just breinda.

beach!

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:37:00 +0000

it's really hot here at Tanjung Lipat.

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Ivan

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:50:00 +0000

Hi there :)

I thought you shd meet Ivan.

Here's a pic of one of his wallpapers.

Obviously, I lost LOL!

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2010 – the end?

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:25:00 +0000

i’m most probably done blogging :)

i’m thinking of merging this with the other blog…

time for blogging is almost reduced to zilch.

let’s see how long i can stop ya…

piece of cake

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:40:00 +0000

sometimes a simple gesture can make one’s day. today someone surprised us with Secret Recipe’s Oreo Cheesecake. i don’t know about my other team mates, but it made my day and i felt great knowing we had done something good for him :) something that he’s grateful for.

it brought along with it a conviction that what we’re doing is good. i don’t like surprises but this one – i like :)

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Isaiah 43:18-19

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:41:00 +0000

Forget the former things;

do not dwell in the past.

See, I am doing a new thing!

Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?

I am making a way in the desert

and streams in the wasteland.

43things.com

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:36:00 +0000

i took the personality test and got "Reinventing Self-Improving Self-Knower."
i guess that makes me a selfish person? :p
just a thought

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a

Reinventing Self-Improving Self-Knower

freeloaders

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:57:00 +0000

i am trying to “love your neighbour as yourself” but i can’t help noticing how some people take advantage of others’ kindness. sometimes i feel that these people should go just to let them feel what it’s like to be independent for once.

picture this: a boy grows up in with a foster family, goes to school, grows up to become a man, works for the foster dad, goes overseas to work and then returns home not to his own family but to the foster family who are now an adult family unit. the foster mom is all too kind to even lend him money for so many things. sometimes you wonder if there is anything going on between the two. after all, they are only years apart in age.

then this foster son goes about doing his own things, sometimes not coming home and he goes on to impregnate his secret girlfriend. if i were he, i’d leave the foster family out of shame and spare them the disappointment. but no, he decides that he needs his foster family (for obvious reasons), so he brings his secret girlfriend (now wife) home after the birth of an innocent daughter. the foster mom showers her love on the newborn while she ill-speaks of the wife. sounds like an indonesian telenovela? this is real.

that’s not all. foster dad is extremely unhappy and disappointed with this showering of love that it seems foster mom is neglecting her own family. and here’s the ‘best’ part – foster son gets to stay for free. there were talks about paying for electricity & water in place of rent money but this is just sweet talk and bullshit.

foster dad wrote a letter to his children + foster son to give foster mom x amt of money every month. i know one of the children pays on time every month but i’m pretty sure foster son has ‘missed’ several monthly payments. how do i know? i’ve seen foster mom on many occasions pay for their grocery purchases, toys, food, petrol money, etc. do you think this is fair to her own children?

and read this: foster mom talks bad about foster son’s wife’s skills almost every time, saying the wife puts money over family. ugh! if only she could see from the wife’s perspective – she probably has to work to support the husband’s income. i mean… if my husband is poor, i would want to work to support my family too! she ‘complains’ about looking after their daughter but one can tell she likes it lots.

the latest freeloader saga is this: foster son ran out of cooking gas so he conveniently took his foster family’s cooking gas and said “i will replace this”. many days and no more cooking gas in the foster family’s kitchen later, still no replaced cooking gas.

this i think is truly unfair. at some point in life, one has to be truly independent without forgetting his/her roots. i mean… stop sucking on others’ kindness, okay? start to feel guilty and start feeling you owe them your life. this doesn’t mean you have to live with them and live off their kindness… it only means to repay their kindness with kindness… it’s that simple.

lastly, stop spending on alcoholic drinks if you can’t afford it. go drink but stop when you live hand to mouth. start to think with a clear mind.

end.

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am i doing this right?

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:39:00 +0000

post update via email.

let's see if this works

update via blogger.com: it works :) just that it doesn't allow you to add a label. i suppose that's ok...

