Friday
Wanted to have tuition today so that I could go to ahyee’s house earlier but WL said it’s not possible. Nvm, so I cleaned the house. The target was to clean the toilet, yard, dining + computer area and room but only managed the dining + computer and toilet. Packed all the papers to send to the recycling bin - an achievement nevertheless!
Saturday
Tuition was cancelled, cheh. If I had known, I would have gone to ahyee’s house earlier. But then, while packing my bag, I found out that cooper was going to be there too. Bugger that! Plan aborted, now the long weekend looks dreary. 2.5 days, what to do? SOS bf, he said tomorrow we’ll go out and have Snowflake, wooty! My bf rawks lol :D
So off I go to Timmy’s house to beraya. Only Eric was there when I arrived, better than none at all. QL came shortly later, looking very regal in jeans :D Never seen him wear jeans before and later I found out the reason why. Waited for Nick and then we makan. Food was very pedas =P QL was an amusing sight and Timmy’s mum said “Kesian dia”. Bwahaha. His line of the day was “German from Germany” only for Timmy to retort each time “Bladi German”. Haha, those 2, never fail to make me laugh. And then there was that chue yok fun joke. My gosh, mat salleh speaking Cantonese is hilarious!
Sunday
Hari untuk bercinta! Decided to go to Ikea and The Curve, haven’t been there for a long time. Only managed to buy my beanie at Daiso. No nice gloves, so that has to wait til later. And at Ikea, we ate the much-awaited meatballs and other cheap food at the Ikea cafe, felt torturous and couldn’t finish the food.
And then we went on a shopping spree!
Mine: Toilet brush and laptop table (which was actually a breakfast-in-bed tray)
Sunshine’s: A dining set with 4 chairs, a table lamp, an alarm clock, 2 bulbs for the lamp, 3 stalks of artificial flowers to go with the dining table and a packet of 100 tealights!
Oh, and since we got a RM10 voucher, off I went into Ikea again and spent it on 2 cookie jars. Too bad that we couldn’t use it for food at the Ikea cafe, else I would have gotten Swedish chocs and biscuits =P
Monday
Sent bro to college with mum, waited for about an hour at McD and had pancake with tonnes of maple syrup, went to fat ahyee’s place and waited while they talked and had lunch, then off we went to Pyramid for a while before picking up bro at 4pm. At 1st, she said she is so bored. And then she said that we walked around Pyramid aimlessly like stupid idiots and that every mall is the same. I’m so tired of her.
And then we had Snowflake!
Snowflake is the most glorious thing on planet Earth!
Not a single moment was spent in boredom. No tears, no restlessness :D Very likey this long weekend!
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Friday, September 17, 2010
My appearance on CNN!
As promised, here is the video!
And for authenticity purposes, here is the link where it was found: My CNN fame
As I was looking for the vid on the CNN page (Phil only told me that I would find it there without giving me the exact link), my hands were cold. Afraid of seeing what I might not like to see!
Turns out that I was the first one to be featured! Yay!! That means people don't have to watch the entire vid, besides the first one is always more prominent right? Woots!!
And then, I found out that my mouth and the audio didn't jive. Idiot - they had used the video from the 1st recording and the audio from the 2nd one! Bodoh! They could have just used the 2nd video; I had even worn my Banana Republic shirt for it! But my hair was messier though :D
So.. that's me, the CNN girl!
And for authenticity purposes, here is the link where it was found: My CNN fame
As I was looking for the vid on the CNN page (Phil only told me that I would find it there without giving me the exact link), my hands were cold. Afraid of seeing what I might not like to see!
Turns out that I was the first one to be featured! Yay!! That means people don't have to watch the entire vid, besides the first one is always more prominent right? Woots!!
And then, I found out that my mouth and the audio didn't jive. Idiot - they had used the video from the 1st recording and the audio from the 2nd one! Bodoh! They could have just used the 2nd video; I had even worn my Banana Republic shirt for it! But my hair was messier though :D
So.. that's me, the CNN girl!
Saturday, September 11, 2010
I.am.appearing.on.CNN!
How it started
I saw Nelly post it on FB: “Global Connections: Can you connect Sweden and Malaysia?” Well, the only thing that comes to mind when Sweden is mentioned is: Timmy goes there for work lo. I glanced through the page. What you have to do is to submit a comment on what connection there is and then you might get to appear on the programme. Featuring on a programme is not an attractive prize to me; I take part in contests for cash prizes and goodies. I thought of being the cheeky-me and submit “I send bf to airport, I cry. Bf come back, I happy”. But somehow I came to my senses and decided to be professional instead.
“Sweden and Malaysia are connected when the Swedish bank, SEB, has an outsource office running here in Kuala Lumpur. My boyfriend leads a team of programmers and travels to Sweden once or twice a year. From his photographs, I've had the opportunity to see the country in a closer view, while hearing about the extreme cold, such a contrast from the scorching sun in Malaysia!”
-September 4th, 2010 9:51 am-
I then pasted the thing on bf’s wall and asked him to take part. He’d definitely have better thoughts on how Sweden and Malaysia are connected; he might strongly have something to say.
I thought it was spam
September 6th, an email came. I guess I didn’t even look at the title; it might not even have rang a bell if I did, for of course I was not expecting anything out of that comment I wrote! To me, it was more of a lovey-dovey comment about my bf and Sweden. I decided to give this ‘spam’ a chance by reading it before deleting it.
Hi
Hope you’re doing well. (this part looks dodgy, don’t you think? Probably cos it wasn’t addressed to anyone)
My name is Phil Han and I’m a producer with CNN International’s Connect the World. I am writing you today because I am looking after the viewer interaction element to our new segment on the show called “Global Connections.”
As you know, this week we’re going to focusing our attention on two countries – Sweden and Malaysia and from what I know, you just submitted some comments and opinions on what you think connects these two countries.
Ideally, what we are looking for is if you would be able to say your comments and opinions in a quick little Skype webcam interview sometime this week. It would only take two or three minutes and it would be a great way to illustrate some of your great comments to show on air. This would be televised on CNN International and your participation would form the backbone of our launch week program.
Thanks so much and please do let me know as soon as you can whether this would be something you would be interested in doing.
Best,
Phil Han
Digital Producer, CNN International
Turner House, 16 Great Marlborough Street
London, W1F 7HS , UK
Skype webcam interview? Show on air? Televised on CNN International? O.Mai.God!!
Making the appointment
Phil suggested September 7th evening, London time. Unfortunately, I slept at 9.30pm that night in pain and didn’t get the email til the next morning. Rescheduled it to the following day, 10pm Malaysian time.
THE day
Since I had not taken this entire thing seriously until an appointment was made, I had 2 hours upon reaching home to make the preparations – namely write a script. No thanks that there was no dinner, so I had to tapau. Half hour before time, I brought the laptop to the room, turned on the Acer webcam, pulled the curtains nicely, chuck away the pillows that appeared in the background, arranged my hair and checked how I looked like with the headphones, applied concealer to the HUGE pimple on my face, apply more and more concealer to the pimple.
