Tuesday, November 04, 2008

ET's wedding last Saturday

Last weekend another friend got married. Heartiest conglatulation to the newly wed BK and ET. I do not have the photo of the couple in my camera so I am posting what I have now. We have 6 girls and 4 guys in jimui's team. Yes, you heard me right, 4 guys!

I can't see any heng dai except two because the rest were holding cameras. Next round, we have to ban any heng dai from squatting down or rolling on the floor to take photos because they can't do pumping when they are hugging their photography asset. Kek si.. :p



The bride looks stunningly beautiful like an elegant swan in her white silky wedding gown.



The wedding event somehow served as a reason for the coursemate to gather again. The photo only shows those that stayed for the wedding ceremony on Saturday, and Chew Ean was the bride's maid

Monday, November 03, 2008

A pair of shinning earrings from the girls

I found this pair of earrings in a small packet on my desk when I was back from lunch. It was a surprised gift from Xwei, Lan Sin and Soek Junn for my belated birthday! I love this pair a lot, just like how I love the eye shadow Xwei given me last year... Thank you girls!


Blue sky in Macau

The trip to Hong Kong and Macau would not be complete if we don't visit ruins of St.Paul's church. Macau is a beautiful place to capture memorable photos with nice buildings as background and the US blue sky.

There are many churches in Macau and the below is one of them, St. Dominic's church, I think. So coincidently, there was 2 bells hanging at the entrance of the church. Maybe a couple just came out from the church after their wedding ceremony before we reached there.



The scenery was pretty good and it was a bright day for walking around, but with shades and sun lotion on.


We took some girlish photos at Senado Square where passerby looking enviously.




An old bulding written MCMXXXI. It is1931 in roman numerals.




I was with friends boarding a taxi to Sand hotel. Taxi is cheap compared to Hong Kong. A ride from our hostel in Mongkok to the airport costs >HKD100. Haha. But taking taxi in Malaysia as expensive as in Hong Kong. The taxi fee from Klang to KLIA is freaking RM70!!



Opposite Sand, there is the Fisherman wharf place. They have some miniature buildings and architectures.



I walked from the Roman Colosseum to Greek meeting Alexander the Great.

This is us posing in front of Aladdin's castle in arabian city.


Five minutes walk took us to China. I think this is the Forbidden City :P

It was a great trip because we got to visit so many countries by just going Macau.

Sunday, November 02, 2008

My early birthday celebration

About 2 weeks ago, some friends had a early birthday celebration for the October babies, Vivien and me. It was a steamboat dinner at Kim's. Choices of food was a lot and the place was full as usual.

The group of people that came was fun and bubbly.
This is Vivien and I cutting the first and only birthday cake of the year. When the cake was brought out, the owner of the shop played oldies birthday song.. We felt so embarassed and happy. Smiles craved.

I received a pretty, gold dress from Her Hau and I am loving it. I wore it to EeTieng's wedding dinner. Thanks for the wishes from friends..

Note: Photos taken by Ikbing

Friday, October 31, 2008

Giant Buddha in Lantau Island

We wanted to go Lantau Island because we heard a lot of this place in Hong Kong drama series. So we took the Ngo Ping 360 cable car ride there. It was a magnificent view from inner side of cable car. We saw the Hong Kong international airport and some high condominums, and greens.



This is the place. The ride took roughly about 25 minutes which was 100times better than the bus ride. We went down from Lantau Island in bus that drove through very curvy roads. I almost throw up.


I tried the bubble milk tea while some friends drank coffee from Lantau Island Starbucks. Haha

This is what we came so far away for, the famous Giant buddha.


I like this place as it is not as congested as the city area. Peaceful, and calm.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

I saw panda in Ocean Park

aiWe started our second day in Hong Kong with some local breakfast in deCoral cafe. We opted for cleaner and air-conditioned place instead of stuffy shop. Pardon the "big lady" of us.

I picked the congee, lobak-gou and milk tea set. It was plain white congee with century egg. Pieces.

I heart the lobak-gou in Hong Kong especially from our previous dessert shop. Yummy.


We proceeded to MTR station after filling our stomaches and took bus at the station where we can ride to Ocean Park. The day was hot and the sun was glaring angrily at the six of us. Luckily I had my shade on and rub a palm full of 180spf sun lotion before departure. Else I think I will look like roasted pig after the trip. By the way, we bought one packet of cooling face masks and applied at night after the adventurous day. Haha. What a good idea from my bunch of friends...



They prepared flyers in English and chinese, both simplified and traditional.



Road signs inside Ocean Park pointing where shall you go for the rides. I never try a ride because I don't want to spoil the rest of my day of dizziness and vomitting.


This is the view from Ocean park looking towards the city and the roller coaster ride and aihui was focusing her camera at the same view too from lower ground.



