It came to the stage where when i keyed in the address of my blog in my IE that it did not appear in my history anymore ... yes, it's that long ... it's not because I'm too busy, it's just that all of a sudden i felt if i want to tell people what's going on around me, not that i've got a fan base ... but you never know who's actually passing by ... :)
Ok where did i stopped? July, KK trip. After that, I've still managed to go on a trip almost once a month, be it personal or business. Along the way, made mistakes here or there, met some good and not so good people, went through some fun times and uncertainties. And life is just so ironic. It's already December, the last month of the year, and funny how things changes so fast. Need to take a glimpse of what happened over the past 4-5 months ....
Aug 07
1. Youth Camp at Port Dickson, the most entertaining job was given to me - videographer :)
2. Genting trip with IT monkeys, messed up the BBQ chicken wings, either it was not frozen properly or i've bought aging chickens :P
3. Bangkok Trip - Went with Rob, Grace, Daphne and her two friends. This time I really covered places I've never been to earlier
Sep 07
1. The return of koko and unka leong. Blardy mahjong kakis
2. Meeting at HKIA, managed to meet up with the HK leos. :)
Oct 07
1. Bonus payout time! Cleared my debts, bought some UT, did some shopping (working clothes, bed sheets, comforter, carpet, underwater cam casing) and bought a mountain bike
2. Applied and awarded scholarship by AA to study masters in UK starting Sep 08
3. Leftover cash, went for diving trip in KK Tar Park
Nov 07
1. No trips - busy month with system upgrades and AAX first flight
2. Tried out BlackBerry Pearl but didn't like it, changed to SE P1i for a very good bargain
Dec 07
1. No trips again - busy work schedule and koko's wedding
2. Xmas outing in KL with the Leos - again we will be parking in Crown Regency Apartments
3. Bro's wedding on 30th December
Despite all these, it's not the real reason for me not blogging. Everytime i login to blogspot, i wanted to write about my activities, but there's always an urge to burst and write about how i'd really felt for the last few months. My boss always said, "with great powers come great responsibilities". And I always agreed, but never experienced it. For the last 6 months, I did. Many times I had to put on a brave face, many times I had to speak out, and many times I had to find ways to make my statements "politically correct".
Things changed around me. And at times at a pace that I reluctantly had to follow. I tried to just do whatever i can but that was never enough. Everything always catch up on me and haunt me. I have a great team and great mentor, but then it's just not good enough if i don't manage them well. I always felt disappointed because we did well but the results were always not enough. You get an A+, people find a worm hiding behind it. No doubt the working environment is dynamic and fast paced. Without the experience I was lost many times and had to recover as fast as i fell.
I felt tired, i felt stressed, I felt like a kid again and wanted to go back to school, wanted long semester breaks and most of all, wanted to find a sanctuary far away from home where the fishes and corals are my only friends. I am tired, there are nights where i just go to bed and tears just flow out. I can't remember what i did yesterday at work. And i can't remember what is my goal in life. It just eats into you so much that the next best choice is to let everything go and start all over again.
There's so many things happening around me that i don't think it is advisable to say it in a blog. That is why the long silence ... but I hope with this post, a better tomorrow awaits ...
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Monday, 26 November 2007
Tagged by Robarto ...
Am quite outdated but was tagged by Robert last month .... so here it goes ...
