My Birthday on 18th July

I turned 22 years old. Early in the morning, I have to do cleaning the floor and windows and hanging the clothes. Thus, a special guest from Japan would visit us. Haha…

However, HL would bring the Japanese guy in the afternoon so I would not be able to make it as I already have an appointment. KS fetched KY, MLing and I to Mid Valley. There was lots of car searching for car parks and we were lucky to find one.

ST, Jasmine and YK were seated in Sushi Zanmai at Garden.

I ordered Tendon dish which is consists of prawn and vegetables. The taste is alright but nothing is special. Maybe Japanese food is not my favourite. This gathering was organized by ST. She even bought me a cake. Luckily, none of the staff sang out the birthday song to bring the attention to everyone. Haha… (Not like KS’s birthday) It was a chocolate cake and I love it. The cake was not very sweet and it was delicious. I need to thank Jasmine for choosing such a wonderful cake. By the way, I made 3 wishes. These wishes were about my ACCA, jobs and health.

After that, we watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince movie. The book contains a few hundreds pages as thick as a dictionary so it must be a challenging job for director to summarise the story. Therefore, I wanted to give some credit to director for making the movie. I liked the comedy parts acted by three actors, Daniel, Emma and Rupert. However, some important parts left out. For instance, Dumbledore should emphasize the importance of those valuable things which Tom Riddle always treasures as a clue for searching Horcrux. Justin also joined us watching this movie. I knew him when I went for drinking with YK and See Tho ML. He also read the book. Hmm… Actually I wonder why he read the book as Churches restricted Christians to watch Witchcraft movies. If my sister saw this, I would receive music from her. Haha…

About 6pm, we separated into two groups. YK, ML and KY went to watch Japanese event in Shah Alam. ST, Jasmine, KS and I have dinner together. Justin has to attend his school gathering.

ST and I gave a surprise to SF. He was working in Korean beauty booth at North Court. To me, he still looked the same. Hmm… He still sounded the same style of talking especially with pretty girls. Haha…

Four of us have dinner at Fong Lye Restaurant. ST gave us a treat as she received her first salary. Anyway, we promised to take turn to give treats. Oh… My pocket money is going to wipe out. Haha…

That’s all about my event. Now, let’s go to my messages. My messages was from MY, VL, VW, Natasha, Devendran, Joy Nathan, YP, PT, Jenny, YN, TY, HT, Phoebe, SH, KSheng, Cynde, YH, EY, MF, MS, KG, QY, CF, Ari, Ooi (net friend) and PY. The most surprise was VW’s message. After knowing him for 9 years, this was the first time that he wished me. Maybe after the Genting trip, we finally realized and understood each other. Another surprise was Phoebe. She was having US trip and could manage to wish me. PY phoned me up and sang birthday song. Some of them posted their wishes in Facebook.

My mum made Tong Yuen for me. Hehe… I am very lucky to have family and friends. Thanks them.

I Got a Job

This job was recommended by my friend who is working in the company. Actually, she was my interviewer. Haha… Therefore, it was easy for me to get through the interview. Once I knew that my application was accepted, however, I wasn’t sure whether to accept their offer as there were a few factors to take into account.

Firstly, my salary is based on my qualification. My highest qualification is Advanced Diploma but not all company do recognize this as equivalent as degree. In other words, I was considered as Diploma graduate. So, I couldn’t expect a high salary as I don’t have any working experience, thus it is a difficult time to get a job as our country is having economy crisis.

Secondly, the distance from my house to the company is far. I was confidence to find a job in KL especially Mid Valley has a lot of offices as well as KL Sentral. In the end, I work at Tropicana Mall near Damansara. Haha…

Besides, I was not ready. The company accepted me without having second thought. I miss my chance to say “Goodbye” to my fellow table tennis students in MBS. I would always remember their charming and cute faces.

After working 3 days, I found that job becomes interesting and exciting. My senior is friendly and pretty. The most important is she is willing to teach me. My memory is bad sometimes. So, I kept asking her to check my works. My colleagues are friendly too. Some of them are humorous. I heard from them that our boss is good. So, I think it is good to work for a small company whereby the boss is good too. There is no politics or inconsiderate boss in the company. Anyway, it is still early for me to judge the company. Hopefully I would be able to perform well as time goes by.

Note: I wrote this article on 20th July.. Hehe...

