♥Tuesday, February 9, 2010♥
Xia Xun's 20th Birthday!=)
We were supposed to have our dinner at Pyramid but looking at the jam, Leonard and XX decided to go to Bangsar Village instead. Dinner was a Chiawan opposite the complex. The nasi lemak was tasty and XX's dhall curry was superb that he asked for more not knowing that they actually charged the extra bowl of dhall..Haha they used to just give it for free but I guess a lot of people love it and want some more, hence they decided to charge for each extra bowl. Picked up Janice and Yi Wen before heading to Starbucks to celebrate XX's birthday.
 Haagen Dazs cookies ice cream cake
  Delicious!
    Too hard to cut it..
 Use cups + straw to eat the ice cream cake.. (1st time trying such unique method)
  Birthday boy's unique green shoe!!Notice that he's the only one wearing covered shoes..haha
The night out with them was great since I haven't been seeing them for a long time except Yi Wen due to my internship. Nice to catch up with Xia Xun since he studies in AUS. Mel's back, but Janice and Sarah are going over instead... Everyone seems to be asking me why I'm not going. First, its expensive (my course itself per sem is already 16k, don't want to further burden my parents), Two, I'll miss my family and home and last but not least, my friends!!=) Mum actually asked me before whether I want to go and check out the details, but I seriously don't want to burden her anymore..My course is the most expensive among my siblings and could be getting a lower pay when I graduate. So I really don't want to waste so much $$. Although I envy those who get to go there, I wished them to have a safe journey and take care of yourself out there alright! God Bless=) ♥ comments (0) | back to top ♥
♥Wednesday, February 3, 2010♥
Internship at Pathlab (1/12/09- 30/1/10)  Leaving the house at 7am and joining the morning jam  Mogan from Biochem Department
EIA department (mostly machines hence nothing much we can actually do here) 
Jotting down notes for CA-125 essay  CLA instrument used to test for allergy  Capping and storing aka filing in EIA department Haematology Department (learned quite a lot here)  Blood samples from patients who are testing for Malaria Parasite   Divya  Onn  The head + the only staff in the molecular biology department  what we do when we are too bored and tired especially after new year + christmas     Kenneth, Onn, Ket Siong (Haemato's supervisor)  Shakthi  Ket Siong & Niu Microbiology Department (learned the most here as it was all hands on work)    Pantry   The working area where we inoculate & plate samples consisting of blood, swabs, urine and stool
  Stella, Micro's supervisor  Marco's Pizza If I'm not wrong, this restaurant also belongs to Wisma Kam (besides King Crab, Pathlab, Groway and Chemlab of course)  Michelle and Jasmine  Pasta (baked with cheese hence it was very oily)  Seafood pizza ( prawn, oyster, black olive, cuttlefish)  Souvenirs from Taiwan!=) from Jasmine Testimonial from Pathlab itself ♥ comments (0) | back to top ♥
♥Tuesday, February 2, 2010♥
Dad's Birthday!! The siblings as in the four us got a phone for dad while mum would buy dinner. Actually Dad had no intention of changing his old phone as it was still usable but sis kind of dislike it saying it is very old..So Dad just joked out (I supposed), saying that he would get a new one if he had the $$. So Big Sis chipped in Rm 300 while the rest of us shared Rm 200. Since the youngest 3 is not working and hence no income they have no choice but to chip in less..Lolz. How I wish I could start working and earning $$. Jealous of sis cause she can just buy things easily, don't have to think and consider a lot before paying. I'm diff instead. Have to consider the pros and cons before buying anything and see whtr is it worth buying it..See the diff between having an income and not having one!!  Sis and I checked out Nokia X3 at Carrefour on Sat and they were offering Rm 550 for an AP set. Mum suddenly decides to go Petaling Street on Sun after church to buy curtains. Since we were already in KL, dropped by Low Yat to check the phone out. Honestly speaking, this was the 1st time I have ever been to Low Yat...I am a so-not KL person right..haha=D Beside buying the phone (zitron set), we also bought a printer, cooling pad, keyboard from there..Wow first time spending so much $$ in one day in KL! Dinner was at Kuchai Lama where we ate something simple before eating something big on the 1st Feb itself..hehe=)     Dad's birthday celebration was at Damansara Village. It was a famous restaurant as the seafood there was fresh. Dad found out this place though a blog. There were really many people there and they also have animals for display ( rabbits, bird, monitor lizard). Food was great and we had their famous soup for steamboat (some sort drunken soup). Got shocked when Dad accidentally dropped the prawns into the pot. This was because the prawn itself was still alive and I guess struggling to get out from the grasp of chopsticks. Haha=) Terkejut man!! They also have turtles but didn't see anyone eating them. It was a great night!  ♥ comments (0) | back to top ♥
Home-made steamboat on the 17/01/10  Just a random steamboat since a few of us were craving for steamboat. Bought all the ingredients from the wet market and Carrefour after church=) ♥ comments (0) | back to top ♥
♥Saturday, January 30, 2010♥
New Year in Langkawi!
