New Blog Address...

This is my 100th entry for this year. Its a great achievement, comparing to only 4 in 2007.

With this, its also marked the end of 2008 in a few hours time.

And, starting from 2009, I am going to blog from other "address".

Why do I want to change my blog-address?

Well, this is the reason:-


I don't like the idea that when people google my full name, and my blog address pops up. Well, taking into consideration the unique spelling of my name doesn't help too.

So, some of you might ask, then why blog?

Well, my blog is more on my social & personal life.
I don't want to mix with business part of it.
Of course, I have a "reputation" to maintain in running my business, so I would rather keep this two apart.

I will send an email to all of you, whom I remembers as my regular readers, my new blog address.

Should any of you whom are reading my blog now, but didn't receive the new blog address from me, please ask ya.

Either drop me an email or leave a comment here.

Sorry for any inconveniences.

And, have a good welcoming 2009 party tonight, Okay....

Enjoy, and Happy New Year.

See you guys in my new blog address soon.

Hugs,
AL

Goodbye 2008

2008 is saying goodbye in less than 30 hours time.......

We are going to welcome 2009 in less than 30 hours....

Have we stopped and asked ourselves, what had we done or achieve throughout this year?

I taking a break, and think about it.

I would say, 2008 been a very "exciting" year for me.

There are lots of memories..... bad or good, sad or happy.....

Doesn't matter.... bottom line, 2008 been a "dramatic" year for me.

Moving forward, I do hope and looking forward a brighter 2009.

But before that, I want to share with all on the "Happy Moments of 2008"

Here, lets the photos speak for itself.... (not in proper sequence of events..)

Weddings of two of my close friends

My run-away Trip.... Just needed to getaway for whatever reasons... Went to Singapore, Manila and Sandakan (of coz not all at one go la...)

My Birthday (ya ya... last 2X birthday...)

Proud Moments @ Work. Had 3 exhibitions this year, and even managed to demonstrate my product to the Crown Prince of Brunei.

Those few trips I went back to hometown..... Qing Ming is a must go back in my yearly calender.

Focus on the pork-ribs, and not us.... And of coz, the other photo reminds me of a friend whom ordered RM150 worth of FISH for our "brunch" @ Duck King.... Ouch.. we were hoping he will pay..., but we split the bill at the end.... Kesian we all.... Identity shall be withheld to avoid emberassment...

Fun hiking trips.... the 4WD is the most memorable, because I had a few bruises from that "adventure".... Lucky me that my best friend whom drove the 4WD don't drive like this, normally...... though sometimes.... he does it too.

See, we even "hike" on the highway. We took the wrong exit, and end up at Penchala Link, and needed to walk all the way back to TTDI for our cars... Also brought Nicki for her first hiking trip in KL.

Trips with Family... to Cameron & Genting..

Makan-makan cari makan.... Ooops.. its Jalan Jalan Cari Makan with my EATING BUDDIES.

Happy Gatherings and Fun Time with old mates from school.... (see all girls, guess you guys can guess which school I came from ya....)

Fun time with my cheeky & naughty nephew.... CJ at his first sport days and also prom night... Ya, don't play play... kids that age also have their Prom Night oooooh.... Well, I guess its more of a tactic for school to "earn" more money. Trust me, they made profit from it..., and I think A LOT.

Fun & Memorable trip with close friends......

My birthday cake (or should I say "cup-cakes") and birthday gifts for this year...

Friends Birthday.... KW's, LL's & CY's. (From Left - Right)

More birthdays.... TL's, Shihu & J. (From Left - Right)

I, ALONE, brought my nephew with me to Singapore to meet my sis.... Ya, I am proud of myself.. Come on, its not easy to take care of a 4-years old, for 10-hours, Okay (return trip ma...)

Memorable Pot-Luck Dinner @ my Home.... Ya, we finished that bottle of Liquors... No, not both, just the one I hold....

Relaxing fishing trip..... hmmm, I didn't catch any fish la.., but at least I look stylo, right?

Can't sit inside the Airbus, so just took photo outside it lo.... Was at Singapore Airshow. A great showcase, though very hot...

My memorable "crash"..... Its self-inflicted. I reverse without realizing there were a "bump" pertrude from the wall.... Who will thought of that, right? I trusted my reverse sensor ma....

Looking at all these photos..., its just reminded me that how lucky I am, to have family and also friends like all of you, to be with me, whenever I needed you guys. Thanks for everything.... I shall appreciates it and remembers it too.

Finally... Internet Connection.....

Yeah.... Finally..... I have Internet Connection at home....

Hopefully this will be encouragement for me to Blog more "regularly"......

At least one of my TO DO before year end is taken care of.....

And lets hope that Streamyx won't disappoint me.....

