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an awesome february
Sunday, February 28, 2010
February was a lot of fun. Yana, Zaidi, Izam and myself drove 45mins away from our city Manama to visit the desert part of Bahrain. When Zaidi and Izam left Yana and me alone to drive around Sitra while they both went for their site meeting, Yana and me got lost a whole lot of times! Besides bumming with the hommies, I've with been out shopping a whole lot with my Labenese beauty, Nagham. Last Thurday, we went to Geant where I got some gifts for my friends in Singapore. Dearest baby sis, Amee turns 6 this 2nd of March, and I'm sad I cannot be there. However, I have sent her a gift and a card which she has already opened way before her birthday. Abz is coming to visit in March; something I am truly looking forward to. We're still trying to get him a better price for the flight ticket. I'm still enjoying my life here in Beautiful Bahrain. Not planning to come home yet. :) Tomorrow night, I'm meeting my 2 Labenese girl friends for dinner & shisha. Can't wait! and finally im here
Saturday, February 13, 2010
How long has it been? ;) I never thought I would ever blog again, but seeing how much life has offered me, I thought why not pen those memories down? As most already know, I am in beautiful Bahrain, and have been here for the past 3 months. I got offered a great job here which has enlightened and changed me in many ways. Firstly, living in a conservative side of the world has been a wonderful experience. Somehow, it has taught me to be a much more patient person & it has taught me to be thankful for the little I have. Today, I went down to Camilles for my favourite chicken ceaser salad, and met Miswadi for a chat. I was glad I finally got my bottle of mineral water from the cold store since there were no more water at home since yesterday. Bahrain's tap water are not meant for drinking, since it's pure sea water, and when I filled up the bath tub with the tap water, the water's actually sea green. lol. So anyhoo, my plan waas to head down to City Center for the Zara sale, but seeing how much I have left in my bank account, I changed my mind instantly. It's Valentine's Day and I'm pretty sad to be spending it without the boyfie. I got him a little something and a card and will be sending it out tomorrow. I bought my little sister a dress, a book and a card for her birthday on the 2nd of March as well. I miss home dearly, but like I told most of friends, there's a huge part of me that do not wana go back to Singapore for good. I cannot wait to come home on December for my one-month break, however, I would love to stay in the middle east for good. We'll see how things go. I have plans to work in the UK after my 2-years in Bahrain, but I will have to see if I will stick to the plan later on. Cheeros and Happy Valentine's Day to all! Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Facebook is the ultimate phenomena. Everyone bids goodbye to blogging. Nadia calls me & Alicia the blogging geeks, for we've been spending our office hours & non-office hours playing Sorority Life on FB! That game is addictive! I've been saving brownie points to get certain somethings and have not been splashing my brownie points on mini games which will only end up rewarding me with sad gifts; gifts I don't need browie points for. Anyhoo, I'm spending my last few weeks in Singapore and enjoying every bit of it as much as I can! The last time that I blogged, I was in the same job I was in for the last 3 years. I quit that job, rested for like half a month, and landed a contract basis job in this Japanese design firm. I've been having a hard time adapting myself to the style and taste of a Japanese boss, since I've been working with an American boss for 3 years. Design is very subjective, and I can't possible make both worlds happy. They won't change for us, therefore, I had to change to suit their preferences. I'm finishing my contract soon...YIPPEE to that, and am embarking a new journey after this. The fact that I'm a career-minded person scares me sometimes, since I would go all out to chase that dream. I'm flying off to the middle east end of next month. I hope for the best and would accomplish what I want to accomplish down there. I'm nervous yet excited! I have a lot to thank Marc for landing me this job. He's done a whole lot for me to make sure I get this job. I'm really sad to leave my friends, BF and my family. I had cold feet for a while and cried for the whole night. LOLX. There are a whol lot of packing to do and many many things I have to get before flying off. Will be back in a year for a short break though. I'm blessed that BF has been very supportive about my decision, although he tried pulling me back at first. In life, you got to sacrifice a lot of somethings to get to that pot of gold. You take risks, and sometimes the end result sucks, but at least you took the risk and you landed somewhere. Been working like crazy for the past 3-weeks. Hardly had any weekends or enough sleep. Can't wait for the 10 days left to be over and done with! I seriously am dragging to get back to work because of the tight deadlines every single day. Will update again when I touch down; that'll be end of next month. :) Cheers! Sunday, June 28, 2009
For a moment, 1 whole hour of that moment, I had fear for riding and the road. The bike went crazy in the middle of the road on our way back home. Lucky enough, it did not die on us in the middle of a busy high way. Instead, it only threw a fit right at traffic light near Fullerton Hotel. The water tank leaked and smoke started to build up at the exhaust which alarmed me. Abz quickly told me to get out of the bike and stand really far away from it. I was terrified and insisted that we call a tow truck and take a cab home, which btw we did not do. We sat at the curb for a while for the bike to cool down a wee bit and continued our journey home. The whole time, we had to check the pipes making sure they do not build up any smoke anymore. I was scared the whole time, since it was not exactly safe to ride on a bike in that condition. I prayed the whole time on our way home. I was relieved and very happy once we reached Woodlands. For now, we have to make do with the MRT or the bus or Abz's spare bike which isn't exactly my favourite. We planned to get our driving lisence instead and perhaps share to get a car. Which I hope won't ever break down on us in the middle of nowhere! *** I was realllyyy bored and thought it would be nice to make something for my designer girls. Everytime our boss shouts "STOP! STOP! I SAID STOP!", you could hear us singing to the Spice Girls's tune..."stop right now, thank you very much. i need somebody with a human touch..." ![]() Now to think of it, they do resemble us. Sher's the sporty (& the smart) one among us, I'm the big girl (lolx), Joyce has that exact Posh Spice's haircut, Zee's the one with bad hair day like everyday, and Grace is the baby among us since she's the youngest one. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH @ Gary's
