Ocean

火气好大

2011-12-14T20:36:00.003+08:00

今天本来带着很好的心情上班，因为一早已经把手头上的问题都解决了。谁知道又来了一个麻烦。在供应商还没开工前，我已经再三吩咐他们别弄错尺寸，不然麻烦可大了。我还特地带他们巡视环境一下，以确认要拉的路线。

可是最后他们还是搞错了。无名火就冒起来了。他们就要我将就，既然已经把同轴电缆剪了就接受。之前就因为其它供应商对那儿的环境不熟而他们有经验才找他们的。那儿是非常地带，必须非常小心，要不然打一世工也赔不起，才特地选他们的。可是他们竟然还是跟其它供应商一样。把我气地直发抖。

我就打电话去投诉，告诉他不能接受他们的要求，死都不肯罢休。他们也玩威胁，如果我要改的话，那么就必须等下星期了，因为没有足够的同轴电缆了。我也下了重话，做生意那里可以不守信用！明明说好路线了，为什么临时改变也没事先征求意见。

明知道我很赶，必须这个星期把工程完成，还跟我耍赖。他们也给我惹毛了，就说去吃午餐再收拾。

午餐回来后，他们竟然把两捆新剪好的同轴电缆送来。让我有点不好意思刚才的冲动及冒犯。应该好好的说而不是冲动的下判断。

连忙赔不是。他们很专业的在3小时内把工程完成。让我非常尴尬刚才的鲁莽，最后还打了电话去道歉。一时的冲动把我的眼睛给蒙蔽了。心里的火是非常可怕的。如果不好好的守住，它将烧了别人及自己。。。

从以前到现在，越来越发觉不了解自己，火气越来越重。以前我只会在家发脾气，可是现在公司里没有人是不怕我的。越来越不能也不想控制自己吧。。。

Häagen-Dazs ~ Finest Ais-Cream

2011-12-08T20:43:00.007+08:00

Today was really a hectic and busy days. A bit depress due to project need to finish in a week but PO still not yet out. Chase procurement for a few days but still can't get the PO being issued. :(

After a long meeting with vendor and came back to my place. Surprising my colleague told me there are something in the freezer. They went for team outing today. Beg the lead to bring me along but was being rejected :'(

Freezer? Mean ice-cream. Hop to the fridge, found a small Häagen-Dazs ice-cream cake in the freezer. Huray!!! Eating the expensive and claimed to be the finest ice-cream in the world, melted all my frustration and depression away.

Actually life is just as simple as that. Just relax and enjoy :)

Nikon vs Canon

2011-12-06T21:19:00.013+08:00

Wanted to buy DSLR for sometime but always give up due to the size, weight and not convenient to bring around.

Recently do some research and still having some problem to decide which model to buy ~ Nikon D5100 or Canon 600D???

Both have their pros and cons. Read through a few review, make me harder to make decision. In terms of price, Canon is a bit higher than Nikon. Canon support more lense with build in focus motor which Nikon doesn't support.

Plan to get one by this weekend with my quaterly bonus. Before I bought it, I still have a few days time to think over it. Most probably will get Nikon D5100... or end up buying those compact digital camera....

‘初老症状’？

2011-12-03T07:32:00.004+08:00

最近经常在睡眠中惊醒。醒后总是冒着汗，身旁就躺着工作到一半的电脑还开着。影像中也没发什么恶梦。

密密糊糊中，就起身关掉灯及顺手把电脑盖上，想再继续睡，可脑海里总是不停的转。也不知想些什么就是难以入眠。

每天莫名其妙地一早起身，开始昨天未完成的工作。。。又开始读邮件，回邮件，直到上班时间又匆匆忙忙的去上班。

自从换了新的部门之后，都持续着这样的生活。每天都匆匆忙忙上班，迷迷糊糊中睡着，朦朦胧胧中醒来。总是有做不完的工作，赶不完的会议，追不完的业务。越来越像‘大耳窿’，到处‘讨债’。记忆力也开始衰退了。。。

最近看了台湾偶像剧－‘我不可能爱上你’。里面提到了所谓的‘初老症状’。

如果你有以下症状，可能你也跟我一样，正面对着‘初老症状’，而你不知道：
01) 枕头旁边，电脑键盘旁边，出现一堆万金油、白花油、绿油精等提神药方
02) 只要坐下来，小腹就有一滩肉
03) 莫名其妙就会一大早醒过来
04) 躺在沙发看八点檔连续剧30份钟就会开始熟睡
05) 对于没有结论的冗长会议充满厌恶
06) 觉得自己快要被一堆密码淹没了！
07) 对于年轻朋友不让座这件事情会非常介意
08) 对于磁场不对的人，可以毫无牵挂的跟她说再见、再见、再见……
09) KTV热门点播排行榜的歌曲完全不会唱
10) 以前可以唱KTV到天亮，现在只要熬夜一天，就会累一个礼拜
11) 急于想加入facebook之类的网路活动，以免被年轻遗弃
12) 如果不喃喃自语，脑子就会打结。
13) 越近的事情越容易忘记，越久以前的事情反而越是记得
14) 觉得五份埔与路边摊的T恤都是给纸片人穿的
15) 以前烦恼青春痘，现在烦恼小细纹
16) 除非参加清早晨运的甩手功或庙会朝山活动，否则很难找到比自己年龄大的聚会
17) 对于陌生网友的我们可以交朋友吗？说法，觉得无比愚蠢而没有耐心
18) 认识新朋友的速度与机率逐渐钝化
19) 越来越觉得专家说法都是唬烂
20) 如果一天没有吃绿色蔬菜就会觉得身体怪怪的
21) 逐渐没有耐心替烂朋友收烂摊了
22) 越来越不喜欢改变已经习惯的习惯
23) 很讨厌在外面过夜，因为要带好多东西
24) 不知不觉，随身携带温水壶和牙线棒
25) 懒的交新朋友的原因，是因为懒的从头交代自己的人生
26) 终于认清老天爷真的很忙！
27) 每次看到某某歌手某某影星过世的消息，就要感叹一次，我们的时代过去了
28) 总是把重要的东西放在重要的地方，然后把哪个重要的地方彻底忘记
29) 说你看过东京爱情故事，知道完治与莉香，周遭一片哗然
30) 朋友们离婚的（数量/年度）开始超越结婚的（数量/年度）
31) 对于星座、运势、紫微斗数、塔罗牌、两性专家与励志书，已经不感兴趣
32) 参加告别式的机率比婚礼多，包白包的机会比包红包的机会多
33) 再也不觉得年轻辣妹或帅哥是一种天上掉下来的幸福
34) 以前糟蹋身体，现在被身体糟蹋
35) 开始注意医药新闻，譬如银杏是不是可以预防老年痴呆
36) 对于手机铃声开始感觉不耐烦
37) 开始关心商品成份、制造商以及赏味期限。
38) 最近有件事要告诉你，可是一看见你就全忘了
39) 对路边的问卷部队非常有意见
40) 对诈骗集团开始产生周旋的战斗力
41) 逐渐喜欢到传统市场买菜
42) 最讨厌听到如果你不怎样，就不能怎样这种威胁
43) 在床上睡不着，起床看电视却立刻在沙发上打呼了起来。
44) 不想起哪个忘掉的名字绝不善罢干休
45) 对于RAP一点好感都没有
46) 一堆人喊你XX姊、XX哥，而你很想叫她们――闭嘴！
47) 讨厌过生日这件事
48) 在不好意思和多争取就会赚到两者间，渐渐倒向了后者
49) 对超商的集点活动完全没兴趣
50) 对完美起疑，对不完美深信不疑！

~ Birthday Celebration ~

2010-08-20T23:19:00.011+08:00

Every 2 years I'll get a new handphone with the 1k voucher. Initially wanted to get SE Vivaz Pro but with some bad experience I have had with SE, didn't dare to get SE anymore...

I have a early celebration at Amcorp Mall Haeun Khon Resturant with LC. Accompany with me was some outages. Eating while monitoring the services. Sigh... It was really a terrible dark Friday - 13 Aug.

Later LC introduced me Food Foundry located at Section 17 which is famous for it's French dessert - Mille Crepe. LC bought a 'Strawberry Mille Crepe' (RM 9) for me meanwhile I insist to get another 'Chesse Cake' (RM 9) for myself.

Tonight we're going to depart to Sg. Lembing. I had wanted to visit Sg. Lembing for years but never realized. When LC invited me to join the trip organized by YM, I didn't think twice to join. So nice to celebrate my birthday there :) It was a very tiring trip but really enjoy myself there with YM's colleague and her friends.

Although I'm not 18 years old anymore but still felt very happy to receive birthday present especially from friends who still remember your birthday every year. She even sent the 'Echika Ikebukuro' handphone decor which can't be bought.

Really enjoy my birthday celebration. Stepping into another new century... Can't help thinking that age don't tell lie...

Min's Wedding

2010-08-03T00:08:00.038+08:00

Just came back from Team Building at Temerloh "Gunung Senyum (Smiley Mountain) Recreational Forest on Thursday. Saturday morning went to Jerantut Pahang again which is around 45 minutes from Termerloh to attend Min's Wedding.

This is the first time I was being invited to attend Malay's wedding. I was so excited how it would be like. Too bad that I missed out the akad nikah (marriage contract) ceremony because I was late. That was the most important ceremony where the bridal couple will sign the contract before a religious official and is accompanied by prayer. Without that the wedding will never be completed.

You'll found alot of bunga telur (egg flower) being prepared and distributed to the guest at Malay wedding as wedding's ceremony token. It's actually boiled egg decorated with fabric flower as a sign of fertility.

I managed to follow for the bersanding (enthronement) ceremony. The groom's procession with friends, relatives, musicians and people to meet the bride.

The main part of the ceremony was bridal couple being seated on a well decoreated dais and bless by family members, relatives, friends and guests. Somehow it's quite similar to the tea ceremony for Chinese but just in another way round where the bridal couple will serve the tea to all the elderly.

After the wedding ceremony, Min's cousin proposed to take picture near the Taman Negara Jetty. It was just around 20 mins drive from Min's house. We took another 30 mins boat ride and stop at a mini island where Min's started to take her wedding photo there.

At night, all her family members gather at the living room. They started to ask me alot of question. What's the different between Chinese wedding and Malay wedding. What's the most important part for Chinese wedding and will not be completed without that... I was puzzled with all the question and couldn't answer all of them.

The next day is another ceremony taking place at the bridgroom side located at Temerloh which is another 45 minutes drive away. Basically it's just the same ceremony as the bride on Saturday. After the lunch, it's time for me and Mas to leave Temerloh back to KL. Althought it was very tiring, but really enjoy a different wedding ceremony.

~ “对不起”~

2010-07-19T21:09:00.008+08:00

最近工作上的压力把我压得喘不出气来。在短短的一个月里，竟然消瘦了2-3公斤。原来自以为天塌下来，当被盖的我也会有这么的一天。。。

同事的突然离职加上新来的同事的不协调，让我有点应付不来。老板的不信任更是让我吃不消。

每晚睡前都好担心夜里会接到电话。睡到夜半时也会惊醒，真是‘心惊胆跳’。

直到上个星期，情况终于好转了。有个好心人，帮了我们一个大忙。每晚他都会给我或同事一些指导，如何找出问题的根源。他的无私，让我们受益不浅。很多时候，供应商都不会把知识全部传授给客户。

可是他的热心却换来了后患无穷。他的支援被别人拿来当把柄了，原因是他违反了公司的纪律。
虽然我们的问题总算找出了源头，可是我却不知道如何向他道谢，致歉意。

真的是‘对不起’。。。

写小说

2010-02-04T22:21:00.005+08:00

最近看似很繁忙，可是每次回想时才发现自己肯本就不知道在忙些什么。。。

一天一天，时间就这样流失了。离开2009年就好像刚过去，可是农历新年又即将来临了。

上个月因为百般无聊，王同就邀了我加入他们的小说部落格 - 城市●碎片。一向对写作没什么心得或兴趣的我，就因为三分钟热度，爽快地答应了，还当下决定了题目呢。

日复一日，到现在我的草稿都写不出来呢。王同问起我时，非常尴尬地回答正努力着，还没灵感。。。

我真的可以写出来吗？？？还是没有一点头绪。。。

女人都口不对心吗？

2010-01-28T20:40:00.001+08:00

女人嘛。。。是非常复杂的稀有‘动物’吧。其实很多人都不会把心里真正的想法说出来。往往心里想的是一套，嘴里说出来的又是另一套。总活在矛盾之中。

男人应该很难理解为什么女人不能直接点，要男人明白就告诉他们吧。为什么还要兜兜转转，扭扭捏捏地，转弯抹角，让人摸不着头脑。

男人必须知道，女人有很多保护自己的方法。其中之一就是口不对心。有时为了不想让对方知道或表露自己柔弱的一面，就嘴硬的睁眼说瞎话。

B女明明对A君有好感，可是又不知道A君是否也喜欢自己。当A君约B女时,

A君：“你看了‘Avatar’吗？我有两张免费的戏票想找人看呢。你得空吗？”
B女：“对不起，我看了。不能陪你看。”
A君:“没关系。”
B女：“。。。”。

B女正希望A君会用尽办法及理由来约她，以证实A君真的想追求她，以免表错情。

男人别误会所有女人都是那样。也有单刀直入的女人。所以男人应该先了解你所认识的女人是属于哪一种类型。

老爸‘老’了

2010-01-25T21:20:00.010+08:00

有一段时间，放了工就躲在房里无所事事的让时间过。

最近，就在大厅里一边看电视节目，一边网游。电视节目就在眼前‘跳’，可是我一点也没看进去。在一旁的老爸，就在一旁问东问西。

印象中的老爸是个不苟言笑又严肃的老爸。从小到大，都很少会坐下来陪老爸聊天。现在反而有点不习惯老爸这样的变化。

有时就会陪老爸瞎扯一番。当他开始唠唠叨叨地没完没了，就会借机逃之夭夭。

看着老爸，老妈子日渐增多的白发，突然觉得他们都老了。也发现他们越来越喜欢找我们聊天。可能人老了，就爱唠唠叨叨，怕寂寞及被冷落吧。。。

网上闲聊

2010-01-19T21:21:00.005+08:00

晚餐后，就想上网找朋友闲聊。可是登录了之后，望着长长的联系名单，突然不知道应该找谁聊，要聊些什么。。。

有一段时间没上网聊天了。突然想找人聊，还不知道如何‘下手’。

很多时候，尤其是很久已经没联系的朋友，即使看到他们在线，说了一句‘你好吗？’，就不知道该如何接下去。少了话题，就很难维持对话，结果就搞到无言以对的状况。。。

我曾经花上很多时间在网上陪朋友瞎扯，谈天谈地，有时更是谈至三更半夜而忘了睡。

可是曾几何时，我已经把网上闲聊的习惯戒了？这可能是一种好现象。至少可以节省电费！

下次可能再也没人会在网上记得‘Ocean’了。。。

New Year, New Home, New Life

2010-01-01T22:58:00.004+08:00

This is the second time I have been to i-City. First time was during Christmas Eve and today is for count down. There was fireworks display. Although the fireworks were not those special and nice one like Cyber Jaya Fireworks Competition but it was so close to you where you can felt that the sparkle going to drop upon you.

Supposely today should standby at home and not sneak out for count down.

3... 2... 1... Happy New Year!!! Firework started to explore into the silence sky. Today is full moon :)

Early morning, I woke up to assist my mom to move the foods from fridge to new house before the lorry came. My dad has given us notice that he's going to move the house today. He has been in the new house alone all this while. He must be too tired of having a new house without us :P

We managed to finish moving those big furniture by 12:30pm. The most troublesome part for me will be 'selection' which items to throw away. I have been keeping alot of 'antique'. I think it's time for me to say goodbye to my 'precious'. It's time for me to forget about the lost memory.

2010 is a new year, having new home and starting a new different life. Although I still think old is better than new. My dad just reminded me to forget about the old house because he planned to sold it off. I think I should move forward for a new living style at my new home.

Happy New Year !!! May everyone treasure this year with utmost meaningful :)

Children + Fire = Danger

2009-12-23T20:15:00.006+08:00

Just step in my house, my sis and mom started to tell story. This afternoon, the house next next door on my right just caught fire.

I looked at them unbelievable. Fire? I never thought it would happened just a few meter away from my house and my house was lucky to escape from the fire. The house next to it was caught by the fire as well. Then started to smell some burning smell.

The root cause was suspected that the 6 years old child was playing with lighter upstair while his granny was doing house chore downstair. Accidently the fire started to spread. The granny was only notice when someone opposite shout that their house caught fire. The granny immediately escape out from the house with her grandchild.

She knocked on my door to borrow the phone but my sis thought it was just some swindle and do not bother her. Later only she sense something went wrong because it was a bit chaotic outside and some burning smell.

My mom who came back in the afternoon saw the fire was spreading through the roof top very fast. Everyone was worried while waiting for the fireman to came for the rescued but they waited for quite long and the fireman was not arrived. Besides that when the fireman came, they have difficulty to connect the host.

My house was lucky to escape being affected because my neighbour had build up a high wall as a divider and that wall had blocked the fire from spreading over.

Children are alway curious and like to play with something they're not allowed to. It's really dangerous to left children at home without supervision. Even with supervision need to be really careful of what they can reach out. In Malaysia, there are alot of fire cases which were cause by carelessness of human being. Fire can be our friend as well as our enemy...

太执著了。。。

2009-12-21T22:34:00.004+08:00

原来我太执著了。

只为了某种信念，只要认定了，誓死也很难改变。就因为这种执著的格性，反而造成周遭的朋友身心俱疲。

与其说执著，不如说是那种好胜的心理在作怪。就是那种死爱面子的人。即使错了，还是不肯承认，还想撑到底。

其实很多时候，只要我稍微改观，接受他人的想法，很多事都能有个大团圆的结局。可是偏偏却为了我小小的执著，很多事都不能迎刃而解，反而闹得大家面红耳赤，不欢而散。

常常想，这是不值得的。人生还有好一段长远的路要走，还有很多事要做。对事有要求固然好，可是太执著反而坏了大事。

想与行动往往成了对比。话说得容易，做起来却是那么的困难。。。

20091213 ~ Broga Hill

2009-12-19T19:09:00.025+08:00

Malaysia's December is full of holiday. Except the first week, we just need to work 4 days per week.

Initially plan to go for SkyTrex on 11-December but later being cancelled. It was my fault because I fail to make the reservation early as planned. Felt so bad for my friends since we managed to gather around 10 pax for the activity.

