birthday wish now and then

Before the internet being globalized, people will call or at least send a sms to wish their friends happy birthday. But now, every single thing also pours on Facebook, as if everyone is a celebrity. As if we will die without Facebook. As if it's not sincere if the wish is not made in Facebook. Everything is so public now. Somehow, I prefer the privacy and friendship without the public’s attention. I would love to get a one-to-one birthday wish, like how it used to be...

ATTENTION FACEBOOKERS

Eh please la, tolong la. You people who read news, have interest in politics, love to kaypo OR got nothing to do in FB, don’t simply post and share around negative news in the web la. Stop the false speculation. Check the facts before you say anything. Don’t act smart la. You are just adding salt to the wound. TQ.

last semester first day

Finally after months away from UTAR, today is the first day of new and the last semester.

The weather is so good.

I see skies of blue, clouds of white, what a brightness Monday, 8am class is saying hi, and i say to myself, this will be a wonderful new semester..

I still don’t know what to wear for my first day.

Well, I’m excited actually.

I can't wait to meet my classmates and unimates.

Alright I should go now. I don’t wana be late. The motor park will surely be crowded.

Today will be a good day =p

kata pujangga

Akar yang baik akan melahirkan pokok yang baik. Sama juga dengan kehidupan manusia..

hai FYP

Langsir ditutup rapi
Cahaya terik dilitupi
Bilik jadi gelap gelita
Kipas berpusing laju
Bagai diserang histeria
Sedap untuk tidur mati

Jam berdetik
Tiada tanda akan berhenti

Masa menyusur
Hati resah
Nafas sesak
Kerja berlambak

Tapi malas menguasai diri
Ku jadi pemarah dan moody
Bukan kehendak menjadi begini
Tapi ku lemah di sanubari

Penat mencari motivasi
Di mana kau inspirasi
Hilang kau diterminasi
Mana pergi..

Aku perlu berhenti berkasih
Berhenti berpacaran dengan teknologi
Diramas idea materialistik
Dan sepastik
Kembali ke dunia hakiki
Balik ke jalan
Menuju ke FYP

Biar yang pergi berlalu pergi
Usah diungkit kembali
Sedangkan pokok boleh bercambah lagi

Fotografi kau blah dari sini
Akan ku ceraikan mu
Kau menghancur konsentrasi ku
Takpe, kita masih boleh bermadu
Perkara lain-lain, letak ke tepi
FYP jadi prioriti

Bangunlah kau
Bangun

Akan ku bangun dari kerusi
FB kau berambus dari sini
Biar cahaya masuk ke mari
Biar kejahatan berlalu pergi
Biar otak bersih berseri
Biar ku setia pada mu FYP

Mai aku siapkan kau FYP
Officially starts malam ini
Susah akan ku harungi
Kalau tidak
Tiadalah graduasi

me

That's me!!

who doesn't recognize my apek's specs la..

i met this cute uncle at Jalan Petaling last month.

Both of us wear the old-fashioned specs, quite similiar check shirt and same style of shoe but different color.

haha. i just love to take picture of and with the old people. =p

QUOTE of the day

To be a successful person, one must not only good in one aspect but also in everything, education, career, relationship, hobby, social, health, spiritual etc.

你快樂(所以我快樂) / 王菲 (Faye Wong)

oh madu, oh bulan

oh bulan, usah malu, mari kita bermadu di kala malam yang pilu sambil bercumbu-cubu dalam kelambu. huhuhu. =p


*i think i am high. what to do. the moon was so bright, nice and sexy tonight. Moon Halo phenomenon is awesome!*

Jalan Sultan shophouss will not be demolished!!

Don’t you feel happy by just reading at the title??

I am happy!

Finally an assurance is given by the government. I hope they keep their words.

Last month, a government agency, SPAD said it won’t be demolished. But it’s just an agency, they don’t have much say. Read this http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/9/8/nation/20110908204912&sec=nation

But today the good news came from a minister. The good news can be read here from The Star.

