Friday, October 21, 2011

Madame Tussauds, Bangkok, Part 3

Cristiano Ronaldo


This is an awesome game. Virtual penalty shootout game. It record your kicking style and power. If your kicking is too soft, the ball will just roll slowly and if skew too much, the ball went out of play. Damn cool. Can test your ability to take real penalty.

David Beckham

Tiger Woods

Mohammad Ali

Yao Ming, look at how tall he is

Serena Williams


Madame Tussauds, Bangkok, Part 2

More famous people .....

Wanted to know the answer, highlight the word next to "Answer"

Clue: From Tibet
Answer: Dalai Lama

Clue: From Mynamar, pro-democracy fighter
Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi

Clue: Was once "Queen" of Malaysia as she once colonized Malaysia.
Answer: Queen Elizabeth II


Clue: Son of 1st Prime Minister of Singapore. Once PM of Singapore too.
Answer: Lee Hsien Loong

Clue: President of People Republic of China
Answer: Hu Jintao

Clue: A very famous painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer from Spain
Answer: Pablo Picaso

Clue: A very famous forensic pathologist from Thailand
Answer: Pornthip Rojanasunand

Clue: Famous works like Ninth Symphony, Fur Elise,
Answer: Ludwig Van Beethoven

Madame Tussauds, Bangkok, Part 1

On the last day in Bangkok before coming back to KL, I had about half a day break before I need to rush to airport to avoid the flood, I went to Madame Tussauds, Bangkok.

I reached Siam Discovery Complex at about 10am. I was contemplating, shall I go or not because I need to be back at hotel by 2pm to shower and check-out. Finally I do a "two-face", I flipped a coin and I got a head. So I go with the fate and bought the ticket for Madame Tussauds. It cost me THB 720 after 10% discount. I got my ticket via a counter at 4th floor. If you are buying your ticket from the entrance at 6th floor, it is THB 800.

Madame Tussauds Bangkok

6th Floor Siam Discovery
989 Rama 1 Rd.
Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel: +66 (0) 2658 0060 Fax: +66 (0) 2658 0056

www.madametussauds.com/bangkok



People always said, Tom Cruise is short, oh well he is not short at all or perhaps I'm more shortie.

Can I be your crew in MI5?

With Brad Pitt

King & Queen of Thailand

Mahatma Gandhi

Regardless of the colour of the cat, white cat or black cat, as long as the cat catches mouse, then it is a good cat. Mao Tze Dong

Princess Diana

Malaysia ("beloved", quoted) PM - Mahathir Mohammad

Wow, I'm in white house. First MBC to be America President. Joking. America Constitution said, America President must be an American born in America. Obama and Michelle. President and First Lady of America.

Can I be your special aide?

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Terminal 21 at Sukhumit Road, Bangkok

Bangkok is shopping heaven. They have 17 shopping malls in Bangkok alone. Yes 1 7 , seventeen malls altogether. So ladies, what are you waiting for? Pack your stuff and get ready. Ops, no need to pack. Just fly there and start shopping. Before you go, get extra credit card from your boyfriend, husband, girlfriend, lovers, father, brother, mother, sister or anyone that can give you a no limit credit card.

I went to Terminal 21 at Sukhumit Road, near Assok BTS station. BTS is their LRT in Malaysia term. MRT is their underground train, their subway.

To be honest, 21 guns salute to Thai Government. They make Bangkok so accessible by either LRT and MRT, making it easier for tourist to get around. For a foreigner like who don't speak Thai, I find it very easy to move around in Bangkok. The LRT, MRT and taxi are so affordable. I had a very bad experience when I was in Tokyo, Japan. Although Tokyo is very clean, the people are super duper polite but I find it tough to move around cause I don't speak Japanese. Wa ta shi wa ma re sia jin. So Bangkok is more tourist friendly but it was quite dirty along Sukhumit road.

Terminal 21, latest shopping mall in Sukhumit Road. A concept mall based on aviation.

Large malls, clean and upclass.


