Class again. I’m so darn sleepy man. The class is really too lengthy and boring too. And the classroom is damn cold. Shivering throughout the whole class although I’m wearing a jacket, which suppose to keep me warm. Sigh… but thank goodness that today is my last day of class and then it’s exam time. My exam falls on 7th December. At least this time I can celebrate Christmas without my exam interfering.
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Saturday, October 30, 2004
Class again. The continuance of EDC & EFC class. This time it’s 9 hours long. It’s from 8am to 7pm. Can you imagine the torture I need to go through? And it’s not only for today. This same goes for tomorrow for another 9 hours. Sigh… How am I gonna survive?
I had the worst lunch ever today. It was raining heavily and so most of us are not able to go out to the Medan Selera to have lunch. So all of us are stuck in the college cafeteria. All of us are like hungry monsters whom can’t wait for the food to be served. They are practically fighting over the food. And you should see how they prepare the food. They basically used their hands and not cutlery to take the food. They used their hands on the burger, chicken chop and etc. they just grab whatever they can grab and put it on the plate and pour the sauce. See how unhygienic the food they serve there? But I got no choice but to have my lunch there. All I could hope for is that I don’t get food poisoning or stomach upset after having that piece of chicken chop.
I had the worst lunch ever today. It was raining heavily and so most of us are not able to go out to the Medan Selera to have lunch. So all of us are stuck in the college cafeteria. All of us are like hungry monsters whom can’t wait for the food to be served. They are practically fighting over the food. And you should see how they prepare the food. They basically used their hands and not cutlery to take the food. They used their hands on the burger, chicken chop and etc. they just grab whatever they can grab and put it on the plate and pour the sauce. See how unhygienic the food they serve there? But I got no choice but to have my lunch there. All I could hope for is that I don’t get food poisoning or stomach upset after having that piece of chicken chop.
Friday, October 29, 2004
Of all things, my senior suddenly suggests to have lunch in Mid Valley. Since he offered to drive us there so we don’t have any objection bout eating lunch in Mid Valley since it’s so near to Faber Towers, Taman Desa. Well, I think it’s the Friday mood. No one have the mood to work on a Friday. It’s towards the weekend. So we went to the food court to eat since he wants to eat his mee rebus badly. After lunch we went separate ways and agreed to meet back at the food court at 1:30pm. I didn’t manage to do much there besides than having lunch and withdraw money. We were only there for an hour.
I left office pretty early today. An hour earlier because I got to rush to college for the EFC and EDC classes which starts from 6:30 to 9:30pm. I left office at 4:30pm, rush home to have a short bath and rush to Sunway to have my early dinner before the class starts. The class is very boring as usual. But I didn’t expect the class to be that huge. Usually my Law class is bout 10 of us but for the EDC and EFC class, they combined with the full-time and part-time students. So there’s bout close to 50 of us. Basically we just run through certain topics again and the questions.
I left office pretty early today. An hour earlier because I got to rush to college for the EFC and EDC classes which starts from 6:30 to 9:30pm. I left office at 4:30pm, rush home to have a short bath and rush to Sunway to have my early dinner before the class starts. The class is very boring as usual. But I didn’t expect the class to be that huge. Usually my Law class is bout 10 of us but for the EDC and EFC class, they combined with the full-time and part-time students. So there’s bout close to 50 of us. Basically we just run through certain topics again and the questions.
Thursday, October 28, 2004
After work, my senior suggested that we go out for dinner together. So he suggested to have dinner in Restoran Kayu in SS2. We left Faber Towers at 5:30pm and by the time we reach Kayu, it’s raining very heavy. So we decided to change place for dinner since we could not get a parking place and furthermore they are having pasar malam there. So we made a detour to the other side of SS2. It’s also a mamak stall.
We sat down in the other restaurant and ordered drinks. When we want to order food, no one tend to serve us. So my senior got fed up and decided to pay for the drinks and go back to Kayu since the rain had stop. So here we are again in Kayu after going God knows how many rounds to get a parking place.
According to my senior, the food there is first class. For your info, my senior likes to eat. So I guess you guys can imagine how he looks like. Yeap.. He is a little bit plump. Hehehehe… I ordered maggi goreng. The maggi goreng taste the same as other mamak shop. Nothing fascinating. But what fascinated me was their roti tissue. It is damn tall man. I think triple the height of the normal roti tissue you eat in other mamak shop. It takes up 3 plates when it is laid down. 3 of us can’t seem to finish the roti tissue and that piece of roti tissue cost RM3. I find it too sweet so I didn’t eat much and furthermore after having a plate of maggi goreng, I’m already full.
After dinner we decided to walk a while in Pasar Malam since it’s just outside the road. The Pasar Malam is kinda huge. I didn’t get anything from Pasar Malam but just to stroll down to have better digestion of the food I ate during dinner
We sat down in the other restaurant and ordered drinks. When we want to order food, no one tend to serve us. So my senior got fed up and decided to pay for the drinks and go back to Kayu since the rain had stop. So here we are again in Kayu after going God knows how many rounds to get a parking place.
