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When we reunion..

2009-02-03T21:35:00.005+08:00

Those were the days ...

Met up with couple of my old high school frens over the long chinese new year break... Was such a coincidence that everyone is planning a meet up at the same time. YanMin called me to organise one .. and we picked 30th Jan to suit most people's availability and picked TGI Friday as our meeting venue as it is the one of the few places where laughter decimal is unrestricted. Was surprised that two days later Mei Eng smsed me regarding a gathering on 28th Jan at TGI.. (Yes.. TGI again) .. I thought my original plan with YanMin was brought forward somehow.. but no no.. it was actually Another meeting organised using MeiEng's alumni radar..... and TGI was a real coincidence... Wise men think alike har ;)

It feels like a blind date. Most of us went there w/o knowing who else would be coming.. Anyway, meeting old friends is always a happy occasion.. especially since many of us many of us have not seen each other for almost 7 years.. that is near a decade.. It is amazing that we can still remember each other... well, for my standard, maybe not the name, but at least the look... hehehe... I enjoyed myself very much.. It is true that all of us went on separate path after graduation...

Thank you dear

2008-12-05T08:54:00.002+08:00

Mary's Birthday Celebration

2008-11-11T23:05:00.012+08:00

Mary is one year older today...

We threw a small bday party for her @ La Bodega Pavillion just now... Dramatic and enjoyable nite indeed. To start off, Mary finally got her Jawbone!!! (Courier by hand via Lisa) Immediately, she tore off the wrapper and started playing with it. Was actually very chic looking headset, and the noise cancelling function is real good. (We put it to test it after the dinner .. and it works surprisingly well under the blast of Mary's car radio..) Ta-da!!!

The La Bodega food turned out to be quite salty ... Mary got her spaghetti changed THREE times~~! Gosh... And Ben got a replacement Burger cos his one was uncook... Fortunately, the service was EXCELLENT! :) Anyway, the food definitely did not take the fun away... Party must always comes with CAKE.. and there you go..

Cake specially chosen for MARY >>>

*drum*

YAR! Doraemon CAKE! :)

Even the shopkeeper asked me if the cake was REALLY meant for an adult

cos I asked for 3 big candles and 10 small ones. hahahaha!!!

And present time...
Look look, Very, very well packed!

Somemore got small TEDDY CARD...

Then it comes the wrapper...

AND FINALLY the present...
If you have not noticed, it is the Camera COVER... not CAMERA ;)

Ai Wee & Alex

Marini and family

Emily Birthday Part 3

2008-11-10T23:18:00.002+08:00

Continue today with Emily Birthday Part 3.... :) lunch @ SR

Look @ all d greedy eyes on the ONE slice of new york cheesecake

and present from the POP team

Ta-da......
A photo frame with customised picture of 3 POP stars...

Final chapter of Emily's Birthday..
Puh-phew..

Coming up next.. Mary's Birthday!

Emily Birthday Part 2

2008-11-09T23:32:00.006+08:00

Our POP team is really ALL about food. :P Next for Emily's birthday series...
Mr Paoz..... got this from Pavillion simply becos they look so cute. Anyway, KY and I both thought we were conned by these little cute things. Good to see, Good to smell, but not so good when we tasted it. And, most importantly, It is definitely so-overpriced! More exp than the J-Co doughnuts. NUTz.!

Pack of 6 with assorted flavours.. Sweet & Savoury

By far, my favourite - Chicken Curry

Some Raspberry Baoz

Yam Flavour paoz

Taro paoz (yuck!)

Nothing stop the team from enjoying our breakfast...

.....

Not till your boss walked into d pantry anyway...

(hehe!)

Emily's Birthday Part (1)

2008-11-09T23:20:00.002+08:00

Another long waited post. Emily's Birthday!
Part 1..We went for her birthday lunch @ Segambut Seafood Noodle Place....
Yummy!

Birthday girl is in grey.

Denis & I were on our usual iPHONE debate...

Look @ that man.. A Full Bowl of seriously-good seafood.

Vimal slurping the LAST drop..

