tEam bUilding, PD (Part II) - Treasure Hunt, Obstacle course and Telematching

The first game for the team building is Treasure Hunt. Since 2 cars lost their direction, we only had 13 participants for the game, ie. 3 - 4 persons in a team. We were required to find out the clue in a white paper and answer the question or find out the treasure as mentioned. Then go to the next destination for the next clue. Luckily my team is the winner!! We won ourselves a T-shirt and key chain. ^-^ V

After our lunch break, we had the obstacle and telematching courses. The obstacle course is quite challenging and interesting. There are a total of 20 obstacles in different stations. Each team must work together to clear all the following obstacles safely and also in the shortest time:

1. 2ft singe bar - jump across
2. 6ft double bar - climb up /down the bar
3. swinging bridge - walk across and balancing
4. tyre king - rawl through
5. crab walk - ran through balancing
6. loft tunnel - crawling through
7. staggered ladder - climb up/down
8. 6ft wall - individual climb across
9. 8ft wall - team effort - climb across
10. water hazard - jump across
11. rope netting - climb up/down - across
12. loft vertical rope - climb down hill
13. single beam - walk across
14. tarzan swing - swing across water hazard
15. monkey rack - swing across
16. barb wire - crawl through under bard wire
17. single cable - walk across on cable
18. barb wire 3ft - duck walk across
19. log riding - sit sliding along the log
20. jump over ditch - jump across

*Challenging obstacles are in BOLD.

Don't know what does it called..??

Log riding. This is easy for guys...

Tarzan swing...

Barb wire

8ft wall

6ft wall

loft vertical rope

After the obtacle course, all became dirty and some of us are injured.

After the obstacle course, we had telematch. This is much more easier if compared with the obstacle course. Most of us are tired and exhausted. Luckily there's only few games for the telematch, and doesn't required much energy. We had about 2 hours for bathing and resting before our BBQ dinner started.

Our dinner... the food looks nice but mostly tasteless.

tEam bUilding - Eagle Ranch Resort, PD (21-22 Oct 06)

I've just joined my current company for less than 2 months, but luckily I had the chance to join the team building course in Eagle Ranch Resort, Port Dickson for 2 days 1 night. There are a total of 21 participants in 6 cars, which 2 of the car drivers decided to depart earlier to avoid the traffic congestion due to long DeepaRaya Holidays. We departed from Tropicana at 6am, and reach Port Dickson within 1.5 hours. The event started at 9am, so we still had plenty of time to enjoy our dim sum breakfast. After the breakfast, then we continue our journey to find the Eagle Ranch Resort.

The reception of the resort

Out of my expectation, the resort is not near to the beach. It's located at 14th mile, Port Dickson, and offers a unique "Home on the Ranch" stay amidst rugged 28-acre surroundings with beauty of the natural. Choice of accomodation at the resort varies from kampung houses, log cabins, paddock chalets and tepees to dormitories.

Log Cabin with open-to-the-sky waterfall showers

Red Indian Tepee

Kampung houses over the fishing pond

There are variety of sports and recreation activities, but I would just name a few:

1. paintball
2. horse riding
3. Go-Kart
4. 20 Item obstacle course
5. treasure hunt
6. telematch
7. flying fox
8. sea rafting
9. jungle trekking
10. archehry

Hmm.... Finished the introduction of the resort, next I'll blog about the activities that we'd participated, which is full of fun and challenge!!

Day Trip to Malacca (14 Oct 06)

It's years ago since my last visit to Malacca. Having planned for weeks, finally I stepped into the territory of this historical ancient town again with few of my good friends. We departed from KL at 9:30am, and reached there within 1.5 hours with normal speed. Once reached there, we straight away went to the famous chicken rice shop for our lunch. There are few shops famous of the chicken rice scattering around the "Red House" (direct translation from Chinese =.=), but we chose "Chung Hwa" which is an old shop at the corner. It's just opposite of the OCBC Bank, if not mistaken.
After the meal, we had a walk near the "Red House". We went to Christ Church, St. Paul's Church, A'Famosa and People's Museum which are just within the walking distance. All of these are the hallmark of Malacca.

Christ Church since 1753. A must-visit famous place.

Line of trishaws passed by while we walked along the antique street. This is one of the promotional event of DiGi.