According to my senior, the food there is first class. For your info, my senior likes to eat. So I guess you guys can imagine how he looks like. Yeap.. He is a little bit plump. Hehehehe… I ordered maggi goreng. The maggi goreng taste the same as other mamak shop. Nothing fascinating. But what fascinated me was their roti tissue. It is damn tall man. I think triple the height of the normal roti tissue you eat in other mamak shop. It takes up 3 plates when it is laid down. 3 of us can’t seem to finish the roti tissue and that piece of roti tissue cost RM3. I find it too sweet so I didn’t eat much and furthermore after having a plate of maggi goreng, I’m already full.
After dinner we decided to walk a while in Pasar Malam since it’s just outside the road. The Pasar Malam is kinda huge. I didn’t get anything from Pasar Malam but just to stroll down to have better digestion of the food I ate during dinner
Saturday, October 23, 2004
I’m a naughty girl today. I skipped my mock exam for one of my ACCA paper. This is because I’m not ready for the paper. I didn’t even study for the paper. I’ve been too busy lately with my work. Been traveling around and too tired to study.
My initial plan was to walk in to the exam hall and request for the exam question so that I am able to do it at home and hand it up to my lecturer on the following weekend. But when I reach outside the examination hall, I chickened out. I was too scared to walk in and take the paper and walk out. So, in the end I decided to screw the paper and went to Sunway Pyramid instead.
At night I meet up with one of my primary friend and his girlfriend in Restoran Yang Yang How, Manjalara for steamboat. The steamboat is not too bad. But it’s a little too far for me to go there for steamboat if I want to.
My initial plan was to walk in to the exam hall and request for the exam question so that I am able to do it at home and hand it up to my lecturer on the following weekend. But when I reach outside the examination hall, I chickened out. I was too scared to walk in and take the paper and walk out. So, in the end I decided to screw the paper and went to Sunway Pyramid instead.
At night I meet up with one of my primary friend and his girlfriend in Restoran Yang Yang How, Manjalara for steamboat. The steamboat is not too bad. But it’s a little too far for me to go there for steamboat if I want to.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Today is my first day attending a job related meeting. It’s called TPE Meeting, which is an abbreviation for Team Planning Event. This TPE is an initial stage where all the assigned partners, managers, seniors and associates gathered to discuss about the significant and risk areas and segregation of duties among us before an audit is carried out. TPE is only available for huge companies.
I feel so awkward attending that meeting. In fact I’m the one with the lowest rank there and I know nothing about it. So I just sad there quietly and listen to them speak. I’m so blur. But at least I do get some info on the company that I’m gonna audit for the year end from that meeting. I’ll be doing the prefinal and also the final year audit for 31 December 2004. This is where the peak period will begin. No more Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day for me next year. Sob Sob…
I feel so awkward attending that meeting. In fact I’m the one with the lowest rank there and I know nothing about it. So I just sad there quietly and listen to them speak. I’m so blur. But at least I do get some info on the company that I’m gonna audit for the year end from that meeting. I’ll be doing the prefinal and also the final year audit for 31 December 2004. This is where the peak period will begin. No more Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day for me next year. Sob Sob…
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Yippee!! Today I don’t need to attend taxation class. Why?? Hehehehe.. Finally I got exempted from tax paper. I’m so happy that I don’t need to sit for the tax exam paper although the tuition classes already finish. But I don’t lose anything since I learn something from the tax class. But one thing I’m sure to miss is my lecturer, Mr. Simon Kok. I missed his dashing look, his manly voice and not forgetting his knowledge that passed down to us.
In fact I take this opportunity to go out on a Sunday. It has been a while since I go out on a Sunday. I went to 1 Utama and catch a movie. Yeah.. another movie. Hehehehe.. this time it’s Stepford Wives. I find that the movie is something impossible to perform in reality. If it really becomes reality, I think it is a disgrace to the women. Women are not meant to be brought up that way. We are not the slaves of the man. Women and men are on the same rank. No offence here but I’m just protecting women’s rights.
Well, after the movie we head on home for dinner.
In fact I take this opportunity to go out on a Sunday. It has been a while since I go out on a Sunday. I went to 1 Utama and catch a movie. Yeah.. another movie. Hehehehe.. this time it’s Stepford Wives. I find that the movie is something impossible to perform in reality. If it really becomes reality, I think it is a disgrace to the women. Women are not meant to be brought up that way. We are not the slaves of the man. Women and men are on the same rank. No offence here but I’m just protecting women’s rights.
Well, after the movie we head on home for dinner.
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Finally I’m home on weekends. It has been 2 weekends since I’m in KL. I’m back to classes. Feel so lazy to go for class after 2 weeks of absenteeism. The lecturer even questioned me bout my absenteeism. And I got a mock exam next weekend. Sigh… I still haven’t touched the book yet. How am I gonna sit for the exam? Hmmm… class is as boring as ever. Practically slept throughout the whole class. Thank goodness that the class ends an hour earlier. I rush home just in time for dinner.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Woke up pretty early today. I didn’t drive to work because I’m meeting one of my colleagues in office to go to Nilai. It has been a while since I take public transport and it is still as bad as ever. It takes me bout half an hour to reach Nilai.
