More Ummph

Ah...my babe's performance has increased slightly. This tank, she managed to go up till 400.1km, purely city drive! I know to some that figure is still not so good, but I am happy to see an improvement. Hopefully she can slowly increase and get better mileage for this tank. :)

接受

现在的我，心情不知如何，开心？伤心？麻木？生气？失望？真的好复杂。。。

小时候，不知你有没有那种“被接受”的感觉。朋友不要参你一同玩，把你推到一边去，你会感到不被接受。上了中学，一定有一班你比较参得来的朋友。当你进入了college时期，也有你一班要好的朋友。

一男一女察出火花，男方要鼓起勇气来问女的“你愿意做我的女朋友吗？”女的点点头，这也是一种的“接受”。谈恋爱时，一对恋人在一起，也是一种的“接受”。到了某个阶段，要见家长，会慌张，不知对方家长是否会“接受”你？

我妈又再来吵我，都不明白她在吵什么，好烦。反正明年都有茶给她喝。你我之间的“接受”，不知何时才可实现。是否真的有缘无份。。。

Too much time today alone. Mind was wondering off again too far away.

Lesson of the Day

Never try to wax two cars in a day!

Just completed one and another still waiting there for me to complete...my whole body is aching now and yet to recover from a 6 month layoff of badminton session on Wednesday!

Anyone wanna help?

Life Journey Part 2

I didn't care what the person said, I worked my ass up from the bottom. I switched from 100m to hurdles event instead with the guidance of my coach. We had a huge pool of athletes in my school, so we had the privilege to specialize in certain events. Afternoon trainings were from 4-6pm. We had afternoon trainings every Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays at Westland School field. Tuesday and Thursday trainings are held back at school. Occasionally when there is competition round the corner, we even had trainings on Saturday and Sundays. I skip Friday trainings for another reason. Tell you why later. J Can you imagine staying under the hot sun from 3:30pm onwards? Looking back, I can't imagine how I went through all the 6 years under the hot sun and yet I couldn't stand the heat now!

Be it rain or shine, trainings will carry on. On rainy days, we were placed through strength training either in the gym or some other activities. So there is no running away. :) The intensity will be toned down during off-peak season and for those who are in Form 3 and Form 5, we were not required to come to training after State level competitions in order for us to concentrate on our studies. Everyone…and I meant everyone from my coach, to my seniors and even juniors were rooting for me in my first zone level competition to beat that person, I came SO close to beating her. Just a minor mistake in the last hurdle cost me victory. Although I won 2nd place, but the joy of winning wasn’t there. Sigh…my coach came looking for me, sat down with me, asked me what had happened out there. I felt that I had let him down and also let myself down for not giving my 110%. I let that be a reminder to me and carried on training hard everyday…till the point that there was once I had a massive huge patch of blue black on whole of my left calve, from the top till the bottom. It was a very awful sight to see. It took close to 1 month to fully recover. Besides that, having blue black marks on my right knee was a norm to me.

As you can see, from the constant training and gym work, my bone structure changed and muscle build up, especially on my calves and arms. Well…that was the sacrifice that I had made in choosing my Athletic ‘career’. But I had no regrets on that. J Oh btw, did I mention to you before that my high school was very famous in sports? That was why we specially had this sports class where we studied in the morning and attended trainings in the afternoon. We were once known for being the power house in athletics, volleyball, netball, just to name a few. However, that is not the case anymore. From what I heard, after we left school and after the change of headmistress, the school sports standard dropped drastically coz the new headmistress only likes the students to excel in studies. Sob sob…

In my last 2 years of Athletics career, I changed my event from hurdles to pentathlon (五项全能). Heard of it before? It’s a 5 event event that takes place within 2 days – 100m hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, and 800m. Imagine the training I went through to correct my techniques….repeating them over and over again. All hard work paid off during my last year of high school and as the school captain that year, we managed to win back the champion school title which we marginally lost the previous year. That was so sweet! So, besides classes, most of my time during high school days was spent at Westland field and also over at Penang City Stadium or some times at USM stadium. My daily routine is pretty much mundane. Morning attend school, mum will come pick me up after school and I’ll have packed lunch in the car. Reach home, bath, try to finish up as much homework as possible, change, and then head off for training, come back home dinner, and then finish up homework, then sleep…and the cycle repeats again the next morning. Pretty mundane eh? To date, I still have the pair of spikes that I wear during high school days. I wanted to throw it away but my dad asked me to keep it.