Jln Sultan shophouses won't be demolished for MRT, Govt assures http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/10/13/nation/20111013185045&sec=nation

Alternative MRT route looked at to save KL heritage buildings http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/9/22/nation/20110922183224&sec=nation

So  betul ya?? sure ya?? BN, u wont say different things if u won the next generl election right??

My Prime Minister, Najib Razak u noe abt this, don't you??

Don't demolished la k.. tak baik roboh bangunan lama yang masih elok.

Dengarlah cakap, baru orang vote sama  lu. Heheh. =p

Ah Kong, Tataa, தாத்தா

Date: 11.28pm

Time: 5/10/2011

Venue: Beach Street, Penang

orang baik..

Hati kalau baik, mulut pun kena baik, baru boleh jadi orang yang baik-baik.

Jing Si Aphorisms

"Life becomes meaningful when we shoulder responsibilities. Avoiding responsibilities makes our life empty."


~ Master Cheng Yen (Tzu Zhi)

fed up!

Fed up of seeing other people with good achievements. I also can be one of them. I will! Rajin sikit lagi!

you inspired, Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

~ Stanford commencement speech

~ June 2005

~ Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Incorporated (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)

final stay in Kampar

I’m back in Kampar again yesterday. This will be the last time I come back to Kampar for a new semester. Hopefully I can graduate by the end of this year, as it is supposed to be.

Class starts next Monday but surprisingly I’m a week earlier. What to do.. I must finish my Final Yeap Project (FYP). If not, no graduation. Besides, there are things to settle in Kampar.

My mum forced me to take pocket money from her before I left the house. I declined. I’ve been doing that for a year at least. My younger brother and my sister need the money more than me. My brother is already working and giving money to my parents but I take money from my parents? This is so wrong.

It’s ok. I can still survive with PTPTN loan. But I must be very careful with what I spend. I left with only few thousands ringgit till the end of the year. New semester always comes with bigger expenses. Money have to be used on room rental, school fees, groceries, books and notes as well as to fix the broken things such as bike and bicycle.

My brother fetched me to the jetty. Then I took morning bus which I nearly missed and reached Kampar in the afternoon. The house was in a mess as if it was abandoned for months. A war taken place in the house I guess.

It’s nice to be back. The whether was superb. It has been two days that the sky is so blue. The clouds are so thick and white. It’s so windy and at night, it’s chilling. It’s sunny but not hot at all. The weather makes me so cheerful!

My roommate, Ah Liang is back too. So nice to see him.

Anyway, once I reached Kampar, I was invited for lunch at Aunty Betty’s house. I rejected at first but after that she called. Out of respect, I went. She made very nice chicken rice. Seriously nice! Tze Huey, Cynthia and Edmund were there too.

Then it’s the housekeeping time, as usual.

Let’s see what I’ve done..

I had good food and nice bath.

Sweep and mop my room and the hall.

Unload stuffs from my luggage and begpack.

Fix my bike.

Put on bed sheet.

Clean the sinky.

Boil water.

Fold clothes.

Put on facial mask.

Arrange things in the drawer and cupboard.

I had a wonderful dinner last night with Tze Huey. My mum woke up at 6am in the morning yesterday to cook for me. She made me fish curry, omelette with onion and ikan bilis, sausages, and nuggets. I tapao back to Kampar and supposed to eat it for lunch but I was too fulled after lunch at Aunty Betty’s house. My mum made cokodok too. Many people don't know what's that. It's a banana ball la.

You know.. I haven’t finished arranging my stuffs yet. Too many things and rubbish la. Today will be the last day to settle everything.

I can’t wait to fully concentrate on my FYP..

October is a FYP month.

sejuk..

mencelik mata menguap-guap membuat kerja tatkala bulan penuh mengambang diiringi angin lembut yang menyejuk menaikkan bulu-bulu roma badan si kecil ini..

