Zero late comer

As i swipe today's attendance, being the last day to work for the month, i finally managed to clear my bad record last month. I was given a warning letter on my poor attendance last month. (the first one i received after serving the Bank for 4 years). Total late coming for last month was 4 times. This month, 0 (zero) late. Woohooo!!!!

This was all due to the change of my department director and the hypocrit admin manager. (not going to mention name). If he was doing his job from the 1st day i reported duty, all of us should have beend expelled from the bank way long before. When the new guy comes in, all of a sudden he's being mr ketua darjah or cikgu disiplin - just a sense of dissatisfaction.

Hey, i come in late 1 - 5 min but repayed them by additional hours. I think that's fair enough, don't you think so.

Note: Hopefully this continues :)

Hutang aka 555

I was having lunch with my colleagues at the usual D'Tebing. When it was time to pay up, i showed Pakcik Abu Bakar my RM50 notes. He was busy collecting money from other people to return the change to another customer and finally managed to do so. By the time it was my turn, he said to me was "esok lah" (tomorrow). So i nodded and said OK.

So, i guess today's lunch was a postpaid meal as i have to pay him by tomorrow. Luckily i'm a regular. A first of many experience i guess. Never knew the great book of 555 still existed in KL.

VS

Note to self: Pay today's your lunch by tomorrow.

When backup fails

We've all heard in our workplace to always make backup. Always make copy of your files. You never know when your computer might crash. So here's the thing. Yes, a few people do make backups and copies of their files, and a few don't even bother. It's when their computer crashes when they start to go in panic mode.

Reminds me of the Limp Bizkit song Rollin, "Backup backup, tell me what' cha gonna do now"

And the same old dialogues that often you hear is, "dammit, i should have made a backup of it."
The next step is they call the IT guys,
"hey, my computer / hard disk just crash. Is there a way that you can recover them. I have very important files on the disk. I need to do a presentation to the boss and those files contains valuable information. I stayed up all night preparing for them"

The IT guy would then ask "Did you make a backup copy of those files anywhere?"
The client will then reply, " If i did would i be calling you"
The IT guy would then go "(in silent mode) !@$#@%%&$%^$ (This is when you wish you could use the fist of death)"

So the lesson learned so far is always create a backup. It can be in a form of CD, DVD, external drive, diskette and other sorts of media. But what happens when your backup fails???

As i was minding my own business today, my manager called me up to his room. He said that his USB thumbdrive when plugged in gives out the message " The disk is not formatted. Do you want to format it now. Yes / No". Lucky him for not falling to the trick by answering everything to Yes. Unfortunate for him, the thumbdrive was the backup of his work as the original source was already deleted from another thumbdrive. So this is the classic case of when your backup fails and you have no more primary source. Ironically, a colleage of mine just asked me yesterday on the same problem. So i guess it's a desease when thumbdrive fails one by one.

Lucky for him that i was in a good mood. Opened up EnCase and confirmed that it was gone. Looked up in Google and finally found a tool that might help. Downloaded in and walla, it does the job. The tool was called PhotoRec. It did recover thousands of files, but if you are one of those file naming freaks might get a little panic for a while. It recovers file but you will have to forget about those file names entry. It has it's formats of naming convention and being a technical guy, i wouldn't mide coz that's how the system goes and works. So lucky for my manager that a lot of his files were saved but good luck looking for the right ones as it returns thousands and thousands of files that you may not even know existed. But i recommend the tool. Thumbs up for PhotoRec.

Picture source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/xxoos-jal/1449102918/
Do you really think a hot dog can save you in your time of need?

The moral of the story, if you were planning to back up something, make sure the destination is a reliable source. Forget those cute small type usb thumbdrive as that was what caused my manager to be in trouble in the first place. If you were going to choose a thumbdrive, i would recommend a normal size thumbdrive as so far they have never failed me compared to the small cute looking ones that you usually hang together with your set of keys.

ps: I've got to backup my hard drive one of these days.

Shish Kebab

For breakfast cum lunch, wifey was kind enough to try out a new recipe. I guess you've all figured it out by now. Yes, it's shish kebab. In definition, Shish Kebab "is a dish consisting of small cubes of meat threaded on a skewer (şiş in Turkish) that are grilled or roasted" taken from Wikipedia. It differs from Doner Kebab, Chelow Kabab and Kathi Kabab. So that's the answer to wifey on why her kebab doesn't have the pita bread like the one used in Kyros or Melawati Kebab.


