SYN Annual Dinner 9th February 2005

Lots to describe...

Extraordinary...

Magnificent...

Exaggeration...

Fun...

Entertained...

Drunk...

Friendship...

Money prizes...?

It was the night i went to have drinks with business friends in Pandan Perdana, Chew, one of the leader told me i was invited to SYN's Annual Dinner... Considered the huge one and grand to everyone who never experienced before...

Just like how? Imagine usually the restaurant you went with your family or your relatives, either with your clients or superiors, most of the time you get to drink beers but not as until you get drunk, or just smoke like you're at mamak stall. When the booze came free-flow, situation won't be much more organised then.

Actually i've heard lots of stories from Chew about the business partners, most of them drive BMW, all the way, some maybe Ferarri, or Benz Sports... It's more than a hundred of BMWs attended one of the business partner's wedding dinner at a high class hotel banquet. When somebody telling me this, they'll have some sort of excitement which whoever listened can almost click the feel from that person. You never seen it you'll never know, so it's sort of a good chance for me to explore, rather blindly believe someone's remarks...

So it begins like this...

The whole day i was doing my stuffs like sending my punch card and uniforms back to Bizarre marketing and went to apply job at Synovate, Mid Valley. First, i did know i've to wait for my payment for a certain period, however i treated as i didn't know about. While consulting with Bizarre's executive, i asked him when i'll get my payment. He sighed for awhile and said it's sort of difficult to tell as he's not in charge of these matters. Thus, i said about the part time's fact, eventually people seeking part time jobs just because they needed more pocket money, also most of the time they'll get the payment as soon as the job finished. He sighed again and tried to explain things doesn't come that simple. What more could i say, when a company wanted promoters urgently, we provide the services by first hand, and when it comes to payment, they'll hesitate to sort it out. What i've heard was only 20 plus of promoters, and the company (Pepsi and Permanis) couldn't make haste dealing people's payment. Yeah yeah, they have lots of departments in a company which they never compromise to setup a specific department for part timers. When people realised that the company take action doubtly, there won't be anyone who's willing to offer to work for them next time. Sorry to say but it has to be done in good impression.

Secondly, i went to meet my girl for lunch. Then only i went to Mid Valley. Synovate was located at Menara IGB, 18th floor. The company was full of fresh grads, sitting at their desks with old computer softwares and telephone making. It seems like telemarketing to me, but the whole idea was to do surveyance on projects given. Once i was there, i was told to fill up application forms, then i'm conducted by Mr. Chan whose a field manager. I asked him lots of questions about how to deal with the job i'm given. The way he explained, heh, just like he almost hard to get it explained. Then i met Chen Nie (the girl i met during my part time job at Fajar Pandan Indah, who's working for Synovate part time in the morning and part time as Ambassador at Zouk during night time), she was surprised that i'm there looking for a job. After my interview with Mr Chan, we talked about few things and i left, back to home. I tried to call my dad about my car's problem (after Kia Seng's open house, my car's tire went flat and during the change, i accidently broke one of the screws, so it remained 3 screws at a tire...), his phone was off, so i've to go to meet Seng and the others at my place's cybercafe...

Since there's a friend i just met has a car, i joined his ride to Restaurant Royal China along Jalan Ampang, opposite Citibank, the place formerly known as Embassy, the club i used to go few years back. While passing through the opposite road of our destination, crowds already packed the entrance full of luxury cars. We parked the car near the place and while walking there, people from SYN also heading there too, dressed formally. We just simply dressed in casual, a tee with jeans, leather shoes or sport shoes... How embarrassing, but when we reached the entrance, everyone's not dressed in formal either, considered we're lucky... Each of us given a ticket to redeem an Ang Pow, so while we're at the redemption counter, pretty girls were there operating it, accompanied with God of Prosperity (Chai Shen), hehe... The scene was exaggerating, about a hundred of tables with all the members of SYN were there, chit chats and photo shooting. I met back my old school mates too, also the members of SYN. Our table was number 59, i heard the drinks (beers and red wines, no brandy or whisky) were free-flowed, so we get to drink all night long without worrying our bills and drinks went finished. My my, the girls dressed hot, i mean FUCKING HOT, so cun till me and my friends can't take our eyes off them. The girls just passing through our table from different directions and i hardly make the opportunity to snap photos at them. There were 9 of us, only Seng can't drink beer. Before the meal came, i already got high, it felt fucking great, a goodness of relief...

