Hey, don’t discriminate.

And I think we shouldn’t aspire to look like another race… but to make people think that Malaysian Chinese are damn kau pretty. And one day, maybe people would think, “Hey, are you Malaysian Chinese?” is a compliment.

Meanwhile, here are photos I cleared out of my handphone :

Photo of me in red jacket being an usher @ church. I’m part of the “welcome ministry”. Do you think I look very welcoming?

The red jacket brings to mind company XYZ’s bank tellers… I feel like I’m working for them again!

Oh, you know. Just taking photos of myself while Tron drives me around.

Ah, a Gross Leech moment. There’s been people saying that there’s PLASTIC in Chatime Aiyu Jelly, and actually it’s just hardened jelly skin. I love aiyu jelly! Anyway, I was playing around with the jelly skin, and this is how it looks like. Very disturbing, I know.

I love taking pics of myself AFTER a workout to see how sweaty and tired I am.. This was after Simone’s Body Combat class…

After Su Lin’s crazy Body Jam class.

New shirt from H&M… this was taken at church. We had to go for some special course…

My Stepford’s Wives look… ;p

Casual Fridays… Can wear tee shirt to office, so syiok!

Me trying out the bling sunglasses that I won from Aldo. Check out how high the nose bridge is! Totally cannot pakai… hahaha!

Some funny Crocs game that they were playing. This was taken in Hong Kong. I like the miniature Crocs mascot so much! Wish I had the guts to sneak one home.

Nah, very Korean looking no? Some aunty asked me am I Korean when I look like this!!!

Glammed up a bit because was meeting Raymond for lunch. This was way back in December and I was flinging the rest of my leave left and right because they don’t allow us to carry forward

Trying to show you the ultra funky necklace that Tron’s mom gave me!! It’s HUGE and very “Oriental” feel about it.

Random pic taken in Vivocity.. Haven’t worn that green dress in ages!

Stopped by some highway rest stop on the way down to Singapore…

I just love my sheer, silver jacket… I pair it with almost anything. Even this long dress from Kitschen. But Tron hates the jacket… he says that when I first wore it, he thought it was smelly plastic. (Must specify that it is SMELLY some more)

Can see messy house in the background.

In Paddington House of Pancakes, Midvalley.

Nah, most Korean of them all. This is how “dresed up” I am when working from home.

Ta-da~~ finally revealing what I’ve been making myself work on every night after work…  my own personal accounting software! *phew* In fact, this is a project that I embarked on about 5 years ago, but I got bored and after reformatting my computer, etc, I just never worked on it until I got the hankering to do so either late last year or early this year.

I started searching for my source code so I could continue working on it… but sad to say that I could only find the logon page codes! As you can see from the link on top, I had already an output screen and evidently – some method to input transactions. It was soooo easy to just say, “Screw this, I’ll go back to pen and paper” (Which is how I do my own personal finances…), but I had to persevere. Mainly because my little notebook is almost finished, and I’m getting lazy to keep writing everything down. Plus, I like the idea of being able to query out the transactions (data mining) and really getting to know what I’m spending my money on. It’s quite tedious to trawl through your own notebook to track back where the expenses are going!

I didn’t even have the database scripts to recreate all the tables again, even though I remember distinctly telling myself, “Ok, you got to keep the scripts in a text file so that next time when you want to install a new copy in another machine, you can just trigger all the queries in one go.” What the heck! Very demotivating, but at the same time, I told myself, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO REDO EVERYTHING YOU FELT WAS “NOT QUITE RIGHT”! My previous program had a lot of hardcoding, and if it was to be installed in another person’s PC, everytime he / she wanted to add in a new transaction type, it would involve database command again. Even though it’s only myself using the software, I decided to make everything “parameterised”. Hahahhaa…

Ok, ok, no need to criticise on the GUI or whatever, I didn’t really concentrate on APPEARANCES as I was more concerned on getting the main modules working, and I’ve got quite a bit done so far. As I wrote on my Twitter, the rest are the bells and whistles. The changes I made from my 2007 copy :

a. paramaterisation of all the transaction codes (previously hardcoded )

b. able to add in new users (previously was for ME and ME alone)

c. able to add in different accounts (previously all finances is lumped in an “all in” category. Now can segregate on the balances in credit card (which bank cc as well), cash account, savings accounts, etc)

d. able to query transactions by date (previously would show you the balances for the month) and by account (as mentioned, last time was “all in”)

e. transaction screen able to put in default amounts so don’t have to keep keying in certain recurring expenses (e.g: gym, salary)

f. usage of menu-driven interaction instead of previous style which had a row of command buttons on the side (like a “frames” view)