4 Jobs I have had in my life :-
1. Technician at Computer Shop
2. Web Designer
3. Web Develoeper
4. Airline Systems
4 Places I have lived:-
Shah Alam
Taman Mayang Jaya
Kajang/Bangi
Kelana Jaya
4 Countries I have been to on vacation :-
Japan
Hong Kong/Macau
Thailand
Indonesia
4 of my Favourite Food :-
Charcoal Fried Hokkien mee hoon with Pork Lard
Char Siew/Siew Yoke Rice
Claypot Fa Lam Pork Meat with Salted Fish and Brinjaw
Oh Jien (fried Oyster with Egg)
4 Places I would rather be right now :-
Diving in an Island
Watching sunset at the beach with *tut*
At my host family's house in Kumamoto
On a live aboard ship diving in different sites all over the region
4 Friends I’m going to tag :-
none :-)
4 Jobs I have had in my life :-
1. Technician at Computer Shop
2. Web Designer
3. Web Develoeper
4. Airline Systems
4 Places I have lived:-
Shah Alam
Taman Mayang Jaya
Kajang/Bangi
Kelana Jaya
4 Countries I have been to on vacation :-
Japan
Hong Kong/Macau
Thailand
Indonesia
4 of my Favourite Food :-
Charcoal Fried Hokkien mee hoon with Pork Lard
Char Siew/Siew Yoke Rice
Claypot Fa Lam Pork Meat with Salted Fish and Brinjaw
Oh Jien (fried Oyster with Egg)
4 Places I would rather be right now :-
Diving in an Island
Watching sunset at the beach with *tut*
At my host family's house in Kumamoto
On a live aboard ship diving in different sites all over the region
4 Friends I’m going to tag :-
none :-)
Sunday, 19 August 2007
Conquering Mount Kinabalu
Yes, it took me 2 months to blog about this, and finally here it is ...
This trip was planned in January when we bought some free seats on AirAsia. The initial 5 of us were reduced to 4 when Chee How has obligations during that week and it was too late to find any replacement.
The dates, 24 - 27th July 2007. Wasn't the best time of all as it was weekdays and work in office was never less. Some preprations were done before hand to get ourselves going. But being the indisiplined me as usual ... i didn't work out as much as i could.
Day 1
Rob was already there the week before for some community service project at the nearby kampung. When me, Merv and Grace arrived at KK's LCCT we met up with the car rental guy and got hold of the proton wira at 90 ringgit/day, thanks to Chow Pang for making the arrangement.
On the way to town we were already thinking about tapau KFC to the national park for dinner as we heard that the food there was not good which later we found out were wrong, only the food at laban rata tastes rata (flat) as it's name. Lunch at KK and some last minute shopping and we're off to Kinabalu National park. The journey was estimated to be 3-4 hours on mountain roads and i was on the wheels. The maps provided by the tourism board wasn't as complete but one of my colleague Alistair who works in the airport reckons that the sign boards are quite clear. So we used the map and the sign board to guide us all the way, only taking wrong turns on one or two occasions until we arrived at the main park office.
Our trekking plan was to go up from the Mesilau trail (extra 2 km but with more beautiful view) and come down by the usual Timpohon trail. On the way to the Mesilau we got a bit lost. First we missed the turning and was headed towards the hot springs, we turned back and manage to find the turning which actually feels like going into a small Cameron Highland village. Then we missed the second turning again, this time ending up in a very steep road with no tarmac. The car had problems going upwards and was stuck in the potholes and the bottom of the car chasis kept hitting the ground (hope the car rental guy didn't read this blog).
We met some locals who were walking downhill and they told us the road actually leads to a 'kebun sayur' and not Mesilau resort, KNN! So we let the car roll back downhill and manage to find the right turning. 30 minutes later we checked in to the resort's 6 bed hostel. The weather was getting cold and wet. The walkway was slippery and i slipped twice on my brand new ACG sandals. I thought that's it, the sandals are not seasoned yet for KK. I walked to the resort's restaurant barefooted.
The food at the restaurant was quite tasty and were in big portion, we only forked out about RM60 for the 4 of us to have 3 dishes with 4 huge plates of rice (luckily didn't buy KFC :P). Feeling satisfied we adjourned back to our room and packed our stuff for the trek the following morning.
Day 2
We loaded the spare baggage back into the car and then proceeded to the trail entrance to register ourselves. We brought along a lunch set sold at the restaurant, which has 2 sets of sandwiches, a hard boiled egg, chicken wing and a bottle mineral water.
