just minishorts.

I must say it amuses me to see the negative feedback from my little one-liner about going for the AsiaWorks Basic programme. Wait a minute, I'll put it out to you, lucky me doesn't have to pay for it, cos my company requires me to participate in the programme. If they tell me to go all the way to the leadership training, then so be it.

I read rickross.com, stuff like that, and I'll say, Rick Ross hasn't been to a charismatic prayer group yet. You wanna know life-changing? Get into a church camp, meet up with Christians who group together and pray in full tongues. Surprise, surprise, I do that sometimes.

Actually, come to think of it, I think I'm a cult-training veteran, in a way. Should I start from the Chinese Society back in CHS? Way, way back in 1992 when i first entered high school, I was recruited by the Chinese Language Society. Mad bunch of cultists, I tell you, and yet I was swept up in it… even while I was in the afternoon session I'd turn up at school by 8 am every single day just so that I could hang out with those people and then we would discuss debating topics… that lasted a few more years until I joined the Board of Librarians… a book-lovers cult… which required me to be at school by 7.30 every morning so that we could do book arranging and labelling. God knows it was boring but I LOVED IT, the dork I was.

Fast forward a few years, I got lucky and joined BRATs. Definitely almost cult-like, and for months, even years, I couldn't stop raving about the BRATs. Of course eventually I joined a local university, and heh… I joined yet another groupie. I call this, the groupie of groupies, because, 7 years on I'm still in it, and I still love talking about my AIESEC years. Yet I can't still call myself a true-blue AIESECer cos I never did go all the way.

If you've ever joined AIESEC while you were in uni, you'll probably know what I mean. If you've ever joined one of our camps, whether it's the LLDS or the NLDS or the NPMs of any of the conventions, you'll probably remember the silly square dances and the mad bunch of people right at the front of the stage doing those silly roll calls and jingles… You'll probably remember the customized for AIESEC training sessions, and you'll remember how your AIESEC seniors worked so hard just to convince you that this is the course for you. And if you were just a bit like me, you'll remember how you didn't mind staying up till 2 am every morning just for AIESEC meetings and training sessions. You'll remember the 9-day long workshops and you'll remember the midnight sharing sessions… and the international conferences, and how you, at some point in time, chose AIESEC over getting good grades.

I wonder if Asiaworks is worse than AIESEC. I'm bracing for the worse, but I'm also prepared for the best. But cultish trainings? Uhuh, I've been there, still in it. And at least, I'm not paying for this one.

*Let's hope we do get that striptease holiday in Pattaya.*

While waiting, I've got a few more loose ends to tie up, including the following:

Confirm hosting purchase after retrieving author code
Confirm additional domain purchases
Confirm new template design
Confirm new categories

Just did the following

Received new laptop for work use
Renewed my Flickr Pro
Purchased wireless router for the house
Set up laptop's access to the net
Downloaded Picasa
Got a brand new, sportier hair cut for RM125 *choke*

Will check for the following
Authorized copy of Photoshop
Dates for January's business trips

Going to
Asiaworks Basic on Wednesday
Fast for 21 days (fulau, see if I can do or not!)
Slim down (someone said I'm cylindrical, damnit)

LG is a girl’s best friend, coz it can’t get any better with something that’s smooth, suave, pink, user-friendly, obedient, lets you talk into it, and doesn’t talk back.

Dear eRin,

For your creativity, LG promises to reward you with the phone featured in the photos above. Now I'm going to collect the model for you sometime next week, and because it's going to be with me, we will have to set up a meet up date for collection, won't we? Please mail me directly with a possible date, hopefully before January ends.

Congratulations,
minishorts

The rest of the shortlisted readers will receive a bar or packet of chocolates each, depending on what I manage to purchase for the prize giving ceremony cum mini-blogger's gathering at a place of choice. The date remains tentative until Cik eRin @ Chocolate High tells me when she will be able to get down to KL to receive her technology-packed chocolate bar.

And yeah, you'll only get the edible chocolates if you appear at this meet up. Kalau tak datang, sorry lah, the chocolates will be shared out between those of us who do come.

So folks, that's the end of the LG Chocolate promo, and let's hope for 2007, I'll be able to offer some more goodies for loyal minishorts kakis.

I'm 5 days overdue on my new year wishes to the world, all thanks to Hanoi, which was good fun. It feels a little strange to be back at work today after almost two weeks break, and boy, do I miss the holidays.

Happy New Year, folks!

Oh yeah, right. I'll be doing some server migration stuff and domain transferring in the next few days, so things will be bouncing on and off the screen. After which, I'll be completely modifying the whole minishorts package, i.e. to fit in with the new home and new year. What better way then to usher in January 2007 by starting completely afresh, kan?

When things are up and ready I'll post up my photos of Vietnam. Woops, will need to renew my flickr account too!