Tasik Kenyir

6 hours worth of drive.... takes us that long to get there. Yea the sound of driving such long hours may be a drag....but one thing for sure I can say....the view.... SPECTACULAR.... The experience.... Well WORTH it. Trust me on this people.

Here's some proof to show that it's really worth it...

Still not convince? Here's one more.


Anyways, this place is like I said, 6-7 hours drive away from KL and it's situated in the state of Terengganu. It's like on top of the mountains and there you'll find Kenyir.

Kenyir Lake is the largest man-made lake in Southeast Asia. Sharing its border with Kelantan in the west and Pahang in the south. This immense lake also serve as another gateway to Taman Negara. The lake covers 260 km² and contains 340 small islands, which were once hiltops and highlands, more than 14 waterfalls, numerous rapids and rivers. Because the lake is a reservoir, the water level can vary depending on the month. The water level is highest (and the lake consequently the most beautiful) in March and April.

OK OK so instead of wasting your time reading Geography and History of this place, let me share with you the pictures that we have taken.

The dead trees that made Kenyir famous for. It's known as Kayu mati in our local language but somehow, On of our friends called it Kayu Maut which literally translates as Deadly Wood. =.="

Another view of the calm waters and creates reflection of the mountains.

This is one of the caves that the tour brought us to. It's called Gua Bewah. Bewah means to gather. Apparently during the early days of 300BC, the cavemen gathers in this cave to shelter from the open. Any other activities during the so called gathering, we do not know :p I have no idea what are they hiding from but the Archeologies found traces of human bones inside this cave.... And there was proof that this whole area way back before was under the ocean. They found traces of sea shells within the rocks that they dug up. There's a room actually inside in which they uset o display the evidence they found within the cave.

From the entrance of the cave, there's a a view to the lake in which it's shown below :p

After Gua Bewah, we continue heading to the next cave to see from the outside only :(
Apparently the whole cave is flooded by the water level and it's only accessible during the month of August till October only... Sigh...

Other than that, during the next day we woke up pretty early in the morning like 6am just to watch the sunrise and capture some pics then. The view?? you'll see :p

Beautiful isn't it? Oh before I forget, this is the place where we stayed...

It's a 4 star villa in which they have chalets in which it looks like a studio apartment. Pretty impressive setup in my opinion. Looks expensive but during Matta fair, we bought the stay for like RM198 for a night in which it has buy 1 night free 1 night stay promotion...

After the 3 days trip in Kenyir our short holiday has come to an end. We checked out at 12pm and started heading towards a small town called Kemaman. Eileen said that there's a very tasty nasi beriani and a shop in which rumors has it that that's where coffee had started in malaysia.

Nasi Beriani.... Below is the coffee shop.

After having our lunch and coffee, it's finally time to start heading back to KL. another 6 hours back to home sweet home.

On our way back we actually passed Cherating beach so we stopped by for a few photoshoots and to have a cooling coconute drink. I will post those pictures later on another post along with our group photos.

Trust me, if you're a nature freak like us, you'll definitely love going for this trip.

What Happened to Recordedmoments???

Dammit it's been so long since I've been able to have any time sparred to write anything in my blog. Work has even come to a point where it's everywhere in my mind.

What should I do???

Never mind, just let me babble something spontaneously just for fucks sake.

As I have read back my older posts, It occurs to me that all my past experience is just a mere recognition of the previous me. I have changed. No doubt in my body size =.=" but as well as the way I start to think.

As people start to age, we would realize that the past us are just mere memories of what we used to be. That's all the reason I've started this blog in the first place.



Back in those days, was never a weekend I would miss hitting the clubs and local bars to have a good time with my mates and all. We could bring ourselves to go all out till the morning sun warmth starts hitting our tired faces. Well not really tired though and furthermore we could continue till the afternoon strikes us and end up scouring the house for a place to rest LOL.



On weekdays, my mates and I will be going out for dinners... realize the plural i placed on dinner? It's mainly coz we could never stop on 1 place for food. Usually we would hop on the car and then start looking for other places for a drink and chill. Now this is what I would call living life on the fast track.

However, when you get older and career starts to prioritize in your mindset, your whole lifestyle completely changes. You would put in so much effort regardless it's emotional, mental or even physical, you would go the extra mile with what you got on your career. This often makes us tired as hell by the time we're off from work.

By the time you reach home, you would feel the weight of your day's labour hovering on your shoulder and you would just call it quits and call it an early night off.

Well this is just my perception. Other reality is well.... we're just getting older LOL

I know some of you would just pfft at me or even laugh at this statement that I do agree I'm getting older. This is what I call life. It's not that I do not enjoy life as I used to anymore but in a way, I'm happy that where my hard work has gotten my career thus far.

