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KL Trip with my Japanese Friends (1st Day)

2011-07-26T21:12:00.024+08:00

I am so happy that i got an email from a long lost friend from Japan. Obi sent an email to me that he will come to visit me in KL for 3 days. Well...I was so pleased that i can meet him again and at the same time i wasn't sure where i can bring him in KL. In the end, I suggested to bring him to KLCC, Petaling Street, Batu Caves and Genting. Hope he would glad with my idea.

He came to Penang from Bangkok on Thursday. He visited Thailand first before come to malaysia. He spent 3 days in Penang with his mate, Kei (another japanese who can't speak english well) before he come to KL by bus on sun. I went to Pudu to pick them up about 5am. (yawn....have to wake up that early on SUN!!!) Since is too early to bring them walk around, i brought them back to my new house to let them unpack their stuffs and take a short nap before we start our KL trip.

After woke up and clean up, we went to KLCC first to buy ticket for skybridge. We passed by my ex-company and showed him the building. This company is familiar to him because we used to work in the same project under joint venture of this company and his company.
When we reached KLCC, we failed to buy tickets as we saw so many people queuing up to get tickets. I went to ask the volunteer who work there and she said tickets on sun all sold out. Hence, our first mission is failed!!! To avoid the disappointment and due to our hunger, I decided to bring to our local breakfast. Well.... Pictures are the best description than sentences here. I would now let the pictures tell u my journey. :)

murtabak

roti tisu & ayam goreng

and last, our famous nasi lemak. *Obi can't take spicy food, one spoon eaten and his face turn to red instantly.* lol.

This is the place where we had our breakfast.

After breakfast, we went to KLCC and park to take some pictures for remembrance.

After that, we went to Bintang Walk, a famous trademark in the centre of this city. A lot of local drama/movies taking their shooting here.

Then went to Pavilion, but they seem not interest to shop. Well....i think in japan there are lots of shopping parades that better than in KL. So, we moved on to Sg Wang.Since the weather is getting hot, we stopped by Sg Wang to have our desserts, Snowflake!!! It's Taiwanese Desserts...some sort like Taiwanese ABC. We have to take some rest first because later on we need to go to Petaling Street!!! (Hell no if not bcoz of my jap. frens)Nothing to shout about since this place doesn't give me any good impression...somemore walking under the hot sun.
Everytime when i walked to this street, sure i will visit to this famous stall. "Air Mata Kucing". Even though it's soooooo sweet yet it can cure my thirsty and tiredness. Felt refresh after u drank it. :)Next destination will be Central Market...well...it seem our KL trip kinda boring ...just goin to those places that i won't go during my free time/weekends. But it is quite different experiences to go this kind of historical places once a while.Since we not yet hungry for lunch, then we decided to go to Batu Cave as our last destination before heading back to lunch and rest. This was my first time to Batu Cave as usually i just passing by that place when using the MRR2.

I heard many people complaining that the staircase are too high to conquer. But to me, it doesn't seem a challenge for me. ahhahha...maybe i used to work out, that's why i don't feel it difficult. :P*Kei-san with the monkeys*

After the climbing and conquered the cave, we moved to Kuchai Lama for Bak Kuh Teh!!! Our famous chinese cuisine in Malaysia. A must try to my japanese friends. Then guess what, they said " hou sii!!" "u me!!!" those are the compliments to the food. Previosly i afraid they don't like the herbal that spoilt their appetite. But luckily i am wrong, they like it very much especially the dry bak kuh teh. Even myself also impressed with that too. :)After that, we went back to my house to take a short nap and make sure we have a good rest for the night. Nite time, i just brought them to Look-out Point for KL night scene. That is the best spot if you like to enjoy KL scene at night. The food there is just so so and nothing to shout about. After took some pictures and dinner, then we head down to Sunway for our happy hour!!! Yeah Yeah!!!!

Well.... I am not a good drinker but they are!!!! I really couldn't match them. I need to train better before meet them again in Japan after i have well prepared.....in term of money of coz!!!! :)

Ok. that's all for the first day. Stay tune for the 2nd day. Ciao.

I am Back!!!

2011-07-26T13:38:00.002+08:00

It's been a long long time (i think about 2 years) not updating my blog. Is time for me to resume my blog now onwards. :) hope i manage to post something interesting to everyone that read my blog.
Gambateh!!!

There are so many interesting places, food and stuffs that i would like to share. Tons of pics are waiting for me to post up. So just be patient. Ciao.

Feel Sucks

2010-08-24T15:49:00.002+08:00

Been more than one year didn't back to my own blog. First blog since last year is about my suck feeling.

This feeling haunting me for a month already. Really torturing. I not dare to tell anyone. I just realized i am soooooooo stupid. Luckily i get help from a friend, now the feeling is getting better abit.

But it will not going to an end unless this issue is settled. I think this definitely will be my most valued lesson that i got. Now the feeling still sucks and the heart keep bumping fast. sigh.

Broga Hill Hiking 12th July 2009

2009-08-10T11:29:00.007+08:00

12th July 2009. Sun. Woke up around 4am. Went to pick up Heng and met them up at mamak in Semenyih. Was too early for me to have breakfast but Tracy this "hunger ghost" sure wanna had some food before hiking. Is good to get some food first also before hiking, if not, easily get fainted half way hiking.

The day still look dark but we already started to hike. Look so scary if came alone. Luckily everyone prepared torch light.

The day is getting brighter when we finally reached to one of the hill peak. Misu looked pale and felt unwell after reached the hill.

We make it !!!! :)

Yeah!!!

Wow!!! SOooo many of us!!!

Nice Photos!!! Thanks to the photographer, Heng.

After hiking, we had our brunch (around 10am by that time) at Semenyih before back home. What a wonderful and tiring journey.... =)

ps: Lot of pictures will be uploaded in my Facebook soon.

I am BACK!!!!!

2009-08-10T10:49:00.002+08:00

Such a long time i didn't come back to update my blog. This is my first time to write blog in my own country. Since i back home, i have no time to online. A lot of appointments and thing to do.

To make it short, the pictures shown below is one of the gathering with my ex-colleagues at Fong Lye Restaurant in The Garden on 11th July (The day before we went to Broga Hill).

This is husband n wife (Vince and Tracy). Tracy is my best kaki.