Sorry for the late update..Hehe I know it has been a long time since the trip was over but I didn't had the time to update my blog. So here it goes!
Met up with the rest of the gang (Yong Mei, Yi Wen, Sarah, Li Xing, Zahir, Eugene, Jeffrey and Joey) at the Subang Jaya KTM station before we depart to Kota Raya bus station. Stopped by at McD while waiting for the bus. Some had their dinner while others played cards. We left the station almost around 11.30pm and the bus was quite empty. It was a midnight bus. Due to the new year celebration, the KL roads were all jammed up. Hence we managed to watch fireworks in the heart of KL from the bus. Couldn't really sleep as it was quite cold. The journey was roughly around 6 hours.
 We reached the jetty around 7am in the morning and went for breakfast nearby before the 8am boat arrived. Slept most of the time in the boat cause was really tired the day before. Once we got off the boat, we went to retrieved our cars and waited for Fang to arrive. He flew in as his mum wouldn't allow him to take midnight buses..hehe=) Since the owner said that there can't be 6 ppl in 1 car, we decided to get another car. This one instead auto. The manual cars were really old as the speedometer wasn't working, no radio and the car boot was also spoiled. Headed off to Kuah town for 'brunch' and then to the famous Langkawi Cable Car. To our unpleasant surprise, they were having their maintenance and it was on the NEW YEAR DAY itself...Argh..drove all the way there but didn't manage to go up!! But we still had fun around the Oriental Village=) Right, Fangky mou??haha =D
  Joey, Fang, Eugene, Zahir, Me and Yi Wen   Yi Wen + Jeff 
We headed to our hotel (ASEANIA HOTEL) around 2pm. The hotel was awesome but the services were really terrible!!! Yong Mei had booked the hotel in November and the person that she talked to said that if we booked earlier, they could try getting connecting rooms for us. Much to our dismay, our rooms were not connected at all and she only booked them for us a few days ago..So they decided to give some discount to our room since she did not get connecting rooms for us. And they will move us to the connecting room the next day at 3pm. Fine then!! Went to the swimming pool while waiting for Vien Na to arrive.  Sarah + Yong Mei  Polo Game  Front flip!!
 After taking our shower, we headed for a Chinese Restaurant which Joey introduced us to. There were many people there as Chinese tourists goes there as well. The food was great and delicious! Walked around Pantai Cenang after dinner. The sands were smooth and cooling..Felt so nice when you touched it with your bare legs. Around 10pm ++, the guys started to look for booz aka liquor. Most of the liquor shops have already closed since it was getting late already. Asked around whether are there any liquor shops that might still be open, and they recommended one to us near the Chinese Restaurant where our dinner was. It was also closed when we got there as they close their shop at 10.30pm and it was almost 11pm already. When we were about to leave, we saw someone opening up the shop and we quickly got out of the car and into the shop we go. We were lucky cause the owner was just about to leave and lock up the shop. At least we got our booz and they got their business. =D Played Indian Poker till 2am before heading off to bed.   Sarah + Yong Mei  Yit Wei + Sarah
 Group Pic outside the restaurant
 The sandcastle that we built=) Took the whole night to do this!! Beautiful ain't it?Nah, actually it was built by someone else=P Just bumped onto it while walking along the beach..
 Jack Daniels + Coke
The next morning after breakfast, we headed for our island tour. The ride on the speedboat was awesome. Visited the Island of the Pregnant maiden first, and then to eagle watching and finally to an island where we could play by the beach. The monkeys at the Pregnant maiden island were really naughty. They would snatch your plastic bags and food/water from you. Saw some of them drinking water from the bottle while some stole Pringles.
    Fish Spa  Those are catfish=) Know why are there so many of them?? Cause they threw food in to attract them!!
  Digging a hole to bury Yit Wei in =D  No idea why are they pointing at Vien Na.. 
