New phone, old line

After the incident 2 weeks ago, I bought over my colleague's phone. Motorola E398. Looks new. Getting used to the Motorola interface. The surround sound from the phone is kinda cool. Still discovering....sigh...makes me think of my lost phone. So many other features that I havent look at yet...

Okay, been busy with work. Slowed down the past few days. Money also still that low...credit card bills unsettled. Ok...been complaining bout lack of money since Day 1, but it's the truth. Eating out with my colleagues during lunch is still that hurting to my pocket. Yesterday was Dragon-i...cost RM25 for each. But it was goooood food...so no complaints. REALLY good xiao long bao~! and also the Shanghai noodles. GOOD GOOD.

Makan session with the Kura-Kura-ians last weekend. Sat was at Gold Leaf, eat dishes with rice. Sun was in Port Klang, eating noodles...mostly spicy stuff, Kok Wai was trying very hard to eat. Hahah...poor thing. Think when the guys ordered they totally forgot bout KW. He ended up with 3 glasses of cincau~! :P The food? Not bad at all. Never explored Klang for food that much...till I met the Kura-Kura-ians. Last weekend, we had this small ceremony in Chiang Wei's place to mark the end of the badminton match that lasted for 2 months. Haha...yea...longer than World Cup... :p Certs were passed out and we had COLD Dominos pizza coz our dear Fatt was late. After that was squash session where Chiang Wei accidentally hit the squash ball to my eye~!!! I'm ok lar...just blueblack. Still got a mark.... hopefully it gets well before my parents return for this weekend.

So that's all for this time...can't believe my friend said blogging is a waste of time...wow...his words, sank in there and then. If you're reading this, I'm ok, I respect other ppl's decisions... :) Lunch ...~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pure rotten luck

Name: Sony Ericsson W500
Lifetime: 8 months
Case: STOLEN~! @ Gurney Plaza, Penang

What the heck is wrong with the society these days mann....My precious was stolen from me on that particular Saturday where I thought I was lucky enough to catch Click and also buy some stuff for half price~!!~ The world of unfairness..Of course, I am to be blamed for it also coz I wasn't careful enough. This is soooooo sad...................... Penang...some memories MAN....

I'm currently sending over files back to KV, been tired and sleepless the past nite..rushing to finish all. This is like torture....although the up part bout the whole trip to Penang is meeting up with my friends...and GOOD FOOD. I've gained back all the weight I lost the past week. But there's also the down part on the phone thingy...SIGHH...alrite...practically brain dead and not processing alot of things well..better write in another time...

PENANG

Mention Penang and all you can think is: FOOD~! Been here for 5 days already, only ate like normal yesterday. Before that was busy driving around for my scan drive. Being paired with a weak partner is not encouraging plus all the problems with the equipment. WHICH in the end of the day needed another team to help us out. They are here today and WOW, we're here in this deluxe suite. :P Better than those RM80 - RM100 /day hotels.

Yesterday was bad, I kinda reached breaking point. After that, I realised that I'm working with a very united and supportive team. Which is another push for myself to work harder. All I have to learn now is to not stress myself out that easy. Think it's the no-communication with my partner is the one causing the anxiety and insecurity. So crazy man... but one msg from KY(my supervisor)...he said this: "YL, don't think so much, there's not big problems that we cannot solve,take care".

With that said, I cried. I cried for thinking so much, I cried coz I lost confidence, I cried coz i was just plain stupid. But I know how much my teammates support me, so I'm all well and will do better. I just need to stop making mistakes...I SERIOUSLY need to learn that. Actually before the Penang trip, Chow(my previous supervisor) was very helpful in finding a place for me to stay. Gosh, I love my colleagues a lot.

SO, it's getting late. I'm on the 29th floor of Northam Hotel, overlooking the sea. Simply magnificent. I'm gonna spend my weekend here. Kinda last minute decision, but will make an effort to meet up with all my friends. So far met up with ST, CK, Kok Hui, Shaun, Foong Tek, Cheng Mun and Kenneth. Will be meeting up Poh Imm and William. The rest...I'll see how. :) So will sign off frm Penang. It had been a tiring, crazy but most of all, a week of discovery. :D

Stress at work

Wow...I'm finally feeling that STRESS...Been crazy these few days with the database stuff. Killing my eyes with excel... That day was more stressed out when the engineer told me I have limited time to executed some commands. Damn scaryyyy.....

