Covered 1800km in less than 4 days!

The last weekend travel on the road has been one heluva "exciting" one as I traveled more than 1500km alone! hahaha... let's try this:

16 July 2010 1.30am : KL to Ipoh (200km),... slept for.. wait. I didn's sleep.. cos I was afraid if this big fat hog slept, he wouldnt be able to get up! haha. So, i FB-ed and blogged I think... :P

16 July 2010 7.00am: Ipoh to Penang (150km) Luckily Chee Keat was kind enough to drive me to Penang and back... cause I was practically dead...! Him Keat worked part-time the day before for one of our events, and he followed us back too! 

16 July 2010 9.00am: Arrived in Penang, makan breakfast with my client and discussed some events.

16 July 2010 11.30am: Penang-Ipoh (150km), CK drove me back to Ipoh... Attended the Lions Cabinet Retreat...After the official stuff ended, we went for a fellowship makan2 session with all the Cabinet officers @ the Nga Choy Kai area...

District Governor Hudson Hah addressing the Cabinet

17 July 2010 8.00am (Ipoh-KL 200km) - Went to the APMB for a while before returning to KL to attend my Granny's birthday. Aunty Pak Bee and family from Scotland came back all the way .. I had to skip the Inauguration Dinner of District Governor Hudson Hah...

17 July 2010 8.30pm (KL-Ipoh 200km) - Left the dinner earlier and arrived back at Ipoh.. thank god I had Hui Jing to drive me... cos, I drove for 10 mins and almost fall asleep at the Simpang Pulai rest area. hahaha

18 July 2010 8.30 am (Ipoh) - Lions Cabinet meeting, (1.30pm) Leo RCC Meeting (4.30pm) Went back to my Ipoh House to bathe and relax... (8.00pm Ipoh-KL 200km) And the journey took agesssss!!!!!!! Reached (finally) at about 11.30pm as I stopped a few times to take power naps! That's what I really wanna call it! hahaha. Played flashcards with Baby V for a little while before getting ready for next journey!!!!!

Fuyohhh.. got Certificate of Appointment! :P

19 July 2010 12.30am (KL-Batu Pahat 300km) Victor just finished his graduation ceremony and we ding-donged here and there and finally managed to move! Picked up barang2 at my office and arrived at the Seremban rest area where Victor woke me up and said he beh tahan liao! hahaha... I drove and stopped at the rest area before Ayer Keroh/Melaka... More power naps... this was about 3.30am! Then... I tiba-tiba woke up at 5.05am.. realizing that oh no...! We're so late!... Started driving and the next stop was the Ayer Keroh Jejantas Rest area there where I couldn't take it no more... and parked... put up my legs and reclined the seats... (and SMS Theresa that we won't be able to make it) and slept allllll the way till about 9am++! Hahaha.

19 july 2010 11.30am Arrived at Batu Pahat and rushed to BP High School! Our event haven't ended (phewwww)! One of the many long term commitments of IMNC Lions Club towards the National Kidney Foundation was our Mega scale project, "Save Your Kidneys"!

This is where IMNC absorbs all costs to travel to 100 schools nationwide to give talks as well as conduct exhibitions at selected schools about the dangers of Kidney diseases and kidney failure. I was supposed to introduce Azizi Zakaria, Teen Ambassador of the National Kidney Foundation at the assembly before his talk. However, as I was overly exhausted, I could only apologize and excuse myself for that intro bit and just attend the exhibition. According to the IMNC team, the talk went pretty well! :)

Leo Club of Batu Pahat High School members who were also at the exhibition! I remembered this bunch of highly energetic youths from the June Leo Forum in Ipoh. Their spirit and energy amaze me always!

19 July 2010 3++pm - (Batu Pahat to Johor Bahru 200km?) I cant tahan adi.. luckily Victor was around hence he drove! hahaha. The girls left for JB earlier as I had a short meeting in BP Mall first. Now I'm lying down in bed updating this blog at 2.00am cause tmrw  (20 July) I have a meeting with my clients at 10.30am and Alvin's picking me up (yeyy.. I dont have to drive.. wahhhahahah)! Thereafter, enroute back to KL, we have to drop by at Muar for another meeting at 2.00pm... then, Muar-KL (250km??) and dinner appointment with clients and Simon.....

