Updates!!

There's quite a few of events that happenned since the last blog, didn't really keep track of time. Just gonna post a few pictures on it. 25th July my colleagues organized a Luau Party, hawaiin theme. So less story, more pictures, cause a picture is worth a thousand words.

So the next thing would be BUM, a company trip, there's gonna be like 300-400 people, I will be performing cause I'm a new joiner of the company. Will be leaving for Lumut this friday for the trip, 08.08.08, and yes it's on the 1st day of the olympics, won't be watching it on tv :(. Will update on BUM then.

Wicked

It's has been awhile since I've visited a book store. Whenever I get the chance to visit Borders, MPH or Kinokuniya, I love to slowly walk through the book sections that I enjoy looking for something interesting to read. The first thing that attracts me is the book cover which I guess it's normal for most people. Then I'll read the summary, the prologue or the 1st chapter. Next thing I look at will be the taglines on the book such as "New York Times Best Seller" and the awards given. Many other criterias are looked into, writer, genre, even the book font type. Bad font type is a big No No for me. Wouldn't want to damage my eyes more :P.

Currently I'm reading "Wicked" by Gregory Macguire and I bought this book because it is made into a Broadway musical in the US which I learn about from the series Ugly Betty. The design of the book itself is cool whereby the one I bought has green pages at the side of the book but the inside is not green though. This book is about the wicked witch in the children's fairy tales, The Wizard of Oz, on how she became a witch, the story about her life. I haven't finish it, about 65% done. It's one of the most interesting fantasy books I've read. Normally we have heroes like warriors, priest, magicians, thief and many more. This one is about the antagonist which is a witch. It tells what happened when she was still an unborn child till her death.

I like it because it doesn't involves demons and monsters like the typical fantasy books. This is more about the evil hearts of human. A bit of politics are involved too. I give it a rating of 7/10, so far it's still the Harry Potter series that keeps me reading non stop. I do recommend this book if you want a different kind of fantasy.

Life gone dull.......Just kidding!!

Walking in you find many walls high up, about 5 feet, it gives you the feeling of being in a maze. Make a wrong turn, you're in a dead end. Where is it?? Where is the pantry??? Want refill my bottle lar :P. So recently I have move into a new office, I was in Wisma 2 but now moved to Wisma 4 2nd floor where Nicholas used to work there. Used to be in a discussion room with 3 other colleagues of mine, now I have my own cubicle. It's kinda nice having my own space, making myself at home :P.

Anyway the cubicles are 5 feet high, seriously had the feeling of being in a maze when I first entered. I was kinda lost when walking back from the pantry, tot it was a walkway to my cubicle, ended in someone else's cubicle. HAHA. Feel like taking pictures but lazy bring camera.

What's new?? Well, got myself a Nintendo Wii to play. It's very fun, I play tennis every night, see I still got exercise :P. Mario Kart is extremely fun to play in multiplayer mode. Sadly, lately not much time to play cause have a lot of work to do. Two modules to handle, ugh so tiring. One down and I have one more to go. Hopefully the upper won't want to change design again >.<.

Upcoming events would be SWF development day on 11th July, looking forward to meeting new people and having a bit of fun for one day. The next event would be a big one, all Accenture staff in KL will be involved, BUM, business unit meeting. The place would be Lumut, Perak, 3Days2Nights stay. I'll be performing in this event because I'm a new joiner. Will try to take pictures and post it.

I will try to spend my weekends more fun beside shopping or just lying around on my bed :P, also playing Wii :p. Need to find a bit more spice in my life if not sure burn out quickly. Till the next time I blog, it shall be interesting :P

Cupcake rocks!!

Lately I bumped into a blog where the writer shows her cupcake creations, it was wonderful and made me crave for it. In her blog she also mentioned another baker from the USA. She has also baked wonderful cupcake. The malaysian blog is : dolce~ and the US one is Bakerella. It is very interesting, you might learn a thing or two.

On saturday night after dinner at my grandma's place, my sister and I got bored, so We went to the Curve and Ikano Power Center. On our way back from Ikano to The curve, we saw a poster, a place called cupcake chic. Since it was just near us, we head towards it. They sell cupcakes there and we bought two. Nice package, great cupcakes. I only took two pictures:

cupcake packaging

Chocolate with vanila frosting (left) Green tea with green tea frosting

Looks nice leh?? Taste good also, you can find this shop at the Curve side that is facing Ikano Power Center and it's just one shop away from Gloria Jeans. I miss it already, will try other flavours when I go there again. :D

Idol gives back

I have been following American Idol season 7 since the beginning and was quite impress with the talent this year. Although there are some that I feel that they should have been gone soon but have still stayed on. Jason Castro and Kristy Lee Cook are the people I feel that should have been voted off instead of Ramielle and Amanda. This year the male singers are very good. Well back to my title, Idol gives back, it was a great thing that they have done.

