Fork! Fark!

Let's face the reality. When it comes to keeping a diary like the old times or keeping a blog like now, it started off hot and consistent until one day we decided to skip a day. A day turned to a week, followed by a month and then it was indefinitely.

BUT.... the day when we feel like hell on earth, will be day that we remember about our little diary or blog again. I guess today is my day.

Of course the percentage of us writing something happy versus something angry/sad/frustrated/disappointed is something like 20:80 and today i fall into the 80%.

I am pissed / angry / disappointed all rushing to me at the same time!

I just got ditch by a long time friend! And this is a second ditching too! To add salt to the wound, she was the one who decided that our friendship is cheaper than dirt the last time she decided to ditch me over lunch. When i demanded a reason why, she simply just told me she never thought of calling me before hand to tell me that she couldn't make it. Oh well, i was really pissed! I mean who would not?

After a long time of cold war, i decided to just look into the good times we had and took the first step to contact her. Anyways she was celebrating something nice and i wanted to just take this chance to say hi and congratulate her.

It was a mistake! All the while when i thought she might feel remorse over what she had done to me, in reality, she doesn't give a shit. Her response to my first step was cold. Can you believe it????

What makes it worst is after this cold treatment, i still went all the way to try to make contact with her and even told her that we should chat. And she said yes, telling me that she will. That was 24 hours ago. There she is, saying things that she didn't meant to keep up with. Here i am still waiting for her to show up and trying really hard to suppress my angers. Deep down i knew that she doesn't give a shit to our friendship and yet i am still trying to convince myself that she is busy. How much more evidences do i need before i am convinced that she just doesn't give a shit about our friendship?

Damn! Wake up you fool! Fark your sadness and move on!

May Their Children Burnt In Hell!

Thanks to my friend Marcia, i had the opportunity to visit an old folks home today.

It is an old folks home near the MAA building in Sg Besi and situated just right next to the Chinese tombs. So together with my mum and my youngest brother and some friends of Marcia, we visited the old folks home this morning.

It is a great experience. It is also a very sad reality. To be honest, I was not prepared for what i was going to experience because this was the very first time i have visited one. And i didnt take any photos because somehow i felt it was not a right thing to do when i was there.

I always thought an old folks home will be what we have always seen from the TVB dramas - clean, bright, spacious and with happy old folks. And all i needed to do was to go there and say hi and the grandpas and grandmas will be happy. After that i shall just leave with a happy heart.

Well, some part of the above fable are true. I did came back home with a very happy heart knowing that i have helped and I think we all did make the grandparents feeling happier when we were there. But sadly most part are not.

The old folks home we went is by the name of Tong Sim Senior Citizens Care Centre. It is not in a big and fancy house. It is actually just occupying the second floor of a shop lot where 58 of these old folks live together. There is a long alley where single beds were put close to one another and they will sleep there. There is also a kitchen where the voluntaries will cook dinner and lunch for these residences. And there is a small separated section where 5 of the grandpas are staying. They are being quarantine because of certain illness they have.

According to Miss Chan, the person in charge, these old folks are those who have been betrayed and abandoned by their own children. Most of them were transfered from the General Hospital to this centre because their children could not be contacted. Most of the information such as house address and telephone no used when they were registered are all fake. The children has abandoned their parent intentionally. The worst part is, these children are not even poor where they could not support their parents anymore. Some are rather well to do! Miss Chan said it is through the daily conversations that these grandpas and grandmas had during the days that the truth came out.

Most of these grandpas and grandmas are still healthy. Some still sit around the table and chit chat. There was a grandpa who was saying aloud that how Malaysia is a better country to live in compared to Japan because there is no volcanos here. So cute!

Others are not as privilege. Some are blinded in one eye, some has either one or both the legs removed due to diabetes,  some could not speak, some could not even get up from the bed and have to eat and drink lying, and some have to be in adult diapers all the time. Miss Chan even said those 5 who are being quarantine are just waiting to "leave" this world when the time comes.

And even more overwhelming is when any of these folks died, it is also normal that none of them will have any family by their side. Thus, the centre will use any coffin available at that time, normally donated by someone else earlier on, and buried him/her.

