Nov
30
Protected: Rambling on a happy Friday~
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Nov
29
Protected: Unfair!!!
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Nov
28
Best night view of KL
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Where do you find the most beautiful night view of KL in KL? Well, apart from KLCC where you can view the night view but then again, you cannot see the beautiful KLCC itself! A great place to bring your outstation friends to see the lovely night view is from Ampang Hill.
I went there for the first time earlier this month. The road was a little winding and steep but the view? Spectacular!!!
We had our late dinner there (after being caught in the stupid traffic jam for more than an hour!) at LookOut Point Restaurant.
The food wasn’t very good though (I’ll give 2 stars only) and the service was a little too late as it was packed! But the view (4.5 stars!) make your trip worthwhile!
It is a nice view, isn't it?
The a little too crowded restaurant though it was around 8pm - 9pm on Saturday night..
It is a nice view, isn't it?
The a little too crowded restaurant though it was around 8pm - 9pm on Saturday night..
I had grilled fish, so so only..
This is either special chicken chop or Maryland chicken..
Great view, can see the KLCC clearly~
The Look Out Point Restaurant! 
Nov
28
The education system..
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“I heard that they have changed the History subject at school”, said my colleague over lunch the other day.
“Changed it? How could anyone change the history”, I asked, surprised by her statement.
“I don’t know but I heard so”, she added and we continued to discuss our country education system.
Though I don’t know how true it the fact but I am not keen with our country education system which focuses so much on the book and theory stuffs only. Students in Malaysia are much more passive compared to overseas students and our education system is so stiff and rigid.
Anyway, it isn’t like we have many options to choose from, do we? We either send our kids to government school, international school or private school. But at overseas, parents do have the option to home school their kids, which in a very normal choice to them. Take K-12 Free HOmeschool for example. It is a community sponsored home school academy for the parents who choose to opt for home schooling their kids.
They could choose from over many core and elective courses for the kids at there at different learning method such as video, hand project and etc.
Nov
27
Cheesy crab at Cheras!
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The crab dinner brought us all back again, I mean the 2 ex-colleagues that have left for other companies. Six of us arranged our 2nd crab dinner at Hau Kee, near to Tmn Yulex, Cheras. The first crab dinner we had was in Seremban, which we went right after work!
Though they said otherwise, I felt that the crab was much better and tastier than the first trip. Perhaps we ordered different type of crabs, which was the cheesy and salted egg crabs! Perfectly deliciously! It is around RM45 to RM50 a kg for those crab.
The yummy salted egg crab!
Oh so yummy salted egg crab!
The even yummier cheesy crab!
The side orders were very tasty too. There were pork ribs, delicious signature tofu and vegetables (forgot to take de pictures before we ate, so this was what left when pictures were taken! Not very pretty but taste pretty good!)
The extremely expensive ‘herbal-wine-prawns’ at RM100 per kg and we ordered 6. So each of us get one but they charged us RM90!!! After we made much noises they found out that it was wrongly calculated, as it was only RM45! We felt that they were trying to ‘cheat’ us. Luckily we asked for break down of the food prices and enquired about it! The thing was the prawn not even nice! >_<
The steamed man-tau, very good to go with the cheesy sauce!!! *drooling*
As a compensation of their mistake, they gave us some fruits, covered with ice! The total receipt came about slightly over RM200, quite okay la. Everything was great except for the prawn!
My 2 ex-colleagues and 3 colleagues~!
Me with my colleagues and ex-colleagues~
Nov
26
StarDust~
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I really couldn’t remember the last movie I watched in the cinema. It was perhaps a couple of months ago, yeah, it’s that long! Yesterday night, I went to watch StarDust at GSC, One Utama. I don’t know how to categorize this movie, as it is a little of everything; romance, comedy, fairy tale, action, adventure.
When I stepped into the cinema, I have no idea what was the movie all about, only thinking that it might be romance as the title was indicating it. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the movie thoroughly as it was rather a pleasant one and very creatively scripted, especially the humour.
