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Car Accident and Shean Ming & Lit Teng's Wedding Dinner

2011-09-11T08:13:00.003+08:00

Yesterday consider a bad day for me. The rain cause so much trouble. Because of the rain, there is not many people come to KLCC. It's pretty sad to see Malaysian doesn't care about the environment, or even so, they care more about their pocket. Can't blame them.

I've in grown nail on one of my toe and it doesn't recover for the past 3 weeks. Been seek for doctor advice but I was only given antibiotic. I think I've to seek the doctor again. It's damn painful.

To make my day worst, I had an accident. I wasn't driving fast but I lost control over my car because the road is slippery. Partly my fault, I think my trees are not having enough air and I was thinking to pump it when I get the petrol station later. Who knows, accident happened.

I'm luckily that I'm physically fine. No damage to my body by my car is in very bad shape. Well, I think my car span for one round before it stopped. I was scares to death.

Ironically, I've to attend one of my ex-course mate's wedding dinner at that time. So after I've log a police report at the police station with the help of my brother to settle most of the stuff with the police, I went home.

Well, anything regarding to my car, I'll refer to my brother since he is a car mechanic and he has those relationship with those call man, I'll let him help out. If not, I think I'll pretty blur.

To attend the wedding dinner, I actually borrow a car from my uncle. I wonder how am I have the guts to drive just after an accident. Well, I did it too and back in one piece.

So Lit Teng's wedding was great. We have fun with meeting up some of our ex-course mates and catch up a little bit of their doings. We had some beers and crap a lot. It's really fun.

Well, I've to back to reality. Although I know that I can claim my car insurance, I'll have no more NCB for it. My next car insurance renewal will cost me a bomb. Well, worst is that I've to renew it next 2 weeks. I've to pay summon and etc., and that cost me too.

Worst, I'll have a few weeks time without a car. How am I going to go to work? My office, there ain't any public transport that I can use. No LRT, bus and even taxi won't want to fetch me there. It too far. I'm having the headache at first. Thank God that my uncle willing to lend me his car temporally. Hopefully, he won't want it back before I get my car back.

I'll be flying off on 23rd this month, so I'll at least need a car for this 2 weeks. By the time I get home, hopefully I'll be able to get back my car. But seriously, it's pretty painful to see your own car at the state. I've attached some photo of my car.

IGEM 2011

2011-09-10T10:17:00.002+08:00

I've been at Internatioal GreenTech & Eco Products Exhibition & Conference Malaysia (IGEM) 2011, at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) for 4 days, exhibiting my company's eco-products. The response is not to say bad but the flow of people is not at good as last year, the first IGEM organised.

It's held at KLCC on 7th to the 10th of September 2011 and I've been the first one to be at the exhibition for the last 3 days. So I'm the one who start up the booth or 'buka kedai'. 'Tutup kedai' past 3 days also I'm doing it alone. Felt like I'm the 'kuli' already.

This exhibition is good to know more about the green technology and green products available in the market. Well, not all are relevant to end user or consumer like us. Green cars, like hybrid car from Toyota or Proton, and even Panasonic also have their eco car. Cool right? I never thought of it also.

Others will be those green lighting, solar energy, rain water harvesting, wind energy harvesting, organic food, organic clothing, biogreabable plastic, bioplastic, oxo-degradable resin, eco paint, eco wood, eco building, etc.

Working Life - Greatpac Sdn Bhd

2011-07-31T18:14:00.004+08:00

Reading back on my previous blog, I realized that I did not blog as often as I used to be. I blog more than 10 blogs about my previous job in AIA Shared Services Sdn Bhd than I blog about my work at Greatpac Sdn Bhd. It's not that nothing happened at my current job. Perhaps I don't have that leisure to blog as often as I used to be. I think I will try to spare some time to blog more if I could.

Looking back, I have been working with Greatpac for a year already. It's the longest duration that I serve a company at this moment. I guess for my division, I'm considered the senior person already except for my senior manager, who happens to be my best friend (Douglas) and my brand manager, Shaun. For for executive level, I will be soon the most senior person after Jia Yee left.

When I joined the company on July 2011, Douglas was the export manager and Shaun is still the brand manager. Of course Douglas is the head of department of my division, JASA Eco. There were a senior executive, Sherman, and an intern named Bryan. On September, Sherman leaves us and followed by Bryan, replacing by a new intern named Cheston.

Early this year, Cheston leaves us and we joined by Shirah, the new sales coordinator on May 2012. She is to assist us, mainly me for our main customers and some other coordination tasks. Sad to hear that Jia Yee is planning to leave us too. So, I think I'll be the most senior person soon in my division. LOL.

Working in Greatpac is stressful in some extent. It's no longer like finishing up your quota for clearing up cases like I used to do in AIASS, but to make sales. Lots of decision need to be make and to be executed in order to make sure the company is running and surviving.

Well, I don't think I can share so much about the insight of the company as it's shall be confidential and proprietary. I'll share more on other issues. In conclusion, there is so much work to do.

Despite loaded with work, I do make some friends in the company. Most are very nice but maybe I just can't get along with so much with all of them. They are definitely elder than me. Those around my age also I didn't manage to make much a close colleagues as I used to at AIASS.

I have no idea how with that kind of relationship with my colleagues, it can still spread rumors of me, trying to date someone in my company. That girl is just a new colleague that happen to be nice to talk with. Seriously there is no way I will fall for her.

I felt like primary school again, those colleagues are like little kids, love making up story and match making you with anyone that you are close with. Luckily they didn't match me with my boss, as I'm pretty close with him. LOL.

I Lost My iPhone

2011-07-27T21:58:00.002+08:00

It's the worst day of the month for me. The precious iPhone that has been with me more than a year finally been kidnap by someone idiotic yet brainless people. Its my mistake that I left my phone in the first place. However, I quickly went back to the restaurant where I left my phone just 10 minutes I left the place, and it's gone.

I was hoping in the first place, I left it there, those staff might help me to keep it and give us back if we look for it later. I wasn't so worried in the first place. I tracked it with MobileMe.com, and it shows that my phone is at the exact same spot where I took my lunch today. So I went back and asked, and the answer I got was none of them realize there is a phone when they clean up the table.

WTF! I'm shocked. Maybe I have a good impression that such restaurant like Dragon-i or Tony's Roma, where the staff will return customer's belonging that they left behind. I had such experience before. Dragon-i's staff actually chase out to past me back my wallet and Tony's Roma's staff keep and return my phone when I claimed it bak from them.

This Wong Kok Restaurant at Sunway Giza is my nightmare or should I say it's not my Zen area. It always seems something is wrong there, and today is the worst scenario for me. I started tracking my phone since then via MobileMe.com, an application from Apple to track the location of your Apple products. It keep on showing the location of Sunway Giza and I'm able to call my phone without fail but no one is picking it up.

I use MobileMe.com to send a message to my phone to tell that someone to contact me as I'll reward him for giving it back to me. However, nothing comes back. I'm already have a bad feeling for it. I went back to that place to ask again the staff as I'm seriously want my phone back, not because it's an iPhone but all my information, data, company email, personal email, plans, contacts, etc. are all there. It's really troublesome to retrieve it back.

I can still track my phone when I'm already home. It's only after past 10.00pm, I can't track it and I couldn't manage to call my phone anymore. So I'm strongly believe that the staff took it, although I can't prove it. Now, I'm facing a great challenge and financial constraint. I'll have to get a new phone, barred my cellular provider service and get a replacement SIM card, and live with the fact my phone is gone.

It's very inconvenient when you depend so much on your iPhone on those amazing applications (where you call it apps in short). I'll have to start tracking back all my friends' contact number, emails, birthday (which is the hardest cause you would ask your friend their contact number along with their birth date), etc.

Well, I believe I'll lost some of my old pals or old colleagues contacts forever if they don't have Facebook or any way for me to contact with them with. Especially those friends that you didn't contact them for ages, those are the hardest to retrieve back. I guess only fate can bring us back together and/or get contacted again.

In conclusion, I'm just have another worst day of my life, follow with loads of troublesome yet pain sticking things to do in order to get back my life in order (to have a phone again) and my salary this month will be gone. I think I'm doomed. Lord, thank you for all the hard time you have given me to learn to be strong. However, I need more of your blessing and love than all this unpleasant experience. I'm already broke.

Perception of Love

2011-07-25T22:32:00.007+08:00

What do we all know about love? I believe it's a complex feeling and emotion that each of us will encounter. Either it's the love from your family members or from your friends and even someone that you just know, not to mention God himself (except those atheist people). I would say love is a good thing yet it can also bring disaster.

Love from family and friends are very common to everyone already. In fact, all sort of love also we kind of familiar and even experiencing right at this moment. However, I would like to share my thoughts about love in term of relationship with someone totally not blood related to you. Well, friends fall in this category. Perhaps I'll talk about common love relationship.

For this topic, I think the song sung by Anita Mui and Jackie Cheung really explain a lot about relationships that occurs in many people's life. I personally feels that the chorus talks a lot about lots of people's relationship. I've attached the YouTube video clip here for listening and for reference.

As you can see, at the chorus part of the song, it mentioned that if loving someone over the limit in the relationship, the couple can tends to enemy and hating each other if the relationship doesn't work out the way they expected it to be. To love each other is really difficult. The difficulty lies in each party has their own expectation, and it's really depends on both party to tolerate and to make the relationship viable and sustainable.

Other than that, simply just to love someone is not easy either. Even just to received someone's love that is considered one sided. There is no way those love can return or repay. Those guilt that builds up and you probably will never able to solve it. If you love someone, it also may not return the way you want it to be.

To choose not to love is not too difficult. Unless you are Buddha that can reach enlightenment or perhaps like those monks that you will not be able to get attach with desires. Other than that, I think it's impossible to suppress your feelings. If you like to ignore love also not that simple. The responsibility or empathy to cherish someone important in your life makes life more difficult to control.

The moral of the story, if you found someone that you love, tell them how much you love them before it's too late. Try your best to cherish each other and makes this life the fullest. No matter how, to love is not easy yet challenging, but not to love is even more difficult and sad. Hope everyone will found that someone worth loving.

Life Will Never Get Better If Without Faith

2011-05-17T21:54:00.005+08:00

It's really a journey of life when you have a faith to rely on no matter what happened or going to happen in your life. It's definitely not an easy path but guarantee you will find peace with it. With faith, things eventually goes better in the future or somehow you will find it accommodating.

I'm relying on something that far greater in strength, far more wiser and powerful to help me go through things that I have no idea how to solve it. I just hope things eventually will find it's way to the solutions.

Chinese Year New 2011

2011-02-03T21:02:00.004+08:00

This year is the Rabbit year. It's the metal element rabbit some more. I don't know whether it's good or bad. However, I hope everyone also have a great year ahead and the most important thing is having a good health and stable financial status.

Let me share some Chinese zodiac sign forecast with you. Since I'm a tiger myself, I'll share only tiger. For other zodiac sign, please refer to this website: http://www.wayangtimes.com/2011-year-of-the-rabbit-chinese-zodiac-horoscope-forecast.html.

