I'M BACK TO ROCK THIS BLOG!

I'm back!

With style!

Cheh!

Stupid hot weather, I can't stand the heat till I run crazy and cut my hair shorter, shortest this far, I guess.

See? I am sad. Sad but true. Obviously because of the haircut or the weather? Haha! Yes, I curse the pandemic influenza or whatever terms it should be called. Swine flu, selsema babi or 'renga babi' in Iban. We don't walk anymore in the office, we run instead. Our typing speed now exhilarated at 250 words per minute! Whewww!!

A very good example of a clear desktop. *What a boastful statement! It's not easy to maintain this look, OK? I bleed my finger, PRIOR TO SUPER-SPEED-TYPING all the time, make believe har har har!... *:P So I deserve to get a holiday, yay!

Happy belated Labour Day to all my working, career readers. What did you guys do during the weekends? Bet some of you went for vacation, BBQ, snoring at home..etc ;) What did I do? Nothing much, I went thru stacking of plates becos of my PMS. Reason accepted reasonably? :P

Went to attend cousin Marvin's wedding dinner at Harbour View on Saturday's nite. We arrived 1 hour later than expected but we enjoyed ourselves very much. Nay, we didn't drunk but the food was good yum yum! Met my uncle Peter, Aunty Swaynie, cousin Fly, cousin Audrey and Jojo, Vernon boy (Vernon, when is ur turn boy??) so glad to see cousin Marvin is finally settled down. He found his true love who happens to be our relative, too! Reminds me of hubby and I. Pandai sungguh awak carik bini ye Marv? ahahahaa... Anyway best wishes and prayer for both of you. *hugs

Back to the eating stories. This blog isn't complete without posting about foodie and such. Agree? Well, we went to a new food court, called C121 at Tabuan Laru/Stutong area. It's very easy to get your butt there. Oh, thanks to David who introduced the place to us. We tried their Penang style kueh tiaw goreng and it was good, damn good!

Yeah. The fountain. We love sit next to it. Actually, the tables next to it are quite hidden. I am an ogre, must hide you know. :P

OK. The appetizer. Go to the dim sum stall. These tiny cutie kuehs are sold for RM 2.50 per packet. Too much for 2 persons don't you think so? Nay! Those are for Prince Shrek and Princess Fiona. We are ogres and ogres must eat a lot.

The main course. Penang (Dang! we love all the food at this particular Penang's stall) Braised Meat Noodles. Oh yes, don't forget to order a big glass of sugarcane juice.

I'm now addicted to go to this place.

I'm trying hard to convince Prince Shrek to go there again....

Looking at the pic again, I' m drooling. :p

GABBY GOES EXERCISING!

Went to park last Sunday. Yeah, the internal calling urging for calories burning upon heavy sets of lunch and dinner a day before. Get down to burn those calories with Miss Gabriella Conchita!


Burn baby burn! Burn baby burn! Burn baby burn! Burn baby burn! Burnin'!

To mass fires, yes! One hundred stories high
People gettin' loose y'all gettin' down on the roof - Do you hear?
(the folks are flaming)Folks were screamin' - out of control
It was so entertainin' - when the boogie started to explode
I heard somebody say

Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno!
Burn baby burn! - Burn that mama down
Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno!
Burn baby burn! - Burn that mama down
Burnin'!

Satisfaction (uhu hu hu) came in the chain reaction
(burnin') I couldn't get enough, (till I had to self-destroy)so I had to
self destruct, (uhu hu hu)
The heat was on (burnin'), rising to the top, huh!
Everybody's goin' strong (uhu hu hu)
And that is when my spark got hot
I heard somebody say

Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno!
Burn baby burn! - Burn that mama down, yoh!
Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno!
Burn baby burn! - Burn that mama down
Burnin'!