Thanks to our neighbouring country, it's really hot due to the haze. So we decided to have the famous cendol, and also tried out some of the nyonya food. Unfortunately we were still full and only managed to try out 1 dish which is called the "Ayam Pongteh" - Miso Soy Chicken. It's actually the chicken which is cooked with preserved soy beans [Miso], dark soy sauce, sugar and other ingredients.
After that we walked along the old shops, and were attracted by 1 of the art gallery.

Tang's Art Gallery

Each of us bought a Chinese stamp with our names, which costs us around RM40-50 each. The writings are really nice. The business is actually operated by 3 brothers who are quite friendly. They had even drawn a map to guide us to some of the famous food around the area, including the "peanuts soup", "satay celup" and fried oysters. Hmm.. We had really eaten alot. ^-^

Nice fried oyster. Even much better if can put more oysters. It's a long queue and we waited for about 30 minutes before getting our food.

Hmm.... A very nice trip, just eat, walk, eat, walk and eat... ^-^

mOOn cAke fEstivaL

How did I celebrate? Initially planned to have big meal with my housemates. But I worked late that day... =( 5pm... 6pm... 7pm... Still in the office. sigh...
While waiting for my team lead to solve some server issue, I took some photos with my teammates.

Finally we can leave at 7:10pm... phew!!! Anyhow I was late for the dinner, so have to cancel the plan. Eventually 'yum cha' with my 'old' friends.

In the following day there was a belated celebration in church. Pot luck, lanterns, moon cakes... It has been years that I didn't manage to enjoy this kind of atmosphere. ^-^

Can you see the Jade Rabbit or Chang-Er on the moon?? ^-^

Trip to Fraser Hill (2-3Sept)

Just a quick post... These are some of the photos taken in Fraser Hill:

Post office

This is where the advertisement of Salem Cool Planet took place.

A very nice Smoke House.

{Might have more photos coming soon}

It's pArtY time!!

Wow It's really great to end my last day in such a nice nice way. ^-^ No regret to extend few more days to work in such a terrible project. Yeah it's our client who organized a get-together session with dinner + karaoke. The "K room" resides in my client office block is indeed much much nicer than what I've expected.


K Room

We had beers, red wines, karaoke competition, dance... Guess who's our Dancing King? :)

Team 3 members

Cheers!! ^-^

flOOd!!

It's my last day working in Masjid Jamek area, and unfortunately also my first time in my life to witness a flood!! This area is indeed being well-known as black area of flood. After few hours of non-stopping heavy rain, it just happened all of sudden!! I did hear of some kind of alarm, but not pretty sure whether that's the operation of flood alarming system. Heard that the Putra LRT system also down due to the disaster. As step of precaution, most of the office properties were moved to the upper stair. I was very lucky for having a 'party' in my client company that night, so not being caught in the flood. Anyhow, this is indeed a very memorable last day working here...

It's my last day being here...

Finally it’s my last day in my current company. Have been waiting for almost 2 months and eventually here it comes!!! I keep asking myself, what have I learnt from this project? Well, perhaps I’ve learnt how important a good project management is, as well as a well-design system. Most of the developers will feel annoyed, upset, demotivated, and uncommitted when working on a badly design system with messy, dirty and unnecessary codes. The condition worsened if the project is not well planned. These are also the main reasons that I chose to leave this project, despite of all the attractive packages being offered.

Feel released, and joyful, but at the same time, a bit reluctant to say good-bye to my fellow colleagues. The greatest thing I gained from here is the friendship build among us. Perhaps it’s the tough situation, tones of complaints and some of the events being organized which tied us together. Of course I won’t forget of the great contribution from our great developers who had written LTK which bring us much more closely to each others. We laugh, we cry, we complain, we discuss, and we play here… it’s the place of sharing!

For sure I’ll miss all of you... May God bless you all! Cheers!!!

My Big Day!!!

Yeah it’s my birthday…!!! I’m glad to have groups of friends celebrate with me. One of the memorable celebrations is my Sepang trip with my fellow colleagues. Driving in 3 MyVi, it took us around 1 hour to reach Tanjung Sepat, Sepang. Our beloved tour guide brought us to a nice beach. Wow!! Growing in a small town near to the beach, I do miss the beach a lot. Unfortunately I didn’t bring my camera along, thus miss the opportunities to take photos of the beautiful scenes. Here I ‘borrow’ some of the photos taken by wAntAn:

After a short tour to the beach, we went to the seafood restaurant which is near to the Lovers’ Bridge.

Lovers' Bridge

This is the most beautiful sunset I’ve ever seen.


Ocen Seafood Restaurant

Thanks to MoonCake for treating us LOBSTER!!

