"makan-makan"

Yesterday, my department organized a ‘makan-makan’. Steamboat is the main menu. Everyone took part by bringing foods. Kak Nor, our main chef of the floor has listed down all the menu to bring in as it can avoid people bringing the same food. Mine is vege balls. Apart from that, desserts are scrumptious. We have plenty of desserts start with pudding caramel and end it with chocolate ice cream. I’ve felt bloated afterwards.

Now with all the cutting budget season, pot luck seems to be a great idea, we save a lot. I’ve seen from time to time, other department has their share of pot luck too. For instance the Level 1, since they have larger members, they could afford to have Secret Recipes cakes every month, celebrating birthday and all. How I envy them. Sometimes, I sneak to Level 1, hoping that by passing them, they might invite me to take sample some of the cakes…what a cheapskate.

Dream Guy

Who is your dream guy? Every girl has a certain list what to expect from a guy. Well, it goes from Brad Pitt to a Ferrari. Be it physical and material. The remarks given can be very peculiar and downright funny at times. The others will quip “ Oh, he must be an adventurous type of person, rock climbing stud” or it can be “He must ever willing to do the laundry, as I hate anything to do with washing machine, soap, and bundle of smelly clothes”

The reason of liking someone can be unexpected too. Like “He loves to carry my handbag plus all my shopping bags” or “We both love to buy small teacups, lots of it”

Believe me, all above is true. It happens to a normal couple. Nothing abnormal about them at all. I’ve checked. From my own perspective, I look for a guy who can makes me smile, dreamy and makes my heart flutter the moment I see him even from far.

It might sound cliché but love can do wonders. Does it ever occur to you why you friend insist to marry someone that you cannot stand off? Or perhaps you keep wondering what does he sees in her? It does to everyone, I guess. A gorgeous, drop dead beautiful girl can hold hand with a not-so-handsome grungy guy, and our brain thinking what does he has to have her in his arms.

A male friend once confided in me, he has a thing for this girl for quite sometime, but this girl is not within his reach at all. She has everything, but he has none. I asked him to go and grab that girl before someone else does, if not he will end up with ‘what if’ hundredth times all over.

It turns out that the dream girl falls for him. The ‘super’ girl turns out doesn’t need anything else except his sincerity. And that’s all he can offer.

A sweet love story indeed. Definitely could not compare the “Taj Mahal” one, but it is just a normal love story of someone that we know in our life.

Well, when friends asked what I see in him, my answer would be “I don’t know, it just merely kuch kuch hota hai” :-)

Rock It Baby!

I've read from the paper telling that there is a sequel for School of Rock. Yeah! Couln't wait to watch it. All time favourite, an original master piece. Ok,stop it there, it is not that 'master' of all film but it is downright funny.

I love Jack Black. A flamboyant and hyperactive character that he potrayed in the film is so inspirational, thinking perhaps later on we might have this kind of funny teacher in the Malaysia education scene, yeah,what a dream.

And dont forget a 'tight lady in old traditional principal uniform' played by Joan Cusack, she is so funny without actually trying to be one. I think that needs a real talent.

Suddenly, i become a favourite fan of rock. Thanx to the movie. No,just kidding. But seriously, it opens me to a different genre of music, as i always thought that rock music is nothing else but just a bunch of sreaming hooligans without a proper lyrics.

Hope for the best for the next School of Rock.

going away,sir?

My most 'lovely' GM is going away for two weeks! Yeah! My department has been buzzed about this great news for days...counting days when he's going to leave. The PA told us that he’s going over to London, to check upon his daughter.

Well, things to do when he is not here:
a) do not check your email every 15 minutes, as he will not going to yell from his office whether we’ve got his or not
b) leisurely lepaking in nearby restaurant
c) can go home early
d) well, stress definitely is out to the window, bye by stress

From what I’ve experience, it doesn’t make much difference if he is in the office or not, work is still work, life is normal boring, and we still need to finish up things before he ask. It is not like as if the whole department can go straight to Modesto, banging our head and loosen up the tie.

Till then, we wish him the best on his journey, we’re going to ‘miss’ u, Mr GM

Wedding Bells

Have so many weddings to attend this year. So far, I’ve attended three weddings, and it is yet the end of 2008. My staff, Nina wed our ex co worker last May. My cuz, Baby aka Faizah got married last May too, plus Zam’s wedding in JB, next would be Intan, my co worker from Back Office system Dept, this end of June.

I love going over to wedding ceremony. The fact that I’m there to support a union of love makes me coming with a full of spirit. But surely, it burns a hole in my pocket. Usually, I would set aside a certain budget for wedding gifts. The gifts will depend on how many weddings that I need to attend.

Let see…if there is three weddings in a month, so you can imagine how small the gift is for each other. And that makes me think deeply; perhaps I should avoid having my own ceremony during school holidays as that would be a normal practice in Malaysia.

Other tips:
1. Plan ahead and things that you think trivial might give a headache later on
2. Try to avoid having wedding on school holidays as:
a) Mak andam and photographer tends to charge you a bomb
b) People like me has to think twice when deciding on wedding gift as there is so many gifts to think of. Tapi yang penting,ikhlas...
c) You have to call so many dewans or hotels as it usually fully booked. Mind you, you need to book a hotel one year earlier or nothing less than 6 months.

