wow, it's been a long long time...

just a quick update regarding work. i've recently been promoted to the premium team, whicih means we deal primarily with VIP customers, but when it gets busy, we deal with some domestic calls as well.

i think the new role has made me like my job a little more. a month ago, i would've told you i really hated my job and that i would want to be a stay at home mum instead. obviously the latter isn't an option as i am not married nor do i have kids (no, my puppies dont count!).

but now that i am in the premium team, i'm faced with multiple challenges each day and i am absolutely loving it. i was getting very bored with my old role, seeing that everyday just repeats itself and i was progressing a little faster than a lot of other people as i am a fast learner when i choose to be one.

anyway, the new role also mean dealing with people who knows exactly what they want whichi is usually nice (can be nasty at other times), and also less phone calls each day. less phone calls means no sore or dry throat half way through the day. and VIP calls mean these people either have the moolah *kaching* or it's a trip covered by their company so they do not worry about spending.

and being new in the team, i am very well looked after by my fellow team mates..and being the youngest (i think) is nice too :) everyone in my new team are a few years older than me, so to them, i'm like a little baby sister who is just learning to walk so they are always there for me.

ahh it's nice when a promotion is waved in your face :)

you know how sometimes you feel so certain about something, then you think back to yesteryears and the feeling of being so certain of that something comes crumbling down?

why did i go dig up on the past...?

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it's interesting that i suddenly have the urge to blog. i haven't written a post for quite a while now..probably about a month?

it's funny how so many blogs are starting to die off now!

anyway, i just felt like ranting, hence why i'm blogging =p

i hate working the 6 day week shifts. it's so exhausting, especially when you're at the 4th day and your brain automatically thinks that one more day of work, and days off would be right there. nope. you have to trick your brain into thinking it's only the 3rd day, and that there are 2 more days before i get a break!

=.=

i try to sleep early, esp when i have early shifts. i'm usually in bed by around 10pm when i have early starts, but i dont fall asleep till a bit later, resulting in difficulties in waking up in the morning.

it's my 5th day of working today, and i really am just sitting by my desk stoning away.....and when i answer calls, i do them half-heartedly, which is really bad! i try to do the whole positive thingking thing (because i've just been sent away on a positive thinking course), and it works for a little while, then i lose it again.

honestly, i think i'm going crazy and my body cant handle the exhaustion. signs that i'm growing old =(

but work is work. no work, no money, no good. so here's to work, and another 8hours and 6 minutes of today.

ugh.

omg i think the whole house-hunting can finally halt right now.
i am SO sick so looking on trademe, searching for new listings on a daily basis, hoping to find somewhere we both like.

to be honest, i am the picky one when it comes to getting a place to stay in. why? because the house has to be fairly new, and obviously must not smell and must look clean as well. especially the kitchen and bathroom. if neither of those look nice, i wont even look further around the house.

so today, the bf went to look at a house that i found on trademe yesterday after searching blindly. we drove there before i started my afternoon shift today and i quite liked it from the outside. for the price they were asking, it seems very decent, compared to all the other places we've looked at.

it's not 100% confirmed that we will be getting that place (even though the owner has said yes), as we haven't signed any official documents and he wants to meet me and junior tomorrow. yes, pets are allowed and the owner seems to like dogs as well =)

once everything has been signed and confirmed for, i will let you all know the details, and that sure calls for a celebration - HOUSE WARMING! yeayaaaa!!

junior is all cuddled up in bed beside me while i'm time-wasting online. he's been pretty goof lately with his toilet habits, esp in our room where he only toilets on the newspaper. but every now and then, there's an accident here and there but i really dont mind that. afterall, he's only 3 months, going on 4 months old.

so since he's been go good with his toilet habits, i've taken it one step further with him by letting him cuddle with us at night before sleeping. he'll usually fall asleep immediately while on the bed with us, and we know this by his litting snores. it's soooo cute =p but anyway, usually about 3-5 hours later, he'll start shuffling around which is his sign to go toilet. so i'll carry him and chuck him onto the floor and he'll go to the newspaper to toilet. he'll then move to either his bed or one of our laundry baskets to fall asleep in till morning comes around.

when his daddy's alarm goes off, he'll wake up, run to my bedside and wait to be picked up to be put back in bed again. he does this without fail EVERY morning, as long as i'm still in bed. he'll jump around in bed for a few minutes, happy to be close to us again, and he'll settle down after a while and go back to sleep, this time in mummy's arms until mummy is ready to wake up.

