Happy new year 2010 and 'twas 2009

2009 passed by in a breeze, like totally and completely. It was a fruitful year, lots of Facebooking and networking haha. but also i grew so much (other than horizontally) mentally...I'd like to think that I've become a better person, more matured having worked with colleagues from all around the globe...and it ended wonderfully for me too. Just a few things, a recap of the events that happened in 2009... :)

• January - Went to Houston for an induction course, my 1st time in the States. I loved it there, met up with old friends and made new friends too. Tried Tex Mex, and had very good steaks. Oh, fulfilled a long time dream to visit NASA. and Chipotle...and Wal-Mart :)
• March/April - 1st time in UAE also, was in Dubai for a 2 weeks course. Had amazing Lebanese food, again met wonderful people...saw some fancy malls and buildings...but then again, I'm more of a natural scenery type lover, instead of canggih buildings...but still, the trip was great
• the rest of year went by in a breeze, work was depressing at times, and I so badly wanted to work offshore so that I can tick it in my checklist of "things to do"...but the move wasn't too easy but still I guess I persevered? Anyway, working in my previous company, I loved my colleagues. They're such fantastic people and helpful...and I guess I was pretty nice with them also (I'd like to think that I was popular among them haha)
• Yoga - I had the opportunity to take up Yoga again and I loved it. I was busy stalking a cute yoga instructor too. LOL
• July - Rainforest Music Festival...I loved it. A significant *something* happened there which shall remain a secret but anyways, I also got myself a tattoo :) it's a symbol of Aum...
• Definition: The eternal process of birth, life, death and rebirth, and life incarnate. The Aum is the Universal symbol of Creation. Its four parts represent the four stages of consciousness: Awake, sleeping, dreaming, and the transcendental state.
  
  The sacred syllable of creation, the Word that went forth in the beginning and from which all other sounds originated.
  
  Unity between all people, creatures, and things.
  Aum is also the symbol for Yoga :)
  The tribal motives: Hornbill and Dragon, which are protections for Ibans to ward off harm and disease.
• August - Nov: Was really tied up with work and also looking for opportunities to go into technical dept, be it internally or externally. it was too difficult to change inside, so I went with a friend's advice and looked for opportunity outside. Well with my ex-company, I did really well, I think, especially my rapport with my colleagues and even those who are in senior management. I proposed several initiatives for personnel development and one of it was endorsed. So it was good. I even went into Resource, a Malaysian oil and gas magazine where they do a quarterly feature of Women in O&G. I was one out of 3 featured. LOL it made me want to go to the oil rig even much more! At the end of Nov...I quitted.

• It was a month of many events...I had a new job, went to a new place, met new people, and...had a new boyfriend. Yes. :) rather, I got into a relationship. With one of the sweetest guys I've ever met. He's actually my ex-colleague. Sweet, smart, quiet, sensitive and nice. He was my best friend at work. Well, sort-of. "Best Chimui"...mana tau...We just got together mid-Dec...and almost 1 month old now. It won't be easy with a long distance relationship, me being in Labuan and him being in KL...He did come visit during X'mas and stayed till New Year. ^_^ (Oh in case you guys curious, here's a pic)...LOL finally a decent post from me in MONTHS!!! Hope to update more often...
  

I've a feeling that 2010 is going to be a great year, and I'm going to make sure that every year, every day I will treasure each experience gained and to improve myself for the better. It won't be easy with my new job, but insyaAllah... :)

Oklah, time to get back to work...toodles...Happy New Year guys... (sorry typing in hurry haha)

The Chronicles of I am so lucky - Part I: The Time When We Used to be Tortured

Today I am feeling very camping-ish. it must've been the chat with Jit Shiong about going camping that ignited my fire! So the time machine shall teleport itself back to...1998...11 years ago. WHAT 11 years has passed since my 1st camp????!!!!! Well it wasn't really my 1st camp per se...but it was the very 1st combined camp I went to in high school.

EYTC with 1st South...i don't even remember what it stands for anymore...T = Training and C = Camp. And I absolutely reminisce those memories with a wide smile and a chuckle or two. Or drinks to splatter all over the table over mamak when laughing about it with the gang. My, those stories could really get the conversation started.

All those memories really made all of us active Girl Guides and Scouts grow so much... Traplex with 7th South...CTC with 8th South...and Talents Camp with 11th South (haha CLHS Scouts please correct me if I'm wrong)...
Let’s see...

1) countless patrol meetings that make “mak beh jin kia” (mom cant recognize child) and “kia beh jin mak” (child cant recognize mom)...not to mention being chased out of homes...and i can certainly name a few more friends that had the same thing happening to them... this tested our endurance which is so important in this cruel working world where shit is being dumped at us everyday but hey we ex-Guides and Scouts say what????? Say what???? Nothing. We just eat all of them, endure and plot our secret little revenge in dark.

