emotional highway

ok i'm supposed to iron my clothes now but that can wait.

i hate ironing clothes, i tend to make lines where i'm not supposed to, and get all sweaty from the heat. i hate hanging clothes too but at least that i can see hope. i bought this new toshiba washing machine with super-spin-dry function last friday at harvey norman suntec. i mean, super spin dry! surely they're on the right track to inventing washing mashine that completely dry clothes, right??

there's no tennis tonight, wimbledon has this stupid rule of not playing on sunday. here we are sitting comfortably at home on sunday night, and they chose to play on busy weekdays instead. well at least there's no justine and nadal to watch now. i was quite bumped up when they lost last week. serena and henman lost too so you see, at least it had not been an entirely wasted week.

so i got all the rest i needed today. except of course, the hanging and ironing. especially after a tiring day yesterday when i went to jb with CY.

it just stopped raining when we took the ride yesterday so the weather was gloomy. there was this motorbike vs car accidents shortly before we reached the customs. the car dented, the bike was upside down and there was a covered body by the roadside. not a preferable sight if you ask me.

the queue was longer at the checkpoint as it was noon, and all these m'sian going back home after half day work. i'm always fascinated by these motorists. here we could see the true ugly nature of our people. they would cramp each other to occupy every little inch their bikes could get into, hon thoughtlessly, choke you with their exhausts and forget courtesy, that's just not in their road dictionary.

after consuming as much carbon monoxide, we headed down the grand hyatt for lunch. upss, not lunch, but high tea. high tea! the only time we have in the weekends to come and have proper meal, and they arranged buffet lunch for weekdays only. big surprise?? not really, by now i kind of accepted the fact that the world stops operating normally on weekends.

so before we knew it, it's almost monday again. i still have not figured out this particular work assignment, still have no clear ideas where or even what will our team building event planned for in a month time be and still a long way to go coaching this new colleague attached to me. i'm getting closer to freak out now.

just received a call from my parents. my father asked why i'm not calling home recently. that was not too good, wasn't it? i don't know why, it's not that i don't intend to call, but when i see the clock, it's either too early, or too late to call. it's almost like the most suitable time just skip, disappear or sth.

my parents gave updates on my younger brother's wedding which is coming soon in a month time. apparently my other siblings already getting their new clothes ready for the event. they planned on wearing golden colour. me? i probably just don in this cream coloured clothes i first wore in 2001. doesn't matter. the wedding dinner will probably be dark anyway so ppl may not notice. hey, i don't even know my sister in-laws' name yet!

which think about it, it's a bit rude, don't you think? not that i care, the chance is i'll only see them once a year or sth like that, but still i feel a bit hurt. just because i live over 300km apart i'm non-entity?

oh i feel depressed now. which should mainly be because of it's sunday night. it's all because of the workloads i have to face tomorrow. no other reason. who cares about that sister in-law?

or maybe because i still have those clothes to iron now. yes that's it!


...ed

academy fantasia rocks

i think i've been infected.

seriously. i know everybody's been talking bout it for some time now but i always thought that it's no big deal. it's like a whole another world's affair, no significance to me at all.

who knows that eventually i've become one of them? that just shows that nobody's really immune from anything. one mistake all it takes and you'd be addicted faster than you can say 'AF3'.

yeah, now i'm an Academy Fantasia fan. come to think bout it, i started being hooked to american idol in their 3rd season also...

gosh, does that mean i'm 2 years behind the crowd??

anyway, i'm not missing anything again. i'm gonna rout for amylea and mawi. amylea looks passionate and she has this r&b vibe around her. mawi is such a raw performer with a crispy clear forceful voice and i think has this most sincere personality among the guys.

i like marsha too, i think she in some way is like a malaysian version of krisdayanti. kefli is cute but i'm not really enjoying his performance last week. idayu has nice soulful voice but i'm not really crazy over her image.

the rest, ermm not very memorable. please take out aidil, he can't sing and i hate how he tried to look handsome all the time on the stage. my friend said he's a playboy, and i was convinced when i saw he was the only one trying to hug elizza as a consolation after she was booted out. that was so inappropriate. i mean, this is malaysia, not america.

ok i think my sweat has dried up, i better go and take shower. no more headache too after i popped in this miracle cure called panadol. i know it's not good for the liver blah blah blah, but when i have headache, i dun realy care bout anything else.

well you know, except maybe AF3...


...ed

riverwild

as i walked by the river on my way home just now, i couldn't help scanning over the calm dirty water. call me crazy and maybe sick too, but somewhere deep inside my mind i was thinking what if i somehow spot a severed head gloating by the water? as far as i had known, the police has yet to retrieve the head of the chopped up body found by the kallang river yesterday.

that was not the first time. i mean, i've always hoping to be the one who spot things out. like sometimes, when i saw a place flew by, i was thinking what if shortly after, the plane eventually made to hit some famous buildings? i'd be able to tell the news at 9 that i was innocently looking out my window when i somehow spot the doomed plane at 5.17pm...

or when i admired the night starry sky, i secretly hope that i'd see some new planets, or even alien spaceship, and i'd be known as the one who spotted the mars attack...

i know it's almost impossible, but hey, a guy can dream, can't he? everybody loves to be center of attraction, to be the one who's above everybody else. it's only normal.

besides, it's entirely unexpected world that we are living in now. who knows when will the big tsunami hits, or when the united nations will deceive china and accept japan into the security council? i myself was confident that they'd convicted michael jackson..

by all means, and it might not be me.. but i sincerely hope that they'd recovered the missing head of the poor girl soon....



