C_Shel_L

I had to work Saturday in Malacca & got Clyde to volunteer as my chauffeur…

Went after work, @ 5pm…officially reached into the town area @ 7pm. Met my colleague, checked into the room, took our shower headed to Equatorial Hotel for free dinner (courtesy of Mix Fm Pandora’s Box). Food was not too great & thank goodness it was free- actually had a stomachache & diarhoea when i went back to the hotel later that night.

But the highlight of the night was when we took a trishaw aka beca into Jonker’s Street. The pakcik beca was a 60 yr old uncle-who has been in the industry for 40 yrs!.(Can u imagine the weight he had to cycle with > 150 kg!)

Anyways, jsut wanted to insert the pictures of us on  the beca with the beca peddler after a long 10 minutes ride to & from Jonker’s Street (& u get to see the courageous uncle that offered to give us the ride! It was a fun experience, scary too as we were afraid the uncle might just topple over. Riding it felt like when i was a young girl again-caught in between my youngest aunty & her then boyfriend (who eventually became her husband) riding on their motorcycle to town in Kuala Selangor. I could feel the breeze, but at that young age of 6 on the motorbike, i was too small to see what was ahead of me & clung on tight to my "uncle". Of course, last weekend, i got to see the road ahead of me in the beca & feel the cooling night breeze on my face when hanging on to dear life by clutching Clyde’s hand instead!

Can you see the road ahead?

Well, of course on Saturday morning had to do my presentation, i suppose it went quite well as my colleague was there again on the following Tuesday to follow-up on some instrument leads…

After the presentation, went over to Clyde’s uncle’s house to pay them a visit…(Meeting future in-laws??!??) It always amuses me when i see Clyde speaking to his relatives in Malay-as they are more fluent in mandarin. Luckily…didnt humiliate Clyde with my little ‘hua yi’. Clyde says its because of his BABA heritage that they speak in malay =D

Of course, once we got back to Subang, there was my family’s dinner to attend at night. *SIGH* More pressure from home ground to tie the knot…and mom wants an answer before 31st July so that she can inform the relatives about it… i hear bells…of ANGUISH!

See my brothers & their respective girlfriends snickering away at dinner table as they got away easy!

Well, that’s another story on anotehr day, then…

"MAN CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT A WOMAN IN HIS LIFE"

If you had a choice to participate in a debate with such a title that every man & woman will want to jump up and say it is an undeniable fact in today’s living,  which side will you rather be on - Proposition or Opposition?

That was the title for last night’s Area C4 Battle of Wits, and i was in team called ‘Baby Boomers’ opposing the topic. We were up against ‘Yin Yang’ who spoke about ideal conditions & how man/woman complements each other in the world, and how inevitable man need a woman to make babies! (At that point, we all regretted calling ourselves Baby Boomers!, we were the butt of that particular joke.) The style of the Battle of wits / debate was almost parlimentary, 4 speakers on each side with time limit of 5,4,4,6 minutes respectively.

When it started, the organising chair started taking sides-he said he cannot understand how a man cannot live without a woman- NOW, that literally fired me up & i was almost screaming protest at the biasness! Yin Yang taught they had it easy…but no… we were out there to prove that a true salesperson can actually sell ice to eskimos, and if you like or choose to do so, Man can live without a woman in his life. I was the first speaker & I almost danced to the Jungle Book’s song "Look for the Bear Necessities" & spoke about empowering men to do the houshold chores, cook, wash, sew or baby-sit (This was an inspiration from Van Diesel’s role in The Pacifier-he looks really hot, man-tits & all!)

Anyway, i don’t want to go into details of what was mentioned but after one hour of debate, laughter & tickles of our funny bone (it was a battle of wits after all) we broke for dinner & back to the ‘boardroom’ for the results. Before results were announced, it was customary for Toastmasters from the floor to be given a chance to speak their piece of mind as well. Thankfully, the remarks or opinions given was quote balanced, 4 people spoke that they were for it (both male & female) and 2 mentioned that they will like to go against it… One man vouched for his dog, his pub & football kakis, another guy said that man cannot live without "several" instrumental woman in his life! =D

We were fortunate that our Area Governor (NK) was there last night to show her support, even with her current situation. Her speech was really touching & i appreciate her support last night! Come July 1st, us 4 clubs will be separated & realigned - Healthcare to Area C3, Summit and MIMPJ still in C4, but Pfizer TMC almost non-existent in meetings or activities. But the spirit still live on!

Anyway, the moral of the story is with 40% of points given to wits, Baby Boomers proved that Man Can Live without a Woman in His Life! After all, Baby Boomers have the MONEY, maybe no HONEY yet…

TICK TOCK

sometimes in life’s road, you face a fork ahead that branches out to the left and right, and you wonder which path to choose? (OR you may turn around and head back the same route you came from) Both are winding roads, and you never know what awaits you at every turn and corner that you take…

i decided to take a new pathway (or the road less travelled) and hope for new things to come my way when i turn 27… (Or course, the new things include the birthday presents that you may still send me, just email or buzz me & i’ll send you my mailing address so that you can drop me the presents =D  ) i wish to break free from my cocoon, and maybe emerge as a butterfly (or Drosophila or moth or whatever flying insect that you so desire) to reach greater heights and new horizons.

