A Dreamer's Thoughts

In Deep Thoughts... & Sharing It For Once...

2009-12-20T19:30:00.003+08:00

Just realised the last time I updated my blog was in July... It's such a quiet Sunday that I actually had the time to sit down and think of the past 6 months... And my thoughts kinda dived into this topic...

Getting your heart so severely broken may not be such a bad thing after all... Just makes you realised that your heart will never be that badly broken again... Or rather, you've gone through such tough times, you know you'll survive it even if history were to repeat itself...

It's strange how huge a person's ego can be when they get their heart broken. Not wanting the person who has broken your heart know how totally destroyed you are... By feeling that way, you start pretending that things are alright.. You start pretending that you are leading a happy life... Only to break down once in a while realising the fact that you are not over it... That you still feel the pain so badly it crushes your heart... But once you start feeling better, you tend to admit to your weaknesses... You begin to see things from a different perspective and you know by then that you've moved on...

It's not a competition of who finds another to fill up the gap in life when a relationship ends... It's never a competition. It's about 2 individuals living a life of their own... No longer travelling on the same path towards the same destination... No longer see things eye to eye.. It's about being happy for the other finding someone else who will be able to make them feel the happiest.... It's about you leading the life you want... It's about being able to be friends again when things are more settled... It's about putting things behind you... and most importantly, it's about forgiving that person and taking it as a lesson worth learning in life...

And when you've eventually moved on, don't make the mistake of having walls build around your heart or you will never be able to find that one person you would like to share the rest of your life with. Sometimes, it's a risk worth taking.... Sometimes, it's not... But never give up hope in finding that someone... It takes time... Sometimes a long time... Sometimes you get yourself hurt again in the process... And sometimes you end up hurting others but at the end of the day, keep telling yourself that it is still worth waiting for... Worth fighting for...

But until that person appears... Life should carry on the way it is... Nothing beats the feeling of believing that there's someone for everyone... And eventually when that happens, it will be really beautiful.....

Shake It... Move It.... Shake what Move what? Your bum bum :p

2009-07-04T11:27:00.019+08:00

Well well well, these days I am seated at Level 3 in the office cause we just carried out an exercise which require all of us to move our bum bum from where it was comfortably parked for the past 3 years to a whole new working environment. So, I am now seated at Level 3... Where all our technology geeks used to park their bum bums :p

We had a party to commemorate the move. But before that, we were all required to clear our lockers 2 days before the party. I tell you, my locker is one with an invisible sign stating - "beware of falling objects when opening locker door" and imagine how much s*** I had inside my locker. It's basically s*** I've accumulated for the past 3 years. So shy!!

Funny thing is, most of us found expired food in our lockers and we went around offering those food to our fellow "locker neighbors" who were also cleaning their lockers. Hahahaha... I asked Azlan to bugger off, then offered him some expired food in return :p

We played some games in the afternoon... which got all of us so tired... at certain point of time it was boring, so we decided to cam whore instead :p

Before the start of the games - Caressa with her "char siew pao"

We were bored :p

Ivy being her crazy self again... Hahaha...

Party at night was darn freaking good since the beer was free flow. I got myself pretty tipsy that night but it's alright since it's been a long time since I get to enjoy myself during office functions and not worry about having to be home early to "babysit" :p

Some photos taken before we were all tipsy...

Caressa with the "Lost / Drunk" gal - I was prepared for the night :p

My favourite photo... Even Justin's smile looks good :p

Don't ask me if there are any photos after that, I think Caressa will murder me if I were to put up those photos - as for my photos when I was drunk - you guys wait long long kay? Hahaha...

Best Popiah in Town...

2009-06-21T22:59:00.009+08:00

It's been a while since I travelled to Malacca for a day trip. Long story how I ended up at Malacca instead of the planned Cherating trip. But it was all good since the food was worth the trip and of course, the company was great as well. Also, I get to show off my new "Toy" while walking around town... My new toy produced all these...

Wei tried acting like a beggar but didn't pull it off very well (it's a compliment, kay? I'm saying you're too beautiful to be a beggar :p)

Lip Wei

Durian Cendol.. Yummy...

Some must be wondering what happened to the title of this particular post "Best Popiah in Town"? Hehehe... Actually, I was too happy to see it, I ate the entire bloody thing and didn't remember to take a photo of it (yes, it's that good!)

