KL TRIP 2007

yay! my first trip overseas!

no.. i'm serious. it's my first trip. >_<

DAY 1

HL, our appointed wake-up-call IC called us up at around 6AM.

i slept at 2am... so basically.. i had only 4hrs of sleep. Whee! *faints*

she rounded us all up in a cab and abducted us to Beach Rd. =D

u see three blurry eyed ppl in the cab.

we had breakfast at a kopitiam across the road and was being served by a shaggy looking uncle who takes orders but don't bother listening and keeps looking away. we repeated our orders ten billion times. i suspect he is a bookie. oh well.

the bus ride took forever and i pity my ass.

it nearly cracked open.

i couldn't really fall asleep properly cos my neck kept falling to the sides and everytime that happens, i wake up. so while everyone is happily in lala land, i was awake. sad. oh yes, within the first hour of my bus ride my mp3 player died on me. battery flat. *cries*

other than the roads being wider, hmm there's nothing spectacular for me to view outside the bus while it's on he road. so i kept the curtains shut. at one of the stops (for rest), we bought some snacks like tea egg and baos etc. their 'da bao' really huge man. i wonder why singapore versions ones are like so shrunken..

there was this HUGE fish. i mean.. seriously huge.



ok pic not clear... here's another.


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just try to estimate the length of the fish by comparing with the tiles on the background. u shld be able to guage it's length. it's damn huge.

we reached KL at about 2pm in the afternoon and alighted at federal hotel instead of capitol somehow. our itinerary says capitol. so we're kinda clueless where our hotel is. had to go over to royal bintang and ask.

anyway, judging that it's prob quite a walking distance away, we decided to head straight to shopping instead so we went to times square and sungei wong to shop.

huge!

you somehow see a glimpse of singapore everywhere in the shopping malls. lol

the roads of KL was scary though. traffic was really messy and i was hugging my belongings real tight.

we had lunch in KFC first and boy was it gd!

then we shopped till we drop for the nxt few hours and by the time we're done it's almost dark hahahaha

it's just amusing how the shop attendants would greet you in cantonese. quite a culture shock for me. thank goodness i do know how to conversate in cantonese and could reply back.

we were looking for places to have our dinner but there wasnt somewhere that's not crowded available so we decided to check in first and place our belongings in the hotel first.

we were staying in Swiss Inn. it's quite near petaling jaya and now i know why pam say it's very luan there. it is damn messed up. all the roadside stalls and i saw pimps and prostitutes and fights and i was hugging my bag so tightly and since only ching and HL's hp has auto-roaming, we were trying our best not to get separated.

geez. i'll activate my hp to auto-roaming nxt time.

the hotel rooms looked cosy enough but the tv channels was boring. gu n ching was trying to find ESPN and the pprs indicated that we're supposed to have it on TV7 but there wasn't?!

we left our bags and brought the impt stuff with us and went dwn for dinner. we had claypot rice randomly and the food was good but i think we were ripped off. the boy serving us has serious attitude problem.

soon we saw those roadside stall vendors running with their stalls lol. think there's custom officer after them. then i was thinking out loud how our claypot stall owner is gonna run with his claypots.

i bought two pairs of jeans, magazines, dvds and a bag heh~!

it was really fun shopping in KL. all the variety. some of the malaysian girls have really nicely done up hairstyles but some of the guys... urgh. stuck in the 90s of Sg era with the coloured "cockroach feelers" look. gawd.

later that night ching's friend came to pick us up. we were supposed to go to the ktv at first but ended up drinking somewhere. there was this stupid man standing really close to the car door and just staring in. like he is gonna attempt to open up the door or something. really scary!

we were wearing rather shabbily and so her friend was really having a hard time thinking of where to bring us to (will get kicked out from clubs) that's safe enough since it's almost midnight.

surprisingly, at this hour, roads of KL was still jammed!

