Bye Bye 2007 & Welcome 2008

Nothing much to write. Just wanna wish everyone a Happy New Year for the coming 2008!
May everything negative be left behind, and everything positive will be coming to all of ya like running tap water for 2008! What a 'realistic' wish! =)

Phrase of wisdom

I had this phrase to share with you people out there, a phrase worth a million meanings (depends on how you would interpret it...) whom I got it from my 'genius' lecturer who is currently 'far far far' away over the global world. Take some time to ponder it...

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence;
talent will not,
the world is full of unsuccessful people with talent;
genius will not,
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb;
education is not,
the world is full of educated derelict;
persistence and determination alone are SUPREME!

Did it inspire? What comes across your mind after reading this? Feel free to comment if you want to... =)

The wealth of health

Taking serious care of ones health is very vital; physically and mentally. Health is the main subject of all life forms. I had been seriously sick for the past couple of weeks. It might seemed simple from the outside but bear in mind that 2 weeks of sickness isn't just purely cough, fever or even flu; other diseases started to exist momentarily such as gastric, heavy hiccups, headache off and on, blur vision, pale, weak outlook, and etc. It's very difficult to get things done when you are down with all this diseases. I had skipped all my classes the entire week and missed several societies meeting because of all these. Pain is all that you get when u neglect ur health besides being bedridden for the entire time. There's no point in regretting something that has happened but to move on strongly. The point here is, remember to cherish your health well, take good care of it and don't regret later on. Health is only once, just like your life as the saying goes 'prevention is better then cure'!

P.S. : Can't even 'pong' at the moment... Hehe! =P

Early december 2007

The battle continues for a piece of meaningful certificate, a certificate that resembles myself and most likely my future. Squandered last semester, workaholic-wanna-be this semester. I don't know if i will be able to update my blog as often as I can. Post on the 'story of mah-jong creatures' might even take centuries to reach to the finale. Slowly stay tune from time to time if you're curious to know the plot of the story. This semester will also mark the end of 2007, another memorable year for me. I've actually already listed a few resolution for the coming brand new year. Might share out at some other post later on. Anyway, i won't be on9-ing that often after all because i don't reli see the better side of it unless if there's any urgent or emergency business to talk to. I really wanted to look out to the society to see how working life will be, getting hands on early might be beneficial too. Cultivating reading habits will be helpful to arm myself with several arsenal before facing the dreadful world of work. All da best to everyone in their daily lives! =)

The Untold Story of ‘Mah-jong Creatures of Uni-10’ Part 1

There’s only one word to define my results, ‘disappointing’. Full stop. Don’t want to talk about that anymore. Promise myself to work harder next semester. I am seriously not sure what happened to me last week? Sick due to stomach upset for almost a week. Sienz! Anyway, I find it a bit boring or rather monotonous to just post up ‘normally’ on those 1 week holiday trip to the south. So, I came out with an idea of compiling them into a story. Hopefully it will capture your mind and imagination. =)

‘Mah-jong creatures? What on earth is that *fill in the blanks with your thoughts yourself*?’ might be the first thing to struck at your indigenous minds. Have you deliberately ever seen mah-jong creatures alive? (I am very sure NO!) Well, this is an untold story of 11 mah-jong creatures (for disclaimer purpose, this is just a mere FICTION story and has nothing to do with any life and death matter) particularly named Tung (Kelvin), Nam (Richard), Sai (Hee Guan), Pat (Wei Kiat), Chung (Me! Me! Me!), Fatt (Chei Siang), Pan (Yee Mun), Tong (Fong), Sok (May Peng), Fei (Yee Siong) and Man (Karen). How did they come alive? Of course, every story has its beginning and everything has its origins...

Chapter 1 - The beginning

The story begins when Liverpool’s striker Peter Crouch ‘am kong-ly’ scored 2 goals against Besiktas and out of a sudden, lightning struck at the top of the typical old double-storey rented house’s antennae; accumulating infinitely forceful magnetic field and thrust them into the mah-jong set. *Puff* 11 mah-jong tiles in various size appears, landed on the floor. Having physical attributes and characteristics of a human in the giant mah-jong tiles, they started to move about. They were puzzled, looking at each other aimlessly. To their horror, out of nowhere, an illusionary magic ball appeared, amplifying a glimmering flash of lights on the wall stating ‘Your origins can be found at Gunung Ledang’. After a while, the words disappeared into emptiness along with the ball. The stunned creatures then take some time to recover from the sudden fright and held into a small discussion...


