Ever since I started working, my trips back hometown reduced tremendously. I wonder why.. And the trips are made more difficult because my parents sayang me so much. Every time I planned to drive home, they would say ‘Aiyo, no need to come back la. Very tiring, we will visit you instead.’

So during the last holidays (better not mention which holiday), I made a short trip back home (thats a year after my last trip) The small town has changed so much (which doesn’t bother me cos i prefer my other hometown better haha) I always like TI because of the people I’ve met and the food that I can get there. So no big Hoo Haa of  what is new and what is not. Sorry no photos, I was really only back home and nowhere else…

Since I’m already on a break, might as well be back in Cameron as well rite? Thats what I did. I’ve been ‘requested’ to plan a trip to bring people around my hometown. So there goes a very last minute thing where there were supposed to be ‘a lot’ of people but ended up only 8 of us.

I didn’t know what did the rest expect out of the small township up in the highlands but for me its always relaxing to be back and the nice weather makes me move slower than i normally do. After 14 years of growing up in that place, i do not know what is the specialty or where is the best food except SteamBoat. (which we had for two consecutive nites) Barbecue was out of the topic due to the lack of raw ingredient (sorry, we do not have cold storage ok and it was during some festive season.)

Apart from the nite market and the 24 hours mamak, where else to go?? and what else to do??

We stayed home and gamble…

They made their way up to the tea plantation on the second day which i skipped due to bad tummy day. So no photos from that.  And later that day we repeated the same activities.. Steamboat dinner (a better place this time), nite market for some sweet corns and head home to gamble summore.

Its only for a short 3days 2 nights trip and we head back to the concrete jungle. The nice weather and near to nature feeling is revealing the adventurous side of this city people. We stopped by the waterfall, one that i stop visiting after people start polluting many years ago and one that i’ve been passing everytime I traveled on that route.

Lata Iskandar.

Very potong steam, cannot get a picture without heads or butts on the background..

See the almost perfect photo but but but seeeeeeeee….. geram..

Ha.. thats much better and sometimes i think its the photographer’s fault la.. how come when its the guys group photo then its nicer??? I shall not go any further on that.

*unintentionally captured who was behind those lens*

Just dipping our legs in the icy cold water was not enough for us. So, we brave the ourself and got changed and….

It was a fun experience.. No photos of us in the water cos everyone wanted to get wet haha

Once we got up, the discussion to either get into our dry set of clothing or proceed to venture to the hot spring 20 minutes aways from the waterfall.

and the girls–>

Camwhored la…

Before reaching a final decision… At last, we decided

To get changed and head home so noone fall sick and hope traffic would not be as bad..

We changed by the roadside ok.. damn challenging haha

By the stalls where all the makcik(s) watched us…

So that was the short break after my return from the land of unimaginable people..

Hello people… Ni hau!!

This post is now being typed out while i’m having my foot massage rite in the middle of my apartment’s living room.. total relaxation. Sounds good huh but the other days that i’m not doin this, i’m working my ass off in the House Of Switzerland.

Well to cut the intro short, i would jus link what Mr Caldwell has already blog about.. and there are some pictures too… –>*HoS*

There should be no pictures in this post due to the extensive work hours that i’m having here.  Its slavery, but again we are in China.. I’m here already here in Beijing for one and a half weeks and i;ve only manage to get my feet to silk street which is a shopping paradise for cheap and also pirated stuff.. and HouHai, a lake with alot of bars and also good small restaurants. apart from that its always working and working setting up the House. The whole House was a mess (even now) due to the late completion by the construction workers. (i blame it to the organisers being too nice and not push for the due date.) most of us arrive here expecting things to be ready for work but the whole interior of the house is still under construction and we service people have nth much to do as we cant do anything because of all the dirt. We polish milions of glasses just to get it all dusty again the next day even though we use lotsa cling wrap to ‘protect’ ‘em..

So, since its slavery here, of course we dont get off work jus because we have nth to do in the service side. Most of us were being sent to the kitchen to help out. (for one week i was Chef Wong hahhahahahahahahha) i had so much fun in the kitchen despite the long working hours.  Everyone in the kitchen is soo coooolll.. (Mr Hor, just for your info, i didnt turn potatoes only ok,..i also peeled some onions and sauted some.. hhahha and some other mise en place as well…)

Olympic is supposed to be a BIG  thing but so far i’m here, i havent have or felt anything yet. The tv is airing so many updates that is nowhere to be seen. The only feel was few days ago when the Swiss atheletes arrived..(even though i’m busy running around like a mad chicken, i still notices la…) on the streets are all quiet and normal. the people are also normal with no special olympic atmosphere..dont really know how to explain it..its weird..

