First thing first. Read the news of the recently departed Heath Ledger. Shocking. I so lurve him when he was in 10 Things I Hate About You... especially the marching band scene... Have to go watch that movie again... Where's my VCD now?
Image taken from The Daily Telegraph.
Sad news aside. Been busy the last couple of weeks. Had loads of relatives staying at my place, one after another... In the office, all the work and events happening piling up and overlapping one another... phew!
So, what have I been doing? Here's some idea.
10 January 2008 - Sunway Lagoon with Kristos
It was Awal Muharam, a public holiday here. Much initial confusion. First in our calendar, it's a public holiday. Then the week before, there was a memo to say that it is a work day, the holiday is to be carried over and replaced on a day in October. Then 2 days before, another memo to announce that once again, it was a public holiday. Intended to take Kristos, my lil' cousin from Perth, Australia that Saturday but then decided at the last minute to take him on Wednesday instead. So, as you can see here, we had a splashing fun in the sun!
But then 2 days after, I fell sick... 3 in 1 ~ Cough, Cold, Fever.
18 January 2008 - A New Saga Begins
A memorable day for all of us in the company. Yes, the launch of the new Proton Saga. Kudos to the working team, especially Ezan, she being the project manager for this, and all of the other unsung heroes. More photos? Sure... lookie here.
20 January 2008 - Farewell @ KLIA
Woke up at 6.00am on a Sunday morning, in a blackout! Why? My relatives from Perth are going home. Flight is at 9.40am, which means checking in 3 hours starts at 6.40am! 3 hours at the airport hanging out in McDonald's taking our usual Big Breakfast set, refilling cups of coffee... and of course, snapping photos. See you all again in April, in Penang.
20 January 2008 - Finals of the PROTON Malaysia Open 2008
Later that afternoon, was at the Putra Stadium, Bukit Jalil for the Finals of the PROTON Malaysia Open 2008. Our very own Lee Chong Wei bagged the title for Men's Singles! Kudos! And as always, there's never a shortage of stories surrounding Malaysian badminton. I'm sure if you Google hard enough, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Right now, I'm taking a breather. Getting ready and preparing the house for Chinese New Year. Which means lots of cleaning to do to remove last year's dust and dirt (which also significantly means clearing off debts) and for the first time since we moved, we are decorating the house, decking as much red and gold as possible. But I am still not agreeable to hanging the 2 permanent tang lungs at the porch. How can I get my message across without making mum angry? Hmmm...
Well, what can I say. Apparently someone's still going. I can't just ignore the work needed to be done as it will also affect me. So, what to do? Like it or not, have to do also. I'm just so sick of everything!
It's only 11am Monday morning and my blood temperature is about to boil!
1. Someone requested for tickets. I could say that she kind of 'demanded" it! Then told me when I have them to pass it to her brother in law. Mind you, if she sounded nice and less demanding, I would have happily reserve some from her. This sounded like she was some kind of Manager and it was ok to order me around! WTF! Ya' think she will get it?
2. No outstation till ALL work in the office is done! WTF! I cannot handle every fooking thing!
3. Lizards are contacting me directly! WTF! Go through you proper drains or wherever you crawl in!
So peeps, if now I sound abrupt and pissy and rude... you know why.
I know, I know. I wished late. Been too wasted and lazy to update the blog recently.
Anyway, it's still January 2008 so technically it's not too late yet to wish everyone a very very very Happy New Year!
Goodbye 2007! Welcome 2008!
How did you spend your spanking new year? Me? I spent it with a couple of friends at the Subang Sheraton Hotel. We shared and got a super cool room on the 11th floor overlooking faraway KL , PJ and also Sunway, which means at the stroke of midnight, we enjoyed fireworks displays from (not entirely sure if it's accurate, but I would like to think so!) - KLCC, Bukit Bintang, The Curve, Mid Valley (it was beautiful!), and of course Sunway Lagoon! There were several more locations we could not pin point but it was a span from our left to right window, all fireworks displays! Ultra cool and we'll just do that again for the next New Year's eve!
I almost missed the fireworks display as I was stuck in a traffic jam mere minutes from the hotel! Started off at Jessica's for a quaint BBQ dinner she organised for her family.
Left her place at USJ 1 at about 11.15pm. Passed the Kesas/Summit traffic light at 11.40pm! Thought to myself... "I'm gonna be stuck here till next year!". I was thinking that it was the normal new year's eve traffic jam caused by all the people who are not home. Soon realised it's not just because of people on the road, but apparently the police had such good timing to start a road block minutes before midnight! People are not even driving drunk yet! The drunk ones would probably at that very moment getting wasted at their new year eve's hangout, getting even drunker and drunker by the minute! Anyway, after passing the 4 lane to 1 lane 'sentry gate', it was already 11.45pm! I made it to the hotel car park at 11.52pm (which shows how good traffic was actually, if not for the road block), rushed up to the room and made it JUST in time! Phew!
Anyway, some photos of the night.
Look at our HAPPY faces! Hehe...
More photos here.
End of New Year celebration report.
Backtrack in December 2007, so many things was happening at almost the same time that I have no time to breathe, let alone update this blog. Reny dropped me a note on New Year's eve asking for an update... so here it is!
My Manila Trip
For you who didn't know or did not realise I was missing, or probably didn't even bother, I was away at Manila for almost a week. It was a very hectic and tiring trip. Felt like I needed another holiday to recover from this holiday. Stayed at my aunt's place, was driven around for shopping and some sightseeing. Then shopping some more. Oh don't forget eating. And more shopping and eating. I literally felt like a PIG the whole time I was there.
Collage of some mouse-picked photos below.
For the entire album (well, almost...) view it here, here and here.
Temple Wedding Ceremony of Thevindran & Jenuka.
Came back on the 15th, so that I can attend my cousin brother's wedding on the 16th December 2007. It was the very first full (almost) Indian temple ceremony family wedding so of course, just had to be there. I was the unofficial but official photographer anyway.
Check out the mouse-picked collage photos below.
To view all 381 out of the 500+ photos I took, view it here.
Wedding Dinner of Thevindran & Jenuka
Both being Chin-dians (Chinese-Indian), naturally a wedding dinner will follow through. This they did only on the 20th December 2007 night, and most of our relatives from both sides of the family, were there to celebrate! Even the Aussie and Singapore family members were here!
Highlight of the dinner was of course the ah-kua show the entrance of the bride and groom to the ballroom. There were performances, games and of course the usual yumseng session. The bride and groom did not go table to table so we all end up waiting till we almost left to say goodbye to give three very very very loud yumseng cheers to the newly weds. Fun eh? If you want to view more photos, click here.
After dinner, we all adjourned to my place for some karaoke and drinking. Photos here.
Genting Highlands
My Australia cousins have not been to Genting Highlands before so since Uncle Sai Hong and Aunty Jillian is making a trip there, so did we. Managed to book 2 rooms at the First World Hotel, one for the ladies and one for the guys. I was a good girl. Did not play any slut slot machines! Yay! Spent my money on my sister and cousins though (and myself of course), and it was very much worth it.
Everyone was in the Christmas spirit so we decided to join in the jolly good fun and wear Santa hats and reindeer antlers on our heads too!
More photos here.
Very busy with loads of things in the office, so don't expect the next update so soon.