I know it’s Chinese New Year (CNY) and I should be writing about it, but who set those rules right? =P Well, in conjunction with the New Year *grins*, I wanna take this opportunity to share out what I did on the first day of new year! What better way it is to celebrate with great friends and family!

Actually, before I head into the story, I wanna highlight a couple of stuffs that I’ve accomplished so far for the year 2011:

• Promotion in less than 1 year of service (previous job)
• Complete insurance examinations for Life Insurance and Investment-Link within 1 month (includes studying and sitting for the exams)
• Caught up with some old buddies before new year ends (no names mentioned)
• Bought a NEW car (I’m a proud owner of a Silver Saga FL 1.3 Auto *grins*)
• Bought a NEW camera (Panasonic Lumix LX5 baby!)
• Bought a NEW laptop (Awesome Asus K43U!)
• Traded lens for Tamron 17-50mm & Traded phone for N97 mini
• Lost 5KG in less than 2 weeks (well I cheated; dental surgery didn’t allow me to eat much *smirks*)
• Drove to Malacca (first trip down in years!)
• Etc. (I’m sure if I go on any further, you’ll just close and ignore the rest of the post *sobs, you don’t care about me, sobs*)

So, enough of the “bragging” and back to the story about New Year’s celebration… Went up to Genting the morning after NYE’s at Samuel’s place, with him and 7 other pals of mine (Alex, Jacquelyn, Stephanie, Jackie, Marilyn, Samantha, & Jeremy) to … celebrate the New Year, of course! Initial plan was to be there BEFORE the new year, and come back AFTER first day of new year, but no rooms were avail for us then. Steph and I was there for 1 night, whilst the others stayed another night to celebrate Alex’s birthday… Well, I’ll let my pictures tell the rest of the story =)

[left] Lunch @ Gohtong Jaya (Being early, that’s what I ate for lunch with Alex, Jac & Steph)
[right] That’s dinner with the bunch!

 

Some shots of us while waiting for dinner to be served..
Apparently, there were some fireworks at Genting,
but I was too focused on dinner, I didn’t bother about it =(

 

[left] We played the indoor arcade! (How can you not play, right? *grins*)
[right] my side project… (More at the end!)

How can you not GAMBLE at Genting??!!
HUAT AR!

Jeremy flexing his muscles…
and that’s how our room looks like to fit 9 people…
P.s : I didn’t sleep where they slept.. I conquered the floor!

 

A group shot of us in the morning!
Awesome night we had!

 

Whilst half the lot won quite a fair bit,
the others didn’t… somewhat like the uncle there…
”Y U NO LET ME WIN!!”

 

As I’m only there for a night, I had to head down after lunch the following morning…
the last shot in Genting, and a shot taken when I’m nearing home

 

But I did manage to get some pretty awesome landscape shots of Genting,
in the morning (before heading down) whilst the others were sleeping so soundly…
Well, we did after all only managed to sleep at about 5 am…
(no thanks to someone snoring so loudly! RAWR!)

Comment bit about the landscape?
(pictures taken with LX5 w/ minor post editing)

 

Alright, so back to where I mentioned about my side project…
You see, I’ve been planning for this quite sometime,
though it didn’t go quite as planned, but somehow it was good enough =D

My aim was to go to Genting fulfilling 3S:
Singlet, Shorts and Slipper, and stay like that for the whole day…
But it rained in Genting, dropping the temperature even more, so the plan didn’t last long…
So, I improvised and turned it into 5S instead:
Singlet, Shorts, Slipper, Shyiok Sendiri!
w/ nerd glasses and a bottle of Black label making me look #likeadrunktard!

last picture there was taken by Jackie; the shoe came from Jeremy…
thanks for the support bro, (=.=”)

 

So Looking Forward To This (2012) Year’s Trip to Genting Again!

Finally gotten myself to grab the pictures off my phone to blog about it. I must admit I was pretty lazy to send the pictures to my computer via Bluetooth, what more to say about dragging the card reader out. But, alas I did it! Boy there’s a whole bunch of picture I had forgotten about as well! *laughs*

Anyhoo, let’s get going on with it (before I run out of juice to do it) and let’s do it from the recent going backwards:

Walk Around @ The Scott Garden Mall

On a hot day like no other, I usually hate to be in the house sweating (sit in front of a stand fan doesn’t help). Thus, I decided to head out with my family. Tesco in Old Klang Road, came to my mind and it seems to be a great idea as I hadn’t been there before. The place there was big, but quite a lot of empty lots there. But once everything is in place, believe me it’s gonna be a hit place to hang out. There’s a Zen area where there are pretty bonsais around!

In Tesco, well nothing’s different than the other Tesco outlets. So I went around wandering, especially at the cool section – Frozen goods. Saw a pretty interesting sticker at the coolers there – “We are able to reduce our prices as the temperature regulators in our freezes help save energy by up to 30%” by Tesco. Initially, I thought that the prices will be dropped by 30% but by the second time I read it, then I knew that was just my fat hopes. It’s like other F&B outlets saying “The above pictures are for illustration purposes only”, what gives! Then, walked around a little more, to find out that Tesco is really into ripping off people’s creating their own products, they’ve got drinks, food and snacks in their brands! How crappy cool is that?!

