Road trip

Most people doesnt know this but I am not a road trip person. I dont really like to travel long distance by car.... Because I get car dizzy. Maybe if I am the driver, then it would be different. But I went to Sibu and Sarikei with my parents and a friend of my Mum. That's our car... very muddy because it was raining and the road was muddy. This pic was taken at Sarikei.

Anyways... I went to Sibu on the weekend... to attend this seminar. It is something about being happy, love each other, filial to parents etc... The speaker is very funny and there are quite a few funny and memorable scenes. The thing that I dislike about this seminar is the time management and the repetition of certain things. Time management... too much time were wasted on unnecessary things. Repetition of certain things... there are things that kept getting mentioned when it is not necessary.

Anyways...we stayed in RH Hotel where the seminar is held. Not bad. We even got discount off our room because we joined the seminar. After the seminar, we headed to Sarikei. Initially, we didnt plan to go to Sarikei and should be heading straight back to Miri after the seminar. So... we went to visit our relatives in Sarikei... and our dinner was...

Frogs cooked with ginger and rice wine, Steamed Fish, Deer Meat with onion and ginger and steamboat (which we didnt eat and gave to a relative because we were too full). The frogs was generously provided by my Uncle. Yummy...

The next morning, we started our shopping spree. Well, more like my Mum's friend on her shopping spree. We stopped for quite some time at this stall that sells dried prawns, salted fish and etc.

I didnt buy much stuff because... I have no idea what to buy. Ah! As I was waiting for my Mum and her friend to finish their shopping, I spotted this little thing wander around. I was attempting to take a 'Big Head Dog' shot of the puppy...

However, my favourite food is the Kong Pia ( I think this is how it is spelled). Dad actually didnt want to bring me over to buy the hot from the oven Kong Pia as him and Mum have gone there earlier in the morning. But before we left Sarikei, we made a quick stop and I get to buy the fresh from oven Kong Pia... Yummy... Ah! that's the oven they used to bake the Kong Pia... Using charcoal...Finally, everything was rearranged at my cousin's house and we ended up with this.

That is just the rear compartment. I have my luggage and a plastic bag full of Pak Chen Soup materials at the seat area. So... we were quite full... Dad said that we can still buy somemore... :p

We finally arrived in Miri at around 6pm... I finally have the chance to bring both Mum and Dad to Siamese Secrets but it was my Mum's friend who treated us the dinner...Haha...

Hmmm.... finally completed this post... So I can really concentrate on my studying now... Tomorrow is CPA exam... Wish me luck!

p/s: My best purchase item from this trip is a watch. I will blog about this in WGTGFashion after exam. Watch out for it.

Nearing the end

I will be off from work on Saturday. It feels so good. Because I am currently rushing to clear whatever I can and then (finally) concentrate on my studies. So far, I need to sit down and properly think over the case study. I have a few ideas already but it is still very very scratchy.

Erm... But just before I start my hard core studying, I will be travelling to Sibu with my parents. I havent been to Sibu for ages. In fact, I cant really imagine how does Sibu looks like. Going to go there for the weekend... to attend this workshop seminar thingy... Going to snap some photos there. Definitely...

April due date for tax return is just around the corner. 7 more days. My exam too... Ok, I am going to go study now.

Ah! Want to show some pics but I left the cable in my room upstairs so... no photos. Sorry.

Your Order Has Been Shipped

I gleefully announced that I am expecting the arrival of my latest purchase of singles... Should be some time in mid May. One of the singles has the song Beautiful You. Currently I am very in love with this song. Planning to make it my ringtone when I get hold of the mp3 file.

Erm... Feeling kind of hungry now. Eating too much today. Read from somewhere before that although it is not good to eat too little, eating too much at once is also bad for the body. Not only that, one will feel even more hungry after consuming a huge meal. I cant remember the reason but my logic is that because the stomach has worked so hard to digest all the food so when all the food is gone, the effect of not having any food amplified... Shouldnt have eaten so much. Regrets...

Seems like there is some difficulties with loading photos tonight... No photos then.

Just went to this talk by this Chinese doctor, Dr Lee. Funny guy.

Need to cramp in some more studying... Internet connection has been quite sucky these days... Any idea why?

Familiar

This post is going to emit a very familiar feeling. What do I mean? How will I achieve the sense of familiarity?

Food, people. Fooooddd.... I always blog about food so... familiar, right? Prepare to feel hungry... Hahaha....

Let's start with breakfast. Waffle.

San Francisco's waffle. Soft fluffy waffle. Eat it with butter, honey and strawberry jam... Yummy... Alright, Ling Di and I didnt eat that for breakfast. We ate it for afternoon tea... But this will really make a great breakfast meal. Err.. the empty plate at the side was something which i cant seems to remember now...We finished it before I remember to take a pic of it...

Otherwise, how about noodles? Went to this restaurant at Yakin Commercial Centre and tried their noodle. Erm... I think I ordered SzeChuan Noodle. Not bad. It tasted something like Chow Zhu Mien with a little spicyness in it.

