Last Friday was a day filled with good food. Well, that was the food part. The other part was the endless and aimless of walking around KLCC, killing few hours to wait for Kum Kum. This two sentences are the headlines. Let me dissect a little bit.

Morning

Came to work like every other morning expecting minimal work, but was suddenly thrown a task of hydraulics check involving HYSYS, while I was half way into abusing the company’s email to plan for that day’s outing in the evening with Li Yen, Kum Kum, SailorMuna, and Siau Huey  – who unfortunately could not join us for reasons unknown till today (shall ask her during lunch one day).

Morning – Noon

Abandoned my involvement in the planning because I was rushing to finish up the task – which I did (well almost all anyway). Opened up time-trax and keyed in the time that I have clocked for that week – 8 hrs for each day from Monday till Friday. I thought I was champion to be able to finish everything and did not spoil the planned outing, but little did I know, in my haste to complete everything before leaving, I forgot that we have actually moved to new working time format which is 9 hrs from Mon – Thurs and 4 hrs on Friday. That stunt in the time-trax served me an email this morning from Mr. Andy Pidd (fondly known as Pidd Kor to Li Yen and I), head of the process department, which read something like this:

Pidd Kor: Dear Teik Hui, you have entered 8 hrs x 5 in last week’s time trax. The company is now on 9 hrs x 4 and 4hrs x 1. Are you having problem adjusting to the new time?

Me: Opps! Sorry Pidd Kor. Duly noted!

Anyways, let me continue

Noon

While still recovering from the rushing / adrenaline sensation, Li Yen, SailorMuna and I, proceeded to take LRT to KLCC to meet Kum for lunch. We settled for Little Taiwan in Avenue K. I had beef braised rice. The beef was tender so it was not bad at all. Some pictures below.

Noon – Evening

We chatted for long before making our move. At first I was hoping to catch a movie and then have dinner when Kum finish work but since the gals weren’t so keen, I said I would do watching Kungfu Panda on my PC when I get back to UTP, so it’s okay. Kum parted the party to get back to work (actually he had no work except to look out for possible Hindraf demonstration from 17th floor). The trio then started to walk around KLCC endlessly and aimlessly. We went up and down, and up and down, and up and down. Of course in between the gals visited some shops while I was feeling sleepier by the minute. On the verge of Kum being released from work, we went into the Petronas gallery on the fourth floor (if I remember correctly) which now features “Stirring Odissi”. Li Yen was of course very much intrigued by the art works. On the other hand, SailorMuna and I were trying to appreciate them – though I must say we were quite succesful. For example I managed to appreciate one, which depicts an arm protruding out from the front of a man’s pants. I will remember it forever! Ask SailorMuna about it. I’m more into e-arts BTW.

Evening

Finally! Kum rendezvous with us and we soon found ourself debating what to have for dinner. Among the choices were Victoria Station (SailorMuna objected), Madam Kwan (we almost go there), 1901 Hotdog (Li Yen strongly oppose – I don’t know what she has against hotdogs), mamak, (anyone dare suggesting this again would be chopped to death), foodcourt, KFC or McD (SailorMuna objected), Chilis! Actually we got up to the entrance, and looked at the tempting menu. That looked real good, but then the price that came with it made us debate again. So we went down and look at the directory once more before we stuck on to Chilis. And, I’m glad we did. The food was damn good, and the portion was to my liking! The whipped potato was the best of all! We ate and chatted and gossiped (office related so shall remain as secret…kekeke) until it was around 8pm before we finally called it a day. Fantastic!

Pictures taken by JitChak