Will be going to langkawi with our supervisors and colleagues for a short stay next monday and will be coming back on wednesday. Good thing is hari raya falls on the wednesday and thursday over here which means we dont have to go work for the whole of next week. Supposed to go back on friday but i think they declare it a holiday too lol. Post hari raya i guess.

Will upload photos next week when we come back. Alastair bought an underwater camera so expect some pics with the fishes!

its been almost a week since we came back from singapore and things have been pretty normal.. Weekdays are pretty much same.. wake up, go to work, come back and face the computer, doing our own stuffs and sometimes play games together. Weekends were usually spent at home or gallivanting around ourselves.. to somewhere nearby for a meal or to queensbay to shop. Yes queensbay seems like the only place shopping mall in penang for us.. but the truth is we don't know how to go to other places. Taking a cab around has not yet been an option for us because dubious taxi drivers is prevalent in this city. Knowing that we are foreigners, most will offer to bring us to our destination in exchange for some ridiculous price.. which is around 2x higher than what is supposed to be the fare on the meter. They will never use the meter.. except for one driver which is kinda funny...

He asked for 12RM to bring us back home from the bus terminal when we came back from Singapore on wednesday. We thought it was quite reasonable and were also desperate to get back home as it was around 7+ in the morning and taking a cab seems like our only option. But the funny thing is that the driver turned on his meter during the whole journey and it was only 4.70RM when we reached home. lol but still we paid 12RM since we all agreed beforehand. Thats scamming right in our face :( bet he purposely turnd on the meter to indirectly tell us that we got owned.

Seems like the bus is the only trustworthy public transport..but the waiting time can be terrible. I shall take back all my complaints and lavish praise on the Singapore public transport hehe

Anyway, today was spent going to old town coffee house for lunch and then queensbay mall to shop around. Didnt buy anything there though.. but close to getting some music cds because theres this buy 1 get 1 free sales going on at borders. Its buy 1 and get any cd there for free! such a tempting deal. Theres 1 rock compilation album with 4 cds in it for only 69RM! so if i get another of those album.. then its 69RM for 8 CDS. Where can u find such a deal.. anywhere except SINGAPORE maybe. Yet i still didnt get it because it may seem cheap when u convert it back to Singapore dollars.. but i already spent around 100+RM since we came back.. which is only 5 days :(. Soo i shall resist the temptation and not be extravagant.. not until a few days before we go back to Singapore again so as to ensure that i have enough money for my meals and other needs.

And our transport back home was CAB again but this time, the driver seems desperate for customers so..he offered us only 13RM to our house and the best thing is that he asked the 6 of us to squeeze in his car because he doesnt have a partner or someone else with him. Desperation to the extreme! but... the journey back was dreadful.. No air cons in the car and i had to sit on yh. All this torturing for 2RM but the most impt thing is that we are all back safe and sound haha

Speaking about desperation, I was damn eager to watch the big match between man utd and chelsea at 9pm but as you all know, we dun have a tv at home. So i went to the coffeeshop opposite our place and asked whether will they be showing the match on their tv but i think they must be wondering what alien language im using. Speaking english to them is like using sign language because most of the time im either doing weird actions to order to elucidate what i want to say or point at some objects like in this case.. a television. "*points at television* and keep repeating "ada soccer?" Quite amusing actually.

Went back home and quickly search for links that does live streaming soccer matches and i found 1 program called SopCast which is very good. Easy usage and there is alot of channels too but i only focused on ESPN at that point of time. Besides waiting for it to load till around 90+ to 100 percent which takes around 1min or so... there is no buffering needed. Its damn smooth.. the quality is mediocre though. But cant expect much from such free programs.

So my determination paid off and i get to watch the whole match. The results werent that good though.. it ended in 1-1 :( but nvm.. i believe they can do better.. and this is not self delusion

Okay its time for bed.. everyone else has turned in and i shall do so after this. Its raining heavily now.. so it will be an "air conditioned" night for us

bye all and take care!

gonna leave sinagapore in another 5hours time :( The past 4 days were really well spent. Thanks to the usual group of people that never fail to make every outing an enjoyable one.

accompanied my grandparents to tts hospital todaymorning for checkup. Glad to hear that my grandpa is fine now.

ahh... i never missed singapore so badly before.. another 1 and a half months time! it will pass by soon!

Shall spend the last few hours playing some games and check whether i forgot to bring anything.

bye all and see you soon!

take care

back in singapore finally! but only till tuesday night. Had some problems with our coach tickets on thursday night.. but luckily, we were still able to get back to Singapore..in a mediocre coach :(

Reached Golden mount at around 920..Met up wif my parents and went to tts hospital to accompany my grandparents. Grandpa had to go for a checkup earlier in the day. Felt delighted to be able to see my grandparents again. Had a little meal at the foodcourt there. Took a cab back home after my grandpa is done. Taking the lift up back to my house never felt soo good before!

