Protect your computer

Have you ever got hit by some viruses on your computer? If you have been using the computer with internet access for quite some time, I am sure had experience your computer being infected with some computer viruses one way or another. Eighteen years ago, my dad bought our first computer but during that time, we do not have internet connection yet. And there were a few occasion that we had to format the whole hard disk because it was infected with virus .Yes, computer virus has already existed since then and without internet connection, you would have thought your computer would not get infected with viruses. Well, this perception is wrong all together.

When we use our floppy disk or thumb drive from one computer to another, it is very easy for viruses travel from one computer to the other. So, if others computer has viruses and without knowingly you copied some files to your floppy disk or thumb drive, the virus will very like to have already attached themselves to the files you copied, and when you load in the copied files to your computer, then your computer will also be infected with the virus. With internet connection, your computer will be much more vulnerable to viruses through the constant uploading and downloading of data through internet cable. Therefore, it is very important to have good anti-virus protection software for your computer.

A good anti-virus software such as NOD32 is suitable for home and home office user. It provides the overall comprehensive features that are needed for protecting and eliminating computer viruses. You can purchase this NOD32 anti-virus software or other computer security software through Software Security Solutions. They offer 30 days money back guarantee and provides customer support through phone or online chat. I might just going to get myself one.

Great day at lunch

Today I had a wonderful day at lunch because my friend LemonJude, also my ex-colleague drop by to have lunch with me while she went there to do her shopping. It's been so long since we last meet up. I had always miss those wonderful times we had while working together and enjoying each others company during lunch time and sometimes go shopping together after working hours.

Although it was just a very short moment that we could have time spent together today, I had enjoyed it very much and we could still chat non-stop. After we parted, I still feel that there are yet many things that I have not been able to chat with her about due to time constrain. Just wish that I do not need to go back to work after lunch so that I could have more time to spend with her. Well, time just seems to pass by ever so quickly especially when you were enjoying your every moment, isn't it?

It is a very rare chance that we could meet up since she is married with a kid now. Just so blessed that her husband was not working today and he could look after their little boy at home. So, she could have her own freedom to shop and mingle around the whole day. Thanks for visiting me at my work place here today, my friend. You have made my boring work day fun and enjoyable. I wish there could be many more opportunity like this coming in the future. And thank you very much for the Christmas gift that you gave me today. You are the first who gave me one.

I've been tag

I've been tag by Sting. Thank you very much!

1. Do the following without complains.
2. Choose 5 people to do this quiz after you've done yours.
3. Tag the chosen one.
4. Start your post with "I've been tagged"

Favourites
- Colour: Purple
- Food: Sushi
- Movie: Meet Joe Black
- Sport: Tennis
- Day: Christmas
- Season: Autumn
- Ice cream: Chocolate

First
Best friend: My sister
Crush: During secondary school (I am from all girl's school), there was this boy (from all boy's school) in the same school bus.....
Movie: Jurasic Park (first time went to cinema when I was still a small kid)
Music: Can't remember... I first being introduced to music when I study piano at age 6.

Last
Drink: Soup
Car ride: On the way back home from work
Crush: Aldrin
Phone call: Judy
Cd played: None
Gone out with good friends: On 2nd December 2007

Broken a law: Once only - for not putting on the "P" sticker when I had just got my driving license and started driving near by on my own

Been arrested: Ohh... no of course.

I would like to pass this tag to Lemonjude and Tot's mum

Dream home

I have always like having my own home someday. I would have thought by the age of 30, I would have been able to invest money in my own home. But reality eats up my dream. As for now, I could only dream on how my home would turn out to be if I had one.

First thing for sure, I would have the power to choose where I want the location of my home to be, and what kind of household decorations I want to put in it. If I got the budget, I can fully instruct how I want my home to be renovated.

Yet, if I have lots of money, I would want to have a home like Florida Villas that have nice staying environment overlooking the sea. A nice home built near by a beach can provide a sense of relaxing and holidaying mood while staying there. This kind of home is not just suitable as a holiday home, but it also serve well as a permanent home. I would love to stay in a nice clean environment, with a touch of nature where you could hear the ocean waves hitting the shore near by. It is so stressful living in a city environment these days. It is definitely nice to come home to a nice relaxing home with good view after a day of stressful work everyday.

Perhaps, if I am a millionaire, I would think of migrating to other place which has such similar place like Florida Villas. So, what’s your dream home like?

Part 3: Beloved Sister's Wedding ~@ 07-07-07

Here is the last part that I am going to talk about my beloved sister’s wedding. The first part is all about sentimental values and a synopsis of how the wedding turns out to be. The second part is all about what’s happening during the day time of the wedding day.

Continuing from the church wedding, we had some refreshments being served in the church compound. Everyone had not had our lunch yet so that’s our lunch! I took the time to mingle around with some of my relatives and friends. Too bad Aldrin went home early just when the refreshments started. Because we had group photos taken after that.

