The past week was havoc! Had our annual event and gosh the mess I tell you. Now i know why my teachers hated canteen days in my high school years. There were about 25 booths set up for competition last Thursday. They whipped up their own menus and god only knows how did they managed to prepare everything. (gosh I dont wana touch on the preparation methods they used… eeiiiww) From Monday, there were alot of things to finalized and reconfirm and re reconfirm again over and over again. Space for last minute changes were always there. And managing this whole thing with the help of 6 people was really hectic. *thank god its over*

Wed was prep day and every individual class came in to set up their booth, preparing for war on the next day. Tables all arranged properly for all but these people are so competitive and everyone wanted the best location and best customer feng shui, they changed here and there the direction and initial set up. One blocking another, what will happen?? Need i say more?? So I had to run around like a headless chicken settling all this issues. My own class was left unsupervised and others took advantage of this and at the end of the day, my class was pushed to a corner where noone can see us… Like that how to win best sales man???? sheshhhh….

Wednesday nite, four of my girls stayed over to do some prep. Slept for less than 2 hours and was at college by 6.15am on Thursday morning.

Had a tiring day but really enjoyable one too.. The happiest moment was to see more than half of my students working together, breaking walls and barriers to reach the same objective. Saw some really quiet ones taking charge of things and making sure everything was sailing smoothly. And saw my class rep goin crazy was also funny..

I guess now its the post food fest sympton, must rest and recuperate. Now let me go finish my novel then i should be all geared up for the next 6 weeks..hehe

Ok bai!!

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?

]]> http://www.shinzz.com/2009/04/29/guangzhou-maximum/feed/ 1 http://www.shinzz.com/2009/04/20/where-work-brought-me/ http://www.shinzz.com/2009/04/20/where-work-brought-me/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:57:38 +0000 Shinzz http://www.shinzz.com/?p=932 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!!

(Ppl, i’ve given my latest update.. )

Well i’ll just do a summary of the happenings for the past 12 weeks.

January
Most of days are spend on the musical KDU did for their 25th anniversary charity dinner. Practice and practice and practice summore was basically it. Dragging Kok Teng to purchase the costume was real fun. Meeting strangers of all kind was also interesting.
We ended up doin all the Miscellaneous left over and that consists of everything. Head to toe was thrown to us. Was a good experience. Came across ‘Tai-Chi-Logy’, in depth learning of this methodology. We argue everyday even on the smallest partical but end of the day somehow we managed it out together. Weird how things can happen that way.
And with this team of ppl, i’ve extended my network to a different industry. I need to thank those that helped me along the way. Met a few fantastic ppl that i now call friends. Really appreciate all the help given.. Thank you Ravi, Jon, Juvita and Rosman…

Here are some photos to sum up the month of JAN 2008!!

Boys & Girls practising their routine.

Some days we go to the studio to do recording. (which cost a bomb..) The machinery there so ‘canggih’, everything can be done except for the ‘ump-ness’ and timing. No wonder everyone can be singer and produce album. I believe even if i try (which wil cause all cows to climb trees) they can make it sound like Celine Dion.. haha..

Also for this musical, we bought a car and didn’t quite used it which leads me to ????…

But of course we put it to good use.. snap snap snap away….:) We made it a tool for photogrpahy…

And comes the important nite itself, no photos..cos i’m not in any.. isk isk isk… Busy running around to check on things and pretend to be even busier.. hehe (this is in March ok…)

My crew members played an important role in ensuring the show runs smoothly.. Muaks Muaks to ALL.. Big ThankYou!!

February
February is always the month that i would miss out cos its so short. Before i knew its already ending. Chinese New Year 2008 alls in the begining of Feb. This year, CNY was really short but i took a whole week off to be back in Cameron Highlands to enjoy the weather and also to get away from the hectic lifestyle in PJ. No photos this year.. noone was in the mood. Most of the time was spend in-house or just in the garden.

Photo time..

Must have the ang paos to show the mood of CNY…

Me & my daddy… see this pic of me..

Well was doing nth at home and visited my grandma’s late brother’s wife…(wah very long relationship explanation.. cos i dunno how to adress her hehe) and went thru this piles of old album and… found alot of my baby-pakai-lampin photos. Wana see?? hehe damn malufyin but cute ok.. be prepared…

So cute can die… *my 1st birthday* Gosh how i grew…

See so clever to dress up since young.. was suppose to go for hiking but see how i dress?? abit speechless rite??

Expecting some baby-in-nappy photos?? sowee cannot put those photos here cos the other day my collegue saw, he said i’m into child pornography..*–*

Thats the childhood pics i can share. Alot more but i dont wana bored anyone.. What else during new year?? Some meet ups with primary schoolmates.

With Eddie in Suria not KLCC but Indian Kopitiam..This lil meet up leads to another arranged meet up in The Curve sometime end of Feb before Gary flew bk to Aussie.

Proud to say i still keep in touch with me primary friends.

With Gary before i left for dinner with my parents. (Gary: settled in wel>>?? hope u do.. take care!!)

Thats about all that sums up my second month of 2008.

 March

Now comes March the month i love the most—> cos my buffday is in March.. So vain rite.. but thats me.. March also happen to be the month i’m super duper clever to spend money.. *as if my dad started printing notes and my mom planted money tree in the backyard*

Well the only highlight i wana put here is ME BUFFDAY.. *winks*

Est must be saying: ‘kuang kuang kuang kuang’

Here goes…..

Happy Bird-day to ME!!

Ice cream cake wei.. so yummy… thank you thank you!!!

Gimme dy dont let me peacefully make a wish *iskk iskk*

Daughters who celebrated with me.

Son and ’son-in-law’. (Eugene: Please remember to put me on VVVIP table ok…)

Thank you all…Enjoyed it very much.. Muaks Muaks!!!

Thats all for the past 12 weeks… please dont call me and complaint.. the best i can do dy..

Without further delay, i’m working on another weekend outting post.. So stay tuned folks!!!

The marketing department seriously have to do something about their marketing strategies. Its KDU OPEN DAY but its really quite around college. Initially this Open Day thingy is only for Penang campus but somehow we got involved too…..

 Anyway its time to chao.. More updates on Ms. Gan’s Retirement party soon.. Hang on there!!!