Lighthouse in the middle of the mall

Angel is coming

Concept stores. I was at "London".

Super duper long escalator.

Dinner at Somboon Seafood Bangkok near Huay Kwang MRT

We had our dinner at Somboon Seafood http://www.somboonseafood.com/ at Huay Kwang branch no 3 http://www.somboonseafood.com/e-contact.html.

This seafood restaurant is very famous among the Thais and was highly recommended by my colleagues.

The restaurant

Tek Han and myself

Mango Juice - wow, super duper highly recommended to have this drink. Drink it while it is cool. Super duper thumbs up.

Kangkung

Deep fried seabass with sweet sour sauce and thai basil

Garlic chilies prawn

Thung Fan with Tai Tao Ha. Rice noodles with crayfish.

Oyster egg

Champions of the day, the super duper oversize curry crab. Eddy with his catch of the day.

Kiwi with the crab craw, can you see that. It is bigger than her palm.

Total damage: 5600 THB !!!!!

Bangkok 12 Oct 2011

It have been a while since I travelled oversea on business trip. The last time around was somewhere in 2006 to Chicago, United States.

This time I will be going to Bangkok for 3 days meeting with our client.

Reached Bangkok around 1030pm and quickly grab a cab to go to hotel. Luckily I did put a remarks when I'm making booking that I will be late for check-in.The hotel is Four Points by Sheraton Bangkok @ 4 Sukhumit Soi 15. (Soi means Jalan/Road). A 4 star hotel.

Reaching hotel at around 1130pm. Tired, but I still need to iron my clothes for tomorrow meeting. I can't be going to meeting with a shirt full of wrinkles.


King Size bed, very spacious room, clean, very comfy mattress and pillow.

The bathtub

Shower area

Work desk

in-room food and drinks. Notice the thing at bottom right corner? Yes, condom, they do have condoms provided at 200 THB per box of 3.

Me, getting ready for meetings with client.

Monday, October 10, 2011

6 Oct 2011

Jusco Midvalley is having its' member day sales. As usual you are getting lots of "rich" people thronging the stores trying to get the best deal in town.

Me being part of the "kiasu" Malaysian too trying to get something from the sales. As I was about to make my exit after spending few hundred bucks. I saw something. "Ting !! Sooky has always wanted this.". It is the DSLR that I had promised her few years ago. Unfortunately back then, we are not in the correct financial state where we can simply buy anything. Every single thing need proper calculation and management as we needed to save for the rainy days and for the house renovation. So it went on and on and on as an empty promised from me.

After 4 - 5 yrs of hardwork finally managed to settle the debt and get my dry kitchen done. So this year, in terms of finance we are at ease and to fulfill my empty promise, I guess it is just right time to get Sooky a new "baby".

After rounds of calculation, I found that it is more worthy to get it from Jusco eventhough the price from Jusco is more expensive that the camera retailer. But I get back voucher, cleaning kit, tripod, bag and 16B in return. Apart from that I do 5x credit card points. So in the end, we get it from Jusco.

Who is the most happy person in the world? The answer is straight forward: Sooky. Sooky do have some talents in photography. She just have the "instinct" on which angle to take the picture. As for myself, being a hasty person, I would rather use point-and-shoot camera.

Sooky had been crazy with her new "baby" as according to her (as new baby). To me it is more like her new lover. Her beloved husband got "divorced" or "demoted" to babysitter. I was telling her, I'm thinking to serve you with my lawyer letter as I was "divorced" by you and I'm going to half her wealth. No mercy.

Oh well, it feel great that Sooky really loved her new toys. As for me, few grands poorer + demotion. I guess it is all worth it as "when mama is happy, everyone is happy".

