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SleEpyy Holidays

2005-05-27T00:36:00.000+08:00

The best thing about being on holiday is the fact that u can sleep forever and no one will stop you. I sleep maybe 12 hours everyday!! that is a lot ain't it. But i just love to sleep..hahah..being a pig once in a while is good for health..(for me that is)
I just came back from sarawak and Taiping not too long ago. Have pictures of those places but i haven't put it on the blog yet. The connection has been lousy. I kept getting disconnected every 5 minutes!!! So i decided not to put the pictures until i go back to uni..which is on the 6 of June. So sad yea!!! But what to do...How do you people make yourself go back to studying after a long holiday?

My vision

2005-05-03T19:09:00.000+08:00

I just checked my eyes yesterday at OPSM, spectacles shop in pee jay..! OMG..my power actually increased by 100 in the left eye after only 6 months..Thats fast isn't it! but anyway, they have been offering RM 9 per pair of frame and that is super cheap so i just got that one. Advice : look at more green thingys

LoUsY DriVEr!!!

2005-04-26T09:58:00.000+08:00

I was real angry yesterday with one of the drivers in my University. I was driving back to my hostel and was already in the University Compound. I saw one car in front which stopped right in the middle of the road and was talking to his friend on a motorbike. Thinking that he was going to be there for long, i decided to overtake since he stopped on my driving lane. The next thing i know, once i started overtaking, the driver decided to start driving as well. That is not what i was angry about. I was angry because when i was trying to overtake, he didn't let me and instead press full on the accelerator and not let me pass!!! AND there was an oncoming car!!! When he saw the car coming, he finally decided to let me overtake!!WHAT A LOUSY DRIVER!!!How can people be such a road bully!!

EXAMS!!

2005-04-19T12:58:00.000+08:00

Right, my exam is around the corner again! Sigh...have to slog again in the next week! but i can't wait till it's over..then i will be free ..for a month..!!!go home, relax, and pick a fight with the little 3 year old in my house..i am mean aren't i??:) but i love to kacau small kids. they are fun!
Anyway, the reason why my exams is around the corner again is because i failed one subject previously. so i have to resit..The moral of the story, don't get too distracted or not you'll have to stay back an extra month while everyone goes home!
However, i do not regret staying here at all. I have learned a lot more here than i could have if i was at home during the previous month. I am not sure why, but suddenly there are a lot of people around me who started teaching me about life, which is real good. ahahah...i guess i look very immature that is why they felt that they had to teach me.
The most important thing i learned is that, young people whould go out and make the best out of their life!!!!this is the best time to do so! sigh,, i regret i wasted some of my time doing nothing and just being a bookworm. We should take this time to do something adventurous , shouldnt we? However, work still should not be forgotten

KOPI TENOM..

2005-04-10T16:07:00.000+08:00

Again, my thirst for adventure made me decide to pack my small back pack and travel to Tenom with two of my friends.This time around, i decided not to drive my baby "ferrari" and resorted to using "bas nombor sebelas,11", which is to say that i jalan kaki and naik bas-lah. It was fun!

The historical railroad

The first thing we did was to take a bus to beaufort..sounds familiar ya the place. Beaufort came out in our history textbooks before. They have the railway built by the erm...British ar? that i am also not sure..but i know the railroad has a history. So we sat a bus to Beaufort. Luckily for us, we reached in time to catch the last choo choo train to Tenom, which was at 4.30 pm.
The train is actually a tourist attraction. It is really really old, ..something like the train that Anjali sat in Kuch Kuch Hota He. The nice thing about this train is that it runs right beside the river. and about 80% of the way, we can see the river a jump away from the train. The train runs at 16 km/H which is good in a sense that we can really enjoy the scenery around us. And we can also hang by the side of the door which is open..Sounds dangerous?? not really cause the train moves real slowly!
However, there are a few setbacks to sittitng the train and that is the strong smell of diesel smoke emitted from the train. Hahaa..and there it is also some sort of "a must " for people to spit out of the train??? aha...i was looking out of the window...When i looked to the left, the boy beside me spat out of the window..then i looked to the right..and someone else spit again, and i looked left again and it happened again..then i looked right...and YES!! some one spit gain...gross...i actually lost count of how many times the boy beside me spit..it might be maybe twenty times!HONEST!!!
however...it was really great fun sitting on the train. We rode into the night..we reached only at seven and it was already dark.

