Too Busy

Hi....I have just change to new job and is in the mist of making myslef familiar with the operation and culture.

Currently I am very busy with ACCA revision plus irritating stupid traffic jam which eat at leat 1 to 2 hours of my daily schedule.

So I am not able to update this blog so frequent and mostly will put it on hold until 10 December after my ACCA exam....

I have lot of exciting day nowadays that I wanted to capture in the blog....But dun worry, I promise I will be back very soon......

All the best to those in ACCA.....Lets PIA together...

Introduction

Well, I just end my induction program which take 3 days. A day full of fun, excitement, discussion, touring and maybe some tear dropping feeling.

In the first day induction we are told about the vision, mission, goal and what the company expect from us. It wasn't any brief session but the company make sure we adopt this company policies and culture into our blood....Making sure we uphold the principle and always uphold the integrity and teamwork value.

Second day we are bring to tour around the project side including project that have finished and project that still going on. The journey took us back to the history of the company to what we are now today...

Third day is more to celebration day whereby the CEO come and give some speech and we have DeepaRaya celebration whereby all staff are invited to have lunch. The company do generous in treating the employee anyway...

What I like about the company is how the company remember the community and serve the community with care and responsible to the sustainability and environment.

The induction end with tear dropping, sad occosion whereby we bid farewell to those from Johor, Penang and KL branch and hope we can meet again soon. Anyway we will meet at the Annual Dinner...hehe...

All the best and I will keep all reader well posted about my development but not much about my job to make sure i do not leak any confidential information...hehe...

Congratulation Obama....We like U...

Countdown Countdown

While most people might start to countdown to end the year 2008 and hope the financial crisis didn't hit Malaysia so badly, I on the other hand is counting the day to start my new job...

Is 2 more days and I will start my new jobs back in Klang...I just hope everything go well...

Beside counting the day for starting my job I also start to count the day left before my ACCA exam. This is my first attemp in ACCA which added extra nerve and excitement. 37 is the number of days left.

Anyway, I might not be updating the blog so frequent this few weeks until my ACCA exam ended...

If you still do not know where I work, here are some hints of my company

Hint 1: Live, Learn, Work, Play

Hint 2: ECO - Environment, Community, Organization

Hint 3: The Edge's Top Property Development Award 2005,2006,2007,2008

If this 3 hints is still unable for you to get it right...Hehe, I suggest you start reading more newspaper lol....

Anyway, cross our finger together hope that the economy crisis won't hit us so badly...

Letter to Hurley

Dear Hurley


From your request and comment saying that I didn't post any hot chick photo, I would like to take this opportunity here to post a hot chick photo for your attention!


Haha...Ok, i know it wasn't funny

But it was unethical for me to put those photo I accidentally take you know...So I decided to just partially put it out just for u, hurley...Hope you like it..









Not so sincerely by:

Eddie

Hurley...satisfy?hehe...You make me feel so guilty...

Phuket Day 4

The final day of the tour wasn't climax or was it the most memorable. We have long whole day nothing to do except packing up our bag, check out, put our bag temporarily at the hotel admin room and went shopping for the whole afternoon.

Besides spending money on souvenir, we also spent money on facial massage. Planned for Thai Massage but we run out of money and scare of the pain....hehe..

Anyway I end up buying a watch for myself and few tie....Adding another few tie into my collection dy...

Then we went to snap the very last photo at the beach and Bangla Road before end up in KFC enjoying the special fried chicken. Their spicy fried chicken is nothing to compare to Malaysia KFC as it doesn't spicy at all. They also have roasted drummet and super jumbo carbonated drink. There is only 1 size of drink available in the KFC which was Super Jumbo....and it was about double the size of KFC drink in Malaysia...

Went to the airport and try to finish up every single Thai Bath we have. Lastly we end up in Free duty shop buying CK Perfume...Not bad and not so expensive....

Flight boarding time delay because the air traffic is bad in Phuket as many plane is coming down but AirAsia is great as the only take 10 minutes to clear the plane and another 10 minutes for us to go up the plan and take off. Despite 20 minutes late boarding, they are still able to fly on time...Thumb up...hehehe....but i prefer the compensate with free drink since we waited so long at airport...wakakaka...dreaming again...

