Phuket airport and hotel

Duty Free shop

Mercure Patong entrance

Nice little fountain

Cool see through bathroom

Air Asia Plane

To my surprise, the plane was pretty good. Some pics to show! It's the 2nd time that I've flown via Air Asia and the last time was about 5 years ago if I recalled correctly. Lucky us that we got new planes :D

LCCT for the 1st time

This is my first trip to LCCT and it's probably 5 years ago when I first took Air Asia for the very first time when it was still flying ex KLIA. It's a small terminal and these are the shops that I saw within the floor that I walked. I ain't sure if there is another floor available.






Here are some shops after going through immigration to the departure gate.

Back from Fookhet

Hi! I'm back from Phuket. Rather tired, will blog about it later as well as adding pictures.

Phuket

Am off to Phuket! First time trying out Air Asia via LCCT! Will see how it goes ;) Ciao peeps! Blog about it when I get back

Thaipusam - KL also gets a holiday

Yay! Thanks to PM now KL and Putrajaya have also been granted a holiday to celebrate Thaipusam! Happy Thaipusam to all! Only bad thing for me is that I'm going back to the office as our presentation could not finish yesterday. On top of that I got to get ready to ensure that I didn't forget anything as I'm off to Thailand tomorrow.

Business Presentation

Luckily I can sleep in a bit tomorrow as I have a presentation at our distributor's new office. On top of that, I had a Latte on the way back coz didn't have dinner and it was a bit late to eat anything. That's probably what's keeping me awake. Need to sleep soon. Going to be a short week and lots of stuff to do since I will be off to Thailand on Thursday.

Really no life

It's another working Sunday for me. Couldn't wake up for church (I'm going to start to say 'as usual' very soon, please forgive me!) Woke up, put clothes for washing and left for mum's shop. A colleague happened to stop by and didn't know that the shop belongs to my parents.

Tapau Kaya and Butter Toast (Double) and Xi Mut Tea from Old Town Kopitiam and headed to the office. Left only at 10:30pm......such is life! To top it up, I am paid peanuts...What more can I say, pay peanuts, you get monkeys la ;)

So Sian!

Yet another working Sat, Was supposed to help mum at her class. I called her to check if I could help until a certain time only but she could get the usual assistant to do it so I ended up going there to help whatever I could. Dad was definitely glad to see me there. Went home after that to change and got ready to go to the office.

Wasn't too productive today. I was having quite a bad headache. It must be the detox liquid that I added into my water. Oh the only thing that I did since the pathetic lonely me had nothing to do, I decided to do some road discovery in KL so that I don't come across at being "ulu" and not knowing my way around. Coolness! Recognized some ways and directions of how the Bank Negara links to Raja Chulan and if I went straight without heading to P.Ramlee / KLCC side, I am actually going towards Alor / Pudu. At least I learnt something!

Mad, tiring week

Unbelievable, it's 1:20am on a Friday and I just got home about 10 mins ago. I feel knackered due to lack of sleep the past whole week. Partly it's myself to blame as sometimes I stay up to blog as I've no time to catch up. Another it's work too so today, I am zonked out. Going to sleep soon. Wednesday's meeting was so so , Thursday's one was bad as our big boss was in such lousy mood and today, the one that I organized went really well. Tot it would take 1 hour and ended up longer.

I've been really busy preparing presentations for a top management guy coming from HQ and seriously making me drop all my executional stuff as well which is really annoying. Daily operational stuff is enough to kill you as it gets compounded if not looked into. It's another working weekend for me. Signing off, good night peeps!

Ahhhhh so much work!

Man, work just never ends. I packed my stuff and did a bit of laundry slightly early in the morning coz I am going to bunk over for 2 nights at friend's place. Day was rather packed. I had to make a walk again with the heavy notebook to the office because the replacement uncle has walked out for a drink. Just great, another round of morning exercise. Today traffic at NPE was bad!
Had a few meetings to sort out as many things we can because we have yet another upcoming review, a major one this time and got to start work. On top of that, there are 2 major internal meetings starting tomorrow.

Went out for team lunch today at Chopstik Noodle House at MV. Came back to work on as many stuff as possible. Everything just seems to be urgent and running concurrently somemore to not ease the matter. I just clocked off at 7:30pm coz I am just fed up. Going to work on it earlier the next morning haha if possible la since it's 12:36am now. Gnite peeps!

Quiet Monday

Today's traffic was really bad. Imagine me having to be stuck for at least a good 40 mins before I can get out of Summit. Arghhh....sometimes I just wished that I don't live in Subang and having to commute to and fro with the traffic. On top of that, got to find out that our ever dedicated uncle who shuttles us around was hospitalized and I had to walk with the freaking notebook under the hot scorching sun which was odd for 9:15am. Good exercise to scare away Mon blues!

