Terminator at Home

This actually happened yesterday evening. Everyone at home just finished dinner except me. I just started on my porridge, eating very slowly. Had my drink and watermelon waiting for me. Then my grandmother asked for the Ridsect aerosol.

INSTANT REACTION:

My mom and aunt went out to the living room to grab edible stuff in. I covered the food, grabbed my drink and plate into the computer room. Uncle turned on the huge fan. All this happened within instants of my grandmother taking the aerosol and heading out to the living room where the main victim was.

Everyone in the house scurried away faster than the mosquitoe. xD And we weren’t even at the living room where the main target was at. We were all in the dining room, all spreading out to other rooms away from contamination. xD

It was so funny, I just had to type it out. xD xD xD

When my grandmother came back in, she asked where was everyone. xD xD xD All hilang diri.

^^

Oh yes, I missed out something from the previous blog entry. I forgot to mention the results of going for that 8am-2pm trip to the park. If I pull up my sleeves now, I can see a very obvious two tone on my arms. Even my face looks tanned. ^^' Oops... =p

Day Trip to Taman Botani Shah Alam

It has several other names as well such as Taman Pertanian Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam, Taman Pertanian Malaysia, Taman Botanic Negara, etc. *shrugs* That’s the way it is...

Anyway, was introduced to this park by a nature-loving-friend (you know who you are ;) ). ^^ Got up at 7am this morning, drove over to his house, hopped into his car and went to the park. There were many people around, mainly on school expeditions, family trips, day trip with friends, etc. Got our entrance tickets (yes, you have to pay. But it’s a very small sum, no worries. =) ) and entered into the unknown~

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Ok la. It’s not THAT scary...just...take note of the following whenever you set out to a place you’ve either NEVER BEEN TO, DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT or JUST DON’T REMEMBER MUCH:
 

1. Pack necessities. For example, food and water, tissue, etc. Sometimes even the most ridiculous stuff can come in handy but don’t over pack either, like bring your whole house. That’s just too much. ^^’
2. Get yourself a guide/map of the place you’re heading to, and the way to and fro your original departure place to your destination.
3. Get a contact number of someone who is in charge of the place or friends/family members who is familiar with the area. This is especially so if you’re going ALONE.

There may be more, but these are the few I remember at the moment.

So, what’s so special about the park or more like why did I go so far just to exercise? Because.....my bicycle is gone, my uncle’s bicycle can’t be use and THEY RENT BICYCLES TO PARK VISITORS!!! Woohoo!!!! Long time never ride already. xD

Many people were queuing up to rent their own bicycles. Here’s a note, because they charge rental by hourly usage. They issue you a ticket along with the bicycle of your choice on a condition they hold your something to identify you (normally your IC). I suggest you use your driving license instead. It’s safer.

After we got the bicycle (we only took one since only one of us knew how to ride...thank goodness it was only one anyway, you’ll figure out later why) we followed the crowd up a hill and wherever the road led us to. It was a long way with many uphills and downhills. So it was quite tiring but bearable.

We saw some people doing “flying-fox”s and other adventurous stuff. It looked really cool! But I believe it’s quite expensive. Oo Oh, you get to watch people facing and overcoming acrophobia (fear of heights). ^^’ The encouragements giving to them by their fellow friends are quite funny to listen to as well. xD “Be a man!” xD

So we carried on along the road, went on straight until we hit a dead end, detoured, hit another dead end (see why we need the map now?), back tracked and major detour. This detour....fuuuh....feels so difficult thinking about it. The hill sloped so steep that it was so tiring to even push the bicycle up (that's why I said luckily we only took one bicycle). That whole detour was really exhausting. It was so far, we were hungry, water in low supply and we were desperate to see civilization.

Then finally we saw a group of cyclers. We decided to go check out a dam....but there was nothing there. Another uphill climb and onwards to find more civilisation. (I hope I’m getting my sequence of events right. @@) We went pass some zoo like area and came to a sign that clearly indicates “EXIT”.

