I've got an interview!

我今天比昨天好，发出了三份。

早上才发出电邮，下午就接到电话。

好快哦。我猜那间公司是等人用。

这是我最不想要的。

其他三间应该没那么快咯，截止日期是一月二十六日。

他们因该会看完所有申请表才决定吧！

我想要的竟然有 521 人申请，是 statistic showed 的， 而且是到今天已经有521！！

你说会不会到一千多？我觉得有可能，截止日期是一月二十六日嘛！

Job Hunting

今天我才开始找工。对着电脑一整天，我不知道要找什么工作。

最后，我才发出一份！是，才一份！

朋友们问我要找什么工作，我不知道，我只知道我要 work-life balance!

我不想像以前那样，为了一份工作搞到每个月要看医生。

我宁愿拿少一点钱，最重要开心！

还有朋友问我，为什么不做一点小生意！我听了只是哈哈两声。

他们真是说得容易，是他们想得太简单了吧！

唉，看来明天要努力发出更多略历表才行 :)

婚宴

我们才回来没多久, 就已经被邀请到三个婚宴.

而且全都好远! 都不在 KL 咯!

说起来, 今年好多人结婚哦. 妈妈说今年是"双春兼

闰月".

双春兼

闰月是什么? 我真的不知道. 我只知道我除了要花钱买晚礼服,还要给红包.

不过反过来想, 红包可以帮助这些新人达到他们的意愿, 完成美满的婚姻.

祝福他们新婚愉快! 早生贵子!

我回来了

回来的意思是我刚回来马来西亚了.

之前在忙考试, 所以也没有告诉朋友.

看来我需赶快通知了, 希望不会被臭骂一顿

今年的圣诞没有了白雪, 却多了一点家的感觉.

我也只想安安静静的过这一次的圣诞节.

圣诞节当天, 因为睡迟了, 来不及去教堂..只好在家看教会的网路现场直播.

到了晚餐时间, 我也特地选最没人的地方用膳, 因为不想遇上堵车. 人山人海的地方就最好免了.

之后, 还到了MPH想要看看有没有合"心水" 的书, 可惜没看上.

就这样, 我过了我的平静的圣诞节.

Not in writing-mode

I haven't been blogging much lately. Every time I wanted to start writing something, I'll be telling myself, "maybe tomorrow". I'm just not in my writing-mode.

The book and the movie

I like the book. It's a love story written by Cecelia Ahern (daughter of Ireland's former prime minister)

It gives me a tonne of room for imagination as it's a story set in Dublin.
My imagination was spoiled after I watched the movie.
I prefer the book. I think the book is wayyy better than the movie.

It would be better to live in my imagination, sometimes! :)

Happening in July and August

Dinner with friends in Dublin

Visited a friend in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Went to Giant Causeway again and still couldn't believe the hexagonal rocks were formed naturally.

Dinner with housemate at one of the pubs in Dublin. Not sure whether I've mentioned it here before, Guinness here tastes good and actually ways better than those in Malaysia.

Went to Cork with Alan and Kher Sin, visited Blarney Castle. Nel kissed the Blarney Stone.

Visited an island in Greece

A trip to Turkey

A girls' night out

Went to Irish Greyhound and watched dogs racing with colleagues.

Had dinner with colleagues and it was the weirdest pizza I have ever had. Pizza with ham, achovies and boiled eggs. Yucks...

Had dinner at the oldest pubs in Dublin - The Brazen Head est.1198

A friend from Cardiff, UK was visiting us. Nel and I brought her around and visit some places in Ireland.

Hectic! Hectic! I don't how did we do this. So many trips, travelling, night outs and dinners with friends and colleagues!

Black Mulberry Wine Tonight!

I am going to taste the wine I bought in Sirince tonight!

Sirince is a pretty hill town located near Ephesus in Turkey. We were there for a stroll, some shoppings and photography session after visiting Ephesus.

Sirince is renowned for its wines! The locals sell many types of fruit wine - such as the flavours of apple, strawberry, blackberry, blueberry, mulberry, peach, cherry, etc.

