i don't know why i don't really often blog nowadays.
so anyways, the usual updates. last week was in office throughout the whole week. hari raya and all. it was good altogether. webcam-ed with a lot of people. it was nice. =)
last saturday morning, we went to the 2nd floor to go to the pool to go swimming; thinking there was sunlight so can sun-tan as according to Michelle. ended up the pool was blocked from sunlight! oh swells, i jumped in the pool first. then Michelle joined. Umar and Shirley went to the gym to run and do weights. i swam a couple of laps. there was no one else around. its as though it was a private pool. ahahaha... =P
after a while we went to the jacuzzi nearby with air jet outlets. lied down a while and it was super nice!!!!
okay so enough of swimming already!!!! next, we went downtown to 'Fortune Town', so called the IT Mall of Bangkok. we were looking at the prices comparing with Sim Lim back in Singapore. prices here vary actually. some cheap, some abit more expensive. not to say waywardly expensive, they're just priced a bit more like as in SGD$10 more. i was hunting for BF2142 and saw the Thai version which sold for roughly 799 Baht. which was about SGD$32. much much cheaper than the English version import. sadly i couldn't find the imported English version.
Umar was looking for games, Michelle was looking for laptop cooler. the IT Mall is actually the last 3 or 2 floors of the whole complex. the complex itself is a long complex by length. its shaped like a rectangle. so anyway, i was looking for cables for my laptop's S-Video port or VGA port to RGB cables. and i bought the audio convertor/ splitter to enable my laptop to play audio on the stereo speakers in the living room. the audio worked fine but the video didn't work; so sad!!. i suspected the TV doesnt support digital format because it is rather an outdated model; it still had an RCA port for the antenna. but well, it just didn't work out.
we had KFC for dinner but we 'ta-pao'-ed some Chester's Grill back. we took the cab back to our apartment. the taxi driver took the alternate routes back to Ramkamhaeng 42, Bangkapi. it was full of turns until i couldn't stand the sways. i had motion sickness for a while there. so while Michelle was talking to me, my head was spinning. round n round i go.
i felt better when we had reached the apartment. so, it was straight to MSN then sleep!!! for sunday. we just went to the Resident's Executive Lounge to just chill out the whole day. =)
and today, went to the office. did some Flash stuff and research. did the FlashPaper preloader and capturing of mouse positions. time flew a bit faster when we have work to do. except in the morning, i watched Doraemon The Movie 2006 on YouTube with Michelle on her laptop. =P
so.....today's thought about Bangkok. its a vibrant and lively city especially downtown. but as far as the city's outskirts are concerned, there are still slums and shelters for the homeless. like for example, the one where my apartment is overlooking across the street. in a bad situation like a thunderstorm about 2 weeks ago, electricity is cut off and they had to create a fire to keep themselves warm. do they have electricity to begin with? they don't even have a proper shelter!!! so, i'm pretty glad or feel so relieved i have a proper home here as well as back home.
kinda miss home actually. the frequent ez-links taps down in the stopping buses with alighting passengers. my ears are by now, already attuned to the different sounds they make by the different bus services.
i think i'll go read up on my Thai. ordering food is so hard here! humpf!!! XP
good night. oyasumi.
Monday, October 30, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Happy ThaiRaya
Okay, tagboard is up again. Tag whatever.
in any case, i haven't been really updating. i'm having too much fun here. okay i'll summarise up just last week. office work 9am to 5.30pm. monday to friday. eat Chester's Grill, and more bread. and more bread. usually at 5.30pm here we would be going back to our apartment. stopping by 7-Eleven to buy some stuff. snacks? on Thursday, we had the dinner buffet down at the Orchard Retaurant. Though just to be safe, i only eat what i could eat. fried rice with garlic bread and ghoulash which is just cow meat with gravy, in other words, a Mediterranean dish. then come dessert, i ate 4 scoops of ice cream!!! 3 scoops of strawberry and 1 scoop of chocoloate. then on the top was caramel dessert. oohhh nice!! too bad i didn't have my camera with me. oh wells. i think i've been eating more than what i could lose. stress stress. i think now especially after finishing puasa, can start going to the gym and go swimming. maybe at the end of the week. =D on Saturday, i had promised to Michelle to accompany her go curl her hair at the salon nearby. i ended up oversleeping the promised meeting time. wahaaaaaa. i'm so bad. then she kept calling me bad boy!!! wahaaaahaaaaa. so apologise lor! i say sorry already. then stayed at the apartment's lounge the whole day. and we ordered home delivery from Chester's Grill through the reception counter below and went to the girls' apartment to have our dinner.
