Fan Mail =P

In reply to the earlier post about my trip to Ipoh:

Dear August,

How are you? Hope you are fine back in Malaysia. Ah Ma and I are fine here in Melbourne. Thank you very much for blogging about your trip to Ipoh. Ah Ma and I found it very interesting. Hope you enjoyed yourself there.

Okay..with the niceties out of the way, now............

Eh apek! You not happy with Ipoh izzit?? Wanna get whacked ah? You just wait til Ah Ma and I go to Sarawak and kutuk everything in sight like what you did when you reached Ipoh!
Your post a bit the one- sided hor?? Haha..How come you didn't blog about your many trips to the loo to ulti? And about the way you two had me drive all the way to Jusco just so u guys can ulti for like 25 freakin' minutes! Made me wait in the car looking like a complete idiot!

[For the uninitiated, Ulti = Ultimate = Number 2 = Pass Motion = Poo = Pang sai. Apparently, you can't poo till you've reached a 'critical' point because poo-ing at your critical point will enable you to save time as the poo comes out faster. And how might one go about achieving this critical point, you might ask. Simple. Just restrain yourself from going to the toilet for the number 2 until you feel like your world would explode if you didn't relieve yourself. And that, my dear friends, is a 'critical'. ] [ information courtesy of Guan Hui Ong, 2007]

And about the way you scoffed at Perak's caves since you said, and I quote, "You're bringing me to see gua? Cheh! I have the deepest gua in the world leh!". -_-" And here I thought only girls have 'gua's. How ignorant I was.

And what about the way you bugged me the whole entire day to drive u all 45 minutes away to Tanjung Rambutan to see Hospital Bahagia (Tanjung Rambutan is a place btw, Hospital Bahagia is the mental institution) just so you can take a picture with it to show the world that you've been there? There's actually no need, since the whole world knows you deserve to be in it anyways :P

And the way you guys made me come to your hotel at 7 am in the morning and when I reached you two were still snoozing away all wrapped up in the blankets and still stinky stinky and I had to wait until 9 plus before you two vain pots were ready to be off.

And what about the way you released a few powerful 'bombs' in my car while we were cruising Ipoh Parade looking for a parking space just before we went to K-Box?

Ok lah...I shall stop embarassing you here since I've run out of time. Actually you two made our weekend fun and enjoyable. It was cool ferrying you around, even if you did release fragrances in my car ^_^. Come again next time and we'll eat more good food!! *grin*

Love,

Omega and Ah Ma

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Temporary Shutdown

Why?

1. I don't have a functioning PC in Miri - plus I had more important things to do during CNY (aka gambling, gambling and more gambling)

2. My PC in Melbourne thinks she's Sleeping Beauty. Only she won't even start up after I kiss her.

Think my hard disk died. FUCK. Hope there is a way to recover all my photos in there.

Oh and happy belated Chinese New Year people =)

It's good to be back.

10 Weeks

So it ends.

For all my grumblings about how boring or sien I was at work, I know how important this short period of time is on my future.

All the words in print in this world will never substitute the value of first-hand experience.

I have learnt a lot about myself as well, during this time. I have discovered shortcomings, such as being unable to communicate with others at times due to language/culture/age differences.

In short, this internship at Shell will serve me well in the future. Go me!

(not to mention my resume looks so much better now)

Happy Valentines Day...?

I thought you're only supposed to say it to one person.

Apparently not.

Today I put "is it the norm to wish friends happy vday?" on my MSN nickname. Quite a number of people replied me.

And they all said yes.

And then wished me Happy Valentines Day to boot.

And a couple of them were guys.

...

Is it just me or is something wrong here?

Batu Caving

Did everyone think that I was just going to Batu Caves to see the temple there? Granted the humongous gigantic gold statue was really a sight to behold and the temples were beautiful, especially set in a natural backdrop, but I was also there for the Dark Caves adventure. Sze Ching was my trip-buddy for the day. We were joined by a Dutch bloke called Andy a.k.a. Anne (pronounced Ah-nuh : no it's not a girls name it's his real name in Dutch), a Pom and a girl from Sydney. Rounding out the United Nations was our tour guide, Swiss-Malay and his son (Swiss-Malay-Indian).

It was pretty educational, and some of the rock formations were absolutely beautiful. There were even some walls that were glittery. However, the amount of graffitti in the cave was staggering. Almost everywhere you looked, idiots carved their names, dates, anything you can think of. There was even a wall with a chinese school's name and the names of the entire rombongan. What the. Where got people do roll call on the walls one.

The most challenging part of the adventure was the wriggle. Wriggle? When the guide demonstrated it to us, I thought he was joking. Until we came to the chamber and he pointed at the tiny hole that we were supposed to go through. To put it simply, my body was flat on the ground, with my arms in front, flailing myself forward while keeping my head sideways. Not to mention the ground was muddy and wet. What was I wearing? My white Real Madrid jersey of course haha. On the way out we met some Japanese tourists who were just doing the educational tour walkabout, not the adventure one. When they saw my shirt they all went "Tsugoi!" and stared at us like heroes. Lol.

