One Raspberry Latte, please?

Okay so I went to Borders, flipped through a few magazines, picked a few I wanted to read, and headed straight to the Seattle Best coffee section.

"Hello, sir. What would you have today?" the usual greeting, with a smile of course.

"A Raspberry Latte please.." I responded.

"...and what size would that be?"

"Venti," I responded too quickly.
"I mean the biggest one," I added unconvincingly. I kept losing my vocabularies and my ideas recently. Wonder why is that.

"Large... No worries," she helped me with the right word.

"Too Starbuck-ish..." I said.

"It's alright. We are actually owned by Starbucks. We just don't use the same terminology," she's already busy preparing the order.

There you go. Something new to me right there. I kept learning new things and info everyday.

We chatted a little bit more about the hockey game just now that we both missed. It's all over the place. And you should now it as well ;)


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It's sunny outside

Here's the thing that i should be doing: snowboarding.
So why didn't I go?
Car is too small to carry the board.
Urgh.. If you know that you need a car to carry the board and/or the bike, why did you buy the sang kancil?
Because it is too cool to let it go.
:D

Ok lah.. Next year I should save more money.
Wanna buy a big screen tv.
Wanna buy a bigger car maybe.
Wanna buy a new camera to feed my passion.
New golf set? Na'ah.. The current set is still considered new.

Duit mana nak cari ni?
Haha entah la belalanggg..
Nak bayar rumah, which is going to be around $1200 a month nanti pun tak tahu nak cekau kat mana.

I'll figure it out.
Because that's what I do..

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I can easily be disturbed when...

Number one: when someone that has capability of thinking and doing research, say something purely based on his own logic.
Yes I know you are brilliant. But your brain can have a limit. It does not know everything that happens in the world. It cannot explain everything to you.
Kena buat research bai..

Number two: when someone says that he is sensitive to this and that issue... but then, at the same moment, same time, do totally the opposite of what he was saying.
Well, if you do it a month later or even a week later, I might think 'Oh this guy has changed his mind' or 'Oh this guy might have forgotten'.
But if it is at the same moment.. I can't take it.
Contoh? Ala kalau macam someone says, "Aku risau la tengok anak-anak muda zaman sekarang ni..." katanya sambil meneguk secawan wine merah di sebuah kelab malam.

I am disturbed...

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Sekali pagi sekali petang

Aku bangun pagi seawal jam 6
tengok jam di dinding (sebenarnya jam atas meja di tepi dinding)
terus berhajat ke turun ke bawah
ke tempat yang ada mesin-mesin tu... you know where..
tapi mengantuk lantas tidak jadi
sambung tidur kejap

pulang dari kerja
pastinya kepenatan
rehat sekejap dan melepak tengok NCIS
habis satu episod, sambung lagi satu episod
jam baru jam 830 malam
Pukul 900 lah turun ke bawah

Masuk bilik tengok video Apai
komen komen fb, reply msg di fb,
tengok jam.. ahhhhh dah jam 1032
cepatnya masa berlalu
nak turun bawah macam dah lambat pulak

demikian lah kisah
sekali pagi sekali petang
dua-dua gagal
haha

We Are The World

Lagu ini bernyanyi-nyanyi di fikiran sudah beberapa hari
Mungkin wajar share untuk ingatan bersama

We Are The World 2010 Lyrics

There comes a time
When we head a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
And it’s time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all

We can’t go on
Pretneding day by day
That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We are all a part of
God’s great big family
And the truth, you know love is all we need

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me

Send them your heart
So they’ll know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us by turning stone to bread
So we all must lend a helping hand

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me

When you’re down and out
There seems no hope at all
But if you just believe
There’s no way we can fall
Well, well, well, well, let us realize
That a change will only come
When we stand together as one

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me

Shaun White vs. Shaun the Sheep?

Dua-dua watak kesukaan ramai
nooo.. pujaan ramai
That is more like it

Semalam telah dipamerkan keajaiban itu
4 tahun lepas dengan 1440
tahun lepas dengan Double Corks

Awal tahun ini dengan Back-to-back Double Corks
dan tiba-tiba semalam
muncul
Backside Double Corks
rasanya with 1080 something
oh sungguh awesome!!

