Aiyor, I got the job. Why the 'aiyor'? Well, if I didn't get it I wouldn't have to think so much. I think I need a list of pros and cons to help me make a decision.

Pros
1. The name Telekom will look good on my CV.
2. Basic pay is good. If I close a deal, then commissions ++. My jobs comes with travel and entertainment allowance also. But that one standard la, in the sales line ma.
3. 1 month advance notice is I want to resign from my post.
4. I'll start work tomorrow. Means, everything is going according to my plan and mets one of my goal in life, a real job before I turn 21.
5. My relatives won't bug me during CNY because I can just tell them "Yes, I found a job and already working, so get off my case" Huahuahua.
6. Half of this month goes to training, so I don't really have to work yet.
7. I can learn how to convince and close deals with different types of people. I get to meet interesting, mad, annoying and maybe beautiful people with this job. I can't really do that if I were to become a programmer.

Cons
1. I don't think the allowance is enough.
2. 1 year probation, but then again it doesn't matter for my case.
3. If I take this job, I have to take a little detour on my initial working life plan. Arghh. I guess one can plan a perfect picnic but can't predict the bad weather.
4. Can't take time off work for my potential interviews!
5. If I'm working I won't be able to freely say "I can start anytime" to jobs that I want. Some employers pass on applicants like me.

Blurry facts
1. What if this becomes my permanent job?
2. My mom don't really like the idea that I even went for the interview, but then again it's my job, my life. She can control me forever man.
3. I'm greedy. I want the best of both employed and unemployed world.
4. I'm hyped up about the job, but do I have the potential to really sell Telekom's services? I have less confidence on that. What if I don't meet sales targets? What if I don't even meet my own target?

Korkor where are you when I need you. I need your advice.

I've got to sign my employment agreement tomorrow already...aiee how how? I really don't know what to do.

I got a call from 103jobs.com again today. Sylvia from the agency told me I'm being short listed for a second interview with Telekom. *surprised!* I'm happy that I got short listed, but on the other hand very confused about the whole thing. Sylvia also told me that the candidates that got short listed will most probably be hired. The second interview was just to talk conditions and contract information. But the thing is, I don't know if I want the job. Sylvia also told me I was the youngest candidate that went for the first interview and actually through the short listing. Is being young (and inexperience) a pro or con in my case?

Being a Sales(IT) Executive is not one of my top jobs in mind. I have to be running/driving around looking for customers. My mom asked me "Are you sure you can handle the running around? You are a freshie with no experience after all? Are you sure you can handle that kind of environment?" Mom, it's not the environment that I'm afraid of, it's the whole job and time thing. I'm afraid that I'll get a better offer after I have accepted this job, a job offer that I will definitely like compared to a sales IT executive. But then what if I don't get any better offer? Or will I want to be in this Sales IT line for long? Will I be wasting my time in something I know I won't be in for long? If you say no time is wasted because experience is gained, well that one definitely la, but ah.... aie, I don't know man. I'm being indecisive again.

Anyhow, I'll be in Menara Telekom again tomorrow to go ahead with my second interview. To sign or not to sign the contract is still up to me. I will just have to see what goes in the contract now. Can I terminate my contract without much hassle? How long will my probational period be? How much will I be given for my mileage claim? Have to find out so much more...hais.

You know, sometimes I'm jealous of people who are able to express their feelings without any problem. Jin always tells me that communication is the key element in any 'ships', relationships, friendships, even warships. But why is it sometimes just so hard for me to express myself directly? I think I don't have a "You think too much" problem, but I have a "You keep everything to yourself" problem.

It's just typical of me actually, I just don't know how to open my mouth. Sometimes when I think, I have it all figured out. I know what I want to say, I know what I want to ask, I know roughly what I'm going to expect. But I don't know what every time when the time comes, I'll chicken out or postpone the topic I firstly intended to bring up. And at the end, nothing is being said. All is left behind my head, into a cancerous cell that is not going to kill me, but make me insane.

Why do I find it hard? What am I afraid of? Am I being too kind? Am I being too timid? Am I having a speech dysfunction? What do I need... a break?

I almost lost my phone to a drain. *eekk*

Long story. But to cut things short, my phone was on my lap in the car. I opened the car door and moved my legs. My phone dropped out of the car...and into a covered drain. AHHHHHH. Thank god the drain was dry, but still very much dirty. My hand couldn't reach in so I had to resort to sticks, branches and wires. All failed.

JK then came with a road construction worker. He hammered out the grill that was covering the drain for me. Thus, my phone was saved. Thank you Mr.Man!

I better go clean my phone tomorrow. Maybe with Detol. Yuck...all the jerms.

I came back from shopping feeling super tired. Fell asleep on my bed. BC called me about 6pm, his call woke me. I couldn't fall back to sleep.

