7127 Wet & Wild

For once, I am updating my blog right after an event we had. OK, maybe not immediately but at least the event happened like last Friday - 7th December 2007.

We had a year end party last Friday and why is it called 7127? Cause it happened on the 7th December thus the 7 and 12 (Dec) and its in 2007 thus the final 7 in the number. Confused? It took me a while to figure that out at the beginning as well. Call me slow but work has been crazy. Excuses.

Anyway, it was like the best party ever cause everyone basically had fun. It was a day to party and it all started at 5pm with the DiGi-lympics. There were 30 group altogether and Segments and Marketing formed one with 20 members including me of course. We were named Group 15 - we all know it's not creative but if you have to manage 30 groups, I think it's easier to name it using numbers.

We had 3 swimming pools in the office car park that day together with plenty of booths to store wine, beer and food. We also had a foam machine, a paintball area and a go kart track. On top of that, there we also small stages for the hot dog eating competition and the beer drinking competition. I was in the beer drinking competition of course. It's named as Thani Yum Yum - unique huh? Also we have other games such as Colour Me Beautiful, Aim Chun Chun, Big is Beautiful, Fast & Furious, etc...

We were also equipped with water gun for the heck of it.

Allow me to introduce to you - Team 15...

Also, let me show you all a picture of one of the pool we had at the party... it also happens to be the pool I was thrown into by my own team mates the moment I went downstairs at 5pm...

If you are wondering what are those people in shower caps doing in the pool, they are actually having a synchronise swimming competition - part of the DiGi-lympics.

All in all it was a night of fun - games, laughter, screams - whenever someone gets attacked by a water gun, beer, wine, excellent food and a cool bunch of colleagues.

Till next time.

Partner's Appreciation Night 2007

Well well... As always, it's been a long time again. I have been caught up with my current project and now that it has been launched, I thought it will be a good time to post a blog on a previous event that has happened. Previous event means something that happened like last month. Hahaha...

Anyway, early last month we had a Partner's Appreciation Night in the office and it was quite a good one whereby all partners and the CRM team had fun. We started working from 9am in the morning and everything ended only close to 10pm. Not exactly an ideal working hour but then again... we were provided with quite a bit of wines and beers to compensate on that eventhough I don't drink anymore these days...

We were all happy and tired after the event and while the EO was at work trying to clean the place, we managed to get everyone (some drunk and some sober) to take a group picture.

Allow me to present to you... the lovely CRM team...

Back in Action... Again...

What? I have been away for so long? Can someone please smack me for that? Kidding...

Work has been really hectic lately and I have a project to launched on 1st December 2007. At the moment, I still have quite a bit to do before I am able to officially launch it. Wish me luck people.

In actual fact, I do have quite a few pictures to share... Its just that I do not have time to upload it and share what happened in those pictures. I hope that by the time I am done with my campaign launch, I am still able to remember.

Will try to find time to update this more often. I think I am starting to lose my readers. How sad and lamentable.

Take care peeps... Promise I will write more...

As Promised...

I know I promised some photos in my previous post and it has been long overdue.

These are photos taken at the karaoke where my colleagues celebrated my birthday for me. Thank you guys for being such wonderful colleagues and I really appreciate what you guys have done. It has indeed made my birthday more meaningful.

The Banana Group sang to The Carpenters that night and we made Karen Carpenter sound like Spice Girls singing all at the same time on the same key.

We also have posers in the house that night. One cute and the other adorable.

Here's to Edna, Lareina, Shermaine, Diana and Alien. You guys are awesome!!! Thank you!!

Lets do this again soon.

It's the Holy Month of Ramadhan

Well well... It is interesting how time flies. It's already October - we are officially in Quarter 4 of the year and before we know it, it will be year 2008. I am finally awake after hibernating for more than a month and is back in action - not with a big bang as promised though. But at least I have photos to share this time round.

Look out for the photos in my next post - feel cheated? LOL. Would love to put it up now but the connection at Starbucks is horrible and therefore I have resorted to the good old DiGiNet - good enough for me to check my Facebook and keep me entertained for a while.

BTW, Facebook seem to the be current craze in the office at the moment and I find it amazing how something that has been around for a long time can just become popular overnight. I remember getting invitation to join Facebook a long long time ago and I always seem to ignore it. But now, everyone is on it - basically all marketeers in DiGi.

Let me get back to my latte now.