As for badminton, I started playing I believe was in Standard 3/4 like that. When I was in Remove that year, dad sent me for trainings. So every Friday and Sundays were spent playing/training badminton at Bkt Dumber. There were a handful of female players only, so I mainly mix with the guys and train/play with them. J So I started training from remove right up till form 5. I carried on playing badminton when I was in college. Representing the faculty and also the college. Now working…also carry on playing badminton for the fun of it. Ai but then I’ve stopped for half a year d…rusty liao, no more stamina d. Surely whole body will ache with I start playing again next month. Need to get back in shape…..

Life Journey Part 1

Reading one of Nicolekiss's September blog entry made me reflected on myself, how I walked the path of life since I was born. Childhood remains pretty vague to me at the point of time as I can't remember much. All I remembered was that my dad used to take me and my siblings to the playground near my house during the evenings for swings, slides, and monkey climbs. I can't even remember if I ever played masak-masak. But those do not matter to me anymore.

I attended kindy at USM, which was all thought in English. I finished reading the collection of Peter & Jane books and pretty much liked recess time when we get to go out to the field to play. :)

Moving from kindy to primary school was a nightmare as I went from a fully English spoken background to a fully Mandarin speaking Chinese medium primary school! Both my parents are English educated and although they have minimal command of Mandarin, I wasn't really exposed to it before I entered primary years. Imagine poor me not understanding a single word of Mandarin and the rest weren't that good in English. Communication was a big issue to me. I felt left out and didn't like to go to school. I even begged my mum not to send me there. It ended up my grandma had to accompany me to school. I really felt bad that she had to go through this together with me. Grandma I love you! During night time, my mum will sit down together with me to complete the massive tons of homework. This was also how she managed to pick up basic Mandarin. Nevertheless, I was a problematic child during primary school days right up to Primary 6, results were pretty bad. I was more inclined towards outdoors and fell in love with badminton and started running. I remembered during Primary 6, I took part in the 100m event during sports day and came in 3rd. I was on cloud nine that time. That was the start of my Athletics career.

As my results weren't too impressive in the UPSR exam, I had to do an extra year in Remove. I remembered the first two weeks, I attended the afternoon school session. One day, I was called upon and offered to attend classes in the morning session instead. This is a special morning session class in Remove, Form 1, and Form 2 for athletes in all fields. My parents didn't really object of me taking up this offer as long as my results are up to the mark. We attended classes in the morning, twice weekly morning trainings and trainings were also carried out in the afternoon. This was also the year where I experienced a lot of hurtful back stabbing from one of my classmate. It was really a bitter pill to swallow. I take it that the person was jealous because I wasn't a school representative during primary school and just based on a 3rd place win, I was being offered a place in Sports Class.

to be continued...

Happy Birthday Bro!

Today's my brother's birthday! Happy Birthday Daniel! So you gonna make a b'day speach later tonight? :)

心酸

好久没提起这件事情了。但今天不知不觉与一位同事谈话，提起这件事，控制不了自己，眼泪下流。目前只能默默然，勇敢地向前走。我哭了。。。

GeorgeTown a UNESCO World Heritage Site Celebration

Had the opportunity to walk around inner George Town together with my dad on Saturday night for the celebration. There were a number of very nice Chinese Temples in inner George Town which I have never step foot in the vacinity before (how shameful). The temples were well restored and the paint work, vividly colored. Nice pictorial signboards were placed up at the temple grounds, explaining the historical origins of the temple and each architectural building or different parts of the building grounds.

Khoo Kongsi was beautifully lit up during the night time. Adding to the superb celebration atmosphere were cultural performances like chinese orchestras from secondary school students, operas, chinese puppets performances etc.

When we walked pass the old clock tower, the roundabout junction where the income tax office is, we saw a LOT of people waiting there. I was wondering what was going on. All of them were standing there waiting with their camera setup on tripod. Only them I recall that there will be fireworks display once the Penang Governor officially declares George Town as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This reminds me of our April Japan trip where a lot of the professional photographers were waiting patiently for the right time to snap nice shots of Sakura at Mt Minobu.

