Jia Yu CNY Special (Part III)

The Heavenly Scenery the morning after the eerie sleep over at Ria Apartment 22418

23.01.08 | We all woke up the next day. All of us woke up together even though me and Ivan don't have to. We planned to walk all the way up to the office last night but since the uncle offered to fetch us so we didn't wanna be rude.. lol.. anyways.. i wanted to walk in my singlet in the freezing atmosphere on the 1st night but we finished so late.. or lets just say.. so early in the morning that I didn't have the strength to walk after that... oh... for your info, i did walk with only my singlet up there at Genting.. anyways..

After I brush my teeth and wash my face... i walked into the living room to take a few snaps of the surroundings... and just after I pulled the curtain, i was totally mesmerised by the beauty... So I was glad that we spent the night over at the eerie apartment.. at least you win some, u lose some.. anyways... I didn't managed to take lots cause the windows were not flexible. and one of them almost fell over. so I just took the rest of the other shots through the window.. lucky there weren't any reflection.....

I love this shot the best as it looks like we are looking down from heaven.. with the mist..

Jia Yu Chinese New Year Special (Part II)

Ria Apartment Room 22418

22.01.08 - After a tiring day running bout, checking in numerous rooms and entertaining the Hong Kong artists from welcoming them into the hotel and guiding them to their buffet dinner and up to their bedrooms (I'll go in detail in another blog.. i need to clear all the pictures taken..lol) thinking that we finally had the chance to rest. We return to the secreteriat room only to find out that we will have briefings every night before we tune in. The briefings took almost 2 hrs cause there were tons of mistakes made on the 1st day. So.. anyways.. after that.. we can't wait till we hit the sheets.. oh .. oh ... oh... before that.. one of our part-timer colleagues were discussing bout the haunted apartments.. which surprisingly is the apartment in which we are all to sleep at.lol.. Alan, was so scared of it.. but he was the one who kept on at it..lol.. so anyways...

We went bout to the van which took us to pick up our luggage at the girls rooms, Genting Resort. The uncle told me that he left the luggage at the bell counter for us to collect. and so i went bout to ask for it but they have no idea... little did i know, that they actually shifted it up to the rooms. while i was busy tryin to get the luggage out from the bell, the rest heard the news and went up without informing me.. so anyways, after i found out, i went up to the room to collect my luggage only to find that all the luggage had been carried off.. Well, while looking for mine, I went into the room and accidentally bump into the ladies lingirie. I was blushing like hell.. well, its so not me to be blushing but anyways.. i did.. so i left as quickly as possible and went down. Knowing that the van will wait for me to board, I took my own sweet time to walk towards it.. I even had time to tease my other part-timer colleagues who were waiting to go up to their room. waving at them.. but when I looked out, I find it weird that the van started moving. so I walked a little faster.. but the 2nd moved as well... I ran like hell towards the van and started knocking on the window when I reached it.. I hop onto the van eventually.. only to find that Sam, one of the part-timer colleague told the uncle to go.. and said that he told the 2nd driver to wait which he lied. He is so FUCKING irresponsible and always covering his own ass when he commit mistakes. anyways, that weren't that bad...

So we reached our penhouse. top most level. we took an eerie lift up to our floor and enter the penhouse. I took tons of shots because it was in such a terrible shape that we had nothing but complains. There were no hot water for shower and its extremely cold at night. The bath room window weren't cover properly. If anyone uses a binoculars, they can see me taking my shower naked. and the shower head was spoil and the pressure is low. there are fungus everywhere ... anyways, I took my freezing shower in a freezing weather. :P good experience. but later I found out that the bath tub was clog. the water was escaping very very slowly :(

This is how the Bathroom looked like. Its the worst apartment I've been to so far.. :S

Next came the bedroom. There were tons of leak stain on the wall and celling. Not to mention free concert by the birds exactly outside my side of the window and a few strains of hair left by the previous occupants on my bed. God knows whether they clean the room or not... yuck.. most of the sockets are not propely closed and the bed was a DIY type. cept for the mattress.. lol

This is how the walls looked like. We have this view on all four courners. sheesh..

The DIY bed foot. I was wondering how clean the sheets are. I slept in the cold weather without the blankets..

Just look at that, the sockets are not securely covered. and its not just in the bedroom. the whole house seemed to have dangerous corners... lol.. Its actually not eerie but its dirty and unhygenic for sure.

I took the liberty to explore the whole apartment after that. Next, I explored the kitchen. There were 4 fridges and 2 tanks of cooking gas. But I can't see extra clearly what the opposite neighbour is doing if they decide to come out. There were totally no privacy at all staying there. and The kitchen is dirty too with water stains everywhere.

