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Been so stressed up as I dun feel like doing work, dun feel like eating (although I still fill in my stomach for just the sake of I need to). The bad part about stress is my Gastric. Complete!!!

Thinking do some shopping might be able to release my stress, and I ended up went to KLCC for Isetan sales with Jensen and others. I did buy 2 tops. Eat in Manhattan Fish Market (Which is so expensive). Back home. still not feeling so happy. Not because of the outing is no fun. But because there is something is lacking, missing. I dunno what’s that.

Another part of me has been traveling far far far away land, again.

Pliz come back to me!!! Hate to find myself like this. Hopeless.

Lin ^ ^

How to make quick money? Nowadays, the answer will be: Create your own ‘organization’ and cheat other. Wonder what those ‘founder’ are thinking.

Today, a malay guy rang our door’s bell. Then Edi opened the door for him, as everybody were at their room. Then… a little while after that Edi knocked our room’s door.

Edi: Someone asked whether we want to spray our house to kill the mosquitoes. Rm. 120 a year.

Dyana n I: Hah???? (I got up from my bed and walked out to see the person)

Me: We are moving out soon, so I don’t think we need it. (speaking in Malay)

Cheater: No, every unit MUST do it. When do you move out?

Me: September (purposely make it earlier) But there is no such thing since we are here.

Cheater: Got, we had come three times but nobody’s home. But because you are moving out, then just pay Rm.60.

Me: Just now 120, 4 left four months how come become 60? Somemore not every of our housemates are here now, they are at college. Will discuss first then we will contact you.

Cheater: (Keep passing their form to us and asked us to pay.) Ask them to call our office (show their ‘office’ number) we will explain to them.

Me: (Your office means your people, call them also the same thing. When we went inseide for a while to discuss on how to ‘get rid’ of these people, he and another friends (dunno when he came) came in to our house. Shoot!!!) I’ll call the owner first. (I went inside my room to take my phone) Di, stop them there, dun let them come inside (speaking in hokkien)

Now everybody was thinking how to reject and make them give up on our units. (Except dyana who was at our room studying. She really is phlegmatic and Angel who has not yet home)

Try to call owner, but she did not picked her phone up.

Cheater: How bout just pay for this time first and I will tell office that you are moving soon.

The fourth phone call owner picked up her phone. The first thing she asked was: do they ask you to pay? (in chinese) Haha… and she said that they are cheater. She said "just tell them I don’t allow.

Me: Owner does not allow us to do it.

Cheater: This is not for owner, this is for people who live in it.

Me: But this is her house, she will sometimes come and check.

Cheater: Oh… Ok then. (Ciao)

Really is cheater.

1. He forces us to sign and pay.

2. Can lower down their offer so easily. Seems like if can’t get 120, 60 will do. Can’t get 60 30 will do. Cis =.=

3. Give up so easily. If they really are legal, they wil do it accordingly not showing that they are forcing the society to take up their service.

4. And one more thing, to make you believe they show you a picture of the process of spraying in "someone’s" house. It may be their founder’s house. Stupid. Because they are cheating that’s why they need this kind of thing to assure society, which is work vice versa.

This is the second time for our 2 years in Malaysia. Last time is something like Lottery. He asked us to scratch and we ‘accidentally’ win. YAY!!! Need to pay something. Oh yeah~~~ Of course no way. He were leaving dissapointedly. That time was two chinese guys. Can’t help.

Just be aware! This country, this world is full of cheater like them.

Lin ^ ^

Last night in the midst of busyness of dealing with final exam, the gank gathered in our house and celebrating Andrew’s Bday. That time, I was in the dining table with my Laptop on and doing something with the ‘beloved’ photoshop. Sometimes when I’m not really concentrating or rushing to finished assignment and project, my lovely doggie, Gao Xing will be there with me, so was last night.

BUT… after everybody finished with the cake, I’m done washing the dishes, I saw something wierd, My dog’s face was all white in color. There is no black spot in the middle, which was I just realize he lost his nose. AKH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wanted to show you, how cruel it is. But too bad, friendster doesn’t allow me to upload pictures. Check in my friendster public photo to see how he looks like now. Shoot! Everytime I see him, I feel like crying. He must be so in pain. T.T

Gimme back my doggie’s nose. Hiks >.<

Lin ^ ^

10 May 2008

It was the last day in Phuket. And love this day the most! Patong Beach is so Lovely =D Had been 3 days in Phuket, and had no chance to go to the beach which was just opposite the place we stayed. It could be ridiculous if we did not spend some times there, so woke up early in the morning just to went there and played.

