Where is the Love? Stand by Me....

Help needed: Have you seen Bailey?

2011-02-25T22:15:00.008+08:00

Dear friends, have you seen Bailey (the dog in the picture above)?
Bailey is a family pet of my friend in Petaling Jaya.
She was lost since 21 February 2011.
Please let me know if you found Bailey.
Please help to spread the words as well. Thanks!!

UPDATE (26 Feb 2011): Bailey is found!! Thank God!!

My pencil case, anyone?

2010-12-20T21:53:00.006+08:00

One fine day, while looking around for a b-day present for my cousin niece, I saw this pencil case.

ROY Star? Rock Star? not bad lol
And when I turn it around (more like, when mum took it and turn it around)

My name is tagged on it! Ain't it cool or what?

So, anybody wants a Leyi's pencil case?

UPDATE: This pencil case is actually sold as it is with 'LEYI' brand at supermarket! They are still available now and in various designs too. Hmm perhaps I should seek trademark rights and demand for royalties??

Randomness #2

2010-12-09T22:54:00.003+08:00

"Eh, do you think it will rain during our PBIM run?"

"Ermm, yeah woh... now it's raining season hoh. But fear not! Since PBIM is a grand event in Malaysia, I'm sure they will hire bomoh hujan to 'ensure' no rain that day!"

"Ohh, you sure or not? Effective ah?"

"Yeah yeah, quite effective! You remember our high school English tuition teacher, Mrs. M? She mentioned her school hired bomoh hujan to make sure the annual Sports Day is sunny and clear. She some more said very expensive and cannot witness the process, but it's damn effective!"

"Ahhh I see I see. Let's hope PBIM organiser will do that."

So, 30 days later, during the PBIM run day, it rained heavily starting 3am in the morning...

Conclusion: It's either no bomoh hujan was hired, or the spells did not work.

500 Days of Summer

2010-12-07T01:52:00.004+08:00

(note: Ju shared her review on this movie earlier. I read her review and went to watch this movie.)

"This is not a love story. It is a story about love."

"There's no such thing as love. It's a fantasy."

"Well, I think you're wrong."

"Okay, well... what is it that I'm missing then?"

"I think you know it when you feel it."

"I guess we can just agree to disagree."

"Yeah."

"Have I seen you before?"

"Me? I don't think so."

"Do you ever go to Angelus Plaza?"

"Yes! That's like my favourite spot in the city."

"I think I've seen you there."

"Really?"

"You must not have been looking."

One of the 'gook' movie I had so far.

But I still wonder... is it possible for someone to wake up one day and feel differently about another?

Diving @ Sipadan

2010-12-01T19:00:00.002+08:00

(Note: Long overdue post. Blame the work and frequent travels I had since the Sipadan trip in Dec'09)

When I was a little kid, I always enjoyed watching National Geographic program, especially when they are showing the sea life series. I'm always fascinated with the various fishes under the big blue seas, the vibrantly colourful corals, the magnificient underwater scenes, and of course, seeing SCUBA divers interacting with the sea creatures, such as turtles, dolphins, whales, and sharks.

Now, after going through 2 levels of diving courses, I'm finally able to fulfill another item in my wish list. Yes, diving in Sipadan has been one of my wishes since I was a kid (more like since I know the existence of Sipadan island, probably since high school I think lol).

It took us a few months to plan for this dive trip (credits to Zhenyi actually, I only joined the planning part when it's time to pay lol). Good budget trip needs good planning ^^

So, on 17 Dec, Zhenyi and I flew to Tawau and was transported to Semporna to board the boat transfer to Seaventures Dive Resort. If you follow the link, you will noticed that the SDR used to be a sea dig rig, being refurbished into a dive resort. Ain't it cool or what? I find it's really unique and one of a kind, as the resort is just 20 minutes away from Sipadan Island, and 1 km away from Mabul and Kapalai. The dive resort is one of the nearest to Sipadan Island, so we will never be far behind to other divers in getting to Sipadan as early birds lol.

Diving at Sipadan, being vibrant with various sea lifes, there're still several 'must see' agendas, such as schools of Bumphead Parrotfishes, Barracudas vortex, sharks, turtles, etc.

I shall let the photos do the talking.

Barracudas - close up shot

The vortex!

Swimming with the Barracudas!

Bumphead Parrot Fishies!

Bumphead happy family

Orang Utan Crab in bubble corals

Colourful Angel Fish

Morale Eel in a toilet bowl!

The common clown fishes a.k.a. Nemo fishies

Bubble Coral Shrimp

Underwater potrait

Green turtle - tonnes of them in Sipadan

Swim racing with the turtle lol

Chilling out under the sea

Another big green turtle

Overall, the trip was simply fantastic. Definitely one of the 'fine diving' experience ^^

Randomness #1

2010-12-01T14:16:00.007+08:00

I have been styling my hair short since I started college. Before that I did not even bother to do anything about it.

However, recently it has attracted some unexpected attentions. Read on to find out more.

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Recently, a company colleague said this to me right before the lunch hours start.

Colleague: "Wah, your hair ah, it grows upward and never come down one ah?"

Me: "Errr, no ah... I got use hair product to style it. But even without it, my hair most of them will stand out haha, just that it's messier..."

Colleague: "Ohhhhh wah like that also can."

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During the recent company annual dinner, another colleague came by.

Colleague: "Wow you looked great! Which saloon you go to have them set your hair?"

Myself: "Oh thank you! Err I just had it cut short yesterday and I style myself at home just now hahaha"

Colleague: "Oh wow, cool! What hair styling products you used?"

Myself: "Oh, I used L'Oreal and Gatsby products, both of them together!"

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And few months ago, one ex-colleague randomly asked me.

Ex-colleague: "Eh, how long you spent on styling your hair?"

Me: "Errr.... *caught by surprise* like 3-5 minutes the most loh... hahaha"

Ex-colleague: "Ohhh really? *a hint of disbelief* What hair styling products you used?"

Me: "Ohhh, I used L'Oreal and Gatsby products, combination of both!"

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Okay, enough of syok sendiri-ness... Back to reality. Bye.

it's Mango haven here

2010-06-24T23:23:00.002+08:00

If you are a mango lover, one cup of all natural green mango shake is never enough ~

If you see there's mango available in the dessert menu, go for it!!

Of course, one cannot missed the chance of having Mango crepe ^^

Mango-liciously blissfull =)

it's all about Mango here

2010-06-20T12:12:00.004+08:00

Cebu, or I preferred to call it the land of mango, has abundance of fresh mangoes everywhere.

Every morning, there're fresh ripe mangoes for breakfast dessert.

During lunch, green mango shake is my favourite.

For dinner, fresh mango shakes are easily available at any juice stalls.

Unexpected Goodies

2010-06-17T18:05:00.003+08:00

Some unexpected goodies during my morning flight to Cebu via MAS.

Desserts for the breakfast ^^

And I'm flying economy class. Imagine what business class will get =P

Quarter of century and more to come ^^

2010-06-02T22:33:00.004+08:00

In few hours time, I will be a quarter of century old.
Time flies. 25 years on earth seems like a flicker moment flashing by.
Happy Born Day to myself =)

the time has come

2010-03-30T18:13:00.002+08:00

Today I have received a piece of news.
The time has come.
Though it came earlier than I have expected,
never the less, I gotta face it somehow, be it sooner or later.

As I'm entering the next stage,
I'm hoping that the process will be bearable,
And definitely wish I can reach the end of it sooner.

Happy Chinese New YeaR

2010-02-15T17:34:00.000+08:00

Hey Hey Hey
It's the year of TIGER!!

Happy CHINESE NEW YEAR Folks!!

Wishing all CHinese a paw-sperous and happening year!!

May all your wishes come true ^^

~ The Day Before 2010 ~

2009-12-31T09:00:00.000+08:00

Time flies, and it's 2010 tomorrow!

Today is just another normal working day for me. I did not apply for leave because I don't have enough leaves to make it a nice year end break lol (FYI I have just joined my current company for less than 3 months, so you can do the maths la). Most of the peepz at my work place are still on year end break, and thanks to my manager, I can park at her shaded parking lot for the past few days. Really nice of her to let me park there =) Thank you Evelyn!

So, whenever we are coming to the end of the year, the common topics are always about what you have done during the year, what are your new year resolutions, counting your blessings, highs and lows of the year, and etc. Also, everybody probably is busy partying into the new year, wanting to end the year with a BANG lol.

