Last week till now - Final part!!!

Last week, I basically only worked for one day, which was on Wednesday. I was on leave on Monday as I wanted to take good rest after Johor trip. I also took the opportunity to jog at nearby park, Tasik Seri Pemaisuri, a really nice place for jogging and relaxing. After jogging, I continued to swim. It made me so refresh and I am determined to do exercise at least once a week for my health!!! We could earn a lot of monet but without good health, you would not be able to enjoy life.

On Tueasday, I was on half day training and so did not go to client place at Rawang. I was also on last minute study leave on Thursday and Friday for ACCA mock exam last Sunday. WHile doing my revision, I also went to shop at Midvalley and gathering with Xiaxiang friends at Sushi King for the RM2 Bonanza. We queue up for around one hour plus and we could only eat there for one hour.

8 of us eating 70 plates at Sushi King


On Friday night, we celebrate belated birthday for Xin Yi at Dae Cheong Ngam at Sri Hartams. It was my first time to officially go Sri Hartamas/Mont Kiara.

It is our tradition to celebrate each other birthday since our uni time (T6 classmates). Too bad that Elvi, Lan Xin, Ying Sing and Sez Chin cannot join us nowadays as all of them are working at Singapore. Our usual gang included Kean Yap, Me, Xin Yi, Sing Mae, Qian Ling, Roland, Kong Soon, Jason...

Me and Xin Yi


Tiratmisu Birthday Cake



2nd round drinking at Boston, KL Soho



Coming up: Penang, Pahang, Klang trips....

Last week till now - Part 3 (Kukup trip)!!!

Kukup is situated south of Pontian a small town at the southwest corner of Johor. It is an interesting fishing village with many residents having their houses built on stilts over the sea. This village is famous for its seafood restaurants, most of which are built on stilts over the sea too.7 cars, 29 people departed to Kukup, a small fishing village around 11am on Saturday. We reached Kukup around 12.30pm and took ferry to our chalet. We met up with Han Yi, another member who came herself from her homtown, Kluang.

Welcome to Kukup

On our way to take ferry

In the ferry

On our way to the chalet


After settling down, we went for lunch and took some photos of the nice view while some of members played "Mahjong" and some singing "K"!!!

Nice sea view

Nice sea view

Taking after our lunch

Singing K


Then, we have early birthday celebration for our Xiaxiang group, Peter and Winnie as Han Yi wanted to back earlier in the evening.

Happy 3 years old birthday to our Xiaxiang

Group photo after birthday celebration


In the evening, we sent Han Yi to the town as her parents were fetching her. On our way, we took some photos:

Goodbye to Han Yi

Outside of expensive, nice house

Nice evening view

Nice evening view


At night, we had BBQ dinner, eating nice Taiwan Hotdog, chicken wings, grilled fish and so on. After that, we played some games, drink Black Label (43% alcohol), singing k and dancing...

Nice BBQ

Drinking

Dancing after drinking


On Sunday, after having our breaksfast, taking some group photos, dancing our xiaxiang songs, we departed to visit the Mangrove reserve at Kukup.

Group photo before depart back

Visit to Mangrove reserve


After that, we went to eat nice seafood at Kukup Town. After some shopping, we departed back to Kuala Lumpur. That's end of this trip and see you all at Perak for the next annual gathering!!!

Last week till now - Part 2 (JB trip)!!!

After fetching Kai Sin, we went to shopping at Jusco Tebrau City which is the second largest Jusco after Bukit Tinggi, Klang. While waiting for JB guy, Kerlson Tian to finish work. We went to have a light dinner at "Sushi King". After that, Kok Soon fetched us to eat at nearby Hawker's Food Stall to eat our dinner together with Peter's sister and niece who are staying at JB.

After having a short dinner, we went to JB custom to fetch Xiao Ting, Xiao Yu and Maggie who are all working at Singapore while meeting up with Raymond, Epin and Jia Soon. We went to eat supper near the "Kuang Rou Secondary School". Here are some nice food:

Nice sotong

Nice banana leaf fried rice One of the nicest fried rice I have ever tasted before!!!


The night was still young!!! So we decided to go for bowling while waiting for another 2 cars who were departing from KL around 10pm. I followed Raymond car to fetch Pei Fen, another JB girl at Skudai before going to Daiman Bowl.




All of us overnight at Xiao Ting and Raymond's house and that's the end of JB trip.

To be continued...

Last week till now - Part 1 (Melaka trip)!!!

Last week, I went for 3rd batch xiaxiang annual gathering at Johor. Quite a number of 3rd batch group members are from Johor and/or working in Singapore. 2 cars departed to JB from KL earlier on Friday whereas another 2 cars departed on Friday night and reached JB around 2am.

We went to fetch Xiao Qi at Melaka and met up with Chee May, another member who was unable to join us due to work during weekend. We stayed at Melaka for around 2 hours for eating and walking around, taking some nice photos:

Peter fetching me and Wendy

Nice cendol

Nice rojak

Delicious mee siam

Group photo outside the restaurant
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Full Group Photo

Group photo without Peter as he want to try his shooting skills!!!


