Genting Highland trip...

Chin and I went to Genting Highland with my parents
on Monday...and we only
just came back today....
and tomorrow..off we'll go to Cameron Highland...

Anywho....we did not expect Genting to be sooooo
super cold yesterday...
inside the building wasn't that cold...
it was just fine..but going outside was
like soooo cold....
brrrrrrr....
It was definitely too cold for my mom...

we went around the place...went to look at the flying watever game and
felt like puking looking at the people
going upside down...and
sideways...and any other ways...
pheww...
i'm not up to that kinda stuff...
My mum's statement was..
"If i were young like 40 years ago...i might just
attempt the whole thing..."
Hah..exactly...if i were like 10 years younger maybe...

We took loads and loads of photos...
went to the casino...
which was congested with cigarette smoke...yucks..
heh...thought my dad
would want to gamble...
but turned out he didn't...
Chin was interested though...but his
intention was squashed...
as my mum wanted to get out of the
smoke filled room...

It was very foggy by the time we left the
indoor theme park area
to go back to our hotel room
at the Chin Swee temple...
we had to drive down very slowly as visibility was
very low...and chin was not quite sure of the
entrance to the temple...
the wid was pretty strong...
and the top of the Genting highland hill
was covered by thick clouds...

The Chin Swee temple was under renovation
last time Chin and I were there...
i didn't know there is accomodation
at the place...
It is a very serene place to stay...
at if you go during off peak season
the rate for a triple share room
is just RM70...
and a single room cost only RM50 off peak season..
the single bed is quite big and can fit me and Mr Chin
comfortably...

Anyway...after shower...we decided to go up to the square above
to see the night view...
it was spectacular...
the lights from KL city were clearly seen from above...
the glittering lights made the whole night seemed
magical...
even the top of the hill was very clear...
i guess all the clouds were gone because of the
strong winds...
The next morning....early....
Chin and I went up to the
square just to have the morning view...
but no sunrise to see...
so we went back to sleep...

On the way down from
Genting, we went to
Bukit Tinggi...
My students always go to
Bukit Tinggi and we were just curious as
wat can be seen there...
so...off we went since BT is nearby only
from Genting...
Turned out...it is a quint little place...
there is the Japanese Botanical Garden
with Japanese Tea House and a European style
serene little toen...
very quaint i think...
French boulangerie...(that's bakery in English),
and sidewalk cafes...
we had lunch at this erm...Vietnamese food restaurant...
i think the Thai Tomyam was delicious...
and the chicken soup was not bad too...
The Japanese Garden is really baeutiful...
with gently rolling brook, fish ponds,
a japanese house...
the best of all are the plants...
the garden is perfectly landscaped...
it is a good place to visit...tho
a tad too far from the nearest town...
but worth visiting if u want to experience
something Europeanish in Malaysia...

Un sotto voce remark....

This is a continuation of the snake edition...
4 of us were having lunch one afternoon 2 weeks ago
and as usual....
we gossiped about our colleagues...
that was how we came up with the nick "Snake" for
one of them...
Laughingly, we noted how suited the nick was for this person
as "it" is notoriously known for
backstabbing people...

After lunch, we had our staff training session...
so off we went...
After the first session, Umi looked dazed as
she was not feeling well...
We advised her to go back early...
half way through the 2nd session in fact.
She hesitated, as the speaker was pretty interesting...
but in the end was persuaded to go...
She was torn between leaving without informing and taking
the proper way out when
Lyn suggested that she inform the Queen of Tears...
so, off went Umi looking for her when i called out
to her that they were all in the seminar hall.
Lyn, as usual, bellowed loudly, "Umi, come back.
In the hall."
And Umi, selambe je, proclaimed loudly
to the whole world,
"Tapi, Ular tu duduk sebelah die!"

I felt my eyes were popping out of their
sockets...
Husni and Aida Aziz, who were nearby the entrance, stooped dead in their track
and looked alarmed...
"Ko nampak ular ke, Umi?" Husni asked.
I was stumped...
Lyn, dengan muka toya, selambe je jawab,
"Haah...ada ular mainan kat sane tadi."
While Umi, with a straight face,
"Ade, tadi, anak ular kat tepi pasu...
tapi dah takde dah.."

