Congratz

just another quickie...

i heard G got officially hitched yesterday... congratzzz!!!

looking forward to your 'garden party' this weekend... see you then... and hopefully will do a post on that soon... xoxo J

I heart Spock

16th december 2008... nearly 5 months without any updates on this site... i do wonder if anyone even bother checking whether its being updated or not after the 1st month of my absence... was going to abandon it altogether, but leave the site up... but decided to come back to blogging a month or so ago... but as luck would have it... my internet at home stop functioning... lucky me... nearly 4 weeks without internet at home... had to resort to watching my youtube channels in between work in the office... shhhhhhhh

I'm not a die hard trekkie myself... i did watch the occasional episode here and there when i was younger... but i wouldnt call myself a fan... and neither have i ever watched any of its movies... but i couldnt say no to the latest star trek movie... number one... because of the kewlie trailer...

and secondly because of zachary quinto (Sylar from Heroes)...

i dunno but all yáll... but i just think there's a certain hawtness to sylar dressing up as spock... normally the bowl haircut, pointy ears or upturned eyebrows would be a turn off... but not for sylar... yumzzz

watched the movie last week... and was pleasantly surprised at how good it was, actually i would have been more surprised if i disliked the movie... it is a J.J. Abrams film afterall... anywhooo does the movie make me want to watch star trek the series? no not really... it prolly doesnt have the same appeal... it did however motivated me to watch the season 3 of heroes over the weekend... woOt :p sad but so so what?

mmm a movie review as my (bloggie) comback?... lame u say? takin it one step at a time wor... bah laterzzz... i have work to do...

*sick* *sick* *sick* *sick* *sick* *sick*

i know i told you guys to stay tune coz i was gonna write bout me bday... but im siccckkkkk... luckily i only got sick after the celebrations hor... teehee... i tell you why im sick... and noooo its not because of all the 'partying' as you all would call it... i went for that bsm walkahunt on sunday with Papa Chong, walkahunt in btown under the hawt hawt sun... for 5 hours yaaaa...

I wasnt that prepared i must admit... i didnt wear a hat or bring an umbrella to shade meself... hell i didnt even win! but that deserves a different post altogether doesnt it...

It feels like my head is pounding! everytime i cough its as if my head would explode... this is what my typical cough sounds like... "*cough* OOOOOWWWWWWWW" it hurtsssss i tell you!!!

and tonight would be my third night sleeping with the aircon switched off... need to seriously sweat it out... and i keep replenishing as well... but maybe i sweat more than i drink loh... i didnt realise that it was that bad till today... today was my first day back to the office after a week of uninterrupted leave last week *bliss* i tell you... and bitchasses in the office were like... 'u look horrible like you lost more weight or something'... 'ooohhh i dont like your new haircut it makes you look thinner'... pah! at least i can say that i aint obese... fool!!!

first day back and i already counting down the days till the xmas/new year's holiday... i cant wait! you'd think that coz its the end of the year there isnt much to do in the office, but how wrong can you be... some ppl who are already on leave have been 'summoned' back to the office to attend meetings and do more work... *phew* luckily that didnt happen to me leh...

ok ok ok... i have drafted something bout me bday already... but not ready yet loh... its not terribly exciting i tell you... but i sed id write about it kan... i will do a proper one once im all better lah aight... bah wish me well laaaa

twenty.six.

Yes i Am... 26 today!!!

why bother lying bout my age... at least now when i say that im 26 ppl can go... waaahhh you look way younger hahahaha :p or maybe it might back fire and ppl would go... 'REALLY... you look like someone whos already in their 30s'... not that theres anything wrong being in your 30s... i heart ppl who are in their 30s... i heart everyone from all walks of life and that includes ppl from different ages hahahha :p

I'm I excited bout turning 26? mmm actually no difference... i have got the week off tho... celebrate it all week long... hehehe celebrations has already started last night actually... hehehe... and i have i think 4 more to go... weehee... and its the WHOLE WEEK ppl!!! they should make it into a national holiday maybe... with street parades, maybe a countdown would be nice... street floats maybe... hehe that sorta sounds like new year's eve!

