Xmas home trip

Intro:
This is the third blog with "XMAS" spotted in the tittle.

23 Dec 2006
I am at home now. I opened my closet and found my old diary. "I love him a lot and I want to marry him". It sounds so far away from my life now. When I read through the papers, I had a mixture of sad, dissapointed and happy feelings. I felt the joy I had those times when I am being loved and cared. When I reached the page, where joted down when we quarelled or getting scold,ed I gripped my teeth firmly through that few minutes of reading. I just woke up from sleep as usual at casual hours at home. Maybe I was too tired walking in the mall. Jusco is Klang first shopping mall that has not so many Malays. It was a famous hangout place during my school time. There are a few places that I once hang out at. I don't go out so often, but these are the places I been to with my dear school friends -- forever friends

1) Bukit Raja Shopping Mall --> This is top in the list. SOmehow we call it Jusco than Bukit Raja bla bla bla..It has shops ranging from Vincci, padini, googles, FOS, Polo and so on. Since it is more identical to Shops in Sunway Pyramid (but is more inexpensive though), young people like (*grinning) loves hanging out there and not forgetting it has a cinema too.

2) Klang Parade --> Erm, it is hard to get here because it needs 2 round of bus to reach this place. We need to get to klang bus station and then change to another bus which goes to Meru. Normally we don't stick to this place but we came here because of those Klang people or friends from school in Klang, say nearer to High School.. our activity partner in Interact Club

3) The Store --> I don't come here so often, but due to my close friends who went to tuition classes near this place, I went there too to meet up with them or bought birthday gifts in Rivon.

24 December 2006
You know, today was not a relaxing day either. I woke up at 9.15am and realised that only left me and my youngest sister at home. Yvonne was still soundly sleeping and I crawled out from the queen size bed not to wake her up. When she found out I was awake, I informed her of the tasks assigned by mother the day before. Yeah, to the morning market. Erm, she was supposed to follow me there because I wanted to get her a pants.. Those with ribbon belt. Yes, she fond of the type of pants and I find it too expensive in shopping mall. Maybe it is better to get one round of trip in market to see if the pants is available there. So we got the few plastic bags of groceries and cold storage foods for my mom and the ever-tasty chee-cheong-fun. Hehe.. Klang chee-cheong-fun differs from Johor or Penang ones.

1) Klang - We have variety of yong tau fu choices to pick from but I chose my usual items, the "fun", with "taukey" and the sweet sauce plus a little bit of chilly.

2) Johor - this is the Hong Kong style chee-cheong-fun where normally there are 2 ingredients, either the "char siu" or prawn. The ingredients are wrapped by the freshly steamed "fun".

3) Penang - This one a bit weird. Basically the chee-cheong-fun contains only the "fun" with sweet sauce plus the prawn paste.. =P

By the time we reached home, I got the reminder call from Kevin to meet up with him, James and Samuel for movie in Mid Valley. I was a bit lazy actually because I need to drive alone all the way to KL for just a over-exaggerating Curse of Golden Flower starring the ever famous Chow Yuen Fatt, Gong Li, Jay Chow and a few more whom I don't recognised. It took me approximately 50 minutes to find a parking. I don't understand why people like Mid Valley so much. It is damn difficult to get a parking and I finally found one in front of the slidding door. Lucky me, but (*wink*) it is not a formal lot-- illegal one. I don't care anymore, I don't want to circle the place anymore so I took the place which seems like a good spot.

I managed to get home at 6pm and brought Yvonne to get her new spectacles. haih.. it is so expensive because her power reached 900 and the fella adds Rm20 for special-order-of-the-lense-fee and another rm100 for 1.61 glass index lense. Hard to earn money nowadays. Man.. How am i going to survive?..

25 December 2005
The three days trip home fast to end soon. I drove mother to market again to buy some vegetables. Now I am writting here, the time shows 14:19. My ride coming at 4pm, and I can't finish writting my self-assesment yet. I am tired with my work.

Merry Xmas

Today I joined the carol practise for the third time. The songs that we are going to sing tomorrow are:
1) Santa Claus Is Coming To Town -- Very kiddy
2) Silent Night -- This song is kind of slow and boring but I personally love it
3) Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
4) Jingle Bells
5) Joy To the World
6) We Wish You A Merry Christmas -- Everybody should know this
7) Feliz Navidad -- Fun song

The girls are divided into two groups and I am standing in the second row the first from left. For some parts of the song, we will be doing "echo" but I am singing the normal part. Nobody knows I sing badly because hahaha.. I hardly sound :P Who cares, we just want to have fun.. *Wink Wink*. We need to wear either red, pink or white for the performance. I think I going to wear pink, I got no pretty red shirt.. Pink is the best candidate as for now. I think tomorrow I am not going to have a lot time to work as the xmas celebration starts after lunch and at 5.30pm, we are supposed to depart for The Ship in Ferringhi. I hate to spell Ferringhi like my buddy too because I typed 5 times to get this word correct everytime.. We are all going for a colleague's farewell dinner. Erm, it's kind of tough because I want to tie my belt to buy new year stuff. I think I gotta spend at least rm50 for this dinner.. Haih.. fail to save $$ again..