The company we are auditing in Nilai is a simen manufacturing company. The place is okie. The office building is kinda new. And the accounts are organized. We left the office around 6pm. The client provides us with hotel accommodation. So we stayed a night there and come back to KL on Wednesday evening because on Thursday I got a training to attend. After leaving the office, we all went back to the hotel to take a shower and then go out for dinner. My senior took us to Pizza Hut for dinner. I had a laughing good time during dinner. We been laughing all the way throughout dinner. We were in Pizza Hut for bout an hour or 2. we ordered so much food.
My senior is really a clown. He tells all the silly jokes and I can’t stop laughing. Don’t you know how hard it is to finish my dinner? Tears almost came out. But I had a great time during dinner.
We left Pizza Hut around 9pm and my senior is thinking bout supper in the nearby mamak to our hotel. He insists that we go and try out the burger since another of our colleague speak highly bout the burger there. So he asked us to meet at the hotel lobby at 11pm.
Later food is served in mamak. He really did ordered burger and tosai. He can really eat tho. Well, I think you guys might have guessed his weight by now. Hehehehe.. It turned out that the burger doesn’t taste nice at all. He practically forces himself to finish up the burger. Poor fella. He was cursing the other colleague who said that the burger is nice. It’s so funny seeing the way he finishes up the burger. He is a real joker la. We had a great time laughing. We left the mamak around midnight and head back to the hotel.
I got my own room all by myself since I’m the only girl there. The other 2 colleagues with me are guys. In the hotel I get ready for bed, switch on the tv and lay down on the bed chatting with my boyfriend on the phone. After the conversation I’m stuck to the tv. I’m watching ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ on Astro. I watched till 1:30am. I cannot tahan liao. Too tired to finish watching the movie. I slept immediately after that. I wonder how am I gonna wake up the next morning and it’s a working day tomorrow. Sigh…
The company we are auditing in Nilai is a simen manufacturing company. The place is okie. The office building is kinda new. And the accounts are organized. We left the office around 6pm. The client provides us with hotel accommodation. So we stayed a night there and come back to KL on Wednesday evening because on Thursday I got a training to attend. After leaving the office, we all went back to the hotel to take a shower and then go out for dinner. My senior took us to Pizza Hut for dinner. I had a laughing good time during dinner. We been laughing all the way throughout dinner. We were in Pizza Hut for bout an hour or 2. we ordered so much food.
My senior is really a clown. He tells all the silly jokes and I can’t stop laughing. Don’t you know how hard it is to finish my dinner? Tears almost came out. But I had a great time during dinner.
We left Pizza Hut around 9pm and my senior is thinking bout supper in the nearby mamak to our hotel. He insists that we go and try out the burger since another of our colleague speak highly bout the burger there. So he asked us to meet at the hotel lobby at 11pm.
Later food is served in mamak. He really did ordered burger and tosai. He can really eat tho. Well, I think you guys might have guessed his weight by now. Hehehehe.. It turned out that the burger doesn’t taste nice at all. He practically forces himself to finish up the burger. Poor fella. He was cursing the other colleague who said that the burger is nice. It’s so funny seeing the way he finishes up the burger. He is a real joker la. We had a great time laughing. We left the mamak around midnight and head back to the hotel.
I got my own room all by myself since I’m the only girl there. The other 2 colleagues with me are guys. In the hotel I get ready for bed, switch on the tv and lay down on the bed chatting with my boyfriend on the phone. After the conversation I’m stuck to the tv. I’m watching ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ on Astro. I watched till 1:30am. I cannot tahan liao. Too tired to finish watching the movie. I slept immediately after that. I wonder how am I gonna wake up the next morning and it’s a working day tomorrow. Sigh…
Monday, October 11, 2004
Well, it’s time to leave Bangkok and back to KL. But I really can’t wait to get back to KL. Most of my colleague dread to go back to KL cause the next day have to work. I really really can’t wait to go back to KL. I miss my bf so much. I know that he’s coming to KLIA to fetch me. I can’t wait to see him again. I’m gonna give him a big hug and kiss when I see him in KLIA.
I reach KLIA around 3pm. From KLIA I didn’t go back home instead me and my bf went to Alamanda Putrajaya shopping complex. I haven’t been there so we decided to take a detour and have a look at the place since it’s on the way home from KLIA. There’s nothing much in Alamanda. It’s kinda small. We spent there bout an hour and head on to Mid Valley. Our usual place. Hehehehe… manage to catch a movie. The new Police Story starring Jackie Chan. The movie is fantastic. I never miss any of Jackie Chan’s movie. I’m such a big fan of Jackie Chan.
After the movie I was really exhausted. Decided to go back. It’s so nice to be back home. Home sweet home. It has been a while since I slept on my bed. I miss my bed and not forgetting my Patrick teddy. Hehehehe… I really had a great time in Bangkok. Looking forward to my next company trip. Hehehhee…
I reach KLIA around 3pm. From KLIA I didn’t go back home instead me and my bf went to Alamanda Putrajaya shopping complex. I haven’t been there so we decided to take a detour and have a look at the place since it’s on the way home from KLIA. There’s nothing much in Alamanda. It’s kinda small. We spent there bout an hour and head on to Mid Valley. Our usual place. Hehehehe… manage to catch a movie. The new Police Story starring Jackie Chan. The movie is fantastic. I never miss any of Jackie Chan’s movie. I’m such a big fan of Jackie Chan.
