Ethan’s Corner

Yup, I really forgotten that I didn’t touch this blog for the month of October. Surprising I guess, I thought I won’t miss my blog every single month. And here I missed it on a very important month to me…
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To amend it, I am updating it now early in November (not so early too I guess). Quite some happenings occurred during October, probably that’s why I am driven away from the blog itself. And as some of you already much aware of it, I am now attached in a relationship with my girlfriend, her name is Callista (can’t believe I wanted to say this out here )

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Let’s start off with something harsh first, my work. It’s true that got colleagues and even bosses reading this, probably that’s why I can tell here how challenging my job life is Well, mentioning bout harsh, actually I am quite busy, can consider one of those few in office who are very busy with more and more additional workload. Expectations from boss(es) are quite high, and probably I am quite tensed up is because I am in the middle of nowhere doing everything until my own job is not finished. And now, more pending work and me running around. Sigh…

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Skipping work, to social. Recently not much events or outings organized by people around. The frequent happenings during October was just birthday celebration, particularly my own one Honestly this year I had special celebrations (yes, there are 2 very special celebration). One which is a b’fast with colleagues and “big pao” as my b’day cake while the other one was with none other than Callista (many things happened, and too special to tell here )

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November is already in, and feels like it’s everyone’s tough time here. I guess most people are looking forward to see December instead Not much to say for here now. Guess I’ll just put it as it is for now. Hope I can write more next time.

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Take care everyone, and also thanks for all the nice wishes to me

Obviously quite an odd day to blog here. It’s a Monday night, and I don’t have specific people to remind me anymore (apart from Julius’s earlier comment). Looks like I am losing readers, good or bad sign?
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Nevertheless, it’s just how I wanna write it without any worries. But probably won’t be that happening as the previous post, and things are well starting to cool off towards end of the month. I guess everyone’s wallet is starting to cool off especially after the holidays and all awaiting salary…
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Raya holiday was quite a long break time for me and everyone else (except those very extreme to do OTs), with myself have additional 2 days off due to the replacement holidays. Once again, I went to a reunion with some of my hometown friends back in Ipoh (and farewell again to K2 for 2nd and 3rd time!). We do have a large group meetup, and went for drink “snow beer” (I think this drink only famous in Ipoh, not sure bout other places). Surprising though that I noticed this batch of friends are just so-so in drinking, instead got a girlfriend of my buddy is better in drinking than himself! (yes, I am referring to you Chim ).

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Coming back to Penang, all the happy holiday mood lost back in Ipoh. Perhaps work is really one very annoying thing that must deal with, that’s why we got paid for. In fact, I had a bad day yet again on last Friday (yup, another big !@#$% with my big boss, 2nd time already in this year) which ended up me just spoiling my reputation more in the company. Well, just got to live with it. Worse come worse, we call for a change as I am still can afford to do so at this time (not so sure for the coming years though).

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What’s coming up next? Not that I can recall as for now. Feels tired, but can’t sleep (again, unknown virus that cause me such sleeping disorder). Lucky to be able to enjoy good music every night (feels like partying every late night with such “in” songs ) Looks like another month elapsed again like that, how scary the time ticks away. And I wonder why weekdays are so hard to pass by…

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A pause for now, take care then~

Initially I planned to post this last weekend because that’s the time that I am free, but turns out I too lazy and tired to write one, so end up today only wrote one cause got hit by reminder which this time by Sinyi. Everytime she ask me like as though I have to pass up work. But never mind, I got the feeling
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What a blast! I had a few good weekends recently, particullarly the Genting trip with my ex-schoolmates. Despite I had to take bus/train ride for most of the trip, it was quite interesting to travel that way. Lots of good times together with my friends, among them are photo taking session, play at arcade centre, tea time, casino gambling (me end up quite lucky ), buffet dinner (quite variety of choices, very nice + expensive one ), internal drinking session (I didn’t join though, will tell you why shortly here), and whole night supper tea time at Old Town! A very satisfying trip together with them, you guys are awesome!
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Also, this trip got a slight twist for me, because I also get to attend another gathering reunion, which was my ex-coursemates. Despite there were 7 of them (as oppose to 19 ex-classmates), it was quite nice that I can join them for a drink also late night (also at Old Town! ). Good that we can get together because I kind of not so close with my ex-coursemates last time, thus it is a good chance for me to catch up back. Look forward to our next reunion again with better attendance
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Then, a back to back gathering reunion, the following week is a reunion with my Kung Fu Club members (mostly are my seniors and my own batch). Initially I was kind of doubtful to join because of the continuous trip, but hell, I don’t have much of a choice also because Elmen also going Our location was Tony Romas in Mid Valley Megamall (Keen Mun spread the news of the location as Roma Thomas?! ). A dinner together was quite memorable, lots of talking and eating throughout the dinner. Just that it is yet another rush trip for me and Elmen as we both took the train ride in morning and leave KL at night itself. Eventually, it is still a worthful trip. So when’s the juniors turn?
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Back here in Penang, or I should say back to reality Back to work as usual, and last weekend was spent purely for rest and some visiting to MDL. Coming weekends, will have another gathering which is K2’s farewell (he’s going to Scotland to further his study) or it will be a KL trip to follow my parents to visit my brother. What a great time for the past few weeks despite all the expenses that I didn’t count (and I don’t plan to count). Surely will be nice to have it go all the way long, providing I have the time, energy, and money
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Will try to get some sleep now as since back from Genting, I can’t sleep well and enough. Must be the “yumcha” that caused me to have insomnia nowadays, just hope that I don’t fall sick. Rest well to you too~

