Hail Storm in Selangor

As promised in the previous blog....here's some pictures of the Hail Storm that hit a part in Selangor during the Haze spell. Due to the changes in the wind, I guess it triggered the hail storm to happen. Looks really cool. Have never experienced it before. Lucky for those people living in Selangor...it's something you won't see again in your lifetime, perhaps. But thank goodness the ice blocks weren't big enough to destroy building/ cars or even kill.

Clark Hatch

Work it work tat body....common don't give up...Yahooo......I'm finally a member of Clark Hatch. Paid my registration fee on Sat. Yesterday went there after work...was good. Joined the Spinning Class (bicycle aerobics) and then went to the gym to tone up my flabby parts. Stomach mucles now beginning to ache abit from the abdominal exercises....what was really surprising for me was the ladies there could sit through the whole abdorminal exercise while i was half dead on the floor with pain in my stomach....incredible....wonder if i'll be one of them in future. For them it looked like it was nothing for them...I'm so amazed!!!

Today will be bringing one of my colleague over as a guess cos I promised to show her how the place looks like. So we're scheduled to join the Spinning class and Yoga. Kinda looking forward to how Yoga is...hope I can do what is instructed. If not i'll probably just sit and watch. Boo might come along if he's not too tired. Understand if he's tired cos he gets up at 5.30 am during the weekdays to work. Thats what happends when yur working at Hell.

Today work in the office is pretty slow. Have just a few things to finish up. Just realised that I saved some interesting pictures about a Hail Storm. I shall posted up next.

Alot happened last week. Had a cousin down from London. He's a DJ working for DJ Mag. Haven't met him since 8 years ago. His stay was very short so we had to cramp in as many activities and food places to go. Every hour was crucial if not whole days plan would be ruined. Wanna know what weird food we let him try...he's the list

Smelly Beans- Sambal Petai
Cat Shit- Muar Chee
Vagina- Apom
Fish stomach- Perut Ikan
Frog's egg- coconut sago
Black rice- Be Kor Moi

Hahahaha the list of food above were translated from it's original meaning..so it was fun tormenting my cousin just as he tries it out. But he loved all. All in all we manage to cover as many areas of food in Penang from Malay-Hawkers-Thai and Nonnya.

Pictures of Langkawi

Here's some pictures of Boo and his Colleagues. This was taken during their trip to Langkawi (The weekend spent without my Boo). Some of them I have never met but from all the stories I've heard they all sound like a crazy bunch of fella's. And guess which macho guy there is my Boo.....The one with the striking red shorts with a "Wanna Cluck" T shirt. This pic was taken on the Ferry. Boo said the journey back was very rocky and at one point the boat tilted that he could see half the window covered in water. Scary man. I know i've sat on the boat before but I can't remember a thing cos I was too tiny at that time.

Take a look at the sunset. Beautifull ain't it. This is the beach in Langkawi. Was asking Boo to take pics of the water and the beach but, poor him he was room bound cos he wasn't feeling well. His colleagues went island hopping to an island called (??- a pregnant lady figure) I've never seen it before but would certainly like to go see it soon. We're planning a trip there in Oct. So hope plans go well.

Here's a pic of the Langkawi beach during the day time. It looks so calm. However check out the clouds building up. Looks like rains coming by soon. However the sky looks haze free. The sand looks so white and smooth. How nice to rub it against my not so smooth feet. Here in Penang, I think the beach with this type of sand would be around Hotel Mutiara area. I think they got their sand specially from somewhere.

Anyhow, next week I'll be visiting the beach area. Have a cousin from London coming down. So shall see if i get some snap shots of Penang's beach.

The Haze has Hit

Saturday, woke up with an awfull smell in my room....The smell of the Haze it was. Was such an unpleasant odour to smell on a lovely Sat morning. There goes my plans to wash the car, to
exercise, to visit the beach at night. However nothing stopped my stomach for Francis!!!

On the way to Francis, hills and buildings were blur. Everything around was blurred. Manage to buy a box of mask. Talk about Demand and Supply, the mask was expensive. See the pic (Gurney Drive), the mask the kids are wearing, this mask was selling for RM 9 bucks!!!!

However the situation improved in the evening. Guess the strong breeze 'poofed' the haze


elsewhere. On Sunday morning, guess luck was still indeed on our side. It poured cats and dogs. Yahooo.......love the feeling of being tucked in bed while it's raining outside.

