Dyscalculia - means I'm dumb and make mistakes

Before I begin, let me first tell you this. I'm not whining, I'm not giving excuses, I'm not complaining. I'm just expressing my relief that i found out what's wrong with me. and it's a great relief.

If you think i'm being whiny because I didn't try hard enough. You don't know how hard i tried.

If you think I'm just imagining things. You don't know how difficult it is to live in a world where you can't trust yourself in what you've written down.

If you think I'm crazy. So have I, all my life until today.

Dyscalculia

is a learning disability where you have difficulty in understanding numbers.

I just found out about this today.

It's not that I don't understand numbers. It's just that I can't seem to see them clearly.
Dyscalculia, is a type of Dyslexia, that instead of words, it affects numbers.

Wiki pedia says:

"Dyscalculia^[p] or math disability is a specific learning disability involving innate difficulty in learning or comprehending mathematics. It is akin to dyslexia and can include confusion about math symbols. Dyscalculia can also occur as the result of some types of brain injury."

You prob think. Maths is a subject. if you keep doing it.. you'll get it right eventually. It's all about practice.

You're probably right. It is about practice. But where normal people have a fair playing field. I just found out that numbers run for me. Sure I know how to plus 2 +2. That's the basic. I understand math.. basic math at least. But when more numbers appear together. It becomes a mess for me. I didn't realise this at first. But now that I look back, my kindergarten teacher and my primary school teachers all have written that i'm "extremely careless in maths" and that i "make silly mistakes". Number tend to "Hide" from me. i don't understand how. I still don't. But at least I know that other people have this problem too.

For the life of me. I think I'm seeing what I'm seeing. But that is not real. that is not what is there. Its oaky if you don't understand me. but please don't accuse me of being lazy. It's terribly stressful to see something you honestly believe its real. Only to find out it is not.

"Dyscalculia has several underlying causes. One of the most prominent is a weakness in visual processing. To be successful in mathematics, one needs to be able to visualize numbers and mathematics situations. Students with dyscalculia have a very difficult time visualizing numbers and often mentally mix up the numbers, resulting in what appear to be "stupid mistakes."

Another problem is with sequencing. Students who have difficulty sequencing or organizing detailed information often have difficulty remembering specific facts and formulas for completing their mathematical calculations. "

Some of the Symptoms of Dyscalculia are

• Many students with disabilities have histories of academic failure that contribute to the development of learned helplessness in mathematics. It is important that mathematics instructors recognize the symptoms of dyscalculia and take the necessary measures to help students that are affected. Some of the symptoms are:
• Students might have spatial problems and difficulty aligning numbers into proper columns.
• Have trouble with sequence, including left/right orientation. They will read numbers out of sequence and sometimes do operations backwards. They also become confused on the sequences of past or future events

this is true. i'm not making excuses for my poor performance in math, but math was never my forte. I need to make termendous effort just to understand it. and that's when i can get "points" for trying, as more often than not, one number that i've put in would be a number that either wasn't real, or I've mixed them up). Multiplication tables are my absolute worst. It's not that i've not tried to memorise them. I even have a toy multiplication table to help me. This did not help as I still take a long time in asnwering simple multiplication sums. Longer than most people anyway... that's why i almost never got 100% during primary school when teacher would call out sums and we'd have to write the answer in our books. Every mistake would cause us a "slap" on our palms with a rotan or ruler. More often than not. I would be on the lineup to receive this "slap". It wasn't as if I didn't try. I used to recite it every night before I sleep. But it did not help. I could not get it in time. Eventually I just resorted into clever cheating and copied off my friends to prevent being in the lineup. At least one thing good came out of this. I learnt how to copy things without being seen. I also learnt how to calculate things like if it's 15 + 24. I'll just minus off the 5 and 4, plus 10 and twenty. and plus the nine. and the nine with the thirty. so I'll get thirty nine. i'll round it up to the nearest round number and minus or plus it off. Sounds confusing? i have to because numbers other than 10, 20, etc and single digits make me panic.



