Gong Xi Fa Cai!! Woof Woof
Another day to go b4 all chinese ppl in the world will celebrate and usher in the Chinese New Year. This year, will be the year of Dog. Woof! Woof! haha..Guess most of ppl would have already took leave today and go back to hometown to celebrate the new year. Driving to work these morning was a breeze. Office is kinda deserted, can even find parking space at the covered carpark, which usual day is pretty tough luck! These morning went to the ATM to cash out some money. Went to the first bank, ATM not working, (guts feeling tells me the same). Next walk further down the road to another bank from far you can actually see tehre were like hordes of ppl queuing up at the ATM machines. (was so afraid when comes to my turn, no more money to dispense out from the machine). Afternoon had lunch in puchong and a long queus of car jamming to go into TESCO or Jaya Jusco and we are talking bout on a weekday guys! Guess all the last minute CNY shopping. and who says Malaysian ppl are poor! ha! Me too havent bought anything new clothes of stuff for my house yet. Quickly called my dad and tell him to get those can/packets drinks at his work place instead. hahaha.
Another half and hour more b4 my shift ends. Maybe i will drive down to subang and check out the shopping mall area there b4 i proceed for my classes. Still hve classes till tmrw afternoon. No resting for me. Infact, i have classes from 1st day of CNY till the 3rd of CNY day...Yeap, wonder who will turn up in the gym to do workout during the holidays. Btw, i'll be off the whole week next week. Will only be back the week after. Will have no access to the net. Guess this will be my last entry for the month of Jan06. Would like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends, bloggers and ppl who drops by to read my blog a very very Happy Chinese New Year and may the year bring you Joy, Good Health and abundant Prosperity!! XCELLENT!! till then...see u guys next month..............
P/S - snowolf and penny, i just received the news that i am 1 of the 10 selected ppl for the ROCKSTAR thingy! YEAH!! Keep ROCKING guys! hahaha
Quickie!
Gonna be a short entry today as i will be away for my 2 days seminars (today is the 2nd day...thank gawd!) haha. The weekend training was exhausted to say the least. New format, new dance move and style, very different from what i am doing right now. Yeap, i am happy that i am part of the team. But whether if i am keen to be part of the so-called 10 best pick to teach the new program.....I dunno....have some second thought on that matter. And every when i ahve this second thought thingy, i know for sure it is not something that i would able to give my 100% to do it. Anyway, results are not gonan be out till middle of the week. Guess i will just have to wait and see what is in store in dayz to come.
Just a short thank you to you readers who hv make the effort to drop me a note, and i am glad you guys enjoy reading my blog e.g Chris Moonbeam, hope you will drop by here more often. :). Ah, just the right time to hope over to the seminar hall now....Till then, i shall see you guys on the flip side of the coin. Tata.
Never Give Up! LiveStrong!
Was watching Oprah b4 i came to work this afternoon. (this is one of the privileges of having to work afternoon shift i guess..haha). The particular episode, she had Lance Amstrong as her guest. Now for the benefit of those ppl who have no idea who is Lance Armstrong, he is the guy who had survived the all-time-killing-disease, cancer, and proceeding winning the championship of Tour De France for 6 times!! in a row. Oprah was interviewing him bout his experience while battling the cancer. And fyi, according to Mr Lance himself, prior to the med check-up, he already experienced cough with blood!, testicals grows to a size of a lemon, blurry vision, and headahce! and yet he thought this is just a normal sign of atheletics sickness syndrome. Never drawn to him that is was goona be a major killer disease. So when he actually did went for the results of the med checkup, then only he realised what he has gotten himself into. According to the report, the disease had spread from the lungs to the heart and went up to the brain!! (gosh!) and he only has bout 40% chances of survival if he decide to go for operation and chemotherapy. 40% chances of survival guys!.
He was strong in spirit and will power. He told himself he WANTS to live! that he will fight this illness. He went for the surgery, went for the chemo treatment and within the 2 years, he was miraculously survived! Clean from cancer. How? what could be the formula ? Is jsut very uplifting hearing him and telling the audience. The power of believing yourself, never give up no matter how hard the road you are heading. His story and experience is sjust so inspiring and powerful.
There is always a solution to everything. i can relate to that, although i must say the problem that i went thru is not as BIG as what Mr Lance gone thru. But then again, if you are out of job for the entire 5 months and knowing the fact you have yr family and other obligation and responsibilities, at the end of the day, u just wanna make sure you hv a good live. Mind you, b4 i got this current job, the idea of clinging on to other job is just so hard. Imagine, one job offering, but thousands applications attached to it. What is the chances you getting it? And the neverending time when u have to keep on applying although there is no call or watsoever to ask you for an interview. It can be that bad. There are times i almost gave up the idea of finding a job and just work on my parttime instead. Luckily i have friends who knock some sense into me, and after that dry and long 5 months, i finally got a full-time job for myself. Is was really one of the low phase in my live for last year. And i will never ever forget that experienced.