Of course I brought along my camera for photo taking session on this eventful day. Currently have yet to process them. Once done, they will be uploaded to smugmug. So stay tuned.

Goodbye MyPhotoAlbum, Hello SmugMug

As the title says it all, my link at MyPhotoAlbum has been moved to the attic. Nevertheless, I have moved over to SmugMug. WooHoo..

I'm in the process of sorting out certain pictures to be uploaded. Do drop by to view my pictures and leave some comments! Thanks ya...

Munner's new site @ http://munwai.smugmug.com. Enjoy!

Chiba, Japan

Yokoso Japan! This is my 2nd trip to Japan this year. Did a brief 2 day stopover in Chiba city on the way back from US. A friend from OSD joined me to Japan as she was on her way back from CR. There's basically nothing much to see in Chiba city unless you travel way out to the outskirts. Nevertheless, it was a great to be back in Japan again.

Our plane touched down at Narita slightly earlier than scheduled. We were practically alternating between running with our backpacks and doing speed walking from the gate to the immigration counters to catch a train out to Chiba St in 1 hours time. We made it onto the train with 10 mins to spare!

We were greeted by rain upon arrival at Chiba St. It was drizzling. I had quite a time walking down 3 flights of stairs carrying 2 big luggages. It was hard work. It was good that the hotel was near the train station and had no problem finding it after asking around on directions.

the 3 flights of stairs

Weather was around 22-24 degrees celcius with cloudy skies and slight wind blowing. Very nice weather indeed. The 1st day was spent exploring Chiba St, finding out if there're any escalator or elevator so that we do not need to climb those 3 flight of stairs again when we leave for Narita! I noticed that there's a small food shop that sells rice and ramen for as low as 300 Yen! Very good deal. And Filet-o-Fish is only 100 Yen! Savouring Japanese food is such arousing to our tastebuds. More so in Japan itself!

Our time in Japan was spent visiting temples, shrines, parks, walking around the city, looking at beutiful Japanese ladies, and also experiencing the Chiba Urban Monorail, where the tracks are actually at the top instead of bottom. Hence, the monorail cabin is hanging on the tracks. Not forgetting numerous visits to hyakuyen shops for our shopping spree! Hahaha...

Will there be a 3rd visit to Japan this year? I shall procastinate.....

Chicago Part 2

I actually found Chicago to be a much nicer place than Vegas. The weather was nice and cooling, on top of that it's windy. I met up with a high school friend of my sis who is now based in Chicago. Met her at her neighbourhood and she bought me around her very nice hood which coincidently hosted the Art festival that particualr week. Basically they have stalls selling artistic items ranging from paintings, sculptures, to photography, not forgetting all the food and beer! I am not the artistic type of person but personally admired all the photography on display for sale, particularly the x-ray photography which I find it very interesting.

Attended training for a week over in Oak Brooks. A small city with nothing much of attraction which is about 20 mins drive away from Chicago City. However, McDonalds HQ is actually located in Oak Brooks. The building isn't impressive at all and it's called McDonald Plaza. They have a McDonald shuttle van plying the nearby offices, picking up customers and dropping them to the McDonalds outlet nearby!

Traffic is particularly bad from 5pm onwards when everyone tries to get onto the tollway/freeway. So it's stop and go traffic during that time. Each tollway which you pass thru will cost you USD 80 cents. There are small toll booths which are not man-ed, and you just throw in the 80 cents into the big 'bowl'. Right after the 'toll booth', you'll see a signboard, asking you to visit this particular website to pay your toll if you haven't done so. Wonder how many Americans actually do that in this materialistic and moral degrading society??

From my earlier posting, you may have known that my luggages did not arrive with me in Chicago on Saturday evening. I was bag-less for more than 48 hours! Damn it man. It was so unconvenient without all my necessities. It was such a relieve seeing my luggage at the front desk on the 3rd day. However, my relieve was cut short upon opening my luggage and seeing all the items was not in the order which I packed my bag in Vegas. There was a notice in my luggage, stating that TSA has opened my bags for inspection. It got worse whereby I found out that there were missing items in my luggage and they took/confiscated my M&M chocolates! Damn it. Of all things M&Ms?!?!?! Apparently my luggage strap went missing too. Heck.

