'easy as a sunday morning..'

when in most part of the country, the nation is working...
even as im typin' now, my street in one-part-kl is thrivin' with its daily busyness.. (the annual 7th-month 'por-tohh' is on again..)
i am at home, :)
listening to this....

ahhhhh~~~



who says mondays are always bluu??? ;)
another itch scratched...

our fed.gov

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a mondayish tuesday...

a damp, mondayish tuesday...

a lazy and damp, mondayish tuesday...

the office is notoriious for its tender and projects submissions.

make that eleventh hour tender and projects submissions.

and today's mission?

to reach our federal government at putrajaya in 30 minutes ... from sec.19, pj ... =.="
of course, it wasnt me who drove... so, audrey was put to the test...

i hav no idea how these 'pro' sales people do it, but they can really time their journey pretty darn well... she decided to jump a red light in order to reach in 30 minutes flat. and she did it. the white viva was already swerving to my side on the left but no, audrey was 100% sure it wouldnt even come an inch close to her wira.... fine~~~

it took us 30 minutes to reach putrajaya at 12pm for the tender submission... and then it took us gawd knows how long to return to the office... :)

3pm to be exact....

.. coz we took our own sweet time checkin' out the sights at our fed gov... i came to know they hav these attractions like the Lake Cruise, the Wetlands (is it still there?), and some Taman Pertanian Warisan or sumthin' like that...

the giant mosque was really gigantic... that famous bridge was easily spotted from afar... yea, that one where all the brides and grooms flock to hav the wedding shots taken...

this was all i could manage... well, it was a damp, rainy day after all....

the view from Manhattan Fish Market @ Alamanda Putrajaya (the shopping mall...)

yeah, woek life was bliss for that short few hours while we digged into our garden herbs-baked and grilled platter for one...

=)
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another itch scratched...

merdeka`

i hav no idea where i was and what i did on merdeka day the previous year...

i culd hav just stayed home, i culd hav gone out for some revelry.. the blog at friendster has been deleted as i hav opted to cancel my account.. i checked my photo albums but nope, there's none dated 31aug'08. So, yeah, i guess there's no way of finding out now.. :)

this merdeka day however, coincided with a long weekend. Great~! it doesnt even feel monday now..

was at malacca with the gang on saturday and sunday... the banglo we took at A Famosa resort was a steal at RM400 for one night. with four fully ACed rooms, super large beds, and very clean everything, we all nodded approvingly as we arrived and nodded even more as we left on sunday..

each lot comes with its own pool (chest-deep... we found out later)

airy spaces with lots of window panels... with kitchen and very clean too~

the pool came in handy when the beer games kicked in~ go figure!

as the night got younger, and the beer ran out, alex and christine drove out for more...

beer sessions aside, this trip to malacca, we did somewhat covered the town area as well... the gang's quite a shy lot, so photos are far & few.... :)

instead of the usual mustavs chicken rice balls, we opted for this.. Nyonya cuisine... which was also, packed to the brim... Ole Sayang~

we tried to hav satay celup at Capitol for supper... but the queue was just too mindboggling.. and it seemed to grow longer as the night did... anyhow, compensation came in the form of some thirst-quenching ice-kacang along Jonker street...

the mustgo Jonker Walk... yeah, if you cant beat 'em, join 'em ya?

so we braved the crowd and finally, this is the first time i actually walked the whole length of the street, to reach a nice spectacle... some group of ladies were having this open line-dancing activities of some sort .. haha~ yes, i guess malaccans are truly an active lot...

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reachin' kl in less than an hour after parting ways with the gang in seremban, dicing session kicked in at hartamas with my usual gang... :)

to which i must say, hartamas is now a far cry compared to like some few years ago..

as we all recalled, available parking spots were a privilege then, and you'd hav to jam your way across its narrow one-laners...

but last night... hmm... we culd practically choose our parking spots, and sadly too, many of the outlets werent even opened.

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Black Hole... that's where we were last night... it seemed to be the only outlet decent enuff to park our a$$es... :)

but then, the highlight of the nite.... taa-dah: the sup kambing at PELITA... hahhahah... it was indeed marvellous~!!.. its been ages since ive had sup kambing this good... :)

and i shall find my way to be back for more...

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maybe that's why when we reached the block at Segambut by our men-in-blue, when asked "dari mana cik?", our dear fren replied.. "pelita". im sure they would smile approvingly and let us through.... hahah!!