Halloween Decoration @ Great Eastern Mall

I attended the newcomer’s session at Great Eastern Mall, and as I was about to head back home, I decided to call my friends out for a drink (didn’t want to waste my time driving all the way to Ampang from Sri Petaling, without meeting some buddies of mine). Instead of yumcha (Translate: drink or hangout session) with a bunch, I only manage to get hold of Colbie. As I called her out for a drink, I went walking around the mall (it’s a habit of mine – can’t stay still during a call; tend to walk around) and I came across an exhibition of Halloween Decoration! So quickly I snapped a couple of pictures =) Unfortunately, didn’t buy anything because I know this year I won’t be celebrating it.

3rd Wave Concert @ FGA, KL

On 15th October 2011, Brian Joo and Alexander Lee (from uKiss) came to perform at what is known as the Third Wave Evangelism. Not so sure about the entire occasion, but I know I enjoyed the awesome songs sang by the two Korean pop stars. Ooo, there was another Korean guy (grew up in the same city as Brian) by the name of Pastor Johnny (PJ) in whom, seems to me as the guy who spearheaded the event.

Big Bad Wolf Book Sales @ MAERPS, Serdang

About a week before the 3rd Wave Concert, I went to the Big Bad Wolf Book Sales. The size of the hall had me awed, but the selection on books didn’t impress me a bit. May be all the good ones were taken, I don’t know. I did after all went there about a week or so after its first day opening. *sigh* I reluctantly bought a book (which was okay, but not really what I wanted) for the sake of buying at least a book there. Thought I’d find something that would feed my interest in some areas – sales & marketing, biz management, people management, photography; but na-dah there was nothing of my liking.

Real Steel Screening @ GSC, Pavillion KL

Was invited by Stephanie to catch the premier screening of Real Steel before it is officially released publicly in the local cinemas. Before the movies, Stephanie and I walked around Pavillion. Since neither Stephanie nor I had been to the Tokyo Street in Pavillion, I decided to talk a stroll there, and see if I could get any snacks before the movies (was rather hungry though), but to my dismay, the snacks there were awfully expensive. Maybe they are imported goods from Japan, but seriously a bag of chips about the size of Jack N’ Jills is about RM10? Gosh! Then, I saw bottles of sake being displayed at one of the shops. They weren’t affordable for me either. I guess alcohols are expensive, that I won’t deny. But a bag of chips costing around RM10, seriously?

Festival City - Building in Progress @ Setapak

Brought my car for tinting (bought somewhat a good deal off Mydeal.com.my) and as the personnel there attend to my car, I took a walk outside (I can’t sit still, what more to wait for at least an hour until my car is ready). Back then, I saw a mall that had a signage stating that it would be ready by 20th October 2011. I wonder if it’s all ready now…

VERTIGO KL’s Soft Launch @ Garden’s Rooftop

One the nights after work, I invited a colleague cum good friend of mine, Handy to a night club named VERTIGO. I had received an invitation via phone and email prior to it, and was allowed to invite a guest along. So the moment the clock hit 7pm, we were out of the building and heading towards to party! It wasn’t that all big, rather it’s kinda cramp once the crowd was all arrived there. Not to mentioned it was smoky as well, I could hardly breathe with all the cigarette puffs coming from all direction. We saw many hot and good looking ladies, but we were turned off once we saw most of them were smokers too! I don’t know about you or others, but I have a thing here – I don’t like lady smokers; whether they’re smart or they’re pretty, so long I see a cigarette at the lips of the lady or a smoke puff coming out of her mouth, I feel disgusted (>_<”)

My car's squeaky clean! This is the result of an hour of hand-washed service, lol =P

Can't sleep at night, 'cause you've got a lot on your mind or suddenly there's a gush of ideas in your mind?

Well, one of the suggested solutions would to get them thoughts out of your mind. How? Fairly simple, move the thoughts out of your head and into a written form - paper, notes, etc.

If you're wondering whether this works or not, why not just give it a try and see what happens? Otherwise, your other choice would be to stay up pondering with it until you grow tired of it =P

Sometimes I do both! Only because when I write down an idea, it leads to another and soon grows to a concept which later on makes me really glad I managed to write it out =) Else, come morning, I'd be scratching my head over what happened last night that kept me awake the whole time =D

So what do you need to get the thoughts/ideas out? You just 3 things:
1. Night Lamp (optional but better to have some clear light, especially if you have a lot of things to write)
2. Paper (and lots of it, better in the form of a notebook)
3. Pen (duh, definitely!)

With this I hope you can get a good night rest! =D

Does anyone knows where I can get a cheap t-shirt printing services? If I have enough funds I’d like to print this out on a bulk of t-shirt. Any thoughts people?

On the way back home earlier, I was caught in a ridiculous jam (I believe it was partially due to the rain) in which rendered me bored nearly to death because I was stuck in a VERY slow motion traffic...

Made a mistake =( Played with the Lumix lx5 n so tempted to buy it =S *stares at credit card* cannot, must fight temptation! X|

Hmmm maybe I could sell of my Tamron SP90 and my compact for this... Hehehe =P