Lessons when buying a present

I've always knew that I'm never good at choosing presents. That is why, whenever possible, I would get my friends who has better taste to buy and I would share the presents.

But today, I had to go hunting for a present myself for my colleague's daugther's 1st birthday next weekend which I won't be attending, but still bought a present for her nevertheless.

These days, the presents do not come with any boxes. This means you'll have to buy the present separately.

Having chosen a present (a star-shaped baby pillow), I didn't buy it immediately but instead, walked around to find a matching box, because the same shop's boxes was kind of expensive. It was almost the same price as the present I had chosen.

Hence, I went box hunting first, keeping the looks and size of the present in my memory. BAD MOVE!!!!

So when I went around, I found one I thought fits. The box was packed in a packet but I thought it would fit the present, based on the sample I saw. Wonderful, now that I've already bought the box, I can go back to the earlier shop for the present.

When I looked at the present again, I still thought it fits. So I didn't test it out but to proceed with my purchase and head home.

When I reach home to pack the present... here's were the nightmare began. It almost fitted. I tried squeezing them but to no avail. The cover just won't close. So no choice. Have to just give the present without the box. Unless I go and buy another. Either way, I'm left with an extra box at home now.

The present I chose comes in 2 sizes, and I chose the bigger one. Had I had chosen the smaller one, it would no doubt fit in without even squeezing it a little. Sigh!!!

I'm 25

This year.... dunno what say.
It was different than any other years.

Had an unexpected news.
Received unexpected messages.
And heard from unexpected person.

But as usual, I just stayed at home for the day, watching Cantonese dramas the whole day.

The unexpected

Last week a new guy joined my team. This week I found out his date of birth. Really, a person's birthday has no significance on me except when after I found out that we share the same birth day, birth month and birth year.

So literally, in Chinese (Cantonese), I found a guy who is 'tong nin, tong yuet, tong yat sang' as I am. What more can I say, or shoud I say?

Birthday treat

Only that it was my treat for someone else. For a belated birthday outing, I treated a friend to a lunch for her birthday at a cafe/restaurant "Delicious by MS READ" at One Utama new wing.

I also bought her another present. And in return, my good friend here, baked me this for my birthday. Kind of a joint celebration for us...
And she also bought me this manga as a present...
I've watched the anime version of this story. She knows that I don't read manga, comics nor any books. I think she's trying to make me read... and be a book worm like her... hahaha XD.

Our lunch and presents were long overdue because we just couldn't find the time to meet up. I'm busy with work while she's busy with all her bfs ;o) ... and gfs as well

Anyway, this woman was an hour late. We promised to meet at 11am. I left my house a little early fearing that there might be a bad jam heading towards the area but it was really smooth. I reached the place around 10.30am, so that means I actually waited for an hour and a half. Because of this my parking ticket exceeded into another time block, making me pay RM3.00 while she only paid RM1.00.... sigh

At the restaurant, the meal I ordered wasn't really to my liking. I can't remember what it's called but it's like spaghetti noodle blended with lots of greens. I find it a little salty and too much cheese. It looked quite small the portion but was very filling due to the cheese. But the drink was nice. It was watermelon added with lychee. I brought my camera along but forgotten to take the photo of my food. Need to remember that next time.

We then sat down at a juice bar drinking some mix fruit juices while looking around because I was feeling thirsty. After that, we just walked around. She, being a woman, naturally would be looking at cloths and shoes.

Me... I just went around, trying out some spectacles caused I thought of looking for one for casual wear. Found a few really nice one and she liked it to. But spending RM 1xx for something that I'll hardly wear is something I'm still quite reluctant to do. Besides, I feel really uncomfortable wearing them. Not used to it.

After a while, we left. At home, I tasted the cakes. One word says it all. D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!!! Thanks dear... for your time and effort. Hopefully I'll get to eat more of them... hahaha!!!! XD

Misc.

Ok... firstly, I just realised that this would be my 100th post, and this month makes my blog 2 years old as well. What a coincidence for both.

Also, today, I went to PC Fair on my own for the 2nd time in as many days and got myself this:


A brand new Nikon Coolpix L11 for RM 599, perhaps a bargain when elsewhere was at RM 688, with a little more freebis as well. I even went to 2 camera shops in Section 14, PJ to confirm this. Anyway here are the specs. This model was only released in February 2007, so it's still a very recent model in the market.

When I went to PC Fair yesterday with a few friends, I never intended to buy anything. Was just wandering around until I saw what was on display and the promotion they have. For the basic model and for that price, the little 'sexy' thing has almost everything I was looking for and with an acceptable quality and no. of features.

Of all the bells and whistles, the feature I love best was the Continous shot feature, where I just need to press the shutter and it'll keep snapping until I release it. No image stabiliser, so I'll have to make sure my hands don't shake when taking the photos. I'll definately be able to post more photos from now on.... hehehe :D

Happy Birthday!!!

To Me!!!!!

Hahaha... yes I know... it's a little mou liu to be wishing myself. It's not that I'm not getting birthday wishes. 24 years of age, quite special this year as it's the Year of the Boar as well... my year

The first 2 wishes this year was via Friendster testimonials which was submitted and approved days earlier. The rest are from SMSes and MSNs. 2 person actually called me (no one has ever called me on my b'day before), though one was more of a scolding after I teased her 'un-t' cause she called me 'siu de de' over the SMS XD.

She might be 6 days older than me and if she's that 'old' enough to called me that, it means that she's also 'old' enough to be known as what I teased her for.... muahahahahaha... LMAO !!!!

She even promised to bake me a cake some time back though I'm pretty sure she'd forgotten about it... hehehe (",) By the way, her present is still with me b'cos I didn't get to meet her to pass them to her... let's see if she gets the hint from this post... muahahahaha ;D

Something to note about my birthday. It falls on the exact day of Ching Ming. A Chinese Ritual Day where we would pray at our ancestor's tomb. On leap years, the prayers are performed on April 4th. Yes I know, people are busier preparing for the ritual than to remember my birthdays. The ritual is 1 of the 2 Chinese events that follows the modern calendar instead of the Chinese calendar and I have no idea why.

I've not celebrated my b'day in years. Not with my family nor friends. Sometimes, my family would just go out for dinner like this year, though I was the one buying them dinner last Sunday on April's Fool instead of them buying me dinner.

Oh... and this year, I got 2 er "song" dedication too... one via Friendster message (an ex-female colleague) while another via MSN chat (from a male colleague) this morning.

Both was very similar and here's the one via Friendster:

happy birthday to you~~~~
happy birthday to you~~~~
happy birthday to chun eng~~~~
happy birthday to you~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

fast fast clap your hand la!!!

ok, now close your eyes and make a wish. hope your dream come true.


OMG *sob sob... touching-nya !!!! Dunno what to say lar... Hahaha...

And if this isn't enough, my niece from Gold Coast also posted a huge message into our just created family MSN Group. This kind of annouced to the family from all around the world about my birthday... none of which actually knew when my birthday is. If I remember correctly, she asked me this sometime ago. She must'd have noted it somewhere... hahaha.

There was a funny incident when we chatted over MSN 2 days ago and here's the text (it runs off a little as I can't remember the text exactly):

B: it's your birthday tomorrow
Eng: no it's not
B: but you told me it's the 5th
Eng: yes I did... but tmr's the 4th
B: oh...

Hahaha... so blur of her. Her own 16th birthday just past too... late last month.


PS: The 'un-t' kept complaining over the phone that my blog is SO SO SO BORING!!!! So I just post something about my b'day and tried to make it as funny as possible. So dear..... ya happy??!!! Hahaha XD