Random Pictures

I went to Amcorp Mall and noticed this shop, which is almost the same as the Hong Kong Milan shop that sells original second hand branded stuff from what i can see from this position (i.e: watches, designer bags etc.)

Milan Classic - LG Floor Amcorp Mall, Petaling Jaya near Taman Jaya LRT station

I love this restaurant that serves a mean dish of Fried Mee Hoon Noodle with crab or with oysters (in chinese = la la) apart from serving the regular steam boat (price is per head).

This Steamboat Restaurant, Puchong (behind Tesco)

Went with Cousin Una & her family& Colleagues to Tanjung Sepat during the Raya Holidays. I was surprised to find a lot of people visiting this place and its surrounding areas. They even have homestay and rental service for all terrain vehicle (ATV). It is a little expensive as they are charging on per hour basis. We went to the Bun shop, the coffee seed shop, the dragon fruit farm, the cracker factory/ shop, the seafood restaurant, the mushroom farm, the beach ..erm... i think that's about it. We saw the same people every time we arrived at our destination. It felt like i was on a tour. I'm surprised to find that i actually enjoyed myself.



Ganofarm Homestay Map & It's surrounding Tourist area- Tanjung Sepat, Selangor

I know the picture still sucks.. ahha..

Current Things

In my black book. I normally would write down all the current things that i like or things that i am doing. It goes something like this.

Current Favourite Movie - Dear John (2010/I) Movie (an adaptation to Nicholas Sparks Novel).
Current Favoutite Song  - Note to God by Charice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Xd435coD4
Current Favourite TV shows - Burn Notice, True Blood, NCIS, Castle, Chuck ( (can't decide between these)
Current Book I'm reading - Angel Time by Anne Rice - Hardcover - Random House
Current Favourite Reality Show - MTV Real World/ Road Rules Fresh Meat Challenge http://www.mtv.com/shows/rwrr_challenge/fresh_meat_2/series.jhtml
Current Favourite TV person (dead) - Phil Harris (RIP) of Deadliest Catch. I've put off watching the episode where he had his stroke until last night. It was really heartbraking.
Current Favourite TV casts (living) - The NCIS team
Current Favourite Real person - CK
Current Drink Crave - 100plus
Current Food Crave- Amazingly i'm not craving anything right now. Can't really taste anything with my taste bud all screwed up
Current mood/ health - Calm, Bored, sleepy, tired from coughing too much & can't breath properly with my block nose
Current want - Draw out money to go see a doctor about this cough.

Under the weather

It is always that when i am at a low point that i started thinking about my family back in The Land Below the Wind. Especially now that i have been under the weather for almost 2 weeks. I texted a few people yesterday while waiting for CK to be done with his inspection at site (i can't get in to our site office since i don't have a key. I did have a key to the toilet :) ). So,  i texted MamaRoach for some sympathy. Which i got.  (Been vomitting for 3 days straight in the morning, i managed to keep everything in today...yay me). Texted my bro (wai) complaining that he rarely replied my texts after he got himself a pretty fiancée. Which he denied. And texted Gale asking 'bout what's next for her after Australia.

That's when Fishy came in doing what he did best. Talk talk talk talk talk. i was doing what i did best. Completely shut him out. Which meant nothing to him at all. He'd just talk and talk and talk...talk.. and talk somemore. Called me 'leng lui' so many times with no point in conversation at all.. i just think that he liked that words.

After lunch:

"Leng Lui.. Leng Lui... Leng Lui...Leng Lui.....Leng Lui...." Fishy.

"Ngo mou meng kiu meh?" Me-translate into " Don't i have a name that you can call?"

I'm flattered but.. what's the point of calling me that so many times if you don't even have something to say?

I gotten the hell out of there when i saw that CK was about to leave me alone in our site office with Fishy. Fishy said something about him not having his car with him and asking me to drop him off near my office. Straight up i told him "No". Enough about him.

I have started writting on my super pricy black book/ journal. Work has been slow lately sometimes even boring. I am looking forward to my trip to Penang/ Seberang Prai this Saturday for Ah Siong's wedding. I'm just really not looking forward to the driving for 4-5hours part. I will be having LP & probably Shwu Yuan with me. But with me coughing all the way, it is not something that i am going to enjoy. I did planned on going off  a little early to go and see a doctor for a cough mixture yesterday & stopped by Gale's tenant house for a few documents before I found out that yesterday was Chinese Valentines Day.

I was a little surprised that CK was wearing nicer t-shirt to work yesterday. I put two and two together, then i knew that he has something planned that night. So, typical of me feeling sorry for myself. I went back to my main office and rally up my miserable colleagues into having dinner/ something to eat with me. Boss also stayed till around 8.30pm which was uncharacteristic of him but all the better 'coz he treated us to Rakuzen (Japanese Food) at Empire Shopping Gallery. Five of us went for a Rm300+ dinner with Boss(chauffeur). Ate till my stomach was about to explode. Reached home around 10.30pm.

Ash Brown Liese Bubble Hair Colour

I've been wanting to try out the Liese Bubble Hair Colour since i saw the advertisement on TV. I went and got myself the Ash Brown colour and dyed my hair. The price is less than RM40. FYI, I have a very stubborn hair, one that never changes colour whenever i dyed it (self dye and saloon dye). Except when i bleached it. But bleaching is very damaging to my hair. Duh~~This is the 1st time the hair dye that i used really changed my hair colour. I am a cheapskate, can't afford to go to a saloon and pay thousands of ringgit for a dye job.

This is what's inside the box

I have long hair. When i first saw the bottle and the mixture inside, i thought that it would not be sufficient for my hair. It took a while for my hair to bubble up. But it did eventually. Turns out the mixture is more than enough for my hair and i don't need to get an extra bottle like i've read about in some other blog and the instruction paper.

