Buka Puasa @ Tony Roma's KL Pavillion

For someone who does not puasa to go and pack a restaurant and dine in with people who have not eaten the whole time the sun was in the sky. But it was a bit different this time because, i went with my colleagues and we just got our extra money, so in a way its a kind of celebration cum outing.

The restaurant that we went to in KL Pavillion

The appetizer served was hard as rock

Roma's Asian Salad

Stirloin Chicken, 6 pieces of them altogether, ordered by a female colleague *sweat*

Rosemary Chicken

Roma's something sandwich (beef)

Another angle of the beef sandwich

My colleagues minus the cameraman


The missing cameraman (above) with his lovely girlfriend

Some promoter girl in KL Pavillion

Main atrium of KL Pavillion

Some interesting ad to be shown during the month of Ramadhan :p

I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing

For those who know me well, im not a person who have a good memory. It really a great effort to have something etched into my mind. I famously told many people that i could forget something with just a 180º turn. Yeah its crazy!

Yesterday on my way back home, this first (a surpising fact for a band in existance for some 20 odd years already) number 1 hit by Aerosmith was playing and surprisingly i could sing along with missing a beat/word/breath. IIRC i loved this song when i first heard it. Until now it remains one of my best loved songs though i would admit that i could never sing it on karaoke, its too high pitched for me despite not sounding so.

The lyrics of Aerosmith - I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing:

I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you're far away and dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
(takes a deep breath)
Well, every moment spent with you
Is a moment I treasure

I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing

Lying close to you
Feeling your heart beating
And I'm wondering what you're dreaming
Wondering if its me you're seeing
And then I kiss your eyes and thank God we're together
And I just wanna stay with you
In this moment forever, forever and ever

I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing

I don't wanna miss one smile
I don't wanna miss one kiss
Well, I just wanna be with you
Right here with you, just like this
I just wanna hold you close
I feel your heart so close to mine
And just stay here in this moment
For all the rest of time
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah..............................

Don't wanna close my eyes
Don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
'Cause I'd still miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing

(begin crazy style part)
I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing

Don't wanna close my eyes
Don't wanna fall asleep, yeah
I don't wanna miss a thing

Got NBTD?

First off, i think its best to explain wtf does NBTD means for those who have got no clue. NBTD basically means Nothing Better To Do. So for some office workers they would understand this term as it suggests, if you've got NBTD then for most it means that you are in some kinda shit coz you have to pretend to have SBTD (Something BTD) OR at least pretend that you are not NBTD.

Well for me, i really got NBTD as i have just moved to another unit and there is only 1 task for now. To get the project on roll and kick-off so we can get the ball rolling. BUT, the meeting/discussion can only be scheduled next week and therefore i have NBTD to do until then. SIGH, the down side of being in a big company like me is that even if you have NBTD, you can't show it. So i have to open underlaying programs to make me seem like im making VERY GOOD use of Google to do my work.

I have done my research much faster than i thought i would so now i have to find SBTD else im gonna be questioned. So for those who are NBTD and have ventured to my humble lame page, please feel free to make enjoy the few links (found below "My Friend's Blogs" section) which i have "StumbledUpon" using a Firefox extension aptly named StumbleUpon :D

If you are still an IE user then boohoo for you :p Click here for their homepage. Enjoy stumbling LOL.

HOLY SHIT OMG WTF??? o.0"

I was doing some late night clean up on my things. Rearranging my important documents into a newly bought file. Yeah after a few years of working only i realize that filing is important :p OK back to the part where i was flipping through the documents. I looked at my past education results, my UPSR, PMR and SPM. All of those were just as i remembered them, not the best and far from worse =D

When i reached my Uni results, i was shocked to find my final semester result to be amazingly very low GPA *sweat*. I tried to think back how the fuck did i manage to get such a low score and not remember jack shit about it??? My sem 1 to 7 results were above 3.0 and most of the time nearer to 3.5 but to find my final sem to be in the region of 2.3 almost made me have a sleepless night, well there may be other factors like a neighbour's external light which shines brightly into my room.

It feels as though i just went to collect my result and ignored the result completely because i don't remember anything about me being upset or even feeling down about. Thinking back perhaps its because that it was the final sem so the the effects of the low GPA does not really have a huge effect on my overall CPA which was still above 3.0. Thankfully i have tried to keep my earlier sems GPAs high.

