Last entry for the year 2005
The title sounded as if i have been bloggin for a very long time, but in actual fact is only about month since i start bloggin..haha. Yeap, how time flies, the end of 2005 is just round the corner my friends. Looking back, for you and me, what have we done or what hv we experienced for the past 12 months and what do we gain out of it.
As for me, 2005 has been a very very eventful year, whether interms of good or bad side. Managed to do my favourite pasttime as a parttime instructor and doing the most close and dear to my heart....xxxxx (censored). I am so glad i took the effort and gone for the course and here i am now, and proud of it, doing something i love and at the same time sharing the energy with others. At the same time getting to know new acquiantance and along the journey, bcame friends. Need to mention two person here, SyWolF and my fav, Lollipop gurl..hahah. Tx for being so supportive and be there for me without fail (although i do know sometimes my selection of song repertoir aint your cup of tea). Without you guyz support, i don't think i'll be still standing here today and embarrassingly strutting my stuff on the stage hA!. To SyWolf, thank you for showing me the world of blogging. ha! And yes, i do make an effort everymorning to read your blog. So don't worry. Thank you so so much! And i can promise you this, u guys have not see or experience all yet. The 'moves' has jsut started....so brace yourself for the 2006 cos it is gonna ROCK YOUR WORLD!!!
Another phase that i hv gone thru these year is when i got retrenced from my ex-company in the middle of these year. Yeap. Sad to say, the company wasn't doing well, end up have to get rid some of the staff, and i am one of them. Was without a job for bout 4 months. The first few weeks was a dreadful to say the least. U are so used to getting up early in the morning and go to work and all of the sudden, the momentum changes and u have no idea what to do next. and to add injury to that, the prospect of finding suitable job (esp in the field that i am working in) is not that bright and cheery afterall. Sent almost hundreds of applications and yet no respond from the company. And to make it worst, the application that you applied, there are like another 100 more ppl applying for the same post! Ha!!
Luckily during these period of time, i got my parttime job to fallback on. And everytime when i feel down, i always have this bunch of members to cheer me up and also work out some sweat!! And also round this time, my ex-colleague from my previous company ask me to try to apply this job in this current company that i am working now. The process of getting thejob is not easy guys. Took me almost 2 months plus with 2 interviews and a medical checkup b4, they call me up and tell me i have secure the job. Not gonna go to details the process of securing the job, but it is something that i will never forget for the rest of my life. To sum it up, i guess i am happy all the hard work n persistent (never give up!) with my current job n company. Although is still very early to say anything, but judging by the way it goes, don't think i will hv problem with it....
Last but not least (this is the best part) 2005 is drawing near and guess what guys, i am also surprised myself, i have finally got myself my first property investment! Yeah Yeah!! (applause!! applause!!) haha. Yeap, got myself a socalled "pigeon hole" condo in PJ area. Infact i just secured the unit bout couple of dayz back. haha. Being looking around but never seem to find something that i like, regardless the location and price. Wat a way to end the year right?! bang! bang!! Although it will be another 3 years down the roud b4 the condo is complete, but guess is just the right amount of time to start saving now. save! save! save!....
There you go guyz, a short summary of my life for the year 2005. Thank you so much for taking the time to read and i do hope you ppl will still be here for year 2006. This will be my last entry for the year 2005, as i will be away startin tmrw. (YIPPIE)! Gonna end this entry with an apology to anyone that my action or speech had indirectly hurt yr feelings, pls accept my sincere apology. And for the year 2006, i wish everyone will have a good health n stay healthy and good career in your life. Till 2006, see you my friend.........
Boxing Day
Yeap, time now is just past 16 mins after midnight, 26 December 2005. So how was everyone weekend and christmas celebration? Christmas eve was a full day for me. Did some classes and also attended some tuition. At night try to get some dinner, as expected all place was full n jam pack with ppl all walks of life. Drove to The Curve, thought of having that pancake food thingy restaurant, but as expected, the restaurant was full. I think i hop almost 3 or 4 restaurants before i actually settle with the LaManila restaurant and end up having fried rice and cincau ice drink on my christmas eve night..haha. (other was either to long queue or the business was so good that day, most of the food in the menu was not available!) After the ever-satisfying dinner, went over to MidValley and watch King Kong. Great movie!! One of the best movie i have seen these year infact. The action was just top-notch! Was practically over the edge of my chair with my both hand cringing on my mouth when the scene involved the lead actress trying to escape from the clutches of T-Rex (not 1 but 3!!)! Reminds me of Steven Spielberg Jurassic Park those days.....