And it was really nice, take some pictures, and this was what we did, writing my name in the sand and documented it.

Mom is always the best in giving some last touches to everything I do =)

Unfortunately, we needed to rush back as we had not yet packed and eventually needed to check out at 12.00 P.M. Packed, checked out, headed to the bus terminal, and got a van back to Hat Yai.

Arrived in Hat Yai around 10.00 P.M. No Idea where to go, there was a ladies in the same van that could speak Chinese. Yippiii… Felt so luckly, as whenever we felt lost, there was always someone came into rescue. =D She became our translator for the van’s driver, and we ended up in a hotel that close to the walking street in Hat Yai. =)

11 - 12 May 2008

The first thing to do is to decide what to do for the rest of the day. And we decided on taking a city tour. Never rush to decide, as there are lots of agents that offer the same kind of trip. Our choice falled to a travel agent that offered to visit 5 popular places in Hat Yai with only 1300 bath for 7 people. Compare with another agents that we asked, it’s very cheap! and the uncle was so kind.

Most of the places that we visited was temple, as 90% of the population in Thailand was Buddhist, it’s no wonder. The first temple was sleeping buddha temple. There is a huge sleeping buddha stupa there. Needed to recorded it down, as camera couldn’t help to capture it at once.

Then they took us to a Raynu store for shop, others shop quite lots of things. I just looked around. Regret I didn’t pick some, as I just remember I haven’t bought anything for my friends. Baka!

The next place was Songkhla, which famous for its longest bridge and beach. But don’t expect too much for the bridge, because I was so dissapointed. I thought it would be like San Fransisco bridge (Yuhuuu), in fact It is not. hehe… But the Shamila beach is really nice. There is golden mermaid sculpture there. There is a legend behind this whole mermaid thing, but the carving of the legend is so blur already. So very sorry can’t tell you. =P 

Have our seafood lunch in one of the restaurant nearby. Slurp~~~ Again, Tom Yam. Haha

And here was where I learn few other Thai Language;

- Phik = Chili

- Sawadee ka (female ) Sawadee kap (male) = Hello

- Sawadee ton chiao = good morning

- Bye = La kon

- My name is Linda = Chan che Linda (chan is used by female, for male uses ‘phom’)

- What is your name? = Khun che a lai?

Ok… Move on… We are in Guan Yin temple now. Akh!!! Lots of big big stupas there. There is Sakyamuni buddha that is located on the very high place. Planned not to go up, as my leg was very tired already, so stayed with mom and dad down there. But… the tour guide asked to hurry as if it’s raining we could not make it to other temple, four faces buddha. So, I went up there, running, to asked others to rush. Ei… I reached the top. Byur!!! the rain started to pour. T.T

I was wet, My aunt was wet, my bro was wet, and we could not make it to the other temple, and my leg almost couldn’t move, TIRED. Instead of the four faces buddha temple, the uncle took us to shop in Nora Plaza, it is the place where you can shop for bag and other things that they claimed to be from genuine animal skin, sheep, crocodile, etc etc.

And our city tour ended there. Went back to hotel, put all stuff in the room, went out for some walked in the walking street nearby. It was how the rest of our day and the next half day in Hat Yai was.

For those who like branded stuff, Thailand is not the place. Even, I myself was not really interested in their products. I just bought one T-Shirt that got the Thai writing, Ms. Songkhla. It was very very cheap, pretty good material and looks nice, bought it for 75 bath (RM.7.5 or around Rp. 22,500) only. =P

And Thailand trip ended there. Actually a bit frustated in this trip as in Phuket most of people dunno how to speak english and speak only Thai. T.T But in Hat yai it’s easier, as most of people know hokkien. But grateful that mos of people there was really kind, exclude the people who do business. Totally rude. >.<

Oh yah, when in Hat Yai, we had our lunch and dinner in one small small restaurant. In that restaurant we can see, the lady boss sticks photos of some of her customers in one corner of the restaurant. If there is next time, then we might see our pictures there =D

Lin ^ ^

The next day was when the hwet wet Thailand trip began… My parents and my sis did not join on this trip, they had their own city tour, and it looks fun (from the picture they took).

