go to the place where I works 16 yrs ago!!

From Singapore 2010

This week i am in s'pore for 1 week training

My office is located in the Philip Toa Payoh building, and once upon a time, I do work in Philip, after 'careful' calculation, I found that it is 15 yrs ago!!! Time really flies.

I forgot how I feel last time, but as for my first day walk around the hotel area, I can say that I like this city environment very much, it is very green and clean.

Actually, this really surprised me, the land spaces is limited here, but yet the government do plan the green area in every housing area, included the city central. I saw trees, big trees, jogging track, clean river, nice walking route and etc that is easy for people to walk/jogging around.
Where can I found the similar green level in our place? I have to ride 20 minutes to a park for jogging, I didn't see much trees in most of the housing area, the walking track is keep rework in KL city, but the quality is never improved, it doesn't feel the 'flat' with it, always like a small hill hidden inside the walking track...
This is really something our government should learn from them (well, of coz u can say there are sooooooo much thing we should learn from them, which is really true also lah)

Then about the people .... hmm... I feel a lot of China Chinese here, not only factory worker, but also in finance & software industry

Then in the supermarket, the cashier are 90% aunt, which age could be > 50 I believe (might be wrong guess, but I think it just won't be in early 40)

Then in the food court, there are uncle, aunt that work there

In our place, these works are mostly being occupied by foreign workers.
So means S'porean has to work longer years? Or it means their government protect the people more, that they first reserve these jobs to the local people?
If you ask me, I would opt. for the 2nd possibility, at least the people have a job after 50(I means those not high educated people lah), I think this is really uncommon in our place. (then u can say our aunt, uncle is very hao ming mah, that age already sitting house enjoy retired life already)

i make myself need to OT !!

I agreed to deliver my work by this Friday EOD, and i forgot that today has a loooong meeting !!! Already 3 hours, still in the call now ... -_-!!

Means need OT to cover back the 'lost' hours. %>_<%

Lesson learned: always checks calendar before promise anything!

小孩要报警!!

我姐孩子今天遇上了流氓, 心里非常不忿, 说要去报警了, 我...有点无语, 只能很委婉的告诉他, 这么个小事一桩, 警察叔叔没空理的.
他的眼睛睁得很大, 问我 :'为什么? 他们那班是gangster，抢了我的足球跑了，难道警察不理吗？那以后这班gangster 不是更坏咯 ?'

我只能再次勉强的说: '的确他们是错的，但是在这情况之下，看来我们只能是破财挡灾了.'
小孩还是非常不忿, 他说他有个朋友认识那印度人, 所以要到学校去找校长, 问那人的地址, 然后再上门要球.
小孩的理直气壮无可厚非, 勇气也非常可嘉, 但是我不能确保他这方法一定能行, 我只能说这可以试试, 但是尽力而为就好了, 如果还是要不回来, 就算了, 毕竟他还小, 不知道那印度人这以后会不会找他报复, 在他有能力保护自己之前，还是不能太强势的.

很抱歉我们的社会不是那么的和谐安宁, 很抱歉我们的执法人员有时还真的不能指望, 很抱歉这世上很多时候好人只能吃闷亏.
小孩, 这些都是人生, 只能很不爽的接受, 能做的是学好保护自己, 以后看见这类似的人, 赶紧避开. 这世上, 自求多福啊...

注: 小孩今年六年级，gangster是中学生

back from Pune

i'm back to Malaysia on last Sat.

Very simple waiting area in Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji airport

Watch the first 2010 WorldCup match in the Mumbai airport waiting area, and this is the experience I would like to share with you.

If you are depart from Mumbai airport next time, please take note that:
1. Don't go too early, the security guard only allow you to go into the check in area at most 3 hours earlier

2. Always remember to have your e-ticket booking information printed in paper. The guard will check it together with your passport before let you go into the check-in area

3. You have to buy ticket to enter the waiting area if you are too early in the airport. It cost Rs 60

4. There is NO restaurant inside the waiting area, only has coffee bar, and fruit juice counter, so eat before you go

Heard that during peak hour, the Mumbai will be crazy in traffic jam. 15 KM travel could take 1 hour, by 2 wheels vehicle, so you can imagine how bad if you travel with car. We worry the same, so we make our journey earlier, reach the airport around 5.30 p.m. My flight is at 11.45 p.m. so we had been rejected to go into the check-in area.
I was really surprise with the 'simple' airport in Mumbai, it's a big big city in India, but it's airport amenities was so simple, which make me feel like airport in Subang .. or maybe even worst ...

ok liao

i'm recovered from the sick after 1 day

drink more water, vitamin c, light food, some tablets, good rest ...this is my 'self-cure' way every time i have the same problem, and it work good this time :)

不太妙...

昨天去了一趟旅游, 太阳很烈, 可能是水喝少了, 今天醒来感觉不太妙.
轻微发烧，还有点发冷, 口里感觉苦苦干干的, 肌肉有点酸痛, 还有目前为止肚子泻了4次, 很恶心的说, 我都已经有点lao sai lao 到屁股痛了... -_- !!

带了止泻的药, 但是忘了带发烧的药. 唯有猛吃 Vitamin C, 灌很多很多的水, 希望能在明天之前好起来.
下周的training挺满的, 而且还要考试...

