30.12.09

阿嫲,生日快乐~

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今天是阿嫲的80大寿~ 没有像当年姨妈那样摆酒庆祝,就两桌一家人到餐馆吃一吃。

今年也不知道要买些什么,手袋、衣饰之类的阿嫲也不缺嘛 *而且前些年大家一直买的手提袋之类的除了喜酒或重大节日也鲜少有露脸机会*

想了许久,结果还是买了燕窝。不会挑燕窝,所以直接买了两盒余仁生瓶装燕窝。

晚餐的的其中一道,就是图中的“南山大寿桃”(名字是取自“寿比南山”吗?),真的很可爱~ *可是说穿了充其不过是个大面皮,小的至少还有莲蓉馅儿*

嗯,80岁了... Thank God for grandparents and their blessings upon us.

希望阿嫲可以健健康康、快快乐乐啦~ ♥

28.12.09

100 good things in my life 2009

It's the last weekend of 2009! Few days ago in church service, Esther shared about reflect back of 2009 and try to list down the 100 things God has blessed you with and to be thankful of... BEFORE you start off with your New Year resolution for 2010!

So now here I am, trying to list down the 100 good things in 2009:

  1. First of all, of course is that I FINALLY GRADUATED!! Yeah..
  2. Back to Malaysia is like home sweet home, well, yeah though there's some flaws...
  3. Back to City Harvest and get to know new beautiful peeps~
  4. Tried skiing, ice-skating & even snorkelling for once~!
  5. Finally finished reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns". Thank God for good novels! Thank God for letting me live & grow in a country that has freedom!
  6. Went for a movie on Chinese New Year Eve with ALL my cousins~ Seriously, all 11 of us WITHOUT adults! Haha… First time ever, FUN!
  7. Met bro's gf Maggie for the first time~ & she's spending Chinese New Year with us~ She's really a VERY SWEET girl~
  8. Feb 1- Had a family trip to Malacca , walking down the lanes of history is FUN!
  9. Went to Little Genting for the first time with cousins & siblings…
  10. March 21- Had a chance to attend a sharing time with a barista in Starbucks Shanghai, and learnt some REALLY BASIC stuff about coffee~
  11. March 28- Earth Hour... Thank God for friends who's willing to participate with me in this crazy idea of switching off all our electrical equipments for one hour *but we were so happy with the fellowship by the time we realised it's 2-hours later* and have our dinner and fellowship under few candlelights...
  12. Visited the Barbie House in Shanghai~ Seriously it's a heaven for little girl's PINK BARBIE PRINCESS DREAM~
  13. April 25- Had a trip with China classmates to Zhang Jia Jie, and got to know 2 new fun friends along the trip~
  14. May 28- Had a trip to Shaoxing with few friends, photographing a lot, walked A LOT! Thanks to Cecin, Wendy, Hatori & sotong for being patience with my poor stamina.
  15. Stayed in youth hostel & a very special motel for the first time…
  16. Had a free ticket and ride to a concert in Hangzhou West Lake during the Shaoxing trip.. Just for the sake of listening to Joanna Wong LIVE!
  17. June 6- Being invited by the Consule General to dinner with other Malaysian peeps to celebrate Agung's birthday. Thank God for country mates in foreign land!
  18. June - Trip with daddy & sis around Shanghai (Hangzhou-Suzhou-Nanjing-Wuxi-Wuzhen)before convo... Although I need to be the finance controller of throughout the trip~
  19. July 14-在巴士上,让了位置给一位胖胖的阿公,结果阿嫲在旁边一直说谢谢... 看着阿公阿嫲开心地笑,自己也很开心... :)
  20. June 17- A meet up with Jenn in Shanghai! Thank you God for such a wonderful mentor that thinks about meeting me in her midst of business trip..*grin* First friend that ever contacted me when she visits Shanghai... & this is her 2nd time *hug*
  21. June 27- Thank God for seniors and friends whom show up for my convo in their midst of busy schedule & exams... Will miss you peeps lots!
  22. Went to Bon Odori, FINALLY after so many years. Thank God for various cultures.
  23. Bought a new camera.
  24. Bought a new mobile phone.
  25. Aug 14-Went to FHM2009 with senior.... Wow, SUPER COOL~ Lotsa food manufacturer & of course, FOOD TESTING~~!! Thank God for good food!
  26. Went to Cameron Highlands with aunt & cousins to GMSJ's  family camp~ It's been like YEARS since i last went to Cameron!
  27. Aug 27- Went to Genting with aunt & cousins again, again, it's a very long time since my last visit~
  28. Aug 28-Watched "Aliens in the Attic" with my GSC birthday voucher...
  29. Aug 31-Donated blood in church today... Yay yay... 1st time after 5 yrs! Thank God for good health that I can donate blood! & Elsa donated blood with me, first time in her life!!
  30. Sept 3- Got a free sample of Anna Sui Moisture Rich Base
  31. Sept 5- had a *belated* birthday cake surprise today at cell group... Thank God for bro & sis in Christ
  32. Sept 13- dim sum buffet in Golden Horse, the Mines! First time here, and it's FREE~ as aunt has voucher for it!
  33. Sept 15- Premier screening tic for "G-FORCE"...*and got another 2 free tickets again the day after i watched it*
  34. Sept 17- Free pass for media screening of "(500) Days of Summer"
  35. Sept 25- Church painting~ FUN!
