Anyway, I like the concept and I like how we can see all those raw ingredients there before they’re cooked. The desserts place shows an awesome selection of yummy looking, mouth watering desserts. One day I’ll go there just to try the cakes! LOL… Yup, although the banana cake just now was quite a dissappointment, I am willing to give Masche another chance. :p

No photos were taken at Masche though. Will post some when I go there again one day.

Anyway, back to the topic. Yup, yup relaxing Sunday indeed. After lunch, Conrad and I went jalan-jalan in the Curve, looking at cute and interesting stuffs. Metrojaya was having a sale of some kids’ toys at the center court. Saw lots of toy trains and the railways, lots of gundam robots on display too.

Then, we bought ice cream!!! Hee… Another dessert to ‘compensate’ for the lack of taste of the previous one ;p

I actually wanted a Choco Top, but I was told that they ran out of stock for Choco Top. Huhu. So I had to settle for Chocolate Twirl instead. Thankfully it is nice anyway!!! :p

Then, I saw a signboard near McDonald that was pointing outside, which says “Cupcakes Chic”… Well, being a sweet tooth that I am, I was surprised to know that there’s a cupcake shop somewhere at the Curve. So, we decide to check the shop out. Located facing the road, next to McDonald, Cupcakes Chic has quite a small cute looking outlet there. The staffs there seem friendly. As soon as we entered, we were greeted with smiles and warm greetings.
I went to check out the cupcakes on display. Err… I think the cupcakes there look more like muffins though. But then again, I might be biased as I prefer the look of the +Wondermilk Cupcake and yeah, I kinda wish I would find something like that there in Cupcakes Chic.

Well, since I didn’t find the cupcakes as cute, I didn’t try any. Also for the reason that they look more like muffins, and I am not a fan of muffins actually. So yeah, that’s my short encounter with Cupcakes Chic. Hehe.

There is a cute candy shop somewhere nearby there too. You can find all aorta of ‘weird’ @ ‘different’ looking candy there. The cutest one that I saw was a Candy Lipstick - It is actually candy in the form of lipstick and it’s so cute, because the ‘lipstick’ is Hello Kitty’s. LOL :p

Well, after all those ‘window shopping’ and ‘lurking around’, I finally bought some magazines at Cineleisure and a Korean drama DVD, ‘Spy Mate aka My Girlfriend is an Agent’… Plan to watch it tonight. Hopefully it’s nice!
O ya and I bought some present wrappers as well (one of my hobbies: collecting present papers. Hee). This time, it’s a collection of present wrappers from the 19th Century French Flowers. Love them!

It’s true that I work long hours almost every night. It’s true that I have to deal with a lot of hearings @ trial in a week. It’s true that despite all the hearings & trials, I still have to come back to the office at the end of the day to revert to client’s query in email, to send legal opinion @ advice, to draft agreements, contracts, etc. And it doesn’t help that 1 of my team mate (a very very senior fella) who just joined our team has left the firm after just about 2 weeks & 2 days. *sigh*

Oh well… That’s practising & specializing in Employment Law here, I guess. It does help that the firm that I works in is always trying to find time to play (despite the workload & exploding datelines). Some time soon, our firm is going to have the “Sandwich Making & Sandwich Eating Competition”. That would be fun, I guess. Haha… And of course, I am not going to participate :p

2 weeks backs we had dart competition. That was fun! Surprisingly, my team was among the winning teams. Hee… The losers had to finish drinking 1 glass of beer (only! - Yeah, they should have drank the whole tower! :p)

Oh well… Those are the things that lawyers do to make themselves happy, I guess. Hence, the principle (sort of - the unwritten ones) in the firm - No one works late on Friday night… (Since we’re coming in over the weekends anyway… Hee).

I am on leave tomorrow (10 April 2009) & on Monday (13 April 2009) as well! I think I deserve to go on leave. First, because it is Good Friday tomorrow and it is Easter on Sunday! Second, of course I just need a break from work! *bleh*

On Saturday night, I’m going to have barbeque party (sort of) with my boyfriend and his cousins, aunt and maybe some of their friends. That would be fun! It’s our pre-Easter celebration. I’m really looking forward to that. Which reminds me, I have to go and pre-order that cute jelly cake that my nephew had for his 1st birthday. Hee… Yeah, the difference now is that we want it for a pre-Easter cum someone’s 28th birthday! Hee… A cute jelly cake will do the event just fine! Don’t cha think so? Haha…

No, a lawyer is not all serious and dull… Not all prim and proper. A lawyer always go and have fun in his or her own way too! (As of most normal people would do). It’s just that the idea of fun would differ between individuals, of course.