嫂嫂的聘礼

2008-11-03T21:49:00.003+08:00

First of all, sorry that this blog article took so long to upload. (No excuse on my side)
So.. there you go..
The most "rou-ma" it can be.. Mum chose two RED LOVE BOXES for Fenella's "Pin Li"

First box has 4 different kinds of "pneah" (Hokkien style pneah, Qing Tang Ping, Tambun Pneah Sweet and Tambun PneahSalty)

Second box contains XO, oranges, choc and sweets.... All comes in twin pack (indicating "shuang shuang dui dui"....

Packed and Ready to Go! :)

Accenture Family Day

2008-10-27T23:51:00.007+08:00

A weekend which was busy packed with OT WORK and WORK related event :P

Saturday, Went back to Dayabumi for application testing. Boring yeah? That wasn't the worst. we wasted 4 hours waiting for the development team to complete checking.. There goes my lovely Sat afternoon .... :P The day was slightly boosted with a dinner call from KIm Yen (my uni fren). We had Korean with Emily @ Ampang (My current favourite)

Sunday, Accenture's Family Day. Woke up by my usual morning call, picked up D&G and KY to Taman Commenwealth. Event started @ 2pm with the normal LBC speech, an environmental prez by Ecoknight (the beneficiary of this event) and .... the OFFICIAL launching of Carbon Footprint Survey (Finger cross, everything works fine for the CFP website). Organiser has arranged couple of activities e.g. snake ladder game board and wall painting for the kids (finally, they get to vandalise w/o getting spanking on their butts), line dancing.The highlight of d event was POT RACE, a treasure hunt through the Forest. Well, as usual, it always sounds easier than execution. KY, Mary and Audra (who weren't originally in d race) have decided to chase the teams up from behind. Went into the jungle, only then I realised it wasn't as pleasant as the Bkt Pasir / Jambil / Bendera (penang) ... It is quite un-touched, there wasn't any visible human trekking path. The track was covered with wet leaves and yellow mud (worsen after the earlier rain). I could hear the crunch of leaves every step i took, and smell of nature every breathe I inhaled. Explored further in, then I wondered, HOW on earth did the city kids manage this??(Later, I realised, they were actually top of the league... more agile perhaps) ... Anyway, I raised my WHITE flag @ one of the yellow slippery slope. It was in between turning back or pulling both my frens down the slope.. :P I think I made my wise choice anyway. Line dancing with 'YMCA', 'Macarena' is MUCH easier in relative term. The event ended with a charity auctioning session. Denis got himself a AT&T UMBRELLA with a generous RM 100..

D&G, M, KY & I ended our LONG exhausting day with a very rewarding Dinner @ Selayang! (Yums!) Equalising all the calories burnt during the trekking :P

Helping out @ the Registration

Chai yee with her Towel Wrap

Amused by kids playing the Snake Board Game!

Audra - after walking in the rain

Denis - Acting Ranger... But did not get near the Forest :P

Beginning of Pot Race

VeeMeng's team - Entering the jungle

KY and I in the forest

Trying very hard NOT to fall from the slope

Mary, my guardian angel who apparently walked into the jungle with her camera on one hand, and coke on the other.

Trying hard to smile in midst of the bushes and trees

.....

Busy busy, cant cope with my shoes in the mud etc.

No photo taking..

Until...

when...

we dance

Denis and KY dancing

Nadiah and her kids won the BEST team in POT Race

random shot

Denis and his RM 100 UMBRELLA! :P

My 24th Bday

2008-10-18T15:12:00.006+08:00

Thank you all for the best 24th Birthday :)
Especially for the POP team: Thanks for the bday party and present. We are the best team ....

A surprise birthday cake @ pantry Level 10

Birthday lunch @ Secret Recipe with d Dayabumi gang

Demo Dino

2008-10-03T20:23:00.003+08:00

Check this out... PLEO (a new toy that Uncle Dixon showed us)

