Live to tell the tale

Somewhere else

2010-03-26T19:37:00.002+08:00

I have started writing somewhere else now...

You'll know where if you're clever enough to find me :)

As sweet as macaron

2010-03-07T23:20:00.005+08:00

I used to buy macaron almost every week back then (2007) when I was doing my internship in Caen, France (cannot buy everyday la coz it was sooo sweet). Too bad it's very hard to find any shop or bakery selling macaron here in M'sia. Remember I found 1 place at the KL Convention Center during PC Fair 2009,which surprisingly had some macarons on sale. Biarlah tak sesedap macaron in France, asalkan dapat fulfil my crave for macaron. And glad I made him tasted it too.

And in 2010, look what he brought back for me from PH....

2 boxes of macaron(which I've already eaten 1 box at the moment of writing this...of course not all 1 box at once laa...gila manis) !!! With Lindt chocolate filling plak tu...huhu. Isn't it sweet of him!!

p/s: If neighbouring country has macaron shop, why don't we have it here in M'sia...perhaps I need to learn how to make macaron so that I can open my own macaron shop one day =)

Juggling my time between...

2010-03-05T22:33:00.002+08:00

I'm juggling my time between my work, my passion, my relationship and my leisure time with friends. Seems that it is quite tough to give full commitment to blogging nowadays. 24hours a day seems too short compared to study time. And I am pretty sure that everyone agrees with me on that. And to make it worse now we have better tool to give update on ourself e.g. Facebook and Twitter (I'm a Twitter addict). Even kennysia.com blogged about that recently (which I totally agree with him). Though I'm definitely not a famous blogger like him, nor do I travel around as much as him and own his own fitness center in Kuching, but I am struggling hard to keep up my blog alive as much as I can. At times I do feel like I want to stop blogging but when I think of all the efforts I've put in writing all those posts in almost 7 years of blogging, it really made me think twice. Found that I still love my blog as much as I love my new fishkeeping hobby. So that explained why this post was written, I'll try my best to juggle my time between all my activities just to make sure this blog of mine will still be alive as long as I live :)

Till then wait for my next blog post.

10.02.2010

2010-02-11T21:00:00.004+08:00

Early January, the baby was still inside her mom's tummy. And in the picture, I was trying to feel the baby (could feel the tummy sooo tight...ooooo)

10.02.2010
the baby is out already!!!!

Alhamdulillah.

My BFF Shima gave birth to her first child....and it's a BOY!!!

CONGRATS TO SHIMA & MIE!!
WELCOME TO THE WORLD BABY SHIMA (still no name yet)!!

With that...I'm officially aunty now :P

Jalan-jalan Cari Makan di Sg Petani

2010-02-09T22:42:00.009+08:00

Ade orang tu kata Sg Petani (SP) is the 4th most beautiful city in the world.
Banyak benda best & tempat makan best di SP.
Jadi, weekend lepas, ahli2 kelab KKR (Kanak-kanak Riang) iaitu me, Shahrol, Ayu & Liza telah membuat lawatan sambil makan ke SP, dengan pemandu ~~tempat_makan~~ pelancong nya Fahmi.

Best ke SP?? Anda rasa??

"Best ke SP?"

Mari lihat apa kami makan di SP.

Kami sampai di SP dalam pukul 3.30pm (+/-), Fahmi terus bawak kami ke Nasi Kandar Shariff, dekat2 town. Mungkin sebab dah petang, lauk-pauk banyak dah abis so kena ambik daging masak hitam. Nasib I plak tak baik dapat daging part yang urat2. So kalau nak kasi rating, sedap lagi Nasi Kandar Pokok Ubi (Kulim) kot (in my opinion lah)

Kedai Nasi Kandar Shariff

Lepas makan Nasi Kandar, Fahmi bawak plak pegi gerai cendol paling famous dekat SP, sampaikan kereta kena double park sebab punya lah ramai orang nak beli cendol (eh ye ke...ke memang takde parking dekat2 situ...hahaha). Kami beli bungkus je, so makan bila dah sampai rumah Fahmi. Rating cendol, agak sedap jugak tapi lagi sedap cendol pulut dekat 7E rumah I...hehehehe.

