a l y n a p p i e s . c o m

i leave my blog alone for almost two months and what do i get? 8766 spam comments pending my authorization! and not even one of it was genuine. *slap forehead… oh well…

quite a bit has been going on but by the time i’m in front of the puter… my mind’s pretty much blank. let alone remember to blog. :\ maybe i really should consider closing this site down.

i went to visit jennifer again today and got to see Jayden again. cute as a button la.. but he’s such a crybaby. ;P getting heavier by the day and wants to be carried all the time. i can hardly wait till he’s bigger and can remember who i am.

i’ve been thinking of trading in my powerbook dinosour for a new macbook and was told that the maccity in amcorp accepts trade-ins, so i emailed them at the beginning of the week and at first they were very quick to respond my emails… but by midweek.. they had not replied me on a estimate value based on the specs i gave them. i started to get kinda peeved cos it left me hanging. i decided to go by their store in amcorp and looked up the person who i liaised with, who turns out to be just a sales lady. she gave a rather lame excuse for not replying my email. you say u weren’t working yesterday… but u had more than 3 days to reply me. anyway.. since i was there.. i wanted their technician to run a check on my pb’s condition and give me a quote for its trade-in value. she told me to come back maybe 2 or 3 hours later as a full diagnostic would take that long. reluctantly i left my pb there. she said she’d get the technician to call me to let me know the details and value.

so i waited.. and waited.. and finally the guy calls. and told me what i already knew and then some. “your battery life is very short”(don’t need a genius to figure that out la right after 4 years), “your hdd got problem..OS start up slow”(rubbish… i’ve never had any problems with that). Funny thing is… the left side speaker is dead.. but he never mentioned anything about it. the fella told me the same sales lady would be contacting me at about 7 or 8 to let me know the trade-in value. i asked the fella why so late. he couldn’t give me a proper answer. and so i waited.. and waited again. it was almost 8 and she still hadn’t called. i gave up waiting and just went to collect it back whether they were done with it or not.

when i got there… the goddamn sales lady went home already! bloodyhell! there was only 1 lady staff left and i told her off for her colleagues irresponsible behaviour and their failure to communicate. she calls up her colleague and asks what is the trade-in value. and when she told me how much they were willing to offer… you guess la how much!! 800fricking ringgit. want to take me for a ride issit. i told the lady forget it. i’m not that stupid.

i’m just very upset about the whole experience and to think that these buggers got some retailer 2007 award from apple’s country manager. screw you la maccity.

i’ll stop complaining for now.
want to get back to my septimus heap book 3 now.
aih.

ah… so… it’s cny all over again. compared to last year “haul”, angpow collection dwindled this year. but it’s okay really. as long as everyone’s healthy and safe, i’m happy as a clam.

yesterday morning before heading out to my big uncle’s house, both my bro and my dad sat down in the hall, deep in concentration. my bro ripped open a few obscure red parcels, each one slightly smaller than a deck of cards. my dad smiled like a kid. together, they started assembling it. neh… those red cny firecrackers. they even got me to sacrifice some of my sewing thread so that they could connect each bunch of firecrackers to make an even longer bunch. jakun. where we got the firecrackers? i didn’t buy it. :P… my kaofu did. brought it to our house wrapped in layers of newspaper. tsk tsk tsk. but it was okay la… the blasts didn’t last very long though. i just kinda like the way it left red confetti scattered all around our driveway. hyuk hyuk.

then then then… this morning… i cooked an american breakfast for the rentals and rat. two out of the four eggs i cracked open… were double yolk eggs!!! wahahahahaha…X”D i rule!!! give me 5 dorra!!!!!

okay… random question time…

usually, i don’t answer phonecalls from unknown numbers or private numbers. but about 5 mins ago, my phone started ringing, and i thought… i’ll be nice today and pick up the phone. so this is how the conversation goes.

me: hullo?
caller: hi! my name is *blahblahblah*. May i speak to Alysa… Ng?
me: yea that’s me….
caller: Yea, i’m calling from Guinness Stout! And we would like to get to know our customers better by asking u a few questions. Is now a convenient time for you?
me: No. Not really. and i don’t drink … stout…
caller: Oh. ….. Then it’s okay. Thank you for your time. Byeee *hangs up.
me: *bursts out laughing in front of my colleagues who think i’m crazy*

how the hell they got my number? can’t be random la right. makes me wonder also, how the hell did i get onto Zouk’s sms alert list. i’ve never even been there! *rollseyes. i’ve never tried drinking Stout before, but so far, the ppl i’ve seen drinking it are mid-day drunks at coffee shops, and the occassional aunties who order their stout hot. ewww. wait.. but i’ve eaten hak beh kuat (stout spare-ribs) before. what would that count as?

anyhoo. yes yes yes! katharine mcphee’s still in the race! wooo hoooo! was getting so sick of the bald rocker dude.too bad paris didn’t make it. i was hoping the top3 would be narrowed down to katharine, paris and elliot. oh well. hurry up the process already, dagnabbit!

oo ooo oooo! on 25th April 06, my eldest cousin sis gave birth by c-section to her first baby. a girl! woo hooo! went to visit both mother and baby about a week+ ago. she has so much hair on her head! supercute and all… hehe. and she sleeps like a cat! hands and legs everywhere but looks so comfy. aaaahh the life. :3 babies have it all gOod. i’m really interested in seeing her grow up. not sure if any of my nephew and nieces will remember me or will i get more chances to interact with them. cos none of them are from my immediate family. plus it’s such a common thing for new parents to hire au pairs to take care of their babies. why the hell would they need help from a relative for? *bahhhh. i wanna be a cool aunty! any new parents out there who want some time off? lemme take care of ur babies while u couples go off to have some paktoh time! :D u know… i’ve always been interested in children’s clothing as well. maybe it’s time to go on some fabric shopping, and to revive my sleeping sewing machine. ho ho ho.

ya lah. i know it’s very random. *twiddle thumbs innocently.

okay. i better get back to work now. *pooof*. *turns into a lemming.