I didn't know much about the sufferings of Africa until I watched this. It was saddening to know that 30 seconds a child dies of malaria in Africa, other than that, there are many children that have lost their parents to AIDS and need their grandparents to care for them. This is one hardship in life that I know you and I who are in our comfort zones might not have the strength to go through compared to those children.

What I want to urge to everyone is to do something, if you want to travel there and help them, do so with a plan. If you want to donate, find means to donate, donate as much as you can. All my friends who are working, I'm sure rm 100 or 200 is okay to donate out. Since we're working, losing a bit of spending money gives great help to those in africa. My plan is to sponsor a child from World Vision. In doing this, we helped a child, to give them hope and to give them a chance for education. So please take a look at the world vision link and I hope you will help out.

Another thing I would like to highlight would be the KL freeze@ Pavilion. For more info check out http://me.zestful.org/2008/04/video-kl-freeze-pavillio/ or http://randomalphabets.com/. I came across it on thestar.com.my, take a look at it.

Play a part in the community

Somehow with all the hustle and bustle of life I have forgotten something important to me, that is our mother earth, our environment and all living things. I was working on a website that focuses on these but it failed because of the lack of planning and doing it with less experience and help. People would go so what?? If you really cared, nothing can stop you. I gave up because of dissapointment in various areas.

So today I came across something that reminded me of it again. Therefore I have researched a little bit on information that can help us start playing a part in saving the environment that we might lose in the future. Firstly I would like to mention Live Earth, it focuses on climate crisis. There are many useful information on how we can reduce in consuming energy and reducing carbon footprint. Explore the site and learn more, you can also calculate your carbon footprint. What is carbon footprint? It is the amount of carbon you helped release into the environment.

One of the famous environmental organizations is WWF. They focus on saving wildlife such as the sea turtles,orang utans and tigers for Malaysia. We all can also take part by sms and donating rm 3 for saving the turtles. For more info on how to sms, visit the website. It is important that we all do something, even if it's a small thing. Influence the people around you and one small thing will accumulate to a big one. This weekend I shall try to compile a list of things we can do in Going Green.

Topics, topics...

I have always loved writing, of course it's not writing technical documents such as the ones we're required to do for our FYPs. I prefer writing on something that has much freedom. Lately, I've been thinking on improving my blog and adding in more topics. Firstly, I think I shall ask myself what would I like to read from blogs before I ask around. There are many things that can be written down. What I observed from other blogs, they cover traveling, technology, food, daily life, objects such as cars, bikes, toys and many others.

Therefore there are many things to write, but what I am good at? What do I have interest in? I think sharing on my knowledge and my opinion on the things I like are worth reading :p. Unless you disagree with me and have better topics for me. Given a title, I may be able to write it but depending on the information I have and inspiration for that title. Putting some thought to it, I think I shall start by writing my opinions/reviews on things that I have interest in or objects that I use. It may not be good but in time I hope to improve my diversity on different kind of topics. My advise to people who want to improve like myself is to read more on different things that interest you, pick out writers that inspire you and see the style they have in writing and discover your own as you discover other's.

D.Gray-man

I'm here to introduce as the title says D.Gray-Man. As all my friends would know I am a big fan of japanese animation. I have started watching since I was young. My grandma used to borrow tapes that were in cantonese for me to watch. It was very enjoyable. Currently I am watching a few titles and there are more on my list which I have missed.

This animation originated from the manga itself and brought more life to the series. Many of us love to read manga and sometimes it takes our imagination to make the pictures move. But we need not do that because we have people who make animation out of it. So what's the story about?? At first glance you wouldn't know much, you would think this is a story bout a boy who can fight demons and he would save the world.

Along the story he met up with people in a society that are all like him and also supporting people like him. He made friends and the story goes on. What captured me was the mystery behind the characters, they developed slowly. Of course there are somethings that are typical, you fight and you win. There are also parts where people dies, must be more realistic lar. :P Other than all that, they have great openings and endings. What I like bout an anime like this one is the suspend they give the viewers, some episodes are funny, some are serious and with a lot of action that makes you want to watch one after another. For this anime, currently it is at the peak of the story again which makes things exciting again.