On Saturday I dropped by Shop@Don Mills for a jazz performance by Terra Hazelton. She has such sweet voice, and at the same time can sing the blues too. There is also a guest performance by Sophia Perlman. She was really awesome... I think her voice profile just fits perfectly for jazz. It was a really great performance by the both of them.
Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts
04 July 2011
Long Weekend
It was a long weekend this past weekend as 1st July is Canada Day. So on Friday I was invited by blogger friend Uncle Lee in Toronto to join in a Malaysian potluck/BBQ picnic. It was really nice getting to know a bunch of mostly Malaysians who have migrated here and started a new life... some as long as 20+ years, some just 1 year +. I had a great time hanging out with them.
15 February 2011
2 Weeks...
... since I was back from Canada. Was supposed to go back yesterday, but due to some change of plans there, not too sure if I'm still going back or not now. Possibly next month...
This year's Chinese New Year seems pretty quiet if compared to previous years. Less fireworks, less gatherings, less atmosphere... Maybe it's the economy or everyone's just busy making a living.
Anyways, wish everyone Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Holidays.
This year's Chinese New Year seems pretty quiet if compared to previous years. Less fireworks, less gatherings, less atmosphere... Maybe it's the economy or everyone's just busy making a living.
Anyways, wish everyone Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Holidays.
19 July 2010
Tired... but fun
Last weekend was the Malaysian Aikido Association's 11th annual seminar. For the past few years we always have Sugano Shihan over to chair the seminar. But this year he wasn't able to join us, so he sent one of his best student, Hanan Janiv Shihan from Australia to come on his behalf.
Learned a lot from Hanan Shihan for the past 2 days. I guess everyone was tired after the event. I myself woke up today with sore thigh muscles... I think I'll be walking funny for the next 2 days :P
Learned a lot from Hanan Shihan for the past 2 days. I guess everyone was tired after the event. I myself woke up today with sore thigh muscles... I think I'll be walking funny for the next 2 days :P
26 June 2010
Certification and Grading
This week I attended an IBM boot camp cum certification thingy for 3 days. Yesterday was the 3rd day and we have to complete a certification paper online. Managed to do pretty well on it and passed with flying colors (everyone passed as well, I believe). The 2 trainers are from Canada, one a Chinese, and the other one I believe is a Hispanic. The senorita speaks funny English which had a lot of people scratching their heads. Example, cache should be pronounced like cash, but she said cae-chay. And my favorite is multiple, which she say mool-tee-pel, reminds me of how Leeloo pronounce "multipass" in 5th Element... LOL
And then I almost forgotten that my Aikido grading is TOMORROW! Just realized on Wednesday, when I kept thinking that it's one week later. But I believe shouldn't be too much of a problem. I should be doing fine. :P
Wish me luck!
PS: I just changed the blog template with one of the new ones that blogger offers. Looks pretty neat IMHO.
07 May 2010
Shotgun!
Actually, shotgun marriage to be exact. Hahaha...
Lately my ex colleague was telling me that she needs to attend a shotgun wedding (i.e. the guy got the girl pregnant, so they have to quickly get married). So we were discussing how the term shotgun come about, and I was saying, probably because shotgun have spread bullets and it's easy to hit the target. LOL.
And then out of nowhere I called up a friend whom I've not been in contact for like 2-3 years, and the first thing he told me was he's preparing for his wedding. A shotgun wedding as well. My my what coincidence.
That's what you get for not having "protection" when you're doing it. :P
Time to save up some money for wedding ang pow now.
Lately my ex colleague was telling me that she needs to attend a shotgun wedding (i.e. the guy got the girl pregnant, so they have to quickly get married). So we were discussing how the term shotgun come about, and I was saying, probably because shotgun have spread bullets and it's easy to hit the target. LOL.
And then out of nowhere I called up a friend whom I've not been in contact for like 2-3 years, and the first thing he told me was he's preparing for his wedding. A shotgun wedding as well. My my what coincidence.
That's what you get for not having "protection" when you're doing it. :P
Time to save up some money for wedding ang pow now.
16 February 2010
Happy Chinese New Year 2010
Yup... here comes another new year. How time flies. Wishing everyone a healthy and prosperous new year, and of course, as everyone likes to use the phrase, a year of roaring success.
