戴佩妮 - 防空洞

听到易桀齐的世纪末的烟火让我想起这首歌。原以为是Penny写的，因为歌词和Penny的防空洞一样，超有画面的。这两位来自马来西亚的唱作人我都非常喜欢，他们的作品都很容易让我感动。

戴佩妮 - 防空洞
作词：戴佩妮　作曲：戴佩妮　编曲：吴庆隆
还记得那一次你将你的手
小心的放进我的口袋 轻声的说不要颤抖
还记得那一次你擦干我的泪
还坚持将我低下的头 紧紧的贴进你的胸口
我有多久没感动过 若不是你那么强烈的保护我
若不是你的那一句 你有的不多
却愿意把最好的都留给我
你要我住进你心里的防空洞
不让无谓的思绪暗涌
再多分扰也都没有用
你决定了我所有的喜怒哀愁
你把我带到一个停泊的港口 让回忆可以避避风
仰望着夜空 听潮起潮落
为你我不再向往着漂流

易桀齐 - 世纪末烟火

这不是新歌，但今天听了两遍次。好喜欢这首歌的旋律。。。世纪末的烟火 - 非常美丽的意境。。。

易桀齐 - 世纪末烟火
词曲:易桀齐

本来会是两个人
在这热闹的黄昏
手牵着手一路是美丽天色
河堤旁看烟火

蜂涌般的人群之中
头顶上璀璨的光芒
我们高高的举起双手
好像为幸福在呐喊
那一年的夏

牵你的手去看一场烟火
捂住耳朵你躲入我怀中
那些感动留在心中像一点光
回忆翻涌还是响亮

牵你的手去看一场烟火
它曾经把我天空都划破
满天光火在这个夏末抢去寂寞的风头
那世纪末的烟火

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Besides building... I saw some beautiful scenery too...

Sun set at paddy field
on the way from Sitiawan to Teluk Intan

Shadow of my car

HaPpY nEw YeAr!!

太阳下山明早依旧爬上来。。。
黑暗的尽头是光明
咬紧牙根撑过去，美好的将来就等着你
够 positive 吧!

Buildings in Ipoh

Everything has back to normal now... at least can spend more time with family and friends. Yes, back to KL after my last station of the marathon - Perak...

On Christmas, I manage to finish my work earlier, besides eating Ipoh Tauge Chicken for dinner, I spent some time walking around the town and these were what I saw - beautiful & unique buildings...

Railway Station
a bit similar to the one in KL

Some part of the building has turned to a hotel

This is the famous Aun Kheng Lim Salted Chicken shop

The famous dim sum restaurant
My operator said, the dim sum export to Hong Kong too... wow

The other entrance of Restaurant Fu San

Heard of salty herbal tea?
I tried that once... nice or not? I can say, it's all depends

Wow, this is real antique - Jubilee Park
Too young to know what is this? It's old-time cinema

Shaw brothers (Ipoh) Sdn Bdh
I think this is related to the boss who own HK TVB
In KL, we have Shaw Parade too

Like my friend, Timin, said, sometimes, traveling around, although for it is for work, is memorable too... at least I get to see all these beautiful things.

My lonely 2008 Christmas

Christmas this year was a memorable one, because I was all alone in Ipoh, working... Not to mention, my Christmas countdown happened in Ipoh too, alone also.

I worked until about 10.30pm in one of my centre, has a simple gift exchange with them then I went back to the hotel, showered, drove out again, hoping I can experience a little merry Christmas with the local.

End up I was too tired and lazy to get down, I just drove around the town, saw some youngsters celebrating with friends in some cafe, restaurants, bistro... and finally when it was officially entering Christmas, I drove back to hotel and sleep. That's my countdown night.

The next day, got up early, continue my stock audit in centres and I have decided to give myself a good treat, dinner at Lou Wong Restaurant which served Tauge Ayam Kuetiau (this was written on the signboard) aka beansprout, chicken and Kuetiau rice noodle.

Not even 6pm, the restaurant has jam-packed with people

The busy kitchen

My delicious dinner

The smoothest chicken in town
(omg, looking at the photo, I already feel like eating it again)

The fat fat beansprout
The beansprout is different, it is juicier and "fatter", ehehhe, this is due to they use fresh mountain water for the bean to sprout

At least the dinner has made my Christmas to be a merrier one, I even bought a pack of my favourite Twisty back to the hotel for my supper. But after finishing the pack, I fell asleep while my tv was still on. That's basically my "merry merry Christmas, lonely lonely Christmas"...

Kota Bahru Trip

Almost come to an end to my outstation stock audit marathon, Kota Bahru (KB) was my 2nd last place and that was the only trip I took flight instead of driving. Frankly speaking, I never been to Kelantan, not to mention Kota Bahru. A bit nervous because language barrier is my biggest worries. I do not speak very fluent Bahasa and in Kelantan, they have special slang in their Bahasa too.

