BIRTHDAY PRESENTS FOR MYSELF

Haha.... I know God loves me. Ever had those days when you really felt that He really is there for you....

Well today was my birthday, not big deal... but its REALLY nice that some friends remembered even though and I never remember theirs.... got a buncha smses, e-cards, etc.

Anyway apart from gifts and stuff from loved ones and friends, I got some "indirect" gifts today..... Well, I got my new Direct Access credit card sent to the office... its nice that it arrived today.... And also, got this piece of editing software I have been hunting high and low for.... actually my friend came to me and asked me if I could get hold of CD covers... to show me a sample he brought this CD and inside was ... THE SOFTWARE I WAS LOOKING FOR.... cool...

Looking forward to a nice dinner and time with Mel and my parents this evening.

Thanks, God for today and saving me.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIT

A belated birthday Kit.

A SUNDAY LIKE ANY OTHER EXCEPT WE WENT TO CHURCH

Yes, as expected we all went to church. Maybe it was the DVD, maybe it was the Holy Spirit, maybe it was both. Whatever it is, it felt good going back to church. Kit was there too, sitting next to Sue Ann.

Had lunch in Cheras before headint to Kit's place and then back to my place. Had no house keys so Kit, Mel and I were waiting for my parents.

As usual - evening was futsal time.... and did some graphics work at nite. That's about it.

A DAY AT TIMES SQUARE (????!!!!???)

Yes, Mel and I dont like Times Square. I am the one always excited about any new place in the city and my initial excitement concerning Times Square eventually turned to dissapointment when no real branded shops came about. Only DEBENHAMS, and on Saturday there was a DEBENHAMS sale. Great. Mel got me a pre-birthday gift, a nice pay of working shoes that were very Camper-like. And then she bought herself 2 very nice skirts at some shops.

For 2 people who dont really like the place, we sure spent the entire day there. Anyway, the top floors are still very empty, and WHERE AND WHEN IS THE IMAX CINEMA coming? It's been too long a wait. Anyway, you can check out the cool view of the old Pudu prison from some of the empty lots.

Just before we left, we bought some DVDs. Got a bootleg of The Passion of The Christ.... I know it's gonna be banned here, and the cinema copy was acceptable for RM7. DVCams make good cinema copies, nowadays....

Spend the night watching it and the movie really hit all of us. Yes, Jesus suffered badly and this movie is as real to the real event of the crucifixion. I for one, have been hoping for a movie like this for years since I became a Christian in high school and its finally here. Yes I guess its going to be a life changing film.

STAR WARS NAMES

Ever tried to the Star Wars name generator? Ha ha. I am now Josoo Brkua. Tried to generate for Mel and I got: Melli Jepen .

Like those names! If any of you are into the Star Wars thing like me head over to here.

Had crabs for supper with Mel last night at Imbi Road. Yummy. Always amazed that under all that hard, hard shells are soft delicious meats....

It's like some people.... hard on the outside, soft on the inside and vice versa......

When to KLCC yesterday waiting for sweetie Mel. Bought a comic book and browse meaninglessly around the shops. Kinokuniya, Video EZY.... Pick mel up and we headed to Great Eastern Mall for dinner at Cozy Corner. Chicken Green Curry and bean sprouts with rice and some drinks. Did some fun grocery shopping.... Bought Ben and Jerry's, Mel couldn't wait to get home... You should see the look on her face when she had the first bite... YUM....

Apart from that bit of indulgence, I purchased my usual favourites; Adventist Bread and 2 boxes of tea - chammomile and jasmine.

Also tried out this organic mee hoon. Hmmm... discovered an entire section of organic food in Cold Storage. A few more items here and there and the bill - RM 50.... but of course, the B and J was already > RM20.

Back home, kick back.... PS2 and telly. Mel and I have been watching...... (can you believe it) Singapore's chinese serial HOLLAND V so regularly it scares me...... Dunno why we like it so much.

Slept at 2am .... before that caught the end of the Million dollar Fear Factor champion, this black dude..... He was praying in tongues and kept on shouting HALLELUJAH, PRAISE JESUS ... after he won....

YES. That's your typical day as any other. Work - Dinner - TV - ZZZZ. I can feel the next one coming up. Yup I bet that's today.