Food for thought: How was the year of 2009 for you? What's your plan to end it and embrace 2010? Feel free to drop as many comments as you want yeah ^^

Happy New Year 2010 and Have a Blasting Celebration =)

P/S: Sherlock Holmes was great! Fine story line and good plot twisting show ^^

Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas

2009-12-24T13:36:00.006+08:00

Hey Hey Hey

Ho HO Ho

Merry Christmas Everybody!!

It's Christmas eve today... though I'm still at work now, but the whole office already entering into holiday mood already hahahaa.. lotsa parking slots empty today as well ^^

This year Christmas is no different than the other ones. For me, it's all about family gathering back and catching ups =)

A few more hours to go, and I will be hitting the road home to my kampung ahahahaha

Have a blessed and wonderful Christmas peepz!!

Back from Sipadan

2009-12-23T09:29:00.001+08:00

Just came back from Sipadan on the day before yesterday... the dive trip was simply fantabulous!! Will blog about it soon lol Okay better get back to work now >.<

Are you a healthy human?

2009-11-19T23:19:00.005+08:00

Today is my company's health campaign day 2. Day 1 was all good and with a bunch of free health check and assessment. So since it's free, for I'm a economical person (a.k.a. poor sial fella), I went for all the free tests lol. Got BMI test, blood pressure test, and step test (a type of fitness test apparently, need to step up and down for 3 mins non stop). The eye test doctor went off earlier due to some assignments call, so we all missed it loh hahaha. All these tests results are captured in a same form, to reflect our overall health level and fitness status. So, me and colleagues, with batted breath (so drama like waiting for lottery result like tat hahaa), we watch the health consultant pen down our ratings and squint over the overall results before crossing on the 'Health status: Excellent, Above Average, Average, Below Average, Poor, Very Poor' columns.

When it's my turn to get FREE consultations from the health consultant, she crossed on the column 'Excellent'. Yay I'm actually still ok even though I have left college for a few years already. Since I left college, I have not been exercising well and no longer swim frequently. So the health consultant (apparently a Caucasian lady) asked me in a very Brit tone

"So do you exercise?"

"Ermm, yeah but not so really frequent, some simple exercises and sometimes swimming..."

"Oh..." (look at my 'assessment' form again) "So when you go for swimming, do you swim long?"

"Ermmm (wah how can she tell I swim long when I go to swimming pool) About an hour if I go for swim..."

"Ohh, alright, then maybe you should consider adjusting your exercise pattern, instead of swim for one hour per session, make it half an hour, but to replace with more frequent sessions, let's say 2 times per week."

"Ouhhhhhh, hmm, I see I see, I will try to practice that."

"That's good. Oh great, you are the number 1 for the day by the way, as the healthiest person, but you don't get a prize for that, hahahahaha"

*sweat* but ok lah good some positive compliments from a health consultant hahaha... Really not bad woh, really some assessments and consultations for FREE lol

who don't like free stuffs hahahaha =)

Porky Treats @ Riblees (non halal post)

2009-11-01T15:27:00.014+08:00

(note: overdue post lol)

One fine weekday, the KJ house kakis and ex-kakis decided to meet up for a quick dinner catch up. We drove all the way to Riblees @ Desa Sri Hartamas. I totally have not heard of that place before, but was highly recommended by my bro, hence we decided to drive up downtown to check it out.

Riblees is located in one of the shop lots, upstairs of Al-Rajhi bank. The interior design and environment was ala western casual dining style, with jazzy background music, and also balcony dining settings available (smoking areas though). Sorry no pictures of the layout of the restaurant, as we were too hungry and was occupied with food ordering and feasting lol.

The food there was quite authentic, especially in pork dishes. That night we order all pork main courses. As noted by Zhenyi, their pork dishes are must tries ^^

The starter dish, Escargots. This is really good I tell you, and it looks so not like Escargot (note: it's a foreign cuisine, using snails as main protein). I have never tried Escargot before, but this one here is really nice. The dish does not taste foreign at all, as in what I expect in eating snails will be quite chewy and the texture of the dish will be something alien. This Escargot was cooked with garlics and cheese, to be served with toast breads. Such combination was really impressive, especially for those who enjoy cheese and garlicky dish.

First main course, US Baby Back Ribs. This one is quite similar to the Chinese style 'Pai Guat', but of course, it is totally different in terms of taste. The US Baby Back Ribs is marinated with several foreign spices and herbs, and as I flipped through the menu for the detailed description, the ingredients are really foreign language to me, but it was all well compensated to each other. To put it simple, it's totally different to the normal Chinese style taste, and it is kinda exotic and exciting to savour. The sauce for dipping is also really yummy, as it just goes well with the heavily flavour dish ^^

Crispy Pork Belly. This is a similar type of dish to the Chinese style 'Siu Yok' lol. Really loh, when we was served by the waiter for this dish, we all looked and spouted the same thing, 'ehh? Siu Yok ah?' =P This is another well marinated dish, tasty and totally different than the first main course. I'm not good at describing food tasting, but to put it simple, the pork belly is different dimension of fine pork cuisine ala Western style. The mint sauce and the potato mashes go hand in hand with the richly marinated pork belly, with the right amount of fats and crispy skin to make the whole meal sumptuous lol.

Third main course, I-already-forgot-what's-the-name-of-this-pork-dish lol. This is similar to the Chinese style 'Char Siew'. Char Siew is simply every Chinese's favourites, when it comes to Chicken rice dining. Even though the first 2 dishes were heavily flavoured and comes in big portion, our marginal utilities still remain high when we helped ourselves with the 3rd main dish. It is another to-be-unveiled surprises of the day, as the juicy texture of this dish is totally different than the previous 2 main courses. It's just wonderful haahahaa. That's all I can described it lol.

All in all, the short catch up was good, as it goes well with good food as well as randomness that we all used to have before the gals moved out. Riblees is definitely highly recommended for pork enthusiast =)

journey to the land of fathers and mothers (chapter TIGA)

2009-10-31T21:27:00.013+08:00

Being in a foreign country, one must observe and experience the local culture, as that's part of travelling and breathing the air out of your own country, don't ya agree?

Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia, the heart and focus of our neighbour country developments. Skyscrappers are everywhere, shopping malls with posh condominiums are mushrooming here and there, but still, not all the people is savouring the benefits of these fair bits of growth.

While going through the traffic jam in the city, I noticed that phenomena right on the streets.

A man, likely at his retirement age, selling newspaper along the streets to the car stopping along the traffic jams. I noticed that he just keep going forward and backward of the streets, holding the same pile of unsold papers under the tropical weather.

A woman carrying a feather duster, a real FEather duster! She hangs around the vehicles around the traffic jam areas, hoping people will tip her some money for 'cleaning' up their car. In most cases, people just wave her off...

And there's a lot of children darting around the cars to beg for money as well... and it is pretty dangerous for kids around 3years and above to be moving along the traffic jams... but the harsh living of the reality deny them the luxury of having a normal and blissful childhood...

It's a sad but honest truth to be told while staying in Jakarta... I hope things will go better for whatever the future of the nation holds...

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Well, it's not all that 'bad' as it appeared to be (in this post I mean) to be in the streets of Jakarta, as there are also some elements of mixture of other nation's culture/legacy to be experienced there.

Durex advertisement, with the touch of the local language ^^ I don't think I see such advertisement in Malaysia by the way...tsk tsk tsk, open mind people, be open minded lol

Looks like a Tuk Tuk rite? It is called as Jabai in Jakarta... I thought it was the influence of the Thai heritage (all the way from Siamese perhaps?), but some said it is actually culture mixed from India itself haha... this Jabai is reallly small I tell you, from what I noted, it can only hold 2 passengers the most at the back of the vehicle, although it appeared to me that it's only for kids ride that kind of size, if you know what I mean hahahaha

And for those still thinks that KL traffic jamness is hellish, wait till you experience Jakarta's you-must-be-nuts-to-drive-there jamness lol

totally surrounded by motorcycles while waiting for the traffic lights

This was taken while our Unser is moving on the street. The motorcycles are moving along with the cars at such close distance I tell you, and I did not have to zoom my camera at all. It's like all motorcycles are tied together with some strings and move together... can be one of the 7 mini wonders of the world hahahaha

Even lady motorcyclist also joined in the hype lol. I was told by my local company reps that getting a driving license in Jakarta is just as simple as buying a pass to drive on the road. Pay a sum and there you go as a qualified driver on the street O.o Geng leh...!! No wonder driving in Jakarta feels like driving along with a pool of P license drivers, fast and furious plus unpredictableness hahahaha

