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very simply put,
there will be no more jess in the office come monday,
mom's going for her scope tomorrow at 7.30am.
life's drastic...
i think i need my bath now. . .




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it being compulsory..

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for something that is a must,..
this was really not that bad at all ...

chaos, sweat, and aching-all-over aside, (i WILL remember the afternoon beach games.. XD)
the after-trip eye sees these pretty pix with puffy clouds as serene giants overlooking the grounds, as little people scurry about their daily ups and downs . . .

@ The Regency Tanjung Tuan Beach Resort, Port Dickson

the after-trip mood is as always, nonchalant and balmy...

not as far as melancholic this time, as it was after all, a company function (family day 2010~).. woek related, so this was really no 'big-break-from-the-office-faces' to begin with ...

and with my few good kakis, i somehow did manage to have fun along the way too . . .

"we want Nobody, Nobody but BLUE~!!!"

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grey

on the side note: is grey somewhat associated with bleak?

i know in life, there isnt always just black and white. i know i'd blogged about this previously but then tonight, this is of an entirely different context...
this is how i think, all these times.. that life, does not exist simply in just black or white. there are always grey areas in between and around... these grey areas, they allow me spaces in between the two extremes... allow me an avenue where nothing is forever right, and nothing is indefinitely wrong.
but then, when too many grey areas exist.. somehow, do things still work? the way it should?
when there are no extremes at all, do you still strive to achieve that either one end? or do you just simply hang around forever in between?
i should ask myself again then, what is the way that should?
however, tonight, most unfortunately.. i'd came to realize two things that is definite. at least it is to me, tonight.
by tonight, i should be giving up entirely on 2 things .. which so happen to take the most precious standings in my life, and yet, nothing more which i could do about.. to give up, is indeed a sad outcome. . . still, i do not think i need to subject myself to such pains...




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earth day~

well guess what, it's earth day today~!
i saw it on Google earlier this week ~ a very nice, green forest foliage image.
but i was too tied at the office, finishing off seemingly endless annual sales and product reports in time for the AGM today. yes, today, Earth Day.
so now, with all the chaos having settled down, and with the sales team happily munching away at Yuen's sunway, i am at home, logging into my fb... when i saw this among the wall posts:
so this is Earth Day.... what have i done enough or not for this earth?
i do turn my tap off when i'm brushing my teeth.. something which i'd been doing since my secondary school days...
but, no.. i do not separate my trash..
and i still havent gotten around to using my enviro-friendly WWF bag for my groceries shoppin`....
i still hav my AC on every night.... some pleasure that i cannot live without.. not when the room's been baked the whole day by the hot, equatorial sun. . .
and yet, i take my warm showers for way too long a time... and when it's cold water straight from the tap, it is always by the bucketfuls... coz seriously, when i resort to bathing cold water, it simply means the day's been just too warm!!!


so i guess i'm not doing much at all then. . .
hmm~ something for me to ponder about. . .

still, good day to you, Earth!! =D

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hahah~

seriously... i'd never seen this before in all my previous jogs at frim.
maybe it was because i never go that route the opposite way before,

or maybe it was simply because jamie has got a keener eye on humor~

to have this roadsign inside frim... one way to the waterfall picnic area, and the other way to Kepong ? ? ?

shouldnt it read like.. we dont know,,, EXIT perhaps???

=D

ticklish humor aside, it was a great jog nontheless~ ~ ~

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ytl madness~

i should do this. it is late.. (or should i say early?) but i should do this.

maybe, i'm still in escape mode. yes, plus the talks on some 3-weeks off work to go traversing in some eu countries... hmm~ not helping at all.

guess i'll just cap up the travel entries within this weekend, and i shall focus seriously on woek come monday, and maybe work on the reserves too... =)

Cameron Highlands Resort @ Tanah Rata, was to me in fact, a trip prolonging the holiday mood. reached KL on thur nite, and joined the gang for a trip uphill on Fri morning.

not before stopping at Bidor for some famous noodles, we finally reached YTL's CHR by somewhere noon-ish.

yes, notice the branding YTL. that was the sole reason we went up (at least to me it was...)

and this, was the highlight of the 3D2N package:

thinking back now, couldnt imagine what i'd miss if i'd skipped the Spa package!! yikes!!!

the therapists were great. think it being some non-peak season helped a lot too.

and the tea-bath soak, was really splendid too~ sheer indulgence i'd say....

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some of the blissful shots taken~

dreamy poster beds.. the norm at CHR. very plush and comfy indeed~

first night's dinner (we opted out from CHR's lunch + dinner package..) at one of the many steamboat joints. those snouts coming out from the pots were for some special herbal soup-based steamboat heated using coal. we went for the usual yin-yang instead. the gang just couldnt live without tomyam~


afternoon itinerary included the Sungei Palas 'BOH' Tea Centre.

this, their exhibition area. tastefully done i must say... spacious! spacious!!

night activities, besides bucking at the local Starbucks, some mustav card games and wine. the Bruce Lee playing cards that i'd brought back from Jiufen as souvenirs for the gang proved to be handy as mr. gamemaster artfully kept all tools downhill . . .

and those, yes, all 5 bottles... within 2 nights of course~

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Holidays~ hmm.... bliss-nyerrrr...

