Updated! 06/08/08 This guy above is my ex- housemate. To whom who cares about me, you probably know WHAT HAPPENED to me yesterday until now. Alright, temporarily, I'm HOMELESS. The reason was because of the RM30 government house tax (I've been staying here for 3 years plus and renting so many rooms, but I've never ever heard about the Government house tax). Anyway, the conversation went as below:

 10. 05 am- 5th August 2008.  *I received 2 missed called* plus 1 new message from Marshall. (Oh forgot to introduce to you, the ugly, fatty, dirty and lousy man above names Marshall, another name is Stephen Yii Yeo Hui or whatever it is). *His Message*- "Call me immediately or you have no door in" *I replied*- "What happened? I'm in the meeting now, can't call. What is that again" (The reason why I put the word AGAIN was because it's not the first time he wanted to make troubles for me.

A few months ago, there was water leaking in our house, he didn't know how to fix, he then LOCKED the water tank. I and my friend had no water for living during 3 days and we had to buy many mineral water bottles for our daily routines. Can you believe it?

He told me that the management cut the water. (*how could a manager of big condor simply cut off water without any prior notice???). I called a plumber guy come to fix. After that, problem solved! As simple as that. This is just one of the many nonsense stories that I have to deal with every day.

10.30pm- *Calling to Marshall
Me   : Hello! Marshall? What happened again. I don't get your message. :
(*He raised up his voice) I told you to pay RM430 including the RM30 house tax. Why you only pay RM400. Do you want to create troubles with me with only RM30. You are damn troublesome, you know?
Me: What's troubles? What did I do?
He: Do what? You brought Nurul your friend to stay here also brought a lot of troubles with me, WTF. (*Nurul is my colleague, she rent a small room in my house because she didn't have any place to stay that time. When she moved out, this guy didn't give her the deposit as well which was worth RM500. Before Nurul, Nicole was another victim but not my friend)
Me: (*feel like painted. I'm damn blur. I needed to take 5 minutes to absorb what it's all about). Not RM30 that matter. I already told you, WE are not supposed to pay for Government house tax, the owner is supposed to pay. All of my friends who are renting rooms never pay for such thing. That's why I'm not going to pay for it.
(*He screamed on the line). You don't compare other houses ok. You are living here, in this house, so you HAVE TO PAY. Or else, you can move out now. I will pay you the deposit back. You can move out anytime. Are you stupid?
Crystal: (*damn angry but try to stay calm, and because there were many people with me that time) Ok, I'm talking nicely to you now. You don't have to raise up your voice. OK? So you just want me to pay to you RM30, isn't it? You just want RM30 only, right?
The asshole: RM30, and the lack portion of the deposit. Last time you moved from a small room to a middle room. So now pay the deposit for the middle room as well, plus the phone bill, Internet, water, electrical bill also. And you give me your passport also. I don't trust you anymore.
Crystal: (*what the..., I think): OK, fine. I'll come back and settle with you later.

6.30pm- I'm home. Damn tired and exhausted. (*knocked his room door) 
Me: Marshall, I need to talk to you. : (*holding the paper in hand with all calculation of what I needed to pay and with a normal face)
He: OK. So you need to pay me all together RM330 
Me: OK, you told me just now. If I move out, then you will give me back my deposit plus the August house rental, right?
He: Yah (so confident face. Perhaps, he thought, I wasn't able to move out)
I: OK, I agree with your condition. You give me money, I will move out by the end of the week. You give me my money now. 
He: (*a big shocked face-It took him few seconds to know what I'm saying) You are damn troublesome you know. What do you want?
I: I want my money back and I will move out as soon as I can. The rental for this month, you can give me half. I don't mind. So I think, it's fair for both. 
He (*screaming and pointing at me): OK. you move out now. 
I: How am I supposed to move when you haven't given me my money and all my things are here.
The asshole: YOU MOVE OUT, NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! (*he totally lost his mental and control. I don't know why! perhaps he has some mental problems)
I: Yah, I will. But at least you have to give me few days to pack my stuffs.  
He: MOVE NOWWWWWWW AND GIVE ME THE HOUSE KEY. YOU MOVE, NOWWWWWWWWWWW. (*keeps screaming with the eyes as big as his mouth, pointing at me)
I: Don't point at me ok? (I removed his finger then he beat on my hands. Perhaps he wanted to slap me)
He: What? YOU MOVE NOW. GIVE ME THE KEY. MOVE!!!!! 
I: Ok, OK. Cool down. I'm not moving, I go out to take the money to give you. OK? I go out now. 
He: Where you go? I don't trust you. You give me your passport. 
I: Go to Giant, I don't have enough Cash with me. I'll come back and give you money later. I don't have my passport with me, it's with my company. So can't give you. 
He: You bank in money to my Public Bank, take the receipt and bring back here for me. Tomorrow, You photocopy your passport and give me then I let you know whether you can move out or not.
I: OK, ok. 

