It’s New Year’s eve. Although it’s New Year’s eve I still got to work. It’s such a sad case. Sigh… and the worst part is that all celebrations are cancelled. This is due to Tsunami incident. This is a respect to all the Tsunami victim. My initial plan was to go to 1U to celebrate the countdown after work but since the government said all celebration is cancelled, I stayed home after work. Sigh… I thought this year I can usher into the New Year again with Aaron.

Today is my first stock take. i went with another of my colleague. The stock take is held in Sunway Damansara, somewhere near Ikano. We suppose to reach there at 9am but instead we reach at 8:45am. We couldn’t start work at 9am due to power failure. We only can start work at 10am and yet we are working in the dark with no electricity. It seems that something got burned, that’s the cause for the power failure.

The stocks we count include stocks such as spare parts for machines, stirrers, shaft and etc. The stocks are very organized and the storekeeper and the clients are very helpful and friendly. It took us bout 2 hours to finish our stock take. By 11:45am we are already done with the stock take. So my colleague took me back to 1 Utama shopping centre Giant supermarket car park. That’s where I parked my car before I hop on to my colleagues car to client’s place.

I drove to Aaron’s house instead and had lunch with him in 1 Utama. We just walk around and spent some time together. How nice if stock take is everyday. Hehehehe…

Then we had ‘sai mai lou’ in Kepong on the way back from 1 Utama. I wanted to spent more time with him but then I don’t want to get stuck in the jam. So left before office hours.

Another day in Singapore. Met up with one of my primary friend, Yeong Ching and her boyfriend, Brandon. We had lunch together then Brandon took us to the see ‘Durian’. Durian refers to the Esplanade. It’s a theatre where concerts are held. Then next stop is the Suntek. It’s the biggest shopping complex in Singapore and it is built as a palm. One of the fingers is the shopping complex and the other 4 fingers are the office blocks. The centre palm is a fountain of wealth. We went there and it is believe that by walking around the fountain and touching the water gives one luck. So I did what they believe. I hope I’m in luck after that. I was all drenched after touching the fountain of wealth.

The next stop is Funan. It’s an IT Centre. Yeong Ching wanted to get a router. We found it but then she doesn’t want to buy in the end. Funan is something like our beloved Low Yat Plaza.

We went separate ways after that. They wanted to go home. So I head on to Ochard Road myself. Went window shopping basically. The things there are too expensive. I went to Ngee Ann City Takashimaya, Paragon, Heeren and etc. I went window shopping while waiting for May to finish her work. We met up at 6pm then went window shopping again with May because she wanted to get some Christmas present. Then we had dinner in Thai Express in Paragon complex. All the other restaurant are filled with people. All the restaurant need to queue in order to be seated. We choose the shortest queue. I’m so hungry that time.

It suppose to be a Thai Express but my food was served 45 minutes after we are being seated. They forgot bout my ordered and one of the waiter who serves us apologise and gave us a complimentary mango salad. According to May that dish cost SGD6. the waiter who serve us not bad looking. We are excluded from their service charges. How nice that is.

After dinner we walked around Ochard Road and went back to May’s rented house around midnight. We chatted till we slept.

Woke up at 10am. Went out for breakfast at Yunan for their kaya toast which is famous in Singapore. Nothing special bout their kaya toast. Then May Ng brought me to Ochard Road. There are so many shopping complexes along Orchard Road. You can spend the whole day in Ochard Road.

Then May took me to her Fitness First gym. Lots of things I ‘learned’ from the gym visiting. Hehehehe… but the place is nice. I feel like joining the Fitness First gym in Malaysia. Who wants to join me?

After Ochard Road, we went to Raffles, Fullerton, Merlion Park and etc. Basically went exploring the place. Took quite a number of photographs.

After visiting some places of interest in Singapore we went to Intercontinental Hotel to pick Lucas, May’s nephew up and head on to Singapore Night Safari. The tickets is kinda expensive. An adult ticket cost SGD24 while child cost SGD9. It’s something different where you can’t get it in Malaysia. There’s a tram that took us around the safari. The ride last for 40minutes. It’s pretty dark in there. There is no chance to take photo and we are all warned not to take photographs using flash as it will scare the animals.

