More pics from Bandung trip

Entrance to the volcano






The stuffs they sell on the volcano. Pretty scary.. When you alight from the vehicle, swarms of them will come forward with their "gears" and try to sell to you, haggling prices. Other than the clothes etc, there are a lot of fresh strawberries




My parents. So sweet~ Never seen them b4 like this.. tsk tsk tsk




Me & parents.. We've been to the volcano - Gn. Tangkuban Parahu


3 sweeties... LOL... 11 years of frenship






The Buddhist temple Melon brought us too. Very quiet n serene. She got married in this temple too.. heee...









The place we went for lunch. Very unique. Surrounded by rice padi fields... Cool~




My dad's the photographer... haha




hee... this one so cute~




The food we took for lunch at the rice padi area... Super hot chilli... Cannot tahan


Rice plant.. My mum's very familiar as she used to plant rice in Malaysia since young


The castle hotel.. Super cool, owned by Melon's Hubby's fren...


Group photo








The one very nice and cool


And I love this the most... LOL

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The hotel main lobby... Name of Hotel is G.H Hotel Universal.


Presidential suite


Normal room


3 princesses... hahaha


Nice view~

Back from Bandung~

I'm back from my Bandung trip.. It's tiring but fun @ the same time.. First time going overseas with my parents (other than to JB to visit Granny). I think should bring them overseas more often to enjoy themselves! They're getting old!

So excited and fun to catch up with Merlin. She's still so pretty and cheerful, no change.. Still good figure after 2 kids... LOL... We really had a great time over the 3 days we were in Bundung. Thanks Melon dear for the treat and time taken to bring us around Bandung. We really appreciate it (including my parents)! They were saying you and your hubby and your in-laws are so kind and nice! :) I love Jordan and Natasha too, though we din get to spend much time with them! :D

Ok, less talk and here are the pics!

First pic of the trip. Taken with parents at Changi Airport Terminal 1


Free leg massage.. All over the place in T1


Me & Apple room at hotel Anggrek


My parents' room, which is joined by a door


The LCD monitor in our room


First meal at Bandung. Can't remember the name, but very similar concept to Newton food court in SG


Apple's pancake... Nice~






Frog leg... Very cheap there. Me & parents ate this... Only about $3.50 Sing dollar. Comes with rice too


Nice dumplings


This is how the receipt looks like. We really got issue there as the currency is so small. 1 SG dollar = 6770 Ruppiah.. And we cannot understand the language, so can only based on calculator~


The arowanas at Melon's backyard.. Many tanks of them but we cannot get any good shots as the surroundings are too bright~. Impt to note, many tanks of these.. and they are of different breed and colors. Super nice.. My dad's favourite...


The larger red arowanas which are super expensive! My dad had a good long chat with Melon's papa-in-law over these fishes


Melon's backyard


Me & Melon in her "Garden" at level 2. Apple took a similar one with Melon too. Tsk tsk


Melon's daughter, Natasha.. With her nanny and the graduate puffs I got for her!


Melon's son, 2.5 years old... His name is Jordan and super cute. We cannot communicate with him as he speaks indon, but we had a good laugh as he keeps holding on to us and do not allow us to leave the room. LOL


The fishes in the food court at our hotel


Local tidbits along the way to the volcano

Off to Bundung, Indonesia

I'd be taking the flight to Bandung, Indonesia this afternoon with Apple & my parents... mainly to visit our poly classmate - Merlin and her 2 kids! Horray, holiday time!~

It's firm... I'm moving on~

I've been blabbering about an opportunity in an earlier post.
It's been confirmed today that I will be accepting the new role in the same company and my start date will be on 4 Oct.

Though the pay is not as expected, but there are other compensations that come in place, so I'm trying it out. Other than a higher pay, the title sounds nice too. It was originally named "Training Co-ordinator", but got changed to "Project Manager" instead. :)

Basically what I'd be doing is a totally new role in Asia Pac in the company so though the JD and scope is defined, not very sure on what I'm getting into. I'm feeling anxious, nervous, excited and nerve-wrecking at the same time. Contradicting, isn't it? It'd also mean that I no longer can "switch off" after office hours as I will have a Blackberry and laptop, so I can work remotely after hours, if needed.

I'd be training the Corporate Services dept on the usage of IT softwares and systems as well as planning project scheduling. The scope seems pretty big in the JD and travelling will be required. So let's see how it goes. :) Good luck to myself! :P

And oh, there were some drama and hoo-ha that went on for the past month. When my current manager knows that I might be moving on, she and her bosses created a perm post for me called "IT Supervisor" and asked if I'd like to take it up. It's a really challenging job and I declined it. After my decline, the post got "removed" and this post now no longer exists... :P Not sure what might happen in future and I'm looking forward to it with an open mind~

Finally passed my FTE today!

After 3 fails, I finally passed my FTE today... If I failed again today, I'd need to reschedule for my FTT on 30th Sept, which I'm totally not willing to do so! Thank God! :)

Photos - My little nephew Ao Yi

Saying hi to me, haha...




isn't he cute? Doesn't cry also... :D


Me with Ao Yi

Another tiring day!

I'm so tired.. Yesterday was Hari Raya, and I was working in the office too.
Worked till 6pm and came home for dinner and had a short rest before heading down to Lakeside to join Apple and the religious group for some vegeterian BBQ Session there. Also saw Lijun once again and it was really funnie how we can chat about everything and laughed all the way through. I think we really clicked! :) And sorry Ben (Lijun's hubby), then you might have felt a bit neglected when the few of us ladies were joking and chatting ard!

Today, went down to city hall again to meet up with Thao for short while. She's taking a 1pm plane tomorrow to Vietnam and I won't be free so met up with her today. Tomorrow, will be heading to BBDC for my theory lessons... :P

After the short meetup, took MRT to Lakeside to met up with Sam & his wife. We went to Junwei & Lucy's house warming. A pretty hot day but nice catchup with them all and I got home before 8pm! :D

Colleague from US visited

My colleague from US, Thao visited me in Singapore. Saw her for the first time yesterday morning when we met up in Chinatown, together with another fren of hers, Kim who came from Vietnam and can't speak English. It's pretty amazing, how we've never met before but know each other so well as we practically chat a lot on AIM for work related stuffs and also sometime juz simply chat :)

Brought them to Chinatown to walk walk see see and then to Clark Quay. After that we strolled to Funan IT mall, City Hall, Suntec, Esplanade, Merlion and finally had dinner at Lau Pat Sat. Hoho.. I'm not one who go out to shop a lot, so I actually lost my way when walking to Raffles MRT from Lau Pat Sat... We also took quite a lot of pics, but they're all in Thao's camera.. So I won't be able to upload as yet...

And today, we had planned to go to the Southern Ridges, but it was raining since early morning so that had to be cancelled. In the end, we met up at 2pm in Bugis and I brought them around the place again. After some walks, we took bus back to my home, so they can see what a typical Singapore HDB flat looks like. Then we headed to the coffee shop opposite my home for dinner, together with my parents. They also had some insight on what Hungry Ghost Festival and mid-Autumn Festival are like and my dad even brought us all to watch the getai... LOL... It was funny how they requested to take pics with my parents and they gladly obliged.. My dad is not one who take pics.. :P

After watching the getai, took them on a ride on the LRT and they mentioned how amazing that it's driverless and how the windows "opaqued" out when we reach flats... tsk tsk.. Honestly, I dun remember how that happen and can't explain to them too... It was a great weekend with them out, though really tiring. :)