Year 2013 : My Mid Year Review

Hello there! 

Some of you may know that I am on my office annual leave for 3 days.  Well, its ending soon with Monday just around the corner.  Its back to working mode by then. 

With this break, I took the liberty of spending some quality time being at peace with myself, and doing the things that I like or even catching up some tasks I had delay for some time.  Hence, the 1st thing that I did was to send my car for a badly needed service.  Oh boy, you would not have believe how much a Kelisa could cost you for a thorough service.  I paid RM430 + RM225 + RM80 + RM50.  So how much is that? 

RM430 for engine and under the car (what do you call that part where they hoist your car up and check the gadgets beneath your vehicle?  I don't know.  So I'll just go with under the car then :P)

RM225 for servicing of car air conditioner. Its now Brrrr-ing cold ;D

RM80 for the car being lifted back to workshop when one of the replaced part was not functioning IN THE MIDDLE OF A BUSY ROAD!!  This was on the 3rd day after servicing it which had cause me missing a bloggers meet up opportunity >:( 

RM50 for cleaning, vacumming and polishing.  I added polish coz my car has lost its shine.  From the way I see it, more polishing is needed.  Sigh :( 

Fine! So I paid a hefty sum for car servicing.  And more to come too.  Yet, this does not happen everyday.  Its just a small fraction to pay when you realise how much it has given back to me.  Bringing me to places where I needed to be and accomplishing my everyday task because it has been loyal to me.  Its just something I need to do to allow myself to travel further and accomplish more.   

So here's a pic of how my baby blue car looks like now.

Duh! Look just like any other ordinary Kelisa. Lololol :P

Then there is also the badly needed clearing of my stuff from Cheeky's room.  My growing child needs to have his own space.  You wouldn't believe how messy these stuff had accumulated to.   

After some loving, tender and caring-ness, the full of mommy's way, this is the end result:   

Some of my stuff are still there.  Sorry Cheeky.  But mommy is helpless of ideas where to store my stuff.  Hence still needing a tiny bit of your shelf space, pls *battering weepy eyes. 

Of course I've done many more other things during this break, but I guess the better part was having my big day just the way I enjoyed it.  Quiet time enjoying my dessert"S" (literally) while watching the busy commotion across the street from my seat.  I was at the Mosaic, Hyatt Regency Kinabalu at that time.  A good reflection to myself to not fall into the trap of what's at the opposite side of the street but to keep focusing on reaching my intended destiny.   

One fine birthday.... err?.... day :P

Oh, and 1 more accomplishment unlocked, this is my 52nd blog entry.  A year ago, I aimed to hit this number by last year's end.  Of course, I didn't make it.  Today, I have finally done it, albeit late.  But hey,.....

I'VE DONE IT!! Yes, successkid.jpg.

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** RM44,552.62  No lah, not as sad la.  A need to buck up lor.  Or is it?? 

** To know my last balance, click here. 

Updates 20120818 + of Meows & Purrs

Meow!

(Hello!)

Meow me m me, Meo m m meow.  Meow meo, meo, MEOW!!  Fsk!!  Fsk!!  Meeooowww, m me m m meeow. M m m m me meo m meow, Meo meowing me me meo meo m meeowing m me meeoooww. M meeoow m me me meo me meows m purrs :P  Okay, m m me me meo, meow, me meow meow meeoooww meow m mmeeeeooowwed m meo me meo-ed me meo meow meow meeeeoooww. :PPP

(What can I say, I'm on a hiatus.  That's bad, bad, BAD!  Grr!  Nevertheless, I try to be creative.  Be it on a dry spell of ideas, I'm putting on this silly post by inventing a new language.  I present to you my kitty cat meows and purrs :P  Okay, so I did not invent, rather, the feisty feline mammal sort of influenced and make me made up this kitty cat language. :PPP)  

M MEOW!!, m m meo, M m meow leh? Purr, purr.

(U SEE!!, be it silly, I am creative leh?) 

I'm cute!  I'm bored!  I'm self obsessed!

Meo mmeeoow, mmeeeoowing m meo meow, meo meo meeoow M me me m m m meow meo.  Meow m meoow Malaysia, meo m meeoowing m meowing m Syawal, meow m meo meo meeoowed meow Aidilfitiri meeeoowww, m m me m meeoowing meeow meow me me meo m m m-moew.  Whoppeeeee!! Purr, purr.

(But seriously, cutting the crap short, some fond formalities I still need to put in record here.  Since my country Malaysia, will be celebrating the coming of Syawal, besides the very much anticipated muslim's Aidilfitri celebration, it is also a welcoming holiday break for the rest of us non-muslim.  Whoppeeee!!!)

