Orisinal

Yee, this is how online gaming should be: beautiful, simple and understated. Every element on this website is so well-made, so adorably cute, it's hard not to love every bit of it. Even little things like making a flower arrangement to send to someone, who would have thought? I just want to know, who is this Ferry Halim, and where did he or she come up with such inspirational art? If you're going to visit this site, here are my picks in no particular order:

High Delivery - my all time favourite
Monkeyslide
Wake up calls
Cats
Firedragon
The Pond
Fishball
Bauns
It Takes Two
The Perilous Voyage
Bumble Bees
Floats
Snowbowling
The Three Monkeys
The Truth is Up There

Each one is like a different chocolate in a chocolate box. They're so sweet!

So bored...

I didn't have anything else to do on the weekend, so I decided to create my own virtual room. It's a promotional thing by Gushers (some kind of sweet company like Starburst) and they've done a fairly good job of it, using 3D modelling.

My username is linh2010, and I'm on floor 44585 in Room 15... now that's high rise.

It's about time

I finally got a well-deserved pay rise. Yee, probably shouldn't really mention this, but still, it's not often that someone should get a reward after only 5 months of service. Then again, it does make me think whether they just felt bad about paying me so little in the first instance. I suppose it's no skin of their proverbial noses. Well, I'm glad I am getting at least close to the remuneration I deserve, particularly for my skills. I mean, I have a typing speed of 50 words per minute, I could be a legal secretary. I think that would be my next move, once I get more experience and can move on from this place. It'll be sad to leave, and this place has got some nice people in it, and it's fairly easy going. Still, the money I'm getting now, even with the rise is not going to cut it when I need to move out and/or marry. That's if... And I'm not getting any younger either. Another year or two of this I suppose. Biding my time...

On another note, I've been having conflicts with Lui and it's a hassle. I've threatened to leave, but I feel like it would be such a waste, and I'd have to start over again. I don't know, I love Lui, but sometimes I feel like we just don't connect...

Pride and Prejudice and Pride again

I'm using BlogThis! to publish this entry. I was just going to talk about the movie Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley. She's so pretty, and at first I was hesitant about watching that sort of movie, thinking that it's going to be another dry interpretation of a period novel. But I was wrong, and it was quite good actually. It makes me want to read Jane Austen's novels. In fact, I've always wanted to read the classics, just never had the time to.

Which leads me to say, ironically, that I've bought a book entitled "50 things you've wanted to know about global issues, but were too afraid to ask" by yet another political correspondent. What attracted me to this book was its frank, earnest views, put in layman's terms. It doesn't have all the answers, but it does put some perspective on common problems. Especially finishing late from work, I often miss out on the tv news, and have to rely on other sources such as papers and the net. This book, I'm hoping will remind me what the real issues are. And, it appears, Lui was most interested in it too, as I thought he might be, by wrenching it from my hands like taking candy from a baby. He probably thinks such writings would wash over me, in a wasteful manner. Well he's probably right, but it's my book, and I've got a right to read it, and know. So there.

Which Peanuts character am I?

You are Schroeder!


Yeah, take that all you dissenters.

On another note, I actually took last Wednesday off work, for the very first time ever since I've started about 4 months ago now. I felt guilty about doing it, even though I was clearly sick with the flu. So there. And it felt good, having the time to myself, and feeling free not to do anything for once. I can't remember what I did that day, I think I just watched tv for most of the day, and ordered pizza for dinner cos I couldn't be half-arsed to cook. Good eh? Now that's luxury. Still, my parents are back now, and it's back to the same old routine of work, eat, sleep. Still, I'm not going to let that stop me from living out my life, the way I want it. I've never even thought about what I want from my life, come to think of it. Just never really occurred to me, either that, or I was either too lazy or busy to think about it. This book my best friend gave me, called Life Lessons for Women is such an eye opener. So many of the things in that book ring true for me, and I don't think I've ever been touched by a book in such a way. It's made me think about me, and my own priorities in life. I never knew I even had any. I never gave it much consideration let alone importance. But things are going to change, from now on. Starting with going out more regularly on weekends. To places I've never been to. Yee, I can't wait to chart my adventures.