3rd Chinese Zodiac Sign: Tiger – 虎

Magnetic, passionate and grand! When the Tiger does anything, it’s noticed! Indecisiveness and stubbornness can mar the sparkle of the Tiger personality. On the one hand generous, on the other hand a little mean, it’s sometimes hard to know where one stands with the Tiger. Flexible, honest and truly entertaining, one has a friend for life with a Tiger.
Click here for more of the Tiger in Chinese Zodiac Meets Western Astrology Horoscope.

Tiger Fortune in 2011:

Tiger’s friends are just gone through the Zodiacal Year’s fortune, fortune in the Year of the Rabbit fortune will pick up, but it’s still in the average region. There may be some obstacles in the work aspect, there is a will, but not the strength but you do not need to worry too much because there seem to have a honored personin the star palace to lend a hand. That will help solve may problems. This year to make a point to improve relationships, you will have to keep low profile, this will prevent any villains any chance to find fault. Poor physical health, which may affect the conduct of your work, pay attention to traffic safety, prevent accident Xueguang. Luck may not be good with the opposite sex, you may feel emotional instability which may leads to disagreement with your partner.

Tiger Career in 2011:

After a downturn in your work from last year, you will now get some retreat and luck seem rising, issue that you have yet to complete from last year will be able to resolve this year. In your career run this year, you will get honored person that will give you the correct direction at the appropriate time. Business development this year can said to be smooth, grand plans to be carry out, but in between of all the plans you made you will somehow still get obstruction from the villains that may cause you to be slightly under perform than the expected result. So this year for the tiger, while you enjoy the good luck, you will also need to carefully deal with some unexpected changes.

Tiger Luck in 2011:

Luck is good, you will get help whenever you need it and many opportunities will come your way by the honoured nobility person. You will get appreciation from the bosses, your effort will be notice and naturally the effort will be paid off. Especially for people dealing with business, you can get inspiration to make money easily simply by what others said, do not miss the opportunity. But this year is also prone to the gaining and losing easily, so do not pay money to do meaningless. In term of speculation or stock trading you will need to careful and deal with a reasonable amount in the sense of proportion, do not exert full input. Be careful of your valuable, in order to avoid loss.

Tiger Love in 2011:

Luck love is good for unmarried men and women. In the Year of the Rabbit, luck with the opposite sex is relatively strong, popularity rise for the individual, good opportunity for the single pal to find a partner. For the attached, you may encounter disputes, but in the end it can solved peaefully and increase mutual understanding that leads to more sweeta nd warm emotional life. However, for the the married couple, you may tend to be more vulnerable to argument, and also do not seem to quickly resolve conflicts that may lead to create friction, suggest that the pair to show more understanding and make neccessary effort to help improve their relationship.

Tiger Health in 2011:

This year for the tiger there seem to have some evil luck in the health aspect. Pay extra attention to the traffic and when dealing with sharp tools. Should pay attention to physical aspects of cold, and gastrointestinal diseases, which may leads to surgery for serious circumstances. For the female, you will have to know how to relieve stress, prevent kidney and gynecological diseases. To conclude the health status for the Tiger, pay lot of attention to your health, any discomfort should consult a doctor immediately, give yourself some rest time and attention to maintenance, drink plenty of water and eat more vegetables.

Chinese Year New 2011 Gathering Time

2011-01-30T16:37:00.004+08:00

My ex-course mate, Jeff called me on Friday asking me whether am I free for karaoke session with them at IOI Mall. Since I'm free, I agreed to it. It was pretty fun seeing back some of the old friends, all have their own path in life.

Some still studying at some local university, some already working like me. I think time really passes real quick. Thinking back, it has been almost 2 years that we graduated from our Alma Mater.

Although not all turn out for it, but it's a great gathering. Some, at least bring along their partner. Like Vivian, she was tag along by her boyfriend, Ray. I think soon, we will be expecting wedding dinner from all old friends already.

New Year, New Hope

2011-01-06T21:37:00.002+08:00

Today is already the sixth day of the Year 2011. I don't feel anything special or must to celebrate about. As far as I know, I'm dealing with a lot of issue in my company. I don't see there is any possibility we are getting any bonus for last year.

Not to mention the other constant problems with my other department which slows down a lot of my work or even make things goes hay wired. Anyway, let's not talk about that. At least there is some new staff just join my department and he is my old friend. Welcome Boon Hein into the family of JASA Eco.

Well, since it's new year, I should have new hope. Just hope that my career will goes on smoothly, my family stay healthy and free from financial issues.

Christmas 2010

2010-12-26T21:28:00.003+08:00

This year Christmas was pretty great. I joined along with Charles and his 2 ladies (well, his ex-course mates) for Christmas eve celebration or indeed countdown for Christmas. Although the initial plan was to be celebrating at a lounge, count down there as well, but turn out that we countdown in the car instead.

We went to Delicious for dinner, and that was pretty good experience compare to the few past experience I have at Mid Valley. I think the outlet in Jalan Tun Razak is keeping it's quality of service. Perhaps due to the location, just next to Duo Residency.

After driving all the way to Quattro, Avenue K, we found that it wasn't what we initial plan it to be. It wasn't really nice for us and it's damn expensive. Cover charge that night is RM68 for guys. OMG. So we decided to change our location, ended up at The Library, Mid Valley.

Shifting of location causing us to count down in our car at the end. However, we did have our great time at The Library after that. It was a great Christmas, despite two single ladies and two bachelors kept on checking out people around without making any move at all. LOL.

So, Christmas is over. But the spirit didn't die off just like that. Today, my ballroom dance mates just organise a potluck in the studio. After the class, we have a great feast. We have taken a lots of photos and I have posted most of it on Facebook.

To view on the photos taken on Christmas eve, please click here, and

To view on the photos taken for Christmas Potluck a.k.a. Boxing Day, please click here.

US Trip (Part 2)

2010-11-08T07:23:00.002+08:00

Let's continue with my Chicago trip. Well, after the Indianapolis trip, which I was required to visit the factory of one of my material supplier with my manager, we have set ourselves to commit to our market research session for the weekday remains.

We woke up on the early Thursday morning (which is not so early) and had our first brunch at UNO Chicago Grill at Ohio Street and Wabash Avenue. It's famous for its Chicago deep dish pizza. So we were so into it and I ordered a salad and a soup to come along with it. Guess what, we ordered a small pizza which turns out look like a regular pizza in Malaysia in term of the dimension, but then its just thicker. How much thicker? The answer is about 1 inch thick. That's crazy. However, the best of all is the soup and the salad. I miss it already.

Later, we had our dinner at Smith & Wollensky, somewhere near to the bridge around Walker Street. That is where we had the largest piece of meat for dinner for the entire trip so far. The service there was great and when we asked him about the size of the meat, he scares us with the information. It's 26 oz piece of meat with bone, which is about 2.2 times larger piece of meat you can get from Tony Roma's in Malaysia. Anyway, in places like Chicago which is cold, restaurant have such service to check your coat for you with some tipping expected from you.

On the next day, we had our breakfast at Corner Bakery Café, somewhere near Elm Street (near to our hotel, which is The Ambassador East Hotel). The cookies there are superb and the pesto is one of the best that I had it again on the day before I left Chicago.

Since we had walked the whole journey back from Walmart at West North Avenue, which approximately 7 miles (11.2km) back to our hotel before heading to the town for lunch, we have to eat at bakery café called Oak Tree Restaurant & Bakery at North Michigan Avenue, somewhere near to the Sear's Tower. The service there is excellent because my manager spilled his smoothies accidentally and the waiter replace a new one for us for free without whining about us messing the place. The salad there was good and the bread there are excellent.

We took our dinner on the way back to hotel at Morton's The Steakhouse, North State Street. Well, nothing much special to talk about steak because I believe you will already expect the same thing - big portion, we have to share the steak, etc.

On Saturday, it's the Halloween Eve. We woke up late so we when straight for our lunch at Frontera Grill, which is a Mexican style restaurant at North Clark Street. I'm not describing it much because it's not really much to talk about as it's almost the same expect that we ate tacos, a bowl of soup and salad.

Our dinner that night was at a Japanese-Western fusion style restaurant at North Halsted Street. Ironically, the street happens to be a Boystown in Chicago. So kinda open your mind that night since it's Halloween Party. You can really see them dressing all sort of character, e.g. Tarzan, Robin, etc. at the temperate merely 4°C. Anyway, the chocolate martini there is really good.

On the Halloween Day itself, breakfast as usual at Corner Bakery Café and we skipped our lunch for both days. Dinner for that night was with our agents at Chicago Chop House, East Ontario Street near North Clark Street. That dinner cost us an arm and a leg.

On Monday, same routine except for our dinner and David Burke's Primehouse and we had a tremendous good service from the waiter, whose his name is Brian. Wonderful experience there. Everything almost the same except I love the steak here the most. That was the last experience in Chicago before we were landed in San Francisco for transit to Hong Kong.

I will soon blog about the event after this and upload photo when I have the time to do so. So mean while, please bear with me with pure dry description. Once upload, you can view it. ^^

US Trip (Part 1)

2010-10-28T13:28:00.005+08:00

Well, as everyone should know already that I'm going to the States for business trip. The whole journey was not that great to be told. Lots of hassle we been through before we even lay my feet on the "Land of Opportunity".

The journey begin with my flight being delay for about 7 hours. The flight shall be departing at Narita, Tokyo before heading to Chicago, Illinois. Due to the delay, we are unable to catch up with our connecting flight. We shall be sitting both All Nippon Airways (ANA) planes to Chicago. However, due to the delay, we have to board the United Airlines (UA) which turns out to be disaster for me.

Despite the hyper mode I was having during the 1 hour transit in Narita, the other half journey was not that interesting. At Narita airport, after the long 7 hours of flight in MAS (which is much better than in the UA), we finally landed on the land I always dream of. The only regret I have is that I have only 1 hour to walk around the airport and I can't really lay my foot out of the airport. LOL.

The other 13 hours flight in UA, as I mentioned is a nightmare. The air attendance are not smiling and not that friendly as you see in the movie. Other than that, the sitting is like cramp up. Imagine you have to cramp up in the plane for 13 hours with limited space. I almost can't breath. To make it worst, due to the weather condition, the plane landed hard and lots of breaking when we arrived to Chicago O'Hare airport.

That's not the worst I had so far. To make it even worst for me is that the Transportation Security & Administration (TSA) officer make my life difficult. Coming into the States is hard enough as I had the trouble to get their visa, and now they want me to register my departure when I'm exiting their country. Maybe that's only applies to first timer to the States as my manager didn't have that trouble to get in.

Well, that's the first day experience. Despite all the bad thing, I do enjoy the good things which is the food. We have a nice steak in Chicago on that night. I seriously think that even their so-called normal restaurant are comparable with the standard we can get in Tony Roma's, TGIF, etc. in Malaysia.