A view from the train

Look at this!! When i got into the room i was quite surprised to see an antique air-cond..i haven't seen this around in a long long time.

This is a view from Perkasa hotel. It is the best hotel in that area and it is two star. RM 75 for a deluxe room which can fit maybe 8-10 persons. The view from room 511 where we stayed was great. I took the following photo the next morning from our hotel room. It is a view of Tenom.

This is also a view from our room of the road leading up to the hotel. They actually have Rafflesias nearby but due to the dry season, the Rafflesias cannot grow.

This was taken in the biggest Agricultural park in Malaysia. It takes one whole day to walk if we want to explore the park. And they have hostels there as well and we only have to pay RM 15 per night. We could not stay long as we had to catch the afternoon train back..so we only managed to see a few small parks. The fruit above was given by the tour guide to us to try. It has a wierd taste and i do not know what it is called.. But it was fun trying.

MAGIC FRUIT
Have you ever heard of a magic fruit before?? i haven't..until yesterday. They have it in the Park as well. It is from Brail i think. At first, we were given a really young star fruit and it was really sour. The tour guide then made us try the magic fruit asking us to suck the fruit. Then we were asked to eat the same sour fruit again. This time, the fruit was sweet. Cool huh!!so sad, i forgotten to take a picture of that but it is very small, as small as a pea.

This is a lotus leave, a different species from Africa. It can grow up to 5 metres in diameter. A 5 metre leave can withstand the weight of a boy less than 30 kg. So a boy can actually float on a large lotus leave!!shiok ar!!This plant is only planted in Tenom as other people who are found to have this plant will be fined thousands of dollars..

This is the normal lotus plant you can find here. It is smaller but the flowers are real nice, isn't it..

Big bruise

2005-04-06T12:14:00.000+08:00

Sad, so sad.. For those who intend to become an architect, my advice is, please please draw and pick correct materials for the construction of a proper bathroo. Due to a lousily designed bathroom in my uni ( this is only my opinion ) , the water stays stagnant at one end because the floor is made in such a way that the water does not flow towards the side where the water gets cleared. Wahhh!!! not only that... The tiles picked are super super slippery. Out of 7 pairs of slippers, 6 are slippery..!! That is where my bruise came about.. A big big bruise..biggest i have gotten in my whole life.
The moral of the story is..please check the tiles of the bathroom before entering.. Using a plastic shoe will prevent you from falling down flat.

Lucky Lucky star!

2005-04-04T15:02:00.001+08:00

Friday was a lucky day for me. My friends and i went for a trip to Pantai Dalit which was about 25 minutes drive from my uni. Pantai Dalit is a beautiful beach and Shangri-la Rasa Ria, afour star or five star hotel maybe..was built facing it. Three of us just went there for fun to play at the beach. However, it rained that day and we couldn't stay for long at the beach.
We went inside the resort..walked around for a while and my friend said she wanted to go home cause she was feeling dizzy. On the way out, we met with my professor who was having a workshop at the resort.
She invited us to stay with her as she had a room there. Haha..what luck...!!We get to fully utilize all the facilities there as we were the 'occupants' of the resort! i used the sauna, jacuzzi, swimming pool and trampoline. It was way fun + i didn't have to pay!! the smallest room actually had two single beds and one living room. I think one night there actually costs a lot.. We never thought we would be able to stay there but what luck, don't you think!

Lucky Lucky star!

2005-04-04T15:02:00.000+08:00

Kudat!

