Saturday, July 31, 2004
I BID YOU FAREWELL

photos of my last day. don't let my merepek nonsense fool you. it was all a mask for my heavy heart. :(



:: rouge @ 1:52 pm :: ::


Friday, July 30, 2004
HAPPY RETIREMENT DAY TO ME!

heheh. i managed to finish packing *yesterday*. so happy. it was a quick one for me cos i had so many 'willing customers' who wanted to inherit all my stationery, files, racks, etc. all i'm left with right now are two ikea boxfuls of personal stuff - which man-boy will collect later. we're stuffing everything into the bomb-shelter over at The Lovenest.

i arrived at my office this morning only to see my table covered with gifts given by my colleagues. there was even a blue rose by an anonymous student. i was immediately moved to tears (yalah, yalah... cengeng!). i believe more tears will flow later. all it takes is just one tiny hug (from anyone, really).

yesterday evening i felt all jittery, clammy and unsettled. i couldn't bear to answer all the "why cher, why are you leaving us?" that was coming my way. sms-es were coming fast and furious too. one read, "why are you quitting? you don't love us anymore is it? pleaselah miss rini, you're the best teacher i've ever had. please don't leave." wah liao. immediate flood fest.

*sniffles*

apparently, my colleagues are still throwing me that farewell lunch. that should cheer me up a bit (more like a chance for more floodgates to open). this is hard. having to face upset colleagues (when they're siaokuntao people on normal days) and saying my goodbyes to them is hard. i'm never good with goodbyes.

i better stop writing before i get more emo. pictures later ok!

:: rouge @ 10:25 am :: ::


Tuesday, July 27, 2004
LEAVING WITH A (LO)BANG
 
this friday is 'early retirement' day.  i was so looking forward to it until i found out *just now* via email that i have to be in school until 9.00 pm on my last day of employment cos of some meet-the-sec-2-parents crap!! hello??? give me a break lah!!! it's not like i'm even going to see those parents ever again right?! bloody basket!! bila yang aku nak pack? there are 6 ikea boxfuls of stuff that need to be dealt with. i was really, really depending on the friday afternoon to do my packing and cleaning in the staffroom, and THEN go settle more wedding errands. now? wahliao... i *SO* not happy one. damn the citot. this means that i have to come back on saturday AND monday to do my packing. prolooooong my torture whydoncha. squeeze my blood until kering ok???

and it looks like the farewell party that my colleagues have been planning for me on that same friday will have to be scrapped too.

should i attempt the unthinkable and MIA myself from the meet-the-parents crap?

what can they do?

fire me?


:: rouge @ 1:22 pm :: ::


Sunday, July 25, 2004
DINOSAUR STORY

from now on, it's going to be wedding talk and more wedding talk! not to nauseate you (heh), but it's something i'm obligated to do for my wedding video. yup, if you've seen izadnhana's flipside wedding video, you'd know what i'm talking about.

so far, i've completed all my wedding errands, except for the cakes, bridal bouquet and kids' favours. those will be done by next week. i have one more week left at work too, before i become a bona fide tai-tai. then the REAL work will come in ~ doing up the bridal chamber (read: clean, pack, drill, paint, wallpaper, assemble new furniture). right now, snagging that new job is not even on my priority list!

my bridemaids are eager to help out with my purple favours, but that will have to wait until my room and the house are in order. mcm kandang ayam. wedding paraphernalia *everywhere*.

it's less than 3 weeks to my big day. many friends have been asking me, are you excited? the truth is, i feel normal. not EXCITED excited. maybe it hasn't hit me yet. simplyhana told me that it hit her only a day before her wedding. maybe all this arduous planning is ruining the 'beauty' of the wedding. entahlah. planning a wedding on your own is no small feat. it starts off fun and full of promise, but as the big day approaches, you realise that you have to let go of many things and not control everything too much, cos you'll only get burnt out that way. now all i want is for the day to be over and done with. 2 years of planning ~ over in just a day. yippee. i know, i know... i *should* show more enthusiasm right? but this is how i'm feeling now leh. maybe it's just the fatigue talking. the real rouge has been wanting to get married more than anything since she met man-boy. yes i know. very the gatal plus mentel plus miang!

a brief history of the man-boy and i:

 * we were primary school classmates; even partners at a certain point of time (in primary 2, i believe). we got to hold hands a lot earlier than most couples, hehe! but don't get me wrong. i didn't turn gatal until much later. throughout primary school, i only liked one dude - his best friend. kwakwakwa.

* we went to separate secondary schools. i went to an all-girls school while he went to a co-ed one. i had two boyfriends while he had one (girlfriend, that is). we forgot about each other's existence for four years.

* both of us got posted to the same jc after that. said hello to him on the first day (at the same time eyeing the oh-so-hemsem dude next to him). so, as you can see, it wasn't love at first sight.

