Gathering and farewell for Shu Hui

On 14 November 2009, we had a gathering and farewell for Shu Hui. She has to go to Australia and work for 2 years under MINDEF. She cannot provide us with more details, if not she has to KILL us. Lolx.

Before I met them, I was chilling out at City Link TCC. Taking a rest and realized I dozed off quite a few times.

After I met up with them, we went to Suntec's Chong Qing Huo Guo for dinner. This is my first time eating there. Thus, allowing those who frequent there to make decisions on what dishes to choose.

James, me and Kenny

  Yanning, Shu Hui and Aubrey

The group photo

After that, we went to chill out at Pub at Suntec. We had 2 bottles of Wine - Red and White. Some of the photos taken that day:

 

The Brothers

The Sisters

The Brothers and Sisters

The pairs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally, cheers to our 9 years of friendship, brotherhood and sisterhood:

And photos of myself:

After that, some of them went for second round while the few of us went back. It was a great hang out and was surprised to see Aubrey after 9 years since we graduated from CIBTC D2K.

Hope that Shu Hui will have a good time in Aussie. =D

Breaking Barrier Carnival

14 November 2009 was my organisation (SPD)'s fundraising carnival - Breaking Barrier.

I was assigned first shift initially, then changed to second shift but because I had appointment with my D2K squadmates (bros and sis), I had to change with other colleague to morning shift.

These were some of the photos taken during the early preparation as well as the early morning before the crowd started to stream in:

This is where I am stationed

The game station is called Fishing Frenzy

My colleague's daughter trying out

Our booth

With the "pool"

My FIRST Customer!

He's young but he's damn good

Another gal

Me teaching the little girl

Yet another gal

My morning "customers" are full of foreigners. Maybe Singaporeans are either sleeping or working at that point in time.

Finally a Singaporean!

Time for a pose!

Another game stall

Me and my colleague (partner for the game stall)

ME!

Yeng Yeng who came to take over us

After handling over, I went to walk around and soon it was time for some celebrities:

 Jade Seah, Wang Zhong Yao and Zoe Tay

 

Me and Juat

Sunita and me

Ruchi and me

Before I left, I went to Osim stall to do a 10 minutes massage after standing for 6.5 hrs:

 

MY HEART!

After that, I left Orchard and went to City Hall to wait for my appointment with my squadmates.

Do you want to hear a joke?

"I sense fear of speech"

Yes. You are 100% right. I did not know how to response and what to say or whether to say it or not. Like you say, either way, it's not going to help.

As much as I wanted to help, I felt so helpless to help you. I wanted to help you not because I sympathize or empathize or pity you, it because you are a very important and special friend who I want to care for. Likewise for other friends who has an importance place in my heart, I will go all out to help, even if I have to give up on my sleep and you know it. Only thing is that you own slightly bigger place.

I wouldn't say self-motivation is easy. Because these few months in life I'm actually not as motivated as I used to be. I know what it feels to have that moments of "down" and don't feel like doing anything, even stepping out of the house. Despite all these downs, I guess what makes me become stronger and "up" my mood is you. Because I want to see if I can help you in any way, however small it may be. If me myself is "down", I wouldn't be of any help.

Sometimes it can be disheartening to see events and situations hitting us badly over and over again and nothing seems to become better or mistakes keep repeating itself. But,

"山不转，路转。路不转，人转。人不转，心要转."

When will things be better for  you? You may wonder. No one can predict the future, we just got to try our best every time. And if we did, we should smile because we did all we can. If we didn't, we just got to "let it go" because at the point of time when we choose not to put in our best, it is the choice that we made at that point of time, which may be right or best at heart AT that point in time. Do not look back and said I "should have". You will never know and no one knows.

Whichever you choose or decide, just stay happy. And be happy. =D

A weekends trip to Kluang, Malaysia (7 - 8 November 2009)

On 7 Nov 09, I went to Kluang with Juat as her sister last minute cannot make it. Wake up early in the morning and took a cab to Tanjong Pagar Train station and arrived at 7am. Initially I wanted to stay in SG to accompany Alvin to prepare/study for exam and give him some moral support, but he prefer to study at home. Since there is nothing constructive I can help, I decided to go to Kluang and since I can have a little break and accompany Juat too.

These are some photos of the station:

Soon, it was time to board the train......

Posing next to the train

It has been more than 10 years since I took the train. The last time I took train was to Taman Negara back in 1999! Spot the coffee I'm holding? =X

My Coffee

Me in the train

I simply LOVE this picture

Juat and me.

This is Kluang, train station:

I like this welcome sign:

 

I like it maybe because of the angle that I took it from. It looks so artistic. LOLX.

This is the timing of the trains:

And how the outside of the train station looks like:

And we are on our way to our hotel:

 

Here we are, our hotel:

How does the inside of the hotel looks like?

 At the reception counter
(really got wifi meh?)

The lobby

The room rate

At the reception counter

Sorry, full house.

As we were early, our rooms were not ready yet. We left our bags at some temporary place before we headed out to have our breakfast. One the way to the coffee shop, I spotted this shop which looked like Singapore's Toy' R Us with castle as the exterior design:

At the outside of the shop, I saw many soft toys!!!!

How can I not take photo with them:

How I wished these are mine.....

