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Life Should Be Like This…
Aug 7th
Not very often I get to have a great relaxing time on hand.
I mean, the time where I can head off early and chill at home during working days. Putting work out of my mind doesn’t happen very often.
For a person who’s first day at work that started at 8AM and ended at 10PM, that was quite a relief. Come on, I’m not a person who swears by 9-5 job.
The anticipated appraisal didn’t came through but a similar meeting went on. I’m yet another happy person that it went well. I’m hitting my milestone and there are more to come. Just hope for the best!
Went to IYC to greet my CC team and had a short meeting. Things are moving really fast now with IC2009 and we are just 15 days away.
Some of my teamsters wants to go for shopping and Carina wanted to go to Mid Valley. I offered them a ride since I’m heading home anyways. Turns out that I’m spending more time at Mid Valley than heading home.
Two ladies went for groceries shopping while two gentlemen went for movie. I was just walking around and chillaxing… I’ve got like 1 hour or so to spend so headed over to Gardens to check out the phone shop. *grins*
Oh, and I bought a dozen of Krispy Kreme doughnuts out of fun. Like, I just felt the crave and nothing is gonna stop me! 
Went walking around then and saw some home improvements and also went to Borders to read some magazines. Went back to Mid Valley to check on the ladies and they are done. Chillings with them to learn more on their AIESEC experience so far and ’twas great to hear of their experiences from different country’s perspective.
Now I’m back home. Astro is tuned to channel 865 with Jazz music playing. Another 5 pieces of doughnuts left in front of me and a glass of water.
I’m just chilling here now and well there are so much to do but I’m just gonna leave it there and see to it in a while more. Meanwhile, I’m gonna plan for my next trip already. Hopefully it happens. *fingers crossed*
Ahh… life should definitely be like this…
Social Life
Jun 3rd
In every AIESEC International Congress 2009 meeting, we have this part of it called “social life updates”.
It is because that everyone is coming together to work on this congress for the first time. We don’t really know each of our background much and this part of the meeting is for us to get to know each other better. Sort of life, instead of me asking “What have you been doing?” to each and everyone all over again we know the answer already.
Just yesterday, I’ve attended a talk by Dato’ Idris Jala, the MD/CEO of Malaysia Airlines. One of the questions asked during the Q&A session was about balancing work and personal life. He said that those who said that they have no time for social life or what not are bullshitters.
I agree. I mean, the definition of social life is very broad. It is up to an individual to decide what it is their “social life” is. If they feel that not going out for yum cha for a very long time means no life, so be it.
Then, I look at myself and I began to think. Work has been really catching up on me. I’ve made a realignment to focus on the more important things in life to me. Not to say that I’m neglecting what I’ve been enjoying for the past few months, but priorities was needed to be set.
To me, my social life has been a mixture of online and offline approach. I either chat up with friends online or catch up offline when we meet up or over the phone. I have pretty much cut my online time a lot since 1 week ago as I know I have this bad habit of not getting work done when I’m online reading blogs and chatting and what not. Yes, it doesn’t consume much of my time, but still discipline needs to take place.
But then again, one tool that I find it useful is emails. It is the best way to get message across and sometimes, I do admit that it takes me a long time to reply emails. I do read them, but replying takes time until a time when I track back my emails and find myself saying “Oh, ! Haven’t reply you“. Hehe. Such bad habit. I know. 
So which left to the options of catching up with friends out of the online medium over food or over the weekend outing and the phone call option.
This is another tough call as I don’t find myself getting home early and that pretty much kills my time to meet up with friends. Then also, I’m kinda like the champion of last minute plans. Not many can accommodate that last minute thingy. Haha. I tried to, you know, throw everything down and do some dinner meet up and then continue back to my work. It is not working well recently because after dinner, I want to sleep. -_- Susahlah ini macam. But if I am very free, usually in the middle of the month, all out lah.
