never take things for granted.
Malaysia just lost a shining talent that we could be proud of. a person who dreamed of the unity in diversity that we could achieve. she saw talent in the young and the different. the one who dared to be different. who set aside the taunts and the critics of her work because she believed in her dreams and her stories. Yasmin Ahmad, a director, a storyteller, a Malaysian. bless your soul. al-fatihah.
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never take things for granted.
especially your family and your friends. however busy, however cranky, however tired you get. a simple gesture to them like an email saying "i thought of you" or a simple get together just so everyone can put a little smile and a laugh to their faces, goes a very long long way.
my family and my friends, I love you.
DOT.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
bounds
please!!! i need the space. i really don't enjoy you breathing down my neck. or coming too close to my face. yuck!
Thursday, July 16, 2009
left early for dinner
japanese buffet was fun.
first time the seasoned and the new got to laugh our hearts out, imitate the lawyers, and just bond over late nights in the office drama, gossips and smart ass topics to the most stupidest of them all.
galv: what's the problem with water in singapore? if don't want to give, just tutup the tap lah!
az's tip for the night : when you're about to get into an argument with a friend, start to talk bout 'sex'. your safe. when in trouble talk sex.
nice one az. i wonder why everyone left the table then? hehehe. i kid. i kid. they continued the talk over some smoke :)
thank god no one got called back to office to work. haha.
DOT.
first time the seasoned and the new got to laugh our hearts out, imitate the lawyers, and just bond over late nights in the office drama, gossips and smart ass topics to the most stupidest of them all.
galv: what's the problem with water in singapore? if don't want to give, just tutup the tap lah!
az's tip for the night : when you're about to get into an argument with a friend, start to talk bout 'sex'. your safe. when in trouble talk sex.
nice one az. i wonder why everyone left the table then? hehehe. i kid. i kid. they continued the talk over some smoke :)
thank god no one got called back to office to work. haha.
DOT.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
how was work today?
now that i'm working, i feel like i'm contributing to the conversation. normally it's just ma and abang talking out their problems during work and we'll chip in our 2 cents where we can help. sometimes it's work, sometimes it's dealing with the stress of office politics or just some joke that happened. now, i've got my own set of problems to tell. yeay!
so, yesterday was talking to ma bout my day. eh, no she was telling me bout hers. i was sitting on her work table so i had a view of the road out her bedroom window. when suddenly i saw a car gliding down the hill towards the centre of the road. then it stopped. no lights on or anything. just gliding down. i kept on saying to ma "that car! it's gliding down. that car ma!" but ma couldn't see so she just ignored and we continued talking. around 2 minutes later 2 police cars came with sirens all on and honked at the car in the middle of the road. it was a red kancil. we jumped. i called out to the whole house "got police car outside! there's a car in the middle of the road. Imtyaz go check! I saw it gliding down." both ma and me had a thought. the driver probably had a heart attack and he lost control of the car. so, in baju tido and all we went out of the house, the whole row of neighbours in baju tidur came out. everyone muka pelik. wondering what in the world happened.there was a quiet buzz until one of the policeman said, "orang mane yang park tengah tengah jalan ni?" whilst scrathing his head in disbelief. it was a main road mind you. my abang told the police, "encik, adik saya nampak kereta tu roll down the hill. handbreak tak makan kot." policeman, "tapi handbreak die tarik. kereta ni taknak ganjak saya tolak. nak kate takde parking, banyak."then, a guy came out from one of the houses with kain pelikat yang tak ikat properly and a tshirt, looked like a malaysian harry potter lari2 towards the car and said, "itu kereta saya!". he was so malu, got in the car and speed off. the police was caught dumbstruck. somehow, the car glided down from where he parked. then the whole lot of neighbours started bursting with laughter and shaking their head in disbelief. you could hear them laughing their asses off dalam rumah telling the story. we're still laughing about it today. it looked too much like a Lat comic. very much like what mr. bean would have gone through kinda thing too.
it was a really good laugh for a monday night. it was also great to know that the police in taman tun are freaking efficient. in a buzz they arrive to check on the bizarre and the weird. was really good to be assured that the neighbours are still very concerned too :)
all in all, it was a good monday.
must be because it was ryhan's birthday. hehehe.
so, i didn't get the monday blues :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RY!
