Know your ABC

ABC could be the 1st 3 English alphabet, it could be Airway, Breathing & Circulation to check when you perform CPR, it could be your favourite food - Ais Batu Campur or it could also be some young, dashing American Born Chinese.
... and now, it's a tag..

Oh well, I got tagged by Calv and I told him if he completed the one I tagged him... I'll do this... so here it is... (despite I secretly think he *ahem* purposely *ahem* do it the way that he doesnt need to link people up)

Ok, here goes...

A is for age:
Age next birthday would be 28 (I know... talked to my mom again a few hours ago, and she still nags me about getting a bf & get married = =")

B is for beer of choice:
I dont like beer... makes me go toilet ever so often, not to mention the anti-histamin

C is for career:
Do I have a career? Or it is a job? *ponder*

D is for your dog’s name:
My dog disallow me to disclose his name :P

E is for essential item you use everyday:
I thought essential item are things that you need to use everyday... but reading Calv's answer.. umm... it is not is it? So... what is it yah?

F is for favorite song (one only) at the moment:
咸鱼 by 五月天 (Mayday) - a Taiwanese Band. Good lyrics.

G is for favorite games:
Shrug... havent been playing for a while... I wonder why

H is for hometown:
Alor Star... in Kedah.. (oh well.. just in case it's too small to be noticed)

I is for instruments you play:
Piano, Organ, Trumpet, Saxophone, Horn, Trombone, Clarinet, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums and the list goes on and on and on.... None of all that, unfortunately for me...

J is for favorite juice:
Hmm... watermelon? Orange? Carrot? I don't know... don't have I suppose

K is for kids:
One boy & one girl, ideally twins - so no need to go through it another time (actually, I've never actually thought about it)

L is for last hug:
Yesterday. Colleague's last day at work.

M is for malls:
Midvalley for gym, Sg Wang for dinner before Japanese class.

N is for name of your love:
Please refer to "A" above. TQ

O is for overnight hospital stays:
Not applicable.

P is for phobias:
Roaches! <-- I echo this

Q is for quote:
"Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success... flat stretches of boring routine. And valleys of frustration and failure" Quoted from Calvin, The Indispensable Calvin & Hobbes is one of my favourite quotes.

R is for your race:
Chinese

S is for status:
S is for single :P

T is for things you like:
Travel, anime, sleeping, manga, doing nothing... ... ...

U is for underwear:
Yes... I wear them

V is for vegetable you love:
Broccoli and some other vege, I'm vegetable illiterate

W is for worst habit:
Sloth

X is for x-rays you’ve had:
CXR

Y is for yummy food you know how to make:
Potato salad, recipe courtesy of my boss

Z is for zodiac sign:
Capricorn

Now you've learnt my ABC, I want to learn yours too... ;P And so, I shall tag:-
Kimmie (grin.. haha)

What blog(s) do you read?

Grin.. Kimmie actually disable any form of highlighting the words to copy from her blog... and I have to do this tag by typing each and every question out :P
For the rules, please read from here


Ei, friend... need to test my typing skill meh? :P

1. Who's blog is a must read everyday?
hahaha... kimmie just likes to whine. Formerly known as kimmie's life. Grin... this dear, dear friend blogs everyday... and I'll dread the day when she cannot access to the internet & post daily.

2. Who's blog is always informative?
I'll go for these travel blogs

3. Who's blog is always funny?
Crap Some More. Short, sweet & funny :P

4. Who's blog dishes out advice/sayings/advice that you actually listen to?
Not exactly who's... it depends on where I want to go... :P
This "collection" of blogs ... (sorry eh.. i know it's the same as no. 2 but... its informative but I do follow the advice & take note of it)

5. Who's blog would you highly recommend to others?
Waiterrant - collective of small stories and also where I learned of the blog waiterrant from, Work In Progress blog which is also a good blog where I stumbled on a few years ago.

