Two Hands One Foot: March 2007

Friday, March 30, 2007

Does Look Matter ???

To many ppl, when asked "does looks matter to you?" many will say "Nah... it doesn't matter" or " You are being shallow" or "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" or " Dont judge a book by its cover"...yeah yeah words can say many things but if looks dont matter, then basically you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between someone who is hot and someone who is unattractive (im not gonna use the word Ugly as it seems to be very offensive for some people.... believe me.. I have been hit real hard for using it)...But honestly how many of you dare to stand up and say that "Yes.. looks does matter." Well I just did.. and to be honest, yes it does matter. Im not saying that it is the most crucial thing when looking for a partner, but how can one possibly love someone they are not physically attracted to?

"ohh no no.. i really love her.. but i just cant make love to her you see... im just not attracted to her in that way" ...

ohh pleasee.... enough.

Well I recently had sort of a date which turned out real ugly (ugly as in the situation !!!)What happened you ask?? Well one fine day I decided to reinstall MIRC (its been ages since I went chatting on it) and there was this girl who I was chatting with... well she seem a little interesting... ofcourse as honest as I always am... I gave out details bout myself and what not... However, I did not get the same feedback from the other party.

Anyway after several weeks, the excitement builds up that you wanna meet this person to attach a real face to this virtual world. So generally it starts by the description of the person.. I generally did not have to describe myself as she had already checked me out on friendster.. obviously I tried the same but due to the fact that every detail she told me was a lie.... I could not find anything.

Im sure many of you have chatted online and you would have always imagine the person to be all beautiful and you know attractive n all.. (god knows why we give ourselves too much of hope).. Moreover when the person says she is cute and people around her thinks the same and lots of people are trying to go out with her and the whole works as if she is the winner of Miss World. Anyway i realized that I was being lied to bout her name, place of work, where she stays and everything.. god knows why.. like I am gonna stalk her or something... anyway, due to the nature of my work, I manage to find out everything bout her including some pictures taken in her office.

Ok, lets get back to the description; (in her own words) she is tall, medium in colour, slim (based on her BMI which I was told.. LOL), cute, nice eyes, straight hair and all.... and i think to myself "wow... this is even more interesting..."

You see, when I say looks is important, I mean someone who is atleast pleasant looking..I am not asking for gorgeous supermodels..(well you would know based on my collection of ex-gfs).... Im sure you wouldn't wanna wake up next to something that makes you go like "ohh damn..." right??

Back to my story... as weeks go by, I actually sent her a picture of some people working in her office to find out if she is anywhere in the picture. The picture consist of some very unattractive people in it.. and she claims she is not in the picture. We set a date on when to meet (after much delay and excuses that is). As the date came closer, she told me that she actually put on some weight.. (well I was thinking.. some weight wouldn't make you from normal to obese right?) and also told that she might have given me the wrong impression to me bout her...So I was like. "ohh no... is she backing out?? may be she is feeling bad bout lying n all that"

Anyways, the day finally came. I was waiting to see someone that would look like the description given. We had not decided where to go yet... and just as I was waiting for her in the car at the condo, my friend called me up and invited me to party at Bangsar.. so I told him.. will be there as this is over.And the moment arrives...as there was a high curb on the side of the road, I can only see a pair of legs in pink pants next to the car. And to my horror, it was the total opposite of what I have been briefed on. "Ohh dear.. what is this" I thought to myself.... I was speechless. As I tried hard to swallow my saliva, lots of things rushed in my mind.. namely:

1. Is this the right person??
2. What should I do..??
3. Should I run away
4. Should I make an excuse and vanish...

What would one do ??? She was big in size, short, hunched back, very dark and the list goes on in opposite of what she has told me.... and you know what... she is the same person in the picture which she denied!!!...and I think to myself.. "how can someone lie bout themself up to this extend??" I felt soo disgusted, cheated and betrayed. You know all the excitment just died out...
What did I do next? I called for backup ERT ( Emergency Responce Team) to bail me out of the situation. Well at that time, it seem like the best thing to do as I could not think straight....I could not take another minute driving this person who had lied to me about everything and expect me to have dinner with her?? no way..!! anyway I dropped her off ( after the lie and she knew I made up that emergency situation and has the guts to confront me bout it... damn....and went straight to see my friends and obviously bitched about it.....

