Christmas Eve 之 ‘上火记’

Didn't go out to anywhere to join the crowd on the Christmas Eve. I don't really like crowd. So, I opted to go to Myfitness to join the Body Jam class.... at least I've something to busy on this day lo.

But I think this is not really my day lo. My younger sister and I reached the mentioned place at 7.15pm and after changing, the time is just nice for us to join the 7.30pm class. We waited until 7.35pm but the instructor still didn't turn up. As far as what we know, this instructor is those of punctual typed, never late to class. So, a lady went over to check out whether the class is on. The front desk people told us that the instructor is 'coming'....

Waiting and waiting and waiting until 8.++pm, the front desk girl told us that the class is cancelled. We are given some door gift as return. Ohhhhh... what a memorable Christmas's present I got!! A WHITE waiting CHRISTMAS!!

The door gift.... these drinks come just nice in time to 下火.... Haha!!

Launch Week..BC38

Body Combat 38
7.30pm sharp
Myfitness Yang Studio

Myfitness has its BC 38 launched here by Phui See and JX. Unexpectedly the class started at 7.30pm 'sharp'. So, I missed the few starting minutes of the warm up track. It's quite some times since my last joining Phui See's class. Just don't realy get use to her style coz she love doing 4-5 tracks back to back, non-stop. I'm too old for this style lo. Almost breathless during the class..... Just don't know why, my body still can't listen to her instruction. I need to be very very alert and concentrate in order to get the movement correct coz my body just won't follow her instruction automatically...

Generally BC38 is great and of super cardio type again. Fully exhausted after the class.... love it very much except the push up session... Haha!!

Christmas Eve Dinner.....

Such a long time since my previous dinner with my youngest sister...... Ermmm, if I'm not mistaken, should be from the time when she started her new job, I think. We decided to have Christmas Eve dinner at McD. There is 2 reason for it.... 1st, her favourite twister fries is back by popular, to celebrate the coming Chinese New Year again and the 2nd reason is because.... due to a very longgggggggggg reason, the length of grandmother's story. So, I think it's better for for me to blog about in my next post.

Hope that I can come back to twister fries again in short future together with my elder sister when she recovered from her sickness.... 3 of us are the big fans of twister fries!! Hehehe...

Potluck Christmas Party

I just back from a potluck Christmas Party. The party is organised by my auntie and it also serves as a family gathering session. Since we are invited at the very last minute, we didn't prepare or cook any food there. We only bought some fruit there.

Anyway, since it's a Christmas party, we hopped in to Carrefour Supermarket to buy some christmas gift for my cousins or make it simple, we bought presents for the kids lo. We bought two groups of gift. For the guys, we bought them Cadbury chocolate whereas for the girls, we bought them some fashion accessories. Not sure whether they like it or not coz they haven't unwrapped their gift yet.

For the potluck party, lots of food are served. Fried noodle, fried meehoon, fruits, sandwich, fishballs, sausage, curry, cakes etc.You name it, they have it!! The party was so happening!!

The presents that I bought>>>>

Let's feast>>>>>

Buffet lunch @ Royal Selangor Club

All Cheng & Co staffs are invited by Dr Paul Cheng to have Christmas buffet lunch at Royal Selangor Club today. So, Cheng & Co is closed from 12.00pm to 2.30pm for such reason. We departed 12.00pm sharp from the office and reached the mentioned place at around 12.20pm.

The Club is opened for its members only and according to Dr Paul, he is the member for the club since 1983. We have a full and satisfied buffet lunch there. Yeahh.... I'm kinda easily satisfied as long as I don't have to pay any. hehehe.....

After the lunch, Dr Paul showed us around the club. The arrangement is sort of a tour guide, Dr Paul bringing a group of tourist to visit the place. He talked of history of the place and showed us the facilities there. We just followed him to walk around.

The funniest part during our tour was by the time we visited to the gym room. There was a member working out there. When he saw 40+ of us wearing formal dress code to step into the gym room, he shocked and stoned there for 15 minutes until we left the place. We really feel sorry to disturb him but still we can't hold our laugh seeing his blurred face.

Actually I have lots of sweet memory in this place when I was a child. My dad was working there as a bar captain for 20 over years. Every year the club would held a Children Christmas Party.