Christmas day was a quiet one for me. Spent time with my family, had lunch and brought my nephew and niece to shopping mall to get thier christmas present (my nephew has been bugging me since last week to get him that fire-engine toy thingy). Night time was just dinner with my close friends and watch TV. And there goes my weekend. Boxing day will another hectic one cos need to do classes, infact got a back-to-back classes...n yet still i don't feel sleepy.....dunno why..
Anyway, one of my chat mate is in, gonna chat for awhile b4 i call it a night. Catch you ppl on the flip side.....
Note: Today is exactly one-year after the dreadful tsunami aftermath. May u rest in peace......
Feeling lousy.....
Yeap, feeling lousy today. Strange cos my morning started off pretty good as compare to any other dayz. Drove to work while listening to music n enjoying the 'sceneries' along the way. Had my fav breakfast, english b'fast ahem e.g 1 toast, sausage, hashbrown, scramble egg and bakebeans (fav!!). The i moment i step into the "HR on-boarding" meeting in my new company, i knew this is gonna be a long day. and how accurate i was!! haha...
Instead of getting to know HR policies based on the meeting title, i was introduce by the speaker on how to have a proper working environment e.g how to have a proper sitting position, how to have proper lighting on yr work place.....etc etc. at one point the speaker even demostrate to us how to sit properly with the chair and using the desktop or notebook (pls kill me!! kill me!!!). The meeting took the whole morning. i think i actually dose off half way thru the meeting...hiak!!
And after lunch, now i feel so lazy n lousy to even to do anything else, except browsing the net....ahhaha...Wonder where are my caht buddies today...None of them is online!! hmmm......
Photo! Photo!
Dear all, pls forgive me with the sequence of the photo, as i was still trying the new photo upload software. You need to start from the last photo and move upwards to hve the flow or storyline. Enjoy guys......
This is a scenic view of the whole Penang town, taken from one of the balcony in Kek Lok Si temple...aaahhhh...so serene n calm feeling......
This is the old kuan yin (in white). As you can see, is only half of her body. Was told that the this is the actual location of the first kuan yin during the old days (minus the temple building). Last 10 years ago, u still can see the whole body of the old kuanyin. When you go into that temple, you can still see the beams n some ruins concrete that construct the lower portion of the kuan yin body......
This is another pic of the Kuan Yin in a "close-up" shot. I still remember when i was trying to capture the whole statue, i almost have to sit on the tarmac and angle my camera...Happy with the shot....
Just trying the new software to upload photo. Here are some of the pics i took during my last trip to penang......This particular pic was taken from Kek Lok Si Temple. This is the new Kuan Yin statue that is to substitute the older version (the next pic).....
Outshine
Was chatting with one of my chat mate thru msn these morning. Was explaining to him that how we instructors that came out from the same batch, learnin the same program, we have to like work/practice double hard (just to make our presence felt) to stay in this circle. Also it helps to create a healthy competition among us to strive for the best in whatever field we are working on. Then a statement pop out from my chat mate saying, "
do we really need to outshine each other?"...
That statement really makes me ponder for awhile. Could there be truth in the statement, since how "cutthroat" or to put it mildly, voletile...Anytime you can just be cut out from the circle with just a slight wrong move you make. I really do not know how to answer my chat mate, cos in way, there are ppl who are practicing it, maybe with or without he/her knowing it, but we just can't deny the fact it does happened. Thus, this lead to my question. We as a normal behavioural human being, have we ever ever really satisfy with what we have in our hands?
Am I Committed?
Of course i am committed to my class. This is one of my passion and i am so grateful and happy that i could do it as a part-time. But then, after taking up my new posting, i knew that i will have to sacrifice one thing to accomodate the other. Given a choice, i would love to have both....sigh.
Got a call this morning from one of the heads in the fitness centre. Seeing my absence from class for the last couple of weeks, i was asked if i am still "committed" to the class. I know i have to eventually inform the head that i won't able to do it, but then it never come across to me that my inability to do the class has anything got to with my committment to the class. Obviously it does bring me down for the wrong reason!, but then i just don't hv a choice not to let go. To all my loyal members/followers who have stick with me since day one when the new slot was introduced, you ppl are just great!! and it is my honour to be given the chance to be part of you guys. I am sure i'll be seeing you guys some other time.
3 weeks...
