Thoughts Central

A visit to the home

2011-06-18T13:12:00.002+08:00

I was fortunate enough to receive an invite by WS to visit the home of disabled children. It was earlier today and I find the need to immediately blog about it.

I haven't been to a home to visit before. Only see it from outside. And I said I wanna do more for the community and this was the chance!

So WS picked me up from my house, and we picked another friend of hers and we were off to the home after breakfast. When we reached, I too was worried I could not be able to face them. But the feeling as I walked in was just overwhelming. You can see smiles on their faces when they have visitors. That just melts the heart and at the same time, I fought the tears that wanted to fall down. It is heartbreaking to see them being abandoned by their parents to this home. Some of the kids are very lively, kicking around, actively running. We saw another group of people donating things like cooking oil, rice, milk powders. This home houses 76 disabled children with 14 working adults to look after them. We've planned for the next trip there again.

Bless the people that looks after the place and bless the children as they grow up in an environment that is different from others. The guys here can do with more help and support in terms of loving care and monetary and materials.

Can't wait for the next visit.

In case you want donate/visit, you may channel your contributions/love to this place:

Persatuan Penjagaan Kanak-kanak Cacat Klang Selangor

No 4, Lorong Bunga Raya,

Kampung Raja Uda,

42000 Port Klang, Selangor

Tel: 03-31654312/03-31654475

Fax: 03-31655616

Wow..new heights!!

2011-06-01T19:47:00.002+08:00

I know I've been a bit passive here. It's been months since I last blogged!

Anyway, it's been a good year till now. Hectic, but good. Seems like a year that I feel like I'm "fly"ing. :)

So work's been going on great. Too much of work though...but I'm coping. Already made my trip to Sydney...TWICE! Hehe...short business trips. But then, there is going to be another later on, when we start moving into our project in Perth/Adelaide. Can't wait! Gonna make my way to Brisbane to visit the bunch of buzzer friends too!

Hmm..I kinda missed my deadlines to achieve my targets. Now need to sit and rethink and rework my goals. Lots to look forward to sumore. I should not be too harsh on myself, coz things will eventually work out!

My weekdays are probably a bit too busy trying to figure out how to make things work at the work place actually and weekends just seem to just fly by. It's June! Mid of the year. My numbers are not there. And tick-tock! Time is ticking away....

I need to get back to my visualization exercise. At least get a better picture of how to get things work for me.

Being anti-social

2011-01-09T15:41:00.004+08:00

Ok..it has never gotten to me that it can be REALLY annoying chatting using the phone through facebook or any IM apps, when you're out with other people. My apologies to everyone if I did it before. This is something I will change ..now!

Never really realized it till I saw my friend did it. And it's like this stone thrown at you telling you that YOU are this person who does it too! And the whole idea of social networking sites is to meet new people virtually, so the questions come to mind would be...will or can this cyberspace social networking be REAL? How would these people be if the computers/smartphones are taken away from them? Can they really socialize in the real world? Interesting to think about it...

It's so easy to just click on someone and say "hi" and chat continues... Things doesn't seem to be the same in real, now why is that? it boggles me...

Anyway..just needed to say that out. Back to work for me!

The New Year 2011

2010-12-31T10:34:00.002+08:00

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...

2010-10-04T00:31:00.002+08:00

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...

2010-09-20T11:55:00.002+08:00

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

2010-09-01T11:44:00.002+08:00

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...??

2010-08-22T20:13:00.001+08:00

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?

2010-08-14T08:35:00.002+08:00

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

2010-08-06T22:05:00.004+08:00

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

2010-08-04T13:22:00.003+08:00

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

2010-08-04T11:26:00.003+08:00

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?

2010-07-31T23:41:00.002+08:00

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

2010-07-05T17:20:00.003+08:00

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

2010-05-07T14:45:00.002+08:00

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..

2010-03-22T22:23:00.002+08:00

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~~~

2010-02-17T19:56:00.002+08:00

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~

2010-02-16T17:59:00.003+08:00

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..

2010-02-04T14:25:00.002+08:00

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

2010-01-22T17:41:00.004+08:00

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

2010-01-20T14:17:00.002+08:00

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

2010-01-19T10:40:00.004+08:00

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.

Moving on...

2009-09-14T13:31:00.002+08:00

Hmm..breakup season seems to be sipping in...

If you're going through one...my advice is... move on. Lots of things waiting for you out there. Doesn't matter if you're 20 or even 40..life has too many things to be enjoyed. First thought that one must always keep in mind, this is not a matter of life or death. Definitely not a good reason to choose suicide when your lover leaves you. It'll be too stupid to pull that one off... I might not know the reasons for you guys to call things off; I definitely would not know how deep you guys feel for each other, but what I know is that there's definitely no reasons to hang on to something that has already lost meaning and feeling...everyone need to realize that there's many more things to look forward to~

You just need to get back on ur feet...give yourself time and TIME is the great healer of all! :) All the best to you my friends.. :)

Sad notes aside, would also take this opportunity to congratulate those that are getting married/registered this month! Cherish each other and enjoy the ride~~

New toys

2009-09-06T17:21:00.005+08:00

Ahh..what better way to spend the long weekend...SPLURGE~!

Got a new toy ..and finally my own Monopoly set~! Caught my attention when it went for a really CHEAP price, so why not just grab one back to play with...kinda forgot how to play this game, anyone with instruction manuals? Guess no instruction books for fake sets.. :P My Monopoly set

What's inside the box

The board game

How nice if these were real

The el' cheapo Styrofoam hotels

Hehe..just another shot of the board

And all this for? ...RM12.90~!!

Coz..made in China mar...

I'll probably start playing with it when I get bored with my other toys la.. haha..what a weekend!!

End of July????

2009-07-24T02:03:00.002+08:00

Gosh...so fast and it's close to end of July. Crap..my deadlines are screwed!

Anyway, just waiting for my not-so-big break. I wonder how long it takes to get it all done and over with. :) Something to look forward to I guess.

I'm off to land down south this weekend. Wanna take a short trip to run away from all the insanity till i get back to it next week! Gosh~!

Sigh, do take care everyone.Flu season..getting kinda serious with the H1N1 and first death case. :)

Tiring tiring

2009-07-15T03:10:00.002+08:00

I'm doing this at 3am! Waiting for my data to be processed..which is taking forever~ I'm gonna need heavy dosage of caffeine later when I get to office. This is so sad~

Oh well, my big break seemed to have shoved aside. Sigh, why oh why?~! Still waiting for confirmation on whether it's possible to get it up a few notches. Taking up more responsibility in the office, it's getting heavier... and probably the right time to throw that letter. Tiring... I wonder how I can survive tmr with such hectic schedule...

Sigh..time to sleep I guess.... no need to worry bout stuff till daylight...Getting a bit sick..a bit worried. Hope everyone's doing fine.

Changing lanes

2009-07-07T23:55:00.002+08:00

The time has come~ let's hope it comes true~

This time I guess I'll be more certain and I will make sure I don't cry when I do it. Hahha...too emo dy the last time I attempted it.

Just praying for the best and let's hope things will go my way! Keeping fingers and toes crossed.

OOoooo ...Quiet time....

2009-06-25T17:29:00.003+08:00

Not that hectic at work suddenly. Waiting for the next wave.

So it was report card day yesterday...and it was an "A"! Yea, they have this evaluation kinda thing from the main con. Kinda proud of the team also. So that's happy news. Sad part is don't have enough $$ to buy my team a good meal. Probably wait for the $$ to come in before I call for celebration.

Ok...stealing sometime at work to update this. Will do this another time..

Alrite people, take good care of yourselves~ Flu virus is around you, take precautions~

Learning to adapt

2009-05-18T20:15:00.002+08:00

Life is indeed a learning curve. You live, you learn. Yea. So getting a bit used to this new found position. Let's you feel how it's like being in the position of power also how it sucks when things go bad and all fingers point to you. I'm going through all of it the same time.Yes, it sucks when things don't go the way I want it. Sigh..

So life's been pretty much about work. I hate that I'm so slow to pick up things. My 3 month deadline is here. So where do I stand? I'll know when it comes to the end of the month. Need to buck up and fix some problems. Sigh, I should stop saying I hate it and move towards making things better.

Anyway, I'm getting another niece~ Definitely something to shout about. I can imagine them growing up together and having fun, having fights, sharing gossips, shopping.. something I never had when I was growing up...oh well, happy news is always welcome to cover the gloom... let's hope for a better tomorrow.

Looking at the world with different perspective

2009-04-06T16:10:00.002+08:00

Yes, time to change how I view things. Taking account for all that I'd taken for granted. Yes, things need to be changed ... Hope it's not too late. I don;t feel as stressed today though...

Don't want to sing "Rainy days and Mondays always bring me down" ... Need to tune it up to a happier tune. Things will be alright... there is cure...

Life challenges...

2009-04-05T16:53:00.003+08:00

Yes, life is filled with it...

I hope she's well, I hope she's good, and I wish to tell her that I want to spend more time getting to know her. Yes, this is what a family should be. But deep down I know she's more afraid of this than me... I hope she'll get through this and all the best wishes in the world for her. It's going to be a tough and painful road ahead. I refuse to feel pessimist now, it's only the early stages, I'm too afraid to think of the worse.

Another emotional challenge it is...

Mixed emotions

2009-03-12T13:43:00.004+08:00

Crazily jumbled up feelings..damn emo these days thinking bout lots of stuff, what to do?, am i doing it right?, can i do this? ... i need someone/something to tell me it's gonna be alright, things will fall into place,or just screw it~!

Sighh....i want to turn n run away from all this. Can I ? yea, this is me being immature and avoiding from responsibilities...i'm only human, and still young...i don;t want to grow up...definitely not this soon!

Happy Chinese "Niu" Year 2009

2009-02-04T19:57:00.001+08:00

I just realised I forgot to wish everyone Happy Chinese New Year. May this new year brings everyone good health, wealth and luck in everything; be it career, lovelife, family or friendships. :)

Check this vid out:

Something really cute

2009-02-03T14:31:00.002+08:00

A very cute ad :)

Happy Chinese New Year?

2009-01-21T11:13:00.003+08:00

Will take sometime for me to sort my Hong Kong trip pics...so in the mean time..let me ramble on other things.. :P

CNY is just around the corner..sooooo near you can feel the CNY air looming around everywhere...CNY music blaring over the airwaves, shopping malls...
so..what's my preparation for it? DAMN sad wei...

1. I'm not done cleaning,
2. I only bought like a small portion of cookies,
3. I have lots of paper to recycle..but i dunno where to send them to,
4. I have not changed the car backlights that I have broken,
5. I have not decided whether I want to resign or stay,
6. I have not went for the interview that I was suppose to go,
7. I did not send any CNY cards this year,
8. I have not finish the work that I'm suppose to before CNY,
9. I have not paid my bills,
10. I'm wondering why I have not completed the 8 things i listed.

ARGHH..hate this..

I'm just not ready for the celebration

In Love with Khalil Fong..

2009-01-16T14:21:00.005+08:00

I know the name of the singer a bit weird la...but then his chinese name sounds normal to me: 方大同.. this song is just LOVELY~~!! Have a listen...

Happy New Year~~

2009-01-14T13:44:00.002+08:00

Yea..this came a litttllleee bit later...but the new year has just begun..lemme just wish you all a Happy New Year 2009! Hope everyone will be happy and achievements can be achieved in this brand new year! :)

Speed dating Part 2

2008-12-23T16:09:00.002+08:00

So I missed the program when I went to my car to change to my sandals. When I got back to the hall, everyone was dancing with a partner. After that we were told to sit back at our seats while the guys start to change seats. That time the food was ready... :) BTW, food was bad.. so not gonna comment much on that.

Then seated a new set of guys on our table. Ok..I remmeber these guys..coz they seated for a long time.. :p the guy on my left was Lam, IT Sales guy. The guy on the left Mong, runs his own business dealing with forklift. From one look, I can't really tell how old they are...but Lam the IT guy should be in his 30s...probably late 30s. Mong the forkllift guy is probably late 30s, early 40s. Well,i was telling myself, for anyone that sits down next to me, I will try my best to make conversation or not it'll be a quiet and boring night. So this Mong guy is more talkative comparisonly...haha.. In the process of the conversation, we were entertained by the drag queen. First when she/he appeared, it was a bit of a dreadful sight, but she/he turns out to be a very good entertainer! Probably should consider hiring her/him to entertain the crowd next time. She/he is funny, talented. Sang like 3 songs...first one was lip synced la...but the 2 after was Jacky Cheung's song leh...very nice. a bit weird to hear a deep voice when you're looking at a lady with an evening dress with lots of feathers...typical drag queen dress-up! She/he became the topic of conversation before things went quiet again... :p

When she/he left the stage, then became the next event. Officiating of the night by the VIP. The emcee said something bout the VIP(married), being the best candidate to give advice on how to maintain a good relationship/marriage...which kinda irked me a while. Coz i think that everyone's relationship/marriage is different so you can't really represent all with only one person's advice. That was what I think..but doesn't matter...boring speech. Then it was time for activities.

Activity #4: Gather in groups according to the colour of ur nametags.

YL's Thought: This is the first speed date session...which was horribly organised! Seriously..but then again, they did say, it's up to u to know ppl. But instructions not clear, lack of working committee. So the real objective was not met. Out of 30 ppl..i was only able to talk to 4 ... so...too bad la. Nevertheless, these 4 guys..i remember them quite well.

Guy #1 , Lam ,was sitting next to me earlier :P
Guy #2: Richard, guy who fix endoscope. How can you not remember this guy? Occupation also so different liao. He started his line with.."nama apa?mau tulis saman"
Guy #3: Sun. I remmeber him coz 1. Young looking fella, 28 actually. 2. Trading and mentioned that he makes 30k per month...
Guy #4: Alex(dunno how many Alexes I met that nite!). IT guy from HP.

