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ASEAN reunion

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:12:47 GMT

back by popular demand! haha....k, here's the list of what to expect for the coming Sunday:

Rosa (chicken wings)
Haw Yun and spouse (stir-fried noodles/ hokkien mee)
Wei Jun
Chian Myau (surprise)
Wai Keong (will pop by if have time, coming back from Malacca on that day)
CC (chips)
Sherry
Kok Weng (home-cooked food... hopefully edible =P)
Mun Siang (Drinks)
Andie, CJ and me (yu sheng and venue, of course!)

Yet to reply: KY, Chin Wee, Koy Nien
Unable to contact: Eng Chong, Gary ..... who ever see this let them know k?

Suggestions on things that you can bring:
Fruits, Salad
Finger food eg nuggets, fish balls, sausages

See you guys this Sunday!!! =)

出卖色相

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:34:12 GMT

哈！终于考完了！
现在可以问心无愧的 K 我的 My Girl，嘻嘻！

刚才和同事们吃晚餐时，
大家谈到会不会为了三百万和自己不爱的人在一起三年，
出卖色相。

Kim 想都没想就说不可能。
也难怪嘛，她已心甘情愿的把整颗心奉给了她的SK王子。

SM思索了一会儿后，
竟问女方是否漂亮！
天啊，如果漂亮的话，干麻还需要付三百万？

如果相貌凡凡呢？
SM马上摇头。
哈，毕竟还是挺现实的嘛。
接着他说，如果我喜欢她，我不介意。
什么和什么嘛？真是搞不清状况，
如果喜欢的话，没有三百万酬劳都会努力去追不是吗？

晚餐间无理头的谈话，
感觉还真轻松，
考完试的感觉真好。 =）

菊花台观后感

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 05:18:12 GMT

你的泪光柔弱中带伤
惨白的月儿弯弯固住过往
夜太漫长凝结成了霜
是谁在阁楼上冰冷地绝望
雨轻轻叹朱红色的窗
我依身在纸上被风吹乱
梦在远方化成一缕香
随风飘散你的模样
菊花灿烂地烧
你的笑容已泛黄
花落人断肠我心事静静躺
被风乱也微摇
你的影子剪不断
独留我孤单在湖面神伤

花已伤完飘落了灿烂
凋谢的市道上冥冥不堪
手摸独樵愁心拆两半
他已上不了爱一辈子摇晃
谁的江山马蹄声慌乱
我一身的戎装呼啸沧桑
天微微亮你轻声的叹
一夜惆怅如此委婉
菊花灿烂地烧你的笑容已泛黄
花落人断肠我心事静静躺
被风乱也微摇
你的影子剪不断
独留我孤单在湖面神伤
菊花灿烂地烧你的笑容已泛黄
花落人断肠我心事静静躺
被风乱也微摇
你的影子剪不断
独留我孤单在湖面神伤
*******************

看了这部电影,再听到这首歌时,
感触截然不同,
真不愧是方文山!

远方的消息

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:29:06 GMT

他还活着！

今天终于收到了 S 的音讯，
还好当晚他没真的跳下去。
当晚接了他的电话后我实在忐忑不安，
深怕就这样失去了一位朋友...
虽说与他的交情不算很深，
但认识的人瞬间在身旁消失的感觉很怪。

今天他寄了封电邮给我，
他的语气任然低落，
原以为是封报平安的电邮，
结果却是另一种道别的方式！
一个人一旦失去了信仰和自尊，
人生毕竟就变得毫无意义....
哎,呜呼哀哉!

刚从他的妹妹得知他现在安然无恙,
仍在留院观察，
我为他祈祷．．．．

人，什么都失去时，
决不能失去信仰！

手相

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:39:14 GMT

昨晚为 Eric 庆祝了生日，
虽然最终只有我, SM 和他三人，倒也蛮尽兴!
跟 Eric 出门不用说当然是口福不浅,
他仿佛通晓全新加坡美食,
说他神通广大我也不觉得夸大!