The girl beside Tracy is Shan. She is quite friendly and nice girl but sorry guys....she is not available now. Lol!!!

This is my lovely misu, KS cho. Look prettier now.=P

The couple beside misu are soon-to-be husband and wife. Ah mei purposely came to MidValley for the Wedding Exhibition. They met us up after they got the package for their wedding shootings.

And Last, the photograher (Heng) finally appeared in the Happy Family Photo as below. That night we need to leave early (around 10pm) as we need to sleep very early for next day plan (Hiking). Hv to wake up as early as 4 am....sigh.... Will upload the broga hill photos soon. :)

2 days to go......hurray!!!!

2009-06-28T20:30:00.003+08:00

Well....Finally i have free time to write all 4 posts in a day as i promised to my pet earlier......hehehee.....Have been busy working during last 2 weeks and nothing special happened during last 2 weeks. So i stopped writing my blog for almost 2 weeks.

Although i am busy working but still need to thank to my pet here accompany me chatting. Gonna treat you your favourite lollipop.....Hahahahaha......

Before go back, have to buy so many chocolates as i promised to them (fren1, fren2, fren3, fren4, bro, mum, etc.....). I have been for so long still don't know what i can buy as souveniors to bring back. Every thing here are expensives and not worth to buy. So end up will buy chocolate to them in the airport lor.

Can't wait to go home now....almost every morning after wake up, and every night before i sleep, i start to count down the day to return. Too excited especially this few days. This time the company so good to me...First time take business class Emirates flight back to Malaysia.....Wonder what is the privilege i can get soon.....hmm.......

Basketball Final Game in Qatar 24th June 2009

2009-06-28T14:20:00.009+08:00

Such a long time didn't come here to post my blog already. Very busy lately to clear up my work. Although i am busy with works but still we have our usual basketball games on. But sad to say that last wednesday was the last basketball game in Qatar.

As many of my friends know that i will soon leaving this country and go back to my country. The project in Qatar is almost come to the end now. Many of us are demobilize from this project by end of this month. So we decided to play our final game on that night.

From the picture shown below, they are my usual "kaki" for basketball games. All are japanese except me. Lol. So i take this opportunity to thanks to Obi-san, Karube-san, Tani-san, Yamada-san, Miyamoto-san and Sagae-san. They are my regular ball-mates, the rest are quite new in our team. Sorry forgetting your name. :P

That night was really great. That night had one of the most tired game after we played for 3 months there. We sweat alot. You can see we all dying on the bench from the pictures. This 2 men in black are my best buddies here. We are working in same department, sit in the same area, having same hobby (basketball). Gonna miss them soon.....

After the game, let us the take "Happy Family" photos for remembrance. ^^

After the game, we went to bar to charge up our enegry with beers!!! The first time i feel really good in beers specially after the sport. You can imagine your thirsty throat waiting the chilled beer flowing in. Wow......Hard to explain here.....hahahha....

Let's check out how many can of beer that we drank on that night???

First and Last trip to Site 27th June 2009

2009-06-28T14:18:00.005+08:00

This is the first time i stepped into the site in the project that i working now and that is the last time also. Am i look excited in the picture? I also don't know why i look like that in the photo. SOooo ugly. Hahahaha....anyway, i already promise someone to post this photo in my blog so i need to keep my promise. :)

Look at the biggest valve behind me. Is 44" butterfly valve (ESDV). I heard my colleague said the installation of this valve is really difficult as the piping around that area limited them to lift the valve to that position. Hence, they need to use all the man power to to roll it into the pipe....Sigh......(is that mean the management is sucks there? never plan well before action?)..hehehe...i have no comment on that.

The background of the picture below is the LNG plant but still look like plenty of scaffolding need to dismantle. I don't know why everytime i take picture with this yellow coverall, i feel so uncomfortable when take the picture. My posture look so weird and i also wonder why i act like that......erm.....no idea.

Actually during this short trip visit to site, not many pictures we took. One of the reason is there are some restricted area prohibited for snapping pictures, and another reason is very funny one.

I asked obi, "do you want to take picture here?". He said "No, we will take it outside after finish the tour". Although i know we can take picture inside but he still refused. Then i said, "are you too shy to take pic here? You afraid too many workers around watching you?". So he just laughing and i know the answer is yes....Hahaha.....

Anyway, thanks you guys for arranging this special site tour for me. Special thanks to Karube, Obi and Sasaki-san. Hope to see u all again in the future. :)

Sayonara Farewell Dinner 25th June 2009

2009-06-28T13:01:00.002+08:00

Thursday night after work went to korean restaurant for our SAYONARA dinner. This month end, there are total 5 of us leaving. (me, obi, sasaki, seguchi and daryll). Not much to talk about the dinner indeed. Just eat and drink there. Everyone of us take turns stand up to give a speech.

Actuall nothing to talk about the korean there since i found it not so impressed. Just normal, ok only. But still enjoy the atmosphere having dinner with them. Thanks for the dinner guys.

And not to forget to thank to my cameraman----Karube-san (a real funny guy). Does he look like Popeye? Hohohoho.......

My birthday in Qatar

2009-06-13T19:58:00.004+08:00

Yesterday was my off day, also my BIG day. Well, quite happy for the whole day. At least, i didn't spend my time on my bed or watching drama in my room only. Lol.

Before i completely woke up, already heard my hp keep buzzing for incoming msgs. I knew my friends still remember my birthday....hahahha......To my surprise, many of them greeted me in facebook. Many of us nowadays too rely on facebook. Can't imagine what will happen if facebook suddenly disappear the next day. For me, it will be like lossing my phonebooks/contacts. Quite pity too.

Anyway, take this opportunity to thank all of you for the birthday wishes. Love u all. :P

In fact, not many activities on my BIG day. I got 2 plans indeed. Noon time went out with 2 singaporeans (Nick and Robin). We just went for lunch outside the camp, although the lunch not for my birthday celebration. Hahaha....anyway, i don't mind that. The purpose of going out is to buy food for my next plan.

My next plan after the lunch, was a drinking session with my japanese colleagues (my buddies in qatar). I bought them food and they bought me beverage. We had a great time chit-chatting and drinking at the bar for more than 4 hours. During that session, they really good drinkers and i know my limit, i know i can't catch up with them but to drink very slowly. Lucikly i am still sober in the end of the day. 4 hours is consider one of the longest time for me to have alcohol here. Normally 2-3 hours to consume liquors sure will make me tipsy. Really enjoy the great time with them. Special thanks to Obi, Karube, Sasaki and Seguchi-san. ^^ Having a photo session before we left.

p/s: Robin joined us for the drinking session after he finished his swimming.

