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30/03/10: The company to die for.. Google

2010-03-30T23:32:00.003+08:00

Here's a company chinamen should take as a good example to follow, although a little too ideal but at least 50% will do. Known about this a long time ago but recently brought up again by some troll in LYN, I think it is best to share it here.

20/03/10: Sien...ZZZzzz..NBTD

2010-03-20T18:34:00.005+08:00

Wanted to go to town today but it was raining ever since I woke up. When the rain receded, it was already too late for me to do what I wanted but at least the weather is cooling and windy. Two cups of coffee kept me awake or I will be sleeping for the whole day.

Usually filled with hot mamas but today the jogging track is empty.

Had some noodles in the morning but after doing laundry, vacuuming and some office work I felt hungry again. Cooked myself sweet and sour fish with french toast. I bought a bottle of sweet and sour sauce specially for fish but in the end it just taste like tomato sauce...ZZZzz, should had bought char siew sauce.

For a light meal, I had managed to generate so many dishes. Zzzz. More dishes again...

And for dinner... Mushroom kimchi noodles with mix vege and fish... how more weirder can it go

04/03/10: Can't help it! why some ppl are such retards

2010-03-04T22:09:00.002+08:00

I cant help but to post the following article, it was written by a guy with the name of Jansen Ko and what he wrote makes me wonder. I was previously in kind of the same situation. People that breakup and reasons it with religion, feng sui..etc etc are just pure retards. Here enjoy;

Some Memories; No Doubt just Ramblings to the Passerby

When I first entered the National University of Singapore, I was the loner kid who did not bat an eyelid at girls. Girls, with all their idiosyncrasies like gossiping or buying pairs of shoes after shoes, were too much for me to handle. I was more interested in climbing, and girls only served to take away my climbing time.

You first approached me. You started giving me gifts, like chocolates and small cards. These little nuggets made a boring day suddenly exciting. In all your little notes, you asked about my life; you dropped encouragements; you made me feel special in a way no other person has managed to. Any unfeeling heart would melt under these circumstances.

In the one year that we spent together, I cannot remember a single unhappy moment. Sure we had disagreements, but we sorted them out as soon as they surfaced. Never once had we an argument. I still remember the incident when you crashed the car. To the best of my ability, I arranged for a mechanic to repair the damages, negotiated for a good repair price between the accident victim and the mechanic, and paid for all the upfront costs first. Do you remember how I told you then since you did not have any liquid assets; you could try to barter your fully stocked cupboard with the parties? A little nasty yes, but all for your own good. In the end, I still helped you make the payment with the money I scrupulously saved.

I still remember our overseas trips. Those weeks spent away from urbanisation, getting to learn more about each other, and gaining insights together. All these memories I hold close to my heart. But they aren’t important anymore. After one year together, without warning, you dropped a bombshell on me – convert or break up. I was devastated. I cannot begin to describe the hurt and anguish I felt. You’ve left me behind to walk the long road ahead on my own. I languished in my grief. I can’t even do the thing I loved to do most – climbing. All the fight has been drained out of me. How long will it take to pick up the pieces? I wonder. One Chinese proverb particularly lent me support: If you can pick it up, you should be able to put it down. In my desire to understand how a religion, which in its entirety claims to preach love and compassion, drove you to unilaterally and resolutely want the break up, I achieved revelation. Indeed, the learning process is accelerated when feelings are invested.

Undone by 2 Corinthians 6:14

Do not be unequally yoked together with non-believers. You believe that God created you in His image, and that He is ‘a member of your body’. Because of this religious doctrine, you believe that the resulting union between a Christian and a non-Christian is unholy. You believe that you will not be granted entry into the Kingdom of Heaven. You believe that if you commit the sin, you will burn for eternity in hellfire.

I realise now how you could be so calm when you made your decision to break up known to me. I collapsed with grief, whereas you could still go jamming with the rest in the immediate aftermath. You felt like you were doing God’s work, and you found peace in Him. I had no such consolation. My life just fell apart. In sorrow, I grasped at reasons at why you might be unhappy with me. Did I treat you badly? Was I overly possessive? Was I not spontaneous enough for you? All these queries drew a blank.

Only after reading the scripture did my hurt, disappointment and anger subside. I realised the very difficult spiritual position you were in. Just like how Christ is head of the Church, the man is to be the head of the house. I cannot provide you with the spiritual support that is demanded of me in the bible. The bible you believe to be the divinely inspired word of God.

A Reason-Driven Life

You shared with me how you attended Sunday school since you were in primary school and finally got baptized in secondary one. You shared with me how you were previously a naughty and unruly girl, and how religion has changed you for the better. Unfortunately, I do not share that same background as you. But like you, I am a social construct of our upbringing.

I used to be the typical nerd in school and studied diligently. From a young age, I’ve learnt to correlate good results with hard work. If I studied hard and obtained good grades, I deserved all the credit. If I decided to be lazy, took a back seat and get punished with bad grades, then I reap what I sown. I do not praise the Lord for everything good thing that happened in my life and vice versa, blame Satan for everything bad. Rather, I encourage and berate myself in accordance to my successes or failures. As a result of my firm belief in effort and reward, my grades have always been above average, if not excellent. In the blink of an eye, 23 years have passed. In that same duration I have lived without a God in my life.

Because of this upbringing, I am firmly steeped in reason and anecdotal evidence. Just like how you are indoctrinated in unquestioningly faith as a virtue, I am indoctrinated in intellectual scepticism as a merit. For me to convert to become a fundamentalist Christian like yourself, instead of becoming a half-past-six Christian (as one Christian friend has appallingly recommended me), I need to be surrounded by overwhelming, mutually self-reinforcing evidence. I embarked on reading the Bible, and within the first few chapters of the holy book I already found several distasteful contradictions. Contradictions I am unable to reconcile. At this point, we must decide if we think whether intellectual scepticism or blind faith more virtuous. Should a child be inquisitive and ask and question and debate or should he be obedient and servient and accept everything spoken to be the truth of the world? Perhaps I failed to read the Bible spiritually, or adopt its teachings with the same unquestioning acceptance as you did. If I were to become a baptized Christian, then all my queries have to be answered to me by the faith, one by one. Prepare yourself for a deluge of intellectual bombardment.

Big Bang Theory

Mathematicians have calculated that the probability of us coming into existence out of random chance is very, very minute. Therefore, some higher being must have created us. But this hypothesis creates more problems than it solves – the problem of infinite regress. If you follow the logical train of thought, if God created us, then who created Him? Christians tell me that their Judeo-Christian God is uncreated, and that he has simply always existed. There is no analogy, no basis for comparison against this argument in nature, and I cannot wrap my head around this claim. If I were to worship a God, then naturally it behoves me to worship the ultimate creator. Can you conclusively prove to me that your God is the ultimate creator? Just because you firmly believe in something doesn’t necessarily mean it is correct. If I firmly believe that there is a teapot orbiting around the Earth, then the onus is on me to prove my theory. The onus is on you to prove your God to me.

So many Religions, Which one is True?

How are we supposed to know which religion is the true religion? Just because someone follows a certain faith does not necessarily mean it is the right path. Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together. Or perhaps there are no gods. No one can say for sure. There were 3200 religions in the world since the start of time. Since only 1 religion can be correct, then the other 3199 religions must be wrong. Christians say their God is the one true God, as do the Muslims, Jews, Hindus and more. And radicals from each faith are willing to be a martyr for what they think is the highest ideal.

Do you not see that the place of your birth determines your religion? If you were born in Japan, you’ll be a Shinto. If you were born in India, you’ll be a Hindu. If you were born in Tibet, you’ll be a Buddhist. If you were born in Norway during the times of the Vikings, you’ll believe in Thor and his hammer! The fact that Christians think a child to be the child of God, instead of a child of Christian parents, or Hindu parents, or Muslim parents, is unacceptable.

Do not all religions appear strange to those who stand outside of them? A case in point: when I recounted my predicament to a PRC friend, she found religion to be a ludicrous myth. Only an insidious force such as religion can break up such a happy relationship, she told me. She also shared with me how the Fa Lun Gong Movement is creating a lot of social problems in China.

Age of the Earth

Creationists argue that the world is 6000 years old. But science, through using several independent methods of radiological dating, has repeatedly proven the world to be about 4.5billion years old. Dinosaur fossils are tested to be about 65million years old. That the age of the Earth is 6000 years old is a myth. How Christians stand steadfast in their story of creation in the face of such staggering evidence defies understanding.

Noah’s Ark

Genesis 6:15 states that Noah's ark was 300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits in size. Today, experts agree that a cubit was approximately 18 inches, yielding a volume (if perfectly rectangular, the most voluminous possible shape of three unequal dimensions) of 1,518,750 cubic feet. Into this, you must fit two of each of the 30,000,000 species on earth (60,000,000 creatures altogether), plus all the food needed to keep all of them alive for about a year when the flood raged. Even without the mind-boggling amount of food required, it is technically impossible to pile all the creatures in the ark, together with space for bedding or room to stand. Furthermore, Noah has to go the Arctic to collect 2 penguins, go to Antarctic to collect 2 polar bears, go to Kalahari Desert to find 2 meerkats, go to Asia to find 2 tigers, and get 2 Tyrannosaurus Rex to enter the ark.

Also, if it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, then given the severe drop in salinity of the seawater, most of the fragile marine species should have died out – something not evident in the world today. Given the above analysis, the story of Noah’s Ark cannot be true.

Bible not being a Good Moral Compass

God tells you to stone people who believe in other gods to death

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy father; Namely, of the god of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the Earth; Thou shall not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him, neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shall thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die (Deuteronomy 13:6-10).

Abraham makes an offering of his son to appease God’s whimsical wishes

And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of (Genesis 22: 1-2).

Abraham heard an imaginary voice in his head telling him to murder Isaac. He subsequently lifts the blade to his son’s throat. These actions demand unquestioning belief. It requires what philosophers refer to as a leap of faith. Earlier, God had promised Abraham that he would spread his seed far and wide for him. A dilemma is presented at this point. How can I possibly spread my seed if I kill my only son? That God ultimately did not claim the sacrifice is of secondary importance. What if one day, you hear an imaginary voice in your head, telling you to sacrifice your child? I can only imagine hapless believers, killing their children over what they think is God’s mandate. To people outside the faith, this act of abomination is nothing less than cold-blooded murder. Furthermore, this contradicts with the ‘Thou shall not murder’ commandment. So many inconsistencies, yet you can effortlessly accept where I find it morally repulsive to.

Moses the Prophet

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves (Numbers 31: 17-18). Moses, who was angered at the Israelites merciful restrain towards the conquered Midianite people, ordered his men to kill innocent children in cold blood, and kill every female that is married to the Midianite men. What sin did the Midianite male children and married females commit that demands this genocide? The greatest irony is that it was Moses who brought down the 10 unbreakable commandments inscribed in stone. Given the savage nature of what you have already witnessed, it should come as a big surprise to you that one of the commandments were actually Thou shall not kill. Yet, here was Moses, ordering the mass slaughter of children and women in cold blood, not unlike the gas camps of the Nazis or the killing fields of Pol Pot.

Rape My Daughter as you Please

Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him. And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly. Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light. And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold. And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place. And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid down hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel (Judges 19: 22-29).

This entire particularly nasty paragraph describes the inferior status of women, equivalent to that of playthings, as sanctioned in the Bible. The man offered his concubine to be raped, instead of fighting to defend her, as I would have done without hesitation. Following that, the same man desecrated her body when she died instead of providing her with a proper burial. I hope this piece of scripture shocks you as much as it has shocked me. In today’s civilised world, such acts of betrayal and moral destitution are considered socially repugnant, yet these are the teachings you meekly accept with unquestioningly faith. These are the issues that you must grapple with if you truly accept your faith in its entirety.

Cherry Picking within the Bible

Of course now Christians will be protesting, because they claim that Jesus, who has descended onto the world to die on the cross for our sins, has changed the world since the nasty days of the Old Testament. No doubt the New Testament is an improved version of the Old Testament from a moral position. The idea is that God had himself incarnated as a man, Jesus, in order that he should be hideously tortured and executed in order to redeem our sins. And not just the original sin of Adam and Eve, but all future sins, whether we decide to commit them or not. Ultimately when we die, God is both judge and jury in the decision to allow entry into the gates of the Holy City. So then, why does he need to die on the cross for us to atone us for our sins just so he can judge us again at the end? Why not just forgive us outright? Is he not supposed to be all powerful and all merciful?

In fact, contrary to what many Christians believe, the New Testament openly endorses the laws of the Old Testament. Think not that I am to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For I verily say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled (Matthew 5: 17-18). All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness (2 Timothy 3: 13). It cannot be any clearer. The laws in the Old Testament are to be obeyed. It is downright shameful how Christians can interpret otherwise.

Christian apologetics reason that in the days of the Old Testament, we had to follow the moral, civil and priestly laws. For them, because we are not under a theocratic system today and because by sacrificing himself Jesus fulfilled the priestly law, only the moral laws apply today. This explains why homosexuals and adulterers were stoned in the past, but are not today. This explanation is flawed. The moral law is created by God, the civil law by whichever political system was governing the country at that time, and priestly laws by the priest. If God commanded that adulterers be stoned, then it is solely a moral law set by him. Do the civil or priestly laws have the right to interfere? Do you mean to tell me that the state or the priests have more power over the supreme Creator of your universe? How can Christians allow the moral law of their God be tainted by the secondary laws set by humans, especially since human beings were intelligently designed to be imperfect? I would think that if you were a true Christian, you would follow your God’s law to the letter.

As much as the Bible supposedly preaches values of love, compassion and mercy, it also advocates slavery, hate, pettiness, anger, jealousy and narrow-mindedness. Just one line from Confucius could triumph all the moral pretentiousness of the Bible. “Do not do unto others what you do not wish to be done unto yourself”. Imagine if this phrase was incorporated as one of the tenets of the 10 commandments (instead of the morally inept “You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife” commandment). It is obvious that the world will see much less conflict or better still, no conflict at all. Not to mention the irrational breaking up of a perfectly happy relationship.

Disagreement among the Different Sects

There are many different Christian denominations, all of which disagree with one another over which doctrine to place emphasis on, which church to follow, etc. The faith is spilt into the 3 branches of Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism and Protestantism. Under each of these denominations there are further sub-groups. For example, under the Protestant group, further denominations include the Anabaptists, Pentecostals, Adventists, Baptists, Calvinists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists and Lutherans. Not forgetting other sects like the Puritans or Pletism that have died out since the 1800s.

As if the disagreement between various religions is not conflict enough, denominations within the Christian faith all disagree with each other. Catholics believe that Mary had no original sin, remained free of sin throughout her life, is the “Mother of God” and the new Eve. They also believe of her bodily assumption into heaven instead of death. Other Christian factions disagree. Seventh-day Adventists believe that the Saturday, originally the seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, should be the Sabbath. Other Christian factions disagree. Mormons think that all drugs, including caffeine in coffee and tea, are a travesty to biblical laws. Other Christian factions disagree. It appears that conflict, not consensus, is a central theme of Christianity.

Debate over Homosexuality

Recently, the issue of gay pastors has been thrust into the limelight in predominantly Christian America.

In August 2006, leaders of the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination began a tense debate in Minneapolis on whether to ordain gay men and lesbians. The denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is considering lifting a ban on noncelibate gay and lesbian pastors, permitting the ordination of people in committed same-sex relationships. Let’s see what the Bible has to say about homosexuality. If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them (Leviticus 20: 13). Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolater, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, not extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6: 9-10). Is it not peculiar how the Lutheran Church leaders interpret the scripture in a vastly different way from how you interpret it? Such church leaders, with the power to influence the minds of all of their gigantic congregations, has despite the warnings listed down in the Bible, decided to go ahead with the vote to ordain gay pastors. Can you not see how religion is susceptible to starkly contrasting interpretations, and subsequently abuse? I cannot imagine the day when Singaporean church leaders decide to interpret the Bible in the fundamentalist way (that their religion is the one true religion and all other religions are profoundly false and necessarily wicked), and incite religious hatred against other faiths.

