How we used to do it...

In the process of looking for an old photo for the homemade birthday card entry, I stumbled upon many other birthday related photos that really took me down a very nice and warm memory lane.

wrapped cubicle as present, with smiley balloons!

Aaaah~ the crazy things we did back then. Fun time. ^_^

Don't play play, whole car wrapped, with ribbon on top!

I was the unfortunate owner of the wrapped car, even though I parked somewhere else from my usual spot.

this is proof of Her Evilness doing the evil deed

I remember it rained on that day and the newspaper printings transferred to the windscreen and body paint, I could read the paper off the windscreen while driving... -_-

even the cubicle got moved

If I remember correctly, this was Operation Sparrow Nest. The whole cubicle got relocated, hehehe.

Sure is a birthday surprise if I say so myself. =P

ooh, the fake number plate

Yea, we tried to confuse the birthday boy by swapping his number plate.

where's my car?

Don't worry, we made sure he didn't drive off with the fake number plate. We are not that evil.

this was a birthday cake for a guy

Aaaah~ Polly's cake. Yes, it's heart-shaped, and yes, it's a feminine take of a guy's name.

I believe this was the beginning of inappropriate expression of dubious office relationship and/or romance. =P

see what I mean?

There you go, another example of inappropriate expression of dubious office romance. Either for sheer laugh, or trying to mask the true intention as a joke.

the romance continues...

Isn't it just sweet to have these lovely jubbly stuff among your colleague friends? Especially when it's not true.

Either we laugh so hard or we get goose bumps all over and vomit. =P

the return of the wrapped cubicle

Well, everything in the cubicle is a gift, nice isn't it? =P

the early form of homemade birthday card

Here we go, this is the photo I was looking for that started this wonderful journey back in time.

Yes, it says 'bowling queen' on the card.

it's half a bowling ball!

We needed an appropriate cake for the bowling queen, so we looked everywhere and managed to get this half sphere cake.

We made three holes for the fingers, just like on a real bowling ball, of course. =P

probably not what she had in mind when she wished for a lot of flowers...

Some cards are bigger than others. This one combined the birthday wishes from many to create the 'garden'.

Of course, when asked to create flower, some people would come up with funny stuff...

the happy birthday chain

Another big project. This one with a smiley face on each individual card, plus whatever birthday greetings.

Needless to say the one who received this has many friends. Mutual friends with the person who organised this project, that is.

Nice memories, these. But since we moved to ulu place we have stopped doing this.

Oh well, at least I have started to give out homemade birthday card again recently. ^_^

 

《暴走的供给者》

如果我写《暴走的供给者》，那将会是一篇短短的小故事。

没有华丽的场地，没有醉人的浪漫，也没有动人的情节。

只是一个很普通，很平凡的人的生活点滴。

要记下那悲愤，失望，和领悟。

那梦想和现实的差距和醒觉。

警惕自己那三个不可以再忘记的要点。

接受这残酷的事实。

因为失去了，所以做不到了。失败了。

要放弃，才能走下去。

可是，不要忘了自己的责任。

责任感，是残留下来仅有的原动力。

心思点滴

几时才是合适的时机上载那些文章？

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一时人间无爱，一时人间有爱。

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大瓜到底是怎么有那么厉害的异性磁力的？

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唉，还我看了心暖暖的可爱「周一情侣」！

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抗拒，是因为难为情？还是不想欠下人情？

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心里想的是围墙，山洞，一个人的地方。

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为什么几乎全部领导者都是没脑的混球？

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随兴随想 |系列|

Poker face, not

As the idea of this entry started to form, I unconsciously thought of a Mandarin entry I wrote a few months ago that I ended up didn't post because I deemed the content time sensitive then.

Perhaps I will eventually post it in the future, or perhaps it will join those unposted entries, of which I have plenty, all the way back to 2010. 2009 if I count the book review. =P

Anyway, I am too transparent, I am not sure if that's good or bad. Colleague friends said I don't have poker face, I guess it's a good thing I don't gamble.

I am not too good at stress management, and it shows.

(Somehow I suddenly have the image of Running Man's Gary saying "stress!" flashed in my mind. Really poisoned!)