• Students typically have problems with mathematics concepts in word problems, confuse similar numbers (e.g., 7 and 9; 3 and 8), and have difficulty using a calculator.
I don't actually have a problem using a calculator, at least a normal calculator and not a scientific one. But that's becuase I've trained my fingers to get accustomed to where the numbers are placed. I only memorise numbers based on the pattern of how it forms. like 1351 - forms a triangle. that's how i memorise phone numbers as well. on the pattern. If I have to recall that number, I'll just trace the pattern, and attach the numbers to it. It's easier that way. I know most people don't do that. But that's what i do.


• It is common for students with dyscalculia to have normal or accelerated language acquisition: verbal, reading, writing, and good visual memory for the printed word. They are typically good in the areas of science (until a level requiring higher mathematics skills is reached), geometry (figures with logic not formulas), and creative arts.
I have a good imagination too. Apparently because of our lack of numerical agility, our brains work differently. We have some sort of weirdness that is very particular to sound when we concentrate, and that we are very easily distracted.


• Students have difficulty with the abstract concepts of time and direction (e.g. inability to recall schedules, and unable to keep track of time). They may be chronically late.
I will not use this as an excuse. I'm just late. I never knew why I was always late for school and stuff. I thought it's becuase i don't like to go to school. and that i didn't like going to places early and waiting for people. Perhaps this is still a problem with me. I can be early too if I make a conscious effort to do so.


• Mistaken recollection of names. Poor name/face retrieval. Substitute names beginning with same letter.
Yes. I do this all the time. Lawrence becomes William. If your name is Lisa, i'd probably think you're Lydia. I cannot remember a face. If you ask me to describe how someone looks like i can only give you his characteristics. I have no idea how he or she looks like. I can identify if you show me his/her picture. But in my head I cannot imagine how he/she looks like. I can tell you that he wears glasses, has long hair, thin frame, looks like a prawn, or acts in a certain way. etc etc. But it's a complete blank. Yes. I cannot remember family member's faces either. But I can associate faces quickly. Like if someone looks lke someone else. It's strange. i cannot picture their faces but I can tell you that they look like someone else. Don't ask me how. I cannot till today figure it out.


• Students have inconsistent results in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Students have poor mental mathematics ability. They are poor with money and credit and cannot do financial planning or budgeting (e.g. balancing a checkbook). Short term, not long term financial thinking. May have fear of money and cash transactions. May be unable to mentally figure change due back, the amounts to pay for tips, taxes, etc
Perhaps... perhapss.. perhaps..


• When writing, reading and recalling numbers, these common mistakes are made: number additions, substitutions, transpositions, omissions, and reversals.
• May be unable to comprehend or "picture" mechanical processes. Lack "big picture/ whole picture" thinking. Poor ability to "visualize or picture" the location of the numbers on the face of a clock, the geographical locations of states, countries, oceans, streets, etc.
as explained earlier.


• Poor memory for the "layout" of things. Gets lost or disoriented easily. May have a poor sense of direction, loose things often, and seem absent minded. May have difficulty grasping concepts of formal music education. Difficulty sight-reading music, learning fingering to play an instrument, etc.
I could NEVER sight read. I would PRETEND to sight read. It was very difficult. I would remember only one note. the C. and guess my way up and down depending on how it looks like on the music sheet.
Yes. i used to be horrible in my sight reading. I still can't do it today. i have to write down each and every note, and memorise the sequence. I love music. But I can't sight read. I really can't. I didn't know this was a symptom. But it sure explains why I always failed at my sight reading tests.


• May have poor athletic coordination, difficulty keeping up with rapidly changing physical directions like in aerobic, dance, and exercise classes. Difficulty remembering dance step sequences rules for playing sports.
i can play sports, if i do repetitive things, like punching, cycling, or things on my own, like belly dancing, or body pump. I have NEVER successfully finished a bodyjam or bodystep class. I could not understand the steps. Even if it was shown to me 1,2,3,4,5 etc.... I will almost always foul up the steps. If you know me you know I NEVER go for those classes. I'm too embarrased.

Like I said. It's not an excuse. Honest. It just feels soo good. to finally know that I don't have a split personality that causes me to make mistakes at work, or at home.

It's feels soo good that when i'm reading the lists of symptoms at various websites. I can identify with so many that I cry. I'm not sure why I cry. But it's as if someone has just written out my life story. and why i have had so much of trouble in life.