Once we got back from the tour, headed to our hotel to cleaned ourselves and changed room too. The process of getting the connecting room were really rubbish as they didn't want to give us the key saying its not clean yet (saying that they only have very few cleaners so no time) and hence you can't checked in yet.. Thus we called the room cleaner and they said it was already cleaned earlier on..WTH!!!So this time round, the guys went down to get our keys and they just gave it to us without much argument..Probably they dislike the girls as we have already complained since day 1..But it was totally their fault!!!=p so you can't blame us man...In the end, since the guys were upset of how they treated us, they went to look for the complaint department and wanted to see the manager. Since he/she wasn't in, the staff there gave us few pieces of paper and an envelope. So we wrote down everything that we were not satisfied of. Seriously man, such nice + beautiful hotel but poor service. Maybe the receptionist have not undergone training before! After all those unhappy moments, we decided to head off to Underwater World. There were many nice animals and fishes there. Spent roughly an hour there before we drove to Kuah for dinner and shopping. Shopping is something one must not miss when they come to Langkawi as it is all duty free. Bought some chocolates for Jasmine and Martini for the family. Gosh, felt my bag was so heavy once I stuffed them into my bag. Didn't manage to get any chocolates for myself cause my bag was already full and heavy..Wish I could go there again to buy them though..haha=D Played another game this time round before we go to bed. Had to finish the JD + bottle as we did not want to bring them home. A few guys were already 'kong' out before the game even started as they were too tired..Played till 2am++ before going to bed. Since the guys slept on our bed earlier on, we decided to wake them up so that they could move back to their bed. Once they got up, they were not tired anymore and got all hyped up. Hence the war of shouting began between the 2 rooms. This is what happen when we have connecting rooms. Haha =D It was hilarious although we were making so much noise. Hope our neighbours wouldn't mind us as it was our last night together=p  Arapaima
 Ananconda  I thought it was a sculpture at 1st as it didn't move, but its not!=)
 Flamingo  Beautiful duck  Giant lizard  Marmoset  Fur Seal  Blackfooted African Penguin 
 Rockhopper Penguin  I think its a baby penguin since its brown in colour and diff from the rest=)  Leader of all penguins 
 Stingray 
 Sleeping Sharks  Some sort of huge fish  Sea Apple Cucumber  Pretty Jellyfish  Unique cephlapod  Seahorse  Eugene, Yong Mei, Me and Yit Wei  Group Pic (but without Li Xing since he took this pic) We left Langkawi around 9am in the morning and reached back to KL at 7pm. Some of us went our own way while the rest headed to Parade for dinner at Nandos. Most of us were hungry since our lunch wasn't even a proper one. Altogether it was a great escapade with friends and celebrating New Year there! ♥ comments (0) | back to top ♥
♥Wednesday, December 30, 2009♥
Spending Christmas in Thailand with 4 other families
Last year, we spent Christmas in Hatyai and Koh Samui with Uncle Danny and Uncle Ks's family. This year round, more people joined us. Guess it was just too fun last year that they also wanted in..haha..The new comers were Uncle Sam and Uncle Ke Min's family. We left around 7am in the morning and plan to meet up with Uncle D, S and KM at Gopeng for breakfast. Uncle Ks didn't joined us as they were already in Thailand since a few days ago. Since Genting was very misty, uncle KM did not manage to have their breakfast with us. Hence the 4 cars met up near Bukit Kayu Hitam to do their car insurance + exchange $$.
 Thick mist when we passed Genting
 Lunch at Gopeng (famous for this mee) simply delicious! Uncle KM's family was new to us as we have never met them before (except my dad lah of course). Uncle Sam's family went to Chiangmai 3 years ago with us. After settling the departure and arrival cards, we head off to the Duty Free centre. Bought few bottles of red wine and 3 boxes of Vella as well.. It was for the whole gang alright, not only for us.=P 
You can see the Vella box between me and my mum (look at Ben, he's super delighted when buying them) =D After getting all the stuffs that we need, we headed for the border and straight to the chicken rice shop while on the way to Hatyai. Never failed to eat lunch there every time when we go to Thailand. That shop was famous as the King/Prime Minister even visits that shop. Thus it had to be good ain't it..lolz=) After meeting up with uncle Ks's family at the hotel, we headed off for dinner. The restaurant was packed that we had to sit in 2 separate tables (not next to each other). The daddies and mummies in 1 table while the youngsters in another table.. Situation in the youngster table was quite awkward as we don't really know each other well and have not been seeing each other for quite a long time..There was more of silent moment than laughter and giggles compared to the other table..We are just simply too shy..haha =D
After dinner, we headed back to the hotel to prepare ourselves for Kiss Channel. We celebrated our Christmas eve there same as the previous year. Had wine again..Drinks too expensive that we have to bring ours in..lol=D Thought of going to church but the masses there are all in Thai..so no point going cause I will not get what they are talking at all. This year was better than last year cause we manage to hear English songs that we know how to sing. Maybe cause we went back too early last year..This year we left around 2am. After leaving the place, Ben said he needed to do his task which was 'taking a pic with a trans'. Hence dad drove to the train station cause that's where they always meet up at night..We saw one waving at us across the road, and we just told dad 'let's just go'..So eerie man..Goosebumps!
 Christmas Eve at Kiss Channel  Transvetite performing her song (she/he had a really good voice which can really shout and was able to sing in 2 diff voices as in female and male version) lol
 This guy was cute when he sang the 'Sorry Sorry' song 
 This girl was just too open-minded (cause she was always revealing her assets) haha  Lighting up the candles at 12am on Christmas!!
