My Journey

Thanks for visiting Jinnie Planet

2011-03-19T23:08:00.004+08:00

Again, I've neglected my own blog. The only reason I can think of is, I'm lazy; not busy. No matter how busy life is, if I'm passionate enough and committed enough, I'll blog. But I'm not. Anyway, it's not important anymore. I started this blog three years ago when I left the place I called second home. To me, it's not an easy journey to leave everything behind and start all over again. But hey, I did it. Not only I struggled through all the ups and downs; I learnt to enjoy my life journey, no matter is good or bad; ups or downs. I learnt about letting go, cutting losses, start a new game everyday. I have to say I've grown up so much in the past three years. Something I've gone through where no schools or universities can taught me. I'm glad I've gone through everything and glad to have someone supported me all the way. Thanks dear!

Today, I've left the company I had worked for almost three years and I'm now in a partnership starting a brand new business. Nothing is forever, life goes on and things change overtime. There will be no updates about Jinnie Planet anymore; so today mark the first and last and only blog in 2011. Thanks for visiting Jinnie Planet and I hope you enjoyed the journey!

Profit Taking

2010-08-25T23:02:00.002+08:00

In trading, it is never wrong to take profit. How much profit do you want depends on your risk apetite and how greedy you are. Some people who are easily contented are happy with small profit, adventurous or ambitious people anticipating bigger profit. It is never wrong to take profit in the trading world, as this is the money you are earning. If not, what's the point of trading? At the end of the day, you just want to make money, increasing your capital for the next trade.

However, there are always two scenarios will happen:

1. At this moment, you decided to take profit, realized the profit and take a rest and get ready for the next trade. However, the market go further in your favour after profit taking. You regretted of taking profit and wonder whether you should jump in to join the boat. But, what will happen next??

2. You think at this point the unrealized profit is too little and you might see more realized profit if you hang on for a while. But, that might not happen. Instead of making money at that particular moment, this could end up to be a losing trade. What do we call this? Greedy!

We will never know what will happen in the market, as the market is full of excitements and uncertainties. If there's sure win cases, there will be no poverty in the world and everyone will be a happy millionaire. However, that's not true in the reality.

So, moral of the story is, if you think whether should you take profit at that particular moment, I would say, yes, go for it. At least this is what I think. Trading world is like reality show. Either you take the money home now, or fight for better money; or go home without anything or lesser than what you are getting now. We will never know what is going to happen in the future, the market is always there; realized the profit, take a rest and start a new game with better confident. Well, at least this is what I think, you might not agree with that.

Cut Loss

2010-08-22T16:41:00.002+08:00

I've read articles and books telling us about how to make profit from investments, but I've never come across anything telling us about cut loss. When comes to investment, it doesn't mean that we always make money. There are times that we make wrong decision and the investment instead of making money, it turns out to be losing money. So, when you are in a wrong position, what do you need to do and what's the next plan?

Cutting loss, a very important decision especially trading in a fast and volatile market like futures and commodities. Cutting loss means you involved in a wrong decision and seeing your position turning into unrealised losses. Who wanna admit that they actually make a wrong investment decision? Moreover, it is so painful in cutting loss. Cutting loss in other words mean losing money. How could people actually believe that they are losing money and not making money??

In a normal circumstances, human always think that it's just a temporary moment and the investment will come back to your price. But, sadly to say I've seen a lot of people, when seeing unrealized profit, realized profit very quickly, but when comes to lossing money, keep holding and holding till one day when they decided to cut loss, the damage is too big. It is also possible that their stubborness and ignorance could make them lose out the initial capital.

It's not easy to cut loss. It's pain, I know. That's why it is important to have a trading plan before enter the market. And we need to be disclipline when the cut loss price is triggered. Wrong means wrong, when it's time to cut loss means cut loss. When you've loss something, you'll know what to look for in the next step.

Cut loss, it's an essential decision in any investment. It could be also applied in any situation when we've made wrong call in life decisions.

Happy trading

2010-08-14T19:56:00.003+08:00

I finally made some profit I lost in Nikkei futures market after several mistakes and cut losses few weeks ago. As my initial plan was to do a short in Nikkei, I hold on to my plan and further selling as the market came down few days ago. Till I think I had made enough, I closed all the positions and happy that I've made few hundred points within 3 days.

After more than 2 years in futures market, I realized it's not too hard to make money, yet it's too easy to lose money. Specially when you are not disclipine in cutting lose and too hurry to take profit when see some small profits, I guess that's human nature.

Specially as a broker, I always see clients stubbornly holding unrealized losses positions and refused to cut loss. When it's too tired and ready to cut loss, the damage is too big. This happen to everyone.

To sum up a few important notes in futures trading, I think it is very important to:

1. To have a plan before enter any markets. Know the entry level and exit level, which includes the cut loss or profit taking level. Always know whether it is a long term or short term trading

2. When it's wrong, must be disclipline enough to cut loss. Don't make the wrong term into long term and let the damages grow bigger and bigger

3. Always follow trend. Don't hold a wrong term buy in a bearish market and don't hold a wrong term short in a bull market. In a volatile market, always know the cut loss point and realized the money when it's in the money

Well, saying is easy and action is difficult, specially when you are trading with emotions!

Always prepare for the worse and hope for the best. Happy trading!

Lesson of the day

2010-07-31T14:14:00.003+08:00

When comes to investment and making money, everyone has different preferences. Some goes for high risk high return financial products, some choose to stay with low risk thing. I've been learning to diversify my portfolio in the past few months, but one thing I've learned from the lesson: be disclipline and go for it if you know this is what you want.

The market came all the way down in February 2010, it was the time I've missed in shorting futures, and since I've missed one opportunity, I thought, it's not too late to invest in other products. I've been thinking about buying Euro dollar; since the Europe Debt issue, the Euro has came all the way down. Of course, just like the 2008 financial crisis, no one knows what will happen to Europe or Euros, and no one will know when is their recovery. Apart from Euros, Singapore Dollars is one of favourites, giving the fact that I go Singapore every often nowadays. Apart from that, two of my target shares were Air Asia, my favourite "everyone can fly" budget airlines and CIMB, one of the blue chip banking share in Malaysia.

Imagined if I followed all my plans, today I've been making money. Time frame, just in 5 months time. In reality, I only bought Singapore dollars but not others. Did I really missed out the opportunity of making money? In a way, yes; but on the other hand, I think I've learned a good lessson.

These investments takes time to see the money grow. In a fast money world, like what I've been doing in palm oil futures and a virtual Hang Seng Index market. Yes, I could have made more money within a few days or a few hours. But bear in mind, easy money easy goes. One very good lesson in trading fast money market-- always know when to cut loss when market is against you and always know when to protect profit or realize profit when in the money.

Lesson of the day, It is very important to be DISCLIPINE in any kind of investments.

Who wants to be millionaire?

2010-07-27T21:36:00.005+08:00

Who wants to be a millionaire? Of course everyone wants. But, what are the ways of making yourself rich?

Some people are lucky enough that they are born in a rich family and hence inherited wealth from their previous generation. Some may not be that lucky, but is hardworking enough to work hard and save more money and build their wealth through investment. If you falls in the category of being a not very hardworking person, or coming from a rich family; the easiest way is to marry a rich person. Of course, you must be a lucky babe!

There are ways of building your wealth. Engaged in business is one of the way but it might not suit everyone. The safest type is the low risk fix deposit that takes ages to build your wealth. Moving into a higher level, you can find mutual funds or stocks investment or another way accummulate wealth is through properties investment. To start off with properties, you'd require a higher capital compared to other investments. If your risk apetite is good enough and happy to enjoy volatile market movement, think about derivatives such as index trading, FOREX or commodities. These are get rich quick ways of building your wealth; but bear in mind, high risk high return, it is not impossible that you will lose what you make as well.

When comes to high risk investment, first need to think about your own risk apetite and what kind of products suit you. If you are a risk adverse person, it doesn't mean FOREX or index or commodities trading doesn't suit you, just that you need to find a very comfortable level to enter the market, plan your exit level in terms of cut loss or profit taking points.

These are the things I've been telling my clients since I'm in the market. Saying is easy, but when comes to action, it will be a different story. To become a millionaire, it comes with hard work and disclipine. Sleep earlier and dream big tonight!

Hello again after months of hibernation

2010-07-17T01:36:00.006+08:00

My Jinnie Planet had gone for hibernation for almost 6 months. It's now July, first month of the second half of the year and I wonder what I've done for the past 6 months?

Apart from work, can't remember what I've done lately. One thing really cheer me up was my getaway trip to Hong Kong for a week with my lovely hubby during the World Cup Season. Well, not that the World Cup is held in Hong Kong, at least the quiet period at work is alright for me to be away from work. The previous time we went was 7 years ago. 7 years, can't imagine we are still together after 7 years. Caught up with our ex-housemates and friends we knew back in Melbourne; shopping everyday and hop over to Macau and casinos visit were our activities. I really think I should be a travel agent instead of a broker. So much fun of travelling!

Straightaway back from the trip, Jinnie participated in the 2010 KL Standard Chartered Marathon and completed 21km. I've come a long way in this journey, from someone who doesn't like exercise to completed 21km. Although I didn't complete the whole marathon with full running since I pulled my muscle, but at least I didn't catch a shuttle in the middle of the way. Good sporting spirit!

Work, work has made me busy for the past few months and especially with the volatility in the market nowadays, it suffocates me and sometimes felt like being killed softly. Working spirit is getting lower and lower and I wonder how should I move on from here. Life is not heading anywhere, just like our market; no matter how high it went or how low it goes for the past few months, it's still trading within the range of 1280-1340. The market needs a break up or break down to show a better direction, just like I'm waiting for a clearer direction to have a breakthrough in my life.

I've been following the market closely for the past 2 years, especially in the past 6 months, I know what I want to do in the market. If you asked me, have I made big bucks lately? The answer is certainly No. Have I been losing badly lately? Not really. This shows that I'm not heading anywhere.

After things happened this week, I think I get a clearer picture of how to make money in the market. Maybe I won't write a book about how to make big bucks in the futures market, but I certainly can tell how to avoid losing big money. In other words, minimise your losses and maximize your profits. Will tell you more about it, so, be patient and wait for my first book!

Hello 2010!!!

2010-01-02T01:31:00.004+08:00

Hello 2010!!! Hello....hello.....

Yes, this is the first post of my 2010 at this late night! Must be it was the teh ice I had few hours ago, the caffeine just keeping me awake!

Anyway, since I'm awake, I should just log in and say hi to my new 2010!

Nothing much exciting on the new year eve, as I really dislike celebrating eve in crowded place. That night we had a mini high school gathering in one of my high school friend, also Minnie's cousin house for countdown and BBQ plus karaoke. A simple relax new year eve.

Since Minnie and myself are having a day off, we drove to Fraser's Hill for a day trip, a getaway from city life. I have to admit that there are plenty of nice places in Malaysia I haven't explore; as I enjoy driving, bringing Swifty to Fraser's Hill, exploring a bit here and there and afternoon tea in Smokehouse just made a great day!

Frasers Hill just remind me of Melbourne. It was a warm afternoon and straightaway after rain, the weather became cooling, exactly like summer in Melbourne. The afternoon tea too, reminded how I used to drive to Mt. Dandenong for lunch.

Anyway, it will be a busy weekend, so I think I should just go to bed now... nite nite!!!

Jinnie's 2009

2009-12-19T18:35:00.003+08:00

A year ago, this is what Jinnie wrote for her 2009 resolutions. Something simple and not too hard to achieve. After 12 months, this is what Jinnie did in 2009:

1. Bought myself a new car- Swifty, the best companion! A new lappy and new phone- Nokie.

2. One of the resolutions I had everyone year is to be physically fit and less fat. However, this is always a failure as I have no patience and not disclipline enough to resist yummy food. I finally achieved this after so many years. Managed to reduce 11kg within 6 months, took away all the fats accummulated throughout what I gained in Melbourne.

3. Another biggest achievement in my life which I never thought I would do is participating in Marathon. This year, I began with 5km Kordel's walk. Then, with the support of my good friends, I enrolled in Adidas King of the Road, this is amazing as I managed to finished the 11km run. Another improvement was finished the 11km Mizuno run and came home with a medal! Apart from that, Jinnie also run for charity in Terry Fox Run; and last but not least, a 7km in Malakoff run and that'll be the last run for the year.

4. A life changing event in Jinnie's life happened in November was getting married legally with the 10 years high school sweetheart. Not only we are going to create a better future, we'll sail through all the obstacles and difficulties in life together.

5. As for Jinnie's favourite travelling, there were only 3 overseas trips this year. One of the new place Jinnie visited was Krabi in Thailand begining of the year. Revisiting Melbourne in May and Singapore two weeks ago. Locally, Jinnie spent some time in Penang, Kuantan, Cameron Highlands just to name a few.

6. Of course, there are things that Jinnie did not achieve, such as back to trading game and getting myself a property. But, that doesn't mean I wouldn't have it in 2010.

Overall, I'm happy with 2009. There were ups and downs, gains and losses, happy and sad days so I can't complain too much. I hope 2010 will be a better one in terms of financially, career path and personal development.

Super Jinnie Power

2009-11-14T14:39:00.005+08:00

I think I have some kind of super power in my mind. This happens at work very often that, when I thought of certain clients who hasn't call up lately, the next thing is the phone rings and they are the people we were thinking or talking about. How weird is that? Similarly, I was craving for my Kakak Tini's curry puff on the lazy Saturday for tea break; and I found out she actually made and brought it to my house when I went down to the kitchen to get some snacks. How cool is that! My super Jinnie brain!

What do we call this? The Law of Attraction? The secret of subconscious mind? Positive thinking? Whatever it is, how our mind thinks has certain effects on our life, be it in our relationship, career, personal development or whatsover. So, if you want something good in your life, better pray and think positively. The more negative you think, your subconscious mind will also play the negative pictures in your life. You can try it if you don't believe.

What is my mind thinking now? I'm sitting down, chilling and thinking about my life in the near future. I'm getting married on Monday, with my high school sweetheart on the day we started 10 years ago. I'm thinking what had I achieved in 2009 and what do I want in 2010. I'm thinking, and thinking hard.

