Apparently, I sort of became a korea drama fan down here in cameron. Every weekday night at 7.20pm on KBS World on Astro, the show "You are my Destiny" is showing. And since watching once episode, the 3 of us are sort of hooked onto the show...

This series has over 100 episodes!! muahahaha..

More details here. Isn't the main lead actress(the one in pink) sweet? Matt thinks the slutty girl in yellow is chio. Me n November disagree.

There are some interesting sideline story plot too. Like the guy who likes an older lady and the lady's daughter is in love with the same guy.. complicated... tat's how K-drama are.

KL

Back from a short getaway to KL!

It's saturday morning and 3 of us were getting bored in Cameron. So, we thought, why don't we visit KL? We can go catch a movie, go onto the skybridge at Twin Tower and November can go to get her report. So we bought our bus ticket, checked online(Internet was super super super slow) for hotel and off we go.

Set off from Cameron Highlands at about 8.30am on sunday morning and then reached KL Puduraya Bus terminal at about 12 plus. Checked out our first choice hotel but it was under renovation. Got ripped off by a taxi driver on the way to our 2nd choice hotel to realise that it is fully booked. We finally settled for a 2 star hotel which has a bathroom that has a view of the main road outside(there are curtains lah).

So off we go to KLCC. wanting to visit the skybridge. Had lunch at A&W to settle our craving, and then when we got to the skybridge area, we realise that tickets for the bridge have run out. apprently, there are only 1640 tickets per day. duh! so, feeling disappointed, we checked out movie timing for Dark Knight. Settled on a 8.15pm movie. So we have about 4 hrs to kill. What to do? Nov went for another movie, Matt went for church, I headed off alone to Mid Valley Megamall.

Navigating KL is quite easy. Took their MRT and after transferring here and there, i finally reached the mall. The mall is really Ass big. haha.. so started to walk around slowly and found some good deal at FOS. rushed back to KLCC to meet up with the other 2 for dinner. Dark Knight has a really good plot but was a little draggy for me. There are lots of twists and turns here and there and the ending was indeed impactful.

Woke up this morning, took a cab to the National Meteorological Station for some data, then went to buy books, visit the indoor roller coster at Berjaya Time Square(damm. cannot take), then shopping at Bukit Bintang area.

Boarded the bus back to cameron. The bus brought us all the way to Tapah, then we had to transfer to a 'cui' bus up to tanah rata. the journey seems never ending.... and after all the travelling, we are back in cameron.

The spontaneous trip was really fun, despite not being able to go up to the skybridge. We may be heading out to Ipoh this week too.

Pics coming soon. I am not blogging using my lappie. Shall upload pics to Sunny Sees the World soon, or maybe when i get back.

and i have sort of officially called myself Sunny. Nice name rite?

Now i am starting to feel sick. S*it!

Mattress mattress, buy a mattress

something interesting over here ...







This truck actually "followed" us all the way from our apartment to Tringkap.

cabbage with worms

We got free organic vegetables from one of the farms that we visited and it was quite a bad experience for me while cooking it.

For those who know me, i am damm afraid of long and slimy stuff which includes snakes, worms etc. For the cabbage that we have gotten, there are earthworms stuck in between the leaves!!! imagine the horror..... i became so conscious that i have to keep checking all the vege for ka-ka(Tan & Ng, 2008). brocoli and cauliflower are the worse. there are some ka-kas stuck in it and it only comes out when we cut up the stalk into smaller pieces. so we are eating small pieces of brocoli and cauliflower. Ever wonder if the clean organic vege in singapore are really organic?

and it's freezing cold here!!! pics coming up!

Ok. It's the 2nd night in Cameron Highlands. So far, it has been fun visiting the various farms and climbing up slopes, balancing on narrow roads between watercress ponds and looking out for various things.

It is cold cold cold here... Even in the day, i had to wear long pants and jackets. I brought a few pairs of berms and i don't think i will get to use them.

Tanah Rata is just a small town with most facilities available. In fact, i am now at the internet cafe, which is about 10 minutes walk away from our apartment.

Shall update more with more pics in the coming days.

Survivor Batam

It's just 10 days in Cameron Highlands and i am like bringing loads of stuff there. Blame it on the sweater and the laptop. Comparing to Danang last year, i am really bringing more stuff compared to a 21 day trip. Luckily we are not going to backpack and walk all around with out things.

Just came back from Batam yest. It was a really enriching and fun course. Thanks to our instructor Wee Heong, we are able to learn a lot and hopefully apply these skills to our project. Not only do we learn about yep matters, we learnt a lot about human relationships, leadership, conflict management and so on. Of course, the fellow participants were all very proactive and this really made the difference. Another good thing was i got closer to my co leader yuna, as well as other yep leaders in nus. We gonna need each other support and advice i guess.

