Yes, the secret lunch society finally made the first trip successful, thanks to Brandon =)

Okay, to cut it short, the society is joined by 4 members - Derrick, Wai Ee, Brandon and ME =D

Why "secret lunch"? Oh Brandon named it, simply because we always secretly go for lunch without inviting others lol, just 4 of us most of the time.

This group actually was created in Whatapps group first, then now I am going to name 4 of us this way =P

 

Yea, Brandon suggested the trip at first because he is heading US very soon, and he missed Prawn mee a lot.

Hence the trip was set 2 weeks ago, and is today!

Actually we had gathered since last night, we had sukiya at Damen, together with Pek Shan and Kong, finally got to introduce the introvert Kong to the extrovert Brandon.

Luckily it was a fun meet up, I thought they might end up not liking each other lol 

Then, I was staying at Wai Ee's flat last night, because they claimed it is more troublesome to pick me up at Klang ==

Alright, both me and wai ee dint sleep last night, we talked about work, love, friendship, family, the past in overseas, the food and more.

We were talking until 4am! By then, Wai Ee decided not to sleep, so did I. She went for shower then followed by me, and we just waited until 6am for the guys to pick us up.

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Brandon also stayed overnight at Derrick's, boys who said they would not sleep and play game whole night ended up slept like pigs. 

Fortunately, we still depart sharp at 6am =) 

 

I was a half dead fish on the way to Penang, I think I slept half of the journey.

We did have a short stop at a rest station at middle of no where (i really have no idea ==), and I had some random pricy nasi lemak.

Then, we continued the journey up north, I started remain awaken and we had so many crazy ktv sessions, we covered english, mandarin and even korean songs! 

Once arrived at Penang, we checked in and rushed to the famous Teo Chew cendol. Pyramid actually opened a franchaise for this cendol too, but not as great as this store.

We dint wait for too long, and also very lucky to get a table. Well, mainly aslo because we were early =D 

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Besides the sweet cendol, we also had char kuey teow and oyster omelette

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Honest recommendation: char kuey teow was not bad, but not really the best in Penang (I tasted somewhere better but please dont ask me where ==), but you may save your stomach for other better oyster omelette. I would just stand like others at the street and have the sweet cendol =)

After the "brunch", we walked around and we were so lucky that encountered heavy rain while we were not at shelter area. 

We ran like a bunch of crazy people all the way to the mall, and even spent 20 bucks for a bloody umbrella ==

well, fortunately the rain dint last for too long, we walked further to hunt for food again, Brandon found a famous white curry mee listed online and I never heard about this before.

We passed by a small traditional cookies store and had some local eateries. The egg tart was yummy, taufu dessert and smooth and nice.

 

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Derrick and Brandon said its soya milk was good too, but too bad I am neither a coffee nor soya milk drinker. 

Soon, we also found the white curry mee~

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It was the store behind us, spot the logo? I initially thought it was a instant noodle advertisement, it looks so ordinary and you will definitely miss it if you passed by, 

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Look! the noodles indeed white in color, I know penang is famous with white curry mee, but i never see a milky white curry mee before.

 

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But, actually we still need to add curry paste into the soup, otherwise it would be tasteless. Difference is they also have various kinds of filling in the soup that we could pick. 

I wouldnt say it was very great, but it was unique to be tried out. 

 

After curry mee, guess what? We eat again!!

But now is dessert time~We went to the cafe that I always wanna try out, at China House!!

Just found out the street art I took photo with 3 years ago is located opposite China House.

We had some fun photo sessions before we feeding our sweet tooth.

 

 

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After stepped into China House, we really impressed by the varieties of the cake selections here.

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Surprisingly, there weren't many chilled cakes, most of the cake was densed and heavy =S 

The cafe was crowded, just like other blooming cafes, we really hesitate to pick the cake especially we were not really hungry before we had too much ==

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Ended up, Wai Ee picked scones, I picked passion fruit and coconut cream cake, while Brandon picked tiramisu.

 

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Their cakes are large! With the so called not-cheap price, this size made the cost reasonable. 

The tiramisu was not bad, but the passion fruit cake was slightly ordinary, will not recommend it.

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Wai Ee think their scones was good, but I would say they were rather dry and maybe I had better scone in NZ =P

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We spent few hours over here and really had a good time here, I guess I would come next time too =)

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We stop for a while after dessert, but not too long later, we had dinner again lol 

It was hard to choose where to eat because everywhere is surrounded with good food, last we chose gurney drive hawker stalls area because there had many varieties, and most importantly, we can park our car at Gurney mall right beside the eatery street. 

Gutted I dint take every food photo, only got this: the penang style lobak and coconut drink. Beside this, we also ordered apom balik, grilled dry squid, assam laksa and rojak. 

 

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We really insane in this trip, if you thought our food journey end here and you were very wrong.

