Reflections of 2007

It's the last Friday of the year. I think should be a good time to start blogging/bitching/complaning/whining( whatever you call it!) for the year that is going to past.

Let's start by reviewing my resolutions for this year and probably renew them for the coming year.
1. Diet. Results: Yeah, I think I did a good job in that, although a bit slacking coming to the end of the year...sigh, but will work on those extra kgs sumore the coming year :D
2. Read/complete my old books. Results: Yeah, did quite a bit of reading this year. Completed some books, and bought new ones and completed those. So I still have some unread books. So, will work on those the coming year too.
3. Travel. Results: I did! And the biggest achievement was getting myself out of the country and headed to Bangkok. After that it was a couple of domestic travelling. I have that in my blog. Merdeka Road Trip + Langkawi Trip. The coming year? Might have some places in mind. I just hope I have the financial support I need for that.
4. Shop less. Results: Nope, I think I did just the opposite for this year. Sigh, that resulted to less savings and a higher sum in my credit card bill to settle. SO let's try the same resolution next year...although I doubt it'll work.
5. Doing something less ordinary. Results: I did. I took up teaching, seriously, something I didn't think I would have the patience to. But for this 4 months, I'm still okay. I have another half a year to go.

So on the overall, I think making achievable resolutions are quite satisfying in a way. Actually, I'm quite happy about it. Of course you also "grow up" throughout the whole year. It's been an interesting year.

Phantom of the Opera - Esplanade Theatre Singapore. Yeap, yeap. Superb show. That was in April. My very first fine dining experience was this year. Thanks to the projects I was in. Quite a fulfilling year for the taste bud. Tried a lot of good food. Yea, makes the loosing weight part a bit harder. This year is Starbucks year also. Too much of that this year. Working on getting my 2008 planner. 3 more drinks to go. I'm crazy dy. Continue on...First ever bridemaid's duties to carry out...which brought me to a small town of Sitiawan for the first time. First time on the luxury bus to Singapore. Of course, it's not all jovial throughout the year. There's also some down times. This year I felt the most depressed about certain things, but then I'm choosing to forget them and move on.Emotional roller coaster year. Oh oh...forgot, this year is when I shifted office from Sunway. We've got a couple of new colleagues, which is kinda fun. My vacations/trips were unforgettable. Had a great time in Bangkok, Langkawi and the Merdeka Road trip. Health wise, only worth mentioning about my chicken pox week lor. Went for detoxing, and ended up join Amway for that. But I'm not an active member, so no worries, I won't be coming up to you selling stuff. Oh ya..the new opening of Jusco bukit tinggi. Created quite a buzz here. New items added: my Ipod Nano, my new specs ...will be aiming for that new phone next year.W910i...hehe.

So that's about all for this year... 2007 was a great year! There's a few days left in the year, let's all embrace and celebrate it! (I hope my pay is in already for this celebration to take place.. :P) Have a good time celebrating your 2007. And I've just noticed that my blog sitemeter has reached 1000. Wow..thanks to everyone for your time to read this.

More recap ..

So last weekend was winter solstice. A day where we eat tong yuen. No pics yet, but what the heck? Just thot I'd blog about it. It was an interesting session with Mell and her family. It's the first time that I've experienced making tong yuen from the beginning till it was cooked. :D We went through the whole process of mixing the glutinous rice powder till colouring it. Then we start making them into little tong yuen balls. Mell's mom made the sugar syrup to go with it. We did it in 5 colours. Pink, green, yellow, white and BLUE! Yea, debut with blue. It's the first time I see it too. We tried with blueberry too. They were feeling innovative and wanting to try something new. And so we did it. Tasted a little sour, but then didn't taste that bad after a few. We had the gula melaka filling too...quite sweet. We were at the whole thing for more than 2 hours I think. It was very fun and satisfying. Thanks Mell.... **hugs**

Then let's fast forward to Christmas Day. Wow...9-hours of shopping. Tiring! Frankly, don't think in the end we bought much. Tried clothes got la..but buying them, very few only. But good enough for this year and a couple of months before my wallet start to bleed again. Thanks SC for the wonderful shopping experience. Haha..can't believe we actually queued for the Giordano sale. And other crazy stuff we do.. I really miss uni times. Oh ya, was too bored over the weekend and bought myself a new pair of specs! So ...will be wearing more of it dy! To office, to go out, at home, to shopping! Muahaha... So it was a good shopping spree trip. Spent more than I expect. I'm so broke. I hope my pay comes in soon! No pics for now. Maybe next time...

Last week of December...

Wow..we're coming to the end of the year. That's pretty fast!!! And I haven't been blogging much. So let's rewind a bit. 19th December...my ex-roomie's b'day. Muahaha...finally old liao leh!!! Welcome to the club.


There she is..all smiley getting old. :D Nice cake too!

We ate at Mizi Shabu-Shabu. Those with personal hotpot. Taste,erm..as I always think, you can't really mess up steamboat. The only thing would be the raw ingredients are not fresh...which is not the case. So it turns out to be okay. Ohh..can comment about the sauces though. not that good la. :P So here, need to say a big thank you to Wei Jing for doing the organizing...this is the best organiser you can find la...he even sent this out to us:



What a good planner...Digi so lucky. So if you guys interested to get to this steamboat place. Search no more. Here's the map!

It was nice meeting up with everyone for a small chat. After that fulfilling dinner. We had the cake cutting thingy. Fruit cake. Nice! Mr and Mrs Wong was there. Horng Jau, Yong and Tio too. We got to movies after that. I Am Legend. Turns out to be not so bad. :)

So...quite lazy to blog on. Haven't got my pics from the tong yuen thing.Will update again once I've got it.

The weekend that was..

It was a beautiful wedding the past weekend...It was just lovely and my brother can give a very touching speech. Yealor..imagine if a guy confess his love to you in front of everyone, can be a bit corny but still, you'd shed a tear or two listening to it.

Pre-Wedding Day

So I got to Singapore on Friday morning. Long queue at the Woodlands immigration. Waited almost an hour there. A reminder to first time travellers to Singapore from Malaysia by coach: First checkpoint in Malaysia, only your passport is required. Second checkpoint in Woodlands, Singapore, take all your belongings along. This is what happened to a lady. At Woodlands, bus dropped us off. She went dashing to the immigration without her belongings and after an hour after passing the checkpoint, she got back to the bus to know that her belongings were left at the earlier drop-off point. The bus driver wasn't being that sympatethic also la, they just asked her to approach the immigration personnel for her baggage and left her. She wanted to take the bus all the way in to Beach Road. So I don't really know how the lady settled her problem after that la. Been travelling too much on my own, tend to be selfish once comes to the checkpoint because there's a lot of irresponsible bus drivers that will not send you all the way to your destination. So what I normally do is being kiasu a bit, walk a bit faster, get pass the checkpoint faster and make the bus driver arrange me a transport in if he decides not to go all the way.The bus journey was quite bad, considering I was coughing all the way. Didn't really catch any sleep on it. Reached at about 6am. Got my bro to come out and fetch us.

Then the long day started. My parents had it all planned and not informing me about it. SO fine, thought I'd go along. Breakfast in the market, then travel to Chinatown...all we did was walk and walk and walk. Damn tiring. I was coughing my lungs out already. Up to a point where I lost my voice, all that could come out was noise. Anyway, they got checked into the hotel about afternoon. Then everyone got their wanted rest. So did I~! Then after a couple of hours of sleep, then it was time for dinner. We had this ala-carte buffet in TeaHouse in Chinatown. Quite worth it actually, SGD28++. Chinese style, with over 50 choices of dishes to choose from. After dinner about 8 something, it was walking time again. Just walked a while then we got home. Saturday starts REALLY early.