I was overwhelmed when i hear this. My heart actually ached for them. Their children should be punish for what they have done to their parent. They are just a shame to the society! They should be put in jail!

So for the rest of the few hours, we helped Miss Chan distribute lunch, fed them and clean up over lunch. After that we distributed some packeted biscuits so that they could keep it near to them and eat them when they are hungry at night. It will be safer and easier for them because they will no need to walk around and perhaps fallen and hurt themselves.

For those who are interested to help out, do contact them. All you need to do is to donate clothes, food, adult diapers and whatever you deemed useful. Not rice though because they cant consume that much but perhaps canned food, biscuits, milo, or any raw meat or vegetables. The centre will take in anything useful and helpful. And if you do have time, it is also a good idea to just help them out. All you need to do is just talk to them, help to clean up and feed them.

Tong Sim Senior Citizens Care Centre

同心樂齡開懷中心

朋友（善）心委員會

陳寶珍 

017 - 682 - 5589

No. 19E, Jalan Lapangan Terbang Lama, 50460 KL

"Exorcism"!

One of my friend needed us to attend one of her prayer session in her house this morning. While the reason of the prayer is to move the altar from the porch into the house, the "main" reason was something else.

There are 2 beds in her room currently. One that she is sleeping in while the other one has been empty for a long time. We used to gather in her house and had sleepovers while we were in our secondary school. Her house used to be the IT place for us girls to have a girls' night out, or just simply a place to hang out, have barbeque or even steamboats. Whenever we were there, we will occupied her room and slept in that empty bed and have long nights talks.

A few days ago. she called and asked us if we would like to join her for the prayer session. Since she was in the subway while asking me, she did not tell me the main reason of the prayer session. The next day she called up again but this time telling me the main reason for it.

Apparently since the bed has been emptied for such a long time, there is currently a spirit occupying that place! Gulp! One fine day, one of her mother's friend who has the ability to see spirit, went over to her house for a singing session and saw that. Hence she told my friend to better have a prayer session to request the spirit to leave the place. After she knew about the spirit, she even had dream of her too! In her dream, the spirit was a she and dressed in red. Scary!!!

And in order to change the yin qi which is surrounding the place, the "guru" had actually requested her to ask close friends of hers to go to the prayer so to gather strong qi for her. Plus, she also has to gather some male friends in order to strengthen the yang qi in the house too.

So this morning at 9, we gathered at her house and all seated obediently while the guru performed the "exorcism". Before he stared, he told us carefully not to venture outside the "circle" or it might be dangerous. I was nervous! I mean i have never been into any exorcism ever (touch wood for that)! And during the prayer, we were told to have only positive thinking, follow the chanting if we can, and do not think of anything else, especially never to utter any words about the spirit. So we followed obediently.

I didnt even dare to take any photos. I am a free thinker. Although i believe that one should not be afraid if one has never done anything bad but hey, i really do not want to have any real encounter with any spirit! I am not too sure if there are really any spirit and i do not want to prove that neither.

However, during the whole prayer, it came to me that the only proven thing for the day is how strong the loves were. Both her parents were very worried and they were all busy preparing and running around the house making sure that the whole prayer will performed smoothly. Her siblings did help out too and since it was difficult to gather friends in such a short notice, her siblings also asked for help from their friends. Even the parents' friends and relatives were there too. All these could only prove that nothing is more important and greater than love itself. It is during "critical" time like this that love will be the strongest tie ever, and love will be the best solution to any problem.

And the morale of the day is, love conquers everything. I am sure she will turn into a new leaf after today because she is now blessed by all her loved ones.

Scarily Smart!

When i was really young, i was busy playing with soft toys only. Then i ventured into barbie dolls and choo-choo trains. As i grew older and was allowed to go out and play, it was sand, water, leaves while imagining i was cooking, bottle caps and ice-cream sticks with my cousins and sometimes even a blanket under the stairways imagining i was camping.

For many, those were our childhood.

I was having dinner yesterday with my baby sister. She is not a year and a half and is the most adorable baby ever. You want to know what she plays for her childhood? Not just any simple dolls or soft toys but...