So as usual, I did my routine thing everything I wake up. Go to my PC room and do my routine exercise. Surfing the internet. I didn't know what site to visit, so I decided just to drop by APIIT's to check my unreleased results. I know the results won't be out until tomorrow, but I just had to check.

I logged in and click on my intake, HF0271COM. There were a listing of subjects and numbers at the side. Oh... results are out. OK.... *rubs eyes* *double checks the intake number* RESULTS ARE OUT! AHHHHHHHHHHHH! I called every Tom Dick and Harry as well as every Mary Jane and Nancy to tell them that the results are out. LOL!

What did I get? Well, I did not fail my most feared business subject SIP. *phew* Results for my project module was a little disappointing. I was expecting a higher grade for my research and investigation. I did load shit and really put effort in it. I really want to know the areas that I didn't do well in. I want to improve just in case I have to do another FYP. LOL. Overall results? Second Class Honours First Division. I'm relieved, but not overjoyed. I know if I tried harder and not loose focus, I might have a chance for a First Class Honours. But no regrets.

Anyways, I just want to say congratulations to all my APIIT friends. (I know none will fail, all pass one la, I have confidence in you) We are all graduating together baby! wOOt! wOOt! And to my best friend Jin Jin, congratulations on your hard earned First Class Honours. Now go rub it in to your brother's face. hehehehHAHAHHAHA. *evil*

Congratulations kor kor!

I didn't have time to read his blog until recently, so only today that I found out why he left me a message to read his blog. My dearest brother completed his first marathon.

Break dancing is not for me. I just don't have the strength. Balancing and flexibility is OK, but when it comes to strength, I just can't hold myself in place for long because my arms are not strong enough.

My wrists and shoulders are aching from today's class. I've even got blood spots on my arm because of the 'chair balancing' I did in class today. I'm sure it will be worst tomorrow. And as for my knees, the signs of a blue black are already showing.

I'm quitting break dancing. I don't have the patients and enough commitment to built up my strength.

Quitting break dancing, but I should be taking up hip hop or social dancing again. Or maybe both! At least this time I know I won't quit after a month.

My interview was suppose to start at 9am. I was at the front of Menara Telekom at 7.50am. HAHAHAHA. Surprisingly no jam on the Federal Hiway and everywhere else. It took me only 15 minutes from my home (Kelana Jaya) to reach Menara Telekom in Kerinchi.

Anyways, all the candidates were suppose to register and we were all given I.D's. One guy then brought us up to the 18th floor where the briefing and interview is being held. The briefing started at about 9.10 and lasted for an hour. 25 of us then went for breakfast that was provided while the other 5 candidates went in for their interviews.

5 interview rooms, each with 3 interviewers. I waited a long time for my turn. My interview started at about 12.10 in the noon. I was the 3rd last person in the waiting/meeting room. I'm not going to bla much about what went on in the interview because Telekom will still be interview another 30 candidates everyday until Friday. I got out of the interview room at about 12.45 noon.

Okay, enough about jobs and interviews. I'm still looking for SDRam's. Anyone with one? I'll buy them from you. I did a little experiment with BC's PC too. His PC ter'infected with a boot sector virus. At least I think that's what got his PC. Got to 'flash' or 'reboot' his CMOS. Taking out the motherboard's batteries didn't help, so I'm going to try switching the CMOS jumper tomorrow. Hopefully it works.

12 hours until my job interview/filtration at Menara Telekom.
3 days until my official results and grades are released. *shivers*
20 days until my 21st birthday and hopefully my graduation. *double celebration! Hooray!*

My parents started asking me about my plans for my birthday. They also started to hint about what they should get me for my birthday. Mom asked "eh you what a 10k platinum braselet?" HAHAHAHAHA yeah right. Even if she really meant it, I rather she give me that 10k for my post graduate studies. Or maybe a 10k fixed deposit would be nice. Or 10k worth of shares on the Bursa Malaysia? I heard that Public Bank is really stable and gives really good returns. Blaaa ... I better not dream LOL!

Anyway, my mom then asked me if the spare PC in my PC room was working. Well, it was working, not anymore. Empty RAM slot. Anyone have an extra SDRAM to spare? I then hinted to my mom to get me a new PC. LOL! Yeah baby. New machine. 17" TFT LCD, maybe a plasma screen. High end graphic card for gaming. A set of nice speakers with subwoofers along with the perfect sound card for my endless music (trance |\/ |\/ |\/ if you know what I mean LOL, and Beethoven's 9th Symphony). 2 gig of RAM! Unlimited hard disk space. A DVD burner. A card reader. A nice and light Lian Li casing. Wireless keyboard with a wired optical mouse (I hate using wireless mouse). Last but not lease, the top of the line Intel processor. WHAHAHAHAHA *slurp slurp* ..hm wait.. am I missing anything? LOL... mom said "Aiyah, buying a PC is like buying a car. Depreciates too damn fast" Well mom, buy me a car then? Hehehe. Then again I don’t need a new PC yet. I don’t think I’ll even have time to play games when I start working.