After bidding farewell to Chee May, we departed to JB and reached around 5pm to fetch Kai Sin, another group member who is currently teaching at JB and was also unable to join our gathering at Kukup.

To be continued...

A short break!

Today I am on leave until next Monday to have a short break!!!I just want to take a break and good rest away from busy audit work. I will have an annual gathering tomorrow at Johor with my 3rd batch UTAR xiaxiang friends. 30 of us...hope that it will be a successful and enjoyable gathering...let's enjoy to max!!!

Happy mooncake festival!!!

Today is another Chinese Festival: "Mooncake Festival" or "Mid Autumn". I want to wish my family, relatives and all my friends a Happy Mooncake Festival and enjoy your celebrations!!!

This year is my fifth year that I did not celebrate with my family at Brunei. Today, I finished my whole day ACCA class at Sunway around 6.30pm and decided to go to Lowyat with Eddie to shop for new digital camera. After Federal Highway, it started to jam along the road to Bukit Bintang. After passing Sungei Wang, we thought of turning to Pavilion, however the road was closed!!! We have no choice but to turn to the road to Pandan Indah, Cheras areas and ended up at Ampang. We cancelled the shopping at Lowyat and Jalan Ipoh's Dim sum (Plan to go to meet our friends after shopping).

On the way back Cheras, it was jammed and full of cars again. I wonder why there are so many cars at KL at this time. Is it due to mooncake festival and Saturday night? I reached my house around 9pm after having quick dinner with Eddie. 2 and a half hour of jamming and wasting our time and fuel!!! What the....This was how I celebrated this year's mooncake festival.

While celebration, natural disasters have occurred around the world. Earthquake at Sumatra, Typhoon Parma and flood at the Philliphines, Tropical Storm Ketsana at Southeast Asia and so on have caused thousands of death!!! Please do our part to save the world. Natural disasters are made worse and serious by human activities.

Long holiday just past!!!

Last weekend, I went back Langkap, Perak to visit my foster family and sent them mooncake for the coming mooncake festival early next month. Kean Yap fetched me and his hometown friends on Saturday morning. We supposed to depart from my place around 10am but ended up depart around 12pm something after servicing Kean Yap's car and having our nice dim sum breaksfast at Seri Kembangan. Kean Yap dropped by me at Bidor around 4pm after jamming at the highway from Slim River till Sungkai, as expected. My foster father fetched me at Bidor to Langkap, as usual.

During the 3 days 2 night trip, I just stayed at house, other than meeting up and yumcha with friends there. It is good to escape from the busy life at city (KL). I was very relaxed and enjoyable during the few days trip although I did not go for further trip. Kean Yap, whose hometown is at Malim Nawar, Kampar came to fetch me at Langkap on Monday night to meet up with Yong Joo, Yen Thoong and Choi Ling at Yen Thoong house, Sungai Long. We supposed plan to have steamboat but due to the fact that not many people could make it, this plan was subsequently cancelled. We reached around 11pm and went for a yumcha at Balakong area.

The highlight of this long holiday was trip to Broga Hills on Tuesday mroning. We planned to see the sunrise but due to heavy rains, we delayed until around 10am. We ate a "char siew bau" before going up and it was very bad to do that. We should not eat so heavy breaksfast, especially the time before climbing up the hill. This was a big lesson to learn and reminder not to do it next time!!!!

My stomache was not feeling well and I have no choice but to take rests at few stops. Another reason was that my stamina was not enough. I need to train muself well and exercise. I really hope that one day i would be able to climb to the peak of Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in Southeast Asia!!!

Anyway, I managed to climb to the 2nd lookout point. Here are some of the nice photos taken:









I would certainly come to climb broga hulls next time. I hope to go until the peak at 4th lookout point!!! I could do it!!!

We climbed down around 12pm and went for the popular "pan mee" at Broga town before going to visit the popular temple nearby. The temple was a place for screen of a Singapore movie called "Lao Si Jiao Lao Da"!!!

Nice view taken from the temple at Broga town

Disruption of Star lrt service

This morning, I woke up around 7.30am as usual. Everyday I will take Star LRT to work from my place (Salak Selatan station) to Sultan Ismail station, which will take around 15 minutes.

I was shocked today when I reached the lrt station. It was normal to have a lot of people waiting for the lrt. I met my ex-colleague and told me that there was some disruption at Sultan Ismail lrt and the train would only stop at Bandaraya station, one station before Sultan Ismail lrt. It is walkting distance within both station. After a while, the officer announced that "Kod 7" was activated and all stations would be closed. Then, we were being ushered out of the lrt station and we needed to find alternative public transport to office.

Luckily, I met my other BDO Malay colleagues and we planned to take taxi. However, we waited for a while and no taxi at all. One of my colleagues have car at her house and she proposed to drive us to office. Finally, we reached office around 10am. Really too bad.