The adventure tour was a great experience. But it is a bit steep at RM80. So if you're willing to fork out the money for about 3 hours of educational and physical fun, I recommend it. Oh and remember to bring an extra set of clothes cause you can take a bath after near the temple.

Another adventure of a different kind awaited me later in the day, when I met up with GH to explore the heart of Bukit Bintang. I shall blog about that some other time since this post is so long dy.

But before I end this post, let me share something. Yesterday I met up with my long lost cousins who I haven't seen for more than 5 years. We spent most of the day in Sunway Pyramid catching up and lepaking around. On the way out, we noticed a shiny red Ferrari in the lane beside us. My cousin said: "Want to see my Kancil overtake the Ferrari?" Impossible you say? NO. We left the Ferrari biting our dust!

How can such a thing happen? Let me tell you. The road had a few bumps mah... and Ferraris are so damn low that it takes FOREVER to cross!

So how was my brief visit to Ipoh?

Saturday started out a bit stressful. Halfway out of Menara Alpha, I realised I forgot the bus tickets! Haha fortunately I realised before I got into a cab. Anyways, have you ever been to Puduraya bus station? Everywhere you walk, someones trying to sell you something! I saw someone put his arm around a student who just walked in, trying to convince him to buy tickets! Needless to say, I turned and walked in the other direction.

Guan Hui (from now on he shall be GH coz lazy to type his name) was late. As usual haha his friends would know... his famous football excuse, "I'm on my way" means he's still at home, or just stepped out of it. He panicked, then his brother broke every speed limit in KL (if there are any) to get him to the bus station. Lucky no jam, or GG him. In his haste, he forgot to bring "something important" which was the main reason for this trip. Learnt your lesson mate? Haha

The bus ride there was uneventful. GH was asleep most of the time and I struggled to solve the day's Sudoku puzzle. It didn't take me the full two hours and a half, but a large enough chunk of it. *paiseh*

Omega (O) and Chong Chyn (Ahma) were our official tour guides. That they brought me all the way to Taiping Zoo on my first day shows Ipoh really got nothing to do one. Haha but that day I had my first taste of Ipoh White Coffee, Kaya kok (currypuff pastry with coconut jam on the inside - ive never seen such a thing before!), the legendary Ngar Choi Kai with Hor Fun (steamed chicken with short and fat beansprouts served with rice noodles, wickedly soft and delicious) and beer snowshake (creamy frothlike bubbles made from freezing beer and the glass).

Okay on to the non-food side of it. We went to a temple first, beside a mountain before heading to Taiping. Taiping Zoo was actually a lot funner than I thought. Maybe it was the company hehe. O had never been there while Ahma's last visit was a decade ago. There's a fricking big fish from the Amazon there, longer than I am tall I reckon. And we got to see baby elephants suckle as well. On a side note, are they feeding the animals there ecstacy? Haha you needed to see it for yourself. The elephants, turtles, you name it... they were all shaking their heads as if there was loud trance music blasting somewhere. After that we went to a nearby lake to paddle on paddle-boats! Me and Ahma paddled straight into a fountain and drenched ourselves haha shioknya.

The next day, we planned to see the rest of Ipoh, the leaning tower of Teluk Intan (not Pisa) and to Kampar to eat curry bread but in the end we didn't go. Had "Dramatic" dim sum, lunch with O's folks, then sang karaoke the whole afternoon. After that Ahma had to go home for a family dinner. The remaining 3 of us then had the famous Ipoh Wat Dan Hor (err how to describe? wet kuey tiao?) before going to the bus station. Oh we stopped by the temple again en-route because O had a sudden wish to see her subordinates, as she was their Queen monkeys.

Btw I learnt two things during this trip. TANJUNG RAMBUTAN is in Perak! I never knew! Secondly, the long standing rumour that Ipoh girls are the prettiest girls in Malaysia is sadly false. Some defend it, saying they all migrate to KL already. If so prove it to me, then I shall retract that statement.

Dedicated to Jess

/-\/\/ : +6016 873 2387 augustisbored.blogspot.com says:
haha batu caves is kinda near where im staying

jess. says:
oh ok. is that the one where they have some sort of religious ceremony at ?

/-\/\/ : +6016 873 2387 augustisbored.blogspot.com says:
yaya

/-\/\/ : +6016 873 2387 augustisbored.blogspot.com says:
indians go there for thaipusam

jess. says:
ha ! correct ! thats the name of the day hahaha i was going to say hari gawai..but i wasn't going to risk it hahahaha

This is what happens when one lives abroad for too long.

Anyways I'm going Batu Caving this Saturday! Haha seems like I've gone into full tourist mode, taking up every offer I can to see this side of Malaysia.

I know I have yet to blog about Ipoh... shall get to it soon! Many thanks to Omega and Chong Chyn aka Ah Ma for showing me the sights (there weren't many haha) and stuffing all sorts of local delicacies into me! Shall return the favour if you guys come Sarawak next time =)

Ipoh

Uploaded a Lee Hom photo from last weekend. Stolen from OmeGLUTEUS LENG LOI OMEGA.

Off to Ipoh, Land of the Hor Fun for the weekend.

If can get bus tickets that is.