周末

上个周末你做了些什么呢？有没有完成你所想要做的事件？会不会觉得48小时不够用？或觉得不知到要做些什么好？

其实有好多事情需要做与处理，但到现在都还没完成。感觉上一无所成。是不是时间分配的不好？或是没意志力去完成呢？

Chicago

Here I am, standing aimlessly at Chicago Ohare Airport, without my luggages! WTF, my bags did not arrive with me in Chicago! I am so cloth-less now! First United damaged my bag and not wanting to compensate me, now they loose my bags?! Damn it! Made a report at the United counter and they rest assured that my bags will be delivered to my hotel tomorrow morning.

Hertz provided me with this car and I was like "wow" when I saw it. Hmm...but I went back and told them that I do not need such a big car! Bummer me huh?

This was what I exchanged for in the end - Mazda 6. It's not a bad car at all. VERY good on petrol consumption. To date, I've driven more than 100 miles (1 round trip out to Chicago city and daily stop and go drive in Oak Brook). BTW, Oak Brook is about 20 mins away from Chicago city center. And guess what, I've only consumed up 1/4 of the petrol tank!

When I reached the hotel car park, I just noticed that I had an unwanted guest in my car! I had to remove it out from the car else who knows where it'll move on to and I'll end up with a bad itch.

Valley of Fire

500 millian years ago, this desert was a sea, warm and shallow. Full with life. For 400 million years, marine animals and plants thrived in the sun-lit depths of this valley.

Valley of Fire is a geological park, that derived its name from red standstone formations, formed from great shifting sand dunes during the age of dinosaurs. The present landscape that we see today have been created by complexed geologic process that have been operating on this earth since the beginning of time.

The park is full of rocks of many colors - white, grey, brown, purple, and red. All of them are forms of the same type of rocks - sedimentary. They tell a story of ancient seas & beaches, of times when heat from deep in the earth changed the mantle at the surface.

This park is about 1 hrs drive away from Las Vegas, which was what my adventure of the day was. It was hot! We get to drive around the valley, viewing the scenic route. Stopping by for picture taking at assigned rest areas. Below are some pictures of the Valley. Will post more up once I get home and setup another site as my original site @ myphotoalbum.com has been closed down!

My Lucky Day

It was my lucky day...came across the below shop unexpectedly while finding Babies R Us. I was on fifth heaven. How can I not stop by to have a bite? I've heard so much about it and finally today's my lucky day. I had a chocolate iced creme filled donut. It was SO soft and nice!!

Right after that, RIBS as my dinner...slup!

Vegas

Seating comfortably here on the beanbags while waiting for the next session to start. Just to make sure I dont fall asleep here. :) How's Vegas so far if you may ask...HOT! HOT! HOT! Even when it's 7 something in the evening, you can still feel the heat and it's so dry here, not forgetting it's a concreate jungle here with so many hotels on The Strip.

Have received a Pontiac G6 car this week. Pretty good a car...at first I thought there was something wrong with the fuel needle as it wasn't dropping. But alas it dropped a little today.

It was a bummer that my new luggage got damaged on the LAX-LAS sector on United Airlines. One of the luggage feet came out. UA does not insure that damaged feet and it seems that our travel desk insurance does not either! They only cover for flight delays and lost luggage! Logged a case with UA to complain and see what they can do for me. Furthermore it's a brand new luggage! Ughh...

Breakfast and lunch are provided daily by the conference. We pick up packed breakfast every morning at the foyer before start of sessions. Have snapped a few pictures and the night shots turned out not too bad this time after some pointers from Lee Botak. :D Will post them up later.

Walked around a few hotels here, and the very first thing that greats you when you enter the main door is not the front lobby/reception area, but the casino!! Mine you, each and every hotel that I went in so far, the casinos are packed with ppl! Didn't like it as it was filled with smoke as there's so many ppl smoking. No wonder it's called Sin City.

Journey to Las Vegas

Nothing really special about the trip though...just that I bum-ed into the ex-PG Chief Minister lining up in the SIA economy class queue! Aiya I thought it was he and his wife travelling in economy class and checking in themselves, but it was just sending their daughter off. To US I suppose so..And also my company's MD was at the airport, sending off his wife to somewhere.

