Thursday, August 31, 2006
Merdeka Day Countdown with my friends - Truly a blessing from God!Yesterday was Merdeka Day's Eve. I went for the countdown celebration with my church friends. I suggested to them to go to Sunway Pyramid. My friends agreed with my suggestion. Thanks to Brother Alex who helped me tell them my suggestion. Both me and him thought that countdown places in K.L. like KLCC and Bintang Walk would be way crowded. These places are always crowded every year whether it is the countdown celebration for Merdeka Day or New Year's Day. Furthermore, these places are not really safe. My friends lost their belongings when they were in KLCC early this year. So, I thought that K.L. will not be in my list of options for places to celebrate countdown. Alex came to fetch me at around 7.25p.m.. He aslo had to fetch other people. Among them were Linus and his girlfriend, Seok Lee and Chris. After fetching me, He went to Taman Mayang to fetch Linus and his girlfriend. On the way there, Alex asked me to help him call Ben because he was driving. We wanted to know whether he was also joining us for the countdown. However, when I managed to get him, he said that he just woke up from his sleep and that he did not think that he was going to join us. I think that he was probably very tired due to his work load in church. Anyway, it was alright with us. When Linus and his girlfriend got into the car, Alex and I was introduced to his girlfriend. I don't know how to spell her name. But, my version will be Ee Wei. I really pray and hope that Linus or anyone of us can bring her to church one day. The nest destination was Seok Lee's place. She lives in Old Town. Seok Lee is a really friendly girl. She is my dearest sister in-Christ. Her place is near her work place which is Assunta Hospital where she is working as a nurse. With her in the car, it was almost full already. But, we thought that maybe Chris could squeeze in. When we reached Chris's house in OUG, thank God that William was also present at that very moment to give Chris a lift. The fact that Chris could feel much comfortable in William's car rather than squeezing into Alex's car was a joy to us. I was also overjoyed to see Chris's big beautiful corner house. He has dogs just like I do. And they were very very cute! I only managed to have a good look at his Spitz. He or she is a petite cute little fellow! Chris, Ee Wei, Alex, Linus, Seok Lee, William, William's friend and I were talking outside Chris's house when Chris's dad came back home. He seemed to know Seok Lee. If I am not mistaken, they were talking about something to do with Chris's father going to the hospital to treat the kidney stones in his kidney. Chris, please forgive me if I am wrong. While they were talking, Alex asked me if it was okay if we went to Steven's Corner for dinner first before going to Sunway Pyramid for the countdown. If I remembered correctly, it was already almost 9p.m. at that time. Therefore, I told Alex that we might not be able to find a parking space if we had dinner first at Steven's corner. I thought that maybe we could have dinner in Sunway Pyramid. However, Chris, William and his friend still wanted to have dinner first at Steven's Corner. Then, I told Alex that it was fine with me. I know that we must learn to follow other people's wishes and desires sometimes in life.I heard that Steven's corner is very famous for its Cheese Naan. When we were there, a few of them ordered the shop's specialties. William ordered Garlic Cheese Naan, Chris and Ee Wei had Roti Cheese while Seok Lee had the Naan Special. After William finished his Naan, he ordered another Roti Cheese. He allowed everyone to share that Roti. When I tried one piece, I thought that it tasted really good. I also tried one piece of William's Garlic Cheese Naan and Seok Lee's Naan Special. They were also very good. However, I did not order any of those. There were two reasons for that. First of all, I had to eat rice and the other reason was because I did not know that those food were very delicious. So, I ordered Tandoori Chicken with half a plate of white rice.On the dinner table, we were introduced to William's friend, Benjamin. However, he could not join us for the countdown celebration as he had to fly to Thailand today.After eating, Alex, Seok Lee, Linus, Ee Wei and I headed to Sunway Pyramid in one car. William and Chris went in William's car. Upon arriving at the Sunway area, Alex had to park at one of the Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel's car park. We were quite sure that the parking spaces in Sunway Pyramid's basement car park was filling up very fast. So, after parking the car, we walked approximately one kilometre before we reached Starbucks in Sunway Pyramid. We were waiting for Alex's sister, Alicia and her friend, William and Chris and Jeremy to come. Jeremy was inside the shopping complex but he had to take some time to come out. Alicia and her friend who was driving were still on their way but they were already very near. For William and Chris, they were also on their way. Jeremy turned up after awhile. After standing for quite some time, we went into Starbucks to get a seat. After about 15 minutes, Alicia, her friend and his sister reached. Alex introduced me to Alicia's friend, Paul and his sister, Su Yi. I am not