I Don’t Know Why, I Can’t Lose Weight… February 4, 2012

That is what I told one of my colleagues from the business side recently. He gave me some further advise like skipping dinner. Already do that. Cut out rice. Already do that. Do some running. Already do that. He said I should be “really thin” by now, but in fact I’m not. =) I told him, “I just don’t know why, I can’t lose anymore weight. I can’t skip breakfast as well — all I eat is an energy bar.” In the end, we kinda came to the agreement that it could be the sinful shots of coffee that I take everyday (thanks a lot, coffee machine. You be my downfall), but after going through my folder of unblogged photographs, I realise it’s a lie.

The honest truth is that I’m a very good dieter from Mondays to Fridays, but when the weekend rolls around, I eat like a girl who operates a BBW website. Muwahhaha…. In case you don’t know what is BBW, check this link out! I like how it’s labelled “Safe For Work, Not Safe For Life”. Lol!

So here are some major food pic updates. Haven’t been doing that for  a while! And I think I have 2-3 more instalments to go…

Oh, just an appetizer at our new fave restaurant at Subang Parade.. (Capriciossa)

The lunch sets at Italiannies are very affordable and worth your money. And you can dry many more different types of pasta and am not forced to share one large pasta like other times!

Eat ALL the rainbows! (Have a soft spot for Whisk cos they gave me an additional free macaron!

Crazy Korean feast that Tron and I had with Pastor Sally. I love Korean BBQ so so much! But have quite a bit of hate for kimchi at the moment because I got such severe gastric one day when I decided to eat nothing but kimchi one day…

When Tron and I introduced our parents to each other, we took them to a 10 course dinner at a chinese restaurant in USJ 19 mall.. it was an interesting meal indeed! I didn’t take so many photos, because it was kinda awkward with so many people around, hehe. But it was fun and everything went well. As Tron says – where there’s food, there’s joy!

Fuzz urgently emailed me and Dull to buy Groupon coupons for this BBQ buffet at Chillout Bar. I already was a bit meh about it, but I agreed, just to teach her a lesson that Groupon deals are not always what they are cut out to be. In the end, she had to agree! The BBQ buffet was small and they didn’t serve drinks (this is how they earn the $ back – cheap food but so dry & spicy that you’ll have no choice but to order exorbitant drinks!). However, it was a good night spent with my fave gals and I enjoyed myself at Chillout Bar. I love the deejay’s 90s selection!

Eating at TGIF because we had free vouchers…

Set meal at Capriciossa to indulge…

Can’t Stop, Don’t Stop The Buffets November 17, 2011

I know I haven’t been writing public posts in a long time… in fact I have a lot to write… ALL BITCHINGS. Hahaha… hence the sudden influx of protected posts. =D In fact, I wanted to write another private post, but then I thought that for all those people who don’t have the password, then it’s kind of plain to see 3 consecutive mystery posts. (But then again, it’s gonna be another influx of food pics, so maybe you’ll hate me anyway).

So let me do the November weekend updates instead! It’s been quite an eventful November, and it’s only the middle of the month. At work, I’m so crazy busy. When I was free, I was so free that I can go to the gym so often. When I’m busy, I am up at night doing programming. Troll Cobol giving me problems. -__-” Then I get resentful that I can’t go to the gym. I think basically you have to just find the right balance. Just select 2 or 3 days from the work week that “no matter what”, you will leave on time / not that late. Then just stick to it. If you really wanna do work, can go back home and VPN back in anyway. Just that sometimes you feel like you are SO on the brink of cracking that tough nut that you end up constantly testing and testing and testing… then oops, 1 hour just passed “like that”.

Early November, my brother finally treated all of us to a Japanese buffet (Shogun) because … it’s his “first job treat”. Hahaha! All those years that LY and I have been treating him… finally we get to enjoy! Some more my brother had to pay for Tron and Kris… what a gooooood brother. And you know what? He actually insist on treating us even though just that very afternoon he injured himself playing football. You must think it was some mad scuffle or something. Actually he was #foreveralone playing footie with himself. And still injured himself! Ok, don’t want to laugh at him because he is in a lot of pain.

Anyway, because of my brother’s sprain / torn ligament (don’t know the exact terminology, and til today still pain), there was a lot of drama that evening! Though I would have loved to continue attacking the dessert buffet, we had to go home in order to bring my bro to the clinic. At one point, he couldn’t even walk to the carpark, and the guys (Kris & Tron) had to go and find WHEELCHAIR for him. Sunway Pyramid got so many disabled people cos they ran out of wheelchair, then the guys had to go to pharmacies and find crutches for him! Heroically, they managed to find! (Clue : go to Watsons, the rest don’t sell).

This was what we had whacked before our celebration got cut short :

This isn’t mine! It’s crazy Tron’s one… donno why he can whack raw oysters (no tobasco / lemon even to mask it!) so easily… disgusting wei!

