Happenings All Around Me

College is back! And unfortunately, I am not really liking it due to the (expected) unfavourable timetable. However, the past 5 semesters thought me to just accept it although the Taylor's management could seriously put more effort into making something which everyone will be happy.

Was away over the past weekends for the roadshow in Penang. It was good, not great. The usual tense moments during midnight set up were amplified by minor explosions and fear of electricity. Someone could have died that night or all our equipments (sound system, tv, Wii, etc) could have been fried by the high voltage, but we were lucky. All thanks to an electric drill and one RM10 Sony Ericsson charger.

But what's fun without some sparks?

The 3 days went smoothly with good crowd and enthusiastic work. The good and cheap food deserves a mention as well as the H1N1 threat. One of my performers went for H1N1 test. Luckily it was negative but we were really crossing our fingers for the first two days. *fingers cramp*

On a personal side, I achieved or rather, I made it. It was the first project I am involved in from head to toe, in an almost authoritative way. Project manager is too far fetched (I shall leave that to Tony or Hsieng Loong). Second in command sounds better =) I am looking forward to the next two although it means lots of juggling between the final two tough subjects in college.

What's life without any challenges? I have never expected everything to be smooth in life (apart from whipped cream).

Bring it on!

NickLJF

-p.s- Pictures from Penang roadshow will be up in FB first because I am letting my colleagues have them first.

End of July, Hello August!

July has passed us all and it is time to welcome the 8th month known as August!

Nick has been really busy for the past few days hence the lack of updates. It has all been about work and August will be all about college and travelling. And work is never out of the equation =(

Last month, I had many people asking me:

“Are you studying or working now?”

My reply:

“Well I have one more semester to go and will complete it by November but I have been so engrossed with work that, now working is full-time, while studies is part-time.”

How true! July was the time to prepare for the Penang VHTP Roadshow. Drawing up stock lists, event programme, nagging suppliers and haggling over the price…it was fun but at certain points I thought I am not up to the mark. It was my first time tackling an event and thankfully, my colleagues were there to help. I am just crossing my fingers that everything goes well, and the suppliers in Penang do not screw me up at the very last minute.

The set up in 1Ufor the first road show, from 10pm till 7am…

So, if you are in Penang from the Aug 7-9, drop by Queensbay Mall and listen to me emcee-ing and make a fun out of myself playing games and doing demos on stage =)

College resumes this coming week and as usual, the timetable is not as good as everyone would have liked. I have only 5 classes in a week, and I have to be in college for four days. Comparatively, last semester I had to attend 8 classes in a week, and I only needed to go to college for 3 days.

In August, I would not be in KL every single weekend apart from the first weekend haha!

2nd weekend: Penang for work (Vitagen Road Show)

Hoping it will be a success like the first one

3rd weekend: Penang for Perry’s graduation

My best mate, since primary 1

4th weekend: S’pore to help out Ochacha Paragon’s opening

I am invading SG again!

5th weekened: Phuket, Thailand. Unofficial office trip!

Second trip to Thailand for 2009

Looks like August is gonna be a busy month as well. I can only hope that I can find time here and there to update the blog.

Take care everyone!

NickLJF

My 2009 Birthday Part 2 – Baby Winnie and Family

So here is the second part of the birthday celebration for this year.

It was held on the 4th of July and coincidentally, it is Baby Winnie’s brother’s birthday as well so, just like the previous celebration, it was a double birthday again!

From L to R: Baby Winnie, her mum, her dad, her bro Dennis and wife, her sis Michelle and bf

The food and drinks were good and here are the pictures:

Some chicken dish…

Lets not forget the beer =)

And the drinks were good too. 

As mentioned earlier, it was Dennis’ birthday on that night and I just ‘tumpang’ celebration at the same time.

Dennis and wife

Finally, pictures of Nick himself! :

The envious green cake with a smiley face! My current favourite, from Zen.

You can never be too cruel to cakes. You eat them eventually right?

Lastly, thank you very much baby =) Love ya!

 

NickLJF

I am still alive!

This time, it does not refer to my inactivity. Okay maybe a small part.

Last Monday night, I develop fever. For the next two days, it turned into high fever. All I can hear then is H1N1.....H1N1.....H1N1...

Luckily it is not. I think. The doctor did not ask me to undergo any test to check to see whether it is positive or negative. But here I am in the office so I guess I am doing fine. Or else, quarantine for all in the office, all at home, and the 100,000 people with me in Bukit Jalil watching Manchester United on both training day and match day haha!!

The fever finally went away on Saturday morning. That's 4 days of fever to scare the shit out of you.

This is by far the worse fever I ever experience. Thankfully, my family and Baby Winnie was there to take care of me when I needed them.

Watch out for the next birthday post! And the post regarding Man Utd in KL =)

NickLJF

My 2009 Birthday Part 1 – The Matcha Latte People

This was a year of catching up and spending quality time with my friends for my birthday. These moments beats any presents which I can get. Okay maybe not all but you get what I mean.

Had a few birthday dinners and this is the first one:

With my Ochacha mates. It is really wonderful to think that Ochacha has connected us in such a way. Bring me back my Ochacha Rocks!

We had dinner at Restaurant Yap Chong located at Jalan Pudu Ulu (where I grew up). The food was great (pics below) and travelling back to the road brings back fond memories as well.

Then we headed to Momo Cafe in Pandan Indah to have drinks.

Let the photos do the talking =)

From L to R: Edward, Me, Li Wah, Pui Ee, Sara and Snow

Pui Ee and her evil crazy laugh

My hand and it finally fell. Why me???

The birthday cake.

Snow Jie’s belated birthday and my brought forward birthday celebration.

They made us do crazy things….

