Lights everywhere.....

Last month i went to I-City, Shah Alam.

Been there few times but this time around, there was much upgrading had been done to the place. As you can see in the pictures below, it was livelier.
 

 

Some of the featured light statues i took at I-City.

It is beautiful. i believe this place have potential as 

tourist icon. They are currently upgrading the place

with more attractions. A waterpark had just been 

open there. plus there are several parks there that 

would interest children.

 I do encourage you guys to experience the excited with LED lights.

Yes, they might use a lot of electricity. Then TNB would be so happy...heh!

I love getting presents...

Just want to share it here....

It is never too late to extend my gratitude.

Thanks guys, i love all of you.

I appreciate all the birthday wishes and gifts!!!

More please..hehehe!!!

Collection of medals...

The above is my collection of medals. Impressive? Hehehe....

But really, am i that active ever since i moved to the East Coast? Well, i'd been playing badminton more here and participative in most if not all the events held by my office.

Truthfully, it is usually the same group of people in this office who active. So no wonder i could won some...hu..hu..hu..

and that's me being honest!

Pampering oneself...

It was last weekend...

As usual every year, a group of friends would celebrate my birthday somewhere. This year, we decided to have a buffet at Golden Palm Tree Resort situated at Gold Coast Sepang. Yeah...it is the fancy name for Bagan Lalang beach near Sepang. Nowadays, people love to glamorised local names like in Banting, we have Gold Coast Morib and so on....

The idea was to enjoy the food while admiring the scenery. Alas, it rained a bit that evening and it was a bit cloudy. Didn't get much of the sunset....

But we did have fun that night and i stayed the night there. The next morning i took a walk and just had a relaxing day at the beach.....

A small crab

At times, we need to pamper ourselves.....

That old feeling...

Yeah...

That date has come again! It's my birthday....

I am turning 31 years old. Had yet to achieve anything significant. Not that i planned to do so but it would be nice to have something to tell my children and my children's children - 'You know what, when i reached 30 i had achieve this and that'...he...he....Well, that's the dream.

So, how would this year turn out to be? Lets just pray and hope i would endure through it all.... the good, the bad and the ugly.

What happened during the 6 month lull last year...

It is the truth.

I didn't post anything for the past 6 months because i am lazy.
Yeah...
lazy to type down anything....
lazy to download all the pics taken...
lazy to give my commentaries on the movies i watched... 
lazy to log on....
Basically and utterly......LAZY!!!!

So...what had happened during the last 6 months? A lot really. Went for a trip to Europe again. This time through Istanbul to Amsterdam to Athens.

Also i went to USS. Yup, Universal Studio Singapore and rode all the rides. It was terrific!!!

 Then, my office got restructuring as we headed off towards Wave 4 and SAP / SRM systems upgrade.

I'll try and post about them later.....however, i did tweet about them 'live'....hmmm......

It's that time again...

Ramadhan mubarak......

It is the first night of Ramadhan. I am blessed that i am at home celebrating the coming of fasting month with my family. Love them? Good or bad, they are still my family. They are the ones i came to when in happiness or in sadness.

Speaking of Ramadhan, it is also had been 1 full year according to the islamic calendar that my job takes me to the east coast. How had it been for the last year? Well, it has it ups and downs.

Let's see....the first day of fasting was far away from family and familiar faces. I moved from KL a few days earlier and reporting for duty on that first Ramadhan. The job was new to me. So i had some catching up to do. I narrowly achieved my KPI for the first few months. However, i managed to get it during my appraisal at end of the year. I met new friends and collegue. We managed to have fun together and the friendship grows stonger everyday. I managed to do more recreational activities than i did in KL.

So at the end of the day, it wasn't that bad of a year...

P/s : I opened a twitter account earlier this year. Been tweeting more than blogging....he...he...Wanna follow me? Please do so @azam5091

Need for Speed...

People tell me i drove dangerously fast...

Tetibe gambo gadis litar...

and i said no...not really, i don't drive that fast! Few times when carpooling back to KL, my passengers kept on saying that i do. Okay, come to think of it...i will admit that at times i do speed but not dangerously. Well, what do you do when you are in a highway and the road invites you to speed...he...he...

At one time, my car was even stopped by the police for speeding. Let me tell you this, i had never been caught speeding 'live'. I mean at one time, i did get 'saman ekor' but never like this. However with my 'charms' (LoL), the policeman just gave me a warning. Did i slow down? Nope, heh.

I do get annoyed when people tells me that i am speeding. Come on, guys! I've seen others who drove much more faster than me and dangerously furthermore. When you know your car and trust it, you'll know the limit it can go and whether it's perilous (new word, check it out!). For me, i don't think that i am reckless. But from the eyes of others, they saw it. It does affect me somehow and i am trying to change it.

