Addicted to Facebook?

Since my account was suspended after reporting to the administration that my FB account has been hacked, I haven't been able to utilize this social networking site for nearly 4 days. I didn't think that I was addicted to FB that much but after this situation, I've realized, surfing FB has taken a chunk of my precious time.  I feel weird, awkward without checking FB once a day. I was really glad that I'm able to retrieve all my information back and having an active account again after constant e-mailing the FB abuse and disabled team. I'm just still in shocked that my account was being hacked by some random Nigerian criminals. Anyway, I'll be more alert in monitoring all my accounts from now on.  

I can now say, I'm addicted to FB.  I not only posting my own stuff but spend hours reading friends' updates and pictures sometimes. It is sort of pathetic but oh well, that's my only entertainment for the past 2 yrs while I'm away from home.  Good thing is that I'm not addicted into those games and quizzes unless someone send it to me and I find it interesting. Most of the time, I just hit IGNORE. 

I think I should find something more valuable and enlightening to do since I have the time to do so. People are so dependent on the technology and I am one of them, which I think it is very sad when a normal youngster prefer not to communicate face to face and choose to sms/texting, chatting online through web messengers.  No wonder there would be a bigger communication/ generation gap in the future. 

DAMN NIGERIAN SCAM

This morning when I was still enjoying my cozy blanket in the room and suddenly my nephew and my sis came into the room and woke me up.  She then told me a scary findings about my facebook account. I was like "WHAT!!!!"................ I was so shocked that someone able to hack into my account and pretending to be me and utilize the chatting features to con my friends in wire transferring money through western union. WTF !!!! 

Luckily is that it was some of my good friends and my brother in law who know right away that that stupid MOFO wasn't me. And one of my friend, Calven even captured the screen and let me read the conversation. Gosh, those Nigerian scam already been around for quite awhile and I'm the unlucky one who was selected.  One even claimed that me and Jon were stuck in London and was mugged and needed money. Good thing was she is smart and asking for more details. My brother in law even better, he was using Hokkien and the stupid pretender has no clue what he was talking about. 

Although I know hackers and scammer were all over the place, never thought that I will be one of the victim after my identity was being stolen once 3 years ago.  Technology is a good thing for all of us but also creates many cybercriminals that uses people's profile to con their friends. I've learned my lesson this time, to never leave any footprints or trail for people to have a chance in using my account or profile again. DAMN YOU NIGERIANS SCAMMER!!! 

Wedding Bell Rings ....

So, I've been home for awhile and have been busy with best friend's wedding and taking care of the two little monster at home; didn't really have much time to sit down and relax and start writing some of my stories. I thought the trip home will be easy but makes me miss working life a little bit at times, at least I don't have to deal with non-stop crying and throwing tantrum from the kiddos. 

Well, Bih Yin and Yit Wei's wedding was a good one. Even though I was very tired and didn't have much time to talk to them at all but I'm very happy for both of them :) Weddings are so complicated and makes me realized something that when it's my turn some day, I would prefer something real simple and easy. Seeing both of them stressing out at every moment just doesn't work well for me.  

Now, their wedding is over but there's lots more of our friends' wedding in the upcoming months. I guess it's almost time for our age to be married and have a family. Sometimes I've been thinking a lot, is marriage really necessary or it is just a procedure or a phase of life that has been passing down from generations.  Maybe I have commitment phobia or been seeing a lot of marriage that doesn't end well. 

Jalan-jalan makan-makan : Part 1

I hadn't been writing for so long. Life's been up and done but for the past 2 weeks, it's been great and interesting. My jalan-jalan makan-makan trip (for almost every other weekend) started since 22.08.09 and I guess only going to end in December. =)

First weekend which was about a week ago : a short 3 days trip to Medan to visit dodol and gosh~~ I gained about 2kg in just 3 days and all my effort to lose weight gone into the drain after this very first makan weekend. The first thing we do when I landed was 'makan'. Mie kerinting for breakfast (yum yum yum...can't get that back in Msia) Instead of a shopping list, we've got a 'what to eat' list. >.<

The list goes from appetiser to dessert ; lupis, es teler, pisang goreng (sweetest I ever taste), tauhu sumbat, nasi padang (loving ayam panggang & sayur nangka), mie sop, empek-empek, fountain ice-cream, ah teng fried rice/kuey teow, nasi goreng penjara, Fountain ice-cream, soto ayam, KFC (yes, the KFC and even the PizzaHut taste nicer) and the list goes on and on.