I quickly got out of the house and asked my friends to come over to help. About 3 of my friends who are bigger than he is, came after 45 mins. I decided to move all my things out immediately and sent them to my friend's house. We packed, we shifted, we arranged everything within 1 HOUR 30 MINUTES. The stupid guy came home while we were packing and moving out. His face was damn shocked. THIS IS TOTALLY OUT OF HIS EXPECTATION. You know what he reacted???? I updated later. Now office closes.

Updated * 08/08/08. This is the latest news that I have had since last night.
When I saw this piece of paper pasted on the advertisement board, I already knew that was him. Last time, I saw a bunch of these in the house when he wanted to look for people to rent out the room.

There was nothing new here except for: HAND-PHONE NUMBER. He was using 014 or 016 before and now is 018. Well, he changed the hand-phone so that I couldn't contact him at all to ask for my deposit which is total RM600.00. This is considered a month salary of some people, you know? Some of my friends asked me to do a police report or either to hire a lawyer to settle this. I'm still considering whether should I do it.

Of course, I have some witnesses and other victims with me. Look at the photo closely, you will see the red circle "PREFER LADY HOUSEMATE". For what? Prefer lady housemate so that he can easily bully them, cheat their monies and threaten them off. The previous 2 victims couldn't do anything. They just had no choice but shut the mouth, kept quite and let him swallow the money. (each of them RM500.00). You can't imagine, how terrible his voice was, when he shouted out loud, from the lift to his house (3 houses away), you still can hear it very clearly. And his face was something like this: But of course, the guy in this picture is much more handsome than him. Oh yah! I forgot to tell you guys about how he reacted when all 3 of my friends came to rescue me on that night. His face was about to explode like above picture when I said I want to move out. But then when he came back to see we were packing stuffs, he didn't dare to say any words. Shutting the room door very strongly and making some calls, he pretended as it's normal moving out. About 15mins later, the security guys came to our house and asked:

 Security: "There was someone complaint about something in this house. What happened?" 
Crystal: Oh, nothing! I'm moving out and some of my friends came to help me out. 
Security: "But we received a phone call and said that some guys came to disturb your house!" 
Crystal: No. No one disturbs anyone. We are just moving out. You also see it. : (*the idiot runs out to say eagerly): Yah yah, I called. Who are all these guys? Why you let them enter the condo, enter my house and disturb me. 
Crystal: (talk to the security) No, I'm moving out, and they came to help me but there is someone makes trouble with me. Thus, he bothers you as well. There is no problem at all. If you need them to register before entering the condo, I will ask them to do that later. 
Security: Ok, then please ask your friend to go down to register first. If not this guy complains to my manager, then I will be in trouble. I've just worked here 1 day only. 

And then, I told the security guy about the story. He even stayed at the house with me for a while to make sure the idiot cant do anything to me while my friend went down to register. After that, my friend came up and continue. Since there was no supportive party behind, the asshole started changing his voice tone. He spoke to my friend (the biggest one) so friendly as if he was never ever friendlier before. : Sorry ah, bro. For security purpose only. Sorry ya (touch and shake my friend's hands some more).
Vincent: Oh ok, no problem. :
The asshole (*smiling and keep talking) Yah, thanks. Sorry ya. So now you just help her to move lah. Just of security only. Thanks ya. 
Damn! I felt like spitting on his face. I didn't even bother to look at the idiot face, then he came to talk to me: Excuse me. You just move out first. Tomorrow, I give you back the deposit ok?
Crystal: OK, Call me. Once you give me money. I'll return you the house keys. Then I left. 2 days later, he still didn't call me. And last night, when I saw this advertisement with a new hand phone number, I knew what the asshole wanted to do. Perhaps, he didn't need the house key and the lock can be changed to a new one. So...Will see later on then.

Those who wants to know more about this guy can contact me. Those who think I'm over-reacting or creating a story to offend people, well i can say: I declare that all information and conservation are true. If you don't believe and want to try, let's go and rent a room at KELANA PUTERI CONDO, BLOCK E-901. You're always welcome and now he is so desperate to look for new people to give him money.