My super power Jinnie brain will bring me to where I wanna be.....

Terry Fox Run

2009-11-02T23:53:00.006+08:00

A week after Mizuno Run, I was back to running again. This time is a charity run- Terry Fox Run held in Lake Garden, KL. Somehow I'm addicted to running nowadays, maybe the more I run, the more I can train myself, physically and mentally. Anyhow, since Terry Fox is a charity event, I have to admit that I didn't put in much effort like what I did for Mizuno and Adidas. Think I'm just take it as another Sunday walk with a bunch of people, meanwhile enjoying free Milo and yummy muffin.

Like I said, it's a charity event, no medal, no certificate, no freebies, no goodies bag. But came home with Terry Fox mini t-shirt.

Mizuno Wave Run

2009-10-25T20:32:00.008+08:00

I wasn't a sporty person at all in the past 26 years in my life. Only until lately, I started to become active, walk and jog and run. My first marathon run was the 11km Adidas run held few months ago, and today 11km Mizuno run in UPM was the second one.

First time in my life, I completed the race within the qualifying time and came home with a medal. Mizuno Wave medal, which Jinnie completed the run in less than 1 hour 30 minute.

Mini Honeymoon

2009-10-24T17:04:00.007+08:00

Some said I'm not motivated at work and some said I'm not motivated in preparing my "big day". Maybe I'm just laid back. Whatever it is, I'm definitely very motivated in holiday planning. I think I need a break or holiday again. Mind you, I just had a break few months back and now I need one. Or, maybe I should say, Minnie and myself deserved a honeymoon!

So, the part time holiday planner start doing her research. From planning the destination and budgeting, hotels and activities etc. We finally decided that we need a chilling place. For so many years, we always planned trips in overseas and some short day trips during our stay in Melbourne, we realized we actually didn't travel together locally, as in in Malaysia. So, we make it a point that we must have a "cuti-cuti Malaysia"; that will be the trip one week after our R.O.M, coincides with the long weekend.

This is considered as a mini Honeymoon; the greedy couple still looking for a longer holiday and planning for a bigger honeymoon overseas sometime next year. If time and financially allow us to do that.

Anyway, our mini honeymoon destination- Penang Island. Definitely will enjoy the sunshine and beach as well as yummy yummy local food.

Penang, here comes Jinnie and Minnie!!!

Where is my futures?

2009-10-18T21:00:00.006+08:00

Caught up with 2 different friends this afternoon which I haven't seen them for 10 years. One is a high school junior where she also spent a few years in Melbourne. Though living in the same place around the same timeframe, we actually didn't meet up with each other in Melbourne. She is a writer for the magazine "Personal Money", one year younger than me, but she is very mature and well planned for her own future.

The other guy is 6 years older than me, and we share the same birthday, a very good husband who works hard for the family. When I say work hard, I really mean it. Not only financially, but he works very hard cleaning up the house and cook for the family! That's the typical Taurean guy!!! Well, I think it's opposite with the Taurean girls, nowadays Taurean ladies look for a good house-husband!!! Part time house-husband, full time an ambitious businessman. He shared his life experiences with me and gave me a very good advice on how should I handle and manage my future(s).

We had a very good chat the entire afternoon, about what had we done in the past 10 years, what we are doing currently and how we see our life in the future. I must be living in my own Lala Land, everyone is well planning for the future and I wonder what am I doing here. I have a serious thought again about my life. I need a wake up call or a pail of cold icy water splash on me, I need a good GPS to show me the path I'll be heading, I don't want to live life miserably again. I've just walked out from a quarter-life crisis and I don't want to enter an early midlife crisis path. Here I'm, thinking hard about my futures again and again...

R.O.M

2009-10-15T21:13:00.009+08:00

Minnie and my R.O.M is going to be held in one month time. Yes, the 16th of Nov 2009. On that day, it'll marked 10 years since the day we started as a couple. 10 years, it's a very long journey.

Everyone been asking how was the preparation. To me, nothing much need to be prepared, I thought, at the beginning. I just invited some close friends and my family members and his families to be the witness, that's it. As the day draws closer, I became a bit nervous, and wonder what have I done or not done.

So, I finally sit down and wrote down every single things I thought of. I just want a cozy R.O.M surrounded by friends and family, nothing too complicated. This is what I finally came out:

1. Guest checklist

2. Schedule of the day- R.O.M, followed by photo shooting and luncheon with friends; dinner between Minnie and my family

3. Dress of the day

4. Make up and hairdo

5. Flowers and ring

6. Photographer of the day

Have I miss out anything? Feel free to comment if you think I've left out anything.....

New member

2009-10-11T12:36:00.015+08:00

Life is back to normal after all the happy celebrations. Five wedding dinners last month, my parents' birthday party and finally the farewell of my sister, close cousins and friends from overseas. I finally have some personal time to sit down, to think for myself and reevaluate my own life. Time flies, it's the fourth quarter of the year and I wonder how much have I achieve this year? Anyway, will think about it later.

I'm glad that my brother finally settle down and found his life partner. Someone who doesn't mind his big loud snorring. Welcome my sister in law, a very down to earth Taurean.

Exhausted

2009-10-03T15:25:00.002+08:00

Finally, I got some time to take a rest after all the wedding celebrations in the past few weeks. There's another one to go tonight, then I can take a rest from eating 10 course Chinese dinner.

Lots of food and drinks in the past few weeks, less rest and running around here and there making me really tired. My body couldn't take it anymore and I was down on a heavy fever last night. Not only that, I had diarrhea easily more than 10 times since morning till night, plus throw out whatever I had since Thursday night dinner.

Well, what I can say? Maybe I really need rests. No health no wealth. I really need more rest. Physically and mentally before I can continue a longer journey...

Jinnie New Toy

2009-09-21T19:35:00.007+08:00

Thanks to Hari Raya, Jinnie is having 4 days long weekend. Spent first 2 days in Ipoh for my brother's wedding dinner; went for a Movie- Tsunami at Haeundae this morning, and finally got myself a new toy! My new lappy!

Well, it's good to have a long weekend. A break from work, a break to reevaluate where you stand at work and what you want in life. Of course, not too good when you overspent during the long weekend. Anyway, I'm happy with my new lappy. My new Asus lappy!!!

About myself

2009-09-06T16:36:00.002+08:00

I remember one of the most common essay to write back in primary or secondary school is "about myself". No matter what language it is, mandarin or malay or english; first essay of the year would be "about myself". Maybe the teachers are out of ideas, or maybe they really wanna take this opportunity to know more about their students.

We did not stop writing "about myself" after school days. Going for job interview, not only need you to write, you need to present yourself; and even sometimes when you participate in any contest, you need to write in less than 100 words or what....

Think about it now, I think I should write about myself.....

Me, Jinnie- a typical city girl who was born in KL and raised in PJ, a suburb about 20 minutes drive from KL city. Educated in Puay Chai Primary School and Catholic High School (CHS), further study in Swinburne University of Technology based in Melbourne after my 1.5 years Form 6 in CHS.

I did a science degree majoring in Biochemistry and started my career as an Industrial Chemist in Melbourne, a chemical company manufactures goods for the printing industry. I started as a part time Chemist during my final semester in Swinrburne, when the company initially employed me for 6 months and planned to send me back home after graduated. However, I did not come after graduation.

It was kind of fun working in a lab, mixing all the chemicals and doing research and development jobs. But, after my 3 months training in our Manchester Lab in UK, I thought of leaving Melbourne. So, I finally left Melbourne and back for good after living 6 years in Melbourne.

Back home here, I switched to a new career, working in a totally different environment. Now, I'm a Futures Broker Representative, speculating and trading in our local index and palm oil market.

I'm working in the futures market but if you ask me how I see myself in the future, I have no idea. I think no matter what the past was and how the future will be, the most important is live and spend your dashline happily.

I think myself is like my blog, on a journey explore and enjoy the life journey.

M.I.A again....

2009-09-05T17:02:00.002+08:00

It's the first post of September and I realized I haven't update about my life lately. I've been missing in action for almost a month. Don't ask me what I've done in the past whole month. No traveling, not too busy at work BUT the laziness kick in....

While I was running this morning, I suddenly thought about I need a change in my life again. Things had been stagnant a bit and I'm afraid another crisis gonna happen. Maybe I need to set new goals in life, or maybe I need to plan another holiday, or maybe I need some new sparks again. Whatever it is, it's the beginning of another journey. The journey of searching and reaching new goals....

September gonna be a busy month. It's the celebration of my brother's wedding; attending friends' wedding dinner and catch up with friends and relatives. Apart from that, Jinnie and the exercise buddy had sign up for the 10km Mizuno run, so another training session begins....

The Break In

2009-07-29T22:37:00.004+08:00

A very unfortunate thing happened to my house few days ago. It was Monday afternoon when I received a call from my brother informed about the break in of our house. The fortunate thing is that, none of us was at home, except Snowy. No one witnessed how the incident happened and no one got hurt; though Snowy was the only witness, too bad she couldn't help to find out who's the bad guys who did it!

Well, of cause we lost precious things at home. I lost my most precious personal lappy which going to be 3 years old beginning of next month and lost some foreign currency. I'm glad the losses wasn't as bad as I expected. The thieves ransacked the house and lucky it wasn't as messy as I thought; so cleaning up was a quick one.

The saddest part is not losing the lappy, but lost out the info I stored in it. It contained all my precious photos taken since 3 years ago, my very personal documents and resume and of cause the time we spent together. Dell Dell, I'll miss you very much.....

Just in case you are curious about how the thives came into the house, the following photos tell the stories....

Jinnie Planet

2009-07-17T20:27:00.007+08:00

I've not been updating Jinnie Planet lately cause I'm busy running my restaurant. Yes, Jinnie is running her own restaurant! Since young till now, whenever I'm asked about what kind of business I would do if I was given a chance to run my own restaurant, my answer is running a restaurant. Most probably would be a sushi bar or a shop that just sell Jinnie's secret recipe of homemade potato. Well, my dream comes true. I'm now the owner of my restaurant named Jinnie Planet; in a virtual world, not in reality yet!

I'm slacky at work, spent lesser time for exercise and lack of sleep, neglected my family and not to mention offended Minnie, just because of my virtual world Jinnie Restaurant. Though it's just a game, but I actually learn something during the journey of building and expanding the business.

That's how Jinnie Planet evolved from a little small restaurant into today's result: The picture of exterior and interior.

Bye bye Ms Wong

2009-07-06T23:52:00.003+08:00

Jinnie is going to drop her surname that followed her for the past 27 years in another 5 months time. Well, not that it's going to be big changes, instead being greeted as Miss Wong, soon I'm gonna be called Mrs. Yeong.

Yes, I think I'm ready to accept the changes and not stress about moving on to a new stage of my life. Things are quite fun while planning and shopping for the wedding preparation.

On 16th November 2009, Jinnie and Minnie are going to be legally husband and wife and the venue of registration is Putra Jaya JPN. If you are free on that day, we welcome you to witness our special moment, which it was the day we started as a couple 10 years ago and we are going to begin a new journey in our life. It'll be the time to say Hello Mrs Yeong!!!

Jinnie's favourite gown

2009-06-26T00:13:00.006+08:00

Jinnie gonna be busy during this coming weekend, attending Joyce's wedding which will be held for two days, including her wedding dinners and church ceremony. Besides, I'm going to help my brother and incoming sister in law choosing her wedding gown. Well, not so much choosing for her, maybe helping in dressing her.

Speaking about wedding, I don't always fancy a big fat wedding that last for days; or a traditional Chinese wedding that always yum yum yum yum seng! And the fact that I hate waking up in the early morning dressing myself up in the big long wedding gown and hours of make up; the hassel of organizing the big day, etc., plus I love travelling; my ideal wedding would be- honeymoon wedding! I always telling people that, I'm gonna make annoucement in newspapers, annoucing who am I married to and I'm heading to Europe for honeymoon.

Since I've been to Europe 3 years ago, I think I might need to change my honeymoon destination!

Well, wedding details yet to be confirmed. The only thing confirmed is, yes I'm going to marry the man I've been with for almost 10 years. Once upon a time a young boy who is now grown up to a matured man- Minnie!

Apart from that, registration date falls in this coming November. Around the day we started our relationship 10 years ago. 10 YEARS!!!! How many 10 years we have in life?

The fact that I'm concerned with all the hassels in choosing gowns and taking pre-wedding photos shooting, organizing wedding dinners... I don't mind we take things slowly, or maybe leave out some of the standard procedures. But, honeymoon or travelling, is a MUST for Jinnie. Depending on the destination!

Wedding gown? Not that I need to worried much. I was worried I couldn't fit into any gown; but now I'm not worried anymore. I just hope to dress up in a gown that is less exposed and able to cover the keloid on my chest, something like this.

And, guess what? My Minnie actually bought me the gown I described to him as my favourite wedding gown, though I have no idea how do I look like in this type of gown. It was so sweet and touching, honestly. He always ignored what I've said to him about my favourite gowns, but actually deep inside of him, he remembered and he bought it for me, just because I like it. Thanks Minnie!!!

So, what do you think about me in this gown?

King of the Road

2009-06-19T21:23:00.005+08:00

Guess what? Jinnie registered for a 11km run-- King of The Road organized by Adidas Malaysia and the Shah Alam Council which will be held on the 2nd of August, an early Sunday morning.

My initial plan was to run for the 5km Standard Chartered fun run end of this month. But, I did not registered for it. I was worried I couldn't make it for the 5km, worried that I don't have the stamina to make it. Worried and worried and give myself reasons of excuses. But hey, if I didn't step out and take the first step, I would never know whether can I make it. By the time I decided to go for it, it was too late, the registration was closed. There is no walkathon being organized for the rest of the year, and even they are, I couldn't make it as the date was occupied. The standard run is usually 10km or more and I finally found this- King of the Road, a date that I can make it and enough time for myself to train my stamina.

I wouldn't say I will qualified to win any metals or prizes, but I think this is one of the short term goal or motivation to keep me going and train my stamina. Somehow, I feel lost after achieved my ideal weight and guess it's time to make new goals.

