random update: random act of kindness

My team has came up with this random-act-of-kindness week.. which means we would each pick a member from the team and do at least 5 random kind acts to them within 2 weeks... It's something like secret santa, just it's not Christmas yet...

since I have just gotten into felt wool stuff.. i decided to give my recipient a felt wool thingy every day.. that will be 10 of them... feeling the generosity of kindness here... hahahahahaha...

here are  the felt wool stuff i have made...

Thursday: a "heart" to start your day

Friday: some luck that will last till weekends

Monday: A smile to chase away your monday blues

Tuesday: an  inside joke within the team... the answer is Roll Call, by the way...

Wednesday: Feeling Cheerry???

Thursday: I doughnut know vot to say today~~ (Feeling Russian here.. hahahaha)

Monday (The previous friday was a public holiday.. hehehe)

Tuesday (Just fyi, my team mate's name starts with a V)

Wednesday: have an egg-cellent day!!

Thursday, hashtag and a cheeky face inspired by the LINE stickers... some notes, seaweed rolls i bought from Thailand (oh dear, that's another chain of travel posts to be written) and some chocolates..

That's all for kindness...

Signing off!!

Toodles!

[D]reams

This a phrase that I think most people will always say, "If only I am rich...."
Oh well, this is something that I have been saying all the time when i see something I like or want... and people will just give me a dream-on look that totally bursts the bubble of my fantasies...

And then, i came across this site which seems like a total dream to me... as people who have been reading this blog would have known that I love Harry Potter and have always dream of going to Hogwarts.. Which Harry Potter fan is not waiting for their Hogwarts acceptance letter to go to Hogwarts??? Poor mail service of various countries, they have been framed countless times for losing Hogwarts' letters.. when they obviously did not... or did they??? Hmmmmmmm....

Anyway, it is pretty obvious that I don't have $2699 (i assume it's US dollars) to spare... or any extra cash for a flight in to London... from 27 October until 2 November...

It will be so cool to get myself into London and kinda live an English life for like a week or so... The thing I always loved about travelling is I could walk on a foreign street and try to act as though I am not a tourist and blend into the crowd, whereas I am actually going to tourist spots for sight-seeing... so much for blending into the community...

Oh well... I guess I could write out the itinerary as though I joined the trip... just for self amusement... so please bear with me...

So.... if I were to join to the tour.. I will be boarding a flight to London...

London is still in my 10 places to go before I die list... At least I could go see the Tower Bridge that is not falling down...
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fine, that's lame...

However, there will be a welcome dinner to start the journey... I sure hope it will be like the Welcome Feast during the start of semester in Hogwarts, where you get to see the Sorting~~ Maybe the participants could be sorted into their respective houses... Ravenclaw all the way!!!


The next day, the participants will get to visit the London Film Museum.... I wiki-ed it, it features the original props, costumes and the sets of film... I could spend hours here... I am starting to love film museums since i visited the Harry Potter exhibition last year... and I must splurge on an audio guide.. a museum visit will never be complete without a tour guide or an audio guide because looking at exhibits without knowing the background of it feels like spaghetti without the sauce.. So, I must chase away the cheapskate in me and get an audio guide... it will be worth it~~

Then, there will be a panoramic tour of London in search of Harry Potter film locations.. The hunt really sounds fun.. we will be in an air conditioned coach.. if the coach is something like the Knight Bus, the whole journey will be even more memorable~~ (minus the sudden brakes and turnings.. the passengers might puke their lunch)

Not forgetting, the iconic Platform nine and three quarters at the King's Cross Station... The entrance to the magic..

Day 3, we get to visit Warner Bros. Studio Tour of The Making of Harry Potter.. This is going to be the best experience a Potterhead could get because you get to see behind-the-scenes, experience the sets and exhibits of the film.. I think there's Butterbeer!!!! Just thinking of this really excites me, there'll be sets like the the Gryffindor boy's dormitory, Hagrid's hut, Umbridge's office, the Great Hall... these are the sets I saw during the Harry Potter exhibition in Singapore last year.. I guess it would be somewhat the same but bigger and a lot more exciting with interactive exhibits to play with.. This is gonna be a hell of an experience!!!