No Title

2009-06-11T15:29:00.004+08:00

Long time didn't update my blog here. Recently quite busy doing my work. Lot of documents need to be issued. Need to prepare all the documents + updates all the modification. Arghhh......

Well. Today finally can rest and relax a little bit as most of my tasks are completed. But still have nothing to tell in my blog. Lately my life still as boring as usual. My life = working life.

Now just trying to write something here before my BIG day arrive. Yes. My birthday is approaching. I think no one is aware of this if i don't mention here now. Well. This year really no plan to celebrate coz i am not in my homeland. No friends around me except my colleagues. So, i didn't expect much for my birthday. But deep in my heart, i always hoping everyone of you do remember and greet me. I hope all my friends come to greet me not because after read this post.

1st June!! Birthday Month! Last month in Qatar!!

2009-06-01T23:08:00.002+08:00

Finally is June now. June means a lot to me especially this year. June is my birthday month. I should happy because my birthday is approaching. But too bad, i have to stay in Qatar for working. No friends will celebrate my birthday here. Maybe no one will remember that. Lol.

Anyway, this is not the first time no one celebrate my birthday. I used to it and never expect anyone will celebrate/remember my birthday this year. Sounds pity and sad huh......

But the good news is this is the last month i will stay in Qatar. Why? Because this project is almost come to an end and my contract here is done by end of June! My last day will be on 30th June and i will going back by 1st July. =)

So is time to count down my days to return...Yeah yeah.....29 days left......^^

Happy Dumpling Festival (端午节快乐）

2009-05-28T16:03:00.003+08:00

If I not mistaken, this year is the 3rd time in a row that i couldn't enjoy this festival in Malaysia.

Not in Malaysia=no dumplings for me=great lose for this delicious, unique food especially for this festival.

Anyway, today not really in the good mood. Last night watched the football match and my favourite team lost. Sigh......In addition, not enough sleep today. Feeling sleepy and tired in the office. Somemore no dumplings for me today....haiz.......................

The good news is i can start counting down the days to return to Malaysia....Yeah yeah!!!!

(34 days to go...hu hu hu........) ;)

Anxious day

2009-05-27T20:36:00.003+08:00

Today i have 2 things to announce here...hehehe.....This morning just came to office, I received a mail from my boss that asked me when i finish my job and return to Malaysia.

Well....This is the question I am always looking for and bothering me all this while. (My contract have been extended twice already....sigh...) My contract is scheduled to finish the job by end of June and i am planning to submit the application form for demobilization by next week. Since this is a good excuse for me to submit the form earlier.

By the time I wanna get the signature from my manager, I am so worried that he will ask me to extend my work here again. This whole morning, i am so anxious and scared he will changed his mind again. Since he was so busy and couldn't catch him, I having this anxious feeling till noon.

Finally, i am able to get him to approve my application form. He is a bit surprise when saw me pass the form to him. He thought i will not demobilized that soon and i was worried he is changing his mind again. After he checked his manning plan, he finally signed and thanked me for my efforts on this project. Hehehe....finally, i am released now.....Hurray!!!!! From now on, I can start counting down my days to back home lor......=)

Second thing that make me anxious is that tonight will be an important night especially for every Man Utd fans.....Yes......Is Europe Champion League Final in Rome tonight!!! Luckily i am not in Malaysia now. I can watch the live match on TV here at 9.45pm (2.45am in Msia time). I still managed to catch the match without sacrify my sleeping time...hehehehehe.....As a Man Utd fan, sure i would like the watch my team to clinch and defend the title but I cant underestimate the talents from Barca.....I can't wait the time to come. Now can't even concentrate my work and just hoping to go home for the match. Lol.....Glory Man Utd!!!!

Basketball game and happy hour!!

2009-05-24T13:09:00.007+08:00

Last thursday, I had an all japanese basketball game. Our project (QGX) team versus QCS team. All members are japanese except me. Lol....

Actually it was just a friendly match. In spite of my team is too good, handicap is given to opponent team. Every ball we threw is 2 points while they can have 3 points ( last quarter of the game they have 5 points for every successful threw).

Needless say, my team won the game. If i not mistaken, the final score was 88-51. After the game, we went for happy hour. Of course the drink was on the opponent's bill. Lol.

We had KFC and pizza as our dinner and from the picture below, you can see how much we drank during that night. Lol. One bottle of gin, 2 bottles of JDBL, and countless of beers. Before i left and excused myself, I remembered they ordered another bottle of JDBL for another round. I am not a good drinker so i left early after that.

Anyway, it was a happy day as we played a good game and nice gathering for chit-chating. Although i don't understand japanese and whole night they all speaking japanese to themselves, but i still happy to be with them as some of them still managed to speak to me in english. Hahahaha....Luckily i am not like an idiot just sitting at the corner, eat and drink alone. Hahaha. Hopefully i still able to attend several this kind of occasions before demobilize from this project by end of next month. :)

To complete this blog, let my buddies to show their funny faces here. Lol.....Enjoy reading!!! ;)

Dinner At Marriot Hotel, Doha

2009-05-16T16:03:00.012+08:00

Last thursday went to dinner with my basketball mates in a restaurant located inside a 5-star hotel (Marriot Hotel in Doha). Before I went to the restaurant, i already expected that the bill for the dinner will be very expensive. Anyway, i will let you know how much we spent on that dinner at the end of this blog later.

This is the name of the restaurant (Asia Live)

Let us check the menu first. Wow..... QR 29 for just a bowl of misu soup. (Conversion QR1 is approximately to RM1). Tomyam soup also QR29.

Now this is really surprised me. Yong Chow Fried Rice is cost QR69!!! Nasi goreng and Singapore noodles also cost QR59 each. Unbeliveable!!!! I managed get the same dishes in malaysia for around RM6-10 a plate. Well. I can't deny that the quality of food is not below par but it isn't amazed me though. You can see the steamed rice can cost QR19. Although we didn't order that but i just wonder is it the rice cooked especially for VVIP? =='''

This is another part of the menu. Feel free take a look by yourself. Maybe i am poor, that's why i find it everything is expensive to me.

