irony

When I was young, I hated going to the hospital though I wanted to be a doctor before. Other than the fact that visiting people in the hospital took a long time, I hated the smell of medicine in the hospital. The smell that greets you once you step into the hospital. And now, look at me, I am working in a hospital and in a place surrounded by medicines and I am loving it. How ironic...

sob..gimme back my beauty sleep

Jumped out of the bed when a call came in. An unknown number. I picked it up groggily, preparing to hang up if the caller was talking shit. The background was soo noisy and I thought something was amiss. The caller confirmed my identity and the next sentence sent blood pumping to my brain started ticking it.

"You Chun Jie kan. You have on-call la hari ini." HUH?! WTH!! My head and heart pumping at very fast speed. Totally forgotten my BM.

"On-call? Where?"

"A&E"

"Huh?! 8-5 or 5-10?" Raking my brain, going through over and over again the image of the timetable reconfirming my on-calls on the weekends are just 5-10 and on the 1st week and the last week of the month.

"8-5"

"Huh!?"

"Your name is Chun, right? C-H-O-O-N."

Something flashed through and jolted my memory, right..the typo. No one is Choon, it is either Chun or Chooi. So, let's see which name is nearer. It's so obvious that it's Chooi and the only similarity is the pronunciation.

"That's not me. I am C-H-U-N. But let me confirm again, there may be some exchanges (*and I was deadly sure there was none*)"

After looking at the timetable, I breathed out in a relief.

"Erm..that's not me. I think it's Chooi. There are only 2 weekend on-calls for the PRP each month, right? Mine are on the 1st and the last week of the month. 7th and 28th of November 5-10pm. So, it must be someone else."

"Oh ok. thanks"

Walao!! There went my beauty sleep. It was only 8.15am for god's sake! I slept at 1.30am this morning ar, please give me a break. I am lacking sleep for the whole week and now THIS. Really want to cry. Lying on the bed, heart thumping REAL fast and it sent my mind thinking why there are such people?! Not the caller. But the CHOON. Please la..can't you just ask if you are not sure and be alert of your surroundings? It's so obvious it's a typo. You should check if your name appears twice in the timetable during the weekends, if it does not, then ask. Every PRP has 2 weekend on-calls and 1 weekday on-call. You should have known since you are here longer than I am. Geram ar... Ask if you don't know or if you are not sure and don't just think of ways to get away from something or "eat snake". People's lives at stake here, k! I don't want to say any more than I should.. you know what you are doing. Sigh~hope I can sleep now..

work

I have been at work for 2 weeks and a half now. For now, I quite enjoy my job cos I am attached to manufacturing department which is what the seniors labelled as honeymoon. It is indeed Hawaii. Lol.. First 2 weeks, I was at the IV admixture where I got to go into the clean room to prepare IV drips. It was fun and something new but too bad it was only for 2 weeks. Well, I guess if it has been long, I would hate it, wouldn't I? The job there was practically about 3-4 hours. From 8-11am, we just waited for the prescriptions from the wards and prepared the NS, antibiotics etc to be brought into the clean room. Then we went in at 11am and we would normally come out around 2-3pm depending on the workload and after that...we would be FREE. My favourite was injecting antibiotics into the NS and the least favourite would be APS indents which required us to prepare the DDs in 50 ml syringes and the indent was normally 50 syringes and above. Imagine that we have to extract the DD and inject into NS and then extract them into 50 ml syringes and have to get rid of the bubbles. Sien.. After doing my part, I would go to the next room to check on the TPN preparations. Kaypo ma..and learned how to get rid of the bubbles for the adult TPN bag which is very very difficult. I am doomed as I will be alone in June next year for a week in TPN and I will have to get rid of the bubbles by myself and do all the calculations by myself..dangz! The longest time taken to rid the bubbles was 3hours and the shortest 15mins. DIE!!

Then, now I am in the non-sterile division which requires me to prepare creams, lotions etc and also pack the things indented by the wards. It was fun for the first few days now. I wonder how would I feel when I am alone next week. The work time is almost the same. Indents will only come around 8.30am and the packing normally ends around 10am depending on the days of the week-busiest would be Monday and Wednesday. And by 10am, the pharmacist assistants would ask us to makan and minum till 11am, then if there are something to pack, we would help, if there's nothing, goyang kaki lor..normally I would take use this time to go visit other departments and learn new things just to be prepared and my favourite spot will be either the IV admixture or the TDM room where I can learn to run the machine, just in case someone is dying on PCM poisoning when I am on-call.

Today, my first lunch call at the OPD from 12-2pm. It was fun doing fillings. Being my first time, I was a bit nervous and I couldn't even find the drugs but the assistants and pharmacists were really helpful and kind, they would show me where the drugs were located. Trust me, you wouldn't want to look for them yourself if it was your 1st time. The drug locations are weird..not in alphabetically order but in categories, not to mention that the doctors' writings are illegible and UGLY. Headache ar.. especially when there are lots of patients waiting, everyone is running around and shouting for numbers. There was once my senior from UKM, Chang Heng looked for a prescription as the patient's number was called and it was in my hand that time, luckily I have finished the filling and after that every time I saw him walk towards my bench, I would think the prescription he wanted was in my hand. LOL..

