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Was supposed to have a chica outing to watch Alice in Wonderland in 3D last Saturday, but Iks suddenly had to go outstation for work stuff, so she couldn’t make it at the last minute. Tickets were already paid for online, so we had to find someone to take up the extra seat. Of course this one person had to be a mutual friend that we’re both comfortable with. John had a wedding dinner to go to. Ron already saw the movie only the night before. We thought hard and long, and we came to this conclusion that apparently, we have no friends haha. Rays already watched it with me, so I’m sure that he wouldn’t wanna watch it again. So in the end, that person would be George. Yay, ok that’s done lol. Movie time! Or so we thought.

Got to Times Square about 40 minutes before showtime. Met up with George, and we went to the cinema. I queued to collect the tickets while they went to buy popcorn. As usual, I gave the confirmation number. The system said that the reservation expired. I was like, WHAT?! I paid for this! The guy checked again, and it’s the same thing. So he checked from my GSC account ID. Date unavailable pulak =.=”’ Gahhh I was starting to get really irritated. The guy then asked me what movie it was, and I told him. Then the next thing he said really got my blood boiling.

“Oh… Yang itu cancelled show”.

WHAAATT~??!?!?? You’ve got to be kidding me!!!

While waiting for the manager to arrive, something like this was what happened:

Me: Pesal cancel?? I dah booking e-payment tau!
Cashier: Pagi ni je cancel, ada notice kat website.
Jocey: You think we always go see the website??
Cashier: … *nervous laugh*
Me: So? Macam mana sekarang?
Cashier: Kita akan refund balik lah.
Me: Tak boleh ke ganti balik ticket tu??
Cashier: Ya, macam ni. Kita refund balik, pastu miss boleh beli lagi.
Me: *Gestured at the crowd* You nak I beratur lagi macam tu???
George: *Holds up popcorn* Ini boleh refund?? (lol true also. I ain’t about to eat popcorn without a movie)
Me: I don’t want refund, you give me a movie NOW.

Eventually the manager showed up.

Me: Pesal cancel pulak, takde notice ke apa-apa??
Manager: Last minute ada schedule problem.
Me: That is not my concern, I want to watch my movie, replace it now.
Manager: Next show at 11.30.
Me: …This is bullshit, don’t waste my time, I came for 7.30!

So that’s roughly how it was. In the end, we had no choice but to switch to How To Train Your Dragon in 3D instead. Some more initially arranged us on row C which is 3rd from the back! Right away I pointed to the empty seats at row F, which is more to the middle.

“Ok, so you want to change your seats to F, ya?”

ABUTHEN??! Losing my patience with these senseless idiots already…

So I got our tickets. They thought that was it. Pfft, no no no…

Jocey: That’s all? No compensation?

I was tired of scolding them already, so George waited there and fought for a pair of free open tickets lol. Which are valid for a few days only =.=”’ It might just go to waste, but never mind. At least feel syok a bit that we demanded for our consumer rights lol.

Initially I was still upset because I felt that Dragon wouldn’t be worth watching on 3D, given the trailer that makes the movie seem so kiddy. But oooooh I was so so wrong XD It was a really good movie, we loved it. I suppose most people underestimated how good it would be haha. The trailer and posters really doesn’t do it any justice, please go watch it!

I want a pet dragon. I can has dragon as pet, yes? No? Awww they don’t exist

Regardless of whether my mom is around or not, my dad still makes Friday night dinner outs as the time of the week to talk to me about serious things lol. I thought there would be none of that “ritual” since it’s only me and him for 6 weeks while mom is away, so technically he could talk to me any day at all

So, since last week I countered by telling him not to ask me every single week about Darling’s work stuff, this time he asked me about my future plans XD Then advising me what I should do with my career, and what I should do about Buibui and my company. Actually he didn’t have to tell me all that, I’ve already thought about it many times for quite some time. Just that I didn’t mention a word to the parents hehe But never mind lah. I just let dad say whatever he wanted to say, cause knowing him, assuring him that “I know, pa” is not enough. So just listen and take it in. I already have a rough draft of what I can do, just that I haven’t done it lol.

On the other hand, this is like a reminder to myself lol. I’ve been meaning to execute the clearance plan on my old stock and brainstorm on how to run the business in a different way, I’ve just been procrastinating a whole damn lot. Now that I wanna take action, I don’t have much time with mom away from home. About less than 3 weeks til mom is back, so by then I must get my ass back to work at home! *rolls up invisible sleeves*

I may not have that much time to focus on this, and I’m not sure either if this could eventually be my main source of income or not. But I think I don’t want to just ‘close down’ Chromosome Design just like that. Not sure about Buibui as a label anymore, I just want to keep the company. But I can’t keep it without getting in trouble if I don’t keep it active :/ Meh.

