Monthly Archive for September, 2008

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The Lake House

Published on September 13, 2008 in emotions, love, me, movies and music. 4 Comments

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the lake house

Will you wait 2 years for someone? For a person you supposedly love. For a person who means the world to you. For a person you never really did met. For a person whom you only talk to through letters. And this person asked you to wait for 2 years. 2 years. Just to be together. Together. Will you? If you know that this is it? This is when life as you know it ends. Will you?

I asked myself…

…and I don’t have an answer.

For those who are waiting for someone, you should probably watch this movie, The Lake House and ask yourself this question. Will you wait?

P/S: btw, Keanu Reeves is such a cutie pie. :P Oh, and one of the song in this movie, This Never Happened Before by Paul McCartney is really nice.

A gloomy day at Shanghai

Published on September 13, 2008 in me and stuff. 0 Comments

So it’s yet another gloomy day in Shanghai. It has been pouring for pretty much the whole day now. I practically stay in the hotel the whole day, except for the time where I got out of my room to get lunch and some clothes. Yea, did some minimal shopping. Need to control myself. :)

I saw MouseRug® in the Apple Store during my short shopping activity earlier today. I was there to see if there’s Gelaskin. They weren’t selling gelaskin, but little did I know, they were actually selling MouseRug®. I have a BookRug® (thank you)  and I think that’s a very cool thing. It’s a bookmark, made of rug material. But I wasn’t aware they had this rug made to a mouse pad as well! I didn’t buy it though (although I must say, I was contemplating with myself the whole time whether I should or not…). The main reason for not getting it is becoz of the crazy price of that mouse pad. It’s selling at RMB259. I would be crazy to pay over RM100 for a mousepad. Crazy crazy. Hence, I stood there and touch it for ~2 mins. It’s so nice… (I know, I’m crazy).

I have some mooncakes lying around. I gave 2 to the guy who came help me repair my TV (yes, I somehow pulled the TV tray a little too hard and the whole wire came out… yup, that’s what I did) and 2 for the lady who cleaned my room. They were happy. I felt good. :) It’s always nice when a small gift would make someone happy.

Anyway, I’m now in my room doing absolutely nothing (I should be doing my assignment and all though). Crap. Oh sky, why do you have to rain tonight? Sigh.

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view from my room

MU will be playing Liverpool at 7.45pm. Liverpool is going downnnn… :P . Lake House will be on HBO later at 9pm. I love that movie. Must watch.

L’OCCITANE

Published on September 12, 2008 in stuff. 10 Comments

Woohooo! :D Shangri-La Pudong now gives their guests L’occitane product to use! Woohooo! Being a big fan of L’occitane, it’s only natural for me to get all excited. Oh, and being a cheapo as well, I’m gonna bring them home. Muahaha :) Yay! It’s so nice! It smells absolutely lovely.

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L’occitane body lotion, shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, bar soap :) Woohooo!

Posts combined

Published on September 11, 2008 in food, me, stuff and travel. 0 Comments

Well, the factory has yet again succeed in pissing me off. I know for a fact that Mooncake Festival is this coming Sunday, but what I didn’t know is that it’s a country declared holiday on the following Monday. I would presume that the factory would have let me know that they are close on Monday, if I’ve sent an email a couple of weeks ago to inform them that I’m coming on Monday! *sigh*. Hence, I would have to extend an extra day in China. Damn. Saddest part is, Joey’s not around. She’s off to some place to pray. I… will then have to sit in the hotel and rot. Gosh.

Anyway, here’s a couple of things I’ll like to share. I actually wanted to put it in separate posts, but I thought it wouldn’t be necessary. Having all updates in one post is okie as well I guess. :)

On Tuesday, I only got to leave the factory at 10pm. By the time I got back to my hotel, it was already 10.45pm. I felt really hungry, but I didn’t want to have anything heavy. Hence, I made myself a hot cup of milo (3 in 1 light, btw) and added marshmallows to it. (I bought these marshmallows from the Muji shop when I was at the HKIA, and pls, don’t ask me y I bought marshmallows from Muji). :P Boy, was it good. I know marshmallows have always gone well with hot chocolate, but it’s equally good with milo. Or maybe it’s coz I’m hungry. :)

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steaming hot milo with marshmallows.. yummm..

