Shawn Tǔtǔ.. 3-sixtY

When Heaven Burns 年少无知 Pinyin Lyrics

2012-01-02T14:07:00.001+08:00

林：年少多好　頑劣多好
neen siu doh ho wan loot doh ho
不甘安於封建制度裡
but gum on yoo fung geen jai doh looi
迷信上街真理會達到
mai shun seung gai jun lei wooi daat do
旗幟高舉　群眾聲討
kei chee goh gooi kwun jung seng to
不惜犧牲一切去上訴
but sik hei sung yut cheet hooi seung so
權貴的想法太俗套
koon gwai dik seung fat tai juk to
只可惜生活是一堆挫折　
jee hoh sik sung woot see yut dooi choh jeet
只可惜生命是必須妥協
jee hoh sik sung ming see beet sooi toh heep

陳：年少多好　貧困多好
neen siu doh ho pun kwun doh ho
一蚊積蓄足以快樂到
yut mun jik chut juk yee fai lok doh
廉價結他抒發我暴躁
leem ga geet ta soo fat ngoh bo cho
財富得到　年歲不保
choy foo dut do neen sooi but bo
捐輸不必講究有回報
goon shoo but beet gong gau yau wooi bo
人世間總會有異數
yun sai gan jung wooi yau yee so
只可惜生活是一聲發洩
jee hoh sik sung woot see yut sing fat see
只可惜生命是一聲抱歉怕追到
jee hoh sik sung ming see yut sing po heep pa jooi doh

合：如果命運能選擇
yu gwoh ming wun nung shoon jak
十字街口你我踏出的每步更瀟灑
sup jee gai hau nei ngoh dap chut dip mooi bo gung siu sah
如果活著能坦白
yu gwoh woot jurk nung taan bak
舊日所相信價值不必接受時代的糟蹋
gau yut soh seung shun ga jik but beet jeep sau see doi dik jo tap

黃：年少多好　朋友多好
neen siu doh ho pung yau doh ho
一番爭執不會有被告
yut fan jung jup but wooi yau bei go
遊戲競爭不會記入腦
yau hei ging jung but wooi gei yup no
年歲增長　無法修補
neen sooi jung jeung mo fat sau bo
青春的詩總會老　時間多恐怖
ching chun dik see jung wooi lo see gaan doh hung bo

合：如果命運能選擇
yu gwoh ming wun nung shoon jak
十字街口你我踏出的每步無用困惑
sup jee gai hau nei ngoh dap chut dik mooi bo mo yung kwun wak
如果活著能坦白
yu gwoh woot jurk nung taan bak
舊日所相信價值今天發現還未老
gau yut soh seung shun gah jik gum teen gat yeen waan mei lo

如果命運能演習
yu gwoh ming wun nung yeen jap
現實中不致接納一生每步殘酷抉擇
yeen sut jung but jee jeep naap yut sung mooi bo chaan huk koot jak
留守過去的想法
lau sau gwoh hooi dik seung fat
我會否好像這樣生於世上無目的鞭撻
ngoh wooi fau hoh jeung jeh yeung sung yoo sai seung mo muk dik been daat

Seriously, how can Japan win?

2011-11-01T23:28:00.003+08:00

When it comes to weakening the yen, currency speculators are the least of Japan's problems.

That's because when policymakers intervene to limit yen strength, as they did Monday, they square off against a formidable array of forces, including U.S. monetary policy, Chinese reserve managers and global investors from Texas to Tokyo united by one desire: to sell the U.S. dollar.

What's wrong with US (I wish I am not included, but I am)

2011-09-23T14:13:00.002+08:00

Dow Jones down, KLCI down. Billions were wiped out from the market. I was born in this period of time, so I shall only talk about what's going on today. The crisis was all started by the GREED of SELFISH people that I know not of. People selling sub prime mortgages with a known fact that they are creating a bubble which will eventually screw up the entire world. Not to mention governments who were voted in suddenly "decided" to understate the debts of their country, creating an illusion of the strong Euro Union. Only later to screw up the rest of us.

Question is, what did normal people living their day to day lives have to do will all this? You can call us pathetic for voting you in. But we never voted for ordinary people into the cabinet to screw us all up with their cronies like Enron. Don't get me started with what's with my own country.

And guess what's the solution that these so called voted-in governments do? Cutting down on budget to improve our country that belongs to its people, not the government. Increase taxes? And my government complains that they are not getting enough tax from its people? Well said. Normal civilians are suppose to bear the consequences of greed.

In fact, the amount of commodities, food, companies and properties intrinsic values remain the same with or without the market. It is by people's greed and perception that create paper value of money for those items. How I wish, things are a lot more simple and BETTER when we were more stupid. Or, I just wish those smart people out there, be it the Fed Revs or the OPEC to just have some sense of humanity and concern for the people that are not making profits from the paper values. Please.

In Jesus name,

Amen

The most meaningful speech EVER!!!

2011-09-14T22:56:00.001+08:00

This speech rings as true today as it did then.

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness — not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another.
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world — millions of despairing men, women and little children — victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say — do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed — the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes — men who despise you — enslave you — who regiment your lives — tell you what to do — what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men — machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your heart. You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate — the unloved and the unnatural!
Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St. Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” — not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power — the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power! Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth the future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill their promise; they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people! Now, let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Jobs : Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

2011-09-07T16:38:00.001+08:00

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

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

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

UFO sightings - Posted May 16th 2011

2011-05-26T23:31:00.001+08:00

This is why Manchester United is Manchester United

2011-05-26T22:54:00.002+08:00

I have loved them since 1992... My first ever ManU match on TV2.. That night ManU won 3-2... There was no return... N to you all the Sir Alex babies... I dedicate my football life to you all... Gary Neville, Phillip Neville, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Nicky Butt...

Am I JOPPK material?

2011-05-12T15:07:00.000+08:00

Just a random reminder to myself for a simple mathematical understanding.

When using the correlation between the stocks and the indices, why use the return correlation instead of the price correlation?

The explanation is simple,

Suppose you own three stocks.

Stock A closed at 5 dollars a share yesterday and at 6 dollars a share today.

Stock B also closed at 5 yesterday and at 4 today. But it was also an ex-date for a $1 dividend.

Stock C closed at 100 yesterday and at 101 today.

As an investor, do you care about the price change ($1 in each case) or the return?

Conclusion is simple, because we want maximum returns for minimum risk

Matthew 6:19-21

2011-05-03T13:53:00.001+08:00

19. Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 20. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Week 8 @ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

2011-04-28T00:09:00.000+08:00

Be proactive – Begin with the End in mind – Put First Things First – Think Win-Win – Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood – Synergize – Sharpen The Saw. I love the ball game. One week after the course, I can still recall all the 7 habits perfectly. Other than learning the 7 habits, we got two extra things from the class. A new organizer and a new bank account, the emotions bank account.

The 7 habits start off with being proactive. Without being proactive, the other 6 habits do not apply. Being Malaysians in general, people tend to be reactive rather than proactive. It is a common sight in Malaysia that when a question is thrown to the floor, we take a step back and let others take the lead. Most of us prefer to see how and what other people do, in order for ourselves to have a benchmark. I had learnt that in order to be proactive, we must make ourselves the benchmark.

According to Covey, there is a maturity continuum among the 7 habits. High maturity requires well practiced private and public victories. In terms of private victory, I would say that I have been doing all 3 habits prior to this. I just need to sharpen them. What I really wanted to learn from Nuri is the public victory.

