"How Time Flies"

"How Time Flies", originally uploaded by DagsDownunder.

This isn't going to be a blog on how time flies despite the title. It will concentrate instead on the failure of my two alarum clocks in getting me up and OUT of bed. I was late this morning. Despite proudly proclaiming the night before that I would drive and pick a friend up at 7:00am in a feeble attempt to arrive earlier, I woke up at seven AM. Directly after the right eye peeked and caught the time on the clock, there was a MAD mad mad rush to get things sorted. I left the house with no breakfast, no coffee, a damp body and hair which looked like I had just woken up. Have you ever realised, when you sleep with slightly damp hair ( bad habit I'll surely suffer from rheumatism in 2.3 years from now ) you run the risk of having an oddly 1980s rock punk hair style?

Work work work

MacBook Pro, originally uploaded by Spintwig.

I have typed a lot of words the last 3.5 days. Mostly in a language which is not my mother tongue. Bahasa Melayu is our country's national language. And as the course I am attending is a course meant to assess the elligibility for promotion, it is a reasonable request that we write our thoughts and reflections in Bahasa Melayu. I am handicapped severely. BM is not my first language. The 11 reflections which we were required to pen down were HARD to do. After the first few attempts, I abandoned the initial plan of writing in English and getting it translated. It felt weird and the end product ( if I can gone through this path ) would have been disjointed. So I opted, rather optimisically to write in BM.What helped was the MAC. Not grammatically but my lifting the mood each time I typed. GAWD I love this piece of machine:)

Refleksi

, originally uploaded by Shelba.

Setelah menghabiskan masa hampir dua hari setengah menulis refleksi, saya berasa bangga dengan pencapaian saya. Menulis refleksi adalah salah satu tugasan PTK yang wajib dibuat. Leceh....

What you Should not order when at Delicious

What is worth ordering at delicious is
1) Pate Plate. Although the portions of both pate and bread have been scaled down. On the upside, the pate still tastes divine. So got for it.
2) Banoffee pie. If you're looking for a desert which is not too sweet and you dun abhore bananas, this is just the ticket.
3)Duck confit , which I'm sure at some point has been everyone's favourite. I tend to shy away from it recently.

Things not to order
1) Avacado chicken sandwich. In a sorry attempt to be adventurous, I ended up wth this sad looking sandwich for dinner yesterday. The chicken chunks were huge. My suspicion of tasteless chunks was confirmed when I chewed diligently on my cube-sized chicken laced with sauce. The avacado was a sorry excuse. And so, here's my tip, do NOT order this particular sandwich. It's quite unpalatable.
2) The cupcakes. Tasteless and small. I won't waste more words on it.
3) The flourless cake. ( Not the exact name but it has the word flourless in it ) Absolutely a chore to swallow. Hard work. So yes another one firmly placed on this list.

Thank-you

Thank-you, originally uploaded by Anna Malie Design.

I would like to thank my patient Madame V for helping us out in the exams this morning. You travelled from another state ( possibly bringing along the husband and leaving the house unattended for a good one week) and you stayed in dusty smog laden KL. Nobody likes being away from home for long. And certainly staying over is hardly the same as staying in your own home, sleeping in your own bed. So thank you, for making this sacrifice. I appreciate it very much

Red Velvet

Frosting: Gourmet Filled Cupcakes, originally uploaded by Frosting:Gourmet.

I want red velvet cupcake...with a mug of hot coffee ..milk no sugar. THANKS

Vietnames food is healthy!!

My Saturday started horrendously late. *ahem* Around 10:00am. By the time I showered and did a round of laundry I was feeling peckish. Traffic was pretty okay along the highway until I drove into the basement car park. Then the great hunt for the ever elusive parking spot started.A very silly lady took my parking spot. ( A sure sign of maturity...I experience 1 minute of anger after which that abated and I moved on). Found a place to park after another 2 rounds of driving aimlessly about. The picture is of the dry vermicelli noodles ( vietnamese style) which I had for lunch.

What a place to put a book

French Kissing has arrived! Priced at RM52. Guess where I found this little gem? At the crime and mystery  part of MPH One Utama. *roll eyes* What is a chic lit book doing there? Is it any wonder I found the book at all? Thank goodness I was determined to go through all shelves and keep an open mind re....book to buy.

a big headache

A Little HEADACHE by Mickey Smith, originally uploaded by Jen Bekman.

What happens when you survive Monday unscatched? Lemme tell you. YOu get a nasty dose of chaotic sequence of events on Tuesday just so you KNOW you cheated fate on Monday and are punished now. My list on things to do started becoming incredibly disorganized when I attempted to be more productive by sticking post its on various different objects. ( psst this only works if you have a good memory and if the post it is of a different colour to the rest of the surrounding objects. I started off crabby ( perfectly justified btw ) and mid way through I slipped into this calm persona. In an attempt to survive the day. Got home at half ten this evening. I hate Tuesdays...possibly more than Mondays now

Yesterday we found out a dear friend lost his father. All very sudden. The funeral is this afternoon.

"In your time of sorrow, my God comfort you.

May God be near at this difficult time, and in his loving way May he comfort you and guide you through every future day."

Happy and grateful

Happy face, originally uploaded by - Maeva -.

I passed my violin exam. ( By the skin of my teeth...and with the grace of God) Here are the people I would like to thank ( wooo this is giving a thank you speech at the oscars.)
God, for giving me the grace and patience to play
My parents who despite pooh pooh-ing the idea of music exams, deep down support this odd and still relatively new obsession of mine
My neighbours for putting up with the same three songs, with inconsistent tempo and wrong notes the two weeks preceeding the exams.
My violin teacher who has since become a friend. For motivating at just the right amount and right time.

It is a brilliant feeling.And the euphoria will last for many months to come.

Reading bug...

writing on the walls, originally uploaded by nardell.

Am reading " A family affair" by Veronica Henry. Expect a brief review when I'm done.