We started off the trail steadily, taking pictures and talking to each other casually. Not even halfway through our guide informed us that he had something urgent to attend to and needed to go back down, he gave us information on the trail and who to meet when we are at Laban Rata, and also took our car keys and offered to park the car at the headquarters for the price of RM30. I felt a bit weird that guides are allowed to abandon their customers and let them walk themselves, why pay for a guide at the first place? Anyway the trail is quite commercialized and every rest hut has a toilet, we knew we can take care of ourselves.
The weather was misty, so when we reached the highest peak of the Mesilau trail we couldn't see far. I could hear the sounds of water fall and caught a glimpse of it far away when the mist cleared briefly. Weather was getting cooler as we ascend. After the peak we descended all the way down until we reach the mail trail, connecting from the Layang-Layang Hut. It was afternoon then and the rain has been drizzling for a couple of hours. From Layang-Layang onwards we can start to feel the thin air and steeper ascent up the trail. The temperature was dropping and i could feel my fingers freezing everytime i join both hands together. I already had my sweater on earlier by the cold on my legs were unbearable the moment i stop moving as sweat vaporises on the surface of the unconvered skin.
By 4.40pm we finally reached the Laban Rata rest house. We met with our guide Mauries and then went straight to have an early dinner before check-in. The food was somewhat pricey and not tasty at all, i mean i can cook better than that ... seriously. Anyway I was too tired to consume my mee goreng that Merv and Rob helped finish half of it. The best was still having a hot cup of coffee around both my hands, putting it near to my face feeling the warmth going through my face.
Our hostel was another 10 minutes away from where we were. And I though it was near, so i insisted on going straight to the hostel even though it started raining. KNN it was a big mistake, after being in a room with heater and hot coffee, outside felt like north pole. It was freezing, and still in our short pants, every drop of rain felt like ice, my soaked shoes and numb fingers were killing me ... finally we arrived at Gunting Lagadan, the final oibstacle was we had to climb up a slippery rock surface before arriving at the entrance.
tired, cold, exhausted and smelly, the climb's beginning to take its toll on me...
Day 3
After 4 hours of restless "sleep", we woke up to the noise of the other people walking around the hostel. My toes and fingers felt numb the whole night. This is the type of situation where you will think how will it feel up there when you'er already struggling where you are.
We ate instant noodles and geared up. The weather wasn't good and it's been drizzling the whole night. Mauries our guide was outside smoking and monitoring the weather. Moments later he came to our room and said "let's go" ... feeling full of excitement and don't know what to expect. I hyped myself up by expecting the worse and hoping for the best, it's always the safest mentality.
Our walk up to Sayap Sayap hut was dark and long ... not to mention freezing cold. My poncho was starting to tear apart by the strong wind, KNN. As we approach the orcky area of the climb, I turned around and saw lights far far below, Mauries say we can see KK town from here. I can imagine how far up we are. The air is thin and the wind is freezing, i made myself breath faster to get more oxygen into my system. the rocks were slippery and there the last part before we arrive at the Sayap Sayap hut requires us to use the rope. I could see nothing except for the areas where my torch is shining. And to make things worse, the battery to my head torch ran out fast, i suspect it could have accidentally been switched on the whole trip up when it was in my bag. I had to take out my secondary torch which was hand held. Most of the time i hold it with my mouth so that both my hands are free.
After registering at the hut, we proceed on flatter rocks but going upwards. We had occasional stops to catch some breath. It was a long long walk and we could not see anything around us. The wind was so strong i lost balance a few times while walking. The best I could do was follow Mauries's foot steps which were steady and slow, but consistent.
If you notice at this point i have only been describing about myself, because in my mind i could not think much, Rob, Merv and Grace didn't register in my mind, it's frozen, I can't remember what they said or did, we just walked and walked. As the unfittest of the 4, I concentrated on my ascend. As we passed the other peaks such as Donkey's Ear and St John's we were able to see a dim light far ahead. "That's Low's peak, we're almost there ..." he pointed to the light and said, as we passed a sign board saying 500m more.