Truthfuly..think i met more than 4 guys..only 4 was memorable enough to be mentioned :p

Next we needed to sit again and some activities on the stage. Guys were suppose to move table again. This time another guy sat next to me...can't remember his name...but I remember very clearly what he said to me. "You also engineer? I don't believe uni time dun have ppl go after lorr..." then he continues with this.. "You very tall hor...can find guy meh? Look at the guys here today...all also short wan..u can find meh?" He's taller than me la..but reminder to all guys who's planning to impress a girl...those lines DON'T WORK! this guy is an accounting analyst sumore! Not sure how old, probably late 30s too coz he was shocked to know that I'm still 26.

After that another round of activity:

Activity #5: Speed date Round 2 according to interest/hobby

YL's Thought: Well, up to this point, the emcee was encouraging ppl to go according to the places where they know the guys/gals like are.. there were 4 different category... not that i remember much, i went to the one with Travelling. ... BAD choice. :p should have went with the music part, think more ppl of interest there. But I was there doing a good deed and helping out cupid out a little..haha..one particular guy was eyeing on my friend and he's too shy ... hahaha...not that i know him that well... but then again..why not ask them to get together. You wouldn't know what would happen. :)

Activity #6: Speed date Round 3 according to the place you want to go

YL's Thought: Needed to go toilet.. :P But when I return..it was the same chaotic crowd. It was basically quite chaotic la..with ppl shoving their namecards to you and ppl gathering phone numbers. Not sure how many ppl I exchanged with.. :P Meaningless in a way..but let's see how many will actually call back (up to date..I have received SMS from 4 ppl). I remember 2 guys who came to me that time..Ah Teck, car accessories and aircond guy, and Desmond, not sure his profession...

Oh wait..i forgot the activity where we had to call other ppl up...which is kinda wu liao also...haha..we were suppose to grab a phone number, call the guy and meet up and go up on stage if needed. I know i called up an IT guy and another IT guy also called me up. Haha, it was filled with IT guys that nite! Forgotten all their names...too forgettable to leave an impression.

Anyway, after the speed date round, we were requested to be seated back at our place. Alex from speed date round 1 was sitting next to me. This time..it was close to the end, where they want like 5 couples to go on stage to get their all-expenses-paid dating session. haha..of course being cupid's little helper...i push for the shy guy to ask my friend up to stage. Kakaka... they had some Q&A thing on stage.

After that was the best moment of all...hahha..LUCKY DRAW! And guess what?? 1093 was the lucky number! ..... haha...one nice table lamp! Lovely! At least I got back something leh. Kinda rewarding to be luckily drawn :p And after that they opened the dance floor for like half n hour. They call it disco session... met a lady, Linda. This was what she commented on the night: "The guys are all boring" ... hahha..i have to agree with her. :) But then again, what do you expect at the first place rite? :) So we danced away till about 12. Reached home about 1 something.

YL thoughts of the overall experience: It was good in a way. I have mixed feelings on it actually. Coz
1. I din expect much, but there is REALLY stil a lot of singles out there...
2. Lots of guys are afraid of rejection
3. Lots of guys are too shy...can you believe that the girls overshone the guys...
4. Still a lot of guys don't know what to do when they are faced with a girl...
5. Din't like how the event went, coz i think it could've been done better...but nevertheless...I believe some did manage to find a partner/date that nite
6. there's also still a lot of male chauvinis out there...
7. happy for my friend who found a date...basically, that's why you're there, to get to know ppl
8. quite happy to get to know new ppl

You know..WJ asked me this the other day: "Would you join this kinda event again?"
My answer: Depends on the organiser and quantity of ppl. If it's another big crowd and same organisers.I have my reservations.

SO that's the long winded report, think i cover most of the highlights of the night. Wishing my friend a good time during her 4-weekend-all-paid dating session! and May you singles out there find someone special soon enough .. :)

I crossed the finishing line!!

2008-12-22T13:13:00.005+08:00

Yeah...6km marathon organised by Pacesetters Athletic Club (PACM) and sponsored by MALAKOFF..and I'm still alive after the whole run. Thought I'd died of exhaustion in the middle of the way! Very proud of myself for finishing the run! Haha..started the morning thinking twice bout running at all! :P Ehh..got cert to prove I actually did complete the whole thing kay~! But it was jogging, walking, jogging..pretty much that kinda routine la. My main aim was not to be last..which I achieved!! I managed to finish within an hour..which is another big feat for a lazy person like me.

Woohoo...look at us PROUDLY posing with our certs! :P Seems like 45 minutes was really achievable for some. I'm not sure the real time it took me to finish..but for my watch, seems like it was less than 60 minutes..i took about 50-55. Hahaha...5 minutes makes a lot of difference! :D Although I did come back with my legs & body aching.. slept through the afternoon till I got a call from cousin to go over for some "tong yuen"! Oh yess..I managed to have some this year too thanks to my aunt! :)

Another update would be on the cupid space speed dating event. I have some mix feelings over this event la. To me, it could've been better. In terms of venue, food, place, activites ... but the drag queen was good.very entertaining too! That was my favourite part of the whole night actually...OH..another was actually when they called my number for the lucky draw! :P 1093, not bad..I got myself a table lamp. RM150 was a bit overpriced..but it's okay. It's the experience. So the night started off with the registration of course. Then came the chit chat...then we entered the ballroom. Ladies were sitting on the chairs with bow, and guys seated alternately lor..normal. Can't remmeber who was first seated on my left or right..hard to manage 2 guys at one time.. hahah :P In other words, they were probably too quiet till there's nothing that makes them outstanding. I'm not sure if I made an impression..but then, things didn't improve throughout the night. Different guys were getting more boring...asking phone contacts seems to be the game..I gave, not that I find it was that necessary considering you might forget them once the night ended. Which I think most of them did... pointless!

Activity #1: Gather round and draw a fruit to describe urself.Then find a partner with the same fruit. Couples with matching fruit was required to get up stage to tell a bit more of themselves.

YL's Thought: Ice-breaking event, but instructions was not clear, so ppl were lost, and don't know what to do.

Activity#2: Find partner with same birthday and month.

YL's Thought: This was even worse, very hard to find coz count the possibilities! But I was playing along. Didn't find myself someone with the same birthday..found a guy with the same birthday as CJ ..

Activity #3: Get into groups of 10 with a partner. Some coordination activities. Then needed to dance/twist..

YL's Thought: This was okay, considering lots were still clammed up without a word said. I was unfortunately was asked to go up on stage. In the process, got my heels strap broken...sigh...so had to go down again and changed to my sandals.. haha..thank god! :P A guy named Leslie was accompanying me. Haha..thank goodness i can save myself from the embarassment! Was suppose to do the twist on the stage in front of everyone! :P

And the activities goes on..will update this later...better get something serious done!

I'm going crazy...

2008-12-12T11:30:00.002+08:00

Just when you thought that there's no other things that I can possibly be crazy enough to enrol in...I DID IT..AGAIN. This time around ..it's a MARATHON! What has gotten in my head la, must be the salesman talk pitch that got to me. YES, i'm gonna be running ... (well, i think i'll run a bit, walk a bit...rest a bit...then continue the routine) till I finish the 6km journey. Gosh, I hope I can actually cross that finishing line. :P From the website it's written there 45 minutes... Erm...how to complete in 45 freaking minutes???? The last I ran/walk ...erm...a couple of years back...5km also took close to 2 hours.. :p Will give this a try and see how things go...21st Dec 7am!

Another year???

2008-12-01T19:08:00.002+08:00

It's the 1st of December~! How time really flies. Let's do a brief check on my schedules this month:

1st weekend : Cousin's wedding
2nd weekend: CW & Brian's wedding
3rd weekend: Dinner function
4th weekend: JF & HY's wedding

Oh wow..look at my weekends. So besides work, I'm busy with my all those weddings to attend. Busy month ahead!

And things are also picking up at the forum. We're currently trying to work out a plan for the coming Youth '09 gathering to be held on the 9-11 January. Our idea is to form a group representing the Klang Community Youths to attend this event. SO if you are a youth in Klang, please join us..you can put in ur names through this link:
http://www.myklang.com/forum/youth-2009-myklangs-participation-registration-t-1906.html#pid36572

Well, something interesting about the 3rd weekend dinner function. I'm going to a match-making event~!! Hahah...never in my mind I thought thatI would be part of this kinda function. But then again, i think should be fun. Jacqueline approached me the other day asking whether I was interested, after being persuaded, I was thinking why not? Could be fun. Cost RM150...not cheap of a "why-not?" Nevertheless...will try to enjoy myself. :)

So that's all for a sleepy monday...will post again when there's time ..

Lame Monday

2008-11-18T00:34:00.002+08:00

Monday blues kicked in REAL HARD then it slowly became so LAME. What a day...started off not that good either. Mostly coz of work..Yea, it's basically all work problems today. Can't do much..it's all L.A.M.E~!! Lame day, lame problems, lame people...so happy that monday is over. Nothing good happens on Monday..

Met with an accident on a Monday 2 weeks ago. Car skidded on a sharp corner, made me hit another car. All the trouble...all the mess...My car is back anyway, not too sure bout being good as new. First thing I needed to spend after getting it back was to get a new battery!! So far my car is running okay.

Well..come to think of it...wasn't that bad of a day...i'm sure someone out there had worse...anyway, as what a close friend always say; Think Positive! Yea.. i should be thinking positive and learning a lot from this lame day. Need to brush up on the managing skills too...***which i thought at the end of the day...managing a machine is still easier!***

My 26th Birthday

2008-11-10T00:13:00.008+08:00

It's that time of the year again..yes, another year older..another year wiser... :) And of course, every birthday celebration would be memorable thanks to family and friends who was there with their birthday greetings and well wishes. A big thank you to everyone!!!! Muaksssss~~~~!!!

This year I had a new bunch of friends celebrating with me...yes, it's my forum friends. Very gamdong indeed. It was a double celebration with another girl, Elaine, whose birthday that was 2 days earlier than mine. Unforgettable night with good companion with good drinking session. Haha..3 bottles of Glenfiddich and not a drop left!! Thanks to the forumers who were there. Dinner was on the 6th and started at 8pm with first dish: Prosperity Noodle.. Very chinesy thingy for ppl celebrating birthdays. Then moved on with other dishes: Pepper soup, Roasted pork, Stewed Yee Mee, Vege, Buttered prawn, Crab~! And fried rice too...a bit tasteless. Had some finger food too..
The night went on with everyone busy mingling..then once done with food, we started on the drinks.. kekkee..which got us all standing and walking about. Then came the cake cutting session. Started off with Elaine's tiramisu cake. After that was mine. Blueberry cheesecake. You can see everyone's happy faces.. Thanks to Alex Tan and Alex Hang for the pics...all of it is nice..yet to get hold of the rest, but you guys take reallly good pics. Just that the ppl inside the pics might not look that nice (that's ME!) only. The cake was GOOOODDDD.. The night ended at about 12 plus.

Next: 7th. First started off with birthday wishes from friends and family through SMS, MSN and Facebook. Afternoon had fishball noodle with my colleagues. By afternoon, there was Mocha cake to cut! Collleagues too paiseh to sing in office (considering all also..erm..old dy :P) So it was a very soft birthday song from them. Hehe..it's ok..at least my leader initiated to get the cake... hahaha. .. so weird :P Siew Theng called from Germany...thank you so much!

At night I spent it with SC, WJ, Jau, Tio, Yong, Yu Jen n Eugene in Zen sunway pyramid. Thank you for the tiramisu cake and dinner... I had sashimi + spider roll.. Wow..excellent! Fish was very fresh that night. Thank you guys for dinner....and thanks for making this another memorable birthday :) 7-8 years of friendship and you guys have been there since the beginning...MUAKS~~

After dinner...took a turn into Greenbox AEON Bkt tinggi...Alex Hang, Mak, Alex Tan, Lena, KK and Elaine was there telling me that birthday girl gets free gift n cake. So went to join them for a round of karaoke session. There was another cake..the special thing was it was DIY cake. So Lena did a great job with the cake..thank you!! And that was the last cake of the day. :) LKC also called all the way from UK...thankssss

8th and 9th...I shall put them together. On the 8th was dinner with NY and ML. Thank you gals....it was good food again. We had Korean and after that a small little ice-cream treat at Haagen Daaz... I loved the Seventh Heaven!! Thank you Jacqueline also... Always great meeting up with you gals..
On the 9th, it was lunch with CJ, Stv, Thean and Chiang Wei in Restaurant BT. Chinese food is as good :) After that was a movie session which I fell asleep in the cinema :P too tired la...

And so..that was my birthday this year. There's too long of list of ppl to say thank you to. I'm so grateful that you all remembered it. Really meant a lot to me. and someone requested for me to end my post with a pantun/poem...mm.....let's try:

Friendships starts with trust,
Built over time, it will last,
Faced with problems, please do not "frust",
Call me up, and we'll solve it fast!

People come and people go,
Who would last, no one knows,
Friends to me are like gold,
Treasures that I always hold.

Thank you my friends for all the messages,
Very touched and appreciate it dearly,
Hoping you the best in your life passages,
This is what I wish for sincerely.

-@LYL- 101108-

Updatessss

2008-11-09T10:55:00.007+08:00

Ok la...kinda neglected my blog for sometime...just a little update before I catch up with some recent news bout myself..

1. August(Post Perhentian): Finally get to go on Eye On Malaysia...before they dismantle it and send it over to Malacca. It was a trip outing with my dear colleagues. Started off with K-ok session in Greenbox AEON Bkt Tinggi then continue on with trip to KL for the ferris wheel. The fee was RM15 for a 5 rounds which went like really fast. ~15 minutes ..so it's like 3 minutes to complete one round. Not nice la the view... (comparing with what I saw on the flight back to KL from KB)

Eye on Malaysia

Oh ya...August also marks my 3rd year in the company... end of my bond~~~~~~

2. September: Wow...too many things la.

Started off by getting into unfortunate event with the company car during work. Car got stuck in the mud, had to get drenched to the get the car out with the help of a passerby. Work had to continue, we went on to Tesco to grab some dry clothes to change in before continuing our work. It was mad that day. We finished at 1am.