It has been a very long time since the last trip I had with HK, Sam, SK... Recently found that my sis went to Broga Hill (武來岸山) which located at Semenyih (士毛多) and the scenery look pretty nice. Suggested to HK for half day trip to Broga Hill. The response was not really good, only me, HK and Sam wanted to go for the hiking. Sam managed to pull some of his friend from Seremban to join for the hiking.

There are 2 option either went there as early as possible to catch the sun rise or not. Since it's just for leisure, we decided to depart at 7am from Sam's house. SK joined us last minute. This is the first time I was late to reach HK's house.

When we reached Sam's house. I gave him a call but he was still in his dreamland. Once we're inside Sam's car, clearly I can sense that his mood was pretty bad as I woke him up intentionally... The atmosphere of the car was pretty tense :(

Everything was back to normal after we have breakfast. Sam's friend - Xing Fu brought us for breakfast which is famous for the spicy soup. There were alot of variety, firstly we choose type of noodles, dry/soup - mee, mihun, kuey teow, lou shu fan, wan tan mee, secondly we choose the soup - curry soup(咖哩汤), spicy soup(辣汤), plain soup(清汤), thirdly - want internal organ or not.

Since it was famous for spicy soup I have ordered dry lou shu fan with spicy soup without internal organ. The lou shu fan was so so but the spicy soup was full of pepper where you'll get edicted once you started to drink. I was almost chocked with the first sipped.

After the breakfast it was almost 9am. Wah, so late. The sun was 'working' this Sunday. I started to regret for join the hike at this hour. Xing Fu did not joined us since today was her family day. Sam's friend - Eddie fetched us to Broga Hill with his new Peugeot 308.

On our way to Broga Hill, we passed by University of Nottingham. They planned to visit the University after the hiking. Everyone was on their way back meanwhile we're just setting our mark to start hiking :(

The only thing Sam's did good for once was brought along his 'Banana Boat Sunblock'. Though it looked like expired because of the watery texture of the sunblock...

We left HK behind because he was already exhausted half way to first peak. He was not having enough sleep. When we reached the first peak, we waited for him.

Quick, HK (guy in yellow)! You're almost here... The first peak :P

SK, don't be so happy. Here's just the first peak, ok!

I was alway looking for shade to avoid sun exposure. Some shoot taken behind the rock.

In the end only, Eddie went till the peak while all of us shading behind a big rock. While waiting for Eddie to get down, Sam took the time to make up - apply sunblock.

Getting down was not as easy as it looks. The slope was pretty steep and sandy. Every step need to be very careful else it's like wearing roller blade going down the slope.

Safely reached the oil palm estate at 11:30 am. We stopped at one of the restaurant (柚木园烧鱼) which is famous for the grill fish especially Tilapia (非洲鱼). The owner recommended us salted baked grill, chili padi grill, crispy chicken chop and bean sprout with salted fish.

The salted baked grill was nicer compare to chili padi grill. I do not taste the salted fish although it's bean sprout with salted fish. The chrispy chicken chop was really chrispy but a bit oily. Ended up in total RM100 for 5 pax.

We try to enter University of Nottingham but the guard did not allowed us in and just let you make a U-turn back. Eddie purposely slow down his car just to have a look at the University. The guard was pretty curious and annoyed by us.

After the lunch, we do not have anything to do but just loaf around Semenyih and Kajang shopping mall.

Next time should depart early to avoid sun burned at Broga Hill.

Be Good 'Daughter'

2009-11-08T17:42:00.003+08:00

Today I’m being a so call good daughter. Being kind enough to be a driver and doing grocery with my mom. Although I have been around home for around 3 years but I hardly remember that I ever accompany my mom to do grocery on weekend.

Usually my life is kind of boring and I have rather choose to stay at home to sleep, watch movie or drama instead of accompany my mom and aunt for grocery. Today I even volunteer to fetch them to Tesco to do their grocery. That was pretty tiring. How they select the fruits and veggies… Comparing price… This is cheaper in Tesco, that’s cheaper in Giant…

The time just passed without my notice. 3 hours was just too short for them. After going to Tesco, my aunt wants to go to Jusco to buy rice because it’s cheaper there. I’m pretty patient today and not showing my annoying look which I usually show when I have to wait for long queue and being driver fetching here and there.

Though this is a boring and tiring task but just felt it’s good after all to be a good daughter once a while. At least this will make my mom happy that her daughter is not sleeping on weekend today...

女人，你要如何才能幸福?

2009-09-25T21:02:00.006+08:00

女人，你要如何让自己幸福？可能读了这几则短篇你就是那幸运儿。同样的情况，结果却是浑然不同。

第一则

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她：“老公。帮我接杯水呗。”
他：“石头剪子布。谁输了谁去。”
她：“算了。我自己去吧。”

他们坐在一起看韩剧。她起身。
他：“干吗去？”
她：“去接杯水。”
他：“你坐这看吧。我去给你接。”

女人多可怜。她对男人唯一的要求就是“疼她”。你可以什么都没有。只要你疼她。她就有足够的勇气把自己的下半辈子交给你。

第二则
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他晚上下班。给她打电话“宝贝儿。我晚上和朋友出去吃饭。”
她：“你不是答应我陪我逛街的吗？”
他：“改天吧！”
她默默地流泪。为什么每次都是这样？

他下班的时候打电话给她:“亲爱的。别人给我一张奥运会的票。巴西队啊！一会儿我去看球了啊。”
她：“哦。这样啊。好吧。”
他：“怎么不高兴了？”
她：“你忘了。上周说好今天我朋友和她男朋友请我俩吃饭啊。”
他：“哎呀。对不起亲爱的。我忘记了。那我把票给别人吧。我陪你去吃饭。”
她：“不要了。吃饭可以改天。或者你先去看。我们等你。”
他：“那不行。答应你的事情必须得做到。再说你自己跟他俩在一起像电灯泡似的。你肯定不舒服啊”
她：“没事……” 没等她说完。
他很强势的告诉她“好了。听我的。你收拾一下。我一会儿去接你。”

其实女人不是不懂事。只是。她需要碰上一个懂事的男人。其实。情侣之间。是可以互相的。

第三则
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他：“我晚上出去吃饭了啊。”
她：“几点回家？”
他：“九点之前肯定回家。”
九点半，她：“你怎么还不回来啊？”
他：“十。肯定回家。”
十一点。十二点。一点。两点……
后来。她不再打电话催他。因为她知道。对于不守承诺的男人。一切“肯定”都是“未必”。

他：“我晚上出去吃饭。九点之前肯定结束。然后我俩去看电影。”
她：“你能那么快就结束吗？”
他：“放心吧。我答应你了就一定能！”
快到九点的时候。他：“收拾一下吧。我马上就到你家了”

信任。是在一件一件小事中建立起来的。

第四则
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她生理期。身体不舒服。顶着疼痛洗衣服。收拾屋子。
他坐在电脑前面玩网络游戏。
她干完活。躺在床上。长出了一口气。
他看了她一眼：“宝贝儿。辛苦了！”
然后转过头。继续玩他的游戏。

她生理期。很难受。起身准备洗衣服。
他拽住她：“你去床上躺着。我来！”
她：“你会做家务吗？你自己洗过衣服吗？”
他：“不会做可以学着做啊。以后你身体不舒服的时候。我当然得独挡一面！”

女人需要的不只是甜言蜜语。哄她几句。她也许会给你一个微笑。但是实实在在的呵护。她会对你一辈子的感恩。并且会回报给你一个温暖的家。

第五则
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她给他拿了一包榛子。然后她去洗衣服。
回来的时候。榛子已经被他吃得所剩无几。

她拿给他一包榛子。然后自己去收拾屋子。
回来的时候。她看见电脑前面放了一堆剥好的榛子仁。

女人很感性。她炫耀你对她的体贴。就好像炫耀克拉钻一样。这么廉价的买卖。用一点心思就能收获无比的财富。

第六则
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他说：“你是最好的。”
她问：“我哪好？”
他：“学历高。能力强。长得漂亮。对我又这么好。”
她笑了。

他：“你是我所遇到最好的女孩儿。”
她：“我哪好？”
他：“你对身边的每个人都很友善。很无私。对人对生活总是很感恩。一个人有一颗善良的心。会让周围的人感觉到温暖。你是我见过最善良的女孩儿。伤害你的人都应该下地狱！”
她哭了。

一个人。是因为你对他好。所以觉得你好。
一个人。是因为懂得你的好。所以想要对你好。
幸福的恋人。首先应该是一对彼此欣赏的知己。

如果你还没遇到后者，没关系。因为我想在这世上，后者属于‘恐龙’-绝种了。我想我的父亲是前者，那种不懂浪漫的男人。可是他也有很多优点 :) 所以女人，别担心，以上的短篇只属参考。

~ Luxury Dinner ~

2009-09-12T23:42:00.006+08:00

Another luxury dinner being arranged by my uncle to welcome my cousin coming back from Dubai. Unfortunately he was tied up with his work and did not manage to come back on-time for the dinner. Luckily we still can celebrate my aunt's 66th birthday which fall on the same day :)

The dinner was among the most delicious we have had compared to the previous one. Besides that, we have expensive brandy to accompany throughout the dinner - Martell Creation. Here is the full list of 10 dishes we were going to savour tonight.

The first dish was 'Lobster Platter with Five Dishes' - Fried Chicken, Fried Fish Fin, Cheesy Slice Abalone, Lobster Salad and Sweet and Sour Sausage. I alway love this dish because each small dish has it's own different taste and unique flavor.

'Sharkfin Soup with Scallop and Crab Meat' - The soup itself was really delicious and sweet after long hour of cooking with the incredients.

'Crispy Little Piggy' - I just ate the skin with the 'man tou' and special dark source. The piggy was roasted so nice that the skin was very crispy. I felt so pity for this little cute piggy that we have to ate it...

Besides that we have 'Steam Codfish' as well which I had forgotten to take the pic.

'Abalone, Sea Cucumber, Swim Bladder, Mushroom & Brocolli' - Usually I don't really like sea cucumber because if it's not well cooked, the taste just made me throw up. The mushroom, sea cucumber, abalone was well cooked. Their texture was not too hard or too soft. With the source, it was perfectly nice and delicious.

'Nuts, Fresh Scallop & Lotus' - After all the haevy 'animal fat', it's time for some light and healthy vege. I like the lotus with the macademia nuts.

'Longevity Noodles' - Although it's a bit salty and oily but overall it was pretty delicious.

'Chao Sao Pau & Kaya Fried Pancake' - All of us was so full that we just pack the dessert back.

'Hasma steams with Jujubes and Coconut' - Once open the top of the coconut, you can smell the nice and sweet coconut aroma came out. It was served hot which I prefer it to be chill...

'Food Platter' - It was well cut into different shape especially the dragon fruit.

'Coffee, Lotus and Pandan Mooncake' - We are alway served with free mooncake from the restaurant. :)

Last but not least, birthday cake for my aunt who's celebrating her 66th birthday this year. She insisted us to pronounce 66 as 'luck luck' (in Hokkien). May her happy and healthy always.

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814

2009-08-14T23:59:00.006+08:00

"814" - What does that mean???

Numbers has been widely use to represent some words in chinese. It's widely use in SMS, MSN... For an example :-

918 ~ ‘加油吧’ (Ganbate!)
88 ~ ‘拜拜’ (Goodbye)
246 ~ ‘饿死了’(Starving)
168 ~ ‘一路发’(Keep on getting wealthy)

Then what does 814 mean? In chinese it can be interprete into 2 different Chinese words, '发一世' and '发一死'. Both of the interpretation give total different meaning. The prior mean get wealthy your whole life, the later mean once you get wealthy you'll be dying...

Never thought of the meaning hiding behing those numbers until one day while I was talking with my friends and she asked when is my birthday. She just kept on repeating my birthday then suddenly she just connect 14-Aug to the above 2 Chinese words. Now, when they asked for my birthday, I'll just use the first Chinese words since it give a better meaning :)

While I was counting down for my birthday on MSN, the first call came in. The one and only one who will always gave me a call sharp at this time. Then my MSN started to blink none stop. In total was like 6 peoples greeting me at the same time and most of them are from my ex-colleagues.

After that I was hoping for some sweet dream. Unfortunately I was waken up by a call early morning. Once I saw it was a '03' number, those bad feeling just arose. Outage.... :'( Yes, there was some problem at the Southern region. Sigh...

It was a bad starting of my day with outage. This week has been a very dark week. Everyday there're something bad happening. Later received wishes via MSN, SMS, Facebook... which balance up my day. The issue resolved before lunch. Happily looking forward for the lunch then found that I have left my purse at home.

Around 5:30pm, planner was celebrating birthday for their team member. They shared the cake with all of us as well. He's the second person whom I knew which has the same birthday as I do. First was another guy from Philippine.

Later I have to drove home to take my purse and before that I managed to book the ticket for my next year Bali trip via AirAsia at RM123 per pax. Yeah!!! 6 of us will be going and they're all my ex-colleagues.

Dinner at Sunway Pyramid as usual. I was given a treat by 3 beautiful gals at Pasta Zanmai. The food was pretty nice. I like the sesame source.

Came back home at around 11 pm. After taken my bath, on my laptop as usual. Replied all the wishes posted on my facebook wall. Counting down again which gave an end to ~ 814 ~

Pre-Training ~ Gua Batu Maloi

2009-08-08T21:02:00.007+08:00

Finally make up my mind to join my friend's super challenging and exotic tour to Mulu. It'll be a total 10 days 9 nights at Gunung Mulu National Park which include Gunung Mulu Summit Trail(2,377meters), Deer Cave, Lang's Cave, Bat Exodus, Sarawak Chamber Cave , Clear Water Cave, Wind Cave, The Pinnacles.

Initially do not plan to join the tour due to this year, every 3 months I took a long holiday. It has been pretty hard to take long holiday as whenever I went for vacation, something bad will happened... This time I just can't bring my laptop along :(

Furthermore, I made a big mistake when I made the flight reservation. I booked the ticket on 28-August instead of 29-August. Deep inside my heart, I was thinking it might be my destiny that I shouldn't join for the trip... So I told BY that I'm joining but later told her that I can't make it after the wrong flight reservation. After struggling hard, I decided to take the challenge.

But after reading through the itinerary in details, I became timid and doubt whether I'm physically fit for this activity. I do not want to give up the trail half way. It has been 5 years since my last hiking. Besides that, I'm not doing any exercise regularly. My life was like working, sleeping, eating, dramaing, movieing... It's just a very unhealthy life style which is consider a sickness to most of the working group...

This Tuesday received email from BY regarding Gua Batu Maloi caving. They have been training quite often for this trip meanwhile I never do any preparation. So today went to Gua Batu Maloi which located at Tampin. There were 2 groups including us joining for the caving - in total 16 of us. It took around 2-3 hours to complete the whole course.

It's different from most of the other cave in Malaysia which formed from stalactite and stalagmite. This cave is formed beneath large rock with a total of 1 kilometer in length. It was not popular like Gua Tempurung.

The hardest part was you need to submerge into the water in order to cross the narrow and winding passage while the current was so strong and trying to drive you away from the passage. Sometime your leg will caught in between the rock and stucked there without knowing how to move forward. I even gave a big knock on my head against the rock. At that moment, I was black out for a moment and gain back consciousness a while later.

Cut, scratches, brushes were found on my hand and leg. I was thinking, why am I paying to suffer? The answer remain unknown. Besides that, BY's friend was so worry and trying to arrange another challenging hiking for me next week to make sure I've some experience before joining the Mulu trip end of this month. Sigh... Felt a bit regret now...

Beautifully Imperfect

2009-08-05T20:12:00.005+08:00

This meaningful advertisement was directed by Yasmin Ahmad who is one of the well known director, writer and scriptwriter in Malaysia as well as internationally for her creativity, humor, warm heart, touching story across multi-racial. Unfortunately we lost her recently on 25-July.

It seems that we alway remember the imperfect part in our life more than anything else. That's why it's so call ~ beautifully imperfect ~

The World Is Spinning :S

2009-07-20T20:10:00.007+08:00

Yesterday night was my cousin's wedding. I can't make it on-time to the wedding at 7pm so my parents and sisters left me behind. After rushing from Segambut back to Klang, I just took a quick bath and drove to the wedding dinner.

Luckily it was just a stone throw away from my house. Once reached there, I gave a call to my sister for the exact location. Once enter the ballroom, I was just in time. The wedding just started. I was being allocated at the first row. The wedding was really grand and my uncle had invited alot of peoples for the wedding.

My aunt and uncle were questioning me why I was late. I just gave them a polite smile. I was still full with the heavy lunch I have had at Tenji. The food only started to serve at 9pm.

My uncle was so warm to get me wain. Usually after 1-2 glasses of wain, I'm still ok but yesterday after the 1st glass of wain, I was ok but after 1 hour, I started to feel that my head was a bit heavy and heartbeat started to pump so fast. I can really felt the heat and a bit of dizziness.

The dishes were served pretty slow. I was eagerly wanted to go back due to the effect of wain. Once the dessert being served, I quickly finished it and drank the 2nd glasses of wain and drove back on my own.

I can really felt that I almost started to loose my way. Once reached home, I drank alot of water but when I was climbing up the stair, I can felt my face and eyes were burning and can't even walked properly. I managed to on my laptop and chat a few words. Without my notice, I just fall aslept while chating via MSN...

There is once my friend told me that when you drink liquor in room temperature, you can feel when you get drunk but not when you drink it cold. You can drink alot when it's cold and you'll get drunk once the liquor started to evaporate inside your body. So it's not advisable to drink liquor in cold.

I found one thing good about being drank was you can sleep very soundly but you will find yourself so dehydrated the next morning...

距离。。。

2009-07-05T11:27:00.010+08:00

距离是用来计算从一个地方，到另一个地方所经过的路线的长度。槟城离这儿有多远？美国离这儿又有多远呢？这些都可以用数字计算出来。

可是人与人之间的距离才是最难衡量的，因为那不能用数字来计算，看不到，衡量不到，也只能用心去体会。尤其是女人，就只凭感觉，凭第六感来衡量与别人的距离。

我却缺乏了这种第六感。我很难琢磨人与人之间要如何保持适当的距离。什么距离才是安全的？很多时候，不知不觉就超越了自己应保持的距离。有时超越了那种应有的距离也还不知道。一旦发现时，才恍然大悟，可是已经伤了彼此原有的情谊。。。

如果你太热情，别人会说你滥交。如果你太冷漠，别人会说你高傲。就像如果你跟老板太好，别人就在你背后说你很会拍马屁。如果你对老板视而不见，老板又会觉得你不识抬举。

今天‘老豆’为我上了一堂宝贵的课。男人是不会做所谓的‘亏本生意’。也就是说，男人是不会无缘无故对一位女人好，除非他对她有某种企图，或女人给了男方一些暗示。这也有例外，除非那男人是你认识很久很久，彼此已经很了解对方。

他让我回想一些我曾经犯的错误。原来那些都是我的错。我给了不应该给的讯息让人误会。我忘了考虑彼此应保持的距离，而造成了困惑。

原来我是必须活在别人的当下。很多事都必须顾及别人的感受，别人如何看待自己。难道我就不能洒洒脱脱的做回我自己？还是我从来都不认识我自己？也不了解自己？

做人真是一大学问。如果我可以拿捏人与人之间应保持的距离，我想我已经成功一半了。可是我想我注定是失败了例子。。。只因为我实在太懒惰去了解别人想什么，也不喜欢去猜测别人的想法。。。

Covered by Black Cloud...