Though modified from beef to chicken, the taste was good. We enjoyed it for a change of meals. To wifey, Congratulations on a meal well done!

Operation Dumbo Drop @ Genting

Here's a picture update of Sofea at Genting during the operation Dumb Drop. SOrry for the later entry.

On top of the world @ Genting Highlands

This entry was scheduled to be published earlier, but due to the unexpected workload that i am currently facing, i just had to postponed it to a more suitable time. It all started with the balloting process in the resort system. And what do you know, i finally managed to get one after working for 4 years in the bank. So this is an opportunity that shouldn't be missed. Plus with the free 3 tickets that wifey obtained from the Berita Harian cover page soon to be expired which help boost me to finally take the trip up there.

Scheduled on 9 -11 May, the final crowd that had confirmed to join us is my little family + 2 of my bro in laws. We wanted to take my mother in law at first but she declined. Asked Jie whether she wanted to tag along but she couldn't confirm the invitation. So finally the crowd was the one that i mentioned earlier.

We managed to reach the Genting View resort at around 5pm after facing challenges of going here and there plus a few road hoggers who thougt that their car were going on a super sonic speed and thus keeping it on the right lane. Talk about patience. The resort location was not at the peak of the highland. More towards the base though. Anyway, the weather was quite nice. Not that cold nor warm. It's just that it isnt damn cold. After checking in and take a few minutes rest, we decided to climb at the peak plus we were very hungy. By climbing i meant climbing the hills with the trustee WajaBee. And what do you know, it has enough power to climb the peak of Genting. This is the first time it was driven up to Genting after owning it for nearly 5 years. Good going.

Click!

As we arrived at the indoor theme park, the crowd started to build up. We had our dinner at Marrybrown. After finishing dinner, we took a walk inside the theme park as there were no plans for the night. Just doing some jalan-jalan and some sight seeing. Before heading down, we bought some famous amos cookies to eat at the apartment.

Dammit. I'm not tall enough

Wait till i grow taller!!!

The night did not end there as Sofea did not want to sleep. Wifey had brought her in before 11pm and by the time i went into the room at 12am, she was still active as ever. Finally i just had to go to bed with her just to keep her on the bed and finally dozz off. Again the night did not end there. As i was about to shut my eyes off, i was attacked by the killer mosquitoes. I managed to whack 2 of them and thought that it was the end. But the war did not end there and continued on until i lost track of the time.

The next morning as i was getting ready and cleaning up the room a bit, i managed to take revenge on the killer mosquitoes. Because they were fully loaded with Sofea, wifey and my blood the just couldn't fly anymore. And that's when the revenge took place. I managed to kill 8 of them with my bare hands. Talk about revenge. As all of us were finally ready to go, we proceeded to the peak again and finally entered the outdoor theme park. We just had to buy an additional ticket as we had only 3.

The park was already started to fill with lots of people. We just walked in the park and finally took Sofea on the dumbo ride. Of course wifey will have to hold her. From her facial expression i think she kinda enjoyed it. Next on the agenda was the famous antique car ride. It's a ride that could not be missed. The que was building up quite fast and like other normal person, we too had to que. Finally it was our turned. Wifey floored the accelerator shooting us at lightning speed. Hahaha!!! just joking. Sofea took the wheel and enjoyed the right. They've even improved the steering wheel by putting a kinda pillow thingy at the centre. When we reached at the end point, Sofea did not want to get out of the car, but as the crowd were piling up, we just had to go.






Next stop is the train ride. The waiting period was really long. I think longer then waiting for the KTM Komuter to arrive. But finally the train finally arrived and it was next on our list of rides. It circled the centre of the theme park, or rather giving us a summary of all the activities on the park.

Am i cute or what???

As the time was pointing to lunch time, our stomach began to growl and we stop to have our lunch. The food was not that good as oppose to the price we paid. Foods are damn expensive here. After having our lunch, we then continued with our activities. This time, i had to skip the ride as i did not met the minimum requirement. No, i was not short but unfortunately they put a weight limit on the ( i can't remember it's name, but it's right in front of the merry go round) ride. What??? The max wieght that they could tolerate was 70kg. Can you guess my weight is?

