Offshore again

Currently i am at Miri, waiting for my time to go offshore to Teknik Berkat again. I was back on land for 3 days and off i go again. But the past 3 days, i really enjoyed myself in town; spend time with my family, Sarah, Jack and also got to do some window shopping and have some different kind of food in town.

Hmm... how i feel this time? I would say better as i have been there before and also know some of the people there, not so alien. But to come to think of 2 weeks there doing nothing, hmm, that might be the turn off coz boring, nothing much to do, i dont have much movies with me, internet connection gonna be scare and also not nice to use internet and chatting away while the others do their daily work right...

Can consider i got myself prepared, in the way where i prepare some stuff to eat to pamper myself, my 3G connection (hope it works like a charm at TB) and also my movies (not a lot, but hope it is enough to last me through) and some nice treats for the people up there.

Now i just hope to earn more money from this trip and use it on something that i treasure, probably treat my parents and also for my photography gears :-) What i miss most is the good time in KL and also Sarah. Didnt get to spend much time with her lately as i was busy in work, and she also has her studies to juggle. So hope by year end, i can spend some time with her, probably a short weekend trip to somewhere for our vacation.

Year end coming, so much excitement in me. Year end means Christmas is coming to town, liked the christmas spirit a lot, though i am not a christian, but beats it and i join in the fun :-) Also looking forward to vacation with Sarah, her parents and also with my parents. Just hope i can get enough leave for year end :-)

Okay, that's for all now. Hope to blog more when i am up there (if possible). Would like to extend my condolences to Kumar for the departure of his grandpa. May he rest in peace and may your family be strong throughout this emotional period. To all other people, i miss you guys!

Late then never - My CNY wishes :-)

Happy Chinese New Year, though late wishes, today is already the 12th day of the chinese calendar, but better than no wishes for this year. Hmm... CNY this year had its pros and cons. This year, the CNY leave is considered good, as for those in KL working, taking 3 days off will result in straight 10 days holiday. What more can you expect if it was not 10? I wanted to take more days off but guess good things need to come to an end, why not leave it to later when it could be best utilised :-) Cons is that i am so happen to be on-call throughout the celebration, with money for sure, but the feel of not able to enjoy the fullest and had to carry my laptop with me when visiting. Imagine, bringing laptop bag around during CNY, not the best thing that could ever happen. Why? Cause laptop bag can be considered as 'book bag' or in cantonese is pronounce is 'shu pau' which means sure lose. Surely those gambler would not want to meet me with that bag :-)

Since this year is not that good in terms of economic stability of the world nations, which also include our tiny country, just hope that things will turn out fine for me in terms of my work and hope there is progress over all and chances of advancement. Also hope all my family and friends would stay healthy and happy in life, bet that is the most important one in life. Some may hope for wealth and etc, but come to think of it, happiness is the main thing for me in life. Old fashion? Perhaps but what more can we get out of life if we are not happy clocking our daily shifts of our lifetime? Tell me or share with me if you have your thoughts.

What is left? Another 3 days more to go and CNY is over. Sigh, why time passes so damm fast, and the meaning of CNY seems to be fading, more to a days off rather than some big celebration. This year i tried to bring back some tradions back to my home, helped to decorate my house with some red stuff and hangging items, that could obviously bring up the CNY mood and as well to chip in to the reunion dinner with my relatives. Also to help out in preparing the food and not just sit and wait for food like the previous years, kind of like the idea of preparing for CNY as one whole family :-)

All well so far... hope this year will be a better year for all :-)

CNY 2008 - House Visiting

Yesterday was the 10th day of CNY for the year 2008. We decided to have a house to house visit for the group of us as old time friends. In the morning, me and sarah went to the Thien Hou Temple to pray and also to snap a few shots. Then later proceed to Sun Ming @ Tmn Connaught to have lunch, duck rice before meeting up with Winnie and the rest at her house.

As usual, Chin Yong was late and hence we only able to depart from Winnie's house at about 2.30pm, nearing to 3pm. First we went to Kien Yap's house. Her mum was there, lots of chatting. Then later proceed to EeVern's house for a while, later only drove two roads down to reach Kee Hon's house where we start visiting his new house and then start with our mahjong session in his house.

Later we proceed to dinner and then later i send Sarah back to her house before i proceed to Win Khong's house for session 2 of the mahjong. At last we proceed home after about 1am in the morning.

The photos that i took for the whole day is as below:

Tomorrow is another working day

Today would be the forth day of CNY, tomorrow would be the fifth day. I would be working, along with most of the Chinese community in Malaysia. Seems or felt like this year's CNY celebration is rather short. As for me, i felt that the time past quite very fast and without ever me noticing it, it is already the night of the celebration day. I can still recall the new year's eve where i am busy doing the preparation, now i am going to work the next day. Sigh, time past so fast when we get elder.

Today i was at the farewell dinner for one of my friend, Kuan Ming. He will be traveling to Australia, Brisbane to further his study there for about 1 year to 1.5 years. Got the news that he is leaving for sometime back already, but it was still far away when the news broke, now it would be by tomorrow at about 9.30am, he would be on the plane heading for Australia. So fast, yet so much to say to him. He has been a great friend and always a helpful one when approached. He might have his attitude or his way of reacting to some request or stuff, but he always give his best in everything he does. Will feel the lost then, especially he has been helping me on the new camera that i have got and some of the advice i got from him. Thank you Kuan Ming. Wish you all the best in your studies in Australia and looking forward to see you soon back in Malaysia, either end of this year or early next year. Do keep in touch and take care and i bet i would be able to see you online over there in Australia.

