• Monday - So-called blues. Usually identified with zombie-looking colleagues, slight headache, low appetite, difficulty in giving attention to instruction (especially if it comes from a superior/boss.

• Tuesday - Productivity picks up. Colleagues begin to wish you good morning and vice versa. Slowly started to complete yesterday's tasks.

• Wednesday - The peak. Activity at its full speed. Fantastic day for meetings and discussion. Undivided attention to work.

• Thursday - The productivity slows down to 60%. The "weekend symptoms" usually starts to manifest today.

• Friday - Unusually hyped at work. The only aim is to complete the week's work by 4pm. Looks at the watch numerous times an hour and begins to contemplate the weekend plans. Usually will disappear from the office compound by 4.30pm.

• Saturday - Wake up at 7am (instead of planned 10am) due to weekday habit of waking up early for work. The day is filled with leisure activities - movie, shopping, picnics, clubbing and the list goes on. Some may go up to 24 hours without sleep on this day.

• Sunday - Wakes up around noon. The whole day will feel 'moody', 'slow' and 'lazy'- probably due to the hyped Saturday. Spends the day reading various newspaper, eating and sleeping.

I am a hygiene-freak. I do not know if such word exist but I maintain the cleanliness of every single space I occupy, and the post about my office desk two weeks back is a proof of this. While I love to clean, I now have a serious problem of coping with that task. Okie, call it my laziness, but I really can't bring myself to wake around carrying huge electric household items like a vacuum cleaner. One moment I need it to vacuum my car, and another moment I need it to vacuum the carpet in my bedroom. Its a never ending ordeal!

But now, Dirt Devil gives an interesting option for people like me. It's portable design not only convenient for the users, but also saves energy. Yes, it saves up to 70% energy - an exclusive feature which won it Energy Star status! So, technically this pretty thing is going to save your time, save your hard earned cash and help you to do your bit to save the environment! That is three in one! Further more, you don't have to carry heavy vacuum cleaner or it's cable around. So girls, you can stop building excessive muscle there!

We are paranoids.

Well, most of us are paranoids. While certain degree of caution is needed for us to keeping on going and obviously to live in today's world, I don't think its necessary of us to be suspicious of every human being or every single thing we see.

When the a Gerakan member decided to take a job offer from a DAP-lead state government, he came under the fire from his party. He was seen as a person who betrayed his party but he only asked for them to see beyond the party flag. He was chosen because he was the man for that job and he was trusted even by an opponent party. But his own people (so to speak) failed to see this and of course, eventually he resigned from the party. In the end, his own party lost a credible person just because he is in someone else's payroll.

This is not only confined to politics but even to our daily affairs as well:

• Imagine being suspicious of your mechanic.. did he actually fix the car brake properly?
• Imagine being suspicious of your rival neighbor's 5 year old daughter befriending your son.. what is this girl trying to do to my son?
• Imagine being suspicious of the vegetable seller at the pasar malam.. did he spray excessive pesticides on these?
• Imagine being suspicious of your MP whom you (and your entirely family) unanimously voted for... he is on a deal with the opposition?

I can go on and on with this list. But let me ask you if such paranoid thinking would give you a peace of mind? It won't, and why would we want to subject ourselves to such mental agony? At times, we just have to trust people. Yes, we have to carefully analyze the situation and be prepared with a Plan B. That's all it takes.

Anyone can ask questions, but it takes a genuine person to answer it truthfully. And when one does, it is only wise to accept it with a little caution.



Sorry if I sound a little random today. Blurting out things as I feel. Have a good weekend everyone! :)

*This is not a paid post :P


I have been actively updating my Twitter lately. Its a great tool for me to keep up with what my other Twittermates (is there a word like this..I wonder) are doing and at the same time updating them about my whereabouts as well. Currently I have 30 followers and following 20 Twittermates.

For those who doesn't know anything about it, a quick wiki about Twitter may help. Lot of information there. Here some of the highlights about this wonderful program:

• a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" or "tweets"...to the Twitter web site, via the Twitter web site, SMS, IM or application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.
• Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.
• ...began as a research and development project inside San Francisco start-up company Obvious, LLC in March 2006.
• .. Twitter announced on their blog that they recently created a version of Twitter for Japanese users.
• The first Twitter security vulnerability was reported on April 7, 2007 by Nitesh Dhanjani.

Enough of the facts, just hover the link to my Twitter page and start stalking following me!

