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Darkness

2011-08-01T21:27:00.003+08:00

Time flew by so quickly that i almost didn't remember how much I have wasted. Things come and go. And now I've come to a point that everything almost came to stop except time. Stranded on a little island in the middle of nowhere waiting for the boat. Or perhaps i shouldn't be waiting and start swimming to the shore. Where should i head to? Which is the right choice? What if every selection leads to even more questions? If only there was a boat which i could just hop on.

Watching the sun sets and rises everyday.

Faire son choix..

Happy Valentine's Day!!

2011-02-15T21:34:00.005+08:00

Just a short message to my lovely Agnes, Happy Valentine's Day!!

Hugs n Kissess... Love you always..♥

On my way to Linz

2010-09-26T11:48:00.003+08:00

I'm attending a conference in Linz, Austria on Small Engine Technologies with my prof. We travelled down to KL the night before to KLIA. Our flight will take us to Munich, Germany where we will then take a train to Linz. Our flight transits in Bangkok, and here I am, with limited internet connection trying to get online and pass sometime before the next flight which is in 2hrs time. Flight from KL-Bangkok was just 1hr 40mins rather short. Served us breakfast, omellette, sausage, croissant and coffee.

Comm tower view from the transfer bus

In the waiting lounge

Looking out from inside, lots of transfer buses used to transfer passengers from the plane to the arrival hall.

Krabi Day 2

2010-09-15T00:25:00.006+08:00

We chose a more relaxing tour for the 2nd day. A van came to pick us up from the hotel at about 830am. It started of with a visit to the Tiger Cave. It's really tough to recognize the direction. With all the thai writings and signboards everywhere. I can only roughly guess where we were but not the actual location or address. Upon arrival, I didn't really notice the tigers though. They had a huge pagoda like, with a goddess of mercy in it.

A shot in front of the pagoda

Besides that, they also have 2 routes, a short and simple one to some caves and a big tree.

It didn't specify if this is the tree, it looks big so we assumed it is.

The other was a 1000+ steps uphill climb to the top of the hill with a temple up there. We chose the first, wanted to try the second on but too bad we were insufficient time and only manage to climb about half way up. I think scenary up there would be nice. We met some Malaysians there, pretty cool, also a friendly Australian couple.

The Malaysian guy we met who was travelling with his family

The Aussie couple whom had the same tour as we do, so we keep seeing them all along

Then next stop was a hot spring. It was a rather small natural hot spring as it could hardly fit more than 10 person i guess, the water was about 40C. We just dipped ourselves for 15 to 30 min. Later we had lunch which was provided by the tour at a little restaurant at the entrance of the hot spring park. Some delicious local thai food was what we've been looking for. An unlimited refill of dishes and rice to keep us filled up.

Part of the hot spring

After lunch, we went to our next destination, emerald pool. From its name, we could guessed that the pool has emerald colour like water in it. The emerald colour was due to some minerals in the water. We did swam in the pool for a little while but the clouds were getting near and soon came the rain. We dried ourselves up and headed back to the van. However, rain came pouring and got us wet. As we thought the tour was over, the guide told us that we still have another elephant trekking to go. But, we were a little wet and cold, and a little too tired. So we gave it up and headed back to the hotel for a nice hot bath and changing into dry clothes instead.

Emerald pool, look at the colour of the water

Later that night, we walked down the street which is about 1km away. There are lots of shops, restaurants, bars, crowds, mostly for tourist though. We just picked a random restaurant for dinner.

Some food we had that night, padthai, goreng pisang with ice cream, stir fried chicken with cashew nuts

Random

End of day 2.

Krabi Day 1

2010-08-24T22:46:00.007+08:00

Then came 5days Krabi trip with Agnes and another couple, WC&EP. Just a free and easy trip to relax and rewind. On the day we reached it was raining and so we stayed in the hotel which we booked earlier, Aree Tara. One of the best hotels I've ever stayed. *Thumbs Up* Service was good, room was nice, clean, and beautifully decorated, breakfast was good though simple.

The room, nicely decorated

The balcony The Pool

The nice tropical design Aree Tara

Room 402

Ham, Sausages, Onion Rings, Noodles, Rice, Pan Cake French Toast, Salad, Omelet, Mix Fruit Yogurt was among the several main dishes for breakfast

Later that night we went out for dinner at some local restaurant. The lady boss was very friendly and recommended us some good food that they had. Ambient was lovely, dimly lighted, decent food, pricing was average.

Then we went to look for some local tour for the following days. We decided to take 2 full day trips.

Finally after 6 months..

2010-08-20T22:45:00.006+08:00

August ending soon. It's been half a year since I last post anything on this blog. Been quite busy lately with everything. Work, work and work. Had some breaks in between. Went up genting for a weekend with Agnes to celebrate my birthday. Enjoyable and relaxing weekend.

Me & Agnes in Genting (May 2010)

Happy birthday to myself :)

Then, had some competitions going on continuously during june till july. It started of with perodua ecochallenge , followed by shell ecomarathon then by formula kart. Perodua ecochallenge was pretty much redoing what we did last year with a little improvements. Being team lead was much easier as there're juniors to work on the details while I oversee their work. But still nearing the competition there were still lots of last min work which I had to take care off myself. We stayed days and nights in school. Testing around campus was done till dawn. Several nights before the competition was almost sleepless. Finally winning the competition was definitely rewarding.

Then came Shell Ecomarathon. Was a great experience as it was totally creating a brand new vehicle and lots of trial and error to be done. Similarly, nearing the competition, it was also sleepless nights. Solving each and every problem that rose up. Even during competition days, last minute work and fixing and solving. Still we manage to meet teams from other universities and even countries. Meet some friends, sharing knowledge, ideas, and exchanging opinion. Truly a great experience. Some even had great techniques and technologies that was a huge leap away and worth learning. However, we, like most teams were having trouble getting up the hilly Sepang circuit. We did all we could to get up as much as possible over the hill but still. We were very close but still not good enough. More preparation will be needed for next year.

Team USM Gen2

With Pakistan Teams

Formula kart was a totally different competition compared to the two previous. Both perodua ecochallenge and shell ecomarathon were focus on fuel economy and efficiency. In shell ecomarathon, the best teams could get up to about 2000km/L. Surprising ain't it? Almost unbelievable but it's true. However not practical as a vehicle on the road. Formula kart is all about endurance. How capable is your vehicle to endure the 30lap race and also speed, being the first to complete the race. We got it running and was working all night long to push the car to go as fast and possible. However things just broke down during the last minutes, we work our way through to fix everything up. We got it running on the race day, but luck just wasn't with us. We were flagged at the starting line, but our car just gave way on the 2nd lap. We left with disappointment.

That was the competitions that kept me busy all these while, besides my own project. Then came Amy's wedding, twin sis of Agnes. Wish them happiness forever.

Then I went down to Sg for CY's convocation. Just a weekend trip, down south. Congrats to him.

Recently I just came back from a 5 days holiday in Krabi. To be continued on the next post... :)

Yawns.. time for bed.. Nights..

A Hot Tiger CNY!

2010-03-07T21:45:00.008+08:00

It's way pass CNY, and the weather is still scorching hot. Be it in Melaka, Penang, Parit Buntar, or Ipoh. It's all HOT HOT HOT.. Back in campus for a while, the weather here is totally real hot. The daily cold shower has now turned into a hot one. Y would anyone need a water heater anymore? Wish I could fix an air cond here. Sleeping on the mattress is like sleeping on a hot pan which got you sweating the whole night. When u tried sleeping on the floor which used to be cold is now just as hot. It's like staying in an oven. Free sauna everyday.

CNY this year wasn't really much to anticipate. Since my 2 sis is not home, it's only left with me, youngest sis, dad and grandma.

Holidays rather short for those working ones, so I didn't really get to visit much. Besides I went up to Ipoh on the 3rd and 4th day, which also skipped the visiting day with fellow friends. First 2 days at home as usual. A little relative visiting, and of course on the first day itself was Valentine's day.

Hanged out, ate dinner, went shopping with the special one. Pretty much it. Second day went shopping, watch movie, just trying to escape the heat by hiding in shopping complex. Hehe. Went gathered with some friends later that night at CC's house warming party.

When everyone was still sober

Posing at CC's mini bar for booze

When too much of booze some goes down

3rd, 4th and 5th was in Ipoh with Agnes and her parents to visit her grandparents and relatives there.

Later that week, Jess, Lina, LT and YY came down for a short trip. We went over to Hanlyn's place for visiting before heading to town. Jonker, Layer Cake, The Jetty, Satay Celup was among the few not to be missed.

A group photo @ hanlyn's place

Showing all the winnings

with Agnes @ a temple in HL's kampung

Sitting down for a bowl of peanut soup

Posing along Jonker Walk

They stayed over for a night and after dimsum for breakfast they headed to Klang. On the following monday, 220210 was Amy's registration day. My best wishes to them. =) I headed back campus that night.

Back here, it started off with some reluctance and laziness to get things started. No choice, I'll really need to get things moving, fast. It's gonna be a busy month.

Un peu de français..

2010-01-17T18:40:00.003+08:00

Il est dimanche aujourd'hui. Il est dix-sept heures vingt maintenant. Il fait très chaud aujourd'hui. Pourqoui? Je ne sais pas. Je veux dormir. Je essaye dormir mais je ne veux pas. Alors, je essaye blog dans le français mais je ne sais pas si c'est vrai ou faux, je fais de mon mieux.

Bonjour, mon amis. Bienvenue à mon blog. Comment ça va? Je vais bien, merci. Je m'appelle Jih Houh. Enchante. J'ai vingt quatre ans cette année. Je suis né en vingt deux mai mille neuf cent quatre-vingt cinq. Je suis malaisien et j'habite à Melaka. Mais j'étudie à Nibong Tebal, Penang maintenant. Je suis un étudiant de l'Université de science du Malaisie. J'étudie méchanique ici. J'ai aller à l'école de lundi à vendredi. Une fois par mois, je rentre chez moi à Melaka en bus ou en train.

À bientôt. Au revoir.

Ma chérie et moi au Singapore pour Noël

Je parle un peu de français ^_^

Last Christmas (Part1)

2010-01-16T00:44:00.008+08:00

Once again I'm back logging again. I just wanna get over this and start blogging for the brand new year. So last christmas was my first christmas in Singapore with Agnes. We had quite a number of ppl there in Singapore so it was sort of like a little Christmas gathering there. (Kiat, Teodore, CC, Eeling, Shaun, Cyrus, Jacelyn+1 ). Thx to kiat we had accomodation and teodore too. We were crashing at both their places. We were there the day b4 Christmas eve. Met up with Teodore on our arrival in Sg and our bus stopped us around Bugis area so we went for steamboat over there. I wasn't the best but was just okay to me. Filling up our empty tummy while chit chatting and experiencing the city life ppl in Sg, rather interesting. Things that you will nvr get in places like PB for there next at least 10yrs. LoL. Bugis seems like a place for steamboat. We could see a stretch of shops all serving steamboat and we just went to a random one. We finished up at almost 11pm and we know it's time to head back before it's too late. Still, we were this close. We head towards NTU, got off the MRT, and watch the last bus went by. Ended up walking back to NTU which wasn't that far though and helped out with the digestion of food.

Our first stop in Bugis.

One of the road in Bugis with lots of food.

Crashed in Teodore's place for the first night.

Woke up a little late, had breakfast in the canteen and went over to the School of Arts, Design and Multimedia or just ADM in short. A popular place in NTU to hang out and a must to visit, with it's unique building design.

In the ADM building with the creative 3d illustration. It was almost perfect.

It was drizzling in the morning though, luckily we had umbrella. So we were suppose to gather for dinner on the Christmas Eve and have a little countdown to Christmas. So from NTU, we headed to city center. We went to catch AVATAR 3D in Iluma, a new and fairly interesting shopping complex. Btw Avatar 3D was cool. I've watched the 2D version and the 3D version just made it so real. Though a little expensive but i think worth the dollar. After the movie we met up with Kiat down the road in a cafe enjoying his tea time. He sure knows how to pleasure himself. And we walked around Bugis and head to orchard to meet up with the rest for dinner.

Myself, Teodore, Kiat.

There's just so much to shop, and still it's crowded with ppl everywhere. All the restaurants were pretty crowded since it's Christmas eve. We ended up choosing a Japanese restaurant, we had to wait for like 30mins or more. We ordered a set for 6 which is inclusive of a variety of food. Shaun the special one had his own a la carte so is Cyrus who was making his way after work. Gathering was fun, food was rather okay, but a little high on the price though, catching up was great, hanging out together was just awesome. Nothing beats old time.
Here comes the food..

The scallop

Pizza = jap food?

Sushi

Salad

Cheese baked rice

Grilled Squids

Sashimi

A little like the 'lou sang', prob japanese version

Cold noodles

Mixed Tempura

Garlic Rice

We still had a brownie and a strawberry parfait for desert. Quite a variety of food.

Shaun's Special A la Carte

A toast to all, first taste of sakae

With the little sakae bottle

That's everybody

After our Christmas Eve dinner gathering we out to the street, Orchard Road. People mountain, people sea, the whole pathway is crowded with lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of ppl all the way. The decoration wasn't as great as I would expect, but seems that it used to be nicer and more fun. Anyway we walked along the pathway from Ion Orchard to Summerset. The exterior lighting of the Ion Orchard was great. Takashima had a christmas tree made up of ferrero rocher ( must be fake one, or else all the leaves and branches will be gone, LoL ). Squeezing our way through the human traffic, finally we cut off at sommerset. From there we went to Clarke Quay, one of the happening places at night. It used to be warehouse i think, now the whole area is filled with bars and clubs, a popular night hang out places. The whole places is also packed, as everyone is awaiting to countdown to Christmas. We found ourself a place in one of the bar, got our drinks and chilled out while waiting for the clock to strike 12am. We were provided with party packs and enjoyed ourselves chatting, drinking till Christmas. Cheers! We had Jacelyn with bf and also Teodore's friend with us. Wonderful night. We then crashed over at Kiat's place that night.

Exterior lighting of Ion Orchard

Orchard Road filled with people

Christmas tree made from ferrero rocher?

A group photo of everyone

Hanging at the MRT

Christmas lighting @ Clarke Quay

Kiat & Shaun in party hats

Me & Agnes with the riverside view

End of part 1.. to be continued..

I think I saw, I did, I did..

