This week's 1000 Things

11. Chocolates and pistachios from US - yummy, fattening, pimple sprouting snacks curtesy of colleagues back from Florida.

12. Gator- Hahahahaha, my Florida trinket cum birthday present. Yes, I am thankful for such a present, I know its kinda repeating thankful no.3 but that was for the thoughtfulness of Taz and now this is for the Gator, the crisp paper and really velvety soft red bag it came in.

My own mini Gators mascot.

Honestly, I was a tad frightened to have him on my desk on Wednesday because he looks pretty fierce. And I thought it wasn't proper to leave him in the office because I won't be able to squeeze him and enable the fight song and 'Go Gators!' sound from him without disturbing people. So I brought him home today and haven't figured it out yet if I'll actually sleep with it because it's from a colleague, and its kinda like crosssing the line from work to personal if I slept with it but in actual fact, bringing it home may have already crossed that line although not everyone thinks that much about a souvenir like I am rambling on about......

13. Breakfast on Friday mornings - Thankful for the pau or porridges or whatever dim sum I want because a colleague goes for 'lim teh' at this dim sum shop every Friday morning, never failing (except when he was abroad), thus allowing the early birds in the office to ta-pau.

14. Thankful that I manage to function properly at work this week after 3 nights in a row of pasar mlms from Monday to Wednesday.

15. Thankful for the colleague who not only borrowed me a wireless headset to have fun with this week, but also has connections to people that will enable me to get my own wireless headset for less that RM100 soon!

This 1000 things list kinda exposes a lot of details that months or years back I won't be so sure I want to share at all.
But yet at the same time, if I'm not consciously, making a point of being thankful, it kinda misses the point of changing my view too; like appreciating the little things in life even more, because some things just can't stay inside and transform, kinda like bubbly joy that overflows.

26th 26th 10 2010

I am sooo thankful this year.

1. Vi - Thank you for the chocolate, awesome day at the beach and dinner. The bestest present is the presence. And this year especially, a reminder that life is so precious.

2. Jen - Thank you for pasar mlm and being the constant pig of SK buddy.

3. Taz - For the Florida trinkets I have yet to see from this sweet, thoughtful person in sorta exchange for Mr. Platypus that somehow coincide with my birthday thus, a birthday present of sort all the way from US.

4. Dad's concern over how I was spending my birthday. Despite not wishing me or giving an angpow of sort. Haha!

5. Finally getting a haircut from a hairstylist who accommodate English! Smatteringly is still something.

6. Nana - Nandos at Gurney and tea-lover alike. Oh! Worship vents. And solo buddy? For now that is.
For always bringing me back to the deep end. Hahahaha!

7. Keat - For offering to buy me anything I want, except of course my last year list seems so unimportant now. And of course a gigolo is still out of the question.

8. Bro - For sharing my birthday with me. Happy Birthday, Ko!
For loving me in his own way of calorie counting which I lovingly told him went out the door today.

9. For all the greetings that came today. Thank you!!

10. Most importantly GOD - for being my Everything. Is it even possible to thank God for being my God?

Now that wasn't a bad start to 1000 things to be thankful/grateful of.
My goal is to list 1000 things within one year. Though I don't think it really matters if I set a timeline. Haha!

Random Thoughts at this hour.

*** Have more or less signed my own death certificate by agreeing to go down in December by bus. Should I have a will in place?

**To on or not to on the old PC for an hour (more like two) of mindless gaming on a Thursday night considering I still have to work from home at 7am tomorrow.

*Does anyone even read these dumb lines or if it's all been serving a syiok sendiri purpose.

Roaches

Have a long terrible nightmare last night where I was going after cockroaches one at a time.
And the worst part was I wasn't just squashing them with paper and throwing into the trash but I was picking them up with my fingers and purposely ripping one into two pieces, another cockroach was tortured leg by leg and finally the head was ripped as well, and yet another had the wings plucked first and the body later. And the scenes were just going on and on and on...with other weird torturous methods of dealing with them.


*shudders*


All because the last thing I did before I slept last night was squashed and throw away a roach that came into sight while I was getting a glass of water. It kinda dive from the counter top and fell on it's back, not like I was chasing after it. Urgh.

No more roaches or nightmares tonight. I'm skipping that glass of water.

Thought of the day

As volatile as some relationships are,

the good days are still sweeter then the moody ones.

Melbourne Macro Shots: Tudor Village and Fairy Tree

More macro shots!
This Tudor Village is like awesomely small. It was all fenced up and we can't get in.
So my macro shots were all courtesy of my brother's Canon.
Took alot of zooming and alot of steadying my hand on the fence to get them right.

The Fairy Tree was standing behind the Tudor Village.
It was a good thing that it was fenced up because I just wanted to touch every single creature carved there!
I had a hard time deciding how to photograph some of them, in the end I only manage to isolate out a few.

Spooky eyes in the dark. (My favourite out of all Fairy Tree shots)

BK!!!

I've wished long
And I've wished hard
Finally it is freaking here!!!

Burger King is in Penang!!!!

It was quite a rush to go there on opening night, and just waiting for the table, waiting in queue to finally get it with all the crowd of hungry BK fans!
What surprised me was seeing some pretty old folks eating alongside their adult children there.







Here's my mushroom swiss.
Although I remember they used to have double mushroom swiss...wonder what happened to that.











And of course the beloved onion rings!!










But sadly, I'll only give the meal a 6 out of 10 (1.5 of that comes from finally arriving in Penang) because the size has shrunk and the mushroom tasted like it came straight from a can without being rinsed. Onion rings definitely earned 2 points. The unevenly cooked fries and the rubbery mozzarella cheese sticks was dissappointing.

Oh well, at least it has arrived, right?