(311202 - Tuesday)
The year has come to the end. What's happened this past year? I wish I knew. I have few significant memories for this year. Not much to look back and reflect upon. Such a wasted year. I think if I should have any new year resolution for 2003 it should be to make and collect memories to think back on when I'm old and frail.

(301202 - Monday)
A full nine hours at work today. The only thing I have to show for it is a right brain with nothing left in it, and a left brain with nothing right in it. Sigh.

(291202 - Sunday)
Woke up at 8.30am to send my bro to church. Tried my best to stay awake til 11am just to pick him up on time. When I got home, I was out cold till almost 3pm. I'm sleeping my life away.

(281202 - Saturday)
The following line is qiute a common one - "I just forgot what I wanted to tell you!"

Today, I said this - "I forgot that I had forgotten what I wanted to tell you!"

Things like these tend to start when I receive calls at 3.30am. And then in the afternoon, when the fellow asks "Have you remembered what you wanted to tell me?", I'll be as blur as I was at 3.30am.

(271202 - Friday)
Completely no activity on my hand phone today. I exchanged phones with a friend yesterday but I retained my own SIM card. I'm beginning to wonder if there's something wrong with this phone. On the other hand, it's nice to not be bothered for a change.

(261202 - Thursday)
It's so good to have Huey Lim back. My dreaded holidays just started, but this time I have company. Splendid!

(251202 - Wednesday)
Christmas has come, and gone. For the first time, it took me an hour to travel half way around Midvalley Megamall. For the first time, I lost my car in the parking lot there. How embarassing!

(241202 - Tuesday)
At last, finals are over. But today's paper was much worse than terrible. I can expect no more than a pass.

I seem to have found myself another canine to worry about. Cute little brown female pup to be exact. I have too soft a heart to turn it away, but I know that keeping it isn't an option either. Anyone out there interested?

At long last I got to watch Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers. After a year of waiting, it was released last week. It took forever to get through to the cinema tele-reservations hotline, and when I did get through, they were experiencing technical difficulties. It took me a good one hour to finally reserve tickets at a cinema so far away from home. After all the effort, my date backed out at the last minute so I passed too. This week, we finally made it. And boy, was it well worth the wait!

(231202 - Monday)
Law final paper is over. I'm confident enough to know that I've done well enough this time to make up for the 3/20 during mid-terms. Now all I have to do is worry about tomorrow's management paper.

Why is it that people always expect me to talk to them, cheer them up, keep them entertained, especially when they're depressed. Do they not know how hard it is to do such things when all they do is sigh, over and over again? I try so hard to make conversation, but it's like talking to myself. I try so hard to joke with them, but they don't laugh. And when I run out of jokes, ideas and things to say, they complain that I'm being quiet. Gosh... if you're going to call me to talk, then TALK! Don't expect me to have a conversation with myself! That's boring!

(221202 - Sunday)
Okay, the pressure is finally on. But it's a little too late huh?! Ah well, it's not the first time. I'll live through tomorrow and the dread the day results are released.

(211202 - Saturday)
Usually, I have no feelings for the girls who fall for me, and the girls I fall for have no feelings for me. Years went by before I finally met someone who felt the same way about me as I did for her. Now it's all over. To think I let it go just like that. To think she even cried for me. She loved me, and I broke her heart. If ever again, I don't want to be the one to blame, I don't want to be the one causing the pain.

One more day.

(201202 - Friday)
I just ended the relationship which "didn't exist". I know I will regret it, but my reasons are concrete enough to also know that not ending it now will lead to unwanted matters arising. She cried, and it hurt me to see her cry because of me.

Ironic things happen. I met up with someone I recently met, with the thought that maybe she can take my mind off things. As it turned out, she tearfully poured her heart out about her own troubles. At that hour of the night (morning), and my mind already in "lala-land", the only thing I could do was sit quietly and listen. I gave her a hug just before leaving - sure hope it helped.

(191202 - Thursday)
Early rise because of certain people who wanted me to do certain things for them. Then it gets shifted to a later time, and soon, my entire day's agenda had to be changed. I drove down to KL, then to USJ, then back to KL, then to work, then back home, then to Bangsar, then to Section 17, then to SS2, then to Section 17, then back home, then to the petrol station, then finally, back home.