Since we are seriously exhausted with that jet lag, we ended up sleeping early. We have to catch another flight to Indianapolis to meet with our material supplier. Travelling to Indianapolis was good. The flight is on time and the weather is brilliant. We have a great tour around the factory and had a great lunch at some local restaurant.

Talk about local food and stuff, their local beers are excellent to try. I had a Goose Island in Chicago which taste better than Heineken beer. In Indianapolis, I have tasted the Upland (Wheat Ale) beer and the Bud Light. It seems that each beer has it's own identity. Upland taste not too bad. Bud Light is good if you want something light. It almost taste like water as in the taste is not strong at all. Maybe that's why their called it Bud Light.

Of course other than all those stuff that you can't get it in Malaysia that I have tried here in the States, I also do go for stuff that you can get it in Malaysia here too. Guess what. It's Starbucks. You can literally find it almost everywhere you go. They look the same as in Malaysia. The only different is the price. You can get a hot chocolate, grande size for $3.50, which equivalent to RM10.94 (inclusive of tax).

One thing about the States is that they usually don't charge service tax or perhaps don't charge at all. Their culture is tipping or they call it gratuity. It's a norm for them the receive tips from you when you pay our bill. Usually if their service is average, tipping of 15% will be the the norm and it's advisable to tip them generously if the service is excellent (approximate 20% of your bill). If their service is bad, tip them less but not less that one buck.

I will be posting those pictures I took during this trip when I get back to Malaysia as I don't have a broadband service here. More updates about the trip will be posted once I have the chance to do so. So see you guys.. ^^

Mum's Birthday

2010-10-04T15:13:00.003+08:00

Yesterday my family and I went to Mid Valley to celebrate my mum's birthday in advance. I snapped some nice picture of her having her dinner with us together as a family. Although I come up with most of the sum for the dinner, but seeing my mum putting a big smile on her face already worth it back.

I'm didn't get her anything this year. Just manage to treat her a nice dinner together with our family that's all. However she got herself a nice bag and my sister got her something cheap as well. Well, it's not about the price of the gift but the value of remember and cherish each other. I just hope my mum enjoy her day. I love you, mum!!

Preparing for USA and Hong Kong

2010-09-06T20:16:00.003+08:00

After working in this new company for 2 months plus, it seems like I have the chance to go to United States of America and Hong Kong this coming October for business trip. I thought I should be thrill, and of course I am thrilled and excited. However somehow, it's still working trip, not a vacation.

Maybe lately I'm adapting to the new environment and things happened around me wasn't that significant enough to motivate me to write except for this business trip. Bryan (my ex-intern in the company) has just left the company last week, replace by a new guy called Cheston. Well, He is really smart and I feel he is right for the job. I mean in this field at least since he is taking Marketing as his course.

I think when I have much more things to share about it, I'll write up here again. I'm lazy to write anything here today.

Side Mirror is Gone

2010-08-03T23:33:00.002+08:00

May my side mirror of my car rest in peace. I just got a new replacement for it and it cost me RM200+ for one. I'm broke this month already. I will need to prepare some cash to change my tyres as the tyre is getting old already.

Next month I need to pay off my car insurance and road tax. I think all this cost me a bomb. I'm dying already. I don't have much mood to write about here at this moment. Headache hit back again. I need someone to take care of me totally. LOL.

Klang Trip

2010-07-25T21:29:00.006+08:00

Today, I just went to Klang with Charles and friends for Bak kut Teh. It's pretty spontaneous decision since I don't think I have much thing to do at home. Why not go out and relax myself? I drove to Charles' place and get into Theresa's car.

Reach there also kinda late already. I didn't manage to take much photos as I was too busy helping myself with the food. LOL. However, I did manage to take some photos of us visiting the Kuan Yin Temple in Klang.

I Miss My Team - AIASS

2010-07-11T08:19:00.002+08:00

I have leave my previous company, AIA Shared Services for more than a week. I really miss the time I am physically there. Despite all the unsatisfying pay and others, I do actually feel that it's great that I was once work there and getting to know all of my colleagues, whether it's from my own team or the other. I do have a great time being there.

Somehow or rather not that stressful compare to my current company. Although we used to work from 8.30am till 5.30pm non-stop because we know what we need to do, but then I feel less stress compare to working in sales and marketing. Even though same amount of time, but I know nothing and I rather loss in this field. Worst, I'm required to be on standby on weekends if they required me to work but without paying my overtime. It's only leave replacement.

Lots of changes to cope with. I'm considering should I keep on trying to cope with the situation that I'm not familiar yet undesire of or I should be leaving the company and get back my feet back on the ground (back to insurance field or biomedical related fields). I really have to think about it because I don't want to regret later for not choosing the best career for myself. I'm seriously think that you need to find a job that you are passionate on it rather just the pay.

Well, back to square one, I'm thrilled and looking forward to Bon Odori outing with my ex-colleagues this coming Saturday at Shah Alam. I've been planning this for ages (maybe not that long). I will going to have lots of fun and eat all I can. LOL. I do hope that there will be some other activities that will be organise by them, because I would like to join in. I miss them a lot. They are really a fun team to be with.

I will share my memories that I have put it into this video. I can't squeeze in too many photos because that will need more than an hour to project it. Hope this bring back lots of great memories. Sorry for posting it here so late whereas I have been posting this on Facebook long before.

Ulu Yam Trip

2010-06-13T18:19:00.002+08:00

I'm still pretty exhausted after the trip yesterday. My working team mates and me went to Ulu Yam for our so-called team building trip. Should we say it as team building trip? I have no idea also. I think it can be consider as four events, the team building, welcoming the three newbies into our team, birthday celebration of the second quarter (April to June) and farewell for Nesa, Benjamin and me, myself.

It's pretty tiring because I have to wake up early in the morning and pick up Nesa from Sri Sentosa, then drive to Bandar Tun Razak to pick up Leanne and Siew Yin before meeting up the rest of them team mates at McDonald's, Taman Melati Utama.

When everyone were there, we drive up in ranch together to the location. After parking our cars, we tried to locate a spot to settle down and get prepare for the 'feast'. LOL. Fizah, Alina and Dalila were taking care of preparing the chicken. They were the one to grill the chicken but maybe I'm not really use to the cooking method they used, I didn't eat much the chicken. It's outer part is overcooked a little, somehow charcoal like. LOL.

I was thinking to get my feet wet only at first just like Siew Yin, Ruth and Calvin. However, we weren't lucky. I'm the worst one, gotten Aline to pull me into the water. I was splashed all over and completely wet like the cat under the rain. Everyone get all wet except for Mun Wah.

After all the water war we had, we get off the river and ate again. Not to forget the cheese cake we brought for the birthday boys and girls. The cheese cake was not that solid anymore. Well, it's not put in the refrigerator and keep cold enough to enjoy but it's still not too bad. Maybe because I love cheese cake, so I didn't nag much about it. LOL.

After the whole trip, we went back home and get bath. I mean my house, Leanne and Siew Yin were there in my house to get bath and change before we head to Mid Valley to walk around and enjoy our dinner. It's pretty fun to hang out with colleagues. Soon, this will be harder to be done as I'm leaving the company soon.

I drove them back to the LRT station before heading to meet up with Charles and Theresa to catch up 'Prince of Persia'. Finally I watched it after so long of wanting to watch it. I just can't get anyone to watch with me. There are more movies that I wanted to watch as well. I wanted to watch Karate Kid and The Socceror's Apprentice.

Team Leader is Leaving

2010-06-03T20:26:00.003+08:00

Another shocking news from my management today that my team leader, Benjamin is leaving the team. He just tendered his resignation this Monday and HR department still calculating when will be his last day with the company. Ironically, he will most probably leaving a week earlier than me despite that I have tendered my resignation way earlier than him.

Although it's pretty shocking piece of news, but I'm still dealing with it quite well as I'm leaving too soon. There will be not much impact to me. Of course, everyone will be missing him including me. This scenario same goes to Sook Fuang. Both of the most influent person for me in my team are leaving. I think I should rephrase, one already left and one is going to be.

Anyway, everyone of us seems to be leaving due to better opportunity awaits us somewhere. We have to move on with our life and try to excel ourselves. For me and Benjamin case, we are trying something way different from where we are, starting from zero, probably and hopefully become hero at the end of the tunnel.

Hopefully the team will still stay on firm and good and I do hope to keep in touch with most of them as best as we could be. Now, I can only be looking forward for the Ulu Yam trip next Saturday as to celebrate 4 different occasion. Firstly, as part of team building, followed by welcoming the 3 new recruits to our team, second quarter of birthday celebration and last but not least, the farewell of Nesa, Benjamin and me, myself.

Newbies

2010-06-02T22:45:00.001+08:00

This week, 3 new recruits have join us and currently undergoing training by my team leader with some assistance from my colleague, Mei Teng and me. Well, I think I did nothing much than talking non-stop. LOL.

This time, 2 new guys and a girl. It turns out that all of them are from biomedical science background just like me and 2 of them (a guy called Jun Jie and a girl call Jing Jing) are my junior from my university. Such a coincident.

Training newbies is pretty cool. You gotta share lots of thing with them and it somehow make them interact with you. I feel somehow it's not that boring compare to facing that motionless and expressionless monitor processing claims after claims. Probably I am bored with my job right now and I'm starting to get lazy since this is my last month at my current company.

I'm still considering what small gift I will be giving my team mates before I leave the company end of this month. I have something in my mind but I think I don't want to share it here first. Don't want to spoilt the surprise. Anyway, it's such something small that many it's not even significant after I left.

I'm looking forward to my new employment at my new company and I'm thrill with what is awaiting me there. However, at the same time, I am worrying about the new environment that I will be facing next month and the new challenges that awaits me there too. Lord, please grant me strength to face the road aheads me. Amen.

Michaelangelo's Restaurant-Deli-Bar

2010-05-22T22:40:00.006+08:00

I went with my colleagues to Michaelangelo's Restaurant-Deli-Bar at Pavilion, KL on Saturday and an outing with our senior, Ruth before she is leaving us next week. Since Ruth was thinking to have Western food, we thought to let our taste buds experience the so "artistic restaurant". However, the experience we had were not that up to what we expected from a so-called fine restaurant which located at Pavilion, which should be way better than those cheapskate restaurants.

The food there is pretty normal, some are not bad, some are quite good, and some are just not so up to my expectation. Since my most of my colleagues think that is okay, then I should not make much complaints about it. For me, I wouldn't promote to you as it's not that really appealing but it's no harm trying. The food there is still edible and some are not bad.

However, the service there was horribly poor and I did comment on that. The supervisor came to us and appologised yet giving us some complimentary cash voucher for the next visit as they are so keen for us to revisit them again. For me, I might reconsider of revisiting it again. As for my senior, she might most likely to revisit as we gave her all the vouchers. LOL.

Changes in My Company

2010-05-22T22:26:00.000+08:00

Lately, too many stuff happening around me. Many involve with emotional issues. I doubt if there are more to come and will I able to cope with all that. As I can see, I'm a very well emotional guy and I'm the people kind of guy (just like what my senior said when she gave us a piece of advise during the meeting), I know I will get affected definitely.