First things first. Update accounts and clear stock. Sigh…

From a terrible week last week, this week’s been pretty alright :) Can’t say the same for work though, I guess. Still the same there. Meh.

But from another sense… Ng xiong sum jor. Hou hoi sum… hehe. I appreciate little gestures, because to me, it’s worth more than any material items. Darling voluntarily cooked dinner for us and waited for me to arrive at his place after work. That was absolutely the sweetest! It felt great to me, cause I hadn’t been sleeping well and I was tired from the day’s work. So having a meal cooked with love waiting for me, it was just awesome

Dinner at home today with dad. My 3rd try at cooking my favorite lotus root soup with peanuts, and finally it turned out perfect hehe x) 3rd time’s the charm? Plus, my dad’s also finally starting to think that my cooking is good x) Mama being away is a good thing in this sense lol. I cook much more often than I ever had, and it’s improving Gonna try a new dish tomorrow at Darling’s house. Stir fried lotus root hehe. I’ve eaten this a few times before at restaurants, but mama never cooked this at home before. I’m just gonna try and make it work! Lol XD

It’s finally Friday night! These 5 days seemed like such a looong week to me somehow. It’s like, so much has happened? To myself, and to the people around me.

Haven’t really been sleeping well all week, I don’t know why >.< I don’t really have that much of a problem falling asleep. Work’s been so busy, and plus chores at home, that I’m tired enough at the end of the day to drift off to slumberland. But I keep dreaming about crazy stupid stuff that don’t make sense. These dreams are so deep that I remember some details! The alarm goes off and I felt like I only took a short nap =_= My mind didn’t rest well at all. And I have to drag myself out of bed to get to work, sigh. There were nights where I would suddenly awaken in the middle of the night and couldn’t sleep back. And I was slightly insomniac last night because my brain wouldn’t stop having active thoughts! I must’ve tossed and turned for at least an hour… The acupressure tips I read online didn’t work. Tipu wan! Or maybe I just wasn’t doing it right X_x

Sipping camomile tea right now, as suggested by Jocey. Hope it’ll help by calming me enough to finally have a good night’s sleep! Cause, by gosh, I am exhausted… It sucks to feel so physically and mentally tired but unable to fall asleep.

So it’s been a week since my last update. And incidentally my last update was the curious one in pinyin. Thanks for those who were concerned and tried to decipher. I know, cantonese pinyin is hard to read lol. Even I had trouble trying to understand what I had typed. It took a while to finish that post hehe. Love you all for caring! No worries, everything is better now

Well, me and Darling went to watch Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland last weekend. Since watching the trailer months ago, I’ve been excited to watch it cause it seemed really fantastic. Plus, I’ve heard many reviews on how great it is, and how worth it it is to catch it in 3D. So I had such high expectations of being totally blown away. But I was a little disappointed… Not to say that it’s bad, no. After all, it’s Tim Burton! Visually, it’s great. But overall… meh? And the 3D part wasn’t as 3rd dimensional as I had expected it haha. The chesire cat did not “POP OUT” of the screen thaaaaat much. Ok I shouldn’t spoil it anymore for you people who have yet to catch it But my review? It’s good! But hardly ever mind blowing excellence.

I suppose it’s because I’m already familiar with the characters of Wonderland, that there were hardly any suprises. Like, where’s the Chesire Cat? Oh there he is! Hehe, cool! Instead of, wow what the heck that! Omg that’s awesome! Lol… I know, it’s a whole new story that Alice returns to Wonderland 13 years later. But still, you know… same place, same characters lol. You know what’s mind blowing? Avatar. They did the right thing by keeping it so mysterious right until the release at the cinemas. Month prior to that, there was just posters of a blue face that says “AVATAR”. Nothing much on trailers as well. There was hardly any clue what it’s all about. Plus everything was freshly made up! So when we went to watch it, WHOA! Now THAT is awesome!

Xiong tung yan gong, bat guo ng xiong gum zik zip. Ng sik tei guong dung wa ge ping yam, zao xuen ba le. Ngo dou ng zi ngo da dak ngam ng ngam, ha… Ng sik jung man zi hei gum ge la, jiong zao har la ha?