the next day, we planned to go to 'Chatuchak Weekend Market'. Uncle Gary, who is Michelle's father's friend who stays in Bangkok will drive us there in his car. whooopeee!!!! got transport, so no need to pay taxi. hahahahaha. i'm an 'el cheapo' dude here. besides, it would be great to have someone speak Thai and Uncle Gary's Thai language skills is very impressive. to think he is a Singaporean. =D
so anyway, we went early that morning at about 9.30am. Michelle went to the hair salon to have her hair re-curled and she was late!!! uncle gary was sitting in the lounge with Shirley. so then after Michelle came back, we went off to the weekend market in the pearlish-beige-brown Nissan Cefiro. the car ride was not that long. about from Tampines to Jurong not by expressway mind you. upon reaching, we had the car parked about 5 minutes away from the market. nearby was a market; a very expensive market but there was good enough quality seen in Singapore markets. so we 'strolled' down to Chatuchak under the superly blazing unbelievable hot sun beating down our necks. it was that hot okay!! until it became so unbearably hot that i was not able to endure the blazing hot sun and my throat was extremely dry. no choice, broke fast at noon. i gulped down almost 2 bottles of water including coffee and an isotonic drink and an ice lolli. as if that wasn't enough!!!!! it wasn't; truthfully speaking. it was hot, but not humid. it did feel as if i was sweating but it evaporated fast enough unlike in Singapore.
so anyway, i bought myself a semi-pirated number 13 Ballack Germany home jersey. it was 170 baht. so i suppose it was ok. then walked and walked and walked and walked for 3 full hours!!!! wooooooo~!! imagine that. so anyway, we headed back to the car, bypassing the market to buy some stuff, i bought desserts.
Thai dessert, glutinous rice with coconut milk and fresh mango
it looks nice and tastes nice too!!! then i also bought ruby red dessert. initially i wanted to buy just bananas but well, it didn't work it. =(
so we headed back to the apartment to have our dinner at the Orchard Restaurant down at the apartment's lobby area. we were the ones supposed to treat Uncle Gary his meal. it ended up with Uncle Gary paying by his credit card for all our meals. so nice of him. wahaha. that's not the best part yet. after that we went back to our apartments.
yesterday, Monday, we decided not to go out as it was a kind of a lazy day since its a public holiday. called Chulalongkorn day, commemorating the death of the previous King. kind of something like that. in the evening, the iGroup's company CEO, Mr Lee, invited us for dinner. well, the 4 of us were sitting in the lounge quietly sipping coffee and happily chatting on our laptops when he came in. "you all want to have dinner? come let's open table! c'mon, don't be shy, let's have dinner....", he said. we were enthralled at the invitation!!!! wuahahahahaaa. CEO inviting interns from Singapore for dinner. well, when we entered the restaurant, Mr Lee was sitting with other people, most probably Board of Directors of iGroup. then we chose a seat a table away from where they were sitting. Mr Lee introduced us to the rest sitting at the table. we sat down shortly and Mr Lee signalled to the manager of the restaurant to put our bill under his tab. cool!!!!
but we ended up eating Fried Rice with the sorts. i had crab meat. literally crab meat; not the cheapo factory mass-produced. after finishing our meal, we sat there aimlessly. so Michelle asked Mr Lee to excuse us to leave. he came over to our table and i shook hands with him thanking him for the meal.
all because Michelle wanted to curl her back because she ignorantly used hair-straightening shampoo when her hair was curled!!!! wahahaha. so okay, i accompanied her to make up for last Saturday's miss. she ran all the way to the nearby salon. me and Shirley walked slowly. Umar went back to the lounge. so when i entered the salon, the hairdresser was talking to Michelle, well kind of giving sign language in English. she couldn't comprehend our English and we couldn't comprehend their Thai. all i know was 'Medai, medai....' which means 'Cannot, cannot....' but it was the same salon Michelle went a few days back.
when we walked out of the shop, it already had rained. i bought some bread from the 7-eleven store adjacent to the salon. then we went to the next hair salon nearer to the apartment down the road. 'Nee Beauty' hair salon. this was much better because she wrote down what we wanted to know. the price to curl was 1,000 - 1,500 baht. the price depends on whichever brand of perm lotion that you wanted to use. so the lousy lotion was 1,000 baht and the more expensive ones had the Schwarzkopf brand. same brand among the two salons we went. so Michelle decided what she wanted to use and the kind of cur hairstyle she wanted.
and so begins the curling process which roughly took about 1.5 hours. in between, i took some photos of Michelle curling hair. wahahahah. she looks so funny. =P
after finished everything, we went back to the apartment.
in any case, today is HARI RAYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *cough* later going King's Palace for green ang pao *cough*. i'm webcam-ing with my family back in Singapore now as i'm typing. too bad this year no collection. oh wells. not a problem considering i might get at least $1,200 worth of internship salary. who says being overseas is not enjoyable?! you get pay and you are paid to enjoy the country. =P
now in the office surfing the Internet.