In November 2006, leader of the 30million-member National Association of Evangelicals in the US, Pastor Ted Haggard, resigned after being embroiled in a gay sex scandal with another man. The other party, prostitute and masseur Mike Jones felt he had to expose the hypocrisy behind Pastor Ted’s anti gay marriage preaching on one hand, but engaging in sexual activities with a man on the other. Pastor Ted has since been stripped of his ministry. Saying one thing but doing another? That’s old news to me, at least where Christianity is concerned.

A Holistic Interpretation

Here is what the Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford, has to say on the issue of homosexuality. “Well if you take the issue of homosexuality, there is no doubt that more so in the Old Testament, but also present in the New Testament, that there are a number of texts, not as many as people think there are, but there are a few, that clearly regard homosexuality as wrong. But it is a question of how you interpret the Bible - whether it is right to extract a few isolated texts, rather than seeing the whole message of the Bible; the whole message of Jesus.” He says that in the past during the Roman times homosexuality as a choice is frowned upon; whereas from the understanding that biology gives us today, it appears that homosexuality is a circumstance. Progressive values espoused from such an authority figure in the religious circles are steps forward for mankind. Christians need to read the Bible in its entirety and inculcate the over-arching loving and compassionate message of Jesus.

If the Bishop of Oxford says that extracting a few isolated texts from the Bible is morally unjustifiable, then extracting the sole “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers” line, and basing your decision to break up on religious dogma should be considered most absurd!

Worldwide Conflicts as a Result of Religion

I see how you remain blissfully (or should I use woefully) unaware of current world affairs. Whenever I point out conflicts arising as a result of religion to you, I notice how you always looked shocked. It is as if you live in protective little bubble your religion provides, and think it impossible how so much evil can arise out of a supposedly good thing like religion.

You are fortunate you reside in Singapore, where religion is kept separate from politics. Having the Internal Security Department hawk over the evangelical groups to toe them in line, though admittedly draconian, does have the merits of preventing religiously intolerant religions like your own from inciting racial and religious hatred. Case in point: Pastor Rony Tan shooting his mouth off in his sermons.

Do you not see that incompatible religious doctrines have divided our world into separate moral communities, and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed? Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it has been at any time in the past (Crusades and Spanish Inquisition). The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews vs. Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians vs. Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians vs. Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants vs. Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims vs. Hindus), Sudan (Muslims vs. Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims vs. Christians), Ethiopia and Eritrea (Muslims vs. Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists vs. Tamil Hindus), Indonesia (Muslims vs. Timorese Christians), Iran and Iraq (Shiite vs. Sunni Muslims), and the Caucasus (Orthodox Russians vs. Chechen Muslims; Muslim Azerbaijanis vs. Catholic and Orthodox Armenians) are merely a few cases in point.

I sincerely hope that I have opened your eyes to blood spilt all over the world by people who fight over whose God is truer. You still think religion is always a force for good? Think again.

Radicalism

In 1994, Reverend Paul Hill shot Doctor John Britton and his bodyguard, James Barrett outside the doctor’s abortion clinic in Florida. The crime of the doctor, as religiously perceived by Hill, was the carrying out of abortion procedures for a woman who requested it. In a religious fervour to do his version of God’s work, Hill turned his back on progressive values and went against civil law. In a statement before his execution, Hill said that he felt no remorse for his actions, and that he expected a great reward in Heaven. In his last words, he encouraged others who believed abortion contravenes the word of God to ‘do what you have to do to stop it’.

This psychopath, who somehow managed to get himself ordained as a reverend, is telling his followers to go and commit more of such cold blooded murder of abortion practitioners. Has he decided to selectively skip the ‘Thou shall not kill’ commandment? In the course of his journey to become a priest, has the values of love and compassion and mercy (the same values that you probably hold dear to your heart) not been drilled into him? How can he commit such an atrocity and yet remain defiant even till his deathbed? Perhaps just like the peace you found in God when you decided to break up with me, he found his peace too. This same ‘peace’ has led to uncountable nights of me sobbing into my pillow. The same can probably be said for the wife and young children the doctor has left behind.

In Malaysia, dispute over the use of the word Allah in Christian doctrine had erupted in conflict. Churches were vandalised and set on fire by fanatical Muslim youths who believed that the word Allah belonged their faith and not to Malaysians who practiced other faiths. Retaliatory attacks were soon launched on Muslim mosques. How many more places of worship has to be defaced, how many more lives have to be lost, before you peer out of your cocoon and see the truth of the world?

Religion is seen by the scholars as false, by the commoners as true, and by the politicians as useful. Case in point: United States President George Bush Jr. told the American public that God gave him the mandate to attack Iraq. In a media boo-boo, he said that it was a crusade against evil. Crusade. The word rings a bell, doesn’t it? The reason behind the illegitimate invasion was to destroy the weapons of mass destruction Saddam Hussein kept, but they found none. They found barrels of black gold though.

Christian Leaders as Good Role Models?

AWARE Saga

Earlier I pointed out how the Bible is not exactly the best moral compass. Similarly, the actions of some Christian leaders leave much to be desired. A right-wing Christian group who perceived the campaigns of AWARE (a non-profit organisation), as being pro-homosexuality, storm-troopered the advocacy’s group annual general meeting and snatched power. AWARE saw a stunning leadership change when newcomers captured 9 of the 12 executive committee posts. Older members questioned their motives as well as the sudden influx of new members who joined AWARE just months before the AGM. The new team sacked the AWARE centre’s manager, a paid employee, changed the locks at the AWARE office and had a stand-off with old guard members who turned up later.

With four of the new exco members attending the same church – and having the same ‘feminist mentor’ in the form of lawyer Thio Su Mien – and all espousing ‘pro-family’, anti-gay sentiments, it is obvious that a religious group is trying to impose its agenda on a secular non-profit organization. Do you not see the problem here when religious people, no doubt in the zeal to do God’s work, go beyond simply evangelising their beliefs to attempting to pass their preferred moral practices into legislation. By their actions, the Christian Right has notoriously established a benchmark for religiously inspired activism that may well be emulated by people of other faiths. This is the start of a slippery slope. The consequences of skidding down that slope are unimaginable for a multi-religious society like Singapore’s.

Father Joacquim Kang

Kang was sentenced to seven and a half years in jail in 2004 for misappropriating $5.1 million in church funds while serving as a parish priest at St Teresa's Church. I wonder if his followers will still have faith in him. Leadership by example, anyone?

Pastor Rony Tan

Rony Tan, the leader of Lighthouse Evangelism, an independent church with 12,000 members, ridiculed Buddhism and Taoism in his sermons to his church. The most appalling thing was that as he was inserting snide remarks and nasty untruths about other faiths, the entire congregation was laughing together with him. I shudder to think that some of my Christian friends may be sitting among those in that congregation.

Catholic priests molesting children

The catholic sex abuse cases are a series of lawsuits, criminal prosecutions and scandals related to the sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests against minors. Beyond the actual abuses, much of the scandal focused around the actions of some members of the Catholic hierarchy who did not report the crimes to legal authorities and reassigned the offenders to other locations where they continued to have contact with minors, giving them the opportunity to continue their sexual abuse. Again and again, we see examples of how these people with religious authority abusing their power and causing hurt and suffering in their charges. How many more examples do you need before you understand my unwillingness to be blindly led around by the blind?

Personal Contradiction between 2 of the 10 Commandments

Commandment 1: You shall have no other gods before me
Commandment 5: Honour your father and mother.

My father and mother pray to other gods. When they die, as the eldest son, I have the traditional duty to conduct funeral rites for them, which would inevitably conflict with Commandment 1 should I have converted to the Christian faith. But if I do not take up this duty, then I am guilty of contravening Commandment 5. A lose-lose situation. Personally, I place a higher premium on filial piety than on religious dogmatism. During his 2009 National Day Rally speech on religious tolerance, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recounted stories of Christian converts who refused to do as their parents wished on their deathbed and ended up hurting the very people who have painstakingly brought them up for many years. Fulfil your parent’s deathbed wishes – to do or not to do? Honestly, I am repulsed at the actions of those ingrates and will definitely do as my parents wished to the best of my ability.

I found it ridiculously easy to reach this conclusion just with rational reasoning. There is no need to commit to a book to resolve moral questions of this sort.

Natural Disasters

Explain the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami or the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. When the waves of the massive tsunami crashed into the city of Aceh and when the gusts of the hurricane slammed into New Orleans, what was going through God’s mind? Why did God, in all his omnipresence and omnipotence, not stop the tsunami from crushing the lives out of hundreds of thousands of innocents, many of them children? What crime did the children commit? Hundreds of thousands of lives were killed in an instant. These were people of faith, dying! In New Orleans, did he not hear the prayers of the elderly who fled to the attics to escape the rising waters, only to be slowly drowned as they murmured their prayers? What kind of all-powerful and all-compassionate God is this?

Not surprisingly, the people who survived reaffirmed their faith. Praise the Almighty Lord for delivering us from harm, they would say. But do they not see that the same God who has supposedly spared their lives has also mercilessly drowned infants in their cribs? If you accept that there is a God, then He must be powerless, or evil, or He does not care.

Why is it that the Bible can dedicate huge chunks of texts to encouraging slavery, to promoting gender inequality, to curtailing sexual behaviour, to describing in gory detail how to punish adulterers and homosexuals, yet it cannot prophesize natural disasters of such biblical proportions? God told no one of the impending doom. Science did. Hours before the tsunami or hurricane struck, meteorological calculations and satellite imagery foresaw the imminent disaster. Meteorologists rushed to warn people to evacuate the danger zone. Without science, more lives would have been lost.

Isn’t it amazing how God can address the prayers of those who ask for good grades in their exams, or good results for their competitions, but fail to hear the prayers of those about to die?

Promising Young Lawyer Killed in Mumbai

Ms Lo Hwei Yen, 28, a promising Singaporean lawyer, was one of at least 188 people, including 22 foreigners, killed in a shooting and grenade rampage by 10 militants who terrorised Mumbai for 60 hours in 2008. Incidentally, she happens to be a devout Christian.

Why did God put such a promising girl like this girl into the world, only to claim the life back when she is at the prime of her life? Is the purpose of her life to die in the cross fire of some religious extremists?

Do you think the Muslim terrorists from Pakistan, indoctrinated with their highest ideal of introducing an Islamic state in South Asia and liberating Muslims residing in Indian-administered Kashmir, cares about the collateral damage? It saddens me to note what extremism in the name of religion has led to the passing of a beautiful yet innocent soul like Ms Lo. It should sadden you too.

Satan as the Convenient Excuse

Please do not be so foolish to think that Satan is the cause of all these evils. It was apparent in my conversations with you that you think that Satan is solely responsible for everything you cannot explain. In my conversations with more enlightened Christians, they tell me that Satan influences, but ultimately the choice belongs to the person. Father Joacquim Kang and Reverend Paul Hill should have known better. And if God is all-powerful, why didn’t he eliminate Satan? Or better still, why didn’t He simply just not design Satan?

For Better or for Worse? Till Death do us Part?

Much to my chagrin, there have been several attempts by Christians who earnestly invite me to their church time and time again. I appreciate their goodwill and kind gestures. However, my issues with the faith cannot be simply resolved by repeated visits to the church.

In one of your letters to me, you told me that you liked me for my big brain. I’m assuming that you like me for my intellectual discourse. Oxymoronic then, that what attracted you to me in the first place is also responsible now for turning you away.

This brain of mine is my blessing. It is also my curse. I just wonder if I were indeed intelligently designed by Him, why didn’t He erase my persistence in reason.

The heartache
Dull sensation in my chest
Never seem to fade away

There is no all-seeing, all-loving God which keeps us from harm. Atheism is not a recipe for despair. I think the opposite. By disclaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one. The here and now is not something to be endured before eternal bliss or damnation. The here and now is all we have – an inspiration to make the most of it. Atheism is life-affirming, in a way religion can never be.
Richard Dawkins, Oxford Professor and Prominent Atheist

For the sane people like me out there... see ya in hell... for the rest goodluck in heaven with your 72 virgins :)

27/01/10-01/02/10: Business Trip to Mumbai, India... Part 3

2010-02-21T11:26:00.008+08:00

Not posting as often as I would like due to work and other commitments. CNY has been great, if only I had more time to spend. Here's the rest of the pictures... Hope u guys like it, would love to take more of Mumbai but security was so tight, hardly can take any pictures without being stopped by police or secu guard. So all I got was mostly the hotel XD

During the weekends we stayed at the Renaissance Mumbai Convention Centre Hotel which was further to the office but heck we were so tired of work already. This place was a steal, at Rs6500 ($145 USD) it was so much better as compared to ITC Grand Central. Located at the top of a hill, this place is like paradise. If only 10% of Mumbai is like this, I would had fallen in love with it.

Surely I would love to have a room like this for my honey moon. A big view of the restroom from the bed. Hehehee ^^

Nice business section, modern and neat but it could had been better if the TV is able to face the table when wanted.

One of the breakfast plates that I have for two mornings. The food here is great which different varieties everyday. What I love the most was the super open kitchen and the lassi (drinkable yogurt)that I am able to mix with different dry fruits.

Swear they have at least 10 of these wine cabinets. Didnt actually find out whether the bottles are empty or full but it surely set the mood there.

These auto rickshaws are everywhere, just like those in Bangkok but a little smaller.

Notice the white specs everywhere? At first I thought my cam was spoiled so I tried taking several pictures then only I realised the cam was fine. It was DUST!!! the last time I had the same problem was in Yosemite, California but that was snow... THIS IS FREAKING DUST!!! After 20 minutes into Santa Cruz neighbourhood my nose was filled. GOSH, nearly whole of Mumbai is like this, but this place is...

True authentic Tandorii Chicken unlike those fake ones back in Malaysia which is soaked in tonnes of colouring.

South Indian food taken at a cosy family restaurant..

Kids playground... A clearing filled with debris, some kids were trying to get some fruit from a tree nearby so they threw rocks at it. I thought they are just gonna have tough luck but the first shot hit the fruit, gosh these kids are pros. A few other little ones tried after, and one fist size rock hit our car cracking the back brake lights. The driver just look at it and went away, didnt even bother to give the kids a nice scolding... lol

27/01/10-01/02/10: Business Trip to Mumbai, India... Part 2

2010-02-09T22:04:00.004+08:00

Haih... too busy working these few days.. here are some pictures to share for the mean time;

Oil canvas painting of the Monument of Bla bla bla.. cant remember.. I was staring at it for almost 15 minutes... The statue in the picture was so real...

Lunch with some oil brokers... and was forced to eat buffet there, what a waste... had buffet breakfast at the hotel 2 hours before that.. 2 buffets in a row... my tummy nearly exploded

27/01/10-01/02/10: Business Trip to Mumbai, India... Part 1

2010-02-06T22:14:00.003+08:00

I was expecting the trip to India to be after Chinese New Year however suddenly the company decided to send me there with only a day advance notice. Packed my bag in a hurry and took a flight from Kingfisher Airlines (Never heard of it before, must be a new airlines, the service was great, the plane was clean and neat, the stewardess is superhot however they smell one kind and so does the whole plane... or rather I am not used to the smell). I must give this airlines 4* because of the great service and being one of the few airlines still offering free drinks to economy class. Food was fine, real authentic indian food was chosen and it was good, passengers were even given real silverware. Why not 5*? because not too many international passengers will appreciate the smell onboard. Here are some pictas to share...

4* definately... 100% recommended

The last picture I manage to take at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport before being stopped by airport security, he was carrying an AK better not mess around. Security seems to be very tight in this badly air conditioned airport. Not much services provided, even worse than american airports.

Kebab, nyum nyum.. Taste like satay.. Grilled to perfection.. Wrap it up and ate with indian roti. Lime and onions makes it a perfect bbq.

