Chinese New Year | Voices from within

20Feb/111

The case of the missing..

Me.

It has been quite long since you last updated your blog hor?, one loyal reader asked :D

First, it was the long Chinese New Year break.
Then, it was back to long working hours. War has begun again in the office, back to how it was 2 to 3 months ago.

Let's go back to two, three weeks back!
* All photos taken using my new "digicam" a.k.a. iphone4 :-)

Chinese New Year 2011. Awesome reunion lunch at home; shopping at Mid Valley with Miss Lady Boss; jogging and badminton session with Kong cha; visiting my uncles and auntys (mom's siblings), so many new babies and kids this year!

Cycling (2^nd CNY in a row) at Putrajaya. Apparently less tiring than the one we had last year at Shah Alam.

It was also my little brother's birthday on 6^th Feb. Here he is with the necktie and new shoes gifted by his sisters. The boy is 19 this year!

Next, my youngest sister came over to Singapore the week after my Chinese New Year break. I was only able to accompany her on Sunday evening when she arrived. We also had breakfast together before I went to work the following days. Still, I've had *ahem* enough of her noise. Haha.

Later this week, I was so surprised to hear that Pei Yee got invited for an interview with one of the columnist in a local newspaper! Wow, that is something, right? Cannot wait to see the interview on paper :-) For those of you who would like to check out some of her inventions, please click here.

I was bugged with never-ending work last weekend and only got to do some walkabouts this weekend. More photos coming up on the new attraction at Marina Bay Sands, the ArtScience Museum.

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28Feb/100

Last Day of CNY 2010

Just got back into my flat from a tiring but fruitful weekend :-)

Firstly, I met up with Mr Allan Chuah, an ex-colleague from my first company. The main purpose of meeting up was to catch up with him and introduce a new friend to D-zai. Allan just got himself a new EOS 1000D. Hehe. Hence, we spent an hour plus at Starbucks exploring each other's camera :D

Later at night, I met up with the usual ex-TRW colleagues gang for Lou Sang dinner. We also spent few hours playing poker after that. I did not join them for poker as I prefer to enjoy myself, lying down on Shih Wei's long and comfortable sofa in the air-conditioned room, cuddle her pro-active puppy (unless he decides to wet me with his saliva) :D

Although I spent most of my time with friends this weekend, I was happy that he got to blend a little more with my family, especially Mom. Mom wanted me to have him at home for lunch so much. I'm glad he agreed :-) And.. he had to gulp down 2 bowls of rice (although Mom's chicken rice was a little tasteless that day)!

When we reached Singapore, we decided to walk to Mount Faber to wait for the sunset. Actually, we wanted to practise shooting sunrise (for our KK trip) but we went for sunset instead due to time constraints. Pictures will come later.

Reminding myself that I have 3 more days to go before my trip to Kota Kinabalu! I guess I have all things checked, except for few bars of chocolates. Got to start packing tomorrow night!

So, so, so tired today. Enjoyed it nevertheless. Good night! :-)

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19Feb/100

CNY 2010 – The Extreme (Part 2)

..the journey continues.

And.. *drum roll*
Our main objective for visiting the Agriculture Park was..

Come, come! RM3 per hour! RM1 for every additional hour.

We were so ambitious as we wanted to go cycling for 2 hours. Little did we know that it was so, so tiring.. we did not even finish the exact first hour, we probably did 50 minutes or so hehe.

All of us had to try on various bicycles to find the most suitable one for us. We got so fed up with Ling cha for taking such a long time to test!

Fuiyoh! Bergaya kan? Getting ready to begin our expedition!

Budak kampung at Taman Padi.

Ma cha ber-jiwang at Taman Padi.

No smile? Act cool?

Cycling uphill was a very challenging task. Everyone resorted to pushing their bicycles up :D

Cycling downhill was so fun!

After the bicycle expedition, we stopped by at Uncle Vincent's house at Seri Hartamas to collect angpows!

Bottom, from left: Aunty and Uncle Vincent
Top: On the left is James (Uncle's handsome boy #1) and on the right is Jeremy (Uncle's handsome boy #2)

That was the end of my Chinese New Year holidays.. =(

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19Feb/100

CNY 2010 – The Extreme (Part 1)

As planned, on the second day of Chinese New Year, we woke up very early and journeyed to Shah Alam Malaysia Agriculture Park at Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam.

The night before..
Chin Pei Ling was assigned to get the maps done as none of us knows the way to Bukit Cahaya. She mailed the maps to me and I was supposed to print them out. I printed them when we got home from the late night movie the day before.
I did not really bother to look at the map - took a glimpse of it - felt that it was a little out - still didn't bother - too tired, hit the sack straight.

Next morning, I was supposed to drive. So, I passed the map to Bit and told her to give me the direction. Halfway through, I decided to take charge. I still had a small portion of memory of the road to the Agriculture Park because my buddy, Woon Tian brought me there last year for the Skytrex Adventure. We finally reached the place at about 9:30AM. We got our entrance tickets, had breakfast at a Mamak stall there, and dashed into the Park.

Us on the tram that took us around the Park. We complained so much (about the driver) on the tram because we weren't 'served'. I mean, logically, there should be someone on board to introduce the place to the visitors, right? There was no stopping along the way as well except at the waiting points.

When the tram reached the peak, it made a U-turn and down the hill it went. Halfway through, we decided to get off when it stopped at a waiting point. We got bored sitting in the tram, going through the same journey another time.

The threesome doing their stuff.

The ganas one.

The naughty one. She secretly brought the pop-pops to scare the other two.. when they least noticed!

Me placing D-zai on the wooden bridge. Them getting ready.

I'm ready to press the remote now! Errr, not quite perfect...

Next shot!

Chin Pei Yee jangan buat muka! Yeah!

Macam boss.

To be continued..

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19Feb/101

CNY 2010 – The Reunion

The long holidays ended so quickly without me noticing.
Nevertheless, it was a fun one :-)

This year's Chinese New Year was slightly different in that we did not do our usual extended family get-together due to our Aunt's passing. However, we did our usual movie-day on the first day of Chinese New Year (an 11:30PM show) and this time we picked - My Astro 大日子 Woohoo! It's a movie that will not disappoint you when you think of.. local production. We had lots of fun in the cinema. Mom began her laughing marathon as soon as the movie started. Ling cha and I went, errr?, staring at Mom.