Ok la....that all for Phuket...Exciting on the first day, adventurous on the second day, fun on the third day and relax and boring on the fourth day....

Conclusion...

1.Phuket is nice but kinda expensive....

2.Phuket driver like to honk...honk annnnnnnnd honk....

3.Phuket beach not as nice as Malaysian island beaches

4.Phuket is so Westernize that it lost its Thai culture and lost its Sawadee Kap!!!Disapointed

5.Never trust weather forecast on website..Forecast rain on my 1st, 2nd and 4th day but end up totally reverse. Only Day 3 is raining

6.Both Phuket airport and KLIA is so far from the town!!!
7.Phuket = Island of 1 old 'ah moh' guy and 1 hot thai mui

Ok la...conclusion, I have culture shock on the first day of arrival, custom shock on the second day, numb on the third day and finally I accept that culture on my last day...

Ok la...no picture on this post because too lazy to do so...hehe

Happy Deepavali

To all Indian in Malaysia and whole world,

Happy Deepavali

sincerely from eddielim1987.blogspot.com

Phuket Day 3

Early in the morning, with sleepy and watery eye, we got up and have early bath. We fear that the van will come and pick up an hour earlier like what happen in the Day 2 tour. Unfortunately it does not so we decided to have quick breakfast. Since all café provide expensive western buffet, I am thinking why not we try out the breakfast set at the fast food restaurant. We went to Burger King for the breakfast and we order for ourselves different set available such as Omelet and Ham, Omelet and Bacon and Scramble Egg with Bacon for our breakfast which come with fries (since the hash brown is out of stock) and a cup of coffee.

We waited at the hotel lobby for few minutes after the breakfast and we are greet by our tour guide. We have good chat on the way and we are superbly surprise that we are the only one in the tour so we have exclusive private tour with one driver and one tour guide. That is damm value of money.

The tour guide speaks very well English and we chatted like long known friend. We chat about F1, Malaysia’s’ Island, tsunami, economy, lifestyle and even religious. Our very first stop was Karon Beach Viewpoint.
At this viewpoint we can see the beautiful 3 beaches mainly the Patong, Kata and Karon beach. The journey from Patong to the hill passes through the beaches so we can see the hotel and lifestyle near the beach. Undeniable, it was much quieter and not as exciting as Patong, suitable for those who wanted total relaxation. The viewpoint is extremely beautiful and refreshing and the spectacular view of 3 beaches at 300 feet above the sea level is just difficult to describe in word.

We then continue our journey along other small beaches such as Nan Hai, Club Med, and Cape Tromphep .


We arrive at yet another view point. The view was yet another spectacular sight. At this point I was standing, I swear to myself that if one day, I can be as rich as Bill Gates, I gonna buy this piece of land and built my villa here. It is just awesome. There is also wind generator there as well.


Our next stop is Phuket Shooting range and adventure park. We were brief about those games and we are allow to shoot without license here but we choose not to as it was expensive and it was’t in out budget. Other games available are paint ball, war games and ATV. Of course we didn’t play anything as it would be look a bit idiot if we play paint ball with 3 persons. So we decided to go off early.

Our next stop is Wat Chalong, the most visited temple in Phuket. There is a 3 tier pagoda build with white and pink marble whereby the highest floor contain Buddha relic. This pagoda is built with donation collected from tourist and local residents and take years to accomplish. The structure of thai temple is always very detail, symmetry and colorful. Thai people are in deed very religious as well. They burn fire cracker as thanks to the god, the offer flower and fruit as giving and blessing and they do lot of donation.




For me, I really like the art work in Wat Chalong that my camera cannot stop snapping photos. We do some praying before we left the temple. In deed we spent the most of the time in the temple.

