friends are the most precious thing in the world: September 2010

It was four o'clock in the morning, I was supposed to be in deep sleep...... yet I was turning and tossing in bed!!! I could not even fall asleep , all thanks to the slamming, smacking and pisssssss sound I heard continuously!!! Finally I gave up trying to get into my deep slumber!!! I was wondering where the heck the noise came from....... I got up from bed and decided to investigate what was going on !! When I opened my room door, I saw that the kitchen and the balcony lights were on... Who and what the person was doing in the kitchen..

I tiptoed to the kitchen and tried to peek ...... To my horror, I saw my brother squatting on the floor , with one insecticide spray in his left hand and a slipper in his right....!!!!!!

"What the heck are u doing at this time?" I asked my brother in an irritable tone of voice (Who can be nice still when u are awoken unnecessarily and the next day you start work at 7am).

My brother look at me , smiled and said ( In Teochew dialect) "我在杀死这些死蟑螂!!!"" 我在帮阿妈铲除这些死蟑螂！！！！
The next splitting seconds, I broke into laughter..... I could not control myself!!!!
My brother then started to ventilate ............ I started to yawn !!!!!
Then I saw the bodies lying on the floor and I warned him to stop coz it was disturbing me and he can continue his job at a much NORMAL TIME!!!!

In the end, I took some pictures coz he threatened to leave the bodies there in the kitchen till my grandma sees "them" otherwise she will not believe that there were lots of cockroaches.

I dont know about others, but for me: my colleagues and my bosses are my friends when we are not working. Many others had asked me : Friends are friends, Colleagues are colleagues, you can't mix them. I am very proud to declare that when we are working, we are serious about work and when it comes to play, we are serious too.

Working is a time to understand your colleague's own working styles, and play is the best time to understand the person as who he or she is!

Thus we had arranged a trip to KL to relax and get away from work. It is a good time for me coz it had quite long since I last went for a holiday. There was suppose to be 12 of us going, but at the last minute one of my dear friend M was unable to make it due to unforeseen circumstances that popped up at the last minute. It was a pity that she could not join us.

This is my first time to travel to KL by car, initially I was quite ambivalent in going to KL, but I was very happy that I did not regret my decision. We drove in to Malaysia in 3 cars, A's, K's and D's cars. I was arranged to join A's car for the first part of the journey. As usually, I had actually fell asleep throughout. At the 2nd part of the journey, I joined C in K's car, again I fell asleep until I reached KL's city area. I was supposed to chit chat with C on the 2nd part of the journey but I just can't help as it is my habit. Every time when I travel on long distance on bus or car, the sleep bugs will attack me!

I was saying I got awake when we reached KL, I couldn't sleep anymore as we got lost on our way to the hotel. The map had stated that the hotel is in the Ampang area. Since this is the first time for the male drivers to drive in to KL, we all placed our hope on K's GPRS system. We were lost for almost an hour, and while turning around KL, we then realised that many areas in KL were called Ampang. We saw Ampang Mall, Ampang Walk etc........

Finally we followed the GPRS and finally the system sounded "YOU HAVE ARRIVED!"
But to our horror, There was no hotel in sight but a petrol kiosk station!

Fortunately, we managed to get to our destinations finally.

As usually , we went shopping, eating, playing and also watching..... coz I remembered all of us were excited about World Cup 2010: the semi-finals and the finals.

Talking about watching, I remember the rooms allocation, we were staying in an apartment hotel. There are two bedrooms, a bathroom and a living room with an attached kitchen. I was allocated to an apartment with C, D and his wife. Then my neighbour was three "old ladies", whereas S, A and K were allocated on the ninth's level.

One thing I hated about the apartment was the bathroom, there was the one and only bathroom! There were no attached bathroom in the rooms, in the end we all have to queue up, taking turns to shower! of coz the guy will always be the last! hahaha........

On our first night before sleep, we actually played board game called "THE MAD MAGAZINE!" D brought it along on the trip just in case we felt bored in the hotel room. It was an unusual game, but we had a good time ! To me it is not really a game, BUT 我感觉被整！I don't really know how to describe it but if anyone have come across it, pls try! I am very sure SH and C will agree with me! It was totally unlike Monopoly, you got to win lots of money, but this game, in fact you have to lose all your money to win! Then there were " stupid steps like exchange seats with the person on your left........ imitate your fav animal and ........lot of crazy acts and stuff!

When I come to think of it, it always make me laugh!!!!

On the second day, shopping was still the first choice, and I remember half of us were stuck in a shop selling lingerie! Hahahaha!
Then we all met for meals, and that was the time when A show us the scary masks he bought. The purposes of the masks were for a dancing item he is preparing on Nurse's Day celebration. (I will try to add in the video).

Subsequently after a tired day our for shopping, some of us planned to go for massage. Before going for massage, we actually took our dinner first @ a Persian Restaurant. It was every one's first time to enjoy (Present Day: Iran) Persian food and tea . It turned out to be quite delicious and I don't mind to try it again. The atmosphere was also great!!

After the meals, we went for our massage! And the funny thing was there was some blunders happening right in the massage palour!!

Most of us chose to massage head and shoulder, but the truth is it was almost the whole upper body (of coz excluding the front). Before the massage started, we were brought into a dim-litted room with beds side by side, and there were screens too for each beds. We were then told to change and were given clothes that were similar like operating gown. S and I were wondering how to put it on, strings in front or at the back?????? and must we take out our bra?????? I actually asked the questions out loud, forgetting that the rest of the massage customers can hear what I just asked???? S was embarrassed by me!!!! Haha!!

Now forget about me..... The next person was D, he was the only male who went with us for massage and he was the noisy one...... ahahahahah!!! Pain !!!pain!!! (just joking... I can't say much.....he will slaughter me!!!!!) but There is one thing I can share: The massage lady was very pleased to have a " Handsome customer!" She kept praising him after the session..... Share a secret: I said earlier, we chose head and shoulder massage, but he was even better, given the more, including massage on his bum and legs........ Hahahaha!!

Since after massage, we returned to our hotel, the night was still young, S, SH, SK and I played mini majong on the dinning table...... The rest of them went to bed early as they need to wake up to watch the finals of the World Cup 2010.

The next day, we pepared to return to Singapore.... I nearly forgot about my passport, but luckily I managed to find it. It had fallen out from my pocket onto the sofa while I was watching TV!! I would not dare to think what will happen if I can't find my passport!!!!! "--""

I then sleep my way home!!!!!! all the way back to Singapore! At the last rest stop, we had our lunch at A&W....... We missed that coz A&W is no longer operating in Singapore!!!!