I'm now blogging from my kampung with EDGE connection. Slow, but convenient nonetheless. The past few days has been scorching hot in this part of the world. Just hoping when I get back to town there would be some rainfall. Somewhere. Anywhere. :P
I'm now blogging from my kampung with EDGE connection. Slow, but convenient nonetheless. The past few days has been scorching hot in this part of the world. Just hoping when I get back to town there would be some rainfall. Somewhere. Anywhere. :P
18 September 2009
Malapascua!
Yeah, some of you might only hear of this place for the very first time. Actually me too when my friends say "let's go Malapascua for diving!".
Malapascua is an island to the north of Cebu island. It is supposed to be the only all-year-round thresher shark cleaning station.
Quoting Thresher Shark Divers site:
And not to worry, thresher sharks feed on squids and schooling fishes like mackerel and herring. :)
Looking forward to a good dive and great fun with my dive gang.
Malapascua is an island to the north of Cebu island. It is supposed to be the only all-year-round thresher shark cleaning station.
Quoting Thresher Shark Divers site:
The thresher shark, or Alopias pelagicus is a type of mackerel shark or Lamniformes. In German it is known as Der Gemeine Fuchshai, or fox shark. The threshers grow up to a length of 5-6 meters, about half of which is the huge scythe-like tail for which it is named.
And not to worry, thresher sharks feed on squids and schooling fishes like mackerel and herring. :)
Looking forward to a good dive and great fun with my dive gang.
23 March 2009
One Fine Sunday
Yesterday me and a few friends planned to visit the hot air balloon fiesta in Putrajaya. So we met up in the morning for breakfast, then left for Putrajaya. By the time we reached there it was around noon, and the hot air balloons are nowhere to be seen. Then the announcer mentioned that the balloons would only be flying at about 5:30pm, so seeing that we have a lot of time, we decided to go for karaoke lunch in Puchong.
Come to think of it, this is the first time in 2009 that I've stepped foot into a karaoke. So after some singing and lunch, time is up and we left the premise. Seeing that we still have some time, we drop by Alamanda to hangout for a while before going back to the fiesta location.
By the time we reached the fiesta grounds once again, it's just past 5:30pm. Traffic was quite bad as many are also rushing in to see the balloons take off. As we reach the fenced up compound, we're just in time to see the balloons getting prepared for take off. It was quite a sight to see indeed. There are some funky shaped balloons like a peacock, an elephant head etc, apart from the regular shaped ones. Because the weather was still quite hot, I suspect that the balloon couldn't get enough heat differences in and out to really lift it really high up, so after lifting off for a while, I could see some of the balloons are hovering while trying to maintain altitude. The pink elephant head balloon couldn't get enough altitude and ended up taking an emergency landing in a small park not far away.
All these balloons reminded me of an event near my house in Klang many years back. At that time, a cigarette brand sponsored an event that sees about 8 balloons or so flying across Klang sky. In fact I still keep the foldable binoculars of the event. Really brings back some memories.
Come to think of it, this is the first time in 2009 that I've stepped foot into a karaoke. So after some singing and lunch, time is up and we left the premise. Seeing that we still have some time, we drop by Alamanda to hangout for a while before going back to the fiesta location.
By the time we reached the fiesta grounds once again, it's just past 5:30pm. Traffic was quite bad as many are also rushing in to see the balloons take off. As we reach the fenced up compound, we're just in time to see the balloons getting prepared for take off. It was quite a sight to see indeed. There are some funky shaped balloons like a peacock, an elephant head etc, apart from the regular shaped ones. Because the weather was still quite hot, I suspect that the balloon couldn't get enough heat differences in and out to really lift it really high up, so after lifting off for a while, I could see some of the balloons are hovering while trying to maintain altitude. The pink elephant head balloon couldn't get enough altitude and ended up taking an emergency landing in a small park not far away.
All these balloons reminded me of an event near my house in Klang many years back. At that time, a cigarette brand sponsored an event that sees about 8 balloons or so flying across Klang sky. In fact I still keep the foldable binoculars of the event. Really brings back some memories.
13 March 2009
Friday the 13th
It's just another day for me, but there are people who thinks it is a very unlucky day. Well, to all you Paraskavedekatriaphobia people, eat your heart out... there's 3 Friday the 13th in 2009. February, March, and November. :P
According to some online source, this Friday the 13th comes from the combination that some believes that Friday is unlucky, and to some the number 13 is unlucky.
But then again, some civilizations like the Egyptians and Chinese believe 13 to be an auspicious number.
Anyways if you're interested to read more about it, check out the links below:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/friday_the_13th.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th
http://www.paranormalknowledge.com/articles/friday-the-13th-history.html
According to some online source, this Friday the 13th comes from the combination that some believes that Friday is unlucky, and to some the number 13 is unlucky.
