Monday, September 29, 2008

LeT Ur s@LivA dROoL~~~

Muahahaha... I made this!! I made this!!!

Nice leh? Nice leh? Nyek hehehe...

It was an attempt to immitate this dish from the Keyaki Japanese Restaurant in Pan Pacific Hotel (Singapore).

The genuine version

Kakaka.. Not bad what. At least got 90% similarity mah, no?

Taste wise, of course Keyaki's version better lah. The bacon taste of my version was a wee bit too strong liao. The middle part of the prawn was a wee bit too soft, too. See? That's why I'm a pharmacist, not cook! XD

But hor, Dad said he preffered my version to Keyaki's!!!!! Cause my one tasted much better wor!!!!!! Woohuhuhu.... Kembang dao~

Yala yala... I know he was just trying to console me and give encouragement lah. Ish...

Mum suggested pan-frying the roll-ups first the next time I cook. I had that in mind as well actually. Teehehe... =P
EDIT: Xin asked me to add this. "Mum, Sir! Me Maria~ Me can cook nice hwood. See see the pikture I ambik! Me can speak Engrish also. And Sir, me can strip dance also kalau mau~ *wink wink*" Grrrrrrrrrr.....

Saturday, September 27, 2008

她和他的故事

四天前,竟然又让我再遇见了她。顿时,不知所措。反复在脑海里演练了无数次的情景,并没有上演。心里,不禁责备自己老实不争气。。。

唉。。。毕竟时隔已久,心里的憎恨,厌恶,恶心,怨气,气愤,悲伤,痛苦,哀伤,已经被埋藏到心里最灰暗的角落里了。或许,它们变得迟钝了,一时来不及觉醒。

我想,她在我生命中留下的阴影,是我花一辈子都抹之不去的吧。。。

恨一个人的确是很累的。所以,我也已经尽我的全力忘掉过去。但是,心里的那个结,我想只有在我彻彻底底地复了一次仇后才能被解开吧。。。

那么,复仇的形式又是什么呢?说得好听是复仇,实际上它幼稚得可以!甚至连我自己都不明白我怎么会这么执著。我只是想当着她的面说出一番难听的话,让她也尝试一次被人羞辱至自尊心受创却还不明白自己到底犯了什么错的美好滋味!!!

哈哈。。。可笑吧?幼稚吧?愚蠢吧?

自几年前开始我便已经在等待这个机会了,却始终砰不上。等到砰上时,在那一瞬间我竟然犹豫我是否应该没骨气地望向她点点头,微微笑。幸好这个没出息的动作因以前所受的种种委屈在脑海里突然一闪而过而被及时收回了。还好。。不然我想我大概会后悔一辈子吧。。。

当时,父母正下着车准备去处理一些事情。她自老远便瞧见他们了。正如她一贯虚伪的作风,她友善地跟他们打了个招呼。我紧张兮兮地躲在车内,思考对策。她似乎知道我就在车内,绕了一圈来到车前!

由于心中的阴影实在太根深蒂固了,我低头,害怕与她四目对望。终于鼓起勇气抬起头时,她正往前行走,但也看见了我。她举起手微笑向我打招呼,但脚步没有停下。我没有反应,只是面无表情地斜眼凝视着她。我不爽地白了她一眼。可惜,她转头了,没看见。

我不禁猜测她到底知不知道我是因为讨厌她才会有如此反应,还是纯粹以为我只是眼睛贴邮票,没看见她!我希望也乐观地认为是前者。虽然称不上报仇,但至少我让她了解了我的不满,showed了attitude,并让她少少地不快活过,即便只有那么一次!嘿,我不再是那个只会默默承受一切的懦弱小女生了,OK?!你能拿我怎样,哼?