Sept also marks the beginning of some new friendships with friends from the forum. It's amazing how a group of ppl from all walks of life get to gather and share lots of things together. A fun experience indeed. That's when I start to meet Alex, Cassidy, Kim...since then, life has turn more exciting than ever! We had our lantern festival gathering, and many other gatherings... We even did a live telecast for our dear LKC who's abroad now during the lantern party gathering. Went on with makan and makan and makan. Oh ya..Kim got married on Sept too. :D

Work wise...I've got myself into the Digi project where I'm happily working with SC and WJ now. Been waiting for a chance to work with them...well...technically, they are still my clients...i'm just the vendor...but then again, it's a good experience working with younger ppl :P. Working with old and new colleagues. A good change of environment. :)

3. October:

I played with GUNS~! Oh yea...I played with a rifle wei.... cun stuff!! Thanks to KK for bringing me there. Something that I never thought I would be able to get my hands on!

This is a .22 rifle..where the recoil is very much less..close to zero

Made a trip to Sg during Raya hols. My nieces are so darn adorable already. Miss spending time with them. There will be back here in December~! Can't wait. This time around I went after the F1 race. So still could catch a glimpse of the leftover circuit... :P

And it was all bout food too on Oct...gosh been eating way too much la. Venturing into places around Klang that I've never been before. Dim Sum in Choon May, Exotic dishes in Pandamaran, prawn mee in Pandamaran, seafood in pandamaran...26 years in Klang..and yet I didn't know these places existed :P

That's about all to update...keeping it short n simple :)

Perhentian...final take

2008-10-14T22:13:00.002+08:00

Ok...this story has been dragging way too long..basically will sum it up. Sorry had to make this go so quick.. :p

Anyway, the 2nd day, woke up early for a nice morning walk...and had breakfast. The girls were too tired and were still sleeping. Second snorkelling trip was in the morning..On all island trips, snorkelling was the only thing I got confident to do..got life jacket mar... ( sigh..i got to learn up swimming...) I got up early to take pics of flowers. It rained the night before.

Well..you can view the pics in my online photo album. Easier than uploading one by one.. :P Anyway, we had a really relaxing holiday coz after the snorkelling session in the morning, we were idle in the afternoon. Ended up playing congkak in NY's room. Later in the evening, we attempted to fly a kite along the beach. Hmm...it was not a really good spot for kite flying i must say and kite also a bit cacated dy...can't really fly high. But nevertheless..it was a fun experience...everyone watching us as we tried and tried to bring the kite up.

At night we had our dinner session...normal spread of buffet. no more grilled seafood, wondering whether it's because it's a sunday and lesser ppl are expected to eat. We then adjourned to our rooms..think we had the sparkling wine I brought over. Think I was too tired, drank a bit and felt dizzy and slept off. :P

Again the next morning I was the earliest to rise...Was up in time to send off the group of 30 that was there with us. Then we had our breakfast..lepak a while more..got on the boat back to shore. The most MEMORABLE part of the trip has arrived. NY and me was looking over our tickets back to KL, and we thought..yea...5.55pm. So in our heads, we were thinking...flight boarding time should be at 5pm. And so we took our own sweet time with our lunch..which is very yummy thai food! Then we went batik shopping..Grace bought a lovely set..wonder if she's worn it. Then we went to the airport at 4.55pm...damn proud, thinking we'll check in and lepak...SIGH...biggest shock came when we saw "GATE CLOSED"... we went like "F***!" then check again...to our horror!! 5.55pm was the flight arriving KL time. Journey takes about an hour...so our flight was boarding at 5pm!!!! So I will forever remember that one time where we missed our flight! Haha....but there's no one to blame for it..guess we kinda took things for granted coz we're travelling in a group. Usually when travel alone, we are more careful on the dates, times.. So this serves us a lesson la. We got to get a ticket after that...a few hours later. So in the meantime..thank goodness i brought cards, so we spent time "chor dai dee" in KFC. :p

Getting the later flight back was also rewarding coz the plane flew over KL...can you imagine how beautiful KL is frm the sky...especially after the rain. The twin towers...KL tower...Putrajaya...one word: MAGNIFICIENT! too bad no pics from me...too mesmerised at the moment to take out my camera to shoot it.

So that's it about my trip to Perhentian...took too long to get this updated. So if you guys wanna see pics...can go to my online album la.. :)

http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff308/gneleey/Perhentian/

Perhentian ... Part 2

2008-09-12T16:06:00.003+08:00

So let's continue with the Perhentian trip...a bit too long to get this trip story done...considering i still dun have any pics frm them about it. Anyway, let's continue with our snorkeling trips. The arrangements was made with the hotel itself. We get to go 3 spots for this afternoon trip..which I forgotten what names were they...I know one of it is Shark Point. :P The next 3 was scheduled the next morning. After a while that I did not go snorkeling, the fear of the deep sea engulfs me once again, but then..as usual, thinking that I can do wonders with a life jacket on...then came this voice: JUMP IN ONLY LA~! And so...I did just that. We were joined with a group of people from JB. Heard from their leader they are from a factory. There were 28-29 of them. So it was a convoy of 3 small boats. Snorkelling has always been fun...but this time around, fishes looked the same, big portion of the corals are dead... sighh..seriously, there's more things needed to be done to conserve these places. NY raised a point, what's the RM5 fee for, if this money is not put to use for efforts to conserve these underwater creature/beings?

After the first spot, there was an unfortunate event. One guy had seizures...and he was unconcious for sometime. Very scary...coz when they fished him up from the sea, he was all white...we can see it from the other boat.. The next day when I asked the leader, he said he's ok at that time coz he was sent to the nearest hospital already. Very creepy indeed. He shouldn't have went into the sea if he knew he had a medical condition...

We went on to the 2nd n 3rd spot. I was having trouble with my goggles...actually it's how I placed it. So didn't really get to

enjoy it that much...Well, plus another part that I almost drowned coz I was under the boat...but that was just a short point of time.. We got to see turtles~ ... I missed it when I was in the sea...we saw it surfaced when we were on the boat :p If we knew earlier, we would've just stayed on board :p Very tiring wan leh...even for ppl who knows how to swim!

We got back from sea about evening. Tea time was almost over. What we could grab was a piece of sandwich and we were all darn hungry then. Went back to our rooms and took bath. Went down to jalan-jalan and wait for makan time later. Went to the mini mart to grab some chips...things were so expensive! What to expect island price, kena chop chop... :P

Dinner time was great! BBQ Seafood for dinner. Excellent la. Food was abundant...unlike one of my forumer friend's experience when he was there. We had dunno how many rounds of BBQ squid and lamb.. since i'm still without pics..I'll post up one pic I took la.

After dinner, we went jalan-jalan to check out the island. Since our plans to Perhentian Kecil didn't really work out considering it cost a bomb to go over n come back! the ppl told us the water taxi was at least RM75 two way...PER PERSON! That's a bit too expensive la. We were walking n taking crazy pics at night creeping our ownself out... and then we bump into this nice like place. Had a glass of liquor each...I had Singapore Sling. NY had Pina Colada and ML had Mai Tai, Lorraine had a Tiger. Each cocktail was RM25 perglass. The people there are friendly. We got to know the lady boss who opened one of the budget stays. Diver's something..need to check it out. It's new and it cost like only RM100 per night. Looks nice too. So that was our first night...

Hmm..looks like part 3 needs to wait also.. :P

Perhentian.. Part 1

2008-09-02T15:45:00.004+08:00

Hey all..the long awaited update on my recent Perhentian Trip. :) To summarised, it was a great getaway with loads of memories/lessons to bring home with.

Date: 24-26Aug 2008
Participants: NY, Grace, Lorraine, Mun Leng, Me

This all-girl trip thingy was planned way way ahead...so when my boss was saying that he wasn't going to let me off, I was really very disappointed, at points very pissed off...but nevertheless, he couldn't really hold me back la...coz I planned and paid for at least 3/4 of the trip dy. So the day arrived and started as early as 5am... We were supposed to gather at ML's place to wait for the cabbie to send us there at 5.30am. I was too excited the night before that I couldn't really sleep much! :P

Although sleepy, but once all of us got together, we started chit chatting away from the time we left ML's house right up to the airport. It was an hour plus journey and we didn't even pause our conversation leh.. :P I wonder if the taxi guy was surprised that we were so semangat that early in the morning. Anyway, NY already checked us in, so we were taking our own sweet time to get to the gate. Erm...suppose to be entering the gates by 7am, we were still in McD right up till 720am...well..until they started the announcement to board. By the time we entered, it was last call for our flight. :p So not bad for AirAsia flight...new plane...airbus 320...comfy. Graces' first flying experience. A bit of a crowd, it was at least 80% full. The flight took us 55 minutes.. landed in KB and there we were picked up by Baha. Local Kelantan guy who was driving us to the port at Kuala Besut. At the same time they picked up another group of ppl travelling to the same place.

We were then dropped off at the tour agency. Waited for the boat to arrive to send us to Perhentian~! Weird arrangements at the jetty, when the lady was telling us that boat is already full and only can accomodate 4 of us and 1 have to wait for the next boat. A bit absurd la...but have to follow, we didn't want to create any problems and ML, Lorraine n I got on the first boat. NY and Grace came later on the second boat. Sea was very choppy that afternoon.. The speedboat was going fast and our butts hurt from the boat ride.
But when you see the blue seas and blue skies..all the excitement just compensates our hurt arses :P Anyway, we got in Arwana, got us checked in and enjoyed our welcome drink. I remember the guy that dealt with our check in. His name is Robert. You know why? Coz later on, NY and Grace got into a really bad room with wet bedsheet and sandy floor and they had to request for change. Thank goodness the hotel was able to change and also upgrade their rooms too! That's why they got to the dining area late. We got into our superior room and it was quite spacious with a clean toilet! Dropped our bags, changed into something comfy.. It was 12:30pm and lunch was served~! I can say that our overall buffet spread was quite a good one.

This was one of those holidays that I sit and wait for time to pass....not in a rush, so we got time to ourselves. Our first snorkelling trip was at 2:30pm. We had time to sit n wait for that after lunch. Neither of us brought our watches, so we were just walking around.But the feeling of not knowing the time just kills me...seriously, up to now, if I don;t have a watch/handphone, I'll be searching for a clock. I wonder how many of you all feel the same as I do... NY and Lorraine were very happy to see the seas and fishies...so I think they took quite a lot of pics and videos of those fishes that were lingering near the shore. Don't have them with me to show..Maybe can find those on facebook... Anyway...fishies aside, it was time for our first snorkeling trip..and will be explained further in my next post :P

To PERHENTIAN~~~~

2008-08-23T11:16:00.002+08:00

Yeay... I finally got my leave approved...well, not officially, considering I did submit my form, just not sure whether it's approved or not. But this is what I've planned earlier of the year. It's a sure go dy! and my flight is at 730am tmr. Can't wait. Been taking things slow the past 2 days, which is kinda nice. Slept a lot and ate a lot of junk. :P Need to get a break before I go back and work again...there's already work to do once I get back.

To Perhentian~~~~~~~~~

Embarassing moments..

2008-08-17T20:50:00.002+08:00

Well..I was hoping to have the weekend to breeze through with no outstanding issues...I guess, I'm quite relaxed this week. Anyway, today when I was coming back from buying back my lunch, heard the radio saying that one of their cruzers team are around my housing area. So I was thinking, what the heck...get over and get some freebies, which I did. :p First time ever that I did this kinda thing...then I got drag to do something. Well..the fella asked me to sing. What an embarassing moment. sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star...(Trust me...I didn't even want to sing.... ) More embarassed was when I can't get a small girl's attention when I sang it.. sighh..

anyway...time to root for Lee Chong Wei for the quest of the Malaysia's first gold. :)

ARGH~~

2008-08-14T18:56:00.002+08:00

Not really a good week for me...sucks...every bit~! Hate it that things went wrong..hate it when need to redo things...hate it when I'm too careful to make things right, eventually it goes wrong...hate it when things are last minute...hate it when I might not be able to go for my trip...hate it that Murphy's Law is so damn true...i just hate this week la... really f**ked up! ( sorry for the language..just needed to release some stress...in the end of the day, i decided to put * instead of the whole word )

My tyre....AGAIN~~~!!!

2008-08-09T00:48:00.002+08:00

Second time this year la... how sad. Another tyre puncture case. Actually it's more of my car tyre is worn out. Could've exploded? Don't even wanna think the worse case scenario. My tyres were causing some problems...so it's time to get them changed. 50000km, 3 years..my tyres have served me good already la. Think will change them soon. So any suggestions where I can get cheap and good tyre for my SLK (Small Little Kelisa :P) ? Extra expenditure sumore.. so sad..a bit unexpected. :(

And what a day to remember it by.. 080808 ...Beijing Olympics day! Just finished witnessing the opening ceremony. At some point it's quite interesting, while at some part it's a little boring. But overall it's a good job done for all the hardwork for such a long time from preparation to practice.

So Monday's the start..let's hope all preparations made are sufficient. Just need to keep my fingers crossed till it's all done. Tension~~~ !!!

Work work...

2008-08-05T23:28:00.003+08:00

So how's life been since the last I posted? Yeah..guessed it right: HECTIC~! So I've been occupied everyday since I got back to HQ...not even a time to stop and just waste the day away like last time. Hmm..I'm gonna be occupied further on with more work..life's all bout work for me now. Like starting a new job.... :P

It's already August...and it only means one thing... Pulau Perhentian! And that's happening at the end of the month...provided I get to meet the first deadline...if not...gone la my 300+ paid holiday. Will try to work till finish deadline.. I hope this is project will run smoothly too...

And I've met up with some old friends recently. Feels great to catch up also la...and this weekend will be WJ's day..~~evil grin~~ :> ...can't wait! I mean for the dinner + celebration... *no other meanings* :P Have a good week ahead people~!