2009-12-17T07:00:00.002+08:00

I woke up bout 530am this morning. I guess I slept right through again. I went out looking at stars. First attempt, I was kinda lost, dunno where to look. On the bright side, the sky was beautiful this morning. Went back to my room, checked for my virtual sky map and look for a more specific location. http://www.astronomy.com/asy/stardome/default.aspx. With specific location and time it'll show you how your sky looks like. So I looked for gemini since it's geminid shower. I've doing so for the leonid but disappointed. I got my location and head out again. Trying to find for gemini, i can't really identify though, but i kinda guess it's that direction, NW. Pretty close. At least my eye will scope down to a smaller area than a hemisperical sky. Waited, and waited. Stared and stared. I saw this airplane flying by. With its blinking light.. blip blip blip... as it passed by. Still no sign of anything. Then I saw the first, I'm not really sure though but i guess i was. Whatever it is, I'll just see and then figure out later. It's just a little dot, like a star but it's moving slowly. Is it ? Or is it not? I dunno. Probably it's just the stars in my mind after staring for so long.

Then I saw another, same little one heading towards another direction. So I guess it is not the stars in my mind, it is something moving, and moving and moving. The first one disappeared after sometime but this kept going on and on. I guess, a plane would blink so this isn't a plane. It isn't the normal meteor, but i think it's prob is one of them. Prob at different height and doesn't burns as bright. And continue waiting. It was quite sometimes before I see the third. Just standing there staring at the sky is just tiring. I wanted to give up until I saw the third one and so I stayed on a little. Again, slowly flying by. Again, there couldn't be so many planes up the sky at this time. So i'm more confidence that it is what i think it is. As I watch it passing by, zoom... I saw a big one. That's what I normally saw in the pictures. Happy I was, that was a big one. Still not too sure bout the little ones, but i'm sure bout the big one. It was big but it was just less than a second. And I waited, neighbours' light started lighting up. One after another. Until the one next door who lighted up his porch. It's way too bright and glaring so I came back in. Satisfied.. Not sure bout the little ones, but i'm sure of the big one.

Solving mysterious codes..Success??

2009-12-16T22:02:00.003+08:00

Sometimes working in the lab is fun, when everything was just so interesting and smooth going. That's the fun part. But there are times when work gets complicated and so messed up like searching a needle in the sea. That is what i've been facing this two weeks. All i see is just numbers and codes and more codes. Thinking how to convert or changing it into something understandable and representing the actual data. Looking it from left to right, right to left, up to down, down to up, column by column, row by row, character by character. Hmm.. all I get most of the day is just @_@ a blank look on my face, nothing in my head.

Today was a little better. After consulting my prof, few words from him was really enlightening. And I solved the mysterious codes. Happy!! ^_^ What a relief and joy when things go smoothly. But .......... i found out after a while, i need to be listening to this language. Hmm.. Now my next problem is how to make it to speak this language. Something which I'll prob need to crack my head for the next few days, prob weeks... For now, bedtime.. Nitez. Need to give my brain a break..

10 days to Christmas!

2009-12-14T21:53:00.005+08:00

3 more working weeks to go. And it's all 4 working days. Isn't it a great way to end the year. I'm back in campus this morning. Took a non usual bus back. Shamisha holiday i think, not too bad. No complaints. Since KKKL seems to be cutting off the night trips so i'll need to find for other bus services to get me back to PB. Anyway just a relaxing weekend back in mlk. Meet law, wah7, and loke. CY was back but was unavailable. but will be meeting him up soon in sg. Spend time at home and with agnes was great. A little bit shopping, wanted to watch some movies but was rather packed.

Us in Kenny Rogers

It's Xmas next week, and the festive mood is in the air. Everywhere there's xmas deco, xmas songs, xmas sales, etc etc. I'm looking forward to Sg Xmas this year and also time to eat 'tong yun' which indicates CNY is coming too.

Anyway, been facing the comp for whole day trying to crack some code. Now i feel my head is going to crack apart before I even get the codes cracked. Also a sore throat is also making my world upside down. Better get some med or 'pi pa kau'. Must get myself healed to fully enjoy the holidays. Counting down...

Santa enjoying a summer vacation in mlk

All i see now are just 1s and 0s. Try crack this. 01101001001000000110001101110010011000010110001101101011011001010110010000100000011101000110100001100101001000000110001101101111011001000110010100100001

Got it?

The last month of the year 2009!

2009-12-06T14:46:00.004+08:00

It's December again, last month of the year. Another 21 days to a brand new year. I've been slacking on my blog as usual which is not good. I must try keep updating even though it's just a short paragraph. Hmm.. Anyway, wanted to post this up for a while.. dunno wut took me so long. Prob some loads of work lately.. I've been sleeping early too, and waking up early. hehe..

Just a little on the race, PBIM. Though I was way behind time, could be the worst ever, but still i'm happy that i finished. I was more worried if i couldn't finish and end up hopping on the sweeper bus. I managed to survived half way, but struggled the other half. sigh.. Still i finished within qualifying time. What a relief. On the overall race itself, i would say the organiser did quite some improvements, timing chip, drinks station. But still there's room for improvement, finishing line.

Timing chip tied on to my shoes. It has runner details and mark runner's timing as it passes through the sensor. In short, it measures our running time more accurately.

The Finisher Medal

Photo @ the finishing line

Agnes was here last week. We went penang, met up with the archi gang and did some shopping. We actually rented a little kancil to drive up to penang. It was a little noisy car, with those big loud exhaust. I wonder why some ppl can stand those kind of noise driving in it. It wasn't super powerful, just noisy. LoL. It's kinda fun driving around in one of those noisy little car, where everyone would look at you when you drive by. vroomm~~

We went to the new Penang Time Square but nothing much there, and we saw 2 guys, thought of asking them for direction, but seems like they were lost themselves. Looking at one of them carrying such heavy stuff, I lent him a hand.

The 2 lost guys

Me lending a hand

"ohh.. he's big and strong"

Dinner @ OXO, Queensbay ,
credit to OCK

We ordered set meals and they come with appetizer, main course, dessert and a drink.

My appetizer, salad

My Main, grilled chicken

Agnes' Appetizer, Mushroom soup

Agnes' Main, Fish and Seafood

And ice cream for dessert and a cup of tea or coffee. Coffee for me of course! The food were just okay, probably an average.

The day after we went to Jusco, Prai and they had nice decorations too. Not bad.

The big lovely present

I was trying to untie and see what's in it.

This looks good, prob I should sneak it home

They even had Christmas Trees, Lil' Frosty and Papa Frosty made out of recycled egg trays. Good idea. Thinking of the environment. It's something everyone should be concern about the environment, else in future we'd only have Frosty made out of egg trays.

That sure brings out the Christmas mood in everyone. Christmas is just round the corner.. mmm.. Looking forward this Christmas, will be celebrating it in Sg. Hope it'd be much more fun.
~~bells ringing~~~

Bored?? Wanna kill time?? Try this..

2009-11-22T17:56:00.002+08:00

KILL SOME ZOMBIES.
Lately i found a new game to play from popgame. BAD influence from my HOUSEMATES. lol. It's called "Plants and Zombies". Go google it up. You'll see more details from there. I'm just too lazy to explain.

Some screenshots from the game.

The main screen

A screenshot from destructoid.com

The survival mode, which can drive you crazy and feel the kan cheongness

The also have other minigames all in zombies form pretty cool.

There's also a Zen Garden for you to plant some plants.

It got me stared right at the screen. Try it to bring out the zombie in you.

p/s race completed, post bout it later.

It's been a month..

2009-11-01T22:37:00.003+08:00

Yea yea.. i've not been blogging again.. 1001 excuses i can come up with, so don't bother. Life's been just okay. I totally lost track of where was I in the blog. oops. anyway, been busy with my research and studies. been busy in the lab doing testing and other experiments. Been back for deepavali and visited Rajesh as always. Vig was in India this deepavali so didn't manage to visit him.

His mum serves the best puree ever. I just can't resist myself to have more

CYin came down to mlk ( very last min call ) with her friends ( winnie & darius ).. tsk tsk tsk.. Manage to hang out a little and had diner before they left.

That's a photo taken by her Fujifilm Instax Mini. Looks cool.

Lian, 小3, MC and Simsim came down the day after and stayed over for a day. As usual, cendol, satay celup, chicken rice ball, dim sum jonker, jetty.

This was the only photo I found in group.. Still havent upload yet.

So i've been a tourguide for that deepavali weekend. Tiring but fun and glad to meet up with friends.

Also, my family and I went seoul garden for dinner to celebrate Jack's birthday. Since my bus was at 10pm that night, so after dinner I left for the bus station and had to miss her birthday cake. Anyway, just a belated birthday wish. Hugs and Kisses. Study hard for exams which will just be around the corner.

I've been officially registered as a Masters Student in USM.

My new tag I luv the background

Yippie finally everything is going smoothly n i've received my first fellowship payment too. Yay.. no need to eat grass already.. However that means work work and work and more work. Mustn't be caught lazing around again.

Life back in campus is rather boring sometimes, working is one way to keep myself occupied. Other than that, luckily I had some great housemates to hang around. One of the weeks Jo brought her Coco over. He's so cute but he'll stick to Jo a lot till Jo had to sleep with him in the hall for that whole week. Pity her. Having Coco around was fun. He's so adorable. I'm gonna miss that little guy. Hope Jo will bring him back again someday. Hehe.

That's Coco

My knee's not feeling too good, which is bad as the PBIM is just 2weeks away. I doubt I'll be able to complete it this year. =( I'm not sure what's happening but I felt a little pain during run last week and hence I cut down the distance. But yesterday, I felt it a little but insisted on going for more. I kept on going but I finally came to a stop. I knew I couldn't go on anymore and I din't wanna push further. I had to limp my way back home. I try not to put to much work on it now but I do have a little hard time walking for now. Sigh.. I'm still wondering if i should go on for the race or I should just skip it. But I really don't feel like coming back in the sweeping bus and also not trying. We'll see.

Seohli came by yesterday too and we had breadfast together. She was waiting for P before they head off to Ipoh. Later that night, Vig n I went Jusco after dinner. Hehe. Went shopping around a little and then went for a movie. Just few movies available, Phobia2, Jennifer's Body, Ninja, Law abiding citizen and Inglorious Basterds. We ended up choosing Ing-Bas.

The show was practically switching from French, German, and English which is quite interesting to me as i'm learning French. Went for supper after the movie and return at almost 3am.

I also realised that it's study week for the undergrads this week which reminds me of those times when I would be in the lib with other coursemates, discussing questions, answers, syllabus etc etc. That was half year ago. Now that i'm no longer an undergrad, on the 2nd last day of study week i'm here enjoying myself. Hehe. Anyway goodluck to those having exams.

It's been raining in the afternoon today. I've finally watched Angels and Demons. Love it. Since it was raining I din't bother to go out for dinner and just cooked some instant noodles. Feeling a little tired and sleepy. Partly due to last night and partly due to the weather. Guess I'll go to bed early today. It'll be a brand new week tomorrow and will be going back next weekend. Looking forward.

Nitezz..

Another sunday..

2009-09-27T13:54:00.005+08:00

It's a sunday! Woke up at 7am, went for a jog. It's nice to have a nice jog early in the morning which i've not been doing for quite some time. A less traffic environment, so the air is pretty clean and fresh with all the nice green trees around ( something which is abundant here ), also the sight of greens are just all around, you definitely feel so close to the nature.. lol.. anyway, i should start kicking myself more and force myself to wake up early more often to do more jogs. I registered for Penang Bridge Half Marathon again this year on 22 November. So i've another reason to keep me motivated. ( i hope it does )

Here's the route for this year. It's a little shorter compared to last year.
After the jog did a little cleaning at home before going out for dim sum breakfast with my housemates. Did some laundry too to prevent them from stacking into a big pile which I know it will if i don't do it today. Sat in front of my desk, facebook a little, check mails, and now scribble a little on my blog. Weather seems a little cloudy today, i duno why but i kept stressing on this everywhere. Perhaps i'm just hoping for it to rain. But haven't seen a single drop till now.

I've been listening to Hitz.fm since sitting in front of my comp. Two of my favourite songs.

Feel like taking a nap. *Yawn*

Also mooncake festival's coming soon. Wonder how will it be this year.

The long holiday is ending soon

2009-09-23T09:44:00.002+08:00

I safely arrived in KL sentral by KTM at about 530am. It wasn't that bad, i would say. The seat was pretty comfy, reasonable, not too bumpy, the air-cond was working but the lights were on all the time ( i can accept that ), was a little noisy ( i can accept that ), lots ppl walking in and out was a little distracting though.When you start sleeping and keep have this feeling of ppl walking by, esp if you are sitting by the aisle. I was awoken few times due to that. The conductor came in somewhere in the middle of the trip to check my tickets when i was half way in dreamland. Luckily I had it placed nicely before hand. One thing good about taking train is that you'll end up stopping in kl central early in the morning rather than in front of maybank around pudu. kl sentral was so much better, nicer, cleaner, safer, with toilet and places to sit around and wait for time. They even have McD.
So was back home enjoying myself relaxing. Din't get to eat tupat. sob. Just stayed home most of the time. But still manage to go shopping, went mamak, went dota, went satay celup, din't go for movies though ( not much nice show available ). However the nicest things to do is still staying home with family and lazing around. Hehe. Need to pack up a little and get ready to get back tonite.

Balik Kampung.. woo~ oo~ oo~ balik kampung..

2009-09-18T11:11:00.004+08:00

Yay! It's friday again. I'm going back home again tonite! I'm a little excited cos I'm taking a train back. I've always wanted to do so but just din't. Partly because it's slower and it stops in KL. But this time thanks to Kiat who will pick my up and balik kampung together so I decided to take the train. Further more, taking train saves a lot more especially when your pocket feels empty. I got my tickets to KL for only rm18. Wee~~

But..... I wonders how the service will be. Will it be comfortable enough? Will I end up being awake the whole night? I've taken train in Vietnam, but that was like the soft sleeper. This is like hard sitter. Quite contrast though. So I hope KTM won't disappoint me..
Anyway just gonna go finish up some stuffs in school and get ready to go back.

Also.... a shoutout from me to all those celebrating this festive season.

Selamat Hari Raya !!

