Ever Moving Forward

夜曲

2009-12-29T22:19:00.010+08:00

It has been more then a year since I update this blog. I thought I gave up blogging for good, but then here it go. When nobody I trust listens to my voice and since nobody else but me is reading it by now. I will spend my time writting it here. Well, I should considere it as a story told by a story teller. When everything had happened, there is nothing much to do but to accept it. For those who happened to read this blog, I thank you for your time.

Here I start by sharing my feelings with this song.

夜曲 - 周杰伦

ECHO2
一群嗜血的蚂蚁被腐肉所吸引
我面无表情看孤独的风景
失去你　爱开始分明
失去你　还有什么事好关心
那鸽子不再象征和平
我终于被提醒　捆着手我现在是奴隶
我用漂亮的押韵形容被掠夺一空的爱情

我应该藏这里　夜色不干净
还给你整夜的回忆　占满天的星
送你的白色玫瑰　在纯黑的花季凋零
午夜在树枝上诡异的很安静　　
倾听　我黑色的大衣　像我的你
衣栉比鳞的鬼　走过的走过的生命
啊四周弥漫雾气
啊我在空旷的墓地
老去后还爱你

ECHO1
为你弹奏肖邦的夜曲
纪念我死去的爱情
跟夜风一样的声音
心碎的很好听
手在键盘敲钢琴
我给的思念太小心
你埋葬的地方就有你

为你弹奏肖邦的夜曲
纪念我死去的爱情
而我为你隐姓埋名
在月光下弹琴
对你心跳的感应
还是如此温热亲近
怀念你那鲜红的唇印

那些断翅的蜻蜓　散落在这森林
而我的眼睛　没有丝毫同情
失去你　泪水混浊无情
失去你　我连笑容都有阴影
我站在满心期待的屋顶
嘲笑我的伤心
像一口没有水的枯井
我用尽我的自信
要我后悔莫急等待爱情

ECHO1
为你弹奏肖邦的夜曲
纪念我死去的爱情
跟夜风一样的声音
心碎的很好听
手在键盘敲钢琴
我给的思念太小心
你埋葬的地方就有你

为你弹奏肖邦的夜曲
纪念我死去的爱情
而我为你隐姓埋名
在月光下弹琴
对你心跳的感应
还是如此温热亲近
怀念你那鲜红的唇印

ECHO2
一群嗜血的蚂蚁被腐肉所吸引
我面无表情看孤独的风景
失去你　爱开始分明
失去你　还有什么事好关心
那鸽子不再象征和平
我终于被提醒　捆着手我现在是奴隶
我用漂亮的押韵形容被掠夺一空的爱情

It all happened roughly two years ago in a barbecue party that Paul first met Emily. He wanted to start the first conversation with her but he was too shy to even approach her. When the chance came that finally Paul was able to gather all his guts to talk to her it was when Emily wanted to find a seat but Paul's bag was on her way. Then by chance he spole to her by apologised and moved the bag away. But then when more people came he had to move again to make a seat for her. They didn't talk much except introducing each other. At the first glance, Paul had already fall in love with Emily.

In a blink of an eye and two years had gone. Both Paul and Emily are now studying in the universities more then 2500 miles apart. Paul had to come back hometown to work as a trainee while Emily came back to enjoy her wonderful time with her family. As Paul have had a crush on her, the feeling increased gradually until in the end he decides that he should do something about it.

Paul had left home for studies in overseas in July while Emily went a week earlier for studies nearer then their hometown. Although they were thousands of miles apart, they still keep in touch by msn and not to mention, facebook and this makes them closer friends. Of all the companies that Paul applied for a vacation employment in the place where he studied, he was rejected all together. In the end, he managed to get a placement back in hometown. In his mind, he was happy because he could meet her again. He purposely booked the airline a week earlier then her in order to make time for preparation. Then this time he begun to plan for ways to capture her heart. First it was a welcoming crew proposal, then it was cancelled due to delay in flights. Before departing for home, he brought a special self-made Lavender for her, a teddy bear and a small bottle of candies. He even made her a keychain with her name on it.

Then the very time had come for him to meet her, it was at a prayer meeting that they met after almost half a year. At that night, he handed her the special Lavender made specially just for her. She accepted it with a smile and thank him. Then he was so lucky to be chosen to performed in a charity performance together with her. This he thought was a chance of a life time to tell her his true feelings. At their first practise, he gave her the specially made keychain with her name wooven on it. She accepted it and thanked him again.

On one very fine day, he finally decided to ask her out for a drink and talk. One fine afternoon, he managed to ask her out for a drink. So he went to pick her up and to crave for ice-cream they go. When they were enjoying their ice-cream, Paul tells her his experience studying overseas. And at the right time, he handed out the small teddy bear he bought from Myers and a bottle of candies. He seems to be talking more then her and she seems to be listening more. He also finds out the she was not as excited as him when they met. He was trying to keep the conversation going but for her, millions of other things seem to be running in her mind. In the end when he finished telling stories, she asked to leave. So happily he fetched here home and tell her that he'll ask her out for movie.

That night, Paul happened to saw her status as she will hold on to what she promised to God and hope that somebody will take action at the right time.

Now, Paul grasp his hand tightly, his feet shakes and his lungs were short of breath when he heard the news that she was in a relationship with a man that is not him. He almost gone hairwired when a reliable source tells him the news. All of the hope, all of what he intended to do, all of his plan was ruined in that moment.

End of part 1.

Tomorrow 明天孩有希望

2009-04-04T23:50:00.003+08:00

Well, I just like this video. I'm in the video twice! Haha!

p/s: 0:41 and 1:08 :)

Who Am I?

2009-03-30T00:14:00.003+08:00

Who am I - Casting Crown

Who am I?

(verse 1)
Who am I? That the Lord of all the earth,
Would care to know my name,
Would care to feel my hurt,
Who am I? That the Bright and Morning Star,
Would choose to light the way,
For my ever wandering heart,

(chorus)
Not because of who I am,
But because of what You've done,
Not because of what I've done,
But because of who You are,

I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow,
A wave tossed in the ocean (ocean),
A vapor in the wind,
Still You hear me when I'm calling,
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling,
And You've told me who I am..
I am Yours. I am Yours.

(verse 2)
Who am I? That the eyes that see my sin,
Would look on me with love,
and watch me rise again,
Who am I? That the voice that calmed the sea,
Would call out through the rain,
And calm the storm in me,

(ending tag, ad lib)
I am Yours,
Whom shall I fear? Whom shall I fear?
I am Yours,
I am Yours.

Sorry about the quality, I took it with my phone, will upload a better one when I get it from my friends. Enjoy the music!

Who Am I - Casting Crowns

I survived 30 Hours without Food!

2009-03-28T23:09:00.012+08:00

People preparing for the Famine

You've got the power! Yeah! It's has been quite some time before I update. The
~~reasons~~ excuses were I busy with my assignments, tutorials and a test. if I don't
post it sooner or later it won't have the Umph![power].

On 12pm 21st March 2009, we started our 30 hour Fast till 6pm the next day. Many of my
friends have already post their feelings and photos, well I'll just post on a few more
from my point of view.

Volunteers doing some ice breaking - Superman

In the camp, we always have sharing after every activities, I'm quite amazed by how people
shared their experience and feelings. When it come to my turn, I just lost what I wanted
to say. It's not that I have no feelings or didn't experience anything. Maybe I'm just not
very good in expressing my ideas. Throughout my study we're more keen to express ourself
in words rather than verbal.

Our Rev. Ting receiving souvenir from YB Dato Patinggi George Chan

During this time too people were willing to do anything in order to survive including
drug smuggling, prostitution and working in mafia gang. In my family, I urged them not to
take up any illegal occupation. In the end, thanks to the cooperation of every family
member we're able to get everyone vaccinated, get our camp done but we only got enough
food for three out of eight members in the family. I believe we can do it better if there
is a next time. :)

Vowed to fast for 30 hours.

There are many performances by local artist including Daniel Lee, Francessca Peters,
Evenstarr, Soulcatchez and other performing artists. The organising commitee really did a
great job on this.

Catwalk by Jolene and Alex the food lover.

Through this camp I had met many nice people around, normally I won't talk to people I do
not know in the camp but this time I try to talk to new friends in my group and found out
they are very nice folks. Especially our group leader, Sheldon and his assistant, Grace.
Besides, I graduated from Kuching High for 3 years and still have the chance to meet the young ex-highians - Karen and Angelina ~~Jolie~~. There are people who come with family too like
Viki. I remembered her mom saying she was really worried when Viki's camp was destroyed by
local authority though she is in my "family". We lend them our building materials to get
their camp back to shape after that.

Sagging camp roof (Group 3)

Our better looking camp roof with newspaper string

[Warning: Civil engineering content!]

From the photo you can see that our camp is made of newspaper, plastic chair and nylon
stirngs. Our group had problem with sagging roof so we try to solve it by using suspension
roof and increased the weight of our four columns(chairs). It did worked very well and in
the end I spent too much time on the camp I that I forgot to get my food provision.. =_="

The legendary ~~King~~ David Wong

In Famine Challenge 2, we're refugees in Kolkata after an earthquake. So we moved in to
the city to make a living there, if we couldn't make enough, we have to move to the slump.
What we did was making stars from newspaper resembling refugees making handy crafts to
make a living. We need to earn 15 Rupees each person per day in a family in order to live
through the day. If someone is sick then the situation will be worst. Our family combined
into 16 person but we only managed to get 1 rupee from the sale of 10 paper stars. Hehe!
What a haul for 1 single rupee.

Poverty Quiz

Wow... I thought I don't have time to blog about 30 hour famine but in the end I wrote so much. Hopefully you guys will read some of it and continue next time you arrive as I won't be updating frequently.. Took photo with William and Jolene, Dixon and her sis. Thank Dixon-wolfhermit for the photo. The best emcee signed on my fan! Yeah!

Break fast! I look so terrible...

Ezekiel and Karen. She has whole lot of post on 30-Hour-Famine. She is my first fan.. Haha! Never though anyone would admire me playing guitar.. Hehe! After 30 hours, we learned to appreciate more and complain less and we have save some
kids!

Last but not the least... Best regards toGladys Wong, Gabriel Kuon, Alex Poh, David Wong, Phoebe, Yuki, Linus, Lily, Lance, BL
teacher(forgot her name), one girl in my family not mentioned in this blog (I forgot her
name -_-)..

Sidetrack: Do I really look 14 in the camp? I'm 21 this year... Hehehe!

A Sharing

2009-03-09T12:58:00.008+08:00

Yesterday was really an eventful day, After church service we have a little sharing among the members of commitee. We are to voice out our opinion mainly on personal relation skills and what we can do to make our youth fellowship better.

We started the activity by distributing a piece of cute paper to our next person. Then we stick this piece of paper on the back of the next person. When everyone had paper on their back we started to write encouraging words with our signature on it. Rev. Ting mentioned we should show our real concern by putting down signature.Writing on people's back is really a fun thing to do, when other people wrote on your back it feels like massaging. Haha!The birthday cake is for those whose birthday are from the first half of the year. Ops! I forgotten myself. Tsk~This game is not a new game, the objective of this game is to bring encouragement to members of commitee in serving the Lord. When people make mistake and realised it, they wanted to changed. Most people end up no changing because changing takes a lot of effort and confidence. When we are given credits on what we have done, we will change for the better because confidence others have given us. So if you want somebody to change for the better, remember to give them encouragement.I wrote on 7 people's back and in return, I got 7 nice messeges from them too! :) In the evening, we gave a surprise birthday party to Sherine and Igno, well quite an old trick I should say, then again who cares if it is? The most important thing is, it worked!

The 21st and 25th birthday of Sherine and Igno respectively, taken when they give their speech. Here comes the moment of truth, looks like Igno had prepared to blow the candles but Sherine is still in the midst of her birthday dream.. Haha! Now you get what I meant, the candles was blown out before she blew. Nice one, Igno. Haha! Having friends to celebrate birthday is really a nice thing. The feeling is just beyond description of any words. By the way I just remembered, not many people from youth will visit my blog, most of them don't even know I have a blog. Hmm... It's ok then.

Nerve of Steel

2009-03-07T17:34:00.015+08:00

I'm taking 4 subjects including Careers in Currilum this semester. Again I know it's either going to be a stressful and haunting one or it's going to be yet hectic and rewarding semester. It all depends on how I see it. Here are the subjects that I'm taking this semester, Road Engineering and Design of Steel Structures are core subjects in the University.

Design of Steel Structures
Road Engineering
Engineering Management 1
Engineering Management 2

Hence begun the ever challenging university life! Let me introduce my subject one by one:
Design of Steel Structures

In this subject, I'll be studying the basic of steel structure design. Besides learning the basic knowledge, we need to observe steel structures around the World and design our very own steel structure! Sounds fantastic right? Hehe! I'm anticipating it with great excitement too. Will we be designing something like this?

An Office Building in Bahrain

Or this?

A grand looking steel arch bridge

Or maybe this?

The Effiel Tower!

Hm.. The picture below, where have we seen this before? Yea, it's in Mechanics of Structure, Structural Mechanics, Design of Concrete Structures and now, Design of Steel Structures!

Behold! The simply supported beam!

Ok, let's face it. If you want to do civil engineering, you'll be doing this at least 4 subjects in your studies. It's only a start, everythings seems to be easy. I'm looking forward towards this subject. Do you know why? Because, by using the simple concept above, we can create this,

Cool yeah?

to be continued...

The Longest River in the World

2009-02-27T23:40:00.009+08:00

There was a certain donkey learned by itself that 1+1=3, so when it grew up, it strongly believe that 1+1=3. Then when it went to school, teacher taught it the right answer should be 1+1=2. This donkey accepted the new idea of 1+1=2 for a moment. Then when it reached home, it continues to write 1+1=3 in its exercise book. When it started to work, its boss taught it 1+1=2 as the right answer. Now this new idea sipped in then out of the brain after a moment. The poor donkey continues to believe that 1+1=3 after that. One day the donkey realised that the right answer to 1+1 is actually 2. When it was about to change its concept, it found out that since other donkeys also believes that 1+1=3 and they are still living fine, why should it change this concept anyway? So the donkey uses 1+1=3 until the day it dies.

A few people know where they are heading and work hard for it.
Some people let things come to them and struggle their way through it.
Most people don't even realise things passing them until it is too late.

Denial is the longest river in the World
Be a man, do the right thing.

You've Got the Power!

2009-02-25T14:11:00.008+08:00

What's up in March? It's the first ever 30-Hour-Famine held in Kuching on 21-22 March ! For those who don't know, the 30-Hour-Famine is a global movement against hunger and poverty. Participants fast for 30 hours and get a glimpse of the dire conditions that impoverished children and families everyday. They also learn about poverty issues. It is co-organised by World Vision and Sin Chew Jit Po with the participating organisation of Sarawak Chinese Annual Conference (which is the Sarawak Chinese Methodist Churches), Swinburne Sarawak Student Council, and tHe Spring.

Ok, 30-Hour-Famine has come to Kuching so what? What does it have to do with me? Your paticipation of course! Joining camp means you get to meet more ~~hot chicks~~ new friends! If you want to join 30-Hour-Famine, all you have to is to raise donation for a certain amount of money. For student and senior citizen, the minimum amount is RM80 while for non-student, the minimum amount is RM120. Here's what you need to do. First, get a donation card in tHe Spring.

And then start collecting donations, be remined that you cannot make public appeal with this donation card, you can only approach family members and friends for donations. So people, if I approached you for donations, I mean it because I really want to ~~join the Famine~~ help the poors. hehe Well, I got my donation card around one month ago and let it grow dust on my workstation till this week. When you got your minimum amount or reach the due date, you simply return it to customer service counter in tHe Spring. After you return the card, you'll be issued an officail receipt for admission to the camo and also the camper's note containing the detailed information on the camp. You can see that I didn't really approach many people because it was a week before Chinese New Year when I get the card, many people had spent their money on Chinese New Year Goodies, then after that is Valentine's day, more people are broke after giving their best to their beloved. After all that I got 1 week left. The due date is on 1st of March 2009. Save children's life! Donate to me!

Valentine's Day!

2009-02-13T23:38:00.006+08:00

So here comes the 14th February, a season for guys to spend money to show affection to their significance others. Usually we'll give something special to someone we consider special during this time. Normally people will give

chocolate..

Nice and beautiful chocolate.

Stacked chocolate

Molten Chocolate to be mould

Exquisite chochote Horse

And Roses

Puppy with red rose!

Pink rose!

Different color of roses have different meanings:

Red means Sincere Love & Respect, Courage & Passion
Pink means Grace and Gentility, the rose of sweet thoughts.
White means Spiritual love & Purity, the rose of confession, the bridal rose; "You are heavenly", "I am worthy of you"

Besides, when you give roses, the number of roses also have their own meaning

1 Rose Love at the first sight; you are the one
2 Roses Mutual love between both, deeply in love with one another
3 Roses I love you
6 Roses I wanna be yours
7 Roses I'm infatuated with you
9 Roses An Eternal love, together as long as we live
10 Roses You are perfect
11 Roses You are my treasured one; the one I love most in my life
12 Roses Be my steady
13 Roses Secret Admirer
15 Roses I am truly sorry, please forgive me
20 Roses Believe me, I am sincere towards you
21 Roses I am devoted to you
24 Roses Can't stop thinking about you, 24 hours everyday
33 Roses Saying "I love you" with great affection
36 Roses I will remember our romantic moments
40 Roses My love for you is genuine
50 Roses Regretless love, this is
99 Roses I will love you for as long as I live
100 Roses Harmoniously together in a century; remaining devoted as couple till ripe-old age
101 Roses You are my one and only love
108 Roses Please marry me!
365 Roses Can't stop thinking about you, each and everyday
999 Roses Everlasting and Eternal love

Happy Valentine's day and remember to give the right color of roses with the right number! Good luck everyone!