after a quick round of drink we went back to our hotel, bathed and was preparing to sleep until... I FOUND BED BUGS!

that sure created quite a ruckus. lol soon gu was QC-ing all our bedsheets and found bed bugs on all of them. EW. ching n HL got pretty freaked out and ching even started using the hair dryer to toast the sheets with bed bugs ahahahahahhaha

guess it's bcos it's already in the middle of the night and we're all tired, we ended up being really cranky and hyper as well. we called up the hotel attendant to tell them we wanna change bed sheets cos there's bed bugs and end up, the security guard came cos room attendants off duty already. so poor thing!! but the guard very nice guy lah then being cranky and hyper we kept laughing and crapping and ching kept asking the guard questions.

even tho the bed sheets were finally changed, we were still too paranoid so we decided to abandon the nxt room and all four of us squeeze into one room to sleep on the more qualified bed.

so two of us shared a bed each.
sad.

that concludes day 1.



DAY 2

we woke up at around 9am on day two. wanted to go try out this bah kut teh (or rather MUK kut teh) that's famous and recommended by Ranna.

think we don't really know how to appreciate it hahaha cos it's very herbal-ish. very different from singapore.

we did some last minute shopping and i bought another tshirt to go before we had to rush back to capitol hotel lobby for departure. had lunch in some kopitiam just across the street from royal bintang. wanton mee. the ah ma very character leh! can speak good english! she reminds me of my grandma. the wanton mee taste quite special lah. nice but i was interrupted with work (argh) so i wasnt in the mood and ate quite hastily.

we waited at capitol hotel lobby only to find the driver (without the bus) coming over to us ask to go over to federal. it started to rain somemore stupid! then have to blind run across all the back lanes (and nearly stepped on this super huge dead rat) to get to federal and when we're on it, the other passengers are already comforable seated within!

we sent a complaint letter to five stars tour when we got back.

then another round of butt splitting bus ride. since there's no street lights, the bus drove slowly. by the time we reached sg it was already 9pm or so. but i managed to try Ramly burger. DAMN NICE AH!



when we finally finally finally reached Beach Rd, we took a cab to shi nai hk cafe @ east coast rd for dinner. wah lau. tired man.

by the time i reached home my folks were already sound asleep.

shall surprise them with the presents tml.

Dinner & Dance (Back to School Theme)

Welcome to.. SPENA High!

Let me bring you some insider stories of the latest gossips in our school and the latest happenings so hold on tight to your seats!

with just one week of notice, i was told that we're having a D&D.

In September.

*roll eyeballs*

and i was supposed to be on leave to go KL!!??

*curse n swears!*

anyway ching n HL was really nice lah. they encouraged me to go for the D&D and have fun and thus we planned a more hurried holiday trip. just 2D1N.

and so i did went for my D&D and I must say, I did enjoy myself alot!

it was a back to high school theme and so when i first stepped into Sheraton Hotel, i almost thought i was at the wrong ballroom! couldn't recognize anyone! i mean... DUH they're wearing sch uniforms but i was still too shocked to register them as my colleagues hahahahaha

one of my directors even came in a primary sch uniform with blue blouse n navy blue shorts with a water bottle, soccer ball and plastic-ish cartooned pri sch schoolbag!!!

OMG TOO CUTE!

there were plenty of prettily dolled up ladies and in the assorted uniforms and the guys in the smart looking guy uniforms.

some of the peeps really went n get real sch uniforms!
that thought didn't appeal too much to me lah cos pointless getting a set and then thereafter what am i supposed to do with it? lol

Guess what's my door gift!?

Sony Walkman!

after i told my friends about it they pretty much wanted to smack me haha

i was kinda surprised when i saw Glenn Ong. i thought my eyes were playing tricks on my but no! he was our MC that night. hah! i secretly prefered our last year's D&D MC though. =P

he was funnier lah.

but i don't dislike Glenn so heh gd for me lah.

oh guess who else was there?

