road trip~

like seriously, did i really spent close to an hour in the bathroom? thawing out myself while waiting for one of them to start fidgeting, showin' signs of an early breakfast perhaps?...

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the air conditioning was unforgiving unexpectedly, the sheets were just a tad too tiny. and the door.. as blocked as my nose was. the bathroom, was my only respite. not like i didnt try holing up myself on the bed, it just couldnt work, and dozing back to slumber wasnt an option neither. so the warm rays of light through the bathroom window is all i can remember now of our lovely boutique hotel back on Jonker Street.. :)

but enuff about the bathroom. it was cosy nontheless, the hotel.. for one night.

and the location exceptional.

the cafe next door was pretty quaint too. okay, it would've scored better if the people running it were less frenetic.

other than that, it was perfect in fact... for our little excursion to a highly packed holiday town on a busy national holiday weekend.

it was a nice feeling, fuzzy even, watchin' our local folks peddling along this redbricked street.. made me wonder how long have they been there along the red giants?

the fountain ~ which had me practically pushin'em both in front of the camera~!

the river. some major cleanups mustav taken place. i remember peeking over the bridge near Chung Wah's then and imagined spotting maybe a croc amidst its floating logs...

and climb the hill we did. with my 10x zoom olympus, i managed to capture a piece of the malaccan straits..

fancy not recalling this at all during our school trips then.. ??

guess it must have been a long, long time ago then...

you know that must be the case when you realize you cant even figure out which side the main fort entrance was at... it all just gets very unfamiliar when you decide to go about the place topsy turvy..~

well, it was a blessing in disguise indeed... with the sun burning down our backs, we saw the inviting 'north entrance' of some mall right opposite the fort entrance =)

one which we dashed straight into after taking our group shot.

well, not a very romantic way of ending this quaint post, but still, great pictures aside, the cooling A/C of Conventional Mall wins hands down against the Great Ruins a n y t i m e.

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another itch scratched...

bali.20102010

walkin' round the room singing Stormy Weather
at 57 Mount Pleasant Street
well it's the same room but everything's different
you can fight the sleep but not the dream


things aint cookin' in my kitchen
strange affliction wash over me
Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire
couldnt conquer the blue sky



there's a small boat made of china
it's goin nowhere on the mantlepiece
do i lie like a loungeroom lizard
or do i sing like a bird released




everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you
everywhere you go, you always take the weather...

@bali ~ 20.10.2010...

another itch scratched...

i gotta say..

..dont know what's been going on with my time in october, and now it's the 20th of the month already.. i'm due for another round of away-time... yup, come 830AM nanti (in more or less 9hrs from now..) me and mates will be off on MAS to b a l i :)

the sweetest feeling to-date for month octo? that short (uh-huh, short) drive from office to home after work today.

pleased. . . i guess that was what the feeling was after all.

been banging around the office these past few days to make sure woek is done (or at least almost done) in time before the long weekend away.

payroll's due this week.. i tink i aced it just in time.

the 1st half meeting presentation slides (which i will Not be here to attend..) are due this week.. with me not being in town this weekend, will also mean i'll be spared of this friday's whole-office-hiking-trip-to-Broga-Hill-at-430am as well ;D

and the team's claims M U S T be processed a.s.a.p. now that Helen's last day is at the end of this week too~!!!

and of course, a whole bunch of other 'suddenly urgent' stufs since the boss remembered i'll be away for 3days straight. . .

so a slow drive along the ldp, with the rest of them cars flying by on the right lane, proved to be quite a therapeutic exercise i discovered today. unrushed, that's what i was... with woek concluded for the week and behind me, and luggage packing not due until it's late late tonight, i took my own sweet time manuevering along the highway... bliss. guess the unwinding has already begun.

but of course, before i come back with some bali trippin stories next week. here's a simple recap-to-self on life-recently ...

our play for the company's annual Raya & Mid-autumn Fest dinner ~Chang'er & Houyi~ went well, uhm.. save for the end part where the moon just wouldnt show up... O.o

timed-out with the gang at Velvet on a thur nite.. something different, something new. and yes, they should keep it at thursdays coz the fact that the next-day-is-a-friday is truly great consolation. (and now i cant get justin bieber's song out of my head whenever i think back to this night... ♪you know you love me, i know you care♪~)


the once-in-a-lifetime TenTenTen~!! how clever of these people to come up with a Fun Run huh? and just the right thing too, for me and gang to actually come together for again, something different :)

caught this with the gang on a fri night. a funny one, absolutely necessary for an after-work-movie. and one-half-main-act Mark Walhberg? remember what he used to call himself?

yep.. Marky Mark it is.

and finally... jess' wedding at ipoh. another road trip was called for this.. courtesy of steven, had me and audrey both hanging around most of ipoh's must-go-to-shop places on a sunday afternoon... (salted chicken, heong peah... yep, you get the gist... )

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another itch scratched...

oh,look!

we "secretaries" are supposed to check the papers daily during lunch for tender announcements and such..
flippin the papers towards that section, we are bound to come across the comics and horroscopes part (is it just me?)
it is almost always inevitable that i would get curious enuff to check out my readings for the day.
i know it's all just some unreliable predictions and such, but yes, i always, do peek (do you? do you?)
and look what's in store for me today ... :

"you are longing for distant shores and may feel like getting on a plane and jetting off to an unknown destination. life cannot always be that exciting, so try to come to terms with a life that is more pedestrian."