A relaxing swim @ Jawi Resort

2009-09-13T02:14:00.003+08:00

It's been a while since i last went for a swim. Vig suggested, so here we go again. Had a little breakfast before heading out on our bicycle. Another cycling detour to Jawi Golf Resort. The morning air was great. My bicycle however had some prob along the way. Struggled a little for a while but we were close to our destination so still manage to reach there not long after.
The pool was considerably big. It has several sections all connected together. I've only been there once or twice. We swam for a while, stood under a manmade waterfall. Feels great to stand under the waterfall. Just like a free massage. They even have a spa pool where you can enjoy body massage while relaxing. We stayed in the water till the sun was right above us. I wished we could have stayed longer. Took a shower and went for lunch before going home.
A nap would be great after swimming but it was rather hot in the afternoon and i ended up watching my TVB drama ( burning flames III ) and studied a little french. I guess I could have sunburnt myself a little today. I could feel my whole body emitting UV like the sun. I feel like a burning sun. hehehe. In the evening went Pasar Ramadhan with Vig and AS in PB. I didn't buy much, just some kuih and a pack of drink which already cost me rm3. I know I could end up spending a lot more there so i tried limiting myself. I ended up going back home and cook maggi.
At night continued with my drama and just finished it. Bedtime again.

Hmm.. still wondering what to do tomorrow. It's always boring during the weekends.. If only I had a transport....

Stunned by lameness

2009-09-09T22:12:00.002+08:00

Was I really that bad in electronic circuits?? Or was it some ppl trying to push the blame on others?? Prob statement, towards the night before the main event, something went wrong. It's like a magical ball, where u see lots of electric charges in it, when u touch the ball, a concentrated line of charge will be formed. It's been running the whole day, trials after trials, everything was fine. There's this fan, how it's being related to the ball? => Both are plug to the same extension.
So, the ball sort of broken down. We don't see the electric lines in it anymore, it just blinks once instead of being fully on the whole time. So to our deduction the ball could have over heated, some circuit problem. So we contacted the person incharged for the ball and the fan. They were both suppose to be part of some tricks. So we told the person of the prob bla bla bla.. To his deduction, he said that we shouldn't have switched on the fan. He TOLD us not to switch the fan on when it is not being used ( like he did, no one heard a word ). And so due to switching on the fan the ball got broken down. Erm... hello.. I may not like much of electronics, but some simple knowledge or even common sense tells me that by switching on the fan does not have anything to do with the circuit of the ball. Okay prob to some extent the fan might draw some amount of current away but, that deduction of his was just too.. absurd i would say.
Electric ball broken because the fan was switched on. They were not even connected on the same plug. Geez.. such lame excuses he could actually think off. I totally don't see the logic behind it.. Zzz..

A tiring Merdeka weekend..

2009-09-02T23:51:00.007+08:00

I saved a long post on my Sg trip but i think it's just way too crappy so I just scrap that post away and came up with this. However, Sg trip was great, visited NUS, NTU, seen some of their great stuffs, crashed at CY's place after splitting up with the group ( thx to him I had a great trip to Sg ), crashed at his club's steamboat ( met a bunch of cool n great ppl ), had supper with another group of his friends, met XinYu from Shanghai and she joined us touring around to lil India, went to some Japanese Festival ( sort of Bon Odori tat we have here ), met up with some exclassmates ( Chiet,Eeling,Shaun,QingZhuang ). It was great meeting up. I wish i could do that more often. Met up with the group on sun, went to botanical garden, caught in the rain, got back to malaysia at night, and reached back campus the next morning. Singapore was just fun.

Visiting NUS

Visiting NTU

Steamboat dinner ( nice crazy ppl )

During banana leave lunch

A shop selling indian cookies and sweets ( they were awesome )

Vege stalls @ lil' india

Nice flowers

Coconuts to refresh ourselves

@Jap festival

Met up with friends

@entrance of Botanical Garden

In botanical garden

Just posing =P

The new Ion ( may not be new to you but definitely for me )

Going back to M'sia

Last fri went over to penang to spend the merdeka weekend. Hmm. The merdeka spirit is just not really felt anymore. I guess it's not just me. Probably it's just not that big celebration this year. I went over to Png Island on fri evening and hanged out with Coat ( a thai exchange student ). He's flying of on the day after. So I hanged over with him, brought him around for early dinner, later had more dinner with his group of thai friends there in the main campus as a farewell dinner for him. At night Henry came over and we went for supper, crashed in with him in Bsuite. Sat morning we had breakfast before Henry left. I then sent Coat off at the airport later in the afternoon. I'll go visit him someday in Bangkok.

Me,coat and his friends

Me and Coat @ Airport

Agnes was suppose to reached in the evening but reached earlier than expected. Hang out at Eric's went Sakae for dinner and walk around Queensbay. Met up with her senior, Nini and CK at Kapitan and chatted till 1am. Stayed over at Nini's place.

Sun morning had breakfast at Greenlane and later went to Gurney plaza. Sales was all around. I can't believe it, I had a shopping spree again. 3shirts 2vests 5pairs of socks. Then went tesco shopped for some groceries to prepare sandwich for BBQ dinner that night. Had lots of food, stuffed for the night with fried bee hoon ( CK, Gwen ) our sandwich ( me, agn, ni, km, wy ) salad ( yc,serf ) drinks + accessories ( ky, st ) desert ( pp ), of course the chicken wings, sotong, potatoes etc ( eric, fm, wh, ivy, fong ). Everyone did their little bit and succesfully enjoyed the dinner. Later of course with that many ppl gathered together we went cc for 2rounds of dota. Went had a cup of tea before heading back to nini's. Reached back at 1am.

Sandwiches

BBQ in progress

Well done chicken wings

The whole gang

Mon was merdeka day. Happy Merdeka!! I hardly felt anything. I dun see much flag. I din't even heard the national song on that day. Woked up at 8, agnes' bus was suppose to be at 1030am. While having breakfast only she checked her tickets and found out that it was wrongly bought. It was on Tues ( the day after ). So yet another in Penang. Hanged around at home, on9 a bit, relaxed and rested, played with nini's niece. Such adorable and lovely. Went Sunshine to buy some stuffs and suppose to repair my about to tear of shoes but it cost like rm18 for the stiches. I wasn't willing to pay that amount of money and so i just bought Superglue and had the whole tube in it. rm3.50 and it did great holding my shoes together and got me safely back to campus. They had some icecream promotion there, everything was half priced. So we had a cone of 98% fat free icecream and a cup of 98% fat free yogurt ice blend. That was just so great and cost only rm3.10. I could just have more of that but was rather stuffed though. Head to queensbay for UP after dinner @kimgary. Nice food, great movie. The guys called up for another round of dota since we were still around. Reached back right at midnight.

isn't she lovely and adorable

Tues morning we woked up early, packed our stuff and waited for rapid to bring us to the bus station. To my surprise it just took us about 20mins to reach. Waited at the bus station till 10am then i had to head back to USM to take a shuttle back. And we both safely boarded the bus and headed back.

Next Mon's holiday again. I think for a few states , i'm not sure which but penang is one of them. So i'm considering of going home if there ain't much to do. *grins*

Gotta start kicking myself to start working before being kicked around.

Happy Merdeka Malaysia ( greetings from G hotel )

Convocation's over.. time to move on..

2009-08-20T09:55:00.005+08:00

After all the anticipation, all the hard work throughout the 4years in the university, the Scroll is like the main reward for all the hard work. Hmm. it's just like a 5 seconds walk on the stage and receive it with honour. 4 yrs for that 5secs. Worth it? haha. i think it's the whole process in the university that's rewarding. That would probably sum up all the rewards. It seemed lots of preparation for family to come up, arranging transport, accomodation and places to eat. There was some blunder here and there but i think on the whole it's still a nice trip and event. Thanks to wah7, eeping, chengyong, Kenneth, Ya Pei all other friends and juniors for coming by and also uncle and his family, daddy, sisss, agnes. Hugs to all.

Buddies forever!

One group photo

Another, toss of graduation

Another groupie

All the way from Klang & Sg

Archi gang @ Dota Gang

Juniors

Family

Ever macho Daddy ( like me )

& of course ME ( w/o robe )

also my lovely flower and bear thx to my uncle and aunt

Convo = Fun + Tired + Anxious + Happy

Had to fit in with sis' schedule as her flight was shifting from Fri to Sun with uncertainties till the last moments. Luckily everthing went well. Finally she took of on Sun night Illinois. There's some happy and sad moments. Now everybody misses her. Hmm.. Why nobody misses me when i come to penang geh?? heheh.. =P

Just trying to cramp stuffs all in one. Anyway, will be leaving for Singapore tonite for field trip with the Engine guys. Will be visiting NUS, NTU and ITE ( and hopefully get to meet up with some friends and have fun.. hehe )

Be back soon.. Chaozz..

Happy Birthday Agnes!!

2009-08-06T09:03:00.013+08:00

It's Agnes Birthday today, hmm.. too bad i can't celebrate with her today as i'm still stuck in campus. will compensate some other time. hehe. anyway hugs n kisses for her. hmm..

I havent got anything for her yet. *scratch head* due to my limited transportation here. I can hardly go anywhere. But still I'm thinking of wut to get. This is just tough. Luckily I still have sometime before I see her next week. *grins* let's hope she doesn't read this. which i doubt.

Probably a simple card like

to wish her a very sweet birthday. with lots and lots of hearts n kisses in it. hmm. i think that's a must but still need something more..

Checking her from top to bottom.. hmm.. *thinking*

A pair of sunglasses from chanel might work..

But she's got a new one already..
Maybe a sweet little necklace with 5 little hearts and a pair of earrings from

Or maybe a disney bracelet.. but i think she's not so much of a fan of mickey..

Or maybe a nice elegant dress from her favourite

Or even something more casual yet nice from

This is tough... Probably a handbag from

Or something smaller from

I think she love colouring herself, maybe a set of colouring tool from Mary Kay

hehehe..
Nah.. Probably a nice comfy pair of shoes from our made in Malaysia's

Oops.. I've overlook something. Maybe something secretive from

wahahaha... *grins*

Well maybe Ralph Lauren's Notorius will be good too..

I'll just have to think about it again. A tight budget won't get me anywhere near any of these.

I guess I'll just have to buy a very big box....

And a pair of bunny ears...

And put myself in it..

Hop.....

Strike by Laziness again..

2009-07-27T11:13:00.007+08:00

My blog is slacking again. Since my last post after coming back from my travel, I haven't been posting anything. Hmm.. just some updates of myself. Back to campus to get things sort out after leaving them idling for a while. Went to P2EC press conference in main campus.

This is the only photo with me in it. . sob.. ( i looked so dark in that omg )

Rest of the days were mostly spent in school, researching for information, onlining, chatting, fb-ing, download movies. Kekeke. During weekends it's kinda bored, cost stuck home alone facing my lappy. Everydays kinda routine = Boring. I missed my coursemates, buddies that i usually hang out with. That's my nowadays seldom sports, seldom go yam cha, seldom go out.
Anyway still have some housemates around.

Once a while we cook dinner at home and have it together. On wednesday nite, we had...

Burger , potato salad, mushroom soup

Mmm.. *munch munch munch*

Last thursday we received a sad new from Tyng that her mom passed away. We felt very sad and sorry for her. We paid her a visit the day after. I remembered the last time during CNY this year we went to her place for visiting. Her mom was a very nice person. I still remember playing with the little baby her mom babysits. Sigh.. Things just happen when you least expected. My condolences to her family.

The day after we went to visit her in Kulim and to pay our respect to her beloved mom. After visiting her place we stopped by at the newly open Giant hypermart nearby for dinner there. We went to this hongkie style restaurant there.

Master Choo

The internal environment

The menu

Here's my white coffee as usual

hmm.. i forgot it's name but it's just the pork ribs n rice

On the overall not too bad..

Finally the trip has ended.. back in mlk..

2009-07-13T08:41:00.003+08:00

I finally landed back in KL on saturday. A long trip indeed. Lots of money flowed out of my pocket. sob sob. but it was a great trip. even though there's ups n downs throughout the trip.
I had a little tummyache all the way back. Had a little food poisoning. What a souvenir to bring back. So just rested myself. Now much better. Well gotta start catching up a lot of stuff esp those back in uni. Can't wait to post my pics. Just too much of it. One bad news is my pendrive got infected by some virus along the way. @!#!%%^&# So trying to fix it first. Will take some time.

Besides Congrats to the USM team. Yippie. *thumbs up* We were the champ in P2EC. I wish i was there. *sob* but still happy for them there. Effort not wasted.

The crews

The car

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Regards from Vietnam!

2009-06-28T20:56:00.004+08:00

It's been a long time since my last post. Reason : I'm in Vietnam. I din't have my lappy with me. So i only survive with whatever internet's available.
I've been to Hanoi, with the craziest traffic i've ever seen, Halong Bay, greatest wonder of the world, Sapa, it's just great. Then I stayed back in Hanoi for few more days. Met lots of new friends. Totally unexpected. My journey continues to Hue, nice town, hot weather, bad luck ( lost a bike, ended up paying 1mil ), relaxed a little in Danang, now hanging out in Hoi An, an ancient city, lots of tourist, have a little feel of malacca just without the traffic. Still a long way to go. Will try to post more updates where ever possible. Next up is Nha Trang and Saigon.

Us in Halong Bay with a super friendly French lady.

A shot from one of the peak in Halong Bay.

Sunset view in Ninh Binh.

That's it for now...

I'm out!

2009-06-11T11:01:00.004+08:00

Ahh.. Finally I'm out of this boring place for few hours. Momo's back in campus. So we went out for dinner in butterworth and movie in Jusco. It felt so good being able to get away from work and campus even for a while. Well Momo's leaving soon, so I guess next time there wouldn't be much chance like this. Or maybe yesterday night will be the last hang out, at least with him. I guess he found other things much more attractive and things are much better elsewhere. Wish him luck.
Anyway, went Chai Leng park for dinner then went over Jusco for Terminator. I guess I'm among the last few ppl to watch the show. Can't help it. Living in a remote area. Hehe. The movie's great but i think Star Trek is much better.

Terminator Salvation Vs Star Trek
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A little to complaint, I'm not sure if it's TGV cinema or technical prob. The show's suppose to start at 10.45pm but we waited for like 10 min pass time but still no sign of anything. Not even advertisement on the screen. So ppl were like complaining till almost 11 then finally things got started. Back almost 130am.
Bedtime..

The most perfect gift of all...

2009-06-06T16:06:00.005+08:00

Here I am on this sat afternoon of a public holiday lazing around, enjoying the rain which have been missing in action for a while. A little backdated post which i should have posted a little earlier. It's my birthday! Hehe. i was back 2 weeks ago to celebrate my birthday. Counted down in the bus. It started of with a little bad luck as my bus sort of broke down on the way back. Delayed a little but manage to get it moving again and got me safely back home at about 730am.

I think the bus overheated

There i was in the middle of the PLUS Highway

There I am back at Malacca Sentral. Happy to see Mr Sunshine.