Up above my head I hear music in the air - I hear music!
That makes me know there's (somebody)a promise somewhere

Satisfaction came in a chain reaction - Do you hear?
I couldn't get enough, so I had to self destruct,
The heat was on, rising to the top
Everybody's goin' strong
That is when my spark got hot
I heard somebody say

Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno! (Aah yeah!)
Burn baby burn! - Burn that mama down
Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno, yeah!
Burn baby burn! - Burn that mama down x2 Burnin'!

I just can't stop
When(till) my spark gets hot
Just can't stop
When my spark gets hot

Gabby tired after the workout, errrkk the hopping and playground vandalizing!

Gabriella Conchita was located at:

Kenyalang's Traffic Park (Taman Lalulintas Kenyalang), on 26th April 2009, 5:15 p.m.

SELAMAT HARI SETIAUSAHA SEXY-TARIES! - ENTRY IN BHS. MELAYU SARAWAK

HAPPY ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS DAY!!

La la la la..!

Miss Coki would like to wish my fellow Private Secretaries, Personal Secretaries, Junior Secretaries, Administrative Executives, Personal Assistants, Pembantu Tadbir (Kesetiausahaan) or Pembantu Khas as what we're called in Federal Govt' offices. (I found out that in State Govt offices some of us are known as 'Jurutrengkas' - very old skool title somewhat!)

Bah kali tok kitak urang nengar Miss Coki tutor Melayu eh. Cali sik? *Meransak jak bapak ku di umah nun, sorry Pak Charlie..hahhhahaha! Entri khas kali tok Miss Coki mok berkongsi beberapa tips hebat untuk P.A.² nok baru menceborkan dirik dalam bidang Kesetiausahaan tok. Untuk adik-adik semua, kerja kita tok zahirnya tek nang glemer. Ney endak, sebut jak Sketri arum bulak terbayang² sosok sorang pontianak wanita makei mini skirt berbaju glemer. Mun zaman 70-an marek eh, rambut kedak Noor Kumalasari, rambut Charlie Angels kata urang. Kakya masok zaman Noreen Noor tahun 80-an, esedo tebal, gincu oren, sumpin besar eh! Masok 90-an lain agik juak pesen lipstik mesti kaler maroon sampei tebal bibir jadik nyeh. Masuk abad ke 21 lagikla pesen di revival di recycle diulangpakei tah sik tauk ku madah kedak ney. Mun nektok baju kot suma betali pinggang besar, makei kebaya alu berlace riben koatan tek pesen namanya! Bah, udah nama pesen ney ndak? kah..kah.. kah..

Masuk taun tok, dah 9 tahun Miss Coki jadi P.A.. Bukan senang mok ngintu boss wei, telah lagik mun boss kitak urang ya ompuan. Assappai.. seliseh maleykat 44 boss Miss Coki minak 2 orang jak ompuan tapi sekejap ajak kerja ngan daknya dlm beberapa bulan ajak. Jadi PA tok bukan stakat mekap ko tebal, style ko glemer nyahhhh mun keja ko K.O. tetaplah kau K.O. , OK? Bah, macam-macam cerita dah jadi didengar telinga ditangga mata nangga kawan2 sekeliling yang sama kerja jadi PA. Bidang kerja tetap sama, yang lain nya minak beban kerja. Ada yang rilek sampei boleh bejalan2 raun ke mall, ada nok busy sampei mok tido boss gago betipon.

Alu lah lari topik leka ngerepak nak, bah juh gik.. kita nangga tips yang bagus dikongsi bersama kedong urang putih mdh, sharing is caring tek nak..

Tips 1 - Mun Boring:
kitak urang mun udah nangga komputer lamak2 embak naip apa bagei.... mesti boring nak? Mun Miss Coki lalu la kelat bigik mata... so tentulah tak urang molah kopi kah, jaik2 beloya ngan member sebelah mun sik begayut rah tipon. Mun kopi sekda stok, member sekda seblah Miss Coki mesti melayan...

