Life in Pune ...

This week was a boring week for me. Planned to go paragliding but then didn't make it. Got to wake up really early in the morning and with the super duper hot and dry weather, all these really makes me back off with my plan.

Didn't go anywhere except to spend times in the bookstores. Yah, Landmark again. Spent few hours there read books without paying. Such a cheapo...When i were leaving the place, those street beggars came and begs at me and ideed touched me. YUKES !!! .... As soon i got back, i removed my shirt and jeans and asked the caretaker to washed it...

I've been leaving my camera in the apartment and i got no mood at all to take photos over here. I think i've went to most of the place in Pune and nothing much that i could shoot anymore.

I've been on a vegetables diet for this whole week. It's so damn hard to find green leafy vegetables. The other day bought a brinjal and ask the caretaker to cook it. The most i like from the vege menu of his is the mushrooms. The rest are so so.

Well probably i am bored seeing too much of same skin color which not attractive at all. I tried to find if there's any fashion show going around in Pune. Too bad there was one in Delhi.

As for work wise, now pending only on the network equipments delivery. The delay was due to there is some monetory issues. Awaiting for the commercial team to settle it. Last Friday, the commercial lady told me it has been settled and as today i checked, there are still issues.Haih .. All this really fucked up. So i can't take it anymore and wrote an email to escalate directly to steering committee. I used bold red font. Well i think it's not that right for me to do that BUT i am a PM, well it's my job to let them know that is a critical issues and if it doesn't resolve soon, it is going to dragged the whole project schedule.

Well when i am back to Malaysia, i'll want to participate in a portraiture workshop if there's any. Or i will setup one by myself. Who wants to be my model? Let me know yah ...

Weekend Check Out ...

As per planned, we all went to shopping in Laxmi road. This place is like Petaling Street which we have back in Malaysia. It is bigger than Petaling Street.

You can get lots of stuff here in Laxmi Road. The important thing is, it is cheap. Shopping around here is fairly easy. They have dedicated sections for all the stuff such as one section for clothes, another one for shoes, bags, books and etc.

We surveyed the place first when we reached. We saw a row of bookstore and i managed to get a book. Then we proceed to hunt for sarees. Ha ha .. We were surprise to found the sarees there is way much cheaper ... It's only Rs 180 ..darn cheap. Of course the quality is only so so ..
See the price, you'll know how good it is already. Well doesn't matter, we just buy it as a souvenier. We end up with 6 Sarees an few books... hehehe ...

Then we head to Hard Rock Cafe to buy shot glass .. The environment there as usual very nice and right next to it, there is a swimming pool swarmed by 'Ang Moh' .. And i found something there. MASSAGE by the pool side .. Will go there again for massage. Sure no hanky panky since it is open area. ha ha ..

We felt tired after that and went back to guesthouse to rest. Later at night we took a Tuk Tuk out to SOHO for dinner. A nice place to dine. We ordered some soup, main course consists of Lamb, Chicken and Fish(Indian food) and a pitcher of beer. I can't finish my portion of food.
Gosshh .. i am super full since the lunch i took...

So today, i told the caretaker to cook all vege dishes for our dinner tonight. NO MEAT! ... i ate meat until i am afraid of it .. Yes i am a karnivor, but here, the mammals are extreme on the meat they consumed and the portion they can offer to you ...

Picture coming soon

Once Upon A Time

I was digging some of my files in the notebook. Then i found some old pictures taken with my dogs. Looking back at it, i really missed them especially Prince and Coco. I sent Prince to Canada and Coco to a home in Melaka. The last i heard of Coco was that she went missing. I were so sad to heard the news.

Coco. My first Miniature Pinscher

As for Prince, i think he enjoy very much running in a big enclosure. Well you know, those kuai lou have big land. Hope he's doing fine with whoever he with now.

Young Prince

I missed those days where me and Chia in the show ring competiting our dog with others. We used to be very active in dog show. We do crazy things like wake up in the middle of the nights and drove all the way to Penang and straight enter the show ring without any sleep, chat about dogs till really late night and bring our dogs out frequently to socialized them.

Fah. Thai & Mal Champion

At that time, we are showing 2 bitches, Summer and Fah. Both of them really made us proud. Especially Summer, Chia has spent a lot of efforts to train her from young. She beat most of the min pins in the show ring. We've been offered with quite a number of people to buy Summer with a good amount of money. But we just rejected them. Are we stupid or what? No. We loved animals very much. They are like our own baby. We don't want them to falls into a hand that people used to breed and make money.