Bon Voyage to JL

On 1^st July (Wednesday), my college mates decided to organize a farewell party in Pasta Zenmai, Mid Valley for JLoong as he would be studying in BCU, UK. Those who attended this party were WLing, SHan, YNee, TY, PT, Kenzy, YP and I.

The restaurant served Japanese Food. It was filled up with customers that night. Im/title> ordered Chicken Kirsten and always serve me the last. Haiz… My friends started making jokes on me. They said they would leave first and let the last person to pay the bill. I reminded the staff. At last, the dish was arrived on my place. It was quite a big dish. I could not finish it definitely.

After eating, WLing wished to have dessert in Baskin Robbins. PT shared the ice-cream with Kenzy while WLing shared the ice-cream with JLoong. After that, we had photo sessions. They really like taking photos. Kenzy also made some jokes. They also mentioned about Koh Lung. I wondered whether Koh Lung sneezed all the night. Haha...

When it was the time to say goodbye, we hug each other except for the boys. All of us wish JL all the best in his studies and hope he will bring some souvenirs for us. Haha...

Genting Trip

(From 27th June to 28th June)

I need to rush back and prepare for my Genting trip after coming back from Tioman Trip. Yen Kee and I followed Wai Leong’s car while Shaw Team and Swee Luo followed Soon Foo’s car. We left at 10pm.

This was my first experience sitting friend’s car to go Genting. I thought only we were speeding but actually every car did the same thing. We reached at 11pm. This was also my first time to enter the penthouse in Apartment Ria. Shaw Team and others went there before. There were about 7 rooms. Shaw Team and Yen Kee choose the room. They wanted to sleep in William, Choon Hoong and Yik Ho room. So, they let us used the room. Choong Fai, Voon Wai, Lionel, Kwong Yeow, Desmond and her girl friend, Ah Hean and his girl friend and two unknown friends were there.

I thought our room should be all girls and I was surprised that Soon Foo and Wai Leong wanted to share the room with us. Only then, I realized that Swee Luo agreed for them to sleep in the room. Of course, they have to sleep on the floor. Four girls shared a queen bed.

We had steamboat. I didn’t help the girls as I was sneezing once I was there. My nose is sensitive. I was surprised that Voon Wai put a fish ball in my bowl. Anyway, he did this to everyone. Afterall, I should not feel shock. After eating, all the boys and girls prepared to go Cinema except Soon Foo and Wai Leong. I thought I would be staying at the room. Yen Kee told me that Shaw Team promised William so we had no choice. Going out at night was very cold and shiver. Swee Luo was beside me and both of us walked quite fast. Voon Wai looked nothing. Oh..yeah.. I almost forgot that he was the hockey player. This should not be a problem to him. Choong Fai was crazy. He ran all the way and ended up with breathing problem.

The Cinema was full of youngsters. The movie started at 1am. Shaw Team sat between Voon Wai and I. On my right was Yik Ho. The seat was very stiff and my legs movement was limited. Once the movie started, my brain started to shut down and followed by my eyes. I missed a lot of parts of the movie. When the movie finished, many of them said they slept half way through. I think only Yik Ho, Choon Hoong, Lionel and Voon Wai were watching the whole movie.

Shaw Team and I were walking back to the Apartment Ria. My first thought was to go to the bed. While walking, the wind blew strongly and we started to shiver. Shaw Team and I hug each other. I saw Choong Fai running without wearing jacket. Haiz… He still wanted to show off.

Soon Foo was the person opened the door for us. Wai Leong was sleeping. Yen Kee and Swee Luo had a bath before sleeping. Then Wai Leong woke up and slept in our room. When the room became dark, I could hear snoring sound.

On the next day

I woke up very early, around 8am. How I wish I could continue my sleep. I became a sandwich. as Swee Luo was on my left while Yen Kee was on my right. Since I could not sleep, I decided to my sleep in the dining room. There were soft cushions but I could smell there was smoking.

I just walked here and there. I was watching people sleeping soundly. Soon Foo covered himself with the entire blanket like a mummy. Wai Leong slept by wearing his spectacles. Wow… I could see Swee Luo’s eyes opened slightly. I wondered whether she could see me. Shaw Team covered all over herself with blanket except her head. Yen Kee slept one side. After I left the bed, they slept comfortably.

Choon Hoong, William and Yik Ho slept at the small dining room. At one time, Choon Hoong seemed to be awakening so I wave my hand to him. However, he seemed like not knowing about my existence. I think he must be dreaming.

