Birthday Celebration

ChaiLan joined us 2 months ago. She's a Virgo as well. There are actually many Virgoes in my office, remembered last year we did have a group birthday celebration in Hartz Chicken Buffet in Time Square. Yesterday, we belanja her lunch. This birthday girl even gave us a treat at Secret Recipe for 3 slices of cakes after office hour. Yum~ we ordered Mango Delight, Chocolate Banana and dunno what cheese cake =p

- Drama/Movie -
Hero which I borrowed from Janet, a japanese drama by Takuya Kimura & Matsu Takako. Kuryu (Kimura) is a young public prosecutor in Tokyo. His style of working is different with other typical prosecutor, Kuryu dresses casually and ignores standard procedures. Amamiya (Matsu Takako) is his assistant. They can't get along well at first. However, Kuryu's brilliant investigations proves to Amamiya. Eventually they fall into the romance relationship. The ending songs is familiar, by Hikaru Utada's Can you Keep a Secret.
About Love is combined with three foreign love stories from 3 places - Tokyo, Taipei & Shanghai. Each pair of lovers doesn't speak the same language. Tokyo: Taipei guy meets Tokyo girl, Taipei: Japanese guy meets Taipei girl, Shanghai: Japanese guy meets Shanghai girl. This kind of mixture is weird but interesting.

Philharmonic Orchestra

Met up colleagues in KLCC in the morning and got the free tickets of Philharmonic Orchestra, 1 hour concert. It's my first time to attend such a performance. Wow, the music was amazing, hopefully next year they will organise again.
It had 4 performance today (12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm), we attended the 12pm & 2pm sessions - Classic Pops and Reel Music. For the first session, our seats were very near to the stage. We could properly see what shoes they were wearing =p. For our 2nd session at 2pm, so lucky that we had the upper circle seats:) It wasn't allowed to snap photos in the hall but I managed to snap some without flash -_< They played the theme songs of Lord of the Rings, Superman, The Lost World, etc. It was conducted by Kevin Field.

Tea Lady's daughter wedding

2nd attempts on Malay Wedding - Office tea lady's daughter's wedding. Well, Jojo is Baba Nyonya, so we got some Baba Nyonya food style too.
It's located in a mosque at Kepong Menjalara, right in front of the Taman Tasik Menjalara. The dewan wasn't as nice as Azura's wedding lo~ Azura's one was more happening with some dancing performances compare to Jojo's.
Yeah, collected another wedding guest gift.
Again, followed Zaila, Nimalan & TeongEng to this kind of ceremony. There's other colleauges from other departments as well, eg: Elsie, Kamsiah, Idris, Shikin, Azman, etc.

Souvenir from Bali

Daisy was back from Bali trip. She said the trip was quite cheap... She & her hubby spent RM1.2K for everything, which included airport tax, hotels, food and fun travels.

Malay Colleagues' Wedding

Today was Hasmady & Azura's wedding day in TTDI. They both are working in different departments in our company. According to Zaila, they started close to each other since last year's family day at Sunway Lagoon, Nov 2005. Hehe, yup... sometimes I saw them walk out of the car park together every morning.

What did we bring along to the wedding hall? Me & TeongEng had chosen 2 unique lamps for them, shared by 6 of us. We searched up & down in 1 Utama in the early morning, nearly gave up to buy any. Suddenly we came across a unique shop called 'Pumpkins'. Things selling at there are cheap and unique. So many lamps or house decoration stuff were demo at the shelve, attracting our eyes to get one. While walking around, we saw a shop which sells tortoise, snails & fishes in small beautiful aquariums. To feed the snails is easy, just gave them bread or rice will do. Clean up the aquarium is also quite easy. Nice hobby for some of the colleagues who were thinking on keeping fishes or tortoise in the office. The snails are cheap as well, big one costs RM8 while small one costs RM5.

There wedding lunch will also be held at somewhere near Batu Caves but I'm not attending tomorrow. However, Zaila, TeongEng, Nimalan & Mani will still going. Today's wedding, I saw some of our resigned staff as well.


Guest's wedding gift:

Colleague Farewell

We had a farewell party for YeeLi from Real Estate & Lending Department at Pusat Bandar Damansara's Secret Recipe. It's organised by Daisy who is from Directors Unit. After the dinner, there's another Karaoke Session which is organised by Evelyn from Marketing Department. However, I didn't join the Karaoke session because the rate for night karaoke is quite expensive and somemore til 4am.

There were also many colleagues from Actuarial Department which included Pong, Jonathan, Joelle, Liza and her bf. They joined in quite late because of many workload. So unluckily, all fries were sold out in Secret Recipe that night, we gotta order something which didn't with fries. I ordered the Chicken Kebab with rice and frosty fruit punch (blended with banana, orange and dunno wat fruit, not bad). WaiHong even went to McDonald to tapau 2 packets of fries over =p After dinner, we added some deserts of cakes, 6 slices shared by 10 persons. What a delicious night!

