Dinner in Holiday Villa & Skytrex in Shah Alam

I haven't been back to Melaka, now for 2 weeks straight. Not a record breaking feat but it's toilling on my dirty pile of laundry. Another week I can compete with the Mount Tahan in Pahang.(Everest means I drama too much). Enough of my laundry that I hope will be taken care by end of next week!Its high up in my To-do list now. Minus the alarming height in my room, last weekend has been an weekend to be joyed for and going green.

Saturday 8am, I should have been on my uncle's couch in Subang instead I was still on bed in PJ. Late!Rushing, I threw everything reachable into my bag (as usual I forgot my toothbrush!) and took the LRT to Kelana Jaya. Boarded the bus to Sunway Pyramid(Between I boarded the same bus twice since I missed Sunway stop and the bus took another route to Kelana Jaya.How me!) and a cab to Court 10, USJ, my uncle's place. I was supposed to attend Janet's wedding in Kajang before proceeding to her wedding bash in Subang's Holiday Villa. But, a small change of plan, I missed her wedding and I only got to attend the dinner in Holiday Villa. Boy, was it grand!The decoration was lovely, the crowd was beautiful and per table costs jaw dropping RM900. Almost RM40000 for food only!!How much was the ballroom? The decoration? The photographer? Making my head spin here! Anyway Janet looked so beautiful. I mean really a beautiful and shy bride. The only thing she uttered for her bride speech was "Thank you all for coming". Enough to bring the whole hall down with laughters. Her cute first dance with her husband. The funny stories their families shared. Everything was in place for an almost perfect dinner. And not forgetting the noisy bunch from NGA. Gosh I missed them! For the record I was the only indian not in saree while all the non-indians were!hehehe...Sexy tummy bearing Recco, Charis and Poh Yee, you guys rocked in sarees! The food was great espcially the ladoos. Once back home, I ended up gossiping till the wee hours of the morning with my aunt Thevaki-ma. Catching up old stories and new ones as well.

Morning. With heavy lids, my uncle drove me to Karen's house. Being the ultra punctual people, we ended up loitering in Roop's car waiting for others in Sunway Pyramid bus stop. Once the usual and non-usual suspects arrived we made our way to Taman Pertanian Shah Alam. Roops did her F1 stunts without actually knowing the way. We had to resolve to madly hand-gesturing her the way from back. Prema almost killed a motorist and would have created massive jam with a potential accident on her hand. And her only reply 'When?No I didnt?!'.One important note to everyone..If I am your GPS device, gosh you fell for the best marketing ploy ever in the century. Except for the great packaging, I'm a disgrace to the word D.I.R.E.C.T.I.O.N. So stop asking me the way even if I have been there like a 100 times!! There's a reason why I don't drive.Got it?

It was such a clear lovely Sunday for some activities on top the trees. We geared up, given safety briefing and a short tryout stint at 3 meter height. The wobbly horizontal ladder walk was scary! Miss Prema screamed her lung out doing the flying fox. At the 3 meters height?Then we were brought to the real deal. Only one could climb the scarily wobbly vertical ladder hanging at the height of 17m at a time. So the lot of us were camwhoring waiting for our turn. The only thing going through my head climbing the ladder was"Just get your butt on the platform!Not Planning to fall 10 m down on my butt!Move it!" Finally on the platform, we went through the obstacles. My personal favourite was Flying Fox!! The worst was the zig-zag ladder. Swinging bars(Hema got herself hurt here) ,netwalk, ropewalk was cool. I chickened out though in the middle. I had no strength left to do the Tarzan obstacle. Sorry dude!I rather fox fly myself to the next platform then see my imprint on the tree bark. The activity actually made my fear of height somehow lesser.

By the time all of us were done, the clouds got darker. Thank god we picked the morning slot.All of us enjoyed some cone ice-cream before heading off for late lunch in SS15 Subang when it rained. That marked the end yet another adventure. and beginning of another episode of body aches. I wonder if I'm up to do the Extreme package...22m vertical ladder hike..hmmm..