Something like potato bread or taiwanese pizza but it is made with spring onions and peas I think. Very yummie ^^ Forgot the name of the restaurant though XD I am sure I will return on the next trip

Eh... what's this.. Sounds familiar... They own the airlines? gosh... One of the best beers I ever had, cant believe it, although not very smooth it is definately not bitter.. Girls and non-beer drinkers would like it very much

The name of the place we had our dinner and some window shopping. To enter we had to be screened through an x-ray... ZZzzz

ITC-Grand Central Hotel

A nice and contempory hotel.. Very cosy.. Located at the heart of the business district, dont expect to have a nice view or a walk around at night because all you will get are slums. The rooms have everything you need from cotton buds to shoe polish. The several things that are lacking is free internet and a change of breakfast menu. ITC also has its positive side which I think any 5* hotel should provide in Mumbai, particularly free bottled water. It is a good hotel...? yes... is it value for money? 12000 Rupees (260USD) after tax... Nah.. Too expensive XD

24/01/10: Preston's bday party @ Edwin's place... The Gardens @ Bishan

2010-01-25T23:19:00.008+08:00

Started my 8am day with a nice jog n chat with miss.xiang yi at Bedok Reservoir. The place was breath taking, had a great view and lots of activities going on. One round, I believe to be around 4-5km just nice for an hour of chat n sun-tan. But comparing it with Lake Gardens, the latter seems to be a better choice for hanging out and having a great time, the former is more for atheletes and serious joggers. What a great morning it was, spending time with a hottie and also got her to buy me soybean milk ^^ muahahahaa... what a cheapskate I am XD

Next, I headed to Edwin's condo for Preston's bday party.. Gosh was the food simply great .. Havent been eating proper food while at work, I over-ate this time but what the heck, its once in a bluemoon. Here are some pictures to share; taken with my cheapo camera...

tristan

ashley

bday boy... preston

chloe, always running away from the camera, lucky got her on candid

alyssa, did i spell it correctly?

mummy sharon playing with baby adele

julie carrying baby adele, adely allows everybody to carry except me :(

lillian preparing the cake...

preston and friends

preston and his tiramisu cake... the cake was great,... rich and creamy, too bad it got warmed up a little bit cause the kids dont wanna leave the pool

poor cake got ransacked even before anybody could cut a slice out... kids these days.. tsk tsk.. no respect for elders.. didnt even save an oreo for me :(

edwin and aunt daisy playing while julie watches on

Uncle Boon Teik and Thamrin's not in the pictures... and most importantly... I am not in too..WTF~! it sucks to be the person with the camera... ZZzzzz.. I wonder how those ppl with big dslrs feel.. probably they dont wanna be in pictures anyway...

and last of all... sorry preston for not getting you a pressie... was having too much fun with miss.xiang yee until I forgot XD hope the pictures will be a good enough gift for u..

9/1/10: Doing great!!!! in SG ^^

2010-01-09T23:08:00.002+08:00

How the hell I end up being where I am now? If you ask me, I would say luck played a big big part. There's so much to tell already and yet more seems to come day by day.

First let me talk about my job, when I applied for this job, no company info was given. All I got was the title 'management trainee' and the job scope. After being emailed the company's profile I was not too excited thinking that my only chance to work in Singapore is from an unlisted company without a ang moh name. How wrong I was, since day 1 tonnes of general info was given, making the training so intense that my blood pressure started to peak. Day two I was briefed on my future responsibilities and was trained to fulfill it fast. Knowing how big my role is, I was so excited and also with the chance to other positions if things dont go well with my initial purpose. Third day was a big turn, I was called by one of the highest ranking for another interview. Apparently she has different ideas for me, now my job scope has been widen to cover nearly all the company's expansion and was being put into the loop of a handful people having classified expansion data.

Of course all these is meaningless if I am only earning what cousin Edwin will get as a raise if he's successful in getting his new job. So far the pointers are good, people previously holding my position are owning cars and buying hdbs only after less than 3 years being in my position. If my career goes well, I would be earning more than them in no time taking in consideration of the responsibilities being put on me.

Bout the company? Funny facts, 90% are Malaysians, 90% are engineers, scientist and technologist being put into roles that has nothing to do with their academic qualification. So far people are very friendly and atmosphere is very positive.

The bad? I gotta take a freaking 1 hour n 30 minutes avg bus to work and another 1 hour n 30 minutes back. 3 hours wasted!!! making me so exhausted everyday.. And I might have started having migrants (probably caught it in Alaska), due to work pressure. 2nd day took me 2 hours and 20 minutes to work because of the rain making roads jam up.

Blessings, what doesnt kill me will only make me stronger. With a great family here, Auntie n Uncle, cousin Edwin, cousin Andy's family, comfort was there when I needed it most. Colleagues are angels too, both the bosses and trainers.. One is even offering me a place at her new HDB, hopefully it gets renovated fast so I wont have to wake up to the horror of taking the forever bus.

Now that I had been given a great opportunity I will make sure the trust being placed on me will be repaid. Looking forward to return for CNY...

Solli ah, I r 2 bz no mucho post new stuff also no much picta lor...i r 4gods took kamala out yo, so mayb next time i r post picta k? :) over n out from bishan (bishan is in singapore not china for those of you who are blur)

25/12/09: Adventure is out there!!!!

2009-12-25T19:19:00.004+08:00

Today is Christmas! like it matters to me... lol

Returned from Singapore, had a great time there with Auntie Daisy and family... and best of all, I got hired! The title is "Management Trainee" hmm... not too bad right?
The company is Mewah Group, located at the International Business Park @ Jurong East. Hopefully I can fine a place to stay nearby.

This is the building I will be based in. Looks not too bad from the outside. A lot of pricey cars are parked outside so I assume most of the people working in the company are well paid.

One of the factories in Malaysia. LOL, the design is taken from Command and Conquer =.="

Looking forward to start work soon, most likely be posted to India.

8/11/09: Chelsea 1 VS 0 Manchester United @ Stamford Bridge

2009-11-09T20:26:00.004+08:00

Not many people showed up for this match, too late on a Sunday night. A weakened Man U VS a full squad Chelsea @ Stamford Bridge sounds like a Chelsea sure win.

Man U showed up with total respect for Chelsea. They dont seem weakened by the injuries to their defenders. No doubt they are not as dangerous as last season but their quality makes them contenders for both EPL and Champions League. Man U's top performer would be Rooney or Evra, Rooney with his daring run and shots; Evra with his crazy speed and strength.

Chelsea on the other hand, played like how they always play against big teams. Chelsea's deep defending always make me anxious and I hate that very much. Besides Terry and Ivanovic, not many Chelsea players got into the game. Deco should have been sub out a long time ago.

Only two incidents worth mentioning, Terry's earlier foul in the penalty area could have warranted a penalty and Evans' kick on Drogba should have been a red card. I believe the referee didnt witness the incident, hopefully FA will hand out a 3 match ban after this.

But all ends well, a 50-50 game ended up in Chelsea's favor. Prolly got to do with Stamford Bridge. Now, lets march and destroy Man U at Old Trafford!

8/11/09: Phobia 2......... 2 freaking hours of horror torture

2009-11-08T11:27:00.003+08:00

Went out with the badminton gang yesterday to catch Ninja but ended up watching Phobia 2. I was very reluctant to watch either one as I had prefer to watch inglorious besterds.

We tried getting tics for Ninja but it was super sold out. Even at 10pm, there's still 5 rows of people lining up to get tics for movies. we ended up getting tics for Phobia 2 instead and I was like 'WTF! is this shiet' but nevermind, just watch.

Not knowing what to expect; the last time I watched a thai horrow was like 6 years back, Shutter wasnt that bad, so maybe this wont turn out that bad after all. In the end it was a good to go movie, no regrets. This is one horrow that you can get laughter out of it and not chills while you leave the cinema.

It basically consist of 5 small stories and the last was more of a comedy. Too bad I spoiled the atmosphere for all those couples that wanna cuddle up out of fear. Why? cause I started laughing even at the first story.

A must watch for couples, and better hope you dont meet someone like me in the cinema, of you will be getting a comedy instead of a horror.

1/11/09: Top Gear Treasure Hunt 2009 & Awana Kijal Terengganu

2009-11-01T21:14:00.011+08:00

I was invited to join Khuen Wee's law firm trip for the weekend and we left early on Saturday. The trip was a treasure hunt challenge organized by Top Gear magazine maresia. Arriving early at the venue we went for breakfast somewhere near Glenmarie. It begins with the flagging off ay one of the sponsor's car showroom. The hunt begins with the first challenge at Genting Sempah. We had to go through Bentong, Temeloh, Chukai and many other small towns to finally arrive at Kijal. I was exhausted with the hunt although it was a great eye-opener. We didnt manage to win anything towards the end but it was a great experience. Met Chia Hur there too and we had a chat and some drinks during the night. Special thanks to Khuen Wee and wife for inviting and as well as their colleagues for giving me a great time. Oh ya, not forgetting josh for his GPS ^^

At the dinner

The gang

From the balcony

Inside Awana Kijal

Cool eh? Back view

Side view

The golf course

The park

The bitch

The murky water

The sun

The coconut

23/10/09: Back from Hiatus

2009-10-23T22:30:00.002+08:00

Sorry guys, went off for two months and it has also been two months since I came returned ^^

Plans didnt go well, not doing my masters for the mean time.

Prolly find a job, either in Singapore or Australia. Hopefully can get one soon.

More updates tomorrow ^^

4/9/2009: Religulous... LOL

2009-09-04T15:44:00.008+08:00

After 3 efking days of trying to fix the wireless on my desktop, I am taking a break today... or more like I had given up. Read the newspaper in the morning, did some work out during noon (muscle shrank after not working out for 5 months). Suprisingly today was not all that hot. While I was working out I've decided to watch a video at the same time. Went through the vids I had in my laptop and choosed the one with the lamest title "Religuluos". After watching the movie I must admit that this is a good one, however my religious/faithful/holy/almighty/godlike friends might not enjoy it.

To all those that enjoys poking fun at religion and prefer to think in a rational logical manner, this movie is for you. Hey, you can even watch it while streaming on shietmyx. I have the .avi if u want to keep it as a collection (beware they might go on a witch hunt and burn you alive).

DIRECT LINK: CLICK HERE TO WATCH!

WARNING: NOT FOR THOSE UNDER 13 or PEOPLE WITH RELIGION. I SHALL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR FAITH IS SHAKEN

3/9/09: Merdeka Broga Hill Hike @ Semenyih -.-"

2009-09-03T10:27:00.012+08:00

Went to do some early shiet hike on Monday, woke up at freaking 4 am (automatically due to the jetlag) and walked to markyman's house. Waited there for like 30 minutes because the slowmos are always slow.

We split into two cars, one driven by reupeng and the other by kock. I sat in kock's car and had a rollercoaster ride but most of the time was waiting for reupeng to catch up. The way there was fine, spent most of the time dosing off.

We park in front of the rabbit farm, and had warm up through the oil palm plantation. To our surprise the local community there had organized a hike too. Gosh it was pack and on the way up there were traffic jams everywhere. It took like 30 minutes only to reach the peak. I would recommend this place for beginners as it consist of slopes, makeshift stairs and mud treks that shouldnt be too challenging.

From left to right: charlie (me), errrr (jason's gf), jackson, markyman, chowric (partially censored), hankokding (guy with glove), tet tet (black shirt), reupeng
MIA: kock (superslowmo, too thin 2 carry 50kg dslr camera up the hill), fei ling (met her there, was a suprise)

Still waiting for more pictas from kock's dslr camwhora. And TQ reupeng for the pics, you are the best ard XD

2/9/2009: Karaoke Fever!!!

2009-09-02T18:27:00.002+08:00

Eversince I had my first experience of karaoke (120usd for 2 hours @ some lousy Korean Lounge), I fell in love with it. I thought singing in the toilet was jolly and gay, but karaoke is much better ^^ Must one day try it out in maresia, heard it is cheaper and better with food and and.. maybe girls... Hehehehee *grin* For those that havent tried yet, here are some songs to practice on.... enjoice

and for bye bye, a quote from Robbo, "no Stevie and no Nando makes Pool a dull boy" .... made me LOL.... kops dont get angry XD

1/9/09: Back in Maresia

2009-09-01T08:09:00.004+08:00

It is nice to be back... Back to the warm, sometimes too warm weather of maresia. My body is exploding due to the sudden change in temperature. I feel hot like 99% of the time. Will take at least 1 month to get use to the sleeping time and the sun.

However I get to enjoy the food that I had been craving for months. Anyone wanna join me to go get food? Lost 5 pounds when I was in the states, dont wanna waste all the effort... Eat less Eat less!

So much to do and yet so little time. Slowly and hopefully things will slowly workout by itself.

A new addition to the family, Baileys!

6/18/09: Summer Soltice, 24 hours SUN!

2009-06-19T09:18:00.003+08:00

Summer soltice is here! and there's nearly 24 hours of daylight now... So far I am able to sleep... Just managed to kill the flu with exercise, vitamins and lots of rest ^^ Unlike last summer where I had to suffer for 2 damn weeks..

Sorry for being away so long, lost the internet back at my house and as well as the long hours of work.

Work so far is fun, there's up and downs but.... Hopefully it goes/stay well. Would like to keep the long hours I am getting since I am no longer in Starbucks.

Done climbing flattop for the 2nd time... Wasnt too hard this time, probably because of the light. The last time was at night, and it was crazy.

5/28/09: Work, work and more work... One month anniversary

2009-05-29T10:07:00.005+08:00

Been working non stop, and yet pay so low :( Haih... hope to get some $$$ back. As for the weather, it rained today and it sucked. Hopefully the next few months wont be like that. Today is my one month anniversary here in Ancohrage ^^ Loving it so far...

Flowers are starting to bloom marking the end of winter and spring is here. Hopefully the weather wont be ruined by rain and cloud again.

Saw the results coming, UFC 98: Evans vs Machida... and Machida won by a leap. Rashad had no idea on how to take Machida on. I believe Rashad stand a chance if he wrestles Machida down to the ground and pound him but Machida is a black belt BJJ holder, so... He's so evasive, strikers hardly can touch him. His weight, build and kicks are so natural, and he hardly any problems striking.

5/20/09: In Love! & Earthquake Park!

2009-05-21T15:44:00.005+08:00

The bicycle path I take everyday... Along d way back home..

Alaskan sewage pond... compare with our indah water..

@ Earthquake Park... Fall down sure die! Can even see downtown from there...

Rock beach.. Zzzz

Huh? from china ar?... No no... It is for real..

5/13/09: Slept freaking 15 hours!!

2009-05-13T22:57:00.004+08:00

Omfg! I couldnt believe it, I slept for 15 hours straight! From 3pm-6am...lol... Even missed Alex's softball match... Hahahhaa, couldnt wake up even with the alarm on. Must be real tired, lol. And during the afternoon Hae called, asking me to come to work. I was like ' WTF! I work 9 days straight and u want me to work on my break' Oh well, I need $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Mothers Day Tribute: Mummy & Mama!!! I love U...

2009-05-11T04:27:00.005+08:00

A special post on a special day for 2 special ppl in my life. My mama n grandma.... Most of the time when I say 'mummy i love you' to my mum, my mum would say 'love your head ar, everyday scold me'. That's how we are, if we talk 1 minute nicely, we would fight 2 minutes the next time. Although she scolds me all d time I know she loves me a lot, and although I always make her angry, I love her a lot.

Most of the time we fight over petty stuff. The way she thinks is very.... outdated and conservative or what my sis calls 'kampung kok' and as for me, I am too crazy XD but no matter what... mummy is mummy ^^

I am far far away from home now, and the only way I can 'I love you' is through my blog... Hopefully my idiot sis or my dad will show her this ^^

ALL THE MUMS IN THE WORLD, YOU'RE THE BEST!

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World

Blessings on the hand of women!
Angels guard its strength and grace,
In the palace, cottage, hovel,
Oh, no matter where the place;
Would that never storms assailed it,
Rainbows ever gently curled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
Infancy's the tender fountain,
Power may with beauty flow,
Mother's first to guide the streamlets,
From them souls unresting grow—
Grow on for the good or evil,
Sunshine streamed or evil hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world. Woman, how divine your mission
Here upon our natal sod!
Keep, oh, keep the young heart open
Always to the breath of God!
All true trophies of the ages
Are from mother-love impearled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
Blessings on the hand of women!
Fathers, sons, and daughters cry,
And the sacred song is mingled
With the worship in the sky—
Mingles where no tempest darkens,
Rainbows evermore are hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world

5/7/09: Ups n Downs XD

2009-05-08T09:01:00.006+08:00

In life there's ups and downs and that's how my life has been for the past couple of days. I wont care to elaborate more, it is too complicated. The weather is like that too, was all drizzling and cloudy but it is super sunny today... Gosh..

