Sunday, December 31, 2006
MY 2006 CHART COUNTDOWN
Top 10 hunks
10)Wentworth Miller (that prison break actor!!)
9) Michael Copon (Filipino-American actor-model. He acted in One Tree Hill & Power Ranger Time Force ;p Move over Jon Johanssen. Here comes da real hunk)
8) VINCENT NG
7) JAY CHOU
6) Jorgito Vargas Jr (tat hunky, cutie 25 year old Canadian actor)
5) Jeff Hardy (nice hair! nice hair!)
4) HADY MIRZA
3) John Cena (hot bod!! hot bod!!)
2) Batista (hot bod! hot bod!)
1) forever Randy Orton ( hunky!! hunky!!)
Top 5 babes
5) Hebi of S.H.E (Taiwanese female group)
4) Beyonce
3) Angelina Jolie
2) Jolin Tsai
1) Forever BRITNEY SPEARS
TOP 25 songs for da year 2006
25. Take It All Away - Ryan Cabrera
24. Private Affair - Jessica Simpson
23. My Love - Justin Timberlake
22. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
21. U + Ur hand - Pink
20. Promiscious - Nelly Furtado
19. Sexyback - Justin Timberlake
18. Nothing In This World - Paris Hilton
17. Too Little Too Late - Jojo
16. Monalisa - Britney Spears
15. Hips Don't Lie - Shakira
14. No promises - Shayne Ward
13. Stand By Me - Shayne Ward
12. Where U'd Go - Ford Minor
11. Faraway - Nickelback
10. Unfaithful - Rihanna
9. I Still - Backstreet Boys
8. Whats Left of Me - Nick Lachey
7. El Nin Yo! - Tata Young
6. Ju Hua Tai (Chrysanthemum Flower Bed) - Jay Chou
5. For U I Will - Teddy Geiger
4. Ting Ma Ma De Hua (Listen to mother's words) - Jay Chou
3. Walk Away - Kelly Clarkson
2. You Give Me Wings - Hady Mirza
1. MERPATI (Dove) - Hady Mirza!!!
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Yestday, went to catch a movie with my younger sis. By hook or by crook, I MUST WATCH this Chinese epic movie >> CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER starring, Gong Li, Jay Chou and Chow Yun Fatt.
My rating? 4.5 out of 5.. I love it!! Can I watch it again? Lol..
For da year 2006, I only watch these movies:- (coz I am not a movie freak, da tickets are so ... ex esp for da weekends..) Pathetic.. Lol
.X-MEN 3
.THE NUN
.THE OMEN
.GARFIELD
.LADY IN THE WATER
.THE BREAK UP
.(finally) CURSE OF GOLDEN FLOWER
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A new year again
Well...time flies so fast and da year is coming to an end. Nice and bitter memories will always be kept on my mind, what happen in da year 2006. Will look forward to the year 2007 and of coz wish for good and brighter things to happen in my life.
Goodbye 2006.. thank you for the memories... Thanks to all who's been a part of my 2006. Thanks for everything.... Welcome 2007!! And I hope it will be a smooth one for me...if not at least a little better than 2006.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Before reading this, please read da related entries.. this is sumhow continuation.
Related entries:
Why Am I? and so wat if I cant cook.
P/S: U got to read those related entries before reading this if not, u wont understand da message I am conveying in here. Thanks.
This is an abstract frm my email to Alice (my penpal frm M'sia).
Hi Alice,
Do u remember abt me having a step father? My mum and my dad divorced when I was only almost 4 years old. I didnt knw anything abt y they divorced. Only when I grew up, I tend to knw little by little. My dad was a drug addict. I still see my dad now. He now lives nearby. I tried not to past tat particular block. Although he is not a drug addict anymore, he still drinks..
K, now back to topic. Let me tell u y I am determined to study as high as I am able to. I am doing all tis becoz of my dad , whose reputation has been tarnished.. Pple look down on drug addicts.. and if those drug addicts have children.. there are sayings like, "Bapa Borek, Anak Rintik" (Like father, like son/daughter) BUT I AM DOIN ALL THIS TO PROOF THEM WRONG! Besides I am a girl.. According to da Malay marriage law...once a couple decides to divorce and if they have any children..da father will get da custody of da daughter & da mother will get da custody of da son. I shld be in my father's custody.. BUT MY MUM FOUGHT FOR ME!! SHE TOLD DA COURT... sumthing like, "are u out of ur mind.. he's a drug addict plus alcoholic.. u want my daughter to suffer?" and YES! my mum won da custody of me.
