So when was the last I updated the page?? Hmm… At least a month ago when my head were buried under the piles of books and declared myself a Nerd..  So, I’ve managed to finish all my exams, travelled a bit, got sick along the way, managed the on going never ending strings of assignments, relax , be myself and have fun the past few weeks. Everyone was commenting on my FB that I don’t look like I’m here to study, more to having the time of my life traveling.. Well the fun part is always captured in the photos and the not so fun part is kept aside.. (e.g. burning midnight oil for assignment submission, working in a group with people that does work half way, reading articles over articles of stock evaluations etc etc)

Since I have so many things that happened over the past few weeks, i would just summarize everything.. (photo updates please go check FB.. felt its double work to be posting lotsa photos that people have seen already)

Hmm.. Lets start with exams’ week. Completed three papers in the spread of three working days excluding the weekends… Hopefully results would be ok. haha.. Didn’t want to waste the already short term break, I flew to Norway the night after my last paper. Was my first time to Norway and also the first time I did not do any research about the city that I was visiting. Thought Mr. Tall would be there to be the tour guide (which he did) and all the studying for exam paper just left no extra space in the mind for holiday notes.. haha

Off I went to this foreign land where I knew 1 person out of the whole population.. Reaching bout 10-ish 11pm didn’t worry me because I was told the Express to the city only takes 20 minutes and last train leaves past midnight. Happily I went on the train ride looking forward to see Mr. Tall in the train station as arranged earlier but but but the nature of the industry we are in just likes surprises. Work took longer than expected and I was waiting in the station like some clueless lost kid with no sense of directions and bearing… It was cold and dark outside, the station has so many exits. I was instructed to wait at where i got down from the train and he will FIND me… sounds like its a big place that I might get lost. So I sat and read the novel i brought along till he sneak out from work to get me (Which was like three minutes walking distance) I could have managed to get there myself if i were slightly more into getting to know the basic directions haha… For once I was a lil scared waiting alone… Learned my lesson.. hehe…

The following days spend in the humble city of Oslo was superb. The city gives a warm impression and I would say its a nice city to live in. Its a city but practiced quality lifestyle (through my observation that is) Did my sight seeing, and met new friends that further extend their Norwegian hospitality to the small Asian girl. Overall, it was a good trip on my mid sem break. Two albums of filtered photos already in uploaded in FB , so go check there and i will only put up a few that I like here—>

A Church in near Greenland metro station that I walked past everyday to get my 7-Eleven Cappuccino.  Don’t know why but this is my favorite among all..

Visit to the Sculpture Park

The evening view from the fortress overlooking the main sea passage to Oslo.

The port where that have nice yacht, boats of all kinds…

And of course one with the friendly host..

The short one week was a good getaway from my daily stress from school.. Enjoyed it very much..–> Thanks to my awesome host, Mr. Tall.

So that was the first trip out of Switzerland. I came back for a week of classes and off again to the Queen’s Land, where I have expected to be drinking English tea everyday but my oh my how wrong I was.. I was fed with Chinese , Korean , Japanese, Malaysian cuisines throughout my stay.. And I felt like I was back in Petaling Street when I was in China Town.

The main purpose of the visit was to meet up my ex classmates who were there for many years now (damn that sounds old).. Managed to get  a good flight price but the timing was rather short though.. Nevertheless, I enjoyed myself so much and am very happy seeing the faces that I’ve not seen in years after college days… Not so much of sight seeing and my biggest regret was not able to manage the time and visit Madame Tussauds..  Again, photos were uploaded in FB—> *click* so here are the few highlighted ones—>

The 6’s in China Town

The daughter that came to meet up..

Fellow KDU-ians (missing Justin)

While waiting for the metro and just being us.. 38!!!

The little sight seeing that I did (never mentioned shopping hahaha)

And  my two host, Kiki & Aik that not only provided shelter for me, but also fed me well throughout my stay..(Thats how i get those extra KILOS)

Thank you so much for the wonderful weekend!!! Truly enjoyed it and look forward to the next meet up.