想起昨晚他替我和 SM 看手相,
不只怎么的, 倒还觉得怪怪的.
所以嘛, 这就是我不爱算命的原因...
知道的越多, 反而觉得害怕,
有种与未来的我擦肩的感觉....
还真矛盾,一方面不信这一套, 冥冥一切上主都会眷顾阿...
另一方面, 潜意识里却担心万一真的会实现呢?
哈!还真懊恼唉!

怎么办, 有时我还真觉得自己比大头芬还更头大!
哈哈, 无论如何, 我选择充实的过我能拥有的每一天.
未来嘛,交托于造物主吧!

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:26:26 GMT

迎接了新的一年，
也没刻意想拟定任何新年大计
没有兴致勃勃，
没有任何期待...
哈！世俗毕竟战胜了期望。

无里头的我.....在垂死挣扎后，
还是死了。

惭愧

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:45:00 GMT

虽然他也和我一样看不惯她的作风，

但他仍然为她绕道到 Tekka 买了她爱吃的 Indian Rojak。。。

他博爱的精神真让我的小心眼无地自容！

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Thu, 25 May 2006 03:19:07 GMT

I passed the exam! Didn't manage to get the class of honours that i aimed for though.... need another 0.03. But i'm happy that i've passed!

In Vietnam

Fri, 19 May 2006 07:42:26 GMT

Cool, can come online after so many days! I'm waiting for Thuy, my Vietnamese pharmacy classmate to come to my hotel while using the internet.

I'm in Vietnam now. =) Reached Ho Chi Minh City 1 hour ago from Phnom Penh. Not too bad, today's weather is quite cloudy. The Internet access in Yellow House Hotel is really slow... it's almost as slow as the dial-up from home in JB. Hehehe, and they limit each guest to 30 minutes of internet use per day... i'm about time, but who cares? hahaha

So far Cambodia has been really hot and dry. The few days in Siem Reap was quite fun, i finally been to THE Angkor Wat! Yay, was so happy when we reached there on the first day! Wanted to catch the sunset there but too bad, it rained. Didn't manage to catch the sunrise and sunset in subsequent days either due to bad weather, and haha, failed to wake up early enough. Took A LOT of pictures in the beginning...but towards the end, everything seems the same to me and i got tired.

I've Been to Angkor Thom, Bayon with the smiling statues, Ta Phrom, where the trees grow on the building. Tomb Raider has a few scenes showing this place. Seriously, after seeing Angkor Wat, the rest of the buildings fade in comparison. So happy to have been to the 2nd wonder of the world, after the Great Wall of China. Maybe the next one i want to visit will be Egypt? =)

RR, SM, Steven and I donated blood to Kantha Bopha Hospital in Siem Reap. It's a charity hospital ran by a Swiss doctor, for the love of poor children. I think i managed to steal a glance of him when we were walking out from the hospital. Really admire his determination to keep this hospital going despite many pressing factors from many organisations. I was considering working as a missionary healthcare worker when watching the video in the concert hall. I wonder is this a calling from God....hahaha, see how, God will arrange for everything. If this is what He wants me to do. there's no way i can run away. ;) In Cambodia, less than 0.05% of their population can afford quality healthcare with world class standard. Due to poor hygiene and poor education, a dengue endemic in a village can take hundreds to thousand lives. Each serious case may take up 4 bags of blood. So their blood bank is really short in supply. So if you happen to visit Siem Reap and if you are without any transmitable diseases, please donate your blood and save a life.

Phnom Penh is like Malacca, hmm, perhaps a little backward than Malacca. Temperature was about 35-40'C during the days in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. Been to the depressing S21 Muzeum and witnessed some bits and pieces of the Khmer genocide episode..... 2 million people sacrificed during the genocide, that's like almost half of Singapore citizen! The parents of my Tuk Tuk driver in Siem Reap were the victim in this genocide too. Sigh....

Tuk tuks and our legs are our major means of transport in Cambodia. We got so tired and dehydrated in PP that i thought i almost got a heat stroke....good thing is, travelling with a bunch of pharmacist-to-be, they have all the medicines that I need. hahahaha...

