Is it going down the drain again?

My 10kg Challenge is changed to September Challenge due to a specific reason. I mentioned it to LS and she doesnt have much confidence in me reaching this. She said that I have been saying it forever and never see any result.

I guess she is right.

I cant remember the last time I went to Micheal's Steamboat. What have changed there? Well, they dont use margarine anymore. They now use cooking oil for the bbq part. Then.. other than that, I have no idea.

Then... after some time, I went to eat pizza hut at Pizza Hut. Had Deli Wings... So yummy... Actually, I dont mind having the classic flavour again. Been eating these new flavours for too many times.

Then dinner on the same day...Citrus... Ermm... I shall console myself that there is no meat. I had the Mushroom Fiesta Pasta... Halfway through eating my dinner, this thought appeared in my mind. I miss eating meat. Haha... A failure in becoming a vegetarian.

Ermm... After eating so much, I was thinking to have something really beneficial. A boost of vitamin. So... I had a bottle of passion fuit prepared... It was kind of sour so I actually get awaken by its sourness when I was a bit sleepy.

I am feeling a bit bored. Doesnt know what to do. I have things to do but I just cant bring myself to work on those. This is bad. I am getting lazier.

Expecting myself to be more and more busy at work.

I will survive

Very busy. But I feel guilty for not updating my blog. :p

I will survive this, ppl!

Pasta Fiesta

Ah~ Citrus is having a Pasta Fiesta at the moment. I have tried its Thai Tom Yam Seafood Pasta. It has really mild tom yam taste which is just nice.

Office has lost a guy colleague. We are now down to only four guy colleagues (inclusive of YB Boss). Kind of sad, right? This figure will continue to dwindle down as another guy will leave at the end of this month. Gee...

Work has been really hectic recently. Time just breezed through. I am actually dreading the workload. Maybe it is the tiredness. I guess one can only stay enthusiastic about such amount of work for a few years and then he or she will burn out.

The walking at the hill routine went on for four days and then now, a break. Expecting to eat less in this coming week onwards~ I shall call it my September Challenge.

Feeling kind of down-ish at the moment. Pissed off in fact. Resignation...

Bee-sey

Ah! So busy recently. There are so many things that I want to do and there is just not enough time in a day to do it all. Ah~

I have re-lived my old hobby - reading. In fact, for this past two months, I have been investing in purchasing a few books. Usually, I wouldnt even buy. I will just simply borrow them from somewhere. Somehow, this has changed. I have bought three out of four books from the Twilight Saga. And today, I bought this.

Seriously, I have no idea how will I find the time to actually read.

So many things to do, so little time. Time to sleep. Have to wake up early to do something that I hope will become a habit.

Eventful weekend

It is the final non-working Saturday this week. Ah~ It is time to plunge myself into the hell-ish feverish work status - overtiming to the extreme. Anyways... to commemorate this Saturday, I went to Brunei with Laura, Kelvin and ChiIng. We went to have Escapade lunch and did some shopping. I watched this tv program of a girl who is in Japan and she introduced this bowl of rice with slices of sashimi and fish roe. Ever since then, I have been wanting to eat this dish. I forgot the name but I have now satisfied my craving. Yea~!

Coming back from Brunei, we made an impromptu decision to visit the Crocodile Farm. Erm... yea... We did.

Then... we made another decision to eat crabs for dinner and so we began our search for crabs. Too bad, there wasnt any crab available on Saturday... so no crabs.

Today, Laura, Kelvin and I went on to complete our crab-bing plan. Laura and I bought the crabs...and here is the result.Laura killed, cleaned and cooked the crabs. Yummy~ Tomato Crabs

We also had some fried chicken too...Crispy!
Ah~ Going to miss staying at home on Saturday terribly.

And the rest of the trip...

There will be food...and more food. Haha...

19.02.2009

Due to the balance credit that we had from the exchange of Bangkok trip, each of us had Nasi Lemak in our flight back to KL from Penang. It is... just ok..

At first, we wanted to get our luggage home and then come out to shop. But, we decided not to 'cause the travelling time will only tires us and waste our time. Instead, we put our luggage at KL Sentral and headed to Midvalley. Truthfully, we were already tired but we still walked and looked around with a few items that we hope to get from this trip, eg. card shuffler.

For dinner, we had a meal set at Chicken Rice Shop. The braised chicken is different from the one we have in Miri. I feel as if it just merely has a different glaze on it. :p

20.02.2009

For this day, we went to Low Yat, Sungei Wang, Lot 10 and Pavilion. Slowly walking around... Savoring donuts... I tasted both Green Tea Donut from Big Apple Bakery and JCo. and I decided that JCo donut is softer and thus nicer. Hehe...