Facebook???!!!!!! Bukan.... coba tak urang nangga jam hitam tepi belah kerek? Iyalah Google Desktop namanya deng oii. Nak apa diengkah ku sia? Yalah tempat pakey engkah list apa kerja2 yang kitak urang mok polah hari ya. Tok mesti berdisiplin kay? (coba tak urang klik gambar atas ya.. iboh heran nangga list ya bujat gilak, pakei plentey bah di blog tok hehehehe) At the end of the day, kitak urang mesti habiskan kerja dalam senarai ya. Facebook tok sebenarnya pakei penghibor hati pakei beranok beguro ngan kengkawan jauh dan dekat secara online.

Haaaa.. gambar debah tok barulah kerja namanya. Aku nang bergantong menar ngan Google Desktop kakya Microsoft Outlook (di print seminggu sekali, kakya simpan lam folder transparent engkah atas meja) pakei update boss mpun diary.



Tips 2 : Mun kantoi:
Kitak urang penah sik tengah leka berYM, berFaebook tiba2 boss tuguk2 dah ada depan mata? Hey, iboh ngerebat nong alu berswitch off semua.

Cara menutup windows ya cepat-cepat nak, ada caranya.. tunggu lok deng, ilek2 bah... tok akak nunjok. Haaaa.. ada tak ruang nangga keybod tak urang sik? Tekan lambang windows - tahan jangan lepas (rupa penjan ya bah!) kakya tekan D.. . Secara otomatik windows akan pulang ke desktop. :P cepat deng oi, lebih cepat dari Gaban betukar baju koatan laju tek.

Haaa.. turun terus suma windows nak? Iyaaaaaahhh.. best sik? mejik sik? Jadi, next time ingat time ingat tips dari Miss Coki tok kayyyy?

Tips 3 : Style Berjawab

Cara2 kita menjawab pertanyaan boss pun memainkan peranan dalam memastikan bahawa kita tok P.A yang hebat ke sik. Sebagai contoh, banyak kali aku kantoi sebab flight belum dibooking, hotel lupak dibooking, driver lupak dibooking. Maklumla sebagai manusia biasa banyak benda mok diingat....... yalah tek ujung2 boss ke lain, diary ke lain. Cara Miss Coki menjawab boss pun memang ada style! Style apa?? Style kantoi ok??? contohnya.... *tetak

Boss : Dah ko booking belon ku tek? sapa ngantar ku esok?

Miss Coki : Udah boss! Kul 2pm tok sidak nya kompem. Esok kamek rasa Jul ngantar kitak tadik mek coba kontek nya sek pat dikontek kaktok mek coba lagik. Kitak berik mek 5 minit kaktok mek ngagak kitak agik! **maka jari agi naip chatting di YM

Lepas ya bila boss dah berambus cepat2 tak urang angkat tipon terus ngator belon nya ngan transport nya sekali.... lepas ya dengan muka konpiden kitak urang masok bilik boss, berjalan dengan gaya professional abis... kitak urang lalu mdah info ngan nya semua skali secara details. Kompem nya madah TERIMA KASIH ngan kitak urang lekak ya..... percayalahhh.... nescaya berhasil.

Tips 4 : Komited gila babun kepada boss

Mun dpt eh, hafal setiap sesuatu bekenaan boss kitak urang - no hp, I.C., no rumah, nama anak2, nama bini, no. akaun, no Enrich card etc... apa kesukaannya (makanan, minuman, tempat duduk dalam belon, hotel). Semua tok harus ditauk oleh tak urang. Mesti boss ktk urang rasa bangga dan dihargai

Tips 5 : Sentiasa sedia untuk tersenyum walau apa pun masalah nimpak palak ktk urang.

Sikda mood mok keja? Ada hal peribadi? Sebelum ngangkat tipon, coba untuk senyum! Gerenti sik jadi kitak urang nerengak pemanggil yang tidak besalah di tipon.

