Forgot to add, today I was too free and so I signed up on that personals site with a fake ID. It's all KC's fault - she suggested it! "Write to that guy and see if he responds," she said....
Have spent the whole day in front of the computer. I hope to get the webpage running by end of June. (Knowing me and my tendency to procrastinate, that's probably an optimistic prediction, LOL!) The guy responded to my fake...
As usual, haven't had lunch. Spent the morning catching up with Christianbbs.com posts. Wonder if I do any good there. Would I be missed if I left? Probably not. Why do I go there? Hope I can help someone. Am...
Chris wrote to me and blasted me about the fake ad. He said I had played with the guy's feelings, telling an untruth when I (fake) had written to him saying that I was interested in him. Ouch. *sigh* And...
It's been another long day. I got a mail from Terence in response to what Chris had said about the fake ad. Prov 15:22 says, "Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed." Well, in this...
Colleague from work called me up. She wants me to go to her cell group tomorrow night. The only reason she wants me there is coz I can play the piano for them. And I really don't want to go!...
Hmmm. Haven't been writing for a while. Lots to tell every day, but just no time!!! :) More drama in the life of Sunflower the Q: Boss called me in on Wednesday evening and assigned me to go for some...
Wow, a book review due tomorrow and the book not even read yet! It's about East Timor's history and journey to independence. I thought it'd be quite interesting coz it's a freelance journalist's first-hand account of the happenings there. Tonight's...
Alpha asked, "Why didn't you just take your boss's loan? It would have saved the need to tell your mom." I did take the boss's loan... but I wanted to repay him as soon as possible. And, calculating next month's...
Got another mail wanting a secret affair. I went back to the $%#$@! site and checked. It says the ad expired on the 27th, but the darn ad is still up, so I don't know what to think! I may...
Haven't had a decent night's sleep in ages. Been leaving the office at 2am the whole week. I just want to sleep and sleep and sleeeeeeeeeeep... Wrestled with HTML for 2 hours last night and finally got the main page...
Doing some cloak-and-dagger stuff in the office - avoiding 3 different bosses! Not easy to do. Luckily they're all on the 4th floor, so I popped up to 5th floor and have been "hiding" since morning. The Big Boss knows...
Mom just called. I asked her whether she knew about the car and she said no, but she said Dad had discussed the possibility of getting a car for me and he was wary coz I haven't been saving any...
Went to the bank this morning and changed money into Singapore dollars... I was thinking I'm only going to be there 2 days, I couldn't possibly spend that much, could I?! But being me, better-safe-than-sorry me, "just in case" ol'...
Flew back from Singapore yesterday - wow it was a luxurious stay! We flew first class and I had a whole hotel room to myself (for some reason I'd expected to have to share) and the hotel was the last...
So much has happened, and no updates here... I actually stopped for a while coz I kept on getting error messages when I tried to submit my entries, and I got fed-up!! In the end, Dad got me the car....
You know what? I just realised that tomorrow is Merdeka Day, or Independence Day for those who dont know Malay. I'm not particularly patriotic, but I had decided to include a page about Malaysia on my website. And I've...
Well, finished the story about the Miss Malaysia/World 2002/2003 finalists day before yesterday (it was published in yesterday's paper). Boss was pleased with it. He messaged me on the internal messaging system: "Good job. And you can claim for the...
You will not believe what I did on Friday. My paper's running a crossword puzzle contest, and KC asked me to drop off her entries for her. At the same time, she passed me an envelope with a cheque to...
I'm going for camp tomorrow! Fri-Sun. And I'm driving there! It's in Bentong, Pahang. I hadn't intended to drive, but the camp organiser told me that there weren't enough drivers, so I volunteered. And I'm picking up three guys -...
Janelle and I were supposed to go swimming yesterday a morning workout before settling down to work in the office. I need to start some kind of exercise regimen. I went home from Sat-Mon and when I tried wriggling...
On Saturday morning, I was on my way to an assignment in the heart of the city and had just made a left turn into a junction, when this policeman on a motorcycle signalled for me to stop. So I...
I feel exhausted. Probably havent been getting enough sleep wait a minute, what am I saying?? Definitely havent been getting enough sleep
Im a night owl, hardly ever sleep before 2am, which makes getting out of bed in the...
Last night I gave notice to the main tenants at the place where I stay. (Is that sentence correct? LOL) The main tenants rent the whole house from the landlord, then sublet the rooms to us. Im sure they tend...
