Life 28 | I am Danny Foo

Chronicles of Not so Life Changing events

Okay. Lots have happened since I last posted. Here’s what I remember from my spaced out world.

Strudels appreciation party

I got an invitation to the Strudels part to appreciate it’s current customers and business relations. And I guess you can call myself lucky for having a friend in Strudels who thought of me and my desire for yummy food – I devoured mostly salmon. LOL!

This was the same event Esty attended and I didn’t walk up to her to break the ice because it was only a lingering thought of familiarity when I saw her. Besides, I’ve not personally met her and I saved myself the embarrassment – just in case.

Visit Esty’s blog to indulge in the food shots she took. Looking at them just made me missed my salmon. 😛

My birthday

On this day, I pretty much gave work a miss and spent the rest of it indulging and enjoying myself. Me and Ariel popped into Empire Subang because we’ve not explored the place. Ending up in Serai to have lunch, which left my thought of the food to be like; Madam Kwan’s. But the food there is seriously not bad.

Later in the night, I met up with more friends to dine at Tenji in Solaris. If you hadn’t known, I’m quite the Japanese (insert: food) lover. So if a Japanese place is suppose to have yummy food, you can bet that it’ll be on my must eat places. And that night, I seriously devoured a lot of salmon – practically cleared out 2 rows when it came out.

WebcampKL

My passion for the web is to also support events I know would lead to a greater cause. Ever since WebcampKL started last year, I’ve met and listened to great speakers. I don’t qualify as one of it yet because mine was a light hearted subject on Voltron. I can’t help being an 80s kid. 🙂

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Friend’s birthday

We celebrated a friend’s birthday at Sen Tsuru, Kota Damansara. Again, it’s another Japanese restaurant, buffet ala carte style. Different from Tenji since this buffet is only based on their ala carte menu. Nonetheless, we still got to indulge in salmon – what did I tell you. In addition, we got to try new and yummy dishes which we’ve now recognized this place.

Our party moved to Sunway Giza with some ice cream cake and coffee later. Oh, with some present exchanging. As for the presents received, the birthday girl got a useful tool. I’ll leave it as that.

SMCKL on Social Media ROI

SMCKL or Social Media Club Kuala Lumpur is an event covering topics related to social media. The recent topic was on ROI with social media so I pulled Hawk along to attend this. But our worries became a reality the moment the speaker mentioned along the lines, “you’ll find it in our book”. Die.

The Lion King music at Marina Bay Sands

I’ve heard about The Lion King musical and I’ve watched Cats too, when they were in Malaysia. But having a strong feeling The Lion King won’t make it to our shores, me and Ariel made plans to head down to Singapore and catch it.

The show was well-worth paying SGB188 and the costume detailing was something not to be missed – cheetah scene still looks a little wrong to me. Since we got back, we’ve been telling all our friends it’s a show not to be missed – it’s on until May 31, 2011. Catch it if you can!

By the way, the theater isn’t located at the Marina Bay Sands hotel. I’m not sure what do they call the building with the retail outlets, theater and eateries. But it’s at the building opposite the Marina Bay Sands.

Besides the hotel’s weird spaceship top design, I was captivated and inspired by the exterior element of the building. Look out for shimmering wall which creates a water motion when the wind blows in the day and night.

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Nerf Tour 2 at Bukit Jalil park

Besides passion for the web, I want Simpleet to be a supporter of passionate people. This was how we came to support the NERF Community in Malaysia. After attending the first event organized by them, I believed we could extend a hand to support a healthy activity which not only kids but young adults took part.

After some discussion and advice given to Brien, he took it on himself to make the event more successful. He’s managed to also get Hasbro Malaysia to be part of this. Job well done and we’re proud to be part of this event supporting passionate NERF players in Malaysia.

Taking ownership and initiation

I’ve also become the new president of my business network group; BNI Radiant, for dynamic and young-at-heart business owners.

The universe may have been working for me as I feel myself taking more ownership and initiation to what I do and can do.

Hence, I want to better commit myself to whatever I’m engaged in now; blogging, events, social media, work and whatever else I can do without hesitation. It’s not soon or later but now.

