Help... please?

I've been using the same Nokia phone for years... I did purchase a new LG, but not really happy with the features and such. So, instead of giving me joy of easy calls & texts, it's now sitting in my drawer together with the rest of my vintage telephones.

I want a new one!! I want a Blackberry or maybe an Iphone. But I'd prefer Blackberry, because of the Qwerty feature. I am not good with touch screen phone... I'd get irritated easily.

My dilemma is now, I am using Digi as my network provider. I love Digi - it's cheap and the service has been good. The downside though, I can't use Blackberry if I don't sign up for their Business Plan, which requires me to have at least 5 lines. I'm not going to commit to that just because I want a Blackberry!

So, what should I do? Anybody knows the way I can get hold of a Blackberry and maintain my existing line?

Or maybe there's a telephone or more, out there that can match the features (and looks) of Blackberry that I don't know of? Any recommendations?

Maybe I should just go to Sungei Wang or Low Yat to have a look but that's just going to take a lot of my time, and I'd really want to know from words of mouth.

So people, some help? please?

Gone too soon

Wow, what a weekend!

I woke up feeling rather tired yesterday... Bo couldn't sleep, the air-con in my room back at my parents' wasn't functioning. When I woke up, he was at the computer and told me that Michael Jackson has passed away... I was shocked of course.. Oh no! He's one of my 'concerts' wish list.. In fact, he's at number 2 of that list after Tina Turner. I was just telling Bo last month that if I could get hold of his concert tickets in London in July, I'd go... Of course Bo didn't really want me to go, what with H1N1 and all...

I went to watch CNN and I also learned that Farrah Fawcett too has gone... Unlike MJ's death, FF's cause of death was known right away to be of cancer. But Farrah Fawcett's death did not leave me as shocked as Michael Jackson's death... In fact, the news saddened me...

Whenever I listen to his songs, they always remind me of my childhood. Of the times when my youngest uncle was babysitting me and my brother after his school... He would put on the cassette and tried to imitate Michael Jackson's moonwalking, to amuse us and we would laugh our asses off because he looked ridiculous! Almost moronic! I am sure most of you have your own memories whenever you listen to his songs.

On that same day too, I heard of another death... of a relative. He's a nobody, so the news of his death came later than the 2 celebrities, though he died the night before. He's not a close relative, in fact I didn't even know who my parents were talking about until they described to me who he was.. His death too saddened me. You see, he was never married and obviously was childless. He had a piece of land and he donated that land to the community and turned it into a cememtery. My grandfather was buried there. He had been reserving the centre of the cemetery for his own grave. That particular spot has been empty for 30 years now and now it's his final resting place... Knowing that nobody would do this to him, he had his cemetery cemented. Poor guy...

Oh well, life has to go on.. On my way back from KK, I listened to MJ's songs on my Ipod, that's my way of mourning his death. Like the Beatles & Elvis Presley, he's gone too soon, but won't be forgotten.

Guess I have to re-write my concert wish list... Stevie Wonders may be on top of that list now, since Tina Turner is retiring for good.

Father's Day

So I just got back from KK - I was there for almost a week and when I reached Shah Alam just now, it felt like I never left. I was already missing family back home :(

I arrived KK on Saturday midnight, just in time to celebrate Father's Day with my dad and the whole family... We were supposed to treat him to a golf game somewhere nice. However, he had to leave the house very early Sunday morning for his monthly medal at the club. Oh well, the golf game had to be re-scheduled. As I have been craving for some Sabahan comfort foods, we went off to Menggatal Ngiu Chap for some serious brunch. I ate like there was no tomorrow. I wasn't even hungry!

That Sunday night, we went to have dinner at a seafood restaurant in town. While my mom wanted to rush home to watch the Bintang RTM, my dad, me & Bo went off to join up my aunts and uncle at Blue Lagoon for a karaoke session. Also to celebrate my one of my aunt's brithday.

Secretly, I was planning a mini golf tournament with the ladies of KGC to celebrate Father's Day. We were sponsoring a tournament under my dad's name, but he didn't have any idea. He thought the tournament was for Bo's birthday all along... The tournament went well even with very short notice and just one day of planning. Kudos to the ladies committee member of KGC! Dad won 7th placing with his partner and I won a tray of eggs for being last!

All in all, I went home just to celebrate Father's Day with my dad and I'm glad I can call it a success!

Photo's in Facebook!

Scent of a woman

I was telling Bo the other day that I need a new bottle of Chanel Coco Mademoiselle, as I was running out... To which he replied and I quote "Why would you need a lot of perfume? Half of your perfume collection is still full, not that I'm stopping you to get another one or two."

And it hit me, I do have a lot of perfume. I'm not a collector, mind you... I'm just someone who thinks that I need to smell differently on occasions. I know some friends who collects perfumes and empty perfume bottles like some people collect stamps. I don't collect them, I use them... for different purposes every time I spritz them on. In fact, it gives me joy to see that they are finishing, so I can go get a new one... a 'fresher' one.