...an ipad!!

Initially i thought she was just looking at the screen. But hey, little did i know babies today are just way smarter than we were. I mean i definitely will not even know what a computer is until i was 7 years old. The most high-tech-savvy-gadget i ever came across when i was her age must be only the TV! Yet now there she is, playing with an Ipad.

How smart are babies nowadays? Well my baby sister actually knew how to click into applications and looked for what interest her. She loaded the photos, click on the album she likes and looked through her pictures. All the time she was even flicking the screen left and right so she could go to the next photo. Plus, she even knew how to zoom in and out! Amazing isnt it??? The next thing i knew, she was pressing the home button and exit to the dashboard to load another application!

They are just too smart! Scarily smart! Imagine what she will be using when she is in her primary. A mac laptop on the go always??? Oh my god! Perhaps 10 years down the road a baby like her age might even know how to use the sms! 

Dream Came True!

Sometime last week, i had a very weird dream. I do not remember the whole content of the dream. I remembered i was dreaming something when suddenly the environment in the dream changed and then i was in my current house. From nowhere, the ceilings began to leak and the whole house was wet. So i woke up and i told my mum about the dream and she even teased me for having such a strange dream.

Fast forward 2 days later. It was rainy night and i was just reading in my bed. Then came the sound of water dripping. Without doubt, i thought it must be from the rain. But the dripping sound got louder and louder, even after the rain stop. So i checked all the corners in my room but found nothing. And when i opened my door, to my horror, my whole stairways was soaking wet! The was leaking from the ceiling!!!

So we had to quickly turned off the main water pipe and place tongs to gather the water. The next day i just grab a number from a flyer i found outside my house and requested someone to come over to have a look. I thought it was just because of the misplaced of the pump since i had it changed a few days ago. And i didint sleep well that night because i was worried that the leak will hole the plaster ceiling or worst the plaster ceiling might fell off.

And the diagnosis came. It was not the pump but worst! There is a leak from the tank and i have 2 choice which is to repair it or change it entirely. Repairing it will be much cheaper but there is no guarantee that it will work and there will be a water stoppage of 3 days. So the next best choice is to change the whole thing!

And hence i spent the whole Sunday sitting at home while the tank was being fixed. It was a huge project because the tank will had to be taken out from the roof top. Meaning some part of the roof will be removed and put back eventually. My concern is that they might not put it back properly and then i will have another leak from the roof. Oh mine, it will be a disaster if that happened. God help me!

My dream actually came true, for the first time in my life!

Now my bank is 2k lesser due to the repair. It's not just 2k, it's a mac book that i had to forgo now. Sigh......

I wondered when i will dream of me winning the lottery?!

Sting

Not this Sting!

How i wish it is this Sting!

For the first time in my life, i got stung by a bee!

It happened when i was busy clearing the dishes in my living room. I step on something and instantly i felt a sting on in between my toes. First i thought i stepped on someone's toe clip in the carpet. But the sting keeps getting stronger! So i had look.

To my horror, i saw a bee on its back, at the edge of dying. Then i looked in between my toes and i saw its bee sting attached on my toe! Immediately my toe was numb! I had heard of horror stories of how people had died from bee sting.

I yelled and said i got a bee sting and my dad scared me by saying i will loose my toes! Ohhh no! So i rushed in to the room and applied the antiseptic cream and saw another half of the bee sting still stuck to my toe! 

Sigh... the numbness remains.... for another 10 minutes before it was gone. Well thank god the bee was not that deadly. 

We always encounter a lot of first time. This is definitely one to remember and not that good experience. 

Oil Spills

Recently, over the last few months, everyone is aware and talking about the oil spills.

We have oil spilled in the Gulf coast. Billions of dollars were spent, sea life got affected and died just to restore this blunder.

Then there was oil spill in northern China.

Both have raised concerns on the safety and security of mankind exploiting the mother nature as well as destroying her. 

Yesterday, there was also an oil spill in Algiers. This time i personally witness the whole process and felt the pain that an oil spill brings.