Drafting the Wedding Photo Album for Koko

2008-09-15T23:58:00.007+08:00

wanna be your best sister! LOL yeah man! Where should I start. I vividly remember it was 5:00AM when mum decided to wake me to see the sunrise at End-of-the-world Batu Feringghi! As much as I wanna be a good daughter as well as a sister, I can't help but to admit that some U#%*#%(* did pass through my mind. :P Anyway, personally, I like the refreshing feel of morning sea breeze, but the sunrise wasn't that interesting, I was a little dissappointed cos you don get to see the "ray of violet light" at the horizon of sea. I think the scenary will be equivalently pretty if you are there in the evening. (Charge -FREE) After that, we went to Golden Sands for breakfast. I quite like the ambience, cos i find it ultra relaxing and unusual comfortable. Afterall, having breakfast along beachside is not something that happens everyday. After recharging, we departed to the Blue Mansion (Cheong Fatt Si). The location itself was pretty, well decorated with old furnitures. However, this place really pisses me and mum off. Super bad customer service, from the guard to the manager. (Technically speaking there were only two of them, and both are in PMS mood) sample of words: when asked for wedding rental and pre-wedding shooting rental price, the mgr said "what you want first, wedding or pre wedding? aiyo.. this... that.. we only focus on doing ang-mos business" When asked for how to make reservation "if you want room, have to book online, cos all online one nowadays" "if u wanna pre-wedding, it is this xx price, but must ask for approval from manager first" When asked if i can go around and check our the mansion, i got an one-word-answer "NO" wiht a long pause at the end. Sometime, I really don't know how this place can maintain its business with such "friendly" service. (Charges - RM 100 per hour??) Anyway, after that, we drove off to another mansion which mum claimed to be the "hidden treasure" of Penang.. It is a Rumah Peranakan.. Apparently, there is this businessman who earns a big fortune in Singapore and an antique collector decided to buy-over this old mansion, refurbish and furnish it with those antiques he got over the years. True enough, I find the place very special and unique. The owner has really good taste and the mansion definitely looks much livelier than Blue Mansion. Check the photos below out. They have a good blend of chinese and western feel. There was this Tsun Zhong San's movie that was filmed in this place, and I personally think this is a must-go spot for pre-wedding shooting. (Charges- RM 30 per hour) Next, we went to The Sire, a restaurant in town funded by Yap Chor Ee's successor. The place was divided into two parts, front part was a restaurant, and the inner part was a galleria. Rooms are decorated by furnitures from the old Yap Chor Ee's mansion which now is Wawasan Open University. Some of the interior design was a miniature version of original design of the old mansion. It still amazes me today for such a successful rich businessman to write a will of returning his wealth to the charitable society. He truly made an impact in the island, and it will be hard for people to forget his name.
After that, Mum and I met up AhPo, Xiao Jiu and all to have lunch at Mei Yuan around town. We headed to one of the oldest cloth shop in George Town for tailoring her best outfit for KOKO's wedding of the century :)
Chill..

Accenture BUMPer Story

2008-09-15T23:01:00.008+08:00

So, I am alive! Where goes my motivation to update my blog man ?!@?#?$?$ Anyway, I'm glad that I've broken the little spell and back to this space. I plan to update a few stories in separate blog posts, so watch out for this space..

So, let's roll yourself back to 08/08/08. What was I doing while the whole ging-gang of you r celebrating Min's bday????? I was actually at Lumut, attending my first-ever BUM.. (Yeah man, can't remember why i skip the last two BUMs now). The whole bunch of Accenturians gathered here at Damai Laut Hotel for 3 days 2 nights. This is actually one of the most happending and most looking-forward-to event of the year! But I find it rather quiet and "peaceful" this year. Partly cos we were seated rather far from the swimming pool and sea.. It is not that convenient to dunk anyone in this year.

Few of highlights during the BUM trip. I spent the half of od my first day working in KLCC tower 2! (yeahman!) Fortunately, KY and gang are kind enough to wait for me and give me ride to Lumut. The 2nd half of the day is pretty much packed with speeches, and normal annoucements. Nothing really enticing :P (No offense boss) We ended watching Olympics Game Opening in one of our frens' room.

