Back to my 4-wheels

Starting from this week, finally I can get rid of the 6-wheels and back to the 4-wheels now. But since this is the last week of the month, I have to put my 4-wheels under the sun in more than 200M away from my office until next month, and pay ~RM4 everyday.

This time, the 4-wheels that passed by my bro is already more than 15 years old. You can hear there are many 'sounds' coming out from its body. Bro just got it painted again, so although it's a bit noisy, at least it still looks nice and.... it really has a strong 'heart' (engine). I should be grateful that my bro did maintain it very well.

The first day I brought it to work, I really felt like taming a wild horse. =.=" I know I need more time to build a 'good relationship' with this fella... haha! Because I believe that we will be together for a couple of years.

Practice makes perfect, isn't it?

Moved workstation again

I can't really remember how many times we have moved. From Old building to new building, from phase 1, phase 2 to phase 3 until east wing, west wing and now the 'aquarium', we never have a fixed location.

This time, we have moved into a glass room which needs ID card to enter, that's why we call this place 'aquarium', people can only see us from the glass. It is smaller so more echoes inside. If somebody shout, sure he or she will disturb the others. Unfortunately, we have so many 'loud speakers' here. >.<"

After the GDF thing, we are in Pool 3 which is categorized by language-specific teams. So you will listen to Japanese, Korean and Mandarin all the time. It's quite interesting to have so many different languages speaking in just a tiny room like this.

I still need some time to be get used to here. But still, life is busy, we don't have time for our new environment, because we need to start our work now!

G-Force, a good movie for child

To be frank, this is not a movie for adult. But no doubt, it's cute, really cute. Despite the poor story line, actually this is quite a nice movie. Talking animals, special effects, special agent, plot to destroy the world (or human beings), science+technology, cute characters...... what else do you expect?

I never thought that a mole will plan to destroy the human, actually when I knew the 'truth', it's quite funny to me too. Anyhow, they really surprised me that, the mole actually use the Chinese word for "mole" -- 鼹鼠（yǎn shǔ）as his anonym, although for me, it implicitly insulted the Chinese in certain aspect.

The other surprise is, we can listen to lots of current English hits like Lady Gaga's Just Dance, Black Eyed Peas's Boom Boom Pow and I Gotta Feeling, etc. It's really nice to hear the songs playing in the movie.

Generally, this is the movie that will definitely entertain the children or audience at young age but not the adults like me. This is a movie that will not make you think, actually, you don't need to think.

Anyhow, I still think that these guinea pigs are cute~~ hehe

Platinum coins

My sister used to collect coins but it was just a short while. She is kind of person with brief period of enthusiasm and then just not long later, she quitted. Actually, if you are really interested in collecting coins or investing in coins, we would suggest you to buy platinum coins. No doubt that the price of platinum is higher than gold, however, since it is rare metal, it is widely used in the industry. And because of its rareness, it also means that you can get higher in return. Not everyone are fond of gold, so you may prefer platinum for yourself.

Happy Deepavali

I saw this when I was in Pavillion, one afternoon. This is called "Kolam", it's kind of sandpainting which is drawn using the rice powder dyed in different colours, special for the Hindu's culture.

We are glad that we are multi-racial country, we celebrates Hari Raya, Chinese New Year, Deepavali, and all other special days for different festivals. I like telling stories about our tradition and culture, it's just if we don't learn our culture, how are we going to show others what our culture is?

My office also had a "Kolam" competition, and the winner's artwork is still displayed in the entrance of the office. It's really beautiful, it's an art, a culture, and something that we should precious and proud of.

A dinner

We had a farewell+welcome dinner yesterday, I'm the so called 'organizer', but actually what I did was just gathering information and sending out emails, that's all.

And actually I failed to gather everyone together, although I believe that it's impossible to get 100% attendance, but... those who are supposed to be in the farewell came, but those who should be welcomed, were not in.

I really felt sorry about S & A, esp. S. This dinner, was meant to be the people who left our team together with those who join us. But now, we have to leave them out just because it's too late and we have already finished our food. And the main reason is, he is scheduled to take the night shift for this week. It's not his fault, but just... not in the right time. I felt a little bit guilty also when I called him up and told him that we all wanted to go home......

Next time? who can guarantee when we will have our 'next time'? Now things changed. We are no longer the same as before. Not so much passion on team building and outing, and basically because we have lost our 'organizers'.

Anyhow, thanks for those who joined and we actually had a lot of fun together on a table, and.... gossiping... hahaha

I need a break

I have just applied a long leave in December. I told my teammates that I may go to Singapore to visit my friend, but actually I don't have any plan yet.

It's been quite long since my last vacation, long enough until I forget when was it. I always wish that I can have a family vacation, travel overseas. But because of so many other reasons, we have to postpone our plan to an unknown date.

Anyhow, I have already applied my leave. No matter what will happen, I will be totally 'missing' from my office and work. I need a break and rest so that I can keep it up for a longer journey.