Earlier in the day, I accompanied Tron to do his errands around KL.. so I forced him to eat Snowflake with me! Irony of ironies, just when I had collected a fully-chopped card, I have lost my love for Snowflake. Maybe because when I was so into it, I would eat it WHENEVER, which meant, even if it’s raining cats and dogs and super cold, I would be chomping on the grass jelly ice. Now I just feel so meh about it. Anyway, I took this photo to enter Snowflake contest… but those kinda contest which require voting on FB.. need like thousand friends in order to win. Scratch that, need thousand ENTHUSIASTIC friends.

We also saw these cars outside Sunway Resort Hotel when leaving Sunway Pyramid. Actually, they are MORE than cars. I just donno what to call them. I wanted to camwhore with it, but it’s so tinted that you don’t know who is inside. Probably people with guns who would have no qualms about pulling the trigger…

You familiar withe the brand Brietling? I had never heard of it til my ex-colleagues kept telling me that the Tan Sri gave one of the managers (male – must specify in case you think it’s Amber Chia case all over again) a Brietling watch. They tell me it costs > RM30k. Seriously? Anyway, they had a showcase in Pavilion the other day…

The next day, I accompanied Tron for his mother’s birthday celebration! We got her a very nice gift that as totally on-the-spur inspired as I walked past the shop. All my other suggestions were thrown out of the window by Tron. My mom is much easier to shop for – like me, she likes stuff like perfume, make-up, toiletries, etc. Apparently, Tron’s mom got more than enough. Anyway, the family bought Groupon coupons for a buffet meal at Renaissance Hotel. This is my first Groupon experience after a very long hiatus… hahaha.

My personal recommendation is that you head for the sushi and sashimi area first and foremost! This place will be EMPTY if you wait any longer, and the sushi chef takes forever to refill. And the people in front of me will pile EVERYTING on their plates, maybe leave one slice of sashimi there so it don’t look so bad wtf. So yah, head for the Japanese section first! (I loveee sashimi, never enough even though I just ate a lot the previous day!)

Not many Western dishes that I like. If you like lamb, you’d be delighted with this place as they feature it a lot in their dishes. Oh, and that spagghetti, Tron’s mom & aunties all refer to it as Spagghetti Indian Style. Lololol. But I think it’s quite nice leh!

Just wanted to try their chapati + dahl…

And then beeline for desserts! I’m glad that we were kiasu and arrived super early, cos I think those people who come when the buffet has already started for > 1 hour… they will find a lot of empty plates!

I love the jellies!

And more desserts… the dessert selection was fantastic!

Fruit cocktail.

We got good seats with a great view!

Happy birthday to Aunty J again and hope you liked the gift!

Ooh, and I was very happy on Saturday because I met up with Sookie… and we went to Marmalade!! My first time there…. omg. So jakun right? And everything on the menu sounds so good. I just couldn’t make up my mind, and wound up with a burger. The place very nice la, if no noisy screaming kids, even nicer. I wanna bring Tron here!

Happy also cos got new gym partner, though Sookie doesn’t do Combat, Jam, etc. Sigh. She’s going to convince me that cycling is really the way to go… hehe! Really need to get my stamina back up. Today I pushed myself so hard though I didn’t gym for 1 week already, and nearly fainted! I seriously felt myself starting to black out. Damn shameful right. Any drugs I can take to rectify this? WTf!

Ooh, and I also got to collect my prize from Just Heavenly. Ok, I only won two cupcakes, that I had the intention to share with Tron. Then I felt bad that my family don’t get to try the awesome-ness that is Just Heavenly, so I selected a few cakes for them. The price I paid for the cakes is more than the cupcakes I won lor! Anyway, I hope they enjoy it, my mom was so happy so I felt good too.

Appreciative boyfriend?

Sometimes I’m So tWitty! October 27, 2011

As you may or may not know, my Twitter account is locked. I don’t get to bitch and rant so much HERE, so why close off another avenue for me to bitch and rant? However, sometimes I’m so funny on Twitter (perasan), I can’t help but want to share it on my blog as well. Hahaha. Here are some of my favorite Tweets.

((I thought of screencapping them, but too much work. Talking about work, the place I work at is quite shitty — literally. Today I saw a dog take a dump, and another dog was sniffing the shitting dog’s butt as the shit was coming out. The last sentence might be a little bit confusing, but try to imagine it out and you’ll get what I mean. And please, don’t gag.))

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Yday a bunch of teen gals were screeching cos nearly fell off escalator. They kept screeching til when we walk past an atm

And the atm had the alarm blaring, i still thought it was them screeching! I just thought how come they can shout til so high.

Why ah. Why are teenage girls so noisy?! Omg!

