Last Day.

On this very fateful day, May 30th, 2008 where I met Jen in the morning after parking my car, afternoon for lunch at Sushi King, in the evening to get our car and night for Yum Cha session at Steven's Corner, would also my last working day in The Company after 2 years and 15 days of employment. Quite a duration considering my previous job lasted 15 days short of a year, lols. Perhaps it did not really feel that long since I have been working in 3 different locations, the KL office, the Singapore office on and off and the client's office in the heart of Singapore where I get to see loads of SG chicks in formal *drools*.

Monday onwards, I'll be working in one of those twin towers unless they decided to kick me elsewhere, there's a possibility to that. Funny how I never get to have some well deserved break, be it a short one, in between job changes. Still, I should be grateful this time around, at least I get to laze as much as I wanted to during the weekends. The previous one had me serving my last day on Friday, doing my final preparations and packings on Saturday and off to Singapore on Sunday, like, wtf. Didn't even manage to have a proper farewell gathering with loved ones and friends.

And how time flies, felt like it was just yesterday that I hunted around Outram Park aimlessly for food with D, who btw, had left The Company about a year back. Then came the transfer to the head office in SG, spending days and nights far away from Jacklyn, family and friends for long durations while struggling in the initial period looking for suitable accomodation. Come to think of it, I kinda miss my eventual landlord and his family, also all those weekends of movies and buffet dinners with E. Gone also were the days of total freedom.

Anyhow, I better not bore you with more of my grandfather adventures in The Company, let's hope that with this switch, things will change for the better *crosses fingers*. Alas, I took my final steps out of the office doors just like any other ordinary day, there were no farewells, no souvenirs, no nothing, not that I was expecting anything. Perhaps its something not practised or only applicable if you've been employed for more than 5 years, lols. Looking at it from a brighter point of view, it just further strengthens my believe that leaving The Company is indeed the right decision.

Adios to The Company. A new chapter has begun.

p/s - to my dear munaks, the above is not at all referring to you nor the other peeps still in The Company alright? I know you guys still love me, I'm referring to THEM as a whole. Don't terasa okay? lols. I still owe you a Hello Kitty graffiti on your new ride, do remind me of it.

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Bosan.

Because I felt a little bored with my current interface, I decided to tweak here and there a little and this, my dear friends, are the results of my itchy fingers. Now that I think about it, I could have used the time spent on this doing something a little more productive, sigh.

Anyway, I'm thinking of a new banner but at the same time, totally clueless about it. I'm open for suggestions, anyone? Did I hear outsourcing? No thank you.

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Neck of a Bottle.

Just a little less than six months before the actual day, feels like there's so much left to do but at the same time, nothing left to do. Contradicting, yes I know but that's how I felt. Its like how we have yet to get our temporary furnishings but can't proceed since the renovation has yet to start at my parent's house, mine still have a long way to go. Or how we have yet to compile the guests list and make the table arrangements, guests count from our parents still pending. Or how I have yet to complete the slideshows for the dinner because, well, kinda lazy to do them, okay I'll count this out. Decorations for the venue can't be confirmed as well since we still can't confirm the actual headcount yet, the food tasting session. Selection of gowns for the actual day, can't be done too early since new arrivals come every now and then.

Unless its coming from the older generation, whoever told you getting married is a fairly simple affair, you can shove your to-do list down his/her throat.

See what I mean, there are really lots of stuff to be taken care of but nothing to proceed with because most of the things are in pending mode. I'm just worried that we'll have to rush through everything in the end due to the bottleneck that can't be cleared at the moment, that's every couple's worst nightmare. Perhaps I should start sourcing for a professional wedding planner to take away all my worries *rubs chin*.

Just received news from Jacklyn that the wedding photos are ready for the 2nd viewing, all photoshopped and complete with designs, I'm so excited, I hope the pictures turn out good. Can hardly wait for Saturday to quickly arrive. Hence, if everything's alright, another task can be striked off from the never ending list of to-dos before the dinner *beams*. Oh, guess what, I haven't even put up a proper entry of our marriage registration day. Woe is me.

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Muar-hahahaha (2).

Dinner at Bukit Bakri, eat until so full that my stomach felt like exploding before heading for a short stroll at the other side of Tanjung Emas where lots of people can be seen fishing. There's a large field somewhere along the man-made shore where we spent quite an amount of time trying to fly a kite with lightnings in the distance, blowing soap bubbles which according to some were really addictive and flying spinner that looks like those buluh terbangs from Doraemon. Lots of kids were seen riding electronic karts as well. Random images of food ahead, sorry for the bad quality, was really hungry until hand shaking lols.

fried beehoon with crab and loads of mini crab shells pieces which I accidentally but continouosly bit into OUCH

brandon's favourite stir fried vegetables, it was not really the vegetables that he enjoys but some other ingredients in it. hint - lards

fried calamari yang super best, dish gone in record time like chipsmore cookies

fried spring rolls woot

another speciality, prawn meehoon in claypot woo hoo

this is actually chicken wings in special sauce that I really like but in this picture it looked like piles after piles of shit so sorry

'wut put' that is different from the ones we normally have in KL, its braised sweet sourish pork as filling if I'm not mistaken

Didn't bring camera out, so this is the only picture that I have from the quick stroll @ Tanjung Emas that lasted 3 hours until 1am-ish of Jacklyn blowing bubbles yang tak berapa jadi. That might be Hikaru and Jen in the background purchasing the kite.