2005-03-28T10:25:00.000+08:00

Kudat, a place which is a three hour drive away from Kota Kinabalu, a quiet town with only two rows af shops as their pekan. I was there recently to visit my foster family. We have this as part of our school programme. It was a nice visit and i get to drive long distance..not that i enjoy it very much but then it was a good experience. On the way i get to see paddy fields and even 'cow boys', not those riding on a horse, but riding on cows. It was cool!!i have never seen anyone doing that in the West ( we call semenanjung 'west' over here )
The next day i came back...and i was suppose to go for another trip to help in a research two master students was doing on thallasaemia. It was wierd but we ended up going to Kudat again!! so i went to Kudat twice within 5 days. I should post some pics up but i haven't loaded it into my comp yet. It was a nice exerpience. I was trying to learn how to take blood so i observing the nurses take blood. Haha..however, the first time i took blood was a failure. I ended up poking my friend three times without getting any blood.
The kids there were great! They are really friendly people..and real naughty as well.. I asked them what their ambition was and one boy actually said that he wanted to be cikgu pondan next time. Goodness!! the things they can come up with!! However, these kids were really brave. They came for blood taking by themselves without parents by their sides. They were very independent considering their young age. I cannot picture this at home. I can't even picture my self being that brave when i was young. It was a good learning experience. I actually learned quite a bit from these kids. When i asked them about their history, a lot of them actually have a very complicated history and one doesn't know his age because he has never been to school. It was heart breaking to hear some of their stories but they still seem to smile and go on with life! That's important isn't it!
Oh..and we went to the tip of Borneo as well. A superbly beautiful place. The sunset is superb. We can see the sun setting as a red ball being swallowed by the sea! It is one of the best places to see a beautiful sunset. The sea is very very blue!! Honestly, Sabah is the place where i have seen the most beautiful sceneries. I will post the pics soon once i get it loaded on my comp!

Wierd people

2005-03-28T10:22:00.000+08:00

Have you ever been angry with someone who smiles at you???
Well...i haven't but someone has. And it is wierd..I was actually warned by one of my seniors that if i smiled too much, the person would get angry as it shows i wasn't serious enough. My goodness...I didn't know smiling was a crime....haha, life as an adult is wierd isn't it.

holidays!!!!

2004-08-06T16:59:00.000+08:00

Holidays!!! freedom...for one week at least!...what are my plans??? ...well, i am going to pulau tiga ( survivor island) on Monday. it will be a two day thing only..hahaha...and no...i would not be living the survivor life...when i saw the brochure, i was actually quite surprised that they have chalets and also karaoke there!!!ahha..i always thought that it was still an untouched island.. but anyway, gonna go there and play with mud...ahah..thats all i know la..It costs around RM 190...that is for all those who are interested to go in the near future.
I am going to Kudat as well. Gonna go to visit my foster family or keluarga angkat there. It is actually part of our school program. we will have to do a thesis on our family...hopefully i will get to see my bapa angkat this time. The last time i went there, i only saw him for 5 minutes!!!cause election was on that time and he was busy.
the rest of the days will be spent on mugging as usual... :P

I finally blog again!!

2004-07-29T10:18:00.000+08:00

Hello! i am back again blogging after such a long time ya! okay...so lemme think what to blog first..
Oh yaa...so sad, i injured my knee. i don't think i will be able to join marathons any time soon. So sad, cannot jaga badan liao..ai.,...anyuway, it's good to be in the medical school sometimes. I had the knee prob when they started to teach about joint problems in class. what a coincidence ya! and we had some doctors from the hospital coming to teach us. So i was lucky enough to be able to ask the doctor about it.
Anaywa, apart from that, we celebrated a few friend's birthday last week.. anyway, it was quite fun. Hahah...we added milo, soap powder, tomato sauce and i dont know what else into a bucket of water...grossss.....and the smell was horrible..when we poured in on the birthday girl i nearly vommited cause of the stench..tak tahan wehhh...anyway, she had to throw away her shirt cause it was stained milo colour and cannot be washed off..hahaha..fun!!..anyway,,,kena lectured by the block ppl cause too noisy..what la!!tak shiok only...
What else yaa....hmm...oh yaa,, something cool i learned from the lecturer...she said that ppl say mona lisa might actually be a drag leonardo da vinci!!!!!he pictured himself as a woman and drew himself...quite pretty hor!!!anyway..if u compare the picture u might see some similarities between him and her!!
okay okayy..that'll be my blof for today..got class in 5 mins