Have been fiddling with the blinking template for about two hours and finally managed to get it the way I want it to be, with with Bobs help. I think the poor guy must live in trepidation every time I...
Work has been pretty hectic lately. I have 12 deadlines this week (yes, you saw right, that痴 TWELVE), three of which were due yesterday, so technically I only have 9 left. But who痴 counting? LOL Four of them are cosmetic...
Just when I was thinking I hadn稚 had a misadventure in a fairly long time, one simply has to come along. (My last major misadventure occurred in September. Before that, this blog was simply known as 溺usings�, but I decided...
I致e been invited to sit on the exco (executive committee?) of Graduates Christian Fellowship Malaysia, GCF. It was pretty shocking because I知 not even a GCF member yet! I went for one of their camps last month, a camp geared...
Let's have some comic relief in this here blog! My car's cassette player decided that it was tired of letting all that nice brown tape just pass it by, and decided to take a bite out of my cassette. The...
This morning, I went to a church called Soulcare Church. I thought the name was quite appropriate! The pastor is a friend of mine, someone I originally met over the Internet(!). I've always seen him as a sort of "on-line...
Good grief... the Boss has assigned me to review a Japanese horror movie next week! And I NEVER watch horror movies! Arrgh! I figure my imagination doesn稚 need any extra help; it痴 wild enough as it is, you know. *grin*...
After sitting on things for a month, I'm finally room-hunting in earnest. I gave notice at my current place early last month, so I'm now looking for a new place to stay. After going to five 7-11s and scrutinising all...
I just thought to add this. Remember my impossible assignment? Well, I can talk about it now because the story was printed yesterday! A Different Sort Of Hari Raya Hari Raya falls today (Friday), marking the end of the Muslim...
It's been an eventful weekend. Bob (whom I've been pestering to enter the blogging world) has been helping me to redesign my current personal website. It looks great, and he has drily reminded me that he normally charges 120 bucks...
Slept at 7:30pm yesterday evening and woke at 10:30pm. The first thing I did was check my mobile phone, which I'd left in silent mode. 1 missed call from home. I promptly returned the call. Of course, my mom wanted...
Yesterday I had the most horrible case of food poisoning and had to take the day off. I woke up with excruciating stomach pains and stumbled into the bathroom. It was so bad that I thought I would never get...
My housing dilemma has been resolved. A friend called me this week to say that she and another girl had decided to rent a whole house and were looking for a third person to share with. Would I happen to...
Tomorrow morning I'll be driving back to my hometown for Christmas. I managed to get Monday and Tuesday off, but the bummer is I have to travel back on Christmas Day coz I'm working on the 26th. It's the first...
Blessed Christmas, everyone! It's not too late if you really subscribe to the "twelve days of Christmas" thingy. *grin* Hope yours was great! My drive home went without incident (thanks to all those who prayed for me!), except that I...
Just read Jon Davis's blog. He talked about his recent job interview. Reading it, I am soooooo thankful for my boss. He's kind, he's human, and he's reasonable. What else could I ask for? He lent me money to make...
This moving house business is driving me nuts. The house that Madelyn & friends decided to rent will only be available on Jan 10. I, on the other hand, gave my two months' notice ending on Dec 31. When I...
My whole body hurts!!! I woke up this morning feeling like a ninety-year-old woman. Any part of my body that can ache seems to be aching. Hope I'm not succumbing to some kind of bug. I was coughing badly over...
I have never liked moving. I say it's a hassle and a bother, but the real reason is much deeper than that. I have A LOT of stuff. People always think I'm exaggerating till they actually see it with their...
I saw my room today for the first time. Madelyn wasn't kidding when she said it was square-ish! There is no ceiling fan. In a country where the temperature hovers around 86-95ｰF (30-35ｰC) in the daytime all year round, a...
I moved about 1/3 of my things over to the new place today, on my own. The Soulcare people said they'd help me move tomorrow after church (today, actually, since it's past midnight), so I left the bigger and heavier...
I'm exhausted. Tonight will be the first night in my new place. Everything is in disarray, both in the new place and the old. Tomorrow I'll have to go back to the old place after work to pack the final...
Yesterday morning: scrambled out of bed, and... ooyah! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! What the ? The pads of my heels hurt like the (there is just no appropriate simile) each time I put any pressure on them. I could barely walk....
I've been having a cough over the past few days. Not a big deal, except I had it pretty bad over Christmas and I thought it was all over. But noooo, it made a comeback. Stubborn people have stubborn cough...