Christ Church College is the Great Hall set... Imagine the Halloween Feast or Christmas during the Yule Ball... I think its interiors were also used as the interiors at Hogwarts besides the Great Hall.. it will be like stepping into Hogwarts..

The Bodleian Library... This looks a bit like Gringotts.. Hang on.. google-ing.. Oops.. my bad... it was the  Hogwarts library...the exterior does resemble Gringotts though...

We also get to visit New College that was the set of the courtyard, there's a huge tree there, if i remember correctly, it was the place Harry told Cedric about the dragons during the Triwizard Tournament... and a corridor...if you could recall in Goblet of Fire, the students gathered there to see the arrival of the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang..

Day 4, off to Lumley castle.. i think this is the set of Hogwarts.. a really magnificent castle.. it overlooks the River Wear and Durham County Cricket Ground which I assume is the Lake and the Quidditch pitch in the movie.. I think~~ besides, we get to stay here!!! staying in the castle is like staying in Hogwarts... I wonder if the rooms will be like dormitories with common rooms.. if they are, that will be superbly perfect!!!

Day 5... we get to take a vintage steam train, the Hogwarts-Express alike passing by routes used in the mvie for the Hogwarts Express... and the Goathland station, I assume, will be Hogsmeade station..
The journey ends n Whitby(Oh, one of my colleague's kampung!!) Besides, the Whitby Museum has the Hands of Glory that Draco used in Half-blood Prince...

We get to celebrate Halloween on that day too!! If only this could be done in one of the Great Hall sets.. that will be so much fun!!!

Day 6... the Durham Cathedral... according to lexicon, it was the Transfiguration classroom, and several sets seen in Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets.. check out lexicon
walking around the cathedral give you the feeling of walking on the Hogwarts grounds, making you feel like a real student...

Day7 is when all the magic ends.... breakfast and back to London..

I want to repeat that I did not participate in the tour.. I was just writing this for self amusement because I really wanted to go~~

In the meantime... I'll just continue my journey as Janet Hayden....

So that's all for my dream travel... now it's time for a real dream.. off to sleep I go..

Signing off..
Toodles!!

[C]areer talk

Speaking of careers... I have always dream of a career in showbiz, being a scriptwriter has been my life goal since I was 10... So, I was certain that I could adapt to the life of showbiz, write stories and deal with the productions crew and actors, seeing them present the stories that has been rolling around in my mind into real life images that everybody could see and understand, instead of me being the only person enjoying the story...

However, due to unforeseen circumstances, I had to leave the showbiz industry and venture into another field that I never thought I would venture into... although I do not hate the work that I am doing now... but I still miss productions... most of the times.. To get back in, is kinda impossible... so, the current situation, I accept..

Then.... some things that were not in my initial career plan eventually appeared... I believe many of us have thought of being a teacher once when we were little.. Since I saw how problematic some students may be, i have ditched the idea to be a teacher... However...... I happened to be one now...

I am currently teaching my first batch of students... halfway through the syllabus now... So far, I think I am doing ok...

That's all for now..

Signing off..
Toodles!!

Macau-Hong Kong Birthday Trip Day 5 -Part 1-

It's my birthday and our last day in HK... 

On a side note, I know my birthday was almost 2 months ago and this was last year's birthday.. I'm very sorry for the delay..

Alright, back to the story... We had our final breakfast in HK... I always loved their breakfast sets...

Hp's macaroni and bun... their macaroni's are usually in soup rather than in thick gravy.. I guess that's the difference between the east and the west..

My pork slice spaghetti and milk tea~~~ slurps

After breakfast... We strolled around and went back to the hotel for check out....
Good bye to my room key..

While waiting for hp who was in the washroom... I asked the receptionist if I could get a taxi downstairs.. It was just a random question i decided to ask just to clear the awkward-ness of standing in front of the counter not having anything to do.. I'd only expect her to answer a yes or a no and maybe a suggestion for a better spot to hire taxis.. 

