The Inner Gamer In Me

OH my chikopek. Playing games is a form of denial and a temporary escape from the world! This is not a good time to get hooked on playing games. I have way too much to do. I put off sewing costumes for two whole days for the reason of trying to unlock every single mini game, puzzle, hidden quests and buy all the items in PvZ. It must stop.

Cleaning my room is a never ending process. It's always so messy and cluttered. I did loads of organizing but somehow, it looks no different than before. WHY do I have so many things...

Anyways, this is my 2009 Xmas Wishlist:-

1) Books on Investing in Real Estate/Stock Market/Forex (in that particular order);
2) Listerine Mouthwash
3) AA Batteries (for various reasons)
4) A5 sized refill paper for my Daily Planner 

(Note: I prefer not to receive stuffed toys, home ornaments, food, accessories, bottles, boxes or anything that would take space in my already out of control cluttered room and my bloated stomach. XD)

Misses Blogging, Misses My D40x

Phoon Photo, Ipoh is a xxxx. I probably would recommend people to buy camera stuff from this shop (because some item prices can be negotiated lower than other places) but DO NOT bring it for repairs.

1. The number 1 reason is for unreasonably slow and inefficient service. 1 whole month to get a QUOTE.  And after endless phone calls everyday since beginning of October. Fotokem replied me within 2 hours and promised 2 weeks repair. It is Month 3 and D40x still is nowhere to be seen. Promised to be delivered to me last week of November for my Hong Kong trip but they failed miserably.

2. He does not tell you that there are RM50 handling fees and minimum RM80 (he imposed RM120 at first, and I reacted horrified) for diagnosing your camera. He only informs you after sending your camera to KL.

3. Technician fees are so much higher without reason. Initial total was RM690, before I managed to negotiate it to RM640. Fotokem quoted RM540 (inclusive of handling charges and misc.) And even if I didn't want to get it fixed, I still have to pay RM120 as ransom for my camera returned to me.

4. He claims that its expensive because his technicians are professional. Yeah right, professional to the point where they had to send it back to KL for the 2nd time because the repairs were FAULTY. I mean, shouldn't the PROFESSIONAL technicians check whether everything was perfect before sending it out again?! And they didn't even have the courtesy to inform me. They asked me to come collect it and I went there (for the 3rd time) just to be let down again.

I Hate Bus Rides

Because I'm claustrophobic and I don't like the feeling of staying in an inescapable position. The only space is your assigned seat. Any longer than 20 minutes is a torture. This explains why I chose my accommodations freakishly near my work/study place. In Inti, Block D was the fourth nearest. In Newcastle, Lovaine was the nearest (plus I lived in the front flat). My apartment in Puchong was 10 minutes away from TOA (by KL standards, its unbelievable to have ANYTHING less than half an hour). Finally, my current firm and college is within walkable distance of 5-8 minutes. Because I have to do it everyday, and I refuse to waste my time on traveling, rinse and repeat. Bus rides to anywhere out of town is a sacrifice. A major one. Therefore Jojo should know how privileged she is that I meld my ass in the bus for 7-9 hours and risk getting molested by dodgy men.

And today I still hate bus rides more than ever. I hate it because I am reminded that there was a time I used to look forward riding the bus.

I'm Flattered

Sega came out with a video game inspired by my image.

Franny Benny!

My Weekend in KL

I'm typing this on the bus home. Trying to rush to make it in time for Hun Yee's birthday dinner! I'm so under schedule, I think I could only reach by 8?! Feels like I'm going to be killed.

The PC Fair was on this weekend. I bought an FM transmitter, a foldable table (the kind that allows you to online on the bed or maybe breakfast in bed) and a 2 GB RAM for my netbook. The up side was that items which were not sold in Ipoh were available and prices of certain things were slashed down signficantly. There was a lot of other things I really wanted to get ie: Audio Technologica headphones which were both stylish and sounded brilliant. Mebbe I'll get it at the next fair.

My thoughts about KL after leaving it for nearly a year:-

Expenditure is like living in Hong Kong or eating at the airport where they hike up prices by 3 times. In just the weekend. I used up an amount of phone credit of what I would normally last 1/2 a month. On food, I used up what would have lasted me 3 months in survival mode. As for shopping, I felt as if having RM200 in your pocket would have severely unqualified to walk into a shopping department.

I think to myself, how do people survive here when everything is so pricey and wages so little? RM2k a month or less is totally dangerous to be living here. What more those foreign workers getting as little as 700? It saddens me to see foreign workers being hired for cheap labour and working in spaces as smaller than my 4x5 bathroom for less than 1k a day especially in a grnad luxurious place like KLCC where other people would be spluging on overpriced luxuries.

As a result, I don't think I would like to go back to work in KL. It gives me a very saddening feeling.

December; The Beginning Of The End

You guys won't guess from where I'm blogging this. :P

In case, everyone's wondering why have I been missing in  action for the past few weeks, it's because the wireless connection in my office died during the period I left for Hong Kong. I getting on about fixing it because it is a huge inconvenience and my sanity is on the verge of breaking.

Anyways, speed update:-

1) Applied for art college and I got exempted for about a semester and I'm allowed to cross-attend classes between the first semester and second. So I may be able to graduate slightly faster than I expected!~ Fees hasn't been calculated out yet and I'm keeping fingers crossed. School starts on the 4th next month.

2) I'm not sure whether I'll still be working in January (coz I will be having about 8 classes per week apparently!), but in my heart, I deeply wish to continue working... To think that my income will stop after resigning is rather troubling.

3) I'm collecting my DSLR today.

4) I'm going to KL tomorrow for the weekend.

5) I'm going to KL again on the 20th Sunday for Comic Fiesta 2009 for a day trip.