Tips 6 : Jangan berjawab orang yang nerengak ktk urang

Sikda nya mok ngalah, cara Miss Coki handle manusia kurang ajar macam tok adalah seperti di entry2 dolok. Mun nya nanyak nerengak2 kita, just jawab ajak kedak style robot tp harus diulang berkali2. Kitak urang tanggar jak gerenti nya boring!

So? Apa macam kawan2 suma? Mesti ktk urang ingat Miss Coki tok main2 kali. Sesungguhnya tips2 di atas yalah yang Miss Coki slalu amalkan. Jangan boring, makin suka Miss Coki jadi Secretary eh! Last sekali nak, Miss Coki mok merik kitak urang P.A.2 semua sebuah puisi pakei membakar semangat kitak urang untuk bekerja !

Secretary Of The Day

A secretary's work
is a never-ending job
Good secretaries
anyone would rob

Anwers telephones
types part of the day
Files a lot of paperwork
she should get more pay

Makes appointments
keeps them all on file
Has to go back to them
every once and awhile

Goes home exhausted
where there is more to do
Getting ready for tomorrow
the work is never through

Love the poem so much, so enjoy your jobs while you can all Secretaries out there, this month is our month, indeed!

IKLAN SEKEJAP

It's sunny outside there.. should I wash my comforter or not?



.... checking my detergent.

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Yes, found it.



Enjoy!

REST IN PEACE, PROPERLY FINALLY!

Finally.

Still remember my story about the lonely graveyard that laid by the roadside in Langgar, Kedah? My colleague, Suri alerted me with the story whilst I was in the middle of struggling with paperworks in the office today. Thanks Sue! The latest news today revealed that the exhuming will be done soon and reburial will take place on April 28, 2009 that is on next Tuesday. I was informed by Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd) Robert Rizal Abdullah @ Robert Madang Langi about the unfortunate news - even after scanned 100m radius, his late LKPL Ungkok ak. Jugam's remains couldn't be found.

I'd like to share with you his comments upon mine in his blog early today.

Dear Cokelat,

Thanks for your comments. I wanted a number of times to brief you on the progress of LKpl Ungkok's case but I couldn't go into your blog to make comments.I got the story from Wayne's blog who copied it from your blog. (Jesus, I can't believe this oh my... so proud to read this line over and over again! GAH!)

Last year, I had my books launched by the CM of Sarawak in Kuching and I took the opportunity to brief him on the case. Later I wrote to Jabatan Hal Ehwal Veteran ATM who took up the case. The British Army couldn't move the grave as they couldn't locate the next-of-kin. There was an attempt to move it by Persatuan Bekas Perajurit, who had located the NOK but no further action was taken.

Anyway to cut the stshort, the reburial will be done on April 28, 2009. I will be there personally. There will be a big group of journalists. So watch out for the paper report. The sad thing is, his remain couldn't be found - even after a special scanning 100m radius (even under the highway.)

Something sad to hear about ain't it? Anyway, my fellow Sarawakians, together we pray for the Late LKPL Ungkok ak. Jugam and all who have perished sacrificing their lives for our country. Amen.

SAVE OUR BEACH!

Yeeedeeh! Enjoy this slide show. It's heartbreaking to see how dirty our favourite Rambungan's Beach is now. Oh, not to mention the water. The wave, I mean. The ocean actually has swept the shack that we used to make as our resting spot. Same goes to the other house located nearby. So sad to see the beach now is dirty not because of thrash but the whole place was loaded with dead coconut palms.

Despite the gloomy and dirty beach, we noticed that the place actually getting more beautiful and the wave, ohhh getting bigger, too! I did capture some images and in this entry, I'd like to compare the place with the pictures that I took the last time we had our picnic there. It was during last year's Mother's Day.

2008: It was actually a king tide. Gabby and Grandma were playing in the water.

2009: The same king tide. Do you notice the big wave coming? The dirty place, such a disgrace! And the distance of the wave.. ooh so nearer now!