  36. Sept 28- Won a copy of "Disgraced" by Andrew Crofts and Saira Ahmed, courtesy of RedFM & Borders.
  37. Oct 3- WON a FREE TUB of ice-cream from New Zealand Naturals through twitter!!
  38. Oct 5-2 free tickets for SURROGATES, courtesy of MixFM
  39. Oct 9 -Went to Medan mission trip, got to know lots of beautiful peeps...
  40. Kezia Morla & her family that is so hospitable and give so much after they've lost so much in the earthquake! I'm blessed to know you wonderful peeps..   “We just thank God that He've given us so much that what little that we have now we should still bless others that need it”
  41. Peggy – Drove all the way from Medan just to contribute his part to the needy in Padang. Thank you for your hospibility to drive us around & the patience to communicate with us despite our language difference.
  42. Oct 12- got premier tickets for WhiteOut, though didn't manage to watch it but still it's happy just to win something...
  43. Nov 1- A free cute little 20g box packet of cornflakes that comes with my McD breakfast~ Free little extra stuff always brightens the day, what's more it happens at breakfast! :)
  44. Nov 3- Won a novel + 2 tickets of Time Traveler's Wife~
  45. Nov 8- Free screening of "Phobia 2"
  46. Nov 9- Had a birthday dinner for Elsa, with a bunch of college friends.. Thank God for birthdays, that friends will try their best to meet up!
  47. Nov 18-got  FOUR '2012' cinepasses, courtesy of RedFM
  48. Nov 18- Premier tickets for "Astro Boy"
  49. Nov 22-24 Great time of EMERGE~ Had a great time listening to Pst Kong~
  50. Had photos with Alexis Gan, Will Tan & Anthony~ Woohoo...
  51. Tried ushering for the first time in EMERGE!
  52. Nov 25-Premier tix for "Ninja Assassins"
  53. Nov 27-Won 3 passes for "Planet 51"
  54. Dec 3- Went to Wet World with cousins and other kids from the VBS camp~ kids+water=fun~~
  55. Dec 5-Attended Stacy & Perk Lin's wedding~ First friend-wedding I attended~ Thank God for marriage, looking at beautiful couples on the altar, revives the spirit of love in us!
  56. Dec 7-tickets for Princess and the Frog
  57. Dec 8-Met up with Liesl & Arashi, collecting out memories of Christmas together in Shanghai... Thank God for old friends...
  58. Dec 8- Tickets for "Zombieland" , took photos with a bunch of wonderful peeps who dressed up as zombies~ IMG_1811_光影_1
  59. Dec 11- Had a beautiful trip to Krabi with college mates, FINALLY a trip together after all these years!
  60. Dec 15-FREE BOOK~ "The Last Pope" by Luís Miguel Rocha...Haven't collected it though...
  61. Dec 16- Premier tickets to AVATAR
  62. Dec 17- went visited grandaunt in Ayer Tawar after so many years...
  63. Dec 18-I JUST got an email from The Little Trinket Company saying my blogpost http://ping.fm/COUHE has won myself a personalized bracelet~! WAH~~!!!
  64. Dec 19- visitation to orphanage with Community Care team, it's a joy to see the kids being happy~
  65. Dec 20-Met ShiYun in church today... Haha, after so many yrs of not meeting, happy to see secondary school frens in Ipoh in same church~
  66. Dec 24- Thank God for good friends that's willing to help & succesfully finding the "Legendary Penguin Tumbler" of  Starbucks in Shanghai, that has been SOLD OUT throughout all other South East Asia countries!
  67. Dec 25- Being given a movie treat by friend to "Bodyguards & Assasins"
  68. Dec 28- Free movie tickets for "Have You Heard About the Morgans"
  69. Dec 26- Met up with Sam, after 2 years of not meeting, thank God for such a good friend~ IMG_2752
  70. Dec 30- Celebrating grandma's 80th birthday. Thank God for her good health & good spirit~ 
  71. Debbie, such a beautiful girl that brings me back to cell group with such wonderful people~
  72. Tom & Tai Loong for the sms to keep track of me every week~ XD
  73. See Yan, for always allocating time to meet up with me even when she's busy.
  74. Daddy, for being my provider still...
  75. My dearie aunties & uncle that always take good care of us & help us out.
  76. Thank God for all the free movie tickets that I can have more time with siblings or friends, watching movies together *yet saved up quite some money*
  77. Thank God for family members that though ain't perfect but is still a big and important portion of my life~
  78. Thank God for friends (Yunjia, Yongxiang, Yunfei, Samantha, Cecin, Sotong)that made beutiful memories with me *whom I'm  starting to miss our lives going all around places searching for delicious food & beautiful places, taking photos together*
  79. Thank God for seniors whom are very willing to help us out in our studies though they're not obliged to do so~
  80. Thank God for twitter, that I can read back & review what I've done in the past year!