Saturday, June 27, 2009 ![]() ...and that is what I call one hell of a party! Gary; our design director threw an awesome Pool Party cum BBQ @ his crib. We all got high on coke, high on beer but most of all we were high on life on that day. At 2.00am, we were still very awake and singing along with the guitar. Surprisingly, none of the neighbors complained about the noise we were making, considering that we all sounded like toads when singing except for you Gary who sounded like one hell of a country singer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ***************** It seems like the more you want something, it doesn't come by easily. But once you let it go, it all comes to you. I'm talking about career. My career. I remember being in front of the computer for many hours months back desperately looking for design firms which were hiring. I sent my resume to countless design firms, and so much wishing I could get a new job in a snap. Among the millions, I only managed to get one interview in a firm which did not hire me in the end. I gave up looking, left my resume in a few job search engine, and let matters take its course. Then, 2 weeks ago, a job agency from the UK head hunted me and offered me a job in Bahrain. I was all excited, but had to reject their offer after so much negotiation on my expected salary. I thought I would just go ahead with the offer despite the low pay, but then Hamdan told me, "If they are really serious about you, they'll come back for you. For now, let it go." ...which btw was very true. Because last night, I got a call from the agent saying that the project manager is still very much interested to hire me and would like to perhaps grant my expected salary. AWESOME! My interview will be over the phone which would be a little akward. Then few mins later, I got another call for an interview at another design firm. It gets better... A while ago, I got an e-mail from another design firm asking me to come down for an interview next week. I'm all excited although I haven't got any of the jobs yet. Fingers crossed! So, it's either Bahrain, Dubai or Singapore. Of course it would be great to get the job in Singapore so that I would not have to be away from my friends, families & the dearest boyfie, but it would be more than great to get a job away from home, which is a step ahead of my career. :) Fingers crossed!!! and btw, I miss my juniors who left the Co. recently. I miss you Joycee & Gracy the most! Thanks for all the help & hard work. Love you both. Ehem, my time will come soon lorrrr. 13 things
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 Obviously I've been away for a long time. Prolly gonna abandon this blog totally but so sayang to actually get rid of it. I'm gonna briefly update what's been happening since the last time I dropped by. Hah. 1) Went on MC a lot. And when I said a lot, I meant A WHOLE LOT! Got sick a lot. And now, I've got sprained nerves on my back and my neck. Can't possibly turn my neck to the left, up or down. Turn to the right; that I can still accomplish. With that, I claimed the name 'Leher Cacat'. 2) Was away from Abz for 2weeks and managed to survive. HAHAHA. Received gifts from Abz for our 18th month anni. 3) Mex rocked my socks for that few weeks talking about gundu things. Especially about the weird friends we have. 4) Shopped a lot like crazy with my girls. River Island = my new best friend. 5) Shopped like crazy at River Island & Topshop/ Topman with my brother = feeling2 orang kaya baru. 6) Got crazy over jello shots. Joycee and me would have like 10 shots per day. And recently, we got crazy over Coffee Bean's cheesecakes. Bahhhh. 7) Stayed up at work from 2.30pm on a Saturday up till 2.30pm on a Sunday without any sleep. Yahhhh 24hrs of work without sleep lorrrr. Was freaking drowsy but still sucking on jellos. Either meet the deadline or be dead on the line. 8) Caught 'Bride Wars' on DVD, 'Terminator 3' & 'Monsters VS Aliens' in the movies. Bride Wars (Cried a lot!), Terminator 3 (Got super tensed but enjoyed it totally), Monsters VS Aliens (took Amee to her 1st movie and it was great fun) 9) Brother took me to Prive to hang with his friends. Soooo tiring that particular day. 10) A friend attempted suicide. Sad case lah. 11) (this should have been point number 1) Dyed my hair red. Knon nyer to play tribute to Allison when she was out of AI. 12) Merajok 2 hari when Adam Lambert didn't win AI. WTFFFF!!!!!! 13) Hand-sewed a canopy/ curtain for Amee's baby bed. :) Ok bye! Friday, May 08, 2009 I came to realize at the toughest point of your life, the people you considered as friends aren't your friends, and the people you regard as best friends; despite meeting once in 3-months due to their super busy schedule, your best friends are the ONLY ones who WILL DIE DIE help you out againts all the odds okay! hahaha. No matter how much of happy-gooper friends you have to tarik you to go shopping or hang out at Orchard Road every weekend, ONLY your best friends would end up being there for you when you're on your death bed. Those happy-gooper friends of yours won't even bother. They would probably be out there shopping away with another happy-gooper friend. HAHAHA, ok the way I put it is a little merepek, but you get what I mean. Anyhoo, to MY GIRLS who have been there thru' thick and thin with me and who were there for me this whole 1-week when heaven was not on my side, thank you so much! Zee, Nana & Ellie, you girls are all LOVE! And that one and only boy who went all out to make sure I get the best out of every little things, you're the bomb & always my bomb. I'd give you the best boyfriend ever award lor! Before I go, I'm gonna play a tribute for my girl Allison who got kicked out of American Idol (SUMPAH RESULT SALAH!!!!). What the eff!!!! I swear tomorrow I'm dying my hair red again ok. That's for you my girl! HAHAHAHA. Ok as long as Adam wins in the end, it doesn't really matter. Chris, please go home! |
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