2008: The shack that I told you before. We just sat outside the balcony while having BBQ.


2009: The shack today. Uhuuuuuu.... *sad sighting.

I can accept the fact that this beautiful heaven-like beach is just like a junkyard but the thing that breaks my heart, to see my daughter, playing with the sand under the coconut tree (suddenly I remember Marsha's theme song: underneath pokok klapak, i will wait for you....).

Auuwwwwhhh.. pity to see her enjoying herself making sandcastle while surrounded by thrash. Oh, that's Gabby, not me OK?

.... Fun time! Big hippo baby girl mesmerized by the coming big wave. *Wheeeeeeee!!

Doesn't it touch your heart by reading my story and putting yourself in my size 10 shoes? If we don't care about the beach, I mean any beach in this planet, our kids will never enjoy the breezy sandy white beach during their school holidays. Go to hell with the expensive places like Damai Puri or other resorts for their cleanliness are taken care of. This is God's heaven created on earth but what have we done to appreciate it? Tarnish them?

Be proud of what we have today for it's a treasure for our kids tomorrow!

THE TRUTH BEHIND "THE BIGGEST LOSER"

Frankly speaking, everyone now seems to be so attached to THE BIGGEST LOSER programme on Astro. Our family is not left behind and has been watching it avidly ever since it was aired not on Astro but TV3. Gabby is No. 1 fan. She will shout and scream in enthusiasm when the contestants go for weighing. Meanwhile, my PILs will go like giving a big "OOHH" or "WHOAAAAAHH...".

Guess what? I found a very interesting article from a website regarding the reality and truth behind this powerful programme. This article is actually taken from MUNFITNESSBLOG.COM and please read it.

The Biggest Loser is one of American reality shows which I happened to watch couple of episodes last year. With the offer of $250,000 grand prize and dramatic weight loss stories, the show is quite popular in US. I believe that the show is actually in the fourth or fifth season now with more than 100,000 applicants wanting to be part of the show.

I do not deny that the show is inspiring, but to lose 10 to 25 pounds within a week may not be safe. This figure is definitely much different from the 3-pound a week recommended by many health professionals.

In the first season, the winner, Ryan Benson has lost by 122 pounds from 330 pounds to 208 pounds over a period of 10-week. No joke, he lost 37% of his original weight and 18% of his body fat.

When I read Ryan Benson’s blog, I almost fell down from my chair learning the way he has used just to win the competition.

“I wanted to win so bad that the last ten days before the final weigh-in I didn’t eat one piece of solid food! If you’ve heard of “The Master Cleanse” that’s what I did. It is basically drinking lemonade made with water, fresh squeezed lemon juice, pure maple syrup, and cayenne pepper. The rules of the show said we couldn’t use any weight-loss drugs, well I didn’t take any drugs, I just starved myself!

Twenty-four hours before the final weigh-in I stopped putting ANYTHING in my body, liquid or solid, then I started using some old high school wrestling tricks. I wore a rubber suit while jogging on the treadmill, and then spent a lot of time in the steam room. In the final 24 hours I probably dropped 10-13 lbs in just pure water weight. By the time of the final weigh-in I was peeing blood.”

Yeah, you read it right. Peeing in blood. The show supposed to impose penalties on anyone for being dehydrated “intentionally”, but the producer has yet to issue any violations.

After the show has ended, Ryan admitted about his depression he felt after falling back into his old eating habits. Also, he mentioned that as soon as the show was over, he regained 32 pounds in 5 days simply by drinking water.

What I am trying to highlight is that weight can be affected by hydration, rather than actual body fat loss. The other issue worth mentioning is overexercising. The participants of the show were exercising with trainers between 4 to 5 hours a day. Before they joined the show, they hardly did any exercise. By exercising so many hours right after participating the show is actually not safe at all. I just worry about the high risk for injuries that could make these participants stopping exercise altogether after the show.

