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Filling in my void period

2011-12-09T08:55:00.001-08:00

For weeks, I had left my blog untouched, which is an indication that final of everything is rolling near.

I just came back from a mid night movie, watching "You are Apple of My Eyes".
And it was my second time watching it.

Some people might think I am over exaggerate about this movie.

After my first time watching it with my friends, almost all of them will said the similar thing.

" I am so miss my high school life, it really make my memory flashing back all the sweet and sour incident" said by Tom, Dick and Harry

Actually I was about to blog about this movie after my first time watching it because it was so nice. But I did not. Actually I want to write about how nostalgia and how I miss my high school life because of this movie and experiences that were similar.

My feeling was pumping like mad and so excited to blog about it. But......

Nothing came out as I could hardly memorize anything or find any similarity in my high school life with how the movie portray it should be.

For me, it was like a void period that I could hardly remember anything particular. In other word, it is darn boring.

But I do really love this movie. Because this movie tells me how exciting to be in high school.

After watching this movie, I am dead envy with the movie's hero as well as silently falling in love with the heroin. And of course, it had beautifully filling in my missing puzzle in high school.

So, High school life should be like that ya.

It is my deepest regret that I could not read in Chinese. Because if I could read Chinese, I will love to start collecting Gidden novel and especially "You are Apple of My Eyes" novel and read it up once more.

Anyway, few more weeks to go and I will be leaving my tertiary education. I am glad that my Uni Life is so memorable especially my first year and second year which will follow me till my death bed.

Some time I kinda rush in certain aspect during my Uni Life. Perhaps it is because I hope to fill in my missing puzzle during the void period.

Financial Freedom II ?

2011-11-10T07:00:00.001-08:00

Few second ago, I saw a picture from Facebook. Most of the people take it as good joke. But for me, I saw the reality.

From the picture, you can see people from all kind of life. Starting from the right is a young adult probably just stepped into working world and decided to buy a car, thus borrowing $8,0000+ loan from bank.

And we then along the way we saw all sort people having loan from bank too either maybe for business expansion, house loan or credit card debt.

And it seem, The beggar who is obviously not eligible for loan, is having a Net Worth More than everyone else.

You can start to laugh on this picture but if you start to think deeply and look around your families. You will start seeing yourself and your families inside this picture.

Me for example, before going out to work, already having RM21,000 debt with bank and now hoping for another loan extension to be approved. But the cash in my bank is not even half of that and I have no assets that is worthy. So, my net worth is -VE.

It is true that any beggar on the street have higher net worth than me.

So, I told myself that my net worth will be +ve as soon I found a good paying job and start working my ass off. But, when the time came when I am about to pay off my study loan, I will start thinking of changing my car as my car will be so old by then, or maybe over swiped my credit card on my camera accessories.

Means, more debt to pay. And bank will become a very happy man taking my hard earning money.

Question is, when is the time I could fully paid my loan and start enjoying 100% of my salary ? I not even dare to start thinking about financial freedom yet. After I see my father, who still in-debt with bank for another 17 years to come even at the age of near retirement. I start to get tired even before stepping in my father shoes.

So, after realizing all of this thing... I knew I must find a way out of this Rat Race.

Financial Freedom I ?

2011-11-10T00:08:00.000-08:00

One Week ago, I had read upon a book written by Robert Kiyosaki.

It was interesting and managed to almost finish it in a day. But I left few pages more for the next day cause I was sleepy that time.

This book really gave me a big slap on my brain-face and it made me to start thinking of my future.

Ever heard of financial freedom ?

LOL, on first thought it sound like someone got so broke that he owned not a single dime.

Haha, but really, it mean one have achieve a level of life that enable him to stop working for money and have totally no worry about his financial status.

But who really know how to achieve that ?

I have been thinking of this for a time and I have google for the solution and had been asking opinion on people senior than me like my uncle.

I had enlightened a lot but it is not enough as still do not get the answer I want. The journey of answer seeking will continue and I shall share my finding with all of you.

meanwhile, bye.

An English Name

2011-11-07T01:10:00.000-08:00

Feel like naming myself an English name.

Actually have this thought in mind for a long time but just don't know where to start. Having an English name will be easier for people to remember my name upon first introduction.

Often I have to repeat my name twice every time I met new people. Though people will soon familiar with my name but without doubt it is hard to memorize at first.

Hence, before I start stepping out to work or ending myself in new environment and meeting new people, I guess I would need to make up my mind to start using an English name.

How Jonathan sound ?

USA or New Zealand ?

2011-11-02T23:14:00.000-07:00

Recently I have put a lot of attention in this Work & Travel program that I believe is pretty popular among varsities students.

Taking off few months at oversea before jumping yourself fully in your career and enjoy a free life on a stranger land.

I have never went to New Zealand but its amusing tales had reached my ear all the while. I always wanted to try to live in a place where its scenery was like story-tales. Too beautiful to be described by words.

Hence my chances are here. I am glad that Work & Travel program got covered New Zealand region too. So, being a little afraid of going alone, I start to recruit friends.

And most of em are prefer to USA and if not, not interested at all. Some say, New Zealand is too small and some say USA have more place to travel.

What they say is correct. New Zealand is a country that have it size almost equivalent to Malaysia. Perhaps its attraction spot is far lesser than USA.

But my heart tell me to go for New Zealand. As the tales I heard from people came back from New Zealand were so fantastic and I could truly see their agitated emotion when describing their journey.

For that, I knew it is not USA but New Zealand that I would like to set my foot for months. It is okay that it is a small country which lack of technology advancement. I just want to live once in a place that truly preserved their environment and drank the freshest milk in the world right there.

Cameron Highland escapade

2011-10-28T19:53:00.000-07:00

There is a saying,

It is now, or Never

my final sem was half-gone and soon I will be facing unimaginable crazy shits ahead. So, meanwhile there is still some time to waste and spare money to flush,

Here we went, Cameron Highland Malaysia.

To reach here, we had went through almost an hour of dizziness driving up the curvy hills. But it was definitely worth it at the end when the cool breeze of clean air blow through our skins.

I would recommend that before reaching Tanah Rata try to make a stop at the famous LATAR ISKANDAR waterfall. After hour of dizziness journey up the hills, you will definitely would love to wash your face with icy cool water fresh from the hill itself.

But if you are heading to Cameron Highland from north using Simpang Pulai road, then you would not pass-by this waterfall on your journey. As I am coming from south, it is a sure bypass attraction spot.

Do try the fried banana that sold by hawker stall along side the road. It was so crunchy and thick.

Because it was raining season now, we were facing inconsistent whether throughout our journey. Rain and Sun seems to become a really good friends because it can be rainy few minutes and then hot afterward. This trend keep on alternating throughout days.

The first place we visited Cameron Highland was the Boh Tea Plantation.

Compared to Borath Tea Plantation, I would say this is a lot tougher to reach. The road was tight and a lot of sharp corners which are extremely dangerous. You will need to horn all the way up each time you reaching a corner to signaled the incoming cars from opposite direction.

And we need to do a little climbing as well.

After a long hike, treat yourself with a nice cup of red tea. Do order slices of cakes especially the Banana-Carrot Cakes as it goes very well with the hot red tea while enjoying the great view of Cameron.

Try to imagine yourself as a noble enjoying great tea time with your high-class friends on top of a hill. Haha, It is fun.

Cameron Highland is all about Veges, Tea, Fruits and scenery. Almost all of the attraction spot will offered the same thing. Well, do not get disappointed by it because this is what Cameron is about.

The place to eat steamboat will be non other than Cameron Highland. Of course, Genting Highland could be the alternative as the weather is cold as well. But does it provides fresher veges than Cameron ? No

Big, fat and crunchy veges along with sweet soup base in an icy cold weather... I can't describe enough with words alone. You gotta try it yourself.

If you are having enough with City Life and hopes to escape to some place that is peace with great scenery. Cameron would be my highest recommendation.

I think I said before last time, that I will build a Vila some day in future on top of Cameron Highland Hill and live there for the rest of my life after I retire.

Who have the same thinking like me ? Hahaha

How to be a Man ?

2011-10-24T00:06:00.000-07:00

Days now,

nobody really knows what a man should look like. It came to a point where man means human being with penis and balls hanging on his crotch.

For girls, young teenagers especially, when some beefy guys with charming face and talk with a really nice macho accent pass by em. They get electrocuted and they called it ' Soooo Man'.

It appeared the 'Men' criteria had went down to just appearance factor.

Well, I am a big guys that love to show my excess arm's meat very often. Not that I want to, buy my arms are very prone to sweat. And I always get involved in task/help that required muscles... often I get praise 'Very Man' for that.

To my ashamed, I do not deserved it because being a 'Men' required more than just Muscles alone. Below are the Top 10 criteria to be a real Men.

No 1. Real Man is strong.

A men do not cry, moan, complains and went to doctor every time he sneezes. A real men is tough and has no time for weakness. Be it good time or shit-falling condition, a men will firm on his stance and take on whatever comes to him up-front. While providing his back as cover for the people that trusted him.

No 2. Real Man is Focused

A men stayed focused all the time. He knows well what he is doing and don't waste time on stupidity. A very good quote from Don Corleone (GodFather 1972) said, "Women and children can make mistakes, but not Men".

No 3. Real Man knows the importance of family

A real man keep his family strong and and pass on his 'ancestor' history and tradition. No matter how the world had advanced nowadays, man shouldn't forget his root and he will make sure the responsibility do not die in his hand.

No 4. Real Man doesn't gossip.

Real men do not engaged in girly talks. He shelters information and do not reveal more than he has to. He doesn't talk about things he do not sure and people that he do not know about.

No 5. A real Man word is His Bond

When a man make promises, he will make sure it get delivered. If not, he wouldn't promise. He would rather die than breaking them. Hence, men is rationed his word.

No 6. Real Men strives to be a role model

Real Men do not afraid of being followed. They knows that they are confident and nothing will goes wrong. Men love reputation and being respected. He will walk his talk and set a good example for his disciple.

No 7. A real man makes his own fortune.

A real men doesn't satisfied with free hand-out from charity. They spitted on lady luck and fight for their own fortune. If his papa gave him fortune, he will makes it 10 times more.

No 8. A real man doesn't look like a woman.

No long hairs, no ear piercing and sparkling accessories on his body. He kept his hair short and smart. And his appearance clean and tidy. Aside of his barber, all of his personal hygiene need to be taken care by women.

No 9. A real man doesn't play blame and excuses.

If he make a mistake, he waste no time for excuses, ready for punishment and will take it like a men. If shits occurred, he ain't no playing blame game with sissies and kick start for solution.

No 10. A real man can defend himself.

He do not hide on other backside. Whether verbally or physically, he could defend himself just fine.

So hard to become a men ain't it? Seriously, it is hard to find man with such criteria nowadays. Perhaps it is because of cultural changes and assimilation. Perhaps, women today was stronger and need no men to one-man-show already. Well, maybe world today do not need men to achieve such criteria already..

But I still think, such criteria very cool. Hope in time, I will slowly achieve all 10 of above said criteria.

Mag Shi : Portrait Album @ Lake Garden

2011-10-16T19:43:00.000-07:00

Finally I had done it !

It was one of my goal to shoot a portrait photography of my uni friends before I graduate.

Being a no profile and totally newbie photog, convincing someone to work with me as a model is difficult. But thanks to a good pretty friend of mine. MagShi, she placed a great trust on me and mine work and hence agreed to become my subject of portrait shooting.

I said before, every photographer had their signature. It mean it is unique and others could spot his work by just looking on it. And I believe too, that I have my own signature or style in photography that no others could produce the same.

It is somewhere and I could not find it yet. Until I slowly discovered it from working on Mag Shi portrait.

I have been working and trying out different style in portrait presentation like flare effect on background.

A vintage style photography

As well as dreamy / soft tone style

In ideal photography aspect, those style above was actually run off from its actual white balance. Tweaking of color tone, color temperature and the RGB curves will most probably deviate further from the actual original color.

Talking about my style, I was actually preferred a photo with the correct white balance and sharp color contrast without much effect.

But, I do know this kind of photo without effects was darn boring sometimes. And it might lost the 'feel' element which is one of the most important part in the photo.

Hence I learnt the importance of style like B&W, Vintage, Lomo, ambient and etc which could work very well in covering flaws too. Nonetheless, I am still a big fan of correct white balance with perfect color tuning photos.

Ideal White balance, nice contrast, sharp, nice color and CLEAN without much alteration in color. Good as it is.

This was a very good experience and self discovery for me. And if you guys wish to followed my full work on MagShi portrait.

Here is the link SunShine Magshi | Holim@photography

I am a lucky guy to have this pretty model for my first portrait shooting and going to hunt my 2nd, 3rd and so on next. Hahaha, wish me luck !

Photo Newbie Dilemma.

2011-10-10T18:58:00.000-07:00

Every Photographer have their unique style of shooting photos. Some prefer B&W, some Vintage and others prefer the color originality of the photo without doing much tweaking.

Each of em can be astonishing in its way.

Recently I am trying to shoot some serious portrait. Which mean, I will need a human model. Communication become very important as photographer and the model must sync and understand each other in order to pump story into the pictures. That is what others called it 'feel'.

I am a newbie in photography world. And have totally zero experience in portrait shooting. But I do have my own unique style of shooting and presenting my photos.

However, I am not a pro. People don't find me to take photograph, instead I have to do it otherwise. It is pretty normal for most of the newbie who do not yet earned their reputation.

But I faced a dilemma. And I think some newbie out there like me, facing the same problem too.

Question is, should we the newbie shoot and present the photo according to the model liking or follow our own style ?

Every photographer have their own unique style since they start their photography life. It was like a signature for them. But, newbie like me, am I qualified to talk about my style yet ?

I may don't know everything, but I do know, if we aimed to be like others, we will always be the second.

A table of warmth dishes.

2011-10-06T04:00:00.000-07:00

Everyday I will race with bloody traffic jam in order to get home in time for a nice warmth dinner. I don't know since when I started to really love eating at home.

Or shall I say, I started to appreciate Mom's cook.

I had stayed away from home for several years due to study. Except for holiday, I rarely ate at home. Most of the time I will settle my meal outside with simple economic rice, noodles and Mamak Stall.

This final sem, I decided to stay at home and traveled to Uni everyday for study. And having dinner at home had become one of my habit already. Unless there are really important matter to hold me up, without second thought I will start racing with traffic to get a hold on a bowl of warmth rice.

Mom's cook is the best. Always.

The combination of dishes are different everyday. And not to mention it is extremely healthy to eat. Even at excessive amount. Now I start to understand why guy love to find a wife who could cook.

Cause I found the satisfaction of it. My class was ended mostly on 5 p.m. And sometime I will went for a swim in Uni. When I joined the traffic to go home, my stomach was seriously growling for foods.

When reached home, and rushed to kitchen to see a table full of tasty dishes. Can you imagine the bliss that I am having ?

Girls, I know now is modern era. Girls want to work too, don't wan stay at home cooking and raise children. But, sometime, a table of warmth dishes might be the most effective way to lock a husband heart.

Need to learn ya.

Why should Man treats women better

2011-10-02T07:44:00.000-07:00

I have always wondering, why female always trying so hard to fight for male-female equality. I had never give a deep thought of the actual reason why they were trying so hard to earn respect and status that usually enjoyed by male that without going through much effort.

After years of fighting and debating of equality, the world starting to acknowledge them. Hence, they come out with Ladies Night, Ladies Day, Ladies Power, Power Puff Girl and even Girl Friend Day ! and none heard of the same for male. Even train commuter allocate a special coach just for ladies and Jogoya always have special promotion for ladies (don't they figure out that ladies ate more than guys actually ? duh) .

When we just take a fast glance on these facts, sometime I do think, I envy them.

So, it might be a nice thing to be a woman yo.

But, on a deep thought... being a women, is rather pity. (Not trying to discriminate women here)

Why ?

1. Men and women are both the same species called homo-sapien. But male is borne with genetic that allowed them to develop greater muscle's mass, physical strength and size compare to women. Hence it already determined that male would be a dominant type according to jungle law (Strong eat the weak).

2. Women have fix number of ovum in their ovari. Once their puberty began, the number of ovum start decreasing one by one until it finish. Which mean they had reached the menopause stage which is around 50+ years old. When a women had arrived at this stage, they will start to age very quickly. For men, they can keep on ejaculating tiny little tadpole till their very last breath. If male are still sexually strong enough at age of 80+, heck ! they could still impregnate women and breed another fleet of babies.

3. Women have a short glorious / attractive period in their life time. As how our trend goes, women arrived at their most attractive period from 18-26. Which is only 8 years ! and after 26, their aging will sped up. This is the time where women usually will be so eager to marry and hence bugging their boy friend to marry them. For men, their glorious moment is unfairly long. It can start as early as 18 and last till 50+ !!! That is freaking 30 years ++ for god sake. I can easily pick few of 40's male artist which is still freaking hot and popular. Donnie Yen and Andy Lau is the selected few. Even Bruce Willis at the age of 50's will have young women dieing for him. But for women, after hitting 40's, it is a good bye bye. Most likely.

I like one of my friend's quote. "Men are very loyal. No matter how old they aged, they will still love the 18's babes."

4. In sex, men never loss anything. But women would. For country such as Malaysia, our culture still not that open and most of the male prefer virgin as their wife. But they wouldn't if their girl friends were not a virgin, but they would strongly preferred that their wife is a virgin. Facts, men loss nothing in sex, except for energy and sperm used which will be replenished anyway. It is hard to tell if a men had sex before. But for girl, it was hard for them to conceal the secret as damaged had done.

5. In birth, men only supply their sperms and women is the one that supply ALL the remaining necessity to the baby! The baby in their mother's womb suck all the rich nutrien from surrounding in order to grow. Not to mention that women will undergo a great pain when delivering their baby. I once saw a video that showed a mom giving birth. The doctor use a scissor to widen the opening by cutting the vulva (the vagina mouth) without anesthetic. Oh my... That's why it is not recommended that a women to undergo another pregnancy before resting well for at least a year.

6. Anyway, there is one thing that women can brag about. That is women tend to live longer than men. It is statistically proven worldwide.

However, it is a win for them ?

Hmm, for what I think it is a win for Men and a lose for women. Imagine that your live long partner had leave you alone for good. You have to start sleeping alone, eat your old men porridge alone and worst of all, crying for self-pity all alone in the room.

And the men, get to die in peace in your arm without going through loneliness. Sometime, live longer compare to other might not be good thing actually.

Maybe that is why women is so demanding. Well, I guess they deserved every right for that.

First ever Recognition from Photography Comunity

2011-09-29T22:17:00.000-07:00

Thanks to my good friend, Frank

He shows me the opportunity to participate in a photo shooting outing few weeks ago. With given theme of

9/11 after 10 years, how it impact Malaysia.

We were tasked to shoot something relevant to it around Bukit Bintang area. Get to met a professional photo-journalism Mr. John Ishi who will be mentoring us and giving us some kick-start before hence.

