I met up with a very dear sister yesterday for lunch :)
I missed her a lot, so I'm really glad to catch up with her.
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Met Wailam (a speech pathologist) today in the office. haha. was quite surprised to see him 'cos i don't usually see him.. (he comes in on tuesdays and thursdays, i generally come in on mondays and fridays). Quite a nice guy :) he's very friendly. hahaa. didn't do much work today 'cos he was sharing with us (me and mani) about his hometown. I think it's a small town in Ipoh. hehe. Not exactly sure where it is. He was saying how there's a lot of dead water surrounding the area 'cos the British had extracted all the tins from the tin mines and he will go fishing when he goes back home to visit (his whole family's in Malaysia, but he and his wife are both staying in Singapore. Mani said he's the oddball. haha)
He was also sharing about how Anna and the King was filmed on location in his hometown, in some golf course.. (we found the golf site on google map, but i can't remember the name. haha) and he and his friend went to sign up to be on screen in the past. lol. apparently, the set was made of styrofoam and what-nots. Oh yah, he wanted to sign up 'cos it was chow yun-fat. According to him, they get 100 ringgit per day if they get selected, regardless of whether they're used in the end. It goes like this: when you get selected, your measurements are taken on the spot and there's a tailor made costume for you to wear the next time you're called to come. then you wait at the shooting scene till you're needed to be used, and if you're not used in the end, you still get your 100 ringgit at the end of the day. no wonder Hollywood's budget's so high O.o
he was also introducing sungei lembing to me. lol. introducing the sea of clouds, the rainbow waterfall and the factory at the third deepest tin mine in the world (of which the key is still with an old man in the village). haha. and encouraging me to go before my work starts :S
then after that we were talking about japan! hahaa. and he gave tips on how to travel around japan, about where to go.. i think something interesting he shared was about geishas. there's a place that they train geishas in nikko. hehe. he went to akihabara as well 'cos he's a collector of toys. hahaa. nikko really looks very pretty in the pictures he took with his wife=)
so yes. didn't do much work today. haha. talked to mani a bit too, about housing prices and what-nots. hahaa. found out that she lives a few blocks away from my tuition kids! hahaa. so near!
hahaha. i wanna go japan. and i do want to go to sungei lembing once in my lifetime. lol.