181 days

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:02:00 +0000

that’s the number of days in 2009 that we have spent on earth in 2 days’ time – if you’re reading this, congrats for completing the first half of this year. what have you achieved thus far? are you half-way towards your goal?

a few days ago, the world was stunned by the death of michael jackson. i feel indifferent not because i dislike him, but more because everyone dies one day – this happened to be his day. like many famous people who died young like him, his music lives on. i particularly remember the moonwalk dance way back in primary school and i am not ashamed to say i grew up listening to his songs. if you were a kid in the 80’s you’d know what i mean :)

it must’ve been very difficult being michael jackson, don’t u think? someone with so much fame couldn’t possibly have a moment of privacy. he must’ve experienced a lot of stress with all the bad press, financial downturn and whatnot. aren’t you glad you’re a private person! ;)

which brings me to say this – no matter what your social position is in life, always make wise choices. when unsure, God is just a prayer away.

anyway… if you haven’t watched transformers, now is the time go watch it :) wait a minute… i digress… i had wanted to address a very important issue about judging others… aiyah… that will be for another post then… time for my beauty sleep now hehe…

God bless, God speed. Take care.

slowwwwww

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:01:00 +0000

i haven’t been blogging for a while now that i am almost devoid of ideas/subjects to talk about.

i’m not sure now why i blog, except for the fact that i get dead bored at night and would not want to touch work-related documents/emails after 6pm.

well, i am not ashamed to say that i have been stalking on facebook :p all of you who are on facebook can deny all you want but that is a fact in any social networking site – you stalk, stalk and stalk. you are so “kay poh” to know everything anyone does. which makes you (and me) to have no real social life, unless you (and i) make the effort to :)

btw the title of this post reflects how often i update this blog. i am considering merging this and the other blog into a totally new website. there’s a reason i started so many blogs… it was an experiment that didn’t work exactly the way i wanted to :p but that is life – full of surprises, twists and turns, no?

my cousin Ben’s wedding over the weekend went by like a breeze. i love it when Ps. Ernest is the wedding solemnizer – very efficient. the next day, a Sunday, my cousin Sandra got engaged which led me to think her fiancée is an SDA member hehe… turned out she couldn’t get paid leaves from her company, so she was trying to sandwich her special day between the many weddings during that weekend. congrats, my cousin :)

the 3rd Monggiok Family Day was a blast! too bad i could not stay till the end, as mum had to leave for another town in the afternoon. i am blessed to be a Monggiok descendant – there are so many of us and the spirit of teamwork is so strong that we have done 3 annual family days which gets better every year.

ohhh… i almost forgot to mention that i met my internet friends (zeno “gansad” & sara - husband & wife) for the first time in person since i got to know them in 1997/1998! and the world just got smaller when sara’s first cousin anna is my cousin ben’s wife! hahaha… adeyy… i promised to meet them at the wedding reception but i was ‘knocked out’ in exhaustion from all the 2-hour standing in church (i was in charge of music). i didn’t see them when i got out of my grandparents’ house after 3 short power naps (actually it was more like interrupted sleep!) i was hoping to get a picture taken with them… maybe in another time & place :)

would you look at that… long post… i had better stop now… time to sleep!

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brunei revisited

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:05:00 +0000

hello there

for the past month, i have been traveling almost every week. for work, of course. i am so tired that the novelty of traveling frequently has worn off.

i made a last minute overnight trip to brunei mid-april. it was to bring an eye-checking instrument and some eye drops over at our latest baby branch – Optimax Brunei :)

the week after, i was asked to cover as customer care because the staff there was still very new. raw is more like it. together with a colleague from HQ, i stayed at the le gallery suites hotel. nice hotel, but i had to move to another room after the power supply was suddenly cut off. it happened only in my room.

hmm… strange… when i was in tawau last weekend, we had to change rooms too… creepy…

anyway.

such a nice boutique hotel but having me as a guest in any hotel is a headache. every hotel i stay in is subject to service value expectations :p and i have some observations too.

i think the people there are nice. really nice… except 95% of them are not locals. they speak english in a certain slang that you would recognize their country of origin just by listening to the way they pronounce english words. there are so many of them that when they converse in english , you couldn’t differentiate a local and a foreigner… until they speak malay

this might be petty but i think bruneian should have their own way of speaking english – never mind the slang as long as the pronunciation is correct.

breakfast was so-so… for a beautifully set restaurant, i would’ve expected more varieties albeit simple menus.

so anyway, anyway… my brunei trip marked 1 week shy of the first anniversary of the theft incident where i lost my handbag and the sony handycam. i realise now that the start of my inconsistent work performance stemmed from that incident. i now have a phobia of bringing my handbang to roadshows/promo booths. which is probably why i sit behind the info counter more

our bruneian colleagues were very hospitable as always. we had prawns, prawns and prawns for almost every meal hahaha… we even had prawn satay!!! and the food portion is gigantic, it puts sabah food portion to shame. proof: we had to ‘tapau’ our nasi lemak/ayam lunch and ate the ayam for breakfast the following morning :p

spent a fortune on imported chocolates at this store called KIULAP. then our bruneian colleagues gave each of us a bag full of more imported chocolates on the day we left!!!

