sumthing and get ready to go temple. After meeting with my grandma, uncle and family and my aunt (from belgium) at the temple, we did what we need to and then proceeded to grandma's place. Many relatives came to visit, it was a fun day because I learnt how to play mahjong, of course still not skillful lar. I don't know how to count money and all that cause we didn't play money but I do know how to arrange the tiles to win.

'Time to go sleep, tomorrow will be another long day spent at my grandma's place. I won't be going back Segamat Johore this year, this is because my aunts (dad's side) came back after many years for CNY. Ciao, will update more later!!

The way to show biz

Artists in singing and acting all have one goal, that is to be famous. Many people want to be like them, therefore we have competitions such as American Idol, Malaysian Idol, One in a Million, Star Idol, and many more that showcase people's talent. There are people who make it without all those and they have done well. I have two person in mind, they are Colbie Caillat and Marie Digby.

Colbie made it big with posting her song on MySpace and Marie did it by singing an acoustic version of umbrella and posting it on Youtube. Now you can hear their songs on our local radio stations and they really have talent. What they have done that is smart is utilising technology. Posting on the internet is a great way to share your music, many people are able to access it. Because it is good, people start passing it around, and it reaches people who are interested in producing records for them.

For them to make it big, all they needed was to market their talent and the internet did it well for them. It is something they tried and it was worth the shot, now their beautiful voices can be heard. Below is the song Bubbly from Colbie:




The lyrics are good, she wrote this song herself (I think, that's what I heard :P)

Below is Marie Digby's version of Umbrella:



Hope you enjoy their music as much as I do

Entertainment or life lessons???

Since I don't have a job yet I have plenty of time to spare :P. Lately I have been watching a lot of tv shows. Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, Heroes, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, 30 rock and Scrubs and also Friends. These shows give entertainment to the viewers, all great in their own way, usually a little lesson behind each episode.

One Tree Hill season 5 has just started again and it came with a good season premiere. There are a number of things highlighted in the show, have integrity as a person and remember to stay true to who you are. It's your life, take a stand, feel that you're under control? it's time to stand up. You might lose your dream, but you don't lose everything, start fighting again. That's why I love tv shows, so much entertainment and lessons to learn. And not to forget the fashion too :P. I love to watch what the female characters wear and from there I observe what fashion trend is up overseas.

All tv shows always have a lesson to learn, by noticing each character in the show you can see their personality and how they grow.Sometimes people around you give advices that you can't seem to accept and tv shows can reach out to you when you're in that moment. It's good to reflect on what you watch and what you learn from it. Life is always full of ups and downs, so we face it straight on and keep living!!

P.S: I Love You

Saying I love you at the right time brings about a different feeling in the heart. It brings meaning into people's life too, it gives hope and knowing that you're being loved gives people the will to live on. P.S I Love You is a book I read written by Cecilia Ahern. It's a chic flit that I started to read after I got bored of fantasy books, you know the same old same old? Warriors, hunters , priests , a party grouped together to kill/destroy/eliminate the bad guy/evil demon/evil person. Sometimes it's hunting treasures, sometimes it's war.

This book that I read made me realised something that I haven't thought about. First the summary of the book. It's about this woman who married her childhood sweetheart and it was a happy marriage that did not last long , why? Because the husband discovered he had leukemia, of course in the end he died. The story doesn't end with him dying, after some time, the wife still misses him alot and always stayed at home, not wanting to live life without him, not wanting to be happy without him. Her birthday arrives and he sent her a cake along with a letter. Inside the letter, he told her that he has a plan for her and one letter will arrive every month.

The husband is so thoughtful to think of all these even when he was struggling with cancer. Every month the letters came and telling her to do somethings, things that made her happy and reminded her that he is always with her and that she can move on and be happy again. It also told her that doing all those things will not make her forget about him. The book ended with her being able to get on her feet again and continue to love him and live life. Ps: all letters end with ps: i love you.

After reading this book, I thought of things such as life comes and goes easily so we should live life fullest every second. Appreciate and show as much love as you can to be people around you. Even better if you can show love to people who need that love too. Sometimes I know I neglect the people I love and often disappoint them. I really hope that this year will be a better year and that I will learn from my mistakes and make them proud. The thing that I need the most this year is optimism which I always seem to lack of. Thinking negative for me is so easy and always worrying on things that are the least of my problems too. When I think negatively I affect the people around because it's so hard for them to encourage me when I shoot them back with negativity. I really thank you all that has put up with this from me. I will try to change and let's all hope for the best for the people we love.

Remember to say I love you with all your heart at every moment that counts in life!!

A whole new year

Time really flies, thinking about what happened last year makes me miss it. Like everyone there was ups and downs but I can conclude that it was a better year than 2006. Whatever new year's resolution I had last year, I really can't remember whether I did achieved it. So this year I will blog out my list, which is a small one.

• Try to eat more fruits and vegetable (I totally hate veggy :P)
• Start exercising/work out
• Use my brain more :P
• Be more careful in performing tasks
• Be less wasteful in spending money

Haha, those are the things that I call my flaws. Hopefully I can fix it. I haven't gotten a job yet because I'm waiting to obtain my cert from APIIT. It will be this month, I hope there won't be anymore delays. The reason I'm doing this is because I didn't do well for my FYP. I got 7, 6 , 7 for the module of FYP. Yeah, those are lousy results, if I showed my transcripts, it would affect my image towards the people who are hiring. Sigh, I'm really sad on my FYP but I can't run away with it. So after obtaining my cert, I'm going to apply for jobs and if they asked for my results I have no choice but to show it. I will try my best to impress them that I'm a hardworking person and results aren't everything :P.

So for the time being, I will learn more on C# and review back the programming languages that I've learn from college. All of it almost slipped my mind already, time to review and remember :P. Wish me luck!!

PC fair and me

Pikom PC fair was just the previous weekend since now is monday already. I went on saturday and of course everywhere is packed. Thinking of eating at the foodcourt but seeing there were already so many people walking around, I doubt that I could find a seat to have lunch with my cousin brother. Therefore, I decided to eat that Dome. This is my first time having a meal there and I didn't know what was good at all. My cousin brother nasi lemak with a choice of either beef rendang or chicken, he chose beef. I order cajun chicken sandwich. When the nasi lemak arrived it looked good, mine was okay. I took a taste of the sambal and it was better than I expected. After lunch, we went to the convention for the fair.

My target was to find a new keyboard and a Logitech mouse. It was hard to make a decision since I aiming for a high end items. In the end, I couldn't decide and went home. After some thought, I decide to buy the Razer Lycosa, so I went to PC fair again with my sister in the afternoon earlier. Bought my keyboard and I was very happy indeed. Cant wait to install and use it :P. My sis on the other hand bought a mouse coz hers is spoilt, after being with us for more than 4 years. She also bought a keyboard for her laptop coz it's easier for her to play O2jam.

It was packed on the way home, but it didn't affect our moods coz we got what we wanted :D.The outlook of the box .How it looks inside.

That's where the CD and guides for the drivers are.
The keyboard without the backlight on.
The keyboard with backlight on.

What a beautiful keyboard :P. The keys are soft and sturdy to use and on the right corner the media keys are touch-based. All the keys are programmable for macro use. Price wise I think it's worth it :D.