Lenka-ing . .

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I don't know where to go I can't do it alone I've tried
And I don't know why

Slow it down
Make it stop
Or else my heart is going to pop
'Cause it's too much
Yeah, it's a lot
To be something I'm not

I'm a fool
Out of love
'Cause I just can't get enough

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I don't know where to go I can't do it alone I've tried
And I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment
I'm so scared but I don't show it
I can't figure it out
It's bringing me down I know
I've got to let it go
And just enjoy the show

The sun is hot
In the sky
Just like a giant spotlight
The people follow the sign
And synchronize in time
It's a joke
Nobody knows
They've got a ticket to that show
Yeah

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I dont know where to go I can't do it alone I've tried
And I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment
I'm so scared but I don't show it
I can't figure it out
It's bringing me down I know
I've got to let it go
And just enjoy the show

Just enjoy the show

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I dont know where to go I can't do it alone I've tried
And I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment
I'm so scared but I don't show it
I can't figure it out
It's bringing me down I know
I've got to let it go
And just enjoy the show

dum de dum
dudum de dum

Just enjoy the show

dum de dum
dudum de dum

Just enjoy the show

I want my money back
I want my money back
I want my money back
Just enjoy the show

I want my money back
I want my money back
I want my money back
Just enjoy the show

try to remember

what a sad song . . .


Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a tender and callow fellow.
Try to remember, and if you remember,
Then follow.

Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow, follow, follow, follow.

Try to remember when life was so tender
That no one wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember, and if you remember,
Then follow.

Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow, follow, follow, follow.

Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow, follow, follow, follow.

Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow, follow, follow, follow.

Deep in December, it's nice to remember,
Although you know the snow will follow.
Deep in December, it's nice to remember,
Without a hurt the heart is hollow.
Deep in December, it's nice to remember,
The fire of September that made us mellow.
Deep in December, our hearts should remember
And follow.

gath + kenduri + shopping = makan3

2^nd weekend of June started with the mini-gathering #qepohian at food court klcc eve of the weekend. The attendees were; fidah(host), shon(secretary kot), me, nor, rina & azhar, and yus. Though a bit kelam kabut as not so many ppl able to confirm their attendance, the gath went on great(though there were two awkward moments happened on that nite) the main purpose; to pass the special (fidah’s) wedding invitation card (mmg special n agak sukar utk dipost as the card was a bit thicker than the normal card). Beside that, we had our gossiping session too (as we are the #qepohian) while eating the waffle/popiah and drinking the coconut drink, (credit to fidah for belanje air kelapa). And extra credit to reedu n nor for hantarkan aku balik ke umah on that nite.

Next, on sat, me n nor meredah ujan lebat to bangi. Our mission; to attend waida’s brothers’ wedding. Though the trip took almost an hour. We managed to reach the house and find a good parking spot. We met waida who looks pretty in the blue kebaya (she rarely dressed up kind of person..ske pakai sempoi2) and terus makan as we were sooo hungry. The caterer was UBE catering and the nasi minyak plus the varieties of the lauks were simply delicious. (if only I was not in diet mode, I would have tambah nasi and lauk) but the most unforgettable dish was the dadih kelapa. Very unique and soothing for the throat. Unfortunately, there’s only 1 left at the dessert table or else I would have tapau extra dgn muke selambe. But I managed to tapau tapai pulut for my mum (and as expected the tapai pulut was nice too)

On Sunday, after been postponing the the agenda for a while, finally me and my mum able to go to jalan tar and sogo for a shopping trip. Our target; kain for baju raya in maroon colour. And guess what? After jalan2 kuar masuk almost 10 textile shop, we ended up buying nothing. Seriously, tadek satu pun yg memikat hati. Penat berjalan, we stop at a mamak, have a tea break. Then, we headed to gulati’s and maya. I fall in love at the first sight with one fabrics at the gulatis. But I was broken hearted when I found out that it was priced almost rm100 per meter. (for a baju kurung, I have to buy 4 meters). So, I gave up. We headed to sogo. My mum splurged on new comforter set, few pairs of shoes, clothes and on me too. (so, r u still wondering, where I got this shophaholic habit?) my mum belanje dresses for me. Yeay! Will melaram with the new dress soon. Though, sgt penat (sbb berjalan dr pagi sampai ptg) but we were satisfied with our purchases on that day.

p/s: mum planning for another shopping session at klcc. Must tag along nie.

