Significant Other: Hey, do you remember that story about the Langkawi princess?
Me: Langkawi princess?
Significant Other: Yeah, the one who was stabbed to death and then milk flowed out from her veins?
Me: What??! Milk??!
Significant Other: Err, wasn’t it milk?
Me: No, it was blood. It was just white to symbolize her innocence.
Significant Other: Oh. I thought maybe she had too many white blood cells or something.
Me: What??! White blood cells do not work that way!!! I can’t believe you just said that. Biology FAIL.
Significant Other: Hey, I didn’t study Biology, ok! I did Accounts! Or maybe if it had something to do with chemistry or something…
Me: Oh yeah? WELL IT DOES. CHEMISTRY FAIL!!!

They were motionless, surrounded by the sea of people moving around them. They held each other at arms length, her hands around his waist, his resting gently on her shoulders. A smile played out on their lips, their eyes gazing lovingly at each other as they partook in shared secrets. Their mouths moved soundlessly as they spoke to each other, their love sheltering them from the rest of the world.

No, this is not a scene from a movie. This was a teenage couple I observed while walking around in a shopping mall in Singapore.

I actually looked around to check if there were any cameras rolling nearby.

Went to watch Avenue Q in Singapore with Li San over last weekend and nearly split my sides with laughter. I had anticipated it to be good, but as it turned out, it was even better! I wish we could get shows like that back here. Malaysia, you suck.

It was great seeing Dave and Phun again too, and meeting Li San’s friend Edward (sparkle motion! lol couldn’t resist).

A colleague showed this to me yesterday. I now have a mad urge to misuse my office printer and supplies (graphic designer, remember? There is plenty of nice, thick paper stock sitting in my office, just waiting to be used…muahahahahaha) and mass print these out and place them all over my office cubicle, not to mention my desk at home.

At work today a colleague asked me what cooties were. I told him to look it up, so he typed it into the dictionary widget that comes with the Mac . Then he laughed. When I went over to find out why, he pointed to his screen, and I laughed.

Who knew that a word like that might have such origins?

For quite a while now I had been getting invites to the Elven Blood app on Facebook. Just another game, I had thought at that time, I’m probably not going to play it for long, and I don’t need to add yet another game to my already long list of apps. Then a friend sent me an invite pleading with me to join his party, so I finally relented and added it. Since I added the game, I decided that maybe I should just give it a chance and try it out. My colleague at work was also raving about the game, so I thought why not.

Big mistake.

When I first tried the game out, I thought it was ok. Something for me to just play on a casual basis, and nothing more. Less than two weeks later I have been reduced to a quivering mass that adds strangers into my Facebook just so I can advance into the deeper levels which require a bigger party size. You see, the evil, evil thing about Elven Blood is that the deeper, more advanced areas require a bigger party, comprising your friends, or some NPCs here and there that gives you a +1 member to your party. To get to the end of the game, you will require fifty. Just how on earth was I supposed to stuff my party full of fifty friends who play Elven Blood? No wonder everyone was sending me those invites.

At first I thought I could do with just sending out invites to my friends and getting some fairies for the exchange (fairies give you a +1 to party size). But a few days later, I saw how unviable it was, and finally caved in.

I swear, whoever created this game (and those of its ilk) are spawns of Satan. Damn youuuuuuuu~!

UPDATE: Since I have now progressed further in-game, I have realized that what I wrote about needing fifty party members to proceed to the end of the game is not true. It seems that the walkthrough I consulted was incomplete, as I now have areas requiring sixty-five party members and the end of the game still seems nowhere in sight.

Oh well, at least I am consoled by the fact that if I ever do get bored on Facebook, I have a lot of strangers’ profiles to browse through :p

After talking to a large number of people about the new in-thing in town, fish spas, I finally found someone who was willing to try it out with me. Everyone else just felt too grossed out by the idea of fish eating their feet to want to even give it a try, but thankfully Felicia was enthusiastic. So we set a date and off we went!

We went to Garra Rufa Fish Therapy in Bangsar, after Felicia had sent me a link warning people about some fish spas using fake fish for their therapy. Li San decided to tag along just to watch, but in the end caved in and decided to try it out along with us.