hmm… the thought of chocolates makes me want to get one from the fridge now *cis!*

shock horror

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:27:00 +0000

shock:

me: selamat pagi, ini mega laundry?

her: ya. ko cari siapa?

me: sia cari bos kau. ada dia?

her: bos teda oh. bulum sampai lagi. kau sepa?

me: sia buat panggilan dari Optimax Eye Specialist Centre

her: apa tu?

me: klinik mata

her: ah. apa ko mau?

me: sia minta quotation ba kamu punya charges

her: apaitu?

me: ko sepa?

her: saya la. pekerja.

me: nama kau “pekerja?”

her: bukan

me: jadi? apa sia mo panggil ko?

her: silin

me: ok silin… sia mo minta quotation dari kamu

her: apa tu barang?

me: …… ko tidak tau apa tu quotation?

her: tidak

me: apa nombor telefon bos kau? sia telefon dia terus

her: dia tidak angkat fon tu

me: jadi macam mana sia mo buat bisnes sama kamurang kalo ko tia tau apa tu quotation? tidak payah bisnes la kalo macam ni

her: bah

*klik*

horror:

i ordered “ginger fish”, waited for 30 mins only to be served “ginger beef”. i took out the receipt, showed it to the waiter. he took the dish away, waited for another 15mins before he came back to say “can you order other things? fish out of stock”

(disappointed) “can you give me my money back?”

and so i left without eating anything.

at least he said sorry as i left.

i had some kuih from southern instead.

many other shock/horror events but i will keep those stories for another post.

until then, good nite ;)

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april already???

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:04:00 +0000

so soon…

last week, my ex-colleague became a widow out of the blue… and she’s not even 40 yet. i cannot imagine the shock and pain she must’ve experienced with the discovery of her husband lying motionless on the floor.

but i felt her pain. because now she has to be father and mother to her two sons… a very heavy responsibility, i must say. and she is the sole breadwinner of the family now. how sad is that?

nobody knows what the future holds. so cherish every day as if it is the last day. and when i say ‘cherish’, i mean to live it to the fullest giving glory to God in everything we do.

last night i had a surreal dream. it was the second time i ‘flew’ / was pulled up in mid-air for some reason. my eyes were blinking very fast (REM) and i saw light and the shadow of a pillar. my eyes blinked so fast it made flapping sounds.

last night i exclaimed “in the name of Jesus!” and i heard myself saying it out loud as i woke up from the experience. turned out i was having ‘sleep paralysis’ again. the minute i woke up, i felt my whole body cramped from staying in one position for so long. it was past 2am. so i tossed and turned until i found a comfy position and went back to sleep.

and that is why i am deprived of sleep and can’t function well at work. add to that the current heatwave… is it only me or is the weather turning hot… really hot?? to add injury to insult, the office aircond ‘died’ on us. cannot tahan…

ketam

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:48:00 +0000

look who's talking

dia cakap org "not really fluent english"... dia sendiri pun...

haiya... ketam sungguh!

indonesia is laughing at us

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:42:00 +0000

over the hoo-haa of malaysia's ban on christian publications using one word to describe God - "Allah". details here.

you can't blame the indons (or the rest of the world for that matter) for their opinions. indonesia is a country with the most muslim population in the world but we don't hear them calling the govt to ban the use of the word "Allah".

arab christians also refer to God as Allah. and the muslim arabs don't boil in anger. so... what's up, malaysia? malaysia maju ka? ya... maju ke belakang.

the argument is that malaysian muslims will get confused when they read religious publications with God's name in the arabic language printed on it. so their sensitivities must be protected.

hello malaysia... welcome to the 21st century. we are now in 2009. the ban was temporarily lifted because the home minister put a condition to it - that the publication is to be circulated amongst non-muslims only.

if we're really afraid that muslims will get confused, why not ban the internet altogether? there are a lot of info there - enough to confuse a country.

aiya small matter la... i think i want to migrate.

luxury cows

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:22:00 +0000

saw this on malaysiakini.com earlier:

Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim will be charged in connection with the allegation that he had abused his power over the purchase luxury cars and cows.

i know it meant the purchase of cows and luxury cars but i couldn't help understanding it as the purchase of luxury cars and the purchase of luxury cows when read at a glance HAHAHA!

just a short one today.