for lunch, we went down the street further along the main road. there was so much to see!!! and since it was my first time out for lunch since the end of puasa. i had kway teow with chicken. it tasted much like Mee Soto. seriously. the soup was thin and light. though there was no Halal sign. but what do you expect eh?
i also received some SMS and MSN messages too from my friends back in Singapore. and well,
thanks for the message guys, though not as much. but who cares. its the thought that counts. =D
happy festivities everyone. enjoy, eat, drink and be merry. you deserve it.
in any case, i haven't been really updating. i'm having too much fun here. okay i'll summarise up just last week. office work 9am to 5.30pm. monday to friday. eat Chester's Grill, and more bread. and more bread. usually at 5.30pm here we would be going back to our apartment. stopping by 7-Eleven to buy some stuff. snacks? on Thursday, we had the dinner buffet down at the Orchard Retaurant. Though just to be safe, i only eat what i could eat. fried rice with garlic bread and ghoulash which is just cow meat with gravy, in other words, a Mediterranean dish. then come dessert, i ate 4 scoops of ice cream!!! 3 scoops of strawberry and 1 scoop of chocoloate. then on the top was caramel dessert. oohhh nice!! too bad i didn't have my camera with me. oh wells. i think i've been eating more than what i could lose. stress stress. i think now especially after finishing puasa, can start going to the gym and go swimming. maybe at the end of the week. =D on Saturday, i had promised to Michelle to accompany her go curl her hair at the salon nearby. i ended up oversleeping the promised meeting time. wahaaaaaa. i'm so bad. then she kept calling me bad boy!!! wahaaaahaaaaa. so apologise lor! i say sorry already. then stayed at the apartment's lounge the whole day. and we ordered home delivery from Chester's Grill through the reception counter below and went to the girls' apartment to have our dinner.
the next day, we planned to go to 'Chatuchak Weekend Market'. Uncle Gary, who is Michelle's father's friend who stays in Bangkok will drive us there in his car. whooopeee!!!! got transport, so no need to pay taxi. hahahahaha. i'm an 'el cheapo' dude here. besides, it would be great to have someone speak Thai and Uncle Gary's Thai language skills is very impressive. to think he is a Singaporean. =D
so anyway, we went early that morning at about 9.30am. Michelle went to the hair salon to have her hair re-curled and she was late!!! uncle gary was sitting in the lounge with Shirley. so then after Michelle came back, we went off to the weekend market in the pearlish-beige-brown Nissan Cefiro. the car ride was not that long. about from Tampines to Jurong not by expressway mind you. upon reaching, we had the car parked about 5 minutes away from the market. nearby was a market; a very expensive market but there was good enough quality seen in Singapore markets. so we 'strolled' down to Chatuchak under the superly blazing unbelievable hot sun beating down our necks. it was that hot okay!! until it became so unbearably hot that i was not able to endure the blazing hot sun and my throat was extremely dry. no choice, broke fast at noon. i gulped down almost 2 bottles of water including coffee and an isotonic drink and an ice lolli. as if that wasn't enough!!!!! it wasn't; truthfully speaking. it was hot, but not humid. it did feel as if i was sweating but it evaporated fast enough unlike in Singapore.
so anyway, i bought myself a semi-pirated number 13 Ballack Germany home jersey. it was 170 baht. so i suppose it was ok. then walked and walked and walked and walked for 3 full hours!!!! wooooooo~!! imagine that. so anyway, we headed back to the car, bypassing the market to buy some stuff, i bought desserts.
Thai dessert, glutinous rice with coconut milk and fresh mango
it looks nice and tastes nice too!!! then i also bought ruby red dessert. initially i wanted to buy just bananas but well, it didn't work it. =(
so we headed back to the apartment to have our dinner at the Orchard Restaurant down at the apartment's lobby area. we were the ones supposed to treat Uncle Gary his meal. it ended up with Uncle Gary paying by his credit card for all our meals. so nice of him. wahaha. that's not the best part yet. after that we went back to our apartments.
yesterday, Monday, we decided not to go out as it was a kind of a lazy day since its a public holiday. called Chulalongkorn day, commemorating the death of the previous King. kind of something like that. in the evening, the iGroup's company CEO, Mr Lee, invited us for dinner. well, the 4 of us were sitting in the lounge quietly sipping coffee and happily chatting on our laptops when he came in. "you all want to have dinner? come let's open table! c'mon, don't be shy, let's have dinner....", he said. we were enthralled at the invitation!!!! wuahahahahaaa. CEO inviting interns from Singapore for dinner. well, when we entered the restaurant, Mr Lee was sitting with other people, most probably Board of Directors of iGroup. then we chose a seat a table away from where they were sitting. Mr Lee introduced us to the rest sitting at the table. we sat down shortly and Mr Lee signalled to the manager of the restaurant to put our bill under his tab. cool!!!!