I'm glad that I could learn quite a number of things from him as he telling his exciting adventure of his photo-shooting career. How he sees thing and how he could blend a good story in every picture he took.

Basically, to take a good photo there are 3 important aspect to take care. Sharpness, Composition and Stories.

Well, I might quite okay in producing sharpness but putting a story in a picture... I'm suck at it.

So, Junyen and I tagged along to hunt for places that possibly could get us idea of 9/11. We went to National Mosque and KLCC.

Out of all the photos I took, only one have the impact and feel in it.

After 10 years passed and counting, Malaysia whose claimed to be a Muslim country but having a strong relationship with United States, are we really safe from being targeted ?

And 2 weeks later, this photo won me a Canon Camera Bag. Mr. John said that this picture will be great if there was people element in there walking by, preferably Arabic. So I take note.

Needless to say, I am happy to get this bag. There were a lot of great photos but quite a number of participant failed to attend the Talk-Time session held yesterday. If all of them had been here, I think I will not get this prize though. Hahaha

Anyhow, I get a new camera bag to replace my current lousy bag.

With large compartment and two extra side pocket it means more accessories can be fitted in. Not to mention the thick span inside the bad which will provide extra protection to even professional gear =)

Could I said that my photo shooting is somehow a little being recognized by photography community ? Ha ha ha... Maybe is not, but what harm to make myself happy a bit by believing it.

Operation Uniform Prank

2011-09-28T22:19:00.000-07:00

*Alarm ringing*
*Some voice shouting heard in dark*

"GET UP ! SUIT UP !! And Go to School Already !!! "

But hey, I am a University student already. Suppose I could wear whatever I want. Torn up jean, black metal wannabe t-shirt and slacky slippers were good enough.

LOL, but being a final year student with only one semester left. We get boring with all these repeated culture and routine.

Talking of doing crazy stuffs in University, everyone talked about that. And it was still remain a talking....

So, the few of us plan to walk the talk. By wearing our long seen secondary uniform to attend lecture.

It was humiliating of course hahaha. With everyone eye-ing on us in the class or outside we might get a little discomfort at first. But,

it mean something special deep inside us. They might think we are crazy and childish. But this was what cowards always do, talk about other while they do not have the gut to do it.

By ignoring the odds, we did it our way =)

And more to come,

We added spice on that by tweak the theme a little. This time we doing school uniform and society outfit theme. So some of us having taekwondo uniform and Red Cresent Uniform.

And we entered the big lecture hall like a Boss !!

I was afraid and about to back down at first, but then I realized that I care too much on public perception instead of my own desire.

I really want to try doing something crazy in university. So here am I, doing it in my own way without taking a shit from what public will think.

We are so going to take along this sweet and silly memory with us to future !

Proud of you guys !!!

And we let the momentum rolling. I changed back to my secondary uniform and with a bunch of crazy friends, we camouflaged our self as secondary student taking a stroll in shopping complex despite of our old looking face. HAHAHA

It was so fun to feel young again. I do not know if other noticed the decoy, but we really have a good time doing this.

So what is next in my list ? Any suggestion guys ? = )

Every little cents, do matter Now

2011-09-23T02:56:00.000-07:00

Am I sound a little desperate for money ? Well, I have been sitting in house for 3 months during holidays, been to several trips with friends to everywhere and had add some collection to my camera gears.. So, I am a little desperate now.

A little sad because my blog was looking messy with all this Google advertisement and Nuffnang adv. Well, this was one of my cheapskate and lazy way to earn some penny.

I do not know if allowing Google and Nuffnang to advertise on my blog will earn me some significant Ringgits, but I guess I will give it a try.

But I ain't broke la. Still have reserves in my piggy bank, but considering next year graduation trip to infamous Hong Kong where foods and accomodation will be expensive, I guess I need to start worrying.

My Ptptn financial support had came to an end last sem. So, this sem I can't open my palm and ask some lunch from Bank Islam already ! HAHA

Well, since I had decided to live at Kepong instead of college and my credit hours were around 14 or less this sem, I guess the tuition fees will be okay.

Heck! RM 1,400++ was charged !!

Tuition fees alone was only RM 680.40, and with all the god-know extra charging it had amounted to
RM 1,412.40

Oh man, this was too much. Though we are still a lot cheaper than those study in private university.

Now only I seriously realize the importance of Ptptn. All the while Ptptn had paid off the fees for me, so I never ask a single penny from my parent for it. Now, I am all by myself. Well, I intend not to ask from them as they had spent a lot lately for my younger bro who just enrolled in University at Kedah.

My reserves are enough to clear my fees. But after that, I need to start worrying. Hence, one of the solution is to

Extend Ptptn support

I do not know about how it work in other university or colleges, but I do know how it work in UM. Very simple in fact you can settle the procedure in one day if you got all they need.

I just done it.

If you are in shit-hole like me too, and you need further assistance from Ptptn, here is what you should do.

1) Get the blue form from Hep. It is still located at KPS third floor. Use the stairs that was between the building that have citra office and building that have Digi, photostat shop and Barber !

2) Make a copy of your exam result slip every semester. I don't think the exam result from Umisisweb can do the job. Photocopy the actual exam result slip to play safe. If you lost some of it, you can ask from SKR
at Exam Building. And get it verified(cop and signed) by either HEP / SKR.

3) Apply for a letter of support from your respective faculty to support your application of extension. Might need 3 working days to get it. Depend on your faculty's management.

4) The University offer letter ( Surat Tawaran Kemasukan University ). Hohoho, don't tell me you lose that cause I do not know where to find a substitute of it. And make a copy of it and get verified either by HEP/SKR.

That all folks.. ring the table bell in HEP and have it submitted.

All left to do is waiting. I not sure if it will get approved because our government seem got big problem with their piggy bank already. So lets cross our finger together and hope it will arrived in time to save our asses.

GodSpeed !!!

So what now ?

2011-09-19T21:41:00.000-07:00

I talked a lot about my personal issues, I talked a lot about my hobbies, I talked a lot about politics,
so, what is the something missing inside this blog ?

If you noticed, I rarely mentioned about my result. I always talk about how I will fight from tooth to toe in exam hall, submerged myself in nescafe's pool just to stay awake for one week to save my last-minute ass for exam sake and etc.

But aftermath, you will never heard from me.

lulz, one need not a rocket scientist to guess right ?

All the while I am really serious and almost-like Kamikaze style in doing prepartion (though most of them were last-minute hugging buddha leg type). My younger bro always said I am really determined and mentally strong in doing my revision.. so my effort can be rated A. However my result shows the otherwise....

Anyway, not that bad la on average. I scored averagely 3.20 +- each sem. So, my hope to getting First Honor was pretty well flushed down to drain.

Until some turning point happened, last sem...

How I did this ? lolz... I have no idea. First time throughout my University life, this was the first time I scored straight in pointer.

To my surprise I was actually getting an A for my thesis 1. Did I mentioned I was toasted and pawned by 2 iron-fist examiner when I was presenting my thesis 1 ?

Damn, miracle do happened. Last time I was still thinking I was stupid to try out new thing like Android instead of playing safe by building the ever boring website. Hmm, but now might be a different story.

Anyhow, because I have been playing around since my first year, having a full pointer can't save my ass much you see. My CGPA only increased by 0.87 this sem.

My first honor was pretty much.... Nucleared

Even by getting the final 4.00 this sem, it wont do any good either.. still stayed in second honor. Well... I guess reality is something I have to accept. So now, should I work damn hard to get the next 4.00 but knowing that I will still stay in Second Honor , or relax..... cukup cukup makan okay la..

Hahaha... well, will decide that later.. anyhow, it sound quite cool to be in dean list

But I never figured out what is that mean ? The Dean will baby sit you ? If you broke / hungry or something.. you can find them ? lol whatever it mean.

Hangout @ Singapore

2011-09-17T09:37:00.000-07:00

This was another Ma-lat-lou (Bunch of dudes without GF) trip. How pity. Hope I could find dates for trip next time.

Hope it do not sound that sad, because it was fun actually to hang out with the usual good friends.

This trip was planned last minutes when it all started by just normal chatting in Facebook. Our passport still valid, we get a green-light to crash into Ming Tat apartment at Tiong Bharu, and Bus ticket can be purchased online.

So, why not ? a few clicks and we were good to go to Singapore.

Thanks to Jun Yen research (gosh, why he is so hardworking !) he recommended us to buy Konsortium Express online. With only MYR 35.10 We can straightaway cruise from KL to Singapore.

It took about 5 hours to reach Singapore, and 30 minutes+ of it was wasted on Malaysia custom. Of course, a long jam we encountered.

My first sight on Singapore was building with flags hanging on them. Lots of them ! This was something rather rare in Malaysia. Singaporean do really appreciate their independence ?

As this was my first time landing myself in Singapore, it really open my eyes and overwrite my previous thought on it. For what I think of Singapore was:

1) It have the worst traffic jam ever. Because it was a small country with high population.

2) A stone-forest. Where no greens will be preserved. Heck, their land was as valuable as gold, how can it be spared for gardens and forest ?

But I was wrong....

The roads in the city were not jam and they have a lot of greenery everywhere ! And to my surprise...

They have river too ! Not sure if it was a big drain, but it look pretty clean and clear to me. Now tell me, where could I find a clean river in our city ?

I do realize that it was Raya Holiday week that time, so without doubt the hotels and motel will make a killing on us. But we got a solution for that which is why we visited Singapore.

We got to stay for free ! And I am not talking about 3-4 people cramped in a small room. We will be living in a decent service department which was fully furnished.

An apartment with fully-equip air-cond.

3 equal size bed rooms for us.

And a fully working kitchens for us to play fire, literally lol. Really, it did save us a lot of money by cooking. Do not underestimate Ma-Lat-Lou capability to cook. If we starve, we can come out with something nice too.

By the way, who is so rich and kind enough to let us crush in this apartment ? Credit was belong to my friend Edmund. He and his friends was doing their intern in Singapore during holiday. Their intern came to an end but theirs rental agreement did not. They move back to Malaysia anyway and leaving this apartment free for us to crash in. That mean we could actually rot in there for 1-2 weeks till the contract end. Cool isn't ?

Since we have so much time to kill, what were we doing in Singapore anyway ?

We went to Sentosa for sight-viewing and of course, crash in their casino for free drinks.

Watched some free shows at Lake of Dreams.

Not that cool compared to Marina Bay. And that was how we spent our first day. Before we hit the sack, we got ourselves a supper at Singapore Mamak.

Speaking of Kiasuness, I believe it was what we always heard about Singaporean. But I must see and experience with our own eyes. So here I was, in a local Mamak cafe flipping through their menu. I am looking for the cheapest foods available as I do not plan to waste my limited SGD on this crap. So when I am decided to order the roti kosong, Heck ! it stated minimum 2 pieces per order.

Lol, in Malaysia you can order one air-kosong and sit in any mamak to enjoy a football match. But here, in order to enjoy their air-cond, they impose some rules to not lose-out.

Do you know only in Malaysia, you could re-fill your coke / coffee in MCD but you can't do that in Singapore ? Sorry man if I offended any Singaporean reader here. Just stating what I saw.

But I am very impress with their culture and road ethic.

Singapore is a place where road priority is on pedestrian first and everything come second. They have almost pedestrian crossing lane and red-light traffic for pedestrian on every possible junctions. Unlike Malaysia, you cross on your own risk.. expect some respect from rude driver ? they rather run you down first and then blame you for that !

I love their public transport system the most. Especially the Mass Rapid Transit.

It was mind blowing to experience myself their high level of efficiency of handling their system. We were not afraid going out from house during peak hours. No matter how many people were there, we surely could get on board on the first train we see. Less than 5 minutes for every transit ? That was so damn cool. It really defy the law of logic when the more peak the hour was, the more frequent the train came.

Unlike Malaysia, speaking of that bloody bastard KTM, on non-peak hour = 20 minutes per transit, and when the peak hour came.. hohoho, my favorite... minimum 35minutes per transit and there was no maximum time on it. You could be waiting for 2 hours for that !

My friends told me Singaporean love looking down. I not mean the are looking down on people in this case (but I do agree some of them are looking down on Malaysian) In transit, everyone have an incredible phone, and they love playing it all the time. Maybe this is how they kill the time when boarding the transit. If it was not that data plan and the phone itself was so expensive in Malaysia, I would love to be like them too.

Actually we are not that cheapskate by having all the meal in house. We do ate outside some time.

Such as this nice bowl of porridge with frog-legs. It was my first time eating a frog. Well, it do taste like crab meat for me. Nothing to be shout about, quite nice I would say.

And Wanton-Mee at Tiong Plaza food court. The portion was small and taste was slightly below average. SGD 4 for this. Damn, I always have to remind myself not to convert to MYR whenever I spend the money. Damn the currency ! MYR 10 for this !! argh ! Otherwise, it was pretty reasonable.

Being a student myself, I am quite curious of University in Singapore, particularly NUS. How would it look like for a top 30 University in the world ranking ?

Because of that curiosity, we paid a visit to that infamous university.

Went by MRT to Clementi Station and then change transport to bus No. 95. It was near. To my surprise, they do not have gates, it look like it was an open-ended university with many possible accessible route. A sign of good security in Singapore.

So we tour around the University and visit their library. We actually given permission to visit the library without going through any paperwork procedure. Just a polite chat with working librarian over there and they allowed us in. Wow, that really make UM suck real bad. I heard that outsider need to pay MYR 20 to access our library.

There were few things that I really love this NUS. First was, it has a MCD inside !

How I wish UM would consider having a MCD inside. Hmm, but on second thought, the reason we like MCD was because it got free refill. MCD in singapore no free refill wor... what a mood killer.

Second, I am in mad with their no-restriction on dress ethic regulation. Everyone could wear whatever they like. Even in library and everywhere else. It was truly a superb eyes-washing moment throughout the university. Girls there were simply amazing, they were up-to-trend in fashion, know good makeup and excellent in preserving their body figure. I am not lying, hardly I could spot any average Jane over there. With this, I do believe there was no ugly girl in world, just lazy girl.

Third, was their foods !

I not mean that their foods were good. Malaysia foods are still far superior. I meant the average of their food price. I am not sure if either their University / government were subsidizing their foods, because their food was so cheap !

Average bowl / plate of foods cost only SGD 1.80 - 2.00. And the portion was reasonable. Of course, looking from Malaysian perspective, the price was almost the same after conversion. But speaking of Singaporean perspective, if you earn as Singaporean and spend it here. It was a great deal of value.

This inflect the seriousness of inflation in Malaysia. Food price was hiked to average MYR 4-5 per bowl / plate of foods. Damn !

Back to the myth about Singaporean was Kiasu, I found something which might favor the myth.

I found their parking rate was funny. Who in the earth would rate it till 4 decimal places of cent ?

and there was this one day when we decided to pay a visit to their IT fair held at Suntec City Mall. Except for the real good deals of electronic items and serious competition between the seller, it was no fun to walk at all.

I am a photographer, when talking about PC fair, Car Exhibition or sort of event like that... we are really looking forward for doll-up model. So I am kinda looking forward for it with my 50 mm + flash gun ready. To hell with it, it was no show at all. Sales man / girl were plain ordinary and some do not even bother to tidy up themselves.

My shooting mode was so dead until I saw something worth to snap. A line of promoter giving flyers. So I put on my flash and fire-up. To hell...

I thought my shutter was fast enough until it was beaten by them ! They could close their face faster than the speed of 1/60 per second of my shutter. Lol !

So I walked away and I heard one of them saying... 5 dollar please ! They have made my day... by confirming the myth.

Speaking of being a techie in Singapore. It was okay to do that. Because of their strong currency, their items were a lot cheaper and affordable for them. Of course, provided that you earn as Singaporean and spend it there. For Malaysian like me, Neh... it was the same old costly price.. just that they offer more valuable goodies.

After exploring all the six floor of IT exhibition, we decided to go out and went somewhere else. We saw the giant Ferris Wheel afar. And we traveled there by foot.

Well, we did not waste any dollar on it. Just a sight-seeing as it was so expensive ! SGD30 per ride. Or you can booked entire gondola and have your dinner served on sky with just SGD3000+ lol

Perhaps one day, I will fly my dates over here for a hanging dinner.

Overall, Singapore was a good place to leisure. Their weather would not be hot with most of the time cloudy (maybe because it near sea) and their superb public transportation especially MRT enable us to go anywhere with ease.

The last few days for us MaLatLou was very unproductive. Not that we ran out of money. We still have bucks on us, but we were so lazy and so attracted to the house. The comfy sofa, the tv with a lot of great channels and air-condition on for 24/7.... make us caving in the house for 2 days.

This was where we start clearing out the fridge. Eating everything that was edible

Previous house-mate were leaving a lot left-over in the fridge like eggs, rice, oranges, bread, tuna and etc. So we swept it all into our tummy. Most of the time we ate noodles and bread.

Eating at home did save a lot for us. Averagely we spent SGD3-5 for foods per day if we do not leave the house. Foods were cheap in supermarket if you are not after the branded goods. Big loaf of white bread only cost SGD 1 , Tuna Can SGD 2 , 5pack on Instant noodle only SGD 1.40 and etc.

Thank god and of course Edmund that we were spare from forking out dollars for accommodation. Int total I spent MYR 63 for bus ticket , and SGD 50 for overall expenditure in Singapore for 5days 4 nights. Cheap yo ?

Speaking of bus ticket, thanks to YC research, we save up a lot by traveling to Larkin-Johor and from there we buy long distance bus ticket back to KL. It only cost us MYR 28 for that instead of SGD30 if we decided to buy the ticket in Singapore. But of course, saving money won't be sweet when we have to rush like mad to head to Larkin.

Singapore journey was great. There were still some place I yet to visit like Universal Studio and their Zoo. But because of budget limitation, we skipped all that. Maybe next time when either Malaysia currency become stronger ( I doubt it) or I make a nice income in future.

So what is my opinion about working at Singapore ? Hmm, maybe I will leave that in my next post. This was quite a lengthy post. Thanks for reading it till this point yo. Appreciate it =)

Leisure TimeOut @ Port Dickson

2011-09-05T08:28:00.000-07:00

I have to admit that all the good thing only start pouring at the end. My 4 months holiday has been a boring one until the last few weeks. I have been out station for vocation for so frequent that I am so good in packing my luggage.

After the recent Penang trip, I went to Port Dickson this time with family for 2 days and a night vocation.

Recalling the last time I went to Port Dickson, it was the memorable Freshy Camp ! However, I still remember the dirtiness of the beach and sea.

To my surprise, it was looking better now.

It seem there were people who taking up the responsibility to take care of the beach. Well, I still hold my trust on the sea though. Beach is ok haha.

Though the beach was much cleaner now, but our 2 days and 1 night trip would not spend much time on beaches. Cause we will spend most of it in our hotel !

I knew, when one on trip, they should spend most of their time exploring out there instead of spending their time in the hotel.

But for my case, it was totally a different case when each unit of the hotel we stayed, cost MYR 500+

This resort called, Great Lexis or formerly known as The Legend International Water Home.