JUNE/ JULY ‘10??

I wana go on with the events that happened but guessed its a lil too long to go on so will leave it to the next post.. Stay tuned.. (no promises of the publishing dates though hahaha )

OkBai

Woohoo… Its my third day back in the beautiful town and it felt like I’m back home. Felt so good to be back and to top that up, ITS CRAZEEE SALEEES time. So many things, so much discount but so little $$. I havent start growing money tree on my balcony. LOL

Hmm a little update about my current place. Checked into a single room with lake view top floor ‘what more can i ask for’ Fully equipped apartment with two bathroom. Cool housemates so far. 3 rooms still unoccupied. Big spacious common area with boxes and boxes of my housemates stuff.. Looks like 8 person’s stuff but in fact its only for ONE. I dunno how to start clearing or where to start. Eventually it will dissapear when PA marks starts running haha.. As off now, internet connection is not sucky. FB the utmost important daily duty.

Went off shopping for some NECESSITY for the room and myself and ended up with some shower gel, some food, 3 bags and 2 pairs of shoes. Kill me already. Its only how many days again?? Gosh I’m officially starting to hate going to town or walking thru old town or even the train station. Shessh..

Activated my sim, which was given to me by a kind cutie pie. Topped up and found out it cost 1CHF for 5 minutes call bk home and 0.09CHF for calls to the same network. Hmm quite cool rite. Wanted to try out the rates but noonw back home picked up my calls.

Met some cool people and went to the airport the second day of my arrival to send off a friend. Crazy isn’t it? Lend my SDcard to the friend so i have no pictures of the day to upload and show off here. She will be bk in a month and hoping the photos will appear in FB before that.

Thinks Swiss regulations are bias cos they say i’m OLD!! and starting to hate the number already. Found out few hours ago, my room number is the number i hate. Application for ‘young independent traveller’s card’ rejected.. *hate hate hate*

Making plans to meet old friends and still in search for MARCEL AKMAL.lost his contact number together with my old phone and he would hate me if i came back and didnt call. Anyone with his mobile num please let me know.

Dont know what i’m posting up now cos everything is so random and i’m still very excited to be back. Can’t believe next monday i have to be back in school.. Felt young again.

Till the pictures arrive. Tchuss!!!

Ok Bai

Ok this shall be the last post of my free China trip. Last stop was in GuangZhou where we spent 2 nites and the hotel wasn’t anything near comparing to the first hotel we stayed in Macau. The whole GuangZhou, China thing is already creating a very big impact on perception on the group of students I was bringing. It couldn’t help to change this negative perception as everything we went through was not total disastrous but again in comparison to Macau.

Before I leave for this trip, my mom kept on telling me there are a lot to shop in Guang Zhou. (my uncle used to work there), and can get even roti canai because there are demand for Malaysian food. But when I was there, ‘tak perasan’ also. And toilets are still the same, I shouldn’t comment cos its known to all.

When everyone was busy shopping, we took photos around of the lightings and the crowded street.

First night only the Street No.9 walking around, we head back to the hotel. Checheck in, shower and lepak in the girls room. The next morning, we were allowed to sleep in later (till 7am) and after breakfast we depart at 8am for our city tour. Destination was not the highlight. Went to some memorial, park and then more SHOPPING in Beijing Street (yeah we were in GuangZhou but we get Beijing too)

So pictures were more entertaining so lets proceed.

When everyone was busy shopping, we took photos around of the lightings and therowded street.

First night only the Street No.9 walking around, we head back to the hotel. Checheck in, shower and lepak in the girls room. The next morning, we were allowed to sleep in later (till 7am) and after breakfast we depart at 8am for our city tour. Destination was not the highlight. Went to some memorial, park and then more SHOPPING in Beijing Street (yeah we were in GuangZhou but we get Beijing too)

Guess where is that???