Firstly, is to think win-win. Personally, this is going to be difficult. I honestly don’t see how this habit will work. In every gain, there is a lost. For every penny earned, the money has to come from somewhere. It is just a fact of life that, it is impossible to make everyone wins. My motive is just to ensure that, in everything I gain, the least damage will be caused, including emotional damages. Secondly, I need to learn to understand other people first. More often than not, I ignore what other people think. I am also quick in making assumptions and jumping into conclusions. Habit 5 reminds me that most of the time; my old habit could be devastating. Habit 6 will be the eventual step after Habit 5. I want to apply all these habits into my life.

The most important thing about the 7 habits is not to know about it, but to really apply it. “To learn about it, but not to apply it, it is really not learning it.” I quote this from Stephen Covey. I am ready to take the step forward to be a highly effective person not just at work, but my life.

Week 7 @ Class of Lateral Thinking

2011-04-28T00:07:00.001+08:00

Week 7 - emotions running wild. The huge side of my mind is on the NEP final exams, while the other side is basically contemplating that we are going to leave HCDC in another week.

So here we are, week 7 in Lateral Thinking class.

Prior to the class, I always believed that I am a creative person, given the right place and ambience coupled with sufficient sleep the night before. I electrify my creative neutrons by constantly asking myself, “What would a normal person do, given similar circumstances?” and I’ll just do the opposite. Similar to lateral thinking, I have a fixed point which is the ultimate objective of the thinking process to begin with. However, there wasn’t a specific subject matter to branch out from. I just let ideas run wild and make the best out of everything that comes out.

At the beginning of every thinking process, it is important for us to adopt the TOPI tool. We need to embrace the threats and look into the opportunities through the problems while identifying spaces for improvements. Through lateral thinking, the main point is to define a focus, brainstorming, harvesting and generate new ideas. We always need to challenge our ideas; we need to see what the restrictions are and how we can incorporate these bad points into the ideas to get the best out of it. This is when we can also apply the CBA tool, cut whatever that is necessary with specific reasoning and come out with the best alternative.

During the class, there was a great thinking method that I picked up. The method is having a random entry in your thinking process. This is extremely useful when your thinking process hits a dead end. For example, my department (Risk Management) always seeks new ideas in promoting a risk awareness culture in the bank. The norms of course would be mass emailing, stress balls, mugs, posters, etc. With the method of random entry, I can just put a random word such as ‘giraffe’ and come out with a variety of new ideas.

My personal opinion is that, while the lateral thinking process is intriguing, it must be used carefully. In life, there are many occasions where people overanalyze about things which are unnecessary. My advice is to put a question before the lateral thinking process. Whether or not, we need lateral thinking. And why? Secondly, if we adopt the lateral thinking process by de Bono, eventually it builds up a thinking pattern and wouldn’t that be not lateral thinking again? At that point of time, are we suppose to break the pattern of de Bono and form the Tutu thinking? I reckon we should.

God wants you to know

2011-04-17T03:33:00.000+08:00

On this day of your life, Shawn, we believe God wants you to know ... that your pilgrimage to God is your pilgrimage to yourself.

It's never too late to start, and it's never too soon to take one more step on your pilgrimage.

What Are Words - Chris Medina

2011-04-16T13:23:00.003+08:00

Lily,

Cuz what kind of guy would I be
If I was to leave when you need me most

Week 6 @ The Malaysia Financial System

2011-04-16T13:22:00.001+08:00

Six weeks gone and I am now more familiar with how the financial system within the country works and how Bank Negara comes into the picture. I must say, the more I learn, the more I am falling in love with the Bank and I am ever motivated to do my part to contribute to the Bank (the nation).

Bank Negara objectives are simple, promoting socio-economic development and preserving financial soundness and stability.

Prior to NEP, I always think that Bank Negara is the only organization that controls monetary matters within the country. I know nothing about the Security Commissions or even the LFSA. All I know is SC is a government body and that LFSA is a body that regulates the offshore financial matters. After the class with Shireen, I learn that Bank Negara manages components with regards to money as well as insurance, while SC deals with stocks, bonds, derivaties, etc, and LFSA manages everything under the sun in Labuan. Of course, there are some overlapping between SC and the Bank such as the capital market services.

Of course, I am not going to share what we can read from the slides.

When George Soros flexed his muscles in 1997, I was still in Form One back then. I was told that the 1USD is equivalent to RM4.20 instead of RM2.50 the day before. I asked my mum what happened. All she said was, some guy in the states bought a lot of Ringgit and decided to short them to make profit. Malaysia paid the price with the declination and volatility of the market and downgrading of our sovereign rating. Questions start popping up in my mind, wondering whether George was capable of outsmarting us all. After 13 years of asking, I finally got my answer from this class. We had strong fundamentals, but wasn’t able to avoid the crisis.

Since then, the financial system underwent a comprehensive transformation. Our banks now are capable of competing in international levels and that our financial sector is capable of meeting the evolving economic demands. The Bank has tested also strengthen the resilience of financial sector against and shocks while ensuring that consumer protections are not marginalized. The transformation has so far proven successful as Malaysia has gone through the worldwide financial crisis in 2008 without being heavily affected.

I would now say, I am proud that the Bank is capable to learn and grow from previous crises and we are still learning. Not only that we have now a strong conventional financial market, we have also reinforced ourselves as the international hub for Islamic financial services.

Week 5 @ Class with The One and Only, Jackson Ng

2011-04-14T22:28:00.001+08:00

My journal will be solely on the modules. I leave the comments on the coordinator for the others. LOL =p

I was glad to learn that business presentation was part of the NEP program because I really want to know how to deliver killer substances and yet not too ‘corny’ when I am presenting especially when it comes to something a little more technical. Besides, I always have great ideas for my presentations but I always fail to deliver them due to my stage fright.

There are a few things I picked up from class. The 8 steps in a convincing presentation, stating the problem, describe the negative effects, your recommendation, key features of the recommendation, benefits, evidence of the benefits, summary and the action that should be taken. This is a very useful tool not only for presentation but also for my usual conversation with people to sell an idea.

Always remember, “There is no perfect presentation because there is no perfect audience”.

Another thing that really got into my mind is the usage of props. It is pretty funny when I got a CD talking about the success of multi level marketing while I am presenting a topic related to my first love. But I must say, the prop really helped a lot in getting the attention of my audience.
To conclude, I have learnt some good points and bad points about my presentation techniques. Starting off with the good points, I have a good and clear voice. I have the ability to speak very loudly. From this session, I learnt that, I sometimes speak too fast. I might have problems delivering my ideas out to my audience in the future. This is something that I must work on. On top of that, speaking clearly and having the right pace really gives you an additional on-stage charisma.

I looked back at some videos and photographs taken during when I am presenting, I also learnt that I have an unconvincing body language. I hunched during my presentation, I move around aimlessly and I tend to put my hands into my pockets. All these show my lack of confidence when delivering my ideas. This is the other thing that I need to take note of.
I am glad to meet people like Mithra, Tania and the others for really presenting well. I learnt so much from them.

And lastly, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone for crying in class. It was kind of embarrassing too for me. I just wanted to show the sadness that Han Hui was having trouble with. Unfortunately for me, I went a few steps too far. Thanks Katie for the WET tissue and thank you all for the hugs and concerns. Not forgetting to thank Akmal on behalf of everyone for his feedbacks on everyone’s presentation. I honestly find it very useful.

Week 4 @ The Flat World (World Economy)

2011-04-12T18:20:00.001+08:00

The world as I know it, only went round for a few years before becoming flat again. Geography tells us how the world is round while the world economy says otherwise. More significantly in the past few decades where we had seen the domino effect of financial crises, how one country (if not continents) collapses after another.

There are a few afterthoughts that I’ve got from the class with Jenny.