A sense of belonging...

2008-07-29T10:06:00.003+08:00

I think everyone would agree that anyone somehow and at some point would need to feel the sense of belonging. Feeling the need to be accepted by a certain group of people...

For me...been back to my HQ for close to a month already. Having a bunch of young group of colleagues is kinda new to me.. :P (*I used to be the younger few in the bunch previously!*) But blending in was not really a problem considering I did knew a few of them before this..so wasn't that bad. SO things in the office is not that bad for now ;)

Anyway, since I'm a little free from work today, besides work, there is those other issues starting to surface. My previous post said something bout the void feeling. Don't feel it that much already, but then am troubled by a few events that had just occurred... makes me think and wonder even more of... hmm...hope that things get better soon. Till then, I hope everyone have a carefree week. I just realised that over the past few weeks, the number of white hair strands had increased! Not a good sign. Over-using my braincells for unnecessary thoughts!

Quickie...

2008-07-21T17:03:00.002+08:00

Not what you're thinking...i'm just logging in for a short posting. Life's been pretty hectic since I got back to my HQ. Lots of things to do..and not do.. :p Spending lesser time with the forum, internet too...where did my time go?? Getting some action back....**again..not what you thinking~!!** Back to the courts with badminton again. Hope can last for long time...haven't been playing for months! I think I'm missing on a lot of things, hopefully can find time to catch up on all that I've been missing... it's a weird feeling, suddenly just feeling a void ... what's wrong? hmmm....

Teambuilding@Genting

2008-07-04T15:13:00.006+08:00

Okay..a bit slow in updating the blog. Yea, was placed back in HQ this past 2 days. Time difference with the start and end time of work. Still trying to get used to that.

Anyway, I managed to attend a teambuilding session in Genting recently.

Date: 30th June - 1st July
Location: Awana Genting
Participants: Staff and contractors of H&NE Motorola

Started off with us travelling up to Genting together with my colleagues. Reaching there at 9.40am, we were still not the last people to arrive :P Got ourselves registered into our respective groups. I was placed in Team Blue B. Well..there was Group A:Orange, Blue, Yellow and Group B: Orange, Blue, Yellow.

It was quite an interesting session considering that it's a teambuilding with 70-80 pariticipants. My group had 13 people. Half of them are the people I work in the same office with. Got to know some newer guys. Zikri was our Team leader. First round after the briefing, was an activity for us to get our t-shirts from the marshall. After that we started with our outdoor activities. First half of the day we had activities indoor. Started off with Archery. I took like ages to get arrows to hit target. :P It was only 16 minutes for the team to complete the task. Next was Abseiling. Seriously, something I thought that I will not attempt ... hahha...didn't do that bad..although screamed most of the way down. :p After that was Squash...with a twist?!??! It was us trying to attempt to hit the squash ball to the target. Damn hard ... The last activity for that first half of the day was Rock Climbing... which was...SAD. Coz I was the only one in the team that did not pass that task. I TRIED...just that I couldn't do it. So gave up :P

Then it was break for lunch. We got by and mingle around. Only to find out that later that afternoon, we might get wet...which was true. First activity after lunch was Minefield...this is where we need to step and make our way from start to end without stepping on any mine that will trigger the buzzer and had to sit out after that. Our team did quite well in that and ended quite fast. Next, Treasure Hunt for boxes...in some longhouse la. My teammates were fast..I started to look and they already found one box...started looking for a while, the other box was found. We got ourselves to the next activity. Crocodile Pit. In this activity, we had this plank that we need to arrange and step on to get everyone in the team to cross the river...which we excelled! :p We finished all activities within 1 hour...and we had time to go back to our rooms and rest/bathe.

We had dinner about 7 and after bout an hour plus later, we were on our way up to Genting. Got into a coffee session and CS session after..... :P which we did not get much rest. Just probably that 2 hours before we drag ourselves up for the morning's activities. We didn't want to be late, coz latecomers had to entertain the crowd. Very interesting entertainment after all!

After that came the gist of the whole teambuilding: Domino Race. YES..it was constructing dominoes. VERY CHALLENGING YET INTERESTING working on a big dominos project. We were split into new groups and work on each domino map. I was in team 7 who was in charge of "L". We decided to let the domino to spell out M-O-T-O-R-O-L-A. It was really cool...it's not as easy as u think. Think of frustration when the domino chips fall before it's fully constructed. Imagine the tension in the room. This is really good to test on one's persistency in doing anything. After a grueling 4 hours...we got it all constructed. The last minute was the completion of the bridges that connect one domino map to another...that was one intense moment. Everyone was at the edge of their seat, hoping that nothing will fall until it was time. Again..imagine how tensed up the bridge constructers were!

My group's "L"

The completed domino map....waiting for the official start

Well, I can't really get the whole pic for the domino drop... Coz everyone was in my way...and not all domino chip drop also la.. :p Anyway..I enjoyed myself there. Want to get into this kinda activity again. Just have fun and no need to think about work and crazy things that's been happening in office. So..let's hope there's some positive news to come.. :)

To Singapore....if the bus don't drop you off halfway

2008-06-23T15:30:00.002+08:00

I had a long weekend. Started off with a last minute decision to get on the bus from Klang to Singapore...which I regretted...IMMENSELY! Seriously, been travelling to and fro to Singapore for many many times...(kinda lost count la..) This last trip was one of the WORST ever travelling experience I've ever had! (Yea...this beats the RM35 for a school-bus ride from JB-Klang that I once had)

Bus company: S.E Ekspres Sdn Bhd
Bus plate number: BEE 1890

I will never forget this...BECAUSE THEY DROPPED US OFF AT LARKIN,JOHOR BAHRU AT 5AM! Can you imagine how frustrated I was... I paid RM35 for a bus ticket that says KLANG-SINGAPORE....and where did I end up? LARKIN! and the bus fella had the nerve to buy us public bus tickets that enters Singapore. We reached Larkin at 4 something in the morning. I knew there was gonna be a bus exchange as I heard them mentioned about it. Well, as long as you exchange a bus that brings me to my destination, I'm fine. After so many times, this exchanging bus is not new to me. As i said, as long as it gets me to my destination, I'm fine with it. This was too much. Public bus only operates at 5 plus. And entering Singapore using the causeway is a nightmare in the early hours of the day coz of the working ppl from JB travelling there, be it busses, motorbikes, or cars~! But we were all desperate to reach to the island...so we had to take the bus. Jam was terrible, the bus was stuck, so all of us came down and walked our way to the Customs office...that was the first ever time I needed to walked from the midst of town to the customs office which was like a 10 minutes walk...with all our bags~

It was gonna be a long wait for the Singapore-Johore Express(SJE) bus to reach. An uncle who travels often said it's best that we figured out another way to get to the island and then decide later when we're on the island. Well said. At that early hours of the day, my brain don't work too well with all the frustration. We took another public bus that was available then and off we go to the Woodlands checkpoint. After the checkpoint, I decided to wait for the SJE bus again. Met that uncle again and he related about how he was left at Larkin before. Seems like it's not the first time that this had happened. In the end, I got to my brother's place at 730am. That's like close to 8 hours travel ...and normally it should be 6 hours MAX!

SO this is really really bad. Since this is the ONLY company that's providing bus services to Singapore from Klang, I still think that this kinda attitude should not be acceptable lor. It only cost like RM28-RM30 for a ride to JB. The public bus ticket to Singapore was worth RM2.50. Which means WHAT THE HELL FOR I PAY RM35 FOR A RIDE THAT WILL STOP ME BEFORE MY DESTINATION? Ridiculous. Time wasting. It was a bus that was at least half filled with passengers. Very irresponsible for them to not informed of that earlier. I'm familiar with travelling to Singapore, what happens to those who are not? How do they inform their relatives/friends about the change of destination? FYI, the public bus stop and express bus stop are at two totally different places. I think people should know about this kinda bad bus service and I hope there's a new bus service in town for that route. This bus company does not respect the idea of punctuality too. I think it's time that a new service was introduced.

p/s: I'm not sure where I can channel this complaint to... If any of you would know, please inform me. I don't think there's a point of sending the complaint just to the management of the bus company, think it'll fall to deaf ears again!

ABCDEFG...

2008-06-17T10:03:00.006+08:00

What a tiring weekend... Sleepless night on Friday. Still suffering from it. Needed to do some spring cleaning before my parents arrived home. By the time I was done, was already late and they were reaching. In the process of waiting, I managed to watch the EURO matches~! I saw both of it sumore~! First 2 matches of EURO that I actually stay up to watch. :P Wasn't able to catch any sleep till the next day after I sent them off to run some errands and to the airport. They flew to Penang for a wedding dinner. Phew~ I was thinking I could catch my sleep by 3pm..but then my cousin asked whether I was interested in a warehouse sale. So I said, "why not?!"

YEAH..it was Xixili Warehouse Sale. This warehouse was in Kota Damansara.I heard a forumer telling me about it earlier in the week, wasn't paying attention to her at that time. Turns out quite a lot of people actually knows about it. I'm surprised at how people get to know bout warehouse sales. I was at Lewre Stock Clearance at the factory the other day and ppl just swarm the place. So next time, when you're passing a certain factory/warehouse and you see there's an unusual amount of cars parked outside, my advice: park yours too and get down~! :) Might be able to get some cheap stuff!

Yea, check out the crowd where people go crazy grabbing bras and panties. Should've taken the picture when crowd was still massive. This was closer to evening when most of the sizes were already out and people gave up on searching. There isn't a changing room to test it out, so these creative women all crowded the back and all tried on there... (don't think so far off...there was no nudity~!) They wore the bra over their t-shirts to try on the fitting and cup size only...

Only seen a few men inside the merchandise area, while mostly were seated outside waiting for their spouses/gfs/sisters. Well, people were buying in big bulks. Considering this is branded after all and bras going for such low prices...no wonder everyone is going for it as if they're stocking for the winter kinda thing! Okok..I couldn't resist, bought some also la.. Don't think spending 2 hours there and returning empty handed was such a good idea. :P

Saw this girl who was trying out her bras, was curious and dropped some small talk asking her cup size and she said it's an E...and she had trouble looking for a size. I went like "Huh?E?Hard to find size?" Interesting to know eh? From what I could see from the sale, the most available ones are the ones with Es to Gs.. And always in demand were the As and Bs. My observation might be wrong..anyway, it was a good shopping experience with my cousin. Think it's the first time I did intimate apparel shopping with her.

Kungfu Panda

2008-06-11T21:19:00.004+08:00

I think I got into this movie mode that I went to watch both versions in the cinema. (To those who didn't know..there is TWO versions: Chinese(Cantonese) and English). Either or, it's still a really funny cartoon. Quite a relaxing watch actually. Laughing is really a very effective way to release some stress. :)

Well, if you don't already know, Kungfu Panda is about a panda(duhh....)named Po that is so into kungfu that one day...you know what...just go to the cinema and watch it and enjoy. Heart-warming story with those "awwwww..." scenes. Watch it! If you have the budget and so happen that you understand Cantonese, watch both of it! :) **well, if you really need the synopsis for the movie, go google it up**

For English version, Jack Black voices over Po, while Eason Chan did Po in Cantonese. Entertaining. I think the animation was good too. Everything was so real..I enjoyed both the versions with an equally much dosage of laughter.

Dumpling Festival

2008-06-09T09:18:00.004+08:00

Well..another year, another those festivities spent without my family. It's okay. In the spirit of the dumpling festival(duan wu jie), i decided to go to the market and check out what kinda dumpling there that I could get hold off. It was a rainy sunday morning. I was hoping that there were still some left..coz it was already about 9. Morning market ends about 10, but by 9 most of the stalls are closing or preparing to close.

To my surprise, the "ba zhang" (dumpling) had so many varities to it...and might I say, quite expensive too! It ranges from RM3 - RM6~! depending on what ingredients they put in. It's basically glutionous rice, with add-ons like mushroom, meat, dried oyster, egg yolk, dried shrimp ...and other ingredients that I don't know how to translate them to english. :P Anyway, I don't really know which one to get, all I did was tell the lady I wanted something with meat in it...and she started pointing here and there, then I just simply chose one....and that simply-choose-one decision cost me RM4~! Tasted so-so only. Think the normal one without the fancy varieties would cost less and taste better! :P

My aunt also asked me over for more zhang... This time it's the nyonya dumpling which is a bit different. I don't know what's the filling made of.. But it's good. Can't find this in normal market. She gave me one to bring back too.

I had this much of zhang to finish off..my meals for the next few days covered!

Had the RM4 zhang for dinner.. :)

So that was my weekend. Most of the time watching episodes of Greys and munching on lots and lots of glutionous rice dumplings.. :P

One news that got every Malaysians talking

2008-06-05T15:40:00.003+08:00

Yeap you're right...it's been going on since 5 plus yesterday and it's still gonna go on for sometime. It's no other than the news of the recent petrol price hike. I myself got into that craze for that short moment...which I didn't went to pump my petrol also in the end coz of the ridiculous waiting for the cars to fill up...it's only that few days before you need to pump in with the new price anyway. It's just that RM10-RM15 lost for me...some up to RM30? or higher?

And it was announcement like those that created a massive jam everywhere yesterday...especially areas where there is a petrol station. Didn't help much that it was raining too. Can you believe it that at 11.45pm, ppl are still queueing for the hopes of getting their tank full??I would already give up and head home to sleep...which I did just that!

Queueing...

I was chatting with my forumer friends about the price hike earlier yesterday. Everyone was speculating how much the increase would be. Nevertheless, need to thank everyone for the SMS-es for informing me of the price hike. So...with the rebate of RM625, it would cover probably half a year for my car fuel consumption (calculating with the current RM2.70 per litre price). But be reminded that this is only temporary, embrace yourself for another fuel pricing the next month and the month after. The nightmare has just begun... hmm..I wonder if I'd see the same thing happening the end of this month...