I was so obsessed with looking at myself in the webcam that when the Skype call came, it won’t show my image because my Acer webcam was on :D I had to call him back for it to work.
And then Phil emailed, asking me to say that both countries had their first astronaut in space in 2007. Malaysia’s is that who-else while Sweden’s in Christer Fuglesang. Ok. And before that, I managed to speak to bf just before he went to bed; he said both countries have kings and are democratic countries.
So.. I had to say “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from Malaysia ..” and say the similarities. Phil said that it was all pre-recorded, so if I’m not happy with the answers, I can always do it again but I guess it all went well, no need to redo. They wanted it to be fun and didn’t think my bank-similarity was ‘fun’, so that was why Phil gave me the astronaut thingy for me to say. Was kinda disappointed but somehow I said all 3 in the end!
I said the 1st similarity is the astronaut thingy, 2nd is the democracy, ceremonial role kings thingy and the final one is the SEB thingy! I remember Phil asking me “You said your bf went to Sweden?” and he asked if I’ve been there (I haven’t gotten the chance to), if there are any Swedes here (I said his manager is and that several team mates come down once in a while), how do I find the people (I’ve never met any la, so I said bf finds their working ways different and admires the way they work). Now I wonder if all those were going to be on air or was just casual talk after I had spoken on the similarities. I was caught off-guard for those questions.
So Phil said that the programme would be on air on Friday 10pm! He said since I would be asleep by then, he would send me the link. It’s not that I have CNN anyway.
When I was done, my hands were cold... real cold. So nervous, so stressful. But it’s CNN! As bf said, who cares about TV3 when you have CNN! He said “dahsyat la budak tembam ni” hahaha.
Reshoot!
Last night (Sept 10th) while I was trying to finish the entire HBV Asia report to be sent back to UK while I holiday, Phil emailed:
Hi Sue Ann
We have a big EMERGENCY!
Are you able to re-skype with us? We just need you to re say something?
Are you free now? If not now, perhaps tomorrow morning London time? It is very important
Thanks
It was 11pm and I was very tired with a headache. I told him I would do it tomorrow, he asked if we could do it really really quickly now. I decided to let it be, as though I was no longer online. It was an hour later that I decided to go for it – what if they decided to drop me? The programme was due to go on in 2 days, they might just decide to omit me. Besides, I wanted to sleep in peace and don't want to have a sleepless stressful night. All tasks must be completed by today!
So I mailed him, yes I would do it *groan* Bad enough that my hair was tied up and I hadn’t bathed but I was too tired to bathe and let it dry before coming online. So I repeated the steps of bringing the laptop to the room, turning on the Acer webcam, pulling the curtains nicely, chucking away the pillows that appeared in the background, arranging my hair (it was tougher this time) and checking how I looked like with the headphones and applying concealer to the HUGE pimple on my face. It is as tiring as it sounds.
Phil said that his coll would do it this time and shortly later, a Keiren Buchanan dropped a note. And then he said the Skype suite is busy, could we do this in 15 mins? At this time, I felt like setting an alarm and dozing off a little. When he finally called, I was caught off-guard and disconnected the call cos I had removed the headphones and hadn’t put them on yet. I need to see how I look before accepting the call!
And then I realised with all the preparations, I had forgotten to plug in the mike and the headphones! >.<
It took a few more tries to get connected. Keiren wanted to do a test run and gave me word-for-word of what I should say. Hey, I’ve done this before la, I don't have to follow every single word you say! So, I did a test run with the sentence that I had rehearsed. He said I did very well! And it would be good if I can do it for the subsequent weeks!
Ok, so now he’s going to start recording and so I said again, “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL. The connection between Sweden and Malaysia is that both countries had their first man in space within a year from each other” and end it with a stupid smile instead of just being expressionless. And then he said it wasn’t recording, so let’s try again. “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL...”
Nope, he’ll go and get his producer to check what’s wrong. “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL...”
Maybe it’s the tape. He put in a new one. “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL...”
I could hear them discussing among themselves. Each time I speak, I wonder whether I’m going to fumble on my next word. My heart thumps; do not fumble! And I did not and it took the 5th try I think to get it working!!
Phew, at that point, I really felt like an actress acting out the same scene over and over again. It is seriously tiring. And not getting sleep too. Boy, being a celebrity is stressful and not fun!
I asked Keiren if the previous clip is not going to be used; he said it would and it’s just that this astronaut part needs to be redone. But then, I spoke about the astronaut part as the 2nd point, why do I need to introduce myself again? I thought of wearing the same shirt as I was the day before but I had a feeling that they only wanted me to say the astronaut thing and nothing else, thus a fresh shirt doesn't matter. (I wore my new Banana Republic top some more, with the label still intact :D I feel like a newscaster who’s wearing a nice top but sarong underneath :D)
I was reading the other’s comments and it’s no wonder why they thought mine was one of the best. Some fella said that both are Muslim countries and an idiot said that both had 4 letters left in the name after the vowels had been removed.
And I found out that the astronaut thing was actually submitted by someone else. I had thought that they had found it out themselves and wanted me to add it in. So why didn’t they ask that guy to present his own point? Cos they like me!
Am waiting for the link!
(My and all other comments are found here. Search for 'sue ann' and you'd see the comment that brought me this fame! :D)
I saw Nelly post it on FB: “Global Connections: Can you connect Sweden and Malaysia?” Well, the only thing that comes to mind when Sweden is mentioned is: Timmy goes there for work lo. I glanced through the page. What you have to do is to submit a comment on what connection there is and then you might get to appear on the programme. Featuring on a programme is not an attractive prize to me; I take part in contests for cash prizes and goodies. I thought of being the cheeky-me and submit “I send bf to airport, I cry. Bf come back, I happy”. But somehow I came to my senses and decided to be professional instead.
“Sweden and Malaysia are connected when the Swedish bank, SEB, has an outsource office running here in Kuala Lumpur. My boyfriend leads a team of programmers and travels to Sweden once or twice a year. From his photographs, I've had the opportunity to see the country in a closer view, while hearing about the extreme cold, such a contrast from the scorching sun in Malaysia!”
-September 4th, 2010 9:51 am-
I then pasted the thing on bf’s wall and asked him to take part. He’d definitely have better thoughts on how Sweden and Malaysia are connected; he might strongly have something to say.
I thought it was spam
September 6th, an email came. I guess I didn’t even look at the title; it might not even have rang a bell if I did, for of course I was not expecting anything out of that comment I wrote! To me, it was more of a lovey-dovey comment about my bf and Sweden. I decided to give this ‘spam’ a chance by reading it before deleting it.