Last but not least, one of Easter goodies found on Jakarta street lol

A Proton Persona zooming proudly on the street of Jakarta lol

All in all, the work trip to Jakarta was quite fruitful. It was a simple yet pleasant experience (food, nice people, etc) to be there, and I felt more appreciative of what I have and what to treasure in life ^^

journey to the land of fathers and mothers (chapter 2)

2009-10-27T00:33:00.015+08:00

Why the title of land of fathers and mothers? why not land of maids and economical labours? lol okay bad joke bad joke... it's actually because in Indonesia, in their local Bahasa Indon, Mister is addressed as Bapak, and Madam is Ibu.. Yeap, all the elders there are your fathers and mothers, so hence, it's a land of fathers and mothers lol.... Luckily they short formed Bapak to Pak in most situations... and Ibu to Bu.... if not imagine everybody calling me Bapak Leyi, feel damn old all of a sudden weh hahaha but even Pak Leyi also I feel damn uncle ady la lol

So apart from the horrendous traffic and blood sucking airport crews, apparently there's alot of unexpected good stuffs in Jakarta. First off, the local cuisine. From what I know (disclaimer: forgive me if my travel facts are wrong, I just spent one week there only lah), there are few famous cooking style in Indonesia, ranging from Padang, Jawanese, Sundanese (hope I get the right spelling, but it sounds as what I typed >.<), local Chinese, and other fusion varieties. Padang food generally is towards the spicy variant, Jawanese more on the sweet tastings, while Sundanese..... erm... can't really remember already lol, but all the food there are really delicious and appealling, especially for a spicy lover like me =) On top of that, the raw materials of the food there is of good quality ~~ as most of the poultries there are the REAL kampung chickens, unlike not those so called kampung chicken reared in local breeding farms in Malaysia, and the seafood there, I tell you, is wonderfully fresh and comes in great size as well.

This is the salted chicken (same as the Ipoh Salted Chicken, minus the Chinese herbs ala Malaysian style). I tried this nice kampung breed salted chicken in a Hakka Chinese restaurant in central Jakarta, Angke Restaurant. Though my favourite is still the Ipoh Salted Chicken with herbs, the one that I had in Indonesia is HO HO Chiak, as even without the Chinese Herbs, the natural flavour of the chicken was fully awakened and great to savour with rice =)

This dish is called Ikan Gurame, a famous local cuisine, a highly recommended by locals. The fish is fried up and served with spicy sauces for dipping. The fish is sourced fresh and the local spicy sauce made was the perfect match to the plain fried fish.

Barbeque prawn. Forgot the name of this dish already >.<>

The fresh juices in Jakarta are must trys!! My favourite drink is the Pink Guava juice on the right. The whole cup of the drink, when I sipped it, it felt literally eating the whole fruit in liquid form ^^ I tell you, that's what I call a real fresh fruit juice man! My boss ordered Durian juice, and the drink looked damn creamy lol

All the juice drinks are made of fruit freshness, with well punched up fruit fibres, and without sweeteners~ just the natural way that everybody likes it!! The coconut drink is also highly recommended, fresh and instant thirst quenching ^^ Noticed my guava drink is seated on top of a dinner box? My company local reps bought us Padang food dinner for us while we are still working in the office hahaha (spot my calculator and Naruto key chain lol)

These desserts were snapped when I was having dinner at the hotel restaurant. Unexpectedly, the food there are also nice, compared to the typical hotel food, u know normally when we go makan in hotels, the food there is always felt like lack of something compared to the ones in outside restaurants. I did not take pictures of the buffet course dishes as I was too hungry to snap them down (always reach hotel late due to bad traffic >.<) My boss and myself enjoyed the desserts sections the most, as the varieties are all sinfully good lol. Normally we can get Black Forest cakes, chocolate desserts, nicely made jellys and flons (as per picture above), as well as chendol selections and other tarts, muffins, and brownies to spoil ourselves =)

so yeah, after the trip, I gain 2-3 kgs and my pants jadi ketat gilla lol

(to be continued)

journey to the land of fathers and mothers (chapter 1)

2009-10-20T22:05:00.010+08:00

As soon as I started my new job in MOX-Linde, one week after my first day, I departed to Jakarta for a business trip with my manager. Yeap, before I managed into fully settled down, gotta go full force into field work ady lol.

We touched down at Soekarno Hatta International Airport on Sunday evening. We were expecting a hotel taxi pick up after checking out, but as we waited at the arrival gates for about 10 minutes, there was no sign of the representative from the hotel. As our flight was already delayed (Air Asia, yeah >.<) and touched down late (almost 1 hour late), we afraid that the taxi driver is no longer there. Hence we started to search for contacts to call up the hotel. While my manager zipping up and down for the information in her luggage, a local Indon man approached us and offer to help us. Such good timing, where we need someone that can help us make local calls to check out the hotel arrangements. We gratefully get his assitance to call to the hotel.

Right after he finished the call, he turned around, flash his handphone screen to us, and spouted 'oh dear, my hp credit is a goner, would you mind tipping me RM 50?' RM 50??!! What the heck? RM50 for a local call? Within seconds, the good samaritan morphed into a day light robber!! I tak layan him at all, but he keeps on hogging us around then... my boss ended up giving him RM10, and that fella still complaints RM10 is too little, only worth 10,000 rupiah! Dude, we can do maths okay... RM1 equivalent to around 2730 rupiah weh... even a 3 years old will know RM10 is worth much more than 10,000 rupiah lah... Thank God the hotel representative popped out while we are having the 'argument'... and then within seconds, the dude took off and no where to be found.. *&*#$&*#&$*#&$ he took away RM10 juz for a measly local phone call...

Anyhow, we were chauffered to Sari Pan Pacific Hotel and settled down for dinner. The traffic condition in Jakarta is 'fantastically challenging'. If we were to compare it with KL's traffic jam, in the metaphore of level of difficulties of games, KL is juz novice/beginner level, whereas Jakarta is You-must-be-crazy-to-drive-there level. Not only the road there are swarming with motorbikes, just like the watching the beginning of the bicycle race of Tour de Langkawi, also the cars there are mostly at the size of Unser, Innova or Alphard. A Honda Civic there is considered as a small size car that does not stand chance of zooming around the high ways. To top it up, compared to Malaysia mata-mata, the local traffice polices there also dunno why they exist or what, they just literally stand there and watch over the traffic... while I was there, I somehow feel lucky to be part of Malaysia's traffic jammers lol.. I must be siao ady lol

(to be continued)

the end of an chapter, and towards a beginning of another milestone

2009-10-04T23:34:00.017+08:00

The day has come, to the time for me to bid goodbye to PwC, my first job, my training ground as an external auditor.

The journey of 1 year and 9 months was beyond words, as of now, my mind is still having vivid play backs of my time as an associate, being a newbie, the peak periods, the crazy hours, the adrenaline rush, the non work gatherings/sessions, the randomness of various team members, the late working hours tricks, the over stress symptoms and phenomenas, the never ending ranting, venting, and bitching/biatching channels, and many many more.

I treasured the friendships made during my time in PwC, for I have met many great people, from bosses to colleagues, support stuffs to batchmates, as well as some really nice clients during field work.

And yet, it has come to the end of the chapter, as one of the Chinese proverbs quoted, "There is no gathering that will not adjourn." (literally translated =P).

My good, faithful Lenovo T61, spent almost 24/7 with this sidekick since day one until last day in PwC. It is my love/hate relationship, something that I cannot be 'missed', or something that I hope it can be 'missed' at the same time lol

From left: Keat Heong, me, Hun Chil, Jessie and Pao Phing

My colleagues cum study mates since college days. It has been a great time with you all since TAR College, to SHU (UK), and now in PwC. I'm sorry that I could not continue to walk the PwC journey with you all now, but even as we divert to different traverse paths, I believe one day, we will cross our paths again ^^

#For more photos of my last day in PwC, they are all posted in my facebook.

Conclusion: I could go on to continue with listing more people and groups but in the end the message would still be: I have truly enjoyed my journey with you all in PwC.

I thank you all of you that have walked the PwC journey with me, and all the best in your future undertakings.

~Farewell, my fellow friends in PwC~

~Till we meet again in future...~

New Specs

2009-05-23T12:00:00.001+08:00

Hey Hey...

My optician called me today, and my new specs (along with mum's reading glasses) are ready to collect, which is one day earlier than scheduled.

For those who requested for the photos, here's line up shoots:

This is the Storm series ST0121.

Close up shoot taken with my N73 ME.