Actually, I am quite tired and sleepy now as I have been standing in OPD and walking around looking for drugs. And my feet are hurting even just for that 2 hours. Now, I understand why Lay Chai and Chee Hua are tired and sleep very early daily. Well, my turn's next.

back!

After two weeks of no internet and computer, at last I am back. Well, not that I have internet now..I am stealing my neighbour's line...hush hush. Just bought a laptop yesterday-Acer Aspire 4736. All thanks to Izzat and Azlan. Azlan did a great job as a bodyguard while Izzat a good driver. Hehe.. Really thanks to Izzat for accompanying me to Landmark Mall two weeks in a row for looking for the most suitable laptop for the demanding me. Well, after going through the leaflets, I thought I might settle for Toshiba or Compaq but who knew I would settle for Acer. I felt like I was tricked into buying the laptop. The salesman told me repeatedly that it had 2Gb RAM in it when I asked him a few times just for confirmation. But when I came back, I checked the system and it showed only 9xxMb. I was surprised and I remembered quite vividly that the salesman kept asking me if I wanted to upgrade to 3Gb and in return I said 2Gb was enough (who would want to upgrade there at RM90 when another shop was offering RM60/gb?). I had my witnesses. I called the shop this morning to confirm and the supervisor told me that mine was 1Gb as it was free dos. KANASAI. He didn't tell me properly before. And now, I had to settle for the lesser. He told me that I could refund the whole laptop if I wanted to. I was expecting something like free upgrading. So sad and mad ar..

Well, that's not all. I was stood up again. Why must it be me all the time!? The culprit was Tian Sung. He said he wanted to come to City Square to sing K with his friend and in the end he didn't turn up. He said he would call when he reached the custom around 12pm. So, I thought I didn't want to be late and went out at 11am as I had to drive to HSA and take bus from there. I called and sms-ed him till 3pm only did he tell me that the plan was cancelled and he was singing K in S'pore as he was lazy to come to JB. I am stupid and gullible. But luckily before I went out, Izzat called and said he wanted to go to CS and asked if I wanted to go too.. LOL.. He is godsend. Well, unsurprisingly, Tian Sung did not feel remorse at all but he was kind enough to promise me a meal and karaoke session next time we meet. I am thinking of something more expensive like something branded.. LOL.. sigh~I thought I could show him that I have really slimmed down and he could stop saying me fat cos the next time we meet, I might have grown fat, perhaps fatter than before all thanks to the OILY and EXTRA HUGE portion Malay food here. Very unhealthy..but not much choice.

posted to johore

It was what I wanted. Note the past-tense. But now I kinda regret for following the playful part of me. Work hasn't started and problems are already surfacing. First, it was such a short notice from the government when we have to report to work, like 2 days before the day to report only we know where we are posted. Lame. Then, now that I know where I am posted, I don't have own transport to get to work. My mom doesn't allow me to drive the car to Johore where the debate about it always leads to tears and raised voice. Isn't it funny, that I have to pay for the car but I don't get to use it?! Well, everyone has a car. Sigh~what am I gonna do? Next, where shall I stay? If I choose to stay near the hospital, I heard that the rent is high and the access to public transportation is not easy. If I choose to stay further away, the access to public transportation is easy but it's going to be DAMN jammed in the morning. Plus, after such a long time stayign at home, I feel reluctant to leave again, it just feels like when I was in Form1. Sigh~have I made the wrong choice again? Well, let's hope that everything will fall into a piece when I get there.

yuan hui's wedding

It's time to update after such a long time.. LOL.. Well, I just got back from Johore attending Yuan Hui's wedding at Kluang. It was tiring but worthwhile. The trip was so-called 2 days 3 nights where I spent 2 nights on the bus. VERY VERY rush. Went there on Friday night, shopped at Johore City Square on Saturday, attended wedding on Sunday afternoon and back to Penang on Sunday night.. a non-stop trip. It was quite enjoyable except for SG being so near yet so far. It looked like it was touchable as I stood at the window in City Square looking at the overhead bridge connecting the immigration. Too bad..

I was touched looking at my dear friend Yuan Hui getting married. Almost to tears when I saw her-me the crybaby. To me, so far, hers has been a great and almost perfect wedding. Her wedding album is lovely with perfect pictures-the best I have seen so far, very dreamy (mong huan) like. And her husband is good looking plus rich and damn good to her.. and her wedding was great as well! To me, it was just like a dream come true. Perfect album, perfect wedding and the most important of all, the perfect Mr. Right!!!! 7 years of courtship, I doubt mine can last that long.

I am sooo happy for you, my dear!! Muacks~!! Wish you a happy marriage! Later, share with me your secrets, k! On how to get the perfect guy and also live with your in-laws.. LOL

another eventful weekend

Just came back from KL. I thought it was going to be a disappointment when Vishnu totally forgotten about me going down and made plans with his cousins, and I almost planned to come back on Saturday but luckily it turned out to be the other way round. VERY pissed off with Vishnu though, a total jerk. Never knew how I could believe him over and over again. Frustratingly, he told me he would cancel his plan and meet up with me and that his cousins were going to twist his balls and he couldn't afford to lose them. Well, I was surprised that he could afford to lose me instead of them. He is definitely a sucker! I don't know how I could let him stood me up again and again. Too naive and stupid kua. A bit sad, but anyway, I learned a lesson at least, not to trust people so much.