YOU are quoted

Respect needs to be earned, not free. It is not how high your position or whom you work for. It is how low you are willing to be with the rest, and how much hardships you share with the rest of the pack. Obviously, many lazy bones don't get this.


~ Chan Li Lian
~ 11.00pm
~ 9/10/2011
~ via FB

good photographs..

Good photographs are not from the camera but the heart. Kecantikan foto bukan datangnya daripada kamera tetapi hati.

CONGRATULATIONS! you are blocked!

CONGRATULATIONS!

TAHNIAH!!

 

KEONG HEE!!

You are the 1st one to be blocked from my Facebook for being so f*ckingly annoying, irritating, childish, foolish n thick face!

Get a life will ya?!!

After spam my inbox now you spam my wall?! Ciaksai la!

Spam spam spam, go sperm la YOU!!

Damn! I can’t stand this kind of people la. Keep posting rubbish in my Facebook. Ask me to vote this and that. Fcuk off  la. make me tulan nia.

Some more tag me in the message conversation. If you wana talk to other people, you don’t tag the whole world, biatch!! Just talk among yourselves!

I HATE being tagged in nonsense conversation. I HATE to be asked to buy lame products. I HATE to be asked to join and like some stupid FB page. I HATE people invade my inbox and wall and ask me to vote for them blindly.

I WILL VOTE FOR YOU IF YOU ARE GOOD! I WILL VOTE AS A SHOW OF SUPPORT IF YOU ARE MY FRIEND!

Got it??

There’s a Hokkien proverb for people like you. Your skin is thicker than the coffin. Means you are so thick face and shameful. Being confident is good but being ignorant is stupid. If you have the quality, it’s ok if you ask people to vote for you. Tapi kalau hang kualiti pun tarak, toksah duk tak malu asyik duk terhegeh-hegeh panggil orang undi sama lu lah!

Spam for once is enough, don’t keep SPERMING!

I know I should not get angry but this girl is just too much. Too much that I could not handle!!

Yes you!! The girl with ‘S’. Kalau u makan cabai, u rasa pedas! ‘S’ stands for SHIT for you.

Thank you for spoiling my mood.

CIAKSAI!!

Meanwhile, to all Facebookers in the world, if you wana add ppl that duno u, PLEASE put ur real name and let ppl to at least c ur profile pic. if u put some lame fruit, animal or weird names, how i now who r u wor?? don't expect other ppl like u simply add n approve strangers la. 1st rule to know somene: introduction.

Facebook is making people to go crazy. Grrrhhhh! Some morons are more stupid to announce that they wana commit suicide. Cheap publicity. Zzz…


*yea i feel bad for saying all this but sorry i couldn't take it anymore. It's not about EQ anymore but sometimes we just have to express our angry when the anger is already reach the reasonable level. Im angry because i feel there's no more privacy. After inbox, now my FB wall is spammed. sorry..

QUOTE of the day

It’s ok if you wait for people but don’t let people wait for you.

postcard from Vietnam

The weather is so marvellous today. It’s so blue, so clear and breezy. It’s sunny but not humid. It’s so cheerful.

The weather just makes me feel happy. Those who love photography, this is a good time to take pictures.

On this good day I received good news.

In the morning, while reading The Star Online, I saw my name in one of the articles here http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2011/10/6/central/9612768&sec=central

And then just a while ago, I received my own postcard which I posted about 2 weeks ago.

It’s a Cambodian’s postcard but sent from Vietnam. Final destination? Malaysia!

Hahaha!

I know it sounds crazy that I send postcard to myself. But it’s fun. It’s like wow, I received a postcard from oversea.

I bought that postcard from Siem Reap, Cambodia. Initially, I wanted to post it to Malaysia at that time but too bad, Siem Reap was having massive flood. When I was at Phnom Penh, they were having their public holidays. No chance to send.

Finally when I reached Vietnam, their post office was open. So I sent it on 27^th September. After 10 days, I received it!