but we ended up eating Fried Rice with the sorts. i had crab meat. literally crab meat; not the cheapo factory mass-produced. after finishing our meal, we sat there aimlessly. so Michelle asked Mr Lee to excuse us to leave. he came over to our table and i shook hands with him thanking him for the meal.
all because Michelle wanted to curl her back because she ignorantly used hair-straightening shampoo when her hair was curled!!!! wahahaha. so okay, i accompanied her to make up for last Saturday's miss. she ran all the way to the nearby salon. me and Shirley walked slowly. Umar went back to the lounge. so when i entered the salon, the hairdresser was talking to Michelle, well kind of giving sign language in English. she couldn't comprehend our English and we couldn't comprehend their Thai. all i know was 'Medai, medai....' which means 'Cannot, cannot....' but it was the same salon Michelle went a few days back.
when we walked out of the shop, it already had rained. i bought some bread from the 7-eleven store adjacent to the salon. then we went to the next hair salon nearer to the apartment down the road. 'Nee Beauty' hair salon. this was much better because she wrote down what we wanted to know. the price to curl was 1,000 - 1,500 baht. the price depends on whichever brand of perm lotion that you wanted to use. so the lousy lotion was 1,000 baht and the more expensive ones had the Schwarzkopf brand. same brand among the two salons we went. so Michelle decided what she wanted to use and the kind of cur hairstyle she wanted.
and so begins the curling process which roughly took about 1.5 hours. in between, i took some photos of Michelle curling hair. wahahahah. she looks so funny. =P
after finished everything, we went back to the apartment.
in any case, today is HARI RAYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *cough* later going King's Palace for green ang pao *cough*. i'm webcam-ing with my family back in Singapore now as i'm typing. too bad this year no collection. oh wells. not a problem considering i might get at least $1,200 worth of internship salary. who says being overseas is not enjoyable?! you get pay and you are paid to enjoy the country. =P
now in the office surfing the Internet.
for lunch, we went down the street further along the main road. there was so much to see!!! and since it was my first time out for lunch since the end of puasa. i had kway teow with chicken. it tasted much like Mee Soto. seriously. the soup was thin and light. though there was no Halal sign. but what do you expect eh?
i also received some SMS and MSN messages too from my friends back in Singapore. and well,
thanks for the message guys, though not as much. but who cares. its the thought that counts. =D
happy festivities everyone. enjoy, eat, drink and be merry. you deserve it.
Monday, October 16, 2006
She Sells Seashells By The Seashore
now i know why i dislike office work.
when you have nothing to do, you really have nothing to do. 9am-5pm work can kill.
last Tuesday, we had a meeting at Suan Dusit Rajabhat University. we were assigned to design and implement a Knowledge Management portal. the University itself is quite big. with a farm, a bakery consuming nearly 100,000 eggs per day. that's about 3 million eggs in a month!! imagine giving each Singaporean 1 egg each.
so anyway, we bought some bread and cakes back. it has been raining ever so often here. very erratic weather. sometimes hot, sometimes cool. not as hot as Singapore i'm sure.
the past week is quite bored. didn't go out on weekdays. didn't go out last Saturday but we did go out yesterday. went to Carrefour to buy 2 weeks of groceries. spent nearly 850 baht. bought mostly foodstuff. come to think of it, most of the money spent is on foodstuff. compared to Singapore where we would spend money on taxi equivalent to what we spend on groceries in a month.
anyway, today i'm taking MC. wahahaha. got abit sick yesterday. everyone getting sick. Michelle got cough, Umar got nearly no voice, i got a slight fever and don't know about Shirley. wahahaha. but we are okay. i should be getting back to work tomorrow. =D
when you have nothing to do, you really have nothing to do. 9am-5pm work can kill.
last Tuesday, we had a meeting at Suan Dusit Rajabhat University. we were assigned to design and implement a Knowledge Management portal. the University itself is quite big. with a farm, a bakery consuming nearly 100,000 eggs per day. that's about 3 million eggs in a month!! imagine giving each Singaporean 1 egg each.
so anyway, we bought some bread and cakes back. it has been raining ever so often here. very erratic weather. sometimes hot, sometimes cool. not as hot as Singapore i'm sure.
the past week is quite bored. didn't go out on weekdays. didn't go out last Saturday but we did go out yesterday. went to Carrefour to buy 2 weeks of groceries. spent nearly 850 baht. bought mostly foodstuff. come to think of it, most of the money spent is on foodstuff. compared to Singapore where we would spend money on taxi equivalent to what we spend on groceries in a month.
anyway, today i'm taking MC. wahahaha. got abit sick yesterday. everyone getting sick. Michelle got cough, Umar got nearly no voice, i got a slight fever and don't know about Shirley. wahahaha. but we are okay. i should be getting back to work tomorrow. =D
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Thailand Also Don't Have Cherry-Flavoured Ice Cream
long awaited visit-to-MBK day.
