Spent most of my free time either with my new darling or in shopping complexes :P I guess it is an unofficial competition between the shopping malls on who has the best X'mas deco for 2007! *sigh.. talk about commercialization! How about X'mas deco in malls you frequent?

Those who does not know what is CRM, please raise your hand! Whoa! So many of you all?? Okie, CRM is an abbreviation for Customer Relationship Management. Now what does CRM do for us? Technically speaking, CRM has the business purpose of intelligently finding, selling to, marketing to and servicing customers. It's quite a huge concept where CRM is needed practically in every industry. Looking at the importance of CRM packages, Ron Bongo has came up with Open Source CRM package, and his company is the first to do that! Now, isn't that cool?


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We have a small man-made pond in my garden. Mom and bro being pet lovers, have at least 30 koi in it. Don't ask me how, they just grew up in harmony with two pots of lotus plants. Occasionally we have lotus blooming in there, and this morning I saw this flower. Pretty nah?



This is my fav background score by Illayaraja. No lyrics, no annoying voices.. just beautiful music that bring you to another world.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Everytime I want to plan my travel especially to European countries, I do this suddenly 'black-out' thinking of the budget. The dollar and cents signs will keep flashing before my eyes, and consequently I will drop the plan. It has been going on for years now and looks like a never-ending story. Only if there there are more websites which helps us looking for low and reasonable rates for accomodation like Hotel Reservations. You may want to surf for such site which will save us from spending a fortune just on the hotels!





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After breaking up with my ex-boyfriend, I immediately found myself attracted to this hunk. Hopefully this is not a rebound relationship. I long for him to stay with me for a long long time.I wanna live happily ever after with him - ala the fairy tales.

This time around I was more careful with my choice. Not to say I did mistake in choosing my ex, but right now there are so many 'hunks' around!!! I was spoilt for choices!! Thankfully I had my friends and sister with me, while I made the important decision.




He is fondly called Aspire 4720G.

He has his pros and may be I am deeply in love with him to 'see' his cons (if there is any) :P Not many girlfriends will be able to list down their boyfriend's pros, guess I am an exception. My darling comes in an opalesque shape and is equipped with:

Intel Centrino Duo processor technology
Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7300
(2.0GHz, 4MB cache, 800 MHz FSB)
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965GN Network Connection
Mobile Intel 965PM Express Chipset

Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium

160GB SATA HDD / 2 GB DDR2 RAM

14.1" WXGA Acer CrystalBrite TFT Color LCD & dual display via Acer GridVista 1280*800 16:10 resolution

NVIDIA Geforce 8400G with up to 1024MB of TurboCache technology (128MB of dedicated GDDR2 VRAM, up to 768MB of shared system memory)
High Definition MPEG-2 Hardware

Dolby certified surround sound system with low frequency effects

Integrated Bluetooth

Integrated 8X DVD Super Multi Double-layer Drive

5-in-1 Card Reader supporting SD, MMC, MS, MS Pro & xD

Integrated Acer Crystal Eye Webcam

6-cell Li-Ion Battery with Acer QuicCharge Technology

Acer Empowering Technology

Preloaded Norton Anti Virus & Microsoft Office 2007 Trial softwares

1+2 year International Limited Warranty

Free casing, original optical mouse and a year long free movie pass.

Well, I don't understand half of his specifications, but who cares? He looks good and so far he works pretty well too.

He cost me RM3,488 (USD 1,041), and about an hour after charging my card with that amount, I got a phone call from the bank.

voice: Good afternoon miss. I just would like to verify if you have charged RM3k+ to your Mastercard an hour ago?

ammu: Yes, that's right (obviously gal!!! my hunk set me back by 3.5K.. but he is worth it)

voice: Thank you for the confirmation, miss. Have a nice day. (hung up)

Good guys come with a price.

My sis turned 21 on Friday, 14th Dec and we threw a party for her & her friends the next day. The colour blue rulled the night, and thanks to everyone who turned up in the theme colour.

Now, about 15hours after the party ended, I am stil feeling tired. I think its better for the photos to speak on my behalf :P

You may find the rest of the birthday photos HERE.
Going back to nap..zzzzz...

A masterpiece!

Movie: Varumaiyin neeram sivapu
Song: Sirpi irukuthu


Busy weekend ahead for me. Have a nice weekend guys and see you all!

I'm not one of those who sends at least one social network invite per day to all their contacts. But I always manage two social network accounts at a time. Either friendster - hi5, or friendster - orkut, or friendster - tagged or now.. friendster - facebook. My hi-5 and orkut accounts are officially dead now, and I will be closing down tagged in few days time. Friendster was my very first network site and I don't think I will close it down anytime soon.

But now I see myself hooked to facebook.

Everyone loves to travel. Especially me, I just love the idea of travelling year long! But with a current currency exchange rate, there are two things that will hamper my plans. One, exorbitant flight ticket prices and second, the accommodation rates.

As I have Tony Fernandez to take care of the flight tickets (though I do hope they will fly to exotic locations like Athens and Prague), I will only have to take care of my accommodation. Oh yea, Temple of Olympus, Ancient Agora and Acropolis in Athens will definitely tempt me, but how much would the athens hotels will cost? Greece boasts of island touring and various historical sites but will I have to fork out large sum to stay in the greece hotels? How about spending my entire savings on prague hotels while holidaying there?

