Smile, it’s Friday!
What do you do when things don’t go your way?
When the traffic was horrid on the way to work…
When your Facebook Zombie is getting its ass whooped by everyone else…
When people are intent on making your life miserable…
When people you thought were friends turned out to be wolves in sheeps’ clothing…
When your broadband internet refuses to work and you can’t get access to your blog *gasp*…
When your leave gets cancelled…
When you’re desperately seeking opportunities but none are knocking…
Just keep this in mind! 
It helps me get through my day and hope it does for you too!
Happy Friday and Happy Weekend!!
Pinkelicious Pops #6
Ooh…I’d totally forgotten about my Pinkelicious Pops until I sat here for a long while, twiddling my thumbs while waiting for the creative juices to flow. So after more than 2 months, Pinkelicious Pops is back with Installment #6! Hmm…let’s see if it’ll be like one of those Korean soaps that run into the hundreds of episodes! 
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I’ve started exercising again after many many moons.
- Bad thing is that my shoes disintegrated when I tried to go walking with them.
- Good thing is that I found an old pair Sis used to wear which was really weird it could fit as I usually can’t wear her Cinderella shoes.
- Bad thing is that it’s falling apart too.
- Good thing is that the sale is hopefully around the corner so I can get a new pair!
Must always look for the silver lining in the dark clouds eh?
We’ve been for walks around the Lake Gardens and hills behind Taman Tun/Kiara. Thumbs up for the latter! It’s got well made paths and really fresh air unlike the Lake Gardens which tend to be a bit polluted now with all the construction going on there.
PE says - Now, just got to find the inspiration to crawl up at the crack of dawn on a weekend!
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I was rushing to print something two evenings ago and my document refused to print. Went to check the printer out and argh! The black toner was finished!
I saw a box of toner lying there so fluffy me decided to give changing the toner a go. Picked it up and thought that it was nicely sealed in the little bag. WRONG! It had been opened, dropped on the floor and spewed a huge cloud of blue! Most of which decided to settle on my feet, shoes and floor. Nice!
So I beat a hasty retreat, washed my feet of the poisonous stuff and cleaned my shoes the best I could. But there goes my work shoe *wails*
PE says - Yes, I was the Smurfette who trekked blue footprints all over the room!
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I went off to Singapore yesterday on an exhausting day trip and I realised something quite sad. Where our toilets and tables here are cleaned by foreign immigrant workers, in Singapore, these tasks are done by the aged population there. Most of them were quite old, as old as my grandmother, and there they were still cleaning toilets, emptying rubbish and clearing plates. The airport Taxi Coordinator was old and bent and still working a full day job, simply because the cost of living in Singapore doesn’t allow them to retire, especially if they don’t have things like CPF to fall back on.
I’ve also heard that some of them who are better off are usually put into a nursing home by their children who are probably too busy earning money in this affluent city state to take care of their aged parents. It’s sad to see that this Western concept has starting creeping in here too, for whatever reasons they might have.
PE says - Shouldn’t they be enjoying their golden years with their family instead of working or being in a nursing home? Well, I guess that’s the price of progress.
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I was running late yesterday to the airport to catch my early morning flight down. Was supposed to take the train but was even running late for that so Bro offered to send me there. He drove like a banshee, hitting 140 km/hr in his rickety car (!) and got me there just on time to run through the scanners, immigration and make a dash to the boarding lounge.
Got on board and wow! They use a Boeing 777 for this one hour flight down South! :O Although it was a lot more stable and comfortable, the mind boggles at why a huge aircraft is used for such a short trip when that aircraft usually goes on the long-haul European and UK flights!
PE says - No wonder MAS is losing money
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This brings the end of today’s Pinkelicious Pops. You must be asking what significance the Peanuts comic is? Well, in Singapore, just like Snoopy, the highlight of my day was a scrumptious lunch eaten in the terribly swanky Tower Club in Singapore! 
*Pinkelle floats off her soapbox with her pink parasol*
H is for Happiness
Happiness at being remembered for a tag by GiddyTigers though I’ve been so bad at updating and doing tags! Thanks, GT! Like GT, I was toying between using my PE acronym or my real name but since P is the same as Paris’ P, I’ll use H instead!
