East Coast Retreat

It's year end and as usual, company has a year end company retreat cum get together at a nearby resort. This year we went to Desaru which is a seaside town at east coast Johor. I think due to the proximity, the place is filled with those from Singapore and as a result, it was just moderately enjoyable as the prices there nearly in S$ rate! Not to complain though, as this is the first time i had gone to east coast of the country.

In the beginning i thought it would be a boring resort and we didnt have a car to go around and maybe slip out of that place and go to other places.

The sea view was good, at least to someone from KL. Sea food sumptuous but was expensive! The room there was quite terrible as buddy and I a lousy bathroom. The drain was clocked and we couldn't flush our toilet. We had to ask the room service and they sent a plumber to clear it.

I think this post is more of whining. Generally, despite the small indifference, on the way home, I thought I really enjoyed the beach there. Too bad the weather was rather gloomy there, and we did not got sun tanned.

Live Earth

Did you watch the Live Earth show on triple 7? How did you think of it? Does it create enough awareness?

For me, I did watch a bit, well, not really for the global climate message but to catch some of my favourite acts like Crowded House, Madonna or Huang Xiao Ming. Well, to use these famous names to create awareness is a good move because they are the people who can truly deliver the message to the masses as they have influence to people. We all love them, their music and their gossips that's why people will listen when they say "Save the Earth"!

On the other hand, millions of people are turning on televisions at home for many hours, so the message to save the energy has been defeated in certain sense. Say if a person turn on their telly non stop for 24 hours, and multiply that by 10 million times, how much energy alone has been consumed on that particular day alone?

People also criticised the areas like how much power was used just for the stage alone and that to really create message, acoustic version of the concert should be used instead.

What do you think?

Shopping weekend

I had an enjoyable weekend shopping. They say shopping is a woman's stress therapy and how true that is! The only after effect I got after is a pair of tired legs... that's the reason why some smart-aleck businessmen came out with a massager targeting at women. What a brilliant idea I thought...

Not being a particularly rich person, I did my best to limit my spending to less than RM400 on some clothes and footwear. Mind you, I think the living standard here has upped so much over the years that this amount really can't get me a lot of stuff, just imagine, a pair of decent jeans is already more than RM100! The gulf between the rich and poor has really widened so much over the years that it is becoming a serious social issue.

Well, I shall not whine. Life is good to me. I just hope Marie Callas will bless me with some more luck for the lottery wins.

We had a noisy time..

Weekend came and went very quickly and while I couldn't stop it from going too fast, at least I had the chance to savour again some of the good old times with my beloved gang of university classmates. Yes it had been many years since we last had a gathering of this scale and the occasion was pompous and noisy because many of them brought their hyper active kids along. It kind of saddened me emotionally because I had been a failure in relationship. Will Marie Callas help me in this area?

Of course I had the chance to see my university boyfriend but he's now married happily with 3 grownup kids and a virtuous wife. Of course I am happy for him and we talked a bit.. Suddenly I thought of the incident that led to our breakup and it was chiefly my fault. *sigh... :( *

Weekend's here again!

Yesterday I mentioned something about politicians might view blogs as threats and the next day there's a local politician speaking about this topic, as reported in this article, Be responsible, bloggers urged. Isn't it coincidental? I think bloggers are going to be in spotlight and who knows...... Anyway, I'm not touching about sensitive subjects so there's no worry at all.

Well, on to something more positive, I'm seriously considering changing my old and trusted Proton Wira to something newer and fresher. It's due to a big overhaul as I'm worried about its safety due to massive usage and it's more worth it to get a new one I feel. As I'm quite tight in budget, I guess I will still be shopping for a Malaysia-made car like MyVi or Savvy. Are there any newer models anyone can recommend? I'm looking for one about 1,300cc and I'm not very updated into all the car stuff.

Today is Friday again and I'm glad that weekend is near again! I hope this week there won't have any last minute weekend assignment from the company because it really a sinking feeling!