It was a much deserved break. Days of cooping up in the house, tends to grate on my nerves, at times I find myself questioning my very sanity.. Well without much ado and a spontaneous invite from my dad, we hopped on into/onto our vehicles and headed out to Batu Layar Beach.

My hubby and I took the new fast route, the new Desaru-Pasir Gudang highway from Ulu Tiram. The journey was cut by 30%. Originally, from Ulu Tiram to Desaru its 97km, but with the new highway its been cut to 54km. The  ride was smooth, fast and scenic. Its truly scenic as the route cuts across a few unknown large rivers and I get to see oil platforms. Hehehe.. yes I’m a bit weird but being brought up with heavy marine industry as one of my interest, I was chirping with glee when I caught sight of them.

Initially dad wanted to check out Tanjung Balau Beach. We did reach Tjg Balau.The resort looks promising and the amenities were surprisingly good. However, the beach is below my expectations. Having brought up almost with a visit to the beach almost weekly, I was dissatisfied with the man made looking beach. The waves were too choppy and only thing anyone could ever do during the Monsoon season with the red flag firmly planted to the ground is either to play sand castle or to surf (at your own risk).

However Tjg Balau has their own surfer rescue life guard, complete with the surfboard and is always ready to save any unfortunate(stubborn) souls who cross waves with the notorious sea.

After the short visit to that place, we once again headed out to our favourite place to swim, Batu Layar. It’s quiet, clean and the toilet is in much greater condition than the rest of the paid toilets found further up. It’s Mutiara Bay. Lovely friendly locals who charged a reasonable price for the usage of their facilities and parking space. It’s kept clean so visitors would never have to worry about their packed food being attacked by unwanted pests.

Since the location of the place is not that open into the South China Sea unlike to Tjg Balau and Dessaru, its a much safer place to swim. You may try your luck at fishing but the best I’ve ever gotten from there is just a baby grouper and Unga Tanda. But be wary of where you swim as some places has rocks and corals located in the waters.

Apart from it, everything is enjoyable and great.

*cough cough* Well… this is certainly embarrassing. I didn’t realise that it was months since my last update. Thoroughly embarrassing.. *hides from the angry readers with pitchforks*

Nothing much has happened. I finally got married amidst my jittery feelings and negative aura which happens to be my evil demon side etc… OK enough of my personal life. I got married, got a new job and had a time of my life terrorising my colleagues every time I feel stress with work. So love my work.. lol

Will be posting my decent wedding pictures soon, once I get a proper collection of my photos and free self-time *glares at her husband*.

See you darlings next time! Hopefully soon in the next few days

It has been a long while since I last updated this blog. It has taken up plenty of dust and lots of cobwebs decorated this place. A lot of things had happened while I was away.

Firstly, I got new job. Hurray for me! I am currently engaged to MDA under NCS Pte Ltd as Desktop Support Engineer. Working life here is good with plenty of friendly faces. It is a fast pace environment but manageable. In fact I am very pleased with the current team mates. All for one, one for all!

Commuting to work no longer a chore. In fact I prefer having it at the pace I am assigned to. I head out to work from Causeway but uses the Secondlink when I return from work. No stress for me there!

Anyway, for those who are looking for Optician Jobs, feel free to drop by at that link. Gotta go now!!

*blinks in confusion* Ok..

Pardon my lost in space moment there. I just recently updated my WordPress and the latest version is almost similar to the usual old one that I have been using. My favourite easy navigator bar is missing and has been replaced with something much more..elegant and it looks neater and hmm.. simplified. I hope I did get the right word for that description.

Lately everyone is in the shopping mood as the Mid-Year sale is still on. Almost all the items are slashed at a startling price. I would have joined the fray if I had the funds for it. A few weeks ago, Casio was having a great discount and most of their funky watches were priced below SGD$100.