Planning to try their Shabu Shabu some time in the future. This shop actually has branch in Sibu as well. I think they branched out to Miri...

Ok, what you are about to see is my pathetic attempt at making sushi. I dont have the skill. And I should return the rolling mat to Lynns already. Erm... I rolled in egg, cucumber and mayo salmon into the sushi of rice. It was... ok. I just need to (really) improve my rolling skill. It was too loose according to my dad. I... ate the ugly ones till I was too full and so the rest of the (beautiful) sushi was given to Lynns. Need to research on the nice ingredients for sushi and try again. And...to improve on my rolling skill. Haha....

Ah... The next pic reminds me of how unlucky I was on Saturday. I was going to have dinner with Jeng and Elsie but... we went to two places before finally settling down at the third place to eat. First place was too full. Second place, the place we were sitting was open air and it was about to rain. But the shabu shabu dinner was so filling... We had a great time eating while cooking our food. After all the food, we should really just have a drink. Relax... drink a cup of coffee. Reflecting on what has happen the whole day... Snap out of it la...LS and I was on a weird coffee addiction... Both of us wanted to drink coffee and we cant decide so we bought three different coffee and shared all three. The Pokka coffees were a bit too sweet...while the Nescafe is just right. It was a little bitter but very nice.

Yawn... Feeling very tired these days... This week, I have been falling asleep without switching off the lights and then woke up at 2am to switch the light off and then back to sleep. Bad for my sleep 'cause I ended up feeling even more tired the next day. Need to sleep nonstop for the whole night.

Ridiculous

Remember that I wrote about buying Tohoshinki's singles and album?

I saw two of the singles I bought at the music store on Monday night when I was wondering around in Bintang Plaza. Guess what? The singles are sold at RM49.90 each. Which is ridiculous. Imagine if I buy all the singles that I have bought there, it will cost me about RM 250. And I spent about RM 180 to get mine. Whoa... A saving of RM 70. How can they sell the singles at sucha ridiculously high price? It is a price of an album. Single is supposed to be cheap, so much cheaper.

Jangan-jangan because of the word 'Imported'?

Ah! Why was I wandering aimlessly in Parkson on Monday night? I was waiting for the time to pass and to watch Ah Long Pte Ltd...

Very funny movie. I laughed like no one's business watching the movie. Been a while since I went to the cineplex to watch movie. Kind of nostalgic all of a sudden. :p

p/s: I was with Ling Di and her friends. Just that I didnt want to join the kids when they were also wandering about.

Bleach

Oh yea... BLEACH!

This word reminds me of the serial killer who made miniature model of the murder scenes in CSI. They speculated that the thing that triggered her killer instinct is the smell of the bleach.

But the Bleach I am referring to is not that bleach... It is the Japanese anime/manga, Bleach.

I am a bit confused of the meaning of anime at the moment.

I am currently very into Bleach... I have actually watched the latest available episode with english sub of Bleach... Episode 166.

Why all of a sudden?

The Veoh program that I used suddenly started to download all sorts of video files and one of the videos is Bleach. So I deleted the rest and went on to download the other three Bleach videos that this user has... which is episode 163 to 165... and then I watched it... And fell for all the fight scenes... Erm.. I also wanted to know if the bad guy lose to the good guy.

It was... disappointing to find out that episode 166 is the latest episode so I turned to reading the manga instead... The storyline is very interesting... I kept reading on and on... and finished reading it last night. Right now, I have to wait for the latest issue to be out again...

Ah! I also found the manga that I used to get from Lynnwei and then no more because it was a long wait for the english-translated version. Love Monster. Going to read it once I finished my exam. This is a very addictive hobby...

Just for....

I just want to put this as my desktop picture in the office pc and I am too lazy to take out my thumb drive to save it... So I decided to put it here and then set it as desktop background at office pc...

Wanted so much to go and watch movie tonight... but... oh well... trying to get some studying done... Not much progress if you want to know.

Scared

Those who knows my living condition will understand this.

My mum just told me about the latest robbery tactic... that is to get a kid to cry outside the house and then ask the people in the house to open the door and come out to help the kid and the robbers will appear when the door is opened.

If... erm... let's not think about it...

I am so scared now. I want to go hide in my room now. Why she has to tell me this?!? At this time of the night somemore.... Shit la!

Coming from the other side

This morning, I woke up half an hour earlier than my usual time...

I dont know whether to be resentful towards my dad for calling me two minutes earlier than the time my alarm clock would rung or to be thankful to him for remembering that I need to wake up early. Just kidding. I was actually half awake when he called this morning...and I was wondering why my alarm clock sounds so much like my ringtone for incoming call.

Anyways... the reason for my early get up is because I am supposed to send Lingdi to her driving test location. Omedeto* to Lingdi for passing her driving test!

As I was leaving Senadin, I was kind of worried of the traffic jam that I have heard from others... scared that I might get stuck in it... Wasnt too bad la. I did make it to the office in time.

Kind of thankful that I am living on this side of the town city. Because I can arrive at the office way faster than if I am living at the other side of the town city. No offence to the people from the other side of the town city.