Firstly, the world is getting smaller and smaller with all the economical linkages. The world trades and cross border investments have increased exponentially in the past 3 decades as far as globalization is concern. Producers and investors are no longer satisfied fighting over small pies available in their local market. I think at some point in time, China will assemble almost all the consumer products available in the market and that they are scatter all over the world. However, not all the parts were produced in China. I had a chance to visit a Japan based factory in Kota Tinggi, Johor last year. Apparently, they produce the metal parts for the Blackberry logo (behind every BB phones in Asia - I was amazed because the process requires super high precision machineries) before sending them to Foxconn in China. See how a Canadian firm appoints a Japanese manufacturer who engages its Malaysia factory to produce parts to be sent to China and finally to be marketed around Asia?

Secondly, the world economy dominance has started to spread globally. We all would agree that in the past, major economies such as the US, England and Japan almost single handedly dictates the directions of the economy. In recent years, the likes of China, India, Russia and Brazil have joined the ranks. Economic conditions within these countries play a major role in setting the economic atmosphere across the regions. Luckily for us, the boom of these ‘awakening giants’ soften the blow of the recent subprime mortgage crisis that spurred a worldwide financial crisis. In many aspects, developing country such as Malaysia depend a lot of the wellbeing of such giants. We could see now that Malaysia is ‘decoupling’ from the US and able to grow under our own steam.

But most importantly, I fell in love with economics and am very much inspired by the people that we have here in the Bank. Being in JEK has now become a silent desire of mine. I would definitely want to emulate the likes of Jenny, Allen or even the governor herself if not outperforming them some day. Not only to mention the personal satisfaction that it gives me, being part of the economics team in the Bank really gives me a direct way to contribute to the nation and its people.

Self explanatory

2011-04-10T05:01:00.001+08:00

Week 3 @ The Code of Ethics (and Conducts?)

2011-04-07T01:27:00.001+08:00

My definition of the code of ethics, CoE is ‘A set of rules created due to the nature of the organization where each employee is required to abide should they be employed to ensure that the working environment and reputation were not compromised’.

Having heard so much about being a central banker prior to joining The Bank, I kind of had an impression on how strict The Bank is going to be. Being someone that just doesn’t abide by the rules, I can’t help but wonder if I would be a good fit in the organization. Somehow, I joined. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like breaking the rules, I just feel that one should behave with integrity and honesty to oneself rather than behaving so, just because the regulations say so.

Being brought up in a single parent family, my mum had always brought me to her office everyday to ensure that she can keep an eye on me when she’s at work. Being a multinational organization, one would expect the lengthy CoE. Being the innocent me, I always pop up questions such as why the men have to wear ties even when the sun is blazing hot. And why do people behave and talk so differently when they are inside the office. As I grow up, I learn that everyone within an organization is governed by two sets of rules. One being the written CoE and the other, I would name it the “unwritten” CoE. Well, that is the real world, isn’t it?

Anyway, let’s get back to topic. Having worked in a different organization before joining The Bank certainly gives me something to compare to. Other than the generic guidelines on sexual harassment (Yes, Tania and Huihui, sexual harassment), punctuality and the ‘what’s not’, The Bank and my previous employer is totally different in their CoE. Being an American company, there are certainly more leniency within the CoE. For example, the non compulsory tie at work and the casual Fridays.

Since joining Bank Negara, I changed from hating ties to loving them. I really believe a tie actually changes one’s professionalism outlook. Having a tie, it shows that your job is relatively more serious and you really mean business. Being a central banker now, I feel that it is a necessity to portray such image.
Regarding casual Fridays, I really have to disagree to the saying of casual Fridays make people lazy at work. In fact, being in a casual outfit made me work better as I feel more comfortable and a little more stress free. My creativity blossoms under such conditions.

It is really an open verdict on the importance of the CoE. I shall leave it for everyone to decide for themselves. What I learn most in life is that, rules and regulations will never ceased to exist. The important thing is that, we must live true to ourselves and never do things that will reflect badly on the organization and the people you are involved with.

Week 2 @ The Museum

2011-03-24T00:59:00.002+08:00

The museum presentation is certainly my favorite presentation to date. We were showered with photos and information of what would be a state-of-the-art museum anywhere in the world. And of course, the presenter played a “huge role”. Most of you would know what I mean.

It has always been my hobby to collect currencies all over the world. The easiest of course being the Ringgit. The highlight of my collection will certainly be the discontinued RM20 (I can’t afford to have RM500 back then) note, both the discontinued version and the one before. In my collections, I also have the uncut series of RM10. Just imagine having 3 pieces of RM10 glued together. Only during this NEP program, I realize it has a transportation theme behind it. Of course, there was no museum back then to tell us about the currencies. Not only that there’s going to be a museum, it actually has the Million Ringgit Tunnel. Apparently, the tunnel is a collection of the notes and all that it has since the Malaysia and Borneo currency. I would definitely be wow-ed by that.

So here’s a heads up about the museum. It is going to be open to public this coming October and it runs on a daily basis. It houses the Bank Negara Malaysia, Children’s, Islamic Finance, Economics, Numismatics and Art galleries. There is a must visit section within the Economics gallery where you will find an attraction namely, “Managing The Economy”. I would really want to get my hands on that just to get a feel of what it’s like being the Minister of Finance for one day. What makes the museum so much closer to me as it is to the many future visitors is that, I would get the chance to be visiting the museum almost every day since RMD is going to be located in the same building. I am just praying that the parking lots allocated, are sufficient to accommodate us all.

Having visited several famous museums in the world, I just can’t wait for this October. I can’t wait for kids and some foreigners to learn what the Malaysian currency is all about. See you guys there!!! And do remember to ask me out for lunch (Gentle reminder that my office is at Sasana).

Me, Mazuki and Falahi also bought the collar pin of Bank Negara and it is now a symbol of our bromance. Ki and Falai, remind me to buy the “thing” from the museum people at the end of the course.

Week 1 @ Langkawi

2011-03-20T22:01:00.000+08:00

The day came 22nd, I was glad that I am finally out of the office, to the beach after spending most of my last two years in a cubicle.

What else beats teambuilding in the duty free land of Langkawi? The last one I had, I was on the flying fox, climbing walls, beach volleyballs, rafting, etc. I had so much in mind for this Langkawi trip. Little did I know, what was in store is 4 days of in-the-class activities learning on i-ACTED. I have always believed that values can't be taught and it’s something that we learn through life experiences. Otherwise, I will just be keeping those values because I was taught to rather than I want to.

However, I was in for a treat to learn how the values and the pillars shape the Bank to what it is today. Having said so, Bank Negara has become a respected and successful organization while becoming one of the points of reference for other central banks in the world. Prior to this, I had always defined “authoritative” as having various authorities within the financial industries within the country. In short, I fell in love with the bank and I am proud to become a central banker. Having to incorporate all the values into a group mural was really the icing on the cake. Thank you Falahi for making it happen.

Luckily for us, it wasn’t all about classes when Shamsul finally brought us out for kayak on the last day of the teambuilding after way much of persuasion. Amen. I was also blessed with some funky, smart yet reliable mates, Akmal, Kath, Tania and Sheli. We formed two kayaks into a shape something we would believe is aerodynamic and trashed Langkami’s team. Unfortunately, we only ended up in second place losing to Hash, the worthy champions. All I can say is, the yellow Kayak failed us and there were totally nothing wrong with the human elements of my team.

To reflect back the week, I really had a fantastic time getting to know 16 new fellow colleagues and a handful from HCDC. I would really like to express my gratitude to HCDC for making this happen. The highlight was listening to Pn. Arlina sharing her lifelong experience with the bank. I really learnt a lot from her and Shamsul in incorporating the 6 core shared values within my career in Bank Negara. I am really to play my part for the Greater Good of the Nation.