I managed to reach UKM in time after a long stop at Tapah as my bro's car almost burned. Lol.. I was fined RM20 for returning the robe late. Expected. But something else happened. When I reached the treasurer counter, I found 2 RM50 notes folded neatly together by my feet. At first, I thought it was mine but after some ransacking through my mind, it was not mine cos I wouldn't have folded it sooo nice and I haven't even taken any money out yet. So, I was in a dilemma whether to take it or pass it to the person behind the counter. For about 1 full minute, I stood there while waiting for him to print the receipt, I weighed the pro and cons. And in the end, I asked the person behind the counter to pass it to the owner if he/she ever came to look for it. My brother said I was very stupid as we could have it shared. My mom too commented the same thing as I didn't know who the owner was, I could have taken it cos the person behind the counter would have kept it into his pocket. And I said he might not do that cos it was fasting month and if he really took the money then he would be sinning. And again, what if the owner had only RM150 and he/she had used RM50 and had only RM100 left and that was the RM100 left..then he/she would have to starve. That would be bad. My dad said if I felt fine about what I did, then it was ok as long as I thought what I did was good, then I should carry on or else I would feel guilty about it. I was thinking I didn't take this RM100, I might later get RM1000 instead or something good in return. And my brother said it was a total bullshit. So, have I done a GOOD thing? Or something STUPID? Out of 10 people, about 1-2 people praised what I did.

After the incident, I realized that I was short of cash cos I brought quite little to KL. Lol.. But luckily, my brother borrowed me his RM100 and kept nagging me that if I had taken the RM100, I wouldn't have that problem. Well, what has been done cannot be undone. As long as I feel good about it and think that I am right, then it's ok.

Even though, I didn't get to carry on with my initial plan, I still had a great weekend as Jason invited me to join him and his coursemates for ice-skating. But sadly, there was an ice hockey game and so no ice-skating. So we ended up playing 2 games of snooker and scaring ourselves with stupid Final Destination 4. Lol.. It was really a stupid movie full of gory scenes where flesh and blood were everywhere and I thought I saw a liver. It was not as scary as Final Destination 3 though and I heard that the first was the scariest. I don't know..Final Destination 4 is not recommended by me. It was fun going out with them, I would love to go out with them again.

Then, that night after the outing, I had supper with my juniors from 12am till 4am. It was more of standing than sitting as it suddenly rained very heavily at around 1.30am and we had to pay and take shelter at the corridor below Plaza Prima. It was fun as we gossiped a lot about everyone we knew or everyone that has gossips to be gossiped about, the same old thing. We were never tired of repeating the same old thing. I had fun and wished I could stay longer.

I reached home in the evening. And after watching the tv, I logged into Maple. And guessed what.. Holy actually brought me to kill the other players in the game. He released Balrog at Kerning City where a lot of noobs gathered for party quest. I was quite sad and mad about it. How could he do that? They played so hard to reach that level and he just had them killed for fun and experience deducted. I was quite surprised as I thought he was going to released some low-level monsters but who knew it was Balrog. At that moment, I doubted it was him. Sigh~My good deed on Friday was destroyed. Lol..

i sounded old

Well, someone commented that. Where? In MapleStory. Yup the kiddie online game I play. This is the first time I got such comment from a kid, erm...a 16-year-old. Lol.. For the past two months I was in the game day and night-about 90% of my waking hour, I notice that the game was not only for kids but also adults like me and some even older than me. Ok, so I have befriended some 49-year-old English male back in Rappelz but that was different, it was 3-D and like what Gaik Hi said, the female chars are all boing-boing so meeting older people like him was fine. Not I mean that Maple is only for kids. It's fun though with no boing-boing and it's 2-D. Well, I am not writing about me having anything against adults playing kiddie game. In fact, it's a great stress reliever. You won't believe how many adults from various professions I have befriended. And I am glad I am in the guild that is full of my clique. What I want to blog about is the comment that set my dusty and rusty thinking machine moving.

There is a girl called MrMaxsinx in the alliance who plays her brother's male character. She asked about my age quite a few times when she got to know that my Maple dear was just 14 years old. Yup, I am dating a 14-year-old boy in the game. And I am actually having fun and getting married soon. Gratz me! Lol.. Anyway, I asked her why she was so eager to know and she said it was because I sounded old. In what sense? The way I talked. Lol.. I was surprised! I thought I have disguised myself well enough. Erm.. Not that I need any disguise at all, I am a kid myself, though not in the appearance. And that set my brain cell working, me sound old!? Now, I feel old. I told my guildmaster, Ion, about it and he said he thought I was a 16-year-old when he first talked to me and thus I have succeeded in blending myself into Maple. But now, where did I do wrong? Hmm.. am I not kiddie enough? Who knows..well, I guess I have to observe more and blend in.