Nam: How, how now?
Man: Yeapz! Good question. How now...
Chung: What are we? We need to know!
Sok: Yes, it’s true. We need to follow the clues given.
Fei: How are we supposed to get there? We don’t even know where that ‘Gunung Ledang’ place is...
Pan: Gunung Ledang... Can eat ah? I am getting hungry already... (smiling away)
Tung: Me too! But then, Gunung Ledang is a place, mountain. How to eat wo?
Sai: Hey, can you two get a little more serious? We are having a serious deep shit problem here ok? Get your head right! You are just mah-jong tiles, how can you ever be hungry? (in a while, his stomach sounds) Urghh...
Tong: You do feel hungry too, right? We are all mah-jong tiles with human’s attribute.
Pat: Say! Say! Say! Cool down ok? I found this map to Gunung Ledang at the toilet upstairs. It stinks a little and a bit wet but still readable. I think someone must have had planned to go there before us. I wonder who he is...
Fatt: Nevermind! Don’t bother much about that. Okay. Let us all go there right away. Pack your things and we will move. I found 3 car keys at the closet downstairs. Me, Tung and Nam will drive. Hurry up!

There the journey goes; the beginning of the ending. They drove all the way down to the south, towards the direction of Gunung Ledang...

journey to the south begins at the next chapter, stay tune readers.... =P

Mathematics of Relationships?

I came across an email stated 'The Mathematics of... Relationships". Kinda weird n funny. Take a look:

ROMANCE MATHEMATICS

Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy

OFFICE ARITHMETIC

Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime

SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs. A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need.

GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

HAPPINESS

To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

LONGEVITY

Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.

PROPENSITY TO CHANGE

A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE

A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED

Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, 'You're next.' They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Malaysian Philharmonic Youth Orchestra

Don't ever missed this once in a lifetime musical orchestra performance right at your doorway. Ipoh friends who enjoy music should go for it! It's at Banquet Hall at Bangunan Perak Darul Ridzuan. After all, its just 15 bucks for student. =)

TVB drama

Recently just finished watching 2 'latest' TVB drama, entitled 'Kan Yan Kin' and 'Crime Fighter'. Quite nice till no time to blog bout my recent 1 week holiday trip. There's also this drama even more 'latest', acted by Charmaine Sheh and Jordan Chan entitled 'Word Twisters' Adventures' (鐵咀銀牙).



kan yan kin... reli kan, very funny indeed... 4 out of 5 stars...



interesting and exciting crime adventure... also 4 out of 5 stars...


Lately, u can see a lot of China women selling those TVB's DVD everywhere. I do not know much bout their origin but then, this thing has become a common thing especially at the restaurants. What a way to earn money? How did this idea penetrate through out markets? Those video, vcd or dvd rental shops surely goin to bankrupt soon. I wonder how they are goin to survive if there's no new idea's being invented and implemented...

Musical Play

This weekend was kind of special. I was involved in helping out my good friend, Kwok Yii and his gf in a musical ballet play (I assume) by City Ballet. (I am not sure if PSPA, Perak Society of Performing Arts is also involved) The play, compromising three different stories; The Swan, Aladdin and Nutcracker were indeed superb and entertaining. Musical play is one of my favourite genre of drama ever since I was involved in my school play back in Form 1. I still remember ‘Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ pretty well besides other short mini plays such as The King & I, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Sound of Music and etc. After that, I left drama field till now due to certain reasons. (Maybe I should blog out an ‘Untold Story About Me’..... anyone interested?) =)



kwok yii and siew leng...