Around 1.15pm, me and my mom rush home to have our quick shower before heading over to the saloon to get our hair done. My mom went to her usual hair saloon, whereas I went to a saloon recommended by Amy, my childhood friend who is also a makeup artist (but my sister’s makeup was not done by her). Rushing to the saloon, reached there around 2.30pm and it was jam packed with customers. I waited 1 hour before it was my turn. Thank God I washed my hair during my quick shower before heading over to the hair saloon. This is the first time that I make the effort to have my hair set nicely, hence the saloon visit. Ahheem.... it’s my sister’s wedding you see, I have to look my best too ya! This saloon Amy recommended to me located not too far from my house. The price is cheap, I remember I only paid RM 35 for the hairdo and RM 5 for the glittering hair accessories I asked to add in. I ask the stylist to do whatever style she sees fit for me. The out come? Superbly stunning!

After my hairdo session around 4.30, both me and Amy head back over to my house where she did the makeup for me. This is also my very first time in having my makeup professionally done. Well, my friend, Amy is a makeup artist doing bridal makeup as a part-time job that’s why I say I have my makeup professionally done. Usually I just go out to any dinner or function without any makeup on. So, I was a little afraid that I would turn out weird or too unusual looking or worst of all, I might have some allergic reaction to the makeup product. But I took my risk. Sigh… I’m still a typical gal after all. Dare to risk in the name of “beauty”. Yikes! I am actually not that kind of a person okay. I just feel like looking my very best for my sister’s big day. After having everything on my face done, I insisted on not putting any lipstick on because I had really bad history of allergy on my lips which swollen up like a fish with a thick lips. Amy is really good. She could finish up my makeup in half an hour and it looks great! I really love it.

Not long after I finish my makeup, my mom reach home from her hair saloon. She had both her hair and makeup done over at the saloon. We were supposed to leave the house at 5pm to the Times Square Hotel where the wedding dinner was held, but we only managed to leave around 5.30pm. There is usually bad traffic jams on Saturday evening and I have to reach there by 6pm. We were slightly late, but everything was fine. My sister and her hubby already went there right after church.

I helped out at the reception area throughout the time until right before dinner started at 8.30pm. Yeah, the dinner started out too late because there were many who came late. I was tired and hungry at the same time but still have to put up a stand for the night. Most of my time were busy about at the reception area and I really feel bad for neglecting Aldrin for I had left him alone with my relatives whom he have not met before. Must have been a nightmare for him! I am so sorry, dear.

It was a quite a huge wedding banquet as there were 600 guesses attended and we had a huge ball room where we had our traditional Chinese 8 course dinner. The food presentation was interesting and the food was good. I ate a lot because I was very hungry. The dinner ended around 11pm but we reach home very late. The wedding was a success and although I am exhausted at the end of the day, but it were all definitely worth while. I am very happy for my sister but at the same time I also feel regret that I could not give her the best wedding gift ever.

Although a few months had pass by since your wedding day, I still wish you happy marriage and my God bless you both abundantly. I still miss all those times where we could always spend time around each other though we do meet up once a while. With the room we both shared throughout our lives, it still feels empty without you here. Maybe it always will......

Enterance to the ballroom

I was helping up at the reception area before dinner started.

The environment before dinner started.

Food presentation.

Here come the lovely couple.

I have just found out that my brother looks nice in pink.

Having some conversation with my brother. That's my real hair (doesn't know why it looks a little fake but I love it!). Nice makeup done by my friend, Amy.

The top part of the multi-tiered wedding cake.

Cake cutting.

Toasting time.

Look at the two fathers.... hahaha....

Sis, mom, grandma (mom's side), and me.

Dad is happy giving toast to friends and families.


No words is needed to say "I love you"

Mom looks stunning in black.

Farewell all... Thank you for comming.

This photo has some sentimental value to me.

What a small world!

Just a week ago I had ample free time so I was browsing through all the blogs in my blogroll. As I go through my brother-in-law’s blog, I had an itchy feeling that I should go through this flicker photo album too. And my, my what have I found there…. I saw a picture of my college mate which we have known for 10 years since college time. I was a little shocked and I keep on staring and staring at the pictures, checking each and every inch of their features on the photo to verify that they are indeed my friend (I did that although the names written there prove that it is them).

There were three of them in his flicker photo whom I known – Nixon (although I knew him with a different name in Chinese), Michelle & Colbert. I wanted to ask my brother-in-law right away on how he got to know them but he wasn’t online during that time. So, finally on Monday I got to ask him about it and I was sure he was as much surprised as I am to have found out that we knew them without us being aware of it. Such a small world indeed!