I stayed in Shangri-La again this time. Being as ignorant as I’ve always been, I didn’t realize that my room was overlooking the Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower. I only realized the 2nd day I was in that hotel. Crap. I tried taking a picture of the view when it’s at night, but it didn’t seem to come out right. I think I should consider taking up some photography class. Another building is the… okie, I don’t know what building that is. But I remember one of my colleague said that it looked like a can opener. :) I took a pick of the in-door swimming pool of Shangri-La. And also the mall that’s next to it. That’s where I get food and all.

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clockwise: Shangri-La indoor swimming pool, can-opener building, the mall next to Shangri-La, Oriental Pearl Tower

Yesterday, I got myself to Suzhou from Shanghai after work. I got off work pretty early today and decided to go look for Starbucks. I honestly remember that I’ve purchased green tea frappucino from Starbucks Suzhou before. I walked for approximately 30mins or so, and I can’t find it. I swear I bought it before from nearby! Where is it!?! I gave up eventually.I ended up in this shop, got some dinner (or more like a snack) and walked back to my hotel. What a bummer. Nevertheless, it was a good walk. I took a picture of their bus-stop (which I think is really nice – classic).

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bus stop in Suzhou

Then there’s this other restaurant which is located just around the corner from the Sheraton hotel. I use to go there a lot once when I had to stay for a couple of days here in Suzhou. That’s also coz there’s a bunch of us. Now, this restaurant serves fusion western type food. It’s pretty nice actually, but the name… hahahaha. I mean if you read it in Chinese or English, there’s really nothing wrong to it. But try reading it in Hokkien (and for the benefit of those who don’t understand Hokkien… drop me a personal note if you are interested by what it actually means ;) ). It sounded so obscence when they say in Hokkien… “Hey guys! Let’s go over to *^!@#* to eat! woohoo!” Gosh. But it’s nevertheless a nice restaurant to eat.

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Blue Bird Cafe

I waited till night fall before I walked down to the hotel to take a picture of the main building. I’m telling you, it’s really really pretty. I haven’t been here for almost a year and a half. Lots have change. They’ve upgraded a lot of stuff and they are currently building a new wing that would open end of the year. I love this hotel.

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Sheraton Suzhou

I’m going back to Shanghai after work tomorrow. I’m still thinking what I’m going to do over the weekend. Mooncake festival. This is my 4th one not being at home. *sigh* Oh well. tough luck.

The Moment of Truth

Published on September 10, 2008 in stuff and tv series. 2 Comments

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This is a new American game show currently aired on Star World every Wednesday, 10pm (and yes, I’m in Sheraton Suzhou right now and they have Star World! YAY!). To be honest, I find this game show pretty disturbing. This game show would have the contestant strapped to a polygraph prior to the game show where 50 questions are asked. Without knowing the answer to the polygraph, the contestant is then asked 21 questions from that pool of 50 questions during the show itself. As the contestant moves up a notch, the question asked gets more personal.

Of coz money is involved. Ultimately, the contestant who tells the truth would get USD500,000. But if you really do watch the game, it’s… disturbing. I mean these are really personal questions. For instance, “Have you slept with anyone else after you are married?” or “Do you think your in laws are better parents to you than your own parents?”. Mind you that these questions are asked with your parents, your husband and some of your family members sitting right in front of you. The people you love and who loves you. How far would you go for money? I mean answering these questions might hurt the people who have loved you.

This makes me wonder about the things people would do for money. It disturbs me so much that I can only watch this gameshow once (and that one time, I didn’t even finish watching the whole episode). And that’s pretty much it. I wouldn’t do it, that’s for sure. Even if it’s for USD1million. I think to me, my r’ship with my husband and my family is worth more important than USD1million. I would not risk my marriage, or my love life or anything for that matter for that amount of money. But somehow it amazes me that some ppl are still willing to go ahead and do it.

Oh well. Again, I find this game show disturbing.

…and I’ve arrived.

Published on September 9, 2008 in me. 7 Comments

Here’s a short post of me in bullet points for the past 24 hours;

  • flight sucks. threw up 3 times. manage to wait till I land before I threw up though.
  • due to the throwing up activities, I now have a windy stomach and food wouldn’t go in entirely.
  • nearly humiliate myself falling down the slippery walkalator. manage to catch my balance at the very last moment before falling. the white dude behind me must be thinking that I’m doing a little dance for him on the walkalator. okie, so yea, that’s a little humiliation.
  • it’s 6.38am and I still have no idea how I am supposed to get to the office today.
  • bleeding nose in the morning.

