The Beginning of A Great(?) Year

thurs, dec 30 @ 11.30am

the long awaited announcement was sent out by the marcom team... an e-announcement from the staff partner... declaring dec 31 as a public holiday in conjunction with malaysia's win at the aff suzuki cup... *eyes rolling* as long as i'm getting the public holiday, i'm a huge supporter... lol~ as i was heading out for lunch in ttdi with the interns, i kinda saw what i would have done years back... at the mere mentioning of a paid off day, phones were pulled out for plans to party... those were the days...

fri, dec 31 @ 2.00pm

noodles was starting to scratch herself too much... and her nails were getting too long for my skin... we decided it was time to get her a bath and nails cut... so, off we went to the pet shop for her first grooming session... the minute we stepped into the shop, we were all greeted with barking dogs... poor noodles... she was so frightened, she wouldnt let us go... kept on looking and crying for us as we were leaving her to the experts...

fri, dec 31 @ 2.20pm

got a call from anson for lunch... or a dessert brunch, should i say??? XP

fri, dec 31 @ 3.00pm

we then headed back to the pet shop to pick up noodles... she's now clean, fluffy, sweet smelling and most importantly, short nails!!! unfortunately for her, she was so frighten from all the barking and strangers... i could feel her still shaken while carrying her back to the car and home... pity my little gal...

fri, dec 31 @ 8.00pm

since we decided to stay away from the usual new year's eve clubbing scene, we drove ourselves to times square for a quick bite in subway... speaking of which, i think i can still taste the oats and raisins cookies in the mouth... yum yum... the initial plan was a quick dinner and movie... unfortunately, most of the available slots for movies required us to wait for a couple more hours or so... hence, a change of plans... drop the movie, stroll a lil more, get some snacks and back to play with noodles...

sat, jan 1 @ 12.00am

at the strike of twelve, we were sitting back enjoying cable tv with noodles on our laps... from where we were sat, we could hear fireworks outside... and the fur ball on our laps started jumping, afraid from the sound of the fireworks... took us quite a while to calm her down...

sat, jan 1 @ 1.00pm

more food... had a sudden cravings for pancakes... and since there's paddington packake in curve, there was where we were headed to... although we were quite tight on budget (what with the christmas presents and the arrival of noodles, all in the same month), he thought it was worthwhile to have something nicer on new year's day...

sat, jan 1 @ 2.30pm

we were supposed to only window shop on that day... but as we were walking around, a pair of boots caught my eye... it was soft and looks so good on me... unfortunately, lady luck wasnt with me then... the vendor ran out on my size... instead, he got himself a white loafers... ouch!!! lol~

sun, jan 2 @ 12.00pm

woke up pretty late that day... he cooked up a feast of beef burgers for both of us... it was really good... no, it was better than good... it was GREAT!!! the plan was to have lunch and go check out the progress of his bike... then, i got lazy and told him to find alip himself... sowee, hon....... o.O

mon, jan 3 @ 6.30am

alarm was ringing nonstop since more than a half hour ago... couldnt really wake up... even contemplating to call in sick... yeah, i should have... thinking to start off with a better work attitude on the first day of work for the year, i pulled myself off the bed... crawled to the bathroom, only to have noodles barking away really loudly...

mon, jan 3 @ 7.00am

noodles was barking non stop... it was pretty weird of her to do that, knowing that it wouldnt do her any good... well, that was the first time she did that after two weeks with us... it sounded like she's very reluctant to let me out of the house... and since i was already late for work, i didnt really though anything out of it...

mon, jan 3 @ 8.00am

just as i reached jalan semantan, i pulled into the fastest lane from jalan duta... now with the car totally in the fastest lane, those in front of me started braking... i followed suit... unfortunately, the driver behind me decided to continue dreaming and rear ended me... back bumper died and so did the clip holding it down too... had to say my farewells to the back hatch door and exhaust too... what a way to start my year... by the time the car was towed and the police report was made, it was almost lunch time... sigh... and i had yet to go over to perodua to submit the documentations to claim insurance coverage from the other party...

mon, jan 3 @ 2.30pm

came out form the perodua service centre with even more bad news... my dearest car will not be out from the centre for another 3 weeks... sigh~ i sure hope it'll be ready earlier than the stipulated timeline... dont really fancy having him riding his friend's bike to work in the rain... maybe it's time to buy more joss sticks and back to the daily praying ritual...