When I am listening to Fool Again by Westlife just now, my tears dropped because it flashed back my stupidity into my mind. Yes, I was stupid last time to treat him so nice but he disregard my kindness. He was harsh to me and always reject my request for help although in other people eyes, he is a kind and helpful guy. I am hating him a lot. Everytime I ignore his existance, he will try to start conversation with me.. But if he found out that I can treat him as a friend again, he will once more push me away.

I am so occupied with work. I think this work going to kill me. I have lesser and lesser time to play nowadays. I am going home this weekend. Merry Xmas !!!

Gua Tempurung and Kellie's castle

Kellie's castle

I am kind of lazy in blog-ging lately. I have been complaining to many people that I am broke. I gonna reduce any activities that cost a lot. The big problem here is whenever I said that, I still go out and spend money. Haha.. At last after I got the bonus, I can pay my study loan now. I did not pay the loan last month. So, I straight away pay RM600 online. It is quiet painful also when the sum of money is being deducted from my bank account. I know sometimes it is hard to please people as I don't like to change my verse to suit some people. Just can't really stand the way they talk or treat people. Yesterday I had a full day trip to Gua Tempurung plus Kellie's Castle sight seeing. We went into the cave with many people, yes, I mean many, people from all types of life. We had the old, young, kids, youngster, father, mother, Indian, Chinese, Malay and Ang Mo.. The huge number made the trip lesser exciting due to the time spend waiting for each other. We started with the wet path first, that is by going through kind of long way in water, walk like a duckie and float our body to pass some low part. Just can't straighten my body because I know it will knock my head. The torch light is very important in there. We need a good torch light because the normal one really can't see far in dark. By the way, those torch light in market is a good product, I soaked it in water and dropped a few times on the hard rock, but it still shine brightly. We went to various paths and the guide showed us a those rocks, staglatite and staglamite that resembles some post or object. We see the Guan Yin statue, laughing buddha, dinasour, elephant and many more. Wonder who is so free to sit there and find the interesting carvings. There is a part where we need to slide to a slope and that is where I made my pants dirty. The orange soil stick to my pants and shirt, hard to take off, I am still soaking them right now in Dynamo solution. After the sliding part, we will see a small hole. It is small, just enough to fit a person. We go down into it one by one. Afterwards, we walked inside the cave using the stairs. It is amazingly beautiful in there. I feel so funny because I imagined it to look like a huge stadium with dim lighting. Muahaha... We snapped some pictures in the cave but yet to receive. After the cave, we bathed and feed ourselves with some foods at the stall outside the cave. We went to Kellie's castle after spending some 1 hour plus there. Kellie's castle is a beautiful place and is identical to the inspiration of Taj Mahal in India. The casle is build by Kellie for his wife Agnes, a British heiress. But he never got the chance to stay in his castle because he died before the construction completed. The place is really beautiful, it is built on the hill will a small river surrounding it. I felt physically tired after the trip and wanted a good sleep. That's why I write this the next morning :D

Xmas wishes

I am happy because I received a lot messages on my Xmas tree.

http://www.mtvasia.com/Funstuff/Xmas/xmas.php?treename=strawberries

I know I will lost the messagse on day when the sponsor remove the page.

I can eat vege too

Today I took vegetable for my dinner. I had brought back a container of salad from last night party home. Just now, I squeezed more salad sauce on them and finished the whole box. I cannot believe I took vegetable for a meal. Today is Friday but I am too far away from hardworking to do work. Honestly today I did not work. I just replied a few emails and achive the disk. I know I need to complete the testcase for my manager. He has been too nice to me and the subordinates. I guess I need to help him in his assessment for this year. I have bought a nail polish from The Faces today and I plan to put on it after my bath. Is is violet. Maybe today I shall go for a bit of in-house beauty session.

bus broke down

I thought of reaching penang before morning, that is why I bought the 5pm bus ticket. The bus end up arrived at Klang station 30 minutes late. I was in good mood and those bad encounter did not bother me much. After coming out from the express bus stop in Slim River, the bus gave some funny noise when going up the hill. The worse came when smoke started to come into our comfortable space. Someone approached the driver and the bus stopped. We were in the middle of highway far from reaching Ipoh yet. I only remembered the nearby signboard says Songkhai... My brother in law rang me after I sent a simple sms to inform my family that I was stuck there because the bus broke down. This is my first time encountered this kind of incident. My brother in law then passed the phone to my worried mom.. Mama started to enquiry on the situation and my location. The first thing she asked is how many people are there. I told her we have the whole bus of passengers stading by the road side. She asked if I am scared.. I laughed and replied her "Of course no laaa". After half an hour, mama called again and this time, some people already took the passed by-bus to Ipoh. A lot of empty spaces bus were heading towards Ipoh. Those people are just too lucky then. The left over were us who are going to Butterworth and Penang. Some buses passed by and stopped but to no avail, none of them are going to Penang. After 2 hours waiting, at last a bus to Alor Setar picked up the bUtterworth people and left us 6 people to Penang there.. I was holding the ever-heavy backpack and it was really torturing. But I was too thirsty because I did not bring any water supply onto the bus. I have asked my friend to fetch me from bus station earlier and he was too kind to waited for me until 1.30am. Yes, at last there was a bus picked 6 of us up. Mama called the last time at 11pm when she told me that she is going to sleep and make sure that I am safe. The bus took a lot of detour and I was on the bridge at 1.24am. At this moment, I knew I should inform him that I am arriving. Haha.. The best part of the day was he fetched me with a cold Pepsi in hand.