Anyway...it's the government's call and we can't do much about it for now. So let's hope that things don't turn that bad. Everyone foresees a rise in everything ... what I pity now are those people at the lower income range..it's already hard to make ends meet, and now with this hike. I just hope the money that the government "saved" from this move would be put to good use.

So until we see some bizzarre changes ..let's just get ourselves ready for the expensive things to come. Enjoy your last bit of RM1.92 per litre petrol to those who did manage to get your fuel tank filled before 12am. And to those that don't..it doesn't really matter, they need to fill up with that RM2.70 per litre petrol anyway...! ;)

Of MIGs and F-18s..

2008-06-02T09:09:00.011+08:00

It was not the usual boring weekend afterall, I went to the RMAF Jubilee Celebration! Haha..i went there being totally clueless about planes and aircrafts, I didn't have any expectations. The only plane I knew was MIGs, coz those days, I used to play a game called Red Alert: C&C. :p Went with the Klang forumers: LKC and Pooh. ( We go by nicknames even though we know the real names..guess it's more relatable.. :p )

Anyway, I enjoyed the airshow a lot. This is like one rare chance to go see it considering:
1. Not cheap to run one airshow like that...and entrance was FREE

2. Not often you get to be in RMAF being so up close with a fighter jet or even a small helicopter.

Nuri..I actually know this..surprisingly!

Sukhoi...new word I learnt :)

MIG-29? ..I got it right?

Took us bout 40 minutes to get to the RMAF base in Subang. Pretty awesome place, they have a golf course in it! Thanks LKC for driving us there. :) We got there like 830am. We got a nice place to park which we didn't need to walk that far to reach the display area. The crowd..wow..considering there wasn't much publicity in the newspaper, there was a pretty big crowd! Even in the morning! They setup tents for food and souvenirs too..LKC said he felt like going into a Hari Kantin. I agreed with him...gosh, missing those secondary school days.

The show then started at 9am. Started off with: Simulated strike by Hawk.

The targeted strike area..believe me, it was damn LOUD~!

Before that we had some paratroopers falling down from the sky. After the strike, there was an aerobatic show by PC7. Nuri also made an apperance after that.

The small plane on the groud...

Well, considering the planes were SO far, and the limitations of my 3X optical zoom Sony Cybershot W550...I didn't get to have any good pics of any of the planes in the sky. Sad...Next in line. F-18 Hornet ..

F-18 as it flew past...too quick...not enough lighting...DARK pic.

That was the only F-18 shot I had...haha..others are just too tiny to even see! Can't distinguish whether it's a bird or a plane. The next appearance was the MIGs. Haha, again, sad sad pics.. show you guys one when they started their routine..

Can you see two tiny little MIGs???

Last but definitely not least..Sukhoi came into the picture. Hmm..I got a few shots, not that good either....

The show ended at about 10am, then we went into the hangar to see some exhibition on the planes, guns. Took a group pic and then walked a bit, and off we go back to Klang. It was quite an educational weekend for me. :) LKC found a youtube clip of the Sukhoi Aerobatic show. I'll embed it at the end of the post. Have a good week ahead y'all~!

Lady drivers..sheeshhh

2008-05-27T09:59:00.003+08:00

Ok ok...we've heard a lot about lady drivers...Everyday I try my best to not to fit into the pack..

Last week..I was seriously pissed off with the lady drivers on the road, okay, for once I understand why the men kept going on and on about how bad a lady drives...

Incident 1: Cutting lanes and slowing down. C'mon~!! I was going fast, you don't cut into my lane and slow down~! Blue SAGA!

Incident 2: Abrupt change of lanes without looking/signalling.We were caught in a slow moving traffic, so just waited for her to make her move. Black Vios! Think it was black..but this morning had the same incident, and it was confirmed a BLACK Vios coming out frm Bkt Rimau trying to cut to far right for the contra flow..I was going at 90! Needed to brake so she can slowly make her way to the right lane~!

Incident 3: Sudden break! What the hell?!?! You don't suddenly break when you're like kilometres away from the front car~! Red Merc!

That aside...yesterday got one incident on the road la. Sad to say, although waiting in queue, somehow the lane branched into 3 and I was caught at the far left lane, which at the moment I was then forced to take back to the middle lane....which made me a queue jumper on that faithful evening. I pissed someone off by doing that. Could hear his horns blaring away when I forced my way in. He went on for revenge later on after we made the right turn, I knew it was coming,was in time to dodge it. Seriously, did not do it intentionally. Blame it on the traffic system~! I was never in the wrong lane~!! But then, bottomline...yesterday evening I was back in the pack.

I vow to follow the traffic rules as closely as I could..occassionally I might break some..but I try very hard to not piss ppl off when I'm on the road, and I hope and pray that people don't piss me off too!

Tioman - Always In My Heart (Part 5)

2008-05-26T14:43:00.008+08:00

Day 3

Day 3 began early for me too. Since most of us had a really late and tiring night, not sure if everyone woke up in time for breakfast or not. I know I did and had a chat with Adrian that morning. Well, Yi Min was up early too. Then his China comrade was up too..YiMin thinks he's gay and from what we saw, he kept on popping up whenever YiMin's around. :P So maybe YiMin got himself an admirer.

So I got up that morning, only to realize that my camera battery was running low, and so was my memory space in the stick...sad. Needed to save on both batt n image. Another pic that I like:

Took a few shots, wanted to go for running waters, but limitations to my camera la. But I also like the next pic with the whole family playing in the water..

The main reason I like it coz the little boys were so cute~! Saw them by the beach the past 2 days. The little boy with the floats on the left and right hand was probably 1-2years old. Damn adorable~! I had to stand in the water to take that pic.

Anyway, after breakfast, we didn't really have a plan but just to hang around and start waking everyone up~! WS went off to the nearest internet cafe to work a bit. The rest of us started creating havoc with the others. Adrian wanted a game of soccer...I got lost in the pack and went for some photoshoot.. :p

All 4 pics here taken with my W890i

So the plan was to pack up and football..while the girls wanted to go for a swim instead. That was about 11 something dy. So Push, being the leader, and brought the whole clan to the beach. He led the jump into the waters la..which most of them followed, I went in too... hahha.... it was up to chest level only la. I was too chicken to go in deeper. :p Then again, this is also one of those daring attempts I've ever taken. What the heck rite?But if my parents ever knew, they'd be screaming at me already. About noon, we picked up a volleyball and had a short game...which ended up with all of us tanned/burnt~! It was the hot afternoon sun~! Once we're done with the game, we're starving and had pizza at the Sunset cafe. The small cafe is managed by this friendly couple who has been there more than 10 years. No wonder everyone loves it there. I got myself a place next to this American couple. They've been travelling around and been in Malaysia for the 3rd year. They're seriously thinking of migrating to Malaysia. They're in stage musicals..the last show they were in was Anna & The King and The Sound of Music. I missed both the shows. They will be appearing in Cinderella. Scheduled to be somewhere next year. Will try to catch that. Very friendly couple, who I didn't even get their names. It was the beginning of their 3rd week in Tioman. Wow..and they just left Chengdu right before the earthquake happened. They said they can't imagine what to expect when they return. Sigh...

By the time we were done with lunch was close to 3pm..went back to our room, took bath and settled down while we waited for the time to go back..which was supposed to be at 5. Since can't sleep, we just played cards to kill time. And then, about 5 plus to 6, another good chance to take these:

Both pics also from my W890i

I also took pics with the rest of the people from the trip. I'm trying to get hold of a photoshop tool to help tiled them all up. Me = Photoshop Idiot... So that will have to wait. Sad that I dun have a group pic. Before we left, there was a group pic session...embarassing moment for me when I slipped and fell..sigh...memalukan.. Anyway, as mentioned, I don't have one to show. Let's hope I could get it from Wai Yee soon. The boat ride back felt like forever. We got back to mainland about 10pm, head to makan. Had a good meal with everyone before we made our way back. Bumpy ride all the way, being SUPER EXHAUSTED, I think I slept 90% of the way. Only woke up when I reached home about 3am!

CONCLUSION: This trip came to me the right time considering I needed the break from work and all other stuff. Although hiccups here and there during the trip, I guess it's just part and parcel of going to a trip with a big group especially. So I needed to say thank you to everyone.

Pushpan - I put you as the first person to thank coz you're the organiser(others are not in any particular order) which means you made all the arrangements for us, settle any problems that occured. You're the MAN la..quite a charmer too eh? ;) Sorry if I'd caused any trouble, hopefully I didn't. Photos will be ready for collection probably within this week ;)

Wee San - Thank you so much for asking me to join the trip. Muaks~! I know we bug you a lot too..sometimes we can get a bit tooooo "fan" for you.

Fatt - Thank you for being such a good sport~! I think I can still remember what happened in that game..hahaha...but then you've made everyone VERY HAPPY with all the laughters.

Yi Min - Thank you so much for driving us...and the GPS. You've been another good sport with the game...and other things. :) Hope you get to go for holidays more, need a break sometime wan la...

Jacqueline - THANKS for asking WS to go which then brought us all to the trip. Thank you for the sunblock too.. hahaha...Thanks for the company too....those kap chai times ~!!

Wai Yee - Wow, I've never seen someone so influential and powerful to have 5 guys listening and obeying to you. You're the WOMAN~! Respect~!! Thank you for the entertaining stories too...you never fail to light up everyone la..

Shuk Yee - Didn't really get to talk to you much besides some info bout you, but thank you for giving me that one nice pose for the sunset pic~! :) Thanks, that was one of my favourite pic from the trip.

Adrian - Thanks for the morning chat..Now I know who to find when I want to get a good bottle of wine. :)

Aeron - Thanks for sharing your story and pulling me up after I fell ( still damn embarassed about that ) I hope you can recover soon... then probably can cook up some dishes for everyone if we decided to get everyone together again~! And take a holiday outdoors more!

Raymond - You're one damn funny guy la, thanks for the entertainment. Your video has been uploaded if you're interested to see it. :P 15 seconds of FAME~! My online photo album for photos and videos had not been released. I can take bribes from now on. ;)

Chan - Didn't get to know you much either, but thanks for the jokes and all...

What's left now are the beautiful memories of the island. I sincerely hope the best for everyone that was part of the trip. Will not pass a chance to have another trip with you guys again..if there was. I had a great time...despite the wait...the fun and happy memories outshone that. Okay..this will be the last part of my long-winded post on the trip. Have a good day people...

Tioman - Crystal Clear Waters (Part 4)

2008-05-25T21:00:00.009+08:00

While waiting for the rest to reach Marine Park, I went to check out the crystal clear waters in the Marine Park...without being in the water, you could already see the fishes~! But then there were too many ppl snorkelling there that day. Jacqueline said this to the boatman as we approached the snorkelling spot.."Nanti tengok orang, bukan tengok ikan~" And we all agreed la, so we skipped this spot.

Can you see the fishes??

Too crowded la on that fine sunday..

So since it's lunch time, 4 of us decided on the good ol' RAMLEE burger~! WS and I went to buy it. There we met with this burger seller. He was very occupied that day. His wife was going around and there were customers flowing in on the hot and sunny day. He manages the whole place, from the burger stall, to the drinks stall, to the ice-cream stall and not to forget, the snorkel sets rental. Our burger took a really long time to be ready. We were there long enough to know that the price of the ice-creams he was selling. Ranging from RM1.50 to RM1.70. We were there helping him to tabulate if he needed help.

BURGER stall...

We got impatient after waiting for more than 15 minutes, we decided to get the burger ourselves. WS stood behind the stall and we DIY the burgers and wrapped it up ourselves. Haha...that was one real funny experience. Didn't capture that pic to show. Burger tasted really good btw..missing the burger although I recently found out that we were charged super expensive for it~! :p RM4.50 for a burger ayam special...I just bought one today for RM1.90. Doesn't taste as nice...

So right after when we were done transporting our liquor to our rooms, all of us changed and got ready for snorkelling session. The rest went for lunch at the restaurant.

It was a hot and sunny day. Sea was choppy and the ride on the speedboat was not that smoothsailing too, well, at least I din get seasick.Took me a while to familiarize myself back to the seawater. Always happens...considering that I don't know how to swim. :p Come to think of it, it was pretty daring for me to jump into the deep sea, tried it before in Redang long long time ago though... We went to 3 snorkelling spots. Too bad I can only remember the name of the last spot we went: Pulau Renggis. I hope someone from the trip can help me out in this. First spot has more dead corals. The second spot was nice, coz it's deep and there was Wasabi, one of the boat fella, who came down the water with the float. Haha, I got advantage from it...don't need to move myself much. It was awesome...by the time we're done, some of us are already exhausted. We proceed to Marine Park, as we see there's still a big crowd there, we took off to Pulau Renggis. Only snorkelled a while there...I was more afraid of the boats that were docked near by... Snorkelling can be quite energy-draining... after that spot, we all went to Bamboo Hill(think I heard them right.... if i'm wrong, please correct me~! ) to enjoy the fresh cooling water from the waterfall. All of us jumped in without hesitation, like small kids only...Raymond was squeaking like a girl coz it was too cold. :P We only spent like 15-20 minutes there, coz sea conditions getting bad, so we needed to get back to our jetty before sunsets. IT WAS THEN I SAW...the most amazing display of the evening sun(although with some clouds la..)...which then got my fingers all itchy to pick up my camera for some shots. My favourite pic with Shuk Yee in it:

Too bad my camera cannot capture the colours of it, but then, it was ..wow... haven't seen that before.Will always remember that...

We were then off back to our beach~ Got back to the room, took our bath and got ready for dinner. The rest was munching on kuacis and drinking beer while waiting for their turn to get their shower..Dinner was then served at 8pm.

Yuummmmyyyyy!!

Our dinner was a widespread of BBQ stuff...fishes - slices and also kembong, sotong, chicken, stingray, sausages, fried mee, fried rice, fries, coleslaw. We continue with some chatting after dinner with Fatt, YiMin, Wai Yee..enjoying some ice-cream as their desert. Wai Yee was quite entertaining la...and she's like the "tai ka che" among them. Can feel that "aura" ..hahhaa...