Family also comes first and most of the time when I’m in Klang with my family, I don’t really go out. Understand lah this part, but then when friends know I’m in Klang, they will say I don’t find them. How now? Hahaha. But then hor, I do go out and join yum cha session when they call. That is “when they call”.
Then the final option is to socialize over the phone which I bet most of you do. I do that too and very often I must say. I don’t meet most people every time and calling them to catch up is the next best thing to do. Don’t you agree? Talking time usually starts very late at night when I am settled down and nothing else to worry so not to interrupt the catching up session.
Being late at night past 10PM, there are only a handful of them who will pick up the calls. Heck, they might not be free at all to talk to you or rather don’t want to talk to you (sad case right? Haha) . I’ve got this comment once when I called my friend like 11PM in the night. “Hello, I need to sleep you know! Not like you!” but we went on and chatted for some time. Hence, the SMS option that comes handy and I think it is karma for this SMS bit. I seldom reply SMS on time either. Imagine one SMS I received 2 days ago about some request, I left it there in my inbox and then replied only yesterday night when I sat down to clear my inbox. How pathetic right?
I think my social life is like so the complicated. It is like a relationship that has no direction. Quite the sad right? But no lor, I feel that my social life is good already lah comparing to previous as I find now, the social life is more of a quality towards what I want to achieve. Back then, it is all party, party and endless party. But now it is meeting, networking, catching up with long lost friends, events and so forth.
This whole work and social life balancing thingy needs time to fine tune lah.
A step which I’ve been taking is to start sports lah. Which was a random decision to text Rue last week. “I’m looking for a Tennis court. We should start it all over again“. He replied “Set!“. I personally think, over games like this it’s a good time to catch up too.
I’ve not found a Tennis court to rent, yet. Haha… I shall stop procrastinating and go and rent a court by next week!!! There! I’ve set myself a dateline. I shall make it happen!
I’m A Standout in Life
May 21st
WARNING: Full On Bragging Post Ahead.
Okay. It took me a while to dig out what makes me a standout in life.
But then, I took a step back and thought, why do I have to think so hard.
Just dish out whatever that I’ve done over the past many years and throw it all out!
To me, what makes me a standout in life is all my personal achievements. Throughout my life, I practically did much of my own decision making in my own life since high school. What I wanted to do, and what I wanted to achieve. I like to be different from what other people do.
First of all, why I am a standout is because I AM SUPER CUTE WHEN I WAS A BABY!
Don’t believe me? See for yourself! hahaha
Cute?
I always wanted to become a pilot since young. That ambition came because I always traveled with my mom all over Asia Pacific. Then it came upon one day I had a chance to visit the cockpit of AirAsia flight when I was going to Kota Kinabalu. Since I can’t become a pilot, at least I manage to get into the restricted area of an aircraft. (pretty much restricted since 9/11). Okay lah many others did enter before lah, but not many ma…
Flying with the Captain…
Back in high school, I was the most stand out in class! I scored like 5As 2Bs in PMR. That score put me in science class and it is the first science class summore! We got Science 1 and Science 2. Damn good right? Nope that’s not it. I was even more standout when I was in Science 1 class. I slept during classes, I skip classes with excuse of prefect duties, oh I skip classes for Tennis games also.
Best part of all, I was number 1 in class! From the back… Hahaha. OMG! What a shame but I am still proud, because I pass my SPM! Hmmmphhh!!
OMG! Look at the Gangster me!
During college even better. I remember this fondly and I will not forget this. There was this MAPCU Scholarship being offered in college for Tourism Management studies. I applied and I got this 100% Scholarship. Why am I so proud? Because, I went against another student who got 10 A1s and I only have 1 A1 in my result with a lot of other numbers. Whoa! Proud! (Bragging session #1). Then I got this Marc Combes Award during Diploma.
2004 and 2005 recipient of the award.