My poor arm! Skin getting burnt from the hot oil, from the shoulder down and now my right arm has dark spots that look like those spots from aging. Luckily i rushed into the toilet and grabbed hold of the toothpaste and rub my arm over it. If not, it should be worst. 

Remember the movie "There Will Be Blood" starring Daniel Day-Lewis and ect? In my case, i should say "there will be scars!"

On happier note, some lucky girl got pretty flowers delivered to her work place today. Well at least there is one person who is happy and celebrating her good fortune.

Angels and Demons

We have planned to go to the gym for the last 2 weeks but were always being caught by the wrong timing.

First, it was the migraine that we both had from the hot weather and the hot from the oven fried chicken we had for lunch. Then my father came to town and we took it as an excuse to not go. After that it was the normal excuses of the gym will be too crowded during weekends and also the too tired after work excuse.

Today, i almost wanted to keep my lazy ass stick on the chair when KC told me that he was very sleepy but i could go to the gym while he sleeps at the pool side. Straight away i told him to forget it and to go tomorrow but he insisted and luckily he insisted.

It took me a few moments before i agreed to go. The angel and the demon in me were fighting in my head to win this war. Finally the angel zapped a very powerful message in my head. He said "If you do not go today, you will never go tomorrow or after. There will always be more excuses. The first step is always difficult!" And viola, i got my lazy ass from the chair and changed and was excited to go.

Yeah! Finally, i went to the gym today.

It has been a year since my last work out. I did it because i was in Beirut and i was bored. There was a treadmill in the house so i decided to kill my time on it. A year later, i step up on the a treadmill again.

It was difficult. Only managed to do a 20 minutes of treadmill before i cool myself down on cycling. At the end of the day, i was tired for doing so little. I actually had butter legs when i walked back to the car and i was so tired and sleepy especially after dinner.

I thought i could sleep early tonight but ironically it is 215am here in Algiers but i am still widely awake. The tiredness in my has gone and i feel fresh and healthy (well the angel is telling me so)...

More to go tomorrow. Well i just hope i can keep my spirit up for it and last long enough until i return to my la-la land. *wink*

My Simple Life

Was debating what a simple life is with a friend.

He kept telling me life will only be simple if we go back to the past, where there is no technology and hence the eliminations of all the problems we face now. We should go back to the time when we hunt and plant for our food and when we can just pick up any stones from any corner as means of trade. He said he wants a place just like the Pandora in Avatar.

I beg to differ. I do not believe the external environment should control how we view how and what a simple life should be and is. I think it should start from within ourself, on how we think and how we feel about things.

We debated for a long time until i was totally tired from typing the same lines again and again. At the end, i told him that if we could not change our mentality and still carry the present ones with us and try to go back to the past, the same problems will arise too. There will still be stealing of food, stealing of money, geniuses coming up with brilliant ideas on how to commonize a money systems and so on. The only way to prevent these evils  is when we as human are happy and content with what we have. If we are happy to have enough food then why should we have money in the first place? Why cant we just share food?

Little did he knows that back in the year 1978, the Khmer Rouge who took over Cambodia tried to achieve this simple life by throwing the whole nation into nothing but farming only. However, the leaders of this political party brought along the mind set of 1978 when they tried to go back to ancient time. The results was a huge massacres and torturing of people and ended up 1/3 of the Cambodia populations died due to hunger, overworked and tortures beyond comprehension. There is currently a trial in Cambodia set up by the UN to trial those leaders who are responsible and this incident had been labelled a a genocide.

He said that the world has comes to a stage where simply life will never be able to attain again. With the technology and everything, there is no turning beg. And again i differ because yes there is always the latest technology available but doesnt mean you have to have it. Just like the Iphone. Mac company did not point a gun at our head and force us to buy it. We want it because we desire it when we could just simply use a very simple handphone. It is about how we balance out our needs and wants. It is about our mentality.

At the end of the day, he ended the debate by saying i think so because i am old! *faint*

Tick Tock, Tick Tock...

I am sure every once in a while, everyone will receive some telemarketing calls. Whether they are selling loans from banks or insurances from insurers, they will always began with "Hi, is this XXX" politely.