Impossible is nothing. Please give some support to Jinnie and wish me able to finish 11km in the stated qualifying time!

What's Next?

2009-06-13T18:21:00.006+08:00

Started the DIE.T program in mid March and soon gonna be 3 months since the project started. Did an evaluation with the consultant today and his advice to me was-- STOP. Stop reducing weight anymore but start maintaining my weight as well as the good habit and lifestyles.

During the three months journey, I find that it's not hard to start a "new journey" as long as I have the determination. For those who know me well, you know eating is everything to me but losing weight and exercise is a big no no. However, that's a slight transformation in today's Jinnie.

Krabi, Jan 2009

The chubby meaty bread face

Winery in Melbourne, May 2009

Future Tai Tai shopping trip

Tadaaaaaaaa- Jinnie managed to fit into a wedding gown, June 2009

Successfully reduced 8.4kg on a professional scale; 10-11kg on Jinnie's bathroom scale

Congratulations to Jinnie and soon there'll be another challenge in maintaining a good healthy lifestyles!

Finally, it's down....

2009-06-09T21:10:00.003+08:00

Finally, it's down! Well, what I meant here is not the market is coming down. It's actually the number plate on Swifty had finally broken into two parts and detached from Swifty. So, it's down!

How did it happened? It started on Sunday night where Jinnie had a late night and lack of sleep. The lack of sleep mood continue till today; plus the quiet market really made me sleepy and not alert!

I had never never felt that sleepy and tired since I've changed to a healthier lifestyle, but until today, Swifty's backside nearly kissed someone and thanks to the driver at the back honking me, I managed to stay alert. Not that lucky for the second time when I was on a Q before turning into petrol station. My eyelid was heavy and before I manage to slap myself to stay alert, I heard a bang and felt the vibration.

"Oh no, not again!" This time I was really alert and awake! In fact, I was panic since it is the second case of the month AND it's only a week ago since it last happened. The driver in front didn't get down from the car. I took the initiative indicating right turn and stop at petrol station for a look. I was lucky this time I met an experienced and nice driver. The first thing she asked was am I ok, she thought someone bang into Swifty and therefore knocked her car. Her Myvii was ok, not much scratches at all. Again, it's Swifty suffering!!!

The number plate broke into two pieces. Managed to see my initial, but not the number. The lady driver realized my pain is more than her and she decided not to make things complicated. Thanks nice lady!

I drove back to the accident area 15 minutes later and found that the second half of the number plate wasn't there. Surely must be someone took it and went to buy number at Toto or Magnum...

Anyway, looks like I need to spend money on a better number plate for Swifty.....

Latest style for Malaysian Number Plate. Does this looks like

This? The Australian version of Jinnie's number plate

Lesson of the day

2009-06-03T22:32:00.003+08:00

Every single day we learn new things to improve ourselves. It could be something related to work, something relevant to your hobbies or something in daily life to make you grow stronger and wiser. Learning is a lifelong process and it makes our every single day more interesting by learning something new.

To me, I think I learned more about life since the day I left home; since the day I started joining the workforce. Sometimes you learn things that make you happy; but sometimes it does make you upset. No matter what it is, learning makes our life journey more interesting and challenging.

These are some quotes that our teacher always mention to us and I think he'll remind us more in the future. I think the best way to learn and remember it is, write it down and share with everyone.

Here there are:-

There's a thin line between success and failure

Ego and pride killed people

Why forget? Because it is not important

Knowledge is power

Think one step ahead

Every details are important

It takes a short time for a poor person to forget how poor he used to be and it takes a long time for a rich person to realize he is no longer rich

Swifty's Virgin Kiss

2009-06-02T22:09:00.003+08:00

This is the first post of the month- Swifty's virgin kiss. Yes, Swifty kissed someone, not her lover; but a bitchy stranger. I don't want to repeat the story again, as long as Swifty is fine, I'm glad and less worried.

Just in case you are still curious and wanna gossip about how Swifty presented her first kiss, here it is.

Spring Cleaning

2009-05-31T14:39:00.009+08:00

I've finally done a spring cleaning on my wardrobe on a Sunday afternoon. Think the previous time I cleaned up the wardrobe was a year ago, 3 months after I backed for good and just before I started working with Lala Land. Since then, the lazy Jinnie didn't do anything about the wardrobe or bedroom.

I know my recent lifestyle is busy but still, I need to spent some quality time on my wardrobe. Did some shopping yesterday and as soon as I was home, I was busy fashion showing!

Have to admit that my DIE.T plan was quite a good one till the extent I need to add on certain items on my wardrobe. As my personal trainer said to me: big effort and short time needed to reduce weight; but small effort and longer time for weight maintenance. Hope I can keep up the good job. Meanwhile, I found some of the shirts and pants I used to wear before leaving Melbourne. And, I managed to fit in them, the clothing I used to wear in high school.

The spring cleaning was a great job as I found some shirts that I claimed my sister had brought it back to Melbourne; or even suspect the Kakak took my shirt! Well, I found them. Hehe..

Spring cleaning was done and now it's time to do summary of Paul Krugman. Ciao~

Sunday Walk

2009-05-31T10:58:00.003+08:00

As usual every Sunday morning, Jinnie and G-in, my exercise buddy or personal trainer or dietitian went for a morning walk. Today, we changed our weekly destination to explore Desa Park City.

Couldn't believe there's such a nice park in KL. For some moment, I thought I was still in Melbourne; as the township designed really looks like The Village, a place I fell in love and nearly bought it....

Money Money Money

2009-05-27T23:35:00.004+08:00

Tomorrow is pay day. I was over excited this afternoon knowing that I will have extra money to spend on the following month. Think I was over excited and too early to be happy. I forgot I have insurance payment coming soon. Take away all the expenses and debt need to be cleared, actually nothing much left :(

Managed to clear half of the debt from the trip and the thought came- when will I be debt free? Don't think it's easy to be debt free at the moment since I still have the biggest payment- Swifty!

Oh well, that's life I suppose. Money money money, sometimes making me crazy!

2009-05-24T18:47:00.005+08:00

Highlights in Melbourne

2009-05-23T21:17:00.017+08:00

Jinnie is finally back from the mid year trip from down under- Melbourne again. The last trip was in December, which is not long ago. Nowadays, people think that I fly to Melbourne more often than I came home during my stay in Melbourne. Well, what can I say. Now we have cheapo budgeted Air Asia which only costs RM800 for a return trip; whereas when I was a student, a return ticket costs AD$1000 plus and almost AD$1700 in 2006. How could I afford coming home so often?

Since the entertainment costs RM30, Jinnie saved from paying the entertainment and was entertained by Paul Krugman on board, for almost 5 hours.

Upon arrival, this was what happened in arrival hall just before the immigration. Since SARS cases back in 2003 managed to spread so badly, the Oz immigration trying their best to scan everyone for the possible H1N1 victims and prepared a mobile clinic. I was worried since the girl next to me in the plane kept coughing and sneezing.

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Highlight of the trip:

A visit to China Bowl, next to Immigration office in Lonsdale Street, city where Minnie's sister and brother in law are running the business. Used to had great Asian meals when I lived with them, and they are now the chef of China Bowl. Please pay a visit if you are living in Melbourne! Yumyum!

Nike factory outlet at Smith Street. Finally got myself a pair of good running shoe since I spent most of the evening walking or jogging! Found a good replacement for my 10 years old New Balance.

Healesville Sanctuary. It was my second visit and the previous time was when Mom and Dad and Cathorino came to Melbourne for my graduation. Back then was end of 2004. Time flies, it's 2009 now!

I love to drive to winery, specially during late Autumn or early winter to see the yellowish leaves. Winery trip would not be complete without a sip of wine. So, I was there trying a few types of dessert wine and got tipsy on the way home. Luckily I wasn't driver of the day! Only managed to visit 2 wineries, Rochford and Yering.

Miss Maple at Mt. Dandenong. One of the favourite place for nice tea and scones. That's Cathorino in the photo, enjoyed her afternoon nap after a heavy lunch at Miss Maple.

A good catch up with Swinburne gang at cozy Il Cantuccio at Lygon Street and got a very precious pressie from them. One of the New York Times Bestsellers that will lead me to millionaire. Whether will I become a millionaire, tell you 20 years later.

Fine dining at Comme with Deb and Cathorino. Small portion just enough for everyone of us. Nice food and dessert and of course, a good dessert wine!

Had lobster and oyster for dinner as the last chapter of this trip. Here I'm now back home and unpacked everything and get ready for work after a week off from market!

Happy Birthday, Jinnie!

2009-05-18T00:57:00.003+08:00

Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to Jinnie
Happy birthday to me

Hip hip Hooray, Hip hip Hooray!!

Jinnie is officially 27 years old today.

Jinnie's 2009 birthday wishes:
Be a wealthy person, stay healthy and pretty, no worries and be HAPPY

Happy birthday, Jinnie!!!!

Little Korea

2009-05-17T21:55:00.008+08:00

The blog was updated with photos.

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My house gonna be quiet for the coming week, as all the prince and princess of the house are away, except the little Snowy. Snowy Snowy gonna be the queen of the house again!

Had an early birthday dinner with Minnie and my parents at Little Korea @ Solaris Mont Kiara. Sorry, HDM Lala gang, I know I was suppose to go with you guys but end up I was there with my family. But hey, it's worth to go back for second time! The HDM fund is definitely not enough for the meal, think we need to chip in more for Little Korea.

Little Korea

How do I rate Little Korea? I would say, GREAT! From the menu, prices ranges from RM16++ for a set lunch or Bento set. For dinner, it's from RM35++ to RM300++, depending on what you order. The owners of the restaurant are true blue Korean, and all the customers are mostly Japanese or Koreans, food wise is real authentic Korean food. If you need some privacy, Little Korea has a private room cater for you and the love one.

Tonight Jinnie spent about a total bill of RM200 for 4 persons and here's what we ordered:

A pot of ginseng chicken soup shared by 4

A regular spicy seafood soup with fresh seafood

BBQ Chicken marinated in House Sauce

BBQ pork belly which is Jinnie's favourite

plus 14 refillable side dishes with a free Korean steam egg

and complementary desserts and fruits

Target Reached

2009-05-16T13:54:00.004+08:00

Hello again!!!

I sound excited right? Yes, in fact I'm excited! Like I mentioned earlier, it's May month, my birthday is coming soon. I'm excited because I'm one year older and I'm excited because I'm flying to Melbourne next Monday for a couple of days. Nothing really plan for the trip, just wanna chill and relax, catching up with my sister and some close friends as well as do some shopping and see how is Melbourne doing!

Another exciting news is I've reached my target, finally! I'm talking about my DIE.T program. Back in 2 months ago, I just felt like my life wasn't complete and I wanted to do something different to my life. There I was, starting a DIE.T program with cutting down all my favorite foods and combine with some light exercise, I finally reached my target a month earlier than expected, guess this is the most happiest birthday pressie for myself!

From the bathroom scale at home, I lost 8-9kg within 2 months. As you know, a non-digital weighing scale sometimes "cheated" on your weight. Part of the reason is our psychological mind wants to see our weight reduced, thus creates this "false" weight. Or if you are having eye-side problem like me, refused to wear glasses while doing the weighing, a false weight can be achieved too.

However, with the professional digital scale, nothing can runaway from the reality. The professional digital scale showed that I had successfully reduced 7.1kg in 2 months time. Not only that, my body fat content is 6% down and measurements showed that every part of my body lost some inches as well. Though going to be a year older in 2 days, but my body age was shown I'm only 22! Bravo bravo *o*

Anyway, I shouldn't be too happy about it; the one week Melbourne trip definitely will make me gain weight again. To me, the moral of the story is not how much weight I can lose; but how determined I am in doing something I wanted to do. There's no point of starting a plan or project and leave it half way; but to start a game or plan or project; the important is how you play the game and how you going about when facing any challenges or obstacles.

Though target is reached, I think I'll start to have a new goal for my life, to make myself moving forward and make my life more interesting. Of course, whatever I do, I think I need to have a balance in life too.

New York New York

2009-05-06T21:09:00.005+08:00

Tonight, Jinnie had her dinner at New York!

Don't get me wrong, I didn't fly to New York just for a dinner. Not at this stage, maybe when one day I became a millionaire. The New York I'm talking about is New York New York Deli at One Utama which is located opposite Cold Storage. This is an early Mother's Day celebration dinner. Let's see what's dinner for the night!

The Giant Yankee Burger

The Wong's family and the Giant Yankee Burger

Jinnie and sis in law, Weiwei. Can't wait to eat the Yankee burger but hey, picture comes first

Before the meal

After the meal

A day at Cameron

2009-05-04T23:59:00.007+08:00

It was long weekend thanks to the Labour Day. Didn't really plan any trip in advance since I had a hectic April month, what I was looking forward is a quiet chilling long weekend. But, I know myself too well, if I didn't go anywhere during the long weekend, I'm sure I'll regret didn't make the most of the long weekend and there my hormone goes imbalance and I'll become a cranky and naggy person for the rest of the week.

As the Labour Law said that employer need to give a day off to their employees, Minnie had to close shop for a day. Spontaneously, we made a day trip to Cameron Highlands, at the same time spent some quality time and opportunity to understand Swifty! Believe it or not, it is my first time to Cameron Highlands after living more than a quarter life and we only spent 6 hours in Cameron. Well, time doesn't matter I suppose! We enjoyed the driving journey, as well as the light lunch at Sungai Palas tea plantation and the Devonshire tea and scones at the original Smokehouse Hotel and Restaurant. Remind me those days of driving to Mt. Dandenong for lunch or winery at Yarra Valley. I'm looking forward to drive there in a couple of weeks time.

Light lunch at Sungai Palas Tea Plantation

The very English style cottage- Smokehouse

I know I look stupid but funny

Our afternoon tea

Taken by paparazzi showing Jinnie nice body!

Tadaa-- our tea and scones

Yummy yummy look

Evaluation on March Activities

2009-04-30T00:33:00.003+08:00

A few new things happened in my life last month and soon May is approaching. To summarize how things going for my new toy and activities, there you go...