Tidak lupa straight up yg cantik oleh beliau juga
dan Japan Grab dari snowboarders Japan

Rasa macam nak pegi mountain minggu ini juga

Kerja kerja mari kita bekerja

Semalam aku agak stress di tempat kerja
Apa yang aku selalu buat untuk de-stress?
Minum kopi

But again, hari-hari pun aku minum kopi
Salah ni rasanya bukan jawapan yang betul

Biasanya antara aktiviti pilihan:
1. Ke kedai buku selama 3-4 jam. Ahad lepas sudah pergi tapi tak sampai sejam pun.
2. Bersukan: gym menjadi pilihan akhir-akhir ini. Kalau tak, maybe ke gelanggang tennis
3. Bermain golf: bukan pilihan kerana padang beku. Tapi antara metodologi paling ampuh
4. Kelas martial art: oh sudah lama tak pergi kerana selalu balik kerja after 7-8. Waktu kelas bermula jam 7 atau 8 bergantung kepada hari. Plus jarang makan tengah hari so tak ada tenaga nanti kene sepak jatuh terjelepuk
5. Membaca buku sampai tertidur. I have not touched any book for 3 weeks!! Mana pergi azam tahun baru 2 buah buku sebulan? Masih ada 2 minggu untuk meneruskan azam tersebut. Bulan lepas sudah berjaya. Adakah ini punca aku stress?
6. Tidur: paling mudah dan efektif. Aku seorang yang boleh tidur di mana-mana dalam apa jua keadaan.

Semalam aku pilih aktiviti ke-6
Aku tidur jam 930 malam dan bangun jam 600 pagi
terus ke aktiviti ke-2 oh sungguh indah

Malam ni ada conference call jam 8 malam
haruslah berlanjutan sampai ke pukul 10-11 malam

Dear phone

How many phone calls do you get in a day?
On my normal days, around 15.
On my busy days, more than 25.
Sometimes I don't feel like answering them.
But most of the times, I don't even had a chance to pick up the phone.

One of the weirdest phenomena, is that 3 out 5 times when I'm on the phone,
there will be another person calling me.
Why do you have to call me at the same time?
I don't have the answer.
Well neither do you, because you don't know that I am on the phone at that time.

It's just felt so weird.

1 out of 5 times, the phone will ring when I'm in the shower, tgh masak, or tgh solat.

I just can't pick it up.. what can I say more?

It's the President's day holiday today.
But the phone kept ringing every 10-15 minutes.
And I'm busy writing reports and replying urgent emails.

This does not feel like holiday at all.
I need a real holiday.. :(

and I'm back

Alhamdulillah, after a long trip to the West Coast, I'm back in DC
The weather is warmer than the time when I left 5 days ago
A lot of stuff to do
A lot of things to catch up with
Some work left undone

But before that, layan Kerispatih dulu lah...

Three hours later...

First half done.. Taking five

This is fun!

Salju di danau rindu

Sudah lama tidak salji begini
Walau tidak lah lebat mana, ia
menggamit kenanganku.
Empat tahun yang bermakna
di bandar sunyi
bernama Cleveland

Aku rindu kedamaian pagi Sabtu
ketika belum ramai yang bangkit dari tidur lena
Bangun menjengah kedai indah aroma misteri
Mencari seteguk dua kopi,
membelek akhbar pagi
dan melihat indah hari ciptaan Ilahi

Aku rindu sepagi hujung minggu
di kampus beralamatkan Euclid Avenue



Fairfax, VA jam 5:31 pagi...

The Deserted Area

Doral Golf Resort

Oh dah lama berlalu tapi tak update pulak.

Ni Doral Golf Resort namanya.

Tempatnya di Miami.

Bulan tiga akan berlangsung World Championship kat sini.

Dan aku dah main kat sini.

Ah bestnye.

Tak sabar tunggu World Championship nanti.

Boleh aku compare mcm mana pro main compared to me.

Haha 

yo la tu..

Dream on taufiq

Minum kopi jadi mengantuk. Betul tak?

Aku ada satu fenomena yang menarik untuk diperkatakan
Fenomena yang aku kurang fahami.
Apa sebenarnya beza kopi biasa dengan kopi 'decaffeinated'?

Bagi aku satu saja bezanya
. Kopi biasa buat aku segar bermaya
. Kopi decaf akan buat aku mengantuk macam hape

Dua hari ni ni, yakni semalam dan hari ini, aku terpaksa minum kopi decaf
Sebab kopi biasa kat ofis dah habis. Tinggal decaf aje.

Dan dua hari ini lah aku mengantuk bagai nak pitam.
Actually memang dah pitam dah pun.
Semalam aku tidur terjelepuk kat sofa depan tv kat depan ofis.
Nasib baik bos sibuk bermesyuarat di dalam bilik mesyuarat tak sempat nak menjenguk aku di luar.
Sempat la setengah jam aku tidur.
Akibatnya, aku terpaksa stay back lepas waktu kerja sebab nak siapkan kerja yang berbaki.

Hari ni aku dah terhuyung-hayang rasanya ni
Aku nak balik sekarang sebelum fius di kepala padam
nanti macam mana nak bawak kereta dalam salji pulang ke rumah?

Oh ya hari ni bakal salji lagi
katanya mencapai 3-6 inci
oh tinggi juga tu
tak mampu untuk Kancil aku merempuhnya

Adakah esok aku akan bermasalah untuk ke tempat kerja?
Harapnya Kancil ku akan tabah.

Selamat bulan Februari

Dan jantungku berdegup kencang...


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