Daddy have not asked or hinted anything yet. I don't think he would. I think he's going to get me something useful and just tell me about it. Hopefully is a bank account with money in it. Or something like an advance down payment for my new house/apartment. Or a half a million growth bond under my name (Don't want to be too greedy la, half a million is good). HAHAHA who am I kidding. I'm just glad that my parents and my younger sister will be with me on my graduation and birthday.

YWen got baptise today at DUMC today. Congratulations!

I went to pick JK up and then headed to meet YWen at the entrance of DUMC at 11 this morning. The church service started when we got in. DUMC is actually very organised. There were traffic marshals guiding all the cars to their parking places and there were ushers guiding people to available seats.

When we got in, the service already started. We sung a few songs and listened to one guy's testimonial on how his lived changed when he devoted himself to god. After that it was time for the baptism. All 36 person that was suppose to be baptised were called on stage for some prayers and stuff and then one by one they were officially baptised by the pastor.

When it was YWen's turn, there was a short pause because YWen's name was mixed up with another girl’s name. YWen got the loudest cheers and claps when she got baptised. Some of her church friends made her score card that rates 10. When she got up from the dip, they held up the score cards. LOL!

YWen changed in to drier clothes and then joined the rest of us for the continuation of the church service. Me and JK stayed for the rest of the service too. At the closing of the service, the pastor ask for people (so that everyone can pray for them) to come up front. Quite a number for people went, some were man of forties and fifties.

When the prayer started, I don't know why my eye's started watering. I felt a sudden urge to cry. I wasn't feeling sad or anything, the feeling was... I don't know... It's not weird, but it's like feeling the aura of the people standing in front of me, their problems, their prayers, and wanting to cry for them.

I don't if it was me being sensitive, but I definitely have not felt that way before. People say that one would feel sadness and start crying when he/she sees another person cry, but the thing is, non of them were crying when my eyes started tearing. I stopped looking at prayer crowd when I saw some men and women who people were praying for cry. I think I would have cried too if I looked. One guy was still crying when me and JK left the church.

Me and JK had a little chat in the car about the incident. He felt the same way.

Zhong is damn lucky today. He won a free Motorola handphone!

After dinner, I went down to Soul Out with Zhong and Kelvin to watch football with a few of their football team mates. They were having some football event at that time too. We were all given forms prior the football match between Manchester United and Charlton. We kind of have to guess the scores and write our particulars on the form, then just submit it.

When the match was over, MU won 2 nil against Charlton, those forms with the correct guesses were then dumped into a box. Five lucky fellars out of the bunch in the box got to win a Motorola hand phone. Zhong was one of them. *wOOt* I forgot the model name but it's colored screen with a camera. *slurp*

Fat or Phat? I think it's both. There's a big hoohaa over the Melbourne shuffle, and recently the phat pants. So... I did a little Q and A and a little research online about them.

Raver pants actually originated from U.S. Yep, U.S. not Melbourne. (So Zhong, your friend was right when he said he saw them else where first) I think the Australians, more specifically the Melbourne'ans, stuck reflectors and stuff and called them phat pants.

How does these raver pants look like? Well, my first encounter with phat pants was at the Salem Genting rave this year. The Melbourne shufflers were wearing them.



My first impression was 'OMG, designers from Sungai Wang'. I still think it looks like seafood, if you get what I mean. However, with all the 'cool' people raving and shuffling in them, I guess it makes the pants cool too. Dressing down is a fashion statement, but I didn't know dressing up like 'seafood' was one. But anyways, I came across this picture of an actually quite nice girly phat pants. Go to here. 6th picture.

Jing told me those raver reflector phat pants can only be found in Melbourne, but there are some with no reflectors on Ebay. Below are some interesting onces I found on Ebay.


Sailormoon...must be some anime junkie to wear those.


Monotone


Shuffling jester?


Miaoooo...


Counter Strike raver


Blue blue...not bad


I'm you friendly neighbourhood raver. LOL


Ladies, if raver pants is not your thing, no worries because this pink cargos will look real good in a rave. Slurpppp I absolutely love them!

I got this interesting text on email today. Something for couples my age, maybe younger, maybe older, to ponder upon.

Echo("
Young Love

It is natural for young people to fall in love as it if for flowers to bloom in spring.And yet, the agonies of love are many and varied. While everyone is free to fall in love Or be attracted to someone, and no one has the right to meddle in your private affairs,I feel it is also important not to lose sight of pursuing your own personal development.

There are of course no rules on love and marriage, and no one has the right to restrict you in anyway. But I hate to see young people getting involved in frivolous relationships, and suffering and agonizing over them when they should be fulfilled and happy.

To me, love should be a force that helps us expand our lives and bring out our potential with fresh vitality. This is ideal, but all too often, people lose all objectivity when they fall in love.

