Updates

Monday 15-Oct-2007

First day of work. One of my colleauges who is from S'pore was also starting his first working day with me. Nelson came to pick me after work. It took us around an hour to reach home which usually takes about 15mins only. The traffic at city centre is so jam during rush hours.

Tuesday 16-Oct-2007

Went to client's office. My manager actually booked a cab for me. So nice! What surprised me was that she then booked a cab for me to go home at 3.30pm. I reached home at 3.45pm. Oh..lovely!

Wednesday 17-Oct-2007

Again..audit at client's office. Reached home at 3.45pm. Cook. Eat. Sleep at around 11pm =)

Thursday 18-Oct-2007

Reached home at 3.45pm again! Cook. Then headed to city centre to meet my hubby. We went to view a 2-bedroom apartment. The room is lovely. Currently, there is a couple from Hungary staying there. For a price of €550 per month, that room is definitely worth more than that.

Somehow, my hubby prefer another room that costs us €700 per month. Both of the rooms are more or less the same. Basically, my hubby prefers the more expensive one because that room is slightly larger and the apartment is only occupied by a German gal. He claimed that it is more comfortable but I prefer the cheaper one.

My point is...Isnt it better if we got to save €150 per month to spent on some other things?

Friday 19-Oct-2007

Received a call from the room that costs €550 per month. She decided to let the room to other people.

I was like -_-"

Wasted my time to explain and list out the adavantages to my hubby if we were to stay there.

Property in Dublin is so expensive, unbelievably expensive! For instance, the three bedroom house that I'm staying now worths more than half a million euro. Crazy!

Saturday 20-Oct-2007

Woke up at 8.30am. Prepared breakfast.

Dim Sum and Red Bean Soup

No. I didnt make the dim sum. I bought it from some chinese food store but I made the red bean soup (红豆沙). Then, I soaked myself in the bathtub for an hour reading some travel magazine. Feel so great ^_^

After that, I prepared to pack things as I'm moving out tomorrow.

Overloaded luggage!

As for my hubby? He just laid there and watched some boring snooker competition.

Joke of the day

Nelson: One of my colleagues asked just now, how to pronounce "NO" in mandarin...
so I told him it's "BU" or "BU SHI"

then he responded, "Oh man, that sounds like PUSSY. better don't say it."

haha...

Start Working =)

I've just got my work permit. Hurray!

which means...

I'm changing my occupation from



Nelson's personal chef to an office lady =)

Interesting Things in Dublin

Ever since I came to Ireland, I knew I'm gonna see and experience foreign way of life and culture.

*Us in the bus*

First of all, the cityscape is very different from Malaysia's. No highrise condominium nor highrise apartment. Most of their office and apartment buildings are only a few storeys high and the streets tend to be dotted with houses older than my great grandparents.

*The Milenium Spire*

The Millenium Spire, as it's named, is a contemporary monument replacing the Nelson's Pillar monument. However, it came 3 years too late: construction only completed in 2003. Hehe...

No bangla, indonesian, philipines in the streets (got la..little bit la) but all caucasian.

*Avril Lavenge*

Secondly, I saw lots of "Avril lavenge" or "Pink" in the street. I guess they cant live without eye liner. They have piercing and tattoo all over their body. Oh..and their hair colour..whatever colour u can think of..pink, purple, blue, green..etc. Don't be shock when u see a redhead waitress, or a receptionist with piercing at her lip, her nose, her eyebrow and tatto on her neck. I'm doubtful if similar outlooks would ever get a job in M'sia! hm... probably yes, job description: unemployed.

Thirdly, in fact I really respect the street entertainers here in Dublin. At least they know how to use their so-called talent to make their income, instead of sheer begging or stealing or robbing.


An street entertainer, he is trying so hard to impersonate the James Joyce statue nearby. Are you able to guess which is human?



A beggar. Oops... An artist painting on the paveway and hoping a couple of Euro in return from appreciative passer-bys.



Harp player by a busy downtown street, never got a chance to witness this in KL.



Golden Angel! She is a human... If you are generous enough to throw some money into her box, she would become alive waving her magic wand above your head and, "may your wish come true!"

I guess she's performing some sort of traditional dance. Anyhow, all I know is the guys there are only admiring her protruded nipples. hoho... A guy even shouted, "strip! strip!"