WEDDING day

This is another wedding culture I learnt. Teochew ppl in Singapore will pick auspicious time starting from 4am to 6am. According to my 2nd brother, they want to settle things before the sun rises...gosh, really early. My brother was suppose to pick up the bride at 5.45am. Well, I was suppose to be picking up my relatives and bringing them there. So I had to leave home at 6!!! And I was kinda late a bit. :p Told my relatives I'll be there about 6:15, ended up there about 6:40. Need to prepare mar~! Anyway, dilly-dally till I got to brother's place at about 745. That time the bride was already back at home. She was introduced to all my aunts and uncles. All we did was wait for the auspicious time for every event to happen. Entering the bedroom, tea ceremony, picture taking. We went to my brother's room and saw a list of events, schedule for the events on wedding day. From 4am to the night event. My sis-in-law planned it all, right from the beginning to the end, including contingency plan too~! Finally saw Ashlynne after sooo long. Getting very very adorable. Met my brother's heng dai also. Can't remember all of their names. I think I only got Eric coz we sort of met online in facebook. Saw Hsu Kiang and Ming Ho, my bro's good friends back in Klang days. We were all chit chatting till afternoon, after the buffet lunch.

Sent off my relatives back to their hotel, we were off home to get some rest, bathe and prepare for the night dinner. Got to the restaurant at about 4 plus. Make-up and hairdo...then about 6 plus, people start to arrive. Got chocolate fountain also~! Didn't eat la. Busy walking around and ...acting busy. :P Most of the time talking to Hsu Kiang and Ming Ho. Think they are bored also coz don't really know many ppl there. The restaurant was nice. With really big heart shaped helium balloons. All pics with my brother...so I can only describe in words. Couldn't be in there to see their first march in coz was helping my bro out with the stuff at the reception.Only got in after the food presentation. Food was excellent. The singers were good too. Not a bad idea. Then the video sessions...all came out to be quite nice. :) Took a lot of pics I think. Need to see it frm my brother the next time. I don't look that nice for the pics anyway..sigh. The night ended at about 12? I don't know, wasn't keeping track of the time. All I know was my hair was still wet when I fell asleep in the living room in front of the TV, think the Golden Horse awards was going on.

Post wedding

Morning, woke up for breakfast at Yumcha with my relatives.I was all packed up ready to go back home...but my cousin wanted to stay longer, so we postponed the idea of going back to later that evening. Nothing much, just walking around, Centro, Clarke Quay and Orchard. Finally I get a taste of TCC!! Food is excellent. Cough was killing me, so didn't dare to drink coffee...should've~!!! Only took tea, not too bad. Food was gooooddd. Need to go there again. Didn't get to see lights this year. Well, can miss it this year la. After a long day of walking, took my relatives to take the bus from Johor. We got on the bus at 12am and reached the next morning at about 630am.


Well, the wedding's over. One thing that got me frustrated was how the whole arrangement with my parents and relatives were done. I was thinking of getting back soon coz I can still take it up to the last day when it all came out. Didn't want to throw any temper out, but the last day was a bit too much and I just walked away. Yea, probably not suppose to lash out just like that coz relatives are there...but really couldn't take it already. I wanted to go home there and then. I don't get why there was so much confusion at the first place...so glad I'm home. And I hope I don't have to be bringing relatives around for now.

Already a week after, my bro should be enjoying his honeymoon in Italy. Hope it's a good weekend ahead for all. Christmas plans should come into play already. It's just around the corner~!

Wai Ling's Wedding...

Attended Wai Ling and Choo Tian's wedding early November. Didn;t really have the time to grab all the pictures until recently. A big congratulations once again. Still newly weds, and I just got a glimpse of the pictures frm their honeymoon in Australia. I see that you have a great time there. Still wishing you the best in your future as husband and wife. Here will upload a picture of the beautiful bride and groom that night.


This is from the wedding reception in Bukit Jalil Golf Resort. Match-made in heaven!

It was the very first wedding among my MMU friends that I've attended. So this was like one big round of reunion for us. 3 tables. Although some didn't get to attend, but it was indeed a merry event. Haven't seen those from Penang for quite sometime.
So we spent the whole night chit chatting away while we dine and enjoy the traditional chinese wedding banquet. Soon it was time for the bride and groom to do the traditional cake cutting and champagne pouring. Not long after that, the yamseng was done. The night didn't end just there, we got a few people gathered and went on to one of the nearest cafe to have drinks. We went on chatting till about 1 something. I got home at 2AM that night.

A week later, bridesmaid duties had brought me to Sitiawan. My first time in the town. People there speak Hock Chew, one dialect that is totally foreign to me. We got there on Sat evening. Had this really big seafood feast~! The oysters were big and fresh...EXCELLENT. Since it was on Wai Ling's dad, we don't really know how much did that dinner cost. But we were bloated once we're done with our dinner/supper. The next day started off VERY early with us preparing for the ceremony.The bride was of course very excited. Bridesmaid had something prepared for the groom. We weren't that cruel la...just some simple things. Started of with a questionnaire for the groom, for each wrong answer, they were required to finish off bananas~! Then came the bread action. We made him bite and form the words "I LOVE YOU". Then came the sweet part, we made him write life promises to his dear wife. :) Finally, as usual, comes the angpow for us. Then he went to pick up the bride...and said the sweetest things to her. :)


This was the wedding ceremony in Sitiawan. The beautiful bride surrounded by her ji muis.

After that, we went over to the groom side. After the tea ceremony, she tossed her bouquet and Samantha got the bouquet. :D Not sure why all of us are so scared about catching the bouquet. I don't really have this culture back here, so this was the first time that I actually seen a bouquet been tossed after so many weddings that I've attended. :P Lunch, we had laksa lor mee. Was told that it's one of the local favourites. We bought their famous chili sauce too. One dozen to be divided among the few of us. I bought 2 back. After that, we got back to the house that Choo Tian rented and all of us slept for that afternoon~!Really slept. We were really tired... slept till afternoon and then woke up and got dressed up for the dinner. Wedding banquet in Sitiawan starts at 5pm. You know, being from KL/Klang, we were not really accustomed to this time schedule and definitely the punctuality part. We were late for about half and hour, then we walked in and everyone was staring. They've already began eating their first dish. We just sat and ate, at that moment, we were quite hungry too. :P We didn't finish the whole dinner. Here's another new wedding culture that I just learnt: Friends and relatives of the bride side will not finish their entire meal and will leave much earlier before the rest. Too bad that we couldn't stay for dessert that night then. We ended the dinner at 7.30pm. 7:30...that's the time when people start arriving to the restaurants/hotels for weddings back here in KL/Klang.

We had a great time. Wei Jing, Siew Theng, Cheng Khoon, Shiang Lan and me were left to stay over for another night. So we got ourselves checked in to the hotel in town. ST, CK and SL left early the next morning coz they needed to get back to Penang to work in the afternoon. Wai Ling and her hubby brought us to buy biscuits. They called it "Kong Peah"...don;t ask me to translate. If you happen to be there in Sitiawan, people there would tell you about it, and it's worth a try. They are pretty good when taken hot. Biscuits with fillings of onion and pork. baked with the most interesting way, something like how they make naan, just that this is with filling. So we made our way back to KL after that. Stopped by Bidor for super-expensive lunch in Pun-Chun. Yea,a simple plate of wan tan mee cost RM5 there.In the same small town, RM5 can get you 2 plates in some other hawker centre.

