I thought i was never to call Australia my home again.
But guess what! =)
When there's a will, there's a way!
For the past one and a half months (with a big grin=) i have been saying "I am going back to Melbourne" as if i belong there!
This blog post has been written in advance and scheduled to be published as i board my flight =)
Bye Malaysia, tanahairku
Will miss you and will be back!
If only i could stare at the ocean forever!
Reality isnt so bad, today is an achievement! Glad i managed to run lots of errands =) Luck was on my side, easily found good parking all day long (4 destinations)
Met her in SS2 for a good chit chat session. Food in Italia Bella ain't that great
Also arranged a little Frankston get-together. My ex-housemate HS! And AN who always visits in between classes. With E and with W.
Lots of chatter and laughter and keeping each other up to date! Yippie Cup bubble tea.
When ZH knew i wasn't working anymore, he asked me to attend his Wednesday morning graduation ceremony
ZH who, with AN, taught me how to play poker in Melbourne! =)
With B, whom i met through AN and ZH.
Its really weird that Monash placed the ceremony in the middle of the week. Friends of the graduates find it hard to attend. Siblings of graduates have classes to attend, Monash lecturers themselves cannot attend too!
I've been getting a lot of telemarketing calls on my mobile. In my last few days of work, i got one from a slimming centre, offered me a free session, being greedy, i made time for an appointment. They only gave me a lousy 30minute slim wrap
Where they mummify me in cloth and plastic. Beats me how this is supposed to make one slimmer. I've done this before, and i knew i was gonna be bored senselss so i brought my phone in. I'll NEVER purchase slim wrap sessions EVER, look at all the plastic they use. What a waste!
Next, i volunteered for Gerai OA again =)
Super happy cuz the last time i had time to do such a thing well over a year ago! This one was quite a big artsy thingie in Kompleks Kraf, i didnt even knew such a place existed!
My first task was to label the bookmarks. Tonnes and tonnes of them! Each stack of ten is made by a different person so we have to label them to ensure the cash proceeds goes back to the appropriate person.
Heheh, i picked out the nice designs for myself. I bought so many! My mom wants to frame them up as decoration for the house, i hope she doesnt forget!
I helped sell baskets, nose flutes, IQ testing games =)
Also helped label the bracelets so they look more presentable =) Then i walked around the whole fair, its huge!
Wayang Kulit and lots of other interesting stuff but being busy me, i rushed through and didnt take many pictures. I wanted to help Gerai OA with as much labelling as i can and then i wanted to go home and work on that darn ICAA assignment
By the way, its my birthday today =)
Walked out of the building for the last time as an employee with a heavy heart. Had mixed feelings - its like 6 Saturdays and 1 Sunday a week at first, where i wake up in the morning and smile.
The last time i went down that lift
Opened and closed my locker, pegion hole as we call it for the last time. See in my previous line of profession we are mobile staff, we get sent on different assignments all over KL and sometimes outstation, so they dont bother allocating a permanent desk to us
The 15th floor. Empty cubicles, sit anywhere for the day, sit somewhere else tomorrow, its called the Hotelling system, login to the Cisco phones to receive calls on your DID, get a free apple or snacks on Friday. No personal touch, no keychains or souveniers line the dividers.
See those cranes in the middle, thats where i used to park. Development in KL is rapid. 1 Sentral was completed at the end of 2007 when the co i used to work for moved in. There were empty plots of land not a stone's throw away from the building which were utilised as carparks. One by one they the carparks closed to give way to development. There will be a Bank Rakyat twin towers in the years to come
On lucky days, i get to park under the LRT tracks on the left of the picture for a fee of RM3 per day. Thats the end
Like i said on Facebook, another chapter of my life has ended, will miss the people
Walked fast to get there before sunset. Walked past this abandoned and haunted building (or so they say).
Looks kinda rundown... doesn't take long to make one round
When i told my senior i went up, she asked if i could see paddy fields! Haha, No more of that can be seen from the tower, its all town area today.
Watched the sunset alone, in a table meant for two. Sounds sad huh? But you cant spend life waiting for someone to do things with u, u gotta be independent at times, see the world, or towers on your own.
Made the slightly dull restaurant look good through my camera lens. Shortly after, i got bored, paid my bill RM7.50 and decided to go see the observation deck again. Whoa!
So much prettier by nightfall. And the wind in my hair was magnificient, i loved it! At night, open air rocks!
Coffee vending machine became my tripod =P See my hair flying!? Such a nice way to wind down after 4 days of hard work!
Pardon me for wearing slippersAfter dinner we went to our respective rooms/home to work into the night
