Hot

It is hot, VERY hot and EXTREME hot. I feel itchy, itchy and itchy. I am having headache. It caused pain at my right ear, just like needle piercing me. It is so hot that can kill. I have to rush out to Queensball Mall to save my life. I think I am going to faint if stay in the house. I don't think I feel like this last year. I never feel this hot when I was in primary school, secondary school and at home. These two years the weather is getting really bad. The condition is turning chronic this year (TODAY). I feel like shouting out everytime my ear giving me the pain sign, so I am checking my symptoms with my younger sister who is doing her medical degree in The Down Under and I think it is hard to diagnose my problem because I can't even remember which side of the ear I always feel pain. It is so nice now is winter there. Hate the weather in Malaysia. I hope we have four seasons in a year, so I can play the snow and on the heater. I never switch on the heater in Folsom before. Hahaha.. Even when outside was so cold, I switched on the AC instead of heater. :P I think I didn't experience the real coldness at the time I spent in US because it was almost end of winter. okay. It begins raining now. I wish the rain will continue until tomorrow morning. I guess all the kaki bola will watch Euro 2008 final today and tomorrow come in to work late with eyes like panda bear. :D

Chef, food and the fair

Today after lunch in Japin I suddenly thought of the properties fair that I read somewhere few weeks ago. So I decided to go to Pisa to have a look. But soon after I reached the junction near Pisa, I wonder if the fair is real there because I don't see many cars there. Once I walked into the arena I am surprise that there is a cooking competition being held.

Although it was not as exciting as Iron Chef show, but at least this is the first time I watch a real time competition. The place where all the chefs were stationed in was not spacious enough. I feel it is more comfortable if it was held in somewhere bigger like the place where the PC fair is annually.

I know nobody that is competiting but I stood there watching for a short time and took some random photos. So I might as well share it here since they already in my cellphone.

This is the table where the sauces and ingredients were placed. The contestants can get what they need from this table. This guy in the photo was picking some stuff I don't know what.

This table has all the cutlery, plates, bowls and glasses.

This table is where they put the vegetables. I think some are not so fresh anymore.

First hour is up. Every team need to hand up their appetizer. All the chefs look very young, I think I only saw one uncle.

Busy chefs. The nearest guy is one of the judges who walked around to oberve the contestants at the same time writting something on his paper.


I spent some generous time walking through all the food booths ( I think it is a food fair) and took all the food and drink samples that were offered. There was too many types of food there, even bak kua. I bought two cans of button mushroom, RM2 each.

Then there is this bee's man at the honey booth. He just sat there and let all the bees stick to his body. I personally think he is too young for the job. Normally I see uncle in this kind of glass box. This is the first time I see a young boy doing the bee performance. Those bees don't seem to bite him and another lady who scooped the bees and put them on the guy's body. I see this many times before but I still find it interesting.

At last I saw where the properties fair is. Nothing much to see, so little booths. I went back feeling hot and sweaty so tired. By the way, I saw Jess at the Bukit Tambun houses booth.

wedding (1)

This year is a hot year for marriage. Aihui said three in a year is enough because we all are too tired in becoming jimui. So anybody that wants to get married, please register with her and this year is all booked. Please postpone your intention to next year's slot. :)

Last weekend was Yen Ping's big day. Her wedding is not the first one I attended among our classmates. She is very pretty on that day. OK every other day too. Everyone of us wore white. White dress, skirt, pants or tops. Earlier we were told to wear yellow but due to the market has lost all it's yellow dresses and skirts demand and they don't want to sell it anymore, Yen Ping changed the colour to white. I still have the dress I put on my sister's wedding, so that will be my attire on the special day. Now this is the second time I am wearing the dress!

We arrived at 8.30am at the bride house to make some preparation for the bridegroom and his heng tai(s). Some arrived slightly later about 9 to 9.30am. I only took the photos of girls so I miss out taking photos of other things :P

Me with the bride and little William. This boy talks a lot.

After the praying and tea serving at the bride house, everybody rushed to the bridegroom new house. The house has one pink room and one blue room. Even the decoration and displays are in matching colours.

Of course we won't miss taking photo in the room. Pink !

Blue for boy!

and the master bed room :)


In the evening, I attended the wedding dinner :D.






Photos again

The couple looks like just stepped out from Tien Hou Kong registering for marriage. haha.

A group photos with the ladies. My classmates :D

Seriously I don't know why are these guys hijacking our photo session. Weird people. See the tomato head?

Volleyball craze

For the past week, I have been stuffing myself with volleyball matches after work. Not that I play, I watched. Some of the days, my head suffered from headache or dizziness after cheering and shouting for my team. But at last on the final match, me and Huey Fen were chosen as a few of the best supporters for volleyball. Although they chose us, we could not get any prize for it because we did not win anything. We were given 3 attempts to win a voucher but the challenge that was assigned to us is almost impossible. Nevertheless, I had good times.