We reached Batam and were treated to a drink at Batam View Resort. Shortly after, we proceeded by a fishing boat to this island called Pulau Nongsa. It's a small island with a lighthouse on it and there are quarters for the indonesian navy personnals, as well as a small food/drink store on it. As our instructor mentioned, time on the island passes slowly and i really do feel that. Must be the laid back and relaxing environment. Imagine having lessons beside the beach, enjoying the sea breeze and hearing the waves.

the small island on the left is the island we stayed on. Actually, the 2 islands are connected when low tide.

the lighthouse

our sleeping area.

Shipwreck! so survivor rite? Wanted to take a pic in front of this ship but didn't have the time to do so

me and yuna. notice both of us are wearing geog soc shirt? they say our shirts very nice. "GET LOST" and "WHAT ON EARTH?"

the beautiful sunset. Can see the skyline of singapore if you look closely. We watched NDP fireworks from this spot on the 2nd night!

The beautiful sunrise

The ugly funny looking stonefish. If you look closely, you can actually see 2 eyes (actually not eyes) and a sad face. Compare to the smaller ones by the side, we realise that as the fish grows older, the face becomes more sad.

We got a chance to visit a nearby fishing village on the 2nd afternoon. Very kampung, ubin feeling. Ubin is sad cause there are practically no domestic animals roaming around. Down here, we saw lots of chicken, dogs, cats etc...

another view of the village

Yup. tat's about it for the pictures. In fact, i don't feel like heading back after spending 3 days there. Of course, the company play a very huge role in it! I guess most of us are so excited to go on YEP immediately. Like what eugene mentioned, there's like 1 whole sem and 5 exams to go through! argh!!! definitely looking forward to recce.

Ok. Setting off for cameron soon. 8 hrs bus ride... what a torture.

today's weather is just plain bad for me. For certain reason, the rain got bigger when i was out of a shelter and when i am indoors, the sun came out. From morning till night, this happened. talk about climate change huh.. or simply god hates me.

the past 3 days was spent at first aid course. It did help to refresh my memory a tiny bit, but most of the time, i was rather bored actually. Looking across the class, there were people sleeping like nobody business. at least the test today was super slack. it's sure pass one.

ok. off to batam tomorrow. hope it won't rain there or else we are gonna be so freaking miserable...

the past 2 days have been spent at YEP leader's course. It was really an enriching one, though it can get quite boring and draggy at times. learnt a lot of human relations, team bonding, group dynamics and being a YEP leader indeed holds great responsibility. I really do hope i can inspire my team mates and enable them to benefit from the trip. The stories shared by the trainer and fellow course mates are rather interesting too. i am those type who loves insider stories and gossip. haha. looking forward to the batam training. heard we wld be on a small island. so survivor style...

and modules are out. Should be taking cites in transition and cities and regions. sci gem: complimentary medicine and health. SS: Managing singapore built environment. Vietnamese level 1. anyone taking these mods? and also, whether to go on SEP is really bugging me. money prove to be the biggest issue here. sigh...

first aid training from tmr till thu.

What a coincidence. I actually realise today that Sheng Zhi (geog soc 39th MC treasurer) is actually my colleague in my temp job. saw him wearing a geog soc t-shirt and i asked him if he is from geog soc. what a small world it is. I guess coming from the same organisation sort of broke the barrier between us and throughout the day, we got to talk more (actually this is my 3rd day working with him already)

So the job that i am having now is giving me a good tan. Standing under the sun for hours and hiding occasionally into the shade when the athlete are not in action. Pay is ok only, but i would say i got to learn a lot. I was a non-track n field person so i had very little knowledge abt the technical aspects of the races. Through this job, i was lucky to get rotated around often and so i got to learn bits and pieces of the different events.

my final day tmr. and after that i wld be all over the place. Ppl commented it's a jet-setting lifestyle. No it's not. I am not flying all over...

And yup, it was nice meeting up with some of the FIC ppl for dinner at Manhattan yest. Somehow, the conversation just got really RA and it evolved into Jurassic Park. Totally enjoyed the company!

and not to forget to mention my first visit to a museum under NUS matric card, which gave us free access to all the museums in singapore. Went to the peranakan museum with boon kian. the trip was so spontaneous and well, i do learn a bit more abt peranakan culture as well as chinese culture (both culture are very similar). Wanted to visit the Philatelic Museum too, but they don't have free entry for NUS students. I actually asked the counter "Do you have complimentary visits for NUS students?" I avioded using the word 'Free' as it would make me sound damm cheapo. maybe someday i shall start visiting all the other museums. shall learn to be more cultured.

still too full from the super late dinner just now... can't sleep...