Disneyland magic

To me, Disneyland will always be a magical place to be, regardless of age. Be it, 5, 24 or even 55 (yes, that golden year when you can redeem all your EPF savings!). It’s like a place that brings out the true happiness in someone really.

IT IS MAGICAL.

Period.

When I watched this I thought it was magical and beautiful in its own special way! If you ask me, I’ll definitely do a surprise like this for my (future) daughter. I mean why not? It makes me happy when I see my nieces and nephews happy everytime I get them a present, what more your own child :)

But it’s rather disturbing when I think about the fact that my daughter may end up doing it to me instead! Especially after tears of happiness flowed down MY cheeks at Disneyland last week, whilst I witnessed the parade. Hahaha, I didn’t even see that coming!

Bestie: “Pfft, I think the whole world knows that anything Disney will make you cry, but to really cry when you’re around your favourites who don’t know what Disney would do to you….uncool Alia. NOT.COOL.AT.ALL. What were you thinking?! We need to do something about you!”

 In my defense: “You don’t know how magical it is until you stand there right before the parade ok. It is afterall their 20^th anniversary, obviously la extra magical please. Plus they sang my favourite songs! My inner self could not help it!”

She obviously did not buy my justification. Such is an awesome best friend.

Business for yourself but not by yourself

There are random times when I go on daydreaming about funny yet true things. Like how I just love working and then working hard in my case means to develop products (only) to make others (investors) out there richer (but never myself). I myself cannot afford to invest in the product that I develop, it’s hilarious! And then how phases of properties get sold out like hot cakes when the starting price is about RM 2.5 million. Must be the same person buying them isn’t it? May just be the same investors who buy my products! Haha! These people are smart! They work hard to earn their bucks before their money start earning for them quite automatically afterwards.

Fun fact I found out at work today!

Founder of McDonald’s, Ray A Kroc passed away on January 14 1984, due to a heart failure. That’s exactly the day abang was born! Got me quite excited at work, I just had to go babble it to my boss. Kroc’s a legend! :) Was joking saying that perhaps it’s a sign that abang was supposedly to take over him. The fact that he has an awesome sister like me who’s like McDonald’s biggest fan, it must mean something.  Buyer selection strategy sorted, what better advantage can you ask for ;)

Read up the history of McDonald’s, and I was truly impressed at how determined he was! Boy is Kroc right about “Business for yourself but not by yourself” and his 3-legged stool philosophy. Suddenly graduating from Hamburger University sounds uber cool too might I add!

Working on a project involving McDonalds the past few weeks has sort of strengthened my relationship with McD. Now that it has been approved, just waiting for the day for it to be issued soon! Think I’ve consumed too much McDonalds whilst working on this project though, not really the most ideal diet. I’m getting fatter by the day *sick*

I also read that Kroc and Walt Disney served the same regiment at the First World War. Which brings me to my second random point and that is me trying to be a painter! I got quite excited about painting after coming back from Paris (this shall be a post on its own, stay tuned!), eventhough I cannot draw for nuts! So I decided to just go ahead on a shopping spree and get all the art supplies that caught my eyes. Spent an hour after work to draw this!

Try it! 

I must say, drawing and painting are super fun things to do! Even if it means that your end product might turn out a lil fatter on the cheeks  :P

P/s: To all those who emailed me, will reply to you guys asap ok. Thank you for the encouragement btw, very sweet of each one of you! :) I’ve not been writing much as I was travelling quite a bit past 2 months, but will surely try to find time to write more!! Much love :)

The Last Time

You know you're close to giving up on something that you really really love with passion when you can cry over it for hours, knowing what to do, but not wanting to do it. It's like falling down and getting up all over again, again and again and all the extra effort just don't seem to value add to it.

After a stressful day at work and with this amount of tears, I think I am gonna die on my big presentation day on Thursday. Aiyo. Life can be very challenging sometimes, I might as well prepare for my presentation now.

Keep calm and read the green book :)