After the movie I was really exhausted. Decided to go back. It’s so nice to be back home. Home sweet home. It has been a while since I slept on my bed. I miss my bed and not forgetting my Patrick teddy. Hehehehe… I really had a great time in Bangkok. Looking forward to my next company trip. Hehehhee…
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Woke up pretty early in the morning. Ready to head on to Bangkok street. Our first destination is to Pat Phong. As stated in our song, Pat Phong is a place like morning pasar malam. It’s only a few blocks away from our hotel. It’s more like a clothing pasar malam. Most of the shops there sell clothes. From t-shirts to jeans to dresses to skirt. You name it they got it. But we didn’t spend much time there because the sellers are so stingy. It’s so hard to bargain and the seller there is not friendly. They get pissed off easily if we bargain. So we decided to go back to Chatuchak. It’s also another place like pasar malam but it’s bigger. We went there yesterday tho. Chatuchak is easier to bargain and the people there are friendlier. Most of my souvenirs and stuff I got from Chatuchak.
After Chatuchak, we went to a shopping complex by the name if MBK. Don’t ask me what it stand for coz I also don’t know myself. The things there ain’t cheap. After converting, the price is equivalent to RM. So no point buying things from there. We had a quick lunch in McD. I ate Pork burger in McD. Cool eh.. can never find it here.
After MBK we decided to go visit the grand palace. We took the tuk tuk to the Grand Palace. It seems that the place is 60acres big. That’s is very huge. Thailand king and queen used to stay there but not anymore. Now it’s more for tourist attraction. But to our biggest disappointment, the place is closed. The place closes at 3:30pm and we reach there at 4:00pm. But luckily the tuk tuk driver is kind enough to bring us to a nearby temple which is also a tourist attraction. Situated in that temple is a huge sleeping Buddha. The temple is called Wat Po Temple. The seeping Buddha is made of gold. The whole thing is made of gold. Then we give offering to the temple. I made 2 fortune teller thingy. You know… the one where you shake the bamboo thingy with many sticks in it and the first stick that drop is the one that tells your fortune. Well, below are my fortunes: -
My first fortune is:
“Need not worry, no one going to harm you. Something will be lost for something unduly gained. Be careful and selective in associating with people. Prospective mate still not in sight. Loan made to others hardly refundable. Good fortunes less likely to approach. A baby girl forthcoming”.
And my second goes like this:
“You see benefits way yonder but can hardly get them. Just like rowing a boat upstream, life will be difficult. However, supporters are available in the future. Patient recovering. Legal case not favorable. No good lucks. Forthcoming child will be a baby boy. Overall, will experience hardship first, but prosperity eventually”.
I think there’s a contradiction. My first fortune said that I’m getting a baby girl and my 2nd fortune said I’ll be getting a boy. Hmmm… which is true… or will I be getting a twins instead. Hahahaha…
That temple is quite huge too. It’s 20 acres big. It took us bout half an hour to visit that place.
Then it’s back to the hotel. We took a shower and we are out again. Hehehehe…. All of us gather at the hotel lobby to go to the night market. It’s called Suan Lum Night Bazaar. We don’t have much time to spent there. We are only given half an hour to spent there and that place is huge too. We are so eager to go to the next stop after the night bazaar. Want to know what is the next stop? Heh heh heh…
The next stop is the “Tiger show“. It’s an illegal place tho. Our tour guide brought us in. It cost us 600Bhat each for the show. The show is really eye opening. Seen it once is more than enough. You wouldn’t want to see it again. They can really do amazing stuff with their ahem. They stuff things into their ahem and pull it out including ping pong balls. One of them actually stuffed in a stand of razor blades and pull it out from the ahem one by one. I wonder how they do it. Then another amazing act is that she use a coke bottle filled with water, stuff it into their ahem and suck the water and later it came out coke. They can also smoke using their ahem. Really amazing. Don’t know how they do it. Then there’s a couple… they are doing sex right in front of us. It’s really gross watching it. And some more this is live. I see it with my naked eyes. Whoa…. Can never forget the sight. Amazing sight. So whoever is going to Thailand, don’t miss your opportunity. Hehehehe…
Well, after the show, I we went back to the hotel. I’m very tired. Some of them still got energy to go for massage which is famous in Bangkok. I wanted to try too… but I was too tired. So that’s the only thing which I didn’t do in Bangkok. It’s okie… there’s always another time. Hehehehe…
After Chatuchak, we went to a shopping complex by the name if MBK. Don’t ask me what it stand for coz I also don’t know myself. The things there ain’t cheap. After converting, the price is equivalent to RM. So no point buying things from there. We had a quick lunch in McD. I ate Pork burger in McD. Cool eh.. can never find it here.
