presenting to you the newest family member

next, need to upgrade the handphone.
i'm such a gadget freak...

if it's free, i'm there

last year
this year :



for this snaking queue, it took less than 30 min for me to get to the end point.

this 'cow' starts dancing when you put some money in the box it's standing on.

my 'loot', chocolate fudge brownie

i got me a new toy

last night, the sister and me braved the IT Show crowd to look for a bargain for a new tv and a new toy for myself.
the night ended with getting a pretty good deal on a new tv set and a new toy for me.
here's my new toy :

it was a little sad to part with the old toy but this one was too tempting to resist. besides, i've not spent on anything major for myself lately. the old toy will be passed on to a new owner very soon.

for you, a thousand times over

i have just finished reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. the story is not a very heavy read, but it is just filled with so much emotions. the movie's already out, but i don't know if i want to watch it.
i have been reading quite a lot lately. reading books made into movies to be exact. movies don't do much justice to books in my opinion. while it can potray the scenery and settings of the story, it doesn't really bring the true emotion of the book through. some movies even omit certain parts to keep the movie at a time limit.
take for example, Harry Potter. watching the movie after reading the book is such a disappointment. the movie is like another dimension. it only extracted some key points from the books and leaves out the reason behind it. certain characters who were potrayed prominently in the book were not in the movie version of the series.
given a choice of a movie or a book, i'd pick the book. nothing beats the feeling of immersing yourself into a book. it's like the world doesn't matter just for that moment while you have the book in your hand.
i've got my next read in hand. will be starting on it very soon.

desires

i have a new object of desire now. i know what i want to get for my birthday. it's in 3 months time so i have enough time to save up for it.
yes, i get my own presents. it's better to get your own since you know exactly what you want. besides, this is too expensive to accept from others.
anyway, COMEX starts today. i'm so there to go drooling and desiring for more gadgets.
anybody wanna join me?

still hanging around

hello!!! i've been gone too long from here. i actually missed writing.

last week, this :

was on. this was what i really needed to perk me up. so, yours truly went ahead and lined up for that free cone. within an hour, i found myself in the line again and got myself another cone.

these were what i got :

(Chunky Monkey)(Sweet Cream & Cookies)

the sister called me a cheapskate, but hey, why should i refuse if i'm offered something. rezki jangan ditolak.

i'm also happy today. i remembered that the fee for one of my credit card is due this month. made a call to the card centre and got the fee waived.

anyone of you who has credit cards, take note. as long as you pay your bills on time, the bank will happily waive the fee upon request. just ask for it. i got this info from an ex-colleague who has friends working in a bank and from some newspaper report sometime back.

a quarter of 2007 is almost over. time really flies so fast. where did the last 10 years go? i feel like i'm still lost somewhere out there. heheh...

the next thing is, i've fallen in lurve. so hard and i'm almost obsessing about it.

i'm in lurve with this:

since my digicam's gone bonkers, i think this is a good substitute for the time being. maybe end of the year i'll get a digital SLR camera if the budget permits.