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I was utterly bored at work.. My program just won’t solve itself. Not that it ever will (solve itself), but that’s just wishful thinking on my part. I was typing part of this post on my new iPod Touch.

I’m a very proud owner of one now and I can’t seem to stop typing. LOL. It’s also interesting that my typos are automatically being corrected. Smart little gadget.

My little review would be: if you have a bit of loose cash, or if you are easily amused, or you need an MP3 player, or all of the above, buy it. It won’t solve your problems, but it certainly makes you feel better when you need a distraction. Seriously, though. It’s a great thing to have when you need to connect to the internet and you’re too lazy to get off your behind to get to your laptop. Haha.

It is my first MP3 player, and I love that I can watch YouTube on it. And other stuff. I also realized that having this gadget heightened my sense of perfectionalism, if there is such a thing, because I find myself wanting all of my songs to have Cover Art, proper information, and in an extreme case, lyrics. Anal much? Haha.

I told Liz that my next big buy will be a MacBook. Haha. But that’s going to have to wait. Maybe a month or two. We’ll see. Hehe.

Ohh, I went to Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam (SPA) today to get my letter of appointment, and to my readers, and (in particular) Darkness Light, I got into another Ministry, and not Religious Affairs. So the rumours must have been a tad inaccurate. LOL.

I can’t believe I’m leaving the building with massive number of parking spaces, though. I like this building despite me not being able to find my car most of the time. Haha.

Oh, by the way, I had to strip down the layout to the bare, because it wasn’t user-friendly and I am too busy to tweak it in time for the readers to comment. Hee.

Hey, guys.

Guess what? I’m getting an iPod Touch. I’m sure I had some not-so-great opinions about it, but I was also sure that I was going to swallow my words. As I always do. (Nya orang tua, jangan kuat mengucapkan, kebalikan jadinya!!) So it’s happening. I’m buying one. I was about to buy one this afternoon, after work, but work hours got a bit stretched, and I also had to drop by my aunt’s house for a bit, so I couldn’t make it to AV Electronics, in Kiulap, in time.

QQ(eStore?), also in Kiulap, didn’t have it in stock as well, and I had to order and wait a week. Which is not good. I hate waiting. I hated waiting for my Mazda to be released (but it was a good wait), and I simply hate waiting.

What I also hate at the moment, is how I have to use the UBD/ITB road to get home because Giant’s collosal opening was this morning. Seriously. It’s like the big chunk of a store (which is smack dab in the middle of residential area) was going to disappear if the whole of Brunei didn’t go there on its grand opening!!

I want to go there, but not today, or maybe not this month. I have to let the hype die down. I HAVE TO. No matter how cheap everything is there. I did gawk at the fact that they sell a bag of rice for B$9.90, though. And the air mattress at less than B$15. But I can’t be bothered to queue up just for that. I can’t even be bothered to wait in the long queue to get home! Why? Because I hate waiting.

So Giant will have to wait. I won’t. I’m going to AV Electronics to buy an iPod Touch. Which, I forgot to mention, is all Mumtaz’s fault. She has one, and she was just showing me one of the Tag Heuer watches that she had her eyes on, and she let me use her iPod Touch. I fell for it. So I’m buying one.

Oh. To think that people are flocking over Giant because it’s opening its massive doors, so Gadong must be a bit void of cars, BOY, WAS I EVER WRONG. Which makes me wonder, see, just how many are there living in tiny Brunei? It took me half an hour just to get a parking space. And ten minutes for me to walk from my parked car to my lunch. And I have 75 minutes lunch break.

It doesn’t help that today was payday for Government servants. (Mine, to my surprise, was out on Thursday.)

I have a barbecue to go to in Jerudong, so I’ll update again some time soon. Bye!

That was a short-lived hiatus, wasn’t it? It’s just because I’ve got a few things to blog about now.

Like how I watched Horton Hears A Who just a few hours ago. And how I’m trying to take greater care of my face because my mom asks me too. And how my cousin has opened a blog and I want you to visit him.

But first things first: Horton. He makes me laugh. Not so much the mayor of Whoville. 80% of the movie made me laugh, while the rest of the percentage, made me go, “Why isn’t it making me laugh the whole way?” I liked the movie, don’t get me wrong. I did. I just thought it wasn’t enough. I think it’s just me. Really. It’s typical me. Get all the great reviews from people, and end up disappointed. Not entirely disappointed with Horton, although I can say I preferred The Spiderwick Chronicles, just not entirely satisfied. I’ll give it a 3 out of 5.

So. My face. Nothing is wrong with it, in my opinion. Other than the occasional oily moments, I think I have avoided my face from breaking out, kept it healthy, and all that stuff. But my mom doesn’t seem to be happy with it. As most moms are with the rest of the things you say and do. So I bought myself toner, serum, and some sort of cream (to minimize pores!) from The Face Shop before we caught Horton.

