Melbourne...and the story goes...

Marshal's home sweet home

Day 1

The next day, we woke up and we saw two lil cute kiddo...Victoria and Ethan! Wow...they were so adorable. You just feel like pinching them on their cheek! Victoria was quite shy...It took us quite some time before she can be familiar with us. And...by evening..the real kiddos were alive! They were so playful. Me and sweetheart just couldn't catch up with them! What a shame for us!haha

11.15am - City Life Church

Brother Paul, Ellina's husband then came over and took us to City Life chuch!

Amazing Sunday service. It was quite a big church.

12.30pm - Pho Huong Viet

Then Marshal and family took us to a Vietnamese restaurant.

Dear ordered "Broken Rice" while I ordered "Special Beef Noodle". It was fantastic! Even the rice paper prawn roll tasted so good!

Special Beef Noodle Entree Size

6.30pm - Dinner at home.

Chinese-styled dinner prepared by Sophia's mother, Aunty Jennifer. Simply delicious!

We then played with the kids, Victoria and Ethan before Marshal took us to a park

nearby.

7.30pm - Abbey Walk (fed the ducks)

Abbey Walk

Day 2

11.30am - Sherbrooke

Brother Paul took us to Sherbrooke to feed birds such as cockatoo and rosellas. The

Cockatoo was pretty dangerous.

Me feeding the Rosellas and the Cockatoo

12.15pm - The Lolly's

We bought soem candies there. Oh yeah, they do not call candies as sweets over

there. They named it as lollies.

Bought few packet of lollies from The Sweets

12.30pm - We then walked to take-away some pies from the famous "Pie In The Sky" for lunch.

We ordered Vegetable Pastie and Tandoori Chicken Pie.

Me and dear just ordered two pies

Outside the shop

1.00pm - We went on to board the Puffing Billy Steam Train in Mount Dandenong. It was rather

chilly on that day.

The one and only Steam Train - The Puffing Billy

Me and Peter

2.00pm - We reached the Lakeside Emerald. We walked along parks to enjoy the cooling

scenery.

3.00pm - Brother Paul and Ellina took to to the famous Ms Marples tea house to enjoy some

waffle, scones and Devonshire tea! Oww...fantastic!

The Famous Ms Marples.Tea.House.

We ordered waffles, scones and Devonshire tea

All thanks to Brother Paul and Ellina, not forgetting Baby Jordan

Do take note of Jordan's trademark- smile

4.30pm - Brother Paul dropped us at Knox City Shopping Mall for a walk.

Did I told you guys that the shopping complexes there closed at 5.00pm. What?? Something which I am still leaning to adapt.

5.10pm - Dinner at Ellina's place at Scoreby

Brother Paul and Ellina's wonderful house

Melbourne....

while waiting to board the flight

Hello guys....I'm back from my two weeks vacation in Melbourne, Australia.

I just landed in Malaysia today. My trip was from 14th November 2009 until 26th November 2009. The time spent over there was fantastic!

I took a Yoyo bus from Syuen Hotel to LCCT at 4.00am...Thank God me and dear can make it in time cos we were late for bout 5 minutes! The bus driver was so nice to have waited for us...anyway there were only two of us to pick-up from there! =P We then headed straight to Bercham to pick-up other passengers. We reached LCCT quite early. We just hang around and had an early breakfast at McD. We checked in and the adventures began...

Departure time: 1.30pm

Speed: 870km/hr

Altitude: 35,000 feet

Outside Air: -45.4 F

The seats were the non-reclining seat. Dear was getting very uncomfortable...Anyway...what to expect from low-cost carrier right?

We were pretty excited but it rained right before we were in the plane.

Thank God we bought some magazines to read as to kill the 8 hours flight time. Then it was lunch time...We ordered meals from the flight and mind if I say they were pretty expensive.

RM4 for a small bottle of mineral water? RM6 for a Mamee cup noodle??Oh gosh...I can even buy a whole packet of cup noodles! Ok..it is not that I don't know..just to find a place to crap!hehe

So Dear ordered Pak Nasser's Malaysian Nasi Lemak which costs RM12 while I ordered Mamee Cup Noodle which costs RM6. The reason I ordered noodle was simply because it was cool in the flight...I need some hot soup to warm my body. Not to forget a bottle of mineral water (which costs RM4) as we were greatly dehydrated. My noodle was normal..anyway what special taste can one get from cup noodle right?haha

Pak Nasser's Malaysian Nasi Lemak

Mamee Cup Noodle -Vegetarian Flavour

As for dear...the rice was ok...not bad but the amount was so little...I just don't think it was ever enough for dear..so he ate some of my noodle...as you can see here

I ate his rice as well...