Anyway...it's getting close to ONE year. Yea...in a couple of days actually. Going to treat myself with something good. Still not sure what is that yet. Kinda broke this month having to pay for my car insurance and Penang and family day thingy this coming Saturday.

Last weekend...Beggar chicken. Well...one thing for sure is I wont be making a second trip back there to eat. All the stuff kinda taste the same...something like stewed herbal chicken/duck/pork leg.The boneless fish was interesting, but in the end, just tasted like some fish cake. Soup also tasted like some normal pig intestine soup that you can find it at any normal hawker stall. Rating: 2 out of 5.

Oh ya..the Tmn Wahyu Fish Head Curry. Again, expectations were a bit too high, so kinda disappointed in the end. Same thing as Beggars Chicken. Expensive, not worth the money and travel time.

Food talk eh...hmm...since we're there. There's this nice place in Bdr Puteri. Bumbu Bali. Had Mell's bday there. I think the food is quite okay. Balinese food. Most of the marination had a touch of lemongrass taste in it. With other spices I assume. Portion quite big when you're talking bout those Nasi type of orders. For the ladies menu, well...it's a small small portion. Kinda felt like being ripped off.... :P but then, it's low fat and all that crap lar. As friend stated, food with that spice taste can only last one or 2 trips, and you'll get bored of it.

Another one that I like now is O~Viet. in Sunway. Nice food, nice restaurant...nice drink~!! There's only one cold drink that I like from there....DST5: 3 bean mix. ..or something like that. The hot drink? Drip-Coffee....STRONG AND SIMPLY GOOD. food wise...so far, most of the stuff that I tasted is kinda nice. Again with the taste of the lemongrass, but it's really good food.

Jap food....ZEN. My TOP list of food to eat when I have the money. Can be quite expensive, but food is good, so no other bad comments.Place is nice, quite, ambience is there. Sunway also. Must be a place to try out...Sashimi is fresh...havent tried their sushi. Unagi is not that bad there either.

Fast food wise...I kinda like the KFC BBQ Cheesy meltz...not that bad. McD's beef foldover is also good. Pizzza hut...i like their pasta range...currently looking at the Prawn Olio. only tasted once...need to try it again to really confirm it's nice. :P

Well well...enough of food talk already. Going off....it's another tiring day. It's been a moody day for me...I just want it all to go away, but I guess only that someone can help me with it...sighh...

My 25 mins in the lift

Interesting week I might say. Didn't start off that well, since I got myself stuck in the lift on Tuesday. It was the first ever that I was stuck in the lift ...alone. The silence can be really irritating. So it was a normal Tuesday morning, I got out of my house later a bit, it was about 8.20am....under normal traffic conditions, I should be able to reach office by 9....which I did although there was a slight jam over the highway. Reached office parking lot, a little over 9...it was probably 9:05. Still, I got a place in B2( my usual parking level ) with not a bad spot near the lift....surprising. Got to the first lift...everything was okay. Second lift, saw these 3 other girls waiting for the same one. Lift reached 1, all of us went in. 1st girl pressed 3, the next 2 girls stopping at 4. I'm stopping at 6 as usual. 1st girl - got out. 2nd and 3rd girl - got out. When the lift was reaching 6, it suddenly stopped. I was a little shocked, tried pressing the buttons...no lights....next instinct was to ring the yellow bell. I rang it 3 times be4 calling my superior to tell him i was stuck in the lift. It took the security 5 minutes to respond to someone stuck in the lift~!!!! Slow.... the next few instance was just waiting n waiting for rescue. I managed to sms-ed my friends. I was sooo bored. It took them 25 mins for the maintenance guy to come n save me... but I'm thankful for the ppl who actually tried to open the lift door, although I dun really know who. Can't see them thru the small opening between the doors. Fuhh...after 25 mins, got out, and got up to office. Everyone thot I'd start crying or screaming...well...I was calm enough I guess. At some point when I was trapped in, think I felt scared. But I knew someone would be rescuing so it's all okay.

