Happy Chinese "Niu" Year 2009

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

A very cute ad :)

Happy Chinese New Year?

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..

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~~

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

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!!

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...

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???

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

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

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

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

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

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

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~~~~

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..

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~~

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~~~!!!

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...

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~!