Did as much work as I could. Picked up all those that I have left behind throughout last week because of urgent reviews, presentations and public holiday tho it wasn't one for me! Went for lunch at DeCanter. Darn, hate it when school reopens coz you have to braze through that stupid short distance traffic to get there. Had the yummy cantonese fried kuey teow. Colleagues had Chicken Mushroom Pie and a Hokkien Fried Noodles and all 3 of us shared a Banana Peach Crumble which I must admit that it was good!

Successfully attended the 8:15pm kickboxing class. How pathetic, it's only my 3rd class out of 8! I need to finish by end Jan so I'm planning (fingers crossed) that I can attend my 4th on Wed and 5th on Sat.

Sunday at mum's shop

I had the MOST interesting Sunday ever :P I was being a good girl and went to mum's shop to help out. Got up, got ready by 11am and went to buy bread from King's just to try. Bought their Red Bean Roll, only RM2.40 and their 2 slices of swiss roll which was RM1.80. I found the Swiss Rolls rather expensive if you compare that the whole loaf will cost you around RM4.

Packed from I think about 11:30am till a good close to 7:45pm. Happiness. I finished the Cookie mix (2nd part), preparing the instructions for it, packed Nuts as well & Sugar. Sounds little but try standing for a good 8 hours without sitting, only maybe 15 mins for lunch.

Interesting bit is that you will want to try your best to finish sorting the cartons or boxes so that there are less on the floor and shelves will always look full. Whenever I'm around, (a bit of a perfectionist) I will make sure that the butters are all faced correctly. I guess you can't be bothered when you need to do things quick. Can't blame them.

Resting Saturday

Supposed to feel good after having slept in but I guessed it does NOT work for me somehow. Anything after 10am and I get a headache. Did some laundry, got myself some bread to eat and watched Grey's Anatomy Season 3 Disc 2. Almost completing the last episode before deciding to attend the kickboxing class.

Ended up missing it coz I was held back by traffic and went to DJ, Baskin Robbins to have ice cream. Alamak, so much for diet hahaha.... Went home after that and did some practice because I have a performance at night itself in Seremban. Honestly felt so malas to drive and on top of that, going alone. This is where you wished you had your partner la when your friends desert you heh :) Sounds pathetic, I dont care!

Rested a bit more, took a short nap and got ready to leave for Seremban. Was wary of the roads coz driving at night, considered la though it's slightly past 7pm after hearing what happened to a friend of mine who's car was a total lost thanks to the tow truck people sabotaging innocent lives on the road. He's lucky that he only had a minor cut above the eye.

Did the performance, stayed back to dance a bit and chat as well as I bumped into a cousin of my good friend whom I didn't expect will be there. She came looking for me which was not difficult as not everyone were in bright green costume hehe and I was surprised to see her. At least she saw me in action coz I did tell her before that I do Line Dance. Left slightly past 11pm and reached in 50 mins safe and sound thank God! :D

Unbelievable Friday

This must be the craziest Friday that has happened in my work life probably for 2008! It started with me catching the 8:05am flight to Singapore. Bad enough i almost missed it (yes, u heard me, again had it happened!) that I went to the wrong gate. Bugger, I assumed it was C4 but actually there's really a H4 gate which is in the main terminal without having to board the sky train. Ran like a mad woman to make it JIT!

My presentation went ok, well according to myself anyway. Interesting bit as I showcased the video of my SG competition held last month and ending with the winner herself parading around the room to showcase her "cun" legs. I had to draw everyone's attention back to my presentation haha coz they were interested in asking if she was going to join for lunch. Had buffet lunch and then packed up to leave. Caught a cab and went for my 3:10pm flight back to KL. Dont wanna be late after last experience! Freaking scared. Wasted my money by buying a smoothie only to find out that I can't carry it on board, celaka!

Prior to that, was checking out JBL Radial Micro speakers and On Stage III. Difference is only S$2.80. Dont know which is best for my iPod yet. Got a cab after landing and reached home close to 5pm. Got my stuff that was needed that night and left for KL. Nothing new to guess but IT WAS FREAKING JAM!! Thank God the entire event was delayed for almost 1 1/2 hours because we had to wait for the media and TV crew to arrive to ensure coverage for our event at Maison. Despite delays, the whole program ended almost 30 mins after our initial pre-allocated time which wasn't too bad! Had late supper after the event and went back past midnight. I knocked out flat after that.