2009-06-25T23:16:00.008+08:00

Recently I were covered by all the bad luck. Not sure why all those bad things kept on happening to me...

Since last month 13 June, I started to be covered by 'black cloud'. Server crash, outage again. It took me around 1 weeks to solve the problem and another 3 days 2 nights to fully restored the server and service.

After that, I was hoping for a peaceful life but it doesn't end like that. 2nd July midnight, suddenly received called that the system was having problem again... I pop up from my bed to check the servers. Everything was alright. Then later found that both the DB encountered some problem. No vendor support. 12 midnight some more... What to do? So I just did something and then everything seems ok initially.

Who knows after half an hour, found that both of the DB was down and cannot be re-booted. Do some troubleshooting but still cannot solved the problem. Can't help so just escalate to my manager then called vendor up for help. Vendor can't do anything also.

Another 2 days 1 nights to bring up the service and 3 days 2 nights to resolve the problem. The biggest problem and major outage I have ever encountered. No DB backup, total lost of both DB... Initially thought after 2 days the problem will resolve and I'm safe to fly but on 5th July another issue popped up on the same day. I was monitoring the system until I missed my flight. The first time ever happened to me. Have argument with my sister on this as well. :(

I bought another ticket on Sunday just to continue my vacation. It was not really a pleasant vacation. My luggage was being spoilt for the first time.

Last Wednesday, I scratched the bottom of my car badly :(

This Monday another horrible things happened. My tyre was gone flat due to I knocked on the divider while doing the cornering... Maybe it was not bad luck just careless...

When one bad thing happened, I just can't avoid linking all of them up and make myself think it's due to bad luck... I think I need to do more good deed to resolve all this bad luck. Hopefully it'll help.

想与不想

2009-06-18T20:24:00.008+08:00

想与不想的差别是当你很想要做或得到某种东西时，你会不惜一切的想尽办法达到目的。不想做或不想要的东西，即使垂首可得也可能在所不惜。

这次澳洲旅行的飞机票，去年已经买了。可是一点想去的欲望也没有，所以准备也没做。最后一个星期才开始上网找了住宿。很早就想放弃，理由是不想与我妹妹一起去。一直以来，跟她的感情最不好。虽然同房，可是我们可以不说一句话。一开口就是语带讽刺，你一句，我一句，谁也不让谁。

人很多时候，很奇怪。对一个人有偏见时，不管他做什么，你就是看不顺眼。我对我妹妹就是这种感觉。。。

当天因为发生了一些状况，我整天都在忙着工作。其实这两个月，我都非常忙。很多不如意的情况发生了，搞得我天翻地覆。根本没把去澳洲的事放在心上。连上机的时间也没检查或留意。

当天也因为工作搞到8时才出发去机场。我的好妹妹竟然把我们9时25分的班机当成10时25分。抵达时，竟然已经8时55分了。亚行根本就不让我们登机。我反而松了一口气，也没有失落的感觉。一回家，又开始工作，我想我一定是工作狂了。。。

她就不停的问我，要不要星期日再搭飞机去？我可真的被她烦死了，拒绝了她的要求。我宁可牺牲那些机票也不想陪她去。

当我终于把我手头上的麻烦解决后，又开始过意不去。结果还是在买了机票，陪她一起去。可是一抵达，我们又开始闹意见了。把气氛搞到很差，也没心情去玩，去享受哪儿的环境。

原来不想做一件事而去做是那么的不愉快，也会把身边的气氛与环境变差。其实如果想去旅行，最好找一些与你志同道合的人。不然你就会像我那么后悔莫及了。

Grandma in Heaven

2009-05-13T00:31:00.004+08:00

Today is Mother's Day. Initially plan to take my mum for 'Dim Sum' but end up my mum preparing dinner for us.

After the dinner, we planned to visit my grandma who's very sick. It took us around 50 minutes to cross the bridge which is under construction now. When we reached there, I can heard the chanting of Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo came from the 1st floor where my grandma stayed...

I just had a bad feeling. When I saw my cousin who came to open the door for us was crying in red eyes, I knew at once that my grandma no longer around...

She just passed away at 9pm meanwhile we reached there around 15 minutes later... Missed the last moment to be with her. She was sleeping peacefully on the bed, holding tightly on her prayer beads.

Actually I just can vividly remember that when I was small, I was once taken care by her because my mum didn't manage to get a babysister to take care of me.

The only memory I'm still having was her chanting of Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and recitation of praying I heard just now and the sound of the bell. After she prayed, she'll extinguished the candle and close the little Butsudan (house of Buddha) which is still inside the house now.

Now only found that how little time I had spent with her after I'm grown up... Just once or twice yearly. I was glad that she left peacefully...

为什么是‘Ocean’？

2009-04-19T20:30:00.005+08:00

开始启用 ‘Ocean’ 应该是大学开始吧。那时我第一次登录MSN。左想想，有想想，用什么代名呢？？？

结果就启用了‘Ocean’ - 海洋。在大学时，记不起有没有人问过我为什么用 ‘Ocean’。可能有,可是印象不深刻。当我开始出来社会工作后，尤其是我的旧公司，同事开始问我为什么用‘Ocean’。我都是以微笑带过。

当他们开始把 ‘Ocean’ 取代我的名时，还有点不习惯呢，常常抗议。可是后来，我也习以为常。反而现在，好像没有人再记得我的名或用我的名呼唤我了。。。

回想当时选 ‘Ocean’ 时，应该是我正迷惑着，就像迷失在海洋真中央，不知去向。那时我即将毕业，人生的新旅途也即将诞生。

一直以来都是以既来之，则安之的态度对待我的人生。社会这名词是多么的陌生。我不知道我应该以怎样的心态来面对。我能适应吗？我能面对社会的险恶丑态？我想我是很彷徨的。。。

可是出来社会工作，也没遇上什么大风大雨，也只能说一路来都是平平凡凡的过了。有时还开始怀疑这是我想要的吗？我又跌入了无底的海洋里，试图挣扎找出路。

工作换了一份又一份，我想我还是在一望无际的海洋里，寻寻觅觅地找一个可以让我靠岸的避风港。

Why so many locks?

2009-03-27T23:50:00.000+08:00

It was so frustrated this morning. I was heading to my office. Looking outside the door, my sister's car was blocking my car.

Once get in my sister car, I need to unlock her car's door, steering lock and gear lock. After park her car, I have to lock back the gear lock, steering lock and car's door.

My car even worst, my dad provided 2 steering lock but usually I just use one of it. Even my inner doors, I think we have at least a few locks. Why Malaysian need so many locks?

Even with all these locks, one day you might found that your car is missing somewhere or house being burgled. :(

I went to Bangkok a few weeks back. I was so surprised to see that their car was parked without pulling the handbrake due to limited parking space. They'll reallocated the car if the car is blocking their way. I don't think it'll ever happened in Malaysia because if you do that, probably your car will not be seen when you come back.

So don't feel strange when you visit Malaysia and found all kind of locks in the car and house as well.

Are you obese ???

2009-03-24T22:14:00.004+08:00

Today found a box near the stair case. Wondering what's inside the box I just opened it. Surprisingly I found the body fat analyzer given by a Japanese Coordinator 3 years back.

Check out the battery, there were still 4 AAA batteries inside without any leakage. I just pressed the "電源" button to switch on this little machine. Wow, it was still functioning, huray! A bit unbelievable.

Still wondering how to operate this small machine. Just click here and there. It was pretty easy, the body fat analyzer will analyze the body fat according to your height, weight, age and gender. Then it will categorize your body fat into 4 level - slim, standard, slight obese and obese.

After inserting all my information, i tested it out by putting my hand on the side way of the small machine. Guess what??? My body fat level was --> 21%. STANDARD !!! Hehe...

20090308 - Damnoen Saduak, Nakorn Pathom

2009-03-19T23:36:00.027+08:00

Damnoen Saduak Floating Market situated 110 kms west of Bangkok. It's very famous among tourists to see the old style and traditional way of selling and buying fruits, vegetables, etc. from small boats. The best time to reach there is around 8-9am because it is not too hot at that time. Usually the floating market will closed at around 11am.

My cousin wanted to go to the place alot but due to the location where we stay it's hard to go out so early to take bus to the Floating Market. The day before that, I have asked my Thai friend to help out. He called up the previous taxi driver again - Mr. Dhan who left his contact to us last Friday. He promised to pick us up at 7am and 1700 baht for round trip.

He was lost again on his way to my friend's house. He was late for an hour :( When he saw us coming out from the house, he was so surprised because he never aspected that his customer were us. Hehe... He even show us the picture he took for us in Ayutthaya.

Along the way, I fall asleep again. Waking up too early. The day before, there was an outage :( Everytime I went for vacation, must have some outage... I think I can't go for vacation next time:( The taxi driver seems to be very happy. Today he talked alot compare to last trip. He even brought out the Thai-English-Thai dictionary. This time it's easier for us to chat. We show him the word we want to express and he teaches us some Thai words.

Along the way to Damnoen Saduak Floating Market we can saw alot of salt fields. It took around 2 hours to arrive at the floating market. It was already very hot at that time. This time the driver became our tourist guide. We gave the driver a treat on the boat ride. We were being cheated. 500 baht for 3 person and it only took around 30 minutes for the boat ride :(

After the boat ride, we have lunch at the stall near by as we're starving already since we do not have breakfast. "Padthai" again for my lunch. The one I took yesterday at Chatukchat Market was much more delicious. After the lunch, it's time to sleep again. It took another 2 hours to Nakorn Pathom. (he missed his way again)

The driver brought us to another palace which is not in our itinerary - Sanam Chandra Palace (พระราชวังสนามจันทร์). It's just a stone throw from (พระปฐมเจดีย์) the Phra Pathom Chedi.

Phra Pathom Chedi is the highest Chedi in Thailand with a height of 127m and the largest pagoda in Southeast Asia. It was under renovation when we were there.

The driver asked us to pay 2 Baht and gave us a bowl full of coins (1/5 satang). Then we just go around the table and put all the coins in each of the gold and silver color bowl. Although we do not know what's that for, we just followed.

When we was on our way back to Bangkok, there was accident and cause the bad traffic jam. It took around 1 hr back to Bangkok. Our last destination was Grand Palace in Bangkok. When we reached there already 3:40pm. It was a bit too late where the counter closed at 3:30pm. They have different admission time for local and tourist. We even beg the guard to let us in but they refused and asked us to come tomorrow but today will be our last day in Bangkok...

They have different entrance for Thai and tourist thus we got lost again with our taxi driver. I have to call up my friend again to inform the taxi driver that we'll wait at the car park. It was our regret that we can't visit the Grand Palace:(

When the taxi driver came out, he shows us the pictures he took with his cell phone. The palace was really grand and fabulous. When we reached my friend's house, we found that she was not around. Thinking of going to airport after bath but since my friend is not around we just go directly since the taxi driver can fetch us there. Although it's 3 hours earlier from our flight to Chiang Mai...

Without saying goodbye to my friend I just left with regret. Really appreciate her help and kindness borrowing me her cell phone during my stay in Bangkok.

20090306 - Ayutthaya

2009-03-18T22:32:00.047+08:00

With the help of my friend's employee (thai), she translated our itinerary into thai for us. According to her, most of the taxi driver do not know English so it's better to have it written in Thai. She adviced us to take taxi to Ayutthaya because it's more convenience and easy. It cost around 1500 baht. Later we decided to go by bus.

Her driver drove us to the nearest BTS skytrain station - Thong Lo station. We took the BTS until the last station - Mo Chit station. From there we're suppose to take the bus to Ayutthaya. We asked around, but ended up taking taxi. We bargain until 1200 Baht for round trip to Bang Pa-In Summer Palace (พระราชวังบางปะอิน) and Ayutthaya (อาณาจักรอยุธยา) - Wat Mahathat (วัดมหาธาตุ), Wat Na Phra Mane() and Wat Lokayasutharam(วัดโลกยสุธาราม).

Once inside the taxi, both of us were so tired and we just fall aslept. Since the taxi driver don't know much english, it's better for us to save our energy sleeping. We was awaken when he stopped to pump gas. Then he started to introduce some of the attraction on the way. We can only answer as if we understand what he was saying.

It was so hot in Bangkok. We almost melted when we got down from the taxi and walked to Bang-Pa Inn Summer Palace. I was not allowed to get in with sleeveless shirt. I just rent a yellow shirt from there which was smelly due to sweat and hot weather :(

We took around 2 hours to walk around the palace as it's really huge and nice. It was built during the Ayutthaya era, beautifully decorated in both traditional Thai, Chinese and European style building.

Ho Haem Montien Devaraj or "The Shrine of King Prasart Thong" is the place where the statue of King Prasart Thong was placed. It was built at the command of H.M. King Chulalongkom, Rama V under the Bodhi Tree by the pond. Today, people stop at Ho Haem Montien Devaraj to pay homage to the statue of King Prasart Thong.

Aisawan-Dhipaya-Asana Pavilion is a miniature pavilion hall built in the style of four-balcony after the architecture of Aphonbimoka Prasart Pavilion in the Grand Palace initiated by H.M. King Chulalongkorn, Rama V in 1872.

Phra Thinang Varobhas Bimarn (Varobhas Bimarn Residential Hall) is a Neo-Classic style one storey mantion built by H.M. King Chulalongkorn, Rama V, in 1872 on the spot where H.M. King Mongkut, Rama IV used to keep his residence.

Sabakarn Rajaprayoon Residential Hall is a Colonial style by H.M. King Chulalongkorn, Rama V as a gift for his brother, his son, His Royal Highness Prince Maha Vajirunhit, and other members of the outer court stayed.

Phra Thinang Uthayan Phumisathian is a two-storey Swiss Chalet built on 1877. The residence was panted in two toned of green. The decor shows a significant influence by European style dating from King Naperleon III.

Bubpa Prapas Pavilion is a single storey wooden building in European architecture which renders in its nickname "lace (ginger bread) building" by H.M. Chulalongkorn, Rama V at 1881.

Phra Thinang Wehart Chamrun (Wehart Chamrun Residential Hall) is another two storey building in Chinese architecture completed in 1889. The residence bears the Chinese characters of "Tien Meng Teui" meaning the clear sky residence in the vernacular.

Ho Withun Thasana (Withun Thasana) is a mixed European style building painted in yellow and red was built in 1881. The dodecahedral three storey tower is 30 meters in height with a crescent roof. A total of 112 steps on the spiral staircase is required to reach the top.

When we finished tour around Bang Pa-Inn Summer Palace, I can felt the heat almost burned me down. We're so relieved to find the driver still waiting outside. When we sit on the seat, we almost jumped up because the leather seat was so hot. The driver was laughing at us. He introduced us the paddy field, the train station on our way to Ayutthaya... (all in thai)

Ayutthaya is the capital of Thailand for 417 years and has been registered as one of the world heritage by UNESCO.

The driver stopped us at a wat which is pretty similar to Angkor Wat - Wat Chaiwatthanaram (วัดไชยวัฒนาราม). It is one of the most imposing ancient Buddhist monasteries, established by the command of King Prasatthong in 1630 A.D. to make merit for his mother. In 1767 A.D., Ayutthaya the capital of Thailand, was besieged by Burmese invaders and the Wat became an army camp. After the fall of Ayutthaya, Wat Chaiwatthanaram was abandoned. Looting, the decapitation of Buddha images, and the selling brick from the Wat became command practices.

The driver bring us around Ayutthaya town (he was lost) and found alot of people riding elephant. The driver kept on saying "Chiang" and sing a song which consists alot of "Chiang" words. Later only found out that "Chiang" refer to elephant. Haha......

He stopped again at Wat Mahathat which make us a bit confius. Initially thought the first wat we visited was Wat Mahathat... It's almost similar to Wat Chaiwatthanaram. We just moved around in super speed this time.

The most special is the Loard Buddha's head found among the Bodhi's tree root with no trace of the body.

Here come our nice and sincere taxi driver. This time he moved around with us instead of waiting in the car. He told us that those Buddha's sculpture without head was due to Thai-Burmese war. It was almost completely destroyed compare to Wat Chaiwatthanaram.

We went to Wat-Naphrameru which is a temple constructed during the reign of King Ramadhibodi II the tenth king of Ayutthaya dynasty. When we reached there it was a bit too late and the main temple was already closed. We just managed to go around but we managed to saw the three thousand year old black stone carved Buddha.

Our last visit was Wat-Lokayasutharam which feature a huge clining Buddha image - Phra Bhuddhasaiyart, which faces to the east. It is 37 meters long and 8 meters high. The head is placed on a lotus, and the legs overlap squarely to show the equalized toes.

We fall asleep again on our journey back to Bangkok. At last we decided to pay him 1500 baht.

Later at night my friend brought us to one of the pub there. She teaches us how to drink the famous Thai rum - 'Sangsom' or known as Thai whisky. She mixed the 'Sangsom' rum with soda and 'Shark'. When she told us to mix with 'Shark', both of us was wondering how to mix 'Shark' into the liquor??? Looking puzzle... Later found out 'Shark' is just a kind of red bull energy drink. According to her this is how most of the Thai drink 'Sangsom'. I'm not really good with liquor, just one glass, my face turned out red and looks like drunken already.

She ordered 2 side dishes - fried cashew nut, garlic, dry prawn, nuts, lemon grass and friend chicken wings. It was really nice snack to go with the 'Sangsom' rum.

I slept soundly that night because too exhausted and the effect of drinking liquor as well.

Bang Pa-In Summer Palace

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Admission Fee : 100 Baht (tourist)
Operation Hours : 08:00 am ~ 05:00 pm

Website : http://www.palaces.thai.net/bp/index.htm

Photos : http://picasaweb.google.com/luckyin.lee/Ayutthaya20090306#
Reference : Taken from Bang Pa-In Palace, Ayutthaya book

20090305 - Bangkok

2009-03-18T21:04:00.012+08:00

Today I was so happy that I'll be taking 6 days holiday at Bangkok and Chiang Mai with my cousin. Praying hard no outage while I'm away for holiday.

