T-minus 11 days.

not at all looking forward to it.

loneliest               
its the most wonderful time of the year.

If I may ask, how was your 1st day at work?

First, my alarm didn't set off. Why? Because I forgot to switch my profile back to 'NORMAL' and since it was in 'SILENT' mode, it did not ring at all. Close call, because it so happened that I decided to check the time and I found myself 15 minutes late from the actual time I planned to wake up.
Quickly get myself ready, down 2 slices of bread, and off I walked all the way to the nearest train station. It was 7.45a.m., and the train still didn't show any sign of its arrival, I begun to panic. First day of work, and heck! I don't want to be late.

The train came, and I was on my way. 30 minutes later, I arrived to the place I have to be, and I was 20 minutes early. So I decided to explore the building a bit, to find there's a canteen on the 5th floor. So, pandai-pandai, I went in, got myself a piece of roti canai (what happened to my crash diet?) and a glass of Nescafe Ais, which I was pretty sure I was going to need the caffeinne later during the day.5 minutes before work starts, I left the canteen and begun to wait for the elevator. 3 minutes later, still no sign of the elevator coming. Begun to panic again.

1 minute later, it came, and it was packed. I was contemplating whether to squish inside or not, but sardine-or no sardine, I was not going to appear in front of my office late, on the first day. So, I flashed my signature grin, and prayed that none of them would kicked me out from the lift. Thank goodness, no one did. (Men mar..)
8.45a.m., I arrived in front of the office, on the dot!

An engineer let me in while he was on his way into the office, and I was asked to sit and wait for the HR and the director to come back. 9.15, no sign of director, no sign of the HR. Hrmmmm....
The HR came 5 minutes later, and led me to my own cubicle. Beside me, was an engineer. Good, a good looking Lady Engineer.

I got the attention of everyone. Including the draftpersons.
Everyone 'pretended' to approach the Engineer beside me, and asked stupid random questions, but I always managed to hear, "Eh, who's that ah? What's her name?"

*blushed*

Can't tell you much about the company. Against the code of ethics.
But rest assured, I am beginning to find my place in an Engineering company. This one, to be exact. Especially the adrenaline rush, when the whole company is rushing to complete one massive project, and I was there, in the middle of everything, and I was not doing anything.

First day of work, nothing much to do, except for some data-entrying.
Well, haven't even meet the director, not even assigned to a supervisor yet. Today, I sat there, 3 quarter of the time, reading 'Twilight', online on GTALK, and texting other interns. Simply nothing much to do, and I was kinda afraid that the senior engineer would give me something to calculate.
Heck, I don't want the building in Abu Dhabi to collapse!

Today's work: BORING.
Can't wait for tomorrow anyway. The enthusiasm is still there.
Hopefully there's work tomorrow.

Oh yeah, I had lunch with my colleagues today. Good! I thought I was gonna be a lone ranger, but it turned out that they are pretty friendly.
All engineers oooo....

*CEO hunting season, begins!* 

My paid posts days are back.
I have to, expenses are freaking high.

This time, it's about LA Police Gear.com.
This website is where you can get all the gears that you need, and from the website's name, it's true that most of their merchandises are police gears.
However, they do not only sell to the cops, in fact, they sell to all PAYING customers.

So, if you like flashlights, gas masks, gun safes, handcuffs, weapon accessories, knives, bagpacks, etc, you can visit the website to place your orders.
REMEMBER, THEY SELL TO EVERYONE WHO'S WILLING TO PAY!
They also sell their products ranging from Brands like Timberland workboots to Dakota Watches. It's like Online shopping but you aren't buying pretty dresses or books, you are buying weapons accessories and military stuffs. Cool!

They also have this special series: 5.11. Like 5.11 Boots, 5.11 bagpacks..etc.
Where they are doing a promotion for 5.11 Tactical Knives . Click on it and be amazed!

And if you are from the military force, you would get special services, and you can place your orders so easily. Simply locate the link at the sidebar, and you are on the way to a whole-new scene of online shopping.

What are you waiting for?
Place your orders for a pair of handcuffs..hmmm..and tell me what would you do with the pair...
I have visions already...

Just remember to play safe.

This is my 4th day in a new place.
Been travelling everyday, carrying a big bagpack, sometimes with my laptop, sometimes not.
Money has been wasted like water. Credit card's bursted its limit.
Still haven't get the things I planned to buy.

Went to Bangsar the other day. All the way there, and when I thought about it, why did I even travel 45 minutes to meet Mel?
Hrrrmmmmm..(and in the end,she tried to scare me with her landlady's dog...)
Well, all's not wasted. She brought me to Nirvana for banana leaf. She did mention everytime Foo and Jiang visit her, they would request to have lunch there..
Hrmm, wanted to take pictures and post them here, so that the people in UK can salivate in front of the monitor.   

But I'm not that mean lah..so I didn't take lor...

What else did I do?

I had a long talk with my 'new' roommate until 4 in the morning.
Yeah, she's a medical student.
Definitely different from us, Engineering peeps.
Shall write about that some other time.