1. Swifty & Nokie

Swifty and Nokie are my new toys I had since March. So far, Nokie is alright and no complaints about it. Whereas Swifty, she has now became my Super Sporty Swifty, where she brings me everywhere, specially my weekly Kiara Hill and other Sporty events.

On her full moon day which was last Sunday, a small drama happened to her. Minnie's car wasn't available and I had to pick him up from home for work. Who knows, Swifty wasn't lucky and accidentally hit Minnie's rubbish bin while I was reversing. Sigh, what a bad day for Swifty! Lucky, only minor scar on her back....

2. Trading

I did mentioned about things that I wanted to venture into again last month. Guess, what I still need to learn is to be multi-tasking. Not easy having two different tasks going at the same time, especially need a lot of attention and a strong mind.

For my trading game, is a losing battle again. Don't think I need to go on, but I just need time to recover and heal my injuries. Let my mind recover and I might go into the battlefield when I'm ready.

3. DIE.T

Whereas for my DIE.T plan, so far there's some positive results but I think it's just too early to conclude the result. It's almost 5 weeks, and I've lost 5-8kg, depending which weighing scale we are talking about. The one at home, a less accurate showed that I've down 7-8kg; and the one I measured using a professional scale, only down 5.5kg. Can't be too happy cause I know I'll definitely put on weight during the 5 days Melbourne trip.

Feeling a bit guilty that I had overate today, from the brekkie till lunch and dinner, and been slacky lately on exercise and missing a lot of good food. No way!!! Need to back to exercise! Well, as all the professional said, it's easy to kick start a task, but the challenging thing is to keep it maintain. So, hopefully I can keep up the good job without too much sidetrack!

May Days

2009-04-27T22:27:00.005+08:00

In another few days, we are moving on to May month. I'm always looking forward to May, because it's Mother's Day plus my birthday as well. So, good reasons for nice food and ask for pressie!

Remember when I was young, I had a whiteboard ready by early April and started counting down till my birthday. Not sure my dear brother or sister still remember this? I had not done that for years, and lately I almost forget how old am I.

This year will be a special celebration. Minnie bought a cheapo air fare to Melbourne and we are flying on my birthday. Not only that, one of his sister who is flying with us, share a same birthday as me too. So, both of us gonna celebrate thousand miles above sea levels with 200-300 passengers. Hopefully I will get a mystery birthday gift from Air Asia, but I doubt so!

Whereas on Mother's Day, we used to go out for lunch or dinner as a family and had not done that since I went to Melbourne. Though I'm back now, I still missed the Mother's Day last year. Mom and dad spent their precious Mother's Day in Bangkok last year and same as this year too, they had booked the trip to Bangkok again! So, I've missed out eating together on Mother's Day for like what, 8 years! Well, doesn't matter, as long as Mom knew I'm a good good girl!

So, conclusion of the story is, I'm looking forward to May days, for my birthday and for the getaway trip to Melbourne. I think I need a break from work, as I am having mentally stress lately. And also, two charity walks for the month. Lots to do in May, looking forward.....

Ups and Downs

2009-04-23T19:53:00.003+08:00

I wrote about the reasons why I was excited and hyperactive this morning on the Lala Land blog; who knows the 1.5 hours before market closed, I was gloomy and worried for all our clients who are still holding selling position. Market had been up for more than 100 points within the past three weeks. Of course, not many champions within past few weeks, except Mr Ha.

And for myself, this is a losing battle too. For people who know futures well, trading futures means investment. For those who doesn't know the market good enough, enter the market equivalent to a gambling game.

For the money I've lost, I actually lost count on what's the value it could be. Probably a one week honeymoon trip to London; a return airfare plus accommodation to Scandinavia; the basic amount to organize a wedding; a deposit for a mini apartment or a vehicle, and more and more.....

Like I said again, it's not about the money. The moral of the story is what I've learn throughout this life journey and I knew what is important to me. Just like I've lent out my entire savings, and I knew I might not get it back but I'll start savings again. Losing money is not as bad as losing a life and losing fighting spirit. Ups and downs in the market, just like what we experience along our life journey.....

Minor Renovation

2009-04-22T23:22:00.004+08:00

Just feel like doing some minor renovation to Jinnie Planet. So, I've added my dearest siblings into the gossip place and the chatterbox! Feel free to explore them! Good night!

Sick sick

2009-04-22T22:02:00.003+08:00

The Chinese saying "Choi dou san zi york" translate into the more cash or fortune you have, the weaker your body is. Normally this only applies to the Yong in our office. I guess, nowadays her health is getting better (in other words, you know what I mean), and apparently I started to take over this position. Specially after a few Japanese meal lately this month. From stomachache a few times a day till getting a flu these few days. Fed up!!!

Of course, there's a story behind it. Though we've heard about the global economy crisis since 18 months ago; the government too trying their best to help out their citizen. Bonus of this month are the fuel rebate from our Malaysian government, where I got Swifty registered just in time before end of March and thanks to the extension of rebate expiry date. Another good news is that, I'm entitled to get the tax rebate 07/08 from the Rudd's Government. This shows that I'm getting a free trip to Melbourne. Hooray!!!

Was very sick, but now I think I'm getting better. :P

Oh lappy lappy!

2009-04-20T22:59:00.002+08:00

Finally finally, lappy woke up from her long long sleep after being coma for more than a month. Thanks to the IT surgeon, Minnie who saved lappy's life. After a long day surgery, lappy is now able to connect to internet, but not MSN yet. When I have time, I'll do more physiotherapy with lappy and not to forget about the back up.

Lappy, glad that you are awake now. Get well soon!

Fukuya

2009-04-18T19:20:00.006+08:00

I think everyone is waiting for me to post up the photos I took at Fukuya last night. Was having some technical problem uploading photos via the new Nokie phone. Well, luckily I didn't disappoint anyone, with the help of the menu book, I finally got the photos transfer to the desktop.

Fukuya http://www.fukuya.com.my/index.html or the house of happiness when it's translated into English, is an authentic Japanese restaurant located in KL, not far away from Bukit Bintang, and has been my third Japanese meal of the week.

Apart from real life experience eating in Japan, I think this is one of the most expensive Japanese meal I ever had in my life, specially back in KL here. Thanks to our generous boss who bought us the dinner.

Dinner was late, cause of the hoohah that happened to Kelvin's number plate and we took a wrong way to boss's place. Really have to give a serious thought of getting an affordable navigator, to make life easier specially traveling to KL and other unfamiliar places.

Overall, dinner was good. Nice place and good ambiance. If not because of my past history of the week- stomachache after 2 consecutive Japanese meal, and the sore throat, I think I might order something better. But, I'm contented with my Teppanyaki set.

Here's the photos of the day:

The Apetisers

Jinnie's Teppanyaki Main Course

Dessert of the day

Teriyaki Chicken Wing for Adrian who's tummy not full

Yong's healthy look and Adrian's Red face after taking Sake

Venice

2009-04-14T23:19:00.004+08:00

Was on the travel documentary last night and the topic for the day was Venice. This remind me of my trip in Venice back in Oct 2006 and Venice was one of the places must visit on my list.

Time flies and this was 2.5 years ago. My Europe trip only fulfilled half of it; mind you, with the minimum expenses living in UK and traveling to many places within 3 months, I think it's enough. Having say that, I'm still looking forward to travel to Europe again, to places I haven't been.

Since my lappy is in coma condition a month ago, I'm unable to retrieve all the photos I took in Europe. Well, thanks to the internet, I finally found something. Hehe... I'm still looking forward to visit Europe again, possibly tonight, going in my dream....

http://shizukajlw.spaces.live.com/

Happy Day

2009-04-12T16:59:00.003+08:00

Jinnie is happy and cheerful today. Because:

1. Increased my stamina by walking for 2 hours in Kiara Hill. Accompanied by good sporty companions.

2. Had my favorite food at Umaiya, Uptown. Value for money and delicious. Yumyum!!!

3. Had the best companions with nice food. Minnie and all my favorite friends plus good conversation!

4. Catch up with some friends who came back from Brisbane for a short Easter Holiday; met up with new friends who is running a Kindergarden business, Summer Field @ Sri Hartamas

5. Lastly, no more stomachache and staying up in toilet :)

Weekend is always short and back to reality tomorrow. I'm planning for my next weekend.....

Swifty First Medical Check Up

2009-04-11T18:04:00.004+08:00

Swifty had accompanied Jinnie for almost 3 weeks and we came to this crucial day, Swifty first medical check up -1000km service!!! After morning walk and spent some lovely time with MSCI Taiwan Futures Chart; me and my parents went to Puchong for Swifty medical check up. Initial plan was after service we'll have tea break somewhere in Puchong, who knows it's the heavy downpour again, we had to postpone our plan.

That's why nowadays I prefer a morning walk rather then evening walk, after learning the lessons that I could end up dripping heaps of water on Swifty.

While we were planning in where to go, Mom suddenly craved for Pizza Hut. She's like a small kid thinking which Pizza Hut to go. Thanks mom! You know I'm on diet and yet always cook nice food to seduce me, or thinking where to go for fatty junk food. Please be healthy, mom!

For the past 36 hours, I think I spent quite some time sitting in the toilet. Looks like yesterday whole day couldn't flush out what I ate in Tenji, and the job continue today. Bo Lak liao! (no energy in Hokkien)

I'm going for buffet again tomorrow at my favorite Japanese restaurant, Umaiya in Uptown with Deb and friends. http://www.umai-ya.com/home.php

Hopefully I don't need to stay in toilet after tomorrow's lunch. Please, please prepare some 100 plus or salt water for me, just in case I'm dehydration.....

Tenji

2009-04-11T09:40:00.007+08:00

Here are Snowy and Joey in the picture. Snowy, on the right is the mummy and had been with us for almost 12 years. Wow, time flies. And on the left, is Snowy's daughter named Joey, only with us for 10 years. Passed away 2 years ago when I was still in Melbourne, reason was food poisoning. Well, there is a story behind it, but I think I'll leave that out.

So now leave only Snowy at home, I think sometimes she's pretty lonely. No Joey to fight food with her, no one to play with. But, she has now became the queen of the house. Even I can't fight with her. My parents love her more than me :(

Snowy always skinny until Joey left. Since Joey wasn't around, she had slowly slowly gain weight. And specially since I'm home, I always feed her something during my dinner time, so she can leave me alone for a peaceful dinner. Maybe because of that too, Snowy was as fat as a ball!

Until lately I noticed that oh no, Snowy is losing weight! Part of the reason is I've go on diet and not feeding anything to Snowy specially during my dinner time! Sad for Snowy, following the owner. Think Snowy is much more cuter when she was chubby as a ball.

Speaking about myself, I think I'm more on the maintaining healthy lifestyles as well as my weight. Not much weight could be reduced anymore. Well, not that cannot, just that it won't be a straight down, it'll be slowly slowly coming down. Just like the market, a big slump is not a good thing. Slowly coming down is better. Why am I talking about the market?

Anyway, it's good to take a break and reward myself by going to Tenji at Solaris Mont Kiara http://blog.tenji.com.my/ with my colleagues the other day.

I realized I couldn't eat much, not value for money! Though I wanted to eat a lot, but felt that my tummy is bursting anytime soon. So, I stopped. Was planning to go for jogging or probably have some digestive tea to wash out the stuff I had previous night. Who knows, Tenji is doing a good job by constantly pushing me to toilet a few times in a day. Not a good experience, as I was in the office, not my comfy home. Well, at least by end of the day I felt my tummy is not bloated, BUT I was restless....

Deb

2009-04-07T21:34:00.003+08:00

I was told that I'm a bit slacky in updating Jinnie Planet. Sorry peeps, I'll try my best to do it while juggling bringing home work and keeping myself healthy!

My weekend was a great one. Went back to office on Saturday and manage to update what I need to do. The charts and accounts. Then, together with my nutritionist good friend/ personal trainer, we spent less then 45 minutes toured a round Kiara Hill, just in time before the sky turned dark and heavy downpour.

Sunday was a gossip day with my one of my bestest friend, Deb who came back from Melbourne. Had my favourite Sushi Zanmai for lunch; and we did the girlie thing we used to do- shopping! Felt like I was Rebecca Bloomwood from Confession of Shopaholic, we went in all the shops and keep trying and trying, and end up swiped the card and get the goods. Well, lucky I wasn't the one who swipe the card! She's the one, since she's preparing for her big day and spending AD$ in Malaysia, well, nice to spend!

It's great to catch up with the girls, seems like seeing her yesterday, but in actual fact, the last time we met was back in Melbourne in Dec 08. Time flies.

Deb had the biggest diamond ring on her finger!!!! Oh no! Her proposal ring is consisted of 3 diamonds! The big one is 1 carat and accompanied by 2 small one. And guess what, just the diamond itself, costs about 7k in Aussie dollar. And overhere, 1 carat cost RM58k, what a rip off!!! Maybe I should get one when I go over in May!!!

She's going to have a big wedding. Marrying a handsome wealthy businessman who used to be Malaysian, where they gonna have a proper wedding ceremony in one of the winery in Mornington Peninsula; a KL wedding dinner for her close friends and relatives and another one in Sungai Petani for Will's relatives. Whereas for their honeymoon, they will spend about 3 weeks in Barcelona, Netherlands, Belgium and Paris.

I'm glad that she finally found the one, someone who share the common interests with her, and someone who is caring and willing to take care of the rest of her life. Congrates to Deb and Will!!

Survivors

2009-04-02T20:09:00.003+08:00

Remember when I just started working in Lala Land, we had heaps of activities going on. From drinking after work and playing card games, hunting for nice food and restaurants; hook up with internet games, such as poker on facebook, following by Viwawa, and now lately, everyone is looking for a healthy lifestyles, jogging and dieting.

Speaking about my DIE.T program which I started 2 weeks ago, I am still not satisfied with the result. Though the consultant claimed that my result was pretty good, given the fact that I had lost more than 3kg within 2 weeks, and the body fat of every part of the body was reduced, but I guess, this is just the beginning and still a long way to go. Think this is not just a DIE.T program, but overall it made me healthy.

