Milestones

1) On Thurs night, I spent the most amount of money on a single piece of clothing in my life. My father had given me some money for my birthday hongbao, so I used it to buy the sequinned skirt I had been ogling from Charlie since December. The skirt originally cost $599 but I managed to get it at a 12% discount. I daren't tell my mother how much I paid for it, so when I showed the skirt to her, I told her I paid $400. Already she balked at that price. Hehe.


*sparkle sparkle shine shine*

I would post pictures but I was too busy trying my skirt on and admiring it to think of anything else. I found a piccie! Please to admire said skirt. My new idol is the New Zealand designer Trelise Cooper.

2) On Fri evening, I sent my first resume off. On hindsight, when I was writing my cover letter, I didn't trumpet my virtues a little more, like saying what a fantastic asset I would be to the company with my amazing communication skills, scintillating personality blahdy blah blah. But this is just a matter of testing the waters so if I get a callback or not. We'll see.

3) One of my friends knows about this blog. She has decided to jump onto the blog bandwagon and now has her own fabulous little piece of internet. So you should go over and say hi to the Fabulous Miss Denise.

I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes…

Something’s a-stirring in me this year and I can feel it. I’ve finally decided to quit and move on to another job. I’ve been at this for a little over 3 years and I think that’s long enough at a job which was originally only meant to be temporary.

Unfortunately, while I’m very sure I want to move on, I’m still not sure what I want to move on to next. Definitely not web-related for sure. Marketing? PR? Journalism? Who knows. I’ve flipped through the Recruit section and browsed online job sites but nothing really grabs me. The most interesting was editor for a publishing company to produce foodie books. Unfortunately, while I really enjoy eating, I’m not exactly up there with the proper gourmet terms.

I semi-announced my intentions to quit to some friends, and already one of them, bless her, has forwarded me a job opening with a PR agency. No harm applying eh, even though I have close-to-zero PR experience. Better spruce up my resume as a start. When I opened it, I realised it needs to be completely overhauled. More than half the things I put in there are useless now. How embarrassing to have projects I did in poly in there, and how embarrassing to have ‘Winner of Inter-Class Short Story Competition’ in secondary school listed as an achievement in there. Now I need to find ways to pad my resume and trumpet what I did at work more. Time to be creative.

Fashion faux pas

Dog doodoo. We have a meeting with the lawyer at 3pm today and I'm not dressed for it. I'm wearing one tank with a massive fabric flower layered over another and a pair of olive green 3/4 casual pants. And rubber flip-flops. At least the flip-flops have heels.

Bad, bad McDonalds

I was fooled by the juicy tomatoes, crisp be-dewed lettuce bouncing on top of the beautifully grilled and healthy-looking chicken in the ad, so against my better judgement, I went to Canteen A and ordered the chicken foldover meal. To make the meal less bad, I substituted the Coke for an orange juice.

Verdict: the chicken did not taste grilled, it looked like it had been over-boiled and then mashed together into some sort of chicken patty. The tomatoes were not bouncy and juicy, the lettuce was limp and lifeless. And there was too much mayo in there. Healthy, my foot.

I have a weird taste in my mouth now. Next time I go to Canteen A, I'm sticking to the Western or Japanese food stall.

Trackback to KL

Starhill Shopping Centre, KL

KL was great. We did the two things everyone does when they visit: eat and shop. I went with my mum and sister and met my dad there, who lives in KL.

We stayed at a junior suite at the Marriott Hotel, and while it was really convenient and quite a nice room, we weren't too enthused about the service. We had requested an extra bed for my sister, who was staying two nights and going back home one day early, but after checking in on Tues night and going up to the room, discovered the extra bed was not there as requested. It took 3 phone calls and an hour long wait before someone finally hauled the bed in and set it up. And then, when settling into the main bed, discovered the sheets and pillowcases had not been changed from the last guest. Eeew. But it was too late and we were too tired to complain. Oh, and another thing, don't bother with the breakfast. It sucks. Their idea of toasting bread is to squish it onto a black grill for a few seconds, so what you get is soft bread with black bits. Yum. Lucky KL has heaps other wonderful places to eat.

For my birthday dinner, we tried the Third Floor Restaurant, which was surprisingly, located on the third floor of the Marriott Hotel. Despite the name, it's a good restaurant, some sort of Australian fusion place. I started off with a yummy foie gras with peach appetiser served in a shotglass, and had the beef wagyu for mains. I think they could have done a little better with the presentation:

It kinda looks like a turd, doncha think? But it was very good, best mashed potatoes I've had in a long time. For dessert, I had the mango in champagne sabayon and a tiny sliver of the complimentary chocolate cake the nice chef baked for me. We couldn't finish the petit fours they brought out with the coffee so we doggie-bagged the biscotti and chocolates and shamelessly asked for more. I like this place!

Thurs and Fri were spent roaming around One Utama, Midvalley Mall, KL Plaza, Lot 10 and Bangsar Shopping Centre. I ended up buying three pairs of shoes (two from Vincci and one from Lewre) and numerous tops from F.O.S. and Izzue.

In between all the mad shopping, my dad introduced us to new places to eat like Ah Koong's Seafood Place off Jln Pudu (I think) for the slurpilicious fish soup and yong tau foo. Oh, and I finally got to try rotiboy. It does live up to what all people say about it- soft and sweet. Not enough butter in mine though. Wonder how long this new food trend is going to last.

Aside from the eating and shopping, there was one weak attempt to do some exercise. We played tennis once on Wed but am afraid that 2 hour stint was cancelled out by all the food we consumed. Eh, it's a new year. I'll lose weight this month...before Chinese New Year comes round the corner.

Swag - pick of the litter
I got lots of really good presents this year, both for Christmas and birthday. But my favourites were the:
- charm bracelet with shoes
- Paul & Joe triplegloss
- Dirty Girl mini spa kit
- One Piece Vol. 1 manga

This January, I am into...

...getting out of the holiday mood (2004 is over!), trying to get by life without Law & Order on Sundays and Inuyasha Wed-Fri, One Piece manga, losing weight, practising more on the violin, iPhoto vs U2 iPod debates, Bateel chocolate, sequinned skirts, thinking more about how I can help in the tsunami disaster relief efforts.

How about you?