Seeing these guys played brought up one of the sweet memories in my childhood days. My mom used to on the television for me every weekdays at 4.30-5pm and weekends on 8.30am and Saturday 7.30 Doraemon. In one of the days in the week, I think the 4.30pm show, I liked this Japanese series very much. It is a drama series of a bunch of Japanese girls playing volleyball with special and powerfull skill like the Somerset attack and so on. hahhaa.. You can see the girl jumping with a few spins and spike the ball like in comic. I did not remember the tittle of the drama so I googled it. At last I found the name. It is called Moero Attack.



It was aired in our television about my early primary school days. I was about seven of eight then. But when I read about Moero attack, it is said to be famous in Japan at the end of 1970's but only came to Malaysia in late 80's. We are so outdated!

Up Up Up

The sudden hike of petrol price in Malaysia resulted massive jam everywhere at roads heading toward petrol stations. So I had to take a reroute through another road to get to my house to avoid the long queue. Now it is RM2.70 per litre where by right is still at lower rate compared to our neighbouring countries' rate. But how about the few tenth K-s or even hundreds K-s extra of our car price compared to them? We can roughly use the overpaid money of our car to pay for our own petrol usage for about 10 years. Why not they just take away the dirty trick to cheat the people's money where we can use the money to buy petrol for 10 years. Today everyone is calculating will they still manage to cover the expenses and not overburden themselves when the price of petrol becomes RM2.70. It is still manageable if goverment rebate us RM625 every year. But what I have heard is the price will go up to RM4 per litre this August and a friend told me that the petrol expenses in a year will take up his one month salary. This is ridiculous. Whatever I can think of is no matter how much the company gave us SMA for the past two years, I think it is now being offset to zero. We are all back to our living standard at three years ago. We gained nothing from working in these period. Lucky to HH for buying her dream house in time before the petrol price hike is announced. Looks if everything is to increase by forty percent, I think the houses now will shoot right up to the level of where if only one engineer working, he can't be able to buy a house unless supported by extra income. So people, pair up with an engineer so you can buy a decent house to stay in.

I had really bad headache today. Almost everyday. Today is the worst. I can't stand the hot weather which wakes me up many times at night. I sat up and rub my hand on my greasy body and felt uncomfortable. Rolled around or dragged myself into the bathroom for another round of shower then crawled back into bed. It happened for like three weeks now. Other than the stupid work, the weather doesn't help. I hope so much to sleep in air conditioned room. But right now that brainless said to increase the electricity rate. Means we have to save in using the electricity too. I wonder why that no one in the house is using aircon, we use fans and with small fridge. The electric bill is RM100+.

This country is really not worth to stay in. We work so much for nothing. No wonder many people flocking the tiny land below us. They have better security, cleaner environment and no corruption! Probably we should all pack our bag and escape this place. 100% OK ? :)

Weddings!

I am so happy that the design at last linked after working on it for 2 days. I started to hate my job. I had sleepless nights to reach this stage and it really took almost all of my time. I hate the hack and patch and repair work. I am feeling so weak and tired since I came back to Malaysia. Nothing seems to motivate me.

But still I made some time to attend my dear friend's marriage registration yesterday afternoon. Both the married couple are my university coursemates. It was a short session and we spent almost two hours in Hardwicked chit-chatting and tea afterwards. Many friends from secondary school and university are tying knot this year. There were already a few last year but the number flocks this year because many of us has passed the age 25. I talked to a friend last week and she told me she married her husband because she knew he is the one she wants to marry when she first met him. So sweet.. That is how they hooked up so quickly.

Getting married is something really big in one's life. How can you make sure that you meet the right one? I am not into divorcing and I am sure everybody isn't too. So what is there to measure the compatibilty of you two.. ? Just like what the lady in the registration place was saying, both of you came from family of different background. It is true that the way you live, the way you were brought up are all different. It is the matter of how you compromise with each other and being considerate in everyday life to make two people staying under one roof. Also how the two can plan their future together, like where to settle down or when to have first kid. Anyway, all these came into my mind since so many people getting married this year. So I have to give a lot angpao this year :D

There are two weddings to attend this month but I can only choose one as they are both on the same date. I have a light yellow dress to shop for the wedding ceremony, I have not start seaching yet though.

oh weddings... Must be a big hassle. In some weddings, I think neither the bride not the bridegroom know some people that attended their wedding dinner. They are maybe their parents' friends or business friends. I think I would like a private wedding , maybe just attended by family and close friends. Probably a travel wedding will be nice, relaxing and can be very romantic. :) Time to work and stop dreaming..