Alice, I simply cannot imagine wat will happen to me if I were to be in da custody of my dad.. Definitely I wont b da Maria all my friends knw.. This is wat i call GOD's Fate.. Thank God for it. So, to explain y I am where I am now >> Study n study n graduate.. so they can SHUT UP. My mum had told me to just stop studying after Diploma.. but I find it no use...
If i study till Diploma in local poly having a father like tat, I will have da perception tat other pple will say, "No big deal.. other pple who is not a drug addict also has a daughter/son who is Diploma graduate." So I studied degree & if I were to graduate successfully,& coincidently they happened 2knw.. they will be whispering among themselves or said silently in their heart: "Tak sangka eh.. bapanya penagih but anaknya lulusan degree."
So, i wanna open their eyes.. I will make sure I pass n cleared all my papers and get my: Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from University of Wales, United Kingdom by 2008. After that, they eventually shut up.
My grandma herself kept telling me not to tarnish my dad's name. My dad's name is already tarnish coz everyone knws his past. She kept telling me if I have a boyfriend, bring him home, dun go out here n there unnecessarily & den 9 months later pregnant.. everyone will say, if father drug addict, daughter bitch la.. She kept telling me even if I have no boyfriend, and wanna go out, dun stay out too late.. she said tak manis anak dara balik mlm n everyone will say, father drug addict, daughter very wild.
Tats basically one of my reasons of y I want to study till degree level. But y is it both my mum n grandma cant understand? Instead, they put da blame on me.. they said I am wasting time & money.. Sigh.. Yet, my grandma always hurled these words at me, "Degil! Dah ckp jgn blajar masih nak blajar. Nak kasi jantan2 tu semua senang ke?!" (Stubborn, had told u upteen times NOT to study any further. U wan da guys out there to have a better life is it?)
She thinks da reason I am pursuing degree is tat if I were to get married in da future, my so call husband dun need 2work.. WHO WILL BE SO STUPID TO HAVE A HUSBAND LIKE TAT?!!! Wanna knw wat I said 2her? "Tak mau kahwin! Biar andartu lagi senang!" (Who wants to marry? I rather be a spinster!)
Anura pernah mengatakan yg mulutku masin, so watever I said will jadi nye! Its OK as I am already used 2it for a long period of time, so I'll juz tolerate wif her grumblings and nagging.
Tis email / entry will continue..I will let u (Alice) knw / blog abt y i insist NOT to marry. I am bloody serious..
Yes, I am dead serious. This entry will continue. I did email to Alice on y I dun intend to marry. I also emailed da same to Faridah, my best friend since Sec 1. However, I do agree with both of them. I lead my own life. GOD Fate my LIFE. So I will just have to accept GOD's fate.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
My workload now has been increasing and increasing and when will it ever stop?!!! There are just tons of trade marks advertisements in da Trade Marks Journal (Singapore - for those trade marks applications, filed or registered in Singapore), in da Government Gazette (Msia and Brunei - for those trade marks applications, filed or registered in those 2 countries) to be reported to clients. Although da dateline stated: 2 months from da date of advertisement BUT opposition can come in within 2 weeks to 1 month!!
For Singapore Trade Mark Applications, I have to bill da clients. So that's a step more - do billing! For Msia and Brunei, just proceed to report to clients informing them that da proprietor's mark has been successfully accepted (something like that la)
P/S: dun ask me what is opposition. i am not a lawyer i dun even knw what is opposition. all i knw is, when a certain client wanted to use the same mark or was about to use da mark or happened to have the mark before, den they lodge an opposition. when that happens, da lawyers will do da neccessary court proceedings..
I am not only doing da advertisement portfolio. I am also doing another portfolios.. Very seldom, for Singapore applications, I have to do da TM 6 (dun ask me what is that either). TM 6 is a stage to do da prints of da mark and giro payment and send to the IPOS (Intellectual Property of Singapore) within a stated deadline set by da IPOS. If Registry (Registry of Trade Marks dept in IPOS) didnt get any response, they will abandon da mark (even if clients instructed not to). After stage TM 6 has been doned, like I'd mentioned, da mark will finally be advertised in da Trade Marks Journal.
