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The rain was pouring down in buckets all throughout the six hours of my sleep last night. It was so cool and nice. Wished I could sleep in this morning. I could not do that. In fact I had a major deadline to finish today.

The electricity supply stopped at 8.15a.m. I lodged in a complaint at the electricity company and the person answering the phone did not know about the stoppage. The supply came back at 9.40a.m.

Since I did not manage to finish my deadline by knockoff time at 1p.m., I ordered lunch and had it delivered again. I did not like the choices left from the economy rice menu, I ordered shrimp fried rice for RM4.50 with soup. I was so hungry and therefore finished the fried rice so quickly.

I managed to finish the deadline at 2.15p.m. but decided to stay until 6p.m. as there was no one else to disturb me doing my work.

Thank God for the strength in spite of minimum hours of sleep.

I had dinner once I arrived home. The maid had gone home for tonight and therefore I washed the dishes after finishing dinner.

After all the hard work this week, it was time to pamper myself by putting on clay mask on my face to rejuvenate myself tonight.

Life Group

The rain was drizzling when I went to Life Group last night. I was slightly late. Mary Chu was song leading for the first time and she did very well. Bravo. She is one dynamic lady who can always see visions and she shares with us what she saw.

We watched ‘Purposely Choose What We Think On’ by Joyce Meyer. After watching the vcd, we shared with each other what we received. I being a pessimistic person can identify with Joyce what she went through. I am still learning to think positive thoughts and not to let circumstance or people to control my attitude. Of course it is easier said than done. I need lots of perseverance.

After Life Group, Shelley Chew prepared ‘Pan Mee’ for supper. I did not stay because if I eat around 10p.m., I would not able to sleep until after midnight. And therefore, I excused myself and left.

Lethal Weapons of Love and Passion – The Finale

Watched the finale for Lethal Weapons of Love and Passion last night.

I liked the ending. Raymond Lam ended up with Charmaine Sheh while Bosco Wong with Sharon Chan. Evergreen Mak became the Emperor.

This was the first time I see Raymond playing a villain. He did very well.

My colleague NE on finding out Raymond was playing a villain decided to boycott this series altogether because she is not used to watching him playing a bad character.

RM3 Lunch

Yesterday the office boy was not in during lunchtime and since I did not fancy going out for lunch, I called the coffee shop behind the office to order my lunch to have it delivered.

I selected my choices of food after the lady boss told me all the dishes available from the economy rice menu. I expected the price has gone up but she said it’s still at RM3 for one meat and one veges. She said she can still sustain at that price and therefore a lot of customers are surprised including me. She explained that she maintained the same amount for veges but the amount of meat given would be less as compared to before.

Toilet Tiles Arrangement

The Office


Next Door Office

Change in Driving Attitude

As a result of the fuel hike on 4 June 2008, I find that there are less cars on the road.

I also find a lot of drivers are driving at a slower speed ie. 50-60km/hr. Normally when I was driving at this speed, I found a lot of cars would overtake me but nowadays I rarely find drivers doing that. Most people are trying to conserve fuel by driving at a lesser rpm.

Baked Goods

Yesterday and today mum has been baking in the oven the following goods. They all tasted yummy.

'Tau Sar' (Red Bean) Biscuits

Curry Puffs and Egg Tarts

Baked Fish Stomach Fresh Out from the Oven (Later on cut into pieces to make soup)

Lethal Weapons of Love and Passion

Lethal Weapons of Love and Passion - a Hong Kong series is shown on TV2 at 7p.m. for about two months. Normally I prefer contemporary Hong Kong series. Watching ancient drama series would usually make me fall asleep.

But almost every night I have been watching about ten to twenty minutes of this series while I am having my dinner. I know the plot by just watching snippets of the series.

The series stars Raymond Lam, Bosco Wong, Charmaine Sheh, Sonija Kwok, Sharon Chan, Evergreen Mak and David Chiang. I like to watch some of the stars.

For the past few nights I have been watching almost the whole episode because the series are coming to the finale tomorrow night.

‘He is Busy with Work’ and Spinxie is not

Since the boss was attending a meeting in Putrajaya yesterday, we received our salary today.

When I was using the office mobile phone to sms the site staff to come to office to collect their salary, my colleague NE told me to stop doing that so that I could pass the cheques and salary slips to the boss to give out. She thought I was playing around with the mobile phone (Ya, as if I have so much time on my hand to waste). I had to tell her what I was doing because people like her can only think about themselves. This afternoon I finally told her I am not going to entertain her advance request anymore. She has to look for her source elsewhere. And for the amount she still owes me, I told her to return when the next round of bonus comes out. I want to wipe my hands completely clean from her financial situation.

When one of the site staff (the one who last month said the boss would do his report for him) came to collect his salary, boss told him to deliver some documents to the developer of his project site. He was not happy and told me to get the documents ready quickly because he said he is busy with work. (Ya, as if only you are busy and I am not busy). I should be sarcastic and asked him whether he is on a diet because he came to the office during his lunch hour and he was rushing back to the site to do his work (oh please!). But I did tell him that if he is not willing to help, I can deliver the documents myself. Afterall instruction was given by the boss and not me.

The boss was not in a good mood this morning and by lunchtime, I was the one who got ‘shot at’ by him (since everyone else has gone to the bank) eventhough whatever he was angry at had nothing to do with me. Thank God when he came back after attending a meeting in the afternoon, his mood was ok. He even joked with me in front of the lady boss but I was not in the mood to entertain him.

I guess the fact that he has to go to MOE to attend another meeting again tomorrow stresses him out. These MOE officers do not really care airtickets had been bought. They just changed the time to whatever that suits them. The original time of the meeting stated in the fax received yesterday was supposed to be 2.30p.m. tomorrow. At lunchtime today they changed it to noon time tomorrow. So the boss had to buy a new airticket so that he could arrive at an earlier time to make it for the re-scheduled meeting. And we just found out reimbursement for travelling via Air Asia will not be entertained at all. Talking about being fussypots, these officers never mention about it verbally or in their documents. We learnt the fact from other consultants who had been dealing with MOE before this.

ING Lifetime Income Plan

This morning the rain was pouring down in buckets as I was about to get up slightly after 6a.m. By the time I left for work an hour after that, part of the road leading to work was submerged in water by about 9 inches from the ground. I am glad the car did not stop in the middle of the road.

One thing I observed was the car in front of me. Normally when one sees that the left side of the road has more water submerged in it due to ponding, one would automatically drive more towards the middle of the road but this person kept on going to the far left side. Maybe he/she is thinking the water would help him/her to wash the car.

Last Saturday Jeff’s friend and insurance agent Dixon Liew came to the office to collect all my insurance policies so that he could do an analysis for me. Today we had lunch together at one of the coffee shops at Inanam Business Centre near the Inanam Bus Terminal. The cook is Dixon's friend. He ordered tom yam prawn noodles while I had fish meehoon soup. Dixon said the seafood there is very fresh and that was why I did not order the fried ones so that I can test whether the fish is fresh or not. The fish was indeed very fresh. The shop is always full of people coming and going.

Since Dixon did not have enough time to show me the newest product by ING, we met up again at Food City for a drink after work. One thing I am impressed about this guy is his punctuality.

Anyway after explaining the Lifetime Income Plan, I joined the Plan this evening. This 12 years Plan will encourage me to save more and since saving money in bank savings accounts or fixed deposit is much less to be desired in this age because of the low returns (besides having some investments), there would be more returns for my savings and my future would be more secured. I just need to be more discipline and prudent for the next 12 years.