My Coffee Series

Many people has the habit of a cup of coffee a day. I, myself also drink a cup of coffee almost every weekdays. Coffee consist of caffeine that able to make us stay awake and make our heart beat faster thus give us an energetic day.

For most working people in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, US and etc., they would opt for coffee in coffee house or convenience store. They would grab a cup coffee when they're on their way to work.

In melaka, there's a shop named 13 state coffee house. They serve13 types of coffee from 13 states in Malaysia. Each state in Malaysia is represented with a type of coffee flavour. As such there're 13 choices of coffee in the coffee house.

I considered to be a coffee lover too as I like to drink coffee too but I'm afraid that I'll addicted to caffeine. Thus I've reduce my coffee intake.

Addition with more and more coffee intake. Even thought most of them are not coffee but they do contain caffeine. Usually I only opt for cappucinno, mocha, hazelnut and etc. I believe there are even more upcoming.

22th Birthday

I'm turning 22 this year! I'm rather sad as I've lost 21 years old. From now on, I'm consider an adult and should learn to live on my own. This year, my birthday falls on Monday, which is a working day. I didn't not take leave on that day. I went to work as usual.

I would consider my birthday this year as a very special birthday because I used to have a person to celebrate birthday with me for the past five years. This year is exceptional because that person no longer by my side. In addition, all those who celebrated birthday with me are people whom I recently know and this is the first time having them to celebrate birthday with me. It was like a 'freshies' birthday.

However, I enjoyed and contented with the very normal yet meaningful birthday celebration. I sincerely thank those who celebrated birthday with me and I appreciate every bites of cake very much.

My birthday cakes :)

In office :-)

First time to write in office.

What a boring Friday...!I had lunch in my office. Not a real bad lunch but I feel it's awful. This is maybe I'm having a bad day with down mood.

Monday is another public holiday. I should think of activities to make full use of my holiday. Next week will be a rather busy week as next week is a short week and I'm having my induction training in December.

This training has lots of participants. All of them are new staffs from different branches all over Malaysia. However when I attend training, I tend to forget all the trainees are from the same company and serve the similar boss.

I'm looking forward to be in the training and to understand more about the company I'm serving as I'm not exposed to the company's culture and directions.

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Convocation picture

Finally I decided to go for my convocation. But this convocation is a hell for me. Everybody is rushing to activate smart card, get the robe and invitation card. And finally I got the free copy of my transcript which make I have total of three transcripts.

This is the picture which I'll be using for my convocation day. I hope this picture is good enough.

What a tiring day! Students in MMU are like barbarian while MMU staffs are like deaf person. Students (should be graduants) are pushing and rushing Every students need to activate smart card, collect robe and convocation items. Will it be students' fault to collect them on the last day? or is the matter of MMU arrangement system having problem? I've no idea on who's right or who's wrong. In my opinion they should do something to curb the chaos to prevent any injuries and to remain the reputation of Multimedia University.

Cyberjaya is a very nice place indeed. Campus surroundings are fine. However, lecture halls and facilities are no up to standard. They should implement changes to improve their campus condition and improve in their administrative processes. Or else I don't think our nation able to progress in a faster pace. 

Korea Trip - Day 1

My Korea trip day 1 begins with the journey to Incheon Airport from LCCT. It was not something I'm fond of but I've no choice because my previous tour with KE flight was cancelled. It was a long long journey. Most probably I'm too looking forward to travel alone thus I feel the journey was hell long. The flight departed at 2.25pm and arrived approximately 8.30pm Malaysia time.

Everyone of us starved because we had only lunch but not dinner and due to several miscommunications between tour members and tour guide, the check-out time delayed. It is not the first time I went to travel thus I'm familiar with the normal check-out procedure and the tour guide herself asked us to walk straight ahead. Hence we walked straight ahead without waiting the other tour members. In the end, we checked-out all by ourselves and the whole group was waiting for us inside the terminal. And there, we wasted around half an hour to 45 min. So when we reached the hotel it was around 11.30pm local time and everyone starved because shops are closed, and we stayed in airport hotel, which obviously do not have any leisure and shops which open till late night.

Finally, the tiring process of sitting the several hours of flight journey. That's the end of day 1.