Apart from work and minor complaints on the hazy weather almost everyday. Its damn hot here and pollution is so so so terrible. How la Olympics gonna happen??? i really wonder sometimes. yesterday was the only day i could see blue skies, only awhile..The only good thing here for the time being is the apartment we are staying. its so comfy and furnished basically.. and centralized air conditioned haha..

ok the foot massage is done, and i’m gonna go get ready to leave for the city to meet my aunt for dinner.. lets hope that i dont get lost somewhere near Suzhou hahaha.. (the taxi drivers here are always great, they will say they know the place and later after 15 – 20mins ride they will ask where is the location that we wana go and then we get lost and then we spend another 15 mins in the taxi going round n round.. but normally it only cost about 30RMb for all four people so we wont mind so much. hahah)

Tschuss zusammen!!

Blogging used to be a routine so that people can know whats happening around me when I’m far away. It turns slow… slower… and almost dying.. All this delaying is because of lame excuses like busy, no time and not really in the mood.. but i guess, at some point i dont see a point of putting things up when you question the purpose and consequences ..But a big draw out would be the lame internet connection at home that just settled in. And all the excuses piled up a mountain high i dont even know what to blog about or where to start and which event out of so many i should be focusing on.

Well i’m trying my best to sit to blog at least once a week but even that is so much of a difficult task.. isk isk.. Nth i could say to be exact but here is the recap for the happenings last two months i guess. Lets hope i get a little diligent and would be disciplined and also motivated enough to be updating frequently.. Cryst, Est & Lek are my motivation caused they damn rajin updating all the time..

So i’m hoping to get back into the blogging mode again..need motivation, not complaints ok people. I shall start with a full of photos recap to lessen the mountain high back dated piles of events that took place. (I shall just forget about those small mini mini stuff)

Reading Est & Lek’s updates, they always have smth happening with their colleagues made me think of how happening my own work place is. Well not that bad that till we only come to work and off we go. Every month we have staff’s birthday celebration, a get together session and also a ponteng/curi tulang broad daylight.

So far i only brought my camera out once during the celebration days (and for my own month, i didnt snap.. )

For The April Babies..

At the back of the office in our MINI Pantry…

Those orange plastic bags are bags filled with food we catered from one of Ms. Puteri’s contact. We cant afford to have buffet lunch as most of us have different schedule for classe, so best is to have food for all even when they have to rush back to classes after the cut cake session..

Selamat ‘Belated’ Birthdays!!!!

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Apart from colleagues that brighten up my days, the best part of my job is to get all the wonderful ‘daughters and sons’ along the way. Following is a day out with my ‘huang nu er(s)’

In MFM with Ann

Jenny and Rachel.

Its fun to hang out with them cos it makes me get grip of fun & crazy things that i’ve kinda stop doing except when i’m out with Cryst or Winnie.

See…

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Apart from hanging out, the past months I did not forget to pamper myself.. From shopping to traveling.. thats not something I would forget though haha.. but there are different things that i’ve tried—> (please be advice the picture below might be highly addictive, viewers discretion is highly recommended)

My SEXY legs.. (Kenko Fish Spa in Pavillion)

Fat People’s Fat Leg with alot of ‘Garra Rufa’. See the difference, one alot of fishes and the other less.. We were told that the fishes will nibble away dead skin so the more fishes nibbling your feet means alot of dead skin larr..

My friends and I recently came across this topic about Pedicure and Fish Spa. Its really very subjective to conclude which is better than the other. I believe both contribute to a certain positivity. I think its fun and natural way without much stress to the skin. Here a link if you wana find out more about it —–> *click*

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Winnie’s birthday simple lunch meet up.

Simple isnt it? Our table was filled with FOOD!!

I sacrificed half day leave to make this gurl happy. We went to Kura, in One World Hotel for lunch. I rushed my daily tasks and joined Winnie and CCL for this scrumptious meal.

Me and my ex-roomie..

Its a hearty meal but only three of us.. really miss the time when we used to celebrate with that group of friends who are now all in SINGAPORE (and now Winnie oso leaving.. *sob sob*)

No cake for her but i bought her a ? bag as pressie. Nice?? Pretty similar to the one she chose for me on my birthday haha..