Farewell my friends

2009-02-06T23:57:00.020+08:00

"Aldrin Boh Liao![Aldrin no more]" That was one of his last words before he left us. On 5th of February, approcimately at 9.20am. He had left us to a distant land. One of his closest friend, Tan Kwang Yang followed after him. Before he left, he still carry that famous sentences, longing to leave us. Ahem!

They were accepted by UWA and to Perth they go. It's really sad to see them leave after so much an experience shared together.
It was in 2006 that I started to know them. Mostly in choir and chit chating in the library. Then durig 2007, we were suddenly in a band, "Silent Mode". The band only performed once though.As we became closer in 2008, we had more activities together. Then one of the most memorable event was the trip to Miri. We really had a great time together.

Aldrin really brings a lot of impacting events to all of us. His determination in studies, his sincerity to friends and motivation to complete task with his best.

When grouping and studying the same subject with him, I realised his way of studying is so much different than us. He is smart and at the same time a hardworking person.A nerd maybe but he still do things ordinary people like us do, He plays computer games, plays badminton, watches movies, and spend time having fun like us. The only difference is his study time is really his study time if you know what I mean.Kwang Yang on the other hand is smart guy who spend a lot of time having fun. Unlike Aldrin, he spend a lot more time in other activities like bowling, watching soap drama and some more drama..Having to know Aldrin since the first day, they had become really close friends. Now when Aldrin leaves, he is going with him too.Eric is one of the happy tree friends, together they can cause chaos to many. Fortunately their powers only works in computer games.
I happened to pop into their life when I joined Swinburne. Through Johnson, I came to know Aldrin, Kwang Yang and many other nice friends. Now one by one they are leaving Kuching, if things go well, I might have the chance to join them in the near future.I really learned a lot from you guys, especially Aldrin. I remember Keith's saying, (we've bonded together in a gang, no matter where we go we still have the bond.)

After knowing them for two years, I can really say every friends you meet is going to influence you a little bit. In other words, we've got each other in each of us.

Google ungoogle?

2009-01-31T23:16:00.004+08:00

Is it me or google really gone crazy? Help...

This happened around 11.10pm, January 31 2009. It was gone after 10 minutes. I can't imagine my own blog have the "this site may harm your computer" word on it and on every site I want to visit. Luckily it was not any virus too. Thank God!

The begining of Moo Year

2009-01-29T23:34:00.007+08:00

How do you starts your Chinese New Year this year? After attending church service and visited 2 houses, my family has no more plan. So I was stuck at home whole afternoon so I tried to do something special. From the tips I googled, I was able to open a secret cow level itself. Wow!

Secret Cow Level

First pack of moo-moo

At first when I saw the pack of hell bovine, I was really stunt by the numbers of it. What I could do was to slow them down a little by decrepify them. The spell only lasts 2 second so it was difficult to kill and cast at the same time. With my two companion, we were able to kill the first pack after much haul.

Second wave of cow

After fighting for a while I suddenly realised that I had confuse. It is a curse that can cause victims to have random target or in other words, fight among themselves. When I cast the spell, I can just sit back and relax until all the cow died.

Corpse Explosion to hasten the kill

When I combine my confuse spell and corpse explosion, I can see wonders! Cows died one after another and sometimes a few fall of after an explosion.

Some more cows

The is really many cows in the secret cow level, however these cow can barely touch me. I heard that you can pick some special item in the secret cow level, maybe it's just my luck that I only get normal stuff like stamina potion, bolts, arrow, rancid gas potion and some other lousy weapon. I did get 2 nice item however.

Items fell of after killing cow king and the other cow.

Notice the unique long bow and a set studded leather armour.Bramble scratch Long bow, a nice bow but the one my rogue was using is a little better than this so I sold it.I love the Cow King's Hide but the defence was really disappointing, besides my armour is an set item with my ring so I won't just sell it off.

Then in the evening, I went to Shirley's house with some friends and had a great time there. I guess that's how I spend my first day of Chinese New Year for this year.

Happy Chinese New Year 2009!

2009-01-25T23:22:00.005+08:00

I don't belive my first post in 2009 starts a month after Christmas. It has been a very busy month for me. EM3C, this subject which is offered specially during summer term has only 6 weeks of study inclusive of Christmas, New Year and... CHINESE NEW YEAR! The worst came when the final exam is scheduled on the 15th Day of Chinese New Year! Which is our chap goh mei!

Nevertheless, I should not be troubled by this little thing. So I'm going to celebrate it with family and friends during this special festive season. While people are busy lighting fireworks and firecrackers, I helped my parents on the housework. Then on the 1st day of chinese new year, I'll start my day with God. I have to admit that this is a very unorganised post. Well, it shows that I'm really busy these days(excuses..)

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!

Joy to the World the Lord is Come!

2008-12-24T12:02:00.008+08:00

Joy to the World!

Joy to the World , the Lord is come!

Let earth receive her King;

Let every heart prepare Him room,

And Heaven and nature sing,And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing.

Joy to the World, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains

Repeat the sounding joy,

Repeat the sounding joy

,Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy

No more let sins and sorrows grow,

Nor thorns infest the ground;

He comes to make His blessings flow

Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.
He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.

Merry Christmas! Nothing is better than sharing this Christmas season with your family and friends. :)

Photo credits: Thanks to my Sony Ericson K610i. :p

1 Utama
Cineleisure Damansara
Pavilion
Pavilion (with sis)
Times Square
Lot 10
KLCC
KL Plaza
Time Square with Ah Yieng and Johnson

Joy To The World - Hillsong

MV Doulos in Kuching

2008-12-16T11:51:00.004+08:00

We went to MV Doulos yesterday, I thought it opens at 10am but when we arrived, it says open at 2pm. So we went for a drink and some walk and came back at 2pm. The first thing we saw was this century old ship docking at the habour.After my invissible friend and I went on the ship, we looked around and took some photos. Then we continued to the bookshop. The bookshop on MV Doulos, is the World largest floating bookshop. There are many variaties in the bookshop including song CDs and DVDs, well what I can say is that the bookshop is like a christian bookshop with some cookbooks and children books. After that, we went down to take another photo. The photo above shows my invissible friend and me. For some reasons, my friend turned invissible whenever we take photo... hm..

For your information, this is the final time MV Doulos visiting Kuching. The ship was built in 1914 and had been in commision in as a frieghter in World War II, converted to a motor vassel and serve as a passenger ship (Wikipedia). In 1977, Gute Bücher für Alle - GBA, previously known as Good Books for All, a private, non-profit, charitable organisation registered in Germany (MV Doulos). The ship is to be de-commisioned at 2010. The ship is going to be in Kuching till 3rd of January, so hurry up pick pick up some souvenirs before it's too late! :)

References

Doulos-Bringing Knowledge, Help and Hope, 2008, GBA Ships e.V., viewed 16 December 2008, http://www.doulos.org/

MV Doulos, 6 November 2008, Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia, viewed 16 December 2008.

Yeah!

2008-11-27T20:37:00.003+08:00

I'm done with my finals for this year... Having holiday until February next year! Yeah! Will keep my blog rolling again..

Subjects taken until now.

Year 1 semester 1
Professional Engineering
Engineering Mathematics 1
Mechanics of Structures
Energy and Motion

Year 1 semester 2
Civil Engineering Project
Engineering Mathematics 2
Materials and Processes
Topographical Engineering

Year 2 semester 1
Structural Mechanics
Fluid Mechanics
Computer Aided Engineering
Urban Water Resources

Hopefully in next, I can take these subjects
Engineering Mathematics 3C
Road Engineering
Design of Steel Structure
Engineering Management 1

One thing I'm sure... It's going to be more difficult.. Meanwhile...

I'll Enjoy till the fullest while I CAN!

If you're so stress and you know it..

2008-11-06T21:20:00.011+08:00

If you're so stress and you know it, clap your hands *clap *clap

If you're so stress and you know it, and you really want to show it

If you're so stress and you know it, clap your hands *clap *clap

If you're so stress and you know it, stomp your feet *stomp *stomp

If you're so stress and you know it, and you really want to show it

If you're so stress and you know it, stomp your feet *stomp *stomp

If you're so stress and you know it, shout "Hurray!" *hoo-ray!
If you're so stress and you know it, shout "Hurray!" *hoo-ray!

If you're so stress and you know it, and you really want to show it
If you're so stress and you know it, shout "Hurray!" *hoo-ray!

Kids songs - Barney - If Youre Happy and You Know It.mp3 -

Color Quiz!

2008-10-28T11:28:00.003+08:00

Ezekiel took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test!

"His need to feel more causative and to have a wide..."

Click here to read the rest of the results.

Ezekiel's Existing Situation
Sensitive; needs esthetic surroundings, or an equally sensitive and understanding partner with whom to share a warm intimacy.

Ezekiel's Stress Sources
Has an unsatisfied need to ally himself with others whose standards are as high as his own, and to stand out from the herd. This desire for preeminence isolates him and inhibits his readiness to give himself freely. While he wants to surrender and let himself go, he regards this as a weakness which must be resisted. This self-restraint, he feels, will lift him above the rank and file and ensure recognition as a unique and distinctive personality.

Ezekiel's Restrained Characteristics
The situation is preventing him from establishing himself, but he feels he must make the best of things as they are.
Circumstances are such that he feels forced to compromise for the time being if he is to avoid being cut off from affection or from full participation.

Ezekiel's Desired Objective
His need to feel more causative and to have a wider sphere of influence makes him restless and he is driven by his desires and hopes. May try to spread his activities over too wide a field.

Ezekiel's Actual Problem
Feels insufficiently valued in his existing situation, and is seeking different conditions in which he will have greater opportunity of demonstrating his worth.

Pasir Pandak

2008-10-26T17:23:00.011+08:00

My youth organised a trip to Pasir Pandak yesterday, we have around 50 people joining. Haha! The guy in pink shirt is not from our church, he is our guest. We have a light breakfast before we go depart to the beach.

Some of us are arranged to go by church while others drive their own car.Our church vanOk, this is exactly what u can see in Google Earth. There is one "itu gunung" entry in Google Earth, try to look for it.On the left, it is the same as Google Earth photo too.My first impression of the beach was, Eew! It's so dirty, I'm going to swim in that sea.We had a simple praise and worship as a start, followed by 2 games by the organiser.But many of us did bring frisbie to the beach so we're having fun.This is our champion group a.k.a. my group. We're taking photo after winning 2 consecutive beach games.

Wer're no. 1! We're no. 1! We're no. 1! Mould and designed by me!Let me introduce to you the Pyramid of Champion! Haha! Again, it is designed, fine tuned by me. lol!

This is how we have our lunch, fried mee or kueh tiaw with extra sausages(hot dog) and an egg.

We dipped ourselve into the poluted water of Bako after lunch. Though the sea is polluted, our mind, body and spirit is not. :p That is the only photo that I managed to get as I'm using a camera phone to take photo... It does not have water resistant...

We returned around 2pm when the sun is blazzing hot. It's really God's grace for us to have such fun and having the chance of knowing each other. I really know more about my youth after this trip.

Well, just an update of what I have been doing these days. Back to reality, I still got 2 water assignments with one partially completed and one untouched, 1 CAE assignment and 2 fluid lab reports to be passed up.

Some times we just feel lazy and loosing our motivation when we're tossed my unfinished assignment. It's good to find a way to relax our mind, body and spirit. We never know we might stumble across some super ideas that can change the World. Having supper with friends is one of the ways to release stress..

Sushi Sushi Sushi!

2008-10-24T22:30:00.006+08:00

I have been very busy these days so I just come out with a short update. I went to Sushi King again yesterday, my friend said it's a flat rate of RM2 per plate for rice based sushi. We where there around 7.07pm..

The line was too long that we have to take turns in queueing.. Poor Eric... He knows what I mean..

After queueing for around 80 minutes, we finally have a seat. It's sad but true, the food is not that nice like the last time we went together in Boulevard. The salmon or I supposed, is still raw.. Preserved... Raw... o_O But sadly they put too much salt on it untill it is too salty.

Angela and me. We were very tired indeed, after doing assignment whole day in school and queueing for more than one hour. We still managed to push ourselves to smile though.. For those who know her, you can keep that to yourself while for those who don't know, it's a secret. Haha!

Sushi with tea and soya sauce like last time. We only shared 8 plates since we are already half full with waffle..

Finally Ah Yeing, the princess of prom 2008.. Man she eats a lot!!! Or not... Hm.. By the way.. Did you notice that we're shifting around the same stack here and there? lol!

Tagged: Perfect lover?!

2008-10-19T12:37:00.002+08:00

Tagged by Josey, had to blog 8 Points About My Perfect Lover

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. The tagged victims have to come up with eight different points of his/her perfect lover.
2. Have to mention the gender of his/her perfect lover.
3. Tag eight other victims to join this game and leave a comment on their blog.
4. If you are tagged the second time, there’s no need to do this AGAIN.
5. Lastly, most importantly, HAVE. FUN. DOING. IT.

I have to say that I'm really VERY BUSY these days so I'll do it straight to the point. I won't tag anyone else as I couldn't think of someone I should tag. However, if u feel like doing this, you can do it too. Lol! Which reminds me of instruction no.5

Ok, like Josey mentioned, no one is perfect so I'm calling it ideal lover as well.

1。 MUST be a Christian
Call me a fanatic but my ideal lover must be a Christian.

Secondly. Have to have the chemistry
Normally I would only go for the person that have the chemistry during our first look.

Nombor Tiga. Have to be enthusiastic on the things she do, like studies and playing games.

第四。Must be able to communicate.
It's really useless to be with somebody who can't talk with.

Numéro cinq. Have to be nice to me.

Nr. sechs. Independent.
I like independent people. It means they can solve their problems by themselves.

번호 7. Have to be thoughtful in money managing. I'm not rich ok?

Número ocho. Last but not the least, my ideal lover have to accept the way I do things, how I see things and the way I behave, or just who I am.

Just for fun

2008-10-10T21:38:00.002+08:00

Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com

Plagiarism Buster!

2008-10-04T23:36:00.006+08:00

Ever wonder how lecturers check our work and find out we're plagiarising? Well I've searched through the web and found something intereting. Basically, there are a few ways to detect plagiarism. The principle to detect plagiarism is to compare an original work with your work. In order to do that, the person who check your work must have the original copies.

First, we must know what plagiarism is, a quote from Swinburne Plagiarism Guide, plagiarism is
'Put simply, plagiarism is cheating.
In essence, plagiarism is ‘stealing’ intellectual material. It can take many forms.
Three of these forms are discussed in this guide. Before these three types of plagiarism
are discussed in detail, it will be helpful to clarify some definitions.'

Here, I divided plagirsim into a few catagories.

Plagiarism among friends.
Plagiarise from books.
Plagiarise from Internet.
Plagiarise from your brain (Origianal).

Plagiarise among friends means you copy your work among each other in a group, or copying your friends' work from another semester. Plagiarise from books and Internet means you copy everything from the Internet without any citation or quotation mark.

Now the question is how does a lecturer knows if we're plagiarising?
They use some special software that search the Internet to match your writing with the article found. Here are a few examples..

Sand Castle by Soon Eng

Yeap, that is an original work.

Impact of Jet(Lab Report)

Haha! See? I'm not plagiarising

Tips:
Most plagiarism detecting machine only detects everything they can find on Google, if you're copying from somewhere else, you might not get caught. Hehe! However, when people found out that you're actually copying stuff from others, you might get thrown out by the University or get your Bachelor's Degree eliminated.

Biblography

1.Swinburne Plagiarism Guide pg.6

Spreading the Stupidity (As if I'm not stupid enough)

2008-09-28T23:44:00.004+08:00

EVER WONDER ...

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin ?

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do 'practice'?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

And finally

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

Wow

2008-09-26T13:37:00.000+08:00

A verse to remember.

2008-09-19T23:31:00.000+08:00

万军之耶和华说：不是依靠势力，不是依靠才能，乃是依靠我的灵方能成事。
撒4：六下

Sand Castle

2008-09-17T00:10:00.001+08:00

Sometimes life is like building a sand castle
When you finally built it, the sea washed it away the next day
Would you cry over it or rebuild it the next day?
If we can't keep those happy moment after completing the sand castle
Why don't we treasure every moment we build it?
Then no matter how many times the sea washes it
we'll be enjoying building sand castlet the next day

We know kids like to build sand castle
We know their sand castle is vulnerable too
When their sand castles are destroyed, they do feel sad
They do cry sometimes
But after a while they'll start building again
Because they enjoy the moment building sand castles
Why cant we be like little kids?

You may say "Because we are no more kids."
That's why many people live their lifes in misery
Because they had forgotten how life was like
How they started their life with
The more people had taken things seriously
The less they want to let them go
Sometimes people wonder why things go wrong

When they forgot how they used to build sand castles

Expressing Thoughts

2008-09-12T23:20:00.000+08:00

There are many ways to express our thoughts, some people like to express their thoughts in verbal expression while others like to express their thoughts in actions. A fraction of other people might combine everything up. There are other ways to express our thoughts too, one of the most effective way to express our ideas is...

Graphical communication.