YeeLi is leaving because of wanting to further her master business studies in Scotland, UK. So brave of her, go over herself and hopefully stay over and get a job if possible after earning some at here. While being at there, it's a good chance to explore europe countries as well. Good luck to YeeLi!

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Remember last year in october, the Film Festival? GSC Mid Valley & TGV KLCC were giving away free movie tickets for the selected international movies. This July is Kuala Lumpur Festival 2006. So, GSC MidValley&TGVKLCC are giving away 3000 free movie tickets for below selected movies:

GSC Mid Valley
7/7:
1pm - Eight Femmes (French)
5pm - Yes Nurse No Nurse (Holland)
9pm - Rabbit Proof Fence (English) watched!
8/7:
1pm - The Machinist (English)
5pm - Sarkar (Hindu)
9pm - The Overture (Thai)
9/7:
1pm - Long Khong (Thai)
5pm - Rabbit Proof Fence (English)
9pm - Yes Nurse No Nurse (Holland)

TGV KLCC
7/7:
1pm - I Am David (English)
5pm - Maine Pyaar Kyun Kya (Hindu)
9pm - 在世界中心呼唤爱 (Japanese)
8/7:
1pm - Water Spirit (Thai)
5pm - Raam (Tamil)
9pm - Son of Bride (Spain)
9/7:
1pm - 在世界中心呼唤爱 (Japanese)
5pm - Chaanakkyaa (Tamil)
9pm - I Am David (English)

Last night, 5 of us catched the Rabbit Proof Fence. It's a Western Australian film, about Australia aborigines story. Don't really fully understand the story... the 3 little female aborigines were taken away from Jigalong by the white people to train them with white people cultures. The eldest is named Molly Craig, followed by Daisy Craig, etc. They use their intelligence to runaway from the white people by following the rabbit-proof fence. The whole story, most of the time is showing them walking in the wast land of western australia, including they nearly collapse in the desert but finally they've made it to meet their mum again. To avoid being catched by the white people, they've moved to the desert far away... This culture is happening in Australia until 1970.

下班时刻

放工就到星巴克，来一杯绿茶Frappuccino。
招待员的服务真好，好有礼貌哦......
有新的试吃巧克力cheese蛋糕呢！很不错。
惠颖点的Chips咖啡,杯中的巧克力粒加上咖啡,爽口。
室内大多数都是男士们,有人点了热拿铁。
有个年轻帅气的鬼佬还在上无线网,
猜想他是从外地来到这儿公干的。
眼看他离开了,走向一个方向,
可是不久他又回头,走回来这个方向,
也许他到唛当劳打包汉堡包,
因为不适应这里的食物。

回停车场的路途,
一路上有下班人士在街边等巴士,
也有人在mamak挡享用晚餐,人看人。
也有人向我们打量哦!喝喝喝!

Living Expenses

For the pass 6 months, I've spent about RM5340 approximately. All the months were just normal except April. It was extremely high, nearly hit 3K, gosh! more than my monthly income=p Anyway, from my little spending in other months could cover back, right? Once in a while, pouring out for traveling expenses it's ok, life ma~

A Walk to The Mall

This morning was cloudy, the weather was just suitable to walk to the nearest shopping mall in my area, The Mall, which is about 10-15mins distance. Once we reached there, few minutes later it started to rain. But doesn't matter, as long as it stops when we go back.

I exchanged my 2 free Starbucks coupons with 1 large size Banana Mocha Frappuccino Blended Coffee(for my cousin) and 1 large size Banana Cream Frappuccino Blended Cream(myself):

Sales again

While shopping in Mid Valley... Coincidentally we saw the Superman Returns event which attended by the 1st & 2nd Malaysian Idols - Jac & Daniel. The Superstars - John & Des were there as well. It's not crowded at all because nobody knows until the host shouted Jac & Daniel's name.




New VJ Jeans VOIR casual wear:

Lunch at Shokudo (Suki Yaki Beef Noodle & Kaki Age Udon):

Starbucks Summer Treats

I just received an E-mail from Starbucks. One of the daily winner could receive their voucher to enjoy their drinks. hmm... let's see when will they really send me the voucher =p

Winner List (Me: Day13 No.2):
http://202.172.228.47/starbucks/summertreats/index.asp

- Friday Dress Down Day -
Office declared 'Friday Dress Down Day'. We are allowed to wear Khaki or non-faded Jeans to work on every Friday now. However, I would prefer Cargo pants but it's not allowed.

Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle had been released since summer of 2004 but until now only I have bought it because previously I came across another version which was in Japanese(Malay subtitle), so I didn't buy it. I prefer Cantonese version as the translation is more funny.

I find that this movie has a lot of similarities with his other old movies. A combination from other movie characters. Obviously, the Moving Castle vs Laputa. The witch magic in black color vs Princess Mononoke's black worm. The old lady of Spirited Away vs Howl's Sophie. Overall, I have less surprises from this movie, the ending is too simple and the music isn't as interesting as previous.