Hunggama in Melaka!

Who would have thought, I would be able to create such an hunggama in Melaka with a phone call from Subang!(Something I expected though...hehehe...but I thought my parents would be immune to the bombs that I throw towards their direction by now!)Hungama for sure when I broke the news that I 'll be going to Melbourne, Ausie for holidays end of August later this year.

Myself : Appa, I'm going Ausie..Melbourne in August...

Appa : What? Melbourne? Office sending you? why?

Myself : Not officela..I'm going for holidaysla..1 week..bought ticket dy...AirAsia promotion(promoting AirAsia okey=P)...Auguuu...

Appa : (cutting me...) What holidays? why? Wait!...Are you kidding? I'm looking groom here for you here..you nicely going around holidaying...

Myself : What? what's that got to do with me going holidays?...I bought tickets, pa...

Appa : You should been born as a boy instead of a girl..going around so much...even the boys are staying at home...you..you..I don't know (my mum in the background going what?what? what she saying? why she must keep on giving us headaches????....your daughter la!...blablabla...she doesnt even know what the conversation was about=P.)

Myself: (Amused by now)..Pa..come on..I mean like its not like I'm migratting..H.O.L.I.D.A.Y.S...I wanna see places...things & people...aiyah you know all that...

Appa : Yes..yes..do whatever you want...you will anyway...we'll talk about it later when you're home...

Hahahaha...will you get mad or amused with the situation now? I was amused actually...I know my parents are worried since I'm a girl. Don't ask why?Its how indian parents with daughter will act. For a pair of indian parents, they are quite cool with everything I do(or they know that talking me out of something is beyond anyone's capability).And I know how much trust they have in me and how much they love me, especially my dad. But the question is, how going to Melbourne and a groom has any connection at all. Left me in bewilderment. How you put them in the same category at all...even next to each other. In a way it damn funny.(I pissed my mum off  when she called me back because of laughing at it. So I shall address the issue with little maturity I capable of.) Obviously, I'm going to end up with someone that will understand me and accept me the way I  am. Someone who needs  to know there are somethings in my life that I won't change,some principles, my  life's goal and the way I live it won't change. Why wouldn't I? By God, I'm not going to change for anyone. I didn't change for 25 years for anyone. I doubt I will in the next 25 years...Why do I need RM30-40 thousand to go some place. Why should I wait till I'm older,married and with kids to go somewhere. At that time, everything will be different. The same things that I do now will be so different then.

One thing for sure..I'm going Melbourne....=)...with my parents especially my dad blessing..kononla=P

(P/S : Gotta get my passport though..)

Twit...Twit...Twitter!

I vowed to myself I'm not joining anymore social networking sites...I already have handful of them that I haven't logged in for a year or more. Better be proclaimed as R.I.P in peace; joining social networking profile graveyard.  All the hype about Twitter being the latest internet frenzy...Trendy micro blogging. I have known people who tweet but another status updating site...arghh I wasn't prepared for it!I got no time!Blablablabla...How different can it be from facebooking? Okay after all the mental drama, curiosity still got the better of me today (after resisting for a year plus), I finally signed up for  a Twitter account. Curiosity is going to be the death of me, I say. Mind you, you talking to a girl who sprayed fire extinguisher at a group of unsuspecting customer at a restaurant. Just so she knows how it works. Maybe that's the reason behind my choice of JOB as well. Tester!I breakdown and investigate how a product works, in the process gaining the wrath of the developers for ruining their 'perfect' baby. Even though, in actual sense we are all in the same team. Lets talk about my grudge bearing job another time and focus on tweeting. Right, I have successfully created an account. The next step is? Finding friends to follow and and gain followers and and and....I'm left bewildered...Nightmare!All over again!every time you join a new social site, the biggest problem is to find friends. The battle has begin to collect followers and to follow others. The toughest task in creating a profile. No one wants to end up looking like a loser without followers aka friends. Well at least I will know what Tweeter has for me, I wouldn't be death of my curiosity. One minute...why is that I  am getting Overcapacity tweets every time I 'm trying to update my profile...that many  Twitters around? Oh yah...if you have an account graciously I'm inviting you to add me PiriaTharshini
So lets get started!