我不确定我还会不会再见到她,也不确定我的“复仇大计”会否落实。我知道我幼稚,但至少现下我心里舒坦多了。。。我想,我可能永远都无法原谅她。但是,我会尽力。毕竟,人是会改变的。而且,我也厌倦了背负着这个沉重的包袱来过日子。好累。。。

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他,是大概两年半前在网上结识的。当时,Facebook还没出现,Friendster风靡一时。他便是在Friendster那儿add了我的。

他附带msg说,想和我做朋友。我surf了一下他的profile,发现他也是Batu Pahat人,而且也在KL求学。真巧!一时觉得好玩,便接受了他的add,也回了msg给他。

从此,我们便时常有Friendster msg上的来往。他给了我他的电话号码,并向我要我的。我委婉地拒绝了。毕竟,对于一个女孩子来说,轻易地把电话号码交给一个陌生的男生是一件危险的事。

后来,他生日了。我寄了封sms给他。也因此,他有了我的电话号码。他偶尔会寄sms给我,和我聊上几句。我想当时我才sem3吧。不知死活,每天根本都没有在读书。反正闲着也是闲着,所以我也不介意有多个人陪我无聊。谈得也还算投机。

有一天,谈着谈着,他突然要求和我出来见个面。此时,我没有半点犹豫就退缩了。老实说,我从来都不相信网上交友这回事。太难了吧!怎么有可能能够对一个你完全不了解的人如此信任呢?不论他或她在网上说得如何天花乱坠,也无从证实那是真实或是乱掰的啊!何况,我们不也常常在报章上看见一些因网上交友而被骗财骗色的个案吗?

我知道蔡智恒的《第一次的亲密接触》有多凄美。但是,或许是中小学时一些不开心的往事使然,我变得很难对人产生信任,不可能像轻舞飞扬那般的单纯。

所以我回复他说,我是个女孩子,单独出来见面感觉上还蛮危险的。反正IMU外也有个LRT站,如果他真想见面,不如就来IMU吧。我顺便也可以介绍一些朋友给他认识,开拓他的社交圈子。

我忘了他回复我什么。总之,这件事就此不了了之。后来,他也就没联络我了。Sem4时根本就忙死了,我压根儿早就把这件事给忘得一干二净了。但依稀记得我出国前,他好似有寄过几封sms来,而我也简短地和他聊了聊。

原本就已经没有主动联络他的习惯了,后来电话在Mid Valley的KTM站被偷后,他简直是从我的人生中彻底地消失了。

出国后,不知疯得多开心哪,哪会记得他的存在?回国后,更不用说了。几乎每天都在为posting的事忙和烦。

三天前,突然收到一封不知名的简讯,内容是以华语书写的。我这个在UK才刚换的电话,是个不折不扣的banana啊!怎会看得懂华语呢?于是,我礼貌的询问来讯人的身份与简讯的内容,心想八成是寄错了的吧。

没想到,是他。

挺讶异的。毕竟事隔已经太久了。当看见名字时,我还迟疑了一会儿,才想起是他…

他说我多半忘了他是谁,我说我没有并且还准确地说出了他的生日月份。闲聊起来,才发现他原来也刚从UK毕业回来!不过,他去的是Sheffield。虽然他有来过Glasgow,不过和大多数人一样,对于Glasgow的印象只有一个boring可以形容。哈哈…

聊着聊着,他说他不久后将会去新加坡谋生。他希望我们两个能在各自开始工作前至少出来见一次面。问我觉得怎样?

Uh oh …真糟糕!即便是去了UK之后,我还是没打算和他见面呀!

所以,我又再一次委婉地拒绝了他。这次的理由是,没有transportation。他说不如搭巴士吧,因为他也没有transportation。我说我从小到大都还不曾搭过本国的公共巴士呢!而且,也太危险了吧!他说,也对,对女孩子来说的确是危险了点。我说,算了吧,反正如果我们是会见面的,迟早都是会见面的。

心里正暗喜我又escape了一次时,他就没有回复了。直到今天为止都是。

纳闷!哎,谁说只有女人才难了解?

你看吧。说他是个网上骗子,又不太像。酱得空骗我两年骗不到还不放弃咩?说他纯粹只想交个朋友,可是为什么在每次我婉拒见面了之后他都立刻落个无声无息?说他想要玩玩,找个从网友变成朋友的女生,又不像。上网的女生成千上万。愿意和他出来见个面的肯定大把啦。何必这么执著?

纳闷,纳闷!

写下他的故事的原因,就是因为不了解。嗯…有没有人能够解答我的疑问呢?这到底是个怎么样的情形?我的处理手法到底对不对?如果你是我的话,你又会怎么做呢?希望没有伤害到人也没有造成不必要的误会…

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Posting larh...

