Reviving my blog..

Whoa.. I almost forget I have a blog!

OK la.. I'm back!

Just came back from my 5th yoga class. At first I was really reluctant to register for the class. Coz I think the class will bore me. I registered because can't stand my mum nag me almost everyday about how yoga can benefit me. So I gave up.. lol. Summore I wanna change my body posture. I feel that my posture is starting to get worse. I looked like gorilla when I walk and stand.. lol..



The yoga poses are too hard for me. I was thinking of giving up on yoga after having strained my body to do the poses during my 3rd class. But, after 4th class I started to notice my standing posture is better now. More straighten up. =) Now I think yoga is worth the hard work and pain. Now I kinda like it already. And the poses have became interesting challenges which makes me feel adrenalin pumping when I visualize myself achieving them.

Wish my postures will be all straighten up after yoga. =)

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Last weekend went to Pisang Fall. It was Raleigh May Meeting!

The trek was easy and fun trek. Easy coz no uphill at all. Fun is because lots of stream crossing and walking in streams. And the streams are easy streams. Ankle deep most of the time. =)


Pisang fall got very limited falls. Only two.. =.=


Having fun watching people kena tortured. lol..


Me and June


Cooking with Vincent, the Mr President


Me and Ange when going towards the fall. See, the stream is really calm and only ankle deep. Wanted to race with Christal in the trek one.. haha.. but didn't.

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Just came back from steamboat at Yuen @ Bdr Sunway with the girls because Steven and his fiance came Malaysia. Steven has to come Malaysia every 3-4 months, if not he will feel something in his life is not right. Hahaha.. He loves Malaysia too much already. =P

As usual, the procedure is eat + chitchat + gossiping about all the lecturers in uni last time + talking about career future + Malaysia and Indonesia market nowadays.. Whoa.. Very deep conversation, but I like to listen to this kind of informative chats. =)

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Yesterday someone say I look like kampung girl when he looked through my long hair photos in FB. =.=

Maybe I should stick to my short hair already. Aunt says short hair suits me. ^^ She say I look more energetic with short hair.

Short hair nice also. No need to really maintain it. No need to care whether I need to tie it up, where did I put the hairband, whether it's too kembang during hot and humid weather and no need to wait too long for it to dry after shower.. etc etc.. I'm loving it! =)

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Next Sunday Ekiden race already. Die. I not yet train lo.. Die Die Die..

Kimchi Jjigae crave not fulfilled

Got bitten by tiny creatures called chiggers from the forest.. Got around 10-ish of them. Ewww. I've killed them all already. But the chemical they release to dissolve my skin tissue (they suck the dissolved skin tissues as food) makes me feel so itchy!! According to the internet source, the itch will vanish after 2-3 days. Let's hope it will be okay by tomorrow or the day after. >.<"

Hmm.. My bites not so serious la.. No red spots.. Just a black dot only. =.=

Next time I'm gonna spray lotsa insect repellent when I'm in jungle. ><

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Just now when at work the fire exploded in front of my eyes. My face can even feel the heat. It was that close! I was totally shocked and watched the Bunsen burner burn for few seconds, stunned. Then only suddenly realized if the fire spread to the gas cylinder bigger explosion would occur.

Being stupid, I blew the fire off. =.=" And being even more stupid, I didn't remove the hose from the cylinder and didn't turn off the knob at the cylinder. So, the gas continued flowing out. Luckily I didn't faint. And lucky no one was injured.

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Today I had dinner at a Korean restaurant, Daorae, at Sri Petaling with Chung Ming Oppa (I call him oppa is because there isn't anyone who can let me call oppa here.. hehehe..). He just came back from NZ. Since I feel like eating kimchi jjigae, might as well ask him to go along with me, shun bian can meet him. =)

The food was a huge disappointment. Why? First of all, I've been craving for kimchi jjigae since 2 days ago. And then when I know I'm going to eat Korean food tonight I started to smell the kimchi jjigae in the air since 3pm at work. But when I took the first sip. Spiciness = obso, kimchi taste = obso. It was sweet, but not spicy at all! This is the first time I eat kimchi jjigae I dun even need to drink water at all! Really disappointed.


