Another one, just coz I'm still bored =P

A - Age: 23
B - Band listening to right now: Sass Jordan
C - Career: I fight with the pen!
D - Drink or smoke: Don't drink, don't smoke.
E - Easiest person/s to talk to: Me! I talk to myself all the time, and I find I'm a great listener. LOL!
F - Favorite song/s at the moment: High Road Easy - Sass Jordan
G - Gummy Bears or Gummy Worms: Bears!
J - Junk foods you like: Cheezels
L - Longest car ride ever: Um....
M - My favorite Sport/s: Badminton, the only sport I can play anyway. =P
N - Number of relationships you've had: Hahahha...now? 10, 000
O - One wish you have: To have my own private library, that's bigger than the public library
P - Phobias: Heights, stupid morons
Q - Favorite Quote: 'I am my biggest fan.' -Betty Wong
R - Reason to smile: Chocolate!
S - Song: I just answered! Sheesh!
T- Time you woke up: 8.00am
U - Unknown fact about you: I talk to dead people.
V - Vegetable/fruit you hate: Celery, ugh!
W - Worst habit: Procrastinating...sighz..
X - X-rays you've had: None that I remember
Y- Yummy food/s: TomYum!
Z- Zodiac sign: Libra Rocks!

Coz I'm bored...


4 Jobs I've Had in My Life...

1. Sales assistant in a bookstore.
2. Singer in a showband
3. Admin assistant in dad's office
4. Investment consultant

4 Movies I Could Watch Over and Over...

1. The Phantom of the Opera(love it, love it, LOVE it!)
2. Lord of the Dance(not a movie exactly, but I love it)
3. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
4. Take the Lead (check out the dance moves)
   

4 Places I've lived...

1. Old hse in Tmn Desa
2. After old hse in Tmn Desa
3. Sunway
4. Melbourne(for a month, does that count?)

4 TV Shows I Love to Watch...

1. CSI
2. Rockstar
3. Lost
4. Smallville

4 Places I've Been on Vacation...

1. Korea
2. China
3. Thailand
4. Australia

4 Websites I Visit Daily...

1. Bookcrossing.com
2. xiaxue.blogspot.com
3. Sassyjan.com
4. Myblogspot ;P

4 of My Favorite Foods...

1. Brownies!
2. Tom Yum!
3. Lamb shoulder!
4. Ice cream!

4 Places I'd Rather be Right Now...

1. Home sleeping
2. Melbourne
3. Canada in BC with my couz
4. Home sleeping

4 Bloggers I'm Tagging...

1. Elaine
2. Yee Leng
3. Yoke May
4. U Shean

=P

Yayy! My brother just came back from Canada today, after visiting Alberta for five days with the Waltonians, and then going to Vancouver to stay with Allie and Pius for two weeks!

I was psyched, couldn't wait to see what he got me from there. Yup! I totally didn't miss him at all, I just wanted my souvenirs!

LOL! Just joking! ;P

But seriously, other than missing him, I was really excited to see what he got me, coz before he boarded the plane to come home, he sms-ed us and said I'd be really happy to see what he got for me. And Allie had also given him a book to pass to me, and we all know I'm a sucker for books. =P

We got there early, so I passed the time reading and singing along to the radio. But I'll so totally remember my brother's face when he saw us at the arrival gates. He was sooooo happy! And so glad to be home. And then he said again, Betty's gonna be so happy when she sees what I have for her. =D

Soooooooo....without keeping you guys in suspense anymore. Here are the pictures! =D

On the way to pick up bro from the airport!

Me in the backseat

The maple syrup he brought back for us! Yummy! And...

My absolute favourite maple syrup cookies!!!! Delicious!

This T-shirt from Edmonton, which is a lot cooler and more original than one which says, "My brother went to Edmonton and all he got me was this lousy T-shirt." LOL! =D

And this is from my Aunt in Vancouver, an Abercrombie tee that I really really adore! Thanks, Aunt Alice! Muah!

Eat your heart out, American Idol fans! I'm gonna have so much fun with this. Wheeeee!! =D

A namecard holder, a keychain, and a pen for the office. And finally...

From Allison, The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. There's a post-it inside from her that says:

Hello Dear Cousin!

.....this book is the current best seller in North America so I hope you
enjoy it!