Team Building Program

With the purpose to build team spirit, my client company has organized a Team Building Program on 28 July in Selesa Hill Homes Resort, Bukit Tinggi. This is a full day event with lots of fun activities and games. We drove there in several cars and unfortunately 2 of our cars drove to the wrong direction. We almost reached Bukit Tinggi Resort before we were informed of our mistakes. Thus we were rushing for our breakfast before the program ‘officially’ started. We were arranged into several teams, and mine is BLUE. Yeah, we named our team “Blue Busters”!!

For the first activity, we were required to find a partner from different company and to get know of his/her better by asking few questions like what is his/her nickname, how is her/his ideal partner like, any embarrassing moment etc. Well I don’t actually get used to tell these kinds of things to someone whom I’m not closed to, and also in front of so many people. But I did enjoy of others’ stories. :D Following this are a series of games in teams. I did really enjoy all the games and there are full of fun!!



We had river trekking for the afternoon session. Being guided to the jungle, each of the team was given an egg and a glass of water on tray. We are required to hold these while playing games without breaking or falling any of them. That is the challenging part of the game! By helping each others, all of us were managed to finish all the session.

Unfortunately my team did not win the game. Anyhow we had done our best!! The program ended by prize giving, speech and camera sessions. We were given a certificate of participation.

Lantern Exhibition

It has been months since my last update on this blog. Being reminded for several times and I kept on giving excuses that I was busy… busy for nothing!! Sorry for the long waiting. :P Two months ago, on 22 June, I went to visit a Lantern Exhibition which was held in Bukit Jalil. It’s bigger than what I expected. Some of the lanterns are very nice and amazing. Here are some of the photos being taken:

This is the most amazing lantern in the exhibition! A dragon which made of traditional chinaware.

A zoom-in view of the dragon...

Proud of Malaysian - Twin Towers!!

A zoom-in view of the twin towers... It's actually made of small bottles!!

2008 Olympic in Beijing!

It looks like real!!

It only costs me RM 5 for the entrance fee. Worth visiting!!

gOOdbYe BraZiL!!

Brazil was sent home by France in World Cup 2006!! I purposely woke up at 3am to watch the samba show, and eventually it turned up to be a farewell show! No doubt that France did a good job and they deserved to win the game. But as a supporter of Brazil, I was really upset with the results. No more Brazil. No more Samba. They can’t even enter the semi-final. =(

Goodbye Brazil. Hope to see a better you 4 years later!

Day trip to Sungai Klah Hot Springs Park

I had a day trip with my church-mates in Sungai Klah Hot Springs Park last Saturday. The place is being developed by FELDA, and it's well maintained. We can smell of the sulfur once entering to the park.

Main entrance of the Hot Springs Park

You can bring eggs and boil it here. The temperature is around 100c.

Our lunch in Kampar. Famous curry chicken bread. The curry is yummy!!

My car was coming!!

Yes, I'm talking about my first car, my very first car. After waiting for 5 months, finally I managed to collect my car on 20th May. I have heard of few complaints from my friends' friend about some minor defects on their new MyVi. A little bit worrying that same things will happen, I carefully checked thru my car and found 2 line scratches on my dashboard. I was unhappy and complaint to the staff, but they claimed that nothing much they can do, except for taking the photos of the scratches and asking for a witness, then complaining to Perodua. I wonder what action will Peroda take??!!


Found that the sound from gear box is a bit loud, and the car is slightly under power when climbing hill. The fuel consumption with 1.3 Auto Premium is a bit high, as I can only manage to drive for about 360km with RM50 petrol,ie approximately13.85km/liter. Well, perhaps all these are due to the new engine.

Anyway, no regret of buying Myvi!! ^-^V

LonG-awAiting IPOH TriP

One of my colleagues had been talking about organizing a trip to his home-town, Ipoh since last year. Finally this long-awaiting trip becomes a reality on 13th May. Special thanks to MoonCake, our co-organizer. ^-^

Departing from KL at 7am, we reached the famous Foh San Dim Sum, Ipoh at around 8:30am. The restaurant was already packed with people and we had to wait for the empty table. I did enjoy the dim sum very much as they have a lot of choices and most of them are quite tasty.

After the breakfast, our next destination is Kek Lok Cave.

Nice view inside the cave. We did visit few other caves but I can't remember their names. :P

Nice and famous Ipoh White Coffee!!!

A visit to Taiping Lake. Photo was taken with few of my colleagues. Leng mou? :P