The question is ‘Does this person inspires you to work harder, or distract you from what you have to do? Does their presence make you more determined to devote great energies to your activities, to be a better person? Do they inspire you to realize your future goals and work towards them? Or is that person your central focus, overshadowing everything else?’

If you find that you are neglecting things you should be doing, forgetting your purpose in life because of the relationship you are in, then I would guess that you might be on the wrong path. A healthy relationship, in my view, is one in which two people encourage each other to reach their respective goals, while sharing each other’s hopes and dreams. A relationship should be a source of inspiration, invigoration and hope.

Rather than becoming so love-struck that you create a world in which only the two of you exist, it is much healthier to learn from those aspects of your loved one that you respect and admire, and continue to make efforts to improve and develop yourself. Antione de Saint-Exupery, the author of The Little Prince, once wrote, ‘ Love is not two people gazing at each other, but two people looking ahead together in the same direction.’

Of course, much of daily life tends to be ordinary and unexciting. Making steady efforts to improve ourselves can be trying. And then when you fall in love, life seems filled with drama and excitement and you feel like the leading character in a book. But if you lose yourself in love just because you are bored, and veer from your path in life, then love is nothing more than escapism. But sadly many people believe that this kind of love is the be-all and end-all, deluding themselves that as long as they are in love, nothing else matters.

Even if you try to use love as an escape, the euphoria is unlikely to last for long. If anything, you may only find yourself with more problems along with a great deal of pain and sadness. However much you may try, you can never run away from yourself. If you remain weak inside, suffering will only follow you wherever you go. You never find happiness if you do not change yourself from within. Happiness is not something that anyone else, even a lover, can give you. You have to achieve it by yourself. And the only way to do so is by developing your own character and capacity as a human being, by fully maximizing your potential. If you sacrifice your own growth and talent for love, you absolutely will not find happiness.

My concern in saying this is purely for the sake of young people – particularly young women who are often so vulnerable to persuasion by young men. They can sometimes act as if they are stunned and lose their ability to make calm, rational decisions. Since young women are the ones who most often get hurt, they have every right to assert their dignity and look after their own welfare.

It is demeaning to be constantly seeking approval. If you find yourself in a relationship where you are not treated the way your heart is tells you should be, I hope you will have the courage and dignity to decide that you are better off alone for the time being rather than enduring an unhappy relationship.

Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality. A shallow person will only have shallow relationships. If you want to experience real love, it is important first to develop a strong self identity. True love is not about doing whatever the other person wants you to do, or pretending that you are something that you are not. Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people.
"); //Note: Author is unknown.

What was written by the author is constantly behind my mind. A lot of what he/she wrote is basically what i feel/think too. The world and yourself do not revolves around your partner. I'm not being negative of the people who does, but there's more to life than your other half. One loses it's rationality when one is in love. Everything is for love, but... What is love?

The perspective of love changes in every stage of life. In the first stage love is like cocaine. Addictive, can't get enough of it. But in the end, is love just a feeling of wanting to hold on to the relationship for all the wrong reasons. Is that love?

I have to do something about my spelling.

I was early for my 'preliminary filtering' today, but end up being late because I got lost in Megan Avenue! LOL! I got stuck in a Locked Floor and couldn't excess the lift. I had to take the stairs to an opened floor. Phew. I was late for 10 minutes. Yikes!

Want I did during the filtering was actually like ... er ... filling up a questionnaire. I was given 3 forms and was give time to fill them up. One of the question was really theoretical. "What is the meaning of Sales?" I'm no marketing/sales student. I wrote a lot of bullshit actually. Overall it was OK but while filling and answering the questions I realised that I couldn't even spell simple words like 'failure'. Damn. I better not relay on spell check too often. It's bad practice.

Anyway, I think all went well. Meet a new friend, and potential rival, LOL. He was there for the filtering too, we kind of did the questionnaires together. Ex APIIT student too, but only was in APIIT for Diploma.

I walked to KLCC after the session and took the LRT back. Thanks for the directions (to those that posted on the comment box)! If I get pass the filter, I would be attending the next batch of filtering, but this time done by the Telekom management itself. But... I don't know if I'm up to the job. One minute I tell myself I'll go for it, but later ...ahhh. That reminds me, one of the questionnaires asked me if I was decisive, HAHAHAHA.

Hm, only Audrey, Hau and Amy went for class last week. And for this week, only Audrey, Hau and Me! Amy's FYP presentation is tomorrow, so she couldn't make it. Good Luck Amy! Ai Lynn bailed out, and Pek Yee FFK. Aie, I thought I could do some catching up with them today. Hopefully next week's attendance will be better. Anyways, I was early for class today so I walked over to Benny School of Dancing, They basically teach social dancing, latino and stuff. There's a beginner's cha cha class at 7 tomorrow. Should I go? Wei Chnoong is back too, should I drag him along?

