Niah Trip

The night before,

Went to SUPP Dinner. The food was ok. I didnt stay till the end of the dinner because I had to go and fetch the girls from tuition.

During the dinner, they showed a preview of acrobat performance by a group from China...forgot which province. They are amzing. To see the performance live is breath-taking.

Saturday,

Went breakfast at Peach Garden. After some waiting, we decided to start our journey. I rode in Laura's car. Tried to sleep in the car but in vain (haha...Like writing essay le).We arrived at Niah National around 11 sumthing am. After Chan, ChiIng and Kelvin arrived, we went to the canteen for lunch. After lunch, all of us except for Kelvin (who was sleeping) left for the cave. The 9-km hike..all the way to the Painting Cave and back...
I slipped at Painting Cave and have bat shits all over the back of my pants (damn!).
After everyone showered, we went to Batu Niah to have our dinner.
The waitress was really fierce and we didnt really dare to ask for too much.
My headache started at around that time and going on and off for quite some time.
When we were back at the chalet, we held a financial meeting. Need to count how much do we need to pay. Basically, i spent RM40 for this trip.
After the meeting, we had the cake ceremony for the birthday boy, Kelvin. Since I was standing next to him, I got the honour fo smashing the cake to his face. I didnt do a good job so not much damage was done. Instead, Chan got the worse smashing when Kelvin smashed the second cake other face.
As night went on, the heat seems to linger and my headache began to kill my mood. We had a little card playing and after a few game, I decided to sleep. Sleep came really slow and I ended getting up to play somemore later of the night. By then, the heat has dissipated and the whole place become more bearable to me.

Sunday,

My shoulders and legs hurt. Shoulders because the floor is very hard. I guess I am used to soft bed. Legs due to the amount of walking I did yesterday. After much delay, we went to eat breakfast at the canteen. At 11, we left Niah National Park.
Then, we made our stop at Bekenu Beach. After loitering for a while, we continue our journey back to Miri. A bit of raining on the way...
After Laura dropped Josephine and I at my place, I sent Josephine to Parkson to have lunch before sending her home. Arriving home, I slept for an hour in my comfy night gown and air cond room. Then I got ready to go to Chung Hua School Concert.

Chung Hua School Concert is...very good. After twelve years of experince, they should be doing great. It is definitely better than Riam Secondary School. They know how to keep the audience entertained. Not too long performance. Just right.

Another highlight of the night is that I get to see what is happening backstage. Simply because my aunt dont want to let my grandma walk the stairs down so we get to use the backstage elevator. Haha...

I admire the courage and spirit the students have. They are so willing to perform on the stage. Not shy le. I wish StCo have such spirited students but maybe what they really do need are spirited teachers.

My body is so tired...

Monday...Today,

Went to work anyway. Despise staircase and sloping walkway now. Haha...

Bought air ticket for yuanz and me today. To Kuching to accompany my grandma.

My eyelids were really very heavy during afternoon time. Dizzy somemore. I felt really really tired after work.

Seriously considering if I should take a leave tomorrow to sleep the whole day.

Today

I woke up at 530 am this morning. Something that I havent done for a long time since I stopped teaching.

After breakfast with Lynthia and dropping her off at the tennis court, I went to Grand Palace Hotel to start working as receiptionist for the seminar my company is organising.

I was the one issuing the receipts..Haha...due to my experience with receipts.. :P

There are two sessions of the seminar. one in english and one in chinese. It is about Goods and Services Tax (GST). The speaker, Robin Chia, is from Singapore.

I thought I will be listening to both of the sessions since I will be there the whole day. But as it turns out, I sat outside fo the seminar area to take care of the reception table (guarding the money & cheques in the morning and guarding the whole table for the afternoon). I didnt even enter the seminar room to hear the seminar...

Recalling back the time...I spent 11 hours there....An extra 2 ½ hours after deducting my normal working hours and one hour lunch break...