DOT.
so, yesterday was talking to ma bout my day. eh, no she was telling me bout hers. i was sitting on her work table so i had a view of the road out her bedroom window. when suddenly i saw a car gliding down the hill towards the centre of the road. then it stopped. no lights on or anything. just gliding down. i kept on saying to ma "that car! it's gliding down. that car ma!" but ma couldn't see so she just ignored and we continued talking. around 2 minutes later 2 police cars came with sirens all on and honked at the car in the middle of the road. it was a red kancil. we jumped. i called out to the whole house "got police car outside! there's a car in the middle of the road. Imtyaz go check! I saw it gliding down." both ma and me had a thought. the driver probably had a heart attack and he lost control of the car. so, in baju tido and all we went out of the house, the whole row of neighbours in baju tidur came out. everyone muka pelik. wondering what in the world happened.there was a quiet buzz until one of the policeman said, "orang mane yang park tengah tengah jalan ni?" whilst scrathing his head in disbelief. it was a main road mind you. my abang told the police, "encik, adik saya nampak kereta tu roll down the hill. handbreak tak makan kot." policeman, "tapi handbreak die tarik. kereta ni taknak ganjak saya tolak. nak kate takde parking, banyak."then, a guy came out from one of the houses with kain pelikat yang tak ikat properly and a tshirt, looked like a malaysian harry potter lari2 towards the car and said, "itu kereta saya!". he was so malu, got in the car and speed off. the police was caught dumbstruck. somehow, the car glided down from where he parked. then the whole lot of neighbours started bursting with laughter and shaking their head in disbelief. you could hear them laughing their asses off dalam rumah telling the story. we're still laughing about it today. it looked too much like a Lat comic. very much like what mr. bean would have gone through kinda thing too.
it was a really good laugh for a monday night. it was also great to know that the police in taman tun are freaking efficient. in a buzz they arrive to check on the bizarre and the weird. was really good to be assured that the neighbours are still very concerned too :)
all in all, it was a good monday.
must be because it was ryhan's birthday. hehehe.
so, i didn't get the monday blues :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RY!
DOT.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
scale for FUN
how do you measure the stage of life you are in?
I realize, that life can be measured by the books you read. well at least my life.
when it was about having a first crush..archie comics and sweet valley were the aisle of books to visit. but i wasn't much of a valley fan. i was into the young detectives. the famous five. cute!
then i discovered austen's books. mom gave me sense & sensibility to read. but i did not finish that first. i got my own copy of Pride & prejudice and that was my first finished austen. eventually the entire collection and some others about austen or her works just end up to be the most treasured collection or most re-read ones. always good for anytime, any age, any stage i'm in.
then when it was the rise of the hormones..it was a rush towards teen romance. Love stories series. then graduated to real romantic fictions. mum's books every now and then (judith mcnaught, jane feathers etc.), and the chic lits.
as the world shaped in front of my eyes..i flooded my shelves left right and center with political sagas, periodicals, auto bio of world leaders, those smart sounding books on capital market and well 'undercover economics' seemed like the best thing ever written. it was smart. funny. and makes a very civic point across i.e. that we were all fools of others. multi level fools :P
then finally it's the stage where art imitates life or life imitates art. either way, I tend to look for books that gave away answers. well, not answers but similarities. the same problems, the same kind of happiness, emptiness, kinship, loss, tragedy. just to find another voice that I can relate to. to know that I am not the only one who feels a certain way. others have gone through the same and theirs have an ending. that ending could also be yours or you can make it different.to learn from the things written. to find an opinion. to find a connection. to find an understanding.
but today, at a stage of my life where i'm the busiest & most responsible i have ever needed to be, I skipped through all the chic lits and the drama, the politics and the romance. I went straight to science fiction and grabbed a copy of son of a witch and witches on board. because they bring fun. the much needed fun of a world entirely not like ours.
and that's how i measure parts of the so called life :)
ps: i've always wanted to be in a book club. a nice small book club.
DOT.
I realize, that life can be measured by the books you read. well at least my life.
when it was about having a first crush..archie comics and sweet valley were the aisle of books to visit. but i wasn't much of a valley fan. i was into the young detectives. the famous five. cute!
then i discovered austen's books. mom gave me sense & sensibility to read. but i did not finish that first. i got my own copy of Pride & prejudice and that was my first finished austen. eventually the entire collection and some others about austen or her works just end up to be the most treasured collection or most re-read ones. always good for anytime, any age, any stage i'm in.
then when it was the rise of the hormones..it was a rush towards teen romance. Love stories series. then graduated to real romantic fictions. mum's books every now and then (judith mcnaught, jane feathers etc.), and the chic lits.
as the world shaped in front of my eyes..i flooded my shelves left right and center with political sagas, periodicals, auto bio of world leaders, those smart sounding books on capital market and well 'undercover economics' seemed like the best thing ever written. it was smart. funny. and makes a very civic point across i.e. that we were all fools of others. multi level fools :P
then finally it's the stage where art imitates life or life imitates art. either way, I tend to look for books that gave away answers. well, not answers but similarities. the same problems, the same kind of happiness, emptiness, kinship, loss, tragedy. just to find another voice that I can relate to. to know that I am not the only one who feels a certain way. others have gone through the same and theirs have an ending. that ending could also be yours or you can make it different.to learn from the things written. to find an opinion. to find a connection. to find an understanding.
