outing with cousin - Terry

here are some pics of the outing with my English cousin Terry....

celebrations....

man!! last night was something.... y?... nyeh nyeh nyeh.....

what do u say when a 3 drunk ppl sitting in a car, blasting not techno, not R&B but FRANK SINATRA at 4 in the morning????!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHhahahahah.... yea.. that is what happened last night!!!..... ah kong, me, simon and their aikido gang met up for dinner and some (not some but ALOT) celebration "drinks"... it was something... though i didn't get too wasted.... not that i wanted to..... heheheheh.... it was all good fun.... having a great group of friends.. just talking cock.... and seeing the "other" side of ppl that u would never see.... heheheh....

all this happened Merdeka eve at Song River.... when midnite striked, heard some fireworks but couldn't see them as it was at the Esplanade and we were at Gurney Drive... we were like eating like there's no tomorrow and drinking quenching our "thirst" !!!! ;)

took lots of pics but i shall just put up the "decent" ones.... so as not to embaress some ppl... hehehe.....

kei el....

am here for the weekend....

the career talk on sat was ok, there was an explanation on what "career" is and after the break there was a talk on EQ and some games to enhance our Openess, Neutral, Analytical, Decisive and Relational personalities.. it was quite interesting as the speakers were German.... the first talk was from a local....

my baby followed me to the talk and he met the comittee of SEFA... everyone keeps telling him to join SEFA because he IS a scolarship recepient... but then he's not that TYPE to join such things.... anyway there will be a treasure hunt in Oct... wonder if i'll be able to make it for that... now that i got a JOB.. ahahhah that sounds funny.....and weird at the same time...

today, we were at KLCC.... thought of going to see the new aquarium at the new KL Convention Centre but when we got there, the line was so long that it went all the way to the basement carpark (it was like that yesterday too!).... so we went around, window shopping looking out for slippers... but couldn't really find one... and then decided to checkout the line at the aquarium AFTER getting tickets to Willy Wonka (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).... and when we got to the aquarium.. it was 8.15pm and the movie is at 9pm!!!!!!!! but then my baby insisted we go in cause we're already there... fine.... so we went in....

there was some quite nice fishes .... not many though... the underwater walkway was cool... they had a "moving" walkway.. just like the moving walkway u get in airports.... so this walkway takes u through the whole of the underwater tunnel... there was quite a few sharks and loads of other fishes but the fishes aren't as big as the ones in the Langkawi aquarium or at the one in Darling Harbour Sydney... what's dissapointing is that at the end of the tour there was no "theater" like aquarium where there are huge larger than life fishes... nope.. tak da... nothing... the main attraction was just the underwater-moving-walkway-shark tank.....

then we had to rush for the movie as we had to walk from the aquarium to KLCC and go up to TGV.... i missed the first 5 ot 10 minutes of it... i thought it was a cool, nice movie... a movie just to go for a laugh and go back to your childhood (that is if u relate chocolate to your childhood).... the movie was produced by the same guy from Edward Scissorhands which by the way is my favourite movie... so it's abit weird and "uuh?" type..... i think there's another movie coming out from the same producer together with Johnny Depp..... what i loved most from the movie is the lift...... man that lift is like a transport!!!! if u go see, watch out for "UP and OUT"... it literally means that!!!!!

so tomorrow, going back to penang... try to get my pc over back to BM.... do last of my moving from pg to bm and get psyched into getting ready for work... wonder what to wear... what to bring!!!

*at the cybe cafe typing this while waiting for my baby to get some "online" stuff done... sigh.....

most hectic week

and i love it!!

there's so much that happened.... first it was the 2 phone calls about the job in DELL, then my cousin came down from London.. it's been like 7 years since i saw him... and then now in KL for a career talk organised by SEFA..... that's not it! when i come back to pg i start WORK!!!!!!

during the interview (both on the phone and face-to-face) was quite new to me... here they were asking me all these questions that i never was asked before and had abit of a cold sweat answering it.. it's like... what am i to say? did i say anything wrong? did i answer the question correctly? do they like me? did i say too much? ..........

but in the end i guess it was ok.... i got the job and i'm grateful that i won't be in a place that's strange to me... yes the place is new and i haven't seen SOOOO many cubicles in one place in my life!!!!!!! but when i start, i have friends.. i have my Ah Ma there and also another friend that's also in the same department... so... guess i don't need to be so worried bout the job...

having a cousin down is one story, having a crazy-friendly-happening cousin is another!!!! yea!!! my cousin who came down, haven't seen him in like 7 years or so... i was thinking to myself... what's he like..... and when i finally got to see him and spent a few days with him, he's such great guy....

having a crazy aunty in the family and being in penang, one coming from a foreign land to penang will be greeted with LOADS of food!! sometimes i pitty him because we've been stuffing him with sooo much food.. and not one type but MANY MANY types!!! from char kay teow to nasi kandar to thai food!!..

