went to visit the house today with the husband and parents in law - lumber drop was this past Thursday, so we figured that there won't be much that they could have done in two days... right?

- we were frickin' wrong~~!!!!

check out what they have done here...

oh-my-bloody-gawd!

i cant believe i never wrote about this (or rather catalogued my thoughts regarding this matter or event that took place in my tiny speck of an existence) - end of last month, mike and i went to see SYSTEM OF A FREAKIN' DOWN!!!!! and it was the the best concert, ever! or at least, _one_ of the best ones that i have ever been to (although that may not be saying much since i havent gone to a bizillion different concerts.....)

so it was a nice friday on september 30th, and we took my jellybean out for a drive to the allstate arena, where we were about to embark on a sing-song journey. the two opening bands (Something and mars volta) sucks and chows all sorts of ass, i was SO glad when they were done singing what they called "songs".... (i just didnt get it -they were just wailing really loudly and for a REALLY long time!!) so then SOAD came on, people were totally riled up, the entire arena were boppin' and bouncin' and singin' along... man.. i wish i had broken all the rules and remembered to take some pictures! once in a life time experience, that was...... wooo!

there ought to be one more coming up at the end of next month! this time, staind baby..

thought you would interested in viewing some work pictures......

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man, its already almost the end of october - where _has_ the time gone? it seemed just like yesterday, me coming into work for the first time ever, as a professional-salaried-employee, all freaked out about the work environment and how i might possibly mess something up on my first day there, and cause the entire company to come tumbling down. and here i am now, close to 4 months .... falling into the trappings of being a full time professional, minus the jadedness, which hasnt caught up to me just quite yet. we shall see if it ever does. so far, i am loving the job!

so anyhoo, i carved my very first pumpkin today!!!

you see, being a small town girl from malaysia, i have never quite heard of halloween and what it stood for (or what people do during) and so, pumpkin carving is something that i would never have come across any time while growing up. so today, at work, for a "Team" gathering and getting to know one another, we had some pumpkins to carve, just for kicks, and oh-boy-oh-boy-oh-boy! if i had _known_ how much FUN it was, i would have done it sooner than now! i would have done it as soon as my feet touched the american soil... i mean, i got the whole trick-o-treating concept and dressing up (except i thought that when you dressed up, you HAD to be a ghost, so imagine my astonishment when i saw OTHER weird costumes) ... but pumpkins and carving scary faces..... quite a newbie.

i will have to take some pictures tomorrow of those pumpkins that we all carved. itd be quite cute on the akirasoft website ...

so i was thinking the other day, how i have somehow, subconsciously, made a decision to be friends with more girls than guys. its kinda weird how it all happened - i knew when i was younger, i always envied my other friends or cousins, who had friends who were guys (you see, i went to an all girls elementary school). so naturally, you want things that you cant (or dont, in this case) have! i consciously wanted to be more proactive in making friends with more boys - and lo and behold, i did that! i either became a tomboy, or just became one of those girls who have lots of guy friends - so much so, when i was in junior high, i have, err, 3 girl friends and 25 guy friends! pretty neat huh?

but anyway, as i was saying, i pretty much spent a lot of my adolescent years having virtually no girl friends, to now, all i have (and care about) are friends who are girls. and this happened way before i became someone's wife - i wonder if life events made me this way, or, as one naturally progresses into old age (!), one becomes more aware that the opposite sex really does suck, and procreation is all that they are good for ;) (JK - of course i loooooveee my husband, and more than just for procreation!)

but you know what i mean.. if you do. i just feel more comfortable with girls now, whereas before, i would shy away from being close friends with them because i think they are too petty and too whiney, and our very favorite - oh-so-bitchy! maybe girls become better once they are past a certain age (altho, i am sure some stay quite the same for quite a while, and i shall not mention any names here) i wonder - as women age, if they are more aware of the things that make us very special and share in all of our living experiences.. i suppose men do it too - but what do i know, i am not a man. if i were to ask the hubbie, he would be like, "Why the heck are you asking me these questions? i dont care and i dont give a damn!" so you see, of course us women dont know what men thing - because they never let us in!!! but i digress... that was just one of those "sticking it up to the author of men are from mars and women are from venus" guy...

but anyway - my point is - i now want friends who are girls. altho (and i wont get into it today...) i seem to not even _want_ to have friends anymore (well, not in the strictest of sense-but like i said, i will have to talk about it at a later time.. this also happened while i was thinking about stuff the other day..)

drama.. drama.. there is SO much drama when you are 22 (obviously, the drama doesnt involve ME for once!) but seriously, think about it. when _I_ was 22, i had the biggest drama of my life happening to me, all boy and friends related. this particular drama is sorta kinda the same, although since i am not involved, i couldnt really say.. but you see this is what happens...

so there is this girl at work who likes this boy at work. but somehow this boy used to "date" this girls's friend from aeons ago and is now trying to re-date her. the girl's friend is trying to get over her ex or something like that, and welcomes any distraction, including from this boy. so the girl gets all jealous over the boy and the friend, and the friend is caught in a dilemma of not wanting to break the girls'-rules-to-dating-when-it-comes-to-friends, but at the same time cannot help to indulge in her flirty-sluttiness with this boy. as for the boy - what do boys know? NOTHING!! he probably has NO clue that all these complicated things are happening behind the scenes and all HE really cares about is getting some action (ok, maybe i am slightly exaggerating and not taking into consideration that this boy MIGHT have some feelings, but do you see me trying to hide my smirk? exactly NOT!)

so anyways, long story short, all three ended up hanging out together one night, which resulted in a probable broken friendship and ending what might have been a budding coworkership (but this is still too fresh, so it is TBD)

funny how 22 year olds experience life. i am sure all of them will look back 4 years from now, laughing their arses off.. like i still do whenever i look back at MY 22 year-old life. fancy crying over some guy because some girl you THOUGHT was your friend tried to take him away from you, only to end up going three separate ways a few months later, doing your own things and managing your own new lives, detached from all the drama? =) trust me - all of this will blow over and you will talk about the seemingly traumatic moments of your lives right now in a comical and a "good conversation", make-you-laugh-so-hard-till-tears-fall-down-your-cheeks way!

life certainly can be cruel at 22....

happy birthday to me,
happy birthday to me,
happy birthday to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......
happy birthday to me!!

yay i am 26 today! =)