It has been a while since my last post.. actually it has been a year! But never mind, no one reads anyway. This is just a portal for me to record my joy, vent my frustration and anger, share some experience and eventually read them back to refresh my memories.
I wasn't feeling too good today. I almost got into a car accident, I have a very bad mood and i felt dizzy. After seeing my customer today at the Summit USJ, i paid my parking ticket and went down to B3 to get into my car. While preparing to get out of the parking, i realized that I've forgotten to take the parking ticket from the Autopay machine!! I ran back up to the lobby, hoping that the guard has kept the ticket. Luckily he did.
I was blur the whole day and wasn't looking too good either. I had a heated arguement with my bf the night before. So silly, it was about buying a fridge. I was concern that he wants to spend so much money in buying such a large fridge that might not be fully utilised and pricy. There are other same range at a very much lower price and it's a good brand too. But he insisted on getting it because his mother and sister likes it. And so we argued. I was extremely upset, I cried the whole night without him knowing. I had cried myself to sleep and looking horrible the next morning. No wonder I was feeling dizzy and all.. I didn't get a good rest. What made all this worse is that the next morning my mother provide me a bad news which is about financial. I couldn't help it but to get more upset and I hid somewhere to cry.
I gave up a lot of things and gave in a lot of times. Why am I always giving in? Why doesn't he take a stand and make me happy for once..I'm just so tired of this. I had no one to talk to.. and I was pretending to be ok the whole day. And work has not been going so well with my boss being not helpful at all. There's a lot to worry about.. I desperately need to escape!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Annabelle Noelle Lai
I was filled with joy to know that my sister was giving birth to her first child, Annabella Noelle Lai. It was thrilling at that time knowing I'll be an aunt very very soon, and I know I'm going to treat her like my own and love her lots. Annabelle had a difficult time coming to our world, as it took her almost 15 hours in labor, to try for normal birth at first, then ended up going for cesarean as she weighs 8 pounds! Boy I waited long to welcome her, finally caught a glimpse of her cute lil face when she was out.
Now she's 11 months, the notti girl likes to have attention pour on her and loves to play with electronical gadgets. She will never get her eyes off my mobile phone, and raise her hands in victory when she manage to grab it from me. My cute lil niece.. I'm proud being an aunt :D
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Fast Food Outlet - McDonalds
What was the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of McDonalds? Hot and crispy french fries? Juicy double cheeseburger? Value / Happy Meal?
To me, it's a Fast Food outlet that is Self Service. My mother took me to McDonalds when I was very young. Back then as I remembered, everything is self service. People queue up to buy the food from the counter. They will be greeted by the staff, followed by "Having here or take away?". The staff will carefully place the food in a proper presentation way on the tray. After that, the customer excitingly bring their tray of food to their seats and starts eating. When they are done having 'good time, great taste', they carefully place everything back into the tray, take the tray to the nearest rubbish bin and throw everything else into the bin except for the tray, and place the tray on top of the bin. That was the way I was taught when eating in McDonalds.
I noticed no one does that anymore. Has the customers forgotten that it's a self service food outlet? Or has McDonalds been hiring too many staff that they pamper the customers into becoming an irresponsible person who has everything being done for them? Then why don't McDonalds turn into a restaurants that takes order from your seats and serves to your table?
But I have to give credits to them with the fact that they offer job opportunities to the OKUs.
I like to have supper at one of the McDonalds outlet near my house. There's a smoking area where it's always full and packed with students (either doing their revision or dating, i don't know) and the ah bengs and ah lians will be there, talking loudly and smoking their lungs out. Well nevermind them, as they are still customers. That night there, I was having my worst time ever and I left without any good feelings. The service provided by the staff is not up to the McDonalds standard. There were no proper greetings, most of the time the counter staff will be chit chatting away and failed to show professionalism. Even the tray that was given to me was dirty, with existing ketchup/chili sauce at the side of the tray.
I noticed that not all tables have ashtrays. There should be proper ashtrays on every table because you wouldn’t want the customer to dirty the floor. The ashtray given was disgusting and not clean. As no one throws their waste themselves anymore, there was also no staff to standby at the area to assist the customers, or even to clean the tables. There’s a lot of staff that walked in and out of the smoking area (to go to the washroom) but none of them stopped to clear the tables. I noticed that the staff is not motivated enough to perform their best at work.