(Half-eaten only took this pic.. sorry for the mess)

And then the deokboggi (Rice cake) was also a disappointment. The sauce was tasteless. Again, it's not spicy! What's wrong with their Korean food? Why all not spicy one? Are they trying to adjust the level to those of Malaysians? Even I, someone who can't really eat spicy food, can drink the kimchi jjigae soup without aid of water, there's really something wrong with the spiciness lo. Sigh... Really disappointed.


(This is taken when both of us duwan to take in the deokboggi anymore)

Refuse to give up on the soup yet, I asked the waiter to give me gojujang (chili paste) so that I can add it to the soup to add some spiciness to it. But when they gave me their claimed gojujang.. it tasted like soy bean paste. =.=" We then asked them whether they gave us duen jang. They showed us duen jang which is brown colour and they claimed that that gojujang is really gojujang.. The disappointment was doubled with the gojujang.. Sigh...

I will never ever go back to that shop anymore. Maybe the next one I will go Taipan Daorae try their kimchi jjigae. Maybe find some time after work go there alone. Keke..

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Oh ya!! My Standard Chartered charity run had already successfully collected RM515 by now! Hahaha! So happy!



Which means I can participate in the run already! Thanks those who supported - Chung Shin, Zhuang, my uncle, Dr Omar, Hazel Lam, Vincent, Teng, my bro, David and Choo Peng. =)

Will go buy fabric paint and get a cloth. I will remember your names. =P

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Last Sunday went to recce. So happy we found a trail! Yoohoo! And time flies fast because got the entertainment from Khee Leong keep "zat" me.. =.= I can't wait for IW to come! =)

And guess what? I love this picture I took.



I like the angle! =D

Blissful weekend =)

Last weekend had been blissful. =)

Went for monthly meet but turned out Kuna's mum was admitted to hospital. So the first aid class was canceled. We then went to have dimsum at Jalan Ipoh while having a short meeting about updates of Raleigh. Wasn't really awake by then (summore me need time to warm up to break the ice to the outer world one.. lol), so most of the time I was dreaming during the meeting. Muahaha..

Then some of us went to kayak after the meeting at Taman Titiwangsa.

(Tanning themselves under the noon sun)

And I went to fly kite beside the lake they kayak with Pipo and June.



Then after kayaking, they had their kayak team photos.



And then we take group photos of the kayak and the kite. =)





(I like the way I look here. Muahaha.. looks like Ko Mi Nam in the Korean drama, I mean the hair looks like her. =P)

Kayaking is a very tiring game. I'd have to dry yourself under the sun and after kayaking you have to pour the water out of the kayak and carry them back to the storeroom. They are damn heavy wei!





Have to rest the hand from time to time to carry them back to the storeroom which is about 200m from the lake.

And then I had fun joining the nonsense talk in Zed's car. =)

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Then Sunday I went to sing K with Kexin, Adam and Jia Yaw. Kexin came back from holiday from Japan. Miss her so much! But not as much as Adam la. Adam missed her so much that he asked me twice to arrange a meet up with Kexin. lol. So there we were, in Redbox singing Bad Romance by Lady Gaga and only remembered the "Rawr Rawr Oh la la" part. lol. We had lots of laughter thanks to joker Adam.

But Redbox was really tricky. They only let us sang for 2 hours which dampened our moods a lot! So we continued chatting about everything at Full House. Again we were dampened by the very yucky drinks. They said my mango milk shake tasted the worst which resembles the smell of toilet fragrance. The last time I went Full House I had bad experience with the food also. So, if you all wanna have good food DO NOT go Full House!! But the good about Full House is that the interior is so beautiful and we can take picture with the glasses displayed there. (Will put up the pictures as soon as Kexin upload it in FB, if she does).

After Jia Yaw left, 3 of us went to take picture with the crazy bar-like glasses, some shades, some ties and Adam with a bra-tube in front of his chest. Muahaha. Adam was very attractive that day. Two waitresses blushed when they saw him. One when ordering the food and one when taking photos of him wearing the bra-tube. Then 3 of us squeezed into the changing room and had loads of crazy photos like Adam showing his muscle, us acting like models. lol... All those tiny little crazy things made us burst us into laughter. =) We had fun in there. (Awww.. I really wish I can see how the photos look like. hehe..)

I love those crazy moments.

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Then afterwards I went Zhuang's house to give tuition. After tuition and dinner, we chatted and took funny photos, again. But this time was by my part time photographer cousin. And there I got my Bruise Lee look photographed and photoshoped by him. Thanks so much JC! I love this photo so much!