Kwan Yee and Pei Suang, have you got your postcard?  =p

It Will Not Be Forgotten - The Pierces

Homeless Ah Kong

Date: 4/10/2011

Time: 12.37pm

Venue: Jalan Hutton, Penang

Tower Crane Falls in Penang (panorama)

To view the photo, go to my another blog la. The photo is too big la.

http://oce-thephotojournalist.blogspot.com/2011/10/tower-crane-falls-in-penang-panorama.html

quotable quotes

"When the world ends, we are all friends."

~ a tour guide for Chu Chi Tunnel, Vietnam
~ 28/09/2011

Awan Yang Terpilu - Ning Baizura

after 10days, i am home!

This blog has been untouched for almost 2 weeks. Now the owner is back!!

Uh la la..

I am home, finally. I am home in Malaysia. I am home in Penang. I said before and I’ll say it again, nothing feels better than home. Malaysia is still the best.

‎It’s awesome to meet my family members once i arrived in Penang. Kwan Yee sent me to my amma’s house. My mum was waiting me there to fetch me home. At home, home-made food were waiting to fill my hungry stomach.

Some of you might not know where I went. I just came back from a 10 days backpacking trip with Kwan Yee and Pei Suang to 3 countries, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

It was great. I have too many stories to share but not here this time.

I just wana say that I am safe and sound, still as skinny as always.

My begpack weighed 17kg! damn! I had to pay USD18 to check in my begpack. Haha.

I brought RM1.5k for the trip and back with only RM20. Haha. At least I have RM20 savings. Transportation cost a lot of money. That’s why I couldn’t buy a lot of souvenirs for friends. Budget a bit tight and I don’t know what I should buy. Sorry my friends.

Sorry to Kim as well. I couldn’t find selling hand-made soap in these countries, what more a normal soap. Only groceries sell it. I didn’t buy anyway.

I bought some gifts for my family members and some friends. Hope they like it though.

Eventhough we went to only 3 countries, but we had 5 currencies. What is funny throughout the whoel journey is 3 of us are sucks in Maths. Everytime when we have to pay, there will be problem. And we took a lot of times to do the conversion of currencies. =p

One thing I’m surprised is I didn’t have stomachache or lausai during the trip. Not at all. But now after back home, I lausia!! Wat the shit. ..

Thanks to Sarah Khoo for lending me her sleeping beg. It meant a lot for me as I slept in Bangkok Train Station for our first night and in Siem Reap International Airport for our last night.

Total clothes to be washed are: 6 shirts, 3 pants, 2 underwears and a boxer. Hahaa.

Photos? It’s still in my pendrive. I haven’t transfer it yet. Too much of photos!

I have been sleeping the whole day besides than eating. I made nasi goreng for lunch and it’s damn yummy. Today shall be my rest and lepak day at home. A lot of unloading and cleaning up stuffs to do as well. I am still feeling sleepy right now.

Tomorrow will be a working day for Kwan Yee, as usual. As for me and Pei Suang, we’ll back to suffer, to do our serious business, finishing our Final Yeap Project and submit at the end of the month.

Many things are pending to be done. October shall be the month for FYP, the top priority.

Things have been good since I touched down from the flight yesterday. I got good news lasty night and this morning.

Hope everything will be good for everyone till we meet 2012.

May Buddha bless you all.

Bye.

1st International Backpack Trip

bye bye..

Hi all. I will be away from Malaysia from today until 30th September. Mau p backpack la. Anything, pls don’t call me as I won’t b able to pick up. Email or FB msg me. I’ll reply if I can. My FB will be peaceful for a while.

okla i'm going to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.

Will be back on 30/9/3011.

then having a camp in Pahang from 30/9/2011 - 2/10/2011.

I'm not alone. Kwan Yee n Pei Suang are coming alone.

wah so damn excited and nervous.

alrite got to go. train to Bangkok from Butterworth at 2pm.

wow-ed by sister

There’s a photograph competition by The Star on Starwalk Penang 2011.