Ah So, the following morning, we departed to Malacca for a super short trip which was only about 35 minutes plus drive from Muar. Our one and only destination, our sole purpose, was to head to Jonker dessert in Jonker Street to have many, many bowls of cendols with loads of gula melaka yums!!! Walking around the streets did bring back lots of memory of the times I was last there during my graduation ceremony.

To be honest, for the whole year I was in MMU to do my foundations back then, I never did venture out of Bukit Beruang much, I wonder why. Only upon graduating from my degree (bout 3 years plus later) did I try my first ever satay celup, seafood at Portuguese village, the midnight char siew rice, walking along Jonker street, the over-commercialized chicken rice balls, visiting Mahkota Parade and all those stuff. Guess I wasn't much of an adventurous guy.

After the makan-makan, we headed home. Enough of my endless grandfather stories, to think that I'm still quite young but have so much to say. Random pictures ahead.

Jonker Dessert, everyone's favourite place. On the left is the stall selling cendol while the stall on the right sells various types of noodles, that's Brandon and Cherrie btw with Jen, Junn and Hikaru in the background

old old old old old skool interior

my bowl of Chicken Baba Laksa or Baba Chicken Laksa, looks more like curry noodle with curry chicken to me but still very sedaps

the oh so heavenly bowl of cendol, this is before I taruh all the gula melaka. Kena marah from Jacklyn also because taruh a lot, huhuhu

accecories from a random souvenir shop where the uncle kept spinning gasing of various sizes and designs for us to see, free demonstration woh

Jacklyn with the largest pineapple tart in Malaysia, not edible one okay. Freshly baked tarts in the background, the aroma so tantalizing

traffic jam in Malacca town

And with this entry ends the 2 part series of Muar-hahahaha. A very big thank you to Mr and Mrs Heng aka Brandon and Cherrie for sacrificing their weekend to layan us, guiding us around Muar and Malacca, bringing us to makan all the sedap-sedap foods and making a huge mess out of your rooms, lols. Very Kam Siah Lu. Now, to plan for the next road trip, hehehe.

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Muar-hahahaha (1).

Title inspired by Jen, you know I'm not that creative.

Pre-trip plan included picking up Jen, Jacklyn and Hikaru from their houses respectively then proceed to my house where Junn will be meeting us up for dinner before finally beginning our journey to Muar. Mana tau, me and Jen was stuck in the most horrible congestion ever possible for 3 hours plus, travelling from Sentral to Setapak then Cheras and thus, Junn had to fetch Jacklyn who fetched Hikaru earlier to our meeting point instead. Fuh, berterabur until only around 10 plus did we managed to grab dinner at Taman Cheras.

And sampai Muar post midnight for some early morning spicy wantons plus ultimate video discoveries on YouTube which kept us awake much longer than intended. Awake much earlier than expected, zombified, due to bright morning sun rays beaming into our room. While some prepared food for our little picnic later, others lazed around trying to catch up on sleep but to no avail. Had some awesome yet cheap chicken rice balls (chicken included) for brunch then dropped by @ Tanjung Emas for a while before heading to panjat Gunung Ledang YAYS.

Bebola Nasi Ayam, these things are huge man and it only costs a fraction of what you pay for these similar stuff in Malacca, sheesh

AYAMs not KAMBINGs, much better than the average chicken rice meals you have in KL

Muar punya otak-otak is the best

mr Junn squatting by the tanjung, looking at mudskippers at that moment of time

mrs Cherrie, miss Jen, adik Hikaru sedang makan ice-cream and mr Junn

The main purpose for the trip to Ledang (some 40 minutes drive from Muar) was to soak ourselves silly in the waterfalls and to reach the falls, we had to trek through an ascending path which reminded me of all those intensive trainings before the KK trip. Due to the dense forestation and lack of breeze, halfway through the ascend, I was already totally soaked in sweat and 10 meters to our destination, I was out of breath, lols. The slippery rocks made getting into the water a difficult task, had to be really careful else its all the way down for you woo hoo. And the water was oh so cold, pretty much like soaking yourself in ice water, had me in shivers most of the time but it was all good.

While some remained in the waters, the thrill seekers climbed to the top looking for treasure and treasure they found, in the form of a better location. Some tried fishing with whatever resources we could get our hands on but to no avail, the fishes were much smarter than expected. Food was especially good, DIY sandwiches with either sardines, fried luncheon meat, egg mayo with lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes as fillings yummy.

the waterfalls at the highest peak reachable by yours truly (means its actually not the highest one lah, but entry to the ones above this is actually restricted)

Our personal fridge, just to chill things a little, hehehe

cherrie, jen, jacklyn and junn enjoying the food. jacklyn takut jatuh sakit so she didn't join us in the waters

hikaru at the top of the world, this was taken moments before he started to climb down and slipped but luckily didn't go all the way down

jed kena hentam

hikaru trying to hentam jacklyn, ta bin lei

the person who whacked me in two pictures above

Much, much later, after spending close to 4 hours at the falls, it was time to head back. Before ending the post, you can read more about the Legend of Gunung Ledang here. Part 2 coming up really soon, entry will include a short drop-by at Malacca to satisfy our cravings.

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