Summer with Me

Anyway, we are low profile type. We don't go and make issues or get involved in politics. Dog show world is very small and sensitives. Even though we didn't go and create problems, people will create problems with us. We just ignore and let them be. DOn't want to spend energy in this kind of non-sense thing. We are just into the dog show games for the sake of our hobby.

Kopper with Me

Then it came Prince. He is Summer's son. He made us proud as well. A little bit of naughty (due to i pampered him too much) but perform well in show ring. After a few years of showing, Chia had his first baby. We slow down a lot and slowly quit the game. Of course we still have the dogs with us.

Gathering my team..hahaha ...1st pic (Left to Right) Summer, Prince, Coco, Fah, Xena and Kopper

Now and then, we still chat about it. And sometimes browsing the breeders web sites makes our hand really itchy and our brain gone crazy. ha ha ..

Landmark Bookstore

After lunch today, we went for shopping. Yes, we went to shop for books. Heard that the book in the bookstore here is cheap.

Before lunch, KS was busy googling the map where to find bookstore nearby. So after we finished our meal, I told Mark (sort of our partner) that we are going to search for bookstore. Well he tagged along and told us he saw a bookstore nearby. So he brought us there. The bookstore is the 2nd largest in India, it's called LandMark. So we browsed through the books. KS was looking around for all the books that TT asked him to buy.

Hi Hi ...

While i were browsing thru the books and magazines, saw 2 categories which really caught my attention. 'Kamasutra' & 'Erotica', which i really like a lot. ha ha ... So straight away i dart to that sections and flip thru few books under the Erotica category. Those books are really interesting. I'll go back there and buy as my collection and also to gain 'MORE KNOWlEDGE'. I already have a copy of "Kamasutra" at home so i don't bother to see it.

I didn't buy any books but the rest of them got themselves a copy of two. While waiting for them to pay at the counter, i walked out at took few shots. There are quite a numbers of beggar outside. So i saw a lady was sitting there, i quickly snap snap .. she turned her face and saw me taking photos. She stand up and came towards me. Without waiting for more than a second, straight away i walked back into the bookstore. ha ha ..

After they paid, we return to customer's site and then spent about 2 hours there before we came home. I've asked the taxi to come and pick us up tomorrow for our clothes hunting. Ciao!

Boring Day

Someone has complaint to me that i didn't update my blog for this week. She keep logging in and there's nothing new and this has dissapointed her. So i better write something now or else i will loose my one and only reader. ha ha

It's another Saturday, I've been here in India for 2 weeks. Pretty boring today, came to site waiting for the IPs and power source which took them for ever to provide it to us. So you may wondering what am I doing here? Well chatting, browsing and talk non-sense loh ..

Well i guess i am not the only one who is not in the mood of working... hehe ... That is why we can talk non-sense to each other. Well today the caretaker prepared some bread and ommelete for our breakfast. I took only a few as it's not to my liking. The white bread here is not as nice as those back in Malaysia. I've been searching for whole week where i should go for a good massage. My body really aching. Maybe because of the sitting posture is incorrect which makes me feel really uncomfortable.

At the same time, i am thinking where shall i go tomorrow. I might be suggesting to Loo that we should go to Laxmi Road. I believe we can get something relatively cheap over there. Heard that this place is really cramped. But i believe it's a nice place to take photos too.

Ok folks. It's now time for lunch. I am bugging them to make a move fast as today i am very hungry. Need to walk under the hot sun to take our lunch at the same old place, Blue Nile restaurant.

Day Tour in Pune

We finally reached our target yesterday to complete all the major works. Left over now only some fine-tuning here and there. So me, Loo and KS went out to romp around in Pune city's attractions.

I planned out the few places where we wanted to go. Aga Khan Palace, Shaniwar Waada, Katraj Snake Park, Parvati Hills, Pateshwalar Caves, Osho Ashram and
shopping in Laxmi Road. The driver told us Laxmi Road is very congested area and we cancel the idea going there.

First destination was the Agha Khan Palace. Very near to the place we were staying. As a foreigner in India, we'll need to pay Rs 100 which is about RM 8 to enter the palace. Each of the rooms displayed some history and footsteps of Gandhi. There are few floors in the palace but only the ground floor being open up for
visitors. One thing we found is that the conservation of the left over such as clothes, some scriptures and photos were not properly taken care off. Such a pity scene. Those things are such valuables and should take good care of it so that the next generations will have the chance to see it as well. The tour in the palace was a short one. Nothing much in there.