Spend a day at home and went out for dinner with family. I think that is one of the greatest things of all. Celebrating birthday with family members once a while is just great. I know it's great to celebrate it with a bunch of crazy friends in crazy ways, but somehow this is also great. So we went to have steamboat at Q Best SteamBoat Seafood Restorant. It's a pretty new shop somewhere near Kota Laksamana. Since it's new so it's pretty clean and everything looks decent. It's not all you can eat style. They count by per head orders and any extra add on. They use electric steamboat pots instead of the typical gas. It tends to heat up faster

The menu

The Electric SteamBoat Pot

Here comes the food ( look at those noodle like fish paste )

More food

Something to keep my stomach full

And a nice cup of sourplum juice

Everybody get movin' I'm starving

Waiting for it to boil

"Look at my fish paste noodles"

"I think i found something"

Ah.. Finally .. food

After dinner we headed back home. They bought a cake on their way home. Although I'm quite stuffed but till can fit a little. Hehe.
And.... ta da...

my little cake...

Sweet 14.. LoL I mean 24.. I tot I could fool everyone..

Forced to cam..SMILE

Here's one with the family.. What else could be a better present than spending my birthday with my loved ones. ^_^

Persuading and Convincing Sucks!

2009-06-04T01:50:00.004+08:00

Here i am again. Been lazing for a while. Actually not really. Just busy with other stuffs. Work in the lab still continues. Been working up late for several days. Then the guys from Perodua stopped by last Friday to check on our progress and the works going on. Then had some discussion and QnA. I left a little early for work (parttime).

We threw everything out of the car and we mean everything. Poor car.

He looks bad.

Been working part time last weekend as Digi Promoter in Carrefour. Money is just not enough. Persuading and convincing ppl is just not my type of job. I thought it wouldn't be that hard but somehow I was proven wrong. I failed badly. Should i just stop doing that and just stand there for 8 hours instead doing nothing. Hmm.. maybe not. I might try take up the challenge again some other time. I must do better in near future. Somehow I think those skills is rather important nowadays and you just can't learn it from books. You have to try and fail and try till you succeed. Anyway, still manage to survive that 3 days. Haven't been working for a while made me so tired everyday after work. Wonder how did I survived last time from 9am when i step out of house and back at midnight. Any words or idea to success in this? Hehe.

Back again in campus after 3 days of hardwork. Did some work here and there in the lab. On the other hand, i was busy planning on my Vietnam trip. Yippie. I'm so looking forward to it. Still working on it with Teodore and some confirmations needs to be done and Vietnam Here I Come!!! It's just 2 weeks away. Wonder if I'll get to blog during my trip. Hopefully I can get to update it throughout the wholetrip when I have the time..

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p/s: results was out yesterday. Happy! Happy! Happy! Needless to elaborate more. ^_^

Record Just Got Broken

2009-05-28T11:06:00.007+08:00

I feel my head spinning a little when waking up. I guess it's due to the tiredness from the late night work. I got back from the lab at 430am. Kinda record so far. Previously i think i only manage to stay up till bout 2am max. So yesterday I just broke my own record. Due dates are close and lots works need to be done. That just sounds so common. Just a brief of my work. I'm working as research asst. and currently busy several jobs in hand but the main concern is the Perodua EcoChallenge which is a little Myvi provided by Perodua and competing with other Uni to produce the most miles with a certain amount of fuel. So basically hacking, chopping, and doing all it takes to make it go the most. Working and working, time just passes by so fast. It's already 4 when I finally check on the time. So called it a day. Still more work need to be done today.
Tiredness is absolute. I find scratches here and there on my hands. Even both my hands looks reddish. Wonder why. Wonder if it's the sun or the engine. Time to work again.

Oops. can't leak too much info. Wait other competitor finds out. LoL

News on Perodua EcoChallenge
Hmm.. lots to blog but just don't have the time.
My cs3 just got busted i think cos i installed some updates.

Dun Shit Around The Neighbourhood

2009-05-20T00:16:00.004+08:00

Woke up a little late today. Whole body aching probably due to the exercise yesterday. It's a good sign though, indicating that my body is finally working rather than lazing around for like decades. lol. Prepared for my interview in the afternoon which was rather short and quick. Definitely less than 10 mins. Being the first person interviewed was rather scary but it was over before I knew it. I hope things will turn out good for me. Fingers crossed.

Besides, I was rather pissed of by actions of X. I truly understand that it sucks having poops in ur garden. I dun mind you complaining, whining, and even throwing the poop around.... for a while. There's just this period where others would understand and tolerate it. But that doesn't mean that those actions and continue carry on and on. It seems to be getting from bad to worse. Starting to throw poops on other's house and eventually the whole neighbourhood. It pollutes the whole neighbourhood and eventually it will become untolerable. Now you start giving others problem due to your own. There's a limit. Instead solving the problem now you've turn into the prob. It's just the matter of time if these continues. Why not just clean up ur garden, beautify it and throw whatever rubbish into the rubbish bin rather than leaving it messy and annoy everyone else. Life still must go on. Why look into sad history? Look into the beautiful future. Refusing to tell right on the face because we still treat u as a part of us. Pls change before being displaced and stuck in time.
Front side of the palm is flesh, back side of the hand is still flesh. Do not make it hard for us. Be a man and stand back up.

ps:poops are just a metaphor
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Just another Sunday

2009-05-17T20:40:00.003+08:00

Woke up a little late today. Had brunch while watching Hotel For Dogs. Hehe. Not bad.

I think all the little doggies are so cute. Makes me feel like getting one myself. Hehe. So I surfed for some dogs available hmm.. they are pretty expensive too. Another option I think that I can adopt one from SPCA or somewhere. Hmm. I've been looking through so many cute doggies today. I'm so tempted. But I think it's quite costly to maintain in terms of food, vet, and also the time to bring it out for walk, poop, bath, hmm.. it's not easy. Well I'll think about it again.
Hmm the outbreak of the H1N1 in Malaysia is a little scary. I thought of going to the island this weekend, but I chose to stay back in room. I dunno why I'm just a little freak out. Lol. Probably I just think too much. It ain't that bad I think. Still I avoid crowded places like pasar malam.

Rested for a while then went out to shop for some groceries in town. There isn't much stuff left at home for me to eat. LoL. Bought bread, tuna, marjerin, for breakfast, sotong ball, tom yam paste for dinner, some snack, juice, and a pack of korean noodles. Now I've plentiful of food. Still seems not enough. Wanted to buy more but afraid wait no more space left in the fridge for housemates. Lol. It was almost 8 when back home, so I bought apam just to fill my tummy while cooking dinner.

Something to fill my stomach

My dinner

Tom Yum's good. Burp. excuse me. Full now. Gonna stuck in front of my pc again.

Genting Trip ( way backdated )

2009-05-13T11:10:00.005+08:00

Finally, a blog which I've been wanting to post for like ages. Just couldn't find the time to post everything. Probably next time i should break up into several parts. Maybe I'm just too lazy. Back in campus I am. Busyness is already bugging me. Had been working till night for the past few days as some work need to be rushed on. So no choice but to work like a slave. Cheap labours like he always said. Lol.

Genting trip was a trip we planned sort of adhoc trip just before the exams. I'm like having my first paper few days away. Quite a last minute trip and all the online rooms are fully book so we had to sort out other alternatives. We finally get an agent to book the accomodations and transportations too.

I wasn't really looking forward to the trip due to some reasons but during the trip I think I wasn't that bad after all. Had lots of fun and it's great.

Day 1

We reached early in the morning so we went sight seeing of the night kl city. Pretty nice view. We were waiting for sun rise and we waited and we realised that we were on the wrong side of the hill. Lol.

Another shot

There's the beautiful morning sun. Magnificent.

Me and the morning view

After phototaking of morning sun we went to Old Town for breakfast. The price there are rather same with the usual ones. So it wasn't too bad afterall. A nice cup of cold white coffee was just perfect.

There's the boss. Busy person.

There's SeohLi trying to show us that she's taller than 153cm. Yaya we knew it.

That's the Dreamz Master, SeePhang and his Tiger. Dun stare into his eyes. (I think he's working part time there)

So after breakfast it''s still too early to check in so we went to the temple half way down the hill for site seeing. A very nice place indeed. Lots of nice sceneries for phototaking.

Have some scandal going on. I'm curious too. Lol. ( should be easy to guess who is it )

A figurine at the entrance towards the temple which looks a little scary to me. Eww.

There's the big boss who really knows how to relax. Nice comfy seat.

Random

There's the nice pagoda. Isn't it just wonderful?

Cheezzz everyone

?????

That's the big buddha. Look at the tiny weenie guy there and you can imagine how big it is.

Remembering Uncle Lim.

A nice dragon craving on the pillar.

Focus.. stay still... pose...

Fairies..erm.. not really nice pic though..

That's phang again. Look alike? Nah i dun think so.

Seohli peeking over..

Different angle shots

I kinda like this pic. It has the misty feel.. hmm..

Suddenly it turned so sunny.. weather is unpredictable..

It was about noon that we went back to check in into the hotel. Drop our stuff rested for a while and went for buffet dinner at the resort hotel cafe. Not too bad. Cost us less than 40 which i would say it's cheap. We sort of celebrated HLyn's birthday by treating him to good food.

After dinner we went to the CASINO!! Just to have a look. Seeing others playing makes me felt like playing too. But I didn't. Actually I did, throw 10bucks into the stupid jackpot machine which is totally lame and pointless. I dun understand how those uncle and aunty can sit their right infront of that stupid machine. I lost that 10 ringgit just by clicking over and over again.

The one place not to be missed in genting. *grins*

Went back to hotel to rest.

Day 2

The whole day's plan was to play the whole theme park. Here we go.

Phototaking just outside before going in. There's Ivan at the back photoshooting too.

Looking into the lens.

The most exciting, SpaceShot which makes you feel like falling from the sky. Should try at least once. Thrilling.

If you've tried the Spaceshot, Pirate Ship is nothing. Phang and me just relaxing away while the 2 gurls are screaming their lungs out. LoL =P

Chocolate Factory in the themepark. That's one big easter egg. Couldn't carry it back.

I wished I have this clock in my room. But I might end up eating the whole thing. lol.

Oops. caught stealing the choc from the clock.

Then there's Seohli again trying to do some daring stuff.

Believe it or not?

Then we went for the bumper boat. We had a cameraman who was supposed to help us snap some photos. But due the long queue.......

he fell asleep...luckily he manage wake up when we were on the boat..

That's more like it..

Let's have some water fun. Gentlemen start your little boat!! Vrrmm....

That's a collision

Haunted mansion.. boo~~ I might be scared 10yrs ago.. hehe

The final one.. Superman! It's not that scary though. I thought it would. But nice ride though have to pay extra rm10.

Back into First World in the evening for dinner and went for indoor activities after that. Went casino later that night. Manage to earn a little. Not bad for a newbie. LoL. Back to bed at 4am. Hehe.

Day 3

Too lazy to take photos. Though there's some with Ivan. Pack our stuffs and got ready to check out. Tired but fun trip.

I wonder if there'll still be chance for another one. Gotta get to work now.

Presentation and Viva

2009-05-10T06:07:00.002+08:00

A day to present our final year project to our supervisor and EXAMINER. After all the hard work for a semester, that 20mins will allow us to present what we've been doing. I'm not sure if i'm considered lucky or unlucky as I had the slot on the next day just after my final paper, which means that I've very little time to prepare. It wasn't too bad preparing the slides, but still I see some friends took long time doing it. Probably it's because theirs is a little later so no pressure and no rush. I did mine few days ago as I was worried I din't have sufficient time after exams. I'm glad I finished early. Read through several times, had a rough idea of what to present. Good enough for me. No pressure the night before too. I was surprised myself, but it's good thing.

On the morning of the presentation I read through again. I was a little nervous though but was relax too. 20 mins went pass smoothly. I'm happy with my presentation ( I hope the examiner is too ). Then I was free. So happy my presentation fall on the first day. After finishing I went listen to others presenting with a very relieved mind. Hehe.

Ryan & Prof

HL & Dean

Phang & V. Dean

YY and Lecturer

CYin presenting

Attentive audience

I'm Back Online!

2009-05-10T00:56:00.004+08:00

Finally my internet connection is back today. I'm very happy but still boring after a while. Not much ppl around to chat with. I wonder why. I spent the whole day watching drama in the afternoon and the evening cleaning the kitchen. It was all in a mess I just didn't know where to start. But I manage to finish it still. Happy and contented but ended up ta pao Nasi Goreng Kampung and Limau Ice from Riyas at 10pm. Tired I am but still I wanna blog. Hehe. I feel like putting some pics of my new place but seems still a little messy, maybe sometime later so that I dun frighten ppl off. LoL.

Few days without the internet is miserable. I think I'm just too addicted to the internet. Life without it is really boring and stressful. hehe. It's like lost connection to the world outside. I just dunno why most of my friends doesn't really online much. hmm.. It's always like this. Sigh. These whole weekend is boring. All my housemates went back home. So I'm left home alone. No worries. I din't set any traps in the house waiting for the burglar. LoL. But life here is rather lonely. I actually took a bike and slowly stroll the whole campus, and went to the pasar malam all alone. Bought lots of food (murtabak, fried kuey tiao, satay, cendol, lekor ) from the pasar malam, just to keep my thoughts of boringmes away.

Anyway, wanna post some pic on the last outing together with some coursemates in Gurney. I'm missing them already.

Singing K and Buffet dinner @ Redbox Gurney

Mr Yip & Ms H'ng

Always stylish KFong

Da gurls

The Loan Shark ( if you can see close enough )

camwhore dudes

One big one for the memory.. SMILE =)

Happy Mother's Day

2009-05-10T00:45:00.003+08:00

A very short post to mummy though i know she won't be reading this. Miss you a lot. Hugs and Kisses.
I've never really been very close to mummy but i know she's always been very caring. Just that she doesn't shows it on her face. But she loves us all very much. I love you too mummy. I never had the courage to say it to her....
Happy Mother's Day...

Back In Campus

2009-05-06T16:33:00.003+08:00

I'm back in campus again after few days of resting and enjoying at home. er.. like din't really get to rest. had some friends coming down so spent some time entertain them. tiring in fact. will post that later. right now i'm back in campus. This time in my new house. I've shifted outside finally. Lots of cleaning and tidying to do. Unpacking my heaps of stuffs. I like my new room though it's a little hot in the afternoon. Life's a little lonely nowadays at least I still have some housemates around. Phew.. I can't wait to be back home again.. hehe
Internet is few days away as i just applied it today. Still gotta suffer few days. I'm an internet addict. Help me!! So i ended up going to school to online.
Besides that , work are already waiting for me to start. Even due dates are out. OMG. I still wanna rest. But in a good way at least itll drive my boringness away and keep me occupied.
Applications still yet to be done. Proposal too. Hopefully I can finish it tonite. Edited some photos, just waiting to be blogged. Soon.. Soon..