we were delayed about 1 hour because we thought Michelle was still sleeping. well, so am i.
we took a cab there. it was like ok....take for example, Far East Plaza and Lucky Plaza and first 2 floors of Tampines Mall. add them all up together and roughly times 10(ten). we literally walked the whole complex within the day. just stopping to look at jeans since its first priority to buy some jeans. about 7 levels with the top level being a cineplex. they also have this deparmental store named, 'Tokyu'. its like Metro and Isetan selling the sorts. nothing much.
well, in the evening, we decided to eat at Chester's Grill. which has no 'Muu' a.k.a pork. so we ate and joked and eat again. after dinner, we had Dairy Queen's ice cream. i had Coffee Oreo which was okay i think. the ice cream was great!! and we went back to the apartment. so we headed back to the taxi stand.
what horrified us was that the cabs had their meters turned off!!! damn, we had to agree for a fixed price of 200 baht which was waywardly expensive!! their reason, in case of severe traffic jam. which was rather a stupid reason because we believed that there was no traffic jam. so okay, we went down the line of taxis waiting but none had working meters. it was drizzling slightly so we uninamously decided to just 'chin cai' take any cab to get back fast. 200 baht. damn expensive. reached the roads, and we realized that there was no traffic jam. On Sundays, there are rarely severe traffic jams. so, we were cheated. damn. luckily there were 4 of us. so it wasn't that bad.
went back and came online. i'll wash my clothes and after that play games till i sleep. so good night!!
we were delayed about 1 hour because we thought Michelle was still sleeping. well, so am i.
we took a cab there. it was like ok....take for example, Far East Plaza and Lucky Plaza and first 2 floors of Tampines Mall. add them all up together and roughly times 10(ten). we literally walked the whole complex within the day. just stopping to look at jeans since its first priority to buy some jeans. about 7 levels with the top level being a cineplex. they also have this deparmental store named, 'Tokyu'. its like Metro and Isetan selling the sorts. nothing much.
well, in the evening, we decided to eat at Chester's Grill. which has no 'Muu' a.k.a pork. so we ate and joked and eat again. after dinner, we had Dairy Queen's ice cream. i had Coffee Oreo which was okay i think. the ice cream was great!! and we went back to the apartment. so we headed back to the taxi stand.
what horrified us was that the cabs had their meters turned off!!! damn, we had to agree for a fixed price of 200 baht which was waywardly expensive!! their reason, in case of severe traffic jam. which was rather a stupid reason because we believed that there was no traffic jam. so okay, we went down the line of taxis waiting but none had working meters. it was drizzling slightly so we uninamously decided to just 'chin cai' take any cab to get back fast. 200 baht. damn expensive. reached the roads, and we realized that there was no traffic jam. On Sundays, there are rarely severe traffic jams. so, we were cheated. damn. luckily there were 4 of us. so it wasn't that bad.
went back and came online. i'll wash my clothes and after that play games till i sleep. so good night!!
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Minsk, Volvograd, Ural Mountains
today is another rest day. just to save up energy for tomorrow's visit to MBK. shopping centre for 'el cheapos' for such tourists like us Singaporeans. well, not just Singaporeans lah, in a better way, for those with a tight budget.
anyway, today is a super slacking Saturday with clear skies. not bad. its just hot. but not humid, unlike Singapore. today, i think i will spend most of the time in the apartment and online. now, i'm thinking of what to buy as souvenirs. for myself only! see lah, never come to the airport to send me off. some people still say want 'something'. 'something' my foot ah! ok la, those who got talk to me in MSN, i might consider. "cheese fries"
so there. today is a nothing-gained day. i did read up on my Japanese and Thai. so, just to sharpen up abit.
anyway, today is a super slacking Saturday with clear skies. not bad. its just hot. but not humid, unlike Singapore. today, i think i will spend most of the time in the apartment and online. now, i'm thinking of what to buy as souvenirs. for myself only! see lah, never come to the airport to send me off. some people still say want 'something'. 'something' my foot ah! ok la, those who got talk to me in MSN, i might consider. "cheese fries"
so there. today is a nothing-gained day. i did read up on my Japanese and Thai. so, just to sharpen up abit.
Friday, October 06, 2006
D n D; Do Not Disturb
Friday, another slacking day. seriously nothing to do. well, i did some reading though.
today, we spent the whole day simply rotting at the office. from 9am - 5.30pm. forgot to wake up to eat at 4am. so was starving the whole day. even Michelle and Shirley were reluctant to eat lunch at the roadside stalls.
we also ate dinner at the apartment. cooked up some curry chicken and my mum's peanut sauce. wahahahahah. finally. eat with bread. ok la. can slim down.
so anyway, i will spend the night playing games. nevertheless, you won't see me online for a couple of hours. =P
bye!
today, we spent the whole day simply rotting at the office. from 9am - 5.30pm. forgot to wake up to eat at 4am. so was starving the whole day. even Michelle and Shirley were reluctant to eat lunch at the roadside stalls.
we also ate dinner at the apartment. cooked up some curry chicken and my mum's peanut sauce. wahahahahah. finally. eat with bread. ok la. can slim down.
so anyway, i will spend the night playing games. nevertheless, you won't see me online for a couple of hours. =P
bye!