I'm a very lousy actress lo. Kept rolling on the ground laughing when Zhuang and Mei started laughing at my facial expression. This is like the 3rd or 4th take. =P

I was supposed to imitate Bruce Lee when he says "ATTA!!"

After that Zhuang reminded me that my T-shirt says "Explain to me AGAIN why I need a boyfriend". Plus that expression on my face, it looks like I'm extremely fed up with people asking me "Do you have a bf yet? Why still not yet have bf? Get one la..." (especially during CNY....). So the photo says "ATTA!!~~ Ask me again and you'll be ATTA-ed!" lol... Kidding.

Me like this weekend!

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I attach one song here la. Say Hey (I Love You) by Michael Franti. Very relaxing song! =) I like this genre. Go check out the MV in Youtube, it's very simple and cute. =)

I'm back!! =P

So long never blog already. I've been busy with life, mostly working life. Recently OT quite a lot. And when I have time I would watch the Chinese drama called Shen Hua (神话) by Hu Ge (胡歌).

This story is about 2 guys accidentally opened a box from Qing's Dynasty and fell 2000 years back to Qing Dynasty. When I watch this drama I can't help myself from reading the history of Qing Dynasty. lol.. Now I know more about Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇), Xiang Yu (项羽) and Liu Bang (刘邦) already.

I wanted to blog about a lot of things these two weeks, but dun have the time. Like for example the CNY fortune note I got from the monthly meeting saying that I am likely to meet someone I've longed to meet. I'm curious who would that be? Lee Jun Ki? lol...


This month's meeting was picnic at Bukit Jalil park. The picture says I was enjoying massage from Shi Wei. =P

And I wanted to blog about the Putrajaya Night Marathon I went last Saturday. I went for the 7.7km run. Only the first 400 runners will get a medal. I didn't get the medal. Sigh. Run 5 minutes faster then I was chewing on the medal already. What to do, I didn't train at all before the run, what should I expect? The last 2 km was the most hilarious run I had. My running speed was the same with those walking beside me. =.= That was how slow I run during the last 2km. lol...


I finished it in around 1 hour

The next day when I got to know that my neighbour uncle finished the run at 37 minutes (51st) and aunty finished at 51 minutes (96th), I felt so ashamed. Suddenly I felt challenged... Then hor, Sunday met Adam and Yen Jun. When Adam told me that he exercises everyday before and after work, I felt more ashamed. Once upon a time I was quite fit one. Since few months ago when I started to catch cold and diarrhea and etc etc, I stopped all my activities. I had been away from aerobic (cardio) exercises for some time already. I can feel my lung capacity shrinking until nil now lo.. It gets so bad that when I breathe in I can't feel I'm breathing. And now I have flabby arm muscles.. and leg muscles. Sigh.. So unfit lo.. I need to do something already.

And hehe... I bought a pair of new sporty-look swimming goggles. Hehe..



So I'll start with my regular weekly swimming again starting after CNY. Sigh, my company is so far from Pusat Akuatic Darul Ehsan (PADE) now and I dun like 3K swimming pool (too crowdy). I know I keep complaining la. But I miss PADE lo... Miss the big and deep indoor pool. Very good for training, and cheaper if compared with Bukit Jalil swimming pool. And Bukit Jalil swimming pool is not as big and as deep as PADE pool lo... But if I am to go for swimming after work, I would have to squeeze my way through the traffic jam back to Glenmarie and then to Shah Alam for the pool. Not worth it.. Sigh. If I want to swim after work like what I did last time I have to learn to tolerate 3K pool la.. Or I should just swim during the weekend.