Snapped the below pictures in Changi Airport T3. Guess what places are they? Even the guy angmo was so amused with this place and came running in taking photographs!

Yeah...it's the ladies toilet! The men's toilet not like this one ka? Or maybe I should also run in and look see and snap pictures at the men's toilet to see if it's like that too? Wahahaha...

Weather is so dry here in Vegas. Don't like it at all and don't feel like going outside also. I am now pondering if do I really want to go visit the national parks or not as it's so HOT & DRY! Practically need to douse myself in lotion. But a bit sim tia la...pour so much of my expensive lotion, so I ended up using the hotel lotion...I wonder one bottle can last me how many days?

1.2KG in 4 Days

At the beginning of this week it was xKG. Yesterday afternoon I checked and it was ↓ 0.8KG, and this morning I checked, it went further ↓ by 0.4KG!

I am sure this was the result of skipping 2 lunches this week. Readers, please do not skip lunch! It is unhealthy. I bet it's just water loss and I'll gain back the weight.

My Patience has its Limits

Help!

Can someone be kind enough to donate some ear plugs for me? I've had enough of all these noise polution from EOTY. I am sick of hearing his sickening laugh, I'm sick of hearing him complain, I'm sick of having him march into the conference room, and he can be SO thick face to sit down there and start talking nonstop. He keeps on asking you once every hour what is your progress on getting the environment landed. How do you expect us to make much headway when you come uninvitingly into the room and sit your big arse down on the chair and start talking nonstop, disturbing our work!!! I really do not know how much longer can I tahan. Maybe one day when I loose my patience...I will have the courage to ask him to F*** off. Cool down cool down...

Oh Lord Buddha, is this a test? Please guide me to keep my patience in control for I do not want to create bad karma. May You guide and lead EOTY to the middle path.

Or maybe I should just lock the door up or better still stick the below at the conference room door??

Japan day 2: Journey to Mt Minobu

The sky was bright when we woke up close to 6AM, checked out from hotel and started our journey to Mt Minobu. (I wished that we had more sleep!) It took another 6hrs train ride to reach our final destination. We met up with Chien at Shinjuku St. enroute to Mt Minobu. The 1000 Yen (RM30) train from Narita airport to Nippori St took us 2 whole hours as it stops at each and every station on the way out to the city. What to do...that's the cheapest among all transportation from airport to city.

All of our stomach were growling loudly at midway point to Shinjuku. Once we reached Shinjuku and met up with Chien, we had breakfast at a small noodle shop in Shinjuku St. It was SO nice, at least to our stomach as we were all so hungry by then. There's a bakery just beside the noodle shop, we happily bought a few buns for our next 2.5 hour journey. There's so much variety in the bakery to choose from. All looks so appealing...dont know which to buy, if I had the $$$, would have bought one each to try! Haha...

Scenery on the way to Minobu was so serene. You see farm land where they plant vegetable and also grapes. The sky was clear and we managed to see Mt Fuji from the train. There were still snow on top of the mountain. We reached Minobu train station at 2PM and had to wait for another 20 mins for the next bus to Minobu town. While Chien and I looked after all the luggages at the bus stop, the rest of the gang went off snapping pictures.

It was a 15 mins bus ride to our final destination - Mt Minobu. BUT, it will be another 500-600 meters up hill to reach Hino Sawa Bou, where we will be staying! It was pretty challenging for the older folks, so we had to stop a few times to catch our breath.

Mt Minobu is where Nichiren Shu's main temple (Kuonji) is. This place is also one of the top places in Japan for cherry blossom viewing, especially for weeping sakura (branches of sakura that drops downwards). Loads of cars and buses ferrying local tourists come to Mt Minobu during sakura season for sakura viewing. One who intends to visit this place actually need to have a special permit for parking in this area! If you do not have this permit, you are not allowed to park in the area! Tourists start visiting this beautiful serene mountain as early as 7-8am! By 9am, you will see cars waiting PATIENTLY in line. I meant patiently as in the Japanese will just stick to the queue, you don't hear a single honk, and they don't cut queues! I wonder when ever will Malaysians' mentality and civic mindness reach that level?