Currently listening to:
Jem - Wish I

missing the ‘rents. *sniff.

omg it’s almost the month of May already. it’s the inevitable end month noodle blending at work. die die diee again!!! X”|

lately, the migraines been getting worse. not that its surprising. u can only fry your noodle that many times before it’s permanently damaged. *wipes drool away. pardon me.

right now, i’m craving for 2 slices of roti canai, and a big bowl of pipping hot dhall. or the ceaser’s salad with deep fried calamari from italianis. or a rib eye steak with a side of mash and sweetcorn nibblets. or oldschool sugar raised doughnuts. or houmus with pitta bread and diced tomatos from Spring Street Natural. or a bag of 6 plain chocolate chip cookies from Millie’s, or a hotdog or two from Gray’s Papaya, or steam bread with lots of butter and kaya from yutkee, or my own homemade tomato bruschettas, or an extra bubble double green tea from TenRen, or a tuna and sweetcorn with extra butter baked potato from Spud U Like, or a thai red curry chicken with rice from Sainsbury’s, or plain chocolate Digestives from M&S…. gahhhhhhhhhhh. -____-

how laa like that.

i nunno.

Currently listening to:-
Leo Ku - 睡美人

i still can’t believe cny’s over. :\
so much happened since my last blog posting.
don’t even know where to start writing about it.
maybe it isn’t important to put it all down here for everyone to see? ;P
no more photos of me, less drama post = less traffic + stalker free
:D

so just now, i was doing my usual blog hop and came across one of jenntai’s blog entry about “3 Simple Things I’d Like To Do Before I Die” which kinda got me thinking as well. there’s tonnes of stuff i’d like to do, but don’t think they’d fall in the simple things category. anyways… maybe these 3 might be simple enough to do…

1. visit disneyworld and eat churros everyday that i’m there.
2. pick up yoga and be bendy.
3. Learn how to make donuts.

so how about the rest of you?

anyhoo. for the past few evenings, i’ve been walking andy’s dog around the neighbourhood. elvy’s pretty obedient for a dog that doesn’t get out much. the day before, it was getting dark see, so i wanted to head back to the house, but she wanted to go down another street. i said to her pleaseeee lets go home it’s darkkk i’ll give u extra kibbles k? i promise we can explore this street tomorrow alright lets just go home for now common cutie lessgooo, only when i said !promise! that she un-budged herself.

so i promised her to go down the street right… so when we reached the start of the street, i tried making her head back for the house but she wouldn’t budge from her spot and sat down. i tried 3 times, and her eyes… gah.. her eyes… i swore if she could talk she would be saying to me “but you promised!!!!”. so of course la i gave in. hehe. but not even half way down the street, she turns herself around and leads me home. o__O

:3

neighbourhood with a view

ok lah. getting late nows. *yawn…
nites ya’all.

this is going to be my first cny back home in 3 years. and before these 3 years, cos my sis and bro were already overseas, so technically i haven’t had a proper cny with both my sibs back in.. say… 6?7 years? hmmm.

took a swim earlier, before going out for dinner. was so bloody hot that i had to go dip myself in the pool. helped alot, although i sat facing the sun for quite a bit (hoping to get a little tanned since they say it makes u look healthier?).

gotta help my mom pack angpows soon, and then at around 1-2am, jip choi san. wooo.. means i get to play with fire and contribute to pollution by performing the annual paper burning ritual. hmmm… maybe it’s because so many ppl are also burning the paper thingies at the same time that somehow it causes it not to rain on 年初一?

anyhoo. it’s gonna be the year of Dog eh. which also means i’m gonna be 24 soon. sometimes i forget how old i am. not that i have a problem with growing up/old, just that it feels a little surreal. am i any wiser? hehe

nonetheless, 恭喜发财！身体健康 ！出入平安！心想事成！万事如意 ！

oh yeah, and to be very random, while i was shopping in isetan klcc, they had christmas songs playing in the background… what the?! :P

ok. so the office got broken into friday night/saturday morning. didn’t think to blog about it until it felt a little personal right about 30 mins ago. *stranggles thin air

they took my 60gb portable hdd (which had tonnes of mp3s, incomplete anime series, DH full season, movies, backup of my uni work, photos, old work file backups..) plus the usb cable but left behind the leather casing. then they took my usb donggle key thingy for the software i use at work (they probably thought it was a thumbdrive… suckers) which costs rm999 to replace!, and then they also took ndb’s genuine nokia phone charger that i had left plugged into the socket just for a few days to charge his mama’s mobile and a colleague’s mobile which is perpetually low on battery, 2 usb 256mb pendrives which had a really schweet meiji bear tied to it. :~( and to make it look even more petty, they took my little box of coins! asswipes!!!

other than the above mentioned, they even had time to gulp down a few cans of 100plus while they tried to crack open a safe(full of files) and remove a hanging projector, but only managed to get away with two company laptops, a dvcam,… but had to drop the bigass chivas that they took from big bosses office and leave behind the slightly mangled projector while making their run-for-it while they were coming out of the office and were discovered by the night shift guys who were on their tea-break.

so, what will their comeuppance be for people like this? what i’ll never understand is how do they even sit down together at some mamak one day and say to each other “hey, i know a place we could break into tonight. want in?” or should i feel pity for them? for maybe they might have life-0r-death situations that made them steal?

:\

but u know what? thank god they didn’t break-in while we were still in office till about 8pm. i really don’t know how things would’ve turned out if they did.

*starts counting andy’s fingers and toes again.
>.<