Ngo gum dai guo yan le, hang ding ging guo dou hou duo si cing wui luen dou ngo sum tung. Dan hei ngo zan hei mei yue dou yat guo si cing wui bei ngo ge sum zan hei tung dou… ah ma dou ng ying dak. Ha. Ng hei gong siu, sum hao zan hei ‘feel’ dou tung geh. Ng zi dim gai sik. Jung zi, seng guo yan gok dak hou ng on lok. Hou ng yuen yi fan gung, mat dou ng xiong jou. Hou fan lou, sum hou luen. Sum tung, mou wei hao bat dak zi… Gong zan, kam yat fatt sang guo gin si, luen dou ngo hao lui ng yiu joi jou yan. Guo jung sum cing, zan hei ng zi dim gong, hou lan guo. Hou Q ‘down’ ar… Ngo zi gei yeh ma ma hang lou fan kui nguk kei, ngo yat sau dou kui geh SMS wa yiu fan sau, ngo geh giok yat ha mou sai lik. Mou lei yao hei lou bin chor dei ga. Gak ngang lei tor ngo xiong giok lei hang dou kui nguk kei.

Dou moon hao le, dim xuen? Ngo zi dou ngo ying goi yiu xiong che fan nguk kei geh, dan hei ngo yao xiong dang kui fan lei. Dai ho lang wui hou ci, bat guo ngo ng lei dak gum duo. Hei moon hao kei zue ng zi gei loi, ngo dou jung yi kuet ding yap hui dang. Yap hui zi cin, ngo lamm zue zek gao gao Hailey, ngo sei sei seng tung kui gong, ah ba ng yiu ngo le… Kui gang hai ng zi ngo ngup mat, jung hei gum tam wan. Sui lui bao, kwai dou sei, ngo jung hei sek dou loong.

Ngo hei kui gan fong yap bin dang kui. Yat lou lei, ngo dei jung hei SMS chou gao. Ngo gok dak hou guei lao, bat guo ngo yik gok dak hou hao fui. Wa zeh ngo tai mang sat le. Wa zeh hou ci kui wa zai, ngo hou chun. Wa ze ngo tai zi si, zeng hei jou ngo jung yi jou ge yeh, mou lam guo yan dei ge gum sao tung mai fu choong. Zeng hei sik lau gai fatt lan za. Hor lang ngo dei seng yat chou gao geh yuen yan zao hei ngo geh man tei. Fun jue kui geh chong, ngo geh lou yap bin hei dou lum… Wa zeh ngo zan hei mou jor kui ng dak. Dim gai? Mou dak gai. Lei wa yiu ngo fan sau, ngo zan hei zip sau ng dou. Ngo hou fui sum ar. Dim gai yiu gum? Ngo yi ging jun lik goi bin ngo zi gei lei bei kui hoi sum, dim gai ngo ci ci dou sat bai? Ngo jung yao mat yeh yung?

Gum yat seng yat dou mou lei zing san. Hei ‘office’ dou yi ging leong ci zao hui ci soh beng zue lei ham. Ng xiong chut seng, ng xiong gong yeh. Lam hei zao deng ng soon, yiu lau ngan lui jor. Dim gai ngo yiu gao dou gum si gum yong? Gao ging fatt sang meh si? Hou luen, hou luen. Ngo zi, wa zeh kui jung fun gun gao. Bat guo seng yat mou kui geh siu sik, ngo sum jung luen, jung tung. Kui wa kui yuen leong ngo, ngo zao ng xiong lum gum dor jor. Gei juk jun lik bei kui hoi sum, ng yiu joi gik lao kui.

Wei jor ngo dui kui geh ngoi, ngo ng gai yi kui dui ngo gum lang dam. Xui yin ngo gok dak gei ‘hurt’ har, bat guo tann juo guo dam hei zao xuen le. Hei gei san fu har geh, dan hei, ngo jung yi…

First things first… I’ve got a job interview coming up in a couple of days, and I’m reading up the definition of CRM (customer relationships management). Is the time late and I’m too tired, or what? Cause I can’t seem to keep my focus to study to subject! My mind kept wandering off into nothingness, sigh. I’ll try again tomorrow! I must >.< In any case, wish me luck for the interview!

