UTOPIA

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Tiny Lil' Thing

While on a missionary trip at Nanning (China), sis discovered some tiny organics sold at their local morning market. She decided to bring some back as to share with us at home. Among those are cherry tomatoes and mini mangoes.

Cherry tomato as compared with our normal size tomato

And the cute mango, compared to our local ones

Mini mango is something very hardly seen here and somehow it was sold at a very cheap price over there, thus, sis bought a huge bulk of it and took us 3 days to finish them!

$150 worth of snacks

Few days ago, sis bought a huge pile of snacks back home to prepare as prizes for sunday skool kids.

I would jump in joy if those were mine!

Before kissing goodbye to these snacks, we decided to take some pictures

The formal picture, with everything neatly arranged
And the nicely wrapped end-product

Those kids are lucky lot!

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Masterpiece

Boss: If any of you need some references, you guys can come over to my room, I have one at my shelf...

Colleague: Is it original?

Boss: Does it matter?

Colleague: Well, if it is original, it has some colours that 'enhance' our mood to read it...

That idea inspired me to colour part of my current photocopy books, just like how i did in primary school workbooks...many, many years ago...

Back then our homeworks were graded with A+, A, A-, B+....so on, so forth...

I seldom get grades above B+, although i got all answers correct. However, a few classmates used to get A's, despite having mistakes in their work. After a few disappointments, I tried to find out the reason, and I noticed this.......

They coloured all the pictures in every worksheet, thus, earning them good grades!

From then onwards, I started to colour each and every pictures in my worksheets, and Voila!

I got an 'A' !!!

yesss...for the first time!

it wasn't 'A-' but an 'A' !!!

I started putting more effort in applying colours for all my homeworks, but somehow i noticed that my colour pencils were running short each day, and sooner i will have to get a new box...

I ain't a rich kid. Mum won't simply get me a set of 48 colours...and she had also set a budget that limits me to use not more than 2 boxes a year :-(

Before I run out of colour pencils, I thought of using one colour per day ;-)

Guess how I survived with it?

I coloured the pictures like this...

And amazingly, the teacher still gave me A's.....despite my 'lazy' effort!

I did this for the entire year, and all the following years....till there is no longer any pictures in my homework.

Veni, Vedi, Vinci

I sort of having a long confinement, and begin to ‘hallucinate’ on goin to places…

Around Klang Valley – Tesco, Sunway Pyramid, One U, IKEA, National Zoo.
Out of Klang Valley - Penang, Malacca, Karambunai, Ipoh, Redang Island, Tioman Island.
Out of Malaysia – Singapore, Hong Kong, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, Bangkok, Seoul, Taiwan.

Out of Asia – Germany, Switzerland, France, UK, Any parts of US, Turkey, Moscow.

Btw, this is not a tag, just an expression of self-freedom…

Counting Days

It has been quite some time since I last wrote about myself. Life has been kinda hectic, especially in the middle of the week, but working too much doesn’t mean I learned a lot. I m working like a robot, doing mundane tasks and learn nothing, except getting more and more frustrated. My boss dun even care if I leave, she even assign me to become Project Manager, as if she’s very certain that I will stay. Well, I m neither excited with this new role…but how could she give me such task only when I’m leaving? Hate this psychology game. Anyway, time is running fast, I got to give my final decision on end of this month, whether to really stay or to move on.
I won’t be missing my colleagues here…But, perhaps some lil’ luxuries that I have….daily fruits, Wednesday’s tea time, free R.A.G.E newspaper, and the comfort of my workplace…It’s just too hard to make a decision.