isn't he a cutie?

he got sick the other day, after eating weird stuff like biltong (dried & preserved meat). he was very very inactive when i woke up, and this is after throwing up twice. he didnt even jump around when i brought food to him like he usually does and that got me WORRIED sick! i quickly called work to see if they could approve annual leave for me so i could take him to the vet and stay home to look after him. all was good so i made an appointment to see the vet that afternoon.

he was diagnosed with some stomach bug thingy, and he got given an injection for antibiotics and i had to starve him for 12 hours -_- that was really really hard coz he seemed so hungry, he went around the house licking and eating everything that he found, be it paper bits, hair or dust bunnies :S but he managed to pull through with some electrolytes that was prescribed to him.

total cost at the vet was nzd$114 for his antibiotics, electrolytes and vet consultations..it was realllyy expensive, but at least after his injection, he looked happy again and when we got home, he was running around again and that made my day :)

he's still on antibiotics now, but i'm very strict on what he eats and etc - i'm making him plain porridge everyday, and i chuck in a small piece of his chicken treats just to make it a little yummier and he eats everything under 5 minutes, being the glutton that he is!

but apart from that, the vet said he's a very healthy and good looking boy, though a but pudgy on his sides, but do not fret as mummy has come up with the best exercise plan for him - play catch while mummy watches tv =p

so that's pretty much my junior, after being with us for over a month :) he is my bundle of joy, and my little furball spoiled with love!

amoxycillin

feeling kinda drowsy and i keep going to the toilet for "butt piss" which is not exactly pleasant.

when i was prescribed amoxycillin the other day, i wasn't too sure if i was allergic to is. i remember being prescribed an antibiotic last year/ earlier this year and i had the same "butt piss" problems - guess i now am 100% sure that it is amoxycillin. i should really let me doctor know of this so they'll have a record in my file..

took 2 days off work coz i was feeling quite sick. ended up with quite a bad sorethroat on thursday morning, so went to the doctor who said i have a very inflamed throat and there's lots of creamy gunk (ew!) in my throat.

after 2 days of rest, well..sorta (it's hard to rest while looking after a puppy coz he doesnt understand why i'm in bed all day), i still am feeling crap. worst is having to wake up early this morning to come to work.

starring at the screen makes me go all woozy. this sucks. i wanna go home :(
lucky i have 3 days off from today onwards!

my little baby's sleeping while i'm watching the mummy: the tomb of the gradon emperor, and blogging at the same time.

everytime my baby makes the slightest movement, i'll turn to look in his direction..andi'm SO tempted to pick him up to cuddle him while he sleeps. i have a great feeling that this baby of mine will be extremely spoilt!!

but he's worth all that i have!!

stefan and i have been busy playing mummy and daddy throughout the whole weekend. we bought a puppy last week, and brought him home on friday. i'll be taking him home to his seller tomorrow because our current flatmates are no big fans of dogs so they wont let us keep him here permanently. the deal with the seller is i get to bring him home on my days off :)

it's pretty tiring playing mummy. junior (our puppy's name) is not toilet trained yet so it's really a pain cleaning up after him all the time. when he pees, we need to soak up the pee from the carpet and then spray carpet cleaner on it. if he poos, well be sure hope there's newspaper around, but if there isn't, then mummy has to pick the poo up and throw it away >"<

junior's a chihuahua x pommie. he doesnt look like a purebred chihuahua, but rather a cuter version of chihuahua..actually, more like a jack russell. a lot of people seem to think he's a jack russell coz he has the markings of one. but he behaves very much like a chihuahua.

i get woken up in the wee hours of the morning to clean up his wee and poo, and at night i have to wake up several times just to make sure he's sleeping alright. it's so much like looking after a baby to be honest! except junior doesnt cry at night while sleeping :P

i think that'll be it now. i'm done eating my sour dough bread, and the 2 boys are upstairs having their afternoon nap so mummy can have some time to herself (finally!)

yesterday, i got stalked by some turkish guy. i was walking close to imax in town, by myself, as the bf was meeting up with his friend, when i got stopped by a random person for the time.

now, when this person stopped me, i felt a strange sensation. i knew someone had been following me closely while looking at me (you know how you get that feeling when someone is starring at you...). anyway, the guy asked for the time, and i told him the time, and then smiled politely and walked off after he said thanks.