Dessert was shouting to us again, we picked Salon Du Chocolate instead of Franco, the waffle was really crispy and matched well with the chocolate.

Today is too sinful for our stomach. 

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If you think we decided to end today with the dessert, you were wrong again, because we bought beers (although it just 2 ==), and had some silly game tonight. 

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That's all for tonight, good night world~

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Jessie finally decided to pay Malaysia a visit, nah....just happened to be she representating her company to join the Internation food exhibition at KLCC few days ago.

Her company set up a booth among the 500 booths, and I think her company is selling supplements.

I actually had met up her few days ago, because I also representating R&D department of my company to find out any potential supplier in the exhibition.

So we met and have dinner, and that night was so struggling because I had to make an important decision for my career. 

Well, is all past, I had decided to leave my current post, and looking forward for the unknown future ahead.

 

Back to Jessie, she extended her stay in Malaysia up to tomorrow, and we also met another lady, Wei Fong, who used to hang around with Jessie a lot when she in NZ, 

So I was invited by Wei Fong to stay with her and Jessie in her house in Cheras area, because Jessie had checked out this morning, 

Hohoho, I am having  a sneak out this weekend~

We went to Genting Highland this morning, the last time I was here maybe was 9 years ago and I am not kidding.

Never been to Genting since I back from NZ, because the theme park up there was still under construction, and I am not interested in gambling.

Most importantly, no one around me interested to go there ==

Actually I been tempting to go Genting because it would be chilly and fun to hang around on the top hill. 

Before we arrive on the main Genting area, we dropped by the famous Chin Swee Caves Temples (清水岩廟), I couldnt believe here had transformed sooooo much! 

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I used to come here with my family everytime when we visit Genting Highland, and I remember we always had the vegetarian lunch here before we heading back home. 

However, in my memory, this place was not that huge, maybe in terms of space, it was, but there's not much thing here.

But why I felt everything so new to me during my visit today? =P There are more exciting statue and displays here!

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We explored everywhere.....

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There were actually 4 of us: me, Jessie, Wei Fong and her boy friend.

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Actually I am not that close with Wei Fong, I knew her through Jessie when we were in NZ. 

However, there's some linkage between me and her, not just Jessie as our common friend, she actually stayed in the same room in my Palmy flat, just I moved in after she left NZ for good =) 

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This is nice!

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I am investigating....

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The weather was not too cold or hot, so it was really very comfy and nice to stay outdoor~

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Just realized, the founder of Genting Highland, Lim Goh Tong also have a statue here, this is definitely new! 

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He is for sure the legendary. Here the words he said: God gifted us the ability to think, talk and action, there's nothing impossible if we use these abilities well.

 

From here also can spot Genting resorts and other buildings~

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Can see the top, of cause would not miss the bottom, can spot the resort and road heading to here.

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After the nice sceneray at the temple, we continued the trip to Genting resorts and hotels area. 

We were thinking to have vegetarian lunch at the temple initially but found out the price really striked up incredibily, so we decided to hunt food in Genting.

We splited into 2 groups because Wei Fong's bf who is a muslim have limited food options and also picky on many food, so Jessie and I just have simple food at the food court.

I ordered this 棺材板 (Taiwanese bread bowl, famous in Tainan district), this is also my first time having this, wish i can eat the real one in Tainan in future. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My meal was not bad, at least it had a sastifying portion size while I was really starving.

After meal, we just wander around first world mall, and also gone into the casino. 

Believe or not, this was my first time gone into casino, it was not like what I expecting, maybe i was thinking I would face the scenery in those movie like in Las Vegas, but in fact, I just saw lots of uncle and aunty playing different type of  gambling machine. Maybe we went into the wrong casino. (there are so many casinos here!) 

Then, ended up, we went to the playing centre and had basket ball match =D

I used to hesistate to play this kind of game because I was not confident and really sucks in game.

But today, I realized something, it is just a game, and the important thing is to enjoy and have fun.

Hence, I have a good time although my team dint score well.

Please dont get bluffed with photo below, Jessie was my team mate, and none of us scored 949, this was some proud record left by the magnificant one in the centre.

 

 

 

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Hahah, lol, but I really have a good time here =D

 

 

After the fun game, we went back to Cheras and had durian and lots of good Malaysian local street food. 

Too bad I dint take photos of us having those great food, but thank god Jessie also like them and digged into those yummy food we ordered.

That's all for Jessie, wish to see you again! 

 

 

 

 

 

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There are so many farewell recently, today come to our trainee, Brandon's turn.

Brandon is studying food tech in US the state, he is a very funny guy, and guess what, he is same age as my brother !

He helped us a lot within this 2 months of his internship, although he also created lots of trouble.

Coincidentally today is also Green DAY, so we are all dress in Green...

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R&D now also have many people as our new boss expanding the team by hiring many fresh grads ==, which somehow to me is no point because we need to spend more time to teach them and they used to be expecting spoon feeding.

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See how big is the team compared with before.

