Happy Glutinous Rice Ball (Tang Yuan) Day!!

Glutinous Rice ball in Chinese also called “tang yuan”. Tang Yuan day is a very important day in Chinese believes. According to my mom, it’s more important than Chinese New Year. My mom always said “come come come..eat tang yuan. After eating you are one year older”. Sometimes we will replied “huh, like that dun want to eat lor.. so we can remain our age”.. haha… For me, whether I’m a Buddhist or Christian, I’m not really particular in all these festival, as long as I just join in the fun. ;)

As usual, every year I and my sister will help to make some tang yuan. Don’t know why this year I felt a bit of excited. I enjoyed making tang yuan and looking at the rounded tang yuan I laughed and even took some pics of it. My elder sister make one tang yuan snow man and it’s so cute. Every time when we make tang yuan, everyone will sure create our own tang yuan but this year my elder sister gave command not to do it. Haha…but only her snow man can.. ;p

Here are some pictures that I’ve taken…take a look at the snow man tang yuan..isn’t it cute??

My New Office - Preliminary

Finally our new office renovation has completed. We have already started to shift our workstation bit by bit to the new place since yesterday. I was very excited with my new place and was blessed to have a room sitting with my subordinates. As I'm in-charged of the call centre, it will be good to sit with the customer service agents.

Below are some pictures that I've taken last night. It's just a preliminary pictures and once all the cubicles are up..I will post again, ya.. ;)

1. My workstation

2. The order centre

3. The managers and executives workstations

Lonely Christmas for me :(

This year will be a lonely Christmas for me. :’( My younger sis and 3rd elder sis will be going to Spore next week to celebrate Christmas. As for me, I will need to be at home with my 2nd elder sister to look after our parents. I wish I can follow them too as I have not experience having Christmas in Spore. Not only my siblings, most of my friends also going to Spore.

So, what am I going to do for Christmas??? Help!!! :(

Saloon

Today is a public holiday for Selangor. I brought my mom to saloon to get her hair permed. As usual, every time I bring my mom to saloon, instead of sitting there waiting, I might as well get a hairdo too. Since Christmas & New Year is around the corner, I decided to do something to my hair. I don’t wanna perm or cut my hair as I wanna maintain my long straightening hair. ;)

So, I went to dye my hair and highlight as well. My gosh..I was not able to accept the result at first! It was quite bright especially the highlights. I asked myself, "Steph, you are real daring". haha...

But after looking at the mirror many times, it's not that bad lah..just that I'm not used to it only. It's good to create something different. Just treat it as New Year new hairstyle. ;p

很可惜的運氣 ;(

Sigh...為甚麼要讓我知道呢?知道了又拿不到! :( 過去那兩年都沒有機會拿到lucky draw,但是這次沒有去就給我拿到.很可惜的我同事既然沒有聽到我的號碼宣佈. 今天上班我另外一个同事才告訴我我的號碼有宣佈. 不過已經太遲了. 沒有得拿了.

不是你的就不是你的啦.

又是傷心的一天

本來昨晚打算要去 company’s annual dinner. 怎知到一早老板良就叫我回去做工. 因為我們剛剛拿了一个new business. 這個生意不容易做而且每个product都很貴. 所以我們要很小心做每个processing.

我以為做多十二點多就可以回去了.因為我兩個妹妹要去saloon, 我必須要趕快回去. 不然她們不能趕到回來讓我用車. 我已經很努力很快的把工做完但是還不能做完. 時間一个小時一个小時的過, 我就很擔心, 因為妹妹一定會生氣我的. 到三點我還是不能做完. 我妹妹又打電話來了. 知到我趕不到回來她們就很生氣了說我每一次都是這樣. 完全忘記今天是我要留在家照顧媽的.

我真的很傷心,很失望. 為甚麼她們不能了解我呢? 她們以為我很想在週末里做工嗎? 我都已經很累了, 兩個星期都做工. 但是不做也不能, 畢竟這个是new business嗎? 而且也不是我自己一个人做. 我同事, 老板良和我的下屬都有來.

我只是要她們了解我, 體諒我. 如過我趕不到, 她們可以明天去saloon的. 在我心裡, 我真的很希望她們能對我說, “姐, 沒關係的, 你慢慢做,但是不要太遲回來因為你要準備去 dinner.” 很可惜的她們甚麼都沒說, 只是生氣我罷了. 你說我還有心情去dinner嗎?

我駕車回來的時后, 一邊駕一邊哭. 為甚麼我的家人總是不了解我.

