Learning to be Humble

Few days ago I was waiting for the bus to get home at Brickfields. Now, I was in a "bitchy" mood that day and then I saw a lady with very, very red lipstick and I was thinking to myself "Woman...your lipstick is waaaaay too red for you" Then within the very next few minutes I was talking to her. Dun get me wrong. I didn't go up to her and tell her that her lipstick is too red for her. I overheard her asking a lady if the Taman Desa bus will be coming soon and that lady doesn't know. As I was waiting for the same bus and I know that it'll be coming soon, I told her so. And then we started chatting....the usual conversation about buses not coming on time and yaddi yadda.... she turned out to be a nice & very frenly lady.

It's funny. God certainly has a sense of humour. I think He's teaching me something here. Instead of "Do not judge a book by it's cover" the lesson here is " Do not judge a person by the colour of their lipstick"!! Her name is Laura. So, "Laura, please forgive me. Who am I to judge what colour of lipstick you should put on. You can put on whatever colour, green, blue, purple, whatever as long as you feel comfortable with it. Dun care about what other people think about you. I do not have the right to make a judgement on your character just loosely based on the colour of your lipstick. I am truly ashamed of myself. I do not practise what I preach. I'm sorry". This is indeed a very humbling experience.

Cutie

What do u know? I'm feeling much better today... not so moody.

This must be one of the reasons:



Isn't she such a cutie?? *GRIN*

Penang Outer Ring Road

"April 8, 2006 (Bernama) -- Construction works on the Penang Outer Ring Road (PORR) costing RM1.02 billion will start soon when the contracting company, Peninsular Metro-Works, has concluded talks with its bankers. Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the company had requested from the government to be given some time to start construction works on the PORR. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi recently said the PORR project would be implemented during the Ninth Malaysia Plan beginning this year.

The PORR concessionaire, Peninsular Metro-Works Sdn Bhd, would be given a 30-year toll concession, 31 ha of prime State land and 202 ha of reclaimed land off Gurney Drive, estimated to be worth some RM5 billion!

Yes, that is what PORR is worth, RM5 billion. And who are the ultimate owners or beneficiaries of PORR? Why, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi of course. But his hand is hidden from public view and not many know he is the ultimate beneficiary to this RM5 billion concession -- that is not until Malaysia Today revealed his role in this whole thing."

Chickenhawks

http://www.nhgazette.com/news/chickenhawks/chickenhawk_headquarters/

Chickenhawk n. A person enthusiastic about war, provided someone else fights it; particularly when that enthusiasm is undimmed by personal experience with war; most emphatically when that lack of experience came in spite of ample opportunity in that person’s youth.

What Exactly is a Chickenhawk?

A "chickenhawk" is a very particular creature. The name comes from combining the word "chicken" (coward) with "hawk" (war hawk). To be a chickenhawk, you need to meet three criteria:

A chickenhawk is A) a famous person who B) supports the CURRENT wars but C) never served in the military.

In other words, a hypocrite who advocates sending children to die in a war, but who refused to go themself when given the chance.

~~~Foul Mood~~~~

I’ve been in a really foul mood this whole week. Yes... I have the “Designer’s Mood” or I call it the “curse of a designer”. I’m a very, very, very, very moody person. Nobody really knows this about me (not even those closest to me) except for 2 or 3 persons (who had suffered my wrath before!)...I guess I hide it quite well and I -choose/try not to let my bad mood affect other people.

I’ve just found out that one of my colleague is leaving the company by end of the month on monday. He is the guy who hired me and he’s a really nice chap. I’ve only known him for less than 2 months but he’s really fun to work with and we like to tease each other all the time. It’s like for once I dun have to work with a supervisor who:
·is young and immature and gets emotional all the time
·is an Asian American who thinks just becoz he’s an American he’s a class above the rest of us.
·claps his hands all the time in the office and irritates the hell out of everyone
·is a British and thinks he can exploits us Asians by paying us peanuts and expects us to work 8 days a week
After he leaves I have to deal directly with the boss who has so much stuff on his mind he can’t really tell me what he wants/needs to be done. It’s funny, instead of the boss chasing me to finish up work I have to chase him everyday to give me work to do. I can foresee that I'm going to need lots of aspirin...Sigh...

- Getting only a few hours of sleep for the last 2 weeks certainly did not help improve my mood...
- Watching Malaysia lost in the Thomas Cup semifinals by a 3-2 margin to Denmark last week did not help...(On paper our doubles are suppose to lose and the singles win but it was the other way round...what the heck?!?!)
- having to be on deck 5 weeks in a row on sundays did not help.... in fact I was feeling so tired, I wanted to just tell James that I dowan to be in the worship team anymore(no it won't be an april fool's joke ;P)
- Knowing that I have to work on Wesak day (the boss conveniently push the holiday to Saturday) did not help...
- Getting fired by Sivin yesterday did not help too...*GRIN*
- ok....At least getting to see Jerrell live on the webcam yesterday improved my mood a bit...... for a while and then I felt bad for not being able to celebrate his 1st birthday with him and my mood turned from bad to worst. I missed that little guy.

I really hope that this moody period will be over soon. I do not want to snap at anyone especially this sunday when it's Mother's day. I want to apologise first, if I ever snap at you for no reason. And no I'm not having PMS.

Excuse me...."Diet" is not in my vocabulary...

My sister MC just came back from a 1-week holiday in Australia. She bought 2 jeans for me. Initially I asked her to buy for me but changed my mind becoz she ALWAYS ends up buying one size smaller. True enough…… one jeans was the right size and the other one was one size smaller. I can still wear it but then I’ll probably faint from lack of oxygen within the next few minutes. Her reaction was the usual one… “Lose weight lah….then you can fit in it” *Roll Eyes*

Why should I lose weight just because I want to fit into some clothes? Then I might as well get the jeans here… get the smallest size so I can lose plenty of weight and fit into it. I’m sick of people telling me to lose weight just so I can fit into smaller size clothes. You never hear people telling other thin people to put on weight so they can fit into larger size clothes. “Aiyah you too thin lah….put on weight lah…so you can fit into it” I can never understand people...especially those brides-to-be who always say they need to go on diet a few months before the wedding so they can fit into their gown on the wedding day. In the first place the design of the gown you choose should compliment you and make you look good no matter what size you are. Why choose a gown that you need to go on a diet to fit into it?!?! If you want to lose weight just to look good for your husband ... hello... maybe you should think twice before marrying the guy. Then there are those ultra “thin” people who goes on a diet because they think they are fat. They are right in their thinking..they are really fat... “fat” in the brains!! And of course my mom(if only she would stop cooking so much food for me to eat!) keeps telling me to lose weight just to get a boyfren. If a guy likes me just becoz I lost weight then he doesn’t deserve me. Such shallow minded guys ought to be kick out into orbit! buahahahahahaha

If I ever want to go on a diet it’s because I want to, not because I want to fit in some stupid clothes or because others tells me to. Hmm….. maybe most of my diet doesn’t really work because subconsciously, the non-conformist in me doesn’t really want to lose weight just to prove a point.