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Password Swordfish
Office-closed day.
today Shirley and Michelle came up to our apartment to compile our resumes. until evening time, and actually we wanted to go to the steakhouse opposite to have dinner but it was like pouring outside. we ended up eating at the restaurant down at the lobby. i ate just Chicken and Crab Fried Rice. we spent the whole evening eating and taking some pictures. laughed at Michelle and Shirley's funny photo we took last Monday.
we didn't go out today. we all felt tired and wanted to sleep. so after we went back to our apartment. and we were online throughout the night. nothingness seems good for a while.
nothing much to write about today. except i woke up at about 1pm local time. Bangkok is an hour behind of Singapore. so there.
today Shirley and Michelle came up to our apartment to compile our resumes. until evening time, and actually we wanted to go to the steakhouse opposite to have dinner but it was like pouring outside. we ended up eating at the restaurant down at the lobby. i ate just Chicken and Crab Fried Rice. we spent the whole evening eating and taking some pictures. laughed at Michelle and Shirley's funny photo we took last Monday.
we didn't go out today. we all felt tired and wanted to sleep. so after we went back to our apartment. and we were online throughout the night. nothingness seems good for a while.
nothing much to write about today. except i woke up at about 1pm local time. Bangkok is an hour behind of Singapore. so there.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Cherry Mobile Inc.
i installed Medieval: Total War to play on my laptop. and Warcraft III: FT.
2nd day of work and we had a meeting at 10am. we were briefed on the project we were assigned to. it ended promptly just in time for lunch. but we just stayed in the office. just surfing the web. and doing nothing, again.
from that point onwards, we stoned all the way. but we were told to submit our computer skills list to Phi-Kwan tomorrow. but then she said that the office would be closed tomorrow for electrical maintenance, so there was no work, then we would submit to her on Friday afternoon.
today, we went to Big C, which was somewhat similar to Carrefour. but we went only for groceries. on the way back home, there was like a major and huge traffic jam. Thais were like patient in times like this. if in Singapore, the taxi drivers would be grinning with glee. the jam was super long, minimum time was like 45 minutes. it was about 190 baht shared among 4 people. so it was ok. in Singapore, it could've been like $20+. damn those Singapore taxis for having that $2 surcharge.
so anyway, reached the apartment and went online. webcam-ed a while then wanted to sleep or rather i think want to play some games because there is no work tomorrow. hehz. but i think i will stay in the apartment tomorrow.
2nd day of work and we had a meeting at 10am. we were briefed on the project we were assigned to. it ended promptly just in time for lunch. but we just stayed in the office. just surfing the web. and doing nothing, again.
from that point onwards, we stoned all the way. but we were told to submit our computer skills list to Phi-Kwan tomorrow. but then she said that the office would be closed tomorrow for electrical maintenance, so there was no work, then we would submit to her on Friday afternoon.
today, we went to Big C, which was somewhat similar to Carrefour. but we went only for groceries. on the way back home, there was like a major and huge traffic jam. Thais were like patient in times like this. if in Singapore, the taxi drivers would be grinning with glee. the jam was super long, minimum time was like 45 minutes. it was about 190 baht shared among 4 people. so it was ok. in Singapore, it could've been like $20+. damn those Singapore taxis for having that $2 surcharge.
so anyway, reached the apartment and went online. webcam-ed a while then wanted to sleep or rather i think want to play some games because there is no work tomorrow. hehz. but i think i will stay in the apartment tomorrow.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
numero uno
2nd day in Bangkok,Thailand.
1st day of work.
today, was much more of an introduction day of the 2 offices. nothing much. we were shown our desks on the 2nd floor. 4 of us are sitting adjacent of each other. like 4 in a row. Shirley, sitting on the extreme left, then Michelle, then me, and extreme right is Umar. we didn't bring anything. just my PSP.
we went to the various departments introducing ourselves. and apparently they couldn't pronounce my name, "Ruzaini". so, they called me "Muhammad" instead. so back to our desks. we had nothing but a Ethernet LAN cable. absolute nothingness on the table!!
but we were told of the nature of the project we were assigned. tomorrow, there would be an official meeting with Mr Somsak.
so basically, we did nothing for the whole day, 4 of us were joking around, taking funny pictures with Umar's and my camera. then just 'stoned' the whole day.