I actually prefer those plays rather than drama because of the melodramatic sentimental, soothing music. I do not really like hard rock metal, eardrum-spoiling music like those Alfred always listen while driving. =.=! Anyway, what’s my main duty during the play on Sunday night? U wouldn’t believe this. Its backstage duty but not really ‘backstage work’; keeping cute small kids (about 20++) in control for the whole night. What an unforgettable experience! Well, you know small kids? Some can get a bit nasty but some can be real angels. There’s this really cute, cute little girl at the age of 5 out of a sudden broke into tears. I tried to console her and she responded in a really cute manner. She stopped crying and stared at me with a really cute expression. When she speaks, awww.... maximum cute. Haha! What a waste that I didn’t take her picture. All hand phones were supposed to be switched off and I just followed their orders. I am very sure you will agree with me when you see her picture and also listen to her speaking. Cute Jacqueline, that’s her name (without the cute of course). You won't remember this 'gor gor' taken care of you as you grow up older. =P At the young, tender age already learn ballet and learn to perform in front of a big crowd; about almost 1000 people I guess. That’s a very good development for a child. Their parents must be very proud of them. All the best to them!



da cute 'Qi Qi', holding a ribbon sitting at the bottom left in purple costume...


I have even seen people at my varsity having stage fright during presentation. In the corporate world, it’s very important to be able to converse and perform in a strong, firm manner. If not, you might lose out to other competitors easily. I can presume that life later on for me will surely get tougher. =) That’s how I actually spend my first week of holidays besides watching movie, ‘yumcha’ and sports. I might blog about my trip to Muar, Melaka and JB (right after finals for a week) some other time when I am free. Results will be out by next Monday and I am really keeping my fingers crossed!

Sayonara...

Special tribute to my dear 'proton iswari' ADP 3389 who has been with me for 10 years++; finally its time for 'u' to leave for a new owner. Dunno how my future varsity days will be beginning of next sem. Maybe havta go around tumpang ppl's car liao. Haihz, what to do? Body also cancerous already. Full of rusty holes. Well, every beginning has an ending, but the ending will lead to a new beginning. Hehe! Hopefully dad will come to a positive resolve as soon as possible. If not, havta become parasite or worst come to worst, take that 'tortoise' uni bus...



goodbye, you will have a good touch-up by da new owner...

Homage to 'Not the Uncle Lim nxt door'...

Out of nowhere, i arise from my bed at the dawn. The day where i am supposed to rest till late in the morning turns out to be the otherwise. I was deprived of sleep for the past few weeks due to the finals and when climax was over, i should have a good bedtime. Its all because of the annoying blood-sucking MOSQUITOES' fault for getting me restless. Amanah is real dreadful towards the end of the semester. Total rubbish all over the hostel. In a world where mannerism does not penetrate through deep into the younger generation's mind, these will only reflect on what are the worst case scenario of our future lies. Imagine, people throwing rubbish out of the window just like that, be it crumble paper, can drinks, polystrene package or etc, without ever concerning anyone right below the window. Furthermore, living in a place surrounded by junks might turn you into part of the thrash. If you can't beat them, join them right?

Anyway, since i am awake and totally not in the mood of packing up my stuffs yet for holidays, i might as well surf around the web to see what's going on around the blogosphere at the moment. Ah-Ha! Blogmate Crusader finally updated something quite interesting. The post is on the bibliography of his hero, idol, leader or whatsoever you name it; all in all, one of the greatest creation by God. I myself would like to pay tribute to the one and only eminent 'Uncle Lim' of Malaysia. History himself speaks everything. Earlier days of life (50's era onwards) was much tougher compare to generation these days in terms of hardship. Go back and ask your grandparents or even your parents about it, they will tell you the same thing. Last time, they work/struggle under the sun, now we work/struggle under the air-con. Generation these days were made easier by them for a better living. Due to this fact, people are starting to forget their roots. Bear in mind that the present and future can never exist without the past. My dad once told me about how 20 years down the road before, he struggled to earn a good living. Those days, motorcycles are almost equivalent to cars. Having one is quite a great achievement. Salary were just 1/10 of the current ones as the value of currency is small. 'Wan tan mee' noodles and a cup of 'teh tarik' will only cost you about 5 cents. How far we were left behind by comparison to other advance countries during that time in terms of our currency values and economy-wise? It was all the effort of our great late country's leaders and few undisputed extraordinary mens who made what Malaysia is today. Click this link to read more about my blogmates opinion...

True enough, for every great successful man or woman comes with great sacrifice, huge responsibility, leadership and unbounded determination. Its all about how you would perceive on your own life; how you see your life in succession of certain things or perception of whatever comes, comes! "No sacrifice, no victory"~ Sam Witwicky (from Transformers). Life is like a journey of lots of subway station. When you reach to a particular destination, you can't stop there forever. You will have to move on to another station and when you decide the next station to go to, you have your aim and direction. Work towards that direction and move on cleverly. I myself truly hadn't reach that level yet as i had my own obstacles to be taken care of right now. This is the part and parcel of life. Nothing comes easy at the moment. The thorns of life is just the beginning.