The best this time was seafood dinner at Lembur Kuning with bunch of dodol's friends. The food was yummylicious and best of all, it was CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP, very very cheap even before the % given by the boss (dodol's friend). There were 10 of us, we ordered like crazy and the table was full with dishes like fish (panggang, goreng & sweet sour; yes, 3 fishes), squids, prawns, vegetable, kepah (clams) soups, etc. We ordered like as if it's 'all-you-can-eat' and it only cost us about Rp. 550,000. Can't get this price back home ehh...

Medan had changed alot since my trip 2 years ++ ago. There's lotsa coffee house/cafe blooming and Medanese are willing to spend and splurging on these new lifestyle as compare to the 'warkop' style hi-tea/supper. Although I missed out a few from my makan list, it's a memorable trip.........

Next, the following Merdeka weekend : to be continued in Part 2...back to work now =)

It's been awhile

It's been awhile since anyone of us has written anything on the blog. Well, at least I have been consistently contributing my stories. Maybe I just like to write because I feel like writting has given me a place to vent and share my stories even though no one might be reading any of my entries but it's a place where I can look back in time and said...hey! I remember those days. 

Well, I've moved once again and yesterday was a long day with packing, driving and unpacking things.  I didn't really think there's too much stuff until I saw all my boxes and my clothes. My goodness, I've never thought that I would have so many belongings even after I've gone through most of them and throw away majority of the things that I can live without. I still remember the first time after I graduated from college and I was home with two big suitcases of clothes. My dad looked at me and said:" All the clothes here can last for two years!" and I replied: "This is only my summer clothes dad! ...and I still have spring, fall and winter clothes stacked in storage area until I return to the States" But, comparing to my friends' closet here, I'm the one with the least amount. Anyway, Jon's room is now filled with our JUNK and we still have to go through all of them once again to sort things out, unpack and re-organized since he's already frantically looking for his movies boxes that contain "GIRLS GONE WILD" DVD since his dad also would like to watch that. Boys Boys Boys!!!! I guess that's better than going out and find other girl ..LOL. 

It won't be long that I'll soon be home and having the three little monsters to care for. Can't wait for that to come although I know it will be difficult to handle them, but I believed I can do it well. Haha, hopefully don't get overrun by them. Kids these days are smarter and know how to play the games well on how to manipulate the adults.  Will share more of my nanny skills next time. 

All done with WORK

I'm quite happy that I've been done with my work and all and I've sent back all the laptop to the managers and haven't heard anything bad about my work yet!! I just hope there's nothing really major that I did wrong.  

So, now I'm just focusing on packing and selling all my stuff.  I've sold my camry and I felt so useless lately without my car. Can't go anywhere I please and it's pretty sad as I'm so used to doing everything myself without asking much help from others.  We've also sold our washer and dryer and just today we've sold our DVD player and the TV stand and soon we won't have a bed to sleep in.  Hahahaa... 

The apartment is slowly emptying out and I felt abit sad to see my belongings going away for good this time.  I guess, it's good to let go of the old and bring in some new stuff when I'm ready to begin my new life with Jon after all his training is all completed. Hopefully he didn't get send to Alaska.  

Why Men Never Listen/Remember

I'm not quite sure if I was having PMS lately or am I just easily frustrated at how difficult to get things through to his HEAD!! Jon's grandfather is having his family reunion at 1pm today and yesterday we've talked about that I would go with him multiple times when he asked me whether I wanted to join.  I thought we were clear on things.  But then, this morning after he took Jake (his cousin) to his MMA(mix martial arts) practice, he called me and ask me once again whether I am going again or not? How many times do I have to repeat myself to him that I'M INDEED going with him. DUH !!! Hello? Were you paying attention to what I was telling you last night??  I feel like I wanted to bang my head on the wall- but I'm not that stupid enough to do so. 

Therefore, I'm searching on google why men tends to do that to women.  As a result, there's 33.5 millions hits on this topic. Interesting isn't it. I guess men's behavior are universal all across the globe.  Well, researcher have found that male and female listening apparatus are completely different as male only uses half of their brain while female using both sides of the brain during a conversation.  In addition, female also contains more nerve cells in their brain and has higher concentration of dopamine which control language and memory skills, which means that they can deliver message in more efficient way.  Even though we are the same species, everything else is so different.  

It took alot of effort to make a relationship successful and that is good communications. Both male and female needs to understand each other differences and hopefully won't be frustrated at each other.  During the research of the topic, I found this very interesting book called "Why men never listen & Women can't read Map" .  They cover all aspect of the in's and out's of a relationship.  It's witty and entertaining :)