I told Nirvana about it, another guildmate of mine. And he said I shouldn't care about what she commented. Cos if I felt old now, he would be ancient. I haven't even started working, getting married, practically my life has not even started and I already felt old. Lol.. He said perhaps she could not differentiate between maturity and old or something like that. He even said that I should feel young by heart and mind in order to be young. Appearance is not everything. But as time goes by, as we grow older, we are exposed to the world's bad influence(or something negative, I can't remember what he said) and cynicism, we change and the way of our thinking changes too. He also said something about staying pure and we would be young but the most important thing is we must believe and feel young by heart and mind. I totally agree with him. There was a statistic saying that the number of old people who thought they were younger than their age, was higher than the young people who thought they were young. Which means young people feel old and old people feel young. Lol.. And those old people live longer. Sigh~I must be optimistic!!

i want that moon chair

Sob~almost cried out just now. I went into the room with my heart threatening to break through my ribcage. I was the last one to get in. And I was kicked out at the second question!? WTF~ I thought only the West Malaysia is 4/5-covered by the rain forest and Peninsular Malaysia is 3/4 or 2/3 covered! Yiiii~ I want that moon chair..it looks tooo nice and it's limited...Sad~cos I was the last one to get in.. and I bet I was the oldest in the room with the rusted knowledge of mine, I challenged the questions with shaky fingers and I lost.

So, I guess most of you have no idea what I am talking about. It's a Merdeka event in Maple called 'Spot The Tunku'. I logged in rather late about 1.20pm and the event started at 1pm. And miraculously I got into the room as the final participant. In order to get into the room, one must answer the question posted by the Gamemaster(GM) at a certain spot. It was 'What's MY national anthem name?' There were so many spammers around spamming answers to mess our mind. Some even poisoned the place around the GM in order to hide the question or block players to get in. Well, I found the real Tunku and tried. I tried NEGARAKU, NEGARA-KU, negaraku, negara-ku, Negaraku, Negara-ku etc etc. I even googled. And when the GM announced there was only one spot left, I found the answer- Negara Ku. And I was IN!!!! There were 2 spots X(wrong) and O(right). First question-national flag has 14 horizontal stripes; 15 pointed-tip gold star and a crescent in a square blue box on the top left. X or O? The answer was X and I got it correct easily. And then the second question-4/5 of Peninsular Malaysia is covered by rain forest. X or O? So? X or O? Based only long-forgotten and buried knowledge at the back of my brain, I answered X! Cos I thought only West Malaysia was 4/5 covered and Peninsular Malaysia was 2/3 or 3/4 covered. And I was kicked out cos O was the right one. By the 2nd question, most of us were kicked out and only 2 left. And the event ended shortly after that. Sigh~this just shows that my brain is eroding and I should get my ass of this chair and start studying.

I was very very sad..cos it was sooo hard to get in and I happened to be the last one to get in. And who knew I screwed up at the 2nd question. Sob~ I complained to my guildmaster Ion and he said the GM probably failed his Geography and so he failed us too.. Uwuah~ I want that damn MOON CHAIR~

my graduation

At last, it's here! After 4 years of bertungkus-lumus, I finally graduated! Yahoo~I really graduated dengan bersusah-payah. 4 years is an understatement, it should be 18 years instead. Lol.. The convocation was fun and tiring and sweaty as well except for the speech and preaching on the stage. It started at 7.30am in the morning till 12pm. The preachings were boring and I kinda fell asleep in the middle of the ceremony. It was unbearable. But accepting the fake cert from the Negri Sembilan sultan, it's actually the cert cover, was an honour! My first time seeing him and I heard that he only came for the first session which was mine. He even congratulated me! Walao..haha..

unforgettable sunday trip

My ex-housemates and I went to KL to get our heavy and ugly convocation robe last Sunday. I have been dreaming of going to and fro KL in a day of 8 hours traveling and well, I got that last Sunday and it has been an unforgettable one. Quite eventful. There were 5 of us, me, Chin Meng, Yee Chiun, Sok Ching and Ping Meng. On the way there, nothing much happened, we just did the usual when girls meet girls-gossips. Lol.. When we reached Bangi in 4 hours, a record time, though we got lost and somehow reached Bangi just in time before the counter closed at 12pm, the sun was up there cooking our hair making way to our brain. And looking at the queue made me want to turn back but phew~ now we are under Pharmacy Faculty so Yee Chiun and I got to get our robe upstairs away from the scorching sun. Pity the others for standing under the sun for at least 15 minutes...Malaysia system. So the total of robes we got we a whooping 13 for 5 of us! Helping the others to get. Yee Chiun had the most-4 including her own. The car boot was packed with the robes.

After getting the robes and catching up with some friends, we headed to Setapak for lunch as Sok Ching had to pass something to her junior. This is where it all started. Yee Chiun ordered a fish and chip at Little Tree and it came 30minutes later and her stomach had been drumming and growling since we left UKM. Hers came when we all finished ours. We did complain and ask for it a few times and pity the waiter apologizing profusely as there was only a chef. There was a point, where Yee Chiun showed her dark face to us and clenched her fists dramatically and the waiter passed by and saw it. And guess what happened in the end. We got a 20% discount! Haha.. Yee Chiun said she should have overdone it like flipping the table over. Lol..

