Month: January 2002 (Page 2 of 2)

Part 2 is now available by clicking on the header above. Again, it
features more of those things that caught my eye as I was going from
one place to another in Bangkok. Among them, an ice cream shop,
roadside noodle stall and typical Bangkok traffic. One of the more
interesting ones is the exterior of a pub called The Metal Zone. There’s
this huge bronze statue of a dragon as well as two statues of warriors
that made it stand out from the rest of the buildings on the street
where the apartment I’m staying at is located. Check it out!

I’m also frickin’ tired at the moment. Two consecutive days I was
forced to wake up in the wee hours of the morning and retire close to
wee hours of the next morning! Ugh! I used to be able to stand those
long waking hours (my longest being 64 hours!) but of late, I’d rather
hit the sack than stay up. I used to do crazy things back then. Back
at uni/college, I’d get out of the house at 2am (yes — two in the
morning!) and rollerblade till dawn, especially during the summer. Ahh!
Reminisce!

Now playing – Mary J. Blige – Reminisce

I made it back to KL for the weekend again. I know, I should use the opportunity to explore Bangkok a bit during the weekend but I got good reasons to come back to KL this time around.

Reason #1: My old friend, Eany, who now lives in the US of A is down in KL for a visit with her fiance, Thane. It's not always someone from the other side of the planet comes by for a visit so that alone was reason enough. Anyways, she dropped by the house with her folks sometime Saturday noon and then later in the evening, a bunch of us (Alvin, Yen, Geok Shin, Dipen, Grace & hubby, Sheryl, Shane, and obviously Eany and Thane) went to Bangsar for dinner at Madam Kwan's. It was certainly a reunion for all of us. The last we met each other was when we were still at secondary school (high school to you Yanks! ;) ). We just went from one story to another catching up on each other's stuff and all. So much water under the bridge. Then noon today, Geok Shin, Eany, Thane and I met up again. This time at KLCC where we had lunch and then some Italian exhibition going on there. I later brought them up to the 64th floor of Tower 2 where I work at. I know it's kinda lame bringing friends to your workplace but hey! Considering the Twin Towers' Skybridge is on the 41st/42nd floor, and is located in between the two towers itself, I'm guessing anybody would go for the view from the 64th floor anyday! Anyways, the pictures are here.

Reason #2: The launch of the teen portal, Xfresh.com. The whole thingy was the brainchild of Teejay (also a Hitz-dot-FM radio deejay) whom I had the privilege of working with while I was at ASTRO. He and the rest of the crew (Albert, Andy, Shaz, Febster, Nadia, Irma, Puppster, Evan, etc.) has worked their asses off to get the site to where it's at and the results are simply midblowing! Teej was quite insistant that I make it to the launch so I kept my promise there! Mind you, this whole thing (from management to marketing to operations, etc.) is being run by teens and it's just amazing! I'll post those pictures taken from the launch sometime soon. :P Too tired already at the moment. Just made it back to Bangkok a couple of hours ago (Gee! Those frequent flyer miles are sure racking up good!) and in desperate need for some shuteye. It's already Monday at this time of writing! :(

Listening to: Linkin Park – Points of Authority

Update (Jan 20, 2002): Yeah, I know this has been long overdue but here it is anyways. You can stop now, Evan! :P

Aight! Here they are. Some (limited) images of Bangkok that I've come across so far. I know they're nothing much out of the ordinary but that's just as much Bangkok that I'm privileged to see in between my work assignments and stuff. I would definitely be taking more (hopefully interesting) pictures of this place.

Oh yeah! I've stumbled into what I would consider a "happy" accident. Whilst tweaking the settings on my digital camera (a Nikon Coolpix 775), I managed to get it to take some nightshots which I previously thought was not possible with this camera! Coolness! I was already contemplating on selling this one and getting a Coolpix 995 instead but I guess I just don't have to now! Heheheh! Anyways, the results of it can be seen in the photoset.

Happy accidents are almost like epiphanies to me. They obviously don't happen that often but when they do, boy! Does it really get you off the rut or something and just kickstarts you off!

Listening to: David Gray – Babylon

Hmm… Y2K+2. That's like 2 extra keystrokes than typing 2002 right away! :P Anyways, Happy New Year! I came back from Bangkok last Friday night for the New Year weekend and continuing on the Aidilfitri celebrations! Heheh! I'm returning to Bangkok later this evening.

2001 has been a rather mixed year for me. Some things were good, some bad and some are best left not remembered at all. With the dawn of the new year, new resolutions are made but as far as keeping to them, that's left to be seen as the year progresses. One of my resolutions that I'm going to work hard on is to balance my work and personal life. I realize ever since I started working just a few years ago, I've made too many compromises on my personal life and as a result I've been missing and losing quite a lot. Although I can never recover what has been lost in time, hopefully I won't have to miss anything much anymore. Moments in life are just too precious. There ain't no rewind button in life although I wouldn't mind having a pause button! ;)

Had a couple of things happening over the weekend too. Went to Sal's Aidilfitri open house at Subang Jaya last Saturday evening. Then last night, Bard and Nora had an Aidilfitri cum New Year open house celebrations at their place in PJ. A good start so far, I reckon. The pictures are posted right here.

May the new year bring good tidings, peace and prosperity to humankind.