Total Reds For 2014.

*drumrolls*

82 PACKETS! 

By far, the most I've collected of all these years. Even the total amount in it. 

It's crazyyy!

Koay got about 75 packets but his amount exceeded mine by few ringgits.

WHAT A YEAR MANNN!

It's so nice to have received so much from people in the span of fifteen days. The money inside wasn't what I was focusing on. The fact that I have 85 packets in total is madness. I don't know where these people come from.

Just my family and Koay's also quite a lot d. Hooray to those who have big family! Haha.

Amazing Stories.

So, I read this article called, "The 35 Most Touching Photos Ever Taken" in Facebook and boy, did it made me cry. Indeed, touching. 

I just want to share some of which really stirred up certain emotions inside. Some. just some.

Here it goes.

Hawkeye, loyal pet to Petty Officer Jon T. Tumilson, fell to the ground in front of his owner’s casket in front of friends and family of the deceased, and remained there throughout the ceremony. 

An arthritic 19-year-old dog named Schoep is cradled by his owner, John, in the waters of Lake Superior, where the buoyancy eases the dog’s pain, allowing him to fall asleep comfortably in his owner’s arms. Shortly after this photo started to spread online, people everywhere began donating money, allowing John to pay for the surgery and medication Shoep needed to live more comfortably. John used the remaining money to start a foundation to help other pets in pain.

A father and son’s relationship over the years.

 A North Korean man waves his hand as a South Korean relative weeps. On Oct. 31, 2010, 436 South Koreans were allowed to spend three days in North Korea to meet their 97 North Korean relatives, whom they had been separated from since the 1950–53 war.

A man teaches his girlfriend the alphabet after she lost her memory. “Patience, love, and understanding at its finest.”

'It's been so hard and she's been here the whole time': Amazing love story of bomb disposal expert who lost arms and legs in Afghanistan blast and the girlfriend who has been at his side during remarkable recovery.

 Eight-year-old Christian Golczynski accepts the flag for his father, Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, during a memorial service. Marc Golczynski was shot on patrol during his second tour in Iraq just a few weeks before he was due to return home.

The Weekends in Photos.

Literally sneaked through me quietly.

LITERALLY.

I felt even more tired than the weekdays combined. 

ihatetoadmitthis 

but 

ageisreallycatchingupalready.

Meet my colleagues :)

One of the nicest 3 course western meal that I've had. LOVE THEIR AVOCADO TRIFLE.

Breakfast at the new cafe, Budan Coffeebrew Cafe. Wait, I think it's Budan Coffee.. err.. No, wait.. I don't remember.. Aahhh. It's Budan something lah!

The bag is so huge that she can sleep in them nicely and comfortably.

Because taking proper photo during a wedding dinner is too normal and we no like normal stuff. Haha.

My first time attending a wedding dinner that has no bridesmaid whatsoever. Navy/soldier style ftw. Really very cool.

Weekend that is packed with events and activities. Ohh.

Randomly.

Because sitting normally like a girl is too common. 

Walking shoe kena stolen, so wearing working shoe will just be fine. Still looking great, hun :)

Snail time - our must have everytime we chaik ho liau :)

Good, starting to behave like a girl. Just for that split second that is.

Helping Josh with economics reminded me of how much I love my college years and all that group study moments. Such priceless memories :)

Koay: I want to go cut my hair. You want to follow?

Me: Err, can also. I can go trim a bit of my hair behind. Too messy d.

Koay: Oh okay *continues driving home*

Me: Okaylah! I shall cut bangs then.

Koay: *eyes wide opened and staring at me*

Me: *grins*

Nandos, bestnya.

So, my mom told me I've got a couple of letters that's waiting for me on the table.

A brown one and a white envelope one. 

The brown envelope was already opened before me. Angry me. Nolah, not angry lah. More like a bit annoyed.

When I was few years younger, I don't receive letters like that. It's only when I started working and all the commitments suddenly appear and Groupon became one of my favorite site to look at, then these letters come in like no one's business.

