Wendy Ooi's Farewell @ Red Box

Last Wednesday, 23 July 2008 was my colleague, Wendy Ooi's last day at work. The entire Sales & Marketing team from The Northam All Suite, Penang together with my boss, the Hotel Manager, Mr Jeffrey Tan joined Wendy for a Karaoke session at Red Box. Soo Theng was also invited to the Karaoke but then, she was still down with flu and cough. Soo Theng joined the singing session till 12.30am, I left together with her. Some of my team members continued singing till 2.45am together with my boss.

To Wendy, I wish her all the very best in her new job ! Let's stay in touch always ...

Nanthini's Visit

After 6 months away to Doha, Nanthini is back to Malaysia because of her sister's wedding in Johore. While she is back, she took the opportunity to stopover in Penang to pay both Soo Theng and myself a visit. We only had a night with Nanthini because the 2nd night was reserved for her catching up session with "The Boys" from THP's F&B Office.

At Soo Theng's place (evening of 24 June 2008), I cooked Tau Yew Bak and Fried Bee Hoon with the can Pork Chop. Nanthini simply loved it very much. Angeline also joined us for the dinner. After dinner, we went to G-Spot at G-Hotel for a drink and listening to some jazz music before we called it a night at about 11.30pm ! It was really great to have met up with Nanthini and we hope to see her again in the not too distant future .... hopefully, the next time when she comes back, she brought along her "extra baggage", some Sheikh from the Middle East Kingdom !

My 38th Birthday !

Celebrated my 38th Birthday on 14 June at Uptown at Upper Penang Road. Bought 2 bottles of Chivas, invited my entire Sales & Marketing team members together with my 2 bosses, Mr FC Chong, GM of Gurney Hotel and Mr Jeffrey Tan, HM of Northam All Suite, Penang.

We had good fun, lots of laughter and singing all night long. We ended the evening at about 10.30pm ... some of us continued to "Moist", a nearby nightspot ... I went for a little while before heading home .... was too tired to continue ....

Long Awaited Holiday !

Departed Penang on 1 May 2008 to Beijing to visit my dear brother Dennis Chin G Don who had left Shangri-La's Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa to pursue his career as a Director of Rooms in Raffles Beijing. I have stayed with brother for 10 nights before departing to Shanghai to stay with Goh Voon Choong for another 4 nights before coming back to Penang on 14 May 2008.

The trip was awesome and I have had a good rest. Don't feel like coming back though ! Check out some of the pix that I have taken during my trip to China..... In the meantime, I look forward to my next holiday ... hopefully, this year end !

Wedding in Style !

Last weekend, 12 & 13 April 2008, we had a combined (The Gurney Resort Hotel & Residences and The Northam All Suite, Penang) wedding fair at the ballroom of Gurney Hotel. I must say that it was a successful event for us for having 19 weddings confirmed with a revenue of approximately 0.5 million being generated !

April Fool ?

It's not an April Fool's Joke .... I'm simply too lazy to continue blogging. I just realised that I have not even opened my blog for the past one month plus .... too much work, too little time and lots to do in my "Facebook". I guess, I have to balance up my time ..... to continue blogging .... stay tune for more ....

Great Food, Great Company !

Dennis, Angeline and I decided to have our dinner last night at Feringgi Garden, Batu Feringgi (near Park Royal Hotel). We started our dinner with Ceasar's Salad and soups; Mushroom and Shark's Fin followed by a Steak & Chicken Combo for me and Dennis while Angeline had a spicy Fish with cheese.

For dessert, we shared a plate of Banana Fritters with Vanilla Ice Cream and a plate of "Black & White" which is actually a half sliced of cheese cake and chocolate brownie with chocolate ice cream. Mind you, their ice cream is "Movenpick" .... Yum, yum !

I must say ... not only the food and service are good .... the company is good too ! It's a pity that our family members .... Soo Theng and Nanthini are not with us .... otherwise, it would have been much more fun !

Baby Oliver Cheong

The last time when I saw baby Oliver Cheong was about 4 to 5 months ago .... back then, she was just a tiny little sweet baby. Last night when I saw Oliver, I was amazed with her transformation .... she has changed into a beautiful baby gal and definitely much more active !

We had a lovely dinner at Dragon-I in Queensbay Mall .... Bamboo Chicken Rice with Chinese Sausage, Fried Shanghai Noodles with Seafood, Salted Egg Prawns and "Kong Pow" Chicken were our selected menu. Overall, the food and service were good.

It was a good catch up session for all of us because we have not seen Sharon for quite some time already. One other reasons why we had to do it last night is because Sharon and Baby Oliver will be joining Stanley in KL next week ... for good ....