The pursuit of happiness... Figuring out LIFE and embracing it as it comes.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Charlie Chuckster

Weeks passed by working at Bernama can sometimes be quite boring... until Charlie Noble came to town! Woo hoo... Eye candy! Yes, I admit I like Caucassians. Not because their white, just different. I especially like their dry sense of humour =) So during the 1 week he was here (he flew back his homeland last Friday), I got the chance to talk to him.. the very most I can. Yeah I asked him a lot about where he came from, that is Illinois, in the States. Well he's based in Quincy, works for Broadcast Electronics who was sent to train us how to use the Audio Vault. From the conversations we had, I came to know he's 28 years old, married, with 3 kids. Dang! He looked much younger though, and very friendly. While others could not really relate or get his jokes or even his thick southern accent, I get him.


He made friends with Peter, the audio intern who apperently also studied in Chicago University and lived in Illinois before. He's such an arrogant boy lah. A Malaysian Chinese but speaks with American accent. Claimed that he can't really speak BM. Bah! Nevermind him, I only wanted to talk to Charlie. Hehe. We chatted twice during makan time. First time, just got his details. That was when he broke the news that he's married. He wore like the biggest wedding ring on his left fourth finger. Like as though he needed to stress to everybody that he's happily married. Sheesh. I was amazed he could actually take all the spicy food that was served to him. Chilli, curry, rendang and all. When asked whether he takes spicy food, he said he loved them. Where he come from they have lots of Mexican food (his fave) which are also very hot and spicy. And not to mention Buffalo wings. Super HOT! Wow, not bad. Mat Salleh pun tahu makan pedas-pedas.




Second time around was more relaxed, I kept asking him to try out the durian. Haha. He almost wanted to take the cab out just to get durians to try. But nobody wanted to take him out. Except me. But my boss was there la, nanti he thinks bukan-bukan or it wasn't an approprite at that time. Sigh. Not very convinient also lah. We gave him a lot of descriptions of the king of fruits, i.e. "smell like hell, taste like heaven." Which made him think twice whether to have it or not. Haha. I have to admit we over exaggerated lah... After everyone left at lunch, I stayed on to talk to those 2 boys, Charlie and Peter. We even talked about how taboo it is to use the word: nigger in the U.S. Charlie almost choked when I asked him about it. You should have seen his shocked reaction.As if I have said the worst thing ever. Haha. I couldn't have offfended him. Can I? He's not even black! He's so white with dirty blonde hair. But he did warned NOT to ever use the "N" word. It's such a big no-no in the U.S. Nigga is still acceptable but never nigger. We talked, we laughed. I asked him "how's my hair?", he said "it's lovely." Haha. The hair "question" just popped out of nowhere while the others were asking about Peter's hair. Like Korean hairstyle. "The hair" is at far left.




Smile. Group picture! In this picture, Charlie looked like an intern. Hehe. Notice the oddest one out.




Later that day, we met with some media. Haha. But only a few turned up. Ala biasa lah... So what do we do? We cam-whored. Love this picture! Macam kanak-kanak riang =)



And the awards for best flower girl goes to.........

Ah such posers!

And finally.... scandalous!

Salsa party

Last Saturday night we had Salsa Party.





No not that kind of salsa.



Havana Estudio always have salsa dance party, held every end of the month. It was my first though. After only attended 3 classes, I brave myself to the party with Michelle, to discover SALSA-NESS! 10 bucks with food (Canadian Pizza) and drinks. We warmed up first by practising our mambos in front of the huge mirror, while others were dancing with their partners. Weirdest part was that soon after, a few others also joined us praticing basic mambo in front of the mirror! Apparently, they also do not know how to salsa. So it was like as if I was giving them pointers how to do the basic mambo steps and Sam, my salsa teacher was nearby watching! Oh no, he must be thinking, "who the hell she thinks she is teaching these people salsa?" . Whoops!


Ok basically salsa dance requires a partner i.e. a man and a woman. The man leads and the woman follows. In the party everyone dances with anyone. So no need bring partners lah... Usually a man will ask the lady to dance. That's the norm/tradition. But I broke the norm, when I asked the men to dance with me. Hahaha. Well technically I did not ask them to dance with me, but I asked in a way they feel oblige to. Wicked right? I just look at them and said; "Are you gonna ask me to dance?" Whoa! I've tried that on 2 guys. That's the only way to get the guys to dance with ME. Yeah, me pathetic? Desperate? Whatever man. At least I get to dance with somebody. As a result, I've dance with men with 2 left legs, sweaty hands, and even bad breath. But the best part was with these 2 men (at different times ok) who were fantastic dancers! And I did'nt even ask them THE QUESTION okay. They spun my world around. Weeeeeeeeee........... A good male partner will do all the dancing, the girl just follow their lead, which is what I did. So when they spin me, I spin. A lot of turnings. On heels pulak tu! I only asked 2 person to dance with me okay. On other times, I stood at "strategic" spots waiting to be asked to dance. Haha. That did not work for me.



I was waiting for this bald guy who was excellent at salsa to ask me to dance. Michelle kept telling me he's so good and all so I wanted to try him. So I waited at the sides nearby him, strategic spot. He did not notice me nor he asked me to dance. At the end Michelle asked him to dance on behalf of ME. It was soooooooooooooo memalukan! Sheesh. We danced, but I felt so pressured because he kept correcting my steps, saying that I turn to fast, etc. Ish-ness. So much expectation for the bald guy.