I am a fan of watches and would love to buy those unique watches. I was entranced by a particular bulova watch but after looking at the price, I made a beeline for the exit. Usually I would just get the cheap ones in Bugis St as they are priced below SGD$10. My mock up leather strap big funky watched I had previously bought was $5.

Previously,  BHG was having a DBS/ POSB debit/credit card member close sale and the atmosphere was very staggering. I was overwhelmed by the surge of crowd that went crazy with their shopping. People were literally ransacking the shelves.

I did take a look at the prices. They were cheaper than usual but after comparing the prices in Malaysia, I’d rather get it in Malaysia than in Singapore. Less bulk for me to carry and lesser impact on my pocket.

Having a Jusco in the neighbourhood was suppose to be a good thing. Easy accessible to flagship stores, great food etc. However since it is now well known with Singaporeans for being near the second link, it is now crowded with them during all weekends and major holidays.

As per normal practices in almost all Singaporeans, they love to buy anything that is considerably cheap when compared to their homeland. Fresh baked bread, gone in 60mins. Fresh crispy vegetables, gone in 60mins. Fruits gone by the end of the day. In the end to avoid the Gone With The Wind, I have to either do my shopping in the early morning on all of the Attack of The Singaporeans days or do my shopping in the least busy day.

A question keep ringing in my mind. Are all the food items and basic needs in Singapore THAT expensive?

I do occasionally return to my homeland and when I do step into their supermarkets, my eyes nearly pop out. Their usual provisions are expensive. For example, the price of 1 packet of mustard leaves in Malaysia is Rm1.50 but in Singapore is $1.00. The only thing I see is affordable is their junk food.

No wonder they raid all of the food shelves in Jusco Bukit Indah whenever they drop by.

I have been very lazy lately in updating this dusty site. What used to be a place where I dump all my thoughts and cynical ideas, now rests with the dust and huge cobwebs. *dons her apron and takes out her feather duster*

Time to whip those dust bunnies and show them who is boss eh? *gives a loud war cry and chases the dust bunnies away*

I am not sure if I have written about it but I recently got myself a new desktop in lieu with a lightning storm that fried my old PC. Since it was not equipped with a decent video graphic card, I trudge back to my homeland, Sim Lim Square and got the best deal out of them.

GEFORCE GT 220 may be out dated for several years but thats the only one which I am able to afford considering I have a tight budget. It is a 1GB DDR2 HDMI DVI VGA PCI E and it was pegged at $SGD 86.00.

For newbies who are new into graphic cards, do lots of reading and comparing online first before buying anything. Furthermore those sales person behind the counter usually expects a nerd/ geek to be buying all of these items and will never be helpful to counter offer or even help you out in your purchase.

Unfortunately I faced that problem since its been years since I even read a PC magazine. Electronics are constantly updating and revamping and it is VERY much advised to read up before you buy anything.

When you have bought it, read up on how to install it along with the driver. Do not plug your monitor into your new graphic card yet until all the installation is completed. Plug n Play will not recognise it yet.

I installed it with no problems and am happily playing Dragons Age Origin and Awakening with ease. Fantastic graphics that game has *drools*. However if you do installed a new patch for Dragons Age Awakening, do a data backup for your game. I had problems with the patch and its crappy.

Tempting me to rewrite a few things in that patch, although I get a little lazy in reading programming words.

Yesterday I went to SIM LIM Square to get my graphic card. The manufacturer’s price and the dealers price are almost the same so I decided to let the dealers be a little bit richer than the manufacturers. In case of faulty items, its just 2hr bus ride from my house to that place.

While I may be lost with my techie side for a few weird years of my life, I do keep tracks of the latest development whenever a computer software/hardware problem arises. As it is, it took me 3 days to read up on the different graphics card out there in the market, compatibility and also price hunting.

While I was happily marauding my second most favourite shopping area, I didn’t realise the attention my little sister and I were drawing uh.. I was drawing. My little sister looks totally in place amongst the geeks while I was dressed in a sunny and cute flaring skirt and my shirt with my heels.

Yup, I looked like a total bimbo.