* i only 'noticed' him after seeing him perform the dikir barat (was it something in his moves? maybe it was because he was the only one with the perfect rhythm. plus he looked *so semangat* while belting out the songs. LOL). but i continued living in denial cos hey, he was after all my primary school buddy! in the meantime, several college minahs started showing serious interest in him (and being shameless about it at the same time).

* we entered the same cca, the health and fitness club (HNF for short). a teacher who hated us called it the hawa and nafsu federation, cos it's a club where the members usually end up dating (heh, sad but true). it took a leadership camp to seal our fate. we fell for each other in our most busuk-tak-mandi state. it was flirting and more flirting after that.

* one day, he finally gathered enough courage to ask me out on an ice-cream date. i agreed, and ended up treating him to the movie, speed, after the ice-cream (baru dapat duit tuition punya pasal). he held my hands during the movie. :) the months of suspense were finally over. on 14th august 1994, we officially became a couple. yup, that was year one of jc.

*  we braved through my university stint, his national service, his university stint, my many temp jobs, my first job, my nie stint, my second job, his first job, and many shitty things in between. our relationship wasn't rosy 100% of the time (cos it was a loooooonnnngggggg relationship) but that's normal eh? we went through a lot of uncertainties (NS was a bitch); even dated other people for a while (but none of them stuck. thank god.). in the end, we would always get back together. kalau dah jodoh tak ke mana, kan kan kan?

* after dating for eons, we decided that it was time to for us to settle down and begin a new phase in our life. lagi pun, this dating thing is getting stale. it's time for man-boy to become a man.

* and so, the man-boy and i will be tying the knot on our 10th dating anniversary, after being engaged for one year and five months. we may have taken 10 freaking years to do this, but i guess i had always known he was the one - ever since that "wau bulan" song. :)

man-boy, you is the boncit but i lup you many-many you know!


:: rouge @ 3:09 pm :: ::


Tuesday, July 13, 2004
JK GROWLING

a great storytelling for the little kids? LOL. very much so! want my otograp? (oh no, i is the very perasan lor... eh wait.. i is or they is?)

eh kengkawan, kita sumer dah malas eh? lantak kau lah. some people very the sanggup lor, open blog extra-extra all. sesungguhnya *very* the low profile! tsk tsk.

let's get on with life, shall we?


:: rouge @ 6:00 pm :: ::



DISTRESSED DAMSEL IN DUBAI

i dialled an old friend's number, not knowing which part of the world she is currently at, generally to catch up and also invite her to the wedding. i found out that she's in dubai now, working her ass off and at the same time feeling really, really homesick. we had a solid 45-minute conversation, and it was just like old times. the same old gondrong woman. still the *most* gondrong pompuan i've ever known. just thinking about her makes me want to kekek until christmas. she and her ludicrous antics. very the buang tebiat nak mampos. heh, i miss her so...

so dear pompuan-yang-sememangnya-dulu-kecorable-tapi-sekarang-dah-jadi-bisu-pasal-malas-nak-layan-arab-dogol-yang-ingatkan-dia-maid-filipino, if you come back soon, i'll treat you to a jumbo-sized ojisan-no-mise cheesecake. engkau punya favourite jugak. :p


:: rouge @ 12:31 am :: ::


Sunday, July 11, 2004
I LOVE BARNEY

i just received news that my free image hosting site is closing down due to cases of usage abuse. damn. THAT means all the picts featured on this blog of mine are going to disappear just like that. oh well. i'm too lazy to transfer them to another site and THEN change all the codes and links. wah liao eh, like i got time liddat. so i warn you all first ok, pretty soon you'll be seeing a lot of 'X's instead of pictures in my past posts.

but i'm happy to have discovered photobucket - yet another free hotlinkable image hosting site. this place will be my baby fer now. how about introducing my first pict to mr photobucket?

more purplemania!

now you know why i MIA from time to time... wrapping up 1600 pieces of wedding favours is no joke (and i'm still nowhere *near* finished)! before you ask, i'll tell you: the retro one is for the day, and the girly-wurly one is for dinner. tu pon belom tambah sticker and tags. *grrr* oh yes, the bride-to-be is the one breaking her back wrapping up all her favours (with some help from the mommy of course!), so those getting the favours later better appreciate the extra TLC that's been put into them horrrr... hehe

i still need to order cake. purple cake? haha. do i want to risk an overdose and turn a barney shade of purple? we'll see.


:: rouge @ 5:19 pm :: ::


Friday, July 09, 2004
POSTSCRIPT

oh i forgot one tiny detail.

i forgot to add that in the Wasteland of Hypocrisy, there were those living among the blogres who had never cared to partake in the blogenocides. they were never ones to cause unnecessary dissension, but had to continue living under the dark shadows of their most insufferable counterparts.

and so "peace!" speaketh the community. "for we have no bones to pick with you."