I am not a fan of receiving these calls. Sometimes these calls even bothers and irritates me, especially if i was driving or in a meeting. Of course i will try to be as polite as possible in rejecting their products because i understood that these callers are simply doing their job. The root to these devilish calls are not the callers but those who sold our phone numbers to them.

But the thing with these callers are they are not very courteous most of the time. They started off politely but when were rejected, most of them turned into a sour plum. I have had rude responses from them a lot of time. When i said "Sorry, thanks for calling but i am not interested," instead of just saying thank you and hang up, some of them replied or even asked rudely or impatiently "Why ar?", "You hear me out first," or even just a abrupt dead tone from them.

Well i guess when one is being rejected too many times, it hurts.

This morning, i received one of these calls. Now the thing with Malaysians is i am not sure if they are not courteous enough, or they are just simply not that smart. I do not mind wasting my money and time answering you call when i am in Malaysia, but not when i am in overseas. When you dial a local number and the ringing tone is different from the usual sound, it is definitely 100% sure that the person is in overseas and as a courtesy or just using 1% or your common sense, you should just hang up and try again another time. Why? Because the phone bill will be very expensive, because the callers should know their calls are not welcome, because the receivers will be prone to more anger when receiving a rubbish call like this, and most importantly overseas calls are only meant for families and emergencies only!

But NO!

So i picked up the phone just to answer to some hospital calling trying to sell me plans. Immediately my anger stroke.  By the end of the conversations, i cursed so loudly! Here is how it went:

"Hello, is this Miss Chen?"

"Yes, that's me. What is this about?"

"Miss Chen, i am calling from XX Hospital and ......( i cant understand a single word she said here)"


"I am in overseas..." (getting really impatiently)


"When are you coming back ar?"

"A year after."

"When again ar??" (by now i think my head was burning with fire!)

"I said i am in overseas and only be back after a year!"

"Ok la ok la!" (sounding very rude and just hung up!)

I was furious!!! What is this with that kind of attitude as if i was the one who called and interrupted her! Plus i have to pay like RM10 phone bill just to get treated like this??? I didnt even ask for it! See, this is what Malaysians are all about! And this is why sometimes i do not know if i should pick up a call when i see it is a Malaysia number. And now i will not know if a call is urgent or not!

Stupid!

Food Poisoning

For the passed 2 days.

Enough said.....

Markings

I cant believe it. I have been playing games in FB non-stop for the passed 2 months. And i have evidence to prove how free i was! I have spent so much time decorating my cefe, KC's cafe and even Jess's cafe.

How pathetic!

Just look at Kc's cafe. From the simple layout i actually spent so much time to decorate for him until now it is sectionalized into different themes.

Before

After

And then one day i got so bored that i agreed to help Jess to decorate her cafe also. I mean how more pathetic could i be? Well she wanted love versus alien theme. So i fulfilled my client's wish piously.

Before

After

But the worst evidence ever to prove how bored and wasteful my time was on FB game is from my cafe. I actually climbed from level 6 to level 65 in almost 2 months. I am sure others will use more time to beat my record because they did not game "full-time" like me!

Before

After

Seriously! I ned to get a life!!!!!!!

All I Need Is Myself Only

I have been suffering from gastric for the passed few days and am still suffering from it as i am typing this.

While all these time i have been in pain and agony, i cant stop thinking that all i needed is myself only. While other couples might have the better half to take care of them when one falls sick, i ironically, can only depends on myself.

I have to cook for myself, take medicine by myself, wash up after cooking and even have to make the choco by myself.

All the time while i am doing all these thing myself, KC has been doing NOTHING but just gaming.

Of course i know today for once, i should not be mad at him because it is his birthday, but how difficult does it gets for him to just fetch me my medicine and perhaps, on his goodwill, make me a cup of hot chocolate?

While i told him i vomited because of gastric, all he did was to turn his head away from the monitor for a second, gave me a concern look and just ask, are you alright? and then when straight back to his game.

Yes, gaming is DEFINITELY more important than me.

If so, why do i need a partner in this world if all i needed is me and me only?

WTF!