Second day was much more interesting, we spent the whole morning and noon playing house sport games (apparently to catch the Olyumpic fever bugs). I personally find it interesting. Maybe becos this is my first ever BUM. Sweat! A series of free activities lined up for us in the afternnon, e.g. spa, tatoo, t-shirt printing etc. ShiMin and I painted our very own BFF T-shirts (under the big hot sun). Was dissappointed when our other BFF (no name mentioned, ehhem!) didn't wear it out at all! Anyhow, love to credit the committee for making 10xsure that you don't get bored during the day! At night, a gang of us decided to drive out to this Seafood place near Lumut that sells cheap cheap yummy seafood. I think the bill came up to RM 300 for 15 of us, including beer and drinks. And that should be a mark-up price since none of us look / sound like a local (what more our car plate all start with a "W"). Pieng, Leng, Jeng! (Cheap, good, yummy). Came back just in time to catch Kalel's performance. (BFF, even though U don notice me.. I was there, ok? :P)

Anyway, I enjoyed the trip very much. On the way back, we stopped by at this Duck Noodle place, and surprisingly found many Accenturians were there too! There is either no other good places to go, or we all share the same taste! Way-to-go, BUMPers 2008!

New Kick To Blog

2008-08-05T22:17:00.001+08:00

"You are too lazy to blog", a comment I got today. (Look like I really should stop procrastinating)

Been hanging out a lot with frens lately. Work-life balance is ultimate these days, have enough of impacts at work and yet save sufficient time and energy to my own personal life. I am somewhat a Libran.

Browsing through Jovy's blog, and found this site. "What your name hidden meaning" Cute.

http://www.blogthings.com/whatsyournameshiddenmeaningquiz/

Another new found in Office 2007, you can actually create blogpost on Office 2007, which link directly to your selected host site (e.g. Blogger.com). So cool. Now, I no longer need to type post in web-based blog entry page, and wait for photos to be uploaded (Pray hard for upload to be successful). It is much easier to manage this way.

Wedding @ Long Pine

2008-07-16T22:38:00.003+08:00

Attended a very beautiful wedding @ Penang last weekend.

CYee, KY and I travelled up after work on Friday to meet Kalel and Denis who were already there in Penang. As we were all in Penang, one thing we never miss is food. We went to Oriental Seafood and ordered some porridge with CRAB. Yes, Crab for supper. I guess that is not-too-much for three big guys.

Awakened next day by my mum’s usual morning call. Mum has improvised her method this around. Apparently, as part of the alignment strategy to energy efficiency (hike in Electricity Bill is also part of the reasons), whoever wakes up earlier will switch off the air con (And she has been practicing that with Dad!!) There is an old Chinese saying, if you have good start, you are already half-way to success. （好的开始是成功的一半）So, with a not-so-good way of waking up, I am already sensing a bad day.

Well enough, few shits happened that day.
The group eventually woke up around 10.30am, and we left home for brunch @ a Nyonya restaurant near Gurney Place. First shit happened – I open the menu, only to realize that the place is not entirely halal.. So embarrassed! Anyhow, I am glad that my fren here is not too particular (phew!) Food was not that great, but we were all hungry I guess. During lunch, KK suggested to go watch movie. Looking @ the time, 2.15pm Hellboy show seems possible.

Lunch @ Some Nyonya place @ Gurney

We drove up to Queensbay, and the guys went to watch Hellboy while the girls went for our hair-do. Here comes the 2nd shit, the movie ended later than expected. By the time we got home, it was already 5.10pm….Only 20 mins away from the Wedding Ceremony. All of us dashed into our rooms, get changed, make up (for me),….. and the 3rd shit came, I had a bad migraine. So terribly bad timing, as we will need to drive up to Long Pine. Good that KY is there, and he knows the road pretty well.

We reached Long Pine only after Betty and Mian Hua walked down the aisle. The Pastor was making the most memorable speech when I walked in. He was saying… “Do you know a guy who kisses his wife everyday makes a better man……. Which eventually makes a better driver on the road…. Which will reduce the accident rate in Penang” …. OMG>>>> My frens here were already teasing me for my “famous” driving skills. Look like I need to find a life-time partner asap. :P (ps: I really don’t think Penang drivers are that bad. Penang motorcyclist are.. and KL drivers are worse! No offence btw. I am Penang driver driving in KL - Worst)

Wedding ceremony was beautifully set under the violet sunset, light sea breeze, fragrant roses, melodious jazzy music, cheerful crowd full of laughter, colourful bubbles blown by kids. Air filled by romance and joy of the new wedded, which somehow influences the party, especially the rest of couple in-love. We congratulated the couple after the ceremony, and have some photo-shoot capturing the moment of happiness and love, enjoying the Lychee Pimms served.