:: end of story ::

:: rouge @ 5:49 pm :: ::


Thursday, July 08, 2004
CILITA DONGENG

once upon a time, there were a couple of blogres (neat combination of 'blog' & 'ogres') who decided to take the vast blogging world into their own hands and bestow upon themselves the act of chastising every blog that they deemed unworthy. "why?" you ask. "is there a need to be so repugnant and vindictive?"

aaah. a better question would be, "who the hell's paying them?"

you see, these blogres hailed from the Wasteland of Hypocrisy, an underground burrow where sunlight is severely lacking (hence the stunted emotional quotient). the lack of activities in their kingdom (plus a missing neighbourhood library full of dictionaries and thesauruses) might have contributed to their unrelentless desire to mock, jeer and taunt. we can only speculate at this point of time that maybe, just maybe, it fed their egos so.

they were quick to indict others for crimes of insipidity and superficiality (faster than you can say "ch-ch-cheese!"). oh, they were efficient too; they worked in droves. never had a blogging community seen such strong collaboration in the art of dissing others!

unbeknownst to them (for they do live in a burrow), the blogger community had been questioning the fact whether their pursuit of 'blogenocide' was at all warranted and justified. cos you see, these blogres - *sigh* - let's just try to figure them out, shall we?

- they have something against fat people. they think that fat people are not beautiful and don't deserve to be in the same breathing space as skinny people. now how's THAT coming from the potbellied ones themselves?

- they hate beautiful people. they equate all beautiful people as vain, bimbotic and high-maintenance. but that's hardly surprising, them being ogres in a burrow and all. envy is inevitable.

- they don't like it when people use big words. no, make that sophisticated vocabulary. why? i *told* you just now that over at the Wasteland of Hypocrisy, them folks don't know the meaning of dictionaries. pfft.

- simple english aggravate them too (these blogres are a hard-to-please bunch, aren't they?). they balk at spelling errors and recoil at every evidence of bad grammar. well, maybe it's time they recruit *their* own editor-in-chief. cos hey, "challanged", "numorous" and "werks" hardly qualify as queen's english!

- they claim to be blessed with certain inborn talents and whatnots. they are so proud of that fact that they have developed a condition called "elitism-tak-tau-malutism"; thick skin being one of the side effects. long term effects are said to be (1)obliviousness and (2)overly inflated sense of self-worth.

let's make the long story short. SO. one day, the blogres had unanimously decided to spy on more bloggers so they chose this LC hideout place at the Valley of the Perasans to do their dirty job. with SO MANY perasan individuals around them, they eventually got distracted and wandered over to a HC spot where only the beautiful inside-and-out were allowed to congregate. noticing how terribly out of place the blogres looked, the people of the Valley of the Perasans immediately alerted the blogpolice to have them arrested. word had it that they taubat while serving time and became good, peace-loving potbellied people.

**this story has too many morals of the story. so fergeddit.


:: rouge @ 6:16 pm :: ::