Yesterday, my colleague, Li Teng just left our company. After the lunch, we had a meeting and we were announced that my senior, who is the one that I am tag to since I join this company is leaving for a better offer in another company. I do get the shock of her leaving so soon and yet so short notice. Well, that company is willing to pay to get her to work with them as soon as possible. I'm happy for her having a better opportunity and I do think that we all will definitely miss her. I just didn't expect she will be leaving before me even thought I do felt that she is leaving too.

Soon, after my senior, Ruth is gone, Nesa will be going off 2 days before I'm leaving my company. There will be new blood coming into our company soon. I heard from my manager, there will be 3 new recruits. However, thinking of the freshies, they will have no authority to approve any amount of claims in the early 2 months or so. It will be really hectic to the rest of us (of probably a month for me since I'm leaving for good too soon).

I can't imagine our company, or perhaps just my team right now can have so much changes in just a week time. Of course if you take a look in this past few months, there are many changes. However, the changes for now is much more emotional, more intense for me. All I can think of right now is to stay focus for this one month and one week before I start to settle myself into new company effectively on July. Lord, please give me strength to keep on moving forward.

Changing of New Environment Soon

2010-05-12T21:05:00.000+08:00

Finally, I have tendered my resignation from my current employment at AIA Shared Services Sdn Bhd this week. I think I will definitely miss all the good time I have from this company depsite the pay and some other issues. It does took me quite some time to think over the matter of resigning and jump onto some other unfamiliar work field.

The day I tender my resignation letter, my team leader was like so blurred and not having the mood to talk more about it. He refers my letter to my manager and she was shocked that I plan to leave the company. She never thought that I would (maybe I have the look "I'm not leaving soon") and she gets a little bit emotional since many of us in my team are planning to leave. Not to mention my senior specialist who always being helpful to me was surprise over my decision to leave too.

Well, since I have better offer and yet the work nature of my current job is kind of stagnant compare to the new job I am offered now, which is far more challenging I would say. I am starting to worry that I might now able to work my best and thrive in the new company. That will be my concern right now.

Thinking of it now, I really will miss most of my colleague and seniors that helps me a lot throughout my term in the company. Well, I felt like I talking as if I am leaving tomorrow. In fact, I still need to serve two months notice before I can leave. I am waiting that stupid HR to sent me my exit interview schedule and my last day of term in the company.

I am thinking how will I be getting along with new colleagues there soon. In my current company, we are like friends and we tag along kind of like a family. We chit chat, gossips, play and eat together at times. I wonder how is the new environment will lead me. Will I feel more lonely at new company, new environment? Till then only I will know.

Waltz Friendly Match At Fitness First, IOI Mall

2010-05-02T14:43:00.005+08:00

My gym had organised a small ballroom competition yesterday. It was really fun. It't not those official kind of ballroom competition or else, I will be definitely out of the game in the first round. LOL. However, I think by organising such event really helps us to enjoy ourselves and know where we are standing. The most important is I think it will help us to improve ourself.

We started with 9 pairs of us if I'm not mistaken. Every round we dance, the bottom two pairs will have to leave us. Anyway, since it's not an official dance competition, it's just a small friendly match kind of thing, there is not winner or loser. We just ended up competing for the best three pairs. So there are 3 rounds of Waltz to dance. Below is the photo we took together after the competion. Too bad not all the girls there, but all the guys are there. LOL.
Personally, I think everyone putting quite a lot of effort to this friendly match and everyone is a winner since we all have the guts to compete with each other. The match began with the ladies draw the name of the male partner from the male pool list. It's a random selection so that we can dance around with different people yet improving ourselves together.

Maggie, Kelvin's wife picked me up. So I will be her partner for the competition. Well, she is really a good in Waltz. I think she dances better than me a lot and thanks to her helping me up at the dance floor. LOL. I think your both the male and female play a very important role togehter to make the dance a success. It's mutual understanding, respect, and toleration that need to be taken place in order to make it look good.

So I guess I'm lucky to be in the final 3. Well, I guess I do remember my steps kind of well. I think I did very minimal mistake on the steps, maybe the pose and the expression is kind of hard to control since I don't practise often. Imagine it I only dance once a week, two at most at the gym. It's not that I dance quite often at those dance school or stuff. It's really something for me, I mean the experience. Anyway, below is the photo of the best three pairs, of course including me myself. LOL.

Friendly Match of Ballroom Dancing - Waltz

2010-04-25T22:56:00.003+08:00

My gym organised a ballroom dancing competition, friendly match kinda dance. It's Waltz this time. Probably they will organised it again but other dance probably. Maybe Tango or Quickstep or even Paso Doble. I will never know till then.

However, today we have a friendly match. It's a rehearsal kinda competition among our dance mates. It's fun. But I ended up in the top four with my partner today, Amy in Waltz. We didn't manage to get into the top three. A little bit disappointing because I get nervous and dance out of tempo. Not to mention that my glaze drop to the dance floor which does not seems nice.

Well, I'm still happy and proud that I can dance the whole thing and not feeling being stupid about forgetting my steps. If you would like to have a sneak view of the whole thing, my dance mate actually do uploaded a shirt clip of the competition in Facebook. You can click on this link to watch the 56 seconds clips.

Great Dinner

2010-04-18T22:55:00.003+08:00

I just back home from The Gardens. I had a great dinner with some of my old course mates (Tansra, Jun Hou, Ursula, Voon Yuke and her boyfriend, Kok Yew, and some of her cousins which are still kids). It is a belated birthday celebration for both Voon Yuke and me.

We dined at Tony Roma's and thanks to them, I got free meal. LOL. I love you guys for everything. Although it's a simple kind of gathering, but then I think it's really good as we didn't gather around very long since we graduated. I did recall the gathering with Pek Yen and Melissa back then at Ikano Power Centre. That is the previous gathering I remember.

We chatted a lot. I miss the old days we had where most of us chatting about studies or related issues, chatted about the latest gossips and movies in town, stuff etc. Now, we all chat about our working life, their research or their new campus life in university as Master student.

What seems much different is when I see Voon Yuke bringing her cousins along. It's like as if she is bringing her own kids. I was like "OMG, look at her". LOL. I am thinking in the next 10 years, probably that scene will become reality. Most of them will be married and have their children to tag along with them if we organise another gathering.

My 24th Birthday

2010-04-16T00:43:00.004+08:00

Well, I just back home from dinner and movie with friend since it's my birthday. I did take some time to brush up myself and clean up some of my stuff before started blogging here. It's a simple yet not that simple birthday celebration. Well, at times not to have a huge celebration is not a bad thing.

Anyway, I do prefer small kind of celebration. At least you can enjoy it more than you can think of. Birthday nowadays seem to be telling us that we are older, however another year older means another year wiser. LOL. I just hate people say that you are older now, which makes you feel like you are outdated or 'expired'. Well, I don't keep those in mind anyway. So it's still okay.

On Wednesday itself, Choon Hing has already gotten to my place to treat me at Secret Recipes. We have the so-called brotherly chat. I do enjoy that kinda hang out. It's great and it feel comfortable compare to hang out merely at Mamak stalls. Do I sounds like I am so good in enjoying myself at those so-called high class places? Well, it just a preferences, does not mean that I always have the budget to hang out like that.

At office, my colleague, Siew Yin and a colleague from HK team, which is Siew Yin's friend got me Ferrero Rocher chocolate as present. Although I am not that fancy that chocolate, but since it's still chocolate, I still like it. LOL. Thanks Siew Yin and Ya Yin.

Mun Choon did called me just now. I think he mentioned that wanna hang out to celebrate my birthday later. Probably tomorrow. LOL. Douglas get me some chocolate from HK since he just back from HK this week from his business trip. Now, I think I need not to restock my chocolate for the moment. My sister also got me a bar of Meiji dark chocolate.

In Facebook, I received so many friends wishes. I'm so happy about it. I think I would drop tears looking at the amount of people that actually do take the initiative to write on my wall. Well, I know that Facebook have the application that reminds us on someone's birthday, it still need ones to write it. So I need to thank all of you that have written something on my wall, text me through phone, call me to wish me and even those that come to me directly to wish me birthday. I appreciate all of that.

Finally, this is my little birthday cake for my birthday celebration. I think I love it better than the whole damn cake from Secret Recipes since not many of us are eating it. It just a small little celebration. I love that cake so much because of 2 things. First, it's chocolate cake. LOL. Secondly, it have ice cream on top of it. Hahaha.

Bumping Into An Old Friend

2010-04-12T22:50:00.004+08:00

I think there are lots of people encounter this scenario, where most of our friends that we got to know them fade through time. Some might be getting closer as time goes and some in the opposite way. Those that you are not close in the first place tends to get even further apart as you are no longer seeing each other that often.

For instance, today I met with one of my high school mate, Tan Choon Keat in LRT. It is just coincident that we bumped into each other. It's funny, I can still recall his full name. LOL. We work almost the same area which I have no idea till today. He has been working for almost 4 months here and I never see him boarding the same LRT as me. Today, it's just out of luck, we bumped into each other.

Seeing an old friend should be cool. It's cool but the feeling as well is pretty cold too. I mean as we did not manage to pick up some topic to talk about. Maybe I am not close to him for start even back in high school. So we just asked each other where we work and that's it. LOL. We did mentioned about the past of our high school friend as well. That's all I can recall what we spoke about the whole journey back to Bukit Jalil.

Well, not much high school mates that I am still keeping a very good contact with. Only a handful of them I am able to keep contacting them like Boon Hein, Choon Hing, Chee Yuen and Mun Choon. Anyhow, I guess we still need to maintain our friendship as much as we can.

Anyway, thinking back the time, time passes so fast. Like a blink of eye it's already a year and my birthday is around the corner already. I guess I have to wish all my friends that born on the month of April happy birthday - Ching Fui, Sheng Szan, Weng Foong, Voon Yuke, Mee Ken, Kim Fah, Jaeger, Sze Mun, Julie and Kah Teck. I hope I did not miss out any of my friends here.

Earth Axis Tilted Shorten Time by 1.26 Microseconds

2010-03-30T22:03:00.005+08:00

Lately I heard a very interesting new. It was about the massive earthquake that struck Chile this year may have shifted Earth's axis and created shorter days according to the scientists at NASA. The change is negligible, but permanent.

We should be having 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is one-millionth of a second) shorter each day, according to preliminary calculations. The large quake shifts massive amounts of rock and alters the distribution of mass on the planet, which changes the rate at which the planet rotates, where the rotation rate determines the length of a day.

The Earth spins on an axis that is tilted some 23.5° from the vertical. But this position is far from constant – the planet's axis is constantly shifting in response to changes in the distribution of mass around the Earth.

The changing climate has long been known to move Earth's axis. The planet's north pole, for example, is migrating along 79 °W – a line of longitude that runs through Toronto and Panama City – at a rate of about 10cm each year as the Earth rebounds from ice sheets that once weighed down large swaths of North America, Europe, and Asia.