And after that incident, it was work and work and work. I had too much of Excel for this week. All confused by having like 15-20 sheets of Excel running on my laptop at one time. Indeed very new to me. Let's not forget the errors that I made. Sigh...seems like it's always me with the mistakes...or is it me who are the one admitting to all my mistakes first? Not sure what it'll reflect on my boss...but I hope it does not affect the part where he'll fight for my increment. :D

So that's it bout this week. Going off for Mell's bday thingy in Puchong. Getting veryyyyyy boring sitting in the office by myself. Time for another weekend. This weekend should be just Beggar chicken and quiet time at home..with my leftover Excel work~!! Last week shopped too much already. Alritey..will make a move...

Work work work

Been swamped with work recently, started with the new project. My trip to Penang had been postponed to next month. So my Penang friends...will have to wait another month to meet up then. Last weekend was meet-up session with my friends from uni. SC and the rest. Everyone's seems to be fine. The conclusion I get after meeting up with 3 groups of my friends...majority of them ended up in the Telecommunications line...it's not surprising I guess...

Last weekend also was the first time that I went on shopping with the Kura-Kura ppl. Quite interesting also...Laughed like mad. True wat KF said lar, been out too much.. can't tone it down. It's like weekends are something to look forward to already. What's life without this sampat group of ppl lar??!

Changed my hair style last weekend also...nothing much, just shifted my hair parting. My friends thinks it's good..so I'll stick with it.

p/s: voltboy, thanks for reading, I guess my answer to u is I expect my credit card bills to maintain a certain amount...not going so high up. :D

7 years....

Been really that long since I last saw most of them. This is another weekend that I'm gonna be hanging out with my friends. Yesterday was at dinner with Man Chong, Simon, Ken, Serloon and Vivian. Vivian and Ser Loon are new faces. Ken, knew him last year. Man Chong n Simon...since secondary school but have not met them after a while. The catching up feeling is really nice. There's gonna be 2 sessions with my friends tmr. One with the Kura-Kura clan, the other with my old uni friends.

Last week went to IOI for lunch with the animal gang. Lunch to send off Nee Peng to Penang and Heng Leong to Philippines. Yea, everyone's going around. But it was fun. Seng was as himself, well, everyone were themselves for that whole lunch session. Din change one bit since graduation. Still that "peh"...If ppl ask what we do and we tell them we're engineers, dun think they'll buy it.

After that, went for quick shopping spree with Mel. Shopped yet again~! Sigh, got my credit card bill yesterday....i realised the bill is only going one way...which is UP~!!!!!!!!!!!!! Living on credit....sighhhhhhhhh....alrite, not a good way to start my morning lar. Better do some work now...

Bored...

Now that project is on hold...kinda free to update my blog. It's another Friday already. Going to be an interesting weekend. Meeting up with my old uni mates tmr, tonite is meeting with my ex-MGS-ians for dinner, after that should be yumcha session with the Kura-Kura-ians. a lot of this meet ups should be done earlier lar. Been on hold for far too long..

Had dinner in Baby Seafood the other day, something like a farewell for Drew. It was good food. Yea, talking bout food, my colleagues been going everywhere for food. Last week was Bak Kut Teh in Klang for lunch, later on will be CurryFish Head in Tmn Wahyu. Will know how it'll taste during lunch. yumm....

Life's Great..

It's been a really great 2 weeks since I've last blogged. Loved the weekend getaway in Genting. Probably what I needed the most for now. IT WAS COLD ~~~~

This is the group of people that was there with me ... the Kura-Kura-ians~~ (except for Thean)Nothing but a nice cool ice-cream session up in Genting....Cun-ness~!! 3am Coffee Bean session @17 degrees

The purpose was just to chill while some of them went for JJ Lin concert. Think it was a good concert while the rest of us just lepak and watch the England vs Portugal match. Surprise of the day would be meeting up with Chye Hsia and Kum Nyin+Yin Kwan. I met with Chye Hsia in the new casino while met up with KKN when the football match started. The crowd was awesome~~~

It was a fun trip...Fatt and Drew were the main jokers. Laughed till my stomachached...yea, laughed till can't stop. This is the funniest bunch that I've ever been with. Too bad Drew will be going off to Melbourne on Friday. Oh gosh...I miss Genting SOOO MUCH~~The mist, the weather, the cold wind, the laugh. It was the best trip ever~~~