Here's some of the pictures of my new apartment where I am king XD Alone.. a bit lonely... but kinda nice too ^^ will try 2 bring a couple of chicks back to do business.. HEhehhheHEHee XD but partei not allowed... Zzzz

Was expecting Paris Hilton or some nikka to step out, but instead it was just an average family... LOL... what a cool blink blink hummer.. The only let down was that a trailer was at d back... LOL.. Just like a Ferarri with a cheap imitation rims..

Nice view huh? I miss the mountains.. Must go climb flat top ^^

My castle... Pretty huh? Too bad the trees are blocking...Zzzz

My bed, HAhahahaa... Guess I will be a couch potato for the rest of my stay here.

The temperate when I returned home from work today. Kinda warm... Zzzz

The view from my couch... There's a nice fireplace which I dont think I will be using as well as a balcony that we can use for BBQ if we want to.

After the couch and the balcony is the dining area... But I think I wil utilize this place for paper work instead. Eat can eat on the floor... Muahahaha

This is where females should stay and not work XD AHhaHHHA... Nice huh?

This is where I have my spa soak after working long hours... Wooo, the warm baths ^^

Pai Seh XD Took after bathing mar... Girls please dont get horny and drool XD

Walking pass the restroom is the corridor, on the right there's a closet. After the closet is the main room on the right, and in front in the 2nd room.

Main room: SO big... Zzzz.. I think the girls will end up taking this one.

Main room: Comes with a junk closet.

Main room: and a second clothing/changing closet. This is so huge you can even consider it a room XD

Main room: Got this too... Zzzz.. Not fair!

Second room: This will most likely be the guys room, so small I cant even step back enough to take a nice angle.

Second room: Just like the main room, it comes with a queen size bed.

Second room: and a small shelf... WTF!

And there, this apartment will be my home for the next 4 months ^^ so nice... just like a hotel suite but without the services.

5/6/09: 14 hours work and rainy day...

2009-05-07T12:00:00.004+08:00

Worked 14 hours since yesterday... had to cover for Holly, she called in and Theresa didnt wanna work alone... Good for me too, more $$$.. Theresa gave me and my bike home after work... Was drizzling... Damn, hopefully it will get better soon, cold + rain = not good.. Damn I hate viruses, I have now officially 3 anti-virus... lol.. will blog about it in the next post.

Tada, this is Ian, my phillipino shiftmate... and this is our hobby during our break, we take a nice 40 minutes nap. Not easy working graveyard shift you know XD Hopefully he doesnt get angry... HAhahhaa

This is my ride for now, until I get my new Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X. Was given by Diane my landlord and all I needed to do is to drop by Walmart to buy the locks. Adjusted the seat but I guess it is still too high. My groin hurts a little, I dont wanna end up like Lan Bohsong... Huu Huu..

With 3mpbs intarnuts, I get to dl tonnes of movies all day... Here are some of the movies I had watched. First was Defiance, a movie about jewish partisans during ww-2 and how they survive the ordeal hiding in the forest. This movie explores the struggles of jews as well as the leadership of the main character played by the bond actor. 4/5

2nd movie is Underworld: Rise of the lycans... A not too bad movie that I enjoyed watching. Inspired me to an hour work out... LOL.. Was done quite well, but I think they should had chosen a better main actor, I dont think he fits this show. 4/5

Lastly but not... Tom Cruise, a great movie about a great story. Not too many stories can be made from 'fail'. His acting was excellent, the story was nicely done. 5/5

5/2/09: Life is Great.. Another weekend in Anchorage

2009-05-03T23:50:00.002+08:00

5/2/09: Life is Great.. Isnt it?

2009-05-03T10:18:00.005+08:00

Today I woke up feeling so refreshed... 6am surfed the net till 8am and went out to jog at the park since the weather is perfect... Under the sun it was 23c, no sun it is 13c.. A bit dry, but its ok... Jog for an hour, then came back talking to Bryan... Oh yes.. before that I had a spa bath .... So nice soaking in hot water for an hour ^^ He was trying to get his router up with his wii and ps 3 connected to it. Spend like 2 hours there doing nuts.. Went out with Diane to get dishes and pillows. How nice of her, she made the house perfect, must cook something for her when the rest arrive, I guess. She even gave me a superb bicycle, I think I will take it to work once I get my locks done.

Went to wassilla with Cheng when he was to pick one of his friend up. 1 hour drive just to pick her up? ZZZZzzz... Only he so free...

Frozen lake... who says it is summer... LOL..

Bonfire in the middle of the frozen lake? those people must be crazy... according to Cheng those people are ice-fishing and to keep themselves warm they start a fire.. and the ice wont even melt.. LoL

Cheng also said he swam accross during middle of summer.. Dont know he BS or not

Who says you can't sell ice-cream to Alaskans... LoL

There's Paichia in blue stripes... and Nancy in hoodies... Pretty huh? They seem to like volleyball.

My diet...

5/1/09: FUBAR!!! Everything was farked up!

2009-05-02T08:57:00.009+08:00

Had one of the worse week of my life, everything went wrong. First of all my laptop got hit by a virus and it keeps logging me out. Secondly I received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stating that the info I provided doesnt match those given by their system and I cant work after 8 days if I dont resolve it.... Might even get deported.. WTF! and no laptop means no intarnuts!!!

IE used to be my no1 choice, and now since it is screwed up I am starting to love FireFox XD IE keeps popping up pesky warning messages which is caused by a virus. Hopefully this doesnt affect Firefox. Took me 2 days to remove nearly all the virus, but only then I realise how smart I am.. Hehehee... Even the US Marine Hacker/IT specialist for Alyeska (Bryan) can't solve it. Probably it is because that neighbour mofo of mine is drunk 24/7. Still a cool guy to hang out with, hopefully I can get his rifle, 50" TV, truck and bicycle when he leaves to the slope. He gave me one of his rifle when we first met, but retracted later because I think he is afraid I might take and shoot people... LOL

After returning home on Thursday I called DHS and got everything settled out. It was only a computer glitch and it scared the shit out of me. DAmn Americans.. Cant even get their stuff right, no wonder there are still terrorist still around...

As of last Tuesday I had moved into my new apartment and started working... Not to say that this is bad, but everything needs settling down. I left my jacket and my sleeping bag back at Cheng's place... Damn it, no blanket to cover and had to wear ultra thick coat out, which looks super ridiculous.

Now that my laptop is somehow fixed, my apartment is ready, job is stable, DHS is happy, stealing intarnutes wireless from Bryan.. all seems good, got 2 days off... I think I will share the cost of intarnuts with him..

Before sharing some Alaskan pictures I am gonna post some pictures of the stuff I did before departing from Msia... Enjoice.. XD

Was a nice and entertaining show, something like sincity. Girls are pretty, hero is macho.. jokes are ok ok. Story... somehow above average

A great movie, liked the new concept of the show. Enjoyed every single moment of it and the movies deserve the oscars it won ^^

4) Nasi Kandar
Tandorii Chicken, Papadam, Cabbage

Had this at Midvalley food court, isnt the best nasi kandar, preferred the one from Pelita, talking about this makes me miss home. Usually comes with nasi briyani instead of white rice, it is more of a indian version of chinese economy rice.

8) Hokkien Noodle
Fat yellow noodle stir fried with prawns, lard, chicken, dark soy sauce and sometimes a little vege.

Good hokkien noodles are hard to come by, havent eaten a good hokkien noodle in 5 years. Most of them are stingy and you dont get what you paid for. Hopefully when I return the next time I will be able to eat a nice one.

2) Curry Laksa
Yellow noodle cooked in thick curry soup with siham, bean curd, long beans and sometimes curry chicken.

I liked it best when eaten with wantan noodle instead. So far only in Bangsar and SS2 Wai Sek Kai has managed to satisfy my cravings.

24) Ling Chi Kang

19) Pan Mee
Hand made noodles cooked in broth with bean curd, anchovies, minced meat, vegetables and sometimes pork.

Definitely one of my favourites.

4/26/09: KNN! STUPID PUKI!

2009-04-27T02:32:00.003+08:00

Puki.... Yesss... PUKI, the name of Cheng's dog and it is a real puki... Piss on my towel and pillow still not enough... wanna go make chocolate cake! Lucky I didnt step..ZZzzz... Since everyone is sleeping I got to take d carpet out.. WTF, so smelly..

KNN dog.. PUKI!

Mikel's subaru forester... havent driven it yet, but I think gotta borrow to pick up the rest ^^ 4wd can drift 1 mar?

Cheng's integra... As good as evar.. ^^ Only that suspension too soft.

4/24/09: Friday & Weekends OFF!!! PARTEI!!!

2009-04-25T04:38:00.004+08:00

Got my drugs test, security & finger printing done... Banked in my $$$... All cool.. but the blardy nikka at d At&t store was so slow I couldnt wait, now have to wait to get my phone line...

For tonight, going to party... booze, ciggies, girls and food... here I come XD Hope I dont get wasted yo! Party last night, had some booze... luckily everyone's cool and I get to go to bed in time...

Did 2 hours of driving today, guess that should be enough. My driving skills is as good as evar XD and cheng's integra still rocks!

Too bad I cant take pics for nao, phone is not up, no cams yet. Will camwhore more once I get my new cam.

Cheng has a new dog... and that blardy fool peed on my pillow and towel... Thank god I didnt wipe my face with it... He says I can just wash n use it again... ???? Dog pee? lol... we shall see...

Going to work at starbucks (graveyard shift) for the time being... Thanks 2 cheng, he quit n I gotta take over his shift. Hopefully by mid May I will go to upper one bar, as promised.

Jetlag Jet lag... and it hits like a wall... When it is time, I could just fall asleep. I hate it when that happens.

Farewell partei was held in sone lion's club den... lol.. Theme was black and white

Lots of leng lui.. mostly phillipinos and hmong

Drinking, eating, dancing, chilling... Life is great ^^

That's the girl leaving.. Cheng's cousin

8 years old drinking WTF! get off my bar bitch!

Playground outside... Still no green, black n white... ZZzzz... Where's summer?

Was told it was all sunny until I came.. So am I the cloud boy? I wonder

4/22/09: IN ANCHORAGE!!!!!! FINALLY!!!

2009-04-23T11:36:00.005+08:00

Hey all!! In anchorage now... On the way here, I was so sleepy and tired. Slept as much as I could, ended up drooling 2 times I guess. THank god thoseflights are over. Freaking 20 hours of flights.. Get some sleep, some food and hopefully more $$$ will come XD After freaking 38 hours of travel, hardly get to sleep at all... Zzzz... Will get more rest before posting more...On the way here, I was so sleepy and tired. Slept as much as I could, ended up drooling 2 times I guess. THank god those flights are over. Freaking 36 hours of flights.. Get some sleep, some food and hopefully more $$$ will come XD

Where's summer? It is still wintar!!!! freaking 0 celcius... But its not too bad...

Staying at cheng's place now...

Brb....

Seattle, Washington

8 hours wait! damn... What a boring wait! and there's no intarnuts!!! Ended up watching ufc. Looks like all flights are booktight. One of the most complicated airports, gotta take like 4 connecting trains to get to my gate. One of the lousiest airports I had visited.

Beautiful isnt it? the second best airport I had ever went to besides Changi.

Narita, Japan

Can't believe they have so many pretty girls working for customs. Although not smiling,
seeing them takes my fatigue away. From Changi to Narita was tiring, didnt really had any sleep.
Fell asleep for a while but an announcement that the plane was landing or something like that. It
was a false call. Damn..

Northwest services are so much better than United, the plane the stewardess, the food, they are all better.
I am not gonna fly United anymore unless I have to.

TOo bad I dont get to spend much time here, so many cool shops. Singapore should have more
shops featuring the local culture eg, like local food, sourvenier shops .. etc etc Well.. they are still
better than our KLIA XD

No intarnuts as well!!! what's wring with these ppl...

21/4/09: Changi, Singapore..

2009-04-21T23:52:00.003+08:00

Arrived around 10.30pm.. Had some awesome Singaporean Laksa and the boy mending the stall allowed me to change the noodles to wantan mee, it was awesome!!!!!!! Too bad I didnt have any cameras with me, the soup was super rich (1 bowl everyday and I will die of heart attack in 1 month) with santan, taste is perfect, 3 prawns and bean sprouts. YUMMIE!!!

Too bad I am stuck @ Terminal 1, among all the terminals I think this is the worse, everything is old. But the best thing is, I GOT INTARNUTS!!! and will the japs have intarnuts too?
Will try to sleep for a while, afraid I might miss my flight.

They have a swimming pool in their damn ariport!!! no wonder it is the best airport in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

21/4/09: Bai Bai Maresia, KLIA

2009-04-21T20:33:00.004+08:00

Probably the last post from Maresia for the next few months to come. Will be flying to Anchorage soon, waiting for the gate to open as I am posting.

Hopefully there's intarnuts at every airport. I was suprised KLIA actually had free wifi and it is kinda decent actually. The downside is there's hardly any power outlet, how the eff am I gonna recharge my lappie?

KLIA is still under utilized, most of the shops are closed. The staff are still below par as compared to other airports.

Will post more once I reach Changi, hopefully they have intarnuts as well. Flying Silk Air, hopefully they have food, I am starving!!! :(

Here's my flight plan:

KLIA, Msia --->>> Changi, Sg --->>> Narita, Japan --->>> Seattle, US --->>> Anchorage, Alaska

17/4/09: VICTORY IS SWEET!

2009-04-17T01:54:00.004+08:00

Havent felt so happy since a while, and on Wednesday the roman army crush the kops in a crazy CHELSEA BASTION STAMFORD BRIDGE! woo hoo... and to honour this even, I shall share with u guys this nice song ^^

And to celebrate our victory, I bring u the anthem of the UEFA CL!

15/4/09: I Rather Walk Alone 2... Chelsea 4 VS 4 Liverpool: UEFA Champions League Semi Final 2nd League

2009-04-15T04:46:00.005+08:00

What happened? No more classic boring Chelsea-Liverpool matches anymore? These arent like EPL teams, they look more like La Liga!

First goal from Liverpool was not a suprised, Liverpool have been scorings goals like that lately. Second goal was a mistake from Ivanovic and there's no complain, good play from Liverpool's side. Third and forth goal from Liverpool nearly gave me a heart attack. Two goals were given away because of the lack of concentration, Liverpool pump up the pace but Chelsea with their experience should had done better by slowing the game down and concentrate. Liverpool has changed this year, they are no more the sluggish kind of English team.

First goal from Chelsea although many said it is Reina's fault, I would say it was more of Drogba's brilliance of being there at the right time to force a mistake. It would have gone it if Reina wasnt there anyway. Second goal from Chelsea was a typical Alex set-piece, not the first time from him and definately wont be the last. Can't really remember Chelsea's 3rd from Frank Lampard, but being him, always at the right place at the right time, is expected. The 4th goal was a screamer courtesy of Drogba's assist and finish from Lampard. Seen this from time to time, his the post and went in. Great to see Drogba is no longer sulking and him playing together with Anelka.

Aggregate Chelsea 7 - 5 Liverpool, now that Ashley Cole is out for the next match, who is going to take over? Wayne Bridge is no longer at the Bridge. The defense looks shaky with too many defenders missing. One spanish team down, another one to shootdown, BRING IT ON BACA!

Best Liverpool Player: Fernando Torres/Javier Mascherano
Worse Liverpool Player: Álvaro Arbeloa (For the bad tackles I guess), Jamie Carragher?

Best Chelsea Player: Frank Lampard? Didier Drogba? Malouda? Essien?
Worse Chelsea Player: Branislav Ivanovic (Had to choose one, so have to choose him lor, since he made 1 mistake)/Petr Cech

8/4/09: I Rather Walk Alone... Liverpool 1 VS 3 Chelsea: UEFA Champions League Semi Final

2009-04-09T04:46:00.004+08:00

Had to sneak out again... was kinda tired doing weights during the evening but luckily I didnt miss watching this one. Score was Chelsea 3 : 1 Liverpool, and the match was at Anfield.

