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SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI,

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Candy dan Mandy ^_^

M for Messy

I was too excited when I spotted a new tom yum noodle stall at the coffee shop nearby, because I'm such a super tom yum lover. Candy and I can drive all the way from south to west in the middle of the night just for a bowl of tom yum... and that shows our love for tom yum :)

I simply grab the first container I saw in the kitchen and just pour it in. Ops, that's not a bowl =_=

Then I realize I didn't learn 'iron palm' back in school, I can't hold it no more, so I put it in a pot T_T Everything becomes messy when I'm with tom yum.

Dinner in bed :)

The Spooky Month

I have been avoiding this topic for the whole month because one aunty from my office told me that this year's Hungry Ghost month is the most threatening one over the last 12 years. She further explained to me but due to my 'low B' in understanding the Chinese praying history, I didn't quite understand why. And since the spooky month is over, I would like to share my spooky experiences over the month of Hungry Ghost.

2 weeks ago I went into my college wash room alone. I heard a very peaceful, soft and long 'ting....' sound, it sounded like a wind chime. Funny, it only rang once. Maybe I was too tired or was it Aunty Pok's wind chime really got into my nerves and I'm bringing the chime sound everywhere with me.

A few days after that, I won a title 'Mandy the blind mice' when Candy caught me searching hi and low for a dress hanging right in front of me; I accused Candy for taking my car keys when I was holding them; and I keep losing things over the month. Well, not exactly lose them but I can't seem to find them eventhough they are just in front of me. "No more looking at the computer for 1 wk, I warned myself" or was I only comforting myself.

On the 15th day of the Hungry Ghost month, I saw at 3 accidents on my way from home to college, another 3 from college to office and 2 from office to home. That's the most accident's I ever saw in one day.

Recently, I often woke up in the middle of the night for no reason, my heart starts to beat so fast, feeling scared and alone. I cannot go sleep with Candy because she doesn't turn on the aircond.

Today, I signed in to work early because we're off for Raya Holidays. I entered the lift, pressed # 13 and start to think about number 13, 13 Ghost, Friday the 13th, Snow White and the 13 dwarfs, 13th month bonus and the sudden curiousity makes me realize that 13 was a not so lucky number, but why? I don't really know.

13 or not, I still have to work.

Later I went into the document room because I ned to photocpy 10 pages of document A and 10 copies of document B. I placed A on the copier screen, set to 10 copies and COPY. Then, I placed document B on it and COPY... to my surprise, document A was still coming out from the machine. o_O! I checked the settings and the document, everything was correctly set/placed.

This copier must be Malaysian made, I thought, because there was no brand/label. Ok, why don't I try Canon copier next to me. Oh, it's not working, so I gave Malaysian copier another try. 10 copies of document B done. I thought, maybe I've mis-pressed some buttons. Reluctantly I comforted myself.

I passed a number of wrong calls today because I cannot recognize the buttons on the keyphone. It's really weird, I'm as clueless as I was on my 1st day of work. It's alright, 1 more hour to freedom, I said...

After work, I didn't actually realize that many of my colleagues left the office earlier than me. I'm usually the most on time when it comes to swapping out. It feels creepy to be in the elevator alone at 5.05pm =_= seriously, NOBODY came in throughout the lift. When I finally reached ground floor...

Oh, today's the last day of Hungry Ghost month. Almost everybody from the building was praying at the roadside. No wonder everything seems creepy. This is actually the 3rd time I'm typing this blog because my texts just disappear everytime I attach this paper doll photo and all text alignment becomes distorted... I will do it again and again until I finish this blog! I must have mis-pressed whatever key on my keyboard again!!!!!!

Oh my, I'm surprised I can really be SO ignorant :P

Have you experienced anything spooky over the month of Hungry Ghost? Share with us...

Let's work out!

What is your reaction when your buddy invites you to join him/her in the gym?

Me: o_O!!

Because our newly rented apartment has a gym so, Candy called me today and said "Hey Man, wanna go work out at the gym later in the evening?" Uh... it really kills my body cells the minute she said that. I didn't know what ran into her mind today but I couldn't help but recalling our days back in high school......

Remember we all use to have Pendidikan Jasmani (PJ) twice every week? And the training teachers (MTC teachers) who know nuts about exercise, simply ask us to run around the school field for 5 rounds WITHOUT warming up. I'd run half the field and hid behind teacher's car until others complete 4 1/2 rounds, only then I'll join them and complete the drama >:) Not that I'm lazy but I really can't run. While Candy... She also can't runlah, LOL! Just that I don't know how she got away with it that time; we were never in the same class back in school.

Ok, back to our gym project. I started with Cardio or the bicycle, whatever the name is -_-! for 5 minutes and that's it. I turned pale and then I went out to sit by the pool. Candy came out after 2-3 minutes also looking pale... and yes, we're done!

I think I have low blood sugar and I need 1 bar of chocolate; Candy can tahan 3 minutes longer than me, she can have 1/2 bar >:)

LOL, this is just hillarious~

Shhhhh... shut tttsup!

I bet we all have met people who can't speak properly or were they trying to 'be' somebody. This blog is specially dedicated to people who CAN speak properly but have choosen not to.

I find one of my colleagues Mary, which seriously ANNOYS me VERY MUCH because of the way she speaks. Let me try to put it in words:

Cantonese: Chhhhor hai tttsOu lah (sit right here)

Hockkien: Chhaaap Cheeeet Lau (17th floor)

Mandarin: Wo Gang Chhhhhai Chhhhheeeeeee (I went to... just now)

Every word is full of CHHHHHHH and it's making me go mad everytime she speaks to me! Why? She has no braces on her teeth, she can pronounces 'S' (so i'm sure her tongue is long enough) and it only happens when she speaks Chinese dialects! WHY??!!

Even her English is our local Manglish. When I first met her I thought she must be like 'totally' ENGLISH educated born in the US with 0% exposure to other races other than Caucasian.

One day I heard her saying "no, no, i ming, jilo jilo fai fai" (0055) and what the heck??!!!!

She claims to have completed her SPM Bahasa Cina but she pretends that she can't read chinese! It breaks our heart to see people who masters Chinese and yet they are shy to admit it. Candy and myself are working hard to learn Chinese by ourselves because we are from Sekolah Kebangsaan instead of what people like to say "English Educated" and believe it or not, in Chinese he/she/3rd party have different ways of writing, 他 for the masculine gender and 她 for the feminine. The Chinese language is indeed amazing and I bet I'm gonna spend the rest of my life learning it but unable to master it.

And what makes those people trying to pretend not knowing how to read Chinese?! Does that help to improve their English?

Ops sodi, chhhhhaaap chhhhhheeet lau.... egg egg fai jilo chlee!