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• Guys and Gals, I did not went for my teambuilding this morning instead witness my arrival of my new born baby at Columbia Asia, Bandar Puteri Puchong.
• The mother and the baby both are doing fine ....
• It was an unexpected early delivery (37 1/2 weeks) ... cause we did our gynae visit last Saturday to confirm that my baby will not deliver early so I can go for my teambuilding safe and sound.

The Drama...

• But everything is possible and unexpectedly happened ... was on my way to my office with my colleagues .... got a call from Yve that she suffer major water beg spill .... in fact, she did told me middle of the night that water been dripping.
• By right, yve should be admitted to hospital immediately when the water beg burst and need to deliver within 12 hours ... I slept like a pig and just nod my head .... we also did not bother much since we got no experience at all.
• I woke up at 5am and waiting CT to pick me up. Luckily was 10km away before I reach office, my colleagues who heard my conversation with yve and gynae ... immediately he make a u turn and send me back home quickly (car pooling)
• Arrived home, and immediately took our luggage and rush to the hospital at 7.20am ... by the time check up and everything is almost 8am....we did some cam-whoring before Yve been induced.

Dylan, come and cam-whore with daddy ... and Dylan yawn (I am sian liow, everytime daddy take my picture...boring leh)

• Thanks to the Gynae (Dr. Ng SP), Midwife (Indra) and Assistant Nurse (Jacqueline) for their caring, constant monitoring and profesionalism ... no doubt in their experience .... Yve did not suffer much pain and able to walk after that ... the labor took 10 mins with one push...and Dylan was out 11.40am ...
• Me and Yve wanna say thanks to friends and relatives who came and visit us and Dylan....thanks for the gift too. Would like to say thanks for the lovely sms wishes to my friends, school friends, college friends and colleagues (DiGi, IBM & Maxis) ..I am sorry that I not able to reply all ur smses ... thanks thanks.

My experience in the labor room ...

• The labor facilities is no doubt ...me and yve very satisfied with their service and everything. Very well equiped and cleanly sterilized .... even the gynae who perform the delivery would need to wear a high white boots ....

Very high tech now...use notebook to monitor Yve progress .... very nice labor room!

• The midwife is knowledgeable and experience .... why I said that, for preggies, they will know when a full hand insert to the pxxxx to check the baby position....
• For those not scared to see bloods spilling out and all over the floor .... u can come and witness it! I watched the whole process and was amazing ... now i know the great sacrifice of a mother!

The ward is excellent ... nurses there are very friendly too...

• The ward was nice...like a resort ... some people wanna labor there too after looking at the hospital and the ward room.
• The damage (total bill) still unknown yet....
• Till now, I need to get some good rest ... been nearly 24hrs I got no sleep....adioz.

Note: I will train him to become a famous Baby NuffNanger!

Labels: Bandar Puteri Puchong, columbia asia hospital, dylan tay, first great grand son, my new born baby

Labels: digi event, teambuilding

• I wonder how come I did not post up this post .... this was taken early this year or last year? Brian, when was this taken?
• Met up with Brian and Cherlyn who just came back from UK long time back.
• Worry that I not able to join their gathering on 16th Jan @ OUG Steven's Corner ... better to meet up with them before they go back to UK.

• We went for lunch at Little Penang Cafe @ KLCC ... very nice penang authentic food served here.
• We had a good lunch and good chat for very long too ... thanks for the souvenir too.

• We have known for many years from Internet Gathering till now ... until we both got married too ....
• Hope to see u both this year or coming CNY!

Labels: brian and cherlyn, food photos, food review, KLCC, little penang cafe

• Sorry for my late post on this main event as I was tied down with work. Firstly, I am glad I am 21km finisher. Secondly, very suffering and painful run for me .... read thru my experience...
• It was my first time to participate a real 21km half marathon after my great achievement in 20km Great Eastern run (2hrs 10mins) early this year.
• Anyway, without a proper & sufficient training and preparation for this KL Half marathon run .... it was a suffering and painful moment for me. Imagine I had a real training with Johny for once ... that was a week before the KL Marathon event.
• Furthermore, I had company party with foods and beers ...bad timing ... i know it is my fault and face my consequences during the run.

Position 1300 out of 2800 21km runners...not bad result for me thou I cramp at 18km and walk n slow jog back to finishing line. I am dissapointed with the finisher medal quality ... dun feel like a pewter and the string is sew to joint it ... wtf for international marathon quality!

• This is my story of my running experience
  3.15am - woke up and have light breakfast and massage my leg with yoko yoko.
  3.45am - left house to Dataran Merdeka
  4.10am - parked at Lake Garden...
  5am - watched the 42km flag off ...
  5.30am - start my warm up
  6.15am - my 21km flag off
  7.20am - pass by Berjaya Time Square (approx 10km mark - 1hr 5 mins)
  @ 18km mark - suffer bad cramp and got to rest and look for first aider for aid. Continue to walk and slow jog to the finishing line.
  - Finish my 21km with timing of 2hrs 36mins ... off my target of 2 hrs 15mins.