A quick and shameless self-promo post :P

Thank you so much for the votes and wishes. Here are the rankings so far:

Most Popular Female Blogger
Tulipspeaks - 4.29
Bytes-Berry - 3.59
Psych Theory - 3.17


Best Personal Blog
Tulipspeaks - 3.48
Kartzworld - 2.38
Kav’s Kollage - 4.21
TheBlankPage - 3.18


The voting started on 6th of June and will end in 6th of July. So, if you haven't vote (for me that is) there is still some time left :P

2008 wishes check-list:

1. Robbers to be caught
2. A new car
3. New hairstyle
4. Gadgets
5. Lose weight
6. Overseas vacation
7. A new boyfriend
8. PhD
9. A new blog on shopping
10. A brand new self

Just a hypothetical question which I would like some feedback on. Just imagine this:

You were happily blogging away for months or maybe years now. Your blog has nothing else except for truth and only the true experiences of your life. You were enjoying sharing them with your newly found blogmates, who gives suggestions and criticisms without having to face you in real. But your blog is well hidden from those you know in the real world. Everything seems to be fine...

Until one fine day, you found out that a cousin of yours has been reading your blog. Or your parents found out your blog by accident. Worse, your boss bumped to your blog.

Not that it landed you in a bitter row or civil suit, but it's the feeling of you being watched. You feel you are not invisible in the blogworld. You know you have been swearing a lot in your blog. You have been typing it away without fear. But now, someone is watching you. Reading everything you type (and read everything you typed). Freaky?

How this is going to change you and your writing style? Are you going to quit blogging all together or just gonna be more cautious in your writing? Or you simply don't care at all?

I don't know how reliable this is, but The Blog Readability Test says...

Something to be proud of? Or I should start to worry because it needs high level of education to understand the content of this blog? Looking at the other side of the spectrum, it only means my blog readers are all geniuses!! Congrats everyone! *wink wink


And Happy Nostalgic Friday everyone:

I'm a Blogger-person and after 3+ years relying on blogspot, I have grown to love it here. Of course Wp is more powerful, but for me Blogger.com is more than enough.

Over the period, my blog has seen numerous changes in her look. Usually I surf around for new templates and give it a fresh look before applying it here. I never used a blog template as it is but normally used it as a basis. I have seen various brilliant templates and here I am sharing my top 10 choices of blogger templates especially for female bloggers in a random order. The designs remain copyrights of the respective designer.

1. Butterfly girly

2. OMG smashing


3. Colibri


4. Flower Pink


5. Rosa


6. Art Imagination


7. Flower


8. Divalicious


9. Retro Lady


10. She's Got Style


There are still many more templates to be featured. Maybe will have a part two to this post. Have you came across any beautiful, stylish yet girlish templates lately?

SocialSpark is one of the latest initiative that help bloggers to make money via blogging. I am still a newbie in SocialSpark, and I have created a profile there only few weeks ago. You may check out my profile. One thing I noticed about this site, it has beautiful red colour theme. It’s my favourite!!

The site is a bit complex and I am still learning. Guess it won’t take that long before I can call myself a pro in SocialSpark. However, I found that I could meet new blogger friends from any part of the world and at the same time I could grab high-paying opportunities. One of such friend I met is bumbl3l33. Her profile is as hot as her nick too, you may like her too. Besides reviewing other friend’s blog, have them reviewing yours, you also could exchange links to improve your Page Rank. You can also turn the table and become an advertiser! Isn’t that cool? I have reserved some new opportunities and they put me in the waiting list. Besides, I have prop couple of profiles too. Hopefully I will get hold of one or two good opportunities soon. How about you guys? Have you signed up for SocialSpark? How do you find it?

*Brought to you by Social Spark

I am now a proud owner of....

Finally I got the photos from the organizers! :) You may want to read my previous post about the award I received from the Society HERE. Okie okie.. nothing much there except for a photo, which summarised the whole thing.

Maybe now I can brag elaborate a bit about it. It was an award for the Best Postgraduate Student@Postgrad Prize in the field of nutrition given by the Nutrition Society of Malaysia. Its an annual thingy and each year max 3 master graduates and max 3 PhD graduates will be selected nationwide for the award. This year, 3 master graduates and only 1 PhD graduate were selected. The award comes with a certificate and some handy cash prize as well :D

When you publish a blog post, post a picture in Flickr or start a Facebook account, you are subjecting yourself to be known to 6B people out there. The is no such thing as 'maintaining' a low profile when you have snaps and your life experience pasted here. You are known. Face it. And when you willingly put yourself on the limelight and of course, people will start judging you from that day onwards. We are vulnerable in cyberworld.

