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...

There goes the internet...

I'm using my wireless broadband now to connect to the internet at home cos' my modem and wireless router went kaput after last night's storm. The thunderstorm and lightning was really scary and the power went off for quite some time.
I was already in bed watching the Simpsons on my laptop and it was raining heavily, didn't expect it'll get worst than that. A loud cracking thunder made me jump out of my bed and away from the windows. I'm not taking my chances to strike by those lightning last night.
Anyways, I'm not been feeling well again. It all started from the long meeting I had last week, I was feeling feverish the next day and then I got a bit better for the rest of the week. Then I've been sneezing all day in the office and end up with a bad cold on Wednesday morning till now. My voice is hoarse and my nose is stuffy :S thank God I don't have a fever or sore throat to add to that or else it might get a bit complicated like before.
We had our departmental meeting this morning and thankfully my boss didn't ask me to present on HSE. I think I've infected everyone in that room. I didn't manage to go to the doctor either because I can't get through the reception to make an appointment. We also had our department Hari Raya 'open house' after the meeting. The food was ok, not my type of food though and also I can't taste a thing! The rest of the day was a bit boring... but finally its the weekend again and I can rest and recuperate. I'm suppose to have a meeting tonight in COLA, but I don't feel fit to go anywhere. I even turn down some open house invitations.
I'm just going to have a relax day tomorrow and hopefully I'll get well by then.
Over and out...

My back is killing me

Ok..an update from the previous post. Raya fall on Thursday. Thank God for that. I was in bandar that evening to run some errands (not last minute shopping) and stayed overnight at a friend's house because it was too late to drive back to Seria.
On the first day of raya I drove back to Seria hoping I could join my parents to visit my aunt's house in Bear Hill. But my allergy kicks-in and my hand was swollen red and itchy so I decided to stay home. I didn't realise I was alone at home, my cat was sleeping on my parents' wardrobe and I thought my brother was in his room (he went out for raya-ing too). Some annoying kids press the doorbell, inda nampak kali rumah kami nada cucul!!! Kan ambil duit saja pikir ATM kah rumah ku anie?. I spend most of my time playing my PS3 hehehe it was a holiday well-spend.
On 2nd day of Raya, I went to my cousins' house in bandar. My final stop was in Rimba and I took the opportunity to go to Giant as I've never been there. The place is huge but boring. I was having headache on the way back to Seria maybe becos of the hot weather.
On Sat, my sister ask me to drive her and some friends to Miri to buy liquor. So we went and make full use of our quota then head to town to my beloved Starbucks at Bintang Plaza and ends the trip with a dinner at Secret Recipe. I bought 2 books from Popular: one is about the history of the world (very interesting but I know some of you finds it boring) and the other one is a travel book on Bali (cos' I'm going there nxt year). So basically that's all I get from my Miri trip. Looking forward to go there again to buy more books and some Halloween stuffs.
And last but not least, the last holiday... Sunday. Came back from church that morning and was hook on the internet for hours and watching the Pink Panther movie. It was hilarious. And again I was left all alone in the house with the cat, which was of course, sleeping! I don't take naps in the afternoon which is a good thing or else I'll sleep at work. So I'm now back to work as usual. Sitting in front of the PC for 8 hours.
Oh with regards to the topic, I just attended a meeting in church and it lasted for 2½ hours. It was a dreadful meeting. I just kept quiet throughout, just don't bother to open my mouth. I'm at home now and my back has been aching lately and it bothers me a lot. I guess it is just one of those time when you are just too tired and everything don't feel right :/