And the responce I got :
1. Some felt pity that I was lied to..
2. Come laughed and thought it was a real crazy joke
3. Some shouted at me for calling the ERT saying it was cruel to do such things. They said I am shallow and all that.

But to think of it, do you think what I did was really wrong? I mean I was completely honest with everything.. The things is,I was not prepared to see something soo different from the description. Bottom line is, just be god damn honest and none of this would have happened. And I know personality is more important than looks and all.. but you need to also like what you see right???
Well.. i guess people on IRC are not as honest as they use to be 10 years ago... it was soo much more simpler before...hhmm.....

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Door Step To Paradise

Event: Sumatec Family Day & Annual Dinner 2007
Location: Laguna Resort, Redang Island, Terengganu.
Date: 10th to 12th Mar 2007
Participants: 140

Redang island was the venue for my company’s Family Day & Annual Dinner this time around. It was organized by the Sumatec Sport & Recreation Club. I tell you it is a real headache to organize 2 events at the same time. However it was really a good experience in organizing such an event with that many people going.

SSRC

Day 1
We started our journey from Sumatec office on the 9th of Mar at 10:00 pm. We had 3 buses for the trip. The entire journey from Shah Alam to Merang Jetty took us about 10 hours, we had 3 stops during the journey. Reached there at 8:00 am then took the 8:30am ferry to Laguna Resort.

The sea was really choppy, the boat was swaying like crazy and yes I was seasick and so was raspal heheh *bbblluueehhhh*! the mee hoon goreng & sambal ikan bilis that I had 1hr ago for breakfast was the culprit! Man that was the worst feeling in the world. Anyway the ferry ride took 1hr, the longest 1 hr of my life.

When we reached Laguna there was a short briefing at the jetty by the hotel staff then made our way to the hotel. The hotel was facing the most beautiful beach I have ever seen in my life, it was GORGEOUS! CRYSTAL CLEAR water. But I was still feeling shitty & so was Raspal. It took about an 1hr for my body to stabilize itself. Then it was time to enjoy!!!

PARADISE!

Part of the package, there were 3 snorkeling trips but we only took 2 cause the other time slot we had the telematches. On the 1st day we had deep sea snorkeling. My 1st ever snorkeling experience. Once again had to go through that damn boat ride on the rough sea but this time It didn't do any "damage". After a 20min boat ride we reached our snorkeling point, it was near an island. When I got into the water I couldn’t see any corals or fish, could only see the sea bed. It was damn deep! Had to swin a bit towards the island & there they were the corals & fishies! It was incredibly beautiful. It’s like a giant aquarium. There were fishes that came so close that I could almost touch them. Sad to say most of the corals there are dead, no thanks to our beloved mankind. It was not as colorful as it should be, but still amazing to look at. We spent bout an 1hr there before we headed back .

Ready For Snorkeling

Deep Sea Snorkeling

At night we had our Annual dinner. We had performances, games & lucky draw. Me & Raspal got Hamper worth RM150.

The Organizers

Day 2
Morning there was a snorkeling trip to the Marine Park but I & Raspal skipped this. Instead we walked along to the beach to take some photos, relax & enjoy the view because we wouldn’t have any time to do this later.

Me & My Baby

Laguna Resort

"Paradise"...yummmy

In the evening we had our Family Day Telematch for adults & kids. I tell you...it was hilarious! We all had so much fun. The kids telematch was even more interesting. Its got nothing to do with the kids, it was the parents that was kecohing so much *sigh*. We really had a hard time controlling the parents, they took this telematch abit too seriously. At the end of it all we had fun...that’s the main thing.

Telematch was hilarious!

Day 3
We checked out after breakfast & took the 9:00am ferry ride. The sea was still choppy but this time around no seasick (THANK GOD). It took us longer this time to reach Merang, cause halfway our ferry was stopped by the Marine Police, to do a lil spot check. We reached the jetty at 10:30am & boarded the bus & left about 11:00am. It was a long ass ride back! We reached Sumatec office at 9:30pm. Well this was because we had 9 bloody stops!!! Well that’s a whole different story, don’t want to go there (Controversy!).