~~off~~ back to work i go!

rabbit commotion

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:13:00 +0000

last night, Dad made a slight mistake: he released our dogs - Lotto (a Rottweiler) & Stacy (a German/Belgian Shepherd mix) - before he took in the rabbit into the kitchen.

Lotto, being the big & fierce (albeit loving) dog that he is, jumped at the rabbit's cage and managed to bite the rabbit's tail! there was a commotion in the kitchen and i tried to help Dad by pushing away Lotto. then Stacy tried to jump on the cage too!

my immediate reaction was to scream "ATAAAANNN!!!! BANGUUUUNNN!!! LOTTO GIGIT RABBIT!!!!" hahaha... my brother woke up, our handyman quickly came too. in the end, my brother managed to pull Lotto away from the rabbit's tail while our handyman took care of Stacy.

i thought it was weird the rabbit was quiet throughout the ordeal. it only squealed a few times in the beginning and towards the end, probably shocked at first and then in pain at last. there was no blood in its tail. kesian pulak sama tu rabbit :( my heart ached a bit

kitchen floor was very dirty after that, so i mopped again... at 10pm! what a tiring night it was.

so, do rabbits have very high threshold for pain?? i wonder..

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more random things

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:20:00 +0000

if you go to my facebook page, you will notice that i have put up under 'notes' 25 random things about me because 3 of my friends tagged me and i was obliged to post some (useless) info about me.

but i think 25 is not enough. want to know me more? come, let me bring you to the depth of my heart/mind - as far as i can bring you to know me better. consider this a continuation from the 25 i put up on facebook.

26. i am always misunderstood - maybe it's the words i use or the way i speak

27. people take advantage of me all the time - some people think i am the walking/living yellowpages "breinda, get me si anu's phone number" but i have learnt to say no

28. i can be very nice if people are nice to me first. respect is earned. and expect the opposite when the opposite is thrown at me

29. sometimes i am biased. and i don't like that.

30. i practice transparency at the office. i think every staff should know the goings-on in the company. i feel that the responsibility is shared, and we can work together as a team to move forward

31. i am a simple person - complications confuse me. i hate confusion

32. i don't have any dark secrets. i think my life is more/less an open book. if you hear any juicy stories about me, it's up to you to believe them

33. i don't hold any personal grudges - because i don't want to look older than my real age hahaha! but some people hold personal grudges against me even after so long. suka hati korang lah, kalo bahagia begitu, buatlah & jadilah

34. i hate politics because i have seen first hand how it divides families. so i just stay on the side, watch and agree/disagree. i am not a member of any political party and i don't intend to. i personally think not all BN people are devils and not all PR people are angels

35. i would like to visit Israel some day. and walk through the Bible there :) Israel is a beautiful country. that Gaza side is just a small town. the war there is never-ending

36. i strongly believe that you become wiser with age but your heart should always be young and happy :)

37. i think it's a sabahan thing to make an appointment and then cancel it at the last minute. this is annoying and must be corrected

38. i prefer a firm NO than a silent YES or no answer at all when i ask a favour. coz then i can move to the next agenda

39. i would like to own a macbook in future :P

40. i sleep very late on my day off. like now. good morning

beautiful skies

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:03:00 +0000

has anyone noticed how beautiful the skies have been lately?

the clearest sky can only mean one thing - very hot and humid. but i am fascinated by how beautiful the sky is at its bluest (does such word exist?)

sometimes, at different times of the day, the sky still remains beautiful albeit with different shades and colours

one's attempt to shoot the sun is always marred by wrong angles. nevertheless, after a few shots, you'll get a view of the sun in accidental angles

playing with the camera functions can also give beautiful results

nope, no photoshop needed here :)

me and my fascination with skies... it's built to last!

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distraction

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:50:00 +0000

sometimes, when we're down with something we tend to find a filler to distract us from our despair. some people look for comfort food (i shamelessly admit that i fall into this category :p)

these days, however, i go online and watch videos on youtube. at times i'd log in to facebook and read funny photo comments - after all, that's mainly why i'm on facebook for - funny comments. actually, that's the second reason. the first one's meeting old friends :) i made new ones too.

anyway.

yeah... i'm still searching for activities to detach myself from a misery which i can't seem to shake off nor find a solution to. hmm.. going online seems to help a bit. but the moment i think abt it, i can't sleep. i am usually calm and composed when this particular 'problem' of mine creeps up but lately i've been on alert mode. being alert at all times is tiring. then i remind myself with God's promises in the Bible. it works until i let myself think abt it again :p sot juga... my cousin aieyen knows very well what i'm talking abt. we hv the same problem and i think she's the only one who understands haha!