The picture below is not so clear and is taken by my colleague. I asked him to take this picture because wanna show to everyone how expensive the softdrink is. It is QR 18!!! and the Redbull is cost QR29!!!! Hahaha.....Really unexpected!!!!

Anyway, that day, there are total 7 of us. Before i reached the place, they already ordered and i just went there to eat....Lol. When the dishes are served, i just realized they ordered 2 set for each dishes. If i not mistaken, let me list down what we ordered on that night.

1) Seafood springroll - 2 set (appetizer)
2) 2 different set of sushi - 2 set (which mean total 4 set)
3) Yong Chow fried rice - 2 set
4) Singapore noodle - 2 set
5) Sweet n sour prawns - 2 set
6) Sesame prawns - 2 set
7) fish - 2 set (can't recall the name)
8) Greentea ice-cream - 4 set (this is the best ice-cream i ever had so far) ^^
9) Countless beers (they are really good drinkers)

From the picture shown below, u can see a fork lying on the singapore noodle. That already cost you QR59. You can imagine the plate size and the cost of it. Sigh. This is my first time to take a very fine dinner like this. *Sorry for not taken the pictures before we started our dinner as i don't have camera but my hp only. My hp is out of battery by that time. So i requested my colleague to take the picture for me*

Ding Ding Ding! THis is the green tea ice cream that i mentioned just now. I haven't have chance to take the picture before everyone start eating. Hahahaha....The picture shown it might not be look that delicious but indeed it really taste good. Really smooth enough and you seem not like eating "ice" but a smooth tasty creamy green tea. Hahaha....i am not good in english. hard to elaborate. In short, is delicious!!!

Ok. Now is time to announce how much we spent on this dinner.....Ding ding ding ding.......It is QR2444!!!!!

Before we left, my colleague purposely took this picture for remembrance in the toilet. =='''

Blog Update!!! Just an annoucement.

2009-05-14T14:32:00.002+08:00

Hi my friends and readers,

I just updated my blog layout and added some applications here. I hope everyone enjoy reading my blog. Please don't feel shy to leave your comments if have any.

I added a poll here to survey how the readers find my blogs. I hope you all can give me some supports so i can make this look even better and interesting. You may shout out anything to me in my chat room which at the right side of the blog.

Hope to get feedbacks from you. ^^ CHeers!!!

Complex feeling

2009-05-12T20:23:00.009+08:00

Today is 12th May. Another one month from today will be my "2x"th birthday. Sigh. This will be the 2nd time I need to celebrate my birthday alone outside Malaysia. Every year i never expect any celebration for my birthday. A bit sad. I am always hoping a lot of friends remember my birthday and celebrate with me but in vain.

Anyway, that is just part of my complex feeling today. Sigh. Still have 1 and half month to stay in Qatar for the project. Hopefully i can finish it on time and go back to KL as per schedule. I don't want to extend again and again for this project. Getting bored now. Sigh. I am just wondering when i can return to KL. The submission date for those deliverables are postponed again. Shit. No one can assure my demobilization date, neither my boss nor my manager here.

Now i don't know how to spend the time here. Counting down the day to back now but it seem very slow. Seem long way to go. Still have 7 weeks= 49 days = 1176 hours before pack up my stuffs to go home. Somemore i know many of my friends and family waiting me. I really miss them. Hopefully my next project won't ask me to go outstation for long period again as I really will get home sick.

My Watch from Doha Shopping

2009-05-09T11:30:00.007+08:00

Yesterday I went to shopping again with my buddies (Obi and Karube-san). Initially 3 of us planned to buy our new basketball shoes as our current shoes are harshly damaged due to the rough surface of the basketball court.

In fact, i am still considering whether to buy a new one or not. Basketball shoe is not cheap, at least RM200 and above. I still have 2 months staying in Qatar for the project which mean i have that period to play basketball with them only. After i back to Malaysia, i don't think i will continue playing this sport as i have no "kaki" to join me. All my ex-mates are become "uncles" already and i don't think they want to play this kind of "extreme" sport. Lol.

Anyway, my dude (Obi) managed to get his new shoe (AND1) but Karube-san not able to get his new shoe. Actually i have tempted to get a new pair for myself but both of us failed to get one due to the limited choices there. Sigh.

Although i didn't manage to get new shoe, but i ended up buy a new watch for myself! :P Actually i have this desire to get myself a G-Shock since i was young. But i was poor and not able to get this kind of luxury stuff.

And finally i can have an ivory G-Shock. Yeah Yeah!!!! There is some normal standard functions in this watch such as alarm, stopwatch, countdown timer and world time. The interesting function within the watch is auto-on the backlight. Normally the backlight will emit when u press the button from the watch manually. But this watch can let you to set it to auto mode for the backlight. When it is in auto mode, you just need to twist your wrist to take a look on the watch. The backlight will automatically emitted. It sounds interesting and fun to me. :)

Here are the pictures for my new collection. I like black and white colour. This is my second luxury watches for myself. My first one is Seiko which is in black. Hehehehehe.....

Instrument TeamBuilding 26Apr2009 Part II

2009-04-28T19:27:00.011+08:00

Just got the teambuilding photos from my colleague today. Just to show the happiness and the function that i attended in Qatar. You will find it rare to see me attend this kind of functions. Maybe once in a blue moon. Lol.

My funny japanese friends really good in funny posture when the photograhper taking our pics....while i am still chewing the food.

After dinner, we got some games for this teambuilding. I am so lucky to be grouped in blue team. And this is the first game of the night.

The game is like this. Everyone of the team have to pass an egg thru the t-shirt and take turns. The fastest to finish the passing will be the winner. Well...my team started not very well but at last we still able to finish as 2nd place in this game. YOu can see how dumb i am to get the egg from my team leader's shirt. =='''

The next game will be powder blowing. Everyone take turns to blow the powder out from the cup and take out the clue inside. Then who is the first to complete the full sentence from the clue given will be the winner. Hehehe......

Finally we won this game!!!! YEah yeah.....This time need to thanks to me for completing the sentence. =P (show off indeed)

The picture shown below is my team members cheering after winning the game. Almost everyone full of powder on the face..... except me.... kekekkekeke...... still look charming.... :P

My team leader seem trying so hard to blow powder. It reflected on his face. Now he looked like too much whitening lotion on his face..... hehehehehe...... Not bad...at least everyone is enjoying the game.

