My Course Mate, Kevin’s Wedding @ 22/11/2008

Attended to my course mate a.k.a monitor, Kevin’s wedding today at Spring Garden Chinese Restaurant, Tropicana Golf & Country Resort and gathered with a bunch of course mates at the same time. It was quite a long time since the last gathering we had and we enjoyed the time to catch up with each other while celebrating Kevin’s wedding. Glad to meet up and thanks to Mich for the car pool… ; )

And… To dear Kevin & Rachel, may your marriage blessed with happiness till the end of road together as one. : )

Kent (BAT) Party At Maison, KL @ 21/11/2008

Joint my S&M colleagues to an invited event recently, the Kent Party held at Maison, KL which crowned itself as the home to the masks and portal to the divine. Eh… it was a tobacco event that promotes the latest invented “flavour” by Kent as how the event was named where we drank + dance and enjoyed the night out despite than the smoky environment in the house.

The heritage façade of Maison captures the essence and beauty of art in its entire splendor with exquisite contrast of textural highs and lows, masculine and feminine, hard and soft. Maison carved out various nights + themes within that open its doors to a wide spectrum of people to come together as one from socializing Courtyard, shamelessly pop Jukebox, revolution hip hop & soul Urban Republic, twisted side of house music Twitsted, hip hop + R&B Super Saturday, music in all its beauty House to Garcon Sunday where there is definitely one that suits each individual.

Celebrating live, affirming beauty, embracing you. Maison

My Colleague, Val’s Wedding @ 9/11/2008

I attended to my colleague, Valerie’s wedding dinner hosted at the Oversea Restaurant, Jaya One PJ on this date which was also my 1st visit to Jaya One Center. Surprisingly, this venue is out of my expectation and it seems to be a vibrant place to hang out. There are quite some famous hang out spots operates here such as, OldTown Kopitiam, Halo Café, western dining restaurants, pubs etc where me & Sennie almost wanted to have another beer session after the wedding dinner if not because we were too tired and too late for us since we both have to work the next day. Anyway, we believe we will be back and pay a separate visit some other day just to explore this new hang out spot. Back to the wedding dinner, we enjoyed the good food hosted by the couple although we were late and only reached the venue after both of them marched in + the first dish is served. Anyhow, I’m real sorry that I’m was late due to work duty and chaos created by my baby boy. : (

Dear Val, wishing you a wonderful marriage… : )

My Baby Boy’s 1st Tooth Drops @ 8/11/2008

Today, a tooth was dropped off from my baby boy’s mouth whilst I was cleaning up my boy’s teeth after his meal as usual. I was shocked and panicked till nearly tearing, thinking that it was accidentally caused by me due to my harshness. I then quickly sms-ed my friend, Elv ( Oscar’s little sibling, Summer’s handler ) to confirm what has gone wrong and what should I do to comfort my boy. Beyond my thought, it wasn’t my fault and that was because of my boy teeth changing. Phew~ I don’t even know that dog does change their teeth like human being too duh… So pai seh…=.=” Elv also advised me to buy more chewable treat + raw chicken wings tip / chicken neck especially as calcium intake for my boy to help his teeth grow faster, stronger and healthier. I then captured my boy’s dropped tooth after the blog urge came into my mind.

Deeparaya Luncheon ’08 @ 6/11/2008

This year, SP Central Region organized the staff Deeparaya Luncheon at the new Setia Alam Welcome Center for the first time. As usual, the function started off with speech given by Top Management followed by cultural Malay + Indian opening dance performance from our colleagues before we move our feet to outdoor, grab the food and fill up our stomach. Although food offered this year is better and more varieties compared to last year, but there were also more people attended the function simply because majority of SP Corporate HQ staff has moved to Setia Corporate Tower in Setia Eco Park & Setia Support Center in Setia Alam early of the year. Due to that, we split our forces to queue for food and grab as much food as possible at once for the sharing of 10 on a table when the makan time started.

Well… despite than the nearly congested function hall during Top Management’s speech + cultural dance session and long queue buffet line, it was indeed a merrier luncheon for all in Central Region. ^_^

So Called Model… Againn… @ 6/11/2008

Nope… That isn’t a typo error in the post’s title. The title was named as such because this is my 2nd “again” being asked for a favor to be a so called model / talent and this time is for one of our tenant in Green Canopy, a hair beauty garden that’s operates by an Iranian lady in her 50’s but having her look in late 30’s. Em… the photos taken are to be chosen and edited into buntings / flyers to help promote the outlet. Hence, you may see me “hanging” along the NKVE - Setia Alam Interchange / “flying” around Setia Eco Park & Setia Alam one day ( if I'm chosen ) and this is one of the photos taken for the above objective by my colleague, Martin during the photograph session. : )

SSRC 4D3N Bali Extravaganza Trip @ 31/10/2008 ~ 3/11/2008

Another part of my 1/10 New Year resolution is realized… Yup! I finally visited Bali Island with a bunch of colleagues on these date. It was the annual SP Sports & Recreational Club outbound trip that we ( SSRC Committees ) have planned to go in the month of August but postponed till end of Oct due to AA Flights Fare matters.