When I'm going out with a date with Bo, I always put on my ultimate one, Chanel No. 5 Premiere. This one makes me feel sexy & hot.. *blush*... Therefore, I only use it whenever I'm around him... When outings with the girls, I use Daisy Marc Jacobs for days and Coco Mademoiselle for nights. These smell fun and outgoing. I used to like Stella McCartney's In Two Peony but that's being used for groceries shopping or salons trips now, same goes to the Hugo Boss's Femme. For sports, or golf more accurately, I use Davidoff's Game when playing with the girls and CK One when I'm up against the boys. For business meetings, I'd go with Chanel Chance... because being superstitious, I think the smell and its name will somehow effect the outcomes of the meeting.

But when I travel, I only pack the miniatures... CK One, CK Eternity & MJ Daisy. Because I always like to shop for perfumes at the Duty Free Counters at the airport. As I travel often, I never shop at perfume outlets.. and my perfume supply always never run out completely.

I love frangrance! I haven't even started talking about my home frangrance yet. Maybe some other time. Because if I were to talk about it now, I'll bore you to death... :)

But girls (and boys...), don't tell me you only have one perfume to define what you are about all the time, right? This may be a personality complex in my case, but I just love them so much to only stick with one. Tell me about yours!

My apartment

Hey... I've been wanting to share some pictures of my new place. I'm liking the feelings my apartment view gives me... It's not exactly never-ending horizon, but the palm trees and the building surrounds the swimming pool makes me feel like I'm in one Malaysian resorts by the sea side.

Downside - I woke up to kids shouting and playing in the pool early mornings on school holidays and weekends, and to Chinese aunties gossiping loudly on weekdays.

Here some photos I'd like to share.

That's the pool view from my apartment

The same view at night

Again the view

The lights in the distance comes from Shah Alam City Centre

My Gajah now is nicely hung for all to admire... I drilled and hung this myself ya!

Embroidery

Remember I talked about getting my eyebrow embroidery done? Well, I talked about this in my other blog.

Do tell me what you think... Be honest!

Exhausted but worth the while :)

Exhausted! That's what I'm feeling right now.

Since we moved here, I couldn't find any excuse not to hit the club.. literally. I have been playing golf like nobody's business since last week. It started with an invitation to play a social round with a new golf buddy. She called me for a round of golf on Wednesday, since we just knew each other and that was the first time we played together, we decided not to bet. I was glad we didn't because she would have won my money on that day... I feel weak, because she's not only a social golfer, but she's my mom's age! Should've been easier to beat her even on the first hole!

However, my weak feeling didn't last long. Yesterday, I joined the Monthly Medal at our club. As a new member and a new golfer, it was the only second time I joined the monthly medal. And boy, was I nervous! I didn't know what to expect since I heard it was going to be a new system, one that I wasn't familiar with.

My flight mates were two high handicappers - both 24. For men golfers, that's as good as beginner, like you just picked up golf last week! But, we played our game and we enjoyed it tremendously. Especially when I got a single handicapped caddy. This particular caddy is 'to-die-for'.. He's the most wanted among the golfers in the club because he's just good at reading green lines and reading the distance. And I needed the best caddy I could get.

I played 2 under with my 36 handicap, with a birdie and two pars. But I fumbled on all par -5s. Now, that didn't look too good. Because that 4 holes alone, I was already playing 18 over! That's very very frustrating!

Thinking that I wouldn't win anything, I didn't bother checking the scoreboard and went straight to 19th hole to have my dinner and a mug of much needed cold beer. But when I met Bo in there, he told me that I might have a chance to win something. So, we waited. True enough, I won ball sweep and runner up for C medal. I won a tube of golf balls for the Ball Sweep and a RM200 voucher from Jusco for the runner up title. I was ecstatic! And also motivated! Though I didn't win the Matchplay, I don't mind. These wins alone made me want to strive more for Her World Golf Challenge this coming Friday. I now know I can do it ;)

So, wish me luck friends. Because apart from skills, golf is also a game of luck (at least for me!)

Continuing tradition

I know Kaamatan has passed. And I am a little too late to be blogging about this. Don't blame me, the news came late.

Last Sunday, my youngest sister joined the Unduk Ngadau, not the state level, just the kampung level... Hehehehe.. And guess what? she came in first! Now, that's the first in our family.

The Kaamatan festival is celebarted in our kampung every year ever since I can remember. They will be all the normal competitions. But the highlight is of course the beauty contest. My sister is not the first one to have joined this. I have too, and won some.. hehehe... but only second placing, when I was 14! Actually, I don't like to join these sort of competitions. It's so embarrasing, especially when the audiences were your school friends.

But, the tradition is continuing... and it's my sister's turn this year... What can I say, it's in our culture and there's no escaping! So, here's picture of my sister with her traditional costume;

This little girl may be doing the same thing in 10-15 years from now... :)

Dreaming of the Ex.