then what he did next was, catch up with me, and tried talking to me. like asking where i was from, and telling me about himself and how he's lived here for this long and stayed in aust for this long. then he started asking about malaysia and etc and i just said "it's nice and hot" and smiled, and kept walking.

when i got outside the store i wanted to go to, he blocked my way. i told him that i've reached my destination, and that i would like to go in the store. he started blabbering on about himself, and so i listened for a short while, and attempted to walk into the store again. he then blocked my way again, and started saying "you're a stranger to me, i'm a stranger to you..can i ask you a question? if you're free maybe later or tomorrow, maybe i can take you for coffee?"

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at this point i just glared at him, and said "sorry i have a bf" and walked off. and then he tried blocking my way again and said "oh it's nothing like that!!" and i replied "no, sorry, thanks, bye"

i was so freaked out by then because first of all, he stalked my from mid city (by smith&caughey's) all the way to imax. then he blocked my way, and then asked me out for coffee?!

eh what do you think i am? some china aunty that you can ask out and then try to gain residency by being with me? no thanks la, you stink turkish man. you're so short (my height) and how dare you block my way and pretend to ask for the time!!

if i had pepper spray with me, i would've sprayed 5 times in his damn ugly face!

i hope he burns himself while frying sausages in the kitchen and due to his luck, the sausage will fall on his dick and burn it off!!!

and jokingly, the bf said "aw you broke his heart today" to which i added "yeap. he'll probably go do some suicide bombing tonight to kill us all"

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i bought sheer cover and i arrived in the mail today! i've just tried it on, and i love the results! it feels like i'm not wearing any foundation, but at the same time, it looks like i am! my skin looks flawless :)

<3

following the post below the previous one, i havent walked home once :P i've been catching the bus from victoria park market right up to the shell station by my place. what a bum i've been! at least i'm walking up and down 2 flights of stairs per day. and walking across victoria park to catch the buss :P i still think i'm getting more exercise done now, than when i was working on the shore.

lately i've been house hunting for a bit. found quite a few nice places within walking distance from my work place. there're a couple just across the road, and the area is just nice. it felt really cosy when we did a quick drive through there last night. the places looked pretty new as well, and the complex has the whole gym+lap pool+sauna as well! and one of the places we found allows pets, but the rent is like nzd395, which we both think is pretty steep for an unfurnished place..

apart from house hunting, i've been chihuahua hunting as well. trademe and t&e seems like the best places to look for pups. other classifieds have lots of pet scams going on where they say they'll ship the puppies to you, and all you need to do is pay the shipping fee and the puppy comes free. i read stories where after paying the shipping fee, the sellers will contact you and say that your puppy is stuck on a random island, and that's when they'll start demanding for more money from you and etc.

i got in touch with one of them pet scammers, and we went as far as organising shipping. i told them that i work in the airlines industry so i get special rates for cargo and that i'll arrange shipping myself. the response i got was a pretty -ve one, where they've pretty much lost interest in trying to 'scam' me coz obviously they would get nothing out of it..in the end, they just stopped replying my emails. lol

the ridiculous thing is, they 'give' you a free puppy. then they shipping fees are like, 10% of what you would actually pay. wow, these people sure are animal lovers ay...they're even willing to cover 90% of the shipping costs for you..

what bollocks! i'm smarter than that :P

anyway, the hunt for houses will keep going, and so will be chihuahua search :) if you know anyone who's selling a smooth coat/short haired chihuahua, please let me know!

ahh i'm all flattered now :)

a customer called up to enquire about something, and this was what happened:

cust: blablabla what time will they arrive?
amy: blabla around 1930 but give it about an hour before you pick them up
cust: oh ok. WOW where are you from?
amy: auckland
cust: WHERE?!
amy: auckland, in new zealand
cust: oh...you have a very beautiful accent! i love it! you should keep it!
amy: aww thank you! i will!

i really feel like recording myself when i speak now :P

on the menu tonight..

is coney dogs A&W style!

how many of you remember this? gosh i LOVE their coney dogs, onion rings and root beer float!

i've been craving for very good hotdogs (since I had the oh-soooo-good hotdog at de fontein's), so i though why not make coney dogs for dinner tonight! i havent had a coney dog in like....YEARSSSSS!

can wait to start cooking it! i hope it'll turn out well :)

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just dyed my hair a dark shade of red. hopefully my blonde highlights wont show up after dyeing! cant wait till i see the results in 30 minutes time!!