weehee... ill update later bout what i did with my day aight... dont think its gonna be terribly exciting... but nonetheless no harm holding on to your seats waiting right?

much lurveee...
26-year-old Jamieson'Z

SHR :)

i thought id be blogging more after my last post... but i guess some things happened that kinda made me a bit pre occupied and blogging was kinda the last thing on my mind then... but i guess now the dust is finally settling so i guess can i continue on writing...

thank god for the public holiday :) long weekend... was spent relaxing mostly i think... but i wished it was just a wee bit longer... it just goes past so quickly... needed the long weekend to be honest... the past couple of weeks was spent to and fro the ttown 'office' and the btown office for work... ive been driving up and down more often these days... sometimes up to maybe 3 times a day... kesian my car... need to find time to send it for servicing and tyres needs to be changed like ASAP...

it should be a pretty exciting week... with my day coming up soon... multiple celebrations lined up already... teehee... i should be all jumpy2 and super excited bout it... but im not really... *sigh*

k... just a short one for now... just wanted to drop in to let y'all know im kinda semi enjoying the public holiday hahaha

Going Down...

Under...

you have been warned!!! extremely long post ahead!!!

i better start making up for lost time... eppsss... i only wrote one entry here last month and afraid i might do the same this month if i dont get off my lazy arse and write something... anywhooo im gonna start with my aussie trip which i just got back from... no i wasnt there on holiday... i wish... was a week long biz trip...

when i first heard that i was going down under, i was pretty much excited as any normal person should be, one week some more! and visiting 3 cities within that time, melbourne-sydney- perth, bargain innit for someone whos never step foot on australian soil :) automatically the mind starts to wander about all the purchases that would be made, all the tourist-ey places that i'd be visiting... but unfortunately it was hard core work the entire time there... early mornings, late nights, no weekends... tsk tsk tsk... and also shops in australia close at a weird time la... 5 in the afternoon... wth... but being paid to do work la, not to go visit2 so cant complain...

to start of with, there are no direct flights to melbourne from brunei airport, so had to take the 'red-eye' (hehehe i love saying that) to brisbane, then took a domestic flight to melbourne... in total it was a 7 hour flight, but despite that... it felt like we lost half the day just on travelling, we only arrived at the hotel 5 in the afternoon despite taking off from brunei airport at 1 in the morning...

stayed in the westin melbourne... westin ahhhh one of my favouritest hotels ever... i lurve lurve lurve the beds... the only way i could describe it (and i keep telling ppl this) that the bed feels like a big giant warm hug... once you had a lie down, its very difficult for you to leave, just want to stay there forever... dont play play ok... just down stairs got Chanel worrr... not that i went in, but it is nice to walk pass the boutique every day and stare at the nice bags and boots they have to offer... they had chanel wellington boots on display!!! i want a pair!!! an excuse to wear wellington boots in the rain!!!

the one on the right is Chanel (from here)

anyways, it was quite unfortunate that the bed here in westin melbourne dont feel the same, or not as i remembered it, it just felt like a normal comfortable hotel bed, i dunno what was different this time compared to the one i stayed in KL... but nevermind lah, its not like im gonna be staying in bed the entire time im there right?

oh and since its nearing summer there, it didnt get dark till bout 8 in the evening, so it kinda gave me a chance to walk around the city and see what they have to offer... i heart ang mo land... it was mid november and the xmas deco was already up

the huge xmas tree outside my window :)

