penny for your thoughts

a little something to ponder upon...



an elderly couple was walking along the road. the old lady was guiding the old man even though it was obvious to see that the old lady was older than the old man. it appeared that the old man suffers from alzheimers whereas the old lady was a picture of perfect health. but they look extremely happy and contented together.

but they were not a couple. the old man was not the old lady's husband. they were not married.

when the old lady met the old man, the old man was a divorcee with children of his own. they fell in love but the old man would not marry the old lady for fear that his young children would be unhappy and would not be able to accept her as their mother. he told the old lady that he'll tell his children when they have grown up. and the old lady waited despite her being older than him.

the children have all grown up but still they did not marry. the old man said he wanted to see his children all settled down before he would marry the old lady. and so the old lady waited again. she was past her prime. with no way of her ever having children of her own.

all his children got married and had children of their own but still the old man and old lady did not wed. becos at the age of 60, the old man lost his memories and no longer recognises the old lady.



moral of the story?

5 OCTOBER 2006

the day i left behind the student in me and took one step forward into a world of responsibilities. (actually i'm still learning, can i still be called a student?) into a world where one joins the ratrace and slog our life away. where one puts up with all the shit thrown at us for no reason whatsoever at our bosses'/clients' whim and fancy just so we can climb up society's ladder and attain greatness/wealth/power/recognition.

5 October 2006.

a grand day. one of the days i will never forget for the rest of my life. the wonderful day where years of studying, hardwork, tears and fears, examinations, attachment, chambering, crap pay, failures and achievements are finally recognised and rewarded. the day those who doubted my abilities admitted their defeat. the day i was called to the malaysian bar. the day i was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the high court of malaya at the kuala lumpur high court with the qualification of being a barrister-at-law from lincoln's inn. the day i became a lawyer.

5 October 2006.

the day where my little once-so-insignificant scrawl masquerading as my signature would be worth a whole lot more than it once used to be. (i need to change my signature to something that looks more professional) where my every advice would be listened to and acted upon. where sly and conniving relatives would come and say "wah... big girl become lawyer edi horr. so next time i get saman u defend me for free horr?" irregardless of what field of law u work in and how much u're only earning. where at every gathering of uncles and aunties, ah-sok and ah-pohs, one would undoubtedly hear about how if one throws a stone into a group of 10 people, 8 out of 10 would be lawyers or the "advice"... "be good lawyer. don't be lawyer buruk can edi ok?"

translation : lawyer buruk = bad/lousy lawyer

5 October 2006.

the photos say it all...









with daddy & mummy. this is an illegal pic. we were not allowed to take any pictures in the courtroom itself and as such, i have blurred the background to protect privacy.

p/s : aren't the flowers lovely? mummy bought flowers for me!!!




with peipei, melly, pammie and dayah. my master, my mover, jennypong, thowei and my boss attended the call too but they left before i could get a picture with them.

THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING!!!




with auntie ele & auntie ren.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!




with dearest jian who rushed down from penang the night before just to attend my call. who purposely wore a black tie with purple designs for my call. whom i love so dearly and am so grateful for believing in me and supporting me thruout our time together. you know how i feel my smoo...



5 October 2006.

I AM A LAWYER!!!



and as Jian says in his blog, "So will I be the bastion of light, beacon of truth and upholder of justice, like how all goody two shoes superheroes should be? Or should I walk the scorched lands in search of innocent souls to suck while I ooze evil coolness?"...



...am i a good lawyer or a bad lawyer?






(hehe... mine or jian's angel/devil pic better???)





i am neither... i am just me. a newly qualified lawyer setting out to gain experience and find my worth in society.



I AM ME.

more fire???

and then it was sunday...

surprisingly... i didn't wake up with a splitting headache nor some major hangover. i was alrights!

but didn't do anything much until it was time for dinner...

...where my parents brought me, jian and my sisters to the damansara seafood village place...

...for steamboat... SEAFOOD steamboat at that...

(and we were waited on by patrick teoh...)


mmmmm... seafoooooddd........



COOOK COOOOK!!!



and then after being stuffed silly, we went home... to cut cake...