Ladies Night Out...DAte Night...

Seems like its been ages since I met Karen. I think the last time was last week Friday which is considered relative eons ago!You are  my girlfriend of every freaking colour I can find in the hues. Roops you were sorely missed at tonights outing. Screw HSBC extra hours every time we plan ad-hoc meet-ups like this. And thanks to everyone, I piling on the weights faster than you can say 'FAT'.How wouldn't I , with all the lunches and dinners I have been pigging out without remorse. Guess my forbidden love for food cannot be separated for very long...Yummy yummy look at my tummy! 

Back to our ladies night out (More than two, plural is allowed though two girls isn't your typical ladies night out). Out of sudden,passing by Shushi King, we were craving for sushi. so we ended up at their doorstep. Advice to restaurant managers, don't mess with two hungry girls especially if you ask us to wait with empty tables and 20 imaginary customers queuing up in front and behind us. How difficult is it to get a table at an uncrowded place Thank the shushis that made us wait, though you got the better end of our sarcasms. And thank god the shushis didn't come from the kitchen. Or else I guess we would be eating something adorned with special ingredients. Olalala!delicious sushi..colourful yummy shushi...so many choices alas I have to have my chopstick flying around. Sometimes it seems being a Klutz is in my DNA makeshift.

A&W for lunch. Full meal with a ROOTBEER float

Sushi KING

If it wasn't for the lack of  variety & time, We could have gone on and on

  Feeding Frenzy?Karen more like Shushi King Promoter

 Should I? Shouldn't I?, I shouldn't have bothered. Karen being no help

After dinner, we loitered around GSC for the halls to open. Quarter way into the movie, someone released 'petai' smelling for everyone to enjoy. Thanks, its always great pleasure to know someone had 'petai' for dinner and shared the news with everyone silently but efficiently. The movie, 'Date Night' left me in tears; laughing so hard. Hilarious moments. Not your average slapstick humours that has been plaguing most rom-com flicks leaving bad taste. How do they keep straight faces saying those lines!!! Eg

Steve Carrel(to the mob boss): You Zip your vagina!

Tina Fey : When he said vagina, he meant your face...

hahahahahaha....Omg I had a good laugh today!

Its not all about having what You want, Its having what You need and realising it!=)

Everyday I walk past Starbucks on my way to work.Never once I stopped to just sit,have a casual drink and surf the net(why waste since they providing free wifi service=P). Even before this, I love to hangout in Starbucks but never alone. But today finally, I decided 'Okey lets hangout there!how bad can it be hanging out by yourself at your favourite joint?'. Well to tell the truth it's not bad at all. I'm enjoying having a me time. After a long time, I'm comfortable with being alone by myself and not afraid of missing out on something. Life had never been better. I realise this, sitting here in Starbucks with my favourite Chocolate Chip Cream topped with whipped cream. Ok don't start counting the calories, its a once in while indulgence I enjoy=P. Everything I cherish is right here with me;my family, my friends, my job and importantly myself. I might not have all that I wanted but I sure have all that I needed. Long ago, I might I have moaned I don't like what I saw in my life. But later I learned to seek, see and appreciate what I had in the past and look forward for what is waiting for me in the future with enthusiasm; be it good or bad. It's all how you perceive things right. Someone, that barely knows me told me I beamed like I'm on the top of the world. I might not be at top of the world but I'm happy for what waits me there and what I have down here at the base of the mountain. Is there anything I want to change in my life...Nah!why would I? even the most unpleasant encounters in my life had been experiences that taught me about me and the people around me. 