melbourne is quite clean, with wide streets and side walks, quite pleasant really to walk around by yourself there... and they have quite a handful of asians there hor, it felt like i was back in London for a while there, you know coz in London its just full of foreigners hehe and its hard to find someone on the streets thats actually born and breed and in London... but yeaaa... only difference is here, the asians are hawter!!! no joke! its as if all the good looking asians were exported and melbourne is their number 1 customer! well other ppl might argue differently... but i was just happy to be surrounded by gorgeous ppl there... tho actually it kinda made me feel slightly ugly bout myself... not really great for the self esteem really... ohhhh and its just weird seeing them and listening to these ozzie asians talk, with their ozzie accents 'ohhhhhh thats soooo cuuuuuteeee'... some how, how they look and what comes out of their mouth just dont seem to match... i guess thats a lil bit like me hahahahah

i lurved walking around the streets of melbourne (well mostly around the city centre since i dont know the place and i didnt want to wander around to far), eventhough shops were closed by then it did kinda give me a chance to check out the buildings there... i like laaaaa, its just refreshing to be in a city where all the building dont all lookalike... i find the place quite modern really... but others might say that the building is an eye sore coz they lack colour and life...

but look even the university has a funky green entrance... not boring at all laaa... i bet uni life in melbourne is fun la! makes me want to go back and study... wonder if they have any courses related to my line of work there...


i kinda only had the first day free there... but no use really since all i did was roam round the city centre looking at buildings, then it was work work work, spent two nights in melbourne but when i was there, as part of our business meeting, we were brought to a restaurant in China Town called flower drum... they claimed that it was once the BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT in the whole of Australia... i dunno how true lah, but food wasnt that bad and service was great... it was all just seafood so im not a big fan... oh yea speaking of seafood... i had to take my allergy pills when i was there coz its seafood all the way that week... i dont want to be walking into the board room with swollen red eyes... teehee...

anywhooo, funny story... the Flower Drum bah (sorry now pics, formal working lunch bah)... talk about taking a long lunch break... 3 hours ok for us to finish our meal... it was a set meal... so everything was served to us right... after about the 3rd course we were all pretty much full and ready to head back, but the dude who brought us there was like 'that was just the entree'... we laughed and giggled after he made that remark but he wasnt joking... it was a freakin 8 course meal... i mean im all for entertaining your clients dude... but i was just TOO full to even enjoy whatever was served... i mean even the dessert which was just a fruit platter, they could have just served me that for my lunch and i would have been happy.... the portions were ginormous!!!

back to my story... we spent two nights in melbourne... unlike the first day, the rest of the days were spent staring out to the city from the inside of the board room... sometimes literally... we had this meeting which was on the 40+th floor of some building and the board room was at the corner and the view is amazing... you could see the whoooooleeeee city from up there... very nice leh! then it was off to sydney after that...

we didnt spend as much time in sydney like we did in melbourne... just 24 hours in fact, no point unpacking you luggage... and we arrived at our hotel late at night, and as soon as we got there we headed out straight away coz we wouldnt have time to check out the opera house or the sydney harbour bridge the next day... plus we've not had dinner yet so it kinda gave us a excuse to explore the city :)

i think its pwetty with the moon just above the opera house

my camera is pretty shit at taking pictures at night... but i think its nice to look at... as a first timer i mean... im sure after a while it might get a wee bit boring... and i heard that you can climb up the harbour bridge... something i wouldnt mind doing actually, but id leave that to another time...

taken on our way to lunch :)

look what i spotted!!! suspended semi-translucent whales

weather has been great the entire time we were there... i think that that was prolly the best time to visit oz... spring time, just before summer, before it hits 40+ degrees... blah... i mean it was hot and sunny but at the same time breezy so u dont feel the burn i spose... we were fortunate to have great weather the past few days... but when we were gonna take our sydney-perth flight that night, it got delayed due to weather... apparently the airport had to shut down coz of lightning storms... no planes were able to land/take off and as a result all flights were delayed lah...

and bida bah the domestic airport... the kadai all close early... just like the shops outside... there were were stranded at the airport and no place to go to eat or shop... pah! how to help the australian economy if like that?! silly bah!

yatah we only reached out perth hotel at 2 in the morn... and had an early morning lagi tu! so cruel!!! and you know how it is... its not like you automatically fall asleep when you reach the hotel innit... u have to orientate yourself and make yourself familiar with the room before settling down innit! so tidur at 3+ am lah!

