Climate

DiGi wanted to be actively involve in making this earth a better place by launching the Climate Change event. I reckon the tagline for this event is 'Feel the heat, time to change'.

Today was the launch of the event and all DiGizens gathered at Townhall for a briefing. DiGi's target to reduce 50% of CO2 emission. That's quite a lot. Well, I supposed it is our effort to do this, not just for DiGi, for ourselves. We had someone from Australia talking to us as well.

The campaign is to run for 3 weeks. The 1st activity is to encourage carpool.

Belated Birthday

Celebrated Karim's belated birthday. It was quite rush as we were told that we need to be at Townhall for the climate event. Still, we had our cake.

It's a small, fast, cosy celebration. Actually, Karim was kinda shy when we sang the birthday song. ;)

Change of power

Just wanna take a picture of changing power. Changed of acting CTO. Ole is going on-leave soon and he is updating Sherine and Boon Hwa on the matters as the two of them will be the acting before Kjersti is back. :)

Futsal, again

Another futsal game. Spain vs. Greece. Sherine wanted to support Greece. Me? I not supporting anyone. I just wanna be there, took some pictures for my blog. hahaha... :D

These people look so pro. And the supporters for Spain was really shouting.

Really can see the passion these people have in futsal. Wow!!! I suppose we should have passion in all things that we do. Do it the best we can. :)

I think the score was Spain 2, Greece 0. I can't remember that well.

Baking

I can't remember very well when was the last time I baked. Maybe it was about Christmas where I baked the yummy and expensive cookies. I was asked by a few people when am I going to make that again. It's expensive lar... pengsan... Also, I have been quite busy, no time to bake.

Somehow I decided that I really and seriously wanted to bake this weekend. Then, Fong was telling me about this tiramisu brownie. I was thinking tiramisu, sure difficult. Well, no harm trying. So, she passed me the book on Saturday and I went to get the ingredients. The mascarpone cheese was very expensive. 2 of those already cost me about RM40. Anyway, just do it.

So, I went to Aunty Cherry's house for baking since I have no oven after church. And Fong was already preparing for her orange cake (I think). Then, I started my tiramisu brownie.

The mixer was heavy and I was just holding it and mixing and mixing. pengsan... my hand got so tired. gosh... Further, the instruction was to add 1 egg at a time until it mixed well. Altogether 6 eggs. So pengsan...

Anyway, the end result... Maybe the look does not look as good as the book. Was telling Fong that maybe have to make it thinner. Well, I was told that it was not bad (I hope that's true) and actually the sweetness was just nice. We are not the sweet lovers. I cut down quite a lot of sugar. :)

Shall I try to make again? Maybe. When?? I don't know. For those who have tried. Please give me your comments lar. Otherwise, how to improve lar??? pengsan...

Fall

It rained so heavily this afternoon about 3+pm. The wind was howling. It was like winter, but, the heavy downpour make it not the winter I had. The sky was so dark out there. The rain was hitting so hard on the windows. It was scary.

I can't remember how long was the rained lasted. But, it was clear and everything looked so clean, green and nice out there. Then, I saw a tree on top of Reload fall. I couldn't imagine the strong wind and rain just now. It must have been dangerous to stay out there. I reckon someone have to clean it up later.

Calculator

My computer has not been stable recently. And it went into hospital (helpdesk) very often. It was reformatted and yet still. Helpdesk guy was telling me to use a loan unit instead. I agreed and with heavy heart to leave my computer in the hospital with the specialist.

As I was working at night in my room. I found out that my calculator is failing on me too. What's wrong??? :( Especially when I need to rush for some work. :( I really questioned. Did I really work that hard that my tools are complaining?????

But, my calculator should be solar and battery(?!) And I figured maybe running out of battery.

I went to office the next day. Guess what?? It worked. Hey, is the calculator so smart to differentiate solar and fluorescent light? I wonder. Well, it worked when I needed it and I was glad. Probably I should change battery soon aye.

Signing Ceremony

Karim and Ole Martin (acting CTO) were signing some document (if not mistaken, industry related) this afternoon. They actually sat down side-by-side to sign those document. wow...

Both of them were so serious until I took out my camera and told them that this will be a memorable time. :p And I told them to shake hand. haha... Too bad no pretty girl standing behind to help them flipping the pages.

Futsal

Our office is having futsal competition in-conjunction with the Euro Cup. The event will run till 25 Jun.