We checked into Hino Sawa Bou and the lady caretaker of this Inn still remembers both Chien and I. :) She is a nice lady and is able to speak some simple english. We were given 2 rooms for the first night and 3 rooms thereafter. Mind you, it's mens one room & ladies one room la. It was a bit cramp for 5 ladies to share the room but it was bareable. There was afternoon tea ready for us in the room already - Japanese tea (ocha) and also biscuits for each of us. We rested our tired legs while enjoying the tea.

Not long after at 5pm, the lady caretaker came and informed us that furo is ready, which means bath is ready. Yes, it's public bath! As the caretaker knows that we are not so comfortable with the culture of taking bath together, she was courteous enough to let us have our bath 1hr earlier than the usual bath opening hours. In Japan, hot water is expensive, hence, you do not get to take your bath whenever you like.

Chien took the gang up to Kuonji temple grounds and also the surrounding areas to walk around while I stayed back to settle some things. Dinner was served at 6pm daily and we adjourned back to our rooms after dinner and called it a day.

KCF151

My dear friends, please look out for this black Honda City with the car plate number KCF151. The lady driver hit onto my car and sped off!! Luckily it was only scratches and my bumper wasn't dented. But still...kek sim nia!

Japan day 1: Arrival at Narita

It was pretty hard on the body after more than 15 hours of travel back from US and with only 1 day of rest to unpack and repack again for the Japan trip. It seems to take forever to reach the land of the rising sun although the plane ride was only 7 hours away. I tell you, I so SICK of air travel at that point of time! Anyhow, I've survived the 'touture' and made it to Japan in one piece! If we would have known earlier that we will be going to US, then it wouldn't be such pain travelling halfway round the globe this way, I could have just saved on my airfare too by doing a stopover in Japan! Ah well...I had to be a tour guide and take a group of 8 from Penang over to Japan and meet up with Chien over there. So that doesn't leave me much choice.

Service on CX wasn't good at all. One can press the button to call for the airsteward/stewardess, but no one seems to come to your attention. Furthermore, the small light on the cabin top will just switch off like that without anyone coming to attend to you. I had to press the button a few times, only will an airstewardess come. This happened again on the way back to Penang. What if this was a life threatening emergency? Wouldn't the person be dead by now?

We touched down at Narita around 8:15pm but we had a long taxi due to the fact that there was still another plane in our designated arrival gate. It took about 20 mins of taxi-ing and finally, with a sigh of relieve, we made it to Japan! It was a long walk from the arrival gate to the immigration counters. Clearing immigration wasn't that bad in Narita and we didn't bum into any issues. Upon arriving at the arrival hall, we were greeted by our luggages seating there on the floor. They were jumping with joy seeing us, waiting for us to pick them up. Unlike in Penang Airport where you had to wait ages for the bags to arrive!

It was late, we had to stay overnight in Narita Airport Rest House for the night before moving out to Mt Minobu the next day. There's still some time to kill before the next hotel shuttle bus arrives, so ChenChen and I went downstairs to check on the train schedule and fare the next day out to Shinjuku St while the rest of the group waited at the arrival hall.

Luckily it wasn't a long ride to the hotel as it is just inside the airport perimeter, just beside terminal 1. It was close to 9:30pm when we finally settled into our respective rooms. The convenience store in the hotel was closed by that time, I had a peek in their ice-cream freezer, hoping to see muar chee ice-cream there. But lady luck didn't shine on me, ice-cream stock was low and muar chee icecream was no where to be found. :( Hopefully when we come back in 10 days time, they have stocked up ice-cream and there will be muar chee ice-cream available! :D We've tasted this 2 years back when we stayed at this hotel and it was very nice!

I was too exhausted to snap pictures on the airport and also the hotel room. Had to call it a day as we are departing early tomorrow morning to catch the train out to Shinjuku enroute to Minobu. It will be another 7-8 hours of travelling tomorrow.

Robbed!