The Palace

Then we proceed to Osho Ashrams. Sadly, when we were there we are not allow to take photos, not allow to enter to any of their buildings. From outside, it
looks really a serene place. This is a place where a lot of foreigners comes for in-depth learning of yoga and also meditation. We proceed to the visitors' counter, with a minimal fees of Rs 10, they'll take us on a short tour in Osho Ashram and introduction on their courses. Too bad, they only allow certain numbers of people per day and need to make 1 day advance booking. There will be 2 daily tours at 11am and 2pm. Anyhow, we will go back to this place again next weekend. We saw those people are wearing maroon robes which is very nice.. Me and Loo will buy 1 each.

The next destination, the Shaniwar Waada. Nothing much there as well, quite dissapointed. Paid Rs 100 to enter this fort. (Haih) ..boring place. Went in
there and the only thing we saw is a big garden. Spent less than half an hour and we move on to Parvati Hill.

Walking Up Parvati Hill

This time, KS said he will wait for me and Loo. He doesn't want to go up with us. He's afraid of the heat. So me and Loo proceed walking up to the hill top. In total there were 108 steps up. My goodness, with the heat, i dehydrated so fast and i breath really heavily and felt a bit of dizzy. Almost blackout. ha ha ... I think i am the abnormal one, Loo is ok .. Once reach to the top, luckily there was a small shop selling water ... Oh yah .. on the way up, there is a stinky dung smells, that makes me almost throw out and my dizziness got worst. After a few snap shot, we walked down again.

Really exhausted that time. Told the driver we cancel the idea of the rest of the place. Just bring us to shopping and we wanted to have our lunch in a shopping mall. The driver drove us to few of the shops but we didn't buy anything. The price tag are quite expensive for sari. Well i think we will really needs to go to those market area where the items are cheaper and bargaining power is higher. Laxmi Road or Fashion street is somewhere we need to shop to get cheap stuff rather than those shops meant for up-market people in India.

We finally took our lunch in Mc Donald. They don't have Beef burgers so Big Mac is not in their menu. We go for a similar items which is the Chicken Maharaja. It taste ok with the punch of Indian massala. Not too bad. After lunch we stroll around in the mall for a while to see what we can buy. Surveyed the Saris in the mall as well but then we still consider it is expensive. We then proceed back to our guesthouse and then take a rest. Now is 1.20 am India time, feeling tired and need to sleep already .. Ciao !

Chicken Maharaja

Oh yah, about the Saris, most to the shops are trying to sells us about USD 70-80. Forget about it ....

Saturday..A Working Day For Us

Saturday. Supposingly planned for a muck around town with the team. But too bad our work has not completed yesterday. We targeted to complete our end first at least we are prepare for any unexpected things from the top management. As usual today reach to BSNL switch room and starts our work. After about half an hour, there's power surge again. So now is kinda romantic ..hehe .. kind of cozy here except for the chair i am sitting. Really not comfortable. Need some massage..hehe ..

This is where we work

Before going on-site, my first things to do once wake up is to open up my notebook and start composing my daily EOD updates for my superior and also the steering commitee. Sometimes i will crack my head in what word to use so that i look professional. Ha ha . But who cares, just write it in my own way. I tried to send out this updates daily by the end of day before i go back to the guesthouse but always failed. Nevermind, as long as i send something, they will be happy.

The security in the switch room here is very loose. They didn't control who is accessing the switch room. Whoever wants to access just go ahead. Secondly, they didn't bother as well who is the one that access to the building. So anything could happens anytime.

People keep telling that we are having a life like a King here because got caretaker to cook breakfast, partner paid our lunch most of the time, and dinner has been taken care off by caretaker as well. Me and Loo both of us not too used being treated so good. Where ever we went out for food, they'll really served you. Even when you wanted to add on rice which is on the table itself, the waiter will not let you do it on your own. At guesthouse, the caretaker, will let us know when food are ready and he will wait till we finish and then serve us dessert. He will just sit in the kitchen whenever we are eating or at home. Both of us really feels bad.

The Briyani really Nice!!