TMnet fast fast a bit.. It's killing me!!
Scratch scratch hands..

Keep SMILING..

2009-04-30T04:58:00.007+08:00

I was planning to blog on genting trip. Though I've sort of editted some photos but I'll hold on for a while.

It's been a long day today. Not really the last day but one of those. Some left, some are leaving, some will be leaving, some are staying behind. =(

I started of the day packing my stuffs. Clearing up my room. I found out that I've lots to pack and carry along to my new house. I feel like throwing some but somehow ended up bringing along too.
Then had to submit some thesis and presentation to the office. I also went to school to see how others present ( ryan, cyin, shirley, roy, etc ), went chit chatting , went lunch at Wei Pin with some coursemates probably for the last time.

Then in the evening we ( HLyn, PLing, Ryan, Momo, LKean, ASoon, YFai, SLi, CYin, WHoe, SYeon ) had a photoshoot. Not many turned up though but we still manage to take great photos around the campus. Also with lecturers & technician. All great people. Some seniors tease me and told me that i need not take as i'll still be around ( mean people, can't let me enjoy for a while ). Then went bak kut teh for dinner.

Later, we ( Me, Ryan, CYin & YYeng ) went yam cha @ Starbuck, Juru for a last time. We chatted long. Time just seems to pass so quickly. Before we knew it, it's about time to close.
Things got a little emotional though. I somehow manage to keep myself calm.

Then watched soccer MU vs Arsenal with HLyn, Roy, CLiang, Teh & Ryan. Score 1 - 0. Probably the last soccer match watched together. Chatted with Roy just before returning back to room.

**Somehow I lost control went I got back into my room. It's not common though but just couldn't help it. Spending four year together in this a little town wasn't easy. People walk into my life, leave their footprints and now it's time to move on. Good times just don't last forever, at least we had great times together and sweet memories will always remain. Esp when I sometimes have trouble getting along with people but when I do, it's always time to say goodbye. It's truly hard for me but I still have to. There's just too many things to say but i'll just wish everyone good luck, all the best and take care. Do come by and visit this poor fella (me) if ya have the time. I'm gonna miss you guyz.

This is a transient point in our life where each and everyone will have to go through in our own ways to achieve what we want in life. Our choice. Lots images started flashing through my head. I stopped and looked through them for a while. These are truly priceless.**

Great bunch of friends.
Some who can do these.......

Some squat around...

Some who does unique things...

Some who are built tough...

Some who are attracted to rainbows...

Some who are photomaniac...

Some who likes being photographed...

Though we are all different in personality.. but...

We have all went library together..

Walked through the university life together..

Jumps for joy together..

And will graduate together...
Looking forward to meet you guys again..

Done for good..

2009-04-27T13:47:00.004+08:00

The battle is over. Finally. I've been waiting it for a long time. Now at peace. At least for the moment. I wanted to blog yesterday nite despite having exams this morning. hehe. Too bad my stupid comp lag and I had to terminate the browser and there goes. I was too lazy and tired after that. So just went to bed.

Exams over, what a relief. But...... I'm still having a presentation for my Final Year Project tomorrow at 11am. Then I will be more relief. Hmm.. cut and paste. Shouldn't be much of a problem. Hehe. But still i gotta practice for a while before facing the actual presentation tomorrow.

Then it's time to celebrate!! Organisers?? It'll be the last celebration together. After that then all will be off, to work, back home, etc. Thinking of that just makes me sad. I shall not think about that. Gotta prepare first.. Chaoz.

I'm going home this weekend. Yippie. Long weekend but will be back next mon.

Emoness..

2009-04-22T14:00:00.003+08:00

After finishing my test, back in my room. Wanted to take a nap but due to afternoon lunch in the canteen probably, my stomach is feeling weird. Anyway, it got me thinking for a while while in bed. Emoness is back.

I sometimes wonder why some ppl can actually emo and make a big fuss out of some issues. While lying in bed i felt the emoness rushing through my whole body. I think everyone has their time of emoness, just that how different ppl handle them with different ways and how well you can keep it before it gets over you. I guess for myself emoness comes from loneliness. I'm that kind of people who just can't stand being alone. I may like having some personal time to myself but if I were given the choice I'd rather not.

Coming towards the end of the semester which is also the end of uni life for most. Lots have found work or at least does not have any plans of staying on for further studies. I'm of the opposite. But thinking of how to spend my life in campus alone for another two years is freaking me out and got me thinking twice over my decision. It may seem to be an easy choice to take but come to think about it, it ain't as easy as it seems, at least for myself.

Each and everyone would be going to various places, just anywhere but this dreadful place. This is another point in life where I have to bid farewell to friends that I've spent 4 years with in university. We may still keep in contact but things will never be the same again. It really suck to have this feeling. I can't help it. I'm gonna miss lots of my good buddies who walk through uni life with me, played sports, ran a long way, walked by, stop by, eat a lot ( that's for sure breakfast, lunch, teatime, dinner, supper ) , drinked ( there were times ) , laughed, talked, hanged out in library, did assignments throughout the night, ride to penang and back just for dinner under the rain late at night, gambled for continuous nights during CNY, went holiday, sang K, drive through the night and the days, making crappo robot, to almost sleeping in the lab, attended boring classes, interesting classes, skipping classes, going over to penang to hang out and the list just kept going on and on.

There's just too much to list them down. Life will not be the same again without all these people around. It has been great knowing them. Just to make myself comfortable, I'm sure we'd keep contact with each other. Probably we can organise some gathering in the future ( i know it's hard when ppl start becoming CEOs and IRs and MDs and VVIPs ) and meet up again. Looking forward for that day.

Staring at my colourful screen... thinking....

how in the world did i come up with an emo blog? Je ne sais pas.

Examen de Francais...

2009-04-22T08:11:00.002+08:00

Je vais passer l'examen de francais aujourd'hui a neuf heures du matin.

Exam at 9 yet still wan blog. haha can't resist. wish me luck. I must score. >.<

Au revoir.

Counting Days..

2009-04-16T08:59:00.004+08:00

Gosh, I can't resist myself from blogging. Damn! After yesterday's paper I totally slack for one night. I should be studying for my papers on next tues and wed ( i think.. i can't even remember the real dates. i hope i don't go on the wrong day. ) First to come is Quality and Reliability. Crap subject which I hardly knows a shit about it. Prob this little bit. just a little. Video watching classes which totally non exam related. Notes probably downloaded from the internet. No pass year to rely on. ( diff lecturer ). Now I have 5 days to study right from the beginning to everything I need to know. Somebody save me!

Next up is French. Bonjour! That's much much much much much more fun than anything else esp Q&R. I think french is interesting. It's suppose to be a romantic language i think. hehe. I might consider taking the international French language exams. Just the basic of course. We'll see about that later. Hopefully someday I'll be able to put it in to good use. Travel to France maybe. With my dear Agnes of course. .... Oops. It's too early to daydream. *slap myself*

I better start leaving my comp in the room while I go study in the library. I can't resist the temptation.

A little preview. More to come.

Je dois etudier! Au revoir!

The beginning and the end..

2009-04-14T21:57:00.004+08:00

Tomorrow is the day. Once again, towards the end of semester, examination is waiting to torture us. For some, it'll be their first and last paper for the semester, or even probably their last examination of their study life.
As for myself it is just the beginning. Tomorrow will be the first paper. I'll still have 3 more to go after tomorrow. And have to suffer till almost end of the month. Sigh. How I envy others. But nothing much can be done but to endure it. I chose this path. and therefore I have to face it no matter what. Somehow towards the final semester, the mood and spirit to study for exam has definitely deteriorate. This is proven by this post that I'm posting. Lol. Some thinks that the final semester, as long as you don't do too badly, it won't really affect your results. I do have such thinking but because I've quite a number of papers in hand, so I can't really be too relax on them.
The stress in me is building up, I can feel it. Prob sometimes it's just the conflict of mind to study hard and to study not so hard.
Anyway, just wish everyone Good Luck in the FINAL exams.

Random pic of campus

gotta go mug some notes now.

PayBack time...

2009-04-12T22:00:00.004+08:00

I was reading through some latest updates on my dashboard when i came across a post with my pic and with title WEIRDNESS.

The first thing that came to mind was like.. WTH and what in the world is with this post. N i found out that it was posted by my Jo, I was curious that i quickly open the post, Weirdness!

After reading that, only I found out that it wasn't as bad as the title sounds. I can't agree with her more though with everything except annoying, bossy, lame, and a bully. Haha. That's what you have to be when having three younger sisters around at home. Annoying because there's nobody else to annoy. Bossy cause I'm the eldest and when orders from above, then i have to spread the orders down below me. hehe. Lame? hmm.. Bully? hmm.. It's pretty much both ways.
I'm quite busy lately with studies and everything. I know she soemtime do have trouble with herself as in overstressed herself, emoing a lot, and now in college there's even more complications conflicts in all sorts of issues, problems, relation ( bgr, ggr ) and everything else. She sometimes just isn't able to coop with so much of load at once. I wish i could help, but i know it's impossible as we just ain't that close since young, nvr b4 talked personal, n partially due to the age gap. Like she said, it's gonna be weird. Anyway, I just hope the best for her in overcoming problems and her studies, and wish her luck in her coming exams. She's be flying of to the States later this year.

And for my little sister,

Feel free to bother me..

Just drop me few words whenever u wan.. just a few okay? not too many.. haha..

Do drop by my blog k? haha. just doing some promo.

Let me know if u need anything? And I mean anything. ( erm.. prob there's some exemption for money issue )

Lastly, miss you too.. *pat on the head*

I just got back from genting.. tired and hot.. time to zzz.. update on trip later..

It's been a long long long time..

2009-04-07T20:11:00.011+08:00

Finally I blogged. It's been such a long time. Busy? a little. Bad Connection? a little. Lazy? a little. It's just a mixture of everything. I know I shouldn't be doing this at this time as I should be focusing more on my thesis instead. But, whatever. Else i dunno when i'll ever blog again. I must make sure that I blog this time.
Je dois blog.
Lots of things have been happening since my last post. I've been quite sick the other time. Seriously. But that was sometime ago. Just a quick post to sum up all. I'm stuffing all pictures in order to reduce the words used. hehe.

CNY shopping for tidbits at this little old shop by the river. They do have various kind from peanuts, kuaci, asam to all sorts of jeruk you ever wanted. They open till late night during the last week before CNY.

Annual house visiting and we usually end up at this house without fail. Haha. It's the time of the year when I actually get to meet lots of my friends, ex-classmates, not so friends etc.

Homemade steamboat @ Agnes' place with her family ( and the little nephew ). Steamboat for CNY is just great.

Some lighting display during the CNY by the Malacca river displaying various lattern type display of a big red dragon, A' famosa, Clocktower, and various other landmarks in Malacca. They've actually developed the place since I last went there which was way long ago and has nothing nice. It's just behind the big Ship Museum or some called it the pirate ship or whatever. They are still developing that area. More stalls, cafe, lightings etc. It's good to visit once in a while but I'm kinda frust with the hectic jam in town due to all these. The traffic is just madness esp during holiday season.

My dad and three little sisters with the A'famosa like display at the back.

Just random photo.

Then gatherings of U6Alphalians. Not all attended but considerably satisfactory. My ex monitor who shifted to Ipoh came back specially for that event with his *ahem. So nice of him. He's the best monitor ever.

The place was okay, food wasn't that good, the people were terrific.

Some CNY decors and performance in Queensbay. I think the decors were great.

My half day trip to Kulim and also to 'bai nian' @ tyng's place. She brought us around & ate lots of food ( the 'pi pa' duck is great ). Just a bit bad for the throat. Hehe.

@ tyng's place with a baby boy her mom babysits. He is just too CUTE. I feel like pinching him on the cheek. He's a tv addict cos he can stare at the tv and just ignore anyone else.

CNY is never complete without these. Pokers and $$. I had a number of round at weihoe's place. If not mistaken several days in a row. I lost some, won some, so it is almost neutral.

Random shot, my soursop tree finally bore fruits. Too bad I did not get to taste it.

A partial solar eclipse which I caught.

Valentine's Day with self cooked food and a bottle of Red Grape Sparkling Juice. =)

Food that I've prepared.

Heinz cream of mushroom.

And the lovely hearts I made specially for Agnes. Je t'aime beaucoup. Hehe. =P

Hanged out at Egate. I wonder if Ryan is trying to shoot too. From a 'different' angle.

Went for lunch @ Food Loft, Gurney. They have japanese, korean, local and western cuisine to choose from. Not too bad I would say but slightly on the more expensive side but for the location and ambience I guess not too bad.

A very big bowl of ais kacang. Not very delicious though but I can still accept that.

Food's served.

Inside Food Loft.

Mechanical Pool Party.
Contributed by Ryan. Great party. Everybody got wet except 'some' lucky ones.

Fuel Smart Campaign organised by the school of mass communication and we took part by exhibiting some of our projects in the Engine's Lab.
It's where the spark starts. Hehe. I think. No further comment till more info and permission granted.

Even little Maximus ( if i'm not wrong ) is there at Queensbay to support daddy ( Prof. ).
He's cute too right?

Adhoc visit by Kiat, Pei, Wen. Lightings of Kek Lok Si.

Lovely gurls.

More of KLS

Po Pi, Po Pi.

Stranded in Butterworth bus station early in the morning as the bus refuse to enter Parit Buntar. These bus services.

St. Patrick's Day Celebration in Autocity. Not as great as the one in KL. Penang is lack of some active crowd.

KFC obsession.

Celebrating birthdaysssssssssss, KF, weihoe, shirley etc with 'big fish big meat'. If u get what i mean. Hehe

Oops. Jh camwhoring. =P

Finally, phew. It's time to rush on my thesis. Thursday submission. Need to find Prof and get my corrected drafts. I'm sure there'll be lots of work to be done.
This weekend in Genting. Woo hoo. Looking forward.
Exams just round the corner. Studies need to be done.

Au revoir.