By the time wifey and her brothers finished the ride, Sofea was already asleep. So we proceed onto the next floor. Go Kart, aaaah that was something that they did not specify how heavy you should be. So i joined in the crowds. After more than 30 mins of queing, finally it was my turn. I took the last car at the position. Onced the light went green, i floored the car again to lightning speed. Notttt. The car was damn slow man. At least my car was. As i was building up speed and momentum, suddenly there was a middle east girl hogging the track again. What's worse she didn't even let me pass trough until there was enough straight line to manage me to overtake her. Without even using my brakes as i hoped the car would build up more speed, suddenly i was overtaken by another car. What the??? Here i am flooring it with precise cornering but still nothing. Oh well, might as well enjoy the ride then.

Aummm!!!

After i got off the car, Sofea had already waken for her beauty sleep. We took a ride in the ferris wheel before proceeding to the dinosaur island for the boat ride. Again queing up waiting for the boat. I estimated that the time taken to wait for the boat was way longer with the time waiting for the antique car and boat ride put together. Finally it was our turn and we got on the boat. Luckily there was a show on the dinosaurs inside of a cave. Sofea did not felt scared as it was all dark with the dinosaurs popping out one at a time. All she said to me was "Aummmm" which in normal terms mean cat or tigers or lions. I guess she didn't know how to make the dino sound. After the end of the boat ride, we took some photos and exit the dinosaurland as the weather was getting to be chiller and foggier.



Sofea's uncles wanted to take a ride in the rollercoaster so we let them be. We then however took sofea for a ride at the a ride called the MASA (space shuttle thingy). Once we were done, we went back another floor down. Since the park was still open and there were not many people left, we finally had a go at the merry go round. Damn it was fun. I think wifey was the one that enjoyed the ride the most. We had a go at the merry go round for 3 times. As there were still time, i was left with sofea once again coz wifey and her brothers wanted to have a go at the (weight discriminate) ride again. So i took Sofea to play at those coin operated vehicles, only this time they did not require and coins. So i pressed the button more then 10 times so that Sofea could have a go at it and not to mention me saving nearly RM10 for not having to put a single coin. Hehehe.

Taken for a free ride

As the day was becoming darker we had to leave the park but not before a caterpillar monorel ride. We searched the station and finally found it. So another round of the outdoor theme park before heading back to the apartment. We had our dinner at a restaurant at Gohtong Jaya. The food taste was good but damn expensive for a 4 + 1 meal. It costed RM 88. If we had known it was going to cost us a bomb, might as well we just have Kenny Rogers at the theme park which eventually will cost cheaper, even with Genting price. What a rip off. That night after watching Akademi Fantasia, we dozed of to bed with no more attacks of the killer mosquitoes.

The next morning was a free and easy activity or dive into the swimming pool i might add. The so called heated swimming pool were not heated. It was damn cold. But after a while our body managed to adjust with the tempreature, though still cold. So after the swim, we all packed our stuff, stop at Genting Sempah for lunch and headed back home to wish both our mothers, Happy Mother's Day.

Outcome of our trip
The good
1) A nite at the apartment cost only RM8
2) Not that far from home. Less then an hour journey
3) Nice weather
4) A lot of activities to do
5) Free 3 tickets (for this time only)

The bad
1) Food and other stuff are expensive
2) Queing for the ride
3) Discrimination to those who weigh more then 70kg
4) Had to buy additional ticket

So all in agree that it was a good getaway and mother's day gift.

Where the heck is that partition?

As i reached my office today, a colleague of mine was smiling ear to ear when he saw me and said, "Aaaaa, Mr. rizman, my saviour"... I was like what the??? It seems that he had a broken external drive. It was never really broken mechanically but virtually. The master boot record and partition has been deleted thus in Windows says that it is an unallocated space. I am not really sure what he did but he must have done something to make the partition go away.

Reaching out for my dusty old EnCase manual, referring back to partition recovery, i finally managed to rebuild back his partition and Voillaaa, they were all in one piece. I have been practically involved in computer forensics and this is the first time i have come accrosed a drive with a deleted partition (excluding the class exercise). Who might have thought that these kind of problems came from your own colleague and not from the people outside of the organization.

With this accomplishment i felt productive again!!!

Everything happens for a reason

True enough as the topic has described. The reason for me not updating my blog is because my hands are quite tight at the moment. I just received 26 CPU's, a laptop, a cctv recorder and even a fax machine to be forensically analysed. For God sake, it's a fax machine!!! What more do you want.

I will try my best to update it. Do visit regularly as a lot of stories to be shared soon. Tungguuuuu!!!

