Two is better than one

After getting the work done in the office, I swiftly make a move to leave. Too swift that I found myself all alone, again, in a bustling and dangerous city..I switched on the radio...



Two is Better Than One is on the radio..and she came to my mind...how I wish I could see her for another while..will she have dinner with me? is she done with her work?.. For once, I did the right thing, that is to try...

I was delighted when she agreed! It was like an early Christmas gift..a priceless gift.. And it was calming, exactly what I need in a time when I feel insecure and uncertain.

Mineral Water! Do not buy at Teng Mini Market Centre (Giant), Bangsar!

I was shopping for groceries, and suddenly thought of the need to buy a box of mineral water for a function. So I asked one of the staff there, and he informed me that I should go to the Customer Service Counter.

So here I am, at the Customer Service Counter, enquiring about the box of mineral water, and the one taking care of the counter could not give me a definite answer. I noticed that people are queuing up at this counter to pay things, so I thought maybe I should queue up and wait for my turn. BAD IDEA!

While I was queuing up, I was mocked by a customer queuing behind me. She made all kinds of monkey sounds, but I never thought that it's intended for me. The final straw came when she said "This is a fast lane, 5 items below only!".. This is the moment when I realized that all those monkey sounds are meant for me, as I was carrying my groceries. But I keep on ignoring her, as my intention is just to clarified how the hell can I buy my box of mineral water.

To the woman: Please be considerate and civic minded, it is no doubt a fast lane, but also the Customer Service Counter, I have my rights to stand there, enquire things as long as I wanted to, but I also didn't take a long time to ask. By the way, I also queue for my turn to ask, bitch!

To TMC: Are you so poor or lack of space? Can't you just have a proper Customer Service Counter?

Then I was informed by the Customer Service Counter to wait, while they take the box of mineral water from the store. Fine!

While waiting, I queue to pay up my groceries. But when I told the cashier that I also purchase a box of mineral water, she rudely said I should had let her know earlier. What?! Let her know earlier? How am I supposed to know? I was made to wait for the box of mineral water, and you come and tell me I should let you know earlier that I buy a box of mineral water?

Ok ok, fine..I have done my shopping at lease. While I leave the parking, I'm aware of the ruling that, if I buy things above RM30, I'm entitled to free one hour parking. But at the parking counter, I was charged as well, as they said I need to show the coupon to get free parking. WHAT?! Why I wasn't inform by the cashier? I made purchases of RM60 something, and I'm not made known to have such a coupon!!!

But the final straw came long after I leave TMC. I was trying to make a feedback to the Giant at their website. But after all my effort writing and streamlining it (as they limit it to 500 characters), I was given the worst possible respond: site currently not available.

I will never go shopping at TMC again!

Work can really blinded the voice of your heart...

Haha..so the title very confusing, right? How can something blinded a voice?

But that is exactly what happened to me..

During the 10-week internship period, I've go through the working life of the majority of adults..waking up early, take the public transport, and reach the work place, work, go back home, sleep.. To be more extreme, this company work 6-day full day, so 6/7 of the week, I have to go through these..

Ok ,well, what I'm trying to say isn't that, a person is all work and no play. During this period, I did visit some places with friends, enjoyed some great meals together, and had fun!

But what I did not do is, to sit down quietly, and listen to what my heart wants to say..the voice of my heart.. and I didn't see the need of this. Get to relate to the title already?

The voice of our heart..is a feeling that will direct you to the purpose of your life..what you are suppose to do, your purpose in life, and not urge, or responsibility..

Only after I finish my internship, I can hear the voice of my heart again.. and found the purpose of my life..

SOPA 2009: theSun is Worthy Winners

After following theSun for the past 10 weeks, I will have to say that theSun is undoubtedly the worthy winner of the 2009 Societies of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) awards: Excellence in Investigative Reporting. theSun won it's third award for investigative journalism in as many years.

Following the political tsunami on the 8th March 2008, while the English main stream media has certainly slightly reversed it's bias trend towards a more neutral stand, theSun has certainly proved itself to be the people's voice!

theSun's special reports and investigations team of editor R.Nadeswaran and deputy editor Terrence Fernandez picked up an honourable mention for investigative journalism for "Public Land Gone" - their expose on the Bandar Utama land scam where seven parcels of land meant for public amenities were alienated to political parties, politicians and businessmen.

theSun beat three other newspapers who are also vying for this award- Singapore's The New Paper and The Straits Times, and Hong Kong's Far Eastern Economic Review.

Kudos to the team! May you guys keep reporting the truth, and stay neutral!

http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=34600