Yea, this is a personal space of us, the bloggers. We are entitled to do whatever we want here without being questioned. BUT unlike our own home, we are not confined to 4 walls. Your neighbours can have 'full view' of whatever you are doing in your cyberspace. When that happens, couldn't it be more courteous to be humble?

If you think you are entitled to an opinion of your own (which is true), so does Mak Minah who has a pisang goreng stall down the street. So does your distant cousin who secretly reads about your nights out with boyfriends. So does your greatest rival of the blogworld. So does the so-called obsessive Flickr fan of yours. The key is to be yourself without hurting other human beings.

Guess that is not too much to ask.


* a post out of my frustration reading posts just published to condemn others without facts, which I think is a wastage of space.

I had a mega-shopping spree last Saturday. Mega not because I bought lot of stuff but also I did it all in a record time of 2 hours (*wink wink)! It was Global Indian Shopping Festival (GISF) time again but I have no pictures to share this time. You may want to check out the previous post on GISF.

Now that I have started to live in 'budget' due to the fact that I have a Kancil to feed, let me go through stuffs that I bought and the price:
(P/S: 'budget' here refers to lower amount to be spent on shopping and other luxury spending. The use of the term 'budget' may vary according individuals )

• 1 white-turquoise sequined saree - RM95
• 3 kurti tops for aunt - RM 30
• 1 kurti top for me - RM10
• 2 kurti tops for sis - RM20
• tit-bits - RM10
• indian sweets - RM14
• 3 sequined/embroidered bags -RM65

So, in total = RM244 + RM3 (parking ticket).

But the satisfaction that I get = priceless!! :P

My apologies for skipping Nostalgic Friday post yesterday. Was out the whole day and the by the time I come back, I was dead tired.

Let's make up for it now :)

Beginning yesterday (or was it the day before?), Manya Blog Awards has been opened to all blog readers to cast their vote for their favourite blog. Simply put, it is a Malaysian Indian version of the famous Blogger Choice Awards. The differences? Manya is confined to short-listed Malaysian Indian blogs and awarded by Putera MIC, while Blogger Choice Awards is more global. As expected, there is a lot of criticisms thrown at Manya, but the efforts shown by Putera to gain back support of bloggers is commendable. No true blogger could be 'bought' by an award, and it will definitely not 'sway' us from our way of blogging. Some may not have that confidence, but I do.



Alright, more about Manya...

I don't want to bore you all with facts which you can read in Manya's home page. There are few bloggers within our blogging community who have been nominated for this year's award, including yours truly. Most of the nominated bloggers have accepted their nomination. There are 9 categories of awards, and two more 'special' awards - Readers' Choice Award + Putera's Award.



Now, the most important part of the post...



Go to Manya Awards, and vote for me now!! :P Readers are required to rank the blogs in each category and voting period is for a month. I have been nominated in two categories - Most Popular Female Blogger and Best Personal Blog. Please vote me *blink *blink *shy *shy..

Besides, there are lot more other blogs which you may wanna get to know and vote as well!!

Start casting your vote now! :)


I have published this song before, but now I feel like wanna hear it again. Troubled time, my frens! :P

There was a time when my food (read FUEL) cost Ammu just RM30 (USD9.21) per week. She was staying in hostel and the hardest work I have to do was to drive her to her faculty/eatery everyday, and back home during the weekends. She never failed to make sure I have enough to eat and I never starved in my life.

Not that I am complaining that she is not feeding me enough. She is a generous (ahem) person, and never left my stomach hit E. In turn, I was obedient to her. I still am. Never once I let her down by stopping in the middle of the road, and I will never do that to her. She spent most of her time with me, alone and I am the one she truly believes. We should never let down people who put their trust in us. Correct? :)

I know she has plans to sell me off soon, and I accept that fact. I'm getting old and she deserves a newer companion. She still feels bad about her decision to trade me off. I know. She loves me.
But lately I feel I'm slowly becoming a burden for her. Well, as I said before - one reason is because I am ageing and another reason is the rising food price. Can you imagine my food gonna cost her at least RM55 (for a tank full)?? Right now Ammu is travelling alot, and she got to feed me at least once a week. Now, isn't that too much for this girl?

She is already thinking how to cut down her travelling. If there is a LRT service to her uni, she would have taken that, but sadly there is none. She is left with no option but to use me everyday. Geezz!! I feel really bad. I really wanna scream and tell that I don't wish to eat expensive food stuff but well, I have no option here.

Please forgive me.

Lots of hugs,
Kancil 1980
EX 850