Weekend Away~~

Wished I had more than the weekend away. It's Weng Yan's birthday today...Missing it~~ Yea, her parents and grandparents planning to have her birthday celebration today at the childcare centre. I'm missing it~~~~~~ :( :(

It was weekend in Singapore. Friday was spent at home. Mom cooked nasi lemak....missed her cooking soooooooooo much. Din do much the weekend also, although said that I was gonna go for shopping, but it's a weird feeling:- the STINGY feeling. Yea, was doing all this conversion in my head, and thinking I could get the same things in Malaysia probably with a more affordable price. So I decided not to shop. Window shop instead. :P Then dinner was excellent~! Buffet at Sakura. Ate till bloated...I can still remember the durian puffs...simply EXCELLENT~~!! Dinner was on me. SGD252. I'm broke for the month, but it's once in a blue moon that we have a complete family dinner gathering..I'm happy ( and SGD200 was actually from my mom...she gave me the money...and lots of stories that came after )

Ring Ring...Wedding Bells....Yea, 3rd bro is gonna get married next year? or the year after. RoM is scheduled for the end of this year. Hmm...that would mean I have 1 year to DIET and exercise. My 3rd brother is soooo thin dy. He lost 10kg~~~~~~ My brother will be my motivation!

It was also World Cup weekend...quite a disappointing one to a lot of ppl I guess. Din watch it. Coz was too tired by the time the game was on. Will be catching up with the rest of the game. Gonna meet up wth Ching Yen for this weekend's game lar. I need to watch a match with my friends la...so boring watching alone now that I'm home alone again.

How long can a friendship last?

It' so easy to say it... Friendship last forever... Remember the good ol' days before you leave primary/secondary/university, you always end up with this line : "Keep In Touch". Question is how many actually does it? I don't..I admit. Kinda hard to keep in touch with everyone I know. So in the end, we end up with that few close friends.

Probably it's always true what my parents always say. Friends are just temporary, once you leave that stage, they will leave too. Back in university days, we used to have birthdays for all that's in the group. You know what? This year, I already forgot 2 birthdays. And keeping in touch with the old gang...I think I've only kept in touch with 1/3 of them in each gang.

And the current gang I'm with is slowly divided into their own smaller cliques with different interest and hopes. I'd say this group will probably go their own ways...I'll give them to the end of the year. After some weird things happening recently, plus when CJ starts to feel something changed, and others starting to agree..THAT is the sign. So will just wait and see...

Minding your own business..

I'm ok with my dad not around sometimes, but having him back is just great...lots of stuff is done around the house, sigh, makes me feel bad especially when he initiated to wash my car... i love him sooo much. But the other day when I was lazing around watching tv, I overheard my neighbour talking to my dad...can't hear them properly but then, it was in hokkien and to my limited vocab and proficiency in that language, what I got was something to do with a guy or guys. My neighbour's is being really nosy bout what's happening to me. I think...coz right after that conversation, my dad sat beside me and started asking stuff bout Fatt, one of the guys in the gang.

So coincidentally he picked me up for yumcha the day before, it was 11pm, to my parents, that's bed time and yumcha session for a girl is not decent. Yea, I grow up with conservative parents. I knew that long time ago. Bet they will have endless lecture if they knew I went clubbing.. Anyway, back to the topic, my dad came and ask me a bunch of questions bout Fatt...I knew something was wrong, I think he suspects Fatt to be my bf or something... and I think it all started from what my neighbour told him...that's the conclusion I get lar... He wanted to ask the main question, I just said he's part of the group of ppl I hang out with for badminton and other stuff.

The thing bout me and my parents, I could sense when they want to ask whether I'm going out with anyone. I mean, it's not wrong lar, since I'm grown up already, just that the approach they have with me. My dad is protective I guess, but he's not happy with whoever I hang out with, especially when activities that goes on at nite. He thinks badminton can be played on weekends afternoons, friends meet up sessions can be done in daylight, everything that is accomplished during daylight is good. Any other things that's on at night is bad. I know this...even when I hang out longer with friends these days also he has something to say about it. Like last weekend, I was out for lunch with my friends from 12PM, I got back at 5PM, he had something to say about it.