Korean's currency

The 'preetty' air asia X

My hello kitty passport :)

Nancie and I waited in the arrival hall for the other tour members

Incheon Best Western Hotel's cafe 

entrance

Hermit Crab

One of my favourite song : 寄居蟹 by 陈思涵.

I don't know who's the singer but this is very nice and special. The title is hermit crab. I start to understand and realise the existence of this species of crab. It is not the edible crab. It is a very tiny little crab but lives on something where it gains protection from. Mostly they live on shells. They eventually live inside the shell and make the shell as their home and shelter. In another means, they are parasitic animal. They are considered to be adorable because they treat that particular shell as their home where they gain protection from and they move along with the shell. They would find their food and conduct their living processes in the shell. For wild hermit crab they normally have shorted life span compared to pet hermit crab.
I'm thinking to rear one of this too but just worry that I don't have much effort to care it.

The picture of hermit crab in its shell

My Wine and My Saturday

I suppose to be in bed right now, but end up blogging :)

The thing that able to make me changed my mind instead of sleeping is a bottle of wine. I have 3 bottles of wine at home, neither branded nor expensive. I just cannot resist seeing them. Thus I opened one of it and drink it.

In conclusion, my Saturday night is spent with a bottle of wine. The feeling is not bad either. A little drunk but not fully drunk either. I have the feeling of finishing the whole bottle but still do not have the courage to do so. After the wine I would a good and long sleep.

I've completed half bottle wine. Mission accomplished. Hence I should have a good sleep now. 

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Rotting in genting

Elise rotting in genting highlands.

The last time I've been here is either end of june o early july. In conclusion, I've not been here for like 2 months. But it feels that I'm here just last week.
Shops here do not have pretty bargains. So I end up buying nothing. I went into almost every shops to loiter but still, nothing to buy.

After went into two starbucks around genting, end up sitting in a cafe in genting hotel to have a cup of cafe mocha while regretting for not entering into starbucks which situated just right opposite of me. My tone describes just how boring I am now and how much I misses my drama back at home. Or I should have learnt a lesson for being less stingy thus should loiter in starbucks in future.

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In the korea

I'm in korea!
Yes!republic of south korea~
It has been long long time ever since I blog...but after back from korea there'll be lots to write...this is the first I write from my android phone.
I'm in the middle of the jungle or to be accurate I'm in mount sorak...
There're nothing here but only trees and cool weather.

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New episodes of life

Today is the historical day of myself. Entering a new ambiguous world with full of challenges and the determination for future.

Today I've entered the world of adults. So officially I'm an adult too :)

I've started to work in MSIG as an assistant executive. I have a rather nice title but I hope to gain promoted and work well in this company. Even though many people tend to look down on insurance line. But I'm able to accept this job and would like to outperform in this job. I would learn hard and put in efforts to make end meets.

I'm so new in working life as I've never work in an proper office before. I've been working all these while but I only worked in small firms with less than 5 workers. Now I'm facing around 20 people in a workplace. Frankly speaking, I'm a timid person and tend to afraid of things. Keep my fingers crossed, my hard work would be seen and luck always stands beside me so that I can build my own career with both of my hands.

KLIA vs LCCT

The last time I went KLIA was in year 2007 which was about 4 years ago.
The last time I went LCCT was May,2011 which was bout 4 months ago.

September, 2011 I'll be going to Korea. I'm extremely delighted because I'm going to sit Korean Airlines which will depart from KLIA. I'm thrilled because this is the first time I'll be sitting Korean Airlines which means I'll have free flow wine and rather comfort seat. It wouldn't be that hard to sleep on plane with the presence of wine as I can drink lots of them.

To my disappointment, the flight changed. It changed to Air Asia which means once again, I've to depart from LCCT. And once again, I've to sit the stiff and starlight seat without any free flow of wine. It was so miserable to have to depart and arrival in LCCT. My dream to KLIA has vanished. I wanted to go to KLIA so badly. I missed KLIA very much.

