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Poor blog has been abandon. Was not in the mood of updating for a while.

I had a fever last week. I thought it was just another ordinary fever I used to get now and then but I was wrong, it was the one I have like once in 5 or 6 years. Since it comes only once in a blue moon, usually it stays with me for a while, like it just did. I really don't mind getting sick now and then, no? It's a sign of me being a human being. Nonetheless, I don't like this one. Not only it takes a long time to recover, it makes me feel very weak too.It starts with fever, and then severe headache, lost of appetite, followed by muscles sore, sore throat and finally those annoying coughing. It was certainly not a fun thing, specially the sore throat bits. I lost my voice due to it. It was only for a week but gosh, it felt like forever! I was struggling greeting my students back at the start of my lesson, let alone teaching. Not fun!

I owed a few of my fellow colleagues who had been helping me with my classroom control during my sick period. Having to lost my voice was like having to lost my authority in the class. For the first five minutes, the midgets obeyed my instructions I wrote on the writing board. After that sweet five minutes, they changed their mind, took their positions and started the 'wet market' environment. Oh well. Since my body was not well, my mood was kind of not 'there' too. So I cut loose and let them do the Hangman, Win Lose or Draw and Wind Blow instead of those daily routines. Very noisy, though. I got complained from the management. Too bad, I can't do much about it. They should know it's way better for them to have noisy classes than having the trouble of scheduling teachers to relief my classes. They really should thank me for my willingness to drag my sick ass to work and save their trouble instead of complaining the 'meaningful noise' coming from my classroom. Tsk!

Except for my voice, everything is almost back to normal now. I reckon this 'horse voice' will stay with me for a few days more until the coughing is completely gone.

Ermm, what else?
Looking.
Thinking.
Thinking.
Thinking.
Scratching head.
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Nothing!

So I guess I will come back again some other time.

Weekends are coming, enjoy it!

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Tagged by Christine

Rules :
- pick your birth month .
- strike out anything that doesn't apply you .
- bold (italicize) the best apply to you .
- copy to your own blog , with all twelve months .

or , you can just do like this .

red : yup . that's me .
purple : maybe yes, maybe not, not sure..
blue : never me .

THE MONTH OF DECEMBER

DECEMBER : loyal and generous . sexy . patriotic . active in games and interactions . impatient and hasty . ambitious . influential in organizations . fun to be with . loves to socialize . loves praises . loves attention . loves to be loved . honest and trustworthy . not pretending . short tempered . changing personality . not egotistic . take high pride in oneself . hates restrictions . loves to joke . good sense of humor . logical .

JANUARY : stubborn and hard - hearted . ambitious and serious . loves to teach and be taught . always looking at people's flaws and weakness . likes to criticize . hardworking and productive . smart , neat and organized . sensitive and has deep thoughts . knows how to make others happy . quiet unless excited or tensed . rather reserved . highly attentive . resistant to illness but prone to colds . romantic but has difficulties expressing love . love children . loyal . has great social abilities yet easily jealous . very stubborn and mony cautious .

FEBRUARY : abstract thoughts . loves reality and abstract . intelligent and cleaver . changing personality . attractive . sexy . temperamental . quiet , shy and humble . honest and loyal . determined to reach goals . loves freedom . rebellious when restricted . loves aggressiveness . too sensitive and easily hurt . gets angry really easily but does not show it . dislikes unnecessary things . loves making friend but rarely shows it . daring and stubborn . ambitious . realizes dreams and hopes . sharp . loves entertainment and leisure . romantic on the inside not outside . superstitious and ludicrous . spendthrift . tries to learn to show emotions .

MARCH : attractive personality . sexy . affectionate . shy and reserved . secretive . naturally honest , generous and sympathetic . loves peace and serenity . sensitive to others . loves to serve others . easily angered . trustworthy . appreciative and returns kindness . observant and assesses others . revengeful . loves to dream and fantasize . loves traveling . loves attention . hasty decisions in choosing partners . loves home decors . musically talented . loves special things . moody .

