F1 in Sepang

This post was meant for last week. Alas my internet service let me down. I can't seem to upload any photos. Hmm..
Anyways last weekend was the Malaysian Formula 1 Grand Prix week in Sepang circuit. However this year we didn't manage to go to the track and in addition hubby was also not in town. I'm not a big fan but my eldest son is. He's a Ferrari fan. Hubby is Renault (largely bcos of Alonso) while the youngest Danial has to settle with home team BMW Sauber (which is doing well both in Melbourne and Sepang). Me, well I'm going for the handsomest drivers! wink!wink! so for now it's Kimi Raikkonen.
Sepang result: 1. Ferrari - Kimi Raikkonen 2. BMW Sauber - Robert Kubika 3. McLaren -Heikki Kovalainen. These pictures were taken in 2006 and 2007 where we were fortunate to get into the track during qualifying and final days, courtesy of sponsored expensive tickets.

A frustrated 8 days

It has been 8 days since I last logged into my blog or to any www for that matter. Thanks to my undependable Internet service provider.

It had been an equal stressful time at work too!! I spent more than 8 hours a day in the office gawking at the PC screen that my tired eyes can't take it anymore. I was too tired to do anything that by the time I came home, I immediately hit the bed after dinner. Yeah, a sure and effective way to let all the fat from your dinner stored in your body!!

I did log into the net to upload some photos a couple of evening back but it was so slow and it frequently push me out that twice in 2 days I found myself asleep with my head on my laptop waiting to get connected. Eventually I gave up!! Big *SIGH*

So I'm back today. Don't know how long this good fortune gonna last. Oh pls, pls don't get disconnected on me today.

cont. from the Ice Cream Maker book

I'm happy to confess that yes I've stick to my readings. My last entry under the label books was for this book called Ice Cream Maker. I've finished it for quite a while already and since then have been reading 3 more books.
There are plenty of good advices from the book but I particularly want to share this one here.
In my opinion, most of our companies here are too concern in getting colorful and mouthful slogans whenever a campaign/product/brand is launched without fully showing to the employees the means or ways to achieve it. After the hip and hooray has died, the level of quality comes back to square one or worse didnt even live up to its promise in the first place.
All credit goes to the author of this book - Subir Chowdhury

Starlight by Heritage (feat. P Type)

I immediately fell in love with the song the first time I heard it. Second time I was hooked. It's RnB and Soul combined. Don't know much about the group though. If I'm not mistaken they originated from singing gospel songs. That may explained the powerful voices especially the women.
And my list of CDs to get growing by the day. Enjoy this one people & Happy Easter to those who celebrate. Ciao'

and the winner is ...

I received the invitation from HR about 3 weeks ago. After clicking accept on the invitation, I totally forgot about it until last Friday on the day of the event. It's the closing ceremony of my last training. A high tea of sort. Be it on any other week, I would welcome the intrusion but being the busiest week, I almost didn't go if it was not due to the persistent persuasion from the HR training coordinator to ensure high attendance and food are not left to waste ... so she said.

Boy was I in for a surprise. In fact many staffs were. There were not only our batch present on that day but many other as well whom 'graduated' from HR series of training. In addition, directors from every unit participated in the program were invited too. From far I saw Mr Z. Apart from tea and certificate, top 3 scorers from each batch from every series were given prizes too. HR kept their surprise well. Many were caught off guard 'as not dress up for the occasion' since most of us rush from office to the hotel. And I certainly didn't aspect that I would be chosen the top scorer amongst the rest in my batch. The other two winners were the ladies which I'm closest with during the course of the training. One is the regional sales manager from Kuching (I'm close to her bcos I know nuts about sales) and the other one is the finance manager (since I'm hopeless with numbers) - so that's how we became close. I'm like a leech who stuck on others. LOL And what they got from me? Maybe a couple of jokes to ensure everyone is wide awake during the course of training. Ha!Ha! Frankly speaking, I'm not sure how I managed to score high against these brilliant people. Anyways it was a pleasant surprise. And I'm thankful to all the other participants as we are now turned from strangers to buddies. As I mentioned in earlier post about the said training, I'm just so glad I managed to finish the modules and didn't aspect of winning anything.

So after all the congratulations, cakes, satay and dim sum I rushed back to the office to continue ... working!

Farewell do

A colleague is leaving the company. Her last day will be mid of next week. Since Thursday is a public holiday, so we took the opportunity to go for a small farewell gathering for her last night. Another colleague cannot make it bcos she has gone back to Malacca. So there were only 4 of us. We went for a Japanese buffet dinner at Saisaki. Enough to say that by the end of our two and half hours buffet dinner, none of us can even cross our legs. We were very full. The two non-motherhood experience girls jokingly concluded that is how one felt during pregnancy bcos their stomachs were bulging (err.. not even close girls)

2 in 1, last Mar 17 was also Phoena's birthday

NJ's first attempt on Japanese food and she enjoys it. While Yu cannot figure out how on earth she managed to eat so much. Hmm..do ponder
My starter plate. I was so at home. I luurrvvve my sashimi, sushi, little bit of wasabi and I even tried Korean cabbage kimchi which was quite spicy. After many, many plates later I had two cups of white nescafe which kept me awake till about 5:30 hr. Serve me right.

300ml of AB+

Last Wednesday, I did the blood donation thingy again. It marked my 10th donation. Could have been more but sometimes timing was not right. Especially for a woman where you can't donate during your mestrual cycle and during pregnancy. My blood pressure was lower than normal on the said day but doctor said it's not harmful if I want to still donate. So I decided to went on with it.
The usual 300ml was taken out from me. It's no big deal actually. A colleague asked me whether there is a particular reason why I like to donate my blood. My answer is simple ... 'why not'? I know there are plenty of good reasons to mention but as another friend puts it ' he likes the muffin provided by the hospital staff to every donor'. That was cute! and yes the muffin is good too.
Bottom line is must there be a reason for us to perform any small deed?