Tony Roma's

Had lunch for the first time at Tony Roma's today. My dad had eaten there before and he reccomended the potato skins. Actually it was my mum's idea to eat at Tony Roma's coz whenever my dad's paying, she will pick a restaurant that offers nothing below RM15 in the menu. Hehe.

I had a craving for carbs, so I order the shrimp pasta. Delicious.


The potato skins are simply lip-smacking good! Imagine melted cheese on crispy potato skins, dipped in sour cream..Mmmm....

Actually there's 6 potato skins. I tak sempat amik gambar my parents dah telan. It's sooo yummy!!! We ordered two plates!!

Besides that, I also stole some chicken salad from my parents' plates. I've ran out of adjectives to describe how good Tony Roma's food tasted.

I'm definitely coming back for more.

Driver for a day

Today I became a chaffeur for my parents. They wanted to go Cold Storage at Great Eastern mall, while I wanted to go to Pavillion to find new work pants coz Mr.Y said I've lost weight and my old pants (which I bought before I came to Uniten) no longer fits me. My dad is too lazy to drive into town today so he asked ME to drive. As you all know, I hate driving. It takes up too much of my concentration and energy. I gave many excuses on why I shouldn't be driving. Some of my (lame) excuses:

1)This is the first time I'm driving to Pavillion so I don't know where the parking is.
2)Suddenly I forgot the way to Pavillion.
3)And I had sudden amnesia and couldn't remember how to drive a car.

Of course, my dad didn't buy any of my excuses. So I had to drive.

Bought 2 pants. One classic black and the other one purple. Why purple?? Because I want to wear it with black tops. I don't wanna wear black head-to-toe and looks like I'm mourning for someone. Bought the purple pants at Voir. It's only RM26. Haha. You see, that's the thing about me. I like to splurge on nice tops, bags, skincare products, but not on trousers. The most expensive pair of pants I own is a Levi's which I bought for RM156 I think. And occassionally I would shop at Elle (pants around RM99) or Dorothy Perkins (approx.RM79). But most of the time, I bought my pants at shops like Voir. The fabric they used to make the trouser is so comfortable I feel like sleeping in it. Hehe.

Anyway, I'm proud of myself coz I managed to drive around Bkt. Bintang area without my mum nagging from the backseat. I think it's an achievement if I drive and she stays quiet. Haha. The "busiest" place where I've driven to is KLCC. I was too chicken to drive to Bkt.Bintang, with all the traffic. But hey, I did it!

It's Saturday!

And I'm nursing a flu. Grr...
I feel awful. My throat feels "clogged" with phlegm. My nose is stuffy with snot. And my nose is itchy too. Even the slightest bit of dust can make me sneeze.

More work stories...

I just love Fridays! First, there's the long lunch break (12.30-2.30pm). I would go window shopping while Mr.Y went for his Friday prayer. Susah la office dekat dengan shopping mall. Even though there's not much shops, but as long as there's Watsons or bookstores, it's enough to make my cash flow out like water. Haha. And I have to wait for weeks to get my salary.

Oh, there's a flea market every Friday outside the office. They sell mostly jewelleries, bags and cute yummy cupcakes! It's a good thing that I only have about a few RM left in my purse, if not I would have bought those cupcakes.

I've finished reading My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult) and A Thousand Splendid Suns(Khaled Hosseini).

Rating:

My Sister's Keeper: 9/10
A Thousand Splendid Suns: 8/10

Day 3 of working

Good morning!!

I'm blogging at the office.

I haven't had time to blog about my third working day (which was yesterday) coz last night I knocked out on my bed.

OK, Day 3...

Mr.Y and I had discovered that even though office hour starts at 8 a.m, doesn't mean you have to start work right there and then. Everyone at the office went out for breakfast and starts working at about 9.30am. Hehe. So our new routine is like this:

8 am: Arrived at the office. Went for breakfast. Return at 8.30am and start "working". Hehe.

1 pm: Lunch break. We went out at 1 pm sharp, others are still busy doing their work.

2 pm:Come back from lunch.

5.15 am: Office hour ends and we went home at 5.15 am sharp. Hehe. Others are still at their desks, of course.

Every Wednesday is "5S day" at the office. The company is working hard to the ISO certification for quality environment bla bla bla. So every Wednesday, there'll be an internal auditor checking every department. The desks must be clean, files should be arranged properly, labelling on everything is a must, and there should be nothing on our desks except the computer. Bags cannot be placed on the floor or on the desk, they must be stored in our "personal" drawer. My bag is a large silver tote which doesn't fit into the drawer, so the nice clerk there told me to "hide" my bag at this empy room. Hehe. Sneaky!

The department lost some marks because there's this fat bloke, who is another clerk sitting opposite my cubicle, did not label his stamps. So I did the labelling for him. Everyone was pretty pissed off with him. Haha.

But I kind of enjoy doing clerical work :-)

After we came back from our lunch break, Mr.Y and I had to move one floor down to another department. Our new workspace is much quieter than the previous one. But I think I like it here :-).

By the way, I'm still not used to working life. Even though my job is to sit at my desk and surf the Internet. But it's still tiring. I'm feeling feverish now.

During the past few days, I've lived on a steady diet of Subway. But now I've ran out of cash. It's so tough when your office is beside a shopping mall, you tend to shop everyday! Hehe. Now I can only afford to eat at mamak stall.

My first day at work

The last time I woke up really really early in the morning (at 6 am-ish) was when I was in form 5.