It shown that bosses able to mix up with their peers. But i think hard to find this happened in other companies. Not many bosses can really do that.

Everyone are laughing happily because we knew we can be the champion tonight as our first two games gained us lot of points. :D

Ok. The next game is really challenging to me. It is something like Q&A quizzes. Every team send a representative for each question. It is all technical questions that daunted us.

From the picture, you can see everyone of us trying so hard to think for the answer. But during my turn, i am the loser. =(

Anyway, after few games, our team(Blue) and red team got same points. So both teams have to play one more game to decide who is the winner of the night. I can say this is the peak of the night. You will know what i mean when you see the pictures below. Lol.

The final game which decide the winner is to make the longest line. The line only can be made via all the stuffs from your body, the clothes that u wore. Well, i didnt really know everyone is so dare to take off everything (except undies of coz) to win the game.

This is the red team(opponent) members trying hard to take off clothes and pants. You can see my manager who left only his undies from the picture.

Wow.....everyone struggling to take off everything to make the line longer n longer....erm....where am i??? hahaha....am i hidding somewhere? :P

Yeah! Yeah!! Finally we won the game! Game over!!! We are the champion of the night!!! Hurray!! Everyone of us so happy and take the chance to show off our body...Hahahahhaha!!! Luckily my body figure still look good to show it here. :P

Our booty for the game are a starbuck cup and one reload card only.... hahahahaha..... Well...better than nothing. We all happily get the our rewards.

And finally, i can consider the luckiest winner for the night as i am the only lucky draw winner among my team. :P

I got a HiFi micro system from the lucky draw. Hence, no regret to attend this teambuilding. Although it is not so expensive and branded gadget (China Made) but it is consider as one of my options for me to do when i am free. That's all for the night. :) I think this is the last function we had before the project accomplished. Thanks for everyone to support this function!!

Instrument TeamBuilding 26Apr2009 Part I

2009-04-27T14:09:00.007+08:00

Last night was my second time to attend my department teambuilding. I still remember my first time was in March 2008.

When i just arrived the place around 6pm, the chef is still preparing the food. You can see the chicken is being grilling still.

and the shrimps too.

My funny japanese colleague, Karube-san is acting barbecueing the shrimps.

And me too. hahhaa....Just trying to be fun grilling the shrimps and i did eat that after.

I can say the japanese are very well educated in term of punctual. They rather come earlier than being late. It is really hard to see them late in any functions. This is what we need to learn from them. Unlike malaysian like me, always last minutes to rush and end up late although this time i am very punctual....hehehehe. I know alot of malaysians like to let people wait instead of waiting for any functions. Really a bad culture happened in my country.

Ok. Back to my teambuilding. I do have some best friends here and they are japanese. I like to mix with them because they are really funny. They are my basketball mates too. ^^

This pic look not nice. too dark. We drank alot but not till tipsy. Really enjoy the night.

And last night was my luck day! Yeah Yeah!!!! I did win a HiFI micro system from the lucky draw.

We played some games also after the dinner. My team are the champion of the nite. Hahaha!!!!The picture shown below are the booty i got from this teambuilding. There are a Starbuck cup, a prepaid card, pendrive and my lucky draw booty. ^^

It was a great night for me. You can find out how happy i am from the photo below. Lol. Can see my red charming face. Oppss....i think my face not look that happy. Maybe a bit tipsy i think....hahahaha

Basketball Time!!!!!!

2009-04-21T16:12:00.005+08:00

Lately start playing basketball again since N years didn't touch the ball. Really miss the days i played basketball during secondary school days. Since childhood i started get involved in this sports, i grew taller n taller. Although now i am not consider as a tall guy but at least no one will dare to say i am a shortie. =)

I like to play basketball very much. Although I know my skills is not very good but i can say i play pretty well in the games. Really love to play basketball. But due to the hot weather in Malaysia, i have no friends to play with me after i graduated from school. sigh.

Luckily now i can get the feeling back here. Start from this month, every mon, wed and sat will going for basketball games with my colleagues here. I join all my japanese colleagues to form a team versus filipinos. Well, as i know, basketball is the famous sports in philipines, just like badminton in Malaysia. Everyone of them play basketball very well. But we are not bad also. Really enjoy every games we played so far.

I find my stamina is not as good as last time, worse than last time till i can't accept the physical level that i have now. Maybe too long didn't have this kind of aggresive sports. My tummy is the best prove for my current fitness. Sigh....shame to say like that. Anyway, it is a good time for me to gain back what i used to be, to recall how "brilliant" i played on the field last time. =P Gambateh!!!!!!!

Boring!!!! My daily routine....

2009-04-18T20:02:00.002+08:00

So boring lately. Some of you would wonder why i didnt update my blog recently. Well. To tell the truth, my life is darn boring lately. Almost everyday the same till i don't know what to write in my blog. Here is my daily routine schedule.

5.00 am - Wake up
5.30 am - Breakfast
6.00 am - Working
11.30 am - Lunch
1.00 pm - Working
6.30 pm - Knock off
7.00 pm - Dinner (Only Mon, Wed n Sat go for basketball)
7.30-9.30pm - Online + TV
10.00 pm - Go to Bed

So that's my daily routine. Quite boring huh.....hahaha....Well, I have adapted this kind of life already. I just hope to complete the job as soon as possible and go back to Malaysia. ^^

Income Tax!!!! Again!!!

2009-04-06T21:07:00.003+08:00

Sigh....Normally april is not the month i am waiting for. April almost remind me to declare my income tax. After declare, then need to pay my tax to the government. I know this year i need to pay much coz i know i worked a lot of OTs last year.

During filling up the e-filing online, i only realised i earned quite lot of money last year. Lol. But why the figure in my bank account didn't reveal the same? Hahaha....just wonder how i spent the money???? Anyway, after completed the filing, i just realised i need to pay so much for my income tax. Really out of my expectation. What a surprise! Gosh.....have to save some money this month.

Sometime i just wonder why i need to earn so much to pay for the tax. What is the return i get from the payment? Should i happier if i earn lesser? hahaha....i know the answer is definitely a big NO. I rather earn more, willing to pay more tax than i being poor, although i feel the pain for that sum of money for nothing. Sigh....