...ed

oral fixation vol-1

as the appointed chairman, i called for the team building committee for a meeting this afternoon. as the previous one had the ppl did nothing but stare at each other, this time i called the big boss in as well. how was that?? i let him handled the meeting. after all, this whole team building thingy was his stupid-not-to-mention-meaningless idea anyway...

so my suggestion of having a normal lunch out but jumble up the whole seating arrangement (to get ppl to mix outside their comfort zone), went down the drain. just as i expected. urrghh.. i was already having fun with my colleagues over tea break, setting up unpopular ppl with the bosses. the big boss mentioned this other dept was considering a cruise or sth. wow..like we could plan a cruise with only $20 budget per head. cruise on 'sampan' more like...

last alternative, bbq in east coast. hmm..simple. could just buy ready-marrinated bbq stuff and book the pits. the only problem? have to come up with sth in between to extend the overall function to 3 hrs or so. games maybe...not sth physical though coz it's probably hot in the afternoon, and ppl would get all dirty and it's not like we could take a dip into the sea. need a good MC too...hmmm...

ahh worry bout that later.

tompok just called regarding our trip to bangkok this sept. seems like ages away but i already booked my flight over air asia yesterday. it was so convenient, this whole book on the net thing. we decided to stay in baiyoke sky hotel, but planned to book the room only end of this month. i'm quite excited over this actually, just that this other japanese lady will tag along with us. first, things would go somewhat formal when she's around, and secondly, my japanese is horrible now, it takes a lot of effort to converse naturally, and i'm..ermmm not so energetic lately.

hearing shakira's new album, fijacion oral vol-1 now, and it's in spanish. i was quite surprised hearing her first single 'la tortura' just now coz i heard 2 men's voices when she's supposed to be duetting with this other guy in this song. not that great song. maybe her second single 'no' is better off. we'll see....



...ed

great sale not so great body

came back from town. had been lazying on bed whole morning and figured i could use a bit of sunlight. well, not really, i hate the sunlight but maybe just the fresh air. god knows my room felt a bit stuffy as it has been shut from outside air more then 24 hrs.

the great spore sale is still on, in its 2nd or 3rd week i'm not sure. looked some kitchen stuff in tangs if there was anything appropriate for my new house kitchen. the fork and spoon sets were cheap, but looked a bit small. there was cake mixer with a bowl which was only 28 dollars. the tefal frying pan was pretty nice and cheap too. anyway, didn't buy any as i didn't feel like carrying them all back today. plus, i figured i should look at other places first, and came back some other times.

then i looked for some antioxidants. i may be overreacting, but i did feel my age recently, so think some damage control would be appropriate. on the bus i saw this kid with a glowing youth complexion and i got all jealous. seriously. on the way to robinson, i saw this book on detoxifying with the backside introduction that reads...

'do you look in the mirror and wonder where that fresh, taut-skinned youth has gone? do you suck on coffee after coffee all day long, yet feel irritable and exhausted?'

those lines were so me! i swear it was like a sign from heaven or sth. so i ended up buying this book (it was only $3.80!), then commuted to toa payoh and bought this amalaki antioxidants (10% discount). almost tempted to purchase skin purifying and cholesterol reduction pills too but thought i better not get carried away.

then i looked at my watch and it showed 6pm, and i thought it would be nice to watch 'friends' in my room and catch a brief nap. i felt a drag to continue exploring things in toa payoh courts store. another sign of aging perhaps? i'm so worn out...

anyway, maybe it was just a lack of exercise. i didn't join the last thursday badminton session, and it had been while since i last pay tennis on saturdays. jogging? i could not remember when i last did it. i really need to start on my physical work out once i moved to my new house next month. it could be like my new life motto or sth..a new house and a new life..or some sorts..

ok think i'll continue with 'friends', and maybe a nap....



...ed

inferiority complex

still waiting for nadal vs puerto in french open final...

the match should be after the women double final, so i'm having this roland garros website live scoreboard on my desktop to track the current progress...

so far so good. h-hardenne won yesterday against pierce, and if nadal wins tonight, it'll be all perfect.

gosh, i so want nadal to win, especially after he beat roger yesterday (haha take that, federer-worshippers!) i'm already feeling excited, nervous and petrified, all at once now, i might just need oxygen tank by my side later while watching.

met this guy who's a tennis fan as well from the chatroom this morning, apparently staying nearby me. i was excited to finally having someone to talk tennis to, but however the conv didn't get too far and kinda stopped half way.

duh..i bet he was having another conversation at the same time, and that just took off. he looks kinda cute though so partly because i was kinda having fits myself too.

it's the same old problem. i always feel inferior by someone who i think better off than me. this guy's young, good looking, and could play tennis! i'm so envious.

put him beside me and i'll have inferiority complex.

i really need to work on this.

the final still has yet to start. i just did some excercise with my torso roller in front of the tv. i hate this little lump i have in my lower abs, i really need to start doing the sit-ups everyday just like last time.

feeling good bout my body will give me less inferiority complex problem, especially since i plan to utilize the swimming pool in my new house to its full extent.

i could also learn how to swim!



...ed