Anyway..my blog title is not meant for my dad, coz he just cares bout his only daughter. I know that, and I love him so dearly...It's meant for my nosy neighbour to keep her nose where it belongs...~~~ and i wish she could read this too : STOP GIVING IDEAS TO MY DAD!!!

Clear skies...

Yea...that's what I hope for from now on. Was freaking unlucky last Friday...wasnt the 13th, but it was the worst in my life. Bad luck was just continuous for the whole day. Thank goodness it's all over...

And it's all quiet already....work just came n gone, it's all quiet now. I should start picking up some new skill/knowledge already. If not, it'll just be wasted. Life's still filled with boring stuff... weekends are still spent with the gang. And the recent update was of course me going on a date with the guy I met in the club last last weekend. I would say I had the most fun among all the dates I had, but still he's a year or 2 younger..So we'll just have to see how it will go...

It's close to a year since graduation already. My juniors are busy saying their farewells to their friends, kinda reminded me of my time. Since saw a few of my uni-mates recently, so refreshed my mind bout the times we used to spend to do crappy stuff like staying up late and early 630am bak kut teh sessions. Can't really stay up already these days. I get tired easily the next day...WHAT happened mann...??? I feel OLD..... alrite...time to leave the quiet office...

At my blurest ~~

Aiks...blurrrrrr day. Not enough sleep last nite kinda took revenge on me now. My heart is not into whatever I'm doing for the day...Crap, I'd even forgot to lock the freaking toilet door. Damn embarassing ... but u know what....i din feel a thing, really not myself..probably it's the panadol i took earlier. I'm lethargic and worn out...and I din even do much for the whole day. Must be the accumulative effect... or dunno..i'm blur and so i'm crapping...

Facelift~~

What my blog needs la...a facelift....havent completed it though, but this is the starting stage of it lar..It's coming close to end of the month...yeay...i want my pay~~ did a lil shopping and a lot of spending the past weekend. Movie weekend. Saturday was movie day. Watched Da Vinci in the morning and Poseidon at nite. Not that bad, but i preferred Poseidon over DaVinci. Too much info too short of a time. That's what I would say bout DaVinci. But it's ok, overall. Din really get to finish the book before the show, so dun have that high of an expectation compared to the rest I guess. In the afternoon went to pyramid, din get to shop much, again too short of a time there. I reached Pyramid at 4, had to leave by 6. Nothing much accomplished. Din even get my heels there. Only bought it after the movie.

And so..the speculation continues...there's this two people in my gang. We suspect that something is going on between them...none of them said anything to the gang yet, but from the stares and looks and sms-es during group gatherings...we're all watching........ i think it's a normal thing to hook up at this age, no one objects or anything, we find it extra interesting coz this meet-then-woo session only takes a week. Yea..u read it rite...ONE week. They met on a Sunday morning, call and meet up everyday after that. It's one week already, and 80% sounded like they are gonna announce something. and we're all waiting.... maybe it's love at first sight. these things actually exist?? I still wonder.

Recently being teased with a guy that I met in the club last weekend. Din want to comment a lot on it. That wasn't love at first sight, that was more of getting into the moment and having fun. I wonder why my friends are so over-reacting to it. Pls dun misunderstand, we did not kiss or anything of that sort, we just danced together and he asked for my number after that. Nothing special there...I think it's just normal. Well, after the nite ended, I din even get his name...until my friend told me. That's bad rite? :P He said he would call...and it was 4 days after, he sent an sms asking how I was doing. I was a little surprised, I thought I wont hear from him again. And been msging each other for the past weekend too. I was too bored at home. Funny guy... will see how things actually go... so that's it for now. FY, good luck in ur job-hunt. ;)

Party-ing weekend~~

Long weekend indeed. Had a visit from Siew Theng, all the way from Penang.Kinda nice, so we had dinner at Magical Theatre Restaurant (again~!This is like my 4th or 5th time there, but if u want really cool birthday surprises, u should try it...it's just magical and for this occasion, drop dead funny~!) Yea, it was CK's birthday celebration. He was called up to the stage and the magician made a 10-minute embarassing moment for CK, but the magic was really cool. This time around was way funnier than last time Jac's birthday. Oh ya, talking bout Jac, sad news actually, she was knocked down by a motorcycle the other day. She fell flat on the ground, stupid biker left her with bruises all over her body. The biker turns out to be a thief running away from the police. Hope she recovers soon from the whole thing. Anyway, back to the birthday surprise. It was also a gathering for all of us after 1 year since graduation. There were 13 of us all together including ST's sis and bro n his friends. Food again was so-so, but watching the birthday boy on the stage was the icing on the cake lar. Hope to see the vid clip of him. After the dinner, plans were made for Bak Kut Teh in Klang the next afternoon.