9 May 2008

Woke up early in the morning, there was someone picked us up for our phi phi island tour. He fetched us with other seven girls from Australia ( I guess) to Rassada Harbor.

The trip supposed to start at 9.30, but… there were problems with the boat’s engine. So we had to wait. And finally, the tour guide announced that we all would be travelling in two groups instead of one, and apologized for the inconvinience for waiting so long. And the trip started.

The very first place we visited was Khai Island. I like this island best from all the other islands we visited. It is not a really wide island to explore, so we were given about 45 minutes only. Some of the foreigners went down to the water and swam, others laid down their beach towel and had their sun bath. While, there were some who just walked around and took some pictures.

Finished with this island, we were back on the boat, and the rain started to pour. Piuh… The wave was so strong and we were warned not to stood up as there were some accidents in the past when there were someone who broke his hand because of this. Although it was very dangerous, it was fun. (While at the boat I dare not to say this, as I CAN’T swim)

The next place was Phi Phi Don, It was one of the Island that severely harmed by Tsunami in 2004. It wasn’t a really nice place to visit, as it had not yet well recovered after the tsunami, the beach side was not as nice as Khai island, it’s a mess here. They still put the warning board that if the sea level is higher, people are asked to go to higher land. I myself really do not like that place. But there were tourists who stayed in the hotel there. (I think that’s the only one hotel in that island) BUT…. one thing for sure, we had our lunch there. AKH!!! Tom Yam, really nice… Slurp~~~

After lunch, we had sometimes to explore the island. There were lots of empty whisky bottles (there are few bars in the beach side), and i took a piece of paper and wrote something, put it in the bottle, and then throw it to the water. The bottle came back to the beach side, throw it again, come back again. Baka. Then, I gave up, as the ang mo lang kept on looking at me, thought that I threw rubbish to the sea. Hehe

From that beach we headed for the monkey beach. The rain falled heavily, akh!!!! So Pain, it was like being shot by a bullet. Luckily we had our beach towel with us to cover our body. The sea became wilder and wilder, and it’s so cold and Fun as well.

When we came close to the monkey beach, the boat stopped in the middle, and the guide asked us to take the life jacket and mask, and asked us to jumped down to the water for snorkeling. Ak! I can’t swim, he convinced me that it’s okay. But it was NOT. I could not let my grip off my bro. Akh!!! I floated. But floated wrongly, my leg seemed like afraid of the water and wanna come out from there. Haha.. Others kept looking at me and laugh, a guy (malaysian) asked me whether I am okay. I shouted "NO! I’m not okay at all". Went back to the boat, the guy come to me, and kept smiling. SHOOT!!! Think back of all these snorkeling stuff, I always keep on smilling. And decide to LEARN to swim. Can I? Why does water always look so scary?

After that we stopped in monkey beach, and as it’s rainy the monkeys has their they off. The sand was so nice. Love it. But it’s nothing there. Have no idea why they make this place as a resort area. >.<

The next destination was Maya bay, it is the beach where Leonardo Dicaprio had his movie shooted. BUT!!! The guide told us that their partner there asked not to come, as the sea was too dangerous for our boat. And it’s how it’s canceled. I heard that it was a really nice place.  ‘ ^ ‘

Then, the guide asked us whether to continue on the trip or go back home. Others might think of safety so requested to go back. Majority won. And we are headed back to Rassada Harbor.

And you know why they give 50% off now. Because they knew the weather and roughly knew will end up like this. Or it can be vice versa, tourists knew the weather now and therefore choose not to go on the trip where we spent most of our time in the middle of the sea. So tour agents have no choice to attract more customers by giving discount. It’s business. 

Although a bit disappointed, but it’s fun to experience this kind of weather and returned back home safely. =P and that day was the day how I got all my skin burned. I’m so dark now. T_T

Lesson to Learn: Check on weather before go on the trip. Make sure it suits with your plans. If you wish to shop, don’t go anywhere when it’s rainy. If you wish to see snow, obviously go somewhere that have snow in their winter.

To be Continue…

Lin ^ ^

The trip started from 7 May 2008 and ended at 12 May 2008. 

7 May 2008

Nothing much to say on this day. As we (Dad, Mom, Aunt, Bro and I) took mid night bus to Hat Yai, Thailand before we continue another bus trip to Phuket. It was really a long long bus ride, Kuala Lumpur - Hat yai took around 8 hours.