• Worse part is walked back to carpark at Lake Garden ... even old folks asked how am i doing cause was limping all the way back to the carpark....so paiseh ler!

42km or 195km finisher? Not so nice and confusing 42km finisher t-shirt ... Johny prefer his Great Eastern 30km finisher shirt which is much better quality and nicer design...

• Here are my comments and review on the marathon after my run
  Good stuff:-
  1. Nice weather
  2. Good traffic control
  3. Comfortable running vest
  
  Bad stuff:-
  1. Finisher medal very low grade and 'laubeh'
  2. Refreshment only 100 plus drink and banana ... expecting for more than that
  3. No queue for bag and medal collection ... saw some people can take more than 1 medal.
  4. 42km runners complaint no water at water station ... some need to run to petrol station and restaurant to buy water.
  5. Very bad guidance after crossing the finishing line, don't know where to go and what to do.
  6. more blunders ... please read TheStar article here

Labels: 21km, kl marathon 2009, marathon review, pictures

• My uncle who came back from China, told me to try this exotic food from China ...
• Wondering it contains melamine a not cause is China product.
• When I open the container....damn it, why all looks like fried worm only.

• The worm looks huge and at first I reluctant to take a bite ... but when my Uncle told me it is spicy taste one .... ooo la la, i love spicy food.
• Took my first bite and guess wat, it is crunchy like Twisties only ... and ate a few more.
• Really enjoy this so called fried worm ....

• Anyway it is a Fried Ginseng Root ... hehehe.

Labels: china exotic food

• Above was the theme 'Shake It, Move It' for my annual company party event ... we don't have any annual dinner at Hotel or watever ... but DiGizens do party a lot ... this is consider our annual dinner.
• Happened last friday, was consider like a day off to the staff ... that's where in the morning my department gathered at Bukit Cahaya for team session.
• We all back to office at 2pm for this event ... this was a close guarded and secret event when they mention this theme, dats why we are not allowed to come into office in the early hour ... no one knows wats going on cause we are told to clear our lockers.

top left pic: Johan (CEO) officiate the event ... rest of pics: We need to remember those words in the tunnel when we cross by ... lots of other fun and challenges ... time for group pics for rememberance.

• It was a real fun day for the staff ... we explore the entire office by completing a task in every station at every floor and corner of the office.
• We need to get a stamp from the booth for every task completed as a team in order to allowed to enter to the Town Hall.

One thing I notice, lots of Digizen love to be in camera and love to pose for pics .... what I can say, I truly enjoy working here ... really have fun and din bother to think bout work at the moment.

• Basically we are divided into groups and lots of fun ... we had roti canai making, dance class, balancing, face and skin painting, iq solving and etc....imagine 30 booths of task to be completed.

• I must say that I am over enjoy and totally forgotten bout my KL Half Marthon run ...
• Was running up and down the staircase ... gosh ....so tiring ler.

• At 6pm , the whole session ended with the speech given by our CEO - Johan.
• Everyone break to the parking lot area to start party ...
• U know the first longest queue is which stall .... BEER stall and not food stall ... darn ...
• You can see my CFO in shorts (below pic) ... cool right ... this is how casual we are!

• We have Mumbai as our performer and DJ Joey G to play the music for the night.
• Oh yeah, we have our local DiGi staff talent competition... damn kao cool man!

We thirst for beer ... it took me almost 30-40mins of waiting time to queue to get 2 mug of beers ... Mumbai in action and the hakka dancers...

• Introducing all the funny and happening Digizens ...
• We work hard and we play hard too ... beer is the motto of the company ... ooops, is the staff motto.... hehehe

Deejay Joey G (correct name ah) spinning the table and we got local HAKKA dance dancers .... CEO takings pics with the staff ...

• As usual , start to cam whoring and taking pics with my colleagues ....

top pic: the beauties in my team .... rest of pics: my dept members ... all kaki makan, kaki minum and wet kaki

• Check out the coolest and funkiest band on earth .... by DiGi.
• With the consumption of high liquor and beer intake ... everyone start to party and dance ... imagine ppl brought in thodi as well ... power ler!

I dunno where on earth the band came from ... everyone is enjoying the performance ...

• Pics with my buddies in DiGi.

top left pic: clarence lee, well known to nuffnang team ... top right pic: Kevin and May Wong, husband & wife in DiGi second row left pic: introduce Casey Mok , not Karen Mok yeah, important person for my projects ... from procurement third row left pic: macam couple lah when Jasprine feed Yun Loong bottom right pic: Shereen, damn kao good drinker ... bottom left pic: May Wong, my first DiGi colleague I know when I were still in Maxis....we know from clubbing ...

• The best part for me .... FOODS .... my most sinful thing I have done ....
• Now I know why I cramp at 18km ... maybe due to my weight and alcohol

Drank a lot of beer and makan a lot...very guilty ler....

