• 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 now a proud owner of....

I had a really odd and difficult day. As much as I want to wake up every morning to a bright, sunny, peaceful.. [and blah blah] day, I am facing that much of challenges to keep my day 'alive'. And the day was 'dead' today.

Okie, lets not dwell so much on it. I don't want tulipspeaks to go into sombre mood (like the author) :P

To keep my mind away from whatever-it-was, I decided to design a name card for me. Not an official kinda business card which states my profession, home address and stuff like that. I need a card which identifies me as a blogger. I think most would have figure out by now that I attend a number of get-together among bloggers etc. So I need a card to represent the blogger in me (ah, that sounds nice.. ) hehehe..

Guess I was feeling a little 'too down' and ended up with 3 designs instead of one. I was thinking hard which one to choose when I got the idea of asking my blog readers instead! Here are the designs and please leave a comment stating which design I should go for. Thanks!

So which one do you like?

I just received photos taken during a wedding dinner from the bride herself. Thanks Kavitha!
The photo was okie but not up to a standard of a professional photographer. Maybe it was prior to editing (hopefully). Whatever the reason is, I look so horrible in it! Then come photoshop to rescue!!

What a difference!
I may not be a professional photographer or a designer, and what I know is very little compared to many of you. Looking carefully, the yellow colour in the bride's saree turned out to be too bright. But then, something is always better than nothing right?

Now you know why I love Photoshop?

Between, if you have any tips on photo editing, do share them here. I wanna learn too! :)

A soul from Venus with a sexual appeal 7.4 of 10.
Guys hold your breath...

Lets101 - Free Online Dating Site

Hi guys,
My sister has just upgraded to a new laptop and decided to sell off her old laptop. Posted some details of the laptop below.


Model: Acer Aspire 3623NWXCi

• Age: 2 years (April 2006)
• CPU: Intel Celeron M 370 (1.5GHz/1M)
• LCD: 14.1" WXGA Wide TFT LCD
• RAM: 256MB DDR2 SDRAM
• HDD: 40GB
• Modem: Built in Modem 56K
• LAN: 10/100 Base T
• WLAN: 802.1161g
• Battery: Lithium Battery to last 5hours

Extra:

• Pre-loaded with original Window XP with recovery CD provided
• Pre-loaded with Microsoft Office 2003
• New motherboard changed in Dec 2007 (ACER orginal part)
• Charger

Free:

• Optical Mouse
• Carrying case
• Bluetooth adapter

Reason to sell: Upgraded to new laptop

Selling price: RM1,200

Contact me via im@tulipspeaks.com for more details and/or purchase order.

Eh, not what you are thinking! :P

Way too many...
Things to be done...

and Way too little...
Time in hand..



For the few days (actually since the year started), I barely have time for myself. Probably I wanted to keep myself busy, change my lifestyle blah blah blah.. For now, I am coping at the expense of blogging, blog-hopping and rest/sleep.

I know I greet some of you in YM, but disappear the next moment. I "drifted to the dreamland" while talking to a friend last week. And, I just realized I sent few unrelated sms to my friends last night. That's a lesson why I should not attempt to answer calls or reply to sms after I already went to bed. Sorry guys.

Keeping my fingers crossed, hoping things will get better in days to come.

God, I need my life back!

... I feel upset today.

no no.. it's not upset.. may be angry?
or is it depression?
no, not depression.. confusion?

it's like you are missing something
or forgotten about something?
or uneasy about something?

weird feeling that I have no clue about.

damn.. what is this thing?

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.

I am pissed. You might get pissed too if you got messages via social networks from self-proclaimed genius like this:

Warning: These are real messages exchanged between a moron & yours truly. Take note of the language.


The Moron : ammu how areu?

ammu : im fine thanks.

Things were fine only in the beginning... then the nightmare began....

The Moron : hallo ammu, i am fine,ur indian?how is ur work?ur more custemer?pls reply ammu.i hope visit malasia.u pls join with me 15 days.how much ur cost ?pls reply dear.u have ur nace picture for me?sexual picture?pls send to me.

ammu : sorry i am not for sale.

