storyteller; noun: narrator, teller of tales, raconteur, raconteuse, fabulist, anecdotalist, magsman, troubadour.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 |
life is full of surprises... hello everyone!!! :)
i seem to have neglected this blog for quite a bit eh? well...been busy. and i've just ended my writing course last mon, and i graduated from 95% already! whewww...what a relief!
and earlier in the day, i met the newly crowned miss malaysia/world 2005, emmeline ng! she's so tall, so charming and so so so miss malaysia. muahahahaha! :p
well that's a short update for now. you can go to my photoblog for the latest, alright? until then, hugs and goodnight world! miss ya lots...
Posted at 01:48 am by mel
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
Lately I have come to believe that I can make a change. Even in the smallest environment, I can make a small change that will later develop into a bigger move in the upper scale. I have 'experienced' with this method and it seems to work out very fine. This thing that I've been trying is called encouragement.
It seems like no matter who that person is, everyone needs a sincere encouragement. No sucking up please. I've been trying to nurture that positive attitude in a little group that I've been leading for quite some time now and it seems that all the hard work is paying off. I got all those encouragement - that I've been throwing around for quite a while in the group - back right at me. It's really AMAZING!! I've always been a pessimist all my life about 'pain in the ass' people who will actually come to their senses and change for the better. So I dont really believe it at first. And yet, in spite of desperation, I tried it out anyway, and all those hard work finally pay off. WOW!!
And you can make a difference too, TODAY!!
Posted at 01:28 am by naiades
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Monday, September 05, 2005 |
You know the feeling you get when that special someone in your life just suddenly pops out of the blue?
Or maybe the feeling when your old best fren in elementary school just suddenly called your house?
Well, I'm back, so you should be getting some of that feeling up your heart, or just to respect me, a little would be sufficient :)
No biggie that I've been gone. I'm not sure why I lost all the urge to type. I cant really tell. But, since I'm all pumped up tonight. Let's hear me rant. Lols... Perhaps life just got the better out of me. So, since I'm here... Better do something productive..
Books that I've read during the time that I've been gone:
1. Hidup Intim dengan Tuhan (3 series) - An autobiography of Yusak Cipto.
2. Be a People Person - John C. Maxwell.
3. The Red Tree - Shaun Tan.
Hmm.. The best so far was the John Maxwell's book. I truly gained a lot of advice n how to deal with people from that book. I wasnt the type who is naturally in tune with others... So, the best line from the book is this 'The qualities that you enjoy in others are the qualities that you need to have in yourself too, if you want to attract others to you'. Man, fabuloso :)
And yeah... I'm aiming for something extraordinaire this coming two months. So, pray for me people :) and that's about it for now... I'll disclose some more in the coming days as I soar on to new heights everyday... :) ciao
Posted at 01:15 am by naiades
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woah. POST FROM SEREMBAN! can you believe that there is wifi here? man, i am SO DARN AMAZED! :D still can't get over the excitemet..hehe. i love hotspot! ok, gtg man. tomorrow gotta wake up early to go to the temple. and why is that...u may ask? :)
Posted at 01:11 am by mel
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Saturday, August 06, 2005 |
ah..the wonders of jazz! went to the mont kiara jazzfest again, this time coz i told az i was coming to watch them perform. (as usual) i came a bit late, but i guess they were ngaret also :) of course, i didn't miss a lot then. next up was greg lyons..wow. so jazz man. EHHH why am i suddenly so much into jazz right? man, this is weird. *thinks hard* anyways, met jovi and her man, siva. then there was this group of people i passed somewhere, and they were like, hey..whatsup. i thought, shoot. must be some people i know who i don't remember. so i moved on and met jovi again at the other side of the stage. she's backing for resh next week (have fun babes!). took a coupla pics with az, shelley and reza on my way back..az says the piece i wrote on him's cool :) shelley's yet to read the review (which i of course, didn't do)..and reza was hanging around, so yup..i've yet to see him play as well. we went to bayou again, cos that's one of the coziest places there..and they're pretty good. oooh. okay. tired. sleepy. bored. and i've got class again at 10. man, talk about being busy. till later...
Posted at 03:09 am by mel
free rollercoaster ride... JUST A WARNING: SUPER DUPER LONG POST AHEAD OK? BEAR WITH ME.
i could easily say i'm feeling nothing. when in reality, i'm having mixed feelings about everything that has happened today. starting yesterday actually. the presentation i sat in was totally fucked up. i haven't been to one where the client speaks in such a manner that the poor creatives presenting or rather, whoever were present there, felt so wrong. like, you know, wrong place, wrong timing. and THEN, it was 6.30..time for class. so obviously, i had to call TWA, where i'm currently undergoing an intensive 3-month, over 130 hours, close to 30 classes, up to 4x a week for four hours each, (and at times over 12 hours straight, like today, which i'll talk about later.
intending NOT to go, we left at about 8.30 and decided to go after all. but alas..we ended up near where we thought was bsc or at least, pantai bangsar, when actually..it was a dead end. unknown. yikes. so we made another turning..and ended up on the same route towards my house..but as we made a turning towards bukit kiara..we got on the wrong track again and ended up in sri hartamas. CAN SOMEBODY, ANYBODY for that matter, explain how the hell that's possible? :)
so we decided, alah. screw it lah. let's just have dinner first. so we did. and we had to make a move when the place was closing. so we thought..since it's after 9.30..let's just head to class anyway. they'd be finishing by then, at least, that's what we thought. what's the worst that could happen? we reached exactly 10mins before class ended. ladyboss counselled us a bit..before she mentioned that they'll be staying back with us to catch up for another hour. and as if that's not bad enough, some *really nice* people (i mean it) volunteered to stay back with us (we thought..shit. if only we got dropped-out, at least we could tell boss something on monday. beep.) after a quick hour session..we were done. bingo. everything covered in an hour. and we headed back after midnight...
