Of Bugs and Nothing...

Been quiet for awhile. Though I understand that its not absolutely compulsory to blog every single day, having a blog is sort of a commitment. Kinda like buying a house, you gotta make the mortgage payments every month or the bank will foreclose it and auction it off to the highest bidder. In this case, the (maybe 2?) readers I have, will forget about me and go someplace else. Wow...the sky will fall...*rolls eyes*.

I'm on a 4 day stretch of time off. Not doing much, which is probably why I have nothing to report. Stayed home alot, played games alot (mostly Sims 2 and Mafia Wars on Facebook), ate alot, slept alot, smoked alot. There. That's all I did. Wow I love my life! Its just so exci..zzZzz...snort...ZzzZzzZzz...snore..ZzzZzzz.....*chokes on tongue* Gaaaaaaa! Huh? Wha? Oh, sorry. Note to self, never fall asleep while blogging. Yup.

Saw the cutest little bug yesterday when I was out for breakfast with Nic, Mich and Abbie. Mich, Abbie and I were all goin' nuts about it and Nic was having fun rolling her eyes at us and making comments about how 'jakun' we looked to all the passers by. Anyway, who cares how we looked. We were having fun! So, more about the bug, its white and looks like it has bits of white stuff (fur?) comin' out of its butt. However, when you flip it over, it's underside is a reddish brown colour (Yes, we flipped it over. It was a goooooood bug and didn't complain).

In addition, it was so tiny we all had trouble taking photos of it. I won't bother to use the photo I took with my camera cuz it just looked like a blurry white blob amidst a not so white surface. Instead, I'll refer you to Mich's post where she has a slightly better picture of it. Though, it still looks like a blurry white blob to me. Oh by the way, Mich, I still wanna cut it in half with a straw to see what it looks like inside.

Today I went to work...

...and had the misfortune of being assigned a case that my manager had been working on and totally screwed up. It would have ended in total disaster if not for the client who was nice enough not to scream (yet). I managed to do what I could to save it...but I still foresee a potential complaint. We were supposed to organise a Business Class upgrade on the client's existing flight tickets for medical reasons. There were supposed to be 2 flights. A domestic US flight today, and an international flight on the 10th of Jan for them to return home to Sydney. For some reason, my manager who was working on the case today, royally messed up the flight dates and destinations, then neglected to call in for today's upgrade or to even get me to do it. Instead she asked me to call the client about ticketing the flight back to Sydney today!

So naturally, like any good lil' customer service agent, I called the client and 'buta buta' got fired for no reason. I got so pissed I straightaway alerted my senior manager (who was working till at least 9-10pm...that woman has no life but her work) who basically just smiled at me and threw me to the sharks. The bitch.

Anyway, how do people like this (my manager) actually get hired for a job they are so totally incapable of doing? No, wait. Allow me to rephrase. How do these people manage to keep their bloody jobs in the first place???? This is not screw-up number 1..or 2...or 3...or anything you can count with the fingers and toes on both your hands and feet! I mean, its actually gotten to the point where the whole team (those who aren't kissing her ass) is actually afraid of giving her anything remotely difficult to do just because she might screw up the whole fucking thing and pitch all our hard work into the drain.

Thank god upper management has finally realized what an imbecilic airhead she really is and is transferring her to another department with a much easier job scope.

Why....why....WHY do I get stuck with such idiots as bosses???

I went to Bubba Gump!

I finally went to the Bubba Gump Shrimp Restaurant in Sunway Pyramid. My verdict? It was pretty damn awesome. I can't imagine why I'd never even heard of it before. The food and service there is freaking awesome! I wanna go again!

The decor there was...well, I'd say its like Chilli's, except Bubba's has its own Forrest Gump theme. They play the movie continuously in their restaurants, so we ended up watching nearly the whole movie in the time we were there. It was on silent though, because they were playing music on the speakers. However, thank god for large subtitles! 

They've got a set meal thing goin' on at the moment that's seriously worth it. A refillable drink, 4 slices of garlic bread that is to die for (the one in the photo below was half eaten...oops!), an awesome ceasars salad, followed by 4 chunks of beef ribs (that were so tender they just fell of the bone), cinnamon bread pudding with vanilla ice cream on the side  for dessert and an additional cup of tea. All this for RM55++ which is a more than reasonable price (considering that the ribs alone were over RM60)!

It was a lot of food...I couldn't have finished it all by myself. Luckily Nic was there to help. We also also ordered their appetizer sampler, called 'Run Across America' (shown in the photo below - almost untouched). Now, THAT one, we couldn't finish and ended up 'tapao-ing' it. (They forgot to pack the leftover artichoke dip though...Nic was gonna kill them for that!) :P

The only thing I didn't like about the food was the sour cream dip....it tasted too creamy, and not in a good way.The service was excellent, albeit overly enthusiastic. I swear the staff has some aversion to seeing empty plates on the tables. They kept coming round every 5-10 minutes to ask if they could clear our (seemingly) empty plates!

Oh and btw, if you haven't noticed, this time I actually remembered to take photos! Well, technically Nic was the one who had to remind me to do it, but still, there're pictures to look at! Sadly the quality of the images might not be all that good because I was using the camera on my mobile to take them. However, they don't look too bad...do they? If they suck, you can blame it on my lousy photography skills. :P

Unfortunately, I didn't manage to take snapshots of everything we ate...if you'd notice, the dessert isn't shown. That's cuz I was too busy watchin' tv and totally forgot...again.

How to cook....