After that we took a cab back to Lucas’s house. then we ourselves head back to May’s rented house. It was already 1am that time. I took a long shower then we have some girl talk till we all fell asleep.

Yippie, I’m going to Singapore. It has been years since I’ve been to Singapore. In the morning did some last minute packing. I took my little bro to buy his school books since school is gonna re-open soon. My parents are on leave today. So we cooked at home for lunch and at the same time pray for ‘Tung’ festival where we make ‘Tong Yuen’ (red and white flour rolled up into little balls and cooked in sweetened water).

My parents offer to send me to Puduraya to take my bus to Singapore. We left house about 2:15pm. My bus is at 3pm. I was late on the way to Puduraya. As usual KL was jam. My parents had a little argument on this matter bout me gonna miss the bus because my mum ask my dad to leave house earlier but he say don’t need to as he doesn’t want me to wait there like a fool. I feel bad bout it. But I calm the situation down by telling them that it is ok to miss the bus. Worst come to the worst I go back to the ticket counter and change to the later bus or get a new ticket.

But luckily I manage to reach Puduraya in time. I reach there at 3pm sharp and the bus left slightly past 3pm. I was exhausted when I’m seated. I practically running from one end of the Puduraya to the other end. I was being seated with an Ah Beng. A chinese young guy. But later I changed my seat to a single seat once the bus left the station. I can’t afford to sit with a stranger for 6 hours. Hehehehe…

Our first stop is Serdang toll. That is our first toilet break. Then the next stop is in Yong Peng. It’s a restaurant which sells some snacks and drinks. We stopped there for about 15-30 minutes. Then we head on the road to Singapore.

After that we reached Johor immigration. They only checked our passport then hop on to the bus again. then we are heading towards Woodlands. That is the Singapore immigration. From Johor immigration to Singapore immigration was jam. It took bout 15 minutes to reach Woodlands. Once we reached Woodlands, we hop down the bus with luggage this time. I was so blur when I was in Woodlands. Everyone seem to be moving so fast and I blindly followed. I’m so silly that I forgot to enquire for the immigration white form which needs to be filled. When I reached the counter, the security ask me for the form and I said I don’t have it. He gave me the form and ask me to filled it up and queue back the line in order to pass the immigration. After successefully passing through the immigration hop back to the bus. Then head on to Golden Mile Complex, Beach Road in Singapore. That is the arrival bus station.

I reached there at 9:15pm and I waited for May Ng to picked me up. She turned up bout 5 minutes later with her nephew. We took a cab to her rented room which is situated in Rowell Road in Little India. After dropping my luggage we head downstairs to have my dinner. May send her nephew, Lucas back to his parents then went to a chinese restaurant to have my dinner. After dinner around 11pm May brought me around the place. She showed me the 24 hours shopping complex. Mustafa Centre it’s name. You can find almost everything that you need there from frozen food to electrical goods and jewelry. We just walked around the nearby place then back to her rented room. I was so tired. I slept off around 2am.

It’s shopping again today. Today I’m shopping for Aaron’s and my younger brother christmas present. Suppose to meet May Ann and her college friends in Mid Valley at 2pm. But I went there earlier to get their presents. I bought RM100 gift vouchers for Aaron and bought 2 yoyo for my younger brother. I was walking around Mid Valley the hwole day thinking what to buy for my brother and ended up buying him a yoyo. I don’t think he likes that present very much. But I just buy something for him at a mean time and probably get something else for him from Singapore.

At lunch we met up with May Ann and her college friends. I can’t really recall her friends only Pughan and Lai Teng. Others no idea at all. But I can remember their names not their faces. We just met up a while because May Ann came late. So I didn’t hang with them for long. I left Mid Valley at 6pm. I was so tired when I came home. Been walking the whole day and thinking of what to buy for my younger brother’s christmas present. And tomorrow back to work again. Furthermore I had a meeting to attend.

It’s back to KL time. After check out we head to the airport. Reach back in KL around 5:30pm. I was exhausted when I reach back. I didn’t sleep well last night. Well, I guess it’s goodnight time. Nitez… ZZZzzzz…..