Make believe interrogation process

Me to fax machine: "Do you admit to all the crimes that you have done"

Fax machine to me: -

Me to fax machine:" Speak up or i'll rip your paper and your ink cartridge!!!!"
Fax machine to me: -
Me: "!@$#^#^#@$*(^%^". Damn this fax machine is tough

A walk in the park

Eye on Malaysia at Titiwangsa

To try out my so called "new toy", we tested it out at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa last Saturday. It was already 5.30pm by the time we reached there where the crowds began to grew. We let Sofea go round around the park as she please while at the same time wifey played with her bubble gun toy to get Sofea moving on her feet. And at the same time while trying out the new toy to capture a few candid photos of Sofea. So here's a few of the results. So what do you think? Is it worth to spend a few thousand ringgit on a DSLR camera?

CLick on the photos to see the bigger picture. Enjoy!!!

Cak!!!

Apa ada kat sana tu?

Your journey is still far ahead

Going our separate ways

Alamak!! Dah nak hujan la

Goodbye sun. Sofea has to go home now :(

Disclaimer: All photos were unedited, only resized to enable them to be uploaded.

80s cartoon rocks!

How happy and excited i was yesterday when TV9 and TV2 in Malaysia aired one of my favourites childhood cartoon of all time. He-Man and Voltron. Damn those cartoon rocks man. I tell you, the cartoons aired in tv now can never match the superiority of the 80's cartoon.

By the powers of Greyskull.... I have to POWER!!!

Sure the animation wasn't as good compared to today's cartoon, but there's something about them that can keep you glued to the sofa and you have no trouble to watch them over and over again.
So for those in Malaysia who missed it, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) aires everyday at TV9 at 2.00pm while Voltron Defender of the Universe (LionBot) aires at TV2 every Sunday at 5.30pm. Don's miss it.

Form feet and legs, form arms and body, ... and i'll form the head!!!
Form blazing sword

ps: does anybody know where i might get a hold of their dvd's collection?

Petter Cullen (Optimus Prime) is the voice over in the Voltron opening theme

Hobits and Gigantor

I came across this picture which was taken from Utusan Malaysia's Utusan online. What do you think about this picture? Is it just me or does Pak Lah seems a lot bigger compared with the other two guys. It's like comparing Gandalf with Frodo and Sam. And why aren't they even facing eye to eye? Is the picture genuine or could it be the cameraman used some sort of super lens??? Best guess is that it's a superimpose pics. Their hands are also blurred.

I am not implicating anything, it's just that the picture looks funny and odd. That's all

My new toy ...

Well, actually it isn't quite mine. But since i requested it last year in the operating plan for the office, so i guess it's kinda mine except that it does not belong to me entirely. I just get to use it, that's all.

The toy that i'm talking about is the Canon Digital EOS 40D digital slr camera. I've always wanted one of this for my self but like they say, "belum ada rezeki". I have been snapping some nonsense photo in the office as i am not sure what to snap. I do plan to test it out door if given the chance. This thing is damn big and heavy. Never expected it to be this heavy as compared to the Nikon D40. The price i believe was around Rm 2900. It comes with a 17-85mm lens kit.

I am still trying to figure out how to optimize it's usage with the manual setting. But if all fails, then there is always the fully auto mode that so far has never failed.


Both images had to be resized as the file size for each file was nearly 4mb. Imagine that. It can't even fit a diskette. So what do you think???

Working

Just finished work and the time is 4.15am. Technically i have worked for 17 hours and no sleep. Currently waiting for the truck that carried our items back to the office. After that unloading them to the office and making the office more smaller and crowded then it already is. What a day huh!!!
But one thing for certain is that today i am the first to sign the attendance and 4.05am. Woohoo, first to sign in and so early in the morning. I guess something good does come about sometime. Ok, then the items are here and it's time to unload the stuff and complete the job.

Padang Merbok

Can you spot my car? I can't too

Today is the second day that i have to park my car at the old faithful Padang Merbok parking lot. In short, now i have to reach to the office before 9, swipe my attendance and drive back to Padang Merbok to catch the last shuttle at 9.15am and i will be in the office at approximately 9.24. So if anybody is looking for me, wait till it's 9.25am ok. In previous month i have been spending RM4 per day to park my car at SK Hisamuddin. Unfortunate for us, the schools PIBG finally barred us from parking at their compound. It's not that we're parking there for free. We're paying for it.

