The New Year 2011

As the curtain draws to year 2010, I guess this is the best time to reflect on the things that has happened throughout the year...

The good: News of addition to the family, a "promotion" at work, a trip to Japan, attended the ASA course, enrolled myself for a 5KM run, started on exercising more regularly, cut down on the drinking, cut down on fast food, got to know a bunch of new friends, got a new phone

The bad: Got out from my relationship, got a whole lot more headache from my "promotion", only went for a trip this year, too many retail therapy sessions

What's in for 2011?

1) Continue with the exercise. My target weight loss is still at 20kg!

2) Change to a new car...Now thinking of Honda City.

3) Go to an overseas trip..thinking bout Australia for now, but exchange rate is kinda high...

4) Complete my 11km run ( in April )

5) Explore a lot more opportunities

So that's my resolution this coming year.

Hope it'll be a good one for you too!

Have a blast!

Turning a new leaf...

It has been the greatest 4 days of my life~
I finally attended the Achievers Self-Actualization course!

Trust me, I was as skeptical as anyone of you out there reading this. If you're wondering what course it is, before going to it, I'd describe it as any other motivational course. If you asked me now, I would STRONGLY suggest to you this course.

I would not elaborate on the content of the course, as this is basically or probably the one and only type of course that will help you the way you never thought before. It helped me, and this will be the beginning of a better life... my first and best investment of a lifetime! :)

When a good pillow works...

It's been a week or two that I'm having interrupted sleep. Think I need to get another Getha pillow again. This lack of sleep thing is getting to me...

Argh..so i'm counting down to Weds. Let it be a good week ahead~!

2V1G

I haven't been listening to the Chinese radio stations for a while now...so when I read from another blog about this group; I was thinking this might be worth a listen.

Thanks to the blog, I totally love their music! Singing some old renditions with their own style. This album is 3 thumbs up for me!

Check them out!
http://2v1g.blogspot.com/2008/04/about-2v1g.html

I won something...??

It was a couple of weeks ago when I was bored at work and I joined the online GSC contest. Surprisingly, over the weekend, I just found out I won one of the merchandise...Not too bad. It's a SALT Lenticular Notebook...this "notebook" here is those you-know...paper with hardcover thingy NOT the laptop kinda notebook.



Now...what to do with this notebook??

How do you deal with sudden death annoucements?

I got a call this morning saying that my cousin had passed away...it was 7am and I just got up from bed, I thought I was dreaming...apparently not.

So how do you deal with sudden death news of relatives? I used to have my parents to get the news directly, and I'll be the one at the side to receive the news later...you know, having being prepared that it's some bad news; since the facial expression of your parents change as they speak on the phone. And it's me breaking the bad news along to other relatives. This is the first..and frankly, I still don't know how to feel right now. Sigh...


Hmm..what was planned to be a good relaxing weekend has turned gloomy suddenly....

Desserts to lighten up your day

Well well..had an evening with the girls yesterday and then CJ suggested this place in SS15 called Snowflakes. Quite nice desserts :) This shop is located on the first floor somewhere in the stretch of shops opposite Asia Cafe. It was a Thursday night and it was fully packed with young college kids. Once you have queued for an average of 5-7 minutes, it will be your turn to order. After ordering you will get this beeping UFO ( more like a pager to indicate that food is ready for pick up)

So as you can see, we ordered the Snowflake Best Seller, Memorable Series: Japan! Combo and Winter Stringz. Price is considered as reasonable with the portion that they served.

This was the Snowflake Best Seller. They have what they call Taroballs. It's of chewy texture which kinda goes well with the whole combination. The white is milk and black is grass jelly. Bottom layer is ice with syrup.


This was JAPAN! Combo. Not too sure why they call it that. Green thing is green tea chewy taroball. White is soya bean flavoured ice...I kinda like this one too. Probably the chewy is not that great compared to the best seller... :P

Overall, this is quite a good place to go for desserts. Down point, very small space, places limited. So if you have the patience, it will take about 10-15 minutes of waiting time. Not too bad to try it out on a hot day ;) They also serve hot desserts....yet to try that...

Char Siew

Read about Char Siew today from Malaysia Finance Blog and thought of the char siew place I used to go. Been a while since I last went (probably a year ago?) This place hasn't change, probably price has increased a little but still reasonable :)

Nice presentation with just the right balance of fat and meat...more on the fats actually but that's the best part~ Barbequed to perfection ~

Roasted pork; frankly, I sorta think that the Canton-i ones are better....