Okay, now more nervous stuff. I got a call from 103jobs today asking me if I was interested in a Sales IT job in Telekom. I just said yes. Aieee, Sales... not really my thing but... what the heck. I don't want to bum around anymore. I'll be going for my 'preliminary filtering' interview at Megan Avenue II along Jalan Yap Kwan Seng tomorrow. I don't really know how to get there by LRT, so wish me luck! I should get down at the KLCC station is it? I'm more worried about getting there rather than the interview itself. Maybe because I'm not really into the job. But if I get through the first interview, I can always say no to the second one right?

Reached Zouk at 8.30am for Armin van Burren. We were super early, Recharge and ticket counter wasn't even open yet. A few people lingering at the entrance while the rest was having a drink at The Loft. Me, BC and Adrian decided to grab a drink at The Loft first before everything goes havoc at the opening of the ticket counter. Zhong and Gordon went to pick Yan Yiing up so me and BC lined up for them before they reached. BC received a promo SMS you see, the first 150 with the SMS gets 2 invites free. One of BC's friend took me and BC in.

Everyone was in the club before 10 I think. Music was chilling, and people started to pour in. I think the queue for tickets started to get really long, and outside was packed with people. It rained too. 2 of Yan Yiing's friend had to line up for an hour to get their tickets, under the rain I think.

Anyways, I got to try Sambucca (I don't know how to really spell it but it comes in a white triangle shaped bottle). I think it should taste ok with orange juice but I took a shot glass. Burns the throat just nice, doesn't leave the bitter alcohol effect but leaves a trail of sweetness on the lips. The shot can be flamed and then sucked by a straw too. One of BC's friend actually flamed it in his mouth and gulp it down! His mouth was actually like flaming blue when he did that! Crazy fellar.

Ok back to the music. When Armin came on set the crowed went wild. His opening was really nice. He played nice tunes, better onces came after 2am. Most of his tunes were quite familiar if you catch his ASOT live sets every weekend. I left Zouk and Armin's state of trance at about 2.30 with the gang and 2 new hyper friends, ....hahaha but I can't remember their names.

We headed to Murni in SS2 just to remember that they do not open on Mondays, Indomee mamak opposite the police station wasn't open too. So we ended up in Kayu in Chow Yang. (I had a roti tissue for free because the mamak forgot to write it down on the bill ;P) There was a road block along Jalan Sungai Besi, but no one was drunk, so we didn't end up in jail or paying a certain coffee money.

Half a day wasted just to have lunch. Me and my family went down to Sekinchan (some where after Kuala Selangor from KL) for seafood yesterday. We left the house about 11.45am and only reached there about 2.15pm! The traffic was heavy, plus it was raining cats and dogs, plus the road was narrow and winding.

Anyways, we waited for the food to be served until 3pm! Yeah man, we waited very very long. The first dish came out (the fish balls soup), and then we waited again for about 15 minutes for the next dish. Bad service. My grandma got so hungry until she ate 3/4 of white rich without any other side dishes!

Overall the food was Ok to good. But not good enough to make me what to go there again.


Kind of a shabby restaurant beside the Kuala Selangor river


First up, the Sai Tou fishball soup. Rating: 7.7/10


Claypot catfish. Rating: 9/10


'Lai Lui Har' Frog prawns. Rating 3/10


Fried rice. Rating: 7/10


Sting ray. Rating: 7/10


Fried bee hoon. Rating 8/10


Ooh chean (oyster ommelet). Rating 2/10


Fried crabs. Rating 6.5/10

I was down at Low Yat yesterday hoping to get my pay cheque for my computer fair job but my boss wasn't in. Hais... Hung around until Jun Kun got his PC ready then we went for dinner at a Japanese Restaurant selling Japanese Pancakes.

There used to be a branch in Atria Shopping Center in Damansara Utama but it closed down a few years back. I didn't get a chance to try it so I took the opportunity to try it when I got to know that the Japanese in Low Yat was actually the same restaurant in Atria. The pancake was delicious. It's actually layers of egg, udon/soba, fillings of your choice (seafood, pork and etc) and finished with a layer of topping (cheese or mayo). No pictures of it because I didn't have my cam with me.

Later in the evening me and BC met up with Zhong and two of his friends in Decanter too!! at Sri Hartamas. Quite a cosy place to chill out. Nice environment with a really really superb live one-man-show bang cum singer. The price of the food and beverages there are relatively cheap too. RM22 for a jug of booze and RM12 for cocktails. Too bad they only have limited choices in cocktails.

Anyways here’s what I got from Singapore.



