I'm back!!!!!

Hello! It is soo good to be back!!! I am now the PROUD owner of a brand, spanking new HP DV2 Pavilon Entertainment PC!!!! Not netbook, mind you......Its soo cute, shining, gleaming and sleek.......I'mmmm sooo in luvvvvvv......

Hahahah!!! That is soo pathetic but true. But that's life back here. It was quite a major readjustment, there are good, also some not so good...Of course life was more 'happening' in HK but this is home. There are ups and downs, I have learnt to change my style, slow down the pace a bit, get use to more and more solitatry confinements in my room but despite that, also have to be more generous with my time for my parents.

Finally now, I have a new companion. Thanks to the persuasive power of credit payments....I am not so lonely and bored (till I cAN DIE!) anymore....

IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK!!!!!!!!

Welcome Mr Foo!

‘Your blog funny la’…..I take that as a compliment, coming from one of my editorial team members. Its nice to know what you write is being appreciated. Oh well….like I said earlier, this is just an avenue for me to voice my thoughts, feelings and experience, be it good or bad, happy, sad or bored……

Thank you my dear Foo. Thank you for taking the time to read my jumbled manglish writings. But I supposed after reading all your scientific documents all day long, you DO need to look at something light and inconsequential (trying for a bombastic word here) to clear your thoughts. I'm glad to offer that service to you....

I’ll try to try write more but I realize it is harder here in KL compared to doing it in HK. Hence the long gap of silence.... Reason being because in HK, I was mostly in on my own and had time in between working hours (in office) to write…but here….well…there is always something to do and we seem to be talking all the time! There is not much time to pen my thoughts down and update my blog…

Anyway….thank you for the motivation!

Ms Wannabee will put more efforts to jot down her wannabee dreams and activities...hehehe...

Eating and putting on weight

What can I say.....I love to eat!

Ever since coming back, I have been eating non-stop. The selera is just there and despite warnings, scoldings and all the teguran-teguran and the ever increasing tightening of all my clothing items.... I still can't seem to curb my appetite. Just can't get over my love for carbo-rich food!

I know I should slow down and start to take care of my once 'slim and svelte hour-glass figure' (HAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!) but I just can't seem to do it!!!

Coming back is not a good thing either. For the past month it was catching up with all the food that I did not get to eat.

Not that I did not eat in HK, mind you. My dear Bard, bless him has also been feeding me and responsible for my tembam face :)-
And now, being back here......coupled with indulgent family (mom who like everything goreng-goreng and masak lemak...) and having kaki makan as friends.......i'm just like a drug addict... getting from bad to worse. How can I stop myself????

And with all these eating, came the 'bulge' or spare tyres around the waist area. I thought only men get that as they grow older or those women who has given birth. I'm a female and has never went thru any giving-birth experience...and now....I have those bulge...sigh....

Is this a sign of aging? Is age cathing up??? I've been talking to friends and we all seems to have the same problems. The 'bulge' ain't bulging anywhere....

Before...if we cut down on a day meal or two, we are back at our 'ideal' weight and size but now...it would take longer time, possibly a month or two of fasting and serious workouts to get rid of those bulge and spare-tyres, expecially at the waist area.


But despite this moans and groans, at the same time...I'm still eating and enjoying my meals. And if I'm not eating, I'm meditating in front of the tv or sleeping.

Perfect workout for slimming down.... or, shold I say, 'slimming up'??
Can't blame anyone else but me! me! me!


Oh well.....another excuse to shop for new clothes.....

At least I'm eating healthy food........Yeah...that's what I keep telling myself.....burp!

The Prodigal Daughter Returns

Yeah....I'm back in tanah air tercinta.....back for good?? OR....

Until the next good offer comes along??? OR...

Until somebody foreign, good looking, successful, rich, sensitive new age kinda guy, independant (and not overly attached to his family especially his mom) whisk me off my dainty feet (yes! size 5.5 can still be considered daity okayyy) in his private jet (oh alright...., I'll settle for Business Class in commercial aircraft) and take me back to his homeland far, far away from here......(maybe to his chateau or palace perhaps??).....

Who knows eh??? There is always a possibility of that happening.....hahaha!!!!


And so for the time being, I'll stay put, be a good daughter, sister, aunty and employee. Oh...and also employer, since I have also just engaged a full-time domestic helper in the house. Oh yes....we are moving up..


Coming back to the office here is not much different either. I'm back in the same office with same colleagues. For the past weeks I've had more laughters (in the office here) than I had for the past 2 years in HK office. Can't say it was a bad experience, there were some good times too and some good people that I love. But its just different.....in KL, my colleagues are my extended family.

Yeah, have to say that it is good to be back......by today, my third week of being home, it feels like I've never been away!

The weather has been relentlessly hot and scorching since i arrived. Had I arrive in July it wouldn't have been too bad when its the height of summer in HK but i left HK when it was just a pleasant 20-24degrees celcius and arriving in KL, it was 32degrees! So hot!!!!

Having the fan and aircond in full blast only made matters worse. The moment you are out of the room or out of shower, you are engulf in hot, dry heat and you will just start to sweat like in sauna. Urgh!!! Sooo uncomfortable!

But....as usual........just as I was about to get used to the heat again....it started raining. S0 at least it's quite cool again. Sometimes, the rain came down in heavy downpours and windy...in HK, it would have been classified as Typhoon 3 or more or the coloured warning flags would have been hoisted.