 We Wish U a Merry Christmas!!
The next morning, woke up early for shower and packed our stuffs as we were leaving for Koh Samui. Had breakfast (roti canai) nearby before we left. It was a 4 hours drive to the jetty. Stopped by at Nakhon Sri Tammarat Tesco for lunch before heading to the jetty. Bought a dozen of Chang beer,few bottles of spy and bacardi and a beach ball. Since we couldn't book the ferry ticket as we need to have a Thai bank acc which was impossible, we waited for an 1/2 hour before getting on to the ferry. Actually it was suppose to be 1 hour but since the ferry at 2pm had some space, we went in. Three of the cars went in first. Then came the buses and lorries.. Then Uncle Danny's car came in which then left Uncle Sam's car waiting on the land. He was quite worried cause he was the only one left there. Fortunately the guard allowed him in cause there was just enough space for his car to fit in (due to uncle D and Ks car was parked bumper-to- bumper) Lucky him!  Answering call from mum
 Hatyai hotel
 Mum found these bikes in the basement
 Hanging around while waiting for the ferry to come
The youngster's played UNO to passed their time while the dads played Cho Tai Ti. It was a 1.5 hour ride to Koh Samui. Once we reached there, we headed to our hotel in Chaweng Beach. Dad called the hotel to confirm our booking but the person in charge told us that they have already let our rooms out to others. Argh..how to find 9 rooms in one hotel during this peak season lah... So we decided to just looked around for hotel that are not near to the beach itself. Most of them do not have 9 empty rooms or they are just too expensive per room (rm 500++). Dad and Km found one which was quite deserted but still looked ok. It was just a plan to stay there for a night before looking for other hotel the next day as it was getting late already... and It's better than having no where to sleep at all..
 Found this BIG spider in the toilet ( all of us were scared except dad who just smacked it with one hit and there it goes)
 Playing with the lantern after dinner (round 1)
On the next day, we checked out and headed for another beach. It was less packed compared to Chaweng as the night life in Chaweng is more lively compared to this beach. After checking in, we left for island hopping around the Marine International Park.
 Uncle Ke Min, his wife, and Uncle Sam's family
 Me feeding the fishes with bread
 The female enjoying the wind but not the sun
 Beautiful island in the marine park
 Mum + Dad
 View of the lagoon itself from the top
 Going down the steep stairs (almost 90 degrees) Thumbs up for mum who tried her best!
 History of its formation
 At the lagoon
 Just lazying around in the water under the blazing hot sun
 'Kayak'ing
 Dinner by the beach
  2nd round of lighting the tanglung up to the air
It was time to leave Koh Samui the next morning..Time really flies.. We headed for the jetty once we checked out. Unexpectedly there were many cars already queuing for the 2pm ferry. Hence only 3 cars made it for the 2pm while the rest took the 3pm slot. Uncle Sam had left earlier with Km to find out whether the other ferry company would have an earlier empty slot but due to no avail, it was even more packed..By the time they got back to meet up with us, the 2pm slot was already full. Although he took the 3pm slot, he still had Km's family to keep him company=) Nice one! He must have thought that if he left earlier, he would made it earlier but sadly luck doesn't seem to be on his side..=(
 Teenagers playing their game
By the time we got back to Hatyai it was already 8pm. Dinner was just at the stalls near the shopping complex..All had dinner separately though..After dinner, Dad said there was a round 2 for Kiss Channel..It was quite unexpected cause we usually go once only, but since he has got friends that have just arrived and are going there, we just tag along..haha=D However this time round, only 2 families went (mine and uncle Danny's). The rest were either shopping or their kids got sick. Probably not use to taking Thai food.=( It was still fun although there were less people cause we played some game with uncle Danny's kids where the loser had to drink. Since Natalie was too small, she drank Sprite while the rest had red wine. She just loves drinking although she didn't lose...lolz..  Elephant in front of the hotel with red light on its tail indicating 'don't come near my butt'..lolz
 Round 2 of Kiss Channel before we leave the next day (get what i mean by being too open minded?) haha
It was an awesome trip for the 5 families =) Should do this more often or we might be strangers when we see each other again. haha ^.^ ♥ comments (0) | back to top ♥
♥Friday, December 18, 2009♥
Test driving to KL with the new car=D
 Mum adjusting everything before she takes off
 Lunch was at Colosseum near Sogo (a very old place but yet many customers) Bernard's chicken chop
Mum's fish
 Mine=)
Buying curtains in Petaling street (didn't know they were quite expensive)
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Mogan from Biochem Department
Happy Birthday DAD!!=) Love ya lots!
Front flip!! 
The sandcastle that we built=) Took the whole night to do this!! Beautiful ain't it?
I thought it was a sculpture at 1st as it didn't move, but its not!=)