Most importantly, wine tasting sessions are free!!! I tasted many of them and chose blackberry at the end :) By the way, it costed 10 Lira (approx. €5) each bottle only!

Light at the end of the tunnel

No worries, there would appear to be some light at the end of the tunnel - Nel said. I've heard it a few times from him. His mindset and able to stay positive no matter what happens always amazes me!

I wish I can be like him. Think positive.

Who knows? You might be able to see some light at the end of the tunnel

Back from Turkey

37 °C is no fun at all. HOT and DRY.

My first impression towards Istanbul is Turkish men are very BUSUK!

Not all of them but most of them. Or maybe I am the unlucky one.

Everywhere I go, I can only smell some BUSUK smell of armpit

I guess it's too hot and they sweat a lot. But why can't they use deodorant!

Job Satisfaction

Where are you?

A few months ago, my company has decided to outsource some of the jobs as it's cheaper and save us lots of time. It's good that I am still being pay the same salary with much lesser work. But I am not as happy as I thought. I have been working on some small issues and paper work. I am not learning anything!

Job satisfaction - where are you???

In Bruges

The movie I watched 2weeks ago.

Then, I came across an article about Bruges. A survey has conducted and guess what? Bruges came in the first most beautiful city in Europe, leaving Prague and Paris behind.

I was attracted to the beautiful scene when I was watching the movie.

Unbelievable pretty!

If you have not watch the movie yet, do check it out. Then you'll know how pretty it is.

And Collin Farell is funny too :)

P.S Collin Farell is an Irish actor from Dublin.

Summer Holidays

Nel and I are going to a slightly different type of holiday this time.

Since 2 years ago, we have been eyeing on the summer holidays packages offered by local travel agencies as they seem to be very cheap and affordable. It's just extremely irresistible.

There'd be no more churches nor cathedrals! No more European castles and palaces!

We are hitting the sunny and sandy beach!! Woohoo!!!


For a package price of €250 - €500 per person (depending on destination), you get to :

- returning flights from Dublin including land transfer to your resort
- 7 nights accommodation at a 3* or 4* hotel resort
- bathing under the sun in Tenerife
- or escape away from your normal rountine in Gran Canaria
- or the Spanish island of Majorca
- or the fabulous beaches in Algarve in Portugal
- or the Greek island of Crete
- or Cyprus
- or see the views on camelback in Egypt
- or hundreds more sun destinations!

There are so many options to choose from! Most Irish love to visit the beaches in Spain like Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Majorca and Costa del Sol. Perhaps it is because the Spain packages are among the cheapest and most reasonable, and the weather is excellent and it's also nearer to Ireland.

The price of the packages are cheaper than I thought.
I've just checked the prices from the agencies' website, and for a price of €335, I get to go Kusadasi in Turkey for 8-day-7-night!!! Including return flights and accomodation and breakfasts!

Great deal, isn't it?

Irish Greyhound

Some time ago, Nel and I went to watch greyhound racing at Shelbourne Park Greyhound Stadium.


We lost €10 per person even before starting to bet - entry fees! Upon buying the entrance tickets, we were given a betting guidebook each. The guidebook records past statistics and winning probabilities of every greyhound in every race, as well as some tips and the hot favourites.

Nel and Ta Wei betted for most favourable greyhounds on the first few faces. Winning some races and losing the rest, they lost on overall in the end. Haha.


Greyhound racing is definitely a fun game! I suppose it's due to the element of gambling
During some of the races, I overheard some women beside cheering the racing dog's name. She was really loud.

All the greyhounds were given a funny name such as Egg White, Credit Alert, Double Twiss etc etc etc

Imagine hearing someone shouting "Egg White! Egg White! Egg White!" enthusiastically beside.


Greyhound could run real fast! According to info obtained from internet, they could run to the speed of around 70 kilometre an hour.


I betted for fun too and went for greyhound no.5 aka Advantage Johnny. I lost €2 on that race. Johnny, you disappointed me!