It is about a special young guy, stepped into the enchanted world to find the fallen star for his puppy love, Victoria (who was such a naïve young girl). He found the star, which is a young lady who was searched by the princes who wanted to be the next king and 3 witches who were longing for beauty and youth!
The idea of the story was very fresh and imaginative. I particularly like the humour in the movie, like the king encouraging the sons to kill each other for his throne (these were really funny), the dead souls of princes as the ghost floating around waiting for the next king before they could be released, the 3 witches who were quite different from those traditional witches and catching the lightning!
Certainly a great movie with a touch of hilarity and absurdity, love as well as essence of life advices (if you listen carefully enough)!
Rate : 4 stars!
Nov
25
Flat & Straight~
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Well, Angie and Wuching suggested me to cut it and Min suggested perming or cutting it too! But hey, I always have long hair, except when I was little and when I was in my first year of university where I cut it short (which means above my shoulder) but hey, I really love having long hair! So, cutting is not an option at this moment..
I’ve thought about perming too as it is such a trend now with so many of my colleagues perming their hair, either big locks and curls or simply Maggie-mee style! 
Knowing myself well, I am a lazy person who does not like to spend much time on maintenance. Yeah, better spend more time on the bed in the morning.. 
So, I did again! Rebonding for the forth time! This time, I made use of the Mystyle sms voucher at Sense Studio, Uptown. The rebonding cost RM400 (so very expensive!!!) for my long hair and RM45 for trim (I felt cheated coz normally it is free when you do rebonding) and Keeyit permed her hair again as she wanted to make it more curly (and she has much more to complain)!
So, after the 50% discount with the sms, the total damage is only RM225 (even though more expensive that the one I did at Sungai Wang last year at RM190). But then again, that was just a small salon, not like this classy salon.
After 3 hours, my hair is super straight and flat! Initially I felt that my fringe look kinda funny as it was too flat and short. But now it is rather okay but hair is still quite straight. Thinking of washing it off on Monday night, rather than waiting for 3 days. I do not need super-straight hair, just as long as it is not fluffy or frizzy..
*happy*
Nov
24
Bad Hair Day!
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Once a year, at certain times, I would feel quite frustrated with my hair! The moment has arrived!!! I do really dislike my hair now. It is fluffy and rather messy if I don’t put enough cream and serum to it.
A few weeks ago when I still feel OK with it and rather like it. But when I had crab dinner with my ex-colleague, at the minute she saw me, she exclaimed “Ben, what happened to your hair?! It used to be smooth and nice like Ves’!” 
It is certainly not a nice thing to hear but I know she was just being straight forward as she always have been and that was one of the reasons I like her.
The last time I rebonded my hair was in August 31st last year, that is about one year and 3 months away and thus my hair isn’t as straight today. I am thinking of rebonding again this weekend and it would be my fourth rebonding treatment ! I permed once in year 2003 and I absolutely hate it as it makes my hair very dry and damaged. Perhaps the process isn't as good as what they have today.
So, should I or should I not?
Nov
23
What should I do to marry a rich guy?
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A buddy of mine sent me this and I find it really hilarious and he got a point! So I am sharing this out..
This article is extracted from a forum. A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:
Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?
I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I’m greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York . My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you? Among those I’ve dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden, $250k annual income is not enough.
I’m here humbly to ask a few questions:
1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking? I’ve met a few girls who doesn’t have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys.
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)
Ms. Pretty
Here’s a reply from a Wall Street Financial guy:
Dear Ms. Pretty,
I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyze your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I’m not wasting time here.
From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain. Put the details aside, what you’re trying to do is an exchange of “beauty” and “mboney”: Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square. However, there’s a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can’t be prettier year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It’s not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worried 10 years later.
By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a “trading position”. If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term – same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in orderto make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or “leased”. Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than finding a rich fool.
Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in “leasing” services, do contact me.
Signed, J.P. Morgan
"BEAUTY ISNT EVERYTHING AND ITS NOT LONG LASTING. BEAUTY IS JUST AN OUTER LAYER OF A PERSON, WAT MATTERS IS THE INNER CORE IN EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHICH BRINGS OUT THE BEAUTY OF DA PERSON. IT DOES NOT FADE N IT STAYS FOREVER."