That's the only place and time, where and when I can have close interaction with Santa Clause too. I still remember that the Santa Clause would distribute some chocolates, sweets and candy to us. We also would have buffet lunch there..... but I hardly remember what's the food was. then the Santa Clause would sing along with all the kids. I think there is more than hundreds of children gathered there. I learned all the Christmas song there... Jingle Bells, Jingle Bell Rock, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause, Here Come Santa Clause, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Joy to The World etc.

After the singing session, there would be some stage performance and magic show as well. Last but not least, all the children would be given a present. The present is surely a toy. Kids always love toys and I myself really love toys very much.

Ahhh... What a sweet memory!!! I really miss it very very much. I wish to join Christmas party now but I am invited by nobody this year. *sob sob* Christmas presents, Yeahh, I got it, from facebook... Haha!! Better than nothing maa...

Home-typed Boutique

This is my 1st experience to shop in a home-typed boutique. It is based in a corner unit of a double storey link house in Sri Petaling. According to the signboard, the business place is named as Citrus Deign & Advertising Sdn. Bhd..

But if really compared to shopping complex, I personally prefer the later. The environment, the choice, the fashion, the quality..... so variety. And if we go shopping on mega sales season, the price is even a lot more unbelievably cheaper. But since my cousin would like to pay a visit to this kind of boutique, no harm for me to follow and this is my 1st experience to go home-typed boutique and also 1st time go shopping without buying anything.. Haha!!

Winter Solstice

Today is the Winter Solstice or 'Dongzhi' for the year. Most of the time, the 'Dongzhi' would be on December 22 of the year but this year, this big day is fallen on December 21, 2008. Heard from the radio station few days back, the reason for this is because this year, 2008 is a leap year with 29 days in February. Hence the 'Dongzhi' is one day earlier by date after all.

As usual, our family will have a simple reunion lunch together. 5 of us gather together to enjoy the lunch with chicken, pork, vege and of course 'tangyuen'. I enjoyed eating the 'tangyuen' very much. I think this is solely because I only have the chance to taste it once after missing it for one year. The chicken that cooked by my mom is the one that that bought from Liza. It costs us RM45.00 per bird but is worth to eat coz is 'homefed' typed. Healthier, I think. We also booked another one for Chinese New Year Eve. Hope the 'stock' is available during CNY eve lo.

The chicken... looked nice!!

'tangyuen'

A day in hair saloon....

I have been sitting in the hair saloon from 12.00pm to 5.00pm today. Yupe... is 5 hours, no joke. In this 5 hours, my hair is cut, rebonded and coloured. The package comes with 2 treatment as well. Actually I don't really go to hair saloon to do this kind of thing so often, because this thing really challenge my patience. Can you imagine, sitting there without doing anything but just waiting for people to do your hair for around 5 hours... OMG!! Upon reaching home, my family commented my hair's colour too sharp. According to them, I'm too old for this kind of colour wo.. :(

Since Christmas is just around the corner, the saloon also have some Christmas decoration. I'm sitting next to a lovely Christmas tree.

Sick at Home

I am having flu and non stop coughing for almost 1 week. But due to the workload in office, really don't have much time to care about it. Today... I am really down to sick and have a day off, mc.

Good to me also , coz it's quite such a long time since my last MC day. Of coz ma, MC is one of my Company's benefit. Most of the colleagues utilising it fully during the year, except me. I think I only have taken 3 days MC this year. Such a good and healthy employee. Hahaha...

The medical bill was RM35.00. My company will only reimbursed me for RM30.00, damn stingy. but no choice lo, I'm really sick ma. The excess RM5.00 have to pay myself lo. Anyway, I think I'm still benefited in term of the mc day off lo... Hopefully I'll recover soon la!!

1st experience dinner @ Secret Recipe of Sri Petaling

That was my first experince dining at Secret recipe of Sri Petaling. If fact, most of the time I had my breakfast there. Yeahh... love to have cake as my breakfast all the time. Sweet stuff is always my favourite.

Had a short and simple dinner with Alyster (my friend, my ex-colleague and my company's client) at the mentioned place yesterday after work. The reason for 'short period' dinner is due to she is having another dinner elsewhere after that and I myself is not really feeling well... But we still managed to chat for about 1 hour, I think.