I hope that the lrt service would improve. I am really disappointed with the current public transport in Malaysia. Thousands of people are relying on public transport to and back office everyday. Without better and further improvement, Malaysia would not be able to reach the Vision 2020 to a developed nation. It is one of the important criteria also.

999

Today is a nice date: 9 September 2009!!! I heard and saw in news that many couples have chosen this date to register and tied up the knot. Wish every couple will live happily together! Anyway, enjoy today and hope tomorrow will be a better day...

Moving on

Tomorrow I will go for the company trip at Bukit Gambang Resort City at Pahang for 3 days and 2 night. This was the 2nd year to join the company trip. Last year, we went to Port Dickson for a 2 days 1 night trip.

I just want to relax myself with my other colleagues before going for new job at Rawang next week until my study leave for ACCA exam in November. I just finished my current job today. Rawang is quite a distance from KL and travelling is just too tiring despite the fact that I am not the one who is driving. My last job was at Port Klang.

To all my friends, just enjoy yourself during these three days holiday. Of course, I do not forget to wish Malaysia, our beloved country, Happy birthday. Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

ACCA Results

ACCA results have been officially released on Monday. I have passed my P2 meaning I have passed all the compulsory papers (P1, P2 amd P3). So, I could concentrate on the optional papers as these papers' passing rates were historically low. I am taking P7 currently and would attenpt P6 next semester. I just hope to complete the ACCA as soon as possible so that I could concentrate on my future career path and plan.

Congratualate to all my friends who have passed during last June 2009 exam and for those who unfortunately could not make it, success is just another step closer and all the best in next attempt!!!

Durian

Durian, the "King of Fruit", is my favorite fruit of all. I went for a buffet Durian dinner at SS2 last month and it was my first time to eat this type of buffet. It was very enjoying and would certainly try again next time, but not in this short term. We could not consume too much durians at one time and have bad effect on our health. Do drink some salt water after eating durians.

Crazy....

After taking progress test tomorrow afternoon, I went to sing karaoke at Neway, Leisure Mall with my colleagues for Esther's farewell and her and Lee Fong's birthday celebration. I left earlier to join my xiaxiang friends to yumcha at Murni, SS2. I could not join them to eat Italian food also near Leisure Mall earlier. In addition, I also could not join my UTAR T6 classmates gathering at Midvalley as our good friend, Min Wei has came back from Singapore for holidays. Also, Zhe Quan, one of our "HarkauSiewmai" gang has came back from Singapore but I could not join them for dinner gathering at Sri Petaling also on Saturday night. 4 gatherings at the same time...I really could not join all of them, too bad.

After yumcha at SS2, we decided to go up Genting around 12am. What a crazy idea!!! 3 cars, 11 people just went up to Genting Highlands just for a drink and walk. We reached back KL around 7am. I never went up Genting so late and what an experience!!! We have great funs together!!!

Take a break!!!

Today I was on leave. I just want to take a break and rest before starting my new job at Port Klang next Monday and after rushing so long Tai Thong Group of Companies. It is time for a short break. I woke up around 9am. I thought to go for a swim but due to time constraints, I decided to swim tommorrow morning since I needed to go for xiaxiang friends' UTAR convo around 11am by public transport.

Congrats to all my friends including Heather, Sue Hui, Lilian, Chui Fang, Jing Ling, Kok Soon, Hooi Sing and Epin who are graduating this round. All the best in your future and work!!!

I have to start for a short revision for tomorrow ACCA progress test. I will go for farewell and birthday celebration with my colleague at Neway, Leisure Mall and join my xiaxiang friends for our KL gathering also around the same areas. I am looking forward to meet you guys.

Work, work, work!!!

I have been rushing days and nights for the December year end's accounts for the past two weeks. At last, all have been settled last week and this week, I have to clear up all the files and so on since I will be doing field work in a manufacturing company at Port Klang. I have been staying in office for finalisation work for the past two months.

To relax myself for the weekend, I went for a swim on Saturday morning, watching drama and chatting before joining "HarkauSiewMai" gang for dinner at Jalan Alor. While waiting for Yong Joo (jamming on his way from Subang due to the anti-ISA protest by thousdands of people"), we went to eat the "Gai Xi" shark fin soup and spicy fish ball at ground floor of Lowyat and then went for shopping at Lowyat. After dinner, I and Yong Joo went to SS2 "Gei Dat Sek" for "tong shui" to meet up with Kean Yap.

On Sunday, three of us went for bahkuteh at "Teluk Pulai" branch before going to Midvalley to visit the property fair to survey for property. I plan to buy a property for stay and/or rent to others by sharing with elder brother. Location is the most important factor and I hope to find the best and suitable location.

For another two weeks, the ACCA results for December 08 exam sesssion will be released soon. Everyone is waiting and tension. Now, the only thing we can do is just wait and don't think too much until the results finally released on that day.