Monday, July 05, 2004
CILITA OLANG TAKLE CILITA

nyonya pencen: nak nenok cerita cina!!!
nyonya pencen: buh byee
nyonya pencen: hehhee
toilet ah soh: chet
toilet ah soh: busuk punya olang!!
nyonya pencen: wa manyak wangi loh
toilet ah soh: pi tengok itu apek
nyonya pencen: itu apek balu bangun tito
nyonya pencen: wa pon balu bangun tito
toilet ah soh: lu talak kilija?
nyonya pencen: wa mc lah
nyonya pencen: wa manyak sakit loh
nyonya pencen: wah batok hack hack hock hock
toilet ah soh: lu sakit itu pining2 kah
nyonya pencen: wa tarak pining hor
nyonya pencen: solee hor
toilet ah soh: lu batok maciam wa pinya anjing hor
nyonya pencen: tapi itu obat buat wa pining
nyonya pencen: lu pinya anjing manyak kiut macam wa
toilet ah soh: hack hack hock hock
nyonya pencen: kkkhrhrrkk khhrkkkk
nyonya pencen: itu wa munya tekak
nyonya pencen: mcm sia
toilet ah soh: itu ingus meleleh pun maciam ale sameee
toilet ah soh: lu mc belapa hali?
nyonya pencen: satu ali
toilet ah soh: habid lu ale tulis lua hali??
toilet ah soh: itu bila?
nyonya pencen: itu minggu lepas loh
toilet ah soh: wa lu sakit kuat horrr
toilet ah soh: ale muntah2 ?
nyonya pencen: tarak lah
nyonya pencen: lu jgn nak jadi wa nya doctor hor
toilet ah soh: betot ka talak?
nyonya pencen: TALAK
toilet ah soh: kalau ale, itu pelot mau pigi check hor
nyonya pencen: TALAK TALAK TALAK
nyonya pencen: lu talak paham ka!
toilet ah soh: talak
nyonya pencen: wa sekarang period loh!
nyonya pencen: lu mau wa check apa??
toilet ah soh: tadi tak mo ciakap siang siang
nyonya pencen: wa kentot sama lu bau lu tau
toilet ah soh: lu pinya kintot wa talak helan!
toilet ah soh: wa pinya laki pinya kintot balu wa helan
nyonya pencen: wa stain lu pinya skirt dgn wa punya period bau lu tau
toilet ah soh: lu main kasah hor
nyonya pencen: abudenn
nyonya pencen: lu pandei pandei cakap gua sakit itu wekk wekk
toilet ah soh: wa agak sajee
toilet ah soh: pasad lu silalu main2 lengan itu Tan Ee Jat horr
nyonya pencen: wa bukan mcm itu minya olang, seclet seclet
nyonya pencen: wa tarak main lohh
nyonya pencen: wa main cikit cikit
toilet ah soh: lu jangan bohong sama wa
toilet ah soh: wa tau
nyonya pencen: lu ada pasang itu spycam ah!
toilet ah soh: lu silalu main..
toilet ah soh: wa ale itu sixth sense lu tau!
nyonya pencen: lu merepek hor!
nyonya pencen: wa mau makan itu obat knockout lagi
nyonya pencen: tata!!!
toilet ah soh: hokay
toilet ah soh: lepas itu pigi main manyak2 hor
nyonya pencen: OLANG TENGAH PELIOD HOR
toilet ah soh: main atas talak salah
nyonya pencen: lu mau wa main masok mana??
toilet ah soh: hehehehe
nyonya pencen: itu main tarak hasil loh
toilet ah soh: masok idong pon boleh. wa takle celewet punya olang
nyonya pencen: lu munya hotak pegi basuh sikit
nyonya pencen: pakai itu dettol
toilet ah soh: oh itu clorok wa ale simpan kat toilet
nyonya pencen: pigi minum hor


:: rouge @ 7:26 pm :: ::


Sunday, July 04, 2004
"TAI"-ING UP LOOSE ENDS

so what did i miss around here? :)

ok, a "quickie" recap of my 2-week-long disappearance:

- i tendered my resignation last month. the p was all civil about it. thank god. cos i was dreading explaining to him why i needed to leave the service. it was a short and sweet "good luck with your future endeavours", sealed with a firm handshake. glad i wasn't one of those who was literally shown to the school gate. it happened to some others you know. it's no wonder why some people call him otak kuda.

- informed my form class about it. they were upset of course ~ i've been with them for the past 2 years. told my colleagues too. and even though i still have one more month to go, they made me cry already. i'm really going to miss all those closet nymphomaniacs. hehe. can't get a better bunch of colleagues anywhere.

- alas, they switched my timetable with fizzyfish's. it was a *total* switch. now she has my form class and i have hers. and i'm so sorry she has to deal with my supergoddamncrappy timetable. i thought the hods were going to give my classes to different relief teachers, but nooooo..... they just *had* to sabo the newbie, no?? urgh. i'm still feeling the guilt. now she has the heaviest timetable in the school. no amount of shoe-shopping can alleviate the 39-periods-plus-plus-per-week of pain.

- i still have not found a new job. but it's ok. i take comfort in the fact that i'm going to be a bona fide tai-tai in 4 weeks' time. after the wedding, if i'm still unemployed, that's the time to panic. :O

- wedding preparations have been a whirlwind of kecohness so far. i've been spending a lot of time with my other half, trying to finish up our hantaran shopping (but i still have not found THE PERFECT PINK BAG.) we "romm"ed yesterday too. man-boy actually practised his azan skills for that. LOL. nasib baik ustaz chop-chop. kalau tak, member mesti kejong punya.

- the renovations for our lovenest would have to wait. yah, must wait until i find myself a new job lah. if not, how to ask ocbc? in the meantime, the decor magazine buying and contractor shop recceing *will* continue.

- man-boy has been working out to get those 6-pecs that i asked for (for the wedding night lah, what else? heh). so far, i still see one BIG pec. but b, i really appreciate the effort leh! i can already feel the ketak-ketak in your arms... i loike! man-boy ~ i love. man-boy with muskels? i LAGI love!!

- remember my skII? after a month's use, i can definitely see changes. smaller pores, less oiliness, lesser breakouts... and some of my smaller freckles actually disappeared! looks like this month, i must be more diligent with my skII skincare routine. the bigger freckles and unevenness must go!

if anyone knows where i can get nice bags, tell me ok. and hana, i'm finally online. you want to 'delicate' something to me izzit... :D

ps// naura, tenkiuk for this... me so haw-nered!


:: rouge @ 5:01 pm :: ::