Where's The Money?

Of late the issue of money is seriously bugging my mind. I need more money!!! I'm not sure is because I spend a lot or things just get much more expensive. I know there's one option that I can take for me to solve this issue. However, I'm not quite ready to take that yet. But I know, deep down... sooner or later I need to move in that direction. I can't forever be stuck in my current situation. I got big plans to achieve that needs more moolah. If only there's a windfall. Yeah... dream on! LOL! I hope for the rest of this year I wouldn't need to spend much. I really, really want to save as much as possible! *prays*

The Day I Chicked Out

I'm not really an outdoor adventure kind of person but if given a chance, I don't mind to try out some outdoor activities. And so, I decided to go and try the Extreme Challenge at SkyTrex. Knowing that this is the toughest course among the 3 courses that they have, I was kind of scared to try it out. I browsed their website and found out that Extreme Challenge comprises of 22 challenges with 22m high platforms. So basically, we are about 7-storey high. Furthermore, I have the fear of height too. Despite the fear, I still want to try it out! And so, I did it today!

We started by learning how to hook ourselves the proper way on the cables as we will be very high from the ground. A single mistake can literary means death. Then, after practicing on the lower ground, we started on the real thing. And boy, the real thing is seriously high! Climbing the ladder is already streneous as it's pretty high! I can barely take it. I have to stop each time to rest. I guess, when they say I'm lampung, it's true. When it comes to flying fox time, I was really quite scared to let go and just slide down. To those who are not sure what is flying fox, it is actually you hooking on the cable and just release yourself up in the air as you are flying (more like sliding) to the next platform.

So, what I did was... I close my eyes and just let go! When in the air already, I open my eyes and felt, is actually quite OK. However, when I reached to the next platform, I didn't manage to land properly, I was pulled back and got stuck in the middle of the cable. Yes, my first flying fox experience was already so embarrassing. The instructor had to come and rescue me. But, after that... I managed to get the hang it, and guess what, I really like doing it. It was fun! However, after reached the second platform, is time to climb another high ladder. And that's equally tiring again! When I climbed the ladder, I felt my body is going to give up anytime. When I reached the top, I just took a breather right away! I can't go on continuously. After I felt quite OK already, I go on flying again.

The most challenging part for me was, the one where we had to balance ourselves on some round stool-lookalikes, tied together. Although we have a cable for us to hold on, the balancing seriously is not easy. After that, swinging on the rope to the other platform. And that seems like a fear factor challenge to me although it is easy. Guess my fear of height kicked in during that time. After telling myself to just do it, I managed to swing to the other side (that also I almost fell!). Then, came the one crossing/walking on the ropes. You are allowed to only put one foot onto the rope and put the other on the next. So, it requires balancing again. And guess what, at this part... I was practically panicking. I really lost control. But after awhile I got the hang of it. At this point, I really felt like puking! I guess my strength and energy have maxed out. But, I told myself I can do it!

And so, the next one was... the stepping on tube after tube to cross to another platform. And this, I seriously felt like giving up. I lost balance quite a few times and I literary want to puke. My energy and strength have all drained out. And guess what, upon reaching the platform, I lose control and I fell! Luckily, I was hooked onto the cable and was left hanging. But the instructor is nowhere to be found to save me this time! Luckily, a kind civilian helped me out. I tried to pull myself towards him by pulling on the rope nearby. After catching my hand, he tried to pull me towards him and was almost successful, until I managed to sit on the platform a bit but still unstable. He had to forcely pulled me up on the platform and that, I felt so terrible and embarrassing. Terrible because he had to pull the heavy me and embarrasing as I felt seriously so useless and helpless then! After that, I told myself, that's it! I can't climb another ladder or do anything anymore. I'm seriously MAXED OUT! So, I took the Chicken Exit (they are called that, seriously) and quit halfway. Actually, before that, there's a shortcut, to cut all those. If I had gone that, probably I will have some energy left to complete the rest. PROBABLY.

Yes, kind of sad that I couldn't finish it while my other friends made it till the end. My friends were worried for me too, kept on calling where am I and I've also slowed down some people behind me. :( Apparently, after another high climb up the ladder and few more challenges, you're done. But I know, I really can't make it anymore. Really lampung! My upper body strength is completely drained out! So, in order for me to do it again, I need to train my upper body. We plan to do another challenge which is the Big Thrill. In this challenge, lesser climbing on ladders but more on flying fox, which is good. But until then, I really got to buck up and lose more weight! Too heavy to even carry myself, I guess. :P And guess what, my arms are all bruises now, as if I've been abused. LOL! All in all, to me, this is seriously test your strength, fear and agility and... I lose out to strength and agility. I managed to overcome my fear (somehow or rather). At least I can say I chickened out not because I was scared but because, I was completely drained out! :P

Us backed by the forest: 8 successful, 1 failed

P/S: Apparently, the first time they launched the Extreme Challenge, it was 5 hours long (ours about 2+ hours long) and only 3 people managed to complete till the end. The rest have to be saved. Imagine me, long time already collapsed! LOL!