The Dining hall is link to the kitchen which we never use since we have food provided and of course, no one dared to use them. We usually come home in the middle of the night. :P

The dirty Kitchen.. it don't look dirty in the pictures.. but it actually is.. Im a good photographer wat.. lol

Last but not least, The livingroom... It was a huge living room which, not surprisingly turns out to be dirty. but one of the drivers were sleeping on the couch. so I only explored it in the morning. I found a large dining table with two mahjong table folded by the side. The view from the windows was absolutely brilliant. I'll post it up next. anyways... Everyone was complaining and the worst was Alan. He slept in the smaller room in the middle which happens to have a leak in the window. so the strong wind blowing through made an eerie sound the whole night. Adding to that was my "Cat Meowing" ringtone going on the whole night. It freaks him out.

but as always, I didn't give a shit bout anything and according to my friends, I fell asleep not more than a minute after I lay on the bed... lol....

The Living room has tons of sofa. I've only sat on one. I stole a few of the groundnuts left by the driver.. on is it really him? Im not too sure, but i miss nuts.. when I saw it, I just can't help it but try some to see whether its still in good condition.. :P
This is how the whole area looked like with the sun driving in from the right side. I open the window to let the cool breeze in. It looked ok in the morning. Its just that the walls are extremely dirty and so is the floor.

Took this shot right beside the door. Bear in mind that all the pictures here are taken with my K800i camera phone... lol.. that is Sam.. the irresponsible amigo who kept on loosing people.

All this picture was taken the next day when I woke up... I love the scenery outside that curtain... stay tune to see em...

Jia Yu Chinese New Year Special (Part I)

The Van Trip up to Genting Highlands, Pahang

22.01.08 | Woke up rather early today cause I had to catch a ride to my pick up point, which is 3 bus changes away. I was suppose to get out of the house @ 7am but my friend couldn't wake up. So we ended up leaving the house at 7:30am. The bus had just left and I had to wait another hour for it. By then, it would already haf been 2 late. So I bug my friend to get me to the LRT terminal but we had to get off half way due to the heavy traffic congestion.

We got out at the NZX aka Niu Zhe Xiu. the funny bit was my friend forgotten that we had to get out of the car right after the U-turn and started to pick up speed. I asked him where are we going to get off? He jammed on the brakes and reversed back to the location. Eventually, we got out of the car and started walking. We had to walked through a tunnel, over the fence, beside a highway and through a small hole in the fence before we got into his van. He fetched me to the LRT station where I hop onto the U86 bus which head towards One Utama. There I waited for my bus to Damansara Perdana.

I sat by the bench to wait for my bus. and there came a pregnant cat. I tried to persuade it to come over but it didn't work. so I pick up my phone and played my kitten tone (real kitten recorded) it jumped up and started looking around for the kittens. anyways, I got on the bus which heads towards the pick up point where we waited 2 hrs b4 the van head towards Genting.

The bus ride was interesting as it was The Tahipusam Festival and I was struggling to keep my eyes open. I slept at 5am the previous night.. hmm.... the morning.. lol.. anyways, The road was totally packed as we were passing by Batu Caves. I took a few snaps along the way.....

Took out my K800i and got myself a 1st snap or the traffic congestion outside the Batu caves

I got a bit daring and wind back the window to take a snap out of the window. a few motorist passed by without knocking my head off... lol ( Front View)

(the Back view) I stuck my head out of the window

I was trying to get a clear view of the Idol situated outside the Batu Caves but ended up with a nice perspective angle.

I still can't figure out how I got this slightly distorted angle but Im liking it. (K800i)

I'm still trying to organize all the pictures taken so please be patient.. I haf sketches I drew to upload.. so... Be very patient

Talk bout customer service

I've been meaning to blog this Mini Market... its situated at Kelana Jaya, PJ, Selangor. on the same block at the Kelana Jaya Clinic and next to the Kelana Puteri Apartment.

The attendent and the Cashier of this small Malay Mini Market is extremely rude and you can totally aspect no Customer service here. I walked in to find a grumpy lady in tudung seated behind the cashier. She gave me a hostile stare and ...... before we go anywhere...

well, it all started early in the morning... I went out without my wallet.. and I only realized it when I reached the bus stop.. i borrowed RM10 from my friend but the bus here only accept the exact amount. so I decided to walk into a store to make a change. I went into the store in the picture.... and I took like 50 cents worth of sweet.. and pass her the RM10 note.. she looked at me rudely and said

"No! No! No small change! and show me the "sorry I don't wan ur business" hand signal. she didn't even smile... sigh.... anyways, I got my change at the Mamak restaurant with the same amount of sweet purchase... added with a smile... lol anyways... beware of the Rude Malay lady cashier at the Daiya Mini Market, Kelana Jaya... or was it because I'm a chinese... the truth is out there................