After MBK we decided to go visit the grand palace. We took the tuk tuk to the Grand Palace. It seems that the place is 60acres big. That’s is very huge. Thailand king and queen used to stay there but not anymore. Now it’s more for tourist attraction. But to our biggest disappointment, the place is closed. The place closes at 3:30pm and we reach there at 4:00pm. But luckily the tuk tuk driver is kind enough to bring us to a nearby temple which is also a tourist attraction. Situated in that temple is a huge sleeping Buddha. The temple is called Wat Po Temple. The seeping Buddha is made of gold. The whole thing is made of gold. Then we give offering to the temple. I made 2 fortune teller thingy. You know… the one where you shake the bamboo thingy with many sticks in it and the first stick that drop is the one that tells your fortune. Well, below are my fortunes: -
My first fortune is:
“Need not worry, no one going to harm you. Something will be lost for something unduly gained. Be careful and selective in associating with people. Prospective mate still not in sight. Loan made to others hardly refundable. Good fortunes less likely to approach. A baby girl forthcoming”.
And my second goes like this:
“You see benefits way yonder but can hardly get them. Just like rowing a boat upstream, life will be difficult. However, supporters are available in the future. Patient recovering. Legal case not favorable. No good lucks. Forthcoming child will be a baby boy. Overall, will experience hardship first, but prosperity eventually”.
I think there’s a contradiction. My first fortune said that I’m getting a baby girl and my 2nd fortune said I’ll be getting a boy. Hmmm… which is true… or will I be getting a twins instead. Hahahaha…
That temple is quite huge too. It’s 20 acres big. It took us bout half an hour to visit that place.
Then it’s back to the hotel. We took a shower and we are out again. Hehehehe…. All of us gather at the hotel lobby to go to the night market. It’s called Suan Lum Night Bazaar. We don’t have much time to spent there. We are only given half an hour to spent there and that place is huge too. We are so eager to go to the next stop after the night bazaar. Want to know what is the next stop? Heh heh heh…
The next stop is the “Tiger show“. It’s an illegal place tho. Our tour guide brought us in. It cost us 600Bhat each for the show. The show is really eye opening. Seen it once is more than enough. You wouldn’t want to see it again. They can really do amazing stuff with their ahem. They stuff things into their ahem and pull it out including ping pong balls. One of them actually stuffed in a stand of razor blades and pull it out from the ahem one by one. I wonder how they do it. Then another amazing act is that she use a coke bottle filled with water, stuff it into their ahem and suck the water and later it came out coke. They can also smoke using their ahem. Really amazing. Don’t know how they do it. Then there’s a couple… they are doing sex right in front of us. It’s really gross watching it. And some more this is live. I see it with my naked eyes. Whoa…. Can never forget the sight. Amazing sight. So whoever is going to Thailand, don’t miss your opportunity. Hehehehe…
Well, after the show, I we went back to the hotel. I’m very tired. Some of them still got energy to go for massage which is famous in Bangkok. I wanted to try too… but I was too tired. So that’s the only thing which I didn’t do in Bangkok. It’s okie… there’s always another time. Hehehehe…
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Morning call at 7.30am. Went down to have breakfast and we left the hotel at 8.30am to start our tour journey. Our first destination is to the pier to visit the floating market. The floating market we went was a small floating market. They only sells souvenir instead of marketing stuff. Nothing much there. Then we made a stop at one of the temple. Wat Arun Ratchawararam (Arun Royal Temple) is the name. It was a Grand Royal Temple to King Rama II, Phrabaht Somdej Phraputha Lertlamaphalai, which was a grand elegant stupa and locacted on the banks of Chao Phraya River with it’s height 67metre has been decorated by many thousand pieces of Chinaware which is an unique temple.
After the temple visit, we head to the world’s biggest jewelry store. All sorts of gems you can get there and not forgetting pearls, gold and white golds too. I didn’t get anything from there because I cannot afford to buy them. It’s not that expensive tho just that I didn’t budget to buy such stuff from Thailand. We left that place around 1-2pm.
After the jewelry store, we went to Chatuchak weekend market. This is probably the world’s largest open-air weekend flea market. You can find almost anything under the sun. We are given 3 hours to spend there and yet it’s still not enough. We only walk ¼ of the whole place. My colleague and me plan to go there again if we have the time. I bought a thai 2 piece dress from there which cost me 670Bhat which is equivalent to RM67. I’ll be wearing that dress for my dinner later tonight since the dinner theme is something about thai. I tried out their insect delicacy which comprise of fried worms, grasshopper, dragonfly and etc. it didn’t taste that bad. Don’t judge a book by its cover. I kinda like the taste of the worm. The rest is crunchy but a bit bitter. It’s like you are eating a burned fried chicken.
At around 7pm we went back to hotel to shower and get ready for the dinner. Our nightmare (orientation) had arrived. And we still haven’t decided on what song to sing for the orientation. We are really ‘sat pai’. But thank God that my other 2 colleague wrote a lyrics. It goes like this: -
Thailand land of smile
Like we all are now
Smiling ear to ear
Thanks to partners here
Getting Bangkok trip
Watching aquashow
Eating Tom Yam Kung
Having all the fun
Chorus: Savadeeka, Kob Kun Kah
That’s all we know in Thai
So don’t blame our show
If it’s not that good
Cause we’ve caught off guard
In this orientation
We are exhausted
Lost in Chatuchak
Going round & round
Trying to find our way
Chorus: Rot ni noi, mai phaeng
That’s how we bargain there
A place called ‘Pat Phong’
Like ‘Pasar Malam’
Also red district
Where there’s Tiger Show
But then all in all
We all did enjoyed
It’ll be in our mind
Till the next group trip
So what do you think? Cool eh… hehehehe….