The Day I Batted

There are 2 games that I love to play but I'm not very pro at them. One is basketball (I'm quite suck at it) and the other is baseball (same, suck at it). When I was in Form 1, I did joined my school basketball team. But I guess the trainings were too streneous and made all of us girls turned darker easily, my friends decided to quit the team and so, I followed. However, during my college days, I joined the basketball team for our extra co-curiculum activity and I did learn some hoop shots which I can admit, I've totally forgotten today! LoL...

Meanwhile, in Form 4, I joined our school softball team. I learned to bat, pitch and catch. It was cool, I'll say. But, I weren't very pro at the game either. Nonetheless, I love the game! So, when I heard 1 Utama, Rooftop has a batting cage, I was very excited to go and try it! Been waiting for quite some time, and I managed to do it yesterday! And the results.. it was cool!!!

All of us tried the softball and baseball batting. Softball is easier to bat because the ball is bigger but, for baseball, the ball is smaller so it can be quite difficult to see it coming towards you. So, how was my performance yesterday? I was not bad! Hahahaha.. Want to try it again the next time!

Patience Probably Pays...

I've all the while have high tolerance and patience. Especially dealing with those I care about. I try not to be mad at them but instead continue to be the nice person that I am although deep down, I was disappointed with certain things that occurred. Don't get mistaken with hypocrisy ya. I'm definitely not doing that. I just feel, getting angry will just make things uglier. Being calm and talk in a composed manner will make your thoughts to go through effectively.

And so, what happened was... I discovered something that I wished the person had told me personally (bear in mind, the person had said countlessly that will always tell me everything). Instead, I heard it from other source. Of course, I was disappointed. But, I waited because I believe the person WILL tell me eventually. I even went to the extend of bringing up the subject matter so that it will be easy to talk about that story. Sadly, nothing was mentioned. So, I kept it inside me. I treat like nothing has happened.

However, after waited for quite a while and still nothing happened, I took action. I wasn't mad. I said nicely what I think of it and I stopped there. Not wanting to do anything more. Then, instead of apologising for not telling me, I was just told that now problem occurred. So, I wished good luck for solving it. I said since I wasn't told about, I don't think it's appropriate that I got involved. Then, I was accused that I acted like not wanting to know (as if I weren't concern). I was bewildered. I said I've waited and given chances to let the cat out of the bag, but it didn't happen. And now said I weren't interested to know?

So yeah, I was kind of upset BUT I was calm throughout the whole ordeal. However, the other party seemed to be quite freak out which came as a surprise for me. I never expect the person to react that way. The whole situation was projected as if I was going to stay away from that person completely. Even asked me whether things will stay the same anymore. At that point, I realised I had indeed played quite a big part in the person's life. Never have I saw such panic moment happened. Usually, I'm the one being panic all the time!

Although things seemed to settle back to the way it was all the while, I'm still trying out the water whether ways have been changed or not. I really wouldn't want to be slapped by news from other sources. I really want to hear from the horse's mouth! So, probably patience does pay. We'll see... :)

It's Sunday... Crap!

I wish my friend hasn't asked me the question before (referring to the previous post). Now, I felt like shit crap because... I didn't do anything during my weekend. Before this, I was real OK about it, now I felt so wasted. Great! And thanks to this feeling... I'm going to cultivate my foul mood soon. Double great!

Watching Naruto doesn't help either. :( And, tomorrow will be Monday and guess what.... I have no mood to work! Can anything gets any better? Argh! Suddenly I hate this pathetic life. FML!

P/S: At least I use the uber popular "FML" right. :P

Blessing In Disguise?

I'm not too sure whether it is a blessing in disguise or what but, somehow my initial trips to Genting and Penang, one week after another, are all cancelled! And it happened when I just found myself in a tight financial situation (well, kind of). So, I managed NOT to spend. However, we are still planning to replace that Penang trip with a Plan B, but that is not confirmed yet. What's confirmed, my money is still safe in the bank. LOL! So, I weren't too disappointed. Worst to worst, just balik kampung! Hahaha..

Just only I had a conversation with a friend of mine. She was asking what I do during my weekends. And after describing to her, it seemed somehow, I lead an anti-social life. Or so it seems. Then she told me that we should live life to the fullest while we are young as we do not want to look back when we get older that we've missed out on many things. Well, I do agree with her on that BUT it is not that I'm making myself not wanting all that. I've always game on doing most activities, the problem lies with... no kaki to do with. So, it's not I chose to lead such a life, it just somehow happened!

Yes, I guess my past did lead to the present me today. It does bring a certain effect. But, to be who I am today compared to before, I am proud to have achieved it. And with that, I should be grateful to be where I am and with how my life is. I guess to each its own when comes to this. I admit that of course I want to paint the town red always. It's fun! But, you do need companions to do that with and not to mention, moolah which I'm seriously lack of in both of that departments.