Betty & Mian Hua

The kiss

Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles

B&M with their parents

Denis & CYee

In between Kalel and Kwan Yew ..
CYee in between Denis and Kalel (Where gone the Team love?)

Bride & Groom taking pictures with frens

(Hooi Lin, Yin Sern, Mian Hua, Betty, Cheng Chin, Wai Peng, Rizal)

Chai Yee (CYee) , Ching Yee (CYee) ... I am confused

More poses

BFFs

Each table is labeled with name of places where B&M visited before. Good idea!

Papprazi snapping photo of the couple from far

Nearer

Yuhooo..

Dinner was served @ 7pm. Food was good, the company made it even better. After dinner, Betty changed into a beautifully cut sea blue chiffon cocktail dress, and flowed around the crowd to greet everyone. (Extra elegant!) The couple then gave their speech and toss. It was funny when Mian Hua describe how their relationship is as exciting as “Amazing Race”; sometimes it is as scary as “Fear Factor”.. You can see a big warm smile on Betty’s face. Congratulations again and again!

Bride & Groom walking down the aisle

Betty in her beautiful blue dress

Yummy Cup Cakes

CY's son & Denis

After the party, we went to Chilli’s on our way home. And chill….

Trip trip trip

2008-06-01T20:10:00.000+08:00

This is a long over-due post which I have saved in My Folder for over two weeks.
A group of us drove up to Penang during the Wesak Holiday. As the baby of Penang, I brought them around the island, and our journey is full with makan2 itineraries. BKT @ Carnation Gurney Drive, Char Kuey Teow / Ice Kacang, OO-Jien (Fried Osyter) @ Lorong Selamat, Ice-cream pit-stop @ Rasa Sayang, Durian @ Balik Pulau, Nyonya food @ Hai Nan Weld Quay, drink @ QEII, and nonetheless Seafood @ Oriental Macalister. I was pretty amazed by the amount of food we managed to stuff into our stomach. Altogether, that was my third consecutive weeks back in Penang, and all the extra calories are effectively finding their new comfy home around my waistline. Despite that, I really did enjoy myself! (And will definitely consider this as my new profession..)

A new housemate just moved-in – a Korean. Yan Min and I have been found our new language teacher.. and learnt a few new words (well besides the “Sa-rang-he-yo” and “Bia-ne O-pa!” that we always hear on TV)

“Ah-niong! (Hello!) Ah-ne-ha-se-yo! (How are you?) Nan-nen Ching Wan Imida (My name is Ching Wan)”
Man-no-so-pang-ka-e-te-le-me-da“ (Nice meeting you?) -> Not sure about this man!
Kim-chi-shi-tei boh-ku shit-o? (Do you like to drink Kim-Chi Soup with me?)

Along side, we also picked up a few new “words” which are censored from this blog post *wink*

One small note

2008-05-16T16:54:00.000+08:00

Another long haul since my last update here again. Has it been three weeks? Or even more? I was back in Penang for weekend for the last two weeks, once for a long weekend break, and another time to celebrate Mother's Day. And, guess wat? I will be going back again in about an hour time. This time, I'm bringing Denis, Gan, Rebecca & Gary. When I said "bringing", I actually meant Denis drives while I sleep throughout the 4.5 hours journey. 4.5hours? hmmm this can be insulting to Denis' driving skills, 3 hours sounds about right :P

Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday

8th May - Woke up this morning and only first thing struck my mind was KY's birthday! (Honour huh?) On my way to work, I told myself to txt him first thing I arrived @ work.. But, oops it slipped my mind. Second reminder came in when Shi Min mentioned that we should go Secret Recipe for his Bday.. then again, client call came in @ the same time, and oops it happened again.. after a whole morning with many "oops", I've finally greeted him on our way to Secret Recipe. My bad, I am sorry :(

Lunch @ Secret Recipe, Pasar Seni - Bumped into KM team!