After dinner with ST, rushed back to be in time for clubbing session with the gang. 8 of us went. First time for CJ n Thean.We went to Passion in KL. It was quite a nice place. There, we met with Wee San's friends. A whole bunch of them. 10 of them actually, only get to know 3 of them only after the nite ended. But clubbing was nice after so long. Since been so sien with my studies, needed the break. Danced the nite away. At the end of the nite, 2 guys frm my gang were drunk, threw up and one of them were actually were lying down on the street~~!! I wasn't drinking coz they were taking hard liquor. Dun like hard liquor...so had orange juice and that was only a sip or 2. Din taste nice. Thank goodness I didn't drink coz after the nite ended, I had to drive one of the guy's car. Imagine, these 2 fella who was drunk was sooooo loudly saying that they'll take care of us girls before we were there, in the end needed us girls to take care of them instead. Uselesssss~~!! Imagine if we needed them to protect us sumore...one of them vanished after a while when we reached Passion. :P But it was fun. I had fun for the nite. And it's bad seeing them puke but it was nice playing on them after they woke. They were so drunk till can't remember a thing, and it's sooo nice to tell them things they did and things that they think they did...muahahaha..

It was a happening Saturday nite+Sunday morning. I got back home at 430am. Been a while since this happened. and I didn't sleep much. And it's another working week ahead. Sighhhhh.....

42,3 children,recently divorced, HAPPY..

Yeap..that's the aunty that cuts my hair whenever I need it. The last time I went for my haircut, I was surprised when she said she was divorced. You should see the reaction on my mom's face when she told us that. I don't really know how long was the marriage( I don't really ask bout her marriage all this while that i've been visiting her for my haircuts ) but her eldest daughter is 16 this year. So it must had been pretty long. My mom's impression on her ex-husband was kinda good...she decribes her ex-husband was good-looking, gentleman, and soft-spoken. The ugly truth? WIFE-BEATER and CONMAN. This is what we call: Looks can be deceiving. Is your boyfriend/girlfriend cheating on u today? Hmmm...you think about it. The truth was her ex-husband bluffed her on matters regarding the house, the car and overdue bills. My gosh, he'd even sold her car off without her knowing it. Well, you must be thinking that she is dumb and all, but she was hoping that her ex-husband would be touched and return to the right path ( she's Christian, she prays for husband to return to her and she'll forgive whatever wrong he'd done ). I know it wasn't that smart of a move but she's only a woman, with 3 child. Eldest is 16, second one is 14, youngest is 10. All of them still needs a loving household. She admitted that her husband hit her on a lot of occasions and they've been separated for the past 2 years. No one really knows the story till now. She thought that it was a shameful thing is others know about it. But now, she had enough. She stood up, requested for the divorce and now she's moving on. Her ex-husband is in fact a little jealous that now she's being pursued by another man. How selfish... if you yourself can't love a woman, why would you want to hold on to her?Total crap...and after what he'd done, there's no woman that can tolerate with that kind of act. So both of them were advising me to be careful when i'm looking for my bf/husband next time...as if that's gonna happen anytime soon :P

Gosh, blogging after a long period of time again...

Aloha~! To whoever that actually still reads this junk. Hahaha...so it's been a fun and exciting life so far. The crap sessions..then badminton...yea..it's this group of 8 or 9 or 10...i dunno, it's just expanding. It was K-session last week that made us all sang for 4 hours~!!! Can you believe it, 4 hours!!!! It poured and there was thunderstorm..we were clueless about it. Till I got home, and sadly, my ADSL died.

So been doing a lot of stuff also. We were suppose to have this water balloon fight thingy on the 1st to celebrate Kok Wai's bday. Well, bday boy got into a little accident so the celebration was cut short.But nevertheless, we had the celebration the day after.