But then again, some civilizations like the Egyptians and Chinese believe 13 to be an auspicious number.
Anyways if you're interested to read more about it, check out the links below:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/friday_the_13th.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th
http://www.paranormalknowledge.com/articles/friday-the-13th-history.html
11 February 2009
时间过得真快
十五天的农历新年一转眼就过去了。在这十五天里，还真的参与了不少活动。先是回了外婆家一趟，在那儿住了三天。然后就到处去拜年，聚餐，捞生，拿红包。
最后，在今年的元宵节，我终于亲身到现场见识了人们抛柑，捞柑以及放天灯（孔明灯）的活动。因为我的一个朋友要带他的女友去看看，所以我成了导游兼电灯泡。去到现场，那场面可真热闹呢！只见人山人海，大都是年轻的男女。一些商家也乘机大捞一笔。就快熟透的柑一颗一零吉，一个天灯四十五零吉。我没打算要捞柑，所以没带工具（害羞嘛）。
:P
最后，在今年的元宵节，我终于亲身到现场见识了人们抛柑，捞柑以及放天灯（孔明灯）的活动。因为我的一个朋友要带他的女友去看看，所以我成了导游兼电灯泡。去到现场，那场面可真热闹呢！只见人山人海，大都是年轻的男女。一些商家也乘机大捞一笔。就快熟透的柑一颗一零吉，一个天灯四十五零吉。我没打算要捞柑，所以没带工具（害羞嘛）。
:P
04 January 2009
First and Last...
or Last and First...
Drove down to Seremban on Saturday morning (3rd Jan) to attend my last wedding dinner invitation of the year of the rat, which also marks the first wedding invite of 2009 - Zybisko's wedding. Initially the plan was to drive down together with Mr Engineer and Loctor Mayat, but due to some logistic issues, the plan fell apart and we decided to just meet there.
Arrived after about 45 mins of driving, the 4 of us met up for breakfast. Then me and LM went to become "heng tai" cum cameraman for Z. MrE wanted to join but unfortunately he's got work commitments, so he can only join us at the dinner. It was quite funny that Z had a lot of last minute arrangements, living up to what uncle Zybisko senior calls him - "the last-minute man". Because Z is a photography junkie, he's got like at least 5-6 cameramans (all his friends) on the ground capturing every single moments of his wedding. You should see them when they were chatting, all the terminologies starts flying here and there... D300, 400D, D90, 105mm, 50mm... etc. Despite all the last minute arrangements, the "jip san leong" event went through smoothly. Then everyone went off to take some rest.
As evening approaches, off we went to pick up Z and send him to the restaurant where the dinner is held. Again, the last-minute man is at work again... compiling the slideshow DVD the very last minute. :P But no problem there, everything got sorted and off we went.
At the restaurant a small hiccup occured. The projector was showing crappy images. There was a brief moment of panic, and the 3tenors engineers (MrE, LM, myself) came to the rescue and managed to sort out the issue. From thereon, everything went pretty smoothly.
There, another one rings the wedding bells... and, stop asking me when is my turn! :P
Drove down to Seremban on Saturday morning (3rd Jan) to attend my last wedding dinner invitation of the year of the rat, which also marks the first wedding invite of 2009 - Zybisko's wedding. Initially the plan was to drive down together with Mr Engineer and Loctor Mayat, but due to some logistic issues, the plan fell apart and we decided to just meet there.
Arrived after about 45 mins of driving, the 4 of us met up for breakfast. Then me and LM went to become "heng tai" cum cameraman for Z. MrE wanted to join but unfortunately he's got work commitments, so he can only join us at the dinner. It was quite funny that Z had a lot of last minute arrangements, living up to what uncle Zybisko senior calls him - "the last-minute man". Because Z is a photography junkie, he's got like at least 5-6 cameramans (all his friends) on the ground capturing every single moments of his wedding. You should see them when they were chatting, all the terminologies starts flying here and there... D300, 400D, D90, 105mm, 50mm... etc. Despite all the last minute arrangements, the "jip san leong" event went through smoothly. Then everyone went off to take some rest.
As evening approaches, off we went to pick up Z and send him to the restaurant where the dinner is held. Again, the last-minute man is at work again... compiling the slideshow DVD the very last minute. :P But no problem there, everything got sorted and off we went.