She asked me where am i heading.. I told her I was going to the jetty to catch a ferry to Macau.. and she suddenly become quite agitated and told me to not take the taxi because it's expensive and suggested me to take the MTR instead... 

That wasn't my plan so I just nod and say ok, thinking that I will just hire a taxi later when I get out...

However, being very very friendly... she decided to take us to the station and taught us which station to get off and how to get to the jetty after that... She shoo-ed us into the station and didn't leave until we bought our tickets to the station (we returned our octopus card the previous day so we had to buy single trip tickets).. So, we had to get on the MTR and get to the jetty...

We bought our tickets via a travel agent and got a cheaper rate.. our train was set to board at 1pm so we waited...

Here's a last look at HK... and off to Macau I go...

Part 2 coming up... soon, hopefully...

Signing off...
Toodles!

[B]ack to the Future

Life.... is full of regrets... We regret doing something, regret not doing it at all or regret not doing it properly... Regret saying something or regret not saying it at all... 

Whatever it is, the only thing left to be done is suck it up as life moves on... There is no turning back to change it as time only moves forward and stops for no one...

So, you will have to bear the consequences of whatever action you have done and the choices that you have made...

Since there is a reason why we could not turn back time...

It is because.....

be-cause............

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We have past the "Back to the Future" time frame... We can no longer go back anymore...

*Snorts*

Hey there, sorry for the lame-ness but I have been wanting to tell a joke about this ever since I realised that 2013 is the year Marty McFly arrived in Back to the Future but I just could not think of something that could relate to it...

This idea just suddenly popped up in my mind which is to start it with something serious and end it with a snort...

Anyway, Happy Friday!! TGIF!!

Signing off!!
Toodles~

[A]pril Fool??!!

Exactly a week before, I got something that I thought was my first April fool's joke of the year.. which turns out it was not because it became serious and landed me where I am now... In PJ instead of Cyberjaya, sitting in an arm's length cubicle with 2 PCs because I am sharing the cubicle with the night shift people... I miss my super wide and spacious cubicles, i miss my 3 drawers and 4 shelves that stores all my stuff...

Back to why am I here... Last wednesday, as usual, i got ready for work and was waiting for my car pool buddy to come pick me up from work.. while waiting, I picked up my phone and start playing with it.. Good thing i did because I had 2 unread messages.. the latest one was from the car pool buddy asking me if i have heard that the office is closed because the internet and phones were down... the first thing that came to my mind was... April Fool???? but it's 3 days after 1st of april... did this prank got lost somewhere?? Ignoring it, i read the next message that came in 6 something in the morning.. it was from my team leader saying that a fire broke out in the server room and we are not allowed to go to work.. OWH~~~ so it's real... and by that time, I was awake already...

Then, I stayed home for 3 days.. since I am not allowed to go to the office.. the home office software thingy can be installed into my computer so all I can do is check emails... paid to stay at home.. how nice!!

However, my company managed to find a temporary place for us to work... and guess what, it is right next to my old uni block, the place where i did my foundation~~ See how fate brings me back here... At least I know where to have lunch and there are much more choices here than Cyberjaya.. the best thing is, I can reach home within 20 minutes!!! Yay!!

That's all for now

Signing off~~
Toodles!

Blogging from A to Z Challenge

I just found out about this challenge and thought that it is a really good idea to keep ideas flowing..

Of course, judging on my blogging momentum, I will not be joining this challenge.. Instead, I will just adapt the idea into my blog titles so that when I feel like blogging but have nothing in mind to blog about (this happens really often), I could at least depend on something for ideas.. So just stay tune for (hopefully) more frequent posts..

Check out about Blogging from A to Z Challenge

Presents~~

As I have mentioned, my birthday this year is full of celebrations... My first present came 10 days after my birthday... from my team mates from work.. we had a small team event which consists of Nandos for lunch and a game of Pictionary... And of course... My present...