Kumar. with his stand-up comedy. I've never heard any of his acts lah so everything was shockingly new and erm.. shocking. but funny of course. Khim probably laughed the loudest? MH was pretty shocked hahaha but she had her fair share of laughing but since the jokes are very localised, she had a hard time understanding and catching up. Not as if i could translate everything without losing the laugh factor lah.

don't ask me about the food cos i was hardly paying attention to what i was eating that night.
in short, it wasn't too memorable. they served up quite a number of seafood dishes which ended up mostly on Khim's plate instead hahaha cos i don't take seafood.

oh we have this flower gang. what's dat? the pretty ladies who wore the flower crochet i made wahahaha..!

gatherings like these, we take tonnes of photos. that's prob the only activity worth doing.
other than that, it's about the lucky draw. muahahaha

first prize is Bravia TV can!?

imagine if i won that. shiok man!

but i digest. here's the pics! i combined them into three sets of collages so just click on them for the larger view (it's not that much bigger tho).





in case any of you guys find the tie i'm wearing somewhat familiar...

it's our TEMASEK POLY school tie!!!

wahahahaha i specially dug it out to wear k! imagine 3 years in poly and we never wore it even once! hahaha so stupid. don't even know why they gave it to us. i found another colleague who also dug out her TP sch tie to use hahahaha

the D&D more or less ended around 11PM or so. oh but before that, i DID win something frm the lucky draw!

11th prize... a Sony DSC-T100 digital camera! wahahaha i bet sano wants to smack me.


my precious!

RUNNING OUT OF SPACE

OMG. my bookshelves are facing this super huge crisis.

i was packing my comics the other day, trying to organize them properly (after every XXX months)... i came to realise i'm running out of space!!!??? omg how!?

i've two bookshelves but it's still not enough to keep call my comics books (it's a growing collection that'll continue till i'm in my grave. till then, i'll try to brainwash my kids and grandkids to continue my hobby...)



let me briefly explain the HOW of my insufficient space.
see the pic on the right?
ok, that's ONE level of the shelf. (for reference, in pic on left there's a total of 4 levels x 2 bkshelves)

get it now?

so now on this ONE level (back to pic on right), not only did i stack my comics in one level, i doubled it but adding more books ON TOP of the existing set. to save more space, i added another set INFRONT of the comic and another set ON TOP of the ones INFRONT.

confusing? well in simple words, each level i can sometime stack up to four set of comics.

sometimes 2 sets sometimes 4 sets. depends on space.

omg lah.

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pam came over my work desk and randomly sticked a sticker/talismen (anime ones) on my cubicle wall and walked off.



it says something abt good harvesting.

O_o"???

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borrowed some knitting/crochet books from the library and has been experimenting eversince.
crochet this flower pin ups and gave them to my colleagues.



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once again, having walked past my colleague's work desk, i saw these files that immediately grabbed my attention.

PANDAS!!!!!!!!!



OMG la too cool can? it's made by our Hong Kong office for the summer film fest. i asked whether i'm able to get the file as well and was told that my hong kong colleague has more hehehe so i immediately barged into his room and extorted for more panda files.

YAY NOW I'VE MY OWN PANDA FILES TOO!!

REPORTING... KERORO SPACESHIP!

cute aye?

I was walking past my colleague's desk and noticed this. being super excited i ran back to my seat to grab my digicam and took pictures of it.



my colleague bought this during her trip to Hong Kong for forty bucks i think. seriously cute and i like miniature anything and so having this huge keroro spaceship which you can further open up to find the other keroro members within in their respective stations was really amusing.

i molested the figurine for a long time before i was willing to head back to my desk.

at night gu and i camped in ching's hse to watch soccer and since ching just got back from her germany training trip from Koln, this is the souvenior we've gotten from her.



looks like sperm somehow? of course. that was the intention to begin with!

alcohol in sperm-design container.

hah!