To Yvonne Fong, if you are reading this, i know you are a strong gurl. If Lance Amrstrong can get thru it, so can you! To my loyal readers, you can read about her at her own blog
http://www.yvonnefoong.com/archives/2005/11/heart4hope-t-shirts-on-sale/ . Yeap, never give up! LiveStrong!
I GOT IT!!!
YEAH!!!! YIPPIE!!!!!!!!!!!! haha, the moment i published the last entry, i received a called from the organisor informing me that i got thru the audition!!! ....GOSH!!! I am so estatic now!!! Just brilliant!!!! Just Brilliant and awesome!!!!! can't really explain the feeling i am goin thru now.....Guys, thank you so much for the support... u know who u r ...........YEEE HAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tick Tock Tick Tock......
Yeap...time is ticking...is been a day since my last night dance audition. Was told by the organisor that we shall be getting a reply by today. But till now still no news or call as to whether we are IN or OUT....hmmm tick tock tick tock......
Do i need to be outstanding?
Since i have some quiet time all by myself now (all my colleagues has gone out for dinner), would like to blog on certain thing that is in my mind at this moment. Tonight there will be an audition that i am goin to attend. Since i am working afternoon shift these week, got a permission from my supervisor to release me an hour earlier today so that i can attend the audition Is a dance audition, not those dance performance audition but a instructor dance audition. Headed by a well-known brand from US, something that i am very interested and hope that i will be part of the team. But obviously, there is something that is bothering me bout this audition. First of all, there is only about 10 - 15 placement from what i have heard from the head-teacher. And out of this 10- 15 placement, there are about 30 ppl going for the audition. Is like those Idol contest thingy, whereby the best will be pick, and the other will be eliminated...hiaks!! Scary eh? Dunno...on one hand, i know i do meet all thier requirement and i am very sure i can carry out thier objective with flying colours (hopefully), but on the other hand, i felt that some of the participants do not have the right requirement to be part of the team and yet they got the chance to do audition and also the idea of being overshadow by this ppl. Hmm, this leads to my next question. How do i be an oustanding cast among the crowd? or is there a need for me to be an outstanding from the crowd and just being me?.....(shaking head)...
Well, i guess another 2 more hours the results will be out, and by next day, you avid readers of my blog will know the outcome whether i am in our out! wish me luck ppl.......(but then Oprah did mentioned in her show that there is no such thing as luck!.....oh boy.....)
Confession of a poor soul......
Just ate the whole can of Mister Potato Crisps Tomato flavour...Now, looking at the so called health indicator, it says per serving of 28g is equavalent to 139kcal. And the size of the can is about 45g. So is double the intake and that will be round 278kcal i had consumed. AISK!!!! Based on my experience working on the treadmill, to burn that that kinda amount calories i have to run or climb bout 30 mins with level 7 - 8. OMG!!!! there goes my morning workout.....haha....
First Class Structure, Third Class Mentality
Finally!! Didn't know is Friday the 13th today until i hear it from the radio on my way to work this afternoon. You must be wondering why did i start my blog today with the word "finally". Well, very obvious, my day didn't start off well as i plan to be. Started my notebook, realised i can't even key-in my entry due to the explorer acting up. I was for a moment thought, "oh no!!! no more bloggin for me?!?!" hahah...managed to find a work around and reinstall the latest version of explorer. Voila!! back to my bloggin...yippieee...
Ok. Need to blog something that i encountered this morning. Went to the one of the reputable bank to do some banking. Want to request a statement of account for the past 3 months. Did the same request with another bank couple of weeks back and it was very swift and efficient. But gawd knows why with this bank, and is the one of the famous local bank in malaysia! it was a totally opposite different scenario alltogether (that is what make me so surprised and dissapointed with thier services). Below is the conversation that what transpired between me and the officer in the bank.....
Me : Hi, good morning. Would like to request to have a copy of my statement of account, back dated 3 months.
Officer : Oh? Statement of Account? 3 Months?
Me : eeerr, yes....
Officer : Oh, you need to fill-up this form and it will not be immediately yeah.
Me: Sorry? not immediately? meaning?
Officer : Oh, since you are requesting 3 months transaction, we need time to print out and it will only be available 1 workin day. You can come back tmrw to collect the statement.
(WTF!!)
Me : Oh....if thats the case, can i have atleast 1 month transaction?
Officer : oh, 1 month? ok.. you can, but u need to pay yeah ?
Me : sure...no problem.
Officer : ok, just fill-up the form and go to 1st floor Statement counter they will help you.
(the previous bank that i go to do not required me to fill-up any form btw)
So, i fill-up the form as required and move up to the 1st floor. Went to the so-called Statement counter, and here is wht transpired
Me: hi, would like to print my statement of account. (and i show her my account number)
Officer : Oh, this account number is not from here. You need to go your home branch to request.
(at this juncture i was already pissed! arent their system centralised? arent now data are centralised)
Me : Huh ? issit? can't you just access the data from here?
Officer : oh no, we can't. You have to go to your home branch and get the statement from there.