It was so rush because I need to reach airport by 8:30pm. After work, I went to KP for currency exchanged, pack my unfinished luggage, took bath, dinner, fetched my cousin. All was done in one and half hour before depart to airport.

Reached LCCT airport on time, found that our flight was being delayed. Sigh... If I have knew it, I will not come so early :(

Once touch down at the Suvarnabhumi Airport (Bangkok International Airport), we're lost and do not know which way to go. I do remember that the hotel receptionist told me to wait at Gate 3. I waited inside and the people told us to ask the helpdesk. The helpdesk told us to wait at Gate 6 but later we found no one there. Walked back to Gate 3. Then I make a phone call to Silver Gold Garden Hotel again and they asked us to wait at Gate 3. After met with the driver, he asked us to wait again... :(

We're so tired as it's almost 1am already (Bangkok time). It's always a communication problem in Thailand as most of the people only speak Thai.

When we reach the hotel, it's almost 2am. So exhausted and tired. The hotel was very new and clean. The bed was so comfortable and nice. The room smell good too. I have reserved this hotel because it's very near to the airport and tomorrow we'll be staying at my friend's house.

Dreaming how I'm going to spend my holiday in Bangkok and Chiang Mai...

The next day we woke up pretty early and checked out from the hotel and head back to the airport to wait for my friend to pick me up. I have called my friend a few times but no one pick up the phone. Ops, how? What are we going to do??? I just have her hp contact and her address in Thai... She promised to pick me up at Gate 7 at 9am... What am I supposed to do?

After half an hour, finally I got hold of her. She told me that her driver is on the way. So we waited outside. Yet after 10 minutes still found no trace of her driver... At last, saw a guy holding a paper with my name on it. Ah, when did that guy arrived? We have waited outside for so long but didn't see him at all... Luckily we're found. Happily and relieve we follow him and the driver drove us to my friend's place.

It was a new four storey office home. First 2 floor is for office use meanwhile the other 2 floor she used it as home. It was located about 20 minutes away from the city. She had moved to this new place recently.

We were so excited and chit chat a while before starting our journey to explore the city of Bangkok!

Silver Golden Garden
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Tel : +662 738- 1533/4
Fax : +662 738- 1535
Email : info@silvergoldgarden.com
Website : http://www.silvergoldgarden.com
p/s: If you want some hotel near Suvarnabhumi Airport (include airport transfer)

部落格 ~ 继续吗？

2009-03-18T20:32:00.008+08:00

好久好久没写部落格了。以前我做什么都是三分钟热度，从来没超过五分钟。

刚开始写部落格时，也是一时兴起而已，没想到会维持那么久。最近就步入了冷却期。老是提不起精神，脑袋一片空白，怎样也想不出应该写些什么。。。

也许是有一班拥护者吧。虽然很想就这样停下来，可是这班拥护者，问我为什么不写了? 最近去了曼谷，不写吗？好久没看到你的新作了。。。

犹豫一下，就徘徊在继续或停止之间。结果还是不想让这班拥护者失望。就继续吧！虽然我写的水准都很差，请多多包涵吧。。。

待续。。。

习惯使人慵懒

2009-02-25T23:59:00.008+08:00

人一旦习惯了某种形式上规律，就很少要求改变。就如我，习惯母亲每天为我准备早餐。习惯每晚回家，晚餐就准备好在餐桌上等我享用。

习惯性一边吃，一边批评母亲烧的菜。就好像母亲为我做的一切都是理所当然。

很多时候，就因为这种习惯使我变得慵懒。就只想安于现况，以不变应万变。

本来很想参加公司的瑜伽班，可是一想到必须迟回家，每个星期就等下个星期参加为由，一拖再拖。结果到现在，还是没去过呢。

明知不应该，还是懒地改。。。你也是这种人吗？

抛柑去！

2009-02-09T22:26:00.012+08:00

今天是正月十五 - 元宵节，也是华人的情人节。

刚从浮罗交怡回来就接到Jac的短讯，询问我去不去'Amcorp Mall' 抛柑。。。去不去呢？其实我已精疲力尽，不是很想去。就拿BY当挡箭牌。如果BY去的话，那就去吧：）

这将是我有生之年，还未步入三十大关之前，最后一次的疯狂事。过了这大关，我想我已经没有精力或闲情去抛柑了。随缘吧。。。自我安慰的一种。

前两年朋友已提议去那儿抛柑，可是一直都是天马行空。难得今天是公共假期，就不应该错过这好机会去见识见识一下。

天空突然下起雨来，不是那么倒霉吧。兴致勃勃地来到那儿，竟然下雨:'( 可能我受老天爷的眷属，雨不久就停了。

还是第一次来到这湖边。抵达时，已人山人海。走着走着，竟然遇到我的同事，好想找个洞钻进去。意想不到，果真有人用网捞柑。

Jac与BY这两人，明明来了，却死都不肯把名字及联络电话写在柑上。气死人了。不管三七二十一，就把她们的联络写在柑上，然后我们各自把柑抛了。任务终于圆满结束。

心想如果真的有人联络我，我应该如何反应呢。。。告诉他，你打错电话了？仰或。。。

找不回已失去的味道

2009-01-21T23:39:00.005+08:00

记忆里的味道，永远是最难忘的。

就像我第一次吃石頭拌飯的味道，幽记得那时我非常喜欢那种味道。接着我在好多不同的地方试了石頭拌飯，可是就是找不回当初第一口吃石頭拌飯的味道。当时还很后悔，为什么就吃了那么少。

有些味道，即使你在同一家餐馆，点了同一道菜，那种特别的味道还是找不回。可能影响你的味蕾不单靠食物的味道，而是陪你分享食物的人，环境，心情，种种因素而产生的味道，就这样深深地烙在你记忆深处，使你毕生难忘。

不管你如何努力寻寻觅觅，失去的味道终究找不回。。。

At the City of 'Kuching' ~ Working...

2009-01-16T17:25:00.014+08:00

Finally touched down at the city of 'Kuching' yesterday afternoon. Before I came here, heard that Kuching was raining and flooding at some area.

It was raining outside. It took around 25 minutes from Kuching International Airport to Kuching City (RM22). Will be staying at 5 star hotels - Riverside Majestic. Looking forward how would 5 star hotels look like.

My colleague stayed at room '1408' which is my birthday meanwhile I stayed at room '1306'. Should have inquired double bed instead of twin bed room. then I'll be staying at '1408'. Once reached the room, opened laptop as usual, started to arrange for tonight activity. Still encounter some problem with the E1. Really no time to enjoy the 5 star hotel facility. Not much surprise actually.

Called vendor up and planned to have dinner together at 'Top Spot'. End up eating KFC with my colleague cause it was raining and I'm not sure where 'Top Spot' was located. Later found that it was just a stone throw away. It was very famous among local and tourist in Kuching because of the cheap sea food.

Reached the site at around 9:50pm. No one was there. Luckily the guard let us in when we told him that we're from the Central. Wah, there was ping pong table. Played ping pong with my colleague while waiting for the others to arrive.

I was so surprise when I saw Jibun. I just talked to him via phone most of the time and never knew how he looks like. He was the uncle I met during the first team building. We have some chat.

When the vendor came, we started to prepare and wait for the instruction from Central to start the migration. We encounter some problem due to some wrong info given. We changed it last minutes and everything started to move smoothly.

We worked until early morning 6am and everything went smoothly as planned. We decided to celebrate our success and have breakfast together. Raining heavily outside. So excited with the success, I suggested to play ping pong. Only Jibun and me was excited to play. Others was too tired and the vendor left before us.

After the ping pong, we went for breakfast. Initially wanted to try out the 'Sarawak Laksa' introduce by Jibun but we're too early and the shop was not opened yet. End up we went to another shop and I try the 'Mee Java' because it's famous at that shop and my colleague ordered 'Sarawak Laksa'.

Sarawak Laksa

Mee Jawa

I was so exhausted when I reached the hotel. After taking a warm bath, I can't think anymore and just throw myself into the bed hoping to build some sweet dream...

20090110 - Melacca Day Tour

2009-01-11T15:55:00.037+08:00

This is a day trip without any planning and was decided on Friday night.

Our first destination was Tan's nyonya food recommended by Melacca boy - SK. Although I have been to Melacca many times, this is the first time I visit this place. If you're not a local or know this place, it'll be hard to find. There's a narrow wooden staircase which lead to the shop located at 1st floor.

I'll never missed the Nyonya Laksa meanwhile for others who can't take spicy food had ordered Pongteh Chicken Rice. Last but not least - the famous cendol with sago.

Laksa Nyonya ~ RM 3.20

Pongteh Chicken Rice ~ RM 5.50

Cendol with Sago ~ RM 2.50

The strong smell of the coconut milk with Gula Melacca blend well and give a very nice taste to the cendol.

After the breakfast, we loaf around Melacca which has listed as one of UNESCO's World Heritage. Melacca River is cleaner than before with the newly build windmill to add some color to Melacca River.

In the center of the city located famous Dutch Square or known as Red Square because of the crimson coloured old buildings around that area such as Stadthuys and Christ Church Melaka.

See, they're trying to steal the cannon.

There's are alot of museum around that area. Museum of Architecture is one of the museum which has free entrace. Sam fully utilize it and have a nap there. Haha....

After long walk, lunch time again. Famous 'Hai Nan Chicken Rice Ball' was our savour. I think Malaysia is the first who thought of turning the normal chicken rice into rice ball. I have visited this shop during my last visit to Melacca - 'Hoe Kee Chicken Rice' which located at Jonker Walk. Other specialty are the asam fish head, black bean soup and lotus root soup.

KS mistaken the chicken rice ball as the fish ball. Haha...

Chicken with internal organ and cucumber. If you don't like internal organ, do mention it when you place ordered. Ended up in RM 51.00 with 5 coconut (RM4.00 per each).

It's time to move again. 'Jonker Walk' was our next detination. I'll never forgot my mum order which is the nyonya pineapple tart recommended by my uncle last time.

Found this famous nyonya pineapple tarts shop - LW Pineapple Tarts House with a giant pineapple tart display in front the shop. The giant tart was recorded as the largest pineapple tart in Malaysia. It was so famous that even DiGi 'Yellow Man' visited this place before.

Sam half of Melacca boy highly recommended us to eat the famous mollusks dishes with special sos at the street alley. The small little table and chair is almost extinct in Malaysia. That was the first time I saw this kind of arrangement.

Mussel or 'Si Ham' was Sam's favourite. Initially I wanted to try it out but once saw the bloody 'Si Ham', I stopped my intention. We have ordered a plate of fried bean curd and 2 plate of 'Si Ham' and it cost us RM22 in total. It was pretty expensive.

After having tea time, we found "Newton Cultura Food Village". I ordered something light - Chao Zou style 'Lei Cha' instead of Hakka style. The food are pretty cheap.

Chao Zhou Style 'Lei Cha' ~ RM 4.00

Our journey ended at the river bank opposite "The Eye of Malaysia". HK has acrophobia thus we just enjoy it from far. According to my cousin RM10 for 5 round with MyKad or else it's RM20.

今天失眠了:(

2009-01-09T20:04:00.010+08:00

今天失眠了。。。

好久没失眠了。今天怎么搞的。 3 点了，还是睡不着。平时不到12点，我早已进入梦乡了。

失眠其实是件很痛苦的事。明明很累，很想入眠。可是越想入眠，反而越清醒了。

脑袋里出现了好多问号。我是个奇怪的人。越忙越想睡。越得空，越难入眠。很忙的时候应该是身心累坏了，就越想睡。得空时，就开始胡思乱想，结果就失眠了。很多时候，我都尽量不让自己想太多。可是问题出现了，如果没有解决，还是存在的。

我的上司是那种很爱面子的人。回想所有的上司应该都是这样的吧。。。他是那种假装民主的上司。很客套的要你说出你自己的看法，然后就开始否定你的看法。那就是他所谓的‘民主’。

下个星期其实有一个项目在古晋，那是很好的学习机会。不知为什么，他就是不肯让我参与。要我遥控式的支援。不管如何，我都想争取这个机会。即使自掏腰包，也在所不惜。

预算着今天上班的时候，要如何开口。打着如意算盘，终于放下所有的负担。不知不觉，就进入了梦乡。。。

突然惊醒了，迷迷糊糊地捉摸着我的手机。 8：30，糟糕又要迟到了。。。

New Year Count Down at Sunway Pyramid

2009-01-01T23:19:00.010+08:00

After that terrible movie, we went for count down. TT and I went to Jusco to buy some beer meanwhile Sam, KS and SK went to look for strategic place to view the fireworks.

Wah, beer in Malaysia are pretty expensive. One can of Carlsberg cost around RM6 meanwhile Heineken cost around RM8. I don't really like beer so skip it. Of course, count down need some sparkling so I bought a bottle of carbonated juice instead of beer :)

While waiting for the count down, those guys started to drink the beer. I was having evil plan to spray the carbonated juice on Sam for his 'good' recommendation for 'The Spirit'.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1... HaPpY New YeAR!!! Fireworks started to broke the dark night with bright and colourful sparks. The fireworks lasted for about 5 minutes.

In the end we just drank up the sparkling instead of wasting it on Sam.

Worst movie for 2008 ~ 'The Spirit'

2009-01-01T18:02:00.007+08:00

New Year coming around, don't really felt like spending it at home like last year. Sam planned to have dinner, movie, view firework and finally have some drink at pub. As usual it will took place at Sunway Pyramid.

Sam insisted and highly recommend to watch 'The Spirit''. Although don't really wish to watch that movie on New Year which claim to be horror movie by Sam. TT has the same thought not to watch that movie. Due to majority preference (actually only Sam), we just reserve ticket for 'The Spirit'. I didn't read on the synopsis or watched the trailer.

After dinner at 'Station Kopitiam', we went for the movie. Not putting any high hope and was aspecting to be some horror movie such as those lady ghost with long hair. Unexpectedly, when the movie just started, I saw the actor in black running on the roof top with red tie(just like comic), I almost fainted.

That was the hardest time for me to pass in the cinema. The most unbearable was in the mid of the movie, suddenly all the light in the cinema lighted up and left the white screen in front of us.

All the audience was so puzzled and wondering around. They started to talk and laugh how silly the movie was. Some even thought of viewing other movie at other cinema. What a good suggestion.

After 5 minutes, the movie restarted. Really no mood to continue the movie, just wish that it finished as soon as possible. My 2008 year end was ruined by this movie. The worst movie I have had in the cinema. I would declared that as the worst movie for 2008. No spirit at all after the movie though named as 'The Spirit'.

If you're looking for some non logic and silly movie, you can view 'The Spirit' :(

婚姻是坟墓吗？

2008-12-21T18:38:00.005+08:00

一直以来，对于男性来说，婚姻就是坟墓因为那代表了他们将会失去自由的开始。他们失去了单身贵族的身份。不再可以光明正大地谈妞，泡妞，约‘猪朋狗友’上酒吧。。。

可是随着时代的变迁，女性也患上了婚姻恐惧症。婚姻对两个人来说，就是责任，就是一生的承诺。

由于现在不管男性或女性都拥有自己的事业。大家都有能力养活自己，女性不再需要依靠她的另一半，有自己的想法，有自己的理想。这造就了，新女性迟婚，或不愿把自己埋在婚姻里，只因为婚姻可能是她们事业上的绊脚石。

现在可好了，流行起同居来了。那是一种类似婚姻生活，可是不需要任何承诺。合则来，不合则分，反而干净利落。不需要什么协议或法律上的责任。相爱容易，同住难，同居反而变成了试婚的好办法。

我的其中两位朋友。每每一坐下来，就会开始讨论对婚姻的恐惧感，所以迟迟都不肯步入婚姻生活，一拖再拖。对她们而言，结婚生活就代表了，无境界的家务事，婆媳之间的纠纷，家庭开销。。。谈到婚姻就只有一个字可形容 - 烦。她们很享受现在的生活，不想有任何改变。

朋友，有时候，人顾虑太多东西，反而让你怯步，无法向前行驶。人生到了某个阶段就因该有适当的改变。希望很快听到你们的好消息。

想要的，得不到；不想要的，垂手可得

2008-12-17T21:51:00.009+08:00

爱情？事业？小孩？钱财？哪些是你梦寐以求的呢？

总是发现，当你很渴望得到爱情的时候，偏偏你的真命天使从来没出现过。当你不再相信爱情时，那个人出现了，结果，你跟他/她就这样插身而过。就这样错过了这段缘份。

有些人，本想一心一意地在一家公司待到老，可是不断有猎人头找他，让他不知如何选择。有人却在家等了好久，还是没接到一通求职的联系。

有些新婚夫妇根本就不想这么快有小孩降临在他们的两人世界，偏偏就在初夜，一个新生命降临了。有些夫妇结婚了好多年，好想拥有自己的孩子，用尽所有的办法也不能如愿以偿。

好奇怪。每次我心里渴求的东西，总不会不劳而获。在完全没有心理准备的情况下，总有意外的收获。

想要的，得不到；不想要的，垂手可得。难道是天意弄人？

检讨自己

2008-12-17T20:14:00.007+08:00

好多时候，人总是一味的批评别人，却从来不检讨自己。别人的过错，总爱用放大镜，有多大就放多大，想让全世界的人知道。自己的过错，就尽可能隐藏起来，越少人知道越好。

那可能是因为小时候的教育吧。。。当你做错事时，你肯定不会勇于认错，因为你知道，只要你认错，肯定会挨骂或挨打。可是当你知道，那是别人干的‘好事’，你就会迫不及待告诉老师或家长，因为这样你可能会被嘉许，赞赏。

尤其在这现实的世界里，职场就像战场，不是你死就是我亡。只要你一不小心犯了错误，就会有人借题发挥，乘机立功。有时好讨厌，这些小人。为什么他们就不能，检讨一下自己，难道他们从来没有过错吗？

有时候，我们应该留一点余地给自己，因果报应嘛。每天应该检讨或反省一下，当天所犯的错。如果不小心说了一些伤人的话，或说别人的是非，就尽量减少吧。与其浪费时间在这些无畏的事上，还不如好好的充实自己，做一些有益的事。

谈何容易，做起来可是一点也不简单。我的脾气一向来都比较暴躁，也没什么耐性，火山一爆发就一发不可收拾。爆发后，总是后悔当时的冲动，然后就一一向他人道歉。如果我可以就在当时，好好地提醒自己，不让自己爆发，那就不会伤到无辜的人了。

对不起，说太多了，也变得没意思了。。。

谁来掌握自己的命运？

2008-12-14T22:37:00.007+08:00

人类的命运由谁来掌握？在我们还没有思考能力，可能命运还轮不到我们自己来决定。

记得小时候，常常有这个念头 - 离家出走。那么我就不再需要听我妈的唠叨，做我想做的事，不再需要家人的约束。很幼稚吧。。。

中六毕业后，我选了离我家比较远的一所大学 - 位于槟城的理大。原因无它，就是想离开家里。那是我人生其中一个转捩点。一个人孤身作战的来到了理大。不知不觉地就这样完成了我三年的学士。

还没毕业前就接受了去国外两年的合约。也没什么，终于可以离开大马，去更远的地方，看看外国的月亮是不是他人所说般，那么圆。开始自己决定自己想走的路。那时也没想太多，就这样的去了。

两年也就一晃而过。我执著的要求回来大马。可能在那儿，看不到自己的未来。兜兜转转的，又回来了。任性的我即使毁约也要回我自己的自由，就这样的赔钱了事。

也就这样的回来了我的家乡。原来我执著地想离开家，掌握我自己的命运，却又回到起点。

其实也不知道，那是早已安排好的命运，还是我自己创造出来的。我想我还是属于瞒幸运的，一路来都遇到很多帮过我的贵人。当然，当中也有后悔自己的决定，可是后悔只能当我的回忆了。

如果有想做的事，就应该不惜一切的去实现。那当然必须以正当的途径实现。不要老是回头看，原来自己错过了生命中很多重要的事还没做。珍惜你所拥有的每一天，向往明天的到来。

我相信命运应该由自己来决定。人生的每一个决定，当然有得与失。就因为不知道未来是怎样，生活才那么的多姿多彩，不是吗？如果你已经知道结局了，你还会享受过程吗？

Celine's Birthday at Don Kitchen

2008-12-12T23:23:00.037+08:00

This year I have been busy with gathering, birthday party, wedding dinner, outing, bla bla bla...