Have a good weekend people. Don't drink and drive - you may spill your drinks & dirty your car.

Wake Me up When September Ends...

What? Its already the 3rd of October? How come I overslept for 3 days and no one woke me up?

Cavin, you are so getting it from me. LOL!

Mood to Hibernate

Thank you all for going to Klang for my singing competition once again. You guys are the best. Lets go have dinner there soon. Utilise the voucher I've gotten from the competition.

I'll be hibernating right after this post and will be back again as and when I snap out of my lazy mood. Or when I find something really interesting to write about eg. funky toilet bowls or wierd looking items I see.

At the meantime, be good and do take care. I will be back with a BANG real soon.

My Singing Competition

It's been a long time since I wrote about my singing competition. After going through 2 Qualifying rounds, the Quarter Finals and Semi Finals, I will be competing in the Finals this Friday - finally.

My friends and colleagues have been so supportive. I would not have made it without their support.

Honestly, I am nervous about this Friday but I will still do my best. Its not about winning for me, its more about having fun and enjoying the competition.

Thank you all for supporting me all the way since the competition started.

Another Weekend in JB

How good can this get? I am at JB again for the weekend for work - what's new? But this time things are much much better since there is someone here to accompany me. Its always good to travel with someone and having someone to have meals with me. Good meals in fact even though it was just McDonald's for brunch.

I am feeling lazy again to blog. I wonder if this is part of a symptom of a blogger. Getting more and more brain dead these days when it comes to blogging.

Anyway, I will be getting a new phone soon... Yes, you read it correctly, a brand new phone. How nice and it is going to be a birthday gift. Which model you ask? The mouth watering Nokia N95 with a close to 5 mega pixel camera - a phone I have set my eyes on since it was out in the market. Means that all of you will see more nice photos from me in the future - if I am able to get over my laziness to blog.

Confession - I went for a shopping spree on Friday at 1 Utama and I bought 2 new working shirts and a pair of cuff link that cost me a whooping RM657. I have always wanted Raoul shirts and I got them finally - was waiting for them to come out with women wear for a long time. And today at JB I bought a new pair of Nike shoes - I love my shopping and I adore the person who bought me a brand new Ralph Lauren Polo T-shirt that cost RM350 and also a top from MNG that cost RM99.

I am a very lucky and a very happy person - also a BROKE person at the moment.

Please stop me from shopping again for a year.

Lazy Mood...

I am feeling lazy... Very lazy to update my blog lately. I know, its not a good thing. But I haven't been taking that many photos and there is nothing much for me to blog about.

I have 3 meetings today... Yes, 3 meetings and that has filled up my entire day. Done with one before lunch and I have 2 more to go for after this. What a day.

Wilson the sakai ran away to Australia and there is no one for me to whack in the office. I think he will be back on 31st August. Went through my photo album and saw a pic I kinda like....

Introducing... Sakai - Wilson Szeto

We took this photo at Damai Laut during the last teambuilding. It was a memorable trip cause I got pissed drunk that night but it was fun nonetheless.

I am doing this to show that I am not that lazy to update my blog but just not having much inspiration to write lately.

Till the next one.

What? It's Been a Year?

I had an excellent dinner last night with people I have not seen for a while. I didn't know it has been a year until they mentioned it. Interesting how time flies. Come to think of it, the last time I had dinner with them, I was still with my previous company and I have been here in DiGi for a year already. Maybe it has been more than a year.

Time for some photos.... and an introduction to the wonderful friends I have....

Kaven Kan

Kaven Kan a.k.a. my Dear and she calls me her Valentine. Got to the restaurant 15mins before 7pm. Kaven is:-

• Extremely punctual
• Very caring
• Acts like my mum all the time
• Pinches me when she does not like something I do
• Sticks to me whenever we are sitting together
• A very good cook
• Getting married soon to Edmund - the love of her life

Next up, we have...

Lei Kuen

Lei Kuen got to the restaurant on time. She is:-

• Very nice
• Very chirpy
• Acts like an aunty - she was the only one with tissue in her bag
• Someone I can create havoc with when we go for international roadshows
• Always goes MIA when we are shopping together in Indonesia
• Someone I owe money to for last night's dinner - better remember to pay her

One more to go....