"Eh..eh...ni ka pakcik jual cendol??

So ade ke benda yang betul2 paling sedap kat SP ni???? Save the best for last laa...

Malam tu kitorang pegi dinner dekat Chennai Curry House, indian restaurant yang selalu disebut2 oleh Fahmi. Actually dah pernah pergi sini sebelum ni masa bawak my family jalan2 SP dulu, tapi takde la try menu yang canggih2 macam kitorang order that night. Ade briyani claypot udang, briyani claypot lamb, briyani claypot biasa, cheese cottage with spinach, ayam yang dimasak dengan telur (nama lupa dah...), garlic nan, cheese nan, vegie, mint drinks. Very the banyak OK, but I really like the briyanis, cottage cheese with spinach and the cheese nan(owhh...so cheezy). Teringat masa selalu pergi Indian restaurant kat Paris dengan Lina and I like the cheezy cheese Nan.

Beraneka jenis air

Briyani Kambing & Cottage Cheese Spinach

Well that was the highlight of our visit of course. Not forgetting breakfast nasi lemak cooked by Fahmi's mom and also A&W lunch (Kulim pun takde A&W tau).

Sedap sangat A&W onion ring!!

p/s: Thanks to pemandu pelancong yang sudi tumpangkan kitorang dan bawak jalan2 cari makan di Sg Petani. So next??? Taiping??? :)

Fishkeeping - 1st failure

2010-02-06T11:10:00.002+08:00

Upon returning from dinner at Tao last nite, I saw my last surviving guppy, Sosuke, lying at the bottom of the aquarium. Just a day before that I lost my female guppy, Ponyo. I know that there's something wrong with Sosuke too when I saw him last nite. But being a new fishkeeping hobbyist, I didn't know if I can do anything much at that point. And the saddest part was seeing Sosuke dying, trying very hard gasping for air and know that I can do nothing about it. =_=

My first guess is that my fishes died because of the New Tank Syndrome (NTS). Symptoms can range from pale listless fish who stop eating, to swollen bodies or eyes and strange looking spots and growths, reddish coloration around the gill areas or gasping for “breath”. To confirm it I have to get myself a test kit for Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate level. Should have gotten it at the first place but not sure why the fish-shopkeeper did not suggested me one when I bought all my aquarium stuff that day. Maybe they just wanted me to buy more fish from then when my guppies are all dead :p

Eventhough my first attempt failed, will not be discouraged by that. As what my dad says, you learn by mistake.

Coffee or Tea??

2010-02-01T20:32:00.003+08:00

It was not an off-day for me today, unlike most companies who're having the Thaipusam holiday. But it's OK...coz I prefer to be at the office than being roasted at home (Kulim is extra hot nowadays).

On another note, I found this on my cubicle today.

A packet of 3-in-1 white coffee and a packet of green tea.

Wondering who gave it to me, only to found out later that it was from my boss!

Well, this is my interpretation :

White coffee so that I can stay up late and do more work.
Green tea so that I will not fall sick and can come to work everyday.

Huhuuu....hopefully that is not what crosses his mind when he gave us the 3-in-1 drinks.

Before 8 Challenge!

2010-01-26T08:58:00.001+08:00

Last Friday, while we're (we as in my office clan) having our tea break at the office cafeteria, one of us said, why not we challenge ourselves for the next 1 week, to come to office before 8am or the latest we can badge in is at 8am. Whoever fail to do so, kena bayar 50sen to a tabung.

FYI, our office hour is from 8am to 5pm, but since the last boss, who already resigned, did not mind that we come a bit late, it has become our habit to arrive around 8.30am-9.00am average. Tapi boss baru ni...hmmm, no comment. :P

So yesterday, I had to come late because I was busy setting up my fish tank at 6am in the morning. And of course I paid the 50 sen denda..haha. But this morning I was determined to come early.

Went out this morning at 7.35am. Usually it takes 10minutes drive from my house to my office (if you go out after 8 laa), but as expected before 8 traffic is different. Siap ade accident plak dekat traffic light 7E just near my house involving 4 cars...alaaaa. Was getting worried already at that time. When I reached the traffic light near Politeknik, queue pun panjang jugak...arghh. Will I made it before 8???