I'm extremely tired tonight and won't post anything too deep. After church, I had to rush back coz the furniture people suddenly decided to deliver my cupboard. I have a cupboard! Yay! :) Then at 4pm I had a Graduates...
11:30am and I feel like I'm going to faint. I drove to work, every turn of the steering wheel asking for more strength than I've ever noticed before. My head feels like it's disconnected from my body, and my body...
Who on earth searched Google for "Wilful Sunflower photos"??? That's kinda scary, if you ask me. Somebody came by and decided they wanted to know what I look like? *shudders* Thank God Google doesn't give out permalinks, it just directs...
I am very tired today, rushing a story because it's due tomorrow. However, I need to send my car to the mechanic tomorrow morning. When I asked the Boss if I could come in a bit later than usual, I...
Today was a horrendous day. Will probably talk about it in more detail tomorrow. Spoke to my dad over the phone and he upset me so much - TWICE - that I locked myself in the washroom and cried. Twice...
It has to be one of life's ironies that I'd get into an accident on my way to the mechanic. See, my car's been making weird noises lately, and I was sending it to the mechanic yesterday morning when I...
Haloscan is down again. So what else is new? *sigh* My grandmother has been discharged from the hospital. Thanks for all your prayers! :) OK, my Hebrew dilemma. Last night the teacher said, "I'm going to train you in mytical...
Here am I, in the Internet cafe in my little hometown. So far my campaign to get my parents connected to the Internet has been woefully unsuccessful... *wry grin* *clears throat in preparation for speech* I'd like to thank everyone...
Sorry for the silence over the past few days. It's been a busy weekend and... what do you do when you have friends who make what you feel are unreasonable demands on your time? And say things to make you...
"Go review this," my supervisor said last week, tossing an invite onto my desk. Turns out it was for the press screening of Darkness Falls. A ghost/horror movie. Gaaah! You have to know that I never watch such movies. NEVER....
Last week was really hectic - I had appointments every single day and lived in dread of forgetting one. See, two weeks ago I forgot a work-related appointment. My supervisor nearly killed me, and I felt pretty bad myself. There...
Sometimes I feel outnumbered in BlogWorld, because there are so many bloggers from the US and I'm the lone voice from Malaysia. (Did I hear someone ask, "Malaysia? Whazzat???" LOL) So just imagine how pleased I was to discover the...
You know, I really shouldn't open my big mouth so often. Last week, as my supervisor was handing out assignments, she actually gave us a choice. And I chose to review Dreamcatcher. With the press screening scheduled for tomorrow, I...
One of the worst things about being single and unattached is eating alone. And I don't mean it in the sense of loneliness, either. This was brought home to me one night last week when I went out for dinner....
I rarely do this, but here I am up at 5:50am. I haven't slept; I was rushing a story that has to be in by tomorrow - err, I mean today - morning. Now I'm debating with myself if it's...
Tomorrow, May 1, is Labour Day in Malaysia. Oops, how politically incorrect of me, I meant to say Workers' Day. ;) Anyway, I've taken Fri off from work as well and hope to spend time writing (or trying to write)...
This morning I brilliantly looked myself out. Or in, depending on how you look at it. I got out of my room with everything, pressed the button on my doorknob, and closed the door behind me. The second it closed,...
I'm back home - drove back yesterday. Sorry for the long silence, I've been offline for two days and before that, I was working like mad to get my work done so I could have this break. (I'm on leave...
Drove back here yesterday afternoon. Man, it's good to be back in the city, even if it does mean I've got to go back to work *grin* So let me tell you what happened with Dad's birthday present. Being the...
Do parents take courses on how to drive their children crazy?? The same day I arrived home, I bought Mom a bouquet of flowers as a belated Mother's Day thing. Does she say "Thank you"? Noooo, she asks how much...
I was going to blog about something else, but I'm trying to hold down my popcorn, so in due deference to my queasy stomach, Owen's Daily~Biscuit is highly appropriate. When cold and flu strikes what do you tend to do...Immediately...
I'm too busy to manage more than a short post. It's been a mad week at work (chasing deadlines, working till 10:30pm yesterday and today covering events), I'm stressed out inside over a worry which I dare not tell anyone...
Friday night, one of my housemates came home from her church prayer meeting at 1am. She parked in the porch (no garages here), got out of the car to close and lock the gate. A car stopped outside, a Chinese...
I felt down today but after surfing blogs I feel much better. There's nothing like getting my focus off myself and participating in various discussions :) Saw this on Randall Friesen - man, that's a loooong permalink! - and liked...