New Year 08 (Part II)

Most of what we did during our trip up to genting was describe in the (Part I) log for new year so I'm just going to keep this a short one with tons of pictures. Well, one of our passenger were extremely tired due to her trip to Thailand. She just got down the plane and came down with us to watch AVP2 and followed us all the way up hill.. so while we stop to rest somewhere along the hill, she took a nap at the back seat.

Mei Ling Sleeping so soundly. wonder did she woke up after my flash went off? I just walk off after I snap. lol

Right after that, my ol' friend Heman decide to take a nap too after Ling woke up. well, after a few tryout snaps, he was more aware of the surrounding..


Well, if u notice this two pictures, I took it in a row. Try guessing what he is trying to say.. (Hints .. Oh..... F***)

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After a long wait, we decided that the traffic had gotten better and so we went on our journey to the top again. We parked our car in front of a towing sign which the driver thinks it wont be a problem since its a public holiday and there were numerous cars parked illegally. We went into the cafeteria and they had their share of RM6 per nasi lemak (coconut milk rice) and I had to freeze to death. There I stood next to the hot steaming pot of "Herbal Tea Egg" to keep warm but the owner came out and told me that she will charge me RM10 per hour of steam.. so I told him its too kind of him to offer such cheap service and I went to the loo. Not too long later, Kelvin wanted to buy some egg. so I stood next to it again and the owner came and jokingly rephrase the offer and I told her that since my friend is buying, Im entitled to get free steams. she chuckled.

Not all was well. We were so busy enjoying ourselves that we didn't realized that the car was towed. anyways, we managed to get our car at the price of RM100 for the towing services. They took us to our car which was quite a distance away but the driver was kinda friendly and is overly generous in sharing his experiences there. mostly obscene activities at the parking lot. hence, we got our car and decided not to put the RM100 to waste and so we went back to the hotel area to snaps some shots.

This shot was taken in the open just at the entrance of coffee bean.. hmmm.. hot coffee..

Well, If you notice my 1st log on 08 New Year, You would know how this place looked like. and not only that, there is something which you might just wanna notice... me.. look at what I'm wearing in the Genting's cold weather :P

My obsession to bring out the inner child. Well, I never used to like this sorta things. But I guess once you get older, you kinda wanna find the little boy inside which is always joyful and happy. Looked like I was trying to wreak the horse than enjoying the ride..

This is the last picture in my camera for the day and it turn out to be a good one. I had Jen snap it for me, well, after I make the necessary alterations to the settings. All she needs to do is snap. We kinda took 20 pics due to her shacky hands. lol.

New Year Eve 2008

well, took me quite a while to actually blogged tis log. Was suppose to blog it a few days ago but just couldn't find the time to sit down and search through the pictures I took. Got a bit sick due to fatigue but it didn't took long for me to recover. thought I was too old for these shit but, I think I still have the youth in me. Anyways, I was busy with classes and interviews too. I seriously needed the cash for my college fees. anyways, not going to go there since its a whole new lot of story. so as always, I will start with the scenery pictures and continue on with another log with the private pictures. 31-12-07, New Year's eve - It wasn't a bad day after all. started out with a struggle to get out of my comfort zone and practically drag myself through the doorway to the bathroom to... do my stuff..... I got to college pretty early today cause my friend decided to fetch me to college due to the fact that he needs to get to the bank which is just beside my school. I went in with my really weird sense of fashion as always. most probably I might take a few snaps if Im able to pull myself together every morning... I usually style my hair everytime i go out, unless of course, I woke up late. I'll wear my trusteed beanie or my favourite "buff" headwear. that is quite often if u wanna see. anyways, blah, blah, blah...

Aliens Vs Predators 2. tats rite folks. my friend and I thought of spending our last moments before countdown in a cinema before headed up to the real genting highlands. It was a letdown actually. Thought they might have done a better one since the 1st one was a flop. so anyways, after the movie, we started our journey at 11:30pm from Summit, Subang. No doubt, we drove into hell hole. other words, a serious traffic congestion cause by anxious road users waiting for the fireworks to go off. and so it did while we were all in the car. I greeted everyone a happy new year since we forgot all bout the countdown. and so, an interesting new year had passed.