Lillian Chua

Last but not the least - Lillian Chua a.k.a my Baby and she calls me that as well. Lillian is:

• Career minded
• Extremely capable
• Strong
• Fierce - very very fierce
• Caring
• Takes really good care of people
• The one who came to the hospital every evening to visit me when I was admitted for dengue
• The one who sent me flowers at the hospital on the one day she could not make it to the hospital
• The one who boiled soup for me and brought it all the way from Cheras to Klang for me to drink after I was discharged from the hospital

I have such wonderful friends. I'm glad....

Excuses and More Excuses...

It has been the happiest week for me but no pictures were taken throughout the ordeal so I was a bit reluctant to update my blog. Excuses - I hear someone saying but that is really the case. I always find blogs with pictures more interesting, don't you? You'd be lying if you say no - so don't try.

Why am I so happy lately you ask? Well, put it this way... There are some people you communicate with all the time that is capable of bringing the best out of you. That person cares for you more than anyone has ever cared & appreciate the things you do for them. I've recently found someone like that thus the happiness.

I still have not received the Malacca photos from Emily *grumble grumble* so I shall just post the few that I have eventhough it may not be as nice - I think I should just post a group photo to quench all your thirst for the moment...

Waiting in line for Satay Celup

Found something interesting as well in my folder...

Hungry people feeling so happy to see food

I want to stay this happy for I am glad and thankful.

Weekend @ Malacca

I had an awesome weekend again. It was excellent company and this time, we invaded Malacca.

We left KL only around 4:30pm and got there close to 6:30pm. Just right on time to check into the 3 bedroom apartment and then head out for dinner at Jonker Street. Amy and Lay Eng occupied one room with the obvious reason that "music" starts the moment both of them fall asleep - if you get what I mean.

At Jonker street, everyone went night-market-crazy-shopping while Hiong Hiong and I was so hungry we decided to go look for dinner without waiting for the rest. In the end, we found a restaurant and settled down to have Asam Laksa and Durian Cendol - so authentic huh?

After dinner, the shopping continues at the night market and we ended up at the other end of the street thus making our vehicle darn far away from us. So we actually did quite a bit of walking - for me, it was equavalent to one week of walk and for Lay Eng, it was probaby worth a year. She started singing the moment she got into the car "if you make me walk again... I will f**k you kao kao" and trust me.... that was made into a song by her - all we could do was laugh ourselves silly.

Famous Satay Celup was for supper. I know I know... We were eating non stop but isn't that the reason why people go Malacca? Oh, that... And also to visit the historical sites - how could I forget? Isn't it obvious we didn't do any sight seeing?

Drinking session started at the apartment after all of us had our shower. We had 2 bottles of white wine and a bottle of red wine. We were drinking till 3am and the rest decided to get some rest while Fong Sien, Emily and I chatted at the balcony talking about everything.

Next day we went for Chicken Rice Balls, walked along Jonker and had Durian Cendol before heading to do our food shopping. The Avanza we went with was already pretty full on the way to Malacca, it was in the worst shape on the way back.

All in all, it was a great trip. Excellent even. And it cost us only RM100 each inclusive of petrol, toll, accomodation and all the yummy food we had.

I should thank Hiong Hiong for beng an excellent treasurer throughout the entire trip. She was the best.

I know you all must be wondering why is this post so boring with no photos at all... Truth be told, I haven't gotten the photos yet but I do not want to miss out on the things we have done throughout the trip - getting old and I may forget what happened.

Stay tuned and the next posting will be full of photos to make up for this.

Weekend @ Fraser's Hill - Part 3

I just realised I actually have more interesting photos from Fraser's Hill and I would like to share them with everyone.

Don't really have the time to write something long and elaborate, therefore, I will just upload the photos for you all to enjoy.

Here goes...

Introducing - Yap Wei Ing, Ivy Le, Alicia Yeng & Alicia Foo

It is so nice to be around greens

Night View at Fraser's

This is picture was taken from our apartment before we went out for dinner. Notice the lights in the middle? That is the town of Fraser's Hill.

The most interesting part happened while we were on our way back to KL. We saw this along the road and we just had to stop to take a picture of it. Check this out...

Anyone keen to go into hiding? Turn right here please...

Lonely Weekend at Johor Bahru?

I just came back from JB where I went there alone. I know many would think that I am such a bore but its for work and there is nothing much I can do about that. I kinda enjoyed the feeling of being alone and it has indeed made my mind clearer. Clearer in the sense that I get to be on my own without any distractions for 4 days and 3 nights. Thought about alot of things and came up with some solutions as well.

