Saturday, January 30, 2010♥
Here is everybody... our Ms. Chua doing group check-in for us while we wait patiently for our room-key card.
at the lobby :)
Here's our room. I twin-shared with Grace. We stayed at Grand Paragon Johor Bahru. A rather nice hotel indeed. I kinda prefer city hotel than resort. i guess i like the feeling of stepping onto carpet instead of mosaics.
after a little bit of unpacking and freshen up, we head out for our dinner.
Dinner was at this very famous paper wrapped chicken (纸包鸡) place call teck sing!
here are teh details:
德星茶餐厅
No, 3 & 5 Jalan Sutera
Satu Taman Sentosa
Tel: 07- 334 7025
side track a little, this was a mexican alcohol that paul brought.
i love love this alot! its their signature tofu. damn nice! a must have!
paper wrapped chicken (纸包鸡)
kang kong~
curry fish head. this one was so so~ but nice still...
this bar kut teh is damn shiok!
one thing about malaysia is, there are rather flexible with you eating otuside food. like this case, the bar kut teh was at another stall beside teck sing, and when we asked the waitress in teck sing if we can bring in bar kut teh, they were ok about it.
then durian session, but not for me. rae and let's favourite... i hate durian, hate the smell, hate the taste since i was a baby. yeah no kidding! my granny told me that my mum will puke like hell when she was pregnant with me, if she eats durian. see i hate it naturally~ before born! lol
here's how the place look like. simple, air-conditioned. The place is pretty clean too. Check out that big chicken poster!
Dinner was definitely satisfying... we all went back to hotel after dinner so we can rest early and get ready for the following day's presentation.
here's me with a really nice chair outside the hotel's bar/ lounge.
On that very night, grace and myself bath and headed to let & jades' room and chat till we were really tired. had lots of fun and laughters! it was really enjoyable.
the following morning... a nice view from outside my room. Waiting for grace to be ready before heading for hotel's buffet.
Meeting was fine, but TONS AND TONS of things for marcom to complete. -.-~ haiz
here's me receiving my prize. :)
After the meeting, we had a little bit of time before heading for dinner. so let me and grace went to Holiday Plaza to shop a little. i only bought one pair of heels from parkson~ nothing much to shop also. also it could be due to me not having enough cash. i only bought 90 ringgit in! lol
Here's the dinner place, call pekking.
The details as follows:
Restoran Pekin
北京海鲜楼
No. 38 Jalan Baldu Lima, Taman Sentosa
80150, Johor Bahru, Johor.
Tel: 07-333 2928 / 332 0902
group shot: starting from me clockwise: grace, rae, jades, chloe, jiaye, paul, shirley, brian, michelle, donna (donna is from the resort) and leticia.
Here's the first dish and it went all cleared within 2 minutes! Guess we were all very hungry.
THIS IS MY FAV! suckling pig!! shiokness to the core!
abalone with brocolli~ i love brocolli~...
then there is this fish maw thing, which is damn expensive but a little jer-lad... but the soup was great!
another of my fav! fried cod fish,:D shiok!
prawn... not a fan of prawn...
this lotus leaf rice is superb! i love it so so much! its like lor mai kei but much tastier~
crabbie crab crab~
this is salted egg crab! i love salted egg crab~ talking about it i so feel like eating salted egg crab from jumbo~ of cuz this is nice too, and the portion is really big! i mean the crab is SO BIG! and the price, alot cheaper than jumbo!
thats all for the night.... after dinner, i guess all of us were really tired. we went back to our hotel room to rest. leticia came over to me and grace's room to chilll out a little as jades went for a drink at the bar at the hotel...
the following day was teambuilding day!
one of the teambuilding activity we gotta do is that e have to design/make/ build something using given materials, which was newspapers and straw to place an egg and make sure that the egg wont break when it is being drop off from a high place. and one of the point is that ou can use any material in the room or outside the room.
this is my lovely teammates! so cooperative! leticia, jades, grace, new colleague brian from korea were in my team.
