Stupid is as stupid does

I’m annoyed with some people who thinks that they’re always smart or what they do is cool.  Well, most of the things I do is uncool, yet I’m enjoying life.  So really, what’s up with thinking that your life is cool?  Not like you’re getting a better pay, so get over it already!

Supporting Earth Hour is cool, no?  Seriously…  Earth Hour is a bunch of c***!  But you know, I kinda support it cause it’s a good start.  Tapi nak promo gila-gila mcm laa aku ni bagus sgt at taking care of my carbon footprint tu, tak perlu lah kan.  If you want to turn your lights off, by all means.  Switch it off and go to bed one hour early everyday (even better, no?)  But making a big fuss of supporting it yet your fuel consumption is 10 times of someone who drives a kancil and doesn’t know what Earth Hour is is just silly ok.  To me, Earth Hour kinda make sense for landmarks such as KLCC or Genting.  It’s even better if they make it a monthly event.  Maybe every final Saturday of every month, ALL landmarks will switch off their lights. You get the point, right?

There are tonnes of things that you can do to reduce your carbon footprint (I wonder if that person knows what carbon footprint is) – the fact is, if we go back to basic, there’s a lot of things that we can do to reduce our carbon footprint other than considering vegeterian as an option.  For example, switch off every electrical appliances (at the main switch) when you’re not using it, especially your tv at night time.  How about going back to using CRT TVs?  The fact is LCD TVs consume more energy – so why don’t we all use those bulky stupid box, eh?  I will not make the list out, we are all smarter than that, aren’t we?  Obviously it’s just a matter of choice and if you care, you will do it.  Creating awareness is another – but I don’t wanna dwell into that now.

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I’ve been at home for another week now.  My appetite is growing by the day – argh, susah btol nak control.  Temptations are everywhere!  I’m in no motivation to go out.  The air here is not as clean as Borneo, so walking in the afternoon is not as appealing as before.  Or maybe it’s just another excuse (in fact, it is!)  I have tonnes of things in mind to write, but am having problems of putting my thoughts together.  Will see if it ever happens…

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Request, request, request…

I’m back in my hometown. It’s almost a week and I’m already bored. Actually, I’m more lazy than bored. I have few projects in mind especially to do some revamping in my room to fit in the baby’s crib and baby’s stuff. At the same time I want to move the study table etc so I can start using the computer in my room. Other than that, not much to do.

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Honestly, I’m sick of invitations or requests in Facebook.  Stuff like XXX invites you to join YYY quiz etc.  Blearghhhhhh… I’ve got tonnes of them – once in a while, I’ll do cleaning up to clear the requests because it’s just annoying to see them on my main page.  I figured most folks who run those applications, just invite all of their friends to use them as well – if you’re one of them, please stop!  It does annoy people who barely run any applications on facebook.

As addictive as facebook can be, I think I’ve got other things to do with my life.  I can’t imagine those folks who upload their photos ever so often.  On top of that, they also have time to comment at their friends’ photos (selalu pulak tu).  I do too, but I guess it’s never too often.  I know I know internet is so mobile now and you can use blackberry to upload your photos and what nots.  But I don’t know if it’s really necessary.  It seems like the endless connection with internet consumes our lives – I don’t really like the idea.  But you know, whatever, that’s just how I feel.

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I don’t understand why most people I know assumes that we will be leaving my baby to my parents once he/she is born.  To be frank, we never plan to have a baby so soon; but since I got pregnant anyway, we are responsible to take care of the baby.  So we’re doing whatever we can to have the baby in our care.  The process is not easy, and we have to spend a lot, but it’s part and parcel of our responsibility, no?  Although it’s a lot of stress and sacrifice, alhamdulillah, so far our plan is going well.  We are trying our best, and insyaallah, it’ll all go well.

Not to say that I’m against other people who left their child/children to their parents’ care.  Every marriage have their own hardships and surely there’s a choice everyone has to make.  Something’s gotta give – be it your finance, or being away from your child/children or whatever.  It’s never easy… I’m sure if the circumstance allows, every parents would want to spend every single second with their children cause we never want to miss any single precious moment.

What I don’t like about it is, assumptions that people make – doesn’t mean that we live in another island, leaving our child with my parents is our first choice!

Just like people always say, don’t ASSUME, or you’ll make an ASS out of U and ME.

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I’ve got more to say (as always), but I’ll save it for later (more like I’m already lazy to type).  We’ll see if I get there.