There is also game shows but before it started, 2 hosts came out and entertained us with a guy, who himself a manager of the restaurant, sang a few songs of Chinese New Year. He danced great and i could hardly believe he managed to entertain us without thinking his status in there, i wonder how his juniors would thought of him...

The show begins after the karaoke from the manager, and the food was served too to each table. I knew it'll be difficult for the waiters to do their job, so we serve ourselves, the waiters only serve us beers...

First, the lucky draw for 3 winners, then game show. 6 groups of 24 people were selected to play 'dressed a guy to look like God of Prosperity'. I tell you, it's fucking funny. The participants were given 5 minutes to complete the dressing and make ups. And so the participants went busy doing their best to make out a good God of Prosperity with their own goodie bags given. The bags given were randomly items, so it ended out vary and 6 God of Prosperity were look different. Everyone's busy taking pictures and laughed all the way due to their funny looks. Once there was a winner, to be exactly looks like God of Prosperity judged by the audience, will received RM500.

Also by randomly, the hosts will pick 3 lucky draw winners to receive hampers. Then another game show, the participants will have to mimic the Lion Dance, given a mini Lion Head, a mask of Smiling God and a drum set. So there was a girl played Lion Head and won the audience's hearts. They won RM500 thereafter.

Another game show was drinking beer contest. 4 groups with 4 people each will be given a tall beer glass, which i heard each of it contained 2 jugs of beer, and so they had to finish it in the shortest time to be declared as winners. Of course, one of the groups, there's an old man who could drink most of it, and so his group won. No doubt the other participants lost cuz before the game show started, everyone's busy 'Yam Seng' (Cheers) here and there, noisy enough that could hardly listen to the hosts even they've the microphones with them.

Then another game show, the participants had to say out loud of Chinese New Year's wishes. 6 of them and one of them was a girl, and she won cuz she said the most of the wishes while the guys just managed to say 9 or 10 of the wishes... I think by that time everyone's drunk and couldn't think or concentrate. I was fucking drunk too, but still go on.

Lastly, the grand prizes came, with few amounts more than RM1000 to be won. And most of the time our table didn't win anything, later on Steven Yeam became host and personally he gave out a prize which he'll have a grand dinner with the winners. And so Chew was selected and invited to go for the Grand Dinner. But the prize had a condition, the winners must be in an acceptable status, not anyone could possibly join it. Therefore, the dinner has ended, everyone left few by few, some still can't get enough of drinking, some still at the table trying to get sober, some lying on the table couldn't wake up... We left in a hurry cuz my friends had to work the next day. After my friend sent us to our place, i'm still in vain whether i need to go home or not, cuz i'm still drunk and i couldn't sleep in that condition. And so i went to play a few round of games, then i went home and sleep.

Not just the only dinner i attended, on Sunday (it's Chinese New Year's last day and Chinese's Valentine's Day) there's a party at Federal Hotel, along Jalan Bukit Bintang, everyone's invited with their dates or no date. I could say knowing these friends really enlightened my life, with fun and thrills, also enjoy the entertainment like i never experience before...

YEAH BABY!

Where the MONEY's at...

On Friday, i woke up pretty late, nothing to do, went to cybercafe and try out to find my bluetooth device driver files. I had this few attemps on a website called Driverguide (http://www.driverguide.com), you could find various types of driver files for any hardware installed in your pc, even if it's from different developer and series, or types, so much of it. Then i found my own bluetooth device driver file which it's about 40mb size... Wow, i mean, the version was 5.0 something and the cd came along with the device i bought at Carrefour, Mid Valley was just 1.4.2 only... I tried many times from the cd till this driverguide website and still found none that is compatible. Until this Widcomm Bluetooth USB Dongle Driver version 5.0.1.2 1002b (not exactly!) size of 40.2mb that costs me half an hour downloading time at Streamyx 250kbps rate makes me nervous of what if can't work on my god damn bluetooth device? Before i install the driver, i slot in the device at the USB, for sure it'll pop up a menu to ask me installing the device, which i haven't got the files to update the driver. Then i install the Widcomm driver... It happenly automatically installed all the device's files like printers, networking, synchronizing, headset, mouse and keyboard in bluetooth enabled. Then it finally... WORKED! Yay, way to go Andy! Crazyly i free up my phone's memory with all the files transferred into the pc and uploaded into my Gmail account, which each can consumed 10mb random files... Yes, yes, the speed of transferring to pc using bluetooth was 3 times comparing infrared devices. And also there's no hassle upon connection, i just need to place my phone as near as possibly, not direct to the device, just near, and it works like a magic, both set auto receiving mode and each files transferred in speed. Fucking awesome. I thought if it hadn't work, i gotta go back to Carrefour, meet a few supervisors, ask for replacement or refunds which it's quite impossible to manage, and time and effort will be wasted. What if i can't refund money and have to choose another stuffs that could replaced the same amount of the bluetooth which all those stuffs i don't need? That's shitty, of course. Thank God, i don't have to go though all that, i thought it would be a mistake that i rushed myself buying that damn bluetooth device...