This story has been the talk of the office today. On Friday night, a 28-year-old woman was abducted from a basement car park in a shopping centre. Her car was discovered abandoned in a different part of town the following...
Sometimes I like my job :) The Boss gave me a bottle of Lance's Tr駸or perfume today. OK, I really should explain that statement *huge grin* At Christmas, The Boss compiled all the free gifts our section had gotten over...
Yesterday heralded the arrival of a new housemate. (One of our housemates was transferred overseas by her company, so we had an extra room available.) I'm excited coz this new housemate is Chinese-educated and therefore I can practice my (pathetic)...
Been feeling very... displaced today. Lots of things to do, but can't concentrate. Just very numb and restless. I even searched Google for encouraging blog. Pathetic, eh? Then my mobile phone rang late at night. "Ah, a friend," I thought....
The thing about girls is that sooner or later we always end up at The Depilatory Talk. Now, I came into this rather late because I simply didn't care about the subject untilI went into my "desperate" phase in 2001...
I'm back in my hometown, at the Internet cafe, and I'm dying by inches... OK so I'm exaggerating. As long as I can get on the Net, I shouldn't complain, should I? Even if the spacebar doesn't workand IE keeps...
I'm back and I don't know what to blog first. I guess I'll talk about birthday presents :) Let's start with the parents. The rest will come in another post... Now, I knew that when I went home, I'd be...
First, thanks for all the birthday wishes :) Forgot to say that earlier (oops!). I'm very touched! And I wanted to assure you that I did get nicer presents than shorts and a car headlamp :) The great thing about...
This is for Dr Liew... :D So when I was home the last time, Dad kept thrusting medical journals under my nose. This time, said nose was leaking non-stop (I caught some bug again), so I was blowing it continually....
This would be a good time to use them. My Lycos email is down for maintenance and will be offline till Thursday, 11am PST which is actually Friday, 2am my time!!! Waaah! Blogspot sites were down this morning... ICQ has...
Not many know - or imagine - that I am very much a small town, kampung (village) girl. When I was eight, my family moved to Dad's hometown, a small town called Ayer Tawar (literally, "tasteless water"; more aptly translated...
These days I don't know whether I'm coming or going. (And I proved it by forgetting to turn my car headlights off on Saturday night; the battery went flat the next day. Cost me $114 to replace!) Too many things...
Someone thinks I hide behind my writing instead of going out and living life. I think he might be right; when my life is full, I have less inclination - or time - to blog. Recently I've spent quite a...
I want someone to email me. And I don't mean this as a hint to anyone in particular; it's not a someone, it's just a 'someone'. Anyone, you know. When I am down, I can be quite pathetic. I refresh...
Normal, boring everyday life can be a good thing. Even if it doesn't leave one with much blogging fodder....
Am going off to a camp for Christian young graduates, organised by iBridge, the young graduates' group under the Malaysian Graduates Christian Fellowship. It's from Friday to Sunday in Fraser's Hill (Friday is a public holiday due to Deepavali, a...
"Can you spare me $10?" he asked. I looked at him. A total stranger. The car park was deserted. Am I safe? "My motorcycle tyre is punctured and I didn't bring my ATM card with me, so I can't withdraw...
I'm so excited! I'm going on a working trip to South Korea, Nov 6-10. It's my first time going so far away (I was born in England, but came back when I was 4, so I can't remember anything and...
I happened to get a PC without a mouse, which means navigation is a bit problematic right now so I haven't replied any of the comments. Plus the browser's displaying everything in Korean and I don't know how to change...
*singing* He remembered meeeee... :D First thing he did this morning when he saw me was to ask how work was going. Ok, that's not exactly scintilating conversation, but it's a start ;) We spoke on and off throughout the...
I've figured out why I couldn't sleep on the flights. It's because my legs couldn't get comfortable. Now, I don't usually have leg problems. I'm only 158cm (about 5' 2") tall — err, I mean short — and most of...
I've been in a blue funk lately. Tonight I felt especially sad for no particular reason. I was driving out for dinner and just felt like crying. It's not like I was listening to depressing music in the car... it...
I was going to write about something but I've forgotten what it is. That's old age, that is... Oh yeah. I was jolted awake this morning by the thought that I'd forgotten to add some details to my most recent...
I'b gone anb dob myselb a cold. By dose id all stuffed ub anb by brain feels lige it's full ob coddon wool. More den usual, I mean. I dink I'll go sleep summore now....