Li Wah enjoying her cake

Pui Ee (left) and Sara. They used to look a like until the left one grew old

Edward left early to go clubbing, so there was only 5 of us left

And some random photos from the same night:

1) Dinner at Yap Chong’s

2) Drink at Momo Cafe

Thank you my Ochacha Mates =)

NickLJF

What The Hell?

Really WTH.

Does the National Censorship Board of Malaysia really think that Malaysians are so immature?

On the way to work today, I was listening to Ne-Yo's 'Mad' on radio. When it came to the part "So what the hell do we do now", WTH was censored. The only reason I know the words were WTH was because I have always heard it in the radio previously. WTH WTH.

Same case with I Kiss A *toot*, Love, *toot-ass* and Magic and so many others.

It is only words.

Those who can read and understand it are obviously sound-minded to know it is just a song. The rest wont even know what it means.

So here goes:

WHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELL

WHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELL

WHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELL

WHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELL

WHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELLWHATTHEHELL

NickLJF

The Birthday Headache

Come every June and July, my group of friends from primary and secondary school are in for a headache.

There is no less than 7 birthdays within 5 weeks and we practically go broke at the end of it and eat grass. And it also seems that as we grow older, the more we spend for our birthdays (because our lives get shorter by the year?)

For my birthday this year, one headache was thrown at me which is to decide the location for dinner. My birthday falls on a Monday, and traffic is never kind on any weekdays. I need a place which is convenient for all but I know there is an even greater cause: IT HAS TO HAVE GOOD FOOD AND NOT OVERPRICED.

All the good spots have been taken up by earlier birthday (Another disadvantage of having a later birthday during this peak period and not to forget, all wallets and purse are no longer wet (read: dry)).

Perry had his at Skybar, Randy’s video was made in Station 1, Jason’s birthday was at Wong Kok, and then there was Chilis and DELIcious for the two ladies (YES, you are no longer young).

So I really need help on this. Anyone? I am thinking of TGI’s Friday MINUS the whacky birthday celebration by their staff.

BUT…….if you guys wanna get me something, might as well get me things which I could use right?

This brings back memories of my 21st Birthday here.

For this year, here goes:

1) Xtah Crude Clay Sebastian

Styling clay for my hair from Sebastian (only available in salon). Notice the guaranteed quality? =)

2) Yet another hair product L’Oreal Studio Remix

3) If you are planning to get me shirts, get formal shirts with collar. I am suffering from T-Shirt overload.

4) Get me OCHACHA ROCKS drink from Ochacha Raffles City. Only available in Singapore =p

5) A hard disk would be good too since my 120GB is filled up to 121GB already.

6) Anything else you think fits me such as the Sony Alpha 300 dSLR, HP Pavilion TX series tablet notebooks, Nokia N97 LOL.

Most importantly, let me see your face at the party. Gifts are only secondary (But I know you guys are not that mean haha!)

NickLJF

The Need to Blog

Have you ever encountered a moment where you cannot resist the temptation to blog?

The reason I blog is because, I am afraid that one day, I will forget what I been through. Although I blog sporadically, at least it records a little part of me.

I know that I will turn back the pages in blog someday and retrace the memories I have experienced. Even though I have a self-proclaimed, own-renowned and internationally unheard of good memory, humans tend to forget.

Partly, is this reason that I am here blogging again. In fact, it is THE reason each time I return to blogging after a hiatus.

In the coming posts, I shall review back on the past semeter (5th) of college and also my journey in Versatrend. As I mentioned in earlier posts, Ochacha still matters a lot to me and I hope I can conjure a post for it.

I shall be fair and document everything good and bad alright? I think it is bullshit to throw away the bad and only keep good memories. Wouldn't that be cheating on yourself?

NickLJF

Boredom can be really boring, reflections.

Boredom drives you to do crazy things, like paying attention to your own blog AGAIN after a hiatus of 3 months.

The past three months had been eventful to say the least. As usual, I let work overburden me and spend my money on electronics.

Life without Ochacha felt weird initially. It was like losing an extension of myself. However, meeting up with the people I know from there, makes it all up. In fact, there will be a double birthday celebration for Snow and myself this coming Friday. And yes we are paying so all you little vultures out there from Ochacha, take note.

Time flies and many things change within three months. The essential things remained. Family is still healthy, Oscar is still naughty and my relationship is reaching two years soon. Baby Winnie will be graduating on Sunday.

As time flies, we age and that is something ineveitable. As we age, our responsibility grows. Just one more semester to go before I am officially off-studies (at least until I do my Masters). I have always wanted to go full-time working because when I earn my own penny, I take charge of my life. But deep down inside, I know, finishing my studies would be the worst thing to happen during my studying years. However, failure is not an option.

Sometimes, I just wish that I could turn back time. I am happy with what I went through, but there are so many things I could have done to make it better.

Everytime I think of my future, everything is associated with money. I remember saying this : 'You cant buy everything with money but with no money, you cant buy anything.' How true!

Boredom can really make you think of things you usually do not care about.

April Fool!

So which of you got fooled today?

I was at home practically the whole day so I did not fall for any ‘traps’ =)

I am supposed to update on my HK/Macau trip but the past week was heavy on me.

I was not feeling well throughout most of the time due to the weather. A lame excuse but consider this. I walk home from the train station daily and it doesn’t help when I am always caught in the rain and the following day the sun shines so brightly, it reminds me of the movie Knowing.

And then there are the assignments.

Time to hit the bed. I really need those hours of sleep before working my ass out this weekend in Midvalley.

Drop by and find me 3-5th April. Working on some event called Nutrition Week I think. Yes I really do not know what is in store for me.

Ah..the suspense =)

NickLJF