 Updated on 11/08/08 Latest news! I already found a new house, so much prettier, cleaner than the previous one. Just need to touch up something and decorate few things for my room. Last but not least, GREATLY & DEEPLY THANK to all my friends, students, colleagues even my client :) who have supported me during this hard time.
 A BIG hug to Shaw, Vincent, Pun, Alvin, Frank, Nurul, Yvonne, Danyta, Ryan, Kacey, etc.... Surprisingly I got numbers of emails from strangers who visited my blog randomly but they spent a little short of time to write me an email to support, offered me a room to stay, etc...but I couldn't take this sweet help coz it's too far for me. Anyway, thank you guys. Thanks all!

Been lazy lately to update my blog as I've got distracted by other things. Every time, it usually takes me 3 hours at least. For what? Editing photo nicely before uploading and writing. Thus, since I started working, I don't really have much time for it, not as much as last time when I was studying. So now I'm just a hobby blogger.

Yesterday, I went to a spaghetti restaurant Pasta de Gohan in Sunway with a friend.

The first time we went there was 2 weeks ago. I looked damn ugly and sleepy, like just getting out of the bed. No making up, no dressing up. Lolzzz..

Surprisingly, a person doesn't like to eat much Western food like me could go to spaghetti restaurant twice a month and now blogging about it. It must be a reason. This was the first time. We went there on their opening day. It was pretty crowded and we had to queue up for a while to be served. The unique and special thing about this restaurant is their decoration (you're gonna see it later). We got attraction by the decoration actually, but at the end the foods are pretty good and tasty. So it's ok. We chose these ones:




It's a bit expensive, I think. Total bill was RM60 something. Everyone was happy, but the happier part is WE GOT FREE VOUCHER WORTHS RM62.
We all were very surprised and happy. Yes, of course! It's considered you went there to EAT FOR FREE AND THEY COMPLIMENT YOU RM2. That's why this restaurant is worth to be on my blog. The voucher was the reason to bring us here again. And this time, I decided to take a photo from the outside to inside to advertise for them. This time, we ordered more expensive items. I ordered spaghetti with oyster, egg york and mushroom (* it was so yummy, trust me).





And by the end, total bill was RM79 something. We only paid extra RM17 for this delicious meal. Super good! I think they still have this PROMO, so if you want to get this, go and try one. It's nice and special from the decoration. Instead of using the wall, they are doing like this.




It was a recording for Maxis company as they are opening a service in Vietnam soon, so they are looking for someone to say all greetings and instructions in Vietnamese. Something like this
"If you wish to activate your favorite caller ringtone, press 2". The job was not as simple as it sounds. For this short sentence to be done, you need to do and redo few times to get a perfect one. Thus, paying for this job is quite good.

To all Vietnamese friend, if in the future, you are using Maxis mobile service and you hear this voice then remember it's ME! :p
That's all about it. And now, it's my sleeping time. zZzZzzzzzzzzzz

I'm back! I know you guys are waiting for me after my trip to Ho Chi Minh. I wanted to blog, but I was too busy to catch up with work after my holiday.

Here you go! This is the first time I've been to Ho Chi Minh (you believe or not) but I could say it was GREAT TRIP! You should go there one day. I went there for some company works plus my personal things. So excited but also I was a bit nervous because I didn't know anyone there, and I was not familiar with the roads there. But at the end, things turned out so well. One of my friends who I only met online before came to air port and picked me up. He sent me to the hotel and brought me out for dinner. If you guys ever heard about very famous Vietnamese food which called "Pho" (beef noddle), then here you go!

The hotel I stayed was in the area for tourists. It's the most happening area in Ho Chi Minh, thus pricing here is lightly higher than other places. For instance: a bowl of beef noddle and an orange juice cost me VND 60,000 (~ RM15). They are only at RM7- RM8 in some other places. This time in Ho Chi Minh, it is raining season. In the morning, it gets very sunny until 4pm and starts raining then stops at 8pm something. At night, the weather is very cool and windy. It's great to go out with your boyfriend or girlfriend hand in hand.

I thought traffic in Hanoi is already bad but in Ho Chi Minh, it's even worse. I didn't dare to take any photo during rush hour because I was scared of being snatched. It's better for you travel to Vietnam and experience it for yourself. Anyway, it's very COOL. Showing some photos I've taken in some famous places.

This is an email that I've received from my consultant. Not many words, but a lot of meanings behind. Just want to share with you guys.

It might not be 100% accurate but it's interesting and I'm sure those who have ever lived in Europe or Western countries for sometime will know exactly what I am talking about:

THESE ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WESTERN (BLUE COLOR) AND ASIAN (RED COLOR) CULTURE.