I had successfully stop taking coffee for more than 2 weeks without feeling terrible headache, and now still surviving. Imagine coffee used to be my daily vitamin for the past 10 years-- a cup of coffee a day keeps the headache away; but now, I'm feeling fresh and energetic even without coffee intake. *Clap clap hands*

Hopefully my determination can keep me going till I reach my goal.

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Another surviving story. When I was in Melbourne, I always imagine how's working life back here, since I had no working experience back home. Started my career with a well established international company with stable income and comfortable lifestyles in Melbourne, everyone worried about my decision of coming back, since I was so established over there. Some even bet they might see me packing and going back within 6 months time.

Well, the good news is that, I finally survived working back home for a year. Yesterday, the April Fool Day marked my first anniversary working in HDM Lala Land. I've came along the way, and throughout the year, lots of ups and downs; a very bumpy journey which I constantly thinking where I am heading to. But now, I think I'm quite alright with where I am now. Though sometimes there are emotional people in the office showing their emotion, but I guess, when you are understress or when market is against you, it's pretty normal, so I choose not to take that too seriously. Or else, I might have a shorter life.

There will be changes at work in the coming months which I think will make my life busier. If not, a very good learning opportunity. And I guess, changes is always a good thing. Changes keep you going in life, no matter ups or downs. Like what our teacher said, enjoy the journey....

Shanghai Chart

2009-03-29T19:07:00.003+08:00

After weeks of chart drawing, finally I've completed the Shanghai Composite Index Chart. I guess among the double team charts, this is the most presentable. Don't get me wrong, that's nothing wrong with HangSeng and Nikkei Chart, just that after learning from our previous mistake, we get the scale correctly and now the Shanghai chart looks impresive and presentable. The five pages long chart is even longer than my blanket. Anyway, feel glad and relief that this had come to an end.

I noticed the Shanghai movement is very similar to our KLCI movement. Climbing up at the same time and plunge at the same time, probably because we are in the same region. Again, Shanghai chart resemble my life journey too. The stagnant market that almost make Jenny bored to death was exactly the period where I feel stagnant in my life, heading nowhere no matter in life, career or relationship. Just as the market started climb up end of Dec 2006, it's where the time I gained most life experience, for good and bad.

Oct 2007, when Shanghai Index peaked at 6124 again was the time I was in crossroad, making the hardest decision in my life. When I finally made up my mind, my stress level was relief, just as the Shanghai Index came down till never seen the 6000 points anymore.

The downtrend of Shanghai market in 2008 was like my savings in the bank, slowly slowly coming down and nearly killing me, specially from Jan till March. When the market rebounded in April, it was the turning point in my life where I started my journey in Lala Land, and hence my savings grown up too.

Unfortunately, due to the global financial crisis between September and October, Shanghai Index was traded well below 2000 points, marked the lowest since two years ago. And now, the Index is trading between 1800-2200, a sign of recovery; just as I hope my bank accounts will recover too.

This is one of the chart where Yong said is following true. Whatever goes up will come down for a correction; and whatever comes down will rebound as well.

I guess this is the most suitable way of learning the chart. Just in case Andrew asked me about it, at least I still aware of what I did. But now, seems like I have no impression about Nikkei and HangSeng movement....

DIE.T

2009-03-28T10:08:00.003+08:00

I've never never in my life thought of going on serious DIET plan or worried about my weight problem. I'm a food lover and I can't resist yummy food. Looking for nice food, restaurants and cafes are my hobbies and I love to try them out. Though keeping fit is one of my annual resolutions, but it didn't really come true.

Not until lately, and especially a year of eating outside food and too much good food since I was back from Melbourne, I think I should seriously look after my diet. Somehow my body is aging, I'm feeling restless and exhausted and my metabolism is not as good as before. Or, I should say my lifestyle is not as healthy as what I had back in Melbourne.

So, there was one day when I catch up with the high school gang and found that, wow! The girls are so slim!! After knowing their secrets, I think I should give it a go. Not hoping things will happen overnight, but hope to see some results within the next 2-3 months. Hopefully, by my brother's wedding day, I've turn out to be a healthy slim chic!

I've started the program a week, so far not much improvements seen on my body appearance, but my body weight had been reduce. To me, I take this as a kick start program, and along the way will come out with other plans to maintain my body weight and a healthy lifestyles. Of course, whatever you do, there's always the angels sitting tightly next to you and give you full support; at the same time the super demon devil will be there to sidetrack you too. I've no idea where about is my determination came from, but anyway, I've started and I'll move on.

Wish me good luck along my new journey on the DIE.T program and a healthy lifestyles.

2009-03-24T20:22:00.002+08:00

Too much things happened lately till I find myself knackered and mentally exhausted. Probably I'm getting older too, I'm more and more forgetful.

I wish too be forgetful and forgot that I'm holding a position. The market had been up since the day I did my selling. And yet, I'm still holding it and waiting the sky to fall and the market to crash. Will it comes by end of the month? I don't know. I always have a feeling that the market will go higher and higher by end of the month, but still I'm willingly enter the market earlier than month end. Never mind, when the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

Swifty is home and she was decorated with tinting plus protection. Thanks to dad. I think he did a great job is helping me getting Swifty home and treating Swifty like his own baby. He even went for shopping this afternoon to get extra accessories and cleaning agent for Swifty. Touch touch!!

Since Swifty and Nokie are home about the same time, I actually don't have much time for them, given the fact that I still have uncompleted tasks from work. It's not easy getting new toys at the same time, I might neglected one of them.

Apart from new Swifty and Nokie, my best friend Deb is coming home next month. Lots to catch up with her plus we are planing to do some wedding shopping together. Will be busy soon. Another good news is that, Jimmy's baby Justin was borned yesterday, on the same day with Swifty! Congrates and great to hear good news!

Well, don't think I should spend too much time here, as I should be back to work. Tata!

Swifty Swifty!!!

2009-03-24T00:16:00.002+08:00

Finally, Swifty is home! Swifty, welcome to your home.

Swifty Swifty!!!

Few things I did today

2009-03-19T00:36:00.004+08:00

1. Trading

Finally, I'm back to my trading game after taking a break for months. As a beginner, it's not easy to make money. I've been on a roller coaster period, suffering mentally and emotionally, not to mentioned financially failure. BUT, I think I'm not giving up so easily. The ultimate plan is not making money in short term, but learning along the way. During the break period, I learned and observed. Of course, I'm not an expert now, but at least I have the courage to start all over again and enjoy the new journey. Clap hands for my courage, thanks!

2. DIE.T

I've finally done something in order to make my resolution happen. After last night heavy dinner, I really came to a point where I think I seriously need to look after my diet. Not to say that I need to lose 10kg weight, but at least I really need to be a healthy person. No junk food and no heavy bad meals. I decided to give it a go.

There are angels who support me and there are evils who try to sidetrack me. However, I think I need to be firm, for my own benefit. Please, if you are reading this blog, please don't invite me for buffet or nice food for the next 3-4 weeks. TQ!

3. My new toy

Placed an order for my new phony- Nokie and should be able to bring it home tomorrow. Yeah, I have a new toy. Nokie will be home by tomorrow and Swifty, if everything goes ok, will be home by Saturday. Nokie and Swifty, I'm looking forward to see you guys.

For now, I'm ready to bed and save more energy for charts again. Nite nite!!!

Sweet Swifty

2009-03-17T21:40:00.004+08:00

Despite the global economy crisis or the recession is on the way to Malaysia, everyone at work seems to be anti-recession and recession proof. First, we have Jenny who bought herself a brand new Toyota Vios; then our Manager upgraded from Civic to Mercedes. So did my brother, he got a new Civic and Kelvin is planing in his mind to get himself a Civic too. Not bad hey!

Of cause, same as Jinnie too. I'm getting excited, as my new honey is coming home soon. Not this week, hopefully before end of the month. I've grown up and I'm more than ready to take more responsibilities. Jinnie gonna spend the next 5-9 years with her new honey, named Swifty and belong to the Suzuki family.

Yes, Swifty is coming home soon. Not only Swifty, Jinnie gonna get a new phoney, possibly a lappy. Plus, a new hubby!

Jinnie's honey--Swifty

Lappy in ICU

2009-03-13T20:32:00.004+08:00

I think I should slap myself! When I was posting about how unhappy I was when the mobile phone broke down, I reminded myself that I should also do a backup for my lappy; since it's almost 3 years old and anything could happen to her.

I've said that, but so far I done nothing. Reason being that I'm still waiting for Minnie to lend me his external hard drive as back up.

What happened last night was I installed the updated MSN version and left my lappy do the job, while I happily went into my sweet dreams. Who knows I woke up this morning with a nightmare, where my lappy was corrupted during the installation. Part of the reason was the battery actually went flat without me noticing before went to bed. Damn it.

What I can do now is keep praying and waiting for the IT doctor to fix my lappy. I hope lappy can serve me longer considering the fact that my pocket gonna have a hole, since the new car is coming soon and my mobile just gone through the critical condition.

Please pray for me! It's so inconvenient without lappy or mobile.....

Tax Return

2009-03-12T21:34:00.003+08:00

Unless you are in coma for the past few months, if not, words like global financial crisis, stimulus package, retrenchment and unemployment are the headlines we see everyday. In fact, it's a little bit too much till we are sick of reading papers.

I've finally completed the "bible" of the global financial crisis--The Return of Depression Economics and The Crisis of 2008. The author Paul Krugman wrote in detail about each crisis happened in the past, from Latin America, Japan to the Asia Crash in 1997. And not to mention, the latest one which happened badly in US and affected Europe and the rest of the world.

It's sad that shit things happen in life. But then, no matter how bad things are, the earth is still moving, sun still rising from the east and setting in the west and there goes a day and life goes on. So, keep the spirit up and fight again!

Thought the assignment is coming to the end, since I've finished reading the book and kinda completed some charts. But then, it's just the beginning of the journey. In the relay team, we still have 4 more charts to go; and in the double team, 3 complicated charts plus another reading assignment on "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" written by Edwin Lefévre. Well, it's good to be busy, I guess.

By the way, it's tax return time. Opps, I should probably say it's tax paying time rather than tax return time. Though this will be the first time for me to lodge a tax return form back home here, I'm looking forward to it and hope to learn something about it. Of cause, I'm hoping to receive cash in return rather than paying out from my pocket.

Speaking about that, the Australian goverment is giving out cash directly to the taxpayers as one of the packages of their stimulus package. As I'm an honest taxpayer who did my tax return on time for 2007/08, I wonder will I get anything from that? Finger cross and we shall see when I check my bank account next month!

Oh No!!!

2009-03-09T21:37:00.004+08:00

Oh no!!! I've lost my mind!!! I'm so confuse!!! I'm so confuse and lost till I forgot where I parked my car. Oh no, please help!!!

The plan for this weekend is to finalize the purchase of my car and hunt for wedding band. Well, car is settled. My initial choice of the Myvii had upgraded to Suzuki Swift :) If everything goes well, I'm getting the car in less than 2 weeks time.

Spent the entire weekend at various jewelery shops to hunt for a pair of suitable and affordable wedding band. The initial intention was to get a pair not more than 2k, end up I was upgraded to look for diamond ring! Now I know, not an easy task to organize a wedding. Couples could spent fortunes for their wedding, from the basic budget till upgrading everything.....

To be honest, wedding band is not as beautiful as the diamond ring. I've walked through all the shops from Mid Valley to the Golden Triangle; however, nothing caught my attention until I saw that diamond ring. My eyes opened widely when I was showed to the 1 carat ring which costs about 58k!!! Oh no, Minnie gonna kill me or dump me for spending his entire fortune!!!

Since then, I wasn't interested in any wedding band anymore. My mind keeping thinking about the diamond. The evil part of me thinking of getting THE ONE; while the angel part of me said I should be practical, shouldn't be spending too much during the financial crisis where we suppose to save for rainy days. Oh no! what should I do?!

Choosing a diamond ring requires knowledge as well. From shops to shops, we were introduced to different characteristics of diamond, from cut of the shape, to the color, the size and the grade. A more sophisticated and international grade is recognized by GIA-Gemological Institute of America.

At the end of the day, we went home without getting anything. I think I still need some time to think about THE ONE. THE ONE who fit my finger and THE ONE that not costing him a fortune.....

Long Weekend...

2009-03-06T19:28:00.003+08:00

I'm so much looking forward to this coming long weekend. One of the reason is I can catch up with my sleep. Don't know what happen to me, I feel restless and tired for the entire week. I guess one of the reason is quiet time at work. This made me think of days in Hallam, nothing much going on in lab and production and most of the time were spent on MSN and internet. However, a task was given by Andrew, where we need to finish reading "The return of depression economics".

Have to admit that this is more like reading history of the global economy crisis dated since 1930s- the greatest depression in US. As a non finance graduate, I have no idea about the actual global crisis happened decades ago. The reading assignment had given me a very good idea about how things work in the financial world and how crisis begins.

Though is confusing at the beginning of the book, but things are getting interesting when came to the topic of Asia's Crash back in 1997, where the crisis started in the Tom Yum land- Thailand. The author also illustrated how Japan's strong economy after World War II been slowing down. Apart from that, the book also bring us to another continent where we were hardly exposed to, the Salsa and Nachos land--Latin America. Anyway, I'm just half way of the book, there are more stories along the way....

Am I going to finish it during the long weekend? Hell, don't think so! This weekend I'm gonna end up in the car dealer to finalize the documents and loan application of my new car; catching up with someone who I haven't seen for a while and not to mention to shop for Minnie and my wedding band. I think that's it for this long weekend. Any extra time will be me lying on my bed dreaming.....

Jinnie Mobile

2009-03-03T21:27:00.003+08:00

Woke up this morning with a terrible headache and I realized I gonna be late for work. Though I have the spare alarm; without my mobile phone snoozing in the morning just made me hard to wake up. Since young until now, I have the problem waking up early in the morning...

Not happy with my mobile phone taking a break from work. She might think she need a long vacation; but I think her holiday just make my life inconvenient. I have to admit that I'm very rely on her nowadays, from snoozing a few times in the morning till I drag myself to shower; as a secretary for everyday reminder; my personal camera and calculator; not to mention storing all my important contacts.