Reassured, Husni and Aida entered the hall.
Lyn belah je after she made her remark.

I know not which is funnier...
The fact that Umi subconsciously
used the nickname..LOUDLY
or the fact that the two of them
were so quick on their feet to
cover up the whole Snake thing...

Hmmmm....very un sotto voce remark..
i would say....

Charmless Bond..

We went to watch James Bond on Saturday
night at Terminal 2
Seremban
(the freezing cold zero degree cinema)
and well...
what can i say...

It was a fast pace action pack movie definitely
and if one is not careful
it'll send your head spinning
so fast you can't even follow the whole storyline...
Anyway...you definitely have to watch the first
movie where Daniel Craig appeared
as Bond to catch the drift of
this one...
well...at least it'll explain why
Bond is so adamant in searching the person who killed
his love in the last movie..
I thought Bond is a "kiss her and leave her" type
and not someone who is
hanging on to old hurt...
but most prolly because of the betrayal
that hurt him the most...

Anyway...
I think Craig lacks Bond's charm...

Bond is usually dripping and 0oozing with
easy and sexy animal charm...
which made him the sexiest Bristish spy
ever exist
on screen...
his very appearance exudes blatant sexual charm....
one that can beguile a bird out of the tree...
as the saying goes...

But Craig obviously is
the killing machine type...
He lacks the bemuse look of a cool, confident
seducer...
Hmm...
and he didn't go by the old pick up lines
"Bond, James Bond"
and
"Stir not shaken..."

Overall though....it was an exciting movie to watch....

My very own Fujitsu...yay...

Chin and I just got ourselves
a FUJITSU laptop...
yeah...
a sleek black and pristine white beauty...
running on a 3Gigs memory....
hahaha....

It comes with a window Vista
(hope i know how to use it)
and some other latest and unfamiliar gadgets
from Fujitsu....
and it is only 2.0 Kg..
which of course i can handle easily...

Though my dream of course is
owning a stark yellow
fabulus Dell laptop...
but thinking about the maintenance issues
and such....i opted for a Fujitsu instead...
I can't wait to explore it...

Welcome to the Family.....
sleek beauty....
My Fujitsu...black beauty



The pristine white keyboard....kewl...

Have we lost our sense of humanity...our sense of decency? I wonder...

Have we lost our sense of decency in our
quest for materialism?
Have we totally lost our sense of humanity...
our feeling of empathy...
or sympathy...in that matter....
Are we less human now
that we are constantly
haunted by the need to excel...
to be better than others...
Kiasu lang....as the hokien ppl would say...

Why do i say this?
Yesterday while having dinner at
this Nyonya place in Terminal 2 Seremban,
Chin took the China Press
(the Chinese newspaper)
to read while waiting for the food...

Right smack in the middle of the front page
are pictures of a man being mauled by
the white tiger in the Singapore Zoo.
The pictures were very detailed
as the whole frame by frame
sequence of events were published
with the gory details being describe
in explicit details...
Well...i do not read Chinese
characters but i'll be damned if i do not understand what's
happening...

Now the question is..
how would the family members feel
looking at those pictures?
How would the poor man's mother and father
feel looking at the frame by frame
pictures of the son being
eaten alive by a tiger...
how he suffered...and how he lay there helpless at the
mercy of the beast...
Are we so blinded by our needs to
pursue material worth that we have pushed aside all
sense of decency?
It makes me wonder...

I wouldn't want to see my love ones die
such a horrible death...
suffice to know that he or she dies
of such and such...
the words are painful enough to accept...
let alone the graphic details of it...

This does not mean that i am not
facing the facts but
there are certain things that
require us to be discreet...
especially something as painful as death....

In doing so...
i believe the newspaper
has taught the public to be less human...
to be insensitive object...
one that condones to what the media is doing...
instilling a "doesn't- care-much-because- it's-not-someone-i-know" attitude...

