five months...
pm magazine revamp.
juice mags.
juice styles.
starlight cinema.
fourfourtwo mag.
fourfourtwo awards.
kzone mags.
in house ads.
advertorials.
deadlines...
though it was on short period, it was like a rollercoaster ride in for me. tomorrow is my last day here. and you know what? i enjoyed my ride with the some of the most exciting people i met here in catcha.
hell, this friday i'm going on for another ride. some place else, new people, new loops, new ups and downs and new thrills.
rollercoasters...
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
im a chameleon
first time ever blogging from my desk at the office. not that im not allowed to but i have much much more interesting things to do. like my latest interest. ebay.
anyways shopping aside (like, no-way!), work has been a lot of fun. yeah while its true people may not be like me but isnt that what life is all about? trying to adapt and find variety in life? am i to expect that everyone thinks like me, acts like me and understands me. am i suppose to diss everyone who isnt like me? go figure.
ive been doing a good job adapting to unfamiliar surroundings so far. college, campus, and even now. from felda girls to party animals. straight to gay. MBA's to dropouts. i hate people due to attitude not background. though i may pick on your background if i start to hate your attitude. whatever.
so as fun as work sounds, im catching the flight tomorrow to langkawi for the weekend. cant wait. last time i went snorkeling was red sea in egypt. cant wait.
be good and i'll get you a carton of marlboro lights.
have an awesome rest of the week.
anyways shopping aside (like, no-way!), work has been a lot of fun. yeah while its true people may not be like me but isnt that what life is all about? trying to adapt and find variety in life? am i to expect that everyone thinks like me, acts like me and understands me. am i suppose to diss everyone who isnt like me? go figure.
ive been doing a good job adapting to unfamiliar surroundings so far. college, campus, and even now. from felda girls to party animals. straight to gay. MBA's to dropouts. i hate people due to attitude not background. though i may pick on your background if i start to hate your attitude. whatever.
so as fun as work sounds, im catching the flight tomorrow to langkawi for the weekend. cant wait. last time i went snorkeling was red sea in egypt. cant wait.
be good and i'll get you a carton of marlboro lights.
have an awesome rest of the week.
Sunday, June 26, 2005
babies and boo
hectic weekend. cousins arrived from indonesia for a two weeks long vacation. shame i wont be free during the day. boo-hoo! F,stayed over the entire weekend. as usual we were up to our lame crappy nonsense. gossips galore and giggles all around. isnt it great being a girl?
speaking of STILL being a girl, best buddy, A & hubby welcomed the arrival of a bouncy baby boy Adam Luqman. Congratulations guys! A year ago we were having smokes and lying back watching your bfs's twisted porn collection, mocking those married with children and this year youre a mom! awesome how life twists you around. i guess we wont have anymore sleepovers and club sessions. no more movies? tell me, are babies allowed in movie theatres?
saturday morning. company's annual bowling competiton. location: alamanda (pronounced EL-LE-MAN-DER after a flower, in case you didnt know.) were supposed to come as cheerleaders. (whoo-hoo!) but only arrived after the second game almost completed.. was great fun and had a good time and enjoyed myself though our team lost really baaadd..! they blamed it on us arriving late to cheer them on. i take that as a compliment. thanks guys :)
had lunch with them and ditched F with them to proceed to go and meet my better half. hey! whats a saturday without my babe?
D took me to the most awesome restaurant ever!(okay i'm being dramatic a bit). so what if he found out about the restaurant when he went out with two chicks during my trip to jakarta? i forgive him.:P
since i already had lunch i couldnt eat much but was dying for the smoked salmon. awesome. ( sorry im not one of those people who photograph my food to paste it all over the blog!) and he surprised me halfway through the meal with chilled strawberries and fresh cream. *sigh* the ambience, the food, the sofas, it was just to good. we were slumping like contented cows. thanks babe!
oh and thank you for those earrings. really beautiful. i mean of course they are, i picked them out myself!
couldnt stay out to late. i have a date at 8.30. um..its this really rare condition where i have to stay in after 8.30 for about three months for it to be cured. honest.
have a great week ahead. i know i will. :) i going on vacation!! yay!