So that's about all I'm blogging this time...wedding bells are ringing again this weekend as my brother officially ends his bachelorhood(which actually makes me a target to all my aunts/uncles asking when would be my turn). We'll see how that will go..

Jusco Bukit Tinggi

The long awaited new attraction and talk of the town is finally here~!!


Got this from wikipedia, my goodness, look at the crowd~!!!


Look at the parking lots~! 5000 and I heard it was fully occupied on the day of opening.

He didn't capture the picture of the slow moving cars that had jammed up the whole Banting road trying to turn into this building. But anyway, it's a breath of fresh air for the residents of Klang I might say. Shops here are the ones I've been travelling far for. Starbucks is now 10 minutes from home. TGV is also near although not opened yet. Didn't sign up for the fitness centre, coz I heard there's another one coming nearer at the BBTOne Walk area. Some restaurants look inviting, so am gonna try them out one day. Frankly, will get bored of it after a while :P It felt like there's a lot of choices coz it's new. Once it's there for a year or two, ppl will start to get bored of it...I hope not.

I was there again on Sunday. Fell in love with bread from a bakery called Lavender. Thought of going there for another round after Saturday's first try on it...which I did...should get the bread once they are freshly taken out from their oven. Found something bad about JJ already. The lower ground area where they have cooked food was all smoky(refer to first pic above). Something with their ventilators...they seriously need to fix that. Well, the first 2 days, can't expect much from the restaurants. All the waiters/workers are a bit slow considering it's their first time...so that will take a longer period to monitor. Still waiting for Dragon-i to open.

So that's about all for this new landmark in town. Gonna make more visits there soon enough :D

25th birthday celebration...

A bit late on the update... been too busy to even check on other things.

Pre-Birthday
Group 1: The Wimax team...(not everyone exactly). It was a wrap-up lunch. The birthday thing came a surprise...but nevertheless, thank you to everyone for the wish.. Thanks to Hafiz for that little birthday ice-cream dessert with the candle.

Birthday
Group 2: My colleagues. It's a normal working day and thanks to my colleagues for spending time with me. Lunch at TGIF and a BR ice-cream cake. Nice. Thanks for the gift Lum and SihSin~!

Group 3: My Klang friends. Chin Jie,Steven, Seen Ling, Mun Leng and Wee San. Thanks for the steamboat session. Had a very filling dinner~! Thanks to WS for spending time with me after that...yumcha session at Ole-ole Bali ( Nice place...food is good too)

Post-birthday
Group 4: My unimates. Thanks for the movie session YK~! Although not really a good choice of movie la, if you're just too bored and have nothing to do, maybe you can consider watching 30 days of night. That is..IF YOU HAVE TOTALLY NOTHING TO DO (**sleep is still a better thing to do). Nice time spent with you guys. Had a great laugh at Madam Kwan's.

Group 5: CY, Bee, SF... been ages since I saw you guys. Thank you soo much for remembering and the cake and the present... was very surprised. Thanks to HJ for showing me the road ...can't believe I can still get lost around Taipan after being there so many times :P

Group 6: Melissa and Sam. Thanks for spending time with me. Dinner + HALO cafe. Haven't been there for quite sometime myself. Had an enjoyable session. :D

Group 7: Nyuet and Dhass...although it was a week later, but THANKS girls for making the effort. Dinner at Ole-ole Bali was awesome~! I'm still waiting for pics from Nyuet.

Well...besides all the celebrations/dinner/yumcha sesions, there's still all those that remembered and sent their greetings through SMS/mail/PM/phone calls...Thank you so much!~! Getting older, getting more speechless... I wish you all the best with whatever you are pursuing and hope to see you all soon. Thank you all..this is another memorable year. :)

Some old updates

Birthday updates aside, will do that when I have the time next week. Let's just update a bit on other stuff since the last time I blogged.

The few unlucky and moody weeks before birthday. ONE, I had a minor accident the past 3 weeks actually. Driving too fast and near to the vehicle in front at the SMART tag toll plaza. It wasn't even my fault that the barrier came down on my car. The tag for the front car wasn't scanned properly, and mine was the next one...barrier came down on my car instead. Banged on to it and scratched my windscreen a bit. Too shocked to think of what to do next...so I continued my way to work. Probably too into thinking about that, then came incident number TWO,which is I slipped and fell. Landed on my knee on one side. Thank goodness wasn't on a tar road or anything, but it was on Sunway college campus grounds. In one way I should be thankful that the 2 incidents wasn't that serious. The first, it was indeed a minor accident, no major dents or anyone getting hurt. For the second incident, well, besides falling right in front of my colleague, no one else saw it...I think! So embarassment level didn't really escalate till that high after all. Anyway..of course there's lessons to be learnt frm here: Phobia at the toll plazas already, am keeping my distance of at least 5m! And when you're carrying a laptop, don't walk too fast with your sandals, you might not get to control your balance when you slip. Sometimes I do wonder why something bad needs to happen first before it becomes a lesson learnt? hmmm...

Then after that the past few weeks is when we have Murphy's Law over-applied at work. Seriously..didn't have a good start with our new project, still trying to get things sorted out.. up till now. Hope that gets resolved soon...

Headache already, will continue with the updates in the next blog...

A rewarding weekend

A big thank you to the new people that started to read my blog. Been a tiring weekend.

Saturday, spent at the Curve. Met up with Mell and PJ. We met for lunch at the German restaurant there. New one I think. MEAT~!! That was all we had. You know, being the ulufied me, it was my first German food dining experience.So I was the one asking around whatever that was served to us. We ordered a starter..something something cold platter. Not bad. Then came our main course, our honey glaze pork knuckles...that was not too bad either. Dessert, was a chocolate brownie with ice-cream... sinful~! Since it was my first time, so I can't really compare where else has better German food.:P Didn't buy anything much except for one book :P Mell had discount voucher for Borders and we bought those 3-for-2 books, and it came out to be about RM18 per book? Which was really cheap~~!Haha..thank you Mell, it's like the cheapest book I bought so far! Then we went for one round of Baskin Robbins.Redeemed voucher for free handpicked pint. Jamoca Almond Fudge...YUM! :) Walked a bit more and we were on our way back.

I don't think I've mentioned about taking up weekend teaching. Well,been doing that every Sunday( except the times I take day off) the past one month plus already. Was quite demotivated the first time that I started the classes. It's getting better. I see my students responding to me...which is a good sign. My class consist of a boy and a girl. Both at the age of 7. I'm still struggling with one learning faster than the other one. Today, I got a surprise when the boy was telling me about his swimming plans after class. Then slowly got him into talking about his hobby. Frankly, I think he should be in a higher level, but will keep him there la, since he's halfway into the course. I'm quite happy that he's trying to communicate. Feels good. :D

Anyway,was a tiring weekend. Thought I'd drop by to my workplace while waiting for dinner that night..ended up working till late. :P So that was my weekend.

Extra Time..and feeling kinda "ulu"

Starting my overtime already after getting back to the wimax project. So I'm here in Sunway College, 2nd nite already. Just that yesterday we went back at about this time. Today we are not leaving till we get something done. Gosh, wonder how long that would take. By tmr we'd all probably look like pandas if we were to be the ones in front of the camera for the video conference.