Ahhh.. sure.. it's just MATHS... it's just numbers...

It's okay. i understand that you dun understand. It's not just about numbers. It's about being potentially wrong all the time and you just don't know why. You're being put down as being lazy and not trying hard enough when you do. you're always accused of being silly and stupid for making mistakes. not being careful enough. Not making enough checks.

yes. I need to always check myself. Sometimes, even after 3 checks, I still can't see the problem.
it appears right to me. How can I fix a problem which is right to me? I have no idea. but I do try. I try everyday.

iused to think that i'm not meticulous enough. That I need to be more meticulous. Yes. I know i'm not meticulous. and i need to be more meticulous I know this. So please forgive me while i try. It's terribly hard for me to be meticulous. Some people are born that way. I was just born the OTHER way.

If you have a child, and if he or she has trouble with numbers, please understand that its not because he or she doenst' want to. I'm sure they would love to be math proficient like everyone else. I'm sure he or she would love to say "right" and really mean "right and not left" and not second guess their answer. I'm sure he or she would love to hand in their work worrying if the answers are wrong or not. I'm sure they would love to be in music class and not squich at the thought of having sight reading next. I'm pretty darn sure he or she would love to be able to follow the steps in a class.

but i have been blessed. My phone numbers are easy to remember, and all my important numbers too. but yes, everyday is a battlefield. and for all the wrong reasons.

you see, to me, data entry, is a daunting task. Something even i can't do right. but at least now that I know what it is. I can take steps to be more careful. concentrate and try my best to be calm. I find that it helps.

If you think I'm making excuses for being lazy. Please just leave me alone. Thank you. I appreciate it very much.

*Cough* *cough* x 1 million

i've been having this terribly annoying cough that has been plaguing my existence for the past 1 and a half weeks.

AT first it was just a dry cough, followed by some green horrid phelgm. It was terrible. I was coughing the whole day and night. amazingly I didn't have a sore troath. However I did get bouts of fever. It wasn't very horrible for the first week as i managed to control it with some lingzhi.

However, when I came back to work on the second week. My colleague was down with a bad case of FEVER, COUGH and SORE THROAT. Sucks. so I took in an extra dose of EVILNESS when I'm already on the border of good vs. evil.

I was hit like a ton of bricks. Wham bam. I was knocked out and confirmed I had a fever looming over my head. But my mum said "No fever"

This is ALWAYS the case. I always think I have a fever, but someone always tells me i don't.
Mebbe it's my layers of impenetrable fats that make the heat not noticable from the outside epidermis. But it's Hot insideeee... i'm burning...


Anyway, I refused to see a doctor and didn't go.

Then yesterday, I couldn't sleep. my cough kept me (and my family) up all night. so I finally went to the doctors. Since i already had a record at sunway medical, i thought I might as well go back there. And it's on the frist floor of specialists. I dunno where is the general practicioners. and they said why don't you see a ENT instead?

so I said. if you don't have a gp, then erm. okay.

So there I was coughing my lungs out, while I waited in the nice hotel like hospital.

After waiting, (there seems to be a lot of people coughing) Mr. Koay, the ENT that attended to me asked me what was wrong. I told him all of the above, but less detail and drama (sore throat ok.... painful to talk) then he said.. okay i'm gonna spray some stuff in your nose. and amazingly my nose cleared up!! i dunno what it was!

THen he took a camera scope thingie and shoved it down my nose.

IT WAS really really strange and uncomfortable.....

ergh. I can't imagine if it was my the butt. O_O

I bet that would be unimaginably uncomfortable.

But anyway, he took pictures of my insides to show me how my insides look like (cause my eyes were closed from the weird strange feeling). I had some swelling on the back of my nose which explained soreness. he also heard my lungs and said I'm good to go. He also added that Aircond - not below 26 as the cold air will aggravate my cough. Further not to lie down as that will make me cough more. No WONDER when I sleep i coughed so much!

SUcks.

and the whole procedure? plus parking is RM229!

and he din even give me a discount! Where is this medical officers renumeration order eh... is there a no discount rule ah. are they free to charge whatever they like?