Hmm...every weekend had been outings till late nites...gosh..think my dad is starting to hate my new lifestyle. This is great, i bumped into KF's blog and i found this piece:

8

8 met

on a heart shape day

2 were my old's

the rest are new

from planned sushi

to a waited more than an hour

but food never arrived cafe

to a dim sum restaurant

thought was a one night stop

ended up almost every weekend

every other day

for sure every wednesday

different backgrounds

funny stories

fresh characters

balance gender

caring and laughter

funny how it all connected

despite the connected area

and the circle is growing out 8

where were they before this ?

where were i before this ?

how were we before this ?

Connect - disconnect - reconnect

make believe.

-written by CKF-

A very nice piece indeed. Makes you think of how it all started and how it's going and how's thing going to be. This is the start of a beautiful friendship.

Hmm..back with a mission

Oh dear, totally left the blog for so long. Okay, I shall wrap up the China story first. The training was informative, I got exposure with the planning tool, drive-test tool, went for a real drive-test....ok....sounds boring for ppl who are not in my field. So that aside. Went for sight-seeing in Cultural Village in Shenzhen. Nice place, but don't have the time to really walk the whole area. Too big to cover in such a short time. Oh yea, and went to Hong Kong to visit and also to get my NEW phone~! Sony Ericsson W550i. Celebrated New Year there, counting down in one of the trainee's room coz was transfering all the pics that we took of the training and visits. And it was take off on the 1st night back to Malaysia. Oh..and I had time to grab some souvenirs back too. By the time we left China, I was broke...as in I don't have any RMB left in my wallet. Eh, forgot to mention that I got sick also. Had a taste of Chinese medicine. VERY effective. Met some really nice people. I wonder if I'd hear from them again especially those overseas.

That;s one training that was really cool, except the part that I need to take the test. Now, I'm undergoing another training but only here in Phileo Damansara. Had to drag myself up early just to beat the traffic to reach there on time. Must be the hols, my travel time there is about 40 mins without the jam. Hmm....

Anyway, the mission that I was refering to was to update my blog. The greatest thing since I took a break from blogging was meeting up again with old friends, and getting together with a new group of friends. It started with Feb 14th, V-day. Chin Jie and Wee San thought of dinner for "singles"...CJ don't really fit into that category though...anyway, they decided to have dinner together, so asked me along. And there, I met with Thean and Kim Fatt. AND that was when all of the yumcha session, breakfast session, dinner session, and badminton session started. :D I met with Beverly and Kok Wai too. Badminton is every Wednesday that I can make it. :P It's nice to have this fun bunch of ppl. Life is getting boring with nothing much on.

Work is slowing down. Am always in office, doing nothing but following episodes after episodes of CSI. So the training session is good for now. At least I get some new input. And the good part bout it ( altough very far ) is that it starts at 930 and ends at 5. Meeting new ppl in the class, since I'm there without knowing anyone beforehand. There's this guy from Philipines, Franklin. 2 guys from Pakistan, Babar and Nathar ( sounded something like that). One Iranian guy, dunno his name. The rest are Malaysians. CK, Vijay. Yet to know the other 2 chinese fella and 2 more Malay fella ( suppose to be my colleagues :P...but they are based in HQ, so I don't really know them ). TEST in one and half weeks time. :P Got lab session sumore. This should be quite interesting. So that's it for now. I'll blog again some other time.

China story continues...

I'm a bit surprised that a junior of mine approached me saying he read my blog. Nvm, I knew someone will bump into my blog one day. So ...welcome... I guess... :D

Anyway, let's continue with China...

19th Dec 2005

Started with my first day of training. Standard intro session. So awkward, most of the people there are like sooo much more experienced than me. The biggest surprise was meeting with Rohan, another MMU-ian. Din expect to see him there. I got to know that I wasn't the only fresh grad there lar...which was kinda not so intimidating after all. So it was ok...kinda boring for a first day..somewhere in the mid of it I think i fell asleep. Then first day lunch in the canteen. First exposure to the fatty, oily and salty food. Believe it or not, I finished it. After that was another introductory to the Chinese culture: Everyone sleeps after lunch...along the corridors~!!! They have like sofas along the corridors put just for that~!! You can see it from the picture below. This is just one of the corridors.