So I was feeling rather sluggish when I woke up early on my first day of work. I showered, put on an ugly white shirt (I hate wearing shirts, but I wanted to give a professional first impression on my first day). The entire time I was planning my retirement (baru first day keje dah plan nak retire) and make a point to look for a company whose working hours starts at least at 9am when I’m looking for my permanent job.

I managed to arrive on time despite the jam. The company’s working hours is from 8am til 5.15pm. It’s the longest 9 hours of my life! I wasn’t assigned any work yet. They just give me some brochures about the company’s mission and vision, projects etc.

So there I was, for 9 hours, sitting at my cubicle doing nothing. Luckily Mr.Y brought his laptop with him (Yes!We’re working in the same company!) so sometimes I played some computer games to beat the boredom.

I think people are most likely to gain weight when they’re working in an office. You wake up, eat your breakfast, sit at your desk doing your work, go to lunch, then continue your work till 5pm. Basically, you just eat and sit down. Lucky for me, I didn’t have any appetite to eat. I only ate a Cadbury Brunch Bar for breakfast, half-eaten Subway melts for lunch and small portion of brown rice with stir fry vegetables and gulai ayam for dinner.

I went home, feeling tired as hell. I’ve never felt this tired! Not when I was schooling and busy with extra curricular activities, and not when I’m in university with 8 hours of classes in a day. Working life is just so,so tiring. My bedtime starting from this day is 9am.

MY SECOND DAY...

My second day at the office was much better. I learnt from my mistakes, and this time I brought my laptop along with me. The IT guy set up the Internet connections for me. Yay! My weight is still maintained. My diet:

Breakfast: Cereal with low fat milk, and roti telur once I'm at the office

Lunch: Subway melts again

Dinner: Small portion of brown rice with ketam masak lemak

At the office, Mr.Y (who treated me like he didn't know me and I'm just his colleague..haha mean!) deleted some programs in my lappy, and now my laptop is much faster! Thank you Mr.Y! Love ya!

P/S: Working life is super tiring. All my friends who are undergoing industrial training right now experienced the same thing. My mum used to work last time but she seemed to forget how tiring it is. She's pissed off coz when me and my dad came home, we're too tired to talk to her. But I'm too weak to even hold a conversation!

Movie date

Watched Confessions of a Shopaholic with my bf today. He seemed to be enjoying it more than I did. He laughed more enthusiastically at Rebecca Bloomwood while I was PMS-ing the whole time.

Overall, it's a pretty good watch. I'm sure many women can related to Rebecca ;-) About the shopping thing.

Tomorrow will be my first day for industrial training. I hope I can survive the whole three months!

Philips Salon Multistylist 8 in 1

I had a bad day yesterday. Regarding something personal which I can't publicly share in this blog.

I woke up this morning, with my "bed hair" looking worse than ever. Everyday I would use the Vidal Sassoon ceramic straightening brush so that my hair looks sleek. But then I thought, what if I'm travelling? The straightening brush needs a hairdryer to function. I can't bring the large brush and a hairdryer on my trips. I need a real hair straightener.

So today, instead of morphing around the house feeling depressed, I decided to go to KLCC. Mission? To find the Phillips Want2Move hair straightener.

My cousin Annur Ezzati (haha siap tulis nama penuh lagi.Always call people by their full names lately) already bought it. She bought it when I was having my finals and couldn't find the time to go out. Haha sabar je la. She bought it at Guardian for only RM100 (original price: RM149). It's perfect for me because of its small size.

So I went to Guardian, but sadly, the Want2Move straightener isn't available. So I went to Best Denki. Found it! In fact, there's a promotion. RM119. Just when I was about to reach for the box, I spotted something else.

The Phillips Salon Multistylist kit.

With this kit, you can straightener your hair, curl it, whatever. We're talking unlimited creativity and versatility here.

I immediately forgot about the Want2Move straightener. I was undecided whether to buy the Multistylist 8-in-1 (6 styles + hairclips + paddle brush) or 10-in-1(8 styles + hairclips + paddle brush). The 8-in-1 set cost RM129 (only RM10 more than Want2Move!) and the 10-in-1 is priced at RM169. With the 8-in-1, you can try many hairstyles like Straight & Sleek, Ringlets, Tight Curls, Soft Silky Curls, Large Voluminous Curls and Large Waves. 10-in-1 offers two extra type of curls, can't remember what they're called.

Finally I decided to get the 8-in-1 coz it's cheaper and who needs that many type of curls anyway?

The Multistylist set comes with an ugly navy blue travel pouch. (Navy blue is sooo not me!)

Err...why do all of the tools have to be blue as well? Why can't it be purple or lilac and cute like the Want2Move?

So once I'm home, I immediately tried on one of the curling tongs. I tried the Large Voluminous Curls first. Not much effect on my hair coz my hair is superthick and straight and difficult to style! I had to use the Tight Curls head, just to get a LOOSE curl.

This is me masa muda2 dulu (first year). I spent RM250 on this perm which lasted for only a short while. But Mr.Y loved it.Hehe.

And this is the result of a DIY perm at home today...

Not as good as the one I did at the salon a few years back.

This hairstyle takes 1 hour to achieve. And it lasted for only a few minutes. Grr...bengang tul. I think I need one of those curl spray or something.

Well, in conclusion, I had fun messing with my hair. It helped me forget my problems for a while. And I wouldn't use these styling irons everyday, I don't wanna risk ruining my hair. Although it's tempting to use them all the time! Hehe. I think I'll just reserve them for special occassions.