8 May 2008

Today, Early morning we were already in Hat yai, finding for the bus to Phuket, Had our Breakfast, and around 10.30 A.M, we were once again on the Bus leaving for Phuket.

Lesson to Learn: If you ever planned to go to Phuket from Hat yai, never ever scared there is no bus. Cause you will be always able to find a bus in Hat Yai Bus station. Just take tuk tuk and tell the driver to send you to "Hat Yai Bus station", they will already know it. Because it is the only central bus station. You can get cheaper price in there, rather than you order the bus ticket through some agents, there is around 100+ Bath difference for the bus fare.  It is always much more safer where you were in big group. But Kept in Mind that there is no bus to Phuket at night. I think the last buses are around 4 in the afternoon.

Another long long bus ride to Phuket. Arrived in Phuket around 6 P.M. All of us, was quite excited. Reasons are:

- We ‘felt’ that we were arriving soon

- We didn’t know where were we exactly (as most of the people speaks only Thai language)

- We didn’t know exactly how to get to our Patong Tower Condominium from the Phuket Bus Station which is from my research is in Phang nga Rd, Phuket Town.

- We would be able to rest soon =) This was the most comforting part.

Luckly learned from mistake before the trip I had done some researches; the road, popular areas, transportation, etc. So, this time I had a small small map with me. With this map, I was able to communicate with one lady. She spoke a little bit of english. And supprisingly it’s enough. I showed her my map, and our destination, and asked her how to get there. Although she did not so sure, but she voluntary asked for taxi for us (their taxi is a private sedan they use it to carry passangers) and became translator for us.

This driver was so eager to be our tour guide. Offered to send us to phi phi island, etc etc. And he spoke english that really hard to understand. I remember he said something like "popol" which refered to people. Although we can’t understand all what he said, It’s funny though. And our first thai language is something sounds like "nong". He was asking for the way to patong tower main entrance, he called a guy "nong a nong". When I heard it, I kept on laughing, as it reminded me to one of our friends, which everybody calls him "nong nong". So bad. =P

Ok the story of the long long journey ended there. We were in Patong Tower now. Checked in. Then, we are in our lovely room. =) Glad we arrived there safely. The only problem was we can’t contacted my sister and her family that were coming from Penang. The malaysian number can’t be used, the public telephone also seemed not in our side. Then, we planned to go out to find some food for our dinner and let my sister contacted us.

The area where we stayed was nearby the central of shopping and tourist popular walking spots; Bangla Rd, Jungelyon Shopping mall, OTop, and many more. So as we stepped out of our Condo, it was quite crowded outside. But, not more than half an hour, suddenly the wind was so strong, and all the ‘ang mo lang’ (westerner) were running all over, seemed like afraid of Tsunami, as we could heard the wave from the beach was so strong and loud. It’s quite scary, but as there was nothing happened, so I could said it’s quite fun. =P

As, we afraid of heavy rain and could not go back to our condo, so we just ordered some food for take away. And first day in Thailand, I already had their Tom-Yam, Slurp~~~

And another Thai word of the day is Kho Phun Kha (used by female) and kho phun khap (for male) which means Thank You =)

After the meals we were walking around to check on their city tour for tomorrow, and we ordered a package for phi phi island trip that covered Khai Island, Loh Samah Bay, Monkey Beach, Maya Island, Phi Phi Don, Viking cave, and Pi Leh Bay for only 1400 Bath, as there was 50% off now. (will tell you why in the next post)

To be Continue…

Lin ^ ^

P.S. We finally were able to contacted my sister, and they arriving safely. Yay~~ can see my cute little niece =D

Had been 2 months my life was around Vista, APIIT, Sri Petaling, and nothing else. It’s great that I still survive =D And yesteday was like independence day for me. Yay!!!