It's amazing how they transformed the townhall to Spa last year and futsal field now. :O

BMW injured

Tan Boon Hwa came in this morning with an unhappy face. I was about to ask him what happened and he told me the story.

He had a minor accident on the earlier night (again?). Apparently, he went for a dinner at the restaurant and when he was about to leave, he knocked into a rock. A rock?? Yes. The restaurant owner put it in front of the restaurant not wanting guests to park at the spot. And it was dark, so, he couldn't see. From the way he described, it sounded very bad. The rock went underneath the car.

Then, Ole came and I told him that TBH had an accident. And the story repeat. So, the men and car talk started. Then, I decided to take a look and took some pictures for blog. At the mean time, I text Karim. I went, it didn't seem as bad as I thought. I told TBH that it wasn't that bad. And again, TBH said, it was quite bad as I didn't go under the car. How lar?? I am still a lady lar.. aiyoo.. pengsan... Then, he went with me. And he took some pictures. It WAS quite bad!! Of course not as bad as Karim's. That was major.

Later the evening, TBH text me from workshop that they quoted RM2K for the paint and repair don't know what. And the 'best' part was he has to go 'car-less' for 4 days. Wow... such a pain. The most expensive dinner?!

Well, maintenance for big car sure lar....

Food

Sherine came back from Oslo, Norway today and she bought some gummy bear. Oh.. I like gummies... I was so excited. I opened one small packet and had a little bear. This was weird... It's kinda hard. Well, I continue chewing, it's still hard and still a bear (well, maybe not a bear, but, still something)... And I just swallowed it. And I put another in my mouth, not wanting to give up. Same. Then, I took another, bite off the head and thought maybe that would be better. And it wasn't. So, at the end, I put a few in my mouth wanting to finish the whole little packet faster, ended up I just swallowing all these little bears into my tummy. Gosh.. after awhile, I can feel those bears in my stomach. Were they playing or fighting or whatever they were doing, I didn't feel well at all. So, I concluded the gummy bought by Sherine were actually 'hard plastic'...

I went lunch with Ei Leen. Not knowing what to get from Reload (name of our cafeteria), I ordered wedges. I have always wanted to eat wedges. I like wedges. Remind me of varsity days. :) And it's a bowl of wedges. But, they ran out of ketchup :( So, I had it with chilli sauce. I couldn't finish as the bears were still in my tummy. I asked the helper in Reload if I could take the remaining back to office and they allowed :O wow... so nice of them... So, my lunch extended to be my snack also.

As I was having my lunch, Karim text me that he ordered an extra chicken pie (TMT lunch) and put on my table. So, that could be my dinner(?) Then, I was thinking, I had bears, potatoes in my tummy. Will I eat more? Maybe.

Since Kang Wei didn't have his lunch, I offered him some wedges. Instead, he was asking me if I wanted some pizza. haha... pengsan...

So, I called it a day filled with blessings of food. :)

The Sting

Was stung by bee on my Gunung Angsi climb yesterday. The one on the leg was painful. Well, the one on the head was alright.

The one on the leg swell last night and I just applied antiseptic. I went to sleep and as it hurt when I had that touched the bed. So, I have to put myself in a position that it will not be touched. Sleep with cautious was no fun.

It was still painful after church today. And I have to pull up my pants when I drove.

Later tonight, I noticed the swell was bigger, pain and itch. So, I decided to do something about it. It looks like pus. I tried to squeezed it out. But, it's nothing.

As I checked again. Mom said, it was not so red, but, still swell. Will see how, if it continues, then, maybe I will have to see doctor.

Gunung Angsi

Went to Gunung Angsi again though I really don't like it at all. It's part of the training for Mt. Kinabalu. It's less than a month from now. A lot of ppl said Gunung Angsi is actually easier than Datuk, I disagree. Angsi is longer. And once someone told me that the toughness of Gunung Angsi rank as No. 6th gunung to climb in Malaysia. I am not sure.

We arrived a bit late as Karim was late to my house. This time, Sherine didn't join us as she was travelling the very night. John, his wife and a friend joined. I think altogether, there were about 20+ of us.

We started the climb at about 8.30am. There were quite a lot of ants along the way. It's quite a walk until we reached the 'rest' area before crossing the river. Some turned back at this point due to physical conditions. All were encouraged to take off the shoes and cross the rivers. The water were clear and cool. Nice...