This is vital in our presentation, human is able to remember more pictures and colours as compared to numbers and words.

So placing picture at the right place makes a presentation worth listening.

For example:
(Verbal)
If I were to tell other people tha I am unwell, I can simply tell them.
"Hey xxx, I'm sick."
Unfortunately we are not sick but just a little unwell. The correct way to express ourselves is
"I am unwell." (Johnson 2007)

(Graphic)

(Action)

Creative people will express them in many different ways.

For me, I'm really feeling unwell these few days, even my laptop agrees with me.

Wanna see somemore?

No kidding, I'm seriously unwell... Got to have more rest..

Homemade Kaya!?

2008-09-03T22:10:00.000+08:00

I have stumbled upon a food guide blog when I was googling around. The blog really does look nice, especially the homemade kaya entry. Man, you guys should visit her blog!

FIY
Sakai (people)

Blood Test

2008-09-03T21:13:00.000+08:00

My church organised a blood test campaign on 1st September 2008. In order to give support, I joined the blood test.I have to say this is my first blood test in public. Reached church around 9.30am and this is what I can see. Around 40 people from church and those who live near our church came. This is not many, however it makes a good start to tell others that our church exist in the community.

The first and foremost, registration. I chose to take up a full blood test which cost me RM70. Fortunately I managed to find a sponsor - my mom - After registration, I was asked to weigh my mass and measure my height.

Our reverend's wife, also a pastor measuring height.

The result was still the same. I have a mass of 48kg and height of 1.62m. I have to admit I am SHORT but then again the people who have this height do have advantage sometimes. lol!

After weighing and measuring, some more measuring was done. There was this blood pressure tester called the electronic sphygmomanometer.

It is used to measure the systolic, diastolic and pulse. After that a medical personnel poke a small hole on my finger, a little blood came out and the medical personnel sip it into a glucometer.

My result are written in a piece of paper, if there is something wrong with my body, they will ask me to consult medical advise.
The doctor giving medical advise.

Our reverend undergoing blood extracting.

After that, comes the final and most painful part, the blood ~~sucking~~ extracting part. What worst can it be when you found out the one who is going to ~~suck~~ extract your blood was your temporary teacher. He is Charles Goh from St. Joseph, graduated form 6 around 2000, now he is working with Pathlab.

Ok, back to the story, when he injected the syringe into my vein on my right hand, he couldn't extract much blood. So he decided to extract it from the left arm. The outcome was the same, only a little blood came out. Only then I know I had drank too little water before I came, so I was asked to drink water before the third time. Finally he managed to get my blood on the third attempt, 5cubic centimeter equivalent to 0.005L of blood was extracted from my body for testing. In the end, I have 3 holes on my both hands and it does hurt... Blood test result will be released on the 14th of September 2008.

By the way, whoever found this car -QKR 1050-. please do not and I repeat DO NOT give place for it. It is just another uncivilized baboon living in Kuching. What did he do? He jumped queue from the left and slid it's car in front of me. I'm very uncomfortable with it. So yea, you guys know what to do.

5th Kyu Test

2008-08-31T11:42:00.001+08:00

Had my 5th kyu test after training for a semester. Finally, my level up again! Haha! School work begun to pile up as things get settled.

Our test is something like this, the only different is the speed and number of techniques we used. Enjoy!

Time come and pass, people come in and out of our life, I've worked and resigned but I haven't get my pay.
SUGARBUN STILL OWE ME HALF A MONTH OF SALARY!!!
DON'T WORK AT THE SPRING SUGARBUN!!!
What a Sibu liar.

Timber!

2008-08-24T13:53:00.000+08:00

Look! Trees have grown so tall in my blog... I think I left my blog desolated for too long again. Ok, I'll update as soon as possible.

Congratulates me! I passed my Evangelism Explosion! Yeay!

Gaming Holiday

2008-08-14T17:16:00.000+08:00

Here's my first game article, which I'm not at best at. Sometimes I played games to release stress but most of the time I found out I'm stressed out because of that game. One reason is always the plotting against your enemy. It makes me think till it force the juice out of my coconut.. I think with a coconut ok? One of the games would be the famous Utopia.

Actually I didn't play that game for ages, it is the game below that troubles me...

Battle Realms. I played that game while I was in form 2 but stopped half way because I find it too difficult to continue, especially when one of my save files corrupted..I admit that I'm not very good in micromanagement. Now, after 5 years I had returned from excile and come back for revenge!

Hahaha!

But then again, like 5 years ago I was still stuck in Serpentholm in the 3 clans war. It took a lot of micromanagement and Samurais to get over that scenario. After that, it's just like chopping vegetable for me. 1 Kenji + 1 Tao + 2 Geisha + 10 archers + 14 Samurais = victory + 10 yangs + 1 base destroy. When I reached the final scenario, I thought it was the most difficult but as a matter of fact it doesn't not. Pardon me for using only one photo because I don't know the screenshot key in the game. The main reason is the geographical area and how you plan your defence system.

In the last sceanrio, you are needed to kill Zymeth. When you found the right base you can kill him. I took some time to clear my way to the last 2 Lotus bases and a little more time to meet Zymeth on the top base of the most right Island. I thought Zymeth was strong and I needed much reinforcement, during that time I'd only got Kenji, Tao, a geisha and 16 samurais left. The others are either assigned to defend the base or killed in action.

I thought I had a slim chance to kill Zymeth if I sacrifice Kenji, Tao and all my samurais. So after the cinematic..

Zymeth appeared with his minions while I get my samurai to pull the bow. I was nervous and knew that Zymeth has the most health points compared to other so I use my Kenji's battle gear to get critical strike on him. Amazingly one critical strike decrease Zymeth's health point to red. and as my samurai hit him, it just disappeared.. And at last some ancient beast came and died the same way. Tao with his battle gear killed all the minions in front of it and Kenji killed the ancient beast 2 shots in critical strike. I think I forgot to mention that I have 40 yang points? And thus the end of Battle Realms champaign.

Last but not the least, I recommend this game to you all.

Risk II

For more information click here. Try it! It's fun when you play against human. : )

Kid Tech Guru

2008-08-07T18:34:00.000+08:00

I have come across a new blog lately, it's called Kid Tech Guru. It says that the blog belongs to a 14-years old teenager who give tips on how-to guide and make $$ online.. At first, I was reluctant to visit the blog but then when I read through the post, I actually found out the content was really good. So here I am, introducing, Kid Tech Guru. The blog has a feed reader which helps to remind me if there is any new post. Try spending some time reading it if you're keen to know about the latest technology.
His latest post is 7 Concrete Strategies Of How To Build An Effective Money Making Blog. Mind me, just look at the site counter, it says the blog has more than 6000 visitors since 27 June 2008. That's only 41 days! It took me more than a year to have more then 6000 visitors... If you guys have time, try to visit his blog.

Another Haircut

2008-08-07T18:26:00.000+08:00

We've got a new haircut! Wanna see how we look like? Meet us in school! Haha!

My Character

2008-07-28T23:39:00.001+08:00

Soon Eng has leveled up! Name: Soon Eng

Character type: Waiter

Level: 2
Experience: 197

Next Level: Unknown

Cash:275++

Abilities

Clear tables

Sweep the floor

Mop the floor

Mix ice-cream [NEW]

Sell ice-cream [NEW]

Strengths

Able to speak 3 languages fluently.

Eager to learn

Friendly

Able to plan

Immune to scolding

Weaknesses

Slow motion

Prone to day-dreaming

Work for the sufficient value of salary

Takes many toilet breaks

Eating potion is directly proportional to the workload

Character rating:

Strength: 6

Dexterity: 5

Stamina: 5

Organised: 7

Obeying instructions: 5

Punctuality: 5 [10 minutes before working time]

Teamwork: 7

By the way, I'm resigning from Sugarbun. My last day would be 31th July 2008. More to come in these days.

To be continued...

Desperate moments call for desperate measures

2008-07-26T23:08:00.000+08:00

Normally when we see this sign,

We'll know it's a toilet sign.

Toilet is also called a washroom, it's for human to pass out their waste. Somehow I found out there are many creative ways to use toilets during my work in tHe Spring mall.

For example, if you had pass your stuff and lazy to flush it, you can simply lower the cover. If someone are desperate enough, they will flush it for you. :p

Notice the photo below, to flush kindly press/step on the button on the right.It's designed for pressing but since the button is so low people actually step on it to flush the toilet..tHe Spring Mall provides free toilets and tissue, which are good. The problem is when people are desperate, they couldn't even pull out the tissue properly..

If you get scolded by your teacher or principal, you may try out something like this too.

Then again, you better think twice because vandalism is a bad idea, some bloggers who got nothing better to do might post your masterpiece on their blog.

Till then, I promise to spend more time to improve the quality of my post..

Deteriorating English

2008-07-15T19:16:00.000+08:00

I found out and was told that I'd made a many serious gramatical and vocabulary mistake whenever I posted something new. I had to admit I have bad English, after speaking mandarin and a little sarwak for two weeks without touching English materials, my English standard is now down the bottom.

To improve my English, I chose to write more. As I write more I made more mistakes, when I make more mistakes, my English will be worst. So I might as well stop writing from now?

Actually, to learn languages, we need to read more and write a little. When you get the hang of it than you can try to write more. Even if you made mistake, you can identify them quickly and learned from the mistake.

Alright then, let's read more books! If you guys had found an interesting book, please tell me!

Why some people just can't have a girlfriend?

2008-07-14T00:14:00.001+08:00

I found something interesting I would like to share it with you guys.

Why I Will Never Have a Girlfriend

Tristan Miller
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence[1]20 December 1999
Why don't I have a girlfriend?

This is a question that practically every male has asked himself at one point or another in his life. Unfortunately, there is rarely a hard and fast answer to the query. Many men try to reason their way through the dilemma nonetheless, often reaching a series of ridiculous explanations, each more self-deprecating than the last: "Is it because I'm too shy, and not aggressive enough? Is it my opening lines? Am I a boring person? Am I too fat or too thin? Or am I simply ugly and completely unattractive to women?"

When all other plausible explanations have been discounted, most fall back on the time-honoured conclusion that "there must be Something Wrong™ with me" before resigning themselves to lives of perpetual chastity.[2]

Not the author, though. I, for one, refuse to spend my life brooding over my lack of luck with women. While I'll be the first to admit that my chances of ever entering into a meaningful relationship with someone special are practically non-existent, I staunchly refuse to admit that it has anything to do with some inherent problem with me. Instead, I am convinced that the situation can be readily explained in purely scientific terms, using nothing more than demographics and some elementary statistical calculus.

Lest anyone suspect that my standards for women are too high, let me allay those fears by enumerating in advance my three criteria for the match. First, the potential girlfriend must be approximately my age—let's say 21 plus or minus three or four years. Second, the girl must be beautiful (and I use that term all-encompassingly to refer to both inner and outer beauty). Third, she must also be reasonably intelligent—she doesn't have to be Mensa material, but the ability to carry on a witty, insightful argument would be nice. So there they are—three simple demands, which I'm sure everyone will agree are anything but unreasonable.

That said, I now present my demonstration of why the probability of finding a suitable candidate fulfilling the three above-noted requirements is so small as to be practically impossible—in other words, why I will never have a girlfriend. I shall endeavour to make this proof as rigorous as the available data permits. And I should note, too, that there will be no statistical trickery involved here; I have cited all my sources and provided all relevant calculations[3] in case anyone wishes to conduct their own independent review.

Let's now take a look at the figures.

Number of people on Earth (in 1998): 5 592 830 000[4]

We start with the largest demographic in which I am interested—namely, the population of this planet. That is not to say I'm against the idea of interstellar romance, of course; I just don't assess the prospect of finding myself a nice Altairian girl as statistically significant. Now anyway, the latest halfway-reliable figures we have for Earth's population come from the United States Census Bureau's 1999 World Population Profile (WP/98). Due presumably to the time involved in compiling and processing census statistics, said report's data is valid only as of 1998, so later on we'll be making some impromptu adjustments to bring the numbers up to date.

…who are female: 2 941 118 000[5]
I'd've thought that, given the title of this essay, this criterion goes without saying. In case anyone missed it, though, I am looking for exclusively female companionship. Accordingly, roughly half of the Earth's population must be discounted. Sorry, guys.

…in "developed" countries: 605 601 000[5]
We now further restrict the geographical area of interest to so-called "first-world countries". My reasons for doing so are not motivated out of contempt for those who are economically disadvantaged, but rather by simple probability. My chances of meeting a babe from Bhutan or a goddess from Ghana, either in person or on the Internet, are understandably low. In fact, I will most likely spend nearly my entire life living and working in North America, Europe, and Australia, so it is to these types of regions that the numbers have been narrowed.

…currently (in 2000) aged 18 to 25: 65 399 083[4][5]
Being neither a pedophile nor a geriatrophile, I would like to restrict my search for love to those whose age is approximately equal to my own. This is where things get a bit tricky, for two reasons: first, the census data is nearly two years old, and second, the "population by age" tables in WP/98 are not separated into individual ages but are instead quantized into "15–19" (of whom there are 39 560 000) and "20–44" (population 215 073 000). Women aged 15 to 19 in 1998 will be aged 17 to 21 in 2000; in this group, I'm interested in dating those 18 or older, so, assuming the "15–19" girls' ages are uniformly distributed, we have
Similarly, of 1998's "20–44" category, there are now
females within my chosen age limit. The sum, 66 059 680, represents the total number of females aged 18 to 25 in developed countries in 2000. Unfortunately, roughly 1% of these girls will have died since the census was taken;[6] thus, the true number of so-far eligible bachelorettes is 65 399 083.

…who are beautiful: 1 487 838
Personal attraction, both physically and personality-wise, is an important instigator of any relationship. Of course, beauty is a purely subjective trait whose interpretation may vary from person to person. Luckily it is not necessary for me to define beauty in this essay except to state that for any given beholder, it will probably be normally distributed amongst the population.[7] Without going into the specifics of precisely which traits I admire, I will say that for a girl to be considered really beautiful to me, she should fall at least two standard deviations above the norm. From basic statistics theory, the area to the left of the normal curve at z = 2 is
and so it is this number with which we multiply our current population pool.

…and intelligent: 236 053
Again, intelligence can mean different things to different people, yet I am once more relieved of making any explanation by noting that it, like most other characteristics, has a notionally normal distribution across the population. Let's assume that I will settle for someone a mere one standard deviation above the normal; in that case, a further
of the population must be discounted.

…and not already committed: 118 027
I could find no hard statistics on the number of above-noted girls who are already married, engaged, or otherwise committed to a significant other, but informal observation and anecdotal evidence leads me to believe that the proportion is somewhere around 50%. (Fellow unattached males will no doubt have also noticed a preponderance of girls legitimately offering, "Sorry, I already have a boyfriend" as an excuse not to go on a date.) For reasons of morality (and perhaps too self-preservation), I'm not about to start hitting on girls who have husbands and boyfriends. Accordingly, that portion of the female population must also be considered off-limits.

…and also might like me: 18 726
Naturally, finding a suitable girl who I really like is no guarantee that she'll like me back. Assuming, as previously mentioned, that personal attractiveness is normally distributed, there is a mere 50% chance that any given female will consider me even marginally attractive. In practice, however, people are unlikely to consider pursuing a relationship with someone whose looks and personality just barely suffice. Let's make the rather conservative assumption, then, that a girl would go out with someone if and only if they were at least one standard deviation above her idea of average. In that case, referring to our previous calculation, only 15.8655% of females would consider someone with my physical characteristics and personality acceptable as a potential romantic partner.

Conclusion
It is here, at a pool of 18 726 acceptable females, that we end our statistical analysis. At first glance, a datable population of 18 726 may not seem like such a low number, but consider this: assuming I were to go on a blind date with a new girl about my age every week, I would have to date for 3493 weeks before I found one of the 18 726. That's very nearly 67 years. As a North American male born in the late 1970s, my life expectancy is probably little more than 70 years, so we can safely say that I will be quite dead before I find the proverbial girl of my dreams.
Come to think of it, she'll probably be dead too.

So there you have it, my friends—finally, a cogent, scientific, non-self-deprecating argument for why I will never have a girlfriend. That said, if you happen to be a girl deluded enough to think that you and I have a chance together, feel free to drop me a line, but I warn you, you face odds of 157 060 to 1. I wouldn't bother if I were you.

Update (2000-04-01): My sarcastic pleas for some e-mail have finally been answered. Take a look at this letter from a hysterical female reader, which I think perfectly demonstrates the point of this entire essay. (I think the fact that she's a WebTV user explains a lot—in fact, I was sure this e-mail was an April Fool's joke until I noticed the return address.)

Endnotes and references

↑ This paper was written when the author was at Griffith University, Australia.
↑ After a short period of brooding, of course, these males will eventually come to the realization that the real reason they were never able to get a girlfriend is that they were too discriminating with their attentions. They will consequently return to the dating scene, entering a sequence of blasé relationships with mediocre girls for whom they don't really care, until they finally marry one out of fear of spending the rest of their lives alone. I am convinced that this behaviour is the real reason for today's alarmingly high divorce rate.
↑ Due to rounding, figures cited may not add up exactly.
↑ 4.0 4.1 U.S. Bureau of the Census, Report WP/98, World Population Profile: 1998, Table A-3. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999.
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 U.S. Bureau of the Census, Report WP/98, World Population Profile: 1998, Table A-7. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999.
↑ WP/98 gives the annual death rate for developed countries as 10 per 1000, but does not list death rates per age group. Presumably, the death rate graphs as a bathtub curve, but in absence of any numbers supporting this hypothesis, and for the sake of simplicity, I will conservatively estimate the death rate among this age group to be 1% biennially.
↑ Despite my efforts to research the matter, I could find no data on the distribution of beauty, either outer or inner, amongst the population. Perhaps attractiveness, being a largely subjective trait, does not lend itself to quantification. It is not unreasonable, however, to assume that like most other traits, it has a normal distribution. Indeed, this assumption seems to be backed up by informal observation and judgment—in any reasonably large group of people, most of them will be average-looking, and a tiny minority either exceedingly beautiful or exceedingly ugly.
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I think the main reason for someone like him fail to get a girl is because he talk to much statistics. Imagine talking about statistics of cow and beef during their first date.

