So Far Away

I woke up with the cool down song in Bodypump ... "So far away" by Amici Forever. I have been searching for this song since a few quarters ago, still not able to get that from Internet for free! :->

I had a copy in my Windows Media playlist but i could not copy out from the playlist and place it into my iPOD. Anyone has a copy that i could place into my IPod :->

So Far Away by Amici Forever

There's a land that gave me life
That made me free that made proud
And someday I will return home to land of the Hawaii cloud
Where is home I hear you say so far away so far away
I hear your voice from afar
It haunts me where ever I stray
But I must follow a star so far away so far away
In the sun upon the breeze and in the roar of rolling waves
Like the roots of ancient trees that run so deep in the earth I crave
Where is home I hear you say
So far away so far away
I hear your voice in my heart
I miss you much more than I can say
But I must follow a star so far away so far away
Where is home I hear you say so far away so far away
Where is home I hear you say so far away

Happy Birthday Mom...

Today is my mom's birthday. Mom is in Hainan Island, China participates in the 10 days Ink Painting exhibition. She left China last Thursday and will only be back this coming Saturday. I have given mom a nice present on her birthday. I hope she likes it... You must have been thinking what kind of present i have given my mom... As a son,  I knew mom wanted so much to participate in this exhibition, so i signed her up in the trip. I hope mom enjoy the trip, looking forward for some pictures... 

Since, mom is not around today, dad has suggested to go out dinner with mom when she is back...

Happy Birthday Mom... I love you :-> 

13:30-18:00 --> 4.5hours

I must be out of my mind today...

 

After having lunch with my aunts and uncles, I headed to Fitness First IOI Mall as i have a PT session there @ 3 O'clock. I should have bought along my MacBook so that i could pop over to Starbucks and chill out there rather than hitting the gym so early. 

As I arrived @ IOI Mall 1.5 hrs early and no much thing can be done in the mall. So, I decided to attend Isaiah's BodyPump class. The new release of BodyPump is tough especially Squart, Chest, Lunges and Bi-cep Track... Imagine no rest in between for chest track... and lots of combination and bottom half for bi-cep. No mentioning the Squart ended with 12 bottom half. If you are BodyPump regular, you will understand how suffer is the bottom half :-p I was a little struggling on the class but sweat like a pig and wet the floor... LoL :-p

After the class, i straightaway hit the treadmill and get myself warm-up for my PT session. The PT session was quite okay today since Isaiah knew that i have attended the BodyPump earlier. We have changed the initial plan to next Wednesday i.e. 1 Rep Max exercise program to a functional workout targeting my whole body muscle at the same time focus on my core/smaller muscle which did not cover in bodypump. What was done in the PT session?

3 sets of Rotate Lunges 8 reps each - 15KG, 20KG and 25KG

3 sets of Chest Bench Press 8 reps each - 20KG, 25KG and 30KG

3 sets of Obliques rotate with barbell - 10KG, 15KG and 30KG

3 sets of Bi-cep curls 8 reps each (I forgot to check the weight)

3 sets of Tri-cep 8 reps each (Forgot to check the weight)

Abs with weight, bridge on the fitball

My energy was running low after the PT session. We ended the session with a light stretch. i went into the locker room to get my Nitrotech (Protein drink) that i brought for after workout. Felt better after drinking the protein drink. I prepared myself to attend my last class of the day i.e. RPM. Isaiah was teaching the RPM class and guess what? There were only three of us including Isaiah the instructor. It was not a motivated session today as the crowd was not there. Don't tell Isaiah, I nearly felt asleep when we hit track 4 i.e. recover track. This was not due to Isaiah class was boring, it's because my energy level was low. Fortunately i did not fell off the bicycle, otherwise... LoL. 

Now, after the 4.5 hrs of workout in the gym today, my body felt tired and some part of my body actually felt some soreness... moreover, i drank so much water and 100+ (isotonic drink) Hopefully, i would not get muscle pain on Monday (usually i will only feel the pain after one day... ).

It was a nice workout and i achieved working out in the gym for 4.5 hours in total :-p I still figure out whether i should hit the gym tomorrow (Sunday) or just stay @ home and relax myself since i have done enough for today :-p

Pay a visit to the Malaysia Largest Market ...