Oh, for the record, I have to say this probably just to get Wei off my back...

I am a proud Canon DSLR user :p

Ok... Now she is happy!!

Her Royal Highness - Mummy Dearest :p

2009-06-07T19:52:00.005+08:00

Hey peeps... I know it's been a while since I last posted something on my blog... How could I go missing in action for that many months? Erm...... Erm..... Erm.... (wake me up when September ends?) Hehehe...

Anyway, do you know that living with Mummy dearest can be quite funny at times? My mum (also known as "Her Royal Highness" - HRH) actually possess some supernatural power called "humour" - something I've recently discovered. Of course, there are others as well, but I think all mums around the world has this:-

The Power to Nag - they can do it till the cows come home and have already gone to sleep and they are still at it....

The Power to Scream - and hitting a note only Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston can? :p

The Power of "The Look" - you know the one you get (which makes you feel like the end is near and you'll get murdered soon) when you arrive home late after a night of partying, drunk and smelling like a walking cigarette?

The last is actually my favourite... That is one hell of a superpower I would like to learn - maybe people at work will leave me alone if I am able to master that skill......

Introducing... Her Royal Highness...

If you think my mum is pretty, wait till you see her daughter... & I mean the youngest one *evil smile*

Xin Nian Lai Loh!!! (CNY is here!!!)

2009-01-24T16:30:00.015+08:00

It's Chinese New Year again... What happens in the office pre-CNY? This...

Hahahaha.... Hell a lot to recycle :p

I am officially back home for my CNY and it has been so boring (Actually, I am trying hard to avoid doing the housework... ssshhhh) but I don't think that's happening. Why can't the windows at the kitchen just have a shower on its own and they'll be so clean after that? Think I'm going crazy :p

Anyway, while I "pretended" to be busy to avoid the housework, I finally completed my Lego set. Have a look...

You have no idea how long it took me to complete this. In the process, the box commited suicide one night so I had to start all over again.

But to my surprise, when I completed it 3o mins ago and had a good look at the box, it says this.... (look at the circled area)

What do you think that means? I think it means the timing needed to complete it (5-12....... Months..... To complete?) Hahahaha....

Happy Chinese New Year to all... Xin Nian Kuai Le!!!

Christmas Break? What Christmas Break?

2009-01-24T16:15:00.007+08:00

I was working on Christmas - well, not literally but still had to do some observations here and there and managed to have fun at the same time.

Honestly, I didn't know that mascots can be fun to be with (hold your thoughts - I am not some lunatic you are thinking about, not in that sense at least :p) What I am talking about is the Giant Mascot Party at Genting Theme Park.

There were so many of them walking around such as the koala bear you see every morning on the cereal box for those Koko Krunch lovers :)

Energizer batts were moving around as well... and so were Ribena and Lemon (that one reminded me on Wilson Szeto and Lareina :p).

But the best for me was spending time with Ivy and her family. Had so much fun with her kids and honestly, the last time I was in the Theme Park was about 10 years back... Don't get me wrong - I do go for theme parks these days, but it's normally those that involves more money and only for those aged 21 and above. Hehehehe...

Check out some pics :p

With Gasper on the only ride I dare sit in :p

With Ivy and her 2 kids

When it Rains at Gurney Drive...

2008-11-23T14:19:00.003+08:00

I am sure most people goes to Gurney Drive for dinner when you're at Penang. Especially when you are staying at G Hotel like me - made a recent business trip to Penang (4 weeks) ago and decided to do what tourist normally do. Was also lazy to drive out since I was working...

Anyway, while I was enjoying all the (overpriced) food there, someone up there decided to play a trick on me and turned on the shower from up above. What do you do when you need to run back to the hotel to avoid the heavy downpour?

You protect the Coach bag you have with you.. Especially when it's from suede material. Seen a Coach bag in a bag before?

This is how it looks like... Hahahaha (sorry, the picture still makes me laugh till today)....

2 posts in 1 day. That's not too bad at all huh? :p Dunno how long I'm going to go missing again after this. Hahaha...

Found Something Missing in the Pantry's Fridge at work?