P/S: Singapore Trade Marks Journal is always on every Wed and Fri and alternate Mons!! And there are many marks under da agent of da law firm I am currently working in now. Stressful I tell u!
For Msia applicatioms, I have to do CD 29 and CD 64, which is exactly da same as TM 6:-prepare da prints of da mark, prepare cheques to pay MyIPO (Malaysia Intellectual Property Office?) for da advertisment fee. This also has a dateline set by da Registrar. (another name for MyIPO) Same issue applies, no response given to da Registrar, mark is considered abandoned.
Da same for applications in Brunei. So far in my 9 months of working dealing in that portfolio alone, no mark was abandoned. One was almost abandoned but it wasnt my fault. Da lawyer handling that matter was on maternity leave and coincidently, her secretary was still new at that time so that particular Form CD 29 was kept on da lawyer's desk without any knowledge of her secretary or even da lawyer who was handling her matters during her absense. When that particular lawyer was back from her maternity leave, I guess she may have noticed that Form CD 29 and called me on my extension and she requested me to still process da Form CD 29 with an extension fee to MyIPO under cover Form CD 27? Ya, I think so coz I only did da Form CD 27 once. I did it all by myself without asking anyone coz I know that CD 27 should be done by da secretaries. If I were to ask, some of them who was so fed up with da management will exclaim, "Cant da secretary do?! Why must u?" So I'll keep quiet and just do what da lawyer wants me to do by drafting it. If da draft is approved, I'll reprint. If there's amendment on da draft, I'll follow accordingly. Everything I am not sure of, I'll draft.
P/S: Yes, there are standard letters for each reporting letter (just change da references, date, address of clients, etc) but somehow I like to do my own drafting. Heh. Some lawyers are Ok and some are not.
After all da CD 29, CD 64 (Msia), TM 27 (Brunei) and TM 6 (Spore) has been processed, it will take quite sometime for da mark to be advertised. Advertisement is another portfolio I am dealing with. Advertisements come in a bulk so do da files and I have to report each and every one to da clients before there is any opposition.
All da other clerks are handling one portfolio. Some of their portfolio are big, some are small, some are average. I dun knw abt mine. All I knw is I am handling 2 portfolios. Da approach me a few times asking how was I coping. I cant seem to tell him that I am trying to cope. I did say that for da first time and his answer was, "still trying to cope?" So I can only answer, "I am coping well now." (although I am struggling to cope)
There is another reason on why I dun wish to inform him that I cant cope. It is becoz of my pay. I have wrote in this blog before that my pay has been increased from $1,100 to $1,600 aft 3 months probation. I have no idea why such high increase coz I heard da "office politics" spreading around that da law firm I am working at now WONT GIVE such a high increment. There are some remarks from seniors saying something like, "Dun hope for increment. Here no increment, bad filing system etcetra."
Salary is confidential matter BUT THIS IS MY BLOG, I'll rant whatever I want. Please read my disclaimer if u have forgotten.
Why is it beco of my salary of $1,600 that I say I dun dare to inform da boss that my workload is now becoming more?
I think I have come to a few answers after 6 months of soul searching. Firstly, I am a Diploma graduate. $1600 is da starting salary for most of da diploma graduates. Be it a private or local poly diploma. Secondly, during my interview for this job, I was asked these questions >> "Are u planning to get married any time soon?" and "Do u have a boyfriend?" Both my answers are NO. Thirdly, like what I have been ranting in da above paragraphs.. >> I am doing 2 portfolios.. If da boss gave me da same pay as most of them (which is lesser than $1600 but more than $1100), not only I find it ridiculous, others find da same too. Doing 2 portfolios but was given a pay less than what I got, that's really ridiculous so da boss is smart enuff to give me that kind of pay.
Hence, becoz of da third reason, I dun dare to go inside his room and inform him that I cant cope anymore. He has da confident that I can cope and thats y he gave me those 2 portfolios with that kind of reasonable pay.