I turned around again, and saw a line of lights moving towards us, there was a total of 100 over climbers that day who would conquer the peak. I realised i was the only one who kept drinking water, the other 3 were quite steady moving on.
By 5.30 we arrived at the peak, it was already crowded. Looking back more were on the way. At the peak i really didn't know what to do, it was cold, windy, sitting down means cooling down my body which causes a lost of heat. Gosh it was suffering, and the sun wasn't up yet. I looked around and started to see the red horizon rising from my left. It was getting brighter very fast, after taking a few pics we decided to hide behind some rocks to block ourselves from the wind. Was kind of worries that my muscles will give way and start to cramp.
By 6.15 we decided to descent. Mervs took out his Jalur Gemilang and we took a group pic with it. That was the moment the sense of achievement started to kick in. The sunrays also helped warm us up a little. The view was clearer and I was shocked looking at the trail we walked to reach here. It was a long long way back to sayap sayap.
The descent was faster as we're going downhill. Soem parts we had to use the rope. I fell a couple of times due to the wet surface. Back at Sayap Sayap hut, i looked down at the trail we climbed, i cannot believe we actually did that at night. It was freaking dangerous even with the ropes to hold on. After 2 hours of walking down rocks and stairs, we finally reached our hut. Managed to rest a while and then we departed at 11am after another round of lousy food at the rest house.
Remembering 5 years back when I was at taman negara, my legs gave way to muscles strain and atritis when i was on the way down from gunung Tahan. The same thing happened again after the first stretch of trekking. I could not bend me knees or it will just give way. I was think "fuck", there goes my muscles ... making use of other parts of my body, i basically "limped" like a pregnant lady all the way down. The urge for warm air, nice food and comfy bed, pushed me on ... Rob, Merv and Grace were patient waiting for me, and with Mauries walking behind me making sure i don't fall down the mountain at any part of the trek :P .... There come to a point where i cannot feel pain, just numb, i lost control of my legs, used my hand with the tongkat to manuever.
After 5 hours of torture, we made it. We took the Timpohon route so that we can get back to the headquarters to get our certs. We also gave away our tongkat to other people who have just arrived at the park. Mervs offered to drive and we were back in town by 6.30pm. In the car, I could feel my tow nails giving way. It felt like the nail is not part of my toe but part of the shoe, it was damn scary but luckily when i took off my shoe at the hotel, it was still intact, but loose, looser than a 40 year old prostitute and i had to take good care of it making sure i don't bang anything while walking.
We had dinner at a nearby restaurant which served really nice food, especially the curry sear food.That night was the first night that i had a good sleep. We all KOed at 9.30pm.
Day 4
Morning, we woke up and had breakfast at a nearby restaurant, they served nice noodles with mixed fishballs and fish meat.We drove around and went to the Philipino market to do some souvenir shopping. We didn't have much time to find a budget massage place so we decided to skip that. During lunch we met Chow Phang and had bak kut teh. And after that we were headed to the airport. We basically can smell the nice stench on our backpacks so we decided to check-in to spare the nose of the other passengers on board.
In all the trip turned out quite well as we achieved what we went there for. Mind mattered more than body at times like this. I remember after the Gunung Tahan trip I told myself to never do it again ... this time around, same advise, I will not do it again ... once is more than enough, and to do it with your best buddies is more than i can ask for.
Cheers!
This trip was planned in January when we bought some free seats on AirAsia. The initial 5 of us were reduced to 4 when Chee How has obligations during that week and it was too late to find any replacement.
The dates, 24 - 27th July 2007. Wasn't the best time of all as it was weekdays and work in office was never less. Some preprations were done before hand to get ourselves going. But being the indisiplined me as usual ... i didn't work out as much as i could.