Well, other things they have are roasted pork, roasted duck, roasted chicken, chinese style stuffed sausage and occasionally roasted goose.They also serve wan tan mee and sui kow(dumplings) and also the taugeh and vege. Opens from 7 till 4pm( But there's no say on when the closing is exactly since according to the boss, they will close when their ingredients have finished for the day) This shop was featured in one of Astro's programme before and some other newspaper article.

Restaurant name: Spring Golden
Location: 25, Jalan Sepadu C, 25/C Section 25, Taman Perindustrian Axis, 40400 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
GPS reading: 101.542966, 3.025751

Tauhu Telur

Hmm, anyone know where I can get a good tauhu telur? I had this in Puchong. A Restaurant called Nyonya something... Looks good eh? But then, taste wise a bit disappointing.



Besides that, we also order the sambal petai...which I think could have been better. Overall, food wise, this is a so-so for me. Close to forgettable.



Been a while since I went Puchong and it has EVOLVED~! Can't remember when Puchong became like a food haven....Will explore more come the weekends~~! Yeay, new place for the taste buds~!

RF for slimming?

This is cool...all this while, all I knew about RF was for work... today was a good day where I learned that RF is damn effective for slimming and body shaping... And the guys go about and complaint about loosing sperm counts! :p

With the advancement in technology, I think I kinda left out that beauty treatment centers too are technology driven. With RF + Ultrasound treatments for slimming and facials, they have now grown the business and introducing packages with prices that will blow your mind off~! A facial treatment with RF and stuff cost like RM200+ per session. Seriously, gone are the days that facials go for RM5o per session... and ladies will pay more knowing that these new treatments are better than before and gives more effect for a lesser time frame. All the good~

Makes me wonder, there's always the bad for everything, what is it for this? They claim RF is perfectly safe...something like laser to your eyes is also perfectly safe... can't find any side effects, just will need to experience it to know?! If you had done it, please share with me.

Angry, Tired, Fed Up

Probably everyone will come to this stage at one point of their life..and as usual, i'll only bitch about work. Everyone seems to be HAPPY when they leave here, maybe I should too.
The envious looks I tend to throw those people who have moved on.... I should be in that state too; being given the stare and feeling great about what's going to happen~ and I'm more convinced now that I should be doing just that.

Can't wait till the day I type that last email thingy...been getting a lot of those, bet I can come up with a better closing ... mind you, it has been 5 years~! I have already prepared my template and goodbye speech.

Well, till that happens..I'm gonna sit and look for a job... Clueless of what I'm going to do, but let's hope there's news of something SOON!!

Frustration

Frustration is when one is trying to take over your job.
Frustration is when one tries to take over yet it feels like it's equally screwed.
Frustration is when one thinks they are too great.
Frustration is when one is trying to boss me around!

A wedding to remember..

Congratulations again Beverly and Hadi. It was indeed a wedding to remember. Thanks for the hospitality and I'm very glad to be part of the celebration~!

So this has become one of the grandest wedding that I've ever attended. The romantic setting, the closeness of the family bond, the touching speech, the lovely wedding dresses, the beautiful and handsome mempelai~ :) Food was excellent too!

In the midst of sorting out the pictures. Sharing this one first. :)

My fan...My fan~~~

Sigh, it has become a pattern everytime that my family leaves, one electrical appliance/item will just stopped working...

This time around is the living hall fan~ It just stopped.....not moving, probably the motor has died, overused over the past 5 days. Thank God it rained, I'd be crying over the heat if it didn't.

Last year the fridge died, then the TV... now the fan. I'll need to wait for daddy to return to get it fixed. In the mean time, I'll need to depend on the good ol' table fan.

CNY CNY..Celebrations of spring~

Hullo~~ Happy CNY to everyone!

Been a tiring CNY since day 1. Now that it's day 3, everything is settling down and the relatives visiting will also come to a halt ... considering my bro is returning tmr, and none of them are that interested to visit me here when my mommy n daddy is not around, so, it's finally time for FRIENDS and probably some..erm...money-making activities!

Not too bad of a celebration this year...kinda hectic with the whole visiting schedule, I might give Sg a miss this year too. It's going to be dinner on the 18th, 19th and visiting on the 19th, 20th, and 21st. So, pretty packed up schedule too~

Happy also la..this year I didn;t get any questions that's related to marriage ... :P Well, there was one who was asking me bout being attached. My dad was making some comments this year. First was asking me to find one and not being too picky...Next was him suggesting that I have my wedding dinner at one particular restaurant that we had dimsum in. My mom was...SURPRISINGLY saying that it's not that big deal that I'm still single, hmmm...totally didn't expect that. Haha, guess she has given up on the whole idea that I would be married off after the long wait. :P

Can't wait for reunions and birthday meet-ups. Kura2 is at least turning...2 or 3..or 5. Lost track of time. So, enjoy the rest of the holidays! To those who needs to start work tmr, have a pleasant week ahead!