• Worse thing is they brought in luk luk van and thousands of satays ... how to resist ler!
• Damn nice variety of food here ... and it is buffet style ....unlimited food.
• Compare to my previous annual company dinner, u might asking which food i like ... i prefer this kind of food ....

Popiah ... and Nasi lemak & lekor kerepok .... yummy ler ... the lekor very nice to eat while drinking Heineken beer!

• Any other company have this kind of big and crazy party? ... do share with me please ... I might want to apply a job there ... :)

Labels: digi colleagues, digi event, dj joey g, mumbai, shake it move it

Labels: digi event

• Splendid and simply delicious food served by this restaurant.
• Since this is my second visit to here, ordered different dishes and taste not bad too.
• Definitely will be a 3rd visit to try other dishes.

• Even normal days also so pack with people ... damn ... this restaurant getting famous liow.

Labels: Bandar Puteri Puchong, food pictures, food review, restoran fu gua thong

• Because that all the staff were not allowed to enter into DiGi last Friday before 2pm ... so my department decided that all the staff gathered and worked at Bukit Cahaya, Shah Alam.
• The committee organize a potluck brunch also .... lots of food and I sponsored snacks which is my favorite.

• Been almost 10 years or more that I did not visited Bukit Cahaya ... the place looks the same.
• Most of us car pooled and arrived at 9am. Then we start to makan and taking pics before the discussion begins.
• It was not a working day as we did not bring notebook ... very relaxing and feeling fresh to have discussion in this forest reserve.

• We rent two chalets to have the discussion ... we were divided into two groups.
• Compare to my previous working experience in Maxis, there was nothing like this being organized.
• In Maxis, it was a very formal discussion but in this discussion, we can drink, eat and speak up anything we want....very very open!

• This is my department team members ...
• I can say a very young and happening team

We were preparing for the discussion ... writing the main agenda to be discuss...

• We took some pictures here for rememberance ...
• Don't know when is the next time I will visit here again ... probably with my kid.

All smile please ...u r on camera...

• We end our session at 12pm and we need to be at office by 2pm for the next event ....
• STAY TUNE for my next event post .... PARTY ! PARTY !

Labels: bukit cahaya, digi, shah alam

Labels: digi, forest reserve, heineken beer, teaser post

My biggest challenge for the year .... KL Marathon 2009, 21km for me.

• Last weekend was my first full training by my drill sergeant Mr. Johnybravo.
• Followed Johny to jog from Lake Gardens to Jalan Tunku ... 11km + run with many up hills....damn kao suffering.
• For my previous 20km Great Eastern run, I have trained hard for it and manage to complete 20km at the time of 2 hrs 15mins ...and for KL Marathon, my first serious training was last weekend only and I've gained 7kg recently!
• I guess I need to prepare for the worse and ready to suffer the pain and 50% confidence that I can make it to the finish line.

• The reasons are I've been busy eating with my colleagues and partying this week cause my company got a big bash party .... beers, fried foods and u will see once I posted it up. Stay tune!
• Wish me all the best for my Half Marathon run this Sunday 28th June 2009 ...

Labels: dataran merdeka, kl marathon 2009

RIP Michael ...

Labels: michael jackson dead, mourning

• Thought of ordering a normal chee cheong fun for breakfast ...
• When Yve brought the plate over .... I asked how come you add radish cake with it.
• Yve told me this is melaka chee cheong fun style that it comes with radish cake.
• Taste good and cheap too...RM 2 per plate!

• Difficult to find cheap & nice yong tau foo nowadays ...
• Luckily nearby Yve's house, there is one stall selling fresh and yummy yong tau foo.
• Early in the morning, the stall will be packed and by 10 am if u come late....no more liow.
• Next time will get the restaurant name and the location.
• How cheap .... i think this cost less than RM 8 for 2 bowls of dry kuew teow.

• Must make him addict to cam whoring ...
• First shot ... he looks to cool and blurr ...
• Second shot ... tickle him a bit and finally he smile and laugh (forcefully)....muahaha.

Labels: brian, chee cheong fun, food photos, food review, melaka, tengkera, yong tau foo

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Labels: cloud computing, g-asiapac.com, google apps reseller in malaysia

• One of the weekday ... a last minute msn message send out by Loke to have lunch.
• Came from Shah Alam all the way to pick them up and have lunch and coffee at Midvalley.
• Lots of thing to catch up and gossip ... hahaha ...

• We decided to lunch at Pasta Zanmai since it is my first time there.
• I must say the food there is delicious ... thou it is small portion and bit expensive ... the taste is delicious and yummy.
• The taste is better than Pasta De Gohan @ Sunway Pyramid.
• Here are some of the food we ordered:-

• It practices open kitchen so you can see how your food is being served and it also serves a lot of unique and special pasta, with japanese flavor.

• After our lunch, we head to Starbucks for a coffee drink and continue our chit chat session.
• Thanks for the coffee treat!

Labels: alvin and yian huei's wedding, food photos, food review, loke, midvalley, pasta zanmai