I believe that as one human race in this world
we should respect others' feelings
and that there are things that should be restraint
from the public's eyes...

This also applies to certain explicit words
to describe sexual acts
that i believe innocent children should not be
exposed to...

What would you say if your 6 year-old
daughter asks you...
"Mummy, what's the meaning of sodomy?"

What are you going to say when
you haven't even explain to her
about the bird and the bees?

It is an issue to ponder...

Drama sedih dan lawak hari ni...Buat mu Kak Liza...

Kak Liza...we all love you...

so much...

kitaorg tak sanggup kak Liza pegi....
Jadi aku dedikasikanlah
blog hari ni
especially untuk akak...
aku bkn nak buat naya masuk video clip ni
tapi ni lah kenang-kenangan kat SMUJ....

Bersama Kak Liza

Dalam video klip ni... i think...
Sally la yang paling lawak...
sibuk nak menyelit dalam skrin..
pastu baru tau Kak Liza nak pindah...
then...die tunjuk peace kt camera...
cute...

After school we went to lunch...
Lin, Ravi, Kak Liza, Kak Bed,
Chin and I and Umi..
Kali terakhir kitaorg
lepak as
collegues dgn kak Liza...
kat Pattana..

Sebelum tu
Kak Liza kena dera Ravi and I
demo gaya-gaya punch out
yang betul untuk kali terakhir kat UJ...


Inilah die tuan-tuan dan puan-puan...

Langkah 1Anda harus berdiri tegak setegaknye
di tepi mesin perekod masa...

Langkah 2Masukkan kad...
12.53 pm...masa Kak Liza punch out..
Itulah kali terakhir...
(cube teka...tangan sape???)

Langkah 3Kad itu akan keluar sendiri setelah di punch..
sila ambil dan masukkan sendiri dalam slot anda...

Thank you kak...
kita orang baru bekerja...
tak reti nak punch-punch...

RIMUPGambar ni yang duduk bawah tu
syok sendiri sebenarnya...

Terima hadiah perpisahan
Abg Aji tgh menasihati kak Zu
ttg pengalaman di Mekah

Sad goodbyes again....

The school year will officially end

tomorrow...
14 November 2008...
and there will be sad goodbyes to say to some good friends...
and...
hoping that we will be friends forever...
and that we will miss each other
once the goodbyes are said...

In August this yr...
we said goodbye to one of
our dearest friends...
Kak Azah...
she has left for Sungai Petani...
following her hubby...
i miss having her around...
lepak2..
makan2...
mengumpat...
mengata orang...
not that we always do that...
or just hang out....

Kak Azah
Now..Kak Liza will leave us too...
She has just completed her Master
and she applied for Lecturing in
Matriculation....
Dah dapat offer but not
the black and white yet...
I'll miss having her around too...
playing netball...makan2...
kat junction polis trafik...
masak2...
beli keropok....(Heh...dah xde penjual
keropok next year...kak Liza..
you are the one and only....)
mengumpat...(favourite past time..)
hang out....
Haih....sad...

But it's a good career advancement for her...
If i were unattached...
i would do the same too..

Kak Liza tgh serious memasak..
Well..kak..i wish u all the best..
Moga2 murah rezeki....
dan berjumpa a compatible jodoh...
yang tinggi...putih...hemsem...
lawak....baik hati...
dan segala-galanya lah...
(org kata kalu org yng
vertically challenged akan jumpa
jodoh yang tak vetically challenge....
utk dipergunakan...
terutamanya masa nak
capai benda tinggi...)
macam Chin...hahahha....
Yang pentingnya...
xde org yang akan
matchmake akak dgn
org Kelatan tu...
Muahahahahahahahahahahaha....(eviiiiil laugh...)

Yang tinggal cuma Lin....
kawan nak lepak...
dan mengumpat....
Haih....
:((

Argghh...x bisa ku tahan kesedihan ini....
nak nyanyi lagu Anuar Zain lah...
Hahaha...

Lagu yang syahdu...

Mari menyanyi bersama...