Defining Me

2011-02-16T15:59:00.002+08:00

You would be very happy in a career that utilised your people skills. You want a career that allows you to stimulate your senses and your mind. Some careers that would be perfect for you are:

Actor
Recruitment Consultant
Politician
Marketing
Psychologist
Religious Minister
Teacher
Social Worker
Human Resources Manager
Sales
Lawyer
Advertising

You are a great leader. You genuinely enjoy being around other people. Your relationships with others are very important to you. You love talking and meeting new people. You are very enthusiastic about work and about all that you do and have in your life. You love being the focus of attention. You enjoy a fast pace. You are very socially oriented. Therefore, you are much happier being with others than you are alone. You crave interaction with others.

You are very spontaneous and often act before you think. You are always quick to answer when you are asked a question, even if you aren't sure of the answer. It is easier for you to improvise as you go along. You enjoy thinking out loud, and are most creative when brainstorming with friends or colleagues. You enjoy being involved in many activities.

You are very easy to read, and often wear your heart on your sleeve. You are never afraid to tell people what you think. You are very empathetic and genuine. You can sometimes be seen as over-emotional or too involved by others. But that is only because you tend to get so involved in the things you do that they become personal.

You want to be adored, loved and appreciated. You like to please others and to make sure people are happy.

You trust what is certain. You only like new ideas if they can be practically applied to the situation. You value what is real. You use your common sense. You like to utilise the skills you have instead of learning new ones. You are very specific and detailed when writing or talking to others. You follow directions well. You like things to be laid out for you to do instead of working them out for yourself. You like decisions to be made. You don't like leaving things in limbo. You like to know what you are getting into before you commit to something.

You like to focus on the here and now. You enjoy completing projects. It is important for you to achieve and succeed. Therefore, you believe in working hard and playing later. You like to set goals and work towards them.

Wants to sing this to You

2010-12-04T13:33:00.001+08:00

Are you kidding me, Father?

2010-10-25T22:02:00.010+08:00

On this day of your life, Shawn, we believe God wants you to know ... that how bad things may look right now means nothing, - it's how good they can be with God's help that counts.

In life you can absolutely count on one thing, - everything can turn around in one day, in one minute sometimes. Don't you dare to give up, - you might be a moment away from a windfall.

"You think its as easy as snapping my fingers? The temptation was never about what that was spoken. It was about you. You think i think too much? That's because your dad sets such a high benchmark for me to overcome. I want you, and I want you to be happy"

A chain of unexpected events...

2010-10-16T01:14:00.009+08:00

"So there you go, an unexpected all expense settled trip to the KLCC bridge, a portable fire extinguisher, a meet up with an old fren, meeting up with radio people, gathering and meeting up the hottest chic on my FB list.... And to top it up, I already have plans set up for Deepavalli, Christmas and New Years day countdown already. Seriously, an oversea trip, a pending oversea trip and a visit from a close friend from oversea.

Just when you think life can't get any better, it does. Just wish that i have more time to fit it all."

Let me start of with Wednesday (I am still overwhelmed by the presence of Ipad). Okay, anyway, I was involved with Malaysian Insurance Institute for the training. At the end of the day, an ad-hoc visit to the KLCC bridge was included as MII's value added entertainment. FOC and I don't have to make the 3 hour queue for it. Being a KL boy, I am embarrassed that I took 13 years to step foot there.

Riding the elevator

At the bridge

More pix....

At the final day of training, it included a visit to Fire Fighter Sdn Bhd, a company established by my uni mate. I haven't seen her since I took over her Melbourne room 4 years ago. At the end of the day, I got a gift from her.. N here goes...

1 kg ABC powder portable fire extinguisher.. lol... Market price RM75

Her family is also involved in setting the Fullhouse at Sunway Giza, her mum invited me and Suet Li to have lunch at the restaurant. Little did i realize that it was a food testing with some radio people from One, Fly and Hot FM people... The food was fantastic. Not only that it is, those food are specially cooked and it's off the menu food...

The restaurant (Not my pic)

The people..

And it doesn't end there, my "mami" came over with the Singapore people for the a low profile gathering. We had happy hour at KL Life, and went up for Japanese and then 2nd round of Happy hour at Overtime. After which, i brought them to A&W for curly fries and bring them for their to die for maggi goreng and back to Ascott. The best thing is, I am seeing them again plus the hottest FB chic ever tmrw... Hehe.. Can't wait, Joyce Chow @ Times Square... And I am already having other plans in the morning with my family, evening a full month party, midnite, a sing k session... Busy busy busy...

October 24th update...

To top it all up, i went to Hong Kong for 6 days. Once i set foot back in Malaysia, i received 3 emails inviting me for an interview on Monday, and then a wedding reception tonite and a KPI to do immediately on Monday morning.... Unexpected events set to continue..

The Singapore day

2010-10-16T00:51:00.003+08:00

I have got so much to blog... I start off with my ONE day Singapore trip. Objective of trip BUSINESS...

Once i walked out of Changi terminal 1, i saw burger king breakfast, with pork BACON. PORK, i tell you.. I knew i had to have it..

The Enormous Omelette Sandwich (2 sandwich bread stuffed with scramble eggs, a piece of meat and a slice of bacon)...

And with an additional of S$0.80, you get the mini hash browns (it was cute)

And so, i went for "business". As I was already informed, I will be meeting 5 different people to discuss about my business. Each for an hour including one teleconference discussion with the Australia side of the business. Anyway, the business went perfectly well. They said they want the business to be done, and I wanted more money from it. The best thing is, I even got my scheduled Korea trip in March next year fitted perfectly in between the business. The best part is, I got free ramen lunch and also my air ticket reimbursed in cash. The business deal completed early, so i had time and the extra CASH for shopping. And so......

Tada...... The Ipad

Such a busy time

2010-10-12T21:18:00.006+08:00

Haha.. Apart from my internet being down-ed for the past week... I was damn blardy busy... But the best part is I've now been away from the office since day one of the month... I had been to Malaysian Re @Damansara Heights training for the past one week... The Fire Risk Inspection Training is to get all the new risk engineers that recently join the insurance industry to get them ready for site visits, hydraulic calculations and pump tests... After being a risk engineer myself for over 1 and a half year, the training is some what a refreshing course for me... N the best part is, they serve morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea... N the food is really good...

To top things up, I am attending another training this week with Malaysian Insurance Institute on Applying Insurance measures on preventing Property lose.. Sounds boring huh? But that's my job... It's held at Hotel Quality along Raja Laut... And next week, I am departing for Hong Kong... wooo hooooo.....

On a totally unrelated topic, I had my own Octoberfest celebration at Malones @KLCC last Friday. It was jammed pack with the Whites. Somehow, me and my mates found a tiny small table. So, I ordered my Heineken (I am pretty much not a Stout person although Malones is an Irish bar). Then Justin came and told me about this 1 liter of Tiger promotion for the Octoberfest. The part that made me ordered that was the mug. Once you're done with your drink, you can bring the mug home... It was really torturing, with the mug.. it's all worth it...

And it was really really big... See how huge it stands beside a pint of Guinness

Being a risk engineer

2010-10-03T18:21:00.002+08:00

I started my career with AIG General Insurance Bhd on the 23rd of March 2009...

I meet clients having financial interest on their properties. Then I am to provide damage risk management which includes protecting them from fire and burglary exposures. I check on their alarm system, fire protection appliances and to ensure that all production is performed in tact with proper occupational health and safety measures.

The good part about having this job is that I have flexible hours. I don't need to be in the office and out of the office on time. I just need to get my reports out in due time. I also get to travel all around Malaysia handling our domestic clients. I get to stay in five star hotels around the country.

