Shopping weekend

I had an enjoyable weekend shopping. They say shopping is a woman's stress therapy and how true that is! The only after effect I got after is a pair of tired legs... that's the reason why some smart-aleck businessmen came out with a massager targeting at women. What a brilliant idea I thought...

Not being a particularly rich person, I did my best to limit my spending to less than RM400 on some clothes and footwear. Mind you, I think the living standard here has upped so much over the years that this amount really can't get me a lot of stuff, just imagine, a pair of decent jeans is already more than RM100! The gulf between the rich and poor has really widened so much over the years that it is becoming a serious social issue.

Well, I shall not whine. Life is good to me. I just hope Marie Callas will bless me with some more luck for the lottery wins.

DIfficult person to work with

I have a colleague who's infamous for being unpunctual. His nickname is called 'Rubber' because he has a rubber time, meaning, it's stretchable and you have no idea what time he'll arrive. Just to take an example, if the appointment with him is at 2pm, he would arrive at 3pm or even 4pm in some worse cases. If you give him a call to ask him where he is, his typical reply is 'I'm on the way, will reach in about 10 minutes, sorry!" The funniest thing is that's he can reach office at around 10am almost everyday yet, nothing serious has happened to him! Is he being blessed or shielded or what? I heard from other's that he's still lazing at home at the time when he's supposed to show up for the meeting.

I think I'll have a tough time with him because he is going to be one of the members for my latest work project! Another famous behaviour of his is that, he uses his 'mouth' to work, meaning just talk and no action. He's damn good in arguing, critising, condemning, and fault-finding. Yet when ask for his suggestions, his typical reply is that he would require people to sit down to have a 'brinstorming' session with him and to discuss, but then he would just sit down being cynical for suggestions we bring up.

So how to work with this type of person? Any idea?

Moonstone pendant

That is the picture of the moonstone pendant I bought recently. My photography skill is bad, isn't it? That's why I don't like to post any pictures here.

I wear with it all the time. It certainly brings me some aura of spirituality to my daily life.

Some Luck with Toto

Just to write to say that I'm excited to say I've won RM1000 for the Toto draw last week. Thanks Marie Callas for bringing me this luck. I'm glad to persist on the belief on you. It's not a big sum but an amount that brings a lot of joy and happiness. I'm very grateful to have this luck and I thank my lucky charms. The money came in handy and I spent nearly a third of it giving my family a good Mother's Day treat.

Act of forgiveness

Writing about something serious today because I thought of this incident that happened years ago. The incident brought me tears whenever I think of it. It happened in early nineties while I was still working as a junior technician in my previous company and I fall in love with my supervisor who was a very charming man even though he was married. He was exactly the kind of man I dreamed of and somehow we were mutually attracted. Being young and willful, I did all kinds of things to attract his attention. In the end, one wrong move led to some repercussions. Soon there were rumours going around in the office.

You know, there is a Chinese say, 'the paper cannot wrap the fires', his wife soon got to know of the story and there was a storm between my family and theirs. It got so bad that his wife's mother asked her for a divorce. But amazingly, she told me she was sad but she actually forgave me and her husband. I did not really understand the meaning of that forgiving act it was years later.

Even Marie Callas said forgiveness is the ultimate remedy that leads to the full and unreserved acceptance of the energy of Love and its free circulation. It allows energies of the universe to flow freely within the person who forgives and it builds up the person's spiritual treasures.

What comes around will come around. I suffered many emotional obstacles in the later years and that barren state of my emotional life is my retribution for the wrongdoing. It is karma at work.

Lovely moonstone pendant

I bought a small moonstone pendant while I was having my after dinner stroll a shopping mall. It was rather small and I have took the picture of it. Maybe I'll post the pic here another time. I really don't know how good it is but with some faith, I guess it will do some magical changes in my life, after all, this is a millennium-old belief and practice after I did some research and via Marie Callas book.

The pendant is really lovely. It is in a light shade of pink, in a pear shape, weighs about 9 grams, size about 2.1cm by 2.8cm. The price is near RM200 but I feel happy about buying it. Anyway, I seldom buy this type of stuff so just take it as a treat for myself. Women of our age need some emotional balances and moonstone will soothe my emotion.

Fed up astro price increase

Up, up and again!

Feel very dreaded by the announcement that Astro is going to increase its price. I feel this is a act that is done in bad taste because the program quality has not increased to justify the increment. There are still many old serials which are repeated and the number of commercials has increased more and more. Sometimes I feel like switching the TV off because the commercial breaks come in every 15 minutes and may take some 5 minutes long! During bad weathers, we can't even receive the signals too! I don't watch football or what...so i'm considering changing my choices.

Sad to say, cable TV business is a monopoly here in Malaysia. Unless we see another cable company in competition, we will continue be taken advantage by Astro. I know this may be useless but if you feeling frustrated, sign this online petition about the Astro price increase.

More chances

I think I must buy a moonstone pendant or necklace after reading so much of Marie Callas theories. I think she sells moonstone products too if I m not wrong. Later I shall write a letter to Marie telling her I wish to buy a moonstone product from her. Somehow I feel my swadhathana chakra has improved because I have more chances to interact with a fellow engineer whom I feel comfortable with as compared previously. Isn't it strange?

A day of game

Spent nearly 8 hours playing mahjong at my auntie's place on Vesak Day. Gosh...time ticks fast and by the time I stopped the game, it was already nearly 8pm. All of us were feeling hungry and drained. Funny is, somehow during the midst of the game, all of us did not feel tired or anything.

Yes, people in this area likes this game a lot and almost everyone knows the rules, even the 10 years old. It builds up family camaraderie spirits and bonding, gets relatives closer to each other and brings lots of laughter to all of us, irregardless of winnings or losings. We play mahjong in a friendly family spirits! Well, in the end, you know who makes the most winnings! The person is me! But it's not much, just over RM100. The players got nice shares this time and it's not as one-sided as during chinese new year. Right, not bad for a full days' 'work', yea?

Happy Wesak Day

Happy Holidays, all my friends and co out there!

Yesterday was May Day and today is Wesak Day! Many people were on leave on Monday and hence had a extra long weekend to rest and relax. Isn't life great? I wake up early today and the weather is cool with some rains. It's the best way to wake up to practise some Marie Callas exercises.

Time flies

Time flies past and it's already first of May. Nearly half a year had gone by and how much of your new year resolution 2007 have you achieved so far? People at my age worry a lot about such thing and that's sign that we are so different from those twenties young men. Time is no longer on our side if we make a mistake or make a wrong life decision. Every major move has to be perfectly calculated and thought of if you don't want to feel regretful but frankly how many of us can do that without feeling a tinge of remorse later on in life?