Mystifying Valley

Last Saturday a few colleagues and ex-colleagues went to this pub called Dave for Jolene’s farewell. As she’d be leaving to Singapore for work soon.

Aaron the bar tender? haha.. he’s the aspiring PAM


Jolene, me and Alicia

Keong Yee and I. The Windows Vista guru in LowYat

Poh Sze and I. One of the most sought after talented babes in the office

Alicia and I. The babe who can never get drunk

Jolene and I. The hot babe with a big dream. And obviously it was towards the end when we were about to call it a night.

Err.. That was the situation

Goodbye, My dear friend. We are going to miss you!

With the kind of workload of late, stouts actually never tasted any better than this.

My weekend had been a blast. Will blog more if time permits.

Are you interested to come and join us in the biggest Microsoft event ever? This is a rare chance I’m telling you… Volunteer yourself for a day and you’ll be swept away with lots of fun and freebies!!!

Please revert your confirmation to my colleague at joanchew19@msn.com and she’ll let you know the details.
Deadline is next Wednesday, 29th August!!!

When is this?
Date: 10th September 2007
Time: 7pm - 10pm

What do you get for helping for 3 hours?

Additional information:

Attire: Jeans & T-Shirt
Transportation costs of Helpers are NOT covered
There would be a screening session for the volunteers who register.
*COMPULSORY: Helpers are required to attend a crew briefing which will be announced later to confirmed volunteers.

What is Tech Ed SEA 2007?

www.microsoft.com/malaysia/techedsea2007

You will also see other rave at Joan’s Blog

Two things that made my day today:

1) The traffic was super smooth this morning for a change! It was almost like cruising all the way to Kelana Jaya.

2) In the LRT, I saw a guy showed his courtesy by passing his seat to a lady. Then another guy who was sitting in the train, just like myself who witnessed this, also followed suit.

*Love is all around* YAY

work is however, overwhelming.

We have just launched the Merdeka Special promotion last Thursday in conjunction with Malaysia’s 50th year of independence celebration. Can’t believe how time flies! It’s only 3 weeks away from the event and this will be the last forseeable offering in terms of ticket promotion. After 31 August, the ticket price will resume to its original value RM1,299.00

If you think you are going to sit and wait for the stock price to go down nearer to the event date, sorry buddy I’m afraid that ain’t gonna happen.

Register NOW

This weekend has been one of the hectic but well spent one with the family. After they left on Saturday evening, sis and I decided to chill out at Just Dessert for some Mango & Honey Dew shaved ice dessert, something light for dinner after stuffing ourselves silly at Sasaki during lunch.

Very refreshing dessert, but I’d only rate 6 out of 10

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Lazy Sunday

Always my favourite morning.

This shouldn’t surprise to you that I finally got a chance to try out the much raving Big Apple for breakfast today. Despite living merely 5 minutes from The Curve and constant hearing of colleagues & bloggers raving about this Big Apple Shop ~ I’m just not the patient type who would queue up for half an hour just to get donuts.

It was still pretty quiet when we got there around 11am. Good! That means no queue for us. But the chefs were already very busy rolling dough and baking those donuts.

We ordered 1/2 dozen of donuts with different flavors: Cappucino, Almond, Durian, Dark Chocolate, Sinful Chocolate and Oreo. I’m a chocoholic, the latter 3 were of course, my choice!

The coffee we ordered came with complimentary donuts as well. We managed to finish up to 4 and brought home the rest of them. Next time I’d be tempted to try the Chicken Floss donut, I bet this is only available in Malaysia!

Look at those huge dough and busy chefs

Wide Selection of donuts

Enjoying my morning cuppa coffee

Today is my mother’s 65th birthday. Many said she only looks like 50 in real life. She’s my biggest inspiration and my greatest pillar of strength of all time. I wish her always in the pinkest of health & happiness. I could only wish to spend more time with her.

Coincidently Jeannette and Ivan are only flying back to London tonight. Hence, we are bringing her out for a celebration.

Sabah Day 2

 
It was free & easy. The agency has arranged a few activities for us to choose. Many chose to play golf at the breathtaking golf course in Nexus Resort; some went to Manukan Island for scuba diving and some went for a shopping spree at the city centre. The crazy gang like us opted for the exciting white water rafting adventura!
 
It was my first time and boy it was thrilling. 28 of us were taken to the destination in a luxury bus from our hotel. I even saw magnificient Mount. KK whilst on its way!
 
Kiulu River is located on the northeastern part of Sabah, claimed to be the one of the most beautiful village in Malaysia that promises glimpses of thrills within its beauty of nature. We opted for Class I-II river grade - just nice for beginners who crave for a mild and safe adventure.
 
The weather was actually very accommodating after a night’s pour the previous night, it meant stronger white water for us!
 
This trip covers up to 15km of river excursion and about 6 hours including traveling time. We took about 2 hours of rafting, swimming, boat fighting and body rafting before reaching the ending point where we were served with delicious barbecue lunch.
 
We didn’t bring any water proof cameras, so the pictures below were just some screen captured from the video shoot.
 
Walking gingerly across the Hanging bridge and the boys were shaking and jumping at the other end
 

 
Say cheese before going down the river
 


 
Body Rafting was super fun

 
Row, row, row a boat!

 
The trip cost us RM150 each. We paid a little extra to have a video shoot of us throughout the trip.
 
I say absolutely worth it!
 

Last week, the whole company flewn to East Malaysia for a secluded offsite trip. Karambunai is located about an hour from Kota Kinabalu City centre, but the place is very beautiful. Serene, tranquil & lots of greeneries. The whole trip has been hectic & tiring with a series of activities lining up for us the moment we touched down, however we still managed to squeeze some time out to frolick at the beach during the last day.

 
View from the Plane, the Island

 
Side entrance of the resort

Pool View

the Resort

Karambunai Beach

Beach boys playing volley ball while me sipping Pina Colada at the bar

UpComing Next: White Water Rafting

Got back from Sunway Lagoon Water Park around 1ish pm after spending about 3 hours squeezing & wobbling my bum with the crowd. It was actually my first “real” visit to the Sunway Lagoon since we got some free tickets for the e-Spring Launch.

The experience was a tad bit disappointing. It was super crowded with people of all races and all age groups. It was literally shoulder to shoulder squeezing our way to the pool. The water in the pool was murky, and the gloomy weather didn’t do us any good either. The queue to the slide pipe was super long and when it started to pour, we decided to leave. But it was a pretty good water workout nonetheless at the artificial Zembuka River where we aqua jogged with the kids there.

It has been a very hectic weekend with Jeannette, Ivan & bro in town. I’ve definitely gone overboard with food! We are always eating and pigging out with some take aways over wine and beer. Looking for another one next week before they fly back to London.