Weird Feeling

2009-04-04T22:15:00.002+08:00

These few days i have some weird feeling. I feel a bit down lately. Don't know why. Maybe someone affected me? Because someone didn't chat me? Last time used to chat with someone everyday but lately suddenly feel quiet already. Maybe i used to have someone to talk to me everyday. A bit sad when someone is not around.

Is it because i scared of loneliness? or because of bore? or perhaps i miss someone? I don't really know...sigh....i am confused now. Hope i can get rid of this feeling soon. I don't know how to smile and laugh for such a long time already.

Snack!!!! and Chocolate!!!

2009-03-29T01:57:00.005+08:00

Lately some of my colleagues just came back from their home leaves. Normally we have informal tradision here. For those who just back from their country, they will share us their country made snack. This time, one just back from Japan and another one back from Canada.

I have a lot of japanese colleagues here and they brought variety of japanese snack/pastry to us but everytime i forgot to snap the photos before i ate them....hahahha....they are so delicious and tasty. i like them very much. Anyway, this time i have to hold my hunger to take a few shoot before have them in my stomach....kekekekkeke......

Unfortunately, this time the snack that he brought is not so nice for display. But i can't denied that their creativity is so amaze to make various features of pastry and it is so tasty especially those tiny bun(馒头). Yummy!!! The chocolate also sweet and i love chocolate very much....hehehe

The indian colleague who just back from canada brought us the chocolate chip bar. I think it is quite tasty too. So far i haven't taste chocolate from canada yet. =PAnyway, due to like chocolate so much, i always buy a lot of chocolate when i back to KL. Most of the time i will buy from airport duty free zone as there are many choices. =)

But in qatar also have one place to buy Swiss chocolate that i couldn't get it in the airport duty free zone. This chocolate very nice and alot of my colleagues buy this back to their country as souveniors. Same to me. hehehehehe.....

Shopping in Doha - Villagio and Old Zouq

2009-03-28T15:59:00.007+08:00

Yesterday i promised my 2 japanese colleagues to join them for doha shopping. Because one of them will return to japan for vacations. He need to buy something as souveniours to his gf, colleagues, friends and family in japan. Actually nothing we can buy as souveniours. Everything is quite expensive. The only we can get is either coffee beans, chocolates, or dates.

Anyway, i still manage to go to famous old market in qatar (Zouq) and snap some pictures for sharing.

Due to is friday noon(praying time for muslim), all shops are closed and no one is around....Lol...

During noon time(praying time)

Evening time (same street as the photo above if you noticed the qatar flag)
Coffee house in Old Zouq

Unique buildings as I couldn't see it in my country. The surface of the buildings look rough and not flat.

Ok, now go to shop at shopping mall (Villagio). This is the shopping mall (Villagio) in doha with Venice theme as the design. I found quite a numbers of shopping mall using Venice background as attraction. I saw my friend who just visited hong kong lately also shopped at similar shopping mall like this.

There is an ice skating court also.

The decoration of this shopping mall is abit look like new wing of sunway pyramid in Malaysia. Same idea for the decoration i think......hmm.....

My lovely iPod and newly bought speaker ^^

2009-03-26T01:06:00.005+08:00

Long time didn't write a blog. Really busy lately. I think i will keep on busy till end of this project. sigh....i think will take more than 2 months to suffer from now onwards.

Anyway, today would like to share my lovely ipod to everyone. Why today suddenly have mood to do so? hahahha....because i just got my new speaker for my ipod. I ask my japanese colleague to buy for me from Japan.

My "blackie" - ^^

This is the newly bought speaker(photo shown below). Need to elaborate abit here. This tiny speaker i just got from my japanese colleague. He went for his home leaves and i requested him to look for a speaker for my ipod. Really appreciate his effort-(Karube-san).

This tiny speaker's design is a block (like Lego that we used to play last time). I like this speaker because it doesn't require any battery to power on the speaker and is tiny. Really convenient to bring along.

This is how it look (combination of ipod + speaker)

Back View

Side View (really thin and even thinner than some handphones)

This is how it look like when i switch on the ipod :P

草食男???

2009-03-18T17:56:00.002+08:00

Today, while i read newspaper and accidently found a new term (草食男) which is quite interesting to share. It is a famous term in Japan nowadays. I have google this term and the explanation as follow:

草食男,日本流行的一个新名词.就是像食草动物一样,他们友善温和,但在婚恋关系上却总少了些男子汉应有的主动.他们最大的特征就是不会积极主动地去追求,而喜欢保持不温不火的步调和女孩子在一起,甚至于交往多年,二人连手都不会牵过.80、90后的男人越来越多地具备了"草食性"倾向.

The link is where i get the information from : http://www.hudong.com/wiki/%E8%8D%89%E9%A3%9F%E7%94%B7

I am not sure whether i am one of these 草食男? hahahaha......Hope i am not. :P

The place I stay in Qatar

2009-03-17T15:36:00.003+08:00

Since i work in Qatar so long and lot of my friends sure curious about my life in Qatar. So today want to share some photos to you. The area that i stay addressed as camp. You will know why they called that after the explaination below. lol.

The picture below is typical building where we stay. It consists of 24 rooms with each bathroom, fridge, TV set, table, cupboard, chair, and bed. It look simple, just like those dorm in your school days.

Actually here provide a lot of facilities, such as gym room, tennis court (photo) beach volley court (photo),

swimming pool (photo) , pingpong table, etc. There is a place to rent DVDs (FOC of coz) too.

Due to the location here is middle east, it is rare to get to see green plant like this. Hahaha...They put a lot of efforts to get these grown up. If you compare with the first and the last pic, then you will know what i mean. lol.The picture shown below is the shutter bus that pick us up to and flo site office due to the long distance. It is way too far to walk. That's why I can see this kind of buses cross around the road almost everywhere in qatar.
Well...I don't know what should i need to tell now. Anyway, i welcome your comments so that i can improve my blog in the future. ^^ CHeers!!!!

Maxis Updates

2009-03-12T11:46:00.002+08:00

Yesterday got feedback from Maxis finally. What a sad story to say that the rate will remain as high as what i mentioned earlier. sigh. That's mean i don't dare to pick up incoming while i am still in Qatar with this Maxis no.