Oh.. also, I’ve been to Maldives. I am so proud to say this because not many people have been to Maldives. OMG! (Bragging session #2) muahahha.. Right Nadia? Right? Right? hahaha
I never like dress up for parties, but somehow I did manage to dress up for the previous two parties by Nuffnang. The Nuffnang Music Bash and the recent LG Blog Launch. The semangatness. I should dress up better lah. I would say, standout among many, but for the LG Blog Launch compared to Robb as an Angel, cannot lah… Lucky I didn’t go as a Devil. Red Mummy! That crazy woman!
Then once I joined this Chipster contest by doing some stupid things just to win. Stupid things like this photo I took. Superb right? hahaha
Earlier this year, I spent my birthday with the less fortunate. Even more surprise that Jade Chan wrote an article in Star Metro out of it. One for the books definitely. Decided to do something different during my birthday. 
I personally like this moment the best and it strikes off one item in my 2009 to do list.
That’s Christina the 6yr old, Simon the 2yr old and Jacob the 13yrold…
And being a blogger, I am a standout too! Because I am part of the DGMB. Now that stands for Definitely Gang, Maybe Bang. Come on, you gotta be super damn cool to be part of DGMB and DGMB consist no more than 17 people. Those who have once came for our events would be considered cool too, because they joined our events and gatherings. So yes, I am a standout as a blogger thanks to DGMB and thanks to Nuffnang also lah because without Nuffnang, I wouldn’t have met the other 16 DGMBians. 
Hmmm… what else? Let’s see in my career. I would definitely say that I am a standout amongst my friends in my age in the same industry I am in. I joined the workforce in 2006 after finishing my Higher Diploma in 2005. A decision which was tough but I had to.
Working from bottom and a blink of an eye, this year is my fourth year working with this company. Meeting clients, they say I am very successful in this age while I just shrug it off as it is a matter of hard work that paid off well. This year also I’ve got an award from The Company. It is a Gold Performer Award and I’m the first recipient of the award. Proud? Of course I am!
Last reason why I am a standout is that recently a Senior Manager of an Oil & Gas company came to me offering me a job that pays me double of what I am getting now. He said “I can see you can a better job compared to anyone else I’ve met“. I politely declined. (Who would be so stupid to push it away right? There, this blogger la by the name of YapThomas.) I for one does not want to look into salary for now. I want to look for an experience which I don’t get anywhere else. Which is why I am staying with my The Company.
There are just so much more to list but, these are the few that pretty much says why I am a Stand Out among the rest within my league. Oh please don’t compare me to some other top notch big timer lah. Cannot lah like that. Not balance wei….
You tell me… all the above… am I a standout?
This is an entry to Tiger and Nuffnang Standout Party…
Come on Nuffnang, gimme invite just because I AM A STAND OUT!!!
Just Not Yours…
Apr 27th
Have it occured to you that you want to hold on to something which you feel that you should, because you felt that it is worth holding on to?
Be it a relationship, work, friendship, family, your old junk car, your childhood toy, a business or whatsoever it may be.
I have been holding on… so much because I know it is worth fighting for. It is worth the investment of my time and energy into it. So many things. I do. But I learn it the hard way. Real hard way.
Today, reality strikes, even harder.
Because it has now clearly written right on my face that,
What’s not yours to keep, is just not yours.
or something similar
What’s not your rice bowl, don’t bother asking for it.
or even something similar
What’s not worth your time, definitely not worth investing in it.
But sometimes, I digress. I feel that, I can go against these simple principle. And everytime I do, I lay face flat on the ground. No. Not crying, even. Just re-thinking,
“What the hell am I even doing?”
Because, I held on to these principle to counter the above,
What doesn’t kills you, just makes you stronger.
I’m sure I can walk it through.. very sure!
The Weekend In Pictures
Mar 22nd
Just a record for both March 21st and 22nd… I’m still in chilaxin’ mode. I’ll tell why.
Pictures first.
Did a crazy test on Friday after work. Hook up my Celcom broadband to my laptop in the car. Drive all the way from KL back to Sunway. Passing through Smart Tunnel and NPE, reaching Sunway. It stayed connected 95% of the duration of the drive. Wicked!!