I woke up super late this morning. Maybe it's because the hot bath I share with Bo, or maybe it's the 3 hours Golf Clinic we had or maybe it's both. I'm not sure why exactly... But this long sleep gave me something else... A weird dream.

I dreamed of my ex last night. It's weird. Strange because I have never thought of him for the longest time. I have never felt curious of what becoming of him or his whereabouts.

In my dream, we were back together in my parents' house back home. He still looked and acted the way he was when he was with me. Everything seemed normal. Only I felt a bit strange, having him around instead of my husband. He asked me to do something foolish like comparing prices of mobile phones. Funny thing was, the mobile phones he showed me were all older models like the ones we had back in the days. I ran out of the room and went out to see both my parents sitting in our living hall watching TV. Both my parents were unhappy about something. I tried to make conversation with them but they wouldn't listen to me. All through that dream, I tried running away and ignoring my ex. I woke up to Noah's scratches on my bedroom door, wanting to go in.

I woke up feeling rather strange. Instead of starting my coffee maker machine, I went straight to my computer and tried finding dream interpretation online. It's so happened that my cousin was on Skype and I told her about this weird dream. She told me to check out Dream Moods website. And what I found really bothers me. This is how the result looks like;

"Ex Husband/Ex Wife - To see your ex-husband/wife in your dream, indicates that you are finding yourself in a situation that you do not want to be in. It suggests that you are experiencing a similar relationship or situation which makes you feel unhappy or uncomfortable"

Wow! What sort of answer is that... I tried finding the truth to this claim.. I really can't! What sort of things that can make me unhappy or uncomfortable in my current relationship. None! I must tell Bo about this when he returns back from Penang. And see what he has to say. Or maybe I shouldn't pay so much attention to it, after all it's just a dream.

Exhausting Irritation.

Bo has finally came home... I don't know why I missed him so much this time around. Anyway, now that he's back, I guess life is back to being normal again.

He wasn't expected to arrive until late in the afternoon. So, I have purposely scheduled today as our spring cleaning day involving my sister. She is after all on her day off today. I love cleaning and having someone to help is a bonus for me. Lunch was very late in the afternoon, due to not-so-efficient time-table I prepared last night. I guess, waking up late this morning had a role to play in it too.

After cleaning and all that lunch, we decided to go out for a movie and dinner again. I guess this will be our weekly activity for the Summer since almost all the movies that are coming out this season expected to be good ones. None of us watched Night At The Museum 2 yet, so we thought why not. After all, we need a good laugh after stretching our muscles and bones from all the cleaning earlier.

I always liked the 'Love' seat at the cinemas. It's spacious and I like cuddling up to Bo when watching movies. So when I was told by the ticket counter clerk that the seats were all taken, I was disappointed, to the point that I almost wanted to postpone or cancel the movie. But I purchased the tickets anyway, knowing that I'd probably won't have time until next week to go to a movie again. Despite having to sit at a not so comfortable seat, we did enjoy the movie. When the movie finished and the lights were on, I casually looked at the top areas where the lover seats are. And my, was I not surprised to see that most of the seats were empty! In fact, only one set was taken! The rest was vacant! Empty! No people! I couldn't believe it. I felt cheated! Now, why did the clerk said that the seats were taken? When I went to purchase the ticket, it was half an hour before the show started. I'm sure all the on-line bookings have been released by then. Can someone please explain to me? Am I right to be angry at TGV and the ticketing staffs?

Anyway, after the movie, we decided to go have our dinner. While we were standing in one of the concourse area discussing what & where, a salesgirl approached wanting to introduce their Standard Chattered credit card. Bo told her that he already has one. But the girl refused to listen and went on telling us about their credit card service. I got irritated and raised my voice, telling her to leave us alone. She didn't go away, she just said "Miss, I just want to ask mah..." Oh! That attitude. I then told her to "Just go away". Really, whoever gave her the sales training need to be shot on the head for not doing a good job!

We decided to have dinner at Zen, a sister food chain of Secret Recipe's, I think. I got irritated again, because when I asked the waiter about a menu, he went on and on telling me the ingredients. I knew the ingredient, they were written in the menu. What I'd like to know is whether it's a pie, a soup, a casserole, whatever! He didn't know how to explain to me, because while taking our order, he was also talking to his friends in the kitchen and exchanging a secret, joke, smile (whatever!) with his colleague who was sitting next to us with his laptop browsing Facebook. Now, I knew that guy is a staff of that outlet because he's wearing the uniform! On any other day, I will just leave the table and choose other place to eat. But knowing that Bo was so tired and we just wanted to have all over and done with, so we could go home and sleep. Dinner wasn't good. Food came fast & cold, so no way am I going back there. Not with that sort of experience.

I guess it's because I was so exhausted from all the cleaning in the morning. Maybe that's why I got irritated with no effort at all.