Hi
Hope you’re doing well. (this part looks dodgy, don’t you think? Probably cos it wasn’t addressed to anyone)
My name is Phil Han and I’m a producer with CNN International’s Connect the World. I am writing you today because I am looking after the viewer interaction element to our new segment on the show called “Global Connections.”
As you know, this week we’re going to focusing our attention on two countries – Sweden and Malaysia and from what I know, you just submitted some comments and opinions on what you think connects these two countries.
Ideally, what we are looking for is if you would be able to say your comments and opinions in a quick little Skype webcam interview sometime this week. It would only take two or three minutes and it would be a great way to illustrate some of your great comments to show on air. This would be televised on CNN International and your participation would form the backbone of our launch week program.
Thanks so much and please do let me know as soon as you can whether this would be something you would be interested in doing.
Best,
Phil Han
Digital Producer, CNN International
Turner House, 16 Great Marlborough Street
London, W1F 7HS , UK
Skype webcam interview? Show on air? Televised on CNN International? O.Mai.God!!
Making the appointment
Phil suggested September 7th evening, London time. Unfortunately, I slept at 9.30pm that night in pain and didn’t get the email til the next morning. Rescheduled it to the following day, 10pm Malaysian time.
THE day
Since I had not taken this entire thing seriously until an appointment was made, I had 2 hours upon reaching home to make the preparations – namely write a script. No thanks that there was no dinner, so I had to tapau. Half hour before time, I brought the laptop to the room, turned on the Acer webcam, pulled the curtains nicely, chuck away the pillows that appeared in the background, arranged my hair and checked how I looked like with the headphones, applied concealer to the HUGE pimple on my face, apply more and more concealer to the pimple.
I was so obsessed with looking at myself in the webcam that when the Skype call came, it won’t show my image because my Acer webcam was on :D I had to call him back for it to work.
And then Phil emailed, asking me to say that both countries had their first astronaut in space in 2007. Malaysia’s is that who-else while Sweden’s in Christer Fuglesang. Ok. And before that, I managed to speak to bf just before he went to bed; he said both countries have kings and are democratic countries.
So.. I had to say “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from Malaysia ..” and say the similarities. Phil said that it was all pre-recorded, so if I’m not happy with the answers, I can always do it again but I guess it all went well, no need to redo. They wanted it to be fun and didn’t think my bank-similarity was ‘fun’, so that was why Phil gave me the astronaut thingy for me to say. Was kinda disappointed but somehow I said all 3 in the end!
I said the 1st similarity is the astronaut thingy, 2nd is the democracy, ceremonial role kings thingy and the final one is the SEB thingy! I remember Phil asking me “You said your bf went to Sweden?” and he asked if I’ve been there (I haven’t gotten the chance to), if there are any Swedes here (I said his manager is and that several team mates come down once in a while), how do I find the people (I’ve never met any la, so I said bf finds their working ways different and admires the way they work). Now I wonder if all those were going to be on air or was just casual talk after I had spoken on the similarities. I was caught off-guard for those questions.
So Phil said that the programme would be on air on Friday 10pm! He said since I would be asleep by then, he would send me the link. It’s not that I have CNN anyway.
When I was done, my hands were cold... real cold. So nervous, so stressful. But it’s CNN! As bf said, who cares about TV3 when you have CNN! He said “dahsyat la budak tembam ni” hahaha.
Reshoot!
Last night (Sept 10th) while I was trying to finish the entire HBV Asia report to be sent back to UK while I holiday, Phil emailed:
Hi Sue Ann
We have a big EMERGENCY!
Are you able to re-skype with us? We just need you to re say something?
Are you free now? If not now, perhaps tomorrow morning London time? It is very important
Thanks
It was 11pm and I was very tired with a headache. I told him I would do it tomorrow, he asked if we could do it really really quickly now. I decided to let it be, as though I was no longer online. It was an hour later that I decided to go for it – what if they decided to drop me? The programme was due to go on in 2 days, they might just decide to omit me. Besides, I wanted to sleep in peace and don't want to have a sleepless stressful night. All tasks must be completed by today!
So I mailed him, yes I would do it *groan* Bad enough that my hair was tied up and I hadn’t bathed but I was too tired to bathe and let it dry before coming online. So I repeated the steps of bringing the laptop to the room, turning on the Acer webcam, pulling the curtains nicely, chucking away the pillows that appeared in the background, arranging my hair (it was tougher this time) and checking how I looked like with the headphones and applying concealer to the HUGE pimple on my face. It is as tiring as it sounds.
Phil said that his coll would do it this time and shortly later, a Keiren Buchanan dropped a note. And then he said the Skype suite is busy, could we do this in 15 mins? At this time, I felt like setting an alarm and dozing off a little. When he finally called, I was caught off-guard and disconnected the call cos I had removed the headphones and hadn’t put them on yet. I need to see how I look before accepting the call!
And then I realised with all the preparations, I had forgotten to plug in the mike and the headphones! >.<
It took a few more tries to get connected. Keiren wanted to do a test run and gave me word-for-word of what I should say. Hey, I’ve done this before la, I don't have to follow every single word you say! So, I did a test run with the sentence that I had rehearsed. He said I did very well! And it would be good if I can do it for the subsequent weeks!
Ok, so now he’s going to start recording and so I said again, “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL. The connection between Sweden and Malaysia is that both countries had their first man in space within a year from each other” and end it with a stupid smile instead of just being expressionless. And then he said it wasn’t recording, so let’s try again. “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL...”
Nope, he’ll go and get his producer to check what’s wrong. “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL...”
Maybe it’s the tape. He put in a new one. “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL...”
I could hear them discussing among themselves. Each time I speak, I wonder whether I’m going to fumble on my next word. My heart thumps; do not fumble! And I did not and it took the 5th try I think to get it working!!
Phew, at that point, I really felt like an actress acting out the same scene over and over again. It is seriously tiring. And not getting sleep too. Boy, being a celebrity is stressful and not fun!
I asked Keiren if the previous clip is not going to be used; he said it would and it’s just that this astronaut part needs to be redone. But then, I spoke about the astronaut part as the 2nd point, why do I need to introduce myself again? I thought of wearing the same shirt as I was the day before but I had a feeling that they only wanted me to say the astronaut thing and nothing else, thus a fresh shirt doesn't matter. (I wore my new Banana Republic top some more, with the label still intact :D I feel like a newscaster who’s wearing a nice top but sarong underneath :D)
I was reading the other’s comments and it’s no wonder why they thought mine was one of the best. Some fella said that both are Muslim countries and an idiot said that both had 4 letters left in the name after the vowels had been removed.
And I found out that the astronaut thing was actually submitted by someone else. I had thought that they had found it out themselves and wanted me to add it in. So why didn’t they ask that guy to present his own point? Cos they like me!
Am waiting for the link!
