Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Flying to Sibu!

Before that, we got to be good guests so we have to prepare souvenirs of Penang local delights for Sarawak hosts (our friends!) few days before the trip. So we bought boxes of tau sar pheah and some other food. Each of us draw lots see who carry souvenirs to whose home.
14.6.09
Early morning, as early as 6. 3o a.m. Mandy and ah Choon's bf drove us to airport. Penang International airport. And each of us carry big luggage and I myself carry backpack and bringing along my blackie (birthday present from myself to myself last year, if you remember!) as hand luggage and latest Mango- blackie (also birthday present but from sweetie, if you know and in case you don't know.) as handbag to keep my valuable belongings.Friends and some parents who remind their daughters how to take care during the journey. Remind them not to be naughty!Boarding. Waiting for our flight to arrive. We're flying to LCCT first. It's very excited as it's first time flying experience for some of us. It's my first time flying without supervision. LOL. (Funny or not my joke? and you can't be disagree!)
Oh, some moment catching while everyone is just on board, not yet headcount. First time I realise how the flight attendants do the headcounts back and forth for 3 times or more with the lil metal counter.And so after some time, I arrive at LCCT and was welcomed by a sweet-good guy! All of us went for light meal after checking in for next flight. I had some box sandwiches whice were not that nice as my brunch. And the particular fella was sweet enough to drive a long journey from his place to come over and do some catch-up! (Hey, earpulling for staying up late!)It's time for boarding. Going thru customs, scanning body and handbags. Nothing on me sound the alarm so I was managed to escape from the thorough-hand-over-body-checking by policewoman. bye bye! Drive safe and sleep tight ya!!! I know it's Sunday so you can sleep until the sun shines onto ur pat pat! I will buy you many many souvenirs~ (",)Alright. After 2 hours of flying across the South China Sea from KL, now we see the (muddy) Sungai Rajang- Malaysia Longest River (540km). To my surprise, I figured out something. I never know clouds cast shadows. Now I know why we say the sky is dark and rain is coming. That's when we are under the clouds' shadows. Am I right anyway?Temperature checking at the entrance to airport before we can go through the Sarawak Immigration counter. All the passengers got to declare in black and white regarding their health status presently, previous visit to WHO- declared epidermic countries, record down the flight number and seats number. After that we, from west Malaysia receive an immigration permit that lasts for 90 days.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Emo time lah~

Because tomorrow is the time to go back to my poor lil nest to continue my 'new' life there. New semester = final semester= stressful = exam for many many times.....

But the holiday was spent meaningfully to its fullest. but life goes on. No point thinking back and sad for the unseen. I am hoping for a good tutor in-charge, good and near to perfect July- Dec masterplan so that I have time to play, study, attend weddingSS, plan my holiday, looking for rental house and save money for shopping...

Friday, June 26, 2009

July is coming!

4th of July is coming~ WOOHOOOOOO~~~ (scheming!)

Alright, here I am, back from Sibu-Marudi-Miri- KL trip. Thanks to my classmates that have contributed their home and we can enjoy homestay, enjoy their authentic hospitality and their kindness to us, "the westerners"!!
Thank you for everything, you guys' time, petrol, home- cookings, oil, gas, water for bathing and laundry, dogs& cats for me to scream at (ya, everyone rear pets at home!), ang pau from Agnes's mum (homestay some more can get red- packet, so kek-ki [generous] hoh?!), sunset at Tanjung while drinking coconuts and so on. Long list to go. Billion appreciations and round of applause to Sarawakians!

Thank you dad, aunty and sam suk for buying me a DC so that I can snap good photos, be it motion or nature with 12 MP and 29mm wide- angel features! I love the tri-pod too. Therefore, I have 1000 photos, taking 9Gb of space from my limited disc space. (Now, who want to buy me an external hard disk then?) The photos are all in pendrive, not with me. Even my laptop is under the care of my Penang friend. So, I'll squeeze out a few hours everyday to blog about my happy trip. I will introduce to you all about places and food that we used to think that Sarawakians are not that civilised, not wearing clothes like us, not eating typical chinese food, not having modernised town with proper infrastructures. I will speak with my photos (again I say, they are from my Panasonic Lumix FS15).

