Greetings From UK

Hi Guys,

Been having a wondeful time here in London. My trip on the MAS airline was at most comfortable and teh air stewardess was very beautiful as expected. Will get a photo of them when i come back from London. The weather here has been excelent beaitiful Sunny skys with cool breeze. My aunts place is excellent, its located in Purley, East Crydon. Its a typical English house with a beautiful garden and a small pond. The back garden has such an active wild life. I've so far seen a squirrel, a woodpecker, 2 foxes and a lil small field mouse.

I've been doing tourist stuff for the pass 3 days, Buckingham Palace, Picadilly circus, the SOHO and few other places. Taken loads of pictures. I will keep in touch with you as I need to check my mail. To all of you reading tis take care and GOD bless.

Cherioo,

Mark
xoxoxoxx

Diary: July 12 & 13

Nothing really much happen on these both days except for the fact taht the mamak restaurant that we normally go to for lunch had a 5 year anniversay celebration. We had free nasi briyani rice with ayam masak merah. Quite nice. One of my staff is resigning. Its really short notice for me to hire a new personell by the time I leave to London. Cavell wants to leave before the 1st of August. I really have to pull some strings here. I'm not sure what to do. My boss Hkng doesnt want her to leave in this short notice but to have the full 1 month notification. I'll have to talk to HR soon.

The days to London seem to creep clooser. I've done my packing but I just need to get a new bag pack for myself as my current one is quite tattered. I'll try to blog if i can when i'm in London, doubt it though.... hehehe

Redeption Songs

I've been listening to Bob Marley songs recently, as I find its real relaxing.. Since the bomb blast and everything else I've been real linked to this song

Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the 'and of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:

Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Ooh! Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:

Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever had:

Redemption songs -All I ever had:
Redemption songs:These songs of freedom
,Songs of freedom.

Diary:July 11th Monday Meetings

Monday... another 3 more days to London. Yeah ! ! !. Meeting day today luckily nothing much from myside to do so it was relaxing. Kevin took us to Flyers for lunch where I had Nasi Pataya. He wanted to treat us lunch as we did a good job for the Maxis Sports Zone and 3G project. I've already handed this to Lenny and now its under his care. We had a meeting with Sb Lim where he talked about the reporting which made me feel sleepy.

I was a lilttle pissed of with Lenny as he kept saying that I'll be coming back in an urn. How unconsiderate can he be. I'm not sure whats up but its just straight up annoying. Later we had a meeting with the Add agency and hey showed us some TV comercials that we were going to do. It wasn't really up to my standard but apparently they will be on RTM and TV3 soon.

I had tea with Logen, Lenny, Auyong, Leng and Azis we talked about our new operation manager who aprreently is such a big ass/jerk/jackass. After tea Lenny dropped me off at Bangsar staion. I got 2 sms One from Jasmine and another from Shari. I missed hanging out with u Shari. Will celbrate your birthday when i come back yeah.

Diary: Weekend Happenings

Friday - Emotional Breakdown
The day after the bomb blast, everyone tell me not to go to London and stay back and cancel my leave. I think only Marina meant it. My line was barred and I could not reply all the sms sent to me telling me not to go some even asked me to ready my will before I leave. Everybody who said that wanted me to leave them something, free loaders get your own stuff. I was suppose to meet up with Mel but we cancel our appointment as he had to visit his brother and sister-in-law who has just conceived another baby boy. Another kid born wioth a silver spoon in his mouth like Mel would say. I hear Evelyn is back in town. Welcome back. As I sat alone in the living room watching late night TV I began to cry, GOD only knows why tears began to sweep me ans I lay there feeling this hurt for no apparent reason (maybe there is..) I wanted to stop so I began cooking at about 1 in the morning. I decided to marinated a couple of chicken to make black pepper chciken. and the same time I made Pasta sauce. I made all of this and left it in the fridge and went to bed

