Lantern Festival and Doulos ship

I have had a great weekend, after a whole week of hu-hah’ing and ding dong’ing around, glad I still had time to squeeze in some fun time.

Last week was full of crap.. Office work is as usual. A colleague went for plastic surgery for her chin, leaving me with some works which I have to back her up also. On top of all that, every night last week I had to drive thru the jam and get myself to Bkt Jalil for my Master classes.

Classes this time around I think it’s ok, at least not as crappy as my 1st Module – BCI. This time around, I took up a database class – EDS, subject wise it is less crappy but the lecturer is full of crap. The amount of strategic planning games, team building games he comes up with.. my goodness. It’s fun in a way, but then after work have to squeeze yr mind to think of answers and how to play the games..sometimes feel it’s abit waste of time. Better to save the time, finish up the lecture then go home early.

Back to my ‘gempak’ weekend. After a whole week of endless classes after work, I got my Friday off. No classes on Friday, but I still ended up in Bkt Jalil somehow. Went to this Lantern Festival with Eeyore. Before that, we went to Sri Petaling and tried out this Korean restaurant. Very cute place. Eeyore ordered this beef dish… First they came up with multiple small plates with sour’ish dishes or vege’s, patato’s, cucumber, long beans. Then they cook the beef on the hot plate right in the middle. We were dip the beef in some sauce, use the vege to wrap up the beef (like popiah), but salad and chilli inside..and then eat it.

While blogging, there’s many distractions… halfway promoting Eeyore’s condo..hope someone will rent it. A uni friend is now working in TPM, mentioned that his colleagues are looking for a place nearby to rent, he saw my caption on the condo to rent so he asked me for more info. Just hope it’ll be good news.

You know… on Friday I had some documents which needs this guy to sign, but he’s in Seremban. He told me to leave it in his locker, on the phone I heard he said locker 234. So I went to locker 234, I didn’t see his name card on it, but I just didn’t bother I took the documents and dump it in there. Today after a whole morning of hu-hah… about 5pm, he told his secretary that he didn’t see any doc’s in his locker. My goodness…Of cos…I know the document won’t just simply grow legs and walked away. Definitely it must have been me who placed it in the wrong locker number. If I lose the document, I better be off dead. From 18th floor, while walking, I kept praying. Prayed that I can still retrieve the document. Lucky enough… really very lucky enough, I dumped it in locker 234, and the guy’s actual locker is 224. It even has his namecard stuck onto locker 224. And even luckier, locker 234 is not owned by anyone. The keys to the locker is still stuck onto the locker, so I can easily jst turn the key, open the locker and retrieve the doc. OH man…very darn lucky. Somemore, I even wonder how come I didn’t notice the key stuck onto the locker when I dump the document inside on Friday? Whatever it was, I really thank God that it’s still there.

Back to my weekend… After the Korean dinner, we went for the lantern festival.. nothing much to see, but it was fun to walk see with Eeyore. Moreover bcos of the classes, I haven’t seen him for a whole long week, and I already miss him. In the festival, there’s this super duper long dragon, made up of porcelain cups, plates, spoon, saucer cups all held into place by strings. Amazing.

There’s a humongous Twin Tower made up of little recycled bottles, filled up with coloured waters just to illustrate the color of Twin Tower. Another one was this huge 2 pheonix bird, made out of those silk cocoons. There’s a few other things which I don’t quite remember. And of cos there’s the other huge buildings and designs they made using paper / plastic, and it was lighted up at night, so it simply looks great.

Well, those is wat I did on Friday. Saturday, it’s the usual.. teach in the morning, and I had classes in the afternoon. After class, when I reached Jln Gasing, I spotted a huge gigantic clear rainbow streaking the sky… I got so excited that I couldn’t drive properly. Straight away went to shiv’s place, took her camera and we started snapping photo’s of the rainbow, and ourselves in it too.. It only lasted for about 5-10minutes before it started to fade. It was a full complete rainbow, and it was very distinct also. When I get hold of the pic, I’ll load it up. I’ve spent my Saturday night lazing around at home. Bro was home, so it was an evening of just lepak around.

Sunday, again..another day of classes. After class, in the afternoon, I followed Eeyore and Audrey’s family over to Port Klang to visit the Doulos ship…

When I was young, I have been onto Doulos ship before, and I was always under the impression that it’s a huge gigantic, mighty ship with tons and tons and tons of books, puzzles and all sort of stuff from around the world.

But when we went up the boat on Sunday… I was thinking “this is it? That’s all?”. It was smaller and simpler then what I’ve always imagined.. there isn’t even jigsaw puzzles on sale… but anyway, just for the fun of it, again it was great traveling there and spending time together with Eeyore and Audrey’s family.. esp with the 2 cute a-pet (audrey’s kids).

Now it’s already past midnight.. tomorrow a hectic day again.. Tuesday’s is always the crazy day for endless reports… and it has started raining too…