Haha... Ok, I can only list 80 out of 100~ Not a bad start though... I believe next year I can have more blessings & things that I can list out & to be thankful of~!

21.12.09

Christmas wishlist

Christmas is around the corner~!

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Yesterday in church, Pst Kevin asked us to tell our neighbours about our Christmas wishlist.

But then, I seriously have no idea now of what do i want for Christmas leh... How?

I think maybe it's just because my life lately has just been too relaxing that I don't have anything specific in mind that I want... Ishh...

Well, now that I've come to think of it, I thought of wanting:

- a new pair of specs

-a sunglass

-probably a new hair-colour?

-Mitch Albom's new book “Have a Little Faith”

-Pst Kong Hee's sermon of “God of Ancient China”?

Haha... *phew* 1,2 and 5 sounded expensive ya? But then it's not anything urgent so it's really no big deal even if I don't get anything in my wishlist. I can wait until next year and perhaps I can get it myself *hopefully*

Anyway, happy shopping for last minute Christmas blessings!

By the way, what's your Christmas wishlist? Mind sharing? *don't think too much, i won't get it for you* XD

15.12.09

豁达

今天跟朋友见面,一人问了我:你的包到底装了什么?为什么那么多东西?
我看了一下包包,一一解释里头的东西:
外套—原本以为会看电影,怕电影院会冷,所以带着
星巴克随行杯——因为约了Elsa在星巴克见面,好一阵子没喝星巴克了,就带着随行杯打算喝一杯
小说+mp4——如果要一个人打发时间的话,很好的伴侣
相机——万一有需要拍照
钱包…(这不用解释吧)
 
简单的几样东西,全部装进一个包包却有一定的重量,而且体积不小。
记忆中,读college的时候,书包里一瓶水+手机钱包就可以到处趴趴走了。何时开始,我人生中已经那么多附属品?那么多非必须,却让我觉得是填补空闲缺一不可的东西。
 
何时开始,人生已经不再那么地豁达?
是不是人长大了,要求越多,越来越不舍得放开手…
害怕孤单寂寞,给自己更多枷锁,更多负担…
 
原来豁达,也是一种哲学。

6.12.09

百年好合

昨天出席了柏林和筱丝的婚礼。

总算第一次拍到人家在婚礼上交换誓言的时候那神圣美美的一刻...

祝福我这两位新朋友,祝你们的婚姻幸福美满。

5.12.09

Personalized Bracelet by littletrinketco

Came across this personalized bracelet website the other day, with a very pretty name: The Little Trinket Company.

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I LOVE pretty and sweet stuff, and so I clicked in to have a look at its variety of  charms. They all seems so delicate & sweet I couldn’t help it but browse through those pictures, apparently there's more than 150 different charms to choose from!

No matter how pretty all those chams are, being girls there's always some specific things that'll catches your eyes in that very instance, JUST like that~

imageI love this key charm, it looks like a key to those key to a secret garden somewhere in a big elegant mansion in England...  Well, no matter how old you are, girls being girls always have a fairy tale of her own. :P

 imageI love the charm of a pair of wings, it's like ANGEL, giving you dream and hope of “what if...?”Just by the simple charm in a shape of wings, gives me the serenity of flying and soaring up high like an eagle, the vision of freedom, the dream of achieving great heights in life. ♥

 imageThis charm of old ticking clocks, reminds me of the old antique clock I once see at home. Just by listening the ticking of the clock, quietly, slowly yet it is forever moving. Sometimes you feel as if you need to run ahead, competing with time but yet when you come to think of it, what is the meaning of it competing with time? Everyone has his own time frame, when the time is up, what is there you could do to prevent or stop it? Might as well learn to adjust your lifestyle, have some small break between stressing moments, and you'll find Life is GOOD~!

  image Amongst all the old rusty or silvery charm look, I find a little touch of red attractive. After all, LOVE is always an inspiration and motivation throughout life~

Oh... Just by looking at the pictures of the charms, made me feel like getting one of the personalized bracelet for myself... *think think* After all, they're having a promotion now “10% off with purchases of RM100 and above”...

Apparently they now also have a facebook Fan Page: www.facebook.com/littletrinketco  or you may also follow them on twitter www.twitter.com/littletrinketco

I definitely will follow their tweets and facebook for discounts and updates from now on...  (∩_∩)

30.11.09

how? put effort lah~

Lately, the most question I came across lately on facebook/meet-up is: "How do you get all the free tickets for movie?”

Please don't think that I have connections with anybody in cinemas or radio stations, if I have, I could have asked for concert tickets instead of just movie tickets.

