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Back from Ipoh!
My climbing gang and I made a trip down to the Lost World of Tambum at Ipoh check our their outdoor rock climbing spot. Excellent place. However, we only managed to climb 2 routes and ended up eating the whole trip. Our climbing trip has turned into an eating trip. There goes all my workout.
I’ll fill in the details tomorrow.
To our Muslim readers. Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir dan Batin!

Everyday I fear that someone close to me will die before me.
Last year, my nephew Dicky passed away unexpectedly. His death was a huge surprise to all of us as he suddenly collapsed at his work place and died.
Upon receiving the news about his passing, Mum and I rushed to SJMC Hospital to see my sister and my brother in law (Abang). My other nephews and niece were there as well. Their eyes were all red.
Abang sobbed when I shook his hands. I couldn’t control my tears when I saw them.
Abang brought me to see Dicky’s body after that. Dicky was dressed in a chequered shirt and he looked normal. Abang said, ‘Dicky’s sleeping’.
On the next day, Dicky’s body was scheduled to be buried. Even after post mortem, we could not determine his cause of death. His body was functioning well. Just that his soul has left his body.
After the prayers, we were invited into the mosque to take a look at Dicky for the last time. We sat around Dicky. He was covered with a white cloth, his face was protruding out from the white cloth. A metal cast covered with a cloth with Arabic words, was next to him.
People were sobbing quietly. One of Dicky’s friends took out his camera phone to take Dicky’s picture and thereafter, Abang and his other son whipped out their camera to take picture of Dicky.
We buried Dicky at a Muslim cemetery at Puchong Batu 13. The burial was quite fast but the prayers and the rest was quite long. By the time Abang, my sister and the rest step into the cemetery, Dicky’s friends were at the midst of pushing the soil into the hole.
I was the only Chinese around. The rest were all Malays.
After the prayers were completed, we sprinkled flowers on to Dicky’s grave. I stood by the side when they were doing so until one lady announced, “Give the flowers to Dicky’s uncle”. Thereafter, I was given a bucket of flowers. I sprinkled it hastily.
Not everyone sprinkled flowers on Dicky’s grave. I think it’s because the same guy who took Dicky’s picture at the mosque was hogging all the flowers!!
After the necessary was done, Abang thanked everyone for coming and sobbed. He also said, “jika anak saya telah berbuat salah terhadap mana-mana daripada awak, saya minta ampun. Jika dia berhutang pada kamu, datanglah kepada saya untuk menyelesaikannya”. (if my son had offended any of you, I apologize. If he owes you anything, please come to me and I will settle it). I was at the verge of tearing.
It rained thereafter. We packed our stuff and left.
When my former classmate passed away, my then teacher gave a useful one-liner – “Life goes on”. Indeed life goes on, but it will never be easy.
Please visit my sister’s blog at http://annateh.blogspot.com/ and give her the necessary support.
http://annateh.blogspot.com/

You know when your work sucks..

If you are suddenly called up for a meeting which the details of it you had no knowledge at 12:30PM;

The meeting lasted until 2AM;

You had to walk under the rain back to the office at 2AM;

You have to come out with something by tomorrow morning; and

You are blogging about this at 230AM.

Yay!

As you can see, I’ve been posting some messages on this twitter box.
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My birthday is coming up this Monday. I’ve fixed certain dates to celebrate with different group of friends. Saturday is going to be ivN, Sow and the rest, Sunday’s gonna be with A, Monday afternoon and night with colleagues and parents respectively. Next Sunday is gonna be with the old Sheffield mates!
I’m so not looking forward to it. :s
*naf Nottifish is soooo tired says:
u’re gonna go ICU this year ma FCKER!
so going to FRY IN HELL CHI BAI!
xes @ Office says:
MAHAI
BRING ME PLASTIC BAGSS!!

Official Barfbag holder for ivN’s birthday 2007

Sow – Official Barfbag Holder 2006 for my birthday

Sow on left with a blue plastic bag – my birthday 2003
*naf Nottifish is soooo tired says:
no man
this Time its going to be all out on the floor
xes @ Office says:
bahger
ill make sure ill puke on u!
*naf Nottifish is soooo tired says:
bring it la bro
as long as u puke
I dont want to end up like Nottifish in 2004.