Of Course!

I got the tv turned on since i woke up this morning and had the pleasure to watch both the Algeria vs Slovenia game as well as the Serbia vs Ghana game.

Both games were ....well nothing much interesting and no much of action too.

Then it is the highlight of the night - Australia vs Germany.

It should be good because Germany is quite strong so i was really looking forward to it.

Now i have a policy with dinner. I told KC that we have to eat in the kitchen without the Tv because this is the only time that we should stay as a couple to have a decent meal and have updates of what happened that day. Today i made an exception to sit in front of the tv just to watch the game. It took so much trouble to have the soup, dishes and rich taken out to the living room.

We were having 30 minutes of fun until the server went down!

Of course! Things like server down or power failure will only happen on games which you actually cared about!

Sheesh!!!!!

Making Friends

Les Symptômes

You know you are hooked to Cafe World when...

• The first thing you ever care about early in the morning is to check if your food in CW are ready
• You eat bananas and yogurt for breakfast so that you could start playing asap
• And then you decide to skip lunch entire because that will take up too much of your playing time
• The only chair your butt is sitting on is the one in front of your pc
• Your butt sticks on this chair for the rest of the afternoon
• And you butt is still sticking on the chair by evening
• The only food you care about are those in your CW
• You go gaga searching FB just to see if you friends are giving out free CW food so that you could grab them before anyone could
• You got excited knowing that you could visit your friends' cafe to help them taste their new menu or spice their food
• You got more excited knowing that you will get more CW points when you help them do so

• You simply cook cook cook and serve serve serve just to get upgraded to the next level
• You got nervous seeing your buzzing rate not hitting the 105.0 max points
• And you spent hours trying to figure out the best chairs and tables layout in order to hit that rating
• The first thing you tell your friend in MSN is not "hi" but instead "Can you send me food please?"
• You chat with your friends for hours trying to exchange tips on how best to play the game
• You feel exceptionally happy when your chef hit level 3 in cooking a dish and gaining the title "Mastery Chef"
• When in reality you only know how to cook instant noodle
• You could not wait to post your new achievements on FB
• And you post more of these notifications on FB just to flood others' news page
• You time your cooking time carefully so to max out ever opportunity you could to get more CW points
• And you ignore the pain in your eyes even though you know you have been starring at the monitor too long
• And the last thing you do every night is to check that you have enough food to serve on the counters
• And that your cooking counters are cooking food for you to start the next day

Well.......i guess i have all the symptoms! I have been playing the game and this game only ever since i started and had my butt sticking on the chair from the moment i wake up! Sigh!! What have CW done to me??? Luckily i know i am not beyond help because

You know you are a CW addict beyond help when:

• You surf through the internet trying to get tips on how best to speed play the game
• And be number 1 amongst your friends
• You pay USD19.99 just to buy a cheat book from websites that claimed could help you excel in CF
• And you made yourself one of those stupidoe amongst the addicts who made those website owners rich and could laugh in their sleep!

Fooled!

Have been missing in action for the passed few days. Not because i was busy, since everyone who reads my blog knows that i have all the time in the world to spend. Well here is the reason why i was missing in action.

Cafe World!

Sigh... i was not really into playing games in Facebook, especially Cafe World. When KC and my brother was into this game, i snorted at them and told them to be a man and quit. What is the fun in just clicking and clicking only and earn money in the virtual world? Well they said it is because of the interactions that they could get from their friends. I was not buy into playing. I even asked KC just to stop because he was annoying me by leaving in the middle of a mahjong game. Hello! Mahjong is reality. Cafe World, virtual!

KC's Cafe. 

So why am i in Cafe World now? It's like slapping myself here. Well all because of my dear Jess Goh. We were just talking in msn when we both thought it will be good to just start a game together and compete. And she told me that she has abandoned her cafe for a long time and hence we should start afresh. Well excellent idea!

So for the first time ever since i have Facebook, i clicked on the gaming button and play a game. So i started my cafe and named it my Lazey Corner, well the name says it all. Then to my horror! Stupid Jess's cafe is at a whopping level 61! I am at 0!!!! So i got fooled! Well she claimed that she didnt know and it was a honest mistake. Anyways i was fooled!!