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went back home home yesterday, and my dad loved my cooking :D i made baked salmon and honey and soy beef stirfry with boiled veges.

when mum got home, i asked her how many cups of rice she usually cooks, and she said 3. i made 4, and all of us wiped the rice pot clean! when my mum saw how big the salmon was, she said "aiya why so big! cannot finish la!" haha boy was she wrong! everyone was looking for more salmon long after it was gone!

and the stir fry beef..my poor daddy thought it was all gone when he came back for seconds. but there was still half in the frying pan and when i told him that, he quickly ran back to the kitchen to get more!

lol :)

it makes me happy when my food is appreciated like that! and before i left, my dad said to me "compliments to the chef! very nice food! can you come back and cook again tomorrow please?"

LOL

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ok i'm typing all these random stuff. i'm gonna go now, ta!!

harro people!

some idiot said i'm lazy :P wonder who that idiot is..because a little birdie told me he weights TWICE as much as me! :P jokes la!

well, i've started working over in the city, and it's awesome! it's like starting my job all over again to a fresh start, and everything's been amazing since i started yesterday. the place is really flash, and you get very nice people there! my new team leader's awesome as well..she doesn't give the standard "let's check that with the ops supervisors" which my previous team leader used to do.

anyway, my darling's been nice enough to wake up before 6am everyday to drop me off at work to make sure i get there on time, safe and sound. then he will drive my car back, and park it round the back where i've hired a parking lot. then when i'm done with work, i'll either walk home or catch the bus home, depending on whether i feel like being healthy or not, and also on the weather.

i walked home yesterday, and it took about 35 minutes which is pretty reasonable. today, i caught the bus home, and it took almost the same amount of time as walking because we were waiting for another driver to take over the shift for a good 10 minutes i think? so i've decided, i'll try to walk as much as possible when the weather's fine and i'll bring my running shoes to work so i can walk home in comfort :)

and i'm thinking of joining tepid baths again so i go for a swim on my way home - something that i havent done in a loonnggg time and i really feel like swimming again just to be fit and healthy! but i'll consider that again, coz it's not very cheap to join a membership there. i have to really commit myself to doing it, otherwise i might as well go as a casual customer.

i'm still on the search to get a puppy, so if you know anyone who has a chihuahua that they want to sell/ give away, please let me know ok? it doesnt need to be a puppy!!

scrap tha puppy thought. the owners of the puppy have came back to me and said they cant hold it even if i paid upfront...

and i'm emo-ing super hard out on a friday night

:(

yesterday evening, the boy and i went to have a look at a puppy out in papatoetoe. we were waiting in the lounge and then the owner of the pups brought 2 puppies out and they were the cutest thing ever!

she passed the one that i've been eyeing to stefan and he carried it for a while to see if his allergies would be triggered, and me being the mischievious one, i started doing fanning motion with my hands to 'fan' the pup's fur to his face, and yet, still no reaction. this was when i rejoiced silently in my heart (trying not to be too excited la)!!

and when stefan passed it on to me, he said "i think it peepeed" and i passed the puppy back to him immediately. i was wearing my bubble jacket la, and i dont want it to pee on my jacket coz i have no intention of washing it anytime soon, until the weather gets better ok!

but the puppy..omg it's so cute and gorgeous! it's got the whole puppy eye thing going, and it's so tiny it could just sit comfortably on one of stefan's arm! and it wasn't yappy or anything like that :P it just sat there silently, letting me pet and scratch him! grrr i kept saying too stefan i wanna bring it home RIGHT THEN! lol

anyway, the pup costs nzd350 (the chinese in me managed to haggle the price to a bit lower) and i'm thinking of getting it. the reason i didnt get it right then and there is because, we're not allowed any pets at our current place, and one of our flatties HATES dogs. we spoke to the owners of the pups about holding it for us till november, and we'll pay for the puppy up front, and pay for its food and etc, and they've agreed to do it.

so i think that's what i'll do, and bring the puppy over like once a week to stay a night or something so at least i still get to spend some time with that little bundle of joy after paying for it :P

what do you guys think?

should i pay for it first and bring it home in november when we get our own place

OR

leave it for now and look for another pup in november?

