Phuket Trip, Day 3

On the 3rd day morning in Phuket, due to lack of sleep on the previous two nights; I felt jaded.

I was too tired until I slept unconsciously. Luckily me and my sis still able to catch up the breakfast with the rest of them.

After the breakfast, we took a walk along the Patong beach, the breeze was nice and the view was fantastic and it did cheers our mood.


It was around 10.00am, but; the sun was shining.

After the walk, it's time to say bye bye to the guys and the rest of us stayed another half day in Phuket. Au Revoir, my friends. Pity for Patrick cos he needed to catch the night flight to London on the same day itself. However, i think it paid off, cos Patrick seemed enjoy the trip, did you?

After we packed our luggages, it was a time to go for a "Goodbye drink", though, it supposingly a "Welcome drink" which we haven't take during our first day in Royal Palm. This photo was taken by Jane, I found it artistic, so I put it here. Good take, Jane.

Time for photos before we ahead to shopping complex.

I like the hotel (Royal Palm Beachfront) very much. It's just match the name- Beach in front; the minute we stepped out from the hotel, we could see a blue blue sky, deep blue sea and a lovely beach in front.

Inside the restaurant.

Outside the restaurant.

We were taking "tut tut" to go to the shopping centre in Patong. With Trace and Jane on my right and left.

With Jane.

In front of Jungceylon Shopping complex.

Inside the shopping complex, only we knew exactly what we were doing there. Funny, though.

Before we went back to the hotel to take our luggages, we found an "Arsenal Football Club" shop there. As an Arsernal's fan; without hesitate, i walked in to the shop to hunt for jersey or shirt...

Me, Ceci and Trace bought Polo-T shirts (printed with Arsernal's badge).

I damn like the shirt. Not only the price is cheap, the quality of the shirt is pretty good.

In the Phuket International Airport. We were wearing sleeveless T-shirts which we bought in the afternoon. Apparently, without the guys, shopping was the only thing we can do...

We were starving during the flight back to Malaysia. Initially, we wanted to have some nice food in the airport before we aboard, however, most of the restaurants in the airport were closed. As such, my advice is; have your dinner first before you go to the airport if you're taking a night flight coz most of the restaurants close around 8.30pm. That was why we all ended up taken our late dinner in the plane and my dinner was "Maggie Mee, curry favor".

Emm..almost forgot to mention. There is a NaRaYa shop in the airport. Indeed, a very small shop. The price of the bags is slightly higher than those in Bangkok. My advice; better opt for your favourite NaRaYa bags in Bangkok instead in Phuket.

Well, to be frank; I did enjoy the trip and I really had fun with my friends. Guys and gals, looking forward for our coming tripssss...ssss Again, Live life to the Max; I luv you all.

Idols paradise- American Idol Season 8

I am one of the American Idol’s fans since season 3. Can you imagine? 8 years down the road; America is running for this show and it’s definitely a hot and the most successful show.

With Ryan Seacrest remained the host of this show; the same judges- funny and energetic Randy Jackson, meaningless and sometime speechless Paula Abdul, the cruel and unpredictable Sir Simon Cowell (he just honored “SIR” by Queen Elizabeth) and a pretty new judge Kara Dioguardi is added to this show this year.

This season perhaps is the strongest group so far. Now, it’s time to summarize your Top 7 contestants.


Allison Iraheta
The 16 years old, young and energetic Allison reminds me of Kelly Clarkson (the first American Idol). The powerful of her voice is gifted and definitely she could go further in this competition. Her best song:

• I don’t want to miss a thing- Top 7

Anoop Desai
The American born Indian is now living in his American Dream. Though, he is a minority citizen in US but he managed to get himself into Top 7 which is not easy. He got a good voice but he needs to get more votes from Americans. Let’s check out his best songs in the competition:

• You are always on my mind- Top 10
• True color – Top 8
• Everything I do, I do it for you- Top 7

Adam Lambert
The fashionable, funky and most versatile contestant in this competition; he has never been into the bottom 3, he got a good voice and the most important thing is he never copies the original songs during the competition, he comes out the song in HIS way which American Idol is looking for. He is definitely in the “Star Zone” and makes his way through the end of this competition. Check out his best performances so far:

• Black or White- Top 13 (highly recommended, it was brilliant till my goose bump came out)
• Smokey’s song- Top 10 (recommended)
• Play the funky music- Top 9
• Mad world- Top 8 (highly recommended, it made Simon Cowell stood on his feet)

Danny Gokey
He is one of my favorites. No doubt he has a good voice and his vocal is one of the best among the contestants. Same with Adam, he has never been into bottom 3. While he sings, he put lots emotion into the songs and makes them flawless. Check out:

• What hurts the most- Top 8

Kris Allen
Well, he is a talented singer who can play guitar, keyboard and etc. He is the one who most of the judges praised from week to week. He is the one who has improvement and well progress week after week. Basically, all of his past performances were worth to watch; do check out his performances starting from Top 13. However, the one that I re-run more than 6 times was:

• Ain’t no sunshine- Top 8 ( Gees, my goose bump came out whenever I watch his performance singing this song, it was fabulous).