Bak Kut Teh

Last Saturday, Alan invited us to have dinner at his apartment. He just moved in 2weeks ago. He cooked Bak Kut Teh!! Nel and I were so happy. You can't get the dish here in Ireland at all.

Yummy!

Working holiday visa

My colleague, Sinead asked me to meet Tanya this coming Thursday. I was surprised that she is back to Ireland. It seems like she just left. Tanya got an Australia working holiday visa a year ago. Since then, she has been travelling around in Australia.

Oh! And recently, I just got to know that Malaysian is allowed to apply too!! If I'm not mistaken, it was introduced to M'sian this year. The visa allows us to travel and work up to 6mths. If you are thinking to apply, make sure you're not over 30. Applicants must be aged between 18-30 lor.

Masterpieces in Louvre Paris

Lourve is indeed humongous. You gotta see to believe.

We knew beforehand that we won't be able to cover all of the galleries in the musuem. So instead of wandering around the musuem aimlessly, Nel downloaded a self-guided tour programme from Louvre's website which show us the top 10 masterpieces in Louvre.

We brought the programme along during our visit, searched the respective paintings and sculptures as suggested, read the stories behind every masterpieces and took some photos with them. It was like a treasure hunt in a huge art musuem.

Here we go - the Top 10 Masterpieces of Louvre!

1. Venus de Milo

2. Liberty leading the people

3. The Raft of the Medusa

Of all the masterpieces, I find this to be the most interesting one!

"Medusa sank because of the incompetence of a captain who had obtained his post through political relations. Due to a shortage of lifeboats, 149 people piled onto a raft that drifted for twelve days. Only fifteen survived the ensuing slaughter, madness, and cannibalism.

There are various psychological states of mind in the artpiece: the dejection of the bewildered man holding his dead son, the dying man rising up with a start, and the desperate hope of those waving to their potential rescuer. But at this point in time, nobody knew which way the scales of fortune would tip. The only hero in this poignant story is humanity, and that is what still moves us today" ~ quoted from Lourve website.


Look at the crowd!!! I think you could guess what were they looking at!

4. Mona Lisa

Yes, Mona Lisa. They were fighting for a space to peep at this artpiece.

I only got to know that Mona Lisa doesn't have eyelashes and eyebrows today.
Why did Leonardo Da Vinci not paint her the eyelashes and eyebrows?

5. The wedding feast at Cana

I swear I did read all the stories. However, by the time I finished reading the story of artpiece no.3, I forgot the story of artpiece No.1.

6. Odalisque

When I stumbled upon this artpiece, only one word came into my mind. Cacat!
Her body is retarded!!!

7. The Coronation of the Emperor Napoleon I and the Crowning of the Empress Joséphine in Notre-Dame Cathedral

8. Winged Victory of Samothrace

9. The Oath of the Horatii

I obtained this photo from website. I saw it but forgot taking a picture of it :p

10. Slave

We missed this. We couldn't figure out where this statue was located according to the map.
Come on! When you pass by hundreds of Greek statues, they all look the same!

In conclusion, our mission failed. We only found 9 out of 10.

Finally, I would like to share this.


Look at the reaction! He certainly seemed to be enjoying himself, didn't he? Macam syiok sendiri!

By the way, the name of the statue is known as "The Dying Slave"
Somehow his reaction seemed to contradict the title.


We spent quite a substantial time walking around in the Louvre for our little treasure hunt. Louvre is by all means, huge!
How huge it is? We spent 3 hours in there, and we only conquered, say 10%??

I miss roasted chestnut.

I fell in love with roasted chestnut on my last trip to Paris. We gave in to the temptation while passing by and bought a small packet of roasted chestnut from this stall.

It tasted extremely delicious, probably due to the freezing weather. It was a cold night - around 0-2 degree celsuis. The roasted chestnut was hot and smelt really good.

On a cold night in Paris, walking along the Boulevard de Rochechouart, and having my roasted chestnut with hubby was such a perfect way to end the day. I wish I could have that again :)

Home cook food

I did not cook for a month and Nel has started to complain.
Finally I did it today. Haha.