Night activities started at 1030pm. Think the plan was to drink and get drunk? Not sure, but then no one was drunk that night. :P We didn't really had a plan, so some decided to go on with some card games, while the rest continue chatting out at the corridor. This would be Raymond's unforgettable moment in Tioman. Not that appropriate to be shared here, but then it was one heck of a night. Not only did Raymond had the most unforgettable time, I think Fatt had never felt that "happy" too. :p We then later moved on to the beach, where we met the rest of them. Continue with some drinks. The moon was so bright that night that it shone away the stars. Beautiful night.. that night I sat by the beach and enjoyed the calmness of the night with only the sound of the waves. Emo a bit la, but then didn't want to leave the island so soon. Sat there till bout 3am I think. Then went back to the room ...

Day 3 begins...right after lunch.. :)

Tioman ~ Simply Beautiful(Part 3)

2008-05-23T17:30:00.008+08:00

Day 2

Day 2 started off early when I woke up around 730am. Was thinking of getting the morning sea breeze...Got up, got ready and off to the beach. To my surprise, 2 guys were already at the lazy chair watching the waves as it hit the sand. YiMin and Adrian were already chatting away.

This was where we were staying. Missed out on taking pics of the room. It was really big and comfy for both WS and me lorr..As you open the door, you could see monkeys wandering around at that little hilly area at the back of this building.hahha...thank goodness they are not the aggresive type that just grabs your stuff and brings them back to the wild. :)

Breakfast was provided by our hotel. Everyone got up in time for breakfast...of course there's also those that find it a little difficult to get up in the morning... no names gonna be mentioned here :P So the plan for Day 2:

Morning: Breakfast, shopping at duty-free
Afternoon: Snorkelling
Night: BBQ Seafood dinner

Push said we needed to do a bit of walking to Kg Tekek to the duty-free zone. And that's exactly what we did.. :p Climbed up a couple of flight of stairs, passing through the Marine Park and walked a couple of kilometres more, and then we were there~! If you'd been to Langkawi, you can't really expect this place to be the same ya. Choices were pretty much limited. I liked the journey from our hotel to the duty-free zon. Better show some pictures before I continue on with my long-winded stories :p

The pathway that we needed to take to reach Kg Tekek

The view from above

A typical kampung home lifestyle

Even people in the kampung needs ESPN and MTV~!

A really tall coconut tree!

The only plant with flowers..besides the bushes and trees :P

If you see properly, there's BATS on top of the trees~!

The bridge

I took this pic while waiting ~ I like the whole pic of the lonely boat..

Spidey action. It's pretty big!Din dare to put my camera closer sumore dy...

So the damage done after shopping: 1 Glenfidditch, 1 red wine and 1 sparking white wine. :) Cost less than RM200 ;) We bought too many things till Push called for a van to send us back to the Marine Park. It was close to lunch time already at the time.

To be continued... need to upload the rest of the pictures.

TIOMAN-Unforgettable holiday (Part 2)

2008-05-22T23:06:00.013+08:00

And it was about 30-40 minutes ride to Tg Gemok jetty. Having time in my hands while we wait for the boat to arrive, I just thought of occupying my time taking some pics...again.. hahha.. :P

Just some questions from WS's form: 1) Describe your dream guy in 3 words. 2) Do you think of getting lucky on the island? 3) Do you think you will meet with your dream guy in Tioman?

~~Fatt's form is a little different:1) Which part of the girl do you like to look at: boobs or legs? 2)Did you bring any condom to the trip? 3) How lucky do you think you can get on that island?~~ Fatt just bumped into a fan who was close to tearing his t-shirt to ask for an autograph, he had to obliged coz she threatened to jump into the sea

Perspective view of empty seats in the waiting area.

These kids are oblivious of what they'll be facing the future..

Thought of some shots through a hole~!

So by the time the boat reached, all of us were all hyped up to get on it. Off we went to Tioman~!

The boatride took us 2 hours and finally we reached our destination...although dark already, but the excitement is felt~! We were staying in Nazri's Place in the jetty stop after Kg Tekek. They call it ABC. All of us was so hungry that we dropped our stuff, took our bath and head to the restaurant for our meal! :) First meal in Tioman: Tom Yam Seafood, BBQ Chicken...very nice. And that's when we saw the first few gwai-los that we thought was quite good looking. Built, not that tall, but then cute. :)

Boatride on the Fast Ferry. Wai Yee looking so blur, other guys at the back are looking blur in the pic too.. :p

First meal on the island. Looks yummy rite? (pic taken with my W890i)

After dinner, we looked for a spot at the seaside and just chilling out with everyone and chit-chat for the night. Official introduction to Aeron, Adrian, Raymond and Chan. Since everyone is part of the young bunch..we were all clicking in no time...just that they were bringing up a lot of work into the conversation. EH, next time no WORK during HOLIDAY yea~! :P It was a moonless night on that first night. But the feeling of being back near the sea was great. Sitting and listening to stories as we sipped our beer. Tioman is duty-free! I only knew when I went there. :p

Hmmm..story telling will continue later. The loading time for the pics using my wireless USB modem is taking up a lot of my time. It's already 12:30am now. Have a good day people~!

TIOMAN~ The great escape (Part 1)

2008-05-21T21:54:00.013+08:00

Date:17-19 May 2008
No. of participants: 13

Let's start with some history how I got myself into this trip at the first place. WS said wanted to have a break, so I agreed when she asked and no questions asked till the day I needed to leave. Trust me, before that, I have not a single clue where I was going and who I was going with. Only thing I knew were how much I needed to pay and the holiday mission was Tioman Island. :D Was actually closed to cancelling the plan considering that WS needed to standby for support with her Jap clients. Thank goodness we didn't~! Would've regretted it.

Day 1

So we have finalised and Day 1 began at 6am. Well, supposedly 6, but then the time I left my house also 630am dy and we were to meet with WS' friend over in Shah Alam at 7am. Hmm..due to some delays, we got ourselves breakfast and waited for everyone to arrive. Was introduced to Mr HOT ORGANISER - Pushpan and WS's friend, Jacqueline. About 830am, we took off and headed to Mersing! I was in YiMin's car with WS and Fatt since we're the Klang gang. YiMin armed with his GPS was there to remind us all the speedtrap locations all the way there. (Although precentage that hit the target was less than 10% la, but we all appreciated his effort :D ..thanks!) We also had walkie-talkies to make sure we don't get lost... haha..Thanks to Push~!

Clear morning skies, perfect for travelling~!

Another introduction was done when we took a toilet break. Met with Wai Yee and her mom and Shuk Yee. Seriously, when I heard that Wai Yee brought her mom, I was thinking, wow, her mom is really sporting, which is kinda cool! :) So that was one memorable introduction in the PLUS toilet @ Ayer Hitam toll plaza. :p Anyway...with 3skillful drivers in all 3 cars, we managed to reach the small town of Mersing by lunch time where everyone in the cars were all crying for food!

Lunch time~!(Decided to break my vegetarian diet on this fine day :P)

Very obvious that we're all FAMISH~~~!!

Since boat to the island is only coming about 2(as informed earlier), we had an hour plus to go around the small town. Shops that we could see there were still old-skool ones that reminded us all of the good ol' days. WS bought a Mastika and was hooked on it for sometime. I wonder what other weird stories she have read from that magazine.Since we're all walking around with nothing to do, took a couple of pics of the town.

Push asked me this: "Why take pic of her butt la?"...Seriously unintentionally done..

Brings back some nostalgic feeling eh? Having to spend an hour plus in a small town with nothing much to explore, Push brought us to the Mersing jetty to jalan-jalan and use up some time before we head for Tg Gemok where we will be departing on the ferry to Tioman. The last time I went to Mersing was probably 3 years ago when I first started with EIS. I remembered I went with Yet Hui and we stayed in Embassy Hotel in town. Don't think the town changed that much compared to 3 years ago :P

T-shirts found in the souvenir shops at the jetty, Fatt almost bought one of it...didn't have his size, so didn't get in the end.

Since it's getting late, I'll end this part 1 with this really cool pic.

I like this pic a lot, how they posed, how it was taken...wished I had another shot.

Malaysian Artiste For Unity

2008-05-16T14:11:00.003+08:00

Hmm..feeling very patriotic today. Well, I was listening to Hitz this morning when they played this song: Here In My Home. It's a collaborative effort by local artiste to sing a song bout unity. I think everyone should take a listen to it coz I think it's a really cool song~!

For more info on this video or if you're interested to download this song, you can to the MAFU website. Spread the word~~

How could you not love him???

2008-05-08T11:32:00.002+08:00

David Archuleta...American Idol 7 :) I love his version of this song :)

Kitchen action..

2008-05-07T16:00:00.004+08:00

Been trying out new things in the kitchen. Mainly on vegetarian food... I find it very hard to come up with dishes that's purely vegetarian actually. Taking this as a challenge. Yesterday was a breakthrough~! Hahah...came up with new dish. at least something I've not tried before la. :p Mushroom stuffed with toufu + carrot + celery! :) Just a bit too oily, need improvement. Fried it for first attempt. Will try more variety once I get more creative and ideas. Nice, feels like KH( Living Skills) class all over again! Can't seem to transfer my pics into this laptop. will put up some random pics once I get the cable connected to this laptop. :)

Will experiment more if time permits :D:D

My new toy

2008-05-02T16:12:00.003+08:00

My new baby is here~~~!!! Love it.

Very exciting indeed. :) This is one of the coolest phone I have since the beginning of my mobile phone days a couple years ago.

The weekend that was...

2008-04-29T11:06:00.006+08:00

Saturday was spent on bowling again. A bit OD on that. On Friday night, had bowling session with the forumers. Last Monday was bowling competition in Sunway. So it's too much bowling in a week~! :p Gonna take it slow with that for the rest of the year.

Sunday, tagged along with my cousin to check out her new place in Setia Alam. After all the consultation on an auspicious time,they decided that best time to have the moving-in prayers was by 9am that Sunday morning. So I got the call to meet up at 7am at her place. That morning I woke at 630am, after only a 4-hour sleep. But they only left home at about 8am. I seriously could've used that extra sleep time. Anyway, it's the first time that I've witnessed the whole moving-in ritual. She decided to put in a few places for the Gods: the Sky God, the Land God and of course, Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy. So we head to the Kuan Yin Temple in Klang. Nicely renovated. Captured a few pictures. This place is quite nicely done. Haven't been inside before.

Pretty impressive what they've done to the place. Can't wait for all the works to be done to see the completed temple. Would be another landmark in Klang after that.

So after the temple, we head on to cousin's house. The house looks nice for a small family. Done with the basic flooring and lighting. Furnitures are not in yet, cabinets not done yet. It's just an auspicious day to move in. She needs to burn incense, josssticks and a lot of other "procedures" just to put up the Gods at her places. She even went to consult a Master on this all the way in Penang. Interesting eh? She had a lot of help from her brother's gf too. So that was an educational weekend which ended with me trying out a new Rose wine. Excellent weekend indeed~! :)

Have you checked the TOTO results?

2008-04-28T10:16:00.003+08:00

First thing in the morning, "EH, YOUR CAR, 1st PRIZE". Half awake, I went like..huh?

Image quality not that good..but I think quite visible numbers in the first prize category.

And who said the numbers "4" are the unlucky ones. Can open first prize in lottery, don't play-play!

But afterall, this post if just for the fun of it. I didn;t buy any lotteries so I did not win anything, just that it's in the 1st prize list. Worth mentioning a bit. I wonder what if I had a ticket...hmm.....

One Fathom Bank(Part 2)

2008-04-25T16:11:00.009+08:00

So as we finish off our dinner, it was already late. We continue on with some chit-chat and get-to-know sessions. It's great to listen to people like Hantu telling stories. It's like those "grandfather" stories type that'll get u hooked listening to it. :p I think it was 12 plus when we all retired to sleep. Check out the hostel room we got:

This is one of the available 3 rooms that they gave to us. So all of us crammed in it. With most of us sleeping on the floor, not knowing whether the ants will attack us or not. :P Too tired to bother about who snored or who did not. Alex said I did, so don't care la. :P Anyway, it was a peaceful sleep till one of the alarms rang with those funny funny tone. pstan let us listen to a special ringtone which got us all laughing. need to get that from him. Anyway, I didn't bathe for that first day we were there, made me feel all uncomfortable and my thought was, wake up early the next day to get a quick shower. The toilet is a little "risky" to use.

As you can see, it's only covered with blinds that were damaged at some corners. People from the outside can peep in. So I had a REALLY quick bath. The night before they had a water ration. KK said they are supplied with fresh water only 15 days once. SO they have their rationing daily. We were all up early for sunrise...too bad, another cloudy morning. Nothing much captured. This is one of the shots I have to show:

Another things to mention is, there's no reception on mobile phones there...well, not totally no la, just that at certain points you can get one bar, only on celcom network.That is why you get to see this in the lobby area:

People trying really hard to get connected to the outside world :D

Anyway, after that I tried a bit of the fishing feel when Kimmy passed me the fishing rod. All I had to do was to reel it up. And there was something that was biting on the bait, it was a coral fish, which i don't know the name. Kimmy asked if I felt anything when i reeled it up, I said none. :P When he caught a small herring, he told me to hold the rod again and feel the fish struggle. HAHA...yes, only then I felt the fishing feel :)

And right after the morning photo shoot, time to make breakfast. Fried rice from yesterday's rice. Excellent with extra soya sauce and saltiness~! :P We had really thick coffee too which people like Kobee got too stoned over. Peki, Kobee and me did the mixing, first batch was super thick. The next was lesser in the thickness. Coffee was made of : one bottle of nescafe gold roast and more than 20 packs of 3-in-1 nescafe. No wonder ppl OD from it~! :P

So after that, all of us packed up and made our way back. On the way back..we saw this:

This is according to what KK and Captain Samat said: "SAMPAH!" All of us damn blur there, thought it was some rare fish with that nickname. Turns out..it was literally what they meant it to be. :P According to Captain, this is what will attract fishes. So with the excitement, all the fishers in the boat went into action and caught about 8 Triple Tails. I don't have pics. Will need to include the klang forum link at the end of my posting. Go back on shore safely about 1 plus 2. Got home, took a good shower and had a good rest. Planned for the makan for that triple tail we caught that night itself. Was a delicious outing~! So that's it for this adventure this time. Enjoyed it a lot..Thanks to all MyKlang forumers~! This was unforgettable! Please check link below for more pics and posting on this trip.