*Terry, if u're reading this, hope your memories are more of us (people) than food!!! looking at how much we fed u, u might not remember us!!! heheheh

so yea.... he came to malaysia on a job.. he writes for DJ Mag in London (see one of his articles) and came here to review on a DJ-dance music fesival which was held in Port Dickson... and took some time off to see us in penang.... so being in the music industry... i just HAD to bring him clubbing!!! he wanted to go to a feng-tau club but i didn't really know where had feng-tau... i think Rock World has but that place is so notorious and too dangerous for me to be in.... so in the end i brought him to Chillout-Mambo together with Simon.... and to my surprised, he liked it, seemed to be enjoying himself!! hahahah.....

other than clubbing, both Cheryl and i brought him to batu feringghi for the sand, sea and "pirate" shopping and more eating!!! i also brought him up Penang hill using the train and went for the canopy walk in the jungle.... what fun!!!.... for the 3 days that he's been here, it was packed and full with FOOD!!! it was so much fun having him around... really wished he could stay longer.....

so now, i'm in KL.... i came here for a SEFA-JTI career talk and SEFA EGM... i was given the job to write an article of the career talk.... and will be here for the weekend... got to come back to penang to try get a transfer of my streamyx back to my BM hse and get ready for my JOB!!!!! ggrrr.... getting bit nervous thinking bout it.... i start on the 2nd and got to be at DELL at 8 am and my wonderful Ah Ma will greet me..... thank god for that as i wouldn't need to be in such nervousness.......

my other cousin, Simon too will be leaving for australia.... this time around i haven't been around hanging out with him much... kinda feeling bad... just hope i will get a chance to go for his wedding in Perth this coming March... hmmm......

so one more weekend of freedom and the world of WORKING will start!!!.......

WORKING WORLD..... HERE I COME!!!!

1st job!

YES YES YES!!! i got it!!!

i got the job at DELL... at the CMG department.. with my fellow dugong Ah Ma.... muahahahha.. she's like so happy.... it's funny that most of the dugongs started their "careers" at DELL... guess if u're a dugong.. u're a dugong.. go where the dugongs have gone! hahahahah....

well the procedure of me getting this job was different.. i mean i got a call from Jobstreet, then a phone interview from DELL and then and face to face interview in DELL and from there i heard that actually Jobstreet is the one who's hiring me... and in the end, it was Ah Ma who made to call to hire me.. say that i got the job.... hmm... i thought that was funny... hahaha.. maybe i just don't know how these things work....

last few days was a blast.... had my cousin Terry over for a very VERY VERY short holiday so me and my other cousin is trying to put EVERYTHING one could do in penang in like 3 days!!!!! we still have the whole day today!!!.... and he leaves tomorrow morning!!!!... what a waste!!!

will be going to KL for the weekend.... got SEFA-JTI career job talk thingy... so will be going for that... will be seeing my baby.... after soo long.. can't wait!!!! and got to be back to get ready for my first day of work!!!!! that's 2nd September!!!

so yea.... won't be blogging.. till.... hmmm... can't really say......

1st interview!

OMG OMG OMG!!!!

i got a call from DELL the afternoon the Jobstreet lady called.. and i was having my teleconference while i was driving!!!! i HAD to stop by the roadside and have my interview in my car... man!! what an experience!!!!

was like soo nervous.. i couldn't tell if he was happy with what i said and how i said it or if he didn't like it.. it's like he's so... how u say.. didn't show any reaction on what i said....

so face to face interview is TOMORROW! wednesday.. at DELL... 10.30 am!!! grrr.... nervous.... don't know if can sleep!!!!

better go sleep now... nearly midnite.....

ohh yea...

met up with my cousin Terry.. from London... cool guy!!.. will write more bout him...

1st phone call of my working life..

so hard to get my lecturers to reply my email... sigh.. i guess they're busy or something.. looks like i got to go back finding my old lecturers from Informatics... hope they can still remember me! hehehhe....

got a call from Jobstreet.... it seems there's an opening for SALES in Dell... hahah i have quite a number of friends working in mostly all departments in Dell.... but i never thought of doing sales.... hmm.... i've heard alot of "stories" of Dell...

anyway.. SALES?!!! i never had SALES in my head.... didn't like the idea of going out to find customers, persuading them to buy.... and having QUOTA!!!! grrrr.... that scares me... but then the lady who called from Jobstreet says that the sales department in Dell is "internal sales" which means the employees do not go "out" to make the sale... it's all with phone calls in the office.. which is (i guess) ok for me.... and they want to put me on the Australian/New Zealand group....(working 5.30am to 2.30pm.. what odd working hours.. having friends working there.. i know the weird times they have...).... that too i've heard loads of "stories"... hahahah...

so... yea.. Jobstreet will send my resume to Dell and if i'm shortlisted, they'll call me for a "teleconference interview" ..... grrr.... nervous-nye..

