Anyway, it is Saturday again! Another weekend, and that means another day to have some fun (a relaxing day). As usual, a few families will gather in my grandparent's home before leaving for dinner and shopping. Mom said she noticed a big fat rat has been running around our home everynight, since 2 months ago, peeing everywhere. How disgusting! So, I went to some walmart over here, planned to buy a metal cage to catch that rat. Surprisingly, the sales person introduced me to buy some rat poison (toxic). He described it as "when the rat eat these poisons, that particular rat will then run everywhere to seek for water, and when that rat drink some water, its intestine will explode". I think a cage will do, since 'destructing' that rat's intestine will not bring me anywhere. It is a SIN for killing living beings, LOL. So I bought a cage, planning to catch that rat and bring it somewhere to release it (that is my initial plan, and might alter depending on the situation, lol). Anyway, earlier today, my mom found that rat, lying dead on the table outside the wet kitchen. It is really gross since its instestines and liver were found hanging outside its stomach. I believe some wild cats that hang around my house had eaten (half of its body) alive.

Caption: a female in squirel in the cage

We set the trap in the morning, around 11:00 AM and heard something caught in the trap at around 6:00 PM. Yay! That should be the big fat rat. Surprisingly, it turned out to be a squirel in that cage lol. I am still wondering, how can a smart and brainy animal like this fall into the trap, over a? bread? Lol. So I tried hard to snap some photo's of this squirel but it just won't allow me. It has been trying very hard to leave the cage by running everywhere so quickly and it is impossible for me to even capture any image of it. So active! So what I do was to hold the edge of the cage, smash it very quickly on the ground for 5-6 times, and leaving it on the ground again. This time, I managed to snap a nice picture of the squirel when it stood still, looking at me. "Cheese" and snapped a photo of it finally, lol. I am just guessing that this little animal must have been thinking of what had happened? Earthquake? Lol. My grandpa explained "the female squirel should have a very stinky smell whilst a male squirel should smells good". Smells good!? Lol. After that, we went to this restaurant in Kepong, with around 12 people on that day and have ordered some really delicious foods.


Caption: foods

Then, we went to this store called 'Harvey Norman' in the shopping complex (in the Ikano powercentre) since my uncle wanted to buy some furnitures. We have been happily taking pictures with our mobile phones while lying down on every single bed to test it out. There is this bed in which I think I am very lucky to be able to lie down on it whilst snapping a picture with it, lol. Why am I saying this? Because this luxurious bed cost RM 69, 999. This is also the first time I have seen such expensive bed. Of course, it is very comfortable. It was impossible for me to identify the material of this bed, but one thing, that is, extremely comfortable. A very good quality bed which I will never spend my money to buy it.

Caption: the RM 69, 999 bed

What I feel really upset is, the sales person who has been serving us. I would not say that he served us, perhaps just walking by us, stopping us in snapping pictures. Well, there is no restriction sign visible to stopped us from snapping any pictures, yes? No, at least not visible for me to read. Let me be a little rude over here. This fat, short and ugly chinese dude, probably in his 40's, warned us to not snap any photographs, with 'animal languages' such as 'shuu'. What is 'shuu'? Treating us as some wild dogs? I remembered reading the human resource management book, stated very clearly that "customers are always right no matter what they do, as long as not harming that store, i.e. stealing, beating up the workers". Well, he is just a staff, showing us such rude attitude and behaviour. I understand that 'maybe' we are not allowed to snap any photographs with a camera, but (1) why showing their customers such attitude, or (2) why can't he explain to us more properly like "excuse me sir, no photo shooting is available in this store, sorry". He even asked 2 security guards to stick near us, guarding everywhere we went, and finally, bringing his manager to the entrance, (somewhere we were standing outside the store at that time), pointing at the small restriction board (probably 30 x 30 CM in size) and saying aloud to his manager, "blind? this is the restriction board". Seriously, what is this? Therefore, I am asking people who are currently reading this post. If you are stepping at my position, how would you respond?

I seriously wanted to file a complaint to the Harvey Norman HQ for such rude attitude, or perhaps filing a critical complaint to some newspaper hotlines, but that would ruin the Harvey Norman's reputation. For few reasons I have not done that finally: (1) for personal reason (2) my 70+ year old grandma who said "I am scared" at that time, and probably she has not seen me with such furious face before? Lol (3) it is very uncivilized to shout at strangers in the middle of the crowd. Therefore, I will ignore this matter for now, until I start feeling uneasy again, and will see what to do at that time (depending on my mood).


Caption: Liz with a hyper-size white cabbage

I wonder why am I feeling so excited every time I see a white cabbage in a shopping complex. My brother said to me that he "will not eat any white cabbage anymore for at least a year from then" so probably this is the reason for me to get excited? Lol. Except, this is an extremely hyper and abnormal size white cabbage. Thanks to Liz for willingly to hold this heavy white cabbage, and for me to snap a picture.

Caption: my collegues who have graduated their PhD

Finally, I wanted to express my heartiest congratulations to them for completing their PhD last summer. Seriously, their gaun and hood (and the color) are definitely attractive. I am still wondering of when will I be able to complete my PhD, and qualified to wear that gaun. Although I would feel envy for their achievements sometimes, but these pictures are definitely worth looking, to motivate me to work harder.