Sleveless tank top from MNG and a greenish blue tube top from ..erm don’t know what shop already. I forgot the price for the MNG top bit the tube top is think it’s about RM13



Delicate cotton baby doll dress. I look like a innocent girl when I’m wearing the dress *grin* The shop keeper actually asked me to sign a handover paper, briefing my on how to wash and maintain my dress. Hand wash with body soap, not clothes detergent. No soaking. The dress is real delicate. Price about RM90



Aie this shoe. Very ‘kek sam’. There’s actually 3 colors for this shoe, brown, purple and pink. I wanted the pink one because it was unique and outstanding and it was different from the ‘standard’ shoes in Malaysia. But sadly there didn’t have my size in that color in that outlet. However, my size was available in another outlet just about 15 minutes walk away in another shopping center along Orchard Road. We were all running out of time so I ended up in the same shop wanting to get the shoe in purple. But AGAIN no available size for me =( *sobb sobb* Even if I ran in the speed of light, I wouldn’t have time to buy the pink/purple shoe at the other outlet. …So I ended up getting the brown shoe. Price? RM90. *sign* It’s just too bad. I should have gotten the Adidas!




This, I like. Something I actually won’t buy (because not really my style) but I got it anyways because … I don’t know, I think I’m now starting to venture into various styles other that the plain Jane look. Very comfortable shoes. I forgot the price but I think I paid 29 Sg dollars for it. About 66 in RM.

The Singapore Trip was a BLAST!!! Too bad it was just a 3 days 2 nights trip, would have been just nice if we stayed a day longer.

Day 1. Jin, Dave, Me and BC took the LRT down to Pudu Raya bus station at 7am. Before boarding our bus, we dropped by Petaling Street to have 'Sang Yeu Chook' (raw fish porridge). You'll be actually given thin filet of fish, just add and stir it into the hot porridge and the fish will cook.



With our stomach filled, we boarded our 8.45am bus and off we go!



We reached Lavender Street in Singapore about 2.30pm I think. We had our lunch in Johor. The bus driver stopped at a restaurant to let all of the passengers eat. From Lavender Street, we too a cab to our hotel in Chinatown, Duxton Road. The hotel? Rocks ass man!


The Berjaya Duxton Hotel, Duxton Road, Chinatown. Superb Hotel!

The service was very good. Staffs were very friendly. We even got a welcome drink that quenched our thirsts from all that travelling. We checked into our rooms and then just chill out for a while. We left the hotel for dinner at about 5pm.


L-R: David, JinJin, Me and BC

We walked over to Chinatown to see if there's any good food. We walked pass various food stalls but we ended up in a food court (some thing like our Selera Malam in Malaysia) opposite the Chinatown Street. There was this Hainanese Chicken rice that all of us wanted to try, but sadly, all sold out even before 6.15pm! I end up eating a 'Fook Chow' fish balls noodles that tasted ok.

After dinner we headed down to the Singapore Zoo for the Night Safari. We had trouble locating the MRT station at first, and encountered various transport confusions. The Singapore map provided by the hotel and the MRT maps really helped us a lot. We felt like we were the contestants of Amazing Race. Hehehe.


The MRT was very packed

We reached the Night Safari later that we expected but all is good. We paid for admission and the tramp ride. We watched the animal show first, before we explore the Night Safari. The show was funny, with Louise, one of the staff pretending to be one of the audience. We then took the tramp ride, and then stopped at the Leopard Train to walk.



We walked through this bat cage while we were there. It gave all of us an experience to remember. The environment was dark and moist, and the ground wet from the rain. We couldn't spot any bats at first because it was so dark. But at the end of the few metres bat trail, we looked back and realised that we actually walked under one of them! Then Jin and Dave pointed out to us that there were two bats hanging on the left of us! The most frightful thing was when one of the bats flew right above us! I didn't know what was going on because it happened so fast. I only saw BC ducking, so I followed. I felt a very strong blow of air then, the power of the bat's wings.

We continued the second half of the tramp ride and then left the Night Safari feeling very content.



Day 2. Only partially recharged from Day 1, we all managed to dragged ourselves up for a half day of shopping. We ate the famous Maggie Express Noodles for breakfast. Yeah man, what a healthy breakfast. We took a cab to Orchard Road at about 9.45am. We went to Wisma Atria first, but... Singaporeans are lazy shoppers; all the shops only open until later. All we did for the first 45minutes was just really window shopping. Me and Jin managed to do a little shopping (more on that on my next post), while the macho men became our personal shopping caddies. LOL! We later had McD's for lunch. We left Wisma Atria and headed back to our hotels to rest a little before we head to Sentosa Island. I kind of fell asleep....HAHAHA.

Anyways, we took the MRT and then the cable car to Sentosa Island. I got a little scared because I have with cable car phobia. But if it's Singapore, I think it's ok I guess. The cable car moved relatively fast compared to the one in Genting, so the time spent travelling in it was short.


The view from the cable car


The Merlion

The first thing I did in Sentosa Island was actually taking pictures with an albino Burmese python! I wanted to touch and take pictures with a brown one back at the Night Safari show but the staff didn't allow it. But anyways, the albino rocks! The albino Burmese python is actually my favourite snake.