F8 Audit & Assurance

Disclaimer: I self study for this paper. I didn’t attend classes or even the revision classes. I’m getting ready for the exam solely based on my audit notes+textbook+prior year question+2 ½ years of audit experience. (bukan berlagak pandai, but more to nak save duit dan masa)

The truth: Last minute study. I kinda took the paper for granted as I thought I could rely on my audit experience. But look at the bright side, shud I had follow the right guide of auditing, I would be ok.

The paper was 3hrs and 15 minutes. It was fully essay paper. ACCA exam would never fail to give me a neck+head+back pain after submitting the answer booklet, nevertheless the level of difficulties of the paper.

If I managed to answer all question with an extra 20 minutes to tidy up my answer booklet (underlining the main issues, making a box, draw a line and others) is it consider that i:

- know everything; or

- just simply wrote crappy stuff; or

- know nothing; or

- I’m still good at goreng2; or

- I tak cukup menggoreng; or

- I want to usha one hot guy who is taking the same exam too?

Frankly speaking, I’d good feeling after the exam. Feeling of passing the paper. Fyi, in ACCA, what counts is whether u pass or not. It was not about marks, unless u aiming to be best student in the world/Malaysia or highest score for paper, it will be another issue. Nway, sbb dah perah otak seabis2nye, what’s left is to berdoa kepada Allah.

p/s: 6 more to go . . (sempat kawin n ade anak nie)

Training Session At Redbox Ria

Wah, ape sudah jadi nie. Sepatutnye work out session kat gym. Nie dah buat kat redbox plak dah. Haha. Actually, sumwhere in March, I promised my trainer, if his lungs test come out positive (which means that he’s free from the pneumonia), I’ll treat him a karaoke session. so, last Saturday, we met at the redbox ria. Nway, there was not only two of us. I pujuk my junior to join us (nasib baik nuu sporting) so, we got 3 hour melalak session for RM50..

For the first hour, my trainer still malu2 lagi. Tp die dah enqueue playlist for me. His choices of song was not bad and quite challenging for me:

- adibah noor terlalu istimewa (he said: I pass)

- ning baizura awan yang terpilu (he said: I pass)

- misha omar bunga2 cinta (he said: I fail)

- Mariah carey through the rain (he said : so so)

The rest was my must sing song – I’m yours+terbaik untukmu+beauty and the beast+bleeding love+cinta dalam hati+ etc..

The next 2 hours, dah tak malu2 dah..eventually he sang quite a lot of song. And surprisingly he didn’t sang any Chinese song at all. While my junior, nampak je diam n kecik comel, tp her choices of song, mmg dasat, most of her choices of song ade element of rock. Not bad2..

Owh, btw, before we dismissed, he came out with 2 dares for me:

- to enter the karaoke contest

- if I manage to lose another 10kg, he’ll treat me the next karaoke session

p/s: thinking..and wishin and hoping . .

Makan lagi?

Another great sat for the month. Thanks to the last minute plan trip to Ayuthaya. The day started after the training session ended. Met rina+azhar+lil fatin at the lrt session. Initially, fatin was seated beside me in the baby for a few minutes, i noticed that Fatin asyik usha je (kinda trying to register my face with her limited memory) soo, when she failed to identify me, she started to cry, so terpakselaa pas kat mama nye (yeah, fatin is 8 months alr, she already develop the abilities to recognize ppl who spend most time with her). But then when she was with her mum, buat2 mesra plak, laughing with me as I played the cak2 game while we on the way to the curve. We had our lunch at vivo pizza. It was our 1^st time visit and we enjoyed the food there. The Caesar salad was well flavored and the croutons were really crispy. The baked meatball spagethi was fulfilling and yummy too. The price? I could say that the dishes there were fairly priced. Definitely, I’ll be coming back to the pizzeria.

We take a stroll at the stalls. There were varieties of stuff being sold over there. As usual, the shoes and clothes was my main target, but fortunately I didn’t find anything that I fall in love at the first sight as the thing I’d been looking for was at the vincci. I finally gave up with the temptation to buy another flat. It cost me rm39 (macamlaa 20 pasang kasut yg sedia ada nie aku dah pakai semua kan? arghh!! I’m soo addicted to shoes!)