Noticed that the nose supports are printed with Storm labels?

First time I have a specs with 'branded' parts.

Full rear view of my new Storm specs.

The 'interior' colour of the specs is generally white.

The metal frame of the lenses are dark purple in colour.

The side plastic frames are light brown with a white linings.

Full frontal view.

My new specs is actually more lighter than my previous one.

Another angled shot using my handphone close up mode.

Generally, I think there's not much of difference between my new specs compared to my previous specs. Only that the new one is full framed on the lenses part (my previous one semi-full framed) and the colour and pattern is different.

As advised by my optician, as I'm currently using a thinner type of lenses, I have to avoid using hot water to clean or wash my specs, as it will damage the lense coatings. I think this will be applicable to most of the people wearing specs, so just be careful and not to let ur specs have contact with hot water or hot stuffs.

You might wonder where's the photos of me wearing them?

Just bump to me and remember to share your comments ya ^^

Alright, time to log off.

Take care and see ya folks!!

Random Updates

2009-05-20T17:48:00.017+08:00

(*note: Scrambled up contents ahead. Sorry for the unorganised thoughts process while writing this post >.<)

It's beeeeeen a while peoplezzzzz!

Time flies... unknowingly, it's almost 1.5 years since I've joined PwC.

It's not much of a mile stone to shout out, but still I think I've learnt many during the period.

I've learnt that being an auditor, it's all about datelines and deliverables.

I've learnt that superb multi-tasking skill is a must have being an auditor.

I've also learnt to condition my body to endure long working hours and only required minimal sleeping time as daily routine.

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Since the long-overdue-outdated Christmas post, I have been too busy to update my blog. Needless to say, I've been fully occupied with work, work and work. Many people has been pestering me, "UPdate your Blog weh!" or "Actually why you started blogging and now it's seldom being updated now?" or just "pls update".

Yes I hear you people =P sorry for proscrastinating. All that I can do previously is to read other people blogs and try to comment on them, if I happen to have any spare braincells to use for that lol.

And now, being in study leave for my coming ACCA exam, it's time to brush the dust of my blog site and post some random updates.

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My cousin brother in UK is a father to a uber cute baby boy!! Baby Joshua was born in February 2009, and the whole family has been happily busy ever since. Joshua's elder sister, LeAnne, was really helpful in taking care of her little new born brother, and she's only 3 years old this year. She helped in changing nappies, sharing her toys, and also wanted to do paintings of her little brother during her first term in nursery. Some said that a baby smile can cast away all your worries and troubles. I have to agree to that, as whenever I drop by the Seet family blog, getting updates about the little Leanne and baby Joshua, somehow I felt that I can put behind my stress and worries... =)

Feel free to drop by the blog for cute and soothing updates @ blessjoy.blogspot.com

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For those friends that I managed to catch up with recently, thank you for your time and the catching up sessions was great =) Thank you for being understanding of my always-not-free FFK replies and also being MIA during reunions and all.

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I've just got my hair cut today and also went to the optometrist to check my eye sight. One of my eyes' power has reduced and so I've decided to change my specs as well, since I've been wearing the current one for almost 3 years already. The new specs will be ready in this Saturday. It's more of a change in colour and some difference in design with the current one I'm wearing. So feel free to have a laugh at me or share your thoughts and comments when you see the new one, and also check out Chee Wai's (my other colleague) new specs, coz he got his specs changed recently too lol.

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End note: It's good to have a little break while preparing for exams, as I really have lotsa sleep deficits to catch up with. For those preparing for exams, all the best and study well ^^

Christmas 2008

2008-12-25T00:11:00.004+08:00

Christmas is always one of my favourite festive of the year. With holidays, great sales, family reunions, presents exchange, and most of all, FOOD for Christmas!! yumm ~~~

This year, I celebrated Christmas back at home with my beloved family and relatives. Nothing extraordinary though, but as always, it's about catching up with each other and simply homely themed.

On Christmas day, my cousins decided to prepare a Christmas feast at their new home in Puchong ^^ A Christmas celebration cum mini house warming for the new house. My cousins are like superwomans loh. On that day after our service and lunch session at church, they baru started to buy the necessary ingredients and started to prepare around 3 pm. Not to mention almost half of my cousin family were sicked and still recovering from fever and flu! And there we go, a wholesome and yummilicious feast for the day of Christ birth.

The line up for the feast ~~ fresh from oven ^^

From left, Shepherd Pie (with choices of beef and chicken fillings), pasta celeries with olive oil and herbs, and fresh veggie salad with custom Penang style salad dressings ^^

The beef Shepherd Pie with chessy toppings and gravy flowing fillings. I took 5 rounds of it. It was my favourite !!

Roast chicken with herbs.

This year we did not get Turkey as the market price for Turkey sky rocketed to around RM40 per kg if not mistaken. Last time where got to so expensive wan. Definitely will cost us a bomb if we were going to prepary Roast Turkey for 30 people loh. So yeah, we bought and roasted 4 chickens instead =)

Pasta salad with green onions and ham tossed with olive oil and herbs.

And fresh veggie salad with Penang style dressing (according to my Penang cousins lah).

Noticed the container with the silver spoon? That's the mayonesse dressing, special as it is tossed with celery and some X-factor stuff (forgot the other ingredients actually =P) that made it tasted like sour cream that fit just right and nice! You should try it too ^^

Last but not least, all the way from Penang, Tom Yum style fried bee hoon.

A hot selling item of the night, extraordinarily popular among the ladies!!

As the year 2009 is coming to an end, I wish everyone Happy New Year 2009!!

Hope you had a good 2008 and wish you a great year ahead =)

Cheers ~~

Merry Happy Christmas ^^

2008-12-24T22:43:00.003+08:00

Merry Christmas People !!

Hope you all have a great time out there ^o^

This year I'm celebrating Xmas at home, with my family and relatives =)

May all your wishes come true.. hehe...

God bless you and have a great time!!

Fellow Diners, Beware!!

2008-12-09T20:00:00.001+08:00

*note: unusual content ahead. proceed at your own risk. adviced to read it without full stomach.

Life is full of surprises.
I've learnt that very well recently.

It occured to me during a normal working day.

I was having dinner with my fellow colleagues in a local Chinese restaurant.

We always go to that restaurant as the food there are quite good and reasonably priced.

The restaurant is also quite famous for being 'efficient' as food is served promptly (within 5-8 minutes) as well.

So, as our food is served, we happily makan and makan lah.

As we are half way through our meal,

Suddenly, one of my colleague paused and pointed to her plate.

"Ewwwwwwwww...... Lipas......"

O.o

O.O

o.O

That's our first reaction.

Without second thought, I quickly re-check what I have on my plate and scanned for anything 'alien'.

None... Phew...

I looked at my colleague's plate and found that there is this little dead roach (cooked till roasted with soy sauce) was lying there.

I was like "wtf... if I were to be less cautious, I might ended up gobbling down that piece of thing, thinking it as just another chunk of protein'....

Of course, we raised our hand and anxiously waiting to see the restaurant's staff reaction when they discovered that little extra dish. The waiter (some foreign worker) came by. He looked at it, took my 'victimised' colleague's plate, and headed to the kitchen (the little roach is left on the table, not on the plate).

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Then he came back with another plate of white rice.

WTF. Is that the way to handle this situation?

Getting upset, we quickly summoned another restaurant staff (a chinese lady).

She came by. We showed her.

She did not look as shocked as I expected.

Rather, she kept quiet and looked at us.

And asked,

"So what do you want to do? Get a new one for you guys?"

(What the heck? Not even a word of apology?)

We were quite 'de-appetized' by this incident already.

So we said we don't want a new one, and asked her to take away the dish.

Logically, the restaurant should either replace a 'clean' dish or cancell the order payment to 'compensate' for this kind of incident. Come on, if this restaurant were to be a registered class type, people would have caused a ruckus on sucn thing, to the extreme of going public and defame the restaurant until gulung tikar.

I think even we have been really 'tolerant' for this situation and did not alarm any other diners around the restaurant. The place was quite full house during the incident by the way.

And so we called for the bill, expecting to only pay for those "healthily served" dish.

Dim ji when I check the amount, we were charged full, including the 'tainted' dish.

whaaddaafakkkkk...... not even a apology, and we have to pay in full like nothing happened???

We were furious and demanded for not paying the dish served with the roach. The waiter that handled the bill was giving us the kurang ajar look, and I saw the reaction of the restaurant boss when his mah jai informed him of our demand.