I am going to drive safely and try not to speed.....really!

It has been a while...

Busy?

A fellow friend/blogger commented to me that i haven't been updating my blog.

Yeah, i am busy....not really.

I caught the lazy bug. So, as a result no posting last month. Though i had already drafted few posts.

I am going to make it up to the readers.(Heh.....like i got followers....).



 I am publishing those few posts.....when i am done with it!

Bored...

Elsewhere around the country, people are not working....

Bored...this song made my day...

Chikaro?!

p/s : Have fun!

Ha!You're old...

Yes, it is referred to me...

My birthday is today. Exactly another year older. Came to think about it, i couldn't believe i am this old! 30 years had passed by. What did i picked up along the way? Am i a lot wiser?Ummm....might be but not really. Am i a lot more patience?Yeah.....a bit la...still learning. Am i matured?Ha...ha..ha.............Ok, in some instances i am matured (serious face!).

So, happy birthday to me...

Bola yang bulat...

The Malaysian team...

Really wanted to talk about the rise of Malaysian football scene. Since the win last year for Suzuki AFF Cup and this year win in SEA Games, we saw a hike in the people interest of the game. Thats the thing...only when we win, then the stadium is full. If not, only criticism was thrown to them.

Thankfully for the likes of good looking footballers which bring fresh breath to the team along with lots of women interest also, heh! It's not their fault that they are the most available bachelors in Malaysia. Just that, lets highlight the game instead of their life. We also need to look into the other sports which are in dire state like takraw and hockey. We need to inject interest in them so that younger generations would be willingly to sharpen their skills in those games. I remembered when i was young, i used to see people play takraw and hockey at schools. Nowadays, there are lacking of interest as they see no glamour in it unlike playing football.

Wish we would flourished as a good sport nation...

What?!! She's pregnant...

A baby...

A friend of mine breaks the news to us that she's pregnant. At first we thought she was kidding. Well, when you got to know her then you'll know why we think it's a joke. But then she seriously told us again that she got a bun in the oven (idioms, anyone?).

And together we laugh again. At her age and so what, it just unbelievable. She said after the shock wears off, she is really looking forward for the baby. I do too. I do care about her and hope all goes well until one day i heard the news that she nearly lost the baby...

Wait, not really la...more to a worrying bleeding. The first trimester (hu..hu...knowledgeable, heh?) is a tricky one. You have to thread your days carefully so that the embryo would be strong enough to grow to a fetus. Of course she was being careful, the doctor had said to her that such bleeding might happened. I was worried but at that point of time, she was already nearing the end of the trimester. So, i just said to her not to worry much and i am sure it'll be fine after a few days of bed rest.

Lets just hope she'll be healthy and the pregnancy is healthy too.

Looking forward to see her as a new mother once again after almost what, 13 - 14 years?...he..he....

Majulah Sukan Untuk Negara...

Yeah...sure...



I did get active living here. I mean, we have badmintons twice a week. At times, there are inter-office sports tournament like badminton and coming up there would be futsal and bowling. Once a month when i am at KL, i also joined the futsal games which colleagues from my previous office usually invites. Hell, i am even more active than i was back in KL.

So why am i feeling heavier? I eat much less than when i was at my hometown.

Why...Why...Why...?!!!!Is it because when at KL, i tend to move more? You know, getting to the LRT. standing in the trains, walking to the office...etc..etc..Now, it took only 5 minutes to reach the house and afterwards, not much movement except to get the TV remote...

Hui...best kalo bleh lipat camnih...



My friend told me to go to the gym. Truth be told, i hate going to the gym. Especially if i went there on my own. Don't want to run on the threadmill, do love the stepping machine and the static bicycle though. Just that i don't have the motivation to be steadfast on going to the gym. I don't have discipline for that. Yup, lack of will power.

Think i need to do something. When will i do that something?

That is still to be determined...

Party bash...

Someone b'day came up...

Another friends of mine here celebrated their birthday. We went to this place near the town's fire station call 'Pappardelle'.

Found in a blog

A nice and cozy place to hang out but i don't think they are prepared ad-hoc to cater for a big group of people. You might want to book the tables first.

Found in the same blog

 That's what happened to us. We came to the place, car after car and in the end there are more than 20 of us at the there. We kept asking the waiter to add more tables and chairs. The waiter had to take orders one after another as we came separately instead of  en bloc. What a chaos it was..heh.

The food was delicious and for some of us it didn't took long to be served unless the waiter missed out your orders at the kitchen. The menu was mainly western though there are some local dishes.

Anyways, it was good to have a big group of people get together to celebrate the event. As always, we chit chatted about (like...not enough chatting at the office!), cut the cake and sang the birthday song so loudly. Thank god the other patrons of the place didn't protest much.