A good travel plan will definitely help me to save a lot. Thanks to the Internet, we get to surf about everything from the accommodation to planning the entire vacation.

This is my 25th post under the Nostalgic Friday series. I know some of my readers purposely would visit on Fridays looking for 80s & 90s songs. Thank you guys!

The song for this week comes from the original Billa in the 1980, the year I was born. Well, it is not exactly original, but a remake of Amitabh's Don. Now that SRK has already acted in a remake of Don, it's Ajith's turn to act in the remake of Billa! Okie.. I am not very fond of Ajith, I admit that. So let's hope the latest Ajith's offering will change my perception of him. The movie is due to release on Dec 12 (I suppose), Rajinikanth's birthday and the trailer is all over the Internet.

Movie: Billa (1980)
Song: My name is Billa

No I am not selling insurance, please don't run away now! Though many of us tend to avoid talking to an insurance agent, we can't deny the fact that insurance has a major play in our life nowadays. Right now may be not many of us will be needing a home insurance, but all of us with a vehicle have car insurance. At times, we do compare car insurance and change the insurance provider if we are not happy with them. Well, we never know what is going to happen in the future and we are no where to predict it. Nonetheless, it is perfectly fine to prepare for the worst. I think this is when insurance comes in. Do you have one?


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Can you tell me one person who does not like his or her bed to be adorned with a beautiful bedding? I don't think you would successfully find a single person. May be partly due to the fact we all love to sleep on it! Okay, just kidding, but partly may be because of beautiful beddings you can find online! You really have see it to be believe it. There are wonderful designs you can find, from Basketball Bedding to custom made photo bedding, they have it all! Look at the sample I got from the website, simply amazing isn't it? You will also find various types of throw pillows, bedspreads, blankets and duvets. There are lot more designs in store for you, and the price starts from as low as $49.99!! It will definitely make a perfect Christmas gift!

The weekend was a busy one. Saturday was spent in this convention, while Sunday was spent loitering in a mall meeting fellow blogmates.

Speaking about the convention, I think it is one of the best event organized for Malaysian Indian youth in this year. It was well-organized despite the fact that this is a maiden convention of this sort. This post will be a small re-cap of National Indian Youth Convention (NIYC 2007), just to highlight it to those who have missed it. And no, this is not a paid posting.

It started a little late than what is scheduled - that was a minor setback though I must stress that it was all worth the wait. After opening speech by the President of TheMind (the organization which organized NIYC 2007), the convention was then officially launched by Prof Dr Bala Shanmugam.

One thing that pulled me to register for the event will be their list of amazing personalities. Some were unknown to me, but boast a credible CV! The keynote address for example, was given by Tan Sri Dato's Professor Emeritus Dr Gajaraj Dhanarajan, the VC of Wawasan Open University. This soft spoken speaker brought us back to world war era when he spoke about his history and right up to current technological advancement, where he emphasized us not to confine ourselves to the borders of Malaysia.

We had three more talks in line after that. The first talk was given by Major General (R) Dato' Pahlawan Dr Mohanadas Ramasamy, who spoke about challenges of succeeding in the government services. I don't think many of M'sian Indian youths are interested to even join the civil service, let alone to be successful in it. Good to see that there are some people from our community made it huge in the sector we all tend to avoid.



The next speaker was the highlight of the whole convention. Most of us waited since morning only to listen to his talk. Not to undermine the other speakers, but I must say this Datuk will outshine anyone excerpt may be Tan Sri Ananda Krishnan). He was none other than Datuk Vinod Sekhar, the second richest Indian in Malaysia. It was a fun-filled talk, and the fact that his business idea started with just USD50 amazed a lot of people. We had flood of questions from the floor for which he patiently answered. I couldn't agree more when he said this country a wonderful place and worth fighting for :)

The third talk was given again by Prof Bala Shanmugam. One thing that I like to listen will be successful personalities' life story, and Prof Bala is a master in it! Didn't know he is actually with Monash University, where I am working for a year now! That's a shame.. *sigh. He ended the talk with an interesting quote which I saw many of the participants taking down: "Aspire to Inspire before you Expire".



If there is something I was unhappy with the convention, that would be the forum. Not because it was not good, because I feel the forum panellists where not well-utilised. Probably the organizers were running out of time as it was already towards the end of the convention, but I feel the forum should have more substance in it as I know it is not easy to gather such a prominent panel. We had Prof Emeritus Dr Singaravelu (University Malaya), Assoc Prof Dr Sureswaran (Mlabs System), Datuk Suret Singh (Ministry of Transport) and Mr Uthaya Sankar (RTM) in the panel while Prof Dr Subramaniam (University Malaya) moderated the forum. May be if the forum was given a specific theme and all discussion pointed towards the theme/title, it would have been more effective.



Overall, despite the minor short coming, I would say the convention was a successful one. As I said before, it is one of the best event for the year and should be held annually. For the organizing committee, I would like to thank them and wish them all the best!