With the money we paid we expect good facilities that could serve us good and proper. And it kinda interesting when there was private pool in each unit !

we rented 3 units to fit all of us. So we got 3 private pools to play with. I even like the private pool on the upper unit.

An open-air private pool with a good view on the outside. Luckily, we got the unit that faced the public pool. It was so fun and relaxing submerging your body in the water while viewing peoples having fun on the public pool. Some time if you lucky, there will be bikini hottie around. HAHAHA

While the in-door private pool is good for pool party and it was cold all the time, the upper pool was superb for night swim. Because it was so freaking nice !

Yea, you can swim or sit in it for all the night you want.

Not to mention the cozy room big room with a big 32 inch tv as well.

As well as a mini kitchen for us to do a minor cooking.

With everything you need under one roof, who want to go near the dirty beach out there ? It was a total leisure to hangout around the resort. It was big and mean to be explored. So my younger brother rent one of these for MYR 20 / hour

With these lazy bike, we take turn to explore this resort to see what it can offer. I discovered this place where the much higher price for chalet located.

The chalet that built on water. But, I not really fancy on this. Well, the water underneath seems so dirty and I bet it smell too. Not really worthy for the higher price you got to pay. But if you are saying Borneo in this case. Then hell yesh ! Recalling my previous Borneo trip to Semporna island, I stayed on a chalet which built on top of crystal clear sea.

Besides sight-seeing, there were sports too. One of em which I had tried out was the archery.

Not bad for the price. MYR 10 = 12 arrows , MYR 16 = 24 arrows. And I forget the rest. And yes, the more arrows you bought at once, more discount you will get. And so my younger bro and I took the MYR 16 each.

One of my favorite was the pool. No, I not talking about the private pool. I am talking about the pool with balls, cue and table. With just MYR 3 per round, it was even cheaper than KL and PJ.

How about the foods ? We went outside to search for seafood as dinner. After some fast search on internet, we found out that there were few local famous. So we settle for Weng Hin Seafood restaurant. Hmm, and I think it was so-so. not worth to mention its food anyway.

Our Hotel breakfast buffet was kinda good in fact.

It offer quite a variety of breakfast. I love the wedges and prawn popiah. The eggs was a bonus too cause it was nicely fried.

Remember the new ef 50mm f/1.8 lens that I recently bought ? If you get a chance to shoot portrait. Use it !

It could produce nice bokeh and good sharpness which were utterly important in portrait shooting.

She was my cousin sis daughter. Cute, playful and photogenic.

And that was about all I have to say for this trip. Since I was in PD and going to pass by Seremban when going back KL, I decided to brought my sibling to eat the famous Tow Kee Hakka Mee at Seremban.

Try to Google 'Tow Kee Hakka Mee' and you will get a complete review about it as well as its location. It was really good and I had came back for second this time after the first time I ate year ago. Courtesy to my good friend Joey.

Coming up next. Trip to Singapore. As a matter of fact, I just back from Singapore this morning and going to Bukit Kayu Hitam tomorrow morning. Seriously, All the good things save till the end. LOL

Back to Penang again 2011

2011-08-18T04:58:00.000-07:00

It was since 2 years ago I had visited Penang. And now I am back to that wonderful island again with stomach craving for good foods.

But this time, I am not with friends but with my siblings of 2. Because this was only a 2 days and 1 night trip, I will heavily concentrate my time to hunt good foods instead wasting it on temples and museum visit.

I borrowed a GPS navigator from my cousin to guide my way to food heaven. But later on, it get me so fucking frustrated and damn piss-off. Later on baru cakap la.

I have prepared a list of foods to eat (not place to visit) a night before the trip. Thanks to

http://www.vkeong.com/

this fantastic food blogger wrote a super good food blog. So, I was scanning his entries on Penang and on the same time jot down the location on paper. Not to mention that his food photography is very good.

Before heading out to PLUS highway, we had our dimsum as breakfast at Menjalara

Bandar Sri Menjalara, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur
Restoran Fu Lai

Actually we have planned to eat dimsum at Butterworth the next day at Penang, but erm.... We like Dim Sum so much !!! The dim sum here is not the freshest and most delicious. But it offer an affordable price to local.

Ahoy and here we go ! Drive all the way till Penang.

After a slight jam in the island, we finally arrived at Chulia Hotel.

The out look of this hotel is white. Inside also white. When we get our key and heading to our room, it is also white ! I think the theme for this hotel is white

No need to say, the interior in this room was also white. Two queen size bed and a flat screen television.

Just one thing, toilets are located outside. Be it bathing, brushing teeth or dumping facets, it have to be performed here.

Though it sound not that good, but in fact, it is not bad though. The facilities provided in this toilet is way better than those dirty toilet embedded in room at other hotel I visited. seriously, I love the big head shower of that.

and one of the best part was, we got a free parking and security if we are the hotel guest. This is very good because it save our time to hunt safe place to park our car.

After dumping our luggage in room, I start key-in GPS coordinate into GPS navigator before heading out. Thanks to the famous food blog, I got all the coordinate and even their operating time ! and so we headed out to our first eating which was

Mr. Gan Fried Oyster

It is crispy on below, soft and flavorful on top. We ordered the biggest portion which cost MYR 10 and I think it is worth it because the oyster is fresh and big. around 20cent - 50 cent of coin size.

That is Mr.Gan frying oyster.

and a lot of good 'Work Hei'. Place here was quite hard to find a parking so I resorted to park my car illegally but professional without obstructing the traffic. Well, this is what Kl-lite good at.

Lam Ah Coffee Shop (opposite Beach Road fire station)
Lebuh Chulia

The Fried O-chien was delicious, but it was more like a mouth-opening foods to us. So, we headed out for the next hunt.

Ah Hock Wan Tan Mee

This wanton mee was special and a little different from what I ate at KL. Though it was served 'gon lou' / dry, but it was more watery than KL. Don't take it the wrong way, the taste was uniquely awesome in its way. The unique thing was, it can be ate with sambal/ chili paste. So I mix the sambal into the soup and wallop the bowl till the bottom. Ah, the soup is very good.

Stall at intersection of Lebuh Melayu (Malay Street) and Lorong Ikan

One of my objective here was to survey the price of a camera lens that I am so curious of it's rumored sharpness.

Canon Ef 50mm f/1.8

The price in KL was about RM300-350. So I was heard that Penang will cost lesser and so I headed to the famous camera shop at Komtar called 'Click N Snap' that was recommended by my friend and forum.

So the first thing I done was lens testing ! For so long I had never take off my heavy tamron lens from the body. I put on the 50mm and gave it a first shot at f/2.8

Pow ! to able to produce such a sharp shot , nice bokeh, and fast focusing ability with only MYR 290. I decided to buy that. And I get myself a uv-filter for that at MYR 30.

Anyhow, the 50mm is so plastic-ly and light compare to my Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8. But of course la, One cost at MYR 1300 and another cost only MYR 290. Can't complain much as long it does the work.

I am a bit paiseh to bored my sibling for following me a long walking distance to find this shop. After that, we went to nearby attraction to eat the famous Penang Cendol

It is sometime a good thing to travel at weekdays and non-public holiday because you get to find your parking easily and need not to queue for too long. Last time I came for this Cendol, gosh... the crowd was so 'crowd', until it take so long to order a nice bowl of cendol during hot day. Not to mention the car had to parked really far far away. Now it is all good. The quality was better than last time as the boss can put more concentrate on our bowl.

Penang Road Cendol
Joo Hooi Cafe, 475, Jalan Penang

After a big bowl of cendol for each of us, we were quite stuffed. The planned was to visit Siam Road Char Koay Teow after the Cendol, but since we were quite stuffed so we planned to go to Gurney Plaza for a stroll.

Gurney Plaza

The beach was still that dirty and smelly. Hahaha. Like I said, it was weekday and non-holiday. So there were ample of parking on roadside with only MYR 0.30 for every 30 minutes.

So we wondered pointlessly in the plaza while waiting our stomach to cool down. But my brother un-dieing crave for Donut had slowed our cool down time. LOL

And I played with newly bought 50mm. The time was 4.40 PM, and it was about time we should hunt for that Char Koay Teow ! Which was my main objective here in Penang. To eat a very good Char Koay Teow.

Siam Road Char Koay Teow

I swear. This is one of the best Char Koay Teow I ate in my life. The 'Wok Hei' was so strong and with a lot of 'lard' (crunchy fried pig' fat)... man I am in heaven. This will surely promise my return next time.

ooo, I ordered a drink called 8 pou milk.

Hmm, I can't describe how this taste, but it seem like mixing milk with 'leong cha' / herbal drink. and it taste very pleasant and fresh.

I read on that famous food blogger that this uncle who fried this Koay Teow do not like being photograph, and you might get scolded for that. So I have to stand far away and take a pot shot at him real fast while he was busy frying.

Siam Road (Jalan Siam) Char Koay Teow End of Siam Road

Stomach filled and it was 5pm already. First thing came in mind... Afternoon nap. Hahaha what a terrible habit. So we headed back to Hotel to bath and rest.

But that GPS bring us rounding and rounding the town with all the screwed up navigation really make me frust !!! It seemed it do not recognized one-way road and insist on I drive against it ! WTF. No matter how I re-route it, it still bring me back to the same road and insist that I FUCK UP the law.

So, I have to rely on my sister phone 'papago' to reach our hotel after a 30 minutes of circling the town like moron.

Anyhow, we reached the hotel and have a good warm bath. And for me, of course I can't resist myself to test further my lens.

The first shot was taken by Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8.

Exif was focal length : 50mm , aperture : f2.8 , iso : 800 , shutter : 1/60 second.

The second shot was taken by newly bought 50mm f/1.8

Exif was focal length : 50mm , aperture : f2.8 , iso : 800 , shutter : 1/60 second.

Notice the sharpness taken by 50mm ? haha. But there was one weakness of 50mm compare to my Tamron. It seem the 50mm can't take a very close-up shot. My Tamron lens on the hand can take a more closer shot by 25% more closer. But, in term of sharpness, 50mm was real sharp.

Okay la, enough with my camera talk. After we rest enough, we decided to hunt for dinner at Bukit Mertajam. The time was 7.15pm and I think the traffic had subsided by then cause it was a working day. Another Char Koay Teow feast incoming !

We took ferry at Pengkalan Weld to cross the sea. My mistake was, I trust that GPS again. And because of that, I had been fooled on the road once more. Imagine my frustration when I am so angry that I actually heed the GPS device to drive against the one-way traffic !

And so, I fucking shut down the moronic GPS and use my phone's garmin instead. Thank god ! my phone garmin was so pin-point precise. And it brought me to the famous Duck Egg Char Koay Teow in Jalan Kulim in no time.

Duck Egg Char Koay Teow

I had drove all the way from Chulia Street at Penang till Bukit Mertajam just to eat this claimed best duck egg Char Koay Teow in Bukit Mertajam.

Taste wise = satisfaction. Fuel wise = Suck it.

We were so hungry that we ordered the largest portion and on top of that, we add-on a fried duck egg for just MYR 4.50 . And we dig in like Barbarian. The Fried duck egg was crunchy on outside but still maintain its juiciest on inside. One poke on the yolk and it flow out to blend with the noodle. Gosh.... saliva keep on dropping.

But, to be honest... it was super oily and the 'Wok Hei' was not that good as the one I ate at Jalan Siam. The jalan Siam Char Koay Teow was still the best I had so far in Penang.

Duck Egg Char Koay Teow
Jalan Kulim.

After such a sumptuous meal, going back to Penang just like that sound stupid. So, we decided to stop by Auto-City for a night stroll. I was feeling sad all the morning because it seem Penang had lost its pretty girls. Oh ! now I knew where the pretty girls had went to. All of em were in Auto-City !! So many of them. Hahaha

I hope KL will have such a big yam cha place to hang out. It was so... got 'feel' either for dating couples or friends gathering.

We went to old town Kopitiam to enjoy the free wi-fi and some drinks.

and we went back to Penang Island to hit the sack. Tomorrow morning we will check-out early to try out the famous dim sum at Butterworth ! Hahahahaha

Dim sum at Chew Chun Butterworth

It was a non-holiday for Penang-lite and it was not a weekend either. But for normal like this, it was already packed with customers. But we were lucky to find a table once we walked in. So we dig in !!!

We eat eat and eat... and end up the bill was just MYR 34. For the amount of dimsum we ate, the price we paying was cheap ! compare to the Dimsum we ate at Kepong yesterday morning, it cost us MYR 49 when we just ate lightly. Not to mention it was a lot fresher and tastier.

Chau Chun
6970, Jalan Ong Yi How
Butterworth, Penang 12300

And we headed back to KL around 9am ++. Initially we still wondering if we want to stop at Ipoh for lunch because we ate too full for breakfast.

LOL, we still stopped at Ipoh for lunch. We ate 'hor fun'

Ipoh Hor Fun

Smooth noodle, sweet soup and very succulent chicken. Best. I ate it once a year ago with Yc and Junyen and I was missing this noodle.

Thean Chun Coffee Shop
73, Jalan Market, Ipoh, Perak, 30000

Ahhhh, at last our food journey had ended. With a satisfying and happy stomach we headed back KL.

Will back to Penang anytime soon ? Yesh !! anytime. There are still a lot of foods I want try but was limited by my stomach capability.

Coffee Addiction

2011-08-08T23:23:00.000-07:00

Without realizing myself, I think I am officially addicted to coffee.

I have been drinking coffee for 2 out of 3 meals a day. Without it, foods were taste incomplete.

I guess, my family had just add-one another one coffee drinker.

My mom love to drink nescafe with lotsa sugar and Creamer. My Father love to have it bitter. And my granny love non other than Kopi o extra sweet !

For me, I am addicted to just one coffee. Nescafe O that is bitter.

No wonder coffee bean is one of the world largest traded commodity. Everyone just love the adrenaline pump and feel good factor came from it =)

Cheers, to all the coffee drinker !

Work and Invest ?

2011-08-07T22:02:00.000-07:00

I have been procrastinating in my house doing nothing for long enough. I have not socializing with other human being other than my family for months. Even facebook is so dead to me.

So, I decided to answer the invitation to MSLS 2011

In longer breath, it called 5th Annual Malaysian Leader Student Summit 2011. Initially I have no idea what this summit is about. But it sound pretty cool. Leader student summit

So, lets suit up and went there like a wannabe leader might be a good experience.

In fact, it is interesting. The venue was held in Hilton Hotel ball room. And they provide good foods ! Ahem, that is not the highlight.

A lot of political people and activists were invited to dialogue. It is fun to watch debate among two opposing interest party and seriously breath-taking when students start bombarding tough questions to them.

Anyway, I get this book for free.

Even though I have bad impression toward Mahathir, but this book title do caught my attention. I used to hear about our great Malaysia successfully survive the 1997 Economy Crisis without intervention from IMF (International Monetary Fund). But I never knew how M'sia breakthrough this.

So, I read up the entire book in 4 days.

And my passion into Stock Investment and Forex were increased. Speaking of doing business in the future, I guess it is not my type. People always say, only business can make you rich. But, if I have a good career and pretty good in investment,

Can I make a fortune as well ?

After 1 good year....

2011-07-17T23:56:00.000-07:00

Recalling this post that I blogged a year ago.

Pressure, Anxiety and Excitement

To sum up, I was saying that something real big had happened in my life and I have to stop fooling around with my future. But I yet to disclose what with 'big stuff' that was happening.

Haha, who wan to know my untold story anyway ?

Nonetheless, I feel like to share my story here. Maybe some of my concerned friend would love to know.

So here it goes.

Just exactly one year back. My parents did one of the toughest decision in their life. They decided to buy
a house !

"0_o , ahhh cheh.... I thought wat tim. Buy a house nia ? What so bombastic about it? "

Ish, I do know that everyone buy house nowadays... what so big deal anyway ?

Let put that this way, my scenario was like a small time clerk buying a Lamborghini Gallard o. That very day after my parents secretly hand over the downpayment for that house, my mom can't wait a second longer to tell me about it.

She said they have bought a house. Frankly, I am not happy with the decision. I am living in a big family. Stay in a double storey terraces which owned by my grandma. Though there are 10 peoples living in there (my father family, my uncle family and grandma) and it get a little congested, but I love the warm and noise of people around.

10 years back, my parents did bought a house too. They bought a small apartment at some place. I was so sad when thinking of leaving this comfortable home. Why should we move to a small apartment when there is a decent house to live ? and one of its side have a great Chinese Cemetery view !

Anyway, the apartment project get a lot of problem and hence it failed to deliver the keys to buyer. It was a bad news for my parents and they resorted to cancel the purchase and sue the contractor.

I am silently happy about it as I wish to stay in this house with my grandma longer. 10 years later... which is now. The history get repeated.

I am expecting a condo at the best. I knew how much my father's earning and my mom was a housewife. So, buying a condo might be my father most stretched limit.

But I am wrong !! They bought a big house. A 3 storey-link house in a highly guarded community at Selayang. And it was cost RM 868,000 back then. (Some might think I am over-reacted as RM 868,000 is not a big money to you. Sadly it is big to me)

I am stunned for moment. Of course I am happy when I fantasizing how fun to stay in such a big house designed with contemporary design

and walking around without fear of criminals in that highly guarded community.

Best of all is that I could enjoy the swimming pool and gym everyday !

But it take just a while to hit me back to reality. How could my father able to pay for this ?

With his current earning left only little saving every month after paying 2 car's installment, daily necessities, insurances, his transport, eatery and all sort of inevitable expenses.. how could my father pay for this ?

And how did my father get loan approval of RM 650,000 in the first place ? Bank ain't stupid, my father was 53 years old a year back which near to retiree. My father own no assets (house, land and etc), my mom is a full time housewife and his 3 kids were still in study.

Mystery unsolved when my mom said, a rubber estate owned by my deceased grandpa get sold with a good price and the money was divided fairly between the sibling. Well, let not disclose the amount. hahaha

And with that, the Bank approved my father's loan. But still, RM 650,000 of loan ain't a small money. So, we need 17 years to repay it back.

This is where, I start being serious on my future. Obviously my father could not work for another 17 years to pay the loan. Soon, it will be me and my younger bro who will take over this burden. When the house was completed, it will cost us RM4,500 per month of loan repay.

What !! given that my father was still working when I come out to corporate world and with my brother still stuck inside university doing his degree, how much could I contribute with my fresh grad salary ?

Hence, my father's early retiree plan flush down the drain. He said he has to work until my brother and me stabilize in our career. But, why my parents wanted to stress themselves this way ?

Why don't just continue to live in this old house and spend their retiree money to travel wherever they want?

My mom always want to live in a family that only belong to hers. I am not putting this in a bad way, but I believe every women want to have a house that belong to her family. My mom's sacrifice a lot in this old house. She had to give up her job instead of my aunt in order to take care of my ailing grandma. She took care of my aunt's daughter to earn some side income and she cook all the meals everyday to serve the family of 10.

It have been like this for almost 10 years now. My mom said, how she miss the old time when she could work happily with her friends and worry less of house's affair as my grandma was still capable of handling the house that time. Now she is determined, to own a house only belong to her family.

