Kids Klick Goes Hunting!

This is my 2nd involvement in Kids Klick project after the Kids Klick outing at Putrajaya Mosque in April 2006.

18th November 2006: An exciting Kids Klick Project held at the Tugu Negara and the Orchid and Hibiscus Gardens in Taman Tasik Negara (Lake Garden), Kuala Lumpur from 9.00am to 2.00pm. The project was called “Kids Klick Goes Hunting!” with 40 orphans from Jabatan Kebajikan Masyrakat for photo hunting.

Canon was the main contributor to loan 30 of Digi-Cams for the kids. There were also some contributors, sponsors, volunteers, PM’ers (PhotoMalaysia.com members) and guardians involved to a successful and enjoyable project with the kids.


I’d invited friends to participate this project but only Ken and Irene could come. This project was their first time to get up-close and personal with the orphans while photographing. It was their good experiences to learn photography with the kids.

It was very sunny bright day that it’s perfect to shoot. The PM’ers assembled at the Tugu Negara to get some briefing on the agenda. The kids arrived at about 9.30am and each guardians (PM’ers/volunteers) was assigned with one kid for the entire event. My kid was Hadi who is 12 years old boy. We then divided into 4 groups. My team was in Group B. All of us headed to Tugu Negara to start the photo hunting.




After an hour shoot at Tugu Negara, we headed back and assembled with the kids. The kids were treated with ice-creams; thanks to the kind-heart sponsors.



Then we walked all the way to Orchid & Hibiscus Gardens. From here, we were given an hour to shoot around the gardens.








And here are my attempt shoots:


An hour later at the gardens, we gathered around and walked to the Lake Garden to have our picnic lunch with McD. Most of us were enjoying of taking photographs especially the kids. They managed to explore and shoot whatever they felt like it when given the list of topics in guidance.

Picnic at the Lake Garden was not as good as we thought because it was raining when the foods arrived. Thanks to the PM’ers carried the foods from the McD restaurant out from place. The kids were happy to have their own Happy Meal.


After finished with our lunch and the rain has stopped, we had our large group photos as remembrances.


Then we headed to the nearest shelter to given away the souvenirs to the kids as our appreciation by Maxby; co-founder of PhotoMalaysia.com



At sharp 2.00pm, the kids left and event adjourned. Everyone was happy and smiling and satisfied with the outcome although the weather was pretty hot-burnt. It was a great time to have the charity spirit around. Shall look forward on Kids Klick’s next project next year!

Night Out at KLCC - Photo Session

Last Friday, a friend, Irene has called me out for hanging out at The Loft, Zouk. Three of us (gals) went to the place. Its interior is filled with graffiti of the latest graphic design trends while chilling out with some indie rock musics. But then we were hanged there a while cause there nothing much to do other than listening to music and drink beers. We’d decided not to consume any alcohol so we left the place for about few minutes later.

We had walked all the way from Zouk to KLCC and we took a lot of photos.




We also went into Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS.



Later we went out to go back and took some photos at the entrance of the KLCC’s carpark tunnel.



Then we went to Sri Hartamas to have supper that we hanged there almost at 3.00am. Therefore the next day Irene and I need to attend the KidsKlick event at the Tugu Negara at 8.30am.

Last Weekends

Last Saturday, I went for clubbing with a bunch of gals. We went to Zouk. It has been so long that I didn’t go for clubbing since 2 years ago on my birthday. We went to Velvet Underground as the gals like the music mode there. It played most of the R&B trances that really groove to dance. I was so long never dance, but I got the mood to follow the beats until my back aching. We also went to Zouk Mainroom to check out the Gate Crasher performance. It was fantastic trances but it was too loud of the music system until I’m nearly deaf. We’ve been dancing all night long since from 11something til 3am.


After we had finished with our clubbing nite out, we went to have breakfast, tim sum. We were chatting for hours while eating some tim-sum. We’d hanged the place until 6am then we headed home.


It was a tired day nite with my body aching. It was nice to meet new bunch of friends. Once I reached home, I didn’t get much sleep as I got to accompany my ex-colleague to someplace at 8something.

Before I leave my house, my naughty cat, Cun-Mon did some stunt.

Yar, he climbed up and started meowing around. I didn’t bother him but I took the photos of his stunt. He is such a naughty cat. He is a fat cat still can climb up near the ceiling.

My ex-colleague, my mun and I went to Brickfields to do something. We were had our breakfast; ya again I have my 2nd breakfast. After the breakfast, I called up my friend to wake her up. She suggested having photography outing at KTM Kuala Lumpur. So she asked me to call her up. I’d called her at 11.00am. My ex-colleague was so kind to fetch her then dropped us at the KTM. Thanks, man.

