The 10 Things/Types of People I Dislike

In random order:

Ants

They might seem insignificant to most but I developed this HUGE phobia towards this creature when THOUSANDS of them attacked my clothes in my hostel cupboard for God-knows-what reason. There weren't any crumbs/drops of water/food of any kind in my cupboard but clothes and I don't smell/taste that sweet, do I?

Okay I exaggerated. There were probably hundreds of 'em, close to a thousand.

Acne

BOO-HOO! It came back to haunt me once more. Nah, proof of how it looks like at the moment.

Peanuts

These are the root cause to all my acne problems. One teeny lil peanut will contribute AT LEAST one huge acne. I have stopped taking them for many years now. Char koay teow, chocolates, sweet stuffs too! The sacrifices I made for better complexion yet it is not near flawless T_T Envious of people with good complexion.

Despite all this, I still get my daily dosage of black peanuts. Maybe that causes the minor acne I have right now.

Disgusting Food

Frogs. 2-weeks-left-for-the-chick-to-be-born eggs. Monkeys/pigs/horse/birds/whoever and whichever's brains. Roaches, lizards, beetles, grasshoppers, etc. Oh and also unborn babies! YUCK! Don't believe me? Read this!

And celery, bitter gourds and petais are equally as disgusting.

The Sun

Hate it but I spent 8 full days in Bali, Indonesia. The irony. Fried myself under the scorching sun to enjoy the sea water, big waves and beautiful sandy beaches..and also to snap thousands of pictures of girls in bikinis and guys in hot beach pants.

After this, less likely I would want to visit beaches again. Not in the near future, at least.

Kiasus

Translation: Scared to lose/takut kalah. They always get on my nerves. Kiasus, kiasis (Scared to die/takut mati which actually means scared to kena grilled by people or scared to get into trouble) equivalent. They are a bunch of paranoid people with coward hearts who annoy the others with their paranoia I have no idea why they even exist in the first place.

Living Without Basic Facilities

Throw me anywhere and I will be fine, provided I do not have to endure the scorching sun, disgusting bugs/crawly and frightening creatures, AND moderate basic facilities i.e. clean water, clean room (budget places are fine), stable power source and wifi, if possible.

See. Now who says I'm a high-maintenance princess, huh? =P

People Who Treats Others Like a Punching Bag

You have mood swings, fine. You don't feel like entertaining people, fine. But I just don't get it, WHY IN THE WORLD would people like this want to initiate a conversation just to throw tantrums and all? I am relatively a patient person but that does not give them any rights to do that to me so often. Once is fine. Twice is tolerable. Thrice? Overboard.

Kiam Siaps

Translation: Miser/kedekut. Guy brings girl out on a date, surely the guy should feel obliged to pay, unless the girl insisted on paying. Don't think I need to elaborate further.

Guy: Iced milo.

Girl: Fresh orange.

Upon hearing that, I think the guy started to sweat ady. When the drinks arrived..

Waiter: That would be RM 5.

Guy: NO NO! Separate the bill. How much is the iced milo ya?

Girl: ...

Now, that never happened to me or I would just slap the guy in the face by saying "It's okay, I pay!". Pity my friend who experienced this. Useless guy.

Different scenario for couples ya. Can't expect the guy to pay each and every time they go on a date but the guy should initiate la =P

When My Freedom Gets Tied Down

That's why I am loving my uni life and working life =P

Rants

I'm so lazy to go back to acquiring knowledge again I wonder why. Has working life taken a toll on me?

I have an interview coming right up and this interview right, requires A LOT of homework. Hours of research, bundles of paper, infinite knowledge.

The research? Check. But it's more to Google-ing key words and downloading articles that seemed relevant. Read only a few documents so far.

Bundles of paper? Yes, it's sitting on my desk right now, untouched. Highlighter and pen also on stand by already. No initiative to pick them up.

The knowledge chucked into my memory chest to-date? I would say, nil.

HOW?! I need to prepare so many things. Short introductory speech. Presentation slides. A mock scenario rehearsal to avoid getting brain block on that day.

And 1001 more on my to-do list.

Me: Haiyo so much to do but I just don't have the motivation to even kick start my preparation. *complain complain*

Friend: This clearly means you don't really want this job.

Me: Huh. Why so?

Friend: I remember you would go to an infinite extend to complete a task, regardless how ridiculously difficult or tiring it is IF it concerned your core subjects but for subjects like EIS (Engineers in Society), you didn't give a shit.

Me: ...

True ah? I don't know..

Later giving sis a nice treat as her birthday gift. HAPPY 25TH!!

I have a feeling she's gonna yell at me for revealing her age but..nevermind that. LOLOL.

I'm so lazy I think I'm getting fat..ter.

NOOOOO..

I Hate Manual Cars

Disclaimer: If you don't mind risking a minor neckache, please proceed.