Sigh, but a lot of my colleagues had suggested to me to voice it out to him. Tell him of my difficulties coping with da bulk amount of backlogs to be cleared. So how? Should I or should I not?
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Well, I am not really blogging abt his birthday celebration. I am blogging abt mine. Heh.
7 December 2006 was my 23rd birthday.
It was on Thursday. I received lots of birthday smses and I was gladdened that da HapyHadys even wished me "Happy Birthday" in da forum (www.hady-mirza.com/forum). In addition to that, pple still wished me "Happy Birthday" in friendster. They gave a testimonial cum birthday wish.
Thank you to those who have done that. Really made my day that day. *smilez*
On that same day too, I received presents. Presents from PW, B and J of Accounts Department. I was surprised that they gave me a present each for my brithday. I hardly know them. We are just colleagues. Thanks PW, B and J.
They made my day too >> NJ from my department gave me a pandan cake. I ate it. Hmm, very sweet, creamy and nice.
Since my birthday happens on a stressful working day, B and J decided to go for a KTV session on Sat, 9th December 2006.
We went to da same PartyWorld KTV as da one we went to on 24th June 2006. (Pls read my June 2006 archives for those first time readers). This time, instead of 6 of us, there were only 3 of us. I tried asking most of my friends.. They had to work, very shy, had something on etcetra. Its OK.. There's always another day.
So, yesterday whole day was spent KTV-ing and pooling. J started to sing a song from Air Supply. I asked B to select Jay Chou's songs for me (coz I didnt know da chinese characters for >> An Jing and Kai Bu Liao Kou yet) These are da only songs I can memorize da lyrics and hence would like to challenge myself by singing it WITHOUT looking at a piece of paper with da lyrics in Hanyin Pinyin.
I did just that. YES!!! I have improved!!! I sang those two songs in minus one version (coz B thought that I cant read da characters and I didnt bring da Hanyin Pinyin lyrics so he had wanted to select singer version but I told him otherwise, I wanted to try.) And yes, I did it! Although, I still cant read most of da chinese characters (I can recognize only a few) in both songs (An Jing - Silent and Kai Bu Liao Kou - Cant Open Mouth), I am able to sing it coz I memorize da lyrics by heart. I have an mp3 player and I bring my mp3 player to work everyday for me to listen to songs and in my mp3 player were da songs of Tong Hua (Guang Liang) , An Jing, Jie Kou, Kai Bu Liao Kou, (Jay Chou) Wo Nan Guo (5566) and JJ Lin's song kept playing and repeating so thats explain how and y I can memorize da lyrics.
Other songs I sang during da KTV: TENDA BIRU (Desy Rathnasari-Malay/Indon), SAY IT ISNT SO (Gareth Gates), LUCKY, EMAIL MY HEART (Britney Spears), MARIA (Blondie), I'M WITH YOU (Avril Lavigne), VIVA FOREVER, 2 BECOME 1 (Spices Girls), SHAPE OF MY HEART (Backstreet Boys), THIS I PROMISE YOU (N Sync), LOVE OF A LIFETIME (Firehouse), ETERNAL FLAME (Atomic Kitten), SEASONS IN THE SUN, FOOL AGAIN, IF I LET U GO (Westlife), TOP OF THE WORLD (Carpenters), NEVER HAD A DREAM COME TRUE (S Club 7- sing with J) and there isn't any time left for me and B to duet and sing SHAN HU HAI (Jay Chou and Lara). *sulky face*
Too bad, there isnt any Hady Mirza's songs.. LoL. If they are, I bet I am going to sing my heart out on What's Left, Merpati and of course You Give Me Wings.
Friday, December 01, 2006
// Song listening - Merpati by Hady Mirza // We will neva know where we ended up with..cos its all written down in God's book.. What we r going to be in the near future, how many children r we going to have, who r we going to get married with...all these r written down by God.. I understand that u might be saying, "hey we can control our life" Yes, but for how long? We can only plan our life by controlling our thoughts, the rest is up to God.
Whatever it is, never never let your bad experience in the past affect the future relationships that you are bound to have with everything we do, we do it with God's blessings..if its bad, bad things will happen to us...if its good, den we will have good things happening..now, I am furthering this topic into 'karma'...