The difference between matured men and childish boys

I always have this equation about guys: 

1 guy = he is Jack. 

1 guy + 1 guy = 2 guys

2 guys = Jack-ass.

This was always my interpretation towards guys, till this very minute. 

I just came back from lunch with a close guy friend (who happens to be 10 years my senior) and his best friend (which is also 10 years my senior). Anyhow, for the first time, 2 guys ≠ Jack-ass. Interesting.

Well, maybe it's because of the age. But then again, my father is pushing 60, and I don't see a tiny wee bit of maturity in him.

Hmm... something for me to pounder on.

I am in love..... with The Joker

The very moment W showed this to me, I knew I just to have it. I was.... yes! In love. In love with the character, in love with the details, in love with the thought of owning it. Me want..... any good samaritans?? Me will hearts you long long... promise.... *puppy dog eyes

Anyhow, words fail to express how I feel right now so I'll just let the pictures do the "talking" then maybe you will understand how I feel.

My first impression was that I thought it was a real human

Just look at the details...wow!

Is he hot? or is he hot?

Just look at the details on the face! Do you see Heath Ledger?

The whole full set.

Price: ±RM500.00

Release date: Q4, 2008

Again I repeat my plead.... any good samaritans?? Pretty, pretty please.......

My friends, my family

Like what the Chinese proverb said: 家里靠父母， 出外靠朋友。(literally translated “At home you depend on your parents, out of home you depend on friends.”) And I totally agree on that. Hands down.

You see, I have this bunch (5 to be exact) of wacko/mentally retarded/psycho/crazy friends who I call family. They are my 姐妹(sisters in Chinese).

World, I’m more than honored to introduce you to (in alphabetical order) “Bloody” Foo(l), Fatty” Ho, “Horny” Tan, “Sumo” Lui and “Tiger” Khoo. *Haha…they are so going to kill me if they read this. :p

Anyhow, how the 6 of us came together is quite a funny story. I know “Fatty” through her mum (her mum fetches students; fetched my brother before). Then I joined St. Johns in school in form 3. “Fatty” met “Bloody” during area activities. Coincidentally, “Tiger” is also a St. John member; but her history with “Fatty” started way before that. During form 1, “Fatty” was apparently bullied by “Tiger”. “Sumo”, “Horny” and “Tiger” went to the same primary school. “Horny” and “Sumo” used to be the same gang and didn’t like the gang “Tiger” was in but the gang combined during secondary years. “Horny” and “Tiger” used to take the same bus to school. In form 4 and 5, “Tiger”  and “Sumo” was in the same class and sat next to each other. But the funny thing is, all of us never mixed with each other in school. We were all just schoolmates.

So how did we finally end up like this? Beats me! All I can remember is that the 5 of us girls minus “Bloody”(yes! Bloody” is actually a guy.) decided to do a little girls day out to Petaling Street. And then it continued from there…Penang and Port Dickson trips…So ±8 years later, here we are; closer than ever.

I must admit that we don’t get along fine all the time. We have stupid fights, disagreements etc… but at the end of the day, nothing can tear us apart. Some of our ex-schoolmates even commented that our group/gang is impossible to mix with. But, our little dysfunctional family is what that is keeping us together. *hearts

Oh! You guys must be wondering what jolted me to write a post on this topic. Well, it’s because after 3 years of collage and near 4 years of working life, I suddenly realized (no offence) but the people I met along the way and eventually became friends can never match up to what I have waiting for me back in Klang.

One last note before I end this post.

 “ To my jimuis. Me hearts all of u long long.” 

A little thinggy "Horny" did with her very bad photoshop skill some time ago

p/s: And what's my name?? "Mona"Lisa Lim. ^_^

When you know that nothing good will come out of it...

keep your mouth shut. You don't want to regret on things that you don't mean. 

Enjoy the silence while you can...

because it's a known fact that it's always calm before the storm. *gulp

It's a bright, bright sun shiny day

Good morning world! Looks like cranky old me woke up on the right side of bed today. Even though I over slept a bit, but I was not worried at all. I knew that the traffic this whole week will be very smooth. 