(at this moment, i already kinda give-up and didn't wanan bother anymore)
Officer : Are you an e-account holder?
Me : U mean xxxxx2u.com.my ? Yeah i am.
Officer : oh you can actually print your statement from there.
Me: Oh really ? u mean i can print my statment from the internet.....
(at this point, i felt there was a slight hope with this bank afterall)
Officer : yeah, u can try.....
Me: oh tx. i will sure do...Thank you ...
So i walk out from the counter and head str8 down..And before i walk out from the premises, something tells me i need to double-reconfirm with that officer regarding printing statment thru internet. So i went back to the first officer and told her what was told to me by the other officer and guess what guys.............
Me : oh, sorry to bother you again, just want to confirm that i can actually print my statement thru your bank e-banking website?
officer : huh? who told you that?
Me: the officer upstairs says so....
Officer : ohh....no lar....You kenot print. But only view the transaction only lar.......
(FORGET IT!!! i had enuf!!! i just told the officer, is ok nvm...and off i dash out from the premises!!....)
I have yet to try to print my statement thru the internet, will try after this. But after goin thru this experience, now i understand the term, first class structure, but third class mentality......Malaysia really boleh!!
My first night shift .....
Time now is just 8.34pm. Just got back from dinner with my colleagues. Thought i should just blog these day since this is my first night shift rotation job. For the past 10 years of my work life, this is the first job that requires me to do shift. 2 shifts to be precise, the Asia shift from 8am - 4pm and the European shift, from 2pm - 10pm. Thank gawd i don't have to do the US shift from 11pm - 7am!! Don't know what to expect from this. Since today is my first day working on the night shift, everything seems to be very slow n quiet. Not many ppl around in the office at the moment. I am the only one bloke sitting at my miserable small cubicle. The only other person i can see from my view is like sitting 7 cubicles away from me.....and he is diggin his nose as i am typing this.....(AIKS!!)
Central AC is switch off. Have to rely on the standing fan to get some air around. hmm....kinda miss the dayz when after work, rushing like mad to go to the gym and conduct classes, instead of now sitting here looking at my notebook and thinking what i should do next couple of hours down the road.....
Jan 2006
Hello my friends. My first entry for the year 2006. Guess some of us are still in the holiday mood, afterall Chinese New Year is just round the corner (2 weeks more to be precise) and also coming Tuesday is another one of those public holiday. Anyway, back to the hting i would like to blog about for the past few dayz. Well, my new year was just like another other day. Went to friends house for a bbq session on new eve. Didn't really stay till late, cos feeling abit tired..Went back home, instead watched my new TVB series that i just borrowed couple of dayz back! haha... And the next thing you know, clock strike midnite and u can actually hear the fireworks from outside your house.....ahhh....Another new year, another new day........
And the subsequent days was basically doing my classes (yeap u must be wondering which bloke will come to gym and do classes on a new years day!). Manage to catch Wallace and Gromit the movie at night. Pretty entertaining, much better than Corpse Bride. Then comes back the flu bugs hit me again last 2 days ago. Out of no where, in the afternoon, sneeze non-stop also with the stiff-neck doesn't help much either. And the best part was, i have 2 classes to conduct on that day. First class was just so-so, well base on my observation, i felt the members didn't really enjoyed that much as they expected. Can see the way they responded and the expression on certain members. Guess i wasn't just not in the right mind n strength to bring up the class although i did try my best (colin & lolli i do know u guyz didn't enjoy that much, can see in your eyes.) . And after the class i was told by some members that i am having red-eyes. At that time i already felt weak and feverish. But then still hv to continue to do the second class as promise to another instructor i will team-teach with him.
Second class was an hour later. Fever starting to heat-up and my nose is a red as the red-nose reindeer. Waited for the class. Saw some members standing outside the studio waiting for the class to start.. Didn't really expected to see a big crowd cos normally at that hour, not many members will turn up. tot i can "curi-makan". hahaha. But to my surprise, when the class was about to start, gawd knows where these members came from, one-by-one came in the class, and the next thing you know, the class was jam-pack!! And b4 i start the music, the crowd was like so high, screaming and screaming non-stop. Once the music started, there was no turning back, work n work till the end. One track after another, all my strength and energy was fully utilised. The more the member scream, the more i gave all out! And this is the best part, while doing the class i don't actually felt my stiff-neck and the fever n flu, amazingly vanished! i dunno why. But right after the class was over. BAM!! everything came back!! I must say the second class was much better as compare to the first one. Guess the crowds does make a diff in a class.
To cut thing short, in summary, after the class i drove str8 to clinic and see a doctor. Guess what, the tempreture readin hits 104 celcious!! My reaction at that tim was..."Oh, wow...".....hahah. End up taking bout 7 types of pills that night and the next thing you know, slept thru the night and the whole day next day. Now i am back, although the flu still persist, atleast the fever had subsided. And you know what...after one day rest, tonite i got 2 classes back-to-back! HA!!.......