Immune system down

2009-02-03T14:15:00.005+08:00

After the long CNY holidays, finally I'm back in campus again. Had lots of fun, met lots friends that I've not seen for a while, visited quite a number of houses, went clubbing, laze at home, ate lots of food and grow fat, had gatherings, gamble a little, win some money, lose some money. One week seemed so short but glad enough.
Yesterday night seemed long. Had a tough night. I guess I'm officially sick. =( Had some headaches, fever and sorethroat. Even my whole body seems so tired. After dinner, went over to friend's place and gambled a little, luckily I followed Pao back cos the rest came back almost 4. As I reached back my room, my head just seemed so heavy that I just fell into bed immediately. Woke up several times during the night. Struggling to pass the night. Here I'm feeling a little better but still feeling the head banging around. Trying all meants to get myself back.
Anyway, CNY was great. Still trying to enjoy the last few days of it.

Contribution of Cojack

Happy 牛 Year!!

2009-01-26T18:15:00.004+08:00

Festive season + holiday + home + good food + relax + gatherings + lots of ang pau

What else can i ask for more. Hehe.

Just wanna take this chance to wish all my friends a very Happy Chinese 牛 Year! Year of the Ox. Also, 身体健康, 万事如意, 马到成功, 学业进步..

The long anticipated CNY has finally arrived. Day 1 was rather nice. Went visiting some relatives and had lunch. By the time we were back in the afternoon, I was really tired. I think partly due to the hot weather. Hope it rains later at night. Time to rest at home waiting for others to come. Hehe.

Happy Moo~ Year

It just sucks..

2009-01-14T08:45:00.002+08:00

I mean the connection. It just makes you feel like burning down the bloody campus. Nowadays I'm so not into onlining, surfing, chatting, blogging, plurking, facebooking, friendstering, and just everything else. Guess what? Thanks to the "wonderful" internet connection provided by the hostel.
When the line is good ( in the morning ) they block everything. I mean everything. They even block plurk now. =( if my karma drops I'll blame it on the connection.
When the line is bad + horrible + super slow ( at night ) you can access to more sites.
These type of combination will just result to ==> not online

I wonder if one day they'll blog blogspot. I won't be surprise even if they do.

Mechanic Night ( beach party? pool party? gathering? ) on Friday.

Lian's Birthday!

2009-01-04T11:46:00.004+08:00

Happy Belated Birthday!
Just wanna throw some photos up. We were suppose to go to McD in Juru but the place was full house so we went over to the one in Sunway instead. Bout 20 of us. Celebration was indeed joyous and loud. Hmm. Anyway.. Just a short one. To the birthday gurl... cheers..

Secret Recipe's Chocolate Bananas

Hehe, sorry lian can't resist from posting these. =P

Brand New Year!!!

2009-01-02T22:22:00.004+08:00

Yes indeed.. It's over. 2008 is over. I spent my last few moments of 2008 having dinner with my fellow coursemates in Swensons, Autocity. About 30 of us. Then we countdown to the brand new year with TVB artiste, Ron Ng. Pretty handsome looking guy. Though i don't quite fancy his singing.
Too late to regret over anything now. Just looking forward hoping this year will be better. Hope to fill this year with more exciting events. Among some events to be looking forward and take note :

Firstly would definitely the CNY celebration which is just around the corner, less than a month. Then my last semester in final year. Hope everything would be smooth.

FYP, studies, hope I'll put more effort and work on them more, waste less time.

Graduation! Big event or maybe not that big after all.

Vietnam trip. I'm so looking forward.

Work or continue studies? tough one. have yet to have a final answer.

Hangout more with friends b4 i each goes our separate ways.

Ecomonic crissis. Need to take note on that.

Well, that's pretty much I can think of for the mean time. Looking forward to fill up more on the list.
Back home for the first weekend of the year. Hehe. Not feeling too good. Having some allergies. =( Wonder what I've ate , touch, or been in contact with. Sigh. Hope this itches goes off soon before I start looking like an ape scratching all over. That's it for the kickstart post of the year.
Happy New Year to all. Wish everyone will have a great year ahead. I know it's not going to be an easy one but I'm sure we'll get through it. ^_^

Ron Ng in action!

Belated Merry Christmas!!

2008-12-28T23:32:00.007+08:00

Ho! ho! ho! says the old man in the red suit, riding on his sleigh on night of christmas eve, climbing in through the chimneys and giving out presents to those who have been nice. So have you been good this year?

A long christmas weekend which I spent in Penang this year. I haven't been doing much besides relaxing, squeezing into crowds and shopping. I spent my christmas eve having dinner at Paddington, in Queenbay followed by Sakae Sushi after that. There isn't any countdown event in Queenbay, we just hanged around till bout 11pm and a little tired and just countdown by ourselves at home looking at fireworks from the window.

On christmas, Agnes and I planned to go Queensbay for shopping but the crowd and queue of cars were horrendous. I couldn't believe that almost all the parking around Queensbay were FULL. Some even waited for cars to leave. We could not. So we ended up in PISA as they were having some mega sales by Metrojaya. Clothings for men, ladies, kids, kitchenware, handbags, cosmetics and lots more. We ended up looking for cheap bargains as CNY is just around the corner. After shopping for almost 3 or 4 hours, we finally satisfied with what we've in hand. I couldn't believe myself when the cashier total up everything. It's almost RM250. I guess this is the first time ever I shopped this much. Hmm. I did had quite a lot stuffs though. It's quite reasonable with the amount of items I had though. Just not used to have such large amount while shopping. Hehe. 2 Tshirts, 2 s/s shirts, belt, pillow, jeans, and I guess the rest were all Agn's cosmetics. I know I shouldn't have spent so much but i guess a little too late. I think I've completed my CNY shopping. So I'll stop my shopping spree for the time being at least.

I guess Christmas this year is just shopping shopping and more shopping. I'm tired.. after so many days of shopping. hehe. Enuf of longwinded stories. Just wan to wish all my friends and family a very Merry Christmas!!!

Christmas Deco

Christmas in Midvalley

Christmas in Queensbay

Counting down to the new year...

Winter Solstice Festival!!

2008-12-22T00:50:00.000+08:00

As the end of the year gets nearer, its time for festivals again. First comes the Winter Solstice, followed by Christmas and New Year. I'm not sure when is the exact date but I'm sure it's around within these few days. You'll be able to see Tong Yuen being sold everywhere. Nice nice. And they come with a variety of colours, sizes and taste.

I've decided to do my own Tong yuen. It isn't that difficult though. Just need some effort and time. It's pretty simple and you can make it to your own liking. I went google some recipe for this and I've found out that there are actually various type of tong yuen that can be made. Different style of cooking. It could be sweet, salty, hot, cold, wet or dry. I've decided to make the sweet ones as i'm more used to it than other types. All you need is just glutinous rice flour + water for the dough and some colouring, and for the syrup it'll be brown sugar or gula melaka ( preferably ) + ginger + pandan leaves. 1kg of glutinous rice flour i bought. I did it at Agnes' place where few of her friends all came over and join in the fun. We even decided to make some with fillings. And we had, peanut butter, ground peanuts, sweet corn, kidney bean, and even wasabi nuts? Haha. For the 'lucky' ones.

For dinner, it was kinda spontaneous, as it was lucky that Yin was in the island and so I tumpang her car back. So we manage to join Ryan, GY, YY, YKen for dinner at Tambun just to celebrate Dong Zhi.

These ends the one month holiday and will officially have classes tomorrow at 9am. Looking forward to Christmas.

p/s : will try to post more photos next time since Flickrs just got BLOCKED in campus... @#$%@!@#$%!@#$%..

Another break from work

2008-12-08T03:36:00.000+08:00

Life at home is just great. Hehe.. no work, no stress, just relax. Too bad it's just gonna last till mon. Will be back in campus on tuesday. FYP was also stressing me out like i said earlier. Supervisor already warned us to complete 95% of most work this holiday. So I guess that really meant business. Gotta get things going and running. Anyway i'll have till tues before i start to trouble about it. hehe.
Back home been lazing at home. Din't really go anywhere. Probably I'm just too lazy. Oops. But I did met up with some of them though. The usual few, not many of them but just a handful.
Went out shooting with Ryan, lepaking and dotaing with the guys, met up with Boon, went for wedding dinner of Rajesh's sis, saw a bunch of ppl there. Besides that I'm pretty much at home lazing around enjoying the nice weather for hibernating. Hehe. And lazing is not the only reason of me stuck at home, but the massive jam in town that kept me away from those hot spots which is no where else to go but home.

Work Work Work!

2008-12-04T00:14:00.003+08:00

Life is getting repetitive lately. Lots of work load waiting to be done. I wished I can split myself into more of ME. & having unlimited time for me to do more work. Moreover I'm going back this weekend. Happy I am. But that means that I'll have lesser working time which is not too good for my works. But I can't not go home. I can't not have rest. Haha. Work is work. Going home is still a must. So I'll need to speed things up a little.

Project approaching due date. Done, redo, over and over again to a point that some things seems to begin from zero. Probably partly due to bad planning. Maybe partly due to under specifications of components provided to us. Probably due to taken things for granted. Too much of possibilities or I should say excuses. By hook or by crook things need to get done and working. Arms we have broken a few, and so does cutting up bodies. Making things complex probably isn't helping much. But the best solution might just be simplest one.

FYP is another part of my workload. Probably I'll write about it tomorrow. Bedtime. zzz.

Holidayzz!!

2008-11-26T21:14:00.003+08:00

Happy am I over the sem break. But here I am stuck in campus. It's been 3 days in campus and I've been busy for the whole 3 days. Busy with Robocon, FYP and another project with the muzium. Running around the school, working and working. Well I've expected this anyway. At least I fully utilise my holidays and get my FYP going. Else you know who will start chasing after me. He already did.
Though busy in the morning at least I still have time for sports and some extra relaxing time at night to watch some movies and have a good sleep. I'm still trying to keep up to the work load. Looking forward going home in bout 2 weeks time.
^_^

Exam's Over

2008-11-21T00:20:00.004+08:00

Finally the long waited day has arrived. Although it's just 3 papers for me but had to struggle it through the whole 3 weeks was kinda horrible. I've been hanging around in the library for most of the time during this period. It's been like a routine going to the library, lunch, library, dinner, library and sleep. Finally I've broken out of these countless cycles. The days of being nerd are finally over. Or at least for the time being.

However, it'll be a new starting of another holiday. But I doubt there's much holiday as I'll need to work on my FYP, supervise the juniors in Robocon, and lots stuff more. I'll be spending most of my time in campus rather than home. Well I'll need to get my work done or else someone will start kicking my S. You know who. Hehe. Not much of a after exam celebration but at least went Jusco in S.Prai with Lian, Phang, Yin and Li and had McD and BigApple and stroll around the new shopping mall which I've not really explore yet. It's nice going shopping with a more relax mind. Finally can format my 'harddisk' from all the downloaded, OM, Aircond, Measurements that i've been downloading these few weeks. Hehe at least compressed them and put them in one small corner to minimize the usage of space. LOL.

Most of the people will be going back soon or had gone back except me. I'll need to kickstart my work at least for a few weeks when there's sight of progress then at least I can have the excuse of taking a break and sneak back home.

Well that's life, dun complaint about it, just live with it.

Happy Holidays!!

Completed, Tired, Satisfied

2008-11-16T12:49:00.008+08:00

PBIM ( Penang Bridge International Marathon )

Comes the time of the year for this yearly event once again. I've been joining this event for several years already since long long long ago. However this time I think there's a slight change in the organisers. Usually it's being held somewhere in July in USM, but this time in November in Queensbay Mall.

I took part in the half marathon as usual. I haven't got the courage to challenge myself taking the full course. Even so, the half marathon this time is slightly more than usual. Even previously, the total route was 22.5km which was already more than normal 21km, but this time it went up to 25km. This will be the furthest I've taken part in. I did trained a little, just this little. Hehe. Well at least I did run. But still I fear if I couldn't finish the whole race.

Yesterday, I dropped by at Queensbay to collect my shirt and bib number. Then I went to shop for some Powerbars, Powergel and Redbull. Hehe, i need extra energy. Got my stuff ready, pin my bib number, shorts, vest, socks, shoes, that's about it, then went to bed early.

Woke up at 3am, grab some bread, coffee, powerbar, redbull for breakfast. A mixture of too many things will lead to a weird feeling in the tummy. Picked up HL then headed for Queensbay. We had to report ourselves. Hanged around a little and at about 4.30am off went the starting gunfire. Bang! The race has begun. The race on the whole was smooth going right until the last 5km. My left foot feels a little pain. It's not due to muscle cramp but some sort of internal injury i had these two weeks. I slowed down a little but keep struggling on. But it forced my to stop and I had to walk for a short while, while it relaxes a little before I slowly started running again. I try to take it slowly hopefully to struggle my way through. Luckily I manage to keep going at a slow pace but constantly until the finishing point. Completed in about 3hrs 15mins ( a little slow ). Tired, limping my way now. But SATISFIED.

The morning view

Queensbay Mall

Finally...

At the finishing line

ZZZ time.

p/s : back dated post due to exams

A Visit Around The Historical City

2008-10-30T23:28:00.003+08:00

I was back in M'cca for the diwali holiday and also due to the study break. I was back until the day after diwali. Stayed home, enjoyed home food, went out pooling with the guys, went Diwali visiting @ Rajesh's and Vigren's, met some friends that i haven't met for ages ( Jhen, Vik, Sath, Rajesh himself, Kenny ), and went touring around m'cca a little.
Hmm, I just love Diwali, those nice and delicious food which i craved for every year. I haven't been for Diwali visiting for few years cos usually it's during study week and I'm suppose to study, but luckily this year our papers were a little later so I've had 2 weeks break instead of one, so i manage to visit Raj and Vig this year. @ Raj's you'll be served with nice homemade puree with curry mutton + chicken + dhall + other side dishes. @ Vig's you'll expect homemade tosai which comes with curry mutton + chicken + others. ALL my favourites. I wish I could have those everyday. They are just so delicious that none of the mamak stalls that I've eaten could beat either.

Then Agnes came down with Nini + 1. So I sorta had to be a tour guide and plan the itenary. They reached on Sat evening and so we started of with the typical m'cca satay celup @ OngKimWee. Then we head on to Jonker for a stroll. The next day, we started of the day with Chicken riceball. I just hate queueing up. I only does this went bringing friends around. Or else, I will NEVER EVER step foot in that shop. The queue could last the whole day. Then we went around the Stadhuys' and went up St Paul's hill for some photo taking with Eugene's 400D. ( Thx for the cam dude ) Then we were hot and thirsty, so we walked back to Jonker to enjoy the cool cendol and try some local laksa. But first enjoy the sun, cause you'll need to QUEUE up LONG queue AGAIN. Malacca is just getting so crowded nowadays which makes me prefer staying at home rather than going out cause thinking of the massive jam. After that we went over to Dataran Pahlawan to enjoy the airconditioning. We were really tired of walking around, so we choose to go for a movie , Eagle Eye. The following day, we went breakfast at DimSumGarden which is just nearby my house. Then they stopped by at TanKimHock for some local product before heading back. Short sumary of the trip. Here are some pics.