MY goodness. I see everyone there paying easily and i'm like.. WTH A doctor issue you a bill and you pay, a lawyer issue you a bill and you want discount. UNFAIR!!!!

i think I'll down a bottle of lingzhi this week to cross out the bad effects of the meds. I have no idea what is in them. O_o

and he din even give me cough syrup or lozenges...

WTH!

Red Palms

Red Palms are considered VERY good Fengshui plants. And since San was moving out of her current house which have a whole ton of red palms, and we're moving to a new house, we naturally thought of getting some red palms from her.

NOTE however... RED PALMS are very difficult to 'cut/chop/hack/sever/saw/cangkul' out.

see we had PROJECT 1.

we decided to dig project 1, from the ground. it was tiring...... dag did it the whole 30 minutes.. we used all sorts of tools, including a big chopper, cangkul, saw, hack, hammer, hunting knife..... hehe it was terribly tiring!

Then I started my own little project side. (San's mum said that this one was easier to sever so we did that instead). That came out pretty suceessfully but JE'fs "no roots" palm was declared a "sure die palm"

then Dag abandoned Project 1 and went for Project 2, after San's DAD came out and declared all our small palms, all "sure die palm" and in addition to that, San's aunt added that "so small take forever also won't be big!"

hehehe.

Project 2 was a MUCH bigger PLant. as you can see above. they sawed, chopped, chiseled away at the connecting roots. Dag tried to see if the plant would come off if he pushed it enough, and the plant slit itself. (we then declared the 100% survive to 50% survive) to finally Jef running around to break off the root... which it happened!

then we transported it in the car.... brought it home... and planted it...
and one week later it DIED!

so sad!

but Project one is still alive and well. (will take pictures when it's more alive. ;) )

Great Job from the boys.. we were lucky we didn't do it in the night as we initially planned as it was a REALLY REALLY difficult job. they might think we were chopping a person up and planting him in the ground by the sounds of it!! San and I laughed a great deal. IT was hilarious! hehe


too bad we didn't get videos.. ;)

My own Fail picture.

This picture was taken in the KWSP in Kelana Jaya, in the LIFT waiting area on the mebbe 3rd floor?? hehehe you can see the lift lights on both sides. LOL. Just in case you don't know what that yellow picture is.. it's a NO PARKING HERE - CLAMPING ZONE.

^_^

Kuching Trip (backdated)

First of all,
this is a backdated post cause I finally managed to take the pictures out of my phone (thanks to chunchieh's help)

so here's a post about the wonderful Kuching!

My Client, was gracious enough to bring us around Kuching everynight that we were there. One night we went to the Kuching Festival, thinking they'll be lots of Kuching things to do.

Unfortunately! the night was full of chinese singing (not that great!) and weird expo shows showing things like fake crocs, mops, and wedding bridal shoots. Nothing about the handicraft of Kuching at all! My client was VERY upset that they did that and the food showcased was more international than anything!

my clients and my colleauge.. (hehehe) they didn't know I took a picture of them!



My room at the 360 hotel. Not bad. very spacious. I had one double twin and one queen. the Room was big but there was no wifi. (crazy) the whole building used to be a condo unit and now they switched it to smaller hotel rooms.


This is the very different and flffy 'oh chen' or oyster pancake in Kuching. this wasn't done well. FAR too oily (my camera has no macro/micro function...... so sad! I cannot take nice food pictures anymore as it can't focus.. lol)


there were a lot of nice orchids.. but they were imported from TAIWAN!!! wth right? at the Kuching festival??



This Mua chee was of various flavours. VERY yummy!!!!!


And this was the reason WHY I decided to turn my hair into the current "bombed" state it is. Nice right??? Save for my funny smile I think my hair looks absolutely fantastic. hehehe. But Pleaseee dun get any ideas. My hair currently looks as if a colony of rats decided to take refuge on my head.


I'm SOOOOO UPSET that my hair is not like that O_o. *bawls*

Happy 500th Post!

Dear All,

Sorry for not posting up recently, here goes in no particular order:

(P.s. My phone died on my and I bought the cheapest hopefully long lastingest phone. Nokia xpressmusic cheap phone (the one for RM499) but terrible... I don't know how to load the pictures into my computer.. I've been trying but I can't figure it out.. so you'll have to deal with no pictures~! Sorry!!)