We were then hungry when it comes to 7.10pm...

Alright...dinner time...we ordered Big Bruce's Smokey BBQ Chicken and Mamee Cup Noodle.

Big Bruce's Smokey BBQ Chicken

Mamee Cup Noodle - Curry Flavour

That kept us until 12.05am (Australia time; Malaysia: 10.05am). We landed at Melbourne Airport. We had an "interviewing" session with the immigration officers there before they allowed us in.

Ellina & Marshal came and picked us up from the airport. It took about an hour from the airport to Vermont. We unpacked our belongings and stayed in Marshal's house. We were so blessed as Marshal and his wife, Sophia prepared a room for us to stay. We then dozed off...

~A New eXperIeNCe~

I have been MIA for quite some time. A lot of things has happened in my life for the past one month I would say. I have changed my job and bought a new car just to name a few.

Things have been quite tough for me in the beginning. Imagine someone from a banking industry changed to education!Wow...everyone was shocked...and that includes myself! When I think back, I felt the same thing too when I first started working in a bank after I graduated. Life is really full of mystery and unexpected God's will.

Although I was challenged emotionally...I walk in the ways of the Lord. It was windy and patchy at the beginning of my new path. I really wanted to take this opportunity to thank my boyfriend and sponsor for guiding me and helping me through the very difficult moment. I chose to walk in courage, faith and love. It has always been these three factors that motivates me all along...even until now. I want to be the one to take the path and let my life be a living testimony to all.

Apart from that, I just bought a new car recently. So you guys can imagine that life has been very different for me.

After all...I am learning to trust in Him. Btw, I will be leaving to Melbourne on the 14th Nov to 26th Nov. So I will update my journal over here once I am back.

Till then.

God bless.

~Paintball Challenge~

Bonjour!!

Last weekend was a long holiday...So I went to Gopeng together with my friends from young adult cell to "kill" each other!!

Hehe...What I am trying to say here is that we went to Sungai Jahang in Gopeng for a Paintball game.

On our way to Sungai Jahang, Gopeng

Heys, that was my first time ever playing paintball!! I was excited and kinda nervous at the same time!! I always heard feedback from people that it is real painful...and you will ended up with bruises/blue-black mark on the body...So why do I still insist to go...as usual....wanna have fun

The journey from Simpang Pulai to Gopeng took us bout 20 minutes. I always thought Gopeng is very far but I was definely wrong!! But the journey to the paintball zone is quite secluded. After all it was a game in a real jungle!! Wow...just by reminiscing makes me excited once again!!

Getting equipped for battle!! The jacket stinks!!

My Team

Ready to ice opponent

There were about 20 of us. We had so much fun. Two games with 100 pallets for each...each team will have the chance to be Defender and Attacker! What's your final quest?? If you wanna know....then come and join us...

Let's get dirrty and adventurous guys!! Do not be surprised if you are bitten by weird and giant bugs! Hehe...there I go again...exagerating.

Look at the pallets left after my first round

Aiming at the helmet..

This was quite heavy

Quickly run...I might accidentally pulled the trigger!!

Group photo together with Marshalls

I'm going for another war on this Sat...guess I'm the only girl...lets FIGHT!! =)

~RUnNing FOr reAL~

Hello my friends!!

As some of you might know that I joined the Ipoh International Run 2009. This was the second time I took part so far! The first time was when I was 18. I still remember it was a sort-of "farewell" for me as I was about to leave Malaysia. In fact it was a decision to quit my studies. Anyway it was a long story! =)

Well, on the 4th July 2009, I woke up as early as 4.45am just to prepare myself. Guess what...it was raining cats and dogs! Oh no....How to run?? Dear and I persevered and we went ahead. We picked up two youth before heading directly to stadium. We reached there about 615am and it was still raining.

We just prayed that the rain will stop. We waited in the car for about 20 minutes. Finally we had no choice but to run down as the reporting time was until 6.45am. I was thinking...."rain..rain...go away...come again some other day..."

All the competitors waited until 7am and they started to make noise. We were 15 minutes behind the proposed flag-off time. I saw a lot of professional runners. They were no other than the Blacks...dear saw a national walker and iron man...just to name a few

Dear and I were shocked when we found out that there were about 2000++ participants for men open's category while 600++ for women open's category! Our chances to wince were shattered. To be honest, I never expect myself to win anything...a cert also seems almost impossible to me! Me and dear were supporting each other...Come on....JUST DO IT!!