I entered the office to find a huge pile of work in my tray. After 3 and a half hours of slaving, I left with my tray STILL overflowing. I'll just have to go back in tomorrow to complete it. Oh what the heck - I'm being paid by the hour, and it's very high pay.

I thought I'd be watching The Two Towers today after slaving to reserve tickets yesterday. But my best friend called me to cancel. She just broke up with her boyfriend of 4 years. How sad. Well, at least now I get to have her all to myself!

A person I've never met before asked me to pick her up from work and send her home. She's someone I met through ICQ not too long ago. She works at a building just behind my house, and stays not too far away. After due consideration, I agreed if she didn't mind the wait. As it turned out, I ended up waiting for her instead because I couldn't seem to get through to her on her phone. What more, I had to send her back to Bangsar instead. She somehow just managed to forget to tell me that she was going back to her grandparents house tonight. Well, if she was already in my car, I couldn't exactly say that I don't want to send her back, could I?

Before sending her home, I suggested we go for dinner. But we couldn't decide where to go, and it was raining. So we went over to my Kai Ma's house for a free meal, and home-made cheese cake too. It felt a bit weird because this was really the first time we met. The most amusing thing about the matter was the fact that she still doesn't know my name! Girls these days are way too trusting. I must admit, she's a very lively character, and she's pretty too!

(181202 - Wednesday)
Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers opens tomorrow. I'm not really that excited to watch it on the first day, but with not much to do today, I thought I'd try my luck at reserving tickets through TGV or GSC telephone bookings. In the event that I didn't go, I could always pass the reservation number to someone else.

I just couldn't seem to get through to GSC. TGV was more prospective. Unfortunately, their One Utama outlet was having problems with the reservation system, Pyramid isn't showing the movie tommorow, and KLCC seemed to have all time slots fully booked. I gave up on that, and came online to have a go. GSC Midvalley was fully booked in every slot too, so I tried Summit USJ just for fun and laughter. To my amazement, I finally got confirmation of reservations for the 5pm show. The ones scheduled for later at night were fully booked too. What a sellout!

My last class for this semester was today. I decided not to go, just to break my 100% attendance for the semester. How fun!

(171202 - Tuesday)
"Today is the first day to the rest of my life" is an appropriate saying for yesterday, today, and even tomorrow. It makes sense, but has no significant value. Why bother?

Women think with their brains, while men think with their groins. I'm beginning to agree with this very much. I can say no more without embarassing myself.

(161202 - Monday)
One last week till my finals. Time is running out.

(151202 - Sunday)
I just got a long overdue haircut. It wasn't the usual barber. Apparently he hired someone to help him out, so I had a new pair of hands work on my hair. I must say, he may not be very good with the cutting, but he sure has got steady hands. Well, at the end of it, he left me with a 'Chow Yuen-Fatt' hairdo. Or rather, one of Chow Yuen-Fatt's worst hairdo's ever. Thankfully it was only the way he combed my hair. Other than that, it's nice and neat, for a change.

Finally got to go jogging again, after more than a month. I chose to jog at the Taman Tun park for a change. I was just curious to know what the place is like. In my opinion, the place is rather artificial. It's a little like something straight out of The Sims collection. It's this really huge piece of land, with a really nice big pond, park benches, lamps, rubbish bins, and even a synthetic running track. All that yet to be vandalized. Simply marvelous! The most relaxing part was seeing families, couples, and just joggers enjoying the facilities.

While jogging, I passed two people going in the opposite direction. One of which so closely resembled Samantha. She's this person I've been dying to see again, ever since SAM last year. The resemblance was simply amazing, yet I doubted whether it were her or not. You see, she resides in Bangsar, and thus, it would be very unlikely for her to come so far just to walk in a park with her mom. I decided to not make a fool of myself and continued my jog. I spoke to her on the phone a little later, and naturally I asked about her whereabouts around 6pm. She told me that she was at a movie. But when I began my little story about seeing this doppelganger of hers, she admitted that she did go there after the movie. What a rare coincidence indeed!

