One Week in Georgia

Time does flies, I've been in Georgia for about one week now.  Overall Columbus, GA is a nice place except the weather is extremely hot that I have to hibernate in the hotel for part of the time until the sun goes down.  

I just happened to realize that I have one ex-coursemate that moved to Georgia since graduation and I messaged her in FB to see if we can meet up for dinner.  Luckily she's not that far away and we had a nice dinner at this Thai restaurant.  We both can't believed that it's been four years since graduation and the only means of communication between the alumni is FB.  

Today is saturday and I went to work for couple hours as I don't have much to do.  So, I plan on going for more retail shopping as the shopping mall is just about 1 minute away from the hotel. How conviniently is that?? I once heard that Shopping is much cheaper than a psychiatrist. Therefore, whenever I can, I will go out for some retail therapy sessions.  I do agree that I feel much better and less stress after that.  

I'll just have to be here till next Thursday and I'll get to sleep as long as I can... Love it! 

MJ...Forever remembered & cherished

Today (25th June 2009) we lost the legendary king of pop, Micheal Jackson...Until now, at this moment it still felt like a dream to me. Still so sudden, shocking and unbelievable.

I got the news from facebook when I log in into my account. When I read the first status posted by a friend, I thought it was a prank until when I scroll down the news feed list and everyone's status posting is the same. tLeafs confirmed it thru msn...

Such a loss.............


ps: This post was a week late being posted...heheh

Toasted in Georgia

Finally, I get to go to a new place to do some real work. Where ? Columbus, Georgia. It's a nice city and the nursing home that I have to go to work at is Magnolia Manor. It's not too bad but it's an old building and facility compared to the others that I've been too.  Anyway, I'm here justs for 12 days where I'll be doing clinical coverage for the RD that I used to work with in Tennessee. 

I know the weather will be hot in the south but I would never expected it to be that HOT,  when I left for work today, it's 105 degree Farenheit in the car!! I feel like I'm in the toaster and everything is so hot to touch and when I cranked up the A/C, it still didn't do the work as the hotel I'm staying at only 3 minutes away.  So, by the time I left the car, it's still super hot to touch :P  I guess living in Virginia will be the perfect weather in between the North and South. 

I haven't been able to go around the town and see what the city has to offer but will definitely venture out during this weekend to tour around :) 

My weekend

Since we have nothing better to do on Friday as both of us don't have to work. We've decided to go and watch the movie: "The Proposal".  I'll give it a B because there's some part are quite slow and kept you wondering what will come up next. Overall it's a decent movie for a date night or chick flick.  That's Sandra Bullock's new movie in a very long time and I love her, plus she's pretty funny. 

The funny part of watching the movie was the lady that sat in front of us.  She cracks us up because every time anything that was funny on screen, she will laugh so loud that makes me laugh.  I guess it doesn't take a lot to make her laugh. 

Anyway, I don't think any other comedy movie this year will ever beat HANGOVER.  That's another movie that seriously makes me cry while I was laughing so hard watching it in the cinema. I wasn't sure if M'sia allowed that movie to be play on screen since there's a lot of sex related screen which will be censored.  

So, that's my weekend highlight with Jon while we spend most of our nights and morning watching Supernatural series and makes me scared of going to bed at night!! 

Good Sister or Bad Sister

For the past couple days, me and my gal pals were chit chatting online as usual but noticebly that zCakes was more upset than usual. Come to realize that she's been very saddened about the situation that she has with her siblings.  I totally understand what she's into because I myself also is trapped with the responsibility of a sister.  She has 3 younger siblings to take care of and I only have one.  The responsibility of taking care of the younger sibling is very cumbersome and everyone expect you to be the GOOD SISTER!!  

I felt like sometimes I'm stucked and can't move on to the things I wanted to do because I have the responsibility to take care of my brother even though he's already 21 years old but act and behave like a 16 year old BRAT.  Things that I have to deal with and helped him settled just mind boggoling.  Although I still love him to death, but he's so used to being spoon-fed every step of the way that he's relying on me since I have been taking care of things for him as I'm so fed-up dealing with his mess.   If I stopped helping him and let him learn his mistake, I'm the one ended up paying for his mistake.  Uggghh...so frustrating !  I wonder if it's just me? or everyone else younger brother or sister acts the same way? 