Jess's cafe at level 61!

The thing with Cafe World is once you started, you can delete it. So if i stop now, it's like having a black mark on my otherwise 'clean" Facebook! Darn you Jess! So now i have been doing what other Cafe World players are doing. Click click click, serve serve serve and cook cook cook cook.

I am giving myself another week before i got totally wear off of the game. After a day of clickings, i have had actually feel bored but just still doing it to fill up my time. But then on my defense, i thought i played the game quite well too. After a day i am at level 10 and have a beautiful cafe with decorations and even got expended and even earning medals and all..... Well i am just trying to console myself to feel better by thinking so.

And this my miserable cafe at level 9. How to catch up to 61??

Whenever i log on Facebook now and in the future, i will definitely reminded myself of how a fool i was made by Miss Jess Goh! So Miss Jess Goh, i think i have now paid for the prank i put on you earlier. We are even now!

Booooo!!!!

When Insanity Hits!

Algeria is a boring place. There is no mall, no cinema, basically nothing. So each weekend, the only place we ever go "shopping" is to the wet market or the mini market buying groceries. That's it. Just wonder how much we could buy from the same place weekly? After a while, it just seems like we have bought everything that is available.

Yep, Algeria is a boring place that will drive even the most sane person going gaga. Now KC and me are not the most sane people to begin with, it only took us 1 month to start to act goo-goo or ga ga.

We were so bored last week, we decided to teach Cofi her first survival skill. There is a large bath tube in the bathroom and KC suggested to take Cofi for a "swim" and being the naughty me, of course i agreed! I was excited! So poor Cofi, already hating taking showering to start with, will have to suffer being dipped in the water while me and KC happily laughing at our mischief!

So we started by filling up the tub. Well it's not really a deep tub but deep enough to put Cofi in where water could filled up to reach and covered her up to her ears. The moment we put her in, she gave us a very confused look because before this, she had never been dipped into water at all.

After a few pushes, she begin to realise that this whole thing is rather new. Walking in the water and experiencing "floating" for the first time in her life. She had a difficult time "swimming" around in the tub and trying to get out though. 

Giving me the "help me" look.

Cofi's first time experiencing "floating".

All the time when we were pushing her around in the tub and encouraging her to swim, she was suffering greatly, while we both were laughing our heads off! We are just cruel! KC even hold her up so that her feet could not touch the base of the tub to encourage her to paddle more. Well she did. She was paddling so quickly and panting so heavily, all because she is an obese dog and lack of exercises. When KC finally release her, she quickly swam her way to KC and then stuck her head into KC's lap and refused to move anymore. 

Cofi all manja with KC and refused to move another inch after the tiring "swim".

Poor Cofi has to suffer because of 2 insane people looking for ways to spice up the boring life. As i am typing this entry, Cofi is already fast asleep on the couch. She must be tired. Anyways, will make this a weekly routine to help her slim down! Hahahah i love mischief! 

The Most Sexists Language Ever!

Have been trying to learn French via the Internet by myself these few days and it is so tiring!

French is really a tough language to learn!

For a starter, why should things be categorized into male and female???? Things are just things and they are lifeless! Not like they own an identification card and has a different surname of live in different addresses? And the worst thing is there is no rule to categorizing them. The French simply decided at that very split moment that some are males and some are females. And then people who are trying to learn the language like me, will just have to memorize them! Why is bread the male role while butter is the female role? OMG! They are just food!

Well anyways, on a lighter note. I bought myself another Nespresso machine again. The first one i bought was for my brother as his birthday present. Well i mentioned in my previous post that buying the machine will lessen our visitations to Starbucks, which had proven us wrong. We still buy a lot from Starbucks even with the machine around because we were lazy and we were caution on using the capsules because refilling is not easy.

