ADND + Penang Trip + Stolen Wipers

Ok, I know I have a lot of catching up to do in updating you all on what have been happening to me. This post will be a photo blog where there will be lots of pictures to describe the events that happened over the past few weeks/months. Suffice to say, I have bought myself a new digital camera and I've been experimenting with various shots/angles to get really good quality images and hopefully if I have the interest, move on and get myself a DSLR. Anyway, without further delay, here are the pictures taken with my new Digital Ixus 80 IS.

Accenture Annual Dinner and Dance
Well, on 4th of April, my company had an annual dinner of which everyone has to dress up to the theme of the evening which was "Magic". Weeks prior to that, all of us had to scratch our heads to think of what kind of costume would we wear? I at first thought of going as a wizard but after hearing that the best dress costume actually wins a Wii, I asked my friend to help me dress up to win that. In the costume renting shop, he suggested a Witch Doctor / Shaman kinda of costume. And here is how it turned out.

Shyan and I

I end up not winning the Wii, but this "cupboard" did. OMG!

Sze Lyn and I

Other Accenturians in their magical costumes

Penang Trip
About a week ago, I went to Penang to celebrate my grandmother's birthday. I took an Air Asia jet there and it seems that Air Crash Investigations really scares the crap out of me when it comes to flying. I think I should stop watching it. Haha! Anyway, here are some captured moments.

Air Asia logo captured on the seat of the aircraft

A view from Equitorial Hotel in Penang

I thought this shadow looked interesting

I really like this shot taken in the hotel

There was a wedding fair in the hotel, and I thought this looked nice

My brother, my grandmother and me

My Wipers Got Stolen!
Yesterday, when I was going out for lunch, I noticed something was wrong with my car. To my horrow, the wipers were stolen! All 3 of them! Grrrr!! Took these shots when I was going back and as you figured, it was raining! Imagine driving under these conditions. Gosh!

I have to remind myself to not on the wipers else my windscreen would ...

Back wiper is missing too!

On a Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day has now just passed and you may ask "how did it go?" or perhaps "met anyone?". Well the answer is this. No, I did not spend it with anyone nor went out. I worked till 7 and then when I got home, I was so tired and just decided to stay at home. Initially I wanted to format one of my PC's but I end up playing some Tower Defense instead. How did yours went? Feel free to leave a comment below.

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I was just looking through some of the pictures taken from my phone last year and here are some selected few which didn't make it in my previous posts.

Perth City taken from King's Park

One of the parks in Perth. Sadly, we don't have such a neat park here in Malaysia

Perth City viewed from the park

Cloudy skies somewhere along NKVE

There is no denying that this building actually looks quite cool

Sun setting behind KLCC

Clouds around TPM

Wisps of clouds

My New Ride!

Yay!! It's arrived! Just in time before CNY! It arrived yesterday (Jan 30th). Sufficely to say, so far everything is working except that I haven't test out the CD player. Handling is surprisingly good although the car rolls a little too much on cornerings. It's still good and I would say an above average car.

Ever since the blog started till about a couple of months ago, every post has a proper story in it or something really valuable or thought provoking or something of which someone can write a comment on. However, lately I've not been having the many blog inspirations and hence am just unsure of what to write on this space.

I like to write a lot about my past, but I just keeping getting myself smacked in the face to tell me that I should no longer write about the past but instead look towards the future. Well, I can't write much about my future as I'm no Hiro and can't bend space and time :P

I hope that I'll be able to find interesting topics to pen down and attract more visitors soon. That's it for now, have a good day.

PS: Am still having slight coughs.

I'm sick...

Gosh... I've been sick since wednesday. Normally for any flu sickness I get, it starts from having sore throat on the first day, fever on the second, running nose on the third and cough after the sore throat is over. However this time, on wednesday morning, I woke up with all the symptoms (except the cough).