Our next stop is Cashew Nut factory whereby the famous cashew nut of phuket is manufactured. Our dedicated tour guide explains the process of how the cashew nut is process. For your info, cashew fruit contain 2 parts mainly the fruit which we call it apple or ‘jambu’ in Malay and the nut itself. When the nut is pluck, it was crash using a machine as it was extremely hard, then the raw nut which contain lot of latex need to be clean and roasted and repeated process is done until it was clean and ready for cook. For century, we have been throwing away the fruit as it was useless and tasteless but due to the intelligent ladyboss, it was now been process into Cashew Apple juice whereby the extract is added with soda drink and it taste nice and refreshing just like fresh coconut with honey. We spent some time shopping and we end up buying at least 2100 bath worth of cashew nut product. You must be thinking we better chop down the tree and bring back to KL instead. But looking at the volume of cashew nut we bought and the difficult process of getting the cashew nut, I do believe it worth the money we spent in.

Our next stop which is also the last would be the Wan Tanlang (hope I get the name correct) for jewelry and gem factory which is also famous for its own pearl processing. It was cheap in price but just not the perfect timing for us to buy. The sales person keep on asking us to buy for our mom, our girl friend and our wife. You know what he said when we said we are still not attached? He just forwarded with another question which is “Then buy for your boyfriend instead”…@#$!^$*3%

We end up arriving hotel at 11.45, an hour earlier than expected mainly due to the less people and we didn’t spent much time. Since we have nothing to do, we headed again to the Patong beach and swim. The wave was extremely high about 1 meter and the current was so strong that it can turn us 360 if we just sit there. No joke. There is one current that push me 10 meter away…Just believe that…

Night fall and we headed to Fantasea, the magical land of mystery.
As many of my friend said that the show was just not nice and not worth of money, we opt for the buffet dinner and we still able to take photo around. The buffet which so call the ‘grandest’ wasn’t grandest buffet I ever ate but the hall is extremely magnificent. Imagine eating at the hall that can fit in 4000 people at one time fully decorated with nice statue. The staff are extremely polite as they keep on sawadee kap, and they just continue to kap, kap, kap and kap here and kap there. Kap, Krab Kon Kap….



We have our stomach filled and we decided to go for a walk when the god decided to pour in heavy rain. Everyone run to the theater for their show leaving barely 10 people around the park. Yup, most people buy the show ticket and not like us. Well, I do expect that as it was the most advertise program of all in Phuket. So the whole theme park are left with 3 musketeer wondering around taking photo like there is no body care…Ya, it was no body care what!!! We spent half an hour wondering the Jungle adventure whereby we saw few animal like parrot, peacock, snake, deer, monkey, dinasour…and very fortunate rats. This toy factory are the home of about 20 mouse…Can u believe that!

The finale of kingdom of the jungle adventure is the palace of the Tiger. Mind you, it really mean palace!
The Palace come with a swimming pool and the main stage as well. Damm “ham fook” the 2 white tiger.

One was sleeping and another one walking around non stop. I can even snap a photo but to take a video instead...Such an active animal...

The rain stop when we come out from the Kingdom and we start snapping photo again…and we stop at 10.30 when the crowd expected to come out. The death city was alive again when the light is on, music was play and the staffs suddenly appear from no way. All the booth is open again awaiting those visitor to come out from the theater. I believe god was just too envy to them that He decided to pour in more rain…Hehe….so we run to the taxi stop where we wait for our missing taxi…

The journey ended here for Day 3 as we went back with tired face and lot of photosssssssss…..

Phuket Day 2

In all trip, 2nd days always saw the most happening or climax of the tour. For this time around since we have longer holiday of 4 days and 3 nights, it seem way to fast for climax wasn’t it?

On the second day as planned before hand, we are going to Phi Phi Island located 48km away from Phuket Island. The island becomes a hit after some Hollywood winning movie was filmed there including “The Beach”. Phi Phi once saw tsunami hitting it so badly that barely single life was found surviving. It was just a small island but beautiful.

Since we are backpacking and on budget tour so we opt the cruise tour rather than speed boat. The different of this 2 is speedboat can stop at the beach to allow people to swim and snorkeling while cruise type we stop about 50 metres from shore just to capture the panorama. But it worth every single penny we throw in. The journey start from van pick up from our hotel which take 40 minutes to arrive the port. Then we are directed to one of the few cruise ferry available and were serve with hot tea and croissant. Then those ‘ang mo’ starts to sun bathing on the board while those Asian chicks and hunk all sited inside the air-con room rather than risking their life of skin cancer. As for us, we choose to sit outside with shaded area enjoying the scenic view of limestone island and seawater hoping some dolphin will jump around…Hehe…dreaming…

Beside taking some photo and posting like model, we do also keep our eye on beautiful gals and hunky guy. The strong wind also helps us to design new hairstyle and with the salty air due to the sea water our hair also become hard and spiky.



