LOTR 3 : ROTK

legolas is still the mostest cutest!!!! :D

ok, fine. maybe he's like the only cute actor around in the show, so i can't help but gush over him.

too bad he had minor roles in the last installment. the hobbits seem to be the main actors this time around. i think i'm gonna re-watch LOTR 2 again. LOL!

what a great way to start my christmas hols!

of porcelain gifts

was just rummaging through my gifts box. some of my pressies are still in their boxes and the wrapping intact. was actually looking for some christmas decor.

i saw a few porcelain gifts, one of which was a white angel with a garland around her. this was a christmas gift from one of my grrlfrens some years back. this would be perfect on top of the television! i took it out, washed out the dust and carefully put it next to the christmas cards. there, that should set some christmas mood in the living room.

but that's not wat this post is about. i'm trying to say i have too many of those porcelain gifts which i do not know what to do with, or where to put them. no offence to those dear friends who have been scratching their heads trying to think of something sweet to give me, but what do i do with a porcelain figurine of a boy holding a teddy bear sitting on a rock? or this victorian-era looking woman in those mary-poppins gown, also made out of porcelain?

if it was a porcelain trinket box, that would be have been more useful. besides collecting dust, it also keeps my rings and bracelets. or a photoframe with a porcelain frame. besides making the task of cleaning the frame a little tedious, it also holds my favourite photos.

but, tell me, what do i do with porcelain figurines???

of the rush job

On Thursday morning, boss emails me about this job that has to be completed in a week's time. Project brief: powerpoint presentation on the company by the Big Big Big Boss, to be presented to the dep. PM of thailand.

As soon as I see the title of the VIP, i start panicking. What the...? Me? A corporate profile to be shown to the 2nd top guy in our neighbouring country??

I am already imagining myself suntanning with the Aussie hunks in the beaches of Phuket or shopping away in Bangkok. If he liked my presentation enough, perhaps I would be rewarded with a free trip to Thailand! heheh...

But reality starts to sink in. Real fast. My boss didn't say anything much, just some details of what had to go into the presentation. I have to think of the layout, design, sequence, information, who to get the various data from, and of course, the animation. And the Big Big Big Boss is known to be rather fussy over details. He even came up with his own anthem for the company!

If I was given, say, 2 weeks at least, I'd be able to come up with something reasonably good. But because boss is going off on her christmas holidays next week, I have to rush and come up with something mediocre. :(

I just hope when I present the draft to her tomorrow, she'd be gracious enough to accept my humble work!

the botizen named angel

Seeing that Bengie had a little chat with Ms Angel, I decided to check her out too. Maybe she ain't that bad, you know.

Me : Good morning angel
Angel : *Yawn* same to you, Snoflek.
Me : Did you have a good sleep?
Angel : I'm glad.
Me : er, ok. Good to know you had a glad, i mean good sleep.
Angel : You can have BOTizen Lite ASP for $100 a month and you will save $400 if you choose yearly plan. Click our purchase page for more info on BOTizen Lite."
Me : What if I don't want to have BOTizen?
Angel : BOTizen is a Cyber Customer Service Agent that automates your CRM activities. BOTizen engages your customers online and while assisting web site administration at the same time. Here, Snoflek. I've brought up just a little more information on the BOTizen."
Me : Can you say something else?
Angel : This might sound a bit funny, .. something else.. "
Me : Ok, let's try this. How old are you?
Angel : Please, Snoflek. I am a lady. Be nice.
Me : I am a lady too, but I'm not interested in you in that way!
Angel : Please, Snoflek. How do you expect to pick up any girls that way
Me : Fine then. We'll chat more next time.
Angel : Sure, Snoflek. I was getting bored of the silence anyway
Me : What the ....?!
Angel : I couldn't say for sure, Snoflek.

* sighs.. i give up! *

you'd never guess what happened yesterday...

My mum picked me up so that we could do a bit of christmas shopping after work. Just after paying for the parking ticket and walking no more than a few steps, her phone rang.

I didn't care much coz I thought it was one of her church friends. But after talking for awhile, her steps slowed down and her face looked strange. I gently nudged her to the side as she continued the conversation.

"What?! You sure it's my car?... Yeah, it was parked at the road side... right opposite my house..." Something must've happened to mum's car as she looked troubled.

Later as we got back into the parking lot, mum told me that it was the Siamese neighbour who called. Seemed that someone had banged into my mums' car, banged into the bumper road sign, and finally banged into the wall of Kesas highway.

Thus began a series of phone calls to friends and neighbours in our housing area. Mum was trying to get someone to check out the situation while we tried to get home as fast as possible. I was more interested in seeing the damage. How could anyone have banged through the sound barrier of Kesas highway?

As we neared our house, we saw cars and people surrounding the accident area. Thank God my mum's car wasn't THAT badly damanged, but the guy's Wira was stuck at the wall. I was like, "Good grief!!! If that guy didn't brake in time, he'd have flown through the wall and onto the Kesas highway!!" That would be a sight.

And you'd see that car on the front page in your newspapers today.

imposter alert!

hmm, methinks there's an imposter out there trying to impersonate snoflek.
so far, he's posted 2 comments and signed off as "snoflek".

is there something i can do about it? hmm.. like track who was the imposter.. oh, that will not do, coz it won't tell others who he is. or, maybe i can sign off in a way which is only uniquely me...

but at least i know he means no harm. well, at least that's what he said lar!

i need to ...

... sleep!

this is the 2nd week i'm beginning to dread driving to work!

the blockage at the NKVE is still not cleared and the traffic from there is clogging the federal highway. even though i stay back and lepak around pj until 9pm, the jam is still there! *horrors*

worse comes to worse, i'm gonna park at tmn jaya and take a nap. might as well do something productive instead of getting stuck at the crawl :P

kiasu/inpired?

when i introduced the world of bloggering to john, i didn't realise it would be a competition.

the first week of my blog saw a rather plain looking, obviously-taken-from-a-template webpage with enlarged fonts and minimal links. i took my time to refine the look by tweaking the codes.

when his page was up, i could see that he had carefully thought out the layout before displaying it for the world to see. he had comments, tag-board, cute picture of a wine bottle and glass, and a breezy cool look to his page. plus, some philosophical view of life as compared to a glass of wine.

i knew i had to do something about mine. (let's not use the word kiasu, i prefer "being inspired"!) so i changed the font sizes, enabled the title bar, added my blogchalk and changed my comments to snowflakes. nothing spectacular, but at least it looks better now.

and now he wants to get a guestbook so that he can "go one up against" me. bleh :P

wondering whether i can add snow flake cursortrails....