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It has been a long time since I’ve had a headache. Today I had a bad one starting from afternoon. Dunno what triggered it, it made me feel so drowsy. I know I’m having my menses (yay! before PD trip lol), but I’m sure I’m not losing THAT much blood to feel fatigue haha~!

It was terrible, and being indoors all day in a fully air-conditioned office did not help. Felt like a sandbag on my head. As soon as I got home, it got a little better. But it’s still lingering as we speak. Maybe I’ve been lacking rest for too long.

But I’m worried about Calvin. Somehow my headache “transfered” to him ’cause he’s having a major headache right now, poor baby He had a work errand nearby, and usually he would drop by after he was done. But this time he didn’t, he’s feeling too unwell. And he has to travel all the way to Penang tomorrow. I wish there’s something I could do to lessen the burden…

Can’t wait for my lunch date this weekend with Ika and Jo~! And also looking forward to next weekend: PD trip~! Should be great. We’re gonna have the sun, the water, the breeze, the sand… Not the cleanest beach in the country, but hey still a beach getaway for us city folks, nonetheless. Then we’re gonna relax… Gonna have steamboat dinner in the privacy of our apartment unit, and beer!

I’ve had trips with other couples before, but they’re couples of Calvin’s side of friends. So this will be the first time going on a trip with couples who are MY side of friends hehe. If only Ika could come too, then it would be perfect… My girls of Melawatians hehe.

OK~! Headache is telling me it’s bedtime! ‘Night, Darlings… ZzzZzz…

Andy enlightened me with the philosophy of the famous “The Secret”. Sounds too good to be true. But I will try the theory ’cause in a way, it also kinda makes sense. Having a positive mind will get you a positive life, isn’t that logical enough? Maybe I need to train myself to complain and worry less, cause those 2 negativity is what I do the most. It won’t be easy to apply “The Secret” to everything in life, but let’s just try it just a little bit.

Yesterday continued bridal house surveying with Cheryl. I tried on this absolutely fugly bridesmaid dress. I don’t get it, why is it that bridesmaid dresses are always so ugly? As if an ok looking one would steal the bride’s thunder, please la… my own LBD looks better than that ugly piece of pale-pink-crap-that-made-me-look-fat-and-ridiculous! Heck, if all bridesmaid dresses at bridal houses are like this, I rather buy myself a new one!

My dad’s a champion… He always thinks that he’s doing kind lil gestures for the good of us, but actually what he did was just annoying to us cause it doesn’t make sense. He turned on the water downstairs in full power to “release the hot water” after it was switched on for a while, which he is actually wasting precious water for no good reason, cause he thinks that it’s “too hot to shower”. My god, we know how to adjust the water temperature la. If we think it’s too hot, we can release and waste it ourselves, right? He doesn’t know how we like our showers. I was ticked cause I was IN the shower when he did it, that means my hot water and water pressure got totally cut off, leaving me to shower in ice cold water!

Speaking of saving water, am I like the minor environmentalist, or should everyone think like me? My department has too much paper scraps and wastage that I’m beginning to be bothered. Especially when a colleague threw away a perfectly good piece of paper from which she just cut off a small piece for use. I picked it up from the trash, trimmed it and gave it back to her and ask her to use it as recycled paper for notes or scrap. She says that she already has too much. I got a bit upset cause in my book, that’s not even a logical reason to throw away a good piece of paper! I was pretty taken aback when she commented that “wow you’re really savvy”. WHAT?? Does she know where paper come from?

I keep thinking if I should write a proposal to request for a paper recycling bin to be placed in the CAD room, where the most paper is wasted in the entire company. But the probability of that idea being ignored is pretty high cause the management isn’t the most caring about the environment…

I am a WWF-Malaysia donor. My name is in the petition against the destruction of more forests for the sake of development. What about you?

ps… Heck, I was supposed to stop complaining lol. Ok, shut up, Jules!

Was reading Jackie’s blog and he mentioned something about having only 24 hours in a day is not enough. At first thought, I was thinking “is he crazy??”.

But after I put a little more thought into it, I have to agree that he does have a point there. Only 24 hours each day, and more than half of that is put into either sleeping or working. Jackie is right, that’s totally not enough! Not much time for anything else, and I personally think that sucks. Because it seems like people don’t have real lives anymore which they truly enjoy like the way they really should.

Sleep - Work - Sleep - Work… And the cycle goes on. And that’s so-called ”life” for you.