We had some activities during out dinner. One of them is the new comers orientation. We have prizes for the best group performance for the night and obviously the aquashow group won the performance. They are really hilarious and sporting too. My group is too serious. Well, what the heck… as long as we got over with the orientation. Our judges are the partners of the firm. One of the partners impersonates Paul Moss or Simon Cowell. He is so nasty. We all went like.. wooo….
There’s also an orientation for the newly promoted assistant mangers. Theirs are EY Fear Factor. They are being paired up and are given choice to eat fried worm (Thai delicacies), spicy papaya salad, bread with wasabi and 1.5 litre of coke.
Besides orientation, we had a mummy game. Each table is given some toilet rolls and one of them has to be the mummy and the rest wrap that person up with toilet papers. The most creative mummy wins. We had so much fun seeing those mummies freeze while we wrap them up.
Dinner ends around 11pm. I’m so tired. I went to bed after bathing. Tomorrow still a long way more to go since it’s free and easy. So many places to visit. Hehehe…
After the temple visit, we head to the world’s biggest jewelry store. All sorts of gems you can get there and not forgetting pearls, gold and white golds too. I didn’t get anything from there because I cannot afford to buy them. It’s not that expensive tho just that I didn’t budget to buy such stuff from Thailand. We left that place around 1-2pm.
After the jewelry store, we went to Chatuchak weekend market. This is probably the world’s largest open-air weekend flea market. You can find almost anything under the sun. We are given 3 hours to spend there and yet it’s still not enough. We only walk ¼ of the whole place. My colleague and me plan to go there again if we have the time. I bought a thai 2 piece dress from there which cost me 670Bhat which is equivalent to RM67. I’ll be wearing that dress for my dinner later tonight since the dinner theme is something about thai. I tried out their insect delicacy which comprise of fried worms, grasshopper, dragonfly and etc. it didn’t taste that bad. Don’t judge a book by its cover. I kinda like the taste of the worm. The rest is crunchy but a bit bitter. It’s like you are eating a burned fried chicken.
At around 7pm we went back to hotel to shower and get ready for the dinner. Our nightmare (orientation) had arrived. And we still haven’t decided on what song to sing for the orientation. We are really ‘sat pai’. But thank God that my other 2 colleague wrote a lyrics. It goes like this: -
Thailand land of smile
Like we all are now
Smiling ear to ear
Thanks to partners here
Getting Bangkok trip
Watching aquashow
Eating Tom Yam Kung
Having all the fun
Chorus: Savadeeka, Kob Kun Kah
That’s all we know in Thai
So don’t blame our show
If it’s not that good
Cause we’ve caught off guard
In this orientation
We are exhausted
Lost in Chatuchak
Going round & round
Trying to find our way
Chorus: Rot ni noi, mai phaeng
That’s how we bargain there
A place called ‘Pat Phong’
Like ‘Pasar Malam’
Also red district
Where there’s Tiger Show
But then all in all
We all did enjoyed
It’ll be in our mind
Till the next group trip
So what do you think? Cool eh… hehehehe….
We had some activities during out dinner. One of them is the new comers orientation. We have prizes for the best group performance for the night and obviously the aquashow group won the performance. They are really hilarious and sporting too. My group is too serious. Well, what the heck… as long as we got over with the orientation. Our judges are the partners of the firm. One of the partners impersonates Paul Moss or Simon Cowell. He is so nasty. We all went like.. wooo….
There’s also an orientation for the newly promoted assistant mangers. Theirs are EY Fear Factor. They are being paired up and are given choice to eat fried worm (Thai delicacies), spicy papaya salad, bread with wasabi and 1.5 litre of coke.
Besides orientation, we had a mummy game. Each table is given some toilet rolls and one of them has to be the mummy and the rest wrap that person up with toilet papers. The most creative mummy wins. We had so much fun seeing those mummies freeze while we wrap them up.
Dinner ends around 11pm. I’m so tired. I went to bed after bathing. Tomorrow still a long way more to go since it’s free and easy. So many places to visit. Hehehe…
Friday, October 08, 2004
Yay! I’m going to Bangkok today. Woke up in the morning as usual. I car-pool my mum’s car to get to the office. I reach office as usual at 8.30am. I waited in McDonalds for Aaron to pick me up. I only need to be in the airport at 1pm. So I decided to go to Aaron’s house. It has been a while since I teman my boyfriend. I’ve been so busy for the past few weeks. And furthermore my boyfriend is having exam. And his final paper is tomorrow. I feel so guilty for kacauing my boyfriend instead he should be studying.
So he came and pick me up at 8.30am sharp. Reach Kepong around 9am. We spent some quality time together. We left his house at around 11.30am. My initial plan is that he drop me in KL Sentral so that I could take the ERL to KLIA myself. But on the way to KL Sentral, he decided to send me to the airport straight. It was so sweet of him to do so. So I reach KLIA later than expected but that time is only 12.55pm which means I’m 5 minutes earlier. While waiting for the group check-in, I decided to go have lunch with Aaron since he wants to rush back home to study. So we had a quick lunch before I was called for the check-in. After checking-in, he left KLIA.
