21st June 08 Kelantan Trip

As usual the time has come for me and my family to fetch my bro from his hostel back home. Why did i agree to go on this 6 hr drive there and 6hr drive back to Penang? Its because of the yummy Thai food of course....

Yummy vege fried in sambal...

Yummy salad chicken with some kind of fried grass...

Yummy chicken burned with alcohol...there are actually blue flames leaping up from the plate. But my lousy camera could not capture that...Yummiest of all....Kensom fish!

Keith the Sweetest Guy on Earth :P

Lots and lots of ppl is eager to read what's this about..haha. So many ppl asked me about it. And you know what's the funny thing? They thought that the internet explorer hang or something's wrong with the internet that caused the webpage to only show the title. And their curiosity caused them to refresh the page multiple times, but then the outcome is always the same coz i have not written anything yet. Hahaha... :D

Ok...so you wanna know? One day i was playing with baby Jennelle when i noticed that Keith was missing for a long time. He did tell me that he was going to wash his car, but washing one car does not take so long. So me and Jenelle decided to go check it out....Guess what?

He helped me wash my car too...isn't that sweet? It's super sweet to me lar...coz i dun like to wash my car and he did that for me~ This happened weeks ago...but till today when i think about it, it never fails to bring a smile to my face.

Thank you Keith! I'll never forget this for the rest of my life...

Fred and Kat's Wedding

PMO Planning Teambuilding 08

Lately due to the cost cutting, we've not been having as much team buildings as before. Our department teambuilding is not that happening due to the miserable budget of RM10 per person, but it's better than none at all. At least we could all take a break from work and go out to play.
So for year 2008, our teambuilding was to play games in a hotel room (B-suite). Phatetic right?
Anyway as usual our dept which consist of all girls except for one guy, got really "siau" and started cracking dirty jokes like no one's business.
Hahaha...some hot action stuff like sleeping together on the bed....

3 Hot Girls in Bed

We played (1) Cat Chase the Mouse Game with hoola-hoops - requires max flexible body; (2) Arange Words Game - We arranged all the letters that we have into words. Little did we know we could even make a sensible sentence out our words (view pic below). Hahaha we deserve xtra marks; (3) Charade and (4) Pass the balls - one smooth one and one with some pubic hair like drawing on it.

Louisa and me proud of our language skills

Anyway after all the games was done, we proceeded for the last session which was prize giving. We found one commonality in all the winning teams for each of the game, Wan Shia and me was the member. Hmm proves that we are good players...so next time please recruit us if you wanna win (We charge on hourly basis).

~siewpeng embarassed to be part of the team because of our wonderful language~

Shanghai Biz Trip Day 4

Shanghai Biz Trip Day 3

I have not been diligently blogging, but there are certain events that i really want to write about so that i can remember them forever and ever. So I'm just gonna put placeholders first. And return to blog about them later when i have time. Can't stand the events being messed up and out of order, so bear with me.

Shanghai Biz Trip Day 2

My alarm rang at 5.30am in the morning. I was immediately wide awake as I felt uncomfortable sleeping in a foreign room all by myself. I immediately headed for the bathroom to soak in the warm tub (the room was pretty cold). I found out on the 3rd that that it was because i had the setting wrong - stupid me - so i was suffering for 3 days in the cold room.

Before I left the room I managed to take pictures of my hotel room view…

At 6.45am sharp i was downstairs with Ivan and we took a cab to Intel together. I've never really talked to Ivan much but he proved to be quite a nice person (very unlike my initial impression of him). We chatted throughout the way in the taxi. When we neared the industrial area, the taxi driver told us he did not know how to get to Intel. :O What's that supposed to mean? I thought to myself, you are a cab driver if you didn't know the place you should not commit to bring us there in the first place! But apparently it's very common in Shanghai. Ppl do anything they can to earn money, never pass over a business opportunity. That's the way it goes...Anyway, luckily Ivan has been to Intel Pudong a million times and could recognize the way. But that banana did not know mandarin and started pointing in random directions - confusing the cab driver. At last i had to translate the directions in my broken mandarin and we managed to get there. Phew!

~Before I proceed further...I would like to comment on the driving in Shanghai. It really commands my respect. All drivers in Shanghai are like pro drivers, no one use brakes there. Motorist with high heel and under utilized rearview mirror, in a nutshell definitely will get heart attack.~

After work, YY wanted to try out Peking duck for dinner. So we ended at this fancy restaurant. As expected we kena cut throat there, but the food was good. 3 of us (YY Ivan and me) ate the whole duck. Don't think its a lot...after the sifu cut the duck its only abt 2 small plates of meat and 1 plate of crispy duck skin. Before i left i managed to take a picture with a waitress which had the funny china hairdo.

After dinner I went to the Shanghai Bund (more known as Sheong Hoi Than in Cantonese) with Ivan. It was a marvelous sight. Full of lights…see the pics below.
Anyway Ivan belanja me eat sotong….wah damn nice! The most delicious food that I had in Shanghai.
We walked backed to the hotel as it was nearby (abt 15 mins walk)…then zzzzzzz.

The Mind That Makes No Sense

If you’re not me please don’t read this (it’s private).

Who am I? Have you ever thought of that? Sometimes we keep blaming others for not understanding ourselves, but sometimes I really do wonder if I really truly understand myself. What I really want? What personality do I have? Till today I’m still caught by surprises on how I behave sometimes. Why did god make humans so complex? Why can’t all of us be simple beings that are only capable of true or false logic (no maybes and uncertainties). Yeah, I know for a fact that uncertainties are my biggest enemies. I’m not sure if it’s some mental disorder, must everything must be certain for me. It bugs me when things are ambiguous and unclear.

Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m a stranger to myself. You know each person has a unique identity that identifies the person. Often we’ve used terms to describe friends like “It’s typical of her” or “I know he’ll do that. It’s just him”. For me I feel that I’ve lost that. Don’t ask me why I don’t know. This really scares the shit out of me. Being someone that has to be certain everything suddenly is unsure about oneself. Oh dear, big problem there. I’m so tangled right now I actually feel like I’m somewhere where there’s no time, no logic and no why. I’ve been living life like in Alice’s Wonderland for quite some time now. No why, it’s the way it is. I need to pull myself together, get a grip and move forward.

Recently, I have been mean to some people who accidentally in some ways stepped on my foot. I feel bad about it now, because I know it’s not “typical” me. Just because someone did something bad to me it doesn’t mean that I have the right to take revenge. A lot of people might not agree with me because eventually everyone takes you for granted. But at the end of the day, I always feel better looking back and knowing that I did the right things.

There is one more thing that bugs me but too complicated to explain. All I need to say is, “When you know someone really well, you’ll understand their behavior and you will learn to adapt and forgive. When you do not know someone well enough, little things piss you off because you just don’t understand. Not sure if you understand this, but it makes sense to me. Sigh I still got a long way to go. But I’ll try my best don’t worry.

I need a break. Not just a holiday. I want to have a day which is out of the 7 day week. A day where there is no time. Everyone will be suspended in time from the previous day. And i will get the day to get my direction and also get some lead time while i'm at it. Hahaha one day called "Wunday" (pronounced as one-day). PS: I'm so not creative when it comes to names. Thats a never changing fact. And the day will come between Sunday and Monday because i don't like Mondays.

You must think that I’m making no sense right? But it does, I know it does.