I dunno about the rest of the world, but for me… Right now I’m just having so much things pending to do. It’s been such an eventful year and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime now. For starters, heck it’s already towards the end of June! Already halfway through the year, where has the time gone? It’s strange cause I feel like I’ve been so active but then again not really productive. Yet. Have yet to see the fruits of each of my labours (yes I have THAT many things in hand!).

I just wish I have more time to do the things that I want. I wish to work from home instead of travelling to office every morning, work my ass off, then go home after 8, 9, etc hours. 5 and half days a week. Only 1 and a half days in 7 days to chill out. Just thinking of it makes my brain wear out…

*heavy sigh*

ps, I got more links up, check them out!

pps, speaking of links and speaking of Jackie… I think I should link up my friends’ blogs eh~

Or not, I dunno…

I dropped by the new company after work yesterday to sign my offer letter. Then this morning I had a weird feeling. Just yesterday I couldn’t wait to leave Xixili and start at JS. But today, I had a different feeling. All of a sudden I felt sad that I’d be leaving soon. Well, cause this is the longest that I’ve been in a job (exactly 2 years yesterday), and needless to say, I’ve made good friends out of my colleagues. So yeah, I’m gonna miss them. Chatting, joking, gossiping, events, yoga, line dancing, long lunches and after-work dinners… I’ve never had this kinda thing at my previous jobs, they were all pretty mundane. I have a feeling that a few tears will roll on my last day…

Other than feeling sad, I also felt a little scared. Cause just like any other new jobs, I don’t really know what to expect out of that company. I don’t know who the big boss is, still blurry about my job scope, etc. I mean like, yeah I’m going back to what I like to do which is streetwear, but will I like the JOB? the COMPANY? the PEOPLE?? I don’t know. And deep down, I’m a bit worried that I’ll be jumping into something that stresses me out even more. I’m hoping hard that in JS, I can find the passion which I’ve been lacking all along being in Xixili…

Maybe my hormones are throwing me off. It’s almost that time of the month lol… Let’s focus on something to look forward to: PD trip 12 July~!! Me and my sweetheart Calvin, Jo and her honey Dennis, and Erica and her darling YungYi. Other than to chill out, this trip is also to celebrate me and Jo’s anniversaries with our boyfriends (same date, 1 year apart), and to celebrate Erica’s rekindled love. 3 couples out on a budget holiday, full of sweet lovin’ haha… It’ll be fun

Was surfing the net for some ideas on Cheryl’s hand bouquet for her reception coming up next month, and I stumbled upon the art of origami. I didn’t know you can make a rose out of a square piece of paper! So i tried to make one. First attempt took me almost 2 hours and nowhere near looking like a rose. I gave up and went to sleep. Later I tried again and I don’t understand that particular tutorial, so i threw that away too and looked for another instruction guide. This I spent over an hour making. Check it out.

Don’t be fooled. It is actually incomplete!

I don’t understand the final couple of steps even after half an hour. So since it already looks like a rose anyway, I just let it be ‘unlocked’ lol. But I’m NOT gonna make an origami hand bouquet for Cheryl, it took waaaaaay too long just to make ONE! She doesn’t want fresh flowers, so does anybody has any idea? Lace, mesh, ribbons?

On another note… I’m having like a personal mini project. I wanna make mini plushies for each of my colleagues, as a farewell token thingie. Like its-been-good-working-with-you kinda thing, you know. I haven’t exactly started making anything for anyone yet, but I was experimenting and try to get an animal head with a small snout. And lookee what I’ve got:

I call her Bree, lol.

Strange piece of work but I’m proud of it, nonetheless. Yes I’m aware that she’s just a head! But may I say that she’s a CUTE head haha. Maybe you can’t see it in the picture, but I consider my snout experiment a success!

Yesterday I accompanied Cheryl to survey bridal houses. My first time, so I was pretty excited cause it was something new hehe. The only time before that I stepped into a studio was to shoot for my sister’s graduation. 