Is being 3 weeks since i join this company. Things have been moving very slowly. My supervisor (is a she and a thai!) is too busy with her current work problem that need to be solved ASAP. Therefore left me doing my own thing for now. One of the benefit of working in a big company, they tends to have lots of training and seminars almost everyday. Recently was the Car-Wash campaing, whereby you can select the management level head to wash your car for a good cause - some kinda children home charity. Saw some big kwai-loh getting down wet n dirty washing kancil car la, kenari lar, proton lar....and others...haha...Here is the best part of all, for the past 3 weeks i was "showered" with company 'gifts' !. My first week, i received the company card holder (in leather mind u). 2nd week, out of no where, i received the company new bag!! black in colour and the design is pretty kewl to say the least. Compartment for yr notebook! and guess what, this is my 3rd week in here, and just 5 mins ago i received another gift from the company. This time round is the company annual personal dairy!! hahahah.. Wonder what i will get next week....hehe
A Z N F E
Yeap, A Z N F E. Who can tell me which capital letter is an odd one out? Answer will be reveal end of the day.......
Bummer
Just got to know from my peers that i have to work next monday (is a public holiday for Selangor)...sigh..You see, i just change to a new job, based in this ever far far away 'wonderland', surrounding with oil palm plantations, go figure :p And my new job requires me to work shift. Therefore that explain the reason i need to work during the holidays.....sob sob...Will be my first time working shift. Don't know what to expect or what am i getting myself into....keep my finger cross....Because of this shift-job, now i have to re-schedule some of my other things that i normally do after work (which is equally important to me, cos is my part-time income source!) e.g classes, gym. Talking bout classes, new batch of programs just released and have to spend time learnin those stuff. The particular program(is a dance program....hehe) that i took-up, this round the learning curve is pretty difficult. And have to master the move within the next 2 weeks b4 it l launch in the gym...sigh. Pressure bcos on one hand, i wanna make sure i can memorise all the moves and on the second hand, i don't wanna dissapoint my fans/member when i do know everyone of them r looking forward for the new releases......To all my fans (if there is any) do wish me luck!! hehe.......
Kindness and Compassion
Well, the title says it all and also kinda appropriate for me to start my blog with something that is worthwhile to help oneself. Came across this site from one of the many newsletter that i received daily. I am sure you guys have received spam mails throughout your life informing how you can donate blood or contribute monetary form to save someone lives, regardless young or elderly. But sometimes u do wonder whether all this emails are just fraud or real. There is no where you can confirm the source. Upon reading this particular site,(and is a genuine site ppl) i just felt that i have to do something to show and lend my support. Although i might not able to contribute much (not even 1/3 of what the victim is seeking) but then goin thru my blog, i really hope ppl will click at the link below and read and hopefully that someone can help out in anyway that he/she can possible. Christmas is just round the corners mates, lets spread some joy n cheers .........Yvonne Foong - Buy a shirt, save a life Project(http://www.yvonnefoong.com/archives/2005/11/heart4hope-t-shirts-on-sale/). In her words: "Heart4hope is a project to raise money for surgery to save my life. Neurofibromatosis Type 2 had caused three tumors to grow in my brain and multiple more along my spine.My latest need is to remove a tumor (Acoustic Neuroma) that caused hearing loss in the left ear. The surgery can be done in Malaysia, but at a great risk of facial paralysis, scarring tissues, cerebrospinal fluid leakage (csf) and other possible complications.This tumor can grow large enough to push my brainstem out of position, thus distrupting oxygen flow to the brain. It will lead to difficulty in breathing, swallowing, and subsequently death. Continue reading by clicking the link above.......
My ever first virgin entry
Welcome, Bonjour, Selamat Datang, Huang ni guan lin....hahaha..My ever first virgin blog. First and foremost to you guys who might have stumble onto this blog of mine, my sincerely thank you for dropping by and view the 'rubbish' that i am gonna blog about eventually in near future.
You guys must be wondering what will the main theme or topic that i will cover in here. Well, to be frank, i don't ahve any specific theme or topic that i would like to address here. My intro title says it all - anything, everything under the sun. Yeap. Basically i will just write anything that comes into my mind or writes anything that i feel that needs to be express out 'openly' (i'll try...hehe). e.g Music, movies, gym, classes, work, travelling, sadness, happiness everything!
As you all the bloggers out there know, is not that easy to just express something out so freely and being read by ppl that you don't even know n yet being commented on something that might be good or bad in return.
Having said that, am i gonna write something bout myself for a start? Well, don't think i will do that, guess u can read all that stuff at my personal profile. Will there be any pictures/photos for you guys to view......well, there will be definately but then don't expect to be that extensively like some other blogs does, with all thier photogenic look and killing smiles, cause i don't fall into any of the category...hahaha. I will try to put in photos or pictures as and when i deem fit to do so.
My only hope with this blog is to act as another medium of expression for myself, things i can say out loud or express freely infront of public and hopefully some of the stuff that i write will eventually make that someone happy and smile at the end of the day.....(well, i try ....hehe). Ok, Brain? checked! Eyes? checked! Fingers working fine? checked! Keyboard? checked! well guys, this is it, no looking back....enjoy reading my dear friends......