Let me tell you this, you people who haven't start working yada yada. IT'S VERY NICE WHEN YOU SEE LETTERS ADDRESSED TO YOUR NAME. That feeling is really nice. Maybe except those kind of letters that are actually bills. I haven't reach that stage yet la of course. 

So, when someone else opens my letter before me, I don't like it. It's like, come on lah! The opening of the letter with your name is the best part okay! Wait, that's the second best part. The best part is finding out what letter is that. BEST GILER.

Anyways, so I opened the brown one and saw one stack of red angpows inside. Guess from who?!

NANDOS!

My favorite mam mam chicken outlet. Gosh, they seriously send to their members a stack of ang pows? Too bad no money inside. Actually I didn't check whether got also or not. Most likely not. Haha. I know lah, just angpows but I make it such a big deal like that. 

It's always nicer to receive something unexpected.

Then, the other while envelope was the "recognition" that my application for a house is accepted and in the process of more process.. Worry. Stop. Pray. 

I can't wait to own a house on my own :)

Sat/Sun-No.

I have been to the office for eight days straight in a row and waking up at 8am every morning.

This is no good.

I need the sleep.

Saturday and Sunday, I was attending a Leadership Training in the office and though it literally suck all the life of my weekends, I kinda enjoyed the entire training.

It was funny and informative. Surprisingly, I learned so much about things I never knew could change me and how I look at things now. 

One of it is how I will carefully choose my words, especially dealing with kids. 

I'm glad that I went for the training.

Now, my brain is so not in its order to do anything. It's not really Monday blues kind. It's just tomorrow is a public holiday and there is no moo whatsoever in the office to make people want to do anything. 

Now I'm just pure mumbling. 

Today needs to end soon. Sooooon.

Goldii Jumped.

This morning.

In office.

It was on top of a flattened table calendar.

My huge comfy chair swept the calendar and both jumped unwillingly. 

The thing was I didn't even know that Goldii was already on the floor. There was no sound at all. 

It was just that sudden feeling that I had that pushed me to just turn behind and check on Goldii, which was charging at that moment. 

My eyes saw an empty table/shelf. Heart straight sank a lil. Turned to the floor and it was covered by the calendar.

FELL ON FACE FRONT. Ouchhhh.

Picked it up and press here and there. Everything seems okay so should be okaylah. So I try convincing myself. 

That's a quite a high drop actually. 

Aiya, nevermind lah. 

It taught me to not take worldly things so precious. The WORLD will fail me always and I shall put all my hope and strength and faith in the One that never fails.

Not yesterday. Not today. Not tomorrow.

I'm secure in the Perfect Man :)

Different and New.

Just like that, it's already second day of the new year.

"It has been 22 hours since 2014 hit us." My dad said last night after grocery shopping at Tesco.

Then, it really shook me. It's seriously the second day already today?

I spent my whole night last night doing don't know what. I know for sure I wasn't sleeping. I was awake, scratching my head and my fingers, constantly looking at the windows to see if the sun is up, looked at my phone a thousand times but did not once went into any social media. It hit me. The reality of 2014 hit me in the middle of the night. What a perfect timing.

Year in, year out. Just like that, 25 years of my life passed. TWENTY FIVE! Seriously? I'm so not anywhere near ready to be 26 and more. 25 has gotta be my maximum age. Haha. Growing old is too painful. At least I look younger than my real age la so it isn't that bad as I thought it would be. 

Anyways, since this is the first post of 2014, it's different :)

This post is actually dedicated to a good friend whom I've worked alongside with for the past 10 years. One decade man. That's crazy stuff. For a whole stretch of 10 years, it has always been great to be serving God with this man. It's not always oh-we-work-so-well-together-that-we-never-argue kind, but it is we-help-each-other-to-grow and God-experienced kind. We have our ups and downs. Many many of ups and downs actually. But at the end of the day, we still enjoy each other's company in serving the fireBRANDS. Despite the many differences, we always manage to work things as a team. 

Then, last night after saying a few really nice things in our fireBRANDS Council group chat, he left. I'm not saying it as a bad thing. I guess when I saw 'Leroy left', it hit me even more that 2014 is going to be a different and new. 