Anyways, the one that i just bought is pretty cheap compared to prices in KL. While is is really difficult to get a refill of the capsules in KL, since there are not many Nespresso boutiques in KL, the refilling is easy here. Capsules are sold everywhere in local supermarket or i can simply go online and order and have them shipped over.  So i can just indulge myself as much as i could with it. It's a bout Rm500 cheaper and it is from Sweden. So warranty is given 3 years rather than just 1 year. Since there is no Starbucks here, i find this machine pretty useful in making myself a cup of really bitter and aromatic coffee. I am happy.

Well time to go back to my French. Have been stuck on memorizing the numbers at this moment. Argg! Another pain in the a@@! Maybe a cuppa of Nespresso now will calm myself. Tat!

Pranking From A Far Away Land

Today started off just like a normal day until I managed to pull a prank on my friends from my far far away land in Algeria.

Well it all started when Marcia decided to set up a singing session for Jess to meet someone special. So we were anticipating for someone whom we have not met for a long time to show up for the singing session. To our surprise, he was no other than Thomas. That was really a surprise!

Thomas was my photographer for my big day and ever since then we used to tease Marcia about him. Every single time, she would just gave us a nasty look and said that they have not kept contact after the day. So it was really a surprise to see him showing up there with her! No contact huh??

Then Jess decided to live fed me using her Whatsapp application. And her phone was passed around the 3 of them to talk to me. And my role changed. From initially wanted to tease Jess, to teasing Marcia and then eventually "helping" Thomas out by announcing to the girls how great a guy he is! And at a point in time, me and Jess decided to form a team in teasing Thomas and Marcia.

Things got funnier after the singing session when they were at dinner. Marcia was pulling her "i-am-doing-this-for-Jess" role while Thomas was pulling a "i-dunno-what-u-all-are-talking-about' role. Jess on the other hand was doing a "i-see-the-attraction-between-you-two' role. And i was just the person who was adding salt to the issue and escalating the whole thing. Eventually they grew tired of the whole thing and left together. Now that is one HUGE mistake! The other mistake was Marcia used Jess's phone to snap pictures during the meal. So Jess made good used of the pictures by making things out of nothing at all. She made a  Love Blog!

Below are some screen shots of what she did with the pictures. And the responses were tremendous!!!

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Jess Goh Though I think I'd make a better Food Blog, but today's special menu, "Love Blog". A quote from Ms CC "Today's outing is like an announcement that these ppl are gonne be "HOT ITEMS", Congrats!!!!!

Food Blog vs Love Blog

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Cynthia Chen

hahahah wait till they see this! this is awesome! farney!

2 hours ago · 

Jess Goh

u like it? My masterpiece.... ^o^

about an hour ago

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Jess Goh Let's see, I've got a task here, but 1st of all, thanks TT for dinner ^_^ , Ms M I'm so happy for u!

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Cynthia Chen

ooooh both still dating ke??/ wha what a long long night for them both!

50 minutes ago · 

Jess Goh

haiz.... ok lah, I'm gonna give her "green white" back to her, it's w someone else, not TT wor

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Thomas Tam

I shd had taken your photo too Xp

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Cynthia Chen

can i just day the reason u din is because Miss M was taking all your attention? heheheheh

28 minutes ago · 

Jess Goh

:P tooooo late! wahahahaa.......

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Jess Goh

Cyn: BINGO!

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Thomas Tam

opps..i wasnt noticed she acting cute at that moment. I was eating my delicious meal too XP

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Cynthia Chen

now am i sensing something between u 2??? hahahah i love playing devil 's advocate!

25 minutes ago · 

Jess Goh

*quietly watching* ^_^

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Thomas Tam

hahaha..ok..I extremely tired liao..4 hours concert was not an easy task...good nite everyone :D

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Jess Goh

Lol, gdnite! Sweet Dreams ooohhhhh~~~~~ ^_^

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Both me and Jess had such a good laugh! Thank goodness both Thomas and Marcia are cool with the whole prank thing. Luckily they were not mad. So sorry guys, it was a harmless prank really. Of course we also hope that we did not hinder the growth of anything interesting! hahaha *wink*

By the way i cant help but think that this is how karma is coming back to us. This time is Marcia's turn for spying on Jess earlier. Gulp...i guess my turn is soon??? Jess honey, how about giving me a second chance and forget about the whole thing? Please?