Hmm...feeling a little old among these younger people. Heck they have this iTalk public phone that you just need to key in the card number and you can talk away.no coins slot~!! Too bad no camera but then, wow, good to see how the good ol' public phone had evolve to. And they have this irritating short video on top of that phone. Shows the convenience of the whole iTalk thingy.Plays on and on...and it's slowly getting to me~!!! I just realised that I'm damn ulufied. Maybe it's been here forever and since we have the bliss of using our mobile phones, we don't really look at public phones these days. Seriously, if you happen to pass by one that doesn't look like the good ol' one you remember those days, feel free to drop me a line/picture.

SO that's about my entry this time. Dinner should be arriving in another 10 minutes? Don't know, but till then, will just surf around.

Of bus rides and more..

Back from the Raya hols. Feels like the holidays are still around, no mood to work. It was a weekend with my family..which is great! My nieces have grown so much and getting even more adorable!

Yesterday, I was making my way back home from Singapore, took the express bus from Larkin. The bus fare back to Klang was RM35! That's freaking expensive! Then I asked how much to get to KL, it was only RM24! You know, being financially tight this month (and the months to come... ) So I opted for the ticket to KL. Paying for my dad too, so considering it's RM22 difference, we took it. Let's not start on the punctuality of the buses from Larkin, the ticket printed was 7:30am, and our bus only started moving at 8:00am. Which is normal if you've been taking buses from Larkin long enough. There are cases where you have to wait till the bus is full, so there's no time limit for the waiting. Too tired to think of anything, slept on the bus when journey started.

Journey from KL-Klang. Another bus ride. Was kinda surprised that they have so many bus services that goes that route. This time around, it's some new bus line that I was taking. Used to be RM2.50 for the ride. The guy in the bus said RM3.00, not really sure we were conned or what, never bothered to ask coz I only want to get home at that point. Nevermind, once you get to KL, Pudu especially, is when you hear all the bus conductors screaming on top of their lungs trying to get their buses filled up. Haven't been walking on the streets of KL for sometime. Ahh..brings back memories.

Then we got back to Klang. Had to take another bus home. Journey from Klang-Home. Okay,this bus driver was the worse in behaviour compared to all. He's not that helpful at the first place and started scolding his passengers. To those that can't really tell him the right location they want to go. Even at the ticketing, he was issuing tickets as he likes. Not to mention, he charges extra for the ticket prices. Sigh...Even when the bus is already full, he kept on taking in people.

Thank goodness I only need to take buses from KL-Klang and Klang-Home once in a while. Maybe getting too pampered with the comfort of my own car. Hmm...but still in one day, there's a lot of people that uses the buses to commute. I just hope the services doesn't deteriote anymore.

Updates~! Langkawi!

Oh gosh, been a month since I last posted something. Mood is up currently~! Nearing the Raya hols I guess. Heading down to Singapore after so many months~!

Langkawi Sept '07

Date: 29th Sept - 1st Oct
Participant: 4 - Mun Leng, Nyuet, Dhass and me :D
Weather: Rainy most of the time during afternoons

Day 1
Journey to KL Sentral to catch the LCCT shuttle bus. FYI, journey is freaking long from Klang~! Anyway, AirAsia flight AK6038 was on time~! And we got there like 1:40pm? Somewhere there.Of course the first thing we did was get a car to go around. There was this group of people waiting at the airport. We got an Iswara aeroback for RM50 perday. Quite sad condition and he dared to tell us that it's new~! WTF?!?! Doesn't matter, we got it for RM120 as the package. Off we go, with that bit of petrol left in the car. Then we checked into our budget hotel; Malibest in Pantai Cenang. If you're looking for a place to stay, this is quite good. Cost RM120 per nite and you have this small chalet that faces the beach and sea~! Clean and comfty. The name of our chalet was Timun. They have all the weird weird names for the chalets.







A room with a view..not bad eh? So after that, all of us were actually quite sleepy, everyone was telling me that they didn't get much sleep the night before. Same goes for myself.Dropped our stuff and went for lunch. After that, we got to the nearest duty free shopping place. Bought ourselves the first batch of beer and chocolate. We were in the celebration mood and Dhass suggested we get the Moet(champagne), which we did and we finished it that night itself~! Anyway, we got back and enjoyed the view and stuff. Got ourselves registered for a snorkeling session the next day. It was RM130 per pax.We bought lots of snacks that we can munch on. We just went to the beach and enjoyed the breeze while we chit chat over stuff.Took our bath and we got ready for dinner~! Coco beach...hmm, I would say I won't go there again. Expensive and not worth it la.Altough the restaurant is next to the sea la. Don't trust the advertisements you see in the tourist info brochure :P After that we drove around till we reach Kuah town, and planned on the places we want to go the next day. Dhass saw something on the internet that suggested a night spot called Reggae Bar, but when we found the place, it was a little creepy la. So we turned back. :P So we got back and opened up our champagne. After a short drinking session by the beach, we got back to our rooms and called it a day.

Day 2

Woke up at 7 to get ready for our snorkeling session. Destination: Pulau Payar Marine Park. Sadly we din bring our camera, coz we were thinking that no one would look after our stuff once we all go in the sea. So we got all ready for it and waited for the bus to come pick us up from our hotel. The journey took about 1 hour to get to the jetty and another hour in our ferry. So in the end we got on this marine park and met our friendly guide, Rina. Been a while since I snorkelled, so had this phobia again and took me a while to get used to it again. The underwater world was fantastic~! It was raining~!!! Pretty heavy at once. Nyuet and ML was nice enough to bring me around considering I don't know how to swim. I LOVE YOU GUYS..THANK YOU. And Nyuet thought me how to move myself in the water...which is also cool. But in the end, I still don't know how to swim if I didn't have that life jacket strapped on me. About an hour later, we got out of the water and had our lunch. Fried chicken+sausages+biscuit+apple+bread+mineral water. We got to see the feeding of garoupa and baracudda. Interesting. The nicest part of our snorkelling session was after lunch when the guide brought us to deeper waters to see more stuff! I guess the sad thing about this place was the rubbish~! And also the dead corals. The underwater creatures were quite interesting. Oh ya, the session after lunch, we put on the fins and I could navigate myself :D only a bit slower la, and the ang moh was swimming past like no one is there. Splashed all the water at us~! So inconsiderate~!It was indeed an interesting experience. Too bad no pics :P

So tired after we got back, and had too much of beer, think I slept off after I took my bath. The rest of them went around and took pics. At night, we went Kuah. Then went shopping for souvenirs and other stuff. Bought sumore chocolates~! Then we stumbled upon one restaurant that we had this big seafood feast of our own. We ordered garlic butter lobster, curry cuttlefish, plum sauce chicken, kailan, thai style fish. Excellent meal~! The lady boss was very nice to us too. Got back and spent some time at Debbie's place, an Irish bar across the road from our hotel. Dhass wanted her flaming lamborghini and she got it...two times! . We got back after our drinks and slept.We didn't really track our time when we're there Kept my watch in the drawer and rarely look at my handphone. Totally relaxed~!

Day 3

None of us wanted to wake up~ Coz we all knew that we're going back already. But the sea was rough in that morning. Strong winds.



After about 9 plus, we got up and went for breakfast at the Breakfast Bar near our hotel. Had nasi lemak and horlicks. Not nice la..Just was craving for some nice and hot food, turns out to be quite disappointing. We finished and we went for our alcohol shopping before we make our way to the airport. And then the holiday ends......... Reached KL Sentral about 5 plus and I reached home about 730pm.