Once again, we have decided to have Japanese Buffet. We chose to go to Saisaki because two years ago when we went there, we really love the choice there. But this time around, it is somewhat disappointing. Guess there will not be any more Japanese buffet for us.
After the dinner, we walked to KLCC for little window shopping and headed home.

21.02.2009

This day, we had gotten ourselves a rented car. It came a little late so we started our day late. 1 Utama is the first destination - straight away had lunch when we arrived there. Due to the fact that we couldnt go to Thailand, we decided to have some Thai food. And so, we went to a Thai Restaurant called Bar B Q Plaza. It is something like Micheal Steamboat actually. We can cook meat on hot plate and at the same time cook veggie in the chicken stock soup.

Then, we window-shopped around. Kelvin had been wanting to try out Fish Spa and we found a really cheap deal at Jusco Home Centre (I think). RM5 for 10 minutes. The time is not too long and it is cheap. So, all of us did the fish spa. It is ticklish at first but after that, it is alright. After that, we left the place for Ikea. Food... Had the meatballs and chicken wing. More window-shopping. Well, actually I did buy something from Ikea. Something to hold the plastic bags. Been wanting to get one. :D
Initially, we were hoping to cover 1 Utama, Ikea, The Curve and Ikano Power Centre by 3pm and go to Genting. But our timing is totally off and we ended up arriving at Genting at 10pm.
I didnt gamble. Dont have the budget to do so. I cant afford to lose 'cause I still need to survive a few more days for my salary to come in. We left Genting at 1.20am and slept at 430am. We somehow managed to lose our way take the longer route home, which explain why we slept at 430am.

22.03.2009

Part of the plan of getting a rented car is to go to Malacca by ourselves. With a little guide from wiki-travel, Laura, Kelvin and I headed to Malacca some time before noon. Of course, we had breakfast first. Bak Kut Teh. Specifically Yu Kee Bak Kut Teh. They actually added a whole packet of Enoki Mushroom into the pot. I saw it! Yummy~ me heart enoki mushroom~ We finally arrived at Malacca - we were kind of blur of how to go to Malacca that we were really paying attention to every single road sign. Erm... first stop is the local product shop lor... Tan Kim Hock Local Product Store... Then, to that Christ Church and then to Jonker Walk and then... we drove around and then we saw AFamosa and then we go to the shopping mall and then we drove back to KL. Kind of boring right?
But...we did got lost trying to find the exit of Malacca. We drove into a kampung and went out to continue searching for the exit. We also had a frightening time driving back to KL as we encountered a rainstorm at the highway. I have never seen such heavy downpour.

Upon arriving at KL, we decided to go to Pasar Malam and then to eat crabs. Due to the rain, the pasar malam is very damp. Not much stalls also. Sigh... Then, we went to eat Giant Crabs... Erm... Ok lo...The taste is like that lor...

After dinner, we went to 1 Utama for one short hour of window shopping.

23.02.2009

The car company guy was really late to collect the car from us. We had a movie to catch at 2pm...and fortunately, we made it. Fast-paced walking from KLCC to Pavilion. Met up with JWei, by the way. Ah! A drain to my finances...

Anyways, we watched The Punisher and it was...violent. Non stop violence from start till end. Ohmigosh...

After the movie and window-shopping at Pavilion, we headed to Sungei Wang... Waited for Kelvin's handphone to be fixed and then went to have some GuiLingGao. Everyone need to cool down their body heat. Must definitely remember to drink more water. :p

Final dinner is Kim Gary. JWei had the Korean Spicy Ramen while I had the Unagi Seafood Cheese Baked Rice. Both Jwei and I shared the French Toast...
We went home early this day because we were leaving the next day and Laura's cousins has verbally expressed that they wanted to play with us. :p We ended up just talking actually... And Jeffrey found out that I am an easy victim to bully so I had to handle him before his mum brought him to go sleep. Ohmigosh... Luckily, he only found out about this fact this late. Otherwise, how will I survive?!?!

24.02.2009


We, as in Laura, Kelvin and I, decided to leave Sunway Pyramid as our shopping destination on this final day because it is near to the place we are staying, which is Laura's Uncle's place at SS...i forgot. :p

For brunch, we had Wendy's. A fast food restaurant that serves burger that has square meat patties. The burgers are actually very nice.

After some window shopping, we sat down to have waffle. Actually, we were still full at the time but we still decided to eat anyways...That's my Blueberry Waffle.

430pm, went to airport by taxi and... 7pm, flew back to Miri. Back to normal everyday life.

I have calculated my expenditure and... I have roughly spent RM1500 (exclusive of air ticket). A bit over-budget but I can still manage. :D

Now... where shall I go next?

Bits and pieces from Penang Trip

I think I shall be blogging a whole loads from my trip this time... Or I just so happen to have plenty to say now and then nothing else later. Penang and Malacca are places that I have never been before so maybe that's why I have plenty to say.

