In The Red

It's the end of the month today and I have just balanced my monthly account. To my dismay, I need to fork out about RM900 to cover this month's expenses. This is the worst month I have had for a long while now and obviously, I am feeling the pinch. I hate to dig my piggy bank.

March always feels like an extremely long month to me; perhaps it is because of the short month of February with only 28 days compared to 31 days in March.

As you can see, I am unhappy. RM900 is a lot of money and to think that I didn't even travel for the past two months. In fact, after such a poor showing this month, I dare not even think of travelling for the next couple of months while I try to work harder to recover my loss. It doesn't help that the Ringgit is so strong!

Sick Three Times

What a boring week it has been! I was down with fever, sore throat and runny nose. My dad passed me the virus which he caught when the guy next to him in the LRT in KL coughed! %^(*#()^*!! Before one month is up, I am sick for the third time already. It's like all the money that I earned this month, which isn't much in the first place, have all been gifted to the doctor. This pisses me off, obviously! I hate to be sick because I don't want to see the doctor!

And every time I get a fever, my head just feels like exploding. All I want to do is to lie down because I can't think. As you can probably tell, the week has been extremely unproductive for me. I remember it was the same last weekend. Ah... that time, I was suffering from food poisoning for two days! How awful, huh?

I hope that the year will get better for me. This Year of the Rabbit isn't compatible for me, I think. Sob!

Farewell Elizabeth Taylor

One of the few remaining classic beauty actresses whom the world knows as Elizabeth Taylor has passed away earlier today. While I am not a huge fan of hers, I did watch some of her movies growing up and I have read enough about her in gossip magazines too. Even with her beauty, the entertainment industry is very "dark" and it wasn't easy for Elizabeth Taylor. You can imagine that it's thousand times more difficult for others who are not as beautiful.

Despite her beauty, fame and fortune, it's sad that Elizabeth Taylor battled with a long list of health issues all her life. It's amazing that she survived them all, even though she had to carry her "battle scars" till the end. Elizabeth Taylor spent the last few years of her life confined to a wheelchair, "trapped" in her own mansion. Luckily, she had the money to enjoy a team of nurses to care for her. At least, that made life easier to bear.

Between Laptop And Tablet

Since I'm on the move so much, I have been wondering if I should just buy a tablet. I keep saying that a tablet is not really suitable for my kind of work because I really need a laptop. Whilst I have a laptop, it's getting heavier by the day and when I am out and about, I'd be carrying it on my back for hours on end and it tires me out.

A tablet is not cheap and laptops are getting lighter. Perhaps I should just splash some money on a custom laptop. At least it's a real work tool, unlike a tablet that's more suited for games and entertainment.

Haihh.... or maybe I should just continue to use my current laptop until it's beyond economic repair and then only think of what I should get. Perhaps by then, iPad 3 would have been released. Haha!! I hope!

Goong S (2007 K-Drama)

I've been watching the 2007 Korean drama this past week. It's Goong S, also known as Palace S or Prince Hours. This is actually not a sequel to Goong, which I enjoyed so much; the cast is different, plot is different but the theme is the same. The S, by the way, stands for "Special, Start, Spinoff, and Special".

Another similarity is the teddy bears used at the end of each episode to depict scenes from drama. There are also scenes that were shot at the very famous teddy bear theme park in Korea. I wish I could go visit one day! Just too cute.

After eight episodes, I can't decide if I like Se7en more or Kang Du more. I'm not talking about looks but about their roles. And I don't believe that Park Shin Hye, who carries the role of Shin Sae Ryung, was only 17 when she acted in this drama! She carried her role so well, so professionally.

Anyway, who will be the prince? And who will get the girl? I still have 12 more episodes to watch. Argh… why did I keep this drama for so many years?? LOL

Reconnecting With Old Friends

Thanks to social networks, I managed to reconnect with some of my old schoolmates. I actually don't really want to get in touch with them at all. It really has been a "lifetime" since we talked and we are too far apart now and I am not talking about physical distance but when these people send me a message, I have to respond. Sometimes, I wonder if they really remember who I am.

I marvel that most of my friends did not change at all, physically. At lot of time has passed, no doubt, but from the photos, they could still pass for college or university students. I, on the other hand, look a lot older!

Even so, there is a friend who has undergone a drastic change. I remember her as a chubby girl and when she went to pursue her tertiary education, she grew fatter. I guess it was either her new diet or the change of environment. She told me that whilst she tried to lose weight, nothing helped her much for long. One day, she came across adipozin reviews and decided to try it. She has since stopped taking weight loss pills and made sure that she changed her diet and lifestyle as well. Obviously, depending on pills solely wouldn't work.

New Blog Header Again

Suddenly, after some years, I saw it fit to change my blog header to something smaller. I actually have wanted to do so a long time ago because I do realise that the previous one was too large that it blocked half my screen and I am using a 20in display. I can certainly understand what a pain it is for other readers who may be using a smaller display.

When I had the urge to change my header this morning, I just went online to search for free blog headers, found a red one and just used it. I wish I have time to look for an even more suitable red header but I just don't have time. It's funny and I don't even understand why I don't have time, since I'm not even making money. I would expect to see some revenue when I am this busy but I guess I am always doing things that are non-productive.

And worse, I'm starting to enjoy Goong S too! That takes a couple of hours off each day! LOL

Slow Month

What a slow month this March is. It's already past the middle of the month and my revenue is grossly no t up to par. I am beginning to worry that I may not make enough to cover my expenses and the bills. I have also been sick more times than I like, which incurred additional doctor's fees. Seems like all the bad stuff come all at once.

