Come Drive with Me.

have you come across inconsiderate drivers? i feel that if only I could smack them or tailgate them or do to them what they do to others.....

what's up with drivers that smoke? they smoke while they drive and throw their cigarette stub out of the window. the next thing you know, that stub hits your car. you know what I would like to do? I would like to take that stub and throw it back at them... into their car... if only i could... i WOULD!

have you seen how taxi drivers drive their cars? well not all but i have seen several. they cannot drive within their lanes. they drive on the edge or on the line. what's up with that? is something wrong with their vision? don't they know that this is dangerous... dangerous to the motorcyclists and other drivers. we have to figure out if they are trying to change lanes ....

women drivers.... ideally I don't want to criticize them but seriously.... if they plan to drive like a snail, move to the extreme left lane. why stay on the right lane. that i don't understand. if only i could, i would overtake them and cut into their lane abruptly... of course that's dangerouslah and i would probably get a tix and 8 demerit for doing that... but just the thought of doing that is fun *evil smile*....

i have to admit that I have seen some women drivers who have balls/guts to stand for their own right. just the other day i saw this female driver waiting for a parking space. along came this Toyota car and went straight for that parking lot. the female driver had been waiting for some time. She walked out of her car, knocked on the drivers' window and stood by the door. She refused to move. Eventually, that Toyota driver moved out! She rocked! I'd like to see more women like that.....

Inspired....

I'm heading for the gym....2 straight days. Last night I huff and I puff and I finished 5km. Not bad and I was so drenched in perspiration that I am sure my thunder thighs have slimmed down a wee bit. I dont wear mini or short skirts... so cannot tell. But I know it should have shrunked.

Now I am heading for body combat and i should be huffing and puffing again....

Travel Bread... or Chain Bread

You know chain letters, emails and SMS right? You pass it on to your friends/ colleagues. Sometimes they say, when you forward these chain notes, you'll get good luck. Believe it or not, today I receive a chain bread mixture.... and like any chain letters, I am supposed to pass this on... and get this, not the finished product but the mixture!

Apparently, the original dough is from Rome and it's supposed to bring your family lots of luck and should only be baked once. Not that I believe in such things but I do like baking... so why not try it.

I got it from a German colleague... she actually brought the mixture from Germany early this month.... her friend asked whether she flew to Singapore or take the road ... hello? Road? Duh!

Anyway, I received the mixture from my colleague and it comes with instructions. It says:

Don't place dough in the fridge. Stir with a wooden spoon only. Not metal!

Day 1: Stir/Mix
Day 2: Add 200g sugar. don't stir
Day 3: Add 200ml milk and stir
Day 4: 200g flour - don't stir
Day 5: Stir/Mix
Day 6: - check this out
Add 200ml milk, 200gm flour and mix until dough is smooth. Split the dough into 4 portions and pass 3 to lovely people for their own lucky bread (and the bread travels).

so, any of you my friends want to try this mixture. Let me know. I can send this mixture across to Malaysia even... this time, I can do it by road!

Intiative.......

today i received an email asking us what are the kinds of animals that our international office need to consider for any kind of products development...... funny i thought that someone who works in international office to not know the answer. i replied and told them the animals they should "avoid".... *sigh* Will they listen and do something about it? Not sure... we shall see. So far, I have informed people I know and yet, nothing has changed... oh well. their lost. I've accepted that I don't have to educate people, they should do so themselves... afterall, I did learn certain things on my own... the hard way.

I think Asian are a lot more sensitive to other people's cultural/ religious beliefs.... and that is very sad. Why is it that people don't take any effort to do something about it.

I was caught in a snow storm last Feb in New York New York. It was a great experience and the snow storm was BEAUTIFUL. Seriously. I became a kid all over again, played with snow, took lots of pictures and try to capture as much as I can in with my photogenic memory....

Anyway, at the hotel, the staff could not handle the guests demands. i'm sure the requests were not that hard to fulfil. This was my request:

Me: hi.... can i order some food?
Staff: No. Its buffet lunch
Me: But there is nothing i can eat. It's all meat, chicken, ham and I am vegetarian.
Staff: sorry. We have salad and bread
* bear in mind, I am caught in a snow storm and the last meal i had was at 11pm the night before. I requested for food at 12nn the next day.
Me: would it be possible to get your cook to make me an egg omelette?
Staff: No
Me: Why?
Staff: because there is only one cook.
and off she goes.....

