On the road again

I'm here at Prai. Penang. Work trip, as usual. Have a nice day, y'all.

Land Below The Wind

It's Monday, of another week.

I am at Kota Kinabalu. Capital City of Sabah State. Located on Borneo island. Or the other name or moniker for Sabah is 'The land below the wind'.

That's quite funny, all land are below the wind lah. Wind blows above ground right? then how come they call Sabah - Land below the wind? I'm not sure. And I don't really care.

This is the second week that I was away from home. It's getting mundane & a tiny wee bit homesick is already kicking in. The only thing that I'm looking forward to for next few days is spending good times with bunch of (crazy) officemates - hanging out after office hours with my friends and bitching about our bosses. Haha!

Last Saturday, was pure hell. Whole department has practically gathered here (bosses included) and we had sports' friendly matches. Due to lower number of us girls, I have to played PingPong, Badminton and later in the afternoon, futsal too. What a crap I am! I was soo out of stamina and breathing like a tired dog in no time! my skills are nothing to shout about and basically, I was sucks.Big time. But hey! luckily, it was just friendlies, and most of us have not been in sports attire for many months (if not years!)

Moral of the story, go back and start work out, chah! exercise and better yet, hit the gym. Oh, I know, there's one gym located about 300 metres from my cubicle at office. perhaps, I could climb up the Mount Kinabalu, one day?

Pic credit from internet

Listen : Forget you - Cee Lo

On the road again

Memories could bring tears to your eyes, y'know. It hit you back and suddenly you remember almost clearly as yesterday of what had happened few years back. Especially when you visit and be again at a place where you've been before. You're reminded of that moments, the people you're with and things you did. But now, all that left are memories in your head. Currently, I'm at Kuching and being here reminds me of many people that I actually kinda missed but didn't realized, until I'm here and see the familiar places we've been to. Weird? or not.

Grand Margherita Hotel from Kg Gersik. View from across the Kuching Waterfront.

Listen: Grenade - Bruno Mars

My December

Geez, would you forgive me for my lack of blogging lately?

You see, things got a bit hectic. What's with works and also work-related thingy that had gone and eat up some of the weekends too. Arck! I'll write more soon, if and when I manage to instill some orders into this chaos life of mine. Haha!

Enjoy this sunset picture. It's my favourite time of a day.

sunset @ Labuan Harbour

Listen : Terrified - Katherine Mcphee

Trivial Tuesday

Hi Y'all..

I feel such a strong urge to pack my bag and leave. Can't wait til Thursday. In the mean time,

lets enjoy some random pictures of the hotel room where we stayed here at labuan & also KK (last weekend)

these are images of Labuan Warerfront Hotel

A cozy corner. I like.

Sony flat screen. not too shabby, eh?

And these are images of Imperial International Kota Kinabalu

room come wit free sleeping beauty :P that's my friend.

View of Kota Kinabalu Harbour from our room

More pictures coming soon!

Listen : The way you are ~ Bruno Mars

Island Life..is not for me!

Owh! I miss writing here. I miss bloghopping. yes! I miss you! (err.. even if nobody miss reading me here haha)

But anyway, I 'm currently out of the office and have been on Labuan island since last week. All I can say about Island life is : Boringgg! haha. Seriously, for an island this size, nothing much to see and definitely not many places that you can go too! so it's strictly work, work & work for me and the other 2 colleagues of mine. But if you think that I only thought of 'work matter' all the time, then by golly, you don't know me well, my friend.

I made a quick trip by ferry to Kota Kinabalu via (Menumbok port) last Friday with my colleague. We followed a local staff who was going back to KK to visit his family and we spent 2 nights at a hotel in KK for a short shopping trip & managed to met up with old friends there. The ferry ride on Friday night was smooth (it's a huge ferry - one where all sort of vehicles can came on board) and very stable. You didn't even feel the waves the fact that we bought and swallowed seasick pill (Novomin) right before the journey made us laughed! (and drowsy to the point where we fell asleep even before the ferry take off). After 1 and half hour, we reached Menumbok (a very-very small town) and continue the journey by road for 2 hours to reach KK. Luckily our friend is driving a cool and very comfortable car, so I didn't feel the hours at all. By Sunday afternoon, we were back in Labuan. and here I am. Dreading the next few days before I'm off to Peninsular Malaysia again.

p/s: The only comfort being here is that : Prices for (imported) chocolates are dirty cheap! and Liquor & ciggarettes too.

Dream away

I had a weird dream recently. No, nothing's dirty about it :) in case you're wondering haha.

Right,

So I woke up (in my dream) because I felt kind of strong wind, sea breeze blowing to my face. Then, while still closing my eyes, I can hear the sound of waves lapping to the shore and birds chirping. I knew I am somewhere near the sea, on a beach precisely. But I'm positive that I've never been to one like this before. The smells of the saltwater hits my nose and my skin/face affirms that I'm indeed sleeping by the sea, you know the feeling of getting the 'salt on your skin'. I'm under a shady spot of many trees there and I think I'm alone, but I don't feel afraid or freak out, more like enjoying the moments and languishing the afternoon away. Then my alarm shattered all the bliss!Sheesh!

Dream aside, I will be happy to wake up on a place like this!

This is Mataking Island off the eastern coast of Sabah state (Malaysia have 2 states on Borneo Island - Sabah & Sarawak, while the rest of Borneo belongs to Indonesia & a little bit of Brunei). Would love to go to this island again and feast my eyes on the turquiose water, feel the calm and tranquility of the place. It really relaxing, I tell you that. Maybe my next trip there will see me embark on one thing that I wish I'd tried/take up/learn long time ago. Scuba Diving. For more on this lovely little charm island, go visit http://www.mataking.com/

Toodles.

Listen: The Sweetest Thing - U2