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.

AirAsia experience

Have you experienced flying with AirAsia with the motto - Now everyone can fly? How was your experience? Good? Bad?

I personally have taken it a few times, the latest being to Macau. So how was the experience? Wasn't too happy with it though for a few reasons. Or maybe for the price you pay, that is what you get?

En route from Penang to KL, there was a huge group of Vietnamese factory workers going back to their home country, they carried on board big and small bags, I'm sure it's more than the 7kg allowed. Seated next to me was a Vietnamese lady. I was reading a magazine with my right elbow on the arm rest. This lady then place her entire left hand on the arm rest even knowing that my right elbow was there. So I was the loser here and had to let her use the arm rest. Just upon touching down in KL, you can hear all those Nokia tunes when one switches on the handphone. The air stewardess had to ask them to switch it off or risk having their phone confiscated.

The journey back from Macau to KL was yet another experience. We were queing up in line at the departure gate, about 5th in line from the front. When we were allowed to board the plane, there was a sudden rush of people (typical China residents) to the front from left and right. As usual, passengers with express boarding and also senior citizens were allowed to board the plane first. There was this Indonesian guy who was supposed to queue behind me, jumped queue, and shoved to the front, demanding to board the plane (he did not pay extra for Xpress boarding). He became roudy and shouted to the poor girl maning the gate, "How much is it for the Xpress boarding, I pay you now. This is bu$h*t. I've got 3 kids and we need to board the plane first. Yada yada yada" That was when all hells broke loose and people from behind started pushing. Imagine we being squashed like sardines! Gosh. After having our boarding pass checked, you can see people practically running on the runway to board the plane! More of like the Amazing Race! Just to grab a seat in the front rows! Haha...that was so funny to watch. Majority do not know that the emergency exit rows have the most leg room! Lol...

The flight back got delayed right from Macau back to Penang. At KL, there was a bunch of 4 year old kids, about 15 of them, that went on a field trip to KL with their kindergarden teachers. Imagine a bunch of hyper active 4 year olds travelling on the same flight as you! The flight back from KL to Penang got delayed again (very typical of AirAsia) and only took off at 11pm. Not long after the captain announced that we are about to touch down in Penang. I looked down at my watch and it was only 11:30pm and we are about to touch down! Wow...30 mins to fly KL-PG sector!

What a long and tiring trip back to Penang. Wonder if I will ever want to take AirAsia again..... I wonder.....

Much needed time off

I will be at the below location from tomorrow onwards for a week or so. Will snap some nice pics with the new camera. Hopefully it arrives on time, else I will use Alex's camera. So stay tuned...