When it is slow like this, it is a good time to get away. I haven't been away for more than two months already but when I'm not earning much, I abhor spending and eating up my savings. That's why even when I have no work to do, I'm still sticking around at home.

Usually watching dramas and playing Facebook games can help me pass time better but lately Facebook can't load for me, especially at night, and I wonder if it's because of the calamities in Japan. I don't want to complain about something like a slow internet connection but I can hardly use it.

I'm watching Korean drama Goong 2. This has been in my collection for YEARS. I just started and it doesn't appeal to me too much. After one week, I am at episode two only! I hope that by the end of the month, I could make some progress and that my deficit this month wouldn't be too much.

Resolved, Or Maybe Not

The work issue that I was faced with a couple of weeks ago has resolved. Well, I don't know if I should think of it as being totally resolved as it still hangs above my head. I have a temporary reprieve but I still have plenty of work ahead of me to get a better footing in case something like this happens again.

I can't do it alone because it is too technical but I will be asking, or rather, paying a friend to help me with some of the more technical stuff. I'd do the basics first and then get him to help me out later.

Well, I've approached him but I don't know what time he will be free to help me or even when though it's kind of urgent in case the problem recurs. I don't want to be caught out again!

Still Incompetent

I feel quite dumb that after starting to drive again, I am still not competent. If you have been following my blog, you would know that I recently started to drive again. Come to think of it, it was ten months ago already. I don't drive extensively, though, since I hardly have anywhere to go!

My father said that I drive like a snake and that he wouldn't be surprised if I was stopped by the traffic police. I may even have to get dui insurance if I continue to drive like I just had too much to drink.

I am trying my best to drive well and competently. I can't believe that I can't be so stupid. Some of my friends have no problems driving long distance. I think I need to buy an automatic car. Yeah, blame it on the vehicle!

Old Emails

I was going through my old emails this morning, flipping through the pages of Gmail. I have about 11,000 emails that span the past 6 or 7 years. That's not many, but I was quite surprised by some of the things I wrote to some people a few years ago, I didn't even remember at all. Of course, after reading through, I remember the circumstances. It's kind of funny going through old mail. Those topics that I wrote about seem so trivial now. Obviously, they were important to me back then.

I was actually looking for unread mail. I had 9 in my inbox and somehow, I couldn't filter them out. Maybe I don't know HOW to do it? Well, that was why I flipped through the pages one by one. I still managed to find all the unread mail this way, though it took me some time, what with doing it manually and with reading my old mail.

Midnight Crash

I received a call early one morning from an old friend. She told me that she was involved in a bad auto accident and she didn't know what to do. Well, apart from driving over to the crash site and helping her with whatever I could, I still felt that it was inadequate. She was injured and the other party was not willing to pay her because he was injured as well despite he was clearly in the wrong!

Legally, I wasn't able to help and I thought to myself that if we were living in Texas, all these would be smoothly taken care of by an experienced Austin personal injury attorney without us worrying about it and running around all over town looking for help!

O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath is a law firm that specializes in personal accident, particularly auto accidents, like my friend's case. I like that attorneys will go out of their way to meet with their client wherever they are at a place and time convenient to their client. This greatly helps an injured person. Moreover, initial consultation is provided free of charge.

O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath – Personal Injury Lawyers – 808 West Avenue, Austin, TX. 78701 – 512-494-9949

Deep Breaths

I've been faced with some work issues since 2am this morning. Mush as I am trying not to let these things affect me, it's taking too long a time to resolve and I am trying not to think of the consequences of the effects of this down time. Income is obviously affected...

My friend has given me a solution but I will need more patience before this could be resolved. I can't do it by myself because I am not authorised to make changes so I can only wait. Meanwhile, the longer I wait, the more stressed out I become. The longer I am facing my dead work, the more pissed off I get.

Maybe I should just go and take a walk at the mall or something.

Childhood Friend

I was reconnected to a childhood friend through Facebook last week, someone whom I already saw on Facebook a long while back but did not take the initial step to say Hello, simply because it has been too long since we lost touch.

This friend was my "best friend" in primary school. I don't really remember when exactly. Maybe in Std. 3 or 4. But I remember that one girl, from another class, came between us and this friend and I parted ways after getting into a "triangular fight". It was very childish; I remember asking this friend if she is going to be my friend or the friend of the third party. I guess, she chose her, and not me.

I remember that we studied in the same school right up to Form 5 and I was in the same school bus with the "third party" for some years because she lives near my house. We were civil with each other, I don't even know if she remembers what happened in primary school.

As for my friend, even though I took the first step to reconnect with her and even then, after such a long time since my initial discovery of her Facebook profile, the feeling of rediscovering of a good friend is lost upon me. I regret the black spot in our childhood and even though we are "friends" again, it is just not the same anymore. I guess sometimes, it's just better to let bygones be bygones.

I.T. Fair Ipoh (4th - 6th March, 2011)

There will be an I.T. fair beginning tomorrow, 4th march until 6th March, 2011. It will be held from 10am to 10pm daily for these three days at Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh, Perak. I like it because it's a very convenient location. Obviously, I will be going. Hahaha!

I actually don't have anything in mind to buy, though I am keeping in view a tablet and a GPS device. Yes, these are expensive stuff and I don't have the money for them yet. So while I am holding on to my purchases, technology is moving forward so it's not all that bad for me. OK, I'm just consoling myself. LOL

As for the cheaper stuff, perhaps I could do with some DVD blanks. I used a lot of these recently while clearing out my hard disk but then the files that I still am keeping in my hard disk are way too large for the ordinary DVD blanks, I don't know how to get them out!

Anyway, will still be going to this I.T. Fair and see what the vendors have for us this time. I'm getting bored with these shows already, actually, so I am hoping for something different.