Anyways, Penang was lucky to have not suffered alot in the haze situation compared to KL. Who's to be blame??? Darn Indonesia. The Indo government says it'll look into the matter year after year. Up till now, nothing has been seen "looked into"

A picture of the haze situation in Kuala Lumpur, Klang Valley Area



The Air Pollutant Index of Saturday's Haze situation

It'S A DoGZ LiFe

Do people care about dogs? This month had so many dead dogs experience on the road. It gets very disapointing to see how human's easily and carelessly just roll over a poor confused dog. Yesterday on my way back, was stuck at the Bayan Baru roundabout. I saw a tiny dog come out from the drain hole when there was no traffic on the opposite direction. Then I guess when the lights turned green motorbikes came rushing, and this poor tiny dog got scared and ran back to it's hole. I was thinking, poor dog. It must be lost. It doesn't have a home. People to love it. Wanted to just drive over there and take it home to my house where it'll be safe. But knowing my dad would not accept another dog. Little did that tiny dog know that it's life was going to end in a few hours time. At night on my way back with Boo, I saw the body of the tiny dog resting peacefully at the side of the road. It must have tried to cross the road again. Damn it!

Then to add to my misery, this morning on my way to work, saw another dog lying at the side of the road all stiff and bloated. This dog was huge. A mix breed which I use to see walking along the garbage places picking on any bit of food found. Do people ever try to break or avoid when seeing a dog in the middle of the road. Or are they just brainless and numb to just purposely go ahead and knock/roll the poor fella. I've seen some people who purposely drive faster to hit the dog....I condem those people! You brainless idots out there. Hope the same tragedy will happen to you someday.

There's another dog experience last month. On my way back from work along Batu Maung, there was a "Chiwawa" dog lying on the middle of the road. It was still ALIVE!!!! It had blood coming out from it's nose but it was still ALIVE. Know what cars did, they just slowed down and avoided the poor injured dog. There were a few motorbikes who stopped, but know what they were doing. Just chit chated among each other looking at the poor innocent life of the dog dwindle away by the minutes. Ish just felt like taking a stick and crack open their heads. At least stop the traffic, carry the injured dog to safety-la!!!!The next day was expecting to see some remains of the dog splattered on the road, but to my surprise the road was clean. So did someone really come and rescue the dog??? I pray hard that it's still alive today.

I have a dog which my mum rescued and she has been staying with us ever since then. We have a monsoon drain behind my house. One morning there was a dog yapping away and howling at the back. We went to check and there it was. This little dog was screaming for help in the drain. The tide was coming up and the water was rising. Any longer the she'll drown. Neighbours were all looking. But non of them helped. Know what they did? Carried their children and went "dog dog..see dog" f%^&Ing idoits...for heavens sake don't ever do that when your in that situation. You're teaching the wrong morals to your kids. You should at least take the innitiative to help the dog. Thanks to my mum and her bright ideas, she tied a stick with a dustpan and lowered it into the drain. The dog was smart it jumped to safety and my mum slowly carried up. We named it SCRUFFY. She was just a puppy at that time. Slightly bigger than my palm. For a week we kept Scruffy waiting for someone to come to our house to claim her back. She must have ran away or got lose from her owners. But a week passed, no one came. But was thinking why should we give SCRUFFY back to the owner, when they themselves didn't bother to come looking for her that morning in the first place. They probably had her locked up in cage at the corner of the porch. So why should we bring her back to that prison life. So we in the end adopted her.

Some people, they want to get dogs but they are not prepared with the work and noise they have to accept. When you have a puppt, obviously the puppy will bark at nights as it misses it's mum. Obviously it'll teeth on your shoes, cos it's teeth is growing. The best thing to do is let it be with you at night. Maybe put it in the house. It just needs a company to be with at night. Just like any baby. Without the mother it will cry. It's the same with puppies. But I've seen many who just can't stand it and give the dog away. Irresponsible people I would say.

Gym...

Followed Boo to Clark Hatch. The place is superb. Have never stepped into such a posh, i would say, gym. Comparing to the one I used to go last time, this one's 100 times better. Attended the cycling class. Was cool. Like an aerobic class except your on bicycles. And the coolest thing, you sort of cycle in darkness or with the dimmest of lights in the room with the music blasting. Music choice by the instructor was good. If I can recall, there was Eye of the Tiger, Last Episode, and a song from Modern Talking and etc. What was good was that halfway through when your legs are tired, the music or rather the beat of the music keeps you going. A very interesting way to push yourself to continue.

When i was at the lady's changing room, there were some who cooly took off their tops. It was abit kekok for me seeing it...but I guess it's something normal, right? But thank goodness they weren't fully naked unlike the gents. Boo said there was a guy walking fully naked around. His down under area wasn't a good sight to see...hahahaha. Ew!!!

So anyways Clark Hatch, I guess you'll be having a new member by end of this month. I'm fully motivated at the moment to loose weight. Been starting my diet already and exercising in the evening. It's no Carbo for me at all. Just Protein, Vegetable and Fruits. So wish me luck. Have an ultimate aim to hit at the end of this session.

Weekend without My Boo...

