Wheel-wheelling

We installed the wheel and they began to experience the joy in their life in a cage. In the first place, both ran at opposite directions in the wheel which will never make it spin. They got better in a few hours and are able to exercise in the middle of the night now. .

Marshmallows and cotton candy

I have hamsters as pet but they are not mine because they stayed at weeliem's home. I have not buy the gut to touch them yet because the cost of gut is expensive. I need more time to earn the gut before daring this fear. I am scared of all furry and moving creatures, like cat, rabbit, dog and almost everything else other than human.

The tiny babies looked cute like marshmallows and soft like a pink cotton candy. I named them with two silly names, oreo and jelly. There is no way to differentiate which one is oreo and which one is jelly because both look similar. Chocolate, dark chocolate and black on top and white belly with white one inch long whiskers. Also I am not sure if they are male or female so let's assume they are gay for now.

Oreo and Jelly always hide at one corner and only come to us if there is food. They are so active and agile, never let you hold it for long. Sniffing at your hand and bite with a sting pain when you have food on your palm. I think they are not so affectionate with human.

Both babies are so small, half the size of Microsoft mouse we used in office. The type of the hamsters is Roborovskis which is smallest and fastest among all hamsters. We got them bedding and water bottle today. Hehe.. shopping spree for oreo and jelly. We wanted to get them a wheel too for them to roll in too, maybe next week because the shop we went to is out of stock. Worry that they will bored to death because I am pretty sure I won't be playing with any of them.

Some things ought to be remembered and some to be forgotten

There is always a pot of gold at the end of rainbow. I believe in this. I don't mind to work a little harder so I can live a better life later in the day.

I find it sweet to still having contact with old buddies from hometown school. They are the first batch of people I get to be closed with and introduced me to many new term in never heard before in both hokkien and mandarin. Klang is hokkien spoken place. I met with this uncle selling chee-cheong-fun in morning market few years back. He told me he would not pack my chee-cheong-fun for me if I do not order the food in hokkien. So I vomitted all the air in my empty stomach trying to mumble a full sentence of hokkien using what I remember from the conversation between my mom and dad. The uncle gave me anyway, he was just teasing.



Some sweet faces came visiting two years ago and we had a great time together, also we got to know the boyfriend of a the stripe top girl. I called him "kai men". I miss wearing my small size jeans skirt.

It was a thrilling experience and very very very fun spending salty time with the big group of old friends in Port Dickson. It was my first time playing banana boat where they dark malay kids will turn the boat fast enough to overturn us. The laughed when we all fell in the water and yelling for help. We finished the fishballs, fishcakes, vege, meats, eggs enough for 30 people in steamboat that we brought there and the next morning tuna toast bread.

It was many years ago when I had my vacation in Cameron Highland with my family. Those are the times when my dad will bring us around for holiday around in 150km radius from Klang. I went up there again with a group of fun and lively friend. That was back in 2006. I was happy because I found a group and we clicked. I savour the friendship that grew along.

The adventure never stop. We went to Gua Tempurung cave in Perak, and to Kellie's castle. Those were my first time there too. We got muddy and wet, smiles craving on everybody's face.

After posting the third picture of the same group trips, I realised in all three, they have the same face in the center. Round and chubby. This aunty already went to Singapore now. Remember the times when we buried tm in the sand during Pantai Kerachut trip? and the guys showered together in the cubicle bathrooms.. us too in the next ladies.

Genting Highland is never boring to me because all were different experiences. I went there in three consecutive years since I started my job. It was special and sweet.

I had my Phuket trip in year 2006 and vacation to Krabi in December 2007. The trip produced another few Gigabytes of photos in my hardrive. They are very colourful and sunny. The sea is calm, the water is clear, the people are great. The view is romantic and lovely too.


I have a dear friend that sometimes I dissapointed her because of my lack of attentiveness. I tend to pleasure the rest and abandon her. I realised we have been close for years now. We found our own path and spreaded our wings but we still fly together, to cafetaria for lunch.

Some memories mesmerize me when I tried to recall. I fell into deep thought on what had happened and how it happened. I wish I could turn back time sometimes and stay a little longer in the good times.

Some things ought to be remembered and some to be forgotten.

Life and Decision

Every morning, I see a couple of age around forty-five having their morning walk together. By the time I see them, it is the end of their sweet moment in the park because both are sweating with pink cheeks in their matching t-shirt. The same TAO t-shirt or same colour t-shirt. Everyday. They are so loving, like lemon and tea always taste so good together.