4 years of incubation in any cocoon is a long time, but not one second was a regret. every moment in that cocoon brought challenges, new experiences and skills learned, new found friends to keep for life, and …of course… paid for all my luxuries in life.

Wish me luck, i’m just counting the days when i age another year…how the clock will go

TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK

QUESTION : Have you ever had a "funny feeling" about something…?

Well, everytime someone asks that question, it reminds me of a friend (Let’s just call her C so that it’s easier to refer) that was a born-again Christian. She commented that for a week before she embraced God & the religion, she felt ‘funny’. So the rest of us friends asked her-what do you mean "funny"? Quote " Did you feel like laughing the whole week" Unquote. In actual fact, what she tried to say was that she felt ‘odd’ / ‘weird’ / ’strange’, etc - i suppose you get the picture. But the rest of us then quickly added that do not express that ‘funny feeling’ as ‘feeling one kind’  becasue how can you feel ‘two-kind’ when there’s only one body to yourself?!?!

Anyway,the story above is about my karaoke buddies-just a bunch of females & males who’ll gather monthly for our so-called "Voice Therapy". the group is a mixed-up bunch, some of us in our 30s, some in mid 20s, one or two between 19 to 24 years of age…it’s a wonder how we all will enjoy the therapy of screaming out rock songs, or being enveloped in old lovey-dovey numbers (By old, i’m refering to Carpenters, Dolly Parton, ABBA, Beatles & the likes of that era), or just simply singing & dancing along to latest pop songs form SPICE GIRLS, Back’side’ Boys,etc. And of course, being Malaysians(or a multi-racial contry) there’s the case of girls singing a guy song(and vice-versa), Chinese singing Malay songs, and Malay singing Chinese songs (both old Chinese Classics & current hot Taiwanese boys!)

Well, how does it all relate to the title of feeling funny?

I was in Ipoh today-having lunch in a restaurant & couldnt help hearing a nearby conversation …NO, i do not have elephant ears and it was not my intention to eavesdrop. Let’s just say their decibels were above normal speaking levels & if you sat 7 chairs away, you’ll still hear what they have to say. Well, the conversation between Mr A & Ms B went on about how long they have not seen each other, and how MR A will like to quit his job & change working environment and that he’s still young & capable or could afford to take such a risk… And Ms B retaliate by saying if you were a man, i’ll ask you to change jobs, but if you were a woman, i’ll ask you to just get married or be happy with what you have right now as there’s no need to be ambitious! I almost choked on my noodles, as in this modern time & age, alot of women are still thinking that way! I’m not saying it’s wrong to be a simpleton, but it’s not wrong to be ambitious either, or is it not?

Anyway, i felt like being in Mr A’s shoes…offers came my way & it’s time to measure apple to apple as the saying goes… haven’t actually made up my mind ‘completely’ but when Opportunity Knocks-it may not knock twice! That’s why i felt ‘funny’ so many people being in the same shoes and hearing other people talking about the same issues too! It could be coincidene or merely a sad fact that employers nowadays cannot hang on to their staff… It’s just 2 sides to the coin : EMPLOYER:Cannot satisdy/understand employee’s needs & EMPLOYEE:expect too much from their employer.

Flip flop…feeling funny yet?

June Current Affair & Premier Opening : CShel_L’s blog

What’s in a blog? Why do we write, or read at all? Well, i think i’m here because everyone seems to be ‘blogging’ away…so why not. Just to get my brain juices pumped up again and start writing, and praying and hoping that readers won’t find my grammatical error (or worse, typo)

The past few days, i’ve been receiving numerous emails from several friendster announcing their blogs, but when you view it, it’s just their pretty faces on them. i have to admit, i dont think i have a pretty face…in case you dont realise, i’m but a "harlequin ghost pipefish". Saw ‘myself’ during my last dive trip to Pulau Dayang (off Mersing jetty, approx 40 nautical miles) on the last dive of the 3D 2N trip. Everyone was supposed to abort the dive at 30 mins to reduce the safety stop times, but just as we were about to leave - Zam spotted the pipefish. I would say, it was a rare find(according to Zam who last saw it in Sipadan Islands, but it was his first time viewing that pipefish in Dayang island although he’s been diving there for more than 5 years), and if it was not pointed out, i thought we were merely wasting time (and air) staring at a couple of sea-weeds!  Of course, that costs us another 20 minutes for safety stop and by the time we surfaced that dive-everyone had less than 30 bar!  *Will write about Umizaru-Japanese Dive film in next post*

Ahh…can’t wait for another dive holiday. Haven’t had one for more than 6 months, do you realise what SCUBA stands for?

S - Self

C - Confessed

U - Underwater

B - Breathing

A - Addict!

Gotcha! It’s self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. I could write a thesis on that invention (by Jacque Yves Cousteau & his friend, Emile Gagnan) if i’m not sleepy already by now… *YAWN*  See you later, alligator!