Sis taking one week leave in October. Some luxury I can't afford to take or my boss will dice me alive. With sis gone, I will be left alone with a MANUAL car. For the remaining weeks until she's gone, I gotta polish my driving skills (on manual cars). Just had my first taste of it today..

Sis was too shaken up she mistakenly entered the gents instead of the ladies. LOL I think after this entry no one dares to follow me when I'm behind the wheel of a manual car.

P/S: I dunno how to rotate the video. Help please?

Quick Updates

Today is an emo day. Jiwang. Feeling sentimental. All maudlin and syrupy.

Bah. Anyway, before I forget. Some updates.

Boss sent a two-slide PowerPoint file before the Raya break and wanted to review the resulting Gantt chart today. I confidently stored the file into my pendrive and brought it back home with me on Friday, thinking I will have the time to get it done. Oh, have I mentioned my journey back to Penang took 8 freaking hours?! But, nevermind that. The minute I woke up on a Saturday morning, I felt so free and relieved cause I wasn't required to attend to calls, make calls, attend meetings, face numerous Excel spreadsheets, etc. I spent my weekend getting my beauty sleep, pampered by both parents and air-conditioner, etc. Oh, and I finally tasted tuak, an alcoholic beverage, or rice wine, popular in Borneo and East Malaysia.

It tasted like beer but it's WAY better than beer. It's bitter yet sweet and sourish. Don't really know how to describe it but seriously. It's better than beer. Trust me. Trust someone who doesn't really like alcoholic drinks but is keen to try - Me.

Going back to the topic. For 3 full days, I never touched my pendrive. When I reached KL on Tue night, I was too tired to even open that slides but still sempat online a while before I slept.

When I reached office today, I almost got a heart attack. Boss wanted to meet in 15 minutes' time and I had nth to show. So, in that short period of time, I managed to finish it. No doubt I simple whack only but at least I had something to show okay. To cut the long story short, I didn't get any scolding so..phew! Regret ady. Next time must prioritize boss's work.

Haiyo. Damn jiwang la me. Currently listening and loving "For the first time", by Kenny Loggins. Anyone has the guitar chords for this song? Someone promised to serenade this under a starry, starry night =)

Getting Old

I seriously think I'm getting old.

Can't believe I have graduated. 5 years is not a short time. Suddenly felt as though my days in uni were so limited I could have mistaken I entered UTP just months ago.

Kinda missed people calling me "EE Ponteng Queen" back in Foundation year. Missed attending labs and waiting impatiently for my turn to use the computer with a super tortoise-like internet connection.

Missed studying in the library with the library kakis.

Missed eating in the library (while studying) too! =P

No more batch's gatherings and activities.

@ Teluk Batik

Indian Night @ Heritage Hotel

@ David's Diner

Campus photoshoot

And no more late nights at clubs. People ajak go Mois to celebrate Merdeka also I very malas. How I have changed in less than a year's time. Don't know why but I felt as though that stage is so over for me.

@ Rum Jungle, with a Tequila shot

But my alcohol tolerance has improved significantly over the years. It's a good thing okayyy. So I won't get drunk easily and kena bullied by the bad asses out there. LOL

Not to mention my tuition days were SO over..

@ Ms. Ainon's tuition center

And no more getting pampered and sayang by working adults when I was just a trainee. No more scooting away when mistakes were made..

@ Altera

Prom night events were so old school..

@ INTI College prom night

And so are my limited period in the modelling line.

@ Davines hair show

No one has seen this pic before. Don't start commenting how matured I looked back then. I KNOW! Got that like two million times already.

And I wonder when I'll be back to being fleshy once more.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not looking forward to it but..aww..I was such a cute baby =)))

New Skype Account

I'm not exactly a new Skype user but a new account was created cause I forgot my password. I'm not even sure if my username was correct -_-"

So, those who still have the user ericating86 or ericating or iamerica or iamerica86, please delete and add this one, ericatingms.

Why Skype? It's not so much about the video call. Instead, I went through a hell load of hassle just to install Skype cause I wanna enjoy the webcam feature. MSN has this feature as well but I don't know. Many made huge hoo-hahs on how great Skype is when it comes to web cam and video calls so I thought..why not?

Experimented just now and it didn't turn out THAT bad on my side but apparently it hanged over at the other end. Bad connection? Probably.

I think the video quality a bit char. The captured data turned out to be very noisy and lots of disturbances. It looks as though I had fake lashes on my left eye -_-"

Okay I ganti the old pic with this one d. I think he looks good here! ;p

So now I don't think he's gonna kill me for this ady =P

Why Love is Blind

Watched Gamer with colleagues yesterday. On our way to Midvalley after work, Melissa shared a pretty interesting yet very familiar story on why love is blind.

I'm relating this based on what I could remember. It is definitely not 100% accurate but I'm sure I got the flow correct. Here goes.