Hmm..it's 9.19pm, and in less than 9 hours, I'd have to wake up, get ready for my 1st day of work.
Yesh, not only me, but also 400 other UTP undergraduates who would be (I supposed!) doing the same thing too.
Some would head to the oil rig, some would head to the offices, some would probably wake up, and then text someone to sign for them..oooopppss!

Anyway, Good luck to everyone who begins their internship tomorrow, and no, you can't call your supervisor to sign for you, if you wake up late.
So, if you are reading this at 1 or 2 in the morning, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?
Go, TRY to sleep.

I just got back from a week-long trip from Ipoh to Taiping, and it was indeed hectic!

Taiping's fishing village, known to be as Pulau Pasir Hitam, is amazing. Living in a fisherman's down-to-earth lifestyle, drinking, eating, bathing, cleaning and thriving on rain water. The people there are very much dependent on the rain. More updates soon!

[We were searching for clams]

As I've posted on my tagboard, you can now access the download links through this page:

http://up4grabs.tabulas.com/content/files/

The latest layout I've added in the list is the one I made for Twin a year ago.  Since it was some sort of a gift for her then, I didn't put it up for download.  But now, I think it's okay for more people to use it.  Here's a preview:

I have fixed the background issue so the layout still looks nice on screen resolutions higher than 1024x768.  Thanks to Diane for pointing that out. 

If you want to use it, download it!

Been having the same dream for 3 consecutive days.

I wonder, Do you dream about me when I dreamt about you?

A day out in errrrm..the land of bak kut tehs...

Initially wanted to check out the office but seeing that I had no plans after that, I suggested for a day trip to Klang. Made plans to meet up with ShiouTing in KL Sentral, where the 2 of us just made our way to Klang by KTM. Hmm, wrong idea, because it takes an hour at least to reach Klang from KL Sentral.

Yessh, barely a week in KL, I have LRT-Phobia already.

According to TeeHooi, it takes her 1 hour to get to the KTM station from her place, so at the same time we departed from KL Sentral, she left the house too.
And she reached the same time we touched down the KLANG station.

We were brought for the "infamous" KLANG food somewhere near the station.

Yao Char Kuey
(goes well with the bak kut teh soup)

Why I took picture of the white rice? (Not because I have nothing better to do)
But because apparently, this rice is different lah, got put herbs to cook it. (says the Klang people)..hmmmmmmm....

Chinese tea, good for health.

And wait for it...
Wait for it....

I've been to Klang a couple of times, so I know that their way of serving bak kut teh is different from the ones in KL and Ipoh. You get bak kut teh served in individual servings, in a bowl each and you don't get stuffs like mushrooms, or pig trotters.
If you want pig trotters, you have to order it separately.

In Ipoh, Bak Kut Teh is served in a large pot, with all the goodies. Who cares about the pork ribs, when all I want to eat are the side dishes?
Hehhe, but here, in Klang, they want you to taste their pork ribs and meat. So, no other side dishes to divert your taste buds.

After breakfast, we were brought to the biggest Jusco centre in Malaysia, located in Bukit Tinggi. Well, of course we fully utilized the time to purchase stuffs for our internship, like *cough*, formal skirts. Yesh, if you want to catch me in a skirt, erm, wake up at 7.30 daily, and catch me on StarLine. Well, not everyday, because sometimes I won't be around.

3 hours later, I was already hungry. So, we went for lunch.
What else to eat in Klang, except for Bak Kut Teh right?

If you didn't already know, there are 2 types of Bak Kut Teh. One in soup, and one, dry.
So, since we had the "wet" one in the morning, we decided to try the dry one for lunch.

Piping hot.

Well, I personally think both Bak Kut Teh tasted good.

Oh yeah, TeeHooi was quite thoughtful to bring along 2 tea bags, so that we didn't have to purchase tea bags from the shop.

After lunch, still refuses to head home, so we stayed lingering in Klang.
Where to?

We played with cannons..Lol!

(kinky!) 3 girls playing with a cannon..hmmmmm...

Yeap, we were practically lepak-ing in front of the sultan's palace...

From left: Me, TeeHooi, ShiouTing and TeeHooi's friend: "Ren Chai"

and still not tired playing with the cannons, we decided to pay a visit to the local temple.
and that was where I dropped my camera case..

Check out the 4 chinese characters at the back.
"Wui Tao Xi On" means get back to the right path. What the...

Blessed with good friends.

Nice picture

Ais Kacang ala Klang version.

And then we finally had to leave Klang because we didn't want to get caught in the rush-hour.
A good day out, I guess all of us just missed one another during this 8-months break.
Sigh, this is a bad point when we are forced to be separated after a semester of close relationship.

A day thanks to the host.

promoting soy sauce.

The journey home was long and quiet.

and it was about to rain...

because I was simply too tired of the eating and laughing!

p/s: I just realized I have stopped writing about Singapore trip, and I'm not even done with it. Maybe tomorrow..