Lyrics
I'm the lucky one

Ku persembahkan satu citaku
Setulus hati hanyalah untukmu
Dan ku lakukan semampu aku
'Tuk menyayangimu
Hingga kau merasa jadi pujaanku

Chorus:
Meski bercinta kadang tak indah
Tapi 'tuk buktikan kau yang terindah
Dan ku pastikan
I'm the lucky one
Nikmati cinta
Lebih dari segalanya

Jiwaku dulu yang tak tersentuh
Kini terasa sejak bersamamu
Berikan hangat hingga ku tak mampu
'Tuk jauh darimu
Kerna kau yang bisa buatku bahagia

Bridge:
Caramu membuatku tak berdaya
Mata hatiku pun ikut terjaga
Kau ubah hidupku ini
Jadi sempurna

Kursus PPi-ICT in Malacca...

I attended a 2 nights and 3 days course in Malacca
expecting to learn something new about
incorporating ICT in our P & P.
I did not feel like going and my heart seemed like
bursting with rebelious thoughts...
but thinking that it would be interesting...
so i went...

The first session, Cikgu Shahizan gave an overview
of what we would learn the next day...
he said no more learning power point slide etc...
so in my mind i was thinking something
really sophisticated...

Came the next day...it was all workshop
We had to come up with lesson plan and design and
then search for websites that contain
information we want to incorporate
in our lesson...

It was just old stuff....being introduce again...
the thing is...i have been doing that all these while..
and i use power point slide to help
and some exercises online...
Haaih...the only difference is...
we have to come up with proper lesson plan...
what else is new...

Hello....do something beneficial with
whatever money left in the
department at the end
of the year...
and not just carry out something
to fulfill the requirement of having
a course...
Cheh...
Wazir and i were bored to death...
Turned out that we were the only English
teachers from the secondary school attending the course..
Then Rina joined us at 2pm...
We had a good time chatting all
the time tho...
But other subject groups seemed
very serious....schema betul...

I met some interesting characters though...
My roomate...Madam Tan
from SK Rasah...
We had a great time chatting...
Then there was Sunita who
stays near my house...in Mambau area..
I found one Catholic family living near me...
She did early Christmas shopping in Malacca
so i apa lagi...
join la...
the decorative items are cheap compared to in Seremban
and KL...
but since it is not really
season yet...so there were
not many choices...
I was looking for a wreath for my front
door..
one with red poinsettia...
but the one they have was golden and silver coloured
wreathe..so i only
bought the green leaves for my staircase...

Shopping for Xmas in Nov...
Sunita said the Portuguese Settlement in Malacca
will be a magical place to visit during Xmas...
The people there would decorate
their houses European style...
and the whole settlement will be brightly lighted...
it is a wonderful place to visit...
Hah...a place to visit for xmas...nice...

A SNAKE in the midst...

I hate snake...
It is a slippery, scaly, sneaky...
slimmy...cold....animal with a pair suspicious looking eye...
and of course....split tongue....
The very reason it is hated by most people...

People with snake characteristics are no different...
And if such a person exists in the midst of you
and your friends...
well....it will create havoc...
because a snake cannot be trusted...

I know such a character...
and nobody likes this particular snake...
I shall not give it a gender...
Lets just call it snake...

Snake tries to manipulate people around "it"
in many ways...
It pretends to be everybody's friends but
it does have a vicious split tongue which
is poisonous...
mostly...it creates
hatred in the person nearest to it....
towards the snake of course...

It will meddle into things that
do not concern it...
it will keep an eye on everyone...
taking it as a personal
DUTY....
and of course look oh so Holy than thou...
This particular snake has a title
in front of its name...
indicating that it has gone to a holy land...
but such a misleading title it is...
do not ever be deceive..
look deep into its eyes...
and the facial expression...
and you see its true colours....
Beware of snake....
wherever you may go...

Eating and eating and eating...and eeeaaatttiiinngg.......

Year end usually is the eating
spree time..
to the extent that...
you feel like crawling...
all the way back to somewhere..
anywhere...

Haiiiih....
eat and eat and
eat and
eat....and eat...
and
eat....

