aXiao’s

Completed the book in 2 days.  Oh man, there goes my RM35.90.  Some comments about the book.  The devil never really makes a big presence in the book.  I mean I was like hoping to see (read la, I mean) the devil to be like breathing down Anh..dre..ah’s neck all day long, but she’s just like so distant.  Yea, distant is the correct term to use. 

SK, I believe if u read this book, u’ll definitely say ur devil is worse! 

The devil looked mild to me.  Period.

Was searching for The Lake House OST for 1 week already.  Still can’t find it anywhere within the area I’m staying.  Sien…

If anyone saw it anywhere, please tell me!!!

Yeap, it’s correct..it’s disasterous but I’m still fine coz nothing happened!!  Exactly, nothing happened!!

It started on the wrong side from the very beginning.  We were supposed to meet in RMC at 8am but due to some marathon going on, some of the members got stuck in KL due to road closer.  Next, when we reach Banting, it started to rain!  Nothing could go worse from there.  Ok fine, we watched the video in the meanwhile.  Sun was shining brightly when we finished the video.  Yippee..I thought, but when we were up at the hill..all we got was wind, wind, wind and more wind.  There’s no way we could paraglide in this weather.  So we waited and waited and waited under the sun until some of us got hungry and went out for lunch.  About an hour of waiting, the wind finally got calm and yes we could paraglide finally!  There were 7 of us and there were some others from dunno where, so the instructor can’t fly tandem with all of us.  Arrangement wasn’t done quite what we thought could have been better.  So only 3 of us got to do the tandem flight.  Not to mention that there was no more wind after that so the remaining 4 have to decide whether to do it again the next day or sometime in the future.  I decided not to go the next day so that the others could carry on with their solo flight (ahem..so good of me..ahhaha..).

That’s the ‘disasterous’ paragliding that I almost got myself into on Saturday.  Will definitely fly one day!!

I lurrvveeee my housemates!

One sms asking me whether want to tapau chap fan, another sms coming to ask me whether want taufoofa.

Guess must go back early today!!

Often I read people’s blogs that most of them contained angry, frustration, sad moments.  Why can’t they share happy moments?  We tend to shy away from sharing happy, glorious stuff with other, I find that.  Why?  Are we being arrogant or as the Malay saying ‘Masuk bakul angkat sendiri’ if we do that?  Nah.  To make ourselves feel good everyday, I think we must be proud of actions we had chosen to take.  Small achievements are fine.  They are achievements anyway.  Like me, if I want to think of my good moment up until now, it would be ‘I was out of the bed early today and managed to make my own breakfast and not late for work!’

It’s Monday and a long way to go before weekend.  Must boost up the happy thoughts.  Otherwise, I’ll be grumbling too.

Happy thoughts…happy thoughts…Oh..oh ohh…I’m in la-la land..

I feel good..na na na na na

I know that I would..na na na na na

I feel good, so good …forgot lyrics liao…ahhahaha

Countless times that I have received forwaded pictures about the stupidness/carelessness/idiotism of a driver could be on the road.  But never I thought that it could happened right under my nose.

Check the picture out?  This was 2 days ago in my office carpark.  How much force does the Accord need to actually push the stationery Waja up the ramp onto such a steep end?  It was either the driver had a very bad driving skills, or the driver had such a vengeance towards the Waja owner.  Perhaps the Accord driver had a very, very bad cramp on the right leg and accidently pressed the accelerator.

Hahahahaa…..

…makes you wonder all the time.  I wonder how they operate?

Yours truly, unfortunately, had chosen to transfer from a department of one ____ (fill in the blank yourselves) boss to a department where all members operate under two bosses, differentiate by project and working group.

So two bosses, are they hard to manage?  I try not to think that way. 

From my observation, they do not acknowledge each other, which makes me have to work more in my communication department, which is good in a way.    For time being that’s what I could see, maybe there’s more in them that I have not seen.  I hope it’s more of good things that I could see in the future, if not, I’ll be grumbling all over in this blog.

One funny thing though,  I found them both very humble, I mean really humble.  When they speak to me, they don’t act as they are my boss.  They always say the other boss is my boss. 

Boss 1: Your boss is telling me..

Me: My boss?

Boss 1: Yes, your other boss.

Me: Oh..ok.

Boss 2:  Please tell your boss that..

Me: My boss?

Boss 1: Yes, your other boss.

Me: Oh..ok.

See how humble they are..:P

How high is the possibility to get a flight on the 6/6/06, boarding time 6am at Gate 66?

Lucky? Unlucky?  Nop, I didn’t get any ‘misfortune’ or kena lottery on that day.

axiao..^_^

Here is your horoscope for Wednesday, May 31:

Just because you’re opinionated, that doesn’t mean that you’re hard to get along with. In fact, if anything, it means that you’re a lot more interesting than someone who just goes along with everyone else.