(My and all other comments are found here. Search for 'sue ann' and you'd see the comment that brought me this fame! :D)
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Super fun day in Melaka
Happening month! 2 weeks after ATV, we went to Melaka! It was like we suddenly realised we are getting old and need to squeeze in as many activities as we can. Or the Restless Legs and Hearts Syndrome had intensified.
So... we convoyed and followed behind Lawrence who was driving very ‘cautiously’ :D The brilliant me suddenly had an enlightenment *ting!* Hunger drives people to produce intellectual thoughts. Siew pau!
I’m not exactly a fan of siew pau but let’s just say I eat a lot nowadays and we’re passing the Land of Siew Pau. Actually there was a huge siew pau empire by the highway but we went deep deep in Seremban to find a shop. Paiseh also.. but I saw a shop called HATIM. We were so excited to see such a shop but didn’t catch what it was selling.
The itinerary at A-Famosa:
- Elephant show – exploitation of elephants and nice to see elephants exploit humans back by using their trunks to thump their dicks lol. And then step on it, bigger lol.
- Multi animal show - cats, parrots and don't remember what else.
- Safari ride – The reason we are there. Definitely something different than what we get from the zoos. The animals were exactly crowding around our truck as in the Kenyan safaris but it was definitely cool seeing strange species of animals upclose.
- Bird show - beautiful parrots, majestic eagle and hornbill and don't-know-what bird that does mimicry VERY well)
Us posing at the bird show. No pics of birds worth posting =P
- Wild Wild West show - surely could do better in storyline but I was impressed by the stunts. The gunfire made me terperanjat, the Red Indians actually rode horses at full speed, they actually burned the windows of the ‘bank’ and a guy leapt 3 storeys from a water tank into water beneath. Wow..
- Monkey Island – where the guys had great fun feeding monkeys and seeing a group of Iranian tourists being called beruk for dancing on the raft :D
And then there was the chicken farm! The highlight of the trip! When I entered the 'farm', I instantly saw the room of a thousand yellow fluffy chicks! I was not drawn to enter it until Cath went in. I'm amazed that I did for I'm against the touching of all animals.
They's so fluffay!!
I can't believe I'm holding an animal in my hand
Last camwhore pic before we say bye bye to the animals
Hahaha, I’m not much into animal shows actually; they remind me of the sea lion shows that I watched at the zoo when I was young. But I’ve never been there and it’s not like I had anything else to do anyway. Definitely an experience with bf :) and being all sweaty and sticky, we took a bath at the Ayer Keroh R&R before heading to Jonker!
There was this stall selling wallets of ‘Korean influence’. It was cool; open it up, put the notes inside, flip to open it at the back and the notes somehow has gone into the rubber straps. I wanted to buy one because it was a novelty and also to go home and analyse how it works. But I told myself not to buy things that I will not use, bravo me!
Curly potatoes, the new in-thing! Yummy yummy, couldn't find it in Pandamaran pasar malam
Egg-shaped ice-cream that I asked someone "Hai pin tou mai ga?" rather than go home dejected at not being able to eat Melakan ice-cream. We had already walked up and down the pasar malam and of course we didn't see the freezer situated along the corridor. How did people see them then, I wonder..
We had a long long drive to Umbai for ikan bakar. It wasn’t the kind I anticipated with sambal and lady’s finger on the top. Instead, it was bakar-ed just like that, kosong. Hmm.. I was already super full from all the nonsense I had been eating plus the drinks I had to take due to the spicy otak-otak, so I couldn’t finish the little rice and so I started to day dream and forgot to chew til Timmy marah.... :D
Tired and super full, I slept in the backseat, just like how I did when I was 5 :D Nice outing, nice pictures, nice friends, nice paktor with bf!
Now planning the next one ngek ngek ngek.. I already know what it is! Nom nom nom..
Monday, August 30, 2010
(Belated posting of) ATV outing
August is an eventful month – ATV and Melaka trip. Let’s revisit one by one..
It was hectic before we went for the ATV. Timmy picked me after tuition, then I went to buy rojak, we went to wash car, Timmy went to cut hair and then we went to JJ. By the time we went to JJ, we only had about 1.5 hours left. But.. we bought lots of clothes! Timmy got Hilfiger and fcuk tees (cheh!) and I got 4 tops at fantabulous prices from Padini. Yes I admit that again, I bought clothes because they were cheap and not that I really liked them. Who cares. And it didn’t help that it was a Saturday and I walked out of Padini holding 4 tops; people stared at me and the guard wanted to check the receipt. If I had wanted to steal, I would have put them on instead of carrying them out like that *roll eyes*
So.. we did a trial run before going off into the woods. The oil palm plantation, I mean. The trial circuit was just soil with some bumps. It was fun yelling and honking at whoever that was in front! And then we crossed the road and off into the woods..
We took off first.. vroom vroom to the top. And looked behind to see the guide chasing after us, asking us to hold on bwahaha! Then we set off... and realised some distance later that Lawrence and Cath were no longer behind us. We waited a while for the guide to ‘investigate’, and later he told us to go on; his bro will lead them. Turns out that at the start, Cath langgar pokok and we didn’t know and didn’t wait up lol!
Timmy and I took turns to drive. He taught me that if Soren or anyone else is behind, rev the engine and mud will splutter behind. Yeah, ‘behind’ as in the passenger behind. And clever me saw a huge pool of mossy green water *evil smile* and *SPLOOSH!* damn the water did not go behind but went up in th air and back down on us!! Timmy was horrified bwahaha.
Some parts are scary cos Timmy was going quite fast especially at the lumppity-bump Dataran Ezzy. After a short 1 hour, we were back at the trial run circuit already. It was supposed to be 1 hr 20 mins; guess we drove too fast? We were allowed to ride around the trial run circuit again but after being in the woods, it was so lame laaa..
It was hectic before we went for the ATV. Timmy picked me after tuition, then I went to buy rojak, we went to wash car, Timmy went to cut hair and then we went to JJ. By the time we went to JJ, we only had about 1.5 hours left. But.. we bought lots of clothes! Timmy got Hilfiger and fcuk tees (cheh!) and I got 4 tops at fantabulous prices from Padini. Yes I admit that again, I bought clothes because they were cheap and not that I really liked them. Who cares. And it didn’t help that it was a Saturday and I walked out of Padini holding 4 tops; people stared at me and the guard wanted to check the receipt. If I had wanted to steal, I would have put them on instead of carrying them out like that *roll eyes*
So.. we did a trial run before going off into the woods. The oil palm plantation, I mean. The trial circuit was just soil with some bumps. It was fun yelling and honking at whoever that was in front! And then we crossed the road and off into the woods..
We took off first.. vroom vroom to the top. And looked behind to see the guide chasing after us, asking us to hold on bwahaha! Then we set off... and realised some distance later that Lawrence and Cath were no longer behind us. We waited a while for the guide to ‘investigate’, and later he told us to go on; his bro will lead them. Turns out that at the start, Cath langgar pokok and we didn’t know and didn’t wait up lol!