APRIL : active and dynamic . decisive and hasty but tends to regret . attractive and affectionate to oneself . strong mentality . loves attention . diplomatic . consoling , friendly and solves people's problems . brave and fearless . adventurous . loving and caring . suave and generous . emotional . aggressive . hasty . good memory . moving . motivates oneself and others . sickness usually of the head and chest . sexy in a way that only their lover can see .

MAY : stubborn and hard - hearted . strong - willed and highly motivated . sharp thought . easily angered . attracts others and loves attention . deep feelings . beautiful physically and mentally . firm standpoint . need no motivation . easily consoled . systematic ( left brain ) . loves to dream . strong clairvoyance . understanding . sickness usually in the ear and neck . good imagination . good physical . weak breathing . loves literature and arts . love traveling . dislike being at home . restless . not having many children . hardworking . high spirited . spendthrift .

JUNE : thinks far with vision . easily influenced by kindness . polite and soft - spoken . having ideas . sensitive . active mind . hesitating , tends to delay . choosy and always wants the best . temperamental . funny and humorous . loves to jokes . good debating skills . talkative . daydreamer . friendly . knows how to make friends . able to show character . easily hurt . prone to getting colds . loves to dress up . easily bored . fussy . seldom shows emotions . takes time to recover when hurt . brand conscious . executive . stubborn .

JULY : fun to be with . secretive . difficult to fathom and to be understood . quiet unless excited or tensed . takes pride in oneself . has reputation . easily consoled . honest . concerned about people's feelings . tactful . friendly . approachable . emotional temperamental and unpredictable . moody and easily hurt . witty and sparkly . not revengeful . forgiving but never forgets . dislikes nonsensical and unnecessary things . guides others physically and mentally . sensitive and forms impressions carefully . caring and loving . treats others equally . strong sense of sympathy . wary and sharp . judges people through observation . hardworking . no difficulties in studying . loves to be alone . always broods about the past and the old friends . likes to be quiet . homely person . waits for friends . never looks for friends . not aggressive unless provoked . prone to having stomach and dieting problems . loves to be loved . easily hurt but takes long to recover .

AUGUST : loves to joke . attractive . suave and caring . brave and fearless . firm and has leadership qualities . knows how to console others . too generous and egoistic . takes high pride in onself . thirsty for praises . extraordinary spirit . easily angered . angry when provoked . easily jealous . observant . careful and cautious . thinks quickly . independent thoughts . loves to lead and to be led . loves to dream . talented in arts , music and defense . romantic . loving and caring . loves to make friends .

SEPTEMBER : suave and compromising . careful , cautious and organized . likes to point out people's mistakes . likes to criticize . stubborn . quiet but able to talk well . calm and cool . kind and sympathetic . concerned and detailed . loyal but not always honest . does work well . confident . sensitive . good memory . clever and knowledgeable . loves to look for information . must control oneself when criticizing . able to motive oneself . understanding . fun to be around . secretive . love leisure and traveling . hardly shows emotions . tends to bottle up feelings . very choosy , especially in relationships . systematic .

OCTOBER : loves to chat . loves those who loves them . loves to take things on the center . inner and physically beauty . lies but doesn't pretend . gets angry often . treats friends importantly . always making friends . easily hurt but recovers easily . daydreamer . opinionated . does not care of what others think . emotional . decisive . strong clairvoyance . loves to travel , the arts of literature . touchy and easily jealous . concerned . loves outdoors . just and fair . spendthrift . easily influenced . easily loses confidence . loves children .

NOVEMBER : has a lot of ideas . difficult to fathom . thinks forward . unique and brilliant . extraordinary ideas . sharp thinking . fine and strong clairvoyance . can become good doctors . dynamic in personality . secretive . inquisitive . knows how to dig secrets . always thinking . less talkative but amiable . brave and generous . patient . stubborn and heart - hearted . if there is a will , there is a way . determined . never give up . hardly becomes angry unless provoked . loves to be alone . thinks differently from others . sharp - minded . motivates oneself . does not appreciate praises . high - spirited . well - built and tough . deep love and emotions . romantic . uncertain in relationship . homely . hardworking . high abilities . trustworthy . honest and keeps secrets . not able to control emotions . unpredictable .

