Day 40 - First Try at Hybrid!

Can you believe it? I finally did something that is hybrid, thanks to the Random Hybrid challenges at SSD. Well, it's just a small and simple card but I'm already looking forward to do more. :D

Day 29 - Reading Cecelia Ahern!

Yet another random shot. Here's a book that I am currently reading: A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern. I love her. There's just something about her writing that I love, it helps me imagine stuff that I wouldn't have imagined otherwise. Like in this book, the main character went to a place where missing things go. Interesting huh?

Anyway, I borrowed this book from Bharathi, one of my colleagues. She's my reading buddy now. She borrowed my books and I'm borrowing hers. :)

Day 28 - Sweet!

I was in a pissy mood, so I enjoyed some of these candies I bought from Famous Amos last night. It's awesome!!

Why was I in a pissy mood? I was working on some work-related stuff when something went wrong with Word and I was not able to save it, despite the fact that I had been saving it religiously beforehand. Ugh!!

Day 27 - Candy Obsession

Nothing interesting happened today, so here's a random shot of my current favorite candy. My brother once asked me whether I bought this candy by the bulk cos there's always this little container around. LOL!!

Day 24 - Nephew & Niece's Day!!

I went to sleep last night with a headache and woke up with one too. Ugh, it sucks! So I spent the day in bed just lying around and watching Felicity. But my brothers came home today so seeing my nephew and niece are definitely the highlight of my day..

My eldest brother and his family just stopped over on the way back to his wife's hometown, so we get to spend some time with my cute nephew, who now gets very (and I do mean VERY) excited when it comes to feeding the fishes. He's obsessed, just like my niece was. And he loves getting his feet dipped in the water.. :)

Then, later on my 2nd brother came over and will be staying the night, which is gonna be fun cos I really miss my niece. She was happily playing around with my sister's IPhone and I was reminded of the time when she was a baby and loves playing with cellphones.

She also boasted about being able to write the alphabet 'A' now. She proudly showed me how she wrote the uppercase 'A' (that took almost a page by the way), so I asked her whether she could write the lowercase 'A', so she wrote a small, tiny, weeny uppercase 'A'. LOL!

Day 22 - My Expertise

A few students came into the office today looking for their lecturer (my officemate, Dash), wanting to buy books for their Intermediate Grammar class. She was not there, so I told them to come back later. Because I taught them Basic Grammar last semester, they assumed I'm teaching a Grammar subject as well for this semester, so they asked whether they can the books from me. But I didn't, so I told them that I had gone back to my expertise, teaching Writing. When I said that, I guess I realized that I had found the reason why I was so miserable last semester. I love learning about grammar but I hate teaching about them. Writing, on the other hand, is different. I love learning about writing and I love teaching them. It's a familiar subject to me, where everything fits and I don't really have to find the reasons of everything, just in case the students decided to be a smart ass and asked about why the rules is this way and the rules is that way. :D

Day 21 - Multi-tasking!

This is basically how I spent my nights nowadays: scrapping while watching some kind of TV shows or movies on the laptop. Right now I'm watching Felicity. I know it's an old show from early 2000 but I've never watched this show before and now is the time to do so. I know that people seem to think that it's pointless to watch something while you're doing something but I guess that's just the way I am, I like to do multiple things at the same time. Well, some of the time anyway.

Day 19 - The Time Part 2

This is one of my prized possession. I know, crazy to say that a watch is a prized possession but I always felt naked without a watch and this watch is just perfect, just nice. It's not too big, not too small either. I have had this watch since about two years ago, when I got it from my dad as a birthday present. Last year, a couple of months before my birthday, I misplaced it and it got lost. Around that time, I was already thinking of asking my dad for another watch, but guess what?My mom found it in one of the drawers JUST before my birthday. LOL!

Day 18 - On My Way To Town...

Took this photo on the way to town to bring the car for a wash. Hung out with my sisters before that and that was always fun! :)

Day 15 - Time

Look at the time! It was 8.15am when I shot this photo, never mind the fact that I was already late for work and I was about 20 minutes away from my workplace. I guess one of the things that I love about my work is the flexible hours. Eventhough it formally says that working hours start at 8.15am, but it's still okay if we come a little bit late.

Day 14 - Happy Retirement, Dad!

After years and years of working with KTM, my dad's working stint with them ended today. Here's a photo of all his stuff that he took back after cleaning up his office room. He had had a great time serving the company and now is the time for him to sit back and relax. But knowing my dad, he wouldn't be able to keep quiet at all. He already has a few jobs lined up for him and being a workaholic he is, he's totally ready to embrace the working life again, but moderately this time around. Whatever it is, I just wish that he would be happy with whatever decision he makes.

Day 13 - Cross Country!

I was driving on my way back from work when I caught this sight. Stuck in a jam, I quickly whipped out the camera and shot this shot. They are actually school kids who just came out of the school compound for their annual cross country race. I remembered taking part in one, back in the days when I was still in school and it's compulsory for us to do this thing.

Day 12 - Faculty of...HELL!

Out of all the faculties in the university, Faculty of Engineering is not exactly my favourite place. I always dreaded it at the start of semester when I found out that I would have to teach students from that faculty. Not to overgeneralize or anything stupid like that but I have always had some kind of problems while teaching students from this faculty.

Day 11 - Bonded

In my opinion, there's really nothing sweeter than seeing Azfar so close with his uncle.. It's so obvious that they both adored each other.. :)

Day 10 - What A Full (and Wonderful) Day!!

