Funny moments at work

Funny moments always seem to happen while I’m at work. It sucks because there’s no one to laugh about it with, so I end up just laughing like an idiot in the corner.

First funny moment:
I was just walking into the toilet (the women’s toilet) and an old lady was walking out of the toilet and so I almost knocked her down. Luckily I didn’t open the door to quickly.
As soon as I realised, I appologised and held the door open for her to go.
She kind of had a trembling voice due to her old age and she asked me, “Where are you from?” (imagine a little old lady, with a trembling voice- think, little red riding hood’s grandma..)
“I was born in Brisbane, but my mum’s from Malaysia”, I replied smiling.
“Well, tell your mum that you have perrrfect manners”, she said.
I laughed politely (didn’t know what else to do).
Then she said something and I couldn’t understand what she was saying. I thought she just mumbled something and because of her trembling voice I just couldn’t understand it. So I just laughed politely, again, with a fake smile.
Then she said to me, “I just said something in Malay…and you didn’t understand me”.
Hahah gotta love old ladies. They’re not stupid that’s for sure!

Second funny moment:
Today another elderly lady came into Boost and ordered a Banana Buzz for herself, paused abit, then she said, “And I might also get a ‘Passion Mango’ for my husband, let’s see if THAT works”. She gives me the wink (oh, and I also got two winks today! What’s with people winking at me!) Anyway, I smiled, and in my mind I was thinking, hmm, just a little too much information.
I think that she didn’t think I heard her “joke” so she said it again “hopefully the Passion Mango will do the trick”.
Lady! I get the hint ok!
I wonder if the Passion Mango “worked”… if she comes back for more, I’ll know. Maybe she’ll wink again..

My favourite movie at the moment

In the plane on the way home from Malaysia I watched 4 movies- 300, Ghostrider, Night at the museum and another one… but I can’t remember.. Anyway Night at the museum made me crack up heaps! Loved it to bits! It’s now up there with my other favourite movie- School of Rock.

Here’s one scene that made me laugh- I think you’ll have to turn the volume up really high. For some reason the sound is really quiet. Enjoy! & I recommend you watch the movie if you haven’t yet!

Apparently, I am Big Bird

You Are Big Bird

Talented, smart, and friendly… you’re also one of the sanest people around. You are usually feeling: Happy. From riding a unicycle to writing poetry, you have plenty of hobbies to keep you busy. You are famous for: Being a friend to everyone. Even the grumpiest person gets along with you. How you life your life: Joyfully. “Super. Duper. Flooper.”

The Sesame Street Personality Quiz

Rosie is the bomb

I thought of starting up a “The Bomb” category to appreciate people who are really special to me.
I’ll kick start this category with appreciating my good friend Roshie (pronounced Row-shie) Koh.






Just went out for dinner with my family and Roshie & Fung-dawg & Aunty Juek Sang (rosie’s mum). It was SO good indulging in good and REAL food from the Emporium’s Mecca Bah & Freestyle Tout for dessert (yeh, REAL food, none of this South-side, little taipei, steak mixed with everything soup stuff).

Sitting next to rosie and having a real good yakkity yak to her, really made me think how tremendously blessed I am to have such a great pal to share my life with.

I first met Rosie around the beginning/mid-way into last year. She’d get a lift off Mae or pick me up from school along with Mae. My first impression of her was that she was really pretty (and still is!). But I’m so glad that we’ve moved beyond just being connected through my sister Mae.

What I love about Rosie is her compassionate, loving heart. Her heart is pure gold. God’s given her the ability to relate to people and to really have that tender-lovin nature. She is the best listener- not only does she listen but she has the ability to empathise and understand.

She is the type of friend you know you can talk to about anything.
I remember chatting with her in Singapore about everything and anything. It was a real pivotal time in our friendship of just being able to open up and have a nice hearty DNM. She is a completely genuine and honest person. Even though there’s 4 years difference between us, I’m glad we’ve been able to talk the way that we do.

Believe it or not, Rosie is a really hilarious person! You just have to listen to her! Some times when she says something I think to myself, “Woah! That was actually, really funny!” Give it time and I’m sure she’ll make you laugh too

I remember on the day of my last exam (my accounting exam), after my first all-nighter, I was pretty bummed about trying so hard to do well in my final exam by studying all night. But I ran out of time to study and so in the morning I wasn’t in the greatest mood. I talked to rosie about it on msn before my exam and she has this way of making you feel a whole lot better. She prayed for me on msn (she typed out the prayer!). Man, we should have msn prayer meetings!! haha imagine typing out tongues! Anyway, that was an incredible gesture of just pure sincerity and love, that I’ll never forget. I was blown away by the love and support of hurricane rosie. Earthquake rosie- 10 on the richter scale.