At the restaurant a small hiccup occured. The projector was showing crappy images. There was a brief moment of panic, and the 3
There, another one rings the wedding bells... and, stop asking me when is my turn! :P
19 October 2008
Long Overdue Post
Haha yeah I know, I was supposed to post details about my Sipadan dive trip like 2 weeks ago. But had been busy over the weekends (watching Heroes season 1 and 2, hanging out with friends etc). Anyways here it is:
On the 30th Sept, after work, I went home, had my dinner, packed my bags, and then went over to B and C's place to crash. Gotta wake up very early (4:30am) the next day to catch the cab to LCC Terminal for the early flight to Tawau.
The next morning, we arrived at the airport right on time for check in. This time around everyone made it and nobody got left behind (unlike the last time where 2 guys missed the flight).
After checking out from Tawau airport, we have to take a rental van to get to the Pulau Sipadan Resort (PSR) pier, which is about an hour's drive away. And from the pier, it's another 45min to 1 hour of boat ride to Kapalai (where PSR is at). On the way we passed by Mabul as well, which is a bigger island (I heard there's like 3 resorts, and a town community there).
When we reached PSR, it was like WOW... the whole resort is like on stilts sitting on a semi submerged sandy island. And you can see a lot of sea critters (especially starfishes) in the water. Other than no airconditioning, the facilities on the resort is pretty complete. The dining hall has an opening right smack in the middle like an aquarium and you keep seeing lots of fishes just hanging out below. In the room, the balcony has got deck chairs looking out to the sea.
Diving here was awesome. Creatures which are considered rare in east coast semenanjung is like in abundance here. Pipe fishes, lionfishes, starfishes, groupers, jacks, blue spotted rays, even bumphead parrotfishes would just be swimming around the resort. We get to see so many creatures like white tip sharks, green turtles, hawkbills, lots and lots of barracudas (esp on Sipadan itself), colorful nudibranches, pygmy seahorses, leaf fishes, frog fishes etc. Even the anemones would house big families of clownfishes (I've seen like tens to twenties of them hanging around a single anemone).
The only grudge we have is because of recent policy changes, we need permits to dive in Sipadan. And the thing is that the permit was randomly awarded. There are people who get to dive there everyday, and some didn't get a chance to dive in Sipadan after staying for 5 days. Our group managed to get a dive (some get 2 dives). We were supposed to get another dive actually, but while waiting for the personnel to approve our, one stupid gwai lou went to reason with the personnel and talked so much until he got fed up and shooed us all back.
All in all, it is a great trip. Great dive, good food, friendly people and staffs. I would definitely want to come back. No wonder some of my friends who dives call this place their second home. Time to save up for another trip... maybe next year. :P
On the 30th Sept, after work, I went home, had my dinner, packed my bags, and then went over to B and C's place to crash. Gotta wake up very early (4:30am) the next day to catch the cab to LCC Terminal for the early flight to Tawau.
The next morning, we arrived at the airport right on time for check in. This time around everyone made it and nobody got left behind (unlike the last time where 2 guys missed the flight).
After checking out from Tawau airport, we have to take a rental van to get to the Pulau Sipadan Resort (PSR) pier, which is about an hour's drive away. And from the pier, it's another 45min to 1 hour of boat ride to Kapalai (where PSR is at). On the way we passed by Mabul as well, which is a bigger island (I heard there's like 3 resorts, and a town community there).
When we reached PSR, it was like WOW... the whole resort is like on stilts sitting on a semi submerged sandy island. And you can see a lot of sea critters (especially starfishes) in the water. Other than no airconditioning, the facilities on the resort is pretty complete. The dining hall has an opening right smack in the middle like an aquarium and you keep seeing lots of fishes just hanging out below. In the room, the balcony has got deck chairs looking out to the sea.
Diving here was awesome. Creatures which are considered rare in east coast semenanjung is like in abundance here. Pipe fishes, lionfishes, starfishes, groupers, jacks, blue spotted rays, even bumphead parrotfishes would just be swimming around the resort. We get to see so many creatures like white tip sharks, green turtles, hawkbills, lots and lots of barracudas (esp on Sipadan itself), colorful nudibranches, pygmy seahorses, leaf fishes, frog fishes etc. Even the anemones would house big families of clownfishes (I've seen like tens to twenties of them hanging around a single anemone).
The only grudge we have is because of recent policy changes, we need permits to dive in Sipadan. And the thing is that the permit was randomly awarded. There are people who get to dive there everyday, and some didn't get a chance to dive in Sipadan after staying for 5 days. Our group managed to get a dive (some get 2 dives). We were supposed to get another dive actually, but while waiting for the personnel to approve our, one stupid gwai lou went to reason with the personnel and talked so much until he got fed up and shooed us all back.