The 1st half of the journey. Stuck in a highway inside a Honda Accord. The huge traffic is such a turn off.

At the foot of Genting. The traffic is twice as bad. the smell of burnt rubber can only mean one thing.. good business for the mechanic to start off 2008. Everyone is burning out their clutch.
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I wonder why every is heading towards the top for. Its like fleeing to the highlands due to flood. anyways, check the Jeep cheerokee above and below. Notice anything?

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A sure record breaker for Malaysian books of records. Try counting the amount of tow trucks along the road to genting. Its like a gathering of towers.

Furry Christmas with "Beary" Santa musicians.

Im not too sure whether this is a christmas deco but, Im sure the scarfs are. most probably they just hang them there to make it more christmasly. I wonder when they are going to take down the christmas deco?

This is one of Malaysia's most famous snap shots. Not like Im trying to discourage tourism but seriously, the government have to educate the citizens regarding health and cleanliness. Oh, Malaysia is a very good tourist location. we have the most beautiful beaches and jungles.

This guy is really artistic. After he found out I was trying to take shots of him, he wasn't anymore. He was moping the floor swaying left and right. everytime he sways to the left, he would lift his right foot in a dance motion.
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This is the hall of ingredients within one of the Genting buildings. There is a restaurant to the left. I always wonder whether they clean the tubes or how often. But in the wee hours of the 1st day of 2008, I found out the answers. Check the picture below and tell me what you see.

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Im not sure what breed are these but they are beautiful.
(anyways, stay tune for part II - the return of new years eve 08)

Christmas Eve personal pics

Well, its still the same Christmas of 07.. but these are more personal pictures compared to the previous log.

The only one who notice me taking the picture was Jazrine who actually tired to pose thinking that i was taking a group photo of them.. so I played along saying i was taking em.. lol

Can't make up her mind on which drink to get. My god-sister, Jennet.. she hats ppl calling her tat but she don't mind me calling her that.. :P

the other blogger in the group. well, he blogs professionally for the past year or a few. can't remember. Kelvin, a good ol' friend of my best buddy. I like this shot of him concentrating on the angle for the portrait composition.
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Shock by lights -_-|||

001 - Felt an aura of danger (6th sense)

002 - trying to figure which direction the aura came from

003 - danger detected and preparing to turn to confront it

004 - argh.... its the attack of the disco ball....
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I took this shot just right after he got up from tying his shoe laces. His girlfriend covered her skirt thinking I was taking a snap of her upskirt.. i may b deprived but Im not a pervert.

well, Mei Ling took my DSLR and took a picture of Jazrine, Me and Heman while we were posing for Kelvin

Christmas 2007

Christmas eve 06 - took me quite a while to blog this up.. been busy lately... anyways... I was in school when all my friends decided to take a trip out of town to celebrate christmas eve.. they only called me told me bout it right after and asked me to prepare for it. so I asked them where's the destination but no one knew up till we met up with another friend of ours which i knew back in my teens in Brunei. Something bout "CHERAS, LITTLE GENTING"

anyways, I didnt care much, as long as I get there and its interesting... so I enjoyed myself socializing with all my friends.. up till we almost made the wrong turn... anyways.. the place was packed for some reason... it has the best view of Kuala Lumpur's night scenery. so we parked our car 10 - 15 minutes walk away and have to walk up some steps which my god-sister, Jen finds it too much for her to handle... lol so finally we reached the top and here is what i've got to tell.......

One of the night shots I got with my DSLR with a very slow shutter speed + without a tripod. lucky it turns out sharp. so proves that I have a very stable hand. LOL. I just love the beam of light shot up from the twin towers.

I've got a picture up my head when I was snapping away at the whole of KL and though it was pretty much an interesting composition.... anyways... i always have the weirdest ideas..

This piece is my personal favourite. I love this pic cause its like, there were still lots of customers around but was a whole empty lot in the middle. Only the table at the end was occupied. If I were to give it a topic, I would say, Negotiations... remember those 70's Hong Kong gangster movies where all the bosses sat down to discuss bout underground political issues...?

A picture of the place where we sat to have a drink.. I took this piece while waiting for everyone to relief themselves in the toilet.... literally....

I tried to capture the mood at its best here shining down on the can placed by ignorant customers during the Christmas Eve. In here, you will sometimes see pictures of "rubbish" cleverly and creatively arranged by ignorant Malaysians. ( The fountain is actually very beautiful - so y the extra decorations?"

The other side of the fountain. I love how the submerged spotlight's effects on the fountain walls. I'll definitely come back for more shots when I save enough money to buy a tripod.

To be continue with more personal pictures in my next posting...