Even the rain was heavy, that did not stopped all the participants to run...We ran...ran..and ran. Within 5 minutes, dear was out of my sight. He can run =) Aiks, that doesn't mean I can't! =P

I ran as long as my feet can carry me...Guess what...God is so good... He gave me strength and the fighting spirit...Check it out...I ran 10 km without even stopping for a second! Forget the water they provided along the route...The Lord asked me to keep moving forward! I obeyed...and I completed the run within 80 minutes. I took about an hour plus. I was at the 81 position! I was so shocked and happy at the same time. Darling was so proud of me.

However, dear was not that fortunate. He completed the run within 50 minutes and yet he did not receive anything. The competition was so stiff with all the male runners. He was competing with 2000++ runners.

I received a certificate and a medal. I can smell the sweetness of victory. It was not that I was trying to prove that I was great..but deep down I did it with because of God...

We then went back to clean-up before heading to church for the second service.

It was fun and we enjoyed it so much!!

As for now....see you guys!!

~Ipoh Starwalk 2009~

Can't help but to taste cereal + milk...

Look at the participants!!

Me at the Starting Point

Me fiddling with my running tag


Hello guys....It has been a long time since I last scribble something here...I always disappear and reappear?? lol Anyway, a lot has happened for the past few months...this time I just wanna share my experience in Starwalk 2009.

Star walk is an event organized yearly by The Star paper. As for this year, it was in conjunction with Ipoh city's 21st Anniversary Celebration. This was my second year of 'starwalking". =)

I joined last year with J and I make it a point to join every year since. Starwalk is a 10km walk around Ipoh city. I woke up as early as 5.15am to get myself prepared and i reached Stadium at 6.30am. The crowd was there even before we stepped in the reporting center. It was kind of tiring while walking for this distance but I make it a point to complete it...at least within the time me n j set up for me. A 10km walk within 60 mins? Hell...we thought we can do it...Guess what...we only managed to walk 5 km within an hour. We were only halfway! No way...not giving up....we just kept walking. As for your information, the cut-off time was 100 mins...we were trying to be hero!!hehe

Alas....I managed to complete it. I took 1 hour 33 minutes and 43 seconds. Kinda of bad right? But I really tried my best. Guess what, for my category (Women Open), I finished at the 16th place. I was given a tag. I was a bit curious and eventually I found out that the card will entitled me to a medal if I can get into top 15. And that means....I have to hope that there will be people disqualified so I can get a price??!!

Me and J waited for an hour and yet the result has yet to be finalised. We finally gave up as we were both tired, hungry, and were rushing to attend father's day celebration in church. In the end we were like 45 minutes late for church...but I don't think I miss much. Later I received a message from the officer-in-charge stating that I am not entitled for any prize. Within a minute I received another message saying there was a mistake..I won, 15th place.

What to think??...Of course I am happy! Generally it was fun and it is a good event to get everyone exercise at the same time....time to get sweaty girls!! See you guys next year and may more people will join the fun. I will do better next year...hopefully =)

~One Night Only...~

Hello guys!! Wow...when was the last time I scribble here??ermm...i know it was few months back.

Heys, as some of my friends may know..we just had our 43rd PBB Central Region's Anniversary Dinner. Our theme for this year was "Sizzle & Dazzle". If you were there, you might know what I mean. Our costumes were fantastic. Glittering and colourful.Can I say outrageous??!

Well, Tan Sri's Chairman visit to our region was the first time ever for me! Some asked me, "Am I excited?" Well, definely! It was like a broadway musical with choreographer from Kl who came all the way to teach us. I was involved in the Staff & Manager's Performance.

I was involved in Scene 5, Dreamgirls. My first reaction was,"What??DREAMGIRLS??...Ain't that a Diva's performance??" I can't imagine myself singing and dancing like Beyonce! Me?? I don't think so! I was really frustrated in the beginning as I couldn't get the steps right. I really thought of just giving up. I am not a professional dancer after all. My friends and my boyfriend were there to encourage me. I really thank God for all having them in my life. Or else I would not be blogging here and telling you how much I enjoyed myself! I got to know many other colleagues from different branches too.

Guess what...our guest for that night were Harith Iskandar and Douglos Lim! Man,..I love both of them! Douglos's voice was amazing!!

Dreamgirls - my costume

Me and the frontman of Cabaret

Dreamgirls with Gan, our beloved choreographer!!

Dreamgirls with our another beloved choreographer, Omar

Dreamgirls on stage

Yeah..."One night only....this is not the Grammy.. this is the Central Region's Anniversary show...saluting our founder and chairman, Tan Sri Teh Hong Piow for his exceptional leadership and direction. Thank you Tan Sri Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, let's put your hands together for the cabaret, maniacs, footloose, and fame!! And for the first time ever from Sitiawan, Dynamics from Hairspray. Last but not least, the phantom of the opera, my fair lady and the melodious............Dreamgirls!!!"