Diary: A Flirt, New Contacts & A New House

I love flirting; I think it’s the best part before a relationship begins. It’s where you sell yourself nibble by nibble. If you think carefully its more to the lines of Human Marketing (not talking about prostitution here). If you look at I closely this is the point where both parties sell themselves. Some choose false advertising and some withheld information. I try to tell the truth, I’m still flirting with the nameless Malay girl. I kind of like her. I know it won’t last but I like the attention very much and this Malay girl apparently seems wild she has a biting fetish… hmmmm. Too much info there I guess.

This week I’ve noticed that my team mates aren’t quite happy with me I wonder why. But I’m no situation to make everyone happy cause I think I’ve done my very best to accommodate everyone. So here I am now making a stand as a Manager, if your not happy either you deal with it or I’ll take your resignation with no hard feelings. Also this week it was my 5th year with AKN Messaging Technologies. Can you believe that! 5 years ago I was a mere system operator and now I’m a Content Manager. I’m proud of myself.

I was on leave on Friday, Great News to tell you guys. Those close friends of mine would already know but to the general public who reads this blog wouldn’t. The great news is I’ve bought a house and I’ve just put in 10% down payment on it. This is after consulting my feng shui almanac to get the proper time to do so. I saved very hard for this so after April you will see a very much budgeted Mark cause he cant afford his current lifestyle no more. After settling that I was in Midvalley roaming, I watched V for Vendetta which I thought was brilliant and thought provoking. Oh yes, I forgot something important. I went to the optician to get a pair of new glasses but I walked out purchasing a glasses and wearing contacts lens.

Yoges I know your laughing now, remember the time I pretended to put one on, I was hopeless. The optometrist was very kind enough to teach me and most importantly patient on how to put them on and take them off. God, I should have done this long time ago. What was I thinking? It feels a lil awkward though I catch myself trying to straighten my glasses when its not there. I’m getting used to it, it’s amazing how the world is so clear now. Now I can look down without fear my glasses would drop or better still I ca make out without my glasses getting in the way jut like GOD intended. But I think the sales lady was cruel she waited for me to purchase the glasses before she handed me a free trial pair of lenses. Now I’m in a predicament to get the lenses as well which only cause me a mere RM152 for a 7 month pack.

While in Midvalley I saw real nice ties in Top Men, I saw these silver floral ties which I liked very much but it cost RM60. Now I’m no budget so I’ve got to be very careful what I spent on. Hey lil hint… Birthday present. Being naughty ain’t I. I sent 15 ties to be dry clean while I was in Midvaley. It was quite cheap it only cost me RM50 and the outcome was very much satisfactory. At night I hanged out with Melman we talked allot its been a real long time since we hanged out. We ate at Chilies and the later played pool. We watched V for Vendetta. It didn’t matter I’ve already watched it was more for the company. It was funny that we nearly slept off in the cinema as we were all tired.

Diary: The Brother Did What ! ! !

Many weird and great things happen over this week. One of ‘em was Shari came for an interview at my company. I interviewed her, it felt so very awkward, and I was trying to play the strict interviewer but I desperately failed. I kind of know now why Shari has had a bad run with interviews. She kind of stinks, So Shari if your reading this call me up and lets meet up I’ll give you a few pointers, which you desperately need.

Over the weekend I had a date with a nice lovely Malay girl. I can already hear the thoughts in your head. “The brother is whacked”, “The fella promised he would never fall for a Malay girl”… Is that what your thinking or are they any more. Well, here’s my explanation, not that I really owe it to you all anyway. Well there is a saying the more you fight something the more your destined to find yourselves with it. As such I thought why not just embrace it if it happens so be it.