When I entered my company gate, it was already 7.53am with lots of car entering the parking lot. Then I saw my clans, already walking to the door ...arghh....masuk je parking paling dekat, get out of my car (and locked it) and walk as fast as I can ( kalau lari kang kelakar plak ). Luckily our parking and entrance door is not as far as the Infineon's.

And finally when I badged ...the clock shows...

8.00am

**phew**

Rasa macam dalam race plak. Haha

So you think you can setup a freshwater aquarium?

2010-01-25T21:33:00.005+08:00

Introducing..

...

..

(drum roll)..

..

..

My new aquarium :)

Do you believe that I did the whole thing all by myself, starting from 6am, on a Monday morning??? (note: I'm not on leave today)

Can you spot the 2 guppies near the water fountain from the filter?

Still cannot believe it myself, that I did the whole process from A to Z on my own.

Want to know why I setup my aquarium this morning, but not on a weekend....
Want to know the whole story behind the making of my aquarium....

Just stay tune for more updates tomorrow!!

Toastmasters Division N Teambuilding!

2010-01-17T22:54:00.008+08:00

I was not too sure to go to this event at first, merely because not many people from our club is going. It was 3 days weekend because of the Sultan Kedah's birthday, so obviously people choose to go back to their hometown - except for me.

And after considering that my department always get the 'janji palsu' of having a teambuilding, so why should I miss this opportunity to join one. After all it's FREE! (for Toastmasters members) It'd be different from a department teambuilding of course coz this one involve all Division N Toastmasters Club (more unfamiliar faces). And since it was held at Mengkuang Dam, which is very near to Kulim, so why not.

Mengkuang Dam view from the hill top, early morning

Early comers chit-chatting

Relay with balloons

This game requires us to overturn the canvas from blue side to orange side with our feet without stepping onto the grass, and furthermore 3 of us were blindfolded.

Twister game

Halogen pipe

Human pyramid

Don't remember the name of this game but it consist of putting the 2 tennis ball pulled by the strings, together at the same time.

Debriefing

Last performance before we adjourned

L2R : Me, AG Sabrina, Mike and Pala

After 1 whole day having lots of fun playing games and other activities, I did not regret spending my Saturday at the teambuilding. Plus we get to know new friends from other Toastmasters club... :)

Janji Manis-Mu!

2010-01-14T20:12:00.003+08:00

Yes! The most stressful week of the quarter is over!! Why I said most stressful week of the quarter? Simply because it was the QBR (quarterly board review) week. Which means Tok Wan (nama panggilan manja**uwekk**) was here for the whole week. FYI, our Tok Wan is some well-known figure in the industry and he's also one of the Senior VPs of our company, jadi time2 meeting besar baru la all those important figures datang meeting. Ye laa, selalu Tok Wan bagi keja dari jarak jauh je so bila dah dekat semua orang pun dia nak jumpe (almost). Eventhough I was lucky not to be one of those who were summoned to his room, but the stress felt by others was felt by me too!! Setiap kali sorang balik dari jumpa Tok Wan, semua orang pun nak tau ape yang Tok Wan cakap or scold or new order ke...suspens OK. Dan yang paling best nya Tok Wan ni, setiap kali dia datang dia kata nak belanja makan la, or nak buat team building ke whatsoever laa. Macam kali ni dia kata nak organize la dinner ramai2 hari Jumaat (which is tonite) and not to our surprise, Tok Wan dah terbang balik ke the States pagi tadi....macam buat2 lupa la gitu...hahaha. Always wondering bila la dia nak tunai janji2 manis dia tu.

So harus lah kita Karaoke lagu Janji Manis Mu malam ni....alrite people!

p/s: Post ini ditulis dalam bahasa rojak to avoid kena saman kutuk boss. :P

Towards a healthy life

2010-01-09T16:03:00.004+08:00

To become healthy has always been my annual new year resolution. So to kick-start our 2010 sports activities, we had our first jogging of the year this morning. We (me & my colleagues) went to Mengkuang Dam which took around 20-30minutes to reach there from Kulim. By the time we reached there by 8 a.m, that place was already full of early morning joggers.

