Busy, tight schedules, sleepless nights...

It's been 19 days after the financial year end of my client. Time flies way too fast without myself even realised it. The work is so hectic. You can't imagine how bad the stress level would be.

Thankfully, I have two great peers in my team. I truly appreciate their work for assisting my plan. Deeply appreciated. I hope I'll get to do something for them in return.

#PRAYFORMH370

I woke up this morning with this news from my family, friends, news and the social media sites. I was like hell what happened? Something I saw on drama happened in reality and in my country? OHMYGOD!! This cannot be true.

Unfortunately, this is real news - Malaysia Airlines MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went missing!

The aircraft went missing from the radar screen at around 1.30a.m. and it could not be found until now! I believe everyone is in anxiety over this news and is very anxious to know what is the outcome. Together with everyone, I deeply hope that the aircraft has actually "landed" or so called crashed into the ocean "safely". I hereby meant that every aircraft has got the emergency guide given to us and I really hope that the passengers have wore their life jacket and have escaped from the aircraft upon landing into the ocean. I seriously hoping that this safety measure has been done.

I seriously hope that the passengers could be found alive.

#prayformh370

OLAY REGENERIST Advanced Cleansing System

Today I would like to have some write up on the latest gadget I have in my daily routine lately. It's the OLAY REGENERIST Advanced Cleansing System. I read about OLAY Professional PRO-X advanced cleansing system online from other countries and it is named differently in Malaysia. I guess there's no different. 

The product was brought into Malaysia by Watsons in early February. I missed the first round of promotion as it falls during the festive season. I got this at the normal retail price.

I always thought that facial cleansing machine is only available at the beauty house until I saw this promotion by Clarisonic Cleansing system at the mall. I was amazed and thought that this is a great idea to own one of these cleansing system at home. At that time, I did not buy the Clarisonic product right away as I wasn't familiar with the actual advantage of having the product and I need to put in some research before I make the investment.

While reading through the information available online, I came across that OLAY actually has the same type of product at a more reasonable price. At that time, this product was not available in Malaysia and I almost bought it from an online store. The product came to my country just in time.

Like the packaging indicates, it comes with a cleansing system and a tube of 20ml skin renewal cleanser. I've not used OLAY products before this. To be honest, the skin renewal cleanser smells terrible. It's actually a scrub. But even without this scrub, when you are using your own cleanser with this cleansing system, it works by ex-foliating your skin.

Personal reflection on the product after using for two weeks:

1. My skin is clearly fairer than before. (Okay fine, I was tanned during my Koh Samui trip)

2. My pores start to appear smaller than before.

3. My facial regime finally working effectively! (I've been using the Eucerin Dermo Purifyer range for my pimple prone skin but didn't seem to work effectively all these while. This shows that my skin is seriously clogged up before this.)

4. My face feels much cleaner and lighter and of course fresher.

5. It is so gentle that you can use it every day. (I use it once a day at night)

The biggest advantage is that with a little amount of investment, I can save a lot by skipping facial treatments at the beauty house.

The product is a small battery operated machine. It is definitely travel friendly. The brush is made of micro fibres which is claimed to be very tiny which can penetrate through your pores and clean really thoroughly.

One disadvantage of the product is that it didn't come with a casing. I have to purchase a separate casing to store the brush after each use. The brush is refillable and it has be to changed after 3 months.

To date, I am very satisfied with the product and I wish to spread this good stuff to everyone. Most importantly it is priced reasonably and it is a good product to start of with if you would like to start using a cleansing system in your facial cleansing regime.

Price: RM129.90

Refill: RM24.90 for 2 brushes

Good stuff are meant to be shared. :)

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone in the World. This celebration is celebrated by everyone in the World regardless of where are you from. What a lovely celebration.

This year, today, 14 February 2014 is a utmost special day for us. The western Valentine's Day co-incide with the Chinese Valentine's Day. I don't think this special day has happened before in the entire of my life. Not sure, maybe it does when I was still young and I've not known what is a Valentine's Day.

I've not celebrated any Valentine's Day with my love one ever before this. I broke up with my ex before the Valentine's Day comes. So I missed it. Oh well. When will I have my valentine?

In this Chinese New Year, I've lou sang for three times. The most times in the entire of my life. I've not made many wishes this year other than good health and be safe. Seriously. Why didn't I made a wish that I could have my valentine soon? This is so stupid. I should have. Today is the last day of Chinese New Year, no more lou sang, no more chance to make the wish. Aiks.

So yes, as usual, no one be my valentine on this special day. All these years I've been keeping a hope that I could have the chance to celebrate this special day with one of my best bro-friend. I've not said this out ever before. I was in love with my this bro-friend since high school. We were together all the time in school and have many fun times. We have gone to different path and he has got his life with his girl friend and not pursuing anything further with me. Oh well, they are now getting married and deepest in my heart, I wish them happily living after. Seriously.