Thats the once awhile short lunch meet up that we can afford out of our Stressful & Busy schedule.. haha.. damn pathetic right???

As per mentioned earlier, my job created opportunity for me to meet great people but also every few months, it would be emotional time cos have to bid farewell to graduating students. Everytime you know them better, thats the time they would be waving bye bye and saying ‘ I’m stepping into another level in my life.’

This semester i went to my first Farewell dinner of the year, CULA 7. This class i could remember the sweet girl, Stella who always around the photocopy machine in the office. The very small class and friendly people. The time here and there we would bump into the others around college and exchange nods and smiles. And now they are all off into the industry..

All the best people!!

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KDU 25th Anniversary- In conjunction of the 25th anniversary celebration, this year our annual dinner was held in One World Hotel (mentioning OWH twice dy, like no other place to go rite??) and the theme of the night is VIVA SILVER. Well we are to dress up as silverish as possible but not many actually understood the colour. Silver is not a normal colour i would wear or have in my wardrobe. Searching for a decent enough dress was pretty difficult and much to my disappointment, many didnt even bother to follow the theme.. Where la the team effort?? @!#!~!@~

I was seated together with all the bosses of my department and being one of the naughty ones its not easy to pass the two hour event okay.. and all the time my camera was nicely seated in my ’silver’ clutch. No Pictures from Annual Dinner?? I dont know what to say to myself.

Only managed to snap 4 pics at the end of the night before we departed to Long Bar. Out of 4, 3 was taken with Don same place and time just different brightness and clarity. Duh…

The best out of 3.. which is still not good… haih…

Don got a coffee machine from Lucky draw. Everyone of us got this photo album as door gifts. We were each given a box with an album inside with an individual photo but you wont get your own photo unless you are damn lucky. In order to get yours, everyone was asked to run around the ballroom doing ’system-barter’. Well a good ice breaker i would say..

Last one with Kenneth.

Thats about all on the annual dinner.

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The rest of the photos are from meet ups and Friday nite out. Lazy dy, read captions la…

During Salah’s visit, we went to Redbox. Me n Mama Jee

Me and Izzo

Photographer wannabe.

Rest of the people either smoking like a chimney or discussing worldwide politics.

Crazy two in Laundry.

Pee-Ka-Boo in Decanter Hartamas

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Thats all.. phew.. i’m tidying up so that i can start on the past long ago S’pore Trip. hhaha..

Ade!!!

Phew.. Just finished the 12 WEEKS recap and now with much DETERMINATION… I would continue to keep you guys updated. *fingers crossed*

Well this is a seconded post as Cryst posted up before me. The Sleepover Weekend or can also be The Total Camwhore Weekend. Whichever rings your bell ok.

As MOST of OUR FRIENDS ventured to SINGAPORE leaving the two miserable back here in isolated KL, we have no choice but to meet up occasionally and make each other happy somehow.. (aiyah.. not like some ppl in SINGAPORE always can meet up and go SHOPPING la…*jeles jeles*)

We normally meet up on weekends to catch up and most importantly, SHOP, that’s why after every outing we would stay home and eat roti for a week. Last weekend was nothing extra ordinary except we had this BIG BIG photoshoot the next morning which leads to Cryst sleeping over in my place.

Cryst brave through the routes that she never remembered travelling to reach my residence to pick me and off we go. (btw I stay near where we used to study and she told me ‘I dunnoo laaaaaa.. WHERE???’ pengsan-ness)

First destination, The Curve to visit the Flea Market that we didn’t managed to visit the last trip we went. Happily we walk and spend money like noone’s business. After hours or walking round and round under the hot sun, we then decided to go over One Utama as she need to COD smth.

Picture stolen from Cryst’s Friendster.

The photo tells everything.. we went in to shops and tried dresses, tops, pants, short & whatever that caught our attention but ended up not buying anything cos all sizes either too big or too small.

Saddened by the truth we didn’t get any clothing we proceed to footwear shopping. And less than an hour later, we were both carrying two boxes of new heels and sandals each. *faint*

And then we remembered we were not utilizing our cameras that much. Cryst with her ‘bedazzled’ snap snap everywhere and we went to the place we like the most… LADIES where the lighting are always superb. I sometimes wonder why..