And so, first thing to talk about is not something from Penang. Hehe... It is my first shopping item of the trip - before I even left Miri - I bought Starbucks keychain. Hehe.... It is a ox year edition pewter keychain which you can get for RM 4.80 if you purchase more than RM18 of Starbucks.

Upon arrival at Penang, we drove past this building that resembles KL Twin Tower.. It even has the aerobridge.

Talking about building, Penang also has the most beautiful KFC building. I am not sure if this building is the one but it sure looks special. We didnt go to eat KFC but we drove past the building a few times and I tried my best to capture the best shot of it each time we drive past.

And since we dont go clubbing, we organised our own co-curiculum activity in the hotel room. Rummy! Erm... had a little bit of supper that we bought from Cold Storage.

By the way, we had two connecting rooms - Aaron and gf shared a room while Laura, Kelvin and I shared a room. We moved the little marble table to be in between of the two single beds and so... we rumm-ied. :p

On the first day of our trip... I have spend nearly half of my budget because i wanted to get a perfume and I saw it on that very night and I bought it. :p

It is Vera Wang's Flower Princess. The word 'Flower' is not written on the bottle... but it is on the packaging. Beautiful bottle, right? The perfume is actually pinkish, not purplish as seen from the picture above.

Apart from that, I have also purchased two books, New Moon and Breaking Dawn. I think I am lucky to have purchased Breaking Dawn because I couldnt find it at all in KL. As for Eclipse, it is totally unavailable. The geng and I basically has combed thru all the bookshops that we saw. Last item is this Chupa-Chups that I saw at the Penang Airport. Giant Chupa-Chups. Hehe... Didnt buy it la... Pointless to buy.

Erm... Shall be continue next time. I still havent arranged the rest of the pics. Ganbatte!!

Penang Trip

18.02.2009
And so, we started our morning with the breakfast buffet that comes with our hotel room. The first morning buffet is really lousy and it improves a bit on the second morning. I actually took pictures of the buffet but decided to just show this.

Both Laura and I took a bowl of porridge each. I prefer to have my porridge quite plain with just seaweed while Laura's is with so many ingredients. Hers certainly looks so much tastier.

We actually all the intention in the world to explore Penang all by ourselves and a print out from wiki-travel but decided to get a day tour package (@RM80 pax). And so, we had a van to take us around a few tourist spots. The must-visit places in Penang. Firstly, the Leaning Thai Buddha Temple. Erm... alright, I remember reading about this temple from a storybook that I have won from a competition I joined in primary school. It does exist. Hehe... And since we cant go to Bangkok, at least we get to visit a Thai temple. :p The Columbarium, which is right behind the Leaning Buddha, is quite creepy. Really, it gives me the creep to walk among the ashes of all of the dead people. No pictures. Dont dare to take pictures of those ash urns.Just opposite of the Thai temple is the Burmese Temple. It has quite a number of ...structures. The sun is pretty strong at that time but the inside of the temple is quite cooling.

As a tourist, the local products shop is another must-go. We went to a white coffee shop, a batik shop (no one attend us since it was lunch time) and a local products shop that sells all sort of products. The white coffee is really nice...the lady let us taste so many different flavours.
Next stop is the Botanical Garden. Seriously, when I think of Botanical Garden, I think of beautiful flowers and loads of colours...cooling winds... and when I see Penang Botanical Garden in the afternoon, it is only VERY GREEN. Guess the weather is not very helpful. Even the tree that is supposed to be the oldest tree is almost completely barren. I wonder why. We left the place in less than half an hour. When we stopped to look at the map of the garden, we realised that the Garden contains nothing of what I have imagined (loads of beautiful flowers) but just... ermm... it has nothing much to talk about. Really. And so, goodbye to Botanical Garden. Hello, Lunch! The driver drove past a small stall and got us to look at the price of the Fried Kuey Tiaw - Wahlau! About RM 8 for a plate. According to him, it is not worth it to spend that amount of money on something that you can actually get elsewhere for cheaper price. Instead we went to the New World Park that offers different arrays of food. It is a huge food court that has really nice facilities. Should be quite new, I guess. I had the Fried Kuey Tiaw and Fried Oyster. After filling our stomachs, it is time to go to Penang Hill and start hiking. Kidding!! We used the tram to go up the hill. The tram took about 15 minutes to get up... or is it half an hour? Not so sure. The view are pretty good from the hill. Not the most magnificent view I have ever seen but it will do. The air is sometimes cooling from the wind... The heat is mostly due to the fact that it is afternoon afterall. Nothing much to do there except enjoying the view and then... down we go.
The next destination and the final destination on our day tour is Kek Lok Si. A temple. A huge temple with several beggars at the entrance pathway. I think all of us are sick of looking at temples for the day. So... just a quick look around and extremely slow walking around and group standing in front of the cooling fan in the temple store - we left the place...
The tour package should ended with a ride back to the hotel but instead, we had the driver dropping us off at the Queensbay Mall since it was still pretty early. Queensbay Mall is quite huge and very new. The stores are also quite nice. The shopping crowd is quite thin so we had a nice time looking around without feeling crowded. The Forever 21 store in Queensbay Mall has an amazingly huge area for its jewellery section. Had a lot of fun looking at the jewellleries... Didnt buy any though.
We had Kim Gary for our dinner. Cheese Baked Rice. A side dish called.... Mushroom something... Totally forgotten the name. :p The Yin Yong drink is yummy... The borsch is really tomato-ish. The rice is tasteless so I had to add some pepper... Ermm... Next post will be to talk little little things on this Penang Trip. Have to select the pictures. 300+ pics to select from. I have improved a bit - I have pictures of myself during the trip. Hehe...