In the car, as we headed to Sri Ayuthaya for dinner, we had another try with fatin. But still fail, she started to cry few minutes after unable to identify me (walhal sakan die gelak2 ngan aunty n kat luar) Nvm, akan cube lagi di masa akan dtg. Sesampainye di Sri Ayuthaya, kami disambut dgn sawadikap dan diusher naik ke atas. Woah, kalo layan skit punye baik camnie..i bet the price of the food pun mesti baik punye laa gak kan? Pas datin mawar n dato ikhwan sampai, than we started to order. Initially I thought rm30++ per pax shud be enough. Pas order2, n tgk bill, mmg laa jd rm50++. We ordered:

- kerabu mangga (sedap)

- tomyam seafood (sedap..tp tak sesedap kedai nearby my h

- kerabu suhun (sedap gak but rase masam cam tak bape masuk dgn suhun)

- green curry beef (I like! Though agak sgt pedas, rasenye mmg masyuk, maybe sbb ade santan kot? Oopppsss)

- assam ikan siakap steamed (ikan siakap masak pape pun sedap, but I just tried out a bit only, tak ske benda bertulang2 nie)

- spicy squid (act, pn rina nak makan sotong goring tepung, maybe due to a miscommunication, jd sotong berkuah plak…tibai jelaa..nasib baik tak mengecewakan)

makan sampai kenyang n sampai dr fatin tak tido>dah tido>dah bangun balik. Overall i gave 3.75/5 sedap+selesa+cepat+qood customer service. Pastu baliklaa..once in a while, dpt kumpul with rina n mawar mmg seronok. As soo many things to be discussed/gossiped/planned. Next, makan kat mane plak?

p/s: tadek gamba. Biasalaa tanpa puan ella, mmglaa kami ske lepas makan baru sedar tadek gamba mknn b4 dibaham.

Study Leaves . .

It was another great two weeks study leaves (but not so great as mum was out station) Indeed, I’d fully utilize my study leaves by doing quite a lot of useful activities. That includes:

1^st week

Monday – work out at fitness first and surfing the net (I just flipped the prior year question today)

Tuesday – work out session with trainer. I’d purposely left the notes at home. As I know I won’t be reading the notes. Went to the hair salon for a hair cut (the last time I cut my hair was 5 months ago) and the stylist over there suggested a scalp treatment which I declined as I could do it by myself at home. Love the new hair cut. But mum was a bit furious as my hair had become much2 shorter than before.

Wednesday – start a serious study session. Manage to finish reading the whole set of note by nite.

Thursday – Surfing the internet and playing this Farm Town thingy (almost addicted to it, but thank god I managed to refrain myself from over-indulging into this game). Had an appointment with the insurance agent. (Frankly speaking, I don’t like the idea of not knowing who had give my phone number as the insurance agent refused to disclose the person name) but as I had been thinking of getting myself an insurance, it would be a good opportunity for me in getting more info on insurance. The supposedly 15 minutes meeting had extended to 1 hour borak2 session which made me rushed to home. I cooked a proper dinner today (seriously I couldn’t recall when was the last time I cooked a proper meal for dinner) but the rice turned out to be a bit too lembik. Haha, my brother teased me “camnelaa nak kawin, masak nasi pun lembik” . fyi, it was the 1^st time the rice turned out to be halfway porridge. To go along with the nasi; sambal tofu telur+fried chicken+kubis panjang with anchovies+telur dadar.

Friday - went to the gym with the notes. Revised a few section. Next, date with the qepohians at klcc food court. The initial plan, was me n shon, but as I expected that will be more. Waida and khuzai (a surprise appearance, as she is working at KK) tag along. So, we had a fun power lunch. Catching up while commenting on the food and wondering how I know the food court much better than them (I’m just the regular KLCC patron, whilst they’re the permanent occupant of the KLCC..hehe they worked at petronas) The luncheon on Friday ended after the trip to Kinokuniya.

2^nd week

Monday – stayed at home. Seriously focusing on prior year question. (yeah..another last minute thingy)

Tuesday – the 29^th training session. Study .. study..

As june 09 study leaves had ended, now I’m anxiously waiting for dec’09 study leaves.