By the way, two more new kids are joining Sugarbun so I don't have to work that hard. lol!

Survival Sugarbun

2008-07-11T22:34:00.000+08:00

1 week had passed with lots of sweat and sore. My body is building itself to be able to stand all day, carry heavy stuff and my hands can withstand omo(soap) water.

I think that this is just the beginning, not the worst. Now that I can handle this all, I'll expect for the worst.

Again give thanks, reasons?

I can choose my own working schedule.
I can have broasted chicken everyday.
I can meet new and helpful friends.
I learn something new. eg. Mop the premise within 30mins.
I will become more muscular. (six pac?)
I learn how to plan working pattern according to situation.
I learn how to organise a team to work together.
I have a somewhat negotiable manager.
I can earn and save some money.
I can still go to church, youth and choir.

Plzzz Visit Me..

2008-07-11T00:10:00.001+08:00

Ever wonder why my blog is full of words and nothing but words these days? Well, the manager ban us from using our hand phone during work. That way not only I can't read sms or answer call, can't take photos, no mp3, games and so on. What can I say? That's the rule.

Secondly, I've been working from morning till night these days so I don't really have time to look for pictures to add in my blog.

Here are my working schedule:
Sunday 1pm till 10.30pm
Monday 9am till 10.30pm
Tuesday Offday
Wednesday 9am till 10.30pm
Thursday 9am till 10.30pm
Friday 9am till 5pm
Saturday 9am till 5pm

Although we work till 10.30pm but we only get pay till 10pm. The 30 minutes are counted as "complimentary" to the company.

If you guys wanna ask me out for supper-dinner-movie-LAN Party-basketball-badminton-laser tag-anthing, ask me out on a Tuesday.

Please if you guys ever go to tHe Spring, please come and visit me... I'll ask my collegue to make you a taller ice-cream..

I'm going to get out of there real soon... On the next new moon.

Harsh Treatment

2008-07-09T23:14:00.000+08:00

I found out working as a lone waiter is really tiring, so I figured out a way to lessen my fatigue during work. The answer is nothing but glucose, our emergency energy supply when we ran out of food. I add in two table spoons of glucose into my water supply before I go to work. Whenever I felt tire or dizzy, I drank it and the result was very good! I got my energy back and soar muscle is not that bad anymore.

Secondly I also found out another way to kick away drowsiness, caffeine.

If you sweat too much, try drinking mild salt water, it helps.

Energy boast? Vitamin B.

When you mix glucose and salt, you've got isotonic drink! Add in CO2 then you can have a soft drink.

When you mix glucose, vitamin B, and caffeine, you'll get an addictive energy boaster! Something like Red Bull or Livita. Those are the main ingredients for energy boaster, vitamin B to increase your metabolism towards glucose and starch while glucose provides the fuel to burn. Caffeine, is used to increase your concentration temporary. Not to forget salt as additive or used as an antioxidant.

Ok, now is the story.

I was the only waiter to serve today(as always), the manager tried to lessen my burden by asking Onel, one of the worker who used to worked in the kitchen to help and learn from me. Wow, to learn from me... I had only been working for 5 days and I already can teach others how to do things and how things should be done. I thought it would be a light day for me as I will have my apprentice to do the dirty and heavy job(who wouldn't?).

The scope of a waiter in Sugarbun according to my view:

Keep the premise clean and spotless.
It is your duty to serve the customers.
Good coordination with other workers.

The work prospect of a waiter in Sugarbun (spring) according to my view:

Opening shift (Morning)

Come early to wipe all the tables, chairs and benches
Sweep the floor.
Mop the floor after sweeping it.
Greet the customers when they come to the premise.
Deliver food to customers when the bell is rang.
Clean up the table after customer leaves.
Thank customer for coming.
Pile up the dishes and utensils, carry them to the kitchen to be washed.
Collect waste water from unfinished drinks.
Collect garbage from food crumbs, bones, spilled drinks/ice-cream, barely touched food.
Move the waste water and garbage to the kitchen and keep them temporary before other worker remove them from the premise.
Sweeping and moping the floor if there is not many customers around.
If there a stream of customers, repeat procedure 4 till 11 until they leave or the premise close.
If there is not, repeat procedure 12 till the manager is satisfied.

Continuing and closing shfit (night)

Greet the customers when they come to the premise.
Deliver food to customers when the bell is rang.
Clean up the table after customer leaves.
Thank customer for coming.
Pile up the dishes and utensils, carry them to the kitchen to be washed.
Collect waste water from unfinished drinks.
Collect garbage from food crumbs, bones, spilled drinks/ice-cream, barely touched food.
Move the waste water and garbage to the kitchen and keep them temporary before other worker remove them from the premise.
Sweeping and moping the floor if there is not many customers around.
If there a stream of customers, repeat procedure 4 till 11 until they leave or the premise close.
If there is not, repeat procedure 12 till the manager is satisfied.
Upon closing time, wash the table cloth, dish trolley, and procedure 1-3 in opening shift.
If you can't finish it by 10pm, continue doing it without pay till you finish it.

Remember, those work belongs to one waiter only. The manager will only send someone from the kicthen to help if he saw the pitty waiter is diehard working there. Then if the one that is supposed to be in the kitchen came out to help the poor waiter, then the work in the kitchen will be in a mess.

Today, there are only 3 cooks, 3 cashiers, 1 waiter, 1 waiter apprentice and a ~~slave driver~~ manger. One of the cook only works till 5pm so the apprentice was needed inside to help in dish washing. This is the poor waiter was left alone again.

An important fact: Always respond to the bell and leave your work behind.

So the poor waiter was delivering food, cleaning table and throwing garbage at the same time. Imagine how dirty it is... No one else could lend a hand.

Wonder why? Because the ~~slaves~~ workers here are ~~sold~~ paid RM2.30/hr with an overtime rate of RM3.45/hr. I was told to be paid on double rate during worked overtime... But then when I was working overtime and I ask again, the manager told me it's 1.5 of normal rate. Wadthe? Yea, we're giving a subsidized meal if we work 8 hours and 2 subsizied meals if we work full day.

Guess what I can't survive by working only 8 hours a day, because that way I would only have RM441.60 a month. Deducted by petrol (RM60), Prepaid(RM30), food out of work (RM80), tithes (RM41.16), I only got RM190.44 left. Remember I still need to divide the money into 14 weeks + 1 week sem break + 2 weeks final exam, so I can only spend RM11.20 per week. Now do you see what I mean?

Well, we accept the fact that we're being paid low, we still take the job and do our best. Sometimes, although we're doing our best the ~~slave driver~~ manager still complain that we aren't doing our job. It's really insane, the poor waiter can be forced to mop the floor until it is spotless. It is still understood that a quick service restaurant need a clean environment.

The problem arise when a pair of customers dine in till very late, the poor waiter was trying his best to mop the whole premise and there wasn't enough time. He tried to ask the manager if he can leave and come back later tomorrow as he will do the same thing again tomorrow but the manager declined hard. The sad thing is that the poor waiter aren't paid after 10pm, in fact none of the wokers are paid after 10pm. If he continue to finish it then he might not have time to rest well for tomorrow.

Some times people just never believe in What You Pay Is What You Get. Well, to the customer yes, but to their workers, he can just treat them like they owed him a lot of money and are working hard to pay them back. Don't they understand? Workers are their money generator, they are willing to work under very bad conditions although their pay are less. Like everyone else, workers work to pay bills, not to be tortured by the employer.

Too much of a thing is not a good thing. When nuclear power plants are pushed to the limit, nuclear melt down will occur causing explosion and spreading of deadly radiation throughout the region. When you push your workers to much, one day they will all stand together and quit the job. Imagine the losses to the company.

The restaurant is already having problem hiring new recruits as very few people are inretested in it due to the low salary offered, if the very few workers leave, they won't have a new one easily. The poor waiter for example is working hard to save money for himself to spend during the semester, if he is pushed too hard, with his ability, he can simply get another job that has better salary. He works to learn how to make money from there. If he is mistreated, he might quit. The same goes to others who are pushed over the limit.

Bitterbum Only got 1 waiter?

2008-07-06T23:17:00.001+08:00

After working for three days and I noticed that I'm the only full time waiter there. On Friday and weekends, I will have 1 more part-time waitress to help me. There is one more person went to the interview but he never show up to work. How could it be? Am I the only person ~~that is dumb and retarded enough~~ to take up that job?

One of the reason is the salary..
I still remembered when I hear others saying about employer choosing employees during an interview, nowadays the situation has changed, it's the employee who chooses their employer based on salary mostly and other benefits.

The pay is lower than average, if I need to aim about half of RM1200 (My previous salary). I need to work overtime from Monday till Thursday and 8 hours on Friday and weekends. The problem is I got choir rehearsal on Friday night, youth of Saturday night and church on Sunday morning, so I can only work 8 hours on these three days. I can choose a day off on a weekday every week.

I remembered I got a call from Starbucks(**7687) if I'm not mistaken, I didn't manage to answer the call because I was working. I think starbucks should be paying higher that my current restaurant for a barista. Too bad, really too bad.. For me.

Secret Recipe is hiring also but I chose not to go there because I heard my friend said they want the worker to work on Sunday morning too. In addition, the situation there is just as bad as here.. Maxbie works there.. Chilled out Maxbie, atleast your salary is 20¢/hr more than mine. However my overtime salary is 25¢/hr mroe than yours. lol!

Anyway, Dessert is hiring.. Lowest paid for the lightest job.. What will happen if I switch over there? They gave monthly allowance for our meals only. Which is more or less the same as my current restaurant.

Besides, many other shops are hiring too..

Parkson is hiring...

Optic 88 is hiring for immediate post too. Optician, shop assistant and trainee.. I hope I can join that.. Hmm....

PDI is hiring!!! Better go there to look for a job!

There are only 2 reasons for me to continue working.

Subsidised food.
A quite ok manager.

Disadvantages for working there..

Long working hours.
Low paid.
Heavy labour work.
Pay for our own meals.
Speak mandarin and sarawak instead of English. Huh?

Hey guys, whoever in need of $$ please come here to help me. We'll get the same pay but our work will be lighter. Atleast pay a visit here, to help me remind who am I?

In conclusion, God wants and friends ask me to give thanks and don't complain. I'll try.. Another day with sore muscle... Now it's my whole body~ Morning shift tomorrow opps! I mean I need to work whole day tomorrow.. Smile Soon Eng :)

Day 1

2008-07-04T23:54:00.001+08:00

My last post was the 88th post! Hurray!

Day one being a waiter.

I went to Sugarbun around 1.45pm this afternoon. When I saw the manager, I was asked to changed and work right away. Brief on a little about this and that I begun my work.

It was a tough job, I got RM2.30 / hr with RM3 daily allowance. I thought this offer would be better than Desserts but the truth is the other way around.

It was a total insane because soon I realised myself and the other waitress are the only 2 person who handle the two slots quick service restaurant... $%^*

If I would to survive this month, I have to be like this

The only different is I won't be smiling like that. It's ok, I'm working to learn, learn how Sugarbun do business.

What I found out today is that Robert T Kiyosaki in Rich Dad, Poor Dad was right, the employer pay the employee just enough to make them stay..

One reminder to myself, I'm not working for money, I'm working to learn.

My last job was a temporary teacher and my salary was about RM1200. Moreover I only need to work 5 days in a week! Look at the difference! Now I'm getting less than half of my teacher salary.

Well, it's my decision. I wanted to try something different and here I am. I should enjoy it.

Hands and leg sore badly... Morning shift tomorrow...

Preventing Earth Rotating

2008-07-04T11:23:00.001+08:00

I had to pick my sis from school Wednesday because my parents were unable to pick her up. I had to look for a job that day so I agreed to give a hand. It has been 3 years since I left that memorable school, such memories that cannot be replaced. This is the place I got warned by my teacher about my long hair I don't think it's long, learned how to escape to the underground cc to play counter-strike with my friends, played football on papers in class, played guitar in class, chit chat all the way since we are in class till the end of class, watching movies, played pool & archery, lepak here and there, played football, watched football.. Walked all the way from Jubilee Ground to Jumbo and then walk back again... All the nice memories, they are now in university, persuing their courses..
Ok, let's get to the story, as I was saying I was needed to pick my sis back. So I drove to the ~~illegal slope~~ nice road of Jalan Mathies, the roadside was full of cars that I had to park all the way near Nevada Hotel construction site. While waiting, I saw this particular car blocking the entrance/exit of the school gate. The red Ford Ranger on the right belongs to the principal nice car isn't it? The grey Proton Saga was so bold that it parked directly in front of the school gate. The principal tried everything including to look for the driver, pushing the car forward and on his last resort..

TAKING PICTURE!

I bet he is going to announced the number of the car plate to the school, or mabye he is rushing to Magnum 4D or Toto.. lol! Either way it did not solve the problem. In the end the driver hurried in and drove the car away. Not to mention getting scolded by Mr. Thomas Wong. We can't do much really, only in Malaysia there is such thing called pedestrian parking, doubled parking, tripled parking and entrance/exit parking. You may think that this is wrong but then again, ask ourselves, we did those parking too right? The only different is that he is the unlucky one.. There is a saying on parking like this, if you didn't get caught you're lucky, if you get caught you're stupid!

That's the Malayisan culture!

Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be Done

2008-06-21T22:40:00.000+08:00

WARNING: EXTREMELY LONG POST!
When most of us are hiding in our room, struggling to prepare for the worst in our final exam, some major incidents had happened. Maybe it's time to recall what had happened so we aren't still having a proud life in our own well.

Let us start from the biggest news of the decade, Indonesian earthquake and tsunami.

Tuesday, March 29, 2005; Page C14
Indonesian Earthquake Brings Tsunami Fears • A major earthquake yesterday in Indonesia had people fleeing for fear of a second tsunami devastating the region.
The quake, centered near the Indian Ocean island of Sumatra, toppled buildings and cut off power in some areas. Geologists said the quake was an aftershock of the Dec. 26 quake and tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people in 12 countries. ...[The Washington Post]

Posted 1/6/2005 11:22 PM Updated 1/7/2005 7:49 AM
Tsunami toll rises to about 145,000
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan described the devastation on Indonesia's tsunami-battered Sumatra island Friday as the worst he's ever seen, while authorities there pulled 4,000 new bodies from the rubble, bringing the confirmed overall death toll to nearly 145,000. ...[USA Today]

Myanmar Cyclone Survivors Left Without Shelter, Aid Workers Say
By Paul Tighe
June 17 2008(Bloomberg) -- More than 75 percent of people needing shelter after Myanmar's cyclone are without tarpaulins for emergency protection six weeks after the storm devastated the southern Irrawaddy River Delta, aid workers said.

CHRONOLOGY-2008: Disasters stalk China's Olympic year
Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:21am EDT

May 12: A devestating 7.9 magnitude earthquake shatters parts of southwest China's mountainous southwestern Sichuan province. More than 69,000 people are killed and about five million left homeless, sparking a nationwide relief drive.

* June 8-onwards: Heavy rainfall causes flood chaos as annual summer storms hit nine provinces across south and eastern China. More than 1.66 million people are forced to flee their homes, at least 171 people are killed and 52 reported missing, as rivers burst their banks. About 9,000 square miles (2.32 million hectares) of crops and homes are submerged. Initial estimates of economic losses are put at 27.7 billion yuan ($4 billion).Source: Reuters(Writing by Gillian Murdoch, Beijing Editorial Reference Unit)

June 20, 2008
Panic petrol buying in China as prices rise 18%
Prices for gasoline and diesel fuel rose unexpectedly by 1,000 yuan ($145) per tonne each, while aviation fuel was increased by 1,500 yuan a tonne. [Times Online]

2008/06/08
Fuel price hike: Demo at bus terminal
JOHOR BARU: Pakatan Rakyat parties staged a brief demonstration over the hike in fuel prices at the Larkin bus terminal yesterday. [The New Straits Times Online]

Thursday June 5, 2008
Petrol price up by 78 sen - and will be reviewed monthly
PUTRAJAYA: The Government announced yesterday an increase in petrol and diesel prices, stating that it can no longer continue to subsidise fuel.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the new prices were still at a 30-sen per litre discount from market prices....The Star Online]

Wednesday May 21, 2008 MYT 8:22:59 PM
Rice price up by RM1.50 per kg in rural Sarawak
By Stephen Then
MIRI: The price of local rice in some rural villages in Sarawak has shot up by as much as RM1.50 per kg - three times the hike as compared to urban areas.[The Star Online]

What have the World become? We had been haunted by the force of water over Sumatra, India, Sri Lanka and some part in Africa. Before we recover, the World was shocked by the gigantic earthquake that strikes Sichuan, China, in addition to cyclone that hits Myanmar not long ago.