Day 1
Rob was already there the week before for some community service project at the nearby kampung. When me, Merv and Grace arrived at KK's LCCT we met up with the car rental guy and got hold of the proton wira at 90 ringgit/day, thanks to Chow Pang for making the arrangement.
On the way to town we were already thinking about tapau KFC to the national park for dinner as we heard that the food there was not good which later we found out were wrong, only the food at laban rata tastes rata (flat) as it's name. Lunch at KK and some last minute shopping and we're off to Kinabalu National park. The journey was estimated to be 3-4 hours on mountain roads and i was on the wheels. The maps provided by the tourism board wasn't as complete but one of my colleague Alistair who works in the airport reckons that the sign boards are quite clear. So we used the map and the sign board to guide us all the way, only taking wrong turns on one or two occasions until we arrived at the main park office.
Our trekking plan was to go up from the Mesilau trail (extra 2 km but with more beautiful view) and come down by the usual Timpohon trail. On the way to the Mesilau we got a bit lost. First we missed the turning and was headed towards the hot springs, we turned back and manage to find the turning which actually feels like going into a small Cameron Highland village. Then we missed the second turning again, this time ending up in a very steep road with no tarmac. The car had problems going upwards and was stuck in the potholes and the bottom of the car chasis kept hitting the ground (hope the car rental guy didn't read this blog).
We met some locals who were walking downhill and they told us the road actually leads to a 'kebun sayur' and not Mesilau resort, KNN! So we let the car roll back downhill and manage to find the right turning. 30 minutes later we checked in to the resort's 6 bed hostel. The weather was getting cold and wet. The walkway was slippery and i slipped twice on my brand new ACG sandals. I thought that's it, the sandals are not seasoned yet for KK. I walked to the resort's restaurant barefooted.
The food at the restaurant was quite tasty and were in big portion, we only forked out about RM60 for the 4 of us to have 3 dishes with 4 huge plates of rice (luckily didn't buy KFC :P). Feeling satisfied we adjourned back to our room and packed our stuff for the trek the following morning.
Day 2
We loaded the spare baggage back into the car and then proceeded to the trail entrance to register ourselves. We brought along a lunch set sold at the restaurant, which has 2 sets of sandwiches, a hard boiled egg, chicken wing and a bottle mineral water.
We started off the trail steadily, taking pictures and talking to each other casually. Not even halfway through our guide informed us that he had something urgent to attend to and needed to go back down, he gave us information on the trail and who to meet when we are at Laban Rata, and also took our car keys and offered to park the car at the headquarters for the price of RM30. I felt a bit weird that guides are allowed to abandon their customers and let them walk themselves, why pay for a guide at the first place? Anyway the trail is quite commercialized and every rest hut has a toilet, we knew we can take care of ourselves.
The weather was misty, so when we reached the highest peak of the Mesilau trail we couldn't see far. I could hear the sounds of water fall and caught a glimpse of it far away when the mist cleared briefly. Weather was getting cooler as we ascend. After the peak we descended all the way down until we reach the mail trail, connecting from the Layang-Layang Hut. It was afternoon then and the rain has been drizzling for a couple of hours. From Layang-Layang onwards we can start to feel the thin air and steeper ascent up the trail. The temperature was dropping and i could feel my fingers freezing everytime i join both hands together. I already had my sweater on earlier by the cold on my legs were unbearable the moment i stop moving as sweat vaporises on the surface of the unconvered skin.
By 4.40pm we finally reached the Laban Rata rest house. We met with our guide Mauries and then went straight to have an early dinner before check-in. The food was somewhat pricey and not tasty at all, i mean i can cook better than that ... seriously. Anyway I was too tired to consume my mee goreng that Merv and Rob helped finish half of it. The best was still having a hot cup of coffee around both my hands, putting it near to my face feeling the warmth going through my face.
