Happy Chinese New Year

Wish you all a very Happy Chinese New Year!!!
Wish you all eat good food eat until sien, gamble win until no place to keep your money, and receive ang pow so many until you become a billionaire.


p/s: sorry about this short post, was busy packing going back to my homwtown Perlis.

Flashback: My working experience in Hush Puppies Genting

When I was studying in UNITEN, we students used to have a long 3 months holiday if we don’t want to take up special semester. I am not a fan of special semester because it’s was a complete waste of time and money. There were only 8 hours of class time per week during special semester and yet we had to pay the apartment rent and other living expenses.

So instead of wasting money, I decided to make money during one of the 3 month holidays. At first I was thinking of working part time in Kangar as I don’t have to worry about accommodation and transportation problems, but the salaries there weren’t “encouraging” enough.

Just before I decided to stay at home to "shake legs" for 3 months, my friends suggested that I try looking for sales job in Genting Highlands. They said that the pay was good and the employers usually provide accommodation within walking distance to the work place. So I quickly bought a bus ticket to Genting Highlands to try my luck.

The First World Plaza

I decided to look for a job in one of the shop lots inside First World Plaza, a shopping center in Genting Highlands and I was lucky to find a job as a part time sales assistant in Hush Puppies.

Hush Puppies is an international brand of contemporary, casual footwear for men, women and children. The price range for the shoes can easily reach RM300 because of the high quality of the shoes. So not all poor people like me can purchase shoes from Hush Puppies.

Why a sad-looking dog as the logo?

At first I don’t think that my workload will be high because I thought that not many people will buy shoes in Genting Highlands. Although the price of the shoes is the same with other Hush Puppies outlets throughout Peninsula Malaysia, but I thought that people come to Genting Highlands to play roller coasters, or to gamble, not to do some shopping.

The huge amount of stocks in the storeroom

But turned out I was wrong, the shop was full of customers during holidays or weekends. Most of the customers were foreigners as they have greater buying power compared to Malaysians. Usually tourists from the Middle East or China were rich and they won’t be bothered by the price of the shoes.

During my 2 months working life in Hush Puppies, I served many weird customers and I can still remember a few until today.

I once served an auntie from China who had trouble choosing the right size and color of the shoes that she liked. Size 6 was too small for her and size 7 was too big, to add on her misery, she also cannot choose the right color for the shoes. So she ended up very tulan and bought all of the shoes. All size 6 and 7 and all the color of the shoes that she liked. She paid all the shoes with her platinum credit card and walked out happily.

There was also a customer from Middle East who bought 15 pairs of shoes amounted to thousands of ringgit. I don’t know why he bought so many shoes but I know that he’s damn rich. Maybe he got oil wells behind his house.

Hush Puppies did have a small amount of local customers when I worked there, most Malaysian customers bought shoes there because they had to. Some bought shoes because their shoes were spoilt during their holidays in Genting Highlands. And the most frequent local buyers were all the ah pek who wear sandals or slippers to the casino. The casino prohibited sandals and slippers so the ah pek had to buy shoes from Hush Puppies. They usually picked the cheapest shoes in 5 minutes and headed straight to the casino.

Not everyday is peak season for Hush Puppies, during weekdays when only a few customers came in, I usually just sat there with my colleagues chatting or commenting on every passerby. And when we were really bored, we did some stupid things, we played hide and seek in the storeroom, we went to kacau the pretty salesgirls next door, or even went to toilet many times just for the sake of loitering around the plaza.

May Kwan trying to scare everyone in the storeroom

What we did when we were bored

Even though we had to bear with smelly feet and smelly shoes all the time but it was fun working with a bunch of fun colleagues. There was no politics inside the Hush Puppies working environment because our salaries were fixed and not based on commission basis, we don’t have to fight against each other for commission.

By far this was the most fun job I’ve ever had, I don’t have to crack my brain for the job and the working environment was great. But it was just a part time job, I earned some extra pocket money and it’s time to move on.

I hope my job can be as fun as this. ;-)

Food at Cameron Highlands

At first I thought that the last thing I'll look for at a tourist attraction like Cameron Highlands is good food. But surprisingly, Cameron Highlands has some good food for food lovers like me.


An advice, you don't go to those overpriced places such as the Boh Tea cafe at the Simpang Pulai tea farm to eat, they sell the view of the place, not the food. The food is not so delicious there.

Looks can be deceiving

Prices can be heart-breaking

Normally good food comes from the least unexpected places.

Like here

First up, the strawberry ice cream in one of the stalls in Pasar Malam during weekends.

Damn huge strawberry

The legendary strawberry ice cream

But be careful though, some people used a lot of sugar and fake strawberry paste to produce the ice cream instead of real strawberries.

Besides the strawberry ice cream, you can also go for other junk food such as fried mushrooms, fried flowers (I have no idea what kind of flower is but I know it's delicious), fried beans, and the famous sweet potato balls.


And if you are looking for a proper meal in Cameron Highlands, a shop located in Brinchang is a must. The shop is actually at the back part of the town so you need to look for it.


It sells traditional chinese food like "Char Siew", noodles, and other chinese dishes. I like their Char Siew noodle the most.

The price is a bit expensive and the noodle is a bit oily, but everytime I go Cameron Highland I cannot resist the temptation of their Char Siew, it is just too good. Some say the chef worked in a restaurant in Hong Kong before he came to Cameron Highlands to open his own shop. Whatever, I only care about the Char Siew.

A lot of people are crazy about the steamboat in Cameron Highlands, they said it's the best in the whole Malaysia or something like that. But for me, steamboat is the most unreasonable meal in the whole world, because you pay so much and yet you have to cook your own food, stupid right?


All the steamboats taste almost the same, they just pour in some hot water or chicken soup in the pot and you cook your own food in front of a hot and steamy gas stove.

Please pay RM100 million and please cook on your own

Although it's a stupid way to spend on a meal, the steamboat shops in Cameron Highlands are always full of people during weekends or holidays. Maybe they think that they can cook better in Cameron Highlands.

During my hunt for food in Cameron Highlands, I saw some breads and papayas in one of the souvenir shops, then I wondered why the hell are they selling breads and papayas in souvenir shop. As a very "ke po" person I went to have a look.

Cheated.

They were fakes. CCB, I nearly took a bite.