Another New Blog?

Too much time on my hands?

No, just a little curious. I wanted to see if I could install the blogging software so I can host my own blog.

I'm not sure if it is going to be better than the current hosting. Right now, I don't have to perform any maintenance. Who knows what I may have to do when I host it on my own site.

Nevertheless, it is interesting to test out the concept. I have been extremely blur for the past two days, hence the slowness of the configuration. Much better today, thank goodness.

It's up if anyone is interested. Here's my Beta Blog. It's newly installed and much customisation needs to be done. No real entries will be there for the time being. Just going to test it out first. The default layout is pretty nice!

Still pretty proud of my small achievement. =)

Friday, January 30, 2004
03:23 p.m.

My Mistake

Wooziness not caused by drowsiness.

Drowsiness makes me more aware of wooziness.

Corrections already made in my little black book. Go me!

Wednesday, January 28, 2004
11:21 a.m.

Keeping Resolutions

The New Year has passed. That was the time to make resolutions. Now is the the time to keep them.

Making them was so much easier.

I suppose I've already broken one resolution when I hurt my wrist. These are the accidental situations which I want to avoid. But I mustn't let that get me down. Will prevent future accidental injuries from happening.

Now, if only I knew how exactly I hurt my wrist...

In other news, I have purchased a Playstation-compatible dancing mat. This goes in-line with my resolution to lose weight. Some exercise will do me good. It's been years since I did any...

However, I'm embarassingly bad on the dancing mat. It's like I have two left feet. At the moment, I only use the 2 (out of 10) star workout program. That's the minimum setting.

Through the use of mat, I have lost 45 calories yesterday. Very proud of achievement considering am crap dancer. Hey- I've only had that mat for 2 days. I'll improve. :)

Told Alan about great achievement.
Me: I worked out on the dancing mat I bought and lost 45 calories! That's equivalent to running 1.5km. The game told me so!
Alan: Ok, that's good. How much is 45 calories anyway?
M: Well, it's about... ... less than half a coke?
A: Er, that's great..

Ok, so it's not impressive, but I should get better at it.

Also, I've learnt a new quirk about myself. I just noticed it after all that medication I've been taking.

Whenever I'm really really sleepy, I get a little woozy. At first I couldn't understand why I got so woozy after midnight. And later it occured to me- my brain was slowly shutting down and forcing the rest of me to go rest.

Interesting mechanism, eh?

Tuesday, January 27, 2004
11:25 a.m.

Another Festival Breezes By

Being sick and on holiday brings out the ultimate sloth in me. I spent my first two days of CNY in bed. In fact, I slept up to a point when my back hurt.

Now THAT's saying something.

All in all, it was a very quiet new year. Nothing much happened. I slept. I woke up. I ate. I took medicine. I slept. I woke up. I ate. I took medicine. I slept...

Makes you wonder when I had time to bath or try on new clothes, huh? ;)

Was much better by the third day of CNY and enjoyed my first COLD carbonated drink. Was v. happy. Went out with mom. Saw nice (DIY) cupboard, but would not fit in my Kancil. Oh well...

They say, 'If you fail, try, try again.' Went back to shopping complex with mom AND dad AND bigger car. A-ha! Cupboard will HAVE to fit in now. Bought cupboard.

Cupboard does fit in car, but with much difficulty.

Spent another 2 hours at home fixing up the DIY cupboard. Boy, these things are much more difficult than they look!

Hurray, cupboard is fixed with help of parents! But not without sacrifice. My mom had a cut on her hand, my dad had a blister on his palm and I somehow managed to twist some nerve in my right wrist.

Bad nerves hurt like hell.

But now, I get to arrange all my pretty darlings into the cupboard. Am so happier!

And that was my holiday.

Monday, January 26, 2004
12:37 p.m.

Cough Syrup...

... makes me woozy. Yes, it does.

But strangely, it doesn't make me particularly sleepy. Then again, it could be that 3 hour nap I had in the afternoon...

Normally, I'd love to just stay in bed all day long, but this time its CNY! I don't want to be sick now!

I'm actually getting better, although I feel so drugged up.

It's either stay sick, or douse yourself in medicine till the eyeballs. I'll take Option 2, please.

Good thing I'll get to leave the office at 1pm and all the bosses aren't in. :)

Wednesday, January 21, 2004
11:14 a.m.

Ill =(

Oh no! I'm getting sick. And just before CNY!

What bad timing! Sigh, I've gone to see the Doctor and got 1/2 day MC. Hurray, going back early today, but still have to work tomorrow.

I asked the Doctor for a quick fix. So he doubled my antibiotic dosage. Instead of 1 tablet twice a day, I'm taking 2 tablets twice a day. Hopefully I'll be cured by Thurs.

Now feeling a little drowsy... Will go home soon, and sleep....