Conclusion: This was great. Travelling companion was excellent too. And this was quite an enjoyable trip. Can't wait for the next one..if we all have one. :D

Down down down ...

Have you had one day that you feel down and nothing seems to be okay for you? I have and today's the day!!! So miserable and I still don't know how to overcome it!! How do you cure a miserable person??? Sighh...

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Penang..revisited!

Merdeka Road Trip '07 part 2 --> Penang!

After lunch in Ipoh, we made our trip up north. Took us about an hour plus to reach and we had to look for a place to stay for the night. Most of the hotels are already fully booked since it was the holiday weekend. Our first target was Gurney Hotel though, then since there was no room, we went for a budget hotel instead. Since we were all tired, we took a rest. Since I was in Penang for my project last year, so I was the navigator for Penang. After a couple of hours of rest, we went looking for food and ended up in a jam in Gurney area.Before that we went to Ghee Hiang to get some tambun biscuits. We had our dinner at Gurney drive. The normal asam laksa, wantan mee, grilled fish...so sad, my fried chicken stall is not there already. I wonder where it went! The usual stuff you can find there, now with more stalls selling toys and accesories. After dinner, we went to Gurney Plaza to take a walk. There was a book sale going on. I bought 3 books!!Cost me about RM70! Unexpected expenditure.(In the process of reading one of it)

We were all very tired and got back to our hotel. So everyone slept like babies through the night. The next morning we went for temple visits again. First were the Burmese temples.Was there the last time I went also..so nothing new. Just that after visiting Bangkok, kinda preferred the temples there.





We went to the sleeping buddha temple too. There, WS, KW and Bev made offerings. And finally our first group pic was taken by this reallllyyyy enthusiastic tourist.



After that we went back to town to grab something to eat. Went to this coffeeshop at Lrg Swatow and had ais kacang! After that, started to drizzle a little but that aside, we went to Air Hitam --> Kek Lok Si. KW, Bev and Fatt made offerings this time. Too bad the Kuan Yin statue area was under renovation. Didn't go all the way up.





So after that visit, we were too tired to go further. But since we hiked up, we made our way to Muar Chee..which tasted really good! After all that, we start to make our journey back. We were all tooooooooo tired. Need to thank Fatt a lot for driving us. he was also dead tired actually but had to tahan coz all of us already KO in the car. But he requested to change when we were near Rawang. So I drove the rest of the way back to Klang.It was already 9 something and we got ourselves dinner! We were soooo hungry that we ate every single bit of stuff served to us!!



Well, this was a short budget trip(Expense did not went to more than RM200). Had an enjoyable time with my friends. Interesting way to use up the holiday too. Looking forward to my next trip to Langkawi end of the month!

Merdeka Road Trip '07

Date: 31st Aug - 1st Sept 2007
Destination: Klang-->Ipoh-->Penang-->Klang
Weather: Clear, Rain occasionally
No of participants: 5

Day 1

Originally planned to start journey at 4am, but as usual, there's some who can't get up on time. The day before was spent with CJ, ML, Nyuet, Thean, Stv, Chiang Wei at Yuen Steamboat. Been a while since I was there. Honey chicken wings are still a crowd favourite. You can see all the kiasu-ism surface once the chicken wings are replenished. Craziness and too bad none of us took any pics. Well, had a great laugh and I went back quite late. Got home, chuck a few clothes in my bag. But couldn't sleep that much that night, so I slept at 2. Woke up at 3 to bathe. Waited till 430am, then only Fatt came by to fetch me. (Got to catch an episode of Scrubs before he came sumore~!) After picking WS, KW and Bev, then off we go. It was already 5am. Head down to Ipoh and first destination was dimsum~! It was only 730am and Foh San was already packed with ppl...mostly from KL :P



So this is the dim sum place if you happened to drop by Ipoh town one day. It's in the old town area, and a piece of advice, if you don't want to wait long for a place, go there as early as 6.45am or 7am. Or not you'll be standing and watching people eat till they leave. Frankly, I don't really like that feeling of being looked at while I'm eating also. So after makan, all of us blur dy, not sure where to head to. Bev suggested we go some temples to see see. We were going around the town and we saw: Salted Chicken. Since it's a famous delicacy there, why not eh? We got down and bought ourselves one. Cost RM16 perbird. Worth every cent you pay for it coz taste is just excellent. Not as salty as you think, and with the chinese herbs, it's just superb! So again, when you swing by Ipoh old town one day, check out this place. (Pic below)



Then off we go to Kek Lok Dong and Sam Po Dong. No idea what they are called in English. Temples in the caves?(Ipoh ppl, help me out here...) Anyway, really nice temples. 1st of was KLD.A really nice and serene place. No wonder there were so many people there for morning exercise. I wished there was one in Klang. You can see a lot of workers maintaining the place.







Beautiful, rite?? Okay, so after that was SPD. Got a little lost looking for it. SPD wasn't as beautiful as KLD.Bev told us the special thing about this place is the tortoise pond.Kinda sad actually, you can see from the pic below that the pond is overcrowded.







AND THEN WE SAW THIS....



Okay...no porn stuff here, this is just for general knowledge. Tortoise mating...there were some serious humping then. Think Fatt got it on video. It went on all the time we were there. Bev overheard two old men commenting that it had been going on since at least half n hour ago..And then there were curious kids asking their parents what's going on. One of the parent had to tell her kid that the tortoise was playing with each other. We were there for 15 minutes? When we left, it was still going on....

After that, we got back to town coz Fatt was craving for a good cup of Ipoh White Coffee. WS got in touch with her ex-colleague and we went to a coffeeshop to enjoy a really good cup of white coffee. Then we had early lunch. Another packed up coffeeshop. Maybe coz not much shops opened on that day and the sudden influx of ppl from KL/Selangor visiting on that day. We can see all cars with plate alphabets starting with "W" and "B".

Next destination: Penang~!! ..in my next blog entry.

New addition to my cubicle

Isn't it just sooo adorable...

Thot I'd put somethings to make the table look more...personalised :D But these few days when I came to work, kinda realised that someone moved my stuff! Not sure who, so in the meantime..this adorable little fella will be kept in the drawer everyday before I leave. My colleague's water tumbler also can get lost, it's still a mystery~!

Rainy day today but yesterday was kinda nice. Watched the fireworks thingy...found a spot to watch without paying.. :P I know, kiamsiap, but then RM38.50 for entrance wor. Something that I'll only pay once. :P It was great!Team Australia. I think it was more impressive compared to the Malaysian team. Another reason is I was very far when viewing Team Malaysia. No pics, coz I don't have a high end camera to capture it. Hmm...quiet day at work. Getting quite boring... sighh..

Bangkok Pt 2

So I stopped at the part that we were left at the temple by our good ol' tuk-tuk driver. Being the optimistic me, I told PJ, let's just walk a bit and see whether he's there waiting in front. So we walked..and walked...approached by a tuk-tuk driver who refuse to send us to our destination with that same 30 Baht, he demanded 40 Baht,saying it's peak hour traffic and stuff. I said no...so we walked...and then came a junction. We took out our ever-so-reliable map but we still have no idea which part we were at. Then came a really kind-hearted local. She approached us.