My mom was being a too nice person for too long thus benefiting my aunty and uncle (who was living with us with their two daughter) to worry less about the house agenda because they only need to worry about their work at daylight, and get to eat a sumptuous dinner cooked by my mom when return. Even their daughter homework were monitor by my mom and she will make sure they finish everything right after they return from school.

But I knew my aunt and uncle are not a bad person. They are very nice instead. But sometime people tend to take thing for granted. It is unfair for my mom to stay in the loop for any longer because my mom is getting older. She had serve this big family for 10 good years. And I believe she deserve something better for her remaining years ahead.

Though moving out from this family might cause unthinkable consequences to my aunt and uncle, but enough is enough. My grandma had recovered from her ailing condition thanks to my mom's care. And now I believe it is time for some one to take up the responsibility.

10 years back, I am still stupidly naive. I can't see the hardness that my mom had to endure all this while. I just think about myself. How I dislike small apartment, how I going to miss my grandma, and how I going to miss about everything !

Now, I am all matured. I knew what is the best and to do. And so, I am fully support my parents decision. Though I am tied up to the loan, but I am more than willing to pay for it !

Because this house will make my mom happy =]

How can I mess up with my future anymore ?

I must quickly come out to working world and excel there ! So that I could earn a decent salary to pay off the house debt and release my father from further burden and responsibility. I guess I will have very little happy hour after work in the future hahaha... money will be very tight.

But again, if this house could make my mom happy, it is freaking worth it !!!!

Hatyai - Thailand 2011

2011-07-14T07:05:00.000-07:00

Two weeks back, I went to Hatyai - Thailand with my family. This was my second times having a trip to Thailand.

And both of em gave me a totally different experience and story ! My first Thailand trip was going to Betong - Thailand as covered in

http://holim88.blogspot.com/2010/12/trip-to-betong-thailand-2010-day-1.html

http://holim88.blogspot.com/2010/12/trip-to-betong-thailand-2010-day-2.html

The participant of this trips consist of me, my sister , brother, my mom and

WHOLE BUNCH OF AUNTIESSSSSSSS !!!!

Oh yes, you guess it right. This is a totally aunties trips with 95% of em are female. 87% above are above 50 years ago.

In other word, I have joined a follow a tour group to Thailand. Not my usual backpacker style.

10 hours of bus ride was a real suffer. I always have problem sleeping in bus. Maybe I not use to sleep in sitting position. Nonetheless I survived through the journey.

As a matter of fact. I am anti ala tour-group + tour guide style all the while. Now that I have joined one, it got me assure that my anti-ness feeling is correct.

Hear me say, following a tour group is a BIG NO FUN !

While we (the passenger) so eager to see the uniqueness in Thailand, the tour guide only interested on their fat commission.

3days 1 night trip to Hatyai, is all about shopping shopping and bloody shopping.

I guess those aunties were really enjoying it. But we youngster don't. I myself have went to Betong as backpacker. And I do notice the difference.

We brought 10 thousand Baht to there which is equivalent to RM 1,000. Well, most of the money was spent by mom.. hahahaha

Those place that they brought us to shop, was bloody expensive / not cheap at the least. Given a short time on each stop, we have no choice to travel on our own. Most of the time in Hatyai was going indoor to shop.

Buy biscuits, seaweed, dry cuttle fish and all sort of stuffs which you can find in Malaysia. But those aunties still buy buy and buy in bulk. As it seem it was so cheap. Trust me, it is expensive !

Foods there, was expensive too. Because I think even the tour guide even earn commission from them.

Chicken rice cost RM5 and Tomyam Meehun cost RM4. Erm, actually the price is around like that in Malaysia. But since we were in Thailand. I expect cheaper than that as those foods were really way cheaper in Betong.

Furthermore, the foods were.... meh. What to do, when you follow a tour guide, you have no choice but to eat whatever they bring you to.

At one particular time, they actually being considerate to bring us some place nice for sightseeing. At least there are something I can be looking forward to.

Mermaid Beach. Nothing special particularly except for its famous roasted eggs.

and a mermaid statue

and we stay there for 45 minutes. Good also as the sun was really bright that time. From what I see, Thai people are very environment caring. The beach was so clean even though it is a famous picnic spots. Shame to our Malaysian culture. Port Dickson, Melaka and Klang beachs were a disgrace.

To my surprise, the tour guide brought us to wet market ! I did not expect that because it might bring no commission to them. Well I guess they are still quite considerate sometime.

Whatnot, I have done some photo-viewing in internet about this Wet market. And found that most of the tourists love to take photo from this spot. I was standing on a bridge.

Finally the tour guide brought us back to a hotel in Hatyai main city which I forget it name. Very lively indeed. But I did not take any photos on those... hmm wondering why.

Anyway, we rest a while before going out to sight-seeing again. This time we went to the stainless steel tower ! Hope I get it right.

And it cost us RM15 per pax to go there. Nothing special, just a tower with a lot of stainless steel inside and with some monks chanting prayer.

Personally I think there is no entry fees required to visit this place. But the tour guide asked RM15 from us before hence saying that she will arrange a van to us. So in total we paying RM165 because got 11 people per van for the driver to bring us there which cost less than 15minutes.

Hmm, nothing fun to say more. So we back to Malaysia the next morning. Speaking of passing through kastam, it is another funny aunties story. They were so nervous that their shopping goods will somehow get confiscated. All their faces were green and nervous. The tour-guide keep on calming them down. I was like ... 0_o in the bus.

"Auntiesss, you buy vegetables, fruits and foods nia ma... you think you buy gun and bomb meh" I think like that. I have no idea why they were this nervous.

Another funny stuffs was. Those aunties insist to show-hand their money before going back. As my brother said, those aunties see the Thai Bath like a voucher.. have expiry date one... cannot change back to MYR one. So must finish it !!!

And stop by Alor Setar to visit a muzium.

Auntiess.... auntiess.... auntiess.....

Photos above were so fascinating. It were all drawing ! Masterpiece by 60 great artists.

Journey back to Malaysia was even a greater suffering when aunties decided to sing karaoke in bus.

Imagine.... Speakers directly above and beside you with volume turn so loud... and aunties start to sing all their lung out

You know how oldie songs can be so high pitch and semangat. now imagine the sound of lorry honking directly into your ear for 2-3 hours like that.

There was a bloody hell aunty whose profession is a tai-kam-cheh. She sang most of the songs... and I bloody hate her. Her voice is so high pitch and with her run-out-of-tune buffalo voice, it almost got me crazy.

I was thinking to grab her mike and break it. Apparently I did not. And long story short... after long endurance... finally I get to home.

To sum up my story.. I do not hate Hatyai even though I sound like I hate it. I hate tour-guided trip. It is suck for us the free soul teenagers who are eager to explore a totally new worlds.

I guess that is what we called age gaps. Apparently my mom enjoy it. But I don't. Nonetheless, I having precious time with my family at Thailand.

So, I am not satisfy with my trip to Hatyai and looking forward to come back some other day. Of course, with a big bagpack on my back and with fellow good buddies we will conqured every interesting spot of Hatyai can offer.

BERSIH 2.0

2011-07-12T08:45:00.000-07:00

What else should I say more ?

None =)

Most of my friends in social network society have said it all.

To my amaze, out of sudden everyone becoming so concern with our country. News sharing were everywhere !

So, I will skip the summary part of Bersih 2.0 because I am pretty sure you got it cover ;-)

Anyway, Kudos to Rakyat as they are the real winner for this and let wait with further anxiety for the upcoming results.

This is the best video of BERSIH 2.0 in my opinion.

Ah ! One more things... it is good that many of us finally awaken from slumber and realize how ugly our government can be.

But complaining and bitching ain't solve shits... So

Meanwhile Ambiga fight for a clean election, YOU

go register as voter !!!! MOVE IT

Oh, Holim the broken tape so annoying !

2011-07-07T21:45:00.000-07:00

Ever wonder why am I so into Politic ?

I guess most of the youngster at my age especially friends around me are still care less about what happening in our country.

And this Holim keep on posting political news on FB day in and day out instead of posting funny posts, nice photos or spamming nonsenses at other wall's update.

He is just like a broken tape !!!! damn I should block Holim from tainting my fb wall.

I guess this is what happen. My wall receive less update than last time.

Well, I have a reason for this. And let me clarified. I am neither a member of any political parties. I am just like you, a normal citizen of Malaysia.

But why am I hurting myself by allowing anger, hatred and disappointment to ruin my day as I keep updating myself on recent political news?

Why am I taking all the trouble or even risk being label as anti-government by constant sharing news on FB that is not favorable to government ?

For most of you guys, you just want to live 'peacefully' and hence care less on our country. And any matter concern with politic is deem as chaos and might get yourself into trouble without any beneficial in return.

Me too, I want to live in peace. But have you ever ask yourself. Who pay for your peace ?

Why other people have to do the scarification and you doing nothing to earn the peace and rights that you are enjoying right now freely ?

"Nobody asked them to sacrifice wor, I think life is good now and I think their doing is pointless and idiot"

If they are nobody keeping an eyes on government, how much you do think is the petrol price now ? how much you need to pay for your foods ? same goes to electricity bills, waters and miscellaneous. But I guess it still not concern you much because

Your parents are paying for it !

Don't you still miss the old time when one pack of nasi lemak just cost Rm0.60 ? One plate of WantonMee Rm2.50 ? and Roti Canai RM0.50 ?

What is the price now ?

Because our country is handle by incompetent leaders who are so tainted with corruption, hence our government can't longer afford to maintain the price of the foods serve on our table. Money is keep on drying out from national coffer into their pockets. The spending is exceeding the money going in which result an increasing national debt.

Oh Damn ! I am saying boring stuffs again. If I am going down with more details, will you stop reading my post ???

Nevertheless, I am pretty sure all of you can see yourselves. Ask your mums how much it cost to cook a decent dinner ? you will shocked.

"Ish, I don't see a big problem here wor, though all the price is hike, but my pocket money increase as well. So my money is still enough to spend hehehe"

That is self-fish. Our parents get to work harder and harder just to give us a decent and worry less life. How many days your parents have to work? how many hours daily that they have to grind in their office?

For my scenario, my father at the age of 54 just bought a decent size house which cost RM868,000 !
Of all his life, he only can afford to buy a house at this age and then have to pay monthly installment for the next 17years.

My pap said, "Sons, house is getting more expensive by days, normal house like that already cost this much, how could you afford to buy one in future ? (*Mind you, our salary do not increase faster than the price hike). That why we buy this down for your future." And hence my father are bringing a new burdern on his shoulder for extra 17 years.

And to pay that, he said he will have to work until he can't anymore. I am really touched and sad in the same time as he can't stop working though his age had reach retirement stage. Why is the house price in our country is so high ? People in USA can pay off their house debt with 3years of salary but in Malaysia, we need 25year+ worth of salary to pay off !

In future, all of us will become a parents. And only at that time, you will start complaining on the government. Guess what, if things can start to change and get better 10-15 years ago, life will be much easier. You start to regret and only complain complain and more complain. And only could get yourself a Kondo that cost Million LMAO. Here goes your retiree money.

"Nah, I am not intend to fight for a better Malaysia lah. Why not just migrate to other country where opportunities are wider ? Ooooh I love Aussie !! Weeee"

Talk is easy and cheap folks. I wish to migrate too. But with our screwed up education systems, which country will recognize us ? I am a student of University Malaya . You know, in Malaysia this Uni name can still get me some respect and recognition. But other than Malaysia, my cert is not worth more than a piece of toilet paper. Try bring your cert to Singapore and see how they respond.

They are looking down on us !

Unless you are a Malaysian studying in Singapore University, chances for you to get recognition from a first class country with our shitty cert.... is shitty slim.

Lol, you are a graduate from local university and dreaming to excel out there ? Good luck folks, but you will have a very hard time to start with. First you will work as cheap labor and must have the capabilities to endure discrimination from locals. Second, you must somehow prove you are better than those locals that come out from a University that ranked 30 in World with your shitty cert that ranked... .erm 200 ?

Only than, you will have a real good life over there ;-)

"But what can I do ? I am chicken shit... I scared my parents will upset with me putting headband and carrying banner to join protest"

No worry guys. I am a chicken shit too. But smaller and less smellier compare to you. I dare not to join protest even though I want to. Because I do not want to upset my parents.

But there are plenty of stuffs you can do ! The chicken shit way ;-)

Just concern more on our country by read up news from various channel. Best if you can balance yourself between pro-government news and pro-opposition news so that you can judge yourself. And share it out via social network that I am sure you are pro with it. Tell your friends what is happening and voice your opinion and concern.

Believe me, A lot of chicken shits gather together will cause a large enormous POOPS that will be so bloody stink and powerful.

Do your part fellow chicken shits, and I will do mine too =)

One step closer

2011-06-23T10:25:00.000-07:00

Every success begin with a small step. Whenever you take a small step,

You are one step closer.

Our goal is far away and every small steps

seem totally insignificant.

But if we look on how far is the goal away, and not

how many steps we have taken,

Disappointment is what to be expected.

Tell your self that every small steps you make,

You are one step closer.

Life is Good now =)

2011-06-22T07:26:00.000-07:00

Although this is my holiday and I need to get up like 7am everyday and join the crowd to jams the road all the way to my oracle class at UM and later on join the crowd again on the road all the way back to my home.

But I am happy and xinfu =D

I do not need to set my alarm clock as my sister who was getting up for work will wake me and my little brother up. Being call up is always sound better than annoying alarm from phone.

After that, I will go to kitchen and greet my grandma morning. She was doing morning chores at kitchen. Everyday, my mom will fried two eggs and leave it on the table before going to market. That is my everyday breakfast and lunch box.

Usually I will ate the first egg with a slice of bread outside of my house because I love to see my dog dancing around me to get a slice of what I eating.

After my mom coming back from market, I will be watching hokkien tv-series in living hall with my grandma, mom and my younger bro who soon going to work. My sister had leave to work by now.

My class is at 9AM everyday. But I only start moving to prepare myself at 8.20AM. Every time before I leave the house, I need not worry of leaving stuffs behind as my mom and grandma will do a check on me.
My grandma will ask me if I forgot my drinking water and lunch box. My mom will remembered me of my wallet, phone and swimming trunk. It is so nice to have people reminding you.

And I start my journey ahead and contribute to the traffic jam knowing that I will be late to class. As always =)

24 Hours Movie Marathon

2011-06-20T09:15:00.000-07:00

Yes, I did that 24 Hours of Movie Marathon. It is an event held by Cinema.com.

I get to knew this event from Jun Yen and without hesitation we pull along few buddies and rush to Ikano Power Centre to register ourselves.

Why we so eager to do this ? As quoted from YC, "Uni Life is about doing crazy thing".

And I am so agree. There was once I saw a short video shared in FB. It is a short video showing slides of photo about University Life by one of the China's University. To be honest, I am envy of their life. They seem to do so much of crazy stuffs during their uni life. Most of uni friends here were quite passive and prefer life that doesn't divert much from their usual routine. Doing extraordinary activities such as men dressing like girls and walk around campus or sneak into faculty and start tossing toilet paper around the main lecture hall are seriously unacceptable.

But of course, I am not dare enough either to do such thing if I will be doing it alone. So, watching a movie 24H and standing a chance to win a 32 Inch television is a very interesting stuffs to do.

None of us had ever done this before. But we are going to have our very first try.

And we come here prepared. At first, we thought that we will be sitting on cushioned chair whole day in cinema watching movies. But it turn out we will be sitting on a hard plastic chairs and watching past old buster movies on 42 inch television in a small confined room.

Oh mai...

But we come prepared.

I brought 3 bottles of Red Bull and 2 bottle of Chicken Essences which I believe can help me to stay awake. I purposely wore a sleeveless shirt in order to force myself awake by shivering in cold.

But soon, it proof that it need more than that.

The rules were like this,

1. If your focus is out from the screen (playing phone, talking with friends, staring at ceiling, etc) and after a silent count of 5, you are out of game.

2. You got a 15minutes break for every end of movie.

3. At the end of the last movies, remaining survivors will be test on Q&A session and whoever get the highest points won !

Simple and straight forward rules for a tough game.

And below are the list of movies we watch.

1. Iron Man 2

2. Morning Glory

3. Star Trek

4. I forget

5. Despicable me

6. Wolfman

7. Megamind

8. Wanted

9. I Forget

10. I Forget

11. Star Trek

At first, I thought that 15 minutes of break within each movies are more than enough. But later on, it is so hellish never enough. Just walking to and back from toilet already took 8minutes and the remaining 7 minutes are used to nap, rush to nearest store for junk foods/ meals or stretching around.

For the first few movies, my momentum was still strong until I bump into first Star Trek movie.

Nightmare !!! Dead Boring !!! Help.....

My nicely build momentum put into full stop and I have to bottom-up the first Red-bull. And the marathon goes on.

The hardest part is at 4-7AM where my eyes were so heavy. I have to stand to watch the movies. By that time, half of the participants were either kicked out or give up.

Ikano Power Centre had totally closed after 12am. And left us in the silent building.

Haha, It use to be my imagination to stay inside a big shopping complex and stuffed myself with foods from supermarket and playing toys at will from any stalls. Hmm, for this case, I forget that there are guards watching us and not to mention that CCTVs are around ><

Long story short, 5 of us survived ! The clock at 12pm Sat - 12pm Sun. And we braced ourselves to endure the last movie of the competition, which is another Fucking Star Trek.

Out of 30+ participants, 15 left.

They are asking deep questions about the movie we watched ! We had struggled so hard to stay awake and now we required to remember things from the movies ?

We thought it is hard, but not for those movies fanatic around us. We are so surprise that those leftover survivors could actually answer those questions like they have been watching for hundred times.

4 of us get kicked out and left Jun Yen fighting for the big TV. But as expected, he is not fanatic enough and only get a consolation prize. Haha, but he is better than us la who only get a goodies bag as a token of appreciation.

And to be exact, I have been awake for 30 hours before finally get to faint on my bed. 24 hours movie marathon is hurting myself mentally but I have fun ! Though the movies, chairs and only one meal provided, but I am not regretting this because this is a Uni Life. Doing crazy things with friends without thinking too much on the self-benefits.

Mid Valley Pet Fair 2011

2011-06-04T21:52:00.000-07:00

It sucks.

After such a long time since I do shooting, I have been looking forward for this event. I imagining pets like dog, cat, iguana and other exquisite pet would be display over there like car show model. And they were actually charging us for entrance fees.

RM 5 for adult, and RM2 for kid.

Well, I am ok with it as I am expecting a good time photo-snapping action inside. But it turn out to be a real disappointing moment.

Where is the fancy dogs, cats, iguana, pony bla bla bla ???? All I see is stuffs... pet's food, toys, shampoo and junks. It is totally different from what I have been imagining.

Well, there do have pets. But in Cage !

The best that they can offer is pathetic puppies and kitten kept in small cage with a hefty price tag. I do not see happy face of those pet which smash my mood to take photos.

