==tulip speaks==

Been a couple of days since I came back from Genting Highlands , our every own Las Vegas and only today I had the time to finish editing all the photos I took there.

We left KL Sentral around 3pm and checked in our hotel
(which deemed to be the largest hotel in the world) around 5pm. Not bad
for a Sunday trip I guess. Too tired to do anything else and me with
gastric pain had no choice but to rest till the sun sets and then roam
around the Indoor Theme Park. Eh.. and I took a peek at the casino over
there…man, its unbelievable number of people toying with numbers in
there! pheewww! Tired and sicky, I went to sleep quite early after a
short walk around the hotel.

Next day was THE DAY! hahahaha..
The day for us to enjoy ourselves. Too bad that it was too cold &
misty. Its the Outdoor Theme Park’s policy to shut down few games if it
gets too misty. Anyway, we did enjoyed ourselves the whole day despite
some minor glitches to the plan.

The following day, we happily packed our bags and leave to KL.

Thats the short description of my kutty trip and besides the collage up there, you may find the rest of the photos in my flickr.

Movie: Parthale Paravasam Song: Anbe sugama

One of  Madhavan’s songs which I really love to listen over and over again.
awww… I’m missing him already! :((((((

Ah..feel so good to be back in my office (and blogging!). I came back
from my trip yesterday and it was quite refreshing. Have not edited the
photos yet and probably I can get it up by Friday. So for today, let me
introduce a bloggers event we are conducting right here in Kuala Lumpur!

What: Bloggers Buff 2007 is
a workshop cum forum organized to gather Malaysian bloggers from
different genres together to network and explore various issues and
aspects of blogging.  When : Sunday, 8th July 2007( 8.30am – 5.30pm)  Where :Dewan Dato’ Haji Sidek, Jalan Kg Attap, K.Lumpur

Thats
right! We are conducting a blogger workshop!!! Oh no! We are not going
to ‘teach’ you how to blog.. I know you guys are pro at it ;). So what
do we intend to do?

# To create a good network of Malaysian bloggers of different genres.
# To alienate fears and negative perception of blogs in mainstream print media.
# To promote blogging as a hobby and as a potential income generator.
# To promote blogging as a medium to exchange information.

Now.. its all about networking and promoting blog as vital and most happening medium of communication for today’s world!

I
just can’t remember when we came up with this idea to conduct such
ambitious project.. but the credits goes to the whole team - Mahendran, the gentleman who is chairing the commitee & commitee members; P Kamalanathan, Praveen, Puvanan and yours truly.

This
is a blogging event organized by bloggers for bloggers regardless
genre, gender or race, and I am counting on you guys to make it a hit!

Okie now..I know you are all geared up and wants to know more about this event. All you have to do is to visit Bloggers Buff 2007,
read through our welcome post and tentative event schedule. IF you
think this is for you, get yourself registered by completing the registration form.
Let me emphasis here - all participants need to pre-register themselves
and NO walk-in blogger will be entertained that day. Don’t tell me I
didn’t warn you!

Last but not the least, please kindly spread
the word around by putting up the promo badge which was done by one of
our bloggers, Saravanan in support of this event & linking it back to Bloggers Buff 2007.

Training myself to be resistant to burning hot sun - seriously

For
two weeks I was off to the rural parts of Selangor & Perak
conducting a pilot study of the project I am working on. There was no
access to Internet and even my phone line was gone in couple of
locations! Man.. that meant I was totally cut off from my world! It was
expected anyway. The two weeks stint left me sick, frustrated and
sun-burned!

I spent few days in 3 different places - a
private estate; Malay settlement; fishing island (yes its an island!).
This is just the beginning of lot more scenarios I am going to see and
believe me… its hell of a world out there!

First was the
estate where you find Indians as the majority. The serene picture below
was taken in the estate which I can’t name (professional ethics ;)).
Its a clean place where you find a lot of kids running around. Yes -
you find kids whom you can feel in love with immediately… kids who
are struggling to be a part of today’s world but failing each time they
are trying :(. I can’t describe more about them at the moment. My hands
are tied, but my mind keep thinking about these kids. You will see a
different world here.

The
second place we visited was a Malay settlement area. You can see the
typical Malay wooden house below. Its a huge settlement with about 600
households, and each of the household has their own land! A sharp
contrast from the earlier estate which we visited few days before this.

We
got pretty bored in the Malay settlement and decided to take a break
during lunch hour venturing to a hot spring park nearby The photo
showing one of the man-made hot spring waterfall in the park.

The
third visit was to a fishing island. Thats the worse experience we had,
and thats the smelliest island you can ever find! I expected the place
to be a chaos and didn’t bring my digicam there. Thank goodness we were
not required to stay longer in that place. Phhewwww! I will be going
off again in July & Aug to similar places and this time I will
stock more sun-block lotion!

I
have been missing everyone tremendously. I miss visiting everyone’s
‘home’ as well. Damn! I wish I have 30 hours a day!!! I am trying to
be consistent in my blogging and blog-hopping here but my work schedule
is conspiring against me! Hehehehehe… Anyway, on Sunday I will be off
for a short trip with family and will be back on Tuesday. See you guys
again next week. Have a wonderful weekend!

Couple of posts crammed into one. Please bear with me..

Our
Prime Minister is getting married to this lovely-looking lady Jeanne
Abdullah (pic below) tomorrow. News of their wedding is the talk of the
town, although he insisted its going to be a small private affair.
It has been more than a year since he lost his wife,
Kak Endon to breast cancer and less than a year since he lost his
mother. Guess its high time he needs a woman in his life. Quoting him
"a woman completes a man" ;).

Related News:
PM to get married on Saturday
PM talking about his bride
PM teased
Jeaane’s daughters

And
guess what? Tomorrow is my parents’ 28th wedding anniversary! The pic
below taken during their 25th wedding anniversary. It was a grand
affair organized by sis & I. We managed to keep it as a surprise
till the very last minute. May be we can organize one for their 30th
anniversary!

Nothing much to say about this video, its a much publicized song in 90s and I’m just speechless at the moment..

Movie: Minasara Kanavu
Song: Vennilave vennilave

I
will be off from tomorrow onwards. I am not sure when I will find time
to come back to blogworld. Till then, lots of muuaxxxxxxxxxxiieeee
& hugggggggggggggggggggggssss from me