Hence, I want to go home.

The End.

…and I’m off again!

Published on September 7, 2008 in me. 4 Comments

What the hell. I’m going to China again. This time for 2 weeks. And guess what? I get to go alone! yay…NOT! *sigh*

Frankly speaking, traveling alone on a biz trip is one of the worst things that one could ask for. Imagine going to work, having a complete screwed up day and going back to the hotel alone. It’s like… freaking sad. Calling home isn’t a problem. But calling home for a whole hour complaining about work, IS going to be a financial problem. Roaming is cost at RM3.00/minute and trust me, complaining about work does not last for only 2 minutes. At least for me it doesn’t.

My life for the past 3 months have been pretty much the same. The sucky part of life somehow just gets suckier. But as everyone says, life goes on no matter what. I just hope that things would change, in some ways. But perhaps certain things are just not meant to be and if I want to stick around, I just have to suck it up and live with it.

I once read a quote as I was reblogging on tumblr, and it says:

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end”.

I guess. And like I always say, I can only hope for the best. *sigh*

P/S: I hate to fly. Argh. I’m prepared for more barfing activities tomorrow.

to love your job

Published on September 5, 2008 in life, me and people. 4 Comments

I’m not sure if you’ve read the speech that was delivered by Steve Jobs at the Stanford Commencement back in June 12, 2005. If you haven’t , you should spend a couple of minutes reading it. For those lazy readers, you can always check out his video from youtube. I’ve always thought it’s a good article to read. I think I’ve blogged about this some time back, and today, I’m reading his speech again. Everytime when I think about finding a job I love, this article would never fail to come to my mind. He didn’t just talked about Apple and his career, but he talks about life in general and searching for something you love.

Yesterday was yet again a pissed off day for me. Of coz, contributing to me having a pissed off day is the humans acting like idiots. I don’t hate my job per se. But it’s not a job that I love. Besides, I hate having to work with idiots. The problem now is, I think idiots exist in every job you do.

During our class break yesterday, a couple of us were discussing about job satisfaction and how humans are taking things for granted. I totally agree, no doubt about it. But I think we have to realize that different ppl seek for different forms of job satisfaction. A lot of company still thinks that everyone is in it for the money. At some point, it’s not just about the money. It’s about the job and it’s about if we love the job. That’s when money don’t exactly play a huge role anymore.

As I read back Steve’s speech, I guess if I am able to find a job that I LOVE, then perhaps the human factor would not create such a huge impact to me. Problem is, I haven’t exactly figure that part out. *sweat*…Or so I thought I did. I made a list before but I think I’m still stuck at making the list.

Switching jobs to me are not merely switching jobs. I can always jump from my current job to another factory doing the same thing. Is that a form of searching for something you love? I think not. Yes it may increase your salary, but I think that’s pretty much it. It would sorta be like jumping from one pit hole to another pit hole. It doesn’t really feel as though you’re moving forward in career. So… u have a few more years of experience in your job. Does it really help you get to a job you love? I think not.

It’s somewhat tough to identify what would be a job you love. But I guess there’s always something that we will love to do for a long time. I couldn’t exactly identify my love yet. Writing? Music? Diving? Talking? Oh yea, I should probably do something with my talking. Maybe that would get me somewhere. :P

I’ve been dreading to wake up to get to work for quite a while now. On some occasions, I even woke up late. I’ve never been like that. I was always punctual on the dot. 6am out of bed, 6.45am leave for work, 7.30am reach the office. It’s a sign. An omen that says that something is not right about me and going to work. It’s bad. It has come to a very bad stage. If I don’t do something about it, I will come to a point where anxiety attack would return (and it has return a couple of times for the past couple of months) and going balastic would not be something that is not possible. *sheesh*

Steve Jobs’ speech is inspiring. It’s amazing what Apple has achieved today. More amazing that Apple’s achievement is Steve Jobs loves his job. I need that breakthrough. For those who are on the same page as me, I hope you get your breakthrough too.

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