I decided to boil water for them since I have nothing to do. When I was in the kitchen, suddenly I heard someone knocking on the door. I jumped up which scared me. I turned my body and trace the person. I saw a yellow jacket and I recognised it at once, it was Voon Wai.

I looked at my watch, 9am. At last, someone woke up after me. After that, I went to my own room. Everyone started to wake up. Soon Foo said he heard me entering the room for a few times. Haha… I disturbed his sleep. Swee Luo actually saw me but she was half asleep. Shaw Team said that she knew I went out.

I asked Soon Foo, “What do we have for breakfast?” He replied, “Just make the Maggie mee since I brought it.” I went to do tea and Maggie mee for six of us. Yen Kee suggested that we could fry egg using the butter because there is no oil. Instead Yen Kee frying the eggs, Voon Wai did it for us. His cooking skill is not bad until Wai Leong, Soon Foo, Yen Kee and Swee Luo ordered more than 2 eggs.

After having breakfast, we played cards. Shaw Team won a few games and we think she has the luck. Then, all of us went to Casino at 12.30pm except Wai Leong. They said that they want to claim money from Uncle Lim. Haha…

When I entered the entrance, the guard did not check me. I think this was because of Soon Foo who looked older like a father. Haha… Choong Fai was sitting at one of the table. I heard that he lost yesterday and wish to take back his own money today. I told Shaw Team to stand beside to give him some luck so it helped.

Around 2pm, Lionel, Kwong Yeow, Soon Foo, Swee Luo, Shaw Team, Yen Kee and I had lunch at McDonald. The price of the food is charged differently. After eating, Shaw Team, Yen Kee and Kwong Yeow decided to play as a team in the Casino. They chose a game which is quite easy to play. It just made a guess whether it is banker or player wins. You could even bet whether there is tie. I watched them playing and started to make some guesses. I didn’t know that my 6^th sense was accurate.

They won total of RM135 after playing an hour. William joined us but he lost all. He seemed to look very down. I heard that Voon Wai won about RM300.

After taking bath, I went to join them watching badminton. After watching, we left the apartment and followed Soon Foo's car.

We (me, SL, YK, Lionel n SF) hang out first as the mist covered the entire road so it would be dangerous for a driver until 7.30pm.

We had dinner together at Island Café, Kuchai Lama. Swee Luo started to recall our memory. Last time, I went tuition with Swee Luo in Form 3. The tuition classes were conducted by Swee Luo’s uncle. Some memories are as follows. Choon Hoong stepped on Swee Luo’s leg purposely but it turned out to be Swee Luo’s uncle. Haha… When we were given a task to do, Swee Luo and I definitely started writing by using mouth. Haha… I remembered that the teacher gave up and just let us making the noise. Haha…

Pulau Tioman Trip

24^th June – 27^th June 2009

First day

I was very excited about my trip to Pulau Tioman with my college mates. So, the day had come. I was the first to arrive at the Puduraya Station. Then, Pei Thieng, Jenny and Kenzy saw me sitting on the bench. They could not recognize my face as I had a hair cut and was wearing a cap. They said that I looked like a young kid. Haha… Then, Shirley and her boy friend, Roy gathered with us. After awhile, Wan Ling, Yin Nee, Siew Han and Kuh Loong came from Wai Kwan’s birthday.

Our bus started leaving from KL at 11.30pm. I sat with Jenny. Leaving Kuh Loong sat with Yin Nee. Hehe… Everyone was happy and excited and we could not wait to be at Pulau Tioman.

Second day

We reached Mersing at 5am. The sky was dark and the atmosphere was quiet. All of us had breakfast at the Mamak. There were several ‘ang mo’ in the shop. I assumed that they would be going to Pulau Tioman too.

(Arrived at Mersing)

After having breakfast, they went to buy some mineral waters at 7-eleven. I didn’t join them because the hotel should have provided for us. Last time, when I went to Pulau Lang Tengah, I bought the mineral water just like them but then the hotel actually was provided to us. Thus, it was heavy to carry such a big bottle.

After that, we went to the port. Siew Han and Wan Ling collected the ferry tickets from the tour agency before we could onboard the ferry. While waiting, Pei Thieng, Jenny and Yin Nee played one of the kids’ favourite. Monica and her boy friend, Calvan joined us at the port. Her boy friend looked mature. I heard that he is 28 years old.