We both gals were hanging around the station. We’s captured a lot of photos. She was just a beginner and she want to learn more on using the SLR camera while I use Digi-cam that I could borrow. The Panasonic Lumix LX-2 featured it widescreen view at 16:9 and with 4:3 and 3:2 being cropped at the sides. Most of the pictures were taken with a panoramic view. Here are some photos taken by me




Here are the photos taken by my friend:


After we hanged out and took some photographs, out of plan, we decided to go to watch a movie at Times Square. We walked around the KL to take a bus to the place. Once we reached at the mall, we bought the tickets for the late afternoon show on The Prestige. While waiting for the movie before it shows; we hanged out at the Borders bookstore to get a rest feet after the long walks. Silly we took some photographs there.


After the movie, we took a bus to KL town and we were hanging around the Petaling Street then headed home. It was tiring outing though we both didn’t have enough sleep from the clubbing and tim sum for breakfast previous day.

Pan Mee for Lunch

On Monday, I had lunch with my colleagues at Aman Suria. We drove from our office to that place; I think it took around 15minutes ride. It was a new business area with surrounded of shop lots. One of my colleagues crazed to have pan mee and she suggested having at Restaurant Bao-Bao. The restaurant was simple and nothing deco around.

Once we sat there, there was a tray with different type of chilies on place. They have sour, spicy, non-spicy and fried/cooked chilies. The pan mee’s shape has it own variety of type such as broaden, tiny like mee or peeled. They even have dried with soya sauce or soup type. What their specialty was the many tiny fried ‘fu-chuk’ on every each bowl. Their drinks were Lemon Iced Tea, Herbal Tea, Loh-May (something like ‘Leng-Chee-Kang’).


We called our own dishes which were in small bowl cost RM4.20 each. It was reasonable with its price. I ate the soup pan mee with Loh-May. Tasty but the broad type pan mee was too thick. My 3 colleagues tried the dried pan mee and one of them said the sauce was less saltiness. But the chilies had made the whole dishes to be finished. They were appetizing.

Treasure Hunt - 4th November 2006

First and foremost I would like to thank Calvin for letting me to participate in Treasure Hunt organized by his company. It was a good experience to be part of the company organization. (Take note: I have to wear their company’s T-shirt that partly involved with the treasure hunt.)

In order to cut short my story-telling here cause there will be ton of pictures posted, I will post the updates in short form.

The Treasure Hunt started off from DHL, Cyberjaya at 7.45 a.m. and finished at Tiara Beach Resort, Port Dickson at 2:00pm.

Throughout the journey of the treasure hunt, we need to answer 32 questions for the clues/answers with the directions given. 5 questions for the treasures that was very tricky to guess.

Once we arrived at the check-point, there were Family Day Activities – Children games, Game booths, etc but we never even go and visit those booths. We went to check-in our 2-room apartment. They served with snacks and refreshment for our Tea Break at 3.00pm.




Instead of waiting for the Tea Break, we were so hungry and went for our lunch at the Thai new restaurant.


After we finished our lunch, we were hanging around the resort and we headed to have our tea break at the basement car park. There was Family Day – Telematches held at the man-made beach/pool. We didn’t participate any of the matches because we were tired.


The resort was so new developed and was situated far away from the town area; there was no real beach around. We went to Teluk Kemang, which was a nearby beach that it took 5 minutes ride from resort. We walked by the beach while I took some pictures. Thanks for Calvin for the ice-cream treats.


Then we headed back to our apartment to have a bath before we went for our dinner that had organized from the company. The dinner starts at 6.30pm. There were served with International and Asian cuisine buffet style. While eating, there were Lucky Draws and Telematches of prize presentation later by Treasure Hunt presentation. Our team didn’t win anything but heard that our standing at 18th place. Not bad but at least we had a good time.


After the end of the event, we headed back to apartment to play UNO for few hours. Later in the night, Calvin, Heily and I went for a drinking session at Bistro. We were calling our own cocktails while playing some cards and enjoying the live band music until 1am (I guess).


We woke up the next morning at past 8am. We started our journey to Seremban to have our breakfast. We went to this wet market at the town area to have beef noodles and sugar-cane drinks. The noodles were home-made and the sugar-cane was sweet. Recommended.


After we had finished our breakfast, we headed back to KL, home.


I would like to thanks again to Calvin for this exciting trip and treats and to Kok Siang for driving all the time and the treats as well. Nice to meet Heily, hope that I didn't snore during we slept in the same room. I had really enjoyed this trip.

Grandma's Room

Yar, I didn't take any pictures of my grandma's room. While I was cleaning up her room, I forgotten to take the before and after the cleaning.

Today, I was helping my grandma to shift the bed to the place she wanted. Here is the rough draft/sketches:


My wardrobe was in her room cause it was easier for me to take my clothes and stuff when taking my shower or prepare to work. Now it's gone so that she could have more spaces to walkabout.