This is not an entry to whine or rant, in fact, I just really like to thank those colleagues and friends who showed and/or expressed concern seeing the frustrated, fatigued me.

Thank you. Really much appreciated.

And sorry if I have been irritable and/or full of negativity lately. I tried my best not to affect others when I am in such state but I am not too good at hiding my feelings or emotions.

I will be mightily glad when this shit is finally over, but before that day comes, I can only say:

"Argh~ stress!"

心的频道：颓废·叛逆

今天，我，颓废

颓靡低落的苏醒

几乎要拿假旷工

超烂的一个开始

无精打采到公司

看着那电邮山堆

一直抗拒的工作

没顶我厌恶极限

今天，我，叛逆

工厂业务电邮质问

不去不做不看不回

公司没有我一样行

不对的人不对的工

不管不想不睬不理

打破自己工作原则

豁出去上班时写作

心的频道 |系列|

Tasty left hand

Little monsters turned up their volume to wake the neighbourhood after they woke up, nothing uncommon there but I was more annoyed than usual this morning because I have been feeling strangely fatigue these few days.

When can they learn to speak instead of shout to communicate?

Eventually they left the house to go to a birthday party and so peace and quiet returned to the neighbourhood.

And I drifted off back to sleep.

And I dreamt.

I can remember the last dream before I woke again, I wonder what it meant, if anything. Let's talk about the dream.

It's after school or after work, I was walking to retrieve my car when I bumped into some high school friends.

Three of them. We used to be close but in the dream they seemed rather distanced. Not much words were exchanged after a brief greeting. They were in their sports attire and were hurrying somewhere.

I remember feeling strange since they were not really the exercise type. Anyway I followed them, thinking maybe I could join them.

Like in most dreams the venue or scene simply change from one place to another, I remember an indoor court initially, vaguely resembling the good old badminton court in St John Ambulance headquarters but all of the sudden I was following them outdoor, walking on a big field, vaguely similar to my primary school field, only it seemed to extend to larger scale.

I asked them where they were heading and what kind of sports they were going to do. They ignored me mostly and just walked on. I had a feeling they didn't want me to be with them.

Somehow I followed them still, never quite catch up with them, always lagging behind. Like I was walking in a tired pace but tried as I might I couldn't speed up.

Eventually we came to a basketball court and there were other people. The three friends joined the rest and it seemed to be a match or something.

Having no interest in basketball and I think perhaps finally 'got it' that I wasn't welcomed, I bid them goodbye and left. I remember saying something like "if only it's badminton or jogging".

So I walked through that field that's vaguely similar to my primary school's, in those leaden steps, slow and sluggish.

And then a dog came running towards me and playfully nibbled my left hand. It's not an attack, it's not painful, just holding on without breaking skin, though the dog did have the whole of my left palm in its mouth.

All of the sudden I had a rolled up book in my right hand and I tapped the head of the dog lightly so it let go of my left hand and went running away in a playful manner, running a big circle before it came back to nibble my left hand again.

I remember feeling a bit yucky of the saliva on my left hand. I tapped the head of the dog and it went running away again.

It repeated two or three times before I noticed a different dog running towards me to nibble my left hand. Unlike the first dog, which I couldn't recall the look, somehow I noticed this second dog to be different to the first and remember it being a well cared for dog. Clean, nice fur, and all that.

It had my left hand whole in its mouth as well and I had to tap its head before it let go and went running circle as well, but I woke up after that.

So, anyone who knows how to interpret dreams? ^_^

What if... Rich Romance?

About a month ago, I had a pondering moment and took down some notes to capture those thoughts.

Earlier this month, in my haste to finish an entry so I could go watch Running Man, I wrote something regarding those thoughts that could have been misinterpreted.

"...like my pondering on timing of starting a romantic relationship and the consequence"

Never seen wifey reacted so fast and so strongly to my blog post. =P

Anyway, here's what I actually meant.

After the puppy love, the fruitless crushes, I finally found someone who is willing to let me hold her hand and to reciprocate my feelings.

And so started my first (and only) romantic relationship.