But then, truth are always boring. In fact, just like any other way, you want something, just put in some EFFORT to GET IT, PLEASE~ To get movie tickets, I simply surf some websites, check out some contest & JOIN~!

Often, upon hearing this answer, my friends would show be the O_o look, saying I memang too free, have nothing better to do in life is it?

Seriously if you have time to hook on fb games, why isn't there time to surf some contest? I doubt some people won't have time for movie premier EVEN IF they are given movie passes just like that without needing to do anything.

…Well, what other respond could I expect from people who have no time for movie?  *And i frankly hope less people will join those contest so I get have higher chances of getting them anyway… bleh*

19.11.09

Astro Boy

Went to GSC 1 U yesterday for ASTRO BOY, courtesy of Cinema Online.

Well, I know the Astro Boy figure for quite some years but I never actually read the comic itself so I have NO idea what to expect than a robot boy that has strong power and rocket flame shoot out from his feet.

I went to watch this animation because it was voiced by Freddie Highmore, whom I like a lot~ But somehow it doesn't sound like he used to be, in his voice-changing phase, i suppose? Nicholas Cage, such a good actor as he is definitely brings out the soul of the regretful father.

Remake based on the original manga series by Osamu Tezuka in 1952: A powerful robot created by the head of the Ministry of Science, Doctor Tenma, to replace his son Toby who died. *I didn't even KNOW about the existence of Toby or even the reason Astro Boy was made, until now*

Seriously, though it's a regretful story of losing a son but then to me, Toby is simply a think-he-knows-it-all show-off smart-ass brat! Whom though being warned and detained off inappropriate places yet still can get himself in the mess and thus leading to his death. *and who's being left behind with grief and regret? Yes, exactly, the FATHER.*

Cut the crap short,  set in the scene of futurama, you may still see how human beings are. Lazy till the point where almost EVERYTHING has to be done by robots. Selfish, poluting the earth then just leave the trash behind. Power-obsessed, will do anything that harm others as long as he himself has the authority and power. Human that lives in denial. *Sigh… Pathetic*

Yet, there's still quite a lot of little scenes that just make you laugh. The simple gesture of love children showed towards life, towards everything they have. Children that doesn't label others like adults. It's all about gratitude and love.

It's a simple story, not much of twist and turn. It's better than expected (for a person like me that is almost clueless about what it can offer). *Though I think the alien-invasion part in the end is kinda out-of-no-where and lame*

I think it's worth a watch if you're into simple animation story. Apparently there's Cantonese version available in certain cinemas with Nic Cage's part voiced by Aaron Kwok~!

Oh… Till NOW still I feel like smiling just by thinking of the cute robots~AstroBoy Astro Boy at GSC 1 Utama… *I wonder who's under the small outfit? A kid or a small-sized grown up?*

18.11.09

Ninja Assasin Attack!

RAIN the Ninja Assasinis COMING SOON!! YES, NINJA ASSASIN, NOT “Ninja”, that's another movie.

In conjunction with the upcoming movie, Warner Bros Pictures had a flash mob on Nov 14, 2009 at the orange entrance of Sunway Pyramid. The flash mob was scheduled at 6:30pm.

But then when i walked pass the orange entrance at 5:30pm, the Ninja Assasin truck was already there. And there's people waiting around the entrance…

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One of the Ninja chatting with friends while waiting…

At 6:30pm, the programme started with the stand-in emcee Patrick  giving out some Ninja Assasin MOVIE PASSES!! Well, there's actually quite simple to win them, just answer some simple questions, OR follow the Ninja do some NINJA ACTION! But then… The crowd is kinda *SHY* and not many people dare to go up to grab the FREE tickets, ended up the emcee even asked one of the tourists (in photograph with the kid) to join in.  Thank God the tourist uncle is spontaneous enough to join in even though his English isn't very good thus doesn't understand what the emcee was saying most of the time… *sweat*

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And when the movie passes were FINALLY ALL GIVEN OUT~ The Ninjas POSED for the crowd to take photos… *but only one KID dared to went up, what's wrong with the crowd, seriously? *

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And the dance BEGAN~ Here's a video i took… Kinda shaky a bit having to avoid the video crew in front of me…

OKAY… I know you're wondering WHY it ALL STOPPED SO ABRUPTLY… For that, I'm SORRY because my camera OUT OF MEMORY~ *SHAME* sigh… Anywayz the Ninjas ended with a rather cool pose~

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Three of the Ninjas are actually kinda cute thus I asked them to pose for me which they happily DID… BUT~ *sob* MY FAULT AGAIN… So excited that my hand shaked!! *slap in the head*

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But STILL they are cute… *if you can even see*

IF you missed this, and you want to brace yourself as Ninja Assassins engage in "Open Combat" ,you may check it out at  following locations in the next couple of weeks.