My First Overseas Trip (Taiwan) – 15th Nov to 22nd Nov ‘07

I was very excited and looking forward ever since I have signed up for the Taiwan trip organized by my company. It was my first overseas trip and also my first experience sitting on the plane. Since young I have been enjoying watching the plane/helicopter flying up the sky, one after one but I have not try sitting on the plane before. That’s why this trip was kind of exciting for me.

Very unfortunately on the first day, we supposed to board a plane at 2pm and it ended up flight cancelled! Can you imagine that we have been waited from 12pm (as we need to check-in 2 hrs earlier) to 6.30pm only to know that the flight need to be cancelled due to technical problem!

All of us were so upset and especially me, as this is my first overseas trip leh!!! :-( I even got teased by my colleague saying that since I like to see airplane so much, now I got the chance to see until the next day! Haha…so bad of her. :-(

Due to the cancellation, the airlines need to arrange for our accommodation and meal for the night. We got to stay at JW Marriott Hotel in Putrajaya. It was a very beautiful hotel. So you say is this unfortunate or fortunate?

The next morning we woke up at 4am in order for us to catch the 8am flight. Waking up at this hour reminds me of the 21 days fast and pray where I need to be at church at 5.30am.

Finally I got into the plane and off we go.. I was lucky to get a window seating (actually I beg my colleague to swap the seat with me..hehe..first time mah..) but it was on the wing’s side! Sigh…but better than nothing. Almost the whole journey I was looking at the outside view and I’m really enjoying it.

It takes about 4 hrs and 10 mins to reach Taipei. As soon as we touched down, the coach was waiting for us outside the airport. And so the tour guide started to share about Taiwan and the places that we are going to visit. I wasn’t really concentrated what the tour guide is talking as I just want to enjoy the Taiwan’s scenery.

I know where we are heading but I did not know it takes so many hours to reach the destination? And furthermore the roads are terrible…up down up down the hills. I almost want to vomit if the tour guide didn’t ask for a break. It took us 7 hours to reach the destination. We have already sit on the plane for 4 hrs plus and now we need to sit on the bus for another 7 hours?? Oh man…how to stand? The whole day is wasted on the traveling and we don’t have a proper meal feed into our stomach and because of that, most of us already feeling not well and one of the elderly also vomited. It has really destroyed my mood on the first day.

Overall the trip is just OKAY. The weather was terribly cold in Taipei and the food is not very nice too. Every morning woke up at 6am to have breakfast and start our journey at 6.30am. Every morning is the same breakfast (white porridge with veges) and I’m really no appetite to eat cuz I don’t like porridge. I missed my Malaysian food. ;( My colleague felt pity on me, she said people usually put on weight when they travel but I’m the other way round…haha..

They said I chose the wrong country, I should be going to those western country where I can enjoy the western food. I guess so. That’s why now I’m planning my next year trip to Germany. Perhaps I’ll be celebrating my birthday there in Germany some time in July ‘08. Can’t wait lor…

Here are some pictures that I’ve taken throughout the journey. Some of the historical places are really beautiful too.




the three important people [driver (Nam San), Taiwan's tour guide (Alex) and Malaysia's tour leader (Daniel)]

very serious soldiers and you cant touch them or they will shoot!

this is 101 Shopping Mall not IOI Mall, okie? This is what the tour guide alwiz reminds us..haha..

the most interesting place..called Yeliu Stone Park..can you see the fairy shoes (2nd pic)? Unfortunately I didn't managed to finish the walk as it was freaking cold and drizzling!!

this is the so called "Gunung Berapi" place..

eaten by a dragon before? im goin in now to check out what's in it's stomach..haha..

Taiwan is full of temples and statues of God..almost everyday we go to temple. how i wish the tour guide can bring me to visit church one time.. ;p

guess what is this at your first glance? Fishballs?? dat was my first glance, and when I went nearer..my gosh..it's stones la.. so cute..

the 1st cultural show..i like their costumes..i meant the ladies costume ;)

and then we went to visit "Ling Zhi" factory..have not seen such big ling zhi before

The first place we went at Hua Lien..the longest journey..

This is the place where we can collect all kinds of stones...these are my colleagues crazy collecting stones after hearing the hotel owner's story.. ;p (just kidding). but the stones is not just a normal stone, it's really unique.

Taiwan is famous on Stones. This hotel owner grew rich by collecting stones.. So why are we working so hard to get rich? Go Taiwan collect stones la..haha...

Sceneries along the way..(1)

Pictures up the sky..can you see the clouds?? How awesome is God's creation!!

Pictures of Planes..