Weekend was spent alone. Boo and his team went to Langkawi. Was a Company Trip, so I couldn't tag along. Thought I would be occupied with loads of things to do but somehow didn't exactly have the mood. It started off, Sat morning woke up at 5.50 am. Fetched Boo, since it was still early we drove to town and had Dim Sum. It has been ages since i last ate it. Had the Hong Kong Chee Cheong Fun, but it wasn't that nice...no "uuummpphhh" At 7.30 am dropped my boo off to the jetty. Was really gonna miss him. Just as he got out of the car i asked for a kiss and he was reluctant to give one....sigh... are men that shy to kiss in front of people?? Or issit somekind of ego thing. There's nothing wrong in showing people how much you love someone right. But of course there's limits to it with a kiss...of course no french should be invloved in public.

So back to topic, drove the car around...was hoping to catch the Satay Babi man along Bangkok Lane. But too my luck he wasn't around. Darn...now i've got a bad craving for it now. Lunch time I had nonyah food at Mama's Recipe just along Abu Siti Lane. Food was good...dessert was lovely. It was the "bee ko moi" "black Glutinous rice"Finger licking good to the last drop!

Went back home afterthat. Needed some beauty sleep. Evening went to church. Then bought my dinner and headed back home. Parents were feeling weird to have their daughter in the house on a SATURDAY NIGHT. Catched the movie Lost and after that was feeling really bored. In the end slept early that night.

Next day woke up went for Choir. The cool thing is that one of the songs we're singing has three languages and we're singing it all....Bahasa, Tamil and Chinese. Found it kinda hard to pronounce the correct chinese words properly eg "qing"

After that I went to Gurney Plaza. Walked around, got myself a working green blouse. Looks like i'm into green this year. Have bought a few green blouses, 2 green shoes, 2 green earings and 1 green bag!!!Marvelous!

There's two new makan places in Gurney to try out. One is called Breeks and the other is somekinda BBQ restaurant. Hope to try it out soon....Food Critique's craving badly!

Sunday was pretty filled up compared to Saturday. Manage to take my Lucky "my dog" out for a walk before i fetched Boo back.

So that's about it. Was so happy to see Boo again...but unfortunately he was still sick. Fever was up.

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Tomorrow i'm heading to the gym with my friends and maybe will drag Cheryl as well. I am on the hunt to find a bag (deuter or jansport brand). I need a big one, like those back packers style since i will be away to Shang-hai and Hong Kong for a 1 week holiday. And hopefully i won't be spending all my money on unwanted stuff. I spend more money on toy's like Gundam and etc now days than clothes, food and staitonery. Okay, so maybe not the last one. I rarely buy stationery, i think. And magazines. Oh my, the magazines! Someone should hold my wallet whenever i pass a magazine stall. Or blindfold me or something. Okay i take that back. i wouldn't want any sudden, scary surprises from you guys. Like attacks from behind with a paper bag. Don't get any bright ideas, people. you know what? I've cleaned my room! well, nearly. There's still clothes here and there, but at least my room is neat-er. my closet is the best. it's so nice now i'll only take clothes off the top and not grab the ones in the middle of the pile like always. for now, that is. Oh yeah, i've been busy burning CDs now, whoaaaah. need... to... save... money...

New HandphoneS!!!!

Ed's Gf here....

Look at that. Looks nice? Well i own it now...Yes those were the days when i had the old Nokia phone 6510. Last Sun, my Boo out of a sudden said "come I want to buy you a phone" I was so surprised. Surprised cos, Boo had only planned to get me a phone when he hits his 4K in commision. And I was incharge of motivating him everyday to reach the target.

But hmmm on Sunday, we were drawing money out and we came accross a compettition to count how many 8's there are in the pic. Then i pointed out on the Sony Ericsson Phone (phone which Boo wanted to get me) as one of the prizes. Dunno if that sparked his decision or this months figures he saw in his bank account number. Either one, I'm not complaining.

So when reached the phone shop...felt so good cos i knew I'll be walking home with a new toy. Yuppie!!!! True enough was so excited till while having my afternoon nap my mind was thinking about my new toy. Boo said he had never seen me that excited before. Was talking non stop to him about the phone. That was farney.

But wait that's not all.........

My Boo also got himself a phone. A more canggih one. It's Nokia 6681. He got it the next day. Pretty expensive too, but i guess nothings better than pampering yourself after a hard days work. His phone is the exact of the Nokia 6680 minus the 3G Technology.

So now we've both got a new toy. Boo's still learning new features about his phone everyday. As for me, I'm hunting down Ringtones. Since now with a new phone, I'm thinking whether to get Caller Ringtones???? But the last i checked out, the songs not so nice except for one Alicia Key song. But that has already been taken up by a friend....aiya....

So that's about it about the Handphones.....