Watching others dance was fun too. You'll be amazed by how they move. And I kept wondering how the ladies know when to turn, what to do, etc, since it's the men are the ones who leads. When I'm not dancing, I just watch with amazement at how others dance and go like; "wow..." Sadly, there was no HOT guys though. Only one Caucassian guy who looked like Jamiroquai and dances like one too!


All in all it was fun. I bet it would be more FUN if your good at it. Hopefully can learn and improve with skills, attitude, etc. Weeee... More spinning hopefully. Sexy spins!

Monday, July 30, 2007

IKEA Simply Mmmm...Marvelous!!!

Before the foosball media match on Saturday, I had one of the most satisfying lunch. We ate shamelessly.... in IKEA. Michelle wanted to introduce me to IKEA's famous Sweddish Meatballs. It was soooooooooo sedap man! I took the meatballs+fries+cranberry sauce, thought it would go well with the spaggetti, so I had them both =) Cranberry sauce (which I first thought was chilli/tomato sauce) did go absolutely very well with the meatballs. Very very sedap!
Love them, love them, loooooooooove them!
Michelle had the 3 boneless chickens+mash potatoes. We share-share lah..... Simply scrumptious! The drinks were refillable. Pepsi Twist never tasted so nice. Funny.

To top it off, we had Daim cake as dessert. Melts in your mouth like a piece of heaven. I'm in lurrrrrrrve =) With Daim cake.


The weirdest part was that, since the whole IKEA cafe was packed with people, we had no choice but to sit in together with a family of 4 on a round table. The place was super-packed! We had no choice. We just ate and talked among ourselves, oblivious to our surrounding. But it just felt weird lah... Felt like a family dinner but we don't know who were they. Mom, dad, bro and sis. And the worst part was we made the most mess there. Such slobbish eater. Must be Michelle's. Haha.

We ate shamelessly =)

Human Foosball Challenge


On Saturday we played Human Foosball Challenge Media Match, representing Bernama Radio24. We were up against Hitz.FM Cruisers Team. Kalah teruk, 12-3. Waaaaaaaaa........ Humiliating but FUN. Our team consist of 4 girls and 2 boys. All kecik-kecik. Hitz.FM guys all besar-besar and terror-terror. No sight of Ean, or Rudy or even JJ though. Sigh. Just the cruisers team. Nevertheless still fun and FUNNY. One of our girls kick ball sampai kasut pun melayang. It was hilarious! We did not even practise beforehand. Just pergi buta-buta just for fun, RM1000 cash price at stake you! So next time we should start practising futsal so we'll be more prepared for our next game. Yee haa!
p/s: Pictures to be uploaded soon.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Dear God

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I cannot accept,
And the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill today,
Because they got on my nerves.


Also help me to be careful of the toes I step on today,
As they may be connected to the feet I may have to kiss tomorrow.

Help me God, to always work at 100%
12% on Monday
23% on Tuesday
40% on Wednesday
20% on Thursday
5% on Friday


And help me to remember...


When I am having a bad day and it seems
That people are trying to wind me up, that
It takes 42 muscles to frown, 28 muscles to smile
And only 4 to extend my arm and smack them in the mouth.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

I want it and I want it now

Yeah, that's me. I want so badly to anchor news that it shows. Wrong attitude. Today I finally met all the part-time anchor whom Mr. R hired for newsreading. Some were familiar faces and voices from radio and TV. Words of advice I got from people who have been in the business for a long long time:
Don't be so uptight lah.. Take your own time and pace. Learn to pace yourself. Let things happen at their own time. BREATHE AND RELAX. Enjoy what you are doing right now (BJ) and focus to be good at it first before doing other things. Adrian commented that from the 1st day he saw me, he noticed I was very passionate and enthusiastic (ok maybe a bit overly) about this. Like I wanted to do so many things. And I want to do it all. Yeah maybe it's true. Be patient and learn as much. He took 5 years to be good at what he's doing now. He reads for TV2 English news. Sigh. So I have to wait??? Well I just dislike waiting........
I don't have 5 years! I need to know is this my field of work... I'm still exploring, finding out and discovering the media world that I once sooooooooo wanted to be part off. And yet.. on the other hand, Korea still awaits. Only until September. Decision has to be made soon. Either I break or Dr.Kannan + Dr.Pauzi breaks. Somebody is going to get hurt.
Nizal advised me not to be too emotional, too passionate and too excited, otherwise you appear overzealous and will tend to overdo. It has to be done with style. Elegance, sophistication and grace. So you do not appear like an uptight crazy nut waiting to explode, but humble and yet full of substance. Style, personality, character. He's one of a kind lah... Hosted Malaysia Hari Ini (MHI). Magnetic personality. Looking at him makes me happy, because he is always so happy and excudes such radiant.
Finally something that Mr.R quoted that stayed in my mind.
"Always reach for the sky, but don't forget to keep your feet on the ground..."
Ok. I will take their advises and try to follow them. But I have to admit it's hard to surpress the feeling of wanting it (and wanting it so badly). Everybody has dreams and goals right? So this is mine. I am very passionate about wanting to anchor and read news. But I don't want to appear to be so uptight also lah... Life is too short. Must enjoy life. Learn and work my way, from the bottom-up. There's so much to learn! Right now I am a nobody.

How I fam feel right now:




Bluekk...


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