I envy life like this, having the time to go for morning walk, jog in the afternoon after work, and enjoy the breeze in the park. I think I will own all these if I am my manager. Shut down my day dreaming and save it for the night later!

I used to love my job a lot. Kill me for saying this because I know some people hate their job since the first day. I even thrilled to know I can save the free coffee 3-in-1 packet and give it to my mom to feed her addiction everyday just because I will never use it. Coffee is too strong for me. Coke is the substitution so I never regret for not liking coffee .But there is no free Coke in my early days joining this war place. Now we get free cola and coffee in the cafetaria, fair enough. But I think I love it lesser nowadays and I am not allowed to pack a bottle of coffee for my mom just like that. It is considered as stealing the company's asset from today's presentation in business update meeting. I am not sure what will I feel in the next few years. Not liking coke anymore and shift to coffee? Life is hard to predict. Who knows if my future kids are to use the number 04 in their identification card number?

The hardest part of one's life is to make decision. Example the big step for someone in my age is to decide where to settle down, whether to buy a property, whether to lower my requirement to not owning a land of all by myself or to share it with tens or hundreds of people, and to be married and committed to a life-long relationship. Whatever the decision is, it sounds yummy. To no one surprise, things normally would not roll so smooth and forseeing hitches on the way.

The fuel price revising two times a month will not help. Price of everything rose like hulk in incredible hulk, strong and unbeatable. Even if the goverment decided to drop 20 cents in the price of fuel, the flour at the price RM2.80 per kilogramme will not drop 20 cents. The price of fragrant Thai rice doubled up in 3 months of the time I was in The States. Recession is happening but the price of property still shooting up. It is different from ten years ago because there is no one jumping off the building yet. So we know the case is not that severe compared to those times, the absolute case of recession. I am not going to sum up my write-up because I can't summarize what I want to do right now.

My turn to be a kid: Modelling clay

After getting the modelling clay from charity fair in the morning, I decided to play with it later at night. The box said it is for kids 3 years old and above. My initial intention was to give it as a gift to my little niece. But it rang my mind that my niece just turned one this year so I think I will play with the clay to prevent my niece from messing up my sister's house. I played with the modelling clay when I was a kid. As I remember the clay colours always mix with each other and at the end everything looks ugly in the same dark brownish colour.

This one that I got has very, very, very pretty colours. I envy the kids nowadays. WL and me made 15 cute little things from them. Giraffe, elephant, shark, bear, alien, fish, snake, cow, bee, sheep, birthday cake, aeroplane, robot and dinasour. So whatever you see below, those cute ones are made by me. :)

The animals from the jungle with a brown alien from outerspace were celebrating elephant's birtday. The cute little cake, I piped chocolate icing at the side of the cake with yellow and pink cherries on it. Yummy.

Group photos. I love my elephant!

Ba ba white sheep have you any wool.. lalala.. I love this the most.


Pink piggy. The right one is cow.

The fellowship of the ring. The yellow giraffe stood tall among all.

Giraffe and snake are friends though.

Blue blue shark

Family photos

Durian

At my grandma house, my mom was over the moon because she managed to taste the durians from her mom's own durian trees. It was long since we can had the golden opportunity to visit my grandma in time when the durians were picked up. These were the fruits from almost ending durian season so the size was small. They always taste great as I remember. I know the size and texture have nothing to compare with the durians from Balik Pulau but what can you ask for more, own durians which can beat in its' taste.

I remember long time ago when I was in primary school, there was a night when we were still staying at our first house. My dad suddenly told my mom on a night that he wanted to go back to his mom's place for durians. The plan was to stay in the hut in the palm oil farm and wait for the thup sound of the falling of durians. So we packed some stuff with two powerful energized torch light and drove back. My mom and sisters stayed with my grandma while me, another sister and my dad went to the estate. It was really dark at night about 10pm I guess. I was not afraid of anything. I think I was too young to be afraid because I never can anticipate what will happen. A kid can't predict what will happen. Now as I think of it, there might be wild boar or snake wondering around. We sat in the hut quietly only surrounded by trees and the sound of insects and frogs. Everytime there was a thup sound, my dad hurried to the place where the sound came from with a torch light and pick up a durian. We probably stayed untill about 2am and got back home to sleep through the morning.

That was those days. Childhood. My dad.

