Waiting for leaves to be approved... Phuket here i come

Boss... i deserve a vacation rite? :-> Please approve my leaves.

Anyway, i have planned out my vacation @ Thailand ... it will be a 7D/6N free & easy trip to Phuket / Phi Phi Island.

Day 1 KL- Phuket (arrived Phuket at 1300-local time)

--> Any suggestion what to do the rest of the afternoon.

Day 2 Phuket - Phi Phi (afternoon ferry to Phi Phi)

Day 3 Phi Phi : relax @ the beach / walking around Phi Phi island

Day 4 Phi Phi : Viking Cave and surrounding islands

Day 5 Phi Phi - Phuket (afternoon ferry to Phuket) Hanging out in the bar area @ nite.

Day 6 Phuket - Day trip / go for massage

Day 7 Phuket - KL (1600 - Local time, arrived KL @ 1815)

I have not worked out the detail, this is just a high level. My friend and i will decide what to do when we reach Phuket on day 1. Anyway, I will book the hotel and the ferry before we leave KL. Looking forward for my Phuket trip... hehehe... two weeks later i will be having my vacation @ Phuket Thailand. :-)

Hey boss... need your approval for my leave lah!...

Phuket & Phi Phi ....

Hurray, I'm going to resume my Thailand vacation planning :-)

Guess what? I will be going to Phuket & Phi Phi Island early October for about 7 days. Date is not confirmed yet as i still need to obtain my boss approval for my 5 days leave. My friend is okay to go with me on the period after we had discussed last night via phone...

One step nearer to Phuket. BTW, I just checked and the Air Asia ticket is only RM29.99 x2 (Return) not included tax. This is much more cheaper than during Hari Raya. I'm so excited to leave KL for a 7 days vacation @ Phuket / Phi Phi Island.

Will continue later... need to get back to work :-p

Malaysia International Fireworks Competition (MIFC) - Italy

I just uploaded a couple of video to my YouTube a/c. Thanks to Corine and Matt for helping to take this video shots :->

MIFC-Italy #1


Wah! Wah! and Wah!... Spoil all the background music. You could imagine how amazing is the fireworks eh! :-p

MIFC-Italy #2


MIFC-Italy #3


MIFC-Italy #4


MIFC-Italy #5

1 Week to APICS CPIM exam

I had the trial exam this morning ... how's the result? errr.... not very good. I expected this result as i only place 30% of the effort to study for the past two weeks. Not even 50%, so what do you think TZ? how could you score then... I had made up my mind that I have to start my study 2 hrs a day from tonight onwards. Besides, I have talked to my boss that i would take 2 days off from work to focus on my study... Wish me luck eh while i committed to put 110% effort ;-p

I was glad that i had identified the gaps via taking the trial exam. So now i know which is my focus for the remaining 7 days. The lecturer was quite worry about me passing the exam with my current status... I have ensured Dr Ng (the lecturer) that i will put lots of effort to get thru this exam on Sept 22nd 2007... so don't worry Dr Ng :-)

Before i start my study tonite... Let me go and get a nice nap lah! ;->

Oxidative Stress

Hey what is this? Is it a type of stress?

I have no idea until my friend Sbanboy asking me whether i would like to attend a 2 hours talk in Sime Darby Convention Centre this afternoon. There was a talk from well known Nutrition Doctor Dr Ray Strand. He wrote couple of books...

So what is Oxidative Stress? According to Wikipedia...

Oxidative stress is caused by an imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen and a biological system's ability to readily detoxify the reactive intermediates or easily repair the resulting damage. All forms of life maintain a reducing environment within their cells. This reducing environment is preserved by enzymes that maintain the reduced state through a constant input of metabolic energy. Disturbances in this normal redox state can cause toxic effects through the production of peroxides and free radicals that damage all components of the cell, including proteins, lipids, and DNA.

I'm so interested to find out more about Oxidative Stress and found some interesting sites which provide me more about Oxidative stress and its prevention method Antioxidants fruits and vegetables. Here you go some useful URL

1. NetDoctor.uk.com : http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/focus/nutrition/facts/oxidative_stress/oxidativestress.htm

2. DNA Measurements: http://www.cstl.nist.gov/div831/DNATechologies/DNA_Damage_Repair.htm

3. Medical News Today: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/79353.php

Anyway, it was a eye opener for me and learnt more about medical term... Would like to thanks Sbanboy and his friend for helping to get the ticket for this talk.

Saturday Nite out - Putrajaya Part II (backlog)

The fireworks started on time @ 10pm... it lasted for 20 mins. It was a superb location (thanks Matt for recommending). Guess what? (just between you and me ah!) We got free of charge yet the others have to pay for RM$44+ for this view. The only different is we were @ the extremely economic class i.e. the PICC parking bay but we did not even bother just only for 1.5hrs waiting + 20mins show.

me, Matt and Corine

After the 20mins show, we took a couples of shots with my tripod and remote control (of course with all of us into the picture). It turned out not that great but no complaint lah... hehehe...

The real compliant comes after... hehehe...

red color is actually cars back light... stucked in traffic to head out Putrajaya

After the shots, we were prepared to go back to the ERL station. Guess what? The traffic system out from PICC was sucks... hund I would said the organizer sucks too. We were asked to step down from one bus to catch another bus but the other bus was refused to allow us to go up. At the end we were asked to step up to the same bus and round the PICC again. Matt and I were so pissed off and we shouted at the organizer and the traffic controller. At the end, since Matt is an Ang Moh... they really paid respect to him and we got a bus headed back to ERL station. Matt was lucky to catch the last train back. Corine and I were struggling on the traffic out from Putrajaya.

Like a huge parking (on the way to the Toll exit to NKVE)

This is how the traffic look from Cyberjaya to the toll exit on NKVE. Corine has jammed in the traffic about 2hrs ... same as me roughly about 2.5hrs... moreover, i missed my the other nite out with my friends @ laundry bar :-(

link to part I : http://tz-life.blogspot.com/2007/08/saturday-nite-out-putrajaya-part-i.html
Fireworks photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7986917@N03/

Office was shaky this morning...

Oops! My chair was so shaky all of the sudden. Chinese belief that it was a bad sign for a shaky chair in the office. I think i about reaching the junction to make a change... :-p I felt shaky when i was having a discussion with my collague early this morning. After listening to the radio during lunch, i realized that there was a aftershock hit with 7.7 ritchel measured @ 7:55am (Malaysia Time) in Indonesia, exactly the time when i was having a meeting.

I still can't imagine how's the real earthquake felt... KL is so far from the epicenter and we have felt the shake... what if we were near to the epicenter... How many buildings will collapse and how many people will trap in the debris? Never wanna to imagine this... Anyway, i would pray for the people of Indonesia, hopefully they would be able to get help soon and all of them would be okay.

I'm glad Malaysia is not within the earthquake zone. Otherwise, we will be going to suffer and live in high risk zone.