Halls and condition in LCCT and KLIA is far so difference. KLIA is grand, with so many shops around, duty free, branded items to look at. Even not buying them, able to wash my eyes are adequate for me. In LCCT there're mostly foreign workers sleeping on the benches, people in big bundles of stuff. Sometime I do think that LCCT looks like a place for fugitive rather than an airplane terminal. But what to do, many are choosing Air Asia because it is cheap, cheap and cheap. However, this is my first time to sit Air AsiaX so I hope I won't be disappoint by them. I think I've forgotten how KLIA looks like. Only the LCC terminal's condition I only able to recall. Keep my fingers crossed, everything will be fine :)

Book of Wisdom

This book started its function on 11 July 2011. This book is very meaningful and inspire lots to me. It has a very cute looking of hello kitty face as I'm also a fan of hello kitty but inside is full of wisdom and teachings.

I got this inspiring idea from a HK TVB drama. A guy always open his treasure box and read at every writings whenever he's sad or down. So I start to google or search for motivational quotes and write them into this tiny hello kitty note pad. I used to write a quote per day but sometimes I forgotten so there're less than 30 quotes up till now. I often share the quotes on my blog and I write on my opinion towards those quotes. I usually would choose to keep motivational, life and success quotes. The sayings are so meaningful and just nice for me to keep my days motivated. Thus whenever I'm lethargic and down, I would read them and motivate myself that tomorrow will be a better day.

This is the treasure of mine and it is essential for living. There are plenty essential things that I created so that they would enlighten and brighten up my life. The first is blogger, second is my hello kitty note pad and the upcoming would be my tamagotchi. When I talk about tamagotchi, many people would think I'm childish and out-dated as nobody plays tamagotchi anymore. But to me tamagotchi is very special and I love it very very much. I cant's wait for my tamagotchi to be arrived in Malaysia.

Now, it's time for me to update my hello kitty :)

ME-myself

Name: Elise Lariel
Age: 22 years old
Occupation: Currently jobless
Hobby: Drama-addicted
Location: Malaysia
Education: First class honors BBA (Honors) Banking Finance
"Simplicity is good"


This is the very first time I post my 'pretty' face in my blog with some brief introduction. It is like selling myself or writing a resume to prepare for work.

I'm a simple person. I assume I'm easy-going and friendly but many don't agree. They think that I'm fierce and I look fierce when I don't smile so many people are not very fond of me and wouldn't like to be a friend of mine. I've no idea why actually. Apparently I'm quiet but people who had known me would never ever think the word 'quiet' crossed their mind. I've no idea why people tend to dislike me but I've already used to live in the environment with less friends and do things alone.

I'm a super duper straight forward person. I voice out whenever I like or dislike. and the most funny part is I believe exactly what everybody says. I should use a word 'stupid' to describe myself but I'm not totally stupid because I'm a first class honors holder.

I'm a very careless person too. I used to forget to bring necessary things, such as water when I go out. At the end of the day I had to drink mineral water. I even ever forgotten to bring my purse out, and the worst is my friend had to foot my bill. That's too embarrassing for me.

Another thing bout me is I love to think. I think a lot. I think almost everything, good things and bad things. That's why I'm mumbling to myself always because when I think, I'm communicating with myself. I think I communicate with myself more than I communicate with a third party. The 'love to think' attitude brings more disaster than advantages for me. I'm overwhelmed with my thoughts and those thoughts bring me to 'Neverland' and I'll stuck in 'Neverland' soon. So 'Bloggerland' should save me out from 'Neverland' as I used it as a communication way.

The Only Thing That's Constant in life is; CHANGE

CHANGE

As written in the Oxford Advance Learner's Dictionary, 6th edition; change means:
1. to become or make something different
2. to replace something old with new
3. to exchange placement, positions or anything else
4. to put on different or new clothing
and etc
The general definition for 'CHANGE' is to different from others or to forgone the existing or current belongings and chase for a new belongings.
We face changes everyday. We might change our preference, we put onto different clothes everyday, at time we do change our dream and objective in life too.

Everyone definitely faces physically and mentally changes everyday. We grow from kids to adult, changes in body structures and changes in mind maturity too. As we grow, our height and weight increases. As we grow, we learn to think differently and think maturely. We face changes everyday no matter we like it or not. We have to learn to accept changes. Changes just come and go. There are good and bad changes. Regardless we like it or not, we have to bear with them and go along with them.

Change is a kind of challenge in life too. This is because there are possibility of 50% of desired changes and 5% unwanted changes. It will be a new challenge because after the changes take place; what we used to believe and what we used to do no longer persist. We need to think of new solutions and new way to adopt, accept and bear with the changes.

