Thanks to a little something called holiday in lieu, I managed to get a Friday off last week and spent the time on the golf course together with my high school friend, my colleague and another mutual friend. Tried out playing at the Monterez Golf and Country club for the first time and boy, was it a difficult course. Now I admit I am very much still a beginner at the game of golf so it was rather fun trying out the course but getting whooped by the rest wasn't that fun (thanks to my super competitive nature).

In total, I hit a 129 on the course and even had a 1.5 hour break between the two nine holes thanks to extreme weather such as heavy rain and lightning. So much for me trying to break a hundred by the end of this year but hey, I have about 7 more months to improve. For some reason, I kept hitting into every water hazard there was on the first 9 holes so I definitely have to head back to the driving range to practice my swing again. That was my Friday.

On Saturday, I helped Nick out for a quick shoot in the morning, went for brunch at Raju's off Jalan Gasing with an old uni mate and then headed over to Tropicana Grande to check out the new (and very expensive) condominiums which was opening up soon. After that, I headed to Carcosa Seri Negara for the first time to assist Grace for a maternity shoot which was totally fun!

After the shoot and several traffic jams later, Munz, Alex, Grace and I went for dinner at 1 Utama, trying out New York New York Deli which I thought was only mediocre. After dinner, we headed to GSC to catch Ironman 2 which was totally awesome.

On Sunday, I was out sick with a flu so I slept in and tried to rest until lunch time where I had to run a couple of errands at The Curve and then later in the evening out to USJ to check out more developments and finally at night, dinner at Pantai Seafood with the rest of the gang. Managed to order the "deep fried soft shell crabs with salted egg yolk" which was awesome and compared to the last time, we managed to finish it all up (the last time my colleagues ordered 49 crabs in total which was a bit of an overkill).

So that was my rather packed but interesting weekend. I am still struggling with a bit of the flu and thanks to Munz for providing me with some clarinase. I definitely need more rest and drink more fluids.

How was your weekend?

The weekend was a busy weekend indeed for me with plenty of activities all lined up and packed. It started with attending a talk at HELP University College on "How to be An Orange". Basically it was mainly targetted on innovation and how to be innovative and the title "How to be an Orange" is meant to explain that in this world where people are comparing apples against apples, how do you be an orange and stand out.


The speaker running through some stuff for the audience to follow to make a point

Once that was done, I had to run errands about the SS2 area which includes sending out a document package via DHL to the states. The funny thing was that when I arrived at the DHL store, it was closed! Apparently the person in charge was out for lunch which left me fuming for about 10 minutes. Worse of all, she didn't even say sorry for being away when she returned and she gave us this "one kind" look. Anyway I sent my documents, paid and left. Nuff sed.

After running errands, I had a meeting at Jaya33 to discuss some matters with Ps. Mike and the meeting took longer than expected so we missed our intended church session then. By the time I got home, I was busy post processing photos till late at night.

Sunday was mainly filled with me doing more work at home up until at night and after that I went for a meeting with @munz to talk about the upcoming event called, Shootfest (ask me what it is). Both Alex and Grace were ever so gracious of hosting the bunch of us!


Here is Jon explaining on some of his design progress.



We even had Ian who attended the meeting virtually via Skype. You can see his face on the wall behind, we projected him! Of course we had a group photo taken but I wasn't allowed to use my iPhone to capture it. Probably because I haven't reached the level of how Chase Jarvis actually captures amazing photos with his iPhone!

If you are wondering what Shootfest is all about, don't worry, more to come!