I WANT I WANT I WANT!!!!!!

ps: at work now, so cant access trademe to get the pic, but i will post it up later.

mmm cupcake goodness ^.^

my latest cupcake creation.

gotta love the combination of colours in the main swirl :)

le sigh..

guess i cant have a dog afterall..

extremely out of mood and i dunno what to do..

:(

the last few days, we've been playing nintendogs on his DS and we have a miniature schnauzer named...poobum! lol, yes i know, what a name, but that aside, it's made me realise how much i actually want a dog!

so after a few discussions (more like pleas from my side), we're considering to have a dog at our new place when we move out. i've decided that i want a chihuahua coz they are so small and are low maintenance. i've been reading up all morning about chihuahuas and apparently they will get enough exercise roaming around a small apartment! amazing eh?

plus, because a chihuahua is so tiny, i can bring it out with me easily when i go shopping or whenever i'm out. and the most important thing is, since my boy is allergic to animal fur, we can get the short haired breed :)

i'm so excited! i saw some ads just a moment ago and i fell in love with one of the chihuahuas!

(pic courtesy of www.adoos.co.nz)

ahh love at first sight. lol..but anyway, i'm gonna try my luck to see if i can get one sooner :P i'm sooooooooooooooo excited! and even better news, they only cost about nzd10 a week to look after, and vet expenses every now and then, which works out to be nzd150-nzd200 a year!

i can afford that!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! I WANT A CHIHUAHA NOWWWW!!

it's almost noon and i'm still at home, even though it's a working day. yes, i start my late shifts from today :(

i have decided to go buy some books at fox outlet on my way to work later, so i will have something to keep me occupied during the quiet times...

i really hate the late shifts, now that i've moved out of home. i never really did mind doing the late shifts when i was working as a lifeguard. i guess it's because work was really close to home, plus is was always fun working late coz you get to lounge around after 7pm. but with my current job, it's different. work is about 15 minutes drive away, and when i get home, it's quite late and i dont get to spend much time with the bf, coz he'll be in bed an hour or so after i get home :(

but such is life, innit? you take it as it comes...

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was feeling a it sick yesterday. took some dimetapp before going to bed, and it kept me sleeping the whole night. i woke up at 0545, feeling as if i've had 12 hours of sleep! and this morning, i feel much better and very much revived from the good night's sleep!

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went to see the doc regarding my itchy spots and my ibs. the itchy spots..apparently it's some sort of bug that clings to your clothes/ laundry when you dry them and bite you when you put the clothes on. i dont really see the logic to this, coz i only get the itchy spots in winter? i can only think of it as eczema, but whatever, she gave me some cream to soothe the itch anyway.

now, for my ibs, i need to do a poop test. gah i was thinking what would be the best way to go around collecting my poo. lol. i've decided to do it next week when i have my days off again. it's such a pain when i need to send it to the lab and etc when i have to go to work. plus, the lab closest to me would be the one on symonds st, which means no parking...so i'll do it next week, drive to the lab in east care, and then go visit my family.

and she also gave me some medication to help with my tummy cramps. she said it may be drowsy, so i dont know if i should take it now...seeing that i have work in the next 2 hours or so! later i cannot drive how? maybe i'll take it when i'm at work, and if i feel drowsy, i'll ask to go home early, and get the bf to catch a bus to come to my workplace and then he can drive me home. lololol. early planning. no la, see how first later..if i get bad cramps then i'll take it. if not...i'll take it at night before sleeping!

anyway, better go get ready for work. tata!

i went to visit my little niece today, and boy is she growing fast1 she's over 5 months now :)

and here's a pic of her:

little katie busy sucking on her fingers..

i sat her on the couch while i was playing with her, and she kept falling forward or to the side when i'm not holding her. right after this pic was taken, she leaned forward and almost flopped her head on her little feet. hahaha~

anything that she gets hold of, she'll put it in her mouth. if she has an item in each hand, she'll try hard to stuff both toys into her mouth. greedy baby! and when there's nothing in her hand, she'll stuff her whole fist into her mouth, or sometimes her teenie-weenie fingers will do the trick.

when she has slobber all over the hands, she'll rub it all over me -.-" but i dont mind that, coz for the past 2 months or so, everytime she sees me, she'll cry. but today...ah today.....she played with me for a whole hour without crying! she kept smiling and laughing with me if anything!!!


anyway, time to go pick the boy up from work and go get dinner.

toodles!