Oh by the way, I found that many people were looking for the schedule of Pusat Akuatik Darul Ehsan (PADE) and Bukit Jalil swimming pool. So I thought I should just share the schedule here so that everyone can check both schedules in one page. Easier to plan your time, right? =)

For Pusat Akuatic Darul Ehsan:

Session	Time
1	9.00 am - 11.30 am
2	12.00 pm - 2.30 pm
3	3.00 pm - 5.30 pm
4	6.00 pm - 8.30 pm

Payment
Monday-Friday

Outdoor Pool	Adult Children	RM 2.00 RM 1.50
Indoor Pool	Adult Children	RM 3.00 RM 3.00

Saturday, Sunday, Public Holiday

Outdoor Pool	Adult Children	RM 2.50 RM 2.00
Indoor Pool	Adult Children	RM 3.50 RM 3.50

For National Aquatic Center (Bukit Jalil Pool):

Category	Ticket Price (Monday-Thursday)	Ticket Price (Saturday, Sunday & Public Holiday)
Children under 12 year	Free	Free
Youth (13 - 17 years)	RM 3.00	RM 4.00
Adult (18 - 54 years)	RM 4.00	RM 5.00
Disabled	RM 3.00	RM 4.00
Goverment Servant	RM 3.00	RM 4.00
Senior Citizen (55 years and above)	RM 3.00	RM 4.00

Opening Time

Day	Time
Monday to Thursday	2.00 pm - 4.30 pm
	5.00 pm - 7.30 pm
	8.00 pm - 10.30pm
Friday (Free)	8.00 am - 9.30 am
	10.00 am - 11.30 am
	3.00 pm - 4.30 pm
	5.30 pm - 7.00 pm
Saturday, Sunday & Public Holiday	9.00 am -11.30 am
	12.00 pm - 2.30 pm
	3.00 pm - 5.30 pm
	6.00 pm - 8.30 pm

Decision made!

I had already graduated from Elementary Level 1 Korean language from ICLS two weeks ago. Had been considering and re-considering for countless times whether to continue to Level 2. The new class starts tomorrow. And if I am to attend the new class, I will have to pay tomorrow before the class.

Actually I was thinking I should take a rest from these because it is getting more difficult and I think next level will be even harder for me to handle. I'm worried that I won't absorb as much from the coming lesson as I should and hence waste my money. But on second thought, I think this thinking is an excuse to run away from challenges. It looks like a cowardly act which I hope I shouldn't have.

Furthermore, taking a rest might take me months because in order to wait for another batch of students who have Beginner level 2 qualification, it will take another few months. And I think I will karat within these few months lo.

So, I had just decided about an hour ago that I should continue with the studies and learn and practice as much as I can. But actually to practice I still need to find a Korean friend la. Sigh. Why is it so hard to find a Korean friend ah? Hey, any Koreans reading this? I can teach you English and you teach me Korean la. Can ah? lol.

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Last weekend was tiring but contented coz I did few meaningful stuff. =)

Celebrated Woan Yng's birthday on Friday night at Full House @ Sunway Pyramid.

(Tomorrow only I will upload the photos coz I need to resize the photos first then only can upload, and it's too late now I wanna sleep first)

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Saturday I did some farming although I really hate gardening. Went to the organic farm Bandar Harapan for the second time.



But this time we got to DIY fertilizer using some ash, garbage enzyme, bacteria, cow dung and dried grass.



It stinks! I dun like the smell. I think nobody like the smell la. Then most of us got to touch a gigantic worm and some daredevils hold them for photos. Very geli lo....






Then went to Lymun's house to clean tents from IW camp. 12 people, about 3 hours cleaning.


I like this picture. Everyone looks busy. How nice if Karlye, Faizal, Zed and Woon Chin are in this photo. They were busy hanging the tents.

And then it rained and we had to take off all the tents. =.=" But it's been so long since I've walked in the rain, I enjoyed the rain though, despite the fact that we had to find another spot to dry the tents. =(



Didn't follow them to Kepong to dry the tents after dinner. Really wanna give them thumbs up for the Raleigh spirit lo. =) Coz it's been such a tiring day already but they still had to worry about the tents until the next day.

Fruitless recce

I didn't enclose the past two recce events in my blog coz it's just solely recce. You'll be bored with many names of the Taman Rekreasi or some unnamed site we went only.

But today recce was different. Coz we couldn't even find a possible campsite. So the recce today was solely road trips, even worse than the first recce. lol...

We started first with breakfast in Taman Reckreasi Chongkak. We picnic by the roadside. Caught a lot of attention from the group of photographers who came to take photos in the park.


Our breakfast =)

After that we turned into every small roads we can see beside the main road hoping that it might lead to a jungle with flat ground suitable for campsite. But most of them ended up with Orang Asli village or some farms.