I don't have much certs come to think of it. Though my company does send me out and get trainings which gives out a usually beautiful cert but i don't have many, and im done counting with just 1 palm. Sigh, have i lost the certs or im not using too much training funds which has been allocated? I remember i spilt coffee on of the cert but i can't find it back to arrange it into my file.

Older AGAIN???

Although i believe i have mentioned this for the umpteenth time but again i feel that i have to reiterate. Im getting old again. I would say that my previous years i am more happy than i am this year. Not because no one celebrated with me or no one remembered but deep in my heart i have a sensation that something is amiss or wrong.

In a way, you can say that i was unhappy. Not because of the fact that i had to pay for my own birthday celebration with my family, not because i did not get a great present, not because of anything that anyone else does. There was this uneasiness in me which i cannot put my finger on or figure out.

Well what to do, sometimes in life you do get shortchanged and all. What you wish for or wanted like usual doesn't materialize, just like what Christians (no pun intended) like to say that you are not on Earth to enjoy life but to suffer, so you are to endure hardships and so and so forth before you get to enjoy Heaven.

Expect the unexpected are what most leaders/visionaries would say but if everything were so easy to be expected then nothing would go wrong, no? I thought that i have finally got my break and got what i wanted after a long wait but in the end, as my ex-boss would always love to say, "Finally there is light at the end of the tunnel". I saw the light diminished and having to start from square 0 (yes not square 1). Sigh how many challenges can a person endure? When i thought i finally got a break, i was reseted to an ever worse base to begin again.

"What can't kill you makes your stronger"? Sounds nice ain't it? Well it may be true to some extent but there only so much a person can take/endure. I have now finally decided to follow through with a plan which i thought i would not use so fast but like i said, im running out of choices and im not getting any younger to start from nothing again. There are so many things at stake, that i would prefer to start from another base instead of having to build the same hope/vision which is looking VERY dim now. I have thought to myself, if i were to start again, why not try to start better with a change scenery if possible. Maybe it can lead to another better light at the end of a very dark tunnel.

I really do need a break, nothing is going right. To all my friends who are helping me, thank you very much.

P/S : I really do sound like im not making much sense don't i? I am really rather lost and down at the moment. Please, "Let there be light"

My recent company trip to Damai Laut

Last weekend, my company sponsored an almost 1k per person trip for about 400 IS staff to Damai Laut. Here are some of the pictures i took with my V3xx. Since im sick and tired of waiting for my colleague to filter his part of the pictures, so im gonna post mine first.

The room with 2 single beds for male staff, while females get queen size

Another angle of the room

The closet + basin area, different than your normal hotels where its usually inside the washroom

On the balcony, looking to my right @ about 3pm

On the balcony, looking to my left

View of the fields where our teambuilding games were played

Early morning the next day @ 7.15am

Another field

The beach soccer + basketball field

A better view of the fields

The beach volleyball field

During my stay i did not have the opportunity to find out who was my neighbor. On the last day, when we opened the door, to my surprise, it was one of the very few cute girls found in IS department. T_T Twas a sad fact indeed.

Overall, i would say that this trip was more tiring than a much needed holiday. But, since its free and a breakaway from work + 1 free compensation leave, i would not complain so much.

Dé·jà vu

Well im not here to critisize another movie again, though as usual this is another movie i skipped :p . Just the other day, i had the sensation of Dé·jà vu when my boss was trying to tell my colleague of a situation. I can remember clearly not too long ago that i was in that very similar situation where he was sitting in that exact chair, my colleague at that angle sitting on my another colleague's chair talking practically the same topic. That was the third time i felt that situation happen. Is the Matrix resetting itself or something???

What made me post this was again another sensation of Dé·jà vu during my company trip to Damai Laut. Though this time, its a bit different. The weather was correct, the speed of the vehicle was correct, the color of the houses and signboards were all the same but i was on a bus rather than a car. Even when im supposed to be resting im getting delusional. But this second case is more explainable i suppose, its not my first trip down that stretch of the road though i cannot recall when was my last trip.

Sigh maybe these are caused by my absent-mindedness and lack of brain cells to keep in memory of what i have experienced before. When i had the sensation, my brain would be playing back a dream-like scene of what is happening there and then.

Since im into the new financial year, which means that my leave quota have been reseted and i do believe that im in need of a rest. I will be taking some day offs since i have carried forward something like 7 days from the previous year and have until end of September to clear it. If only my wife had more leave quotas, perhaps then i could plan for a better and more relaxing trip.