I still have some other touch-ups to do :

a. maintainence of transaction codes (very low priority)

b. different type of reporting styles

c. set-up all the accounts that I have (this is the main priority actually)

d. my limits checking

Meanwhile, I achieved my target of completing this by end of the month so that I can resume keeping account of my expenses.. I had stopped for almost two months because there was heavy expenditure and I got demotivated. Hahahhaa! Anyway, I’ve had fun with this… after this, Tron asked me to build another small program for him, so I will probably work on that.

Oh yes, and the MySQL Workbench is sooo awesome! You don’t need to know ANYTHING on SQL and you can build your own tables and databases… how awesome is that? DBAs??… I shall replace you! Muwahhahaha….

A wise friend once told me – why don’t you try reading the horoscope for ALL the other star signs… I bet it’s so general that ALL of it can apply to you. I found that it was half true… some of it was, and some of it wasn’t. But that was the same for my OWN star sign – some of it was true, and some of it wasn’t.

I guess it’s so hard to accept it as balderdash when Tron and I have superbly 100% matching horoscopes whether following the Western one or the Chinese one.

Gotta be at work in a few hours time — didn’t take any leave this year. Then again, I’m used to not taking leave during the CNY period. This year is my most no CNY spirit… I didn’t buy any new clothes (oh, the shirt I’m wearing in the above pics are new (with tags some more!) but I didn’t buy it for CNY this year. I bought it almost 1.5 years ago!! This is what happens when you buy stuff wholesale.. you can get so much bang for your buck. And I tell ya, it’s not the only item with tags still on it in my room…), and the family ain’t really celebrating together. Mom and dad fell sick, so we were quarantined at home so as not to spread the viruses outside. My sister is still in confinement, and though she badly wants to visit my maternal grandpa, she was barred from doing so by my mom. I haven’t seen my nephew since Sunday (I think) and I miss him badly. He is so lovely and I’m starting to become a capital-A awesome aunty…

Tron and his family also were not around during the holiday period, so it was even more sien… anyway, he’s now back, can’t wait to pass him all the CNY goodies we have packed up for his family!

I’m here to talk about dogcatchers. The place that I work have so much stray dogs, and one day, the Majlis Perbandaran came a-calling. Do you know how they catch dogs? I think I watched too many cartoons when younger. I imagined the dogcatchers to be running after the strays with giant nets. Hehehe! In actual fact, this is what they use to catch dogs.

The loop you see on one end? It’s like a noose. They try to get it over the dog’s neck, and by manipulating the rope at the other end of the stick, they can strangulate the dog until it stops trying to get away. By keeping a short leash on them, the dog is forced to trot by the dogcatcher’s heels, less it asphyxiates itself. Through this manipulation, the dogcatcher is able to throw the dog into the back of its truck.

Halfway through the dogcatching exercise, the owner of the carpark where I park my car for the day runs out and shouts at the dogcatchers. A general, “What the fC*K do you think you are doing?” The dogcatchers say, “Our job, duh.” The carpark owner says that you’re only supposed to catch strays. All the dogs that you are currently catching belong to ME.

This is a big lie, either that or the carpark owner is the worst dog owner in the history of dog owners. The dogs are mangy, flea-ridden, wounded, un-fed and dirty beasts. It would probably be doing them a great favor to be taken to the pound. Yeah, I know that people say that once they are in the pound, they are killed. But is it any better for them to be running around, so horribly neglected? And what if they get rabies? Will the carpark owner still claim them as his when his brain starts swelling up?

Anyway, the dogcatchers didn’t want to fight with the carpark owner, and left. They came back a week later when the stray dog condition didn’t get any better… but til today I still see a few strays wandering around.

This pisses me off about the place that I work. That and the fact that the next nearest place to eat (other than the cafeteria in the building) is referred to as “The Dumpster”. No prizes for guessing where it is situated.