It has been fun

And so, I am back from holidays again. It has been fun and tiring. I heard that there are piles of things for me to do when I go back to office. Ah! I am scared!!

Anyways, I should just proceed on detailing every single aspect of the trip I had. My first time going to Penang and Malacca. Truthfully, I should have been to these places long ago but I missed out on the chance. Nevertheless, now, I can finally say that I have been there.

17.02.2009 The geng departed from Miri on the 10am flight to LCCT. Kueh left the geng for KL City while the rest of us waited to fly to Penang. On the flight, we had 1901 hotdogs. Something we decided to get due to the extra credit we had from the exchange of Bangkok ticket.
Alas, we arrived at Penang, feeling very tired. I kept experiencing popping sounds in my ears. Too much pressure. Possibly due to the fact that I was suffering froma bit of flu.

We stayed at Bayview Hotel - a bit lousy but I heard most hotels, except for those resort hotels, are like this as well.

After a quick refreshing, we headed to Gurney Plaza. It was refreshing there because it is something like the shopping malls in KL but with so much less people and everything is so bright and new.

After a little walk, we walked to the nearby Gurney Walk (?) to find something to eat. Erm... half of the stalls were actually closed while the other half were operating.

The food isn't too bad. I had the Fried Kuey Tiaw and Bubur Chacha. Complaint! My fried kuey tiaw is too expensive. RM3.50 for such a small plate. Consolation - the prawns are quite huge and fresh. Ok lo....

Ah! No more time. Will continue later.

I think I am too

I think I am getting sick too... With so many people getting sick around me, it has been a wonder that I survive till now.

Last night, my throat was a bit dry-ish and then this morning, I had sore throat... Now, still dry throat. I am sure that it will become sore throat again. Must get some medication to drink.

Just saw the commercial on television that the movie adapted from a book by Dan Brown, Angels and Demons, will be out soon. I believe Lynnwei has mentioned to me before about this book. Hmm... I want to read it.

Two more days of work... and then off to West Malaysia. Yes!

BBQ

I just managed to take two pics because my hands are so oily after that... Had BBQ and then gambling session. Normal stuff.

Cant believe that Chinese New Year is almost to the end again. Now we will have to wait for another year before we can have twister fries and Prosperity Burger....

Coming along

The plan is coming along...slowly becoming more solid.

We have some part of the details confirmed already... Yea, we will be flying to Penang. :p

That's the plan for February travelling plan. Bangkok no more. Now it is West Malaysia trip. Anything la...

Something I thought I should blog about is... the fact that I didn't realise that I have been writing the '&' wrong the whole time. I have also written it flipped around and I didnt know until CMF pointed out to me. Erkk... I really didn't realise it. Gosh! The countless 'flipped &' that I have written over the years. Oh gosh.... And so, I am changing my way of writing '&' and still trying to get used to it.

Last night, I fell asleep with the lights on, glasses on, laptop shut down due to lack of battery power... Hehe... I can't stop reading manga. And guess what? I found another online manga archives to get more manga to read. :p

Then, I really have my heart set on getting Vera Wang's Princess EDT... Hmmm.. I want. 'Cause my CK Eternity Summer Limited Edition, which I bought on Dec 2006, is almost finished. Actually, I think it will probably last me for a few more sprays. Aaaaa.... Nooooo~~~!!

Back in the office

Time really flies. It is the 3rd day at work now. I have been... busy.

Then again, Chinese New Year is not Chinese New Year if there is no lion dance. The first day of work - we had only one lion dance. Erm... This is the flat-faced lion.
Erm... Then, the second day of work... I was out for the whole morning and got to see only one lion dance. The red one btw. So pretty~~
I have been a hardworking person every night but I have decided to take the night off tonight. Simply because... I want to. Hehe...

Erm.. Been reading loads of manga... actually one long manga and then now, also watching a few dramas too... But the internet connection is a bit ...just a bit... sucky.

Ah! I actually have loads of things to write but I am hungry again. Darn...