One of those days..

It was a sad and demotivating morning. Not sure why, probably it is one of those days that the question "Why am I still here?" kinda pops up in my head...

Working with a demotivated bunch is not helping..feeling the holidays is not helping either...why why why??? I just need a break la...

So, next week I'll be moving office, will be in the same area, but maybe the change of environment will help a little in boosting the morale ( crossing my fingers and just wishing ... )

Can't wait for the weekend...

Ji Muis

Tomorrow's the day.... Mun Leng will be marrying Adrian. Let's hope for a great wedding ahead. Congratulations to both of you!!



Mun Leng's bachelorette meet-up at Funa Sushi, Klang... :) Initially we had this super great plan..but last minute got cancelled. Anyway, this is our first ji mui getting married. Next in line is Beverly and coming along should be Chin Jie. Whoever who wants to cut in in the middle is more than welcome. :)

So will look forward to tmr.. :)

A Note To A Dear Friend

Dear friend,

Don't know how to start this ... coz I know I haven't been a good friend to you. I apologize for not being there, I loath myself for drowning myself with work when such bad thing happened. I'm not really sure what went on till you've changed so drastically.When I first knew you back in uni, you're one of the cheerful ones; full of life and energy. I hate how things turned out over the year for you. You have drowned yourself away from your friends, you have kept yourself in misery.

I need to tell you that all your friends are concerned and worried. Therefore there is that few things you MUST do for yourself. First of all, GET UP! Pick yourself up. Find yourself again! Life should be worth living once again, face the new obstacles, get beaten down by new challenges and rise up again. Another thing that you NEED to do is get in touch with your friends. They are worried sick, and you're just too selfish to be thinking that you need space and time and phasing yourself out.

Friend, what's past shall be forgotten and it's time to move on. I really hope that you can wake from it and stand up tall again. I long for the day that the cheerful you to return.

Your friend,
YL

2009 recap and 2010 wishes

Oh wow..been ages since I did any blogging since Facebook came along... and it's 2010. Still in January, still safe to wish everyone a Happy New Year~ May this year brings better increments, opportunities and also good luck to those who decides to tie the knot this year!

So what have I been up to? Simple summary would be...work, work and work. Traditionally, I should do some recap thingy...

Alrite...since Sept, I went on a holiday with the kura-kura gang to Krabi in Oct. Nice getaway, sun, sea...not so much on the beach though. 4 days 3 night that went by really quick. Nov, nothing much this year. Quiet year, didn't really celebrate my birthday, was working on my birthday. Had lunch with my colleagues, ended up in Zouk with my colleagues..and bump into another colleague! :P Then there was the routine standing up on the chair..this year i didn't fail to sing Twinkle Twinkle again! :P Then there were some dinners with friends too.. Oh ya..my baby niece, Jia Xuan, arrived, not sure I mentioned. Went down to Sg for her full moon. Baby Ahslynn is now all grown up! She's like 4 this year and she talks a lot. Baby Weng Kei is also getting very talkative at the age of 4. Weng Yan is currently in Primary 1. OMG~~Where did time fly...I didn't even see them crawl..and now they are all running around!!!! (which makes photoshoot a bit difficult)

Dec..was a month of weddings...Siew Theng and Cheng Khoon to start off the month. Oh ya...KF got married too on 27th Nov. All vegetarian dinner in KEC. ST & CK's was in Penang. Lovely wedding for the lovely couple. Did the ji mui thingy too...had a great time. Thanks ST & CK for the hospitality~! Lots of people got married.. Niam ( didn't get to attend ) too. 26th was YinHau's. Went all the way to Pahang for his luncheon. One happy man...frankly, one of the few "underdogs" to get married first :P But am happy for him! :)

Seems to be all good throughout the end of the year of 2009. Just some minor issues here and there. Overall...2009 was a learning year. I learn to take up some responsibilites, I learn to prioritize,I learn some lessons on the business...ok la..most the learning was at work. Socially...hmm..I've made some new friends. Potentials to marry off with? Nehh...still long way for that to happen. So what to look forward in 2010?

2010 would be a year of more tests...I need to make sure that I can endure till the end. Lots of new task at hand, new KPIs to meet that's work wise. Others..I guess it will be the usual catching up during weddings and gatherings. I foresee more wedding invitations coming in this year, despite the whole hoo-haa bout getting married during the Tiger year.

So...that's all I have to say...erm..type for now.