Then, some how some where, a bee flew into my hair and got stuck. The bee got nervous getting into a black forest and so did I. The next thing was ouch... It's so painful. I passed my glasses to my sis and put down my hair. And the bee dropped on my leg. Another ouch... I quickly applied the antiseptic. It hurt so much.





Then, we continued to walk before ascending. Until this place where we will have to go up using the rope. KG piggy backed Nathaniel up while Karim showed me another way to go up. And still, we have to use the rope.


And that's not the end. There's more rope ahead. Then, it's going up all the way.


I reached the peak only at about 12.15pm. Took me 4 hours. It's bad. It started to get misty and cold so we had to go before it the rain visit. It reminded me of Mt. Kinabalu at that very moment. I was praying that it wouldn't rain or else it will be really muddy. I was hoping a helicopter can come to take me down.


Going down was even more challenging.


Needed to have some abseiling skills and balancing. Aiyoo... Not easy.


A few of them were having muscle cramped. Karim was one of them and he felt worse if he stopped more often. So, I told him to go ahead and don't need to wait for me. We will meet at the foot hill. I was then with Min Chee, Fong and KG. Somehow I caught up with John. Then, I saw Nathaniel. He is so cute. We chatted. He was telling me that his toes were so painful. He asked about my hiking boots. He can really talk. And I was taking care of him for awhile until Peter caught up with us.


We rested for 5 minutes. Then, moved on. Reached this open area which was so nice. As we continued to walk. We crossed some creeks and I decided to take some time to take pictures. I saw these yellow flowers.


At some point, I was walking alone again. I saw a millipede before Samuel (Nathaniel's elder brother) caught up with me. The millipede was so big unlike the one in the house and it's moving fast.


And so we reached. We were all so exhausted. It's about 4pm. Took about 3.5 hours to get down which I think it's a bit too long. The place was so crowded

We stopped-by McD on our way home. Good exercise. But, maybe I will not come again.

Region visit + workshop (II)

Started the workshop at 9am. I didn't go for the morning exercise session. I think I preferred to sleep since I so lack of it. :)


Then, Nathan taught us 'Qi-Gong' after the morning break. I couldn't help but burst into laughs. Well, dad did try to teach me before. Kinda force me to learn with him. I couldn't even be still for 5 minutes. It's a torture for me - the breathing and the slow motion.

Then, the workshop continued before we break for lunch. And we have to check-out after lunch. While Michelle was taking shower, I went out of our room to take some pictures (else no time wor). So, actually, our room can see the golf course and the sea. Sooooo nice. Well, too bad we didn't have the time to enjoy.

And the workshop continued.

Before the end, we celebrated Alex's birthday. Not sure if he suspected, but it's kinda last minute arrangement.

We headed to airport at about 5.45pm. And I worked in the flight again. Need to rush something for the next morning. Reached home about 11pm. Settled down and started to clear emails till about 2am. Went to work in the morning. Gosh.. so tense in the office, everyone has so much to do and catch up and I had whole afternoon for another workshop.

Again, the offsite workshop was really heavy and yet productive which was good.

Region visit + workshop

TMT went to region visit and workshops in KK (I went bcos I have to drive the roller coaster). We traveled in 2 groups to minimize the risks. Difference of 5 minutes. I wonder if flight ever overtake each other, like cars on road. :-?

I was working in the flight and so did Karim. The region ppl fetched us upon our arrival and we went to KK office. Then, I was told Kjersti wanted to do presentation and using my computer. So, I was working and trying to look for slides in the car on my way to office also. ;-/ So, Kjersti presented and there were some questions and answers. Then, region presented. And so, we went for late lunch.


My session of roller coaster (Rolling Forecast) in Shangri-La, Tanjung Aru was supposed to start at 3pm. But, we only started at about 5pm due to the delayed. And it only finished at about 8pm. And dinner was supposed to be 7pm. So, it was pushed back. I must admit that it was a very fruitful discussion. And, in fact, I was told that the discussion was shorted than expected.


We had BBQ for our dinner while Nathan had his vege burger. At first we sat outside by the sea side, then, it started to rain that we need to move inside. :( The dinner only ended at about 10pm. We (Michelle + I) were supposed to go for discussion in Sherine's room after our shower. But, we were too tired and too lazy to move after the nice hot shower. Furthermore, our room was so far away (excuse). I tried to do a bit of work, but, failed. My body is too tired.

Next morning session started at 9am.