I get to see things more than a common guest or a patrons would get to see. For example, when you go to a spa. What you get to see is the facilities such as jacuzzi, massage cubicles, common area, etc. What i get to see is where they hid their "live stocks". Where they normally wait before business starts, how they travel through escape routes during raids and also what the authorities do during a raid. This is all part of my job as I need to understand the risk of the building being damage due to their operations. There was once, I was on the roof of a 25 storey building in KL. And when i say roof, i mean the roof. A roof made asbestos sheets and where there are no side barriers what soever preventing me from falling. The roof is where the live stocks run to during a raid. And to be at the roof, there are some dangerous routes that i need to take. Not dangerous to the extent that I am risking my life, but there could be a high possibility of myself getting injured.

The most funny experience happen recently when I have this encounter of the supernaturals. There is a new shopping cum office mall in the PJ experiencing a severe amount of claims due to their burst of water pipes. Yes, my job also includes understanding the piping system within a building. Okay, back to the story. There is this particular shop (my client) & another has occasional burst of water pipes within their premise. Normally, this could be explain in technical terms due to bottle necks and distribution causing excessive pressure within the pipes. However, there are no technical problems within the pipelines. So why the burst of pipe? Apparently, there are "kids" running the shops during after hours. And having to do my job and to please my curiosity, I had to move in to the "habitat" of the "kids". I finally know what it feels to be near the supernaturals.

There goes...

Workaholic week....

2010-09-29T23:23:00.005+08:00

As i won't be in office for the next three weeks.... I will be clearing all my jobs so that i can have a peace of mind when i am away... This will be one of the busiest week in my life so far... This weekend will be going to be a pampering weekend...

Random BBQ nite

2010-09-26T15:12:00.008+08:00

I am so lazy to separate these.. There r all self explanatory photos anyway.. So here goes...

The BBQ begun with a random phrase from Sin Sin saying "Lets have BBQ"

N so we did on the Friday Raya day...

The beginning of everything

The starting pose moment

The cooking range

Something joined the burnt charcoal

The HD look Sin Sin

This bivalves or whatever you call it, is boiling cooked

The Chicken Wing Man

Lawrence "burnt" chicken wings

And so he graduated

And of course, there will be some soft moments after the completion

2010-09-21T21:59:00.002+08:00

Embracing it as I no longer fear it..

Step One : Funds management

My career choice based on my personality

2010-09-19T17:40:00.000+08:00

Did a career questionaire online lately... n this was how it goes..

You would be very happy in a career that utilised your level-headedness, and allowed you to work mainly on your own. You want a career that allows you to be creative, without having to be involved with lots of people. Some careers that would be perfect for you are:

Artist
Historian
Banker
Novelist
University Professor
Photographer
Vet
Paralegal
Graphic Designer
Online Content Developer
Webmaster
Producer
Managing Director
Nutritionist
Advertising
Nursing

M Night Shyamalan's Devil

2010-09-19T01:10:00.004+08:00

To simplify the movie, here it goes...

Select an answer from the options below...

You have A,B,C,D & E

Then u answered, C...

The question then goes...

What if i remove answer 'E'

Then u answered again, C...

The question goes on by removing D & C...

How about now?

So, you then think.. hmmm.... how could C be wrong? Maybe it's A..

Then the question goes on to remove B...

So, you thought at least you got it right the second time...

Then, "tada"... answer C is back....

And the correct answer is C

2010-09-15T01:26:00.005+08:00

It was easy to love me, but you didn't even try..

I once twitted, "I am going to make you the luckiest woman ever alive". I really wanted to. But you have refuse to be. Then too bad la.

All about the Beyond...

2010-09-13T23:01:00.000+08:00

Nicest thing someone said to me...

2010-09-09T23:37:00.004+08:00

since you left

left me in this place that i thought i would want to be. but ever since you left, everything just seems to turn into shit. i miss talking to you, i miss having you there whenever i need you. suddenly up and go somewhere we can just talk and talk. and talk some more. someone who understands me and will always have my back. someone who always knows what to say.

f*cking bitch, why must you leave me like this?

Tutu : Biech... i miss u too...

PSYCHOLOGY PERSONALITY TEST

2010-09-06T00:59:00.003+08:00

You’re a stubborn sweetheart... You “love” him/her only because he/she loves you. If his/her flame puts out, you let go with no trouble.
You’re undoubtedly good-natured! Most of the time, people are confident to approach you because they know you will consider them.
Here is the analysis: ...
웃 : Mysterious....
웃 : You’re usually expressive...
웃 : You search for love...
웃 : You have so many ideas in mind... You’re creative and aggressive!
웃 : You love actions... with the hero-like taste!

Eat to live or live to eat?

2010-09-05T13:29:00.003+08:00

Today I read the sme paper’s headline “Eat to live or live to eat?”

I came across this question for the past one month even before seeing the headline. My circumstances are, I work on a basic salary package which means I am paid in an equal amount every month. Day one I get my pay, day two I transfer out approximately 75% of my salary. I pay installments to banks for both my house and car, I pay for Astro that I don’t really watch, electricity, water, house phone bill, house internet bill, personal Handphone bill and also credit card expenses. At the end of the day, I ask myself, what value have I added to myself? I work hard every month, to feed banks, telco companies, Utilities Company, etc etc… I end up with almost nothing. The month would end up a little more miserable if I had overspent on buying some luxury items (watch, football jerseys, ipad, computers, etc) or I went out on a food spending spree.

I think many of us haven’t taken the time to realize the fact that we are earning to make other people especially the big boys in the market to increase their wealth. By working, doesn’t even matter if you’re in sales or in any commission based jobs, the 5-25% of commission doesn’t only mean we are that much richer, it also means that the big boys are getting 75-95% richer. But the system has been in existence for centuries that we all seem to adapt well to it with not much complains. Or there could be some that would prefer to live the day and just spend what they earn. I am good with this system too all this while. I have a degree in engineering plus masters in risk management. I always thought starving would not be an issue. However, given the circumstances of the country, I might be broke as early as the end of the year. Being Malaysians, we are well adapted to another one of our well taught system, the “Yes I know, but what can I do about it? and then we do nothing about it” system. But looking at some of my friends which some did even complete high school earning 5 figures already, once again reminded me how unfair the world is. I am not going to sit here and just whine about all this. The pieces of cake is so huge, I believe I can work my way to a bite or hopefully a bigger slice. So everyone, time to not sit and whine.

2010-09-03T19:43:00.002+08:00

I don't wish to disappear, I wish to have never existed.

One of the better 1Malaysia raps

2010-09-02T01:33:00.002+08:00

Racism existed far beyond today.. From day one we are born, we are given the quotes of 'cibai', 'keling' 'otak cina' n so on.... From day one of school, we learn that the chinese is different from the malays, the chinese is different from the indians....

But why suddenly has this racism become an issue? Is 1Malaysia concept reminding us of unity or is just a way someone reminding us about our skin color? The media goes crazy publicizing all these racism issues... Can we go back to the time when we say 'Malaysia is 4 Malaysians', 'Negaraku Malaysia' and not 'You balik Cina lah' and 'Penumpang'... N suddenly all these Perkasa shit protecting the Malay rights. You guys have all the rights, so don't talk shit!!!

Happy Merdeka Malaysia

2010-08-31T05:58:00.003+08:00

Just an update of my life...

Got my PCE test out of the way... Got a PASS for the paper... Being the lazy me, i only managed to read 4 of the total 7 chapters... Went in the exam hall, took about 15 minutes to answer 50 mcq(s) and 5 mins to check them and then leave the exam hall...

Internet has been down for the past one week... Finally got it fixed after my PCE test this morning... apparently, lightning can strike modems in a way that it disrupts the settings.. at least this is what the technician say... but i still can't see the logic of it....