speaking of STILL being a girl, best buddy, A & hubby welcomed the arrival of a bouncy baby boy Adam Luqman. Congratulations guys! A year ago we were having smokes and lying back watching your bfs's twisted porn collection, mocking those married with children and this year youre a mom! awesome how life twists you around. i guess we wont have anymore sleepovers and club sessions. no more movies? tell me, are babies allowed in movie theatres?
saturday morning. company's annual bowling competiton. location: alamanda (pronounced EL-LE-MAN-DER after a flower, in case you didnt know.) were supposed to come as cheerleaders. (whoo-hoo!) but only arrived after the second game almost completed.. was great fun and had a good time and enjoyed myself though our team lost really baaadd..! they blamed it on us arriving late to cheer them on. i take that as a compliment. thanks guys :)
had lunch with them and ditched F with them to proceed to go and meet my better half. hey! whats a saturday without my babe?
D took me to the most awesome restaurant ever!(okay i'm being dramatic a bit). so what if he found out about the restaurant when he went out with two chicks during my trip to jakarta? i forgive him.:P
since i already had lunch i couldnt eat much but was dying for the smoked salmon. awesome. ( sorry im not one of those people who photograph my food to paste it all over the blog!) and he surprised me halfway through the meal with chilled strawberries and fresh cream. *sigh* the ambience, the food, the sofas, it was just to good. we were slumping like contented cows. thanks babe!
oh and thank you for those earrings. really beautiful. i mean of course they are, i picked them out myself!
couldnt stay out to late. i have a date at 8.30. um..its this really rare condition where i have to stay in after 8.30 for about three months for it to be cured. honest.
have a great week ahead. i know i will. :) i going on vacation!! yay!
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Thursday, June 09, 2005
what's on our telly?
i could sit in the hotel room and watch tv all day. really. not that all their programmes are so interesting. most of them are just so ridiculous that you cant help but gape at the screen.
there's this reality show (being the freak that i am, i found myself loss for words) about ppl who have been curse upon some black magic (u know indons!) write to the show asking for help shooing away the satan and evil forces. the team consist of, like half a dozen men in white robes and serban and performing anti devil ritual. what we get to see is five men fighting hard, going all pale and sweaty- and in some cases get posessed against something invisible. funny? no quite. creepy? yes. its a long ritual very scary when they're all huffing and puffing away and it ends with them stuffing something inside a glass bottle. oh, the sixth guy of the team is the commentator since he can see things. he goes like 'awas! dari atas!!' and those guys scramble against something from above. this guy also stands beside them and sketches what the evils spirits look like. he ends up with 2 potraits. one, a fireball. two, a woman with long hair whose half side of the face is really ugly.
i hope they dont send the bottle for recycling.
and lucky them..they have many indonesian version of reality tv including fear factor, joe millionaire (tho he's a bit lame) and one of my favourites..
isnt part of the fun having donald trump on the show? i guess if you cant have a guy with bad hair you might as well have a guy with no hair! tee hee.
anyways, talking about reality tv shows, i watched an interview with armand of gigi. he apparently was approached by mark burnett (survivor,apprentice,contender) to star in this new reality show called rock star about the search for the ultimate frontman of the band INXS. wow!
and we watched that dude of that peterpan who married the chick already pregnant with his child. shame! speaking of peterpan, they were the opening act of the spin doctors concert held in jakarta while we were there. 11,000 tickets were sold out and the crowd seemed pretty promising. after peterpan did their opening act consisting of five tracks, they left and so did the crowd. spin doctors were left with a crowd of no more than a thousand people. whatta shame! interesting innit how indonesian appreciate their local music? ever seen what it's like here in our country? the opening act almost always gets booed by the crowd and shooed off stage. and kris dayanti is so not hot over there, thats why she keeps coming here.
there's this reality show (being the freak that i am, i found myself loss for words) about ppl who have been curse upon some black magic (u know indons!) write to the show asking for help shooing away the satan and evil forces. the team consist of, like half a dozen men in white robes and serban and performing anti devil ritual. what we get to see is five men fighting hard, going all pale and sweaty- and in some cases get posessed against something invisible. funny? no quite. creepy? yes. its a long ritual very scary when they're all huffing and puffing away and it ends with them stuffing something inside a glass bottle. oh, the sixth guy of the team is the commentator since he can see things. he goes like 'awas! dari atas!!' and those guys scramble against something from above. this guy also stands beside them and sketches what the evils spirits look like. he ends up with 2 potraits. one, a fireball. two, a woman with long hair whose half side of the face is really ugly.
