Granma in da house!

Like what the title says... my granma is staying over in our place for the next couple of days while my granpa is still in the hospital. I was surprised to see my granma sitting outside at our porch yesterday after I came home from work. I'm glad that she's here and that we can take good care of her.
Anyways, I went to the CROCS (the famous shoe brand) shop in Pandan 7 after work and I bought a slip-on shoe for my granma. It is highly comfortable and light. I wanted to get one for myself but since I'll be going to S'pore soon I'll just get it there (they don't have my size and the shoe that I wanted at the shop anyways). A well-spend $60 I must say hahaha the moment my granma slip on the shoe she neatly packed her old slippers into a plastic bag and kept it aside. She's now wearing her new pair of CROCS around the house. I never expected to buy it but I wanted my granma to be comfortable while staying with us. And this morning she told my mom that she slept really well last night which make us feel relief! Well u know..it's difficult to take care of old folks.
My granma is 96 (I think) years old and my granpa is 99, they live a very long life. I have a lot of fond memories with my grandparents as a child. I grew up balik kampung every weekend and visit them which I still do till now. My granma will look for me if I seldom visit them and plus she knows how much I love durians hahaha I miss the good old days but some things have change now. Nevertheless I'm glad to be here for them.

TGIF

Thank God Its Friday!!! I'm bored out of my mind sitting in the office all day long not doing anything.

My offshore trip was canceled yesterday due to rough sea (big waves, etc.) . I wasn't looking forward to go because I dread the journey to the platform, it takes about an hour and end up feeling sea sick in the boat :S
I bought a nausea relief tablet from Singapore and took 2 tablets 30 minutes before the trip as instructed. I woke up early that morning to prepare my things and then left home for KB port at 6.30am to avoid the traffic but the traffic was still slow that morning! I don't understand how ppl could stand driving at a constant speed of 60km/h???
After check-in, we had a safety briefing and saw the boat arriving at the port. They told us we can't proceed with our trip due to the rough sea. Some were disappointed because works will be delayed and some were happy... like me! hehehe
Went back to the office as usual and I was very, very sleepy. I took a nap after I came home from work but end up waking up at 7pm!!! My sleeping pattern are so screwed!!

Anyways, I went for a blood test last week and I just got the results today. Everything is normal (thank God) except for one thing... my bp. My dr asked me to start on a medication for the next 2 weeks. Hopefully it'll work!

Yeahh...its the weekend tomorrow.

When You Wish Everyday Was Like This...

I'm in my office now feeling really bored *yawn*

I don't have any work to do at the moment.

Sometimes I wish everyday was like this but then it really bores you to the core hahaha

I'll be going to offshore tomorrow for a safety site visit so at least I'll be out of the office!

Ok the reason I've nothing to do at the moment is because I'm still waiting for some project files from the engineers. Without the files, I can't start on anything.

So now I just have to show up at work everyday, sit in my office sipping tea, wait for work to appear from God knows where, read emails, watch videos, read bulletins, etc. till it's time for lunch or to go home. Tell me that isn't a boring routine.

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A bit of a sidetrack here despite my utter boredom:

I had my end of year performance review with my boss last Monday and it went really, really well. Thank God for that! All my hard work this year are being appreciated and recognised. The sweats, wearing orange coverall (or pyjamas as my boss calls it) for a week, going to yards in the hot sun and attending meetings every week are all worthwhile! I'm now involves in more project discussions and meetings, which has spark an interest in learning more especially in the electrical discipline (my dad is an electrician so I guess its in the gene). I hope one day I can pursue it and what comes after that... I'll leave it in God's hand.

The Weekend Project

Surprisingly I'm at home today. I've been away on most days during the week so it feels good to be at home now. I was in church this morning to help out in the gotong royong; did few cleaning here and there, polished some metals and got few cuts on my fingers from the sharp metal tip.
I went home after lunch and spend the day upgrading my old desktop pc. I installed the new motherboard, processor and RAM which I bought last weekend in Singapore. I have an existing 320GB harddisk which I bought last year, a dvd-rom (just there for decoration) and a dvd-writer so all that can still be re-used. My desktop casing is quite old now, it's 8 yrs old to be exact! I still have the sticker at the back of the desktop to prove it. It's still in a good condition after surviving years of abuse hahaha I now have more cuts on my fingers from installing the hardware. Took me about an hour to assemble everything and to install the operating system. I installed an original window vista home premium which I bought few months back during an IT exhibition in the Mall. Finally I won't be getting that counterfeit warning from Microsoft!
I still have to install the office 2007 but I don't have the CD for it yet. Anyways, I'm happy with my desktop now. I hope it will serve me well for years to come hahaha

New motherboard, processor and RAM

After assembling it

Installing the O.S.

What does your birthday mean?

I got this from Facebook and its about 90% true hahaha so here it goes. My comments are in red.

Your birthday means that you are an early morning person. (True. I wake up before 6am on most days)

You like water (It depends. I like swimming.) and water sports (err..no) , and your best colors are blue (So true! I love Blue) and gray (Yes for a car color). You are artistic and love to express yourself in many different ways (err... I don't know about this one). While you tend to be more of an introverted person (again true), that does not mean you sit at home (hehehe). On the contrary, you have the best ideas when it comes to going places (oh so true! hahaha) and finding things to do (sometimes). You are very innovative and excel at creativity (err I don't know about this. I would say maybe..).

That was fast...