Since it was a dinner hours, I opted for heavy meal instead. I ordered the chicken meat ball pasta whereas she only ordered a slice of chocolate indulgence cake and drinks. Nothing much to comment about the cake as Secret Recipe is always my all-times favourite... Hehe. Pasta..... I think is nothing special lo... Cannot see and feel its attraction at all, just a very common one lo.

One hour really not enough for us to chill and chat about. Looking forward for another round of dinner with her when she is free again and when I have recovered!!... Thanks for the treat again!!

Auditing environment at client's place

For the past 2 days, I was based in Paramount Garden of Petaling Jaya. Most of the time during my course of audit, I would be seated in the conference room but as this is a sales outlet for electrical appliances, so that's no conference room.

This time, my colleague and I were seated in their tiny office area at the 1st floor. We have to share a table there. Feeling less freedom with this kind of arrangement but luckily the client seldom sit at her place and she left the radio on during office hours. So the enjoyable part is that we can listen to the radio station. At least not so bored looo.

Managed to take some pictures from the office...

This is the view from the office...... quite an old building, rite??

The walk way leading to washroom from the office...

Table calendar.... gift from client!!

Free gift implies the economic status now

Lots of people were saying that global economic is slowing down now. The West is experience the tough life. Be frank, I never sense any recession in Malaysia. Feels that shopping mall, cinema, restaurant etc all are crowded. Everybody still enjoying the life here.

But now I started to sense the 'slow' trend in our economic. Is end of the year already but I still didn't really get much free gift such as diary, table calendar or even pocket calendarfor 2009. I think at the same day of last year, I got lots of this thing. This year, lots of client told me that they are not printing any coz they are facing tight budget this year. So... I don't get any from them.

The only free gift that I got this year is from Great Eastern Life again. My agent cum friend is generous enough to give me a diary and a table calendar. Ya... that's all I got. Seems like this clearly implies the economic status now!! But..... is the economic really that bad in Malaysia ??????

Table calendar and diary

Appreciation

I always feel warm when people really appreciate my contribution. I am not demanding for any monetary rewards but sometimes some little motivation or appreciation motion might easily cheer me up.

But recently I understand a reality. It is not easy to be appreciated. I was working on 8th December (Hari Raya Haji) which supposed to be a public holiday. On the same day, 3 persons happened to discuss the same issue with me.

Firstly, I have a chat with my boss, Mr Liew. He grumbled that we work like a "dog", but end up our rewards can't match with our hard work.Then I have a short discussion with my another boss, Steven. He complained that we work until 'gadai our nyawa'... but end up we got nothing. Had lunch with my colleague, CG on the same day. He told me that we always work like hell but end up getting all the scolding.

At the same day also..... Mr Liew paid for a pizza delivery lunch using Cheng & Co. money but the lunch is restricted to administration staff only... The cost centre is spending , the revenue centre is suffering without appreciation, not even a simple lunch!!!! Unfair!!!!!!

Landslide of Bukit Antarabangsa

Before I read today's paper, I already knew about this news. Not from news reporting of TV but is from my sister. Reason being one of my sister's schoolmate was dead in this incident. She was an accountant. Now leaving behind her 2 months old son and her husband. So sad to know about this news. She is one of the 4 victims that died in this incident.

Again, this news really stop my plan and dream to own a condominium at hill area. I always feel that staying at condominium of hill area is so relaxing. Manage to view the whole scenery of the city.... But now, I think I'll stop such dreaming coz that might be a big sacrifice in return. Better stay happy and appreciate what I own now..... Appreciate the time I have with my family, treasure every moment with my friends...... !!

Busy and busy

I have been working very very hard for 2 weeks already. My definition of 'working very very hard' means I need to bring home some office work to be completed it at home. Super busy life... I still can recall, on November and December of 2007, I'm very very free. Free to go on leave whenever I like and free to chat around in office. I really miss that kind of lazy life.

One of the main reason of my current 'busyness' is due to few colleagues are on study leave. They are going to sit for the ACCA exam in December. Yeah... exam fever again. Hopefully after they come back on next week, everything will be on track again and no more tight schedule for me. I think I'm too old to work like a cow anymore!!