I was in college then, financially dependent with only pocket money as my sole 'income'. The courting lasted 99 months before we got married, and for the majority of that 99 months, I only had what I saved.

When I finally landed myself with a job and started to have steady income, the firstborn was on his way. Basically I never have much financially so my romantic dates and outings had pretty much been frugal.

So I wonder, what would it be like if I was financially independent with surplus to splurge before or when I started a romantic relationship?

My dear would be delighted I am sure, for she loves travelling. Trips all around the globe with comfortable transportation and accomodation. You know, luxury vacations and meals in comfort and leisure.

We would have so many precious and wonderful memories at various countries and places. Everywhere she likes to go, anything she likes to do, in style.

I know she is not a meterialistic person but how nice it would be to be able to afford lavish gifts and whatever she likes without having to worry too much about the cost.

How different it would have been...

I only have my poor student style dates, outings, and trips. All on budget and cutting out whatever we could, of course.

Don't get me wrong, the date, the trips, the things we did together, mostly economical though they were, were precious to me.

It's just food for thought, what if we were able to have material-centric indulgence when we dated? How would the courting be instead then?

动次 动次 动次 动次！

好开心的一晚

意外的好的自助晚餐，没想到的生日优惠和香滨

当然，更重要的是唱得好尽兴

开心玩笑的气氛，大伙常常笑翻

有在探试寻找歌曲来发专辑的丝丝

有要搞到全部人都失身声的彬彬 （不敢跟她再去唱歌嘹…）

有山寨版〈动力火车〉的动力 GP （动力鸡皮？）和 LuLu 火车

有唱某些歌很有感觉的周杰霆和他超爆笑的“呼～”拉音

还有又被点唱「煎熬」到破音的我… >_<

拜托，不要在点那首歌嘹啦…

轻快节奏激励人心的「伤心的人别听慢歌」唱了两次

若不是时限已到我们还会唱多一次的，嘿！

动次 动次 动次 动次！

随兴随想 |系列|

  

内心渴望？

最近追看 Running Man 这游戏节目，总是会让我笑一番。 =D

喜欢节目里的那一对「星期一情侣」，觉得他们好可爱。 ^_^

看到他们在一起时我跟着开心，看到他们分开时我也觉得好可惜。

同事朋友笑我是因为内心渴望。

… （乌鸦飞过）

随便他们怎么讲啦！

都说我是感性的啦，不相信不是算了咯。 -_-

反正看这节目也不过是娱乐，搞笑的游戏之余我还能因为这跟着剧情需要而发展的「星期一情侣」的关系情节得到点额外的娱乐又何尝不是一件好事。

看到一对恋人在一起而觉得开心不是很正常的咩？

难道要我看到情侣分离才开心？

我是邪恶，但不是那么邪恶咯…

随兴随想 |系列|

Run Log (September 2013)

01 September 2013, Sunday.

First ever outdoor night run, on a new route, and it rained.

Bollocks.

Ran along the main road towards Batu Ferringhi, followed the Straits Quay curve at Island Plaza, turned back at Tesco. There's a part at the Straits Quay curve that's dark, so perhaps a night run along that route is not so safe.

GPS went bonkers between Straits Quay and Tesco so I am not sure about the exact distance. Nike+ reported 6.9km but I doubt it, I adjusted it to 6.3km, still it's just an estimate from the Nike+ map.

Took me 42 minutes, I think I ran faster than usual, the rain made me so. =P Will probably run on the same route again some other day to verify the distance.

Anyway, a good run, ended strong.

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06 September 2013, Friday.

Consecutive days of evening rain has ruined my running plan this week.

I gave up on Tuesday and Wednesday because it was raining by the time I finished work, however I was changed and readied to run yesterday but as soon as I stepped outdoor it rained.

It's also raining when I got home, and the gym was full. Bollocks.

Anyway, on leave today to babysit the kids while wifey went for her dental appointment in the afternoon. Sacrificed sleep and went running with wifey in the morning, knowing the weather's going to turn lousy in the evening.

Ran the same route as Sunday, this time the GPS behaved itself and Nike+ showed a distance of 6.28km. Woot! My estimatation on Sunday was pretty close. ^_^

Covered the distance running nonstop in 46 minutes.

