5 of 1st Times

Do you remember the first time you went to school? Or the moment you fell in love for the first time? There are moments in my life that I can only remember vaguely, and some that seem to be etched to my memory for as long as I live. Not all moments in our life are sweet - some we just wish we could just erase it, or hit that “delete” button on our keyboard and it will be gone in a flash. Memories… it can be a blessing to have such a good memory, but it can be a curse at the same time too….

On this day, I’m going to share with you FIVE of my first time experiences. Five … it’s one of my favourite numbers for as long as I can remember… the other being the number Seven. Why? I don’t know … I’ve been tagged by NoktahHitam - and I hope he’ll just start another phase of his blogging life instead of “resigning as a blogger” as he said in his latest entry. It’s not easy to simply stand up and leave everything behind when it comes to our memories..

The First Scarring Experience

Now this is something that I still get to be made fun about by family members. I was staying with my grandparents when I was small in our kampung. Those days were the days with barb wire fencing to keep the buffalos in or away from the plantation around the house. I went to my cousin’s house against Grandma’s order - and when she called out my name, I ran home and got stuck on the barb wire on that platform where we had to step over to get on the other side of the fencing. Needless to say I was caught red-handed as someone had to rescue me, and that piece of me stuck on the barb wire left me a scar on one of my thighs. LOL. I was 5, I think.

The First Swimming Experience

My cousin, Will, taught me to swim by forcing me to move away from his hand on my head in the sea. He kept doing that until I was able to swim on my own. I swam underwater for the first few years until I was able to float myself and swim like other human does. I was 9.

The First Fainting Experience

I was too sick with fever and as I walked from the kitchen towards the sofa, I blacked out and hit the window pane since the sofa was placed near the window. I regained consciousness with my (late) Grandpa and Grandma’s older brother calling out my name and tapping my face. I was 10, I think.

The First Car Accident Experience

I was waiting for my turn at the junction, and a lorry (1 tonne?) filled with cooking gas tanks rammed my car (Wira Sedan) from behind. I remembered the shock slowly creeping into my body, as I started to shake from it. But I managed to shout back at the driver as he accused me of stopping suddenly without the indicator on. I said to him that I’ve been there for at least a good 30 seconds as two cars had passed by on the other lane, the reason I was still there. I called up my Father and we drove to the Police station. The boot of the car and back windshield had to be replaced. Thanks for the seatbelt, I wasn’t hurt. Unfortunately, a week later my (late) cousin, Billy, was gone in a car accident in UNIMAS Sarawak compound, a friend who’s probably driving under influence drove to a tree on their way to send my (late) cousin back to our aunt’s place in Kuching. He was the backseat passenger, no alcohol were traced in him, unlike the driver and the front seat passenger, which received outpatient treatment. That was in July 2002.

The First Flower Delivery Experience

I got my first bouquet of roses and a box of Ferrero Rocher from my significant other, delivered to me at my work place then, at Pizza Hut. It was my day off and someone had to call me to pick up the flowers. Imagine my embarrassment when the staffs were smiling knowingly at me when I arrived. I had to share the chocolate with them though. LOL. That was in March 2003. I still have that bouquet of roses, dried upside down, in my room. Honey, I’m still waiting for the next surprise of a bouquet of flowers delivery…

I don’t feel like tagging anyone today… but if find this is something that you can write about and share with others… by all means, tag yourself! Have a nice weekend everyone!

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Streamyx Gone Crazy Again…

Mom wants to get herself a new PC for sometime now. She has a laptop but said she wants a big monitor. She wants something that can be put away in a cabinet when she’s not using it. *Scratches head * She doesn’t want kids to play around with the PC as she does bring her work home sometimes. I must remember to let her surf for viewsonic monitor to give her some ideas of the size of LCD monitor that will fit her requirements. Where can we get a computer table or cabinet that can store the whole set of a PC? Maybe I should just tell Mom to plug the laptop to the TV instead. She wants bigger screen so that it’ll be much fun and easier for her to play her favourite computer games anyway …. LOL.

Speaking of pc, my PC has gone crazy again… and I must keep my energy so that I can try to troubleshoot the Streamyx connection, take note of its error message – which means I have to revert to dial up instead of the ‘always on’ mode before I can make a report to TM.

Gosh, it’s been a week since I was able to access the Internet from home! Do you know how torturous that can be to me? And no, bongkersz, I cannot afford to sign up for Digi Data Unlimited Plan on top of 3 mobile phone lines and a land line to pay for LOL!

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Amazing Voice Of Charice Pempengco

As I was following the cards dropped in my Entrecard’s inbox, I came across Beeker’s Words’ blog. I’m glad that I visited the blog, or else I wouldn’t have the opportunity to listen to the amazing teenager (she’s 15 in these videos!) with an amazing voice! Who? Charice Pempengco of Philippines! I’ve never heard of her myself, but search for her name in youtube and you’ll see a few videos showing her vocal talent.

This is the video that I saw on Beeker’s Words…

Her voice gave me goosebumps and brought tears to my eyes.. heart-wrenching vocal!

Another of my favourite …

 A voice that I’m sure we’ll hear more of in near future! All the best to you, Ms. Pempengco!

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Why I Don’t Like Cats…

I don’t hate cats, but I’m not fond of them either. Why don’t I like cats, when most of my friends love cats? Apart from the fur being harmful to our health if we weren’t careful, this is why….

Clawed!

I was at friends’ house on Saturday, and the cat thought my foot was a toy! As I walked, he clawed and bit on my foot and boy, did it hurt! They said the kitchen area was his playground, and he’s used to doing that to the owners. Lately the owners were to busy to play with him, and he wanted attention. So yeah, I was his play toy. I just stood there enduring the excruciating pain, waiting for his playful mood to be over. I didn’t dare to move my leg as every time I moved, he just gripped and bit my foot much deeper.

In the evening, another friend came over and asked if I took any slimming pills such as Phentermine (no I didn’t..) as she said I looked slimmer from the last time she saw me. Oh yeah, that made my day after having that scratches on my foot earlier! I guess the days and nights with irregular meal times helps a bit. Not a good thing in a long run, but as long as I don’t get gastric attacks, it should be fine.

Circled: The bite wound that causing me discomfort - the reason I got the jab!

t’s been two days yet one of the wound is still tingly with pain. So I decided it’s time for me to pay a visit to a doctor this morning. The doctor told me that I was lucky the wound didn’t puncture through into the flesh, but nevertless should get myself an injection to avoid complication. He also said..

Cats bites are the worst. I’ve seen many cases of cats bites and they always get infected even thought it has been treated. Get treatment immediately when one is bitten by a cat!

That’s why I don’t like cats, they claws and bites people. And I’ll have scars from it as a reminder for sometime I’ll stick to rabbit pets … hehe …

p.s: Asked the doctor to take my BP reading. It read 150/90 *sigh* It was back to normal about a month ago, must be all those tasty food I had recently…

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