NOOOOOOOO!!

On Monday, I received an email from Tim informing me that there is one competition by Chipster @ http://www.chipster.com.my by the name “Nothing Else Matters” that I should join. He wants me to prepare a draft for him to review by Wednesday.
Cannot la,, so short notice. I can’t churn out blog entries like a biscuits at a biscuit factory! But in any event, I accepted the task and cracked my head for an idea.
Chipster?? I’ve never heard of it! I quickly browsed through the website, read some interesting stuff like the various methods one can try to eat their Chipster e.g. eat it with nasi lemak or dip them in your favourite sauce.
The rules are quite simple. Take a picture of yourself or a friend with a packet of chipster and then edit it accordingly. The theme should be “Nothing Else Matters”.
And the prizes are

Unfortunately, I was quite busy with work and I had no time read the rules in-depth and also to think about it.

The Rules.
Sounds easy huh?
On Wednesday morning.. I found this outside my house.

HALLELUYAH!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD’S GIFT FROM HEAVEN!!
My neighbor left a packet of Chipster outside my house!
I quickly register an account at Chipster.com.my and uploaded the picture for the competition.

Then I realized, it’s not that simple.

I have to merge my picture with their background in order to create an entry.
HOW TO WIN LIDDAT?!?!? FAIL.COM.
Of course, I didn’t give up.

In my room.
After erasing the background and retaining my image and chipster, you’ll see..

Tada~~
To those who has better art skills than I do, please join the “Nothing Else Matters” Contest @ http://www.chipster.com.my
P/S I tried the Sour Cream flavoured Chipster. It was awesome!

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During our firm’s career fair, we managed to recruit a number of students to join our post event by the name The Rush. The concept is similar with the Amazing Race save that the locations are around Klang Valley.
I teamed up with V, one of the most competitive and enthusiastic partners of the firm, fellow colleague LCB and 2 girls by the name Cherrien and Catherine.
There are around 20 teams. The organisers have appointed a supervisor for each team to ensure that they don’t cheat and comply with all given tasks.
The hardest part of this competition is waking up at 6AM on a Saturday morning. I cursed the bright fellow who fixed 730AM for registration.
On the very morning, we found out that one of the girls (our team) was wearing high heels. V forced the girl to change into a pair slipper, belonging to this driver – who wears them when he washes the car.
Our first task involves running to the LRT station to take a train to the highest flagpole in the world at Dataran Merdeka. As soon as the starting whistle blew, we rushed to the LRT station and we were among the first few teams to reach the station.
Unfortunately, the train came a bit later and hence other teams managed to catch up.
The train to Dataran Merdeka is pretty short – around 4 – 5 stops. At our 2nd stop, we realised something. We forgot about our team supervisor! We left her behind!
Although her presence is not necessary, she has to be around when the task is completed. Nevertheless, we continued without her.
Our first task in Dataran Merdeka involves looking for the following items:
(1) a Bar of soap
(2) a green ribbon
(3) a green strand of rope
(4) a stick of crayon
V: Where can we find this?
Me: 7-11!!!
V: Let’s gooo!
Then after purchasing the bar of soap and crayons, we were told that we have to look for it around Dataran Merdeka. Bahger.
Fortunately, we managed to spot all the required items quickly and our supervisor finally found her way to Dataran Merdeka.
Upon completing the first task, we have to walk all the way to Lake Gardens to perform the second task – eat 3 durians.
We chose the smallest durians and managed to finish this task quickly. Our supervisor even ate some of our durians even though she is not supposed to do so 😛


Our next task was to head to the KL Court Complex at Jalan Duta by taxi.
Since we have 6 people in our team, we had to split into 2 groups for our taxi. The first team left with a taxi quickly. V and I flagged down another shortly. We were the leading team at that time.
While flagging for a taxi, I accidentally stepped on a nail – leaving me with a bruised foot. Fortunately, it didn’t penetrate my feet but it hurts like crap.
The subsequent task was quite easy, V and I wasn’t involved in it as our first team managed to complete it without us. Next task is to take a taxi to the National Monument. Great, our taxi just left but we can take the taxis of the later teams. However, the later teams realised that they need a taxi for the next task and immediately booked their taxi.