2008-11-23T14:08:00.005+08:00

Just realised that I have been MIA since June from my blog. But I am glad that people still read what I have written in the past and the comments I have gotten just made me a little bit more motivated to update (excuses again I hear?) :p

Anyway, working in an office whereby open office concept is practised is not easy at all. Leave something in the pantry's fridge for a day and guess what happens? It goes missing. And what can you do when such things happens..... ???

This....

Hahaha... Yakult anyone? :p

Break from my blog... again :p

2008-06-19T14:14:00.003+08:00

I think I will be taking a break again from updating my blog (happens all the time doesn't it?) :p

Will be heading to Bangkok next month and I think I'll have more to write after that.

Meanwhile, be good & take care :)

Pangkor...

2008-06-19T13:44:00.010+08:00

Teambuilding - The time most people in the company look forward to in a year. Last year I got pissed drunk and needed Wilson and Nikki to carry me back to the room. I was throwing up like there was no tomorrow and I regretted it, I told myself I will not do the same this year (for most people, especially drinkers, they will start thinking that I am just talking bollocks)

But it's true. Cause this year, we had like tons of Black Label, Absolute Vodka and Beer but I drank only 2 sips of the Black Label & that was because Shermaine wanted to get me started and dared me to drink. So since she did that, we went to get a glass each but I had only 2 sips and then I left the ballroom (and of course, left my drinks in the ballroom as well).

I ended up going to the beach with Kean for a chat. It was the best part of the entire teambuilding chatting with Kean about anything and everything :) Kean... a very good friend of mine indeed :)

Not that many pictures taken as well so I'll just share 2 with you guys...

With the girls on the ferry to the resort

Kean enjoying the breeze

I know you people probably think I am so boring these days - with all the free booze and all but I choose to sit on the beach with a friend instead. Let me tell you - the feeling of doing that is way much better than getting high / drunk :)

I think it's the age catching up :p

Phuket...

2008-06-19T09:42:00.002+08:00

Finally I get to update my blog and it's all because I am in a training for these 2 days and while we have our break, I get to update it.

Well, Phuket was a really relaxing trip for me. I was spending a lot of time in the jakuzzi and the pool. The resort was good as well. Overall, I enjoyed it and I managed to relax quite a bit while I was there :)

Dun think I have any nice photos to share since nothing much happened except for the night in Patong and yet I was so mesmerised that I didn't remember to take any photos.

Hahaha... Next post coming up real soon.

That will be for Pangkor. I love my life :p

Cameron Highlands...

2008-06-18T13:55:00.008+08:00

It was a really fun trip to Camerons if you ask me - well, can also say it's an eating trip honestly. We took time off work to enjoy ourselves and did a lot of walking, eating, relaxing & making a fool out of ourselves :)

Think it happened too long ago that I can't remember what I'd wanted to write from this trip (making metal note not to procrastinate so much in the future when it comes to updating my blog :p)

Since I can't remember much, I'll just put some photos here :)

Breakfast at McD before we started our journey

Group photo at the hotel room

2 pretty strawberries and 1 retarded strawberry

Monster attack!

Teambuilding at Pangkor..

2008-06-17T11:07:00.001+08:00

Just came back from Pangkor for Teambuilding so means I have more to update. I have decided to stay back in the office this Thursday to just update my blog once and for all. Or else, Cavin will start to think that I am dead or something :p

Soon... it will be real soon you guys get to see the pics :)

Finally..

2008-06-06T10:40:00.003+08:00

Finally I'm back in action again. Cavin has posted 2 comments so far asking me to update my blog and I didn't have the time till now. Hahaha...

Here goes... Now I have to try to recall where I've been. I think the sequence goes like this ---> KK - Cameron Highlands - KK - Phuket. Something like that lah...

Anyway, the first trip to KK was for work and I was stuck in the hotel room for almost 4 hours (7pm - 11pm) without any electricity cause there was a major power failure there. I'm sure all of you saw the news on the newspapers - about some crappy people trying to get metal scraps worth RM30 and cause the entire city to be in the dark for hours.

And that's not the worst cause the 5 star hotel that I was staying doesn't have emergency lights in the room and also no generator to power up the entire hotel - according to them, generators are only for the hotel lobby. What nonsense!

But I manage to enjoy the beautiful sunset from my hotel room before the blackout. Check this out...

Nice hor?

From this trip, I realised something - Beers are darn cheap in KK. In fact, a bucket of beer (3 bottles) cost only RM14. Now, that's what you call cheap beer! Ha!