Tuesday, January 20, 2004
12:32 p.m.

Getting Ready for CNY

Truth be told, I haven't done much. Then again, there isn't all THAT much to do.

And FYI, I only get 1/2 day leave on Wed. Thurs & Fri are of course holidays. And I have to be back at work on Saturday.

Somehow, it doesn't seem very Chinese New Year-ish.

I remember when I was a kid, festivals seemed magical (the magic lessened after I started training). I used to get a full week of holiday and tons of ang paus. There would be family reunions and people to visit. There were also the crappy specials on TV which I had no choice but to watch, which in its on way emphasized the festival.

What is CNY now?

I don't even know if I will have a complete family reunion.

I use the PS2 and the DVD player to prevent the pain caused by watching crappy festival specials.

There barely is time for rest. It's a 2 measly days, and back to work. Any extra is taken out of you own annual leave. And there is never enough annual leave, is there?

If previously I shopped for new clothes with my mom, I now do so mostly with Alan. Good side- I buy whatever I think I look good in. Bad side? I pay for my own clothes. And without potential ang pau money too.

So far, snack shopping is complete. At least I think so. Clothes-wise, I've got a new shirt. At least one new clothing item, ne? Oh yea, I also have a new pair of sandals I bought months ago...

Hair cut? Nada. Kept procrastinating until it was far too late to cut hair. Esp with the price increase now. Maybe later. Feel reluctant to cut hair now as it is finally starting to be obediant.

Room cleaned. Was v. dirty. Suspect that I did not clean it last year. Whoops? Anyway, it kinda clean now. You can see the table top =)

Unfortunately, all the rubbish on the table top has been transferred to the floor. But that can be rectified easily.

Still need to clean huge round table downstairs. Will do that tonight. I think.

Did I miss out anything crucial?

Monday, January 19, 2004
12:00 p.m.

Bad Biscuits

For the past few days, I've had what you'd call a blogger's/ blorber's block. I've had no idea what to write about.

Something just came to mind. =) It's an experience I had yesterday about mooching of your colleague's snacks.

Since I've been stationed in the new department, I've observed that they practise a different culture compared to my past department. Here, they have a little pantry corner, complete with RO water dispenser. Colleagues will deposit their snacks at this little corner to be shared with everyone else in the department.

So, if someone goes on a holiday, they'll buy back some chips, sweets, etc. and leave them in the corner.

What happened yesterday, was that another colleague and I got hungry and we went to check the snack corner.

Lookie- there are some biscuits here. =D

Those biscuits had been left there about a week or so by another male colleague. He's a very nice guy and when he went to Camerons, he came back with dried strawberries for us.

My hungry colleague took one first and popped it into her mouth. These are the green bean type of cookies (which are famous from Penang).

Mmmm, I took one and she took another. She popped it into her mouth again, while I took bit half of it off.

Mmmm...

Until I looked at the half bitten biscuit. It was mouldy.

Urk.

I showed it to her. Oh no. We were ... poisoned?

There wasn't much that we could do cause we had already swallowed whatever we had put in our mouths. That's half a biscuit for me and two biscuits for her.

The report: Mould doesn't make the biscuit taste any different.

And neither of us reported an MC for today. We are stronger than we thought. =)

Another point of observation: There were 7 biscuits left yesterday (after we took 3), and now there are only 4.

Wednesday, January 14, 2004
12:28 p.m.

Calendar in A Calendar

I need to make an addition to my New Year's Resolution List.

A while ago, HANI suggested I should record my mood into my calendar. Then I can keep track of my PMS (if it comes in an orderly manner that is).

Today (and the last part of yesterday) has been so *ugh*. Infuriating. A string of things that did not go as planned makes me want to smash something. It's as though there's this ball of cramped feelings in my chest which makes me lash out.

Course, it could just be me being a major brat, but it could also be PMS.

At times like these, I get cynical and everything feels f*cked up. If I had some proof that this was the work of the damned hormones, perhaps I'll be able to deal with them better. That's why I need to keep track of these mood swings.

It simply does no good to sit in the house sulking for no apparent reason when all the while, it was a PMS symptom.

Hence, I shall record my moodswings into a calendar in a (hopefully) systematic manner. That should make everything clearer.

Thursday, January 8, 2004
11:06 a.m.

Morning Rant

There is no milo on my floor. Where is my breakfast? What should I have instead?

I donch want coffee. I want my milo.

Milo is downstairs, but that’s so far away. Esp when you’re carrying your cup and passing at least two dozen colleagues on the way.

I almost locked myself in the staircase when I attempted to go downstairs (and via the back door too!) but left my access card at my desk.

Luckily, the door hadn’t closed yet. Otherwise, I would have been trapped in staircase limbo until someone comes along.

Maybe later, I'll screw my courage to the sticking place and try going downstairs for some milo again.