And guess how does my office desktop looks like? I bet most people would imagine that a lawyer will have the “Windows Wallpaper” on their desktop with a lot of unfiled saved documents there! Well, not mine… *bleh* I do have some unfiled saved documents… Hee… But I never use a default windows wallpaper for mine! Hee… Here’s how my office desktop looks like:

Yes, that’s a picture of a Yorkie!!! A cute Yorkshire Terrier! But no, it’s not mine… *sigh* I wish it is though. But I know I won’t have the time to spend on a Yorkie… And I won’t have the patience as well actually. Hee… But it’s just so cute!!!

So yeah… There you got it, random rambling from me

The challenge is :

1) go to your picture holder in your computer.
2) go to 6th folder of photos
3) go to 6th picture of that folder* put the picture on your blog n description of it..* invite six friends to join the challenge..

And here is the picture:

Description: This photo was randomly taken in one of the firm’s get together - a karaoke session. I can’t remember the exact occasion at this time though.  I think it must be either a farewell or a birthday party. Heh, but I’m not in the photo since I am the one taking it. Hehe…

Hmm… If it is not because of this meme, this photo will never be put up to the public actually. Hehe.

Okie, now I’m going to tag another 6 friends: Royer, Idza, Lina, Ida, Dana & Farah Lily. Have fun!

Just recently, my nephew, Gavyn Marc Labunda turned 1 year old. So I decided to created a magazine cover for him!

There… Don’t you all think Gavyn looks adorable? He’s famous now!

Life is not measured in minutes, but in moments…

Last Saturday, 21 February 2009, that was the day.

I just reached home after my latest purchase of NEC VERSA S3500 when I received the unexpected phone call. I looked at the LCD Screen of my mobile phone. Rai’s name was there.

“Dym, I have bad news…” That were the exact first few words uttered by Rai. What followed after that left me in shock. Not believing what I heard, I asked her numerous questions; whether it’s Zack as in the Zack that I knew; whether it’s Zack as in Veeky’s Zack, etc. With the utmost shock in me, I started to bombard Rai with questions - how, what, why, when, who…

The next thing that came across my mind was to call Veeky - to confirm the news and if the news is true, to make sure that she’s alright. The line couldn’t get through though. I called Roy - nope, couldn’t get through. I called Susan then. The news WAS true. I asked Susan about Veeky.

Veeky was on the way back to KL from Kuching, that’s what Susan told me. And worse, Veeky might be waiting for Zack to pick her up at the airport. My heart felt so terribly heavy at that time. Shock + Sadness = Speechless. I was trembling when I told my boyfriend and his cousin that my friend had passed away. I felt like crying, listening to my own voice conveying the heartbreaking news.

The initial plan was to go to Shah Alam with Zaim & Norwen. But that plan had to be aborted since I had to go to Bukit Jalil first. Not exactly so sure as to the whereabouts of SMC @ KPJ Selangor, I took the Federal Highway heading to Shah Alam. My concentration was locked at the road signs - Section 21 - until I reached the Panasonic factory and realized that I was lost. I stopped my car to ask for direction. One fella who looked like one of the factory workers pointed to the Panasonic factory and insisted to me that that was SMC. Politely, I nodded and smile at him before driving off to make a U-turn. My car passed that fella again. I could see from my rear view mirror that he kept of pointing to the factory while looking at the direction of my car.

I stopped my car a few meters away from the factory and gave a call to Rai. I proceeded to drive to what I understood as the direction given by Rai. Obviously my understanding was wrong. I saw a sign board that showed, “Tanah Perkuburan…” Yes, that was eerie. I decided to make another U-turn and called Zaim for direction. The phone was passed over to Norwen. I then proceeded to drive to what I understood as the direction given by Norwen. The right one, this time. Despite the sign on the hospital that said, “KPJ” instead of “SMC”, somehow I knew that I was already at the correct place.

As soon as I drove through the entrance of the hospital, I saw a lot of familiar faces, all sad and troubled; some with red teary eyes; some expressionless.

A lot of friends were there - a lot. This somehow showed how much Zack meant to his friends. How shocking the news was to his friends. How news like this was so unexpected and so uncalled for. How friends will come all the way to give our last goodbye, to show respect and to show how much we care.

Zack has always been a good person - a good friend to most people. He was smart, funny, nice, friendly, honest and never failed to amuse. I knew him since 2000, when we first started to do our pre-law. Gradually as years gone by, I started to know him better. Though we have never been so close a friend to each other, he will always be a friend that I will cherish.