Timmy and I took turns to drive. He taught me that if Soren or anyone else is behind, rev the engine and mud will splutter behind. Yeah, ‘behind’ as in the passenger behind. And clever me saw a huge pool of mossy green water *evil smile* and *SPLOOSH!* damn the water did not go behind but went up in th air and back down on us!! Timmy was horrified bwahaha.
I think I look cute in those helmets! So round and covers my forehead.
Group pictar upon our completion of the ride. Posing in front of our trial run circuit.
For photo-taking purpose
Some parts are scary cos Timmy was going quite fast especially at the lumppity-bump Dataran Ezzy. After a short 1 hour, we were back at the trial run circuit already. It was supposed to be 1 hr 20 mins; guess we drove too fast? We were allowed to ride around the trial run circuit again but after being in the woods, it was so lame laaa..
After taking bath, we went to Eat Workshop. It was located in an industrial area, surrounded by factories. For its ‘prime’ location, it’s gotta be good right? My foot! Not only was the food inedible but it was expensive! I don't mind paying for good food but they have the cheek to charge us that. The chocolate fondant with melted choc oozing out looked so tempting but the real one tasted like plastic. Gardenia muffins taste better. And they had the audacity to charge 15 bucks for that nonsense? I had expected heaven for that price! The waiter said that I’d be getting a quarter chicken but all I got was 2 smelly lumps of chicken for RM26.90. Fubar!
Which shows that the quality of food can deteriorate in time; as the blogs review weren’t as bad. Wonder how it survived in that factory area. Well, tak cuba, tak tau.. Dinner was very funny with Pam asking Soren to not waste her time saying 'Welllll...'. I did think before that Soren likes to leave the sentence hanging hahaha.
ATV was so tiring that I slept as soon as I reached home at 9.30pm that night. Personal best record.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Malay wedding souvenirs
Just back from Jiana's wedding and Ikea. Tired physically but mind can still talk :D It was strange to be invited to her wedding considering that we were never close in school days and have never kept in touch since leaving school. Anyway..
I've never been to a Malay weddings til err.. recently. I've always thought that bunga telur was still the norm but apparently, they are not given out anymore. So outdated huh? There were none for Ajoy's wedding, Lily's and Man's. But today, there was. Now, the heng thing is to give other pretty things, so pwetty that I have to blog about it :) They fascinate me :)
I've never been to a Malay weddings til err.. recently. I've always thought that bunga telur was still the norm but apparently, they are not given out anymore. So outdated huh? There were none for Ajoy's wedding, Lily's and Man's. But today, there was. Now, the heng thing is to give other pretty things, so pwetty that I have to blog about it :) They fascinate me :)
Those porcelain containers were so cute. Inside was potpourri. In the long paper bag on the right were muffins. That bag was customised with the couple's names on it. Usually it's just some stuff bought from the shops, I think. Hey, there was even a banner with their faces at the entrance of the tent.
The bunga telur! I thought they gave us some cloth when I peeked into the bag :D Erm.. this bunga telur is not pwetty and doesn't look like a bunga also.
I forgot to take one of this for myself :S This is my bro's. The little pouch is cute!! So cute la, so sweet.
This is the souvenir from the last wedding, Man's. Little aluminium tin with tulips! I think I should have kept Timmy's hehe, since it was of another design =P
At the wedding just now, I brought my bro. Haih, he can never not be strange for once. Anyway.. I got a paper bag containing the bunga telur, 1 customised paper bag (containing 3 muffins) and 1 potpourri porcelain. But my bro got just the muffin bag. Before that, we got a porcelain potpourri each. But when Crystal and Pam arrived later, they got another kinda paper bag with a packet of Maggi mee inside (and egg, if I'm not mistaken)? Now that is so so strange bwahaha!
So much effort is put into all these little gifts. I imagine those women in cottage industries stapling and making all those little stuff. Not only 1 kind, but up to 2 or 3 kinds given to each guest. Guess this shows how appreciative they are of our attendance? For Chinese weddings, I think the richer ones will give out fruit cakes.
And as I was writing this, Pam emailed the links to pictures she took. I found out that when left like that, batteries lose their power. So, I couldn't bring my camera. So, here's me:
Pam wanna take my pic when my mouth is full of rice
That's all folks. And I hate having to give air-kisses. That is sooo not our culture. I don't see what's the point of pretending to put right cheek, left cheek and right cheek again. If you wanna do it, at least just right and then left suffices la!! Grr.. I think right-left-right looks so moronic.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Gred 41 test review
So I went for the government sector entrance test, specifically for the post of Pegawai Tadbir dan Diplomatik (PTD). I decided to go because WW (Whiner Woman) at the office said she wanna apply for it and I felt so dumb that they called me last year and I didn’t even go. These are the highest posts in the public sector and report to the KSU. Purportedly very powerful especially when they are the District Officer and get to travel everywhere. That’s one part that was extremely enticing.
But before that, you have to go for some PAC which includes 2.4km runs in 12 minutes, fire brigade and police cadet training.
The flow is (as far as I remember): Test --> PAC --> Interview --> Diploma (9 months) and then you get posted anywhere they want to chuck you to. There is a PTD Unggul process but I don't remember where that fits into.
Anyway, the purpose of this is to share how ridiculous some of the sahsiah questions are. But we must be patient and start from the beginning first.
Bahagian 1, Seksyen A
Pengetahuan am, 50 questions, 40 mins
This was the part that I was worried about the most. I only read the top news in The Star. Govt stuff doesn't interest me. So I had to spend 2 days at the office reading up on dasar kerajaan, 9 Rancangan Malaysia’s, 1Malaysia, GTP and all those Dewan Rakyat and bidang kuasa kerajaan negeri dan pusat stuff.
I got stumped at:
• Who founded Google – sounds easy but I got stuck. Shaun said Microsoft owns Google. If they do, then why have Google Chrome when there is already IE? That was what I was thinking.
• The social networking site that is accessible from space - I said it was Twitter =P
• I got confused with the slogan for 1Malaysia. I got the answer right, and then changed it cos I recalled it was GTP’s instead. And then later realised that 1Malaysia and GTP has the same slogan?? Grr.. since school days, I have always told myself not to change the answer, to follow the 1st instincts
• ASEAN Free Trade – bugger this. It came out last year, I didn’t expect it to come out again and I didn’t bother finding out what it was!
Other stuff asked was which is an OS (not, stupid Open Office isn't), some mahkamah stuff and those NKRAs that I’ve already read. Not too bad overall.