Friday, August 26, 2011

Friday, 26 Aug 2011 - Clear day

Getting up extremely early today as being waken up by my little monster Qian Hui. She tends to climb to our bed whenever she is awake and me being a very alert person will easily get awaken by her. Sooky managed to get QH back to sleep. Less than 5 minutes, Qian Hui make a fuss again, this time around, she asked for milk. At 530 AM, I have to get my lazy body up from the bed to make her milk. Trying to get back to sleep after that, roll to my right, roll to my left, close my eyes, all effort went into vain, can't get back to sleep. So I decided to wake up early, watched some movies before going to wet market to get some ingredients to make my signature Pork Burger as Sooky's friends are coming over tomorrow for some gatherings.

I had my breakfast at the wet market but I certainly have no appetite to swallow down the bowl of fishball noodles. Perhaps I'm still tired due to lack of sleep plus feasting like beast the night before on buffet which make me still feel bloated. Call back to wake up Sooky to ensure she is awake so that Qian Ning will reach her kindie in time. Tapao a bee hoon soup for Sooky on the way back.

8AM, quickly get myself dressed up to go to work. Traffic was smooth, perhaps due to majority of our muslim counterparts have started making the ways back to kampung to celebrate Eid Mubarak. Stopping at traffic light, so I take the chance to wipe my dusty + oily glasses. Boom !!! Bang !!!. It scared the hell out of me, I quickly check out my rear mirror and I noticed a motorcyclist going down after hitting a car. I was like, did he hit my car? I quickly get down to check the car out, and it didn't hit my car but the car next to me, how close is that. Poor chap, the car, big dent and scratches. Sometime I have the feelings that those motorcyclist are the bastard who should be responsible. Why must those motorcyclist manoeuvred in between cars exactly on the dotted white line? Are they trying to test their ear function on whether they can balanced themselves straight on the white line? Why can't they queue nicely behind those cars? Come to think of it, majority of the motorcyclists choose to ride a motorbike because they can't afford a car. Then I started to get very angry towards the bloody government. Why can't this bloody government of BN create a better transport system so that all this motorcyclists do not need to ride bike? How hard is it to create a better system? Fuck them all. I'm sure the motorcyclist won't be able to pay for the damage, so it is freaking sad for the car owner.

Getting down from the ram, I can see traffic heading towards Putrajaya at LDP was extremely pack. It was very unusual to see such pack traffic at that hours. Then I saw a police patrol car trying to squeeze through between cars. I guess there is another serious accident happen on the way to Putrajaya. Hope everything is fine. It is raya time, hopefully everyone drive safely for those who going back to kampung.

I reached office before 9am. While walking towards office, I suddenly asked myself, "Did I lock the car just now? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.", I don't remember at all. Although 99% of the time, I have locked the car but to be sure, I dragged my fat legs back to the carpark to check the car out. Ya I can't afford to lose this car. I don't have extra money to get another car. Thanks to the bloody government of BN who make the car so expensive in Malaysia. Fuck BN.

9.15am, office was pretty quiet, as usual most of the folks only turn up earliest by 10am. Was debating about how bad is the government with some of my Malay colleagues. Don't wish to elaborate as it tended to become very fiery whenever I talked about this fucking government of BN.

245 pm, didn't go out for lunch. Was having a little farewell party for our admin who is last day today. Boss get us some pizza. Had a some good chat with some colleagues, really learn a lot of stuff about current company and current issue.

Going to have beer with my ex-boss after works. It is good that we still keep in touch. Who knows one day, I might go back to old company?

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Spending quality time with my princesses

I was trying to spend some quality time with the kids yesterday.

Since I got 2 monsters who are equally excited to play the games that I downloaded from the market. They have to take turns.

So I start it with:

1. Playing fruit ninja
Qian Ning being the elder one get the opportunity to play first. Ya ya why must the elder one start first. Will shuffle this next time to be fair to both of my monster princesses.

Qian Ning was enjoying the game at the beginning but as the pace of the game picking up, she just gave up and said this, "so difficult to play". Then I realized indeed it is quite difficult to coordinate the movement. Perhaps not suitable for kids under 5. By the way she is 4 this year.

So I skip this game for Qian Hui, poor girl, daddy will let you play that tonight in order to be fair. Perhaps you at 2 years old could master the finger skill.