Today will be the last birthday celebration for this year. The lucky star is - Celine. Celine just complained that my blogs are too long and alot of grandmother story :(

Since Celine likes Japanese food alot, we have selected Don Kaiten Japanese Restaurant which located at Klang Parade. It is a kaiten sushi shop which served all kind of sushi from nigirisushi, makimono to harumaki. Besides that, it served a wide variety of raimen, soba/udon, donburi...

Since we have a "small" birthday cake for Celine, we want our dinner to be lighter. Basically they have ordered raimen meanwhile BY and me have ordered donburi. We have a plate of Chicken Katsu Cheese Maki while waiting for BY.

Kimuchi Ramen ~ RM 13.90

Dry Ramen Teriyaki ~ RM 13.90

Tempura Ramen (wt 2 ebi tempura) ~ RM 15.90

Chicken Teriyaki Don (wt Miso soup) ~ RM 12.90

Tendon (wt Miso soup) ~ RM 14.90

The food was not as good as expected. Kimuchi Ramen soup don't really taste like kimchi soup. Besides that, the chicken is a bit hard and dry cause overly fried.

Finally, of course it's time for our main role to show up - a slice of Secret Recipe cake - London Cheese Cake. A birthday song to our lovely friend - Celine. The bill ended up at ~RM90.

Craving for ~ LOVE ~

2008-12-11T20:05:00.010+08:00

LOVE???

"strong feelings of attraction towards, and affection for, another adult, or great affection for a friend or family member" ~ dictionary.

Due to my sis being cheated recently, I got really tired with my parents. My sis is not young anymore yet trusted some outsider without second thought which could lead her to life danger. My parents try to wash her brain and this has cause noice pollution. They just kept on repeating the same thing everday whenever my sis was around, even 6am in the early morning. Sweat...

I got even angry when my sis still persist on her own thoughts. She even blamed my parents for not taking care of her when she was a child due to work. Blamed us for not showing appreciation for every good will she had done.

I would say my parents are typical Chinese. Their love are more encrypted and hard to be interpreted. My dad is absolutely a serious man (from his outlook) meanwhile my mum basically like scolding and busy body. We only talked to our dad whenever we needed his help :)

She's the one who never really look back how my parents have treated her. I still can clearly remembered how my parents ware so worried when she was in UTM. I'm not sure how many times they drove to Skudai just to make sure she had adapted herself there. Whenever she encountered problem, my parents will help her out without any price. My dad even bought a new car for her when her car was stolen.

She's those who alway crave for love, like to be pampered by someone that's why she easily trust people when they started to treat her well. She has this perception that we - her own family members treat her badly and our loyal advise which is jar to her ears cannot be trusted. She never knew when someone talk something nice to you, treat you nicely, doesn't mean they love or really care for you especially stranger.

I know the impact when someone crave for love, crave to be noticed, crave to be cared as I used to be one of them last time. I do something bad just to make my parents to notice me and care for me. Until one day I notice that, my parent never stop loving me. No matter what mistake I have done, they're the only one who will accept me back.

When I started to grow older now, I think love itself is a burden or the love given in a wrong way like my mum will make me strongly dislike it. Maybe due to my strong personality sometime I don't really appreaciate the love being pour to me.

Hopefully my sis will be awaken someday like I do. She'll start to notice the love pour by my parents, see the rainbow in the sky, appreciate everything she has now. '知足常乐' - satisfied with what she have and don't be greedy.

LuCky???

2008-12-08T20:29:00.013+08:00

Lucky? How many people in this world are really lucky? And how many people being cheated just because of this word?

My most stingy sis being cheated again for twice just because of this word - 'LUCKY'.

In this year, I'm not sure how many times she went to police station, 3 times at least. First time, she lost her car. She even put her car insurance inside the car, thus lost it with her car as well. Second time, her handbag was being snatched, lost her IC, house key, ... - police station again. Third time, being cheated by a China lady who called her up, and told her how 'LUCKY' she was. She believed and transferred 1K to the specific account. Ended up in police station again.

Later her car was found, I'm not sure that's consider as lucky or not. As for me, I'm the unlucky one as I need to use that chunk which cost me a few K to fix it. :(

This morning, she even drove my mum car just because she doesn't need to pay for petrol. On her way to the car park (alone), she was stopped by a gal who told her how lucky she was. Again, this time she was cheated again - around 6k. Unbelievable, she spent 6k for a matress, oven, sewing machine and water filter. Usually she's so stingy, even a penny she'll calculate with you.

From what I understand, there're so many point that indicated that the gal was cheating yet she didn't notice it at all. She drove the gal to a shop to claim the lucky draw, and the people in the shop took her IC and credit card for a long period, yet she didn't suspect anything. The amount printed was difference from the receipt. When the bank called up for verification, she didn't stopped the transaction as well. OMG... They must be so happy to have such kind prey.

I really don't understand, why people easily cheated by this 'lucky' word. You got this, you got that. Due to greediness, people tend to believe that they're lucky. I think the word - 'LUCKY' has the psycho power.

Yes, maybe there're really lucky one but you do not need to pay for the 'LUCK' you have. I was lucky enough to get the grand price this year - a 32" LCD TV. Of course I do not need to pay a penny for that. For all the luck my sis had, she needs to pay alot in return. Like those electrical stuffs she got today, it cost 6K. Is this so call lucky? I doubt it.

Please remember, you do not need to pay if you're lucky enough. If you need to pay even 1 cent, don't consider it as lucky. Kindly remember this advise. There are alot of fraud case and cheating around nowaday, so please be careful especially when you're alone.

Being Teased :( Got Something In Returned :)

2008-12-03T22:12:00.014+08:00

Today got a bar of white chocolate from my colleague. Without my notice, I have finished the whole bar of chocolate before I left the office :( Putting on weight recently cause I'm pretty free despite the development job I need to do for the Data Center - FOC.

I'm a pretty weird person. After I left my ex-company, it seems like I'm still keeping a very close contact with most of my ex-colleagues. We went for trip together. We have lunch together. We went for movie together. We celebrate birthday together. We have dinner together...

It's really strange. Before that, we hardly have movie or dinner together. Today, after work it was a bit late than usual. 7++pm... Should I joined their badminton... Until the junction, the traffic light indicated red, without my notice, I have turned left toward the spot center.

When they saw me, all of them started to asked me. Some even teased me why I was there. I could not answer actually. Why? I was wondering also. There were more people around compare to last week which made me feel pretty embarrassed.

Anyhow it was so great to find those who love diving around. Since my cousin was almost drown last time, she decided not to risk her life anymore and gave up her diving. Thus I badly need some 'diving kaki' so that I can continue. I don't want to waste it off.

Haan planning for the advanced open water diving course meanwhile Andrew still considering to take the pool or direct open water diver. I suggested to go for direct open water diver because it's more practical and you really learn alot. Haan we can planned for the advanced open water diving at around April or May provided you're free.

In fact, I was never good at spot. Just started to join spot activity during my training. Still remember how my friends trained me up especially ping pong. They're always so patient and play with me almost every night. Besides that, the first thing I learn about basketball was shooting the ball. It was winter, cold and chilly where all my hand was freezing and can't even got hold of the ball, so it took me long hour just to get 10 shots. When I finally got it, they cheer for me :)

Really miss the day I spent with them. They used to tease me alot due to my bad performance and acting silly. In return we became good friends. I think it's a new communication style. People teased among each other in order to get close. At least this is how I get close with my friends.

When Venus, Jupiter and Moon Meet ~ Smiley :)

2008-12-02T00:14:00.015+08:00

Around 8pm suddenly received an SMS, with the following content :-
"Guys, check out the west bound of the sky.. U can see the venus, jupiter and moon forming a smiley face -> :) nice view... ~ Keith"

I hesitated a while, must be those forwarded SMS, mustn't be real I guess. Due to my nature of curiousity, I just can't help but went out to my parent's room balcony. Out of my surprised, I saw the Venus and Jupiter as the eyes with the Crescent Moon as the mouth formed the smiley. It's so unbelievable. Although they're far apart, still it's really incredible. I'm not sure how long we need to wait for this magnificant view.

I was speechless but still manage to shout for my sis to come over to view it. She does not show much interest at all. :( I would like to share this with all my friends. I quickly forwarded the SMS to all my friends. Only a few gals reply and enjoy the same view as I do.

Here is the picture taken by Keith. I have seek permission from him to put it in my blog. Thanks alot for your SMS and shared this with me :)

For those who had shared the same view as me, may we live happily and smile always.

20081126 - Ccozi & Friends

2008-11-27T22:51:00.027+08:00

This evening 8pm I have appointment with 3 leng lui. So no matter how still need to drive to Sunway ('snaking' at home after night job). Heard that my ex-colleagues going to play badminton at 'Panasonic Spot Center'. Maybe I can joined before I went for the dinner.

So long did not work out my body. Besides work is still work :( They were so surprise to find me there. Wah, who's that guy with long hair and hair band. Ah, it's JJ who look just like a gal. Sweat...

After 2 matches, I quickly rush to car park and drove to Sunway Pyramid. It was badly traffic jam due to rain and a small accident. I was a bit late and both of them were already there since 7:30pm. LC ffk at last because of the training. Left 3 gal musketeers including me.

We can't make up our mind what should we have for dinner. Like school children, left no choice we have our 'lat, tali lat, tali tam pom'. SY lost at the first attempt. At last we decided to go around Asian Avenue. Initially wanted to try out "Shihlin Taiwan Street Snacks" which is famous for the Oyster Mee Sua but SY do not eat oyster one.

Thus we ops for the stall next door - Ccozi & Friends which claim to be the best Korean street food in town. As from the food display looks very delicious.

As usual I'll order the bibimbap (Korean Mixed Rice In Hot Stone Bowl ) - Tuna & Kimchi Bibimbap. They have ordered Fresh Tuna Bibimbap and Bulgogi (Korean Beef BBQ) Bibimbap. Besides that, we ordered the chicken on skewer - Xtreme Chicken Fried (highly recommended if you're spicy lover coz you got chocked by just smelling it). RM5 per stick. The korean tea was just RM1 with free flow.

While eating the bibimbap, I started to complain about my vendor which was from Korea. Complain until I'm out of my breath. How they make my life miserable and stay awake for 3 days 2 nights twice for the same issues. How I argued and quarreled with them. How irresponsible they are... I have forgotten how many cup of tea I have refilled.

Both of them are the best listener. I was so relieved after complaining. I bet the Korean must be sneezing while I'm complaining. Haha...

They started to plan for the Christmas or New Year outing but I think I can't join for the count down as most probably I will need to standby :( Early celebration is preferable. :P

Ccozi & Friends :-
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Tel : +6016-324-4607 (Andrew Kim), +6016-316-2900 (Joon Pak)
Email : drewan78@gmail.com (Andrew Kim), p71001708@gmail.com (Joon Pak)
Related Web Site : http://www.ccozi-friends.com/index.php
Address : Lot number: 197, First Floor Asian Avenue, Sunway Piramid
Operational Hours : ~ 10pm

20081117 - MNP Stampede

2008-11-24T23:19:00.027+08:00

After long journey back from Alor Setar, when I woke up in the early morning, found that my right eye was swollen. Right eye small, left eye big. Aiyoh! Today is MNP Stampede. Going or not go? Hesitated a while.

At the end, decided to go ahead cause it will be a another brand new experience. If not mistaken tea bag can cure the swollen eye but too bad no one drink tea at my house. Quickly find for alternate solution. The only option left is put the spoon into freezer and applied to my swollen eye. Luckily it does heal a bit. Both the size look pretty similar by now.

After having the 'nasi lemak' for my breakfast, we gather at the D'House car park. It was already crowded with around 1000 DiGizens. We have some aerobics warm up before departure and sang our stampede jingle which has a very nice melody. Can you feel the heat and spirit?

Today in total around 1000 DiGizens was located around PJ and KL area for this MNP stampede with 23 buses. Our first destination was 'PJ Old Town' followed by 'Solaris Mont Kiara'.

That was the first time I went to 'Solaris Mont Kiara'. Looked so new and classy but not many peoples around. :( There is a brand new Digi Retail Store. Now you can enjoy mobile vouchers for discount only at SoHoKL at certain dining outlets.

All of us ended up at the last destination - One Utama. I was overwhelmed by the yellow contingent found there. It was really amazing.

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20081114-16 - Cindy's Wedding at Alor Setar

2008-11-24T21:27:00.025+08:00

Today once I finished my training I directly drove back with full speed. After taken my dinner and packed my luggage for my '老妈子' wedding. Aiks, raining outside. It has been a very hot week how come today suddenly rain? It didn't give me a very good sign.... :(

Finally reached Alor Setar at around 5am. Gave '老妈子' a very morning call. Luckily she picked up my phone. After 15 minutes, she was there with her mum to fetch me up. It was a very bad news. Her house was robbed yesterday night while she was having wedding dinner :( Lost most of the cash, as well as her purse. Gosh, my bus ticket also got stolen :(

Too tired to think, once reached her house. I just fall asleep on the nice, smooth and comfortable bed. Around 7am, I was awaken but the noice. Hardly open my eyes actually. Talking to '老妈子' with eyes closed. Can't recalled what we have chat about. My head was all in white.

Her hair dresser was there helping her to setup her hair and makeup while I was sleeping besides the bed :P It took around 1 hour for the makeup but it's worth it as you can really see the difference.

Now I can really see the power of makeup. You can see the big difference before and after, right? Look this little boy, so cute and smart.

When '老豆' came to fetch '老妈子', he was tortured by all the '姐妹'. Plus he's super stingy and all the '姐妹' wouldn't let him in. When the cute little boy saw the scene, he just don't understand and asked why those 'Jie Jie' bully Uncle Xiang - '老豆'? When we heard that all of us laughed non-stop. He's '老妈子' nephew.

Finally '老豆' broke through all the obstacles and got '老妈子' . Yeah!

It was a tiring day after all the ceremony. I was given the honour to became one of the camera gal with the Sony DSLR provided by '老妈子' father. Not sure the out come is good or not. '老妈子' please forgive me if I'm not a good one.

We have dinner at one of the restaurant. The dinner ended pretty early.

As usual it's photos session after the dinner. (Can you spot me???) Tonight I can't be lamp bulb thus I had packed my luggage and stay at '老妈子' friend's house.

The next day is the time for me to leave. Early morning the new couple purposely came to fetch me and introduced me to one of the famous curry mee shop - "Chuan Nam' which located at Jalan Putra. The mee was served in less than 10 minutes although it's full house. It's a bit different from Penang curry mee which is more spicy.

I'm not sure when we'll meet again. Probably will be the day another '妞妞' get married or when you have baby.

It took me around 9 hours ride from Alor Setar back to my home sweet home. My back bone was terribly hurt and pained after the long ride :(

20081018-19 Melacca Treasure Hunt

2008-10-24T22:17:00.012+08:00

It has been so long since my post. Recently I have been pretty busy with my work until no time for myself. Then decided to participate for Melacca Treassure Hunt (2 days 1 night) with my new colleague - 4 person in a group.

All this while I knew that my IQ is pretty low but I think I can trust my teammate as they look smarter and elegant than me. We are supposedly to arrive at the company by 6:45am but we waited until 7am, that 2 guys still missing. I'm wondering how come the world is changing. Gals alway need to wait for guys....

We have MacD as our breakfast provided by organizer. We felt cheated since the organizer promise to give us petrol voucher which we later found that it was just RM20 Petronas Store Voucher :( So unbelievable.

The first clue which lead us to Taipan. I have called up my friends in this early hour to get where does the clue refer to. I think they must think that I must be to annoying for waking them up in this lovely Saturday. Sorry guys for waking you up such early. :P At this early hour, you'll found that alot of DiGizen around Taipan looking for the answer.

Later we head to the first check point - Seremban Laban. Then we get our second clue for the day which drive us to Alor Gajah and Melacca.

Suddenly rain started to pour heavily. It was so hard to drive at this bad weather as we hardly see the car in front. When the rain started to stop, we can saw that along the way to Seremban was full of accident. At least there were 5 cases in total. The worst was one of the car was being crash until left the front seat.

After the second check point at Alor Gajah - we're heading to Melacca - our final destination.

When we reach Melacca, 4 of us need to divide into 2 team - 2 pax per team. One team will be taking the trishaw meanwhile another team will be driving around Melacca town to search for answer.

Due to the hot weather, I insisted to drive my teammate car - a manual car without power stearing. Initially I can't take full control of the car and almost knock into the divider of the road. Sweat....