TRIP TO ONE FATHOM BANK

One Fathom Bank(Part 1)

2008-04-18T18:58:00.008+08:00

Okay.very much delayed update on the trip that I went last weekend. Trip to One Fathom Bank off Port Klang. :)

Date: 12/4/08 - 13/4/08
Time: 10am

Well, let's brief through the whole story on how did I manage a place to this trip at the first place. Since organised by MyKlang forum people, so I went tagging along to one of their shopping trips which at that time I was offered to take over another guy's place for the trip. :)

So the trip started when everyone gathered for a breakfast session.A very traditional Klang breakfast: Bak Kut Teh! Participants include KK, Kobee, pstan82, alexlim, kimmy, aircraft and I. Ighost and the angels: lemon, sunshinejune and siewling only joined us later at the pier. Transfered all the stuff down to the boat, by 12 plus we were on our way!

Took us about 1 hour plus to reach One Fathom Bank.

The new one with the red and white which started operation in 1998 while the old one at the background. That was built on 1874. Spooky stories are alll over these 2 lighthouses actually.

Spooky stories aside, it's a beautiful place eh? Wished I had an dSLR to take pics.The main idea I joined the trip was to observed what hard-core anglers do...and get some fishing tips/stories from KK. I did a lot of observing, with the ppl catching small fishes. It can be quite serene, being out, no land surrounding us. Life's slow paced, and at the same time, enjoying a good company of new friends. The girls were recruited for one reason: COOK! How old-skool these ppl can be. Nevermind that, it's also fun to be cooking around the angels la..nasib baik I like to cook. Started to fry the Kuih Labu, turns out to be quite tasty. The raw paste was prepared by Yuli, Ighost's maid.

So after that, we continue with the taking pics, walking around, mingling till we wait for sunset. And what else to do on such a nice place besides photoshoot...alex was with his pics and very nice pics from him. Easier to refer to their website la. Easier for me than uploading with my broadband. Later add in the link:) nice sunset..this is the only nice pic I have.

Sunset at OFB.

At night was another time for feast. Asam pedas from the 4kg "ang chor" we caught. Curry chicken, some raw vege, BBQ chicken, BBQ sotong...it was indeed a big feast! check out how big the ang chor was...

The cigarette box as indicator..got this pic from Alex. Thank you first :p

That's all for Part 1. Continue with Part 2 when I feel like it.. :P

Tiring morning

2008-04-08T16:24:00.003+08:00

Question to the female readers, do you know how to change the tyres for ur car? Well..go learn it up if u don't know... :p Had my first ever face-on with a flat tyre this morning! Sad to say, I didn't change the tyre myself. Had to ask for assistance. Need to thank my neighbours for helping out. I get so lost when it comes to automobile. Engineer I might be..but I'm seriously helpless when it comes to car. that's why I had all the emergency numbers saved in my mobile just in case breakdown or anything.

Wasn't a good morning. Had a blackout the night before. Difficulty to sleep in the warm warm room. Only got to bed about 3, had to wake at 7. Thought I'll get to work earlier, mana tau..flat tyre. In such damsel-in-distress moments,and no knight-in-shining armour to rescue, so just needed to get my next door neighbours to help out. :P They helped me changed the spare tyre..noticed that it's THEY(both my neighbours were there..)Had the tyre changed and head to petrol station to pump air into the spare tyre. One bypasser told me the spare looks like couldn't last. got me scared, so I went to the tyre shop and waited till the shop to open. Waited in front of the shop for half n hour..Was sending SMSes to kill time and everyone had the same question to ask: "Did you change it urself?" Of course no la.. :p Why so curious? I thot it's only natural that a girl don't know how to do it?!

Anyway, in the end I got it changed. The repairman fixed it within 10 minutes. Took him 3 minutes to replace my spare with the fixed tyre.Paid him RM4 and off I go to work. What a seriously tiring morning..gonna be a long night ahead. Hoping for a smooth ride..Hope everyone have a good week ahead!

Being in control..

2008-04-04T11:05:00.003+08:00

So have you felt that somedays you're so in control, while some other days you just crumble and feel so helpless? Another one of those days with emotional turmoils to face. Must be the idle time in office that makes me think a lot..sigh...

Anyway, this week, although quiet, didn't turn out to be that dull. A couple of new friendships formed. Getting-to-know sessions going on. hope that is going to go well..

I still need to look for a place to stay, hopefully can find one...anyone with contacts of rooms to rent in areas of PJ/Subang/Puchong?Drop me a message! :)

And....that pretty much sums it all...

Taking chances

2008-04-03T22:31:00.002+08:00

Wow...been stuck in the car doing my drivetest and been hearing Celine Dion songs on and on over the airwaves...this song really got sipped into my head: Taking Chances.

Nice song..don't really agree about the MTV though, but then, worth a listen. Googled up the lyrics and I kinda like the chorus. The chorus goes something like this:

"What do you say to takin' chances?,
What do you say to jumping off the edge?
Never knowin' if there's solid ground below,
Or a hand to hold or hell to pay,
What do you say? What do you say?"

Yea, so what do u say to taking up something that you've never done before?Should be fun right? Like eating balut! :P I'm looping this song over youtube, maybe I should start taking chances with some new things. :)

I've recently got active in MyKlang forum. Basically gathering of Klangites in one eSpace community to talk bout everything under the sun about our beloved small town. Already met with a few of them. Interesting people. A lot of activities, especially the part bout FOOD! And I'm looking forward to more! Need to have some diet planning already! :P So that's about all to blog..kinda tired after long drives these days.

An unforgettable wedding

2008-03-30T14:32:00.002+08:00

I was at Michelle's wedding yesterday. Her wedding is the first ever church wedding that I've attended. It was a very beautiful reception. Very beautiful church in Puchong. Too bad didn't have my camera. I hope someone will send me some pics of that day. It was a Catholic wedding, heard from Chia Wei the Protestant wedding is much simpler. Will know that when she gets married. :) Michelle looked absolutely amazing in her gown. She marched in with Siew Yee singing at the background. Very touching scene. Michelle's dad was quite funny too. Being very busy with the camera the whole event. After the morning ceremony, we had lunch at the church basement.

After the break from the morning ceremony, did some running around with some bills to settle. Met up with Bev and KW for BKT. Didn't eat la, just was sitting in to drink tea with them. Haven't seen them for sometime. :) went back, and WASHED my car, after like months of dust that had settled on my car! :p

Then needed to get ready for the night. We got there earlier for the pre-dinner cocktail. Nothing much, just ppl mingling around. Holiday Villa Subang. Victorian Ballroom. Very nice setting. Different from the ballroom for Danny's wedding the last time I was there. Smaller ballroom. Met up with the CF-ers from back then. Nice to catch up with a few of them. Dinner was good. The programs from start till end was a delightful one. I like the way both of them march in the room, unlike any other weddings I've been too. Michael sang part of a song then Michelle came in. It was "I've finally found someone". Very lovely couple. Even the food presentation was a different one, rather than the waiters coming in with some kitaro song, or
the lady with the trishaw... this was just a very cute presentation which involves 2 swans, a lot of hearts, and a few smaller swans. the waiters had to carry the props and move around on the stage along with the song. Ended with 3 signs that says: Michael and Michelle, Marriage Made In Heaven, Dinner is served. Food was not bad, but I was seated with all the ladies, so most of the dishes are not finished.

Let's move on with the "unforgettable" part of it. Lilian went to Philipines and brought back balut! And she brought it during the dinner! So everyone was so curious about it, watched Alvin swallow the first. Then Joseph...I got curious too. Leona was taking a bite, I told her I wanted to try. She gave me half of it. It was okay at first..without thinking, just bite on it. It tasted like meat with the egg yolk. But then they start to play with it, coz the balut i was eating had feathers. Then the thought came to me, sheesh... i can imagine how the Fear factor people feel when they have to eat like a whole bowl of it. I had to take sweet things frm then on. The aftertaste is really bad. I down half a glass of wine, then sweet desserts from then on to cover the taste. Would I try it again? No, unless someone dared me to.

Broken In~!

2008-03-20T18:00:00.007+08:00

Police report:

"Pada 18/03/08, jam lebih kurang 1430 hrs ketika saya pulang ke rumah dapati pintu hadapan rumah saya telah terbuka dan telah diumpil. Setelah masuk ke dalam rumah dapati barang-brang di dalamnya berselerak. Saya syaki rumah saya telah dimasuki pencuri. ...."

Ok..so the story,should the same as the ones some of you already heard. But let's do it all over again to tell everyone about it. So this is what happened ( abit of harp-enhanced music at the background ... )

On Tuesday, when I was out for lunch, phone rang. My aunt told me that my house was broken in. Shocked as I was that time, I sweared the four-letter word quite loud in the mall. Didn't know what to respond then. Got myself home, then saw what damaged was done. The ride home felt like thousands of kilometres...got back, realised my front gate was still lock. Turns out the thieves climbed over and spoilt a bit of the shade in front of the house. Broken my front grill lock.

Can't see it that clear, but the cut off the "ear" of the grill to get in.

And then started searching for stuff. What I can see when I got back was the back door and back gate were opened.So they came in front, escape from back. They must've done that first. And I suspect it's 2 people at least.One to search for keys to the back and one to start searching, considering there's very short time for them. So what I saw was all the drawers opened. My room was the worst hit, coz has the most stuff. But they should be quite fast when they do it coz besides my desk drawers and cupboard, other places looked untouched.

Colleagues came back with me, helped me to get a new lock and all..this is what I'm keeping my house locked with:

Thanks to everyone that has helped me with the whole bizzare breaking-in thing. In the messy conditions, I actually thot my bank saving books are missing, so I went to all the trouble to get them replaced only to find them back when I started clearing up some stuff. Went to the police about evening when it started to pour. The whole police thing from reporting till them coming in to my house to snap some pics took about a couple of hours. Police was asking me who do I suspect? I said no one. I guess they've been watching for quite sometime before they took action. They also realised that my neighbour is always there, so they needed a quick search before my neighbour gets back I guess. Anyhow, from what my neighbour said it was a Wira. And a day after my house got broken in, another one nearby also got broken in with the same method. Might be related, but residents of Taman Klang Jaya, Taman Sri Andalas, Taman Desawan, please look out for Black Wira with a group of Indian men. If you suspect anything, please dial 999 to inform the police.

With all the mess, what was lost was only a few hundred bucks from my angpows! But I also believed that they took my old spoilt nokia 8210 too...I don't keep expensive stuff at home. The most valuable should be the electrical appliances at home which is already old and going to spoil dy. SO, if u're a thief reading this, please, this house is not worth you breaking in anymore. Please proceed next door~!

A new beginning?

2008-03-09T14:17:00.002+08:00

Malaysia's 12th General Election was just yesterday. Sad to say that I didn't get to cast my vote due to some technical problems which involves a little confusion on the closing date of registration...okay fine, I was too lazy to register, so I didn't get to do it. BUT turns out if I did cast my vote, results would came out to be the same( WRONG ATTITUDE AND THINKING...I know I know...) SO I will make sure I'll vote the next election.

SO the results came out to be quite surprising, but it was hoped for since the last election I guess. It's really time to change. Political analyst calls this the political tsunami. They were all shocked with the defeat of a lot of incumbent MPs. Well, everyone was quite united to make a change this time around. So, with the results come a lot of follow up. Let's hope with more of the opposition's voice in the Parliment would actually help and create a better country. And I do hope that all those street "decor" would be removed soon enough. Kinda irritating.

Yea..a new beginning for all of us. :)

Moving on...

2008-02-27T18:02:00.002+08:00

Hmm..it's another month down the road.Already the second month of the year.But this has been one of the longest month that I've felt. Every single day..the next day when I checked on the calendar, it's still a long way to finish off the month. And it's finally the 27th~!..28th...din get to finish this post yesterday. This year Feb has 29 days~! Yeay to everyone who can celebrate their birhtday tmr. :D

So everyone is well aware of the Edison Chen scandal recently.Some might have seen the pics and rumours has it that there's more to his collection than the ones distributed out. I agree with Jian when he said this kinda scandal if it were to happen in Hollywood, wouldn't go up to this kinda scale. Not really a fan of his, but as an actor, his retirement from the entertainment industry because of a scandal like this is not what he'll be proud about 50 years down the road. I can say it's too bad that he got unlucky with the leak of the pictures. Serves as a lesson to everyone out there to keep ur private intimate pictures..private! And the apology came a little too late when life of the women posing in the pics will never be the same anymore. Tarnished imaged, rocky marriages, failed marriage...things will never be the same. Edison said something in his public apology about giving time for everyone to heal, well, it's a helpless cry, but I think the society at large should give him that tiny bit of respect. Takes a lot for him to stand up and have a public apology for what he has caused. So let's all leave him alone and move on...

On another note, been a week where I've faced with immature ppl, mostly at work..Can't believe it can still happen, but still, have to deal with it. Ppl can act childish all they want, just that they don't involve me in their childish act. Not gonna elaborate..just thought that I think some attitude can be improved if people would think of the big picture rather than some small petty issues.

Enjoy your Feb 29th! That day don't come often...

The Age Factor

2008-02-21T14:28:00.003+08:00

Hmm..was reading Jian's blog entry on how a French guy in his 40s trying to woo this 23 yr old girl. And he also said something about the girl not willing to accept him although he's shown some interest in her coz he already failed on the age part. A bit sad rite?