Mana tau that restaurant boss just show his long black face and reluctantly instructed his staff to proceed with our demand. So we ended up paying for the 'clean' food and left the restaurant with anger, dissapointment and frustration.

I am so regret that we did not make a scene for that situation. I think even a 3 year old would know how to handle this situation better. I think at least an apology for the blunder will be enough, and there is no need to give free meal or unreasonable compensation to remedy this matter.

Lesson leart: To beware and watch what you eat while you dine outside. Life is indeed full of surprises.

Post blogging note: I chose not to disclose the restaurant name as I just want to alert everybody as the title quoted. I think there is no need to create public dispute on somebody. Just be carefull in everything.

A year has gone by

2008-12-08T20:41:00.009+08:00

I've just read one of my friends blog about her recent stay in UK. It made me recalled something that I tresured in my life.

Come to think of it, it's been more than one year since I came back from UK. Though I was there for around 4 months, till now the memory of England still resonate in my mind strongly. There are still many things that I missed about UK.

~I missed the summer in Sheffield. It was only 3 weeks of hot sun during summer in the city. Other than that, it was nice and cool, just like Fraser Hill in Malaysia.

~I missed walking around the city and never have to sweat a bit even though I have been walking around for hours, as the weather is just too nice to let the body to sweat it out.

~I missed enjoying chocolates in UK. Holding the dark chocolates on my hand and no need to worry about it getting melted, as the weather is just too good to be true. Really.

~I missed the beer session with my buddies. As quoted by many, alcohols are cheaper than mineral water in UK, and no, I did not get drunk in UK. Never happened.

~I missed the summer sales in UK. Even non-shopaholics like me also can't resist the offer of getting branded goods like Topman at price that is cheaper than Marks and Spencer (or maybe Topshop is commonly a different class of brand compared with M&S?).

~I missed walking around the street alone and not afraid of being robbed and assaulted.

~I missed hanging out the local casinos daily and contributing nothing to it, but earning freebies and some real good stuffs in return =)

~I missed clubbing in UK. Missed the weekly entrance offer to Embrace, where I can get free entrance with 5 pounds worth of voucher for drinks. So it's like spending zero to have fun *huge grin* Where to get such thing in Malaysia?

~I missed travelling around UK. The classic beauty of old England in Cambridge, watched a game in Old Trafford, hang around London and experienced the office rush in underground subways, visited the scenic Scottland, and step around the streets of Manchester, and many many more.

And the list will continue on and on...

Well, those are just shreds of memento that I wanted to share to you all. The picture collection at the right side of my blog will tell more of my time in UK. Maybe if I'm free, I will post something up that relates to my stay in UK.

SCUBA Diving @ Redang Island

2008-10-24T22:25:00.006+08:00

SCUBA Diving
Finally a dream comes true ^^

Before we take the plunge into the deep blue sea... photo session time..!!

3 guys + 3 gals + one random sun glassed diver trying to camwhore as well :P

left to right: Zhenyi, Han Fong, Audrey, Serene, Hsien Hui, Bryan (our dive instructor) and myself

During the briefing session before we start the dive.

Notice we all are wearing the same type of belt?
They area actually the weight belts that help us sink into the water during diving ^^

Every one of us have to carry around 1-3 kgs in order to sink into water to dive (so you can imagine how tiring for us to carry those weights around while preparing for the dive session)

Only Serene so pandai not to wear it first .. smart smart...

Revising the sign language to use during diving session. It's definitely important to remember how to communicate with each other while under water. The sign we are showing in the pic is actually a sign of sighting of Butterfly Fish under water (hence the butterfly hand sign) hahahahaa... Even the creatures underwater also have different sign language for us to learn.. Interesting eh?

Pointing towards our diving site (can't remember what's the name ady though)
Yeap, there are actually alot of dive sites around the not too big Redang Island :)

Pic with Bro Zhenyi!

Final march on the white sandy beach before entering the blue blue water world

All geared up for diving action ^^

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After almost 1 hour of underwater...

It was definitely beyond words to experience the underwater sea world for the first time. Too bad I don't have a underwater camera to snap down those priceless moments. We saw sting rays as big as a kitchen kuali, and as small as our palms, swim along with green turtles, passed by schools of yellow sea basses... and of course, visited tonnes of clown fish (Nemo fish!) areas a.k.a anemoni chorals (remember how Nemo try to pronouce the word 'anemoni' before starting his fish school :P) and many other beautiful and magnificient things under the sea.

One word to describe it all: Fanstatic ^^

Now that I am a qualified Open Water Diver, there's so many adventures and underwater experience to unveil and explore!!

You should try it too. To dive does not require you to be a good swimmer. As long as you are not afraid of being underwater, you will surely can dive just like a fish under the water ^^

Redang Island

2008-10-18T11:08:00.001+08:00

Redang Island,

the wide sandy beach,

with sands as white as Double A paper,

with water as clear as bottled RO water,

compared to PD,

it's as if comparing between heaven and hell...

This post is supposed to be.. supposed to be... up a few months ago.

But heck, blame the work and life that are always full of events.

Zhenyi and I, along with his college mates and buddies, went to Redang Island for our SCUBA Open Water Diving under the certification of PADI. Being a beach lover, it was my fourth time going there. Yet each time the vacation in Redang will be different (with different gang of people), so each time will always be a different experience ^^

I shall let the photos do the talking :)

Impersonating Kung Fu Panda ^^
(from left: Hsien Yew, myself, Audrey, Serene, Hsien Hui, Han Foong and Zhenyi in the front)

Being in Redang, snapping pictures is the full time itinenary!
Who can resist the beatiful sandy beach with breathtaking view haha.

High School Musical wannabes!!

The high jump was definitely not something achievable with a few attempts.
That's why I think the movie was named as HIGH School Musical -_-'''

Attempting to high jump for the previous photos.

Audrey's pose is really cute... Hsien Yew, erm dunno why he's sitting... and me and Zhenyi, looks like going to smack to each other after the jump... thus my freak out look O.o

Snap shot in front of our resort.

Another one in front of our resort, Redang Bay Resort.

In the mood for ~Meteor Garden~
Love the sceneries in Redang :)

BEWARE!!
Viewer discretion required...!

The following photos contain the following elements:
- America Next Top Model
- I Want to be a Model
- Man Hunt
- Amazing Race Asia
- Survivor
- Temptation Island

View at your own risk.

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Ok ok ahhaaha that's all for the Redang Island post.
Stay tune for my diving post!

B-Box Talent

2008-09-16T10:50:00.000+08:00

I'm really impressed with this.

Wonder is this part of human evolution?

Or we humans are still searching our own limits...

CIPS 1 Away Day 2008

2008-09-07T22:04:00.004+08:00

One fine day, my department people were too stressed up with work and before we all started to go kuku, we decided to run AWAY from our clients and hide in Bukit Tinggi....

Hence this runaway trip was named as "CIPS 1 Away Day".

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...(a black raven flying by squacking distantly).........

hahaa.. jk jk.. we auditors are not so kuku and random yet..... (the organisers please don't flame me k?)

Actually our department does have an annual event, which is organised by our deparment leaders so that the whole department can be out of any jobs during 2 selected working days in a year and do things other than audit work in a place far far away. Hence it is called CIPS 1 Away Day.

Some good stuff rite?

So here we are, in Bukit Tinggi Berjaya Hills Resort, which is located in the French Village area as well. On the first day morning, Ju, Jessica, Jenny (3Js) and myself drive up to Bukit Tinggi. Me and the 3Js were kinda afraid that we can't make it to our destination, not because the driver have problems (Ju was the driver and she's the typical Johore driver *cough* *cough*). Our main concern is driving Ju's Kelisa all the way up to the steep hill of Bukit Tinggi (even though it is much 'lower' compared to Genting). The hills are really steep and the car were practically crawling up, as we can hear the car 'screeching and clawing' the road when we are going uphill. We were almost prepared to step out of the car and push it uphill should the car just suddenly die half way.

In the end, we still made it and we were not late. Hands up to Ju!!

After we registered ourself to the organisers, we hang around to take pictures of the newly rennovated resort, which is somehow resembles a French castle.

With the SDI (Tractors) team, Ju, Jenny, Jocelyn, Karen, Alicia, and Pei Ling.

Noticed that everybody is wearing horizontal stripes? That was our dress code for the first day of the event. Some others' apparels somehow reminded me that we were a bunch of runaway jail mates having holiday break in Bukit Tinggi :P

The resort also provided us the free pass ticket to all the nearby tourist attractions, so we don't have to pay any entrance fee at all (really good stuff right?)