It has been fruitful though just I would need a couple more years to be where I actually want to be in the corporate ladder hence I have to act fast :p

Look at where I am now, career wise, I'm a manager...well those days when people see you as a manager, they would go like "Waaa.... good life huh you?"

To be entirely honest with you, being a manager DOES NOT mean that you have a better life than any executives out there. Yes no doubt you get to push people around from time to time, but hey at the end of the day, the higher your position is, the more responsibilities you have to bear on your shoulders.

Like what Spiderman Movie said.... "With great powers comes great responsibilities!"
It's a true fact....Chew on that...

Desperado??

Has romance become such a desperate thing for us nowadays?

Even in Matta fair there are agencies trying to hook people up together.
This proves that people in the city these days concentrates too hard on work and literally have no time for a little romance or even a little fun.

Or could we look at another angle and say that the companies we work for these days are giving us more and more jobs until we couldn't finish therefore we utterly have no time for socializing with others.

Hmm really something to ponder....

Za Dao pt.2

There was once Eileen and I were watching a movie on DVD and here goes our conversation...

Me: Tomorrow...... *Silent*
Eileen: *waiting for answer for about 10 mins* Are you going to continue that sentence?
Me: Did I say anything?
Eileen: You said tomorrow..... then nothing already.
Me: Really ah? wow... I didn't know I said anything at all...

I was suppose to say something however, The movie caught my attention and made me forget what I wanted to say...

Very good example of my short term memory lost.... >.<

Za Dao....

My GF told me a joke today.... and this is how it went...

GF: Hey you wanna hear a joke or not?
Me: What?
GF: In China got a lot of people ma........ *silent*
Me: ...... wow .......

Both end up laughing happily ever after.

Sekian Terima Kasih...

My Personality based on a Company's Predictive Index Test.

Last week I had to take a PI test from a company to evaluate my personality for a job and here's the result that I've gotten...

Strongest Behavior

Calvin's PI Pattern has a very narrow width, so his behaviors are moderate in their expression.

While moderate, Calvin will most strongly express the following behaviors:

• Relatively quick in connecting to others; he's reasonably open and sharing of himself. Builds and leverages relationships to get work done.
• Fluent, enthusiastic, and comparatively frequent in communication; a motivator who pays attention to others' point of view.
• Collaborative; works with and through others. focused on team cohesion, dynamics and interpersonal relations.
• Productivity in driving to reach his goals while moving in a faster-than-average pace. Inquisitive about the world around him.
• Relatively independent in taking action on his own ideas. Resourcefully works around most obstacles blocking completion of what he wants to accomplish.
• Eager of results, his drive is for swift implementation. He works best in fast-paced environments offering a variety of activities, rather than routines.

Summary

Calvin is a very congenial, friendly communicator, affable, poised, capable of projecting enthusiasm and warmth, and motivating others.

An intense person, he works at a fast pace with emphasis on getting things done by working cooperatively with and through people. He understands people well, and uses that understanding effectively in motivating and persuading others to do what needs to be done to achieve the organization's goal.

Calvin is a dedicated team worker who will dependably function within the framework of plans and policies decided upon and expressed by company management. He is collaborative by nature, and works to control risks by ensuring input from others on decisions that are outside of established policies. When making such unusual, or risk decisions, he will work with trusted advisors, subject-matter experts, or management leadership to make a well-accepted, well-researched decision.

Calvin derives satisfaction from bringing out of the best in others and takes pride in contributing to the business' success in that way. at ease and self-assured with groups, Calvin is capable of selling the company's policies and values. While he will delegate subordinates, he will also follow up closely and carefully and in a friendly and helpful manner.

Quick and accurate in handling details as long as they are only an intermittent aspect of his work, he will become impatient and less effective if frequently required to work with repetitive routines.

Management Style
As a manager of people or projects, Calvin will be:

• Focused on guiding his team to achieve predetermined company goal, in a friendly, driven, and proactive manner
• Amenable to delegating authority and details to trusted employees; his follow-up will be quick, helpful, and close ensuring that both his personal standards and company's standards have been followed and met.
• Proactive in bringing his ideas forward; takes action on them only after gaining agreement with key colleagues and/or proof that they'll be successful.
• Collaborative in approach; he's eager to gather input from others, and is open to their viewpoints, but will be unlikely to go against proven solutions.
• Cautious with risky decisions; he will defer to management, colleagues, or trusted advisors to mitigate risk and ensure agreement before moving forward.
• A lively, positive, and genuine company spokesperson.

Selling Style
As a salesperson, Calvin will be:

• Congenial and persuasive - focused on building a solid, trusting relationship with his customers - concerned about saying and doing the right thing.
• Motivated in working with and through others to facilitate the sale; confident in his abilities to persuade and influence others when following a proven sales method.
• Thoughtful in what he does, says, and communicates to the prospect - concerned about risking the relationship; cautious not to over-commit.
• Sincere - will speak and present information in a logical and organized manner.
• Confident in selling in ways that are proven to work; reluctant to 'think on his feet,' preferring to be well prepared and follow a predefined plan.