I took the earliest flight (7.45am) of AirAsia to KB this time. You know what? I got to get up at 4am, airport limo came at 5am and I reached LCCT at 6.00am. Don't ask me why I want to check in so early, it's totally not what I want, just that, I understand the driver drives extremely "save" and that day he took the new KL-Putrajaya Highway, so, I reached there earlier. I even fell asleep while waiting to be on board.

The flight depart on time, according to the itinerary, I should be reaching KB at 8.40am but, don't know due to what, the flight landed earlier too. My operator asked me to called her when I arrived. So, I thought she might took some time to pick me, but after clearing my lugage, her car was right in front of the entrance. She was telling me, her house is only 10 minutes from the airport.

That was really really early and all the shopping mall, of course including her centre in Pantai Timur Hypermarket are still not open yet. So, she brought me eat breakfast first. FYI, I do not has a Malay friend, and besides than nasi lemak, roti chanai, I know nothing about Malay food. She introduced nasi dagang to me. The rice is actually brown rice, which is healthier (just an excuse to make myself feel less guity because that was my 2nd breakfast). And I found out that, the food isn't cheap there.

For lunch, I ate pizza because I wasn't hungry until 4pm and during that hour, nothing except fast food is available. At night, I ate pretty late too, my operator brought me to eat those local food like ginger chicken, fried eel with dried chilli padi, tomyam (KB is very near to Thailand, so you can tell, the tomyam is real delicious) and some other vege. Yum... a bit hot, for most of the food, but really delicious.

My dad called me and asked me to get 2 pieces of Batik from KB (places like KB which majority of the population is Malay has more variety of Batik), so, my operator purposely drove me to this local market which sell Batik at a more reasonable price.

The market is next to the King's Palace, and in front of the palace, there's this little building:

Guess what? It's the first bank in KB. The local people called it Bank Pitis. It is very very tiny, I think the building can only fit in 2 person, the most.
(Pitis = in ancient time, they called money as Pitis)

A musuem on the other side of the Palace

The gate of the King's Palace
The gate is very tall, so, can't really see how's the palace look like.

Actually the Batik that they sell in the market is different from what my mom wants. My mom wants the Batik which she can made top that she usually wears at home. The Batiks selling in the market there are very good in quality and very classy. A piece of Batik (400metre) can costs up to few hundreds.
Because I didn't want to waste my operator's effort for driving me there, end up, I bought 2 smaller pieces and both of them cost RM250. When I come back, although my parents were saying I bought the wrong thing, wasting money this and that, but I know, deep from their heart, they are happy too, especially my mom.

Although KB is not a city as well developed as KL, but look at their airport... it's even prettier and more organize than LCCT. Don't you think so?

Oh, before I forget, when I was sitting in the flight going to KB, the sun has just risen and when I looked down, some of the areas, which were filled with water (I think they are either paddy field or the land was covered with water due to flood) reflet the sunlight and they seems like a lot of mirrors on the floor, so pretty. But I was too blur at that hour, I didn't take any picture of that scene.

So, when I was flying back, I had my camera with me, but the mirror mirror on the floor can't be seen, too bad.

But the cloud is very nice...

After visiting to KB, it has changed my view to this place, I thought people living in KB are quite conservative, but after spending time with them, I think they are quite open and friendly too, when I first heard them speaking Malay with their slang, I thought they were speaking Korean, hahaha, and I think in KB is a safer place compare to some other big cities like KL, JB.
Those are my impressions to KB and of course I wish I can stay there longer to experience their simple life.

Penang Island Trip

Back to marathon...
This time came to Penang Island... yeah, went to find Lingtze, I Leen and Brian... and met a KL friend there (both KL lang busy working in KL and can only meet in Penang Island, funny...)
Before the actually audit, I went 2 days earlier with another friend of mine, Timin, spent a bit of time travelling and eating around the island, and Ah Leng Char Koay Teow is a MUST.

See, the char koay teow got big big prawn and "lai liu ha", somemore this is fried with duck egg, not chicken egg. yumm~~

Then we girls went for a movie - twilight
it's a great...... disappointment for us... Lingtze said the books are nicer.

Then while we were walking in the mall, we saw this... one of the Chinese art

I don't think it's edible, althought it's a candy
because, 1stly, hygienic issue, 2ndly color of the candy is a bit out.

I'm not a good planner... each time when I went to a place, I didn't make any reservation for my accommodation. 1stly, I'm too lazy to do that, 2ndly, I change my mind easily. So usually I will walk in.
This time, I walked in to G Hotel, initially I was thinking to stay in Gurney Hotel, then my operator miss led me saying that Gurney Hotel aka G Hotel, so, when I asked my friend to drop me there to make a booking, then only I realised it's a new 5 stars hotel... rate is super expensive, way beyond my budget, but of course the hotel is very very nice...


The christmas tree in the middle of G Hotel's lobby
Creative!


Ginger bread hanging on the tree



me, Timin & Lingtze


G Hotel's lobby


What's wrong with us? Kept biting the ornament on Christmas tree?


This is the Christmas tree in Gurney Plaza new wing

After the short break, have to go back to the reality - work!