On Wednesday, I had dinner with my pet big bro, Charles. It was sort of a farewell thingie. He’s departing for Singapore this weekend to be a “househusband” or “stay-at-home-dad”. It’s a funny thing, with this pet brother of mine. We met at a seminar 2 years ago, kept in touch and eventually became pet siblings. We’ve only met up twice after the seminar. Yup, we really don’t meet up often at all, but we try to keep in touch and catch up with things every now and then with the means of blogging, text messaging and MSN. It’s strange how someone that you don’t see often at all, can be so dear to you. Especially on my side, for the fact that I don’t have a real elder brother. He really is like a big brother to me, one who supports me and cares about me. I feel a little sad that he’s moving away. I know, we don’t meet often anyway, right? But somehow it feels different to have him so far away when he’s always been very nearby. I think I’m gonna miss him very much…

We had a good time over dinner the other day, talking and laughing over stuff. I wanted to take a photo of us, since we don’t have any together. But he refused out of vanity and promised to snap it the next time, whenever that is! Funny how men can be so strangely vain haha XD So, no photo (yet), sorry. Can’t show off my handsome gor gor

Fiona messaged some of us to perform for a paid show of some sort. Pirate theme, it seems, or something like that. Hey, a paid performance sounds good! But I don’t know, it doesn’t seem to be a good time :/ As it is, with mom away, I have to rush home after work everyday (except Wednesday, cause of Street Jam class) to cook dinner for dad and myself. Then twice a week, I have to do the laundry. And I’ve been putting off sweeping and mopping ^^”’ So, to go for rehearsals to rush for the performance on April 1st is out of the question, it’s more than I can handle haha. Forget it, it’s just gonna burn me out unnecessarily.

On another random note. Sometimes it’s frustrating being a female. In the sense that, females are naturally emotional, and sometimes those mood swings get a little hard to control despite having the realisation that you’re emo-ing. No matter how you try to put on a mask, somehow it just hints that something is wrong haha. Like even if you keep telling yourself, “I’m fine, nothing’s wrong, everything’s ok”, but in the end you still end up crying your eyes out and you wonder what the hell is wrong with you XD I want a “nothing box”! Can I somehow simplify my brain and “cut” away some of those “connecting wires” so that my thoughts won’t be so damn complicated? because of this, I feel that women are the stronger sex! x)

Aka housewife lol.

Since my mom is away for a good 6 weeks, I have to take care of some extra chores at home. Mainly, cooking meals and doing the laundry. It’s been a week since mom left with the siblings to Melbourne, and so far so good! Made a deal with dad to do our own laundry, cause it’s just easier that way for both of us I plan to wear dark colours only so that I don’t have to handwash the light colours haha XD I don’t have that many light colours anyway, I think. So shouldn’t be a problem. Now I have to plan when to wear my few pairs of jeans so that I can wash all of them in one load

I don’t know why but somehow dad thinks that I don’t know how to cook, and kept fussing around the kitchen when I was preparing to cook the first meal for him. Hello, it’s just fried rice, how hard can that be? Not at all, it turned out well hehe. Other than that, I’ve also cooked pork porridge (not enough salt, but it’s alright), fried black pomphret (success!), veges (no big deal hehe), and ABC soup (easy peasy). The menu for this week… Black pomphret and veges again (got a whole lot of the fish in the freezer), fried rice again lol, and lotus root soup. And… whatever that dad decides to buy at the market lol. I’ll figure it out

It’s quite tiring to rush home after work to cook dinner. I know I have to option of ‘da bao’ or ‘bungkus’, but I actually enjoy cooking! So, can’t complain much haha. Laundry is also quite tiring after a long day, I get backaches. Yes, I DO have a washing machine at home. But certain items have to be handwashed, so bending down like that aches my back.

Who says homemaking is easy? Who says being a housewife is stress-free? I say bullshit, cause it’s definitely not easy, and definitely not stress-free. It’s the same as any other job in the world! You practise your skills, you plan and execute according to time management, you run errands… You do everything to make the house into a home and to please the family, yet there’s no actual income, leaves, or any benefits. But then again, you might just have the world’s greatest boss ever: The Hubby! And the best clients that you love the most: The kiddies! There’s also the same sense of achievement knowing that you’ve done so much when the only colleague you have is: You! Haha!

Frankly, I don’t mind it one bit ^3^ hehe…

Ps, this can actually prove to Mommy that I CAN do things around the house responsibly

Hmm… Initially I wanted to blog in detail about the fight that broke out while Iks and I were having dindin at Spicy Kitchen in Hartamas last Wednesday. But the post has been delayed for so long, I don’t know if I wanna blog too much about it anymore. So, briefly… It was quite a traumatic experience to actually witness for the first time. I mean, there was blood! And we were too fucking near the scene! To think that they were only sitting at the next table from us >.< It didn’t even dawn on us to flee the scene. We were just too stunned and froze right there, watching in sheer shock. By the time it was over, Iks and I were both shivering. I swear that I was on the verge of tears. Sigh! I don’t ever wanna see such a thing again!