At this moment, having a hint of sore throat... Been feeling it the whole day. Then just now feeling nauseous and burping a lot. No idea why.

Got to be studying now. Exam is so near already!!!

* I hope I spelled it right. Omedeto = Congratulations... I hope I am correct... Cross fingers...

10k...

Erm... I am sure about 1% of the count should be caused by myself... Erm..maybe 3% la...

Just realised that my blog has actually crossed its 10k visitor count.

After 3 years of blogging...and my visitor counter was up about two years ago, i guess...Hehe...

For the most updated count, please scroll all the way to the bottom.

A little explanation about this thing that I think people might not understand...

Erm... Simply said it... There are actually six separate pics in the picture above... Confusing huh? For each single, there is one pic so there are five pics... then each of the members is positioned in front of other members in each single , right? If you erase out the members at the back, you will get five of them posing for the pic, the 6th pic...

Hehe... I feel like I am confusing people...

Actually...at this moment, I am feeling a bit tired... warm (no ventilation in this room)... and bored...

Should be studying now... Exam is on the 1st May... Die!

T & TRICK

How should I start this post? I mentioned before that I have something that I need to blog about but I am still waiting for a digicam to take it...and actually I wanted to wait for something to arrive first so that I can make it in one go. Confusing? Guess so...

The real reason is actually because I dont really have a lot of time to blog these days. But surprisingly I still have more posts than in previous year despite of being so busy.

First... this is the thing that I wanted to take pic of but didnt take till tonight. The 'T' album by Tohoshinki. Released on 23rd January 2008. I actually wanted to buy it online but I decided not to. Refrained myself from doing so. But that night, when I was window shopping, I saw it in a music store and can't control myself. Thus, the shopping impulse and I bought it. Hehe... Cost me RM 47.00.

I haven't tried the DVD yet. Erm... Let me try it now. Haha... Ok, it works. Oh! Did I mentioned that this 'T' album is a CD and DVD album. The DVD contains some of the recent music videos and offshot videos. I have seen all the videos thru my vicious downloading... :p

Ah... Remember the Goong madness time last year? Then, remember the time I bought Goong original DVD? It is still one of my most treasured items. It was purchased online and history has repeated itself. Hehe... I ordered five singles... the T.R.I.C.K. singles. After patiently waiting for each single to be released (i pre-order the singles before they even got released)... received the email that the singles are ready for shipment...received the email that the singles have been shipped... Then, nothing for two weeks. Erm... I am guessing that the two consecutive public holidays have probably caused the delay. Today... my dearest all, I finally received the red notification card from Pos Malaysia to collect a small package!!!

I was so excited that I took a half and hour leave from work to get it from Pusat Mel Miri... Hehe... Since I have to concentrate at work, the box was placed on my table.. facing me... the whole day... then when I arrive home and do everything else... It is time to officially open every single singles that I have purchased. As you can see from below, the singles are protected with bubbles wrapper. Guaranteed will not crack... Hehe... Was kind of worried that the singles might be harmed during its shipment here.

Hehe... I cant stop smiling... So happy... Actually, I did ask myself whether I need to get these singles and CD... There is no good reason to get them but the fact that I really like this group so much that I want to get their singles and album... It will be so great if I can see them singing live. :p Btw, they are currently on the third Japan Live Tour now... I heard all the tickets are sold out. Aiks...

Anyways, here are the singles... The T.R.I.C.K. singles... Two Hearts, Runaway, If...?, Close to You, Keyword. See it? Get it?

Ah... the five singles... Erm... the logo-like character on all of the five cds is actually representing the word 'TRICK'. Erm... Hard to explain it... It is something like you can spell the word TRICK based on the lines...Aiks... Hard... Hard... Dont know how to say it...One of the reasons why I have just got to get all five of the singles is because of the fact that they can put together into one picture... As shown above. Pardon my foot and the mess around the picture...I guess the picture isnt very clear... It is too long to take... Let me show you all a clearer picture...I do hope that the pic have the link to open to its original size... That way can see better what I mean...

By the way, from all the five singles, there are two pictures that I love the most... They are:-

I think the five black cups with white number printed on it are so cute!! I want one!

The glass chess set.... I have no idea why I love it...

Finally, there is just one thing that I am not happy about... That is... each single come with a sticker picture of each member and Yoochun's single doesn't have one! It is possible that they have missed putting it in... Darn!

Phew... Almost done with this post... Finally, how much did I spent on these singles? I spent USD 57.45. Errr... Too lazy to convert to RM now... So, that is all for this post...

Bah... Btw, who are they? They are Tohoshinki. Hehe...and I just spent another USD25.48 to purchase another two singles.

Sweets...

I promised Joanna that I will blog about this...

Not sure of what I can say about this...

Erm... The roll of Halls and one Clorets (at the end of the row) were bought by Kelvin and to be kept by Joanna, the sweets keeper.

Please do refer to Joanna for sweets to clear your throat.

Payment for her service... Please buy your own stock of sweets to be kept by Joanna if you constantly take sweets from Joanna.

Hey! It is not cheap to maintain a sweets store, k....