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| On my way to my car after work, with many thoughts tumbling in my mind, i tripped over the low-slung chains that define my workplace's car park boundary.
Tripped, but didn't fall. Because i didn't fall, i now have a twisted ankle which is visibly bruised and swollen. Ouch ouch ouch.
Luckily a quick glance round left my pride intact. Nobody saw me  ! | | |
| The earth has almost completed her journey around the great big fat Sun and so another year draws to a close. Time to look back at one year's worth of life, observe one's experiences, growth, and get to know myself better so i can plan a better Wawasan 2010  .
1. I joined Facebook! HAHAHA finally!
2. I went to Cambodia after wanting to go for more than 10 years and enjoyed the experience tremendously. Nth can make them memories change.
3. Went to Cameron Highlands and Malacca with uni-mates. Re-discovered how sometimes all it takes is the right combo of people to make everyday plain experiences magical.
4. Saw my Dad on the front page of The Star Metro North. My dad is cool  .
5. Participated in Earth Hour. Did my little bit of energy saving .
6. Lost weight and kind of maintained weight pretty well throughout the year. Yet to reach optimum size.
7. Managed to successfully re-organize and clear up my bedroom, although still have not done re-wiring, feature wall, install light fixtures of my dreams, or changed curtains to blinds yet. How sweet is the satisfaction of walking into a kinda neat room and acknowledging it as mine.
8. Got involved in a garage sale.
9. Totally and completely re-conditioned myself to indulge in retail therapy. Consider it my contribution to improving the sluggish economy. Hands itching to spend more even now.
10. Took my first actual working business trip. Although only to KL but nevertheless, it was exciting in it's own way.
11. My first time taking LRT alone . It's not that i wouldn't do it before, it's just that i've never been in a situation where i needed to do so before. Ladida, i'm so pampered hehe. Silly to write this down but hey it was something.
12. Took baby steps in photography. Man do i need more help.
13. Learnt my lesson about working from home.
14. Finally got daily disposable contact lens! But, sad to say eyes are too sensitive to any lens now. However, vanity is as vanity was, therefore would rather walk around vision impaired (aka sans glasses) when all dressed up.
15. Started rubbing away rust from my grasp of BM.
16. Got third place in a Toastmasters competition. Out of 5 ppl, so nothing really grand.
17. Participated in TWO treasure hunts this year, one by Rapid Penang, and another was for company's sports day. For the company one, our team "One Man Show" got 3rd place out of 50  .
18. Struggled to allow life to pass by as 2 boyfriends (ok, fine, ex lah) got married, and had a big blow up argument with another.
19. Went through major cat-fight drama at work and survived unharmed. I'm cool with it now. Glad it happened and is all settled.
20. Got promoted. Finally. Recognition sure did taste sweeter when informed of promotion immediately after handling cat-fight drama with full attempt at maturity.
21. Paid up my first Royal Malaysian Police traffic summons. Heh. The prev and first ever summons i got was a parking summons by MPPJ in 2005.
22. Managed to break past the 4k barrier. 
23. Was a Witness to Pinky's marriage  . Yay Pinky got hitched!
24. Failed to complete swimming lessons or even begin chinese language lessons! The islander still drowns.
25. Overhauled my aquarium at work, but suffered complete shrimp annihilation due to aedes mosquito fogging. Sakit hati.
26. Got my home pc up and in working order, though broadband at home is still as awful as ever. Ugh.
27. Got myself my Levi's jeans. Another one next year if i can drop a size  .
28. Sponsored a little girl in India through World Vision.
29. Recently just treated myself to a brand new camera. My precious new baby.
30. Friendships saved and made. I'm really proud and happy of this one achievement. It took a while, it's still not stable yet, but i've got friends, and i've gotten close again to old friends, and it's embarrassing yet a relief that they realize i've gone missing from their lives for years and yet they still welcome me back in. It takes alot to charge up forgotten friendships. Fuih.
31. Realized the importance of maintaining a diary of sorts so i can look back at myself and see how i've changed and if in the right direction. Nothing productive could've been tracked without the help of this blog. Lovin my blog, lovin all my blogdom friends, thanks for being with me all through  .
So here reaches the end of my trackings. Wanted to include pics for most of them but it ended up too long, oops. Anyways, see the little box on the right labelled 2009? Sometime this month will start blog housekeeping and update it to 2010 and list my resolutions and goals. Hello 2010, wonder what sort of excitement you're bringing in with you . | | |
| Last one in the office today.
Everybody has gone and the lights are all off for 3/4 of the office!