TODAY...well, more like earlier in the day, we had a 12-hour session..actually more lah. but you get the idea right? 12 hours of personal growth and development. i'll share with you the highlights. first you gotta get up there and present your mission, your willingness to be in and what you stand for today. wow. it wasn't too hard for me to convince everyone to believe me, in less than 2mins. bingo. then there was the emo-emo part of "how to clean your warehouse and make way for new things..." we were like, shit. so asiaworks. seriously. then we went to bangsar for lunch.
when we got back, we had to do this waltz dance thing changing partners. man, some people are just so tall! *never realised* THEN, we had a full hour session of DANCING. seriously. and ladyboss whispered..and you thought dancing at sledge was bad enough huh? hehe. yeah. true. it was fun lah. really. when you let go and just dance according to the beat. anything. everything. you name it. dance. rap. rock. emo. yoga. bhangra. HECK..even the track from puteri gunung ledang was on! then it's down to MORE emo stuff..hugging everyone, about being one. being complete. being you. we also had this thing where you should think of amillionandone dif ways of COMMUTING to alor setar from kl. 3x per person. FUN WEYYY! others were jumping and crawling and paintball running, and this and that. i took the easy way out: no 1 - driving, no 2 - rowing boat, no 3 - flying. hell, that was prolly the most amusing of all! :p
next came the "writing a letter to yourself for when you graduate in 5wks time" a bit the weird right. but who knows of what's to come? the rollercoaster ride was simply getting more exciting! for someone being skeptical about the whole hoohah of attending this course, i'm slowly understanding the concept of MY BEING THERE even when i could have chosen NOT TO in the first place. now i'm 2wks into it and i've still got a fair bit to go. then we had to come up with a team name, team vision and team cheer. that was absurd. totally weird man. but still, FUN :)
we did this exercise whereby we played tictactoe to see whether we're more inclined to winwin situations, or winlose for that matter. next up, personality test..reality check in depth, whereby we got a partner to make clear and sure that our ans are within the "ok" range. mine didn't make a dif cos when i did amend a coupla things, it's like, plus one, minus one. same thing. so we got our graph chart and marked out positions. for the next bit: the split into 4 dif groups.
hahahahahahaha. i so couldn't believe myself when i was in one group ALONE. that proves my point of being anti-social which, to an extent, is really amazingly amusing :) teehee. (the other groups were the loudmouths, the chillers and the whatever people) even the facilitator said, look at her. she's so comfy even being alone. it doesn't matter to her! oh yeah baby. most definitely. i'm independent. i'm unique. i could do things in a group and as an individual. to hell, i could even take charge if i wanted to. we had to describe our common characteristics, give the ans to a q and come up w a team name, and they played you a song after you're done, for each team. being the loner, my song was obviously My Way. man, i so belong there. alone. just me. just nice :)
the part i really liked the most was the assessing part. not being narcissistic okay. it's just that it's amazing to know what people think of you, esp when they've only known you for like, 2 weeks. 7 classes. or so. the title was "the things i appreciate most about you are..." wisdom beyond years no words could express, a true leader (well someone has to take charge right?), always comes up w a solution in a chaotic situation, i'm a picture of calmness (ah yea, my ed mentioned it before) and there's a certain aura that just keeps people at ease (doesn't matter if they don't know me..), i'm someone they could always count on, anytime, any situation, so loving & caring, so focused, so passionate, so friendly and warm. so authentic. well, i so can't remember all the words they mentioned but really, it's all so deep and sincere, coming from your own lil group. it was an emo moment, but i shall not go all sob sob until graduation, at least. if i could help it :) and to our group trainer, nothing could express it better than a long, warm, sincere hug. it really works...
final part came my seniors, the last batch who graduated, they're all prolly changed souls. eeeks man, those cultists i tell you. one of the most magical moments is when the story was told. how ladyboss was just a candle in the dark who lighted up early this year, how, that with one person, a whole room can be lighted up. wooohhh..it was just..like, wow. and suddenly, the END of class!
came back, showered, and went to sri hartamas (yeah been hanging out around there too much lately) but then, we decided to head to mont kiara for the jazzfest..tonight's was jose thomas and groove unction (i went for them last year too) wah crazyyy so packed like sardines. we had "super late dinner" at bayou, a cozy lil javanese place. i love the ambience and just sharing whatever i've acquired in class today. and to that person, thanks for being there for me. thanks for listening and sharing with me. thank you for everything that has happened in the past one month. thank God for you :)
Posted at 03:45 am by mel
today i made a man cry
and then i watched him weep
today i released my cat
and then i watched her free soul
today i went for class
and watched myself grow
today i told a big fat joke
and laughed at it in amusement
today i talked about myself
and watched the others nod
because we were supposed to describe
ourselves in ten words or so
today i went to work
and watched how time flew by
today i'm full of hope and trust
you have no idea how it feels
today is the day
where everything happens
for a reason...
a reason to live.