really sure whether the spelling of her name is correct. We waited for another 10 to 15 minutes and Wiliam and Chris turned up. They came with about four bottles of chemical spray. They came into Starbucks and Chris sprayed Jeremy immediately! Jeremy got a shock and Chris had a kind and gentle warning from the Starbucks's staff.Looked like everyone was already there. But Linus and Ee Wei were in the toilet for quite a long time. However, we decided to make a move to the car park of the Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel first so that we could get a much better view of the fireworks. Alex said that we would keep in touch with Linus and Ee Wei through the handphone. Fortunately, we bumped into them when we were walking to the car park of the hotel.This year's fireworks were not at the usual place at Sunway Pyramid. It was in Sunway Lagoon this year. That was why we had to go over to Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel's car park to watch the fireworks. When the clock strucked twelve o'clock, there was around five to seven minutes delay in the fireworks. However, when it came on, it was tremendously spectacular! Everyone was overwhelmed by it! I was clapping my hands. Those who had cameras like Chris and William took photos and recorded some videos of the fireworks. After about ten minutes, the fireworks came to an end.The night was still young for us. The guys ran all over the place while spraying each other with the chemical sprays. Alicia and Seok Lee also participated but they did not run around. I did not take part because I did not want to dirty myself. We also took some individual and group photos of each other. Not to mention some videos as well.Later, we had a drink in Ming Tien restaurant which was very near Sunway Pyramid. The guys told all of us many jokes. We were laughing and laughing. At that time, the time was already one something in the morning. When we realized that it was already getting late, we decided to leave for home. So, we all walked to our cars. Alex fetched Seok Lee, Linus, Ee Wei and I back home. He dropped Seok Lee first at her place followed by Linus and Ee Wei in Taman Mayang Jaya. Then, it was my turn. The time was already about 2.25a.m. by the time I reached home. Alex wanted to go to a toilet. I offered him my house toilet but it was hard for him to get in because my dogs were barking and they might rush out when he was coming in. So, I asked him if he could go to the Projet petrol station. As a gentleman, he said no problem. Thank you, Alex and sorry for not being able to lend u my toilet.I slept at about 3.30a.m.. Overall, I enjoyed myself to the fullest. I am hundred percent sure that the rest of my friends also enjoyed themselves very much. Thanks be to God for his abundant blessings and favour in our lifes. It was indeed Him who gave us the time and oppurtunity to fellowship like that. Amen!!
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Olivia blogged @ 8/31/2006 11:36:00 PM
Monday, August 28, 2006
I am back!I know that I had not been blogging for quite a long time. The reasons are because I felt that I did not have much things to blog about and that I was kinda busy with my industrial training. But now I am back! I had just finished my industrial training last week. So, I am kind of more free now until October when I will start my 5th term in college. I'll try my best to blog often from now on. Maybe I'll just write something short and simple or one to two paragraphs. Industrial Training in Triways Travel Network, Taman TunLike what I mentioned above, I had just completed my industrial training last week. My last day was on Saturday(26.08.06). The company only works half a day on Saturdays. That is from 9a.m. to 1p.m.. For the weekdays, I worked from 9a.m. to 5.30p.m.. I started on the 3rd of July. My training was for two months(eight weeks). During this training, I was put into the Reservations and Ticketing and Human Resource Department. I was in the Reservations and Ticketing Department first for the first four weeks before I was transfered to the Human Resource Department for the next four weeks. I had two wonderful managers in both the departments. Both of them are married ladies. The one in the Reservations and Ticketing Department is a Chinese. Her name is Miss Teresa Chin. For the Human Resource Department, my manager is a Malay lady. All of us call her Kak Elle. I always wanted to call her Puan Elle but I always forgot. Her full name is Puan Alka Zarina. What a unique name. When I was first asked to meet her on my first day of training there, I thought that she is a Chinese because her name 'Elle'. But when I met her, I got to know that she is actually a Malay.In this training, I got to know the other trainees in the company too. There were so many of them there. Linda, Shira & Izan are from UiTM in Malacca whereelse Zaimi is from UiTM in Dungun, Terengganu. Faruq is from MMU in Malacca. He is studying in the same University as my brother. However, they are from different faculties. Rusydi is from Politek in Sabak Bernam, Selangor.Okay. That's all for today's blogging. I have to go and eat now. I am very hungry. Take care, everyone. God bless all of you very much. Bye.
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Olivia blogged @ 8/28/2006 05:12:00 PM