Unlike the previous time we went there, this time we started to jog at the open trail next to the dam since the sun was rising higher by the minutes.

I brought along my camera today coz I never took any pictures of Mengkuang Dam before.

Before we start to jog.
L2R : Ayu, Liza, Firdaus & Shahrol

After we finished 1 way of the open trail.

On the way back to the start point.

Finished the open trail, we went to the jungle trail plak...My pace slowed down in the end and so did Shahrol, so just before the jungle trail become more hilly, we decided to turn back and wait for the others by the dam...hahaha. Penat wooo dah lama tak jogging...it's totally different from playing badminton every week. Should jog more often lah, baru la ade stamina sket...hehehe.

Yeayy, they're back from the jungle trail!

Next time kita pegi jogging lagi ok ^_^

8th day in 2010

2010-01-08T20:16:00.007+08:00

HOLA!! And Happy New Year 2010 to all!!

A bit late though but it's better late than never.

TGIF! I was kinda tired and demotivated the whole day today. Not too sure what is the exact reason, but probably because of the Yearly PA(Personal Appraisal) that we have to submit by today. Spent almost half of my day filling it up, just to find out later in the afternoon that what I wrote is not exactly what it should be. A bit pissed off that they (those who're in charge of PA) decided to change this year PA form format without any briefing about it. Hishhh...

So what do you expect for 2010 huhhh??

Me? A better paycheck of course (who does not want it). Getting tired of having more and more work but still the same amount of paycheck since December 2007. Or should I just try my luck somewhere else? Will definitely think about it IF everything remain the same as before ! Hahaha....*evil laugh*

Apart from that, I have another mission to be carried out. A mission that need a perfect planning and strategy coz it might not be that easy to be accomplished. Haha...what's the mission, you'd think. Biarlah rahsia buat sementara waktu....hehehe...

All in all, I had a great Christmas and New Year weekends in KL. Hanged out at Natrah's house with Intan and *cough*, accompanied the 2 'mak buyungs' Shima and Natrah for baby stuff shopping, scarves & bag hunting with Syaz, and lots and lots of quality time with **cough*cough** ^_-

Hoping that 2010 will be a better year for all of us!!

p/s : Some pictures with mak buyungs (so excited to become aunty soon)

Me & Natrah & 5 m.o. baby girl (insyaAllah)

Me & Shima & 8 m.o. baby boy (insyaAllah)

Pecah seribu

2009-12-13T18:23:00.002+08:00

This is how pecah seribu looks like.

Shattered!!

Oh yes, my car rear windscreen broke into pieces yesterday evening. As it was a hot & sunny day yesterday, I went out at tea time to have ais kacang & mee kuah @ Permatang Bendahari with my friends. And when I reached home, it was already shattered. Nobody was home, neither were my neighbours. No sign of a burglar attempt, so my first guess was that some stone was thrown to it when my neighbour had his lawn mowed earlier in the afternoon. So frustrated that there's nobody to be blamed at. :(

I guess my car wants its birthday present earlier. It's not enough that I already need to spend on renewing its road tax and insurance end of this month, today I had to spend another RM300++ to get a new rear windscreen. *SIGH*

With its new rear windscreen

p/s: Thanks to Shahrol & Fahmi for accompanying me to Dr Cermin today :)

Al-Fatihah to a friend

2009-12-07T23:03:00.003+08:00

Get to know him in July. He was the bestman when I was the bridesmaid for my bestfriend's wedding. After the wedding, we kept in touch as a friend. Met him again in August during the groom's wedding reception. He'd call from time to time, or chat sometime, to ask how my day was or shared some of our life stories. Did try to matchmake him with another single lady friend of mine too, but it didn't work. Last month he called, telling me that he already got a better job, reporting January. He sounded so happy at that time. Little that I know it'd be our last conversation.

Last week, he was admitted to the hospital. According to my bestfriend, whose husband is his bestfriend, doctor found blood clot in his brain. And early this morning, at 2am, I got a text message from my bestfriend telling me that he passed away around 1.40am due to heart failure. The shocking news made me awake and ponder about life and people around me. How unexpected life could be. We'll never know what will happen to us in the future.