Hence we headed to the Japanese Garden.

Trying to communicate with my fellow kindred (my name in Chinese sounds like coil fish in Mandarin, therefore Japanese coils are my kindreds). Noticed the fishes are all around me? They somehow attracted to me, serious man, not that I have fish feeds on my hands... Maybe I have some special power to summon fishes??... *scratching my chin and started thinking about what hero name I should use now*

With Jenny's friends in the Japanese Garden.

See... I told ya so...see all these fishes swimming towards me when I trying to take this picture. (maybe Tim Kring should get me a role in the next season of Heroes)

After meeting up with my kindreds in Japanese Garden, we headed to the rabbit park, where we can play and pet with the bunnies.

Petting a cute little snow rabbit with grey ears. Some rabbits are really afraid of humans, but most of them just let us do what they want with them.

This cute little bunny is one shy rabbit.

It just don't want to come out from it's hole.

The fur looks just like a plush toy.

Talk about rabbits and bunnies, do you know why Playboy use rabbits as their trademark logo? A few years ago, when I brought my house rabbit for some injections, the vet shared this question and he said that this is because rabbits are sexually active animals. All they do is just sexing and sexing and sexing (be it after meal, before meal, after sleep, before sleep, etc). That's why Playboy use rabbit as their trademark symbol.

So that means the rabbit park is like a red light street for rabbits?????

Back in the resort, Karen and myself besides the fountain.

After lunch, me and Karen were wandering around the French village. We found the clock tower at the end of the street and decided to walk all the way up there as we need to exercise coz we were too stuffed with the lunch buffet. Picture taken at the peak of the clock tower.

After a short break, we went for a jungle trekking around the Botanical Garden. The jungle treking was quite treachearous, as in if you are not carefull enough, you might end up falling off and rolling down the jungle hills and ended up in those jungle areas similar to the Predator movie scenes. The jungle have no clear tracks to follow with, and we were only given a bearing to move around the area. I think it was really challenging and fun, even though we were stuck in the jungle for almost 3 hours. I did not manage to take pictures as it was kinda dangerous to pose and snap photos during the trekking.

After cleaning up, we headed out for dinner. After dinner, we had some leisure time to play Taboo and Pictionary. When the clock hits 10pm, the department leaders started to bring in liquors. Time for booze!!

Before hitting the alcohol, picture taken with my batchmates, Ju, Jessica and Gerald.

With IGB team, the all time crazy people!

It's not something you can do in normal daily life, as in to sit down and drink with your department leaders, which is you bosses and ur bosses punya big boss as well. We really have the chance to cheers and yam sing with them and also play penalty drink game with them. Luckily, there's nobody got drunk and there's no auditor gone wild that night.

2nd day, with IGB team members, before checking out.

With Isya, Taisei team colleague.

Though the Away Day was only for 2 days 1 night, I appreciate the opportunity to bond with my department colleagues and also have some great time out with my work mates. Looking forward to our next year's Away Day!!

SHU Graduation 2008

2008-09-06T10:01:00.003+08:00

It's been a while since I post something in my blog.
Some said my blog is turning into a quarterly review thingey.
Others thought that I've become boring and no fun =.='''

So, here comes the entries that I should have posted since dinosaur months ago...

My GRADUATION.. :)

Shall we let the pictures do the talking?

Sated in the front row with Chin Ying.

Seated next to Lip Sy, the top scorer of my class.

The other front row girl, Sook Yee.

Picture taken by bro.
My family was also seated in the front row of the guests area.

With Jessie and Jenny.

At the outside of the hotel after the ceremony.

Family Potrait!!
Happified mum and dad as well as Zhenyi.

My batch mates with my graduation bear!!
With Jimmy, Sze Wen, June Ann, Wai Ting, and WT's friend (can't recall her name...)
The graduation bear was from my cousins.
Hand made with customised graduation hood and mortar board.

With Katherine, Kenneth and Chee Mun.

With Paul, Carmen, Phui Mun, Mei Yee, etc.

So, farewell to sweet honeymoon study life.
Welcome to ~~hell~~ working life.

Music/Language/Lyrics Bloopers

2008-09-03T10:38:00.011+08:00

One of my colleagues shared this video to me.

Enjoy!!

My New Found Love

2008-07-06T14:45:00.009+08:00

Finally, the time has come.

Come here my love, come here~~~~~~~~~

Curious to know who's my new love right??

Haha.. it's my new Nokia N73 Music Edition.

Gotcha...!! for those thought I'm finally free from bachelorhood (=.=''' haih... that means I'm still single and available from the moment I'm born to this world...)

Meet my new partner. This phone is an extension model originated from the original Nokia N73, with the same specs and features as N73, plus the upgrades such as the music button on the keypad, mini SD 2GB that comes with the package, and also the nifty hands free set with the 2.5mm audio jack that allow users to jack in any ear phone that they like, giving users the option of getting the best earphones to enjoy the enhanced music capability of the phone, and not restricted only to use Nokia ear phones (frankly, which does not look cool at all)

My brother was using this model as well, since early 2008. Seeing how a Symbian phone can be so handy (of its wide range of functions and flexible customisation ability) and looks decent at the same time (cool matted Black, I like it!), plus my ex-love (Sony Ericsson w800i) has started to behave like an old hag, I decided to trade in my walkman phone and switch to Nokia N73 ME.

It was not easy to depart with my orangey walkman phone, as I bought the w800i during my 21th birthday, as a present to myself, and the phone has been my best MP3 player ever since. However, as the Chinese sayings, if the old stuffs don't leave, the new things won't come to you.

Conclusion: It's good to have a change amidst my hectic working life.

Ok, time to continue work....
There are tonnes of things I still want to blog....
But time is definitely not enough for me now...
I'm so missing study life!!
Wish I can de-learn everything and have an excuse to go back to school again...hahaha...

Stay Tuned!!

PwC 1st Experience @ Le Meridien Hotel

2008-03-16T09:40:00.008+08:00

Where there's a beginning, there'll be an end.

Before we know it, it is the final day of our 1st Experience programme with PwC Malaysia.

Ming Chin (centred-left pic), our dearest and lovely trainer (she's all motherly and like a big sister to all of us^^).
Managed to get a snap shot of how it looked like in our training room as well.

Our 'graduation' dinner at Le Meridien Hotel. With all my CIPS 1 batchmates (left pic), and also me being the thorn among the roses.

With Yoon Weng and Jason (left pic).
With Lip Sy, Ting Fang and Chee Wai, the table 14 members during the training (right pic).

The EUMI gang (left pic), namely Hui Chieh, Yin Whai, Lee Ling, Laura, Sue Hui, Ronald, Muk, Jia Wen, Kathryn, Juvan, Ting Fang, Vannesa... (hope I get the names correct. sorry if I quoted any wrong name... hahaha).

Right pic: With Kenneth, Ivan, Celine, Jessie. Eileen, Lee Lian, Gerald, Jason....

Overally, the 1st Experience programme is truly unforgetable, fun, exciting, some says crazy, and some says relaxing. To all the January 2007 1st Experience freshies, thank you for everything and it's great to know you all !! Keep in touch and God bless!!

PwC 1st Experience @ Centro, Sooka Sentral

2008-03-15T14:15:00.006+08:00

Another part of our training is to have a dinner session with our section leaders a.k.a. our bosses of our respective working department. So that means we have another free dinner session from PwC.... Good stuff rite?

Cheers with Jason and Gerald. I like the ambience of Centro. A recommended chill out place with friends and colleagues. It's a new pub cafe at Sooka Sentral, near KL Sentral.

With Lip Sy and Jalilah (CIPS PLAS batchmates), Jumaiiyah and Mark (my CIPS 1 batchmates).

With MMG batchmates and my fellow CIPS 1 co-workers (not forgetting June Ann and Chee Wai).

The session with our section leaders (a senior manager and a partner) was alrite.
I quite enjoyed the food served (3-course meal).
But the dessert was damn cheapo.
I think they served some Tesco brand ice cream topped with some fresh cream and jello.
A bit potong stim for the ambience and atmosphere.

More 1st Experience posts to come.
Stay Tuned!!

PwC 1st Experience @ Mdm Kwan & Cosmic Bowl

2008-03-15T13:01:00.010+08:00

During my training in PwC 1st Experience, we were treated with a good hearty feast of dinner in Madam Kwan (on one of the training days). Not bad right? Get training and free dinner also hehe....

With Celine, Jessie, Lip Sy, Mark, and Yin Whai.