Now even in this peaceful Malyasia we start to face some hardship too. Well believe it or not the Bible actually tells us these all will happen! The increase of numbers of disasters, oil and rice price hike and some other disaster either natural or man made.

Let me show you some of the famous prophecies which in written in the Bible.

3As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. "Tell us," they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"

" 4Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,[a]' and will deceive many. 6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains. " Matthew 24:3-8

" 5When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse[famine]! Its rider was holding a pair of scales[Food supply shortage] in his hand. 6Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart[a][640gm] of wheat for a day's wages,[b] and three quarts[192kg] of barley for a day's wages,[c] and do not damage the oil and the wine!" " Revelation 6-5-6

Remarkable isn't it? If we're living in the near end of age, when will Jesus come? When will be the rapture? The answer below show it all.

The Day and Hour Unknown
36"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[a] but only the Father. 37As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

42"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
[Matthew 24:36-44]

In conclusion, I would like to ask you guys and girls two questions.
1. If you die today, do you think you can go to Heaven?
2. If you are at the gate of the heaven, God ask you,"Why do I let you in to my Heaven?" How would you answer God?
The answer is your salvation, for those who couldn't answer, better look for me. I will show you the answers.

Exam mode

2008-06-02T00:51:00.001+08:00

I had done with CEP last Sat, for the rest of the sem.now it's topo, em and materials left.

Final exam in 1 week time, I still have lots of pedding assignments. Trying my best to finish them. EM test on this Thurs. I will be back after final.

All the best to those who are having finals.

For those who are working, enjoy what you'd earned.

As for the others, may God bless you.

Till then, take care guys and gals.

The Hall of Fame

2008-05-26T00:11:00.000+08:00

Welcome to the Hall of Fame! for the losers..

Introducing the Loser of the 1st half year, me.

The objectives I had achieved to become a loser.

Disoriented.
I know you know everybody knows.
Always forget if I did lock my car or not.
Mind blackout during EM2 test 1.
The blue Kenari bumper got scratched by unknown person.
Got bombarded by a bird with it's dropping.
Get scolded by my own members..
Lost my topography data.
Another mind blackout during CEP last test.
Acused as someone I never was and never will be.

Well, look on the bright side... It took me more than half an hour to think of 10 qualities I have to be a loser.

Blessings

2008-05-23T01:04:00.000+08:00

This is an awesome prayer.
Believe it and you shall be blessed. The problem with many of us is that we don't believe that God will open a window and pour out blessings that we won't have room to receive them. I dare anyone to try God. He is true to His word. God cannot lie and His promises are sure.

Three things will happen to you this coming week:
(1) You will find favour with someone you don't expect;
(2) You will be too relevant to be ignored;
(3) You will encounter God and you will never remain the same again.

My prayer for you today:
The eyes beholding this ! message shall not behold evil, the hands that will send this message to others shall not labor in vain, the mouth saying Amen to this prayer shall laugh forever. Remain in God's love as you send this prayer to everybody on your list. Have a lovely journey of life! Trust in the Lord with all your heart and He will never fail you because He is AWESOME !

If you truly need a blessing, continue reading this post:
Heavenly Father, most Gracious and Loving God, I pray to you that you abundantly bless my family and me. I know that you recognize, that a family is more than just a mother, father, sister, brother, husband and wife, but all who believe and trust in you. Father, I send up a prayer request for blessings for not only the person who sent this to me, but for me and all that I have forwarded this message on to. And that the power of joined prayer by those who believe and trust in you is more power! ful than anything. I thank you in advance for your blessings.

Father God, deliver the person reading this right now from debt and debt's burdens. Release Your Godly wisdom that I may be a good steward over all that You have given me Father, for I know how wonderful and mighty You are and how if we just obey You and walk In Your word and have the faith of a mustard seed that You will pour out blessings. I thank You now Lord for the recent blessings I have received and for the blessings yet to come because I know You are not done with me yet. In Jesus' name, I pray.
Amen.

Obssessed with Blogthings

2008-05-20T23:50:00.000+08:00

How You Life Your Life

You tend to deprive yourself of things you crave, for your own good.

You say whatever is on your mind. Other people's reactions don't phase you.

You prefer a variety of friends and tend to change friends quickly.

You tend to always dream of things within reach - and you usually get them.

How Do You Live Your Life?

How You Are In Love

You fall in love quickly and easily. And very often.

You give and take equally in relationships.

You tend to get very attached when you're with someone. You want to see your love all the time.

You're secretly hoping your partner will change for you.

You stay in love for a long time, even if you aren't loved back. When you fall, you fall hard.

How Are You In Love?

Your True Love Will Find You Eventually

You definitely put yourself out there a little - but you could be doing more.

If you're truly looking for love, try doing more things and meeting more people.

You don't have to actively look for love, you just need to stay active.

Be out there a little more, and the right person will find you!

Will Your True Love Find You?

You Are Great With Money

You know the value of a dollar - and you save and spend wisely.

By living below your means, you've set yourself up for a rich future.

And while it may hurt to sacrifice now, you'll probably have plenty of money later on.

You're on your way to riches - just keep it up.

Are You Good With Money?

Your Birthdate: May 1

You are a natural born leader, even if those leadership talents haven't been developed yet.

You have the power and self confidence to succeed in life, and your power grows daily.

Besides power, you also have a great deal of creativity that enables you to innovate instead of fail.

You are a visionary, seeing the big picture instead of all of the trivial little details.

Your strength: Your supreme genius

Your weakness: Your inappropriate sensitivity

Your power color: Gold

Your power symbol: Star

Your power month: January

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

You Are 36% Healthy

You're on your way to having a healthy diet, but you have a ways to go.

Everything is okay in moderation. But you don't quite have moderation figured out yet.

How Healthy Is Your Diet?

You Are 62% Real

You know who you are, and you're pretty darn comfortable with yourself.

Like everyone, you struggle with the parts of yourself that aren't so great...

But you're good at accepting who you are and not dwelling on your faults.

As a result, you're confident, optimistic, and very real.

How Real Are You?

Your Love Style is Pragma

You believe love is logical - or at least it should be

You've thought a lot about what you want from someone

And to say you have a checklist would be an understatement

You may even have a plan for how you will fall in love

All you've got to do is meet the perfect person!

What's Your Love Style?

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to obedience and warmth.

In love, you feel the most alive when your partner is patient and never willing to give up on you.

You'd like to your lover to think you are optimistic and happy.

You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please.

Your ideal relationship is traditional. Without saying anything, both of you communicate with your hearts.

Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.

You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred.

In this moment, you think of love as commitment. Love only works when both people are totally devoted.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

Your Love is Based on Commitment

You believe that love is something that develops and grows.

You don't believe in love at first site, and you never mistake lust for love.

For you, love is about mutual devotion, respect, and understanding.

You don't feel comfortable in a relationship, unless you're both in it for the long run.

Why your love can last: You don't take commitment lightly - or leave relationships easily

Why your love can fail: You're so committed, you often can't see the most obvious problems in your relationship

What Is Your Love Based On?

You Are a Little Prejudiced

You can't help but judge people a little based on your personal biases.

But you tend to be aware of your prejudices, and you fight them the best you can.

Most people are more like you than they'd care to admit... but it doesn't mean you shouldn't change.

Remember to take each person as an individual. It's not fair to judge someone based on their background or subculture.

Are You Prejudiced?

Your Risk Taking Level: Medium-Low

You'll take a risk if you have to, but you prefer to err on the side of caution.

If something looks like it's going to work out, you may just go for it.

But frivolous risks like gambling totally aren't your style.

You prefer to have as much control over your life as possible.

Are You a Risk Taker?

You Would Choose Love

Money may buy a little happiness, but not the happiness of true love.

You rather have a true soulmate than a private jet.

And while many people may claim they would choose love too...

You're one of the few who would really do it.

Would You Choose Love or Money?

Your Independence Level: High

You are extremely self reliant and autonomous.

You are definitely into doing your own thing.

But you also wouldn't turn down help if you needed it.

You follow your own path, but you don't do so blindly.

How Independent Are You?

Another tests

2008-05-17T19:17:00.000+08:00

Your Personality is Somewhat Rare (ISTP)

Your personality type is reserved, methodical, spirited, and intense.

Only about 6% of all people have your personality, including 3% of all women and 8% of all men

You are Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Perceiving.

How Rare Is Your Personality?

You Are 50% Normal

While some of your behavior is quite normal...

Other things you do are downright strange

You've got a little of your freak going on

But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself

How Normal Are You?

What's Important to You... And What Isn't:

For you, primal needs like eating and sleeping are your top priorities.

You find getting things done to be incredibly stressful. You don't like having things to do.

Your most important priorities get your attention. You are happily able to let the less important things slide.

You want thinking to be a high priority, but you don't take enough time for yourself.

The Priority Test

You Are a Realist

You don't see the glass as half empty or half full. You see what's exactly in the glass.

You never try to make a bad situation seem better than it is...

But you also never sabotage any good things you have going on.

You are brutally honest in your assessments of situations - and this always seems to help you cope.

Are You An Optimist or Pessimist?

You Are Incredibly Logical

Move over Spock - you're the new master of logic

You think rationally, clearly, and quickly.

A seasoned problem solver, your mind is like a computer!

How Logical Are You?

You Are An ENTP

The Visionary

You are charming, outgoing, friendly. You make a good first impression.

You possess good negotiating skills and can convince anyone of anything.

Happy to be the center of attention, you love to tell stories and show off.

You're very clever, but not disciplined enough to do well in structured environments.

In love, you see everything as a grand adventure. You enjoy taking risks for love.

And if things don't work out, you're usually not too much worse for the wear!

You would make a great entrepreneur, marketing executive, or actor.

At work, you need a lot of freedom to pursue your own path and vision.

How you see yourself: Analytical, creative, and peaceful

When other people don't get you, they see you as: Detached, wishy-washy, and superficial

What's Your Personality Type?

You Are 75% Tortured Genius

You are smart. Brilliant in fact. And while it's a blessing, it's also a curse.

Your head is filled with everything - grand ideas, insufferable worries, and a good deal of angst.

Are You a Tortured Genius?

What Your Handwriting Says About You

You are sometimes a very energetic person, but you are sometimes quite lethargic. You're moody, prone to ups and downs, and you don't have a lot of endurance.

You range from very outgoing to very shy. You are a shapeshifter who is very versatile. You adapt well, and you look at things from many angles.

You are balanced and grounded. You know how to get along well with others.

You need a bit of space in your life, but you're not a recluse. You expect people to give you a small amount of privacy, and you respect their privacy as well.

You are somewhat traditional, but you are also open to change. You listen to your head and your heart.

You are a poor communicator. No one really knows exactly what you're getting at.

What Does Your Handwriting Say About You?

You Are Very Messy

You are a slob, and you really don't care if other people know it.

You don't love messes, but you just can't be bothered to clean on a regular basis.

While being messy and disorganized feels easy, it's probably making your life harder.

Maybe it's time for you to get a maid.

Are You Messy?

Your Love Type: INFJ

The Protector

In love, you strive to have the perfect relationship.

For you, sex is nearly a spiritual experience, a bonding of souls.

Overall, you have high expectations for any relationship you're in.

However, you tend to hold back a part of yourself.

Best matches: ENTP and ENFP

What's Your Love Type?

Die

2008-05-17T17:21:00.000+08:00

I remembered the last time I lost our topo data for longitunal and cross-section. The outcome was... We have to redo..

I lost our leveling reading just now. I mean I didn't lost it, it was in the car but when I reached home. it was lost...

I sent a few people back to Swinburne but when I called them, one of them said she did saw it in the car when she left. Another one told me she didn't see it anywhere. I'm really going to die this time. Sigh!

Terrible..

Picture 1: by William Adolphus Knell, painted in 1856

God! Please help me!

Biblography,
The Shipwreck, 1856, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, (picture 1), viewed 17 May 2006, http://www.tunbridgewells.gov.uk/section.asp?catid=716

Filler

2008-05-14T18:56:00.000+08:00

Had been very busy with my CEP assignment lately..

During last semester, I only typed a 10 pages report and I already grumbled.

In this sem, I typed about 19 pages of Civil Engineering Report draft, 20+ pages of tender specifications for concrete, drawn about 11 pages of Engineering and calculated loading for a small floor area.

After all this haul, what I get is nothing but bad words... Someone scolded me "Damn Dwarf"... I think this is the 1st time a leader get scolded by one's members.. It was founf to be a mistake after that..

Was greatful that some people came to lend me their hands when I'm in need.

Talking about my specifications in tender.. It's about concrete.. While typing the tender, I actually found out many nonsence writings..

Take a look,

Longest sentence.

ii. 1.64 times the standard deviation of cube tests on at least 40 separate batches of concrete of nominally similar proportions of similar materials and produced over a period exceeding 5 days but not exceeding 6 months by the same plant under similar supervision, but not less than 1/3 of the characteristic strength for concrete of grade 10 or 15, or 7.5N.mm2 for concrete of grade 20 or above.
[69 words]

Next,

Nonsence and confusing.. Couldnt understand what it is written. Not to mention... Super long too..

Where there are insufficient data to satisfy (i) or (ii) above, the margin for the initial mix design shall be taken as two-thirds of the characteristic strength for concrete of grade 10 or 15 or 15N/mm2 for concrete of grade 20 and above. This margin shall be used as the current margin only until sufficient data are available to satisfy (i) or (ii) above. However, when the required characteristic strength approaches the maximum possible strength of concrete made wit a particular aggregates, a smaller margin but not less than 7.5N/mm2 may be permitted for the initial mix design.

[98 words]

Have to prepare for maths and materials test the I'v neglected for half a sem.. Final in 3 weeks..

I'm deformed.

Peace Out.

Award Ceremony

2008-05-07T23:35:00.000+08:00

Award ceremony! This is the second time I got an award! Haha!

Chiong Lee, Alice, me and Riady. We are promoting our Swinburne. :p

I really want to go to the next award ceremony again next time. However, there are just to much problems and constraint..
Problems and constraint:

Busy
Very busy
Very very busy
I'm tired and still busy
Redo traverse for 5 times, got our accuracy from 500, 600,700,1300 to 23500++
2 more fieldwork to redo, I'm tired
CEP, my own members complaining about my efficiency, I'm tired
Have pity on My EM2.. I'm busy
I haven't touch my Materials lab yet.. help!
24 hours a day is not enough...

"Do you think [I'm] a superman?" Avery 2008

From the Inside Out

2008-05-02T00:41:00.000+08:00

From the Inside Out - Hillsong United

A thousand times I've failed
Still your mercy remains
And should I stumble again
Still I'm caught in your grace

Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame
In my heart, in my soul, Lord I give you control
Consume me from the inside out Lord
Let justice and praise become my embrace
To love You from the inside out

Your will above all else, my purpose remains
The art of losing myself in bringing you praise

Chorus 2x
Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame
And the cry of my heart is to bring You praise
From the inside out Lord, my soul cries out

Side track:

I want to thank everyone who wished me happy birthday from yesterday till today. Just to add it those I didn't write in yesterday.

Keith and his donuts
Alice Teh
All Youth EE trainers and trainees
Aunt Florence
My church choir conductor
Chong Sim Yee
Jonathan Goh
Keren Choo
Hao
Josephine Ko
Laura Ting
C.Chuan
Allan Choo
Aunt Rosalyn

20 years

2008-05-01T00:31:00.000+08:00

Special thanks to these few people. They had done a little something that other people had long forgotten.

and

[Yong Tiong Yieng 01-May-2008 12:00am
Happy birthday! Finally old lo! Haha eng eng liao! :p wis u have a great memories for tis bday! God always bless and loves u! =) ]

She has won a award and will be given a gift.

not to forget

JOhNSoN says:
happy birthday!

JOhNSoN just sent you a nudge.

Coming up,

[Aldrin Wong 01-May-2008 12:46am
Happy bday man.. :) ]

And also
Jessie Goh
Annie Pui
Aprilia Pooh

Furthermore
[people that forgotten till I remind them]
Dennis Yong
Keith Chong
Melvin

[people that knows my birthday after I told them]
Amy Tan
Samuel Wong

Generally I'm happy and contented with my life, but I'm not satisfy, I can do more!

I thank everyone who involved in this activity. For the forgotten ones, may God have mercy on them. lol!

Thank you Jesus! I'm 20~

5 years

2008-04-28T10:00:00.000+08:00

I'd not been doing well these days, maybe I kept on comparing myself with others, in everything I do. When I found out I'm not as good as the others, I'll be upset over it. Until I read an email from a friend recently...

God's Boxes 神給我兩個盒子

I have in my hands two boxes, 我手上有兩個盒子

Which God gave me to hold. 都是神給的

He said, 'Put all your sorrows in the black box, 祂說把悲傷放在黑盒子裡

And all your joys in the gold.' 把快樂放在金盒子裡

I heeded His words, and in the two boxes, 我聽了祂的話

Both my joys and sorrows I stored, 把快樂和悲傷分別裝進兩個盒子裡

But though the gold became heavier each day, 不過. 金盒子每天都有加重

The black was as light as before. 但黑盒子卻依舊輕盈

With curiosity, I opened the black, 我感到很好奇就打開黑盒子

I wanted to find out why, 想要一探究竟

And I saw, in the base of the box, a hole, 結果我在盒子底下發現一個洞

Which my sorrows had fallen out by. 我的悲傷都從那邊漏出去了

I showed the hole to God, and mused, 我把那個洞指給神看感到納悶 '

I wonder where my sorrows could be!' 我不知道我的悲傷哪裡去了

He smiled a gentle smile and said, 祂輕輕地微笑說

'My child, they're all here with me.' 我的孩子.它們都在我這兒呢

I asked God, why He gave me the boxes, 我問神為什麼祂要給我兩個盒子

Why the gold and the black with the hole? 為什麼一個金色的一個黑色卻漏底的

'My child, the gold is for you to count your blessings, 我的孩子金盒子是要給你數算你的祝福的

The black is for you to let go.' 黑盒子是要給你拋開憂慮的..