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Hope Brandon have a bright journey in the state, we also have dinner together tonight at Feng Lai Taiwanese cuisine.

 

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I guess I will miss all this gathering time as I just tendered this morning, so will appreciate all this memorable events.

 

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這周真的很折騰,首先週一的面試結果快的出乎意料(是的,我得到了面試的機會),接著幾番掙扎,我毅然決定接受新的挑戰,但是在知道收到offer letter這個關鍵時候。。我卻猶豫了

沒錯,我很怕,很怕自己做錯選擇,很猶豫下一份機會會不會更好

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今天應該是一個非常開心和充實的一天,畢竟jessie來馬了,今天也在雙子塔那裏和他碰面,可是我的心情真的很忐忑不安

剛剛在lrt回來的途中,腦真的是快炸開了,一時想不顧一切就離開,一時又想到無知的未來深感恐懼,一時又想起公司那幾個可愛的小瓜有點不捨得放手

回到家后就打電話給karen了,只是想知道這種不安到底是否正常,原來她也是在決定時經過這些想法

我知道我如果繼續留下來應該還是有升遷的機會,我也明白未來或許是應該越來越好的。。。或許

但是我不敢說,因爲公司的狀況真的是每況愈下,不是生意,而是對員工的基本福利和待遇

沒錯,該給的或許都有給,但是我不覺得公司重視員工,我不覺得老闆尊重下屬

那種對客戶什麽都千依百順的態度,上面看似非常配合讓客戶非常滿意,但是下面都快被逼瘋了~ 

把不可能的事便成可能或許真的很了不起,但是爲了這份本事而爲難一大堆人,搞得大家筋疲力盡,贏了風光卻失了人心又有什麽意義

我或許很負面,但是我不是悲觀,我說的不行是經過考量的,我理解大家的難處,也不喜歡爲難別人

老闆眼中的獨當一面或是爲了我好的屁話可以對其他人說,對我而言就免了,我會明辨是非,你休想擺佈或操縱我,你若真的是為我好就給我應該給的

5個月來,每一個月我們部門連續走了資深的員工,engagement survey的失敗率不應該是我們的責任,如果是,那你大可把我們全解雇了,不用浪費時間叫我們去做這種有的沒的測驗

既然知道結果后都不會採取辦法改善,那干嘛要做!? 

 

思前想後,我毅然堅持我自己的決定。。。。離開

我不是跟風,我也並非衝動。。。我知道自己的選擇,了解自己要的是什麽。我不想去收拾那個人亂搞的殘局,我不想再這個不良的環境呆下去

可能像其他人說的,到處都一樣,我無法掩飾自己的卻很害怕,但是既然決定了,我就繼續正面的走下去

在這閒公司2年多了,學的很多很多,以前一直都很喜歡食品研發,在那個要求經驗的新西蘭一直都無法找到研發的工作

以爲回來后就會得到,結果也是一樣,但是是這閒公司給我如此的機會,我真的很感激,和感恩

當初我什麽都不會,是自己在這閒公司慢慢耐心的學,那時一直都很在意和我同一天進公司的faeezah,一直怕被和她比下去

説穿了,是自己怕輸,所以就這樣和這個亦敵亦友的她一起學習一起向上,後來在confirmation時竟被說沒有達到預期的期望,整個就是挫折沮喪(現在若是和這班年輕的fresh grad比較真的叫他們情何以堪,他們做的東西少之又少!面對的壓力也不如我和faeezah,説白了,我們是被視爲救星來到這個部門的!)

後來的我也沒有因爲chiam那個打擊而放棄,反而更加拼,在Karen出差時第一次跑了生平第一次的trial,當時那有人詳細的解説,大家都只是含糊交待我可以做什麽

我就這樣戰戰兢兢的一個一個問人,有時還會被挨駡,但是經歷過幾次的成功或失敗后,我變得越來越勇敢,越來越有自信

很多人都說我説話和直截了當,有時挺傷人的,但是我感到抱歉之餘,我還是慶幸自己這種膽量,如此才能面對那些一直看不起我,欺負我的其他自以爲了不起的傢伙

我如果做對的事,我無須害怕,當然可以改善自己的語氣未嘗不是一件壞事,因爲人與人之間的溝通是可以很敏感的,但是奧妙的是如果溝通順利,很多事情都能迎刃而解

在這閒公司鐵定會有人不爽我,但是這世界就是如此,我無法取悅任何人。

我找到了自己在這閒公司的生存之道,至少對外或對内,即使我是一個可能經常被忘記的人(我就是如此低調==),但是肯定的是可靠的員工

我沒有後悔加入這傢公司,因爲我得到了很多,友情,辦事能力,知識,這些都是我珍惜的!

謝謝你2年以來的栽培,不管是好的還是坏的,我都沒遺憾選擇了你。但是我是時候往下個路口前進了,還在路上的朋友們,加油了!

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