Anyway after the long journey we arrive at Maya Bay the place where Leonardo Di Carpio filmed the movie call ‘The Beach’. The water was definitely clean and clear but I doubt it would be cleaner and clearer than Tioman Island I previously visit.

Maya Bay was so beautiful due to its beach which was almost covered by 2 limestones at the both side making the beach almost hidden inside the bay. The tour guide who was perfectly bad in English makes me so annoyed as he keep on talking something we do not understand. It was definitely a spoiler. Maya Bay was located in smaller island call Phi Phi Ley. Among other place that we went for sighting in Phi Phi Ley was Viking cave, and Ao Loh Samah and some other bay.

On the journey to Phi Phi Don, the bigger island, we stop half way and change to smaller boat so we can go snorkeling. The snorkeling wasn’t that bad but still same old word, Malaysia have better corals and fishes. For snorkeling I personally feel Asian people are braver as I saw lot of them didn’t use any snorkeling gear and yet dare to snorkel far away from the boat. As for westerner I think they have no place to waste their money but to buy a pair of fin for snorkeling.

We then stop at Tom Sai Beach and headed to Phi Phi hotel for our lunch. Lunch was good but not as good as Malaysian food. Maybe our tongues get use to Malaysia food already. We were serve with tom yam seafood soup which was white in color, kinda weird, and other dishes such as Chicken Cashewnut, Fish Fillet in Sweet and Sour sauce both eaten only by 3 of us as the other Israel citizen choose to only eat the Fried Chicken and Onion Ring. Steam rice and Spagetti in Tomato Gravy added some kick to it beside the lousy mix vegetable and mix fruit. I wonder why only Watermelon and Pineapple was serve in Phuket….Don’t be too influenced by Hawaii aloha style, please…I still prefer coconut as main feature of island and where is Mango, the fruit that symbolize Thai?



Then we walk to Toh Dalam Beach which was north of Toh Sai. Basically the bay was cover with 2 beaches, one on the north and one on the south separated by only 100 metres of land which was now full of hotel and resort. The beach at Toh Dalam was clear and beautiful and what make Phi Phi beach different is there is hardly and wave on the beach making it an idle place for swimming.

The journey back took another 2 hours. While Fook Weng is having sleep due to headache in the air-cond room we went out for sun bathing as well. It was cloudy all the while making it an enjoyable sun tanning. We even been serve with Watermelon which some of the westerner tourist especially the kids said “How come watermelon got so many seed?” Yup, Thailand watermelons do have lot of seed!
The journey back to hotel which took another hour is simply the best place for us to sleep.

Upon arriving at the hotel, we plan to sleep but I am thinking since we already half wet and still soak with sea water, why not we stop at Patong beach, jump into the water and wait for sunset. So we headed to the beach, and play in the water till late evening whereby sun start to be missing from the cloud and sea. Disappointing as we didn’t saw a egg yolk sun set but it is Ok. Then we walk back to hotel half nakedly hoping no ah gua come and kacau me. In deed they are none of them because I believe they are all busy make up for the night.

Night time we stop at one Chinese hawker place call Red Boat and order the Green Curry Pork and Crab Curry with fried rice. Then we headed back to some info counter to book for tomorrow Fantasea ticket.





Again at night we walk along the beach and famous bar and club. We also spot some sex gals dancing on the table, on the pole and some sexy fashion show take place in front of the club.
Since Loy Krathong festival is on the way, some seller make money buy selling Air Lantern known as "kon ming ten" among the chinese and some firework. We do enjoy the view...

That is the night, after the long journey and we headed to the room where both Fook Weng and Nicholas sleep like a baby upon resting on the bed while I watch some TV show before falling to sleep.