The day started early!! I had Stats class first thing in the morning, came back and played around with my niece and nephew, then later on went to celebrate my dad's birthday. It's an early celebration because his birthday is gonna be on the 14th Jan and since it's the middle of the week, it would be very hard to gather everyone together, so we just decided to celebrate it tonight. There are so many photos that could have defined the day but these two really stood out!

Just the other day, I was thinking that it had been awhile since Syara (my niece) asked me to play with a camera. Today, she asked me for the 'small camera', the point & shoot that my sister had been using. So I gave it to her and watched her took pictures of my sister, her cousin and random stuff that she deemed beautiful. It was really funny to see her like that, the way she would instruct her 1 year old cousin to smile, not to go too fast so that she could capture him, etc, etc. When I plugged in the card to transfer some photos, I was expecting to see shots of Azfar's head getting cut off, his backside, just the face, etc, etc, but definitely not THIS!! It's cute, huh?? I was surprised that she managed to capture this. And oh, please ignore the red light thingie. That's what happened when she half-covered the flash with her fingers. I first thought of editing the photo to take away the red light thingy, but this was how it happened and I don't think I'm gonna edit it out.. :)

And here's my second photo of the day. This is the place where we went to have my dad's birthday dinner. Mum insisted on coming here and we had no idea why at first, until it was the time to go and Dad told us that it was the first place that my parents went for a date. She would come over to KL from her hometown and would leave my very young uncle with her eldest sister and go on a date with Dad. Sweet! So glad that we could share this moment together as a family.. :)

Day 9 - Reading!

I love reading! In fact, I have always loved it, even as a child and remembered asking for a stack for Enid Blyton's books for my 6th birthday. But lately, I haven't done that much reading due to time constraint. Sometimes I bought books with the intention of reading them straight away but never did. It would always be a while before I get to finish the books.

Dash, Kala and Thina picked me up at 11.30 am so that we can go for our classes together. The class is not until 3pm but they had to go and clean up the room they rented in PJ, so they dropped me off at the faculty and went to the house. While waiting for them, here's the book that I read. Thankfully it kept me company until 2pm when Sundari showed up and we had a chat.. :)

Day 8 - Office Communication

I remembered on the very first day that I reported for duty back in August 2007, Ms. Kim (she was one of the Head of Programme of the faculty) told us to install Skype on our computers so that it's easier to communicate since we couldn't have individual phones in our office. Skype was the only choice back then cos somehow Yahoo! Messengers couldn't be installed (but we later found a way to remedy that). Since then, me and my officemates had been communicating through Skype instead of just going to each other's offices. Well, sometimes we do that too, but most of the time, we just Skype each other, which is kinda funny cos our offices are just a few steps away from each other.. I even Skype-d with Dash who is sitting directly in front of me. We would do it if we want to gossip and didn't want anybody else to know, especially if there are students or other people in our room. Each day, I look forward to that kind of communication... Sad, I know.. :)

Day 7 - Music = Soul

Here's a photo of my 'music player' playing one of the songs by an artist I'm currently listening to: Kate Voegele. Love her!! Anyway, one thing that I love about driving to work is the fact that I get to crank up the music in the car and sing my heart out, without anyone caring what I do and what I sound like. I guess that was why I didn't like it if anyone is in the car with me during that time. I usually use that 40 minutes as a me-time, to psych myself for what lies ahead. I'm using my cellphone as the music player cos radio sucks and I love being able to listen to what I want. I guess I never got around to burn a CD of my favourite music or something. :D

Day 6 - The Bed is Made!

I was wondering what kind of photo to take after a long day at work (where I do nothing, except for scrap and watch movies by the way) when I entered my room and was greeted with this sight. Hey, there's actually a bed there!!

Well, I make the bed every morning but there's always a pile of stuff on it, like my laptop, books, magazines, hair clips, etc, etc, but I guess that was the way I like it cos it's easier to reach for stuff. But today, our helper came, so she tidied up for us, hence this sight, which I love! But knowing me, it will only take a matter of minutes to mess it up again. Oh well...

I'm off to go and watch the latest One Tree Hill episode! I'm so addicted to that show...

Day 5 - Water on the mirror

The day did not start well at all! It was foggy, making it VERY hard to drive and it makes me feel as if I'm in Forks. LOL!! School is starting too so the route that I take to go to work in congested, which makes it even harder to drive. I hate days like these.

It's a good day at work today though. A group of my diploma students came and we chatted for a bit. They will be going out for their teaching practice next semester and I am so gonna miss them. Love those kids. There are only 4 years of age difference between us, so that's cool. They still respected me as their teacher, but at the same time, we're free to talk about anything we want. And there was no class at all today because there was some problem with the timetables and all, and apart from an hour meeting with my superior (or at least one of them), I was just sitting in my office and scrapping while watching a movie. LOL! What a life I lead huh? But this won't last long. Work will be piling up in no time, I can guarantee that.

Anyway, it was quite sunny today but towards the end of the working day, it started to rain. I love rain!! Well, I used to hate it when it rained cos I used to take a road that is always full of mud so by the end of the day, my car would always look like a tractor than the cute little car it is. But a couple of months ago, a friend of mine showed another way to go to the campus (via the bridge over the river), so I had been taking that road instead and my car stayed clean for a long time compared to last time.

Here's a photo that I took while waiting to get on the bridge. It's a small bridge and can only allow one side of the traffic to go through while the other side have to wait. See the cars waiting behind me? The line had never been that long before!!