so this year i'm going to spend CNY with my cousins in KL. can't wait for that short break away from KK. not that i hate KK, just that it's been awhile since the last time i was in KL. i sure miss window-shopping (bad economy bah, so window-shopping saja la)

but i look forward to meet some friends in KL :) friends i haven't met in almost 20 years! oh wow... time flies, huh?

what else... oh yours truly has been appointed the wedding planner for a cousin. of all people, huh? luckily, there are job segregations and i am allowed to delegate... will be meeting some pro photogs over the next few weeks to see whose work we like best (we: me, cousin+fiance). if it were my wedding, louis pang is first on my list :p

the sunday school supervisor recently informed me i have to teach 11- & 12-year-olds. which means i hv to teach the same kids i taught last year. aiseymen... take every challenge bah kan.. otherwise, how to grow?

i think i'll read now. good night.

rude

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:59:00 +0000

"di mana kau kerja?"

"apa kerja kau? sebagai apa?"

"ko ada degree ka?"

"berapa gaji ko?"

(and if you don't say, the next question is) "ada sampai RM2000 ka?"

what's with the curiosity? sometimes i don't understand why some ppl still think a 9-5 job and teaching are the best careers. i pity those who flourish in business but get sidelined just because they are not like the rest. even more those who make money just by being in front of the computer.

today, i salute people who take the courage and attempt to challenge themselves economically by not taking the 'normal' career paths. they are but not limited to - rubber-tappers, fishmongers, farmers, online traders, work-from-home moms/people, freelance photographers.... the list is endless

given the (financial) opportunity, i would take a journey in the business world. start small la... but i won't say what i want to do just yet. those who have known my family for years might have an idea or two :)

prayer time.

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too many

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:29:00 +0000

this is to inform that i have cancelled both my friendster & myspace accounts. too many to look after lah. one day when i'm bored with facebook, i might just cancel that as well :D you know lah how fast technology advances

so this year in general was not-so-lucky... a lot of ppl i know lost some belongings. case in point - me and the brunei incident. that was a hard one to forgive in a long time!

anyway, i noticed there were more wedding invitations this year compared to the last 3 years. most of them chose to wed in december. and i only attended 3 this time! 1 in kampung, 2 in kk. good, huh? hehehe

and the weirdest part is, i lost 1kg despite the food galore this festive month. i want to maintain my weight bah, just that i'd like to convert fat to muscles. have u seen how good madonna looks at 50? i'd like to be that fit at 50 :D

maybe i shd balik kampung and catch up on my reading/blogging/etc. kan? tingu lah dulu... i don't like my kampung bed bah.. not comfy, kurang spring so cannot sleep soundly :p mengomplen! org lain tidur di kaki lima tau! ;p

ahh before i forget, i am happy to announce i now have a ministry in church - i teach sunday school and i also read scripture (when given the task). we start humble ba kan? and i teach 9-year-olds next year. it excites me to find new activities for them to do. some fun planning ahead!

God bless you! ;)

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AJ sings

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:14:00 +0000

(with subtitles)

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sukacita surga

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:46:00 +0000

i like this praise song so much.

T'RIMA SUKACITA SURGA
ITULAH KEKUATAN BAGI JIWA
KU DAPAT RASAKAN KASIH-NYA
DI TENGAH BADAI YANG BERGELORA

T'RIMA SUKACITA SURGA
ITULAH KEKUATAN BAGI JIWA
KU DAPAT SAKSIKAN KUASA-NYA
TAKLUKKAN BADAI YANG BERGELORA

REFF :
HALELUYA KAU ADA DALAM HATIKU
TAK KAN PATAH SEMANGATKU
TAK KAN HILANG KEKUATANKU
HALELUYA KU MAU BERSORAK BAGI-MU
SUKACITA SURGA NYATA PENUHIKU

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23 years

noreply@blogger.com (breinda) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:55:00 +0000

andy lau to wed girlfriend of 23 years.

i would've left him on the 5th year.

no woman should be made to wait that long to settle down.

23 years is a bloody long time, honey.

just a short post today. i am contemplating between finishing some work from home (bad idea) and searching for new recipes on the net. my trifle didn't turn out too well :p hence the need to justify.

i will be off work 27/12/08 to 2/1/09 and will hv lots of time to blog (and do some *secret* research online)

Single Ladies songs

Free Mp3 Downloads | Music Videos | Lyrics

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