Happy New Year everybody!
okthxbye! | | |
| Lately, it's been happening again. I say or think of something, and it happens by coincidence. The most recent and memorable ones this time is about the Great Flood my family lived through several years back.
Oh so drama, right, to call it The Great Flood . About 12 to 15 years ago, affecting only the back of my home, the gutter attached to the roof got so clogged up with dead leaves etc that the rainwater couldn't drain away. What was supposed to be just another heavy rainstorm caused the rainwater to pool on the roof since couldn't drain away, and then soak in under the roof tiles, and pour through the ceiling of my bedroom! (btw, my bedroom means me and my sister's bedroom since we share it ) In those days, we used to have more things on the floor than in the cupboards or on the shelves. We had books and books and even more books on the floor, and of course the mandatory teenage junk comprising of posters, magazines, clothes, etc. The rainwater gushed down through the joints where the ceiling meets the wall, over the built in cupboards and flooded the room. Books were soggified and floating. The whole family was up and about, rushing to stem the flow of water. Dad went up the roof in the pitch darkness of the night, through the heavy rainstorm, from the front balcony, over the roof pinacle, all the way to the back of the house to clear the gutter, where if he fell it would be a three-storey drop. Water flooded the room, the landing outside our bedrooms, waterfalled off the landing onto the ground floor, and since our stairs are all at the same place, instead of pooling at the ground floor, the water just went on into the basement for it's final leg. It took us days to dry off everything and till today i still have puffy books with wavey pages thanks to their waterlogged experience.
A few days ago, i brought up memories of the great flood while talking to my sister who is back for the Christmas holidays. One of my big achievements in 2009 is re-organizing and clearing up the bedroom and i was pointing out to her the benefits of my actions in the event another flood ever occurs. Who would've thought it would happen again because happen again it did early in the wee hours of this morning, not too long after Wayne Rooney scored the first goal for Manchester United against Hull City.
As the only member of the family with work today, i was snuggled up and trying to sleep early. While listening to the heavy rainfall, i was roused from my dazy almost dreaming state when i suddenly realized the tip tap tapping of water against floor was a little too clear and getting more frantic as more tip tapping joined in the chorus. I jumped up, switched the lights on, and ran over to see if i was just being paranoid. And so continued the saga of the great flood, version 2009.
Dad and sis had to cut short their EPL fun. Sis and i immediately went nuts getting buckets and mopping floors. While dad went rushing to get the keys to the only balcony, which is attached to the masterbedroom. Mom took some time before she realized what was going on since nobody found the time to stop to explain. Suddenly my brother burst out of his room. We hadn't even thought about waking him up, but this time the rainwater was pouring into not only my room but also into his, and his precious collection of guitars was right in the line of fire. He dragged out and dumped his guitars (i last counted he had 16) on the landing outside our rooms but due to insufficient space he had to run down to put them downstairs too. All the while we were still mopping up and squeezing out buckets and buckets of rainwater.
The flood this round was worse because it affected 2 bedrooms instead of just 1, and this time the water went gushing through our built in cupboards too so most of our clothes and everything else we had in the cupboards were drenched, my computer got wet through and through (will test out if it's ok once it is completely dry), and quite a number of bro's guitar stuff got wet too. Luckily it wasn't as bad as it might have been because we jumped into action really early on and most of our floors were already cleared of stuff so no soggy books to dry out in the sun and the waters didnt reach the basement.
It was all over in about 2 hours. Dad went back down to watch the sports channel, Mom went to sleep, Sis soaked in soap all the cloths and rugs we'd used to mop up the waters, Bro (who was once quite conceited over having a neater room than ours but the flood clearly demonstrated otherwise since i had less stuff affected since most neatly packed away in their rightful places instead of stacked on floor, hah!) mumbled and grumbled while he cleared away soggy belongings. As for myself, i had to clean a cut on my hand i got from earlier the day which i suspect might get infected from wringing out not-so-clean-water-soaked cloths.
I went to bed after that with the feeling of satisfaction, knowing that it pays to have gone through much effort in clearing up my bedroom and changing it from the mess it once was to the pretty way it is now. Hehe yes yes in a way this is just a gloating boastful post about my efforts in cleaning up my room, but hey it did take a lot of time and effort and indirectly it caused a difference in the way the flood was managed. I'd not have heard the water when it first came trickling in if it had hit books instead of the floor, and stemming the flow of the waters would've been tricky if floor was covered in soggy-able materials, post-flood clean up wouldve been a nightmare of tossing out ruined stuff and going through mucky piles of soggy dust and dirt which would have been trapped among mess of books if a mess existed. Whew. Thank God i had resolved to re-do my room in 2009 .
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