The past, present and the future!

Finally, i just finished my last final paper for this semester. I got nothing much to say, u people will definitely find it cold or lame but the fact is this semester is the most screwed up semester i had ever faced for the whole 2 years++ at uni. When i pondered back at the past 3 months, much can be cherished, some might be ignored and much should have been forgotten. What are memories if u don't preserved it! I will touch a bit on that the next post but right now, this post was supposed to be up on the first week of October prior to my burfday but due to the busy-ness... cut the crap, take a scroll on what happened on the 3rd of October, 10pm...



what on earth were these 'bunch' of gurls doing by the roadside at 10pm?... they shud be 'guai guai' studying...



i was dragged to D'tasik without any options by 'Jack Sparrow', CLEAN at first!...



and was 'almost' tricked to drink this pepsi spiked with 'soya sauce'... HELL'a SALTY... thanx to my intelligence...



my 'first' cake = (HG) cake... for ur info... i m NOT GAY...



was then tricked to blow this cake... and did not notice the 'vicious plan' behind me...



*poof-ed*.... 'kanasai-ed'.... ~no comment~...



these unknown people stand by-ing their artilleries.... eggbombs....



"first blood!"... so obvious can see hu le... cannot deny liao...thanx to the camera person...confirm 'kiong kan' la u when ur day comes... =P



tats me.... stunned into oblivion... notice the FULL MOON=(LA answer) behind?



thank U la CH.... the organizer and the main planner.... dun worry... urs just around the corner...



play until police also arrived.... 'ma ta sou cheong...'



celebrating my 2nd cake....



see la!... got round 2 summore... eggs, flours, ketchup, lake water n etc...



amongst those 1st year juniors who came...

...aim, lock, and fire by yeemun... so obvious yeesiong's da cameraperson... thanx a lot!

play until weeser lost his shirt into the lake?... kenot la u K~ren, da loyal blog tagger....

siao siao gang....

iynggaran n other buddies also joined in...

and finally, the climax... thanx to everybody who came, wished and enjoyed urself!... Its indeed my most memorable 20th burfday! What more can i say... =)

What a surprise!!!

Last wednesday night, a bunch of us (mostly EE coursemates+some CE) celebrated the Mooncake Festival at D'Tasik. About almost 20++ people were there. Supposely to be a mooncake festival but...



double tastylicious mooncakes....



turned out to be 'burfday cakes'... lolx....


There it goes, its not even my burfday yet but they really threw out a surprise party (double celebration for Alfred and me)... I really didn't expect this...



reli thanx to da organizers.... Yee Siong & May Peng...



a real poser.... haha but reli thanx a lot...



and amongst those who came....


After that 'mooncake cum burfday cake' thingy, a big bunch of us went around the tasik wif lanterns.



lanterns.... wooo hooooooo! okayy.... hehe...


Finished walking around the tasik,we rested at the shelter being immobile there. Baskets! Out of nowhere, 2 'plumber' came out wif a 'real' burfday cake! Lolx...again? There goes the second round of the burfday celebration. Hey, my burfday really havent reach la! After accompanied wif burfday songs in lotsa languages, time to play 'crap' stuff on burfday 'boyz'! (I m not going to put up those 'gheys' pics...haha!)



'sak- kai!!!'....where did they come frm?hehe....



not really 'bashed' coz of insufficient creams on da cake... gg...


Glad that i don't havta swim in the 'tasik',being splashed wif sugar+cream+colouring water, and shower wif flour+stinky eggbombs at that nite. I bet I smell something fishy this week. =P So, there goes the night, my pre-burfday celebration. Its my first time in 20 years i experienced this. Thanx a lot to those who attended, having fun together. And to the main organisers, i bet yours celebration in the near future will be very 'dirty' fun! Haha! Today is my younger brother's burfday! May all ur dreams come true! Be sure to be a good boy at home and do well in ur SPM! =)



whole lots of candles...i wish i can make more than one wishes...amongst them in my mind, i had an important one that is... (bu neng shuo de mi mi)... hehe! =)

Eat "Lo Mai" til phobia...

hurmz.....


so many people geh...why ar?



lolz...sushi king's promotion...twice in a year...



this is just half of what we ate...haha...'someone' kenot go eat... =)



one of my fav...unagi... got tempura n others 'purple plate item'




haha...thanx to the driver, but force 'kao' me to pay...got poorer afta this meal... =P

'Tua kong's Burfday'

burfday cake for my dearest bro...