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Kuching Trip - which led to something drastic ...

Everyyear, or so what my client tells me ( she's the MOST fabulous host in the entirest universe) my client will do a corporate exercise that will enable us, her lawyers, to travel to Kuching, purchase those delectable coloured layered cakes, drink the 3 layered teas, and eat the oil laden kolo mee and sarawak laksa (I prefer the kolo mee to the sarawak laksa).

Our wonderful guest, noted to us that as Women, we don't go for the 'normal' entertainment, so she brought us to do what most women love to do... SHOP!
We went fish shopping. There's this one place where with bought the expensive "white bawal" but it's not white bawal but looks like it. It's the high class version of it. Me not know the chinese name of it. This place is really cool as they lay out all the fishes, and seafood for you on ice... in a refridgerator for you to pick. But don't be fooled. If you think that because it ain't swimming, it ain't fresh.. you've got to be joking! I bet these fishes were swimming freely in the seas less than 24 hours ago and taste must better! Yummylicious! We had soem bamboo clams (these weren't that great) and Sarawak Oh Chen. Apparently Sarawakians didn't know they had a 'unique' oh chen. If you dont' know what this Oh Chen is, it's Fried oyster pancake.

Fried Oyster pancake, if you didn't know, is one of my favourite foods to hunt for.

Sarawak Fried Oyster is Fried to a fluffy and crispy goodness. Very little ohchen is actually used. and served like how a pizza is served. in traingular slices. it's quite yummy but terribly oily. and it's I THINK or feel. Similar is nature to the Hakka dish, "pok chang" where we fry "wo wo choi" or that long green almost like spring onion but not into a pancake because!! the Sarawakians drip their oh chen in Soy sauce. Don't ask me why I call it "wo wo choi" but that's it's name okay.. -_- I didn't just make that up because I was a small kid and it was easier to remember it's name if it's cute!

Ahhhh.. Soy Sauce. They sauce of Hakka people. You can tell how Hakka the person is by the soy sauce they use. If they put soy sauce in their porridge before tasting it. He's Hakka. If he puts it in his fried rice of noodles... he's Hakka.. but you know what? I may be overgeneralising things.. but you know that he's really hakka when.. eating "zhong" or "bachang" to the hokkiens, you know that triangular shaped lotus/bamboo leaf wrapped sticky rice with beans and pork and the salted egg init with SOY SAUCE!! hehehe. You just NEED to!

Anyway, please don't confuse Hakka people with the HAKA, i.e. the war cry of the Maori? NewZealanders when they dance. (think the All Black's dance of intimidation)
Hakka people are wanderers, nomads of the Chinese who have no place of origin. It's like the Penan people of Sarawak. Who by the way are starving!

Okay.. now where was I? Sarawak. okay Sarawak is cool. Unfortunately Haze rages on Even on the east. I blame people who is doing open burning. Please people.. it's not the indonesians.. it's the people who "under the guise of the haze... proceed to their own open burnings on their own because no one can see it anyway!" i know this cause my neighbour does it!!! The problem is that when we call the Department of environment.. they are very RED tapey. blah blah blah fill up form, blah give statement.. blah.

Hello!! If we call you. COME OVER and catch them in the ACT lah!!! OBVIOUSLY. why need so much statements for. you see smoke. it's OPEN burning. CATCH them Fine them throw their SORRY asses in jail! or better yet. lock them in a room with few holes and smoke them.

Back to Kuching. I love East Malaysia. I think everyone there is 10 million times nicer. I think KL people are HORRIBLY unfriendly. -_-|||

Oaky anyway besides shopping, and eating my client brought us for a hair wash ( we are women after all and we can't resist a hair wash) So! they blew my hair in BIG curls. IT was simply WONDERFUL. I loved it alot
so the next weekend after i am back in KL. i decided to curl my HAIR.

NOpe. No pictures.

IT"S HORRIBLE!!!

I'm resorting to tying up my hair
until it grows back.

they thinned my hair till if I was to bunch it all up it's thinner than my thumb. that's really thin because my hair used to be the size of my wrist. No joke. My hair is Long, lushcious, and luxurious.
Now it's a mess of Frizzy tangles and Manic stress. Gaswh. I really should have done it. But I know what I should have done Spend 600 bucks at my friend's salon. Her haid is BEAUTIFUL!
Sucks.. SUCK! I really regret.