May you be in peace and joy. 祝福您平安喜樂

The gold is for you to count your blessings, the black is for you to let go. I think of this phrase a few times and found out something astonishing.

Let me compare the present me and with 5 years ago.
My appearance
Past Vs Present
Vs

I was 1625mm in 2003 and I'm now 1630mm! Yeah!
I weight approximately 411.5N in 2003 and I'm now 461.7N!
I used to play my aunt's classical guitar in ISCF back then... Now I own 2 guitars! Haha!
Back then when I finally pressed the cord, the songs is on the next cord. Now I can play most of the songs I can sing. Can even play some guitar solo. Hah!
Back then, I only know how to press G, Em, C, D, A, Am. Now I know most of the most used cords!
I used to played in ISCF with around 20 person back then, now I played in church service with around 600 persons worshipping God.
I can't read music notes properly back then, now I can even side read during choir singing!
I was only an average student back then but now I even got merit scholarship from last sem! haha!
I used to hang out with some gay friends, still do.. Now I have even more gay friends!
Used to lepak-lepak with gay friends around town area, now we usually had supper till late night!
I always got complained by my teacher, Puan Kadijahwati of Kuching High saying my hair is too long [Si Rambut Panjang], now I got even longer hair! Ops...
Used to like a girl back then but got rejected, liked a girl recently and got rejected too. Now they both have bf respectively. [Huh?]
I owned a Nokia 3315 that can help in crab meals, now I own a 3G Sony Erricson k610i! Haha! Phones are cheaper now.. :p
I used to play games with my Pentium 3 pc.. Now I usually torment my 2 years old laptop.
Had 2 genius friends[Exel in academic performance and play piano, one of them even played violin] back then, now the number has increase to 3[I still consider the third one a genius though he can play neither piano nor violin].
Move from my old house to the present house.
No martial arts skill, now I'm an Aikido student.
Can't speak and write English very well that time. Now atleast I can understand what the geniuses are writing.
Used to score it maths although I didn't really put in much effort. Now I can hardly score in maths though I put it extra effort. [I'm on a higher level. XD]
Had a Ti-30 back then, now I have a Ti-83 plus!
There are lots more but I don't think I have the time to write them all out. Got complained by Abubu for long posts.[Atleast got people read my blog! Haha!]

I guess I'm improving after all! I'm happy with my life but I'm not satisfied. I will be moving on!

Aftermath of EM2 test

2008-04-24T22:54:00.000+08:00

EM2 test 1

2008-04-24T00:39:00.000+08:00

I had EM2 test just now, it started at 8.30pm till 10.30pm. This is the first time I have my class till 10.30pm. I had spent my whole day revising and kept on revising my maths until I fall asleep. Then I forced myself to wake up and continued my study. It doesn't last very long because I think I was sitting at desk with em papers on it with eyes closed. My brain kept showing a sign.. Something like this:

Then I tried to open my eyes and continue my revision, I was learning very slowly and suddenly I saw this..

By the time I felt better to study, it was already dinner time. So I rushed my dinner and headed to school.

The first thing I do was to visit the library, in the library I can see many people are burning their last minute oil and struggle to finish 4 chapters of maths topic in about 1 hour time. I thought I was well prepared and my head aws a little dizzy so I don't bother to do anymore revision.

I went into auditorium for the test around 8.25pm and saw our tutor, Ms. Chong Chee Jun arrangging the desks and chairs for us.

Never underestimate the power of women. I saw her carrying desks to and fro just to prepare the seats for our test. Not bad huh? And where is the ~~slave driver~~ ~~brain torturer~~Ms. Sashi?

After she had arranged all the seats, We went to sit at the front right side of the auditorium. The we are:

Including myself of course.

What nice seat, chose a place like that out of many other places in the auditorium. I even got many comments from my friend
[Is that your final destination or what?] Avery
[If that fall, Hopefully you don't duck] Eric
[If that fail, I don't know where will you run] Abubu

It was tense in the auditorium, everyone tried to stay calm,

I think Eric is well prepared, he was already shaking his feet even before he get the test, so confident hor? I was calm too, knowing after working so hard all this while..

Unitl we got the test paper.

Question 1
a) Find the equation of the lines given by this vertex and that vertex
[Hmm.. How do I start again? Next question]

b) Use the answer in (a) and find the point where the line touch the plane which has the vertices of origin, blah... blah... blah...
[Oh no.. I forgot how to do.. Nevermind next question]

c)Find the angle between the normal of two planes given by blah... blah... blah..
[Ok, atleast I know this one...]

Question 2
[Huh?]

Question 3
Complex number.. Haha! Exactly from the tutorial! Bingo!

Question 4
[What's helix curvature again? never heard of it... Next!]

Question 5
[Parametric equations?? How to relate both y and x again? Die...]

Question 6
[Multiple choice questions! Haha! I'll start these first... Wait a minute! How come got so many answer one? swt...]

In the end I was only able to solve question 3. The other questions are all written to fill in the spaces provided so I won't look stupid.. (ahem)... Well, what can I do? I totally don't know how to do the question although I finish the tutorial? When ever I tried to solve the other questions, something unpleasant popped out in my mind...

After struggling for 2 hours, I passed up my test paper with a bitter smile. Ms Sashi smiled at me with a feeling of coldness.. Transmitting "Your're toasted!" message into my eyes.. What a chilled.. exaggerating...

After this test, I realised I haven't put enough effort into my maths and had spent too much time in CEP. I'm quite busy in church attivities too recently which makes my life more hectic. Really have to arrange my time properly.. Not having enough sleep lately too... Time management.. If only I can have more time.

I'm going to have CEP test tonight and have to pass up the assignment too.. Compiling them in a while.. Have to pray and leave everything to God.

I always wanted to score straight HD in finals, I know if I put all my effort into it, I mean ALL my effort into it and neglect everything, I might be able to achieve it. But then again, is it worth it to give up those things you have and go for one thing and achieve it? Is getting straight HDs the most important goal in my life? Where will I be heading to? Or should I spare time for other activities and people like family and friends, church activities and hobbies?

I guess this is life, we cannot win all, we lose some and gain some in our life. I'm happy with my life, I'm trying to achieve as much as possible in my study as well as my other abilities like singing, playing guitar, inter-personal skill and other stuff.. Failure is tough but we don't learn much if we don't fail at all. Often the most precious experience comes when we're enduring hardship. When we go thruogh it, we'll be stronger. Most importantly, we'll have to trust in the Lord.

"We carry this treasure in vessels of clay, so that all this all-surpassing power may not be seen as ours but as God's. Trials of every sort come to us, but we are not discouraged. We are left without answer but do not despair; persecuted but not abandoned, knocked down but not crushed.
2 Corinthians 4:7-9

Branded Goods

2008-04-20T00:14:00.000+08:00

Ever wonder why many people crave for branded goods? Some say the quality of branded goods are better, some say the design of branded goods are more modern, some say more glamour, some say too much money don't know where to spend.

For me, I still think quality is the main thing when we buy things. Like my lecturer used to say, "When you design building[buy something], you'll need a design[need/desire] criteria and also budget." We really have to have a rough idea what we are going to buy before we buy it. I found out recently that my friend actually became porpular because of his name. People craved for his work, he is simply the information centre for some, a standard for everyone to follow. He is none other than the incredible Aldrin Wong.

Notice the one in the yellow ring.

He is really someone incredible, you may or may not notice, his appearance has change the way we live. Now that he is famous, his name appeared on places that we didn't even pay attention to them. I spotted a few special objects found in school area and Kuching area. Take a closer look.

That yellow machine there.. I forgot what it's called is to pave our school new road. Beautiful isn't it?

This is the odie only one hammer in our sophisticated hi-tech mechanics lab(half own by our dear~ Mr.Sia.

I don't think many of us notice the writter of this book... I doubt that some of us even read that book..

Well, Eric is holding the compass we used. Let's pay attention to the T-shirt he wears shall we?

Ah, that's our fieldwork equipment cover. The one opened is for our total station while the one closed is our prism case.

Oh Look! That's the Kenari that blocks other people's car in front of Chilipepers! I think he uses sub-woofer..

That is ugliest bus I ever see in Kuching. I wonder who design that bus, Just like a cuboid with four wheels only!

Well, now we can see how a brand can give impact to our daily life. Hectic out!

Another Personality Test for me

2008-04-16T19:24:00.001+08:00

Ok, here's my result. It says my personality is melancholy sanguine. 20% in both Phlegmatic and choleric. I have a total of 20 weaknesses and strenghths. Looks like Im quite balanced eh! Or am I the most average?

Let's analyze

The strength of Melancholy

The Introvert The Thinker The Pessimist

The Melancholy's Emotions
Deep and thoughtfully
Analytical
Serious and purposeful
Genius prone
Talented and creative
Artistic or musical
Philosophical and poetic
appreciative of beauty
Sensitive to others
Self-sacrificing
Conscientious
Idealistic

The Melancholy As A Parent
Sets high standards
Wants everything done right
Keeps home in good order
Picks up after children
Sacrifices own will for others
Encourages scholarship and talent

The Melancholy At Work
Schedule oriented
Perfectionist, high standards
Detail conscious
Persistent and thorough
Orderly and organized
Neat and tidy
Economical
Sees the problems
Finds creative solutions
Needs to finish what he starts
Likes charts, graphs, figures, lists

The Melancholy As a Friend
Makes friends cautiously
Content to stay in background
Avoids causing attention
Faithful and devoted
Will listen to complaints
Can solve other's problems
Deep concern for other people
Moved to tears with compassion
Seeks ideal mate

Weakness of a Melancholy

The Melancholy's Emotions
Remembers the negatives
Moody and depressed
Enjoys being hurt
Has false humility
Off in another world
Low self-image
Has selective hearing
Self-centered
Too introspective
Guilt feelings
Persecution complex
Tends to hypochondria

The Melancholy As A Parent
Puts goals beyond reach
May discourage children
May be too meticulous
Becomes martyr
Sulks over disagreements
Puts guilt upon children

The Melancholy At Work
Not people oriented
depressed over imperfections
Chooses difficult work
Hesitant to start projects
Spends to much time planning
Prefers analysis to work
Self-deprecating
Hard to please
Standards often to high
Deep need for approval

The Melancholy As a Friend
Lives through others
Insecure socially
Withdrawn and remote
critical of others
Holds back affections
Dislikes those in opposition
Suspicious of people
Antagonistic and vengeful
Unforgiving
Full of contradictions
Skeptical of compliments

The Strength of Sanguine

The Extrovert The Talker The Optimist

The Sanguine's Emotions
Appealing personality
Talkative, Storyteller
Life of the Party
Good sense of humor
Memory for color
Physically holds on to listener
Emotional and demonstrative
Enthusiastic and expressive
Cheerful and bubbling over
Curious
Good on stage
Wide-eyed and innocent
Lives in the present
Changeable disposition
Sincere at heart
Always a child

The Sanguine As A Parent
Makes Home Fun
Is liked by children's friends
Turns disaster into humor
Is the circus master

The Sanguine At Work
Volunteers for Jobs
thinks up new activities
Looks great on the Surface
Creative and colorful
Has energy and enthusiasm
Starts in a flashy way
Inspires others to join
charms others to work

The Sanguine As a Friend
Makes friends easily
Loves People
Thrives on compliments
Seems exciting
envied by others
Doesn't hold grudges
apologizes quickly
Prevents dull moments
Likes spontaneous activities

Weakness of Sanguine

The Sanguine's Emotions
Compulsive talker
Exaggerates and elaborates
Dwells on trivia
Can't remember names
Scares others off
Too happy for some
Has restless energy
Egotistical
Blusters and complains
Naive, gets taken in
Has loud voice and laugh
Controlled by circumstances
Gets angry easily
Seems phony to some
Never Grows Up

The Sanguine As A Parent
Keeps home in a frenzy
Forgets children's appointments
disorganized
Doesn't listen to the whole story

The Sanguine At Work
Would rather talk
forgets obligations
Doesn't follow through
Confidence fades fast
Undisciplined
Priorities out of order
Decides by feelings
Easily distracted
Wastes time talking

The Sanguine As a Friend
Hates to be alone
Needs to be center stage
Wants to be popular
Looks for credit
dominates conversations
Interrupts and doesn't listen
answers for others
Fickle and forgetful
Makes excuses
Repeats stories

Oh dear, I think I really have split-personality... Those above are most suitable to describe me, I still can't believe I can be introvert and extrovert, the thinker and the talker, and the pessimist and the optimist.

Those who knows me very well will know how do I behave emotionally.. Can be in deep and thoughtful once and taklative at other time..

As friends, people may notice I can hold back affections now and then loves people.

I changed personality from time to time... The report shows I have more stengths in Sanguine, I think it's better for me to become a sanguine than a melancholy.. lol!

What is your personality?

Rainbow after the Rain

2008-04-08T23:15:00.000+08:00

I noticed that I'ved been very absent minded these days, first I lost my umbrella or atleast I think I lost it. I don't even know how my umbrella looks like.

Secondly, I've been leaving stuff behind and found out I lost it later. Last Thursday, I lost my whole set of Conceptual design together with the floor layout drawings, service load and materials load table.

Then I left my Bible in church which I can't seems to located it anywhere when I returned to church about an hour later.

I usually forget which floor my car is parked on the multi-purpose hall. My friend ever told my one of our lecturer also ever forget where he parked his car. There was once when I forgot where my car is after school, so I started to look for it on 2A and above, I have a slight impression I parked my car on the A side, but when I search for my car till 5A, I begun to feel something very wrong had happened... Stolen... Then with a panic mind I bagun to find my car by punching my remote button like crazy. When I came to 2A I could hear a faint car lock/unlock sound, so this time I walked straight to 1A and find my car sitting peacefully there.

Besides forgeting where I parked my car, I also forget if I'd lock my car. It happened twice today, the first time was in the morning when I came back from phtocopy centre. I went all the way down from the car park only to remember that I left my calculator in my car. Well, I ended up running to and fro from the car parked twice before I can do anything worthwhile.

Concerning the missing set of drawings, I sms my lecturer, other group leaders to see if they find anything, they all gave me negative replies. So I end up redraw everything on AutoCAD, I reformated my laptop before the semester starts so I never use my AutoCAD after I reformat it. When I wanna do my design on last Sunday, I found out there's something wrong in AutoCAD 2007 that I wasn't able to use it. Some error occured. In panic and dismay, I searched on the Internet to find any available AutoCAD 2007 but to no avail, AutoDesk only offers AutoCAD 2009 trial version, no more 2007. So I asked everyone desparately if they have AutoCAD 2007, Everyone except 2 person have AutoCAD installer and their version was 2008. I had no choice but to accept the offer. After I installed AutoCAD 2008 on Monday, I finished my conceptual design on my laptop.

Then only on this evening during CEP lecture, one of my group member asked me to have a view on his calculation on drawing which I had given him the other day. Luckily I didn't draw others out yet or else I'll be wasting so much time on that.

When I wanna complete my conceptual design just now, I found out I forgot to delete my AutoCAD 2007, so when I open it again, I found it working perfectly just as it was. Now everything has come back to normal by itself. I didn't do anything at all. What can I comment on this?

Well, I admit I'm very absent minded these days maybe because I was so busy on school work and church activities. It doens't mean I forget something permanently. It's just somehow I seems to forget my friends' name, tasks, things I'm carrying and some past memory. Then after a while, I find all this memory is back by a flashed back. I think this is what God wants me to learn, instead of doing all these things, I should have rest my mind and focus on God Himself. God is telling me something throught the event of losing my Bible, absent minded and still busy with church activities and school work. God wants us to have intimate relationships with Him rather than seving him to an extend that we are blinded to do work only. God wants us to put Him the first priority then everything will come in order. To be frank I only read Bible and pray during youth and Sunday service these days. God shows me the way and shine on me not to stray away from the path. I'm really grateful, Lord Jesus is the Lord of All! Praise to be Thee! All glory to God Almighty! Amen.

Tagged First Time

2008-04-04T17:42:00.000+08:00

Tagged by Alice
Instructions: Remove 1 question from below and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post.

1. At what age do you wish to marry?
28-30

2.If you can turn into anything, what do you wish you can turn into?
Nothing.

3.If you were stranded on an desert island, who are the 3 blog buddies you would take with you? Why?
Aldrin - He is smart enough to think of something to survive
Keith - He is where food is
Avery - You'll need laughter some time..

4.Where is the place that you want to go most?
Blackhole, wanna see what will become of me aftermath

5.If you have one dream to come true, what would it be?
Touch someone's life

6.DO you believe in seeing the rainbow after the rain?
Yes. go to Wikipedia for more info

7.what are you afraid to lose the most right now?
Motivation. If I lose that, I'll lose everything

8. What cheers you up for the rest of the day?
Knowing everything happens for a reason, I live for a purpose

9.If you meet someone you love, would you confess to him/her?
Yes, but so far it's negative replies..