It was not surprising that no one was helpful enough to sell me and give me counter proposal for my graphic cards. Almost all the shops I went to, they just give me the prices and mind their own business instead of waiting on me.

HELLO!! Bimbo looking doesn’t mean I am a total airhead!

But in the end I got the graphic card I wanted from a nice HELPFUL saleswoman who gave me many counter proposals with lots of good discounts on all my purchases.

However there was a moment when I was stopped by two uni students who were doing a survey for their thesis. The questions they asked were nothing that a university student should be asking. WHY would I ever want to pay for an anti-virus while I can get it for free? Updating them everyday and doing scans weekly are the steps to prevent those pesky virus, worms etc from affecting your PC.

They were shock when I told them my age and currently working. They were expecting another student and too bad for them, they had this geek in bimbo suit instead. They don’t even know that you can counter the virus, worms, trojans manually when your anti-virus died on you in the attack.

AND they are IT university students?!! *face slams*

If these are the types of people that the university are passing out in the future, the world is going to be filled with air-heads and smug morons who know nothing of the world outside their little realm.

This is a little embarrassing. Last Sunday I went to my cousin’s wedding at Muar. The preparation of the trip was kinda hectic. Packing all my things in case of unplanned sleepover was one thing, finding out that I have added some inch on my sides is a slap to my face.

*face slams* I need to slim down!! Where are the weight loss pills when I need them? Need to slim down before I tore my clothes off on the sides..

It was a nice trip and I finally managed to catch up on a lot of things and renew lost connection with my relatives. The whole day was very fun and refreshing. Of course my cousin was very handsome in his wedding regalia and so was his wife.

Then we head out to Melaka to meet my dad’s friend and visit a distant cousin whom I have not met for a long time. Then again, I don’t think I have ever met him in the first place. *shrugs*

Oh well.. we finally reached home at 11pm. Tired n sleepy.

Who would have thought wedding preparations would be so.. overwhelming? I had helped my elder sister’s wedding years back and it wasn’t this tough. In fact it was very smooth and the only problem we had was the shopping for the wedding gifts, it was straining on the legs since my sister could never make up her mind!!

Now, after browsing many wedding packages brochures, I’m getting very dizzy. Well at least its more affordable than the prices in Singapore. That place was a killer on my empty pockets.

There are premium wedding dias, normal dias, premium set of clothings (don’t ask me how it looks like) and catering packages. Well one thing for sure the catering packages in Malaysia is not interesting enough, the food is the normal 4 types which is briyani.

I did went for the Wedding Extravaganza in Plaza Angsana last Saturday. The wedding lines were beautiful and so were the dias. Then I went walking around on the 3rd floor and saw this very nice bride clothing. They have the look of the normal elegance and glittery but the moment I look at the price, I almost faint. The rental rate was RM1000 for 7 days.

Who would want to spend that much on renting the clothes? Well at least now I know where those celebrities got their rented costumes for the awards. @_@ very expensive!

I can bet to you its the 3/4 of the salary of those who are in the normal sales jobs industry. Just too expensive to be renting!

Pfft.. Anyway time to go now. Will update on the wedding flurry activities later. What a headache..

My computer is finally up and running after days of banging.. uh I mean repairing it. I can’t really remembered what I did to make it… oh!! I remembered.

First the RAM died, got a new one, plugged it in and it didn’t want to boot up properly. Then I had to reset the BIOS to default setting and then it worked.

After the successful boot up, my internet connection didn’t want to work. I tried everything up to using winsox and everything. Still didn’t work. I had to hijack my brother’s network card and then it worked.

A week later, it died again. I was frantic and almost cracked my head on the wall. In the end I realise it was the modem problem. Guys, you are experiencing Limited Connection/No connection and you are using ethernet connection, this is the solution.

Turn off your modem using their on/off button and then off the mains. Then unplug the power adaptor or your modem n leave it off for a minute. Plug everything back in and turn it on.

It should work nicely.