Also, I had a chat with Justin Leow from Singapore in Mid Valley after work. His has got a job to offer me in singapore. Without doubt, this is a huge opportunity... The currency, the exposure, switching for a national surveyor into an international surveyor, chance of going back to Australia for work (since i m also helping out the Perth side) and finally away from the MCs... After about a 2 hour chat with him, i realize that they are a very american cultured company meaning its results driven.. I love what he has got to say about the company.. I think there are many things that i can look at from the job offer.. However, being experience what it is to be abroad without my mum, sis, my best buddies... This would be somehow different althou they are probably few hours bus away... Chartis is also currently providing me a great learning curve unlike during the days my previous HoD is in charged... Both is good, money will probably end up as the deciding factor... I would take some time to think about this... Plus there are 2 more candidates up for the job offer in 2 weeks time... But i guess, my presentation of myself is not bad at all... not much hiccups.. n i think i tell him exactly what a person i m, so there is no over-expectation of me... i would work better being motivated rather than being expected... Anyhow the result, we shall see...

One of the better quotes

2010-08-30T21:16:00.001+08:00

Quote : "It's a problem being beautiful. It's only the handsome men that ask us out because they're the only ones who think they have a chance. And handsome men are dolts. Life is unfair to us. At some point we have to face the certain reality:Despite all the good the world seems to offer, true happiness can only be found in one thing - shopping" end quote

It is funny how when one door closes... so many more opens... at least for me...

Malaysian market August ending week

2010-08-22T00:50:00.004+08:00

Hope to see a bullish market for financial and GLC stocks for the coming week...

Going to move in banks...

Fingers crossed...

A rude awakening

2010-08-20T00:45:00.005+08:00

For the past 4 months, u came, u saw, u conquered... I tried my very best to please you... so much, i realize, i lost myself... finally, things got out of hand.. emo period kicks in...

But i learnt two important things,

1. Cold blooded (not only that you are towards me, but this is what i am going to be)

2. I no longer leave my plate clean

At least, it's clear to me now.. not only that I got myself back.. I realize what I am going to do... Not only in relationship sense.. Things had hit hard on me lately.. I was whining too much..

I am no longer going to whine ever in my life.. I will definitely going to make it happen.. I know what I am going to do to make my career bloom now.. Same as for you.. I know it's probably mission impossible.. But i vow to try my best, not to please you, but to be with you.. Because I love how you make me feel when I am with you.. N you're worth it...

Wang Lee Hom - 你不知道的事

2010-08-16T19:44:00.004+08:00

Hu die zha ji ci yan jing
Cai xue hui fei xing
Ye kong sa man le xing xing
Dan ji ke hui luo di
Wo fei xing
Dan ni zhui luo zhi ji
Hen kao jing hai ting jian hu xi
Dui bu qi wo que mei zhuo jin ni

*Chorus

Ni bu zhi dao wo wei shen me li kai ni
Wo jian chi bu neng shuo fang ren ni ku qi
Ni de li di xiang qin peng da yu sui le man di
Zai xin li qing xi
Ni bu zhi dao wo wei shen me hen xia xin
Pan xuan zai ni kan bu jian de gao kong li
Duo de shi
Ni bu zhi dao de shi

(Repeat from top)

Wo fei xing dan ni zhui luo zhi ji
HO ~ HO ~ HO ~

(Repeat Chorus)

The Docklands Story

2010-08-15T04:49:00.002+08:00

Docklands is approximately 30 minutes drive from where "we" used to live. That place has a special meaning to us. It is a place we go to on random, almost all the time. It is our happy place. We go there, sitting down, watching the moon, counting the stars as we let the winter chill wind get into us. We probably chat, but most of the time, we don't. Sitting there is good enough... =) I miss Docklands...

2nd layer

2010-08-13T16:55:00.002+08:00

I am blogging about this because i m so overwhelm about the mental kick that my dream gave me. Just cutting it short. Imagine that you dreamt that you got something that u can only ever imagine having it. N in the dream everything seemed so natural. And you woke up from it realizing that it was just a dream. N then the thing repeats itself, you get something that you can only imagine of having AGAIN. *Poof*, and then you wake up realizing that it was a dream again.

N when shit isn't shitting you enough,

You actually tilted your entire body and face a totally different position, and have the entire 2nd layer process all over again. Simplifying it, YES then NO, "oh really?", it's actually YES, and then NO.. N then repeat from step ONE. I actually feared of falling asleep again for the next 5 mins, which seemed like forever..

周杰伦 (Jay Chou) - 说了再见

2010-08-04T23:14:00.003+08:00

天涼了雨下了妳走了
Tian Liang Le Yu Xia Le Ni Zou Le
清楚了我愛的遺失了
Qing Chu Le Wo Ai De Yi Shi Le
落葉飄在湖面上睡著了
Luo Ye Piao Zai Hu Mian Shang Shui Zhao Le
想要放放不掉淚在飄
Xiang Yao Fang Fang Bu Diao Lei Zai Piao
妳看看妳看看不到
Ni Kan Kan Ni Kan Kan Bu Dao
我假裝過去不重要
Wo Jia Zhuang Guo Qu Bu Zhong Yao
卻發現自己辦不到
Que Fa Xian Zi Ji Ban Bu Dao

說了再見才發現再也見不到
Shuo Le Zai Jian Cai Fa Zian Zai Ye Jian Bu Dao
我不能就這樣失去妳的微笑
Wo Bu Neng Jiu Zhe Yang Shi Qu Ni De Wei Xiao
口紅待在桌角
Kou Hong Dai Zai Zhuo Jiao
而妳我找不到
Er Ni Wo Zao Bu Dao
若角色對調妳說好不好
Ruo Jiao Se Dui Diao Ni Shuo Hao Bu Hao

說了再見才發現再也見不到
Shuo Le Zai Jian Cai Fa Zian Zai Ye Jian Bu Dao
能不能就這樣忍著痛淚不掉
Neng Bu Neng Jiu Zhe Yang Ren Zhe Tong Lei Bu Diao
說好陪我到老
Shuo Hao Pei Wo Dao Lao
永恆往那裡找
Yong Heng Wang Na Li Zao
再次擁抱一分一秒都好
Zai Ci Yong Bao Yi Fen Yi Miao Dou Hao

天涼了雨下了妳走了
Tian Liang Le Yu Xia Le Ni Zou Le
清楚了我愛的遺失了
Qing Chu Le Wo Ai De Yi Shi Le
落葉飄在湖面上睡著了
Luo Ye Piao Zai Hu Mian Shang Shui Zhao Le
想要放放不掉淚在飄
Xiang Yao Fang Fang Bu Diao Lei Zai Piao
妳看看妳看看不到
Ni Kan Kan Ni Kan Kan Bu Dao
我假裝過去不重要
Wo Jia Zhuang Guo Qu Bu Zhong Yao
卻發現自己辦不到
Que Fa Xian Zi Ji Ban Bu Dao

說了再見才發現再也見不到
Shuo Le Zai Jian Cai Fa Zian Zai Ye Jian Bu Dao
我不能就這樣失去妳的微笑
Wo Bu Neng Jiu Zhe Yang Shi Qu Ni De Wei Xiao
口紅待在桌角
Kou Hong Dai Zai Zhuo Jiao
而妳我找不到
Er Ni Wo Zao Bu Dao
若角色對調妳說好不好
Ruo Jiao Se Dui Diao Ni Shuo Hao Bu Hao

妳的笑
Ni De Xiao
妳的好
Ni De Hao
腦海裡
Nao Hai Li
一直在繞
Yi Zhi Zai Rao
我的手
Wo De Shou
忘不了妳手的溫度
Wang Bu Liao Ni Shou De Wen Du
心碎了一地
Xin Sui Le Yi Di
撿不回從前的心跳
Jian Bu Huo Cong Qian De Xin Tiao
身陷過去我無力逃跑
Shen Xian Guo Qu Wo Wu Li Tao Pao