1. Famous Singer: Hanson (I don’t know why this name came right to mind! I wonder if they’re still alive :P)
2. Four Letter Word: Home (my favourite place)
3. Street: Hang Tuah
4. Colour: Hot Pink
5. Gifts/Present: Holidays to anywhere! Luxury ones will be even more welcome!
6. Vehicle: Hearse :p For that last journey in life
7. Things in Souvenir Shop: Hats (To keep fair)
8. Boy Name: Hans Solo (Tee hee!)
9. Girl Name: Hannah (Have you ever realised that it’s the same spelt backwards?! :))
10. Movie title: Home Alone (Can’t deny it was hilarious!)
11. Drink: Horlicks (Ho, ho, ho!)
12. Occupation: Headmistress *shiver*
13. Celebrity: Hilton…as in Paris! (Not Beaverbanks Though she comes close!)
14. Magazine: Her World
15. U.S. City: Houston
16. Pro Sports: Hunting?! Um…dunno!
17. Fruit: Holly berries
18. Reason for Being Late to work: Haven’t gotten out of bed (How I feel most days!)
19. Something you throw away: Heels (Old and ill-fitting ones)
20. Something you shout: Hello!
21. Cartoon Character: Hector the Bulldog! I didn’t know he had a name!
p/s I tried to have a nice pretty picture of Elmo with the letter H! But each time I tried colouring it, poor Elmo turned black and grey! 
I pass this tag on to:
E for Eternity - welcome back to the blogging world!
M for Misha - I owe you a tag :p
L for LB -
Terry Fox Run 2007
I’ve been really bad at updating Pink Elle. Sorry…but the recent happenings made me lose my blogging juice and inspiration. I didn’t even have time to visit other blogs so I’ve been seriously blog-deprived! But let’s hope this is a new beginning on the start of a new week!
Paris was really hardworking and blogged about her inaugural Terry Fox Run so this is my version! It was hard work getting her to come for the run but walk she did and she actually completed the whole circuit! Go girl! Heh…
Anyway, we started the day bright and early. We read and heard that parking around the Lake Gardens was limited so we got up really early to secure a parking space. A few kuih bahulu and a cup of coffee later, we were on our way. Along the way, we actually passed people who were jogging to Lake Gardens! :-O *gasp* Was that what they called their warm up?!
So we milled around the place a bit, checked out the Lensa photographers hard at work and munched on some free bananas and water. Kudos to the sponsors who were hard at work! I was initially a little worried about forgetting water and I thought it was really nice of them to provide free water before and all along the run!
The turn-out was huge and it was nice to see everyone with Terry Fox T-shirts. It’s a non-competitive run and they encourage everyone to turn up in any way they want - roller blades, bicycles or if you’re like our little chap here, your very own super all-terrain SUV buggy!
They had a short and energetic warm up session by Fitness First followed by one by some belly dancing group. I wonder how warming up your belly helps with running?!
The crowd was huge and everyone geared up so when the horn was sounded, it was a massive exodus up the first incline of the trail. Inclines are always the first test that separates runners from walkers and as expected, the crowd started falling back. That actually made it pretty difficult for the runners as proper instructions were not provided and most of them had a lot of trouble dodging walkers and some even resorted to running on the ground next to the trail. Some walkers even insisted on walking all 4 in a row which made overtaking them almost impossible!
I took off in a jog so got separated from J who was sprinting far ahead and sis and JH who chose to walk briskly behind. Luckily we had arranged a meeting point at the end and I got there only to find that no one else was there! Hung around for a bit, and found sis and JH and some minutes later J turned up. The fella had done 2 rounds of the circuit as he felt 1 round was too short! :-O Talk about hard core!
The sponsors again did a wonderful job with providing lovely ice-cold Milo from the Milo van (just like school!), buns from High 5 and best of all, lovely muffins from KL Hilton! It was a great event - music was playing, people were eating and kids were running around and there was a real nice feel-good factor in the air at having completed a run for charity and cancer research.
We headed off after that for the promised Kin Kin noodles. 6 bowls of noodles, a big bowl of meatballs and drinks later, we concluded that the Terry Fox Run 2007 was indeed a great run!
Maybe with proper training, we’ll actually run next year!
