tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88575394725725896192011-11-28T08:45:58.669+08:00<i>a lifestyle blog that I share my experience about life, food, places, people and little things that I find interesting.</i>Summersbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16455046779225454990noreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857539472572589619.post-14265042255230574332011-01-01T18:09:00.003+08:002011-01-01T19:41:38.235+08:00

It's the beginning of a new year and I'm not sure what to write, but I have been thinking of updating my blog many times over the past few months. Because I found my life answer in the past few months ......I attended a meditation retreat in Kuantan in July 2010, it is what I wanted to do all these time but couldn't find the time to do it because the retreat requires 10 days off with total

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While checking in at the airport, I saw a familiar face - it was Jenny. The girl met at Cherating and used to party with 7-8 years ago. She's going to Krabi with two other girls, her girlfriend Denise (who lives in Shanghai) and daughter. We were excited, we chat and chat and she said they planned to go to Krabi, but they didn't book any rooms, so they might follow me to Phi Phi Island to check

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Last night, I attended Brian Johnson & Racheal's wedding. Brian Johnson is an Aussie, expatriate working in KL for quite some time and Rachael is Chinese. Brian used to be our Zeta Bar party gang. Since I have not joined the Zeta Bar gang for so long, last night was like a gathering for all the Zeta Bar gang.After all rise to welcome the bride and the groom arrival, the wedding started off with

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Do you remember some old posters where girls wear stockings that has a seam at the back of their legs ? Those are called fully fashioned stockings or seamed stockings. In the 1940s, all stockings have a seamed, that is how stockings were originally made.After the arrival of machines that make modern stockings without a seam, these seamed stockings seemed to fall out of fashion slowly. Few weeks

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I stopped making New Year Resolution a few years ago, ever since I realise no matter how hard I work, I am only a passenger sitting in a car driven by others.This year is different. I quit my full time job and start a new career on my own.I'm the captain of the ship now. Now I decide where I want to steer the ship, where my destination is and how fast I want to reach my destination.It is

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I'm in Singapore this week, to attend a wedding tomorrow. Whenever Ken & I travel together, food plays an important role in how we plan our daily activities.After my pedicure session this morning, it time for lunch. The two 'tam chiak kui' (Ken and I) went for a mini 'buddha jump over the wall' lunch.It only cost SGP9.90 for a set of rice, the mini 'buddha jump over the wall' and a tong sui

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Ever since I tender my resignation last Monday, I am getting happier and happier each day. I feel I am back to my old self before I started this job. I have a lot more energy for things I like to do. I started joining the Zeta Bar gang for badminton every Monday and Thursday.Many think that I’m very free now since I’ve resigned. It is the opposite; other than starting work on things that I am

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Yesterday morning, when I woke up, I asked Ken 'what's your schedule like today ?' He said there is a ship launch in Klang but he is lazy to attend. My brain goes ‘ting’ an opportunity for me to shoot some photos … so I said hmm… I’ll go with you!We arrived at the Star Cruise Terminal in Port Klang at around 11:15am. Datuk, the owner of the ship just arrived. He is allowed to drive his car in

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Not many know of this place - Bangsar Tea Club. If you drive along Jalan Maarof, it is the corner house behind McDonalds. This place looks like a well decorated home, there is no sign that it is a restaurant.They only serve steamboat, there are 3 types of soup set : Japanese, Tom Yam and Vegetarian.Japanese is the best. The soup is really nice, it is boiled with all the good ingredient, no

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Last night Ken, I and another couple went to Iketeru in KL Hilton for Shabu Shabu...We ordered some sparkling sake. We first ordered a bottle of Nono (name of the sparkling sake). It's pink, more like a ladies' drink, a little like rice wine with bubbles. Quite a small bottle, 30ml, just enough for a round of 4 glasses. We wanted to order another one, but that is the last bottle Hilton has. So we

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Sky Dining @ The Jewel Box in Singapore. The cable-car ride takes you 90 meters above the sea, it is the perfect romantic way to watch a beautiful sunset while dining in a cable car.This Singapore’s iconic hilltop destination was awarded the 2nd most visited paid attraction in Singapore.Reservation can be made online via https://secure.billing.sg/mountfaber/reservation.aspCheck out the

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Or planning to travel somewhere where a new language skill is required ?I found this site called Livemocha a few months back. It is a system I have been looking for all these while, you can learn at your own pace and there is native speakers teaching you how to pronouce each word. The system is pretty user friendly I would say. And it is FREE!Languages available as of now are: Chinese (Mandarin),

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Reading Kennysia's blog on Paris reminds me of the Paris I remembered ...I was there alone for work two years ago. Hotel in Paris is not cheap, it cost me 380 euros (about RM1900) a night for a room in Hilton. I wouldn't stay there if it is not paid by the company.The first night I went out for dinner, I ordered a chicken, the waiter asked me 'which leg of the chicken do you want?' 'the left leg

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This morning, while I walked past the pantry to get some drinking water, a colleague asked me ‘Hey! is that a Energy Pendant ?’ I was surprised and ‘I said yes, how do you know?’ She said ‘I read about it in a magazine, but not sure where to buy one’I bought the Korean Energy Pendant for RM520 (about USD 150.00) last night, after my friend showed me a video clip of the Korean TV channel MBC