All in all, it is a great trip. Great dive, good food, friendly people and staffs. I would definitely want to come back. No wonder some of my friends who dives call this place their second home. Time to save up for another trip... maybe next year. :P
06 October 2008
Back! But wished I could stay longer
Just got home not long ago. Air Asia delayed again. Sipadan was awesome. But there's some new restrictions on diving there, only got to go there once. The rest of the diving was done in Kapalai, Mabul, and Siamil.
Off to sleep. More details next time.
Off to sleep. More details next time.
30 September 2008
23 September 2008
Wedding Dinner
Sunday I had to skip my class because I realized that I'm supposed to be attending an ex-colleague's wedding dinner in KL. I really forgot about it totally, but luckily I did made a note about it in my phone's calender and hence got reminded about it before it's too late.
It was the typical Chinese wedding dinner that we've all been attending and been very familiar with. I was surprised that they have the Karaoke set ready for guests to sing on stage, because most people did not want that nowadays. More surprising is that I went to toilet and came back finding out my ex-colleagues have nominated me to sing on stage. What to do, have to be sporting, so I went up to sing. After a while, they made me sing another song. Really got "placed on the table" (俾人摆上台).
On a side note, this is one wedding dinner that ended very very early for KL standards. 10pm and it's done. I guess the hosts didn't want everyone to stay back too late since the next day is a working Monday.
It was the typical Chinese wedding dinner that we've all been attending and been very familiar with. I was surprised that they have the Karaoke set ready for guests to sing on stage, because most people did not want that nowadays. More surprising is that I went to toilet and came back finding out my ex-colleagues have nominated me to sing on stage. What to do, have to be sporting, so I went up to sing. After a while, they made me sing another song. Really got "placed on the table" (俾人摆上台).
On a side note, this is one wedding dinner that ended very very early for KL standards. 10pm and it's done. I guess the hosts didn't want everyone to stay back too late since the next day is a working Monday.
07 September 2008
Farewell, Gathering and more
Last weekend was quite eventful. Started off with a farewell dinner of a colleague, followed by a visit to MOS: Euphoria on Friday; caught up with a friend I haven't meet for months, and a gathering of ex colleagues at Souled Out on Saturday; as well as a visit to *undisclosed location* plus some hands on trial of *something* on Sunday.
So, yet another disgruntled employee left the company. I wonder who's next... and when is my turn. This girl is one of the few remaining subject matter expert in the company after a bunch of them all left about 2 years back (I was told).
After the farewell dinner, I joined a few of the colleagues to check out MOS: Euphoria. Entrance was pretty expensive at RM50, and so are the liquors, with Chivas going for RM420. Music is typical MOS style... trance-y techno. Crowd was not too bad either. Don't know why lately I've been enjoying these techno music like MOS, David Guetta, Paul van Dyk, Tiesto etc, so I kinda enjoyed Euphoria. Not to mention that it's a non smoking club, so all the better.
Hartamas has been kinda quiet lately. I went there on a Saturday evening, thinking it would be packed, but surprisingly there's ample of parking. Maybe as my friends say, economy is not that good, so more people prefer to stay home. Also could be because it rained earlier, so less people feel like coming out on a rainy day. I've no idea.
I've been interested to learn something new. Lately learnt about *something* and I happen to have a few friends who are into it. So I decided to visit their *undisclosed location* to check it out. Most likely I will be taking it up, although classes would be on Monday evenings, which could be quite tiring since next day is also a working day. Plus if I were to be dumped into another client's site, it might be quite troublesome for me to travel after work for practices. Nevertheless, I think I'll just start first and worry about all these later. I think I'm gonna like it.
So, yet another disgruntled employee left the company. I wonder who's next... and when is my turn. This girl is one of the few remaining subject matter expert in the company after a bunch of them all left about 2 years back (I was told).
After the farewell dinner, I joined a few of the colleagues to check out MOS: Euphoria. Entrance was pretty expensive at RM50, and so are the liquors, with Chivas going for RM420. Music is typical MOS style... trance-y techno. Crowd was not too bad either. Don't know why lately I've been enjoying these techno music like MOS, David Guetta, Paul van Dyk, Tiesto etc, so I kinda enjoyed Euphoria. Not to mention that it's a non smoking club, so all the better.
