Thoughts and experience of a city girl

Work is picking up for me, I am gradually taking support calls and going on-site to provide support. And my manager has given me my first project with Talisman, my senior is actually handling this but since he’s going to be transferred to another country soon, I am supposed to take over from him. I am excited with this opportunity and hope I could deliver as good as my senior.

Done my first presentation for the production team last friday, I am satisfied with the outcome, and I believe my manager was too. Got another presentation coming up, more technical this time but looking forward. My team members have all been nothing but supportive, I really count my blessings when it comes to work. It’s just unfortunate that 2 senior colleagues will be transferred this December, nonetheless, they are all an inspiration to me.

My health, I will be finishing my last 2 sessions of back reconditioning program by tuesday. There’s some improvement but nothing that significant. One thing for sure, I won’t enrol in this kind of program anytime soon, cos it’s taking so much of my time and I don’t see immense improvement out of it.

Driving in KL, gosh….arrrgghh…so many ignorant and inconsiderate people out there. There was once I was driving on the fast lane, pretty fast I would say, and this crazy wira driver cut in front of my car out of a sudden, nevermind about that, I thought he was going to accelerate and go along with the speed of the car in front. But no no no….he has to press on his brake! I was so taken aback and thank goodness I managed to brake in time and barely milimeters before hitting his stupid car. His car practically was stalled for a couple of seconds. He showed no guilt and I could tell by him eagerly looking at his rear mirror to see if I did knock into him and then he slowly sped off. I suspect he did that on purpose and might want to get something out of me. Silly, pure stupidity. So many drivers who change lane without signals, use HID lights (irritating!!) and the most fantastic scenario I encountered recently was 3 huge lorry drivers(one carrying a crane), all in one lane each and at the same speed! All the cars were practically being held back by their selfish act. Just because the 2 lorry drivers on the right think they could be faster than the other by a tiny bit, so they tried to overtake and rammed their accelerator but obviously the effort is to the drain. Only created frustration among other road users.

Enough rambling for now…looking forward to Greece/Italy next weekend. Til then, adios!

I was away at Macau and Zhuhai for the 4 days Raya break. Well, the first day wasn’t that fun because the direct AirAsia flight to Macau was full (yeah, late booking!) so we flew to Shenzhen instead and took a ferry to Macau. 3 ala carte rice+meat and 3 drinks costs us RMB255, alittle cuckoo the pricing but what the heck, we were hungry.

Once we reached Macau, we patiently waited for a cab and it was me and my mom hopping into the cab first while the men loaded the luggages. I told the cab driver "President hotel" and he mumbled back something similar which I nodded. I’ve studied Macau map while waiting for the cab so I knew the hotel is just 5-10 minutes away from the ferry terminal and it should cost no more than 40HKD. But then the cab driver took the island bridge and went across to another island, Taipa island and it was then I thought he’s taking us for a ride and at one time, I doubted my map reading skills. But I saw the new Venetian hotel, it was breathtaking, and I saw many other nice casino hotels, so I didn’t bother about the cab driver taking us for a ride. But the taxi meter soon surpassed 90HKD and he stopped us at Westin hotel! I told the cab driver we wanted to go to PRE-SI-DENT Hotel and he replied in cantonese "Yeah, I know u said WAI-SI-TEN" It was then I realised he misunderstood my words and WAI-SI-TEN in cantonese means Westin hotel! I was speechless and was struggling to comprehend what’s President in Cantonese called? Lucky my dad was there to rescue, (now I see the consequences of being a ‘banana’ haha…I should learn my language well). And I should add that the word president in cantonese sounds nothing like PRE-SI-DENT. The taxi ride cost us about 150HKD at the end, what a mistake.

Macau is like a smaller version of Las Vegas, so many casinos but doesn’t attract me at all, I went in to Lisboa casino just to lose 70HKD and then I’ve completed my purpose in Macau. Haha. Boy, I must say the prostitute business is such an open thing there, the girls are everywhere parading themselves and giving away their business cards. They are pretty but after seeing so many of them, on the streets, in the casinos, outside the hotels, I felt alittle uneasy about it. I mean, why would any girls do such thing and be proud of it (well, at least they looked like that from what I see). It further annoyed me when I see men walking behind the prostitutes towards a small hotel/motel. Uncomfortable and speechless…

Zhuhai was shopping paradise, lets not mention how many things I’ve bought over there and a meal with 4 dishes and rice only cost us RMB59. How cheap is that?!

Many more experience but not going to blab everything here. Worth going to both Macau and Zhuhai and in case some of you have no clue where Zhuhai is, it’s part of China and it’s walking distance from Macau to Zhuhai. Até a vista Macau!

It never fails to amuse me how blur men can be when it comes to love. Well, not exactly love but the process of getting there. Guys can be so ignorant about hints or signals from the opposite sex, sometimes it’s frustrating. I have personally experienced many blur cases and the day they realised was the day me or someone confessed to them DIRECTLY. Gosh, couldn’t it be any more obvious?

There’s always an extreme side of course, guys who think the opposite sex is giving the signals but in actual fact, we are NOT. This is going to be alittle tacky cos obviously these category of guys belong to the "higher self-esteem" group, so dealing with them must be handled ‘delicately’.

Partly the female species is not easy to interpret and handle but come on guys, differentiate between real hints and ‘imaginary’ hints. It’s really not that hard. How much hints do u expect a girl to give when u always fail to notice even one.