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Look what I have purchased today, June 29 2008
(picture taken using my macbook built-in camera, not the EOS)
teehee.
Pardon me for the lack of update here as I have been feelin’ rather unpleasant towards work, life & even my health for the past week. Finally, after a month (or so) & a third occurrence, I drag myself to see an ophthalmologist consultant at the nearest medical centre (SMC to be exact). I know, I know, you’d probably would be saying I’m a fool now but hey, I can diagnose myself & able to solve the first 2 times of this viral infection, myself. Mwhaha.
But then I thought, this is the third infection in just 6 weeks & I still can’t get rid of the problem, so i decided to seek treatment to the specialist. I took a half day off yesterday & went to see the doctor. At first, she kinda scolded me for not seeking for a treatment earlier (oh, being a-know-it-all, I bought an anti’s from the pharmacy without any prescription from the doc, LOL). I said I’m afraid to see a doctor (OK, Soooo not true! I hate dentist though! haha, doctors are cool).
She precribed me to 2 different eye drops for 10 days & I’m not allowed to wear my contacts for 2 freakin’ weeks!
Dang. Yep, now you can see iDa with a glasses for the next 14days. Gosh I look like a nerd.
Eh, a geek.
Whatever.
1. Dusty & heaty field work to just assess 10m x 14m area for damn requirement;
2. Fucked-up meeting;
3. Stuck in a jam because some idiotic people sending SMS rumor on petrol station gonna close for 3 days.
Such a fucked-up day.
And I have yet to read the article.
(p/s: please mind my language. I’m freakin’ pissed about these especially no. 3. No reason needed. It is just dumb stupid to believe such. and IF ever it is true. Life GOES on without car. Fuck cars! Go walk on foot to work. Or cycle to your destination. If it is inconvenient, then blame it on *you know who*, go strike, or whatever).
It is just plain dumb to believe those & panic.
Had a hearty-meal slash my-favourite-cranberry-cooler-and-gourmet-chicken-&-mushroom-pie at Dome Cafe with Ren today for lunch at 1Borneo.
Too lazy to write down everything. Let’s just use photos to describe everything.
After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. 
My lunch!
Gourmet Chicken & Mushroom Pie
Dome’s Fish & Chips
After a failed attempt of shopping, we headed to the nearest stop for a coffee break. Oh I so love the high ceiling, overlooking Dome cafe & spacious area at the shop.
Yep, just opposite Dome Cafe
Me & ren chillin’
I can’t live without my venti, whip caramel macchiato
Ren with her oh-so-yummy dark mocha frap
Before heading back to the car, we drop by the shop that sells Apple products & I bought the macbook keyboard shield.
Can you see the rubber shield? it is almost transparent!
ah I’m relieved! I just came back from a meeting with one of the key people in term of environmental management in Sabah (and perhaps Asia Pacific too). Nothing much discussed though, it is just that they explained the current situation of Sabah in terms of fishes, business development, investors that willing to invest while maintaining it’s green-practice as some EU laws and regulation on international biological organism trade is getting stringent.
And they asked me, whether I am interested in the field. I said, yes. I am up to the challenge & i am willing to learn from the scratch on everything from A to Z. I love field trips too, & I am willing to do those dirty work at site, bathymetric assessment, water sampling, taxonomic identification on fishes and etc.
ah. I am just relieved. and hoping for the best. in the mean time, the weekend is mine! No more over-time, no more rush proposal, no more late-nite in the office until wee in the morning.
But, I got geological report to read this weekend though.
wargh. I need LIFE.
They wanted to read on my literature review. Oh, did I tell ya’ll that I wrote something different for my final paper as compared to typical topic like global warming, sustainable development and etc?
I did on xeriscape. A very creative way to conserve water for your landscape. Xeriscape derived from xeros & scape. At the early stage of writing, I kind of diverted to landscape designing & it is not entirely related to my degree programme. I got all my information from people that did their master degree in landscape archtecture, so what do ya expect? 
anyway. Will send my literature review to him & my laboratory report on some ecophysiology of marine organism that I did during my final semester.
I just love the laboratory report. It did give me headache & stress but that is one of my report that I can be proud of.
I am uberly exhausted from workload. Do you know that I have been working since 8 am/16 June until almost 8 am/17 June? That’s fcuking 24 hours!
and non-stop y’know! Me with my 3-inches heels running around the office, back & forth from my room to the boss office for the long-never-ending discussion & endless amendment of methodology/scope of work of the proposal.
I am emotionally-drained & physically weak. My mind unable to cope the long hours of doing the proposal but I can not just stop mid-way. I got to finish up before her 9.30 am flight to KL.
Well this is a proposal that we need to submit to Putrajaya as we are one of the consultant that have been invited to propose a study on one area (Huge ones, particularly covers 23% of the total area in Sabah). I have been given less than a week to come up with a method & ways to achieve the objectives of the study & only yesterday, 7 pm, we managed to form a whole-expert study team & then only start finalizing the proposal.
I feel that my knowledge have been squeezed out of my brain to realize the proposal submission. I was the geologist, hydrogeologist, GIS specialist, engineer, landscape architect, ecologist, and even a toxicologist. I have to think like them in order to write down their role in the team as some of them doesn’t really give me a proper scope of work.
wagh. I need a break. I need RETAIL THERAPY. PRONTO! to get me back to my usual-self.
If god permit! or if the world economy permit, or if the ‘Malaysian’ government permit (yep – astronomical tax imposed for good car *sigh*), I would love to splurge on these.
If men can have a list of dream car, why not women have a list of dream cars too, right?
I don’t normally drool over fancy car. I don’t really turns head when there is a BMW next to my car at the traffic light. But I do appreciate the craftmanship of the car. and, the technology! teehee.
1. Lexus GS 450h *wishful thinking*
2. Honda Civic Hybrid
3. Toyota Prius (ah! I so want this!)
Can you notice the resemblance of the cars listed above? teehee.
Yep. Hybrid car! and guess how expensive these hybrid car in Malaysia?
Civic 2.0S cost about 128k while Civic 1.3 Hybrid cost about 162k. argh!
Lexus GS hybrid? Prius? Not even selling in Malaysia. *sigh*
So as for now, I better stick to my old kelisa. and Im thinking of cycling to the office. *you know why*
I have been busy with the proposal. Argh.
Will be in the office this saturday & sunday to finish up the write-up.
I went to WWF to get data, been topographic-map shopping spree & endless hours on the net googling on the area.
I am stressed, and I need a break.
Introducing… the latest addition to my mac family…
The mighty mouse!
ARGHHHHHHHH….. sa mau MATI!!
I am preparing the big proposal that require endless of spatial data & I was given less than 5 days!
HELP!!!!! I’m going bonkers.
need to do the write-up.
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