I suddenly realize how important is her in my life. Without her, I need to squeeze my brain harder to think about all the reminders; and I can say I've lost touch with the world since I couldn't remember any single contacts in the phone. The worst thing was all my contacts are stored in the phone, not the SIM card. So now, I've learn a lesson! Always have a back up of all the contacts into the SIM card. This also reminds me to back up things in my lappy too...

Oh yeah, just check on Jinnie green ice-cream from the freezer! I don't think is a good idea to show off my Jinnie green tea ice-cream to everyone in Lala Land. After all, it's not as good as I expected. Taste like eating ICE, NOT ice-cream. Ice that is flavored with green tea. Nvm, experiment doesn't always work for the first time. Even Thomas Edisson took thousands times of experiments to successfully invented light bulb. So, I'll try again when I'm free...

Jinnie Green Tea Ice-Cream

2009-03-01T16:35:00.004+08:00

One of my favourite pastime when I was in Melbourne is making myself occupied in the kitchen making all my favourite food. Making green tea ice cream is one of them. Since I was back, I went to all the supermarket looking for that particular green tea powder. However, it's not that easy. I couldn't find one, dissapointed!

Until the Dec trip back in Melbourne, I went to the grocery shop where I used to do regular grocery shopping and found out from the boss that the manufacturer no longer manufacture the instant green tea powder. Though was disappointing, I decided to make my own green tea ice cream from scratch.

The green tea powder had been sitting on the table for almost 2 months. I finally got all the raw ingredients ready and started the journey of making Jinnie green tea ice-cream. With the help from internet, it's not hard to get the recipe.

Started with whisking the egg yolk in the pan, I then add on the sugar and milk and let it heat up on the stove until it is thicken. Next step was mixing the powder in hot water and mix everything into the sugar milk mixture. Finally, it was completed when whipping cream is added into the mixture and freeze in the refrigerator.

Simple huh!!! BUT, I realized the water content is double what I suppose to put in, therefore the mixture is not as thicken as I expected. THEN, I found out instead of measuring in ml, I measured in g. Reason being the ex-chemist always has the mentality where density of water is 1g/ml; which means 1 g is equivalent to 1ml. Well, this rule only apply to water, but not other ingredients!

Anyway, I can't wait to taste it after it is frozen. I have a feeling this experiment gonna be a failure and I will need to do it for the second time. Everyone at home and everyone in HDM Lala Land can't wait to taste that too. I hope I won't disappointed them with my first failure and I hope everyone can finish Jinnie green tea ice-cream, just to make me happy!!!

New Blog, New Car, New Wawa

2009-02-27T22:47:00.005+08:00

There are a few new things that I'd love to share with everyone today.....

At work, I'm assigned to draw the futures chart dated from Jan 2006 till present. The more I draw the futures and cash chart, the more I think my life journey is like the chart. At the moment, there is no big movement in the market; market is considered in a consolidating state and hard to predict where it's going. Just like work life, I wouldn't say it's boring; but it's slowing down. Probably it's a good thing that our teacher will be able to spend some time with us, to train us and to share his work and life experience. It took me a week to finally get the 3 years chart updated. Speaking about charts, my life journey is more like cash and futures market, slow and steady; unlike CPO chart, highly volatile big movement is a NO NO for me.

The next assignment after finished the chart is reading. Just got a new book today-- The Return of Depression Economics and The crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman.

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When market is quiet lately, all of us at work feel bored and we tried to find interesting stuff to keep us going. There was this day that the high curiosity Kelvin trying to google my blog online. Unfortunately he didn't get it.

Today, all of us agreed to start a new blog where we'll try our very best to contribute interesting post. Just when I was trying to create the new blog, I accidentally review my Jinnie Planet. Of course, the high alert and gossipy gang spotted the name of my blog. Nvm, Jinnie Planet underwent renovation lately and I think I'm proud to present it to everyone.

I'm glad that I'll be one of the author of this blog, and love to share the interesting post by the creative HDM gang. Please welcome http://hdmf16.blogspot.com/ and feel free to leave comments on our blog.

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For my personal life, I'm ready and accepted Minnie's proposal. Both our parents knew we are moving on and happy with our decisions. My next long project will include some researching and planning.

At the same time, I'm going to change a new car too. Not that I'm cruel to chuck the old car, but looking at the bright side, she's been with us for 8 years and now is time to take a break. Not sure what am I getting yet, will be going for some test drive and do some financial review.

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Back to Viwawa, I'm happy to introduce another new member in the Wawa family. Jimmie Wawa is the latest creation of Jinnie and Minnie's baby. I'm now level up and dressed Jimmie nicely.

Happy family

My Journey

2009-02-21T16:16:00.006+08:00

I always think what would my life be if I had chosen a different path in my life journey....

When we were young and still a small kid, everything is managed by our parents and we don't even need to worry about a single thing in life. We'll yell at mummy, if we were hungry. We'll go for daddy, if we need more pocket money. Or, we'll go to either one of them, if we need them to support our idea to do what we want to do.

As we grow older, things are not simple anymore. Or I should say, I'm just the one who make things complicated?

After graduated from Form 5, being lost and didn't know what should I do. I chose to stay in my lovely high school to do Form 6. One of the reason at that time was I intended to study in Japan, though I didn't know what course should I do. The pre-requisite to study in Japan University are 12 years formal education, which means 6 years primary school and 6 years high school, including the ability to speak and write in Japanese. For us that went through 5 years high school, we still require one year to complete their pre-requisite. Here, doing Form 6 fulfill the requirements.

Though it's been a very tough 2 years of life with just study day and night, I think I didn't regret until today as I had found a lovely group of friends from various background and till now we still keep in touch.

Well, plan changed. I didn't end up in one of the university in Japan but enrolled in Swinburne University of Technology (http://www.swinburne.edu.au/) doing Bachelor of Applied Science, majoring in Biochemistry and Chemistry after a 6 weeks holiday in Melbourne in 2001.

I think there's how my life journey begin more and more interesting. Though I always think that my life is pretty boring and dull. But thanks to people around me that remind me I'm actually a lucky person who manage to experience different things in my life.

What would happen to me if I've gone to Japan in the first place? Probably I'm now a very stressful person working in Tokyo or Osaka. Or, I might be working in one of the Japanese firm in Malaysia, driving Honda or Toyota; married a handsome Japanese man and had a few kawaii kids and enjoyed sushi and tempura everyday....

But, that's not the case. After 3 years of study in Melbourne, I was so lucky to get a job working as a Chemist in a chemical manufacturing company in Hallam. It's so good that my employer even sponsored me a working visa and PR to stay with them permanently; sponsored me to courses that I'm interested and work related; relocated me to Manchester plant for a 3 months training. Anyway, that's all history. For some reasons, I just find that there's something missing in my life and I'm ready to move on the next level. Leaving the country and started all over again....

When you are sailing miserably in the ocean, you need a compass to direct you to the destination you wanna go. Sometimes, the compass might not work well, sending you off to India instead of Malaysia. Still remember 2 years ago, it's a hard decision for me to make in my life, whether I should stay on in Melbourne, move back home or start something new in England. Whatever decision will lead to a different journey, for good or for bad. Just like if I end up in Japan, probably my whole life history will be a different one.

I wouldn't say I'm not happy for what I'm having now. For one thing, I think god always heard what I'm saying in my heart. He always grants my wishes; just that he need to fulfill too many people wishes till I always need to wait patiently.

So, what's next now? I hope I still can continue the journey I want to sail through; I hope my journey will be as interesting as I wanna it to be; I hope the financial crisis won't be a reason to stop me from what I wanna achieve, I hope my action will speak out what my mind is reading. And I hope there'll be some surprises to bring me to along the way...

Transformer

2009-02-17T21:21:00.007+08:00

I finally had enough fund to dress up my Jinnie Wawa! Both of my babies had transformed into cute wawa. Jinnie had new dress while Minnie wawa tan himself. Love their new look!

Speaking about changes, there are a few changes at workplace effective from tomorrow. I wouldn't say I dislike it, but hopefully the change is a positive one, bring me some motivation to keep me going; and as a recognition from my superior about my good performance. Apart from the changes at work, there'll be some changes in my personal life too. Until everything is confirmed, I'll update everyone. For now, good night, sweet dreams.

Valentine's Newborn

2009-02-15T17:03:00.006+08:00

On this special Valentines Day, there were two newborn babies who are also my special creation! I'm proud to introduce them-- Jinnie Wawa & Minnie Wawa.

They give me the spirit to fight better among other wawas. They are the reasons for me to make more money and gold for them to have a better life. At this point, I can only dress up Minnie Wawa. Sorry, Jinnie Wawa! I'll work harder for you.

Downtime

2009-02-13T20:29:00.003+08:00

Not sure how am I going to describe my feeling now. Upset? Down? Miserable? Lost?

Lately, I keep thinking about my grandmother. Don't know why, she appears in my mind a number of times. I wonder where is she now? Is she meeting with my grandfather and other cousins?

Dealing with a cranky client these two days. He is a kinda person that cannot deal with losses. In his world, he just wanna be a winner, he just want to make money. If making money is an easy process, then there won't be any poverty issues, there won't be any financial crisis; everyone will be a happy go lucky person and everyone is millionaire. And obviously I will be a millionaire too, traveling around the world and don't need to entertain him. Stupid!

Nothing is more upset than I have to be absent from my good friend wedding just because my grandma just passed away. Upset because people are so superstitious; upset because I couldn't attend the wedding...

Apart from that, my car is not well again. Had a flat tyre two days ago before I left office and had a minor accident yesterday. What happen to me?

I think I better go viwawa to make myself happy. http://www.viwawa.com/, Jinnie wawa is coming!!!!

10 Years

2009-02-10T15:51:00.007+08:00

How many 10 years we have in life?

2009 mark the first 10 years since I left high school. There are schoolmates talking about organizing a 10 years reunion dinner and some started to put things in action. In the past 10 years, I keep in touch with some of the close friends, updating each others life every now and then. Some, we've totally lost contact; some of them, I still see them quite often but we have less common topic to talk about. Whereas there are some of them where we didn't really talk to each other in the past and now we became closer friends.

I have a loyal fan who we grown up together for 10 years. From teenagers to living together abroad for almost 5 years, gone through all the ups and downs in life and traveling together to all the famous touristy hot spots.

Today, I think both of us are ready to move on together into the next stage of life. Go through the worst financial crisis, travel happily together to more places, live together and suffer each others snoring, and to stand each others bad habits and whinging all the time.

Looking back the 10 years in our life, we had happy memories and tough moments especially in Melbourne and Manchester. We traveled to Adelaide and Gold Coast, spent most of our time in other beautiful parts in Melbourne. Had our Christmas and New Year celebration in Hong Kong; spent short weekends in Paris, Venice and Belgium; visited Taiwan and Thailand; of cause not to mention some parts in Malaysia. In the future, we want to travel more..

Please, please make my dreams come true....

Krabi, Jan 2009

Taipei 101, March 2008

Irlam Manchester Aug 2006

Paris, Oct 2006

Manneken Pis, Belgium, Oct 2006

My favourite place, Venice @ Oct 2006

X'mas Celebration in Hong Kong, 2004

Winery @ Adelaide, July 2003

Melbourne, the place I spent 6 years

Sawadeeka Krabi

2009-01-31T23:16:00.014+08:00

Sawadeeka!!

First overseas trip in 2009 is my 5 days 4 nights trip to Krabi, a southern provinces in Thailand which is not far away from Phuket. This is a lazy relaxing beach holiday. When I arranged the accommodation before coming to Krabi, there were a few resorts caught my attention. But, I can't be too greedy wanted to stay in all of them. Finally, after all the pick and elimination process, 2 were on top of my list. The Red Ginger Chic Resort in Ao Nang Beach and Sheraton Krabi Resort in Kluong Muang Beach.

Jinnie and her favourite Red Ginger Chic Resort at Ao Nang

Pool side Villa and pool bar in Red Ginger Chic

The far far away Sheraton Krabi

Everything about Krabi is good except the journey to Krabi and back to KL. Wasn't impressed with the pilot who fly us to Krabi. We had difficulty during our first landing. Though the weather was fine, the pilot claimed that it was a windy day and he couldn't land safely (Liar!!). We took off again and spent another 10 minutes in the sky before the second landing. On the way back home, the turbulence was worse than a roller coaster ride. If the pilot in New York managed to land safely on the river, anything can happen to everyone in the plane. Luckily, I'm safe and back home now.

Romantic sunset dinner for couple in Sheraton, costs 7000Baht for 3 course meal

I love Ao Nang and Red Ginger Chic Resort. Ao Nang is the busiest town in Krabi Province. It is also a place full of tourists, mainly the European tourists followed by Asian tourists. It's not surprised that the population of Caucasians are more than Asians in Krabi. Staying in Ao Nang is like living in Hawthorn, everything is hop, step and a jump from everywhere you wish to go. Cozy cafe, hawker stalls, pubs and restaurants, beautiful beaches and massage parlor....

Moving to Sheraton on the third day was like moving to Clayton. It is a peaceful beach resort where you can have everything in a small village, BUT traveling to Ao Nang and Krabi Town and other places was like far far away. To me, it's inconvenient. I reckon Sheraton would be the place to be if you are planning a trip to Krabi just to isolate yourself from everyone and catch up with your long lost sleep. If not, Red Ginger Chic is a cool place to stay or even any accommodation in Ao Nang that meet your budget.

http://www.redgingerkrabi.com/

http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1438

The turtle Island

Overall, I'm happy and enjoyed my Krabi trip. I walked most of the time and sweat a lot. Nearly forgot it was the middle of Chinese New Year and my mind was occupied by yummy food and coconut juice. Not even thinking about work and the market; no reading papers in the past few days, no phone or even text messages coming in. Like lost touch with the rest of the world....Chilled and relax.....

Malati Bar @ Sheraton

Surprise by Sheraton Hotel Staffs

Krabi Sunset and the longtail boats

Happy Ox Year

2009-01-25T21:48:00.002+08:00

Just came back from a family dinner at Tai Thong Restaurant at the Imperial Plaza. I'm very very full. Imagine there's only five of us and we are having 10 course meals. I can feel my tummy bursting anytime....