20 July 2010 - Please do not call me bfore 1pm! Even if there is volcanic eruption at One Utama for that matter.....

 :P

-Alan Thoo-

A Trip Down South... Johor

I landed from Brisbane with Simon at KLIA at approximately 5.50am on the 3nd of July... And to be honest with you.. it wasnt too much a smooth ride... air pockets... bad weather... I beh tahan... (can't stand) it.. and the entertainment system of MAS went kuku-fied! Grrrrrrrghhhh!!! For half of the journey, I depended on my Mac and iPad to keep myself entertained... Sleep? nahhhh! No way! 

Throughout the entire journey didn't manage to get any shut eyes! Sighhhhh.... And the moment I landed, again.. the infamous Alan Thoo's 3R concept....~ RUSH!!! RUSH!!! RUSH!!!!!!!!

Arghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

I was expected to be in Kangar Perlis for my event.. which was the Fiesta Bersama DiGi Perlis... a mini carnival with  staging featuring Diddy Hirdy, Zenny, Azizi, Asyraf, Ben, Aesar Mustafa and BBoys....! I rushed to the taxi stand, got a cab.. and rushed to the Subang Airport!!!! Wa lao... The best thing was... I needed to board the 8.30am flight on Firefly to Alor Star....  Air Asia was full... MAS only had afternoon flights. grrrr... Oh well.. guess what! I made it! The event went well... I flew back to KL on Monday morning... really thrilled to see ah boy.. and Cheryl's so good.. she has trained Baby V to learn to recognize a few words on the flash cards! hehehe.. check this out!

Then... on Wednesday... I had to leave again. Sighhhhh.... Hurts me lots whenever I have to travel out of state, away from my son.... aihhhhh....But work's work... I had to leave for JB to give talks to a few schools in the area on the IMNC's long term commitment to the National Kidney Foundation in creating awareness on kidney disease....!

My duty was to touch on personal experiences and some generic facts on the importance of keeping our lifestyle healthy and to avoid kidney failure! I enjoy doing the talk because this is really something good for me, my work as well as the students!

Well... moving around in JB is kind'a fund cause SALE is on!!!! However, I am very TL because the entire Tebrau City, not even one retailer is an authorized Apple dealer.. I forgot to bring along my iPhone connector... grrRRrrRR.. no sync-ing... and charging! Aih...

Marcus and gang joined me after work and we decided to watch the worsttttt ever franchise of Predators ever....! The storyline sucked big time by the way.. wait.. WHAT storyline... and even the effects was so B Grade no to mention B Grade actors with the twist at the end making no sense and no relevancy at all to the entire plot... sigh... And we tot AVP2 was horrendously bad. ANyways,, if you have eaten at Food & Tea before... oh well.. then nevermind. But, if you haven't .. then DON'T order the "SEAFOOD SAUCE with MAN THAU"..... the seafood sauce is actually some sadly pealed off crab meat (nothing like the menu of course!) and the sauce??? Well ~ how about mixing chilly sauce and tomato sauce and then put a bit of hot water and kacau-kacau? CRAPPPPYYYY!!!!!!!

Oh... don't even order the Wu Thau Kou .. Yam Cake.. which looked pretty nice on the menu (SLR ran out of battery... sorry)... but it turned out to be the lunch for Predators or Aliens.. Look at how ugly looking this piece of Yam Cake is!!! Urgkkkk.. Being so close to Singapore, I had to be a little Kiasu and taste a little bit... and the taste? Waitaminute.. WHAT TASTE???!!

Oh well..... Am at Danga City Mall now... whole PC Fair JB at Persada didnt sell the connectors too... but luckily.. miraculously... Danga City Mall has an IT Center... and MIRACULOUSLY... there's an Apple Authorized Reseller!!!! Wooo Hooooo!!!!!

Gotta Go liao... Heading to makan at Johor Jaya.. the Thin Kai Porridge and Drunken Prawns are calling my name!!!! :P

Ciao!!!!

~Alan Thoo~

Melaka...

This is apparently the famous SATAY CELUP in Melaka. Simon mah brother has always been talking about this great place to eat Satay Celup.. and I really had no idea how bloody disgusting it was till we actually went there and tried it out!!!! It was our after event time @ Melaka... ya, we did an annual dinner event @ Holiday Inn Melaka...