But i felt well-compensated because I went to lunch at Han Palace with Carol and ChiIng..We had dimsum..haha...The rest of them (the other colleagues) had their lunch with the boss. Some of them think that we are really lucky to be able to have dimsum for lunch... The boss treated us all lunch...Oh! I had my lunch earlier with Carol and ChiIng cause we had to take care fo the reception table while the others have their lunch...

The tea breaks during the seminar arent too bad. i like the chicken boxing the most...haha

I guess I could have left earlier but I stayed to see if I could be any help at all...

Again, this weekend I will be away at Niah with my colleagues..Really looking forward to the trip...

Opps..I forgot to tell my mum about this trip..I wonder if she is against me going or not...Oh well..It doesnt matter. :p

Just some photos

Went to Taman Selera with Lynna, Lynthia and Grandma about two weeks ago. Took some photos

The ABC is totally nice. I never thought that the ABC can be that tasty...Yummy!

Aiyaks...! Accidentally becoming the frame for Lynthia's face

Then, the other day, the whole lots of us went to check out the progress at Lynn's new house. After looking around, more photos were taken...


Nanotay, I think this is the photo you want, right?

Happy Valentine's Day

Lynnx once told me that Valentine's Day is very commercialised...or was it Christmas Day?

Oh well! It is the same anyway.

Every year, I spent my Valentine's Day without my Valentine. It doesnt matter to me whether I have a Valentine or not and it still doesnt matter now.

Today, I got some chocolates and a card from Lynthia (thanks) for Valentine's Day...

Grandma got one rose and guess what...jinnwei got one as well...




The red one belongs to JinnWei and the pink one is grandma's.

My mind is reeling to think whether I have ever received any flower from anyone. Erm..from my parent's friend who didnt want the rose...Oh! from the nice gardener who was trimming the rose bushes at the Rose Garden.

Anyway...just want to wish everyone Happy Valentine's Day!

p/s: Nanotay, I will post the pic you want soon...

Flickr Badge

I saw this flickr badge for a long time at ppl's blogs...Never thought of making one before.

Then, suddenly, I wanted to get one and so I made one.

Just some photos...No more than that...Erm...Just see from the badge la...Dont have to see from my flickr photo album.

Cute hor?

One Thousand Bloggers

Joined this community before Chinese New Year...erm..for what reason? How do I even stumble upon this place...

Trying to recall back...

I was reading someone's blog and then clicked on the link to go to someone else's blog and she happens to be the No.1 in the community. After reading thru the FAQs, I decided that I will join in just for the fun of it. I think I was among the first 50 to join.

Didnt think much about it. Then, I realised (from looking at someone else's blog that I clicked from onethousandbloggers) that it is such a big honour (I guess) so I decided to blog about it.

I chose spot no.20 'cause I am born on the 20th.

The offer to get a free spot is still available...So, sign up le...
Oh! Surprised to see lynnx is already there at spot no.186...when did you sign up, lynnx? Spot 186 is refering to ur birthdate, course...haha...too bad they dotn have 2011...haha...

Online Banking

Never tried online banking before.

The other day when I went to withdraw some cash from the atm machine, I idly registered for a temporary password. The, I went on to forget all about it for a few days...

Now, I remember about it again.

Shit...I dont have much money in my account le...Want to deposit more money also hard le. RHB Bank dont have Cash Deposit Machine to allow me to deposit money easily.

Made a payment to Astro due to the fear of losing the pleasure of watching Astro. Dad has been pretty forgetful about making payments to Astro that sometimes I didnt get to watch what I want to just because the service is disconnected...

Aiyaks...
Less money in the account...

Chinese New Year...Gambling!

Mahjong

I have been playing mahjong with mum and grandma this Chinese New Year. Bait grandma to play mahjong for years. I think the movie featuring Andy Lau as a Mahjong God made grandma itch to play mahjong (Haha!). I didnt lose money playing mahjong, fortunately.