Nov 20 - Sunway Pyramid, Asia Cafe, USJ Summit
Nov 21 - Tropicana City Mall, Murni SS2, Paramount Nasi Lemak

17.11.09

漫长迂回的路

昨天看了亦舒的一本小说《漫长迂回的路》。

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“他走一條又長又迂迴的路,這條路,同孫悟空當年跟隨師傅去西經的路一樣,充滿妖魔鬼怪,每次叫他心驚膽戰,全神貫注。他一顆心突突跳得比平時厲害,他覺得前程更加彷徨,心情更為凄酸……”

大致是说一个年轻的司机,从货运到客运,每晚来回于漫长迂回的路上,心里的寂寞逐渐麻木。夜路驾驶遇上抢匪;偶尔在在路边寻找一夜的温暖,染上了梅毒;妈妈的唯一对他的期许,他却遇不到那令他心动的人。一切一切都让人那么的无力,无从改变…

当他发觉自己的阅读障碍是因为视觉问题,并非无法改进后,他积极想改变自己:学好英文,遇到自己喜欢的人。当以为一切都可变得美好的时候,原来只是一场空。当相依为命的母亲走了以后了无牵挂,自由了,身边的一切人事物却继续束缚着他。

看了这本书,只觉得心情有被压着的感觉。无力。无奈。生命,很多时候由不得我们计划…

16.11.09

2012 can wait?

It's Monday~ a for the weekend madness for 2012 is kinda eased a bit by now. Have you watch it yet?

You might have guess that a movie-freak such as me might have already grabbed my spot for it but you're SO WRONG! Yes, I have yet to watch the movie! Sigh…

Why so?

1. I was oficially sick on both Thursday and Friday and my sis thought it’s inappropriate for me to go public places.

2. I hate watching movies on the weekend because it meant CROWD & letting the cinemas earn that extra buck that wasn't needed as I'm not exactly that occupied sampai i cannot watch them on weekdays.

So since I can't make it for the hot weekend already, I might as well wait for a couple more days till Wed. As I asked my sis is she interested to watch, and another tempting part for her : Adam Lambert sang the movie theme!

Guess what she said: Why not wait until later? I guess now there's still a lot of people grabbing seats. My friends went the other day, queued for hours ended up not able to get the seats leh. I'm pretty sure 2012 will still be screening for quite some time. If you're in such a rush, why not go alone?

I'm speechless… Hello?! Wait lagi?!

1. Your friend went for the movie released WEEKEND~ OF COURSE IT'S FULL!

2. Don't you know there's online purchasing, booking & buying in-advance thingy?! Sigh… Go there queue when you're just in the mood for it, of course can't get ticket lah~ Duh~!! Want to go for mood, want blockbuster somemore… Get real!

3. Hello?! If I really go alone, you say i don't ask you. Now i ask you, you ask me go watch alone. What do you want oh?

Sien… Seriously that's how complicated to communicate between a movie-freak vs a whatever-movie-can-wait-artist.

9.11.09

Celebrating Elsa bday

今天是Elsa的生日,yay~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!

自从college后,我们大家都没聚在一起帮人庆生了,所以昨天就来聚一聚啦~!在寿星的特别要求下, 我们到 Taipan, USJ的 Doarae Korean BBQ Reataurant。正餐吃完后,当然就少不了主角——生日蛋糕登场啦!

the birthday cake!

我们唱了一首很快的生日歌。哈哈,真的很快~ 应该少过6秒钟吧!哈哈,隔壁桌那些应该觉得我们好奇怪,唱生日歌也赶时间?

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之后,当然就是拍照咯~ 介绍省略,自己看照片:

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拍完照后,Lala让我们试他从台湾带回来的槟榔。哈哈…有看台湾剧的人都知道台湾人好多都好爱吃槟榔,尤其是那些长途司机们。我们大家都很好奇槟榔会是什么味道,可是当我们看到袋子上面写着:“食品局安全提示:长期食用槟榔会引起咀嚼障碍和口腔癌”后,大家都不是很敢吃咧~

每个人都手拿一粒,可是都不敢放进嘴里… Lala为了替我们记录我们大家的“槟榔初体验”,还拍下了一小段video..(不过为了大伙的形象着想,我设了权限,只有我们的朋友才可以在facebook看到)

再一次,生日快乐啦~!

4.11.09

This Is IT

FINALLY went to watch Michael Jackson’s This Is IT . Been reading all the facebook status and tweet about how awesome & how great it is. Haha, obviously a lot of people watched the movie over Halloween weekend.

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No doubt, it IS AWESOME. Memang the best behind-concert documentary ever.

Watching it, you understand the meaning of  PASSION. When the music starts playing, he’s READY for it. Giving his best in everything, even when it’s only rehersal.

INSPIRATION. Around him, EVERYONE is motivated and dedicated to give their BEST. Everyone feels proud just to be with him.

TEAMWORK. One goal. One dream.

LOVE. The LOVE for the earth, the love for his fans, the love for music.

ICON. Music that hits still after so many years.

KING of pop. Always keeping up his reputation, maintaining his voice, and his GROOVES. Looking at his rehersals, even at his 50, no young dancers can groove as good as the king himself.