Well, Michelle & Colbert wedding dinner is coming next Saturday night and I would be attending it. Great to also found at that my brother-in-law and my sister is attending too. Good enough that I have accidentally found out earlier that we somehow knew each other, else I could imagine the shocking scenario when we only found out about it during the wedding dinner next Saturday (*laugh out loud*).

Organic Kava health food intake

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Where can old folks go?

There was once a time where I was being hospitalized a few days, I got to know from a patient staying in the same hospital bed beside me that her own family has neglected her. She’s an old lady around the age of late 50’s or early 60’s who has already retired from her job. Since her retirement, she can now get all her money from the EPF (Employees Provident Fund) and her daughter who is married with 5 children still staying with her, is eyeing on her money.

This old lady told me of her sad life where her own daughter is lazy to work and the son-in-law is also a slack. They rely on her to give them money and a place to stay and she’s not a wealthy person herself. She countless times advise them to get a real job, be independent to support themselves and their family, but all they could say to her is, if she give them all her EPF savings then only they have money to be successful. Her daughter not only always asked her for money, but also does not bother to even visit her in the hospital where it was only a walking distance from home.

This is a very sad poor old lady. I could not understand how her own flesh and blood could treat her like that. By the way her own daughter treated her, I think she can consider she does not have this daughter at all. Where has their love, compassion and humanity goes? If I am the old lady, I won’t give them any more money and I would consider enrolling myself to a nursing home. At least in a nursing home there would have someone who could look after her and she could make friends with people her age group. In a care home residents, people can actually have a balance between independence and communal living.

One word EQUALS 20 grains of rice

Do you know that 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes and most of them are children? This is a very sad piece of fact when we were all so complacent here; most of us have at least 3 meals a day not to mention having some snack in between our meal time! Many of us also tends to waste food a lot, I for instance, have just thrown away ¼ of my cheese burger during lunch today. Compare to many other poor nations, we should be thankful to be living right where we are.

There is a way to help the poor while you could improve your vocabulary, you are donating 20 grains of rice with one correct word you get through this website www.freerice.com If you ask, will the rice you donated make any difference? Well, to a mother or father watching their beloved child die in their arm of hunger, the rice we donate is more precious than anything else in the world.

So lets us all help the poor by this simple gesture that in turn help ourselves by improving our vocabulary. Lets do our share to show love and care for those in need. If before this, anyone who says they do not have the money to do charity, this is no excuse. Having a computer with an internet access is a luxury. Do not forget who we are.

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First shocking news on job appraisal day

Today I had my year end appraisal done. Due to the nature of my work which my immediate superior is based in London, I would have my appraisal done by teleconferencing. This is the second time that I have had my appraisal done in such a way since I started joining this new work team in April this year.

I can't say that I am very happy with the outcome of the appraisal and neither am I unhappy about it. It is mainly due to a shocking news my bosses told me about their new arrangements for me. They told me, the big big boss has proposed that I would be moved out from this team that I am in and would be moving over to another newly created team for global Healthcare. As I have been working here since March 2003, this news is shocking, well at least I am really dumb folded. He further ask me how I feel about it. Duh! I was speachless.... but it was a teleconference, hence he couldn't see my expression. I was babbling... just say "I feel okay".

When I received this news, I really feel like I was being outcast, that they don't need me anymore in this team. It was said that only a week ago that this proposed new arrangement has been let known to my bosses. So little information is known a the moment, so no wonder I feel a little bad about it. Though my boss try to make it sound as good as it is for the new transition to set in for me, I am still skeptical on whether it is actually a promotion or a demotion. But one thing for sure, with the new arrangement set in, I will have more support back here in Malaysia.

Despite the shocking news, the appraisal generally goes well. With the new appraisal form format where by we could provide our own rating and justifications, my boss also did give me generally the same rating as what I have given for myself except just for 2 or 3 areas. I wonder why I could not be more proud of myself each time after the appraisal is over despite the many good comments they gave. Is it because I have actually not done good enough? Have I set too high an expectation for myself? Am I a perfectionist for that matter? Well, I certainly do want to feel completely satisfied with my job on day.

I think I should give thanks to God more often in order to see the many blessings God has bestow upon me. Huh! At least have to be thankful that I still have my job!

Thinking of buying insurance

Has insurance been a thing that we all must have one way or another? Hmm.... I think it's good to have insurance because it could provide us a sense of security if whatever thing happen to us, we can be sure that things could be much more manageable with the money we could get from investing in a good insurance policy.

Besides life insurance, or medical insurance, there is investment type insurance too. With the many types of insurance now in the market, it's time to look for those which could enable us to Save Money on Insurance. As many of us do not have very much to spend and with the little money that we have, it is important to have a solid good insurance which doesn't burns a hole in our pocket.

In the future when I have my own family, I will look into having Life Family Plan Premium or anything that got to do with Family Insurance. It's a good way on keeping my family safe and would have some financial help taken care of in the future.