Hartamas has been kinda quiet lately. I went there on a Saturday evening, thinking it would be packed, but surprisingly there's ample of parking. Maybe as my friends say, economy is not that good, so more people prefer to stay home. Also could be because it rained earlier, so less people feel like coming out on a rainy day. I've no idea.
I've been interested to learn something new. Lately learnt about *something* and I happen to have a few friends who are into it. So I decided to visit their *undisclosed location* to check it out. Most likely I will be taking it up, although classes would be on Monday evenings, which could be quite tiring since next day is also a working day. Plus if I were to be dumped into another client's site, it might be quite troublesome for me to travel after work for practices. Nevertheless, I think I'll just start first and worry about all these later. I think I'm gonna like it.
09 August 2008
080808
The much anticipated day of Beijing Olympics 2008 finally opened yesterday, on the 8th day of the 8th month, of the 08 year at 8pm. Yesterday after work, on my way home, I got stuck in a bad jam which is quite unusual. I guess everyone was rushing home so that they don't miss the opening ceremony.
The starting performance was pretty awesome, as they got thousands of people to synchronize on some performances. Especially the part where they have blocks of letter cubes in synchronized patterns. Details of the opening ceremony can be found on the official website here.
After the performances, participants from all over the world starts marching in. Took quite a few hours to have all of them walk through the main area.
Finally, the event ends with the lighting of the fire pit, which is also one of the highlights of the night. After Barcelona's archer shooting the flame to light the pit, many are wondering what would China do to top that. Apparently they used technology in this case, to lift the ex gymnastic gold medalist Li Ning on wires so that it seems like he was making a round in the stadium, in the air. Should be quite tiring for him as he has to act like he was walking on air.
Overall it's a successful olympic opening. As some say, having a successful opening is almost like 50% of the whole event is already a success. Although I'm not much of a sports fan, I still look forward to see record breaking moments in this year's game.
The starting performance was pretty awesome, as they got thousands of people to synchronize on some performances. Especially the part where they have blocks of letter cubes in synchronized patterns. Details of the opening ceremony can be found on the official website here.
After the performances, participants from all over the world starts marching in. Took quite a few hours to have all of them walk through the main area.
Finally, the event ends with the lighting of the fire pit, which is also one of the highlights of the night. After Barcelona's archer shooting the flame to light the pit, many are wondering what would China do to top that. Apparently they used technology in this case, to lift the ex gymnastic gold medalist Li Ning on wires so that it seems like he was making a round in the stadium, in the air. Should be quite tiring for him as he has to act like he was walking on air.
Overall it's a successful olympic opening. As some say, having a successful opening is almost like 50% of the whole event is already a success. Although I'm not much of a sports fan, I still look forward to see record breaking moments in this year's game.
15 June 2008
Another Wedding to Attend
I'll be going for yet another wedding dinner later today. Earlier this morning, joined a few friends to help the groom "bring back the bride" (接新娘).
The girl friends of the bride really EFNBTD (eat full nothing better to do)... apply hair removal wax on our legs and then peeled them off. No it's not really painful at all... but now my leg's got a bloody bald rectangular patch, and I'm going for diving next week! #$%^&@$%^@$... hahahaha.
Other than hair removal, they have us drink some funny juice... bittergourd, lemon, honey, chili all blended in. I cheated and only took 2 sips. :P Then they make us pass around a piece of chili with our mouth (but not spicy la the chili, no challenge). Finally they put keys in whipped cream and got 3 "heng dai"s to fish it out with their mouth.
Come to think of it... I've participated in a lot of these "接新娘" events of my friends... I've been the camera man (video cam), the "heng dai", the "ji mui", the driver, the best man... I think if there's a resume for this, mine would be 5 pages long or something... LOL
UPDATE:
I've put up my "bald spot" picture on facebook :P
The girl friends of the bride really EFNBTD (eat full nothing better to do)... apply hair removal wax on our legs and then peeled them off. No it's not really painful at all... but now my leg's got a bloody bald rectangular patch, and I'm going for diving next week! #$%^&@$%^@$... hahahaha.
Other than hair removal, they have us drink some funny juice... bittergourd, lemon, honey, chili all blended in. I cheated and only took 2 sips. :P Then they make us pass around a piece of chili with our mouth (but not spicy la the chili, no challenge). Finally they put keys in whipped cream and got 3 "heng dai"s to fish it out with their mouth.