Gameplay wise, Liverpool played better. They have players all around the field, passing was great. Gerrard played extremely well and the first goal was well deserved. Cech did all he could but the ball still went in.

Liverpool had players spread wide, this gave them possession with their accurate passing, however it backfires when Chelsea is on the counter-attack. The gap is just too wide for them to run back. Gameplay was on Liverpool's side however on the quality of players, Chelsea still have the edge.

The first goal by Ivanovic was great, it was all him, Liverpool couldn't do anything and sometimes even Chelsea concede goals like that. But the second goal was a textbook mistake, I couldnt even make up whether Liv is defending by zone or player. A bunch of Liv was just waiting at the near post and noone was covering the front of the goal. I guess Liv deserve losing this match. The third goal was something that is going to happen sooner or later. Drogba wasted so many chances and luckily he scored one awesome goal at least.

Terry was given a yellow which I think shouldnt have been, but I guess it is a blessing in disguise. He will be missing the match at home, but that also means he wont be missing the later matches.

To end this post, I would like to say to all Kops.... RAFAHAHAHAHAHAAA! CYA AT STAMFORD BRIDGE!

Best Liverpool Player: Fernando Torres
Worse Liverpool Player: Dossena

Best Chelsea Player: Branislav Ivanovic
Worse Chelsea Player: Ballack (was supposed to be Drogba... but since he scored... )

6/4/09: 2 Days Rest...

2009-04-06T21:58:00.004+08:00

Woke up early to go to the bank, and was super tired for the whole day. Slept for like 7 hours during the day. Is this because I didnt drink coffee 2day? I have no idea, but it seems once I miss coffee I feel extremely tired and sleepy.

YEESSSHH!!! Ultimate fighter is back, and this time it is between US vs UK. The 1st episode cast the UK team, with 2 decent fighters in the show.

Although not the main event, this fight night was great. Featured Junie Browning and Ryan Bader in this event. Ryan's wrestling is the best I had ever seen, 90% take down. I bet he's gonna go far. Although his striking is not that good, he takes ppl down and pump d crap out of them or submit them. Would like to see him fight a good striker.

Unlike the 2nd sequal this one makes sense. Fans should just watch the first one and this one ignore the the 2nd sequal. The ending is as scary as hell.... LOL, couldnt predict the ending at all. Very nice moive. 8/10
Although it didnt look exciting at first, it was very entertaining. The ending was predictable but it was a good one. Expect a sequal... 8/10

5/4/09: Tired & Injured... What a weekend =.="

2009-04-05T17:02:00.007+08:00

Pick up a couple of injuries on Saturday night futsal, no biggie... Should be healed in a couple of days. Had a great game, and thanks bitches for coming. Scored around 2-3 goals, and had to be the goalkeeper. Saved a couple and letting in a couple. In all, my team won, but only with a slight margin.

The entire lower front part of leg is bruised. Zzzz... Shouldn't be a big prob :)

One my left knee, there's a small cut, and a dark bruise. Dont know how I got the drak bruise.

Bitches: Eric, Marcus, Foo Kong, Ju, Kon, Kon's friend, Andrew, Lik Wei, Wei loong

Woke up today, not wanting to go jogging with the guys , but didnt wanna FFK, so... Walked 1.6km to Ken Hoong's place, and we headed to lake gardens for the jog. It was damn freaking hot!!! Jogged 3 rounds and I KOed, was so tired and exhausted. Guess will not be doing any jogging till tuesday, some weights maybe.

34) Claypot Yee Mee

Usually comes with Yee Mee Noodles, with pork balls, egg, choi sam, chicken meat, but this one from Bangsar was awesome, it also came with crab meat and minced pork. Really enjoyed this one. I guess Bangsar coffeeshops are the best.

4/4/09: 68kg & counting.. yahoo!

2009-04-04T00:41:00.003+08:00

Yippie! putting on weight fast, and I guess it should be muscle mass. Hope to achieve my target of 80kg by next year ^^ Send my documents to UAA, hopefully can get everything done and accepted at least by mid of the year. One more task, evaluation... why so exp 1..zzzz 200usd!! Also airtic, hopefully Northwest Airlines still flies to Anchorage, KNN that Marcus, sms him for info also never reply.. ARghh! so many things so little time..

One of the scariest movies this year, not a horror movie but more of a triller. A very simple story and yet it was made to be exciting, not a movie I would pay to watch but at least it kept me occupied for the afternoon.

Errr.. was supposed to be an action movie but yet at the same time it has other themes involved. Was entertaining at first, but towards the end it became boring. I couldn't believe they allow the actress to show here (*)(*) although she was wearing clothes. Zzzz

Bacchikoi!!! The current ending theme of the Naruto series. Lets dance along!

2/1/09: Wee... It is about time!

2009-04-02T13:18:00.003+08:00

Pick up a couple of injuries to my feet, no prob. Still jogging ^^ Increasing the pace and lowering the distance. Doing 7/8km/h with some sprinting from time to time, for 5-6km instead of the usual 8-10km. And why the hell everytime when I rest and take a walk I meet Andrew. Zzzzz... N the dumbass would say 'you will walking ar?' LOL. cha dou.. fei chai must rest walk mar

Whatishit? I aint no nikka... But I wouldnt mind if he gives me a greencard... LOL

Can't get Taylor Swift's - Love Story out of my head! Arghh! 2 days already.... Damn it... She's so pretty... My featured female artist:

Here are her other lovely song....

Join the One Month No-Fap Challenge, currently into my 4th day... Hope can tahan... Hehehehee... Pam is testing me, but hell, I am gonna tahan all d way... HAhahhHAHhaa

31/3/09: Time has arrived!

2009-03-31T14:07:00.003+08:00

Just got my job offer letter, and I hope I can get my DS papers by this week so that the visa interview can be done by this week. Airtix is another problem, so much things to do, so little time. Haih... Enjoyed my weekend and Monday as well...

This movie gave me some inspiration at least for a couple of days. Hilarious and also mind changing. A must watch for most of my lame friends, especially Wei Loong!

Couldnt believe I had this movie for so long and had not watched it. One of the coolest movie ever! Could be because of the movie title, not many ppl get it. Can't wait for the sequel.

Also known as se7en, the lucky bas3rd that got lowyet.net starting. Bet he's a millionaire by now, salute to him ^^ Couldnt believe with this kind of face so smart, looks more like a gangster/rapist/no good fella, mana tahu became a legend. Good job dude!

KOPIDEA! Get it here! The official site!

2009-03-25T00:53:00.006+08:00

Kopidea 1.48B

Click to Download! - Link 1
Click to Download! - Link 2
Click to Download! - Link 3

Stay tune for the e-book version! & many more!

*Please inform if there's a broken link. tq ^^*

24/3/09: Sarawak trip! & my past week :)

2009-03-24T14:04:00.013+08:00

Eversince returning from my trip to Sarawak I was kinda tired. As usually here are some pics to describe how I spend my week.

A must watch movie, something like 'sex drive' but in a different concept. It explores the sterotype being put upon Chinese in America in a hilarious manner. The story builds up around ping pong as a Chinese game, and how the Chinese community in America behaves.

Dont know whether is this fake of not. Kong kong brought back this fruit during his trip in Melaka, so weird hor the shape. After 1 week it still looks the same, however there's juice coming out so it doesnt seem fake. What faggot fruit is this?

Was about to finish my first lap, then suddenly out of nowhere I felt a warm splat on my chest. When I look down it was bird crap!!! WTF!!! Not even 1 km yet kena shiet already! Even the shiet shapes like a bird! Damn it, gotta walk home slowly and get my shirt changed as not to let it touch my body. How unlucky. After that 3 days I went and buy 4d also never kena, wasted rm12.

Taken from outside my suite at the Grand Margherita Hotel (former Holiday Inn) in Kuching. Their best view, since it was a suite but whats with the water? So brown... Although not poluted, it must be from the illegal logging upstream.

In this picture the Grand Margherita is where Holiday Inn was located. Vernie told me Riverside suck big time, even worse than Grand Margherita... So I can imagine how bad can that be, considering Grand Margherita suck to me. Should had chosen Hilton instead XD

Saw this pointing at the ceiling of the room, Vernie said it was for prayers.. LOL

57) Kolo Noodle (Sarawak)

One of Sarawak's famous dish, the other being Sarawak Laksa. Made from egg noodles, something similar to the Singaporean Wantan Noodle or the Hakka Noodle. Top with Char Siew (chinese bbq pork), minced pork meat, pig lard? and also pepper powder. Taste very good and it is a must considering it is only RM2.80. LOL!

Tada! This is the reason why we (me and vernie) travelled to Kuching, Sarawak. To setup our booth in East Malaysian Edu Fair. The place was located above a place called Permata Exhibition Complex/Top Food Seafood Restaurant/Permata Parking. Located 5 minutes walk away from our hotel, we took 30 minutes just to find the damn place. Why? I will explain later... Rather small as compared to the ones in KL, and most unis/colleges that participated are small ones.

Why? It is essentially a section of a parking lot that has been air conditioned! what a joke! you call these an exhibition centre? WTF! The lower 4 floors are parking lots, the 5th floor is an exhibition centre and the 6th floor is a seafood hawker centre... How screwed up can it be? The reason given by the organizers is that this place has been the place where exhibitions has been held all the while, even PC Fair is organized here. LOL. Change the venue for christ sake.

These seafood restaurant/stalls is located on top of the parking/exhibition centre. The concept of the stalls here is you choose the seafood displayed and they will cook it for you whatever way you want. The reason why people get attracted is the way the stalls display the seafood. However getting the place ready does mess the place up and creates a fishy stench. Imagine how the lift smells like when they use it to transport the seafood to the top floor. The lift smells like seafood, the stairs smells like urine. I guess that's because they charge for the use of the toilet and people that were unwilling to pay just let it go on the stairs. LOL.. I am serious!

There's like 5-7 different seafood stalls there with all similar seafood. We went to the stall which the girl called us the previous day when we were walking around. When we first started eating, it was all empty however towards the end, the stall was packed! I guess we made the right choice, as other stalls has less customers. Locals know best I guess.

At night we had grilled squid (sotong) with tom yam gravy and onion as well as seafood noodle. The squid was awesome, a bit too 'wet' I prefered the squid to be a little more burned. As for the noodle was so so. We had problems ordering as the people there couldnt understand what we wanted. Hahahhaa. I guess it is different there.

12/3/08: Manchester United VS Inter Milan

2009-03-12T05:45:00.003+08:00

Sneak out again, hehehehee... going to be so dead later in the evening. Well at least this match was more balance and with the score 2-0 going to Manure's side we all know who has the slight cutting edge. MU was going to score anytime of the game and what prevented that was Inter's physical strength which at times was a little too rough.

The first goal was a superb goal, the kind of goal you would expect in the middle of the game but no, it was a early reminder. Vidic was awesome scoring that goal as well as throughout the whole game. There were 2 people guarding him and they lost him after ball staring, he ran around and headed in the perfect goal. As for the second goal, I thought it was a offside, wasn't it? If it is because of the linesman then today is the linesman's turn to play s_hai instead of the referee. Even if it is the linesman's fault, Inter deserves it because they took too long to clear the ball.

Throughout the whole game both team played well but Inter wasted too many chances and that cost them the game. Seeing Inter play is just like seeing Chelsea play, good organization, not too bad defending, not much understanding. Whenever a Inter player gets the ball, no one opens space to give support totally unlike MU, and worse of all, Inter players can't dribble and run around as good as MU.

As for individual performance I must say Giggs and Ronaldo caught my eye. Ronaldo being himself and Giggs even at his age, he's still running like around younger players. In the blue, although Ibrahimovic's game play was good he doesnt seem to produce the finishing touch needed, wasted tonnes of chances and this is not forgivable. Balotelli, the Rooney in blue seems to be a promising player if he controls his aggressiveness.

Best MU player: Ronaldo/Giggs
Worse MU player: Scholes/O'Shea

Best Inter player: Cambiasso
Worse Inter player: Hard to pinpont one, because not one display totally cacated performance, does that mean the whole team sucks? Nah... Prefer to leave it blank

11/3/09: Liverpool VS Real Madrid

2009-03-11T05:45:00.003+08:00

Sneak out of the house at 3.45am to watch Chelsea VS Juventus but ended up watching Kop Kia VS Old Galactico. The score for the night was 4-0 and the aggregate score was 5-0 which I think Liverpool deserves it.

Although the 1st 2 goals by Liverpool should not be counted, the game was dominated by Liverpool. Liverpool has superior tactics, passing, and their defense is impregnable as expected. Real Madrid looks tired, and like the whole team depends on a player that was unwanted by 3 EPL teams (Diarra).

The referee was giving Liverpool too much advantage and Liverpool players made full advantage of it with outrages tackles at times. However Liverpool dominated not because of that, but because they are Liverpool at Anfield. The first goal was actually a no count because Torres fouled Cannavaro and the second shouldnt be because Heinze used his shoulders and if not, also it was unintentional. The referee was a real s_hai, and it looked like he was Liverpool's 13th player during the first half. Cards that were supposed to be given to (Alonso) wasnt and instead given to others who dont deserve it although some may argue.

The 3rd and 4th goal showed Liverpool's class and how bad is the state of Real Madrid's football. Liverpool countered fast with Babel and Kuyt, with Gerrard's signature finish, they were unstoppable at least not by Real's sluggish team. Even Ramos that was supposed to be good and agile couldn't keep up. The 4th was to rub salt to Real's wound, they were outpaced and outclassed. There was no strategy, no tactics, no whatever on Real's side. A major overhaul would be needed if they want to compete on the same level as EPL teams and they can start first by sacking their manager who can't even manage a lowly EPL team.

Best Liverpool Player: Steven Gerrard
Worse Liverpool Player: Dirk Kuyt

Best Real Madrid Player: Lassana Diarra
Worse Real Madrid Player: The Whole Damn Team!!!

7/3/08: Damn it! Arggh!

2009-03-08T02:33:00.005+08:00

I guess my body's metabolic rate is now at its peak however I am not getting any thinner. I did 7.7km yesterday and it was my personal best. While I was jogging, I look into the eyes of this motorcyclist that was wearing all black. I jogged several metres before stopping and looking back at him and I was totally suprised he stoped and look back at me. OMFG! he could be a CCB robber. The lady with 2 kids standing near him was gonna pee in her pants. I continued jogging and hoped that I will not meet that fella again and gosh was I relived to see the police patrol car driving by. It was the 4th time the police patrol that day.

As for today I played badminton and out of 5 matches I won 3. I lost 2 because of stupid Eric's tactic of letting Pin Seng smash while he play lame drop shots. Come on, badminton have to be aggresive, u dictate the game not let ppl move u around. After badminton I went to the neighbourhood security meeting.

We were discussing the steps that could be taken to reduce the crime level in our neighbourhood. One way was to fench the area but SRJK Puay Chai is a problem because the school is too close, another would be to hire guards, but how effective can they be? My suggestion? Forced consription, all those from 21-60 years old must do at least 2 hours of guard duty every week. We take up arms and guard with weapons!

5/3/09: ZZzzZZ

2009-03-05T23:16:00.004+08:00

Did 5.7km, 4x15 push ups, 4x15 curls, 3x5 chin ups yesterday and my body hurts like crap today. Had to wake up early to deliver some sale to someone in OUG, didnt get enough sleep that's probably why. Only managed to do 5.4km today, was not really in the mood. Decided to take tomorrow off to let the muscles heal since I am having badminton on Sat.

Yahoo! Vernie called and say we are going to Sarawak next Friday ^^ yippie! Although for work but still... Woo Hoo!

Well, this sequel was kinda boring, and it is starting to get boring like James Bond. As for the actress, yea yea, they want to make it realistic but I think it would still be realistic if they had a prettier one.

This is the shit! Not only it is funny, it makes you horny.. LoL.. I think I laugh like every couple of minutes as in LOL!!!! the idea was original. In the beginning a couple of retards states that the cinema version is slightly diff, with the DVD having more tits.. LoL and I guess it does.