As for the car driver who drove us everyday to work, will wait us outside till we finish work. They sent us to work in the morning and waited till very late at night to drive us back. Again we felt bad. Haih .. maybe we are borned to be Fan Jin maybe ...Looking at this, yah we do have life like a King.

Dinner at Yoko Sizzler before Sun Lei leave India the next day ..

But indeed NO. The whole team really work our ass out. Everyday came home with a tired face. But still every night when we are having dinner, i'll talk some non-sense and some "Adult Talk" to make all of us laugh. I believe this release stress. ha ha ... Indeed we all just keep our sadness to our own.. 'San Fu Chi Kei Chi' (Cantonese) ... UC, you should treat us better ... hahahaha ...

Network Dummy

I feel like i am such a small potato. Reason being is that all the technical network stuff, i got no idea how it really works.. (Haih) .. not able to help at all ...
Really feels i am useless. Such a lousy PM ...

Luckily Loo and his team is here together with Sun Lei ..
Apparently, Sun Lei is the PPMG but then he knew all the in and out of network stuff...

Damn, i feel so malu ... I really needs to brush up my networking skills already ... Maybe Loo can give me some crash course ...

Happy Holi

It was a harvest celebration in India yesterday, 11/03/09. Too sad that we are not able to go out and stroll around to see how it was as we need to work. Holi celebration is also known as the celebration of colors.

These 2 days, everyone will be in colors from head to toe. The people over here in Pune is much more respective towards strangers. In Mumbai and Delhi, once you are on the street, you got no escape. They just pour colors on you. If they really did that, you are not allow to get mad instead must be happy and greet each other 'Happy Holi' ...

Taken this from inside the car, don't know where are they going...

Any how, our caretaker, did put a little bit color on our face ... So consider celebrating together.. At first i were thinking to go out and get crazy with the local people here ... hehehe ... just too bad not able to make it ...

Mildly drawn some colors on our face before we go to work ...

It's really a colorful India ...

Journey To The Incredible India

Yesterday, Ivy sent me and Loo to KLIA. She left after accompany me for a while. This time round, don't know why i started to miss her already even when i still in Malaysia. Doesn't matter ..

So she left after we checked in our luggage. We (Me, Loo & KS) went straight to the boarding area while awaiting to get on-board.

While waiting, i played with my new phone, Nokia E71. Able to hooked on to the wireless LAN and did some browsing. Drop a message on my facebook, chatting and etc...

Our approximately 5 hours air ride to Mumbai is quite confortable. Reaching in Mumbai around 10.30pm (India time). It doesn't took us long to get our passport stamped. One thing i notice while queuing, that all the custom officers kept their mustache. Neatly trimmed and nicely comb. I don't dare to take out my camera to snap some evidence. He he he ..

We proceed to the baggage claim area and waited for our baggage to comes out. Well it took a while for my baggage to comes out. We saw a first drama at the airport. We don't actually knew what has happen but we roughly guess it's something to do with the baggage. The lady was shouting and shouting at one of the airport staff. Shouted in Indian and mixed with bits of 'Inglish' ... what i heard is something like "THERE'S NO ONE RESPONSE...BLA BLA BLA .. AND I WILL MAKE A POLICE REPORT BLA BLA BLA"... Duh~~~ just a small matter but make it such as a big problem ...

Apperantly there was a chinese guy right besides me. He also felt it's funny and he said that's the culture here to get things done.. ha ha ... So for me to get things done here in India, i will need to shout at them and go report police ... muahahaha ...

Then we headed out to find our driver at around 11.30pm. We were scared on the way they drove. My goodness, the traffic lights meant nothing to the traffic over here. I was at the front seat, during the journey to Pune, our life is in BIG danger. A few times, the cab is like almost bang to the big lorry. I was not able to take a good photos from inside the car.

We kept laughing for awhile condemning their traffic rules and the way they drive. After a while, We were too tired to think about our life safety, we just slept. But me and KS, we were waken up few times due to the great driving skill. Ha ha .. i felt stupid that time but i can't control it. We terkejut from our sleep and the ride was so bumpy. Luckily we were in a Toyota Innova cab. The quality of Toyota is really no doubt.

At around 3.30am, we reached our guesthouse (it's actually an apartment or they called it FLAT). Went in straigth away took my bath and jump onto the bed.

Me Back On The Blog ... Again! ....

Hi to my blog readers (As if i have many readers) ...