The most unforgettable moment was of course that day when we were still doing our chambering. After one of the CLE talks, Zack, Zaim & I decided to hang out together. Zack brought us to the firm he was chambering in at that time - Messrs Sharizad, Rashid & Lee. That was the first time I went into that firm. We went to the library, where the chambering students were seated then. Then we decided to spend the night watching movies in Zaim’s place until the wee hour of the next morning. I was the fasting month in 2006 at that time. We had sahur together before heading home… Eversince that day, everytime when I bumped into Zack, he will always teasingly asked me, “Bila lagi nak lepak, Dym?” *sigh*

Life is indeed so short and indeed unpredictable. Who would have guessed a nice fella, with bright future ahead of him, would leave his family & friends in the tender age of 27.

The post-mortem was carried out at Klang Hospital instead of KPJ. I saw the van leaving KPJ Selangor heading towards Klang, escorted by a police car. Few minutes later, a green CRV followed the lead. It’s Steph, with a distraught looking Veeky inside, calling for me. I waved. I wanted to go there, to see Steph, to see Veeky, to tell her not to be sad (although of course it’s hard not to be). But the CRV was already holding a traffic; hence I decided not to. I waved some more and the CRV left.

It was starting to drizzle then.

Rain… Is always good, especially on days like that…

I seldom check the forwarded emails in my email account. But today, I decided to check on this one email, forwarded by a dear friend of mine. Yup, she seldom forward “stuffs” to my email. So yeah, so I decided to check out what’s so interesting about this email that made her decided to forward & share it onwards. Here it is. An interesting “facts” (if I may call it). An insight and a reminder to everyone out there. Just thought that this is something worth sharing. Enjoy…

Yup, I’m so happy because it’s Friday!!! And next week is December! 

I’m going on leave officially from 3rd Dec - 26th Dec. Even then, I still have another 4 days of unused annual leave.

Sounds a little bit ‘alang-alang’ though 3rd - 26th only. Why not 1st and 2nd & 30th and 31st also, right. Well, I could have taken leave on that days as well, because technically I still have 4 more days of unused leave days. But then, these are the 4 days when I will be working full time. So yeah, better don’t lah.

On 1st Dec, there’s a hearing at Federal Court. On 2nd Dec, there’s going to be a full day meeting to discuss Collective Agreement. On 30th & 31st Dec, I have a trial at the Industrial Court. *Imagine doing a trial on New Year’s eve!* *Urgh…*

Oh well… Although I will be coming in to the office & going to Court as well (on & off) between 3rd - 26th, I am of course so happy because “I AM ON LEAVE FOR THE WHOLE OF DECEMBER!!!” (well, almost…) And because I am officially on leave, I can come in to office with casual clothes, at anytime I want & of course to leave at anytime I want as well! Yay!!!

“This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask.  And the best part?  With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.”  ~Conan O’Brien

Fluorescent Halloween

Yup, that’s the theme that LHAG set for Halloween this year! Haha. In conjunction with Halloween and also merely because the LHAG-ians decided to go out and do something fun together (yeah, working is strictly prohibited on Friday night!), we all decided to have a bowling competition on Halloween night!!!

Yay! The venue was Cosmic Bowl @ Mid Valley Megamall. Honestly speaking, I am not good at all in bowling. But it’s the fun that matters, right! Haha.

They were about 10 teams of LHAG-ians last night, with each team having 3 players. I am lucky because my team members are both awesome bowlers!!! Yay! Yup, our Senior Associate, Shanmugam and another Associate, Teck King, both were so good, that their numerous strikes and spares could actually cover my lousy bowling turns. Haha…

Ooo, and coincidentally, there was a bowling tournament of the Melaka State government being held there last night as well. So yeah, in the midst of our game, the Menteri Besar Melaka came to pay a visit. Hehe. The Menteri Besar was there for the tournament, actually. And there were some RTM reporters around, with their big cameras overlooking our part of bowling alleys as well. Hopefully they didn’t mistaken our LHAG-ians bowling teams as part of the tournament thingy… :p

Halloween Cat Bowling Game

To complement this post, here’s a Halloween cat bowling game for you all!!! Enjoy!
Halloween Cat Bowling Game

If the flash player fails to load, you can click HERE to play the Cat Bowling Game. Try it… It’s fun and addictive! Just use the ’space bar’ on your keyboard to bowl. It’s that’s easy!