Management Strategies
To maximize his effectiveness, productivity, and job satisfaction, consider providing Calvin with the following:

• Clear defination of his responsibility, authority, and organizational relationships
• Specific training in his job.
• Opportunities of involvement, interaction, and communication with people as a major aspect of his work.
• Assurance of support and guidance of management, trusted advisors, or his team, particularly during periods of change or new developments.
• Social and status recognition as reward for achievement and demonstrated of team spirit.

Wow. So much to type. This particular Acrobat file can't be copied and paste....kanasai...
All I have to say about the result is...

BOOYAH!!! Mun lei sei mei... :p

Something to Look Forward To

It's been so long I've ever got the time to blog about anything at all. Work had been really piling up on me literally till the extent I could no longer have much time to do anything else but crash at home later day of the evening to take my own personal time to do practically nothing at all. I don't even have much time to play the games that I would usually play... how sad such kind of life is huh?

Since I took over P Project from a colleague who had resigned, I've been getting phone calls ever more frequent compared to my daily life. Heck I even might get more phone calls coming in to me than I would normally received for a month! Just like yesterday, Just on incoming calls only I had like 81 calls already excluding the calls I have to make for this P Project.

So as you might be able to imagine, my life is basically havoc right now. I'm so nervous to the extent of even having to force myself to check office emails from time to time from home; just to make sure there's if there's any urgent mails that require my attention, I'll be able to attend to it.

Teluk Batik Beach - Sitiawan

Oh don't let me bore you with my work and all. I am finally going to take a short weekend trip back to Sitiawan with a few friends of mine. Finally, the sea side, the sea food, the slower pace of life... God I'd give anything to have such life. comfortable and everything is so easy going. No doubt in order to experience such kind of life, one must not be too greedy on the incomes one would be getting living in such remote places.

But of course, life style there would be way much cheaper as well compared to our hectic city life. Like there's an old saying, There's a price to pay to every choice we make.

We are going to enjoy this weekend with the scent of sea breeze over the atmosphere, sitting by the beach while the gentle waves sweeps across your leg, the sea breeze running through your hair and letting yourself soak in the warmth of what the sun could provide.

Ah...the life... I can't wait to go back there and take some nice pictures as well as enjoy a full load of seafood :p

Till then, will report more when I get something out of it

What on earth is going on??

My apologies people, As most of you know recently we have internet issues with Streamyx and also possible with other ISP outside.

Hence this had made me unable to upload pictures through the internet as my upload speed now is like only about 40-100kbps >.< in which, layman terms it means it's fucking slow to upload any pictures....

Since there's no pictures to upload, let me recap on my resolution for year 2008.

1) Cutback on smoking.

I have been trying for about 2 years to quit on smoking. I used to smoke like 2 packs of cigs a day. I fully understand the consequences of smoking and yes, I have been working on cutting down from 2 packs a day till up to date 3-4 days a pack. Not much of improvement you say? Well for some it's quite difficult despite the stress and the issues I go through throughout the 2 years. In a way, I'm making progress...

Well for this whole year round, I didn't really manage to cut down significantly, however, I did manage to only maintain the same amount of smokes per day... hence, I FAILED...

2) Improvements in my career.

I have just changed a new job. I'm earning more than my previous company. In a way I'm proud of my achievements but for this year, it's gonna get harder. I would like to stand out in my career and I have set a certain amount I wanna achieve in salary and as well as I have set the position I would like to be in for my career - a full fledged manager. :p

Hmm.... year 2008 was considered challenging to me coz I have changed like 3 jobs in that year. However, it's an upgrade on each job I've changed. I'm a full fledged project manager now and I'm happy with my job despite the busy schedule. So... this is a PASS....

3) Find someone special.

for 15 months now I've remained single. I've never gone out much from my house. My only routine is to go to work and come home. That's about it. Isolation was my theme for the past year. This time around, I think it's a suitable time for me to look for someone special to complete myself in the things I would not be able to do alone. *I know. some of you are laughing while reading this =.=" *

Umm.. need I say more? I have found someone special and till this day, I'm still very happy being with her ^^ so this is a PASS...

4) Change of Lifestyle.

As I mentioned above, I have not gone out much the whole year hence it kinda distorted my once glorious social life. :( *Stop laughing =.="* So I think this year I should go out and meet the world once again. Working with my previous company had made me too lazy to go out coz everyday during the weekdays I work till late nights therefore making me lazy to leave the comfort of my house after office. It also made me appreciate home more during the weekends as it's the only time I would be able to relax and rest. This new job however, is more relaxed. They don't really encourage overtime works. So I believe I'll be able to have more time spent not only with my family but with my friends as well. :)

I have had some outings this year. I've been slightly more active with my friends this year around and I'm proud to pronounce this resolution a PASS...