Every photos are looking sad.

And more pet's food on the way.

And the only happy pets are those pet that brought by walk-in visitor.

They get loved and treated better than human being lolx. And their photos were so hard to snap as they were so agitated. In-door lighting was poor which result in low shutter speed and high-ISO. Most of the photo were either blurry or very noisy.

They do have some event going on. A dog competition I guess. Whereas it is a competition to see whose dog get trained better.

At first, I thought at least there are something to ease my regretness over the entrance fees. But it turn out to be a really boring event. Only 4-5 participants involved. And the challenges were plain simple like jumping over the low barrier and etc.

I get bored as my lens cant zoom that close to take a good photo, and continue wandering. Though it is a shitty event but people were crowding in. Maybe there are just like me, get cheated first time.

Apparently they have a section for pet adopting. And to my surprise have good species of dogs ready for adoption. But, most of em if not all are female. Well, truth is harsh.... most of people prefer male than female.

There is one black dog who catch my attention. A female black dog that is very active and responding. I can see that she can be easily trained. Argh ! how I wish to adopt her. Hey, for anyone who wishes a dog, this can be a real good choice. Rush to Mid Valley now !!!

After that, We got out from there feeling sorry for our RM5 and headed for lunch @ Noodle Station.

Dry Noodle with Black Pepper Drumstick @RM8.60, Iced Lemon Tea @RM3.60 and French Fries @RM3.80.

The noodle is nothing to brag about but the black pepper drumstick is quite good. And the french fries is tasty as well.

My kind sister treated us a dozen of Big Apple.

Gotta try the IceBerg. It is goood !

Wesak @ Batu Cave

2011-05-17T21:18:00.000-07:00

Such a long time I have last updated my blog with photos.

Busy ? temporarily lost of interest ? or whatever it is have put my 4K in cold storage. And I feel sorry to both of us for ignoring her and the money I had spent.

So, yesterday was Wesak Day. And I decided to make a little trip to Batu Cave with my sibling.

Do Indian celebrate Wesak Day at Batu Cave??

Erm, I don't think so. That is why I went to Batu Caves to avoid human traffic jam. As expected, the traffic was smooth as well as Batu Cave.

I never been there before. This was my first time. Same to my sister and younger brother

After a long long time never play with my 4K. I found out that I have trouble using her. Well, I don't have skills at the first place and suppose I won't get any more worse than that. But I did. Out of so many photos, just some are usable.

I have tried to capture photo of living thing such as pigeon. Thank god that there were not scared of human thus allowed me to get quite close to them. If not, I will be hating myself for getting too poor to own a zoom len.

Stairs, of course... this is what Batu Caves famous for. It have 267 total of stairs to hike. it might not seem that much but the stairs were quite steep thus making the distance between each stairs were quite short. Big foot fella like me is actually facing a little difficulty to step on the stairs. Well, only 2/3 of my foot were stepping the stairs.

Batu Caves is a sacred place for Hindus, but it so a good place for early morning exercise. A lot of people coming here to climb stairs. This can be a really good place to train our leg muscle before attempting kinabalu mountain, just saying.

And after all the tiring climbing and crappy photoshoot. We, went back home and bite some breakfast before hand. A hearty breakfast which have a really reasonable price.

RM 5.20 for this.. can believe it ? Recession man

Dying trend

2011-05-06T22:09:00.000-07:00

Blogging used to be a hot trend back then. Among my course mate and myself we used to follow blogs daily. Not to forget to spam comments.

Back then, I used to be so excited seeing new comments on my posts. Checking in blog so frequent to check for latest comments and see if friends had updated their blog.

Well, it seem blogging trend is fading off. I still do blogging. But felt that my blog weren't followed by friends already thought I knew some good friends still following it. Well, lacking of comments in posts just kill off the satisfaction.

Wait, I do have comments on every posts !! But who are them seriously? It seem random blog hopping happened a lot lately. And most of them were just dropping by to introduce their blog. That is irritating !

Old friends seem not into blog anymore. Blogging and Diary are both different things. Diary is personal and should not be shared to anyone. But if blog without reader.....

What the point of blogging then ?

1 Funny Malaysia

2011-04-22T21:29:00.000-07:00

1 Email Malaysia ...

Familiarize with this sentence?? Of course you do! If you are a facebook kaki

So, what you do you think of this ... Najib "thumb up" project ?

For me, it mean the time is right to fill up their pockets. This is so expected after they just won the recent Sarawak election. It has become a norm when BN won any of election, they will launch projects or price-hiking measures days after that.

This is not the worst compare to 100 MegaTower Malaysia. But why 1 Email Malaysia ???

For 50 Million WTF 0_o ?

I knew I am always prejudis toward BN and its government. So, I have tried to think of its advantages first before comes to its con. But everytime, it is so hard to fool myself that the advantages are making sense! Let me tell you why...

Advantage No 1 ?

Every Malaysian from age 18 and Above, will receive a free email from government.

Pro? Well, maybe government want to persuade the new generation of youngster to jump into informative era. But why take the trouble to create an email domain when there are tonnes of free email service out there for you to use? Furthermore, If the government would take the initiative to conduct survey on youngster and young adult, who on earth would not have an email account? If government claimed that there are still people without email account.. then why they do not have it?? No internet infrastruture at their place yet? then is this the right project that government should concern now ?

For god sake, If I am in workforce, I would have 1 email from Work, 1 email from Gmail, and 1 email from any email that is free ! So much email to handle already and now here come another email from government? How about people that live in urban area who do not have internet access ? And they still receive an 1email account from government eventhough they do not have the chance to use it.

Before government can take care of their basic infrastructure such as electric and internet access, they are already pushing for email already. Lim Guan Eng said that instead of 1email Malaysia, government should spend that money to provide free Wifi access to all which is very true and relevant ! If no internet why talk about email ?

Advantage No 2 ?

All the government agencies will use this email domain to send document such as income tax statement, epf statement and etc to the respective recipicient. And government will only be charge for 50cent per email sent.

Oh, here come the charging part. At first it sound great when that email domain can become a one-stop platform to receive governmnet documents. But, how many will use that?

There is 18Million of Malaysian who are eligible to receive this 1email shit. And how many of them know how to open their email ? how many of them have even internet access ? How many of them have computer ? How many of them still never know the computer term before ?

And all of them, will be assumed to some how know how to use this 1email to check the documents magically.

At the end, they will still go to government agency to have their statement printed which they claim casue them about Rm1 each although 50cent worth of email had been sent to their inbox.

Najib said that the reduction from Rm1 to Rm0.50 in document processing fees is great and will help government to save alot. Well Mr. Prime Minister... you are too stupid if you think paying 50cent for a virtual data is worthy. It is understandable that the process of document printing, envelop, stamps and then the postage fees are cost RM1 per letter issued, but 50cent for a virtual data which get sent to its recipient in one click time ?

Lol if it that costly to send an email... I think Gmail will be soooooo bankrupt by now... XD

Talk about security... pff....
Can you make sure that it as secure as Gmail and Hotmail ? And ensure that this 1email is not being watched by government ? How ironic when the best email provider in the world never charge a single CENT and this newly created email domain with unsure security issue will charged government 50cent per email.

Remember the 1Malaysia.... erm... facebook? forget already...
Another stupid government project they created and claimed that it will become another Malaysia largest social network. Hahahahaha ! Do you know how many time that website had been sabotaged and get DDOS attack? Now I do not even heard Najib bring this issue out to talk anymore. Lol, how sure Tricubes security can be when it is just another government cronnies company ?? Specifically, helm by Najib's younger brother.

Najib, it is either you are way too stupid..... or too smart to think such a way to fill your pocket.

Advantage 3 ?

This project is an initiative by private sector and no government money is involved.

Oh man, who on the earth will fork RM 50 million and expect no benefit from government even when their company is going to bankrupt ? Only retard will believe that. The ROI (Return of Investment) is damn high for this project. And it can even be achieved in a very short time. Imagine this coming labor day and Najib trying to show his fuck up concern by sending every 18million of Malaysian an greeting email ?

Woosh,, 9Million safely pocketed by Tricubes in less than one second. Just one click on the 'send to all' button... Imagine how much festivals we have in Malaysia ? Hahahaha

Actually, if Najib want to do everthing in email, very easy only.. just set up a website.. and asked the people who want to receive their future government statement via email to register their desire email in the website, be it Gmail, Hotmail or whatever free and secure email out there.

Cost ? lol ..... pretty sure it is cheaper than what the government is trying to do now by 100,000 times perhaps..

Anyway...

Here goes our hard earn income tax. Cheers =)

SFH ==> FLH

2011-04-14T23:07:00.000-07:00

At last the heaviest storm had passed and I am able to see some ray from the sun penetrating the dark cloud.

Whatever hell happened, is gone.

Now I am comfortably caving in my room with air-con freezed up but doing my report. Well, after to what have been gone through, this feel like chicken feet =)

I have been abusing my body so badly lately. Due to unbearable tension and pressure of my study, I have been seriously kill my body inside out.

I ate uncontrolably all the time without watching my diet. Gosh, and I am developing an application for diabetes management ! How ironic.

My biological clock is totally mess up. I have sleep so less for the past few weeks and to do that, I drank god-know cup of coffees in order to deceive my mind and body. Now, I have to drank a serious amount of coffee in order to get the effect as I am immune to normal caffein dosage already.

I am totally aware of this abused all the while. But I choose to ignore for my study purpose. Now that the hellish period had passed and just some small fries to pawn, is time to make the thing right again.

First thing to tackle is, my body weight !

Above is me eating KFC one year ago.

And this, is me eating (always eat ><) at some cafe one month ago. Even me get shocked seeing myself in the photo XD. Haha.. no doubt that I have a serious weight issue to tackle.

So, I have set today April 15, 2011 as the date I begin my intensive weight lost mission called

SeiFeiHai => FeiLunHai

Hahaha, I have successfully done it once during my first year. But the way I did is too stupid and highly condemned by all. So this time I will do it in a healthy way.

Well, action speak louder than word and let see how determined I can be.

Too all fatso in the world who had been abusing their body just like me, good luck to you and myself.

All I want right now

2011-04-09T20:43:00.000-07:00

I just want to cave in my room with air-con on and play games all day long right now. Just this one.

April 3, 2011

2011-04-02T09:05:00.000-07:00

I am on the midst of Hellish Weeks.

But I think I won't grunt about it here. It just make me more tired to think about it. This make me recall a lesson taught by a highly spiritual remarkable person.

A housewife is washing alot alot of plates after dinner. Hence she keep on grunting while washing the plate. She said:

"I have so much plates to wash right till I can't feel my hand anymore. I have to wash like this everyday since so many years ago. Argh !! Just thinking that tomorrow and day after tomorrow I still need to wash this enormous amount of plates. This is driving me Crazy !"

So the housewife complained. From the story, though the housewife is currently washing the plates, but she is actually washing yesterday plates and futures to come plates at the same time. And she have been washing that previous , current and future amount of plates everyday !!

haha, so what can you deduce from the story ?

Dark side of University

2011-03-28T08:06:00.000-07:00

Some time, I think lecturer is the people who can't stand to compete in corporate world. They failed to climb up the corporate ladder and hence escape from the cruel reality.

In University, they are forever the boss in the their own kingdom. In whatever arguments, they always have the final say. Not that students acknowledge their defeat or whatover, but it come to a point that remind the student about their grade is on stake.

Lecturer always have the final say and never ever admit their fault. When they starting to round the garden with their explanation and then further elaborate it to god-only-know-are-we-still-on-earth-wtf? story.. at this point, we do not need a rocket scientist to tell us that they are trying real hard to save their asses.

Brilliant student should know by this point, stfu to save their grade. They can fail you for personal reason though, this is the power of lecturer. Imba

That is some sneak peak of dark side in University for those who are going to start their Uni life later.

In need of Miracle

2011-03-24T19:16:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I had played whole day long.

Hanging out with some good buddy at Mid Valley to enjoy good foods and movie. Haha, seriously that is suicidal.

Just get to know that I need to show two working module for my thesis on next week tuesday, I know I am pretty fuck up.

If it was web-base development, I will be a happy man right now.

Now I have to master new stuffs in less than 4 days and come out with two working module simultaneously. Holy Crap.

It took me 2 weeks in IBM just to familiarize with the new languages before I can start coding it.

This time, I am really in need of miracle.

Tepuk-tepuk Habuk

2011-03-22T06:10:00.000-07:00

Super Duper long time I have abandoned my blog.

Sorry, I was to busy for everything. From last minute mugging chapters of subject, Rushing for thesis and little of everything. If I ever have time to spend, it will be caving in room playing online game with my younger bro. HAHA !

I know I am 23 already.

Well a lot of updates to do but due to mood-absent, I decide to stack it up. Well, of all changes that happened, I would say my new laptop Dell Xps is the most worthy to be mentioned. I hope I will cut some of my playing time to snap some photo of it, and have it blogged.

As for everything else, it is mixture of dull, happy and some emo-shitty issue. I think I will skip the emo-shitty issue as I tend to hate myself writing negative thing lately.

Better to keep it myself than explode it publicly. Some time, I do think that blogging is kinda shitty though as public perception and feeling always come into 'potong steam' case.

But to write on a little diary or a nobody-will-ever-find-out blog is super boring. Kinda pointless to write it out but just for your own reading. Not like I am suffering amnesia.

Still, I love to write tense-up issue though. Which include blasting some particular person, my life story which will expose other sensitivity issue and etc. And always end up fearing of the consequences but still...... doing it. Haha, maybe I am little pyscho.

Oh crap, gotta stop~~~ Next Time peeps

For my passion, to other benefit

2011-02-26T20:48:00.000-08:00

Now is already week 8 in my study semester, believe it or not I have just fix my thesis title. As a matter of fact, I have chosen my thesis title as early as anyone else. Besides, I am working together with Junyen in the same title. Thanks to him, he had inspired me to do something with mobile app development since it is hot recently. So, we are happy with the title at first, planning to do something using GPS function. But only to find out later that the proposed title had already been in market for quite a time and it outdo our proposed feature a lot. So, we were disappointed and having the dilemma. Losing our mood for few days and keep on thinking of something new. Choosing title from lecturer is already out of our mind for a long time ago.

At the end, I have came out with an idea which have something to do with OCR (Optical character recognition). We are so sure that it could be accepted by lecturer as we both think that it sound like a 'A' project. However, the lecturer do not really keen with the idea and she insist that even if it is acceptable, it would be one person project.

We resorted to travel our own part. Our lecturer keep on pushing her ideas / title to us which is mostly web base project. But we are strongly object it as we insisted to do something with mobile apps or devices such as RFID. Hence our lecturer stop pursuing us and start looking to modify our proposed title. There after, Junyen and I have our own interesting title which is still clinging on mobile computing.

Mine title, have something to do with diabetic person. And my passion grew from it as I know my apps could really help them in their daily life if it was successful. I am thrilled and fired up.

We chose the hard way which we know very little on it. Frankly, I have never done any mobile computing before, and to straightaway jump into that field and putting my thesis at stake might sound crazy. Some time, I will think why not just pick up any common title like e-commerce, e-library or etc and make my life easier. I already have the knowledge about it. Why I risk my thesis to do something I know nothing about ??

Maybe because of my internship period in IBM. After 7 months of crazy time developing application for Human Resources, they are actually implementing it right now. My manager put a very trust on the system which supposedly to deal up to hundred thousands of allowance distribution every month. I start to see my passion is to do something that could be useful and be appreciated.

Some intern, working for months is just to fulfill their course requirement and can't wait for another one minute to leave their company. I have extend my internship for another one month officially (get paid using intern rate) and two weeks unofficially which I don't get paid. But it is at my own will to complete whatever I started. Some might say, I am stupid to be used such a way. I know there are intern who get paid with full-time rate for their extension. But I don't see it such a way. From there, I bring a new attitude into university with me.

When looking on the title proposed by lecturer, everyone had start grabbing the title but I am still idling there waiting for more title to come. I have no idea what title I want, not that I think myself too good for those cheapskate title, but I was looking for something that is interesting and actually could be beneficial.

Out of desperation and fear, there is one time I lose my mind and almostly grab a title that had been idle there for quite a time. A boring title it was.. but it was due to peer pressure that everyone had chosen their title. Thanks to Junyen, he pulled me out and bring me into a new interesting world, mobile application.

My passion grew from it. This is where I will start enduring all the hardship for the next 10 months. But I am pretty sure with the passion and the benefit it could bring to the needy... all the hardship will be compensated just like my internship in IBM.

Sharing

2011-02-16T08:26:00.000-08:00

A wise man was taking a sunrise walk along the

beach. In the distance, he caught sight of a young

man who seemed to be dancing along the waves.

As he got closer, he saw that the young man was

picking up starfish from the sand and tossing

them gently back into the ocean.

"What are you doing?" the wise man asked.

"The sun is coming up, and the tide is going

out; if I don't throw them in, they'll die."

"But young man, there are miles and miles of

beach with starfish all along it - you can't possibly

make a difference."

The young man bent down, picked up another

starfish, and threw it lovingly back into the ocean,

past the breaking waves. "It made a difference for

that one," he replied.

A bigger sum up

2011-02-11T03:04:00.000-08:00

CNY this year was as awesome like last year, but we have reduce the purchase of soft drink and junk foods as we learned from past experiences. Sibling and I have grown up therefor our desire on soft drink are significantly lower. Recalling few years back whereas Coke, Sandy and 100 plus were what I drank for whole CNY. First thing in the morning I would rush to fridge and gallop an icy cold of shandy. Same applied to afternoon before and after lunch, dinner and before sleep. Imagine the sugar intake I have !!

Sometime, I am envy on those people that could balik kampung for this festive season. I have been staying and celebrating CNY at KL for the past 20 years. I live in a big family which included my grandmother, hence I have nowhere kampung to back too. Well, guess I am a pure KL-lite. Anyway, this might be a blessing of safety on us. If you google OPS SIKAP, you would be surprise by the number of death toll within a week of CNY. This season, it stated 167 number of death toll. That is horrible and sad. Guess, I will be gracious for need not to endanger our life going and returning from kampung.

Hehe, wassup next ?? Firework la. I am a pure KL-lite, but have the guts to play firework just like most of the Kampung Boy. For what I think, a festive season without the companion of firework is boring and meaningless. Sound... is what it take to live up the surrounding.

Heard that government is planning to introduce firework permit for our residential level and we have a designed place to fire up our firework for safety purpose. Kinda stupid though, if all people going carrying their massive stock of firework, gather at a place, placing their bomb all around, and waiting instruction from police to fire up..... I think it could compete with the accident death toll at highway.

Speaking of Ang Pao !!! oooh my CNY all time favorite. This year, the 'harvest' is kind of prosperous. Well, my parents is always the most generous one and it make up 50-60 percent of the total, sometime, 80% though XD. More relatives getting married which mean more harvest can me made, lol.

As I mentioned before, I am still in dilemma whether to buy a flash gun for my 4K which is about rm500~600 or nibble it bit by bit.