Maybe this wont last forever. Its not everyday you wake up feeling like you're on top of the world and troubles are too far to be clawing at you. But till then, why bother? Analysing every minute details of life is waste. To worry, the chance of happiness will never appear is waste. To worry that troubles are just by the next corner is waste. To be bugged by what had happened in the past is waste. To live life for the moment is great Its not all about having what You want or moaning about what you never got, Its having what You need and realising it!=)

Kameraman,Monkey,BrokenDam,Kepala ikan,DoubleDecker...Rolling rapids...Yeah!!

Saturday 17 April 2010...730 am we are already at Sungai Buloh R&R, waking up as early as 530 to start our journey to Gopeng for white water rafting!!Level 2/3...mind you the only thing I can do in water is float like a dead frog!! Thanks to Mr.Vick and his hotRod, we were late, though he made us chase his car at approximately 160 kmph till the Gopeng Tol after that! We reached Gua Tempurung around 1030am.Loitered around while waiting for our pickup vehicle. Guess what was our a pickup vehicle? A lorry!without hood that can fit 20 crazy people. By God!all of us looked like smuggled cows in the back of the lorry. And that's the proof!It took another 25 minutes before we reached the Kampar River, a long dusty ride,which we called the land rafting as we went through some seriously bumpy kampung roads.

After gearing up and some paddle-concussions, we were given briefing  on basic safety precautions. We learned a few of  rafting jargons, Quick photo session with our gears and paddles, we were divided to groups of five...Vick,Yuva, Kast, Roops and Me were in one group. We carried the raft to the river bank and were required to body raft through the first rapid. Great!I can 't swim to save myself even with a life-jacket=P and the first rapid looked errr...dangerous?

                          The current pulls you and its like going down an invisible slide with water gushing around you!Uncool part was the rocks though...especially if your bum hits so hard its bruising the next day. My bum was numb with pain from the hit. I thought I pulled my right thigh muscles. One by one, each went through the first rapid with someone trying to save his drowning shoes.

We were on our rafts paddling towards the next rapids with the guide Jusili, from Kundasang, Sabah briefing us. He had a mouthful of questions to answer(mainly Roops, Kast and Me who were busier shooting him questions rather than paddling). Whenever he shouts 'Jump Jump'', we had to jump on our place till the stucked raft moves forward. But what if one shouts 'Jump Jump Forward'. How do you jump and paddle?We did, at least the other 4 did...I was just laughing hard at them while trying to jump and paddle.

We reached the 'Double Decker' where he shouted Boom Boom!...We were supposed to hurdle together but instead we were falling into each other in the raft and laughing our butts off..Even the guide was thrust forward into the pile of laughing-beings because he got so distracted with our antics. Safely out of the rapid, we were told to capsize our own raft. We did and I was stuck under the raft instead of outside.The guide had to pull me out.  He even fell off while trying to overturned the raft, distracted by Kast's scream,.We were quite a handfull bunch to handle.Once we were in the raft, Roops was pulled back into the water by another guide and I got further head concussions from  Mani .We were given  15 minutes break  after the next rapid. Time to wreck revenges! I managed to pull mani into the water before jumping into our raft for safety. And kicked Mani off our raft when he came back for his own revenge. Finally, we were required to chain bodyraft through the last rapid...everyone managed to choke each other.

Lunch was buffet style beside the lake with tea in Ipoh. Kast, Prema and me went around Ipoh's little india, window shopping. Prema got the attention of the town when every passing car honked and whistled at her hot pink mini skirt. Guess they don't get that a lot there=P. With still half the day to our leisure, we decided to take our chance with the drizzling rain to drive to the Sg.Klah hotspring in Sungkai. The GPS owners can throw their device into the drain since we had to stop to ask for direction anyway. RM10 for entry was a killer for a hotspring but the clerks were sweet talked into selling the senior citizen tickets RM7. After dinner at Bidor, with aching body, bruising butt and contented heart we left for KL.

An ABCD Saturday!