Havent blogged for 5 days. Been a busy week! Got some naptime on Wednesday but still didnt feel too good. I went back at 6am on Wednesday morning. Gosh. And woke up at 9am , met Pat (my boss) in KL in the morning and submit proposal. Phew.... got the day off.

Thursday - back to office. Thought we'd get some rest but we got a call from the bank to give a last-minute presentation... GASP! Format this and that and went back to KL at 6 pm for our presentation. We finish by 7 plus and I drove all the way to PJ to meet up with Kumar for a discussion on some Wetlands stuff. We went to Ikea, got our 2 cups of coffee and some food to eat. I had the salad and the cold open-faced sandwich. After that we proceeded to Kelana Jaya mamak for more chitchat and then back to Kum's place. Got an sms from Jennifer and Spore colleagues (her boss) - they were looking for an office in KL. Met up with them in Bangsar for a drink. Headed home. Chit chat with my girlfriend then zzz (bout 2 plus).

Friday - ok still not getting the 8 hours sleep daily that I set out to get. Fail, fail, fail. Averaging 5 hours. Was Friday gonna be the chance to get some much needed sleep and rest???? Bones aching. Much be the air-con. Friday was friday and I was welcoming a "normal" day at work.... WRONG!!!! Pat told me there was a DEMO this time. I got everything ready and we met another client. What time I finished??? 8:30pm. Great. Reached home and ....rested??? Nope. Today was Friday and Mel had tickets to Black Guiness party event. She was involved in the design and advertising bit so we went for it. It was the shortest time in a club.... When we got there her friends were leaving. I met Nat (my cousin) and hubby Bob. We went upstairs and looked down at the stage and there were these dancers pracing around in tiny scraps of clothing. I wasnt entertained by their antics but the singh guy with the turban really was enjoying himself, dancing with them. Mel was joking, "someone should tell his wife"....HAHAHAHAHAHA. Well... got back... about 1 am.... Knockout.

Saturday... Feeling much much better. Got the 8 hours sleep and decided to to stay home, sleep between meals, TV just to recuperate. Felt a bit better, Mel and I had a nice dinner at Fish n' Co. This time she had mussels and I had sweet n' sour fish and rice. Then we had italian gelato for dessert.... There are 2 gelator stalls by bintang walk... i think the better one is the one closer to Lot 10. Got home.... watched a bit of football....ZZZZ

SUNDAY... woke up and felt great.... wow no more aches here and there. Nice sunday. Had a good session of futsal at 4-6pm. Should have slept earlier but coz I felt good, blew it again and slept at 3am playing PS2. JOSHUA - DONT YOU EVER LEARN?????

Yes, it's 1:55am.... and I am still in the office. Can't believe it. Ah well. It doesnt happen all the time. 4 of us here, still working.

Hmmm... probably be home by 3 plus. I'm here, sipping on a bad for health SEASONS soybean can drink and listening to a 80s station on iTunes.

What was the 3 day weekend like? Let's see....

1. I got sore throat and fell ill on Saturday
2. Got betterl and played futsal on Sunday evening
3. I bought a 3-tier TEFAL steamer and mel cooked a sumptuous steam salmon with relish dish and delicious stuffed vege in big mushrooms covered with cheese
4. I cant believe it, spurs for the third time in a row, scored 4 goals but AGAIN gave a way a 3-1 lead. How dumb yet brilliant. The team I support really bears a striking resemblance to my life.... always promising yet .... not there.... win some yet lose some...
5. More disbelief or rather... "I knew it".... Michael Owen struck a terrible penalty to sent his team crashing out of the FA Cup. Why Michael, why???? More reason, Sven should get Jermaine Defoe to back up in the England squad.... A striker that never lets his team down....
6. Mel got sick today and on MC.... maybe she got it from me
7. Made a new set of glasses.... Can't believe it... my power is still 150L, 200R. Thought it would have gotten worse.
8. My dad had flu too.
9. Did I forget to mention in a few blogs back my moms handbag was snatched??? Gone were the fan I bought her from Korea, her IC, housekeys.... the worse part is she had to PAY RM110 when she renewed her IC today coz they said its the 5th time she "LOST" her IC.
10. Have still to get proper sleep. Only Friday nite I had solid sleep. Just cant seem to knock off nicely. Tonight I'm gonna take some of mel's cough mixture and flu tablets to knock me out heh heh.