ANyway so that was my Kuching adventure that led to my perming and damaging my hair beyond saving. it has split ends. I never had split ends. the WORLD is coming to the end... the END i tell you... the END!!


SIGH.. I hate my frizzy hair

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What Else?

Oh! somwhere in July, ChunChieh and I decided to look around for houses that were available. Just looking not looking for anything in particular. It was quite crazy. He was in bangkok and I just came back from... erm. Somewhere. I can't remember where but I remember I was outstation. i think Johor.. anyway! we were skyping online (yes.. modern day couples do that... we skype.. it's FREE.. and we love things that are free!) and i said. Putra heights is on the way back from the airport. Lets go look at it when I pick you up later. that was the day we decided that we wanted to look at houses.

so when I picked him up, we saw the Putra heights. Not too bad.. a Bit pricey and it reminded us of USJ... and was quite far away... so we werne't too hapyp about it. then we drove around sommore. then found Putra Avenue. It was really nice. at least I thought so. he loved the area as well. and saw a house that I thought was really nice. so we had a look see at the "houses under renovation and that were open" hehehe.
It was very pretty... but also pretty pricey! so we decided to make an appointment with the agent the coming saturday to view more houses and the insides ( we only looked from the outsides most of it)

On saturday ( which was I think 3-4 days after our first day) we saw the houses. Not that great until we saw GARNET Type Y. OMG it has a courtyard in the middle of the staircase! Absolutely fantastic! I coudlnt' believe it. It was my almost dream house! it was really pretty and GIGANTUS! but the asking price for that house was RM530k. Out of the budget x2!! Our budget was 300k below. Well with that no go on the house.

So we decided to look elsewhere. I suggested Bukit Jelutong. cause my friend EEvon lived there and the area looked very peaceful and nice (much like Putra Avenue.. just minus the highway)
So we made a trip to Bukit Jelutong some random night. and he loved the area! (I already love the area soo it doesn't matter) so we looked around the area.. and saw massively large teres houses. We called up and asked them what was the asking price. RM490 - Rm580. yikes! EXPENSIVO!

Then we drove to another area.. and saw a smaller type house (we figure it's where the people who start out in BJ stay) so we checked the pricing... it's about RM380k. Not too bad so we decided to go back and cehck online.

Then we came to a site where he specialises in Bukit Jelutong - Vincent Yim - really nice guy.. I'll tell you why in a bit.

So in his website I see this unsold house so I said can I view this house?? he says. that's a crappy house. no one wants it cause it's too expensive. I won't recommend you to buy it. (I won't say which house it is here... later some day the owner finds out) anyway.. he said. BUT! I just got this one house today. to be put up for sale. fully renovated. they just moved out. has everything. move in condition. I was like GREAT! when can I see it? he said. when are you free? I said. WEekend can? he said sure. (mind you this was a wednesday) then he added. it's a really ERALLY good house and I'm sure it'll be taken up the momment I show it to people.
I was sooo temped to see it right terhe and then. I was really tempted to see it! you can as chunchieh! Anyway, because we were both busy.. and so was Vincent, we only managed to see the houses on SAturday. with Jef and San, because they liked to see houses too.

So before we saw the house, we saw tons of other YUCKY houses.
Yucky house number one we called the CHEESY house. the floors. WERE ALL STICKY! and we had to walk barefoot inside. theere was a couple living there. and the house was HORRIBLE. it was sticky and smelly and we felt was full of cheese. It was the CHEESY house. We coudn't imagine how these people could live in a cheesy house on a mattress and the floors were sticky... like so disgusting! after looking at cheesy house we were really grossed out. But we still went to lookat other hosues.

Then we saw the "smaller than airasia toilet house" the MAster bedroom toilet is SO small that when JEF sat on the toilet bowl, his knees touched the floor. his elbows touched the sink and if he were to lift his handsup he could reach the water hose for the water heater.

