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"Left, Left, Left, Right, Left" said my primary school band teacher. A whole bunch of cute and innocent primary 3 or 4 school kids followed the instruction and started to march. Their very first lesson/encounter of marching. Little did they know that LLLRL is to synchronize the speed/pace of the whole team to march. *Maybe they do not have enough of DHA when they were growing up that time, unlike the kids these days*

After a few minutes, the teacher who’s leading the cute little kids in front noticed that something is wrong. Why are the kids marching so slow? Then she decided to stop, look back at her cute troops and shouting LLLRL. When she saw how the kids were marching, she burst into laughter… It was one of the best scene and joke she can tell to her friends in her entire life!

All the cute little kids, they followed the instruction. It was "Left, Left, Left, Right, Left". So, 3 left taps stationary, right foot marching forward and finally landed with the left foot again. That is the LLLRL that the kids understand.

Yeah… I was one of the cute little kid who did that. Surprisingly, there’s over 20 of us in the school band and every single kid did the same 3 left taps stationary. I wonder what will a primary school kid who has never been introduced to marching will do during their first marching lesson. Will they still be doing the 3 left taps stationary?

*something funny to share*

A jobless man applied for the position of "office boy" at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. "You are employed." He said." Give me your e-mail address and I’ll send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start." The man replied "But I don’t have a computer, neither an email." I’m sorry", said the HR manager, "If you don’t have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesn’t exist, cannot have the job." The man left with no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10Kg tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the Operation three times, and returned home with $60. The man realized that he can survive by this Way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return late Thus, his money doubled or tripled every day. Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles. 5 years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US . He started to plan his family’s future, and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email. The man replied, "I don’t have an email". The broker answered curiously, "You don’t have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?!!" The man thought for a while and replied, "Yes, I’d be an office boy at Microsoft!"

Moral of the story:

M1 - Internet is not the solution to your life.

M2 - If you don’t have internet, and work hard, you can be a millionaire.

M3 - If you received this message by email, you are closer to being an office boy, than a millionaire.

Have a great day!!!

Pls Note: - Do not forward this email to me back, I’m closing all my email addresses & going to sell tomatoes!!! Smiling after reading is not mandatory!!!!

It was raining when my family and I came back from Ipoh visiting a relative, we decided to eat out today since both mum and I am too tired to cook up something for dinner. Guess what we saw on the menu (have to view it in my friendster photos)… Fried Chicken Meat with Salary … I felt like ordering it and telling the waitress that I want her salary at the side on a different plate and not mixed with the fried chicken. But then again, I’ve made my mistakes too (although I don’t make these kind of mistakes), so we let it go.

Dinner was lousy, although the shop’s name sound appetizing… SMELL TASTY…

Thanks to an old friend from work, I got myself some chocolates as souvenir from him from Uncle Sam. It was nicely wrapped with coloured plastic wrappers with small little wordings/description of the chocolate on it.

I don’t know if I’m trying to split hairs (according to an english teacher, this explains 鸡蛋里挑骨头 the best) here or what, but the description really confuses me.

It says "Chocolate flavored coating and chips wafer with creamy chocolate flavored filling".

1st question rushed in my mind –> How can a chocolate be chocolate flavored? I mean… It is chocolate, but it is flavored… I mean… If it’s a orange flavored yogurt, I can understand. Meaning the original yogurt taste different and the manufacturer added some chemicals/flavor to it to make it taste like orange. But why do you have to chocolate flavored a chocolate?!?!(Uploaded the prove, check it out in the photos)

I thought my mind is playing a fool with me and decided to consult another colleague of mine. Well, looks like I’m not the only one who’s confused!This colleague of mine described himself as "A Human-Looking Human" and came out with "dog-fur covered Dog with Dog filling". Well, that made up the joke of the day at work At least for a few of us…

**Consulted the trusted english teacher, she mentioned that it might not be pure chocolate that they have to ‘chocolate flavored’ it…**

*To all the workaholics, there’s something call life other than work :)*

Putting work aside, what are your life priorities? Anyone would come up with family in one of their priorities (if it’s not your 1st priority). Other than family, what are the priorities you have in your life. Think more and you start asking yourself if you have a life!

