Really, I don’t think it’s nice to go around saying things like “She and so-and-so are dating” with that much confidence when you never ever bothered to check your facts with either me or him.

So now if you and I ever bump into each other at work, don’t blame me for my watered-down smile okay? :)

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I guess this is also a good time to address, once and for all, the numerous queries I’ve received from different people - Nope, I’m not going out with Him #1, Him #2, or Him #3. And not Him #4 either. The names can be different but my answer is still the same. ;) Okay? Okay!

The funniest one had to be from a certain Mr Cham. He actually told me (in a very accusing manner too :P) that he saw me at 1U with a guy, but at that point in time I had not even stepped into 1U for the last 5 months or so. LoL Simply say wan arr you?!

I’m just a victim of a stream of badly faked rumors. Tsk tsk.

In all honesty, I’m a bit tired of relationships. With all that’s happened in these recent months, to me and to others as well, for the time being I doubt it’s worth the effort. Too much heartache, y’know? You see people holding onto deadend relationships just because they’re afraid of being alone. But I’ve always found it to be even scarier to feel lonely while being with someone. And it can’t be much fun when you’re together with someone who would constantly run you down emotionally, make you feel lousy about yourself just to feed their own ego, and even forced you to break up with your previous boyfriend through some twisted blackmailing on their part. Or worse (is this worse? You tell me), you’re being used as a substitute girlfriend at his beck and call while his actual girlfriend is overseas and totally oblivious that her boyfriend is an arse and a half. SERIOUSLY. Why are all these cases happening omg. =/

And I haven’t even mentioned those nonchalant two-timers who go out with other girls/guys when their other half isn’t around… And they can just be so casual about it, why?! I fail to understand how people can say they love their girlfriend/boyfriend and yet still cheat on them. I just don’t see the connection.. A little enlightenment here, please?

I think me and my heart shall go on hibernation mode until it’s safe to venture out again. Give me a buzz when that happens, all rite? *goes into hiding*

P.S. I hate to say it but yeah, 我会想念你 , 请快点回来｡｡｡

P.P.S. Sorry this post is all over the place. My mind is just a freeflow of thoughts today. :P

Being sleepless at 2.30 AM. Is. Not. Fun.

I’m still waiting for the cough medicine to kick in. I took it an hour ago and I’m still not even drowsy. Hrmphh. What’s taking so long?!

Anyway since I’m up, yesterday was the 25th and it seems to be a good day to be born ;)

We threw a joint surprise celebration at TGIF for Pek San and Kenneth… Loads of 18SX stuff took place. Watch out for the videos on YouTube, teehee :D

First and foremost… Ivan is a total meanie, a certified Budak Mengada KYM FOREVER, and is seriously just a few fries short of a Happy Meal!

I really do appreciate all the spam on my tagboard and in my phone’s inbox for no particular reason… really, it made my day. ;( Hmphh right. I hope Joanne has duly punished him on my behalf. :D

Sigh having said that though, it was good to see Ivan last Friday for dinner after 9758 years of not meeting up. It’s too bad that Joanne couldn’t join us, but hopefully we’ll all come out for drinks real soon ya. :) Thanks Ivan for picking up the tab for me and SCG - will buy you dinner the next round hehe.

So it’s been one week and I’m coughing more than ever. Isobel 0 - 1 Cough. Pwned! All the cough medicine and lozenges in the world aren’t enough to save me. :( Slowly but surely I’m losing my voice…

Me: *cough cough* Okay I don’t think I can talk for the next couple of days.
SCG: Yeah, better not to talk.
Me: So you’ll have to do all the talking.
SCG: Sure!
Me: …. But I *cough* wanna talk too!! *cough* Ahh!

On to other news now. My coursemate Joe has been sending smses on IQ questions these couple of days. The latest one kept us discussing for a bit coz it was taken from the awesome movie ‘21′.

The Monty Hall Problem
There are three doors, and behind one of them is a car, while behind the other two are goats. If you choose the door with the car behind it, you win the car. Now, say you choose Door 1. The host then opens either Door 2 or Door 3, behind which is a goat. (He knows what is behind each door, and never opens the door with the car behind it.) The host now gives you the choice: do you want to stick with Door 1, or switch to the other door. What should you do?