2. Snow white storybook reading
I downloaded an app call iStorybooks, quite a good apps, they have about 25 free ebooks on children story. The best thing is it can narrate the story with picture without you needed to tell the whole story. But I find it not interesting cause I didn't get the chance to practice my story telling skills.

3. flash card
This one was loved by both the sisters. Amazingly Qian Ning can read and identified most of the flash card apps that I downloaded. I guess she learn quite a bit from her kindie. So contemplating, should I send Qian Hui to kindie when she turn 4 or stick to the original plan to send Qian Hui to kindie only when she turned 5?

4. kids games - connecting the dot
Qian Ning loves this games. Connecting the dot enable her to relate the sequence of the number from 1 to 20. So this game will teach her 2 things, counting and coordination.

As for Qian Hui, she still can't identify anything more than 10 and what she do is simply rub the whole screen and cause all the dots to be connected. Then the picture will appear and she will clap, yea yea yea. It is easy to make our child happy, isn't it.

2011

wow, I just noticed that I only have 1 POST !!! for 2011. Suddenly lost the urge to write. Been busy in the early 2010 and stop being active in blogging since then.

2011 was ok. Changed to a new job. Yes again, I have only been in my previous company for about 1 year ++ after leaving IBM and I changed job again. Well this time around, my ex-boss came knocking on my door and seeing that the interesting job scope and opportunity ahead, I decided to take up the challenge. I believed the experiences that I could learn from this new job will enrich my resume and will be precious in my future undertaking.

It is sad to leave Openet, made some good friends there, learn quite a bit in Openet. Openet is the only places that I felt as close as to Motorola. I had my best years in Motorola. I grew a lot in Motorola days.

In this new job, was thrown to a difficult project. Working late nights in my 2nd week till my wife and daughters complain that I haven't be going back for dinner for quite some time. Oh well, there is a guilt in me but still job is job. Need to help out where I can.

Things had slow down quite a lot since the delivery on Aug 1o. Now begin to breathe properly instead of rushing towards the submission. Product training will be given soon. Ting !!! ya product training is after my project submission. Learn quite a lot of stuff in the 2 weeks WAR !!. Hopefully when I go for the product training, I will understand and appreciate more.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Eee yer

Lately Qian Ning (the elder) had been helping to put the blanket on Qian Hui as Qian Hui never sleep properly. QH will just keep rolling in trying to fall asleep and as the consequence, she is not covered by the blanket. Being a fussy fella, she will complain.

Qian Ning being the elder sister trying to perform her duty as a big sister. Yes indeed, my sweetie has certainly grown up a lot.

One time, yes no problem.

Second time, also no problem. QN will just keep doing it since I think she like the feeling of having responsibility.

Coming to third time,

QN: "Eee yer, like that jie jie (elder sister) no need to sleep lar"

Sook Fan and myself find it very amusing.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Quote of the day

Mandarin:

Tien xia you liang nan, deng tian nan, chiu ren gen nan
Tien xia you liang gu, wang nian gu, ping jiong gen gu
Tien xia you liang xian, jiang wu xian, ren xing gen xian
Tien xia you liang pao, ji zhang pao, ren qing gen pao


Cantonese:

Tin ha yao leung nan, tang tin nan, kao yan kan nan
Tin ha yao leung fu, wong nin fu, pang kung kan fu
Tin ha yao leung him, wah san him, yan sam kan him
Tin ha yao bok, ji cheung bok, yan ching kan bok


Translated to english:

There are two difficults tasks, grabbing the sky is hard, but asking for helps is even harder
There are two types of bitterness, bittergourd is bitter, poverty is even bitter
There are two types of danger, society is dangerous, but human's evil thoughts are even more dangerous
There are two types of thinness, paper is thin, but humanity is even thinner.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Quote of the day

In cantonese:

yao chi che, jin tin tao dei
mo chi che, yuen tin han dei

translated to:

a smart person with high perseverance will defied the destiny and fight for victory
whereas a loser will only complaint and cursing