Closer to year end

We are down to two more months and year 2010 welcomes us. How time flies. This year has lots of ups and downs. Economic turndown forced many companies to shut down, downsize and pay cut, people seek for new jobs to sustain their lifestyle, household wreck due to financial difficulties, people take risk to open their own business and many other issues when you shout out, there it be.

As for myself, I experienced every madness of these and find it almost unbelievable that I managed to pull myself together and hang on. This derives from self-motivation, determination and many other factors that allow me to see, learn and grow. I didn't like change. But somehow I need to adapt to change. As cliche as it may sound, we are all living in our comfort zone and wishful thinking, we can stay like this for ever.


I'm not complaining how bad my life is now. I am living in a lucky condition and pray that I will be able to keep it this way or better yet, keep improving and be happy.

I hope, year next will be better for everyone.

Know your BREASTS!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) (also referred to locally as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM)) is an annual international health campaign organized by major breast cancer charities every October to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention and cure. The campaign also offers information and support to those affected by breast cancer.

As well as providing a platform for breast cancer charities to raise awareness of their work and of the disease, BCAM is also a prime opportunity to remind women to be breast aware for earlier detection.

Info about BCAM

Wedding on highlands

Last weekend, dear and I went to Cameron Highlands to attend friends wedding dinner. It took us roughly 3 hours drive from KL to highlands as we took Simpang Pulai road which was a little longer than the old whinny road. I am quite astonished how much Cameron looked like... coz it seemed that it did not change at all since the last time I came here with my family when I was a child. The towns looked ran down, people were practically living in old shedding flats and houses. Frankly, I did not see any nice houses! To think that Cameron is an ideal place to live, I have the perception that people would at least have a decent place to live and hang out. They don't even have a place to hang out, except that they have to drive all the way to Ipoh for shopping. Other than that, they usually do their marketing in the morning or night market along the street in their town. On the other hand, people have their own vegetation in their home ground which is good, coz they can control how much pesticides to put into their fresh vegetables so they have better health than any of us who rely our marketing in big shopping malls which we wouldn't know whether we are buying fresh or chemical products.

Anyways, before the wedding, dear and I met up with his friends who came all the way from Singapore and KL too, to attend this wedding. I must guess this couple who got married are very close to their friends that they are willing to come to their wedding up here! We had quick lunch and went to the BOH Tea plantations afterward. It was the most amazing view of Cameron so far as it was greenery all over and the way the tea is planted on the hills...It was very beautiful, I have to admit. The day wasn't too kind to us, well, apparently I got to know that Cameron is always raining, like 3/4 of the time! The wind and coldness at the tea plantations was absolute chilly but of course, for most of us who enjoy being in a cold room or living in overseas for sometime before can cope this temperature. Drinking hot, aromatic tea while enjoying the greenery view at this place is simply top notch activity one should do.

Having notified in the wedding card that the dinner will start 6.30pm SHARP (fuh, they really highlight in BOLD), the dinner really started on time as dear and I reached only on the dot to find that everyone was already at their seat waiting for the couple to walked to the stage. I missed this part as I went to the ladies for hardly 5 minutes - darn! Our table consisted of young people whose mostly from the same college as dear previously, how interesting. Seriously, the food was good, unlike most weddings in the city, the food served was not as good as the one we had for this dinner. We all had too much to drink when the night passed by, as we watched aunties and uncles k-sing & dance on stage - very sporting! The dinner ended at 9.30pm and we realized everyone has gone home, and I mean the older folks. We sat in front, only knew when we take a look of the hall when the dinner ended. This is something all Malaysians should learn. BE PUNCTUAL!

I enjoyed this trip, though initially I was contemplating to go due to some reasons. Thanks for this trip, dear!

On gear 4

I was expecting this when Eid holidays was over and plentiful of work to catch up due to the fact that I have been away from my desk for company training plus the long weekend. With this, it only leaves me with few days to work on my events which deadline is overwhelmed! No complains, I am very happy I have work to do instead of sitting in front of the desktop and browsing through nonsensical websites. Okay, I was kidding. I read many useful websites, but ME don't pay me sit and do nothing, did they?

Here I am, back from a long hard day walking around, surveying popular products in town. I was happy I did so, because it has been months I wanted to do it and no one was really interested in what I wanted to pursue. Now I have dear who is willing to tag along, so why not start it right now? No harm, in fact I think it has been a fruitful day, took down notes, met potential dealers and understand further on what we are going to deal later. Darn I live with checklists!

After walking around for hours, we settled down with some pisang goreng which tasted awesome!!! Bad for health, who cares! :P The banana was sweet enough and the crispy parts tempted me to have more.... Yums~ In case you want to know where I got them, please drive yourself to SS2. They are located at a corner opposite McD and it's a Chinese owner :P

Have fun this weekend peeps!

To be or not to be...

that is the question....

After all the excitement over the past weeks, we were finally at KLPac to watch a stage play titled; Hamlet. We got the 3pm tickets for today. It was a superb act by the youngsters. Bravo! If you guys are interested to watch, tomorrow 3pm is the last session. Otherwise, it's a little waste for those who really enjoy artsy-bitsy scene.