When you had too much random post, what else you can name another one?

Just came back from work like less than 1 hour ago. After so long never check the Domino Counter, I just logged in and have a look. And then I saw my company name?!!... in the "details of the last 100 visitor" list!

The time shown here is GMT+2, which means someone read my blog at 12.30pm, which is during lunch time! Wakaka.. Din know my power of my blog has spread to the office already. lol.


Speaking of my workplace, guess what is the function of the ice-maker machine in lab other than making ice for lab purpose?

I had been telling this joke (twice only la) to my colleagues. One of the colleagues hurt her tongue when she was eating noodle soup. So I gave her a suggestion: go dig a small hole in the ice pool in the ice-maker machine and tug your tongue in the ice hole. lol.. Naughty I am. But we had a good laugh. =D Another colleague was really angry over someone. Guess what? lol. I suggested her to bury her head into the ice in the ice-maker machine.

Lame right? But the joker in The Dark Knight said "why so serious?" At least someone supports me. Hehe. Why so serious when your life span is only less than a century? Why not make people around you happy and feel the happiness as well? Even though being a joker might make me look stupid, but then again, why so serious when I have only 50 years more to live? Live is healthy only when it is full of laughter. =)

Back to lab talk. One of my colleagues said she feels like autoclaving her labcoat to ensure its cleanliness. lol. I couldn't agree more! We spilled bacteria, ethidium bromide, buffers and all sorts of stuff onto our labcoats and in the end of the week we only wash it with just detergents. Summore I wash with my bare hands le! I'm not really sure whether I'm safe washing my labcoats with bare hands anymore. Hmm..

Weekend updates

I shall continue my weekend story before the next weekend comes.

As mentioned in my previous post, I went to a natural farm (Bandar Harapan) trip organized by Raleigh Kuala Lumpur last Saturday. And as mentioned, despite my low interests on gardening or farming, it brought back the long lost memories of my agriculture subject field trip in Second year in Monash. Same like the field trip, in this trip to the natural farm we got to touch, smell and even taste the leaves of the plants under the guidance of the person in charge, Ivan.


Tasty?


Not... (see Shih Chung's face)


Ivan giving explanation about how the soil indicator works


But I learned something extra during this trip as compared to the previous field trips. One of the interesting things is the garbage enzyme Ivan produced in big bulk through natural fermentation which when mixes with farm wastes and appropriate amount of water it can be treated as fertilizer.


Garbage enzyme


And, it was the first time I see people rear earthworms. Ivan made an earthworm nest by covering the patch of soil with a roof to make it shady and moist, ideal for earthworms to stay.


Baby earthworms


Not only earthworms Ivan rears. He also rears all sorts of insects and animals like frogs and crickets, which will help loosen the soil.



All sorts of insects and animals in the pots.


A frog staring at me when I took it's photo

Ivan also made another type of fertilizer, a more common type - fertilizer from animal wastes. At first I didn’t know it was made of animal waste. So when Ivan told us to put our hands into the lump of decompose to feel the warmth inside, I followed. Luckily it didn’t stink. In fact, it didn’t stink at all. Only the garbage enzyme, the natural SK2 claimed by Ivan, stinks. Lol.


A baby eggplant

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After the farm, I went straight to give tuition in OUG.

And then after tuition, there was a farewell dinner with one of the girls, CP, in Ole Ole Bali Pyramid.





Sorry didn't take the photo of the food. Coz we were too hungry already when the food was served.

Then after that I went to Halo Café in OUG for a tea with my hometown friend, Chee Hui. She came to KL for few days for work.

After so many years I finally got to talk to her face to face and one to one with her. She told me about her ideas of writing a new novel. I enjoyed reading her novels she posted online. She wants to be a novelist. She IS a novelist now, normally writes science fictions about reincarnation, plus a bit of love story. She actually does think like a novelist. When it comes to her stories, she can link all incidents together to make a complicated science fiction. And she sings well too. =P Din notice that when we were in secondary school.

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The next day was another blast. I went to help up with the Jumbo Sales at Mont Kiara organized by Lee Lee and Zhi Yong. They are going to the Sabah Expedition end of this month. The crowd was not satisfying and so was the sales. But the good thing was I saw a lot of Korean families , Japanese and white people walking around this area. How cool was that? Hehe.