10.List out three good things of the person who tagged you.
Alive
1.Brilliantly smart
2.Super Hardworking
3.Never be contented with her abilities

11. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
a) Christian
b) I love her love me
c) Strong feelings + responsible
d) Fairly well in study and appearance
e) Understanding and trustworthy

12.What type of person do you hate the most?
Not trustworthy

13.What would you do if you won a million dollars?
Buy a shop house and rent it out, transfer to a University in Aussie and finish my Degree there. The rent should be enough to support me when I'm in Aussie.

14.What is your ambition?
I was told to be an engineer(civil) since I was young. My ambition was to be a scientist but sadly I'm not good enough in Physics or Chemistry. Wanted to become an accountant when I was in form 4 & 5. Dreamt of being a chemical engineer when I finish form 5. In the end I'm studying Civil engineering in Swinburne. When asked the reason to study engineering, I answered: "My dad forced me.". Anyways, I found out civil engineering is the easiest engineering course.

15.What would you wanna be after you're dead?
Be with God of course. In heaven.

16. If you have a chance, which part of your character would you like to change?
Timidness

17.What would you most want to achieve right now?
Excellence in the things I do

18.What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
God. No God, no purpose in living.

19. If there’s one thing in your life you want to do but yet unable to, what would it be?
Straight HD in a semester.

20. If you were to be somebody, who would it be? Why? [2005 SPM English Essay Question! :P ]

Person I tagged,
Eric Soon
Keith
C.Chuan
Jane
Esther Chia
Philip Sim
Jamie Ding
Maxbie Teo

There Goes A Week

2008-04-04T16:35:00.000+08:00

I have gone through another hectic week, time fly so fast that I didn't realize it's mid-sem already. Just an update on what had happened throughout the weeks.

First of all, since 350 foundation students begun to flood Swinburne, we are having less and less parking space. It's still ok if we can find a parking lot at the carpark but somehow some newbies really don't know how to park properly.

Those two cars blocked my car on during last Tuesdat when we wanna go out for breakfast. Copy their no down and go buy 4D. Hehe!

Even in the multipurpose carpark, some people still can't park properly...

Last Saturday, we did some surveying improperly..

Which end up having the accuracy of 1:14

After surveying, I went to Aikido practice, When we went down from the Dojo, we found Ah Beng's car window got smashed at Dua Puluh Sen, Jalan Simpang Tiga.

Su Chan moved to Gardenia Court the next day, I was asked to help her to move her stuff there.

We had small cars you see, so her boy friend had to put on wok instead of helmet when we move her stuff from Chong Lin

In school, I'm glad I can help Keith with his MOS

Besides, I did learn how to draw flower on my calculator!

Will any girl be impressed by this flower?

We really sweat a lot on CEP, we look for information until JPJ... Well, on the way there, we did stop by tp try out the original three layer Teh-C Peng.

That's mine! XD

Besides JPJ, we also visited these places

Informaion hunt was really terribly hard to do, fortunately, our 4 leaders for CEP are actually good friends, when we are tired of interviews and documentations, Maxbie tried some of his stress difusal trick on us.

Nice tatoo he got there, or maybe he is the one who get over stressed?

My life is so busy that I couldn't have enough sleep... CEP.. Hold on blog, I'll be back

The Video Clips

2008-03-29T18:01:00.001+08:00

I've been a little obsess on video these days, I don't know why.. Just feel like shooting video of some laughter and crazy moments of our time. Below are the video clips taken when I have a camera phone.

CAUTION: DO NOT TRY ANY OF THE ACTION AT HOME, THEY ARE TRAINED ACTORS/ACTRESS.

I always though Keith is the role model of man, he is also one of the few who can talk to every pretty gals. However I changed my mind today.

The World According to Kacwey edition 1.0 Issue: Spring 2008

P/s Eric started it by kept asking, "Who's that girl?" Didn't notice it? Try watching it agian and turn focus on Eric.

Besides Keith, our King SKL a.k,a, Sarawakian Haunting directorn/actor/producer a.k.a. Under Pressure Director a.k.a. Avery's Kung Fu Fighting Version 1.0 actor/director/producer a.k.a. Avery Chee Shin Wee did come out with some new so-called action movies too. Before that, let's have a view on his past achievement.

How to enjoy Mexicana torture in the library

Well, that was the past.. Let's have a look on more recent one.

Inside story: The lift

Yea, yea I agree that is the classic action from Avery.

After showing too much mexicana torture, he wanted to try some real Kung Fu Fighting. That is when he joined Aikido. Want to knwo what Aikido is? Watch the movie clips below.

Aikido
Before we proceed, let's see how steven seagal do Aikido

Now let's see how Avery do Aikido,

Avery versus Ah Beng Part I

Avery versus Ah Beng Part II

Avery versus Ah Beng Part III

How was that? Actually we have proper ways to do Aikido, For more information, please click here.

p/s No actor/actress was injured in the movie clips.

Sidetrack,
I'm so busy with Topography and CEP that I really don't have much time even to look through the other two subjects, so my updates will be irregular. Thanks everyone here for reading my blog, I do appreciate very much. Peace out!

Maths

2008-03-29T00:44:00.001+08:00

A revision

Class starts!!!

2008-03-10T11:12:00.000+08:00

It has been a hell of a week. Lecture starts, tutorial starts, everything starts..

Nothing is easy, in materials & processes, we have to learn stuff like interatomic bonding.. Furthurmore, the lectures were just too boring. All this bond.. Ionic bond, metallic bond, covalent bond, van der waals bond, hydrogen bond, james bond, johnson bond, aldrin bond, avery bond, keith BOMB!

Maths wasn't exciting too.. Matrices, inverse, Gaussian eliminations.. Atleast it can be done by ti-83 plus..

CEP is the most busy and time consuming subject, demolition and redevelopment of government quarters in Batu Lintang, Kuching. We are required to do many researches from scrap, from the demolition, soil investigation, foundation work... Modelling.. EVERYTHING!!!

Well, there is something exciting in my subject, Topographical Engineering. Except for morning lecture that starts at 7.30am, we have fieldwork! YEAH! Have a look! I always thought surveying is fun

Until

It rained cats and dogs on Saturday morning, Eric was late for fieldwork and showing a semi-concious face.. Well, actually everyone was affected by the rain. It just too nice to sleep during rainy days..

Somehow Melvin was the first one among us who supported less paper campaign. He told me he was going to use laptop instead of printed fieldwork paper at the site.

That's our equipment, two tripods, a prism and a total station. Our task of the week was to set up a total station.

Our friend, Lincoln was struggling to get the total station leveled. Believe it or not, Eric can actually set up the total station in 3 mins 29 sec! He claimed to be an expert of setting up total station, others said he was just lucky.

The picture above shows a view from where we hammered our pegs. It's all located around Chilipepers. If you ever want to sabotage, try pullig one of them out. That is if you're able to do it.

Hectic in, busy out

Sushi King: From my point of view

2008-03-03T09:47:00.000+08:00

Appetizer

Our gang went to Sushi King Boulevard last Saturday. Actually I have youth every Saturday evening, but having to know that one of them has a “buy one free one” coupon, I joined them.

They actually buy the coupon via phone which cost them RM3 per coupon, I remembered Sushi King once distributed their coupons in Swinburne but not many people area interested. Now when they imposed selling coupons then everyone started to sms for the coupon. Strange yea?

As the representatives of Sakai Association Kuching a.k.a. SAG, I just learned that there are two types of sauce in sushi. One is Shoyu, the sweet sauce and the other one is Nitsume, the salty sauce. Whenever you eat sushi, you can dip your sushi into wasabi – Nitsume sauce and have a Wow Wow feeling.

The picture above might be octopus with rice but I’m not sure, I just eat. The second picture is undeniable the legendary salmon with rice, just look at the structure(Keith)/texture(Me) of that sushi! Too bad it doesn’t come as often.

When stuff like peas are rotating on the track, Keith had no choice but to by pass the track and wait for something good and at the same time talking to a few taken hot chicks.

When we really can’t stand having the same type of sushi on the track for a few rounds even the boy is tired of looking at the same dish, we decided to order something special. The second picture shows a bowl of rice with fried chicken. The one below is a plate of chicken satay.

Fried fish on the top picture and the stacking empty plates, do not be deceived by the picture for it is less than half of the total plate Keith and I had conquered.

This is my last sushi but Keith wasn’t having enough, he wants more, so after calculating the amount we share, he moved to the girls table and continued his feast on seafood.

In the end, Keith had conquered the Sushi King Tritower! Just kidding, that’s the end product of the girls and the boys table not exactly end product. Keith and I were sitting at the men table so we can’t combine our plate with them. Otherwise we can erect another tower.

This is the photo I had taken when I want to dip my sushi into the sauce. From the picture we know that the sushi rice fell off before I was able to dip it. These are the qualities of Sushi King nowadays. On another point of view, it does reflect life.

Yeah yeah, you can say that somehow I’m enlightened by Saint Avery Just Kidding. “Shit happens” Avery 2006.

Life is not perfect. Some times we may face situation that might bring us down and under. Many times we can work out a way to fix it, other time we just have to accept it. Having to know it happens can already break you apart, trying to accept the fact out of it is just too much. But then this is life, after you had broken apart and lying in pieces, you should get yourself back to one piece because life goes on. However bad you were torn, you’ll have to find a way to stitch it back. It is not easy alright but at least you’d done something. Of cursing, damning and making your friends as enemies and your enemy as your worst enemy, why don’t you change the way you view? Yes, things may not be the way it was but we can’t neglect other zillions of beautiful things out there just because of one bad thing. You only live once, live till the fullness. If you think you can’t do this alone, hold on to God like I do.

Stickman Soon Eng sat on the wall,
Stickman Soon Eng had a great fall,
All the King’s needle and all the King’s thread,
Was able to put Soon Eng together again.

Warning: Hazard Material

2008-02-25T16:03:00.001+08:00

Bye Bye Bako, Hello Swinburne

2008-02-21T15:41:00.000+08:00

After teaching for about two months, finally it's time to go back to University Life. Bye bye phantoms of Manaces.. Today is the last day of cny, we had a LAN party, guitar practice and a movie night at Aldrin's summer home. Quite nice except Aldrin told me he found a roasted fly under my laptop. It was dispossed before I could take the last photo for it. Anyways, learned some new skill from Johnson.. Thanks yeah!

We woke up one hour before lunch time, so when we are done with out wash up, we, as usual Aldrin & me went out for lunch.
This time we, it's at Kluang Station, the Spring.
It's decorations are totally like the old fashioned kopitiam.
A little bit like the kopitiam at the train station, although we have "Jalan Keretapi", but that's one of the main road for cars now. I don't really know much about the train station kopitiam until I read the introduction about this semi-restaurant. The special food here are...
Nasi lemak? Rendang? Mee Siam? No... I think those people at that time are more familiar to kaya toast and coffee during that time, especially the black coffee (Kopi O).They did sell Hainanese chicken chop rice though. We ordered Rendang, it was not bad, however people like Abubu & Johnson cannot try because it is HOT & SPICY!

One of the best coffee in Kuching, very expensive too.

What does people order when they go to kopitiam during the fourties? Coffee of course. But there is a certain someone who's so addicted to Tea that he ordered hot Tea intead.. In the end he couldn't resist to order one Coffee just after my last mouthful of milk coffee. this guy is really ar.. I don't what to say, why can't he order it earlier? he is not going to pay for it.. The reason of his free drink will remained a secret. play piano music called "secret" to look for me twenty years earlier to find out the answer?

Lastly, I want to share with you all the English of Kluang Station cahsier. When we want to pay for our meal, she asked. "You people had two rendang, one coffee hot and one TEH hot?"

Replied, "No we had two hot coffees and one hot tea."

People critised about my bad English, What can I do if people speaks this type of English to me everywhere I go?

Happy Chap Goh Meh!

Life as a Temporary Teacher

2008-02-16T15:42:00.000+08:00

Life as a Temporary Teacher

After spending money for whole last December, I realized my pocket had nearly gone dry, So I decided to look for a job. The first interview with the Owner of Fuho, Sony retailer and distributer was not very successful. The reason might be I have no experience in dealing with electronic products. After the unsuccessful event, I was grumbling and complaining here and there, this and that. Eventually I got a job out of it. Hehe!

My dad couldn’t stand my grumbling so he ask me to work as a temporary teacher with him in his school. Without much choice for work in addition to depleting cash, I decided to take up the job.

The Environment

SJK Chung Hua Bako is located on a hillside, which is acknowledged having the risk of landslide. It only has 4 small buildings built on a land about the size of Keith’s house.

In the middle of a hill.

Below the school is a river. It landslide ever occur, everyone in the school compound will be buried and rushed into the river.

The place for assembly is here

Every morning, we have to climb up steps to the school; the steps are slippery on rainy days.

Teachers’ transport have to park below the hill.

There is a badminton court, actually the only open space for PJ located between the teachers’ car park and the school.
Besides trees and grass, there are more trees and grasses behind the school.

Dangerous area, landslide can happen any moment.

Higher hill.

One of the thing and maybe one of the very few things I like or in more precisely tolerable is the toilet. It’s probably the cleanest government school toilet in Kuching.

These toilets are the very few that you won’t find any organic fertilizer around or in it. The water tank beside the toilet collects rain water and then a pump will pump the water into the toilet water tank. Notice the bricks in the toilet? I don’t know who designed the toilet, building it so high up that you’ll need bricks to climb up. It’s still ok but then they build the roof so low that even at my height, my head can reach the roof when I’m standing in the toilet. The wall is only until the height of the door. One of my colleagues ever jokes about it saying whether we should greet other teacher when we meet in the toilet.

There is a reason why the toilet are so clean, look below

And that was taken in January, now there’re only 16 left!

Teaching

Well, it is not at all easy to teach a class with 3-4 persons, pupils especially teaching monkey-like pupils.

A combined art class of primary 3 & primary 4.

Sometimes I really wondered if they accidentally swapped their child with monkeys’ That’s why punishment should not be abolished. Even punishing pupils, I have to think of new and creative ones. Look below.
That’s my famous one leg standing punishment. With two hands busy holding his head and leg, his hands can no longer be itchy. Standing on one foot need a lot of concentration on balancing, so he’ll be busy balancing himself and forget about talking, yelling and singing in class.

All in all I’m not satisfy with their academic result, some of them can’t recognize alphabets even though there are already in primary 3. Half of the students (2 out of 4) in primary 3 can't even write their own full name properly!

Art class

There are very very weak in every subject. Don’t know why.

BM, probably the most writing ever occur in their childhood.

I once heard Prof. Anatoli telling us, “I’m sorry to say but you guyz are juzz verry verry veakk. If you want tto do inggineering, you muzz praktizz, praktizz and praktizz. Theris no other way!” We are weak in Physics alraight, but the rural pupils can’t even memorize multiplication table of 2. I had to admit that we use less brain then the Angmoes.

Free Period

Free period means the period when a teacher doesn’t have class. Teachers are required to do teaching planning, teaching preparation and reading materials that will aid their teaching.

I do teaching planning too alright, nothing difficult. It’s very boring because you repeat the same thing all over again when you write teaching planning, the only different is the title.

Talking about teaching preparation, nothing too difficult too, with my BM standard, I don’t need to do much preparation on primary 3 BM. So it’s only art left.

The second week of the school, I had already teach them how to make spaceships can fight with it. I taught them how to make parachutes on the following week. However, only pupils from primary 5 were able to make a working parachute. As for primary 3 & 4, their parachute just won’t open.

Some time I have to make a sample to show them how to color properly.
Coloring is something I did not do since primary 4..

Have to recall back to some 10 years ago..

If you’re done with your teaching work, you can do your own work. We have a clerk that always late for work and go home before office hour ends. That particular person taught me that you can online whenever you are free, play your music with your phone to show off your phone [N70 only bah, show off for what?]. One of the teacher even worst, whenever I walk passes his class, I seldom see him teaching, and he is always drowsy. Heard that he even sleep in classes!
It’s kinda fun when you found out your colleague was once your teacher. The best part is when she doesn’t mind when you tell her you’re not listening in her class all this while.

The only pathway to exit. I guess I’m the only staff who take photos, which most of them are pointless.

Astro that never been used..

If you’re really tired, you can have a nap on your table. I did it before other teachers dare to do so.

Besides having naps, I did a little reading too, Admiral Zheng He’s voyage.

Our perfume, each teacher must have one of these. Every teacher uses different brand, this is mine. I can tell you truly, mosquitoes in Bako are really “Bo Kek Ki” to you. Without this, you’ll be bitten until your mom couldn't recognize you. Don't believe? Look below.

A 6 cm mosquitoe!

After teaching there for two months, I found out most of the staff there are quite friendly, especially my former teacher, present colleague, past secondary and primary school senior, Mdm Phang.

Although I’m not really her junior cause we’re like nine years apart.. I don’t’ really face problem with pupils too as they are quite discipline under canning system.

No matter how good or how bad the situation is, time still goes on. Next week will be my last week teaching there, I have to pack up and prepare for my new semester. It’ll be fun and I’ll be ready for it.

Though I felt a bit sad but feeling more happy cause finally I’m leaving this mosquito heaven towards my career goal.

Credits:

Thanks to my dad for leaving a post for me,

thanks to Mr. Ho who gave me an orange during Chines New Year,

thanks to Ms. Siaw for giving me a lift,

thanks to Ms. Liu who lend me her teaching planner,

thanks to Mr. Hu for inviting me for breakfast during the first day of my work although I have already eaten,

thanks to Ustazah Noraita who give me advise on BM and art teaching and the clerk,

Ms. Sharifah who gave me advise to use the water tank to wash my eating utensils when the water tap inside the office is not working. Although I had washed it with the other water tap outside the office.

and last but not the least, thanks to Mdm Phang for giving me advises all this while. Was my teacher, going to be "once my colleague".