On the way back, we stopped by a restroom at the roadside before Tapah. There, Yee Chiun found a wallet in a toilet cubicle. Wow~that was the 3rd wallet I found together with her in 4 years. Lol.. It belonged to a Malay girl who is a prebet at Taiping military camp..airbase I think. There was no contact number except for the camp number and about RM200 in there and also the military ID. So, we called the number and tried to contact her but the person in charge said that they did not have her contact number and asked Yee Chiun to post the wallet back to the camp. There was a Malay man offering to send the wallet to the camp as he was on his way to Taiping. But there was about RM200 in there so we declined his offer. Once we got into the car, the owner called Yee Chiun and asked her whereabouts and told us her bus just passed Gopeng exit. And we were not there yet and said would post the wallet by PosLaju the next day. She then texted to tell us she just passed Ipoh Utara Tol and 5minutes later we passed by the tol. And we all started to watch out for Konsortium bus to Taiping. Konsortium bus is famous for their speed but luckily we passed by the Taiping bus when we were in the tunnel. We told the girl to tell the driver to stop at the Sg. Perak resthouse but it was either she was too shy to tell the driver or the bus driver refused to, the bus stopped outside the resthouse at the highway. And we had to walk out all the way to the bus. The bus driver was sooo impatient, seeing that we were already reaching the bus, he started to drive away. The girl came down when we reached, she didn't even thought of coming down and meeting us halfway. And then she took out Rm50 to give us. I shooed her away. We are not beggars k. We are just doing our job.

Well, that was it. The end. Lol..

R.I.P. Yasmin Ahmad

We should mourn or at least pray for her passing on 25th July 2009 (51 years old). Yasmin Ahmad was a critically-acclaimed multi-award winning film director, writer and scriptwriter. Her productions were such as Sepet, Gubra and the ever famous Petronas Merdeka advertisements we all used to. Not only was she famous in Malaysia, she was also famous in Singapore. Her latest creations Family(2008) and Funeral (2009) were for the Singaporean Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports. I just love her Sepet and Gubra. Both made me cry sooo hard. They were both about how a chinese guy and a malay girl fell in love with each other. Practicaly all her movies and ads crossed cross-cultural barriers. Sepet is the 1st movie and followed by Gubra. There was an amusing scene in Sepet where Orked (Sharifah Amani) met Jason (Choo Seong Ng) in a chinese kopitiam and there was a stall selling chicken rice and char siu, and guess what was Orked's reaction, as a Malay, as she walked pass the char siu. She actually inhaled a whole gulp of char siu air and exclaimed something like "whoa..wo xi huan!" Lol.. They both are a must-watch and cried about. Lol.. Sigh~ we have definitely lost a great talent, one that could hold us, Malaysians consisting of different cultures and races. My deepest condolences to Yasmin Ahmad's family. Indeed, God loves her more. May you rest in peace. You will always be remembered. Life is really too short to hold back.

Fellow director Othman Hafsham, when met at the funeral, was effusive in his praise for Yasmin.
“She is a director who speaks her mind and her films reflect this,” he said.

-quoted from Farewell to Yasmin Ahmad-

But more importantly, she turned her views into actions. So we would, I imagine.

-quoted from Yasmin Ahmad -

cambodia trip!!

DAY 1

Once I got down from the plane and stepped out of the airport, I had a great urge to turn back and fly back to Malaysia and into the sanctuary of my room. The only proper tar road there was was the main road in the pekan, the rest were all tanah merah. Once there was a great wind, habesla mata, mulut, hidung and rambut and of course your skin. Even the school ground was tanah merah and I could see the kids running barefoot. Not only that, they even played in the BIG drain by the roadside barefoot and some bogel.. I kept wondering if I could stand the 6 days in Cambodia, well, I have made it, haven't I? We reached Siem Reap at about 8am in the morning and then checked in at Palm Garden Lodge, the place we were staying for 4 days. The people there were very friendly and nice. Phew~they can speak English, though really broken. We then, booked their mini van to bring us around for 3 days, it cost around USD85 after much bargaining from the starting price of USD100. The ticket to all the temples in Siem Reap was USD40/3 days. If you are rich enough, you can hire a tour guide which will make your trip more enjoyable, about USD25/day. Well, let the pictures do the talking, shall we?

Siem Reap International Airport which looks like Rasa Sayang Hotel..

Palm Garden Lodge

1st stop- entrance to Angkor Wat (Hinduism)

Angkor Wat, rainy road which rained whenever we passed by..

