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Saturday, January 30, 2010♥

Kick-Off 2010 at Johor Bahru

it was Johor Bahru this time round, instead of Bintan Lagoon Resort for our Kick-off meeting annually. A bus picked us all up from the office after work at around 5pm and drove us into JB. Traffic was perfect and we reached the hotel at around 6 plus...

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