Actually Seng was at the cybercafe playing Silkroad, upgrading his level on his character, while i'm busy doing some blogging that saved inside my phone for a long time after my phone was disconnected outgoing calls, so i can't use emails to send my posts to blog. As i said, i won't spend time using pc to write my blog, the same case would happened as i mentioned before. My phone sometimes gone koo koo whenever i pressed the wrong button, it exits like an error occured, or the phone suddenly froze the screen, then it restarts like i'm not in control... But i prefer to use phone blogging, i could do it on the bed, while purging, during meals, and yamcha also... It's convenient to have a notepad program installed in my phone... (who wants the program, you can write a comment in this post with your email address and i'll send the program to you, make sure it's series 60 type phones like nokia you're using...)

Seng asked me if i wanted to go Chew's place for Cny visit. My package time was until 8pm, and i needed to go back home to take a shower. So after that, he'll call me if time comes...

Soon, about 9.30pm, i was at home and Seng called me to meet him at the cybercafe again. We went for dinner together and confirmed we're going to Chew's place but not Seng. He had visitors coming to his house and probably won't be joining us. And so a friend Ah Wai, another gaming freak, tagged along with me to Chew's place at Sri Petaling.

Chew's wife is pretty, and they just got married a year ago with a son. I'm not sure if the whole single story house was occupied by his own, or with his family, or some renting house mates, i never ask him. We chat a few and they played some betting card games while i'm busy trying to get my previous posts done writing... They were curious about my stuffs, what's the matter with me writing all these bullshits online? To me, i'll be asking them, why they could spend more time playing online games until there's no home to return to. I mean, it's much obsessed to throw out some money building a non existing character online, chatting random players that could be friends or conmen, or you could build the character in a maximum level until you got no place to go or no opponents that could compete you. I've been experiencing the taste of building such character in a game called Ran Online and i can't go further more when i'm level 45, it's too boring finding a matching NPC to gain experiences. Once if you're not careful enough, your experience will deducted and it took a long time to regain back what you've lost when you're at high levels... So to say, i enjoy writing shits of my life so i knew my life is precious to me, and i would like to share with my close friends and also other people who are readers.

About 2am, we left and again to the cybercafe, Ah Wai said he had to upgrade his character more. And i again slot in the bluetooth and downloaded some songs to my phone. Before i knew, i've spend the whole early morning surfing net and forgetting about tomorrow's agenda... I've to fetch my girl's parents to take public transport to Mentakab with her grandmom. I went home to sleep in instant, and it's already 6am...

I was awaken by a phone call, my girl called me by the time at 9am... Fuck! I was late to wake up, i quickly rushed to her place and saw her parents stood outside people's house not far from their house. It just make them so nervous to reach a destination in a rush. However, i knew my girl's mom purposely promised to grandmom and her aunt that i'll treat them Dim Sum before they leave. My god, how would that happened in such dignity and greed? Yes, i did promised them i'll bring them to have good food but not as insisting people to do as you wish though... Sigh, once meeting the grandmom and her aunt, they suggested to have a quick meal at the restaurant and quickly we'll reached the bus station in short time. I suspected the road will be conjested along the bus station and therefore alternative plans made. It was quite confusing cuz my girl's mom always in rushing mode that kept us following her tempo too. I'm cool, just thought what'll happen next, then we'll decide what to do. And of course, when it still CNY, not much traffic on the road, thank god i could really fetch them as near as possible to the station.

We're earlier as half an hour before the departure. They were happy as they let us leave in peace. So we went for Cendol near Chow Kit, then went back to my girl's house. She had a friend Komathy coming to her house for a visit. For sure they'll talk like jukebox, non stop on all topics they could spit out. I was at the pc excited about my bluetooth and downloading some songs of Wipeout. Somehow i don't think Bit Torrent was a really good one, they have many selections of songs, games, programs and others i'm interested, but the seeders always offline and even i tried to download a particular file, i've to wait a long time to get it or maybe i don't get any either. Just the matter of fact, things became intense to me like there's a manually downloads for an album of Wipeout Fusion, the songs were ripped badly that each of them were by partly silenced throughout the tracks. I didn't know about it at first, intense of downloading the last song, then when i checked the songs, it was bad. Then i deleted all and intense of my wasting effort waiting. I knew my girl was waiting for me finishing the stuffs i'm doing but it's just not as easy as i'm predicted. Fuck the editors, if you wanna do something, make sure you do it right, don't make hassles on people who wanted to achieve it... Sigh, God...