It's difficult to find albino animals in the wild because their 'albino ness' actually is a treat to them. Without its natural color, it is difficult for them to blend in with their environment to avoid from being preyed on

First stop was the Underworld. Eh...err... I mean the Underwater World. LOL! We went there to get our tickets which consisted of a free entrance to the Dolphin Lagoon. A dolphin show was scheduled in about 45 minutes so we took the free shuttle bus to watch the show first. We were still very early for the show so we hung out at the beach, located just beside the lagoon.







After dancing around coconut trees and picking up coconuts, we sat back and relax and enjoyed the pink dolphin show. Two otters came out for a pre-opening act too!


Isn't he cute? Hehehe. This is a damn good shoot of the otter brought to you by teckiee the blogger LOL

We then went back to the Underworld...er I mean Underwater world to see (and talk about eating) fishes. A lot of interesting (and delicious) fishes in the tanks. But, I got a little dizzy watching fishes in the rounded tunnel. While Jin, Dave and BC went for a second round on the moving floor, (a moving conveyer belt thing) I took my time to slowly walk (so I won't get dizzy and all giddy) and enjoy the view of the underside's of the fishes. LOL! What caught my eye was the shark embryo that was real, alive and kicking!


Superb stuff. Looked so human...well maybe not

Next and last stop in Sentosa Island was the Musical Fountain. Another superb display. The laser, 3D and water display effects was good, however, there's a storyline to the whole show that I found a little less interesting.



We left Sentosa Island after the Musical Fountain display. For dinner, we paired up and split for dinner. Jin and Dave went to eat noodles while me and BC went to eat Clay pot Mutton Bak Kut Teh. DELICIOUS! It's along all the food stalls in Chinatown. Really good stuff. We went back to the hotel after dinner and meet up with Jin and Dave and then freshen up.

The night was still young, and so are we. We head down to Jalan Muhammad something... I forgot the place but it's like a Bangsar kind of place. (Actually Duxton Road is like a mini Bangsar itself, but sleazy) We drop by the entrance of Coyote Ugly (CU) just to realised that the bar top dancers danced on Saturdays only =( We then decided to head down to the Singapore renown discotechque Zouk, just to be disappointed again =( We didn't manage to get in because it was so damn packed! It's like queuing up for DJ Tiesto back in K.L's Zouk! The only thing different about this scenario was that there's no DJ Tiesto, and on a Wednesday night, not even s Saturday night! Even the Singaporeans there were complaining. Ahhh well, Wednesday = Ladies night, and the next was Deepavali, that explains the crowd. ...But...hais... too damn packed.


The crowd in front of me. There's still more people behind of me. Just too damn packed

We left the area and headed back to the hotel =( We could have gone to Serrangoon Road to see Deepavali displays but non of us remembered. Jin only remembered when she was ready for bed.

Day 3. Sleep deprived but still managed to wake up. Nothing much happen except SHOPPING! Yep, all we all did was shopping. We checked out from the hotel early and head to Orchard road.



I did most of my shopping in The Heeren shopping complex. Was really rushing against time so I didn't manage to buy the shoe I wanted in another outlet in Far East (another shopping complex) Sobb sobb =( I ended up buying the shoe in a different color.

Lunch was good. We ate at Sakae Sushi in Heeren.



Conclusion? The trip was a blast. I really enjoyed myself, and I believe Jin, David and BC did too. I just wished we stayed there for another day. I miss (shopping) in Singapore already! I want to say thanks to Jin, David and BC too!...for making the trip so fun and memorable. So when is the next trip? *grin*

Lastly, just remember ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’ and

Aie...I wanted to sleep more but can't really fall back to sleep after 10am. I better sleep early today because I need to be up at 6.30am tomorrow! I'll be off to Singapore for a holiday with Jin, Dave and BC. Huahuahua shopping baby!

Anyways, here's what happened since Friday. I worked all 3 days of the computer fair in PWTC. "Hello sir, looking for a laptop? Something for yourself? For office use? For your child?" "ASUS laptops comes with a 2 years international warranty, parts and labour" "Sir, no need to waste time and think, the laptop is calling out your name, this laptop is the perfect one for you" HAHAHA! I miss the job already.

Learnt a whole bunch of 'SKL' stuff too, LOL! but not my style of doing sales. I had my own ways to sell ASUS's laptops. Price and overall briefing was briefed to me by Chris, but during the 3 days I worked under another guy called Loh, a very nice guy who knows how to make sales without using SKL tactics. Maybe that's why I look up to him to most compared to all my superior during the fair. I really learnt a lot from him.

If anyone is planning to buy any ASUS laptop, you can come look for me, or email me, not buying from me though. All I can do is to tell you the pro's and con's of each laptop, not bias to ASUS of course.