Scientists estimate that the melting of Greenland's ice is already causing Earth's axis to tilt at an annual rate of about 2.6cm and that may increase significantly in the coming years. Now, they calculate that oceans warmed by the rise in greenhouse gases can also cause the Earth to tilt.

Researchers found that as the oceans warm and expand, more water will be pushed up and onto the Earth's shallower ocean shelves. Over the next century, the subtle effect is expected to cause the northern pole of Earth's spin axis to shift by roughly 1.5 cm per year in the direction of Alaska and Hawaii. The effect is relatively small but the motion is strong enough that it needs to be taken into account when interpreting shifts in Earth's axis.

The German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, says the new work overturns previous ideas. "Up to now, people had believed that height variations [from ocean temperature changes] gave no contribution to polar motion," he told New Scientist. "This is an effect that now has to be considered."

Climate change can also affect the Earth's spin. Previously, the researchers showed that global warming would cause Earth's mass to be redistributed towards higher latitudes. Since that pulls mass closer to the planet's spin axis, it causes the planet to rotate faster. This is similar the the earthquake in Chile.

In summary, by thinking about all the information we gathered, Chile is one of the best example that redistribution of Earth's mass can cause the Earth to rotate faster, which causes shortening of Earth time. Global warming may cause the ice to melt and changes the Earth's mass, and thinking it back, this might lead to another time shift.

Would you want to create a world that we all live right now to change to a degree that beyond recognisable? Lets do our part to preserve Earth as out time has just shorten by 1.26 microseconds from the Chile incident.

All information were cited from various sources such as:
1. CNN website
2. NewScientist.com

The Story of Stuff & Bottled Water

2010-03-28T13:26:00.003+08:00

I came across this 2 video clips on YouTube and thanks to it, I got this urge to blog it here, which I think it's good to share with all of you. It's really the time for us to consider some alternatives to salvage our planet Earth before it's beyond our limit to preserve it anymore.

Although thinking about it, I might have the feeling that it's slightly too late to do much to reverse the global warming reality, but we can still do our part to salvage it, prevent it to get worsen. I am worry if the hypothesis is right about the methane hydrate, which I blog about it in the previous blog, then we are facing the end of the world pretty soon if we do not do anything to repent our mistakes.

Hope you guys get a little bit more inspiration and motivation after watching this clips.

Methane Hydrate May Lead To Extinction of Mankind

2010-03-26T21:31:00.007+08:00

I guess not many of us actually know what is methane hydrate. I do not want my blog to be too lengthy, so I will briefly explain about it. Methane hydrate or also known as methane clathrate is a frozen lattice-like substance, which can be found underlying our oceans and polar permafrost in huge amount. This crystalline combination of a natural gas and water looks remarkably like ice but burns if it meets a lit match. For more details about this substance, do read it from Wikipedia or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory websites.

The reason this substance capture my attention to share it with you is not of its special features such can it can be burn in ice form but the potential of this substance to wipe out mankind. Yes, I am not kidding if we keep on contributing to global warming. It's not a joke.

Methane is a powerful green house gas which has a global warming potentil (GWP) of 62 over 20 years and 21 over 100 years (IPCC, 1996; Berner and Berner, 1996; vanLoon and Duffy, 2000). The sudden release of large amounts of natural gas from methane hydrate deposits has been hypothesized as a cause of past and possibly future climate changes. Events possibly linked in this way are the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Recent research carried out in 2008 in the Siberian Arctic has shown millions of tons of methane being released with concentrations in some regions reaching up to 100 times above normal.

Why is this a concern to us? Methane gas is not very stable in the atmosphere, which they literally converted to carbon dioxide which have a longer shelf life. If we did not play our part in order to reduce global warming, it might lead to the ocean's temperature increase, which later causing the methane hydrate to melt. The consequences, it triggers a positive feedback mechanism where it increases carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and lead to severe green house effect. You may read this in Discovery News on "Gas Releases Helped End Ice Ages" to know more how this may cause catastrophic effect to us.

Below is a video from YouTube about methane hydrate. Do watch it as it is a very informative.

Hope this blog does aware us about the importance of reducing global warming. I'm blogging about this in conjunction with the Earth Hour. It's part of my contribution to make an awareness to all of us. Lets save our Mother Earth in order to save ourselves. Salvation is in our hand. You may want to visit some of the websites that I have link it. Do visit some of this relevant site below too:
1) Jasa Eco official website or Jasa Eco blog
2) Earth Hour

Earth Hour 2010

2010-03-25T20:39:00.002+08:00

I guess I will be blogging the same thing again as per last year blog about Earth Hour day. This year, the Earth Hour day falls on this Saturday, 27th of March. So, do play your role as part of the society that cares for our Mother nature and our Earth. Switch off the light for 60 minutes (1 hour) at 8.30pm. Approximately 88 countries are participating this event to save our Earth from global warming. Be a part of the society who cares for our future generations yet to ourselves.

You can always use the candles if you are afraid of dark like I do. Prepare some as precaution measures and don't forget the matches. Share this with your friends and family either by telling them directly, blog it or any other forms to convey it.

Stress Indication

2010-03-25T20:32:00.004+08:00

Recently I got this email with the photo as above attached, which claim to be able to indicate whether you are stressful or not. The illustration is static, however if you found that it's moving, it indicates that you are stressful. The faster the movement, the more stressful you are.

It is claimed that the young and old people will find the illustration to be as static as still water. I have no idea how true it is. So lets try and check out your stress level. ^^

Telephone by Lady Gaga featuring Beyonce Knowles

2010-03-24T20:20:00.007+08:00

This is one of my favorite song yet I love her Gaga power. LOL. It's a great MV. Enjoy

Hello, hello, baby, you called, I can't hear a thing
I have got no service in the club, you see, see
Wha-Wha-What did you say? Oh, you're breaking up on me
Sorry, I cannot hear you, I'm kinda busy, k-kinda busy, k-kinda busy
Sorry, I cannot hear you, I'm kinda busy

Just a second, it's my favorite song they're gonna play
And I cannot text you with a drink in my hand, eh…
You shoulda made some plans with me, you knew that I was free
And now you won't stop calling me, I'm kinda busy

CHORUS
Stop callin', stop callin', I don't wanna think anymore!
I left my hand and my heart on the dance floor
Stop callin', stop callin', I don't wanna talk anymore!
I left my hand and my heart on the dance floor

Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh… Stop telephonin' me!
Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh… I'm busy!
Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh… Stop telephonin' me!
Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh…

Can call all you want, but there's no one home,and you're not gonna reach my telephone!
Out in the club, and I'm sippin' that bub,and you're not gonna reach my telephone!
(X2)

Beyonce:
Boy, the way you blowin' up my phone, won't make me leave no faster.
Put my coat on faster, leave my girls no faster.
I shoulda left my phone at home, 'cause this is a disaster!
Callin' like a collector - sorry, I cannot answer!

Not that I don't like you, I'm just at a party
And I am sick and tired of my phone r-ringing
Sometimes I feel like I live in Grand Central Station.
Tonight I'm not takin' no calls, 'cause I'll be dancin'
'Cause I'll be dancin', 'cause I'll be dancin'
Tonight I'm not takin' no calls, 'cause I'll be dancin'!

Stop callin', stop callin', I don't wanna think anymore!
I left my hand and my heart on the dance floor
Stop callin', stop callin', I don't wanna talk anymore!
I left my hand and my heart on the dance floor

*Chorus*

My telephone! M-m-my telephone!
'Cause I'm out in the club, and I'm sippin' that bub,
and you're not gonna reach my telephone!
(X2)

What Do You Want From Me by Adam Lambert

2010-03-24T20:03:00.003+08:00

Hey, slow it down what do you want from me
What do you want from me
Yeah I’m afraid what do you want from me
What do you want from me

There might have been a time and I would give myself away
Oooh once upon a time I didn’t give a damn
But now, here we are, so what do you want from me
What do you want from me

CHORUS:
Just don’t give up, I’m workin it out
Please don’t give in, I won’t let you down
It messed me up, need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, what do you want from me
What do you want from me (x2)

Yeah, it’s plain to see (plain to see)
that baby you’re beautiful
And it’s nothing wrong with you (nothing wrong with you)
It’s me, I’m a freak (yeah)
but thanks for lovin’ me
Cause you’re doing it perfectly (it perfectly)

There might have been a time when I would let you step away
I wouldn’t even try but I think you could save my life

*Chorus*

Just don’t give up on me
(uuuuuuh) I won’t let you down
No, I won’t let you down

(So I) just don’t give up, I’m workin it out
Please don’t give in, I won’t let you down
It messed me up (It messed me up)
Need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, what do you want from me

*Chorus*

Need You Now by Lady Antebellum

2010-03-24T19:04:00.005+08:00

Picture perfect memories scattered all around the floor
Reachin for the phone cause I can't fight it anymore
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time

It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now

Another shot of whiskey can't stop looking at the door
Wishing you'd come sweeping in the way you did before
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time

It's a quarter after one, I'm a little drunk and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now

Yes I'd rather hurt than feel nothin at all

It's a quarter after one I'm all alone and I need you now
And I said I wouldn't call but I'm a little drunk and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now
I just need you now
Ooo, baby, I need you now

Overtime Again

2010-03-22T19:44:00.003+08:00

This week, I will most probably having overtime for the whole week since the cases that fall in is huge in numbers. I think I will be superbly tired by the end of the day for the week, probably even be emotional too.

It's nothing much to talk about the overtime issue actually. However, I do wish that cases that get into my queue will not be too tough and the best will be more outpatient cases that comes in rather than in-patient cases again. It always kills my time and causes me not hitting my productivity.

If I did not meet my productivity, I cannot claim my overtime pay which makes me even frustrated for the day if things does not go as well as I hope for. Lord, please help me in this sense. I does sounds like I am asking too much for something that minor. LOL.

My Cousin, Kian Loong's Wedding Dinner

2010-03-20T23:59:00.006+08:00

I just get home from (Kian Loong) my cousin's wedding dinner. It does look kind of nice decoration for the entire wedding dinner but I still feel boring. Maybe it's the same old routine of the Chinese wedding dinner with the 'Yum Seng' session which I personally find it old fashion.

Above are some of the photos I manage to take during the dinner. Mind the quality as I do not own a digital camera. All I can do is to take it with my camera phone. Although I do not really enjoy much, however it does not kills me. LOL.

All I can say is that I wish them having a great time ahead with each other and hope the will be loving each other. May God bless them and may they continue their next chapter of their life.

Birthday Celebration In SGGMD

2010-03-17T21:41:00.003+08:00

It's a late blog, where the event took place on Monday this week. I am looking for some time to spare out to write an entry and finally I am here to do so. It will be a short one since it's just a simple celebration that we did.

In my working team, SGGMD department, we managed to organize a small celebration for those team member that their birthday falls in the month of January to March, which is the first quarter of the year 2010. We got a nice chocolate cheese cake from Secret Recipe, which I think I love the most. LOL.