It was raining most of the time and it helped calm me down.

This is how I was living for 4 days and 3 nights...

I was staying at Hyatt Regency Johor Bahru.

You think its a luxury? I think it was pretty boring. But glad I am back in KL. My friends were a wonderful bunch. I was receiving 60 messages a day on average to keep me company. How sweet can that be? Also the phone calls while I was driving to JB that night. You guys were awesome...

I really love you guys so much...

After Badminton Talks...

A few weeks ago, we came up with the tagline "if you have nothing nice to say, just cough" - that was Serena's and my brainchild. Rather not explain how we came up with that. It's a long story.

Yesterday, Wei Ing came up with one on her own. I was being annoying and instead of asking me to speak to the hand like an ordinary person, she choose to say "speak to my dirty hand" since she was eating keropok and her hands were dirty.

How creative you say? Yes, we are indeed. And the surprises don't just end there. Ivy found roaches in her car trunk last night and she was thinking of putting some mothballs into the trunk to get rid of them. But on second thought, both kids of hers are actually allergic to mothballs. She concluded in the end that she would still put it as - let me quote her "my kids don't sit in the car trunk anyway" - means adults do? Or if there were no mothballs, she plans to put her kids in there?

Anyway, we celebrated Wah Kor's birthday last Saturday night...

With Alicia & Hiong Hiong

Alien style of snapping photos

We look like a bunch of models for a jeans ad...

Teambuilding Postponed?!!??

Teambuilding has been postponed folks. Guess I will not be going uphill twice in 2 weeks after all...

Its Friday and tonight we are invading Hartamas...

Wei Ing just came over to whack me for publishing her photo in the soup story.

I love the blogging business!!!

Stay tuned folks for my next outing... which is tonight... tomorrow night...

Have a great weekend!!!

Weekend @ Fraser's Hill - Part 2

I will be heading to Bukit Tinggi tomorrow - yes, you must be thinking "she just came down from one hill and now she is off to another? This gal is crazy or what?"

I dun really have a choice for tomorrow's trip to Bukit Tinggi cause its teambuilding. But somehow, I am looking forward to it as well. Sure it'll be fun. Also means more things for me to blog about when I am back.

Anyway, here's part 2 of our trip to Fraser's...

We woke up from our nap only around 6:30pm and it was already almost time to go for our dinner. So we went to Wei Ing's parent shop after I had my shower.

So lovey dovey huh?

Now, let me tell you a story of a bowl of soup, Wei Ing and a hungry alien....

First, we need to arrange the bowls

Then we put spoons into the bowls

The most important thing is to smile when you serve the soup - slowly but gracefully

Alien thinking "when can I drink the soup-lah?"

Alien was so hungry she decided to eat the entire bowl of rice meant for 4 people

Dessert after dinner - Ice Cream at such cold weather

And that makes Alien & I two happy people

Weekend @ Fraser's Hill - Part 1

The day started off with my injured toe but the trip to Fraser's was fun nevertheless. We left Sungai Buloh around 10:15pm and was chatting all the way up to Fraser's. Got there around 12:30am.

We had tons of food with us in the car - thanks to the always-hungry-alien-Alicia Yeng. Ivy and I went shopping before heading to Wei Ing's place and all we could think of was how much food we need to keep Alicia Yeng full throughout the entire trip and not yell "HUNGRRRRRYYYY".

We ended up with this...

The amount of food we had with us for a 1.5 days and 2 nights trip

We went to sleep after hanging out a while in the hall and started the next day real early - Ivy was walking around the apartment waking everyone up at 10:30am. Went for breakfast at Wei Ing parent's shop then watch a movie at Wei Ing's house and we thought it was time to go out for a walk to get some fresh air...

Out to get some fresh air

We ended up going to the playground and Ivy struggled to get up the swing and got me to push her...

And then we took a group picture...

Trying to murder cocky Ivy while Alicia waits to see her fall flat on her face

I didn't manage to murder Ivy of course and we ended up chatting and taking one decent photo together...

It was then time to go back to the apartment since Ivy misses the snacks we bought. So we went back and decided to cook instant noodle...

Alicia Yeng tried really hard NOT to fall asleep - Alien style...

And while waiting for the water to boil, Ivy posed with the flowers in the apartment...

And Wei Ing munched on a bag of chips - all by herself...