Friday, June 12, 2009

Finally (excited!!!)

Flowers in floral Festival~ so happy using new "accompany" to snap!!Look at the flowers and ignore the person~ many many small small flowers~

It's the end of the semester after tomorrow- the last day of working.

And, then I'll be flying to Sarawak for my 8- day homestay trip!!!!
*LOL*

I don't know what to say. I have booked the ticket from AirAsia.com since last October. Anyway, I am going with another 8 west- Malaysians to visit our east- Malaysians classmates. They are the people who host us, provide us accommodation, food and food and food...

Our journey would be Penang- KL- Sibu- Miri- Marudi- Miri- KL- Penang/ Alor Star (me!)

I am looking forward to flying and some boat- riding to some outskirt of Sarawak. Marudi- ever heard? Gotta ride SPEEDboat for 2 hours to travel along river with crocodiles.

I need to pack my bag by now 'cause tomorrow I am working evening shift. If I pack it late, I will end up insomnia and then couldn't wake up at 5 a.m on Sunday morning. Buying McDonalds breakfast takeout and head to airport by 6.30 a.m. Flight is 0815 hour.

Please pray for our safe journey and punctuality of flight. You know, one delay affects a lot. $$$$$$$$$$$

Oh oh, for sure I will post up some special things about Sarawak here. Their sea, their people, city, food, house........ Be right back, see ya, people =D

Monday, June 01, 2009

work.fun.celebration

Saturday- the last day of posting to OR. In fact, friday morning I already felt sad. I hope that the time doesn't go away so fast like it always does. Although there are a lot of new things inside and the temperature is always maintained at below 20 degree Celsius, but I do still hope that I can one day get back there to work. Everything was alright after I got to know some of the basic, general knowledge. I can stand for long hours, be able to understand the operations. In fact I saw an amputation. I observed a lot and all tell me "now you know~".


Now, let me tell you something during the last 2 weeks. I think talking all about my work setting is way too boring. Not all can actually stand the imagination of bloody, smelly scenes. First must be my birthday! *jeng jeng jeng*It's my precious moment that I've waited long. You can see how much I appreciate when the clock struck 12!not to forget some WISHES from some people!! heyhey~~So, on the day, I am still doing the usual thing. At night Hooi Lin belanja me McValue Meal. I had a large set of BIG MAC!! 2 refills of iced cold *burp* Coca- cola!!!The hula hoop is my present from my buddies and a pencil stand from Sarawak-ian friends! The hula hoop is what I asked for and granted by them as they wished me successful slimming- down! I need it a lot! Hopefully it helps in some ways......Extra: cute lil pink ankle socks with my initials sewn on it. A- S. I think I will never wear it. My sized- 7 big feet will destroy its cuteness, I suppose!Beside a big tote bag, I got a super- duper cool Casio wrist watch from sweetie! See, it's so look- alike with his Swatch! I guess it's the time to replace my more-than-5-years-old-U2-watch! Good thing about black is that they are so friendly with everything! That's why sweetie always dress like so sad because from head-to-toe, he has everything in black. Protest: TIME FOR a CHANGE! :p
Ok, from mummy, *ahemm* I got a white gold key pendant! *Nah nah nah* Key! Key! Key! Wahahaha~~~Ok, this is a happier one. It's from papa, uncle and aunty! Most surprising is my dad buy me a birthday present. At first I was asking for a model that is pretty more expensive. Roughly RM 1500. Then he got some pamphlets and Panasonic booklets to refer and consider buying me something cheaper. So, Sunday I got the money and cash&carry a Panasonic Lumix FS 15 home. Registered online for 33 months of warranty! *WWOOOHOOO!!!* I was really happy when my dad rang me up and said that this model is equally good, it has 12 MP, wide- angle, 5X optical zoom and it's RM 799. Ok, nevermind though I don't get a TZ 7 which is double the price. Yes, this model is good enough for my camwhoring moments!!! I went round to tell my friends that I know my papa, he is a very thrifty man that don't make big purchase. He and his 2 siblings sponsored this camera so that I can get something good for my birthday and now I can make sure I snap photos during my visit to Sarawak after 2 weeks' time. I got a black one instead of the featured blue (that looks better in reality) and now everything in my handbag are black in colour. Black hp, black camera, black purse and a bunch of key with glow-in-dark keychain~ Thank you papa, sam suk and gu zhe! (I am just too shy to say it to papa.)