Poker

Yuanz got grandma and I to play poker with him and he won. I lose terribly. Fortunately, we didnt play too much le...

'21'

I brought Laura, Josephine and ChiIng home to play '21' with grandma and mum. Haha! Laura and I ended up becoming the winners. Muahaha!

Received my stuff for my CPA program. Have to find the time to read and understand it. Not very sure if I can do well in this exam. But, I just have to do well. Mum will kill em if I dont do well.

Jinnwei and lynnx are back to West Malaysia to study and I am back to work today.

Really dont feel like working le. Sort of getting used to staying home doing nothing.

Ultimate Green Tea Challenge

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Ultimate Jasmine Green Tea Challenge! Our purpose is to decide the best ready-made jasmine green tea available in the market.
The competitors are:-
Sundrop Green Tea, Yeo's Green Tea, Pokka Green Tea and Heaven and Earth Green Tea.

The judges are:-

Lynthia, Lynnx, Lynna, Yuanz (not in the pic) and me (not in the pic as well)

The tasting process begins...

As you can see in the pic, yuanz and I are still not in the pic..Cause yuanz is distributing the cards and I am the photographer as well.

The result by majority votes is Heaven and Earth Green Tea.

- Sundrop's has a weird lingering after-taste...
- Pokka and Yeo's are the common brand we can find in Malaysia's market. Lynthia and Lynnx voted for these two brands (If I remember correctly)
- Yuanz and I voted for H & E...

Btw, Mum liked Sundrop which Lynthia and I protested to have a weird after-taste...

Hehe...Whatever it is, dont drink Sundrop's green tea...hehe

Chinese New Year

A bit lagging le...

My previous post is about CNY eve but I ended talking about the day before CNY eve...

Now I really wanna talk about CNY eve.

Firstly, the CNY deco was already up and looking good...

Mum's touch of deco

Err...looks like too grand liaw...

We even have a new fridge to put all the food ready for CNY. The fridge used to be to put ice cream..Nestle ice cream perhaps...hehe...

Dinner time...Once again, the table is full of food...

Hehe...each of us took turn to take pic of the food to post in our blogs...

A little scenario with Abelle....

The two piggies

Me and yuanz terrorizing Abelle

Oh! We have been getting electricity black outs a few times...Not very sure why...Only my house...Weird...

After the makan-makan, the girls and the dogs went to the stairs place to take pics and to walk off the fullness of our stomachs...we left when yuanz came to ask me and lynnx to go out and buy lanterns...Our lanterns have gone from bright red to pinkish colour...Too old liaw...

After buying the lanterns at Boulevard, we went to find Diet Coke Lemon for grandma but cant find any. Instead we bought three different type of green tea.
When we stopped at Petronas station, we bought a few can of Diet Pepsi with lemons and witness some dangerously near to the petrol station fireworks...yikes!

The reason for the green tea is to have the Ultimate Green Tea Challenge.

New year eve's morning..

I think this post will make "Mother" telling me to help out instead of blogging...Haha

Last night, i was supposedly going out with lynnx but I got my colleagues to go out with but I didnt go with them and ended up going out with lynnx and lynthia...confusing huh?

Bought a few stuff...Two nail polishs from Loreal and one spaghetti strap top from Nicole...

The nail polish... One is Loreal's Resist & Shine colour 503 for my mum. Slightly dark redish pink colour. More suitable for adults. The other one is Loreal La Collection Hologram colour 102. I will call it Shimmering Pink..erm...too typical...I know! It will be Holographic Baby Pink! Muahaha...

The top...it is also in pink. I have been on look out for cheap spaghetti strap top so that i can wear it at home. This is on sale and very cheap....Hehe!

Pick up jinnwei at the airport. Get to use his laptop to online. Enjoy the true speed of my broadband...The old pc is not good enough to enjoy the 1 mb connection...Sigh...

i feel tired...I dont know why...I just feel tired...