I clear her things to outside the room. I re-arranged her bed that she wanted to place. I scrubed the floor and mopped it. I put her things back into the room. It took 2 hours to finish.

I'm glad that she is satisfy.

I may look tough
But I was vulnerable

I may look happy
But I was depressed

I may look nothing
But I was thinking in deep thoughts

I may be capable
But sometimes I’m out of control

I may look cool
But I was in mixed emotion

I have friends along
But I was felt lonely

I want to cry at one’s shoulder
But I cry on my bed

A lot of things had happened with calm
But I was emotionally; psychology uncondition.

Pedicure

Went to Subang with Agnes to have body massage spa. But I didn't taken any of massage because there was only one person handling the work. So I asked Agnes to go for her almost 2 hours massages. She took a Body Massage + Body Scrubs Massage. While I was waiting, I decided to have my hair done. (They were at the same shop in the lot which divided into half. One business is for spa and massages. The other is the hair saloon.

When Agnes has finished her massages, it was my turn to have my pedicure. It costs RM30. My feet was soaked in a warm massager water for about 10mins (I guess). Then the lady cleaned my dead skins on the toes. Put some oil. Paint the color and so on. The whole process I think it took about 1/2 hour. My toes were very nice and looked pretty. But too bad I was wearing sport shoe. After the pedicure, I wear my stokings and I could feel the paint isn't enough dry. :(

Agnes' Wedding Day

It was a beautiful day to have a couple blessed by the God of being one soul.


On 28th October was my very best friend’s wedding, Agnes. It was raining very heavy while I was waiting for Jenny with her husband to fetch me. Luckily when we reached to the church in Klang, the rain has stopped. It was a pleasant day. We reached there at sharp 4pm where it was getting to start the ceremony, the Holy Matrimony.

The Bride walked in with her only elder brother. Then the ceremony begins with the solemnization and sings. It was a Catholic Church ceremony. The Matrimony finished at about 5.30pm. The Bride, Agnes looked amazing with her saree.



Then the wedding dinner begins at 7.30pm. It’d held in a Tamil Methodist Hall which was nearby the Church area. The decoration hall was arranged orderly and looked ‘mini grand ballroom’. The theme for the night was in blue and white colors. The hall filled with balloons, candles, flowers, ribbons, stage, slide-show, DJ along with the sound system.


(Thanks Jenny and her husband to accompany me until the time of the dinner because they were not attending the dinner as Jenny was not feeling well.)

As I posted earlier that I will give a speech for the wedding dinner on behalf of the Bride but I didn’t expected to be the first person on stage after the married couple walked in the hall. I was so freak out; nervous. Although I had prepared my speech but I haven’t memorized it. I got an idea to prepare a prop, a dummy long scroll as to break-the-ice on stage and it worked quite well.

My speech was begin with these;

Hello, good evening everyone! This is my first time to come on stage to give a speech. I don't what to say but I had prepared the list. Hope you don't mind. (I was opening the long scroll and let it run onto the ground. People was got shocked to see the list on the long scroll. I was just smiling and looked into my scroll.) Erhh... I think this is going to take sometime to finish up my speech with this long list. I guess most of us can't wait to have our dinner as we all are very hungry right now. (I smiled again.) Actually I had prepared a shorter speech on these piece of papers. (I opened up 4 pieces of A4 papers with my handwriting written on them and begin with my real speech.)

First I would like to say to the bride, Agnes. She looks absolutely stunning and outshone today. I’m sure the gentlemen are agreeing with me as today is a sad day for single men out there that this beauty is leaving from the available list.

For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Mei Leng. I was truly honored when Agnes asked me to give a speech and I want to thanks her for this opportunity that she thought enough of our friendship to include me in this special day.

Agnes, thank you!

I must admit that I’m kind of stage fright now. But I realized that this is very important for Agnes as this is her very special day. "Agnes, don't blame me if I say something wrong".

Agnes and I have been best friend our whole lives. I hold this position as Agnes’s oldest friend. Well, when I say oldest, I don’t mean my age! I mean that we’ve known each other since we were 7 years old, and we’ve seen a couple of decades pass from that time in our youth.

My friendship with Agnes has been special to me, not only because the longevity, but because of she was a great person to go through the trauma of our teenage years together. Even though we don't see each often but whenever we are together again, we catch up from where we left off, and it always seems as if we haven’t been apart at all.

I’m not sure what started our friendship; maybe it was just that I liked her very long dark black hair at her buttock during the primary school. We went to the same primary school – the same secondary school – and we stayed nearby which was 2 minutes walk.

We have seen through the good, the bad and the ugly, and we’ve each learned a lot from each other especially me. I’d like to tell you about some of the things I’ve learned from Agnes.

First – I learned to speak English from and with her. When we were in primary school, I used to speak with her in Malay. But she’d made the effort and built up my confidence, she made me to speak with her in English. And now I’d had made it this far. Thanks Agnes.