Love, Allie

I'm sooooo happy!!!!! I love receiving gifts! And it's not even my birthday yet! =D

I've been really hard at work lately setting up my new bookblog. It's not as simple as I thought it was gonna be, but that's my own fault. If all I wanted was to set up a simple site about books, it would've been easy, but nooooo..... I had to get all fired up about it, and check out thousands of blogskins for the design, and search for ways to add a category listing for my books(which I found, btw, but I'm still not happy with it)...

So...I'm not sure how it's gonna go. Since I really seem to be stuck in the category thing...

But I'll search somemore tomorrow. It's late now and I'm really tired. I've been up since 8 this morning, and I slept at 3am last night. Sighz....

*Yawnnnnnn*

Good night! }D

Well, I'm back! The blogging project is over!

Though I did have fun posting about the things I did there, I still prefer to be able to post about what I want, whenever I want. No pressure, you know. And after all, I'm not a professional blogger. I still have a regular job, and not enough time to blog all day everyday. Now, if I was a professional blogger...I wouldn't mind blogging all day everyday. But then the only thing I'll have to say is, 'Today I blogged...' LOL!

By the way, I've added a few blog widgets on the sidebar
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I think I've gotten hooked on them. LOL! I love the widget for books, I got that from Librarything.com and it automatically links to amazon too! Love it!

Loved it so much that I've decided to start another blog just for my books. You know, for reviewing the books I read and all. Coz if I just blog about them here, they'll get lost in all my usual post and rantings. So I figured it'd be better if I had a special blog for books. A bookblog! =D

And I can also blog occasionally about the songs I liked, or movies I've seen... Reviews! I love reviewing! My style, of course. Anyway, it's at BettysBooks.blogspot.com just in case anyone's interested. It's currently 'under construction' though. I just created it today, so it'll be awhile before it'll be ready for visitors. =(

I've also gotten another widget, which I *absolutely* love!!!! At the sidebar, right below the book widget, is a widget for my favorite thingz! It scrolls through all the stuff I like, like my favorite bands, website, singers, tv shows...etc. I love it love it love it!!! I feel like adding a few more widgets, but I'm afraid of having a widget-overkill. LOL!

It's a good thing I'm starting the new bookblog, some of the burden of 'widget-ing' here can be shared on that page too! LOL!

Damn! It's good to be back! =D

I miss you, blogspot! I'm blogging at another site now for the project, but I can't wait til it's over and I can blog here again! And blog about my thoughts and feelings and ideas and crazy lunatic ravings!

Rather than about what I did today/yesterday/day before...etc. I mean, it's ok doing that, but after I go into all the details of what I did and where I went and who I was with, I hardly have the time to talk about what I thought, or how I felt, and what new ideas I've gotten! Because, you know me, a single thing can spark my thoughts and I'll go off into a million tangents of ideas!

I'm actually kind of stressed right now at work. Coz I feel like I've made a commitment which I really have to honor, and if I don't, many people will be disappointed, but at the same time, I keep thinking of my dreams and what I really want to do. And I'm thinking, I could do both! I could! If I maybe cut down some of my hours off work, and spent them writing instead, for example. But I know if I took it slow at work, my brother and my managers will definitely be disappointed.

Oh, what can I do... I'm so sorry that I don't have much time to blog now. I'm just rushing in here coz I needed to let it out. But I have to rush off again coz I have to get something to eat. Well...few more days left til the blogging project is over. Then I'll be back for good! Yayyy! :D

Just a heads-up to die-hard fans of my blog(yeah, right), I won't be blogging here as much for the next two weeks because I've just signed up for a two-week blogging project. I'll have to blog about my everyday life, mostly about my night life style, because it's actually a market survey of what the youth nowadays like to do, where they hang out, who with...etc. The organizers are gonna be pretty bored with my entries, I think. LOL!

I went for the briefing yesterday, and it seemed like most of them were college students, I was one of the few who were working. I felt more than a little out of place, I can tell you. And OLD! :P The organizers pretty much wanted us to blog about the places we hung out, where, when, who, what, how...etc and all the details. Like I said, a market survey.

They did mention though, that they didn't want us to go out everyday on purpose just because of this project, to spice it up or whatever. If we felt like staying at home, reading a book or watching tv, that's fine too, but we still had to blog about it. They wanted us to be as natural as possible. So that's great, coz they do understand that we don't always want to go out everyday, but in my case, I feel like, what if all I blog about is how I stayed at home everyday for these two weeks, reading and writing in my blog. Lame, isn't it.