Tons of Travelling

2008-05-18T11:45:00.002+08:00

Ok, I know it's been a long time since I last updated my blog again. Honestly, I have been travelling quite a bit and work has been crazy - thus not being able to update my blog as I used to.

Let's keep the story short and check out the next few individual post I have just to give a quick update and some nice photos taken during those trips.

Enjoy life and be good :)

Happy Birthday Siew Leng!!

2008-04-04T15:09:00.004+08:00

Siew Leng - my big boss's secretary & also the person who always ask me to go "play far far" when she is busy just celebrated her birthday recently. Well, actually she sent a warning email to Bev and myself 2 days before her birthday asking us NOT to make a big deal out of her birthday. Like very "obedient" kids, we did the total opposite :p even her birthday card was bigger than anyone's else... hahaha...

But the end result was quite good - I think she is very happy :)

Mission accomplished!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AH LENG!!! :)

Confession of a Karaoke Kaki...

2008-04-01T13:42:00.004+08:00

If you think I stopped going to the karaoke after contributing to Neway's profit twice in 3 days, you're WRONG!! So wrong in fact cause in total, I went 3 times in 5 days :p

Yes - 2 days after I updated my blog, I mysteriously ended up at Neway again somehow. Fine fine, I did not myteriously end up there. I remember driving there with Edna and Lareina in the car with me.

Listen to my explaination. It was such a last minute thing. We were drinking away during our CEO's farewell and one thing led to another. And the other thing was ending up at a karaoke - can be forgiven right?

Anyway, we entertained ourself with our screaming, opppssss, I mean singing and we had a great deal of fun somehow.

I have a real great video of Joyce singing but I know if I were to put it up here, I will not live to see tomorrow.

So..... I'll just post a photo instead.

Check it out!!!

I really need to stop contributing to Neway's revenue.

Karaoke Marathon

2008-03-25T11:51:00.002+08:00

Went for karaoke session twice in 3 days. I know, that sounds pathetic but I really enjoy singing that much.

First time of the week was with Kean and Wee Kiang - Kean's Hubby on a Friday after work. We had a good time and Wee Kiang can really sing - or at least, that is what I think. We belted out a duet and it was pretty good actually :p syiok sendiri :p

On Sunday noon, I went for K lunch with Shermaine and the both of us sang for 3 and a half hours. Obviously I lost my voice after that but it was nice cause we were singing songs that we don't usually sing so it was more of a practice session for the both of us.

All in all, it was a boring weekend but thank goodness I have good frens to accompany me on those nights I think that I'd die of boredom.

Now, I am just waiting for the coming weekend - more like midnight on Sunday. Thinking of it makes me smile already :)

Thanks guys for spending time with me. You guys are really awesome :D

Edna's Early Birthday Celebration

2008-03-16T11:21:00.011+08:00

Edna Chuah... Also known as Mui Mui to me at times and known as "Soh H*i" to me at any other deserving times - I get called the same, nonetheless... Of course when I deserve it as well :p

Anyway, Edna's birthday was on the 9th March and we all got together after work on the 6th March to celebrate her birthday.

All in all, we had a good time drinking beer and the Blue Margarita Tower - Lareina's creative mind changed it's name to "Blue Mousarita Tower" - long story, it's a personal joke between us and feeling too lazy to type it out here.

Check out some really nice photos taken that night

With Birthday Girl standing right behind us

With Shermaine & Mey Mey - who was busy working the moment she arrived :p

My favourite pic - of course :)

Group pic of the Night - with the balance of the Margarita Tower

Happy New Year!!!

2008-01-17T14:55:00.000+08:00

Happy Happy Happy Happy New Year peeps!!!!!!!

East Malaysia... Here I comeeeeeeeeeee............ :p

7127 Wet & Wild

2007-12-13T11:00:00.000+08:00

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

2007-12-05T14:16:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-11-26T15:28:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-10-10T16:24:00.000+08:00

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

2007-10-06T12:21:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-10-03T12:19:00.000+08:00

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

2007-09-03T11:45:00.000+08:00

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

2007-08-29T10:08:00.000+08:00

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

2007-08-26T15:13:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-08-22T14:17:00.000+08:00

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?

2007-08-15T10:16:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-08-14T13:37:00.000+08:00

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

2007-08-08T08:35:00.000+08:00

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

2007-08-03T08:48:00.000+08:00

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?