Their arguments is that parents who wants to pick up their children don't have a proper place to park their cars thus parking their cars by the roadside. Welll duhhh!!!. I've been monitoring the parking lot for 2 days now and there were roughly about 5 cars that did park in the parking lot to pick up their child. The rest still park by the roadside. Hopefully the traffic police can take proper action and make them use the parking facilities that was once ours!!!! *Evil LOL*

As at the previous year, the charge was RM3 per day and later increased to RM4. I roughly estimate that the school can generate an income of RM400 per day.
This is what they will loose out:
RM4 x 100 cars = RM400.
RM 400 x 5 days = RM 2000
RM2000 x 4 weeks in a month = RM 8000.

Yup, that is the rough figure of the income that the school will be generating if they were to keep in business. Minus the cost of two security guards and you can still have a lot more to fund the school activities rather then raising funds and donations.

The only people who can park their car at the schools are parents, and that's if you have a child studying there. Makes me wonder whether i want to send Sofea to school there. Hmmmm????

The positive side of it is now i am saving RM4 per day. The negative side, i will have to spend a few extra minutes to be on the shuttle which i guess total up to about 30 minutes per day.

So my message to them, "Let us park at the school. You don't know what you're missing" but thanks a lot Padang Merbok for providing us with the parking lot.

p/s: the place is getting kinda crowded lately

Vacation

Thousand apologies for not updating my entries. Been kinda busy lately as we reach the end of the 1st quarter of 2008.

On 20th March, we decided to go for a family vacation as we have not done that for quite sometime. The destination finally chosed was Cameron Highland and Penang. Because there was a wedding that we had to attend to in Gurun, therefore we had to cut short for the Cameron Highland to just 1 night and the rest 2 nights to Penang. This would be Sofea's first long car journey and we hoped that she will be ok. The day before we went for the vacation, Sofea had a fever so we took her to the clinic. With hopes in our heart that she will be ok for the trip, we head out anyway to Cameron Highland from rumah Kent at around 12.30pm.

We decided to use the Simpang Pulai road to head towards Cameron instead of the insnane Tapah road. The journey from the Simpang Pulai Toll booth to the top took us about 1 hour plus with normal speed. The view was an amazing one as we climb further and further up. I kept wondering how did they manage to cut out the hills and turned them to endless road. As we climb further up and did the cornering, i guess Sofea finally couldn't take it anymore. She was crying, shouting, "mengengek" almost all the way and finally the big bang came in. She threw up!!! For now luckily it was just confined to her car seat. But i guess there wasn't much that you could do to calm her down. I don't blame her as not even many adults managed to survive the Cameron Highland roads without feeling dizzy and throwing up. After about and hour climbing up the hill, we managed to reached Cameron at last.

First things first, we checked in to the hotel. The Rainbow Hotel. The Hotel was rated with a 2 star. The cost of the room per night for the family room is RM 135. Unfortunate for us, that was a peak time and they slapped us with an additional RM65 surcharge which totals up to RM 185 with no breakfast and a small family room. I guess it was ok considering that we were just staying in for a night. The room had the facilities of a standard room. All you need is basically there. So, upon checking in and resting for a while, we head down to the food court nearby. By that time, Sofea was out of control. She refuse to sit still and we had to take turns to eat. Reminds me of the time when we headed down to KLCC. At first i wanted to take her to the park but as we reached there, Sofea fell asleep making the trip to the park pointless. So we just drove off in the car and stopping by to buy some strawberries. As we reached the parking lot and turning off the engine, Sofea woke up and she started smiling.

That night, we walk up towards the Pasar Malam to do a little pasar malam shopping. As usual, there were a lot of strawberries product and vegetables. After finishing up with the strawberries, we went back to the hotel. As soon as i were about to get my beauty sleep, that was the time that Sofea cried and woke up. It took us about and hour to put her back to sleep. Poor her. Her tempreature was still high that night as she refuse to take her medicine.


The next morning we woke up and checked out at around 11.30pm. First thing on the agenda was to eat strawberries. So we head up towards the strawbery place. Couldn't remember what it's called but i like the food there. It was my 3rd visit there for strawberry eating. We ordered Strawberry & chocolate ice cream with tea and scone. Though it wasn't easy for us to finish our meal due to Sofea's perangai, we managed to finish it up anyway. It's damn good i tell ya.


