Wesak's Eve Dinner

Year 2007, Wesak's Eve, I have chance to have dinner with my boyfriend's family and relatives. 30th April 2007, a Monday where most of the people are on leave due to the long holiday for Labour's Day and Wesak holiday, as I mentioned in my " Month End Doubt ", I need to work on this day, that's why I wear a little formal for the dinner with his family and relatives.

After work, as usual, I went to my BF's house to wait for them as my BF took leave to accompany his mother, aunt and cousin sister for shopping. We met up at about 6.45pm and I bought two big " Yip Zhi Mei " pao for his relatives to try, I thought Kuantan doesn't sell " Yip Zhi Mei " big pao, but his aunt told me that she tried it before in Kuantan and it's not a surprise to her. Luckily, his cousin sister has never see such a big pao and it's her first time to eat this pao. Huh !!!

We went to Taman Sri Rampai, near Wangsa Maju to pay visit to his uncle's house and have dinner together. So co-incident, my BF's mum's handphone was not function when we about to reach his uncle's house, and since his uncle owns a handphone shop, my BF immediately bought a Nokia handphone for her mum as Mother's Day gift. His brother, Chee Hong shared the cost with my BF to buy gift for their mum.

Since it's Wesak's Eve, his uncle decided to bring us to a Vegetarian Restaurant for dinner. Really not bad, the restaurant food. I enjoyed the food very much and of course, with my beloved with me, I am very happy to be with his family members too.

Photo above was taken in front of the Vegetarian Restaurant, located at Jalan Setapak after the dinner. This is the first photo that I have taken with his family and relatives. Ha ! Since this is the case, then I must introduce one by one those people in the photo loh : ( from left ) is my BF's only brother - Chee Hong, same age with my youngest sister - Ah Tin / Ling Ling's mother; then his aunt, her youngest daugther and uncle who stay in Taman Sri Rampai, ( front row ) the small cute girl is the eldest daughter of my BF's uncle, behind the little girl is my BF's aunt from Kuantan who was here for holiday, the the lady stand next to my BF in bright PINK colour shirt is my BF's mother loh and those two standing at the back are my BF's cousin sister and her boyfriend from Kuantan. And, need no introduction at all, those two standing at the side from right are myself and my BF loh, hahaaaa...................

After dinner, we went to the Siamese Temple at Jalan Templer, Petaling Jaya - Siam Chentawan Temple to pray for Wesak. We spent about 1 hour there and then go home. That's our Wesak's Eve on 30th April 2007 !!!

Month End Doubts

Don't know why ......... maybe because of the long holiday imbalance mood ( where most of the people do not need to work today but due to my new job, not entitled for leave yet, forced to come back to office to sit here for no reason ), that's why feeling a little bit down and no mood .............

Luckily there is a place still for me to release my unhappy feeling - My Blog..........

Today, 30th April 2007 ( Monday ), last Thursday was holiday due to the Agong's Installation Day, and come back to work on Friday, one day, then Saturday and Sunday off. Today again come back to work for one more day, tomorrow and Wednesday off again due to the Labour Day and Wesak Day, sigh !!! Really sick.................

For my many years career life, I have never encounter such working experience yet until I joined this company, where I shamed to claim myself a professional conference / exhibition organiser. I asked myself not only once, but many times, what is this company doing ? Why such things can be happened ? Why such a big events and just less than a month to go, participants ask for Registration Form, our answer is : " No form available yet ", I asked around in the office with 5 colleagues, same answes I got from them : " No form one woh, how much arr ? I think RM 350.00. Don't know which account they should bank in the money to us woh, try to give some excuses to delay lah, if can't tahan and they keep on asking the form from you, you refer them to so and so loh. " Oh my goodness ! How can this happen in my company ? My god ! Really feel shame to tell people where I work and what I do............. never have such feeling all this while in my career life till now.....................

For a 2-days conference, due to own personal reason - want to go home early and don't want to stuck in the traffic due to the location of the hotel - Jalan Tun Razak, 1st day the programme finished at 3.45pm and second day, programme ended at 12noon. Still gave a very nice reason : The participants must be very happy one coz they can also go home early or go shopping. Come on lah ! People paid one thousand plus to attend the conference and due to all these unprofessional reasons, my god, still feeling happy and not guilty at all. The worst thing is, the amended final programme was NOT sent to all participants until the first day of registration.