Bahagian 1, Seksyen B
Penyelesaian masalah (Maths), 40 questions, 45 mins
I had already read that time is extremely limited for this. So as soon as I got it, I boom boom pow. It was really boom boom pow. No calculators allowed and had to count manually at lightning speed. Questions were long too. I mean if this Maths teacher had to use lightning speed to finish 40 SPM Maths questions with some sweat, I think the others will be left with their mouths open :D Not fair that the invigilators waited for some people to finish shading when the time was up. A girl I met complaint there wasn’t enough time too. Well, do your homework and read forums earlier on then =)
Bahagian 1, Seksyen C
Kefahaman BM dan BI, 40 questions, 45 mins
I was a little surprised that they asked us to find synonyms for ‘abate’ and ‘abash’. I wasn’t too sure of the meanings but I guessed from the sentence hehe. The paper was easy; it was easy to pick the answer from the given options. Finished it and managed to take a 10min nap (really fell asleep). Cool!
Bahagian 1, Seksyen D
Esei BM, 300 – 500 words, 1 hour
My 2nd concern. The topics given were tough.
1. How to increase food yield so that we don't have to rely so much on imports
2. Discuss the lack of patriotism among our youth
3. How to implement GTP
I don't have the points to write on! Hey if I know how to implement GTP, I can be the PM la. How to increase the amount of paddy we grow, the cows, goats and pigs we breed and the amount of eggs the chickens poot out daily? I don't know!
So I wrote on why is patriotism lacking and how we can tackle it. I think I did alright; I used a lot of bombastic words, not even sure if they were appropriate :D
Bahagian 1, Seksyen E
Esei BI, 200 - 300 words, 1 hour
Not fair, half the length and in 1 hour still. Choices:
1. Discuss the potential dangers of social networking sites that the public underestimates
2. How to improve unity (boring.. I would be talking about the same points from the BM essay)
3. I forgot what it was!
The dangers option would probably be the most common choice and I wanted to do something different, but I don't know the points to write. So I went with networking anyway; the rest can’t write as well as I do anyway :D
I’m damn cocky huh? :D Well, especially since I run an article writing ‘business’. I even gave both my essays (catchy) titles!
Exceeded 300 words in half an hour, felt guilty and decided to read through and then I slept for 15 mins. Sleeping is such a fun thing to do.
Bahagian 2, Seksyen A
Sahsiah, 200 questions, 40 mins
This is crazy! This was something like a personality test, except some of the questions were to test how angelic/devilish you are.
Answer whether you sangat bersetuju, bersetuju, tidak tahu, kadang-kadang or tidak pernah:
• Sekali-sekala anda suka mengumpat – wtf, who doesn't? And who would admit?
• Anda tidak sesekali berbohong
• Anda akan membayar denda walaupun berpeluang melepaskan diri – of course I didn’t admit to not paying all the MPK summons that I got for parking AT my house
• Anda menyumpah seseorang – now this is hilarious!!
• Kita boleh melanggar lampu isyarat merah sekali-sekala
And other stupid questions like if you cry when watching a sad scene, whether you will be beremosi if ditinggalkan kekasih.. wtf, 200 questions of those!
I thought those questions listed above were highly amusing!
Bahagian 2, Seksyen B
Minat, 227 questions, 20 mins
Hello, it takes time to shade 227 questions, you know. Rushing like mad to read and shade. Ask me stupid questions like if I am interested in 227 types of jobs and activities like woodwork, repairing TVs..
So let’s see if I pass. Looking at the way how people work in the govt, by polishing one’s shoes and fanning one’s ass, I don't like it. Too much smiling to do all day. And then there’s the so many more training and interviews to pass; this is only the 1st hurdle. And I gotta work in the govt til I retire just so that I can get the pension which is one of the main reasons of interest. We’ll see.. Btw, I’ll be going to LONDON again maybe in August. Not gonna give up LONDON for the whatever post! (maybe PTDs get to travel but much later, maybe to Lubnan or Islamabad as what I read in the forum lol)
But before that, you have to go for some PAC which includes 2.4km runs in 12 minutes, fire brigade and police cadet training.
The flow is (as far as I remember): Test --> PAC --> Interview --> Diploma (9 months) and then you get posted anywhere they want to chuck you to. There is a PTD Unggul process but I don't remember where that fits into.
Anyway, the purpose of this is to share how ridiculous some of the sahsiah questions are. But we must be patient and start from the beginning first.
Bahagian 1, Seksyen A
Pengetahuan am, 50 questions, 40 mins
This was the part that I was worried about the most. I only read the top news in The Star. Govt stuff doesn't interest me. So I had to spend 2 days at the office reading up on dasar kerajaan, 9 Rancangan Malaysia’s, 1Malaysia, GTP and all those Dewan Rakyat and bidang kuasa kerajaan negeri dan pusat stuff.
I got stumped at:
• Who founded Google – sounds easy but I got stuck. Shaun said Microsoft owns Google. If they do, then why have Google Chrome when there is already IE? That was what I was thinking.
• The social networking site that is accessible from space - I said it was Twitter =P
• I got confused with the slogan for 1Malaysia. I got the answer right, and then changed it cos I recalled it was GTP’s instead. And then later realised that 1Malaysia and GTP has the same slogan?? Grr.. since school days, I have always told myself not to change the answer, to follow the 1st instincts
• ASEAN Free Trade – bugger this. It came out last year, I didn’t expect it to come out again and I didn’t bother finding out what it was!
Other stuff asked was which is an OS (not, stupid Open Office isn't), some mahkamah stuff and those NKRAs that I’ve already read. Not too bad overall.
Bahagian 1, Seksyen B
Penyelesaian masalah (Maths), 40 questions, 45 mins
I had already read that time is extremely limited for this. So as soon as I got it, I boom boom pow. It was really boom boom pow. No calculators allowed and had to count manually at lightning speed. Questions were long too. I mean if this Maths teacher had to use lightning speed to finish 40 SPM Maths questions with some sweat, I think the others will be left with their mouths open :D Not fair that the invigilators waited for some people to finish shading when the time was up. A girl I met complaint there wasn’t enough time too. Well, do your homework and read forums earlier on then =)
Bahagian 1, Seksyen C
Kefahaman BM dan BI, 40 questions, 45 mins
I was a little surprised that they asked us to find synonyms for ‘abate’ and ‘abash’. I wasn’t too sure of the meanings but I guessed from the sentence hehe. The paper was easy; it was easy to pick the answer from the given options. Finished it and managed to take a 10min nap (really fell asleep). Cool!
Bahagian 1, Seksyen D
Esei BM, 300 – 500 words, 1 hour
My 2nd concern. The topics given were tough.
1. How to increase food yield so that we don't have to rely so much on imports
2. Discuss the lack of patriotism among our youth
3. How to implement GTP
I don't have the points to write on! Hey if I know how to implement GTP, I can be the PM la. How to increase the amount of paddy we grow, the cows, goats and pigs we breed and the amount of eggs the chickens poot out daily? I don't know!