Just before I left the park, as I was walking out the parking lot entrance, I saw this really young girl drive pass in a maroon BMW. The 'P' sticker on the windscreen confirmed the thought that she's much younger than me. The first thing that ran through my mind right then - "Sheesh, kids these days are so lucky. Beamers and all." I walked on a little more, and when I reached my car, it really hit me - I was driving a Beamer too. Even back then, when I first got my license I was driving this same car. How ironic!

(141202 - Saturday)
"Why couldn't you have been born a few years earlier?" - These days, everything is my fault.

(131202 - Friday)
A very uneventful day, but a very eventful night.

My initial plans to go for a Bak Kut Teh dinner had to be changed. My dear Lion Foo called while I was on the way to pick Cherie up, and he asked me to join him for dinner. I instead asked him to meet at Sea Park to have dinner with us, my treat. But he declined, insisting that we all go to TGI Fridays. I naturally can't afford to treat anyone to such a meal, but he said this round's on him, as usual.

TGI Fridays seems to be a junkyard more than anything else. Their entire decor is just 'junk'. And to think that people pay so much to eat at such places. But hey, I'm not complaining. Another thing worth noticing is how all their waiters and waitresses wear different head pieces. Some wear caps, some wear bandannas, some wear cowboy hats, etc. It's quite a unique and interesting trait.

(121202 - Thursday)
I get paid RM8.00 for each hour I spend at work. My designation - 'Casual Worker'. My job includes some very minor tasks like faxing, photostatting, filing, shredding, mailing, data-entry, etc. There are times when I do get other odd jobs. Like today, I was asked to repair the paper shredding machine. Some wise-arse left it all jammed up. Fixing it wasn't much of a problem because it was just a matter of clearing out the paper which was jammed in there. Unfortunately, it's quite a tedious job. It took me just over an hour to sort things out.

When you think about it, I spent that one hour straightening out the shredding machine. And for that one hour spent in the office, I get paid RM8.00. Let's look at it from another point of view. If they sent the machine for servicing instead, they'd end up paying tens of dollars. Hmmm... maybe I should ask to be paid more for these odd jobs.

(111202 - Wednesday)
I'm currently overclocking my system - the organic one. I'm so overloaded at the moment. It's not that I've got a million things to do, but rather the few items which I do have, are all due around this time. It has taken its toll on me. I'm losing hair and lots and lots of brain cells over these matters. And the little cherry topping is the fact that my finals are less than 2 weeks away.

(101202 - Tuesday)
Revision offiicially starts as of today. Now that I've got my eight-hundred-page Fundamentals to Business Law textbook, I have no more excuses to procrastinate. Today alone, I've completed ¾ of a topic, Intellectual Property. Considering I only need to know 4 of the 6 topics being tested, I'm making good progress.

Everytime I think about it, my to-do list grows longer. No matter how hard I try to complete the little tasks, the list still gets longer. Is there no end to it? If the answer is no, then at least allow me to shorten the list to something I'm comfortable with. This is bad for health!

(091202 - Monday)
I hate days like these. All of the sudden, you just realize that you have more than tonnes to do, but no time what so ever. The whole while you think that you only have a few items on your to-do list. But then as datelines draw nearer, it hits you - your list is actually so long that you can't even see the end of it. I need to start writing things down.

(081202 - Sunday)
It's amazing! For the past month or so, each and every time I want to go jogging on a weekend evening, the sky turns grey and so I decide to stay home instead. More than an hour goes by before rain starts to fall, meaning I actually had more than enough time to complete my jog.

Today the sky turned grey yet again. Thinking that history is just repeating itself, and not wanting to waste another opportunity, I put my shoes on and headed for Bukit Kiara. Half way there, the sky falls on me. Blast! Well, at least I was still in the car, instead of getting drenched half way through my jog.

Is there any scientific explanation to all that mysterious events related to the Bermuda Triangle?

(071202 - Saturday)
Went house hunting with my parents this afternoon. Headed down and beyond Bandar Utama. Stopped at two new developments, Damansara Mutiara and Damansara Perdana. I didn't see anything interesting at D'sara Mutiara. It was just a deserted township because the houses there haven't been issued certificates of fitness.