Day 1
We arrived at Ngurah Rai International Airport, Denpasar about lunch time and had a Balinese lunch before we visited to our 1st tourist spot, Uluwatu Temple. The temple is perched on a cliff of a rocky hill located at the southernmost part of Bali and surrounded by trees + bushes occupied by tamed army of aggressive monkeys where these monkeys will tail and snatch the visitors for their cap / camera / glasses etc. I have few colleagues got snatched their glasses, camera pouch + toggle earring, luckily non of them were hurt except the lost of their mini belongings and sudden terrified. Then, we were coached to the famous Jimbaran Beach to admire the beautiful sunset and had a group romantic seafood barbeque dinner before we checked in our hotel, Kuta Lagoon Resort, Legian.

Day 2
We started our 2nd day watching an artistic blessing Barong Dance performance at the Batubulan Village followed by a visit to Celuk Village to see the proactive + innovative gold and silver crafting by local residents. Then, we continued our Kintamani Tour to experience the breathtaking panorama view of an active volcano in Mount Batur and Lake Batur which at the same time had our Balinese buffet lunch at one of the restaurant up on the cool breezing hill. We then visited the Goa Gajah ( Elephant Cave ), an ancient omission in the form of a cave with the high value of art and history where we can also find some other omissions like ancient stone idol, douche and mini temple. We omitted the later visit to Tampak Siring ( Holy Spring Water Temple ) which local residents believed the clear + clean and holy water in the temple could cure diseases due to heavy rain. However, we managed to catch a more meaningful prayer ceremony where local residents dressed in their traditional costume, walked all the way to the temple from one to another end of the street to show the merciful God their inner sincerity whilst we were traveled to our dinner.

Day 3
On the 3rd day, we visited Tanah Lot, a Balinese Hindu Temple on the rock where the seawater encircles it when the sea water is tide as if it is adrift on the ocean. We also took our time shopped for souvenirs at the flee market along Tanah Lot entrance path before we were traveled to Ubud Village for Balinese lunch. We were then coached to Taman Ayun Temple located in Mengwi Village, North of Denpasar, which is the Royal Temple of Mengwi Empire that owns beautiful temple building with multistoried roof in Balinese Architecture. After that, we were traveled to a local souvenir shop, Lulu Bali as our last stop / call to hunt for souvenirs before head for dinner and back to hotel. Later at night, Sennie + Ray + myself had our supper and enjoyed ourselves at the Hard Rock Café, Kuta with good time on beer + live band. But... what’s more excited or rather shocked is when we saw a group of nearly 20 young + fit + fully naked men ran towards our direction and went off into a club behind the street whilst we were inside a cab on our way back to hotel after the rock session. Wow~

Day 4
Sennie & I started off our last day in Bali with a traditional Balinese Spa Massage together at the resort after our breakfast which turned out to be kind of awkward when both of us had our massage next to next without a separating curtain in a room and had our spa ( milk bath ) session together in the open air twin sharing bathtub although we are of the same gender. =.= We then checked out the resort after the so-so massage + a good shower, and head to Mama’s, the Germany Restaurant that we patronized almost every night in Bali for a sumptuous Germany Grill Pork’s Knuckle lunch together with Ray before we went for Legian – Kuta walk. We walked along the Legian Street, passed by the Bali Bombed Area + Bali Bombing Monument and went all the way down to Kuta Street. We stopped over at Starbucks Kuta, had our favorite Starbucks shot, went to the Hard Rock Shop, saw the endless of Kuta Surf Beach + patronized the not forgotten I’m Lovin It in Kuta, Bali before we met with the others back at the resort and transferred to the airport for return departure.

Well~ This is how our trip ended and there goes our holidays. However, the most important is, our memory stays… Thanks to this bunch of active + funny + happy go lucky + shopaholic colleagues of mine who has made this a successful extravaganza trip.

P/S:- To those who intended / plan to visit Bali Island in near future, do beware of monkeys and be extra caution + alert when you exchange your money at any of the local money changer before you were cheated because Sennie, myself + another few colleagues of mine had a bad experience on this.

An Ecard From My Buddy Colleague, AT @ 30/10/2008

I received an ecard with grateful message from my buddy colleague, AT few days ago pertaining to one of my earlier post. It was a heart touching message and I guess the only thing I can say is, that’s what friends are for… We may not see each other often but we knew we are here for each other, we may not even talk when we sat next to each other but we won’t feel odd / bad, we may be geographically distance but we are close deep down in our heart. Friendship, is just too difficult to describe, measure and justify in words...
...... except to treasure.