OMG! Aunty Uncle, you damn embarassing-lor!

I had to run into Giant at Kelana Jaya to buy a long bread for dinner tonight. Being the Chinese New Year season, I passed tall stacks of boxed oranges (Chinese calls it; kam, like gold) as I went to the bakery section.

On my way out, I heard an uncle in his 50-60s asking the other uncle about the oranges. Little that I know, the next scene was sight for sore eyes.

The uncle happily opened the box and passed an orange to the other uncle to try?! OMG! -____-!!!!!

As much as they may have bought the box, there was NO PROMOTER AROUND as they happily opened the box! Hence, this is why it was such an embarrassment seeing the uncle and aunty doing it.

Come on-la, aren’t our elders suppose to be role models?! *slaps forehead*

This was seriously a problem, because as I passed another stack of boxed oranges, without uncles and aunties freely eating the oranges, I practically saw a HALF-EATEN orange in an opened box?! Gosh!

As much as I want sweet oranges this Chinese New Year, this is such an embarrassing act I’ve witnessed before the festivity.

Dear God, I pray my parents won’t do this in Giant. Even just because, some other embarrassing uncle and aunty are doing it.

The noob and photography

I’ve made the decision to re-think and re-approach Cameranoob. It’s been a sleeping giant who tried to wake up but fell into a deep slumber at some point. As much as I thought Project 365 was awesome, I couldn’t commit myself to it. I stopped at Day 98, or was it 99. Well, doesn’t matter.

The space will still be there. Except you’ll now be greeted by my Be Back Later (BBL) message.

As my message reads, I’m not sure what will I do it with yet. But the one thing I’m sure is it’ll still be my space.

Who knows, maybe in 2011 I’ll even do some freelance photography, if my day-time website design work permits me.

Crying in my own garden

I decided to allocate 1 hour today to catch up on my reading. And I wanted to do it outside the patio, seated at the table where I can see the green garden accompanied with music using my headphones and a cup of tea. Serenity.

I teared – seriously!

Before leaving this spot within my home, I looked at the green leaves of the potted plants and the trees nearby. Selected a song (K-On’s Fuwa fuwa time) I felt like listening to and closed my eyes, letting the music fill the blackness.

I started listening to the drum beat and envisioned myself playing it. Then, my imagination took over, placing myself in the school hall where K-On played, for the throngs of people.

Before I knew it, I was thinking to myself…

If I could see myself, I’d be emitting an aura or light, like a rainbow. Colourful.
So positive, anyone near me would be able to feel it.
Telling myself in my mind, I’ve done superbly well.
Simpleet is doing awesomely well.
We’ve really accomplished a lot.
And, I have reached a level I am very happy with for myself and Simpleet.

At the final thought, I couldn’t help but tear and feel this drop. It was such an overwhelming joy of happiness, if I didn’t realize, I’d have broke down crying to myself in the garden.

Even as I continue listening to the song now, putting the emotions I felt into this post, I can’t help but want to cry because I feel really really really happy.

I suppose this is what is, tears of joy. 😀

Someone is always more beautiful or handsome

No matter how you look at it, there’s always someone more beautiful or more handsome or cuter or, plain better. So give it a rest and pat yourself in the back and be satisfied with yourself. Like the life coach on BFM said, change will always start with you. 🙂

Don’t blame us guys for looking

What’s wrong with looking at another person who’s more beautiful? Or, more handsome? It’s in our nature to observe and be attracted to anything which accentuates beauty – human or not. Plus, beauty isn’t always external but may be internal.

So if I look at a beautiful woman or man walk past, it’s because there’s a form of attraction. Don’t blame me for not staring at you as much as you’re a super model. It’s just cause, someone is more beautiful than you, somehow. And it’ll be plain creepy for someone to just stare at you. Especially accompanied with a grinning smile. LOL!

Accept yourself and be beautiful

Your boyfriend or girlfriend courted you for you. They dated you for you. The got serious into the relationship for you. So, there definitely had to have beauty somewhere. And sometimes, you need not look for it because it may just spoil everything else.

Just love you for you and him or her for them. 🙂