But luckily Maxis still able to deduct some for me so i won't lost too much for those incoming calls that without my notice of the new rate. At least Maxis not really bad after all. But still i am quite disappointed about the new rates. It is way too expensive for me, i think not only for me, a lot of people will feel the same.

Anyway, i still feel release to settle this issue at last. ^^

Maxis sucks!!!!!

2009-03-02T20:39:00.002+08:00

Damn it Maxis!!!!!! Today i checked my maxis statement and surprisingly the rate for roaming is exponentially increased. Everyone have to beware and check your statement carefully. I am the victim now.

Last time, for roaming in Qatar, the incoming call charged me RM2.50 per min but now the damn Maxis charged me RM10 per min. That is 5 times more than the previous rate. Bloody hell... And now the sms is RM2 per msg (roaming).

This is really not acceptable. They didn't even inform consumers like us for the latest rate. How we gonna safeguard our rights and interests???? It is really unfair to consumers like us. I am not sure whether they have rights to change the rates/charges without our notices but that is definitely not fair to us.

They didn't even provide a list of charges for roaming. How we gonna get to know the rate when we need to travel abroad? The only way is to call them to clarify everytime before we depart? I am really disappointed with the way they make business. Suckssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Annoy!!! 烦!!!

2009-03-01T18:13:00.002+08:00

Don't know what happen to me lately....feel so annoyed. Maybe recently everything also not running smooth. Sigh....I hate this kind of feeling. Now can sense some pressure on me already. Don't know what to do now.

It seem my life is getting bored n borde n bored. NO sparks in my life. What a dull life...sigh....don't know still need to keep this for how long. I am not sure I am making the right choice. Money is important? Way to enjoy life is important? or family matters more important?

No wonder my grey hair keep growing, too many responisibility and commitments put on my shoulders. Sometimes need someone who really understand me to share my problems but hard to find. Only me know myself better. Sigh.....

Quote of the Day

2009-02-26T12:40:00.005+08:00

"Never explain yourself to anyone.
Because the person who likes you does not need it,
and the person who dislike you won't believe it" by anonymous

When i see this quote, i find it really suit me. lol. Because i'm the one who don't like to explain. In fact, i am lazy to explain from toe to head.

Sometimes when you are explaining for yourself, some might think you are giving excuses. On the other hand, if you don't explain, people might doubt that you are so secretive and trying to hide something from them.

Anyway, this is me, my character. No one can try to change me. When I think I need to explain, I will and vice versa. There is a chinese quote that related to this: 清者自清 (let your clarity define you). ^^

Radio Online

2009-02-25T17:04:00.003+08:00

Radio online. I think most of my friends around me barely listening radio online. But for me, i used to listen radio online since few years back. Maybe i am a chinese, i used to listen chinese radio station most of the time.

In Malaysia, there is only 2 radio station as my favourites all this while. Maybe last time radio online still not popular yet and hence i managed to listen radion locally only. When the radio online become a norm, i started explore radio online outside my country. I found out a hong kong radio station which i think is much more better than in my country. I am not criticise that Malaysia radio station is bad. Maybe due to different background, culture and law issues, the operation of radio station will be different. I start love to listen hk radio online (especially RTHK radio 2) since last year.

HK radio really open my eye and i learnt a lot from there. It's really broaden my mind. With the convenience of internet nowadays, they use messenger to communicate with the audience. They use messenger to receive opinions from the audience and even conduct poll online. This is what i can't see in my country. They even share alot of latest information from internet, what is the popular issues from internet. All this are really helpful especially to me because i used to online very often.

Anyway, it sounds like i am promoting HK radio here. Lol. But can't deny that i really admire them how to attract their audience and i hope local radio station can emulate them. And now, i am writing my blog at the same listening to this radio online. =P

ONline Shopping ^^

2009-02-23T13:28:00.003+08:00

Recently start my interest to online shopping. The reason why i have interest to online shopping because i am always outstation and not able to shop and buy reasonable worth-buy clothes.

Previously, i don't believe on online shopping because it seem not reliable. Online shopping seem not fun and enjoyable like what we can shop in the shopping malls. Online shopping can't let us touch the material, cannot wear on it and test it before we buy.

But anyway, when i travel alot and less time to stay in Malaysia, I find it hard for me to shop in KL. The only way i can shop for local stuffs is thru Internet. Although at the beginning, i still doubt with the reliability to shop online. But in the end i have to give trust to them and give me a try on it.

It is a good experience for me when i first bought my clothes online on last January for my CNY clothes. The material is good and it looks great like what it shown from the website. And today i just proceed with my 2nd time to online shopping.^^

Ex-Colleagues Gathering at Pavilion KL (1st Feb 2009)

2009-02-14T20:49:00.004+08:00

On 7th day of CNY (1st Feb 2009), I was happy to meet all my ex-colleagues again especially Scott Lim from Brunei and Suet Mei who work at Singapore now.

I didn't expect i was the first one arrived at Pavilion to meet them...sigh....I was waiting them in front of J.CO. and finally i meet my long lost friend, Scott. He came from Brunei and meet up with us for this CNY. So happy to see him again. Been years didn't meet him already.

The 3rd person arrived was Kai Shin, our "misu" (Scott and my so called "secretary")..lol...Then we went to Dragon-i Restaurant to wait for the rest since Scott was hungry....lol.....

This is me and scott...wondering what we are looking at by that time......hmh.....

These are my best buddies from my ex-company. From left were me, Scott, Tracy, KaiShin and Suet Mei. And don't forget our cameraman, Vince(Tracy's husband).
We are all so happy for the reunion. Can see eveyone's teeth in the photo. Lol. Can't deny that 2 handsome and 3 pretties in the photos... =P

Anyhow, it was a great for me to meet all of them again. I hope i will have more this kind of gathering in the future. Looking forward to meet u all again. ^^

A bolt from the blue

2009-02-13T03:11:00.000+08:00

A bolt from the blue!!!!!! What a sad news i got from him. She passed away......

I really can't even imagine this kind of tragedy will happen to her. I am so sorry to her. Speechless now........