Nov
22
A HEAF-ian birthday~
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Yesterday was Sean’s birthday and he was turning 28th!!! We didn’t have any plan for him as it was weekday and we planned to celebrate it on weekend. But I suppose it turned out as a nice birthday when all of HEAF members came and fetch me from the LRT after my belly dancing class! We joined the MyFM road runner show at Taman Bahagia (and won neat prizes, lucky us!!!) and a fun dinner at Taman Megah, followed by a mini cake for him!
Sean insisted us to buy him an air cooler using his own credit card but we pay him in cash! Well, we are nice housemates so we let him decided what he wants. At first it crosses my mind to give him more domains and hosting as he is really crazy about blogging right now. And we could get cheaper price with Register.com coupons! But then, as long as he is happy with his present (even though I think he didn’t quite like it as it is not up to his expectation!)
Exactly a month later, it would be my birthday and Christmas! Of course I am not going to be like him to force them to buy me a present though they really could check out the online coupons for many good deals like the Spafinder Coupons. There are birthdays each month from Sept to Dec in our HEAF home! I think more people were born during the end of the years, wonder why..
Nov
21
Team Building Day 2~
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On second day, my roommate and I woke up at around 6.45am and showered! After a nice breakfast, we started to head to the field around 8.15am for another day full of activities!
On the very first day, each of us was given a balloon with water and we have to bring it everywhere we go and must take care of it. If we lost it, marks would be deducted from our team.
The first game was Flying Fox which required us to climb up this vertical stairs for 4 storeys! It was very tiring for some. For me it was rather okay, perhaps my body is light. Of course they have a safety rope as to ensure your safety (just in case you are too tired and let go of your grip!)
After that you have to sit on the edge with the safety rope tight safely. After you are ready, with full courage, you need to push yourself to slide down the rope. It takes a lot of courage to do that. I asked the instructor to push me but he refused! So I pushed myself down which was really terrifying!!! I wanted to scream but my voice stuck in my throat.. It was really the most terrifying activity for me though I thought I could do it well. >_<
To some, it is even worse! Take this colleague of mine for example. He was sitting there at the edge for a long time as he didnt dare to push himself down! We kept encouraged him from the fields but he just wouldn't come down. A teammate went up and tried to talk to him, even ungripping his fingers from the sidebar but to no avail. Finally after what seems like forever, he finally climbed and hanged himself as in the picture and slowly let himself down.
In every game, we have a buddy to help, guide and encourage us through the activities. This was my buddy and me, running back after she finished her flying fox!
The second game of the day was High Ropes, the most challenging game of all! You have to walk through the ropes, high above the ground in 5 stages. Man, it really takes a lot of courage to do this! To make things worst, it started to rain when I was halfway through the game, when I was stucked high above the ground!
This needs a lot of effort, especially if you are not that tall..
The second stage of the high ropes, walking on a rope and holding on another horizontal rope above you. This was rather okay compare to the next one!!!
This is the toughest stage of all, walking through the rope, holding vertical ropes (with a tyre tied down at the bottom)! You have to hold the top part of the rope with your right hand and bottom part of the rope with left hand (which you will definitely forgot when you are up there. So, that is why your buddy needs to guide and help you from the ground)!
You have to move from one end to another end by holding to the vertical rope tied to a tyre. When it was my turn, it started to rain!!! I nearly felt down when I was grabbing for the third rope which was a little far! But I hanged on tightly to the second vertical rope, closing my eyes and stood firmly on the rope. They shouted for me to calm down and be stable before I moved on. I tried to do just that and then I realised that both my legs are shaking!!! Arrghh.. I learnt that it was best to make small movement as you walk so that it would be more stable!
But hey, I made it after that and instantly felt so happy!!!