The food was also no good either. Gone were the days when McDonalds' burgers were juicy and yummy, and the French fries were the best sidelines to have. The French fries yesterday was just too crunchy and hard, and the burger was cold.
The only thing I find good about this outlet is the Drive Thru. The staff provides very good Drive-Thru services and never failed to ask me if I wanted Apple Pie or Sundae as desert. I ordered an Apple Pie even though I don’t want one, because the good feelings that the staff has given me.
Anyway, I made a complain on their website about this, and the branch manager called me up to apologize (but did not give me any goodies though). He made a promise that he will look into this and improve his outlet, and the next time If i ever visit again, I will notice change. Looking forward to that.
To me, it's a Fast Food outlet that is Self Service. My mother took me to McDonalds when I was very young. Back then as I remembered, everything is self service. People queue up to buy the food from the counter. They will be greeted by the staff, followed by "Having here or take away?". The staff will carefully place the food in a proper presentation way on the tray. After that, the customer excitingly bring their tray of food to their seats and starts eating. When they are done having 'good time, great taste', they carefully place everything back into the tray, take the tray to the nearest rubbish bin and throw everything else into the bin except for the tray, and place the tray on top of the bin. That was the way I was taught when eating in McDonalds.
I noticed no one does that anymore. Has the customers forgotten that it's a self service food outlet? Or has McDonalds been hiring too many staff that they pamper the customers into becoming an irresponsible person who has everything being done for them? Then why don't McDonalds turn into a restaurants that takes order from your seats and serves to your table?
But I have to give credits to them with the fact that they offer job opportunities to the OKUs.
I like to have supper at one of the McDonalds outlet near my house. There's a smoking area where it's always full and packed with students (either doing their revision or dating, i don't know) and the ah bengs and ah lians will be there, talking loudly and smoking their lungs out. Well nevermind them, as they are still customers. That night there, I was having my worst time ever and I left without any good feelings. The service provided by the staff is not up to the McDonalds standard. There were no proper greetings, most of the time the counter staff will be chit chatting away and failed to show professionalism. Even the tray that was given to me was dirty, with existing ketchup/chili sauce at the side of the tray.
I noticed that not all tables have ashtrays. There should be proper ashtrays on every table because you wouldn’t want the customer to dirty the floor. The ashtray given was disgusting and not clean. As no one throws their waste themselves anymore, there was also no staff to standby at the area to assist the customers, or even to clean the tables. There’s a lot of staff that walked in and out of the smoking area (to go to the washroom) but none of them stopped to clear the tables. I noticed that the staff is not motivated enough to perform their best at work.
The food was also no good either. Gone were the days when McDonalds' burgers were juicy and yummy, and the French fries were the best sidelines to have. The French fries yesterday was just too crunchy and hard, and the burger was cold.
The only thing I find good about this outlet is the Drive Thru. The staff provides very good Drive-Thru services and never failed to ask me if I wanted Apple Pie or Sundae as desert. I ordered an Apple Pie even though I don’t want one, because the good feelings that the staff has given me.
Anyway, I made a complain on their website about this, and the branch manager called me up to apologize (but did not give me any goodies though). He made a promise that he will look into this and improve his outlet, and the next time If i ever visit again, I will notice change. Looking forward to that.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Electronic Jinx
I lived with my boyfriend for 2 years now. Recently, the aircond in his room stop functioning properly.. and eventually stop blowing cold air. He turned to me and said "this must be your electronic jinx again".
I froze for a moment to think. For the past 2 years staying with him, he has changed most of the electronic items in the house, especially in the room - the water heater, the PC, room TV, room vcd player, vacuum cleaner, cellphones (my own cellphone keeps restarting by itself), multiple alarm clocks and too many flashlights.
The lightbulb in our room keeps blowing. The washing machine was about to break down until I stop using it. There was a time when I was watching too much of our pay per view satellite TV out in the living hall, the satellite TV decoder crashed. The TV itself started to show signs until I completely stop watching it, then it was ok again. This does not only happen in my boyfriend's house, it happened in some of my friend's house too when I put up nights there.