The theme is ‘Happy Starwalk Moments @ Heritage Spots”.

One participant can also submit two photos.

So I asked my sister to help me choose the shortlisted photos.

After a while, we can’t decide which is the best.

She asked me who chose the photo that I won the first prize at the beginning of the year.

It was me.

Confident and errogantly she said:

“You must trust yourself.”

I said ok ok and she just left.

It’s a words of encouragement, support, and inspiration.

I never thought to hear that from her, moreover at her young age.

She wants me to think by myself. She knows I can do it. She knows I can take good pictures.

Thanks Oh Poh Sim. =p

oh nooooooooooooooooooooooOOO!

Lemah semangat gila. Tangan menggigil. Badan seram sejuk. Rasa macam nak pengsan!

Starwalk Penang 2011

Ok.. let’s see what to write for this post. Just a very short one la since I’m still very tired from the walk this morning. I slept after I reached home but I’m still very sleepy now.

I never missed Starwalk ever since I’m eligible to join it about 8 years ago I guess. When I first started taking part, the walk was held in the town, start from the Esplanade. Then they shift it to Bayan Lepas area where The Star HQ was located.

This year, in commemoration to The Star’s 40^th Anniversary, the walk is back to hit the town. What makes it special is the route covers about 20 heritage sites along George Town Heritage Trail.

The starting and ending point this year was at Times Square at Jalan Datuk Keramat.

I went with my mum, sis and Tze Huey. I met some old friends and school teachers too. Of course The Star journalists as well especially Kow Kwan Yee. Kwan Yee is my snior from UTAR and she's doing well in The Star. I'm proud of her everytime i see her byline is the newspaper.

What was shocking is knowing that my not-so-athletic secondary school friend, Nixon Lai Chia Huey also took part and he’s in the 10KM Competition category. Unexpectedly I was met my Form 6 friends who are not kaki marathon, Lee Khai Keat and her girlfriend, Michelle Ooi don’t know what.

Every year I joined the Competition category which is 10KM. But this year for the very first time, I took part in 6KM Non-Competition category. Why? Because the participation fee is damn expensive for 10KM. More than RM10 ok. So not worth it. At the end of they race, they give you a certificate of participation only, not even a finishing medal. All this while RM10 only ok..

I never wanted to join Non-Competition category because I felt the category is so not competitive and 6KM is like so childish. Hahaaha. But it’s ok, it’s worth the money I paid. RM10 for 6KM this year. And the freebies we got are getting lesser. Seriously!

Khoo Teng Shin and her sister Khoo Sher Rynn (yes I remember their names) took part as well this year. Their dad was there, but don’t know where is aunty. This blur Teng Shin is so mensiasuehkan. He is a guy. It’s a he. He joined the Men’s Category. But he got the number and color for the Female’s Category. He finished the race in the Top 15 but too bad, at the finishing line, his sex ‘changed’. Hahaha. At the end, apa pun tarak!

One thing special about Starwalk this year is we were a passport with photos and descriptions of heritage sites along the route. We have to get a chop for each of the site in order to qualify for a special lucky draw by Sunshine Times Square.

Besides, more shutterbugs this year as there’s a photography competition on Starwalk Penang 2011 with the theme ‘Happy Starwalk Moments @ Heritage Spots’. Walaueh DSLR everywhere! I was busy shooting here and there. I am so gona join this contest. But.. I don't have close-up photos on people la. I totally forgotten about the theme. aiyah.. Don't care, i'll just try my luck la.

There were 150 lucky draw prizes. We didn’t get anything..again. we waited until 1pm plus plus. It rained heavily when the lucky draw was going on but when the session ends, the rain also stop. Cilakak betul! We were all wet waiting for our lucky number to be called ok..

Ok.. sign out and good night.

*got a lot of photos to share but lazy to upload la..