Received an sms sent by Cathorino. It reads:

"Hello friend! May the year of ox bring you energy as if u just drank Redbull, strengths to overcome the Bullshits, healthy lifestyles so that u won't get Bullimia and girlfriend as adorable as bulldog. Happy new year and keep the spirit moo-ving!"

Yes, it's a brand new year. Hope the market is getting bullish in the year of ox. Stay healthy, pretty and wealthy. Have a safe new year and make more money from your gambling! Dear everyone who read this blog, HAPPY NIU YEAR!!!!!

Travel Bugs

2009-01-23T21:58:00.003+08:00

I've been traveling a lot lately. Not for business, but for my own leisure. Only to Singapore, I've been there three times a year. Considering the fact that I'm not a tour guide and my job doesn't involve traveling at all. Since last Jan, I was in Singapore for Emily and Ryan's wedding. A visit to Singapore again last June and December. The earlier one was to meet up with Swinburne gang since Sashi was all the way from Melbourne; and the latter one was to see the new born sweetheart- Jun Yan, the precious baby of Ryan & Emily. I always think that the life changing for Emily is too quick till I couldn't cope. Being promoted to mummy, she is happy and this is the greatest job she wanna be since I known her.

During my career break, one of the travel destination I want to visit are Taiwan and Japan. Unfortunately, I didn't make it to Japan. I've been there as an exchange student back in 1999. It was almost 10 years ago. I stayed in a small town called Sasayama in Hyogo Prefectural, which is about 2 hours drive from Osaka. I've been to cities around Osaka, Kobe and as far as Hiroshima and the small Island Shikuko. The intention of going to Tokyo in April was to see Sakura. Due to the fact that it was the time I started with HDM, the Tokyo trip was postponed. I believe there's always opportunity for me to visit Tokyo.

However, I manage to land in Taiwan in March for a week. To me, some parts of Taiwan make me feel like as if I was in Japan. Taiwan and Japan has some similarity as Taiwan was conquered by Japan once upon a time. Some parts of Taiwan just made me think that I was in China. Overall, the trip was good and I manage to do lots of shopping. But, no chance for hot spring. Bad days.

Back in August, it was the first visit for me to Bangkok with a few HDM staffs. Funny enough, all of us had fun as well as had some spooky story to tell. I'm not going to share here cause it's not funny at all. Manage to catch up with Kat after she left Melbourne in 2004. Thanks to her as our tour guide, we escaped from some of the riot places in the city, not to mentioned the nice local food, as well as a visit to Bangkok red light district!

On the day I left Melbourne in 2007, I didn't know when would I return to the place I spent 6 years again. But, I was back there again last December. Exactly one year since I left, there are some changes. Big changes would be Flint took over my ex-company Day International, and everyone of them has to move to the plant in Dandenong after new year. Day office wouldn't be in Hallam anymore..until further notice. I think this is the biggest changes since I left. Because of the financial crisis, there were a few employees left Day. Apart from that, East link was finally completed as expected. My favourite shopping place- Chaddy had gone through some renovation and more expansion are coming. The Melbourne Eye is finally landed in Docklands and a new shopping arcade in Dockland appeared. And also used to be my home in Clayton, the library was demolished; the construction of community hall with swimming pool was completed. And, a new McDonald in Clayton. No wonder people living in Oz are obese cause there are 3 McDonald in Clayton. Haha....

By the way, I'm ready for another trip again. I'm flying to Krabi next week. For those who don't know where is Krabi, it is actually one of the southern provinces in Thailand not far away from Phuket. This will be a quiet and relaxing trip.

Before I finish today, bye bye to Mickey & Minnie Mouse year and welcome cow cow new year. Eat more, make more money and rest well. Sawadeeka Krabiiiiiiii........

Sushi Go Round...

2009-01-20T23:55:00.007+08:00

Found a new game-- Sushi Go Round!!! I'm a sushi fans who enjoy sushi a lot. It is an interesting game and playing this game make me think of opening a sushi bar in the future... hehe... Enjoy the process of making different types of sushi.. Of cause, I don't want to make sushi shit in my sushi bar.

Try this, sushi go round...at the end of the page. Have fun!

The purpose of life

2009-01-16T21:54:00.005+08:00

Received a new year card from a friend today. It is not a simple and boring new year card, but written a full page of meaningful words. One of them was a quote from a philosopher by Dr. Daisaku Ikeda. He said "The purpose of life is to become happy. The purpose of life is to challenge and triumph over the darkness of misery" and he wished me and my family a fantastic year "challenging" the economy crisis.

Thanks to him. This is what everyone need. Probably thanks to the economy crisis too, we get to know the good and worse part of some people in our life. No matter how, life goes on. We need to overcome the fear of economy crisis, the fear of losing job, the fear of can't getting a job and the fear of not enough money to spend. No matter what happen, no matter how much money we lost in the crisis, nothing is more important than health and being a happy person.

The purpose of life is.. to be happy... Have a happy mind and happy new year.

Happy Birthday, Cathorino!

2009-01-12T23:59:00.004+08:00

If Cathorino was browsing Jinnie Planet, here I would like to say to her: " Cathorino, happy birthday!!!"

The clock showed 12.01am, it's 13th January, Cathorino's 22nd birthday. Still remember when she was a baby, I used to feed her. Of cause not my milk, it's the milk bottle. I see her growing from a tiny baby into a cute cute teenager and now transformed into a beautiful young lady. Time flies....

Anyway, I wish Cathorino all the best in her future. Have a wonderful year and may she gets whatever she wishes to have. Wish her found a good job and starts a new life back in Oz....

Talking about Cathorino, I realized I'm not young too. I've set my 2009 resolutions last month, but of cause nothing have achieved yet since it is only the 12th day of the new year.

I realized I'm now ready to accept more commitments in life, I'm ready and I'm planning to get to where I want to be. For now, I just need to sign off and rest earlier. It's too late to plan now, my brain is not working. When I'm ready, you'll hear good news from me. Ciao~

Quizzzzzzzz

2009-01-10T23:07:00.005+08:00

Finally, here comes the weekend. Probably last month was a quiet month plus the holiday season, went to work everyday is pretty much like socializing and time pass easily. However, this week was killing me. Every morning I woke up with headache, thinking when am I going to finish updating all the manage accounts. After five days of long hard work, I finally had all the accounts updated.

Normally Friday is pretty quiet. Same as this Friday. I can get some rest! Not sure how Jenny found this website, but this is an interesting one. It is a website full of a list of quizzes and questionnaires. So, all of us take turns to do the questionnaire and find out more about ourselves. Among them, we get to know about our personality, our perception towards life, money, love and sex life.....

Now, take a break from whatever you are doing, click http://blogthings.com/quizzes/ to find out more about yourself. Have fun!

2009-01-06T21:40:00.004+08:00

I have tonnes of work to do since beginning of the year. Can't blame anyone since I was in honeymoon mood in December and left everything till now. Imagine I only worked 14 days last month; that's why I'm now very very busy at work. Not only me, guess all the clients are back to normal routine life. The volume at cash market came back, so as our futures market. The volatility is back. Thanks for that, busy life is back!

Was out for lunch with a high school friend today. Didn't know that our office is actually 5 minutes walk from each other until one day we bumped into each other at petrol kiosk. She used to sit next to me during high school days. Think about it, it was 13 years ago. No way, time flies!!!! She was good looking, but now more sexy!

Since we didn't see each other for years, an hour lunch wasn't enough for us. We manage to talk about our recent life, specially in relationships and career path. I was shocked to hear about her past relationships. It's sad to hear that, she was a tough girl in high school; but unfortunately she was cheated by the guys in her past relationship. Guess what now, 21st century..I heard stories more on guys cheated by girls... Anyway, it's good to see her walk away from sad days and she's now enjoying being single.

Good start of the year

2009-01-02T23:48:00.004+08:00

First day at work in 2009, I was called by my manager to set resolutions for year 2009. Two words were given by him, to be alert and more obersevant at work. Thanks for the advice. For my job, yes, it is crucial to be alert and observant in the trading world, every minute and second is important. First day in 2009 is a good start, the cash market was pushed higher and higher and it closed at 894. The futures market is strong and finally breaks 900 points, where the last time we saw 900 was back in September. It is a good begining and we hope to see a better futures in the coming year.

Hello 2009

2009-01-01T23:57:00.003+08:00

Hello and welcome to 2009 :)

My countdown party was accompanied by Snowy and KM, watching Mr Bean Holiday and fireworks from Astro Live.

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First day in 2009, went to Malacca for their famous chicken rice ball, together with KM, Zach and HM. The previous time to Malacca- Venice in Malaysia was in 2003 when Yal came here for a visit.

Not much changes, except the Eye on Malaysia moved to Malacca. A new shopping center named Dataran Pahlawan and we saw HM photos everywhere and her new year songs everywhere.....

Dinner at Nilai recommended by Zach. Though dad's hometown is Nilai, but I have no idea about the restaurants he mentioned. Overall, it is a good day out and I'm looking forward for more cari makan in the future.

Opps, I've broke one of the 09 resolution. Eat more and missed tonite's badminton. Nevermind!

Resolutions

2008-12-30T00:26:00.007+08:00

Couldn't believe that this is the last 2 days of 2008. Last year this time, I was sitting in front of my lappie writing my 2008 resolution. My wish lists included 3-6 months career break; traveling to Japan and Taiwan as well as visiting my friend in Singapore and be her bridesmaid; to build up new interest and learn an investment skill; and to own a property by end of 2008.

Looking at what I've set a year ago, I'm proud that I did what I've said. Not all of them, but mostly. My initial 3-6 months career break was limited to 3 months break, not because I couldn't survive financially but mentally. It was very bored with no goals and no job but sleeping and hanging at home or shopping complex. Didn't make it to Japan in April for sakura because I started with HDM on April Fool Day. I did make it to Taiwan, our neighbour Bangkok and a few trips to Singapore plus revisiting my Melbourne. So, not bad hey!

Investment wise, I've learn a lot though I haven't take back the capital. Probably that would become a long term plan to gain back the capital. Well, at least, I've started and I'll continue. Like I said, it's the last 2 days of 2008, so it's quite impossible that I'm getting a property within next 2 days. We are talking about a long term commitment, not getting something from the fresh market! I am tempting to get one, specially after the visit at Tropical city....

Well, as for 2009, I wish:
- to be happy and healthy
- to be physically fit and less fat :)
- to be more active in trading and gain back the capital
- keep on traveling
- get a small and affordable property

Hope I'm not a greedy person. I'll keep reviewing my resolution along 2009, specially the first two.....

Say bye bye to 2008

2008-12-28T17:50:00.006+08:00

I think I'm a lazy person. I love to read blogs but just lazy in updating my own blog. My little sis keep asking me to update my blog and lately I received a comment from someone who happened browse through my blog saying that she enjoyed reading my blog and will visit more often!

I just came back from Melbourne a few days ago, for a short holiday with my parents and revisiting the place I used to live. It marks one year anniversary since the day I left Melbourne. One year.. this happen to be a very quick one year. Within this year, I've learned a lot, been through different stages and go through a lot emotionally.

Back in Melbourne, I visited my previous company in Hallam. This is the place where I spent my 3 years, my first job and used to be my comfort zone. I'm glad that I step out from the comfort zone and move into a new industry. I'm glad to see everyone at Hallam where they all used to be my happy family.

I also manage to catch up with a few close friends in Melbourne. Some stay the same; some had move on, no matter in life, relationship or career.

Back to where am I now, I wouldn't say I've achieved a lot in 2008. But at least, I had the courage to venture out and do something different; something crazy. 2008 is departing and here comes the new 2009. I'm reevaluating my resolution, to continue the journey of discovering, the move on in my career path, to soul-searching, to be happy and healthy, to do more travelling, to make more money...to...to...and the list go on and on....

Bad Week

2008-10-16T23:10:00.004+08:00

This week is not a good week. Not only I lost money from my investment, my dearest car is now in ICU. Struggling to survive. Hopefully the transplantation works well and my dear dear car can last longer. I suddenly realized it's so inconvenient without a car.

Financial Crisis

2008-10-09T23:00:00.005+08:00

The market is very very bad. Not only Dow heavily down, globally, shares and index dropped; strong countries had to cut interest rate together. Couldn't believe that even the strong Aussie $$ had drop to the same level as Singapore $. Still remember 7 years ago before I left for Melbourne, dollar is weaker than SD$. Aussie economy pick up within years and the dollar grows stronger than SD$. And now, back to square one. It could be a temporary thing or not.

I actually feel good. Not that I'm being cruel. At least, I'm not regretted with my decision leaving the comfort zone. Will I move to our neighbour country? Hmm...no one know what happen to Dow Jones tomorrow. We shall see....

2008-09-21T18:22:00.004+08:00

Nowadays it's not easy to catch up with all the close friends, as everyone has their priority in their own life, living in different countries. Was glad to finally catch up with some of the overseas friends that haven't seen for almost a year. Flying back from Denmark and Scotland. Even some are living locally, it's hard for us to catch up.

Everyone still the same, moving forward and looking for something better in life. One of them just graduated from her Master, the married one is organizing renovation for their home; some still looking for the love one in life while some is ready to get married..etc..

Oh well, that's life. Everyone is changing for a better life. What about me. I'm still moving.. and thinking...

Cash Market

2008-09-11T23:47:00.005+08:00

Finally completed my cash market chart which dated since June 06 till present. It's not an easy task; it took me almost a week to draw. Of cause, I can finish it earlier. But, like Andrew said, not for the sake of drawing, need to feel it. Feel the market movement.

As I was drawing the chart, yes I can feel it. Ups and downs. Just like our life. There are ups and downs along the way. I also realized that this chart like my journey, my career path...

The market was trading ~900 points, the lowest in June 06, it slowly climbed up. The peak time was in Jan 08, ~1540 points, before the election. However, it gaped down 20 points the next day after election and market shoot down 80 points. Of cause, clients who short the market were happy about the gain whereas people who long the market were lost and miserable when market was against them.