Posted at 01:56 am by mel
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'twas a lovely thursday. came in late (as usual), didn't know what to really do..by noon i was reading mags (well not really la..was flipping through the latest Archive which featured my ads~) and was out of the office before lunchtime, heading to bangsar. after lunch i so didn't know how to kill time..so i read the scripts for tomorrow (which of course, i didn't understand cos it's in kelantanese but nevermind...) and was done before i knew it! by six i was out..met my expartner for a very brief moment at vhq, and off i zoomed off to midvalley to meet my dear grandma who's down here for a lil weekday getaway! so good to see her! (and her big tummy~) i'll prolly see her again before she goes off. on a brighter note, i was assigned to write a few features, one of them being "why do we need h-o-l-i-d-a-y-s" hehe splendid huh? like it couldn't have been given to a more deserving person. i wonder why i have to do the "how to survive a break up" though. *wonders* so yeah, we were at teppanyaki for a bit, before i headed off to jake's at d'sara heights for our company dinner. it was a-w-e-s-o-m-e! started off with the appetizers..creamy mushroom and chicken soup with slightly toasted garlic bread followed by baked oysters, filled potato skins, vege salad, potato fritters, fish (the fish & chips kind), yummylicious lamb, medium-rare beef, something chicken, pizzalike ice cream and amazing brownies, caramel candylike stuff, a nice tall glass of latte and a rich cup of tea! wow, how much more can i elaborate on this one? you can imagine it all in your mind heheh! :o)~ slurppp!
Posted at 01:47 am by mel
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hello people...i'm back in action. wow. haven't posted anything for two weeks. two weeks man. imagine the amount of stuff that's happened. for one, i got sick. in fact, i'm still recovering from *my system crashed* hey, talk about working like the mac. nonstop action for gawd knows how long..and finally, when i crash, i really do. you know me...
9 days of staying at home. 5 days of mc. 3 times of going to the doc = very very bored yet refreshed. hehe. seriously. but it gave me good reason and enough time to complete my massive feature story for the mag. anyways..a recap..as usual.
on friday when i came back to work..imagine my horror when i found out my boss has signed me up for (more) copywriting classes. i mean, like, HELLO??? what am i now? a freaking designer? hell no. whatmore, the trainer would be my ex-lecturer in college, the dear ol' janet. aiyoh. die lah. it was even a miracle that i survived her class in those days. so she came for briefing and man, was she happy to see me after 2 years (and she keeps track of how long i've worked..now that's freaky to the max weyyy). so now, i've completed 2 classes et c'est excellente! prolly cause it's just starting. i'm tied to the course till early sept. yup, it's an intensive 2-month thingy..and i tried to talk my boss out of it. but since they've paid, sigh. still kena complete it right? i mean, ethical lah...
on another note, i dislike writing about myself. that would be so narcissistic right? singing high praises of oneself? so anyways, after much chasing from my editor..i did this:
storytelling has been a part of her life from a very young age. at only twenteen, her words have been scattered throughout the region, in various media at that. since she first held the mighty pencil, she has been scribbling and doodling on any paper (or surface, for that matter) within reach. today, she still scribbles on pieces of paper, but most of the time, it's inevitable. time and again, she finds herself walking on the edge, between reality and fantasy, while trying to express her ideas and idiosyncrasies. besides her passion for writing (or more like typing, nowadays), she has started to dabble in photography to amaze herself. a strong believer that 24 hours in a day is just never enough to even sleep, it still remains a wonder how she finds time juggling work, attending classes, contributing her words and pictures for this 'zine, chasing ridiculous deadlines, taking spontaneous weekend getaways, spending time with her buddies and updating her crazy slash unbelievably packed schedule!
and of course, i must tell you about my new liking for food. well, not really. but my new liking of hunting for good food. since last weekend, i have been feasting on some delicious treats. including northern indian cuisine at tamarind, holiday villa subang, dapur nusantara in subang, the ever unique marche at the curve, de kowloon cafe at hartamas, and just earlier, at "a little dim sum place" (seriously, that IS the name of the place)... :)
i have also watched les choristes (though i fell asleep halfway) and tiptoes (halfway too), and i also have both before sunrise and before sunset *all smiles* as well as the sisterhood of the travelling pants which i got yesterday. wow. i like. many many to watch.
and tomorrow..my dear grandma is coming to town. i hope to catch her before she goes back on sat. tomorrow night i have a company dinner..to celebrate our achievements and hard work for the past 2 months (which resulted in me being sick..grrr~) ~the end~
Posted at 02:32 am by mel
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Posted at 02:14 am by naiades
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