Technofied princess

This morning, the loud speakers of the bus were blasting pil popping old skool techno. I felt totally technofied when I arrived at the office. Yeah, I was out and about two nites in a row. Friday nite, my obscenely rich new found friends took us to an after-hour party escorted by bodyguards, feeling like a princess again. The other day, I just complained to myself that it had been so long since I was last treated like a princess. Be careful of what you wish cos you might just get it and then don't know how to handle it.

My Italian tie

18 January, Friday-I am feeling dysfunctional again. Is this something normal or is just me? Well, probably it’s because it’s Friday. Okay, on Monday, my beloved colleague S gave me a made in Italy flowers printed silk tie that I think even my parents won’t wear it. Since everyone in the office knows that I have a strange obsession with tie. So, occasionally, someone would offer to give me a tie they purchased 10 years ago. Of course, I would say yes cos I didn’t want to offend them or make them feel that their choices of ties are not on par with mine fashionably.

So, after mentioning about giving me a tie for the past few months, S finally handed me the tie. According to her, it took her a month to make the effort to search for the tie in her storeroom, then another month to make the effort to hand wash it and finally ironed it and handed it to me.

When I saw the tie, I almost fell off my chair. Oh God, I felt trapped. I just wished that she would get over it after that. So, finally, THE DAY came when she started to grumble and question me why I didn’t wear the tie. So, to avoid her from murmuring any further, I promised her that I would wear it the following day.
So, this morning, I was struggling to decide whether to wear or not to wear. I didn’t wear it but I took the tie with me. On the bus to work, I put on the tie. When S saw me in the office, she came close and whispered: `good.’

Comfortably numb

Dear readers, so sorry for the long silence. I have been busy. Well, I am part of the rat race now. So, I have to live with the fact, even sometimes I am not really all that busy but since everyone has been so busy, so I have to pretend that I am damn busy too in order to fit in to the rat race perfectly. Hehehe, I am just laughing at myself. I am not laughing at anyone of you. I am comfortably numbed. Actually, comfortably numb is a song by Pink Floyd.

Photography

I love photography. For me, photography is a therapy. It makes me smile. My photos have appeared in newspapers, magazines and website. So, anyone wanna hire me on project basis? Trying to sell myself..hehe

Downtown Chinatown

I love downtown Chinatown. Kuala Lumpur is devided into up town and down town. Up town areas are where you can find trendy shopping malls, bars and restaurants where the richies hang out. Down town areas are where the foreign immigrants and notorious people like me hang out.

Colourful bras, anyone? The other day my colleague talked about faminism but insisted that she is not a bra burning faminist cos bras are very expensive these days. Well, come to Chinatown, it will make bra burning all so affordable.

This is priceless.
Small scale business solely owned by the local.

Eye food

When I arrived in Kuala Lumpur 3 months ago, I was amazed by this sight. I was not the only person in awe. A few tourist stopped to admire it too.

What's up?

Hey, what’s up? When I first joined the organization, I was told not to use the phase `What’s up?” in my email addressing to my General Manager cos it was deemed not `corporate’ enough. Fine! After 3 months, I confronted her about this issue during our drinking session at the ultra posh Luna Bar. Since then, we all started to call each other babe, psycho and auntie, etc. Drop that corporate image bullshit thing. Finally, we all decided to be the way we are. We feel frustrated at times at work but in the end of the day, we know we love the organization and that is what keeps us going.

IIlegal assembly?!!

Illegal assembly? Hindraf (Hindu Rights Action Force ) in action again? Don't worry. It is just a bunch of foreign immigrants gathering outside a store watching Tamil movie on the tiny T.V in the downtown area of Kuala Lumpur.

Happy New Year 2008

Here, I would like to wish everyone Happy New Year 2008. Hope this year will bring joy, accomplishments, love, peace, good health and all the best of things. Yes, creative living, it is very important to be creative. Think about what to do when you are stuck in the traffic jam or get frustrated with work. What to wear to spice up your day at the office or to be a head turner when you walk down the street to catch the bus to work…. (in my case). I have a collection of funky ties that shout out loud. Fashion is good for the soul and is very empowering.

This year I am going to come up with New Year Resolutions cos there are so many things to do to get on my feet and live a desireble life again. So, I need to get things sorted out as soon as possible. Hopefully everyone of us has an exciting 2008.