Different because the one person that I go to everytime I needed to make a fireBRANDS-related decision or anything of the ministry, it's him I go to, the wise man. And now, it's different. Not that I don't go to the other two handsome councils. It's just different. It's not a bad-different. It's just different.

New because I'm like the last one from the senior time that still serves the young people. WHY YOU ALL LEAVE ME! WHYYY!? Kiddinglah. I miss all of you, crazy bunch of humans. Judson.. Daniel.. Leroy.. Ian.. Salako..

So yeah. One thing I'm thankful for, is the friendship that I've gained despite of the decisions that were made two years ago. Le Roy, you have been a blessing from up above to not only me but also Adrian. And WhatTwoEatHere (in case you all didn't know, Le Roy designed our name card for us). It's been so goood working alongside with you :) We are excited to see what God has planned for you and you're gonna be great because you are specially marked by Him :)

Friendship of 12 years and many more years to come :)

Try not to cry Le Roy. Now you got no choice but to read my blog! Muahaha!

Five S.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

AFTER ONE MONTH OF TORTURE!

AFTER WAITING AT LEAST A MINUTE EVERYTIME I CLICK SOMETHING!

AFTER BEING PATIENT FOR ABOUT 30 DAYS!

AFTER HAVING THE S2 STOLEN!

i finallys gets to holds the phone in mys hands.

i is verys a happys girl todays.

the s behind is on purpose.

Go check my Instagram photo! Love ittttt! :)

Where Got.

Where got mood to do anything today! Camp is like hours away. 

More like a week-long-holiday awaits :)

Working for twelve hours since yesterday isn't all that bad.

Got live drama for us to watch, right in front of where our booth is located. There's just this one girl who lifeless-ly sits on the bench in front of us whole day doing nothing since Thursday except looking at her Samsung and eat her tapau-ed food there and then, while waiting for her friend who works in Body Glove, who also appears to be like her boyfriend tomboi style. So yeah.

They even argued last night, which had the girl ended up crying. Both also girls la okay. Both also having hormones change.

But good lah cos then time for us passed very quickly.

Now, I just had to post something because I'm so restless and tired now. 

I need more sleep than I thought. 

This is torturing.

Tidur Tiga Kali.

I have no idea why this time I feel even more excited about youth camp.

It could be because somehow I knew God is going to be exceptionally real, and oh it excites me so much to see that happen.

To see life changed and hearts soften.

It is going to be beyond words.

Three more sleeps guys. Three more.

Of course, besides that I do think I deserve a-week-long break from work since I'll be working for almost twelve hours tomorrow and the day after. 

I have no time to pack at all. This is a nightmare. Hah.

Absolute Shock.

Okay.

This is unbelievable.

The last time I updated anything here is six days ago.

Wahhh. That just speaks so much of how busy I got over the past week. 

Honestly, if you ask me what have I been up to, I will struggle a bit and take some time to think about it.

Also, the fact that I have to use Koay's old phone for few weeks is kinda killing all the desire in me to take photos, check my Instagram, update my Facebook status and even blogging. This is such a sad sad thing.

But then again, I realized those are not in my priority list at all, for now. All that's in my calendar now is the Club Med Promotion that's happening in Queensbay Mall starting tomorrow till Sunday. Oh, and I will be working at the mall on Saturday till Sunday for the whole entire time. I'm not complaining for sure. I love selling Club Med packages. LOVE CLUB MED!

And the other thing is of course the fireBRANDS' Annual Youth Camp 2013 - ROOTED. Few more days and I'll be having five days of awesomeness. I can't wait :)

Okay, now back to work and youth camp stuff. 

Oh ya, please continue to pray for Vanessa as she's still in the hospital. She is getting better but very slowly. She's not allowed to go home just yet because her liver are not showing good signs. So that'll be more scans for her and stuff.

Thanks guys :)

Friday Night Like This.

Friday night and I just want to be home, right after food tasting dinner with him.

Head-band on, contact lens out and glasses on, oversized jersey and dis-coloured shorts and lie on the couch, be comfortable and watch TV.