Bungalow 2

The weekend was a short one but I finished a book in between juggling my time at home to entertain my sisters, clean the house and visit my grandmother. I was addicted to the story so I swallowed everything in two days. I have been reading books by Danielle Steel for years and I still like hers. The way she wrote can really bring the words into life. All the characters in her story are lively defined and I can even imagine them in real, how their physical look is like, their thinking and everything about a person. It dreads me when I can feel the character's emotion, smile, laugh, anger and cry with them. In all her story, there is always love, heartbreak, and a lot of emotions. Same as the one I just got from the bookstore during Friday's lunch break. I read some of her books when my sister used to rent them when she was in college, and when I started working I went to the library and searched for all her books, trying to explore them one by one until none of them left unread. It attracted me right away after I read the synopsis from the back cover the other day and I decided to purchase it.

Tanya is a strong character in the book and had a very blissful life before she stepped into the Hollywood business. She had a son and a pair of twins whom I know each of them really well. I even cried in tears on Saturday when I reached the part where her husband cheated on her with her best friend and they ended up with divorce. Bungalow 2 is another book that hooks me up with the character's life sorrow and happiness. This book somehow gave me a familiar touches because the book mentioned places like spring break in Tahoe, Monterey Bay and Carmel, San Diego parks, San Francisco, Disneyland, LAX and freaked me out when I still remember fortune cookies from the Chinese restaurants. I had the idea of the places because I had been there before but even if I don't, I will still get the point because of how they are being described in the 500+ pages book.

I remember another book of her which I enjoyed reading a lot, Mirror Image about a pair of twins who looks alike. Yes, love and affair and reality.

I like the feeling when I read her books because I can really drift along with the storylines where I will burst into tears, skipping happily like a 3 years old, or grinding teeth in anger. I will get bored with books of hundreds to thousand pages if there are no character like Tanya in Bungalow 2. I never read those long winding stories which can drag to nowhere or makes me puzzle on what they are saying like all the popular books that made into movie.

I think I am going to visit the library sometimes to check if they added new books to their collection.

Dining at the Loft

It has been pretty long since I last dined at the Loft in Gurney Plaza. Few of the reasons are because of the conveniency for me to drop at the newer mall near my place and the recent fuel hike prevent me to go all over places for a meal so frequently. I was a lucky girl to secure a nice seat at the end of the restaurant. So I can actually see the Gurney drive from my seat, you can imagine yourself in a fish aquarium where my front and right are glass window. Some of the food stations seems had shut down their business because I couldn't find my favourite kapitan chicken at the baba's anymore. I settled with the lotus leaf chicken with rice where the white rice was really of low quality. I seriously think they should consider using fragrant siam rice to make the food more appetizing. But nevermind, I had another more annoying moment while eating the chicken. I can sense that the knife the cook used to cut the chicken need to be sharpen as the chicken bones had tiny and sharp ends. One of them actually broken and stucked in between my teeth and it twitched at times when I closed the upper and lower teeth together so I got to moved to the restroom and removed it using my finger nail. Gross. Apart from those, I had a good evening on last weekend considering the night view I see from the higher floor where the restaurant is located, all the lights. You know what I mean.

Wedding dinner at QE II

The place was awesome. The perfect setting, the beautiful chandelier, the sea view (minus the construction equipments and steel piling faraway), the comfortable seats, the romantic lighting, the delicious food and the beautiful bride. Heartiest conglatulation my dear friend, Liang Chyan. We had a wonderful evening because of you.

Bug in my drawer

I caught a bug lying down dead with legs up in my drawer but could not identify its' type. Maybe he died because the lack of air. Stupid bug. I don't understand how you slip into my drawer at all because it is closed all the times. It looked hard and crunchy in very healthy green. I scooped it up with a pamphlet from the bank and threw the little creature into the trash. I am puzzled over the name of this bug because the structure of the wing is like a cockroach and the pair of eyes like it too.

A little more running nose and hopefully I am going to get well by tonight because I have a wedding party to attend. Luckily not much dressing up is needed because the code is smart and casual. The venue is somehow special at the pier and I think I am going to love it.

I need a little vacation

I need a little vacation but I won't be having one until October. I feel like taking a day leave on top of national day holiday next month. I am so stuffed with work. I feel overloaded. I wish I am very free like how everyone think I am. I got these kind of questions every now and then because I am not working on the project that they are working on. But this doesn't mean I don't have anything to do. I am down for two days and too weak to sit at the desk for anytime longer.

The attack of flu. Maybe?

Sometimes I really hate blogspot because their photo uploader always doesn't work. It is very disturbing when I can't put the cute image I want my blog to represent my daily feeling. Okay, you must be thinking I am a freak who loves showing my photo to the whole world. No I am not. I just wish to upload a picture of my mug, where inside contain the muddy chocolate paste I made. My recipe is

1) milo powder as much as you wish
2) as little water as possible to make it chocolatee..

