Thursday, December 18, 2008

Youth Says - Surveys Surveys Surveys

I managed to watch Bolt 3D the other day courtesy of Youth Says. They gave out free tickets for the movie preview and I managed to get 3! Youth Says is a Malaysian Youth Opinion Community online. Members log in, do surveys and get paid for it!! Not to mention that there are occasional contests and enriching forums and events available for its members. Membership is open to any youths aged 35 years and below. If you feel that your opinion counts (and it should!), then hesitate no more and click on the link at the side of my blog "Get PAID for what you think!" or click here. It will lead you to the website where registration is free and you get paid, just for voicing out what you think! Hurry on and click away! :)

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

November - A Month of Weddings?

The year end is always the time for cheer. I guess this euphoria has caught up with many couples too as I have been spending all my weekends (except for one) attending wedding dinners all through the month. I have been receiving so many wedding invitations that I was worried that they might clash. Lol, red bombs yah but, I wanna attend all of them if I could! Thankfully, all of the weddings were miraculously spread out except for two which clashed - my relative's and my colleague's, in which I had to choose the former to attend.

The first wedding of the month was in Subang New Village. Tucked in a small corner in the outskirts, the wedding dinner was held at a Chinese seafood restaurant called Choong Foong Restaurant. The atmosphere is typical of a Chinese restaurant, complete with a small stage and a blasting karaoke set. True enough, many went up to demonstrate their vocal prowess or otherwise. Food was very very good; easily the tastiest amongts all that I have attended. On the way to the restaurant itself, we passed by many many seafood restaurants that looked so inviting! The only thing lacking here is the atmosphere. This is probably something mutually exclusive as I have yet to come across any that offer both except if you have the cash to spend. Then again, some may favour this kind of wedding reception in exchange for good food and a time of merriment (spell: karaoke session) with close friends and family members.

The second wedding that I attended was celebrated on a bigger scale, stretching up to three consecutive days in two different states. I can't imagine how tiring it must be for both the bride and groom as I find the travelling kind of taxing. The wedding ceremony began in Penang with a buffet dinner in the bride's house, followed by a banquet in Equatorial Hotel on the second day. Then, it was all the way to the Shah Alam's Holiday Inn Glenmarie for the groom's side. The ambiance was there and guests were tastefully entertained by a string quartet and a live A cappella during the dinner reception.

On the fifth weekend of November, I attended another wedding in The Grand Imperial Ballroom (a Chinese restaurant) in Centro, a new shopping mall in Klang. This place has an interesting concept in which the ballroom is actually in the shopping mall itself. The ballroom was partitioned into two to accomodate two weddings at the same time. Good thing is they don't need to share the same stage.
With four wedding bells ringing throughout the month of November, I guess November must have been a good month for weddings, especially so for the Chinese who always value a good date for marriage.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

The Night The Sky Smiled :)

I was on my way back from the night market last night when I received a call from my dad telling me to look out the window and into the sky. As I was still in the car, I peered out the window and saw an astounding sight, a smile, that it is simply so contagious that it will make you smile. Yes, it was the night the sky smiled at me and the rest of the world.


The spectacular sight looked as though there were two stars forming the eyes and a half moon forming a lip curved upwards. This was captured on national TV as well. Various reports have indicated that this is a natural phenomenon called a planetary conjunction involving two planets, Venus and Jupiter forming above a moon crescent. Well, I guess in the face of the world's calamity, therein lies a beacon of hope in the sky. For more photos on this smiley captured all around the world, do click here.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The First Entry

Hmm, what a very cliché title. Couldn't think of anything else to put for my very first entry. I have always wanted to blog since I have a penchant for writing and putting my thoughts on paper when I was small. I used to write short insignificant stories just to let my imagination flow ceaselessly.

Back to the present, blogging was something that I kept procrastinating due to work and other daily activities that warrants my undivided attention. But then again, the biggest question that was always on the back on my mind was, how do I start? What theme should I have? Should I jump on the bandwagon and start a food review blog or a travel blog? Should I just blog about my daily affairs or should this be an online diary where my deepest secrets and thoughts are poured for the world to see? What about posting cutesey pictures of myself like some 18 year olds who let their pictures do most of the talking? Or should I just blog anonymously and write whatever I want?


Lol, sounds like I think too much to ever get started eh? Right, I have to start somewhere or I probably never would. So I guess I would just write and see where things go from here. Ok, so here it is, me in my twenties, writing my very first blog. :)