In KL, noooo such warnings and the next thing you know....flash floods and horrendous traffic jams!!!

Talking of traffic jams, how can I forget!!!! After 2 years, an election and a new Prime Minister, it is still the same.......Federal Highway is chop-a-block with bumper to bumper vehicles day and night.

There is also a new highway behind my house, technically just next to my bedroom window. It is called Duke Highway that links somewhere to somewhere----- I can hear vehicles whizzing pass around the clock. But thanks to HK, I am used to the noise now.

My parents, poor them are still trying to get used to the traffic sounds and complaint can't sleep....I, on the other hand....despite the noise and all, cocconed under my tatty old blanket and comfortable mattress......can sleep all night long and all day long...........

I guess that is something that my parents realised never change about their one and only daughter whenever she comes home......she can sleep like a log.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

And the prodigal daughter is finally home!

PS: Dear Karen.....Thanks for the title :)-

The Central view with Kowloon in the horizon from the Grand Panorama

MTM friends at Ma Restaurant (the Art deco building at the back is a heritage building)

Thanks for coming along Rick & Wilson




A great day with the greatest companions

Shek-O, one of the best beaches in HK

Night views from the Peak

The standard HK pose

A sweet ending to a perfect day

My 2 weeks worth of properties prior to leaving

The farewell committee

Farewell Hong Kong....I'll be back !!!!!!!!!

Farewell Hong Kong

Prologue....Good bye Hong Kong.

How time flies....after 2 years enjoying life as a single, independant, successful (hhmm...hmmm...) woman of the millenium in the vibrant city of Hong Kong, I am being called back home to Kuala Lumpur.

I didn't expect to be sooo well-liked to deserve even a party but surprisingly.....I was in for a few pleasant surprises. There were a few rounds of farewell parties that I did not expect to have and I came back with a bagful of little gifts and trinkets from well meaning friends and colleagues.

A million thanks to the my friends, colleagues and ex-colleagues for brigthening up my life especially the past 2 years. Thank you also for your kind notes and messages to bid me farewell and made my daily life bearable. To the 'local' friends, I'm glad to show you the parts of HK that you didn't know existed (dinsum at the canteen mosque, Ma's restaurant...). Live and learn my friends....

However, can't truly say that the past 2 years have been perfect and rosy either....but I shall not dwell on the bad times or the individuals that have crossed my path the wrong way...Those are best forgotten. Live and learn.....remember the good times, forget the bad times.

I was very happy and deeply touched with my final moments in Hong Kong....

Beautiful days with clear blue sky + company of my beloved and trusted friends = Priceless memories......

Not even the prospect of potential quarantine due to the swine flu could mar good spirit.

Fare'thee well Hong Kong.............

Ms Wannabee left Hong Kong on 03 May, 2007 on CX 721 with fond memories of her favourite places, shops and friends. Fear not......this is not the last of her. She will be back again!!!!!!!!!!!

The farewell festivities......

As John Denver said,

All my bags are packed ...I'm ready to go....

Well....most of my bags are packed and I'm ready to go but I have a few more days left....the bulk of the items have been packed, picked up by the movers and most probably sitting in a container on some ship heading to Port Klang. I only have 10 days worth of clothings, couple of shoes and 2 bags with me waiting for my actual departure which should be on 3rd May.

We finally moved out of the the Vantage Park apartment a week back. I'm used to moving up and about all my life so it wasn't that melancholy. However, a week before we moved out, we had our last small dinner at the house. That was quite funny coz earlier that day the table had been sold and picked up and when our guests came....it was dining a'la Japanese style.

Luckily I had my big Shinco TV box and that doubled as our dining table. The irony of it, we started our first 'dinner' do on that table box 2 years ago with Samantha and friends who came over from KL as our first dinner guests and we had our last dinner using that box as well.

As they say.....back to basics.....

Finally we gave our respective house keys (sob..sob...) back to our landlord and got our rental deposit back (hurrah!!!). Thank GOD for that!!!! It helped to pay my income tax. I managed to break even my stay here. Mind you, i should have saved so HKDDDSSSSSS after being here for 2 years but unfortuntaely....i feel that it is my duty to contribute to the HK economy. Its a win-win situation....i'm happy that I have managed to helped the independant boutique owners of HK and some friendly and pro-active sales girls got to make their commisions....they have earned it.

I'm glad at least I'm not in the red....(let's leave the credit card out of this okay....)

And so....the past week have been a whirlwind of catching up with old friends and colleagues. I was soo touched with all the efforts and gentures that some of my old close friends have made. It is a pleasant surprise when you never expected anything and suddenly...Voila!!! The faces you never expected to see, came all the way and surprise you.

Janet and Carmen...thank you girls! You came all the way and I truly appreciated it very much....Thanks heaps Kaman for arranging everything and giving me the idea that it will only be a quiet evening for us. Julie truly rocked the evening. Wished Naomi was there too. And had there been Philip, Sandra and Robert....we would have laughed the whole place down that night. This is the dream team to work with and among my FAV people in MTM....too bad they are not in MTM anymore....

This was followed with an indulgent and luxurious brunch at the Watermark with my 2 bestest 'girls', Kaman and Karen. A beautiful place, classy setting, delicious food, great company followed with a productive quick shopping spree .........Ms Wannabee is happy!!!

And so...the farewell do's shall continue till Ms Wannabes's last day in Hong Kong.....


Kaman and Karen showing off thier 'gifts'...

My and my girls....