And I'll not fail.

I know. I’m weird.

Thumb Update:
Mom said let thumb be. It'll get better on its own.
Colleague said can either go for massage at chinese doctor, or try pulling it.

Those massages don't come cheap, and they almost always bandage your injured limb with some strong smelling herbal medicine, which by the way gives me rashes.

On the other hand, pulling your thumb is very very painful. And if you don't know how to pull it right, you could injure yourself.

I tried pulling my thumb (I promised to be real careful).
Good news: It didn't get any worse.
Bad news: It didn't get any better.

Looks like I am back to square one.

I also think I have broken my No. 1 New Year's Resolution. I may have strained my left hand muscle while trying to pry open my handphone cover yesterday (it started to act wonky). This tells me one thing:

Must save up and buy new handphone. Preferably pretty one.

Wednesday, January 7, 2004
09:50 a.m.

Weekend to Rejuvenate the Soul

Recuperation? What weekend recuperation?

I spent the weekend watching the entire Initial D Stage 1 (courtesy of Adrian Thanks!).

Stage 1 has a total of 26 episodes. If each eppie is approx. 30 minutes, I spent a grand total of 13 hours of Initial D on Sat and Sunday. And to top it all off, I went shopping in KL and found my .hack//Liminality set. HUZZAH!

Also visited SPCA (at last). There are so many dogs there (like duh!). I don't understand how the owners could just leave the dogs there. There were some strays, but I was mildly shocked at the number of pedigree dogs. I saw at least 5 german shepards, 3 rottweilers, 3 cocker spaniels, some labradors and terriers.

There were other mixed breeds, all who just looked simply darling! I wish I could take them all home, but my dad wouldn not share my enthusiasm.

There was a particular one that I liked. They called her Daisy. She was a small dog with red fluffy fur. Looks like a fox ^_^ She is such a pretty doggie. She's a lost dog. Her owners must have loved her a lot. From the looks of her fur, they fed her properly. I wish I could keep her, but I wish even more that her owners would find her.

One of the things I've always wanted to do is be a volunteer in SPCA. But I only want to take care of the puppies. Big dogs scare me. In fact, there was this BIG bull mastiff that jumped on me while I was at SPCA.

She was a HUGE dog, and very fat too. Luckily, my back faced towards it. Had I seen a big dog charge at me, I probably would have screamed. It wasn't a vicious doggie though, just so happy it was out of the kennel, it was licking everyone in sight. In fact, she jumped on Alan after that, wandered around a bit and jumped on Alan again. V. v. cute, except v. big. ^_^

In other news, I have sprained my thumb. My right thumb to be precise. I'm not sure how, or when. But my thumb is definitely sprained.

It hurts. I realise that I have taken my thumbs forgranted. There are so many things we do with our thumbs, like holding a sandwich, which we actually never think about. I find it painful to do simple things, like locking/ unlocking the door lock from the inside of the car. My thumbs screams whenever I try to turn a tap. It is uncomfortable when I cradle my beloved PS2 controller.

I told my mom about my poor thumb. She said that all I can do it wait. No miracle way to make it better. Sigh. That brings me to some New Year's Resolutions:

New Year's Resolutions:
1. Be more careful. Do not accidentally sprain thumb, wrist, ankle, etc.
2. Be careful on the road too. Will drive carefully.
3. Lose weight (isn't that on everyone's list?)

Oh yea, before I forget, I also hope to get piss drunk before my 23rd birthday. Hmmm, that should be sufficient time.

That should be it. Enough to keep me occupied throughout the year. ^_^

Monday, January 5, 2004
04:20 p.m.

Battle Won, War Lost

My first day back to work after a week. I am so not used to it.

Suddenly, it feels impossible, cruel, painful to wake up before the sun rises. I open a groggy eye, and reach for the lights despite my aching neck and cranky shoulder. The fluorescent light so bright hits me in the eyes, and I crawl back to bed, like a creature of darkness seeking solace under the covers.

What the hell am I doing up so early?!

Ah yes, I have to go to work.

My body refuses to cooperate. It rebels against my will.

At 6.50am in the morning, I have no will.

The music blasting from the radio provides constant sound, preventing me from completely drifting of to sleep. I curl up under the blanket, but the glaring light and sound leave me no peace.

Yes, I am very much a sadist.

The crick in my neck worsens. I do not know why. My entire body feels lethargic and heavy .

It IS time to get up.

No. The mind refuses.

Logic seeps in with the radio waves. You have to go to work.

Oh phooey.

Why, oh why didn't I take leave on the 2nd of January?

I want to kick myself but there is no use in trying to further humiliate myself at such an hour. Besides, I know my limbs would not respond accordingly anyway.

Slowly, I let go of my pillow and inch out of bed.

The battle was won, but the war lost.

Friday, January 2, 2004
12:44 p.m.