Editted on 2nd Feb...changed the '1 gig' to '1 mb'...so paise....lol...

Work work Work

Feel very free these days....

Should be calling clients to ask them to bring their stuff in but I just felt too lazy to do so..In my opinion, it is better to leave it till after CNY but then, I will be too free....

Been helping others to do their stuff....But...it also means that I am giving up my own seat and that means I will have to stand...

Last week, I stood for the whole day and my foot hurt like hell. Had to wear flat slippers for the next two days to let the pain heal....Ok, it wasnt that bad la...

Home:
Trying to make some more progress in my spring cleaning project.

Self:
Bought some new stuff to wear for CNY. Will buy some more when I get my pay... :p

Headache

The headache I am saying here is not the 'headache' over some things that I cant solve or do.

This is the true headache...

Not the sharp throbbing pain in the head but just a dull pain.

I have been having it for the past two days...Total three days... I tried to take nap yesterday but my eyes will not shut. Today, I got a few eye-shut and I ended feeling disorientated and more tired.

No, I didnt take any painkiller. 'Cause I still suffer a bit of phobia of painkiller. There was once I ate the painkiller nad I still have the headache.

What is wrong with me?!

I dont know what to blog about

I guess I can give an update on the spring cleaning I have done. Firstly, i have tidied up the living room...specifically referring to the tv shelf area....I have also cleared up some space in my wardrobe. Have selected two bagful of clothes to be given away. Other than that, I havent done much...

See how neat it is?

I am starting on a project of creating a DIY skirt which I have been day-dream about for years. Havent been willing to part with my old jeans...Around nine years old jeans...brown jeans...Sob...sob...Hopefully it will turn out ok... :P

Tried on my new mascara the other day...Took a pic of it but I didnt think it was much different than my original length...I shall continue to experiment with it...

Really not much difference le

Out to window shopping with Adeline again today. I bought a Venetian ice cream from Wall's...I think that is how it is spelled...I forgot to take it out from my car and only put it into the freezer an hour after I arrived home :P...Anyway, I had lunch at Dave's Deli and I regret ordering so much food...Too full...

Not only I felt too full, I was treated with a blast of CNY songs supposedly sang live by some kids...There was this group from KL that sing CNY songs with some other kids...I get goosebumps while I listened to them...Nearly get indigestion also le.... Cannot stand listen to the singing...Which reminds me how much I hate the CNY version of popular songs...

I decided to cook a real meal for myself. The first meal after jinnwei left for Taylors.

Just white rice?!

No la..Got veggie and chix at the bottom

Save water and soup. Use one bowl. Mix everything together to make a meal for one...Err...A bit disgusting-looking though

Oh! I also experiment with the glass deco paint I bought quite some time ago. Just grab a small jar from the kitchen drawer and doodle a bit...

Finally found it

My morning starts with a nice breakfast at Cafe 2020 with grandma and the nings (me as yinning, then they are huining, tzening, and sheyning)...

My fingers... :P Looks retarded le...

I actually intended to tidy up yuanz room and my room but I sat in front of the pc and begin to post comments. Then, I begin to write one blog post that I decided much much later that I am not going to publish due to its sensitive contents.

After lunch at Nings' house, I went home and found myself tidying up koko's room (tables, to be more specific). The whole process took me nearly one hour and I have two bagful of rubbish.

In the midst of my tidying up, I finally found my photo cd. The cd that contains the pics I took at New Zealand which I have been looking for ages. As I looked through the photos again, I realised that I didnt look too bad in most of the pics. I used to think that I look terrible. Probably because I wasnt that fat at that time. :P

The foot that have travelled. Looks so blemish-free

The trip to New Zealand was an eye-opener to me. I truly enjoyed my experience there and I will go back someday in the future. South Island is the place I want to explore.

Tepapa Museum

Petone

Space Observatory Shop? Me with a spiky lightbulb...