So, try to do good thing as much as possible, appreciate people around you and don't forget to tell/show them that you care/love them as we might not be able to do that when they're no longer here with us.

Picture taken during my bestfriend's wedding, Zafuan with another bestfriend of mine.

Al-Fatihah buat Muhammad Zafuan. Semoga roh dicucuri rahmat.

p/s: Latest news I got was that he suffered from meningitis, brain inflammation caused by viral infection. Touch the wood!

My first trip to Sematan...

2009-12-04T22:48:00.005+08:00

Last week, around this time, I was enjoying my Aidiladha vacation with my family at Sematan Palm Beach Resort. And yes, that was my first time there after almost 12 years residing in Kuching. What a shame! But it was worth the 1 1/2 hour drive coz we were greeted with a long wide beach (and surprisingly good weather, despite the bad weather forecast).

Please enjoy the photos first as I will update about it later.

Home for Aidiladha

2009-11-27T00:02:00.002+08:00

Thank you Allah that my company is taking the public holiday on Monday (Kedah's public holiday for Aidiladha is 2 days)

Thank you Allah that I can still afford my RM300++ return flight to Kuching.

Thank you Allah that my work load is still within my control that I won't have to worry much during holiday.

Thank you Allah that my flight was OK and I landed safely in Kuching this evening.

Thank you Allah that our family is complete and healthy to celebrate Aidiladha together once again.

Thank you Allah for everything. :)

p/s : Will be occupied with lots of agenda. Have fun y'all

Email that pissed me off

2009-11-23T22:13:00.003+08:00

I received an email on Saturday that pissed me off. But I was trying to act cool that time so I tried to forget about it and thought that I will not mention anything about it here. But when I read the email again this morning, and told my cubemate, she couldn't agree more with me. The sender is a total crap.

But before I could tell you what the content of the email is, let me tell you a brief story on how all this started.

My cubemate found a website that is offering a chocolate making class nearby Kulim. So we decided to give it a try, but before that we need to find out how much does it cost. I emailed the owner of the website (she's also the class instructor) asking about the fee. Is it per pax or per class.

After a few days, the owner replied that the fee is RM 250, but she did not mention whether it is per pax or per class. Here's what exactly she wrote :

Amy dari mana? Kelas saya di Desa Aman, Padang Serai Kedah. Sorry saya tertinggal maklumat yuran n lokasi, web dah baiki. Yuran rm250 termasuk nota & semua bahan coklat, u hanya perlu bawa bekas kosong utk bawa balik minima 50biji coklat. U akan buat sendiri bukan tengok saya buat demo. Dlm kelas ni saya akan ajar 6 jenis coklat n ajar cara nak modify basic resipi.

Interesting..huh. So, my first assumption was RM 250 per class since she only takes maximum 2 person in 1 class. RM 125 is not so bad, I thought. But to be sure, I sent her another email, just to make sure that RM 250 is per class fee amount :

Kalau saya nak booking kelas utk sabtu 9 januari boleh ke?
Untuk 2 orang, maknanya sorang byr RM 250/2 la kan?

And that's when she replied me with that ~~bloody~~ email. Did I sound so desperate that she replied me like this :

Sorry kalau saya salah faham maksud u (Untuk 2 orang, maknanya sorang byr RM 250/2 la kan?).Saya charge utk setiap peserta rm 250. Kalau rasa mahal mungkin u carilah tempat lain. Maaf tiada sediakan discount.

Hellloooooo akak, if you happen to stumble upon my blog 1 day, I can still afford laa RM 250 per person. All I did was asking for confirmation. What about the "Kalau rasa mahal mungkin u carilah tempat lain"(if you think that it's expensive...go and find another place) and also "Maaf tiada sediakan discount"(Sorry, no discount). Bunyi nye sungguh kurang ~~ajarrrr~~ sopan....which is also confirmed by my cubemate. Tak boleh reply elok sikit ke?

So?? Do you still want to be taught by someone who sounds like this...hmmm, lu pikir la sendiri!!

I've watched 2012

2009-11-21T17:45:00.004+08:00

2012 is the year that our MRSM batch SPM 99 plan to have a reunion.