說再見才發現再也見不到
Shuo Zai Jian Cai Fa Zian Zai Ye Jian Bu Dao
能不能就這樣忍著痛淚不掉
Neng Bu Neng Jiu Zhe Yang Ren Zhe Tong Lei Bu Diao
說好陪我到老
Shuo Hao Pei Wo Dao Lao
永恆往那裡找
Yong Heng Wang Na Li Zao
再次擁抱一分一秒都好
Zai Ci Yong Bao Yi Fen Yi Miao Dou Hao

Source : http://www.myjaysian.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=810

"Just nice"

2010-08-03T21:31:00.004+08:00

Life to me is a bitch when the line is too straight

I always like spicing it up a little

However, spicing it too much will just make it inedible

Spicing it too little is practically stupid

Life to me is a bitch when the line is at the bottom

I hate this as I loses my smile cause that is one thing about me I love the most

I could always hype things up knowing me

But behind that clusters of neurons,

I know it is hanging out at this bottom part of the line which makes me appreciate the top

I just need to toy with with it

Life to me is a bitch when the line is at the top

I always smile

When I smile, the smile-o-meter starts ticking

Putting a count to the number of smiles

Behind that clusters of neurons,

I asked myself, "Is this ever going to end? Because I am bored (not sick) being at the top

Complicated? No, I love it "Just nice"

Conclusion, the thing hiding behind that clusters of neurons is the bastard that is killing me

Me, Myself and I (continues)

2010-08-02T22:06:00.004+08:00

My thinking algorithm....

I want, I need, I do....

Having said so... The top 5 most random things that i had done :

1. Returning to Melbourne for my Masters

2. Felt like leaving Melbourne for holidays and booked the air ticket to Adelaide 8 hours away

3. Bought a PSP on random

4. Bought a single person air ticket to Shanghai with serious intentions of travelling alone

5. Drove down to another country without getting pass the M'sian customs and got held custody on a foreign land

Me, Myself and I

2010-07-31T02:32:00.003+08:00

Being grown up in Pasar Road and Cochrane Road school, I have met a bunch of awesome schoolmates that i still hangout pretty much everyday if not every other day. If there is to be a gathering, assuming that no one goes berpattern pattern, it could easily sum up to 40 people. Having such a huge number of people, it is undeniable of certain conflicts involving girls, money, attitude problem and the list goes on... Hence the number goes down throughout the years. Some left and came back, some brought in their other halves, some left and never came back. Most importantly, the is a group having diversified interests. Interests as in what we love to do.

I would say, I am probably, the ONE of the very few of them that practically enjoys doing anything. Hence this period of me trying to get to understand myself better, I am to list down 30 things that i do... The ratings are based solely on what i would prefer doing rather than i m actually doing it or i m actually good at it...

1* Something I love to do, given that 2* & 3* are not available
2* Something I love to do, and enjoy every second of it, depending on companionship, i might sacrifice a 3* activity happening at the same time
3* Something I love to do, enjoy doing, and will die for, regardless the companion, expenses, etc

1. Partying 3*
2. Singing karaoke 3*
3. Football, Badminton, other sports activities 3*
4. Concerts, gameshows, musical play, stand up comedy 3*
5. Happy Hour and home sessions 3*
6. Planning for formal/informal activities (BBQ, proposing, weddings, bdays) 3*
7. Outdoor activities (Hill climbing, ATV, etc etc..) 3*
8. Travelling 3*
9. Hanging out with gf or a girl that i like 3*
10. Participating in public activities (dancing, acting, singing, etc) 3*
11. Snookering, pool, foosball 3*
12. News reading and sharing 3*
13. Shopping (when i have something to buy includes groceries, groceries is good) 3*

14. Doing anything with the internet (FB, Blog, Twit, Youtube) 3*
15. Yum Cha 2*
16. Adventuring (find new spots to hangout, eat, etc) 2*
17. Doing something religious 1*
18. Joining random or friend's friend for any activities (basically socializing)2*
19. Watching mother nature play (sunrise, sunset, greeneries) 2*
20. Cooking, baking, etc 2*
21. Movie watching 2*

22. Staying at home (anyone's) just watching tv, dvd, playing PS3 1*

23. Gaming (Dota, Fb games, etc.) 1*

24. Gym (Sports that practically stay at on single spot) 1*

25. Gambling (Going up Genting, n now down south) 1*

26. Shopping (randomly without having anything to buy) 1*

27. Clubbing 1* (used to be 2*)

28. Driving around 1*

29. Religious Activities 1*

30. Staying at home doing nothing 1*

Probably some of these wouldn't make sense to be categorized together, but who cares, this is my list

MalaysianRe Team building

2010-07-31T02:15:00.003+08:00

I was fortunate to be sent by my manager to join 23 other ppl from different insurance companies around the country for a teambuilding even organized by the MalaysianRe at Eagle Ranch Resort in PD somewhere in June 2010..

Everyone involved plus the two trainers from X Power Management...

It was my first formal team building. Activities include common indoor games, paintball, building a raft and rafting to the middle of the sea capturing flags, flying fox, football, face painting. Those are probably what i could remember of.

Practically, this team building's objective was to learn more to work as a team. What's important to me is that this is an event that helped tell me who i am. This is something i wanted to figure out for a long time.

At the end, i got comments like "You are weird!! I'm still trying to figure you out." "U R so fun + weird! Great to know you"... To sum it up, i got creative, plentiful ideas, smart, funny, weird & unreadable.

One Republic - Secrets

2010-07-29T21:07:00.005+08:00

2010 July day...

2010-07-29T19:47:00.004+08:00

First of, i would like to thank my sister, my mum, my aunt and Chartis Insurance for giving me birthday presents..

Got No. 3 and No. 4 from my bday wishlist

I spent my entire birthday weekend at Bayu Beach with my school mates... We start off the day with some posing for the camera and usual mah jong while the girls are busy cleaning up the house... The theme for the trip is JERSEY...

The pose

The women at work

Man at work

Posing again for the beach events

We have 2 on 2 beach soccer

Then the water

The badminton

The steamboat food we bought from KL

The cake cutting ceremony....

N finally the drinking....

The 'Tǔtǔ' Explained

2010-07-26T22:17:00.000+08:00

Tǔtǔ is orginates from the Chinese word, 土 (means earth)...

According to Ms. Alice (fortune teller), that i belong to the Gold element... My original name has apparently 'Fire' elements which brings bad luck to 'Gold' a.k.a. me... Thus, i need the 'Earth' element in my name to bring luck to myself... Having said so, I was suppose to write my new chinese name like 100 times a day for 30 days... The lazy me decide to just change my facebook name... n there goes, i became the famous Tutu....

