I've Survived !

Hello !

Greetings from Kaohsiung !!!!!

Hee hee... I've survived ! I've survived the operation training today... ...hee hee hee...in mandarin most of the time hor.... haa haa.... 80% lah....

Not too bad, I think.... The 1st 15 mins was much like a warm up, my brain fighting to find the right words to replace the English phrases as well as adjusting to a comfortable mode of speech.

All of them are soooooooooooooooooooo attentive and participating. None showed any sign of sleepiness, tiredness and dozzing off. And I am very surprised and felt very motivated.

Our partners in Kaohsiung are simply fantastic people ! I felt so embarassed as I never treated our overseas to this extend !

They had arranged for someone to pick me up at the airport and these 2 ladies stucked with me for a whole day, bringing me to go shopping at Asia's largest shopping mall, at my request... hee hee...A stroll by the Love River which is just beside our hotel, lunch at Outback Steakhouse, dinner at an authentic smelly beancured hotpot shop. And I must say the smelly beancurd hotpot is delicious.

Weather was good too, with an average of 25 degree celsius in the day and temperature fall to approximately 13 degree celsius in the evening. Even though it is pretty warm in the day, but the cool breezy that keep blowing all the time comprises all the warm.

Tomorrow The manager is bringing me to go sightseeing and I am so embarassed by their hospitality.... ai yo... how can we ever recipocrate equally should we have a chance to host them in SIN ?

Alamak.....

Kaohsiung

Yawn .... ....

Now I'm in Changi Airport T2 putting this entry happily away after a whirlwind shopping spree to stock up on my make up... hee hee.... I'm going on a working trip to Taiwan Kaohsiung..... ALONE !!!!!

It's gonna be fun .... I think....

Now, I'm going for a power dose (coffee) before I board the flight. If not, I'm gonna fall asleep onboard ! I can't because I have to finish up the nitty gritty of the presentation which I spent the past week doing it ! If I'm not doing it onboard, I gonna locked myself in the room to finish it later and I cannot got shopping ! So Sad !

Bye !

Happy Lunar New Year

Here I am in Genting Highlands, sitting in a public internet and gaming centre, typing this entry away. Oh, not forgetting I am surrounded by loud lasting guns blaring audio and the screaming of the boys when they killed a soldier or win a game !

As Ah Keong's Ah Gong past away about 1 month ago, we are not allowed to celebrate CNY and so we have to find entertainment to stay away from all the CNY activities. Oh well, this can be all nonsense as I have been staying away from home for the past few CNYs. This trip to Genting was confirmed in December before Ah Gong's demised in fact. Hee hee.... ...

We actually wanted to stay in SIN this year but as the CNY period draws nearer, you can say we chicken-ed out and decided to flee ! And so, by Dec, there is nowhere we can go except any self-drive holidays. And so Genting, which is opened almost 24/7 but 365 days.

We kicked off the journey at 5am and with 2 stops, we arrived in Genting at about 11.30am Thousands and thousands of people are already on top of this mountain celebrating the CNY their own way with their families, relatives and friends. We couldn't check in until 3pm as the rooms are not ready when we arrived. And to my atonishment, you actually have to queue to collect a ticket for check in, then you 'queue' (waited) again while your number is being called to check in at one of the 25 counters. But hang on, with 1000 overs rooms for check in on this particular day, you can easily have at least 200 or 300 people in front of you, also waiting for check in.

Luckily, we are quite fortunate as we are using a friend's booking for check in . He who arrived at 6am yesterday morning and already get a queue number and so, at 3pm, we just walk over to the 'missed queue' counter and did our check in... hee hee....

We had a deluxe room but it was not to my liking, no view, dim room, a tiny weeny tv, lucky quite a comfy bed. Everywhere you go on top of this mountain here is packed with people, but things are still under control as I still get to eat whatever I like though the queue is slightly longer, more noise yet still able to do some shopping.... oh yes, there is a new shop here, a Mango outlet ! Not the fruit mango hor, it's the spainish apparel label, MANGO.

And so, what am I going to do for the rest of today and tomorrow?

After this hour of internet, I'm going for a pedicure and then dinner.... probably I will go for a foot massage much later since they close at midnight. Tomorrow, I shall read a book and then I may go0 for a body massage in the afternoon. hee hee.... The evening is packed with a free illusionist show and we had purchased tickets to watch Sam Hui's concert.

And so, who say you got nothing to do in Genting except gamble !

There goes January and it's now ... ...

February !

January came and go in a flash for me ! I couldn't believe time is flying faster than I can ever realised it. And can you imagine this is the 3rd post for the year when 32 days had already passed by.

This is so scary and well, work could have contibuted a huge percentage here that January went in a flash. After the not-so-right-timing trip to Macau, Alvin's grandfather passed away on that evening after I touched down from Macau. On that same weekend, we had a fair at Suntec and I had to shuffle between work and fair and thanks, Ah Kong's funeral was over the weekend and actually missed work for a day. So much to catch up after everything is over and then we had our annual training the following week. CNY sales blitz the next and boom.... January was over. And almost every weekends were no breather with a company activity on one and the rest was packed with running errands. I haven't had any chance to sleep late for the entire January and I must say it has taken a toll on me and my tiredness are showing all over my face....

Therefore, I shall go to sleep now and put up more post in the next few days or so.