Here is your horoscope for Thursday, June 1:

What’s between their ears is way hotter for you at the moment than any other, perhaps more conventional, measures of attractiveness. Anyone who can give your mind a challenge could win your heart.

I AM NOT A PAK TURUT!!

That’s the first thing I could recognize from the horoscope forecast of the day. I am not hard to get along with, I am just opinionated. I let my brain work. It’s such a waste to let it to rot (err, rot is not exactly a good word for it). Okay, put it in better words, to let it idle is not good. I like mental stimulation, IQ test, Sudoku, anything that need my brain to churn out solution. And to get the results it’s just so satisfying.

Okay, so it got me thinking (my brain’s churning now), is it good to be a yes person? I feel that sometimes you just need to get others to know what you are thinking. Your thoughts might not always be correct but it will lead others to see the matter from another perspective.

I have seen people who had been a yes person their whole life. At the end of the day, they tend to be grouchy and complain all the time. Nevertheless, I have seen people who made their point across by discussion, emails, arguments, you name it, even though sometimes the ideas never got approved, but then the satisfaction is there because it had been voiced out. Of course it is better if the opposite takes your words into action.

Lids For Limb

Collecting ring tabs is not hard. In fact it was a pretty easy task to do. All you have to do is just smile and ask, ‘Excuse me, may I have the ring tab please?’ It would work if you are trying to get say like 40, 50 piece of ring tabs. When your target is ONE KG, it’s a different story.

How many ring tabs are there in a kilogram anyway?

Let’s do the maths here.

10 tabs = 3 grams

X tabs = 1000 grams?

X = 3333.33 tabs

Why am I collecting ring tabs in the first place?

Pinky, Li-Ann and me, participants of Asiaworks Foundation Charity Basic in August 2005, were requested to carry out a project in return of attending the course. We met a lot of people from NGOs in Malaysia. One of them is Grace Tam from Girl Guide Malaysia. We got to know about their on-going project, Lids for Limb. So Pinky suggested why not we collect the ring tabs for them as our project. The three of us agreed and so the hunt for ring tabs had begun.

Two weeks into the collection, I got like 100 ring tabs. Yippee! What a good start. I felt that we could achieve the 1 kg in 2 months time. Wrong! I measured the weight of the 100 ring tabs. Guess what? It was a merely 30 grams. Jaw-dropped!

Gosh, how to increase the collection of the tabs? So I thought of where I could find canned drinks the most. Ha, RESTAURANTS! I started to notice the number of people ordering canned drinks during dinner. And it certainly looked promising to raise the pathetic amount of ring tabs I have collected.

One fine day, my housemates and I went to a particular restaurant around my favourite makan place and asked the boss whether we could collect the ring tabs. I was expecting him to shoo us away like an annoying fly on his doughnut. But surprisingly, he actually heard about the collection (well from other sources) and welcomed us to take the tabs. The boss actually taught us how to pluck the tabs off in a less painful way using the spanner. Turn, twist and off the tabs from the can. It seemed easy and quick. But after 10 big plastic bags containing hundreds of cans, it’s tiring and it was not a pretty sight. (Imagine, the cans had been kept for a few weeks before they were sold to recycling centre and they were slimy and smelly.) After 3 grueling hours with the slimy, smelly cans we manage to collect about 700 grams.

Now, the collection must go to a bigger scale. So I started to spread the news around. And of course people start asking. This is the tough part.

Why collect the tabs?

How is it going to help?

How they make the limbs?

Why only the tabs not the whole can?

Who is going to be beneficial from this collection?

Ring tab? What is it?

Artificial limbs for landmine victims in Cambodia were so expensive that Dr. Therdchai Jivacate started to make his own version of the limbs. He founded a formula of making the artificial limbs using recycled items, namely the ring tabs. The tabs are made of titanium, silicone and copper. The can is not usable as it is aluminium and is not strong enough. The exact formula of how the tabs are fused to make the limbs is not being enlightened to us. However, it is being explained that for every kilogram of the ring tabs, we could make a set of artificial limb for those in need.

Ring tabs collection in Malaysia started off in Penang as a Girl Guide’s Queen Guide project. Words spread around and it got to us through Girl Guide KL during the Asiaworks workshop. The artificial limbs made from the ring tab collection in Malaysia will be given out free to the poor amputees locally.

After 6 months of collecting the ring tabs from various sources, Li-Ann and I finally decided to put a closure to the collection on 4th March 2006. We submitted approximately 1.68kg of rings tabs to Girl Guide KL. Collecting thousands of ring tabs is not hard. You just need a strong will and a never-say-die attitude to make it happen. Sometimes, thinking out of the box will help too. Everything is possible.

This is an on-going project for the Girl Guides to help the unfortunates, please continue to collect the ring tabs and submit them to me. Together we can help other people with limbs missing to have a better quality of life.

p.s. People asked how many tabs I collected at 1.68kg. I tried to count but lost count after 500 tabs. 