Munmun's Trail : : 敏子の迹

Time flies… and it’s time to review my Y2009 resolutions below:-

1. To change car. Again… “Sea Lion” / “Transformer”?
   > Achieved with $$$$$ gone…
   
2. To loose body fat / diet with at least 3-5kg lost. Again… so I can put on nice swimsuit.
   > Failed with at least 3-5kg weight gained instead of weight lost. : (
   
3. To earn / tunnel more $, a must to survive.
   > Failed with tremendous spending increased.
   
4. To go bed earlier at nite. Again, I’m getting old… :’(
   > Failed, even more worst than last year. =.=
   
5. To travel at least 2 trips. Taiwan, Gold Coast & 1 inbound trip are my Y2009 travel options
   > I traveled 3 inbound trips, Melaka, re-visited Redang Island & Cameron Highland and 1 outbound trip to Cambodia. Again… succeed with $$$$ gone.

1. To buy / invest a property. Anyone interested?
   > Formed a consortium and purchased a semi-D unit at Shah Alam. Hopefully the market is good when it is ready to handover.

Christmas passed… Except the different Christmas Eve countdown and my buddy colleague Eamy’s wedding on X’mas day itself, I have earlier bough myself some X’mas gifts in advance. Besides, I also got a belated X’mas gift from a relative of mine which I supposed to join them for X’mas gift exchange session. Here are my X’mas gifts:

Hm… Attended to my buddy colleague, Eamy’s wedding dinner reception at Ah Yat Abalone Restaurant Avenue K KL few days ago. Another merry wedding dinner for us to gathered together and catches up throughout the night. Word just couldn’t express how much we enjoyed the dinner and how happy we were seeing our dear buddy Eamy has finally tie the knot with her Mr. Right, Ryu. I’m glad that she has finally found the one who can spend her life with after her part sorrows. Wishing both of you a wonderful marriage life… May happiness fill till the end of both your life journey. Congratulations to buddy Eamy & Ryu… : )

Thereafter, Algy + Mike + Choo + myself continued our night at Quattro Avenue K where we have had an enjoyable clubbing night after we have jailed ourselves for such a long time. : )

This is my 1st experience of Christianity Christmas eve countdown… Thanks to buddy Algy for her extended invitation, accompany her to attend her boss’s church countdown at PJ SS2. We reached the venue slightly late after the ceremony begun where we quickly grabbed a white candle and joined the rest without further delay. We listened to some of Jesus, the Great stories and sang quite a numbers of Christian worship songs that night with the white candle lighted. Silent night, holy night… and the countdown… Merry Christmas! Everyone is so joyous and wishes everyone truly around with their great love. Even I’m not a Christian, but I do felt the happiness and the joyfulness.

It was really an exceptional Christmas Eve countdown that I ever had.

I recently watched Avatar, The Movie with one of my guy friend which is indeed, another promising movie by James Cameron with new generation special effects that delivers a full new kind of immersive cinematic experience.

The story tells Jake Sully, a former Marine confined to a wheelchair who have been recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora with his reborn avatar, a genetically engineered hybrids of human DNA mixed with DNA from the native of Pandora… the Navi. His initially role is to infiltrate the Navi, who have become a major obstacle to the mining of a rare mineral which is the Key to solve Earth’s energy crisis. Throughout progress, Jake who is taken in by the Navi clan, went through many test and adventure to learns to become one of them. When Jake finally takes his place among them, he had also learnt to respect the Navi way to believe, to preserve and to live with the Mother Nature of which, he then faced the ultimate test as he leads the Navi clan in an epic battle that decides nothing less than the fate of an entire world.

Morel behind the story is, never do something that may harm the others as we develop because it may defeat the original purpose at the end of the day. Save our Mother Nature!

Jo initiated a special big 3-0 birthday celebration for herself + Vay + Yen, the three December babies last weekend where the others, Siewlee + Mich + myself were also attended to this gals only gathering cum birthday celebration and spent a night at a 2-bedroom apartment at The Nomad Sucasa, KL. The program supposed to start from lunch but I only able to meet up with the gals, Jo + Yen + Siewlee later in the evening due to heavy house chores and the unfortunate car alarm fault.

The gals were getting ready when I reached the hotel and we leave the hotel for a good dinner once we were all set. When we reached our desired dinner venue - Fullhouse at Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, it was eventually fullhouse-ed. We then only managed to have our dinner at Rakuzen Japanese Restaurant, Chulan Square after an hour of KL tour and Mich managed to join us just in time for dinner. Vay arrived later after we were back to the hotel and we had a night long gathering catching up with each others + very own free of charge Tarot cards reading session by Vay & Yen till 4am the next day. After some rest, we woke up early morning and catch the hotel buffet breakfast together gather of which, our last breakfast together was far way long ago in college time. We also had a relaxing and soothing Thai full body massage recommended by Yen at Ampang Point, our college days hangout place to mark the end of our 1st ever gals gathering.

Another year has gone… It’s SP annual dinner again themed Magical Green in conjunction to the lately planet saving responsibility hit. This year, Setia Eco Park opted Elf as our sub theme with greeny tailor made outfit throughout the division of which, myself + another 3 female colleagues has volunteered and opted to wore the male outfit instead of the beautiful classy female dress due to insufficient female costume cloth. I’m glad that I’ve made the choice to be in male outfit this year rather than female because it is hardly unlikely that I have such a chance. Hehe… : D But… what made this year annual dinner more memorable was, it is also my last year with Setia Eco Park the fun going division. : (

Unlike last year, I’ve invited my buddy ex-colleague Algy along having seen Eamy invited another 2 buddy ex-colleague, Liching + Chengni. Though Chengni unable to make it at last minute, we were still enjoyed ourselves catching up around with staff from other division / departments. Besides, it was also an awaited + excited moment to see Mike put on his show as emcees of the night after his hard work. Mike, you’ve done a good job! And… here are some of the photos taken that night… : )


Left > Posing with Mike, Emcee of Magical Green '10
Right > Posing with Cheng & Ms. Teh of Setia Putrajaya


Left > Posing with Algy, Eamy & Sharmaine
Right > Posing with Mike, Cheng & Algy


Left > Setia Eco Park group posing
Right > Setia Eco Park gals posing


Left > Group posing with Raymond, Emily, Algy & Sherman
Right > Posing with Algy, Kok Boon & Kai Lee


Left > Posing with Suet Nei & gal of GCF
Right > Posing with Eamy

After 7 months of busy work + hectic work life, I’m glad that we are able to find time for another jalan-jalan trip high up the hill where the usual four of us ( Algy + Mike + Cheng + myself ) & Angeline packed some of our belongings and escaped ourselves to breezy Cameron Highland last weekend. Unlike others, we didn’t do any strawberries plucking up there… Instead, we spent most of our time on food… from foot hill all the way up. Strawberry Moment is one of the must visit which is also the one we have visited the most for dessert. Besides than dessert, steamboat and bubble milk tea were also one of our must have each night especially those pasar malam’s bubble milk tea + snacks that fed our stomach during mahjong learning session ftom Master Mike. : P Graduate? Well… Master Mike students are just too dummy in receipting his knowledge transfer even after numerous learning fees paid ler~ Other than that, we also had the privilege in commenting Mike’s emcees speech + annotation prior his show time in coming SP annual dinner. Ngiak ngiak ngiak…

Though this is not our individual 1st visit to Cameron Highland, but it is still relaxing where we enjoyed ourselves very much and return with refreshed mind… When is next? Argh~ =.=”