Good run, ended strong.

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10 September 2013, Tuesday.

It was raining after work, so I gave up the idea of running around the workplace and headed home instead.

The rain has stopped when I got home so I decided to hit the road. Sun has set so it was a night run.

Did a variation of the Straits Quay route, which gave me a 6.45km distance. Completed that in 44 minutes running nonstop.

Good run, ended strong but I stepped in many puddles on the way, it's dark at many parts of the route. =\

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12 September 2013, Thursday.

Glad I didn't give up when I felt the slight drizzle as I walked to my car after work today.

I was already changed for running and decided what the heck, it's not a heavy rain, so I ran.

Well, the rain stopped, which is good, but I was not in a good form today. Wanted to do three laps but by the end of the second lap I was already struggling.

So I stopped after running nonstop for 5km, took me 35 minutes. But my left lower leg is in pain now, could be from badminton yesterday.

Maybe I should skip the weekend run to let the body recover, as today's run ended weak. =(

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16 September 2013, Monday.

Malaysia Day, no work. Since I didn't run in the weekend, I went running today.

Straits Quay route. 6.12km nonstop in 44 minutes. Struggled from 4km onwards.

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19 September 2013, Thursday.

Two laps around the workplace after work with Chin. 5km nonstop in 35 minutes.

Still can't do three laps, and September is almost over, dammit.

As a side note, it puzzled us to not be overtaken by the pros today. The pros started at most one kilometer after us, they should have overtaken us within the 5km distance. But we ended our run without anyone overtaking us, strange.

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22 September 2013, Sunday.

Farewell Run™ for Mr Pork Leg this morning. I know I know, totally ruining my slacker extraordinaire reputation to wake up early on a weekend but hey, I did it for friendship and the breakfast after the run.

Turn out was good, nine people, we ran along Gurney. There was a pro among us and to my absolute dismay the crowd was following his pace, even the friend who had a knee operation was running at that pace.

Bollocks.

To not fall behind too much I was running at faster than usual pace, still bringing the rear mind you.

Wanted to do two laps for more than 6km distance, but ended up with just 5.07km in 33 minutes. As soon as we passed tha 5km mark the other friend still running (many stopped after the first lap, understandably at that pro's pace) asked why we were still running?

I was happy to oblige. Then we went and gorged ourselves. =P

Anyway, not a satisfactory run as I could have run further at my normal pace, but oh well, it's a Farewell Run™, I followed the crowd.

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24 September 2013, Tuesday.

Ran around workplace after work, 5.18km nonstop in 35 minutes.

Still couldn't do three laps, and struggled towards the end of the second lap, meh!

Doesn't bode well for my plan of hitting 7.5km in September. =(

On a side note, marathon lady overtook me on the 3km mark and proceeded to leave me far behind, probably like 500m ahead of me when I ended my run. So all is back to normal and well again, heh. =P

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26 September 2013, Thursday.

Night run, Straits Quay route.

Was going slow and strong, trying to break 7.5km today, but two things foiled the plan: it started raining after 3km, and stomach discomfort set in.

So I cut short the route and headed home. GPS went bonkers around 4km mark, I estimated the distance to be around 5.5km, will probably run the same route again to verify.

Took me 40 minutes. 8.3km/h seems to be a comfortable speed for me, ended the run strong, just with a dire need to hit the toilet. -_-

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In this series: |May 2013| |June 2013| |Duracell bunny, not| |Hazy dazy| |July 2013| |August 2013|

Poisoned

I have quite a few entries that I like to write, to post.

They are floating in my mind waiting to be shared, like the things we used to do for birthdays, like the marathon farewell, like my pondering on timing of starting a romantic relationship and the consequence, like that very warm incident regarding mooncake.

Some I have drafted, some are simple notes I scribbled to record the moment or incident, some are still just ideas or thoughts.

Some drafts are actually quite complete and just required minor touch up, I even have completed entries that I don't think is the right time to share, yet.

Or those I simply forgot to post. =P

Anyway, I have many things to write, to post, to share, but I am not going to do any of it.

Now I just want to go watch Running Man. =P

Poisoned by the series, must... watch... now...