This is our stall




The sales ended at 6pm but I only got back to my car at 8pm because of the carpooling effect. =( Sweat.. After that I went to yamcha with a friend in Bandar Puteri. When I reached home it was already 12am.

Maybe due to insufficient water plus too much dehydration (coz stand under the sun), insufficient sleep and too much Mc Donald's (for breakfast and lunch) on Sunday, I got a flu again. Padan muka lo. Sien.... I hate flu! It makes my head dizzy.

Now I'm having Mc Donald's phobia already. No more French fries for another few weeks!


I hate flu with runny nose! Especially when the tissue paper can only wipe a bit then it's a'll wet and have to throw away already. Maybe I should consider using sanitary pad to wipe dry? Or tampons? lol. Idea taken from the movie She's the Man. hehe.

If I could only see you in my dreams, I'll sleep more...

My weekend was fully-utilized! But tiring also.

I slept very late in the early Saturday morning at 3.30am which is way over my normal sleeping time. Sigh.. Preparation for tuition again. But this time it takes away too much of my sleeping time. I'm gonna quit this soon.

Ok. Back to my story. I woke up at 7.30am Saturday morning. Which means 4 hours sleeping time only?! I normally need 8 hours sleeping time for my brain to operate properly one le. Sigh. And the worse thing is, when I had not enough sleep I can't synchronize my brain and my body movements. I almost bumped into a wall when I'm walking and I knocked my head to the front mirror. Plus my bones were aching when I woke up this morning! Because of lack of sleep. =( I duwan to torture myself sleeping late already. IT IS NOT FUN!

Went out for Raleigh monthly meeting at 8.15am and miraculously reached the Kelana Jaya LRT station at 8.35am! lol. I love Saturday morning when the traffic is lovely. =P

This month meeting we had it in a natural farm. Natural in the sense that no GMO crops and fertilisers are used. I actually agree to what Dennis had pointed out this morning, that gene contamination is possible when there are 2 big farms with GMO crops near this natural farm. So this farm might not have 100% natural crops as what they are claiming.

Farming was always the least I want to do in my life. lol. So I din really expect much fun from this monthly meeting. But garbage enzyme attracted my attention actually. I heard about it from my aunt who went to a some sort of save-the-world or make-green-our-world (Dun remember la..) campaign in Bukit Jalil. She picked up this new technology from the speakers there about this Garbage Enzyme where one can just add 3 parts of any rubbish (basically only vege and fruits are allowed, and strictly no oil and meat), 1 part of brown sugar and 10 parts of water and finally close it tightly with a lid to allow anaerobic fermentation which will somehow break down the compounds in the waste into simpler and more useful compounds which are believed to be efficient in substituting detergents and soaps. And it can be used as a natural fertilizer.

So, I would conclude, in a simpler manner, garbage enzyme = natural detergent.

It sounds promising but I could not find any journals related to this garbage enzyme in scholar google. Maybe there are. Just that I could not find them.

The most highlighted part was the uncle asked us to try soaking our hand into the garbage enzyme. At first I din try. But everyone keep saying their skins feel smoother after soaking. So out of curiosity I tried. It stinks!! Stink like rubbish bin in kitchens. And worse was it didn’t make my skin any smoother. After that I washed my hands with soaps several times only can get rid of the smell.

Hmm. I wanna go sleep already. But I refuse to not posting this up. So I think I will post up half first lo. Shall continue with the farm, Saturday night and Sunday event. Nights.

Padini crazzze!

Today while working, when me and Y heard over the radio that the petrol price might be decreasing by 15 cents next week, both of us cheered so loud that CY was wondering what happened to us.

Please drop again and then I can buy more clothes. Muahaha.

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Talking about clothes, I went to Padini warehouse sales with my colleagues during lunch time today. It's a walking distance from my company. How convenient!

And guess what? All items are RM6 per piece!!! Yes! I mean the tops, jeans, pants, slippers, heels, bags, dress, skirts, shoes, belts, scarves etc etc etc... You name it, they have it! Rm6 per piece for all these, each! Only some minority items are RM13 per piece. But, that also is considered cheap!

Some of the clothes are out-of-shape already but some still looks new and untouched. Some heels are thrown out and looks old but some are still nicely placed in the shoebox along with the white paper. Belts are kept in plastic bags, each belt in a plastic bag.