2nd stop-South Gate of Angkor Thom. Notice the Buddha face? (Buddhism)

Bayon where there are Buddha faces everywhere (Buddhism)

Baphuan-under renovation (Hinduism)

Terrace of Elephants-all elephant carvings (Buddhism)

entrance to Royal Palace

Phimeanakas with scary stairs 80 degrees (Hinduism)

view from phimeanakas

Sras Srei-bathing pools for the king and his concubines (the big one at the back is for his concubines and the smaller one here is for the king)

Leper King at Terrace of the Leper King (Buddhism)

Phnom Bakheng-we had to climb up ourselves as the elephant ride cost USD20/person (Hinduism)

at last, we have reached the top

the 80 degrees stairs with slim and high steps

the view from top, worth the climb. ah..the hot air balloon, i sooo wished to ride it, USD15/person

ta-da, windy day and quite cloudy due to the rain so no sunset to see

Pub Street-dinner time..hungry..

local dishes, right-chicken amok, left-potato omelette at Khmer Kitchen Restaurant. Thumbs up

DAY 2

We planned to watch sunrise at Angkor Wat so we woke up very very very early as in 4.30am +7GMT to get to Angkor Wat just in time to see the cloud clouding the sun. Sigh~too bad for us. But we ended up taking lots of picture of Angkor Wat and its famous reflection.

morning at Angkor Wat

the famous reflection, don't mind the dirt on the pond

local breakfast-beef mihun

Ta Prohm-famous for HUGE trees growing on the temple. Tomb Raider was shot here (Buddhism)

now, i look mini..lol..

HUGE and complicated

the kids chasing us to sell the bracelets 10 for USD1. i really pity them..feel soo lucky i am in Malaysia

Banteay Srey-citadel of the woman (Hinduism)


carving depicting the story of a war between 2 brothers

East Mebon (Hinduism)

entrance to Ta Som (Buddhist)

Ta Som

tuk-tuk in the rain

entrance to Preah Khan

Preah Khan (Buddhist)

My friends somehow found out that it was my birthday and nothing much happened, just wishes and laughters. Lol..But it was fun and special for celebrating my birthday in Cambodia.

fresh spring roll with peanut sauce

Khmer curry which reminds me of Penang otak-otak. my friend said it tasted like thai curry

fried mekong fish (catfish) with pineapple. after the whole trip, my conclusion is pineapple is cheap there..

fried Khmer spices

traditional Khmer pumpkin desert, tasted like bobo chacha

night market

open air night market..cheap if you consider USD1 is cheap

After two days of temple visiting, I wanted to scream for a break. Lol..It was soo tiring, climbing all those stairs, steep, slim and high steps. And I looked soo ugly climbing on all four. Maybe if I am rich enough, I might just take my own sweet time visiting them and hire a tour guide to enjoy the trip more instead of cramming all into few days. I just loved the night time there as it meant nice food and Pub Street aka ang mohs and foreigners!! Lol..

Day 3

Another half day of temple visiting..

Bakong of Roluos Group (Hinduism)

Preah Ko of Roluos Group (Hinduism)

miniature Angkor Wat

can't remember what miniature this is..lol..

miniature of Lolei

miniature of Bakong

can't remember...

miniature of Banteay Srei

Lolei (Hinduism)

Next stop is Artisans d'Angkor at National Silk Center

silkworm in pupa

making silk

WORMs~ feeding on mulberry leaves

night time came..this is supper..lol

we had a few drinks. this is Temple Sour Sdey (the only non-alcoholic we ordered) USD2.75

Bahkeng Sunset USD2.75

Pina Colada USD2.75

Angkor Temple Sunrise FOC

Planter's Punch FOC

It was buy 1 free 1 for the cocktails. I had 2 cocktails and in the end I had rash all over my back, damn itchy and red. I can't remember the name of the rash. Always have it whenever I drink. The alcohol there was cheap. Beer only cost USD 0.50/glass.

to be continued...

i'm back!

Hey, ppl! I am back! From an ULU place, CAMBODIA! I was there for 6 days (16-21/7). Nobody knew except a few..Lol.. sounded like a secret trip but too bad not with secret someone. Anyway, I am back and am glad that I am a MALAYSIAN!!! Will upload pics and tell more about the place when the copy-and-paste thing has finished!! Thank god that I am safely home, in a piece and healthy..

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I couldn't believe my eyes when you turned up with a girl by your side when you came over. I thought I just invited you. I was glad you came, but not with another girl in tow. Anyway, I put up a tight smile and invited you in. And I kept telling myself she was just a friend and nothing more than that. She was not really that pretty (even if compared to me *I was quite confident with my appearance*) and never your type to start with. Your taste was damn high and you hardly praised anyone, the best was "ok lor.." Well, as the night came to an end, I still couldn't decide who she was to you. And as I was walking you to the door, I glimpsed she hooked your arm. I was surprised and thoughts started to rush in. I thought you joked you were a monk and that you would not want to get into a relationship so early. Plus, your taste was always high up in the sky and she was never even your level. What could you have seen in her!? The thoughts were choking me. But I pretended nothing happened and a cool front was all you could see. I saw you walk down the road from the balcony, it was too dark to see if you were holding hands. And curiosity gnawed at my mind. I so wished you could explain. And as if my thought reached you, you looked up and your eyes pierced right through my soul. Your doleful eyes told me you were sorry. I quickly ducked to avoid that message but it was too late.