Saturday - Loads to Do
I woke up early as my phone kept on beeping with my daily morning messages. I made myseldf a nice strong cup of coffee and some toast I watched a lil TV. I later got ready and headed to the barber for a lil snip snip. After the baber shop I headed to Sg Wang for a lil shopping for my trip to London. I got some socks, buscuits, a camera for my uncle, etc. I meet up with Mel for lunmch the boy looked aged and he had some face problems. He joked how Lisa has sabotaged his face. We caught up with our lives, in Dome . I had a nice roast beef sandwhich on turkish bread while Mel had Spicy olio. After chit chatting I headed home relaxed and got ready for dinner. As I played host I had to be the 1st. Daryl and Paul was the 1st to come and they the gals came. Caroline, Ming Ying, Winnie, Ah Wai all came a lil late because they did their hair. All looked like lil chinese dolls. We enjoyed our 6 course meal.

Sunday - Klang and Heavy Rain
I woke up really sleepy and headed to St John for mass. I hate mass at St John's its so 'one way'. It was the sickly priest who kept the mass. I was really restless and just wanted to leave asap. I think I've lost my faith again. I'm just going to church cause I have too. I saw Priscilla in church she looks good. I wanted to stay back to say Hito her but I just neede to leave the boring mass. I headed to Kl sentral for breakfast at McDonalds. I took my sweet time reading my paper and having a nice cup of coffee. After breakfast I headed to Klang for Michelles birthday. The train ride seemed short as I read my new book Montmorency. Nice story, its about a theif leading 2 separate lives. Kelvin picked me up from the train station and we headed to Aunt B place. It was a small gathering. Michelle was happy to get my present or her favourite 3 books.

Diary: July 7th Thursday

I feel freedom... yes ! ! !. I had a content meeting today with the gang, we discuss in further projects that I have handed over. The team is beeing stretch thin now with all these projects. I really wish I can help them out but my hands are tight.

As you know there was a big bomb blast in London town. What I taught was joke from Caroline turned out to be a true story and after that everyone started calling me telling me about it and some asking me not to go to London. Stay back .. Like Hell i'm going to give up my chance to go to London. Maybe it would decrease the tourist population going over there where I can only see the positive side. Less que lines more things for me to do there.

Lenny is on leave today and tommoro to take care with his fathers 1 year anniversay prayers. His mum has been under the weather recently....

Diary: 6 Wednesday Pressure

Just when I taught everything was over they throw me another project. Dont they know I'm going on leave next week. I cant worry about this crap can I. And it hand to be a tedious project. What I really need ! ! ! ! Well i just have to delegate it to someone I guess. My position as a Manager has been question recently as I have employed someone hopeless. Well they is no breaks for a manager apparently. So my thing has been tarnished abit. I need to fire the chap that i just hired.... I dont think its gonna be hard as I am heartless (thats what they say)

Can someone please tell me what 'tackness' is apparently I have none of that. Please do inform me. Hopefully I can get some in London. hahahahaha.....

There are still few thing i need to get before i go to London like proper socks, biscuits, etc. Will do it tis weekend before i close my suitcase for good.

Diary: 5 July Tuesday's Confusion and Clearence

I can say I've finished all my projects today. Most of the projects have been passed to my sub-ordinates. Looks like I'm at the clear to go on my leave with a clear conscience… YEAH RIGHT!! ! ! I honestly do feel a lil freedom as most of my current work has been handed over. I’ve come up with a task list of things to do and handed over to my subs to follow. They are a great team the lot of them with a lil few bad apples thrown along but they are a great people. I cant wait for this Saturday as the content team will meet up for a Chinese dinner. I wish I could meet up with Mel. I do hope we can meet him this weekend. Friday I hope? Finger cross.

Diary: 4 July Monday Blues

Just dropping by a lil note to say I hate Mondays. And apprently one of my collegues boy friend has found my website and suspects on her as her name is SHARON. Well to that reader to bad you wont really know the truth, I dont think Sharon's gonna tell you the whole truth anyways is she...