The treasure hunt ended at around 1:30pm at Mahkota Hotel. We're all so exhausted and tired when we reached there. After taking a fresh bath we just have our nap at the room. Later my teammate call us up for lunch which we had missed. We have a Korean lunch.

At night, we have dinner at the hall. The food was pretty bad. After the dinner, the organizer started to give us the answer of the clue. We're so puzzle and laughing none stop at the answer. There were prize and gift to give away that night. Although we do not get any prize (not even 10th place), one of our team was so lucky to get a 2M MP3 player.

After the dinner, we spend our night at the Jonker Street. I wasn't interested as I don't usually like to go shopping. The 2 guys really spend most of the time shopping and buying things there. They were enjoying themselves alot there. Pity all the gals need to wait for them until they're done with their shopping :( Here are the 2 devils.

It was a great experience and fun to experience this car treasure hunt.

Exploring A Brand New Me...

2008-08-23T20:08:00.012+08:00

Finally understand what's so call working life. All this while I have been working in a small to medium size of company where there're not many rules and regulation. Everything is so flexible.

In my new company everything need a complicated and long processes. Really get frustrated sometime for the processes I need to go through in order to get things done. Communication become one of the challenges in here. For all the knowledge I have, communication has been one of my weakness. Technical skills are not a must in here but communication skill is definitely a must.

Everyday you need to deal with more than 20 mails, sometime up to 50 mails. At first I encounter problem to organize my mailbox because always exceed the maximum mailbox capacity. Reply email became one of my daily task.

There's one thing I believe, '江山易改，本性难移'. It's a Chinese Proverb which mean it's hard to change our behavior. With my straight forward and impulsive behavior, I have made a lot of mistake. All these has given me hard time dealing with others as well as myself.

Hopefully with this big corporate environment, I can train up my temper. Looking forward for the changes. Mask will be the most useful tool for me yet do not know what kind of mask suit me in the end.

Baby???

2008-08-20T21:27:00.017+08:00

Tonight is another boring night. After I have changed to this job, my life seems to be pretty easy going. No more rushing for deadline... no more coding after work... no more work related reading... no more... All of that just replaced with chating via MSN and blogging...

Suddenly Cindy - "老妈子" (god mother who is my uni-coursemate) MSN me... What a surprised since she has not contacted me quite for some time.

The first 2 sentences really puzzle me. WhAT??? She needs to get herself married in 3 months time??? The only thought was she is pregnant??? OMG!!! Baby... baby??? I can't believe it. No way man. Aiyoh, how come "老豆" so careless and didn't do precaution? How could he do that to "老妈子". Without hesitation, I gave "老妈子" a call.

After long hour of asking finally I was able to extort a confession from her. It was just a misunderstanding of interpretation. "老妈子" is not having baby. It's just that "老豆" father just pass away. If they don't get married within this 3 months then they can only get married in another 3 years time. (According to chinese custom)

This has left them no other alternative but prepare their marriage in 3 months time. Relief... Congratulation Cindy and KSiang! May both of you have a memorable and wonderful wedding though it's kind of rush. Of course don't forget to invite me!!! I'm your "妞妞" (daughter).

Back to the "Future"

2008-08-18T22:50:00.013+08:00

Today I was trying hard to guide YK who's currently located in Japan to find a book store in Japan -Book 1st which located at Shibuya. While I was explaining the direction to him, suddenly he found this nice Google Map and asked me to guide him from there.

I was wondering how am I going to help him with this Google Map.Then I started to explore it. Wah, it's so wonderful. You can actually use the google street view to view how the street look like. I was like traveled back to Shibuya with time machine. The street seems so real as if I was at Shibuya and walking to work like 2.5 years back. Really unbelievable. I traversed from 渋谷駅(Shibuya Station) until Book 1st where I used to spend my lunch time there reading books.

Then I try to find Keisei Sekiya Station (京成関屋駅) where I had traveled to work to and from Tokyo Kensyu Centre-TKS (東京研修センター) everyday . I spent almost 9 months there. I have a lot of unforgettable and wonderful memory there which is getting faded now and then......

The next destination I picked was 中山駅 (Nakayama Station) to the place I had stayed for the following year - Phoenix Apartment. It was a 3 rooms apartment which is consider quite big at Japan. My room was Japanese style tatami room. I can still remember the tatami smell.

With this Google Map I think I can travel around the world without any doubt (too bad that currently only a few country support this feature). It's the most wonderful thing ever created !!! Thanks to Google Map!!!

女人的聚会

2008-08-17T15:07:00.010+08:00

据我所知，男人的聚会大多是谈‘女人经’，‘经济经’，‘车经’。。。那么女人的聚会又会谈什么呢？？？‘老公经’，‘孩子经’？？？

我们6位女人可是13年的朋友了吧！（如没记错）应该从中二开始，我们就认识了。转眼间，13年就这样的过去了。13年可不是一个很短的岁月，那也占了我人生一半的时间有余。最近我们兴起了，两个月来一次聚会的潮流。

今天也是离开上次聚会的两个月限期。我们约了在吧生的‘Centos’聚会。这次有位‘妈妈级’的RY不能出席，就剩下我们这5位小姐谈天说地。

话题都围绕在两位小姐（HF,HW）的男友的家庭。让我想起了婆媳之间的斗心沟角。可她们的情况又有点不同。两位都有很多共同点-非常注重卫生。故事就这样开始了。。。

两位陪男友回家乡时都会自备食水。难道男友家没水喝吗？那可不是的。而是两位都一致认为男友家的食水有异味及达不到她们的卫生水准。OMG。。。

HF呢，每次去男友家，总爱躲到男友的房里直到吃饭时间才出现。每次还是以最快的速度把菜挟到自己的碗里，再以120公里时速把饭吃完。这是因为男友的家人都不用公筷，这对她而言是非常不卫生的。如有人挟菜给她都会被转移到男友的碗里。

HW呢，都尽量不在男友家吃。男友以一桶水把两层楼房抹完是难以理解的。实在是太肮脏了。餐具都必须再清洗才用。如果出外吃饭都会要男友事先把桌椅抹干净先，再以烧水把餐具清洗消毒后才用。在外都不吃菜，因为餐馆都不把菜洗干净。

RF呢，就把‘老公’培训了（注册了可还没行礼）。以前饭后都不洗碗，现在就负起了洗完的工作。不抹地的，也开始了抹地的生涯。

很多时候，不同家庭背景，不同身长环境，培养了不同的生活习惯。老天爷总爱开玩笑，把不同极端的人配合在一起，只为了让人可以互相迁就，互相补助。10只手指都有长与短，人不可能都一样，十全十美的。两个人相处的时候，应该尽量配合，尽量学对方的长处，再加以修炼以达到共识。我自认也有很多坏习惯。:P

女人呀女人。。。下一次的聚会应该是十月吧。。。期待下一次的有趣话题！

p/s:姐妹真对不起，把你们摆上台。

本小姐的生日

2008-08-14T22:24:00.014+08:00

今天是本小姐的大日子。换上我最喜欢的白色上衣，再吃‘老妈子’特地为我炮制的生日面线就上班去了。还是老样子。无所事事的我也可以忙一个早上。好冷清的生日呢。。。记得以前的生日，凌晨时分短讯不断，电话也接了几通，祝福连连。可现在，电话倒是冷清清的，短讯也寥寥无几。

本想可能会有意外惊喜。可是以前的旧同事都忘了我的生日。去年我们还一起庆祝呢。。。:‘( 留了午餐时间给他们，可他们都忘了，所以没约我。算了吧，今晚还好有一班姐妹陪我度过。算是个补偿！

今天开会时，又被憋在一旁了。觉得自己已经在这儿一个月了，还是没有贡献。不知道自己还可以呆多久。平时的我总是叽叽喳喳的，可是一到开会的时候，就像哑巴似的。头脑就不灵活了。意见怎么敲也敲不出来。1个小时的会，就好像在地狱里度过了。

6时了，可是最后一分钟发现资料出了问题。问了同事他也忙得不可开交。时间一分一分过去了，还是问不出任何结果。不管了实在得走了。再不走就要挨骂了。好讨厌不负责任的我。

带着内疚及兴奋的心情扑约，我猛踩油门开车驶向Bukit Tinggi。不知如何，我竟然迷路了。。。只因我认错了一条路。兜兜转转的我竟然在原位驶了一个半小时。最后还是靠朋友及友善的‘刷布刷布’（しゃぶしゃぶ）老板在电话里引导指路我才安全到达目的地。

抵达时，她们已经吃了七七八八了。我以最快的速度把全部的食物往肚里塞。顺便秀秀我的新手机。我用了公司给我的固本买了这部新上市的W760i。虽然不是我心目中的那一部 (C902)，可是机能还算不错。就当作我的生日大礼吧。还是有生以来最贵的电话呢！

今年的生日就这样过去了。。。又老了。。。岁月总是不留人。。。

一笑天下，无难事

2008-08-11T21:16:00.016+08:00

最近换了一份新工。本来是一份很如意的工，可是人算不如天算，上头上个星期把我调开现在的工作。好闷气呢。。。又不甘心。。。想探个究竟可是以一个新人来说哪有说话的余地。。。因为除了我还有我的同事也被调开了。他可是做了一年呢。每天带着郁闷的心情上班。心中的不满一点也不能消减。为什么不能给我这一次机会呢？我的伯乐呢？？

无所事事的我，无意中发现了这本书-[一笑天下，无难事]在茶桌上。“生活压力！心情低落！情绪紧绷！其实，你只是遗忘的是久违的笑容。试试我给你这个秘诀：先快乐，然后看看会发生什么。”真适合我。

看着。。。看着。。。这本书变成我消磨晚上的时间及睡前最好的安眠药。。。一直以来我总是不满我上头为我安排的一切。总是不满。很多时候，明明知道是自己的问题，可是总爱钻牛角尖，所以搞到自己不开心。

人往往很多时候都特别爱挑剔，却不知道你在挑剔人的同时，也被人挑剔着。我应该学会正视自己，应该打开自己的心房。这样我才能看到这个世界。善待别人，就是善待自己。

看了这本书，经典在于“不是顺心如意让人欢喜，而是欢喜让人顺心如意。不要在等待快乐的事发生，不要再期待所有的问题都解决了，你已经等得够久了。快展露微笑吧！”

嘻嘻。。。呵呵。。。哈哈。。。

Sekinchan and Kuala Selangor Daily Tour by Sam

2008-07-26T23:58:00.044+08:00

After our first trip to Gua Tempurung & Sg. Klah Hot Spring, this time is Sam's turn to organize tour to Sekinchan and Kuala Selangor. We - urban kids are alway wondering how's it like living among paddy fields and fishing villages... Though very tired after the team building, without hesitation I gave my promised to join. This time we have a new member - 'Lin Lin' and missed out Elbert.

With the aching and tired body we met in HK's house again. I'm the first person to reach there again followed by KS and Sam. Good to have fun with them again ;) Ei, missing one participant. KS told us this bad news - 'Lin Lin' can't join us cause she's still in Genting... HUH?? Promise to join yet now in Genting??? Then only found out that she's 'FFK Queen'- those who like to break promise.

As usual Mac-D breakfast again :S I'll skip that since we'll be having another breakfast in Sekinchan. I'll reserved my stomach for that.

Once reach Sekinchan, we went around for "Soon Guan Restaurant" - famous for fish head dish. The '老板娘' (lady boss) was a very nice and friendly lady. Since only 4 of us, she introduced us to take the whole fish instead of fish head since all the fish head is too large and 'Romaine lettuce'.

According to the '老板娘', she just boiled the fish and added ithe seasoning like sesame oil, light soy sauce garnishing with slices of red onion, spring onion and coriander leaves. Once it's served, she squeezed in the lime juice to bring out the freshness of the fish. Though it just a simple dish but the lime juice really bring out our appetite.

The Romaine lettuce was a simple oily vege style cook which is called as '油菜' in Chinese. With the friend onion and garlic on top of the lettuce really give a great aroma to this simple oily Romaine lettuce.

When she saw that we didn't really cleaned up the fish, she teaches us how to eat the fish especially the fish head. There're a lot of good stuff there such as fish eyes and the fish brain. You need to suck the brain juice from the fish brain where all the essence was there.

Sam gave us a demo on how to eat the fish eyes.

Due to the fish was so fresh and delicious. Sam and HK are two of the fish cleaner. You can just found bone left on the plate. The whole meal just cost us RM32 for the fish, lettuce, rice and tea.

Before coming to Sekinchan，my friend had told me that the paddy harvest is over. I never gave up and asked the '老板娘' again. She told us that the paddy already being harvested in Sekinchan but... Sungai Besar just started and it's just around 30 minutes from there. Huray!!! "I don't care, I want to go though it's not in the itinerary!", I told Sam.

Some of the 'Matrix Post' in Sekinchan harvested paddy field. Haha......

Wah, finally I have the chance to view the ocean of golden paddy in Sungai Besar. Without any delay, I just jumped down with my camera and took pictures around ;)

Enjoying ourselves in the pool of golden paddy.

Later we went to the fishing village. Today the fisherman will be coming back late as told by the '老板娘' thus we don't have the chance to see the lively fish market. We just loaf around the temple and beach near by the fish village.

Guess what? I found this lovely tree, how could I missed climbing? 'Monkey Gal' is coming... Hehe.....

Enjoying myself under the shaded tree after being a 'Monkey Gal'. Give a peace!

We just have a light lunch at one of the Malay stall there. And we're cheated by the price list on the wall. The price is RM0.50 - RM1 higher than the price list :(

Later we spend the whole afternoon at Kuala Selangor Nature Park - Taman Alam (RM4 per pax). We didn't bring binocular along thus it was a rather boring and tiring visit. The park looked much more like being neglected and abandoned.

Around 5pm we went up Bukit Malawati with tram (RM2 per pax) which is located next to Taman Alam. You'll never imagine the fortress was full of silvered-leaf monkey. There was an unexpected free show shown by the silvered-leaf monkey.

The moment we have waited arrived after the long walked at Taman Alam - seafood dinner!!! Sam had did some homework and found that there are two recommended restaurant at Pasir Penambang - "Jetty Seafood Restaurant" and "River View Seafood Restaurant". We have picked the later.

As recommended we tried out the crab(cooked with milk and curry powder), steam mantis shrimp, oyster omelette, fried bun for the crab source and one vege cooked in thai style.

Of course, we ordered the fresh coconut since we're so exhausted. Coconut water was the best drink to cool down our temperature and thirst. The bil ended at RM80. It's just nice for 4 of us, not too full like alway. The price was reasonable.

The rain didn't stopped after our dinner. We waited until 8pm and finally the rain became lighter. It will be the highlight of this tour - Kampung Kuantan Fireflies Park which is famous for "kelip-kelip" (fireflies). The rain stopped when we reached there. It cost RM40 per boat for 4 pax. Just nice. Luckily 'Lin Lin' didn't come.

Unexpectedly I met with my Form 5 classmate who origin from Tanjung Karang. Actually this morning I just thought of her. What a small world.

Too bad that I can't took pictures of the sparkling christmas tree. Please do visit it as soon as possible as the population is becoming lesser and lesser due to global warming and pollution.

Soon Guan Restaurant Contact:-
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Tel : +603-32411465, +6016-2729263 (Ah Guan) - (Call for reservation)
Address : No. 60, Jalan Radin, 45400 Sekinchan, Selangor D.E.

River View Seafood Restaurant Contact:-
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Tel : +603-32892238, +6012-2346037 (Lee Kok Chuan)
Fax : +603-32896369
Related Web Site : http://www.rasarasa.net/articlePrint.cfm?id=1380
Address : No 1, Jalan Besar, Pasir Penambang, 45000 Kuala Selangor, Selangor D.E.
Operational Hours : 11am - 11pm

Kuala Selangor Nature Park Contact :-
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Tel : +603-8892294
Fax : +603-8884311
Web Site : http://hydec.com/ksnp/
Address : Kuala Selangor Nature Park, Jalan Klinik, 45000 Kuala Selangor, Selangor D.E.

Kampung Kuantan Fireflies Park Contact :-
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Tel : +603-3289 2403
Fax : +603-32894807
Related Web Site : http://allmalaysia.info/news/attraction.asp?id=24&pt=5
Address : Batu 5, Kampung Kuantan, 45500 Batang Berjuntai, Kuala Selangor, Selangor D.E.
Operational Hours : 8pm - 10:30 pm

Sponsor A Child

2008-07-20T13:28:00.013+08:00

Today I managed to open my gmail account which I have had forgotten a few years back. Luckily it's not being de-activated yet.

Like alway top down approach. I opened the very first email dated back at 2nd November 2007. "Sponsor a child with RM50 per month" have captured my vision. I have always wanted to sponsor a child but never took any initiative to search about it. Last week I read an article about Michael Wong - local famous singer shared his experience of poverty in Laos with his sponsored children from newspaper. Yet due to my laziness I just ignored it.

Today by fate and chance I found this email which lead me to World Vision Malaysia - child sponsorship changes lives... Without any hesitation I sign up for the sponsorship. It just took me about 5 minutes to fill in all the particulars. On Monday, I'll print out the credit card form and mail them as soon as possible.

I don't want to be regret for not doing anything for these children who needed my helping hand. Although RM50 is not a very huge amount of money but I hope with this little help, they have a better chance of living, treasure and explore this world. Hope that all of you who have read my blog give a helping hand to them as well :) It's never too late to do good for the society.

World Vision Malaysia Contact :-
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Tel : +603-7880 6414
Fax : +603-7880 6424
Email : admin@worldvision.com.my
Web Site : http://www.worldvision.com.my/
Street Address : 106 & 108, Ground Floor, Block A, Kelana Centre Point, Jalan SS7/19, Kelana Jaya, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Mailing Address : P.O. Box 8171, Kelana Jaya, 46783 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

Goodbye UC...

2008-07-12T00:40:00.003+08:00

Today is my last day serving in UC. It was hard for me to leave this nice and friendly working environment. After long consideration and a few days of sleepless night, I have decided to leave UC.

I was in a rushed where I have a farewell dinner with my supervisor and teammate at T.G.I. FRiDAY's, Subang Parade at 8:15pm. Before leaving, I still have the chance to play ping pong with JJ, KS and Sam. I have to take revenge on KS who had hit my eyes the day before with ping pong ball!!! Guess what? While they were helping me to have a nice smash to hit KS the ping pong ball accidentally hit one of the developer's head and quickly I hid under the ping pong table while my partner - JJ quickly squad down and hid in the cubical next to the ping pong table. While the other people who watched the match, laughed none stop and some was excusing JJ since he ran away so fast. Haha...... I'll miss my 'ping pong kaki' in UC - humor and friendly colleagues.