Lil Rounds
The only black remained in this competition. She has a powerful voice. However, according to the judges, she keeps picking the wrong choice of songs every week and she was in bottom 3 last week. The song I like the most was:

• Independence day – Top 10 (but none of the judges like it)

Matt Giraud
He looks like Justin Timberlake and sounds like Michael Buble. He can plays well for piano and keyboard. He is talented and I like him very much. But, the only problem of his; is he unable to choose properly whether to come out a soft or R& B song. All of the judges like most of his performances. Like Kris, most of his performances were certainly worth to watch. He was the one who got the less of votes but the judges had stood in and saved him from being kicked out last week. Mean, he will be in AI next week. Americans, please vote for him!!!

• So Small- Top 10
• Smokey’s week- top 9

And, special dedicated to Scott MacIntyre, congratulation to you for made your AI’s journey to Top 8. It ain’t easy. You never give up yourself though you are vision impaired. You’re a talented singer and pianist. And, you’re certainly idol for the Americans. All the best!!!

Though someone’s American Idol dream may goes to the end with someone’s glory. I hope those who can sing can become the next Chris Daughthy or next Jenifer Hudson; either best selling singer or an Oscar and Grammy Awards winner.

I am going to make a wild guess (actually not tat wide); Adam Lambert will become the next American Idol. May the best man/ woman wins!!!

AIG's bonus outrage

The insurance and investment giant- American International Group. INC (AIG) announced to pay the contractual bonus amounting USD 165 million to its executives on Sunday. The funny thing is, AIG is facing the financial crisis and almost going to collapse last year. To prevent AIG to go for wound up during last Sept, the government bailout fund amounting USD 170 billion had been issued to AIG.

How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company alive? And, most of the higher level executives obtained bonus of more than USD 100 million dollars and some of the executives were resigned and gone right after the bonus has been paid out.

I am neither American nor the US tax payer, I totally feel unjustified to the act. There are more than 450 million of Americans have lost their job during this financial crisis and AIG is using the “taxpayers” money to reward its executives? It is totally outrageous! President Obama had issued a blistering attack on the co and pledged the co from paying the bonus. The US ministers are now urging AIG to restrain the bonus and repay the bonus.

Across the country, without the federal bailout fund; there are still a lot of employees who work hard to meet their daily responsibilities; all they wish is to have a stable job. AIG; at the least, has to utilize the bailout fund to safe its corporation instead of issue million dollars of bonus to its executives.

Life is a Flower!

I used to describe “Life is a flower” . Indeed, it is. Flower needs to tender with cares in order to grow up. At the beginning stage, planter takes care of the plant in the tenderest way. Like us, while we were infants, our parents taken care of us with lots of patience, care and love.

Soon, flower has grown a bit bigger and stronger; however, scheduled watering and nourishing are still needed in this stage. Like us, while we were kids; our parents still taken a good care of us.

Later, flower is in bloom. So beautiful and elegant in the garden that the bees and butterflies wish to drop by and to “kiss” the flower. Like us, we have then fully grown up; so confidence, so ambitious, and so fabulous. And, it’s time to embark on something in the society.

However, no matter how beautiful a flower is, the blossom will fall eventually. Like us, no matter how; we will get old eventually.

While I was 25, I was nervous; coz another 5 more years I would turn 30. While I was 26, I always telling people around me that, called me 25 and I would stay 25 forever. In fact, I am no longer 25 or 26; instead, I just turned 27 this February. Knowing that, my birthday falls on early of the year, so I considered older than the rest of us who are same age with me.

But, who cares? No matter how, one simple and timeless truth is; I will be fabulous, always fabulous, no matter how old I am. Live life to the max!!!

Cheers, for the next 30 and 50!!!

Received a bouquet from Simon aka Kong in the office. Surprisingly, though; din expect I would received a bouquet on my birthday. There are 18 stalks of red rose tight in a small bundle. Ha, I like it very much. Thanks.