Come to think of it... I've participated in a lot of these "接新娘" events of my friends... I've been the camera man (video cam), the "heng dai", the "ji mui", the driver, the best man... I think if there's a resume for this, mine would be 5 pages long or something... LOL
UPDATE:
I've put up my "bald spot" picture on facebook :P
08 June 2008
What the...
On the 4th of June, our "brilliant" government decided to drop the bomb, announcing that our fuel prices will be semi-floating... with Petrol going on a RM0.78 hike, while Diesel going on a RM1.00 hike, to be reviewed every month from now on. And what do they do as compensation? A measly RM625 cash rebate for car owners with vehicles less than 2000cc. That's probably the amount an average working class would spend for petrol in a month (with the latest rate).
Just a few days back before the incident, I was discussing with my dad on the issue of banning vehicles from neighbouring country from fueling up in M'sia. I was just saying, maybe they should reduce the subsidy, then give us some kind of tax or cash rebate. Speak of the devil... because it actually happened. But not at the kind of rates I would expect.
Now everything is going up... flour, sugar, cooking oil, rice, now petrol... except for our salary. What to do? Freelance? Moonlighting? Do part time jobs? Or like what our government says, "change lifestyle"? Rubbish.
Just a few days back before the incident, I was discussing with my dad on the issue of banning vehicles from neighbouring country from fueling up in M'sia. I was just saying, maybe they should reduce the subsidy, then give us some kind of tax or cash rebate. Speak of the devil... because it actually happened. But not at the kind of rates I would expect.
Now everything is going up... flour, sugar, cooking oil, rice, now petrol... except for our salary. What to do? Freelance? Moonlighting? Do part time jobs? Or like what our government says, "change lifestyle"? Rubbish.
04 March 2008
Phuket Trip
Lazy to upload the pictures... if you have Facebook, you'll see some of it there (because FB's photo uploading tool is easy :P). Let me put up the story first, and pictures later.
On the last Thursday morning, I departed from the Low Cost Carrier Terminal, heading for Phuket. Yep, I'm spending the weekend in the lovely island paradise. Together on the trip are JT, SK, and HK. It'll be my good buddy/brother, JT's 7th birthday on the 29th Feb, so partially this trip is planned to celebrate his 4-year-once birthday.
Most of the time in KL, I didn't wanna get pissed drunk because I still need to drive my ass home. So going to Phuket is also a good opportunity to get myself really pissed. So for this trip, I told my friends I'm planning to get pissed. And sure enough my friends didn't wanna disappoint me.
On the first night, first we went drinking at an Irish pub, Molly Malone's. I had like 5 pints of Chang draught here. Next we stop by a place called Coyote for some food and 2 pitchers of frozen margarita. After that we proceed to some pub and had shots... Black death (tastes like cough syrup) and Fisherman's friend (mmm... minty)... I think I had like 5-6 shots here. At this time I was kinda high and just downed all the shots being put in front of me. Finally we moved over to Dingo's bar (where JT will have his bday party tomorrow). Here I had like 4-5 Jaegerbombs... Jaegermeister shots dunked in a glass of Redbull. After all that drinking, I'm quite high, but could still walk back to our guesthouse. Plan to get pissed failed... dang.
Second day, did some wandering around town, strolled by the beach etc. Come evening, again we started with some beer, then hopped over to Dingo's bar. There's a BBQ going on (my friend paid for it) and the pork chops and sausages are really yummy. Then as we settled down with a beer each, the pub owner, T, bought us a round of Jaegerbomb. Next, someone started ringing the bell (in Phuket you can see almost every pub has a bell hanging. Ringing the bell means you wanna buy everyone in the pub a round of drinks). We had like 3 different shots with 3 rings on the bell... one is Jaegermeister I think, one is... I forgot... and the 3rd shot is like some sky blue drink... I dunno. After that I had like another 5 Jaegerbombs before calling it a night. And I think I didn't quite had enough... I could still walk back to the guesthouse in a straight line, albeit pretty high. Dang.
Third day we're just taking things slow... wandered around town, buy some stuffs. Night time we rented a taxi to go to Phuket town for dinner. There's this Chinese restaurant in town that serves pretty authentic Chinese food. My friends who've been in Phuket few times always make sure the come here for dinner at least once every visit. We also brought along a bottle of whiskey to drink with our meal. Had quite a lot to eat... noodles, glass noodles, soft shell crab, orh chean (oysters fried with eggs), crispy chicken, duck web, etc. After the meal we stopped by a nearby night market for some desserts. Most people here looks fairer, probably quite a big population are of Chinese decendents I believe. Some hawkers speak fluent mandarin too (not really surprised as we past by a Phuket Chinese School along the way). No more attempts to get pissed drunk. Hehe.