Last friday, my class had class party...
4SN and 4SI1 also had a class party..
i ate a little...
since i have really small stomach capacity...
and i had to reserve some
space for my class
and other classes...
i felt so full....
to the throat...
and i only ate a LITTLE...
i bought a blueberry cheesecake from
Secret Recepe for
my class...
it was delicious but
i was too full to enjoy it...

Came Tuesday...
5SN, 5SI2 and 5SPN
had class party...
and we teachers stuffed ourselves again....

Then Wednesday...high tea
in Hotel Sri Klawang
after the sesi profesionalisme...

Then, today... Mano and Vani
gave the teachers a Deepavali treat...
breakfast...
Then, eating after the cooking competition...
and at 2.15...we had
jamuan for teachers who did not
go for the family day...
we had satay and laksam and fruits...

Wah...i feel fat ..
even tho i have small stomach capacity...
a person can't eat oo much right?

Tomorrow, Friday...will be the RIMUP
program...something to do with race
unity...
and there'll be eating again...
haih...
just get my stomach ready not to eat too much....

Wa Chiak Pa Liao....
Wa mai chiak liao....

^ 0 ^

Cooking Competition...

Every year my school would
have cooking competition for teachers
and this year is no difference...

This morning was the cooking competition
and last night Bed sms me to be
her sidekick....
i agreed though i don't cook enough in my life to join
a competition...hahha...

Anyway...with much anticipation
i joined and well..
i don't expect us to win since
we both were going against
people who cook everyday of their life
and some even cook for a living....


Kak Liza and Lin
From the moment "go"..
we both were trying to figure out what to cook with wat...
almaklum...bukannya pro kan..
and surely bukan nye Otai...(veteran)...

We were given squid and chicken and
cabage, a carrot, half a cucumber, lemongrass....
hmm....not my favourite recepe...
anyway...Bed decided to cook chicken curry...
Kari Ayam D'Bomb...
sure bomb lepas makan...
i cooked squid...ala Cina...
but i cut wrongly...
sotong tak gulung.....
damn....what an embarrassment...
malunye aku....
lantak la...


Bed and I(the newbies)
Anyway....then Bed cooked mix vege....and i masak
nasi...
so...3 dishes...not 3 out of this world
dishes but just common dishes...
i garnishes the dishes with
spring onion, carrot, and chili...

The other group seemed very creative...cooking
and decorating....
Bed and i had fun tho...


Kumpulan Otai
After the judging, we had lunch....
all the teachers came to have lunch in ERT room...
hahaha....i feel like masakan paling x sedap...
kahkahkahkah...


Umi and Aida (Umie Aida, get it?)
It was an experience though for me...
to cook...
i definitely need to try cooking all the
recepe that i cut out from
the newspapers and magazines
if i want to join this kind
of competition...

My fingers came in contact
with the chillies when
i cleaned it for the
garnishing...

i suffered the whole afternoon..
DAMN...it burned...and
it nearly drove me crazy...
i nearly went to the clinic to ask for
something....anything...to stop it...
sakit la...
Pedas sampai ke tahap cipan betui...
i finally sms my colleague and
she suggested me to put cooking oil on it...
after 10 minutes...it went away...
nasib baik tak jadi cipan....

Oh...the drag....

The last couple of weeks of school is a real
drag...when everything slows down to
a really sloooooow....draaaaaaggggg....
i just can't wait for the holiday any longer....

Students seem to feel the same too and they
play truant more at this time of the year...
i blame the system more than the school itself...
i feel like there is no climax at the end of the school year...
so i don't blame the students if they feel
that staying home is better than
going to school...

Personally....i think there should be a
Prize Giving Day...
so that students will feel the sweetness of their hard work...
they'll feel proud of themselves..
and of course they will be excited
to know who gets what
position and so on...

Haih....I really CAN"T wait for the holiday...
and what's with having
courses at the end of the year thingy....
extra money to waste????
Stupid...stupid...system...