The good hearty dishes that made us warm and fuzzy after a long day of training ~ blurp~

After filling up our linked-to-black-hole-stomach (was really hungry and thristy), we were treated with free bowling sessions at Cosmic Bowl. It was my first time to have a bowling sesison with a group of 60 people. I can clearly see the other patrons in the bowling arena showing intrigued and weird faces as they witnessed some 60 OLs and OGs (office lady and office guy?) marched in with laptop bags (because we have to bring our laptops whenever and wherever we go after work, and cannot leave the notebooks in the car, scared kena curi pulak)

Me vs Shi Yan (Red vs Yellow)

My bowling team (Eric, Shi Yan, Laura and Juvan). Check out our score board!! Feel damn happy with my score hahaha... managed to pin down to 100 points... *smile*

Sorry for the long delay in updates folks.

Been tighly occupied with work.

More updates to come.

Stay Tuned!!

PwC 1st Experience @ Avilion, Port Dickson

2008-01-10T00:30:00.000+08:00

On the 2nd day of 2008, I resumed my life chapter with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, one of the big four firms (don't understand my French? in simple words, it's one of the big big multinational companies *ehem ehem*). Previously I did my internship with PwC in year 2006. So here I am, back again.

As fresh graduates, PwC sent me along with 3 buses of new joiners for an off site training in Avilion, Port Dickson. Avilion is well known for it's romantic and cozy water chalets. Too bad I'm not sharing such a 'romantic getaway' trip with someone special T_T

But I'm so happy to meet my SHU mates!! Kenneth, Jessie, Celine, Lip Sy, Pao Phing, June Ann and Poh Ying, hambalang were there!!

Upon arriving PD, we were given a set of training kits. Mostly are coloured in orange, including our T-Shirts, pencil case, etc. Coincidently, my handphone ornament (hanging from my pocket) and my W800i handphone also orange coloured. Damn matching right?

New found friends : Gerald and Imran. They were seated in our dinner table in Admiral Marina & Leisure Club.

After a long day of indoor and outdoor induction with team building activities, we were rewarded with a special dinner treat. We did not dine in Avillion ladies and gentlemen. We were 'chauffeured' to Admiral Marina & Leisure Club to have our dinner. The food was deliciously and yummily served. We had a wide array of barbeque buffet choices, exotic local Malaysian food and delights, as well as a whole lot of delicately prepared Western desserts. The theme of the dinner venue was once again, romantic. It was an open dinning area located next to a marina port with soothing sea ambience, dim lighting, plus some 'matching' music playing at the background. Why PwC 1st Experience want us to feel so romantic wan?

More new found friends : Ivan and Vincent.

After a hearty and awesome dinner, we started to feel bored and decided to do rooms hopping. I was allocated to stay in Garden Villa. Noticed the ambience of the pictures? Yeap, it is romantically themed as well (gee, maybe PwC wants to boost up our sense of romance to prepare for work?)

In Water Villa (Jessie's room). Met Jessie's roommate Jia Wen and her friends. The Water Villa is lagi romantic than Garden Villa. The bathroom itself is spacious and the shower area is open aired!

So how was the training overall? Other than a tad too romantically themed (unintentionally of course), the induction was pretty good. Two thumbs up to the organiser!!

Go Kart @ Shah Alam

2008-01-01T17:15:00.000+08:00

During the X'mas gathering in my uncle's place, my cousin, Terence, suddenly popped up with an idea...... "Why don't we go play Go Kart now? There is a new go kart arena near our house. It opens until 10pm." It was 9pm. Without second thought, we all said HELL YEAH!!

Come to think of it, it's been many years since I played go kart. The last time that I went for go karting was during a BMW 3 series launch exhibition in Sepang F1 Circuit... it was like probably 10 years ago!!

The Go Kart in Shah Alam (forgot the name of the place already) was 15 minutes drive from my uncle's place. The go kart track was fairly big, measured about 1.1 km and the difficulty of the track can be compared to a sized down version F1 track. There are several challenging turnings and also 2 hair pins junction in the track itself (cannot understand?? shesh... I should take a snap shot of the track layout...)
Before taking off for the 10 minutes ride!!

Noticed the white thingey on our head...?? the go kart facilitator provides each of us a disposable hair net for hygiene purposes. I did not know that hair net also comes in disposable type!! I was so sampat to bring back one as souvenir *sweat* The Go karters Ultraman pipipipiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii....

Ted on the GO!! (why the photographer not taking pictures of me T_T)

Never underestimate the speed of the small kart!! We were actually driving up to 60-70 km/hr on the track itself. It was definitely 1000000000000000000 zillion times faster than the Genting Go Kart!! It's fast enough to put ourself into self spins if we lost maneuver of the karts (shamed to say that I actually went into a wild spin on track, as I was too excited and lost control after taking over Alyson on the track! Syoknyaaaaaa)

After one session, we decided to go for another round. It was really exhilirating and addictive I must say. But only five of us continued to race in the following session. The girls and Calvin stay behind to watch us. So they were kinda bored while waiting and decided to ride on the facilitator's motorbike!! Wonder why Alyson so happy on the bike (no motorbike in Australia? =_=")

Oh yeah, did I mention that two rounds of Go Karts only cost us RM65?

Definitely will be back for more *smile*

X'mas Gatherings

2007-12-30T21:35:00.000+08:00

Merry Christmas everybody!!! My house new little Red Hot Christmas Tree..... happy to get a new one this year. Mum and Zhenyi got this from Seremban Parade. Cost around RM10-20 only!!

This year Xmas I went to my uncle's new house in Setia Eco-Park (Shah Alam) for his house warming. There I met with my all my cousins that are scattered all around the world, from USA, UK, Australia, China, Holland, and even Indonesia as well. My family structure pretty cool (and complicated) rite?

With my (grown-up) cousins. Me at the back. The smilling kiddos (from left) are Carmen, of Dutch and Chinese heritage, David and Jonathan (Jon Jon) with their parents (Lim and Mei - working in Indonesia). Nowadays kids are super strong!! Something wrong with the milk powder formula that they eat!! These kiddos can drag me like a toy from kitchen to living room without sweat!! Scary right??!! But its really fun to play with them. They will just keep on shouting "Uncle Small Fish, do you have any games?" "Uncle Small Fish, can we play another game?" "Uncle Small Fish, can we play again, can we, can we, can we???". Ain't they cute or what?

(They called me Uncle Small Fish because my Chinese name sounds like a fish, and yes, my brother is Big Fish and therefore I'm Small Fish).

My distance cousins. Really the bau-bau bacang related cousins. With Zhenyi (in maroon shirt), Alyson and Justin from Australia. Also Ted, from China. They are really funny and animated!!

Another shot. Need to include Terence in the photo hehe. He's all the way from USA. We all cousins only have chance to meet up during Xmas or Chinese New Year in Malaysia.

This is the Year 2007's Family Most Favourite Baby, LeAnne. She's 100 times more CUTE and adorable in reality. ALso really friendly to anyone!!! She's my cousin's daughter (from UK). We all will miss her so much. She also have a blog of herself by the way (a baby blogger???). Check out my associate bloggers section!!

End of the post.

More updates to come.

Stay Tuned!!

2nd Time in Zouk

2007-12-18T20:22:00.000+08:00

Intially, we planned to go to Maison for the night. But when we reach there, it was really packed with people. So we become kiasu and switch to Zouk... hehe... since it is nearby and it's been a while since we club there. It was Thursday night and I was out with Jessie, Wai Theng, Sony, Jenny, Ah Mao and Zhi Wei. Jessie also called some of his guy pals to hang out.

Our drink, Johnie Walker Black Label. Zouk have not changed much since the last time I came (about 2 years ago). We could not get a table, but managed to get a nice spot along the counter. There was a guy (a big guy dressed in white) next to our place. We noticed that he was watching us and the gals feel like he's a mah lat lou. After a few sips of drinks, he approached me and we chatted a little. In the end, he passed me a card and said, "Call Me." (sounds weird right?) When I check the card, only know that he's a Zouk ambassador (not some weirdo trying to..... you know lah... *sweat*). Zouk should hire pretty girls to be their ambassador!!

Picture (from left): Jessie, myself, Jenny, Sony, Ah Mao and Zhi Wei.

The UV light and White effect. If we know we are hitting Zouk, we could have dressed up in white. The 'White Sparks' among us is Jenny. She was so smart to wear that dress!!

(Wai Theng on counter!!)