This is the culprit who caused me sorethroat now. At least one of the factor that contribute to the chance I will be on leave tomorrow. Sorethroat most probably is a harbinger of the attack of flu because I began sneezing an hour ago.

I wish I can work from home tomorrow because I want to go to the morning market to restock pork and poultry in the fridge, plus vege. I don't like doing it on Saturday because I like to stay in bed until later. Furthermore from past experience I only take 45 minutes to go and buy and come home.

Genting Highland 2008

I went to Genting Highland twice last year and surprisingly this year again on last weekend. Since it is a project celebration I never hesitate to step my feet on the hilly resort because it is supposed to be a paid trip. I brought a partner, so I had to pay extra. Not fair.

I took the bus just like last year but did not participate in the treasure hunt organized by the celebration committee. It was a very very long journey because the bus driver happened to love to eat, rest, and stop for toilet breaks. He even stopped for toilet break on the way back at a very dirty gas station. There were 4 toilets and all smelled like unwashed toilets for 365 days. The pungent odor was whoa.. stung the nose and made one can't breath for at least 30 seconds after coming out from the small little room.


This is the view from my hotel room and it was the first time I stayed in a room facing the theme park. I used to always get a room with the window facing another room which I think if both of our windows are opened, I can overhear the couple there doing mushy talks, and maybe more.



On the way up to the peak, after passing Gohtong Jaya, I saw the Gohtong memorial. It was not not there during my previous visits.

All the games and rides in the theme park are still the same, the colours of the structures faded and no one seems to want to take any effort to repaint or refurbish the old rides especially the Super Toboggan which made my butt aching for hours after a ride on it.

I aimed for a relaxing trip meaning no waking up at 7am for breakfast and rushing for the rides and coming back to hotel room to clean up and pack luggage in 10 minutes to check out.

So I did not take the additional package on theme park. I strolled all the pathway in the First World complex and took some photos. Then went back to prepare for the buffet dinner in the evening. Surprisingly when I walked in, durian smell was all over the dining place. Don't hotels always prohibit people from bringing in durians as the odor is more to stink for foreigner to take it?

The indoor ferris wheel..

There is a show called Dreamz which starring white lion, and white tiger. I wanted to watch it in the first place, but considering I need to attend the dinner and it will be pretty late when it ended, I dropped the idea.

The next morning after breakfast, we walked around and came back for hotel for packing and shower.
I remember I didn't enjoy the ride on this because it scared me half to death. It made my heart stopped for many times everytime it swings everywhere and my heart came back thumping after I pleaded it to. That is why I don't enjoy rides. I am not sure what could change it.. I want to learn to love rides, I need lessons.

I will miss this place because it is always chilly up there. I like the temperature which won't burn my brain like on land, now, outside.

The same trip like last year

Rolled to the right and left, left and right.

Again and again.

Exchanged positions from head at the bed end to the other end.

Mind swinging and floating.

It is another dawn.

Sandwiches made.

Cellphone alarm rang at 5.45am.

Gonna go soon, same trip like last year.

Two proud things I did on Sunday

Two things that I did last Sunday and I am proud of them.

FIRST:

The weather was hot during long weekend but thanks to it, I was able to dry up my two pair shoes after washing them using my old toothbrush and some detergent powders. Now my pair of flats don't stink anymore and my tennis shoes are shinning like the first day I wore them. I wanted to wash them for very long but I was lazy to do so until last weekend.

SECOND:

When I was walking in Jusco shopping for groceries in the past weekends, I saw this 3 packets of herbal soup with a packet of chrysantemum for making herbal tea. The name sounds strange to me, Song Kee. But after some persuadation by the forty plus years old promoter, I agreed to try on the product. So last weekend I boiled one packet with a whole chicken bones with extra 2 chicken drumsticks. I added about ten red dates in the pot too and let it boil for 5 minutes then simmered for one and half hour, salt to taste and served with white rice. It is one of the best soup because it doesn't taste bitter and unlike the usual dark black herbal soup which scared me whenever my mom cooked them. Now I have additional soup to make other than the usual "bah kut teh", lotus root with dried squid, corns with chicken and carrots, and a few more... :D

My new member of the kitchen family

This is a new member in the kicthen. I can now make porridge using rice cooker! (I tried out this afternoon and it was good). I used it to cook rice for the first time for today's dinner. Now, I am going to be happy for a short time :)

Beautiful dusk

Yesterday about 7.30pm, I witnessed one of the most beautiful dusk I ever seen before. The scenery was in front of my house, coloured the sky with juices squeezed from oranges and mangoes. It also looks like the world is going to end... I guess this is how it looks like when the time comes.