2004-07-19T15:58:00.000+08:00

Today, we had a debate on whether cosmetic surgery is justifiable or not? What do u think? i was on the opposition team. Was like screaming my lungs outs just to stress my point. Some of them said i was pretty scary during debate. But all in all, it was a cool topic.
      Next, the weather here has been wierd. The afternoons are super super hot, it burns the flesh and suddenly, rain starts pouring. Wierd weather. No wonder a lot of ppl getting sick.
      I checked out a new restaurant in town too , called the Little Italy. Italian food! something that reminds me of Pj's Bella Italia..or was it pizzeria? cannot remember. But anyway, it was nice.
   I actually find it kind of wierd to blog at times. Don't knowwhat i should write and what i shouldn't. Guess the blogging life isn't for me??

Heloo heloo!!!

2004-07-10T12:10:00.000+08:00

i am back again! after a long break from blogging, i am finally writing something. sorry ya everyone. I have already wrote in my first blog that i would not be able to blog so often.
I just finished a test today. Going to kk soon. Things have been pretty fine over here. Oh gosh, i can't think of anything to write. hahaha , pretty dull yea over here. I went for two talks though by Ven. Sri Dhammananda the last two nights before my exams. I learned some things. Really glad that i was able to attend his talks.
Will blog again soon when i think of something interesting.

Bananas

2004-06-24T07:46:00.000+08:00

Did u know that humans share the almost 15% of the same genes as a banana????

The first day at uni!

2004-06-21T18:26:00.000+08:00

Oh my gosh! my first day at uni....the perfect word to describe it would be horrible..
We only got to go into our room at 8 pm yesterday..and i had to unload everything from the car and carry it to the 2 floor!!!wah lau eh..i think i made at least 6 trips up and down just to get everything up to my room. hahaha..guess i'd have to start bringing things back home already. and right after that, i had to take everything out and arrange them. And the bathroom door can't be closed!!!so teruk yea! luckily guys are not allowed to enter the hostel..
Anyway, the first day of school was tiring. We are having classes as usual from 8 am till 4 pm. and elctive classes after that! sighh.....studying in local uni is so hard. U'd have to take so many sucjects.sejarah , tamadun islam dan asia, bahasa!!!
my brains can't take it.
first day and already classes are back to normal... one whole stack of work for us ont the first day!!!and kena lecture pulak by my lecturer today cause she say we didnt come to class ontime..sighhh..
haha...that is just so sad to write about.. anyway, enjoyed the few days back quite a bit. can't wait to post the pictures online will put it online soon.
Diana, have fun in Australia and take care!!

The old days..

2004-06-14T22:12:00.000+08:00

Scouts was part of my secondary school life. I am currently a rover scout...but a sleeping member. haha...actually, part of me feel a bit old to be a scout and also most of my friends have already left..so it's not the same anymore. Anyway, i finally did something in rovers last saturday. I went to teach the kids at Tropicana school backwood's men ( backwood's men is cooking using the old way, no utensils are allowed and we cook using firewood )
It was a pretty fun day although i had to drag my self out of bed at 6.30 am!! Went to the school and tried to teach whatever i could remember ( which isn't much ). I tried helping them cook rice in a coconut...but that didn't work :P haha...at least the roti lilit worked. We manage to make roti lilit ala chocolate chip, fruity chicken??, and mud coevered egg and potatoe!..not bad yea!
Anyway, it was a fun activity..reminded me very much about how it was when i was in form 2. It was nice

Sabah, here i come!