Stranger#3:Can I help you?
PJ:Yes (trust me, I was skeptical and I was still thinking should we trust her...been in malaysia too long, not used to such a hospitable environment)
Stranger#3:Where you want to go?
PJ:Grand Palace
Stranger#3:Oh, you can take bus number 45. Only 7 Baht.Fast, the bus coming.
(At that time we're making our way there..suddenly.... I heard the lady shouting, so I turn around)
Stranger#3: Faster, bus coming, take this one~!! (She was running after the bus with us!!)

Thanks to such a helpful stranger, we got on the bus. An off we go. This was our bus ride...

And then I saw a very familiar Malaysia landmark there...


Finally, we've arrived our destination...after some temple hopping. Cost us 250Baht to enter the place. And you need to decently dressed for it, no sleeveless, or u have to borrow clothes to cover yourself. A few pics of the place.









We spent the whole afternoon there and by the time we left the place, it was already close to evening. Wanted to head to Wat Pho for a massage session but too bad already closed. Really not our day. We waited for the boat to get us back to where we came from. Took the skytrain back. Dead tired from the walking, we rested in our hotel room till it was time for dinner. Didn't really have a place in mind to go, so we headed to Hard Rock Cafe. Had dinner and enjoyed ourselves there till late night.
There was a live band performing that night. Was kinda cool...Coz we're the only girls-only pair, think we kinda caught their attention..both from the band and the waiters and waitresses that night. It was quite fun...


The lead singers...the one on the right, her name is Sharon..don't know the guy's name though.


A nice group pic...with the Irish girl who was so drunk that night that she started to talk and talk and talk.....

When they were done singing, they had too much of free beer/shots left. Remember Sharon?The 2 shots in her hand in the pic up there, she gave me one. Not sure what liquour is that also. I just took it. Then one of them pass us beer also. We sat and talk for a while. The band was really good, but then they felt that their music is not really appreciated considering they are told to perform older songs. They will be traveling around the world performing. And they are from the Phillipines.After finishing the beer, we were on our way back to the hotel.

Day 3

Woke up with a terrible headache. Seriously, I wasn't sure it's coz of the liquour I took the night before or just not enough sleep. Went down for breakfast and after that was suppose to head to Pratunam market. Since I thought it would be nice to see the life of the Thai ppl, we walked the back lane and whaddaya know? LOST lor. So in the end, we just got on the skytrain and went to CentralWorld area.We were at Starbucks just relaxing... And after that my headache got worse, so we went back to the hotel and started packing our stuff.We got the cab to the airport. We checked in REALLY early, and went for super expensive lunch at the airport. Our flight was at 455pm Bangkok time.Bumpy ride back to KL, cloudy and lots of turbulence and OLD plane with REALLY noisy passengers sharing their experience at Patpong(Red light district). Thank goodness most of the time was spent sleeping, but those time when I was awake, I overheard the guys at the back talking bout the "cultural" shows that they were watching there.Seriously, it wasn't anything I was interested to know. Touched down at LCCT at about 8pm.

So that kinda sums up my short trip to Bangkok. It was overall an interesting getaway. Although I didn't really get to do what I wanted, or buy more stuff or eaten more food, it's still an eye-opener. Different culture, the people that we met, interaction with locals, exposure to the polluted air...it's unforgettable. The even more unforgettable was the chicken pox thing right after :P Anyway, if I have the time to go there again, I'll probably be more prepared...and I want to visit other places, like the floating market and ancient city and also the beaches there! :)

BANGKOK!

Date: 15- 17 July 2007
Weather: Clear, Rain occasionally
No of participant: 2
Accomodation: Asia Hotel Bangkok

Day 1

Arrived at 1130am BANGKOK TIME. Took a taxi from the airport that cost us 400 baht. I'm still thinking whether we were cheated or not. Nevermind, it was an Avanza, so we had a comfortable ride to the hotel. Checked in. Think Pei Jet made the booking too long, even the reception guy couldn't find her booking information at first. So after all the hooha, we got our Deluxe room which was at RM200 pernite. Quite pricey for an old place like that. But the most convenient would be the direct access to the skytrain station. We grabbbed some maps and got our lonely planet to plan for the rest of the days that we're there. Kinda planned our itenary for the next day. After waiting for PJ's colleagues from Thailand,we got to lunch...in a Chinese restaurant. We had dim sum which was only 19 baht perbasket, which is like really cheap and they have it in a set - 10 baskets. They ordered a noodle too, too bad no pictures on food..coz I thot it would be rude to ask them to wait for me to take pic since everyone was hungry. PJ's friends were kind enough to buy us lunch~! Next, we were off to Catuchak market,I think that should be the way to spell that place. It was Sunday and time was limited to go over the whole place. This place have anything you can think of..REALLY. Don't think 2 days is enough also for the weekend market. Look at the crowd~!!





This is one of the few stalls I captured with my camera. Fresh juice. Intersting...behind this stall is where I found an interesting snack.


Can you guess what is it? It's sweet coz the filing is green bean paste. Something like the Chinese "ang ku kueh" filing, but the outer layer is like konyaku jelly.
We were just walking around and I only bought 2 tops from the market. Wished I had more time there. One of PJ's colleague came with her bf, so when it was close to 5pm, we were on our way back in his car. Saw a lot of the new Vios on the road. Looks kinda nice.

When we got back to the hotel, we waited for PJ's another colleague to meet up with us for dinner. He came and brought his family, what an adorable family. He and his wife were wearing the same clothes and their daughter is just toooooo cute~!! Can't help it, had to take a pic!


This is Hua. So cute, I think she's only about 3 years old. With limited English,can't really communicate with her. Just ask her the basics. "hi","how are you?" ...you know..those "kids" language. Again I did not take pictures of our dinner, I seriously felt impolite and weird, so I kept my camera. But we had some authentic Thai cuisine. The "tomyam kung" was excellent.They kept on feeding us with whatever that's on the table. They ordered stuff that we don't know. To be polite, we just much down whatever that's in front of us. :p The best was the durian ice-cream~!! Heavenly~~!!

After dinner, we thought of visiting Chinatown. PJ's colleague was nice enough to give us a ride around chinatown. It was raining and there's really nothing much we can do. Then we went to Riverpoint thinking that we would get to hunt for the Adidas jacket that PJ eyed on here, but kena tipu la. So we walked for a while and took the taxi back to the hotel.

Day 2

Woke up to an early day, breakfast at the hotel. Bacons~ and Siew Yuk~!!(Roasted pork). Been sometime since I saw pork served in a hotel breakfast spread. :P So we got to the train station and purchased the one-day pass. 120 Baht. Got to the end,and took the Chao Phraya Boatride. Bought another one-day pass. 100 Baht. And off we go to the Grand Palace...


This is like one of the tourist boats that was taking all the tourist.


Temple of Dawn, we didn't visit this place. Just thought it looked nice and took a pic of it when we're on our boat ride.

On the boat, we met a couple from California and another older couple from UK. Quite friendly people. So we got to the palace after about 20 minutes of boat ride? One thing we didn't expect was....it was Monday and it's prayers day~! So no entry to the palace till after lunch. We're like...huh?? And since we're also lost in translation in this place, not knowing what to do, there was this guy at the guard post that told us, we could go to the surrounding temples to sight-see first before returning to the Grand Palace.

Stranger#1: Oh, you can go to see temples over here and here(Pointing at a few temples up north from where we are in our map)Take the tuk-tuk and maybe you can go to the Thai Centre. Shopping, now got sales. Only 30 Baht.