No lar! Not 'tua kong',it's tua kor burfday! Hehe! Happy burfday to my dear elder brother! I know that we hadn't get along well for the past years back then, hopefully the coming years will do both of us good till eternity. Really wanted to say proud to have u as my elder brother. Love ya! Hehe! Meanwhile, i m sure u'r enjoying life and getting lotsa lovely presents in this few days.



wif alfred,weeser and chuen hang celebrating in the dark...

Oh yea,also wanna take this time to re-correct my previous post (bout Mr. SFF's life at Corvallis) I did mention about the US government giving USD 5k to post-graduates student for tax relief. Apologies to everyone concern. It's actually our Malaysian government giving the Rm5k tax relief for our post-grads. Apologies once more. Check it out here!

City of Corvallis, Oregon

Land of the west, a whole new world abroad. Its been my dream since long long time ago to be able to go abroad to witness and feel not just the diversity of lifestyle, but also knowing things out of the horizon. I had dreamed to go for Switzerland (partly becoz of snow), London (Emirates Stadium), Rome, France, New York, Sydney and now, maybe Corvallis (after being introduced to such lovely place by my closest and friendliest lecturer in my varsity (kinda genius looking), who wished to be known as Mr. SFF) Take a look at the map (google map) for that location...


America - land of western hemisphere...



a closer view on the almost central part of america....



seen the green arrow on the map???



this is corvallis...a very developed area...


He's currently pursuing his phD in (forgot what course) there. Notice the red wordings and arrow at the bottom of the map below? It's the Kelley Engineering Center OSU, his place of work there. At the top of the map where you can see the yellow pins are the Northwest Fillmore Avenue and Fred Mayer. Fillmore Inn seems to be a very nice place to stay though. Currently, he's kinda enjoying life there!

and this is where Mr.SFF is working and living currently....

The office is about 7 minutes walking distance away. The best part is, the neighbourhood area is surrounded by cows. Must have lotsa cow milks to drink! =P The weather there is warm, dry and cool at night. It seems that it will rain soon for half a year. I've got to know that the Americans only go for real big,big things. You cannot find 'kapcai' motorbike there, its only Harley Davidson's type. There's also mosque,temples and dozens of churches at the vicinity. Moreover, it seems there's a lot of Asians living around there also.

Sometimes, it seems life is really stressful there till havta eat,sleep and work at the office. On top of that, post-graduates over there can get USD 5k tax relief. That's really a lot compare to Malaysia, maybe due to the high cost of living there. Going overseas to study isn't a glamour thing,but their schools, developments and researches are light years ahead of our uni's. Learning process never ends. I myself also admit that I have a very lot lot lot more to learn. This is the ever-evolving society that changes rapidly in parallel with time. Chatting with him really gives me inspiration and motivation to achieve more. I've known what i want and i will try my best to go for it! =)

Graduation!!!

The sky is cloudy....

gloomy weather in the afternoon...

but hey, who cares? Its my uni's (UNITEN) graduation day! =)

so nice seeing so many ppl graduate... =P

happy faces can be seen all over the Multi-Purpose Hall

Most important, the main part...

my 'boss' graduate today!!!

Special tribute to my ex-housemate, MR. Tan Kwang Chien for his graduation. All the best in Finisa and ur future undertakings. Maybe in the nxt 10 years, i shall call u Dr. Tan. Meet u back at yipoh 4 yumcha & dun forget to belanja at Overseas Restaurant. Haha! When will i be able to wear that graduation hat?

I had not been updating my blog regularly due to several problems that i faced as a student. Well, most of u bloggers who are still studying might have the same problem as I do. Time limitation and busy-ness. For the coming 2 months, i dunno if i will be able to update my blog as frequent as i can due to exams and etc. As for now, do stay tune and drop by here from time to time. =)