The plan was going to the curve. Planned to depart at 10 A.M, and not suprisingly, we ended up departed at 11+. (something normal for us) It’s really a long long journey to get there, 2 hours bus ride. By the time we reached that area it’s already 1.20 P.M. HUNGRYYYYYY… Then headed to Ikea to have our lunch. Sucks!!! Others ate their ‘most favorite’ meat ball (beef), which I can’t take. So I just ate the breads. SIgh…

Done with our lunch, Jensen was so excited, he seemed to be back to nature, shop shop shop in Ikea. But, I admit that Ikea was quite fun for shopping or even merely window shopping. They do a good job in mix-matching and decorating the furniture. I took some pictures for inspiration of my dream house in near future. Haha =D

The fun part was at the section where they sell dolls. We were playig with the toys like we never had those kind of dolls before. Sigh… But it was Fun. Just Ignore the crowd and Never forget to take some picture. So by the time we all are old, we can understand why young people are acting silly, somehow. Haha (had difficulty in uploading the pictures, too bad)

Done in Ikea, time for me and Dyana to shop. Headed to Padini Concept Store, I actually like one of the Seed skirt, but left one which was not in the good condition. Sigh! We spent more than one hour there, Haha… ended up Dyana bought only one high heel, and I bought nothing T.T

Cross the skycross to the Curve. The time when we entered the building the music was On. They are welcoming us. Haha.. (just being silly, but the timing was just perfect. =P) Walking around, not much thing to see there, it’s better at night. (It reminds me to busgis Junction in Sg, *wondering why) And when dinner time came, We were heading to Kim Gary. Quite nice restaurant, so is the food. And always remember, when more than one person in the gang gather, it means Gossip. Especially Jensen and Danny, they are never out of ‘news’ to update us. Haha

Finished dinner, it’s already 8.30, needed to catch up the 9 o’clock shuttle bus, to the train station (Remember, it needs two hours to get us home). We dropped by in MNG, I actually wanna buy MNG long sleeve shirt, but… no size for the color I want. And this was how I empty handed back home. T.T

Had been so long do not play this hard, and laugh this loud, made yesterday a fun outing, Fun Day =D

Lin ^ ^

Been so lazy lately. Not used to be ssoooooooo damn free. And I’m just not good in using up my long long free time. Hate it!!!

Planning to do some exercise everyday seems very impossible, my jogging mate goes back to Indonesia. Guess wat? nobody give me a morning call. My alarm’s "snooze" option is just more attractive than the "turn off" option. So, I just cannot wake up in the morning.

Ask me "what are you doing?" will answer you straight "a lot of USELESS things." OK… Just being a bit emotional. Piuhhh… *chill* Actually, not that useless, I guess. On my mission to improve my english, figure out how do I do it? Watching movie is in my top list. Realize that my listening and vocabulary is imporving, I suppose. But tell me how should I imporve my conversation. Trying to figure it out…

I dunno what happen lately. My sprained hand is swelling, I got scratches and these blue-black spots which I have no idea how I get them in my hand and leg, I bump my head in the kitchen cabinet, my eyes are not getting any better, I still look like Panda. AKH!!!!

Holiday means nothing, what I need is Vacation, a real Vacation. Looking forward…

Lin ^ ^

Shit!!!

Pissed off >=(

Lin ^ ^

Last paper has been conquered. =)

Come back home, and the one and only plan of mine was: Watch Movie. But I run out of stock. Planned to watch online. Go to Crunchyroll, and I faced some problems with my Javascripts and Flash Media Player. Great!!! Then, as a "computer illetarate" fellow like me, as usual, so I need my technical assistant, Dyana, to help me with this. When Dyana was doing something to my computer, actually she was frying chicken ball. Then suddenly:

Andrew: Dyana, what are you cooking? it’s burning…

Dyana: Akh… put off the fire *butt is still not moving*

Andrew: Die lo… Black ball!

*I was laughing like mad, the words "black ball" just sounds so funny for me*

Dyana: *still not moving - Waiting for my dearest laptop to process the things, slow as normal*

*After a while, she walked out the room*

…
   

Dyana: Akh!!!! So black!!!

Angel: *come out from her room* Wah, Dyana, smell so good…

          *Look at the chicken ball - laughing out loud* Linda… Linda…

          see first… *still laughing*

*Whole room was full of smoke*

Me: *walk to the kitchen, and see the legendary chicken ball*

       Wakakakakakkakak

Wanna know how was it? What is so funny about it?

I think even an intellegence agency in CSI movie series will find difficulty in indentifying the origin of this "black ball". Chicken? Pig? Cattle? or Goat?

Interesting huh? It really doesnt look like the yummy chicken ball that I like to eat. Poor chicken… ball~~~ haha

Lin ^ ^