Weehee~ Know where I will be posted to dy... Not going to tell u now lar. Bleh! Haha.. Read till the end of this post first mah... =P

Knew from last night that the posting results for my lot would be out this morning. Kah Yee was the first to inform me that she would be posted to HKL. Then Cheah Voon and many many more. Everyone asked me for my posting in turn.

Told them I was in no mood to check yet. Scare scare ma. Wahlao!! Immediately kena bombed dao!!! Aksed me fai fai call lah, dun wuliao lah, cursed me kena Sabah lah and etc etc.

Ouchy!!! Wuwu... 人缘 bad dao~ T_T

But I memang like this wuliao since last time liao de lah.. I also dunno why leh.. PP3 & sem6 results I also waited till I shiok shiok only I checked.. In fact, even the freaking scary final year results also like that leh.. Heard the opposite house screaming & shouting like Zoo Negara (Pei Fung and co., if u know what I meant. Kakaka.. XD oopsy!!) so immediately I knew results were out. Told my housemates and all of them rushed to room to check their results online.

As for me, I lengang-lengang into room to finish watching the episode of Gossip Girl that I just buffered. Then bathed, applied Calamine cream (stupiak chicken pox that time ma), combed hair nice nice, baru I sat down and prepared to log into Spider. Kena bombed by housemates nonetheless.. They were even more kancheong over my results than I did. Haha...

Hmm.. It's not that I dun care le. I was very very kancheong de. Heart like "pik pok pik pok" like that.. stomach ache somemore.. But I just wanted to get mentally prepared first before I rushed into checking the results le. Like today, I waited until I was comfortable and mentally well-prepared enough that if I were to hear this:

"Cik Chua, kau dapat Kelantan/Terengganu/Sarawak/Sabah."

I would go

"Oh well, WTF. This is fate. Accept it and start packing ur @$$ off."

instead of shouting into the phone

"HAAARR?????!!! Apa???!! KENAPA SAYA?!! Tak ala dalam pilihan saya lah!!! Boleh rayu? Macam mana lah encik?? Tolonglah, encik.. Jangan bagi saya boleh tak??? Minta tolong lah..."

So u see the reason why? U see the better reaction in handling the same situation? That's why I was so "bah bai" + wuliao le.. Haha.. It's due to the lack of confidence!! The worry that I might not get what I wanted so badly!!

Oh well.. Anyway, I sent out sms to almost the whole kampung immediately after knowing my posting. I have been posted to... *drums rolling*

JOHOR!!!!!~~~ *clap clap clap clap clap*

It's my first choice!! It's the state that I asked for!!!!! Thanks God!!!!! I am sooooo grateful!!!!! =)

Still dunno which part of Johor I will be working at. Gotta laporkan diri at Kementerian Kesihatan Johor first. Dunno the lapor date as well. Either 16th Oct or 1st Nov ba. Gotta wait for the posting letter first. Hehehe... =)

OK lah.. I wanna go exercise liao. Damn shitty lah.. Put on 3kg after returning from UK. GOSH!!!!! I'm at the borderline of becoming obese!!! Sis even called me "Eh, fat girl"!!! Uugh!! What the... Shikitty shit shit!!! Dun wanna blog liao. Depressed dy.. Tata!!

EDIT: KKM just informed HeHe Sheong that the posting results announced on the 25th had been declared invalid due to some changes. Uugh!!! Asked to call back again after 16th Oct!! Ding Diow...

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Diary of a (Part-time) Housewife

Mum fell sick yesterday...

She was feverish and suffering from flu. She stayed in the room and slept most of the time. So I took over her role in the family.

Mum washed a load of clothes before going to sleep. So I collected the clothes, folded them, swept the floor, and prepared teatime for both dad and myself. After that, I made ABC porridge for mum to have as dinner. Cooked 3 days' portion. Fried an egg as well.

Sis came back early, worried over mum's condition. She dabao-ed some dishes back but it wasn't enough for the whole family. So I cooked rice, and fried eggs again.

Freaking tired after that. Didn't even have much appetite for dinner. Cleaned the stove and washed some dishes after that somemore. =S

Luckily mum got better. So it was a relief to all of us... cause we can hand all the housechores back to her again... Kakaka.. Of course not lah!!! It's because she's feeling better and getting well lah... XD

Moral of the story,

IT'S NOT EASY BEING A HOUSEWIFE EH!!!!!