Learn that the theory is same as life too. It takes time to build up whatever u want. Career, relationships, a dream, a life; and it took a second to destroy everything u had. To build it back, it needs time; just like the market slowly climbed up.

Oh yeah, I was comparing my journey with the market. In 2006, it was my quarter life crisis, as well as the starting of my career path. The market rose slightly day by day just like I learned things day by day. It reached a higher point end of Dec 07, just as when I started thinking of leaving the lab job. Then, market came to low in Mar 07, where that was the time I told my ex boss that I decided to move on. Again, market rose to higher point end of same year, just like I was happy that I finally move on and look forward to a better future. So, ups and downs along the way. Imagine when life is stagnant, just like the consolidating market, bored and no challenge.....

Will my future like CPO market? I don't know. No one knows how the future is. No one knows what the next minute all the products are trading at. We can only predict, whether it does it or not, it's another story. However, always have an exit plan no matter what we do. If we gain, it's bonus; and prepares to lose and prepare for the worst.

Alright, I guess it's too late to do market talk. Will see what happen when I next draw the CPO chart!

Yoooo

2008-08-22T21:22:00.004+08:00

Aloha!!! It's been a while since last I log into Jinnie Planet. I know, it's not a few weeks, it's almost 3 months.

How's life? Life is ok. Since last month passed my exam, I can feel the stress in this industry, can feel more and more workload and expectation from my boss. Tiring and busy days, sleepless nights and challenging life. I think I'm enjoying it. Apart from that, I started helping in Bridal shop during the weekends. Sounds like workaholic, but this make my life more meaningful.

I'm now chilling at home. Have music on and chatting online. Haven't have time doing this for quite some time. Another week to go, my vacation in Bangkok :)

Life goes on

2008-05-25T17:07:00.003+08:00

Realized that haven't been updating the blog for some time. Sorry, too busy.

There's a question everyone like to ask me nowadays. "Am I happy?"

Well, thinking of that, the happiness I'm experiencing now is different from what I experienced back in Melbourne. I'm happy, specially at work and things that I do. No point being miserable since we spent most of the time at work. Apart from work, there are ups and downs in life. Back there, life is more simple, there's nothing much to worry about except planning for weekend trips but I don't seem to be happy over there.

Anyway, life is pretty alright nowadays. Been through my quarter life crisis and finally had my 26th birthday celebrations back home and kinda found my direction. It's another journey in my new life and there's long way to go. Of cause, there are obstacles in life; ups and downs, as long as I know what I want and know how to get there, I just have to enjoy the journey along the way.

No more drinking I guess in the coming weeks. Drinking just create more and more problems in my life. Short term goal is passing exam and following a party in Singapore and saving money for Thailand trip and more trips. Yeah.....

Dating with Kenny G

2008-04-27T16:12:00.002+08:00

Had a great weekend in Genting! HDM staffs not only had a date with Kenny G, we also worked hard during the weekend, to make more money for our boss since every single bill of the trip was paid by him. From accommodation to VIP Pass concert, luxury meals and capital given by boss to earn his money back; we also got free gifts from him at the end of the trip. What a good life to have such a good boss and great work/ social life! However, I'm feeling I'm working overtime! Seeing the team 7 days this week.

Feeling pressure in casino when I was under perform. Didn't manage to save the capital and yet lost everything. But, didn't get blame from my boss. His advice is learn more at work and from all the experts. This is the first time in my life I lost so much. Though didn't feel the pain since it's not my money; but the guilt, hard to explain in words. Like what he said, I'll learn more and work smarter!

Kenny G looks the same since I first knew him from young. Looks like he didn't change his hairstyles for 10 or 20 years ago. I can never forget his maggie mee hair! Had a near distance to look at him but didn't snap any photos as my camera no batt. Nvm, not that I'm his loyal fans but thanks to Andrew's invitation to such a nice trip. Genting didn't change much since the last few years I went. But weather wise, definitely not cold anymore...I think I'm addicted to Zorro; might wanna go for next visit and try not to get a margin call.....

2008-04-20T09:50:00.002+08:00

No much update from me lately, coz I'm busy. Since started this job, I've spend more time on study and on the road. Not much time left for myself and not much time spending online. In a way, it's good. Cause I'm meeting up and seeing more people.

After 3 weeks at work, I'm still studying. People getting confuse whether am I working or studying..Hehe..this is an interesting one. I'm actually getting paid and study at work everyday. No official job training until I passed my exam. Well, I know I can do it. Just the matter of time.

The coming weekends will be busy. Boss is treating everyone to Kenny G concert, VIP pass plus accommodation and all meals included. Siva said I'm lucky to be treated that nicely considering I just joined less than a month. Yes, I know. I'm a lucky one and I always wanted what I want...Emily will be back from Singapore in the following weekend; Noelle and fiance visit from HK, my birthday, etc...So much on in May. Of cause, the most important is passing my exam. Without that, it'll be hard to enjoy all social life. Alright, I'm off to study now..C ya!

STRESS

2008-04-10T21:55:00.001+08:00

One word to describe my feeling right now- STRESS!

STRESSSSSSSSSSSSSS....

2008-04-05T09:17:00.001+08:00

Hello again!!!

Time flies extremely fast this week as I started my new job on April Fool Day. So far, nothing much to do at work and can't do anything until I passed my exam. In a way, yes, I'm getting paid for doing nothing but study. Guess that's my life, all my jobs so far are getting paid for doing nothing but have plenty of time for study! Don't think I got the privilege to go online and study after I passed exam. Nvm, interesting life beginning soon...

It is very challenging that I switched to a new job that is totally out of my experience. So, I'm starting all over again. From chemistry into finance; from working with all white white people to now seeing black black people everyday. From being a lonely ranger running the lab and production into surrounded by a team of highly youngster spirit. More importantly, I'm near to home, more social life at work and will be learning and doing things that I'm interested. Within the next 2-3 years, I can see myself having an interesting life. Of cause, more to learn.

Anyway, nice to blog a bit about my new life here and I'll have more update soon! Tata.

Comparative happiness vs Absolute happiness

2008-03-28T21:01:00.002+08:00

Catch up with a friend for lunch today and we have a long long chat. He was one of my Form 6 friend and now he's doing very well in his career. Like me, himself venture out from science into finance few years ago. Couldn't take it the boring mad scientist life.

Since haven't meet for years, we had a nice chat. From how we started in our career into where we are now, and where are we going in the future. That's a very interesting topic to share with. Comparative happiness vs absolute happiness.

Are you happy today? Are you always happy? Or your happiness is determined by someone or some factors..Used to remember we were always happy as a kid. Our happiness was so easily satisfied. But as we grown up, the happy moment seems to be lesser and lesser. Why?

The true happiness defined by yourself, what you want in life and how you gonna achieve it. Of cause, along the way in searching your happiness, you find lots of obstacles and somehow you might get depressed and down.

It's human nature that we always compare ourselves with our peers, just because we wanna perform better and be a better person. In a way, it's good to have the motivation to work harder and get where you wanna go. But sometimes, it's hard and this makes you jealous and unhappy. This is the happiness you are comparing with your peers. What they have is that what you want? Think about it.....

Life is too short to be miserable. Just be happy and live everyday as if your last day. Don't worry and be happy!!

End of long vacation

2008-03-25T16:20:00.001+08:00

This week will be the last week of my long vacation. From the time I resigned last Dec till next week, it's almost 3 months. I'm more than ready to join the workforce, happily accepting the new job in a new environment, switching to a new career and venture into a new journey.

To sum up these 3 months journey, I would say I'm still adapting back to life in Malaysia. There were ups and downs and little bit of obstacles from preventing where I wanna go; a little bit of memories and things that holding me from moving on; and yet thanks to all the supports, I was strong enough to move on. It was a emotional period and another journey for myself to know more about myself and be firm on what I wanna achieve. It is also a period where I gain exposure on the "dream jobs" I'm interested.

Been doing lots of reading, watching lots of movie, catching up with friends and did some trips. These 3 months is quite relaxing. At least I know, I won't need a long vacation for a while. It's always good to take a break, stop and stare and ask yourself where you wanna be in the future and work out how to get there.

Life will be interesting from next week on. I believe I'll have more emotional periods, adapting to a new environment and new career. Nevertheless, no regret on leaving everything I had behind, now....

It's a brand new day.....(ex-company slogan!)

Hopefully new company won't fool me on next Tuesday!

6398 + 8268

2008-03-19T23:05:00.001+08:00

A late dinner tonight, thanks to Mr.KM, we have to postpone our dinner plan to somewhere else. But, it turn out to be a nice cozy Japanese Restaurant in Uptown, named Umai Japanese Restaurant. As the name suggest, umai in jap means yummy...Food was special and nice, price is reasonable and the atmosphere was great. Quiet and very jap style.. definitely will be back for second and third try...

After a long day sitting at home, tonight's turned out to be an exciting night. We were on the way home and just before the junction near Murni, a stupid idiot motorist came out from the junction without checking the traffic, as if this is his father's road! Me, as a safe driver avoided him and accidentally crashed into a cabby. Luckily, there's no one hurt in this minor accident. Thanks to the stupid idiot, we solved the problem very quickly and safely.

According to mom, there are ups and downs in 2008 for me; this including accidents during night time and some lucky extra cash! The message was told not more than 24 hours and I got one bingo! For those who wants to get some extra cash, invest a little with these 2 numbers- 6398 and 8268! Good luck......

2008-03-18T23:29:00.001+08:00

This week has been a slow slow week for me. The second Interview of the company I really wished to join is scheduled on Next Monday. Another 5 days to go, yet the time is tickling so slow. I wonder how come nowadays time passed so slow. Used to remember in high school and uni days, 24 hours a day is not enough for me. I start to wonder my decision, am I making a right move, a right choice. Should I be here, be back or starting everything again in somewhere else. Last year this time, I was having a hard time, yet everything moved on. Now, similar thing happen again....Arrrrggggg, should be over very soon, I hope. Let's have a early night. Goodnight!

Taiwan updates

2008-03-11T20:43:00.001+08:00

Hello again! A little update from my Taiwan trip.

Basically, this is a free & easy tour to Taipei for 5 days. A getaway again from KL, another overseas trip before my full time commitment into new career, visiting uni friends and relatives.. Since I'm not an early rise person, no tour groups for me. Prefer the flexibility of free & easy tour, plus a little adventurous map reading.

Someone asked me: "What do you think about Taiwan?"
I answered: "SMELLY!"

Don't get me wrong. Taiwan is a clean country, just the streets are full of hawker foods with oily deep fry things, specially the "smelly taufu", which the deep fry fermented bean curb made the whole street smell.

So far, places I visited are Taipei 101 Building, YangMingShan National Park, Joe's hometown in I-Lan, and shopped around Taipei. Don't really like museum and historical stuff, therefore skipped those places. YangMingShan is just located 20minutes drive from my cousin's house. A nice place for tracking and picnic, and full of lots of natural hot spring. Unfortunately, it's just those days... No hot spring for me... buek!

I-Lan is a county next to Taipei with 30 minutes drive and about 1.5 hours by train. It is a hot spring touristy spot too. We walked around the town, tried the local food and stopover in the national park. Coming to I-Lan just like going back to Sasayama. A nice countryside surrounded by hills and full of agriculture activities; the narrow street that only allow single car entry....

Overall, Taiwan trip is ok. Not much touristy stuff. But it's very tiring since we walked a lot and shopped a lot. Shopping for cheapy stuff just made the trip so wonderful. Photos of the trip will be uploaded when it is ready. To be continued....

Good'ay

2008-02-27T18:20:00.001+08:00

Yo! Good 'day !!!

Me sounds happy rite? Indeed, I'm happy today! Was a bit down and disappointed with the waiting and waiting the other day. Somehow, I guess everyone is now happy with all the festivals and celebrations over and back on track to their busy work life.

I'm glad I'm motivated too, to hunt for my ideal job. Somehow, a few jobs also hunting for me today. With my cousin and Joyce recommendations, and the ideal one from website, and, finally good news from Kelvin. :)

Ok, that's all for today. I'm going to fitness class. Ciao!

My journey

2008-02-26T18:02:00.002+08:00

Thanks to Anonmyous's comment on my previous blog. I know I need to be patient to get what I wanna have. Was surfing online and accidentally found a Taiwanese ex-international students' blog, and suddenly realized that I'm not the only one who had the experience like him. Transition from being an international student to a working class employees; the catch 22 "no PR no job" situation; the long long waiting working visa & PR period, etc etc. Somehow I'm now giving up everything and start all over again. Probably after everything I went through in the past 3 years, I realized that these were not the things I wanted to have. I didn't know exactly where I want to go, but I'm almost certainly know where I don't want to end up.. Hence, I'm back here and job- hunting.

For me, (not showing off again but it's true) I'm a very lucky person. Got a permanent professional job on my first interview and I've stayed with the company for more than 3 years. Got a very nice and helpful boss who is willingly to sponsor me for a working visa then PR, sponsored for all the studies I wanna do outside working hours and not to mention the 3 months training trip in UK. But, I was going through a quarter life crisis and not happy with what I had... That's y I packed and left.

Now I realized it's not easy to send in resume and job hunting, and waiting for interviews and confirmation. U might think I'm crazy, giving up everything and start all over again. Apart from feeling a bit bored sometimes, but I enjoyed what I'm experiencing nowadays. At least, I can do it financially. Hehe.. Again, show off again.

And, I have to say I'm very lucky again at least I'm on my way to get what I want. Have the contacts to help out, just that I'm being trained on my patience and persistence. I think I'll appreciate my next job very much and not wanting to have another long vacation so soon.

I'm looking forward to end my long vacation in mid March, after my Taiwan trip next week. Hooray, another overseas trip and another beginning in my journey.

2008-02-25T20:58:00.001+08:00

Things are not the same anymore. For some reasons, this trip back home made me realized that once you missed out something, you just have to move on in your life and no matter what, never look back. Not sure whether am I making the right decision, the transition period just made myself doubt about lots of things. Am I lost again? Maybe I'm still waiting and waiting, that's why lots of doubts. Once things moving, guess will be ok. Things that I previously think it's very important to me, somehow not important anymore.