RESUME = HEADACHE

eerrgghhh....

been trying to write my resume... don't know which format to follow... some are telling this others telling me that.... sigh...

looks like i'm gonna write afew and see which one is better.... still haven't heard from my references if they agree to be my references.... sigh....

and also the CV letter... what am i to write about? ggrrr... headache!!!

random thoughts....

i hate going up and down bm and pg... but then again it gives me an excuse to come to penang.... hahhahaha....

went clubbing on wed with sharon and her friend benny... it was ok.. i mean the music was "acceptable" but the scene was... abit too weird for me... it was nearly 100% occupied with chinese.. i mean i have nothing against them but it's just that the last time i went to Chillout (at Gurney Hotel) i saw more of other races there... guess i've lost touch with the clubbing scenes here... or maybe the others were at other clubs.. maybe SS or SOHO? i wouldn't know....

wed was ladies night and sharon and i got in for free (the drinks were free too) but benny had to pay to get in.. i thought it would be like RM25 with 1 free drink or something but on the way home i asked him how much did he pay to get in.. he said RM51 WITHOUT free drink...

i mean heck
1) what's with the extra RM1 and
2) so expensive with no free drink?

unbelievable man!!! was telling sharon that next time we should just go to SS cause benny can get in free... talking bout next time... i felt that the older we get the less interested we are in clubbing... maybe for some, initially clubbing wasn't their cup of tea but did clubbing anyway and for some (like me) started clubbing early than usual and still do love going but because of lack of company, clubbing isn't as easy as before.... sigh.... maybe i should just find another type of entertainment.. but then again.... not...

during my stay in australia, i've met some friends of my relatives and i don't know but they don't really "get" Malaysia.. i mean when they spoke to me they went...

They: oh.. your english is good! i thought u didn't speak english
ME: (like duhhh!!!!) uh... i speak english at home and also with my friends in school. eventhough our lessons are in malay, we speak english....
They: oh.........
ME: (rolls my eye in my heart....) yeah....

so i guess, how advanced malaysia is, there are still ppl and countries that are not aware of how developed we are... heck we get movies earlier than them!!! somehow this makes me feel more appreciative towards my country... eventhough i'm not as patriotic as i should, i'll always feel much more at home here.... yes sometimes the government isn't fair to all races and being a "lain-lain", ppl like us should work harder to get places we deserve, but as long as i know, i'm treated right and i'm glad that i'm living here....

is it ok if i don't put any references in my resume? none of my lecturers have replied to me on that.. and it's about time i started sending my resumes out.... scared thinking bout working... what if i don't know anything bout the job? what if the ppl don't like me? what if i don't like them?.......

there's a SEFA career talk by JTI this coming 27th... and also SEFA's EGM... should i go?? it'll be good if i went.. cause i could give out my resume... and also get to know my SEFA members.... what to do.. what to do.. what to do...

and ohh.. here's the article i wrote for SEFA (don't know if i put the link before or not... getting old already) on the fire-fly thingy i went...

felt abit sad that i didn't go for a very good friend's convo in USM... told her that i would go and be with her on that big day but i didn't... what a friend i am... :( really sorry babe!

went for a wedding dinner with my dad to a family friend's son's wedding.... and who on earth did i see a few tables away? my best friend's ex... i mean... this is a dinner in PENANG and i can't seem to see the connection with him who is from BM with the PENANG ppl here at the wedding.... hmmm.. the world is soo small... i guess if i, from BM could know ppl from PENANG... why not he right? so... yea the world IS small.... don't know if he saw me or not.... not bothered anyway....

tomorrow dad's gonna have a cycling expedition to the Thai border.. where? i can't remember the place now.. i think it's something like Baling or something... so that means he'll be taking the car, start driving early morning and cycle..... thought of going with him but.. thinking of driving 20 KM/h or less for 3 hours (see my older posts on the trip to so called Cameron Highlands) got me thinking....

will be here in pg for a few days, cousin from England coming, my baby's coming... YEAY YEAY YEAY!!!!

going par-tay-ing!!

after sooo long... i've made plans with Sharon to go clubbing!!!! haven't been clubbing for AGES...!!!

so since both of us just passed out thesis and finished out studies.. we thought it would be a good time to do some partying.... unfortunately we're both broke so we HAD to have it today cause it's Ladies Night as entrance is free and drinks are free.... am not too sure where we'll be going.. either to Chillout.. or the new Mamabo.. haven't been to Mambo yet so not sure how things work there....

gonna get my fringe trimmed today... abit irritating to keep a fringe where the hair gets into the eyes.... but then again... i malas.... hehehehe....

won't be going online for a few days again cause i'll be going home tonight.... i'll be back to pg most prob on fri or something cause my cousin Simon said he wanna "help" me celebrate my thesis properly this weekend.. hahahah.... (also he's only free in the weekend)....

can't wait for next week...
1- my baby is coming back.. he's on semester break....
2- cousin from England coming to penang... he'll be in KL before that for some DJ journalist thingy for a DJ mag he is working for... it'll be cool!! haven't seen him for AGES!!!

oh well.. guess i better go to the hair dressers..... chop chop!!!

more pics...

here are more pics of my Australian trip...