Next on the agenda was an unplanned visit to the BOH Sungei Palas Tea Centre. I didn't even know they had one but since we accidentally came across it, so let's just go for it. The entrance says that it is about 2.5km from the junction. 2.5km isn't that far so let's go for it. But we did not expect that the roads were damn narrow. Even the Tapah road isn't this narrow. At certain points there were only 1 car that could pass by making the opposite side had to reverse and find a wider road to let the other car pass by first. I think it took us around 30mins for us to reach to the parking lot. And i though the jam at Jalan Jelatek was bad enough. We had to climb up another 200m on foot because they will not let cars pass by there. So another 5 - 10mins more before reaching the centre. By then Sofea was already showing off her stripes ( tunjuk belang ). She wanted to go down instead of sitting in her stroller. Upon releasing her. She would walk off until the end of the road and she would come back again. As we were quite exhausted, it wasn't quite as fun to follow her around. All we wanted was to sit down, have some tea and enjoy the scenery. But none of that actually turned into reality.


After doing some shopping, we head down towards the car. Luckily the traffic was on our side as there were 3 other cars infront of us which makes me tumpang sekaki. Luckily getting out of the Sungei Palas tea centre was ok. As Sofea was still not well, me and wifey decided not to visit the other atrractions as we have visited them before. We just made a few stops at a few shops to buy some cactus and strawbberies before heading down towards Penang. The journey down was a bit better as Sofea slept 3/4 of the way before crying out loud again. I guess the fever, motion and the air pressure made her that way.

The journey to Penang was a bit better as it was just a straight line drive with minimal curve though it was pouring quite high at the time. Lucky we had the Lotus Ride and handling with the Michelin tyres. *LOL*. This is not a promotion ya. We reached penang at around 7 pm and checked in at the Gurney Hotel. The price per night was RM 185 but compare this with the hotel at Cameron, this one wins with more than 2/3 majority. Sofea & wifey was enjoying themselves as the room here were huge, had a nice view with a built in jacuzzi. We had dinner infront of the Dorsett hotel where i had nasi goreng ketam. Unfortunate for Sofea, she threw up quite a lot and the worse part was part of her output was on me as i was carying her at that time. After finished eating, i took her to the playground at KFC while wifey catched up with her old friend Mimi. She also took us around for a spin in Penang and sending us back to the hotel.

The following day was the day for us to attend the wedding at Gurun. We headed down to the coffee house for breakfast. As Sofea has still not recovered, she was rather feeling grumpy. She even refuse to eat and drink. So once again we had to take turn in order for us to eat. After all was set, we head towards Gurun. There, my mother & father in law was already waiting for us in one of the houses. We ate and sat down there in one of the houses. As i didn't really quite know this people, i managed to layan some Hindustan story as it was pouring down heavily.


Finally we head back towards Penang at around 4pm. On the bridge i asked wifey whether she wanted to go anywhere, she said she wanted to go to the Queensbay Mall. So we head down there where Sofea got a new cloth as the old one was errrr, bocor from her dung if you know what i mean. We just walked around there and stopped at a Starbucks coffee. We gave Sofea the chicken pie and during then she started eating. Damn, nak makan yang mahal aje. But what to do, anak punya pasal.

After that, i wanted to head down to Batu Feringhi just to purchase some DVDs. We did a little bit shopping of DVDs which eventually sums up to RM 120. Well, it's not often you get to go to Penang. As we head closer to the hotel, the traffic began to pile up. IMHO, the traffic is even worse compared to Bukit Bintang on a Saturday night. By that time, i was feeling tertekan with the jam and Sofea crying about and finally puked inside the car on the back seat. That was the peak of the vacation then. My shining lovely WajaBee has had the worse time of it's life. You could even smell the chicken pie back then. I think it even loss 2 - 3k of it's resale value :-(

Finally we reached the hotel and changed Sofea's clothes. I decided not to procede with the Kuey Teow longkang dinner but asked wifey to go along with mimi but she has to tapaw for me. As she went out, i tried to get some rest. Sofea did wake up once in a while but she went back to sleep. Wifey finally came back at around 1.30 am and i managed to eat the infamous Kuey Teow longkang. Luckily it was still good.

The last day of our vacation was free & easy. As there wasn't any place that we had in mind in going, we decided to enjoy the hotel facility instead. So we all went down to the pool area. The were 2 pools with humongous size. After taking a swim, we went up and started to pack our stuff before leaving Penang and heading back towards KL at around 1.30pm. We took the ferry instead of the bridge and after a stop over at Sungai Buloh, we reached home at about 8pm.

There were a few more incidents that i will post in a different entry. I would conclude this vacation as a mentally stressed vacation. There were a lot of things that we had to adapt to when there is a small child travelling with us. It wasn't as smooth as before. My advise to those with no excess baggage yet, enjoy your holidays as you can. But inspite all that, we manage to still smile whenever our little angel starts to laugh and make fun and jokes. No kidding.