Comparing the lighting??Toilets always better okaiiiii…. (check out my siao siao while waiting for Cryst in the fitting room?? speechless rite?? me too…)

Then we continue walking till our ‘knight in shining armor’, Ram called up to remind us of the meet up later that night. Check our watches, nope not enough time to go home and try on the new dress and so we went straight AGAIN to The Curve to meet up with the rest.

Notice the only two siao-ded ones??

Met up with our ex college mates. Had a drink (ice lemon teas, ice mocha latte, lime juice & etc) strictly no alcohol which was very weird with these people. Then we knew that these ppl all ‘trying’ to quit drinking <say only, nex round straight to Scarlet.. speechless>

Photo from Cryst again.

By the time we finished yakking and yakking for hours, it was nearly 12am and so we rushed home to get our beauty sleep for our nex day. But but but.. we dont do this ’sleepover’ that often so we talked talked talked till kingdom almost came. I passed my bedtime and too ‘kan cheong’ mayb, ended up watching that siao po sleeping soundly..*isk isk*

Hmm both of us concluded smth by the end of the day,

The Curve à One Utama à The Curve = SIAO-NESS

Nevertheless it was a fun day!!

Psssstttt.. next up–> Angel & Devil Day

 

Lek: be grateful… see i’ve uploaded (even though its outdated)

Est: my hair is slightly longer.. planning to visit the saloon again soon..

As from where i left the last post, it was only the third day.. i spend six beautiful days in Jakarta, how am i to finish?? can i simply short cut everything?? can la..so.. here goes…

Third day we droved all the way from Jakarta to Bandung (well Pak Bas drove actually, we were all pigging in the car) Bandung is well known for its factory outlets. The weather is similar to Cameron Highlands but the traffic almost same to Jakarta. Our main purpose to Bandung is to shopped and we DID.. Shirts are very cheap although we sometimes question the genuineness. The one place that we love most is ‘Rumah Mode’, spent very long hours going thru their stuff and also loading up the car. The rest of the day was spent walking around shopping and competing who shopped the most.

Mit Linardy und Maya in Rumah Mode Cafe.

They have big , fat & friendly fishes in there.. and we were like total ‘jakun’,got all excited bout the fishes..

We did not have any hotel reservations so we went around checking for the best rates and ended up in Hotel Gemilang. Affordable rates with fantastic rooms. Pool view, clean to the max and best of all we only paid RM40/per pax (three in a room) only downside was the heater was not working well and water icy cold.

Our rooms facing the pool..Cool..

RM120 for this.. very good bargain.

Later at nite, Pak Ken took over the wheels and we headed to The Peak. It was a long and scary journey to nowhere but when we reached our destination, speechless. The view from that place, SUPERB. Its hidden in some village route that tourist might not wana travel but definitely worthwhile. We had our late dinner and it feels like I’m having dinner in some posh place like ‘Smoke House’.

Before the ‘training’ session begin already looking like this.

The Peak and their appetizing menu.

 

Pee-Ka-Boo???

 

Interior of The Peak.

 

While waiting for our food. See what happens when we are hungry…

 

Chris also started cam whoring..

 

No photos of the food cos we gulped it down as soon as it reaches our table..

Nex day we went to the ‘Sampan Tumbang Mountain’  (if i’m not mistaken).

I think its still alive..the volcanic mountain i mean..the smell of sulfur was so strong.

 

How can i miss a chance to snap snap snap right??

 

The tourist.

 

On the way down.

 

We stop by the road side for ‘Sate Kelinchi’. This must be the cause of my food poisoning.

 

The chefs just cant leave it alone.. i think its in the blood stream.

 

 After the food..Sate and Indo Mee, we went back to Rumah Mode to grab some more stuff…

Picture says it all…… I LOOOOVEEE SHOOOOPPINGGGGGG!!!!

Pak Bas and us bk in Maya’s residence.

 

Pak Bas The Best laaaaa.

Very lazy to type dy.. cos its so outdated… can I jus post photos?? The short cut is getting shorted.. hehe…

Whatever happens after that is all in the photos… my last two days was horrigeeeble cos food poisoning.. at that moment I only hope to be home in my own bed…

 

Last day visit to chocolate factory.

Krispy Creme.

 

Our Krispy Creme….

The hosts and us before leaving bk for KL.

If it was not the vomiting and staying home alone with Susie, the Jakarta trip would be a splendid one…

 Thank you, arigato, danke vielmal… lets pray for my nex post to be soon okaiiii…