I don't understand. Its buffet lunch, the cook must have finsihed cooking and all he needed to do was replenish the food. How long does it take to fry an omelette? So I ordered pizza... and waited for a FEW hours for it to arrive. I didn't even see it.... i gave up after calling them several times....

It annoyed me that people don't care and don't bother to care. Everything they (as in US) revolves around them and they get away with it.

Unleashed the Power of Zanee O

I feel like a free individual these days... because I have become my true Singaporean self. I can use "lah", "lor", "meh", "where got", "can lah" and of course curse in Chinese, Cantonese, Malay and eerrr... tamil/hindi not yet but will get there one day!

the last 5 years, i have been speaking properly and living in 2 worlds... or perhaps 3. With my guai lo colleagues, I have to be proper and speak in full sentences. I sometimes don't laugh at their jokes because simply I don't get it. I think the feeling is mutual. When I curse, I use that same adjectives everyone uses... you knowlah which one. Now, I'm free!!! I can speak English, Malay, Chinese, all in one sentence. How cool is that? I've become this truly asian girl... maybe should get Malaysian tourism board to feature me in their ads. Anyway!

So i told my gf this morning that for the last few years "saya terperangkap" and of course I started singing this particular song by Nash - Terperangkap, dalam sinaran.... sinaran yang, mengilaukan mata... something like that lah. I am Zanee O afterall... i sing all sorts of songs that my Malay friends pretend they don't listen and don't like. Aiyah... i'm sure they do enjoy listening to these songs but don't want to be associated with it. *sigh* Afterall, when I sing to them Mazuin Hamzah's songs, they burst out laughing... deep inside, I know they listened to her too when they were young and must have read Varia Pop about Mazuin's wedding to the Prince Kutil!

Bad Bad Bad!!!!

OK I am a bad girl. Today I told a friend that I read someone's blog - OK no big deal there.
But I was under the impression that this person is trendy, pretty, slim, hip, yada yada.... you get the picture?
Sekali she is the opposite leh! and i stopped reading her blog. bad right??!!!

A Body and Its Own Mind....

I met up with several gfs over lunch a few weeks ago and one of them told me I have gained weight:( Ouch.... That's the worst thing to hear when you see your friends. So my mission for this month and following months is to loose weight. I think all my weight is sitting on my butt and thighs. If I don't do anything about it, I will soon become a beach whale... eeerr... the thought of it makes me sick.

So i brought my gym gear to the office and was very adamant about hitting the gym after work.
Obviously that did not happen -the only thing that is moving is my fingers and my eyes. sigh.

I don't eat much and i hardly snack in between meals. So why am i gaining weight? People say your metabolism rate slows down as you age... though i don't see that happen to some people. One of them is my friend. She eats like a horse and does not gain weight. So I have come to a conclusion that my body has a mind of its own. Of courselah, the butt decides to expand and takes up that additional space on the chair, the stomach decides to protude out and i guess take a peek at my toes..... What i don't understand, the chest continues to look like a small hump... you know the hump that you see at carparks. Waahhh........

Gucci For Me

Gucci For Me

Men in France

I was in Cannes last week to attend a programming market. Cannes is lovely, the weather was great - very sunny, clear blue skies and windy. Many people were seen sitting in the sun along the Croisette doing their own thing. I managed to get some time to people watch and paid particular attention to French men. I noticed that men in France will look you up and down, comment on your clothes and flirt with you. It's more like a game... I would rather be invisible in France. Perhaps that explains why Frence women take care of themselves well. Many of them have perfect body - even though they may be in their late forties or fifties. They dress well, immaculate make up and sexy. They too flirt with men in order to get some things done.

If you think this is a typical behavior of every French person, there is more subtle play here. While sex is in the air, it may not necessary mean you end up in the bedroom. According to an article I read, to be considered a man in France, you have to talk a lot about sex. You have to leave an impression that you are sleeping with everybody and anybody (??) Does this mean then that french women flirt their way to success?