friday night

my company had a get together yesterday. its a farewell gathering for one of the consultants that is going back to Netherlands. The night started out in the boardroom and we eventually ended up in a strip joint (but not before getting kicked out of one bar) . Went to Pure Platinum... girls weren't too bad i guess. But only 2 or 3 of them had nice bodies (i.e no spare tyres) There was this tall asian chick as well. Very nice. Best of all... everything under company bill :) Hehehe.. including some tipping dollars for the strippers.

Fun night. But feel damn buggered today... mostly because I came home to play WoW as well. I was half sleeping at the keyboar by the end of it. Ended up waking up at 2.30. Half my day gone...and I was thinking of going to gym & some shopping too. Oh well.

Speaking of gym... I've been going during lunch almost everyday for the past 2-3 weeks. Feels quite good. It actually makes the workday feel much shorter. Starting to cut weight now... so I've lost about 4-5kgs since I started cardio work. But then my muscle mass probably suffered a bit... cuz I haven't done weights since then too. Going to try to go next week. Cardio during lunch...and weights in the evening. Try to make it a routine to gym during lunch everyday...and weights 3 times a week.

sales sales sales

david jones and myers having a mid-season sale now. bought some new ties, a shirt and pricey underwear! well..pricey compared to the stuff I use to have anyway. About ~$20 each...which come to think about it is pretty effing expensive for underwear in Malaysian terms o_O

I was walking around david jones after work today as well (the actual shopping was yesterday). Was looking at their suits... and some Hugo Boss items. I soooo want the Boss cashmere coat! They actually look relatively normal as far as cashmere coats go...but it just ooozes wealth. I wannnnttt!!!!! But $800 is a bit much for me to fork out for a single coat... although technically, it is an overcoat.. Hmmmmmm

Nahh... save save save, and then invest! All for the sake of being wealthy in the future.

just an update...

to say that I'm not dead yet. I haven't had the mood/time to blog since I came back from Kuching. Not because I was depressed or anything, but just kinda lazy.

My grandfather's funeral was good? I guess...considering it being a funeral and all. Everything seems to have went smoothly. It was a pretty big chinese/buddhist funeral, a fair bit of money spent. I think around a 100K for everything? Oh wait..thats inclusive of the past hospital stay. The hospital was about 50K... so funeral also about there. Still pretty expensive...considering that some people don't even earn that much in a year o_O

I was only in Kuching for roughly 2 1/2 days? Didn't get much sleep during that time. I stayed up the first night was there to help burn the paper money. You are supposed to keep burning them until the day of the burial. We had a group of monks & nuns come every night to chant prayers. Kinda like the buddhist equivalent of Christians singing in a church. Praise to the Lord type of chants/songs... only for Buddha. There was also a lama who is (or more accurately, was) my cousin.

My grandfather got heaps of flowers were too. Close to 50 bouquets. The most interesting one of which had a card signed off as "20 Bangladeshi Workers" o_O. Workers from my grandfather's old construction company.

At any rate, 'ah kong' (i.e. grandfather) should be resting peacefully now. He has lived a good long life... and passed on without regrets. Incidently, he only passed on after all his sons were by his side. Apparently he held on until my eldest uncle flew back from the states. So yeah...all well and good I guess...