Played “doctor” gastronomy during the day on Saturday 21st March.
Went to Ikea to check out some bedroom furniture at night. Not a total disappointing visit tho..
Sunday is a chilaxin’ day and this is what I had for tea, completed by Jolly Shandy. I’ve got few more cans to go that will last me another 2-3 weekends. Yes, I have tea time on Sundays. Only when I’m back in Klang.
I have been very disciplined. I told myself to take a break. So I did. Sunday was my break day. I wanted so much to hang out, but the inner me told myself
“Shut up! Sit home! Relax! Chill! Play with your nephews! Your dog! and ROT!“
Which was pretty much what sums up my Sunday… That my friends, is call LIFE!
Life for those who work in a crazy working environment… -_-
Okay… I’m gonna go back to chilling. That’s all for today.
More to update on Monday and Monday is sure gonna be a crazy day for me.
Kenny Roger’s The Gambler
Mar 8th
Good Sunday everyone. The past 24 hours has been a great one.
Let me present to you this wonderful song…
The Gambler by Kenny Roger
On a warm summers evenin on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin out the window at the darkness
til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.
He said, son, Ive made a life out of readin peoples faces,
And knowin what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
So if you dont mind my sayin, I can see youre out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey Ill give you some advice.
So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, if youre gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.
You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.
Now evry gambler knows that the secret to survivin
Is knowin what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
cause evry hands a winner and evry hands a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.
So when hed finished speakin, he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.
You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.
You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.
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Love it?
Time to head home… *babbosssh!*
The Distance
Feb 27th
PartTimeGF SMS me one fine evening and said:
“Dear part time bf, sorry ya, me busy lately, will keep u update on lunch plane (no error here, she wrote that!). Remember i always miss u. U know y always msg u when u not in kl? (You didn’t msg. You called!
[Canton] Lam Dou Pei ah…!!!
Hahahahaha
I sure hope she deletes that message of her sent box or else her BF find out…
Or else…
The next time you see me in the front page of the news, you will know that I survived her BF’s torture. Muahahahaha -_”
How I became a part time BF? Say, it’s a training programme. For the better of the two of us.
Don’t you know sharing is caring? But I guess she has the most sharing than I do. Maybe I have my fair bit of sharing as well, but it has been a while, BECAUSE SHE ALWAYS REJECTS MY LUNCH REQUEST!!! Grrr… Okay. She is busy. I understand. I totally understand that, when a woman is busy with her work or anything she does, you DO NOT interfere. Not until they pause from what they are so busy about and reach for you.
Else, you will sure kena hamtam kao kao mati khong kha khiao…
But, back to the message…
I sure wish and hope that distance makes the heart fonder…
Distance has a lot of meaning in it. Just how you view distance as a length of time or just distance.
But oh wells. Hope is what makes your life goes on. Eh?
An Ear and Some Words
Feb 11th
So back to my this post of thoughts and pondering…
“It is just inhuman to be cold”
If I am not mistaken, that statement was taken from the movie, The Prestige.
I have lived a life, where I’ve seen women being ill-treated as mere slaves of man.
A woman deserves to be treated equally in any manner how a man is being treated. Okay, maybe not how a man is being treated, cause not all man are treated well either. I think the point is to treat woman as a human to begin with. They are such a delicate being and uttermost, they deserve every respect from any man or any other woman.
Everytime, I hear real true story about how women are being ill-treated by their partners, or rather families…
It saddens me big time as some of them are friends whom I cherish, but I can’t do much. Well, you don’t really wanna put your hands into these kinda matters because, you either patch things up, or just destroy the many years of friendship.
Let’s put it in a scenario of a relationship, which is more common.
When you love a woman, you love her wholeheartedly.
You do not treat her as the subject of your abuse either physically or verbally. Never even you must take the woman you love for granted and never you forsaken her true love to you with your misbehavior behind her back.
