Yesterday morning before I burn my hands with chili bits, (please don’t tell my mom, I don’t wanna break her heart with my pathetic gastronomic skills); my roommate and I woke up at 6.30am. And it was a Saturday. I can’t recall ourselves getting up so early on a weekend I just have to mention this in our blog.

The reason behind the abnormal positive behavior is we wanted to go to the Malaysia Flora Fest 2007 that was gonna start at 8am in Putrajaya. By the way that’s where my office is. The festival and the Floral Parade were held in conjunction with Visit Malaysia Year and the themes focus on unity and multiculturalism is in line with the country’s 50 years of independence. I think holding such carnivals in Putrajaya is way much better than at the Merdeka Square due to the fact that the Malaysian national and legislative capital is very spacious, clean, modern and beautiful plus I can leave our car at my office’s car park for free. Hehehe!

There were 18 floats all together and my favourite is of course from Penang State ( my home state); Terengganu State and Sabah. The Diyanazman Most Pathetic Float award went to Perlis State; you should check out their’s; it is as big as a Kancil! Wow!

As you can see, getting up early on a weekend is really worth it after all…

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5 hours ago I cooked dinner. Now I realized that if I can get my hands on whom ever discovered that chilies are edible; I will scratch each and every inch of skin on their body till it bleeds and then I will slowly rub chili juice onto the wound. Thick chili juice. Chili juice that are made from this nasty red tiny berries!!!

Aaagh! From plain pain to annoyance to misery and I am now very angry.

I am typing this with hands that are burning and paining like have been poured with carborane superacid that would decompose even the hard hard cold heart of President Bush.

Why? Oh why? Why did I have to include these nasty chili slices into my cooking? Why?? Just why didnt I think of using radioactive proof tools while cutting and washing them? Oh,how naïve I have been. Sob. They look so tiny. Sob. Chilies,they are so deceiving!

Look at what they have done to my skin?! It is hurting like I have never felt pain before. I have been running around the house trying to fan my fingers, I put my hands under running tap water every 5 minutes, I have rub each and every kind of cooling skin moisturizer that I possess. And my hands still hurt.

I am currently switching from typing to dipping my hands in a basin of ice water in order to cool them down. And all of this to my skin that is not even close to being delicate!!!

I don’t know how long will I suffer the consequence of attempting to impersonate Kylie Kwong. Listen to me now everyone, do not ever; not even once; endeavor slicing bird eye chili without wearing the thickest gardening gloves you can get your hands on. Trust me!! I come from the land of hot and nasty spices. You must protect yourselves!!

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I am an internet junky. I am hooked to the web since forever and I’ve started to use Firefox about 2 years ago. Before that I was surfing via IE and I didn’t even know how crappy it was till Firefox came along.Now I’ve stop using Internet Explorer.

I’m not sure if its a faster browser or safer in term of security compared to IE, but what I enjoy the most about this stuff is that it supports a lot of things and you can get many other built-ins.

So have you started using Firefox? If not…hey, why don’t you try it NOW!!. It’s free, you know!

What I like best about Firefox is that I can be kept updated of my blog ( Diyana updates her rambling craps unexpectedly sometimes, hehe ) through “Live Bookmark” by Sage RSS feed reader extension.

This browser is very easy to use and I can also check out the latest updates of any website that support RSS feed such as Soccernet, BBC News, CNN News, etc without actually going to the website. Pretty easy rite?

Here is how;

You can add the RSS feed to Live Bookmark by clicking the orange icon to subscribing to it.

The Add Live Bookmark dialog appears and you can add the “Live Bookmark” to your browser.

Then, create the bookmark into Bookmark Toolbar folder.

After you complete this, you can see orange icon appear at Firefox toolbar. So, from the icon you could have a quick peek at recent events & update with just one mouse click.

Easy isn’t it?? There is no need for you to subscribe to you fave website!..just Add Live Bookmark and you can keep updated of all your favorites blog & newsreader at all times.

Hey guys! try “Live Bookmark” Diyanazman.com now!

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