I think as long as you are daring, you could earn a living here, at least as a street entertainer. Hehe...



*The Bad Ass Cafe*

Fourth, weird name!

Why in the world does the owner name his/her cafe "The Bad Ass Cafe!" I'm curious. Are they "selling ass?" Or even worst, BAD ass! Let me guess, maybe they have "Ass of the day" in the menu. haha...


*Gay and Lesbian section in bookstore*

Fitfh, they even have a Gay and Lesbian section in the bookstore. Cool!


Now, do u have cultural shock yet? No right..me neither! I expect to see more bizzare and strange things in years to come.

However I'm really shock with this...

The prettiest I ever saw...

*The prettiest ever Stewardess I saw in Irish airline, Aer Lingus*

My housemate

One of my housemates likes to wear only his underwear walking around the living hall. Typically, it is after he came back from work. He would take off his pant naturally and look for food, lay himself on the couch watching TV or surfing the internet. Just imagine.. a hairy (very hairy) "ang moh" wearing his ugly boxer and walking happily in front of you! Ewww!!! *puke*

Dont misunderstand, it's not that he is a pervert nor being profane, he is just used to be it. I'm ok with it but I would like him to wear a nicer underwear..haha.

Orange Butter Cake

I bake a cake!!! This is a wonderful step by step recipe for an idiot like me ^_^, but the lady pronunciation is funny..it's FLOUR..NOT "FLOWER"..

This is my production :p

Dublin one day tour

We bought a dublin pass and travelled around Dublin last weekend. It's cheaper as compared with if you pay entry fee for every single place that you wanna visit.

We hopped on a bus and headed to Dublin Zoo after grabbing our travel pass =)



Overall, it's not so exciting. S'pore Zoo is much much better. Probably the most impressive animal in Dublin Zoo is that I got to see Gorilla. The way the big apes walk are exactly as those depicted in the King Kong movies. Most of the visitors are family. While we were strolling around, we overheard a kid asking his parents, "Why do the tigers have so many scars on their bodies?" Hehe...

One thing that puzzled me while visiting the zoo is, most of the cafes and kiosks were closed! Well, know why, Caucasian know how to enjoy life, better quality of life and they dont wanna work on weekend, I guess.


The only kiosk that opened was a coffee house which looks pretty rundown.When I entered, only then I realised it is Starbucks! Starbucks look like this! What are Starbucks' marketing people doing? I thought outlook branding is fundamental for such an established company.

Interestingly, I came across this little buddha sitting on the shelf in the souvenir shop. Huhhh????? Every single item that is being sold in the shop...erm... are the likes of monkey! Giraffe! Lion! All animals!!! Why would a person want to buy a buddha in a Zoo as a souvenir? I guess the little buddha himself also doesnt understand why is he there. Sitting side by side with the monkeys and vases. I guess he must be shouting "WTF!"

The zoo is really mediocre. After wasting hours there, we paid a pilgrimage to both the famous cathedrals in the city, Christ Church Cathedral and Saint Patrick Cathedral.

What surprised me is that there is Crypt, an underground chamber beneath Christ Church which dated to 11th century.

It's during this trip that I came to know prominent clergies are actually buried inside churches.

The interior of both the cathedrals looks pretty similar. I can't really identify them from inside, can you?

Our next destination is Guinness Storehouse. It's a musuem showing how does the black stuff produced.

The only information that I am able to gather is that the ingredients of producing a pint of Guinness are barley, hop, yeast, and water. Don't ask about the process, I have zero clue of all of the other stuffs inside. I'm just too lazy to read =)

After "understanding" and touring the Guinness musuem, the best part is we are entitled to a free pint of Guinness at the Gravity Bar, situated at the top of the building overlooking entire Dublin city.

Lots of people. Crowded. No place to sit. Noisy. Irish here drinks beer in the morning, during lunch, dinner and whatever occasion that they have. They are just "alcoholics!"

We wanted to go Bram Stoker Dracula Experience after dinner, but it was getting dark and we were pretty tired after a full day of touring. Eventually we decided to call it a day. Dracula, I will meet you next time!

All right. That's about it for our Dublin 1 day tour.

Tomorrow we are going to tour Wicklow, Southeast of Ireland. Hurray!