here's the other team~
our team was really good! we had this brilliant and creative idea. i told them we need something to hold the egg and leticia mentioned to build a newspaper box, which jades know how to make~ then i sugguest we build a hot air balloon structure, i even ask brian to go steal the red plastic bag lying in the middle of the room for the balloon part. then brain suggest that we do a spring/ cushion to protect the egg's bottom. the whole team was simply brilliant, and so was the idea! i definitely think our team did a much better job than the other team~
see my here's me asking brian to steal the red plastic bag~ lol!!
perfect team!
the straw structure the other team did....
see!! totally beautiful, creative and it worked! our hot hair balloon structure worked! the egg did not break as the plastic bag that was acting like hot air ballon really did restrict gravity!
the straws acting as spring, and grace suggested to place tissue as cushion~ :) it was lovely~
after teambuilding, we headed for lunch before leaving back to singapore.
lunch was at ah koong restaurant that serves nice hand made fish ball noodle.
here are teh details:
ah koong restaurant
no. 266 jalan Sutera, Taman Sentosa,
80150 Johor Bahru
Tel: 07-331 3621 Fax: 07-335 1728
website: www.ahkoong.com
email: ahkoong@ahkoong.com
let and myself...
handmade fish cakes and prawn cakes.. yum!
i love this! niang tou fu! shiok! my granny always cook this at home!
here's the fish ball kwey tiao i had... damn shiok~ kwey tiao is nice and smooth, and the soup was simply SEDAP!
then after lunch it was some shopping.. we headed to pelangi~ while waiting for rae and jades to get their nails done, leticia and myself went to secret recipe to have some desserts! the brownie with ice-cream was so so good! simply delicious! i had it once at KL when i was doing a newyork via KL and it was damn memorable. so was this time round.
anyway me and let was quite pathetic during the last part, cuz we ran out of ringgit. i suggested we go have mc ice cream which we can afford when she wanted something else. so we actually calculated how much we have before we enter secret recipe and made sure we order stuff within our limits. lol! damn funny~ :) but it was simply enjoyable. simply lovely~ :)
the whole trip was nice. i prefer JB so much than bintan. cuz i hate bintan ferry rides, i always feel utterly tired after the ferry ride... bleahz!
alright i might be doing a 2nd post of the JHB trip with photos from my iphone... tata!
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
It is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Parting is such sweet sorrow. 1:57 PM
Friday, January 29, 2010♥
Had a heavy lunch just now at kopi-o restaurant. Buffet style, food was so so, the best was thr baked pasta, tt was yum! The dessert is alot better than the main spread. Mango pudding was fab n I had cookies from a cookie jar n it was yum!! Guess the too much carbo I had is making me really drowsy now. Gonna have a good nap in thr ferry ride later.
Travelling to bintan always wear me out. Dunno is it because of the ferry ride.
I wasn't traveling so comfortably this time round. Will get to have private transfers usually but not this time round, not this time round if u r not travelling with a director. Anyway I'm fine as I'm quite familiar with e resort n the terminal.
Alrighty shall end here cuz the real Friday begins now for me!
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Parting is such sweet sorrow. 6:37 PM
Sunday, January 24, 2010♥
Was talking to dw n he was explaining to me tt life is unfair n it is those people tt can tolerate this unfairness tt will eventually survive.
I used to be somebody that offends people unknowingly with words coming out of my mouth. But now I am alot more sensitive n I think before I speak.
I wasn't the only one, I realize some people around me have this problem. N naturally when u have this problem, u will be the unwelcome one, people will intentionally leave you out. Another word, u will be the outcast. So why not just think of someone else feeling n speak only with ur brains?!
Another story tt I wanna share abt my frustration starts like this.... A woman goes to a fast food restaurant, ordered some food n asked the cashier for some ketchup. Cashier then tell woman that ketchup has got a price of 50cent. Lady really needs ketchup to goes with her food, so she paid the money. Cashier than inform lady that she can pump her ketchup at the ketchup counter. The lady felt really happy cuz she was thinking that she has got no restriction to how much she wants to have. So she pump alot alot alot of ketchup out, the portion of ketchup was at least five times more thN what she needs. end of story.