How disgusting???~~~The pics above say it all!!! Well, the entire team enjoyed themselves munching on the Satay that they bloody celup into this pot of gravy that.. erm.. is never cleaned when customers leave. They just.. erm.. top up more sauce!!! arghghhhh

Here;s how they do it!!! pour new
gravy into the pot...then kacau2 it!!! ha ha ha.. funny right..
wait. wrong word used...
DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!

oH WELL.. STILLL.... ppl would eat.. Malaysians mahhh...! :P Take note on the number of sticks Zenny had! DIET KONONNNN!!!!! :p

Then we went jalan2 at the jetty near Holiday Inn...We stumbled upon a place that does foot massage and decided to give it a try. he eh he

A trip to down south....

Well, last weekend was pretty intensed ya! Hmmm. yup! me & Naim, my staff who is the Talent Manager of the DiGi CelebriTeens..., took the celebriteens for a 4 show road tour down south! 1st stop was the showcase for the Multiple District 308 Leo Forum @ the Zone in JB. Well, the Fellowship Nite was themed Horror Nite and boy oh! boy... you certainly have Leos really dressed up to the MAX! Well... I couldnt see any Lions dressing up as a dracula or Ju-On or sumthing, but then again, it was dark, so I couldn't really see properly. Anywayz, the celebriteens performed well, and they even got an encore! request oh which Zenny did her high pitch Gemilang that probably might capture Jac's attention when she did the very last note of Realiiiiittttttiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.... (ya... no kidding!). It was really tiring after a long journey, and yup, we went back to my apartment @ Tmn Molek and settled down for the night.. Oh ya, i wouldnt call it a night before a visit to johor Jaya's famous stalls selling that Chicken Wing panggang thingy where you would drool for more even after muching probably a little too many! :P

The next day, of course, we were supposed to get up by 8, of which I was so *(oo)* that I over slept myself (ya, what's new!).. We didnt start our journey till bout midday! hahaha.. ya.. I know..! We travelled back to Seremban where the kiddos performed the opening act for Singaporean new-comer, Lynn Malik!

Here's their showcase.. and to the right is the group with Lynn Malik

After the performance, we headed (again!) straight back to JB and slept at my apartments.. reached there pretty late... and dead tired by then!

The next morning, we crossed the causeway to Singapore! (yeyyy?).. and met up with good pal of mine.. Baki Zainal... Errr...if u dont recognize him.. he's on 8TV on Celebrity Chat and hosted quite a few TV programs b4.. and was also one of the casts of Kopitiam in their last few seasons...Of course, before our showcase that night.. we had to take a scroll @ Orchard Street aye? Everywhere was on sale mannn! haha! really good shopping! I bought erm.. nothing much-lah.. hahaha.. 4-5 Tees, 1 long sleeves... their CK's were relatively cheaper compared to Malaysia's... and erm. souvenirs and stuff like that! ha ah aha.. nuthing much.. :P Well, YOU LOOK AT BAKI yaaa! :P ahhahaa... he had more bags than I you know! :P
Here are some video clips...


It was a lot of fun..Lynn performed first, of course.. then, the kiddos took the stage and sang 2 covers and their original song, Sentiasa.. the BM version of "I'll Be Your Friend"... Well, this was really a good exposure for them.. Oh ya... Saiful from Malaysian idol Season 1 was there too!.. the one who sang "Ku juga mencintai dirimu..." the local version of the hit chinese song - Ching Fei De Eee (clearly shows I'm Banana as hell, right? :P) .. Baki had a bad gastric and had to be admitted. We were so worried, but still had to continue with the show .. Sigh.. but we managed to see him thereafter! Well, Saiful has changed his image quite a bit.. with a new look and new hair-do.. here's a pic of Cheryl & I with him during the JB Finals for DiGi Celebriteen 2006!!!

That's Saiful just 2 years ago!!!

After the show.. we spent a night in Singapore... and travelled to JB the next day to perform the opening act for Lynn again @ Angsana Shopping Mall, JB!

Well.. everyone was extremely tired as we reached no earlier than 10pm that night back to PJ... dead... sleepy, exhausted... and obviously.. me being me... *(oo)*....