(At the port)

The ferry started leaving from the port at 8am and reached the Sun Beach Resort at 9.30am. I took this opportunity to catch my sleep in the ferry as I didn’t sleep well in the bus. (Yawning all the time)

When we reached the place, a guy from the Sun Beach Resort guided us and brought a trolley for us to put our luggage. The sea water was crystal clear. I could see fishes swimming here and there. The colour of the sand was brown. It was different from Pulau Lang Tengah.

The place was like Malay kampong. Yin Nee, Wan Ling, Siew Han and I shared a room while Kuh Loong, Kenzy, Pei Thieng and Jenny shared a room next to us. For the other couples, they had their own rooms. There were two queen beds. No tv and cupboard. If compared with Pulau Lang Tengah resort, the size of the room is bigger.

We quickly changed our clothes to swim suit as we could not wait any longer to try the beach. Siew Han and Wan Ling were the sexy girls. They wore bikini. Kuh Loong and Kenzy suggested that we played beach volleyball. I don’t know this game much. Actually, I dislike playing volleyball as it hurt my hands. Anyway, playing with friends would have different feelings. Kuh Loong, Kenzy, Pei Thieng and Jenny knew the game. The rest of us were just a beginner. We practised the skills of catching the ball by making a big circle. Siew Han was fast learner as she started to love the game. Oh… Monica and Calvan did not join us. Shirley and Roy joined us later. Roy was a good player. I heard that he played for school team. Then, we started to play as teams. Jenny, Siew Han, Wan Ling, Roy and I were in a team. Although I was in the playing field, Roy always caught the balls and I just avoided the balls.

After that, Kenzy suggested to change the game to ‘Monkeys catch the ball’. He picked me and Kuh Loong as the monkeys. Luckily, I managed to catch a ball. As we playing, Yin Nee and Siew Han became the monkeys. There was an incident. Yin Nee’s nose was hit by Siew Han’s shoulder while catching the ball. Yin Nee’s nose became blue red. She felt like a bone was cracked. We tried to calm her down. Kenzy brought some ice. Jenny was giving a helping hand.

The rest of us went swimming. While swimming, Kenzy told us that he saw a few of fishes in somewhere. I forgot to bring my goggles. Haiz… Without the goggles, I could not see clearly in the water. Luckily, Pei Thieng lent me her goggles for temporary. There were many huge stones and a lot of oysters on it. Stepping on the oyster, it hurt my legs. I got a few scratches.

At 2pm, we took a bath and decided to have lunch at the stalls nearby. We chose the last stall. However, their service was very poor. They don’t even take orders from us and just ignored us. So, we moved to another stall. I noticed that there were several mistakes on their menu. The price was the same as KL. I ordered Nasi Paptrik and Air Bendung. Nasi Ayam Goreng was not enough for Kenzy so he ate King Size Burger. Monica and her boy friend joined us for lunch.

After having lunch, Kuh Loong, Jenny, Pei Thieng, Wan Ling, Yin Nee and I played a game called ‘Mafia’. This game was introduced by Kenzy. In order to win this game, you have to be a good liar and debater. At first, I remained quiet and they started to ‘shoot’ me saying that I’m the Mafia. I also convinced them to trust me as an innocent. I played a few roles as spy, citizen and Mafia. However, I didn’t have a chance to be a doctor. But, when I received a card as a doctor for the last game, I went to save others and ended up ‘being killed’. Haha… When Jenny and Kuh Loong played as a Mafia, we didn’t expect they were. Yin Nee was also good in acting. Pei Thieng always asked, “Are you the Mafia?” “Who do you suspect the Mafia is?” Pei Thieng did not play a Mafia role all the time.

The next activity is to play volleyball with Monica and Calvan at 6pm. I didn’t join them this time as my right hand was hurt. I just watched their game.

Our dinner started at 7pm in the canteen. Our night activity was to play a few games. It’s testing your memory. Pei Thieng was good in this. Kenzy played until gave up as Pei Thieng always won him. Kuh Loong was bad in pronouncing the name in Malay such as Nasi Pattaya to Nati Pattaya, Roti Planta to Rosi Planta. All of us laughed like mad. Later, a guide told us to rent the equipment today as we would go snorkeling early in the morning. We stopped the game temporary and went to rent the equipments. The rental of equipments is RM18 for a day.

Siew Han, Monica, Calvan and I were ready at the canteen. I filled up my waterbottle while Siew Han watching the view outside to know where did the karaoke come from. Suddenly, I heard Siew Han’s screaming. An insert sting her hand. Kuh Loong and Yin Nee brought her to see doctor immediately.