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another itch scratched...

the illusion of grandeur`~

it's another wrapup for the woek-week... and as im sayin' that, the weekend comes agushing in~! well, albeit a bit slow, as in more to like trickling in actually... well, well, what can i say, the Frens are a tad preoccupied with Dear LiFe! to sit for some kohii tonite, so i guess the night will be spent lazing around the haus... and packin' for my 1nite trip to malacca tomorrow... Yes~! 'Celebrating' the merdeka weekend in malacca with the ex-gang from office... :)

i think, it'll be somewhat fun, not entirely relaxing (in anticipation of the merdeka crowd flocking to malacca too~).. but i think it'll be mindboggling, as it always has been for our previous trips to locale weekend haunts (Cameron.. been there, Ipoh.. done that)... :)
either way, the beer crates are sure to liven things up a lil' come night time... now is that good or bad again???


anyhow, today, i must blog.
of my dear office.
well, it's the 28th of aug today, and, it's the last day that we are entitled to park inside the office building's compound... the demolition works will be starting next week for the 2 blocks behind ours... and that will probably take like at least 12 months before we will be allowed back in to the grand spanking new 5 stories annexe.... well, who knows what'll happen in a year's time hur~?... Uhm, but then again, speaking of which, i have indeed been here in this building for most of the 4 years of my working life now...
that feeling of dread just crept up from inside the gut nonchalantly this morning while i was standing at the first floor of the old office....

.. me and yatie were asked to do a final round of check on the junks still there before they like, finally seal off the building.. gulp. i never imagined that kind of dread while making my way from block A to block C, shielding my eyes from the glaring sun. ive been making that same path everyday from my parking spot behind block C to block A, but today, the view just seems so different. it's a view i'll never get again. so what if it's just a stupid old building...

i made my way up the stairs to the first floor, where my old office used to be. as i was going up the narrow stairs (everything is bigger and grander now in Block A)... i was tiba-tiba flooded with madonna's this used to be my playground... shit. hahha~!

as usual, i culdnt help it, and took a shot at it. this is where our cubicles used to be for the 'sales department'. i tried not to, but i culdnt help feel a tinge of nostalgia too~

25th aug 2005, the first day i stepped into this office as i reported my first day at work. never intended to stay for long, and now it's like exactly four years later. it feels kind of weird for me to be standing there at the same spot, 4 years later, with so much difference and many of the then sales team members already not with the company. yeah.. never intended to stay for long, but then again, maybe that's what prompted me to stay for so long... ?? puzzling? yeah i think so too~~~

another itch scratched...

swell~

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this is another one that will go down well in time...





(p/s: Seriously, how do we get by without Youtube and all its contributors??)

another itch scratched...

hooked~!!

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this is crazy.. am getting nuts over this game.. Cake Mania~!
it started out pweety easy-peasy... i managed to sail through the 'first year' of business plus 'acquired' lots of new baking equipments and even some upgrades from the default oven to the "Bakemaster 3000"... fuhh~!!

after that, and some other fancy upgrades later, which included some extra services of adding candles and flowers to the cake decor for the extra bucks, 'second-year' of business was extended to a cabana setting by the beach side... fuhh~! again..

the cake shapes were getting more 'kua-jeong' .. xmas trees and ghoulish-pumpkin shapes were added to celebrate the many 'seasons' throughout the 'year'... hehehhe... not to mention a growing variety of 'customers' .. from brides to draculas.. yes!

but here, at the beach cabana, i am s.t.u.c.k. .... to be precise, at October... to imagine that there are two more 'locations' to achieve ...

this, and then this...

i am beginning to lose precious sleep!!! the psp has to be plugged to the wall now cuz the battery cant cope with my enthusiasm! Gulpp... =.="

again, i know.. this is crazy.... but then again, waht the heck ya??!

another itch scratched...

i luv my weekends!

i luv my weekends..
and i luv my sundays too..
regardless of whether i hav any activities on, which i shuld, seeing my resolution of doing something different each weekend has just recently got started, but, still.. sundays are best spent at home relaxing, unhurried... ahh, bliss~~~

ive got my laptop on.. the streamyx on... the world wide web on... information and the latest gossips at my fingertips... chats and teases at real-time... with the windows media player on shuffle, simply red is on now... the only other sound being the room fan spinning at speed 4, which is gud enuff since dad helped me cleaned it this week, and the room still cool from the air-conditioning which i just switched off at 11am........ ahahahhha..
too much details, but yes, simple things define my blissful sundays.... ^^

hope you'v had a great weekend too~!


another itch scratched...