Thaipusam

Hi everyone, looks like Thaipusam has just finished and what a celebration it was. This time my friends and I went to ye good olde Batu Caves (translated to Batu Malai in Tamil) after finding out that we did not have the necessary leaves nor cash to make the trip up to Penang. And when going with my friends, we only go at night so that we can escape the heat and see some beautiful (and some downright dahsyat) kavadi's. Man....almost forgot what kind of crowd to expect.

Went there by bus, got down somewhere near an industrial zone nearby and made the short walk in. Another friend got his head tonsured and once he was done, onwards to the caves! But what a walk it was. I think the crowd was numbering into a few hundred thousands when we were there and it took a long time just to pass through the main gates. Then took some more time to get up, do our prayers, take a breather and walk back down again. I'm skipping out a lot on the details cause... just cause la ;) Had something to eat, onwards to the bus and on the way back to KL city before the nice folks who work at the Sultan Abdul Samad building have a chance to come to park their cars for work.

I guess the thrill of Thaipusam is always in getting to see the kavadi's and seeing some people get into the trance before carrying the kavadi's or performing their penances. This time round, just the crowd and the unpredictable time of when we would go in and come back out was playing in my mind too much so I asked my friends to cabut early. Sorry guys, maybe next year la ya.

If you want to read about Thaipusam, there's something both here and here. no pictures this time round but just trust me, there were so many people there like you could not even imagine. But with the crowd and the way things were handled, I really miss going to Penang now.

Lazy days again?

Lazy la...feeling it again. Been feeling it throughout this whole month so far. I know it's a bad habit to cultivate but the thing is it's so bloody easy to do so! Ah, an ultimate excuse for being lazy. Anyone else have a better one?

While waiting for some equipment to warm up, I've decided to add a few jottings into my blog. This has got to be a record entry/month ever since I started blogging. Anyway, yesterday was by far the most happening day for me at Dengkil for awhile. Went to dinner with one friend till abou 10ish, got a call from another friend at 10 to join him and another gang of friends while they had their dinner at 10.30 and another friend dropped by to stay over for the night so we were up talking till about 3.30. What a night....most happening in a long time indeed!

Happening day ain't it?

What about the day today? Just as my friends and I were undergoing some training, the power shuts off! In my working place, this does occur rather often unfortunately so we place a call to the relevant division. I got a chance to talk to him but it seems that one too many people have already given their piece of mind to him so understandably, he wasn't too happy to hear more. Another friend wanted to let him know about how one of the power related box was going up in smoke but I think many people have already poured out just how important that the power must get back on ASAP! Sometimes it's amazing that when we're in trouble, we only think about how big or how important our situation is without giving even a tiny bit of consideration for the person who we are complaining to. To the big man in charge, sorry about the pressure and thank you so much for your prompt investigation and for sorting it out as quickly as you did. Cheerios mate!

Before we can sit back and say hey, it's just the office that's effected, I read this on the newspapers online. Aiyaiyai!!! But here's what you're supposed to do whenever a blackout occurs so always be mindful of this advice. It's getting late, my eyes are watering. Need to look away from the pc screen but I can't help it.......it's sooooo beautiful ;)


Tried to get the picture of the fried flies but I couldn't find it

A Starsky wannabe?

A picture paints a thousand words....or so they say. Wonder what I happened to paint onto my own potrait here. Of course this is my natural hair colour and I've been spending loads of moolah dying my hair black in colour. Who says you can't have fun at work ;)

Just to fill in the space

Can you imagine being without your mobile phone for an extended period of time? I actually have done it a number of times and have had to recently go through it again. Seems my good new handset has been hit with something causing the OS to go all locco on me! I got it fixed at a service center but just the thought of one of the simplest handsets in the market getting hit by something resembling this virus thingy just got me thinking about all the other people out there who have the more "cekap" and hi-tech phones. Maybe I'd be better off with a the more canggih type which might have some added security features. Perhaps it'll come with a virus scan that will keep my OS all fresh and tingling like an apple out of a fridge (phrase ciplakked from a tamil movie, do guess which one if you can ;)). Or maybe it'll send out a loud wail to alert me that someone just SMSed me a big assed virus which will be shutting my handset down for a good while. Ah heck....like the title says, nothing much to write about but I just feel the need to fill in the space.