but ok lah... coz the next day we got to go on one of these...

teehee... had to take a chartered flight to our next destination u know! an hour's flight north of perth... some kampung called Dongara just to check on some facilities they have there...

we even went on a boat to check it out :)

ohhhh and its so kampung there... they have flies everywhere!!! gali laaa... no use you trying to get rid of them... they'll just keep on coming... and yes for your info i smelled really good aight... i showered that morning... its not the smell they're attracted to... they're just everywhere...

now i know how those kids feel from those documentaries on third world children... :( check me outzzz with my hard hat and googles... MANNNN huh!!! hehehe and i dunno... it just looks as if ive not shaved that morning... but i did... australian water i tell u makes things grow faster than they should... heheheh

and since we were in Dongara... better eat their local delicacy right? apparently that town is the Australian capital of Rock Lobster... i think thats what they call it... turns out when we were there... it was the first day of the Lobster season... since the fisherman there are only allowed to catch these lobsters like 6 months out of the year... for conservation purposes i would imagine, and yea so we got to feast on the Rock Lobster when we were there...

and they dont come any fresher than these... maybe an hour or two before this was cooked... this poor thing was still walking along the seabed maybe... it came straight from the fisherman's boat and onto the chef's pan u know! they was so much hype bout this lobster when we were there... but honestly it just tasted like prawn... a big giant prawn... hahaha

the next day was spose to a rest day for us... since its a sunday... but again no such luck... met with a few more ppl, but this time it wasnt in some board room... we went on a fancy yatch (sp?) and went round swan lake... i even had a go at driving(?) the thing... scary leh, with all the small boats around, scared i might run them over leh...

it was really nice being on the boat, nice view of the city, nice clean water... and i tell you these ppl are filthy rich... they have houses by the lake... just overlooking the water... and these are huge ass houses... huggggeeeeeeeeeeee... they even have garage for their boats... waaaahhhh i wouldnt mind living that life hor...

we spent the longest in perth... and other than the chartered flight, or the boat ride... that city is just not for me... too dead for my liking to be honest... ok lah maybe compared to Brunei it might not be as dead, but at least the shops dont close early in Brunei innit...

funny story bout Perth... i think we kinda met up with 3 different companies when we were there... and the 1st company, we had lunch with them we were brought to this restaurant by the yatch club... a bit poshy woshy lah... i guess they have to be, since members of that club are millionaires and billionaires right... well anywhooo... i guess the seafood there is good... so they brought us to lunch at that restaurant... we ordered the set meal... starters, main course, desert, the usual lah... but service was a bit slow and it was already mid afternoon by the time we got through our mains... we decided to abandon desert and check out the shops, we kinda made a fuss to the restaurant that service was slow and we were gonna leave... and so we left la...

that night we had a dinner meeting with another company... and turns out the dinner was at the same restaurant by the club... we were all just praying that they dont have the same waiters they had that lunch time... coz of course we didnt want this company to know that we met up with another company when we were there... competition bah! but of course as luck would have it... it was the same waiter... what to do... had to act like we've never been to the place lah...

then theres the ang mo going.... 'wahhh we picked this place for dinner coz of the great view'... and then there we were just nodding away... mmmm... fine fair enough! the next night... another company... and surprise surprise... they brought us to dinner to the exact same spot... now its juts not funny... and u know what... same waiter served us!!!! 'WOW BACK AGAIN?!?' had to grin through the whole thing... pah!!! i dunno lah... just not my cup of tea that place, the food is to pretentious... sauteed this laaaa grill this laaa... just gimme my fish and chips and im happy luv! :p

other than that... nothing else to say bout the trip really except maybe... it might have been one of the best biz trip ive been on... minus the no shopping or minimum sight seeing it wasnt bad hor.... definitely have to go back there again... for holiday lah of course... or maybe i could trick the office to send me there again...

see told you its gonna be a long post... making up for lost time bah :p

what up?!?

keep getting complaints from readers saying ive not been updating... for good reasons i might add... too busy bah... yeah yeah same excuse everyone else gives... but its true mah...

just a run down of what has happened since my last post...