Our second stop, D'sara Perdana, had much better prospects. The entire hill is going to be covered with apartments and condominiums. With some luck, they'll put up some decent bangalows at the very top of the hill. But that is still at least half a decade away. What caught our attention was the Armanee Terrace. If you think that it's just another bunch of double-storey terrace houses, you're only half right. It's actually a condominium with double-storey units. Three wings and seventeen levels, bringing it to a total of 34 floors. There are all together 522 units.

Pretty cool design too. With unit sizes ranging from 2,181sqft to 2,824sqft, it's pretty darn spacious. Each unit even has it's own small garden with a minimum size of 200sqft, and soil going down 2½ feet deep. Not bad at all.

The down-sides to it are its price (RM454.3K onwards), land tenure (99 years leasehold), and monthly maintenance charges (RM0.16 per sqft - about RM400+). But I like this place so much, I offered to put RM200 towards each month's maintenance. Still, I doubt my parents will pick this one. It's only due to be ready in Sept 2005.

(061202 - Friday)
Huey Lim's back! No word for the past four months, yet we still have the world to talk about. At least this time it didn't take us an entire week before we had time for each other. She definitely put on weight, but still as bubbly as ever.

Edmund's back too! He grew, not sideways, but upwards. It's amazing how someone who's already so tall, can still grow taller. He still amuses me well with his insults, even though I'm usually the victim.

So good to see the two of them again. I'm all smiles.

(051202 - Thursday)
My mom's birthday. Good food, lots of cake. My mom is the only person in my family who has everyone wanting to celebrate her birthday with her. Her office colleagues bought her a cake and had a small party for her in the office. Then her church friend bought her a chocolate banana cake, weighing approx. 2.5kg. And of course, there's us, her family. We took her out for a simple dinner. She also got some roses, and other neat stuff. I gave her a brooch. Unfortunately, when I asked her if she liked it, she said "not nice". Of course she still appreciates it - she's MY mom!

(041202 - Wednesday)
Today's my god father's birthday. For those of you who don't know me well enough, my god father is Indian. Last minute arrangements led me to a dinner at Bangsar Seafood Village. Nothing fancy, but a good change.

Do you remember what it was like to be a 3-year-old? I saw my little niece Chloe just now. Boy has she grown. And her grasp of the English language at this age simply amazes me. So full of zest, with question for just about everyone, about everything. Running around the tables chasing her 5-year-old brother, screaming at the top of their voices - such nostalgia.

(031202 - Tuesday)
Everyone's back from whichever God-damned part of the universe, but no one has time for me yet. They all keep telling me to look them up in one or two weeks' time, but who says I have time for them then? Can we not make a compromise or something?!

Be nice to the world, and the world kicks you in your behind. No one appreciates the little extra's you do for them.

(021202 - Monday)
Today's schedule was quite screwed up. My usual Mondays comprise of 2 hours of class, then lunch, 3 hours of work, then another 2 hours of class. Unfortunately, my Management tutor chose to squeeze in another 2-hour lesson in between. For that reason, plus the fact that I have a lot of work to complete in the office, I decided to skip the earliest class and go straight to work, then continue with the 4 hours of lessons in the evening.

This plan of mine didn't quite work out as my supervisor was on MC, and she left all drawers and cabinets locked. So since I couldn't get any work done, I went for the class which I originally chose to skip. After that, I attended a Business Law tutorial so that I can skip the one on Wednesday, and continued with the 4 hours of management tutorials in the evening. That brings the grand total to just under 8 hours of lessons, from 10am till 6pm. I'm pooped!

The first formal meeting of a new KL Unity project was on this evening. The committee of 5 has been set, and I'm proud to say that the only person not actively participating in discussions is the organizing chairman. But that's okay because it is not the chairman's role to be throwing ideas out for discussion.

(011202 - Sunday)
The highly acclaimed PC Fair at PWTC disappoints me more and more each time they hold it. There doesn't seem to be very much to look forward to anymore. It seems it's the same old technology over and over again. Technology which is stale. Technology which is of no interest to me. But then again, it is kind of hard to enjoy new technology when you can't afford it.

Finally, a new month with new beginnings to look forward to. More challenges to face. Alas, the same old problems still occupy the mind.