School Family Day 08

My school family day this year was at

Klebang Beach Resort in Malacca....
not far from Everly Hotel Malacca...
It was a 2 nights event actually but Chin and i only went
on Saturday afternoon..

We arrived at 3.30 pm and Chin had a headache...
he slept until 7.15 pm...
at 4 i went to join the telematch..
there were so many kids...in the pool...
and in the pool...everywhere you look...
there were kids...
teachers' kids...

Lin was in charged of games and
while handling the kids' games...
she kept shouting at her daughters using the hailer
to pick up as many sweets as possible...
and her daughter look so astounded...at her mother...
one of the funniest event...
all mothers and fathers were running more than the kids..

Anyway...the dinner was at the pool side...
with karaoke...a must...with some teachers
love singing at every opportunity
available...
anyway...i wore my black sexy dress....have not worn it for so long...
hah...Chin was selamba only when it created a stir...
it was rather sexy...admittedly...
one of my favourite dresses...
and chin would never in the life of me...
allow me to wear it to his school occasion...
haha..but to mine...he's ok with it...



Me and Ciwin...Kak T's daughter

Dinner...
We got a lot of goodies...sponsored by a lot of people...
i hope next year Kak Ti will be the
Chairperson again so that we can go to more
places and get more goodies...

Sunday,
we went to Jonker walk
for a while...to have our favourite popiah and rojak...
and then we went to try the famous Cendol
this place which is always full...
but since it was still early morning...
we could easily get a table...
and the cendol was really delicious...
simply aromatic...gula malacca...



Chin's favourite photo
I found a shop selling Kebaya
Nyonya...but it was rather expensive...and
we could not bargain...
and the patterns seems the same...flowery...
anyway...i found a trinket shop...ladies' accessories...
and i got 2 sets of choker...a red and a green...
for RM25....fantastic....
i also got myself a beads necklace...
the types my frens always wear with their baju kurung...
quite kewl...



Two for RM 25

Kewl...

Try these out....

The Lyrics (with guitar chord..yeah..)

VERSE 1
D            Bm
Hey there Delilah,  What’s it like in New York City?
D         Bm
I’m a thousand miles away,  But girl tonight you look so pretty,
G          A          Bm  A
Yes you do,  Time Square can’t shine as bright as you,  I swear it’s true.
D            Bm
Hey there Delilah,  Don’t you worry about the distance,
D                   Bm
I’m right there if you get lonely,  Give this song another listen,
          G                  A    Bm             A
Close your eyes,  Listen to my voice it’s my disguise, I’m by your side.

CHORUS
D                 Bm      D                  Bm
Oh it’s what you do to me,  Oh it’s what you do to me,
Oh it’s what you do to me, Oh it’s what you do to me, What you do to me.

VERSE 2
D            Bm
Hey there Delilah,  I know times are getting hard,
D                                           Bm
But just believe me girl some day,  I'll pay the bills with this guitar,
                                  G          A         Bm  A
We'll have it good,  We'll have the life we knew we would, My word is good.
D            Bm
Hey there Delilah,  I’ve got so much left to say,
D                          Bm
If every simple song I wrote to you, Would take your breath away,
                         G          A                      Bm               A
I’d write it all,  Even more in love with me you’d fall,  We’d have it all.

CHORUS

BRIDGE
G                                          A
A thousand miles seems pretty far, But they’ve got planes, trains and cars,
D                                 Bm
I’d walk to you if I had no other way.
G                                          A
Our friends would all make fun of us,  And we'll just laugh along because,
D                                         Bm
We know that none of them have felt this way,
G                   A
Delilah I can promise you, That by the time that we get through,
D                                 Bm                        A
The world will never ever be the same ..... And you’re to blame!

VERSE 3
D            Bm
Hey there Delilah you be good,  And don’t you miss me,
       D                                                   Bm
Two more years and you’ll be done with school,  And I'll be making history,
     G             A           Bm
Like I do, You’ll know it's all because of you,
G     A             Bm                
We can do whatever we want to
G             A              Bm                   A
Hey there Delilah here's to you, This one’s for you. 


CHORUS (again)

END