Like we care....we're the biggest crowd there...he...he...  

Eidul Adha...

It's a sacrifice...

Happy eid to all. Though it is a short holiday, I still manage to 'balik kampung' with my family. It had been almost 2 months since eidulfitr and 'taik cicak' was everywhere.

Really, the cicaks had parties or feast at my house..he..he...

The lawn is filled with overgrown grass and a tree had fallen due to strong wind and rain. I was exhausted helping my parents to clear away the tree. 

As we're not expecting faraway relatives to return to the hometown, my mother didn't prepare much. Dad didn't held any 'Qurban' this year nor does relatives nearby. If not, it would be much merrier as we would 'gotong - royong' to skin the cattle and cut the beef.

Anyways, it was nice just to stay at home doing nothing.

Sure...    

The thing i write...

'D' day...

It had been exactly 100 days since i moved to the East Coast. Though if i calculate it outright, excluding weekends and holidays it wouldn't even be hundred days....hu.... Anyways, i'd told my friends that i am starting a blog to make notes of my activities due to my transfer. I also said i would not publicly tell anyone of this blog until i had achieved 100 entries or 100 days.

So today is the day I officially welcome my friends to my blog. Yes, it's lame to publicise your own blog. But who cares...he..he..

Do read on my previous entries. The entries are not that funny and my writings are not that amusing but feel free to roam about and leave comments.

I will write now and then if not every other day. I promised my self that i would keep this blog. Here you can read the status of thyself as everyone knows i don't have facebook nor twitter.

Yeah me...

Holiday abroad...

It was time for a break...

It was not really a plan. Some friends/officemates asked the month before whether i wanted to join them for a trip abroad. Didn't think much, i said yes and last week during Deepavali holidays we went to Jakarta.

4 days and 3 nights trip which includes spending time at a safari at Puncak, a day trip to Bandung and some time at Jakarta.

Commentaries......hmmm, might update on that a bit later or not.

Fun holiday ever.......really...Thanks guys...

Stolen...

You just can't be too careful...

The story was that my neighbour's car was stolen last 2 weeks. That neighbour is my officemate. She just came back from graduation convocation at her university the day before. She returned to the house just after midnite and parked outside. It is normal practice. You know...sharing the house with housemates which all owned cars, thus the space is not enough. It's a normal practice here. Even i at times parked outside.


So as fate turns out, in the morning when she wanted to go to the office, her car was nowhere to be found. Imagine the shock she had. Just a few hours before, she had parked it right in front of the house. Then, *poof* it was gone! She made a police report and everything. Personally, i don't think her car would be found. The thief must have disassembled the car and took the parts away. Discussing the matter with my friends, we think the thief really needed the parts badly. I mean my officemate didn't bring her usual car. The stolen car was of her father's and by chance was brought there. Should the thief had monitored the houses and the cars which usually was parked outside, he could have chosen other cars to steal.

I thank my lucky stars that i didn't parked outside that night. My car is of the same model as the stolen car. If she had brought her usual car and mine was parked outside, i think it would be my car that will be missing. Since then, i always make sure i bring my car inside the garage. 

When i first moved to the east coast, another neighbour of mine (who were also my officemates!) was broken into. It was just a few days since they moved into the house and it was a weekday. They were at the office. During lunch, my neighbours went home for lunch. He found that thief had broken the sliding door's lock and had stolen my neighbours laptops in broad day light. Let me remind you, the row of houses i lived in is in front of the main road and the road is always busy.

That is the thing with the houses here, even if you are upstairs you really can't hear what happens downstairs. Should anybody came into the garage and starts my cars, i won't be hearing it from my room.

Simpang malaikat 44... 

A goodbye...

I went back home last week...

It was the last session for the year 6 kids which i have my CSR programme with at Ampang. We had a year end party that Saturday. Everybody came with their best attire. We came wearing the BAKTI shirts. We had KFC, cake, chocolates, jelly, sweets and other stuff.

We'd decorated the class first and then started the party. We also play games i.e. poisonous box, musical chair ans statue.

In all, it was a fun session to have.

Loooking back , it had been 3 years since i met them all. They were in year 4 back then so timid when we first met. Now, the've grown bigger and not so shy anymore.

Seeing them grow each session does bring me pride. I hoped they do  lear a thing or two whenever we meet for the monthly session. Early this year was the proudest moment ever that i had with them. Their teacher had them do a choir during our yearly prize giving ceremony. They were so eloquent (did i use the word correctly?) when they sing and their voice are loud too. It seems that they can verbalize in english well if they wanted to.

At the end of the party, i do felt almost choked up to think that we may not meet again. I am going to miss them. Their cheeky self, their naughtiness in class, their smiles, their voice.

Goodbye & best of luck...