Another day in Penang. We went to Kek Lok Si and Penang Hill. We went to Penang Hill first at around 11am and the tickets available is at 2:45pm. So we bought the tickets and went to Kek Lok Si Temple. Along the way to Kek Lok Si Temple there are many stalls selling souvenirs, clothes and their Penang local products. The stalls are at the stairways up to Kek Lok Si Temple. We climbed so many flight of stairs. Finally we reach the temple and there’s a huge Kuan Yin buddha. It is made of bronze. From the temple you can see the view of Penang. It’s beautiful.

On the way down we ate vegetarian food. Then rush to Penang Hill. We sat the cable car or train you call it up to the hill. There’s nothing much up there just the scenery and some cool air. From the hill you can see the Penang Bridge. Another nice view of Penang.

From Penang Hill we went to Komtar and Peringin Mall for some shopping. Window shopping again. After that we went back to Gurney Drive for dinner. This time I ate Asam Laksa which only cost me RM2 and some lok lok which only cost 60cent per stick. I even ta pau chicken wing back to hotel to eat. All we do there is eat and eat and eat. I think I put on some pounds. Sigh…

I went to Penang with my mum and lil bro for a holiday. We took flight there. It’s an early flight and we got to get up at 6:30am because the teksi to KLIA will be arriving at 7am. I can’t wake up at 6:30am instead I woke up at 7am. Luckily the teksi is late. If not my mum will start nagging. You know lar mums. Sigh…

So we reach the airport at 8:30am and our flight is at 9:20am. Just in time to check in. our seat are at the back of the airplane. So they called the people who’s seat is in front. When all of them boarded the plane, the announcer said “Penumpang-penumpang lebihan boleh masuk sekarang”. Penumpang lebihan? Me and my mum was laughing away. Who they think we are huh?

We reach Penang around 11am. Took a cab to the hotel. We stayed in Tanjung Bungah Beach Resort. After checking in to the hotel, we took a bus out to Gurney Drive. We ate Pizza Hut for lunch. Ya ya.. I know it’s silly to eat Pizza Hut in Penang. Out of so many things to eat we go eat Pizza for lunch. This is because my mum had a RM20 Pizza Hut voucher. So she wants to use it before it expired. We ordered so much food. This is the first time my mum ordered so much food in Pizza Hut. We ordered a the ocean treasure set with one regular pizza, 2 drinks, 2 pepsi, a basket of garlic bread and a plate of criss cut fries. And add on a Alfredo Chicken Spagetti and a Seafood Lasagna. We are so full after the meal.

After lunch we went to Gurney Plaza for some shopping. Gurney Plaza is kinda huge for a small island. Basically we only window shopping. Nothing to buy. Whatever it’s in Gurney Plaza you can find it in Mid Valley.

After that we took a bus back to the hotel. We went for a stroll in the beach. The beach is so much cleaner than the Port Dickson’s beach. There’s so many beautiful shells to pick. My mum went to the gym and my lil bro went to the swimming pool. I stayed back at the beach. I just love the beach so much. I picked up some shells. I even found some dead fish on the beach. Too bad there ain’t any girls in bikini. Hehehhe… if not then can cuci mata.

Then later at night we went to Gurney Drive for dinner. This is a must to go for food. There are quite a number of stalls in Gurney Drive. We ate varieties of food. And of course not forgetiing their Char Keuy Teow. The prices are reasonable. You can buy a Char Kuey Teow for RM3, Hor Chien for RM5 but their sotong kangkung is expensive. It cost me RM12 for a small plate of sotong kangkung.

After dinner we went to Batu Ferringi for their pasar malam. Their pasar malam is not like our ordinary pasar malam. It’s basically is a tourist spot to buy souvenirs and clothes. It’s a very long pasar malam. We only walk a couple of stores and head back to hotel.

Argh… it’s finally my first ACCA exam paper. I’m so nervous before the exam. My exam starts at 3pm and it’s UITM, Shah Alam. There’s so much to memorize. I ate a quick lunch and off I go to UITM. I left house around 1pm. I thought of going there early so that I can still revise some last minute chapters.

Before this, I took a tour to UITM to find out where is the place. So I thought I can remember the route but it turn out that I lost my way. I ended up somewhere far which I have no idea where am i. I was panicking. I was running late too. I was like.. sei la sei la.. I really don’t know what to do. I just keep driving using my instinct because there are so many roundabouts and some of the roundabouts have no signboard. So I hentam only. In the end I manage to reach UITM. But it tunr out that it’s a different UITM. It’s a different campus. I need to go to the main campus. So I got down and ask the guard for directions. At that time it’s already 2.15pm. the guard told me that the main campus was very far away. I was like.. OMG!! I’m gonna be late for my first time in exam. This can’t be. I calm myself down and listen carefully to the guard directions. I thank the guard and went back to my car.