But 2012 is also a movie about the end of the world, that I went to watch recently with my colleagues. We had been planning to watch it since the 1st day of its screening but seats were all fully-booked for the first few days. Finally, we managed to get 6 seats for 10pm slot at TGV Perda on Wednesday. And oh yeah, it was full house.

For a 2 hours 30 minutes film, I give it 3.5 stars. The whole film was full of CGI and special effects of biggest tsunami, enormous earth quakes here and there, volcano eruptions and etc that you won't have time to get sleepy. But still we managed to find a few hiccups here and there. For example when John Cusack and his family were trying to get out of town by flying on the small plane, they were flying upwards and it seems that the skyscrapers were so high that even when the flew higher, those buildings look forever tall, as if they're flying from the center of the earth. Go watch it yourself and try to find some of the unexplicable scenes. If you want to judge on the storyline, for a person of faith like me, I'd have to say the story is nonsense. End of day is uncomparable with what we saw on that film. And if God want it to be tomorrow, then tomorrow will it be. But if you don't really care about the story and you just want to have a pleasure of watching lots of explosions and other special effects, then I recommend you to go and watch this movie.

Me, didn't regret watching it after all I only paid RM 5 for it :)

Baby Therapy

2009-11-15T19:37:00.004+08:00

A visit to see a newborn baby is a visit not to be missed. Coz nak tunggu dapat baby sendiri macam lambat je lagi...hikhik...

5 cars convoyed from Kulim to Bertam yesterday to visit an ex-colleague of ours, Hani, who gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Haifa Huda, aged 3 weeks old. Riuh-rendah rumah si Hani, ye la colleagues yang dah kawen masing2 bawak family, siap compare2 anak lagi, buat demo baby pouch laa, exchanging their stories on their delivery experiences laa....huhu. So, sape2 yang unmarried lagi tu takde modal la nak share ape.

So what we can do is.....

.....main dukung2 and pass2 baby Haifa

Congrats once again Hani & Hailmy on your newborn baby!

No customer. No business

2009-11-10T23:20:00.003+08:00

So when customer complains, just listen, swallow everything and act like customer is always right (eventhough they are not always).

There's negative aura in the department at the moment, particularly today. Almost everyone is unhappy with something...so unhappy that we did not have our regular tea-time moment at 5pm.

Customer is not happy with what we've done. Bosses are not happy because the customer complained. Sub-ordinates are not happy because bosses are trying to find who to put the blame on. Plus, so many other issues from all sorts of aspects...

But I guess there is no other way than to ...

..

..

..

FACE IT AND DEAL WITH IT COZ THAT'S WHAT WE CALL LIFE

Nasi Dalca Rahim

2009-11-08T18:33:00.008+08:00

My eyes were all shimmering when my colleague suggested that we have dinner at "nasi minyak depan kuil" (that's how they introduced it to me in the first place) on Friday evening. The thought of it was enough to make me drooled. But, the Friday night dinner plan was cancelled at the last minute since it rained cats and dogs and we did not want to be frustrated if we go all the way to Penang only to find out the stall is closed (yup..it's an open air stall ).

So yesterday, we had a shopping outing in Penang. And guess where we had dinner?! At the "nasi minyak depan kuil" of course!! Well, the real name is actually Nasi Dalca Rahim. And it IS in front of a temple in Queen street, not too far from the famous Kassim Mustapha(KM) restaurant, which is also selling nasi dalca. Still don't have any idea what nasi dalca looks like...tengok la gambar2 kat bawah tu...boleh terlioqqq woo...hehee....

This is a plate of nasi dalca, with boiled egg, sambal kelapa (or sambal nyioq as it is pronounced with the Northern slang), chicken curry and dalca. Yummy!!

A table full of foods for 5 people and it only costs us RM42.

This is the stall! In front of a temple.

Sebelum makan, ambik gambar dulu!

Dan satu lagi!

If you have tried nasi dalca from KM before, you might want to try this one too. Then you'll be able to compare. I still prefer Nasi Dalca Rahim as KM is always crowded with people, and nasi dalca Rahim taste less heavy than KM's. And mind you, eventhough it's a roadside stall, it is surprisingly clean with no peculiar smell.