The guy in the movie, Ben, chose to switch from Door 1 in the first round to Door 2 in the second round. For the explanation on why this is the most probable correct answer (people are still debating over this), read here. It’s really quite interesting, and this is coming from me - someone who’s been disliking maths for the longest time. ;)

The other IQ questions from Joe have been really hilarious. To get the right answers, you definitely gotta chuck your rationale out the window and rely more on thinking nonsense instead. LoL I’ll show you -

Question 1: Is there a feeling worse than eating a piece of shit? If so, what is it?
Question 2: There are 3 children and 2 apples. By only using the knife once, how do you distribute the apples fairly to the children?

Funnily enough, I got both the answers right. -_-” Now what does that say about my level of nonsensical thinking? Tsk tsk. I hope you guys can figure it out just as easily too!

Last night I was planning to go over to Starbucks, order the Tazo Zen tea that I’ve been craving, and work on the freelance job that I’ve been putting aside since the weekend. :X However I ended up visiting a friend at a SJMC ward, who was robbed and beaten up the previous day near the Masjid Jamek LRT station. I was so shocked when I received the phone call. Thank God he’s all right though, the injuries weren’t too serious.

Shit why is it so dangerous everywhere nowadays. =/ I never got to blog about this previously - last month another friend of mine nearly got kidnapped at the LRT station near her place in Bandar Permaisuri, Cheras. It was about 9pm and two Indian guys tried to push her into their van. Omg omg. Then a few days later SCG’s car got broken into while it was parked behind Times Square - a bunch of us were there for dinner and when we got back to the car, we found the passenger side window totally smashed and a friend’s bag was stolen. It was so scary and unexpected. With all these crimes occuring, one has to wonder what the world is coming to, really?

Will leave the pondering for another time. It’s back to work - right now I’m translating a news article from English to BM. Talk about challenging. I used to enjoy writing essays in BM, but that was back in the long gone schooling days. My grasp on the BM language is so not there anymore. Thank goodness for online dictionaries.. 1 page down, 3 more to go. :P

I was actually in a good mood today, until I remember the nightmare I had right before waking up this morning. ;( The dream itself was pleasant enough, nothing out of the ordinary. It was just a problem with who was in it…

Not a favorite song of mine, but it is someone’s.

Do you know where your heart is?
Do you think you can find it?
Or did you trade it for something
Somewhere better just to have it?
Do you know where your love is?
Do you think that you lost it?
You felt it so strong, but
Nothing’s turned out how you wanted

– One Republic

The computer at work is running on Windows 2000 Professional… Just take a look at how professional it really is! :P

Task manager not responding… that’s new!

It’s been a quick and busy week.. I get the feeling I’m not having enough rest coz I was supposed to go out for drinks last night but ended up cancelling on it. I just couldn’t drag myself up from the comfy sofa I was lazing about in! Not forgetting the fact that I’ve just been hit by the flu and cough… And I know exactly whose germs is to blame for that too. *points at the metrosexual dude*

Monday was the day when all that had happened last weekend sank in, so that was pretty sucky. My mood was colorless the entire day and that night, SCG was drinking tea while I smoked away my worries one stick at a time. I never thought I’d say this, but I was so glad that SCG was around to entertain me with his so-called words of wisdom. I only allowed Monday night to be my little pity session. Once it was over, I pushed everything to the back of my mind and life went on as usual…

I fell right through the cracks, and now I’m trying to get back…

Like my bestie Carmen had said, it’s just better to practise the 3C’s and be calm, cool and confident. That really is truly the best revenge. :)

Wednesday was hectic but still enjoyable… I managed to concentrate fully on work the whole day (yeahh I’m shocked too, my attention span is usually really short), then left the office at 5.45PM sharp with SCG. We went over to his newly finished apartment unit and I became a kuli and had to help him carry the boxes of water heaters got to see the place he’s been talking about since the first day I knew him back in December last year. Like seriously, everytime we’re on the Federal Highway he’d crane his neck to check on the progress of the building as we passed by the Sunway Mentari area. Well all in all the place looks good, and the swimming pool and jacuzzi especially are really nice. I’ll show pictures I took in the next post. ;)

So after SCG was done talking to the renovation guys, we zoomed off to Pyramid where we had a huge dinner with Bryan and Justin at Manhattan Fish Market. :D It was like a family reunion, I haven’t seen them for quite some time. Aww. There was lotsa laughter as usual, and then we talked and planned for the most secretive clubbing outing ever. :X

