2nd part of Life

Yesterday morning when I open my inbox, I found a birthday reminder from friendster, reminds me about a girl’s birthday. she is a little bit special to me, because I know her for more than 10 years, ya 10 YEARS! but yet to meet her in person. Anyway, since she is getting 1 year older now, I should send her my regrets wishes for her special day.(really special or not then I dunno la ) An SMS only cost a penny but a wish worth a lot, so there she received my SMS.

I continue my normal Monday life. I went out with colleagues for lunch in my little Savvy. My colleague, a graphic designer named Randy had a 1st time experience in my car. He preferred MyVi over Savvy because the latter is smaller in size. Yes, he got the point. However I am not looking for what an ordinary Malaysian prefer, but a little bit more towards car-enthusiasts’ point of view, and of cause try to be extraordinary.

Back to office and time flies by, it is after 7pm when I am taking my journey home with tired eyes and hungry stomach. I took my bath and had my dinner, half a watermelon to fill up my stomach and that’s lotsa water. There my phone buzz and a text message received, Oh is Shing Yee, my old net friend. She (work in Penang) said she is in Puchong, KL.

Until this point, I should introduce her in this blog. If my memory serves well, it was back in 1996 when I got my 1st chance to get connected to the Internet. I met Shing Yee in IRC(Internet Relay Chat) chat room and some other people, and later on Shing Wee (her younger sis) also joined the crowd.

We hang out in the chat room for couples of months, then she has been forced to stop Internet chatting, because her parent sound at her for getting herself addicted.(hiya, internet charges not cheap la!). She started the old school style by writing letters to us.(internet buddies) From Internet friend become pen pal? sounds funny. OK la, I replied 1st couple of letters, but after that … hehehe. What do you expect from someone who used to email and IM and going backward to write letter with pen oh?

After that … Lost Contact! hehehe, just din take the initiative to write her letter. but don’t know how? (eh Shing Yee, how we get connected back hah?) Just don’t know how la, we get connected in ICQ and MSN, then it was the 1st time I see her through web cam. A cutie girl with baby face show on the screen, muahahaha so funny looking.

OK, come back to yesterday event. Her intention to tell me she is in Puchong means she wanna call for meet-up la. Since is her BIG day, give her some face and attend lo, else I would be stay at home to watch TV. 1st ever meet-up with Shing Yee after knowing for 10+ years. (keep on mentioning this because wanna remind her myself I am old liao.) But I met Shing Wee a few times before this, because she open florist in Puchong and do my business few times liao. hehehe

The location is 1st Station Cafe in Bandar Puteri Puchong, I take a seat while they are busy ordering food and then we start chitchatting. To my surprise, she speak Cantonese well! Penang not Hokkien takes majority meh? (no offense la) Keep on talking and she get to know my new job and what a small world (yet so big) that her good friend is my colleague! who else? that Randy lo (Just kidding ok, Randy)

Later on there is another guy joined us, if not Shing Wee reminds me, I wouldn’t remember who the hell is he! (yala, remember a guy for what? Chou Feng no offense ya, ) But he is good, got heart. bought a birthday cake for Shing Yee where in contrast I bring nothing. :’( What to do? $$ have to spend liao, this table on me! However in the end I still earn something, the leftover. Because we can’t finish the cake la!

Anyway, it was really an enjoyable yamcha session la. and next time must take one step further, go sing K with them. You all know la, I cari kaki Karaoke up and down, because some old kaki said I hold the mic and never let go! WHERE GOT? I am not that kind of person. OK! kakakakaka

hiya … so long i din wake up earlier than 9am liao … today my handphone rang at 6.45am!! no la .. nobody give me vivi call … that just my alarm clock. but dun care la… let it ring for 30 mins only wake up!  hehehe … dun worry, i oredi gave myself some buffer to lan chong.

di li tang lang until 7.45am only leave home to go downtown, but my office is in TPM! why ha ?  bcoz that stupid company HR department in KL lo! have to go there sign contract and settle things ma.