I was searching for new Gadgets to put on my blog's sidebar, and came across this one:

So, being itchy fingered, I decided to test it.

 

And then...

And then....

And then.....

And finally, I couldn't believe my eyes....

I tell you....some people are just too.............damn free.

Regardless, if this gadget can even tell me how to make water, its worth a shot. Check it out on the top right hand corner of my page.

For those who would like to see this sohai-ness with their own eyes, feel free to check out the original recipe here.

Shift-ing...

I haven't had the time to blog recently because I've had to work the last 2 nights. A 13 hour shift can really eat up all your free time. Plus, work was soooooo busy!

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Ok, fine, I admit that I'm lying through the skin of my teeth on that last one! (I wonder who came up with that phrase...teeth don't have skin, do they?) The 1st day of my shift was indeed busy....out of 3 people for the night shift I was the only one who wasn't on MC, so I had a shitload of work to do. I know 1 of my colleagues was really sick...because she came to work anyway and her symptoms persisted till the next day. The other colleague, however.....hmmmm...let's just say she did something most people in the customer service industry do frequently. She seemed totally fine though when she came back to work yesterday. Ate like a horse too.

The 2nd night I was on duty was excellent. Everyone came (to work!) and the number of tasks were distributed equally. However, out of some random stroke of luck, everything I had was meant to be delayed until Monday, except for 1 task. And even for that 1 task, it turned out that all I had to do was send 1 simple email asking for a status update from a client. So between taking a few random enquiry calls, smoke breaks and typing that one miserable email, I was free all night long. Hehehehehehehe....

For the rest of the night, all I did was watch back-to-back episodes of House MD, SouthPark, and CSI.

But seriously, with a 13 hour shift, there really isn't much time to do anything once you get back home. Between work, travelling to and from work, preparing for work,  and of course eating and sleeping, I'd have like maybe 2-3 hours max to do everything else. During the stretches of my shift, its almost impossible to go out with my mate or my friends unless I'm willing to run on maybe 5-6 hours of sleep...or sometimes less. But I guess that's what I need to live with if I want a higher pay.

Oh yeaaaa, and I have my first stalker! *Waves at Mich* I was wondering who that feller with the singaporean based IP address was... :P

So...I was wondering if its true that in every relationship, the first few months of 'getting to know each other' and the 'post moving in together' periods are usually fraught with arguments as 2 people try to adjust to each others habits. I know its true of every relationship I've been in in the past, and its doubly true of my current relationship (as both happened at the same time >.<"). I call it the Trial by Fire. If 2 people aren't gonna work out they will know it in the first 3-5 months of having moved in together....

...oh shit. I forgot my 2nd month anniversary..!!! *Quickly runs over n makes it up to Nic* 

Oopsie. Luv u baby! :P

Games And Cartoons All Day...

Started playing a new game yesterday called Plants vs. Zombies. Was just supposed to install it and test to see if it ran properly...but I kinda got carried away and played it for about 6 hours straight. >.<" Its a surprisingly good game. I was rather skeptical because of the name...I mean, I like zombies and all, but Plants vs Zombies?

Besides that, I'm also back to playing Mafia Wars on Facebook. So far, its been about...3? 4? days since I started and I've been playing it rather consistently since. Its still buggy as hell (the original reason why I quit playing in the first place), but they've put in alotta new features that have definitely stimulated my curiosity. However, we'll see how long my patience lasts this time.

Didn't go out today either. Stayed home, cooked, smoked, played games, napped a little (because I didn't sleep all nite cuz I was playing games) and watched a few episodes of Chowder with Nic. That is one funny (and weird) cartoon. That Chowder kid is so greedy he even eats blankets and curtains. I recommend!

I Missed The Fireworks... :(

This year, I decided not to go anywhere for New Year's Eve. Instead, I spent most of the day in front of my lappie, then most of the evening napping (still in front of my lappie >.<"), then woke up to the brilliant idea of making pasta for dinner. Due to a shortage of ingredients, I spent over RM50 at the grocery store downstairs (thank god for small miracles - going out today would have been a nightmare!) getting several things that I needed, namely fresh tomatoes, pasta sauce, canned mushrooms, cookies, cigarettes, ice cream, juice...okay okay, not all those things were required to make pasta, but I kinda got carried away. I haven't been grocery shopping for almost a month, which is rather shocking considering that the first month I was with Nic, we went grocery shopping 4 times.

Anyway, I spent the next half hour cleaning up the kitchen, then the next hour running around like a headless chicken just to make a simple pasta dish. It was just sautéd chopped tomatoes, garlic, onions and canned mushrooms with pre-made pasta sauce and 4 slices of streaky bacon...but for some reason it was lke sooooo difficult to make. I guess I'm really out of practice. I guess it didn't turn out too badly since Nic was so happy with it, and the bacon strips were delicious! However, once again, I forgot to take any photos..hehehe. It wasn't anything special though. Then I served Walls' Very Rocky Road and Mini Cornetto ice cream for dessert. Of course, in the cooking frenzy, I almost forgot about the ice cream until Nic reminded me...LoL!

I stopped cooking at exactly 12am, gave Nic a New Year kiss, put the food on the table, then ran to the windows to see if I could see any of the fireworks. Anyways, I managed to hear alot of the fireworks booming away, but I only managed to catch a glimpse of 1 or 2 of them around the corner of a nearby building. *sob* This is the 2nd year in a row that I've missed seeing any fireworks. I missed last year's display because I was standing at the foot of Wendy's condo with Shihan and Adrian waiting for her to come down so we could go out.

So, what did you do for New Year's Eve?