Not really watching also actually. More like day-dreaming while Koay gets entertained on TV with Journey to the Mysterious Island.

Goodnight everyone.

Probably going to have some Cheerios before I enter dream world.

It's Okay.

I stood under the hot sun and honked thousands of times, but still no one came.

I stopped honking my car in the end because I didn't want to disturb all the working people at lunchtime.

Usually, when someone parks their car right in front of mine, after few honks, car owner will come out and apologized and then we smiled at each other and I will say, "It's okay!"

But this person, did not show up at all. I went to all four floors of the building to which the car was facing and no one owns that car. No one.

I stood there for a while (under the shade this time) and nothing happened. My car is still stuck with his/her car blocking my way! 

Then, I started walking to the back lane where there's short-cut to MGS and then my house. I was supposed to pick Kelly up. All the short-cuts were locked. LOCKED.

I called mom and she handled the pick-Kelly-up-dilemma. Me? Rang Koay 6 times but he never answer. At this point, my blood was already boiling at its maximum and his ringtone decided to be at low volume or something. Not his fault le.

Anyways, in the end I walked to the nearest Thai Restaurant and tapau-ed Fried Chicken with Basil.

Yes, it's Thai Food that made the girl okay again in the end.

I checked my window every 2 hours to see if the black wira is still there. 

Guess what?

The black piece of junk was still in front of my car at six pm. SIX PM! Time for me to go home and unwind. STILL THERE! Where got people so inconsiderate eh!

Good thing Koay called and fetched me home. I left my car there the entire night and this morning my dad had to fetch me to work. I was so mad at the black wira, but somehow I managed to keep cool and still thanked God for the whole incident.

PFE 5128.

Yeah, I can still remember because I repeated them ten thousand times in the span of 15 minutes.

HOWEVER, ON ANOTHER STORY/INCIDENT, GOD HAS ONCE AGAIN SHOWED THAT WHEN I PUT HIS WORK FIRST PRIORITY, HE WILL ENABLE ALL THE IMPOSSIBLE TO HAPPEN. ONE IMPOSSIBLE JUST HAPPENED AT WORK! GOD IS ABLE AND MORE REAL THAN YOU CAN EVER IMAGINED :)

Cheerios and Chocolate Milk.

Last night we had dinner at home and off we went to Tesco in two separate cars (so that he don't have to fetch me home again from his place).

And we actually ate again before we started shopping for groceries. Sticky mango rice at his friend's shop, The Little Siam :)

Then, as we push the trolley down each alley, we were suddenly super motivated to want to start eating healthy. JUST SUDDENLY!

Then, we find ourselves looking for healthy stuff and then he started buying a lot of things to which I thought was going to be his breakfast. Nope, not breakfast. All the ingredients are for supper the same night. I was like, "Wuut? Seriously? Who's going to cook?" He looked at me and smiled. Of course, I smiled back too and happy girl I was.

He saw pita bread with herbs and there he goes. Choosing cucumber and onions and breast meat. I was ready to eat, though I don't exactly know what he's going to do or how he's going to cook the ingredients and stuff them into the pita bread.

We went back to his place and we started cooking. I said WE because we both did. He told me he planned to cook the fillings of the pita bread with chili sauce, and I decided I was going to grill the breast meat with just salt and pepper. So, we kinda had a "let's-see-who's-chicken-taste-better-contest.

Of course, mine tasted fabulous. I know he was very shocked when he tasted my chicken because in the back of his mind, he thought that it would a rather tasteless chicken since I had no sauce with it. AND HE LIKED MY CHICKEN BETTER THAN HIS! :)

Actually, his overall dish was super yummy. I didn't eat a lot of it because my teeth/gum was hurting, but I love it! But mine is a lot healthier :)

Oh and he washed all the dishes WILLINGLY. Ahhh, this one needs to continue till death-do-us-part.

Anyways, I have no idea why I just spent so much time talking about the supper when I wanted to talk about whatever the title said.