Woke up this morning by the sound of mum talking loudly downstairs and got to know that we have fallen prey to idiotic people that went around the neighbourhood stealling iron grills last night. There were around 8-10 houses with iron grills removed! I guess the thieves were happily going around the neighbourhood for their iron grill spree between 1:30am to 6:30am this morning. With the amount of houses impacted, they should have at least went around on a lorry or something like that, but I didn't hear anything. I guess I slept like a pig last night. :P

Now there's a big hole in front of my gate and we had to use a plank to partially cover the hole for the time being while my DIY handyman father tries to get this resolved! How unconvenient. Mum went and made a police report on this case, asking for police patrol in the neighbourhood. I wonder if they will really come for patrols, knowing how hardworking our police force are!! Hah.

Back to normal

It has been 2 weeks since I got back from the land of the rising sun. Finally can say that I'm back to my normal/mundane routine - wake up, eat, go to work, sleep. How boring...

Work is back on track, managed to clear most of the mails and projects are slowly picking up pace after close to 1 month being away from office. Received some not so good news that the "employee of the year" will be managing the EDL landings, so I had to make sure that this person does not stick his/her leg into the project and claim credits at the end of the day. Luckily the person will only manage landings from Q3 onwards and PG is safe from his/her evil doings. So I had to ensure that PG completes landing in Q2. So far everything is on track...wish my good luck.

Secondly, I need to start my weekly badminton sessions again. And no, I don't mean just going for 2 hours of games. This will not help me to loose weight...I need real practices! I need to sweat it out. I need to carry on with my so called "weight reduction program", which I think does not exist?! Anyhow I've reached my first milestone, reaching the second milestone seems so hard...gambate!

Thirdly, I am still seating on the fence, procastinating as to whether I should or should not do a stop over in Japan on my way back from US on my upcoming trip, considering the fact that I just came back from Japan 2 weeks ago! But what the heck, you just need to pay RM66 for the stopover as compared to forking out RM2.5K for the airticket yourself. Don't intend to stay too long as my leave is limited due to the planned year end holidays (11 days of leave required!), maybe just 3 days in Japan for the stopover. So will now need to look for some places nearby Tokyo or Narita for the stopover. Anyone has suggestions? Gifu or Takayama looks nice, but dont know how far is the travelling time from Narita.

Forth, look out for my travel logs of Japan later on...slowly but surely it will be posted up. :)

Fifth, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara here I come!!!! Weeeeee....anyone wanna join? Date, month, year, budget - a big ? muahahah...

ただいま

I'm back to a place called Penang.....

Enjoy!

Look...I have a badge too. Can I follow along to work?

Macau

Food was nice, bought the original Portugese tart (that's what they claimed) from Lord Stow's bakery. Gunn recommended that I try their chocolate tart too, which I did. And my I tell you, it was NICE!! It costs RM3 for one.

People buy the local products like there's no tomorrow, or as if there's gonna be a price hike, or worse still a curfew!!

For more pictures of Macau, please refer here.

The Venetian Resort Hotel

Here's a long long overdue post. It could have been longer, but I've decided to cut it short. :)

By the time we checked in, it was already way past dinner time. The free shuttle bus was waiting for passengers right outside of the Macau airport. What romantic lighting! The resort was just 5 mins ride away from the airport.Below was the place where we checked in. It wasn't impressive at all to me for a resort with so much hype and advertisement placed in...I thought. Here's a 4D number for you to go buy later..haha..
I spent close to half an hour taking pictures of the room and doing some exploration of the room. It's huge, coz first time staying in a suite ma. There're 2 queen bed and a sofa that can be converted to be a sofa bed. So in total 6 pax can bunk in that room!

There's a small living room in the suite where you have the work table. Guess what...you even have your own printer, fax, and copier machine in the room!!
Next up...the toilet...very huge one too, also pretty spacious. Looks kinda high class with most of the furniture gold platted. Ah common...it's a 5 star resort! :D There's actually a dressing table on the left hand corner of the pic below, which was not being captured.
Even the shampoo and soap look high class.
Enough of photo taking of the room...so we headed out for some food. There's a food court there...lots of variety.

After filling up our empty stomach...time to walk around the resort and snap pictures. Later only found out that below is the actual main lobby. This only looks more like a resort lobby as compared to the one that we used!! :D

But beware...there are a lot of food that makes you FAT! Haha..

For more pictures of Venetian Resort, pls refer to this site.