A little sum up

2011-02-07T08:03:00.000-08:00

Argh !!

I told myself to write something about this CNY but I had postponed it till now. In short, it was another great CNY celebration with family.

Yep, only with family. Don't know why, I don't feel like hanging out at other place other than my house. Suppose this coming sunday, I shall be following my friends for a Ang Pao 'ripping' tour just like every year, but I don't feel like going at all.

Yea, it is been a time since I met them and this will be a great opportunity for us to catch up. Erm.. let see how then.

Haha ! Speaking about Ang Pao... I am richer by few hundred buck. Initially, I planned to use this to buy a flash gun for my 4K. But when the money is on my grip, I feel reluctant to do so already. Argh !

I knew that an external flash is what it take for my 4K to 'perform' in any condition given. Should I kept that money and nibble bit by bit or go for the flash ??

Oh Gosh, this month I have to pay for my life insurans and medical card already. Not to mention that my laptop is on the brink of sayonara. Money money and money..... should I try one time lottery to gamble on a super slim luck ? LOL

I wouldn't do that.. I will rather buy their share and wait for their dividend.

Good Heng Dai Birthday

2011-01-26T08:26:00.000-08:00

Everyone have their birthday,

But if there is people who do not have lover to celebrate with them

nor their family,

Then, it is the duty of Friends to do the job right.

I am a lucky one who get to celebrate my birthday greatly either by friend or family every year and I wish that everyone around me could taste that. At least no one birthday go un-notice.

So, I was trying to give a good friend of mine, a rather traditional way of celebration...

A self-made twin red eggs.

Instead of celebrating Junyen birthday at new fancy cafe / bistro like Chilis, TGI or Jarrod & Rawlins, we make it at a Chinese Restaurant called Tak Fok at Jaya One.

We order 5-6 dishes

and a longetivity mee.

Traditional enough ? Not when it is yet to be served like this

In Hokkien tradition, we ate long mee suah to indicate longer life span, green onion to indicate wisdom and two eggs to indicate..... not sure actually, but I am sure it mean good thing right.

Junyen is a good friend to everyone, how can his birthday go un-celebrated ?? As his buddy, this is least we can do and hope that in the near future you have some one to take care of your birthday !!!

Haha, nevertheless we will always be around and make it up to you.

Happy Birthday Birthday to you ;-)

Cookiesss~~Licious

2011-01-23T01:47:00.000-08:00

Kelly Sis is trying something new this year. She is trying to sell cookies for upcoming CNY celebration. So, this is a very great opportunity for me to try food photography on her cookies.

I choose afternoon whereas sunlight is very sufficient for me to snap sharp photo using high shutter speed but with low ISO to lower noises.

With help from Brother Ming, he gave ideas and decorate the surrounding with some normal cloth. I use about 2 hours of time to snap only 8 types of cookies and out of so many photos, I choose the best and do some post-processing.

Haha ! Craving for CNY cookies ??? Well, since Kelly Sis had treated me so good all the while, I would like to help her to promote her small business right here. Notice the email that written below the cookies name ?

Ya, that is her email dzfhouse@gmail.com.

She is selling rm12 per container of cookies which contain at least 50 pieces. Well folks, there is still one week left and there is still time to place order ya.

KK , advertisement time out !

R . I . P My Loyal Dog

2011-01-16T08:05:00.000-08:00

Milo was ailing. It can't stand nor sit.

Just lying down waiting her time to come.

Last week, I still managed to bring her out for a walk. She was slow and have to sit down for every few meters of walk. However, she was still pretty healthy that time.Recalling few years back, she was strong like a mad cow. She pulled me so hard till I have hard time to control her, but since then, she had been weaker day by day.

Yesterday I went back to my home after a hiking trip to Broga. She was lying down and breath heavily. Her limbs were like paralyzed. Only her eyes could roll around and a weak whipping from her tail when I came back. Sad, I must say.

My grandma said that she didn't not ate anything since days. She just lied down from day till night. So, we tried force her to drink and eat. We tried to give her grass and panadol as well.

Today, Sunday. I am so happy that finally I found a way to feed her. By using straw to flow water and milk into her mouth. And she ate quite a lot. However, she vomited all back. She breathing more and more heavily.

My mom think, Milo can't pass tonight.

9 PM, family and I were about going out for supper. We approached Milo to check on her. She was very weak already. Her eyes was half-close and breathing very heavily.

So, I patted her head and told her words.

Thanks for 8 years of your loyal services
Now, we release you from duty.
And you may now rest in peace, my family.

When we came back from supper, Milo had gone.

8 great years with us, and now she had departed from us. Death is unavoidable and I understand that. So, I trying to be very optimistic. Thinking of past memory would just make me so sad, even cry.

So, I would tried not to think about it. Not now......

Whatever it is, thanks for waiting me back home Milo. You will not be forgotten.

May you free from enmity and danger

May you free from mental suffering

May you free from physical suffering

May you take care of yourself with happiness

Settle Down @ 8th

2011-01-04T05:43:00.000-08:00

Finally settled down at my new nesting ground. After one year and half living outside with friends, now I am moving back to college's life.

I have been rolling and measuring my house floor since last Friday. Finding a lot of excuse to stay at home as long as possible to compensate my sacrificed holiday due to Internship extension. Finally, I had managed to kick my own butt and so

Here I am, sitting in my new room (shared with other 2 roomie) and writing some random post here.

I had attended my first co-curriculum class today. I had taken guitar ! Haha. Maybe some of you don't know, as a matter of fact I had bought myself a guitar since one year ago. Well, due to aching fingers, time constraint, study, have other better stuffs to do (and a lot of excuses) I had cold-storage my guitar into a never-knew-it-exist cupboard.

It is kinda waste to do so, hence I taken up this guitar class and hope that I could at least play a song or two at the end of sem. You know ? we need to perform on the stage at final sem ! Nice, this will motivate me to learn it seriously as I don't wanna to screwed up the show.

Tomorrow will be my first lecture. Well, I am missing faculty so much after 6 months of being a cheap labor for corporate world. Now I am back to school again, I will definitely appreciate the remaining time.

It is been a while I don't tag along my crappy photos along with posts, and only write stuffs related to my daily routine. So, I guess I had ran out of topic then...

That all from me till now, can't wait to meet up my course-mate tomorrow. Ciao ~

H@PPY N3W Y3@R 2011

2011-01-02T07:22:00.000-08:00

Did I mentioned before that I had just ended my Internship ? It is like, finally...

Initially I have to work until the end of December, but thanks to Malaysia Tiger for winning the football game at Indonesia, I am a free man one day earlier.

That mean, I do not need to join those insane crowd at super traffic jam to rush back home during the night or New Year Eve. Well, I have an activity that night. Usually, I don't celebrate any 'eve' except for CNY cause I kinda hate traffic jams, no-parking, super crowd, and after the event, traffic jam again.

But this year, a nice place near my house called Desa Park City had organized a party / event to celebrate in-coming New Year. Well, since it is so near compare to Curve and Bukit Bintang... why not ? The best part is, they have firework display too when the time is come.

They had set up a huge stage and invite some local artists (I do not recognize any of them) to perform.

Just that the sound is not explosive enough. The organizer have rented out space for local hawker to set up their business which a little look like night market and also games for children.

People are kinda crowded as early as 9pm. We went there early in order to get a parking slot but at the end, I have to illegally parked at road side because other people had start crowded the area since 6-7pm or so.

We met up with Sis Kelly over there.

She went to One Utama earlier at afternoon to get herself and her family some helium balloon. They planned to write their wishes and then tied it on the balloon. When the time showed 12am, they would release it to the sky and hopefully their wishes seen by God.

Our Cousin bro pulak, came with his friends to release a Kong Ming Lantern. A big one I would say.

Every year, my family too, would release one lantern like this but never try on new year eve. Mostly we will done it at CNY eve.

FLY ! FLY high to the sky !

Frankly, it is super tiresome to surrounded by crowds. However it could be a good eyes-washer too. Well, undeniably, a lot of young and old couple were love to date there and most of them will not hesitate to use up their insanely costly make-up and cologne for this day.

But, I did not take their photo though... Not that appropriate loh.

After rotting at there for almost 2-3 hours and thanks to Sis Kelly treat on the beers bought from 7-11 (insanely expensive too) finally it is time to for the final countdown.

Happy New Year 2011 Folks !!!

Oh my gosh, and it is so beautiful. The 10 minutes worth of awesome display had totally paid off the hardship we had endured for the past 2 hours or so.

After that, Sis Kelly let go the balloons and it dissolve into the dark sky.

After 4 cans of beers (Thanks to Sis Kelly for the treat again) I have a super nice sleep that night. Haha, what a blast !! Next year I must remember to bring my tripod !! Well, almost 80% of my firework photo are unusable, to be frank XD

A Trip to Betong - Thailand 2010 (Day 2)

2010-12-23T06:23:00.000-08:00

On day 2,

We get up as early at 8 am of Malaysia time to have our breakfast. Well, for your information Betong time is later than Malaysia by one hour.

We slept till 8am of Malaysia time and the time only showing 7am at Thailand ! How lovely it is. We woke up this early because we want to rush for a famous dim sum restaurant at Betong.

The concept is just like Malaysia. You pick your dim sum and they will heat it up for you. So we order till jam-packed our table.

Frankly, the dim sum is so~so but the price is seriously dirt cheap ! 10 baht per dim sum. Equivalent to Rm 1 per dim sum. Where to find in Malaysia ? And we spotted another Wan Tan Mee in menu and so we ordered two.

This Wan tan mee is way better than the first Wan Tan Mee we ate during our first day. The noodle is also hand made but more superb.

We finish our breakfast before 8 am of Thailand time and kick start our packed schedule for that day. First place to visit is the Communist lair, which is very famous with its sophisticated tunnels. We drove up north toward Yala for around 20 minutes.

Ever heard before terrorist incident along southern Thailand ? If never, then I would like to let you know that we are driving through the danger spot. Betong is a safe town as they have barrier and road block watching the entrance of Betong from North. After you pass the barrier, then you are on your own.

When I was driving toward the north, majority of the folks living there are muslim. Which chill my spine a little. Since long time ago, there were conflict between Thai muslim and Thai Buddist. Though we are Malaysian's Chinese but it is quite hard to differentiate us as we Chinese are look all the same in their eyes. So I drive fast. After dragging my car up the steep hill, finally we arrived at the destination.

They called it Friendship village. It called such a way for reason. Unlike Malaysia, communist in our country terrorize the people by killing, raping and stealing. But here, the village people are so friendly to them and they are more than willing to support them with foods and medicine as a form of support toward their vision.

We need to pay 50 baht for entry. Well, it sound a lot but actually it only cost us Rm 5. But before we reach the tunnel, we need to do some jungle trekking. Climbing the never lasting stairs till we found the hole !

People like us who have height of >175cm would face difficulty walking inside. We have to hunch our back and walk in this tunnel. At first I thought the tunnel will be very hot and stench with odor. But I was wrong. It is cool and fresh inside. The architecture is good and you won't feel discomfort staying inside.

They slept on stone bed. But I can't manage to find their toilet. So I was wondering how are they going to do their business in the time of war when they have to hide in this tunnel for days.

There was an ex-communist giving a talk about history and telling them interesting facts and story. We heard a little bit and continue our exploration. They told us that they placed land mine around the jungle to prevent intruder last time and they assure us to don't worry about the bomb anymore because most of them had been destroyed. Well, even if there were some left, we don't need to worry as well because it is battery powered !!
Last time, for every 3 months they need to locate those mine and change the battery. And it is since 1978, so the battery is so dead by now. Hahaha.

Actually, Chinese from both Malaysia and Thailand are just differ in their language and culture, but in the sense of religion I think we are praying the same god. Just beside the tunnels, there were a small altar of 'Tua pek Gong'.

It is so reddish. Down the hill is all reddish because it get covered by fire cracker's leftover. Tourist can buy from them fire cracker and let it boom as a sign of auspicious and prosperity.

After that, we down the hill and headed to next destination, the hot spring.

Aside of my first time stepping on foreign land, this is also my first time visiting a hot spring.

Lucky for us, the water temperature is just comfortable enough to dip our feet inside without getting cooked ! Oh, we need to checked out before 12 pm to avoid penalty. So, we headed back to hotel and packed up. But the journey still continue.

We placed our luggage behind the car and stopped by the town to do shopping ! But before that, we hunt for our lunch first. At first, we have no idea what to eat and later we spotted a coffee shop packed with people. So we decided to try that one.

It sell 'everything of chicken'. In Kl, we used to eat 'pork noodle' which contains everything about pork. For this, it contain everything of chicken. At first we are afraid that we will have communication problem, but luckily one of the tea maker there knew Cantonese. So, we order their best selling.

Oh Man ! I must tell you ... this is very best ! First, the super thin kueteaw is so smooth. And its soup is so rich in spies. One sip of the soup and your mouth is all spies up. After adding their spicy sauces and chili powder. Woolah ! Another great cuisine only available from Thailand. It is so good.

There is one thing I love about Betong food. They don't use MSG in their foods ! even if they does, it must be in super small quantity because I don't get thirsty after their meal. Even for yesterday night firely dinner, I don't get thirsty at all after the dinner. In Malaysia, I used to crave for water after some heavy tomyam meal. It can be very suffer as your stomach is so full yet your body crave for more water.

Our stomach is happy because of good lunch and we go for shopping. We stroll along the market and shops again.

During noon, we saw a squad of military walking around the town with bomb detector and guns ! According to Junyen, the soldier will detect for possible bombing material around the town on daily basis. Well, this is a bit scared me off when everything around us can contain bombs ! Just like this two drain cover on floor which look like land mine to me.

Frankly speaking, it is safe. There were ample of soldier and police guarding our safety despite Betong is not a big town.

Unlike Malaysia, their soldier and police is fit for battle ! and there were cute police guard post on every junction of street.

Haha, it look like kiddo playground, but it is a police guard post. Speaking of 7-11. We love it so much !

And we had go in and out like 5-6 times in a day either for its goods or for its air-condition. It is really different from Malaysia. The price of the goods is cheaper than outside ! We bought our beer from here after surveying price around. It have so much unique stuffs like frozen herbal eggs, funny drinks and they even sell VCD there. I even get my throat coolant from here after every spicy meal.

2 cent from me. There is nothing better than cold milk to cold down your throat after a hellish spicy meal. 10baht per bottle, how cheap !

Heard before world largest Post office box? It is right here at Betong. It is soooo tall !

Not tall ??? See this and compare

It is already 4-5pm that time and we have done visiting the famous spot. Initially we planned for dinner first before head back, but it is too early. So, we stroll around for a while and whack some junk food along the way. We found another Thailand style roti canai seller. This time, it is more unique with variety of flavors !

But there was some communication at first because she can't speak in Malay neither Chinese. So, we utilize our body language by pointing and showing money etc. I tasted the chocolate and green color flavor. Oh, it is delicious and fatty !

Out of boredom, we decided to have our dinner early. Though we are not hungry yet (of course, after walloping so much junk food along the way). We simply stop by a hawker stall beside the street and have our dinner. This time, I ordered tomyam mee !

Errr, this is a shame to Thailand. Its tomyam is not up to Thailand standard at all. But I still clear it clean off. Did I mentioned before that we had ate a really great roti-ayam on Day 1 ? oh, it is so good and it beat the hell out of all Malaysia Mamak that I had tasted so far. So happened that it opened early !

Hence, we tapao 10 of those to bring back to Ipoh.

After that, we headed back to Ipoh. When passing the Immigration, I thought they will search my car upside down. Well, there are a lot of cheap stuffs in Thailand especially liquors and cigarette. People can earn big buck by selling it back to Malaysia. There was this lady officer questioning me. I just open my car's trunk and show her mountains of luggage. She looked at it and let me pass. Just like that.

All of us 'antam' . Yc wanna buy some XO and Martel but afraid of heavy taxing. I want to buy that air gun but afraid of the law. Argh !!! We should have just bought all those.

Anyway, we drive back to Ipoh by trunk road again. Heck, trunk is fun on daylight but deadly on night. It is so dark and your vision is just few meters away.

After almost 3hours+ of driving and we finally arrive at Ipoh safe and sound. Oh, Thanks to Yc again for another stay at his house.

Looking forward for next oversea trip !!! I love to see different culture and have its uniqueness captured with my 4k :-)

A Trip to Betong - Thailand 2010 (Day 1)

2010-12-22T07:23:00.000-08:00

Although my Internship get extended till this end of month, I still manage to get myself out from hectic corporate world and enjoy this wonderful trips with friends.

Fyi, this is a trip only went by 4 sticks. I called it 'Malaklou' trip to Betong. Haha, but it turn out fun to hang out with only dudes as we can express ourselves with more freedom. Oh, all those topics that with chit-chatted all the way in the car, it still fresh in my mind.

Anyway, Junyen brought along his newly gadget collection

A GPS. Well, it turn out pretty useless in Thailand though and have to fully dependent on maps printed from internet. For this, I need address courtesy to Junyen for all the preparation done.

We stopped by Ipoh for one night before heading out to Thailand. Thanks to Yc for providing us a heart-warming shelter.

Betong, is a small town of Thailand which govern by Yala Province. It located just beside Perak borders. Specifically, 10-20km away from Pengkalan Hulu. So, from Ipoh, we traveled by Trunk Road and heading toward Gerik.

Running on Trunk Road is fun ! Because you don't get bored like PLUS highway. And you can stop town by town for sight-seeing or whatever. From googling, I found out there is a town called Lenggong which we will pass by. From internet sources, it is famous for its Wan Tan Mee ! It called Loh Dee Wan Tan Mee

Oh, I am so excited because I am all crazy about Wan Tan Mee. Especially the good one. And that day is Sunday ! Damn, I am pretty sure it is open ! Who will close their shop during the best selling day in the week.

So, we finally arrived at the town of Lenggong and try searching for that shop for breakfast.

Uh. *Disappointed*. It really closed that day. I am so crazy about it and yet it closed on Sunday. Therefor, we continue our journey to Thailand through the Trunk Road. We decided to have our breakfast at Pengkalan Hulu. But that will be almost 2hours driving distance away from here.

So, we finally arrived and simply stop at one coffee shop to have our breakfast. Initially we decided to have our breakfast at Betong because Pengkalan Hulu and Betong are just 15 minutes away. But our stomach can't hold on any longer.

So, we have a Pan-Mee breakfast.

Edmund order a cup of hot coffee to kick-start his day.

And we continue our journey to the Betong. And after 15 minutes or so of driving, finally we reached the border and of course, there will be an Immigration building from both country.

Just few steps away and we will place our foot on a foreign country !

Ya I know. This is just Thailand so I do not need to get so excited about it. Well, this is my first time over sea-ing. Forgive me.

Speaking of immigration procedure. We have to fork out Rm4 for processing procedure and another Rm 3 for Car entry. Personally, I think they pocketed the money themselves. Anyway, don't let this few Ringgit to spoil our fun right ? Haha

Hip Hip Hooray and we drive in Thailand !

