LOU AHHH!!!

The next day after the Career Team gathering, I had another gathering with Jon's friends at Imbi.

We ordered quite a number of food initially for 12 pax (but 2 of them couldn't make it due to some personal issue) and I must say, the food was good and the price is reasonable too.

I shall let the pictures do the talking.

I forgot to take another picture after the ingredients for the yee sang were all mixed.

 

 

Being Asian

 

I like how the jelly is shaped as a gold fish =D

That night .. I lost my first time.

 First time trying fried ice cream! HAHA.

I'm still amazed how they did it without melting the ice cream.. yummy ! 

(Didn't get the pictures yet. Still with Jon .. boo)

Career Unit Gathering

Last weekend had been filled with wonderful catch up sessions prior to CNY I suppose. So few weeks back, I got invited into a group chat in WhatsApp, my UNITEN Career Unit family group ! Oh boy I missed them so much, especially Miss V, though every year I skipped the gathering. I always have something on. So, I took opportunity of this year and make an effort to join them.

I managed to pull Jia Yi to go with me, because to be honest, I wasn't so familiar to them as I wasn't on the same batch, but at least I've been in the family for 2 years that I got to know most of them. So this year's theme was pot luck! I shared mine with Jia Yi.

So I met up with Jia Yi earlier that Saturday to buy pai tee as we've assigned ourselves for the pot luck. After getting our pai tee, we went shopping for sides as I wanted to get some mandarin oranges or CNY cookies. Both of us saw in the promotion section, there's egg roll selling for RM 7.88 (as what we thought we saw) and we grabbed 2 big box of those (one for personal consumption) and some wooden chopsticks for the later Yee Sang, and went to the checkout counter.

Silly us, we still didn't find it strange when Jia Yi's bill was RM21+ (Jia Yi pays for one box of egg rolls and the chopsticks). Then I paid mine. I was prepared to hand over the RM10 bill I was holding when the cashier corrected me, "RM18". Then we both realize the situation. Then we even argued that we saw it's RM 7.88 and soon later when the shop assistance check the price and came back that it's confirmed as RM18, we both requested for refund, and were embarrassed. .___.

Thanks to Waze we managed to find Ms. V's home and we were the first to arrived and we thought we were late because we spent so long in Tesco. One by one, they came, and we chatted. Mostly asked about working life. Dinner which was supposed to be at 7pm, was delayed to 9pm while waiting for the main dish, the Nasi Goreng Kampung assigned to one of the member. Hahaha.

Regardless, we kick off the dinner that night with lou sang and some photos of the family..

After leaving Ms V's place, we went on tour de Kajang as we used to stayed there in our rented house. We went around visiting the area and it feels really nostalgic! There's also some new buildings and it's exciting to know that our old rented house, now there's someone staying there already =D

It's fun to meet up with them once a while and I had fun too catching up with Jia Yi. ^_^

RIP

Heard the news this morning on my company coffee lady's mom's passing. I feel sorry for her.

Even though it's not my family, but I feel for her as well, I understand how she feels, it's just that, her situation is much worse than mine. Her family is in Indonesia. Where as mine is local here. She couldn't even see her mom for the final time before her mom's final breathe.

I'm not comparing who's having the better or worse situation here. It's just because I'm considered close to her in office and she has always treat me so nice at work, I feel sad for her.

Yesterday evening I got a call from her asked me to buy her a flight ticket for her brother to return to her hometown. She said her mom was critical in ICU. I asked her, "You're not going back?" she told me that the other day her sister just went back, then her husband too. Flight ticket is expensive. At the time being, she could only afford for her brother to go back.

This morning, she told me her mom has gone. It's really a sudden news for her. In that short period, all of a sudden her mom has passed away. That morning, she was on the phone with her mom, and they chatted happily. That night, her mom's gone. Kakak's eyes were swollen and red. I couldn't even say a word to console her. I don't know how. I suck at it. I couldn't do like what she did to me. She was the one who consoled me during the period when my mom passed away. I still remembered that she told me not to be sad, and to move on, so that my mom's soul will be at peace. Which really did helped me a lot.

When I passed the donation to her, she was telling to my other colleagues about the situation. I couldn't bear to listen to it. My heart was overwhelmed. I excused myself to the ladies to cry my heart out. Then returning to the pantry and give her a big hug. That's all I could do.

Life is really unpredictable. I understand the meaning to cherish the ones you love and not to take advantage of their presence now and regret when they're no longer around.

I hope she's fine and may her mom rest in peace.

돌아와.

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Just randomly...

Life is fragile isn't it?
To think that you're free from all the common diseases of old age even when you're at your late 50's, doesn't make you free from some rare disease in the later age.
Just a random thought about it because I got a shocking news last week.

And even if you're always lucky to be able to go through this obstacle, doesn't mean that you're going to be alright in the next.

Live healthily, they say. But who can really predict the future?
I'd say live happily.