It's a Sunday, the 2nd weekend of the year. I've not done anything to help myself get started with a better life and worse, I've just bought my 3rd pair of shoes this year. I went to Berjaya Time Square yesterday to exchange my shoes for a bigger size and a different color, and ended up grabbing another pair of funky shoes (to me) at RM19 (after the 50% discount). It's a curse to my pocket.

My trip to Korea/Beijing now seemed like it was something that happened so long ago. I could never pinpoint my exact sentiments on the trip, it was neither the best time of my life, nor it was the worst ever. But I am not looking forward to visit these two places for a variety of reasons one of it being the financial factor. I spent a total RM5000 and gained 5kg on this trip for the 12 days I was there. Unbelievable.

I didn't particularly enjoy the Chinese cuisine in China. My first meal in China was bad because I ordered the hotpot salted chicken and it looks more like "Salted Chicken Bones" to me, and first impressions are always important. After that, I was more conservative in my meals and sticked to some fast food options like Japanese food and KFC. hah. For my last meal, I decided to go all out and looked for the best place to have the infamous Beijing Duck. It costs me RM70 for that dinner and ... I'm still reasonably grossed out from the amount of OIL on the duck which contributed to my weight gain. So, I stereotypically judged Chinese food (in Beijing) is very unhealthy and it's just wayy too salty and oily.

The year of 2008 feels like an important year for me. My 'intuition' tells me that this year, I've to do "something" or it'll be never. Though I havent quite figure out what exactly is the "something" that I have to do. As far as I'm concerned, it definitely has NOTHING to do with relationships. Most probably career or financial development.

Eventhough it's the 13th day of the year, I ended up still procrastinating my analysis on my research results that I have obtained since November 2007 and I deserve nothing but DEATH for this. I've promised myself, that I should finish up the analysis and write up a paper/publication for this part of research. Also, to lose the weight I got from the stupid trip last year.

It wasn't available online but I think this is absolutely required. So i'm posting it here, so that when people GOOGLE it, they can find that THIS IS A SCAM. I hope you haven't paid the USD950 for 'handling' fees yet. Lucky thing I noticed.

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