Archive for January, 2009

Happy Happy Chinese ‘Niu’ Year!! 牛年快乐

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

I've been hearing this a lot, from friends, relatives, books, magazines, newspapers, radio, tv... that the year of cow ('niu') is not good for me. Career, not good, wealth, not good, relationship, not good, health, not good, really nothing is good lar..Since everything is not good, I've decided not to ...

Ang Pow Ang Pow, come see which one nicer?

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

For the past few years, you will see ppl giving out ang pow packets to friends or relatives because they got a lot. Bank or shopping complexes giving out stacks of ang pow packets when you go change new notes or go shopping. But for this year, it's the other ...

Friday friday, where are you?

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

This morning when my alarm goes off, the first thing that came into my mind was.. Today is Friday, last day of work, can have long holidays already, can sleep until late late already! yay!! Then after lying on my bed for a minute or two, my brain started to ...

Hassle free with online shopping

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Everything goes online nowadays. You can get almost everything online, books, games, toys, clothes, groceries, medical equipments, home health care products and many more. Just a few days ago, a friend of mine got herself the high calorie, protein free, lactose free, gluten free powdered food, the duocal powder from ...

Forgot to bring hp = Forgot to wear underwear!!!

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Yesterday FL left his hp at home. So during lunch, he told his colleagues about this. One of his colleague looked at him and said, "har? you forgot your hp? forgot hp it's like forgot to wear underwear to work leh!!!!" So funny right? Hp can relate to underwear? It shows ...

Domino’s pizza, 30 minutes to order, 45 minutes to deliver

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Few months ago, I called Domino's pizza for delivery. After I gave them my details, the address, the phone number and etc, they told me they did not deliver to my area. They only delivered until the street next to my condo but not my street. oo, too bad, since ...

Crowded, crowded, everywhere is crowded

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Have you been to any of the hypermarkets or supermarkets recently? 2 days ago(Wednesday night), I went to Carrefour to buy some CNY stuff for my relatives. Carrefour open till 11pm everyday and it was already around 10pm when I was there. I had listed down all the things that ...

Trophies for the entire team

Friday, January 16th, 2009

When I went over to my sister's place yesterday, I saw there's a trophy on the shelf. My sister told me the trophy belongs to my nephew, he is one of the basketball team members at school and recently they won a match. There are basketball trophies for each and ...

Confidence and pretty!

Friday, January 16th, 2009

We met Linda at a party and she looked great in shape. I remembered when I saw Linda last year, she was overweight and lack of self confidence but look at her now, she's confidence on her looks, shape and she is definitely much more cheerful and happier. She told ...

Dog’s eye look people down (狗眼看人低)

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

If you are a chinese, I'm sure you heard of this phrase before, dog's eye look people down 'gao ngam hon yan dai' (狗眼看人低).. hehe...direct translation from chinese. There are A LOT of these ppl in this world, around you. It can be family members, relatives, friends, or even strangers. ...

The EasyCard (悠游卡)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Before we started to visit places at Taipei, we got ourselves the EasyCard (悠游卡) at one of the MRT station. The EasyCard is the first touch n go card for mass transport in Taiwan (similar to Hong Kong's Octopus Card (八达通)). You can use the EasyCard at the MRT station, ...

I love elm trees!

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

I was invited to Susan's house warming party last weekend. I was attracted the minute I drove into that housing area. There are a lot of Elm trees surrounding the housing area and makes the whole area looks comfortable, peaceful and cool. I hope the place I stayed will have more ...

Learn how to say NO…

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Do you know how to say 'NO' to someone when they asked you to do the things that you don't feel like doing? I have no problem saying 'NO' to strangers, friends, colleagues but to close one like family and relatives...it just seems so hard to say no... Recently a relative ...

Tak Boleh Tahan lar!!!!!!

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Fresh grads nowadays are really different from last time (of cos not ALL freshie la..), at least different from the time when I was a fresh grad. 9am start work, they reached office at 10am, even later than those managers. Even when people tells them try to come earlier, preferable ...

A car program that best meets your company objectives

Monday, January 12th, 2009

A lot of people prefer to work in a big company rather than a small one. The reason they like to work in a big company is because big companies provide better benefits such as more annual leaves, medical care, dental care, food allowance and etc. If you are in ...

I deserved my $$$$$$!!!!!

Friday, January 9th, 2009

I started to do online survey as one of the source for online making money. So this survey company that I joined is quite well known and they pay quite well if compared to local survey companies. How it works? Well, we will do surveys, then after finish a survey ...

Taipei CityInn Hotel (新驛旅店)

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

I thought booking for hotels in Taiwan is the same as other countries, which means we can simply find a few hotel booking websites, compare the rates and booked from there but clearly I was wrong. I went to search for hotels at a few hotel booking websites and found ...

Will you add your boss as a friend in Facebook?

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

A friend asked me this, will you add your current employer  as a friend in Facebook? I think for a while and then answered, NO, but I don't mind adding my ex employers. Why not current boss? Well, you know, sometimes you will complaint about your job, or your salary and ...

I can afford to buy an expensive car, but I can’t afford to buy another parking lot!

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Living in a condo can really meet all kinds of people. Just take the car park for example, most of the owner will own at least one car park (we have to buy the car park and you can opt not to buy any too). But nowadays most of the ...

Ikea Refund… very clever lar them!!

Monday, January 5th, 2009

About a year ago, I bought 2 bookcase from Ikea to keep all my books. The bookcase is not very expensive, quite tall and wide and without doors. Last month, I redeemed my credit card points from my Alliance-Ikea Card and managed to get 5 RM 10 Ikea vouchers (valid ...