Do they exist?
I grew up watching and believing in fairy tales – Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, Beauty and the Beast and etc. If you believe that they exist, then they exist! I used to love watching them over and over again on laser discs, yup, the huge version of compact discs then. I even chose Beauty and the Beast’s theme song when my organ instructor asked which song would I prefer to arrange for my organ examination.

However, as I grow up, things changed and fairy tales are fantasies now. Was it because I got more realistic? Why is it that as we grow up we lose the faith that we used to have as a child?

May you dream of your fairy tale tonight..
Good night :-)

We make friends that we can get along with easily as we step into each phase of our life. And she is one such friend whom I knew since my first year in university.

I really could not recall how we got to know each other but it was probably because we had to pair up in a group for some kind of activity during the orientation day. There after, we ended up being in the same class after the orientation week. And magically… we were neighbors too! She stayed at the ground floor while I stayed in the first floor of an apartment. We would go to classes together each day until the final year, from Malacca to Cyberjaya. She is the bigger sister in the group, who would listen to your sorrows and provide her golden advices. You may joke with her as she never failed to amaze us with her big laugh but.. we, her housemates, who know her very well knows she can be very serious at times.

Her famous tag when being invited for supper?
I brushed my teeth already la!

How I missed those mischievous days when we would argue about the cutest lecturers and guys in the university, the dinner at our usual makan place in Bukit Beruang which we’d frequent almost 3 out of the 5 weekdays, the classes that only she and I would attend so that we could help others mark their attendance, the steamboat/makan party which we’d occasionally do at our apartment and the all-girls night chats once in a blue-moon. She was the first person whom I’d turn to whenever I had problems. She has sharp eyes like the wolf in Red Riding Hood too (you know what I mean :D)!

Happy Birthday, girl :-)
Hope you’ll find your cute guy real soon and come to me with your complains haha.

Today my colleague and I got the opportunity to visit the company’s production floor in the afternoon. I requested this tour to the production floor few months ago as I wanted to understand the flows at the plant so that I could relate them to my working project. And, recently my team leader received the approval from some respective parties. Therefore, we journeyed happily to the production floor.

The pre-requisite to enter the production floor was to dress in a smock
*pokes the Dooodl! on the right sidebar*
That’s me in the full-suit with a mask and shoes provided by our tour guide, Miss Jenny. I looked so funny in the smock.

So, we were brought to witness the full process of wafer testing. A wafer is a plate that contains many, many electronic dies on top and wafer testing means the act of testing the dies on the wafer for functional defects before they can be further used to manufacture the real product (i.e. chip in flash memory, camera, etc.). I managed to see how a lot of wafers was first being sent by a customer, which will then be unpacked, examined and sent to machines for testing by test engineers.

The whole tour lasted 1.5 hours. I quickly undressed the smock as soon as I came out of the room. Ahh.. fresh air! Both of us were very satisfied with the tour. We asked many questions. I am now able to relate my programs with the real production flows :-)

So so so reluctant to drag myself out of bed this morning. It was probably because of the hectic weekend. However, there was never a hesitation to travel home to be able to sleep on my comfy bed (although I had to sleep on my brother’s bed last weekend) for just one night.

As soon as I reached Kajang in the wee hours, KC, Ling cha and I departed to Bukit Gasing in Petaling Jaya for a morning hike. We had this planned out as a training to prepare us for the task ahead – to conquer Mount Kinabalu, which is just around the corner. Alright, it’s more like MY training, because the Mr. is fit enough to go up anytime :p Back to Bukit Gasing! There were other hikers too besides the three of us – Hiew Ming and four friends of KC’s. It wasn’t as tough as I had been told, really. We had Hiew Ming as the guide. We could hardly catch up with her as she was like Speedy Gonzales! As I was hiking up with her (tried my very best to hold my breathe and follow her closely) while the rest were at the back, she shared some of her experiences from her Mount Kinabalu expeditions (two successful ones!). We completed the hike about an hour later and went to a nearby Mamak called Raju’s Banana Leaf Resturant to feed our growling stomachs.

In the afternoon, I got to savor Mom’s delicious cooking. She had laid six to seven dishes on the table (I think)! After that, we went to the hospital to visit our ailing aunt. We have been informed that she almost couldn’t make it pass the night the day before. It was a bliss that we did not receive any late night calls that day.

In the evening, KC and I joined our fellow ex-colleagues in TRW (Ying Ying and gang) for dinner and post-dinner yum-cha session. We were brought to a secluded area for dinner, somewhere near Ampang Lookout Point by our makan dai-lou (the big brother who usually brings us to various places that we’ve never been to, for food, who also happens to be the youngest guy in the group). The restaurant goes by the name, Veg Fish Farm Restaurant. Now that I am back from having my meal there, I googled and found many negative comments on the restaurant – the food quality is not worth the travelling effort and etc. I guess I can say that the seven of us enjoyed the food there and didn’t mind the travelling. We ordered kangkung belacan, tomyam, fish coated in salt, grilled lamb, salted egg calamari, mango kerabu, big clams (forgotten what flavor was it) and hmmm, what else? I loved the grilled lamb the most! Simply yummy. We were surprised when the bill came – RM 109+ in total – very cheap for the amount of food that we ordered, I must say. I did not manage to get any photos as I did not bring my faithful companion with me. I might just be able to link some photos when Ying Ying uploads hers (she was busy taking photos the whole night) :p
Next up, was a short yum-cha session at Ampang Lookout Point’s Gasoline and more chit-chatting.

On Sunday, KC and I attended my ex-team lead’s (from TRW) wedding luncheon in Puchong’s IOI Mall. I was very happy to be able to meet my ex-team mates and mentor at the luncheon. Looking at the bridegroom’s wedding photos made me smile, inside. The team lead who used to be ever so cool when being asked about the existence of his partner, is now kissing his bride on stage! Haha.

The weekend has finally come to an end..

What am I up to these days? I have been slowly editing some of the photos selectively. My notebook seems to run like a tortoise when doing photo editing nowadays. Hmm, most probably because of the huge processing needed for Raw files, which are at least 11mb of size, each. The photos were mostly taken during Christmas. I might just post some soon. Most of the photos that I am editing consist of 4-legged mammals, reptiles, amphibians, water, grass, trees and rocks, no 2-legged mammals. Hehe.

Have been away from the blogosphere for almost 2 weeks now. Life has been pretty dull recently, with work and all the daily routine. When you feel all stressed out, you just wish you could wake up on the bed at home.

Wheee.. I’m going home tomorrow! It has been a month since I last went back but this weekend will be a very tight one. There’s the morning exercise-cum-training at Bukit Gasing, dinner with ex-colleagues, and wedding luncheon to attend! I so, so, so hope each weekend makes up of 3/7 of the week :p