Want to try but don't know where it is, you can refer to the map below, which I found in Foodpoi.

And another view picture taken from Foodpoi.

Rasa sekali mesti mau pekena lagi satu!!!

Au revoir ..."P"

2009-11-01T18:17:00.005+08:00

Despite being a Sunday, I had to sacrifice my grasse matinée today in order to reach JPJ as early as possible. The 1 advantage of living in Kedah is that you can go to government office on a Sunday, but the not so cool part is that these offices tend to be swarmed with people who is not working on Sunday (like me). So in order to avoid the long queue, I managed to reach JPJ as early as 8:20 am. The reason why I did not mind at all waking up early to go to JPJ was that today was the day I bid farewell to my P driving licence. Yeayy!! After 2 years of receiving the 'oh-she's still P' look from other drivers, finally I can take down the P sticker. It's so annoying that everytime I go back home, I'll have to stick the P sticker to my father's car or my brother's as I'm the only one with P driving licence at home. So, au revoir "P" sticker....^_^

Back to this morning, when I took my number there were already 30 people before me. But to my surprise, by 9:00 am, I was done. Amazing! I guess government offices have improved their service. Then, I tried my luck at Lembaga Tabung Haji, wanted to open new account. And hey presto, by 10:15 I was done too. Woww, I'm impressed! It's either that I came early or they really have improved the service.

Other than visiting JPJ and LTH, I did not go any further than Kulim town this weekend. Eventhough, I did plan to do some shopping this weekeend but felt so lazy. Maybe it was partly b'coz of the hectic weekday nights I had last week. Badminton on Wednesday night, bowling outing on Thursday night and dinner at Puncak Mutiara on Friday night. Tiring, but fun.

I wonder how this week will look like, plus no more 'lepak2 time' at work as my 'B' will be back in office tomorrow.

Have a great week ahead people!!

Picnicking!!

2009-10-25T22:00:00.008+08:00

It's my 2nd picnic this year. Same place like the previous one but with different bunch of people. Went to Sedim this morning with my office mates, got a good picnic spot and stayed there 1 whole day. Here's a list of what we did today :

Reached Sedim around 9am
Prepared picnic spot
Ate nasi lemak & sandwich for breakfast
Mandi-manda
Took pictures
Mandi-manda again
Cooked BBQ
Ate BBQed chicken/sausages/potatoes/garlic bread and salad
Mandi-manda again
Ate chocolate cake
Mandi-manda again
Cleared picnic spot
Changed clothes and pray
Went to Sedim Tree Top Walk
Ate leftover cakes
Went back at 5pm

Tiring day but we had so much fun of course. The best part was seeing my colleague's daughter shivering after playing with the soooo cold water. Kesian pun ade...boleh buat iklan Coke 'BRRRR' tuh...The not so cool part was when they poured a bucket of icy cold water on my head. SEJUKKKKKKKK LAAA!! Luckily my sneezing after that did not trigger my sinus or flu...pheww!

Some pictures taken from the picnic :

Happy faces

BBQQQQQQQQQQ!!

Salad in a 'tudung saji'!!!

Humaira, model baru iklan Coke BRRRRR

Natural water cooler

This is how Kulim got its name from...a TREE

It's black, it's white

2009-10-24T17:31:00.004+08:00

I kept my promise to change my blog template finally after more than a year with the black/red template. I opted for a white background, simple and clean layout provided by WP to Blogger. They have quite a collection of good WP themes for Blogger there, so if you are bored with your blog layout and think that it's time for a change, you can have a look at their site. Eh..promote plak. Heehee

A quiet Saturday it is, nothing much has been done today except laundry, cooking for lunch, FBing and editing blog template. A bit boring coz Boba Fett fan is not around on YM this weekend, discovering some islands and beaches somewhere in PH. My to-do list is far from done for today as I still have to shop for some stuff for tomorrow's picnic in Sedim. Let's hope that it's not gonna rain tomorrow morning. And I still need to edit some photos from a colleague's wedding that I attended last weekend in Jengka, Pahang. Will also blog about it here, if I got time later this evening.

Got to go peeps...oh yeah don't forget to catch Sazzy Falak on Sehati Berdansa tonite, 9am.