Well a pretty busy 3 day weekend. Much more than what I typed above. Anyway, thats the blog today so.... eat healthy guys.

Went to PJ last nite. Met up with Kumar. Yes he screwed my health diet... Ha ha. What I ate? Fish o' fillet and some fries. And I realised... how I have been right about fatty foods... as I muched into the fish o fillet.... I squeezed it and saw this oil stuff coming out.... And all the fries were deep friend in GHASTLY oil ...... oh man.

It continues today... I guess I miss having my ADVENTIST bread and sprouts, I couldnt fine them at TESCO last night on the way to PJ. Today lunch I had:

1. 1 PIECE FRIED FISH
2. Some Kari Kuah
3. Fried Brinjal
4. Egg Omelete
5. Rice

Ah well.... I wont be this obsessive health eater, just whenever I can Im gonna eat healthy contrary to what some people think. Actually, my body feels good eating vege and fruits nowadays... It's like been really needing it.

And, damn... no LIVE england v portugal friendly game. 1-1 the score. Way to go Spurs defender Ledley King, who scored for England.

GAHHHHHHHHHHH.......... Frustrating day .... putting together a proposal... hundreds of RFP questions... going bonkers...... Anyway.....

WHAT I ATE TODAY:
1. 4 slices of high-fibre bread and alfalfa sprouts (Yum???)
2. grilled fish and coleslaw (cancel the fries) for lunch
3. watermelon
4. 3 pcs of chocolate-biscuit thingy. cannot tahan too hungry

Very very tired today... .gtg PJ after work.

My dad not feeling well. Was geram coz he like stubborn don wanna see doc. But he did. I damn fast naik darah.... need to chill.... need this weekend to be chill time and relax time...

Busy working day today... Good productive day.

WHAT I ATE TODAY:
1. 4 slices of high-fibre bread and alfalfa sprouts (Yum)
2. pasta and mixed veg for lunch with chocolate UHT milk (at ericsson)

Ok, be heading home soon. Great news that Monday will be a public holiday. Can get more sleep. Got to pay back for 2 years of lack of sleep. Ha ha. Aiming to get at least 8 hours per day.

Thats basically today. Full day at work, going home for a nice home cooked dinner with family.

I never mentioned in this blog how I love or loved comics. I have on my left a copy of the HULK movie adaptation... published by asia based GOTHAM comics. Thanks to this, we can get cheap versions of Marvel, DC or Dark Horse in a nice slightly bigger than "Archie" comic format.

Anyway, I remember when I was a kid when comics where only RM1.80..... It wasnt about making $$$... it was just good art and stories you eagerly wait for every month....

I'm glad we getting better comic to movie translations nowadays. Spidey rocks on the big screen. hope to see Fantastic Four soon. Hulk could have been better.... the new Punisher looks good... Daredevil... I liked.

12:56am... In my girlfriend's office, waiting for her to finish work. Normal I guess in the advertising line. Been a good weekend doing nothing. Havent been sleeping well this past week... problem with my bed mattress....

Unbelievably I have been transformed to a health freak this week.... bought and ate so many fruits.... adventist bread with lotsa fibre.... gonna continue this hahahaha.... i cant believe, me the meat-eater becoming health freak.

I could rival a cow at eating alfalfa sprouts this week. Plan to cook healthy too...

Anyway... mel had to work so we could only make it for valentines dinner. Dinner at Bon Ton... very nice but expensive. Bill was over RM300.... but the food was really gorgeous... unfortunately we were both stoned from too much food.... just zzzzz immediately after dinner....

Tired of computers and tap, tap, tap at the laptop trying to help my boss with a proposal. My eyes getting bad, I feel. Been reading up on cancer and stuff, after a colleague's sis had passed away. Anyway health is important. Must take care of ur health and the ones u love.

You know I'm the kind of guy when my room and living place is in order, my life will be in order. Now its utter chaos. Chaos until I shift to CBJaya.

Anyway had fruits today. I need more nutrition and fibre. Can't just keep eating all those fatty foods. Feel so good that lunch I had fruits. Gonna keep doing it.