After dinner it was time to hit the cinema to catch the movie ‘21′. We said byebye to Bryan and Justin who had already watched it like a month back (the nerve, how come they didn’t wait for us!). Personally I thought the movie was really good, in a Hollywood kind of way. Very entertaining and interesting to see how the entire scheme unfolds, although certain parts were totally not realistic. But heyy, it’s a movie rite? :) And they made it seem as if Las Vegas is THE central of glitz and clubbing and lavish living - no wonder TJ said he wanted to go to Las Vegas one day, after watching the movie. I mentioned the very same thing to SCG haha. All the parties and bright lights and intoxicating drinks.. whoaa. =D

Tonight will be another fun time of shopping around Times Square, Lowyat, and Sungai Wang, followed by the movie screening of Wall E! Yayy can’t wait. In between I’m also working on a freelance job which will hopefully lead to more jobs in the future, coz I’ve just siphoned a huge amount of funds away for investment purposes and now I’m running low on cash. Blehs. I can’t believe I’ve reached the stage where life is all about money and more money. Sighh. Welcome to adulthood, Isobel.

Okie back to work now. Happy Flyday, everyone. :P

Tip toeing the edge of the pool at Sky Bar. Things that shouldn’t be said but were spoken anyway. Sitting on the ledge outside the 3rd floor bedroom and counting cars. Otard + Sprite tasted like ginger ale. Drinking games. Black Jack. Big Two. Truth or Dare. Those 3 dices with unbelievable combinations. Tickle torture. The death of a dream. And “blame it on the Espresso Martini!”.

I really should be feeling something - anything at all…

Feeling myself all of the time
All of the time feeling alright
Taking awhile raising a smile
Raising a smile makes it all worthwhile
But if you wanted to find peace of mind
Then you could find it anytime you liked
You are the afterglow
Feeling my way all of the time
All of the time doing just fine
Taking a page out of my life
Out of my life wouldn’t it be nice
But if you wanted to find peace of mind
then you could find it anytime you liked
You are the afterglow
You are the midnight show
The only one I know
You come and then you go
And when you finally leave
You leave nothing for me
–Travis

Okie this is going to be a very lazy post that I’m going to type just for the sake of maintaining some form of life to this blog. :D Someone please give me an award for Most Hardworking Blogger! Or not. Hehe.

First of all, quite obviously I managed to survive my outdoors experience at Outward Bound, Lumut. I’ve never talked to God as often as I did during those 10 days, honestly. LoL Most of the time it goes something like, “Oh dear Lord, just kill me right now!” or during my calmer moments, “Okay if I get through this, I’ll be forever in gratitude and promise to go to church every Sunday from now on.” Ahahah. It’s a lot easier to turn to religion when there’s nothing else to fall back on, I guess..

I mean, we didn’t even get to use the phone. Yeahhh. They made us switch off our handphones and hand them over for the instructors to keep on the very first day. But thank you anyway to everyone who texted even though I couldn’t reply as I didn’t manage to receive most of them - apparently the telcos would stop attempting to deliver the messages after 3 days. To Garick and HanRen who were just the slightest bit suspicious on this matter, I swear that’s the truth okie… you guys don’t have to call up Maxis to validate the fact! LoL

So basically Outward Bound training was about jungle trekking, overnight camping (both group and solo), kayaking, rock climbing, repelling, 7AM jogging, and holding onto your sanity while bickering with your teammates. Heh. :P I brought back many bruises, cuts, mosquito bites and even an injured toe! Le sigh.

So were there any good things to counter the bad ones? Well we did learn a lot about responsiblity and self-reflection, and adjusting your attitude towards working better within a team that you have to see practically every day, every hour, and every minute. And as you go through each challenge, successfully conquering your deep-seated fears one by one - the feeling is indescribable and definitely priceless. :)

And saving the best for last now… mwahaha… There was a batch of SIA cadet pilots who arrived just a few days after us. 21 males of differing heights and looks, but males nevertheless and not too surprisingly, the 3 sole Malaysians were the friendliest of the lot. :P Through sheer.. I dunno, luck or something, I got to know the 3 local SIA dudes - there was this one evening where I was walking towards the seaside to look for Rachel, Joe, and Lim, when I bumped into my coursemate Akmal and some other guys. Akmal asked me to take a seat and as I did, I noticed 3 new faces in the group. And that was how I was introduced to Shah, Jinn and Chan. Incidentally me and Nairus (this other coursemate of mine who’s super bubbly and fun, except that she likes to call me ‘Iso-belon’, hmphh) think that Shah and Jinn were probably the best looking guys of the bunch anyway, so it was cool that I got to meet them as effortless as it had turned out to be.