So how does this age factor influences one's decision to hook up? (can't think of a better word for now)

My view, in the early years...a girl should pick preferably a guy who's 0 or 2 years older. Not too far, coz can keep the gap close enough, they would have same topics and it'll be easier to get along. Looks is part of the factor.
My view, a couple of years ago, nearer to uni time ... it's still prefered the older guy who is probably 0-3 years apart. Again it could keep the age gap as close. Was still thinking about getting the same topics to talk about.What changed was probably at this time, looks should not be a factor rather one should look for someone with a good heart and personality.
My view, today...i'll still prefer that the girl to pick the older guy. Now with age difference from 0 up to 10-15 years apart. Once the social circle grows, you'll realise that there are more choices to pick. And that thinking bout not getting the same topics, had been scrapped off. Personality shall still be one of the factors, and maturity and financial stability would be plus points.

So what I'm trying to say is, I totally agree that age is a factor. Just how you view it, and go about it. For me, one view that has not changed would be choosing younger men. I do mind a guy with a younger age. Another colleague said it before too, men matures very much later than women. I still remember back in uni we did a tech-comm paper on "Older women and younger men relationships"... can't really remember what was our conclusion to that hypothesis. Need to dig out that report and read again. I think the stand was we do believe that it can work out coz of some reasons. Hmm..SC, Jian..u remember? Leave me some comments.

The guy who used 40k to propose..

2008-02-15T16:31:00.002+08:00

This guy has made name for himself la. Front page, newspaper article hits...Still don't know his name, but everyone knows his bride-to-be's name coz it's on the billboard! Well, spending RM40000 on a billboard, some might say he's a romantic guy (most of the girls might be nodding heads), some might just say it's a foolish act( okay, big percentage of you ppl are nodding heads...) But come to think of it, I think he could've done something else that's equally memorable yet not that expensive...then again, considering he's quite rich at the first place, that amount of money is not that significant to him.

So,if you're a guy, can you think of the best way you want to propose to your lovely wife-to-be?

And if you're a girl, have you had any fantasies about how your bf would propose?

My time has not come to share this yet, so no sharing on this topic and if any of you want to leave comments, please do :D

CNY CNY

2008-02-13T17:13:00.002+08:00

Hmm..another V-day coming. Another spent single. Don't misunderstand, not complaining or am i whining about being single. Just thought of putting that as a start to my post. So it's been a long week away. Can't get back to the working mood just yet. Another CNY it has been~! (Although only the 7th day, but feels like it's back to normal)

This year is spent in Klang again. So it's me getting all the CNY stuff, plus my dad doing all the cleaning and re-painting. It was not a complete family gathering again. Mom was kinda fed up by it and said next year we would all be in singapore for the reunion dinner. So that would be the plan next year. My nieces had grown taller and naughtier...but even more adorable than the last time i saw them. LOVE them to their bones! Of course, the occasionally "why" questions from them are quite hard to answer. So it was 6 days in klang..and the place I visited the most of JJ bukit tinggi~! The new cinema is opened and watched CJ7 there. Will catch another session of CJ7 at Sunway tonight. Jau b'day celebration. :) The show's okay.

So it's another CNY where I stuffed myself with a lot of food. Goodness, don't want to weigh myself also, but had to. Sigh, gained a bit more..and it's TIME TO LOOSE! So many more food to finish at home. Have to bring it to office already.

And that's about it on CNY this time. Short post. Hope can get my pictures frm the phone to be posted up.

Hidden secrets

2008-02-08T02:24:00.000+08:00

So what can I say...it's good to know that Nyuet and Thean are going out. But took them 7 months to tell us? And Thean, too much of story-telling on his side la. Damn fake mannn...tak tahan. And Nyuet..I thot we were friends...not sure what happened? Not even a hint? Can understand about her feeling the insecurity frm the first few months of the relationship...but then...not a hint? Sigh..so disappointed in a way, but I am very happy for her after getting over the upset feeling that she kept me and the rest in the dark. I do hope for the best for these 2. I just hope my other closer friends don't just get married and inform me only when they are getting a kid.

Updates..

2008-02-04T22:28:00.000+08:00

Well, was suppose to update on the PD trip with my uni friends last January, too lazy to work on the pics, probably backtrack later. If not, just to summarise, it was a wonderful trip to PD. Took a lot of pics, still waiting for those nice portraits if any. Made me feel like getting a SLR too.

Anyway, January was good. Time passes real quick. And I just realised I've been teaching for 5 months...going to the 6th, not sure there's continuation or not.My kids are too good that they have excel and moving on to the advance level. it's just a matter of time, when I get back from CNY hols, might be my last day dy. Sob..sob..no teaching for a while. gonna miss my kids!

And January also marks my new beginning. A new status at work...which is good. On the way to achieve my goals. I hope this year would be a better year in everything!

Of course, CNY is just around the corner, and I have Avril Lavigne playing in the background as I type. Can't seem to find the excitement and anticipation. I wonder where did all go. This time around, would be in Klang. Bought all the stuff needed and let's hope this CNY would be a much interesting one! :) So to all my Chinese friends who is reading this: HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR.

Date to be remembered

2008-01-14T00:14:00.000+08:00

13 Jan 2008. I've received good feedback about my student! The feeling? Damn fulfiling. I now love teaching and how my students relate to me. The story is...my student's mom was telling the centre boss about how impressed she is with the progress of her son, which reflects good job and praises about, moi, yours truly :D Her son, according to her, was not that conversive in English before this and she realised the change after he's openly talking to her in English! The boss was saying this is the best feedback to date! Indirectly, I'm interpreting that as a pat on the back for the job well done. Muahaha...felt so good today. My kids made me so happy. The boy showed how much he likes having me as his teacher. The girl volunteered to tell a story.Isn't that amazing? Although still having problem with her sitting down quietly throughout the class. Wow...still feeling the satisfaction till now and i just needed to blog about it!

Letting Go of Your Bananas

2008-01-11T17:31:00.000+08:00

I've recently got into MPH and started reading this one book: Letting Go of Your Bananas by Dr. Daniel T. Drubin. You can get the first chapter for free read online...And chapter 1 is the one I was able to read before I met up with my friends. So this is what I interpreted from that one chapter: It's time to let go of rotten bananas. Rotten bananas here would mean something negative that's holding you on and not helping at all. And I think it's time I let go some of my rotten stuff too. Sad that it had to take a book to make me realise of all the rotten stuff I'm holding on to. So I guess this weekend would be for me to clean up! 2008 just started,there's still time to start anew. Well, this is my interpretation for the 1st chapter. Don't think I'm even into the book yet. Will walk in to MPH again and check out the book. Too expensive to buy la.. :P A bit cheapo la, but then what the heck. I still get to read it. I can say that I've met my first bump on the journey into 2008 already, and I hope things will turn out to be better after this. I just need to be strong and more focused. I want to be in the position to choose. And I choose to be good to myself again~! NOTE TO MYSELF: Focus...focus...

Dreams and fantasy..

2008-01-06T17:06:00.000+08:00

So have you your dreams and fantasy? Have you fulfill them? I've got to know a new friend. We shared an interesting conversation lately telling me how his dreams are like and how he'd work towards that direction...also in the conversation was what he's been through and how he'd overcome the odds and bounced back after hitting rock bottom. It's stories like these that's really inspiring. Not that I want to hit rock bottom la, I do hope I won't need to go through the rough times like he did. The right attitude, strength and determination are just the right keys to success. Okay, determination is always a strong factor...I hope I can find that determination to do some changes in my life.

It's another weekend. Classes had started today. The thought of my "children" had to face exam was getting stressful. The girl didn't really match up to the boy and it's giving me a headache. I just need her to express herself by making sentences that makes sense. Don't care about the grammar, i just need it to make sense. Will try another speaking session soon enough. Story telling probably was too much for them.turns out i'm the one telling it. Hope they did learn something...

This weekend was quite boring la. My dad came back. Another spotcheck session. He didn't nag much this time around, but he did a clean up and threw a lot of my stuff that i need/want. He was in the mood to shop and we went. Me fully sponsor la. :) At least something that I can do for my dad. :) And it's the first time I've shopped with him only. Since doesn't happen that often, I didn't mind if he wanted the RM200+ T-shirt also lar...but he didn't want. Too bad lorr

This time around, shopping was tiring. Maybe coz did not buy anything for myself. Boring weekend ending soon...looking forward.

Happy 2008!

2008-01-01T23:16:00.001+08:00

Behold..it's the new year! I've started off the year with a bang!! Seriously, was at The Curve for the countdown yesterday night. Standing right under the fireworks, oh yea, it was indeed a very loud way to kick start the new year. So how did we end up there?Read on...

It was a New Year eve with no plans at the beginning. Half day at work. Supposedly wanted to plan out something with colleagues, which in the end didn't turn out. Had to re-invite myself to a dinner that I thought I couldn't make it for. It was great. Met up with the whole bunch of MMU friends...some even haven't seen them since grad. We had dinner at Damansara Village. Steamboat! Which didn't turn out that bad lar. Drove myself to Pei Jet's to wait for Kah Seng to pick us up. The plan that PJ initially told me was counting down at Velvet, which was switched to Laundry. Well, since I also didn't have anyhting to do, why not? Dinner was filling. Then we went on chatting. Think we were quite loud. There were 18 of us.Quite a crowd for the first time after so long....so after that bout 10, we started our journey there. Jammed with slow moving traffic, we took our chances and went all the way to cineleisure. Found a nice parking, got out the car.It was about 11.15pm then.Walked through the crowded area. Too restless from the jam and decided not to enter any clubs after all. So we just went for baskin robbins and waded our way to open area in front of Cineleisure. Before that, I bumped into an old unimate. Both of us quite surprised to see each other. Hahaha, thot I saw the wrong person, that's why I told him I'm afraid of approaching ppl already, to save myself the embarassment like the last time. :P So after ice-cream, PJ, KS and I were chatting and before you know it, 1U started off their fireworks display. Weird, we just look at our watches and it wasn't even 12~!
probably 1 minute to 12 :P Anyhow, we didn't really literally countdown. We just stood there waiting for the fireworks for The Curve. It was a longer and nicer display. :D Quite impressed...coz the ones in 1U was just normal. I think it's after the fireworks competition, you start to compare them. Anyhow, we were standing at a fantastic spot, where you just need to look up and you can see it. A bit like watching a movie in the first two rows of seat. Thanks to the Avanza parked there la. Nice platform to lean on as you watch. :P I really enjoyed myself, thanks PJ for inviting me to countdown! and thanks KS for driving us there! Since we had this really nice parking spot, right after the fireworks, we got to the car and made our way back. KS went to pump petrol, we were all expecting a petrol price increase, but to our surprise...it;s still RM1.92/litre. Hmmm.... We weren't caught in the jam and the journey back was not too bad. :) Just that had this minor jam in federal that slowed my journey back. Got back home bout 1.45am.

The one thing I hate about any countdown/street party - SPRAY...any type. Be it the ribbons or the snow sprays. Quite irritating and I get this ashmatic-type of reaction everytime I inhaled any of it...hate it when they start spraying although emptied. Don't they know there's gas in it that will irritate the hell of ppl like me? Pls, spread the word....

So..that was how the day started. New Year's day. Started off with a dimsum session and followed up with movie session at Midvalley. Warlords. Thought I'd catch it before they stop screening. Well, KS and I was thinking that all online booking already cannot take dy, so we went to purchase over the counter. So eager to watch it, we took the second row seats! Quite a nice show actually. So it's worth the-not-so-strategic seats la. After that I got back home. Rested, before I headed off to Puchong to meet SC, Zheng, HJ and WJ. You know who you are la. Thanks guys...It will be remembered that we've met at the beginning of the year, also marks the 8th year that I know SC, Zheng and Jau and the 7th year I know WJ. Wow..has been that long eh?? can you believe it?!?! Also today marks the registration of marriage of a good friend of ours: Niam. Don't know if he reads this, but anyway, would send my heartiest congratulations to you. Have never met your wife before but would love to see her, probably when I go visit Penang again. Best wishes, my friend! Even an old friend is already married and I only found out today. Hmmm..I better start getting back in touch with my old friends. Will include that in my resolutions.

So this is a great beginning to the year. I'm looking forward to many many more great things to come. The last few days of year 2007 were memorable and simply fantastic! So with the renewed resolutions and some new ones added, let's look at what I need to achieve this year:

1. Diet. I hope I can meet my original target this coming year. No worries, I can still be available for makan sessions ..so don't forget me! hahha...I'll work out or something after that.. :P
2. Read and read. I need to finish books! :P
3. Another travel plan. Waiting for another AirAsia promotion period to decide on where...or go China with my parents and relatives...still considering.
4. Save $$$. Hahaha...so far, I can't really plan on this. But one thing...I'll cut down on my shopping for shoes la. That will help save a bit..i hope :P Thank goodness I recently bought a pair before last year ended, :P
5. Catch up with old friends. Emails I guess..or make a trip up north? What say you guys in KL? Wanna do some road trip to penang or soemthing?
6. Get organised. I need to re-organised some stuff at home. Still pending on that since last few years. Will make that my resolution so that would make point to achieve it.

So that's all I can think of for now. Happy New Year 2008 again. I hope your new year would be filled with joy with all good things coming your way no matter in your careers, your health and prosperity, or matters of the heart. That's about covers it all. I think the most important is to make sure you live a healthy lifestyle...Alrite, all the best to all and have a great year ahead!

1st Jan - Memorable day, Happy Birthday! Hope you have a good time in Sweden, Jian!

Reflections of 2007

2007-12-28T10:19:00.000+08:00

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 ..

2007-12-26T20:32:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-12-24T21:43:00.000+08:00

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..

2007-12-14T11:16:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-12-04T16:48:00.001+08:00

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

2007-11-26T15:38:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-11-26T14:11:00.000+08:00

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

2007-11-09T17:08:00.000+08:00

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

2007-10-21T17:38:00.000+08:00

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.