Went out to meet weicong and gang at bedok stadium to run. Needless to say, my stamina decreased drastically. Was supposed to go swimming after that but we sat and talked until quite late.. so we skipped that and went for dinner straight at bedok central. Ordered fei fei wanton mee, rojak, carrot cake and desserts! Had lots of laughters as usual. They are seriously a bunch of wonderful people to hang out with

Went to have a haircut today with lih long and wei congat tampines 201. The outcome wasnt that good lol damn it. Walked back to my house first. Took a bath and we took a bus down to cdc to register for driving! finally........

However, after 15mins of bus trip, 15mins of walking to the place... it wasnt open :@ :@ :@ Nvm we will go again this monday. Die die mus register!

Went to wei cong house to slack around then went back home to catch the big match.. pool vs man u

but sigh.. bad bad result

nvm i believe that they can do better

Looking forward to tmr.. where i will spent the noon with my family and then movie and dinner at sakura with the usual people at Ehub.

bye all and take care!

we will be coming back to Singapore on thursday night! which means we willl reach at around friday morning, 8 am plus. excited to be able to come back to Singapore again. Not sure when but the tentative date of leaving back for penang shld be next tuesday. Cant wait to spend the weekends with friends and family. I seriously miss taking the sbs bus and tapping my ezlink card

The weekends was spent staying at home, playing guitar and games most of the time because it was raining heavily the whole day and thus, couldnt get out of the house. On sat, the rain was so heavy until macdonalds didn't want to do delivery :( so we waited awhile for the rain to subside and then went down to giant for KFC.

Walking over to giant had never been paved with adversities before.. the whole road was inundated. Cars, buses and motorcycles had to stop and there were some minor accidents too. Such a waste for not snapping a shot of the whole scene. Anyway, we had to take the overhead bridge and then climbed sideways along some gate because the we wanted to avoid submerging our legs in the dirty water.

and thats how difficult it was just to have a kfc meal :(

Shall blog again soon.. maybe when i reach Singapore.

Till then, take care and bye!

its the 7th week of our osip already! and we will be going back to Singapore next week.. prolly on the weekends. Hope no more screw ups this time round:( i wanna spend more time in Singapore please

Last weekend was a blast! We went to queensbay mall last saturday to catch a movie. Seems like that's the only shopping mall that we know how to go to by ourselves. Wanted to watch money no enough 2 but the seats werent good so we bought tix for "the mummy" instead. Went to some shanghai cafe for late lunch. The food there is good shit. Peanut seasame dessert and durian puff!
Went into the cinema after that. The movie was mediocre heard from alot of people that the show is a waste of money haha but it isnt that bad. Thought it would last for 2 hours or so but its only 1hr 40mins long. Went to jusco after the show to shop for vacuum bags but couldnt find a suitable one. Wanted to take the bus home but we missed the last bus lol. The outside of the mall was damn crowded despite the time and we found out that they were all preparing to count down to the national day of malaya which is the next day and so, waiting to catch the pyrotechnics.

Since we already missed the last bus, we decided to go catch a midnight movie (2nd movie of the day!) and yes we wanted to watch money no enough 2 but the most of the seats were either sold out or reserved :@ i really think the "reserved" system of their cinemas is damn stupid. Almost had a tiff with the ticket lady there because of that :@. Took a cab back home instead. Such a happening night there. Traffic was damn congested outside the mall.

Sunday was really fun. alastair parents came down to penang and they booked a service apartment to spend the night there. They also got us 1 room, just beside theirs! They are really nice and friendly.

So his mum and him came and drove us there in the noon. They also rented a 7 seater car. Good stuff! The place is big and beautiful. The swimming pool is attractive too. Its around 200RM per night.. i think its way better than booking a chalet in singapore. Went swimming right after we settled down! We attempted diving but we failed miserably:(

Went to queensbay in the night to do some shopping. Bought a GAP long sleeves shirt for 152rm. Couldnt resist it! Alastair was a few mins slower so he bought some other design hehe. Had dinner at some chicken rice restaurant. Its cheap, considering the number of dishes one set had. The nata de coco dessert is nice!

Walked around for awhile and headed back home. We all managed to squeeze into the car! 10person lol

No work on monday because its post national day. Which means 4 days work again! We checked out at 12noon but before that we went to some cafe downstairs for breakfast. His mum drove us back home after that. Took a long nap...........................

Met up with alastair and his family for dinner at gurney drive. Joyce drove us there. We ate at the "lau pat sat" lookalike place again but this time we ordered more food of course. But the yong tau fu i ordered was a rip off! 9RM for it :@

Alastair stayed with his family while the rest of us followed joyce back

yeap and thats how the weekends and monday was spent. Definitely a moment to remember!

Okay now i shall post pictures to compensate for the wall of text




The car that alastair's parents rented


us in the car


the suite! yh making love wif the chair


the view ouside the suite


the swimming pool


zoom out view of the pool


yonghan walking on water omg!


the facade of krsytal suite!


alastair attempting to dive (fail)


me attempting to dive (fail)


yh trying to body slam the pool


yh performing his water walk yet again!


and for that, we respect him!


us!


the shirt from gap (without the white tee in it)



okay thats about it. I shall go do my work now.

update again soon

bye and take care!