First thing first, we hunt for our stay. Junyen had came here before, so he recommend us this hotel called Butterfly .... erm I forget.

The cost is cheap. It cost us Rm 73 per night. The room is large and have balcony. Since we are all dudes, we decided to cramp together in this room. But the stupid us, had forget that most of the hotel policy would not allow so much people to cramp into a room. Especially when we have number of four to cramp in this two person room.

We should have go into the room separately instead of acting like F4 and walking in together ! Argh !!!!
After failing to negotiate with hotel management, we have to open a new room but with cheaper price. Rm50. So, in total we have to pay rm 123 for accommodation.

Speaking about his hotel, if you know all those taboo. Then I bet you can't sleep properly that night. Apparently our room is located on the poorest fengshui of all. First, one of our room is located on fourth floor, and one room is facing directly to the lift and another room is located on far end corner of corridor. Not to mention that there is a super big mirror placing at the end of the bed. So, you will see your handsome face first thing in the morning. Haha

Anyway, we guys still have a super good sleep that night and frankly, I felt no disturbance at all. Thanks god.
Ok, let get back to the schedule. As soon as we settle our luggage, we drive to the town and have our sight-seeing and food hunting. And we get welcome by a heavy rain-pour. So, we simply stop by a coffee shop and have our lunch as we can't really see properly the available choice as the rain poured really heavy that time.

So, we have Wan Tan Mee. Thailand Style of course.

Actually, it look exactly like Malaysia style. But, they don't really concentrate on the charshiew sauce which we use to like. The noodle is quite plain if eat as it served originally. So, we are expected to add the seasoning ourselves with provided chili powder, super spicy sauce and etc. One thing that is really cool about Thailand Wan Tan Mee is the noodle. The noodle is totally hand made and you can really tell that as soon as you munch it. I like the noodle but not the taste though.

The rain stopped, so we start strolling around. One thing that I notice is Thaist ride motorcycle most of the time. Without helmet and always carrying an umbrella with them. It is raining season, so ... I see this a lot !

I found that this action of carrying umbrella while riding a bike is something I not use to see it in M'sia. Or maybe it don happen at KL. Haha

By the way, You will definitely meet the Thai King ! Even the blind will see it because

They love their King so much till they hang his highness photos everywhere. Even used it as their advertisement board or something like that. They even pray him even though he is still alive !

Well, maybe it is not a praying altar. Haha, but they really respect and love their King so much. So it is impossible for people to miss out or never met their King if they happened to be in Thailand before.

One of the trademark of Betong. The Clock Tower.

And we continue to stroll the shop and market. Oh uh ! so happened that I found out my favorite stuffs !!

Guns !!!! and it is Gas-operated BB gun !!! It looked so damn real and almost impossible to differentiate it from the real stuffs. I want it so badly but have to realize that it is totally illegal in Malaysia. I am drooling all the way when scanning all of their collection...

It cost around Rm 400+ per gun.. too bad, I will get myself in hot soup for getting this. So, out of fear, I suppress the temptation.

And expected from Thailand, the condom vending machine !

10 baht per condom. Cheap or expensive ? There are a lot of massage parlor over there too. LOL

Just to let you know how big Betong is, we climb a long stairs of Muzium of Betong

And snap Betong Town photos from top.

I would say, medium size as we could visit almost every corner of the place within a day or two. Before our dinner, we visit a tourist spot. A Buddha temple.

But we went in late ! The main shrine hall is closed. So we only get to hang around outside of the temple.

Oh, about the currency.

My advise is, you do not need to trouble yourselves to change this currency as Betong accept Ringgit as well. They see 10 baht = Rm 1. But as the matter of fact, the actual rate is around rm0.90 cent per 10baht. So, we earn if we buy their stuff using our currency. So, don't bother yourselves to change ya.

Dinner time ! Junyen knew very well where to eat and straightaway guide us there. For dinner, of course we want spicy and firely stuff because we are in Thailand babe.

Out for 4-5 dishes, the Tomyam-gung is Good. Real Good

And one more special food. Really special and original. The *Junyen said* Gong-Chan-Lampa. Err, it sound like testicle, but we are not eating that stuffs lol.

It is raw prawn served with super-firely-spicy hot sauce for dipping purpose. No joke. This sauce can kill. It is not mean for faint hearted. We are all wetting the floor and table when have our first taste on this sauce. It even make tomyam-gung taste nothing but a sour soup. We end up getting double thick sausage at the end of dinner.

Haha, after a hearty dinner. We stroll the town again. Betong's night life.

And it is different from I was expecting. I thought Betong's night life would look like Petaling street. And I thought there will be sex workers standing beside streets to get business. I was totally wrong. Betong's night life is peaceful.

So, we just stroll around the night town. And visit some shop lots. Do you guys know porn is legal in Thailand ? Just to make sure, we entered a shop selling VCD & DVD and skim through their products. And Yes, we found PORN !!!!!! A massive collection of Porns !!!! (We didn't buy those)

Liquors in Thailand is dirt cheap as well. Because it did not get taxed insanely like Malaysia. So, we bought 3 big bottle of big beers with total cost of 130 baht and drank it dry-off in our room. And yea, we have a good night sleep that night.

I even heard rumor said that Thailand television channel will air porn after starting from midnight. So we (the healthy and curious boy) waiting anxiously while kept on changing channel to see whether the rumor is true or not. And then, we get fed up as we get really sleepy after bottom-up the beers.

and so, we gave up the the rumor free porn from tv, and call it a day.

Ps : I woke up at 4 am that night due to stomachache. Well, expected after a firely dinner. And I checked the channel again. Confirmed. The rumor is a lie afterall.

Die for coward, Courage for living

2010-12-10T05:20:00.000-08:00

Today, my mood is just mess up. Just like Joey, maybe my psychology is imbalance too after reading the, I believe this would be 2010 hottest FB news about a youngster take his own life because he get dumped by his ex.

Yea yea yea, a lot said that we should stop commenting about this as he already dead. No point of doing this already.

Oh , is it true ? No point ???? I am agree that whoever go to his funeral and scold in front of his dead body is absolutely idiot. Cause there is no point of scolding a dead man. He won't be able to listen anymore. In fact, we should do that when he is still alive.

But, I am going to comment further on this. So, is this mean that I am scolding myself an idiot ? Or being heartless ?

No, I don't think so. By commenting on this especially on social network, we are actually trying to tell the world that this kind of act is so fucking Wrong !!! And I don't agree with it. With a number of 22 K of blog counter, I am doing my job as a part of concern society.

This guy, Alviss Kong. Is a young adult at the age of 22. Same age as me and but had the mentality of 12 years old kid. If a guy of his age still cant think with rational mind, then how about teenager this days? The part that I am totally piss of is, he think what he do is Correct ! He want to prove that his love toward the girl he like is on the ultimate level that no guys in the earth can compare with him. So how he gonna walk his talk ?

By die ! This shit...... might had bring new era of love definition to youngster who still do not fully develop their brain. By die, they can proof to the girl that they seriously love her. I am seriously worry about this trend right now. Especially when some one like me who have a younger brother at home.

His parents, who had been working all their life to bring him up. Not to mention that his mother had suffer 10 months of labor pain to have him born. And all this 22 years can't even compare to this short-lived relationship. And the part that I am totally loss my cool is when he tell his parents...

"Please love each other more and never hate her". Oh, he is still concern about his family and dare to advise them to take care of themselves and love each other more. He is trying to bring out a scene like he is going for a noble suicidal mission of bombing the asteroid like Armageddon. A suicidal is being the highest level unfilial son. One can treat their parents bad, one can even dare to beat their parents. But all of this, can't even compare to the sin of taking out own life which is given by parents.

No matter how bad you are, at worst, parents sometime will beat you or curse you bad luck, but no parents in the world would wish their child dead. He has been doing the worst possible thing in his life, and what make him think that he is qualify to advise his family to love each other more ? And to make the matter worst,

Don't hate her.. is my decision. He is even teaching and directing his family to what to feel and hate. I can understand if he die while protecting Obama and manage to utter few last words to his family before his breath run out "Oh, my family, please love each other more as I won't be here for you guys, and please don't hate the president because the country need him. and I proud protecting him". If so, I would make him my life's idol.

So what is Alvin Kongs point?
He said he had lost the will of live so he choose dead. Well, I just saw a quote from my friend, it said
"it is impossible for me to make you love me.. but.. it is possible for me to make you remember me till the end of your life".
Is this his real motive? Well, if it so, I wondering how much his love worth. By doing this, he want this girl to live in sorrow for the rest of her life as she will keep reminding this. So, this is his noble way to prove his love or just plain self fish ?

If you are a buddha believer, you will knew that suicide is a deadly sin. The soul would be rejected both by sky and earth. Hence the soul will be eternally roaming on earth forever. According to Taoist believe, once a people suicide, the soul will everyday repeat the suicide act forever. For his case, he will either roaming on earth forever without getting a chance to reborn or jumping from the same building, same floor and same time everyday.

Rest In Peace ???? Good luck

Okay, I am almost done. So, I would hold my fire down and talk something more on moral value. Hey youngster out there. To die is not hard at all, it is so easy in fact. Take a knife and cut your wrist, you can die. Jump out to highway, you can die. Drink Dettol, you can die. Swallow up pills, you can die in no pain. And a million ways I can tell you how to die. But,

Remember this, DIE require no courage. DIE is for coward who afraid to live their life.

To LIVE , require courage.. So, whoever think that Alviss is so brave to die for his love, whack your silly face and think again. For all people like me and you who are still reading my blog, you are a courage one because you choose to live your life

And Give a big clap to yourself =)

Silly smile

2010-12-09T06:00:00.000-08:00

This week, everyone is rushing to complete the forgotten Citra's shitty evaluation form. Me too, rushing that today as I need to hand it up tomorrow because I will be holidaying at Thailand on next week.

Call me silly, but I am extremely happy like a little kid getting his first 100% on the ABC test. My manager gave me all rating of 5/5 on every category. Well, this evaluation form might not indicate anything and maybe it will get dump by Citra as soon as their cabinet full with these. Not that I will get first honor because of this, just that I knew that my hard work and effort all this months.... is being appreciated.

Anyhow, It just made up my day =)

KLIM 2010

2010-12-08T05:27:00.000-08:00

I went there with my younger bro during last Tuesday. It happened that it was a public holiday that time. First thing first, I am no fan of Cars Motorbike or any machine, but I am supa interested on the show girl that will be there.

Since I am super fond on portrait style photo shooting, I ain't letting go this chance. Well, it come with quite a hefty price as I am paying RM20 for this. Not to mention a super long queue and sardine style jam-pack peoples over there.

So, I got my ticket and happily shooting in there. There are total of 4 halls for car exhibition and PROTON get the largest hall.

Well, there are a lot of concept cars ... but I ain't interested on that.. so the following photos will very concentrated on the people instead of metal. Haha, enjoy

First model I shoot. The ever changing of spot color, and my super shot lens... I have a real hard time

My favorite model. Standing beside Bumble Bee (Camero)

In case you forget what is Bumble Bee about

I forget what model of this car already, the surprise was, there were two identical model.

Show girl for accessorizes

Got ahmo also

Oh, One of my favorite.. She look like 'Moonlight Resonance' character, "Ah Yuet"

What is the feel, of being in her position ?

It is very important to bring along a Dslr into this place IF you want them to LOOK at you and SMILE.

Of course, you can take a super good picture with compact camera or some with super high-end handphone. But to earn their attention, you NEED a Dslr.

And I am dead-serious. My bro use his handphone to snap their photos, out of hundred of photos taken, only one model kind enough to look at him !

Bigger DSLR + Bigger Lense = Higher Respect

When all the photographer lining up to shoot the model, I need to wait till the big-gun especially with (70-200mm f/2.8 L) to move away. Cause the model not even sense my present there !

Anyway, I only hog around there for 3-4 hours + though it open till 9pm. I facing a severe headache and I don't know why. (Kena letric shock gua ?) LOL

Farewell & Welcome

2010-12-04T08:56:00.000-08:00

December is here ! Which bring smell of Christmas.

Suppose it mean the end of Everyone Internship and indicate the fun, vocation, rest or whatever that you want to do on your holiday.

However, I get no holiday this December. Because I get extended for another month of industrial training at my company. Now that all of my friends had finished their intern and went back to their hometown, I have to start use to work alone.

Past few days, I had been helping my friends to move their furniture and stuffs to their new house. The current rented house that we were living for 1year and half, would be vacate soon. Some find new house with new house-mate, and some absorbed into other 'family'. Strange though, I don't have a slightest 'miss' on this house.

For me, I would moving back into college life. Instead of 10 college, I go for 8th as 10th is no more the same as last time. It had became a foreigner college. The study room that we used to hang out and make noise had really became an actual silent study room. Slowly erasing all the memory's trace step by step. Hence I would be joining TatSo in 8th college and I believe he and I would be a good room-mate. Haha

Hoho, just realize that I have officially depart from my room-mate. I knew we had been room-mate for a.... long period. But I never actually did count how long it was. Hmm, let see... We had been room-mate since...

Omg, First year ! and then one year and half in this rented house. So if my calculation is not that bad, it mean 2 years and half already. I would not say I miss him, because it sound Gay, but I will wish him to have a merrier life in his new nesting ground.

Seriously I am not a good room-mate. Although we had been sleeping side-by-side for freaking 2years +, but we never actually open-up to each other. I knew that you are hiding something deep inside your heart. You act cool and humor outside but in fact, you have a wound inside your heart.

Well, sorry for being a bad room-mate which provide you insufficient security to open-up. Hope you could find some good buddy for that okay.

So, Adios my room-mate ;-)

And welcome our new chapter of Uni Life !

Ending

2010-11-20T07:10:00.000-08:00

My internship is going to meet it end, real soon. And hence, end my 6 months of pre-working life.

Hence, end of car-poolship with 4 friends of mine.

Hence, end of 10 minute morning walk to work

Hence, end of cheap lunch at cheap floor together

and hence, end of a lots of tiny things that we seldom notice.

Whatever it is, I am truly enjoy whatever that happened in past 6 months. My life had been treating me so good all this while. If this is a blessing from God, then I wanna say, Thanks You from my heart. Thanks for arranging 3 fine ladies as my lunch partner, dinner partner, and morning walk partner. When my colleague who had been working beside me for the past 4 months had left, Frank joined the boat and kept me from doing thing alone.

There was once time, I boast about how lucky am I for having 3 fine ladies car-pooling with me. A friend of mine assure me that I won't think like that after 2-3 months later. But I want to prove him wrong. I am having fun and honor for being their driver. To the extend that I will be disappointed if anyone of them not following my car. And to the extend that, I do not need their share in petrol money, they still insist to pay me anyway.

Whatever it is, is all past.
Lets kept it as fun memory, and start looking forward. One thing for sure, I am IN NEED of meeting new faces. This past 6 months, had been slowly poisoning my mind. As if my world had only few girls and handful of friends. Not that it is not good. This is good ! But bad in certain way.

I need to meet new faces. It is difficult, but I know it is the best for me. Eagerly waiting for new Sem to start.

I-City 2010

2010-11-13T00:46:00.000-08:00

I am back !
And this time I have come back with photos to share !! Haha

As title above, I have been to I-City

I have heard about I-City so often and it was like whole world had went there except me. Last time, I think that no point going there without a good camera. I don't want to just simply take out my phone and snap some dark blurry picture out of it.

Seriously, If you aren't going there as dating couple nor a photographer, then I would like to advise you to do other better stuff. Even hang out at Mamak alone will be better. Cause it will mean boring to you unless you like colorful lights hanging on trees. Not to mention that it is quite crowded.

Never thought that it have entry charge ! It cost 2 dollar per pax and 10 dollar per car. So, if you are going there by car, make sure you load it up with maximum or more than that to show your kiasu-ness !

I always wanted to shoot nice night scenery after getting my 4K.

And this is really frust me up. Shooting night scenery is one thing, shooting people portrait is another thing too, but when this two element were to combine, I get frustrated.

At first, I tried to shoot it without the help of flash, as built-in-flash might be disastrous without correct setting. So when my portrait get a nicely sufficient light, then the background get over-exposed. When the background is nicely exposed, the portrait is too dark.

I am using 'master mode' all the way. Cause I just do not trust the P , A , T mode. Hence a lot of photos is not usable and end up in recycle bin. Of course, out of so many shots, there will be some usable photos,

Later on, I knew flash is a must if I want to blend both people and background together nicely.

But, with just the built-in-flash alone, most of the photos turn out unusable too. Except few.

Earlier I had made an DIY diffuser using a film container, but it get lost when I arrived at I-city. Haha. Seriously, thee add-on of diffuser really doing a very great job on skin color. It disperse and soften the light nicely.

I borrowed it from my friend who also DIY his diffuser and snap a photo of his girl friend. Haiz, a little sad for losing my diffuser.

Anyway, I-City has a great view and like my friend said, it is a city of bokeh-licious. But, I am not that good in bokeh yet, so...

But I kinda like this photo though. A soft bokeh on the background. So, we hang around there until 12am something and finally decide to call it a day. Like I said, this place is good for photographer and dating couple. If you do not fall into that category. Then you might never want to return to this place again.

I would like to return to this place again. With diffuser this time !

Infatuation ? Love ?

2010-10-31T22:42:00.000-07:00

Voila, again this is not a post jammed with crappy photos of mine. But soon enough you will see lot lot of them. Because I had just back from a trip to Ipoh.

Lets talk about one word. Infatuation.

Last week, I came to realize the existence of this word. I never come across this word before. No need to say if I understand what it mean, it sound like a bread getting bigger when dipped inside water.

Well, after understanding this word. It make sense.

For some of you, who do not know what is infatuation mean, it mean ( I use my own way to explain about it, for better explaination, please ask Mr. Google.)

It is a combination of several chemical reaction inside our body which create a sense of strong attraction whether mentally / physically toward the targeted one. Which will cause our heart to beat faster due to adrenaline pump, anxiety and nervouses due to changes of hormone and feeling of contented/ happy/ satisfy due to phenylalanine which can be found in chocolate. Some time, it is powerful enough to sabotage our logical motor in brain. Which make people to do something extraordinary (unexpected act).

Sum up all of this reaction together, you get the sense of I-Cant-Live-My-Live-Without-You and You-Are-The-One feeling. From here, you I would say . . we are in the state of infatuate.Which is created by our system's chemical reaction.

A question for myself is ...

Did I make moves on girls because of I-seriously-love-them or I-Think-She-Is-My-Destine-One? Or is it just an over-dose infatuation pump in my body during that time that finally by-pass my logical system? Things started to make sense to me. It's all explained.

Well, that mean I am back to ground zero. Getting to know the meaning of infatuation doesn't mean I know what is love. For what I am sure, I knew the feeling of infatuation so damn well. But, did the love come along too? Can love and infatuation co-exist ?

Anyway, let me explained the feeling of infatuation according to my experience.