i go to the building lobby, and lost myself in those idiot-designed lift system. Me ah .. work in KLCC tower for 2 years also never lost 1 time … but this stupid company stupid building!

after that of coz have to head over to TPM la … u think can go lepak meh? there i reach the Enterprise 4 (startrek ah?) but no free parking wan!! even park at the jarak 300m also can’t found a place, damn many ppl so kedekut! what to do? park at the very very pricey Enterprise 4 basement carpark lo!

going into Enterprise 4 is like going into a circle, it actually build up in bulat .. hehehe  amerika got The Pentagon we got bulat! some more this is bulat Enterprise 4! look for toilet also have to walk 1 round, Crazy!

after boss briefing and some documentation reading, it is lunch time lo. fast fast take my car out of this Enterprise 4 basement, scare alien attack! u know alien can recognize savvy 1! (saw savvy ad?) and of coz the $$ parking fees la .. damn him for 1 morning session charge me RM8.50! this time have to park at jarak 301m to save some pocket $$.

lunch alone ah … new colleagues forget about this big fatcat sitting at the corner!  eh i really sit at the corner ler ,,, ppl say marginalized is this la …  1 man eat at canteen, those situation is so touching and sad … the loneliness feeling is so obvious! muahahaha

went back into the Enterprise 4 from the back door, but i took the wrong door and seems like entered the restricted area of Enterprise 4. it is like the engine room, so many tangki and meter panel i dunno! of coz i dunno la, this is Enterprise 4 ah! pray pray ah?

before anybody notice me, i fast fast get myself out of that area la, wanna get shoot with fusion powered sonic ionizer meh? back to my boring fatcat corner and continue reading long yet siansian documentation lo.

before i cabut, i kena 1 thing, the biggest boss of this office tok to me, ask me what i have been assigned? then i tell la .. how good and how much care my direct boss gives me, and the very little tiny task that he assigned to me in the morning, then the big boss voice liao, give u so much $$ (actually very little only), they give u so little work to do ah? must FULLY UTILISED u mah! and he will tok to my direct boss tomolo.

this time kit tat tat la !! 1st day play this kind of thing, how to survive liao? so fast wan me back to the future jobless meh?

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Even though most my friends had seen my new image/outlook during the CNY meet ups, but I would like to share it here to someone who didn’t meet me regularly. The actual time period only stretch for about 2 months for me to become that dirty-cum-ugly look and back.

it started when I am jobless and decided to stay home until CNY, Initially it wasn’t in any plan for keeping mustache, it is just plain lazy and try to save a penny off the shaver and cream. after a few days and notice some changes on my look, so I just go on and start keeping mustache.

During the 1st 2 weeks, I really afraid to meet people and even not getting out of my house. A few mm long mustache really look weird and dirty too, and this is the time where I have to hide myself and wait for it to grow longer and hope it will look a little bit better. It really looks messy along the way and I learn to do some housekeeping so at least it looks in order.

After sometime hiding myself, it is needed for me to face people and MYSELF, so I go outside and try to live my life like I used to. But of cause when I met friends, they always get the surprise I give them and leaving me comments which i really appreciated.

Comments are a mix of positive and negative, Those who gives negative comments about my new outlook are mainly girls and from what I see, they do have some kind of expectation. what I can think of is my character doesn’t match with this outlook. Positive comments would come from friends that doesn’t wanna hurt by saying bad things and/or they are not that close to me to be frank. (sound so pessimistic). But I can sense some are truthful thinking on the positive side of my look.

HOWEVER, today I have done that! I retrieved my old-yet-clean look by shaving away everything. I struggle for sometime to do this, I think the feeling and thinking is like girls who kept their hair for years and decided to cut it short. What made me do this? simply because I need to go for interviews, and Ya I start looking for job. There might be some other reasons that ‘encourage’ me to keep a clean look but I can’t even figure it out myself.

Throughout this period of time, I experienced changes from time to time mentally and emotionally. Even my core thinking was self-centered, but I see how people response and how people say something with their communication skill. furthermore, I can understand a little bit more about the person who give comments.

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