The first thing they make you do is to wash your feet. After that, we walked over to one side of the pool and tentatively dipped our feet into the water.

Note: Image taken from the Internet. Did not bother taking my own as there are so many of them out there already anyway. Besides, my feet are ugly lol. Not sure if fish in the image is the real garra rufa or not, please refer to warning link above.

As we were the only ones using that pool, the fish swarmed our feet and started nibbling us. I burst out giggling because it was SO TICKLISH. I couldn’t quite bear to watch the fish nibbling my feet for the first five minutes or so, it just seemed so odd. Li San, who sat beside me, tried her best to scream in silence while looking anywhere but at her feet in the water (sorry lah dear, but it was really amusing lol). After awhile, the sensation of fish nibbling at my feet subsided to feeling more like putting them in a jacuzzi, so I finally stopped giggling like a little schoolgirl. It became more as more pleasant as time went by, and soon even Li San was staring at the fish in the water without flinching.

We stayed in for awhile longer than the half an hour we booked, and in the end we were actually quite reluctant to leave. When we finally took our feet out of the water they felt remarkably smoother and softer.

All in all I enjoyed the experience, and would definitely like to do it again. Anyone else adventurous enough to give it a try?

Ok, so I guessed wrong. Sometime after my last post on my new job, work decided to gobble me up whole. I’ve been going home late (say, nine to ten-ish), with recent slight improvements, though I am still being constantly showered with more jobs than I can handle. And I have been working on too many Saturday mornings now. I supposed it can be summed up into Nick’s little outcry - “What??! Don’t they let you have a life??!”

Nope, guess it wasn’t in the contract.

I did a Google image search today and found photos of penises among the lemang. Lolwtfbbq??!

It’s been two weeks since I started work in my new workplace. I would say things are going ok so far. Some things are great, others, not so much, so I guess in the end it sorta evens out. I would really say that it’s still too early to tell how things will go. I guess I will just list the positives and negatives down here nicely:

Positives
- really nice colleagues. Very friendly and very helpful people.
- guy who sits next to me owns a PSP and is a bit of a gadget freak. We spent quite some time chatting about games and the iPhone 3G the first evening I was there XD
- the boss would like all of us to come in by 9.15am latest, but really, I’ve arrived at 9.40am and there’s barely anyone there. I CAN COME LATE!! …Err, not that I should make that a habit XD
- most people leave by 7.30pm. In a design/advertising firm, this is good news.
- their portfolio is good, and they have a great client list for me to work on.
- food is considerably cheap.
- parking is pretty cheap too, although I don’t get free parking here
- the building may be old and a bit creepy-looking at night, but it’s well-maintained.
- I can surprisingly get to work in half an hour.

Negatives
- my probation is six months T__T And no, I can’t take leave in the meantime unless it’s an emergency.
- for the first two years, I will only get ten days of leave a year. TEN. OMFG.
- they work half-day on alternate Saturdays. Although this isn’t really a negative in the sense that you only have to come if you have something to do. If not, then no one seems to care.
- apparently we’re not supposed to chat while at work. While most people still chat anyway, this is done as discreetly as possible with very tiny MSN windows lol.
- the boss doesn’t like people playing music out loud. The boss also does not condone wearing headphones O.o So the office is …very quiet, which made me feel so restless that I actually had to bring my music to work with me -__- I play it at a very low level, just loud enough for me and maybe my neighbour to hear, and no louder. Apparently that’s acceptable.
- the boss is, err, a little eccentric. No details here because I don’t think it’s a good idea to elaborate.
- I never realized how organized my previous company was until I started working here. It’s taking me some time to get used to. I find it baffling why they don’t streamline certain things, or do certain things in a certain way.
- the bathroom is located outside of the office. And there is no toilet paper - everyone has a roll of toilet paper sitting on their desk, me included. Thankfully the bathroom itself is relatively clean.
- ok, this one is wishful thinking, but I wish the office looked a bit…nicer -__- The interior does leave much to desire for.

I’m still not sure how work levels are like, as the other designers are complaining that they still need to hire more people, but we seem to be doing alright at this time. Of course, things could change anytime. I would be quite happy if the level of work everyone has is about what I’m experiencing now though, because the alternative is always much worse.