And it turn out that I was actually on the right track from the beginning but just that I took the wrong turning at one of the roundabout. Sigh… I’m so frustrated with myself. How could I get lost in Shah Alam. This is the most roundabout I’ve been to in my entire life in an hour.

My frustration doesn’t end there. After I finnaly reach to the main campus of UITM, there is no parking at all. And I was stuck in the carpark for bout 10 minutes because cars are parked all over the places and those student driver block my exit. So I got ot wait for them to slowly reverse their cars out. I got fed up and drove my car further from the exam hall and find parking somewhere else. I finally found a parking bout 5 min walk away. By the time I reach the exam hall it’s already 2.45pm. I wanted to pee badly when I was in the car and I took a fast pee and rush to the exam hall. I found my table, sat down and immediately write down all my particulars and attendance list. By the time I finish filling the particulars, the invigilator said that we can start the paper now. I was like.. huh? I was so blur that time. I still haven’t settle down yet. My heart was still pumping really fast.

I flipped open the first page. Read the first question. I don’t know how to do that question. Never mind, I read the second question, I know I read this chapter. I read the next question and so on and decide which questions to do. After reading all the questions, I decided to start writing on the questions I’ve picked. The first picked question I know the answer to it but I just can’t recall. I go to the next question, and yet again I can’t recall. I was like.. this time really sei lor. All also don’t know how to answer. Then I calm myself down. Take in deep breath. And I start to read the questions again. And finally the light bulb lighted and without wasting anymore time I start to write like mad. My writing was horrible but it’s readable.

This is the most horrifying experience I’ve ever had in exams. And thank goodness those candidates besides me aren’t writing much. At least they don’t pressure me that much. Imagine if the candidates beside you write and write and write non-stop and you are just sitting there playing with your pen thinking for the answer. That would be really pressure. All I hope for now is to pass the paper and no more Law exams for me. *Pray Hard*

Well, as I mentioned yesterday company’s annual dinner is today. This is my first company’s annual dinner or should I say second formal company’s social affairs. My first was the Bangkok trip. But the Bangkok trip only includes my department group. This annual dinner include the whole Ernst&Young employees.

Around 800 people turn up. We had free-pork chinese dishes. It’s like those wedding dinner. The first dish is obviously the four season dish. And since our theme for tonight was ‘Legenda’ they named the food according to the theme too. The four season was named ‘Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Lekir and Hang Lekiu’. Then the next dish is a seafood soup which is equivalent with sharkfin’s soup but it’s without sharkfin. This dish is named ‘Wong Fei Hung’. This is then followed by some chilli sour chicken, fried garupa fish (Puteri Gunung Ledang), brocolli with mushroom and ‘tau kan’ (Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest), fried rice, and as for dessert we have cheesecake (Cleopetra) and leng chi kang.

The dinner only starts around 8:30pm. All of them dress so sassy, elegant and sexy. It reminds me of prom night. Not many of them dress according to the theme. Only a hand-full of them dress according to the theme. One came as Thai-kick boxer, another as Cesear, there’s also Wong Fei Hung, Hang Tuah and P. Ramlee. And as for the ladies, they dress as Cleopatra, Audrey Hepburn, Princess of Scotland and etc.

They even have EY Idol. One person from each group is selected to sing in front of the crowd and prizes are awarded for best singer. And the idol of course goes to my audit team for best performance, best sportmanship and best audience.

We even have lucky draws. The grand prize is RM1,000. I’m just not lucky that night. My number was not called for the lucky draw. *Sob sob*…

The dinner and the lucky draws ends around 12midnight. They have dances after that. I didn’t stay for the dance. Furthermore it’s my study week. The next day I got to wake up early to study and I got to send one of my colleague home after the dinner. She stayed in Puchong. By the time I reach home it’s almost 1am. I was so tired but I had fun in the annual dinner and dance. It’s worth skipping few hours of my studies to attend the dinner. Here are some pitures of me with my colleagues in the dinner.