Our hostel was another 10 minutes away from where we were. And I though it was near, so i insisted on going straight to the hostel even though it started raining. KNN it was a big mistake, after being in a room with heater and hot coffee, outside felt like north pole. It was freezing, and still in our short pants, every drop of rain felt like ice, my soaked shoes and numb fingers were killing me ... finally we arrived at Gunting Lagadan, the final oibstacle was we had to climb up a slippery rock surface before arriving at the entrance.
tired, cold, exhausted and smelly, the climb's beginning to take its toll on me...
Day 3
After 4 hours of restless "sleep", we woke up to the noise of the other people walking around the hostel. My toes and fingers felt numb the whole night. This is the type of situation where you will think how will it feel up there when you'er already struggling where you are.
We ate instant noodles and geared up. The weather wasn't good and it's been drizzling the whole night. Mauries our guide was outside smoking and monitoring the weather. Moments later he came to our room and said "let's go" ... feeling full of excitement and don't know what to expect. I hyped myself up by expecting the worse and hoping for the best, it's always the safest mentality.
Our walk up to Sayap Sayap hut was dark and long ... not to mention freezing cold. My poncho was starting to tear apart by the strong wind, KNN. As we approach the orcky area of the climb, I turned around and saw lights far far below, Mauries say we can see KK town from here. I can imagine how far up we are. The air is thin and the wind is freezing, i made myself breath faster to get more oxygen into my system. the rocks were slippery and there the last part before we arrive at the Sayap Sayap hut requires us to use the rope. I could see nothing except for the areas where my torch is shining. And to make things worse, the battery to my head torch ran out fast, i suspect it could have accidentally been switched on the whole trip up when it was in my bag. I had to take out my secondary torch which was hand held. Most of the time i hold it with my mouth so that both my hands are free.
After registering at the hut, we proceed on flatter rocks but going upwards. We had occasional stops to catch some breath. It was a long long walk and we could not see anything around us. The wind was so strong i lost balance a few times while walking. The best I could do was follow Mauries's foot steps which were steady and slow, but consistent.
If you notice at this point i have only been describing about myself, because in my mind i could not think much, Rob, Merv and Grace didn't register in my mind, it's frozen, I can't remember what they said or did, we just walked and walked. As the unfittest of the 4, I concentrated on my ascend. As we passed the other peaks such as Donkey's Ear and St John's we were able to see a dim light far ahead. "That's Low's peak, we're almost there ..." he pointed to the light and said, as we passed a sign board saying 500m more.
I turned around again, and saw a line of lights moving towards us, there was a total of 100 over climbers that day who would conquer the peak. I realised i was the only one who kept drinking water, the other 3 were quite steady moving on.
By 5.30 we arrived at the peak, it was already crowded. Looking back more were on the way. At the peak i really didn't know what to do, it was cold, windy, sitting down means cooling down my body which causes a lost of heat. Gosh it was suffering, and the sun wasn't up yet. I looked around and started to see the red horizon rising from my left. It was getting brighter very fast, after taking a few pics we decided to hide behind some rocks to block ourselves from the wind. Was kind of worries that my muscles will give way and start to cramp.
By 6.15 we decided to descent. Mervs took out his Jalur Gemilang and we took a group pic with it. That was the moment the sense of achievement started to kick in. The sunrays also helped warm us up a little. The view was clearer and I was shocked looking at the trail we walked to reach here. It was a long long way back to sayap sayap.
The descent was faster as we're going downhill. Soem parts we had to use the rope. I fell a couple of times due to the wet surface. Back at Sayap Sayap hut, i looked down at the trail we climbed, i cannot believe we actually did that at night. It was freaking dangerous even with the ropes to hold on. After 2 hours of walking down rocks and stairs, we finally reached our hut. Managed to rest a while and then we departed at 11am after another round of lousy food at the rest house.