The below gifts are given by Rahman. Flower is for the Valentine's day and the teddy bear and birthday card are for my birthday. Thanks bro! Wink, wink.

Cute, little teddy bear.

Again, another surprise from Demy. This white color teddy bear was left on my workstation early morning on my B day. Thanks, Demy. I like it very much.

The red bracelet is also from Demy.

Gift from Sirianong aka Pim. It's from Thailand and brought back here by Rahman.

Birthday card from all my colleagues. Thank you all for bought me lunch in Hops & Grapes and celebrated my B day with me, thanks for the cake too. Really appreciate.

The B day card was designed by Yan Ling. Cute and Creative.

Gift from Sook Wai, Marcus and little Wan Ting.

Handmake earnings from Yan Ling.

Birthday card and wishes from all the managers in EMCC.

Gift from London. I like it very much coz it is green color and the wordings are printed in gold. Again, Patrick; I wanna scream it out loud: "you know how much I treasure you as my friend?" Wuhahaha!

Ok, not to forget. Thanks to Jane who bought me and Trace a book which both of us also like to read. Luv ya!

Thanks to Ban San, Kok Ping and Yoong Loong who bought me and my sis dinner in Bumbu Bali. Nice chat with you guys!

Life is a flower, so presious in your hand. Carry on smiling and the world will smile with you!

World entering "Great Recession"

Dominique Strauss-Kahn; the head of IMF- International Monetary Fund has named the current recession as “Great Recession” and IMF forecast global growth in GDP- Gross Domestic Product is only 0.5% this year.

The world economic climate is glooming. With deep recession in US and there are a lot of pay cut and cessation of employment happened in the nation, the financial tsunami can hit the ground anytime. To prevent the market being worse; our government has thrown MYR 60 bil stimulating mini package to stimulus the market from slide to the financial crisis.

The RM 60 bil is divided into four levels. It mainly used to create job opportunity and to help the cease of company. The package is not transparent enough to tell whether it would work well or not. And, some people wondering why portion of the fund to be used on education purposes and not mainly use to save the market from the crisis?

Hopefully the package is working well by creating lot of job opportunities and the spending power of the nation will then increase. Besides to save the market from the crisis, our government also needs to look into the solution to prevent the rampant crime rate in the country and to deal with the issue of the foreign labors.

With the great recession is coming, we shall not complacent instead we should cut down the unnecessary expenses (- a reminder to myself as well :p ) and save more. This year will be a tough year to the nation, hopefully the RM60bil would use in a proper way. Last but not least, hope the year of Ox will bring back the “bull” market to the world.

Chinese New Year 2009

As usual, I and my family went to the temple during the 1st day of the lunar New Year.

Since it was a spring festival, the blossomy plants which surrounding the temple welcomed us and each of the visitors with theirs’ most attractive look. It was awesome to see these blossom flowers.

The guest of honor of the day was Soon Yan aka Patrick who just came back from UK. He bought me a Gucci fragrance from UK. Hohoho, I damn like the smell of the fragrance, it’s fabulous and Patrick, you know how much I treasure you as my friend? You’re my star***! Luv Ya!

I like the bottle of the fragrance as well; it has a small chain on the middle of the bottle which making the bottle of the fragrance looks perfect.

There was a lion dance performance in my home on 3rd day of the CNY. It costs only MYR100.00 for “a” lion dance. “Double” lion dance costs MYR168.00 and I enjoyed the show very much.

The little lion visited my house during a hot and humid afternoon. It was awesome to see the little orange color lion dancing around my house compound.

After the lion dance performance; I was rushing to an annual gathering dinner in Mun Chong, Ipoh. It was an important date for me as I could meet and caught up with my formal classmates in this gathering. It’s meaningful and precious for me.

Me and Evon. I meet her only once a year.

Me and Eng Hong.

Me and Tai Lou- Weng Kit.

I looking tired and exhausted coz I slept less than 5 hours per day during the whole week of CNY. My face was a bit chubby after consumed lots of good food during CNY. CNY is all about eating!

Ready to "Lou Sang"? Count one, two and three...
We were eager to use our chopsticks to lou sang and right after we stopped, my sis’s hand was covered with “yee sang”.

Finally, our table covered with mess... and finally I realised how savage we were...

The food looked great but it were not tasty and yummy compared those food that I consumed during the reunion dinner with my family.

Fat Choy Hou Shi

Yu Kap

Zhing Zhen Prawns

Fish which is not fresh.

Altogether, 15 of us. Guys and gals, i love you all.

K-session with gal pals.