I won't know until one particiapnt came to ask me : " Why you all amended the programme without notifying us ? Somemore remove some well known speakers where we paid purposely to hear / learn from him. And somemore two full days conference, now cut till 1 full day and purposely drag it to two days where 1st day ended at 3.45pm and second day, only 2 session, one before morning teabreak and one after morning teabreak. " My god !!! This kind of comment / feedback, if you were me, how would you answer them ?

I don't know how to answer them but if I were the participants, I know how to ask my question : " Can I get the refund from you for such a lowsy organisation of programme ? " I bet you, if I were the participants who paid the registration fee of thousand dollars from my own pocket to attend this conference, I sure make noise and swear I won't be back again for any events organised by the same company. I will for sure black listed this organiser.

But what to do ........ they don't care, and they do not need to care too........ events line up from Jan till December, full, the whole year calendar was full already !!! They don't care on the participant's feedback coz they do not need to care for, but business still coming in blindly...................

On the other hand, own benefit always come prior to job or professionalism. During teabreak or lunch time, the staff were first to eat, eat even more than the participants, no problem, the best thing is they ' ta pao ' in front of the participants, before they finished the food, before the teabreak or buffet lunch ended, they start taking out their tupperware, their plastic, their big envelopes, or whatever containers to pack food, in front of delegates, in the counter. My goodness ! Now only I know why such staff will still not fired by boss or why still got such unprofessional companies available in this 21st Century to serve ? Now only I know ...............

My deepest sorry to all the participants and really felt shame about it. And to all the sponsors.................

Another question I always asked myself, from the first day I joined this company till now, 30 days, I am still asking the same question : " How long can I stand in this company ? How long can I tahan here ? " Ha ahahaaa... frankly, I also don't now the answer now. I consoled myself with this : " No problem one, think for long, think for future, think for far, the only advantage of this company for me is, when one day, I got married, my priority has no longer at work, I don't find for job satisfaction, my only concern is my family - my babies and my hubby, then I will for sure love this company very much, coz no responsibilites to bear in any mistakes, just pinpoint. As long as your ' tai chi ' skill is good, when make mistakes, you know where to point to, then it's okay already......................."

This is the only excuse that I could find for the moment to ask me to stay still in this company. See lah ! Let's keep an eye and see lah, how long I can stay ..........
And for what reason I stay ............. maybe another way to keep me with the company is to get marry faster, settle down faster ............ so, dear, maybe my boss shall thank you with this ..............

Too long stay in a same environment, too long work in the same working culture, 13 years working in the same organisation, 12 years, 10 years, 7 years, 4 years, 3 years, 2 years, 1 year ............... I felt so lucky I saw this problem and I decided to have a change after 5 years working for the same boss............... huh ............... really feeling so lucky ! Otherwise, I will also become so ' karat ', not even know how to insert a column in Excel.......................

All the best to me and friends who read this, also say a prayer for me in your heart loh .............

Wedding Dinner At Ipoh

28th April 2007, I and my BF in a car, Ho and his wife + daughter in another car, went to Ipoh for their unimate's wedding dinner. Originally, we plan to depart at about 11am from KL, then Ho said his car was still in the workshop and need to wait till it finished, postponed to 12noon. Again, 12 noon still can't finished, postponed to 1pm. I met up with my BF at Kin San Cafe as he is checking his email and doing his G&S + Toastmasters matters there, so I went there.

Another memorable day for me, as I made a big mistake by leaving a big mark on my tyre ring when I park my car at Kin San Cafe. Don't know why, after so many years of driving, never happened this kind of thing, and yesterday when I went to Hong Leong Bank at Bangsar, I cracked my car bottom, and today, again, at left hand side tyre ring. My god !!!!

Alright, back to the topic, 1pm, me and my BF went to South City Plaza for lunch since Ho is staying there. We waited him till 2.30pm, then only we departed for Ipoh. Halfday gone for nothing but just waiting.

We reached Ipoh at about 5.30pm, and it was a nice experience to get to know this new rental house in Ipoh town. The bridegroom booked a double storey house for us to stay overnight. That house is really a good one, the owner decorates the house just exactly like a hotel, two storey with 3 bedrooms at second floor and one big room at ground floor and one big living hall with Astro TV. All rooms equipped with aircond, carpeted, Astro Wah Lai Toi, fans, they even provide clean towels, soap, bath gel, shampoo and refrigerator. What a luxury house with hotel facilities but paying nuts for the room. For room without attached bathroom, RM 40 per room per night and room with attached bathroom, RM 60 per night, whole house RM 200 per night per house and if stay for two nights, RM 180 per night.