Anyhow, had a quick refreshing shower and left the house to be greeted by the blue sky! ^_^ Me likes. And like I predicted, the traffic was relatively smooth. No jam at the round-about, no jam at the toll plaza…this is what I call enjoying the simple things in life.

It’s only going to be a 3 working day week this week. So, I’m keeping my fingers crossed and hope this good vibe will last.

 

My Avatar

I've been seeing this cartoon character of people on the internet that have the same template for quite sometime now. It has been driving me crazy and today, I finally decided to use the internet to it's fullest to get to the bottom of it. I did a lot of searches. From "Vector character", "Vector portrait character", Vector cartoon character" etc... but no luck. Until I came across one of my Facebook friend's profile picture. Aha! A lead. So just trying my luck, I back tracked his posts and came across this:

Lady Luck was on my side! :)

The web page is called faceyourmanga.com. It's a web page where you express
 yourself 
through
 your
 image 
and
 share 
it
 whoever 
you
 want.You can also enjoy 
yourself
 by 
discovering 
unlimited
 combinations
 to 
realize 
your
 virtual 
alter‐ego.

Step 1

Step 2: Choose your gender

Step 3: look into the mirror and create your face

You can choose your face shape, eyes, hair, lips etc...

After nearly 1/2 an hour of "constructing" my own face, this is what I look like as an Avatar:

Avatar Li Sa

Do I really look like this? Haha....60%??

Enjoy "constructing" yourself!! ^_^

Look ma! I can do an in air split and still have good coverage!

Saw this Celcom installation at 1U yesterday.


What went through my mind when I saw it: "Huh?? What does it mean? What's the rational behind it? But cool installation though. Eye catching."

What when through Horny's (Yes! that's my friend's name. Will blog about my little circle of friends who I'm proud to announce to the world that I'm truly grateful to have soon. ^_^) mind when she saw it: *Shocked. "I really thought that it was a real person!"

The above just showed the difference between an advertising/design person's mind and a layman(woman)'s mind. Either way, I think Celcom succeeded to get what they wanted from this: to create a hype/attention. Hey! I'm blogging about it. And I don't think I'm the only one.

Time will be of the essence (case study no.2)

You know when people say time will be of the essence (click here to read the original post) is true when you realize that you've stopped thinking about the person so often. And when you do think about it, it doesn't hurt as bad as it used too anymore.

*kudos LiSa.

p/s: I really hope this feeling is real and true and is here to stay for good. I'm keeping my fingers crossed tomorrow.

Grey's back!!!

I'm soooo excited!! Grey's back with season 5!! Woohoo!! Just finished watching the 1 1/2 hour long season premier and it R-O-C-K-E-D!! BIG TIME!! (you can see that I"m really exicited cause I"m using alot of !!!!!) Shonda Rhimes is just amazing! The shit (ops! Mind my language) that comes out from her brain...WOW!

Just a little spoiler:
- Meridth and Derek's moving in together (woo hoo!!)
- That doo-eyed Rose is out of the picture (double woo hoo!!)
- Lexie is in love with George
- There is a slight hint that Izzie and Alex might have something going on again
- Erica and Callie are "trying something new"
- and more, more, more drama to unfold in the coming episodes...

Anyhow, it's that time of the year agian for drama series new season premiering. I'm going to be so occupied. Currrently I"m already on:
- One Tree Hill
- Grey's Anatomy
- Prison Break
- Gossip Girl
- Heroes
- Pushing Daisies (premiering Oct 1)

One last note before I log off; Drama series is good for the soul.

Mama Mia!

Things I loved about Mama Mia:
1. The setting - I just love the beach/island, the clear waters, the blue skies and most importantly the stars at night.
2. The simpleness - Loved the way the characters were portrayed. Simple dressing, simple make up, messy beach hair... simple life.
3. Meryl Streep - She is one of those Hollywood actresses that are proud to age with grace. Hey! I think they are smart cause at the end of the day, you will eventually need people for old/aged roles right?
4. ABBA!!! - Listening to all those ABBA songs...they don't make music like that anymore.