OMG!!! His English literally blinded me for a second!!! I still don't know the meaning of "more custemer" & "nace picture". And I just hate it when someone spell Malaysia as "malasia" or whatever! Especially not when Malaysia is celebrating her 50th birthday! Grrrrrr!!!!! And what on earth "sexual picture" means??? Nude photo huh? I didn't want to waste my precious energy typing out looooooooong reply to this moron. So, my reply was simple ;)

The Moron : ammu sorry ur dating girl? ie i am askig sorry. pls tel me more

ammu : u dont know what 'dating' means??? it means i am seeing someone i.e. i have a boyfriend.

LOL. This one really got me laughing! Hahahahaha.. The moron was referring to my marital status (as you can see in the screen shot below) which says "Dating". Generally I like to put my status as "dating" or "in relationship" just to minimize such harassment. But I never thought there will be such geniuses (like this one) in the Internet world!

The Moron: ammu dating means sex worker. that is i ask somthing sorry. ammu i am really sorry

ammu:a sex worker is a sex worker. LOL. i think u need to find a new English teacher.

v. dat�ed, dat�ing, dates
v.tr.
1. To mark or supply with a date: date a letter.
2. To determine the date of: date a fossil.
3. To betray the age of: Pictures of old cars date the book.
4. To go on a date or dates with.

source:
http://www.the freedictionary .com/dict.asp? Word=dating

At this point, I wanted to hammer his head already! Between, did you count the number of times he said 'sorry' and 'ammu'?

Now, would you like to know the url of his profile page? ;) May be he needs some 'coaching' on communication skill & English language! Any takers?

P/S: The blog header has been changed in conjunction with Malaysia's Golden Anniversary. Nice huh? :P

I receive not less than 5 new friendster/tagged request a day, and not less than 5 new messages asking the same questions like below:

Message 1: hru? how is ur life going on? where ru now? n what r u doing?

Message 2: i,m xxxxxx from xxxxx n working as xxxxx in puchong. then how about you n ur fly? tel me more details about u ok.. take care .. have a nice day...

Message 3: what u do ? can i gate your biodata pls . your details very few . i rep u nex week or if u want conteck meis my no 016xxxxxx .is perak no but i stay in jb


[Pardon their language, I pasted the message as it is with alteration only to their names/phone numbers so that you guys can understand my frustration *me being mean :P]



I am tired. Tired of answering the same questions again and again. Then I remembered the FAQ session in most websites *grins. I am answering most frequently asked questions via friendster/tagged/YM. If you got anything else to ask, feel free to do that in the comment section. May be I can post a link to these 'new friends' instead of typing it out all the time.


Q: Whats your full name?
A: Ms. Amutha Ramadas BSc., MSc. But you may call me 'ammu'. simple isn't it?

Q: Where are you from?
A: Puchong, the happening town & the center of Klang Valley, Malaysia.

Q: Is that your hometown?
A: Yes!!!

Q: Hows life?
A: Great! Never felt better.

Q: What are doing now/Are you working/ What are you working as?
A: I completed my studies last Dec. Right now I am attached to a private university in the state of Selangor, Malaysia :D

Q: Oh! Thats great. What is your future plan?
A: Intend to further my studies next year. (so buzz off! hehehehe...)

Q: How many siblings do you have? What are they doing?
A: 2; a sister & a brother - both younger than me. They are studying.

Q: What are your hobbies?
A: I blog.

Q: What is a blog?
A: *sigh... http://www.tulipspeaks.blogspot.com . Visit it and you will know ;)

Q: What do you do in your free time other than blogging?
A: Good question.. I rarely have free time. If I do, I go shopping!!! yippeee! I do read. Sometimes, if there is any good movie playing in nearby cinema, I will go but only if I got a company.

Q: What are your fav foods? (blv me.. I had ppl asking me this ques! :O)
A: Indian food.

Q: Why don't we meet tonight for a drink? (and I only know his existence few minutes back)
A: One.. I rarely go out in night. Two.. I don't meet ppl I barely know.