Very convenient, in about 1 minute drive, there is Secret Recipe, with about 3 minutes drive, cross the street, is Food Court and many restaurants surrounded. Good alternative accommodation at Ipoh. The ' hotel ' is located at Taman Ipoh.

The bride and bridegroom, my BF's unimates - May & Alex.

Photo on the left : We and the newly wed couple !!!

Photo on the right : The traditional Chinese wedding culture - " Yam Seng .................... ". See my beloved big mouth ................. he is so happy leh ................ hmm.......... he drinks quite a lot that night .......................

Group photo of all my BF's unimate with the newly wed couple at Tai Thong Restaurant at Heritage Hotel, Ipoh

Me and HIM at the cafe while waiting for Ho to depart for Ipoh................... so bored, two of us ............. having lunch and ' tong shui ' ............. really got nothing to do, take photo loh!!!! Hahahahaaaa.....................

This is the after-dinner-activity, we went to Stairway Pub & Cafe at Ipoh town for drinks. We were there till 2.30am. Poor my dear for really drink over his quota and ' suffering ' there the whole night ...................

See his face, so red huh ??!!

This was the trip to " Sam Poh Tong " with my BF's aunt and uncle on Sunday, 29th April 2007. This is the only photo that I took from my camera because I didn't charge the battery of the camera, when we reached the Caves, this is the first and only photo that my camera can offers. So angry me for having camera but can't use it. So ' pai seh ' is after I took this photo, I asked my BF and his aunt, uncle and cousin to stand together and post for photo, but when I am about to zoom and focus, the battery went died. Angry angry and so angry !!! What to do ?! A lesson learnt for bringing charger together when go on trip. Hahhaa aa................... luckily my BFmanaged to snap some photos with his handphone.

A Retreat Trip To FRIM With IEM G&S Group

22nd ofApril 2007, another memorable day for me and my lovely boyfriend ! The first time, my boyfriend brought me to join his IEM G&S outdoor activity - we went for a halfday trip to the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia ( FRIM ) at Kepong.

A very greenery, energetic, healthy and fresh Sunday morning.

We gathered in front of FRIM Administration Office at 9am and the guided tour started at about 9.30am. The usual guide that we have from FRIM, the forever experience, talkative and knowledgeable Mr Ang lead us for about 3 hours plus and without stop, he shared with us all his knowledge on trees, plantation, history, culture and etc. Really a very professional guide !

We started with a guided tour at the Museum, air-conditioned Museum and this is the first photograph that we took for the day. Still looked very fresh and pretty handsome oh .............. hahaaaaa...................... Photo taken by Ho, my boyfriend's best friend, another funny handsome young guy - Ho ! Thanks for taking such a nice photo for us !

See, everybody is concentrating on Mr Ang's briefing on the palm oil plantations. A total of 13 of us on the trip. The guy in white on the right is Mr Ang and of course, the one who put his full attention to Mr Ang's presentation is my boyfriend loh - Soh Loh !!!!

Where am I ? Hahhaaa................. holding the camera loh ..................

Another nice picture for memory keeping .................................. Me and HIM at the end of the Canopy Walk .......................

Me and HIM again ! These are two different photos, don't know why, even photos also sticked together, can't separate, I thought only we in person stick together all the time, hahaaaa......... photos also sticked together woh ......................................

What is this ? Lizard leh ............. small lizard changed his colour to the same colour of the leave behind him....................... I nearly can't locate him at the first place, quite difficult to rectify too due to the same colours............... smart animal !!!

What are you doing there with the tree , my dear ? Open leg position ........... hahhaaaaa.................

The weather really hot, I am very tired, thirsty, and hungry ( with only one piece of bread as breakfast then go for such a tiring exercise, ha !) So, while Mr Ang is explaining on one of the trees in the middle of the jungle, I took the chance to take a rest and sat on the trunk, then got catched by my honey ........................ hahaaaa...................

Photo on the left : Mr Ang is passing around a small piece of leave for us to smell, hmmmmm.......... some smell like perfume, very nice; some smell very weird, can't stand for that odour..............

Photo on the right : See, how amazing is the green in Malaysia. In fact, we have also very rich greenery in KL city, do think of a trip to FRIM one day, with your beloved, with your family, with your friends, for a special getaway from the bored city Sunday activities........... Take a closer look at the roots of the tree, so nice and amazing .......................

Big bamboo trees on the left, according to Mr Ang, this is the biggest bamboo trees in Malaysia and see the picture on the right, how nice is the jungle, eventhough weather is so hot but due to all the greens, we feel still cooling and nice with the wind ................