How nice it is to start here this time, I am writting this without reminders! Probably I am in the right mood at this point here…
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Approximately 2 weeks from my previous post, coming into the mid of August and it is quite fun for me. Probably this month is much more alive to me compared to others. Reasonable also not to happen every month as there’s always the balance throughout the year, can’t be that demanding.
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From where I stopped on the previous post, the first thing happened was the birthday celebration for Alva and Beng Hooi (Alva’s was on her eve b’day, while Beng Hooi’s was the day after). Celebration took place at e-Gate Starbucks, with particpants myself, Alice, Sai Yik, Darek, and Eugene (plus Jetfire and Optimus Prime too ). Both of them got T-shirts as b’day present (Beng Hooi’s gift is kind of a joke though). Quite a nice outing after not meeting everyone quite awhile in such gathering. And the one funny thing that I think only Darek and Beng Hooi knows is, we meet Dillon (again!!!)
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Second thing that happened was an outing with Alva. This incident happened to be quite funny plus long story. To sum up, Saturday time, Alva find me go out to eat lunch and window shopping, plus she even fetch me! Then only found out that her neighbours are doing some heavy renovation (now I know why ). Lunch was normal coffee shop, and we walked around Prangin Mall awhile. Go shopping there is quite risky though especially Laconic because I used to spend a lot there. We almost bought something there, lucky that both of us didn’t buying anything in the end (but we still considering to buy )

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At the same day night time, my turn to fetch Alva that was promised way earlier. It was actually to attend a dinner together treated by our company boss for our effort to do work proposal stuffs. Location was e-Gate Tao Restaurant, and all I can recall whole night was eating non stop till the end, especially that I don’t get to pick my food because everyone just keep feeding it to my plate We arrived slightly earlier and went to Tesco because I need to do shopping to find a larger plastic container to store my stuffs (which are toys  )

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Third thing that came along was a movie together with Alva, Darek, Beng Hooi and his GF (dunno her name). Me and Alva went to ate dinner after work before watch while the rest all not working (or off work at 1pm -_-||| ). We watched GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra and it was quite fun to watch this movie as it was full of action and nice humor too. Can say it’s an entertaining movie Only the spoil of the night was when I got back home, no electricity…

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Really is quite long already, I can say that I am glad not to pile it up till end of the month. The much anticipating trip that have been talked for months, now I am just days away for it. Look forward to meet up with all my friends everywhere and hopefully this will be a fun and memorable one as I guess it will be years again before we all meet again and gather around. Or is it because I am too lonely already? Sigh, me such a loser to say that
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And I hope there will be more outings in the coming days also (although I wonder how realistic that chance will be ). Well, that will be all for this round. Bye for now! ~

Once again, got reminded by others to update my blog and this time I am going to highlight their name here to test if they going to do it again or not One of them send me reminder via MSN like a warning message (Sinyi), the other posted request in comment column (Wei Wei). Is that really necessary? -_-|||

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To start things off, looks like I am back to my old habit of updating blog once a month. Probably I am always into something else which caught my attention away from here. For sure, there are lots of things ongoing and I should have updated some of them sooner than now because I am kind of struggling to recall back things that had happened which is worth the write-up here.

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One of the highlights was quite silly though. It was a gathering at Alva’s home where some of us do cooking together (myself, Alva, Alice, Sai Yik, Beng Hooi, Julius, Darek) and some of us brought up our Transformers collection to show off (myself, Darek, Beng Hooi, Alva) Definitely a good get together plan as most of us are colleagues who really need the break time. Turns out I am one of the main contributor of the toys (bringing in 1st and 2nd movie toys in 2 boxes), and displaying them all together on table is really grand. I wonder how I am going to display it for myself next time when I get myself a cabinet
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Another outing together was quite an odd one which is a seafood dinner at Bukit Tambun together with another batch of colleagues (myself, Sue Ean, William, Dylan, Poh Theng). Initially Stephen should joined, but couldn’t make it last minute (wasted). It was the first time that I joined them together on a outing and surely is a eye opener to see how much we ate that day as I can recall almost 9 dishes shared among 5 of us! For a dinner 1 hour plus, I guess it is quite a full dinner plus good time together to know them better as I will be dealing with them more in future (due to changes in my job nature)
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Speaking of job, actually I am in the progress of changing job scope (again). You can say that for the past few months (9 months), my work direction has been quite lost if you ask me. After so many discussions, meetings, arguements, confronts, and re-orgs, no solid solution can be written out still. Currently I am only betting on the current change that probably will suite me in, and if this also went lost, it is a pure waste of time. Not the part of time that I enjoy though…

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Back to my title, August finally. Actually I am only looking forward to the Genting trip that long planned since June with my ex-schoolmates. Now it looks like going to be 2 way trip. Another exact trip to the same location at the same time is being organized by my ex-coursemates for reunion also (the culprit must be Sinyi ). Not really sure if this is actually a good or bad thing for me, because I can meet up with 2 gang of friends at the same time. But how am I going to split myself to join both of them?!

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And comes yet another clash, a gathering for Kung Fu Club members (my batch plus my seniors batch) is in plan for end of this month but no specific confirmation yet. If it is going to be as planned, then I have to go KL straight 2 weekends. While it will be quite fun to have so much reunion, is it that ok to travel so much? I already did that much at work, do I have to do the same even for leisure times? Also, I am guessing somebody gonna throw me a wedding invitation card during that reunion. Anyway, congratulations Eric
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Expecting also some minor gatherings, meet ups with colleagues and friends here (actually the friends is also colleagues in the end ) so August is gonna be rocking me a lot. One important factor that I really going to take note here is to take care of my health, because I am now surrounded by sick people everywhere especially on the hazy weather nowadays. To you who read till here, make sure you take care of yourself too
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And for good practice, I guess it is best that I stop here now. You have your wait for my next post, and I have my rest now. Thanks for reading!