I got myself 7 items! Inclusive of:




2 T-shirts (the top one is Padini Authentics one. White colour, length until butt, thick and elastic, quality good; the bottom one is Seed. Dark yellow colour actually, normal length but fit ngam ngam my shoulder, nice!)






2 spaghetti stripes (The top one is P&Co's. The bottom one is Padini Authentics', S size but it's very wide, have to do some minor sewing)


1 spaghetti halter top (this one is M size but surprisingly fit. Dunno what brand one.)


1 mini skirt (P& Co's. Saw this one from far when I was walking towards the counter. This is the skirt I always wanted to buy!!! And then told myself if this was L or XL size I will just forget about it. But it's M size! So I couldn't resist it. =P)


And 1 knee-length dress (Seed's)! Can wear to dinner! lol.. RM6 for a dress! Like WTH?!?!



Guess how much I spent on these in total?

RM42 only! Oh My Gawd.. RM42 couldn't even get me a normal price Padini shorts. lol.

Hehe.. actually I haven't got enough shopping from Padini warehouse sales. Wanna shop again for the junks. I saw one really nice slippers and scarf on some lady's hand when I was paying at the counter but I had not enough time to squeeze back and find the slipper and scarf. So I gave up.


p/s: This is not an ad. lol. I'm just too excited. And satisfied with my purchases. =P

Food in The Curve!

This update is a bit outdated I must admit. We, the 6 girls, went to Bubba Gump in The Curve on 24 August the Sunday to pre-celebrate Choo Peng's birthday.

Forgive me if you hate looking at small photos. I hate it too! I have no idea why the handphone photos all so small...

Bubba Gump interior is very unique! There are 3 different theme in the restaurant. Downstairs one I dunno how to describe coz I din really see what theme it was. Upstairs got two compartments. The one we chose to dine in was like a rugged restaurant in a cowboy city. A wall separated this cowboy theme with another elegant old European style compartment. Both also nice!




The bag I'm holding is CP's birthday present. The plastic bag was handmade by me. Muahaha. So proud of it. Although the gum stain looks a bit gross . But overall it looks good.


This staircase is the stairs to lead us to upstairs. Note the wood planks. Nice right?


Decoration on the wall. All sauces arranged neatly on the shelf.


Old European theme behind the white colour wall


Cowboy theme


Menu on Ping Pong bat. Creative! Zhuang later told me the Bubba Gump in US have this too. And Zhuang said the Bubba Gump waiters in US will come to the table and ask the customers 3 questions about the movie Forrest Gump. And if the customer get them right he/she can get a free dessert. Cool right? Too bad Malaysia one dun have such thing.


CP and GP


I ordered steak. Hehe. Expected la. Coz normally dun have the chance to eat steak. I will grab every chance given to me. Kakaka..
I ordered medium steak coz I want it soft and slightly uncooked taste of the beef. Hehe. The mashed potato was good but I dun like the sour cream on it which covered the taste of the mashed potato. Salad was fresh and it tasted unique coz it had a kind of herbal taste in the dressing. I dun like onion ring. So no comment for the onion ring. =P

These are the food ordered by the girls:


I think this is shrimp.


Fish and chip on a newspaper. This is not a normal newspaper. It's actually oil paper (direct translate from mandarin. Hehe). And the news is actually also related to Forrest Gump.


Salmon with rice. I ordered the same fruit smoothie too. It is called Run Forrest Run. Inside got grape plus banana and yoghurt if not mistaken.


CP with a gigantic burger


Shi Yun and Forrest's luggage and chocolate. I never watch this movie but according to Zhuang, who watched this movie several times (she loves this movie!), Forrest sat in a bus with this luggage and chocolate and he started to share the chocolate with people in the train. And thats when he shared his famous line -- My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."


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Had a very rare dining experience with Adam and Yumin on Monday. I emphasized the word 'dining' here because we went to La Gourmet in the Curve. This is the very first time in our history going to such sophisticated restaurants.


I ordered chicken pasta. It tasted great! The price also 'great' le. lol. RM20.90 for this pasta.

Din take picture with them coz we kept talking until din have time to take photo la. lol.

So ngam three of us are dog lovers. So we went to the pet centre in Ikano, wanted to see the dogs. But too bad maybe it was 9 something at night already, the dogs were all taken away from the cages already. So we ended up looking at the dog accessories. lol.