But the very same colleague who were dramatic at the Flying Fox got some attention from all of us again. He refused to hold on to the vertical rope and insisted of grabbing the horizontal rope above instead. After much encouragements and promises to him, he still refused to do it properly. The instructor gave up and asked him to hold it as he wished! (as in the picture)
This was the last stage of the high ropes! Yeay!!! I did it!!! So happy
The top pictures were my breakfast, with coffee too. The rest are our delicious Dim Sum lunch, halal food though. I love the baby octopus, scallops and the shark fin soup.
My favourite Chee Cheung Fan (made of rice noodles with prawn n bbq chicken inside), prawns, fish balls and fish balls with tofu.
Fu zhuk with filling, small pau, siew mai and very nice Gui Ling Gou (herbal jelly)~
My buddy, team leader, team mates and I after the lunch~
After lunch, each team had to draw a game that we played and the 10 values that we learnt from it. Here was ours!
After that all of us need to present it. We have other indoor activities too before we have tea break and leave for home! It was a good team building after all.
A very good experience.
Good bye, Allson Klana Resort!!!
Nov
20
1st day of Team Building~
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The team building is held at Allson Klana Resort of Seremban, which I think was a great place (not that I have any team building experience for comparison)! We reached there around 10.30am by a bus and a van, roughly around 50 people. The instructors started with some fun games to make us in the mood for activities and divided us into group of four. I was in the Green team with 12 members and the team name : Heroes!
This is our flag which we designed together but I drew and wrote on the cloth~
The 'Heroes' doing the war cry~
After all the initial activities, we checked in to our room, twin sharing. The room was rather nice~
Lunch time!!! It was buffet style, and I was tempted to eat a lot but then we have outdoor activities later! :S
My first plate, rather yummy~
Second helping, with the yummy fried chicken and saucy fish~
The dessert, a scoop of strawberry ice cream with some cocktails~ Yummy~
Our first outdoor game : Repelling! This was the game I was scared of the most when I saw the pictures showed by my colleagues who have been to the team building! Going down the wall from 5 storeys using a single rope!
But hey, no fear, it was controlled by 2 safety officer that we picked from our team members. They could control the speed of the rope. The instructor at the top would also control another rope. So, rather safe. UNLESS you bang yourself against the wall, if you kick with one leg instead of two legs!
That's me! It wasn't as difficult as I thought and I didn't look down when I climbed over the window, as advised by my colleague. It was rather smooth!
Gee! I have made it! My first small little victory of overcoming my fear~ It felt great!!!
The next game was the Spider Web. There were more than 20 holes and we have to go through the holes without touching the rope. Each hole can only be used once and it would be sealed if we accidentally touch it or after using it! We have 21 people and 24 holes! Ahh.. only 3 holes for mistake!
The holes were of different sizes, so the small people (ahem, like me) have to go through the small hole and big fella going through big holes. It needs a lot of planning as we have to move from one side to another, so if we are to carry people, we have to make sure some people from the other side is going to support them. And some holes for the last ones to go over!
And so the carrying begin! Two large fellas went through the big holes and we started to transfer people over.
Find the right hole for each one, within 45 minutes!
Keep your butt down! Some have to crawl over the hole which was too low!
How about me? The last big fella who was still on the other side! But fear not, we have reserved a hole for him! We broke the record of the last few months as we could transferred all within the period time given & 8 minutes to spare!!!
But the other teams were not as lucky! They were punished as all the holes were used but they still have people that wasn't transferred to the other side. Yeah, got to do Commando Crawl.. Yikes.. dirty…!
Next was the game that I dislike most : Treasure Hunt. I hate searching for a small clue and we have to run around after the 2 activities for an hour, with a lot of mosquitoes around! Yikes..!
My teammates and I~
After that 3 outdoor activities, we were given time to shower and take dinner. I forgot to take the pictures of my main course, coz too hungry! The first picture was my 2nd helping of dinner, with delicious SzeChuan soup, some fruits and desserts. The ham and cheese sandwich were for tea time.
After that we have the game of guessing the movie title! It was funny and fun!
Next we have the dancing game where we would dance when the music was playing. Once the music stopped, you have to stop! Phew.. it lasted till 11pm!
Off to sleep after that..