FINALLY GET TO CELEBRATE MY BIRTHDAY ON THE DAY ITSELF WITH MY FAMILY!!!




AND ALSO WITH MY SMOOOO!!! *grins*


why ur face so red?



and on monday night, we had dinner with my colleagues... pammie, mellie, peipei, azzy, farrie, levvie, valerie & "fren" at chef & brew. THANKS YOU GUYS!!!


and it's pressies time..........



me got a dress from both ghee & sue...

I LOVE IT!!! THANKS U BOTH!!!


and me got lilies from valerie and "fren"!!!

u didn't really have to u know, considering u didn't know about it at all! but thanks for the flowers and thanks for dinner too!!!


thanks pammie, melly, peipei, azzy, hiddie, rinnie and allllll for the lil' guess bag... =)



and what did my smoo get me???



TADAAA!!! PRESENTS GALORE!!!

oh i love you so much!!!



so very very very much. u spoil me so u really do!



and so we've come to the end of this 3 part series...


THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!

flaming lamborghini

and then it was saturday...

decided to take my besties and our respective better halves out for a celebratory dinner (why am i celebrating myself growing older???)... and so we all ended up in SOULed OUT, desa sri hartamas.

managed to get a table despite it being a saturday night thanks to ghee who made a reservation for me.

the food the atmosphere the service the ambience the company... purrfect.


everyone stuffed silly with food... happy hour still going on... table cleared of dishes...


...and then suddenly a cake plops down in front of me... and i was FORCED to put on a hairband with lotsa lotsa candles on it...


...as if my cake isnt almost a fire hazard, they want me to turn into one myself... =.="


next thing i know, SOULed OUT staff and my pals were singing "happy birthday" to me... and it isn't officially my birthday yet.

(i haven't any photos of the night becos i did not bring my camera... the only person with camera has YET to send ME the pics! *cough* GHEE *cough*)

this is the one and only photo i have and it's a photo of a photo... how lame is that???



yes, that ugly thing on my head is the flaming candles hairband. such an atrocity should be banned!!!



after we were all caked out..... ghee, jie, sue and ming started acting all suspiciously. next thing i know, jie and ming bought me a...........

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...FLAMING LAMBORGHINI!!!

(no pics again... *cough* GHEE *cough*)

it was only around 9pm saturday night and already i had one black russian and now i have to down a flaming lamborghini. die.....

...and i have to drive!!!

omg, the feeling of the hard liquor going down... BURNING!!! instantaneous redness instantaneous woooziness........

thank god jian can drive and so he drove me, sue and ming to damansara jaya giant to buy water (for me) and beer (for the two guys) with me giving instructions as to which way to go. yes, i was still kinda sober.

NOT!

after arriving at damansara jaya and parking, we walked into giant and grabbed the relevant stuff... paid at the cashier... before i said "omg, i'm gonna pass out" and grabbed hold of jian and didn't let go.

according to sue, i went from red to white in less than a second. yeah, i almost passed out. we had to wait around the cashier area of giant for quite some time before i was ok to walk back to the car. and meet up with ghee and jie to follow them all the way to damansara perdana to go to their fren's house for some games and some drinking session. more games than drinking though...

what a night... oh, what a night...

fire hazard

it was nearing that time of the year again... where i add yet another fire hazard onto my lil' cake...

this time it started even earlier! geez... i didn't wanna grow OLD THAT soon...

but...

..my darling is always the best and he always likes to do things early...

...so...

...i got a very early birthday treat!!!

*grins*


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yeah, jian got me MEAT as my birthday treat... meat meat meat and MORE MEAT!!! =.="



see the meat cook and see the meat boil.........

but that's not the best part of the treat!

this is.....



MY SMOOMOO COOKING FOR ME!!!

he granted one of my wishes!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
sometime back smoomoo asked what i wanted for my birthday and i told him all i wanted was for him to cook for me a meal just like we were in newcastle... and he DID!!! albeit cheatingly!!! =P

*sniff*

and it was yummmy-li-cious!!!

for that... smoomoo deserves a BIG BIG BIG BIG KISS!!!




**KISSSSSSESSSS**