What I like about this movie:
- The charming Howl
- The different location door
- The moving castle at the ending
- Calcifier fire demon on Sophie's ring
- Scarecrow
- Sleeping Sophie


About the story:
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/howl/howl_outline.txt

Bookfest

Tried out the RapidKL city bus RM2 daily ticket, unlimited rides around city area, eg: KLCC, Bukit Bintang, Pasar Seni, etc.

Lunch at food court, Chicken Kebab and Fish&Chips:


Me & my cousin took a visit to the Bookfest@Malaysia at KL Convention Centre in the afternoon. It's kinda crowded esp the section of Taiwan & China compared to Malaysia section which was obviously more quiet. Grabbed the chance to enjoy the traveling photo books. I've chosen an anime VCD - Howl's Moving Castle:

2D1N in Port Dickson

Company sports club organised 2D1N trip to Glory Beach Resort, Port Dickson last weekend. The resort still ok but the beach is kinda dirty. HuiYing who's from PD also went home to sleep because there's one room with fan but no air-cond, like maid room.

Tele-match game started at 4pm under the hot sun. Our team - Rose, only won the Ping-Pong chopstick match at no.2 position. Prize is only snacks for the night =p

Smelly Horse:

Banana boat at seaside:

PD Coconut drinks:

Seremban BBQ Crab:

Shopping in S&M

I've sent Janet the present earlier b4 her birthday this morning coz not able to celeb her bday next weekend. That weekend I'll be in PD for company event. I've also setup a CDRW while visiting her. Well, sure I've also borrowed some old dramas from her.


Later on, me & my cousin went to KL coz wanna shop in S&M, it's closing down end of this month. All shops were on sales. Well, the drama/movie/anime VCD/DVD not all are that cheap. Saw that the korean movie 'Running Boy' is still RM14.50, so as the jap movie '站在世界中心呼唤爱'.

UM & Shopping in Mid Valley

Around 9am me & my cousin reached UM because she wanna check her results. She introduced her friend, Stephenie:


Faculty of Economics & Admin:


New building of Economics & Admin since March:


Mid Valley is very near to UM, we took the Putra Shuttle bus to there in the afternoon and had lunch at C-Jade Express:

Searched up & down for Janet's present & my 4R portable photo album too.

Picnic at Ulu Bendul & Wedding dinner

Our colleagues were having a wedding dinner in Malacca last night. So, we planned to depart earlier in the morning and stop at Ulu Bendul waterfall(Negeri 9) for picnic lunch:



The bridegroom and vegetarian Fish:

The bride & bridegroom are colleagues but different department. hmm, everyone laughed that whether they are working or pak tor in the office? We finished our dinner at 10pm. By the time I back from Malacca to KL, it's only 12pm, not that late.

JiangNan Trip

This trip is kinda educational, had listened a lot of stories of China history while enjoying the beautiful sceneries. Among 5 cities (Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Nanjing) in JiangNan, I love Hangzhou the most. Post some photos here first:-

Shanghai Pudong:

The night view of ShanghaiTan(上海滩) from Asia tallest tower, Oriental Pearl Tower. It's the 3rd tallest in World where the 1st in Canada, 2nd in Russia and 4th KL Tower.
Shanghai is divided into 2 parts by HuangPu River – Pudong浦东(East) & Puxi浦西(West). Puxi is rather old while Pudong is newly grown with 15 years of history.

Left: On they way to China no.1 Leaning Tower.
Right: LingShan Buddha, the world largest standing buddha. Its right hand shows up(Sky) and left hand shows down(Ground) which means "天地之间，唯我独尊" in Chinese.


Wuxi Nanxun Water village is awesome with its river ride thru olden days village. It's so comfortable while the wind blow and seeing the LiuShu trees.


QingHeFang cultural street was full of old style shops selling many things. I had YueFei cake(定胜糕) here.


Shanghai XiaoLongBao(Left). All meals through the trip, we were provided 2 bottles of china beer & 1 bottle of soft drink. The beer is cheaper than soft drink because it's China product while soft drink such as Coke is imported. Thus, we can exchange 1 bottle of soft drink to 2 bottles of beer. The taste of beer is slightly less bitter than our carlsberg. So, we can drink beer like drink water.


Our tour guide, XiaoMao 小毛, told us a lot of stories and intro the meanings of all buildings/places interestingly. He has 7yrs of experience as tour guide, 4 years of experience as Malaysian visitors tour guide. Find that Malaysian is language talented but he hardly understands when Malaysian speaks various languages in one sentence. He explained that during shopping, their country's 8折=80% discount. I find that this trip was a bit rush as we only have 1 day to spend in each city while there were a lot more to discover. It's nice to see the ppl there, their culture, etc.

HangZhou has its different looks in different seasons, eg: winter of Hangzhou will full of the beauty of sakura, maybe many many years later we can visit it during winter.

I will upload more photos later when I'm free.