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Last week, the Korean Government announced strategies to develop Korean dishes as one of the top five cuisines in the world by 2017. Korea always likes to compare themselves with Japan in almost every fabric of their existence. They think that since Japanese food does so well in the world market, why can’t Korean food be as well?Most people do not think that Korean food can achieve that same

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I have a bubblehead girlfriend who always have some interesting stories to keep me entertained. A little chubby.Last night, she told me a story that I can't stop laughing till now.Her boyfriend came home with a very bad mood after meeting the remiser. All his shares are losing money.He had a go at her, this made her very angry. But she couldn't talk back 'cos boyfriend was angry.After dinner, she

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I used to go to Cherating Beach for breaks very often, as and when I have a long weekend.About 6 years back, while I was driving back to KL from Cherating at about 1am using the old trunk road.....before the new highway completes. From Cherating, I drove for about half an hour and I started to feel a little sleepy, I didn’t stop, as usual I blast the music and continue to drive. After driving

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At 4pm, I looked outside the window of my office, it was raining cats and dogs again. No point meeting James, my photography sifu. hmm ... I feel like going to this anti-oxidant place.I've been going to this anti-oxidant place for more than a year now. It has about 4-5 hotbed in a room, there are also some couple rooms available with just 2 hotbed.I usually go after work. The good thing is I can

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Do you know Taiwanese have very interesting names ?Few days ago, I was performing a configuration for a Taiwanese guy name Essau, I was trying to figure out how to pronouce his name for ten minutes before I pick up the phone and dial his number.This reminds me of the Hawk, Cougar, Hunter, Bimmer, CD, Afa that I met when I visited Taipei on a business trip some 7 years ago.I just realise China is

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I came across something handy which many (or some) of us have thought of some years back. Instead of having to wait till it stops or getting wet or running to the nearest shelter, the ingenious tool has finally appeared in the market. Its meant to help one continue multitasking with their activities on a rainy day. An umbrella called Nubrella. Pretty neat and its selling for US49.99. Kinda pricy

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I attended an Emotional Intelligence Training today.A girl in my class shared her story. She used to be the anger queen at home when she was young, at one point, she feels being angry doesn't get her what she wants anymore, so she decided to changed. As time goes by, she changed to a person who doesn't get angry at all, she said doesn't know how to get angry anymore nowadays. What happen is,

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Love yourself with no conditions and without limits.Don't wait until you have achievedsomething great before loving yourself.You are whole and complete as you are.If you can't love yourself, how can you begin to love others?

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Since I am at this topic, I will write a bit more about it.Patchi was founded in 1974 by Mr. Nizar Choucair, a prominent businessman in Lebanon. It grew from a small family-owned business out of the exclusive Hamra shopping district in Beirut, Lebanon to a world-class purveyor of designer chocolates throughout the world. The first Patchi shops outside Lebanon opened in Saudi Arabia in 1976 and

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I have heard about how expensive Patchi chocolates are, but I have never been to the Patchi retail outlet myself. I was invited to an open house by a Datuk Sri yesterday, so I went to Patchi along Jalan Maarof, Bangsar to buy a small hamper. I picked up a small hamper with about 10 chocolates in it plus an astray (shown in pic on the right). That cost RM248.That is one of the cheapest hamper in

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6 months ago, I met this photographer at Sri Hartamas Finnegans. He took some picture of Mandy, Margerite and I … so we gave him our email address to pass us those pictures.He added me on MSN, that’s how we sort of became friends. We hardly chat as I do not have a lot of time to chat at work. Few nights ago, he pinged me when I login from home at night. He told me he wants to shoot a portfolio

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May this year, we went to Houston because Ken had a conference to attend and I needed a holiday. Next year we are going there in May again for the same reason.In Houston, we stayed at this hotel called the Inn at the Ballpark. It is just across the street from the ball park(baseball stadium). It's a 4 star boutique hotel, themed in baseball tradition.The sculpture and paintings of baseball

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One the 22nd of August 2008, KY, a Malaysian who lives in Singapore now invites us to a fishing trip in Rompin. It was a three days trip. Both Ken and I took leave on Friday, just wanted to escape from work. We started our journey at 7.30am, arrive around 11am. We took a nice scenic and winding road from KL to Kuala Pilah then to Rompin thru all the oil palm plantations. KY and friends will

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Last Saturday, KY and Wan Ling came down from Singapore for their wedding dinner menu taste testing. The dinner was at Overseas Restaurant at Jalan Imbi. It took couple of intense week of negotiation and lively discussion via all kinds imaginable form of communication plus few visits to the restaurant to finally come to this gastronomical day! There were fourteen of us. Initially we thought there

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July this year I attended this workshop. It was held at the Monash University in Bandar Sunway, conducted by Captain K.Balasupramanium, the founder and Chairman of the Malaysian Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association. Strictly for ladies only.It was very interesting as I did not fall asleep at all :p. In the 4.30 hour session, Captain Bala share his experiences in rape, murder and robbery cases he

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Some of the paint jobs cost $15,000 and had to be repeated every 3 months as the cat's hair grows out.

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Someone said to me, she has many weddings to attend lately. I met a male friend yesterday who also said the same thing, and he went to the wrong restaurant for a wedding … Noble House vs. Noble Banquet!I have a Hen night to attend this Friday. Probably, at 7 ate 9. Jenny is getting married, a girlfriend who I have not seen for at least two years. She is marrying Jose, one of the 3 men Aileen and

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