2004-06-11T19:17:00.001+08:00

sigh.. it's time for me to leave again to sabah. After being here for three months (uni holidays ) i feel so heavy-hearted to leave again. No more murni's and garlic cheese naan, no more mango special , no more pasar malam, no more starbucks , no more 1 utama and no more TGV!!!( they have GSC there but it's different. However, they charge only RM 3 on wednesdays in the cinema over there.
Gosh, i wouldn't be able to blog so often either cause the line in my uni is still pretty slow. Anyway, i have already packed my stuff. I satrted packing a month ago. Haha...a bit too early..even my dad was shocked i was packing so early. Anyway,, i practically brought everything over..even a jug, a thermos, boxes, food!!everything i could get there..but then it's cheaper here! :) So altogether, i have like 5 bags to check in and another 3 bags to hand carry!! imagine!! and it's not my first year, it's already my second year and i still have loads to bring over.
Anyway, to those who are overseas, keep in touch! i'll try to mail often :P and for those in aus, try the caramel tea, my friend says its nice and i have never seen caramel tea here.

Cameron highlands , trip no 2

2004-06-09T14:42:00.000+08:00

It has been a week since i have posted anything online. Anyway, during the weekends, i made another trip to cameron highlands! However, this trip was a totally differnt one from the last.
This time, school holidays and Agong's birthday was on that same weekend.+ there was a new way up which was through Simpang Pulai, so everyone else in the country decided that they would want to go cameron highlands that weekend. Wah lau ehh!!!
Jam jam jam all the way. The trip from Tringkap to Brinchang which usually takes us around 15 minutes took us up to two hours, and it was raining as well. Not only that, restaurants were so full so we had to actually wait for our lunch for 2 hours! So the holiday in cameron highland was actually spent in the car...
However, it wasnt that bad the next day..We decided that we should not drive out at all. so we hike up mount jasa to take a look at the view of ipoh. Apart from that, i also lepaked at the apartment and played playstation 2!! It was better than going out at that time.
Cameron wasn't the only place jammed. My cousin was in genting and he had to wait 3 hours just to sit one ride!!
Advice to those travelling during school holidays and public holidays..go places where less people will go...and becareful of people conning ur money...We heard this woman selling strawberries for RM 45 for 1 kg!!!!!imagine!!i was there in the afternoon and it was only RM 20 for the same amount...con job man..

Strawberries, tomatoes, roses, tea .....Mary Brown?????

2004-06-01T01:14:00.000+08:00

We had a trip to Cameron Higlands recently. We had strawberries, tomatoes, tea and Mary Brown as well( the first fast food restaurant in Cameron Highlands!

For those who would like to know in detail about our trip, you can read it in Hee Kheen's blog or Diana's blog. Here, i'll just be adding some pictures for you to see.

The view of the tea plantation

That night, we went to the CH pasar malam, bought ourselves HONEY STRAWBERRIES. Nyum Nyum. So far, i have only seen that in Cameron.

Our national flower. Can u see the 50 cents coin held by Li Kai. Well, u can imagine how big the flower was.

The picture of the fishes in the cactus valley. I kind of like this picture so i put it in here.

This flower looks like dolphins doesn't it. This pic was taken by Diana.

the pic of us. Hee Kheen was the photographer.

A Malaysian culture???

2004-06-01T00:19:00.000+08:00

Pasar malams, one of our so called malaysian 'culture' . Nopes, i would actually call it the west Malaysian culture. They don't have it over there in Sabah but they have what u call over there the 'tamu'. I think that is the Kadazan word for Pasar or market.
Anyway, it's been a long while since i have stepped into any Pasar malam. I haven't been to one for at least a year now. How
ever, since i will be going back soon and Diana will be going to Australia soon too, we made a trip to our ol' SS2 Pasar malam. Wah lau eh, free exercise in the pasar malam, u push and bang others,( i wonder if anyone kena elbowed before ). All this actions use up a lot of energy. Plus, it is so hot ,so u sweat and end up losing even more calories. Hahah, good for me as samuel always says i am fat!:P
For those who doesn't know where the pasar malam is, it is smacked right in the middle of the ss2 square. I think it starts pretty early as well, around 5 something 6 maybe. Loads of food there. I tried the Taiwanese sausage which was nice and the taiwan pizza as well. Then they have bubble tea and those asam jelly drinks...nyummy!!
Remember the song 'i don't wanna grow up, i'm a toys R us kid ' . Ahahaha, well, Diana and I ( the grown-up kids ) manage to grab some "STICKERS" at the pasar malam today! That was what i used to buy when i was younger but i still love to buy it. It's cute. So here's what we bought:

Cute stickers ya! All of it costs only RM 2.50
If you are free, make sure u make a trip to the ss2 pasar malam ya! It's one of the best around. That's what i think-lah.