Well, it's a market survey, they'll just have to accept that the market consists of people like me. The unhappening-stay-at-home people. :P

On the plus side, we're getting paid for it at the end of the two weeks. Well, obviously. You didn't think I was gonna do this for free, did you? It's two weeks of blogging. It takes up time and effort. Esp. since we have to have pictures as well. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that. We need to post up pictures of the things we did. Even if it's just watching tv, we're supposed to take a picture of ourselves watching tv. Um...ok. It's a good thing I'm getting paid.

I'm sure it'll be fun. I like blogging anyway. And I'm narcissistic enough to think that the things I do and say matters to people. So getting paid to do something I like, and knowing that the organizers *want* to hear about what I did in my life. Perfect. :D

I still want to blog here, but I really won't know if I'll have the time, since I'm committing to this other blog for two weeks. So I hope my fans don't get withdrawal symptoms if they don't hear from me. ;D

Until I blog again. Ta!

Steve Irwin's unexpected death recently made me re-think certain things. How many of us will not be afraid of dying tomorrow and not having done the things we always wanted to do? I'm sure many people have already said this, but I'll say it again, Steve Irwin lived doing the things he loved, and he died doing the things he loved. It happened so fast, and he probably didn't even realize he was dying, but if he did, he would've thought to himself, 'I have no regrets, I've lived my life to the fullest everyday of my life, doing what I loved and contributing something to the world.'

How many of us would be able to say this if we were to die tomorrow? I sure can't. I haven't done the things I really want to do. Granted, I'm only 23 years old, and Steve was 44, if I'm not mistaken. He had 21 more years than me to acheive the things he did. But then again, I'm sure there are a lot of child prodigies who acheived what they wanted when they were 10!

The point here being, although I may very well live to be a 100, I could just as well die in a freak accident tomorrow. Life is such a fragile thing, how would you know when it's your time to go. I could say, I've got plenty of time to live my dreams, I'm only 23, I'll start living my dreams when I retire at 40. Who's to say I will live to see 40?

I know what I want to do. I've had this conflict in me for the longest time. I chose not to live my dream now, and to live in reality. I used to be a dreamer, but I'm the most f***ing realistic person you can find today. And it hurts me like hell, but I'm going to continue living in reality for now. I may die tomorrow and never get a chance to make my dreams come true, but this is the f***ing real world, and this is my choice. I'm dealing with it.

I will make it happen though, you just wait.

Recently there have been many of my friends who've found the one and gotten hitched. For better or worse, happy ever after and all that. I know there's gonna be a lot more of my friends getting married as time goes by...like duh, we're at the age where we're prone to catching this marriage disease. But the thing is...you can almost tell, who are the ones who will end up marrying young, who will not want to get married til they're almost old maids, who will end up marrying their career, who will end up marrying coz they got pregnant. LOL! Of coz, I'm not always right, but it's fun to speculate.

As for me, I've always wanted marry young. My ambition when I was younger, was to marry a good looking prince loaded with money who will love me forever after and give me everything I want. And I would stay in this big beautiful castle with a gigantic library filled with all the books I want! Sort of like the one from the Beauty and the Beast animated movie. *Poof!* The bubble burst when I grew up.

Now I know better, I'm not interested in a good looking guy, coz I'd have too much competition and that would give me more headaches than peace. I don't want a prince, because I don't want someone who's too much in the spotlight and have to answer to a nation's demands all the time. I don't need someone who's loaded with money, because a filthy rich man might have a filthy mind too, and he'd have lots of money to supply the filth.

But I do want someone who'll love me forever after and take care of me always and give me everything I *need*. I want someone who'll be able to provide security, which of coz, includes being able to make money...

Hey, I never said I didn't want any money at all. I just don't want a Donald Trump or a Bill Gates, but an average well-to-do businessman will do just fine. :P

Well, I know exactly what I want, and I'm not so demanding anymore. I'm not looking for the good looking, loaded prince after all. But there are some basic criteria that a guy needs to have, and if these criteria aren't met, then bye bye to him.