In short, losing 10 to 25 pounds a week is unrealistic and impossible to maintain in normal life. A gradual approach with sustainable lifestyle changes will definitely be a better choice.

It's up to us. Who doesn't want to live a healthy lifestyle right? If losing weight is that easy, there will be no obese creatures like me existing on earth. I still remember, Dr. Andrew Kiyu ever noted us way back in 2004 that a healthy weight loss is actually between 0.5 kg - 1.5 kg (1.1 pound - 3.3 pound) PER WEEK!!

The episode last night revealed that a grandpa lose hmm.. 25 pounds in a week??!!

My jaws dropped.

I.. could.. ever.. never.. ever.. never... do that!

Thanks to Mork (I know it's hard to do it, but at least I try OK?), Cat Cat, Puteri and recently I'm addicted to Hanis Zulaikha's blog. You guys are my inspirations.

But, I tell you.. it's hard to lose the extra love handles I've gained since 2000. I really envy hubby who lost more than 10 kg, yes.. prior to his job! Yes, he's doing a lot of walking and staircase climbing.

"God, give me back my La Guitara body..... Amen."

POST CONFERENCE: THE GIFTS REVIEW

OK. As promised I come back with reviews of some items that I received during the Secretary's Conference. There is no other organizer would ever be as generous as MRS Management Sdn. Bhd. in terms of giving quality talks and gifts for the conference delegates. This is my 6th time participation and they never fail to amuse me, so far, indeed!

The first one is my door gift. We were given two gifts to choose that are, a 8 megapixels digicam or Elle Studio watch. Well, I took the digicam and what was given to me yes, a 8 megapixels Jenoptik digicam with lots of functions that makes this camera as good as any Sony or Canon out there.

Next, as one of their regular participants, -> provided you attend this conference for 3 times and above you will be given a special gift and my gift was...

an Elle box?

Nay, nay, nay...... Open the box and you will see........

An ELLE Studio watch!! Whoa! Luckily I didn' t pick it as my door gift, otherwise I would be bringing like, two watches home! Regarding this watch, I still remember one incident in 2007, when the organiser forgot to take off the price tag from my friend's watch. Our jaws dropped to see the price, it costs nearly RM400.00. I wonder why some people say this gift is boring. ngiehehehehe.... Just take it-lah, some what it's cute what? Pink in colour some more...

During the second day, before the closing of the conference, we will have a lucky draw session Yay! Last year I won a trip to Semenggok's Orang Utan which I didn't go. It's all for one person so no point to go there alone.

So this year, I won a complimentary dinner for two at Telang Usan Hotel. Yes, a complimentary dinner. I know you guys would be laughing while reading this but as long as it's FREE who would refuse this opportunity right?

I called them up on Wednesday last week and booked a table for me and hubby. Well, on Saturday's nite, when we entered the Dulit Coffee House, we were surprised to see a table, was reserved for us and the lovely waitress quickly signaled their cook/chef like this, "Eh, orang nok ditunggu ya udah datang!" -> "The two patrons are here already!"


So let us check the menu:


The entree. Crab meat and sea cucumber in hot and sour soup. Very, so very the Thai for me, it was sour, spicy and slurpy.

The main courses. Midin cooked in Belachan. And then we had Sweet and Sour Fish in Thai style (it somehow reminds me of Som Tam). Not forgetting the crispy chicken in lemon sauce. All are served with fragrant white rice and not forgetting our thirst quenchers. Fresh orange juices.

The desserts then finally came to our table 30 minutes later...

Yam flavoured ice cream with some coconut flakes. Served with a dollop of fresh whipped cream and one glazed cherry on top. Nice. What can I say, romantic dinner, nice companion, 1st class service (Owh, we're treated like King Charles and Carmilla) and a cup of hot Lipton tea to end the lovely moment.

Overall, 4 stars for them - food and services