The 7-days-6-nights, fully paid for trip to Kg. Lebak, Pahang

2004-05-30T17:51:00.000+08:00

Oh my goshh!!! This is the third time I am writing my post again!! But I will not give up! I hope this gets to be posted. The others were somehow deleted before I manage them online. Here, in front of you, is a life example of a almost computer-dumb person.
I took 3 hours just to learn how to post pictures online!!! But finally I made it!!!:)
So ta daa!!!!
Here are my pictures taken during the Kg Lebak ,Bentong trip. Et me fill you in with some details before I continue. I was in the kampung for about a week earlier this month to do community service. It is part of the requirement of the school to qualify as a dr.
Anyway, it was a really good experience for me. We didn’t manage to make much differences to the community there but one thing for sure, we made the kids there really happy. We taught them and played with them for a whole week. They taught me too!!
It was also very touching as a few cried when we left.

So here are the pictures of group 2 or “wat” group ( “wat” = something like bullying in Cantonese ) A name given by our president due to the fact that he got bullied by us many times and not the other way round.

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Hun Heng and Jauty ‘helping’ Pak Abu in the sugar cane plantation. We got to eat sugar cane after that too.

The rest ( including me ) had our share of fun too! We went fishing at a nearby pond. Actually , I wouldn’t call that fishing. Haha..It was more like netting! We took Tok Batin’s net and caught 5 tilapias. The tilapias were actually reared by Tok Batin. Tok Batin was really nice as he gave us the fishes for free.
Here’s what happened to the fishes:
.Deep fried fresh tilapia in delicious, saliva-generating sweet sour sauce made by our “ Kg. Lebak award”-winning chefs Maria and Zirah.

We were lucky because we did not only have great cooks but we had great artistes as well. They say that camps make us know each other better. It’s true. It was only during the camp that Foo Kiang revealed his hidden talents in art.
He was our Leonardo da Vinci of the camp. All the flowers on the mural was hand-drawn and painted by him. Here is the picture of him deep in concentration creating his work of art on the walls of tabika Sungai Lebak!
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Our other talented members carbon-copied the bee???? Butterfly?????Actually, the identity of the insects are still being debated. It was supposed to be a butterfly until I gave my ‘ great idea ‘ of painting the body of the insect in yellow and black!
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The professionals:
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Above, the villagers were really nice. They spend the afternoon teaching us weaving. It was for the sewang dance that was to be held the next night.

The amateurs:
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The F4 of the community project in their dazzling dance accessories : the sewang dance accessories
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To trust or not to trust? that is the question

2004-05-30T12:35:00.000+08:00

To trust or not to trust in our own education system. So many politicians have asked us to trust in our education system, but why can't many of us do that.
Look at the current problems faced by our own students in obtaining a place in university. I would understand the situation if they did not obtain the grades needed to get an entry into university..but look at these people.
These people are 4.0 scorers!!
They had to study so so hard to get that kind of results. The next thing u know,all the effort is wasted on the excuse that there aren't enough places to accomodate them. Now, who should we blame for the brain drain in our country??
If i were to be put in that kind of situation, i will be dissappointed and go elsewhere where i'll be offered a place. I was lucky to have obtained a place in a local university, but if this were to have happened before i got into form 6, i will definitely put studying form 6 as a NO-NO.

My first proper blog!

2004-05-26T12:43:00.000+08:00

How i got into blogging??

It was actually by chance that i created a blog. i wasn't intending to create one.. i so happened wanted to make a comment on my friends blog..and i had to be a blogger to do that...so ta da!!!here i am now, blogging!! but WARNING: this blog will not be updated very frequently..hehe..as many of you guys know , i hardly go online in sabah. Not because i do not want to , but because the connection is really slow over there.

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2004-05-24T23:34:00.000+08:00

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