I woke up with a start and cold sweat broke on my forehead. It was still dark and I banged my temple at the corner of my study table when I tried to sit up, then I fell back on to my bed and drifted into yet another dream.

great paintball game and yummy food!

It was just a year ago I played paintball and now a year later another game with different people at different place at different time. Last year, as you can see at the post "Paintball", it was a night game and with a bunch of uncles, aunties and youngsters, this time it was a group of 12 young adults-6 males 6 females. There were 3 and a half games. My group won 2 games out of 3 games and the half (5 people) was what I called 'endless death'. It was fun especially the part where I shot Selina's ass, cun-cun. Haha!! Bull's eye! It was a great aim. Thank you, Selina, for being such a good marker..lol.. The first 2 games were the survival game. I shot quite a few people and was shot once at the temple in the first game and Chear Cheah right on her face-ate the bullet..ewww.. Chear Cheah and I were always on the defence as we stayed at a spot throughout the whole game. Well, since we won two games, defence was the best choice. Lol.. Meanwhile the other team were always on the offence, I shot a guy right on his shoulder when he was creeping towards my place. Muahahaha...

And the 3rd game was the mission game where each team fought for a flag in the middle. Again, I took the defence and covered my teammate to grab the flag. It was great plus great strategists we all were. The opponent's plan was whoever nearest to the flag could try to grab the flag-meaning no plan. Lol.. The aftermath of the game is wobbly legs. It's sooo obvious that I haven't been exercising for a long time. I could barely half-kneel for more than 1 minute. Lol.. So for tomorrow, I will be, most probably, lying on my bed mapling.

my teammates..the last guy on the right went to the other team where his gf was...

I shot her right on that spot!!! Muahahaha..

I look like terrorist meh?! there was a picture of me with peace, a peace terrorist..lol..

after the game..

After the game, I brought them back to dine at a restaurant near my house called Hiang Kee or Siam Chiak. We had tomyam prawn, tomyam fish, fried sotong etc. yummy yummy. I will grab pictures from Selina when she upload them onto FB.

tomyam fish

kerabu

tomyam prawn

Came across this video when I searched for the restaurant website.

TRANSFORMERS 2

The movie is definitely a thumb-up!!! Another movie which I would want to watch a second time after Confessions of A Shopaholic. Transformers 2 did not let me down exactly like the first one 2 years back when I actually talked about the movie for a month till my friends got bored with me. I remembered I kept repeating "Optimus Prime and the robots are sooooo sexy..yummy". Lol.. Well, this tme, it's going to be the same! Damn! How can robots be sexy?!

The starting of the movie was already funny and COOL. I kinda laughed and whoa... the whole way through. First few minutes into the movie, a sexy slick silver AUDI was sliced into half by Autobot. Ouch! It started with Shanghai being attacked by Decepticons and the Autobots are there to save the world again. And this time, The Fallen is rising (how can a fallen rise again!?), one of the old Primes. Yup, Optimus Prime is the one and only decendant of the Primes where only a Prime can kill a Prime. At one part, Optimus Prime is killed by Megatron and Starscream, we all thought like "habesla... noone can save the Earth from The Fallen liao". But you know la, how this type of typical story goes. The good will live and the evil will perish. And in the end, The Fallen has indeed fallen AGAIN for the last time (I hope) but Megatron and Starscream are still alive and so I believe more Decepticons will come and there's going to be a 3!!! YAY!!! Btw, don't know why there are always more Decepticons sprouting and the Autobots are always the same amount.

This time, Mojo, the drug addict, appeared only for 1 minute, so unfair, right? I know.. and ironically, his scene was shot in a doggy style. You get what I mean? Lol.. Anyway, the starting of the movie gave me a headache, where the camera kept moving around and around. First, at Shanghai where this BIG, real HUGE (somehow it's not the biggest, there was one real GIGANTIC towards the end, very 'lun cun') Decepticon transforming and the camera was soooo near it and then kept moving around the robot, my eyes tried to take in all the details and it was just too much. The next headache scene was Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf hugging outside his house waiting for each other to say the MAGIC word first. Does it have to go round and round the two of them?! Made me soooo pening.

The whole movie is very scientific, while the robots are sooooo humanized, you can even see steel beard on Jetfire, one of the old former Decepticons, he even has a tongkat with him, made out of his body part, I believe. He commented Earth was a stupid name for a planet, should be called Planet Dirt instead. Lol.. The movie is really scientific and high-tech but then about 15 minutes before the end of the movie, there was a scene where Sam died and went to the robot heaven!? and met the other 6 old Primes. Lol.. It is sooo illogical, but the whole movie is soo illogical itself, so who cares? Anyway, I still LOVE the movie no matter how 'kua zang' it is. Lol..


p/s: Just checked! It's coming out in 2012!!! YAY again!!! But wait, isn't that year is the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar? Will I still be alive to watch it?! Sempat?!