My celebrity guest judge for the night - Vince Chong

So much for Awal Muharram

Wonder why I put the title? No offence to my Malay dudes and dudettes. I am just bitching because I had to work on this public holiday just coz we have a big S&M Conference in SG next day. On top of that, 10th is normally due dates for quite a few things like claims and staff purchase.

I went in about 1pm after a practise and lunch. Stayed till close to 8pm. Imagine working almost 8 hours even on a non-working day! Quite a lot of colleagues were there coz we had another major presentation which was due and silly monthly report due. Pengsan man!

On top of that, I am having an event the next day hence I'm one of those who's flying in the morning just to present and leaving after lunch. I had things to pack as well for the event. Still working on my presentation until past midnight and then pulled together what I will wear as it's 6am that I need to wake up the next day.

Out of Office or SO i thought

So i thought! My boss left for Italy in the evening yesterday. I had to finish my changes for my GM by today. I've also arranged for a trade visit today with my agency. Prior to that, I had to go to the office for an urgent Sports Club meeting in the morning first. Did our trade visit in Midvalley. Had lunch at Seed Cafe, one place I haven't tried before. I must say that food was rather nice except for the Pae Teeees....sux!!! My main, the Chicken Chop was good. It came with a special sauce which was yummy and went well with tomato sauce too.

Prawn & Apple Salad

Paete/Top Hats

Chicken Chop

After doing a bit of trade visit, I asked my agency to drop me off at Hilton as we had the high tea session in Paya Serai. Food was lousy. Company was so so la. It's not the best of the best. I know, i am beginning to sound a bit spoilt but seriously! The teh tarik, bread and butter pudding and lemang was good! We had about slightly over 30 people I think whose birthday falls in the 3rd and 4h quarter.

Moody day

I must first confess for being moody and pray for forgiveness. Sorry LY dear that I let go of my temper. The last thing I wanted was people to bug me when I just got back to work and having to catch up on stuff. If there weren't urgent stuff, trust me I rather rest at home. Just not in the mood. Still went ahead with class despite the fact that I wasn't well. Taught "Hard For The Money" and at least that gave some excitement and spice to my day.

Weeee......MC

Tada....the 1st MC for 2008! Woke up with clogged throat, clogged chest and pain, blocked nose and a bit of cough. Oh well, that really gave me a good opportunity to stay home and sleep in. Seriously I feel awful when I woke up. Saw the doctor, prescribed slight different medication for me and walla, time for medicine. Good thing that it was after the good food day else I will cry!

Still got calls pertaining to work and that's only normal. I have an event coming up this Saturday so got to ensure that everything's ok. I continued sleeping in the afternoon as well and felt a bit cold. Thought I was going to be hit by fever but no, thank god! Just stayed in bed, read my novels and time's almost up to sleep again for the next day.

Wonderful Food Day!!!

Obviously having slept at almost 6am, I ended up waking up at 1pm today. I was just resting at home till it's almost time to head to the studio for my practice. We took slightly more than an hour to figure out our steps. It's terrible that not much video was taken of our steps so there aren't referral and we had to depend on what we can remember. After that, we had KFC. I was hungry too coz only had 2 slices of crackers as brunch.

Went to pick up my drycleaned clothes from Bangsar and headed off to Mont Kiara, to get ready for a sumptuous dinner ahead! Showered and changed and got ready and waited for guests to arrive at 7pm. Food was excellent! Unfortunately no pics to show how well decorated the dining place was. Most were people I dont know except 2 of whom I have met in Lake Club before.
There was nasi lemak as well as nasi dagang! Lime juice was good as it somehow fitted so well with the food we were having.

Dessert was great too with a variety of choices and it does make you feel like you are in a 5 start restaurant/hotel. Of course hotel food ain't going to beat good home cooked food. Some had wine/whiskey as their drinks ;) I stuck to my juice and wine and chinese tea later on. Everyone definitely went back with a fat belly except perhaps the host themselves as they were busy serving the guests.

Packed Saturday

Saturday was great. I slept in, obviously could not wake up for the 11am class. Did some laundry and got ready to go to TTDI with mum. Her good old friend has opened a cake cum restaurant outlet near the studio and I was just on the way there for practice. Reached there at 1pm and ended up chilling with mum's friends coz my dance partner totally forgot about our dance arrangement.

Headed on for KB for the 2:30pm class. It felt really good to sweat it out though I kind of injured my right shoulder a little bit when I did the hook movement. Chatted with the instructor a while and headed off to Bangsar to send clothes for dry clean. Went home after that to rest a bit tho ended up blogging and left for a party organized by my students at Putra Heights. Dinner provided too and subsequently left to home after 1 1/2 hours to change and party.