[posted on 27/10/2011]

there’s a thin line between doing nothing and expecting maximum results, and resting in God…

[posted on 25/10/2011]

so not used to filling in my age as 28… *denial*>
[posted on 24/10/2011]

i just got charged rm82 for some stuff i ordered online. customs service. wtf? how they calculate? i ask the fedex guy he say he dunno
i reckoned if i let him take it back, then i have to drive to KLIA to argue with customs… it will end up costing me the same + time..
so i just paid. i read online that someone said it is by LUCK? Wtf?? got such shit??
[posted on 20/10/2011]

if u work in IT side for a Bank and call urself a Banker, then u are deluded.
If you work for bank call center and call urself a Banker, then u are deluded.
if u work in acct dept , HR, PR, etc of a bank which does not involve u directly heading direction of the bank, u are not a banker.
tan sri teh hong piow = banker. u work as a teller = banker? ur job title already said u are a teller lor. dun nama glamor so much pls.
[posted on 18/10/2011]

Some pple’s dating circles are so small that everyone is dating someone else’s ex boyfriend or girlfriend.
So weird to date ur fren’s ex la. That’s y internet so good- u can date a complete stranger instead wtf
[posted on 5/10/2011]

black man in black shirt and black shorts, pls don’t stand by the not-so-side-of-the-road in the middle of the night.i nearly hit u wtf
right after i wanted to tweet that, i hit my neighbour’s auto gate… so u see, i’m a real klutz. pls don’t make things harder for me wtffff
[posted on 2/10/2011]

whattup with gals who bring soft toys ard EVERYWHERE n treat it like it’s the baby of their boyfriend and themselves. creepy and not cute.
plus, i noticed this ‘trend’ starting only because 1 or 2 fellers kept doing it, then now all gals wanna do it? damn sien to see this shit!
[posted on 2/10/2011]

What’s up with westboro baptist church. Why they so full of hate and insanity? Found out abt them thru news in hk.
Even pple who DO go to their church are so fearful they don’t get baptized cos ‘afraid God doesn’t like me’. -_-
[posted on 30/9/2011]

I just cannot express how disgusted i am at pple who ambulance surf. Just blocked one in nick of time. Satisfied.
[posted on 30/9/2011]

i gotta remember this… tron forgot that it’s called “lomo camera”, so he called it “amah camera”, cos it’s “lou mou”… get it?!!? hahaha!
[posted on 19/9/2011]

been having running nose & sneezing all day..clarinase no help at all…. eff this shit!! running nose like really dripping down to chin wtf
[posted on 4/9/2011]

my bf said, “those specs make u look like ah por”. when he found out THAT was the cheaper choice, he said, “actually, look like rich aunty.”
[posted on 3/9/2011]

it is always funny to see who the people who always insulted ur looks end up dating… someone really lol-worthy… karma, i say.
[posted on 19/8/2011]

you’re mcdonald’s and i’m burger king… i’ll be having it my way and you’ll be loving it!
[posted on 6/8/2011]

why is everyone saying “poor hef” over crystal harris bitching bout him? not like he dunno what he was in for.. he memang using money to
attract women to him in the first place what. if crystal was really golddigger she would have married him. she didn’t.
[posted on 28/7/2011]

had a tough day today.. (singing to party rock anthem) : everyday i’m suff-suff-suffering…
[posted on 12/7/2011]

someone on yuberactive keeps copying my reviews! pple give u free product to review then use ur own bloody words la!
[posted on 23/6/2011]

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So, do ya like it? Did I make you laugh? Hahaha… Twitter is so much fun, and if you read some Singaporean blogger’s Twitter, it is also so full of drama! People in the office think I’m busy sms-ing but I’m actually scrolling thru Tweets. Loser!

+10 Years Of Blogging October 25, 2011

Yep, search the archives. Apparently I’ve been at this for 10 years. Even I can’t believe it. For one, I still lie to myself that I’m 21, so how could I possibly have been blogging since I’m 11? At 11, the only thing I used the PC for was to play Tetris on the Windows 3.11. My dad’s hope of nurturing future Bill Gates must’ve been severely dashed. But guess what? I think he should think we ARE geniuses anyway, because he still doesn’t know how to turn on the computer!

((Ok, maybe he DOES know how to turn on the computer, I’ve just never seen him do it. And if he can, could he install Tetris and get himself hooked onto it? Can he? Hmm? Hmmm???))

This is how I’ve changed through the years :

2001 – just started college. Ok, I put an unglam photo of myself as I am lazy to find any photos of me from so long ago. I don’t think I owned a digital camera. I just took my brother-in-law (then my sister’s bf) camera and made it my own!

Ah, typical Leech of 2001. I only wore Esprit t-shirts from the discount rack (RM25-RM30 per piece) and always carried the lime green Nike bag that I won from Tone magazine (now no more) like my firstborn. No eyeliner (heck – no make-up) and always had to walk everywhere because still had no car to drive. Can see the beginnings of eyebags already. Hahahhaa! 

