Winter in Yokohama

Alliance concept commercial review brought me here to Yokohama which I travelled together with my junior colleague on Sunday morning (sacrifice one day of my weekend). My 5th trip to Japan but this is my first time in Yokohama . It's cold here, the temp range of 0 - 5 deg C. As to avoid freezing, I put on several layers of clothes... inc. wool jumper ... so bulky. I was hoping that I won't hv to come here this time but it was not agreed by pm. However, I'm considered lucky to be able to escape from the dept away day... I tot I'm the only who think that way but surprisingly both my junior & pm also have the same tot... haahaha... Looking at the away day agenda, we can predict it'll be soooo boring. Away day @ to work... It's better coming here to work & shop ... hehehe. Before coming here, I kept reminding myself for not buying stuffs as every time I travel to Japan, the pulus also travel gitu... But blame it on hotel I'm staying now which is just next to takasyimaya and 10 mins walk to another shopping malls. As helpless as ever, after office hour this evening my colleague and I went to takasyimaya to window shop but ended with shopping. Next we moved to Minato Mirai to take pics of the nite view with the Ferris wheel background. Unplanned we came across the hard rock cafe... ended up with buying stuffs... Shopping is sort of a mind therapy to us, esp. after our so called hard work. Well, it makes me feel so good until I see my credit card statement ... :P

Ferris wheel in Minato Mirai

Yokohama hard rock cafe

In front of Yokohama landmark tower

My KL colleague, not japanese

Pejam celik pejam celik...

~Nov 2007~

Akid's 'graduation' day

Happy birthday mama (2 Nov 07)

Cepatnya masa berlalu, tup tap tup tap, we're already in 2008. A lot of things happen either personally or within our surroundings.

This year, Akid goes to a standard one class in a new 'real' school, bye-bye kindergarten. This year too, we're settling down in another place, a new housing area, Prima Saujana. Well sayonara Alam Damai... It had been a lovely place for us, with lots of memories both happy and not so happy moments in our life. We moved in Alam Damai in 2001, I can still remember in 1999 hubby and I travelled all the way from Kuantan (driving), early in the morning to the Alam Damai sales office and returned to Ktn on the same day. At that time we were still young & energetic and we used to travel domestically by car a lot...

Last fasting month, Akid managed to fast for about 15 days. He was just six and he loves food, so fasting was so challenging for him. The first few days of fasting was really a challenge to him even to wait till zuhur, mcm nak mati lah bg dia. After half of the mth, he got his own courage to complete a full day fasting after he promised to fast if I bought him the 'monsters' from Japan:) Yes he really did what he promised.... very impressive... Ragam bebudak masa puasa tak yah citer...mcm2, dgn merengek, melepek, kejap2 bukak peti sejuk, cium food dlm peti... layan jer lah just that kena selalu monitor...

Last year, the public shock of heartless killing of Nurin Jazlin was not yet over but again early 2008, we were stunned by the missing of a little innocent girl, Sharlinie. I remember, it was so sad reading the news about the cruel death of Nurin Jazlin on the flight from Narita to KL last September. As for Sharlinie, hopefully and I pray to Allah she'll be safely returned / found.... I can't imagine if I'm in her mother's shoe....

Again last month, I travelled to Tokyo for the submission of BDP pkg. The Project Manager was away for Hajj, so Lida, Rizal and I were representing on behalf of GTS. It was fun going there without the PM, hehehe. Lida & I went there earlier on Sat nite so that we had some time in preparing ourselves for a meeting on Sun. Approaching winter, the weather there was cold...

~December 2007~

Mount Fuji near Gotemba Factory outlet... too bad tak nampak sgt, dilitupi awan.

Hanya kitaorg jer yg tau, frust tul tak dpt amik gambar ms clear pg tu, sebok nak shopping dulu...

Ginza street before Christmas day, ramai tul manusia...

Siap tutup jalan tuk org ramai bershopping...

Lovely scenery during fall season

@ Imperial garden

Imperial castle

After some years

Within few yrs, some of my plants which I bought in small pots from several nurseries become gigantic.... Love watching them grow, just like watching my son grows... We moved-in here, to Alam Damai in 2001 - the yr I gave birth to Akid. After some yrs settled down here...

This plant (not sure of what it's called) was 1 ft tall when I first bought it.

The 'juniors'

membiak jugak pokok ni...

So excited to see the blooms :)

If I'm not mistaken, this one is called Cow horn.

Bought it in a small pot and took years to bloom,

Only recently produced flowers ...

Sunway Lagoon...

Last 2 wks, we went to Sunway Lagoon, at last after being postponed for so many times... Well, we had planned for that since quite a long time ago (since last yr if not mistaken)... Luckily Akid is already 1.2m which he could enjoy most of the rides except the ones require the min ht of 1.4m.

Mcm tak puas hati suh kuar pool & ajak balik...

Walaupun dah berjam-jam main air...

We didn't dare to try this one... scarry huh...

A must place for ladies...

The Eng. group flew back to KL on Sat. morning but the 3 of us, Joe, Lida & I extended our stay and booked flight back to KL on Sun. On Sat. we took shinkansen together with Rizal our resident engineer, to the factoty outlet in Sano... so sempatla jamu2 mata. Now back in KL, my boss dah mintak outstation report... nak report yg mana satu ya, Sano, Ginza, Roponggi, Tokyo tower, Akihabara, Akasuka, Ueno ker which report ni? Klu report psl tu laju la sket, ahaks...

Malas nyer nak buat kerja, too many different tasks to sort out... Dgn project PML Revamp yg kejap2 call mcm talian hayat, dgn this Imperial project, all COP, PRISCOP, IPA, meetings, engagement sessions and what not...malas nak komplen lelebih... Apa2 pun puas hati ke Sano...

Sano Premium Outlet is quite similar to the Bicester Village outlet in UK. Sempat la rembat seketul dua barang2 kat situ, biasala pompuan hehehe...

The most popular store kat situ, penuh jer orang...