National Momument
One team was unfortunate to have their taxi stolen by us, when V screamed at the taxi driver, “I PAY YOU RM50!!!”.
Another colleague was better, when the taxi driver told that his taxi has been booked, he said, “Yeah I know, we’re from the same company!”. The taxi driver took him.
There were 2 more tasks which involved 2 other destinations. The last and final task and destination was the KLCC Park. We have to look for a Marshall for the next clue.

One of the tasks involved dancing.
Half and hour later, the Marshall was no where to be seen. Other teams had caught up. They too had problems looking for the Marshall.
After strolling around the park, covering every possible place and spending half an hour under the hot sun, I decided to venture out into KLCC shopping mall even though the clue made no reference to KLCC shopping centre. And there, I found 2 other colleagues strolling around KLCC. They were the Marshall. O_O They were late!! I understand that we were the first team to locate the Marshall!
The clue provided by the Marshall was, “Look for the man in green, and then, in a group, recite the words “itsy bitsy spider yellow pokka dotted bikini”.
Man in green….MAN IN GREEN? WHERE TO FIND A MAN IN GREEN IN KLCC ON A SATURDAY!!?!?
Indeed it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
In light that we’ve combed the KLCC park with no sights of any suspicious man in green, we split into 2 groups to comb the KLCC Shopping mall. Half an hour later, no sight of the bloody green man. Bahger. At that time, most of our colleagues were no where to be seen.
After combing the entire KLCC Shopping mall, we were, no doubt, very desperate. The last team would have to wear a loser tag and dance in front of everyone. We had to choice but to call another colleague for help.
Me: HELP!
F: OK HEAD TO THE END OF THE PARK AND LOOK FOR H! THE GREEN MAN IS WITH H!
We wasted our time looking for the green man in KLCC Shopping Mall. From the first team, we dropped to one of the last teams.
We ran towards the end of the park to look for the green man and eventually found the bugger. Fortunately, we were not last but one of the last teams. I immediately text one of my colleagues from one of the last teams informing her of the green man.
Upon reciting the bloody line to the bloody green man, we rushed back to the office to be greeted with rest of the teams.
We were fortunate that we didn’t emerge as the last team but indeed disappointed as we were one of the leading teams.

G the Loser!
Notwithstanding the above, we had fun. I’m glad that I participated in this event.
Oh, after the event, I went to play futsal for 2 hours, went drinking until 1am and on the next day, went rock climbing. I had to see a Doctor on Monday!

Right after the event – blisters!

Romance in the office is one of the most common cultures in many big organisations. I heard that in some law firms, when colleagues (both lawyers) get hitched, one of the has to leave the firm.
Some time back, there was another addition to our Court’s Department. A young petite girl. I have no idea what her position is.
K, one of our photocopy boys has hots over her. I’ve seen the girl spending time with him in the photocopy room. I even heard from my colleagues that they always have lunch together. Sort of like a match made in heaven couple.
So one day, while on my way back, I bumped into K in the lift.
Me: So where’s your chick?
K: Sigh..she..she’s getting engage..
Me: \(*O*)/ Is that truee????
K: Yeah.. end of this year.. She has a fiancé
Me: shittt…
Then..
K: yeah.. it’s okay I still have 10 more chicks. wahahahah
Me: …….
Months later, that girl got together with another photocopier boy.
Seriously, What the t00t.

I went to the Court today…yaaaa..that’s what i do almost every morning.
I bumped into Ms. Siew Pau. She was walking toward me…
“Siew Pau”, i called out to her
She jumped..well, just a little bit la.
And i heard her saying to her friend to Cantonese (Yes, Siew Pau. I heard that =P)
“Oh My God, this is the first time i see Frank in person”
But, she don’t have that” Frank so leng chai, he is more leng chai in person than in photos” kinda look.
I am quite disappointed la…kidding la. BTW, we have SEEN each other in person when we were in Uni la…
Sorry, Siew Pau, i just have to blog about this because i’ve to write something (to get invited to free beer party)
P/S Siew Pau, i went to legal aid room at 10am but it was deserted…