The moral of the story is tt some people r just emotionally unbalance, just like e lady in the story. She pAid for the ketchup n she felt really umcomfortable therefore to cure her emotional unbalance n money she paid, she took more ketchup for little or no reason.
The world is funny (weird) so are some of the people around me.
Life is short n I will continue to search for what is best for me. At least what is best for me now.
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Parting is such sweet sorrow. 2:18 AM
Saturday, January 23, 2010♥
It's definitely a very enjoyable trip. have been doing meetings at bintan for donkey times n finally I get to travel out to somewhere other than bintan for a company retreat.
The company was great. Grace was definitely a great roommate. I actually felt much safer n secured sharing room with her. Also the late night chill session at jades n let's room was really fun n memorable.
Kick off meeting was ok but the number of items that needs to be follow up is stressing the hell out of me. Not gonna talked about it now. It's sat k. Of cuz my promotion is a great thing, hard work pays.
The food was the best part. I enjoyed every single meal I had there! Am so so happy about it :)
Alright shall b doing a full entry with lots of food shots soon :)"
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Parting is such sweet sorrow. 1:24 AM
Tuesday, January 19, 2010♥
I'm pretty all set by now, dunno what else should I bring... I just added in one more dress... Just incase. Anyway iPhone will be my main source to keep track of life when I'm there.
Had a lousy day at work, hope it's gonna b better tmr. Love ya all.
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Parting is such sweet sorrow. 10:18 PM
Monday, January 18, 2010♥
Met up w her yesterday at parkway before I head for e championship boxing at Suntec. Shuhui was suspposw to be there but there was something wrong with her clothes website last min n she couldn't join us.
Bought my fav scrub n st. Michael's cookies while waiting for line to reach. Then it was dinner at ichiban boshi. I love the place alot now i wanna go there again soon! The restaurant shifted it's location n have some really nice renovations.
Our food...
Here's mine. I had this seto call nabayaki something. It's kari udon with karake chickin. The other day Chloe Leticia were sti talking about this nabei word n chloe kept insisting tt there's a jap food call nabei one. Lol. Ok it's proven there really is. Anyway it's v nice ESP e half cooked egg! Ultimate Shiokness!
Here's darline's seto. Power!! There's sashimi, chickin katsu, soft shell crab! Super worth it! Told her e next time I go I'm so gonna have this set. Yum!
Here's all lovely goodies darline got for me from her hk trip. Sheet masks, cookies... And the nail clipper is for dw :) so sweet! Thankew darline. Love all e goodies!
Then it was e main activity for e meet up, which is present presentation! Her bday present frm me n hui.
Haha I know the wrapping paper is a little off, cannot blame me la, couldn't find any nicer wrapping paper other than this at home.
It's a damn chio white baby g! With a pink face. I love it alot myself n am thinking of gettiing it for myself. Darline so so so so loves it n hui too love it alot. So hui suggested tt we get her e exact same one for her bday n I'll get for myself so tt e three of us can have e same watch. It's a symbol of our strong friendship. Great right!?
Then I ask darline to pose like e baby g advert we always see on mag... Lol I think she didn't do e baby g version, she did a tag heuer version! Lol
This is e ng version.
Lol! Advert-wannabe version.
And here is me with our dessert, Ocha ice cream. Not too bad but I guess dessert wise, MOF is alit better. Anyway I shall make my own Japanese dessert one day, just needa get some green tea ice cream, red bean paste n corn flakes. Yes! Shall try it soon!
Can u see the curls on my hair? I thonged it but the curls just become soft real fast. Love thonging my hair on saturdays. But I'm not perming it for sure, it's too time consuming maintaining it. The last time it damaged my hair so badly... Nah...
Darline with dessert...
My dear Ima got darline a very nice my melody cup. :) it's really v sweet, forgot to take photo of it.. :/
Anyway it's e end of the blog entry. It's been such a long time since I blog so much. N this whole entry was typed frm my iPhone. :D all photos r from iPhone without any editing :)
Parting is such sweet sorrow. 6:04 PM