Occasionally I wonder if I can just escape but I'll feel the guilt of not taking care of my brother as my parent rely on me to keep an eye on him. If I leave, I felt like leaving a cubs to fend for his life in the wild.  But, when I'm his age, I'm already matured enough to handle my on life and belongings.  Oh well, I guess I really can't judge anybody by my own perspective.  I wish I can be the sister that just don't care and live my own life.  Deep down inside, the guilty feeling will surface with the devil and angel standing on my shoulder making myself conflicting at my thoughts and actions.  What a dilemma!!

Why can't I be the youngest one? Spoiled, and can get away with so many things while the older one can't! 

Pleasant Surprise

I've decided to come home one day early from work because there's absolutely nothing there for me to do at work.  I've never been so excited to come home to my own apartment before but it's such a relieve feeling to leave the place and head home! No one will understand how I feel...that place is a dump!

Anyway, after about 2 hours drive and listening to one of my favorite singer CD "Lee Hom" I can't help myself singing to the songs while I was driving since no one can hear or see me...Hahaha. After I got home, there's a mail from home where my sister had finally mailed it out after one month pass my birthday.  It's a drawing from my beloved nephew to me.... AWWWWW.  I'm really happy, anything from him makes me has that grine and smile automatically whitout making an efford to do so.  He's just so adorable and makes me misses him even more.  Here's just a sample drawing from him : 

Free from Crappy Place.

After many dreading days at work, finally I'm leaving this crappy place tomorrow and free from the cognitively challenged individuals that work in this nursing home.  All I've done since Monday was organizing, print and cut paper, surf the net and sit in the office listening to the complain from the GM about her staff this and that.  Ugghh...can't you just stop yaking...??? 

After this week, I will be flying to Columbus, Georgia to another nursing facility named Magnolia.  I hope this is a better place to be as I really can't stand dealing with another person that don't uses their brain and think to make a simple baked chicken!! OMG !!! Although I know that I have to stop thinking negatively because things are going to get worse if I do so. However, I just can't helped myself as there's nothing I can do to help this place unless they fire everyone and hire some good people to work in the kitchen.  Of course I don't have the authority to do so but how I wish I can do it.  

Remember the incidence of my money being stolen and car got hit? Well, it's been silent and no news from the up above management and they think everything is just fine.  I even bumped into the so called SECURITY DIRECTOR...and he doesn't even dare to look me in the eyes and just walked pass me and pretend nothing ever happened here in the facility.  If this is how the people treat me ... I don't think I should be here and do nice things to fix their crappy leftover mess from the previous company.  If they ever to send me back to this facility in July.... I'm just going to refuse to go and they can fire me if they want to... I SERIOUSLY DON"T CARE ANYMORE!! Hahahah .... ciao ~

Anorexia

It was late at night and I couldn't go to sleep since I'm at the hotel again for my 10 days trip.  I was laying in bed browsing the TV channel and I stopped at this particular channel named "A&E" because there's this interesting topic that caught my attention - ANOREXIA.  It's because I'm a dietitian and I can't help it (我的职业病）。 

There's this twin sister (Sonia and Julia) and they become so competetive against each other that they've had this love hate relationship with each other when their envy towards each other just spiral out of control until they are using their weight to compete with each other and ended up having anorexia. They only eat 300 calories a day! MY GOSH... and they are approximately 95lbs and about 5 foot and 8inches tall.  Their obsession with counting calories and being skinny is just beyond believe! They have a scale that they weigh each food item and everything has to be exact weigh for both of them if not one will complaint, yell and being rude. They even make rules with each other that one sister has to always be 3 lbs heavier than the other. But at the end they agreed to go to this eating disorder rehab center to accept treatment and they have been in recovery. However, people are likely to become anorexic again when they stop gaining control of themselve and letting the illness/disease to control them. 