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Plant life

I need new steel toes.  I went to the shoe shop with Duan last weekend, and they only have one type for women.  Men have varieties of steel toes to choose from, and the smallest size they have is 7.  My current pair is 5.5, and they’re slightly loose on me *sigh.*  I might have to drop by there again tomorrow – I think I’ll settle with whatever they have as long as it’s light.  My current one is kind of heavy so climbing up columns and vessels are difficult – Imagine pushing your weight up with extra weight on your feet.  I should’ve lost some weight since I work here – apparently, I didn’t!

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The department is going to order new jackets for everyone.  I refuse to get one cause I just got one some time in August or so – I figure, I don’t need two same jackets that I barely use.  My boss applauded me for my cost-saving consciousness decision.  I hope that’d keep my job. LOL!

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I haven’t been eating right since yesterday especially at lunch.  Yesterday, I went to the canteen to get food at our normal lunch time 11.30 am and there’s no food left – only plain rice.  I ended up buying this so-called roti John that barely has any egg in it.  I was surprised I lasted the whole day without having stomach ache.  I decided that I’m going to “tapau” food early today – go for breakfast, they always have better food anyways.  I was in line while eyeing meehoon goreng.  I was unlucky; the guy right before me bought the last portion!  So I ended up buying the mee goreng, which taste like crap (as I expected).

Later in the afternoon, I went to my doctor’s appointment and as I expected my tummy started growling.  I flea to DQ on my way back to work and got myself an ice-cream.  That felt good – certainly not healthy!

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Saving the best for last – now it’s time for me to start b****ing about life or someone or implying that I’m b****ing about someone.  Anyway, I’ve been annoyed with someone for a while now.  I am annoyed with the fact that she thinks that she’s always right – trust me it’s extremely difficult to argue yourself out of it.  At the end of the day, no matter what you say or do is wrong.  She is so good on getting her facts “right” that up to a point you just give up because you feel that there’s no point arguing anymore.  I don’t know, but I have learned for a while that sometimes, there’s no point in justifying.  It’s not even worth justifying in the first place – so why bother.

I have given up for a while in pleasing this person.  And I couldn’t be bothered anymore.  But sometimes if you think about how right she thinks she is, it’s just pissing you off.  But then again why bother, cause this kind of people is not worth it.

Okay, aku ada bende lagi nak ckp tapi berat plak topic ni.  So lain kali lah aku ckp.

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Aku akan balik shah alam tak lama lagi.  Welcome back to the dirty air of Klang Valley!  I will miss my home dearly.  I will certainly miss the fresh air and evening walk in Panaga.

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The sense of belonging…

Back to the topic of working abroad… Quite a number of people I know has the desire of working abroad – no I don’t mean it in a bad way.  I do too.  In Malaysia, you get paid peanuts!  Someone once told me that Malaysia is amongst the lowest paid engineers in the world!  It makes you feel pathetic, isn’t it?  What am I doing here?  Really?  But the thing is, I don’t feel belong elsewhere.  And even if I go abroad, for how long?  I can only save maybe a few thousands and by the time I got back to Malaysia, I know the money will be gone in a few months.  Life is hard!

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I love this quote: “When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys!”

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Financial crisis is a hot topic.  I don’t really know how long it’ll last, but I hope things will get better soon.  The more I think about what would happen in the next few months, the more I think that I can potentially get laid off.  Nauzubillahi Mindzalik.  We have just started our lives, and we still have a lot to come.  I hope it’ll all be over soon.  This is life with riba’. Padan muka kita sume!

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Collecting friends in Facebook or Friendster or insert-social-networking-site.  I’m annoyed with people who likes to add others just to collect “Friends.”  This one time, I was commenting on a friend’s status on Facebook, another guy (who I presume is his friend) was also putting some comments on the same status.  Seconds later, this dude added me as his Friend.  Just because we share A mutual friend doesn’t make us friends, isn’t it?  I completely ignored the request.  But really, he doesn’t have to add me because commenting on one’s status, doesn’t qualify us as friends – not in the world nor the world wide web.

And yea, should I add a friend’s spouse just because we happen to know that guy because we attend his/her wedding?  I don’t think it’s really necessary.  But well, I guess it’s a better justification than commenting on the same status.  Anyhoo, the point is, why bother collecting “friends” when you don’t really know these people.  Nevertheless, I think it’s cool to add some friends from my past life – college, previous co-workers, etc.  It’s kind of fun to see what they’re up to these days…

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