Some people say I'm too demanding because of that, but IMHO, I don't think I'm too demanding. I mean, come on people, some of you would spend hours and hours on end, looking for the perfect dress for the prom night or company dinner or whatever. And spend another few more hours looking for the perfect shoes to fit the perfect dress. And then the perfect purse...and then the perfect salon for the perfect hair, and the perfect nails...etc.

What about the perfect date? And not just for that event. What about the perfect date for the rest of your lives? I mean, your dress/shoes/hair/purse...etc needs to fit a certain criteria before you would even want it right? So why do we always compromise with the men we're with?

You date a guy, becoz he's cute and you were attracted to each other, you start hanging out more, you get more attracted to each other, you start bonding and sharing more with each other, then you find a few things you don't really like about him, but it's ok, coz they are just minor stuff, I can live with that because his good points waaayyyyy overshadows his bad. Then you find out more stuff about him which annoys you, I don't know, he's egotistic, he doesn't stand up for himself when a waiter brings the wrong order, he slurps when he drinks, he never cleans up after himself, he doesn't pick up your calls when he's out with the boys, he doesn't listen to you when you talk, he leaves the room when you cry....

Damn! But you've already fallen for him! So what do you do? You have these long talks, where you do all the talking, and he pretends to listen, about how he should change, how he should treat you better, how he should be more sensitive...blah blah blah...

And it works! Yeah, for the first two weeks or so. Then it's back to the same old same old.

That's not for me, gals. Been through that too many times to count. I should hope I've wisen up somewhat. Now a guy's gotta have everything on my must-have criteria before I'd even consider dating him. There's no point to dating someone who doesn't have what you want, and then changing him. It's like going house hunting. You don't buy a house you only think you'll like after you fix it up, renovate the kitchen, extend the porch, elevate the roof, break down the walls....etc. You buy a house you know you'll love, and which you'll love more when you paint it up with your favourite colors, and decorate it with furniture you chose.

These kind of minor changes is what a guy will be happy to do for you. Don't tell him to change his personality or attitude or the whole foundation of who he is for you. But fill him up with your passion and the things you love, decorate his life with your favorite things, the things he love you for, without changing his foundation, and he will naturally become a better person because you paint his world.

So...I'm still looking for my dream house. But I know my patience will pay off one day. Who knows? It might be right under my nose already.

Happy house-hunting to all! :D

Today was a *really* challenging day for me. And not in the way that you'd think too. It was really challenging going through today staying awake, because I totally did not get any sleep last night. Not much happened today otherwise. Just went out to meet some friends and hung out awhile.

Ok, anyway...the reason I didn't get enough sleep was partly coz I was so engrossed in a book that I totally did not think I would like at all. :P

The Left Behind series by Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins.

Click on the image to see amazon reviews.

Yes....the christian fiction that was all hyped up in the 90's. Imagine! Me! Hooked!

Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with a lot of their premise and theories and whatever, but as far as good stories go, this is one of the best. As long as you know it's FICTION! I totally don't agree that Christianity is the real path, I totally don't believe that God will leave any of us behind just becoz we weren't Christians, that's like total bullshit. It's a great book, it's a great story, very imaginative and all that, but this only gives those dogmatic Christians another reason to be dogmatic. I mean, come on, it wasn't just the non-Christians who were left behind, but the Christians who weren't *true* Christians, who didn't believe enough(according to the story), were left behind too! They are in effect, telling all the 'good' Christians that they would be left behind if they didn't start being dogmatic too. :P I wonder if churches were encouraging their followers to read this book and take it literally.

Honestly, I am enjoying the book, but at the same time, I'm outraged by what they're implying too. I have so many thoughts running through my head reading this series. I'm still reading the first book, and there are ELEVEN more to go! I'm gonna get broke coz of this. :P I'll come back with a more detailed review next time, I guess. But just as long as we're clear on this. I'm enjoying the book, very much in fact, but I'm taking it as a SCI-FI/FANTASY novel! Which it is anyway. :P

If you take it any other way, it's really quite offensive to the rest of us non-Christians. As if all of us will go to hell if we don't start believing and converting or whatever. I believe God is better than that. Oh well, this was a controversial book anyway, and I just had to read it to see what the hype was about. I'm surprised I ended up hooked, but it doesn't mean I like what they're saying, I just like the way they're telling the story. :P

Ok, that's all I'll say for now, I'm still in the middle of the book, so I'll come back later when I've finished it. I reserve the right to change my opinion after I finish the book and/or the whole series. :P