Oh, whaddaya know, there was a tuk-tuk driver on the right and waving his hands at us. Considering that we can't go anywhere dy, mind as well we kill time that way la...further more, only 30 Baht to that few places. Sounded okay to us, and I was so looking forward to a tuk-tuk ride...so we took it and had our share of the polluted air of Bangkok. First off was one of the temples..sigh, don't ask me the names..I only know it's Wat something.. :P Boring..nothing much there. When we got out, our tuk-tuk driver wanted to take a leak. So we were there and waited for him and another stranger was talking to us. Thais are friendly people I guess.

Stranger#2: Oh, you two are not from here.
PJ: Yes.
Stranger#2: Where are you from?
Me: Malaysia
Stranger#2: Oh, Kuala Lumpur? Nice place. I am reporter with Bangkok Times. Today is prayers day, I bring my mother here for prayers. Where are you going after this?
PJ: To the Thai Centre
Stranger#2: Ohh, good. Now they have sales. It's good. You go there and buy. It's for your mother. Very good investment. You buy now and give your mother and after she passed on, you get it back. So good investment.
(PJ and I were looking at each other after he said that and started laughing...not sure what kind of message he was trying to convey though...)

Okay, after that short conversation, we got to the Thai centre. It was a jewelry place. This guy was promoting their red ruby and yellow sapphire to us. With lifetime gurantee and cost much lesser compared to back home. True enough, but then our main purpose was not to get any jewellery, so we just walked a round and got out.
Our tuk-tuk driver was curious whether we got anything, we said no. Then he brought us to another place. Although we didn't want to go, he was close to begging coz he said he just wanted a coupon. SO since we're such good hearted people(:P), we agreed. He brought us to another jewellery place. And came out with nothing either. Next was supposedly our last temple before we return to the Grand Palace. Ok, this temple I remember coz it was translated to English :P The Golden Mount. It's a temple on top of a hill and you get a view of that part of Bangkok from the top.



Something to see on our way up.


This is our tuk-tuk driver...There's a lot to remember about this guy...why?? Because he left us there at that Golden Mount temple~!!! Can you believe it. We're quite some distance from the Grand Palace and we haven't even pay him. Maybe the 30 Baht he can do without. I'm thinking he was pissed off with us for not purchasing anything from the places he brought us to.

So let's stop for here now... will continue blogging with bangkok part 2. :)

Took too long of a break..

Whoa..nice to be back and blogging. So it's almost a month..wow. So what happened? Chicken Pox Attack~!! (If anyone out there knows the medical term to this particular condition, do share with me)


Well, finally it happened. Unexpected, unwanted. And it happened a day after I got back from Bangkok. So until today, I still have no idea where I contracted it from. Maybe from someone new I met? No idea...still unexplainable to me. But anyhow, it's been such a boring 2 weeks cooked up at home. I'm back and jumping around in office~! Kinda sad considering the main thing I wanted to do was to get back to work. SERIOUSLY, it gets really boring at home coz you can't possibly go out.No internet also...no shows to watch, no mood to do anything. So I ended up napping during the afternoons. I want to thank everyone who has been REALLY REALLY nice to send your get well greetings. My colleagues, thanks for the fruit+flower basket. Really came as a surprise to me...and I was very touched.Pic as attached....

So moodless since I got back to work. Maybe it's the new office(or it's the 2 weeks break). Yea, I've finally shifted to Shah Alam. Nearer to home...but takes about the same amount of time to get there and the old office...no difference, the only one is the rush hour jam. But 2 years in Sunway...kinda miss it there. The new place, everyone has their own partition but if u wanna talk, u can sit up straight, then you could see eye level, if not, then just stand up la. But since it's a big place, the echoes are really loud if we were to make noise :P But these 2 days is just getting used to la. Next week la..my working mood should be back, I'm still at the stage where I'm exploring on what time I should leave home to get to office in time and get a good parking space. I think the best spot should be in front of the guard house. It's quite scary to walk far...especially by myself. Bangkok highlights in my next blog post. :)

FATE...do you believe?

I'm a believer. Everyone you cross path with would be because of fate. It's fate that brings people together. And it's also fate that I have not met that someone special yet...(kinda questioning that already...maybe I'm fated to be alone... sad..)It is also fate that I've met some incredibly amazing people that had taught me a lot and also changed my perception about a lot of things.

Ohh well, I spent last weekend re-reading Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom. Had to re-read it coz someone asked about the book, which I don't remember much of the storyline at that time.(It was 2 years ago when I got the book!) But anyhow, it's still a good book and you have to get a copy to read. The book tells how each people that Eddie(the main character) had met or just simply cross path made that significant impact in his life without knowing it himself...interesting eh? FATE... :)

Bread, Bread, I love you!

I have to start singing that tune in my head. Over-excessive expenditure during sales month can really kill me. Another shopping retreat last weekend. Can't believe this, it's like this shopping thing has this power over me. So my lunch plan for the coming weeks: Bread, bread and bread.

Well, the main reason for this whole thing is coz of Bangkok. That's happening in the mid of this month. Money should go to there, so all my money is frozen for that now. Not sure how much I'll be spending for that, but still I need to reserve some for it. Not to say I regret shopping that day la, it was great~! :P Just that I need to refrain from another retail therapy session till...at least end of august? My car insurance needs renewal, that's another sum of money to go.

And last weekend was also the time that I realised that among my uni friends, my salary was the lowest among all of them. hhhhmmmmm.....no comment la.I'm staying coz I want to learn as much as possible and..MY SALARY IS THE LOWEST! Can't get over that just yet. I need a pep talk...I wonder who can give me that.

My Motto?

I had an interesting conversation last night with a new friend. Quite intriguing. He posed this question: What's your motto in life? I was shocked coz it's the first time chatting with him and he asked me such a deep question, I seriously thought he was going to sell me something. Turns out he was just curious...
Anyway, I'm a simple girl...so my motto in life is to live it to the fullest and do things that you won't regret. What's yours? Think about it...

The Great Singapore Sales

Everyone should make a trip down to check out the sales there. Clothes are going as low as SGD5~!! Brands like U2/Giordano/Hang Ten has clothes from SGD8 and above.Too bad din have the time to stay longer, would be nice to shop for my working attire. Didn't really buy much either, spent a big amount on my brother's present for his house. Kinda budgeted for that only, the rest of the shopping just happen to come along :P Went for a massage too. Kinda felt like a "water-fish" after my sis-in-law told me SGD28 was too pricey for a half-n-hour massage.(thinking back, yea, I WAS REALLY A GOOD BIG FAT WATER-FISH!) But the good side of it was, although a half-n-hour session, it was a good one~! Seriously, i think the lady only used half her energy to apply to my back. It was damn painful~! You must be asking, "why pay so much for such torture?" Felt so light after the massage session, she really loosen up all my veins. Too bad the massage only for my upper back only. The main area of concern for that day was my aching feet from walking. I only spent the afternoon and Taka and it's not even enough! I didn't get any shoes~!!(which I think will make it up here in m'sia :P )

For the first time, I went to CommunicAsia that was held at Singapore Expo this year.
Lots of freebies to offer~! Haha, I grabbed one or 2. Met my fellow colleagues and my bosses there. They were really surprised to see me. Since I'm in town, why not eh?
Saw an old friend too. So not too bad, and learn a couple of new things. Overall it's quite interesting...for me.not sure bout the rest, since the stuff that I was looking at was more related to what I do now.The best freebie I got was the 1GB USB drive. I almost bought one from here already and it's great that I have a FREE one now.(That will save up about RM40...that's good, I can buy shoes now~!)