KY looks like HUNGRY BOAR

That evening, we organised a small Karaoke session for Ky's birthday, which turned out to be a huge snow ball, and a bunch of people came! Thank you everyone for making it! For those who have missed out, there will always be a next-time.(But, ehhem, I think will be until next next next next next month.)

Proper Cake

Victorious SMILE

16th May - hmmm.. two days away from BFF's birthday, the second "baby" of the month. We've decided to celebrate it earlier today and give him a little surprise. Almost everyone in Dayabumi drove up to Sooka Sentral - Oriental Spoon. Happy BIRTHDAY in advance! Kalel!

Kalel looking all eager about wat's inside the box

Found out about the little cake!

Only manage to blow off the candle after THREE attempts

Group photo Again!

May is a good month! Two of my good frens' birthdays fall on this month. That also means a series of celebration and makan2 sessions. Need to run to the gym now..

Dedicated to my dearest Wei in Australia:
Make full use of your college life, Stay Happy & Healthy!
And that's all we ask for. We see your effort, as long as you are doing your best!
Love *_*

White Water Rafting @ Kuala Kubu Baru

2008-04-23T21:45:00.000+08:00

Went to Kuala Kubu for White Water Rafting last Saturday. Another small personal record. Surprisingly the whole experience did not appear to be as scary as I thought it would be. All you need to do is to follow your leader, forward.. Back.. left.. right... and most important command will be HOLD and SIT-IN! Simple English, but as usual, execution is always more difficult than theory. 40 of us went on the same trip, and we were split into 7 groups, and together with me on the same raft are mainly my BFFs Kalel, ShiMin, Lia, Ilham and Yoong How, commander Pie, and his assistant Along. (What BFF is? Take a good guess).

Group photo before the journey started (Still very dry)

My BFF team

Journey began... We went through quite a number of drops, each of them has a very unique name, e.g. first canon, second canon, chicken drop, broken nose.. These names definitely sounded "welcoming" and comforting, but unfortunately these weren't revealed to us earlier before we started, and the only way back was to climb over the moutain, down another hill, through another forest, on your slipper, or in some case bare foot. I think, the best option is to close your eyes and hold tightly to the string on the edge of the raft. Surprisingly, my raft did not capsize throughout the journey, even with the black sheep (me) on it. My lucky day indeed.

Here come the splash...

This is apparently called the "Chicken Drop" .. Brave little chicken we are indeed.

Another drop - 2nd Canon

Woohoo! Look @ that man..

Everyone's paddles up in the air... So guess who was the one doing the rowing? Thank god we survive.

Don't worry. She is only practicing her "self-rescue" technique

Vincent - Attenpting to "knock-on-the-heaven's-door" twice the same morning.

We had a break mid-way - icy waterfall ...

Group photo :D

Enjoying the apples, sneaker bar, muesli..

Our BFF group photo again.. (Left to right: Yoong How *ahem*, Shi Min, me, Ilham, Kalel - tall guy, Lia)

First time Swimming in the river

OS: Released from the prison?

Lunch place after rafting

Overall, this is a very enjoyable trip. I'd love to do this again, despite the sleep deprivation and bruises everywhere.

Art Gallery Opening

2008-04-15T21:30:00.000+08:00

Went back to Penang last weekend for Kim's gallery opening ceromony. The gallery is located at Sun Zhong Shan's musuem, opposite Umno building PG. Met a few artists .. They are quite noticable from my pictures below. Just check out for those grey hair! ;)

Mummy and her happy look Auntie Bee Koon, Auntie Siew Ling and her Daughter, Mummy
Gallery View Auntie Mee Lin's Art Work

Very busy preparing

Kimmie smiling Naturally!! Rare!! Kimmie smiling Naturally!! Rare!!

Kim Soon

More of her Rare Smile! :) Love this photo!

Hot Babe as MC of the day!
Is there no other black-hair artist in PG?
Note:
My new housemate, Siao Wen, very young and cute girl from Muar. New student @ Raffle's Design School, 80% similarity to Ah-Wei's Fren - Si Ting.. hahah! No joking, especially their voice!

Look like i forgot my hairpin when I left home

Accenture Annual Dinner 2008

2008-04-06T20:31:00.000+08:00

Accenture Annual Dinner 2008 - 4th April, Sime Darby Convention Centre. Was a magical night! Amazing, well done committee! Event started @ 8plus.. There are some usual dancing, singing, magic show etc. Food.. hmm sux..