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, we can't really celebrate it in a great way, but in silently. Thanks to Siew Yin, the 'artist' of our department, she helped a lot in decorating the envelope for the birthday card nicely. It would not be that great if without her great masterpiece to those cards.

So once again, I guess I have to wish the three of them, Calvin, Ros and Nesa, happy belated birthday. Hope we will have more event or activities next time and make our team happening. It is kind of boring to be just sit in the office and process claims all the time. Till then, adios.

Confucious

2010-03-14T22:47:00.003+08:00

I am too lazy to attach any of this movie trailer or pictures. So I hope you guys do not mind about it. I just wanted to make this a short post only. I watched this movie since I am running out of option today in Mid Valley with my friend, Charles. We were suppose to be watching Alice in Wonderland.

As we all know, even I know that it will be less likely for us to be able to get the tickets in such time, Sunday and it is at noon. But we thought of trying out luck and we did not get lucky. So, we ended up watching Confucious since we thought that it might be interesting.

To those who love history, especially Chinese history, this movie is recommended as it have a good concept and it is about a great man in the history of China. A very well known man among the Chinese community of his philosophy and teaching. He civilized the people of China.

Overall rating for this movie, I would give 6.5/10. If only the story tells and show more about Confucious great philosophy and his wisdom in various way, this movie should be a hit.

Super Junior - Sorry Sorry (Gay Version)

2010-03-09T20:29:00.001+08:00

Enjoy this video.. LOL

Alice In Wonderland

2010-03-07T14:16:00.005+08:00

I am seriously think that this movie should be good. It have one of my favourite actor in it, Johnny Deep. Anyway, the overall story is not bad. Depends on which angle you are looking at it. If you like fairytale story, you will like it.

Li Wu 禮物 - Liu Li Yang 劉力揚

2010-02-28T22:29:00.002+08:00

终于可以在今天划上句点
zhong yu ke yi zai jin tian hua shang ju dian
一整夜翻阅过去画面
yi zheng ye fan yue guo qu hua mian
快想不起我们为何会诀别
kuai xiang bu qi wo men wei he hui jue bie
只看到那双你送的鞋
zhi kan dao na shuang ni song de xie

走一步又一步
zou yi bu you yi bu
我才发现绕了个圈
wo cai fa xian rao le ge quan
走了好几年又回到原点
zou le hao ji nian you hui dao yuan dian

*你送的礼物会不会太特别
ni song de li wu hui bu hui tai te bie
毫不避讳那不安的传言
hao bu bi hui na bu an de chuan yan
但渐行渐远习惯到没感觉
dan jian xing jian yuan xi guan dao mei gan jue
难道你早想要我走远
nan dao ni zao xiang yao wo zou yuan
你送的礼物在此刻好体贴
ni song de li wu zai ci ke hao ti tie
陪我回忆把过往走一遍
pei wo hui yi ba guo wang zou yi bian
穿了这些年难免会有污点
chuan le zhe xie nian nan mian hui you wu dian
就像每段爱总会有终点
jiu xiang mei duan ai zong hui you zhong dian

世上最残酷的恐怕是时间
shi shang zui can ku de kong pa shi shi jian
困住人一切却还向前
kun zhu ren yi qie que huan xiang qian
干涸的眼再挤不出一点咸
gan he de yan zai ji bu chu yi dian xian
爱到如此可悲的境界
ai dao ru ci ke bei de jing jie

走一步又一步
zou yi bu you yi bu
却跟不上你的脚步
que gen bu shang ni de jiao bu
你满意了为什么我却只想要哭
ni man yi le wei shen me wo que zhi xiang yao ku

Chorus *

你说做自己吧我们都做回自己哦~
ni shuo zuo zi ji ba wo men dou zuo hui zi ji
不要再为爱受委屈
bu yao zai wei ai shou wei qu

你送的礼物原来是一场劫
ni song de li wu yuan lai shi yi chang jie
终于分别夙命一样准确
zhong yu fen bie su ming yi yang zhun que
可笑到想要你赔给我时间
ke xiao dao xiang yao ni pei gei wo shi jian
爱情有时廉价得可怜
ai qing you shi lian jia de ke lian

光著脚我一路奔跑鲜血
guang jiao wo yi lu ben pao xian xie
泪水一路狂飙
lei shui yi lu kuang biao
收起我的骄傲
shou qi wo de jiao ao
承认曾经备受煎熬
cheng ren ceng jing bei shou jian ao
鞋上那记号只有你能明了
xie shang na ji hao zhi you ni neng ming liao
过了这一夜我就全忘掉
guo le zhe yi ye wo jiu quan wang diao

Not So Much of My Day

2010-02-24T22:36:00.005+08:00

Today is not a very good day for me. My neck is killing me since Monday I have the stiff neck, as if I took Viagra and got it stuck on my neck. It painful and I can barely turn my head to the left. Feel so irritated. To make the matter worst, my muscles soreness is still not in recovered. Literally, I feel as if my whole body is aching.

Physically condition is not that good, I think I still coping with it. However, to make my day worsen, my bag just give up on me. On my way back, just before I get my car, it snapped and fell on the ground. Well, it does served me for almost 5 months. Probably that is the life span of a not genuine "branded" bag. LOL.

Right now, I have no money to get a new working bag. I guess I have to use one of my old bag temporarily till I have the budget to get a new working bag later. I wonder when is the sales coming again.

My First Pita Bread Failure

2010-02-19T20:19:00.004+08:00

Today, I thought to try out the Mediterranean starter called Hummus, which consist of pita bread and chick peas paste. However, I do not want to make things go too far, so I started with the pita bread. Since it is the first time I try out this recipe, it is like trial and error baking session.

As predicted, I failed to make the pita bread I wanted it to be or as good as the one I ate at the Mediterranean cuisine restaurant. I follow the whole recipe, probably the volume of water or something goes not too right, the bread turns out to be slightly tough.

The worst of all is that it does not pop and having the pocket shape in it. Only 2 pieces seems do the trick but still tough or slightly dry. I guess next time I need to add more water. Anyway, it still edible. LOL. Still consider some achievement. At least I learn something from this failure.

If my bread work out, then it's time for me to try out the chick peas paste and it will be perfect then. I can't wait to the time to come. However, I also need time to try out my recipes and sharpen my baking skill since so long I did not bake.

The only problem I am facing is that stupid oven I have. It does not bake evenly. Probably that is why my bread does not work out well. LOL. I am seems to be blaming the oven for my failure. When I successfully bake a good pita bread and preparing the Hummus, I will let the one who inspire me to make this food to try it first hand. ^^

Not So Nice Start Tiger Year of Me

2010-02-14T20:06:00.003+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year to all. It's another great year and this year is a very special year for all born on the year of tiger as this year is the tiger year. Roar, roar, roar all the tigers out there. May all of you have a great year and roaring successes.

Back to me myself, today is not that lucky day for me. Early in the morning, my car have a flatten tyre. To make the matter worst, I took out my container which containing the tool to change the spare tyre due to lack of space in my car boot. I took me almost half an hour to fix it since I have to walk back home to get the tools and luckily I just drove like 1km away from my house before I realise my tyre flatten.

As the tradition of my family, we will required to gather around with the others at my grandpa's house before getting to the next location. However, this year something is not so right. My grandpa went missing. Ended up what I realised was that my grandpa having some issue with my uncles or stuff and he is not planning to attend the gathering for CNY.

I do not know why, but I do not really enjoy CNY celebration. It's either I'm too old for it as it does not amaze me except for the red packet that I will be receiving or perhaps I do not like the boring routine of the visits. I do not enjoy being surround by many people, yet most you do not even know their names, and they are like stranger to you. Probably I am not the family kinda guy.

I guess I will prefer to be celebrating with my nucleus family. It's much simpler. Not to forget, the market is killing as we queue for the roasted pork today. I'm not that fancy of roasted pork. If not due to prayer, I will drag my mother away and ask her not to buy it. It's irritating to wait for it for hours. I guess I will not be doing such prayers when I owned my own house.

CNY sure cannot miss out some gambling. My family did go and buy lucky numbers (4D Magnum) this morning, giving ourselves some hope of being lucky. LOL. However, we did not gamble in real with the rest of the relative, such as playing poker or blackjack or mahjong. I know some family will do that as a routine. At least my friends did as one of them, when I called him, he was gambling at that time. LOL.

Of all the not so positive things I throw out here (as if like I treat my blog space as a garbage area), hope all those bad stuff go far away and more positive 'chi' is coming my family way and all my friends way too. I wish all of you to have a great and prosperous tiger year. Roar~~

Two Days of Being A Display Item

2010-02-09T19:30:00.002+08:00

It's been two days of my colleagues in my team acting like an display items in company. These two days, there are roughly 50 to 100 cases coming into our pool. Therefore, even before noon, there is nothing else we can do.

Today itself, I spend my time after lunch chatting with my colleagues, talking jokes, "Google"ing for some recipes, searching for Bleach's wallpaper, reading horoscope etc. Basically I am doing nothing much and I just manage to do 4 cases only. Not that I am lazy, but that is the only cases that I manage to grab from the pool.

I guess I will be taking along my novel tomorrow to work just in case the system is still the same like today, I will have something to do other than gossiping with the girls. It makes me like a gossip girls myself. LOL.

Anyway, this week, two of my colleagues will be leaving us. I heard that they say they planned to continue their study. I do not know is it an excuse or it is the facts. So, by the time after Chinese New Year, with the lack of 2 more manpower, I guess we will be working like a cow. One of them is pretty fast in clearing the case, however only those simple claims. Mean, we will have more work to be done after CNY.

CNY + Valentine Day Are Coming

2010-02-03T22:31:00.004+08:00

It's the month of February, and what is more great about it are that it have lesser day this month to work, Chinese New Year is coming, and not to forget the month of sweet romance, the Valentine Day.

This year, both CNY and Valentine Day falls on the same date. I wonder how those couples going to celebrate both of it together at the same time. Probably they just bring along their girlfriend to visit their relatives as well. LOL.

Although CNY is coming soon, just another 10 more days, but I do not feel much of the CNY mood is going on. Maybe not as happening to myself. The decoration on malls such as The Curve with the bamboos, Mid Valley, Times Square, Pavillion etc., all also seems good. However, I still feel lack of the mood.

I wonder is it because now I am working already, the feeling is slightly different compare with the older days where we were still a student ourselves. Thinking it back, I do miss those days. Need not to worry about work, have plenty of time to play around, hangout etc.

Valentine day will be a boring day for me. Well, as you can see it falls on the same day as CNY, and as usual my CNY is kinda boring, so I do not think it will be interesting this year. How will I celebrate Valentine Day this year? No idea. I do not think there is a purpose for me to celebrate it. I do not have a lover. LOL.

Things Happened In Just A Week Time.