Finally on Sunday we'll be leaving for home on a noon flight. Went for morning walk along the beach... feeling the nice sea breeze, taking some pictures here and there... And then pack our stuffs to head for the airport. During the flight, we went thru some air pocket I think, and the plane at one stage just suddenly dropped couple of meters downwards. There was like a big bunch of International School students and they just started screaming. By the time we landed on LCCT (by the way the pilot was pretty good, the landing was really smooth), the kids were clapping their hands. I remember reading it somewhere that certain countries does have this culture... but definitely not Malaysia, and it's the first time I see people applauses after a plane landing.
All in all, fun trip. Good to have a getaway once in a while... what more having the chance to get pissed (albeit failed at trying to get myself really drunk) and not worry about driving. :P
On the last Thursday morning, I departed from the Low Cost Carrier Terminal, heading for Phuket. Yep, I'm spending the weekend in the lovely island paradise. Together on the trip are JT, SK, and HK. It'll be my good buddy/brother, JT's 7th birthday on the 29th Feb, so partially this trip is planned to celebrate his 4-year-once birthday.
Most of the time in KL, I didn't wanna get pissed drunk because I still need to drive my ass home. So going to Phuket is also a good opportunity to get myself really pissed. So for this trip, I told my friends I'm planning to get pissed. And sure enough my friends didn't wanna disappoint me.
On the first night, first we went drinking at an Irish pub, Molly Malone's. I had like 5 pints of Chang draught here. Next we stop by a place called Coyote for some food and 2 pitchers of frozen margarita. After that we proceed to some pub and had shots... Black death (tastes like cough syrup) and Fisherman's friend (mmm... minty)... I think I had like 5-6 shots here. At this time I was kinda high and just downed all the shots being put in front of me. Finally we moved over to Dingo's bar (where JT will have his bday party tomorrow). Here I had like 4-5 Jaegerbombs... Jaegermeister shots dunked in a glass of Redbull. After all that drinking, I'm quite high, but could still walk back to our guesthouse. Plan to get pissed failed... dang.
Second day, did some wandering around town, strolled by the beach etc. Come evening, again we started with some beer, then hopped over to Dingo's bar. There's a BBQ going on (my friend paid for it) and the pork chops and sausages are really yummy. Then as we settled down with a beer each, the pub owner, T, bought us a round of Jaegerbomb. Next, someone started ringing the bell (in Phuket you can see almost every pub has a bell hanging. Ringing the bell means you wanna buy everyone in the pub a round of drinks). We had like 3 different shots with 3 rings on the bell... one is Jaegermeister I think, one is... I forgot... and the 3rd shot is like some sky blue drink... I dunno. After that I had like another 5 Jaegerbombs before calling it a night. And I think I didn't quite had enough... I could still walk back to the guesthouse in a straight line, albeit pretty high. Dang.
Third day we're just taking things slow... wandered around town, buy some stuffs. Night time we rented a taxi to go to Phuket town for dinner. There's this Chinese restaurant in town that serves pretty authentic Chinese food. My friends who've been in Phuket few times always make sure the come here for dinner at least once every visit. We also brought along a bottle of whiskey to drink with our meal. Had quite a lot to eat... noodles, glass noodles, soft shell crab, orh chean (oysters fried with eggs), crispy chicken, duck web, etc. After the meal we stopped by a nearby night market for some desserts. Most people here looks fairer, probably quite a big population are of Chinese decendents I believe. Some hawkers speak fluent mandarin too (not really surprised as we past by a Phuket Chinese School along the way). No more attempts to get pissed drunk. Hehe.
Finally on Sunday we'll be leaving for home on a noon flight. Went for morning walk along the beach... feeling the nice sea breeze, taking some pictures here and there... And then pack our stuffs to head for the airport. During the flight, we went thru some air pocket I think, and the plane at one stage just suddenly dropped couple of meters downwards. There was like a big bunch of International School students and they just started screaming. By the time we landed on LCCT (by the way the pilot was pretty good, the landing was really smooth), the kids were clapping their hands. I remember reading it somewhere that certain countries does have this culture... but definitely not Malaysia, and it's the first time I see people applauses after a plane landing.
All in all, fun trip. Good to have a getaway once in a while... what more having the chance to get pissed (albeit failed at trying to get myself really drunk) and not worry about driving. :P
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