And Alicia fell asleep eventually - Keeping awake Alien style didn't work

We had our noodles while playing cards, drank beer and then enjoyed the view a little before we took a nap. What life!!!

View from the balcony

Keep a lookout for Part 2 coming soon kay?

Injured Toe...

My "dead" toenail finally came off partially today. I was already expecting it to come off but not that soon. Alright, it's my own doing. I hit my toe against something today at the office and it doesn't help that I was in slippers - I was in a "cincai" mood since I'll be going to Fraser's Hill right after work.

Gan Eng Kean was kind enough to drive me to the clinic to get the hanging toenail removed. She was holding my hand throughout the entire ordeal and supporting me - ya right! (For the record, she dare not even go in with me - such a chicken shit eh?) Hahahaha... Nice person, that Kean.

Anyway, the doctor got the nurse to prepare a jab for me before removing the toenail and she did. When he came into the next room, he tried lifting the toenail before giving me a jab and asked me if i could tolerate the pain. I said it was alright and he decided to pull the entire darn thing off without a jab - imagine it was like extracting a tooth without a jab. Ouch right?

Trust me, it was sooooooooo painful there were tears forming in my eyes.

This is how my toe looks like now...

This would be my current toe condition for the next few days and as for this evening, my toe will be in bandages, I'll be limping a little while screaming at the top of my lungs "FRASER'S HILL... HERE I COME!!!"

Back to Nature...

I was looking at my photo's folder earlier and saw these pictures. It made me laugh. We went cycling in April and how nice if we can do this again soon.

I miss those days I go cycling on Sunday mornings as compared to nursing a hangover these days - ok, my hangovers are not that bad, but still I need more sleep than I normally do if I go drinking the night before.

Anyway, check out how much fun we had that day...

Shermaine, Edna and myself posing with our bicycles

Beautiful...

It is so good to be close to nature. How often do we see so much green around us - ok, ok, we do have some pathetic trees along the roads and things like that, but nothing beats the paddy fields and unlimited trees.

I am soooo looking forward to my trip to Fraser's Hill.

Happy Birthday Beverly!!!

Well, well. I have gone into the hiding from my blog for a while now and I thought I should start to write again.

Last Saturday night was party-time at Mystique to celebrate the birthday of Beverly - or more affectionately known by the group as Bee Leng. Had tremendous fun and also had tremendous amount of alcohol in our systems at the end of the night - a more profound way of saying we were all pissed drunk, myself included. The 3 bottles of Bacardi Lemon and 2 bottles of Dewar's did not fail us at all.

Anyway, some pics from that night...

The party just started

My partner in crime during drinking sessions "Georgie"

Another group pic - Tessa seemed to already be in La La Land

With Mr. Bottoms Up - Terance

Met some of Emily's interesting friends that night. Terance the Mr Bottoms Up nearly made all our bottoms go up - when we puke that is.

Lay Eng and I look drunk but not Fong Sien right?

Now do you still think that Fong Sien is NOT drunk?

Thanks Emily, Fong Sien, Lay Eng and Amy for being such wonderful friends and for celebrating Bev's birthday for her. You guys were awesome!

Lets do this again real soon.

Over and out.

Ms. Ivy Le

For those who have been reading my blog, I am sure you remember one particular post I wrote about my-soon-to-be Godson, Gasper.

Remember how cute he look in that photo? Soooo adorable right?

Today, I would like to show you a pic of Gasper's mother.


Introducing Gasper's mother - Ms Ivy Le.... *drumroll & more drumroll*

See any resemblance? Trust me, I am laughing my head off writing this.

I gotta pack up and run real far away from the office immediately before Ivy gets to me.

Singing Competition...

Grandmother Story : Its so good to have friends and colleagues who stick by you through thick and thin and I am proud to say that I have those.

The qualifying round for my singing competition was 2 days ago and it all went well. I know most of you are really tired but still you made your way to Klang just to hear me sing - and doesn't help that I sang only 1 song. Of course, I was hoping to have a mini concert there or something, perhaps even a full scale concert. For that, I should go to bed earlier tonight and dream.

Anyway, pics from the night

I had tremendous fun that night although I was kinda nervous before I went on stage.

Now, I have to wait for the quarter finals.

Thank you all for supporting me. I will remember all of you when I get famous. I'll give all of you a free autographed copy of my album - I know, I'm such an al-cheapo.