I should not forget Aldrin too, for accompanying me for lunch all this while.
If really everything can be this smooth I’ll be very very grateful. However, sometimes we really face troubles in our life. This trouble thing is really something I can’t actually solve it by myself. This is when P.U.S.H. comes to work. Pray Until Something Happen. Many times God wanted us to overcome these obstacles so we can be stronger. If God want to put obstacle in my life, let it be. I’ll be stronger after that. I believe He will bring me through. The most important is to trust in Him.

Once Upon a Chinese New Year

2008-02-05T16:48:00.001+08:00

The Mandarin Orange

This is Smiley Soon Ah Huat, the mandarin orange. He is from mainland China. He was shipped here with many others. He felt lonely because he had separated from his friends.

However, he is very excited in his new life and look forward to be one of the best mandarin orange ever grew in China.
One day, Ah Huat found his dream orange and fell in love with her. He was very happy that he had the most wonderful time with her.
He would row on the floor whenever he missed her. His smile would never fade because in his heart, he knew he was going to see her in a little while.

In leisure time, he would just lie on the floor and think of her and all the happy moment they went through together. Then he’ll smile all day long.
He knew that she is the one, because she has the power to turn the darkest night in his life to dawn. Thus making him strong and kept on smiling all the way although he faced many obstacles in his life.
Even when all have failed, he would keep on smiling and never give up.
He would never miss any chance to sms or call her. Even if calling her just to say “Hi!”
Unfortunately, things turn sour at the moment. He sat on high place hopping to find a remedy for it or just to look for her. He still smiles.

He had been sitting there and waited for her a while now, when people asked him why does he still doing something that won’t likely to succeed? He would just smile and answer,

“I believe in a thing called love, love is patient, love is kind, It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoice with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”

Suddenly Ah Huat felt himself lifted from the table… Then

I haven’t tasted a mandarin orange since last year… Wonder how this one taste?

It’s so juicy inside! I prefer the sour taste more

Hmm.. Not bad! Not too sour, not too sweet. Just right! Must eat mandarin orange in Chinese New Year!
And that’s the end of the story of Ah Huat the Smiley, I would like to wish you all a Happy Prosperous New Year! Gong Xo Fa Cai! Ang Pao Gia Lai!

Once Upon a Chinese New Year: Preparation

2008-02-02T16:49:00.001+08:00

Chinese New Year is just around the corner. People are rushing for their eleventh minutes shopping. Some of them had bought their clothes before Christmas; some are still thinking what to buy. Others just rushed for everything they see. I went to Boulevard last Sunday with my aunts and mom. They wanted to shop for Chinese New Year of course. After they bought their clothes last year (2007), now is time for food stockpile.

While they have another walk in the female department, I have a tour around the building to look for a clean toilet. The DiGi booth is still where it was since it opened, people are still queuing for raw fish.
Haha! My favourite fast food-restaurant in between franchise, the Manhattan Fish Market. Though it is categorized as [restoran] on the top left of the sign board.
There is also a pop star search competition. If you want to know how it is like, imagine your have a neighbour that is so enthusiastic in singing that he spent most of his evening singing his favourite song. Nothing wrong actually if you are enthusiastic in singing, the problem is that you soon found out he sing out of tune and off beat through out the whole song. Nothing is worst than he is still singing unaware of out of tune and off beat. Moved away as soon as I heard this. I’m very grateful that my neighbour is the champion of Karaoke in Kuching.

I just loved Disney, couldn’t resist taking photo at it
If only I’m 10 years younger, I would be the one standing there.

Finally I ended up here. Inspiration. Well, I almost forget my main objective, looking for a clean toilet. Too many shoppers and too less cleaner.

Ok, actually I wanted to have a haircut. My sis told me there is a promotion in Alan Salon so I followed my aunts and mom here. Sorry yeah Aldrin for not going to badminton.

They gave a quick shampoo first before it starts.

Here, my hair stylist, Morris is showing his stylist cut. If he got BO, I’m the first to go off.

He is really good in posing for photo while working.

After some cutting and slashing, here comes the Ah Beng of first year Civil Eng. Student.

By the way, I saw Shirley in World Sports. Her first reaction after she saw me was something like this. Not sure what she means though.

Ok, after having my haircut I have to fulfill my duty, pushing shopping cart in the hypermarket. Ah Beng hairstyle is really good because people tend to give way when you push your trolley through.. The drawback is that people don’t really want to give out free sample to me. They gave them to my aunts and mom instead.
The photo above shows the food and drinks for Chinese New Year for one of the trolley.

As can you see, we spent almost RM400 in just two carts. Inflation inflation inflation..
Pushing trolley to the carpark.
On the way down and under

After that we went home with full of Chinese New Year Goodies. That was of course not everything we had bought for cny, there is a little more left to buy.

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!

My Obsession

2008-02-02T15:19:00.001+08:00

Part 1: Me

As you all know or don’t know, I’m Soon Eng. I’ve been out of idea to post so suddenly I thought of one that might get your interest. Or not. I don’t mind if it don’t because it’s about my obsessions anyway.

I have a father and a mother.

Not to mention a Sith sis.

I’m currently a civil engineering student in Swinburne.

How do I look? I look like this..

Yeah, really, 14 years ago.. Now I look like this.

The back of course..

That’s me! Yeah!

When I was having my long hair.. That was 19 years different.

The look when I’m asleep

The look when I just woke up..

Punk

When I’m busy.. [Gunz]

When I’m really really busy..

What do I learn in school?

And some other maths that have more symbols then numbers. It makes you lost your appetite and sleep all at once when you look at it.

[Part 2 The Delta Force]
Ok, enough of myself. Now is my gang [Those I always hang out with].

Ops.. Wrong photo..

ALDRIN

Due of the size of his head, I have to make it into two pictures. Sorry for any inconvenient caused.

Next will be none other than

KEITH

Coming up is the one whose photo got nominated under Camera Shy 3

ERIC

[Ugh~ Chilipepers is so hot]

Coming up..

KWANG YANG

And our temporary new recruit..

JONATHAN

Joe! Who had left for study in Curtin.

We are the Delta Force, below are our famous quotes:
“We can defend the Omaha Beach with only 6 people bah!”
“Battle of the Bulge, Axis assault only took us 5 minutes!”
“You’ll never know where I am even after you died.”
“I can shoot moving target.”
Aldrin 2008.

“Any tanks around?”
“Sniper, sniper lar. Wait till he sees me.”
“I will aim my artillery shells at your feet.”
“Here, take my tank, I’ll repair yours.”
“I can sunk your ship in one hit.”
Soon Eng 2008.

“Hehe! I know where you are!”“My flying skill is so good bah!”
“I ever snipe a pilot from its cockpit.”Eric 2008.

Ta Da! The Delta FoRce!

Not available in all major computer outlets... yet.

Our current members are as follow, the ranks are based on experiences in LAN:

Sergeant

Sgt. Aldrin Wong (Sharpshooter/leader)
Sgt. Keith Chong (Medic/engineer)
Sgt. Chong Soon Eng (Anti-tank/engineer)
Sgt. Eric Soon (Sharpshooter/pilot)

Corporal
Cpl. Tan Kwang Yang (Assault)

Lance Corporal
Joe (Random)

Currently recruiting privates,

Our 2008 spring recruitment drive (3 posts)
Criteria:
1) Must possess a laptop (preferably a none-Acer unit).
2) Have experience in computer gaming for 3 years or more.
3) Preferably Swinburne Sarawak full time students.
4) Prepare to have open house for LAN party.
5) 17 years old and above.
6) Good health conditions
7) Able to communicate in English.
8) Willing to travel.
9) Like joining LAN Parties.
10) Likes to play computer games

Terms and conditions:
1) We as members of Delta FoRce have the rights not to accept any application without any reason.
2) All applications will go through meetings and discussions and our decisions are final. No appeals will be considered.
3) Those who are close to us have the highest priority to be recruited.
4) Only short listed candidates will be informed.
5) Processing fees is applied upon acceptance to Delta FoRce.
6) Delta FoRce may cancel the recruitment without prior notice.
7) Upon accepted, basic training on specialist skills and vehicle handling will be given.
8) New recruit will go through a probationary period. The length of the period is decided by the members of Delta FoRce.
9) We as members of Delta FoRce have the rights to kick and/or ban any probationary member found to be offending other member(s).
10) We as members of Delta FoRce have the rights to accept anyone even if he/she does not fulfill one or any of the criteria or terms and conditions above.

Anyone who is interested can write down your name and faculty in the comment box and we will arrange a time for the interview.

Three unused ports are available.

There is an easier way, just sms us to inform you when will be the next LAN Party and the venue if you are interested. Refer to Terms and Conditions 10 :p

We are now moving on to the Road to Rome, Battlefield 1942 expansion.

Playing pc games in LAN Party can save a lot of money. You’d just have to pay the so called “processing fees” and play it as long as you want. By playing 6 hours in a LAN Party you actually save up more than the processing fees you paid as compared to playing in Cyber Café. For more information, click here.

Manhattan Fish Market

2008-01-26T15:06:00.001+08:00

I went to Manhattan Fish Market, tHe Spring yesterday. Keith defines these franchises as fast food - restaurant in between.

Now in Kuching.

Boulevard has one too but we went to tHe Spring because it’s nearer.

Well, it started like this. It so happened that I sms Keith.

-Whn is ur off day?-

-Me n Johnson today off. Why wassup?-

-Battlefield?-

-1 missed call.

When I called back, Keith asked me to go to MFM for lunch. At first I was reluctant to go because I know a meal there would cost me 3 ordinary meals. After some considering, I changed decided to go. “Once in a while, you have to treat yourself a bit.” Din 2008. Well, that’s the main reason I wanted to have a treat for myself although there are thousands of reasons to decline this offer.

We met Keith around 1pm. We were so bold that we just walked straight in to Keith’s seat despite of long lines outside.

From the picture above, we know that he is not happy of waiting. Not unhappy of waiting us but his meal.

There are press people sitting on our right, I wonder if they really eat all those dishes F.O.C.

Are they from the Borneo Post? Check it out on this Sunday..

Drin recommended Fish and Chips to me. Believe it or not I never try this dish before. Here’s how it look like, and let’s hear how the sakai speaks.

“What do I do with the lemon? I mean that piece of lemon?”

“As dressing on top of the fillet and fries.”

“Hey, Drin. I can see the fish but where’s the chips?”

“Neh… There. (Pointing at the Fries)”

“Hah.. Those are chips ah?”

“Yalar..”

The fish really are very fresh! It’s crunchy on the outside while on the inside, the fish’s texture is like steamed fish. I wonder how they made it. Tell you the truth; I don’t really like French fries without sauce because it is tasteless. But these fries are really different from what I had tasted before. It has some spices on it that makes it special. Moreover, that plate of fish and chips is really satisfying in quantity too. I couldn’t take my dinner well that evening because I was still full. Even Keith is full and can’t finish his fried mushroom, rice and fries.

Beside my Fish and Chips is Keith’s Fried Mushroom. “Oh man! The (fried mushroom) are oh man!” (Johnson 2006) So nice! Though I can't really identify what type of mushroom it is..
Here’s my mocha. “Beginner’s coffee” (Drin 2008)

After waiting for about 20 minutes, finally Keith’s meal arrived in fire.

Too bad I forgot to take the photo of that dish.

When we leave, one of the waiter standing outside will shout, “ Customer leaving.” And then all other waiter and waitress will shout “Thank you and come again!” in one accord. It’s odd and unpractical to me. Imagine if you are having full house and there are a lot of costumer waiting outside. Then whenever people leave they will shout that chorus, the costumer dining there would felt annoyed and also, their efficiency in serving costumer is lowered too.

But I can tell you this, that was the first time I can really tell that I was eating fish not flour. Manhattan Fish Market really changed my concept of eating fish. Never know there are 101 ways to eat fish until you visit Manhattan Fish Market. I will be back! When I save enough money of course.

[Revised Edition]

tHe Spring ; A Retail Beginning

2008-01-15T15:26:00.000+08:00

The Spring, one of the largest shopping mall in Kuching. Too bad I couldn’t make it on the opening day. I was sick echo: in body, mind and soul.

So last Sunday I asked some of my friends to go for a walk.

Then ALcoholic DisordeR INdicator a.k.a. Aldrin. called
The following conversation has been modified to suite this post

“Have you had your lunch?”

“Yea, why?”

“Mind to accompany me for lunch?”

“Ok. Hey, wanna go to the Spring?” Here comes my prey

“Aa~ Ok, but you have to accompany me for lunch. You drive or I drive?”

“Same lar..”

“Then you’ll drive.”

“Ok, after that we go and pick someone else. I’ll go pick you around 2pm”

After lunch and picking up, finally we reached the Spring. Warning! Self-praise commencing I was able to find a way into The Spring and get a car park for free! Without ticket of course! I’m too good man!

The Spring was very crowded man, maybe half of the Kuching population was there. Imagine if my assumption is true, how is The Spring going to survive for the next five years? Kuching people don’t really spend for their clothes in Kuching. The spent elsewhere.

Who knows with the opening of The Spring, Kuching people might change their taste. Even if they change their taste, they have to be willing to spend money too.

You know, we doesn’t only buy clothes in the shopping mall nowadays, we also eat there

If you are thirsty, you might want to have a drink

The shop management knows the risk of doing business here where people spend RM3 or less for each meal. So they come out with some splendid ideas.

They know Kuching people are quite sakai, most of them never see a fashion show before.

Even if they had, Kuching guys are just like guys in all other places, they like to look at gals.

Yeah, seriously. Especially blonde

Some of the local gals realised that they are losing position, so they are taking faster pace to look like Angmo. That's why they tried on cosmetics..

Some of them will dye their hair blonde or red.

Besides gals, guys do like hi-tech toys too. Provided their pocket in deep enough Even if they don’t have to money to buy it, they won’t hesitate to walk in and have a look. So I can conclude that pretty gals + Hi-tech toys = $ come in. Well, they are other ways to earn money too..

Other said that crystals can help you to make money in your business. So the more crystal you have, the richer you are. No wonder the crystal shops are making the most money huh~

Most parents will eat RM3 per meal just to give their children their best they can afford, we can see that the business people are really good at it. They also know that it is very easy to earn money from sakaies.

Coins in the Spring fountain plate.

Did I mention although sakaies are not rich, they are willing to spend money for nothing too~

Good environment will certainly bring more sakaies here too.

Well, after shopping for some time, Electromagnetic ResIstant Compass a.k.a. Eric called and asked where we were. Well, it’s sad but true, the only compass resistant to electromagnetic a spoilt compass.

So next time if he ever get lost again, please don’t blame him. (Revised edition)

沒有結局的故事

2008-01-06T09:22:00.000+08:00

著者：小恩、嘉。

目錄

1. 感覺
2. 我、她
3. 認識
4. 心思
5. 挫折
6. 思念
7. 行動
8.等待

一個沒有結局的故事之第八篇

2008-01-05T16:06:00.001+08:00

等待

萬事俱備，只欠東風，就在我把一切能準備的事搞定時，卻發生了一件事。。每次打給她時不是:

“歡迎來到××電訊語音服務，請在Beep聲之後留下您的留言。Beep…”

就是:

“嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…嘟嘟…………嘟嘟嘟”

到現在，我不只沒收到她的信息，也不能用電話聯絡到她。我家又沒互聯网，不能跟她msn。再說她的msn永遠是擺著[不在線]這三個字,我更無法知道她几時上网。

真的是破屋還遭連夜雨，最近不知怎么了。我還以為一到假期就是我的優勢，但是我放暑假到現在卻沒有見過她一面。

我們這一般人還是照常有活動，可是每次只要我有在的地方她就不在，她有在的地方我就不在。她能參加時我卻不能，我能參加時她卻不能。可能是我們倆想避開對方，怕見了面會尷尬。或許就是那麼巧的，我們就是碰不到。就像當初我們那樣，我們怎么躲也躲不過。

說是那麼說的，我們當初就像有特異功能似的，不說話卻可以傳達我們心裡所想要說的。一開始，我只是把她當朋友看待，也只是純脆是欣賞她罷了。因為我知道像她這樣的人是非常不容易追到手的。漸漸地，不知怎么了我好像喜歡上她了。

慢慢地，我也發現她好像也有良好回應，我就開始策劃了。不知是不是策劃用了太多時間，行動時已太遲了、又或者我的舉動太衝動，嚇跑了她。無論如何我相信她不只給予我一次的機會而已。我好像都再重復同樣的錯誤，至到她忍無可忍。結果我們倆都在感情上加了不少因不斷被傷害而留下疤痕。

喜歡她的感覺不能說放下就放下，畢竟我們不是從普通朋友開始的，成為朋友之前就對對方有一些感覺了。現在的她或許已經放棄了，但對我來說，只要有一線希望，我就會等待下去。

人，往往在機會還在的時候不懂得好好珍惜，一定要等到機會都消失了才懂得懊悔。
每個故事都有開始，有結束。我的這個故事要等到什麼時候才有一個結局呢？是兩個人後來在一起嗎？還是兩個人最後都沒能在一起？還是兩個相愛的人因為拖得太久然後就把美夢給敲碎了呢？還是根本就沒有發生過任何事呢？還是這只是個幻覺、一個錯覺。不過我可以很肯定的告訴你，我的感覺是真的。不过，一切都已成为过去了。

完