O.o
i couldnt help but smirk while staring at that tiny paragraph next to the comic strips.
a life that is more pedestrian ??
what a drag . . .



another itch scratched...

weekends are for R&R!

i just dont get how some people choose to simply occupy their weekends with chores and running arounds.
i mean, weekends are for rest, people!
is it them or is it just me then ? ? ?

i'd just spent my friday evening and saturday running about .. albeit doing nothing earth-moving, but still, i'd barely had time for MEtime... you know, simply lazing around the haus , flippin through the papers, enjoying my mug of nescafe, or just channel surfing!!

i'd tried not to procrastinate.. so while spending these weekend times with family and friends, i try my best to enjoy their company, and put away 'me-thoughts'. i try my best to not hurry them, to not hurry myself... i try my best to laugh with them, soak in the humor and easy-breeziness of it all... i try.

but when i find myself even making the effort to try, it simply brings home the message that something is not so right somewhere within..
nothing chronic, but still..
i guess i gotta get to the root of the problem, and figure out things before i look back and see it all a waste of time and age. . . trying.


a good rest. maybe that's all i need. and that is exactly what i'll allocate my sunday to.
oh btw, hav you guys heard of that guy who won the 48mil toto jackpot?
gosh... bet that'll solve all my problems huh ? ? ?
=D



another itch scratched...

all in a day of woek..

just when i thought the weekend was finally approaching,
and that i culd finally have a night of late-tv-marathon or sumthing of that sort, (been bunking out early before 11pm throughout the weekdays..),
woek decided to extend its hours on a friday... which was worse than any normal 'extensions' as this one involved some silly politician-clients who wanted to print some equally silly election flyers at the lastest minutess!!!!
the amount of coordination work and printing time alone had me bumbling along between calls to the client, to the boss who wasnt in, to jane from the art department, and to my dear sales guys who would eventually come back to the office at closing time to help with the printing.. (tq! eric, zen & Kevin!!)
missing out on en rais' open house at our dataran prima office wasnt the biggest issue then, but now that i think of it, i do feel kinda missed-out of that function.. it was, after all, the first raya open house held officially at the KST office...~ oh well... guess i'll just be thankful the whole lot of mess was cleared by 9pm on a fri . . . =S


and today (saturday), was our official first rehearsal for the upcoming dinner-play.
yes, there's going to be another dinner at the office, this time for the Raya cum Mid-Autumn Fest celebrations, and it's going to be another performance required from us . . .
them bosses made it clear-er this time, they wanted the tale of chang-er`, that ancient gal who popped some pills and flew to the moon . . . (if you're also thinking of that one with the ten suns tale, then yes, you've also got it right).

rewind to wed evening: Got a call from kev, there will be a GRC meeting at 8am the next morning. it'll be on the coming dinner, fine.. but what has it got to do with me, i asked? i'm only the past grc-secretary!! ~ ~ ~

thur morn: 8am the meeting started. blah blah blah, jen's in-charged of a chinese play/dance performance (wuz like, waht? again ?!?? .. i'm like whut, 5-yrs old in this company and i'm still required to these choreographs? what happened to "leaving some opportunities to the new bloods"? and they're leaving us with like 3 days for the preparations? are they getting more notorious by the years or waht???) sigh......

well, well, again, .. if you cant beat 'em, might as well just join 'em!
once the name's been mentioned by the group MD himself, there's simply just no running away, and that's known fact for all of us there long enuff . . .
and so began my clicks on the internet, prepping up on the story of chang-er (wikipedia did the job fine!), prepping up on the costumes required for chang-er and the bloke houyi (found this costume rental place in pelangi d'sara ... 'costume world' with some serious stocks of whatever u can think of! .. oh, the convenience! we were damn impressed!) .. and finally, prepping up the team itself! thought it would do some good to get the team members motivated in the first place before we attempt any full-steam-aheads. fast-and-painless, that was always my motto for these 'side-projects' at the office, and that's what i made sure they know of. my assurance to them, in some ways... :)
roped in helen as co-pilot, joseph as creative director, bryan as male lead houyi, and aini as female lead chang-er.

fast-forward to saturday, today, we finally kicked off our first rehearsal. and i cannot heap enuff thanks and praises to kev, for all his enthusiasm and contribution to this play!!!
sure, he's the grc president and the dinner committee chairman and all, but the kind of eagerness and practical help that he actually put in, was really something that ive not seen before in any of the past presidents. he actually took my storyline and matched it with his own-edited background music complete with good-to-evil-song changes, eville laffs, and sound effects of arrows-bursting-9-suns!!!
to sum it all up, this is just great!!
we were only given like THREE working days to materialize everything that they'd envisioned.
so we cant be sure that we've aced all that they were having in their mind, but still, for something cooked up in less than 3 days! i am feeling mighty proud of my team here!
so now, i'll be happy enuff to just sit back as the scriptwriter, and have kev as our director from bollywood(!). the costumes' all set and paid for, the main leads already know what they're supposed to do, kev will be up with the final song edits by monday, and the supporting casts (including meself) have easy-enuff-roles that wont jeopardise the play. so as usual, i'll just let things run its course.. =)

oh darn, i'm suppose to come up ready with the props too~
that will entail sumthing like a tennis ball as the pill, and some arts-and-crafts for a big, beaming moon! ! ! s w e a t . . .


as i sat there this afternoon during rehearsal at our function room, lazing on the green banquet chair watching them rehearse onstage, i thought to myself, that this is just another day at woek... ohmmm~~~




another itch scratched...

star gazing~

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"where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise..."
well usually that is the case, but when reality pushes through, rather harshly i might say.. choices become quite limited..

the only consolation, the current favorite tune set on repeat mode at the player...




another itch scratched...