- my Friendster Photo Album here click on the thumbnails to read the description of the pics...

- my Yahoo Photos (if the link doesn't work try this and find for the album "AUSTRALIA")

it is confirmed!

yea... eventhough i got my results over the phone... i needed to see it for myself.... so i went to college today to see the results that were pasted on the notice board... and YES!! i DID pass!!!! i can't believe it!!!! and once again i had a smile on my face.... heheheheh....

now... i need to celebrate... unfortunately... i'm low in $$ to actually go celebrate drunk-ly.... but then i made plans with Sharon for a "ladies nite" outing... entrance free... drinks free... but then it'll be a pitty for guys who may want to follow us... they got to pay to get in AND for their drinks... am not too sure who'll be following us though..... ANYONE??? who wants to follow us???

the weekend was abit sucky..... was home.. doing nothing much.. can't do anything bout finding for job as i don't have my pc with me there.... that's why i'm here in penang.... but i did go out with Pauline my best friend.... we went to catch Bewitched... it was a cool movie but was kinda dissapointed that there were not many tricks been done in the movie....

again.. i feel like there's so much to write but can't seem to get it out to write.... sigh.......

good to smile without reason

i just went for a movie (as said in previous post) and thought of pampering myself with Coffee Beans....

so went to the ground floor and on the way down i saw that some new shops were opened and the renovations to certain floors were made.... boy.. only then i noticed that i haven't been to gurney plaza for like "ages"...... hehehe.....

was in coffee bean and saw an ad for their new Belgium drink... thought i'd try it... man!! when i took the first sip... i just couldn't help it but SMILE..... i didn't sit in the cafe cause i had to get back.. so while walking pass the shops and to the car i couldn't help it but smile.....

i suddenly just felt happy... i don't know if it was because the movie was nice... or that i've seen mel in the movie... or that the belgium drink was superb.... it might also be that i'm done with studies... found out that i passed my thesis... starting afresh... and was on hols for the past 5 weeks...... i guess it was ALL of the above that made me smile... and the nice thing was that i was alone.... having time to myself... able to think properly....

i know sometimes i hate shopping alone or going out alone.. but i managed to get pass that and look at the good part of it.... i can go where ever i want and for how long i want... but then IT IS nice to have someone with u.....

ahh... just wished i could have that feeling back again to smile.....

:)

GOL & GINCU

i went to GSC gurney to catch the movie.... thought i'd better catch it soon and not miss it.... my good ol friend melissa maureen is in it as "Mia" ....

it's a nice heart warming movie, about friends, relationship and family.... some parts are touching and there are many familiar faces in it... it put a smile on me when i saw armani (Orkid from SEPET).... and of course mel.... :)

for those who are into local movies (it had the same standard as AADC and other Indon movies together with SEPET) go catch this movie...!!

mel if u're reading this... GOOD JOB mel!!! and also to your best friend Faz!! hope to meet you guys soon!!

fuh.....

what a month.....

was in KL straight after my thesis, then to sydney for 3 weeks and another week in KL for my cousins wedding... had no time to sit down and think and come to my senses....

so now i'm back... am starting to settle down... got to start anew... get my resume done... make copies of my certs... hunt for jobs..... AND.... sort of get a short term life plan started.....

anyway.. here are some pics from my grandad's 90th birthday and cousins wedding....

Laura, Leigh and I at grandad's 90th (belated) birthday bash

the whole family

the grandkids and great-grandkids

Laura walking down the isle with her dad (Uncle Phillip)

the family

first dance

Laura in her second outfit for the evening...

(practically everyone -esp the europeans were either in baju kebaya or cheongsam type of outfits. was a very colourful sight that night....)

i'm home!!!

yes yes i'm back in MALAYSIA....

i'm home in penang now... busy with my American relatives that are down in Penang for my cousin's wedding and holiday.....

will be back blogging when i come back from KL.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

HaPpY BIRTHDAY BENji!!!!!

i can't believe it's your birthday... again!!! but then everyone goes through birthdays year after year.....

so once again i would like to wish u all the best, knowing how great this year has been for u.. i wished for it to continue to the coming year and many more years to come...

i'm so grateful for your friendship, valuable advice, guidance and help... u're such a guy! hahaha....

have a wonderful time and "thani"!!!! nyeh nyeh nyeh!!