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trippin`taipei~

traveling, holidays, breaks, vacations, whatever you name it, is increasingly becoming more as an avenue of escape for me.

and i'm not too sure whether that's good news or bad. well, let's just be happy enuf that i still have something i like doing, and the means to do it.

yes, 'the means to do' it 'cause; the pc-tech-guy from office was askin' me about my recent one-week off work. to which i briefly replied that i went to Taiwan. he then went on to load me on his plans, yes, plans only, to Langkawi island. plans only, cause seriously, he would have to consider all expenses and costs to be incurred for his entire family: wife + 2 kids + parents-in-law. Gosh. with all those $ to Langkawi for 6pax, i'd be able to fly to Taiwan again~ ~ ~

that's just sample calculations, not that i do not advocate family life of any sort =)

now back to my trip. it was great. a very free & easy itinerary, well laid (i do think) by myself, and some add-ins by Sis (which was great, i especially liked her agenda on Eslite's bookstore at Dunhua South Road, Daan District). the long walks were worth every bit of it, not just for the sake of Eslite, but also for the entire trip. wrong turns and extra leg-work where they had actually been silly mistakes, turned out to be memorable parts of the trip... something worth chuckling about~...

and the freedom to just walk, and walk, and stop and sit, and then walk some more, with no constraint of Time.. hmm~

apart from the pics loaded on my fb, these few are the ones that i especially liked.

no faces, just spaces.

we stayed at this Star Beauty hotel at the Shilin area. MRT station to our home for those 5 nights? JIANTAN Station (Danshui, Red line). which was also the stop to get to the Shilin Night Market and the Shilin Food Square. they are in fact just opposite each other by a street. not unusually, we'd discovered the food square first, before actually asking for the shopping streets... ehehheh~ the food square, by the way, was our most frequented for dinners and late suppers.


this, is just outside our hotel. every morning, after breakfast, we'd make it a point to just sit by the benches at the park and watch as the local folks go about their daily business. for our 6-days' trip, 3 of it fell on a long weekend there. and for the remaining 3, we got to see the local workforce walk about in their working garbs.. which was distinctly different from the weekend outfits. yes, even guys there put much emphasis on their looks...


Taipei 101. no, we did not go onboard their observatory deck. we didnt feel like we wanted to, plus, with clouds like that, who needs to waste the precious new taiwan dollars yeah~??

Monday-QingMing-National holiday-we didnt know. and so we happily went onboard the TRA (Taiwan Railway Administration) train bound for Hualien. our stop: Ruifang ... solely for Jiufen. i'd fell in love with this place the previous time i visited taiwan on a hurry-hurry tour trip. but this time, as much as i had like to relive the old streets charm of Jiufen, it was simply, just too packed. bummer~

the Ruifang station was a cute one. open aired, nothing like the city's well-concealed MRT stations.

inside Ruifang station. very quaint indeed. this was after all, used to be a mining town. coal perhaps, i didnt really find out.

impressive pics inside the hallway of Ruifang station. yes, we made time to stop and stare. lovely.

yes, finally, a quiet street at Jiufen. without the famous red lanterns, this is definitely one street less frequented by the crowds.

towards Beitou. conveniently reachable via the city's MRT lines, we allocated a day entirely to explore Beitou. do you see? 'back to the Past'? wow wee~~


just luved the mist-drenched, moss-covered walls along Beitou. they were everywhere! i gotta say, Tuesday @ Beitou was my most enjoyed part of the entire trip. my winner!


a stop by the roadside. yes, the entire Beitou hotspring area runs by a hotspring stream. gosh~.. i would luv to be back again~!!!

my faithful Rubi shoes. takin' a break at a hotspring private room.


quaint steps towards the Beitou branch library. fuhhh~!!! is our library here anything like that?


the skies in spring taipei was unforgiving. on most days, it was cloudy and greyish. we had our umbrellas with us all the time. but this, was successfully captured by Sis. nice~!

our last night in taipei. back to our fav Shilin food square for supper. a Wednesday night, the place was finally clear of snackers.

the familiar crossing toward our hotel from Shilin night market and Jiantan station. we'd have to cross this street everytime gettin in and out from our hotel. i dont think sis wanted to leave at all. well, neither did i but still~....

these, some of the stuffs i brought back ... for memories.

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ouchh~!

they say Ignorance is bliss.
well, i somewhat agree... 'cause at most of the time, it is really, a matter of one's choice.
after all, most often, not knowing something is indeed more comfortable than knowing it.
so you subject yourself to ignorance, and watch as the world goes by.

Carelessness, i'd say it's a habit.
you carry around.. a simple mind, simple thoughts, and accept nonchalantly most things that come, and do not come, your way.

but Stupidity. i think that is the most unnecessary cause to gloom and despair. the root of all evil.
ignorance, i could still live with it.
carelessness, i choose to think some are inborn with it.
but Stupidity.. it is just So Unnecessary~!

say, getting something at full price when there's a sale coming on the next two days could be labeled as ignorance.
arriving at the station, a quarter past twelve for the last morning train could be said as careless.
but driving head-on on a one way route, the opposite way, with some flashing barricade just at the end of the road is what I call plain Stupidity. Simply inexcusable..~!

so, at the end of the day (nite), i've got only myself to blame. and of course, my stupidity as well.
=S




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aduii~

how do you set your rhythm back to 'normal' mode after 9 days of travelling?
in short, just how Do you get yourself back to work?
am dreading this already... yes, yes, 9 days of away-from-woek and from the usual daily go-abouts is really nothing to shout about for many. but still, for dear me... who is helplessly, and foolishly wishing that the night would never end.. tsk tsk tsk...

but then again, how many times have i wished that my sundays would never end right???
=S
until then.. (the next trip..) i'll just hav to buck-up and really Work.



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