I always wondered, the SPA entrance exam for Government jobs are very difficult that's why there are so many people failing to get into the second phase and sometimes succeeding only after few tryings. But, given the chance to sit for the exam on Saturday, 10.4.2010, I seriously in-doubt on how the selection is done. It comes down to not just your knowledge,problem solving skills and writing essays but there are different aspects taken into account as well. Because, if truly it's just the exam, then everyone will be moving into second phase without much problem because the question are not even your basic form five standard. Its just that sometimes you have not enough time to finish the number of question given with the amount of time provided. I only thought the essay part was tad bit difficult, seriously it seems like eons ago I wrote a malay language essay. Half way writing, I realised my ideas are coming out in English and I'm having difficulty in translating them.UuhHoo!!Big trouble!And I'm asked to write 300 to 500 words. Arghh!Nightmare!Once your out of practise writing, its so difficult to get back into the flow of writting. Part II of the exam where you have to answer almost 430 objective questions in 40 minutes which almost broke my arm, filling up the OMR form...I was literally crying and cursing the person who came with the idea of the second part!And the questions are more physcology-based on your personality and your interest. So all day long I was going A..B..C..D..B..C..A..D..E.....

Basically, I was really reluctant to go for the exam. Half of the reason, I know I'm not going to get into the second phase even before I sat for it.(Come on be real!=P)..The other half, if somehow out of miracle, if I got through the screening process, I have a higher chance of actually getting the job and my Dad going to make sure I don't slack-off in the second phase(My parents have high regards on government job since both  are government servants).  Which then leads to a job I can't reject and will be wearing boring formal attires even worst uniform(custom and immigration departments do wear uniforms right?)every single day for the rest of my 30 years plus service. And that is all I need, to go screaming and bang my head to the wall!! I even thought of flunking on purpose to minimise the already minimal chances. But then, I said okay lets just give it a try.Its not like your going to get it anyway=P. At least I wouldn't feel guilty for not trying. And my Saturday wouldn't be a complete waste of time! And waste of my mum's effort on preparing my exam tools..hehehe..she bought my brother and me new pens,2B pencils,eraser and sharpener.Just like when we used to sit for public exams during our schooling time. It sure brought back some memories=P.

when the day gets boring and its 1st of April...what you think I did?

It's April Fool's day. I decided to be a good matured girl by not joining the day everyone made each other a fool. But, that didn't workout not as I planned. Because the day was getting so boring and uneventful(NOBODY ACTUALLY PRANKED ME!!!suprise!suprise!) so I decide why don't I have fun of my own and noone has to know(hmmm..at least the people in my office=P).

Actually, I never planned to follow through my goal of the day to be a good matured girl.If not I wouldn't have been thinking of it all day long(the ballom which was incidently and conviniently in my bag for quite some time.). I just thought lets give it a try though. No harm right to try. As usual its just another attempt in character molding that led to failure=P.

So, I brought this ballon(remember incidently and conviniently) to the toilet, sat in one of the cubicles(I didn't plan my victims,just random people). I waited(didn't have to for very long since its a office building people are consistently going in and out of the toilet). So when I heard the cubicles being occupied, I started to blow my balloon and waited for the perfect moment to release them. In the process, releasing weird noises like one is having the most terrible stomache with the loudest gas bomb!Immediately, the was total silence in the whole toilet. Just me trying to hold my laugh. I don't want anyone to know it was me. What if its one my officemates!hehehehe...I don't want them to how demented I am!

So before somebody actually come looking for me in the toilet, I decided I had enough fun for the day. I flushed the balloon waited for the toilet to me empty and walked away with the most innocent face on the earth. Sitting on my desk, writing this entry since I cannot stop grinning,afraid I might just burst laughing out loud if I keep it with me. I have already shared this with Ayu who might just be laughing her head off at her desk in NGA.

Okey, that's all for now. HAPPY APRIL FOOL's everyone. Be the one fooled or the one who fooled, nothing else inbetween.