So I wrote on why is patriotism lacking and how we can tackle it. I think I did alright; I used a lot of bombastic words, not even sure if they were appropriate :D
Bahagian 1, Seksyen E
Esei BI, 200 - 300 words, 1 hour
Not fair, half the length and in 1 hour still. Choices:
1. Discuss the potential dangers of social networking sites that the public underestimates
2. How to improve unity (boring.. I would be talking about the same points from the BM essay)
3. I forgot what it was!
The dangers option would probably be the most common choice and I wanted to do something different, but I don't know the points to write. So I went with networking anyway; the rest can’t write as well as I do anyway :D
I’m damn cocky huh? :D Well, especially since I run an article writing ‘business’. I even gave both my essays (catchy) titles!
Exceeded 300 words in half an hour, felt guilty and decided to read through and then I slept for 15 mins. Sleeping is such a fun thing to do.
Bahagian 2, Seksyen A
Sahsiah, 200 questions, 40 mins
This is crazy! This was something like a personality test, except some of the questions were to test how angelic/devilish you are.
Answer whether you sangat bersetuju, bersetuju, tidak tahu, kadang-kadang or tidak pernah:
• Sekali-sekala anda suka mengumpat – wtf, who doesn't? And who would admit?
• Anda tidak sesekali berbohong
• Anda akan membayar denda walaupun berpeluang melepaskan diri – of course I didn’t admit to not paying all the MPK summons that I got for parking AT my house
• Anda menyumpah seseorang – now this is hilarious!!
• Kita boleh melanggar lampu isyarat merah sekali-sekala
And other stupid questions like if you cry when watching a sad scene, whether you will be beremosi if ditinggalkan kekasih.. wtf, 200 questions of those!
I thought those questions listed above were highly amusing!
Bahagian 2, Seksyen B
Minat, 227 questions, 20 mins
Hello, it takes time to shade 227 questions, you know. Rushing like mad to read and shade. Ask me stupid questions like if I am interested in 227 types of jobs and activities like woodwork, repairing TVs..
So let’s see if I pass. Looking at the way how people work in the govt, by polishing one’s shoes and fanning one’s ass, I don't like it. Too much smiling to do all day. And then there’s the so many more training and interviews to pass; this is only the 1st hurdle. And I gotta work in the govt til I retire just so that I can get the pension which is one of the main reasons of interest. We’ll see.. Btw, I’ll be going to LONDON again maybe in August. Not gonna give up LONDON for the whatever post! (maybe PTDs get to travel but much later, maybe to Lubnan or Islamabad as what I read in the forum lol)
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Alice in MV, Ikea food and Snowflake :)
The centre court in MV has been very pretty, all made up for the Alice in Wonderland release. I usually scorn at people who pose with mall decors especially during the festive season. How exhilirating can malls be? But this time, it was exhilirating :D
How yummy can Ikea cafe food be? Ok la, but the prices are freakin cheap! Wanted to eat there last week but it was crowded (not that it wasn't today). Queues are snaking long as usual and there was hardly an empty table. But hunger and the prices drove me on :D
I wanted to stand among the flowers, so that I'd be one of them too =P I wasn't going to do that during lunch for 2 reasons: There are tonnes of people there as well and I don't want any of them in my pics and 2nd, colleagues are gonna be walking around and then I'd be the one scorned at. So all I got in the end were pics sans me. Thought of taking a couple pic since ah pek came later on, but he said 'I take for you' instead of 'with you', grr.. so it's all sans me la!!
The mushrooms are lovely too! Mushrooms have always been a fascination for me; I press and admire those huge Japanese mushrooms at the supermarket vegetable section. And these are humongous and lighted up, the underneath looks sooo real.
And this is the table where everyone is supposed to sit and have a discussion I guess bwahaha. I haven't watched the movie, nor know the story. Am only gonna watch it tomorrow (booked and paid for the tickets already, woto woto!), so I'd know later where this table comes in. Like the high back chair.
Ikea food
How yummy can Ikea cafe food be? Ok la, but the prices are freakin cheap! Wanted to eat there last week but it was crowded (not that it wasn't today). Queues are snaking long as usual and there was hardly an empty table. But hunger and the prices drove me on :D
BBQ chicken, princess cake and mineral water for RM9.90!!
Where can you find a quarter chicken meal for RM9.90, with cake and drink thrown in?? Verdict though: I despise BBQ sauce (it was a little spicy too) and the half the cake was whipped cream. It is supposedly the 'birthday cake' in Sweden. Means.. ? The greenish stuff is marzipan and this lil thing is worth RM4.90 if bought ala carte. Since I am princess, so I just gotta have some la.
Swedish meatballs. Not bad! Love the sauce.
Meatballs were RM5 for 5 biji. Fish and chips were RM8.50. We had 5 chicken wings for RM9 and there was penne too for RM5. Now isn't that freakin cheap? I wanted to have both chicken and fish and even penne but thank god I'm not insane. The meatballs and chicken were enough to super stuff me.
As super stuffed as I may be, I started to think about Snowflake a short while later. I think I must be ovulating again; I can't get McD sundaes out of my mind and have had 3 this week itself. Hmm.. so when I think Snowflake, I must have it!
Soya ice series with set 4 (grass jelly, taro, red beans and pearl)
The ice is good to eat on its own cos its made of soya and doesn't really need much toppings nor flavour. It was a crazy idea to head to SS15 on a Saturday night; I think I was crazy. And the small place was super crowded; we were lucky to get a table. And I met Wei Chern there. Strange strange. And walking out, I saw a coll. So SS15 is indeed a happening place to be.
I'm not talking in my normal blogging style cos it's 2am and I've been up since 9am to prepare tuition lesson. Didn't even teach the lesson I prepared but spent 2 hours calculating the bloody answer to some integration questions. 2 whole hours and reached home mentally tired when it's only 12pm on a Saturday afternoon. Then out again braving rain and traffic to Curve but at least I was well fed. I'm crapping a lot, my hands are doing the talking. Over and out.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Cuti-cuti di Pulau Pinang & Ipoh
Day 1: Arrived in Penang
I only took out RM2 to pay at the Penang bridge toll, thinking it would be more than enough, but found out it was RM7! ^$!% 7 bucks for a short distance. Only after paying did I realise there was a notice saying there is a 20% off if I had used TouchnGo. Kek sei me.
Ate a super small plate of char kuey tiao for RM4 at a coffee shop and then went to P.Ramlee’s house.
For dinner, we went to the famed Gurney Drive. Congested all along the 1-way lane, it was messy but nice. Lots of food places brightly lighted up along the nice sea view. The fish head place that I vaguely remember was no longer there, so we ate at the only fish head curry place we could find. From there, we walked to Gurney Plaza. Nice mall! Topshop, Padini Concept, Nichii, heck they even have a Rolex boutique there!