I managed to pay a visit to a huge market last Friday for the 1st time. I heard from friends and read lots of article about these kind of market for those people whom wanted to get a better opportunities. These kind of market usually jammed with people. The were no surprise with Malaysia's but still not as bad as what in China. You must be wondered what market i was visiting last Friday... hehehe definitely not a wet market (I don't go wet market :-p )... it was a job market i.e. Career & Training fair 2008 organized by Jobstreet.com

I reached Midvalley as expected and my ex-colleagues and friends still not arrived. So i have a chance to stand near the entrance of the fair to observed the how the crowd reacted and how the people walked in and out. Took a couple of pictures but too bad they did turn out good except this one :-( 

There were lots of young people holding a stake of files and quickly walked into the exhibition area. When I saw their facial expression, they were so enthusiastic to get a job. I bet they were Recent College Graduate that wanted a job fast to earn their first dollar/Ringgit. From the same view, i managed to see some of the sour facial expression too which i belief they failed to get what they expected. From my analysis, i think this guy was desperate for a job and could not get one over in the exhibition... poor him. As for me, i don't know why i wanted to go there, maybe i just wanted to observe the situation and get some feel of how the job market now. 

Once my friends arrived, we happily walked into the exhibition hall. AIG was our 1st stop... The AIG booth looked impressive and i filled out a form and mentioning that i would post my Resume later. Anyway, they have some games but i did not manage to win anything ... it wasn't my lucky day. :-> We moved over to others booths... managed to stop by Petronas, Obtech, Lenovo, TRW, Intel, AMD, Philip Morris etc. I also got to know a head hunter who were so keen to search for people with 10 years experience on Project Management and Supply Chain Related domain knowledge expert. She passed me her contact and i promised to send my resume over next week. 

Overall, the job fair was quite organized and kudos to the organizing committees. There were some hiccup as they kept asking the visitor to fill up the registration form somewhere else but they don't provide some tables other than the registration booth. I was so annoying with the lady that kept asking us as the visitor to leave the registration booth without a complete forms. So, i posted a direct statement to her and asked her to improve the situation later. Hopefully they improved that the next day. I knew she was not that happy... Oops! I might trash my career away in the career fair... ;-) 

Actually i did not get what i wanted but i did not feel disappointed as my kind of job will not be like so common that you could get it from these kind of job fair. I think the job fair is more benefit for those RCG and 4-5 years experience. Anyway, hopefully these group of people will get their job that they wanted... :->

We had dinner after visited the job fair and headed for 27 dresses.

Malaysia Largest Career Fair / Post Grad Fair and Entrepreneurship expo 2008

There are three fairs/expos will held in the same location i.e. Mid Valley Convention Center on April 4th - 6th 2008. The organizer has claimed that these three exhibition to be the largest fair/expo in Malaysia.

Since I'm not working, i'm thinking of paying a visit today afternoon together with my ex-colleagues... Let's see what i could get from the fair :-> Hopefully i could get a nice job with a nice company.

Detail:

Career & Training Fair: http://www.business.com.my/mctf2008/main.html

Post Graduate fair: http://www.lifelonglearning.com.my/pgef2008/ 

Entrepreneurship expo: http://www.business.com.my/ee2008/

Farewell Party @ Borneo Rainforest

Last Friday was the farewell party @ Borneo Rainforest. Waqar, my colleague has offered me to pull over night in his place. Thanks Waqar for hosting me.

We arrived Borneo Rainforest Cafe at about 7pm. Started with the food (oops! i forgot to take the picture of the food again :-( Anyway, the food was so so, what i enjoyed most was the crowd.) I managed to meet lots of old colleagues whom left the company for better opportunities outside... 

After the dinner at about 10pm, we moved over to the bar area... the organizing committee has reserved a nice corner for us to mingled around and dance. We started to drink and dance, slowly more and more people joined the dancing floor. It was an enjoyable and memorable night.

Group Photo

My two chill out friends

Dancing Guy

Beer Anyone

Drop by tz-photo for more picture...

Beginning of the new chapter...

I was sad to leave my previous company yesterday... it was a hectic day for me to get everything ready before end of yesterday. I was rushing here and there. Moreover, so many programs has been lined up for us whom were leaving in March 31st 2008.

Starting 8am, my last meeting with Penang folks to hang over the last piece of information. Once i finished the meeting, i got sucked into another room for the exit process, signed off lots of document. After completed the process, i walked back to my cub to transfer all important file from my laptop to the server and shared drive.

At noon, we had our lunch @ Verendah Cyberview Lodge. It was sad because our first team lunch was there 7 years ago but same venue for our last team lunch.. *sniff sniff*. Lots of picture taking and chatting, of course questioning on what's next :-p

Nice Lunch @ Verendah, Cyberview Lodge

Team picture 

The organizing committee has thrown a party for all of us whom are leaving on March 31st 2008. It was a sad moment and some of my colleague has cried out. Again a bitter sweet feeling for me. TZ is looking forward for the change.

Today, I woke up about 9 something... having stomach upset. I think must be eating too much yesterday :-p Anyway, just dumped my laundry to the washing machine and now in the dryer. I'm going to plan out what need to complete this week. Feeling a little unusual after not going to work... :-p My work now is to finish my resume and post it to the database.