3rd & 4th Feb 2007

Last Saturday we had a lil farewell dinner for Soon Lung who's leaving soon for his master... in Mathematics?

(I predict he'll become a lecturer in UBD when he finish his studies)

We're suppose to meet in Buccaneer at 8pm. But due to some unexpected circumstances, Road Block that is... everyone was late.

During the road block.... (I was driving alone)

Pergi mana?
- KB

Untuk apa?
- Makan.

Boleh tengok IC dan driving lesen?
- (Take my IC and license out) Why? I look underage kah?

(NO! I'M NOT FLIRTING WITH HIM!)

(Smile) Kerja mana?
- Sekolah, saya cikgu.

Kamu tau kawanku?
- Huh??

Kamu dari UBD kah?
- Oh, no.. ITB.

Oh, Okay. (Give me back my IC and license)
- Thank you.

Bye. Drive safely.
- Bye.

For the first time I feel happy driving away from the road block and not whining about the traffic jam causing me late. Service with a smile and make our country a better place.


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I reached Buccaneer at almost 8.30pm, half an hour late! Surprisingly.... I was the second earliest to arrive. Apparently everyone has a misconception in the word "Punctual".

The girls

Standing: (L-R) Chai Hsia, Siaw Hung, Ah King
Sitting: (L-R) Chai Fung, SukChin, Jenny

After eating and chit chatting, we had a little photo shooting session in the restaurant. We're the last batch of customers so the restaurant was already emptied.

The Guys

Ah Chien, Chris & Soon Lung

(Chris is not that short, he's half squatting in the picture)

We talked loudly, walk around and take pictures here and there like it's a free studio.




Remember my Bangkok trip? Soon Lung is the only person who's daring and adventurous enough to ride on the roller coaster and pose stupidly with me.


I know he's willing to cooperate with me so I took my chance and asked him to do silly things with me again.

The normal shots

Cyber.. I mean Chris was saying...
"I think the restaurant want us to pay them "Service Charge" liao since we're messing around in their restaurant, playing with their (fake) fruits and flowers)"

Okay, one last silly pose to end the night.

I love this shot.

Peaceful and quiet KB Town

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And today... I went to Miri.

Okay, to be exact, I'm my mum's driver and personal amah driving her around in Miri and helping her carrying the plastics and plastics of stuffs she bought.

Most of the time what I did was dropped her near the store, find myself a parking lot somewhere near it and wait for her to finish her shopping (bundles of jos sticks and 'golden-money' to burn during the CNY).

I was so bored that I took my camera out and started to take pictures.

There's quite a lot of people who passed by my car and were looking at me, probably thinking that I'm very "Sakai" kua, never see Miri is it?

Miri from the view of my rear view mirror

If not mistaken, the name of the tall building in "Yu Lan".

There was quite a number of old shop lots demolished and rebuild. I think it was still there when I last passed by back in November (my birthday) when Bobby brought me to round-round that area.

The Weather

Got nothing better to do than camshow.

The Chinese new year "feel" is thicker over in Miri comparing to Brunei.



BSBians, has NBT set up any CNY decorations yet?

Oh, I met Hui Xiang in Miri while we both are waiting for our food from the same stall.


She's still very..... thin. If only I can give my fats to her then it'll be a good win-win situation.
Couldn't believe we'd known each other for 6 years... Time really flies...

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Gila one, I forgot to mention the flocks of people in those department stores and shopping malls. Almost the whole Seria population I think...

Those people take the stuffs like no need money like that... Very scary, I mean the mountains of things in their trolleys.

My mum and I are quite weird. We hate crowds. The more the people, the more we want to fleed and just go home.

Actually apart from buying the "burning stuff" for CNY, the main reason why my mum wants to go Miri is to get the bus tickets to Sibu. Sigh.... All the flights are fully booked, and I only get to buy them the Sibu-Miri tickets. So kasian them have to take bus lor. EIGHT HOURS you know!

One word, DREADFUL!

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We didn't shop for any soft drinks, kuihs and snacks for serving guests.

Can you believe it, we can't even finish one carton of soft drinks during Chinese New Year.

Not because no one come to our house, but because my mum think that those stuffs are unhealthy. Everytime people came, my mum will prepare a pot of red dates tea (eh, very nice I tell you. All other drinks can "siam" a side) and cook them "Mien-Sien", the traditional Foochow noodles.

But, still will goreng one bucket of Keropok Udang and few packs of vegetarian snacks just in case lah. Usually, end up I'm the one munching while watching TV.

FATTENING AH!

After round and round of searching parking and getting stuck in the stupid jam. We're finally going home.

Saw this kid while queuing at the Malaysia border.


Doubt he catch any not because he's fishing in a longkang, but because he was really impatient. He checked on his fishing rod every 30 seconds... And I wonder what's his bait.

At the custom

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I was trying 2 dresses in a boutique and thinking which to buy. One is super red and the other one is beige with black stripes.

I choose the beige one.

(Okay, I think I can hear Kelly Lim complaining and saying, "What? Beige again???")

Yah, I'm a boring person. I don't really fancy bright colours. I prefer dull colors than flashy one like pink, yellow or orange.

Some more my mum was saying, "Wear till so red, Tang-Long (lantern) meh?"

Hahhaahaa. Weird or not? My mum is used to me NOT wearing Red for CNY. She's not the pantang type, she has no objections if I wore black during CNY.... as long as the house we're visiting is ok with it too.

But sometimes she also complained that I have too many black shirts. Says I should wear "younger" colors.

I saw this box of undies with Chinese words in Hush Puppies. Was thinking, ok lar... Since my new year baju is not red, at least I wear red "inside", auspicious mah...

So I happily find my size and paid it at the counter.

It comes free with the angpao packets

Not until I took it out from the box.....

(Quack...... Quack...... Quack................)

I nearly pengsan..

Yes it is undies, no mistake....But it's for MEN!

Careless right? I am.

I'm the kind of person who never double check when I buy. That's why I need "Machiam" friends to shop with me to help me to check on the treads and see if there's any stain.

And one more thing, help me to ask for discount too.
I suck at it.

What I do with the undies?

Give it to my fatboy Lim lor.
Hope he can fit in though.. If not so wasted lah.

Note to self:
Double check on items before paying off.