For those that wanna drive like axxholes be sure to watch this. Maybe you will think twice before you acting like a jerk. Drive like that you never know when you will hamkachan. Why can't Malaysian gov make adverts like this.

3/3/09: Finally!

2009-03-03T20:45:00.002+08:00

Finally I broke my jogging record, now standing at 7.7km, didnt record how long I took though. However it is still short of the 8km/day, been raining a lot lately and it took away my fitness level. Saw a police patrol car today, kudos to them. Hopefully by doing so the crime rate will drop.

2/3/09: Weakbody...

2009-03-01T00:39:00.007+08:00

Been very tired these few days due to sports and exercises. Played badminton for 2 hours today, jogged 4.9km and 700m of swimming. Still short of the 8km mark/day due to tiredness. Sleeping casually at 8pm till 11pm because of this and continuing only after 4am!

A tribute to Mr.Karpal Singh! Keep up the goodwork and dont let the amno thugs stop you.

26/2/09: UFC 95, Chelsea & many more..

2009-02-26T20:56:00.010+08:00

Jogging seems to give me the solace I need. Havent been jogging since Sunday, and my body feels so lethargic. Back to jogging again and I felt great ^^ did 6.6km today in 1 hour, not that I can't go on but it was raining. So far the goal is to do 8km each non-sports day in 90 minutes and slowly cut down on the time taken.

Done with UFC 95 a couple of days ago, although not very exciting I saw a few good Brazilian Jujitsu (BJJ) during the match. Especially by Demian Maia the undefeated fighter like Lyoto Machida. The determination during shown by Diego Sanchez was scary, during all 3 rounds he looks like he was about to finish Joe Stevenson but what a waste he didnt.

The Punisher: Warzone was awesome! one of the best action movies ever, although slightly gory, it was perfect. Loved the story, love the action even more ^^

WoooHooo!!! CHELSEA WON! the match vs Juventus, 1st league of the Uefa Champions League 2009 Knockout Stage! with a small margin courtesy of Didier Drogba. Although I didnt get to watch, I am in Cloud9. I instead watched the MU vs Inter Milan match, a lot of critics say that MU played much much better but I think both teams played well.

22/2/09: Happy Happy Me ^^

2009-02-22T12:43:00.006+08:00

Seems to feel happier and merrier these days, because of the ntg to do? or because of the exercises I had done? or the shopping spree? oh well, no matter what... hopefully I will be able to stay happy ^^ Future? time will tell... XD

Tropicana City Mall!

Decent shops, reasonable price. There's carrefour too, to do groceries. Parking seems ample, and well lighted (free too for now). There're a few problems though, 1st is the entry, people from ss2 have to use the backway which involves a lot of turning and bad roads, or through section 17 to join sprint (which is far for a nearby place), or through ldp then a u-turn at sprint which you have to travel miles for the nearest u-turn.

The 2nd problem is their ramp to exit the parking, the elevation is so high that a couple of cars scrap their bumpers on it. 3rd problem involves it escalators and lift, they are badly placed although plenty.

These are the stuff I bought at the new Tropicana Mall, seems to be a nice place to shop. I saw these Adidas shirts at World of Sports, not only does it come with climacool material, they cost only RM50!!! and I get a discount too (10%)! Join the World of Sports membership thingie you will get a bunch of stuff @ RM39.00 as well as discounts for tonnes of other brands. Definately a cool place, even the staff were friendly.

Volkswagen Scirocco

Volkswagen Golf GTI Mark VI

Saw 2 cool cars on the review of fifth gear, this 2 cars are too similar. Although the Volkswagen Golf Gti Mark VI is called a hatchback and the Volkswagen Scirocco a coupe, they are both nearly the same in terms of power looks and as well as the targetted market. Any of these 2 cars will definately make me happy ^^ The golf gti VI looks a big more family oriented as compared to the previous model (V), and the scirocco definately looks better with a wing at the back, although making it a bit japanese.

17/2/09: Superman! & Amno scum dogs!

2009-02-18T01:36:00.007+08:00

Well, I have never felt so fit in my entire life. I guess being a bummer isn't so bad. Although I am still having a big tummy, my fitness level and stamina is totally awesome. 1 1/2 hours of jogging non stop? 8km? every day? that's something... Doing weight training too, 2 times a week, and crazy weekend of sports. But still wondering why isnt my tummy getting smaller :( hmm..

Done with Ultimate Fighter Season 8, well, actually I prefer Vinny to win but Ryan won and he deserved it. Vinny should have used his BJJ to submit Ryan but I guess Ryan's wrestling skills are good on the ground too, with his hard punching fist, he won the match. As for the lightweight, either one, Efrain or Phillipe could have won the match. Usually Phillipe is the more aggressive striker, and Efrain the ground fighter, but who would know Efrain is as good standing up. The funny part was the coach match, soccer? come on, although Nogueira doesnt play soccer it is in his blood, he's brazillian after all.

Australia, the movie. Reminded me of my time in Alaska, the adventures and excitement. Critics gave a lot of negative comments, but I say it was a great movie! . It touches on many issues during its founding. What surprised me was the background it was taken, it was made to look like as though Australia is mostly desert, maybe it is?

At last got myself a Chelsea Jersey and best of all it is a brand new original at a very cheap price. The only drawback is it is from the previous season but who cares it looks better than the current one. Gotta show Eric that manure this weekend ^^ Wooo Hooo!

Finally to end this post I would like to comment on the current political scenario in Malaysia, the case of Elizabeth Wong from PKR. It is known that she's innocent and who the hell would know that her ex was such a son of a bitch to do such things. And for amno dogs to compare it Chua, is insult to me, an insult to the people's intelligence. Chua was committing adultery, which is against the law and he should be jailed but as for Eli they accuse her of premarital sex. Premarital sex according to Toyol the amno youth khan wannabe, is morally wrong. WTF!! is he trying to force his believes and whatever understanding of his religion onto other people? Come on, to have sex before marriage is up to the couple, who is he to tell people what to do? Instead of finding the perpetrator, he's now trying to prosecute the victim. What an jackass, scumbag of the scumbags, lowest trash of society trying to benefit from such an incident.

Eli, u have my support ^^ stay strong.

15/2/9: Oh No.. Valentine's Nightmare

2009-02-15T01:33:00.007+08:00

Damn it... woke up in the middle of the night, thinking of my ex.... Broke up around 4 years ago, still dreaming of her.. WTF! So happened friday the 13th was her bday... It is ok to dream of her, but errr everytime it gives me this uneasy feeling, like I missed out on something.. damn! LoL... Neway lost contact long ago, wish all the best to her ^^

Oh yes, me and my gang of noob friends just finished playing Left4Dead, done with all the maps. I wonder whether we will still continue playing the game, because if we were to play, it will most likely be in VS mode. Hmmm, maybe playing against Pin Seng's gang.

The bottle of Bacardi Oro that has been lying around in my room since god knows when. Opened it 3 days ago, and I wonder how long will I take to finish it. Was suppose to help my blood circulation after workouts, but it seems to disrupt my sleep and give me headaches as well as hangover. I guess I have low alcohol tolerance XD

Since I have nothing to do and recently the newer episodes of bleach interest me again. I started watching the whole thingie against courtesy of Pin Seng. HAahHHAhhAHAHaa, was searching hi and low for the episodes and I finally got it. At 42 now ^^ wonder take how long to catch up. Gotta bug Pin Seng for more CDs XD

I am gonna finish Ultimate Fighter of Season 8, only the last episode left. This is one of the best reality shows ever! Team Mir vs Team Nogueira! Both Frank Mir and Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira are very very established fighters and Dana White did a good job choosing them to be coaches. The fighter that really interest me was Vinicius "Vinny" Magalhães, his striking skills are good and his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu skills are great. Haven't I seen anyone taken down people and submitting them so easily. Mir was his usual self, typical white guy, doing his job, very jolly fellow. Nogueira was however more 'asian' I would say, always talking about philosophy and being a fatherly figure to these newbies.

Now waiting to watch Mir VS Lesnar for the heavy weight title. Oh ya, I also did watch Affliction's M-1 Day of Reckoning, where Fedor Emelianenko, the current no.1 rated MMA fighter fought Andrei Arlovski . In Affliction strikers seem to have an advantage but most of the matches, jiujitsu fighters won by submission. More on the next post...

8/2/8: End of Chinese New Year :( sob sob..

2009-02-08T16:11:00.006+08:00

Chinese new year, the best one ever... Wooo, how much fun did I have.. not to mention the ang pows, chatters, yum chas and whiskies. Here're some picture to describe it:

A reuinion of cousins, or at least most of them.. from mummy's side of the family... We had a great dinner, a great chat with tonnes of craziness.

Isn't bunny happy? Should had brought a few of this to grandma's, the few young ones will be wasted or maybe I will get wasted 1st... lol

ERmm, this year's profit wasnt that high. Considering I am supposed to generate my own income by now, dd n mummy gave smaller angpows. The USDs are just decorations XD and they are fake ... lol

The Prada Wallet (Saffiano M513 Black) that cousin Edwin gave me starts to fade. The shine is gone, anybody got any idea on what conditioner to use? Mum's lorenzo wax doesnt seem to work.

6/2/09: UFC 94 & many more...

2009-02-06T22:18:00.007+08:00

Been working out, watching movies and wasting my time ^^ Here are some of the stuff that I had been watching.. Bored bored, after chinese new year the fun is gone. Had the best CNY this year with my cousins.. Will blog on that later..

A 3 hour movie! took like for ages and I enjoyed it very much. Mixture of action and mystery. Although something similar like shooter and bourne series this 1 is a little diff. Will be waiting for the sequel.

Totally forgotten about this movie. Was such a hit and I reminded myself to catch this at the theaters but somehow my memory failed me. Anyhow I got is now and it was awesome. It has 'the kingdom' theme in it which I like very much. Definitely a must to watch.

UFC 94!!! GSP VS BJ Penn 2... !! although I was not very excited about this particular fight, it came out to be quite entertaining. The match between Lyoto Machida vs. Thiago Silva was awesome. Both undefeated, and both with diff fighting styles. Truly inspired by Lyoto, he was able to win the match with not even a scratch, how about that!

Of course the major highlight Georges St-Pierre vs. BJ Penn but the others were fine too. And although GSP deserved the win, the ref shouldn't end it at the 4th round but instead let it go on into 5th and maybe we can see GSP giving a final blow onto penn.

11/1/09: Bumming! Full Time!

2009-01-10T23:46:00.006+08:00

Bumming to the max, travelling, doing ntg prodcutive, that's my life ^^ for now... Here're some random pics from before and now...

Chicken Stew... Aint I clever ^^

Tandorri Chicken! Ownage!

Curry Chicken... American Style.. Lol

Bah...Zzzz.. My current injury, thanks to futsal... Never gonna play it again.. Damn it

'The Spine' @ UAA

Eric's apartment in Genting... Scary Huh... But it was a nice place..

1/1/09: Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T13:13:00.000+08:00

Came back from Singapore a few days ago, been lazy. Had a great time there, with cousin Edwin n his wife Sharon as well as the rest of the family there. Full time bum, nothing to do. HEhehehE
Here are some pictures to share:

Orchard road with their lights, didnt really take much picture.

On the left is coke on the right is? Made by Myra, thanks ^^

Went fishing on Christmas, woke up 5.30am! The place is err... Raffles Marina

Edwin trying to jigg

We caught like 30+ tambans, damn disgusting, the fish with the worms on the side. Nearly like every tambam has 5-8 worms attached to it. The worms will make holes on the side of the fish and feed on it =.=" The colourful one in the centre is tengirri and luckily it is not infested by worms but still not worth eating.

Damn tenggiri gave me a bite when I was removing the hook from its mouth. Unlike tambans, tenggiri has sharp teeth.

16/12/08: SINGAPORE!!!

2008-12-16T11:45:00.001+08:00

Sorry, no updates these few days. Went to singapore and has been busy ever since. Did some window shopping and pub/bar hopping.

Gosh! was I shocked by the amount of people downtown, and it looks like the amount of people shopping here is more than KL. Although the christmas lights might be the reason, but in the malls cashier counters are always occupied even late at night.

Weather seems to be nice, a bit of rain here and there to keep the temperature down. Not too much sun.

Food errr, in general doesnt seem to be as nice as Msia but the shocking part is the price. Since the last time that I was here about a year ago, the price has not change as much as Msia. I think eventually it might be even cheaper than Msia.

15) Fishhead Noodle
Fried fish with spring onions, salted vege, fish head broth & evaporated milk and lastly rice vermicelli

Although very tasty, beware most are made with a lot of msg. This made you feel very thirsty. Some of them gives chunks of fish meat wherelse some gives dried fried fish meat. I prefer the real dried ones though, they seem to taste better with the soup.

The ugliest water display fountain I have ever seen

56) Duck Wantan Mee

Specially made egg noodle (same as wantan noodle) , with dark soya sauce and pig lard oil, roasted duck meat, lamely boiled vege

First time ever I saw a meal look better than the menu picture. The duck meat was nice but the noodle sucks

56) Singaporean Wantan Mee

Specially made egg noodle, with chicken broth and pig lard oil, char siew (bbq chicken), lamely boiled vege, bowl of pepper soup with wantans inside

I shall refrain from saying that Singaporean Wantan Mee is a joke compared to Msian's. The noodle was so well made and so was the seasoning. Even though not as dark as the Msian version it sure taste good. The only are where it loses out is the bbq meat/char siew

Either the food stall operator is slow or the wantan mee is good. I think its because of both. This is the line after I finished my meal. When I was queuing up there was 4 people in front of me, now imagine how long the fei chai at the back with the grey shirt have to wait

9/12/08: Being a full time pig XD

2008-12-09T21:33:00.001+08:00

Well well, officially now a full time pig. Sleep, eat, bath, do nothing else. How fun can life be. Zzzz.

Went to pasar malam to have dinner and bought some junks. Was kinda rainy so there was less people. Didnt get to jog though.

5) Chow Kuew Teow/Fried Kuew Teow Noodle
Kuew Teow Noodle fried with prawns, lap cheong (chinese bacon/sausage), bean sprouts, spring onions and si ham (cockles)

25) Ais Kacang/ABC/Flavored Ice Shavings

Made with ice shavings with, condense milk, gula melaka (palm sugar), peanuts, cendol, corn, jelly, red bean, and syrup

Korean food, stole some from my sis. Some kind of rice cake cooked with kim chi sauce.

6/12/08: Did something... At Least

2008-12-07T03:56:00.000+08:00

Woke up in the morning and went to Lake Gardens aka Taman Tasik Perdana to 'jog'. After 5 laps we headed over to somewhere in KL to have some food. After lunch headed to Pin Seng's apartment for badminton. Played quite well considering that I had not played for 8 months. Won 6 of the 7 matches ^^ Keng leh... Hehehehee

Here are some pictures to share:

9) Wantan/Dumpling Noodle

Specially made egg noodle, with dark soy sauce and pig lard oil, char siew (bbq chicken), lamely boiled vege, bowl of pepper soup with wantans inside

We went to this chinese coffee shop in KL, the people serving us were very rude, those chinawomen type lar.. Eric called for me wantan mee, want chui hao noodle.. then the server said in chinese "wtf is that?" Eric was errr =.=" then they mumble mumble.. And my noodles arrive just like the picture. Oh ya ordered 100+ as well.. It was really tasty very good, look at the amount of wantan in the soup.. Waa.. Nice Meal.. but the price was $7 =.=" i was like.. Zzzzzz 100+ charge kau me $2 ... but can say worth it ler

55) Yong Tau Fu

Assorted processed food in fish broth with spring oinions. Tofu with inserted meat, Brinjal with inserted meat, Fu Chok/Beancurd wrapped onto meat, Lady's finger with insterted meat

It comes with this also, Chu Cheong Fan.. Err.. Pig Intestine Noodle... LOL.. in curry soup

Stupid 1, eat this already where can eat Yong Tau Fu already... Zzzzz

4/12/08: I need a holiday!! ARghh!

2008-12-04T01:15:00.000+08:00

Although I am not working or studying now, I feel trapped! There's nothing to do, and day by day passes by. It is so boring staying at home doing nothing! ArrghhH! I miss .....