In the end we did nonsense things:

- A small road led us to an Orang Asli village. When driving out we saw a coconut tree with a coconut dangling low. Vincent and Dennis 'harvest' the coconut near the Orang Asli village. The way they harvest the coconut is very weird lo.

First Vincent tried to climbed the tree.



Then he tried to throw the parang upwards to try to chop the coconut off from the branch.

Afterwards both Vincent and Dennis chop off the branch which the coconut is connected to get the coconut. =.='



After that we quickly hopped into Vincent's car and mischieviously hid the coconut in the car hoping that nobody notice we stole the coconut.

- Another small road led us to a cow barn. When Vincent was making a U-turn in the farm, we took some pictures of the cows.

This cow damn big size one..

-Another road led us to another Orang Asli village called Kampung Orang Asli Paya Lebar. Me and Lu Yi borrowed their toilet there coz we can't find any other toilet along the road earlier on. lol.. Then Vincent and Dennis had a conversation with the orang asli guy there. =)

- Then we had lunch at Hutan Lipur Jeram Toi.

This is where I got my headache due to the glaring sun. I was dehydrated when sitting under the sun.


Macaroni with garlic cream sauce and some luncheon meat. Thanks Dennis for the great breakfast and lunch. =)


This is the coconut we stole. Vincent was chopping open the fruit with his parang.

After opened, we poured out the coconut juice into a messtin. It taste heavenly. Vincent was not used to it coz it has no pandan taste. lol.. Coz it's normal coconut ma.




The coconut flesh which I didn't try coz I was very full already after eating the macaroni =P

After eating, we took a 15 minutes nap lying on the ground at our picnic site.



Then we had a lot of photo session using LuYi's camera (which I'm yet to get the photos from) with Drake, our Raleigh bear.









-Then we went to play swing and see-saw in Taman Rekreasi Lenggeng.


Very demotivated already at that point. So bored with the zero results and plus my headache, I really wanted to go home and sleep.


What an unfruitful day. But now thinking back it feels like I was on a relaxing road trip. =)


Group photo of recce 23-08-09. From the left: Dennis (my team leader) Lu Yi, me and Vincent (our President)


Aww... I miss the fruitful recce at Hulu Perdik where we found a very nice waterfall which has quite little visitors (only one family with kids went there for fishing and playing water)



We were very excited with the waterfall =)

Posing with our parangs. =P


Hope we can find more camping site next recce la. =)

Another busy weekend

Last Friday night was a packed one. Korean class at SS15 till 9pm, then meeting with Raleigh recce team at Bangsar Mc Donald's at 9.30pm, then right after the meeting a surprise birthday party for our Raleigh president, Vincent, at Gabai Waterfall.

I dragged myself home very 'early' the next day.

Woke up at 8am the next day for badminton appointment with my fellow colleagues at Menjalara, Kepong. I just played for less than 1 hour my engine died. lol. My limbs were like cotton candy. lol.

Actually the main reason I went to this badminton thing was for the food my colleague promised me. Hehe. She told me the food at the cake house there are very nice. And it's the main reason I write this entry too. Keke.. Coz the food were indeed very nice!


The cake house's name is De Pastry Chef


It's so famous that many celebrities came to visit the pastry


Not only the meals were tasty, there were different types of attractive cakes displayed too.

These were the food we ordered:

Fettuccine Al Funghi. I love! Taste very Italian. =) This is how a pasta should taste like! Yum! It had a spice aroma which I could not name.


Chicken chop. Ok la.. Like normal chicken chop lo.


Tomyam meehoon. The tomyam lacked the aroma of serai and daun limau purut. But still consider ok ok la.


Mango smooties I ordered. Nice!


The drinks my colleagues ordered. Dun remember the names. I only remember the middle one was melon+honey coz I wanted to order this. =P


My supervisor, Toh Theng.


Yenny

After the meal we went to visit Cheng Yee's parents at their coffee shop near the Pasar Kepong. Chit chat a while then went back. I K.O. in Toh Theng's car during the journey back to Sunway and continued to sleep when I reached home. This was the longest sleep I had in my conscious life. I slept from 3.30pm till Sunday morning 7.30am! o.O Feel very very refreshed the next morning. Actually I still feel refreshed now. lol.

Sunday was another busy day running here and there. But I was recharged so I didn't even feel a tiny tinge of tiredness. =)



I'm refreshed. Are you? =)