DECEMBER : loyal and generous . sexy . patriotic . active in games and interactions . impatient and hasty . ambitious . influential in organizations . fun to be with . loves to socialize . loves praises . loves attention . loves to be loved . honest and trustworthy . not pretending . short tempered . changing personality . not egotistic . take high pride in oneself . hates restrictions . loves to joke . good sense of humor . logical .

Blue Monday

Yaaii.

Not much going on today. It's a bank holiday here in west Malaysia (Thaipusam) so pretty much I just sit at home and stare on my lappy screen again. I managed to sleep last night, after almost 32 hours being awake. I went to the tuition centre staff meeting yesterday, big boss bought us dinner from Sushi King. Didn't really enjoy the deep fried stuffs but it was free, so why complain. Anyways, that was my first meeting with them. All these time we ran our activities separately, I'm new and haven't met any of the centre's staffs. I'm glad I went to the meeting, I got the whole picture/idea of what the learning centre is about. Nothing much I can say about their business targets/aims. I've been doing part time freelance for a while with a few centres, I'm quite familiar with tuition centres business ideas. Each centre tries to be unique and individual, no surprise on that. At the end of the day, they still care how much money they earn as much as they care how much knowledge their students gain. I'm fine with that, except one thing, they want me to do marketing for them.

I don't know if I'm comfortable with it. As I am only doing this part time, I am trying not to get involved in the marketing stuff because it is clearly not my department. I'm giving lessons. I only need to plan my lesson based on the syllabus, set achievable objectives, make sure the children get whatever I'm passing to them and that's it, overall reflection on the session and I'm on my way home. The idea of me promoting the centre and getting more students is really making me feel uneasy. I'm planning to phone the boss sometimes this week and tell her not to expect me bringing students to her centre. I can promise her I will build a good rapport with my current students and make them stay but I will definitely not going out and market the centre's programme. If she insists, then she better comes up with a different deal on that one cos I'm not a cow, she can't manipulate me.

Oh, have I mentioned that I am the youngest one in the team? I was quite surprised the rest of the staffs are above the age of 45 and have been in the profession for many, many years. Imagine their experiences compared to mine. From our discussion I can tell they really know what they are doing, they are very good at it. I feel a little bit small around them. I learnt later that day that the boss is very particular with one's amount of experience before she employs anybody. Uuuhh, that gave me a sceptical feeling. She knows I am still green in this profession, what makes her offered me this job? The closest thing I can think about is that her centre was understaffed and she was desperate to get someone to cover it. Well, whatever it was, it's good for me because so far, I've got paid RM208 in cash for 4 sessions (8 hours). I know it's not much compared to what I used to get from other centres but it should cover one month payment for one of my credit cards, that's the only thing matter to me.

It's been a while since the last time I wrote about Forex. I lost quite a lot last week and couldn't afford to fund my account until last Friday. I must say Paypal is very convenient funding my account. With Paypal, I got my transaction done in no time. Monkey funds his account by wire transfer and it took 3 business days. Well, we know now that Paypal is better than wire transfer.

The market just opened today after the weekend, so it's quite slow. I've made 31 pips so far but possibly will lose it all if I'm not careful because I've jumped too quick on USD/JPY 30 minutes ago. I thought it was about to break the daily pivot and making a way ahead but I was wrong, it didn't. Now I'm down by 13 pips, if it reached -20, I'll quit it. The CCI is still looking good though, I hope it would turn around and make my day.

I spent a few good hours analysing the chart this afternoon. I have learnt a few things, I'm happy to share it here (doesn't have to be accurate all the time, maybe it's only for today's market):

1. The best time to trade is during the London market open because it has the highest trading volume.

2. Pay more attention to USDJPY chart. It kind of leading other currency pairs.

3. When USDJPY goes down, pretty much GBPJPY goes down too.

4. When GBPJPY goes down, GBPUSD goes down too.

5. When GBPUSD goes down, pretty much EURUSD is even but EURGBP goes down coz pound is getting stronger.

I have all these in my daily journal already but I thought it's not wrong to share my little lesson today, maybe it could be useful for other people too. Gotta go now. My USDJPY chart has started to show some good indications, I think it's good for me to glue my eyes on the chart.