There are endless things to tell about this trip. But i got to go now. More updates next time round. Tata~

Ipoh--Gua Tempurung

Mon, 08 May 2006 12:47:31 GMT

Blogging on Sze Min's computer in Ipoh.

Reached Ipoh, our first destination of the trip with RR last night, after a long journey of like around 8 hours... Hmm, stupid bus stopped at Pudu and we got to change to another bus to take us to Ipoh... If i knew that i need to transit like that, i wouldn't have gotten the tickets from that company in Larkin.. costed me more somemore..

Anyway,Ipoh has been good so far. =) Went to Gua Tempurung (Tempurung Cave) just now. We took the full grand tour package and had a major expedition into the cave! The cave is really awesome!!!! I wonder why there is not much publicity about this cave in the tourism pamphlets and any Visit Malaysia reference books.

The Grand Tour consists of the dry part and the wet park. With a torch light each, 5 of us went into the cave with a nice friendly guide, Zul. The entire expedition takes about 4 hours. For the dry part, we climbed 1050 steps up the metal stairs. There are many animal like granites on the wall, didn't really look like animals actually, but when Zul pointed out to us, with some imagination, the granite stones and some stalagmites did look like some animals like goat, turtle, rabbit head, gold fish.... there's a dead soldier also.. The trail lead us to a big chamber inside the cave where the view was really nice, praise God for forming such nice nature landscape for us!

The second part of the trail is called Top of The World. It's kinda cool, ya, i mean "cool" as in cooling. There's cool breeze welcoming us as we tracked into a granite tunnel. According to Zul, the air that comes in from the entrance of the cave, when reached the huge chamber i mentioned in the first part of the dry trail, experiences turbulence flow there. Hence the pressure was lower in the chamber and therefore, air is drawn towards that area from the granite tunnel...which explains the breeze within the cave.

The third and forth parts of the trail are definitely more challenging. These 2 are the wet parts, from here onwards, we were no longer walking on the metal steps but rather, on the granites and through some shallow rivers. We had to slide through steep granite slopes, yup, we literally slided down. It was dangerous, cos if anytime our arms are not strong enough to support our body weight and to slow down the sliding movement, there's chance that we may just fall down. The slope was about 2.5m high and 70 degree from the normal line. It was made tougher by the loose sand on the slope. However, i'm so proud that all of us made it through!

Talking about those rivers. Most of the time the riverbed is about ankle deep only but sometimes, the water level is up to our thigh. For me, this part is the hardest part of the trail because the sole of my shoes came out halfway, creating resistance in water and a few times I almost slipped. Luckily RR, Corde, Steven and Sze Min helped me along the way, hahaha, so glad to travel with helpful people. *blessed* =) At one point we saw a snake, a small one, by the river bank! Wow... was so close... luckily the snake didn't attack us. At some parts of the trail, the granite ceiling was so low that we had to duck- walk across the river, to slip through a hole, yes, a hole of about 1m diameter to get to the lower part of the cave, to crawl in the river because the granite ceiling was so low... the water was up to our neck level...so only head on top of the water as we climbed through the river, can imagine? Knocked my head against some stalagtites a few times though...hehe. The actual experience is beyond description, really, i;m lost for words to describe the entire trilling process!!

Towards the end of the cave-trailing, we bypassed a mini water fall, hehe, all of us was so tired at that point that we just sat on the stone amidst the water current... felt like jacuzzi, the 100% natural one though. And we all sat in a row to wash off the sand inside the shoes. Sadly, i sat downstream so all their dirt and rubbish flowed towards me... hehe.

Came out of the cave, i felt like a survivor...hahaha, really. Not exactly reborn like how Zul thought we would be, but after this experience, i think a lot of things may not be as hard as it seems to be. Most importantly, it's the courage to take the first step that differentiate us from other people.

So, here, i strongly recommend you to visit Gua Tempurung, about 30 minutes drive from Ipoh, if you are physically fit. A taste of getting so close to mother nature is refreshing.

Going to KLIA tonight, and flying to Chiangmai tomorrow. I pray that God watch over all of us throughout this trip, and we can be back safely to face future challenges in life. Amen.