Which brings me to this:-

Yesterday, I chatted with yuanz and got him to help me to purchase airticket to JB so that I can follow him for shopping holidays at Singapore.

I am looking forward to this trip. Now that the ticket is confirmed...It is the time for some serious money-saving so that I will have enough money to spend. :P

Alone again

The pc went into workshop again and I got it back today...which is like one week without pc. Not that bad actually. 'cause I had jinnwei's laptop to do some surfing and checking and updating till Wednesday. Then it was two or three days of no pc. The pc is supposed to be slower than before but due to my insensitivity, I didnt really notice anything. Maybe I can cancel new pc out of my things-to-buy list.

I have been sleeping on the floor with a mattress la for two nights. A bit worried that my mum will disapprove of me sleeping on the floor due to the coldness.

Btw, I decided to get my dad a new handphone. Haha...don't I sound like a filial daughter? Seriously wanting to get a new handphone for my dad although I think I need a new one more than him :p

Went to play badminton today. I am such a lousy player. I dont have the sports streak in me 'cause I dont excel in any sports at all. Note to self that I need to slim down. Same old problem.

I felt bad sitting at the badminton court, not playing 'cause I actually hurt my right feet when I stepped too hard on the badminton court during the time I played. Shit! I dont understand why I get hurt so easily. I am so sport-deficient. The feet felt fine after a nearly one hour long rest. The badminton court seems like it is like sauna. So stuffy.

After that, went to Morsjaya to have lunch with Karen and Mr Wee. Harry joined us and we talked for two hours. Time really flies.

I have always wanted to work upstairs and have even planned to ask for a transfer after two years working downstairs. Right now, I am not so sure anymore. Upstairs seems like a dangerous place. So, right now, my aim is to just learn as much as possible.

When I finally arrived home, I went out again to get this old pc. When I arrived home, the computer table and tv shelf get some tidying going on. Have to tidy up bit by bit 'cause CNY is at the end of this month. Grandma actually supervise me (ok, she was just looking at me and talk to me while I was tidying) when I was tidying the tv shelf.

Oh! This morning, Grandma really gave me the shock when she fell down after our breakfast. I was so scared that she hurt herself badily. My hand actually did start shaking a bit. Fortunately, she is fine. Just a swollen lip and bruises at her knees.

After the tidying, I chatted with yuanz...and got him to help me to buy ticket to go travelling with him. Now, I need to save money for this trip. Hopefully I can save enough money and mum will let me go.

PP pissed me off real bad the other day. Why is she so kaypo?! And I dont understand why am I so irritated when she sang. I felt so much like slapping her to shut her up and for being so kaypo. Then again, I feel bad for being so mad at her. Like she is not intentionally trying to piss me off. Damn...sometimes I wish I am a bad person so that I dont feel so guilty for being mad at other people.


Someone told me that my hair looks like a wig after I dyed it red. So this pic is like 'Is my wig in place?' :p

Thought I look pretty cute thus the pic taking...early morning le...

I am totally sleepy now but I have no idea where to sleep 'cause I am alone at home. In my own room or grandma's room or the living room?

Again, on a totally irrelevant note, Fred Durst looks really cute when he was younger. In fact, there is a slight resemblence with Nick Carter. Haha...

First day of work in 2006

I was late for work...LATE!!!!

Sent jinnwei to his driving test in Senadin... I was late for ten minutes. Fortunately, none of the big people was there...

But then, during lunch time, I went to MAS office to get air tickets for dad and I was late for work for half an hour. Shit!

Jinnwei passed his driving test and wanted me to treat him dinner. So after work, I fetch him and we went to Pizza Hut to eat.

I discover that my appetite has decreased. I dont really feel like eating a lot.

Oh! Ivy wanted to see my new hair...So...here it is...

My hair for work...To make sure i can concentrate on my work

Erm..Can you see the redness of my hair?

aiks...hair very oily le...

spring cleaning...

A new year and my home is in a mess.