I just managed to snap a few pictures with my colleagues before I left. Miss out the ping pong team. Sorry guys! :(

Before 8pm, I was on my way to Subang Parade. Luckily I was not late, just on time. First time in TGI Friday's. Browsed through the menu for a few time, what should I order??? The waitress recommended us a appetizer "Three for all" while we're waiting for Elbert. Elbert came in 10 minutes later with a big present for me. A bit surprised. Wondering what's inside. We decided to share the food. We have later ordered a Cream of Mushroom Soup, Jack Daniel's Chicken & Shrimp, World Famous Barbecue Burger and Fettuccini Alfredo with Chicken and Herbs.

I like "Three for all" - a winning combination of Loaded Potato Skins, Fried Mozzarella and tangy Buffalo Wings. Served with sour cream and chives, marinara sauce, Bleu Cheese dressing and celery sticks especially the Loaded Potato Skins.

Jack Daniel's Chicken and Shrimp - juicy fire-grilled breast drizzled with TGI famous Jack Daniel's source and crispy Cajun -spiced friend shrimp. When the grilled breast chicken was served hot, it was very nice with the Jack Daniel's source. I like the smash potatoes as well.

Fettuccini Alfredo with Chicken and Herbs - different from normal tomato or white source pasta. The taste was refreshing with the sauteed sliced chicken breast. If you like garlic probably you'll like this pasta.

This will be the last picture I have with my supervisor - PT and teammate - Elbert, as well as YS - being striked by my ping pong ball on the head. Really sorry about it YS. Last but not least, I wish UC continue success in all your endeavors. I'll always remember the precious moment we have shared in UC.

T.G.I. FRiDAY's (Subang Parade) contact:-
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Tel : +603 - 5634 2956
Email : usersupport@fridays.com.my
Website : http://www.fridays.com.my/index.html
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20080703-06 - Diving at Lang Tengah Island

2008-07-10T00:58:00.005+08:00

We took around 2 hours depart from Merang Jetty to Lang Tengah Island. I was so bored and I just fall aslept easily on the boat. Wah, the water was crystal clear. The sand was soft and it's much more beautiful than Phuket! We'll be staying 4 days 3 nights at Redang Lang Island Resort.

This is the room which we need to share for 4 persons. A bit small compare to the hostel we stayed yesterday night but the bed is more comfortable with the warm blanket which I like alot :)

The dive center at Redang Lang Island Resort. Behind the diving sign board, we found this 'idiom' on it - "There was a time when sex was safe and diving is dangerous".

The first day was rather disappointed because it was raining after our first dive but it was a good time to sleep after long journey as we're pretty tired by then.

The next day, was a sunny day. It had been thousand year long I didn't saw rainbow. I quickly rushed to take my camera just for this faded rainbow. The life on the island was like eating, diving, resting, tanning... 4 meals was provided breakfast, lunch, tea time and dinner. The foods was really nice and alot of variety. I like the BBQ sting fish, bally water and crab meatball.

On the first day, we're required to do equipment assembly, half mask clearing, regulator recovery, sharing buddy alternate air source and swimming underwater where we need to control our buoyancy.

On the second day morning, we have our second dive. We need to do some higher challenge skill such as full mask clearing, underwater buoyancy control. I encounter problem of getting down and keep on floating up :( The assistance dive master trying hard to pull me down to the bottom of the sea as the depth has been increased compare to yesterday. She added more weight for me in order to let me sank into the bottom. I couldn't really control myself down bottom at the sea. I was imbalance and trying hard to stay still underwater.

In the afternoon, we have our third dive. This time, I added another weight and have no problem getting down to the sea :) This time we need to do 'lotus sit' post, mask removal and neutral buoyancy control. When it was Eileen turn for the mask removal, she was a bit panic and accidentally got chocked by the sea water, she dropped her weight belt and inflate her BCD, and directly went up the surface. When the dive master saw this situation, she stopped the test and just let us dive freely as a chance to practice our neutral buoyancy.

I saw the clown anemonefish and tend to play with them. Unfortunately, I didn't know that the animone was poisoness and accidently touched on it on the back of my left hand while I was trying to catch the clown anemonefish. I felt that it was jut like burning. The second time when I saw those clown anemonefish again, I didn't dare to touch the anemone but trying to attrach the clown anemonefish out from there and managed to touch them :)

On the third day morning, we'll need to take boat ride to the center of the sea and do the sitting back roll entry. At first it was kind of scared but then once you enter the sea, nothing is horrible. My buddy was Joey, a girl who shared room with us. While we was descending together, she encounter problem to descend, probably she couldn't equalized herself. I was in doubt at first whether to go up or went down. I think the assistance dive master will get hold of her and just went down with the others. The condition underwater was a bit bad as the current was quite strong. For us - novice diver, we encounter problem to fight the strong current. We have to kick in full strenght in order to move forward a bit. Every kick we made, we were driven back by the current. We lost another 2 of the diver under the water. The dive master failed to locate them as the water was not clear due to the strong current. Later we just ascent and waited for the others.

In the afternoon, we have our last dive which is away from the beach and as deep as 18 m. I have some problem equalizing myself when I was getting down the sea. I alway have problem to equalize my left ear. It was a great pain on my left ear when I failed to equalize it. Trying hard to equalize myself in order to get to the bottom of the sea. Eventually I'm down there. Learning to balanced myself with neutral buoyancy I don't really look around at those beautiful and significant coral and fish around. While I was enjoying myself following the dive master, suddenly someone got hold of me at my back. I was stunned for a movement. Luckily I didn't struggle to free myself. Later I saw a brown skin with black spot at around 12 inch width. I was wondering what's it. Then I turned my head over to the hole and saw this huge brown skin owner, it's and eel's head. We were having direct eye to eye contact. I stop my breath for a while cause I don't want to make it 'angry' with me for disturbing ......

Finally I have finished all the skills required to pass as a qualified diver ;) I'll be getting my diving license soon. Will post it once I got it.

Redang Lang Island Resort Contact :-
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Tel : +609-6239911
Fax : +609-6310832
Email : boon@redanglangresort.com.my
Website : http://www.redanglangresort.com.my/intro.asp

20080702 - One Night Stay at Kuala Terengganu

2008-07-08T22:24:00.003+08:00

"Today I need to leave earlier, is that ok?" asking my supervisor. "OK". That's just great. Counting down the time to leave. 5:20pm sharp, I received my friend's call and started to pack my things. Yet, when he's waiting outside my company, I'm still on my desk :( Dragging my luggage with thousand pair of eyes watching me, damn embarrassed...

Need to fetch my cousin and her friend as well. Yiks, fireflyz delayed our flight from 20:05 to 20:40. It's kind of early when we reached Subang Airport. It was under renovation - hot and dusty. The escalator was not even moving at all. We have to drag our luggage through the stair cases. :(

We have our dinner at Butler's - one and the only one fast food around this old Subang Airport. I ordered "fish sandwich" which look quite different from the pictures, Eileen - my cousin ordered fried chicken meanwhile her friend - Veron ordered the waffle. The friend chicken was tasty and not oily(according to Eileen) but the waffle seems not cooked(according to Veron). The fries also not well cooked...

After our dinner, we waited for another 1 hour plus before departed to Kuala Terengganu. I managed to capture the sunset. The flight took an hour from Subang Airport to Sultan Mahmud Airport - Kuala Terengganu.

The architecture of the airport was full of Malay culture and artistic. The Malay carving can be easily seen on the stair case. Without any delay, we have our luggage in around 5 minutes. A bit unbelievable.

We took a cab to our hostel - Ping Anchorage Backpacker Lodge located at Jalan Sultan Sulaiman. We shared it with a lady whom we hardly knew (RM25 per car).

We carried our heavy scuba diving gear until the 2nd floor. Where we're almost out of breath... Wah, the room was so large. Em, where is the blanket? I needed blanket :'( At night I just used my towel as my blanket or else I'll be freeze to death......

I woke up pretty early since I needed to go to the morning market to buy 'keropok' (fish cracker) for my colleagues. Veron and me left at around 8am but we ended up in the wrong direction and wasted half and hour loafing around Kuala Terengganu town. Actually the morning market is just around 5 minutes walk away from Ping Anchorage.

When we reached the morning market it was a bit late and the driver promised to pick us up at 9am. My luggage was too full so I just managed to buy 5 small packet of 'keropok' just like the pictures seen on the left corner.

On our way back to the hostel, we passed by the palace and a nice white mosque. The driver came to fetch us sharp at 9am. Wow, it's not Malaysian time after all.

Ping Anchorage Travellers Inn Contact:-
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Tel : +609-6363030
Fax : +609-6262022/6228093
Email : patrvl@tm.net.my
Website : http://www.pinganchorage.com.my/backpacker.htm
Address : 77A, Jalan Sultan Sulaiman, 20000 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia.

Gua Tempurung Exploration & Sungai Klah Hot Spring

2008-06-21T20:25:00.003+08:00

Still in my dreamland, the alarm clock rang as early as 5:00am... It was a torture for me to wake up such early.

Crawling in the dark, found my car key. My car's engine broke the silence in this early hour. The highway was so smooth without many car around. Ops. Which one is HK's house? Second row? Make mistake again :( Yawning while waiting for the others.

'Yu Lai Shang Jiung'! See!My palm is just as big as my face. Haha... After the Mac-D breakfast, 5 of us are on our way to Gua Tempurung. The place I have had wanted to go since 2 years ago.

Finally we're there. Took a deep and long breath at country side to clean my polluted lung.
We wanted to take Tour 3 but it needed 8 pax to go for the tour. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5..... still miss 3 pax. How??? There are a group of CIMB's staf and 2 other groups who join Tour 4. Wait for other group to go for Tour 3? Or go for Tour 4 now? We decided to take the challenge - Tour 4 Grand Tour which took around 3.5 hours (RM 22 per pax).

There are a few high skill post like crocodile crawling in the water, rock sliding, hole tunneling, experience darkness and ladder climbing. It's really a good experience where you can have the chance to view the significance stalagmite and stalactite to form this awesome cave. According to the renjer, it took 100 years to form 1 inch high of stalagmite or stalactite if the water drop is fast or else it need 200-300 years per inch.

We were out under the sunny sun after 4 hours of exploration. Our look after the exploration.

Here are 4 of our macho guys after the tour.

We are so exhausted and hungry. We quickly cleaned ourselves up and departed to Ipoh (RM 1 for bath per pax). Yeah!!! Good food waiting ahead.

KS - the Ipoh boy became our tour guide. He introduced this famous food in Ipoh which is called 'Da Shu Xia' (Under Big Tree). We have 'lai fan' - long and a bit transparent rice noodles, special Ipoh 'Chee Cheong Fan' (rice noodle roll with mushroom source) and rojak (famous m'sian mix fruit with dark shrimp source).

After late lunch, we went to buy some sourvenir such as salted chicken, 'xiang bing', Ipoh famous white coffee and pamelo. Known as Ipoh boy but kept on bringing us 'yau fa yuen'!!! Turn here, no no no, turn there, no no no, it's here, no no, it's there..... faint.......

We left Ipoh at around 6pm. It took another 45 minutes to Sungkai where the Sungai Klah Hot Spring is located.

Eh, how come is RM10? The website stated RM9... KS said he had student card. That's great. Asked him to buy ticket. The receptionist told him no student price :( However, when he paid for the ticket, she returned RM15 to him. That mean it's just RM7 per pax. Lucky us :) (probably it's too late).

It's tea time + dinner time. We tried to boiled the egg with the hot spring water. We waited patiently for the egg to boil. Thinking of the salted chicken, my stomach started to make noice.

Once open the paper which packed the salted chicken, the chinese herb aroma catch my 'nose'. My slaver came out non stop. KS, Sam and Me wanted to ate the drum stick but only 2 drum stick available... After "janken" battle with them, I lost the delicious and juicy drum stick... crying... Not gentlemen at all!!!

We left Sungkai around 8pm and heading back to Subang. That 4 guys are just like gal chit chat for the whole journey back to Subang. It was a tiring and nice tour I have with them.

Gua Tempurung contact:
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Tel : +6012 592 8952 (Noorafeza), +6019-543 7192 (Abdul Manan), +6016-528 8340 (Norzaleha)

Fax : +605-318 8557
Website : http://www.guatempurung.com/main.php
Email : enquiries@guatempurung.com
Operational Hours : 9am - 5pm

Sungai Klah Hot Spring contact:
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Tel : +605 438 8801 or +603 2697 9772

Website : http://www.malaysiavacationguide.com/hotsprings.html
Address : Sungai Klah Hot Springs Park, 36000 Sungkai, Perak.
Operational Hours : 9am - 6pm (weekday), 9am-10pm (weekend)

New Look ;)

2008-06-07T19:07:00.004+08:00

Sis : Jie, let's go for hair cut?

Me : Em... Lazy ler...
Sis : Don't just watch drama. I want to do rebounding.
Me : Huh, I need to wait for 3-4 hours. No way man. Don't disturb me!

Few minutes later........
Sis : Jie, see this one only RM10 for junior cut.
Me : Ok......
Sis : Let me called them up first.
Me : (Hehe...) No one picked up the phone. Today is public holiday. Close shop.
She called again, this time someone picked up the phone.
Sis : Quickly go to change your cloths.
Me : Ooooo....... (The eyes still sticked to the monitor.....)

Ah, that's the shop - Tenze Hair Studio. Once step in, am I in the pool of hairs??? Hair over the floor and everyone busy doing their jobs. Then they just asked us to have a seat. Not a very good impression...... Later a guy came and asked my sis. She wanted to do the rebounding. I'm a bit embarrassed to tell him that I wanted a junior cut. So I just asked got junior cut or not. The man said yes and then just seated my sis meanwhile I just stand there. Even worst impression.

So I just sat back at the waiting seat...... Watching them flying here and there. Then this young hair stylist in front of me entertaining a fussy customer. Can't really heard what the lady said to him, but then I knew that she's not that satisfied with the cut. Pointing here and there, and he's trying hard to satisfy her. After he finished her cut, he came to me.

Directly I asked him how much does their saloon charged for hair cut. Senior cut less than RM30 (RM24 or RM27 or...), Junior cut is RM17 (the one i'm interested). How if I have coupon? RM10. Deal! How many junior are there? 2, me and another hair stylist. Ok, I trust you and let you cut my hair.

You can cut any style which you think is suitable for me, I told him. Before he cut, he gave me some brief explanation on the hair style he's going to cut for me. Later I saw him accidentally cut his hand and bleeding none stop. Asked him to take care of his wound first, he said it's normal and continue cutting with full concentration. From time to time, he'll explain the next step and asked for opinion is that ok or not. After the cut, I'm pretty impress with his cut as a junior. Look good on me. Look younger actually :P

When I'm going to pay for the cut. He told them just RM10. I was pretty surprised. Actually I plan to pay RM 17 for his good work. Yet, even I didn't hand over the coupon I cut from the magazine, they just accepted RM10.

Found that they're actually pretty friendly. Probably they're too busy and have no time to entertained their walked in customer.
As for my suggestion,
a) do clean up the hairs on the floor once they finish the cut
b) tell their walked in or call in customer that currently they're having alot of customer and please come at 30 minutes later or so (if the customers are willing to wait then it's ok but never let the customers sit down waiting)

The lesson I learned today is everyone needed to be trusted. My support engineer used to told me once that I should trust him. Starting from that day, I told myself I should trust people more of their capability and profession. As what I did today and I get a satisfied new hair style from his profession. For parents, please give faith and support to your children. Don't doubt their capability as what my parents did to me. For employer, please trust your employee. Give them space to be more innovative and boost up their motivation.

Contact of Tenze Hair Studio (Schwarzkopf Professional):

Tel : + 603-33420611 (HQ), + 603-33244611 (Branch)
HP : 6012-2408833 (Avier), +6012-3713384 (Sterz), +6012-3735196 (Fong)

HQ : No 24G, Jalan Temoh, Off Jalan Goh Hock Huat, 41400 Klang, Selangor.
Branch : No. 63-0, Ground Floor, Jalan Batu Nilam 4, Bandar Bukit Tinggi, 41200 Klang, Selangor.

Why ME???

2008-06-06T20:29:00.003+08:00

Hp blinking... It's Dad calling... The very first time. A known issue. Asking me to go back later and transfer back my 'little hubby' - kancil 600cc back to me at JPJ. My Dad sold him off last week and transfer him to another person the very same last week...... Unfortunately that guy can't pay my Dad last week as what he promised and keep on telling story. My Dad get pissed off and make a police report that he tried to cheat my Dad.

Why is that I'm the one who have to bare the mistake done by someone? Let me start the story. When I first started my industrial training my Dad bought me a very brand new 'little hubby' for me. After my industrial training, I left my 'hubby' with my sis as asked by my mom. Since Penang is a nice and peaceful place, I don't really need a car compare to my sis who's studying in Skudai. After my studies, I left M'sia for 2 years. Without any doubt, my 'hubby' no longer belong to me.

Finally I'm back. My Dad just return my 'hubby' to me and bought a second hand Proton Wira 1.6 for my sis. And guess what. When I drove him to Penang, I found that he's pretty sick. I changed 4 of his leg (tyres and absorber), fix here and there and later found some hole at his back. My sis accidentally poured the battery acid at the car back and she never clean it up. Over the day day, month month, year year, the acid has eaten up his body. When I told my Dad my sis 'good' present, he just said, it's nothing, can be fixed. Ya, fixing hole that you can see the road :S

Then during the New Year Eve. Guess what...... When my parents woke up, they found that my sis Proton Wira 1.6 was stolen. Those police report and car tracing is making my house up side down. I have had to fetch her to work everyday. After 1 months, my Dad declared that the car will never be found back. He bought another second hand car for my sis. An identical twin to her previous one. The very same weekend, a police came to my house and said that they had found her car. What a tragic.

Recently the Wira is out from the garage. My Dad just advertised to sold off my 'hubby'. He wanted me to collect my sis old chunk. First day driving, the car was so smelly, steering wheel was so sticky, speedometer not working, radio not working, break seems like having some problem, the car was dancing when i break....... Once went back started to complain here and there. Refuse to drive it until it's totally fix. After fix once, now it's the fuel indicator not working, alignment still not done, speaker spoilt on the left hand side. So frustrated. Why the insurance company didn't insured all this stuff??? And why don't they ensure that the car was fully fixed before release it. What are they doing to the car all this months??? I and my Dad have to pay for every penny to repair this old chunk which belong to my sis!!! Unfair!!!