Need You Now - Lady Antebellum

Selamat Hari Malaysia Ke-48

wohoooooooooooooooooo!

In Trance

Date: 20/8/2011

Time: 10.31pm

Venue: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

arrrghhh wisdom tooth!!

*Photo taken in 2010*

So have you got your wisdom tooth?

Usually it's located at the very back of your teeth.

You'll have more wisdom and wiser if you have a wisdom tooth is it?

I think many of you heard your friends complain about the pain they have to bear when the teeth is growing.

Some even fall sick and have fever.

Yes my wisdom tooth is coming out now, at the right hand side of my teeths.

IT IS SO DAMN PAINFUL!!

I can't chew when i eat, even when i don't use my right teeths.

Actually at the beginning of the year, it already started to grow but i didn't feel pain at all. Then it stop. So my wisdom tooth is only few milimetre.

In July i went to see dentist to clean my teeth. She saw my wisdom tooth. She said it wont grow anymore because it's blocked by another teeth. She gave me a option to either leave it or pluck it.

As i'm afraid of needle and unnecessarily pain, i chose the latter. Furthermore I was doing my internship in media industry, it'll be hard if i can't talk properly.

But these few days, it became so painful. I think it couldn't hold it anymore and it's coming out, makes it clash with another teeth.

The pain makes me so grumpy la.

I can't concentrate.

It's so distracting and it's affecting my daily life.

Wrong timing betul la..

Come out when i have nothing to do for a month la..

I have many important things to do at the moment you know.. I have my Final Year Project, sports event to attend and many more la. Plus, Im travelling oversea next week. How to travel with the unbearable pain..

How la..

I will only be in Penang this weekend. Sure no enough time to see dentist. If it's possible also, the dentist will pluck it and i'll bleed for several days. Then how to travel and eat?

I'm now in Kampar, Kampar where got good dentist? Mahal ah? Safe or not??

ayo ayo pening amma..

Y is it called 'wisdom' when it's so painful.. =(

Someone Like You - Adele

Adele's songs never let me down. I had a goosebump and my heart pause a while everytime i hear her songs. Her voice managed to caught my attention, make me stare deeply into the lyrics.


Someone Like You

I heard that you're settled down

That you found a girl and you're married now.

I heard that your dreams came true.

Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you.

Old friend, why are you so shy?

Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light.

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited

But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.

I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

That for me it isn't over

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you too

Don't forget me, I beg

"I'll remember", you said,

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,

Yeah.

You know how the time flies

Only yesterday it was the time of our lives

We were born and raised

In a summer haze

Bound by the surprise of our glory days

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited

But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.

I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

That for me it isn't over, yeah.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you too

Don't forget me, I beg

"I'll remember", you said,

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.

Nothing compares

No worries or cares

Regrets and mistakes

They are memories made.

Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you too

Don't forget me, I beg

"I remember", you said,

Sometimes it lasts in love

But sometimes it hurts instead.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you too

Don't forget me, I beg

"I'll remember", you said,

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.

YOU are quoted

"To see what we have never seen, we must do what we have never done, or else we will continue to see what we always see."

~ Hor Wei Vern
~ 12/9/2011
~ via Facebook

QUOTE of the day

Even when the whole world give up on you, you must never ever give up on yourself!

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节快乐

Uhlala uhlala. Goyang sini goyang sana. Main tanglung sampai terbakar. Esok bulan penuh sure cantik giler!

Photo taken on the eve of Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival aka Lantern Festival on September 11 2011.

Nice hor? Creative right? You must do crazy stuff with your photos, if not boring kanasai.

Thanks to Edmund Lee, the one who snap snap.

Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 12 this year which is also the 15th day of the 8th month in Chinese Lunar Calender.

Too bad la, no mooncake. Must go get one biji in Old Town tomorrow.

Hopfully the sky will be clear tomorrow night so that i can stare at the round bright moon long-long.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone. 中秋节快乐

This is Oh Chin Eng by the way, if you don't know.