Well, that’s what I’ve been seeing so far. Perhaps I can get more tips later on by attending more and more weddings :-)

Living in a Fast Lane

Hectic and content. That’s the best two words to describe my life so far. Well, where should I start…That would be a seminar that I’ve attended in Genting Highlands. At first, I’m rather skeptics of going over there, the fact that my GM kept asking me to redo and redo again my slide presentation for 10th times. But it turns out perfectly, the dear GM turns into his good mood and praising me in the end. My presentation is about ‘airline’ and that word stills scares me. That was three weeks ago.

Last weekend, I made a visit to Johor Bahru, oh I love this town, to attend Zam and Pitt’s wedding. The loveliest couple I’ve known since my stint in TV3. Congrats Zam and I am so happy for him. Zam entered TV3 a week after me, and become a fast friend since then. Even though he later transferred to MHI team. Looking forward to actually meet up with old friends back in TV3, but then, couldn’t find one and I need to rush back to KL, Sunday mah, esok keje.

And this week is awesome. My company organizes a cocktail dinner inviting the who’s who in airlines industry and travel agents. It is such a feat as me and the team organized everything in within 3 days. And I became the Master of the Ceremony. They twisted my hand and eventually threatened my life if I refuse. I hate them as much as I had a butterfly in my stomach for a consecutively three days. But it turns out perfectly! Got praises all over and can see my GM beamed at me that night. That was rare, ok. And I can see that everyone is having a good time, laughing loudly and toss the champagne.

Dato’ Rashid Khan, my Director also commented that it was a great night. Thank you Dato’. My leg is killing me that what I hate most about cocktail dinner. Raj, from Firelfy commented to me, why on earth we did it on a Wednesday night while it is more convenient to have it on Friday night, well, sorry Raj, could not please everyone’s wishes. Still, ha, what a bliss night.

Impiana KLCC and Spa, the place that we had our cocktail party gave me a complimentary one night stay. The room is gorgeous. Such a blessing as the very next day, my company also organizes a product briefing to the travel agents, luckily at the same hotel. Again, I became the MC.

It was as if, I’ve been living in a suitcase. Truly need a new suitcase then as my old red spanking ELLE one is in misery by hopping from plane to plane, to one hotel to another. Hehe, a good excuse for me to buy one. In fact, eyeing one in Midvalley.

Hectic, tiring life yet I fill so content and enjoying every second of it.

love is cinta,cinta is love

Last Friday, my family and I went over Alamanda to catch a movie. We end up with Love, an Indonesian flick. Tagged along was my cousin, Nadia with my aunt and my uncle.

Nazmi, my little brother, no so little anymore, he’s already 14 years old, goes sour all the time over our choice of movie. But he doesn’t want to left behind at home, no choice but to tag along. Kesian…

Love is the reminiscences of the old Cinta, which won the Malaysian award last year. You know, the most talked about movie that has several top actors lined up. The faces like Nanu, Rahim Razali, Eizlan Yusoff, Fasha Sanda,emm...so many lah. Love has the same movie plot but just different actors and environment.

In Love, actors like Acha, Irwan, Widayawati and Luna Maya graces the movie. It’s a sweet movie, a little bit dragging at first, but hats off to Acha Septriasa. She acts naturally for a newbiz. But couldn’t take my eyes off from Luna Maya. So damn gorgeous, dazzling and oh,my, I wish I look like her.

Since I’m yet to have to opportunity to watch Cinta, Malaysian one, I couldn’t make comparison between this two. My dad and Nadia picked Cinta, as it funnier, my mom and my aunt picked Love instead as it sweeter than Cinta.

Watching the movie makes my heart melted over Jakarta. From the movies, they are snapshots of places that I’m so familiar with it. It makes me want to go over there again. Oh, I went to Jakarta last year with Farah and Sarah for a blessing 5 days. Perhaps, next year we want to go for Bali, well depends on our bank account.

Oh, don’t forget the sweetest song ever in this movie, Sempurna by Andra and The Back Bone. Here we goes:

kau begitu sempurnadimata ku
kau begitu indah
kau membuat diri ku akan slalu memujamu
disetiap langkah kuku kan slalu memikirkan diri mu
tapi saat ku bayangkan hidupku tanpa cintamu
jangan la kau tinggalkan diri
kutak kan mampu menghadapi semuahanya bersama mu
ku akan bisakau adalah darahku
kau adalah jantungku
kau adalah hidup
kulengkapi diriku
oh sayang engkau begitusempurna(2x)

kau genggam tanganku
saat diri ku lemah dan terjatuh
kau isikan kata
dan hapus semua sesal ku
jangan la kau tinggalkan diriku
tak kan mampu menghadapi semuahanya
bersama mu ku akan bisakau adalah darahku
kau adalah jantungkukau adalah hidupkulengkapi diriku
oh sayang engkau begitusempurna(2x)

jangan la kau tinggalkan diriku
tak kan mampu menghadapi semuahanya bersama mu ku akan bisa
kau adalah darahku
kau adalah jantungku
kau adalah hidupku
lengkapi diriku
oh sayang engkau begitu
kau adalah darahku
kau adalah jantungku
kau adalah hidupku
lengkapi diriku
oh sayang engkau begitu(2x)

sempurna(2x)