Things I didn't really liked:
1. Pierce Brosnan - His hairy chest and belly? Well, thank God I'm not really a 007 fan.
2. Watching the movie with people who don't know how to appreciate it - Laughing at scenes that was not even funny. They laughed because the character started to sing again and felt that it was stupid and cliche. Hello a musical is called a musical because there is music/singing/dancing?? Solved the "da vincci code" yet? And why laugh?? Because you were embarrassed?? Well, last time I checked, you're sitting in the cinema watching the movie; not acting in it!

Anyhow, on a more positive note, I would so get the sound track (even though I already have the full ABBA collection). It's refreshing to listen to the re-mixed version. Liked the part where they added in a bit of rock into Dancing Queen. Brilliant! Just Brilliant!

Oh! Would also get mum to watch it. She will so love it! :)

My rating: 4.5!! ^_^ (well, nothing is perfect to me)

My Saturday Afternoon

Just spend the whole afternoon watching Californication (season 1).

6 episodes down, 6 more to go.

Honestly, I'm actually quite an old school thinking type of girl. I always feel uncomfortable watching or even talking about anything sexual. And this show, thank God mum is at her facial today and I'm all alone at home (wee!! Me time!! ^_^)

Anyhow, looking from design perspective view on this show, I actually find the cinematography (can I use this word for a drama series?) quite interesting. The colour saturation, the grainy camcorder unfocused effect... me likes.

Oh ya, and the lead actress Karen (played by Natascha McElhone), really reminds me of Meryl Streep. And ironically, I'm watching Mama Mia later.

Weekends

I just love weekends. Weekends are days where no matter what time I slept the night before; early or late, I get to wake up at any time of the day I want! Cool huh? I love the feeling of how my blanket feels, the feeling of being able to roll around and maybe fall back in to deep slumber again with out worrying that I will over sleep. Ahhhh....this is what I call life.

Speaking of that, ever since I started working here, my body alarm actually wakes me up everyday at 7am. And there are times where I get confused. Is it a working day or is it a weekend/holiday? But I'm not too worried about it. If it's a working day, well, I just wake up and prepare for work. But waking up and finding out that it's a weekend.....priceless......

Some me time

I went to work today, but only to be chased home after 1/2 a day by N (ordered by K - even when she is on leave today).

So, since everyone was so persistent, I took this once in a life time opportunity to have some good old me time (since I've been feeling super duper down the past few days).

Anyhow, this is what I did

Tada!! I got a manicure...

and a pedicure as well!

Even though the manicurist was not as professional as the ones I used to visit, well... I'm not complaining. I'm just happy and satisfied with my near 2 hours long pampering. ^_^

Because I'm kinda tight on my spending this month (I've kinda-nearly-sorta-about to max out my credit card), so I didn't spend a minute extra window shopping. I just went straight right in, did my thing and walked straight out of the shopping complex with out even stopping in front of any shops a single second. (* kudos to me!) In stead, I came home to catch a movie.

21 based on a true story/novel called
"Bringing Down the House"

I'm not much of a movie critic but the only thing I found disturbing bout the movie was how fast and easy the lead actor, Ben (played by Jim Sturgess) was influenced and persuaded to join the group. It was kinda rushed and messy. Over all, it's no too bad. I'd give it a 3 star rating.

Well, that's it. My few precious hours of me time. Would love to do it again some time soon.

Me likes ^_^

I realized that I like blogging. Seriously! It really helps releases all those negative aura in my body. I feel happy and light every time I post something.

Well, guess McD's is not the only one making this girl happy after all. ^_^

Damn! I feel like McD's again

N's having McD's now...and it smells sooooooo good!

I feel so "Super Size Me". I'm happy when I'm McD-ing.

To McD, or not to McD? That's the question.... but I'm so the hungers.....

Time will be of the essence

You know when people say time will be of the essence is true when you realize that you stopped waking up at 3am every night to check whether you have a text message on your phone.

*kudos LiSa.

Things I don't appreciate

At the top of my head now, here are some thing that I don't appreciate:

1. I don't appreciate you offering to take over my job and bugging me to go home. I'm sick. Not paralyzed.

2. I don't appreciate you being all caring and concerned because 'you are my friend'. Go care and be concerned for someone else. Be careful that 'she' might had implanted a CCTV on you while you were sleeping and is monitoring every single thing you do now. And the last thing I need from you now is your shit.