Sorry for abandoning my blog writing for quite some time. It's quite hard to maintain updating my blog frequently. I think it's just me being lazy.
Promised to myself and my blog reader(s), I will update my blog more frequently from today onwards.

I got a news on few days back where i am required to fly to India, Pune to be exact, to be the site Project Manager. Frankly speaking, i am a bit worried this time. Reason being was i need to manage our vendors and also my own team. Another things worries me was the job that i am going to take over. I were not involved in any of the discussions as well as any of the email loop on the network and hardwares. Hope that i will be able to pick up it fast enough. Anyhow I feel lucky enough to have a group of my own team members which is very experience enough going together. Loo, a person with unique characters, always being a mentor to me on all the hardware, SS7 , network & everything related to IT. KS & JJ, a really reliable team members. They always give suggestions and have self initiatives to solve a problems without me worrying too much.

When i got to know about this work trip news, as usual, planning to muck around town will not be missed out. Browsed the WickiTravel and already have some brief idea where to go. Not too sure if i will be going together with the team. I am sure they will not be able to tolerate with my travelling style. So i think it's a good thing to go on my own.

This morning, WH came to my house to collect the the pictures shooted yesterday night for our company annual dinner. I felt a bit embarrased due to my house was in a big mess. So she came in and entertained herself with my notebook while waiting for Elbert and HK to reach my place to fetch her for lunch. Then i remember, i found a very interesting blog which i knew that will really entertain WH. It's a blog belongs to someone WH hates him to death. Ha ha ha .. I found that fella's blog while browsing the usj community forum. Because of my so 'Caring' character (In other word, Busy Body), i clicked on the blog link and realised it belongs to someone i knew.

I were right, that blog's content really entertained WH a lot. She was laughing shit while reading the blog. ha ha ..
Even thought she keep saying 'This kind of man, really cannot stand him ... ', but she can't kept her eyes away from the screen reading some of the interesting contents and also looking at the half naked photos and 1 full naked photo of him. Oh, his dick has be cut out...(from the photo) ...

Well, Elbert & HK arrived my house not long after that and they all went out for lunch ...

Ok guys and gals... To welcome me back to the blogging world, I present the below my version of of short epic love story made out from the photos taken yesterday night:

Aloysous Wong

In the world of attraction, there was this guy, Aloysous. Handsome and cute. Fall in love deeply with a girl of his dream, Winnie. After some courtship, they are finally together. Their love affection to each other has bond them closer everyday. One fine day, this cute fella, planned to proposed to Winnie on her birthday. So he throw an unforgetable birthday party for her.

Aloysous Singing 'Endless Love'

Aloysous gets to do his first speech and song for the birthday girl.

Aloysous : Tq everyone for attending this special event of my life.....
Winnie : (Thinking in her heart) .... What is this guy doing?, It's my birthday and what it got to do with him. Anyway, that's part of him i love...

Instead of singing a birthday song, Aloysous will sing his heart out.....

Aloysous : Well honey, I dedicated this song specially for you....

Winnie was so surprise as Aloysous never sing in front of everyone and this time, the song is for her...She was so touched by him ... There's tears in her eyes ...

There you go, this young man sang the song with full of feelings, "Endless Love" ....
Winnie was so touched with the charm of this young man singing. The even more surprise was after the song ended.

Aloysous : Winnie, since i've met you. I cherish every moment being together with you.
You've light up my life and i want you to keep lighting me till the day we steps into
heaven....

.... Winnie's heart really melts and smile really happily ...

Winnie smiles from her heart

Aloysous : (Kneel down on the stage) ... Will you marry me????

She lets her tears flows out and ran on the stage and said "Yes I do" .....

They married and live happily ever after. They are blessed with a cute and handsome son, Andrew Wong.

Andrew Wong

Aloysous (After 10 years)

Years pass by and everything changed except their love to each other. They still look charming anyway.... Aloysous again sing to Winnie in a birthday bash that he throws .....

Winnie (After 10 years)

This has been like bringing Winnie back to 10 years back. She still smile like an angel. Look at those eyes ...Awwwhh .. still the same pair of eyes filled with joy and happiness seeing and listening to her hubby singing....

Winnie : Aahhh...My hubby, still as cute and handsome as he is 10 years back ...

~The End~

That's all folks .. Now is 3am, the above story just pops out from my mind when i saw the sequence of the photos ... so i just wrote it out for some entertainment purposes .... hehehehe ....