Work! Work! Work!... the repeating word in my mind this morning.
After taking a day off... The pile of work didn't go away with my running nose... there were still in my email and my desk :-(
Anyway, it gotta be a busy day for me today... gotta go right now. At least i have something to look forward... Tonight cocktail party.
My body was fighting since last Saturday after my CPIM exam. Finally this morning my body has surrender himself to the cold :'(
I worked up with the whole body muscle soreness... this was an indicator that my body has surrender to the virus as i did not have any gym session for the past 2 days. I have no choice but accept this and sent a mail to my boss for a day off.
Hopefully, i could recover fast enough for my Penang trip, not fully but at least in the recovery trend... otherwise i would be suffered the whole weekend in Penang. :-(
I took a day off to bring my colleague from US, Monika to visit our historical garden city of Malacca. It was a gloomy day when we started our journey from KL. We left KL @ about 7am. I shown Monika the prestigious "longkang" or drain :-p a.k.a Smart Tunnel. We stopped over @ McD for a quick breakfast before continued our journey to Malacca.
The traffic on the highway from the Sg Besi Toll until Seremban was a little out of my expectation. No jam but the amount of cars were more than what i expect (I expect only me and a couple of cars driving towards Seremban, but.... ) Anyway, it was smooth moving along the highway and we reached the Air Keroh Tourist Information Center @ 8:30am.
The curry powder factory
Monika's has a shopping list from US to purchase 12 packs of curry powder from a specific curry powder factory in Malacca. We managed to find the factory and to my surprise, the factory is already 70 years old. This curry powder factory is already managed since the grand father of the owner... three generation business. Managed to take a couple of picture while waiting for the packing of the 12 packs curry powders. After purchased the curry powders, we headed to the post office for sending the curry powders out to US. I dropped Monika @ the post office and went to park my car.
70 years old curry powder factory
Owner of the curry powder factory
Historical Sites
Since it's two hours before lunch, I brought Monika to visit the Port De Santiago fortress gate i.e. the landmarks of Malacca built by Portugese.
Malacca Sultan Palace
We hike up to the St Paul Church and then had our lunch @ the chicken rice ball place.
Chicken Rice Ball
Old Malacca Town
Jonker Street
Tengkara Kling Mosque
Cheng Hoon Teng temple
Nyonya Cendol
Went into the Malacca Museum, later took some picture surrounding the dutch square. I brought Monika to taste the famous Capital Satay Celup in Malacca... :->
Dutch street @ Dutch square
Capital Satay Celup
Hit KL @ about 10pm and i was tired and i belief Monika too... Sent Monika to the hotel downtown and I headed back home.
Need to recover ASAP...
I was not feeling well since yesterday after i was stressed out on preparing my two exams today. Finally the exam is over but i'm also over too... :-p Now, I'm sick and having a running nose. It got worsen after i had the Panadol Soluable... *sneeze* *sneeze* :'(
I better hit the bed early tonight and hopefully i could hit the gym tomorrow afternoon to workout and bring myself back. I could not afford to get sick as i will be busy for the next two weeks...
Monday
- Need to complete all my transition documentation.
- Settle all my outstanding items.
Tuesday
- Continue the transition even though Monika has gone back to US.
- Continue another teleconference transition to the US folks. Another few hours on the phone.
Wednesday
- Clean up my cubicle, throw away some long sitting document in my drawer :-p Get my belongings back to my house.
- Prepare the Friday training in Penang.
- Last call for all the outstanding items.
- 6:30pm, Attend a cocktail function @ Sky Bar, Traders KLCC. Got invited for the function last week.
Thursday - National Holiday
- Leaving KL for Penang with Sbanboy. Sbanboy, thanks for inviting me to travel with you to Penang.
- Hope to take more picture with the this trip.
Friday - Not a business trip <-- My own trip working from Penang (hopefully my boss is okay with this)
- Work from Penang office, conduct my last training in Penang.
- Say goodbye to my colleagues in Penang *sniff sniff* <-- i had to say goodbye :'(
Saturday
- Don't have any plan... any suggestion!
- Pay a visit to Chilis @ G-hotel to meet Mahen. Yummy! Mahen, what drinks are you going to prepare for me this round!
Sunday
- Headed back to KL in the evening...
Monday - Thursday
- 4 Days Off to attend my CSCP course ( i'm going to pay for myself for this course)
Friday
- Second last day in the Cyberjaya office.
- Playing the waterpolo games after lunch with the Cyberjaya team.
- Attend the farewell party at Borneo Rainforest Cafe (opposite Sunway Hotel) at night <-- Not a company official party, my colleague has helped to organize.
Saturday & Sunday
- No plan yet... hopefully i could take a good rest.
Monday
- My last day with my current company... Will get back to the office to hand over my laptop and my badge to the IT, security and meet the HR personnel for exit interview.
- Attend the official lunch with my manager from US and my site manager + all my colleagues whom are going to leave on the same day.
- Say goodbye to all my colleagues ... *sniff Sniff*
Tuesday
- Beginning of a new chapter!
- What to do? errrr... (will think it later)
As of today March 15th 2008 - The countdown shown that i have another 16 days, 1 hour, 33 minutes, 1 seconds to begin my new chapter.
I happened to search for some banned commercial and encountered this clip from Youtube regarding the metal detector @ airport. Whenever you travel from country to country especially you need to go through the airport security... this is what you should be aware :-p if there is a beep... what is the 1st thing you should do? take off your clothes or ...
By now, you should have some idea what you will be going to do next time you encountered a beep... LoL.
I was regreted to sign up for 2 exams this Saturday. Although i managed to finish one book, i still have another one to go. The 2nd book is not as easy as the first one. I have been struggling to finish one chapter just before lunch. Hopefully i would be able to finish at least 3 chapters before 5pm. If i could managed to do it, i will be going to the gym this evening, otherwise i need to stay @ home to finish the cahpters :-(
Let's see how it's go... gotta to hit the book again :-(
Ciao!