Later alligator!

Another sleepless night

05.47 a.m.

Laptop was shut at 9 p.m. and now being used again.

Oh, great! I'm still wide awake. I am getting concern now, it's been few nights in a row I couldn't sleep at night. Lucky me, I am working in the afternoon, at least I could catch one or two hours resting in the afternoon.

I've long stopped drinking coffee. I don't take anything with caffeine, not since I started my healthy diet. But why, why can't I sleep? Why, why, why?

*Sigh* I guess I have to pay my doctor a visit again. Argh, just my luck...more money will spread their wings and say goodbye to my purse. Maybe this time it's worth to seek a second opinion because last time my doctor said it was probably an insomnia (which I think is possible), so he referred me to the neurology department. Guess what, it freaked the hell out of me!! I couldn't sleep at night like my father and his father...and for that, I got referred to the psychiatrist? No, thanks. Although, I know the doctor meant well, he said only psychiatrists can prescribe sleeping pills..so he thought it's better for me to have a session with the expert. But again, it really freaked me out, so, no thanks. I'll figure something else.

I better get off this computer and try to sleep again. I have to reach the learning centre before 8.30 a.m, otherwise the boss will get very bossy and noisy again.

Now I wish I didn't take their offer. I realised now my Sunday means a lot to me, it should be a sleep in day like always, not giving private lesson to a bunch of not-so-nice-thing-to-say-here who refuse to speak any other language but their mother tongue. Oh goodness me...see?! I think I just whined. I definitely don't like it being tired and sleepless like this. Arghh!

Penyakit kah ni ah?

Adoi...pukul 4 pagi sudah rupanya, kenapa tak boleh tidur ni. Tsk!

Kenapa bah enda buli tidur ni. Kerja lagi bisuk. Tiap malam macam ni, matilah sa. Hari-hari macam zombie pi kerja. Budak-budak pun takut kali tingu eyebags sa. Belum campur lagi jerawat-jerawat pengkhianat yang mula sudah tumbuh melata di dagu sama pipi. Tsk!

Apa lagi yang sa enda buat? Minum cell food sudah, minum air suam sudah, kira kambing pun sudah. Sampai beribu-ribu lagi. Tu munyit kegeruk sudah sana sebelah, sa lagi ni yang enda dapat tidur. Kalau datang lagi enda buli tidur sa macam dulu, aduuu...susahlah sa. Sa enda mau berurusan sama doktor pasal hal ni lagi. Not for the 3rd time.

Kah, ni barang memang run in the family? Penyakit kah ni ah? Dulu sa enda kisah langsung bila sa notice aki sa masih duduk tepi dompuran tiap-tiap kali sa bangun pi tandas, enda kira lah pukul berapa pun waktu malam. Sa anggap itu memang tabiat orang yang sudah tua. Sa enda heran juga bila sa tebangun tengah malam atau subuh-subuh, bapa sa masih lagi layan TV. Kadang-kadang sa tebangun batuk-batuk tengah malam pasal bapa sa masak lada putih or langkangon, penuh bau dia satu rumah. Sa ingat dia memang sengaja pasal dia tu kaki gusti, tau ja lah astro, 24 jam ada siaran. Tapi bila sa pikir-pikir balik, mengkali ni keturunan, tau. Sa teingat ada satu kali tengah-tengah malam, bapa sa pernah kasi bangun adik-adik lelaki sa, bawa pi magasu. Dia bilang dia enda dapat tidur. Tepikir pula sa, mungkin aki sa sama bapa sa bukan saja-saja sengaja bejaga malam, mangkali diorang memang enda dapat tidur malam, just like me.