Can u guess who are they?

On my left are Leng Lui Huei Ching & Adrian

On my right is Havier (Believe it?)

Rahayu

Angel & beast bear?

Fong

Kalel, my new "BFF"

Sally.. Alwiz the GTC Chick

Chen Chow... First few persons i met in Accenture

Jes :) Same "species" of the nite.

Chin Ai, another same "species"

Fairuz

10km KL Marathon

2008-04-02T00:09:00.000+08:00

I have made two personal records last Sunday. Firstly, I got up at 5am (Gosh… I can’t even remember when I last did that.. Probably in high school). And, why 5am? Unbelievably cos’ I was heading to the KL Marathon. I was kind of “pulled” into this (Still trying to refrain using the word “con”). There were 4 categories: 7km, 10km, 21km and the ultimate full marathon 42km. I was put into the de-facto 10km category, although I did very-much-wish to join the 7km which was only open to High-School kids. BUT, one of our project teammates actually took part in the 42 km. So, who says Accenture folks are unfit?

The run started at 7am sharp. I did not study the running route map beforehand, hence every turn I made was a good surprise that morning. The marathon brought me from Dataran Merdeka up the hill to Jalan Pudu, then passed through Times Square, then continued to end of Jalan Imbi, then turned left to Jalan Bukit BIntang (Pavilion’s corner), then made a right turn at Jalan Sultan Ismail, continued to end of Jalan SI and turned left into Jalan TAR…continued to the end of road and that’s the finishing line… (Sounded damn easy here IF you Drive!) Worst thing is that my IPOD is left at home, hence I was running without any music tempo.. It just doubled up the level of difficulty.. man.

Nevertheless, I did enjoy the run, mainly cos’ I was running with such big group of people, and running on road is far more interesting than on the gym treadmill where my focus is largely distracted by the ticking of timer and calorie counter… Crossed the finishing line at 8.15am … YAYY!!!… I actually completed the marathon. Even I find it very difficult to believe that. (I thought I’d wave for the taxi mid-way). Received a small medal which says “10KM Run Finisher” … I’m so gonna frame this up and show it to my grand-grandkids.. and tell them about my weishui marathon story.. (LOL, my grand2kids are so going to like me :P)

Some photos of the heroic group from Accenture..

All in red vest standing by @ 6.30am *Yawn* (From Left: Annafi, Walter, Denis, Kalel, me, Ilham, Ilham's Hubby)

Annafi with our 10k Run Finisher medals

Victorious Smile - Everyone completed the run.

Freddy

We are not alone! :P

The 42km Hero Chin Kee after the 5 hour run! (Geez.. I could drive back to Penang liao)

Calories Pump @ Devi's Corner Bangsar after the run. (Ps: Just when you thought we lost some weight from the 10km marathon… but who cares?)

Beginning of an exciting weekend

2008-03-30T22:21:00.000+08:00

It's Friday again. As usual, the project group drove out to Bangsar for makan-makan. First stop at Sakae Sushi. Just a small tip for everyone, If you ever visit Sakae Sushi in BV2, avoid the little VIP room cos' the service there is very slow. We waited for more than an hour for our sushi platter, which never arrive.. Left Sakae Sushi with much dissappointment, we headed to the second lunch place - Marmalade (Yes, SECOND lunch place!)

Does it look like a wooden jail?

Marmalade - Happily waiting for our 2nd lunch
Vit C Pump = Carrot Cake + Carrot Juice!
Yumss... Teriyaki Chicken with Brown Rice. (Healthy Outside Food)

Party continues that nite @ Redbox The Curve..

Farewell Party

2008-03-26T23:18:00.001+08:00

2 farewell parties in less than a week time. This time around was Ping Yee. Perhaps this has become a norm in our project & firm. Grass is somehow always greener on other side. Anyway, all the best my friend.. (Do visit us sometime, especially your new office aint that far from us)

My New Toy

2008-03-26T22:51:00.000+08:00

Woohoo! I've finally got myself a new camera. Pentax S10. So far so good, still keeping my fingers cross. From now on, I'm running out of excuses for not updating blog anymore.