We enjoy Zouk (on Thursday) as they play R&B and Hip Hop music. The only drawback of that place is that there are more Malays and Non Chinese there, plus many ah guas as well.

The guys (picture on down right): Edward, myself, Eugene, Eugene, and Kenny.

Yeap, there were 2 Eugene(s) with us that night. They are all from APIIT. Jessie's friends. Crazy fellas. Look at the first picture on the left. I did not notice that Edward was right behind when taking pictures. He must be really dehydrated!! (he's gulping some other table's beer by the way!! *sweat*)

This is my first clubbing after back from UK. Cheers to my clubbing kakis...!!

BLAST from the Past!!

2007-12-10T00:14:00.000+08:00

I thought today was just another normal day for me. I went to church, sent off my brother back to KL, and went to Jusco twice (first time with Ronald, and 2 hours later with my cousins). Pretty boring hoh? The only thing that made my day wonderful is that I managed to buy a few things that I wanted for long. Don't want to bore you further with what I have bought lah...

So, a Blast from the Past??!! It happened like this.

I was so happy to see Chui San popped online in my MSN Messenger.
It's been ages since I see her online and chat with her. So far only managed to see how she's doing through her blog. If you have time and need some elements to laugh out, please go to Chui San's blogs (in my Associate Bloggers link). It's crappy (good craps in fact), funny and I must say, it's down to earth and impressive as well *whistle*. Chui San, if you are reading this, kindly feedback to me lah (DUH).

While chatting with Chui San, we discussed about how stupid that we could not meet up in UK while I was there for my summer degree programme and San San being there for her pharmacy studies. Really a waste and a slipped chance for not being able to meet up in UK!! Actually it was kinda hard for us to meet face to face as I was in UK from June to mid October 2007 whereas San San only reached UK around end of September or early October... rite? Somemore she was in Nottingham and I was in Sheffield (later on I went to London and Manchester for vacation before returning to Malaysia). Therefore it is indeed hard for us to arrange a meet up lah.

(so boring lah, where's the Blast from The Past story??????)

Ok Ok, here comes the main topic. I asked Chui San whether she's still in contact with Sheter, a Hong Kong friend that we know during a student exchange programme in Korea during summer 2001. Then she said, 'Hah, no woh, din contact her for so long already la'. Then I was upset, because I remembered I told her through Friendster msg that Sheter is in UK for studies. I continued to nag her that she's so busy with her UK life and her blogs. She then complained about her stupid essay works that she have to rush and also the cheap and slow internet connection. So I finally said, "Hey, you know what, Sheter is online now in MSN, I send you her MSN contact la". Sheter was indeed online in MSN and Chui San asked me to connect her into our conservation window. And then, we had a simple and great 'reunion' in MSN chats.

Here are some parts of our conversation history logs between me, Sheter and Chui San.

Leyi : hahaa... anyway... hav you contact with Sheter?
San : i din keep in touch with her for a long time already
Leyi : she's online now by the way...!!
San : ohoh add her into the conversation

(then Sheter enter into our conversation)

San : hello!!! do u or do u not remember me?
Sheter : aee??? why do u add me again (she's still blur why I add her into other conversation window)
Leyi : Hey there Sheter... still remember Sanny??!!
Sheter : EHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SANNY!!! of course i remember you!! how can i forget!
Sheter : how are you :D.. let me add you to my list ! you have been disappeared
Leyi : San San... you there??
Sheter : seems she's out
San : oh hi hi... sorry.... I AM HEREEEEE
San : sorry... was discussing about my stupid essay with a friend T.T
Sheter : dun hide
San : babe!! how are u! i am so happy to be able to talk to u again

(somewhere in the middle of conversation.....)

Leyi : Sanny is in Nottingham....
Sheter : WHAT? you(San) are in nottingham???
San : YEA... me in nottingham!
Sheter : ME TOO!!!!
San: u r in nottingham!??
Sheter: how can i not knew that!
San : not in london meh? (asking Sheter)
Leyi : both IN NOttingHam???
San : ARE U SERIOUS?
Sheter : i go to nottingham trent! (Sheter studies there)
San : leyi! u told me she is in london!
Leyi : YOU BOTH really some practical jokes....
San : trent! that's alright, not that far
Sheter : i was in london for the summer :D
San : aiyuyu... this leyi ah... beat u
Leyi : I think I got it wrong... SORRY... SORRY...
Sheter : o my god!! we have to meet !! :D

(and the 'reunion' continues...)

If this conversation happened in a real face-to-face, real time real place meeting, we would have shout out loud like kena lottery or jackpot and embraced each other like never before. This is what I thought as a BLAST from the Past. We have not chat with each other for like 6 years since 2001. It's really great to get back to each other again. Now this is what I call a not so normal and less ordinary day of my life... *smile*

Featured in World Wide Web

2007-12-08T11:35:00.000+08:00

Hey there guys... just wana share some good news (happened in the past though) with everybody. I was actually featured in my TAR College quarterly bulletin, with photo somemore. Please click over the link for the online version of the news (so 'syok' with such little online fame, muka tembok lah)

http://web2.tarc.edu.my/05/mainweb/bk/june06/content15.htm

For keep sake purpose, I have kept a few hard copies of this issue bulletin. Actually there was another time where I was featured in my College Bulletin, but during that time (much earlier than the online version posted), TARC have not set up their online bullentin board yet. So can't get any online version to be posted. Geramnya, if not can show off more here... :P

Anyway, just wana fill up something for the blog.

Not impressive at all rite?

Feel free to drop me a comment or some message in my blogs.
Anyway, thanks for reading through...!!

Bagan Lalang & Sepang Golden Coast

2007-12-07T23:09:00.000+08:00

Today I went to Bagan Lalang, near Sepang town, with my cousins.

It was a good local day trip.

We bought RM160++ of fresh fishies from the sea market (it's well known for its fresh sea product and not too expensive prices, and we were buying for a few families lah... we are not as 'luxurious' as you think :P)

We also have a stroll along the Bagan Lalang beach to catch some scenic moments and sunset time before heading for Ikan Bakar dinner.

Beside our the Ikan Bakar restaurant, we passed by a developing area. It still filled with construction workers and those pembinaan stuffs. What captured my attention was the billboard of the construction site. This place in future will be called Sepang Golden Roast. Check out the following pictures. This is what will be like in Bagan Lalang beach, probably in a few years time (if the construction speed is good, if not probably would take longer than our 'fingers' years, got the idea?)

The idea is to build a stretch of resorts that form the shape of a Palm Tree. I pretty like the night view of the concept. Do google this place if you wana find out more...!! (please click on the picture to have a clearer look)

After feasting a yummy Ikan Bakar dinner (with otak-otak, sate, coconut drinks), I head back home with a wish to own one of the units in the resort in future.

*Disclaimer : Sepang Gold Coast is not responsible in compensating the blog author in any form of direct and indirect promotion work carried out... therefore, please read with caution loh....*

First Entry - Luna Bar

2007-12-06T20:15:00.000+08:00

Hey there everybody...!!
This is not the first time I post a blog (my first blog being in the Friendster blog). Now I'm currently wanna create another new blog post. Something more official and personal.

Suddenly wanna change... haha that's how humans behave rite??
So here it goes, my first blog, to raise the curtain, would like to post something that I like.

Have you been to Luna Bar? Heard of it?
It's in Malaysia by the way, no need to fly over to other country to look for it :P

Like the view? This photo is taken from Luna Bar. Yeap, it's open air and also include a indoor pub area as well. Luna Bar is situated at the top of a building called Pan Globe Tower if not mistaken. In day time Luna Bar is a swimming pool and leisure grounds and at night, it became a PUB. Pretty cool eh?

Another nice view. A bit different from the previous one. Can see the Petronas Twin Tower from there.

On the other side (which I don't have a good pic) can see the KL Tower. Pretty nice spot leh. Great environment for impressing women and chilling out with buddies.

Enjoying a glass of drink in Luna Bar. I like the settings and ambience there.
Thanks to my bro (Zhenyi), I do look different in this shot. Looks like a professional enjoy his high scale of entertainment in a private club (syok sendiri pulak :P)

ANother pose. Not as good as the previous one (trying to act extra cool now and being photo addicted).

(My brother: Oiks, try to be more creative lah... dun be so vain la... people are looking now...)

I have not been to Luna Bar for quite long after my practical training period with PwC Malaysia. Hope can go there again when I'm starting to work, but sure need to prepare some cash to spend there. It's pricey to be luxurious weh...Thanks to Zhenyi, for bringing me there.... *smile*