Neway, the last trip we had before we left Alaska. It is to Chugach State Park, although Flat Top is also a part of the park, we went to the south part instead. It is along the railway road and highway to Seward. It was a damn 6 hours hike! And believe it or not, Tou which is Cheng's cousin only hiked 15 minutes! lol.. before he went back and sleep in the car. While we were hiking we took some awesome pictures, however when it became dark Cheng said he heard noises, and we ran all the way back. Lol.. Although I didnt hear anything ^^

I miss the mountains!!

Frozen stream!

Just like LOTR!

On my way up..

Standing on a frozen stream ^^

1/2 way during the hike..

I can just sit there all day, looking at the view

The railway and road to Seward... I miss the view..

Beautiful isn't it?

Even more beautiful..

Full moon night! We left fast because werewolves or bears might come out..

I wanna go back!!!

03/12/08: Starting to dislike Malaysia!!!

2008-12-03T01:43:00.000+08:00

Besides the hot weather, people are starting to be crappier. The longer I am here, it seems the worse people has become. Crazy drivers, rude customer service, crappy internet, unorganized roads etc etc etc. The only thing I am grateful is the food, I can't think of anything else now. The crappier my life here the more I think back about my stay in Alaska. Here's a few of my pictures during my second visit to flat top.

This time we visited flat top with the intention of bringing Marcus to see Anchorage from the top. Too bad it became dark early and we could only see Anchorage during the night which turned out to be not too bad. Here are the pics ^^

Higher than Mount. Kinabalu ar? 2.8 miles high wor

Here's a picture of me, dunno doing what *hehehee*

Here's a picture of Cheng on the phone..

Here's Kenny... I mean Marcus

??? Dont know what's he doing.. Kuku d XD

Hobby ^^

Profit! Waa... Looks like acid came out and made a hole..

Not bad eh? Too bad we had crappy cameras... ZZzzzz

25/11/08: NBTD Day

2008-11-26T00:57:00.000+08:00

Didnt do much today, still procrastinating.. Went to Standard Chartered today to get some $$$ and had to wait 1 hour for their system to get back up and 30 minutes for the stupid teller to prepare me cash n a cheque... ZZzz

Just when I was about to leave the house, Auntie Teoh my neighbour gave me a yummie plate of nasi lemak... HEehehaHEHe.. The best since it is free and yummie!

Here are the pictures of the day...

Curry!! Cooked by me... Yummie leh ^^ I am so proud of myself... HEhehHEhe

The car that I drove for the last 1 1/2 months of my stay in Anchorage... Belongs to Cheng, loaned to me when he's working... HehEHEHhEhhhee.. 2nd Gen Acura Integra I guess... Dont know the specs XD

Look... the same as pic in wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:3RD-Acura-Integra.jpg

Mr.Mohd and his family.. Had dinner at his place... Only msian family I met during my stay... He told me there are several other Malaysians there which surprises me.

54) Nasi Lemak

Hard boiled egg, Cucumber, Fried Anchovies, Onion Sambal, Coconut Rice and not forgetting Chicken Curry... Thanks Auntie Teoh.. U r D Best ... One of Msian's best offerings... 1 of the reason I miss Msia *sob sob* Btw, sometimes curry is replaced with rendang.. And spicy squid too... ehhehHEEhh

Cant resist.. Must post this picture... HAHaHaa.. Stolen from Ashley's facebook... HEehHEHe... Nice assets u got there... Evan must be proud XD

24/11/08: Baby Baptism Party, Thai Festival & Msian Food

2008-11-24T23:38:00.000+08:00

Well, as I had promised earlier on.. I am going to share some pictures with you guys.. Here are some pictures that I took during my last few weeks in Anchorage as well as some pictures of the food that I am eating now. Sorry for the poor image quality, all I have is just a crappy camera.. HAHahhaa.. Any1 wanna donate a dslr for me? Might get a Canon SX110 IS soon... if I have $$$

Something I put together at the table while waiting for food... Heheheh... Cute leh?

HeHEheh.. at the baby baptism party.. dont ask me whose baby.. I am just there for the food XD typical Malaysian... HAHhaha..

Clockwise: Me, Marcus, Dunno, Razel*, Tass, Emily

Thanks En En for taking the picture XD

I think this is taken during the Thai Festival.. And NO! I am not drunk or high on weed XD

Clockwise: Forgotten, Me, Marcus, Dunno, Razel*, En En

Cool huh? Taken at En En's place.. Just for the Lulz.. Two bitches ^^

Thai dance by Thai little girls..

I bet Reuben will like this.. Here they are, auctioning young Thai girls off to old paedohiles... After they had dirty thoughts while the girls are dancing... LOL

54) Economy Rice/Chap Fan

With sweet and sour pork, four angle bean, white rice with curry on top. Together with soya bean milk it only cost 2usd... From RockCafe, Sunway... Hehhee

21) KFC, Dinner Plate

The only meal in menu which is worth eating... At RM13.. This is not considered cheap but I have been craving for this since a long time... Can't say no to 3 pieces of hot juicy spicy fried chicken... Usually they give me crappy pieces but the branch @ ss2 made my day.. Not only was the fried chicken seller friendly, the meal was awesome.. If only they had gave me a refill for my drink... HAhaHAHha

23/11/08: Back in Msia XP & Food List!

2008-11-23T14:17:00.008+08:00

Been back for 4 days now and the withdrawal effect of being in a foreign country is not as bad as last year. Appreciated the warm weather more, especially those perfect temperature during the nights and mornings but not so much of the days, too hot for my liking.

There's so much to do, didnt really had time to really do the things that I planned to do earlier on. From packing my room, meeting friends, collecting $$$ to washing car and preparing post-grad application. Hopefully I will have enough time to keep this blog alive, and sorry for not updating it as I didnt have internet at my apartment for the last month of my stay in Anchorage.

So from now on I will try to twist my mind over to recall what I did, hopefully the photos I took will refresh my memory... HAhahahHAHa.. Expect updates from now and then about my trip ^^

During my stay I had compiled a list of food I miss or I want to eat when I return, so expect photos of my eating spreeeeee from now on too. Here's my list that I took from facebook, might add more in the near future...

1) Nasi Lemak
2) Curry Laksa
3) Rotis
4) Nasi Kandar
5) Chow Kuai Teow
6) Mango Special
7) Nga Pou Lou Shu Fan
8) Hokkien Noodle
9) Wantan Noodle
10) Chicken/Char Siew/Siew Yok Rice
11) Tom Yam
12) Local Chicken Chop
13) Satay
14) Otak-otak
15) Fishhead Noodle
16) Asam Laksa
17) Bak Kut Teh
18) Steamboat
19) Pan Mee
20) Hong Kong Chu Cheong Fan
21) KFC
22) Sweet Sour Pork
23) Rojak
24) Ling Chi Kang
25) Ais Kacang
26) Fresh Prawn Noodle
27) Durian
28) Susu Bandung
29) Taiwanese Pizza
30) Cha Siew Pau/Siew Pau
31) Loh Mai Kai
32) Dim Sum/Siu Mai
33) Kwong Fu Style Noodle
34) Claypot Yee Mee
35) Lala
36) Butter Prawns
37) Chilli Crab
38) Leong Fun
39) Cendol
40) Chicken Wings
41) Tandori Chicken
42) Percik Chicken
43) Rendang
44) Prawn Noodle
45) Beef Noodle
46) Taiwan Noodle
47) Indian Banana Leaf Rice
48) Sweet and Sour Crab
49) Roti Jala
50) Roast Duck
51) Sushi
52) Fish/Chicken Porridge
53) BBQ Chicken Wing
54) Economy Rice/Chap Fan
55) Yong Tau Fu
56) Singaporean Wantan & Duck Noodle
57) Kolo Noodle (Sarawak)
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9/29/08: Days are so lonely, Nights are so sad :(

2008-09-30T15:55:00.000+08:00

One of the saddest moments of my life must have been today. Vivian being the last Malaysian here besides me, just left this morning. After dropping her off and having a couple of beers with some local friends (Cheng and Kevin) all I could do is just weep all alone force myself to sleep.

It is funny and it didn't turn out as expected. Vivian being the clumsy one as usual missed her flight and we had to go through all the trouble of getting her a new ticket issued and luckily all went well. She gave me the scare of my life... the 2nd time!!!

Even with all the troubles that comes being with her all the time, losing her was one of the worse things ever to happen to me. Not only did I felt so lonely, I was actually scared. With the housing problem at the same time, I had no one to turn to. Luckily people here are kind, and that helped a lot. Hopefully all will turn out fine soon...

What's life without friends and family... It would be meaning less....

A big living room.... With a queen size bed... But no one to sleep with :(

A big kitchen and a stove... But no one to cook for :(

A nice and clean toilet... But no one to bath with :( sob sob...

Maybe this will help cure my sorrows for the moment... But.... It would be better if I have someone to share with... :( sob sob

9/21/08: First Day of Fall !!!!

2008-09-22T15:14:00.000+08:00

Sorry for not updating so often, it has been a month since the last post. Been busy working too much.... until this morning I just realised that some trees has turned yellow, there was fresh snows on the mountains and on the way back from work yesterday I could feel the chills in my bones even with my sweater on. OMFG! winter is coming! Arghh!! Signs are showing.. 6 celcius now..

The stupid woods I have to go through for 5 minutes everyday to work... becoming yellow.. met a moose once here before

The path/walkway in front of Diamond High which I have to run to catch the bus everyday... lol.. 8 minutes run... morning exercise

Taken while waiting for the bus... there's snow at the moutain top!

Taken from Diamond Elementary... far view

Migrating pooping birds, covering the walkway with their poop... making me run left and right.. high school kids like scaring them into the road so cars can make stew out of them... lol

At least one tree is still blooming...

Taken while waiting for bus...

Starbucks close for 3 minutes for me to take this picture... lol... there's snow!

A closer look, the snow is coming down the mountains and soon to Anchorage!

8/17/08: Sunday Day Off! Again! Whittier (Prince William Sound Cruise) & Flattop... Part 2

2008-08-27T04:19:00.000+08:00

8/17/08: Sunday Day Off! Again! Whittier (Prince William Sound Cruise) & Flattop... Part 1

2008-08-22T03:13:00.000+08:00

Hayor.. I become driver again.. This time is a Dodge Charger, 3.5L V6 produces 250 hp (186 kW) and 250 ft·lbf (339 N·m) of torque. Better than the stupid Pontiac G6

1/2 way stop to pose XD

Hehehehee.. To those on holis ^^

The route we took is in red

The ship we took, Klondike Express in the background

Four of us on the boat... My hair so funny... Lol

At Ayeska resort

At the marsh..

Spot the salmon...

After nearly ending my life, we made it to heaven... We are top of the world.. Flattop

And we made it thanks to this couple... One of the friendliest people we met.. Guided, motivated and cared for us... I owe them my life... Cheers to Colin and Crystal

8/10/08: Sunday Day Off!! Zoo, Glacier Brewhouse & more... Part 2

2008-08-19T17:11:00.000+08:00

After the Zoo... we headed back to downtown... with nothing to do... we decided to go have lunch at Glacier Brewhouse ... After eating we took a stroll along the bicycle trail and back to our house... realising we don't have the key, we head to jewel lake and how surprise we were.... I will let the pictures do the talking...

Between 5th avenue and H street @ Downtown Anchorage

and... not me

Starters... Bread with olive oil n I added black pepper for fun XD

Out of curiosity... White peach italian soda

Grilled salmon.... Yummie... The gravy was awesome

Fish (halibut) and chips... the fries is the best ever!!

Sinful cheese cake... Hehehhee

View along bicycle trail... Ruins of the Good Friday Earthquake

8/10/08: Sunday Day Off!! Zoo, Glacier Brewhouse & more... Part 1

2008-08-14T03:17:00.000+08:00

Weee.. Had sunday off, me and wei ling decided to go to the zoo... Had to wake up early, to catch the shuttle to the zoo and it was super hot. The sun was crazy, and there's not much clouds to shade us, but it was a perfect day to take pictures. So... this is some of the pictures taken.

Me at d entrance XD

Black bear

Musk Ox n baby

Dunno what's this..

Polar bear ^^ But i think sot kei already, keep walking in cicles

The cousin of the otters from seaward trip... These are river otters

Sheep? & some nasty children

Alpaca? or Albaca? err...

Moose..

Cutest of all!!! Alaskan porcupine..

ERr...

Human...

EH... why repeated animal 1...

Winter wolf?

Mountain goats making out...

Leopard?

Brownbear...

DUnno... from the infirmary

Duck... lol

Injured owl, for flying over the incenartor... lol

Botak eagle

Tiger... Msia also got... lol

8/8/8: Sunshine after the rain

2008-08-09T17:00:00.000+08:00

Work work work.. Damn sienz... ZZzzz... I was happy when I went to work... and suddenly I got PMS when I reach the workplace... Amy was not too happy, and so is Julie... Only Patrick is like himself... No idea why.. At night, things were better and my mood changed.. And this only make me believe more than I am a nocturnal creature.. Just another day at work but wasn't too happy.

My lunch... The best salad of all... The grilled chicken although kind of burn, it was excellent.. Was given a cheese cake from a girl working at Hudson News... Maybe because I leng chai XD

On the way back... something touched my heart... this is how the story goes....

Ever since arriving at Anchorage I had notice that the native community here has been ravaged with all kinds of problems... Alcohol abuse, domestic violence, minor crimes, underage sex, early pregnancy, obesity, lack of amenities at their village, low education attaintment just to name a few... Every time I see a native, he/she will either look confused, lost, with a bruise on the eye(domestic violence), with watery eyes (alcohol) or a single young mama carrying a several babies by herself.

There was even an article in the dailies recently, reporting that soda is so popular among their villages that it replaces water and sometimes even milk for babies. Clean water is scarce and everything is flown in, making things in Alaska expensive. So they would rather opt for a bottle of Coke/Pepsi rather than Milk or even just plain water. This causes problems like diabetes, dental problems and obesity among the young because the elders weren't educated enough to know that it is bad.

This shows how hopeless they are... as time moves on.. the natives were being left behind to suffer the ills of modern society and with the resources of their ancestors strip naked right in front of their very eyes by big conglomerate.... They couldn't do anything but to just witness and survive day by day with no goals and hope...

However today on the way back from work in the bus, I saw a family of natives and how wrong was I... Although they dont seem very smart or wealthy, they were sure happy. I know this by their smile, the kind of smile that would make anyone melt away, The way the mother hangs on to her daughter while the daughter make funny faces at her dad. The way the dad hugs and kisses the cheeks and hands of his son. Although many of the natives simply fail to adapt to modern living, a handful of them managed to, by staying simple and happy. As I left the bus the little girl smiled and waved at me, and that made my day.

Here are some pictures to ponder on...

Taken from Starbucks Venti Cups

8/7/08: Just another day....

2008-08-08T17:47:00.000+08:00

Day by day passes by so easily... And my job is getting bad to worse... Julie left *$B and now a manager... Amy is leaving soon and so is Ashley... I am all alone! and that sucks!!! Arghh!! All I see is stupid customers asking for free water... Damn...Enough of ranting... Let me just share some pics...

Rainbow after the rain today... Stupid rain cause me a lot of tips... Customers were pissed due to the rain, and I suffer ^$&*%#$*

Instant noodle... Homemade... a couple of weeks ago

Tripple play from Chillies... Eat until sien d... Zzz

Homemade salad...

McDs Chicken Select meal... see the McRetards working there I no appetite :(

=.=" OMGYES!

Kam Yu Lou... Look at the amount of babes he gets... ZZzzz

Maybe I should get a pet dog too...

8/3/08: Random Ranting: Getting angry and taking a chill pill.

2008-08-04T13:59:00.001+08:00

Sorry, no nice pictures this time... Just wanna do some ranting.. I bet every1 once in a while get pissed by certain situations or people... And worse still it comes one after another... I had a few these a couple of days and I regreted a little by allowing it to take control of my emotions... Hope no1 gets offended or hurt... It is just one of those days... Lack of sleep.. Getting pissed one after another.. Arrghh!