Wow the weekend have gone by so fast and here I am typing this blog back home. I wish it could be a little bit longer. Anyways I enjoyed my short trip to Singapore. I managed to get some stuffs which I have been longing for quite some time. Bought some hardware to upgrade my desktop pc which I can't wait to install! Finally an upgrade after all these years... (my pc still runs on Pentium 4!)
I must say Singapore are very 'semangat' to celebrate Christmas every year. It's only early Nov and they have already put up the Christmas decorations and trees in front of the shopping malls. Not much sales going on and I couldn't find any nice working clothes :( My luggage was 80% full of M&S biscuits and chocolates hahaha and some other people's stuffs.
Oh yah and I bought my first LEVI's jeans at the airport this morning. I managed to do a bit of shopping at the airport (a request from my mom). I'm tired and aching now from all the walking and I even have blisters on my palm! That was one intense one-day shopping. My advise to you if you want to do what I did.... be physically prepared! hahaha
My parents picked me up from the airport this afternoon, had a short lunch and went back to Seria. Then my parents decided to balik kampung because my granma was looking for me and its the fruit season. I just had one whole durian for dinner, I hope I still have my voice tomorrow for work hahahaha I love durians... thanks granma!
Overall it was a good and enjoyable weekend... cheerios!

Off to Singapore

I'm typing this post in the car on my way to the airport. My brother is driving me to the airport.
This is the day I've been looking forward to after postponing and planning for months. The sad part is I'm only going for 3d 2n.
I went to work as usual today, work thru lunch and went home an hour earlier. I need this break because I've been extremely busy at work lately. I was given a task by my boss to look for a subsea cable which is over 6 yrs old and its repair kit (not found yet). Not an easy job but thankfully I managed to find the cable and was awarded an achievement cert and token from the manager yipee...
Today's work was quite frustrating as well. Both of our secretaries are on leave and they expect me to look after the office and it is also the same day that I'm going for my short 'stress-free' break!!! Wat are the odds!! I couldn't settle some things in the end because I had to leave early so I end up leaving it for next week. What can I say? It's not my job looking after the office. :S This things always happen everytime I go on leave, something important at work will turn up.
Ok I will stop talking about my work now, I'm almost at the airport now... will update soon...cheerios. Have a nice weekend.

27 candles x 4 cakes = 108 yrs old!!!

I celebrated my birthday last Sunday. I didn't have any plans for it because it was a day of obligation in the church (All Soul's Day). The night before I had a meeting in SJC. We started the meeting late after dinner. Steph & Al joined us through videocall from bandar. The meeting ended at about 11pm and I was really sleepy because I woke up very early that morning! The team had planned a surprise birthday cake for me after the meeting. (Thanks peeps!) I was speechless and more than surprise....I was shocked! I really didn't expect it. Dot spilled the beans on our way home. They have been planning it all along through emails. I don't have a pic of my birthday cake but I think it was chocolate fudge. I really enjoyed the night though I was very, very sleepy. Text messages started coming in till 2am but I was already asleep.
I went to Sunday mass as usual the next morning. My mom have a bad cough and she wanted to avoid the aircon in the p.hall so I sat beside her to 'shield' her from the cold air!! (At this point, I think my fats comes in handy hahaha). I don't think my parents remember it was my birthday. Bshp celebrated the mass and he mentioned the date 2 Nov - All Soul's day, pray for the dead, etc., etc. and my mom started to repeat the date and I guess that's when it clicks her hahahaha

At breakfast, my cousin gave me a cake and another cousin gave me another cake.The cakes are
still in the fridge now. No idea how I'm going to finish it but I did manage to eat some of it

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Cake No.2 (cake no.1 - no pic)

Cake No.3 - the fruit on top fell off

I received a text from a friend and she asked what was my plan for the day. I said I've no idea, at that moment I was sitting in front of the TV watching Spongebob cartoon hahaha Then she texted me again saying that I should go out and enjoy and don't be like an old person sitting in the house doing nothing. Well I did plan to go to bandar to do 'something' that morning. So I decided to go ahead with the plan. I pick up Dot on the way and she said she wanted to watch High School Musical 3. So I agree to watch it too even though it was not my kind of movie. We made it on time for the 3.20pm show with plenty of time to spare that we ate dimsum at the foodcourt! The movie was ok. Lots of singing, well duh...musical. Most of the time I was yawning and the cinema was full of kids!!!

I can't believe I went to watch this movie!

We had dinner with few friends at Swensen that evening. And I had another surprise!!! Thank God it was not a cake! It was a one scoop of chocolate ice-cream with half of a banana and it has 3 chocolate chips on the ice-cream that makes it look like a smiley face (again no pic). And again I was really caught by surprise, the other diners also sang along too. It really make me blush and thank God I was facing the window hahaha another great time!
I had another surprise birthday last nite by some of the seria youths at escapade sushi in KB. And again, it caught me by surprise! I was talking to Ann and Josh about our recent stay in Subok and all of the sudden the waiters and waitresses started to sing just outside the private room where we were having our dinner and it made me jump from my seat. Ann was surprise too and she thought I was singing!!! hahaha They were singing the birthday song and half way through the song, one of the waiter asked 'who is cathy?' it was hilarious! And so I had my fourth birthday cake last nite. Thank you so much Ann, Josh, Eileen, Agnes, Rach and Phel.


Cake no.4

Thanks everyone for your birthday wishes, greetings, love, prayer and support...