primary school friends reunion

It has been 11 years, time flies. And yesterday was the first time I met them after all these years. Wow, people do change. Those bigger getting bigger, those naughty bullies getting "guai", those "lembik" have definitely become a bit better. Lol.. At first, I was terrified to go cos I hardly remembered or knew any of them but I gathered myself up and went. Phew~it was definitely a great night. We joked around, talked about old times especially who bullied who and stuffs like that. Yup, we did have bullies back in school, Rueben remembered Wilson banged his head with a brick, that was a new news for me, I didn't know that. Lol.. Seemed that everyone has a job and also a few girlfriends and boyfriends except me. Seen their girlfriends' pictures, surprised that they still kept it even though the girls of a FEW yearS broke their heart. I was asked why guys were always dumped and not the other way round? Erm..maybe they were bored with the same old way and wanted something fresh? Cos the girls had a new one right after breaking up. Lol..how would I know how to answer as I have never had a relationship before. Why didn't I have one? Cos I don't find I need one..lol.. and they started wondering if I were a lesbian. Perhaps, I am. Nah, just that I know what I want. The "yuen fen" is not here yet. Overall, the whole gathering thing went well, a few didn't turn up though such as Kelvin Ong, Keavie, Tirvin etc. Hope to have another gathering soon. Hopefully before I start working.

OUCH!!

OooooooooooooooooooooooUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuCcccccccccccccccccccccccccccHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I had caries at my back tooth. It was not painful until I had it filled, the filling was stinging. I only felt the pain when I munched food. Unbelievable! This is my first time! I never thought I would have caries and at this age!? This is embarrassing! Ugh, memalukan.. I wonder how long have those little creatures been feeding at the back of my mouth. Something was wrong since a month ago, walao..does this mean they have been there since a month ago? I brush my teeth and floss occassionally but still...sigh...sob..almost cried during the filling. I was so worried that I had to have the tooth pulled if the little creatures had gotten to the nerve. It would be terribly ugly not to have a tooth. Phew~just filling but it was still painful. And I had to have 3 x-rays within 5 minutes due to some technical problems. I wonder how much radiation that was. Sigh..just hope that I won't have caries again.

SPA and terminator salvation..

Not spa but SPA (Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam), it's the government that gives us job though you will just get the literal spa if you Google online be it small or big letter. Well, the interview went well and a lot easier than I expected though I stammered a lot, overall was quite good. It felt short, according to the others, mine was shorter than them, probably I talked too much and they just decided to cut me short. As first, my heart felt like it was going to crash out of the ribcage and I stammered when I introduced myself. Thank god it was in English. I was asked about my family background as I mentioned my dad as a greengrocer. So, to lighten up the mood or more to loosen up myself, I actually said "Yup, my dad is a greengrocer and so I eat vegetables since young and I don't hate broccoli like the other kids' do" and that actually earned a good laugh from them. That was a relief. Julie said I should say this instead, "Even though my dad sells vege, I don't know any vege names". Lol..

Most of the questions revolved around Pharmacy, e.g. why I chose Pharmacy, did I regret getting into UKM since it was my second choice, what was methadone counselling, dispensing right, would it cost the consumers more with dispensing right, what was my expected CGPA, what did I do for thesis, doctor vs pharmacist, did I play sports and he ended by asking a rhetoric question if I didn't mind being sent to any states including Sabah and Sarawak. I was about to get up since he was about to hand me my file as a cue, instead I sat back down firmly and said I didn't mind being sent to anywhere, I would accept it but then I would prefer to work in Peninsular Malaysia first and might just go there myself 4 years later and I repeated that I would prefer to work in Peninsular Malaysia first. You wouldn't believe his look when I actually planted my derriere firmly back to the chair and made my statement, I should describe there was a brief pause on the interviewer face and action as he put down my file back on the table and also an flicker of awe. Lol..that's a bit extravagant but really, should I say he was a bit shock that I was very firm?

For the first question asked, I actually told them a story..it started 5 years ago. When I was young, I had always dreamt of becoming a doctor but as I grew up, I found out that, doctor either worked in a clinic or hospital and the most, teaching. And 5 years ago, there were lots of new diseases evolving such as SARS, H5N1, JE with no cure and I told myself I wanted to help the people and create new drugs for the diseases and I went to do a little research and my friends told me what I needed to do was Pharmacology and by asking the pharmacists, I knew I could get into R&D through Pharmacy and so now here I am.

From here, you could say that I am quite confident with what I said, yes I am. One advice, show them your confidence even though you don't know what you are blabbering and speak loud and make yourself clear. This is the ticket through, a very strong one, I hope.

After the interview, I treated myself to Terminator Salvation. WOW! The movie was filled with ACTIONS, bam bam BAM, there was not a break in between longer than 5 minues. The movie made me jumped up from my seats a few times, jolted by the scenes. The scene where Marcus (Sam Worthington) skipped a few times on the river where he was thrown off the huge machine transporter reminded me of Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Lol.. The movie was great but I was quite confused about the storyline-how can Kyle Reese, John Connor's dad, be younger than John Connor himself? I guess I have to watch back the first Terminator. There was a young Arnold in the movie as a T800 himself but a bad one, quite sarcastic. Lol..


In the movie both Sam and Christian looked a lot like each other, what with the crew cut hair and also the facial hair all over the face. They are both breathtaking. A movie worth watching especially in Pavilion with the sound system that almost blasted off my eardrums.