Then, we walked to the coffee shop to have some breakfast. I quite like the exterior design of the coffeeshop too:

Another orientation of the shop:

Even the picture on the menu was nice:

Before we went back to hotel to check in out bags, we went to book our foot reflexogy and back massage at one of the shops. After that, we went back to the hotel and here we are, going up to our rooms.

Stairway to our rooms

(no lift available here)

level 3

This is Juat's and my room:

Room 204

TV and dressing table

2 single beds

I changed my jeans into my shorts before going out again, so that I don't have to bear with so much heat being trapped in my black jeans.

Heard that there was a new shopping centre - Pacific Kluang Mall nearby, we decided to go and take a look. There it is!

How can I miss the chance to pose again?

When we were reaching the shopping centre, we saw a group of people crowding outside the centre. Surprisingly, they seemed to have some car racing in a circuit.

I am so excited when I see these sports car even  though I'm an idiot about cars, as a vainpot as what Juat's put it, how can I not go near and pose and take photos? How often can we take such closed up photos with such cars? I know I'm not a model with super good figure, so do bear with me for a while, while I present to you some of the photos of these cars..... with me of course. =)

 

 Follow us to Kluang Mall

when I saw these cars in the mall, I can't help but walk towards it and asked Juat to take a photo for me:

 

 Do not dare to sit on it

Another one:

 

 I begin to heckcare and went to sit on it:

 

I then became slightly bolder and went to open the door of the car:

 

 And became boldest when I sat in the car:

Here I am!!! =D

Here's another car:

 

 

Another one taken from the top:

 

From the side:

 

More outside:

 

Another one:

 

The last red one:

 

Finally eh?

Really one last one:

 

The above seems to be a Singapore Car. Because it starts with SJK... ......

And I've made a collage on the cars:

The mall has this organic food:

Spotted this plant, which is said to help to reduce radiation from the computer:

Juat saw this and ask me to pose with her:

Posing and more posing:

 

 

 

In a kiddo's taxi somemore. =X

We wanted to find the cinema as we were interested to watch movie at night but we couldn't find and ended up at the mall's open roof car park:

JUMP!

After that, we went to visit some rattan furniture shop where some of them bought some ratan chair and small box.

On the way there, I saw this sign that I thought it will look nice. Juat helped me took a photo of it as my phone was low batt and got to off it to reserved the battery life for the next day trekking:

And this is the rattan place:

After that, we went for our foot reflexology and back massage:

 

This is me, doing my first foot reflexology

Surprisingly, I don't have much pain except areas that is associated with my sleep, urinary tract, bladder and head. I think without pressing on my leg, any public can see that I had problem with my sleep just by looking at my eyes. LOLX.

This is Juat and me after our foot reflexology......

After that, we went for our dinner and it was an open concept coffeeshop and it rained. Imagine us eating 3/4 done and got to put some food into our bowl of rice and bring our bowl into the shelter and eat. Another friend of Juat helps us to carry our curry fish head in. It was quite an amusing moment eating while standing  as it ended up with me and Juat eating only.

After that, we went to another shopping centre and I caught my eyes on this:

And I though someone like Alvin may like it!

And I got myself a scissors keychain which I didn't take photo of it. I also bought a Sony Ericsson handphone charger because my phone is going low batt after all that photo taking, GPRS as well as searching of network. I chatted with Alvin over GPRS using my ebuddy for a while before I logged off. He said I'm wasting my data. =X. I slept pretty early for someone who used to sleep at 2-3 plus on a saturday. I slept at 11.30pm.

The next day, we woke up damn early to climb Gunung Lambak.

The photos taken outside the hotel while we wait for the taxi to send us to the hill/moutain: 

View of the hotel

Waiting for our cabs

3 elderlys

The time when we boarded the cab:

6.44am.

Finally, we arrived and were at the foot of the hill:

At the start

My back

Jungle tracking

I don't believed I can see exercise equipment at the hill!

All ahead of me while I took photos

"Mini waterfall"

 

A steep slope up

Time for tea coffee!

While waiting for coffee and noodles to be ready, I took more photos, especially on the squirrels:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally managed to feed it. *happy*

The people there preparing FREE breakfast for the trekkers there:

The noodles they cooked are not bad, just a little oily. But well, I'm surprised that there are such service! They are just so heart-warming and kind.

How can Juat and me leave without taking a photo together (taken by her friend with a DSLR):

With our coffee!

Some other shoots before we headed down the hill/mountain:

 

 Jump again!

These are what I had captured on the way down, which is another route by the way:

On a hanging bridge

Another exercise equipment

Didn't know Falun Gong is in Malaysia too

*Disclaimer: The blogger is just taking photo and is not related to the

Falun Gong in any ways*

Are you lost? That way please.

After the trek, we went to have Yong Tau Hu for breakfast:

 

My COFFEE

The noodles

Mixed Yong Tau Hu ingredients

After that, we went to a noyan kueh shop:

 

The desserts that we ordered:

The ice-kachan which looks like our chengdo

Ice jelly

The interior of the shop:

The signboard of the shop:

After that, we walked past a utensils shop:

 

Why did I see a dragonboat paddle here?

Oh..... so it wasn't a paddle?? It's a ......

Rice Laddle!!!

After all these, it's finally time to go.... ....

Last shoot at the hotel

At the train station, we spotted a group of students:

Apparently they were there because they had not seen a train before.

More photos at the train station:

 

 

Train is coming...... Till I see you again.......

What are the things that I bought back?

For home

 

1 for office, 1 for home

 

For Alvin