Oh… The EARTH SONG… Simply LOVE the video they’ve prepared for the concert. Seriously IMPACT.

BIG APPLAUSE for This Is It..!

3.11.09

A Thousand Splendid Suns

买了好久的一本书,看得断断续续,这几天终于一鼓作气看完它。

A Thousand Splendid Suns,Khaled Hosseini继The Kite Runner后之作。

背景,仍然是那动乱的阿富汗。背弃、逃亡、离别、死亡,一切都不可预期。活着显得是最单纯的愿望。

虽然我并不是一个女权主义者,可是我不喜欢里面的灰暗。

不喜欢那些面对家暴仍然不能反抗的卑微女人。不喜欢整个女人社会的无力感。不喜欢那些一切都只是男人的沙猪主意社会,男人三妻四妾却理直气壮,而女人就永远都是牺牲品。

不喜欢里面的那么多的遗憾,那没机会见父母最后一面的遗憾...

很多的不喜欢,却无法否认这是一本很棒的书。

在重重困难下为了自己的孩子牺牲一切的妈妈。甚至在没有麻药的情况下剖腹生产... 感叹女人的伟大和坚韧。

感叹在一切噩梦事过境迁后,仍然心系家园,想为那残破的祖国尽一份力的人们。感叹那在一切伤害之后,仍然坚强面对的人们...

感谢纵使家庭不再美满,却不充满无可弥补的遗憾。感谢我住在一个离开战争的国家。感谢我生在一个女人还是有基本权益的国家。感谢生命中所拥有的一切...

28.10.09

manual car joke

My dad saw in the paper classified the other day about a car for sale.

It wrote something like:

“Nissan Sunny 1994. Fully restored, a lot of new parts, well functioned… 

Sadly daughter can’t drive manual.”

Rolling on the floorHahaha… Well, i think that happens a lot nowadays. My aunt also sold of her car cos my cousins can’t drive her manual.

21.10.09

Don't Forget the Lyrics

EMERGE is round the corner, and EVERYONE in CHC is ON FOR IT!
The competition I had the most interest in is definitely the PHOTOGRAPHY competition but heck, apparently past winners of EMERGE CAN'T JOIN the same category!!
Since i'm the winner for EMERGE 2007, i'm now not qualified to enter... *sob* why lah... * And for yours dearly's information, the prize i got that year, now don't know where to, I never even get hold of it also... BIG SOB*

Sigh... Since I can't join the photography competition no more, though I already start taking photos for it...
So Sean at the last minute asked me whether i'm interested to join "Don't Forget the Lyrics".

For Chinese songs category, there'll be 60 songs, where as 160 songs for English category. AND we have 4 DAYS for~ OMG~ In situation like this, of course I choose Chinese category lah!

When I got the song list, there's songs that i'm VERY FAMILIAR like FIR, our very own Michael Wong, TANK, etc... But there's also VEYR UNFAMILIAR ONCE like WANG LEE HOM! Oh my... I know Lee Hom is VERY FAMOUS but out of his 6 songs, maybe I just know 3 lah... and the lyrics all so long, HOW? Sigh...

And then when you might THINK that since i'm familiar with lotsa songs, it'll be SO EASY for me which is SO WRONG!
Since I like to sing KTV so MUCH, well OBVIOUSLY JTV has LYRICS PREPARED FOR YOU! So basically even though I like to sing, I don't remember the lyrics!
And now it's DOUBLE HARDER to remember those you THINK you know the lyrics but thr truth is you just remember the RHYTHM... Gosh...
Need to buck up!

Go GO GO VU~~!!

20.10.09

回怡保见老友

时隔两年,上个周末我回了怡保一趟。
因为远在美国的老朋友R说这个周末他会回去参加他姐姐的婚礼,想顺便聚一聚。
我想说也是时候顺便去看看其他老朋友了。
他16号回来,可是16号是弟弟的生日,所以我17号一大早就抓紧时间下去。
回到去,大部分仍然是老样子,变的似乎只是马路更宽、树木更少、一向在那里的人还在那里。

由于R从美国回来过周末,当然就没有联络方式,也就只能等待他联系了。
结果过了一整天,然后才在18号早上,在教会里遇见他,匆匆地谈了不到10分钟,他又匆匆地走了。
而且他见到我的第一句话竟然是:咦,你怎么会在这里?
...无言了。我说我们大家都等你的电话等了两天,怎么你任何人都没联络?要不然也早该知道我特地跑一趟来聚一聚了。
反正人家匆匆地来,又匆匆地走了,像他一贯的风格,多年没变。

这次回去除了第一天的晚餐吃了点心,基本也没特别光顾回味什么美食,因为周末如常的大家都好忙。
去参加了youth meeting,往日的大哥哥姐姐们仍在那儿,而我同辈的则也成为了人家的大姐姐。

虽然清楚时间流逝,可是看到曾经只是小学一二年级的小孩子,现在已经是中学快毕业那高大的样子,仍然震撼了一下 :老了吗?

