Cotton Clouds Island

Year 2007 is going to end and Year 2008 is just around the corner. So better make some resolutions and try my best to resolve them:-

1.    To learn how to cook GOOD chinese food - Don’t mention how i cook now - I am a cretin for cooking.

2.   To attend more work related seminars and trainings - Humbly not up-to-date and may pose as a liability to where I work now if I don’t strive to improvise myself

3.    To spend more time with friends - I have neglected almost all my friends during year 2007, sorry dearies, I know its about time to mingle and be nice to you all from now on.

4.    To spend more time with Abie - more walk-walks, more "sayang" session, more hug-hugs, I promise.

5.    To load more $$$ in my savings account - for emergencies, who knows what will happen next? Suddenly I saw something I like in NafNaf or Esprit or Ms Selfridge how? how? how?

6.    To lose weight - oh no………. Me never diet before, me hate dieting, dieting means pushing me to the end of the clift and plunge down to my end…. but no choice lor… getting chubbier as years goes by.

7.    To visit a new foreign place - A must-do for every new year, if not I will feel one-kind as the cuti-cuti bug bites.

8.   To make up with old enemies - time to forgive and forget - ah pretty hard, but will try - Sorry, Mr. X is excluded, not worth my time, sincerity and effort to do so.

9.    Try to master make-up - My current makeup techniques sucks - must improvise a lot.

10.  To get married?? Heh heh… joking only… where got so fast, wait longer a bit lar…

A call I made today, worth jotting down here:-

Christine:    Hello, may I speak to Christina?
Ms X:           She not in
Christine:    How about Ms Phua?
Ms X:           She no in also
Christine:    ….
                   Then are you Stephanie? Is Stephanie in too?
Ms X:           She-sh-she not in
Christine:    Then can anybody from your company assist me?
Ms. X:          Can I know WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
                   (I swear.. she really said that, word-for-word)
Christine:    ….
                    Nothing IS WRONG with me, thanks for your concern.
                    I just need to check whether ABC Company’s accounts is ready or not.
Ms X:            Later Ms Phua back I tell her. Who on line?
Christine:    Christine from Mudajaya
Ms X:            Cretin?
Christine:    Christine
Ms X:           Cretin?
Christine:    It’s Chrisssstinnneeee. Ends with T-I-N-E.
Ms X:            Cretin??

(To this point I felt like bursting into flame)

Christine:    Nevermind, when Ms Phua is back, get her to call me please.
Ms X:        *Click* ….Hung up

Cretin – as described in Dictionary.com – means….   
1. a stupid, obtuse, or mentally defective person.
2. an idiot.

She called my name as CRETIN 3 times okay???

Everything has been set on the day before Christmas.

Colour code: light pink.

Twenty eighth of the first month next year shall be it.

A day before Christmas is drawing near, we are ready for whatever it takes.

My Viva was hit in the butt yesterday evening, when I was returning home from work. A doctor (who looks eerily like Mr Bean) working in the hospital nearby my office, slammed his OLD-looking Perdana into also an OLD-looking  Iswara, which in turn slammed in the butt of my NEW Viva, rendered the cute little butt of my dear car looking like the wrinkled and badly punched face of a wrestler fighter.

Argh… of all they slammed into my car. Doctor, doctor, if you are so careless on the road, I wonder how would you treat your patient during your work?

Chosen a few dates.
To pick the final one.
To look around and survey the necessaries a day before Christmas.

Call me a snobbish aunt. Call me a inconsiderate jerk. Call me whatever you wanna name me. It’s just me.

I admit I get agitated whenever there’s anyone trying to initiate sms marathon with me.  Usually I do reply with at least 1 word or the most 2 words in one and only one sms, no more than that, hoping that they get my "message". Or……. I rather dial the number and return their call. I did rather do that.

Don’t you think phone conversation is much much more convenient than painstakingly tweaking your fingers to press and arrange those tiny alphabets on your super tiny phone screen before you finally send it off to convey a message that may take 5 seconds to speak aloud, rather than spending 10 -15 seconds (OR MORE) vide SMS? Come on lar, speaking the words from your mouth is absolutely faster than tit-tit-tot-totting on your phone key pad. Well, curse me for being so snobbish.

I would like to clarify though, I do agree SMS is one of the best creation ever installed into a mobile communication device. But don’t la abuse its usage~ for me it is practical if you wanna use SMS to make a general announcement to a group of friends, or a short note to remind, or just a way of saying hi etc, etc… But to substitute normal phone chat with a string of never ending smses? Not my cup of tea. I do not condemn people who love doing marathon sms with similarly interested people as well. Its their choice. However, I am just not that kind of person.

I certainly do grumble more when SMS marathon try to start off during working hours, especially in MY working hours. In my not-so-humble opinion, I think it is unacceptable whenever there is constant beeping and SMS ringings going around the office. If I am the boss, where my staff pay more attention to their phone beepings and spend precious working time replying SMSes on each and every 5 minutes while giggling away, I would just tick off like a detonated bomb there and then. It just not so professional looking, don’t you think?