in the evening, me and Umar broke fast and then we went to Siam Paragon for sightseeing with Michelle's mum and went to MK. heh. "MAK KAU". hahahahahahahah!!! no, i'm joking. Siam Paragon is a place which can conquer Singapore's Paragon times 100(one hundred). the place is damn huge!! but its a place where most foreigners would flock to. so anyway, we walked around the place. then went back to the apartment. Michelle's dad's friend, Uncle Jerry, sent us home in his car. he also showed us Carrefour. which was literally down the street of Ramkamhaeng.
reached apartment, and went online. nothing much. then slept. =)
おやすみなさい。
1st day of work.
today, was much more of an introduction day of the 2 offices. nothing much. we were shown our desks on the 2nd floor. 4 of us are sitting adjacent of each other. like 4 in a row. Shirley, sitting on the extreme left, then Michelle, then me, and extreme right is Umar. we didn't bring anything. just my PSP.
we went to the various departments introducing ourselves. and apparently they couldn't pronounce my name, "Ruzaini". so, they called me "Muhammad" instead. so back to our desks. we had nothing but a Ethernet LAN cable. absolute nothingness on the table!!
but we were told of the nature of the project we were assigned. tomorrow, there would be an official meeting with Mr Somsak.
so basically, we did nothing for the whole day, 4 of us were joking around, taking funny pictures with Umar's and my camera. then just 'stoned' the whole day.
in the evening, me and Umar broke fast and then we went to Siam Paragon for sightseeing with Michelle's mum and went to MK. heh. "MAK KAU". hahahahahahahah!!! no, i'm joking. Siam Paragon is a place which can conquer Singapore's Paragon times 100(one hundred). the place is damn huge!! but its a place where most foreigners would flock to. so anyway, we walked around the place. then went back to the apartment. Michelle's dad's friend, Uncle Jerry, sent us home in his car. he also showed us Carrefour. which was literally down the street of Ramkamhaeng.
reached apartment, and went online. nothing much. then slept. =)
おやすみなさい。
Monday, October 02, 2006
over the sea
flight day for OSIP Thailand.
woke up at 4am to eat breakfast and did final checking on the things to bring. well, actually there's nothing much i can check since i already checked a few times last night.
i got ready to go to the airport at about 6.30am. took 2 cabs there. my dad and me in the first and my sisters and my mum in the other. reached airport at around 7.30am. then went to row 12, Malaysian Airlines' check-in counters to have a sit. my 2 aunts came shortly after to see me off through the gates.
waited for Shirley, Umar and Michelle to have our baggages checked in. some of our MWC coursemates went to see us off. Auji, Marlina, Peiling, Hui Shan and Anna. the rest all.....Missing In Action? so disappointed. but nevertheless i'm grateful to those who came. thanks guys.
so anyway, we checked in our luggage at around 8.40am, talked abit. went around talking till 9:40am. took pictures and everything. then it was time to go into the departure gates. after immigration, we waved a final goodbye. all the family members got swelling eyes already. so ok, i cannot bear to look. so waved and just walked off. walked to gate F58, which was like way FAR. so took the Travelator. or was it. a moving platform in other words. waited a while before boarding the plane. had our hand luggage checked before entering the holding area. my aunt was still with me until i was inside the holding room. flight number SQ62.
when we did boarded the plane, we quickly found our seats. i had the window seat so life was good. i took some pictures inside the plane too. i shall post them up at a separate location soon this weekend. watched the movie 'Click'. and the last 5 minutes during landing, i was playing Nintendo Pokemon Yellow Version on the KrisWorld entertainment system.
after the plane had docked, we 'deboarded'/'alighted' from the plane, we had to walk quite distance at the new Bangkok International airport. the new airport is way bigger. its HUGE!! the decor was pretty nice. the immigration was quite a long wait for foreign passports but it was okay, not too long. after we passed Thai immigration, we claimed our luggage from the belt. no delay though because i think the immigration process took away much of the waiting time. so collected the luggage and went out to the greeting crowd. there was a hell of a crowd. like superstar. well, considering there was only 1 exit out of the Arrival Hall. we found our liaison called 'Doraemon'!! hehz. he's a funny guy.
there was this circular swiveling door encased in a compartment. it was transparent. but when we entered, for some reason, the swiveling door jammed with about 6 of us with our luggage inside. damn suay. we were stuck in for like 5 full minutes. then the officials we like trying helplessly to get it working again. we waited for van to take us to our apartments.