The traditional dolphins show which I think was kind of dissapointing. I love Shamu in San Diego Sea World.


Sting ray



Clown fish aka nemo in Finding Nemo movie.


The jelly fishes picture which I took. Love these photos the most.. This place has the largest jelly fish aquarium. Anyway, this was my first time visiting a jelly fish aquarium. :P


Finally I got to witness live pandas. A very big panda named Jia Jia who eats a lot. Her neighbour Aan Aan shits a lot. They all , 3 of them stay inside large mirror glass separated from excited humans like us.


We rushed to the arena of stars after some shoppings in outlets and took some photos around before watching the Symphony of Lights from the walkway.






We were all feeling really exhausted ,legs screaming for Thai massage and body wanting to soak itself in tub of frangrant warm water. But we still went down for another round of shopping at Ladies' Street when reaching home in Mong Kok.


Everyone of us kept complaining of legs pain and how tired we were, but none of us stop. I love my friends!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Arrival in Hong Kong

When I first arrived in Hong Kong international airport I found it nothing spectacular. It was like any other usual airport like KLIA or Singapore airport. We purchased the Octopus card, airport express package which cost $220. We picked it because it suits us to the maximum. It has one way airport transfer which we only needed one and three days unlimited travel on the said, tourist routes.


We stayed in Mong Kok. When I first stepped out of the MTR station, I stood at the middle of a hustle and bustle city. Everything was so HongKong-nish. There were people and cars
everywhere. It looked almost like Jacky Chan's movie scene at the spot where they had the bamboo sticks stacking up at high flat buildings.
They even have a job opportunity to wash the trash bin. There are so many chinese around :D and the road construction workers are chinese, not bangladesh or indonesian. I was in Hong Kong.


We pulled our luggages along the busy roads trying to search for our hostel and at last found it. It was a humble place. Clean, neat, and cosy enough to fit three people in a room, and no more space for storing our packages. The bathroom was so small that I knocked my elbows on both side of walls when I lifted up my hands when changing. Afterall we won't be staying all day in our room, so the rooms were just nice and cheap enough to survive us 3 days in this expensive city.


Hong Kong was a weird place because when I looked up the buildings, there were so old and not mantained.

But, the lower floor of the old buildings was totally different in style. They were renovated and decorated like an expensive stores you can find in Sogo and Times Square.

We were all so hungry that we stumbled into this dessert shop that can be seen everywhere for their mango dessert. They looked tempting, refreshing and cooling for the six tired souls in this air-polluted city.



We stayed in Mong Kok where ladies' street, temple street, fa yuen street are just a block away. Not wasting the chance, we crawled downstairs to shop along these streets for pretty dresses, funky clothing, bags, accesorries and many more.


Downstairs at the corner shop of our hostel, there was a fishball stall.. I ate fishballs and smelly tofu there, which my friends all regarded as drain-smell tofu. I felt it taste like in heaven. Muaks.

Friday, October 17, 2008

My new hair

I had a hair cut last weekend. I feel lighter, fresher and a lot cooler now after losing weigh of hair. I simply love my hair style!

Monday, October 13, 2008

Rainy BBQ

Last Friday, Julian organized a birthday party for Lan Sin. Everyone positively had fun time under the rain. I stood under the shade all the times when it rained. Sweet. This is my first time attending wet BBQ party.


It was a perfect time to experiment the ultra big ice-cream seller umbrella that intel gave us last year. There were three on spot, not sure whose belongings. The young people BBQ-ed chicken wings, lamb steak and marshmallows. Wee Meng, Lee Yee and Guat May made tuna sandwiches. One funny thing was every paper cup has name written underneath it so one person can only use a cup on that night and nobody will take the wrong one. Engineers are smart.


So happen that Chuan Ning was back in Malaysia for his twins' birth and his birthday fall on the next Monday, we celebrated his birthday together. The birthday pair wished upon the stars that every of their friends will achieve the very best in their life :P



Lan Sin sure happy till weep because of the surprise party and Julian's dedication and hardwork to keep the fire alive under super heavy rain.



Sunday, October 12, 2008

Tortoise cooker

This is the slow cooker I got few weeks back, I named it tortoise cooker. Maybe I am used at watching the water boils and seeing chicken, sweet corns and carrot rock, skip and jump among each others in the pot . Oh yah, and with the red tiny seeds which I don't know its' name. Now that the tortoise cooker doesn't seem to create such scene anymore. The water is so calm that I thought a crocodile will suddenly emerge from the surface. I am going to try my first soup cooked with tortoise cooker. Can't wait!

Friday, October 03, 2008

Holiday?

I am in holiday mood. Am I? Working on the blue, green and black xterms in a pharmacy.