Kalau betul lah, aduuu...macam mana lah ni ah. Durang enda apa lah, durang lelaki. Mata hitam macam panda pun enda peduli, orang tidak judge. Tapi sa ni perempuan. Sudahlah sa sekarang lebih besar dari tong minyak (thanks to the clomaid dan semua pil-pil hormon yang sa terpaksa talan), matilah sa kalau muka pun jadi macam panda yang bejerawat. Panda bagus lagi, kurang-kurang pun, putih juga bahagian lain muka diorang. Saya? Huh. Memang betul-betul menurunkan level self-esteem. Sa enda mo pikir buruk pasal laki sa, sa kenal luar dan dalam dia, dia tidak akan judge sa or love me less kerana my fizikal changed. Cuma kadang-kadang tu bila sa keluar sama dia, ada juga rasa paranoid bila perempuan-perempuan muda yang kaki diorang panjang-panjang, lurus, pakai skirt pendek-pendek pula tu, jeling-jeling manja sama laki sa. Kalau sa ada, mestilah bah laki sa buat-buat enda nampak tapi sa tau dia nampak juga. Buhunglah kalau sa cakap sa enda rasa tergugat. Dulu enda berapa, masa berat sa belum cecah 65 kg. Buli lagi sa pakai dress lawa-lawa, ketat-ketat, kasi tunjuk sikit aset. Sekarang apa lagi sa boleh bangga, pakai baju ketat, tebonjol semua lemak-lemak. Pakai baju longgar pula, nampak macam bunting 4 bulan. Kalau muka pun jadi macam panda, ampunnnnnnnnn....bagus sa bekurung ja dalam rumah sampai sa pulih dari semua ini. Arghhh!! Tension!!Tension!!!!

Bagus sa try lagi kira kambing. Mana tau nikali ada kambing yang mo tulung sa jatuh tidur. Sa enda mau ambil cuti sakit esok gara-gara enda dapat tidur.

Nothing justify the act of cheating

Went to the wet market to get some fresh food for the Jazzy. It was quiet down there. Lot of stalls were still not open. Maybe the stall operators are still having CNY fever, they rather stay at home and chill out. Lucky my regular chicken stall was open, they know exactly what I need and since I am regular, they give me special price for chicken carcass at all times. The lau ban was not around today, his staffs ran the stall.

I discovered their dirty trick today. I stood in front of the stall, waiting for the staff to get my frozen chicken carcass from their freezer at the back. It was about quarter to one in the afternoon, they were about to pack everything into their big freezer and go back. I noticed they weight the chicken before they packed it individually. Nothing wrong with that but what disturbed me is that they actually looked at the scale and then put water into the chicken's pack until the needle moved to the round figure. Cheating! That's cheating!

What happen is, the chickens are going to individual plastic bags and then get frozen in the freezer. The next day, they'll just take it out and put it on the weight scale and charge their customers based on the weight displayed. Of course the customer won't suspect anything because they don't notice the 'added element' in their chicken. The water has already turned into ice, frozen together with the chicken.

Ya, maybe they say why fuss, it's not that much, 70-80g per pack, it's only a little. Hm, still, it doesn't justify the cheating, does it? No matter big or small, cheating is cheating. Man..cheating is a sin. You can't do that, it's a bad, bad karma.

So, my two cents, if you go to Pasar Awam Taman Perling to buy chicken, make sure you buy the fresh or defrosted ones.

Next time I come there again, I'll talk to the owner and tell him I'm not happy with the way they run the business. If I have to, I'll say if he doesn't stop it, he will be doomed and the 'water money' he steals from his customers will turn into poison in his daily food. And if he doesn't welcome me to his stall anymore, well, I can always drive to Hans Market and get my supply from there.

I did say 'Hey, that's cheating' to his staffs but they didn't even feel shy or make their dirty action look not so obvious. I know they heard me though, because they did say 'sah poh' to me. Hello? I know, you know, that I'm not Chinese but I know what is a 'sah poh'. And I'm not. I was just saying the truth, THEY ARE CHEATING.