The next stroke of luck was during my second group camping excursion which took place at this island called Pulau Sekadih. Coz when my team was there that night, unexpectedly the SIA group was camping at the same place too. :P Jinn and Shah came over to our camp site to offer their help, so I got Shah to demonstrate his dish-cleaning skills after dinner. Ahahah. He was all like, “Watch and learn from the expert.” Righttt. And it was that night I learned that Jinn studied at the University of Michigan - I instantly said, “So that’s where your accent came from!” Coz he speaks with this very distinct Midwestern American accent, you see. But being on the cheeky side, Jinn just grinned and went, “What accent?” D’oh.

In truth, I had a bad time during the first group camping night, but the second one at Pulau Sekadih totally made up for it. Probably I was getting along better with certain members in my team by then, and the beach was really gorgeous.. clear aquamarine waters and soft sand and all that. :D At nighttime the place was peaceful and the sky was dotted with a gazillion stars - me and Rachel ended up sitting at the beach with Shah and Jinn, talking till 1AM. It was the most relaxed time I had throughout those tough 10 days. Argh.

And thanks to my teammate Fakri who was sooo helpful without being asked to - I got the contacts of these two SIA guys. >:) I was very embarrassed though to be honest, coz this was what happened okay. Fakri and I were just lazing around and chit chatting, and he asked when I was gonna ask for the SIA guys’ numbers. I told him if the chance came, I would ask but if it didn’t, I wasn’t too fussed either. Well right then Shah and Jinn happened to walk past us and Fakri yelled, “Hey! Isobel wants to get your numbers!”

O. M. G. Talk about wanting to find the nearest hole to hide myself in! Shooting a murderous look at Fakri, I said, “Oh no, it’s Fakri who wants your numbers really. He’s just too shy to ask himself.” The guys just laughed and said they didn’t mind passing on their numbers to girls, but not to Fakri. Haha. -_-” Well a few days later I bumped into Jinn and he gave me a slip of paper containing his and Shah’s contacts. So everything ended up okay and I made two new friends, yayy. But still…

…Mohammad Fakri, please don’t ever embarrass me like that ever again!! ;(

Upon returning to civilisation last weekend, I found myself in MOS/Euphoria on Saturday night… I wasn’t planning on doing any clubbing coz I had an injured toe and I wasn’t allowed to wear proper shoes. I went for dinner with the high school gang and later on some of them wanted to go check out MOS, so I tagged along and the bouncer there said it was all right for me to go in dressed the way I was. :P So I was probably the coolest girl there that night, dancing in my pink fake Crocs slippers without the slightest care. LoL They were very comfortable too, I think I danced nonstop for like 2 hours. :D

SCG’s been laughing at my injured toe a lot. He calls it “ugly toe”. Hmphh. No sympathy whatsoever. Nice. Oh I guess I never got to mention that SCG’s in RHB Investment Bank too - such (rotten) luck! As if I haven’t seen enough of him during the 6 months of classroom training we were carpooling, I guess I’ll just have to endure another 6 months during this industrial training period. *slaps forehead* But then my girl Meera is at RHB too, woohoo. :) The rest are sadly scattered at various different financial institutions. Jacklyn is at HSBC, Rachel and Katherine at CIMB, Bryan at UOB, Justin at Maybank, Mun Wai at Hwang DBS, Yuh Yee and Thuresh at OSK, Orical at Kurnia Insurance, Joe at Jerneh Insurance, Sara at Citibank, and finally Geetha and Lim and Lau at Alliance.

I think I’m supposed to have more to say but my memory’s failing me at the moment. Guess I’ll save it for another time ya? I shall go to bed now and prepare for another fulfilling day at work tomorrow. Heh heh. Today was pretty fulfilling too, especially the part where SCG and I got hungry and bored at 5pm so we went to the cafeteria for a self-declared tea break! We’re totally model employees, I know. ;)

Bedtime. Now. Nitey nites!