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hmm...

my boss approached me just 10 minutes before balik time and asked me if i could come up with an interactive website. my first thought was "not another one!" you see, i was hired to do some major touchup to the company's website. but until today, i have not even touched it because i've been creating websites for our subsidiary companies.

i'm not shying away from what's supposed to be my job responsibilities. but this is too much! i've been here 2 years, and i'm still not doing what i was hired to in the first place :P

actually, this sub company was about to hire a so-called professional web consultant to do the job for a smooth rm18k. my boss had earlier said that i was busy with the main website, so they brought in the pros. when she heard how much they were going to be paid, she stepped in and offered to do the job for rm10k instead.

meaning, i'm going to do freelance and earn rm10k. well, that's a pretty kewl offer, but i don't wanna be unnecessarily excited in case she was just joking. what kinda boss asks her staff to do freelance??

:)

today feels like a good day. i woke up early to escape the morning madness of the past 2 days. and God blessed me with a sunshiny morning. :)

i hope the rest of the day will be as sunshiny as well!

of the morning crawl to work

the traffic was so so unbearable today! i thought it would be as smooth as yesterday, considering that the fasting period is over and it's still the school holidays. but noooooo, everybody decided to come out at the same time, the clouds cried, and the obstruction at the NKVE wasn't completely cleared yet.

driving out of the usj area into subang, cars were whizzing by. however, they started to slow down at the subang traffic lights. little did i know this was the beginning of a horrendous drive to work. i pressed on the odometer to reset it. when it clocked 5km, i was still in subang, and that was 1 hour after i had left the house!

there was no way i could turn back and feign sickness, and escape the nightmare that was before me. i was already halfway there, might as well go through the whole thing and pray that my boss will forgive my lateness.

so there i was, crawling along federal highway with the rest of the valley folks. it was still drizzling and many were impatient to get to work. anyways, i finally arrived at work 45 minutes late. that means i will have to stay back and replace the lost hours. wooohoo! :P

dress sense

i bumped into a colleague from a neighbouring department while washing hands in the wc. as she eyed me from top to toe, she made some comments on how i was dressed in blacks, a lot. i told her black was a very easy colour to match, especially when it comes to black slacks or black cardigan, or black hair even.

then she said "aiyo, amoi! you manyak slim, cantik dan muda lagi... mestilah pakai colour-colour lain!" for awhile there, i didn't know how to interpret her comment. the first part sounded like a compliment. but the latter sounded as if i have limited colours/clothes in my wardrobe, which also sounded like an insult.

i always thought i had considerably OK dress sense. while i don't have the moolah to buy each lovely dress i set my eyes on, i do try to wear classy pieces hopefully to suit the occasion. if you were to see me on the street, i wouldn't stand out too much coz my clothes ain't loud nor too outdated. i would probably look like one of those young urban yuppie trying to make an impression in the office! :D

i daresay my taste is quite good for i've received compliments before. so therefore, this was a strange comment. since i do not know how to make of it, i will take it as a constructive comment.

now... who's game for some shopping? hehe....

the one i call "dad"

i was just having a chat on icq with my "dad". been calling him dad since my industrial training days. i was working in this e-commerce firm in pj together with a classmate then. chatting over y! messenger was our way of communicating with the outside world. over the 3 month period, we kept in touch with our friends in uni and those who were based all over the country for training.

dad was the most unlikely person whom you would just call "dad". most of the time, he looked like an unshaven grunge rock artist strolling around on campus with his cap pulled back the wrong way. often times i found myself saying hi to this person who was singing the latest hit song to himself. but deep inside, he was really a sweet kinda guy.

since he was still studying in campus and had all the luxuries of campus life (read : 24-hour internet connection), he would sometimes message us and just say hi. when my friend and i were bored with office work, we would start a yahoo conference and chat ourselves silly. he would always end with "take care, i'll miss you and love you lots". very unexpected if you knew how he looked like!

so we decided to call him "dad". my friend and i ended up as his "daughters".

anyways, back to the story of me and him icq-ing one late night. at the same time, a guy messaged me. i had known him a few months back, but never met. so i told my dad about it.

me : hey, guess wat? some guy's trying to kacau me.
dad : over icq? who's he?
me : dunno, some guy i met thru icq. we've been chatting off n on for some time, but i hvnt actually met him lar
dad : who's he lar?
me : some 20-something catholic male, working in singapore, interested in photography n trying to impress me by making cheesecake
dad : lonesome male trying to pick you up. i must admit, he's got good taste though *grin*
me : haahah.. of course! how could it be any less when the dad's a trusted brand himself...
dad : awwwwwwwww....thank you thank you.... now you better be careful with these types. they're surely up to no good, n arent interested in anything serious.
me : ok dad.. i know what you mean. told you i dun really layan him.
dad : in any case, be careful ok?
me : dont worry lar. i wont end up eloping with him and running off to singapore.. haahah...

that wasn't exactly how we ended the chat, but we always had a father-daughter kinda conversation online. haven't met up with dad for a long time already. wonder how he looks like now...

piggin' out

I am totally zombified after getting only 2 hours of sleep last night. Must've been the 2 days of Hari Raya, been sleeping till early noon. After having brunch and doing some reading, dozed off to another few hours of afternoon nap. It's been some time since I did this - marathon sleeping. The last was during my uni holidays. What bliss it was. Waking up to a cool afternoon after a morning downpour, looking at the clock, recalling for a moment and realising that it's a holiday after all. Then snuggling back into bed and having the luxury to sleep some more.

I'm beginning to sound like a pig. ^@^

grOsS!

my, my, i didn't know i could actually post something as erm, gross as the prev post. LOL

anyways, i'm feeling great today *grin*. that's the wonder of being a woman. the mood swings - sometimes you feel terribly down and ugly, other times you feel wonderfully beautiful!

i got 2 mentions in johnsee's blog! tinge of sarcasm, i noted. :> hmm... now i feel the urge to do something about MY blog. haven't actually sat down to add comments and watnots.