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Date:  29 December 2010 Imagining a whole day tomorrow of full relaxation in the heart of KL while Hasben is off to work in KLCC!! Is planning to have a warm bubble bath, self-facial, and just plain time-wasting! Date:  30 December 2010 No bubble bath, no self-facial and limited time-wasting! Hasben's meeting was only for half a day. Had to pack hurriedly by 2.30 for late check-out. All imagination thrown out the window... Quoted from Julie Zac: From poshy wife, to runaway guest! Enough about my crushed dream... moving on to the hotel review:... PNB Darby Park provides executive suites at reasonable rates, between RM250-RM350 per night... okay, maybe I won't call it reasonable if I have to withdraw my own money to pay the bills... but the suite is nice and clean... quite homey and spacious. Very close to KLCC, just a walking distance. The breakfast is okay, not so much variety. The good thing is that the room is provided with a praying mat, I don't thi...

Happy Kids With New School Uniforms! Date: 29 December 2010 As part of my department's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts, we organized a Back 2 School Charity Event . 19 underprivillaged students from Paka and Kerteh, Terengganu were brought to Mesra Mall for school uniform shopping! The Malaysian new school semester starts next week so the children were super excited to start off their new semester with brand new clothes. Choosing the right size Waiting patiently for their turns "Yeah! My new white shoes!" We helped them choose the right size of shirts, pants, baju kurungs, scarves, socks and shoes. The boys were quiet and did not say much on the items chosen for them. The girls, being girls , were quite picky and knew exactly what they wanted. The difference between the male and female reactions towards shopping is very obvious... even on young kids! A prayer before lunch.. So cute! After 2 hours of shopping, we treated them to Chicken Rice an...

Date: 24 December 2010 Author: Marian Keyes She is definitely one of my favourite authors ever. The first book from her that I read was Under the Duvet, and the second was The Other Side of The Story - both I borrowed from UTM's library. She writes about characters with real life issues and manage to make the situation light although it's actually a dark topic. At the end of the day, readers will learn about complicated issues without feeling depressed. She delivers the message and adds humor to it - just brilliant! Plus, I learned a few Irish words! Sushi for Beginners is about the lives of 3 different ladies, all facing depressions. Different characters have a different coping mechanism. Synopsis: Lisa, a beautiful, career oriented lady is the b*tch boss from hell. She'll do whatever it takes to be the best at what she does, even if it means having no friends and family. The thing that drives her over the wall was when she actually sacrificed her marriage to ...

Date : 22 December 2010 I am not much of a fan of Malay comedy movies... but from the positive reactions of my friends, who mostly quote "Best Giler, Lawak Betol!" in Facebook, I decided to try my luck. Julie Zac bought the tickets at Mesra Mall during her lunch hour. We got the first row seats, closest to the screen - oh lucky us!~ *sarcastic* The cinema was packed, which was a good sign that the movie had encouraging reviews. The movie was about a group of villagers in Perak who suspected that one of their neighbours, Kak Limah, was dead and is now a ghost, haunting the village. So through out the movie, they tried to uncover the mistery of the spooky Kak Limah. All in all, I had a few laughs and found a few scenes quite entertaining. Typical Malay comedy will include *farting* and *poo-ing* - which is so gross - and it was also included in this movie... bummer! The other thing that failed for me was the actors' attempts to speak in Perak dialect. My father, ...

Department Team Building - Hooray! Hooray! The main road of Cherating - Palm trees, kampung houses~ Cherating is well-known in Malaysia for its long beaches. It is not a town - no tall concrete buildings, no shopping malls, just local village houses, restaurants, and plenty of resorts - both cheap and expensive. There is 1 main road across Cherating, connecting Kuantan and the state of Terengganu. Along this road, there are many choices of resorts and quite a few times, tourists can be spotted biking or waiting for busses. These tourists are usually the adventurous type - based on their clothing. Date: 3-4 December 2010 Lodging: Suria Cherating Beach Resort A simple resort with clean rooms and delicious food. Facilities include swimming pool, volleyball courts, and paintball! Day 1 : Paintball-ing! As a committee member, I did not get the chance to be in a group and make flags, scream war cries and such. But we, the committee members were allowed to join the paintball ...

Dream Becomes Reality - Not Your Typical Happy Ending! In our university years, Julie Zac and I had promised many times to play squash together. During our evening jogs, or some atheletes would say, walks, we talked about borrowing squash rackets and hitting the court... the bad news was, there was no one to borrow them from. Buying the rackets would be just impossible back then. It will cost us 2/5 of our monthly allowance! So the dream of becoming Nicole David got wiped away by financial inadequacy, ahaks! During our evening jog - UTP Sports Complex Ting tong ting tong... 1 year after graduation... Both of us started working in Kerteh where there's a company squash court we could use. Now, with rackets of our own, hers being the more expensive one (just can't resist to write, haha!), we fulfilled our university-days promise. The Battle Begins! The expensive racket, Nike shoes and nearly out of frame - Adidas sports watch~ We tried our best to make it a weekly ev...

Date: 6 December 2010 Location: Malaysian Mega Galvaniser Sdn Bhd, Klang, Selangor Went for a factory visit with my site supervisors to witness hot-dip galvanising process for our Monsoon Drain Re-Construction Project . Introduction: Hot-dip galvanizing is the process of coating iron, steel, or aluminum with a thin layer of zinc. This process results in a metallurgical bond between zinc and steel with a series of distinct iron-zinc alloys.The zinc carbonate formed is fairly strong and protects the steel layer below from further corrosion. Steel will not rust due to the cathodic protection offered by zinc coating, that will be oxidized before steel. Source: Wikipedia Process: Source: MMG SB 1) Degreasing Surface of material must be properly cleaned before galvanising. The expected lives of hot-dip galvanised products are mainly affected by this process. The material is immersed in a degreaser tank containing detergent additives to remove any substance (oil, gre...

A Country Rich in Both History and Population! Date: 7-11 December 2010 There are sooo many things to share on my first trip to India. So here goes: Day 1: Landed in New Delhi at 7.30 PM local time. Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi Upon arrival, I was impressed with the modern airport, constructed in conjunction with the 2010 Commenwealth Games. The temperature outside was cool, 22 deg C but... the air was smoggy. So no deep breaths for me... Then, literally, I couldn't breath at all once I experienced the car ride, Indian style! It was a scene from a car chase in a Bollywood movie, without an actual car chase! The hotel driver was driving as if the car was a motorbike! In the traffic jam, he squeezed between the smallest of space, triumphly without a scratch. The 3-lane road became 4-laned. Most cars removed their side mirrors intentionally, or may in some cases be removed for them by other vehicles. So how do they drive safely without sid...