Dr. Sun YatSen Memorial

Then we went to the famous ‘five goat hill’. Why and how they named it like that, go google it

(whatever that is written on the hill was supposed to be the name of the place I guess) We spent some time in the park letting the students experience the local cultural. Every morning and evening or in fact whenever they are free, (the locals older generation) they will hang out in the park and ‘exercise’ while socializing.

The students are typical city boys and girls, never experience any of this before and wanted to challenge the local crowd. I prayed hard they don’t malu-fy themselvesand true enough after a few rounds of practice among themselves, they gave up. Should have seen how flexible those ‘uncles’ and ‘aunties’ with that ‘bulu tangkis’.

The maybe correct way, at least they can pass it around to three people before it went into the bush or hit another crowd.

Next will be the WRONG way…

The stylo-mylo but never got the tangkis style.

The I close my eyes and turn to the back so i can imagine better style.

The ‘who said high heels cannot do sports’ style.

And many more styles they have created that i have no idea how to explain. some treat the tangkis as football, some as tennis ball so people just imagine how much sweat and what is the smell of the bus once we got back on the bus.

Later we were brought to the ‘Tan Library’. So they said it was build by the Tan families that were in GuangZhou to let they children have a place to study. Every Tan family contributed in the fund raising and some in construction to build this library and their kids can utilized the facilities.

What do you expect from the library? Books rite? but i found none and only an old structure with a lot of history behind it. After like two minutes walking around we went a lil restless.

And this gurl just did that and ask us to snap a photo.

Then two wanted to take a ‘jumping’ shot

Then i wanted to jump into the pond with the gold fish.

Then one was just posing with whatever she can see.

Then we went around and find interesting stuff to make pictures look not so boring.

Went to the garden and took group photo.

and Check out my part time boyfriend.. OMG so ‘hiao’ to the max..

The rest of the day was not too picture productive. Went for the river cruise and one girl got so sick i had to skip the discussion session and went back to the hotel with her. Missed out the birthday batch celebration after the discussion and got a good rest for the next day’s journey back home.

Early morning check out and here i am, back in where i’m supposed to be safely.

p/s:Oh ya, Burberry in the airport was cheaper and i almost got the handbag but should i say ‘luckily’ or too bad i was in a hurry to catch the flight..Bye Bye Burberry..Anyone going to GuangZhou?

The first time when i announce my work position to my friends, they were in the ‘aww’ , ‘OMG’ and the ‘Are you serious?’ tones. And then i question myself, would this be the right choice of line. A close friend then asked me, ‘Are you gonna just stay put and work? I thought you would be in those line that would require you to travel half the month to some place half way round the globe.’ My answers back then was simple, I wanted to travel but I have to start some where with my career line and its not easy to find a traveling position. The only official one that i know is waitressing in the air and i was not about to throw my hard earned certificate away.

Well little did i know when i accepted the offer, that my work scope ’sometimes’ allows me to travel. I can say I’m pretty lucky to get to a few places along the way after my acceptance of this position. Some times it maybe local places but certain times I get to fly further and more than 2 hours.

This time round, I was arranged to accommodate 60 plus students on an International Tourism Trip to Macau and GuangZhou. I don’t have to do much though, the class organizing committee were pretty efficient in getting things in place. (well they have been planning for this since the beginning of the year!) All together there were three of us accompanying this trip to oversee 20 odd students each group. It was an educational trip, exposure and learning outcomes are highlighted. (subject based)

So we left for our first stop, Macau early Wednesday morning with a series of drama to follow till the day we got back. We were to meet up at 4am ..4 freaking AM when its the best time to stay in the comfy blanky. (don’t be surprise for thousand of photos up next)

(My group leader doing all the work)

(Everyone half awake but excited)

(This bunch were the camwhoring boys all the way)

We got to the airport more than 2 hours ahead of time (bout 5plus and flight is ’scheduled’ to be 8AM.) And upon reaching, like 100meters before drop off point in LCCT, our tour guide got a sms saying the flight delayed till 11AM. Shesshhhhhh.. but we proceed to checking in anyways.

