Few weeks back was talking to Jane on how I wish that we could go back to Korea again n how I missed the times we spent at the coffee house. Everday without fail, few hours after lunch, we will have a coffee break. The coffee house there all are decorated nicely with cozy ambience. Cool weather filled with nice aroma of coffee, relax and chatting while sipping coffee. My mind is just free from all worries and work. It was a very nice feeling that I wished I can just leave my work (during working hours) and find a spot in Penang where I can read and be surrounded by the aroma of cofee. I guess God heard me. During that weekend, I went to KL. Reached early and had to wait for Low at a mamak stall nearby Puduraya Station. Ordered a cup of teh tarik. I was there reading book and weather was just nice cos it was raining. It matches what I wished for. To be away from work, read books and sip tea/ coffee. But the feeling was totally different! I was in the middle of one of the busiest street in KL, it was wet and was breathing in the carbon monoxide from cars passing by and the second-hand smoke!!!! 

 

I guess I have to be very careful in making wishes next time. I need to be clear n precise... hahaha

How long do we need to know a person well enough to regard him/her as our friend? This is the question that I'm asking myself these days. Few years back, got to know a girl who i thought is my friend but to realise few days back that I don't actually know her well enough to call her my friend. She came as a very gentle and incontaminated. Someone you think has not been expose to the bad influence of the world. But these are all outer appearance.. I was quick to judge to make that statement above. Slowly after a year of 'friendship', she started acting strangely that I'm not able to understand. Why is she treating me like I'm a stranger to her? Why is she hiding things from me? Then I thought for some apparent reasons, she does not need me as her friend because she has someone special for her already. Few days back only I know that the incontaminated image of hers isn't real. She isn't at all incontaminated. She knows what she is doing and what she wants and what she needs to do in order to achieve them. Her real self is totally different from what and how I know of her. The thought of this really scares me. How can I have a friend when I don't even know her at all.

These days everyone is going short... I mean their hair... so am I

Went and cut my hair short and now missing my long hair...

 

I received this forward mail from a friend 3 years back. I kept this mail and will read them when I'm down or lost direction. Here's something I would like to share with you all. Enjoy.. ^^

 

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We were all excited going on this trip... cos being friends for 10 years plus, we've never been to any trips before.. Ironic, isn't it. EeLing drove us to Kuala Kedah jetty and she was always on the accelarator.. we reached there within an hour! Though we were early but the early ferry tickets were all sold out... we had to take the 11am ferry.

 

Reaching Langkawi around 12 something, we went and picked up our rental car and off we go for petrol and lunch. We had our lunch at Barn Thai. The restaurant was in the middle of mangrove swamp, lead by a wooden bridge from the car park. The restaurant was nice but food is just so-so. We went to some beaches; Tanjung Rhu, Pantai Kok. It was a funny sight to see Ann using umbrella strolling along the beach.. hahaha. But she was very proud of it cos it's a gift from her aunt who bought it from Japan and also becos of the 'transaprency' the umbrella become. The umbrella is light pink in colour and when taking pics under the sun, it look almost transparent. Hence, we called it the 'lutsinar' umbrella... hahahaha At night, we went Eagle Square for dinner and the food was nice... yummyyyy Then we bought some drinks back to our room and had a fun drinking game.

 

The next morning we can hardly wake up. EeLing set alarm on her handphone but it didn't work.. hehe She ended up woke us up at 9:30am. Went down for breakfast and then go back to sleep... hahaha As our ferry ticket back to Kuala Kedah was at 4pm so we went on car ride to Pantai Cenang and had our lunch there. We reached the jetty at 3:50pm... for that 10mins, we had so much to do.... return the rental car, custom clearance (luckily they didn't open our bags to check, else we would have missed our ferry) and run to the ferry.

 

I had so much fun!!! Ann, May, EeLing, let's have another trip again

Exhausted, ache but fun is all that I feel on Monday after a fully occupied weekend I had. It was a spontaneous plan to go to Taiping with Jane. When we reached there on Saturday morning, we do not have any plan of where to go or what to do. We gave Shu Huey a call and up we go to the ticket counter of Maxwell Hill. We were lucky that we manage to get tickets as it was usually fully-booked during weekends. The journey up was very 'exciting'... the driver of the jeep was stepping hard on the accelerator making us feel like we were on a roller-coaster ride. Reaching up the hill, the happiest moment was that we get to see tulips. The tulips at Maxwell Hill usually blooms during Chinese New Year. It was already April and there are still tulips around!!  We took plenty of photos and when I reached home... I was so tired but was very happy.

 

My weekend doesn't stop there. It continues on the next day... paintball at War Museum. During the first game, I was so excited that I kept moving forward to attack the opposition team... but was spotted by Choo Pooi's bf. When bumped into him face to face, I was blank and do not know what I should do; return to my hiding spot, shoot him or run away... Within that seconds, I got shot by the leg and fell down when trying to run  ... wound on my knee and 2 big bruises - memory for paintball activities... hahaha.. We ended the game with my team losing because Choo Pooi's team was at the benefit of having 5 ppl while we have only 4... hehehe 

 

On Monday, I can hardly walk.. cos of the wound and muscle pain..

These days I've been very stressed up... gotta stop! Hmmm.. to destress I'm going to start thinking of my coming holidays

Will be taking a week off on Dec or add few days on top of the US Thanksgiving holiday this 25th Nov. Where should I go? I was thinking of going to Cameron Highlands or AFarmosa with my family. Any other good suggestions?

Yesterday I watched a Korean movie, Taeguki. Bought this some time ago but only watch them yesterday. Needless to say, it is a recommended movie to watch! I was touched by the brotherhood of Lee Jin-Tae and Lee Jin-Seok and at the same time I was disturbed with the killing, bombing scenes during war. There was a scene that I can't forget... a South Korean army was hit at the stomach and then stepped on a landmine he buried. When they brought him back to the camp, trying to sew the wound on the stomach, you can see the bloody intense with hands covered with blood and the guy was screaming in pain. Due to insufficient medical equipments and medication, maggots start growing around it...   Finishing this movie, it makes me wonder what is victory when pain is all that it caused.

 

What does being lucky means to you? Strike a lottery?

To me, I consider myself lucky in friendship. I have a group of good friends from school. My 4yrs degree in Johor, I found one whom I can share a lot of things. In job, I have 3 good friends which I share and learnt a lot from them... and I'm still learning. I used to hear people say, it's hard to find true friends in work but I found myself 3, amazing, huh?  Not sure why I'm so sentimental today.. but I want to thank all of you for allowing me being lucky