Siew Han was given painkiller. Hopefully she would not get any fever on the next day. We continued our games. This time the loser needs to drink beer. We played several games such as 007, numberings, etc until 11pm.

Third day

Luckily, Siew Han did not have any fever. We had a breakfast before departing. A boat took us to another island at 8am. I heard that it took an hour to reach the place. When we reached the place, Kenzy helped me to adjust my goggles. Last time, Mei Yee helped me to do it when I was in Pulau Lang Tengah. There were different kinds of fish such as Nemo. The sea corals were beautiful.

Next stop was at Marine Park. I thought we could see all kind of fish without snorkeling. Actually we had to and I was already tired. We were playing a fool like jumping into the water except Shirley. She was hanging around.

(Marine Park)

After that, we took a bath as we would be going to Duty Free Shop. To my disappointment, there was only one shop and they sold two brands of chocolates. Since I came here all the way, I decided to buy those two brands, Daim and Ferore Roche. The prices of the wines, beers and cigarette were cheaper but it’s not suitable for me.

When we were on the boat, I chat with Roy for awhile. Shirley was tired and sleeping beside him. Roy has been studying in TARC for diploma. Now, he is studying Engineering in UTAR in the fourth year. I guess he is older than me 2 years. I realized that he skip classes for this trip. He told me that he went to Pulau Redang for 3 times. Shirley was afraid to go into water so that’s why she did not join us. He also told me that he went Genting with his friend to watch gambling for the whole day without sleeping. However, on the next day, they were sleepy in class. Wow… I can’t believe it. While chatting, I heard Kuh Loong singing. The song went like this. “I believe I can fly, I believe I can through the sky” Jenny and I laughed at him.

Once we reached the resort, we had a bath. Kuh Loong wanted to play volleyball. Monica, Siew Han, Jenny, Yin Nee, Pei Thieng and I went to have ice-kacang instead. Pei Thieng was the only person to join Kuh Loong. I accompanied Yin Nee and Jenny to buy souvenirs. I found out that those souvenirs were not any special. It’s just that the thing is made by them. Thus, it’s expensive. I prefer giving chocolate to friends is better.

All of us joined the guys playing football, traffic light game, and river and sea games except Wan Ling and Calvan who was sleeping. Our barbeque started at 7pm. Yin Nee, Kuh Loong and I were the last to arrive the place. I took my favourite vegetable which was salad. I sat between Jenny and Roy. Roy told me that salad is also his favourite but this taste of salad was worse. Oh..no.. Yes, he was right. The taste of salad was salty. I regretted to take a lot of salad. They were barbequed the sausages, kampong fish and ‘sotong' for us. Roy warned us that the taste of jelly was not good. Haha...

After eating, we shared stories and jokes. Siew Han, Monica, Wan Ling and Kenzy used wrong words. Kuh Loong was the first to do this and his disease spread to others. I tried the wine. After drinking, you would feel hot. I saw Shirley’s face turned red and was sleepy. Roy and Shirley went back to their room. Only left 10 of us staying there. Calvan ordered two jar of beer. A bartender was a ‘ah kua’ named Koko served us. A Malay worker came to join them playing games. Jenny and I decided to go back and sleep.

When Wan Ling, Siew Han and Yin Nee came back, Monica and Calvan visited us. I saw Calvan was drunk and acted like a kid. Haha… Monica kept persuading him to go back to room.

Fourth day

I packed everything in the morning. We had our breakfast before leaving. The ferry arrived at 9am. Monica and Calvan did not join us since they were going back by car.

(Forming the words-Sun Beach)

When we reached the port, Siew Han was the first to meet Phoebe. It was wonderful to see her on time. Phoebe would be going to US in July. I’m going to miss her. We had lunch in a restaurant and ordered wine prawns, ‘yau mug’, ‘tau fu’, asam fish and pork meat. The cost was RM238.

There were a few Pakistanis and Kuh Loong told us that they have a discussion in the toilet so he assumed they would take action anytime. We just laughed at his imagination. Kenzy always make fun of Kuh Loong. Siew Han always pointed out Kuh Loong’s mistakes. We collected and made a list of his mistakes. Pity him… Hehe…

(A list of Koh Lung's language)

When the bus reached the station, it was time to say ‘goodbye’ to each other. I knew that we planned to watch ‘Transformer’ on Monday so we would be seeing each other again. Haha…