2) drilling under the sun for hours practicing formations and fancy drilling steps...kirip kirip kirip kanan kirip...in those times we’ve tried so many types of fancy drillings...with gloves, prancing about, dancing ones, skipping ones...which all required concentration, synchronization and of course teamwork and cooperation among team members

3) Items...practicing dances and sketches...my personal favourite has to be 60s dance and Egyptian dance...the hours we’d put in, and making our own costumes too. This of course promoted teamwork, creativity and the silly sketches we make to move and touch the hearts of our “evaluators”...enhanced our shamelessness/thick skinned faces which serve us very well till now especially in this world where we must be thick skinned to survive

4) Chopping stupid bamboos till our hands shook like senile old people afterwards. Not to mention tying those gadgets – houses la, shoe racks la, tents la, bridges to have fatso excos stomp them down just to prove their point that “YOU CAN NEVER DO ENOUGH”. So you get the shit you get today, your boss throwing the bunch of paperwork to u and ask you to get those redone!!!! Back in those days...yeah whoever said that you can rest....you get to spend the rest of the camping days retying those gadgets middle of the night and falling asleep while tying them (hah – sorry lah i’m a Guide, not a Scout...you Scouts would know what i’m talking about)

5) Since we spent so much time doing logbooks, paperwork for camp preparations, till all the patrol members look identical... neways it means spending time together wont be fun if we don’t talk right...so of course we spend it cracking disgusting, dirty silly jokes, sharing laughter and tears if your ideas gets torn apart by the excos – it really made our bonds so strong, which i treasure till now. We’d encourage each other and keep feeling positive for the sake of your patrol members...It’s hard to forget THOSE friends...especially those who pee on you if you got sting by a jelly fish while swimming in the sea (Ahem you know who you are!!!! The pee-er and the pee-ee hahahahaha)

6) The silly songs that we made up and all in cryptic codes so that certain patrol members that we dislike wouldn’t know who and what we were singing about...while digging up sand by the drain...and picking worms and whatnot.... hahahaha

7) Looking like hionghamuis aka village girls to buy stationeries and accessories for our camping stuff. We were so tanned and dirty from all those walking, drilling, dancing, planning...not to mention midnight adventures to celebrate patrol member’s birthdays...Hello!!! We were a bunch of 13-15 year olds...in those times we don’t have such canggih things yet...i’m not sure if we even had mamak then or not...but i think got lah... that tested our bravery because midnight adventures just weren’t our thang :P

8) Drooling over the cute guy in the next patrol!!!! Its unfortunate that i’ve never wound up with cute guys in my patrol (hahaha just joking-lah) but i remember those times when me, Lin, Janice would go crazy over Mr.BS – Broad Shouldered....our knees would go wobbly...

Ahhhh those times...time to go to sleep... to be continued....but i know that there are so many of you that agree (since 80% of the ppl i know back in high school were actually scouts/guides)...and I'm sure all of you have your very own unforgettable moments with your patrols :)

harry potter?

I have never ever touched a single page of Harry Potter books in my life. Ever. So cannot understand what is with the hype on it. Phaiseh~

But I did watch the movies though

world's greatest dad

I emailed Papa just now...

From: Tan Hooi Ching
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:19 AM
To: Tan, YL
Subject: ...

The company is so proud to have me, cos I have turned into a workaholic. Hahahaha.

With regards,

Hooi Ching, Tan

And he replied:

From: Tan, YL
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:23 AM
To: hooiching
Subject: RE: ....

Don’t work so hard, take care of your own health; exercise more just like me now playing badminton 3 times a week. Let me know once you are ready to pay your car installment, OK?

Sigh...so potong stim wan my dad.

Did u know about Tiramisu?

I made an amazing discovery just now. It may sound stupid, but I just discovered that tiramisù is actually an Italian dessert, and in fact the name itself, tiramisù is Italian, which means "pick-me-up", which also means secara metaphor is "make me happy". Ho ho ho and all this while I thought that it is a Japanese name, not necessarily Japanese cake but...you know, just given a japanese name. Stupid me. Is it only me or everyone knew it was an Italian dessert with an Italian name?

(Courtesy of Wikipedia)

Yes, yes, I'm working in KL now...Bukit Jalil TPM...

happy valentine's day to..single ppl!

okies i've posted some crappy stuffs lately..busy ma..busy doing nothing actually. and why can I online right now? naive me lugged back her CPU to penang, on the pretense that she's going to do her assignments.haha.it's friday d..i've been back since monday. did not touch at all..and i've got my appointments fixed till like..5th day of CNY d..hahahah cham cham cham!!!

on a brighter note, it's so happy in pg! altho this tiny little voice in the back of my head that says "Hey get ur fat butt home d and do ur FYP/assignment!"....but i guess the voice is just..too soft. =P

What have i done last week?other than PMS-ing and complaining about the ever expanding waistline,I been on a nice dinner with a nice guy!unfortunately, a MU fan..haha. But he's very gentlemanly, and I enjoyed talking to him! He wanted to ask me out on V-Day..but I couldn't make it..so we made it a pre-Vday date instead.After dinner we watched MU's match at mamak also..lolz..tats all about him? but friend-friend nia la...*wink

other than tat..hmmm. oh I spent the almost everyday hanging out with HPC..hmm met up pao, loke, heng, loh jo, lin d...gosh miss them so much..just now we celebrated loh Jo's bday at swensen..she obviously looks super sizzling hot lagi..everyone does =)

last nite we went out partying also..seperti biasa, mark attendance at Glo, my 2nd home.bwahaha.nid to polish up my rusty dancing skills ar..ladies nite sumore ma..oh. btw, I had a nice family dinner on my Valentine's Day. Parents damn happy I stayed at home for dinner. Means that their daughter not on the verge of being cheated.ciz. but happy lar..met many ppl at glo last nite..so glad to club wit Heng, Lin, cuzzy, fred..then there met up wit alicia (who looks absolutely hot..hehe),her date, jitshiong and his dates yada yada

actually i've more things to say..but forgot d..hehe too long din blog

one question:in a club, what's a typical pickup line?
i've heard this often in clubs:
"wow u can dance really well"
"I enjoy watching you dance"
"you look so sexy when u dance"

so isit a genuine compliment, or they are just being nice, or it's just a pickup line all guys employ??hmmmmm.(wonders) and no, I'm just an average dancer nia.never kena kutuk yet la, at least,so means I dont look as if I've got two left feet~ lol