ONCE UPON A TIME, the Earth was made up of both virtues and vices i.e. Happiness, Love, Greed, Shyness, etc. One fine day, Craziness proposed to play hide-and-seek. Craziness counted 1 to 10 while the rest ran and hide.

Shyness hid under a rock, for he was very shy.

Patience hid behind a cloud (I don't know why).

After some time, Craziness managed to find all of them, except Love. They gathered near a bush and wondered where could Love possibly be hiding. Craziness, alongside with his crazy mind, picked up a stick and said "I know! Love must be hiding under one of these bushes. Let us all poke and find Love".

Craziness 'stabbed' the nearest bush and they suddenly heard a loud wail. Craziness had accidentally poked Love's eyes! Craziness felt so guilty, apologized repeatedly and said "From now on, I shall be your eyes".

Conclusion? Love is blind and people, who are in love tend to do crazy stuff.

LOL. Kiddish, but rather entertaining, no?

Absence sharpens love but presence strenghtens it..

It all started from a guitar-rocker-wannabe pic. Then it's the witty words on a blog. Intelligence and wisdom came through and armed with compatibility, it happens.

Kena Grilled

My phone bill totaled up to a whopping RM 249.80 while my phone line limit was RM 250 AND it's not the end of the bill month yet -_-"

Realized I abused my credit when my line was barred when I was high up in Genting, desperate to make an important call to wish "Happy Birthday". I did make that call, using dad's hp. He so gan cheong and stress, dunno why also.

I seriously wondered what contributed to that sum. Initially I thought it was the numerous landline calls I made to companies i.e. PETRONAS, Maxis, etc etc when I failed to answer their calls.

But guess what. Mom told me I sent 1300+ smses in less than a month.

AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED SMSES!

That's crazy. I don't remember smsing so much. These smses summed up to RM 120+

I'm not surprised mom grilled me for this T_T

After this cannot simply sms ady. Think I'll subconsciously be back to my old self where I was so super kedekut to sms, what more make a call. I used to just misscall and the other party would call back. Those were the days. Sorry lah k non-Digi users, especially Maxis users. I think you guys were the culprits. Sort of =P

On a different note, I think I am sick. My heartbeat is abnormally faster than usual whenever I'm on the phone. Like now.

I just swallowed a tiny fish bone. Ouch.

Sien

Just feel like writing something here. Not emo-ing ok. Hehe

Disclaimer: This entry has no relation to my current life.

Some say relationships have better chances of survival if both parties know each other very well i.e. they share a strong friendship bond or they were childhood friends. Stuff like that. You get what I mean.

But to others, they claim it will be damn weird. Reason being, they know each other too well already the bond between them is more like jimui. It's like being all lovey dovey with a sibling or cousin.

Ew.

But true colours tend to surface after a while. So how if you realize it's a mismatch after a few months?

This entry very weird. Happens when I have nothing to write but I force it cause I got nothing to do.

Saja wanna post a picture here.

At Ampang Park.

Going Genting Highlands tmr despite my workload! =P

September 1, 2009

September 1, 2009. Not a very good date this year, if you ask me. It was, in fact, my worst day ever.

Dad was diagnosed with a cluster of lumps in his throat. It was seriously freaking scary to hear it from someone you care so much holding back his tears at the other end of the line. All sorts of thoughts came and left, and sole reason they left my mind was that I psychoed myself into believing everything will be fine. I kept telling myself things will be okay and that I was so stupid for worrying so much and fearing the worst.

But honestly, when the diagnosis reached me, I didn't know what to do. I was 4-5 hours away from home and being a working person, so I couldn't leave for Penang just like that.

AND in addition to this issue, there was another personal issue I faced. And the fact that both surfaced at the SAME TIME didn't help. I was in a difficult situation. Dad's issue was obviously way more important but I was desperate to settle my personal issues there and then I seriously wasn't fully aware of how I handled things because I was so in dazed.

My tapao-ed dinner was barely touched. My eyes were swollen from all the crying.

Someone miles away happened to call and as much as I tried to be normal, I guess he saw it through. He was helpful. And he obviously cared a lot for me. You can actually tell how concerned one is from the way he said "Everything will be okay". I appreciate it so much.

One can seriously be so super holy when situations like this happens. Me, for instance. I think I need to start attending church services.

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The diagnosis results were out several hours ago. And it was GOOD NEWS! So relieved. My heart almost dropped when I heard dad's shaky voice but luckily he managed to utter "Good news" otherwise I confirm will cry in office. Thank God!

Apparently, the cluster of lumps are harmless for now so it's advisable to remove it plus his thyroid. And without his thyroid, dad has to be on medication throughout his entire life ady. But I don't think he minds.

Regarding the personal issue, it was kind of resolved that night itself. But the damage is done, there's nth much I can do but to earn it back.