In a few more days, my little brother will be leaving home to study at Peninsular Malaysia and grandma is coming back home to sleep after been away from home for such a long time.

In a few more weeks, we will be celebrating Chinese New Year.

Every year before Chinese New Year, it means spring cleaning for my home. I wonder how am I supposed to do spring cleaning when I am working.

Why would I think like that? Cause everytime I come back from work, I will not even clean up my home. So why would I be doing such a big project 'spring cleaning'?!

Right now, my living room is in a total mess. Wire mess....

Lemme see....laptop wire, DSL wire, PS2 wire, fax machine wire....

Suddenly, I have the mood to clear up some of the mess i have been collecting since I dunno when. And I ended up with this bag full of rubbish...
The plan to tidy my wardrobe is still pending. A lot of clothes need to be given away or thrown away.

Chandelier need to be cleaned as well...

On a non-related issue, my brother and dad have left the door and gate wide open on a bright sunny day. EH! TAK PANDAI TUTUP GATE KA?!!!

It started with a zit

So unlucky..i start my new year eve with an enormous gross-looking zit under my nose. Went to my facial appointment anyway. And find myself with nothing to do in the afternoon. Ten minutes seems like an hour. TV cant quench my thirst for something to do.
Then, Adeline text me and I asked her to go out. Yeah! Finally, i have something to do. We went to Boulevard where i finally bought the mascara I have been wanting for quite some time.

















Maybelline XXL Mascara!!

Then, we went to Imperial because Adeline havent had her lunch yet. Dave's Deli and then window shopping for her school bag ang got one. Window shop somemore before leaving for home. Oh! Found out that Wilbert's album that contains that great song has sold out. My hope of buying it for Selene (yes, Selene, I wanted to give it to you) was smashed.

A dinner gathering at Lynns' house and then had some fun playing 'cho dai ti' with Amanda and Lynthia. Then I went home to get ready for a night out at Island. I was still worrying over my zit...It has turned into the disgusting green (Eeuuww). Anyway, went to island and drove round the place to find a parking space. Parked my car at the far end of Grand Palace Hotel parking spaces. Met up with Karen. I had only two drinks that night. Long Island and Blue Magarita. No, I didnt get drunk. We did went to get the super hot taiwanese sausages to kill off whatever drunk-ness we had. Right before the countdown, we were given this box.















Pic taken from kenny's site

We blow the trumpet, make loud noises with the toys givens in the box, popped balloons using cigarettes and heels. Everyone going crazy making noises...Not much hugging happening anyway...But I did get to hug a guy and two girls...All my colleagues...Not strangers...















A reminder of what I have been thru during the countdown.

While looking at Karen popping the balloons with her high heels during the coutndown, I realised how dangerous is a female's high heels. Imagine the balloon is a guy's crotch. Ouch! So, the movies didnt lie...

I arrived home at 1 am...

Happy New Year!

House warming cum birthday party

Going back to work today feeling very busy. Trying to cover as much work as possible so that I can holidays for the next two days in peace. No feeling guilty and all that.

Pink Panther (PP) really ticked me off today. I was been nice to her by offering to help her to find the file she needed. Say we have two types of file storage: A and B. I helped her to look in the index book for the file she needed which is in file type A. When she went to retrieve the file, she came back with a file from type B. I told her that she got the wrong file and she went to put it back and come back with, yet again, the wrong file from type B. This time, I went to get the right file for her and told her for the second time the filing system. It ticked me off that I have to tell her twice about the filing system. It was as if she didnt even bother listening to what I said.

Anyway, I went to this house warming cum birthday party of one of my many cousins. It was ok. I just dislike the fact that I have to sit there to endure the boringness. After the eating part, it got really boring for me. Fortunately I finally get a ride and went home by myself.

Tomorrow I will be going to Brunei. To celebrate my dad's birthday. Havent got anything for my dad yet. Not planning to get anything anyway. Dunno what to get for him.