2007-07-28T13:14:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-07-24T09:10:00.000+08:00

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?!!??

2007-07-20T17:36:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-19T09:20:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-17T10:08:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-07-13T14:20:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-07-12T17:07:00.000+08:00

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!!!

2007-07-11T09:09:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-06T10:12:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-07-06T08:56:00.000+08:00

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.

Latest Soap Powder in the Market???

2007-07-04T18:12:00.000+08:00

Do you know there is a new soap powder in the market? Apparently, it cleans better than any others in the market. Terror huh?

INTRODUCING...

They even have T-shirts to promote the soap powder

SERBUK PENCUCI "DIGI CELEBRITEEN"!!!!

Go try it out okay?

I have edited the picture to protect the privacy of my super-duper-mouth-watering-attention-grabbing-drop-dead-gorgeous model.

Gasper

2007-07-03T20:29:00.000+08:00

Since I am in such mood to talk about babies, let me post a picture of my soon-to-be-godson ------ Gasper (yes, I know you are thinking of Casper the friendly ghost - kindly remove those thoughts from your head, please) You will think that he is adorable once you see his pics. Besides, I kinda think that Casper... Oppsss.... I mean Gasper is a nice and unique name.

I am sooo sure your reaction would be "awww... he's soooo cute"

And for the benefit of those thinking why am I crazy over babies, I would like to clarify something. I adore babies, but no, maternal instincts has not kicked in yet... the only reason I would want to get pregnant now is just to get a special parking at the office - Imagine, reserved parking all the time, near the lobby and under shade.

Worth getting pregnant for right?

Janice Leong

2007-07-03T14:01:00.000+08:00

It's amazing how babies grow. Take a look at the latest addition in the family, Janice Leong....

3 Days

2 Months

Close to 4 Months

5 Months

I kinda think she looks more cartoonish as days go by but adorable nevertheless. I know, I don't look like an expert carrying a baby... Look more like I am carrying a rabbit or something but come to think of it, I don't plan to be a nanny so I am fine with any of your comments. Feel free to start shooting.

Gee... I really ought to cut my hair. Its getting really long.

Request for Additional Drinks

2007-07-02T15:05:00.000+08:00

Dear Ms Tai Ying Feng,

Greetings from the Director of Coffee Machine! We are pleased to hear of your interest of the drink selection on the coffee machine. This is with regards to your request to add Ice Lemon Tea into the coffee dispenser. We would require you to draft an official letter to myself directly. On top of that, you would need to buy me 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches and 3 dinners to get your request approved (I know it seems like daylight robbery but that's the way things work around here) Once you are done with the 9 meals mentioned above, you will need to spend me a holiday preferably to a destination of my choice (however, in order to make my customers happy, you get to choose the destination for this holiday). Please note that it has to be a 6 days 5 nights holiday.

Looking forward to your favourable reply.

Thank you and regards.

Yours truly,
Director of Coffee Machine

CC : Ms Emily Chiam - You will need to increase what you have to offer to me compared to Ms Tai in order to keep the Guinness Stout on the coffee machine. Please bear in mind that the highest bidder wins.

It's Time to Parrr-taaayyyy!!!

2007-07-01T19:18:00.000+08:00

Party people, its Friday night!!! Yup, you heard me right... It was party night for the girls last Friday 29th June 2007.

They say "a picture paints a thousand words", so mine is worth 3 thousands...

Part of the group that night

Seeing Double "Alicia & Alicia"

I should clarify one thing... I am not that short, just so happen that when we took this pic I was sitting while Alicia was standing... hang on, which Alicia you ask? Go figure...

3 of us with some "monkeys" in the background - and that is before we had enough beer

The colour coding that night was this : Green - Available, Yellow - Uncertain & Red - Attached. You are asking why the hell I am in black? That is because I am rebellious-pathetic-and-out-to-confuse-people kinda lunatic...

Actually, I was already "high" before I went to the club. Had too much beer in the office for our 1st Year Celebration Party. One thing I learn from the party....

"If the beer is not cold enough, run as fast as you can towards the other direction and don't look back no matter what" - that was the culprit that made me tipsy eventhough I had only like 6 cups of beer. And btw, I had only like 3/4 bottle of a beer that night... Yah, I know... It's not me at all.