I didn’t spend a fortune, which is a good thing, and I think I’m just going to give it a shot. If my face does break out, I’m definitely going back to just washing my face with good old face wash rather than slathering on creams, toners, serums, and whatnot. But we’ll see what happens.

Lastly, for my post tonight, I would like to plug my cousin, Alim, for his newly-opened blog! Hopefully it stays opened, and constantly updated, unlike his sister’s. Haha. (I know you’re reading this, Liz!) I’m somewhat promoting him and his store, and whatever he has got to offer. Hehe.

Crap. The boyfriend’s MIA again. Going to head to sleep now. Good night!

It’s official: I have nothing to write about.

On hiatus until I can find something interesting to pass to my fingertips and onto the keyboard.

I just came back from the cinema with 12 other people, and we watched The Spiderwick Chronicles. Being a kid-fantasy-movie buff, the genre in which makes me feel like I’m six and still believe that fabulously magical things exist, I LOVED IT. It was funny, scary, sad.. I loved Thimbletack and Hogsqueal. The funniest characters! One line I remember quite correctly, from Thimbletack was, “I die. You die. We die. Bye bye.” FUNNY! You really have to watch this movie. One of the movies I will surely remember. Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Next movie on the list: Horton Hears A Who. Trailers looks mighty hilarious!

Speaking of hilarious, I got this from Shasha’s entry. It’s KEN LEEEEE!!

ROFLMAO!!

I know some people would freak if they see this as my desktop wallpaper! Haha!

It looks horrifyingly real, especially if it was to be that size! LOL.

Wallpaper courtesy of PixelGirlPresents.

I changed my layout because I don’t want my readers to be blind. And the layout looks incredibly wonky in Internet Explorer — not that that surprises me, and she said the sidebar overlaps the main content column. Whoops. Hee.

I’d like to play around with it, but I have got things to do.

I need help, by the way. I’m taking 10 of my cousins out for a movie tomorrow night, and I need to decide which movie. So you have to help. Horton Hears A Who, or The Spiderwick Chronicles?

I’m leaning more towards the former, but I am a sucker towards fantasy movies. (Or whatever you call them.)

Leave comments, yes? Thanks in advance!

I have become utterly selfish and decided to change my layout to something else that will render my readers blind. OK, no, it’s just a bit hard to read. But! I am using this because it reminds me of the old times (plus, it’s pretty.) Don’t blog layouts used to look like this? Hahaha. I do hate how the sidebar is looking at the moment, but what the heck. I’m at a layout transition phase. Or some sort. (Something has got to explain why I chose this layout.)

Actually, web design-wise, this is a very bad layout. I learned, back in ITB, that fonts have to be readable. But do I care now? Not really. Bad layouts are great!

Moving on to something a bit selfless, a big shout out to Miss Maurina! A birthday wish for someone who turns another year older. I will see if I can find the time to make tiramisu for you, yes? Big hugs on your birthday.

So, back to — points to self — me, because of what I had felt in the previous entry, I have decided that my great news wasn’t such a big deal after all. It’s just.. news. And let me break it to you. If you hadn’t heard from the IT Manager of where I’m currently working, or from my mom (because these two have been spreading the word; one to inform, and the other, I don’t know being a typical parental unit), here it is: I’ve been offered another job. This time, by the Government of Brunei Darussalam as a system supervisor.

Don’t ask me where I’ll get attached, because they haven’t stated where yet. So hang in there, I’ll bring you the news soon.

What bothers me is that.. I don’t know. Here I am, switching jobs like I change my hairdos, and people out there are desperate to get employed. I feel so selfish. (This is the different kind than the one I stated in the first paragraph.)

In my defense, I totally did not expect myself to be recruited by the Government after the poor performance I had showcased that is my interview. Before the letter came, I knew I didn’t get it. I knew. I didn’t know I was going to be proven wrong. So, I had taken the offer of my current employer. And I feel so, so guilty for actually discussing my letter of resignation after only two weeks of working there.

I have made a good friend there in the IT department. She just layan me on our internal IM whenever I type “NGANTUUUUUK!~” (translation: sleepy.) She brings me out for breaks, which is great, nothing I had experienced in my previous workplace. Basically, she just layan every silly, ridiculous things I say or do, and vice versa. And I’m going to miss her when I move (again.)

It really is hard to read with a font so tiny, isn’t it?

You know, when you get really good news, the first person you want to share it with is the person you love the most? But what happens when you say, “Hey, I’ve got good news,” and they won’t even listen?

I feel like it is not so much great news now.

Sigh.