update dari KK - June 2009

June is here, and soon will be replaced with July.
So, what was in store during month of June? nothing much, i'm afraid.
well, except from the Manukan Escapade, and also Labuan trip, life is pretty much the same.

Can't say that Manukan dissapointed me, coz it was an escapade full of sun, sea, sand, and girls. hehehehehe. you can view some of the pictures at my facebook photos. some of it je.

and Labuan? my goodness. Labuan is nice, although you can easily get bored of it. why? coz there's nothing much of places where you can go. However, since Labuan is a free duty island, it is the best place to buy car, car, liquor, cigarettes, car and chocolates.
and i bought chocolates as souvenirs for my colleagues, and Gucci sunglasses for myself. freaking rm200. i seriously need to start paying my credit card bills.

*sigh*

so far, June is the month where i have no meeting in KL, but tonnes of work to be done in the office. It's already been 2 months i'm here, and i'm expecting myself to be able to perform the job autonomously, with me being the section head as well.

on the other note, my apartment is now fully occupied. 2 other tenants are with me now. all of us work with PETRONAS, so no problem there.

as of now, i plan to get myself a bicycle.

fingers crossed!

beautiful monday

so today, lots of things happened. Interesting things indeed.

First, the boss will be away to KL for the rest of the week. And guess what? I'll be the acting manager. Perghh.. Too much responsibilities! My own tasks pun tak settle2 lagi.

Secondly, i saw with my very own eyes, rm500 disappeared into thin air in about an hour. Thanks to the slot machine. As part of my localisation effort, followed my friends to a club, and watched them trying their luck on the machine. Crazy man. Rm100 in just like in less than 10 minutes. But i must admit, the excitement when you won is what drove greed into turbo mode. Although at the end of the day, u won nothing.

Tu je la kot.

Oh, another note. My sidekick, she told me that it seems that i like ladies who are small or petite, and cakap lemah lembut.
So, if you're one of them, and still single, just drop me your number k.

post rambang

(post hari ini boleh diabaikan)

Hari ini saya mula memasak. Apa yang saya masak? Daging burger dan dramet ayam ayamas.
Acapkali kita lihat orang memasak ayam goreng secara deep fried. Maka saya mengambil inisiatif untuk tidak menggunakan deep fried method,sekaligus mengurangkan penggunaan minyak goreng dalam masakan.
Hasilnya? Boleh laa dibuat makan. Sememangnya tidak boleh lawan deep fried, kerana cara tersebut konferm membuatkan dramet masak secara total. Cara kurang minyak menghasilkan dramet yg just nice, tapi at expense of kulit ayam terlebih goreng, hampir ke tahap hangit kerana terlalu lama dibiarkan di atas minyak. Nasib baik saya menggunakan prinsip masak menggunakan haba terperangkap.
Oklah, nak masak maggi goreng pulak.
Lapar la pulak.. Hish..

blast from the past: jus belimbing

and i told her that my blood pressure was within the borderline to hypertension.
Then she said, "sayang, you better minum jus belimbing. It might help to lower your blood pressure"

and i must say, the belimbing juice is quite good.

blast from the past!

Sabah, the perfect square - Island Trip part 2

time flies really fast.
felt like it was just last month when Barack Obama was elected as the 1st African American President of the United States.
felt like it was last week when Pak Lah stepped down, paving the way for Najib to take over as the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

and, without i realising it, it has been 2 months since my first day reporting for duty here in Kota Kinabalu office. i feel like i've been here for such a long time. and my goodness, it's only two months je. meaning, i am enjoying my time here. i mean, i got to maintain a healthy lifestyle (morning walk to the office), although my diet programs is in haywire. i'm currently in i-want-to-eat-everything mode. i am in stress? i don't know. maybe because of the job. i am yet to deliver any groundbreaking results to the unit, department and the company. hopefully, i've learnt everything that i need to know. now, it's more on learning to walk on the ropes. sorry, let me rephrase that. now is the time to walk on the rope.

anyway, i just came back from a short-and-sweet trip to Pulau Manukan, with several people from the office.

back during my first 2 weeks in KK, one of my PIPErs, Rani, advised me not to mingle with Executives only. when he said executives, he said not with the Semenanjung lads only. mix around with the locals as well. Because based on his observation, he saw that most Semenanjung staffs, especially the young ones, only mingles among themselves only. well, that was from his observation lah.

so now, i can safely declare that, i am creating a bond with all Malaysians. i don't know. but i find it funny when we differentiate ourselves by states of origins, when we are all Malaysians! for me, the purpose of me asking people's hometown is because i want to know more about them. i want to connect with them. not for assabiyah thingy. yezzaa! lama tak guna ayat tu.

ok, back to the original report.
so, went to Pulau Manukan, and had a wonderful time over there. and yeap, went there with my Sabahan friends. note to myself: need to brush up Sabahan dialect and slang.

and when you are on island, blessed with sandy beaches and calm seas, you are suppose to go snorkeling. and that's what i did. snorkel. burnt myself.

for the record, damn it i hate to admit this, when i snorkeled previously, i always wear the life jacket. although i know how to swim. i dont know why. maybe because i lack the confidence to snorkel without it. but today, i swam freely without the life jacket. it is another great achievement for me! woohooo.. for most of you, maybe this is nothing. but for me, considering the fact that i only started to learn how to swim in 2000, this is a big step for me. hehehehe. basking in self-glory.

we were on Manukan from 8am till 2pm.
snorkel + makan kudap-kudap + tidur tepi pantai sambil berjemur + snorkel (repeat again and again and again)

and as usual, when i get the opportunity to sun bath, i do it without applying any sun blocks.

and now, i suda terbakar.

hahahahhaa

but i loike.

ok, my entry here macam dah jadi kucar kacir. must be sebab penat or something. i think the only thing that makes me awake now is the Red Bull that i had earlier this evening.

roger and out!

would you?

would you prefer of me saying it to you directly,
or would you rather know it indirectly?

would you come with me, if it's warung and not the coffee shop?

would you walk with me to that place, when i parked my car few blocks away?

would you lecture me when i did something wrong, and then if i acted negatively to your concern would you give time for me to cool off first, then allowing me back to your embrace once i've realised that you were right?

would you just knock my head, not because you like to do it, but because you want to make sure that i'm thinking rationally?

would you be my source of positiveness, when i've ran out of positive thoughts to cheer me up?

would you?

note: the after-effect of attending weddings :)