Cameron Highlands [Day 1]

I went to Cameron Highlands with family for 3 days and 2 nights. At first, I thought the trip would be boring. But I was wrong :) It was great (it was my second time since ages ago) and cold.

We drove there on Saturday morning. Reason: We feel safe from bus and lorry when speed trap is everywhere.

My niece was the happiest one of course as soon as we reached there :)

This is traditional thing we called Congkak. They charged us RM10 for renting this. Mom and youngest sister love it so much!

My first snap

  This is the weird flower I found there. I never see it before.

 The building we stayed – Heritage Apartment

She wanted to follow me, but I didn’t allow >:)

The color is nice right? So green.

 This cat kept following me and my sister when we were busy taking pictures :) Ditto, sorry for putting this cat picture ya :(

I didn’t know what building is that

Some flowers :)

The things that I didn’t like about this room was the water supply. We didn’t get water and had to call them 5 times during our stay :(

In the house

Night market

 Our dinner, near our apartment :)

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Happy Chinese New Year everybody! :) Gong Xi Fa Cai… may this year will bring you great wealth and good health!

Old Town

I went to Old Town, just now. I thought on CNY it will be empty. I was wrong. It was almost full!

We ordered Curry Mee, Nasi Lemak Special and White Coffee Gao (cold).

Many people claim that the taste is exactly the same with hawker foods outside, some hawker foods even much better than the foods in Old Town. But, wonder why Old Town never empty? :) Maybe because of the decoration? Good place for a discussion and chit chatting? Even a good place for surfing? :) You answer me.

Enjoy the picture ya.

HAPPY HOLIDAY!

Valentine’s Day

Today is the best Valentine’s Day ever! Why?

Look at these pictures:

 My breakfast – A plate full of LOVE, present – 3 t-shirts from Espirit, Valentine’s balloons and Valentine’s card with love song CD

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

Birthday celebration

Damn. I forgot to save when I wrote about this, in the afternoon before I fell asleep. Argh….!!!

Alright, I have to write again. Patient Faisal… patient.

I have so many thing to blog about, but I’m pretty busy lately. 3 topics I want to write about are Cameron Highlands trip, My birthday celebration and not to forget Chinese New Year (CNY) celebration. So, since I don’t have any picture to put for CNY, I better blog about my birthday celebration first.

When the clock showed 12.01, I started to get call, sms, mms, email and facebook… wishing me ‘Happy Birthday’. It took me some times to reply to them all. I must reply them all to show my honest appreciation :) Seriously, I feel so happy to know that still so many people care of me, and think of me even though I’m getting old. Yeah, you hear me right… OLD. Damn it :)

THANK YOU SO MUCH GUYS!

It started with my mom called me and sing me happy birthday, followed by Hidayah my youngest sister, then my second sister Nurul. Dad sent me a MMS with Orang Utan sang a birthday song. It was hilarious! Haha.

So, on the day itself… full of surprise. I knew they were going to throw me a party. Er, I mean a dinner. Family gathering like any other year. I knew that their financial was not stable too but I didn’t want to make them sad. I knew if I tell them that they shouldn’t buy me dinner, it will make them so sad. Ok, I decided to go.

The venue was at Pen Mutiara.

Let me continue to tell you with some pictures taken on that night.

 Waiting for the food… dad is looking at my calendar.

My lovely sisters

Thirsty eh? :P

 She is ready…

 She was the happiest one :)

Fish head curry

 Beef soup

 Fried squid. Damn good!

Brinjal with chilies.

Refreshing… Lime with asam boi

Rice… hehe. So asian…

  Here comes… the surprise!

OMG…!!! My dream cake. Haagen Dazs cake!!

Haha second time blew the candle as my niece wanted to blow too ;)

Ah, I didn’t snap the pianist picture and some of the very helpful waiters there! :( The pianist was so sweet, play birthday song for me with a very long speech. Hehe. I was so happy!

Ditto, thanks for the birthday card, dinner and ice cream cake. Thank you so much.

Nobody

I’ve posted a music video of Nobody by Wonder Girls before. But, have you listen to a remix version? Try this. She is talented and beautiful. Enjoy!

Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass

Still remember I put Alice in Wonderland trailer from Youtube months ago?

Alright, I got an advance birthday present from Emelda aka Insomniac; which is this book.

I always think Alice in Wonderland is just a piece of fiction or fantasy, a light one of course, and only suit kids. But I was wrong. This book gave me a different perspective about Alice in Wonderland.

This book has 2 stories.

First one, is the one that we always know, since we were little. About Alice, who fell into a well and the fantasy started from there. She could speak with animals and even listen to their poem. Lovely ones. Lewis Carroll has made it real, no other book could produce a great book like this. It makes even adult feels like they are in the Alice’s world.

Second one, I never heard before. Through The Looking-Glass. Now, I know that this is the second story of Alice. About chess. Which ended, she became the queen. In the adventure, she met all chess characters. In the end, Alice realized that all the characters in her dream were related with the peoples around her, in reality. But then, there was a question running in her head. Who is the Red King in her dream? Which I don’t know too. I think the king is her dog?

For those who haven’t read the book, please get yourself a copy. Remember, the movie will be showing this March! Be fast ok?

 

Note: At this time, my eyes are so heavy. So sleepy. I write this while transferring all pictures that had been taken earlier. Stay tune :)

Why we keep old farts at the age of 58 year old, instead of getting some fresh graduates?

This post suppose to be mean.

I got this idea from my office environment. Most of the old farts (I give you chance to set your own range) work very slow and worse have little knowledge about everything, including the field that they have been involved for so long. Most of them have been working there more than 25 years. Imagine that.

We take a simple example. MS Words. Even a kid can do this, with some help from adult. They will learn and we don’t need to teach them anymore. But, it’s different with old farts. They are not willing to learn, even though the course is free. If they are forced to attend a course, they will enjoy the food and that’s all. They don’t want to learn. Then, when in the office; they will keep bothering those who know about it which usually are juniors. Can you imagine, every single hour or worse every single minute, they keep calling you to help them solve MS Words problem. I know… I know MS Words is very simple. But, they just don’t want to learn and prefer to be dumb rather than learning. Their usual excuse would be “I only have few years to go, before pension.” Sigh.

My question is, Why we keep old farts at the age of 58 year old, instead of getting some fresh graduates?

Let say you pay this old fart RM5k for his/her experience but not willing to learn anything new and work slow, why not pay fresh graduate who willing to learn and work fast but we only pay them, let say RM1k? This is common sense, right?

I was so shock when I first heard about government expand until 58 years old. Before it was 56 years old. Old enough.

When we expand until 58 years old, do you think that job for fresh graduate still available? Then, we always complain about jobless graduates and so on.

Let’s make my accusation accurate. This scenario won’t be applied to ALL old farts but some of them, only.

Birthday

Thank you guys for those who remember my birthday and wish me through phone call, sms, email and facebook. I truly, appreciate it and I will reply them as soon as possible :)

I just came back from family vacation at Cameron Highlands and still in holiday mood. I will upload more pictures in blog and facebook soon, so… stay tune ya? :)

Right now, I just want to enjoy the good sunny day (I’m at home, not working ;)) because I’m a year older now (I know it sounds ridiculous haha). Time flies fast… and I promise I won’t waste it, even a bit :) I still have so many goals to achieve. Wish me luck alright?

Again, thank you… and have a nice day! :)