Remembering 5 years back when I was at taman negara, my legs gave way to muscles strain and atritis when i was on the way down from gunung Tahan. The same thing happened again after the first stretch of trekking. I could not bend me knees or it will just give way. I was think "fuck", there goes my muscles ... making use of other parts of my body, i basically "limped" like a pregnant lady all the way down. The urge for warm air, nice food and comfy bed, pushed me on ... Rob, Merv and Grace were patient waiting for me, and with Mauries walking behind me making sure i don't fall down the mountain at any part of the trek :P .... There come to a point where i cannot feel pain, just numb, i lost control of my legs, used my hand with the tongkat to manuever.
After 5 hours of torture, we made it. We took the Timpohon route so that we can get back to the headquarters to get our certs. We also gave away our tongkat to other people who have just arrived at the park. Mervs offered to drive and we were back in town by 6.30pm. In the car, I could feel my tow nails giving way. It felt like the nail is not part of my toe but part of the shoe, it was damn scary but luckily when i took off my shoe at the hotel, it was still intact, but loose, looser than a 40 year old prostitute and i had to take good care of it making sure i don't bang anything while walking.
We had dinner at a nearby restaurant which served really nice food, especially the curry sear food.That night was the first night that i had a good sleep. We all KOed at 9.30pm.
Day 4
Morning, we woke up and had breakfast at a nearby restaurant, they served nice noodles with mixed fishballs and fish meat.We drove around and went to the Philipino market to do some souvenir shopping. We didn't have much time to find a budget massage place so we decided to skip that. During lunch we met Chow Phang and had bak kut teh. And after that we were headed to the airport. We basically can smell the nice stench on our backpacks so we decided to check-in to spare the nose of the other passengers on board.
In all the trip turned out quite well as we achieved what we went there for. Mind mattered more than body at times like this. I remember after the Gunung Tahan trip I told myself to never do it again ... this time around, same advise, I will not do it again ... once is more than enough, and to do it with your best buddies is more than i can ask for.
Cheers!
Saturday, 11 August 2007
long long silence ...
my gawd ... i haven't updated my blog for more than a month! It's not that I'm lazy or something, but over the past 5 weeks lots of things been happening and I didn't even have the time to sort out my photos and stories. I'll be updating it soon but I'm still stuck with lots of stuff ...
what happened in July ...
1. Along with 3 of my best friends, we conquered Mount Kinabalu and I practically limped all the way down ...
2. Our company announces AirAsiaX's plans to start sales soon. And thanks to that, we've been kept busy ...
3. My house underwent a facelift for 2 weeks, plaster ceiling, repainting, new wooden flooring and rearrangement of room furnitures. Everything's brand new in preparation for bro's wedding this coming December ... had to pack and unpack everything ...
what happened and will be in August so far ...
1. We organised another Youth Exchange camp for the Lions Club last weekend in Port Dickson, and the young members rocks!
2. Will be departing to Genting in the morning for a 2d1n trip with my fellow IT department monkeys, a well deserved team retreat ...
3. There'll be a suprise coming up from AirAsia soon ... stay tuned ...
4. My long awaited first trip to Bangkok ... i mean for this year la ... is finally arriving, 31 Aug - 3 Sep. can't believe that i was there 5 times last year and this year zero! (actually i missed the first trip in Feb due to bad flu and the doc advised me against traveling on air)
7 items and counting ... hope i can blog about it as much as possible ...
what happened in July ...
1. Along with 3 of my best friends, we conquered Mount Kinabalu and I practically limped all the way down ...
2. Our company announces AirAsiaX's plans to start sales soon. And thanks to that, we've been kept busy ...
3. My house underwent a facelift for 2 weeks, plaster ceiling, repainting, new wooden flooring and rearrangement of room furnitures. Everything's brand new in preparation for bro's wedding this coming December ... had to pack and unpack everything ...
what happened and will be in August so far ...
1. We organised another Youth Exchange camp for the Lions Club last weekend in Port Dickson, and the young members rocks!