Besides I need to enter the dating scene again, my friend’s aint helping me anyway. So the date was in 1 Utama on a Saturday it was dinner at Itallianiese and then a movie. Dinner I think went well, we exchanged stories we laughed and we talked some more. The food was quite bland, but the stuffed mushrooms still as exquisite as the 1st time I had it. After dinner we headed to the cinema, we watched a Malay movie (duh!) Persona Non Grata staring Hans Isaac and Erra Fazira. It’s a nice movie I must say, great photography and story line, something different. Hans (Ben) is a criminal who flees to Bangkok for double-crossing somebody and joins the triad in Bangkok and jack cars. Erra plays Hey (The 1st word she hears) a woman who flees to Bangkok when she finds out her fiancé is having an affair with an ugly aunty. In Bangkok she meets in an accident and loses her memory. Ben takes care of her. And so the love story begins

After the movie we said our goodbyes I took the cab back. I thought about the date, naaah I’m not going to see her again. She is not my type we really didn’t have anything in common. She was too Malay and well me, I neither here nor there. After a long hot shower I watched some late night TV, thank you Astro for the gift of 24 hour TV. I watched a Tamil movie till early morning.

I slept in on Sunday, I woke up only 10.30, and only my dad was at home. I did my chores early, as I needed to attend mass in the evening. It poured heavily in the evening. The fear of another flood was in every one mind. Mass was as boring as usual, and the church was empty, very few numbers.

Congratulations to my brothers who I think did amazingly well in his STPM. He got 2 A’s and 2 B’s. The dream of being in the medical line is not yet over. I guess he has set a very high benchmark for our family to follow. He’ll do us proud....

Birthday Wish

I'm not sure why you guys are asking me to prepare my wish list on my blog. Are you guys expecting a wild party like last year? Hey I doubt it if I can top that and they were incidents that I would like to be forgotten. I'm kind of wondering if I should have a Birthday Party tis year. Anyway since you guys want my wish so much here it is....

Misc
A Wallet - Kelvin Getting Me This
A Belt Rack
CD WALLET (A BIG ONE)

CD
Any JAZZ CD
Marvin Gaye - The Best Off
Ella Fitzgerald - The Best Off
Jamiroquai - A Funk Odyssey
Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving
Jamiroquai - Synkronized
Jamiroquai - The Return of the Space Cowboy
Jamiroquai - Emergency on Planet Earth

DVD
Friends Season 7 - 10
Lillttle Britain Season 1 & 2

Books
Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
Love Eternally by Deborah Wright
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice

Shows
Tickets to watch GREASE in MAY

Perfume
DKNY - Green Apple
Guess - The New One
Aqua Huerra

Diary: Trouble Days

Firstly I like to apologize to those who have been trying to contact me on Friday and Saturday but couldn’t. And here are my reasons why. On Friday I dozed off on the couch only to wake up at 3 in the morning and on Saturday it was a classic case of my battery died and you couldn’t reach me. Last week has been very taxing on the content team. We are still short handed. People apparently don’t need jobs these days… What’s more sad is I can see my team cracking under the pressure and I can’t do anything to stop it. Last week I had attended a business seminar in Armada. It was held on Saturday and Sunday, initially I was bumped out as I though there goes my weekend but after joining the seminar it was kind of refreshing to learn stuff and now I’m much more knowledgeable.

After the seminar on Saturday and some of my colleagues headed to Serendah for Marina’s wedding. Boy, was it so far away 63km we counted. Marina looked lovely as always. The wedding food was so good especially the daging rendang. On Sunday I headed to Petaling Street to get some CD’s amazingly they have really old collections like ABBA, Barry White and Earth Wind and Fire. Whatever happened to Juelz Santana and Chris Brown?

Diary: Party ! ! !

Work
World Cup is already showing of its ugly head in my company, don’t get me wrong World Cup is an amazing tournament but the people holding the license in Malaysia are just asses. Heads up there will be a BIG competition with Celcom and Maxis when the World Cup closes in. Both parties have much tom prove. Maxis soon advertise my 1st World Cup project on the 10th. This of course is a rush job, as Maxis people couldn’t just make up their mind on what they truly want. And what was worst our Maxis representative has a problem saying no to Maxis and when he decided to take a stand it was the wrong one. He nearly cost us a loss of huge amount of money.