1. went to see Chun & Ah Sa when they came down to Btown...
2. went to singapore for the weekend with the boys
3. busy with organising an event for work the next week
4. halloween
5. BM's & S wedding
6. went on week long 'tour' round ozzie...

and now im back... weehee... i keep telling myself that yes i will write bout it when i find the time... but like i said BUSY BAH... work has been crazy and unforgiving... i am just hoping and wishing that i could take a week or two off in december for xmas & new year... speaking of which, my new year's trip might not happen this year boooo... but hopefully ill get the green light *fingers crossed*

oh stupid thing happened... my phone died on me when i was in OZ... after the 2nd day i think... yea u heard me... my diamond died on me! i cant do nothing with it... reseting it didnt help... i cant exactly be roaming around some foreign land with no phone can I? had to buy myself some cheap ass phone when i was there... so yeaaa cant access my diamond, so basically my phone contact list was empty... bwaaaa... in a land where EVERYONE is walking about showing off their iPhone & Blackberry i felt quite inadequate with my flimsy nokia flip phone... at least its got a camera... 0.3MP !!!! hahahah

whatever... k ill update soon enough i hope

Butterfly Lovers

Hello lurveleysss...

cant believe its actually here... i was actually wondering if our local cinema would show 'Butterfly Lovers'... its been out for a few weeks now but wasnt sure when it would come to our shore... thought of catching it in the Lion City next weekend... but found out that they wont be showing the movie till November...

anywhoooo... how excited was I when I got the call from one of my handful of BFFs (i heartzzz you very much)last night who got me a ticket to the sneak preview of the movie... VERY... even though i already booked tickets for tonight's show but what the hell... why not right... it doesnt matter that my BFF called me at the last minute and i was already on my way home... for this movie i drove back down to btown in time for the movie wor... yes i did... no i didnt have time to shower or get all dressed up for it... and my hair was a mess... thats what you get la for being in a rush... *teehee*

its showing at the Mall atm... in Cinema 1 no less... bigger screen kali ahhh... so yea its the first time seeing him on the big screen... and i guess its not bad hor... i didnt like the fact that his voice was dubbed... couldnt feel the full effect without his voice... wahahahha

movie aint that bad... got a few funny moments, touching scenes, and maybe if they had a few more s****less scenes it would have been nicer... but then again what do i know... i aint there for the storyline... wahahahah

ohhhh u guys should definitely check it out... not saying it coz im biased or anythin *cough cough* but its for a good cause dontcha know? every dollar from the ticket sale is donated to SMARTER... a cause that is very dear to my friend Captain Kimberley... ohhh speaking of which right... there were loads of photogs and media bah last night during the sneak and before goin in to the cinema they had this donation box outside the door... and the photogs were waiting with their huge as camera in front of the transparent box waiting for you to approach them and put a lil bit of dosh in the box... luckily i had my wallet with me hor... what if i brought my coin purse only... paiseh! hehehehe

Well Done Well Done... hmmm maybe ill watch it again lah tonight... since i still have tickets for tonight... see you there? ohhh i heard him and Ah Sa coming to our shores very soon... oooohhhh i heard only... :p

T.A.M.A.3.

As in The Amazing Race Asia 3... i heart watching The Amazing Race, coming from someone who hardly watches TV now... its one of the handful of programmes on TV that i actually follow... hell i want to be in it... one of the reasons why i joined the Tri-X wasnt it? perasan bah...