There is another 10 more days till i fly to london kind of nervous a bit dont know why. Bags not really packed. I'll just have to finalise everything this weekend. I made black pepper steak yesterday for lunch with a side of veggie. It was a good meal. Ok then, so long for now... Bye

Diary: Tis Week not in Order

The week has been good to me. All I can think about is my trip to London very soon. I got my traveling insurance which so happens covers terrorism attacks and if I die my mum’s rich by RM200, 000. I’m lil nervous with my trip I haven’t been anywhere alone, always with a group of friends or family but this was what I really wanted to do anyway. So it’s less than 11 days to go till the big day where I fly to big UK

I cant really remember much about the whole week except to the fact that we are going to have another pot luck on the 13th of July. Lenny is once again ‘enforcing’ everyone to bring something now the list of people coming has increased. Currently the confirm dishes are nasi minyak, nasi tomato, ayam merah, jelly, drinks, potato salad and the list goes on. I think I’ll ask mum to make sambal prawns.

I had a meeting with Walls, I felt like crap in that meeting. My work was rejected on Lester words was ‘rubbish’ I felt like a shitter. After all the work I’ve done and that’s how I’m re-paid. I hate last minute jobs they never really tell you what they want because they don’t really have the time and when you do it doesn’t come up like how they envision it they screw you because they never really told you what they really wanted. The meting was rewarding actually. It was all the ice-cream you can eat kind of meeting. I had 2 almonds Magnum (pig ain’t I). I was just there for support I guess.

Jennifer is in hospital for an appendix operation. That poor gal has been complaining with stomach aches for sometime now and we bad people a have been teasing her that’s it’s only her baby kicking. Lenny made Winnie cry the other day. It was not actually his fault we were given the task to take care of soft marketing which includes broadcasting as July was already here we were to quickly come up with the broadcast schedule and pass it to Winnie. Being new in the job we made a lil mistakes. Winnie felt pressured by our request that she broke down.

Sachein got married last Sunday. The lot of us went for his wedding there were 2 AKN Mtech tables arranged for us lot. I came in my Indian kurtas, it was a sweet wedding. Everyone asked me when my turn was and I told them NEVER, I’m already married with my work. Lenny said I would definitely get married and when it comes it will be so fast that I won’t know what hit me… Scary Wei. Hehehe. The Indian wedding was quite short we came at 11 and saw Sachein getting ready for his wedding the whole ‘prayers’ took about 1 hour then it was lunch, ang pow session and we were out. It didn’t really feel like a wedding if you know what I mean. After the wedding I headed home to watch some DVD. I watched Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, which to me was complete rubbish. Hey, I already sound British. The movies hype didn’t live up to the movie to my opinion.

Last Saturday I was on standby for the Maxis 3G launches. I decided to be some place near by the office just in case any chit happen so I headed to Midvalley to do a lil grocery shopping. As you all know I’ve packed on a couple of pounds as I’ve stopped going to the gym and not eating healthy. Not wanting to grow anymore I’ve decided to change my whole eating habits. So I got loads of stuff from Carrefour Steak, boneless chicken, pasta , etc. On my way there I saw this booth that said ‘Instant Dict’ I was telling myself How many punch line I could come up with. I headed straight home later after that lugging month’s supply of food. Let’s see how long I last with this.

After reaching home it poured heavily so I couldn’t really go anywhere but be quite at home and wait for any shit to happen. Then it happen I got a call to come down to KLCC (Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre) to check up on stuff. I headed there at about 5 p.m. and meet up with Ezani and Rizal. You could see Aknmtech Banner put up. Quite proud I guess. After hanging around there I taught it would be useless just do walk aimlessly like an idiot so I headed to Kinokuniya and got myself 2 books. Looking at the time I decide to not be on standby and go to Sg Wang to get some DVD. I finally got the Blade DVD Trilogy, and some other stuff. I reached home later and watched lil TV and I fell into deep sleep.