Her heart to serve is incredible. I remember at one of powerhouse’s BBQs watching her wash up all the icky BBQ stuff and the sizzling brownies hot plates. It was so awesome to see Rosie willing to get her hands dirty to serve.
I also really appreciate what she does behind the scenes of Ablaze Service. Watching Kasey and Rosie decide which can soup to buy was quite entertaining- soup with noodles or without noodles. They couldn’t decide so Kase put the two cans behind her back and Rosie picked a hand. Soup with noodles it is!
Rosie’s diligence and willingness to serve each week at Ablaze service, at all the powerhouse gaths, and just in every situation, is something I truly admire and aspire to be like.

Thank you Rosie for being an incredible friend to me. Keep it up! heheh
No seriously, I can’t imagine life without you! You’ve been a real encouragement to me especially in my 1st semester of uni- writing me encouragement emails (all those, “I just wanted to say…” emails haha), texting me encouragement msgs, praying for me, checking up on me, allowing me to call you “ROOOOWSHIE”.
YOU DA BOMB roshie. Love ya to bits and pieces!

A poem for Rosie:
Rosie.
She’s so Kohsie.
I like her cos she goes with the flow-sie.
Yo, yo, Yo-sie.

Where do I start?
I really love your heart
It’s better than a sale at K-mart
Did you just fart?

Thank you for being you
Thank you for everything you do

It’s quite a shock
We both like Aaron Kwok
Rosie you rock
More than a block
of cadbury’s choc

Well I gotta hit the hay,
but I just wanted to say,
You make my day,
Rose-maray

(yes, I know it’s rosemarie but that would cramp my style and wreck my rap)

Aaron Kwok, you wok!

I use to always say to my mum, “Why are asian guys so ugly? I’m definitely marrying a white guy!”
This was mostly because I didn’t know a lot of asian guys in my high school years and the ones I did know were asian nerds from Brisbane boys’ grammar. So when I was in high school I had this phase where I didn’t find any asian guys attractive.
I grew out of this phase when I met Aaron Kwok in Malaysia… in a watch shop- it was a poster of him…

He’s modelling for Longines watches.

I just googled him today and it turns out the only thing I have in common with him is that we’re the same weight… yes it’s quite sad… he can’t “sweep me off my feet” cos he’d topple over.
I also found out that he was born in 1965, which means he’s old enough to be my father, 25 years older.
Let me down Aaron Kwok.

Classic one liners

Got some of these classic one-liners from Mark-dawg. They cracked me up

1. An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to look at either.
2. Deja moo: The feeling that you’ve heard this bull before.
3. I went to buy some camouflage pants the other day, but couldn’t find any.
4. I walked into a seafood disco last week … and pulled a mussel.
5. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: “Does this taste funny to you?”
6. Why did the blonde get on the roof of the bar? She heard drinks were on the house.
7. Man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm, and says: “A beer please, and one for the road.”
8. Doc, I can’t stop singing ‘The Green, Green Grass of Home.’” “That sounds like Tom Jones Syndrome.” “Is it common?” “Well, Its Not Unusual.”

Here’s another one I got from Christianne:

What goes “Ha, ha, ha, plop”? A man laughing his head off.

Fascinating Facts

I used to be obsessed with facts. Whenever I found a good fact I would make it my msn name. I lost this obessession. Perhaps I’ve found it again now. Here’s my first entry in my ‘Fascinating facts’ category:

FACT: Flamingos pee on their legs to cool themselves off

I like these photos

Redang Island- fun on a stick


Eating delicious peking duck with our cousins

Results to rave about

I got my results from uni back and all I can say is PRAISE GOD! I was expecting to more than pass but I surely wasn’t expecting to do as well as I did. Man, God exceeded my expectations for sure!

I was on Redang Island when I checked my results. Dad was watching me log on to QUT virtual and I really didn’t think I’d do that well so I said, “Dad, sit down, go read something”, to try and get him to stop watching me because I wanted to see my results by myself first.

I checked out my results and I literally jumped up and shouted with excitement. I got three 7s, and one 6.
Man the feeling was indescribable! Because it sure has been a while since I’ve felt the awesome feeling of doing well academically.