but today, at a stage of my life where i'm the busiest & most responsible i have ever needed to be, I skipped through all the chic lits and the drama, the politics and the romance. I went straight to science fiction and grabbed a copy of son of a witch and witches on board. because they bring fun. the much needed fun of a world entirely not like ours.
and that's how i measure parts of the so called life :)
ps: i've always wanted to be in a book club. a nice small book club.
DOT.
stop the support group for HATE
i hear LOVE is great.
i see LOVE is great.
i hope LOVE will be great for everyone and anyone. friend or foe.
but those who judge love; any kind of love, should stop judging and find a cure for the hate in your heart.
stop finding faults of others. spend time to look yourself in the mirror. see if you are loved, if you love or your surrounded with love (beware, they could be impostors saying they love).. because, when you have so much hate, what's there to love?
DOT.
i see LOVE is great.
i hope LOVE will be great for everyone and anyone. friend or foe.
but those who judge love; any kind of love, should stop judging and find a cure for the hate in your heart.
stop finding faults of others. spend time to look yourself in the mirror. see if you are loved, if you love or your surrounded with love (beware, they could be impostors saying they love).. because, when you have so much hate, what's there to love?
DOT.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
baru mula merangkak
how do you know if people love their field of work so much?
1. they should have retired yonkers ago. but no, in and out of the courts they go.
2.they just can't fathom why you bother to take a few months break after graduation before you start to work.
made a visit to uncle & auntie. check on them health and all. no time for the pleasantries. they went straight for the kill. how's work? when was results out? why didn't you start work earlier? what took you so long? what were you doing? try and get work from this lawyer and that. they're good. you'll get loadsa work.
errr...
???!!!!
me: so, how's your health? any better? brought you some nun that you guys like. err..later!!
oh..oh..love ya.
btw, i'm only 3 days young at the job. so, slow and steady please :)
DOT.
1. they should have retired yonkers ago. but no, in and out of the courts they go.
2.they just can't fathom why you bother to take a few months break after graduation before you start to work.
made a visit to uncle & auntie. check on them health and all. no time for the pleasantries. they went straight for the kill. how's work? when was results out? why didn't you start work earlier? what took you so long? what were you doing? try and get work from this lawyer and that. they're good. you'll get loadsa work.
errr...
???!!!!
me: so, how's your health? any better? brought you some nun that you guys like. err..later!!
oh..oh..love ya.
btw, i'm only 3 days young at the job. so, slow and steady please :)
DOT.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
saturday day
work is work.
only downside to responsibilities is you get to meet the people you love less and less.
there's never a right time to call, or a right time to meet up. i just hope no one leaves for anywhere far enough that it'll make it impossible to reach. forget internet! forget technology! hugs are different when they come from people you care most.
*excuse me whilst i go back to being an immature child for a bit*
friday night out with hany yesterday was meditation!
no movies for us this time around. i finished for the first time ever a TGI burger! the whole plate was empty!
just talking and laughing. then the mention of the must have topic of the moment- MJ :(
and well, updates. weeheee.
how i love hany that she didn't mind in the least bit i was taking huge glances over at the tv throughout the federer match during our conversations. i heard every single bit hun. just my eyes were roaming one direction. hehe.
momi fara dah dapat 1st nephew! congratulations kakak, abang alimin and the whole fam!
Abang's bday up next week. i almost forgot. gaah! what to get? what to get?
happy weekends x0x0
DOT.
only downside to responsibilities is you get to meet the people you love less and less.
there's never a right time to call, or a right time to meet up. i just hope no one leaves for anywhere far enough that it'll make it impossible to reach. forget internet! forget technology! hugs are different when they come from people you care most.
*excuse me whilst i go back to being an immature child for a bit*
friday night out with hany yesterday was meditation!
no movies for us this time around. i finished for the first time ever a TGI burger! the whole plate was empty!
just talking and laughing. then the mention of the must have topic of the moment- MJ :(
and well, updates. weeheee.
how i love hany that she didn't mind in the least bit i was taking huge glances over at the tv throughout the federer match during our conversations. i heard every single bit hun. just my eyes were roaming one direction. hehe.
momi fara dah dapat 1st nephew! congratulations kakak, abang alimin and the whole fam!
Abang's bday up next week. i almost forgot. gaah! what to get? what to get?
happy weekends x0x0
DOT.
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