And guess what my wireless internet connection are named......

You guys will find out when you guys are here next time.......

Till then....... we are just about 50 hours away from 2009.......

Merry Christmas....

Santarina in the making....

Merry Christmas to all my dear friends...., and readers.. (sounds glamour saja ah...)

Of coz, I think all the readers of my blog are my friends.

This year been a very busy and stressful days for me, for days leading to Christmas, that I was unable to really embrace the mood and feel of it....

Nevertheless, I wish everybody a very Merry Christmas, and hopefully you gotten all the gifts that you wished for, especially from your loved ones..... (I am still waiting for my presents from my loved ones.....)

I bought a lot for presents this year.... though not as many I did when I was back in Singapore working many years ago......

But, I still buy gifts from Singapore for some of my friends. :)

Some of you had gotten it... while some suppose to collect it today.... Hope all of you love it.....

Sorry if I forgotten to buy for any of u...... Claim it next year then ya....

Isn't Monopoly Illegal????

I believes monopoly is illegal, isn't it????

Or not "ethically" right???

Oh well, not the MONOPOLY GAME..... but talking about companies whom monopolize the industry.....

I am so pissed with our Malaysian-Owned-Monopolized-Kargo service.

Apparently they can just offload your cargo without informing you....

And, they don't have the courtesy to even informing you about it....

Lucky for us that we have responsible logistic provider whom bothered to call them and ask if the cargo had arrived.......

Guess what they said... "Oh... we offload your cargo, because the flight overload..."

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To make matter worst.... they going to put it on the next "available" flight, which will be on this Friday...... and guess what, our custom only works till 3.30pm, but flight arriving at 4.30pm....

I can't believe that our Customs only works till 3.30pm..... while their counterpart in the neighboring country works till 6pm.

A friend told me to scold them (the stupid cargo service...).......
Well, guess if I lost my temper on them now, I think its going to take forever for my cargo to arrive......

This reminds me of a radio advert that were aired recently..... where a passenger need to beg the taxi driver though he is being irresponsible by not wanting to use meter...

For my case now.... I need to be calm and can't scold.... because I have no choice by relying on this stupid cargo to get my cargo over to the Borneo side.......

Aaarrrgghhhhh.... what kind of service is this?

Dare to claim themselves the "World-Class-Cargo-Service".....

Service my a** la..........

Doooshhhhhhhhhhh Dooooooshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Kakiis Nite Out....

Me and my other two "kakiis" went for this party organized by Kakiis.com recently.

We felt "old" initially, because it seemed like young punks party.... but then when we saw others that are older than us.... we felt "younger" pulak.......

Bottom line, we had fun....

My guess, they want to be something like Facebook.... Tough....

The party was held here.... My first time to Euphoria, and its Smoke-Free Club. Kudos..

Nice Toilet Sign

Complimentary Beer.... only for those above 18... Gosh, they even checked our IC... and we are proud of it la.... that shows we still look young..... LOL>.....

We earned it..... not by drinking la.....

But by playing this.... "Bottles-Bowling"

And we even stick our hand into this.... EEL..... (but we didn't know what was it earlier la.... they only show it to us after the game...)

See our Happy Faces.... Because they feed us.... with nice food...

And this is our achivement..... Not bad actually.....

For BIYATCH only...

I went for dinner with few friends recently, and saw these in the MENU....

Interesting..... Guys, you can order "Pussy Juice" also eh......

And for women.... we can be Slutty Heidi too.......

Food not bad, price was also Ok.......Whoever whom want to go, buy me dinner, and I show you guys where is it.......

See, me & KH are so proud of it.....



* Biyatch means Bitch in a more polite way..... just in case anyone wondering what is it about...

Life is full of Surprises...

"Life is full of surprises..." says Mike
Yes, I agree, our Life is always full of surprises.

Things that we expects to happen doesn't happens...
Things we don't expect to happen, happened...

"But, Life is also a Journey. Its not a destination. Don't rush to just get there. We are supposed to enjoy it"

So, how should we "manage" the expectation, in order to ensure the surprises doesn't surprise us so much?

I say, its tough. This is Life. All of us are expected to face it.

A while ago, I told a friend. "Why must our life full of drama...? Why can't we just have a simple life?"
"Well, drama makes our life more interesting. Our life will became monotonous when there is no drama. And, we will start looking and wondering why our life is so boring?"
That are certainly truth to this statement. So, tell me, isn't Life Complicated?

Or rather, Life is just unpredictable. So, lets just walks it, face it and enjoy it while we are able to..

Life is short. Don't look back and ask ourselves why we did what we did. Just look forward, and do what we feel is right.

I know, its easier say than done. But, guess what, we just need to do it.

Follow the Nike's tagline.... "Just Do It!"

