2 more months!

2 more months on this date, i will be going to nepal, annapurna base camp trek!

my love of 豆沙餅

recently, i just came back from penang after a weekend of hawker food binge.. and of course, i bought one of their famous food back to KL with me, it’s either Gee Hiang’s or Hin Heang’s 豆沙餅.. they are very famous in malaysia for that..

i can finish a box of 24 within 2 days.. the locals call them ‘tau sar piah’..

my first fond memory of having them was when i were still in my primary school days.. my sister and i, my parents and another cousin went together with my parents to penang for holiday, and we stayed at batu ferringhi..

i remembered that i were swimming at the hotel’s swimming pool, and i played water basketball with a few people in the pool then, it was not much of a basketball, we were just passing the ball around and shooting some hoops..

i was so tired after spending about 1.5hrs in the pool, and when i went back to my hotel room, i found that my parents had bought a box of 豆沙餅, and it was on a glass table. i didn’t know how it tasted then, so i took one and put in my mouth.. i didn’t know if it was really that good, that i ended taking a few more right after, or it’s just because i were hungry after my exertions in the pool.

and so, the place where we stayed then, batu ferringhi and 豆沙餅 are now happy memories that i keep with me.. and whenever i visit penang, i try to make it a point to go batu ferringhi, or at least gurney, and at the same time, find some 豆沙餅..

i think in the future, when i have kids, i would do exactly the same thing.. getting ready some really good snacks, i.e, 豆沙餅, and have them ready when they’re done with swimming.. or football, or badminton…..

love is good..

funny conversation

just happened with my colleagues, they were asking where i wanted to go for my birthday lunch meal together..

SC: so Jacky, where you wanna go for your birthday lunch? we’re fine with anything…
me: ok, dim sum? sister’s cafe? or indian food?
SC: but i don’t like indian food wor..
me: ok, then sister’s cafe? they offer more variety?
SC: the food there is ‘ok’ only wor..
me: then dim sum?
SC: can la, but i’m fine with anything.. why not we go for thai food?
me: ok, works too!
SC: ok, let’s go thai food then.. but it’s your birthday lunch, you choose la, we’re fine with anything..

hahahaha! funny, no?

SC is a younger female colleague… hahahahaha

二十是摸索，三十是争取

i had an interesting, coincidental meeting with an old concord college friend in singapore over the weekend, i was transiting from San Francisco, to Singapore, and in my Singapore to KL leg, i met my college friend whom i’ve not met for 2yrs.. he’s Wee Kok, an old buddy of mine, and we were both at the airport 2hrs+ early!

it was a real coincidence bumping into him there.. i apologised to him for missing his 3rd baby’s full moon party, and after a black face, we were fine again.. we agreed that the past 8-9yrs since Uni passed by so quickly, and he was my junior in college, he is married, settled down with 3 kids.. doing well apparently, he is after all, working for his family as a property developer.. he has never worked for a big corporate before, and all his working experience was being a boss and developing property..

he has seen much different things from where a corporate employee would see into.. and he told me that if i felt the past 10yrs passed by quickly, the next 10yrs will pass by even more quickly! which i totally agree! the past 10yrs for me was that i was finding my feet, moving around the investment industry, trying things out, and even spent a year and two trying to make a business venture work but was later played out at the end.. if 21-30 was really a time where i were finding my feet, then 31-40 would really be settling things on one and set fly on it..

i’ve got an offer to work for a foreign fund based in malaysia, and if i were to accept, would mean that in future, i would have an easier route, better cv to get out of malaysia to work.. while at the same time, be able to do my responsibilities as a son spending time with my father in KL in this moment of time.. career-wise, i think my 31-40 has got on to a good start with this new job offer.. 31-40, what others have i got to achieve? none other than starting up a settled family life..

i was in Houston, Tx attending my senior’s wedding, and he said, he had it planned.. he coined it his 5yr plan, getting a secure job, finding a wife, and having kids at the end of the 5yrs plan. he is on track, he got married on the 3rd of 5yrs.. and so i thought that i should have something like that in my life too.. kids i’m not so sure, but i would like to start my own 3yr plan.. to find a gf/wife, hang around together for a bit and settle down by 3yrs.. i missed and stepped onto many potholes in my 21-30, but for 31-40, i am so ready to get that right! career, love and family, let’s do it!