The famous chicken riceball

Up at St Paul's hill

Jonker Street

waiting for cendol

Big Apple donuts b4 movie

evening view of dataran

another nice view

PIC2008 Update3

2008-10-25T17:27:00.004+08:00

Last day of trip, we all slept late. Well not too late though. Get ourselves ready, packed all our stuff and took our breakfast. Then we had another beach cleaning activities to clear up the camp site and the surrounding area so as to have all our rubbish packed nicely so that the beach will still be clean. Then we had to break the tents and get everything back in place, waiting for the transfer back to the mainland.

Our camps

One last sight of the beautiful view

The beach clean up

Another one before leaving

We hopped on a ferry this time so it took us a little longer to get back compared to travelling in a speed boat. The seats were quite full, I ended up having a first class seat beside the captain. Hehe. nice view from the top. I see him handling the controls, GPS is one main component that plays an important role in navigation. Manage to chat with the nice friendly captain throughout the journey back.

View from the ferry

Co captain

The control panel

As we reached the jetty we went to enquire for direct bus transfer back to penang as we wouldn't want to travel down to kl and back to penang. Kinda redundant and also I wouldn't wanna sit upright back. We manage to get our tickets but we will need to get to Jerteh for the bus. So we took lunch at K.Besut and took a taxi ride to Jerteh. About 20 min ride. But our bus was at night. So we took our own sweet time just to pass sometime. We reached Jerteh at about 4pm. Nothing much there. It felt like Parit Buntar. No McD, only KFC, I wonder why. KFC seems to have wider coverage. And their shopping is EconJaya if i'm not mistaken just like our nice little Billion. We went into shopping to cool down for a while then we hang around at a hawker nearby. There's pretty much of local food there. They all looked tasty. So we grab some snack, little bit of this, little bit of that. And lekor is of course a not to be missed snack. I ended up having too much snack that I skipped dinner. We took a quick shower public toilet before getting on the bus. Little did i know that being at the last seat provided me with once again an upright seat. Damn!! Well had to bear with it. Lasted all the way till penang. My neck...

mouth watering

Well one hell of a challenge it was. We'll be back next year with a more well prepared condition.

PIC2008 Update2

2008-10-25T17:20:00.003+08:00

Race Day. We were awaken by the morning call. I was a little early that morning as it was quite hard to get a nice sleep the night before as it was hot. Clean up myself and got ready for the big day. Vest, shorts, shoes, powerbar,powergel, sunblock, counterpain. Everything was ready to get going. We had our breakfast then headed on speedboat to the starting point which was at Kampung, on the other island. We could see everyone all geared up ready for the big race. We waited for about an hour for everyone to be transferred and waiting for VIPs to arrive and officiate the event.

At exactly 10am. The novice racers were being flagged off. Another half hour to go or less. We had our last briefing just before the race. Then right at half past ten, off we go. As we were being flagged off, everyone headed to their kayaks, which was our first event.

finding for our kayaks

We had to kayak to the other island. When HL and I got into the water I could see some of the racers were already way pass us. Damn I gotta catch up. An initial burst of energy with our good coordinations *grins* we manage to glide across the water catching up with the others. As soon as we landed on the other island, we jumped out, hauled our kayak up to the beach, grabbed a can of cold RedBull and proceeded with our race. It was a hike up one of the peak of the island. Little did I know that hiking was way much tougher than running of flat land. I've already start feeling the tiredness and strain in the muscles. Probably I've over exerted during the kayak, and also the little knowledge of me towards kayaking got me sitted there still got my legs all numb as we jumped out of it lead to the strain in the leg muscles. However, the race must go on.
Slowly we hiked our way through. I had to make several stops just to catch my breath. It was quite a struggle through the first loop up the hill.
As soon as we see the beach, how glad i was to be back on flat land. We were back at the point where we left our kayak. We grab some water and proceed on foot to the other side of the beach. A less straineous route but still taxing my both legs leads us back to our campsite area where we were required to get wet and do some task. The first was getting a 20kg sandbag from the sea ( about 5 ft deep i guess ) and a short swim to and fro the marked position. We did that easily as it was suppose to give us a short break to relax. Then we grabbed some 100plus and water and proceeded. On our way we met some participants we were having cramps and the little counterpain i brought along actually helped. We need to hike to the otherside of the beach at Awana and hike back to our kayak point. That was one hell of a hike. I had several cramps along the way but still manage to make it back to the kayak.
Without wasting much time, we got on the kayak and make our way back across the sea to the other island. As we landed yet again, we had to do some obstacle crossing before continuing. Another hike all the way up to the windmills. The view up the windmill was just breathe taking. We stopped for a few moment to catch our breath and enjoy the wonderful scenary. When we reach back to the beach we had to run in flippers along the beach. *giggles* It was funny doing that but I was already out of energy just to laugh at it. Then we proceed our way back to the starting line which was also the finishing line. The sight of it immediately give us an extra burst of energy. We came back in about five and a half hours. What a relieve it was, tired we were but satisfied with our completion. Another achievement to be added into the list.
We waited for the boat transfer back to campsite. Although we may be tired but as we reach back we headed directly to the water. Relax and enjoying the cool clear water till about 6 when we had to clean up and get ready for dinner at Kampung.

cool..

...clear water, see the fishes?

We were served with bbq dinner. That's fantastic, but having few hundreds of people bbqueing over 3 fire could be a pain in the S. We were already starved since lunch. Yet we need to queue for dinner. Yet, we still manage to fill our grumbling tummy at bout 9. Then there were prize giving ceremony and some entertainment by local artist and cultural dance. And the whole event finished with a 5mins long fireworks display which was just perfect. It was right above us, simply beautiful.

after a tiring day

we feast.. hmm which is my chicken i wonder

PIC2008 Update 1

2008-10-24T22:21:00.008+08:00

Well, just wanna update my trip to Perhentian. What can i say? Extremely tired but satisfied.

Here goes. Me, HL, and Tim took a bus from Parit Buntar to KL at 3pm. Due to some accident on the way, we were caught in traffic and ended up in KL 8something. It was like a long long trip. Well, packed in our backpacks, as we arrived in Pudu, we make our way to MTC ( Malaysian Tourism Centre ). It wasn't to hard to locate it though. Hungry we were at that moment since we were rushing our way to MTC to make sure we don't miss the bus. On arrival we just look for some mamak stall nearby and grab some food just to fill our empty tummy.

Then we gathered back in MTC, many people were already there. Some were newbies like us, first timers, while some were all fully equipped. Later we can categorize the participants into 2 categories. Category one are those who were have been training for month, and are fighting for the finishing line. Category two are people like us, little training just wanna get pass the finishing line, and enjoy. Hehe. That night was a little havoc among the organisers, as there were lots of restless people waiting eagerly to be registed, get on the bus as we were tired, wet, and cold. After some hassle here and there, finally we got our bus number and hurried to the bus to get a comfy seat. There were like 10 buses, nice and brand new by the Terengganu gov. Very nice indeed the buses, but little did we know when we were about to enjoy our nice sleep we found out that the seat of the buses CANNOT be adjusted. Not even a little. Try imagine that, a nice comfy looking bus turned out to be the most dreaded bus anyone would ever wanna travel in. The buses were flagged of by the organisers at about midnight.

Horrible journey it was, having to sit upright for the whole 8 hours or so. Even before the race, I already had a terrible ache on the neck. As we arrived in Kuala Terengganu, the sun had risen. We could see the seaside and the some local views of KT. My first trip to the east coast, so a bit "sua ku". Everything seems fascinating even if it was just a sign "Keropok Lekor". We arrived at seaside which has a nicely built park. Toilet is what everyone was rushing for as the bus stopped. We were welcomed by big banners by the state gov and were provided with "wonderful" breakfast. Felt so honoured, like some sort of VIPs. We hanged around for breakfast for an hour or so. Then there were some speech by some BIG people of the authorities to welcome us. Then we were brought around to have a short tour around KT. We visited the Taman Tamadun Islam which has a variety of mosque followed by the State Museum.

Crystal Mosque at the back

Another view

us in the mosque in potter like robes

inner view

just another one

some other structures there

Terengganu state museum

Went travelling in the bus, i found out something interesting. The bus seems to be on the move all the time. I realised they didn't stop at traffic lights. Then i found out that there were several policemen escorting our convoy. They were there stopping all the traffic while we make our way through. Wow. People on the road were like staring at us like some sort of VIP. That's way cool. After the short tour we headed to Kuala Besut where we will be transferred to P.Perhentian.

Lunched was ready on arrival at the jetty.

After lunched, we waited for our turn to be transferred to the island. We went on speedboat which was fast as we could see them sort of floating in the air.

Speeding all the way

In the speedboat

The sight of the island were more and more visible. The sea water looked very clear. We can't wait to jump into the water. As soon as we step down on the island, registered for our tent, settle down and immediately we headed for the clear cool water. It was amazing. We could see lots of fishes swimming around.

Welcome to Perhentian

Our kayak destination

Kayaking with HL

At 4pm, we were served with some food, and briefed on the schedule. We had a little beach cleaning session just after tea. Then me, HL and some new found friends whom we met along the trip, went exploring the island a little. We went over to the other side of the island where there were more people. Then we rented kayak and went kayaking, just a little warm up before the race. Haha. It feels harder to kayak here probably due to the stronger wave here. We headed back to our campsite just in time for dinner and briefing for the race. We had Uncle Chan to reveal the race course and brief us on it. After dinner we sat by the beach chatting a little and enjoying the cool breeze as it was very hot in the tent. We jumped in to bed early that to get more rest and to prepare for the race day.

Some views of Perhentian

Back Home Again..

2008-10-24T22:13:00.003+08:00

Glad to enjoy a short break just before the exams. I didn't expect to be back this early, thanks to our lecturer who cancelled the test, I immediately went to buy tickets on weds nite for thurs nite bus home. And happy I am, to get a ticket back home. And here I am, back home. Been resting the whole day, just enjoying the feeling of lazing at home, without any worries, workload or just anything. Hehe, however there's still an urgent task waiting to be done. Something related to my FYP, which will due next weds. So by hook or by crook i'll need to force myself to start working on it. But i need solidworks, so hunting for the installer. Anyway, hoping for a great break before getting back to work.

Looking forward Deepavali, be going over to Vigren's. Haven't been there for few years. anyone care to join? looking forward those nice food.

Discovering my limits!!

2008-10-16T01:40:00.007+08:00

Here I am, blogging again. hmm. i wonder where all my luxurious free time went. Sneaking in in the middle of the night. I'm just rushing of some assignments and task before leaving tomorrow. I won't be around for the weekends. That's the whole idea. Getting away to Perhentian Island. Partially for the fun and relaxation, the rest of it is for the PIC2008 ( Perhentian Island Challenge ). It's a sort of physical challenges and brainteaser type questions to complete i think. But mainly the physical challenge may consist of swimming, kayaking, running, a little mountclimbing. The route is yet to be known. Will be revealed on that day itself or probably during the briefing. Something like that. The total time of completion 5 hours. I'll be partnering with HL in the team event. At least if i'm to tired to swimming, i can just float around and he pulls me along. And when i'm too tired to run, i can just hang on to him and he carries me along. I think that's a pretty good plan ain't it? Then during kayaking, I'll be sitting at the back taking some photos and giving him some morale support. Or will it be the other way round? Will find out when we comes back. Haha.

Training?? erm. that's a very good question. We did sports, mainly squash and some gym. I hope that's good enough. Fitness level ? not so to the max. I have a feeling i injured my knee during gym. and he injured his ankle during basketball. I hope it gets better on that day. Pray hard for miracle to happen. Hope our injury gets recovers fast if can give us extra boost of energy and speed and whatever it needs to win the competition. Gosh, I must be getting dreamy, I hear the bed calling to me. Well, just hope we complete within the required time, being in the top 10 would be a bonus.

Checklist : Hand gloves- checked

Cap- checked

Sun lotion- checked ( does it make any different? I wonders )

Swimming googles- checked

Water container, water carrying bag - hmm. just a bottle of water will do i guess.

Power Bar, Energy Bar, Power Gel, Chocolate- yup, got some of those power bar ( i just need those power coming in )

Sleeping bag - checked

neccessary personal belongings.... there's just so many things to bring, wondering what to leave behind.

Very well then. All set ready to go. Be taking the 3pm bus to kl, and from kl they provide transport there. PIC2008 here i come!

ponders over the theme, wondering if i discover my upper or lower limits

Best Of Luck!!

2008-10-13T01:11:00.004+08:00

Here I am again blogging in front of my comp when i should be studying for my A/C Test in 8 hours time. I tried to restrain myself from doing so but I think there's something that I should scribble a little.

PMR will officially begins tomorrow ( i think ). I just found out while chatting with my dear sister just now. She seems a little scared that's what she told me. Well I guess there will be some fear when facing these major exams. Even I myself does trembles during the finals which will soon be haunting. These are all pre exam syndromes i guess. I could still remember some moments when being in her place years ago. Hmm.. time really flies i guess. period. I better not start more topics, at least not now. So just wanna wish my dear sister all the best and good luck.

Do not worry too much. Stay focus and avoid any carelessness. I think carelessness sometime makes you feel like banging your head on the wall.

Once again, put in your best effort and a trail of good lucks to all taking PMR out there.

Win A Handbag Here!

2008-10-06T09:40:00.005+08:00

Just posting some ads. Happen to came across this ad from a friend. Handbag Planet.com is giving away free handbags. 24 of them to choose from. So go try your luck and who knows if you're the lucky one.

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12:00PM Wednesday, October 15th

Some pics to kickstart with

Lunched @ Little Cottage Cafe, Burma Road

2008-09-30T21:19:00.007+08:00

Heard some good comments on this cafe, so Agnes and I decided to went there for lunch after work on Saturday. We headed over to the one along Burma Road. It's just few shops after the CTY Pet Shop ( quite a large building, 4/5 floors ). The cafe is a double storey building. We sat at the lower floor which seems a little smaller. I didn't went to the upper level though. The interior was pretty cosy comfortable. They serve pretty reasonable set lunch, which comes with a soup of the day, bread, main course, dessert and either coffee or tea for 9.90, 15.90 & 19.90. For the menu. They will serve each of them in that order. The coffee came last though. I'm not sure if they missed that out or it was suppose to serve last. We ordered a Golden Fried Fish Fillet and Chicken Chop Little Cottage Style. On the overall I'd say that the food was worth trying. Thumbs up.