I'm seriously thinking of sending my audition tape for next season... it shouldn't be too hard right? hahaha... what have they done so far this season? well, eating a bowl of fried insects including fried scorpions... changing car tyres and oil... washing a double decker bus... going on a 25 hour+ bus trip... there are more la, but these are the ones that kinda stick out in my mind... all things ive not done before... but i really think i can rough it out and do it... except maybe the part where you have to change the car's tyres... that i wouldnt have a clue where to start, but so long as they give me instructions, i think i shud be good...

eating a bowl of those fried scorpions shouldnt be a problem either i think... is it not all in the mind kah? say only mah... see la when it happens to me... ohhh and i think last season they had the teams eat a bucket full of balut... ermmm that one i probably couldnt stomach... hehehe

So the next question... who should i go with? to me finding an amazing race partner is just as difficult as finding your life partner no? Ideally this person would have to be fit, knows how to drive a manual (duh... ive not driven a stick of that variety since my teenage years... plus i think im a good navigator... i SHOULD be good with maps)... this person should not be too hard headed or temperamental, that should be left to me... and of course they have to know how to take orders from me :) difficult kan... where to find this ideal person hor?

plus... i should already have a "relationship" with this person NOW if i want to make it in time for next season innit... is it just me or is our asian version of the Amazing Race more on the conservative side (ok i know its not rocket science... CONFIRM la conservative)... its so obvious that all the teams are in an effing relationship with each other in the show... except for the siblings teams... if they are then thats just sick sick SICK... and the beauty queens as well... doubt they drink off the fanny cup... yatabah... dont bother calling yourself "Friends" on the show bah... "Roommates" kahh... ok jua

ohhh and someone made the same observation i did... one of them do kinda resemble our very own local celebrity DJ innit... SNAP i tell you... hehehehe

ohhhhhhhh and one thing i dont exactly like bout this asian version is that everyone on the show is already a pseudo celebrity... so unfair... and and what's with them ALWAYS picking eurasians to be on the show... how to join if like that? time to go and bleach the skin and hair...

maybe i should form a team my idol hor (the blogging one)... then can roam around the world and blog bout it no? we would make good TV kali ahhh... even if we didnt win... we would still rake in the viewers... ohhhh this was suggested to me last night... for our special friend Kimberley to join my team... since some ppl call her Jim... and thats kinda my name too... that should be our thing... shes Jim GURL and im Jim BOY... BUT BUT BUT the irony is... Jim GURL is in the Army... but Jim BOY is a hair stylist (even though im not, they insisted i should claim to be one)... sillyness...

so ok... those interested should just email my your application to become my team mate aight! i mean being in my team... FOR SURE win ok... dont even have to think about it... dont care so much about the challengese we'd be doin during the race... thats nothing OK... the difficult bit is for me to pick you!!! have to prove yourself to me horrrr... hahaha... im serious!

Just a Thought...

for the past few weeks ive been taking time off work during puasa... but now im back to work... and the next leave ill be taking would be during christmas and the new year... i was planning to take a long one then... just because i could... anyways... so i shared my intentions with some of the colleagues... who then informed me than one of my other colleague wants to take time off around the same time...

the thing is... me and this particular collegue of mine cant take time off at the same time... so now it boils down to who should get this leave? ive already bout my air ticket as im planning to go off somewhere that time... so i was just waiting for this particular person's excuse for taking time off... but how dissapointed was i when i heard her excuse was... 'i should take this leave over you because i have kids'... say what?

i just thought that was a lame ass excuse... like hello... i should not be penalised because i choose NOT to have kids... why should i be punished because i dont lead the same lifestyle as you... stupid cow... and just for your info... her kids are butt ugly... i mean i could just let it go if her kids were cute... but unfortunately they're not (please dont comment to say that all kids are adorable... believe me ive met these kids... and they're not anything to be proud of)...

that kinda made me think about what parents can get away with nowadays... preggers mums in particular... if i had a choice i would not like to work with any whos preggers... most likely you have to do the work yourself innit... coz if they get lazy they could pull 'im preggers and i cant work' card on you... and who are you to argue right? i dunno how it feels... maybe it does feel like shit all the time...

its so unfair... i want to be preggers too so i dont have to work all the time... *teehee*