 1. POINT OF VIEW

They always go straight to the point. Example, in Europe if a guy falls in love with a girl, he will say "I love you" then I kiss you. But in Asia...: "Do you see the weather today is so nice? And the dress you are wearing is so pretty. You look beautiful today and suddenly i feel falling in love with you" bla bla bla....Sounds weird? But I swear, this is true :D Different pick-up skills.

 2. LIFESTYLE

THEY... live independently but WE...are a family, we are a team, we are...the world. We love family gathering, living in a big family. Nothing is wrong with that, it's just hard for a Westerner to get along with an Asian family at first :D

 3. ON TIME

THEY say 12pm is 12pm. WE say 12pm means...around from 11.45am to 12.10pm sometimes even 12.30pm. Perhaps their times is made of metal, ours is made of rubber, so it can extend.

4. COMMUNICATION CHANNEL

WE sometimes make simple things become more complicated because of the way we communicate. Example, we want to criticize the person A, we don't talk to them directly. We will talk to the person B, then the person B talks to the C, C talks to D....Then finally D talks to A but it's not 100% accurate like what we want talk to A anymore. Thus, misunderstanding arises....So, a Westerner might question "Why can't you just tell a person directly what is right or wrong with them?", an Asian says "It's rude to criticize someone unless you are very close to that person or else they will get hurt. Worse scenario, they don't want to be friend with you anymore because Asian people tend to take it personal and longer time to forget".

 5. ANGER When THEY are angry, they express the anger. When WE are angry at someone, WE hide it inside and smile "No, It's OK. It doesn't matter". How generous we are! lolzzzz....In fact, inside our heart, we hate them like shit! Hahahaa

 6.QUEUING UP This is already improved in our countries. But some other countries, they still prefer queuing up like a bubble team.

  7. EGO Well, I feel this is not really accurate because nowadays, the ego of Asian people tend to become bigger especially MEN EGO (sorry, I didn't mean criticizing here or complaining).

 8. STREET AT THE WEEKEND

This might not be true coz I guess everywhere the shopping center, streets will get crowded in the weekend. IT doesn't matter in Asia or American.

9. IN THE PARTY

They gather in a small group of 2, 3 or 4 people to have a chat. We want to be in big circle with everyone.

10. MUSIC IN THE RESTAURANT Have you come across with this experience while you go to a restaurant, a coffee house, you have to shout at each other coz the music is too loud? I do. :D

 11. CAUSE OF STOMACH ACHE

THEY like fast food and coke drink, WE always drink TEA. So it might not be good for the stomach too if you drink all the time.

12. TOURISM THEY enjoy all the touristy places they've been by their eyes, WE enjoy it by all the photos we take and view them at....HOME later. Lolz, so funny!

 13. PRESENTATION SKILL

In the meeting, THEY dare to look at the mistakes and get over it. We try to avoid it as much as possible coz WE don't want to hurt others in a group. Or if we talk about it, we will say "There is 1 mistake over here, but it's not our fault"

 14. THREE MEALS IN A DAY

THEY prefer 2 cold and 1 hot meal. Our food have to be always hot. That's why people love steamboat I think, lolz...

  15. TRANSPORTATION From year 1970 to 2006. Is it true? :D


 16. OLD PEOPLE'S LIVES

No wonder, my parents already talked about marriage and having children to me. Lolz.

 17. BATHING TIME This one depends on individual. I take bath twice in a day, in the morning before I go to work and at night before I go to bed. Some people prefer cleanliness, they can take bath 2-3 times a day, in the morning, afternoon and evening but some don't even have once. So can't judge the whole community.

 18. WEATHER VS. MOOD



19. BOSS VS. EMPLOYEES


  20. TREND Perhaps, due to the globalization, many Western people learn how to use chopsticks and love Asian foods whilst Asian people start using fork and knife and eat spaghetti.

  21. CHILDREN

To THEM, Children is a small citizen who is waiting time to grow up. To US, Children is the Center of everythings: Attention, Care, Love, Foods, Needs, Wants, etc...

 22. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, HOW THEY THINK ABOUT EACH OTHER?

Lolz, next post, should I write about the marriage between Europe guy and Asian gal? :D Although there are a lot of contradictions between Western and Asian people, but you can't deny that nowadays, there are many couples who come from totally different cultures fall in love with each other. Many Europe guys love Asian girls and vice versa, maybe it's something new. Don't believe? Proof is here :D

  Just a short post to cheer everyone up after a whole tiring week. Have a good weekend all!