Reflecting back over my first semester of uni- it hasn’t been easy. I definitely was struggling at the beginning to adjust to what felt like incredible loads of pointless information. Just ask mae, and all the QUTers about all the complaints and whinning I did (during QUT link). Special thanks goes to Jay who’s my QUT mentor hehe it’s really good to have friends who’s been through the same course as you- you can dodge all the mistakes they’ve made.

Anyway ultimate praise goes to my king. I honestly would have dropped out of the course without Him. I can’t imagine life without my Saviour.

Thank you so much father God. Thank you for always being with me through thick and thin. Thank you for giving me hope when it felt like there was none. There is none like you Jesus. I love you with all my heart and soul.

I’ll write another blog entry when I’m back in Australia about my first semester in uni because I have my old prayer journal at home and it contains a lot of my prayers from semester 1 and I need to refresh my memory.
Gotta go, write more later.

Flight to Malaysia

I thought I was going to write a day-by-day account of our holiday in Malaysia, but I haven’t had the time or access to the internet. However I did write an account of the first day/the flight there in a Word Document. I just copied and pasted it. Read on for those who are interested.

“…Calling passengers Bell, Fat-stuff, and Jones”
Our holiday had begun with a calling for a Mr. “Fat-stuff” in the Brisbane Airport at 11ish pm. It was one of those moments where you think to yourself, “Did I just hear that correctly? I wonder if they just pronounced it wrong”.
I chuckled to myself and thought, “Yes, this is going to be a good holiday”.

This is my first Journey Journal entry. I’m giving it a test run to see if I can be committed/bothered to writing a day-by-day account of the Tan’s Malaysia Trip. I’m giving it a test run to see if the viewers would be interested in reading what the Tan’s eat, drink, buy, puke, bargain for, and eat, on this Malaysian trip. Well, here goes!

At the Brisbane Airport I got all drugged up with cold/flu tablets and Dimetapp nasal spray to prepare for the flight and to try and make the flight a little more comfortable. The Dimetapp worked for my blocked nose, however, in a way, it cleared up my sinuses too much. If I inhaled too deeply I could feel the wind brushing past my throat and ears. It was a strange sensation.

The seating arrangements are illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 1- Seating arrangement (Stylised, eagle’s view)

[Mum][Dad] [Aisle] [Me][Mae][Lady][Window][Wind, brushing past aeroplane]

The in-flight movies were really recent flicks like Blades of Glory and Premonition (with Sandra Bullock). Since I’ve seen Blades of Glory with Mark and Mei (who LOVED IT TO BITS! heheh) and others, I decided to watch Premonition because I am a fan of Sandra’s work [Love ya work Sandy, love ya work]
It was a strange movie, the idea behind it was good, however it was executed poorly and had a bad ending, so all in all, I don’t recommend it.

After that movie I could barely keep my eyes open so I tried to sleep. Sleeping in planes is quite a challenge for me. I struggle to find the perfect position for sleeping. I normally find the most comfortable position to sleep in is on someone’s lap, but with my blocked nose I thought it was best to keep my head upright. I slept for short periods at a time for 2 hours, waking up perhaps every 15 minutes.

I brought my travel mug on board so I decided to get the airhostess to fill it up with water. I pressed the buzzer once, I waited, I pressed the buzzer twice, I waited, I pressed the buzzer 3 times and I was like “Who ever said Singapore Airlines has the best service is WRONG”. So I got up with my travel mug and walked towards the tail of the plane to pay a visit to the airhostesses where they were probably partying it up I thought. I went down and I saw that all the airhostesses were buckled up in their safety belts. They saw me and frantically said in unison, “Mam, mam, if you could please take a seat, mam, the seat belt sign is on and the aircraft is experiencing some turbulance”. But all I could really hear was “Mam, mam, mam”, so in my head I was singing, “Hey Mam-bo, Mam-bo italiano…”
Anyway long story short, I eventually got my travel mug filled with water.

Ok, ok I’m sorry if I’m boring any of you reading this, so I’ll cut to the funniest part of my flight- It was near landing time in Singapore and Mae was slowly drifting off- She was doing that thing where you’re almost asleep and you lose control of holding your head up right and so it bounces. Her head slowly dropped down and then bounced up quickly. I just sat there watching her. Let me tell you, this is the BEST time to take advantage of your head-bobbing relative/friend.

I asked my sister questions like: “Hey Mae, is Jien-Li the coolest”, she’d respond by bobbing her head up and down. “Hey Mae, you know your earphones that you think dad broke? Yeh well, I broke them. Are you ok with that?”, again she’d respond by bobbing her head up and down. “Hey Mae, what do you do at a rock concert?”, and again, she bobbed her head up and down- ROCK ON.