i hope they dont send the bottle for recycling.
and lucky them..they have many indonesian version of reality tv including fear factor, joe millionaire (tho he's a bit lame) and one of my favourites..
isnt part of the fun having donald trump on the show? i guess if you cant have a guy with bad hair you might as well have a guy with no hair! tee hee.
anyways, talking about reality tv shows, i watched an interview with armand of gigi. he apparently was approached by mark burnett (survivor,apprentice,contender) to star in this new reality show called rock star about the search for the ultimate frontman of the band INXS. wow!
and we watched that dude of that peterpan who married the chick already pregnant with his child. shame! speaking of peterpan, they were the opening act of the spin doctors concert held in jakarta while we were there. 11,000 tickets were sold out and the crowd seemed pretty promising. after peterpan did their opening act consisting of five tracks, they left and so did the crowd. spin doctors were left with a crowd of no more than a thousand people. whatta shame! interesting innit how indonesian appreciate their local music? ever seen what it's like here in our country? the opening act almost always gets booed by the crowd and shooed off stage. and kris dayanti is so not hot over there, thats why she keeps coming here.
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
kl-jakarta-bandung-jogjakarta-kl !
back at work. sometimes i fail to see which part of 'holiday' is the one that allows you to relax and unwind. holidays for me - especially when my mom is around is all about covering as much places as possible and experiencing everything about the country. which explains why in a span of twelve days we were in 5 hotels, three states and two nights in on the road in our pak supir's van. extremely exhausting and draining. came home not rejuvenated. just craving for my bed and my own toilet seat. we had the essentials for the ultimate indonesian holiday. a 'pak supir' who was funny and had never eaten pizza hut in his entire life and native speaker for bargaining purposes (our indonesian 2nd cousin). top five highlights: 1. street perfomers with guitars at traffic lights whom all suspiciously sound like peterpan. 2. shopping in bandung. found out it was 64 times waay better than jakarta! whoa! 3. volcano hot jacuzzi. where the ratio of male to female was 8:1. mostly young guys on roadtrips. 4. drooling over marcel on tv and then running into him minutes later at MNG bandung mall. 5. 21 jakarta. a place to watch the lastest indonesian flicks. awesome! |
downside:
1. the food. 7/8 got food poisoning. even pak supir. how much nasi padang can a person take? and they serve chicken with heads intact. imagine. ayam tengah lelap mata. yucky!
2. the toilets. food poisoning=diarrhoea. the public toilets are horrible. geli laaa!!!! a mall that has a guess? outlet apparently still uses jamban jirus. wtf?
3. 8/10 times the mall is playing siti nurhaliza.
4. only the rich eat at McD's. and i wouldnt either if i stayed there. a single value meal will set you back by RM17! and thats for a medium sized meal. equivalent if you had a setlunch at TGIF KL.
5. observing the state of poverty. a ride around town on a trishaw half a day cost you Rp 2000. which is 90 cents. really. what do your kids eat? even an icecream cost Rp 4000. half a days work and you cant even afford an ice-cream.
Friday, June 03, 2005
D writes, the things you do when your partner is not around... no, nothing like that.
it has been a week since S went to Jakarta. missing her badly and i have been dying of boredom...
so here are few things, shocking things (not really...) i did when she left me here high and dry, come undone.
1. took my first two-days annual leave ever since 5 months ago
2. had my hair trimmed and did side parting since i can't tie them anymore
3. had heavy meditation and resigned from my job
4. went to zouk for the first time ever... i know sad isn't it?
well, that's all... i guess. hehe.
no, that's all and no, nothing like that...
so here are few things, shocking things (not really...) i did when she left me here high and dry, come undone.
1. took my first two-days annual leave ever since 5 months ago
2. had my hair trimmed and did side parting since i can't tie them anymore
3. had heavy meditation and resigned from my job
4. went to zouk for the first time ever... i know sad isn't it?
well, that's all... i guess. hehe.
no, that's all and no, nothing like that...
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