M m meow meow:

(To my muslim readers:)

Maaf Zahir dan Batin

M m meow, me meowing meo meo me m meow meowing m meowing, Me meowing m meo m meo m m me me m meow mmeeeooww meo. Ha ha, meow meow meow meeeoowwing meo meow me m meeeooowed meow me Fsk! meow?

(As for myself, I'm taking this time off to besides eating & resting, I'm going to grill my brain and get done with my money management post.  Ha ha, have you been guessing what name did I labelled for my 3rd bucket?)

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** This post is not to be taken as offensive towards humans nor animals or any other form for that matters.  Life is not meant to practice hatred, sometimes, the moderation and light-hearted ways are better.

Updates 20120712 + Me!

Hello!!!  Have you been missing me?  ^_^   

What can I say?  I am a bad blogger.  Have not update this blog because of my ultra maximized laziness.  There!!  I confessed!! You can unfollow me now.  *Waaaaaahh!! #cryingkitty.  Please don't....... #innocentkittylook

Lately, my daytime office job has been taking up alot of my attention.  With all the stress and pressure building up, I wasn't in my best of mood to blog.  I tried to compose a few times, but all I saw were depressing, frustrating and negatively expressed posts.  I couldn't bear to fill my blog with bad auras and affect my happy readers.  Who would want to keep reading blogs that cast black clouds, dark shadows and thunderous cracks all the time, right?

Hence, I'm glad that my sunny mood is re-emerging again as the pressure is gradually release away.  There are still some sizable pressure in me, but seeing most items in the checklist are ticked away, so is the burden being set free.  LOL, so glad that the event will be this coming Saturday, a gala dinner it shall be..... and its time to FLASH MY......... (tsk, tsk, no naughty business here ;-)).......... AWESOME FABULOUS ME!!!  Okay, its still a working day for me, attending guests, attending guests and attending guests.  But hey, I dress for the occasion, right?  

Here are some of my props which hopefully will not disappoint anyone, especially myself:

My fav double eyelid tape & new falsies <3

MAC my day ;-)

Sensationally high :-O

HA HA HA...... Laugh die me on the amount of RM I'm willing to spend for just "ONE WORKING NIGHT"!!  Boss, if you see this, I put my heart and soul in building an image for the office (& of course for myself too).  Maybe you should consider giving early bonus this year? *wink!!

.......... Psst, & a pay raise too.

As for the dress, well, let's just say............. & keep it a mystery *wink, wink!!

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I Can Now Smile Confidently

Telling you this is like letting the cat out of the sack.  Something that have been with me for a long long time and I was hiding away.  Yet my conscience was getting louder and louder, so loud that I finally pick up my courage and plunge down the building........... kidding, not the building, but meeting the DENTIST :-P.

I have great phobia when it comes to seeing one of them.  This profession is no doubt, professionals in their field, but still the sound of their dental tools drilling and etching on my precious teeth while hands/fingers inside my mouth with myself lying helplessly on their dental chair?/bed? is sooooooo UNGLAMOROUS!!  Heck, terribly awful not shiok setting la.  BUT!!, its the consequences thereafter that counts.

So, jumping to the conclusion of this post, the brave in me made the leap and this is the end result:

Chio or not?? ^_^

For those who knew me, I have been suffering from this:

** Horrible discoloration - Pearly grey O.o

Reasons of discoloration can be anything from over consuming of coffee / tea, food colouring, poor dental hygiene, aging, smoking, expose of excessive flouride, metal existence in mouth such as fillings, genetic, & etc.  Those highlighted in bold were what I was suffering back then.  What's in my etc. list?  During my secondary school years, I was active in sports and had once suffered badly when an elbow was forced and accidentally hit bull's eye on my mouth.  Nothing major happened and the game continued on.  It was only later that uncomfortable symptoms were felt.  On top of that, I had gum bleeding when I was attending college.  But, discoloring was not really as bad then.

As time passes, with a suffered root canal tooth due for hideous discoloration, the aging factor was added for the rest of my pearlies.  Sigh, things became worst especially when I flip magazines seeing the Hollywood code of practice for amazing smiles.  SIGH!!  Felt really really bad la. "WHY ME?"  This was at end of last year.