It is traumatizing, and I am truly amaze how some woman can stand these inhuman acts of their man. Really! If it’s not damaging enough now, imagine if there were to be kids around them later on in their life?
I’ve seen with my own eyes, a friend who treats his women like slaves. Yes, that’s right, women. Five of them. He even has his own time to bring each one out at different day of the week without the others’ knowledge. His women listens to him like a dog, and obey his every word, even how bad he treats them. In the end, I think, maybe, the monies and sex? patch things up. I’ve never heard a word from this guy for years now as I have decided, this kind of friend is not worth keeping.
I’ve even heard and known about relationships where the man would throw tantrums at her, he would ‘threaten’ to end the relationship, he would ignore her words and many more one could never even imagine. It is those kind of relationship which the woman has the most disadvantages but she still keeps on struggling to make it work. I don’t see a point.
When I see and hear any inhuman acts of either women or men, I somehow would relate them straight to their parents. Because I believe that, how a person carries himself in their life is all thanks to their parents. Why I say parents? Let’s just put it that, I’ve seen quite to enough to put it that way. It’s the home and upbringing of a person that contributes a certain percentage towards a person’s character.
I ain’t no expert in the field of love and relationship but hey, you don’t need to be an expert to learn these acts of being a gentleman and loving the woman of your life wholeheartedly.
Why these kind of cold blooded men exist around us? To keep the yin and yang?
Sigh…
All these is happening around me…
and…
All I can do is lend an ear and share some words…
Turning Point in Life
Feb 7th
It always come to a point where I will sit down and reflect on what I have accomplish in life and what I would want to accomplish and of course, the dreams…
There is a lot of turning points I made throughout my years and regrets?
I have not much but a little.
What spark my thoughts is that I’m reading Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The thoughts was:
What kind of life would I want to lead till I see my very own silver hair?
Some friends and even families during this Chinese New Year said that I am very successful at this age of mine. Successful? Hmmm… I still have a long way to go.
I can see a big difference. Very huge difference and what really change the way I see things and what really change the way I want to lead my life is all because of
“Family & Friends”
It was where I came from, how I was brought up, whom I mix with and whom I learn my knowledge from.
I have seen many things which many would have not gone into. Made many mistakes which has caused me miseries, friendships and monetary.
I think, the past 20 years I have done so much that it is time to decide what I eventually want in my life.
I want the kind of life which is within my RICH list.
What is RICH?
Rich in Happiness
Rich in Health
Rich of Families and Friends
Rich in Wealth
I want to have a good happy life with both families and friends around me.
I want a family of my own where my wife will be the most understanding person.
The same person whom I will devote my loyalty and love till death do us apart.
A life where I am healthy to see 5 generations pass by me. I think I can do this. I’m done with smoking. Has already cut a lot in drinking and well… I’m becoming more healthy. No?
A life where I have wealth to sustain my everyday living. Can’t deny that everything around us needs money. Roti canai is alreayd 60cents! Gosh!!
And ultimately, I want to own my own business one day. 
That will be my ultimate success lah… Come on. I don’t want to be working for someone else all my life!
Now, is just learning process. Learn from others and then build your own empire later on. Haven’t you heard of The Art of Leeching? No? Tsk! Tsk! Come, learn it from YapThomas. Fee is very small. Questions should be pointed to my email address.
Guess, that pretty much sums it all eh?
*I must keep one post a day, so this is a Saturday Night scheduled post *
Love Really Is A Battlefield
Feb 6th
Hmmm…
“The difference is, in battle you’re suppose to shoot all your ammo at once and annihilate the other side. In love, sometimes you just got to hold you fire a little and see what happens.”
“Maybe the key in survival in love and war is balance.”
(Samantha Who? Season 1, Episode 9)
Six more episodes to go and I’m done for Season 1.
Shit! This is not helping with my pending reports.
Big thanks to those who got me hooked with U-Torrent and Samantha Who?
I’ve came thus far, and I shall complete what I’ve started…