Lesson of Contented

We always advise people to learn to be contented and to gain the moderation from things we do. These seems to be religious saying or moral and ethics modules.

How many of us actually know, aware and practise the contented behaviour?
How many of us try to learn to be contented but failed?
How many of us advises others to be contented but is do not feel contented with his own life?
There'll not be a definite answers for the questions above because people changes everyday.
I'm wondering that will the main cause for people changing everyday is because of our earth is orbiting or because the moon is orbiting the earth, thus there're some force that make people changes over in a day.

The basic necessities of life: food, air, water. As long as we have these three elements we can live for the entire life of us. But in my opinion, I should not forget another very important element which is 'SMILE'. A smile can make your day delighted and energetic. We should not forget the ability to smile because smile is the energy for us to face challenges of the day.

As long as we own these four necessities, we can be contented with our life. Learn to be contented then life would be easier and less stressful. Setting up achievable, short term goal can motivate and enrich days. You might feel a little bit sad and frustrated when there's envy towards others' life, glory, beauty and etc. But when you tell yourself, "I have my own strength, too. I'm also special and custom made by God". Then you are able to be contented with what you own and who you are.

Give yourself a smile and convince yourself, "There's nothing in this world can defeat me because I'm contented with what I have now and for the whom I am now." 

Successfully brighten my blog

Added some gadget to my blog. It enlighten the blog and also my mood. I simply love the swinging bird. I guess I would put that in my business blog too.

Apparently I hate cat super duper much but the glittering cat are so glitter that I don't hate it at all. However, only to this glittering, I still hate the non-glittering cats. I should think of other stuffs to be placed into my blog so that it looks nice and appealing just like 'five-star' graded dishes.  

Long weekends

Long weekends...

Monday is a public holiday for Melaka state therefore, I need not work on Monday. Normally I'm terrific when there's a long weekends but this time I'm rather calm. Maybe I've found the reason not to go out or maybe I've found a reason to stay at home. Previously I like to loiter outside but now I prefer to stay at home watching drama, shows. I predict this is a good sign because less outing, less cash outflow then I can realise my dream sooner.

Another good news is, I manage to turn my biological clock back. I manage to sleep early every night. It is good to sleep early. Skin and organs got full rest and recovery so that our body looks healthy and vibrant. But another thing I'm lacking is lack of exercise. The last time I went for exercise is pretty long ago. I think it is the time for me to buy a gadget and exercise at home. Everything consume money. Just hope that I could get a job soon so that I could buy everything that I wanted. :)

Haunted by Dream

What is dream exactly?
What does dream means to our live in present or in future?
Does it reflect or predict future or the past?

I don't have good sleep almost everyday. I'm haunted by my own dream. I would dream on unhappy things which would make me feel sad. And those sad feelings will accompany me for the rest of the day as the picture and conversation in the dream kept repeating in my mind like a broken radio. The images kept repeating till the dark of the day and those images will be replaced with new images of the dream of the following day. I totally have no idea why dream exists. I'm feeling tough defeating the power of dream and defeating my own feelings. I'm getting lethargic.

Sunday

It's SUNDAY!!!!

Everyone would want to have a long and lazy sleep on Sunday because it's an official holiday for us, over the east coast Malaysia expect for Kedah and Perlis. Many of us from Southern and Central region are not aware that several Malay states in Malaysia's weekend is on Friday and Saturday instead of Saturday and Sunday.

Do I have a long and lazy sleep last night? My answer would be....NO!

WHY??

I got up early to go to temple for praying. I loved to pray. But the hassle and bustle of traffic in jonker make my journey so miserable. I nearly lost in that area as I'm not really familiar with the narrow and short road over there. Maybe it is fated and obligates me to pray. Eventually I found a rather strategic spot of parking. Praying all by myself, is another funny story. I've no idea on the methods of praying and the protocols of praying. Funny story begins:

1. I asked the seller of praying materials " What should I buy to pray for dead person?" The seller looked at me with fallen jaws, and replied "Are you referring to your ancestor?" In my mind was like, "Holy shit!How can the earth I just uttered the word 'dead person' in front of a person who's alive."

2. When I wanted to burn the papers for dead person, several people just said, "Excuse me" so I'm being pushed away and I spend nearly 10-15 min burning those papers. A normal person would have taken at most 5.