2010-01-24T21:37:00.003+08:00

Well, in just a week of time, I heard so much news. A high school friend of mine, Ganesha has gone to heaven on 17th January 2010 due to a car accident in Tampin. It's a shcoking news to me. If compare to the dragon boat incident in Penang, this is not that happening but as he is someone I knew, it does affect me.

Knowing that our friends is gone forever is really deep kinda feeling. Unable to describe just like this. It's like somehow you unable to explain how it feels but it does not feel good. All I can hope is that he is with Him. May he rest in peace and he will always be remembered.

Things happening around me also kinda unexpected. Unexpectedly it comes, and unexpectedly is goes away. It comes like a wind and gone like one too. Sometimes, I do feel things happening around us is kinda hard to explain.

For example, I didn't expect Mun Choon will text me after so long but he did it today asking me for a meet up. I don't know what will this gathering turns out to be after such a long time. Will it be odd? Or perhaps almost similar like my primary gathering I had previously last month?

I guess I just think too much right now. I should be preparing to get some rest and face tomorrow. I got to go to work and meet him up after that. Hopefully everything goes great in the future. I hope I can still treasure them while I still can and not when they are not around anymore.

It Have Been A Busy Weeks

2010-01-09T17:31:00.003+08:00

It have been so busy for me previously for almost 2 to 3 weeks already. We have overtime at worst almost everyday. The most worst scenario was that we need to be coming back to work even on Saturdays.

So tired after working for long hours for such a period. But cannot help it because too much claims were submitted during the end of last year and everything piles up like mountain. We have to clear it up as soon as possible.

Finally, today the queues are empty after seriously few weeks of hard work from all the team member trying their best to clearing up all the claims. For myself, I felt something good and not too good at the same time.

The good point is that we need not to worry sick of clearing up all those claims and having overtime to do it for the moment. However, emptying the queue also means that there is nothing much to do temporary.

Everything also have pros and cons. For me, need not to do overtime too often will be good enough already. I need some time for myself to relax and do else stuff. I need to have my life. I can't be doing claims 24/7. LOL.

By the way, today I went to Mid Valley for the chocolate fair. It just a small fair I feel. However, it was crowded and I did not really enjoy the entire fair all about. Not much nice chocolate that I can find there. There is a few, but since my budget is limited, I did not get anything for myself. So sad. LOL.

New Year, New Resolutions

2010-01-04T21:15:00.003+08:00

It's 2010, it's new year. New year should have new resolutions. Actually I have a few, but then I did not list it up officially. So I guess it's best to blog it so I can read it back later and see how much I can and will be achieving later.

Planning to get a new set of skin care. I found a product which seems pretty good for me, at least I try out at their booth and it seems pretty good for my skin. Still considering of getting it before CNY.

Next will be going to get my facial this month, perhaps end of the month. I guess everything must be done before CNY. LOL. However, the facial routine I planned for this year is that I should be going once every two months or at most almost three months once.

I'm planning to get my dental scaling done this coming April perhaps. Somewhere around my birthday. I'm trying to save some for my birthday month as well so that I can get myself something that I like during that month hopefully.

There are some other plans that in my mind which I do not want to share at the moment. So I guess that's it is for now. Maybe the last one I can share with everyone is that I'm want to focus on my dancing class. LOL.

Year 2010!!!

2009-12-31T20:19:00.004+08:00

It's the very last few hours left for year 2009 and year 2010 is coming into picture. Here goes the old year, all the bad stuff, all those stupid fight, stupid hatred and lousy things we have been through and it's time to welcome the new year with new hopes and dreams.

New year suppose to be something to be cheering about but then for me, it's nothing much to be joyful for. I still have to go to work on the very next day on new year, the Saturday for overtime as there are a whole lots of claims to be settle. I guess I will be having overtime for the coming week as well after having so many days overtime already.

New year does not seems too good too. It sounds more likely to tell you that you are older another one more year, you are soon to be someones uncle or aunt, or even that we are closer to the year 2012, the so-call-end-of-the-world myth.

However, there are still some good things about it. You have a day off from work as it's a public holiday, you can have new dreams, you can hope for increment of salary or bonus (if you eligible to) and repeat those special days with your loves ones.

So hope you guys have a nice new year and enjoy your holiday. Happy New Year 2010!! ^^

Raymond Lam's Concert Live in Genting 2009

2009-12-20T09:19:00.008+08:00

I was too tired to blog about this event this morning as I was back home almost 2am. I have been driving my family to Genting at noon and back after the show so can't help it but to get my sleep first. LOL.

The pre-Christmas concert is not that good and it seems pretty short as it ended pretty early than I expected. A lot of his song was not sang that night according to my sister (I do not really know much of his song as I'm not his fans), However, he do have pretty much fans. There were light board of his fans from Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Canada that I can see. Anymore others that I did not notice, then I did not mention here. LOL.

He changed four times during his show, which made up of 5 sets of costume that he wears that night. I have no idea whether those clothes that he wear that night is sponsored by Key Ng, our Malaysian fashion designer or basically all Raymond's clothing. LOL. However, those clothes he wore that night sucks.

He basically invited 4 guests or maybe only 3 guests which were all the way from Hong Kong because Malaysia policy, any concert done in Malaysia kinda have to invite a Malaysian singer along with it as guest of the day. There this guy I only know him as a HK TVB actor (don't ask me his name because I can't remember myself), Vincy (HK singer), Man Hant (if I'm not mistaken their band's name, which from Malaysia) and that stupid HK actor cum host for the Super Trio Supreme, Wong Cho Lam as the guests of the day.

Well, that Wong Cho Lam is too ugly for me to actually take his photo. LOL. Well, basically I guess the pictures tell more story of the concert. Some extra stuff for you to know. Actually Raymond Lam is not that handsome. His facial skin is pretty rough and he got his belly and not really in shape. He forgets his lyrics often too. For his die hard fans, sorry to say that is the facts.

Overall, the concert is not up to my expectation and I do not really enjoy it. Maybe solely due to his cockiness that he protrude during the concert. The only thing he instilled in me is that he just a not-so-famous-yet-cocky guy. That's all. LOL.

Best Christmas Tree of AIASS

2009-12-17T21:22:00.004+08:00

Yay!! Our team, which combines SGGMD Claims and SGPMM team won the "BEST CHRISTMAS TREE" for our AIASS Christmas celebration. Well, if you guys have not seen the tree yet, feel free to view the it from my previous blog, titled "Christmas Gift Exchange in My Work Place" to view it.

We were given a small door gift upon registration to enter the auditorium around 6.00pm, which is a thermos mug from AIA Group. There is lucky draw session, however as usual, I did not manage to get anything. It seems I am pretty unlucky, never get anything from any lucky draw before. LOL.

I'm not nagging for not getting anything. Maybe I just simply make a fuss over it. LOL. I do help out the decoration of the venue, mainly the Christmas tree at the lobby of Wisma AIA. Although it's a little bit tiring and I guess nobody actually notice your effort, however those that knows will remember it.

It's still good thing and I'm feeling great yet pleasant as I do contribute a small part in this event. I just do not want to be a working machine that only work on my job and have no fun at work. Anyway, since my team leader deducted my productivity hour, so why not help out? LOL.

I was helping my team leader to capture some short video for the event, such as performance and the lucky draw session. It's cool since I need not to just be sitting there. I can walk around a bit. Nothing beats my colleague as she was performing tonight and she really enjoy her performance and performed fantastically.

If tomorrow we need not to work, that will be the best thing for this week after tonight's event. However, we still need to work tomorrow as my team follows Singapore's public holiday. I guess I will be going to work slightly earlier tomorrow and finishes my work on time so that I can go back straight after my working hour. ^^

Christmas Gift Exchange in My Work Place

2009-12-16T19:53:00.003+08:00

My team from my working place, AIASS has organized a small lunch to celebrate Christmas together before the actual Christmas celebration of my company tomorrow. It was a simple lunch, where one of our colleague sponsors the lunch for the whole team.

Meanwhile, our team SGGMD have join forces with SGPMM team for the Christmas tree decoration. We will be competing with some other department and I have no idea what is the result at the moment. My team mainly just help out to put on the empty boxes of our gift exchange that we planned last week.

Below is the picture of the Christmas tree that we decorated and the following picture is the gifts of my team. After exchanging gifts, we just put the empty boxes with the wrappers intact back under the tree. LOL.

The whole thing seems short but we really enjoy ourselves. Maybe I like it simple so that I need not to think too much on what to make it more happening. For now, I'm still having no idea what to wear for tomorrow's Christmas party in my company. The theme is "SPARKLING".

I have nothing 'sparkling' to wear. I guess they will make fun of us that does not dress sparkling enough for that event. Well, I guess the guys in my team might most likely to suffer the same thing as I am facing right now. Maybe they do not even give a damn about it.

Work With People From My Batch

2009-12-15T19:51:00.003+08:00

Recently, my working colleagues, those that same batch of commencement with me started to have quality control among ourselves. We call it as peer check to minimize our errors of our processing job. However, I found out that one of my colleague is doing something that is unfair to the rest of the team.

She picks cases by those easier policies, either by memorizing those policy number or write it down somewhere. I guess it have to be that way or else how on Earth she can get almost the same policy everyday?

Worst, she does not admit her fault. Well, I can't do anything to her but then I started to feel how people like to take short cut and how they always kick the problem or trouble to elsewhere as long as it does not cause them any harm.

No wonder she can process so many cases everyday. It's so unfair for the rest of the team. We process lesser case and makes her stand out of the crowd as if she is super efficient. However, the actual fact is that she cheated.

MPS Reunion 2009

2009-12-11T20:07:00.003+08:00

Yesterday, my primary school, Methodist Primary School (MPS) held a gathering. I have the chance to meet back most of my long time primary school mates. Some of them I have hard time recalling who they are. Some I can recognize them first glance, like Arun, Mohan, Get Tsung, Wendy, Trisha (forever the same.. LOL), etc.

When Punitha approached me, I really can't recall her name although I recall she used to be my classmates back then. I'm really thrilled about last night gathering. Seeing back most of them, most of them change so much.

The ladies gets prettier. Some really amazed me. Mariam for instance, she used to be having short hair and tomboy-ish as I could recall, but she is so lady-like yesterday I saw her. I really can't believe my eyes of the drastic changes among all of us. Others like King Yi and Joel getting more buff up, having those eye catching body that amazed the girls last night.

Some of us do not change much. For example, Kelvin, Jin Young, Trisha, Wendy and me. LOL. Basil can recall me the first sight of me when I am almost reaching the main gate of the school. The whole experience of getting back to school is really amazing plus a little bit odd. However, it's really worth it.

I wonder how we will be look like if there is another gathering like this in the future, perhaps in 5 years time. Will most of them married by then or still single? Maybe having kids tagging along to the gathering like some of our senior that I can see on the gathering yesterday.

I really enjoy the night. It was fun and unforgettable. I believe it goes to most of us that night. We took a lot of pictures and Punitha will be the one to post it on Facebook. Well, I'm still waiting for her to post it. Once she posted it up, I'll either save the link here or post it here myself. ^^

Exhausted After RPM Class

2009-11-23T23:16:00.004+08:00

I went for RPM class at 7.30pm at Fitness First, The Curve today and it really make me sweat. I mean I sweat more than I do previous few classes I attended. The instructor of the day really pushes us hard to burn down some calories.