I am not someone who eats cereal and milk in the morning. I don't even like milk. And I don't usually eat breakfast (though the doctor recommended it). So, since we suddenly got the motivation (actually it could be because I found out that I've gained 3.5kg minutes before shopping begins), I decided why not try Cheerios. The only time I heard about anyone talked about Cheerios was when I watch Glee. I figured it should be yummy since it's always talked about in other movies. Then, Koay said that have to eat cereals with milk if not it won't be nice. The problem is I don't like milk. He suggested chocolate milk, so okaylah.

I actually can't wait to start eating them for lunch and dinner (not all the time), just when I don't feel like eating anything else or when I feel fat. Hahaha.

Hours of Happiness.

FIVE hours to boarding time.

EIGHT hours to soak in the bathtub. 

:)

Best Sunday.

One week from now, it was supposed to be a short getaway to nowhere on the Libra cruise. Sadly, we had to forgo the reservation made because of the Merdeka Cup. Sad heh. No more holiday this month.. Got to start planning for one.. Have to.. MUST!

I am loving every moment of this week. baby girl has been sleeping here since Thursday because her parents are in Vietnam for company trip. I think most people know that it's really difficult to make this girl smile, but now she's wouldn't stop smiling and please, I'm not near complaining. It's real joy and mood-uplifting to see her smile when we didn't even have to put so much effort. No need to hide and peek-a-boo or do silly faces, which in the end didn't even help. Such a loveable baby girll! :)

Now, I'm spending my Sunday afternoon typing this, with her looking at me and smiling and then back to "eating" her toys. Heh.

All this while waiting for Koay to come home after futsal-ing with Mr. Khoo and the rest of the FGA-ians. It's MU vs Anti MU. How cuteee.

This is one of the best Sundays.

Fourteen Hours Trip.

There is absolutely not enough time for me to even paint my nails. Not last night, not this morning for sure.

I actually have no idea why I started rambling about nails like that. 

Oh ya! I wanted to paint my nails before I sleep last night but couldn't because I was like rehearsing my presentation and by the time I actually got time to breathe, Koay surprised-visit me after his dinner! :)

So there we were, chit-chatting away and transferring photos of his graduation and next thing we know, it was already midnight. There is no more strength left in me to do anything. Literally.

It felt like I was only about to sleep when the alarm sounded at 530am! WORSE FEELING EVER. Called Koay thinking that I will feel better. Nope. Definitely not after hearing his-i-am-too-sleepy-too-talk-voice. Haha. Everything felt better after the warm shower.

So yeah, flew to KL with Malindo Air at 0825 hours and now waiting for the next flight home at 2050 hours. Two hours to kill at Subang Airport. 

Stay tuned for photos on Koay's graduation day!

:)

Difficult With Gadget.

Second time my contact got "deleted" by itself.

First time happened months ago and had so many people asking me, "how come you don't have my number?" so many times that I just wanted to like hide or something.

When I posted the status on Facebook last night, I have people texting me, saying things like,"you never backup your file meh?" or "why you so dumb hah?".. Not very encouraging and hope-lifting kind of messages. 

Well, I was hoping that there was a way to deal with it, but no. So, I decided to shut my eyes for few minutes in the shower, let our a very frustrated prayer to the Big Man, and finally said, "Thank You God that all my contacts are gone."

Just that simple.

Came out and decided to FACTORY RESET my S2. Yep, like reset reset and it will come our brand new, just like when I got them from the store.

It's always nice to have a clean change.

Before that though, I spent a good 2 hours writing down the numbers form the Whatsapp chat box and whatever I can find, that's good enough for me.

Now, I'm going to one-by-one key in the details, and this time I'm going to make sure I back them up, though I'm still a bit confused about it.

One step at a time will do.

I also removed the protective sheet of plastic cover of my screen. Now, it;s like so clear and feels so new, just like Koay's new baby.

:)

Delayed.

I realized how long time ago Langkawi has been. Not really. #macamyestapibukan.

I still find it so hard to find the time to make the photos clearer and nicer colors and stuff. Stress la like that.

September want to end already.

I am in no mood today to do whatever things. It's not nice to feel this way. Monday blue really suck big time eh lo.