Second – I learned that I needed to get better at keeping our stories straight. When we were in school, we may told a tale or two, and it would properly be the conspicuous inconsistencies of our stories that gave us away, and part of me can’t help but think we are lucky to have made it this far!

Third – Not be afraid to give all in a relationship. I have to say that it was watching Agnes blend in her relationship that taught me that life lesson. What convinced me of that was how they met. Do you know how they met? Have you heard it? Even if you have or not, I still can’t tell. Let it be their secret of love.

Lastly – Agnes taught me that good friends are hard to find, and that friends are more important than boyfriends. Wow, now that she’s married, I wonder if that will still hold true over husbands? I hope so.

I have loved to watch this romance bloom. Cyril is a great guy although I don’t really know him well. To me, he’s funny, friendly and easy to get along though I’m so shy to talk to him. In any case, Cyril has proven himself to be a great guy and Agnes is very happy in her relationship with him.

The fact is obvious to anyone who sees them together. And let’s face it, any man who can put up with the kind of friendship that Agnes and I have – our long telephone conversations, shopping excursions and occasional overspending... (Sorry Agnes, I thought Cyril knows about these.) Nevertheless, anyone who can withstand all these is definitely okay in my book.

(I looked at the Groom.) Cyril, please remembers that when you have a discussion with Agnes, always remembers to get the last words in: “Yes dear”.

Agnes has just blossomed since Cyril came into her life. She’s become happier and has a better outlook on life in general. She’s genius person, with no pretences, she is caring, warm hearted, bright, intelligent and completely self-less. It was fated for them to be together.

I know that theirs marriage that will not only last for decades to come, but it will be one filled with love, laughter, and eventually, children!

Agnes, throughout the years, I have been blessed with your friendship. You’re been one rare friend in my life who is solid and dependable, forever seeing the lighter side, providing me with perspective, as only you can.

Here I would love to propose a toast though I don't have a glass with me:
May you both live happily together, May your home and hearth be filled with your laughter and that of your children as well, for all the days of your life.

Congratulations Agnes and Cyril.
May God bless you both and may The Force be with you always.

Cheers!
Thank you.

I didn't know that my speech was that long. Heeheee

The dinner was served after a man gave the blessing of the wedding cakes. The dinner was great though some of the dishes were quite cold but they are still tasty.


After we eaten half way, the Bride and Groom went on stage to cut the wedding cakes and pour the champagne. Then they gave their own speech to the guests. Later they both were played a game that set-up by the host to play 'Game of Love'.


After the dinner was finished served and we had eaten all, some of the guests started to leave the hall. My schoolmates who attended took some photos of ourselves and with the married couple as well.


I also took some photos with the married couple alone but turned out the photos were quite blurred. Blame the BenQ DigiCam!


Impressed with her Henna on her hands. Took the pictures. Don't you love them?!


Lastly, the shot that I would like to take whenever I go:

Congratulations again to Agnes & Cyril! May both live happy til eternity.

Awana Genting Resort

During the Raya holidays, I went to Awana Genting Highlands with my aunty and her family. We went there on Monday afternoon and came back on Wednesday. We went up and down between the Gohtong Jaya for our breakfast, lunch and dinner and even for supper. We also went up and down to Genting Highlands cause the aunties want to gamble but not me. I went with Annie (one of the aunty’s friend’s daughter) to the Outdoor Theme Park for the first night. Nothing much to play the games as they getting to close for buka puasa by 9pm. Supposingly the theme park close at 10pm instead some of them started to close by 9pm.

I didn’t take much of photos but I took a lot of Reis’ pictures. Here are the some of the pictures:




I would like to thanks, again to my aunty and all my cousins for letting me to join them for this trip. Thanks!

Feast

On 22nd October, grandma and I went to Minna’s house for a feast. My aunty and her daughters, Kimmie and Ah Peng Jie helped to make poh-piah and steamboat stuff. Therefore my cousin-bro came back from Sabah (workplace) for a week holidays with his fiancé except Minna herself got to work in flight. It was my uncle’s birthday. They were having a feast to celebrate his birthday.

We had poh-piah for our brunch. Steamboat was for our dinner. Very full-loaded. Eat non-stop.

First I would like to show, how to make a perfect fold-packed yummy poh-piah. Here is my uncle pro to demostrate:




We had a birthday cake for uncle. Bought by his children from Secret Recipies, Chocolate Banana Cake. At first Ah Peng Jie was complaining and unsatisfy with the decoration of the cake. She complained that the assistant of the cake shop simply done with the decoration. She asked for my help to re-decorate the cake.
Here was the outcome:




Happy Belated Birthday, Uncle!
And thanks to my aunty for the foods and invitation to come over her house to have the birthday feast. Thank you!!!