5) Obesity control.

Ever since I got back from Hong Kong at 2006, I gradually grew bigger in size as well as weight. I used to frequent the gym but after Hong Kong, I've been lazy and well too tired after work to hit the gym. So This year, I'm gonna put myself back to the gym and I would wanna have a proper toned up body by the end of this year *fingers crossed*

I failed plus failed another time.... historically, the heaviest I've been is like 75kg but this year around, I've gone up to 80kg >.<>

6) Getting a place to call my own home.

For 2 years now I've been planning to get my own place but was either too lazy to look for one, or due to some other plans of leaving the country that stopped me from searching harder. This year I suppose it'll be a better idea to get my own place. Well I might achieve in finding someone special so in a way, I do need something solid as well. A home would be the best bet.

Due to the frequent change of jobs, my income was affected as well, hence I limited myself from viewing any properties. So this year I'm probably gonna try again.... For now, this resolution FAIL...

Well well, 3 passes and 3 fails. Not bad still... It's still a 50% success to setup your own resolutions.

I will figure out what is my 2009 resolution is and will then update here once again...Sigh gonna be another year older soon... >.<

Congratulations~

To Calvin and Evelyn,

Congratulations to both of you! Wish you both great happiness throughout your marriage life.
Yes no doubt there's ups and downs in life but may the 2 of you patch those downs to bring it up again :p


Hehe so there you go, a short post.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!!

Hi All,

Sorry for the late updates; As usual, I've been really stuck with heaps of work till it kinda suck out all the creativity in my mind to post out anything at all.

Don't worry, I have got something in store for all of you. I'll post out the pictures of what happened to me during Christmas eve :p It's really nothing fancy though. Since Eileen isn't in Malaysia this season, I gotta find something to do too right? Can't let myself spend a lonely Christmas, No one should actually ^^

Anyways, I've uploaded some nice songs that I've bought for myself as Christmas gift and now I'm sharing it with you guys.
More songs will be uploaded in time to come so stay tuned.

2008 Mini Blogger's Gathering

So sorry for the late update on my blog guys. Work has been piling up lately and I don't really have much time for myself except when I'm home.

Usually I would upload those pictures from home but unfortunately, TM Streamyx has really taken a toll on me as well, My connection to the internet intermittently gets disconnected. Last night in order to send a mail to my co worker, I got disconnected like over 7 times. Can you imagine how bad would this get when I upload pictures?

So here I am, slightly eased up in office.... Therefore without further or do, I present to you 2008 Blogger's Gathering Season 2.

Yes again it was held in Marche. The reason for this all is very simple...

1) It's easier to split the bill as we have our own cards to pay at the cahier.
2) The location seems so much better to take pictures with.
3) The voters had voted for the food there. (Though in my personal opinion, the food isn't so great after all)

Was the gathering boring?? Hmm.... let the above picture speaks for itself... LOL

Nah, it wasn't so bad....First we started off by helping our Co host, Evie to put on some make up. Few reasons as well...

1) She was kinda underdessed.
2) We had a surprise for her and that surprise won't really go along with an underdressed person :)

This is how she looks after the make up.

The group of girls , well the early birds though... From the left, Bernice, Evie, Maegen and behind is Eileen

OK So here's the surprise we had for Evie. We kinda understand that she is getting married soon, and she has some shortage of funds, So the girls decided to make her earn her own marriage fund. How you say?


Yeap, that's right! She has to go around asking for donations all over the restaurant. But wait.... She's not just going around empty handed. She has to work on some sales before getting her hands on her money!

Ain't she cute??~~~

This is the whole group that arrived for our humble gathering...

NKwai... a fellow photographer and someone with a good sense of humour.
Oh yea below are the pictures of what our SALES was all about...


And just to think the group is not enough to make the sales quota, Evie had to go around the restaurant to sell her "product"


I bet you guys must be wondering what was she selling right? hehe will let you guys know at the end of this post, so be patient...


Evie, NKwai and Yat... Seriously, special thanks to yat for bringing a huge group of people from nuffnang's innit to join us. :)

Jason Lim and Chen Seng

Hsu Jen and David Hehe our very own "royal shortness"

Our photoshop guru, Chee Ching

Aaron and Stephanie

We also had Chun Lern , Fiona and Eric who participated in our gathering but unfortunately the pictures I took of you guys are blurry so I'm a little embarrassed to put it up... Sorry guys...

Our very own Thomas Yap. And yes this is what Evie was selling around the restaurant, CONDOMS!!! mwahahaha... Good one girls...

Sadly I as the co host wasn't pardon for this goof as well. So I had to particiate to ensure everyone that this is not a rip off. Guys...RM10 for 1 condom isn't expansive...Think Donation...Think Safe... :p