Personal Life
I finally got the dinner jacket I’ve been looking for from Zara. Now I can strike that of the list of things that I want. Last week saw me easing back into society. It began with Odelia passing my name card to a girl I have a crush on. This girl works in Seimens and has lunch at Commons everyday. I have no idea how she got hold of my name card but I was quite embarrassed

On Friday I was suppose to party with Melman in Zouk but due to circumstances we were back at Thai Club celebrating Esther birthday which none us knew of. Melman came with his friends. There was one point of the party where I was left alone to mend the table and of course I was dancing alone like a fool. I did question myself what am I really doing here. Nick being a romantic celebrated his girlfriend’s birthday in style. He got her I think 200 roses, it was huge. He also got her a cute doggy cake. Those two really look good together. I was surprised to meet yogi at Thai club; he then invited me to Poppy and I honestly ditched Mel. I know it’s a bad but you got to do what you got to do. I sense Mel is changing for the better and I wish him well.

(Contents may be exaggerated to my liking)
Now Poppy was a whole different scene, you could smell the seductivity in the air, the crowd was a live, the woman was more appealing. I hanged with Yoges and Raj. It was my first time drinking Dewars I think. Yoges group had some hot single woman looking for company. We danced the night away, the party ended at 6am in a coffee shop in Jalan Alor. What was great about that night was not just the ladies it was that I spoke to Yoges. Its been a along time we hanged and talked… just talked. It was great.

On Saturday I woke up disorientated, at about 11. I was to meet Kelvin at Sg Wang at 12. I got ready got myself some excel to help my dehydrated body. I must say my brain wasn’t really with me. I got a huge load of DVD’s and then it was lunch in Secret Recipe. I had the Irish lamb stew. It was quite nice. After lunch I headed back home, I needed to more sleep. I woke up around 8-ish. I was off for another party. A private one, a ladies party and I was the only guy in that party. I love the attention. There was a point I thought I was a stripper…

Next day I headed to church to wash my sins away. It was just the 3 brothers attending mass. We sat at the back, it was fun. Why? Cause we were together. You cant hardly see us 3 together except for obligation days. What was more fun was before the mass ended the temple across St Joseph’s church had some kind of procession and they stopped for sometime in front of church. They were playing the drums, which the Indian part of me couldn’t stop shaking to the beat. What was funnier my 2 brothers were dancing to the beat. That’s in church. I know, we are going to hell.

Ramblings
Last couple of days I dreamt of a coffin and I knew who it was inside, it was a close friend of mine. One of my friends gave me this web site to see what it meant. I thought it was weird of me to dream such a thing so I gave it a go. Apparently the coffin represents the end of a relationship. It doesn’t mean death but it means that the relationship with the person has come to an end. So to that friend so long and God Bless.

Obviously after this matter it was only normal to thing about funeral. How would you like to have your own funeral? Yeah you wouldn’t be there to enjoy it but I bet you’ve thought about it some point in your life. Well let me share you mine. When I die I would like my friends and family to please dress up well for my funeral. Asian funerals are so lame. Please do Black and White if possible. It’s the best thing you can do to send me off properly. In church I would like the entrance song to be Sergio Mendez. –Magdalena. You guys don’t have to sing let the music play. Id also like a small eulogy, yeah you guys know I’m lil vain.

I would like to be buried when the priest is done with his rights I would like Snoop Dogg’s – Next Episode be played in the cemetery while you leave. Something that I guess would uplift the spirit. Something for you to talk about while you leave.

Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell is famous for American Idol or Pop Idol/X Factor for those living in the U.K. He is responsible for many talent some of them would be Westlife and now his new favorite IL DIVO. Simon is a smart man; he made Westlife popular by getting them to sing past hits song in their own rendition. If you look at most of Westlife’s song list I guess 80% of hit are remakes. Now with IL DIVO he uses the same method to make this group popular but with a twist. Use a foreign language; the public has no clue what they singing anyway. All Simon had to do was to find 4 mannequin-looking guys with good opera voices and make them sing Un break My Heart by Toni Braxton, that woo-ed the crowed.

On the other hand on the American Idol, for those who have been watching tis season (A MUST WATCH). Simon is definitely setting the bar high for the contestants and I agree with him. All the contents needs to stand out as this year we do have the finest crop of them all. I’m rooting for the ladies especially for Lisa Tucker. Her voice is amazing.