I think it is best that I take a chill pill next time.. Let my emotions cool down before doing anything... then only I can think straight.. And guys, u guys will know when I am not in a good mood... so please if I am not in a good mood, please dont make me angry further... Just one of those days... lol

Add some pics ler.. just to decorate my blog. Njoy...

Heehhehe... Airport no1 can take some pics ^^

At Seward...

2 birdies pak toh

pak toh d... lay egg

lay egg d... more babies and the whole rock filled with poop... change colour

ww2 watch tower... use to house 6 inch guns

taken at fox island cabin..

guys only..

finally... throw all my worries away

on the way to exit glacier

5th minute.........

4th minute.....

3rd minute....

1st minute.... ehhehehhee

7/26/08: Trip to Seward Part 3, Alaska Sealife Centre and Exit Glacier

2008-08-01T16:42:00.000+08:00

After the cruise we went over to the Alaska Sea life Centre with Patrick taking over the wheel and later we found out he has only been driving for 1 month =.=" wtf... no wonder so cacat.. Not really big but it offers a lot of things you wont be normally be allowed to do or see...Too bad cannot take much pictures as there's reflection from the aquarium... A lot of underwater creatures that you can only see if u go underwater... Towards the end of the trip we headed over to Exit Glacier and we hiked to the toe and side of the glacier... Gosh was it blue.. Damn it was drizzling... But no matter what I write here can't describe how majestic the glacier was...

hehehehee... bully starfish
look at this stupid fish... look so retard.. if i am in the sea i will grab its face and give a few time slap
hmmm.. always thought sea urchins is poisonous.. but was told only certain species... it grabbed my fingers when i touch it
dead squid... pacific giant squid.. not the world largest... but it is as big as me

sea lions... more lively than those lazy ass at resurrection bay

posing before d hike... d girl became our photographer... d only photo that is fine.. lol

taken from the base facing away from the glacier... aint it beautiful?

taken at the toe of the glacier... see the flow? a guide says it moves 1 feet a day.. unstoppable river of frozen snow

for the lol... its fake.. dont worry

taken 1/2 way to the mid section of the glacier

the mid section of the glacier, looking down
the mid section of the glacier, looking up
group photo...
solo picture ^^ male version of CM... lol
i am on top of the world... !!! King of the Mountain XD

when we decide to leave... suddenly it started drizzling heavily and the rain washed off the dirt... and the glacier become blue... without looking and just hearing the wind flowing through the glacier, you will know how great is the glacier

a 100 calorie cola drink on the rocks... 75 cents?
drinking cola at the top of the world... priceless ^^
a salute to the great wonders of the world.. it is things like this that makes life worth living... no regrets making a trip here...

7/26/08: Trip to Seward Part 2, Cruise (Kenai Fjord Cruise @ Resurrection Bay & Fox Island)

2008-07-30T16:31:00.000+08:00

We arrived at Seward (Pronounce as 'Su'...'Werd' not 'Sea' 'Werd') after 3 damn hours of driving, or at least for me only. We headed to the harbour and took some pictures before going on board. Throughout most of the trip we sat in front of the boat freezing our ass off... Lol.. Even the locals dare not leave the cabin while we were sitting outside at the front... Took a lot of wildlife pics during the cruise and some of them are whales, puffins (a type of bird), sea otters, sea lions.... Half way we stop at Fox Island to have a meal as well as a presentation by a ranger from the Kenai National Park... Continued the journey for more wildlife... Wei Ling felt like puking after eating so full... lol

we were on the ship called 'greatland' and yeaps.. alaska is truly great and patrick is d oppo because he got to take pic for us.. hehehee

4 of us sitting in front of the ship... hahaha... while d rest watch from inside... only later on did more teens and small kids join us.. all the old folks stay inside.. lol

this is hennesy vsop on rocks... lol

sea lions... more like seapigs... all they do is lie there and do nothing.. at least 1 is good enough to look at us

puffins... birds that dive 2 get their food

i dont exactly know what birds they are... but i think they would be better called poopers... all they do is just poop around and change d colour of the rocks.. lol sea otters.. very friendly... was swimming around us.. i wonder why is it alone..

taken at fox island

one of the glaciers that is heading towards the sea

yummie salmon... being grilled
my 1st plate... hehhehee... every single dish was great..
melting snow forming a small stream.. or is it flowing snow... lol

sry i couldnt give a picture of the whale... i only got it in video and youtube wont allow me 2 upload such a big file...

stay tune for more pictures... Trip to Seward Part 3: Alaska Sealife Centre and Exit Glacier

7/26/08: Trip to Seward Part 1, On the way

2008-07-29T16:15:00.000+08:00

Destination: Seward (Kenai Fjord Cruise @ Resurrection Bay & Fox Island and Alaska Sealife Center) and Exit Glacier
Distance: 126 miles/203km, 252 miles/406km (total)
Time driving: 6 hours (total)
Vehicle: Pontiac G6 GT 3.5 V6 240 hp (179 kW) and 240 ft·lbf (332 Nm) torque
Fuel Consumption: 24.5mpg, 9.8gal Driver: Me, Patrick (8 miles)
Navigator: Jon
Sleeping Potatoes: Patrick, Vivian

Part 1, On the way

Took the car from the airport car rental and picked Vivian up from work. We started our journey after stocking up at Tesoro. Along the way it was drizzling, and my car skidded when I made a stop to take pictures. The people from 2 RVs and 3 Tour coaches had the shock of their life when they heard my tires shrieking... lol.. Haven't they watch Initial-D before? And everyone in the car was like shitting in their pants... lol.. I do that all the time in Msia... but this time it was a little scarier because it is not a MyVi but a 1.6ton G6. After 3 hours of mountain driving, we finally arrived at Seward. The roads are like those featured in Initial-D... lol...Unlike in Msia where the roads cut through the hills, the roads here go around it making it curvy. And driving along these roads requires a lot of concentration but not as bad as the drive to Yosemite from LA last time.

Waa... Me posing with my car, both so cool
Why I always become driver geh... ZZzzz
King of the Rock
From Left: Vivian, Jon, Patrick and Me
Lucky I stop... All the RVs left after being scared by me... Lol

2008-07-25T17:25:00.000+08:00

7/20/08: Ntgg... & Buddy Intro Part 3

2008-07-22T02:19:00.000+08:00

Nothing worth mentioning today... Work overtime thanks to Amy for conning me into it... And got a ride back from her mum... Just like any other day... Here are some food pics...

This is called strombolis... Cheese and sausages/vege/... covered with a bread. Very cheesy.

This is my supper at home tonight... Leftover chicken crispers, fries and strombolis.

Buddy Intro Part 3 (Jonathan Wong, Rich Kid)

Sorry, have not taken any pics with Jon yet. This pic was taken when I was writting this post. I hope he don't mind. He spends a lot on food as compared with me and eats a lot of yummie stuff.

With Jon, Patrick and Vivian... I got the new apartment and we lived together ever since.

7/19/08: Ntg...

2008-07-20T15:42:00.000+08:00

Went to work early @ 9.30 and had a great day. Worked with Patrick and Wayne but Wayne got kicked to the kiosk so I work with Patrick only. After that Ashley joined us. Nothing worth mentioning... So I give u all some pics, of Patrick (Yu Cheng) and Vivian =.=" (Wei Ling).

so macho hor?
nice butt?
=.="

7/18/08: Rain till now....

2008-07-19T13:59:00.000+08:00

Woke up and head to downtown to get myself a no. from AT&T. Those who wanna know my Alaskan no. can msg me. The stupid IPhone cost $199 and $60 per month... so exp... Instead i got a prepaid. After that, went window shopping in jcpenney and also 5th ave mall. After loitering around I decided to head to the BP career fair. Was so pissed because it was raining since yesterday!!! That means already 2 days non-stop! If it is in msia the kampungs would have flooded.

ZZzzz... Most of them for awareness nia... Still have to write in their website and which I will. Only Asian there, so a bit sceptical whether they will hire a foreign worker.

At least i got some souvenirs back... Hehehehee
Returned home super cold with a headache because of low blood sugar. Didn't eat anything today and ended up eating a pizza and this bowl of tom yam noddle. The pizza is super cheap 1.78usd only but not very nice so don't wanna take pic XD

7/17/08: Rain rain rain......

2008-07-18T17:45:00.000+08:00

Why is it still raining? Had to wear a rain coat and walk to Northwood to catch the bus... Had a fine day at work but received the most tips today... 20usd... Had to walk back in the rain again!!! Returned home and did laundry.. Cooked Patrick's (Yu Cheng's) Mince Pork Flavoured Noodle.. From the mixes it is more like white pepper, fried onions and pig lard... If eaten just like that, it doesnt seem to be tasty so I had to add soy sauce n salt to it. However the smell is just great, and I suspect it comes from the lard used. Taiwanese and Msian instant noodles really differs.

7/16/08: Airport lockdown!!!! Evacuation...

2008-07-17T16:56:00.000+08:00

Today was the worst day ever in Alaska... It started off very nice with me working with Stephy, Patrick (Yu Cheng) and Amy... After working for a while with the sick Stephy, she left for home. Patrick had to leave to relief Erlinda in her kiosk because she was needed to help out setup the new cafeteria.. So it was only me and amy chatting all the way.. Until at around 6 pm, every1 was required to leave the airport and during the last moments Amy spilled one pitcher of passion tea over the cold drinks bar. We all had to gather outside the airport and it was chaos. If this had happen in LA, god help the TSA and police. It was some unattended baggage and the police treats it as a bomb threat. Here are some pics:

Ted Stevens International Airport South Terminal.... Every1 was standing under the rain... From all days... Why must it rain today..
The puppy that Amy wanted.. So she asked me to take a pic... I wanted to take another pic but ended up being licked and pounced on by this super cutie... Barely 3 months old the owner was dragging it around as it can't walk properly... DAmn.. Stupid Man... but at least he allowed me to take a pic.
After waiting we were ask to move further... 300 feet from the airport... gosh..

After an hour we were allowed to return... While Patrick and Amy left... Me and Ashley had to clean the mess that was made by Amy and also clean up for the night shift. But all of a sudden the crowd and line started to build up.. We ended up working like crazy... frap after frap... Everything was empty and messy... I still didnt have my meal... Wei Ling came in at 10 and she helped out a bit... My meal came at 10.30pm.... and I didnt get to eat it as I had to catch the last bus.

It was raining on the way back and since I took the northwood bus i gotta walk.... 20 minutes under the rain... Damn.... SO damn tired now... Will rant more 2molo

7/11/08: More picta

2008-07-16T04:43:00.000+08:00

Here are more interesting pictures from the museum.

they had visors.... cool and the mask on the bottom left does help to see in the winter.
perasan punya beaver...
i take pic the bear also wanna join in.... zzzz
where should i conquer... hmm... those in red shows where the oil and gas fields are situated
this is damn retarded... lol
waaa... alaskan winter clothings.... cool
i wonder why they need such a big bubu... they have shark in their rivers? oh i forgot... they salmons are kinda large

7/11-13/08: ???

2008-07-15T16:34:00.000+08:00

ZZZzzz... Lazy to write, went to museum on Friday and was kind of disappointed because the ground floor is full of art less on history.

7/9+10/08: Days That Just Goes By

2008-07-11T16:23:00.000+08:00

On wed morning I walked a freaking 5km in total and it took me 1 hour+ to pay my stupid electricity bill... zzz... got lost along the way also... After getting it settled I had to run 30 minutes to catch the bus 2 work... GOt a bottle of free beer... HEhehhHEHEhE..

Today I was supposed to go to wells fargo to get my debit card n check book but was too lazy. Instead i go straight to work. Had a boring day in work... zzzz
Lazy to write already... Entertain u all with my cool pics ^^ some were stolen from yu cheng..

7/7+8/08:

2008-07-10T00:16:00.000+08:00

Woke up in the morning and watched naruto. Debbie gave us our secu letters to apply for secu badge application where we had our fingerprint taken. Took some pictures along the way. Got register for the second time and went to break Erlinda at the kiosk. At the kiosk it was super boring. Ate BBQ ranch burger and a lot of fries but I shouldnt have eaten that. More fries means becoming fatter...... faster. Upon returning home, me and jon clean the kitchen place for 3 hours and I was super dead after that.

Woke up a bit late and watched top gear. Went to work and got a register. Took some pics with Julie during the night. Went home and ate some home food that was cooked by jon's friend at work.

7/6/08: Getting Better and Better

2008-07-08T02:05:00.000+08:00

Went to work today with the new scholls sole on my stupid reebok shoe and it seems more comfortable. Had fun while working. Went home to do laundry. And suddenly yu cheng's auntie came visiting with bowls, plates, spagetti sauce and a microwave oven!!! Hehehehee.. guess our house is being more equiped now. But the air mattress seems like leaking, hmmm....

some spagetti before sleep
my apartment from the front

5/7/08: OFF DAY!

2008-07-06T12:56:00.000+08:00

Woke up in the morning and headed down to walmart with wei ling, got lost along the way there and the way back. LOL. We went and bought air mattresses but ended up with 60usd worth of junks. While waiting for the bus we headed to Mcds for some apple pies. On the way back the neighbour which is a old man was grilling something nice. When we visited the apartment the last time he was grilling/bbq and now he was also bbqing/grilling again. After finish bathing that super nice old chap gave us some of his bbq ribs, what a nice guy. Now feeling pai seh, we have to give him back something in return. Maybe indomee with egg and sausage.

mummy, the flowers at home can throw away already, here much nicer

taking pic with doggie ^^

story of doggie

bbq/grill ribs given by the old chap next door ^^

mcds on the way back from walmart. drink 2usd, mcchicken 1.60usd, 1 apple pie n 3 cookies 1 usd ^^

7/4/08: Independance Day Long Walk

2008-07-06T11:53:00.000+08:00

While the yankees enjoy their independance day I had to walk to work because there's no public transport. Thanks to my jogging training with the gang (ken hoong, eric and marcus) walking to work is not that bad. The only difference is that here it is colder so it is easier, but also I had to carry my backpack which has my laptop (8kg).

The picture shows the path way I took, around 10 km to work and 5 km to stepy's place which I spend the night.

Took me 1 hour and 40 minutes to walk to work and 50 minutes to stephy's place on the way back. Lucky at the workplace it was slow so I end up chatting with Julie (lead at starbucks( most about the time. It is good to chat more and not only will it improve relationship it will also clear misunderstandings.

My meal at work. The stupid 1/2 eaten italian stack sandwich cost 7.99, the chips cost 1.50 and the freaking big tasteless potato apple cost 1.80!!!! everyday I get 13usd worth of meals.

3/7/08: Working

2008-07-04T16:53:00.001+08:00

Had 8 hours sleep, and went to work. Working today is more fun, must learn how to talk to colleagues so can be closer. After work went home with yu cheng. The minor problems in the new apartment has been rectified and now the only thing left out is mattresses.

7/2/08: Work getting more and more boring.

2008-07-03T17:29:00.000+08:00

Woke up at 8am and fill up the forms for utilities, consumed 1 hour filling the forms and at the final part I didnt have enough info and I couldn't save it. Wasted 1 whole hour doing crap. Went to work and had a super boring day. Headed home chat n blog a little and sleep. What a day. Also at night I ask wei ling to fill the forms for utilities forgotting I had not enough info, wasted 1 more hour.... LOL

1/7/08: New Place, New Beginning?

2008-07-02T16:59:00.000+08:00

Woke up at 5 thanks to Wei ling's stupid phone (which rings with a stupid KONICHIWA when a msg comes by) and I accidentally woke her up as well thinking it is time for work. Both of us didn't have much sleep and as a results and we were very tired the whole day. At 9 we went to see the new apartment and shifted our stuff at the same times (using public transport, bus imagine with all our luggages). Paid the rent for $875 and a $700 deposit. The manager told me to find his friend for an engineering job, and I might consider.

Headed for work at 12 while yu cheng and wei ling continue shifting our stuff for the 2nd time. At work it was kind of slow and it gets very boring. the longer I work the more refreshed I become but I dont know why I was so moody.Maybe it is a result of lack of sleep. After work we returned to our place and found several minor problems in the apartment. the place is very nice hopefully we can make this place our 2nd home.