Time to think people… Live life to the fullest.

Been hibernating for a while, all sorts of reasons :- Busy with work, busy with life, no mood (yeah, ladies are moody people) or rather - When I have the mood, i don’t have the time. When I have the time, I don’t have the mood :p

Been through an incident, I ‘teik hei sam kon’ (Cantonese) to exercise at least 1/2 hour, 3 times a week. With my condition now, I think I’ll have to start with the slow exercise first, until I can swim or play learn to play Tennis again.

A warm thanks to all the friends who cared. I’m up on my feet now although still half resting at home.

So, till then. I’ll be back again soon!

Ending my assignment with Uncle Sam and returning to homeland Pearl of Orient. It has been a long flight, as you can see the o-s i have in the title. The number of Os are the number of hour i was in the cabin excluding the lay over or transit time. Yes, a very tiring and long flight.

Nonetheless, it was nice to know that i’m missed by friends and colleagues back in Penang. I’ve been receivng message from friends wishing me pleasant journey, safe journey and people telling me that they can’t wait to see me. Though not sure if they are expecting the cute and cuddly me or not

Hopefully I will recover from the jetlag soon and be up on my feet again

Till then guys! Happy whatever-you-are-doing! See you around

Have you ever come across someone who have irritating behaviour which they themselves are not aware of? Example: Some people likes to divide their sentences with "er" or "ya know" or "erm" or hamai, some people likes to play with their mouth by trapping air in it and transferring the air from their left cheek to their right… and they do it unintentionally or they are so used to do it that they don’t even realize.

I came across someone who divide his sentences with "ya know"(at places where you would use a coma and even at places where no punctuation is needed). A friend and I once counted how many of "ya know" he has in his sentence and it ended up with 6 "ya know" in a minute! It makes me think, does he even realize it? Also, makes me think if I do something similar, something that I do very often without myself noticing it.

At this point, some friends of mine will voluntarily point out to me that instead of using "ya know", I uses hamai(you have to know Cantonese to understand this one, or you just have to know me long enough). At a point of time, I used Hamai unintentionally so much that some name me as The Hamai Ranger. Even a colleague who I got to know for less than a month told me that he has me on voice dial as HAMAI. I’ll probably tell you guys more about the Hamai story some other time, I’m sure you’ll be entertained

My point? We DO do things unintentionally, try to look really hard and try to realize what you do or ask your close friends what do you do unintentionally. When you realize it, usually that puts a smile on your face. You might end up laughing at yourself too for doing that. If you’re really free, you can compile a list of things that your friends do unintentionally.

Ever since I was small, I was taught to be grateful to our parents especially to my mom who went through a lot of pain giving birth to me. Our mom put their life at risk to bring us to this beautiful world and love you unconditionally from that moment onwards. She’s the one who provided you warmth and love while you were screaming on top of your lungs in the labour room. She provided you food, make sure you’re warm and cozy, make sure you’re clean and healthy. It was her face you see when you woke up from a nightmare, it was her hand that held you when you learn to walk. She’s always there for you, walking along with you while you explore the world.

I always try to make this day her day instead of my day (at least at home, party is still on with friends to make it my day ;P). Of course, we should appreciate our mom everyday, not only on special days/occasions like mother’s day, but this is just another way of making it loud and sound for her. People make it big and loud on mother’s day, but i seldom see people think of thanking mom on their birthday. I kinda think that if you want to make a special day among your family (mother’s day is celebrated gloabally) for mom, why not make it the day she risk her life for you?

This is the 2nd time I spend my birthday at least 3000 miles away from home, this time I make it a more unique way of saying THANK YOU to mom.

Happy Birthday to myself Still have to wish myself mah, at least i do it in small font :p