2. Will be departing to Genting in the morning for a 2d1n trip with my fellow IT department monkeys, a well deserved team retreat ...
3. There'll be a suprise coming up from AirAsia soon ... stay tuned ...
4. My long awaited first trip to Bangkok ... i mean for this year la ... is finally arriving, 31 Aug - 3 Sep. can't believe that i was there 5 times last year and this year zero! (actually i missed the first trip in Feb due to bad flu and the doc advised me against traveling on air)
7 items and counting ... hope i can blog about it as much as possible ...
Sunday, 8 July 2007
Suprise! Mervs caught off guard ...
Opsss this has been in my draft for a while.....hope it's not too late...:P
Over the past week a few of us have been acting busy and told Mervyn that we won't be available on the eve of his birthday, which was last Satuday. Being equally busy that night as well, he wasn't expecting anything from us after attending a wedding dinner with Joanne. But behind his back Joanne and Rob has been planning and getting everthing in place:
Scene 1:
Venue: Sime Darby Convention Centre, Bkt Kiara
Mission personels: Joanne, Rob, SY, Elaine Tham, Zetuan and Elaine Ang
- 5 of us departed from Somo in Hartamas to the wedding venue. Identified Joanne's car, opened the back with the spare key given to us, and place the cake with candle in it.
- We parked our car nearby but out of sight from the main exit to Joanne's car.
- Rob sms Joanne to give the green light.
- Joanne ask Merv to get a present from her car which she wants to give to the bride.
- And what happens can be seen in the video below:
Scene 2:
- All the other friends are already seated in Somo.
- Joanne request Merv to close his eyes and leads him to our table.
- "Supirse!", he's totally shocked to see ppl from his zhi mui, KLU leos and KLCC leos sitting around the table
Enjoyed ourselves the whole night with the usual drinks and birthday cake. And no thanks to Zetuan who got Mervs high with the 4 shots of 'dunno wat' ... but it wasn't strong enough to get Merv to bed ... the amount was just right for a good night.
Happy Birthday dude!
Over the past week a few of us have been acting busy and told Mervyn that we won't be available on the eve of his birthday, which was last Satuday. Being equally busy that night as well, he wasn't expecting anything from us after attending a wedding dinner with Joanne. But behind his back Joanne and Rob has been planning and getting everthing in place:
Scene 1:
Venue: Sime Darby Convention Centre, Bkt Kiara
Mission personels: Joanne, Rob, SY, Elaine Tham, Zetuan and Elaine Ang
- 5 of us departed from Somo in Hartamas to the wedding venue. Identified Joanne's car, opened the back with the spare key given to us, and place the cake with candle in it.
- We parked our car nearby but out of sight from the main exit to Joanne's car.
- Rob sms Joanne to give the green light.
- Joanne ask Merv to get a present from her car which she wants to give to the bride.
- And what happens can be seen in the video below:
Scene 2:
- All the other friends are already seated in Somo.
- Joanne request Merv to close his eyes and leads him to our table.
- "Supirse!", he's totally shocked to see ppl from his zhi mui, KLU leos and KLCC leos sitting around the table
Enjoyed ourselves the whole night with the usual drinks and birthday cake. And no thanks to Zetuan who got Mervs high with the 4 shots of 'dunno wat' ... but it wasn't strong enough to get Merv to bed ... the amount was just right for a good night.
Happy Birthday dude!
Monday, 2 July 2007
random images ... volume 2: Jan 2007
With the IT dudes during New Year celebration at Shogun Buffet , 1 Utama
Tommy won the grand prize of 800 freaking ringgit
With Shota on his b'day countdown in Sanctuary, the Curve
Fan Pan in da house, act -AP- during K session
Shota's b'day teh tarik at Mongkok Char Chan Teng
Laine & Fukku trying to earn some extra bucks by acting retardo
Keep Walking ...
My B'day bash at Sanctuary, Zetuan looks like giving a B-job
B'day in the office ... grapey flavoured cream
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