The top of my present.. I actually opened it before I took photo because I only took photos after the event.. the present was give during the event and I was required to open it.. Oh, I never mentioned that I don't like ripping wrappers?? I took a good few minutes to reveal what was my present till one of my team mates said, my next present will be in a box where I will just have to open it instead of unwrapping... I just don't know why, I couldn't stand tearing up the wrapping paper... it's just.. not fun... and also, to create suspense among others who are watching.. hahahaha...

My birthday card that was stuck on top of my present, the one with a big yellow bow and birthday wishes from all my team mates...

Want to know what is my present???

It's a pin sculpture~~~ If you are trying to hide your clueless expression, don't worry.. You don't have to do that coz yours truly has been there and done that... until my team mates demonstrated the way of playing with it.. it's some artsy stuff that you can play with.. very unique..

That's the shape of my stapler you are looking at... I suppose it has the most interesting shape among my stationary.. I will just have to put my stapler at the bottom of it and turn it over.. the pixel-like thingies are actually nail-like thingies.. I forgot to take a side view photo of this.. Sorry, If you really want to know what is this, please leave a comment and I will include photos of whatever dimension this thing has.. Oh well, if you have no interest to know, you may also leave comments.. Thank you very much...

Just a week ago, I came across felt wool art after watching a tutorial video from bubzbeauty

 Aren't they cute!! And and and, making it looks so simple from here... How could I not like this??? So I started searching on google where can I get these felt wool.. and I found out Daiso has them!! Yeah for Daiso!! These could be my birthday present for myself!! Perfect!!!! But, I only manage to get my hands on them yesterday... coz I didn't have time to go shopping with classes and trainings and of course, laziness...

I bought the blue elephant one in the middle.. the rest are still with chingu as I asked her to buy them for me when she went to Pyramid on Friday and lucky I did because there weren't much choices in Daiso, IOI... It's possible that they haven't stock them yet... oh well...

I couldn't wait to start when I bought it back.. That's my korean homework underneath, just in case you are wondering.. and yes, I neglected my homework for this...

In progress, I made the head, ears and trunk..

Here's the end product.. I stayed up until 2am to complete this...

It's not as cute as the one on the package but, it's my first time..


Then, I realised the trunk is a tad big for the elephant.. as I made the head too small.. my mistake.. miscalculation due to the inexperienced... So i tried fixing it and shrink the trunk a little.. It looks a bit better now.. :)

I should have bought another one so that I could improvise... Now, this is the first time I am actually anticipating Monday because I could get the rest from chinguuuu...

Signing off waiting for Monday to come~~

Toodles!!

Happy Birthday to Me

If i were to live  for 75 years, I have passed a third of my life... This year, there were no presents but tons of heart warming celebrations.. The collage on top is from HP, she no longer maintains her blog but I thought I would just link it here, might as well... I'll write further on the happenings in the collage later..

I shall start with Saturday, when I head straight to IOI mall after training for a K session with friends from work..
 Although I don't have an amazingly good voice to sing with but in a confined space and minimal audience, it will do.. Yay!! 

Then, hp booked me for lunch the next day... after class, straight to bongga, solaris...
Typical lunch, so no photos or anything.. but it was super filling!!!
Then, they decided to get me some cakes.. so next destination, dreamz cafe... owned by hp's primary mate..

It's a really cute cafe!!
I did not take a lot of photos but you could just go google Dreamz cafe

There were many owl decos.. really really cute...








Our table

That's brown sugar on the left...

Check out this cute teapot

It looks like an Easter Egg... but look closely..

It actually detaches from the bottom part and it's a tea cup..

Here are my cakes!!

the one in front is dark chocolate layer and the one at the back is matcha and chocolate checkered cake... They are quite expensive.. Secret Recipe range but they taste good...

Thanks gurls, for making my life warm and fuzzy... friends for more than 10 years and still on-going...

Oh, and I got a small surprise this morning too...

My friend from work gave me a slice of cake to start of my birthday~~


I guess the age must be catching up, I am now very into touching and heart warming moments...





Before the day ends...
Happy Birthday to me~~

Signing off
Toodles!