Although exhausted, I dragged my friend to continue on with the road to see other stuff. xD Poor fella. Luckily we got a drink at a nearby stall. Amd we also saw a sign that leads us to our other original goal for the day: The 4 Seasons House...or some similar name. Here’s the irony..it’s suppose to be an indoor garden with an actual seasonal weather. In Malaysia, we always have Summer....and we went to visit SUMMER!! X.x Something really wrong with us.... But we went in anyway, no regrets. xD

Inside the 4 Season place - part of it

Nice flowers~

More flowers!

The plants were beautiful and the temperature...although a little dry, it was like “Canada” according to my friend. xD The set back...is when a whole crowd of noisy primary students storm in when space is not plentiful to begin with. Someone go read the sign board outside that says how many people are allowed in PER SESSION before you come in! Grrr...

Anyway, that was our last area we went to in the park. We gave up totally after that and headed back to return the bicycle and go grab some decent lunch...or whatever is seemingly available. Would we go back? Hm...maybe, but not so soon....not after today. x.x

In my opnion, the whole experience was...not too bad. I now know where I can go to for cycling and an interesting 4 season place. Maybe I’ll try the “flying-fox” stuff next time. =p Also, visit the other dam. Hope it's better. ‘Til then...Zzzzz....

Office 'Roach + Chawan Dinner = 2 Separate Things On An Ordinarily Boring Day

Yes, yes...I'd not been updating frequently enough... Yada yada yada... Zzzzz....

So let's down to business!

Let's start with the cockroach first. =p Get rid of the ickiest thing first right?

Today's my second day of restarting work after a long grueling study break which mainly consisted of a daily routine of 12 hours STARING at a book. So I'm trying to get back my work enthusiasm...I sooooo feel like slacking. = =

I don't remember if I mentioned but office was shifted to my boss's house months back (I'm sure I'd mentioned it before somewhere)....and going to shift again soon. xD It feels oddly uncomfortable at times working in a home-office vibes more Home than Office. It just doesn't really give you the right feeling to get you going. It's almost like bringing work back home. Not fun. Worse, it's NOT YOUR HOME.

Anyway, I went to the washroom.  I seriously have to admit, the house is really clean in a way as it doesn't have much furniture (in fact, I'd never sighted a television or couch). So technically, the washroom looks clean and nice too. And it has the most important thing...tissue!

Here..is what went wrong. First, the tissue holder...it's almost like it doesn't want to let go of the tissue for your use. Nevermind that. The tissue holder is almost next to your face. Now you jerk the tissue, next thing you find is a frantic cockroach scurrying out from behind the tissue, across the wall in front of you and down next to your legs before it goes behind the pail next to the sink.

Let me just stop here. Breathe people...breathe! ^^

Second topic is not so bad, ok? xD

I was invited to have dinner with an elderly friend I met during the course of my business challenge. He always reminded me of my mom's friend due to some similarities. In short, a nice and soft-spoken who knows his stuff really well.

Throughout the 1.5hours of dinner-chat (although he did 85% of the talking. Sorry I didn't say much! >.<), I heard good stories about his life and his work. He mentioned that he almost died each time he retired (a total of 3). Makes me wonder if he ever dares to retire again. Haha Probably God's drastic hint of "Get back to work!". ;) Well, everyone is here for a reason.

Then in between talking, a salesman came over trying to sell us perfume! He got us to try it (although I know it's risky). It's suppose to be some natural stuff whereby it smells different on each person. When I smelled it on my hand, I almost burst out laughing! It smelt like "Fung Yau" (ubat urut)!!! xD xD xD But I didn't tell the guy. Later the smell changed anyway. Still... xD xD xD ^^

Back to seriousness, I learnt something today:
 

"Do not focus on the problem. Focus on the strenghts to solve the problem." ~ Elderly friend (I'll put your name here if it's ok with you. But I'll leave it as it is until you say it's ok to do so. ^^)

There also other stuff that I learnt but that was the main one. My friend, if you're reading this, thank you very much for sharing. =)