Mistaken Identity

You know.. when you have a common name (and I do have a common name... though during when my parents thought of my name, it wasn't common... or so they said.. hehe), you will definitely get calls like the following:

Caller: Hello sting!! (for the benefit of this post, I'll use this name)

Me: Hello!! (gotto match the enthusiasm, right?)

Caller: How are you?

Me: Good... but who's this ya?

Caller: You mean you can't remember me?!

Me (thinking): Well, I don't see your name displayed in my phone, so I guess you are not that important...

Me (aloud): Erm, no... I can't seem to recall your number..

Caller: You can't recognise my voice?! Can't you guess who I am?

Me (thinking): Well, let's see, my first guess would be that you are some joker who's got lots of time in hand...

Me (aloud): Am so sorry but I'm bad at recognising voices (which I am)

Caller: Aiyoh, now become big boss with own company so don't remember me already?!

Me: err... you sure you got the correct person? I do not own any company...

Caller: Eh, you are Sting right?

Me: ya..... but who are you?

Caller: You stay in Kota Kemuning right?

Me: Well, I've been there once in my lifetime but never stayed for more than a few hours...

Caller: Oh, am P.. do you know me?

Me: From which company?

Caller: I'm with ABC Insurance

Me: Ahhh... I only know T from ABC Insurance so I think you got the wrong person...

Caller: Oh... your agent is T ya?

Me: Yes.... hey, I gotto go now

Caller: Oh ok ok... sorry..

Updates

My apologies everyone! It's been very long since I last update ya... sigh... Been really busy with work, housekeeping and of course taking care of my 2 boys (hubby and zen, in case you've forgotten *wink wink* )...

So, what's been happening? Well, I don't think you wanna hear about my work so that's that. As for the kiddo, he's 2 now... some of you remembered... so sweet of you.. thanks.. *blow kisses* You know, the person who coined the phrase "terrible two" must have a kid like mine! Zen's been well, acting his age! You can't imagine how full our hands are with him. Even MIL who helps take care of him while I work, is almost out of her wits. Sigh... When he was at MIL's , he'd almost drank dettol, had those muscle relaxant cream applied on his mouth, ran out of the house and compound straight into the road to name a few incidents.. scary?!? sigh again...

But he's also so so so cute at times. He'll come and hug you and whisper softly in your ear especially when he knows he did something wrong. Hmmm...

As for hubby, well, he was diagnosed as suspected H1N1 flu patient a few weeks ago and spent one day in the isolation ward in our local general hospital! hahaha! We couldn't visit him at all and he had the whole room to himself but without TV. The next day when the doctor asked how he was, he replied that he was sick with boredom!! hahaha... It wasn't H1N1 but some viral attack... Phew...

Gotto go now... kiddo being difficult... take care eveyone.. hope to visit you guys soon \(*O*)/

Pink Shirt Lady

Had wanted to blog about this lady for some time already... no, no no... it's not a horror post (^o^)

There's this house in a neighboring housing area that has been converted into a hawker stall alfresco-style at night... you know those houses where it's a residential house but has a stall in its front porch.... Well, this is one of them selling fried koay teow and they have about 3 tables (it's a terrace house).

Anyway, I passed by them almost every night on my way home and there's always 3 people manning the stall ie the uncle (chef), the auntie (sous chef) and a lady (I think she's a relative and she helps wait on tables). when there's no customers, she would be the only one sitting outside waiting (no offense to her but she does have a little-puppy-waiting-for-its-owner-to-come-home look).... and she always wears PINK! Everyday... without fail since Chinese New year this year! I've been tempted to stop and ask her why but that would seem rude hehehee... And before this Chinese new Year, it was RED the previous year! I'm so not kidding... (^O^) Just thought of sharing...

Embarrassingly Yours

Been blogging less these few days... sigh... There's just too many things to do and too little time! Work's getting heavier and is taking much of my time. Zen's growing up very quickly and he's very much a little boy now... Where's my baby gone!?!

Zen's been rather mischievous but at the same time and he's so cute too! Like when he spills water / food (on purpose) on the table / floor / himself / me, he'll point at it and exclaimed "oohhh" while looking at me (as if I was the culprit!!). Then before I could tell him off, he would run off to get a tissue paper and wipe it away... And if I don't stop him, he would happily run to get another piece of tissue paper! Opportunist!

Nowadays, whenever we go shopping, he's such a difficult boy! He'll insist on walking or running (and not sitting in stroller or being carried) especially while on escalators. And meals are a messy / loud affair.

The other day, was having lunch with SIL at a pizza joint. Now, it was lunch time and there's lots of chatter going on so it's alright when the lil one screamed once in awhile. While SIL and I were talking, Zen was happily playing with his plastic plate, flipping it over and banging on it with the spoon... And then with one precise movement, he swept the plate to the floor and it landed with a loud BANG! Some customers jumped and then the whole pizza place suddenly became so quiet and all eyes were on us... it was so embarrassing! And you know what the lil kiddo did? He pointed to the plate on the floor and said "oohhhh".... :-S

Backpacking II

"Borrowed" these pictures from my brother's Facebook... and his comments too (in italics) hehehee... He's been having so much fun backpacking there and telling me how he met so many strangers who then became good friends. And that the scenery there is just awesome... wished I was there... :-)

can you imagine bright and beautiful flowers as far as the eye / camera can see!

one of the morning market place he went to... in Amsterdam... kinda cool ya?

look at that cute lil house by the river... he took this picture while waiting in the long queue to go into Anne Frank Museum

The first thing that you will notice is Amsterdam has lots of people cycling. Not the mountain, racing or bmx bike but those really traditional model. The second thing is traffic, there are cars, bus, trams and bicycles coming at u from all direction, especially the bicycles, and they have their own lane. On my first day someone almost got hit and last night someone did.

this is the cannabis college, "higher" education on all things weed

Here's at The Jardin du Luxembourg, one of the more popular park in Paris. I took this pic around 3pm, shouldn't that guy be working?

Backpacking

Nope, not me... though I do wished that hubby and I could afford to take time off to go for a vacation... It's my brother who's gone backpacking... to Europe. He's in between jobs now. Left his previous company and haven't started work in the new company yet so he decided to go backpacking. He deserved it coz he was working really hard the last few years (yes, years!).

So far he has been to Paris and Amsterdam. And loving Amsterdam apparently.

From his pictures, I could see it's such a lovely place. It's spring and neither too cold nor too hot. Will try to get more pictures when he update his facebook... hehehee...

Friend Came A-Visiting

Hubby's friend from Indonesia was in town for a short visit the previous weekend. Yup, took me thattttt long to do this post :-) Was bit busy so couldn't find time to upload pictures till now... excuses excuses.. hehehee

Anyway, this friend of hubby's had quite a number of friends here and so had a packed program. Hubby's "appointment" was Sunday brunch so we (or rather hubby... zen and I just tag along for free food...) treated him to dim sum at PJ's Jaya Palace, at Asia Jaya.

Food was pretty good and ambiance was nicely done and had a relaxing feel to it. Slightly on the pricey side but I guess you need to pay a bit more for good food. And this is fr a good friend of hubby whom he doesn't meet that often. And yes, I thoroughly enjoyed it too...

Picture of food... only remembered halfway through the meal.. hehehee

the delicately balanced teapots and jars tower...
thank goodness Zen didn't take a fancy of it and insisted that he wanted to play with them!