Sad and despair.

Lunch at windy place on hot Saturday

It is usual hot in the afternoon. Lunch at windy, shaded under big trees. It is cheap and cooling despite the hot sun. The place is selling pan mee.

I overheard a conversation between a teenage boy with his mom. This is a translated version.

Mom: What do you want to eat? thin, thick, big, small, soup or dry?

Son: I want the one with "hot plate" (My expression is like this -__-''' when I heard he said "thiek pan")

Mom: (Pretend doesn't hear anything)

Son: i want "yee fook mee" ? (He he. Is he alright? Has he ever eaten there before? He looks like someone who stays in the flat nearby)




Before going back, I bought this "mua chi" from an uncle selling the food on motorbike. I only know about the existing of this "mua chi" few years ago.

Volunteery, Beaching & Hiking

On last Monday my colleagues at work place had this teambuilding at Pantai Kerachut. I remember the last teambuilding was paintball and I did not played. Now this time round I am eager to show my complete strength to hike up the hill and pick up most of the rubbish at the beach. OK. This time, we are going to do some volunteery service on behalf of Intel. We will clean the beach and up the hiking trail when we supposed to hike all the way up the hill and down to the clean beach where "some" turtles will come to give birth at the right season, Pantai Kerachut.

Everybody arrived at the national park at about 9.30 in the morning car-pooling in a cars. We registered ourselves (wrote our name and signed. that's all which took more than half an hour because the number of people are too many) and the committee distributed the lunch pack. Mine was spicy deluxe chicken from McD.



After a little briefing from the organizing committee, we proceeded to our own team and started shouting some weird slogan. Luckily we have the baba Leonard in the team, that's how we got the ole ole a a slogan so quickly.


Group photo as usual without the photographer and everyone started walking picking up rubbish whenever we saw one.



Some people spotted a huge jellyfish and were making fuss about it. Hehe. I walked over and joined, happily managed to get Chor Chen to capture a good picture with the jellyfish. It was so big and transparent, still alive, buried halfly in the sand.



I was so eager to clean up the beach and saw this Milo 3 in 1 packet floating on the water. I slowly moved a step front and stepped my right leg near to the water. It sank! My leg went in and stucked there. I was struggling to pull it out but failed. I was panic for a moment and shouted "hey, I can't get my leg out". Some people came and helped out. So do the photographers who thought this will make a great picture. -_-'''.


My leg actually went in deeper by time. So I got to do something. I released my foot from my beloved sandal and took it out. Voila! My leg was safe. But I need to save my sandal too, so I shove my hand into the hole that my leg made and pulled my sandal with all my mighty strength. I was worried I might break it and felt so excited when I retrieved my sandal out of the sand. Now I have 1 muddy leg, 1 muddy sandal and 2 dirty hands.




I went to a stable hard surface near the water and washed a little accompanied by Leonard and Xiao Wei (very loving couple. hehe). I continued hiking with the rest of the people, most of them already ran up the hill. I really mean ran. I was almost the tail of the team and we walked very slowly stopped every a while to rest. I grasped for breath and was getting hard time to breath also the heavy backpack did not help. I had 1 lunch and 2 bottles of water in my backpack causing my back a little ache.


When some people decided to give up hiking up, I asked Soek Junn if we should follow them. We thought it for 5 seconds and made up our mind to go down because we were more than happy when heard that we could go to the other side of the hill to Pantai Kerachut by boat. But going down the hill took us some time too.

I washed my sandals and legs when I got down at the stream, with Chor Chen the photographer following me hoping to get another great photo when I fell into the water.

After some negotiation by the boss, 8 of us went onto a boat. We were thinking that we will be the first group to reach Pantai Kerachut and can show off by hiding the fact that we actually took the boat. =)


But I was surprised when all of them already at the beach when we reached. Hehe.

They were jealous of us. See their grumpy and unwelcoming face? =P


We all ate our food and rested a while. Then had the usual teambuilding activities ; games. We did kite making and creating a "project" using materials provided to safe keep an egg from broken in a "very" high free fall.

So happy that our kite was the first one to fly up the sky. It was over our expectation. Our kite was different from the rest because we used the colour paper on the wrong side. It turned out to be white instead of the right side which is green.

I did not help much in flying the kite because I have no experience. Haha.

After that, we walked to a nearby place to see some tiny turtles and went home in boats. I was exhausted (from the hike), dehydrated (very hot sun), wet (from the heavy rain while we were going back in boat), and tired (talked too much).