Happening during CNY

2009-02-12T20:33:00.000+08:00

On 3rd day of CNY, i went to genting with my friends, Jian Yung, Jenny, their son, their niece, and Issac. Haha...something like family gathering. Anyway, before we went to genting, we decide to stop-by and walk around what we so called "France Village" at Bukit Tinggi. I think a lot of ppl been there already. :P Well. You are not watching duck nor goose now. I didn't expect i can saw swans (black and white) in that village. I thought i only can seen those in zoo. Anyway, it was a good day to hang around the village. Not really crowded.

This is my friend Jian Yung and his cute son, Sean. They are so happy looking at the white swan.

That day not many activities, but we really enjoy the day. Went to genting for sight-seeing, get some cold and fresh air. Quite happy to reunion with them, just like a family day for us.

We didn't go to casino on that day. Before we back home, we had dinner at hillside. Meanwhile, I bought a bottle of dragonfruit enzyme for my mum as well. First time i noticed this kind of beverage. Hahaha....good. Have chance to show filial obedience to my mum.^^

OK. On the 5th day of CNY, I went to meet a long lost friend, Sharon. Been more than a year didn't meet her. and wow...she still look gorgeous! So we went to Pavilion and took this picture with her. We had a fine dinner there too. ^^

I like this picture. Have CNY feel. Maybe coz i am wearing pink polo + background. Lol.

23rd Jan 2009 - Dinner with my ex-colleagues

2009-02-12T19:50:00.000+08:00

Afternoon just arrived Malaysia from Qatar, night time straight to meet my good buddies (Tracy and Kai Shin) for our "Sao Gong Zao" 收工酒. We decide to have a chinese cuisine as our dinner. So we choose for taiwanese restaurant, Peng Lai at Damansara.

The pinkish flowers bring up the atmosphere of the coming CNY in the restaurant. Really oriental and new year feel.Casual table-decorating setting in the restaurant.All the chinese and japanese wines. Didn't ask to taste one. sigh.My good buddy, KaiSHin, but too bad another buddy not in the pic.My bowl of rice with my spec. Lol. A dish of clams (啦啦). So meaty and look delicious. ^^

I didn't take much pictures during dinner as i am so hunger for food. Lol. But too sad to say not many choices for us by that night. Maybe we are late to dinner and CNY is approaching. All the famous dishes sold out already. Sigh. Hopefully i can visit this place again next time. ^^

Anyway, i am quite happy coz able to reunion with my buddies again since we didn't meet for a year especially with tracy. We have a nice chat and dinner. THanks gals. :)

Love!!!! Love????

2009-02-11T14:13:00.000+08:00

What is Love??? When i am getting older, i feel like confuse about "love". Almost forget what is the feeling of being loved, to love someone.

Dunno why today have this kind of thinking. Not in the mood today....sigh.

Maybe because of a call last nite that spoilt my mood today. I really dunno what to do. Hope something that can brighten up my day and forget the sad things.

Back to Work again!!!

2009-02-09T18:41:00.000+08:00

Today 2.45am arrived at Qatar AIrport. Reach my room around 4.30am. Unpacked my luggage and tidy up took me 1/2 hour. Then go to clean up myself, took my breakfast before my first day of work after CNY. No time for me to rest at all!!!!! sad....

Now having my 3rd cup of coffee of the day, still sleepy n tired....haih.....Although today is Chap Goh Mei...but for me, today is just a working day for me and there is no other meaning for me.....sigh...suddenly feel lonely and sad. suddenly miss my frens in Malaysia. Maybe i am really
happy enjoying my days with my frens during CNY. Need time to adjust my feeling back to work lar......sigh

Although is my first day back to Qatar after my vacation, but still have long time for me to suffer. At least need to stay for another 5 months to accomplish this project. Hopefully this time, no more extension for me to stay again. God bless me!

The good thing is i bought myself an iPod classic when i was in Dubai...hehehe....at least got something that i desired since years back. Now got my iPod to accompany to get rid of my loneliness(at least during the boredness working period in Qatar). ^^

Less than 15 hrs!!!!

2009-01-22T12:51:00.000+08:00

Less than 15 hrs to go for the departure!!!! Can't wait to meet my family n friends in kl. Now no mood to work already. Only surfing net in the office and counting the time :P

My heart is pumping faster n faster......n i cant stop keep smiling....lol...suddenly feel that CNY is a wonderful occasion especially for chinese like us!!!!^^

Please wait for me.....my lovely CNY food!!!!! hahahaha

Excited and Nervous!!

2009-01-21T01:41:00.000+08:00

Mixed feeling now....only 2 days left before departure back to kl...hehe....anxious coz have to make sure my work are all done and hand over to my colleagues.

Haven't start to pack yet...hahaha...but not much to pack also. only some chocolates, perfumes that friends' required, and clothes only. All the same items that i bring back everytime back to kl.

Communication

2009-01-20T13:13:00.000+08:00

Yesterday after work, on the way back home, a japanese colleague, H, who sit next to me in a bus complaining another japanese colleague, S (my good friend) about his attitude. Although just 10mins journey, but i had a good lesson from the chat.

During the conversation, H about 50++ years old told me that S (about my age) is too arrogant while working, not respect the others. H said S have no cooperation with him at all and it seem no communication and misunderstanding between them. I am just wondering why he telling me all this? Because i hate to bother this kind of issue. Anyway, I dont think i will tell all these to S although i have a football session with him after that. Don't like to make their misunderstanding deeper n deeper. Better stay out of this matter.

It seem like nowadays a lots of lack communication causes alot of misunderstanding especially when you work in a team. You don't know how i think and vice versa. If everyone keep the thing to themselves only, i am sure it will come out with a lots of misunderstanding. Everyone is just playing guess. He guess you will agree this, while another will guess you will reject this. SIgh. Not a good practise but it really happen everyday in everywhere. Sigh. What to do? I can do my part and try to avoid this but how about the rest??? No one would tell........

mY firSt bLog!!!!! Happy CHinese New Year...Hohoho!!!

2009-01-19T22:00:00.000+08:00

First blog, dunno wat to say. Maybe CNY is approaching, my heart is only counting days to back home. Abit anxious, excited, happy, etc.....mixing feeling rite now....lol

still have 3days and 6 hrs before i depart go back to malaysia now....which mean i still have 78 hrs = 4680 mins = 280800 seconds!!!! ^^

Really tired lately. ONly working, working, working......i think is time for me to take a short break. Anyway, Happy Chinese New Year and GOng Xi Fat Chai!!!!!^^