Should have taken pic of the pantry also. We have breaks of 10 minutes every morning and afternoon and we'll head to the pantry for green tea. First week, still new to the place, we see the fruits in the pantry but we dare not take any. Haha..funny coz when it came closer to the end, we took all of it. :P The thing is...the first day of training, I got my cup and all the stuff that needed to study on...it was a thick book. Other references were copied into my laptop. So first day ended with some basic introduction and by the time we finished with training, it was already dark outside and it was only 6pm~! We head back to our room and dropped our bags and it was 7 something that we decided to get ourselves dinner. We walked into some restaurant nearby the hotel and ordered some food.Ohh...temperature was about 10 degrees come night time. After dinner, we over to the supermarket to get some stuff like biscuits and instant noodles just in case. Then this became our routine for the coming days. After dinner, was back in my room doing surfing and study~!! Yea, the training comes with a test at the end of the week.It's like back to school for me. So after some studying...haha..and TV. a lot of channels there, and most of the time I'll be tuned into the MTV channel.

20th Dec 2005

1. Breakfast in canteen ( yau char kuai and porridge)
2. Class
3. 10 mins tea-break
4. Class
5. Lunch
6. Class
7. 10 mins tea-break
8. Class
9. Dinner
10. Study + TV

21st Dec 2005

Repeats 1-10 of previous day. Only thing different was I went to get some fruits from the nearby fruit stall. Grapes, oranges and apples. And dinner this time around was in the nearby mall. We tried KFC...which was WAY EXPENSIVE although after conversion and not worth it also. My colleague was complaining bout it. But one thing good was the Portugese egg tart...who would have thought KFC serving egg tart~!

22nd Dec 2005

Repeats of 1-10. Starting to feel a bit tensed coz test is the next day. Just read what I could and hope for the best.

23rd Dec 2005

Test day...wasn't that bad. Trainer sat in front busy doing his work, we were at the back discussing most of the time. The other guy was even better, he had his laptop on to check on the answers. But I tried to answer most of it by myself before really giving up. Test took up half the day. Classes resume after lunch. At night, we had free dinner complimentary of the organisers of the training. It was a Christmas night celebration. We had buffet dinner...yeah, it was good food after all the bad ones we had be4 this night came along. :P After that was the celebration thingy with songs and dances. Was there till bout 11 something then return to our rooms.

24th Dec 2005

Hong Kong here we come ~!!! Was suppose to be scheduled with classes on this day but since the trainer thought Christmas was a big celebration in our country, he thought he'd give us all the day off. So since we had the multiple entry visa, we made a last minute plan to drop by HK. Our trainer brought us there. It was my first experience with the public bus i think...bus 415...I will never forget it in my life. We reached Lo Hu train station bout 11 something...and there were LOTS of people already waiting at the immigration. We got to Hong Kong about 12 plus. Took the train and went straight to Mong Kok. Had lunch there in one of the resturants...and yea, being the tourist, we were expecting a lot of throat-cutting session...and YES, first cut-throat session was lunch. All of us ordered the signature dish of the shop. They had Small, Medium or Large portion. I chose small and that already cost me HKD48. It was HKD68 for medium and HKD88 for Large. Frankly, we all couldn't find any much difference in all that sizes, probably only the bowl. :P

So after lunch, we went over to see handphones....never did I expect to get my new phone there. It was REAL cheap after conversion. I think I got a good bargain lar in the end of the day. Although when I came back, I found out the price here is about there. I probably save RM100 only for my new phone. Yeah...2005, the year of new gadgets. It's Sony Ericsson W550i walkman phone. Very cool...never regretted getting it. We spent half our day in that place looking at phones and comparing prices. Then off we go to Kowloon East to see fireworks for Christmas countdown. Then it was shoppinggggggg... I bought a scarf, 2 pairs of socks, a top and skirt for my niece. Too much of shopping la..my legs were way beyond tired already. We walked the whole day and not stopped till it was dinner....My goodness... Then dinner...we had siu long bau which was really good and some noodles. Walked sumore after that then we head home. It was a long and tiring day. But it was fun. My first time in HongKong. :)

To be continueddd......