Without her parents around, she was happy. She had all the freedom to stay at my place without making her parents worried. And so it's just that when i'm with her, i'm sure she'll be safe.

Finally all Midori No Hibi's episods finished, and no more movies for us to watch. We went for supper too, at the nearest Medan which is our favourite spot. I found out my critical... How come my money was used so much that i got a lot from Ang Pows... Oh my god, again i'm facing the same problem... I got not much money to survive again... Yet i've said at my previous post, i should save some money... Fuck then, i'm wasted... Shit...

Actually i'm still thinking about my part time job salary, i haven't submitted my punch card to them, i've tried contacting my superiors, non responds. Most importantly, i don't know when i'm getting my salary... As i'm running low in cash, and for my commitments too...

On the next day, the last day which everyone's sad to leave the holidays with fun. Employees needed to be back at work on Monday... Some already started their work, and i'm still in vain. I got a message from my cousin that i need to send a formal email to his friend so that he could consider hiring me as a Account Executive in his corporate company. I haven't had the time finding my CV to attach with the email, yet i've not started any of it.

My girl's mom insisted me to go for dinner at her place, so we went to Giant bought some groceries for me and went to her house, again i'm into her pc downloading and transferring files from pc to my phone. Then cy called. He asked me if i wanna go Kia Seng's house at Tropicana. It surprised me that Kia Seng moved in there already as he said he would 2 years ago... Finally i could see his new mansion...

The route to Tropicana was changed to a new express way, it's not like i'm fond to the new route. The houses there were much high class than Sierramas, most of them were mansions. I saw Kia Seng's new mansion's miniature series at his old place, so i knew a little how it looked like.

It's lot more exaggerating the mansion was build, once i heard it was build to occupied all his family members and relatives too. But now it's only his family members... The shape was different from the miniature series i saw, this mansion was like Final Fantasy... Wow, lights everywhere... Everything in the house was all new, the old house's furnitures and stuffs were left back there. The garden was filled with Feng Shui's plants, i mean almost everything in Feng Shui's style, more prosperity than ever... When i'm inside, i was guided to the Karaoke room... Oh my god, it's so classy, just like i'm not from his house but in a night club. The Karaoke system was fully functioned and the latest songs were the most updated in town. Everything was fully equipped in high technology... Fascinating... So the toilet was the way out from the room, fully convenient... But throughout the time i never bother taking a trip to see the whole house... I was excited about the Karaoke thing... Once, i wanted to go Neway Cheras but it's packed, in the morning i woke up, my girl wanted to go but it's expensive to go there in the afternoon. Now, it's free, and everything's in the house and thank you so much to Kia Seng that made my day...

Not every friends were there, some came before i did, just because the next day's a working day for everyone. The purpose we're here is to spectate the prayers of Hokkien people, of how they celebrate their beliefs of another god called 'Tian Gong'. Then the lion dance came with 'Chai Shen Yeh' distributing ang pows to everyone. Then with the ritual ended, we all enjoyed the feast of roasted pig, it's beautifully roasted and every piece of the meat was tender and fresh... Yummy, my girl ate a lot too and she grew bellies more and more. Usually people skinny they'll grow fat front ways... Hehe, ok darling, i won't make jokes at you la, sorry...

So me, cy, my girl, Jamie, John and his girlfriend were the last one stayed back while the rest left earlier. John went back with his girlfriend, while i'm taking responsible to fetch all of them back home. Damn, after i've sent my girl, i felt my steering was sort of heavy... Then i suspected my tire was flat, and it was... Gosh, i'm drunk and i've to do shit right at that moment. Jamie was fine after all i thought i might bring them problems. Major problem, one of the screws was so tight i forcefully loosen it untill it break apart... Damn it... Maybe me and cy's fault, with his instructions and my careless, it broke and got me more worried of going back home with three screws on the tire... Thus, it's fine then, i drove carefully as we all reached home safely...

Cy said the repairing cost was cheap... As the matter of fact, i'm running low... So how's it gonna be?