2002 – 2nd year college aka advance diploma year. I suppose the most significant thing I remembered about this year was that I joined the Writer’s Bloc (now defunct) camp thingy. We were all like, “Yo, we be better than Brats. We don’t pay no money to join a journalism workshop. We be chosen because we underwent stringent selection process!” Wah, young elitist forkers.

Actually, I’m darn thankful for the camp because it made me realise that I better study harder in my current field (IT) because I had no backup plan WHATSOEVER in the writing world. HAHAHAA.. *sob*sob*

2003 – Final year in college, was very active with editorial board stuff. Made a few Friends For Life here, no regrets juggling programming, graphic design and friendx.com (wtf!) through my final years in college. Hahaha! About Friendx — I played around a lot on this website, which is a friend making website. Hey, don’t judge me, I made quite a few good friends. Erm.. of which 3 are still on my Facebook account! I actually thought it was like, a better version of ahmoi.com, but sadly it eventually degenerated into that.  It was also a time when I was at my ultimate camwhore mode aka, I was able to produce pictures of myself that did not look like me. Geddit?

The below picture is named “infamous red” because this photo apparently so did not look like me that when my CLASSMATE saw my profile on friendx.com, he messaged me to ask me if he could get to know me. The next day in class, I was like wtf, was that message a joke? And he was like, what the heck are you talking about? And you could actually see the look of horror dawning on his face when he realised that he messaged (OMG!) me. What a slap in the face.

Oh, and while I was searching for photos, I came across a picture I had named “Makemetulanonly.jpg”. Obviously I had to click and open it. You see, this is what gals have to deal with on Friendster. Apparently if you have a Friendster account, that means you MUST “make friend” with whatever random guy messages you. You see, this kinda attitude also expect to make friends with girl. Go play with yourself far far away la, TAN. (Hahaha, not that I bore a grudge for so long, but since I had screencapped it, might as well show you all.)

To show you the discrepancy between what I take and what is reality, here are a few pictures that I took of myself :

This ain’t even the top of the crop man. The top of the crop had dirty old men propositioning innocent 19 year old girl … shameless forkers. They should be glad that I didn’t screenshot all those messages too.

And this is what my friends take of me. I hate them!

Oh, just throwing this in to show you how hardworking I am, wtf.

Er… I liked Naruto very much then. Does that explain this picture?

2004 – Just started work! Technically, the first 6 months was completing my thesis and then going for job interviews. I never did tell you about my crap interview with a crap company right? So crap that halfway through the guy gave up convincing me that it’s a good job? Lol! And started smoking right in front of me?? Hahahhaa… wow, good times. ~_~” Started work in XYZ Bank in June 2004, and lasted til June 2011. I totally don’t even know anything about working life, though I had interned at my dad’s place before. Not the same, y’know?

Somehow, I became “famous” because I trailed my director’s car (apparently high-beamed him also) and because Raymond sent out an email to all the guys in the office (accidentally — we were fighting over the keyboard) asking, “Do you think Leech is pretty?”   T___T

One of the first and most memorable things the company asked me to do was a cheerleading performance when they launched their Manchester United credit card. I don’t know what made them think that us nerds would make good cheerleaders, but … ok lah. Lol!

Just throwing this in here to make someone lol. In case you’re wondering why I’m wearing a t-shirt next to a well-dressed couple, it’s because after the event was over, I changed into another outfit to go mamak with friends. Hahahaha… can’t go to mamak in a gown, right?

I note that I don’t look as hideous as just a year before. I attribute it to honing said camwhore skills + having the spending power to buy MAKEUP. ^^By the way, I look back and think I look SLIM in these photos. Not thin, but SLIM right??? Yet people gave me so much flak about being fat. Look at me now!! I’m at least 10kg heavier than I was back then!! Lololol.

Ok kinda sleepy and lazy to continue this entry. Maybe if the nostalgic feeling strikes again later, I will dig out the photos from 2005-2010. Meanwhile, here is ultimo latest photos of me (vain)… but admit that it’s copping out cos it’s from my handphone and the resolution is crap so you can’t see how old hag I am now. Hahahaha… but I’m sure you can guesstimate la.

Pink & black striped crop top from H&M… but me belly is poking out, so have to wear another shirt underneath, lol. Didn’t realise it was a crop top! Thought it was just at the waist, but it turned out like so easy to expose the midriff. I shy.

Good lighting… anything that obscures 50% of my face is good lighting, right? Anyway, this shirt is my ultimate good buy at Citygates …

Just last Saturday! With my bodycon dress from ASOS, but too shy to wear it as a dress (it is damn freaking unforgiving) so have to wear as a top instead.

OMG! I complained so much… I really need to kickstart my fitness regime again!!!