3. I've no idea that I cannot keep the food for praying before I've burn those papers. So I spend another 15 min waiting for the coins to be in opposite side. The fact is if I don't burn those papers first the coins will not be in opposite side even though I waited a whole day long.

I'd just realised that I'm like the clown in the temple. I just hope the goddess will forgive me for my clumsiness and my carelessness.

Employment/Unemployment

XXX!

Facing dilemma once again...
I have a job currently but the pay is relatively low. I'm 22 now and I would like to count on myself to work and study but there're too many voices saying that "You need not do that!" I feel they are not being caring but they are being sarcastic. This is a transition point for me being an adult. There're just too many obstacles I'm facing since the date I completed my studies.

I got an interview from Segi College, keep my fingers crossed I just hope it will be a good news. I placed tonnes of hope in it. This interview means a lot for me. If I manage to pass through it then my future is rather secured. It is a credit to my future. I've nothing to hope. I just hope that I can get the job and start my new life. Upon receiving the interview call, I'm delighted but in the same time I'm afraid of disappointment also. I'm afraid that my knowledge and ability is just not good enough for them. Keep my fingers crossed, pray hard to God. It is once fated again!

21 July 2011

Today is 21 July 2011.

Every month of the 21, I would be extremely happy. It is weird for a person to have such a preference. I love the day of 21 because I'm born on the 21 of November. When it comes to 21 December, I would feel a little sad because I've just past my birthday a month. After then, I would hope the following 21 to come soon. I love October 21 most because in a month it will be my birthday. However, the day I afraid most  is on November 21. This is because it is my actual date of birth. I'm reluctant to have a great and happy birthday celebration because I'm afraid of disappointment or despair to happen next.

What a weird and funny occurrence!This world is full of variety and mixtures of colours. There're different kinds of people with different faces, colours and sizes. So does habits and attitudes. I dare not classify myself to be special, I would just assume I'm weird. To be more simple, I'm a coward because I tend to hide.

New banner

I've added a new banner into the blog.
Writings is the banner is meaningful. The only imperfectness is the size of banner. It is so small and petite. I've chose rainbow as the background for the seven colours in rainbow. Not every colours would favour you rainbow, but the different colours in rainbow shows the different stage and occurance of life.

The sayings "Believe you can and you're half way there" is very inspirational and motivational. Believe is something very supernatural. When you believe you can do it, then most of the time you can success with the believe you holding on.

The strength in holding on is the price you pay for success. The higher price you pay, the greater your success will be. So do not give up on the current doings and do not upset for the current cloudy and rainy days because after the rainy and cloudy days there will be a bright and sunny day. Even if rain does not stop, even if it may flood but flood definitely will over someday. It is the matter of time that would lead us to a better place and with new prospect.

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over"

It is a quote found on http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes_of_the_day.html by F. Scott Fitzgerald.


I've no idea who he is, but the saying is rather meaningful and real. When one could not and do not have the motivation to bear with the existing condition, then one should consider to let go and start over again.

Often, one might be too comfortable and used to the existing condition thus one persist in that condition. One is afraid of changes. Changes do not seem to be negative always, it can be positive however it takes time. Give yourself some time and give the nature some time. When you look back changes are not that evil and unfamiliar.

Time is rather evil element in life. When you have happy days, time passes very fast. On the other hand, when you have rainy and sad days, time passes very slow. Busy people will fuss that 24 hours a days is just not enough. School children desired for time to past quickly because they wanted freedom and hate schooling. In order not letting time control the emotion of us, it is better for us to be friends with time. We should enjoy every moment of life regardless we feel happy, sour, sad, dark, cloudy, moody or frustrated. The ability to stay positive every moment is the key to utmost your life.

Elise Lariel

Elise Lariel is not my real name but I've used this name for almost five years. Few know this name as me, but many don't. At first I'm reluctant to use this name in my reality life, but as time passes I felt in love with this name and decided to use this name for the rest of my life :)

I'm back in my blog. One person would definitely happy because previously he waited long for my blog, but I doubt he will because I'm changing the way of writing. I used to write on food and places but now I write on my opinions, myself and life. I'm contented with the things I own currently and would remain positive in my life.
Peace :)