晚上跟老朱聚了一下,原本是想说去喝杯茶,结果出门时天不作美下雨了,就只好到24小时营业的麦当劳。
而天才的老朱好点不点,替我点了杯咖啡...-_-"
果不其然,咖啡对我的延迟效应还真得令我在睡着后的半夜三点钟起身了...

第二天,参观了Ipoh Harvest Church,气氛跟CHC很接近,可是Pastor Lian的sermon是用广东话的。
很特别,第一次听广东话的sermon。
*汗* 虽然明白广东话,可是还是得在脑袋里想一想到底是什么字,才可以有具体概念。

这一次离开时并没往日的不舍,是因为家已不在这里,所以没有依恋吗?
以前总是想如果某天我有机会迁回怡保,应该会很快乐。
可是现在回来一趟,感觉又不尽然。
快乐是随着个人走,并不是依靠一个地方能给于你的。
可能这一趟没遇见很多人,感觉也没很充实,所以感觉有遗憾吧。

期待下一次能跟更多朋友们齐聚一堂的时候...

15.10.09

短言

心情最近再次有些烦闷,来来去去的...
虽然这是正常现象,毕竟人不可能全年只有欢乐(那样就真的有毛病,整天hyper不停)。
不过我更讨厌有些人会觉得不开心一定就要开解,然后要开导之类什么的,所以也就不在这里多说细节。

反正就觉得自己最近的个性很糟糕,脾气好暴躁。
希望这个周末如有机会见回老朋友们,会找到从前那单纯的满足和快乐。

4.10.09

monk uncle, again…

Today is so not my day…

After church, wanted to reply some sms but apparently there’s some issue, I thought it was just some coverage problem. Then later when I tried to dial a missed call, then only i realise it’s my line problem!

I went to Digi for enquiry, and apparently my telephone bills wasn’t cleared for the past 2 months and so it was barred. I paid on the spot but seems like it’ll only return to normal earliest by tomorrow. When i got home I asked dad about it, and it seems like either one of them paid all the bills EXCEPT mine, sorta missed out my bills.

Then went home having to see the family-friend monk uncle over at grandma’s place. When it’s time for dinner, though i’m still full over my late lunch, Uncle Monk was hungry and kinda urge my aunt to take him for vegetarian dinner. For the sake of dragging a companion, aunt asked me along whether i like it or not. Well, dinner was ok but the journey back is NOT!

As usual, the roads leading to Klang town is jammed. Thus this Uncle Monk starts saying his prayers (阿弥陀佛)out loud. Though I don’t speak his prayer, I don’t bother much about hearing people pray, everyone’s got their free will, right?

BUT THEN, he starts saying, “You see, prayer works… At least we’re not totally stuck!” *Hello? Even the standard-2 cousin of mine knows without your “a-mi-to-fo” prayers the traffic is just SLOW but NOT STUCK, ok? Well, once again, everyone has their own believes. I believe PRAYER WORKS too, just NOT his “a-mi-to-fo” prayer~

AND THEN.. HE STARTS ASKING MY 4-year-old cousin to say “a-mi-to-fo” prayer aloud with him~! OMG~!! Can you NOT DO THAT? In fact he ask both the kids to do so but the elder was reluctant thus the monk say, “哇,这个小的前世一定修行很够哦,大的就不行,看来修行不够…”(meaning the younger one must have had a good karma in the earlier life..)

SERIOUSLY, WHO ARE YOU TO TEACH MY COUSINS ALL THIS KINDA CRAP?! Because of people like you that like to speak crap and nonsense, that make the younger minds confuse!

Seriously I’m always a believer of everyone has their own choice of what to believe but teaching my cousins of things our own family doesn’t believe, YOU ARE TOO MUCH!

2.10.09

popcorn: Drag me to Hell

Missed this movie on cinema, then heard from Xynia that this movie is pretty good so i searched it out.

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It starts with a kinda creepy scene where a boy was literally dragged into hell of fire, through a suddenly parted floor.

The story goes about when a girl, whom work as a bank loan officer was given a choice between helping a poor old lady to extend her loan payment of her home of 30 years, or deny her application and be promoted.

Well, obviously she chose the later and so, the old lady put the most crucial curse on her, for humiliating her in front of the crowd when she begged. And so the curse and revenge begins…

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Well I can say this movie is full of lots of really gross scenes… Especially those whatever that may come out from this old gypsy lady…smile_sick Don’t eat while watching this movie, ya~

To my personal view, though the old lady did over react for putting a curse on somebody like tha but the young lady did sendiri cari pasal a bit. The price to pay for being selfish, humiliating people. And still after knowing that she has been curse, she still insist it’s her boss’ fault, not hers. Damn… Some times i really think mat saleh DO have the guts to mess with spirits leh. Macam tak pernah tengok horror films from Thailand.. smile_tongue

This is really a rather good PG-13 movie I’d say… Too bad the cute Justin Long didn’t have too much scenes around. What to do? He’s just the loving and sweet boyfriend mah…