More work coming my way. Busy day. A bit of a headache now. Some stuff over the weekend:

1. Spurs won 4-3 over Portsmouth. At least a win.... phew... almost blew it again
2. Saw the new Proton, GEN-2 .... great design and price ... a real WOW .... never thought I say that about a Proton
3. Tried the crab place at UK heights.... not too bad
4. Bak Kut Teh with mel, my cousin and Syn Hun.... I never realised Bak Kut Teh was so expensive till now
5. Why pay > RM100 for an original PS DVD remote when you can get a multitap, DVD remote and wireless headphone all in a vertical stand for RM95 in Sungei Wang? Unbelievable. Havent bought it though.
6. Fake PS2 controllers are useless.

MEL

Mel, baby... 10 things I love about you....

1. You always make me laugh
2. You simplify my needless complicated life until I realise what the heck was the fuss I was making about
3. Your ability to know whats cool and whats tacky, even when the lines are dangerously close
4. Dining with you - always want to try new things and seek out new favourite places
5. How well you take care of ur stuff and how precious they are to you
6. We can be kids when the whole world wants to be old and adult
7. Always affectionate
8. Your love for family and friends is real and always hopeful
9. You are afraid of some things that I am not yet not afraid of some things that I am.
10. You are a 10 out of 10.

Although you are not into football and curry obsessively like I am.... im glad we are different in many ways yet so together.

How can how can how can how can how can how can how can how can ...... Spurs got knocked out of the FA cup DESPITE leading 3-0, DESPITE man city having 1 man down DESPITE anelka not playing. .... its unbelievable.

Nevermind I will always stand by my team. Anyway a public holiday for me yesterday. Kit bunked over and we and my dad had breakfast in Imbi Road. If you drop by, go to the chinese makan stalls opposite plaza rakyat and try the sang mee... its da bomb.

Tried to tidy up my room a bit last nite.... this afternoon I'm thinking WHY BOTHER. I was planning a major tidy up this week but WHY BOTHER when my new place in cyberjaya is getting ready.

Other than all the above blog crap.... i have many many personal decisions to make this week. Today also I feel good about my relationship with my dad. We didnt even argue today. Wow.

Had lunch with Kim, minus kenny (off to Hong Kong).

Got lotsa work coming up the next few weeks. Getting geared for it.

Yawwnnnnnnnnnnnn. Feeling sleeping. As usual after lunch. Had lunch with an old friend. Good lunch.

Checked the status of my cyberjaya condo. 21st this month, the sales guy told me is when i would get the keys.

Arsenal got knocked out of the League cup. Ha ha.

A WEEKEND WITH FRIENDS

Was a good weekend catching up with friends. Saturday, Mel and I had dim sum with Jimmy and Hoe. Hoe showed us his new condo upon our request at Cheras Utama. Not bad. We checked out the facilities too. After that, we headed for Jimmy's place. Bought marinated steaks and lamb (no chicken please - bird flu scare) at Carrefore Sri Petaling and had a nice dinner. Jimmy bought a nice semi-acoustic to add to his collection of guitars. It is good to note hear that our band WIRED (now changed to wyred) will be reborn soon. We gonna have a jam session this week, compile and record our old stuff.

Sunday. Spent about 8 hours on my PS2 on Pro Evolution Soccer. I think thats too much considering I got so much to do. I guess I cant just NOT have any fun. I need my video gaming fix. For the past few years I have hardly spent any time on videogames. Ah well. Anyway spent the evening shifting stuff out of Mel's rented placed coz it was broken in the week earlier and she lost her G4 powerbook. She is very sad. So we have to look for a new place to rent for her.

Yesterday - public holiday. What a long day. A gruelling and tiring futsal session at 3-5pm at Pan-Global building, Jalan Tandang. Right after that, dinner at 1 Utama at my favourite fish-in-a-pan place. Yummy. Nice dinner with Mel, Kit, Chern, Lin Poh and CK. And Kit and I were still in our smelly jerseys.

Headed home, showered, and headed to Breakers Sri Hartamas for pool, fussball and drinks. Got back at 2pm. Dead tired. Back to work today, fresh and ready to face the world again.

I tought I smile more today and be more positive and feel closer to God.