So this is what transpires that day.

My hair prior to colouring against a black background. The lighter streak is from the time that i bleached my hair.

After dyeing for 1/2 hr

My hair colour is more even than the previous one as shown in the pictures above.

Hair colour shows a little under fluorescence light

I found it a little frustrating that some of the blog that i read did not put in any pictures of their before and after hair pic. Now i know. It's hard to get the exact colour with a camera. After taking a few (i mean a lot) of picture to show the hair colour, this is the best that i can do.

All in all, i like this hair dye because it is easy to apply compare to the comb routine. And this is the hair dye to go if you have hard to dye black hair like me.

Tips: Read the instruction carefully before applying.

1) I missed out a few points which is do it in a properly ventilated area (i did in my room, the fumes is almost unbearable).
2) Have a box of tissue ready to wipe away stray bubbles (i wiped them away with my towwl i had wrapped around me).
3) The yellow packet which is all written in Japanese is like a hair conditioner. But you have to leave it on and not to rinse it. (Lucky i did this part right).

Yoga & Me

We are never too old to learn something new!

So, since gale is an avid diver now and LP is taking up piano lessons from a guy 4 years her junior (i'm guessing that the guy has a thing for her & the feeling may be mutual .. :) ), i have decided to take up YOGA. So i went to the one in Bandar Puteri Puchong and signed up for a 3 months (24 lessons + 2 free classes) for RM220.00 twice a week or as i see fit until i used up all the 26 classes.

Schedule for Studio 1 & 2 (As of 9th Sept' 2010)

The pink highlighted class are Hatha Basic.

Schedule for Studio 3 & 4 (Above Ambank-easy to find if you are familiar with Bandar Puteri)

The Blue highlight is for Aerodance. Which i assume is some type of aeobic dance. Will try it out as well.

Apart from YOGA, they also have Aerodance that i can take up as well. Except for the Belly Dance class that need another type of payment. Lots of the classes is conducted at the Studion 3 & 4 (above Ambank). The other Studio 1 & 2 is located opposite Giant, above A-Wet Thai Cafe.

Studio 1 & 2 (above A- Wet Thai Cafe)

Class Available- I'm taking the Hatha Yoga for Beginners

Courses Available

I know the pictures are horrible, but  you can always check the internet for further info. Paid for deposit RM50. And the balance will be paid on the 1st visit/ class. They also have free steam bath at Studio 1 & 2.

Flower of Samosir

We almost missed our plane to Medan, G&V were quite relax in the KLIA transit train. But they started sprinting when the door openned. 1st time i ran all the way to the luggage drop in counter. And i only saw Lai Peng when we were already on the plane.!! Can u imagine?!~.. hehe.. Phew..~~ i imagine that she would have to spend the holiday there alone if we missed the plane..~ :)

Anyway, believe it or not.. i had fun at Lake Toba, Medan.

Due to very organized plans by V& G, we were picked up at every point of arrival. I.e.: at the airport straight to a waiting 7 seaters (3-4 hrs), to a boat ride (1 hr), to a another 7 seaters (10-15min) to our destination. Thyesza/ Flowers of Samosir, Ambarita.

The view of the place was amazing.

It was raining- Thyesza guest house

The lake could be a little cleaner though. I got excited when i saw that they have books there, but they are all in French or some other foreign langauge. :( . Oh well, i still have my The Last Don by Mario Puzo with me :).

Our 4 days 3 nights stay there is more than enough to satisfy our curious mind about the surroundings. The day of arrival, we had our late lunch at around 4-5pm and then went straight to bed after making plans for tomorrow and planning to wake up at 8 or 9pm to have dinner. All of us slept the whole night through. Per night, the room is RPH150,000.00 with heater. (No fan or a/c in our room- but the night was surprisingly pleasant. Slept in a high bed with thick comforter). I literally felt like i was about to fall off everytime i'm getting out of my bed.

Our rooms are the bottom rows- Pooi Leng & Mei Hui (Left), LP & I (middle), G& V (right)

The water was cold, reminded me of how Ranau's water in the morning & night felt. It was also windy & cold at night. But the afternoon was scorching hot. We tried out the strenght of the sun on our 3rd day there by trekking from Ambarita to the Stone Chairs about 2km away.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/photo.php?pid=5070851&id=533451294&ref=fbx_album - Courtesy of Grace KC- FB

 I can't say much about the history of the place, because there are no information board detailing the history of the site there. Grace said one of the info board (rarely seen) said that the Stone Chairs in the pic above were used for meetings. There's another one near the place where they sell souvenirs that were used for execution (i read from some other blog).

When we went to the Batak Museum on our 2nd day trip, we tried the dance..

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/photo.php?pid=6690664&fbid=463384187145&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=686607885&id=698062145- Courtesy of Pooi Leng FB

 On the same day we went to the hotspring. Couldn't really swim/ soak in it 'coz it's hooooootttt....!!

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/photo.php?pid=5070835&id=533451294&ref=fbx_album- Grace Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/photo.php?pid=5070895&id=533451294&ref=fbx_album- Grace Facebook

At night, we played Monopoly card game.. i suck at it, didn't win a single round. There is zero entrepreneual blood/ instinct in me.

The rest of the time, we spent reading by the lake and soaking up the damaging sun rays. There's not much to do there, no canoe, no water sports, no massages, no manicure/ pedicure, not a lot of tourist. Tuk-tuk town has a lot more things going on (food, books).

All in all.. it was a very peaceful holiday for me.. a VERY stress free one.. which could loosely translate into boring. But it's not.! hehe.. the adrenaline rush is only the driving from Medan to Parapat & the return trip. My life flash through my eyes a couple of times then, when head on collision is close.