Quite a good show, not too much of those simple bloody scene only macam Final Destination. At least this have different “variety” of yucky stuff.. Haha…


*A friend later introduced a review of looking at this movie in a TOTAL DIFFERENT perspective...http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/11/is-drag-me-to-hell-really-about-a-girl-with-an-eating-disorder/

30.9.09

saman

昨天傍晚,有三个人来到家门前问妹妹在不在。
我说妹妹不住这里,有什么事?
经他们解释,他们说是二月份爸爸得了骨痛热症是吗?当时有来过家里,查到有虫卵,当时开过一张saman,有收到过吗?
我打了电话给妹妹,她说当时他们叫她签,她就签而已...
拜托,人家让你签什么你就签,没搞清楚是什么东西吗?又长这么大还不知道签名就代表责任吗?哎..

重点:现在就是说已经过了大半年,可是那张saman还没付款,如果再不付的话就要法庭传票了...
他们说如果愿意缴的话,其罚款100元是可以减少的...-___-" 还真是马来西亚政府的作风啊,什么东西都有得商量减款是不是?
反正就是要缴钱,好吧,明天就到卫生部去缴总行了吧?

可晚上跟爸爸说的时候,爸爸就很气地说这种钱他不付!
他说他的骨痛热症是在金马伦那边得的,根本不是在家里。如果真的是家里有虫的话,全家人都得病啦,怎么回只有他一个?
而且当时他们来查,说有虫卵,可是无凭无据,他都已经病了,他们要怎么说都行!
更何况生病的是他,医药费也是自己付,自己的家里,为什么要给人家罚钱?
他说这不是说少少钱就给了解决事情算了,这是原则问题,他坚持不付。
而且还把那张纸丢进垃圾桶了?!

...除了翻白眼,我还能说什么吗?
发票不是写你的名,是妹妹的名耶... 你们自己都不紧张,算了!
怎么那么大个人了,还那么爱耍无谓的脾气...

结局是奉公守法的舅舅阿姨看不下去,让我把那张纸从垃圾桶找出来,然后去缴了那钱...

28.9.09

Mom on FACEBOOK?

Lately Aunt M was being introduced by her friend to this application on Facebook, called FarmVille. She was so addicted to it, asking me to help her check her crops every now and then when i online.

Anyhow, that's not the point of this story. The point is, it's showing that their generation is hooking up on facebook now, start reading our status and leaving comments, a way of "connecting" to our younger generation.
It's kinda weird to read the comments aunt left at first, but then was used to it after that...

As my aunt was saying, one of her colleagues told her a story about her neighbours and friends all know what is her son doing, what is her son is up to at this moment while her, as the mother is CLUELESS about ANYTHING of the son. Well, maklumlah her son won't be telling her where he go makan with friends, what movie they watch and all one mah...
So it was kinda cultural chock for her to then find out about facebook, about all those status updates from mobile and all, and so forth also thinking maybe can check on her son's status once in a while. Well, that's PROVIDED if her son is smart enough not to add the mother as friend lah... :P

So her the relative part. And so yesterday when my other aunt, Aunt S was asking me to help out with the blog post and all, I sort of asked my cousin "I thought you hang online a lot, takkan you don't know anything about this stuff?"
And so this kinda triggered Aunt M to share this story she hear from her colleague, and suggest that Aunt S join facebook as well... Haha...
Anyhow, perhaps Aunt S isn't those hang on pc type of person so she might think it's a little troublesome so the topic was closed.

Here's the fun part now... TODAY, as i was onlining at my grandma's, as I am still doing so now, both my aunt were here. I saw this status update by my cousin (Aunt S's son) mentioning his trial result --> bad mood --> cut hair short..
I left a comment under his status, then asked Aunt S, "He had a haircut today?"
Well, Aunt say she hasn't go home yet so she's not sure & asked why i asked.
As soon as she finished saying that, my cousin's MSN message popped out asking urgently where am i?
me: i'm at grandma's. Your mum is here... XD
Then he was like shock and quickly ask me NOT to let his mum know his status or else he'll die.

Anyhow, so now Aunt M caught the chance of suggesting Aunt S join facebook... I'm not sure that she's interested but still, I can only say, "GOOD LUCK, couz~" Hahaha...

So what do you think? Would you add your parents as friends in facebook IF they join?

27.9.09

Piano Tuning & Repair

Came home today to see uncle asking for help to set up a blog or some sort to help him advertise his business... Erm... Yes, PIANO TUNING & REPAIR~
And so we put up an ad on OLX.com.my, hopefully some business turns up... who knows?

Anyway, just for the information, I help put a SIMPLE advert here also lah... XD





Computerised Tuning, repair, regulation.
Buy & Sell used pianos.

Service covers Klang Valley.

电脑调音,维修,调整及买卖二手钢琴。

For more information. contact
Mr CHUA (Dip. P.T.R.(USA) )
016-3233468