I've got another friend, I'm not sure what's my feelings towards him but I'm actually good to have him as my love ones. But he has gone through a short relationship together with his ex who is also my friend, a close one. They broke up with mutual agreement but I'm not sure if it is right for me to pursue to further my relationship with him. I don't think he has anything towards me but maybe one day later? I don't know. I dare not even talk to him on this special day but I could feel that he was hugging me very tightly when we were taking pictures together last night. Friends hug perhaps? 

Hope things goes well. I do not wish to put in too much hope as the higher the hope, the more disappointment you will get.

Anyways, Happy Valentine's Day once again.

Chinese New Year

The Chinese New Year is around the corner.

I've been very busy since the start of the year. I am working through day and night with serious sleep deprived. I was commented to have a "peak period" look. Oh yes, peak period in my industry means the busiest season of the year. I don't see it as peak or off peak. I'm in the peak period whenever I'm working.

This Chinese New Year falls on a weird timing. Two public holidays falls within the same period and I've lost a day of leave. That aside. Chinese New Year is the celebration of the new lunar calendar for the year. It's the year of Horse this year. My year. Two cycle has passed and I'm getting older. Oh dear...

Seriously wishing that it will be a good year for me.

Sending you a photo of lion dance. Wishing all Chinese in the world, Happy Chinese New Year and a prosperous new year ahead!!

Trip to Koh Samui, Thailand

This is such a long awaited blog post. Too many things happened in the month of December until I really do not have the time to update about my trip to Koh Samui in December 2013.

Visiting Koh Samui was my third beach holiday in year 2013. The "Koh" in Thai means Island, so this is Samui Island in English. I only get to know about it when I was on a tour by the locals. This island is well known for it's beautiful scenery and sea.

I gotten the offer to travel to Koh Samui from a Matta Fair 2013 promotion. It was a promotion by Bangkok Airways. Flying with Bangkok Airways is really satisfying. Seriously. It's a boutique airline in Thailand. Not budget. Yay! How cool isn't it? This airline has some collaboration with Malaysia Airlines and so it departs from KLIA.

Being a boutique airline, even though it is just a an hour and a half journey, they strive to serve us with good food too.

As we reached Samui International Airport, the airport were quite small and do not have a modern terminal gate for the passengers to walk through but have to walk down the stair case from the plane. But we are not required to walk to the terminal by our foot. They have a buggy ride for us!

At the airport, there are booths set up. I immediately got a local sim card in order to get connected to 3G internet whenever I go. Okay, I know I sounded so desperate. That's what the current generation like isn't it?

At the arrival hall, we waited for our hotel's airport transfer to pick us up. The guy who came and picked us was quite friendly. He talked to us throughout the journey. He explained to us whereabout of the place we were passing by. It took us just a 10 mins journey to arrive at our hotel - Chaba Samui Resort at Chaweng Town.

This hotel has two wings, being the lake wing and the ocean wing. We stayed at the ocean wing by obtaining an upgrade as we have got less one person to stay at the hotel. The two wings are actually separated by a narrow road which is only one way street.

At the back of ocean wing is the Chaweng Beach.

Beautiful, ain't it?

Koh Samui is a very small island. I suppose they have a very small population as well. I see tourists everywhere! The tourists from the west love our eastern islands and sunshine I guess.

The things we did in Koh Samui were shopping, massage, island hopping, sightseeing and last but not least food feast of course!!

Our shopping destination revolves around the Chaweng Town, being the biggest town in the island. We were really glad that we are staying right in the middle of Chaweng Town. How strategic huh! Going up north, we have various shops and stalls along both sides of the road. Among one of the Thai restaurants we have tried is Will Wait Restaurant.

The restaurant is quite crowded with tourists during our visit.

We are a dual person trip and so we have ordered few dishes to share.

The Sing Ha beer! Being the local Thai Beer. The beer there serves at low price. I see everyone drink beer all the time.

Thai coconut! The most expensive coconut I've ever had! It costs 80 baht!

Our main dishes, Tom Yam Kung! The spices are really good!

Pad-Thai!

Pineapple fried rice!

Drooling? LOL! The bill from Will Wait Restaurant was quite hilarious. Seriously, I was expecting lower priced food but apparently I'm wrong.

Luckily enough, we have found another place which served much tastier Thai food and at a much cheaper price, i.e. 3 times lower price than that! It's at the Chaweng Walking Street.

Chaweng Walking Street is located down south in Chaweng Town. We have to walk until we saw Krungsri Bank. The Chaweng Walking Street is just along the ally next to the bank.

The Chaweng Walking Street has food stalls as well as stalls selling various items.

This is such a crowded place. We have had the best food we found in Samui here. We ordered our food from a stall in between.

That was the best tom yam kung we've had seriously. No doubt that's the most recommended place to visit - Chaweng Walking Street!

Drooling? Alright. No worries, I'll stop my post here. I'll post another time on other stuff we've visited in Koh Samui. Stay tuned!

Happy New Year 2014

Happy New Year everyone! May year 2014 be a good year to everyone.