Went to Nilai for Cheng Beng last weekend. It's one of the few rare opportunities to meet the Chiang family. Anyway, caught a shot of my dad and uncles. Yes, they do look very, very much alike (In cantonese we say "seng-kor-peng-yan")

What is better than Ice-Kacang on a sunny day like this? Loving it.. Mum's fav's order (Auntie, More kacang, Less sugar please)

Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote

2008-03-23T00:42:00.000+08:00

This is very interesting, Lia (My colleague) and I tried it out after work at our Dayabumi office carpark.. And it works! (Yes, it works!)

Forwarded Msg: This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone.

Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your
keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).

好久不见！

2008-03-23T00:14:00.000+08:00

真是太久没有Update这blog乐。真惭愧。

上星期六我第一次请朋友到我吉隆坡家里吃饭。答应了很久，终于实现了诺言，更发现我好久好久都没有下厨了。吉隆坡的周末，除了Shopping , 就是吃喝K歌，活动似乎都逗留在商场里面。偶尔在家里请吃其实也很不错。（没有精彩的照片可以分享的，我还是没买Camera。好可惜！可惜！）

上星期四我给KimKoon一个小小的生日惊喜。因为她是明天生日的，我却给他提早庆祝了，　留给她特别的人陪他过这特别日子吧！吃吃饭，切切蛋糕，也送了个小礼物。（小姐，祝你生日快乐！）

这几天我常上健身房因为下星期我将参加10KM马拉松。全身痛啊！现在的胫骨好像不被我控制了。但是，我却有着股久违的健康感觉！

海上钢琴师

2008-02-16T23:22:00.000+08:00

曾经听说过[海上钢琴师] (Legend of 1900) 吗? 最近在PPS上重温了这部戏。还是一样的感人。故事述说的是一位重来未曾踏上陆地的钢琴师的人生。就因为他未曾踏入陆地，他的思维就与常人不一样，与世无争，而且用不同的角度去看世界。加上片子里不绝的好音乐，更让我陶醉不已。好戏!

相反的，新片[长江七号]就真的平平罢了！故事内容并不怎么精彩，周星驰不再耍宝，七仔（故事里的小外星物）和小男主角决还算可以，但是带动不了搞笑气氛。实在是一部普通得很的贺岁片。

星座的奥秘

2008-02-13T00:24:00.000+08:00

在偶然的晚餐聚会上，我朋友提起了星座与人的性格的相近度。一直以来，我都对星座学半信半疑。一方面，我无法用科学的逻辑去用几亿光年外的行星来揣测一个地球人的性格。我认为，一个人的性格应该是被身边的环境所影响。另一方面，我又不得不承认许多人的性格都与星座书素说得非常相似。我想，这会不会是因为人类的个性其实相近，想法也没有太大的差别。所以不管你是属哪个星座其实骨子里都是一样的。

今年的农历新年

2008-02-12T23:05:00.000+08:00

今年的新年似乎与往年不大一样。家里的人数中是让我觉得越来越少，昨天更为明显因为玮玮也离开槟城，踏入大学的第一阶段了。往好的方面一想，哥哥有多了个亲人在身边，墨尔本又更热闹了。但是最让我惊奇的是玮玮的朋友。在她的欢送会上，我才正式的认识了她的朋友。除了那熟悉的三五好友，其他的我全不认识，而就让我惊奇的是他们全是钟灵生。那时的我才恍然，玮长大了。虽然如此，见到他们如此纯真的友谊，不仅想起读书时的朋友。踏入社会后，我更深深体会到这种友谊的难能可贵。

送玮的那一个早上，我想大家其实是万般不舍的。纵使我知道今天的科技已经可以让我们通过视讯见面，更何况五个月后又会见面，可是这种离别的场面还是让大家留下不少的眼泪。我想，这种画面应在接下来的每一年应该很频吧。

后录：那天下午，我巧遇了一班中学的好友，大多数都大学毕业了。这一下午就沉醉在“说当年”的回忆里。想想，昨天玮的朋友在六年后再度相遇，应该也是这种场面吧。

玮和“槟灵”同学

最疼你的二姑，婆，妹和我