OK, so we went to SS2 and the first stop was Micasa. The salesgirl was really friendly and made sure we were comfortable. This is the only place that allows us to take photos of the bride trying on their dresses (other places are prohibited). The package seems ok. But a little strict by their rules/policy, so there were a few requests that they could not provide. But overall, OK la…

Next is BridalArt. The salesgirl damn formal and somewhat timid. I dunno about Cheryl but I felt a little tensed lol. Cheryl made me try on a strapless wedding dress just for the heck of it, and I did. I almost didn’t wanna take it off cause it makes a girl feel so beautiful The silhouette of that dress makes me look so slim too XD We left the place without even asking about the packages cause the dress selection… well, kinda sucks…

Without direction, we just stumbled upon BridalConcept. A little intimidated cause the place looks really couture. And it sort of is cause unlike most bridal houses providing dresses from suppliers (like the ones in AliBaba.com), this Singapore-based bridal house offers gowns designed by their in-house designer. So yeah, I guess you could say that their selection is pretty exclusive. The gowns are lovely~! We expected that the cost would be a bomb, but we were so wrong. The package costs exactly the same as Micasa~! Lucky, we almost left without asking haha. If it was me, I’d choose this place cause it is more flexible than Micasa in their policies. Easier to adjust to our preferences.

OMG guess who I bumped into in BridalConcept? My sister’s horrible asshole of an ex, PL. Quite an awkward moment, for me at least. My vision just went blurry and my mind was blank when I saw him. He was there with his fiancee, choosing their wedding photos apparently. He said hi and I replied a weird hi back. Actually it was quite funny, u know. Considering that just about 2 months ago when sis was back, that mom and sis bumped into him in a jewellery shop, choosing wedding rings with his fiancee. That was awkward for them too. I mean, of all the time and of all the people… Haha!

I bet he must be thinking right now, “WTF is this! Why the hell do I keep bumping into her family during my wedding planning? First, her mom at jewellery shop. Then her sis at the bridal house. What next? Her dad at our wedding venue??” LMAO, gosh. This is like karma haunting him at a veeery bad time~!

Okok, so maybe you haven’t noticed but I’ve switched back to the previous theme. I really dislike that purple crap lol. This reddish one looks more like “me”. So screw widgets, I don’t need em

Today was the first day of Xixili warehouse sales. They were so short-handed that it wasn’t enough that the entire 2nd floor was on duty. Halfway through the day, they had to call to the 3rd floor requesting for more help. So Estee and Suzanne were made to go, unwilling. I think Estee’s unhappy that she had to do this on her birthday hehe. I myself have got too much work to rush before my last day, so yay, I didn’t have to go help out lol. But it was damn quiet tho, with so many people away. What a boring Friday.

Tomorrow’s gonna be a long day. It’s a working Saturday. Then after that, I have to rush off to Jimmy’s place. Got plans with Cheryl cause she wants me to follow her for bridal shop survey and maybe food testing at night. I’m a little excited cause this will be the first time that I would be assisting someone in their wedding. She wants me to help her design her hand bouquet (she doesn’t want real flowers) and invitations cards (she wants to DIY) too. *shrug* Sounds like fun heh~

On the other hand, this could help me get an idea on how to plan for MY wedding in a couple of years haha…

So I got a new theme for the blog. How does it look? I dunno, it feels like its still NOT quite ‘ME’… I think it looks a bit weird, doesn’t it? Or is it just me? But seriously, it doesn’t look like it’s something that “da Juleh” would have. Grrr, so frustrating~!!

Maybe I’ll just… y’know, to hell with widgets or whatever and switch back to my previous theme in a couple of days.

Editted my side section today. I got all the links of the sites that I have (so far) listed there, do visit if you’re interested. So… I think the blog looks pretty ok now? Except that this particular theme does not support widgets >.< Spent so long looking for a theme that suits ME and I had to pick the ‘outdated’ one. Nevermind, this will have to do for now. Until I get the time to search for a new theme hehe.

Hmmmm… Lately I get so tired and sleep earlier than I used to before… Dunno why. Maybe I’m getting old? Haha! Probably coz there’s so much on my mind that it’s been long since I had a long rest without a care in the world. Seems that I won’t be having a peace of mind for a looong time now. Got so much to think about, mainly about work, money, people, and work. I know I repeated “work” twice That’s what you gotta do if you wanna earn enough to survive! The paycheck these days isn’t enough for the outrageous price hikes that’s happening all over (2.70 petrol, ftw!). The inflation rate is terrible… We’re like slipping into some new-age recession/depression thingie… Whatever you call it, I’m not too good with them terms, heh.

Sigh. I think I should get some shut eye now. Continue yet another long day at work tomorrow.

The very first post from my new blog, using my very own domain~! I managed to buy ChinJulie.com, how cool is that lol…

I’ll be posting here from now on. If you wanna read the older blog posts from years ago, for nostalgic purposes or whatever, visit my old blog here http://piggyjyezze.blogdrive.com

ps.. Still got a few settings that I need to tweak with, so bear with me while this site is being ‘renovated’.