More pics coming up. They are in Emily's camera... or rather Hiong Hiong's camera used by Emily that night.

If Emily delays in giving me the pics, feel free to kill her, not me. Cause after reading this, Emily would have killed me before anything else.

Spring Cleaning...

2007-06-28T09:26:00.000+08:00

Its time for spring cleaning in the office in conjunction with our first year anniversary. Wondering why is it called spring cleaning? Alright... let me be a smarty pants and explain to you how the word came about.

Spring cleaning means the cleaning that takes place once a year especially for the Chinese to welcome the Lunar New Year and the Lunar New Year is always during Spring therefore, it is called Spring Cleaning...

Now, can someone explain to me why is it called Spring Chicken??

Once Upon a Time that cost RM300...

2007-06-27T10:55:00.000+08:00

Once upon a time, there live a silver Vios driver who drives at a regular speed (regular means the speed that people my age normally drives). This awesome looking driver was going at 100km/h along the highway with the speed limit of 80km/h --- who drives that slow anyway??

Anyway, on that fateful day, this driver had an appointment to have Dim Sum with a friend from college, Cindy. While the driver was driving past the bridge, she saw the policeman with a camera under the bridge. You see, its important to look good in all sorts of situation - so she possed for the camera, hoping that it will turn out nice.

The summon arrived at the home of the driver last night finally, after she went on a shopping spree (life has its way of teaching you lessons the hard way somehow). The driver learned only one thing from this lesson --- a photo taken by policemen cost more than a photo taken in the studio. I think its because they include your vehicle into the photo. Should have just stick to photo taking in the studio.

Sigh.... My bad for speeding...

Lunch? What Lunch?

2007-06-26T15:34:00.000+08:00

You know what? I think eating during lunch should be abolished at work for the benefit of all its staff... Ok ok, maybe only to this place I work. It does more harm than good, really.

Let's see...

What's good about lunch:-

Eating with colleagues is a fun thing to do
...............

What's bad about lunch:-

Makes us fat
Makes us sleepy - more caffein is needed ---- which is what I am craving for now...
Its hot to drive out for lunch
No one wants to drive out for lunch
There's always no parking when you come back to work
You smell of the food/restaurant after lunch

See... the bad overules the good. My suggestion would be to have rooms-decorated-similiar-to-hotel-standards for all staff to have a one hour nap during lunch hour. That way, we get to stay slim, get a power nap and feel more refreshed after that.

I am already dreaming about it... which also shows that I am falling asleep... sshhhhhhh... don't tell my boss.

Wakey Wakey Wakey!!!

2007-06-26T10:42:00.001+08:00

Yup, you saw it right. That is a mug from DiGi that all DiGizens should honour as it contains the caffein that wakes us up every morning. Be it Nescafe without sugar - who drinks that? Nescafe with sugar - means kopi-o, Nescafe with sugar and creamer - that's normal, Mocha - that is something unique, Milo and Teh Tarik - which is what I drink every morning. You see, the thing is, we have coffee machines in which we conveniently just select the beverage of our choice and press the buttons on it. The wierd thing is, there are 8 buttons on it while we have only 6 choices of beverage, obviously 2 other buttons are redundant. If only I have the authority to decide - make me the Director of the Coffee Machine or something like that (duh!!), then button 7 will be Tiger Beer and button 8 will be Guinness Stout - just for my fellow colleagues who are Guinness drinker.

Button 7 & 8 would probably wear out faster than any others on the machine.

Or better still, water dispenser in the office should be replaced by this...

Cool ain't it? *hic hic hic*

A Fresh Start... From the Oven??

2007-06-25T09:43:00.000+08:00

Photo taken using my 2 megapixel camera phone

Alright. This is where I want to be now. My trip to perhentian was a few months back and how I wish I could go there again. The journey was crappy and so was the resort but the view was worth every penny and of course the drink I had cost me more than a couple of hundred. Still it was worth it... I mean the drinks... Yea yea, beer is my current favourite beverage. You can't blame me. See, this bubbly drink called beer (in which I discovered a while ago) comes with a distinct & unique taste and the best part is.. It gets me really happy after a while. Not "happy" happy... But happy enough to enjoy the company of whoever and whatever.

Beer... You are the current love of my life... Gee... I'm pathetic....