City Square - JB

Finally...we made it to JB..Haha! Since SGFemale and myself don't have to work this afternoon, we decided to sneak in to JB and YES!! We are very thrilled by the traffic conditions... it was so so so smooth...we reached our destination without a glitch!!

City Square has not changed much since the last time we came.





We had our lunch at a restaurant call Stone Grilled...really value for money cos the cost of the food is equivalent to Singapore but we pay in RM..;)




Freshly-made lime juice and Soursop juice..



SGFemale ordered mixed grill (RM22.90).. (kid's size)



I ordered the salmon mixed seafood (RM39.90)



We passed by a confectionary shop call Lavender and the pastries they sell are so mouth-watering that we bought quite a fair bit of buns and rolls for our breakfast tomorrow.

Their cakes are so nice...





We had some light snack and cake at Secret Receipe before we return to SG..


We spent about 3 hours at City Square before returning to fetch our son from my mother-in-law's house.

-SGMale

Demise of a friend

Life is so unpredictable........a christian friend of us passed away yesterday, left behind his wife and 3 daughters.

We pay our last respect to him at the Singapore Casket and together with a group of friends, we 'saw' this friend of ours for the very last time.

So sad that life is so short and while we spend lot of time pursuing our materialistic life, we very often lack the opportunity to really sit down and think through whether have we really 'live' our life to the fullest...

This has suddenly change my perspective of life and it has really cause me to think about what I really want to do in life..am I really doing what I enjoy or just doing for the sake of bring home the bacon...sigh...why can't human has a life span of 1000 years...75 years on average is too damn short and before we come to realise what we really want in life, most of us is already in our 40-50s...too late to turn back and restart afresh...

I have realise one important thing though...BE TRUE TO OURSELVES and if there is anything we want to do, JUST DO IT!!!

-SGMale

One Day Lobster +Firefly tour

We set off at 5.30am from our place together with friend A whom spent the night at our house. We took a taxi to the Golden Mile Complex and we struggled our way into long queue and manage to register all our passes with the counter crew.

We promptly walked to our travel coach and a typical coach interior greeted us.



The coach reach second link at 7.30am, took a shot that overlooks the Malaysia shores.

Very crowded Malaysia Custom.

Finally, leaving for our breakfast destination after getting past the custom.



Typical queue at the toll.



After breakfast, we bought some local delights from the Mr Sotong shop.



We past by Jusco Mall, the biggest mall in West Malaysia.



Tour guide informed us that it will be another 2 hours ride before we reach the first destination for lunch...Zzzz...Zzzzz...............



Finally, we reach the destinations [ Lunch and Ostrich Farm] after a long 2 hours ride.



We took some shots of the lunch items..



So call 'Lobsters'...

Before:



After:





A short walk around the small & quiet town. Looking out for the shop selling lotus pastries..







A lobster statue for those deceased lobsters that sacrifices during their fight for survival to become our lunch..



Afterwhich, the coach took us to the ostrich farm near by.

Ostrich's egg..



New borns..



Grown-ups..



After death: 来阿！来阿！Ostrich Satay...1 for RM$4.50....来阿！来阿！



After visiting the Ostrich farm, we went to the Desaru Fruit Farm.

Before entering the fruit farm proper, we attended one of the Honey-bee product sale talk.



Entering Fruit farm, led by a internal tour guide..leading us through a few types of fruit trees..

Dragon Fruit Tree



Jack Fruit tree





Durian Tree



Passion fruit



A visit to the animal farm within the fruit farm.

Young calf getting fed.



Roosters and hens roaming around freely.



Monkeys feeding themselves with lime juice...





Hundreds of Koi in a nearby pond..



Dinner was at this restaurant.



After dinner, we walked around the vicinity..



Famili Mart..a mall mainly for the Malaysians..



After the walk, we assembled at the ferry point and we went cruising down the river looking out for fireflies....saw lots of them, too bad they could not be captured by camera..

Just one below..



That concludes the end of our tiring 1 day tour..

-SGMale

First day at work!

Didn't sleep well last night cos I was having diarrhea just before I went to bed. Mainly because I am nervous about starting work today. Whenever I am nervous and stressed out, I will have butterflies roam wildly inside the stomach & uncontrollable diarrhea bothering me. But then, It could also be the dinner that I had, cod fish and grilled prawns. Maybe they are not well-cooked, or maybe it's because of food-poisoning, seafood mixing with Choya.

Conclusion: Diarrhea - I have a very weak stomach. hehehe..

However, this kind of weird feeling [a.k.a fear] goes away or "escape" once I am in the office. Haha... Why is it so? I don't know the reason myself. Maybe if I do someday, I can be a doctor, hee...;p

Ok, back to my first day at work. First, I am very impressed by the newly renovated office with its interior design, their cosy and state-of-the Art work-stations, their "hotel-standard" toilets and their well-equiped pantry with Nescafe instant coffee maker etc.

Hm... I was thinking and day-dreaming about my dream desk when the HR executive briefed me on the company policy etc. Afterwhich, he brought me around to the 2nd storey office for orientation and introduction. I was then getting more and more impressed as we past by more office areas. Lastly, he told me we are done and he will bring me to the warehouse area to see my office area. We pass through another bigger pantry before arriving at the warehouse. The warehouse consists of 2 levels, with cartons stacked neatly.

Then he brings me through a side door at the warehouse, he commented 'There's your work-station'. I stepped in, and I had the shock of my life. I was utterly stunt and stood there staring blankly at the 'dream desk' and at the same time feeling very disappointed and sorry for myself. Why? Why? Why??? There isn't any computer on the desk at all and a messy desk greeted me.

OMG! I sms-ed SGMale, he said "hahaha", nevermind lah, so long they can pay you well, so be it. Ok lor, I thought to myself, at least I got an aircon blowing at me, and that I won't be complaining about the hot weather like I did so everyday at home. What's more? It's free aircon and at the same time, hair-dryer cos it's blowing at my hair all the time, scattering my "dandruff" to all others.

Muhahahaha.....;p

-SGFemale

Bidding farewell to life of a 'tai-tai'

Got a call this morning from my agency informing that I got the job I applied for and salary confirmation. I was asked to start work tomorrow and I agreed.

Have to bid farewell to my "tai-tai" status again and say "hello" again to working life. Have to pack up my lazy and carefree mood and put up my "concentration" mask to fight the battle from tomorrow onwards. Haha.... Isn't that scary? Just joking lah! I am glad that I have found this job, happy that I am able to learn new things.

Went down to agency to sign off the contractual agreement in the afternoon then went shopping with SGMale. He took some time off to celebrate this "special" occassion with me. As I am in good mood, I decide to cook dinner for SGMale.

Cod fish


Grilled prawns with cheese and scallops

Ending the sumptuous meal with
a bottle of Choya..yummy..;p




-SGFemale