So, in the end.. I just live life the way it has already been. And she asked, wouldn't you want to make things better? Of course I want... but opportunity wasn't there to make things better. But one thing I know, being envious won't do any good. Just accept the package life gives you and live with it. What do you say?

A Total Saturday Day Out

Yesterday was certainly a total day out for me! Started off with attending a tour at Wellness Resort at Mines there with Cik LiLi and her dear to check out their latest addition to the resort - a screening test facility centre (I think can be called this?). Well, from the outlook the resort didn't really impress much. It looked like some rundown resort that doesn't have much modal to splurge on maintanance (this is my thought). When you enter the lobby, you can literary feel the heat and it was smoky (it smelled like someone just cooked a kebab or something). I much preferred to stay in the toilet where it is air-conditioned! Hahaha..

However, when our "tour guide" brought us to check out their latest medical centre, I have to admit that I was impressed with it. Actually the centre functions just about the same like you go and take your medical check up at any hospital. Only difference is... in this centre you can also enjoy their sauna, spa and steam room for you to relax while undergoing your medical check-up. There's even a juice bar for you. Unlike in hospitals where you'll feel all stress up in a solemn environment that hospitals have, here, it is more like a pampering session but I'm sure you'll be stressed out when comes to checking up the condition of your body. And if western medical is not your thing, you can have another option which is the chinese medical. I much prefer western, thank you. :P

Apparently, this facility centre has already been available in the Palace of the Golden Horses (under the same management with the resort) and Mount Kiara (if I'm not mistaken). So, the new centre in Wellness Resort is like a new addition with more advanced equipment. And get this, if you signed up as a member, you can enjoy the other facilities in the resort and Palace like swimming pool, gym, tennis court and etc.

So, after knowing how well the centre works, of course is time to talk about the money, right? Here's the catch. If you want to know more about the cost, you have to make the decision of saying Yes to joining or No to not joining at that very moment. Yes, you do not have any option to go back and think. In this case, I felt the resort is actually trying to pressurise people to invest in them. We felt this handling method is kind of dishonest as... not everyone is bloody rich to just simply throw out their money. We do need to budget properly, right? In the end, we chose not to join. I personally do not have any extra money to spend, although I admit that the centre does look promising. And when the cost was disclosed a little, it did sound affordable but I'm not sure what other catch they might have. Before leaving, we were given some complimentary vouchers which I don't know when I will use it. LoL!

So, after our tour, we went to quench our thirst at Midvalley! In Midvalley, I received a call from one of my closest friend to invite me to go and celebrate one of our friend's birthday at Phuture in Zouk. Since I've got some kaki going, I said sure, why not since I've not been to the new Zouk. After having dinner with Cik LiLi and her dear, and saying our goodbyes, I quickly have a quick bath and changed to something nice to join up with my girlfriends. Long story short, we in the end ended up in Velvet Underground and just party the night away with 17 of us. I came back at 4+ am with a tired and aching legs (too much dancing!) but had a fun-filled party night. Something that doesn't come by very often especially I've mentioned once before I can never hit the KL night scene. So, 3 cheers to that! :D

After My Break...

In the end, I got my well-deserved break. I basically went back home and just be anti-social. I don't feel like going out until I've forgotten to tell some people that I'm back. (I only reminded about 3 people). In the end, I missed out on some outings. Oh well, I wasn't socially well-liked, so it's common that people tend to forget me until I remind them of my existence. Somehow I don't know whether to be sad about it or don't be bothered at all. After all, all these years... I've been like that. Oh well, I won't be dwelling on that now.

Before my break, I was literary like a timebomb. A little bit of things can just trigger me off. But now, I'm much more calm. I guess staying home, watching 2 TVB dramas, 2 DVDs do help me to be a much composed person. But, I got to admit, during the first day of my break, my anger was challenged and believe me, it went a little bit overboard. I guess, I stored too much anger for quite a while that, it just blew off. But right now, I'm back to my cool, calm self.

During my break, I allowed myself to be hopeful and start to think of happy thoughts. Well, I was kept delusional for awhile until today, I found out some truth. Of course I was bewildered. And anger crept in. But just only I had a conversation with my friend about anger doesn't resolve anything. I told myself not to let my emotions to overtake my rational thinking. I got to be calm and think of how I should pursue the issue and not to be duped again. I just want to know the complete truth and no lies. But sometimes, when things just seem so fine, uncovering some things like this will just knock of that everthing-is-going-fine-at-the-moment situation. Quite tough.

Oh well.. I'll try my best to uncover what I'll manage to. And about me being anti-social, I wonder whether it comes with the age. I'm not too sure but I feel, I'm too young to be anti-social! But, I admit that there are things that made me the way I am to a certain people. It was me from the past that made this happen. Well, I guess I just need to stick to what I've always been then. *Shrugs* :)