January 28

28th January 2011! It's not my birthday, neither is it some festivals nor a holiday. It's just another ordinary, routine working weekday. But sometimes, things work in a funny way and blessings come in the least expected manner.

It's pay day. So what? You deserve to be paid for the job done during the month. What I least expect is the bonus. I have one month plus bonus for doing sufficient (no putting in of extra hours) work. If it's not a windfall, what do you call it? I don't expect to be paid so much, after all I am still a newbie. That's the perk of working in a big company gal!

The second good thing that befalls me on this day is an outing with a very dear friend.....okay, a crush. It's the first time that we go out together, as in only the two of us. But I don't call this a date because he is already seeing someone. But him asking me out for dinner out of the blues definitely made my day (although at a point I had butterflies in my stomach). It turn out pretty platonic, just dinner and catching up as well as reminiscing the good old days. No flirting at all but it's enough because we get the alone time together.

Good things happen when we least expect it. The fruit is always sweeter when we have no expectation at all. What a lovely way to end my January!

Super Star Libra Cruise

For the past two years, I am really grateful that I live in Penang and I am super proud to be a Penangite. Penang is a city with a touch of heritage preservation. No matter you are young or old, female or male, there is some happenings throughout the year at Penang that will suit you. (Pardon me if you think that I am crapping, it's my bedtime but since I have already logged in, might as well post all my entries at once).

Anyway, the Super Star Libra cruise docked at Weld Quay, Penang last week. It's a much bigger ship compared to the Star Pisces cruise (check out my post in March last year). The ship was opened for the public to tour and me being a 'kiasu' was there. Lets check out some snapshots of it.

Georgetown City Day

Something just never change. I am trying my very best to stick closely to my new year's resolution and just realised that I forgot to add 'blog more often and keep the blog up-to-date' to my list. I am about to post an entry on an event that took place on the first day of year 2011. Procrastinating again, as usual? Well, no! I had been and still am making full use of my time baking cookies for chinese new year.

Anyway, lets get to the point. Georgetown, Penang was given the world heritage site status on July 7th two years back. What follows was major street festival and events to honour this title. Little did we know, Georgetown was also the first state in Malaysia to be given the city status. This title was given by Queen Elizabeth in year 1957. For the very first time this year, the Penang government organised a celebration to honour this status.







We reach Esplanade (the venue of the event) just in the nick of time to witness the flag-off of a cycling event as well as chingay performance.












One of the highlight of the event. I personally like this corner the most.





















Games corner.









Random cute vehicles.




Penang Chief Minister's car.




The official opening ceremony and parade of Georgetown City Day. The mc for the night was Mahadzir Lokman, a popular local celebrity.












Ending the event or should I say starting a great year 2011 with fireworks.