Little Cottage Cafe @ Burma Road

Some interior views

Soup of the day with bread

Fish Fillet

Chicken Chop

Dessert ( some kind of jelly, doesn't taste that nice to me )

Finally a cup of coffee

Official website : http://www.littlecottagecafe.com
Location : Burma Road

Homecoming...

2008-09-26T09:03:00.000+08:00

Yet again, holiday is just around the corner, or should i say has finally started. one week of break for Raya, just a perfect timing for break. I'm already in the holiday mood, refused to touch my work, just staring at my screen, watching movie, reading some blogs and writing this post. Some are already back home, some will be back tomorrow or later and there are even some who will not be back home. I guess i'll need to enjoy this holiday as during the semester break i'll probably be stuck in campus working on my FYP.
Anyway i'll be going back on sat with HL as he'll be driving back. SK had been asking on my arrival back home so that he can plan for activities. haha. I wonder who else will be back mlk. Hope to see some souls back in town.
I won't be back too long. Be coming back campus on Raya second day. Gotta get some stuff doing and work done before class resumes. After Raya then gotta start getting back into serious business. Assignments, test, reports, presentations everything will start haunting again. Will worry about that later.

Happy holidays & Selamat Hari Raya to all~
take care during the festive season.

走了..

2008-09-17T00:31:00.004+08:00

当你知道你最亲爱的人已经走了,
永远都不在回来时,
突然间,你的一生好象失去了一部分.
说不伤心是一个谎话,
没有可能的事.
泪水会不断得流,失去控制.
你无法接受事实,
他已经走了.
看着他的样子,
突然很想跟他说很多话,
但他不会再回答我了.
宁愿被打被骂都不象他不理不彩地.

心里开始接受事实,
头脑不停的发出千千万万个问题,
怀念着他的关怀,贴心,和爱护.
心里一直挣扎,
自己没对他更好,
没听他所说的话,
知会反抗,
不会体谅他对我们的关心和担忧,
但已经太迟了.

人生就是着样地,
有开始也会有结束的一天,
我相信走了的他会去到一个更好的地方,
在遥远的望着我们,
希望我们会继续走完我们的路,
不会让他失望.

我的悲伤减少了,
反而增加了我的奋斗精神.
我不会让他失望,
至少那是我唯一能为他做的事,
让他为我而光荣.

My deepest condolences to hk & your family on the demise of your father. May God give him eternal rest and may his soul rest in peace..

Mooncake Festival Celebration @ Tambun

2008-09-16T16:58:00.007+08:00

Tambun was where we went on sat night for a nice meal of seafood. It's raining a little that night. Cool enough, with the delicious food and a cup of Peach Absolutwas just perfect.
Attendees : HL, PL, LT, LF, Tyng, YY, YY, Yin, Momo, Ryan, Agnes & myself
Food Served : Fried Tofu, Prawn, Crab ( 2 flavours ), Balitung, Frog, Green Vege
Beverages : Chinese Tea, Absolut® Apeach vodka
ProPhotographers : Ryan, Momo
Beginner Phographers : HL, Yin,Me

Food Served

we have LT, YY, LF, YY, Yin ( indeed double YYs ) in da house

Photographers, Momo & Ryan

Here's Agnes and Tyng

Gigantic Crab

Feast wouldn't be completed without a cup of Absolut.

Potluck @ Eric's

2008-09-16T07:55:00.003+08:00

Once again, potluck event organised to celebrate mooncake festival. Everyone brought along some food and met up at Eric's place. It's nice having such events when friends get together to hang out. So let's dig in.

Rice's ready. Everyone grab your food. A variety of food served which include mix vege, green vege, chicken, green pepper,sausages, nuggets, fried wontons, cucurs. Even Owen's hungry.

After dinner we were all so full. So it's tanglung time. We also brought along tanglungs and mooncake celebrate this event. We went down to the park downstairs to start our second event.

Lighting up candles. We've got Loong the water boy, serving the drink. Ni getting the mooncakes divided equally. Lanterns lighted up, too bad can't really see the person behind it. hehe. And Loong posing with his little lantern.

I was also busy keeping the lanterns lighted up. Some were busy chatting their way, Owen was curious about what's happening. I accidentally got a lantern on fire. Oops. Luckily din't it's just a lantern.
There were other groups of people there also busy lighting up their lanterns. It feels nice having lots ppl around celebrating the event. Under the moonlight, sipping our drinks and eating mooncake. Just perfect. We hanged out till bout midnight. And went back to Eric's for a while, cleared things up and time to go home.

That's Owen again, he can actually dance around on his 2 feet. So cute. Serf trained him well. Hehe.

Introducing Lilo & Popi. That's Eric's. They are sugargliders which i've nvr seen anyone having as a pet. They're cute too. Tiny little creature. They've been laying there sleeping all day long. I guess he noticed that i was taking a pic of him. They will only be active in the middle of the night ( just like the owner *giggles* ).

....... 的一天

2008-09-15T23:18:00.003+08:00

不知为什么今天没心情作东西.我望着电脑,电脑望着我.
什么都不想作.有点孤独的感受.当我需要朋友聊天的时刻却没人回我.
要不是就很忙.
我可以接受.
当我看见朋友在聊着,我走了过去,但人家却走开一边,可能在说着私人事.
我能接受.
就回到我该作的事.我收到某些消息,但总觉得有人在我背后
不想让我知道.我也不知发生什么事.我也不知该怎么做.
都是在关心着朋友. 总想不通. 突然边了一个陌生人.
还好打了一场球. 发泄了一点.
可能陪排斥了.
或许我想太多了.
或许是我自己的问题.
该做的已经做了.
别想太多了. 还有很多事等着我去做地.

船到桥头自然直.

只想发泄心里的话.

Unhappy incident..

2008-09-12T00:07:00.006+08:00

I was having my usual squash game in the evening with HL, just when we were about to leave a coursemate came to look for me saying that there's ppl looking for me from main campus. Without doubt i knew it's SOS from my dear Agnes. That day was one of the few days which i leave my phone in the room. Hurriedly i went back and grab hold of my phone. A little worried i was not knowing what was the matter. I returned call to KF then to Zoey trying to get to Agnes. Then i knew that unluckily she had became victim of a snatch thief.
Thank god nothing serious just losing her handbag. She had her newly bought phone, some cash, and car keys. What got us worried was the car keys which we worried that the thief would come back for the car as she was approaching the car when the incident took place. So I had no choice but to rush over as i have another spare key with me. I reached there at about 9pm. Took the car and went for dinner. Later that night she had to go over to the Tanjung Tokong Police Station to meet with an officer for futher report on the incident. By the time we settled everything it's almost midnight.

The following day i skipped classes and accompanied her to get her IC replaced, driving license, cancellation of bank card and replace with a new one, and getting a replaced simcard.

Hopefully some good luck will be coming our way.

MidSem Break..

2008-08-30T21:33:00.001+08:00

Just posting some past events. Summer Concert MITC. JC,Phang,Fei come down to malacca for the concert. So me and GY took turns bringing them out. That weekend was quite a tired one. I reached back home fri morn. Rested for a while then had dinner with them. Satay Celup, among the must try for those not from mlk. hehe.

getting ready

phang taking some shots

the secret ingredients *grins*

special request XXXL

irresistable

Then we headed to Jonker Walk for a stroll and see if there's any stuff to buy. It has a variety of handicrafts and cute little items. We even stop by for some local food.
Later that night, they went back to GY's place, while i had other plans. hehe. The guys called my over to beeb at first but it was about to rain so they switch to EQ lounge. My first time there. Quite a nice place to me. I ordered a mojito which seems to have the lowest alcohol content. It's sort off rum+lime juice. I liked it. Hehe. Then later the guys have not had enough. So we drop by at Pure Bar and had 2 buckets. It's indeed a great night with them.

The devil just got high @ Pure. KickAss buddies.

Bestest Buddy *cheers*

can't wait for the next outing *grins*

The following day, meet up with JC, Phang ,MFei again. Went to Cheng hoon Teng temple. Went for the famous Chicken Rice Balls for lunch which I will nvr ever go there for lunch. Cos the queue is always neverending and it's quite pricey. Then i drop them for shopping after lunch while I went home to get some stuff done. Then meet up with them for karaoke @the Jetty with some fellow campus mates. some locals some not. Seems like a little gathering in mlk.
Then came evening, getting ready for the concert. It's drizzling a little. I ask my dear sis who was so nice to drop me at MITC as i don't wanna get involve in the massive jam and problem finding parking. The concert started almost 830pm which was a little late. Various artists appeared in the concert, among some were local superstar winners, which none of them that is familiar to me at all. Then there were the more popular one like , Show, Jam, Energy, Rainie, Stanley and not forgetting Jolin. Luckily it didn't pour much. Just a little drizzle.

Some shots from the concert

Summer concert 2008

After the concert I was having a hard time calling out. Luckily still manage to get to my dad to pick me up. Arrived home safely at about 1am.
Quickly jumped into bed and caught a 2hours sleep. Got up at 3am, drove down to Seremban with dad n sis for the Seremban Half Marathon 2008. I didn't participate for the half though, just took the quarter as i didn't train much. The race started about 7am. It's a little tougher this time as they'd changed the route a little, more of hilly areas which was really taxing. Finished in about an hour. Sis was much better as she came back 4th placing in her category. *clap clap*.

View from the stadium

Seremban Half Marathon 2008

We headed back mlk and reached back about noon. Rested for a while, before i could actually enjoy my rest I need to get on the bus back to campus. Reached back campus at bout 10pm. Thx to lian who picked me up from the bus station that night.

Finally some quality rest? I doubt, had work loads pending waiting right on my desk. Sigh.. Tiring it mayb, but enjoyable is the most important making it worth the tiredness.

CONVOLYMPIC PART III ( SUN )

2008-08-20T15:13:00.000+08:00

The final day. Went to Georgetown for dim sum breakfast at opposite KDU. The food was good and not too expensive. Worth trying. One of my favourite spot for breakfast. Hehe. It's quite pack during weekends.

A nice cup of chinese tea

The crowd

Here comes the food

Let's feast

Later we went collecting flowers and headed back home to prepare.

Lovely flowers, aren't they?

Agnes’s convo was in the afternoon. She had to be there by 230pm. I dropped them in USM and headed back home. I watched the live streaming of the ceremony at home, the earlier part. And recorded hers as it was the later part. I got ready and went over. I was sweating like a pig as it’s kinda hot and I had to carry lots of stuffs which includes 2 bouquet of flowers on my left hand, camera hanged over my neck and shoot with single right hand, and some little stuffed toys in the bag behind.

Crowded as usual, eagerly waiting for the participants in the hall to come out. When I saw Agnes and her friends coming out I eagerly started shooting with the cam.

Squeezing my way through the crowd

Then met up with friends, her parents then photos and more photos. Hehe. I even met some course mates ( HL, PL, JC, Phang, WH ) there with their friends. Finally we left about 7. Went SuperTanker for dinner and went home to pack up as her parents’ bus is at 1030pm.

After seeing her parents off we headed back and had a good rest. Definitely tiring.

group photos

& more

^_^

d' collections

CONVOLYMPIC PART II ( SAT )

2008-08-19T07:22:00.000+08:00

Saturday was a little break from convo. Brought Agnes’ parents out for breakfast in Ayer Hitam then went up Kek Lok Si to have a look and take some nice pictures. Hehe. Met some seniors and frens. Seems like whole penang is crowded with friends and their family.

From Kek Lok Si

Then we went over to Gerogetown for Penang Laksa and TeoChew Chendol which are among the must have in Penang. The weather was a little gloomy and it drizzled a little.

Teochew "Chendul"

Then we headed back home, took a rest and got ready for photoshoot in the evening at Santiago Bridal House, Georgetown. Agnes had 2 sessions, one with family and another with friends. So it’s kinda crowded at the studio. Everyone was trying to look as good as possible. After that they had more photoshoot on their own since all were still looking good.

Poor bear

It’s pass 9 when we finally decided to leave. And we headed to Jelutong for dinner. Back home, took a shower, transferred some photos, charged up all batteries preparing for the next day. Tiring 2nd Day.

CONVOLYMPIC PART I

2008-08-19T07:07:00.000+08:00

it took me quite sometime to had this posted up. i'm a little lazy and busy anyway. i'll try to keep up again. hehe.

It’s been a tiring weekend. Finally it’s over. What a relieve. I can’t imagine when it’s my turn next year. It’s started off with Engineering on Friday afternoon. I followed HL over from campus. I had to collect flowers for my senior and fetch Agnes’ parents while she had to tidy up the place for them.
After dropping them off at home I headed off to USM main hall where lots of my friends where already there. This is my first time attending a convocation. We had to wait till the whole ceremony to be over which was almost 6. We walked around the bazaar, took a drink and waiting for time to pass. Then when it’s almost time ppl started crowding in front of the hall eagerly waiting for the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and friends. It took my quite some time to get to my seniors. So is everyone else. It was so crowded that even gathering at the post office is not good enough. Front, back, left , right? Everywhere filled with ppl. Then photo taking with whoever we met.
Luckily I borrowed Momo’s new cam, Sony A200 to take some nice shots. I’m not too familiar with it though but still manage to get some nice shots. Ryan also brought his shooting away. I hanged around till almost 8, picked Agnes’ with her parents and took dinner in Queensbay. Tiring day 1.

familiar face i met

Congrats to all seniors

2008-08-06T00:00:00.001+08:00

6 of August is the date. I hereby wish her a very happy n wonderful birthday! I may not be able to celebrate with her on this very memorable day but my heart will always be with her all the time. We'll postpone the celebration to some dates later. Hmm. I haven't decided on how to celebrate with her yet this year. Postponing the celebration bought me a little more time. Buying her a present is also another thing to think about. Well, anyway i'll just keep all these secret for the time being. Hehe.

Happy Birthday my dear! With Hugs and Kisses and Loves from me hoping that you'll have a wonderful time this year round. Being always cheerful and lovable.

Always Loving You, Jihouh

Happy Birthday Littlest Sis!!

2008-08-04T23:25:00.002+08:00

Just creating a short post to wish my dear littlest sis a very happy birthday. I almost forgotten all about it. Luckily dad reminded me. oops. Paiseh. Littlest sis she is. As she's the youngest and physically the smallest. She's currently in form 3 but i think she looked more like a primary school girl. haha. ( so bad of me ) Anyway I also take this opportunity to wish her all the best and good luck for her PMR which i think is just around the corner.
Study hard k.
Erm. Thought of buying something for her but i'm not sure what. we'll see.

生日快乐!