today i miss you....

today while i was working at the office desk, out of nowhere, i think of it again.

kuah brenebon, or direct tranlation: red bean soup.

so sudden that i was shocked. i missed it.

that's my hometown delicacy. not the desert type of -red bean soup, but actually kinda a simple type of dish.

ahh i guess it is all related to being near the year end.

when i was at college too, this thing happened.

while sitting in front of my loyal-laptop, suddenly i think of..rolling roasted pig. or sayur lelem. or perkedel jagung (direct translation: corn croquette)

i used to always go back hometown during the year end...that's why..
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and today it is another rainy day.

while sitting at the car heading to a meeting, i missed my ex housemate.

rainy day.

once, she did something that i swear i wont forget for my whole life.

so touching eh! she is truly a romantic girl laa~

imagine.

i was going out buy some food, late lunch if im not wrong. the stall was nearby, so i care not to bring any umbrella even thou the sky was grey, but luck really wasn't on my side that day. suddenly the rain poured down so heavily that i couldn't run back. so no choice, i stand around the 5 foot walk way and wait.

while waiting at somewhere nearest to the road junction, thinking how much longer i should wait, she appeared.

carrying one big umbrella.

and said, 'why didnt you bring your phone! i tried calling but then realized it was left on your table. wasn't sure where you go to da bao, but luckily meet you here!'

she was half holding the umbrella, half folding her pants trying to avoid the splash, and walking uber carefully to avoid the water pools, but despite all that, she put out a very warm and brilliant smile when she saw me.

and today, it rained. and i miss you alot shi kee!

to bad, you did it first. any guy who attempt that in the future couldnt help but to be compared with you.

no, none of them will win. im sure about it.

ps. faster come and visit me la! orchard road is very pretty now! all dressed up with xmas lightings!! i know you are lazy to walk, but come laaaaaaaaaaaa!

introducing my new partner...

to begin with, i would like to say my thank you to my 3-4 years old partner.

thank you for your outstanding services, on top of 25% discount i got when i bought you back home. i am very satisfied. Fila produced good shoes. considering it service period!

and jreng-jreng-jreng, let me intro my next partner. i got it as my birthday present.

i got it from Royal sports house for 30% and it is only $48 :D totally love the lightness and the color. ever since i got bitten by some pretty but cheap shoes, i learned the importance of having good shoes and considering it as investment for myself, as equal as bottles of vitamin or skin care product. nah, one must love herself in order for others to love her right?
ladies, for all your hard work, dont forget to get something to pamper yourself :p

hope we can be a good partner for the next few years!

after all these years

yesterday night was a special one, i met my old friend! as old as 7 to 8 years.

to say this world is small, it is a false statement. come on, if it is really that small, yamapi should be my neighbor then! :p

anyway by the fate we both ended up working at Singapore, and his house is nearby my office and home, so then i say, why not catch up somewhere nearby, and it is at little india area. so then it is only natural to feed on indian food at little india right?

this old friend of mine is a unique one, coz yesterday night was the first time i met him.

hahaha, oh well, we are friend thanks to internet and IRC, and it is funny that he is the only one left since that time that i still keep in touch with. from IRC to yahoo messanger to friendster to msn to facebook.

it is not that we always chat though. normally it is like, after few months then suddenly we msn each other and talk lots of things. but that's how we catch up with each other and manage to keep contact.

of course i tried not to think too much about it, but while waiting for him, there's odd and exciting feel at the same time, and mix of little bit of worry.

but it turns out well -all to thanks to his talkactiveness. hahahha, seriously adrian! you talked non stop and at such a speed, but i am really grateful eh! otherwise...it would be dreadfully awkward.

and also thanks, for stay in touch, for spending some time to meet up, and also for the interesting talks, now i know that's the different between new friend and old friend.

and i wont forget your most interesting sentence, after rolling your eyes and tilting your head sideway -say, 'bukan hubungan yang gampang'

HAHAHAHAHA~

oh, let's meet up again! with meke too! but please, no more indian food!

it's the 3rd day on FB diet,

feel it the most after lunch hour.

just like now. after tum tum full with nice food. we ate pizza just now, and there's still one more piece just next to my table with aircon blowing the smell onto my face.

Aslan said, "have courage dear little heart"

and i shall not fail myself again! see you facebook this weekend! *fri night*







btw.

do you guys and girls still check your hotmail? im just wondering....

22nd at the 22nd

and so today, i turn 22

happy birthday to myself!

i received sms and lots and lots of facebook wall msges, thank you everybody!

and lunch with boss and senior

then dinner with jason and jaclyn and another 2 new friends. einstein and jia hui. yep, the guy name is einstein. wow, in my 22nd, i met einstein! hahahhahhaha!

and i got my wish come true, a cake and a candle is a must for bday :) and they sang for me hehehehehe~ and finally after one and -almost- half a year, i stepped into the cafe that i had been eying since the beginning of time!

universe, thank you for had taking good care of me until today. i can have 22nd every month, and 22nd of october every year, but in this life, i am going to have only once, age 22. i promise to cherish it, and be good to myself, and put me as priority and stop running away from responsibilities and wronged myself. need lots of wisdom and courage.

2nd wedding - weekend at batam

so in my 21st, i received my 1st two wedding invitations under my name.

one from my colleague,
second one also from my colleague.

the second one was last saturday, at batam. so whole company went to stay there one night.

congrats jai and selly!

half of the banquet, yep! half! it was almost as big as the one at my convo!

on the second day, early morning i went for swim and jacuzzi at the hotel :) then lunch Jai brought us to seafood place

that was the first time i tried this type :) the crabs and fishes was good too!

finally i got some-3 bodies to play uno with me! so happy!

last but not least, my dinner date -keiran.
hahhahhahhahhahaahhaa

he insisted for me to sit there, and he picked the seperated table from the rest.
the father said i looks like his favourite kindergarden teacher.
he is currently 5 years old.

interesting trip ^^

because we have different eyes

that's why we see things differently. and the different input being process differently, and so we think differently.

which is, just natural, in this big wide world.

anyway i went to batam for weekend trip. and made me think quite alot. on marriage and having kids. hahhaa, aish, of course it is still a long way to go for me, but it doesnt stop one from thinking about it right?

anyway 4 members of the 14 persons trip were babies, toddler and kid. from 2 families.

to put things into shorter format, let's say im gaining insight on why my mom from my childhood memories is a fierce, strict, hardly smile, and harsh in her words.

i grow up becoming a timid and shy and non-expressive kid, the one that's least adorable in the group.

be a lenient parents, and you produce an expressive, loud, and loveable kid.
be a strict parents, and you produce a polite, and good in following orders- kid.

the insight was, comparing how these two families handles their babies, i see the difference it made.

the complication is this, everybody loves the expressive kid, but none love the bratty spoiled one. but to me it seems to be a -package- you give treatment X, you get the result and side effect. that kind of idea.

seems that all will be left to the characters of the kids themselves. just like how different my bro and i, growing up in the same family.

but still, my conclusion (for today) is kid needs guidances. bratty one no matter how adorable needs to be teached. so yes, in my opinion it is very much up to the guardians.