CNY Preparation

So busy preparing this coming CNY, Chinese New Year. I cleaned my house, thought about the menu of Chinese Reunion Dinner (CRD), bought the ingredients & marinated the chicken & beef.


I will upload more pictures & more about CRD. :)

Enjoy your Chinese Reunion Dinner with your family ya. Happy Chinese New Year! Moo.....

Envy & Capricorn

The seven deadly sins, Envy.


Thanks for this wonderful picture, Naima. You rock!

Lately, Envy got the best of me. I envy people' financial status, lifestyle, possession & etc. I always thought to myself that 1 day i will have all or some of them.

It really hits me hard when I see people buying things, like gadgets, meals, foods, books & etc, without giving much till no consideration about the price. My experience was when i followed a friend to a book store. He/She bought books based on how popular the book was or his/her favorite author. If i'm not mistaken, it cost about RM300+- and my expression was o.0 Speechless.

The recent book i bought was the Abs Diet by David Zinczenko (one of my 2009 resolution ^^), If i'm not mistaken it took me around 30mins to convince myself to buy the RM48.50 book. I can't believe that i took so long to make up my mind. I guess this habit developed when i have low purchasing power.

Just few days ago, my friend complained that he/she is broke & doesn't have enough money. The best part was he told me his/her EA gross income is RM72k. That is RM6k per month and I don't even earn 50% of that. Sometimes it makes me wonder how is my future going to be if my income doesn't increase.

I believe a lot of people are facing this problem. My next move is to look ways to increase my income. I hope this year i will create something for my future. Who knows what action will that be.

I'm not going to let Envy to kill me, I use it as a motivation to work harder more importantly work smarter.

Enjoy another Naima picture, Capricorn. Night ya

Realistic World

We live in a realistic world where people are looking out for themselves. People have their own agenda on what they want to achieve in life, the question is the method how they are going to achieve it.

I had had it of these type of issues and i putting up my guard to avoid these unnecessary issues and getting myself hurt.

I don't want to mention name as i respect the person's privacy. But if you are reading this, this is my thought of your action and why i'm reacted like that.

I admire people who have strong determination. They don't quit easily or until they get what they want which many successful people have. What annoys me with this person who i experienced is how he treated me in the past and current. When i don't have anything, our friendship is being tossed out of the window. Few years back, he was back as I had something which he wanted. I welcomed him back as naively thinking we were still friends but alas after he got what he wanted, my made up friendship was tossed out again. Now, he's back because he needs my help but this time i say "Sure, no problem. If you want my help, you're going to pay for it". After saying some nasty facts, i bet i will not be hearing from him soon or i will never hear from him.

Sometimes i think to myself do i have to a bitch to survive in this realistic world. I hate to be a bitch but when i have to be, i will be one. Another annoying thing happened recently is a person who do not introducing himself/herself first and wanting me to introduce myself first as if i'm interested of knowing you and trading information with you. If you are scare to expose yourself, then forget of asking me the question or knowing me.

Times like this, i listen to Mixed Up World by Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

Another deadly sin post. Night

My New Year SMS

I have this habit of creating my own message and sms to all of my friends on special day of the year like New Year, Chinese New Year, Hari Raya & etc. I have been doing this almost every year and sending sms a few of the special days within the same year. From now on, I am going to limit myself of sending 1 sms wishes for 1 special day only.

I got my message done last night and sent them out around noon today. If you guys didn't received it, my sincere apology. Here is my message for everyone.

"Farewell 2008 & Welcome 2009. 2009 might hold a tough or prosperous year to some. No matter what it's hold, you create your own future. Happy 2009 from Cyril"

I found it interesting when my friend told me last year, don't send me those forward sms wishes. In fact i was the one who created it.

Anyway, this morning my sis & 1 made some pancakes. :) They look almost like roti canai but they are healtier.




Enjoy your new year holiday. I will be busy with my 2009 resolution.

Sunday Activities

Sorry for the late posting, my last Sunday of 2008.


I decided to give my aloe vera a make over. I felt bad for not separating them and they stick out in a very strange manner.

Before



After


After the make over & chilling out for a while, i thought to myself of doing a time management experiment. The experiment is how long does it takes from my home to LRT Wangsa Maju & from Carrefour back to my home.

I was listening to music while walking to my 1st destination. It took me around 32mins from my condo to LRT Wangsa Maju. I did make a short cut from Section 2 to Desa Setapak and it was about 10mins.

Luckily as I reached to the bus stop of LRT Wangsa Maju, T301 was about to depart. Yeah, don't have to wait. It took around 7 mins+- for the bus stop to reach Carrefour Wangsa Maju and i took around 10mins from Carrefour bus top to my home.

Conclusion: 32mins from home to LRT Wangsa Maju & 10mins from Carrefour to Home.

After 30mins, i dragged myself to the gym for an hour work out.


A bit of improvement on the cardio machine.

Back from the gym and cook myself a simple dinner.

Merry Christmas

A Merry Christmas to all my friends & everyone in this world. Enjoy your time with your love ones & the turkey serve on that very day too.