*I didn't get to eat a piece of cake for my 21st birthday~ What a flaw!

24.05.09 Pulau Jerejak One day trip! So, from my semester, only a few of us are free to join as some were working on Sunday! After nasi lemak as breakfast, we took a bus and arrived at the jetty near Queensbay Mall. Junior helped us to take picture, or else Hooi Lin (2nd, left) will not be in the photo (like usual!). Note: Nevermind, Hooi Lin, next time we use our camera and take photos FOR EACH OTHER!!! :D Jungle trekking- which I really don't understand why some people love it so much, enjoying themselves with trees, dried leaves on ground, singing of creatures that much. Ok lah, if i have to answer, i will say I enjoy my time with my friends!!!It's so hot and tiring. The terrain was so steep and just soil and roots protruding from the ground. Literally we stepped on the stairs- like jungle to climb up the hill. It's like a few hundreds metres high and I walked my way up. Fu- yoh, anyone want to reward me?! Almost got into short-of-breathe and fatigue. But the thought of my extra cutaneous layers, I managed to complete without being carried down *giggle*. From the photos, I really cannot stand the heat. Sweat like mad!
But, good lah, I sweat a lot. Hopefully fat turns to sweat (^_^:) and I think our bodies don't function that way.See, jungle. And you can see trees and roots everywhere. I never touch anything around me even though when my steps were unstable. I don't want to touch a cold- blooded snakes that mimicked among the tree trunks.Ok, this was taken when we finally came out from the jungle and walking on the tar pathway. Like I said, it's good enough to be called jungle trekking that way. Well- constructed road in between of jungle.Guess what, flying fox to get down to the lower area instead of WALKING! My precious first time. With the smelly helmet and funny safety belt that make my butt looked bigger..(Are you lauging? And I know I am always right!)I hesitated for long time on the edge and thinking which is a better/ comfortable way to swing down. The experienced ones said it's better to go down ourselves than to let those fella release your rope and swing u out. So, I jumped down myself!Great momentum when I arrived at the end point. Swing up to 90 degree. Argh~ Extreme game!Behind me was the suspension bridge that I managed to walk on it. Not that scary because on and off you hear people screaming as they fly like a fox down there and you would think "Wow, looks fun and easy!."Me and a tree. The roots grow wild to a square. You can put a bench there or a sleeping net! Happily jumping under the greenish canopy. That's Agnes from some where in Sarawak who like to sing. I suppose the photo was a NG but you can't tell. We looked like jumping high, even though it's may not be a good timing when the jumping-up pose was captured!Ok, time to go back to Penang. Rested beside swimming pool and Gym room. Oh ya, something. A snake was from nowhere passingby the lobby when I sat down on the couch and talking on the phone. The snake touched my leg. At first I though it's just shoelace of someone sitting beside me. *itchy&cold* I rise up and have a look "eh, the shoe lace was not that long." Suddenly, a junior shouted "snake! snake!". And so, I jumped up from the couch. I was so frightened and unsecure because I was so afraid if a snake just follow me back to hostel in my bagpack. I can't imagine how will I react towards it. I might gone crazy.