The obsession with being skinny in this new world has become more and more common everyday!  Thanks to the stupid celebrity and all those unnecessary weight loss program and pills out there.  I just wanted to put this note out here to urge all my fellow friends to eat healthy. You don't have to starve yourself or too overly obsessive with calorie counting to be at a healthy weight. Everything in moderation is the KEY :D  Too much of anything supposedly good for you will also kill you!  Take care :) 

Fire in the HOLE !

Well, it's been quite a week for me and I've decided to take my anger out somewhere! Jon taught me how to use the BB gun and his shot gun to shoot at target for fun today ! I was trying to upload that video on facebook and here but it didn't work, I wonder?? TOO VIOLENCE? Hahah

It was fun and I enjoyed it. However, the guns were pretty heavy and my arms are sore from practicing shooting target for just mearly 15 minutes. Gosh! I'm such a wimp and needed some weight training to build up some muscle. 

I recommend whoever needs to let their anger out to try shooting at target...haha..FUN & Awesome.  I wish I can go to a real shooting range to do more shooting using different guns :D But, instead, we have a homemade target " The spring bottle"  LMAO ... 

 

Stupid Me, Me Stupid...

Arrrrrrggghhhhhhhhh....I'm being a fool today. Damn it.... I just burn my own money MYR 140. Haizzzzz....

Such a fool. I'm booking the return flight singapore-kuala lumpur for dodol. Was so excited that I can meet him tomorrow after 2 long long months. So, when I open the itinerary from my email, and this thing popped out (READ those in RED) :

Book date: 01 June 2009

Confirmation Number: FZVFBT

Reservation Status: CONFIRMED

You will need to produce this itinerary, valid passports (for international flights) or photo ID (for domestic flights), and visas (where applicable) at check-in to receive your boarding card. Please check-in 2 hours prior ro scheduled departure.

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WAS SO HAPPY TO READ THE 'CONFIRMED' WORD UNTIL........ I SEE THIS :

Flight Itinerary - CONFIRMED

Departing - Kuala Lumpur LCCT (KUL) to Singapore (SIN)
Tuesday, 02 Jun 09	Flight TR 455	Depart Kuala Lumpur LCCT (KUL) at 13:40 and arrive in Singapore (SIN) at 14:35

Returning - Singapore (SIN) to Kuala Lumpur LCCT (KUL)
Sunday, 07 Jun 09	Flight TR 456	Depart Singapore (SIN) at 15:15 and arrive in Kuala Lumpur LCCT (KUL) at 16:10

CAN YOU SPOT THE 'FOOL'? I already highlighted them as hints~~~ LOL

And I went like "Oh my God...crapppppp.......". I'm looking at the itinerary for awhile and stunned. How on earth I can make this mistake. I've been booking flights for my personal holiday and office's like so many times and this is the first time I make a fool of myself. I checked his passport and all but missed out on the origin and destination. I'm so used to put KL as origin, forgetting that he's in Singapore and not KL.

The thing is if I want to change the flights, it'll cost me another RM182. So, I might as well buy new tickets. Losing money for no reason. Or maybe, it's karma. I said this because just today, I was telling my colleague that I'm always at this situation where the cashier always gave me extra balance. Well, most of the time I only notice it when I'm home because I normally don't check the balance that I got back. But normally, I'll return the extra cash to the poor cashier if I realised it on the spot. And seriously, I'm always in this situation. The money that I got from the usual extra balance most probably more than the amount I lost today. ^_^

So, I guess it's time to give it back to the society. To comfort myself, I made myself to think 'VERY' positively. You see, I lost my money to the airline but I believe that they must have organise/contribute to some charity work/fund. And this is my conclusion, I contributed to charity fund (indirectly) today. HAHAHA... Making a fool of myself again. Twice today... =(

Haiz, TH and I lost almost the same amount of money within a week. So 'ceh' ler... Really need to go 'buang suay'. Hehehe....