Another Birthday Wish!

Dearest Godbrother,

Happy Birthday! A complimentary blog promo comes with this birthday greeting. *ahem* If you are a gamer like him, adores WoW like him, overly-educated like him *blinks* is there such a thing as overly-educated? Maturely childish like him...

Then visit Where Substance Meets Style

*cough cough* What a name and I call my blog Hiyashi's Beeping Hub. So shallow. Cis cis. Totally got pawned. BUT. It's not about me today and ya, I'm late like usual. Less than two hours more to go before your big day ends, sooo... once again, Eppi Eppi Birthday!

Lots of Love and Best Wishes from,
Hiyashi

Edited at 10.35pm: And Yup, I stole those candles from this cake. *snickers*

Hiyashi is talking about shoes?!?

You rarely get this out of me. In fact, I'm probably surprising some of my closest friends with this post. Hiyashi is talking about shoes? Impossible! That's just too lady of her.

HA-HA.

And yes that laugh was meant to be sarcastic. I can be feminine when I choose to be.

*flutter eyelids*

Okay, umm... that's just over-doing it.

*shivers*

But BUT! Aren't they just lovely?

Note: Anyone notice anything weird about the picture above? I think it's pretty obvious since it was badly done. *shameful me*

My colleagues say Hiyashi's a sucker for shoes with big flower or ribbon-ish thing on top of them. Boy were they wrong because...

There are flowers under the shoes as well. HAHAHA.
Pretty from top to bottom.

Excuse me for the dirty sole cause I wore them before I took the photos.
*paiseh paiseh* Paiseh stuff must say in small small font size. What is lagi paiseh is the fact that I took this photos more than a month ago. Yup, these were my CNY shoes. You do the simple math. -.-;; And yup, they're old and worn now. BUT...!!! They're still lovely. *hearts*

The Before, The It and The After

One week later, Hiyashi reminisces the happenings over the few weeks of the event.

Pre-election
Election is coming! Well it was coming at that time! *grumbles on confusing tenses when blogging late* First time voter ME! I admit I was a tad too excited about it. I try my best to hold back my excitement but you can easily see that little sparkle in my eyes that so easily gave me away.

One night, around this pre-election period. At home, in front of my notebook... the following conversation took place.

Hiyashi : *click click type type*
Dad : Try coming home earlier these two weeks.
Hiyashi : *looks up* Eh?
Dad : Election period.
Hiyashi : Oh.

Ah. See how short and punchy my dad is. My mom probably would have gone on and on about how dangerous it is and if possible get someone to drop me off at the jetty instead. But my dad, well my dad likes to keep it short and simple. And it works way better that way I tell you. Because when a man with few words speaks, it means it’s important. It matters! And us young ones listen. *grins* But a mom's gotta do what a mom's gotta do and I don't blame her.

Anyway, I never managed to leave office early for those two weeks after all. *sigh*

Election Day
Half-working-day day. Meaning I got to leave office before 2.30pm to give myself enough time allowance to vote. At 2.00pm, my cell phone beeped. Message reads: “Be back by 3.30pm or we’ll go first.”

There you have it. My dad. So I quicken my pace and left the office around 2.30pm with a complimentary ride from the Easter Bunny. Zoooom! As I sat at the waiting area, a storm headed our way. It rained and the wind was strong, even under the shades, us anxious passengers were getting wet by the minute. Finally the ferry arrived. I thought it was pouring over at Butterworth side, too but it was not. Instead I brought the rain over, trailing behind me right from behind. The newspaper the next day reads that many have said that the rain was an omen of the political tsunami set to hit Penang. *shrugs* I must say it’s a nice metaphor though.

The voting process itself was surprisingly easy. *blink blink* and I was done. I thought I might have missed something because it was just too fast. All that excitement for the last two weeks for something that lasted two minutes. -.-;;

Post-election
As the results were slowly finalised on Sunday, the oh so familiar conversation took place again.

Hiyashi: *click click type type*
Dad: Come home earlier tomorrow and Tuesday.
Hiyashi: *this time without looking up* Alright.

And this time, I did manage to leave office slightly earlier than usual. It was not that bad on Monday or Tuesday. Instead, it was Friday that turned out a wee bit frightening. Rumours of riot taking place, bus service on halt, people from the mainland side urging to return home. Wooot?? Should I leave like now??!!

Apparently my dad was dubious about it being such a biggy deal but to be on a safe side. *cough cough* Remember the old saying of "better be safe than sorry"? Well, I was urged to come home early today and no play play. Early means early, and so I left at 6.00pm.

For the first time I felt a tinge of fear and wariness as I walked alone amidst the crowd, up to the ferry terminal. This isn’t good I say, I hope things will eventually settle down and come to a close for this political crisis because I don’t want to go to work feeling that little thud at the heart now and then. Because this sure wasn’t what I was voting for. >__<

Note: Gah. Finally I got this done. Now I can blog all my randomness again. *phew*

Democracy is the word of the day

8 March 2008

Malaysia Votes! I vote!

The results are out. Results that thus prove Malaysia as a democratic country.

And as corny and old as the saying goes,
"it's a government of the people, by the people, for the people."

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update found in new post

Best Wishes From A Sis To A Sis

For the Love of the Small Little Wonders of Life

I love Dim Sum. It comes right after spaghetti and sushi.

Spaghetti ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Sushi ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Dim Sum ♥ ♥ ♥
Kuih ♥ ♥ ♥

Now you know what to ajak me makan depending on the budget. Alright?

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Now I might not hold my chopsticks correctly but I make that up with my love for 'cha', 'sui mai' and 'bao'. Yummy! In fact, I love them so much I usually take half day leave for them. Yup, those work-free Saturdays are meant to fulfil my Dim Sum Crave.

It's another "I'm weird that way" kinda thing. My mom says I could have them on Sundays but I say "No!" Sundays are my only official day off, meaning it's the one and only day of the week whereby I can sleep till the sun comes up, shining in and urging me to wake up before it gets too hot. For as much as I love my Dim Sum, I cherish my one and only free-from-waking-up-at-6.30am-day. *yawns* And so I sacrifice the next thing I can afford, my work leave. ^^;;

Well, what do you know. I now no longer need to make that sacrifice anymore to get my Dim Sum. Now, once in a blue moon, I get them on Thursdays or even on working Saturdays. Yup, I have found a once-in-awhile-breakfast-partner. One who enjoys her bao as much as I love my siu mai. And so such a little nibble before we head off to work certainly make a wonderful start to a possibly hardworking day.

It's no surprise that we usually are the youngest pair in the shop. Now, that ain't a problem for me, except we tend to get unintended attention that way. Looking up and looking around, you'll find an amused aunty staring at us or an equally curious uncle smiling at the fact that two young women are enjoying their aged-old breakfast. Teehehehe... even the shop owner was a bit surprised the other day when we were asked for a table. She thought we were there to tabao only. -.-;;

I guess all that was missing was a Chinese Newspaper. Two young women sipping tea, eating bao and reading the paper. Now that'll probably be a great scene, wouldn't it? *smiles*