Although my main objective is not burning calories as I am already pretty thin, almost like a bamboo like most my friends used to call me, but I still think some cardio work out is necessary to built up some stamina and improve my health.

Of course I do take food after my work out as that is the way to gain more weight. I need to replenish my energy and eating after work out can make my digestion goes pretty fast and I will absorb more.

However, I am really exhausted today. I guess I have to sleep early and get up early for work tomorrow. So I guess I will skip the reading for today and have a great rest and sweet dreams later. LOL.

Working Life

2009-11-20T19:45:00.004+08:00

After working in my company for more than a month, I realised that I'm still learning things around. Seeing some of the senior batch (where they join the company earlier than me of course), they still need to ask around at times regarding the claim cases.

Like what I had mentioned in my previous blog, life when you step into the working world is really different. We will never know how is the true feeling if you are not in the shoe of those who already working at the moment.

I realised that we do not have that much of time for ourself when you started working. Perhaps those who work as salesperson may feel slightly different, but for me, who work in office, I personally feel that my time for my ownself reduce greatly.

Less time for me to go shopping, catch a movie, online chatting, facebooking, reading, etc. That makes me treasure even more the spare time I have. My schedule become pretty tight for the whole week.

Weekdays of course I have to work and weekends, I have my dance class, my work out session with my gym buddy, some time to spare for family, or even to do things that I wanted most such as catching up a movie.

So, this working life will be with me for at least around 30 over years. I guess I have to cope with it and hope to strive better in the future. Planning is the most important thing for our future. I think I am going to focus myself on my career and my life. I am gonna save enough for my future Japan's trip. LOL.

On Hong Encore Concert Live in Genting 2009

2009-11-15T14:44:00.010+08:00

Yesterday, my family (except my brother) and I went to Genting Highlands for the On Hong Encore Concert Live in Genting 2009, and it really drained all my energy. It's not because I'm so high seeing the two of them (Andy Hui and William So), but it's because I spent almost the whole day in Genting.

I have to accompany my family to walk around Genting since they are not familiar with Genting anymore. Then I did accompany my mother to the Casino de Genting to look around and waste some time there before meeting up the rest for dinner.

We have a simple dinner before we hit to Arena of Stars for the concert. My mother kinda like William So. For me, I think both also not much different as I do not really fancy any of them. However, William So's performances last night seems pretty good, at least better than Andy Hui.

Hui's voice seems rather rough and lack of breath when he sings. Perhaps he is a little bit out of age already. LOL. Perhaps I am prejudise towards Andy as I prefer Sammy Chen and they have some bad rumours last time. LOL. Forget it, it's not important.

I did manage to shake Andy Hui's hand but not William So. I only manage to touched his shoulder as too many people gushing towards him, pushing me around that I nearly fall down. I cannot imangine they able to gain so much attention and fans. I just do it for the sack of fun and once in a lifetime. LOL.

Nothing much I can talk about the concert, it just a simple plain concert as there were no dancers, no special performances and some crappy special guests they got. Once of them is a member of Hong Kong's band, EO2, then a Malaysian singer and a lady that nobody have any idea who she is. LOL.

Enjoy some photos that we manage to took on that night. Sorry for the unprofessionalism of my photo taking as I'm not as good as Moses or Chien Wei who kinda obsess with photo taking. LOL. Anyway, these are just some photos we took, not all of it. LOL.

Things I Wanted To Do

2009-11-06T21:23:00.009+08:00

It's been almost a whole month I have been working with AIA Shared Services Sdn Bhd. Basically, I feel like I missed out a lot of my own sweet time of catching some great movies, doing things that I wanted to, and worst of all is that I lose some weight.

Just in this short period of time, I am able to lose 2kg. I felt so guilty and sad even though I do not think that I eat any lesser than I used to be. If Douglas saw what I wrote here, he must be feeling so bad. He will wanna be me. LOL.

I have been working most of the time, I mean only weekdays, however most of the day I got to stay back a little bit more late to finish up my work to meet my daily quota. It actually kinda stress at times as well.

Anyway, work is work. I have to take it as an experience and hope I will learn something from it. I might not be (most probably) working with this company for ages. It may be a stepping stone for me. This company of mine soon will be moving to Cyberjaya. So, considering a better offer job is not a bad choice too. LOL.

After started working, seriously I feel that lack of contact with the world or friends too. Everyone is busy with their life to attent to. Push aside this, I even feel that I have less time to do things that I wanted to. For example, I wanted to self-learn my Japanese language, spent some time to read my magazine, etc.

Life is kind of miserable at times. We can't have all the things we want. We can only pray to God and hope that with His grace, everything will goes well.

Life is a Knowledge Itself

2009-10-31T21:32:00.003+08:00

We always go through a lot of stages in life. When we were born into this world, we go through a time where we only eat, sleep and excreting "stuff" that we do not want. That is our baby-hood.

After that, we have some time where we learn how to walk, how to speak, and learn a lot more things yet we have the time to play and explore things we curious about. That is our childhood.

As we aged and turn to be adolescences, we became curious about a lot more things and imagination runs wild and this is the time where we learn about up and down in our life. We learn from all our mistakes that we have done, or perhaps we do not realize it till it is too late.

When we step into the working world or so called adult world, things change again. Every stages of life is just like an experience that we learn all our life. There is like no end for learning. It is just depends on you wanted to learn it or to avoid it.

Sometimes, it makes me realized that things that we see now, that we have now, that owned now or even our feeling might not last eternally. Only God seems to be eternal here in the picture. However, most of the time, we will neglect Him and too busy with our daily life.

If you does not realize it, try to ask yourself some of these questions and you might actually find it quite true. Do you recall all your primary and secondary classmates and do you still contacting all of them regularly? Are your best friends in your primary and secondary school still the same best friend you have right now?

Other than that, how about your partner? Is he or she your first love? Do you think he or she is permanent for you? Well, this sounds a bit bad but it's the fact. Not all people encounter good eternal love kind of relationship. Some people have to hide and seek their love, some even have to be hiding their own feelings towards someone.

So treasure every minutes you have with someone that you treasure or you love. They might not always be around you but do take some time for each other. Do try to make your life the best you can. There is no re-take.

Third Week and Things No Longer The Same

2009-10-28T22:27:00.003+08:00

This is the third week of my employment with AIA Shares Services Sdn Bhd. Thing changes (not drastically) over time. My job scope is still the same but then it does not seems to be as easy as it is to be. Moreover, I'm kinda often make mistake here and there. It makes me feel pretty bad.

However, I have to take time to learn it. Well, I'm a slow learner. I'm a kinda worry about this. I do not hope to be always call by those senior colleague regarding the claims that I processed which have some mistake here and there. It makes me feel so stupid, and mostly careless mistake.

Anyway, this week pretty lots of changes, even on Monday, I have experience going back home pretty late. Today already Wednesday, and I'm looking forward to the weekend for my rest day. Hopefully this Saturday need not to work overtime. This Sunday I need to help out in a charity dinner. I do not want to collapse before that. LOL.

Gotta Aim High

2009-10-21T22:12:00.003+08:00

These few days been working like a cow. Well, it is not really that bad actually but then I'm handling about 40 cases each day these two days. Mentally exhausted if you got to ask me. It's not that simple yet not that hard. Thank God the cases I'm dealing now is pretty easy.

I have been dealing with out patient cases and most the clinical for last week. This week, kind of dealing mixture of specialist and some daily surgical cases. Well, I know most of you will not understand what I am saying here but that is okay. That is not the main point anyway.

This Saturday, it seems most probably I will have to work OT already. It was told by my team leader this morning during the briefing and meeting with our team manager. Well, she just kind of introduce herself and let us introduce ourselves as well. Nothing much special except she mentioned about the shifting to Cyberjaya next time. Hopefully there is transport allowance for us. LOL.

Now, I think I have to focus myself. I have to pick up my skill quick and adapt with the environment. I have target to meet as well. The most important, I have to reduce my mistake and increase my accuracy, which I think pretty hard in the sense of increase productivity at the same time. So, 'gambatte ne, Takumi-san', I have to say it to myself. LOL.

Second Week of My Working Life

2009-10-19T20:45:00.002+08:00

Well, time passes so fast and it's the second week of my working life already. I have been learning a lot from here and there but there is much more to come. The same thing like I said in my previous blog, I do still feel fear of my job a little bit. Hopefully I can cope up with all that.

Anyway, I guess like they think, my team leader might either hate me or likes me so much that he gave me kinda lot of cases to handle for a newbie like me. Poi Ying for example, she told me she handle roughly 10++ cases per day last time. For me, I'm handling 30 cases alone today. It's just the sixth day of me working in the department.

When I told them about the number of cases my team leader assigned to me to Poi Ying and some of my colleague, they were shocked as well. I think the team leader should be thinking guys can handle more cases than girls perhaps. LOL.

Maybe he even want to train me to be another gunner, just like one of my colleague that he is the top person in our department. He processes the cases like train and of course a lot more compare to the others. I think I don't want to be like him. LOL.

So Lost

2009-10-13T20:44:00.002+08:00

Today is my second day working with AIA Shared Services Sdn Bhd. Basically, I'm still pretty blur with my work. I do not really mean my work but how to deal with my work. The system that we are using I should say pretty easy to handle. However, there is so many things to be master.

Just in the matter of two days, I have been loaded with plenty of information on how to use the system and so on. Maybe I'm kinda slow in catching up with things. I felt like data overload kind of feeling.

However, today still not that bad. At least I need not to work OT. Anyway, what surprise me in my department is there are so many UTAR'ian. At least for now, there are 5, which including my ex-course mate and me.

Hopefully things goes on smoothly and I will catch up things as quickly as possible. However, I know it's kinda impossible as one of my colleague have been working 3 months there and still learning. Gosh, I feel the fear of working now. LOL.

Surreal Graduation Fashion Show 2009 by Raffles Design Institute

2009-10-05T16:28:00.004+08:00

I was invited by my friend, Keith to attend his graduation fashion show, which called "Surreal Graduation Fashion Show 2009". It is held on Tuesday, 6th of October, which is tomorrow at J.W. Marriott Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. The time of the show is around 6.30pm.

There are some of the samples of the designs are posted below. Please do not ask me which one looks good. I have no idea how to appreciate or look at highly fashion sense clothing.

~ This last design my design my my friend, Keith, where his theme is "Paranoia" ~

Since he invited me and given me the ticket for the show, I think I have no excuses to run away from it already. I have to be there to cheer for his designs and support him too. The problem is that it is a fashion show, but then I cannot think of anything good to wear for such an occasion.

I guess tomorrow, I'll be looking like a nerd or geek there, among those who well dressed or fancy looking or even those who have high fashion sense kinda people around there. I'm kind of worried that I'll be embarrassing myself there that evening.