My colleague and me walk around KLIA for the time to past. Our flight is only departing at 4pm. The flight we took is Gulf Airlines. It’s a Middle East airplane. It was huge inside. There are 3 rows, 2-3-2. There is a bit of delay there. So we reach Bangkok at 6.30pm Malaysian time. Bangkok time at that moment is only 5.30pm which is an hour earlier. By the time we dilly-dally plus the massive jam in Bangkok, we check in to the hotel around 7.30pm Bangkok time. We stayed in Eastin Hotel. The hotel is not too bad. The room is quite spacious for 2 people. My room number is 2204 situated at level 22 hehehehe… should have bought 4D.
Our tour guide is a very funny guy. I can sense that with his presence, the tour is gonna be a whole lot of fun lining up. For your info, he is not straight la. He only like guys and not girls. He’s interested in one of the EY guy. He say that he very macho.. I find him ok ok only… and guess what is his name. He’s name is Betty… Betty Boop! Hahahaha… we call him Betty. Well, of course that’s not his real name la. His real name damn long and hard to pronounce.
Oh yeah, before we (newly joined EY staff) check-in to the hotel rooms, we are asked to stayed back for a short briefing on our orientation for tomorrow night. All our hearts are pumping so hard. We have no idea what they (managers) have in line for us. Then the suspense is disclosed. They are having an EY Idol. We are divided into 5 groups. Each group consists of 4-5 people. Each group has to either sing, play script, pantomime, dance and aqua show. The guys are involved in the aqua show. I’m in the singing group. Nightmare will soon haunt us tonight thinking of how to put up a good show in front of everyone.
After bathing and unpacking our stuff, we are all so hungry. We decided to go nearby the hotel for dinner. By the time we settle down and have our dinner it’s already 9pm. Which means in Malaysian time is already 10pm. After dinner my colleague decided to go for Thai massage. I didn’t follow them but I ended up in cyber café, which is few doors away from the massage parlour. Per hour is 25bhat, which is equivalent to RM2.50. This is my first time entering into a cyber café.
We reach back to the hotel around 11pm. I chat a while with my colleague, watch some tv and then off to bed. Tomorrow is a long day ahead.
So he came and pick me up at 8.30am sharp. Reach Kepong around 9am. We spent some quality time together. We left his house at around 11.30am. My initial plan is that he drop me in KL Sentral so that I could take the ERL to KLIA myself. But on the way to KL Sentral, he decided to send me to the airport straight. It was so sweet of him to do so. So I reach KLIA later than expected but that time is only 12.55pm which means I’m 5 minutes earlier. While waiting for the group check-in, I decided to go have lunch with Aaron since he wants to rush back home to study. So we had a quick lunch before I was called for the check-in. After checking-in, he left KLIA.
My colleague and me walk around KLIA for the time to past. Our flight is only departing at 4pm. The flight we took is Gulf Airlines. It’s a Middle East airplane. It was huge inside. There are 3 rows, 2-3-2. There is a bit of delay there. So we reach Bangkok at 6.30pm Malaysian time. Bangkok time at that moment is only 5.30pm which is an hour earlier. By the time we dilly-dally plus the massive jam in Bangkok, we check in to the hotel around 7.30pm Bangkok time. We stayed in Eastin Hotel. The hotel is not too bad. The room is quite spacious for 2 people. My room number is 2204 situated at level 22 hehehehe… should have bought 4D.
Our tour guide is a very funny guy. I can sense that with his presence, the tour is gonna be a whole lot of fun lining up. For your info, he is not straight la. He only like guys and not girls. He’s interested in one of the EY guy. He say that he very macho.. I find him ok ok only… and guess what is his name. He’s name is Betty… Betty Boop! Hahahaha… we call him Betty. Well, of course that’s not his real name la. His real name damn long and hard to pronounce.
Oh yeah, before we (newly joined EY staff) check-in to the hotel rooms, we are asked to stayed back for a short briefing on our orientation for tomorrow night. All our hearts are pumping so hard. We have no idea what they (managers) have in line for us. Then the suspense is disclosed. They are having an EY Idol. We are divided into 5 groups. Each group consists of 4-5 people. Each group has to either sing, play script, pantomime, dance and aqua show. The guys are involved in the aqua show. I’m in the singing group. Nightmare will soon haunt us tonight thinking of how to put up a good show in front of everyone.
After bathing and unpacking our stuff, we are all so hungry. We decided to go nearby the hotel for dinner. By the time we settle down and have our dinner it’s already 9pm. Which means in Malaysian time is already 10pm. After dinner my colleague decided to go for Thai massage. I didn’t follow them but I ended up in cyber café, which is few doors away from the massage parlour. Per hour is 25bhat, which is equivalent to RM2.50. This is my first time entering into a cyber café.
We reach back to the hotel around 11pm. I chat a while with my colleague, watch some tv and then off to bed. Tomorrow is a long day ahead.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Went back to client’s place to pack some stuff and inform the client that we are going back to KL. Then rush to the airport cause the flight is at 1pm. Reach airport at 12.30pm. After checking in, the flight is delayed fro 45 minutes. I am so hungry that time. I didn’t eat breakfast and lunch. There’s nothing to buy in the airport. Tawau airport is so small. I only ate ice-cream for my lunch. And I tahan till I reach home at 5.30pm.