YES. this is the smallerst master bedroom toilet in the whole world. and you know what the agent said? - some people like small toilets. -_- FAIL!

then we also went to this other hosue where there was a Crack in the wall - agent said "house no ventilation... cracks will appear" and then.. the best "kong ku wah" is "no.. that's not termites.. it's some sort of WOOD eating bug" lol. TERMITE LAH!

so we were quite dejected. by these nonsenseness. We then met up with vincent to see this house (oh I should add that we visited this house 2 times just to see where it was in the middle of the night during the week)

It was REALLY NICE. save for the ugly tiles -_- .. who has pink or yellow (see it's so ugly that we don't know what ugly colour it is) tiles on the living room floor that is rough????

anyway howwwww, it comes with laminated flooring, a full kitchen, with fujioh cooking hob (the wife loved to cook) alarm system, built in cabinets, spiral staircase, extended kitchen and plaster ceilings.

Oaky some stuff needs to be sorted out. but it's really nice already.

so we took the house. that day.

YES. it took us 2 weeks to find a house.

Please note - we were the first person to view the house. and we took it. We were so afraid other people would take it. Yes agent had us around his fingers. but you should have seen Cheesy House and Airport toilet house. and Ventilation House. It was horrid!!

after that, we went to Ara damansara and looked at houses. hehehehhe. Rita Wong. that's the person you have to look if you're looking for great houses in ara damansara. She has the jalan for the best houses. but ara damansara is SUPER expensive. SUPER !! starts at 600k or more I think. the one we saw was 650k. fully furnished. or something liike that. but it was next to an ugly wood house. Yuckers.

So soon we'll have a house in Bukit Jelutong! YEAY! I'll be moving out of the crazi Subang!

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Oh! and Baby Isabel can walk!! YEAY!

okay I think I'm done updating for a bit.

Oh and on my way to kcuhing.. :D I flew FIRST CLASS!

Yeahhh baby.. I never flew first class before! YEAY!

it was certainly an amazing experience. I ate like A PIG. hehehehe

did you know they have proper cutlery (OMG i'm so jakun) and give you GLASSes of water, and although it's not glass plates, it's not in thin plastic/aluminium either.
hahahaha. i loved it! it was fantastic!

then after that returning we st economy. sucks. i was sooo jealous of the people in first class.

STINKERS!!! ooopps. I mean business class.

i want people to be jealous of me! hehehehe call me a stinker in a very jealous slit eye way.. and nose must scringe a bit. and almost scowl. lol.

50 Foot Giant Snake Found Dead at Warehouse

50 Foot Giant Snake Found Dead at Warehouse

(self explanatory)

sorry about not posting anything for the longest time!!

Terminator: Salvation Review

First of all..

this movie killed my obsession with Christian Not so gorgeous Bale.

He's becoming more like Tom Cruise. where he is absolutely in LOVE with himself. you can see it in his eyes.. its all about him him him.. BLAH. Boring lah when an actor becomes self obsessed.

I prefer Marcus Wright. you see? now that's acting. He's cool and his face is half shiny. he's actually dealing with a lot of self issues.. yet it doens't show howmuch he loves himself.

"this is John Connor... you are the Resistance"

give it up with the BRANDING!! do you think you are what.. Paris Hilton?

and what crap was he spouting about being human blah blah blah being better than computers. Nonsense! he should just say. I'm saving Kyle Reese my father. balh blah or else I won't be here.. blah.... i'm a selfish fella.

Of COURSE in the end the signal was a homing beacon (opps.. that was a spoiler) hehehe.

and the computers were AMAZING!! must give props to them. I like the Motorobots, the harvester (humongous and indestructable thing) and the T-800. it doens't destruct! not molten lava.. not freezing it.. OMG i would love a computer like that. Then I wouldn't have to worry about dropping my laptop all the time... or reformatting it.. Amazing that skynet doens't get any virusses.. seeing that it's a big computer and all. or that it faces any downtime.. or 'server offline' mebbe these are all human errors.. if computers run the whole place then we won't ever have viruses or offline nonsense. then my screen won't crack, or have dead pixels.. is that possible? I don't think so! LIARS!!! give me a mobile phone that is indescructable!

and there is a GUEST appearance by a well known Californain Mayor! huhuhuh.. I think it's some guy who looks like him or else some plastic looking guy. mebbe a wax figurine? quite robotic tho the face.

I'll be back.

LOL. term of the century.