Upon returning to work, i would be attending a 3 days course on Articulus Workshop. I only had a general idea of what Articulus means, looking forward for tomorrow and also this week to end so that i can resume my celebration for CNY. Okay for now, i need to get some sleep and then be fresh for tomorrow. Happy CNY again to all, and may all have a pleasant year of RAT for this year.

 

P/s: Still in the process of getting the dinner photos from Kuan Ming and will publish here soon.

Already the forth day of CNY

Today is already the forth day of chinese new year, sigh time is passing very quickly as tomorrow i would need to go back to work again, cannot rest at home as how the past 5 days that i have been.

For the second and third day of CNY, nothing much happened. Only visiting my relatives here and there. Quite a little boring though, perhaps the atmosphere is not as great as how i expect it to be. But in some other housing area, the atmosphere is much better than where i stay, Bangsar.

Hope all has a good CNY...

CNY Adverteisement of 2008

For any festive celebration in Malaysia, normally a lot of companies would be having some of the special advertisement for the specific purpose. As for Chinese New Year this year, I found this commercial quite meaningful where it reminds all (chinese) to be back for reunion dinner, also to celebrate the festive season with his/her family members. I think this is quite meaningful and touching where the story is about an orphan where he do not have a family where reunion dinner would be of less or no meaning to him and all that he has for the festive celebration, would be the group of people whom he lived under the same roof. Below is the video taken from the YouTube. Hope you would enjoy the video and understand the true meaning of family and the reason behind the festive season, Chinese New Year.




Wishing all, a very Happy Chinese New Year 2008, the year of the Rat.

First Day of CNY

Today would be the first day of Chinese New Year. Normally the awaiting for the first day is long, but once come the first day, then very quickly it will be day after day already.

The day before CNY, it was quite relaxing as I was not working on the day where I had taken an off day to relax and also to prepare myself for the upcoming CNY. Few things that I need to do before CNY; cleaning up my room (my table is in a mess, my television rack is also in a mess and etc). It would not be good if people see my messy room during CNY. As I was quite lazy to do my cleanup, it took some time before I am able finish up my clean up process as I was cleaning then later would lie on my bed watch some movies, then wander off to somewhere and then back to cleanup. This is why it took some time for me to complete the clean up process. But at least I do get my chance to drop by Mid Valley again to purchase myself a pair of shoe for the upcoming CNY within few hours. I wanted to buy the other day, but didn’t have the time as I was searching for something else at the time.

As usual, the night would be to wait for the 12 midnight where the prayer session would start then later we (the 5 of us) would then proceed to the temple, nearby to the Central Market and perform some praying before heading to home. Before we reach home, we made a detour to the mamak stall nearby and had our supper or morning breakfast. Then later reach home and I proceed to my shower, played some PS2 games before getting myself to sleep at about 4 in the morning. It has been a tiring day already and looking forward to the next day, the first day of Chinese New Year.

First day of CNY, it was as usual where I woke up late as I slept late last night. After I wake up, then I had my lunch with my family, while waiting for my relative to arrive at my house after lunch time as this is the tradition for the years before. After that, my relative arrives and then had some chat sessions in my house for about an hour before we proceed to another relative house at Balakong. So happen that most of my cousin sister are there, so it is much easier for us to chit chat and then to visit each other.

We left the house at about 5pm where we proceed back to our house to prepare for dinner at home. After dinner, then I decide that I would want to visit my friend in Cheras. I left house about 9pm and return by midnight bringing along supper for myself and my sisters. Then played some PS2 games, I did complete the single player game for the SWAT Global Strike Team. Later I slept at about 2am to prepare for my day the next.

MidValley Photo Shoot - With Friends

Went to MidValley on the 24th December 2007 to shoot some photos and also for some shopping. The photos is as below:



Bought quite some stuff from MidValley also, quite a number of items were on sales. I am poorer by few hundred bucks again. Anyhow, its Christmas and also Year End Sales...What the heck...

Camera shoot with my new camera @ MidValley City

Decided to go to MidValley for a walk and also to shoot some shots over there on the Christmas theme decorations. Not bad, not as white as last year, but this year its more to orangey or late summer feeling. Its nice there and worth the shots.

Wanted to take some photos there earlier, but didn't had the chance to until last Thursday when i got the camera, but it was a busy and hectic weekend where i don't have the time to try it out. Since this week, until Thursday i will be having my off days, guess its the best time to try out my new gadget that cost me 3 grand. Though it is big and bulky, but it is kind of fun to have it around to snap some nice photos or the place and people, mostly memories that describe a thousand words.

Took some random photos of the place and also some interesting stuff as the slideshow below:

The actual size photo for the above slideshow is available as the hyperlink below,

MidValley - Christmas Deco 2007

These are only some of the snapshots that i have took @ MidValley. These are only the thumbnails, will update the link to the photo album later on today. Tired now, and my camera battery is all charged up, so its time for me to charge my biological battery instead. Chaos ~

Updated: Removed the numerous photos from the entry and replace with slideshow and also hyperlink to the web album.