Weather was bad. Happiness when I met up with my old buddy BB. Picked her up and headed off to Sky Bar but thanks to the wonderful weather, we just popped in as I wanted to show her what it's like. Ahh a picture to remind myself of the dress code always!

No shorts, singlets, slippers, sandals

We then left for Delicious to have a drink where it's less noisy and serve non-alcoholic drinks. Left at 1am when they close and sent BB back home. Left her house only at 5am coz there was just so much to catch up and not enough time!

Yum yum, my melting pot with marshmallows

Silly Friday

Friday was really a joke. Well at least for once in the week, I clocked in a bit earlier. Thumbs up for that! :D Day was rather short and looking that it's still 1st week into work and me not having tuned in yet, I went out for lunch in One U. Got hooked to the Pork Toast now. It's nice, for those who CAN eat but is yet to try.

Checked out 9 West and found the shoe I wanted to buy at Pavilion. Lucky that I didn't buy because there was an additional 10% discount to it but unfortunately no size. Anyways, it's a blessing to me in disguise. I might as well for additional discount if there may be since I have kind of jack up my credit card debt!

So much for declaring loudly that nothing can stop me from attending the 7pm KB class but well work did!!! CC, I know u have laughed away. It was rather embarrassing. I ended up going to friend's house for dinner past 9pm and watched National Treasures Part 1 on TV.

2nd day back to work

Er...today I was seriously late. I just couldn't wake up...help!!! I cooked up some story to say that I had a tummy upset (partially true) and still clocked into work. Ohh..best part about work today was actually going to Pavilion. Can't be any better hehe :) After having done what I had to do with my PR agency, we went for express lunch at Etoile. Being clever, I had the set this time and sure enough, I couldn't finish my food! It comes with soup, main and coffee/tea.



An unfortunate thing happened after that. My friend actually lost her parking ticket and had to pay RM50 as fine. An unnecessary waste of money. oh well. I was SUPPOSED to go to kickboxing but ended up not going coz lots of work. Luckily I tapau the balance of my sandwich from lunch and had that for dinner. Worked till close to 10:30pm.

Back to work

Wah..i swear I could not wake up after having slept in for the past 1 week! I couldn't even sleep early. It was tough and I was seriously blur the whole day, no kidding. Anyways, it was more of catching up on emails. I start reporting to my new boss today. Hmm...didn't do much. Felt rather unproductive today.

Looked forward to dinner to catch up with secondary school friends. We planned it after our reunion on the 29th Dec because 2 are leaving back to Australia. Unfortunately 1 couldn't make it because she was vacationing in Chiangmai. Dinner was at Alexis, Bangsar. Ohh,..I finally tapau the so called famous "Tiramisu" for mum. Well it wasn't good at all! Mum makes better one anytime. Besides I guess having it halal doesn't help (sorry peeps). It definitely needs liquer. It just ISN'T tiramisu without KAHLUA!!

Ree joined us later on after he arrived from his flight from JB :)

Last day to chill before reality checks in!

Ahh....since we had a really late night, I slept till about 12pm I think. Then went to meet wiki's parents for lunch before they start their journey home. Had lunch at Puteri in TTDI just behind the studio. I must say the food was sedap! It was opened by an actress, dont ask me who. Anyways, the hubby was there and told us to try the outlet just as you want to head into Penchala Link to MK on the right. That outlet's air-conditioned.

Later on, we headed to Telawi St to drop off clothes to dry clean and had a quick cuppa before going back home. I was having my sinus already, at a milder stage. Ohh....must not forget this. After the cuppa, went back to have a change of clothes into something comfortable and started carpentry work :) Once I got the hang of it, it was fun. Only that I wished I could cut my nose off coz I was sneezing away and can't exactly look down thanks to my running nose.

It was a good work out and rewarded ourselves with Japo dinner at MK ;) Sigh...back to work next day....Dunno how will I get use to waking up early again.

New Year's Day - 1st Jan 08

Here are the pictures showing anticipation whilst waiting for clock to strike 12am followed by fireworks display.

New Year's Eve

This is a belated blog about NYE 2007. Basically, I spent my New Year's Eve at Dataran Merdeka waiting till clock struck 12 and see the fireworks. It wasn't that great but oh well company was great. Thank God for good company and friends which makes any terrible place feel good.

Oh discovering a new highway was great as it really linked Putrajaya to KL in 20 mins max....AWESOME!!! I think it's going to start charging by next week but cun man! We went the same way to and fro. Unbelievable. There was a concert there before the clock struck 12. I was seated at the VIP seat so view was good. Pity the surrounding people because at times, it kind of drizzle.

Entry of the lion dance

Lion dance on poles

More lion dance stunts

Pak Lah giving speech

M. Nasir performing

Mavi performing

Group performance