Wat Chayamangkalaram
We endured stupid jam to Penang Hill, only to have only tickets for the 7.30pm tram up. Being only 3pm, we decided not to wait. And then I found my car infested with ants moving homes. Freaked me out to see tonnes of ants and some crawling up my arms and legs. Flung out all the car mats and waited some time til they were gone.. haih..
Since Penang Hill is off, we head to Kek Lok Si just nearby. It wasn’t in the plan as we have no intention climbing all the steps to the temple. We went there more to check out the stalls selling stuff all along the way. Things were super cheap: fedoras at RM5, football jerseys at RM5 too. I though the fedoras in Melaka were already cheap at 8 bucks. Similar to Petaling Street, the further you walk off, the lower the prices drop. The opening price for a fedora is RM12, walk away RM10, walk further RM5. A set of opera masks deco is RM12, walk off and the price drops to RM6 immediately. Gosh!
Batu Feringghi
This wasn’t on the plan, so we didn’t have any extra clothes with us.
On the walk back to the car, we saw this black little animal running. I thought it was a dog and then I saw it’s got a snout. It’s a wild boar! It was a little one. It ran off before I took out my camera. It was cute, nice to be kept as a pet and then later made into char siew bwahaha.
Toy Museum
Just a short distance from Feringghi in Tanjung Bungah is this museum. We didn’t have any intention to go until we got the brochure at the reclining Buddha temple.
Overall verdict: Stressful trip but still good fun with family especially since we haven’t been to Penang since I was 11 or 12.
I only took out RM2 to pay at the Penang bridge toll, thinking it would be more than enough, but found out it was RM7! ^$!% 7 bucks for a short distance. Only after paying did I realise there was a notice saying there is a 20% off if I had used TouchnGo. Kek sei me.
Some annoying people wanted to check in to the hotel to baring, so we planned to send them to the hotel and continue our journey but we ourselves tergolek til dinner.
For dinner, we went to the famed Gurney Drive. Congested all along the 1-way lane, it was messy but nice. Lots of food places brightly lighted up along the nice sea view. The fish head place that I vaguely remember was no longer there, so we ate at the only fish head curry place we could find. From there, we walked to Gurney Plaza. Nice mall! Topshop, Padini Concept, Nichii, heck they even have a Rolex boutique there!
Day 2: Intensive tour of Penang
The hotel cafe is on the rooftop
Botanical Gardens
The GPS brought me here although I had selected Penang Hill. I thought I must have accidentally selected it until later when I chose Penang Hill and it brought me here again. Then only I found out by asking some people that the GPS had brought me to the hiking trail up the hill instead. Hmrph..
Monkey with its baby clutching to its underside. So cute
Me and the cannonball plant
Somehow this reminds me of the nice parks in London
Greedy monkey who not only is greedy but action, for it threw away those cones once it realised that they were lemau
I remember this place and the Botanical Gardens from my trip many years ago. The image of Buddha has always brought a sense of tranquility to me, I can’t explain why. It just feels peaceful.
Both sides are ‘adorned’ with urns. On the right is a padlocked room containing urns, urns and urns. Eerie.
This man was selling sea coconuts outside the temple, so we bought 1 to try. I’ve only eaten them from the can, turns out that the flesh is actually tasteless and each fruit has only 3 small portions.
Camwhoring at Gurney again after lunch
Since Penang Hill is off, we head to Kek Lok Si just nearby. It wasn’t in the plan as we have no intention climbing all the steps to the temple. We went there more to check out the stalls selling stuff all along the way. Things were super cheap: fedoras at RM5, football jerseys at RM5 too. I though the fedoras in Melaka were already cheap at 8 bucks. Similar to Petaling Street, the further you walk off, the lower the prices drop. The opening price for a fedora is RM12, walk away RM10, walk further RM5. A set of opera masks deco is RM12, walk off and the price drops to RM6 immediately. Gosh!
Batu Feringghi
This wasn’t on the plan, so we didn’t have any extra clothes with us.
I’m a sucker for these kinda boulders
Nice roots!
Toy Museum
Just a short distance from Feringghi in Tanjung Bungah is this museum. We didn’t have any intention to go until we got the brochure at the reclining Buddha temple.
A very real-looking Jack Sparrow
"My precious.."
Oot oot oot...
I think that’s someone from The Kiss
Silver Surfer is so cool..
The Lost figurines are so real
Day 3: Going home
We walked to Chinatown from the hotel. Actually I’m not sure if it is Chinatown but there was Campbell Street and the famous Chowrasta market. There’s just a typical pasar pagi outside the market and inside it were some stalls selling preserved fruits. Not even one struck my fancy; I’m one who go for things totally sweet.
Sun Yat Sen Memorial
Bro wanted to go to this place; he loves anything historical. I’ve forgotten who this man is, maybe I don't even know what he did, who cares. The museum was closed though cos it was a Sunday, how stupid.
Then, we drove to Fort Cornwallis but it was closed as there was some Petronas Cub Prix going on that weekend. We didn’t manage to go to both historical sites and I got pretty frustrated for it was traffic jam all along the way.
Left Penang and made a detour for Ipoh to buy pomelos. I found out there isn't a toll on the way out. The same goes for the ferry: Entering the island is charged at 60 sen and no charges to exit the island. Guess they want to discourage people from congesting the island. 60 sen vs RM7, hmm..
I remembered the pomelo stalls were near to Sam Poh Tong but upon stopping, I discovered that it was Ling Sen Tong instead. There were many other Tongs from the GPS but I vowed never to go into one anymore, so that shall be it. Super smoky from all the joss sticks, cannot breathe.
I took a pic of an old lady when there were many leng luis manning the other shops, aduh..
Kellie’s Castle
I’d say that this is the favourite of my trip. I think I am one for English-y stuff; it reminded me of buildings in London. As soon as I saw it, I was in awe.
Wow..
There were reported sightings of William Kellie Smith along this corridor
This is the unfinished part of the castle. I like this more than the finished sections
This space was meant to be used to hold parties
I like those pillars so typical of castles always seen in fairytales
I feel as though I am standing on a site of some heritage ruins. I am, actually :D
There is a ‘bear’ on the tree trunk
I think Penang is a pretty bastoot place. Inching traffic everywhere in town. Don't know if it was due to it being a long weekend and the holiday season, but it was a pretty stressful holiday. The GPS helped a lot but having to find places to go, find places that everyone would be happy to eat at, lead the way, making sure every few minutes that the other car behind is still following, parking, making sure that the car behind has parking, sometimes have to park the other car as well.. aduh.. the pre-holiday stress (booking hotel, hotels fully booked, settling work from the office) and the during-holiday stress. I don't wanna be the leader anymore; I’ll just be a follower next time, sit back and enjoy the ride.
Overall verdict: Stressful trip but still good fun with family especially since we haven’t been to Penang since I was 11 or 12.
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