Luckily one of my colleague’s bf stays in Bukit Jalil and he offer to drop me at my house. At least I can save my trip from KLIA back to my house. I don’t need to take ERL and LRT with my heavy laptop and luggage and with my stomach growling loudly. I was so hungry when I reach home. Luckily my mum boiled some soup for dinner and I drank some to keep my stomach from making noise. We even went out for dinner early.
After dinner I can’t wait to go online to chat with my bf. I miss him so much. I feel so nice to be back home again. Now I really know what is the actual meaning of home sweet home. I miss my bed, my Patrick and not forgetting my internet. Although I’ve only stayed in Tawau for 5 days but to me it seems like weeks there. I hope I don’t need to go there again. I’m really glad to be home. Back to the busy town. I think this is where I belong. Hehehehe….
Luckily one of my colleague’s bf stays in Bukit Jalil and he offer to drop me at my house. At least I can save my trip from KLIA back to my house. I don’t need to take ERL and LRT with my heavy laptop and luggage and with my stomach growling loudly. I was so hungry when I reach home. Luckily my mum boiled some soup for dinner and I drank some to keep my stomach from making noise. We even went out for dinner early.
After dinner I can’t wait to go online to chat with my bf. I miss him so much. I feel so nice to be back home again. Now I really know what is the actual meaning of home sweet home. I miss my bed, my Patrick and not forgetting my internet. Although I’ve only stayed in Tawau for 5 days but to me it seems like weeks there. I hope I don’t need to go there again. I’m really glad to be home. Back to the busy town. I think this is where I belong. Hehehehe….
Monday, October 04, 2004
It’s Monday. No mood to work ler… We went to a Chinese coffee shop. Finally, we manage to find a Chinese coffee shop. I had yee mee. Their yee mee is so different from the one we get from KL. It is a big portion of yee mee with lots of ingredients such as lots of fish paste, scallop and big prawn. The bowl of mee cost me RM5. The price is reasonable for the big bowl of mee with that seafood in there.
2 hours after lunch, the whole office power failure. The room we worked on was so stuffy and our laptop batteries are running out. So we decided to work in the hotel instead. Once we are in the hotel, we don’t feel like working. The beds and tv are just so inviting. But we have no choice but to work. After bout 2 hours we are working in hotel, managers called and told us to ceased operations. It seems that the Directors have disputes. So we are told to ceased operations. And we booked the first flight out. It is kinda rush. Very rush indeed. So the rest of our day we just rest in the hotel. Nothing much we could do for now.
2 hours after lunch, the whole office power failure. The room we worked on was so stuffy and our laptop batteries are running out. So we decided to work in the hotel instead. Once we are in the hotel, we don’t feel like working. The beds and tv are just so inviting. But we have no choice but to work. After bout 2 hours we are working in hotel, managers called and told us to ceased operations. It seems that the Directors have disputes. So we are told to ceased operations. And we booked the first flight out. It is kinda rush. Very rush indeed. So the rest of our day we just rest in the hotel. Nothing much we could do for now.
Sunday, October 03, 2004
It’s Sunday, and guess what. We have to work again. Sigh… poor me. But we are only working for half a day. So it’s not so bad. After lunch, some of my colleague went to the beach and waterfall. I didn’t follow them. I stayed in the hotel. I just need some rest and some time alone. It’s so nice to be in the hotel and rest. Furthermore my colleague says the beach is not that fascinating and so is the waterfall. Luckily I didn’t follow them to the beach and waterfall. At least I got additional hour of sleep. Hehehehe…
Saturday, October 02, 2004
It’s morning again… and here we are in the office working again. And it’s Saturday. Sigh…
Tawau is a very small place. There is nothing much to do in Tawau. Client even provides us with a brand new Perdana car for us to travel around from office to hotel and vice-versa. The drivers in Tawau drive pretty slow tho. I think they just let the car crawl on its own without accelerating. That’s not the major problem. The major problem is food. There’s nothing much to eat except for malay foods, mamak foods and seafood of course. We hardly could find any Chinese restaurant or coffee shops. So basically we have malay and mamak food everyday for lunch and dinner. The only fast food we could find is KFC, Pizza Hut and Sugar Bun.
Tawau is a very small place. There is nothing much to do in Tawau. Client even provides us with a brand new Perdana car for us to travel around from office to hotel and vice-versa. The drivers in Tawau drive pretty slow tho. I think they just let the car crawl on its own without accelerating. That’s not the major problem. The major problem is food. There’s nothing much to eat except for malay foods, mamak foods and seafood of course. We hardly could find any Chinese restaurant or coffee shops. So basically we have malay and mamak food everyday for lunch and dinner. The only fast food we could find is KFC, Pizza Hut and Sugar Bun.
Friday, October 01, 2004
Another day at work in Tawau. Woke up at 7.30am and had bed and breakfast at 8am. Then it’s time to work again. Work and work till 9pm. Then again client brought us out for dinner. We had seafood again. We had oyster, lobster, crabs, and some other dishes. The food like I said earlier is very fresh but the food is just okie. Then back to hotel around 11pm, bathe and off to bed.