I felt like calling in sick and not go to work and stay at home to get some rest, but I have some stuff that needs to be done and I really need to get it done on Friday. So I went to work to try to complete as much as I can in my not-so-efficient state. In office, my running nose got worse and then i realised that its starting to come out of my nose. When I brought my finger to my nose to check if it's really coming out, to my horror, my finger is filled with blood!

Immediately I tilted my head and waited for it to stop bleeding. When it stopped, I went to the bathroom to wash my hands and make sure that there aren't any more blood on my nose or dripping out. Looking a little pale, I momentarily shut off in front of my desk dreaming that I was completing my work only to awaken within a minute to notice that I was dreaming. Lol!, But at least I now knew what to do and manage to perform my duties. Isn't it cool to let your dreams show you what you need to do? Haha!

The next day, my voice started to change I begin to develop more phlegm. Having difficulty breathing with my blocked nose, I was almost unable to perform any heavy thinking or coding. Eventually, I did but efficiency was really bad. Most of the time was spent staring at the screen trying to code while at the same time trying to breathe. On that night itself (thursday), my nose was so blocked that I was unable to catch much sleep as I was unable to breathe.

I woke up feeling really crappy and after my wiping myself dry with the towel after my bath, I tasted something salty on my tongue. I realised that something is dripping from my nose to my mouth. I ran to the mirror only to see a long trail of blood from my nose to my mouth and it was really scary. It almost looked like one of the movies where one of the guys get punched in the face and blood oozing out of the nose. I tooked the shower head and hosed it all off only to find that it keeps flowing back out. After about 3-4 times, it finally stopped and I sighed a sigh of relief.

I then quickly move to my computer and googled "nose bleed flu". To my relief, some of the sites said that there will be a higher chance for nose bleed when one is having flu. I then went to work after that feeling slightly more relieved.

Now after almost 5 days of sickness since wednesday, I no longer have the sore throat or the fever but now still have the running nose and blocked nose as well as cough which I foresee will take at least a week or 2 to cure. Thankfully there hasn't been anymore nose bleeds. Hopefully I will be cured completely much sooner and I'll be able to resume normal work duties.

Hello 2008!

First of all, I really do apologize for the lack of posts lately. Things have been rather busy for me and I've somehow lost the time allocated for blogging. Or it could simply be because my family now reads my blog and I'm just trying to keep things to myself. Hehe.

Anyway, it is a new year and guess what? I planned the eve of 2008 to go to church for the watchnight celebration but due to some persuasion, I changed my mind at the last minute and find myself in a cybercafe playing past 12 and did not even notice anything. It was only at 12.15 did we realize that we missed it. Darn!

Let's do a little recap of the events happened in 2007. I always thought that 2007 is a good year as it has the number 7 in it which is my favourite number and its of course the perfect number. Most of the things happened were good but there were some which was not so good things but then again; it’s a good learning experience. Here is the list of events/things that happened to me in 2007.

1) Started Working at March
2) Met a really good looking girl
3) Found a nice Young Adults CG to go to
4) Had increment on September
5) Heartbroken on November
6) 7 Year commitment ended on December 15th
7) Earned enough points to claim an iPod

Well of course in every new year, there must be new year resolutions. This reminds me of a MSN status of a friend on my MSN which reads "My new years resolution is to procrastinate it till next year". Although hilarious, most of us tend to follow that idea.

Looking ahead for 2008, I would like to see these things come true:
1) Get promoted at March.
2) Nominated for above and beyond
3) Get that 18months working experience and start getting the HotSkill perks as well as completion of ASDA
4) Expand my network
5) Improve my softskills
6) Save & Earn more money
7) Lose some weight
8) Find a girl?

That’s kinda it for now. I do hope that I have more time to write more in the coming days. But then again, if all I say is always "Things are good" or "it's fine", it will be kinda boring for you all as well as for me writing it. But of course I don't want to be in a bad situation or things all going bad for me. Hehe. Anyway, see ya next time :)