After work on Saturday, I went to celebrate Zhong birthday. Had a blast even though I was like half head. Damn a lot of stuff happened to Gordon. HAHAHAHA! He broke a whiskey glass and a section of Yew Meng's front tooth! Gordon my man, you have to learn to relax man. "Relax" LOL! Here's some picture from that night. More of them here.


Me and the birthday boy


L-R: Gordon, Yew Meng, Zhong and BC. Fingers belongs to Yan Yiing LOL!


Me and Shin Yin...hm...did I spell it correctly? I love the top she was wearing.


Zhong and Gordon pretending to 'Pei'


Nar, no one was stoned


L-R: Yew Meng, Gordon, Me, BC, Yan Yiing


On yeah, tall paul is really TALL!

I'm so damn freaking drained. Working at the computer fair was fun. I've really learn a whole bunch of stuff I couldn't not have know studying in APIIT alone. I've also made a few new 'connections' and friends. Learnt some tools and tips for selling laptops too. Very good experience. No regrets.

I have only managed to sell one laptop on the first day. Sold 2 on the second day, but manager to sell 4 today. The final 2 customers was actually mine! Hehehe! On the downside, I'm totally worn out. My legs are like, uffffff. Then again it's all damn worth it. I think in the future I will take up jobs like this to learn other additional skills that I know I won't learn any where else.

Yesterday was actually Zhong's bday. So, Happy Belated Birthday Buddy! A few of us went down to Atmosphere to celebrate with him and dance to Tall Paul's music. It was a fun night. That's half the reason why I'm all drained right now. More updates and pictures tomorrow. Got to catch up on sleep.

Happy Birthday Apple!!!

I can feel my body's muscle tightening every time I move them. Everywhere feels sore. I have a huge 2 inches in diameter blue black on my lower back, just above the butt. Another 3 bruises, one behind my neck and 2 on my shoulders. That was how hard we all worked yesterday.

Reminder to self: No pain, no gain.

I have not run through all the warm up sets yet today. Going to do it later. I hope I will have the 'umph' to actually finish the sets of warm up. My ankle injury from a month ago is starting to hurt again. I'm worried it will be permanently. The physiotherapist said my injury should heal within a few weeks, but it's been a month already.

Anyways, I watch a nice romantic Korean movie today called the Windstruct. Worth a watch.

I'll be working at the computer fair in PWTC tomorrow until Sunday. I’ll be working in the ASUS laptop booth, so if anyone is there, drop by and say hie yah! If anyone looking for laptop can look for me too la.

My whole body is aching!

I just came back from my first serious break dance class. Those who went are Amy, Audrey, Seng Hau, Ai Lynn, and last but not least, me.

We took like 40 to 45 minutes just for warm up. Phewwww. Very good warm up. The warm up session focused a lot on strengthening the abs, legs, arms and back. Joel, our instructure was quite strict, so cannot 'tau kai' (steal chicken hehe). There was a point my body couldn’t stand the warm up already. My arms and legs were shivering, and my body lost its energy. *sign* I'm in a bad shape. I really need to work really hard to get back in shape man.

After the warm up we all did a basic frog balancing. Kind of have to sit up like a frog, except not on the butt but your whole body weight on your two palms. Really strains the wrist.

My whole body is going to hurt like mad tomorrow. But like that say, no pain, no gain. Got to do the various sets of warm up tomorrow too. Must improve.

WTF..all for a lousy ass weekend job. Ish.

My day sucked as usual. My whole day's plans were all screwed up. And if that's not 'teruk' enough, my months schedule are all ARGHHH.

My almost confirmed interview is clashing with my weekend job. I had to postpone my interview AGAIN!

Then I got to know that my weekend job briefing was going to be at about after 6pm, in Lowyat. I've got breakdancing classes at 8pm back in PJ. How am I going to rush back for class?

Need to reschedule!!!

My grandma came over too. My PC room is invaded yet again.

The trip to Singapore was like all the rest of the Singapore trips. Boring.

I tasted the worst Tom Yam ever! I think if I were to buy tom yam paste and just add water, I would get a much taste than the one I ate. The restaurant shouldn't call it tom yam, sweet and sour water is more like it. No 'chang mau' and other tom yam herb taste at all! I don't think they even put them in! Avoid the Thai restaurant at the top floor in Sembawang Shopping mall. The queue for the restaurant was super long, but the food really really sucked.

Shopping malls along Orchard Road are beginning to decorate for Christmas too. Some decorations are up on the street too. Nice.

Got my hair cut in Singapore again. The same thing happened again. The stylist cut my fringe too short again! I told her to leave the fringe alone. I told her I want it in that length, but she cut like 1/3 of it away! Sobb sobb.

My aunt gave me my birthday present in advanced too. Hohoho good stuff. Will blog more about it when I have time to snap a picture of it.