3. I don't appreciate you being my 'friend'. The last I checked, friends don't use you and then leave you in this deep hole the both of you dug and then jumped in together after you were saved. The best part is, acting like nothing happened. Bloody hell it did! And thanks to you, I'm now more damaged than ever.

Blood Test v2.0

4 hours ago I blogged about my blood test (click here to read about it).

4 hours later I finally got my results: negative. I don't have dengue.

But...this is what I got

A bruised needle hole

Oh! And the previous picture that I uploaded on the needle hole was not the needle hole. I have no freakin' idea what that red dot is on my hand.

Oh well, guess there's no running away from work tomorrow. :(

Blood Test

My fever has not subsided, so being an obedient girl (*yeahcaughrightcaugh), I went back to the doctor to have my blood taken for tests.

Have I ever told you (wait! Of course I haven't. I just started blogging like 2 days ago) that I'm afraid of needles? Yes-sir-ree! Just having the thoughts of the needle going under the skin gives me the creeps.  And can you believe that I used to be a first-aider? Ironic huh?

The whole process only took lesser than 5 minutes and this is what I got out of it (points below):

Plus, it's sore when I touches it (gently). Not forgetting that my whole arm is numb too. And get this: I drove! With only my left hand. So hero...

Anyhow, the doctor said that I will get my results by tonight. So, I'll keep you guys posted whether do I have dengue or not.

Chicken

I chickened out. I didn't go to work today. I called in sick. I'm actually well enough to but I didn't.

Anyhow, I texted to tell him and guess what? No reply. Not even a simply "ok".

It's official. I do shut people out.

Here comes tomorrow

±9 1/2 more hours. ±9 1/2 more hours and I have to face my aftermath of today. Will he still leave me alone?

Sometimes I really feel that I shut people out. I don't know how to communicate. I don't know how to react.

What's going to happen tomorrow, and days after tomorrow?

I so, so really just want to run away.

McD's

Since my suspected dengue last Tuesday, I had this craving for McD's and... today finally after gaining my appetite back... :) Fillet-O-Fish with fries. Yums! *licks lips

pa-da-pa-pa-pa...I'm lovin' it.

McValue Meal Fillet-o-Fish

*10 minutes later: I don't feel so good now.... I think that was a bit too much too fast *barf

Casual hand picked purple flower trumps big bouquet of roses

15 September, Monday. Received a fresh bouquet of pink and white roses (my fav) from a close friend who visited Cameron Highlands over the weekend.

Pretty, huh?

16 September, Tuesday. Found a unknown breed purple flower lying on my keyboard in the office; the same kind that is on display downstairs in the lobby.

My hand picked purple flower from the lobby.

Hands down, hand picked flowers (even if it's from the road side) trumps everything else.

Blame it on the suspected dengue?

Yesterday I was sarcastic; today I snapped. I just snapped at him. I know he meant well, but why bother? Things will never ever be the same again. I was used and you seem happy now. But, what about me?

Cranky due to the suspected dengue or maybe it's just that I cannot take it anymore...

Cough, cough, cough...

I think if I continue coughing for another few more days, I'll definitely get a 6 pack (or maybe cough out a liver)...

Only time will tell.

A story about a girl

There once was a girl who just dreamed to be simple and happy. So one day, she decided to go on a journey, leaving the nest that she had made comfortable for the past 3 years.

The girl found herself a spot on the hill; and she was happy. Life to her was simpler there. She actually got to see stars in the skies at night. Contented, she was.

Little did she know, up on the hill lived a prince. He was not tall, nor was he dark and handsome. But somehow, he made the stars shine brighter.

If only happiness was so easy. Stars only shine in the dark night skies and when the sun rises, they dim out; we wake from our dream. In a blink of an eye, her dream became a nightmare. As much as she tried to dream again, only nightmares fills her nights.

You see, as much as the prince loved stars, he also loved the sun, and he choose bright hot sunlight over cool silent dark sky. Now, she is no longer happy living on the hill. The stars are no longer bright in her teary eyes.

So where will she go now? What shall she do? Will she be able to see bright shining stars again?

   

who, what, where, when, why

Me, in a nutshell