Right or Wrong, we are our own Judge, our own Lawyer, and also our own Victim.

All these is just part of our Life Journey. Walk it with pride. Face all the challenges and obstacles that are thrown to you. And enjoy the relationship, friendship, memories, fun, excitement, health, wealth....... and the list goes on.

See, everytime we are faced with One Problem, just think about all the Joys that we had. With that, we should feel better.

I am faced with a very challenging decision right now, and I was angry with myself and ask why am I getting myself into this situation. But then again, I look at it and think about what this had thought me, all I did was just embrace it and move on.

Just remember, Life is Full of Surprises. Don't let one problem brings you down.

Out-Of-Civilization Journey....

Our shoes when we were there.....

I went to this place called "Uncle Tan Wildlife Adventure" recently.

Why I call it a place of "out-of-civilization", because you can't have what we had taken for granted throughout the years......

1 - No TV
2 - No MOBILE connectivity
3 - No Electricity (except within 6pm - 12am where they run the generator)
4 - No "Clean" water except for drinking & cooking water which they needed to "carry" from the base camp. (yeah, i saw those eyes.... I showered using the water that came directly from the Kinabatangan River).

Uncle Tan Wildlife Adventure is located along Kinabatangan River in Sandakan. Well, if you guys had paid attention in geography class back in high-school.., Kinabatangan River should rings a bell. It is the longest river in Sabah.

Check out their website : www.uncletan.com for more info.

I won't suggest this place to people whom don't appreciates basic living or out of civilization.
Don't do it just because others did it la..., Okay. You must have passion for nature and the need to get out of civilization and to be just yourself (and few of your friends), doing nothing and hang out with strangers and listen to their stories.

We stayed in a "cage" for 2 nights, walk around in "water".... (check out the photos in my FB, cause it will tell more stories...)

I went there with another group of friends few years ago, and went again this time with EJ.

And, all we did was hang out, chill out, chit chat, fishing (or act fishing)...... and trust me, we are very satisfied for doing NOTHING BUT TALKING AND LEPAKING for those few days.....

My "contribution" to the nature... my blood. Guess the mosquitoes prefer my blood rather than the angmoh's blood.... I am a "foreigner" there anyway...

Grocerries....

This is what you buy when you live alone..... but still trying to stay "healthy".....
At least I didn't buy a box of maggie mee, right.....?

Comfort Zone

Why do we contain ourselves in the comfort zone?

Is it because we are afraid of what is outside of it?

Its the fear that put us at where we are still now.

We are just too afraid to take the next step, because not knowing what will happen outside of it.

All I say is...."Take it. Make the move. Get out from your comfort zone." This is what I told one of my closest friend a while ago.

Remember, there is only ONE THING that makes a dream impossible. Its the FEAR. The fear of failure.

Just remember, we will never know if we do not try it.
So I say, give it a shot. Give it a try. At least we know we tried, even if we failed.
At least we tried, isn't it?

I am also faced in a difficult situation now. I am in dilemma.

What path should I take?
Should I follow my gut feel and do what I feel is right?
Or should I listen to others, which seemed "politically" correct?

I am very confused now.
I am tired.
I am not sure what I should do next.

Should I step out of my comfort zone?
Which I did many times, and its proven Okay.....

Should I just take that step again now?
But I don't want to make situation worst as its already is......

Aaarrrggggghhhhhhhhhh...... I am just so L.O.S.T now......

For Once.... I became the BITCH

Well, I guess the title might shocked a few eh......

Ya, I had this experience over this long weekend recently.... and I can't help but to share this story...

What happened was..., Lan (the camp manager of the place I went...) introduces me to this boy called Robert.

"Ni girlfriend abang.... si Alex...." says Lan

"Ya ya.. Cantik tak?" asked me to the boy....

The boy gave me a weird look...... then he walks away.....

Then he went and sit at a corner, and Lan keep talking to him...

"Abang nak kahwin dengan si Alex..., Okay??" says Lan

Then the boy cried........ And I was shocked......

Apparently, he was very close with his ex-gf and also Lan, and he was very upset that Lan want to marry me instead of his ex-gf.......

Gosh.... for once, I felt like a BITCH!


But all ends well....... because Lan managed to convince the boy that he was just joking.... and the boys also like me..... :)

You are my brand of Heroin..

"You are my brand of Heroin" says one of my friend's tagline on her MSN......

And my response to her was..... "I wish I am someone's Heroin...."

Don't all of us wish?
But then, if we became someone's heroin, we will find the "addict" irritating...

Well, this is Life...... we always confuse about what we want want...... right?

Be the addict, or be the heroin???

Points to ponder over the long weekend........

Yeah.... I am going OUT OF CIVILIZATION~~~~~