Q: The photo (referring to my profile pic) looks good. Is that really you?
A: OMG! Just because you have David Beckham / Surya / Dhanush / Capt Jack Sparrow as your profile pic, it doesn't mean everyone else are fake too. Get a life, will ya?

Q: Can I have your number?
A: No. Sorry but I don't exchange numbers online (except if you are a hunk, of course)

Q: Are you single?
A: Yes.

Q: How come?
A: I don't know (that's my standard answer).

Q: You had a boyfriend before this?
A: I had a husband. Happy? Can we talk about something else? *yawning

This blog has been under alot of pressure and severe harassment ever since it was created, by none other than me, the author :P

What started as a simple blog holding scribblings of my daily activities (and complains) transformed itself to a complex bloggie over the time period. Remember the red blinking background and the scrolling profile pictures of my blogmates? Now its back to basic! My blog buddy list has been replaced with Google Reader. It lists only current updates. So you update your bloggie, you automatically got listed in it. Fair enough? Besides that, I added MyBlogLog's widget: Recent Readers. It lists down the recent visitors of the blog/profile via mybloglog. The trick is you have to be a member of that site to get listed here. The header is now being kept to the minimum. Simplicity is the best nah? Apart from that, the Shoutbox, my flickr and list of other projects stays where they always been.

Many have asked for the templates that I use. I never ever remove any credits of the original designers. So, you may wanna explore their collections by clicking the links (usually at the footer). As for your info, I love Pannasmontata Template. You'll find neat work there. Most of the time, I use templates from there but i normally will customize the images, colours and some time the side bars. You may also find thousands of blog templates in BlogSkin.

Now this post begining to sound like a sponsored post! Hahaha.. Well, I just wanna write something about TS in TS! :P Ended up giving a review instead. Anyway, this is my 215th post. Not so say its a significant number, but its always me asking you guys questions etc. Of course this is my bloggie and I may write what I want to, but this time I would like to open the floor for a Q&A session (sounds formal, i know..). Previously I did this once as a tag, and I restricted the questions to one per person and requested for no sensitive question to be asked. This time, there will be no such restriction. You may ask any question you like, and I will try my best to answer.

Have a wonderful weekend. And yea, thats me in a sexy black saree, which I will wear again for a reunion dinner tonite.. got to lose some weight there :p

Inspired by Colin Smith.

Sometimes there are some songs which you rarely listen to. But when you do, you are mesmerized to the point of losing yourself in it. Sharing two songs from the same Tamil movie 'Kanda naal muthal' which kinda 'old' but never fails to entertain me everytime I listen to it.

Its still beginning of the week, but should that be a reason for you not to unwind?
Enjoy.

I don't know why but I really felt the difference for the past 2, 3 years. I'm losing the colours in my life - losing its vibrant colours; its enchanting vibes; its pleasant and upbeat nature. Its getting gloomier.. something that made me to feel uncomfortable. Sometimes I fight back.. yea.. I fought back and I got some shades back..only to lose it the next day. Now..I've decided to seek for help. Yes.. a small favour which will definitely go a long way. I had a long thought about it. Unsure about how to ask. But... how long can I keep on wondering? hmm.. anyway, I got to ask it somehow..

Guess my mood has since changed ever since the new year. Man, I can barely think about any serious and debatable issue at all! I have a meeting in an hour time and here I am, writing about a tall dark hunk, who has captured not only my heart but also .... (censored). Sorry Visithra, but I really have to do this. I hope she doesn't mind me sharing the guy of her dream..

The lanky guy with typical South Indian look has been disturbing my sleep for months now. At first I thought its just infatuation, and the feelings would just go away. But as time passes by, I realize that its merely not an infatuation or idolization. His strong voice and the character he has shown so far, simply swept me off my feet! Many do not share my views in this but who cares huh? Well, he looks a 'bit' too tall for me :p but again, who cares???? Visithra seems to have eyed on the same man, again.. who cares huh Visi??? Share la... ;)

I wish I'll come across him or at least (God please...) his clone in Malaysia! Amen.

Funny video clips..Hahahaha.. Just to chill out after reading the earlier post.

Have a nice weekend guys.