we had to sign several documents before entering our apartments. it was a 1-bedroom type with 1 living room, 1 dining area, 1 kitchenette with 1 attached bathroom in the room. it was pretty big for 2 occupants. today was our free day before work tomorrow. so we decided that, since we had nothing to do and the internet was only available at the lobby lounge and the room internet was not yet activated, the 4 of us decided to go out to Carrefour to get groceries. we had to ask for directions from the reception desk. so we took a cab. and.......we ended up at 'The Mall", Bangkapi because the taxi driver apparently got confused. taxi fare was 35 Baht. $1+ SGD. for a 2 km ride. "The Mall", they don't name it like that for no reason. take for example, Tampines Mall, comparing it to "The Mall", the latter is like 10 times? if not 15 times bigger. take my word for it. its big. we ate KFC which sells only chicken in any case. kind of weird ordering in English to the cashier. so i used sign language instead.
earlier on, we went to buy some groceries from Home Fresh Mart. kind of like NTUC. prices were cheaper by a small margin. but still cheaper. then after eating dinner, me and Umar went around to find 3 pin adapter plugs. all our plugs were 3 pin and all the AC sockets here are 2 pin. even the TV is 2 pin!! without the adapter, we couldn't charge our laptops, phones. 2 vital equipments when overseas.
we went back to our apartments to use the wireless at the lobby for a while before our battery ran out. and we went to sleep for work next day.
woke up at 4am to eat breakfast and did final checking on the things to bring. well, actually there's nothing much i can check since i already checked a few times last night.
i got ready to go to the airport at about 6.30am. took 2 cabs there. my dad and me in the first and my sisters and my mum in the other. reached airport at around 7.30am. then went to row 12, Malaysian Airlines' check-in counters to have a sit. my 2 aunts came shortly after to see me off through the gates.
waited for Shirley, Umar and Michelle to have our baggages checked in. some of our MWC coursemates went to see us off. Auji, Marlina, Peiling, Hui Shan and Anna. the rest all.....Missing In Action? so disappointed. but nevertheless i'm grateful to those who came. thanks guys.
so anyway, we checked in our luggage at around 8.40am, talked abit. went around talking till 9:40am. took pictures and everything. then it was time to go into the departure gates. after immigration, we waved a final goodbye. all the family members got swelling eyes already. so ok, i cannot bear to look. so waved and just walked off. walked to gate F58, which was like way FAR. so took the Travelator. or was it. a moving platform in other words. waited a while before boarding the plane. had our hand luggage checked before entering the holding area. my aunt was still with me until i was inside the holding room. flight number SQ62.
when we did boarded the plane, we quickly found our seats. i had the window seat so life was good. i took some pictures inside the plane too. i shall post them up at a separate location soon this weekend. watched the movie 'Click'. and the last 5 minutes during landing, i was playing Nintendo Pokemon Yellow Version on the KrisWorld entertainment system.
after the plane had docked, we 'deboarded'/'alighted' from the plane, we had to walk quite distance at the new Bangkok International airport. the new airport is way bigger. its HUGE!! the decor was pretty nice. the immigration was quite a long wait for foreign passports but it was okay, not too long. after we passed Thai immigration, we claimed our luggage from the belt. no delay though because i think the immigration process took away much of the waiting time. so collected the luggage and went out to the greeting crowd. there was a hell of a crowd. like superstar. well, considering there was only 1 exit out of the Arrival Hall. we found our liaison called 'Doraemon'!! hehz. he's a funny guy.
there was this circular swiveling door encased in a compartment. it was transparent. but when we entered, for some reason, the swiveling door jammed with about 6 of us with our luggage inside. damn suay. we were stuck in for like 5 full minutes. then the officials we like trying helplessly to get it working again. we waited for van to take us to our apartments.
we had to sign several documents before entering our apartments. it was a 1-bedroom type with 1 living room, 1 dining area, 1 kitchenette with 1 attached bathroom in the room. it was pretty big for 2 occupants. today was our free day before work tomorrow. so we decided that, since we had nothing to do and the internet was only available at the lobby lounge and the room internet was not yet activated, the 4 of us decided to go out to Carrefour to get groceries. we had to ask for directions from the reception desk. so we took a cab. and.......we ended up at 'The Mall", Bangkapi because the taxi driver apparently got confused. taxi fare was 35 Baht. $1+ SGD. for a 2 km ride. "The Mall", they don't name it like that for no reason. take for example, Tampines Mall, comparing it to "The Mall", the latter is like 10 times? if not 15 times bigger. take my word for it. its big. we ate KFC which sells only chicken in any case. kind of weird ordering in English to the cashier. so i used sign language instead.
earlier on, we went to buy some groceries from Home Fresh Mart. kind of like NTUC. prices were cheaper by a small margin. but still cheaper. then after eating dinner, me and Umar went around to find 3 pin adapter plugs. all our plugs were 3 pin and all the AC sockets here are 2 pin. even the TV is 2 pin!! without the adapter, we couldn't charge our laptops, phones. 2 vital equipments when overseas.
we went back to our apartments to use the wireless at the lobby for a while before our battery ran out. and we went to sleep for work next day.
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