Pre-Exam Outing

last sat was the best sat for me this month. as usual, after the training session (exercising and 'gaduh' session with my personal trainer), me n my frens get ready for our next plan; hanging out at klcc..1st mission - purchase tickets for night at the museum 2 (i'd booked earlier, soo didnt have to go through the long queues) next, while looking for a restaurant/cafe to lepak2 and snacking, we'd bumped into an ex utpians; suzy wif her fren. It turned out they just got back from registering to Ask Cleo online at the starbucks and in return they received a cLEo goodies paper bag consisting of; the latest l'oreal paris elvive re-nutrition night serum, conditioner, and shampoo(i've been aiming to try out this new products, but as it quite costly compared to sunsilk damage reconstruction, so i deferred the plan), starbucks voucher (which i dunno whether i shud use it or not), Cleo's stuff..not bad, huh? soo we tried our luck hoping that the booth still open and alhamdulillah, they're still there, so instead of splurging on new hair care products, i managed to get it all for free..

p/s: they will be at sunway pyramid this coming weekend. the registration is for first 50 readers. so head up to starbucks on this coming sat if u want free goodies.

next, we had our tea break at dome. this shud be my 3rd time at dome since the last visit with rina,mawar&azhar (and 1st time for my fren). i was surprised with the pricing for the foods and beverages (which i found a bit overpriced). but lantaklaa as it was only once in a month we splurge a bit on good food. i ordered cherrylicious with chicken sausage pastry with the tasty tomato chutney dipping (that cost me RM31) while she ordered tuna sandwich and caramel nut crunch(shud be around RM44) though we had to wait for around 10-15 minutes, we are satisfied with the food quality and portion (byk sampai my fren tak terabis pun that tuna sandwich). while snacking, as usual some gossiping while browsing thru magazine.

p/s: planning for another snacking session at california pizza kitchen@cpk next month..

next stop was the tGv. as usual, malaysians wont be a malaysian if they wont make some unnecessary noise, havoc, chit chatting in the cinema. huh, as one of the malaysians who had used to this scenario, what we can do is just to be patient and pusing belakang sambil buat muke yg annoying with their noise. takut plak nak sound lebih2..jenuh plak kalo diorg bawak geng..:P btw night at the museum 2 was fun, hillarious, and educational. the characters that i found amusing are; the cupids who make good rapping version of 'more than a women', the capuchin monkeys with the tablets..but the cons side is it was a bit draggy though.

p/s:transformer , harry potter next . .

last stop: primavera..i tried on a shoes worth rM149..and the shoes really fit me but the money was not..it was 3 inch high heel and i was really head over heels for this shoes..for sure i'll buy this shoe using this month salary! if u wondered how the shoes looks like, it was something like this(different color, different high and slight different in design)

p/s: so..shud i buy the shoes or not??

KL Marathon - Standard Chartered

Last tuesday, while i was struggling with the weight training, my personal trainer, Leong gave me a new instruction, he asked me to join this KL Marathon. Well, my first response: " i don't want. i'm bz with my exam" then he told me that this had nothing to do with my exam as the run will take place on 28th june. so i just told him: let me think about it first.(he responded to me with his frowning face)

btw. the reasons that i refused to participate in this run; i don't have a companion+i hate running exercise/training+the run will start at early in the morning..however, yesterday, my gym partner agreed to join the race. well seems like i have to join the run anyway. So, guys n gals, do you want to join the run too? it will be fun as this seems like the biggest marathon event in msia.

quickie info:

Start: Dataran Merdeka, KL
Date: 28th June 2009, sunday

Categories:
Full marathon - 42.195 km (start time 5.00 am)
Half marathon - 21.1 km (start time 6.15 am) | Leong will be under this category
10 km run (start time 7.00 am)
5km Fun run for individual and group (start time 7.45am) | i'll be under this category
Kid dash

If u're newbie like me, highly recommend the fun run. the entry fee is RM40 provided u registered by june 1.

This is the route for the fun run category:




that was just brief info. for detailed and registration info at KL Marathon website

Study leaves = holiday break

I'll be officially start my study break from tomorrow till 3rd june 2009. after the 6 months of hectic n tiring job assignment, this is the most awaited break. as i'm on tight budget, i'm not planning for any travelling activities. but so far, this what i'd plan for the break:

sat: fitness + watch movie + icarly+grey's + study
sun: study
mon,tues,thurs, fri, sat:fitness+study
wed: study
sat: fitness + watch movie + icarly+grey's + study
sun: study
mon:fitness+study
tues:study
wed: exam