Our group photo - 12 of us plus Mr Ang, who is holding the camera for us = 13 pax, two races, Malay and Chinese, females and males, guys and ladies, handsome and pretty, so happy neh ..............

Me at the Canopy Walk - The couple behind me is the only couple except me and my boyfriend. The rest of them came alone without their partners, leaving their girlfriend at work, leaving their wife at home to take care of children, leaving their boyfriends and girlfriends for their own other activities................. see how nice my boyfriend, bring me along with him for the trip and thanks again, my dear for being so considered and nice to me !!!

Picture on the left : Guess what is this tree ? Don't see it so small but small thing can be very powerful leh ! This is the most famoust tree in Malaysia especially among Malays - Tongkat Ali. Can't imagine leh, so small but yet very powerful. The tour guide - Mr Ang said due to our members are all adults, he allows us to touch the plant and he explained quite a fair bit of this plant too. Not sure if any of our group members ' un-intentionally ' pluck some and bring home for own usage ? Hahaa........................

Picture on the right : Three handsome guys of IEM G&S Group, the left, of course - my beloved, the one in the middle is Mr Ho loh and on the right is the President of the Club, both also my boyfriend's good friends. See, they even without earlier communication, wore the same uniforms to the trip.



Quite many photos for this trip ya ........................ of course mah, must keep for future usage and memory mah ...................... be patient, one more to go only lah ....................................

See how nice the photo on the right, Mr Ang said many international photographers came to FRIM to purposely took photo from this angle to produce postcards, website photo, book covers, magazines and so on. Nice ya ?!

In case you want to plan for trip to FRIM for your family outing, friends get-together and so on, do feel free to log on to http://www.frim.gov.my/ for more information.

Don't forget to quote my name when you talk to Mr Ang as you might get some discount loh................. Hahaaaa........................

My Sister's Boyfriend's Birthday Celebration 2007

Hi all, since so long I have been quiet loh............ after the Chinese New Year Pulau Perhentian trip, me and my lovely boyfriend have been quiet down for a while coz I am busy to get myself a new career, he is busy with his work as well............ so, not much activities between me and him after February, especially in March ..............

But no roblem, since 14th April 2007, since I have bought my first digital camera in my life, chosen by my loved one - Canon Ixus during the PIKOM PC Fair on 14th April 2007, I will take photos for all the activities from now onwards in order to make my and his life more memorable loh............. hahaaaa................ so happy leh ................

Now, let me share with you some nice photos shot using my brand new camera. The first event after I bought my brand new camera is my sister's boyfriend's birthday - CK's Birthday ! Happy birthday to him and see how nice I treated him, I used my new camera to shoot his celebration as my first event in the camera - " hoi cheong " leh ........................ see, CK, so good I treat you ............ hahhaaaaaa...............

See, the birthday boy ........... cutting his 27th year-old birthday cake ............ hahaaaa...............

Me and my family ........... mummy, daddy, younger sister - CK's girlfriend

My parent so give face and purposely go to Federal Hotel in Bukit Bintang to celebrate birthday for his incoming son-in-law .......... somemore intentionally wore the red colour shirt to symbolise the ' Happy Birthday ' ong ong celebration leh ......... so good de neh ..............

See, my cute cute boyfriend so happy neh ..............

He looks very good in this blue stripes shirt yeah !!!

CK, what happen to you ? Who made you felt so scary ??? My sister ???? hhaaaaa..............

This is me and HIM !!!! My Excellency !!!! Matched ya !!!

My mum said my boyfriend has gained a little bit weight recently and because of that, we looked even more matched !!!! Ha ha hahaa............ My dear blamed me that this was my bad intention to make him put on weight then I will look slimmer ............ what do you think ?

The Yi-Qi Restaurant in Federal Hotel, serves Steamboat Dinner with good Shanghai " Xiao Long Bao " - Chinese Dumpling ...........

The best thing is we do not need to cook our raw food and there is someone serves you the whole night and what impressed me was the way they mixed the cooked dishes with their in-house specialty gravy and sauces ........... made the dishes taste so good and delicious ............. yummy yummy !!!!

See, nice ? The presentation ................ Look at CK's face ......... like so ' cham ' one RM 30++ per head

Last generation .......................... Next generation ...............................

A total of 14 of us in the private room to celebrate CK's 27 year-old birthday, another couple who were holding the cameras were not in the picture..................

A memorable day for CK and Sweet Bee - 19th April 2007

CK's friends bought him a " Bingo Game " as birthday gift !!!!

Side talk - Below is a naughty face of my niece : Vjinn Tan