Weekend breakaway in Pune - Mahabaleshwar

It's about 3 hrs drive from Pune, a place that famous of it's mountain's view, strawberry and pleasant climates.

Along the way, saw a lot of gray hill, they told that these mountains will become green, and some with waterfall during the moon-soon season, yeah, that's why the India likes rain a lot!! It will change the scenery, also helps in their agriculture.

Overall feeling, I do enjoy the trip.
First scene came into sight, is the fun of parachute playing:

They call this view point, there are few view points here, each giving different angle of view to the mountains

at this valley, if u throw a bottle's cover, it is guarantee that it will NOT fall down to the valley, it will fly by the wind there, fun!

- the sand are in red color, i seldom see grass. It is either sand, or tree, or flower, but no grass. This is the reason it's very dusty in the non moon-soon season

the red sand

- this place is famous of strawberry, then make me think that it's not necessary need to be very chill like Cameron ?? Hmm.... too bad I don't like strawberry, so I can't tell the different between it.

the market

- the Indian temple does not restricted any visitor, but they are quite strict that you should leave your camera & camera mobile before enter the temple. Don't try to challenge them, bcoz they do have security guard (again!) to body checks on you at the temple entrance.

I took the chance to be the 'stranger' that follow the crowded to enter the temple, with bare foot. It is very clean inside the temple, no dust at all.

Queue to enter the temple

Oh ya, I mixed into the local culture very well today... I do pee in a public area bushes!!! What an exciting experience :D

Also, to be honest, I am quite scared while sitting in the car during the journey.
Along the way, there are 2 trucks flipped at the road side, everybody seems speeding without caring too much of road condition, there is driving 70-80 km/hrs even inside the tunnel, overtaking each other. Well, God bless us, we are just save from any un-wanted problem :)

Pune city trip - part 2

Well... the city itself is nothing much different than any other city in the world, buildings, shopping mall, cars, people, cinema and etc.

But, there are some specialty here:
1. It is NOT allow to take photo in side the shopping mall (but somehow i curi-curi did that lah :p )
2. There is security checks BEFORE you enter any of the shopping mall. We are required to step thru the body scanner, some have body checks, and all bags will be checks
3. There are security guard inside each shop in the shopping mall, the guard will check your bag again if he suspect anything ...

So, generally speaking, lot's more security checks here, make me feel everything is like under some people monitoring. I think it was due to the terrorism activities happened here...

Oh... one more thing, it is strange for me that the shopping mall does NOT has any supermarket inside, it is only shop's outlet there. At our place, all shopping mall is associated with a supermarket inside, Gxxxt, Jxxxco, etc, but not here, I think this is really inconvenient for the people...

The Central mall, but we didn't visit this

it is forbidden to take photo inside the mall, but ...

the supermarket

the boys at the street

Yes, these are the boys that will ask money from u, which is part of the India 'image'....

Pune city trip - part 1

We went to the Pune city last Thursday, but due to my laziness, this post is delay till now :p

So, last Thursday, the training is only half of the day, then we decided to take a tour to the Pune city. To have some real feel about the local life, we decided to take bus instead of taxi.
Found that the conductor & driver does not understand the English, so we only able to tell the shopping mall name to indicates the place we want to go. And the funny thing is, we totally no idea where should we get down from the bus, until we saw the shopping mall building passed-by, then we quickly jump down at the next bus stop, so have to walk backwards to our destination, good to adventure, and luckily the bus is not too crowded :p

Here are the street's look at the place we are waiting for bus.

Public transport

Waiting for bus, the street look

colleagues and his wife

shop looks, people looks

inside the bus

on the way to the city center

sign board in Indian language

Finally reach the city after about 20 mins

We use dut-dut to travel inside the city

blog new look

wonder about the header image ? i like this photo, although i think it will be much better the 'big stone stick' on the bottom right side can be remove...

so, about this photo, i should be thx to a friend tht like to shoot people at the back :D
this is taken last year when we visit the great wall in Beijing. it's been long time in my hard disk, but only recently i do spend sometime browse thru the photos, and this photo catch my eyes when i first look at it.

the person that walking up the steps is myself, alone. I feel this scene is very match to my blog title --> 'mf's journey', a self journey, a life long journey

爸爸，你快点跳出来

Last night we asked our China college that does he miss his son after so many days away from home.

He told us a funny story about his son.

Once, he was outstation to Shanghai for 2 weeks, his family is in Beijing, so he has video con-call with his family.

When he talks to his son, his son was getting 'frustated' that he cannot touch him, then his son shout to him thru the web cam 'Papa, you jump out from there !!' 爸爸，你快点跳出来

Typically kids reaction when they want something to be happen, direct and no matter it's logical or not

I just feel this kid is very cute
可爱，天真的小孩很可爱

stomach is 'singing' ...

my stomach is making sound these few days, always feel want to 'lao-sai' ...

i think it may be too much curry since I have been here, daily i will take different type of curry for lunch & dinner. after 1 week, my stomach always sound 'grrr-grrr' in side, not hungry sound lah ok, but it's like very light sakit perut ...

btw, like my new look & feel blog site? :)

i dun like this too much actually, color is too sharp, but this is the best i can find so that i can have an image at the header part, so... 凑合着用吧 :)