Oh I've finally saw the new house. Very nicely renovated and decorated~! My brother and sis-in-law really put in a lot of effort in it. I think he has the biggest house compared to my elder brothers. And with his resort-like theme, there's gonna be a lot to do to maintain it. Looks real cosy though, which is nice. Will bring my camera there the next time to capture some pics. I like the plasma and home-theatre system~! And his study also quite cool.

Such a short holiday...had to make my way back on Sunday morning! Not too bad I guess. Taking off for the rest of the day...ta!

Dumpling festival

It's that time of the year again where you munch down dumplings. This year...was a little special for me.I've been spending these small festivities by myself the past few years...being in uni and parents being away in singapore.

This year, my aunts made it a little more "warm" for me. Hahaha, got dumplings from them. Well..made it special I guess. At least I'm still remembered? (Like sooooo SAD and PATHETIC~!) But can't really blame me rite?It's these times that I miss my family the most, and it's my niece's birthday too. Wonder how did her birthday party went. Not done with the dumpling story, my neighbour also gave me some. She said and I quote "Since you alone there and no one to eat with, pass you some-lah"
Ok...that sounded worse rite? BUT I'm okay. Ate the dumplings and there's 2 more in the fridge. Memorable dumpling festival. :)

Looking forward for my long weekend in Singapore..Would be great to take some timeoff from work.it's been 2 months since I was last there. An earlier off before Bangkok NEXT MONTH! And Langkawi in September! Didn't know I had that much planned :P All trips paid already, so will be going, no matter what! Means I seriously can't spend much during the sales this time around. Also not planning to spend that much in SG too. Will just check out some stuff, I hope can refrain myself.. SO I better act busy again. Back to my analysis...Have a good week~!

Do you remember your first cup of Starbucks coffee?

Who doesn't need a good cup of coffee? And my favourite place to get it is no other than Starbucks. They recently introduced 2 new drinks... If u ask me, I'd say "Just stick to your regular coffee". Been spending too much time in Starbucks coz of work. Out of the many coffee choices in the menu, I think I've tried a big percentage of it. They used to have my favourite drink : Rhumba in their menu..which I missed soo much!!

I think my first cup of starbucks was back in my uni days. Couple of years ago... but these days, as I hang out more in Starbucks, I see younger ppl in their teens getting their coffee there. Back in those days, I wouldn't step into Starbucks. SO kids these days are pretty lucky... I hope they know how to appreciate all the things that they have now. Heck, they have better and more modern handphones than me~! (And I work in the telecommunications industry~!)

Here, attached below are the pic of the 2 new drinks mentioned, if u have a curious tastebud, you can always try them out.

June~

Nice month..coz it's the start of SALES~!!! Don't you just love the sound of that word!! AND my bangkok trip is gonna be in July~! That's another month to countdown.
Recently planned for Langkawi somewhere in October. Let's hope the new project thingy won't be in the way of my trips. All already been paid for. Made arrangements earlier already. I don't want to leave knowing that work's undone.

It's a little free today. I get to sit and do nothing...well, am suppose to read up on things, but that can wait. Just thought of taking things slow today. Laziness kicking in after been stuck with the software the past 2 days. Still a lot to go. :P

Big bro came back the other day bringing back my nieces and my parents. So good to see them. Can't believe that my youngest niece is already 1year +. Adorable little fella. It's just a relaxing day at work.. :P So was in the mood to blog a little, you know to mark the new month~! That's all la, nothing much to talk about also. Just crapping my way through my Tuesday. :D

Queues...Long queues....

You see, the one thing I love about hypermarkets are the express lanes. So when I buy less items, I still can get out within 15 minutes. The most horrible thing happened yesterday...THEY CLOSED THE EXPRESS LANE~!!! And surprisingly, there were quite a crowd for a monday night. I had to get the 2 bottles of water coz the water supply at home is just too polluted. It's WHITE~!~! So nvm, I queued. But if anyone in TESCO Klang reading this, PLEASE PLEASE don't ever close the express lane, it's just so inconveinient for ppl like me who only buy less than 10 items~!

There's one weekend when I went to hypermarket to just get some things, and I turned back looking at the amount of people queueing up. Rather go another time to get it. It's just me and queues...I dun like 'em. Not that I encourage ppl to jump queues though. I hate those ppl too, coz they slow down the whole process.So enough rambling for this time la...will blog another time.

Updates updates...

Well, nothing really much to write about this time around, just thought of just updating my blog. SO recently there's 2 colleagues looking at new phone; one of them eventually went to get his the past weekend. Dunno how he ended up with an N80. I was checking out mine too...erm...my future phone...that is if I actually like it when I see it. Here...you can see it. Introducing the W660i :



Cool eh? Looks nice in picture, let's hope the real thing looks nice. But that would be sometime before that happens.

So there's this big thing that happened last week. A big tree branch fell off right in front of me and my colleagues. I was still blur when the whole incident happened. I am still blur...coz I was the only one in the car who didn't hear the branch breaking. I just saw it fell. There was a couple of pedestrians who were screaming as they ran off the place. Well..thank GOD for surviving that. Can't imagine what we would turn out to be if we were passing there a little earlier...creepy eh? Things can just happen to you...doesn't matter when or where. Which kinda reminded me of something some trainer taught us during the safety training: "Accidents work 24/7 and knows no holiday"

Let's just say it's been quite an up and down thing since I last blogged. and it's been crazy la...and i'll just need to blog another time coz Nyuet is here. Need to catch up with her.

Kena Con~!!

When I got into work today, the only news that was going around was the one about my colleague who got con by a particular travel agency. If you haven't heard, there's news on it in The Star. If you missed it, I've pasted the link below.

Star news reporting on it

How absurd! People saved up for 10 years to go for this once-in-a-lifetime trip and those f*#%i&* just cheat their hard-earned money. SO next time everyone just need to be extra-cautious about all those travel agencies.

On another not so sad note, my weekend was another short one but quite interesting in a way. Learned a couple of things, surprising things~! Got my first wedding invite for this year. The dinner is this weekend! Got my blood test report back. Just didn't like it that Judy got hold of it and already looked through it without my permission. Maybe she thought that I wouldn't get what those in the report would mean, but still...although u work there, u still need my permission to look at my health screening report, rite??? Even if you'd seen it already, still some courtesy to ask again...I don't mind if you'd asked coz I know I wouldn't understand lots of stuff in the report and I would need explanation. STILL...I felt she shouldn't have done it. Besides the me-being-a-bit-irritated-by-her, the report came out to be not that bad. The way she told me over SMS , "eh, your report very good la!" Then she was telling how detox had made the readings look the way they were. Most probably. Just some minor things, I need a jab and I need to exercise more...and erm...still about the weight issue..sigh, am really trying hard to work on that~! My cholestrol level is okay,just that my good ones are lesser than my bad ones. So need to exercise to increase in that. I was surprised considering I've been eating so much meat over the past 25 years~! Till that one-month (2-weeks detox plus 2 more weeks of staying away from meat), i think it was brought down. But still, there's work to be done with myself. Will be my goal for this year lar. Lower down my weight till the ideal one, and increase whatever need to be increased. will go again for next blood test in 6 mnths probably. Considering coming from parents with HBP, my BP is quite good..which is a good sign. Okay..so the healthy thingy will continue la.

SO that's all to ramble about this morning la...Will write another time.