When one is infatuated, he/she will came upon a lot feeling due to hormone changes. Feeling of Happy when they get good attention from he/her, Jealous and angry when he/she seem close to others guys and feeling sick-emo-sour of feeling when she is far away from you, the great anxiety and nervous when waiting for his/her reply (sms , msn , whatever) and despair/sorrow when effort / result did not get appreciated.

All of this, is the symptom of infatuation. This is what many used to believe it is the feeling of 'love'.

Undeniably, it is a cruel fact. Love doesn't come that easy. It need to be well nurture just like planting a seed. But this seed, is the world hardest plant to grow. It take a lot of effort, pain, attention and time to make it grow.

Thanks to infatuation. It drive us to grow it.

For what I think, infatuation never last. But love will. When infatuation is gone, only love is what it remain to continue binding the relationship together. If during the period of infatuation, the seed of love do not grow... then I would say it is a gone case. This is where break-up come into play.

Infatuation is vital. Without it, human will never have the passion and determination to grow the seed. But, I believe passion and determination alone can't guarantee a sure success.

Because you can never grow a rose on dessert ain't ? If you do manage to grow it as a result of one extreme determination and another with extreme tolerance.

The rose will surely grow even at desert..... will it grow beautiful then ?

Lets talk something else

2010-10-27T09:15:00.000-07:00

My blog had turned to photography blog. Which destroy my initial motive to create this blog as a place to voice my thought and feeling.

Lets put photography aside for this time, and talk about something else. Something else that related to my emotional side. There will be no crappy photos this time. Voila !

I am a third senior now. I had seriously fell in love with one girl during my first year and go all-out for her. But failed. I think it is not a secret anymore and many knew about it.

During my second year, just a month before my industrial training, I had fell in love with a girl again. But this time, I am not that all-out compare to my first year. Upon her indirect rejection, she said, maybe I never knew what is love about and never know how it feel like. Maybe ya or maybe no. I never google the definition of love and how it should be felt in the heart.

I just believe the pain , bitter , sweet and unexplained unique sourness in my heart that time. Especially the sense of sourness that almost kill you every time your mind too free and started to think about her.

That moment, I define it as fall-in-love. Perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps it is not define such a way in the love encyclopedia. Perhaps I should ask my parent about it. I do not know. Should there be only one love definition in this universe ?

Seriously I am a lucky boy. I am glad none of the effort of mine work out. Thinking back, I am immature back then. Very naive in fact. I act according to my sudden urge of feeling without realizing what is the most important homework to do before winning a girl-heart. Just like eagerly joining a war and grabbed just a machine gun with tonnes of bullet without even realizing that I will be fighting under the sea. I never try to understand the women from women's point of view. I always like to believe my own assumption and theory which always make me hit the wall so hard all the time without fail ;-)

That is my past. I am on my third year now. After enrolling myself in working society, maybe I have change though. My social circle had become temporary smaller and mixing with working adult maybe change me. In term of thinking perhaps.

I think, I am a super lucky bastard in town. For six months, I have 3 lady course-mate carpooling my car. All of them have boyfriend which make my shyness go away. Did I mention before that I have the natural shyness toward girls that are still available ? I hate myself that way, but it can't help. If a quality girl is single, I can't help myself but have a thought of tackling her even before get to know her name ! That is how shitty I am. Now I knew, why I scared away hell lotsa of girls. LOL

Because of them, I had developed a quality communication time with girls. Along the way, I sharpen my communication skill when talking to girl. They are all my Shifu in such a way that they always explain to me the girl's point of view. I am looking forward to write few posts about girl's fact which I understand.

Most importantly, is what it take to melt a girl heart which I never understand it for..... forever ? Hence, I start to dump away all of my brain's rubbish little by little and learn from ground zero. Gosh, I am surely love by my friend. Whenever we had lunch or dinner, all of them always taking turn to teach me the art of winning a girl heart. LOL

Thanks for the advise guys. My inner self had growth a lot as well as my self-esteem. I think I will never notice how far it grow but surely I know it do growth. But for now, as I have look with my own eyes of the actual working world. I think I know how to set my priority right.

Lunch @ Kura

2010-10-26T05:33:00.000-07:00

I met up my sibling and cousin for a lunch at Kura.

Kura is not tortoise, though it mean like that in malay. It is a name of a Japanese restaurant located at One Utama. Maybe I am a cheapo which never tastes a really great High Class Jap Food. For me, Kura is really great in term of its service and foods.

But we are not sitting on that table facing the chef la. Because we come quite a number, so they get us a private room which is very comfy. Actually this is not my first time here. My department director had treated me before for a lunch here few weeks back. That was my first time having a classy Jap food. And I love it !

But I was damn regret that time for not taking along my 4K and missing out a lot of great photos. By the way, 4k is my camera. I love to call it that way because it cause me that Bombing Amount !

Well, this time I am going to snap till the kingdom come.

Did I mentioned before that I came with my cousin ? My cousin is really a nice person. Though older than us almost 10 years + but we are very clicked. This whole lunch is sponsored by my sis and cousins. My brother and I eat free free.... paiseh desneh.

The cousin of mine, have a very cute pair of son and daughter. She had taught her daughter very well in term of fashion and posing since small. So I grabbed this opportunity to mimic a studio style photography.

Well, that sum up my fantastic lunch @ Kura. Planning to lunch over there for 3rd time with my friend at the last week of internship. But this time, no more free lunch I guess XD

Eco Film Festival

2010-10-23T09:09:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday event was Freedom Film Festival, and a day after that was Eco Film Festival. Junyen and I were volunteer photographer for both event.

If Freedom Film Festival was about freedom and human right, then Eco Film Festival would be about Environment and Health.

Both is very differ in their own way but have similar goal which is to build a better future.

Though we do not get allowance, but free t-shirt and foods were provided. By the way, the t-shirt was cool though.

The movie hall is definitely greater than the hall of PKNS tower, but sad to say that the film quality is not that good. I do not enjoy it though except for one clip that was very informative.

The event was held at Econ Fact at University Malaya, which I am super duper familiar with. Apparently this event was bigger than Freedom Film Festival in the sense that their event area coverage was taking place at both outdoor and indoor.

But there made it look like Carnival with a lot of booth selling their product. Even big balloon games was there to entertain the kid. Erm, Rm10 Per round I guess ?

So, I was getting bored shooting photos of the Digi's booth (well, I not sure why their product is eco friendly) , organic products and others until I encounter one booth that was selling Dulux paint.

I was stunned. Who is this fine beauty ? O man. Heck, I am going to stop by the booth !

So, Junyen and I was hanging around the booth and see what they were selling and spent some time to do their survey (actually finding an opportunity to interact la).

I have help them to do survey, and of course I will demand a pay back yo.

Give me the best smile she can ever give. And then, I continue to stray around snapping random pictures and then spotted another cute little lady.

I think she was a promoter. Though, the event area was big, but I hardly find other interesting stuffs that worth to shoot. Maybe because of my in-experience.

I saw a booth which was promoting a eco film, but I forget what is the film about. I just remembered why I stopped by the booth. It is because of this little tree of wishes

They prepared a lot of dry leaf/seed ( I not sure) and let us to hang on it after we wrote something on it.

This is mine. Wishing everyone to stay healthy always =)

Before the clock hit Afternoon, the sun was so might hot. When everyone foresee that rain is rather impossible, the nature proved them wrong.

It is very heavy !

When the rain start to subdue, I had spotted two 'My FM' MyVi searching for car park. I was delighted because I am getting bored for snapping the same old thing several time.

At least there something new to snap. Too bad, I do not recognize the crew. All I knew is Lam Tak Weng and Ngan Mei Yan because I only listen to the morning session of My Fm broadcast.

Just before Junyen and I decided to call-off our shift, we were asked nicely by an old couple to help them promote their home-made eco dishes. They asked whether we have facebook or not and would like us to promote their product.

And since we are the photographer and owned a blog. why not ? So we agreed

They are pro jelly maker. They made Jelly in various of patterns and can be used as birthday cake. Because it was 'eco', hence it should be healthier than normal high-carb + sugar cake.

To be frank, this event was partly successful. They had prepared a huge hall for it, but only a handful of people were actually interested to watch the film. Most preferred to stroll around the booth although the screening should be the highlight of the event.

For this, I shall give a good applause to Freedom Film Festival for its achievement.

Freedom Film Festival

2010-10-17T08:22:00.000-07:00

This is a voluntary program, that I know I must join. Besides getting an opportunity to learn about human right, I can practice my photography skill along the way.

Yes, I am a volunteer photographer for that event. Same goes to JunYen.

And it is a paid job =) which is my first paid job as a photographer. RM50 only, but I am jumping till the heaven high XD. (Actually, that is not consider a salary, it is just an incentive to thanks our helping hand. Well, I still love to consider it as a paid job)

Back to the event, It was held at PKNS tower 15th floor.

Wondering if you guys have notice this banner anywhere before.

It had a large hall which can hold a capacity of 500 pax. There were a round 20 volunteer helping around and to my amaze,

Ladies were the one in charge in technical field and they have totally full control of it ! They control the sound, the movie and the communication too. Damn, they are good ! Well, girls could look sweet and adorable from outside,

but

When they are serious . . . dig your grave, if you mess with them. (right? junyen XD)

There is one thing that some of our friend would like to keep it low profile. They might be a low profiler in Uni, but at outside . . .

this friend of our is a hardcore activist. Oh ya, including this too

He is very very popular. Seriously
You will be surprise after knowing how much NGO program they had helped out. Go talk with them, I sure they have lot to tell haha. Andhie, hope that you don't kena ALKU la.

Andhie, will be manning a stall which will sell handcraft made by indigenous people. Seriously, there are actually people buying it. Business is good some more. lol

It was a close event which was held inside a building. So, it will be quite cramp when everyone was there. But, I would never ever forget one of my Photography principal which I have make since I get my camera. Which is,

Never let Beauty slip-away uncaptured.

Well, sad to say that the lady in green was the prettiest of all since there were not much competitor around.

But, perhaps some like Korean

Or pure Indigenous people

She is seriously cute. By the way, I never ask her whether she is indigenous descendant or not, it was just my plain guess from my observation.

One thing that I am totally agree with a friend of mine. Which I look him as a skillful photographer. That thing was, photographer must overcome their shyness and dare to take photos of people. Especially when your lens cant zoom that much XD. Maximum focal length of 50mm really not far at all !

Can I get this ???
70-200 mm f/2.8 L ... wuhuhuhu

Did I tell you that this event is not some half-cooked cheapskate stuff? I am pretty sure of it when they could invite two Yang Berhormat and one ambassador of Netherland as honourable guess.

YB ...... I forget. It is that ladies in pink tudung.

And the Netherlands ambassador with his wife. The media were invited too. As expected, professional photographers were there to do a media cover.

A paid photographer is not unusual to lug two set of DSLR around. And I have spotted two people using L lens

They snap people with their super zoom lens , and I snap them instead. Well, as I said, mine maximum focal point of 50mm really ain't far and I won't wanna become a highlight by taking photos 5 feet away from the YB. So, I stay where I was and snap their photographer instead hahaha.

BTW

Do you spot Junyen in the photo below ?

Of course you did !!! I have no idea h0w he manage to squeeze himself in the crowd of professional with his 1000D + 18-55mm !!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn, what can I say more ? His ball is larger than mine God Damn It !

Seriously, I have a real good time over there. This is the first time I take photography extra serious as I considered it a paid job :p

And the best of all the photos I took that day..... is this

Shooting through a window glass. You can see city light out there. Thanks FFF for this opportunity. I am having fun.

By the way, I had use up the RM50 for grocery shopping today XD. And stay tune for Eco Film Festival which had been held today. Again, Junyen and I were the official volunteer photographer.

No pay - Sad case

But got free food + cool t-shirt - =)

20K blog counter =)

2010-10-15T10:36:00.000-07:00

=D

Finally my blog counter had arrived at another benchmark which mark my first 20K blog clicker (well, actually most might probably just pass-by).

I soon came to realize that I don't have 20k readers actually, but I do have 20K times of people accessing my blog space. Well, to be frank (Not that I want to be the sakai) I myself might have contribute 10K of it XD, but to have extra 10K 'click' contribute by others are seriously good enough for me =)

I still remember there was a time when I came back from a trip to Langkawi and I have blog about the trip with lotsa of photos. Just in a mere weeks, my blog counter mark an increment from 2-3K to 8-9K ! So, I was thinking that the Blog counter (Free apps of course) gone haywire. But soon, I found out that some traveling website had marked my Langkawi post as a recommended link to learn about LangKawi. Without my permission. Well, since I did not registered it under copy right..... but, I do not mind too XD

From that day on, the counter was slowly increase from time to time till now. Marked my first 20K count.

Thanks for the free apps and please don't die out.

Internship in IBM

2010-10-13T05:11:00.000-07:00

There is been a while since I talk about my Internship. Well, not because it was so dead boring and not worth to filled up my precious blog space. In fact, I was hellish busy since my colleague departure. The extra time that I managed to fork out had been spent with my 550D, hence I have no extra time or just plain lazy to talk about it.

Just 1 month and a half remaining till my thank-god-finally-is-here long holiday before my sem start. I guess my manager start to realize that I am leaving soon, and there is no way I would extend my internship. So, my workload become very heavy and have to excellent in multi-tasking. Last time, I am given all-the-time-pass in the world to work on my system. There is no such thing as dead-line for it. Maybe because 6 month is seem freaking long. Now that my merdeka is near, my manager start eye-ing on me. Not only my manager, but other senior as well. For me being known as the longest serving intern in HR, I had already possess sufficient knowledge to do my related job, everyone try to get the full use of me. My manager want me to pace up my current project so that I could start doing my 3rd project (which is non-exist yet). Other senior hope to recruit new intern and ask me (I don think I could reject) to tutor and guide them before I leave. Well, for knowledge transfer I guess. Gosh, and also some petty office boy work.

Besides facing a serious headaching symptom toward my complex coding projects, I have to finish up piles of test cases (test until the system is successful !) in a short period of time. Actually is my greedy-ness to take up this role. My manager offer an opportunity to become a tester for a new system. Although my both arm is full of load, my wonderful mouth still spit out 'sure, no problem' without giving a second thought. Lol, because of that, I am granted a special permission to access IBM server from home. This privilege is not applicable to all. Some contractor that had work for years do not get this access. But I have ! Yeah (that mean, you have to work even at home la moron. =_x")

Good thing is, my time in office flew seriously fast and I have to spend every minute wisely. After 4 months plus of serving under IBM, my manager start to place good trust on me. I started to handle big-time project which will soon handle all IBMer Malaysia Compensation and Benefit. It will becoming a really large system and database in near future once it started put in good use. Working hard on it !!

My first project was enhancing some system called Rental Management system, which will handle all international assignee accommodation. It was now being used by IBM HR department. That was my first project and it was not that tough compare to my current project.

I believe I will be able to complete this project before I leave IBM and make sure it will still be usable for many years to come. So, what actually motivate me in IBM ?

My answer will be, to leave something behind when I leave and be put into good use for many years to come. So that I could tell everyone outside, that IBM HR is currently using my developed system to do their job ^^. Ain't it cool ? haha

Family expansion =D

2010-10-02T23:06:00.000-07:00

Hooray ! Finally my auntie successfully delivered her little princess. Yesterday was the day and it happened in Tropicana Medical Center.

Though these cute little niece have a wide age gap with me, but she and I have the same status in family hierarchy. My uncle is younger brother of my father, which make me a little senior than this new niece. Haha.

One of my purpose to purchase this camera of mine so early, is to snap this precious moment of my newly born niece.

When I snap photos, I always seek for naturality as if I am invisible when taking photos. Yeah, kinda like stalker style.

Hence this little model, really met up all my requirement because every shot from my cam, are just perfectly pure and innocent.

And . . . here come my Uncle

A new daddy in field. His very first daughter.

First touch from both father and mother are crucially important in order to develop a strong relationship.

Well, my uncle smiling all the time. When he got his time with her daughter, outer element like me, the annoying photographer who making lotsa noise of 'chigit , chigit' . . . is not significant any more.

My grandma. She is really a house-sticker. It is so hard to get her out from house unless there is something important. Even during Chinese New Year, she would prefer to stay in house watching television. For this case, it got what it take for her to come out from the house.

Together with my 2nd Uncle and his family

Well, I always hate environment inside hospital. The aura is so negative. I hate it so much ! But, labor floor really make a different. Everyone is smiling.

And I love that. Well, Omedeto gozaimasu to my uncle and auntie for safely delivered this little princess and thanks for this precious photo-shooting opportunity. =D

Jim Birthday

2010-10-01T23:49:00.000-07:00

Yesterday is a birthday of a friend of mine.

Jim

We made a simple celebration for him, but effort-full. So, we tried to surprise him by all of us gathering somewhere outside his house.

And we squat and hide when Jim suddenly open his house door. Seriously, a bunch of peoples hiding on some lorong will really make people suspicious. I felt like car theft pulak though I squatting beside my car with my camera unlock, reading to shoot whatever on-sight.

Phew, Jim went back in. So we proceed to prepare the Birthday Cake !

(-____- "")

Nobody bring matches or Lighter.

Hence, this sakai try to use car-cigarette-heater to light it up.

I would say, this is kinda a smart move ! Lighting a tissue / paper with that. But, cannot work.

So, we search high and low for fire.

Finally, Joey saw a guy smoking outside of his house. So, Joey tried to borrow his lighter.

And succeeded. They ran back like wind with happy face. Of course la, Joey wor ! Any guy will give her anything if she dare to ask. Haha

So, we lighted up the candle and protect the fire from wind

And we storm his house with a cake , and 2 sparkling juices.

Happy Birthday Jim =)

October farewell Lunch

2010-09-30T16:45:00.000-07:00

Starting today, I will be working alone as the only sole programmer in HR department. My colleague had finished his internship duration and yesterday was his last day in IBM.

Recalling 4 months ago, when he and I were just a new comer. Know nothing about what and how to do. Together we help each other out and one-by-one, we breakthrough the obstacles.

Now that he had fulfill his duty in HR, his effort was being recognized and get a nice treat by our manager Vikki for lunch at

Peranakan 1Utama

There were 6 of us, dining a set lunch for 8pax.

It was a great lunch. Among all the intern in HR, I am the longest to stay while watching one by one leaving soon.

Celest

Aidah

Nice teaming with them for previous event.

Anyway, the whole workdesk will belong to me and finally I could enjoy a comfy chair after 4 months sitting on plastic made.

By the way, this is my manager

A very respectable career women, Vikki

We had ate our lunch for almost 2 hours even though my Vikki is a very busy person. And finally a group photo.

sept 30

2010-09-29T09:05:00.000-07:00

I will never do thing half-way again.

Either hang on till the end, or don't start it at all.

I want to learn. Learn a lot of thing.

Itchy Itchy hand

2010-09-21T05:33:00.000-07:00

Itchy Itchy hand, wanna play camera so badly.

Argh !!! Miss its texture, miss it weigh and definitely miss its sharpness !

Gosh, When is it Thursday again ???? Please don tell me. Don feel like counting the days.