Besides that, my 'hubby' buyer just can't manage to pay my Dad as promised. My Dad purposely called me up to go to lawyer firm to sign up those JPJ doc and when we're going to the JPJ for the transfer, finally the buyer got his $$ to pay my Dad. Rushed back and hand over my sweet 'hubby' to him :'( Actually that guy promised to pay this afternoon yet my Dad just don't trust him and asked me to go back purposely to settle the car transfer. Sigh....... Purposely went back and leave job for 2 hours. At the end, got nothing but trouble.

Recently petrol increase like hell. I have to afford that chunk which is a petrol vampire. Everything will be 3 - 4 times what I spend on my 'little hubby' :( I'm not trying to be calculative. Why me who's alway cleaning up my sis left out dirt. Innocent me.......

20080524 - Japan MEXT Scholarship 2009

2008-05-25T13:03:00.003+08:00

Today is my Form 6 classmate's - Zhi Xiong's wedding. Where is the invitation card..... Aiks, broke again :( BY promised to fetch me up at around 7pm.

On my way to his wedding, Celine told me that she had received the Japan MEXT Scholarship 2009 written examination notification. I didn't receive any letter wow...... Probably I'm not qualified...... (broken heart..... bleeding.....)

The dinner ended at around 10.30 pm. Once reached home, without any delay - checked my "mail basket". What's this? It's letter from JIS (Japan Information Service Embassy of Japan) Huray!!! Let me called Celine and informed her about this good news. Why don't pick up the phone? Never mind let me sms her. That mean I have to start to brush up my English and Japanese before the examination which fall on 15 June at Confucian Private Secondary School.

I came across Japan MEXT Scholarship by an ex-colleague who is now studying in Japan with MEXT Scholarship. He encouraged me to try it out since last year. He had wrote about the procedure of MEXT Scholarship in his blog.

For those who's interested in the Japan MEXT Scholarship, here are some useful info:

Blog : http://whycareinjapan.blogspot.com/2007/07/monbukagakusho-scholarship-part-1.html

Web site : http://www.my.emb-japan.go.jp/English/JIS/study.htm

Previous year examination paper : http://www.studyjapan.go.jp/en/toj/toj0308e.html

20080518 - Pay to Suffer (PaintBall at TT Sports Park)

2008-05-19T19:28:00.004+08:00

'Di Di'...... SMS alert at this hour? 1:00am?? Who will it be??? Don't bother about it. Em... Probably some urgent matter. Ei, paint ball at Subang at 1:00 pm? 12 hours notice in advance... Since all my sis going to Melacca tomorrow and left me with my parents... Better just joined for fun.

Meet at SJMC at 12:45pm. Deal! Already 12:45pm, where is that Zac, still didn't see him anywhere around SJMC. Better prepare my machine gun and "shoot" him when he appeared! He just showed up around 1:10pm. The paint ball field is located at TT Sports Park (besides Sheraton Hotel) which is the largest PaintBall Park in Malaysia.

Ops... How come everyone wear long pant? That 'si cai' Zac, didn't told me about it :( Thought got the jump suit so didn't wear the long pant. Cham...

After they have long negotiation with the marshal, they gave us offer at RM75 per pax (12 pax in total) for 2 boxes of pallets (4000 pallets in total). Forgotten to bring the camera so can't show the pictures of the paint gun and the safety procedure to use it. We're divided into 2 teams, with 6 pax per team.

Here are the bruises sponsor by Andy and his friend... Add up in total I have around 5 bruises around my back and 2 badly injured on my legs (shown on the pictures). My advice do wear long sleeve and long pant if you plan to go for PaintBall!

Here enclosed Contact of PaintBall Park:
Tel : +603-5635 6969, +603-5638 8969
Fax : +603-5638 9969
Address : Lot 017394, Jalan SS 12/1, Taman Subang Ria, Subang Jaya, Petaling Jaya, 47500 Selangor DE.
Website : http://www.ttsportspark.com/home.asp

20080511 - Krabi

2008-05-19T19:05:00.003+08:00

Today early morning we packed some of our stuff as we're going to Krabi for one night 'stay'. It was not a pleasant trip as the driver took us round and round. Waited here and there. Almost thought we're cheated. Finally we're there in Krabi. Then the staff there told us that there's only one trip back to Phuket tomorrow at 11:30am. Oh no. How are we going to send Celine back on time to catch her flight at Phuket International Airport. Bad planning. When we reached Krabi Town, rain drizzling again. We decided to take our lunch at one of the shop.

My lunch with Thai spices. It's Thai culture that they provide spices to their customer and let them flavor their own foods according to their preferences.

After our lunch, we took 'tud tud' to Ao Nang Beach (cost 40 baht per pax). Rain never leave us a minute. On the way to Ao Nang beach, raining again. Sigh...... The lady sat opposite me just visited Malaysia and gave comments regarding the treat of foreigners in Malaysia. Would like to apologize here for overheard their conversation.

Ao Nang Sunset was a pretty nice hotel. The hotel was clean, no smell and the facility was good.
We need to find a way to send Celine back on time. After asking from one agent to another, we hardly find any mini-van to send us back since only one trip back to Phuket which is 11:30am and will only reach Phuket at around 3:00pm, while Celine flight is 4:00pm.

We're almost hopeless and the only way is taking taxi now. We stop by at a stall and have our dinner. While waiting for our dinner, we wrote postcard to 2 or our buddies in Malaysia - BY and HY.

After our dinner, we head back to Ao Nang beach. The sun was tired as we are. It's sinking down the sea. Finally we got a private van for 2300 baht sending us back at 8:00 am from Ao Nang to Phuket (most of them offer 2500 baht). We'll be able to reach Patong Beach by 12:00pm. Huray!!! After such hectic Phuket trip, we have Thai traditional massage at 250 baht for an hour due to better environment. (usually around 200 baht). After the massage, we were served with ginger tea and it tastes good. We have a very good night sleep after the massage......

Ao Nang Sunset Hotel Info:
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Tel : +66 075-637441, +66 075-637442

Fax : +66 075-637440

Email : info@aonangsunset.com, aonang_sunset@hotmail.com

Website : http://www.r24.org/siameservices.com/krabi/aosunset/details/

20080510 - Phi Phi & Khai Island

2008-05-19T18:45:00.003+08:00

Today we did woke up earlier and prepare ourselves early in the lobby. We have packed our luggage since tonight we'll be going to be overnight at Sevenseas Hotel which located around 200 meters away from Patong Lodge. We just put our luggages at the lobby and the bell boy seems different from the previous one. More friendly although he didn't know English much. We have problem speaking to him. When the driver came to pick us up, he asked whether we want towel or not. We're a bit surprised. Towel? It's provided? How come we didn't know yesterday? Now only, we recalled that the participants of the cruise yesterday all took the hotel towels along.

No more escoat boat. No more funny crew around the boat. Today we took speed boat to Phi Phi Island and Khai Island. The sky was clear when the speed boat started but then the wave was too rough. Then I started to heard vomit sounds. Suddenly the lady in front of me, vomit without any notice. Due to the strong wind, her vomit just flew backward toward my direction. Yiak, what's this..... tomatoes over my leg...... Jac do you have tissues? Got tomatoes over my leg :(

Due to the strong wave, the leader don't allow us to snorkel around Maya Bay (famous because of "The Beach" was filmed there). The sand seems white and soft as well as the greenish crystal clear sea water.
"The cliffs are the reason we chose Phi Phi Le because in the story, the beach that the characters are living on is surrounded by the high sea cliffs from the sea. So, it's a secret. It's like a big secret, swimming pool and beach in private and this is the attraction for the characters. That's why we have to use Phi Phi Le." - Andrew Macdonald, producer of "The Beach"

Besides Maya Bay, we passed by the Viking Cave. The Viking Cave on Phi Phi Ley is a cave right at sea level filled with bird's nests. Painted on the wall are the ancient color paintings resembling the Viking boats hence the name of Viking Cave.

When we first passed by the Monkey Island we hardly see any monkey there. After snorkeling, we passed by the Monkey Island again and saw alot of tourists feeding the monkey. The captain stop the speed boat there and let us feed the monkey with banana. He warned us not to fool around with the monkey as they will bites. The sand was really soft and nice.

We stopped at Phi Phi Don for our lunch. We're so tired that we can't move ourselves anywhere. Just sit there viewing the nice scenery of Phi Phi Don.

Now it's time to leave for Khai Island. On our way to Khai Island. It start to rain heavily. Since the boat was small, we're just like eaten up by the wave. The storm was really big and it's so hard for the speed boat to move forward. The captain stopped us at one of the island where we just found shelter under this roof.

We waited on the island for more than 1 hour and finally the rain became smaller. We just didn't make it for Khai Island. What a disappointment. The wave was still very rough. It was just like roller coaster, up and down. We just covered ourselves with the towel we borrow from the hotel this morning. It's just like movie. Celine was so afraid that she just got hold of anything she could get and eventually found that it was one of the crew leg. Jac who sat besides her kept on laughing none stopped. I was not feeling comfortable with the "roller coaster" and trying hard to get myself fall asleep. (My advice don't ever visit Phuket during low season especially raining season)

Today we decided to have seafood for our dinner. We simply pop into this seafood restaurant - 99 restaurant. We have a very heavy and nice dinner there. Tom yum gung, pathai, pineapple friend rice, mango salad and steam fish. And just cost less than 1000 baht. According to my sis, the oyster is worth eating (30 baht per each and very fresh and big). Besides that, you can actually negotiate the price there.

It's time for Simon Cabaret. This is the first time we bought VIP seat and it's at the first row. Wah, feel so special today... Hehe...... One of the girl was really beautiful. If you want to take picture with them, remember to pay 40 baht per pic.

Today we spend our night at Sevenseas Hotel. A brand new hotel which start operation last year. It's a clean, tidy, budget hotel. The room was pretty big accompany with balcony.

Sevenseas Hotel Contact:
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Tel : +66 076 342193, +66 076 340492
Email : info@phuketsevenseas.com
Website : http://phuketsevenseahouse.com/

20080509 - Phang Nga Bay Canoeing

2008-05-19T14:18:00.004+08:00

We woke up pretty early since the driver was going to pick us up at 8:00am. After having our breakfast, we went to the hotel lobby and found that the driver is already there waiting for us. Wow, they're very puncture. It's not Malaysian time. We have to wake up earlier tomorrow in order to avoid being late again.

Around 10:00 am we depart from the pier by escort boat. Our tour guide was 'Moon'. He gave us some briefing regarding the tour. We'll cover 4 of the Island, James Bond Island, Hong Island, Panak Island and Lawa Island. We can have free flow of water and light drink except beers. The weather seems nice in the morning but we can saw dark cloud from time to time.

The cruise took around 1.5 hours before we reached James Bond Island. At the beginning everyone was happily taking pictures around. While we're taking this pictures, suddenly a crew shown up without my notice and sat beside me. I was so surprised and turned to see who's he. Later he introduce himself.....

Boat Crew: 我是刘德华。 (I'm Andy Lau). 你叫什么名？ (What's your name)
Me : Wah!!! You can speak chinese... I'm Lee (like always).

Then my friends also introduced themselves one by one. Hardly recalled what we talked already. Just knew that he knew quite alot of chinese. Later we became boring and felt sleepy on the boat... The water was pretty dirty and the weather seems not nice.

Before we reached James Bond Island, the wind was too strong and blew the rooftop away. The crew came out and got hold of it. We changed to the longtail boat in order to go to James Bond Island. When we're back the rooftop is already well fixed. Thanks to the crew members. We have our Thai delicacy on board. Although the foods was not really nice because it's cold. But we ate it eagerly since it's kind of tired and pretty hungry after such long journey on boat. That Andy Lau came to sit by my side again... Huh, I learned a few Thai language from my friends before. Let used it now.

Me : Khin kao mai ka? (Have you eaten?)
Andy Lau : Khin kao khrap. ( Yes, I have)
Me : A-loi mai ka? (Is it delicious?)
Andy Lau ：A-loi khrap. (Yes, it is) 好吃吗？不好吃，不收钱。（Is it delicious? If it's not, you don't have to pay.)
Me : Mai a-loi. (Not delicious - just kidding)

After the above conversation, I just continue eating without bothering him. Later around Hong Island they started to whisper and alot of eagle flying above the sky. They throw the chicken fat for the eagle as the prey to attract the eagle came.

Now, it's time to start canoeing. Each crew is arranged to take care of 2-3 person in a canoe. The guy who's going to be our "canoe man" was called 'Sim'. (if not mistaken)

Around Hong Island and Panak Island you can see alot of sea caves, sea tunnels, lagoons and hongs. Each of the caves just like carving of elephant, shark, dog, buddha..... Just like the picture above, it's just like a shark which has eaten my head. Haha......

Later storm came, and we have to head back to the Pier and can't go to Lawa Island. It took another 2 hours before we can go back. The sea was rough and the rain was pouring heavily. We was totally soaked in the rain. On the way back, the crew teaches the other how to make flowers from plastic straw. They gave the flowers to all the lady on the boat.

At night, 'Supan' called us at the hotel, telling us that he had asked the driver to pick us up at Patong Lodge for the 'Phuket FantaSea' and not at his stall cause it was raining outside. That's very considerate of him. We have no choice but to take our dinner at FantaSea.

The toilet was very special and cute(If you are there, please do visit the toilet). Inside the theater, we're not allowed to take pictures or videos. Even handphone are not allowed to take inside the theater. We have a pretty bad seat where it's located on top where you hardly see anything. If possible get a VIP seat where you need to pay extra 250 baht from the normal seat(1500 baht). It's advisable not to take the buffet dinner since it's pretty expensive (extra 400 baht). (It's possible to get discount from some agent in Patong Beach.) Overall the stage decoration was pretty nice but it's a bit exspensive for 1.5 hours show.

We can take pictures outside the FantaSea Theater. After the show, there're elephant outside the theater for us to take picture with.

This is the official web site for Phuket FantaSea:
Tel ：+66 076-385000
Fax : +66 076-385333
Reservation Tel : +66 076-385111

Reservation Fax : +66 076-385222

Email : info@phuket-fantasea.com
Web Site : http://www.phuket-fantasea.com/

20080508 - Phuket

2008-05-19T11:59:00.003+08:00

Early 6++am received a sms from AirAsia stated my flight will be delayed....... Not again...... How come this happened....... All my mood was gone :(

Me & Jac waited at LCCT for around 2 hours before taking 1:45pm flight to Phuket. We reached Phuket at around 3pm. Once we're out from the air port there're so many people around asking whether we want taxi or not. Then found one mini-van just cost 150 baht per pax. Without hesitation we just pay and get up the mini-van. Once the mini-van is full, we're on our way to our hotel - Patong Lodge. Unfortunately, they stop at one of the tourist center, and the receptionist started to ask alot of our journey in Phuket. We didn't accept their tour package as I believe we can get better offer around Patong Beach.

Once we reached the Patong Lodge (located between Kamala and Patong beach), what a disappointment. How come??? It's not opposite the beach...... The beach is further down the road and is full of rock where it's not a place for swimming. The bell boy took our luggage to the room but we didn't have any small change so we just decided not to give any tips. (Advice: prepare some change for tips)

Let's go to Patong Beach to ask about the tour package. Once we step out, it was raining cats and dogs. What? Raining? Oh no, today is just the first day...... We just waited at the lobby until the rain got smaller. Once we step out there's alot of 'tud tud' outside and offer us the ride at 200 haht. Wah, as far as I can remember, Patong Beach just 5 minutes walk from our hotel...... and it cost 200 baht. No way man. I have rather walked down.

Me & Jac just walked down the Patong Beach and asked from counter to counter about the tour package. Most of them will give around 50% less than the price printed on the brochure except for the show like 'Phuket Fantasea' and 'Simon Cabaret'. We got tired of asking and negotiating after 3-4 counters. One of the agent - 'Supan' told us that there's a mall and 'Carrefour' is just around 5 minutes walk from his stall. Besides that, the mall has food court where we can have dinner there. We trusted him and decided to have a look there. On our way, we walked for 5 minutes, and another 5 minutes, how come we still can't find it...... Jac cannot stand anymore, she need foods. We stop by at one of the 7-11, and she had her first shrimp burger there. Then we received sms from Celine, she's now waiting at the room. Oh, how to meet her up since Patong Lodge is almost 20 minutes away from this 7-11...... Headache....... At first we asked Celine come down to Patong Lodge but then scared her got lost. Finally, I just asked Jac to go to 'Carrefour' first since it's almost there, meanwhile I go to fetch Celine.

When I almost reached Patong Lodge, my breath is almost out and got sms from Celine that she's coming down. Huray! I just waited there and managed to take a nice sunset of Patong Beach. Both of us just met each other near Novotel Hotel. Without any delay, we just went to 'Carrefour' to meet Jac. After looking at the food court, we decided to eat outside since not many people eating there. We buy some foods in 'Carrefour' and outside 'Carrefour' was a facial center which offer 299 baht for 45 minutes facial massage. Wah, that's cheap. We planned to come back on our last day. Hehe......

Outside the Junceylon there's a musical fountain on display every night. It's raining again. We just have our dinner at one of the Japanese Restaurant - 'FUJI' besides the musical fountain. We ordered Tempura Set, Chicken Teriyaki Set and Salmon Set and it just cost us around 500 baht. The taste was really good just like what I have had in Japan . (If you like Japanese food shouldn't miss this one out!)

After the dinner, the rain still didn't stopped. I just have this bad feeling that rain is not going to stop for my 6 days stay in Phuket....... :'( Ops! It's almost 10:00pm and 'Supan' stall is going to close. Quick! Quick! When we rushed to 'Supan' stall he's still there. Thanks god. We just make all our reservation there. He really gave us some offer (probably more people more discount) and a long chat with him. His stall is just around the intersection of Thawiwong Road and Hat Patong Road. We reserved for Phuket FantaSea, Simon Cabaret (VIP Seat), Phi Phi & Khai Island and Phang Nga Bay Canoeing. (All included land transport).

Supan Contact Info
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Hp : +6681-8930691
Tel : +66 076-322235
Fax : +66 076-323226
Email : supanjangnok39@hotmail.com

Tomorrow we'll be going to Phang Nga Bay and James Bond Island. Looking forward for it. Praying hard that tomorrow will not rain. Too tired....... Zzzz.....zzz........

Some useful Thai language needed:
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Sawatdee (ka/khrap) - Hello (ka for female, khrap for male)
Sabai dee mai (ka/khrap) - How are you?
Sabai dee (ka/khrap) - I'm fine.
Khorb koon (ka/khrap) - Thank you.
Khor thot (ka/khrap) - Sorry.
A-roi - Delicious.
Mai ben rai - Never mind.

Useful link : http://www.learningthai.com/useful_phrases.html