December 2006

it’s usually impossible for condos or apartments to flood, so relatively speaking, we can call this a flood. 😛

my mom and i got home from late dinner last night in kelana jaya, and me wanting to continue watching my episode of The O.C. (s4e6), i went into my room and turned the aircon on. then my mom exclaimed from the living room to go watch some DOHA highlights. which i did. leaving my room door wide open and the aircon on full blast.

when i came back the floor was just full of water. yea, not really a flood. 😛 a big old towel did the trick of mopping the stuff up. but i was left with no choice but to sleep without air conditioning (i tried, but it started leaking again). and it’s not comfy at all especially after having a machine churn out 60 C of calculations and graphics.

i should just get a fan.

so here i go, taking the kelisa through roads undriven.

picked up khairil’s luggage from mom’s office. then cut across kiara to kerinchi link. but not before being stopped by police for speeding. 16km/h above 80, he says. i did not fight, i only accepted my fate. but then he said, first time ok, next time saman. was He looking out for me, or maybe it’s because my face looked really young and innocent, or maybe the student sticker on the car. either way, i saved 300 there.

but from there my luck took a wrong turn. whenever i’m alone with khairil in the car i’m always compelled to nag him, especially after he’d done something to wrong my mom in the days before. and i usually blow my top, and after that a long one-sided awkward silence (yes, i’d still continue lecturing). but usually i crack due to some other non-related event. like him dropping my phone, or like him not knowing the way to his camp when said he knew (due to road signs being stolen). i know i shouldn’t act that way, but whenever i have to go out on a limb for him, my mind just goes into extremely-annoyed mode.

i’d really really like to have lots of nice and motivating things to say to him.. but.. i just can’t grasp any.

choice no 1: skive office work to take care of family matters like getting nazreen’s scholarship contracts settled and sending khairil off to camp at some putrajaya jungle.

consequences:  greater chance of losing job, but will be able to stay home and take care of more important matters.

choice no 2:  don’t skive work, and let mom do all the errand work.

consequences: greater chance of going to hell, but will be able to climb the corporate ladder much more easily. and get more money. etc.

… so, brb. road trip.

that’s the first and the last time i drive that fast. 😛 unless there’s another emergency, of course.

that was the speed i had to drive this morning, to get my dear cuzzie to the LCCT for her flight to bangkok. thankfully, we barely made it in time. we’d be earlier if it wasn’t for the waja not having any fuel, or the fact that we didn’t realise that jalan pudu was a very long road and we got on it facing the wrong direction. thanks to wan yee we were able to recover and get out of kl fast.

damn those traffic lights in sepang.

after that was a nice relaxing ride home at 130km/h. and a nice breakfast at merv’s.

choc buffet was good. now i know how the rest feel about not being able to stomach chocolate for the following months after. had a pleasant evening with ichaya and her friends, including myztika whom i’ve known online but had yet to meet, and santhi and kay who’ve been mentioned on their blogs. chocolate or no chocolate, it’s always great to hang out with good company.

“i’ve heard enough from you” was how my interview on friday ended. i applied for a managerial position, just to see how i’d do. but it seems the big kahuna had no interest in what i had to say, nor did he seem willing to give me a chance at the job. oh well, i’m sure he can find many many other qualified candidates. too bad they’re more than unwilling.

no rest for the wicked: mom woke me up at 1pm to go out for lunch. i’m pretty sure i was enjoying my dream up till then, but the contents evade me. went to the curve where my bro got his haircut, and i got a little bit of reading done at borders. lunch at ikea was a bad decision, cuz it was jam-packed with people. soda machine was broken too, and only one coffee machine to satisfy the long line of caffeine addicts.

got a call from the office abt some problem they noticed with my modules. went there and got it fixed in 2 hours, then stayed another 2 just to keep the payroll team company. our employees need not worry; they’ll still get their salaries on time.

met merv and wife at kfc for dinner. then ran back home to continue staring at the computer screen, like this……………

even with TM’s throttling of p2p/torrent traffic, my download server is already out of storage space. it’s all the downloading but never deleting. will be starting my clean up real soon, so let me know if you’re looking for any back episodes of OC, House, Prison Break, Heroes, or BSG before i start deleting. 😛

anyways, i’m home now as my class finished much earlier than expected. it’s great to finally get a break, no matter how short.

Fish saw my day of infamy blog post and offered to pick me up from the office. how nice of him. ahhhh it’s great to have friends who are there to help perk you up when you’re feeling down. i always imagine myself sitting at the usual kopi tiam, surrounded by the same faces i’ve known and cherished all my life. and everyone with mostly grey hair. sigh…..

anyways, hopefully my dad took care of the Honda. luckily he was in town for the day. even bought a new battery for the kelisa which hasn’t been used for a while. didn’t take me long to install it. and it sure beats searching the whole engine block for a radiator cap.

and fortunately, i didn’t have to stay at the office too long after all. and i had house season 3 episodes 2 and 3 to help pass time while batch programs were running, as well as some movies left over by colleagues. this week’s training with SAP is non-technical, so it was quite boring. i dozed a couple of times, even while seating right in front. then again, i always doze when i’m on the receiving end of any type of instruction or learning.

in order to bring more perspective in my life, i think i need to concentrate more on my travels. see the world, the ocean, and stuff like that. grabbed the following map from pikey:-

create your own visited country map or check our Venice travel guide

only 10% of the world i’ve visited so far… and even that is cheating. :O