And at the check in counter, the kind lady told us ‘NO DELAY’ and everyone went..’YEEHHAAAA’ and tried to check in as fast as possible cos McD in LCCT tasted better than any other outlet la konon-nya.

It took about 1hour to be done with everyone in line and short briefing on instructions on boarding time and before we turn around to have a head count, everyone went missing. (so much fun goin for trips ya) I went to McD and saw half of the college there, some already eating, some still queing, some just  standing thinking if they should be ordering anything.

After the trouble of chasing the little chickens like a mother hen to the boarding area, we finally heard the stupid announcement saying our flight was indeed delayed till 11AM but the blardy notice board still shows, ETD 8AM. But on a happy note, LCCT is now much cleaner and nicer than the old ‘container’ style low cost terminal.

Waited and waited and waiting still they announced, its further delayed to 11AM.. and at 11AM they announce ‘ Attention to all passengers flight AK smth smth, please proceed to the boarding gate,  TO GET REFRESHMENT’ What the hell, I thought we are taking off at 11.  Once ‘refreshment’ were distributed out, they made another announcement to further delay till12PM. Everyone was like@#@!$!@#@!#@!$#~@~~ but its beyond our control.

We finally board and flew off at 12.45PM and guess whats the reason of the delay? ? Toilet overflow or cant flush or smth was just wrong with the WCs.

And finally we are near Macau.

(the plane with the kaput-ed toilet)

Went thru immigration with more dramas (shall leave it for another post) then boarded the bus and headed to Wynn Hotel as the staff were still waiting patiently for us after such delay.

(the street of Macau)

(the famous Mother Mary looking ‘Kuan-yin’)

(and a tower that looks like KL tower)

And reached Wynn had a long presentation with great information about the hotel and by the time we finished, the sun was no where to be seen. And everyone was dying of hunger which very much forced us to proceed to dinner in some restaurant and rescheduled all sight seeing plans to the next day.

This is part 1. More to come in the next few days and i’m rushing for class now.

Ok Bai!!

This is a late post of 2weeks plus (i’m improving okai) I believe some may know some may not know my ‘part time’ hobby is photography. Sometimes i ’shoot’, sometimes i’m ‘being-shot’.

This particular group of friends are close to heart and ever so encouraging. Making me learn new things, experience different perspective and also ‘baby sit’.. The outing two weeks ago was a plan dinner shoot-session with two objectives;

1. shooting of course.

2. celebrate two members birthday (one of them happened to be MUA)

A reservation was made in this very nice ‘Oriental House’ restaurant serving only the freshes seafood steam that could explain the price they charge. I didn’t get the name right but I think it is called ‘The TEA house’. Located behind McDonalds in Telawi Street Bangsar.

Lets see what have we got that day:

Tea house of course with some rite?

Me being the ‘not-very-serious’ kinda person, it was a whole more difficult that i’ve expected. Expression had to be a certain feel and posture must be correct, tummy has be hidden of course and lightings are also important because it was indoor shot. All in all it was hard but fun at the same time and i realized it may be to restricted for me. No happy jumping around, go crazy shots and all feel shots.

Thanked all the ‘photographers’ la to live up with my i dunno what to do expressions. haha.. More photos on the way but may not post it up here. maybe in FB. currently I’m only having eric’s photos (that explains the number)

The photos are a few of my favorites. And I’m still waiting for the rest of the people to put it up in Multiply. Okai I guess that should be enough for this post and i shall end with my ultimate favorite!!

So thats the first objective we were there.. below is a few more photos for the second reason there—>

The Gang

The Happy and Hyper People

The Suprise

The Birthday People

Thats All..

Ok Baii..