Hence, since late last year, I have been embarking on a quest to attain better smile.  Some were quoting in thousands of ringgit and confusing procedures.  I'm not a complicated lady, I just want a simple answer.  My question was "Dr., please see my current condition and tell me whether I can attain whiter teeth?"  I didn't really care of the procedure as long as it does not burn a great big hole in my pocket & is not invasive with minimal damage to my healthy teeth.  YES, despite the colour, I am having real healthy & sturdy teeth that I could bite & tear a chunk of raw meat away from the bone............. kidding, kidding. :-)

I ended up convinced by this procedure called Everbrite.  I was made to understand it won't be as white, but it'll solve my discolored root canal-ed tooth.  This particular tooth is one of my bunny teeth, so you can imagine how much agony have I suffered with an imperfect smile.  If you are wondering, all my smiles in my previous posts were altered, teeth colored to an acceptable level.  There!!, that's the cat escaped from the sack!! Phew, letting the cat free, I am also one action lesser in altering my photos.

And now, I present to you the truthful Vkitty and her new found brilliant smiles:

The procedure took 1½ hours.  It was painful, but bearable.  I have great tolerance for pain.  I have afterall, delivered 2 babies.  NO PAIN IS COMPARABLE TO THE AFFLICTION OF GIVING BIRTH.  My apologies, I have to emphasize that.  Without a doubt, hands down, the dang-est pain in my life was labouring to see my babies. 

The whitening procedure is nonetheless, painful enough allowing myself shedding a tear.  Totally not what the Dr. mentioned of when I consulted him.  My kitty claws were gripping tight onto the chair?/bed? and at times, fist up ready to bash the person next to me........... kidding, kidding, kidding. ;-)

Well, that's all I can express about the procedure.  Its simple, non abrasive and fast.  I am happy with the result, nonetheless falling short of satisfaction.  But the Dr. welcomes me to see him again for further treatment/procedure in enhancing the whiteness.  But after that pain, I guess I need time to recuperate physically and mentally.  Gum was sore and pain killers were needed. 

Maybe I'll consider during my next 6 months check-up, with deliberation on the depth of my pocket & whether there are any other "more friendly" solution. O.o

By the way, depending on your lifestyle, Everbrite may or may not last. 

** photos in blue bb-T, courtesy of AngelBear

From Blah to ♥ ♥ ♥

What sorcery is this!!  Hot hot sun scorching above my head.  I swear today's temperature, or to accurately describe, of recent days, almost melted me.  Just to state things clear, I am a Sabahan and my land is currently experiencing the dry season, which explicitly explains my agony.  Boo!!  

To state one other thing clear, I do not mind myself getting tanned, hence, being under the sun.  BUT!!, I am more agitated when I start sweating.  Sweating makes me so un-fabulous!!  I feel sticky, I feel smelly, my body temperature goes up threatening of breakouts, my make-up melts, etc etc etc.  To sum it all, hot weather makes Vkitty a depress meow.  I tried hard for the last 2 days to supress myself from depending on the cooling air-conds in an effort to save this already fragile and warm globe called Earth............. okay, I was more on trying to conserve energy 'coz I wanted to lessen my bill amount :P.   

The TRUTH is, I was on leave for 2 days and wanted desperately to clean and clear the sorta pc, sorta office, sorta wardrobe, sorta store but mostly junk in Cheeky's future bedroom.  The room was designated as his long time ago, but he hesitated to use it.  So Beary and myself just chuck most stuff in and sorta ignoring from cleaning up.  Now that he's grown up and needs his own space, I have gotta get the room ready.  NO MORE DELAY!!  But HOW?? Motion on a hot weather with in mind minimizing energy bill = Sweat!! = Depressing!!  

Weather, Y U make me depress-ful???  The depress-ness also affected my creativity 'coz I wanted to blog too during these 2 days.  Depress = Writer's block = Pathetic me :(  

And so I finally caved in, I asked for air-conditioned environment, but its not at home.  I went out instead.  Sat in Pizza Hut and ordered their new menu.  At this juncture, I guess you can say I indirectly did not save on my energy bill for I was ngomming away......  Yes, smartasses, you with your calculative genious-ness *clap & rolleyes*.  Anyway, I then "recuperate" my emotional self.  What sigh of relief!!  Yes, a huge Sigh!!!  While waiting for the meal to serve, I explored this photo editing appl which eventually I found my fabulous self again.  And here're my masterpieces:

I'm guessing by now, you should have found out that I am actually introducing my new hair colour to you.  LOL, creative or naut?  I mean my introductory?

After a few washes, the colour finally set at my desired shade i.e. auburn.  My 1st day after colouring was all....... bleeding of mahogany *hands on face*.  Was all shocked but thankfully, the reds drained away.  Happy happy me munching away hee hee.

BTW, I really did go to Pizza Hut and here's the proof :

New menu.  My absent mind could not recall the name :P

And I was really into cleaning up the room.  More proof :

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Me bad.  No pic wo.  But just to tell, its a whole lot messy.  I no eye see & no idea from where should I start :(