Be Strong

She looked sad. Watery eyes. She looked down at her glass of coffee.

"Be strong...", I said, softly. She nodded her head, slowly.

"... but please don't hit me once you already strong...", I continue with a tiny joke.

She smiled.

~ Ri Stranger

My Decision, So I Decide

I bought a box of Dunhill for RM17.00. That's the first ever in my whole entire life that I bought a box of ciggy for myself.

I took one ciggy and placed it in between my lips. I was looking for inspiration. Yeah, it may sound silly, but there's me at Brem Mall for hours and hours, working on something... Working and thinking. Thinking and working.

But I never lit the ciggy. I don't have to. It's my ciggy, so it's my decision. I decided the the ciggy is just for what it is - inspiration.


~ Ri Stranger

I'm With You

When I'm with you,
I feel like a little kid doing Giomi,
or sometimes, like a happy faced statue.
When you're with me....?

~ Ri Stranger

Very Tempting...

I know... I know.... I haven't write for such a long time. Sighhhh... Ok ok... I make a new year resolution that I'll write more often, ok? Adoiii...

So what am i gonna wtite today? Hmmm... Lemme see... I got one misadvanture today that I guess worth remembering..

I'm supposed to meet up a friend nearby Wisma Indah, Cheras. I never heard that place before, but now I can claim, "I survived Wisma Indah"... Why? I think Wisma Indah really has the most number of prostitute per square meters compared to anywhere in tbis country... and by golly, they are so daring too...

I walked pass them. Within the 50 meters, I think I was stopped few times and was asked whether I wanna *do* them or not. (The exact word thhey used was "kongk*k") Tempted wooooo.... Their body can make any man or woman cair and evaporated... haha...

Now where is that friend of mine whose looking for a nice slim body woman so that she can start thinking of changing her sexual orientation?? I can show her at least 10 of such women here, all with tight outfit... haha..

Well... I had prostite friends before. We met, we talked, we listen. I've never seen them in action while they are "on the job" tho... I guess this is my first close encounter of such... sighhh...

... they are just human, trying to make a living in this harsh world...

Chocolate Covered Hazelnut

I looked inside the cabinet and saw a couple of cooking chocolate bars of 250g each. There are some grounded almond, icing sugar, and few other stuffs too. Hmmm...

I went to the nearest baking shop at Melawati, and get myself a kilo of whole hazel nut. I love hazelnut ever since I bought those honey covered hazelnut during my last trip to Melbourne.

I took 300g of hazelnut, and mixed it with about 50g of icing sugar and 100g of grounded almond. I pour a bit of water, just enough to mix them all. Then I set my oven to 180C to roast the hezelnut.

Then, I boiled some water in a big pot, and put in 1 and half bar of white chocolate in a smaller pot and let it melted.

Once the hazelnut roasted (which took a good 20 minutes), I poured the hazelnut mixture into a mixing bowl, and pour the melted white choholate onto it and started mixing them vigorously.

Then, while they are still soft, I put the chocolate covered hazelnut onto a metal tray, 1 nut at a time until they all finished. I made 2 tray, and freeze them inside the refrigerator.

Within 30 minutes, they are ready and yummy.... hehehe...

That's definitely my first time. I still have 700g of hazelnut for my next try, and that time, I'll cut down the sugar and use a dark chocolate instead. Also, to roast hazelnut, it is better to preheat the oven at 300C and let the hazelnut roasted for 5-8 minutes. Hazelnut will taste better that way...

Chocolatty nuts, anyone??


~ Ri Stranger

She’s Gonna Be OK

"It has been a while", she said.

"Yeah.. it has...", I replied, looking into her eyes and smiling at her.

When I first met her, she was a broken woman who never stray too far from the sidewalk. Her marriage was at the edge of devastation and she just let circumstances lead her way. She has no money. She has no family support. She has only a few friends, but all her friends can just look and feel sad for her.

A year and a half later, there she was, drinking teh tarik in front of me.

"Tell me what you are doing nowadays. You are into forex, are you?", I said. Yeah, I'm interested to know about her. She did sms me once a while, exchanging news about her whereabout and whatever big decision she made.

"You know I've been changing jobs few times. I guess, I just can't work with people. After a while, something will go wrong when I work with people.. I hate office politics!". Haha.. Who doesn't? But for some office environment, office politics is inevitable..

"Then I met this guy and he taught me forex... I started doing this part-time when I worked at that cosmetic company, then by the time I changed job to the company at Sunway, I'm all out already. When I decide to quit that company, I'm fulltime doing forex."

"Wow... So you trade directly with the money exchange?", I asked.

"Yes, I trade from home thru a web portal which links me directly to Germany's forex exchange", she explained.

After that, the conversation turned to be all technical. All trade jargons -- bull, bear, stochastics, candlesticks, stoploss, upswing, short-sell...  all came out...

Then came the long silence...

"You know, recently, I bought a gigantic refrigerator for my apartment. That's my first big purchase from what I'm doing now.", she said proudly.

Yes, she has all the rights to be proud of herself. She's the sad woman who had rised from the ashes, lick her wound and stand up brave. Now she earned on her own, doing things most people afraid of doing and she works from home -- something most of us wish to do, to be her own boss -- again something most of us just dream of... All of these while her abusive ex-hubby still driving his friend's taxi to make his ends meet.

.. and just merely 18 months ago, she was that hopeless and scared woman who cried while looking at her glass of teh tarik in front of me because she don't know what will happen with her life.

We continued talking, catching up with the old times and her recent news, especially about her boyfriend, the guy who taught her forex. Then, it's time for us to go apart..

"You wanna come over my apartment to see my refrigerator?", she said with a laugh.

I chuckled. "Haha.. I'll take a rain-check".


~ Ri Stranger

The Weekend

It's a very hectic weekend, filled with failures n successes.

First, our DNS were under attacks n succumbed into a piece of metal crap. Our guys patiently built obe as a replacement, not based on experience but based on google n youtubes. I am humbled.

Then the power outage. Except for the failure due to a third party, everything else were smooth sailing, thanks to the preparedness of our guys.

Working as a functional team is remarkable. The dream team, as they called it.

And then, to close it all, what more do I need other than a spreadsheet of Statement of Compliance to be filled up? Yeah. That's done. 

What a weekend...

~ Ri Stranger