Read about an article in a Singaporean magazine yesterday. It said some researchers in the UK conducted a study and found out that an averaged housewife works for at least 9hours everyday!!!!! No weekend break, no MC, no public holidays, no annual leaves!!!!! And if they were paid for what they do each day according to the market price, they would have earned S$90,000 a year, equivalent to the pay of a senior executive in Singapore!!!!!

OMG!!!!! Our mums are sooooo rich!!!!! If only they were paid lah... Kakaka... XP

See? That's how much work and effort our mums put into the family le. So, ppl, make sure u love ur mum more and pamper her with all that she asks of u, k? Sayang sayang her, hug hug her, kiss kiss her... just do whatever u can to make her feel ur love, k? Mums are noble!!!!! =)

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

领悟

表面上看起来越快乐的人,内心其实越感伤。。。

是真的。。。

没有被表达出来的难过,其实才是最痛苦的。。。

Saturday, September 06, 2008

WHATEVER

Went to the hospitals for the compulsory medical check-up few days ago. Gosh! What efficiency? What lesser waiting time? Just doing a urine test & a chest X-Ray took them 2 hours. Somemore they had to conduct these 2 simple tests in 2 different hospitals that are 10 minutes away from each other by driving, without traffic jam. WTH? Dad and I were famished by the time they were done. I still have to go back to the hospital for some raba-raba of dada physical check-up on the 9th. Gosh, another round of waiting.

Wei Meng's fav quote, "Human beings spend a third of their lives waiting..."

Too many patients too little seats. So the patients ended up crowding at the registration counter. In order to overwrite the background noise level, the nurses talked through a mic, which was connected to 2 amplifiers. They used that to call upon patient whose turn was next but they conveniently left the mic on while talking face to face to the ppl at the counter.

Now the WHOLE WORLD knows my name. Now the WHOLE WORLD knows I was there to do medical check-up. Now the WHOLE WORLD knows I did a urine test & a chest-X ray. They even put my urine test report so casually on the registration counter, with the results facing upwards, as if inviting the eyes of all to look. So now ALMOST the WHOLE WORLD also knows what my urine was composed of.

Privacy? Patient's confidentiality? My foot. What if I was there for STD? What if I was there for Methadone? What if I was there for teenage pregnancy???

Did I also mention that there is definitely no lining-up whatsoever culture here? I thought I should let the ppl who came before me to settle their issues first. So I waited patiently. But ppl who came after me kept squeezing in, and pushing me backwards. Why? Because they knew if they didn't, they would have to wait for as long as I did!

So I waited & waited and finally I was the one standing right in front of the counter. Did I get served immediately? No! I realized that the nurses did not care how early u came or how long u had waited. The priority of being greeted first was given to ppl with "hat". U have no "hat"? Then u wait lah! The nurses saw me waiting, but ignored me. Ppl who squeezed in later, but with "hat", got served although their issues were much more complicated when compared to mine. I just wanted to hand in my forms! The nurses rather went up & down searching for a lost medical card (of course of ppl with "hat" lah) than simply taking in my form. WTF? What's more, 6 to 7 nurses were sitting & CHIT-CHATTING at the table behind the busy counter. Were they blind that they couldn't see the huge crowd forming? What were they paid for??? WTFFFFF!!!??

Effective patient communication doesn't matter here. The nurses got impatient, irritated & annoyed freaking farking super easily. U only accept what they have told u. U don't ask questions. They start frowning with that kinda "Apa lagi?? Bodohlah engkau!!" facial expression the moment u deliver the 2nd question. Can u imagine the fear & inferiority some elderly patients, particularly those who can barely speak Malay, must have felt? As if they have done something extremely wrong! So they stop asking question. So they stop telling problems. So they dun understand what their drugs are for. So they dunno how & when to take their medications. So they become incompliant. So they dun tell even when their medications are causing troubles. So they continue/stop taking medicaitons. So they die of taking the inappropriate/not taking medications!!!!! Can u see how serious the problem can become???!!

WHAT A SHAME!!!!!

Pls, nurses! Remember ur role as a healthcare proffessional. Remember ur passion & aspiration when u first entered the field. Remember urself as a role-model to ur juniors. Remember that u are here to serve!!

I love this country. It is totally heart-breaking to see the healthcare system in this state. I hope changes could be made. I hope attitudes could be rectified. I hope one day, all of us could feel proud of the healthcare system in our country...