6. What was the funniest blog entry you read recently?
I_hate_life: take 5 - Wu Zun. I was with the writer at the scene... and found that the specific post is sarcastic funny.

7. What blog entry actually makes you think recently?
Kenny Sia - same post that makes Kimmie had a thought about it.

8. Which online shopping blog that you actually frequent?
Vanity Vault by April. Umm..its funny in the way that its actually a blog that sells accessories like earrings, necklaces and I hardly wear them and I dont even have ear holes to support those earrings... but I like to see the accessories that she designed :)

9. Who are you going to tag?
Super chu chai - I am curious what blogs he read... the old-wise-one :P (and at the same time... grin.. make him blog somemore *whistling innocently*
Calv - cos he seem to find it "amusing" that I blog surf, so I'm also curious who's blog does he read ... and apparently he stressed wor (nothing to blog is it? :P)

10. Who tagged you?
Kimmie lor.. haha

Conversation with my mother

Called up my mother to confirm if she wants to pay a visit to my dad in Nirvana, after all Father's Day is coming up. And... an innocent question leads me to these... ever so frequent nowadays. In fact, I think in all my phone calls to my mom, she would find openings to query on it. After mom confirmed that no going to visit dad, I told her I'll pay a visit to Genting Highlands and Kuching sometime soon....


Me: Me going in Genting the week after next and Kuching in August.

Mom: Go with whom (mom's standard question)

Me: Bay bee dino, little P they all lor (mom knows bay bee dino cos I went to Sabah & HK with her... and Little P cos she brings me out to mum mum)

Mom: Ok, how many people going

Me: 4

Mom: Ok.. then the Kuching one leh?

Me: That one in August, I follow bay bee dino back

Mom: Only 2 person ar?

Me: Got another friend (Ok... umm.. I just dont have to thing to lie lar yah, besides what is there to lie about ... till... haih)

Mom: Guy or gal?

Me: Guy

Mom: R*** ar?

Me: No lar, friend from office

Mom: Not R*** ar?

Me: No, its C*****

Mom: Your boyfriend ar?

Me: = ="" No.. not my boyfriend (IM Calv and tell him... *me striked by lightning*)

Mom: Why you dont want to tell me? Be good, like your sister, got boyfriend will tell me, broke up already will also tell me. Why you want to keep secret for?

Me: = =""""""" There is no secret lar, I really dont have boyfriend one. (Calv laughing over the IM... grrrr)

Mom: Aiyo, going to be 30 years old already lar, when are you getting married? If all of you all married already, then I wont be worry anymore.

Me: Aunty, why I tell you but you dont believe, want to believe those aunties that I have never seen for ages? (I call my mother aunty when I try to be sarcastic :P)

Mom: Ya mah, so tell lar, that C***** your boyfriend ar?

Me: I dont have one lar. See cousin also no girlfriend yet

Mom: You want to follow your cousin ar? He 30+++ already still not married yet lar. He picky.

Me: = =""""" I want to go already, got class. (Saved by Japanese class, PHEW)


Side note: Conversation with mom is in Mandarin... and I noted Calv found it amusing everytime I talk to my mother = ="

Why donate blood?

Picture pilfered from the National Blood Bank website


This is one of my favourite place in KL. Or maybe I should say, one of my comfort haven... the National Blood Bank. I found out about this place when I was studying in uni then as our hostel are located in Titiwangsa.

Anyway, why it is one of my favourite place? Well, people usually see it the side where being a blood donor helps people in need, provide supply to the blood banks... but to me, there is another side to it. Somehow, donating it gives comfort, sort of like giving is loving. It gives this contented feeling, and as you sit down there, with your hand pumping to let the blood flow, it soothe troubled soul.

Maybe, maybe I dont describe it well enough. But each time I visited this place, it magically calms my rough thoughts, my anger, my uneasiness. And despite it leaves this needle prick mark and once a while a patch of blue black, it is a very worthwhile cause.