More recently, I noticed that the alarm key for my car either keeps running out of battery too soon, or just crash. And the cabin light in my car (the one on top) never works.
So there goes.. I'm a pathetic case of electronic jinx.
If you wanna read up more about it, check out this website:
http://www.doug-johnson.com/dougwri/x-files-a-computer-jinx.html
I froze for a moment to think. For the past 2 years staying with him, he has changed most of the electronic items in the house, especially in the room - the water heater, the PC, room TV, room vcd player, vacuum cleaner, cellphones (my own cellphone keeps restarting by itself), multiple alarm clocks and too many flashlights.
The lightbulb in our room keeps blowing. The washing machine was about to break down until I stop using it. There was a time when I was watching too much of our pay per view satellite TV out in the living hall, the satellite TV decoder crashed. The TV itself started to show signs until I completely stop watching it, then it was ok again. This does not only happen in my boyfriend's house, it happened in some of my friend's house too when I put up nights there.
More recently, I noticed that the alarm key for my car either keeps running out of battery too soon, or just crash. And the cabin light in my car (the one on top) never works.
So there goes.. I'm a pathetic case of electronic jinx.
If you wanna read up more about it, check out this website:
http://www.doug-johnson.com/dougwri/x-files-a-computer-jinx.html
Hospital Visits - Record Breaking
In February 2008, I broke my record of hospital visitations to 4 different hospitals in a month!
First it was my boyfriend's grandmother, who was admitted to HUKM for the wound on her foot, not being able to heal due to diabetes. Discharged 20 days later.
Then it was my mother, who had throat infection and was admited to Damansara Specialist on the eve of Chinese New Year. She was discharged 2 days later.
After that it was my father, who had to undergo heart operation in Institute Jantung Negara to replace his heart valve as it was only born with 2 flaps. He was discharged 6 days later.
Finally my own grandmother, who had a stroke while she was in Genting Highlands and was sent to Selayang Hospital for treatment. The whole left side of her body including the left hand and left foot was unable to move. She's 80 years old, and been running about herself, alone, unwilling to have anyone offer her rides or help, had gone to Genting Highlands herself, and being sent down by an ambulance later. She was discharged, then we sent her to Tung Shin Hospital for acupuncture treatment, which god knows how long it's gonna take.
Ahhh.. and I was down with flu and fever the whole month, multiple hospital visits managed to allow bacteria and virus to attack my poor stressed out body and mind. But I'm all well now.
First it was my boyfriend's grandmother, who was admitted to HUKM for the wound on her foot, not being able to heal due to diabetes. Discharged 20 days later.
Then it was my mother, who had throat infection and was admited to Damansara Specialist on the eve of Chinese New Year. She was discharged 2 days later.
After that it was my father, who had to undergo heart operation in Institute Jantung Negara to replace his heart valve as it was only born with 2 flaps. He was discharged 6 days later.
Finally my own grandmother, who had a stroke while she was in Genting Highlands and was sent to Selayang Hospital for treatment. The whole left side of her body including the left hand and left foot was unable to move. She's 80 years old, and been running about herself, alone, unwilling to have anyone offer her rides or help, had gone to Genting Highlands herself, and being sent down by an ambulance later. She was discharged, then we sent her to Tung Shin Hospital for acupuncture treatment, which god knows how long it's gonna take.
Ahhh.. and I was down with flu and fever the whole month, multiple hospital visits managed to allow bacteria and virus to attack my poor stressed out body and mind. But I'm all well now.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
The Mothers..
My mother and her mother will be 130 years old if we add up their current ages. They've been fighting countlessly over so many years, which we children are so immune to it. This particular morning on the 3rd day of Chinese New Year, as I was enjoying my sleep after a night of explosive argument with my current guy, I was disturbed with their heated conversation. It was as disturbing as ever. I couldn't get back to sleep as their voices grew louder and situation gets more tensed. I woke up, and I woke my siblings up so they could help the situation. I wasn't a help of myself as I was already crying. It was a stressful morning.
When It's Hard To Love
I guess it's really hard to love someone. When you are too deep in love, you are so blinded. You become selfish, possessive and wants everything for yourself, yourself only.
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