张芸京 - 相反的我

2010-07-26T19:46:00.000+08:00

相反的我 Xiang Fang de Wo Lyric :

我看着镜子后面皱著眉的我
wo kan zhe jing zi hou mian zhou zhe mei de wo
很孤单她有话想说
hen gu dan ta you hua xiang shuo
像天空不会永远都是蓝色的
xiang tian kong bu hui yong yuan dou shi lan se de
有阴天你才会抬头
you yin tian ni cai hui tai tou
走穿多少的巷弄
zou chuan duo shao de xiang nong
笑了哭了
xiao le ku le
有三四个人爱我
you san si ge ren ai wo

Chorus:
我想要一个乱了
wo xiang yao yi ge luan le
数字的时钟
shu zi de shi zhong
我想做一个完全相反的我
wo xiang zuo yi ge wan quan xiang fan de wo
我在这个世界拼命些什么
wo zai zhe ge shi jie pin ming xie shen me
累死我
lei si wo
我有双不听任何命令的耳朵
wo you shuang bu ting ren he ming ling de er duo
去享受快乐加上自由的我
qu xiang shou kuai le jia shang zi you de wo
我要变成一颗透明的石头
wo yao bian cheng yi ke tou ming de shi tou
我不会动
wo bu hui dong
也不会痛
ye bu hui tong

像轮胎用了太久没气了所以
xiang lun tai yong le tai jiu mei qi le suo yi
原谅我想消失几周
yuan liang wo xiang xiao shi ji zhou
每个人都在选好的轨道奔走
mei ge ren dou zai xuan hao de gui dao ben zou
讲真的我想要呼救
jiang zhen de wo xiang yao hu jiu
请看爱情的脸孔
qing kan ai qing de lian kong
美的丑的
mei de chou de
几千万人都被愚弄了
ji qian wan ren dou bei yu nong le

Repeat Chorus

这个我那个我
zhe ge wo na ge wo
不一样的我
bu yi yang de wo
等什么想什么
deng shen me xiang shen me
怕什么
pa shen me

Repeat Chorus

When Lane Merge theme song

2010-07-22T16:03:00.000+08:00

劉威煌 (Ryan Lau) - 不離不棄

拍著軚盤在聽猛風的起勁　一轉開眼睛
我突然驚醒　此際氣氛變靜
看著引擎頓了怨聲中感應　原來極任性
望見爸爸的身影得以反省

從來為我艱辛亦撐起　最壞時候都不棄也不離
前路既苦澀仍是美

正當眼內全個世界丟低我在遠走
唯有愛我的你卻願承受
縱使眼內全個世界都失去　但你甘願拯救
就算這以後　沒半點報酬　卻永不放手

拍著軚盤在聽猛風的起勁　一轉開眼睛
我突然驚醒　想到你的背影

100 truths

2010-07-21T21:12:00.002+08:00

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 100 Truths about you. At the end, choose at least 10 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you.

WHAT WAS YOUR:

1. last beverage = water
2. last phone call = phone left in car.. lazy go take.. will check later
3. last text message = my karaoke singing fren (sin sin n mei yee)
4. last song you listened to = 徐佳瑩失落沙洲
5. last time you cried = err.. if i say i don't remember.. u all won't believe.. but seriously, i dun remember, my last break up?

HAVE YOU EVER:

6. dated someone twice = yes.... (the first time i read this, i thought it was asking if i dated 2 ppl at once)
7. been cheated on = if i know that i m being cheated on, tat doesn't mean i m being cheated on... i m just led on...
8. kissed someone & regretted it = yes
9. lost someone special = unfortunately yes, till today.. i still wonder what it might have been.. but well..
10. been depressed = yes (especially lately, dunno why images of melbourne keep flashing back)
11. been drunk and threw up = thrice

LIST THREE FAVORITE COLORS:

12. Blue
13. Yellow
14. Red

THIS YEAR HAVE YOU: (2009)

15. Made a new friend = yes (the person that tagged me initially, Ms. Angel from singapore)
16. Fallen out of love = yes
17. Laughed until you cried = no
18. Met someone who changed you = definitely yes
19. Found out who your true friends were = yes
20. Found out someone was talking about you = yes
21. Kissed anyone on your FB friend's list = yes

GENERAL:

22. How many people on your FB friends list do you know in real life = roughly 450 of them?
24. Do you have any pets = no
25. Do you want to change your name = yes, i have too... cause fortune teller says so
27. What time did you wake up today = early morn
28. What were you doing at midnight last night = drinking with a friend in pavillion
29. Name something you CANNOT wait for = my salary to be at least 10 times from now
30. Last time you saw your Mother = last nite
31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life = my hair scalp
32. What are you listening to right now = 徐佳瑩失落沙洲
33. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom = no (seriously tom, if i have u as a friend, that means u r not talking enough to me or tell me that ur name is Tom)
34. What is getting on your nerves right now = i m so significantly incapable of doing my job
35. Most visited webpage = soccernet, youtube then facebook
36. Where do you want to be right now? = melbourne?
37. Nicknames = shawnie, fei hai, botak, dear, bie, baby, dear dear, darl, nie... all these counts rite?
38. Relationship Status = single... at least till when i m 32 years of age
39. Zodiac sign = Some say Cancer some say Leo, i choose Leo
40. Male or female? = Male
42. Middle School = Cochrane Road School
44. Hair color = Black
45. Long or short = I dun want to answer this question
46. Height = 5'7" (i think)
47. Do you have a crush on someone? = yes, all the time (this is Angel's answer which i seriously want to keep)
48. What do you like about yourself? = I have many frens that actually care about me
49. Piercings = none
50. Tattoos = None
51. Righty or Lefty= right
52. First surgery = when i was in primary i think.. to remove something from my nostrils
53. First piercing = Never
54. First best friend = Yat Guo Jian, the bloke sitting next to me when i was in 1 Pandai in primary school
56. First vacation = most be some PD or Singapore one
58. First crush = A girl from Bukit Bintang Girl School when i was 9... lol.. she is very cute n a sweet girl i believe about 1 or 2 years younger than me. We took the same school bus, i always prefer to sit at the back seat so that i can steal a peep of her smile... hahaa... she has pony tails hair...

RIGHT NOW:

59. Eating = Just did
60. Drinking = water
61. I'm about to = take a nap
62. Listening to = 徐佳瑩失落沙洲
63. Waiting for = k session tonite

YOUR FUTURE :

64. Want kids? = shud be.. i love kids
65. Get Married? = i dunno... i love kids.. but i m pretty worry about the "ONE gina" (quote Russell Peters) thingy
66. Career? = Risk Engineer with AIG General Insurance Malaysia

WHICH IS BETTER

67. Lips or eyes = Lips
68. Hugs or kisses = kisses
69. Shorter or taller= shorter
70. Older or Younger = either
71. Romantic or spontaneous = spontaneous and a little romantic.. lol
72. Nice stomach or nice arms = none of these
73. Sensitive or loud = sensitive
74. Hook-up or relationship = relationship
75. Trouble maker or hesitant = hesitant

HAVE YOU EVER :

76. Kissed a stranger = yes
77. Drank hard liquor = yes
78. Lost glasses/contacts = yes, at Bondi Beach 2006
79. Sex on first date = no, not that i don't want to..
80. Broken someone's heart? = probably
81. Had your own heart broken = yes
82. Been arrested = yes if by teachers for being naughty..
83. Turned someone down = no, basically i just irritate them n piss them off
84. Cried when someone died = not yet, touch wood
85. Fallen for a friend? = Always

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

86. Yourself = Sometimes
87. Miracles = No longer
88. Love at first sight = No, but i still hope it exist for other ppl, cause its just so pure
89. Heaven = Yes, Amen
90. Santa Claus = Yes, as in, me being him.. cause i always give
91. Kiss on the first date = Yes
92. Angels = Yes, i call hot babes Angels.....

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:

93. Had more than one bf/gf? = Yes
95. Did you sing today? = Yes, there wouldn't be a day that i wont sing
96. Ever cheated on somebody? = my mum... all the time...
97. If you could go back in time, how far would you go, and why? = 3 years old
98. If you could pick a day from last year and relive it, what would it be? = any day from my final semester, cause i loved every moment of it... but in relationship wise, i probably would say, either one day that me and a friend hangout at Docklands, doing nothing but talking
99. Are you afraid of falling in love with somebody? = Yes, cause my taste is weird now, i go for married women
100. Posting this as 100 truths? = Yes and No. Yes because i m telling the truth. No becuz there aren't exactly 100.. n some questions are just stupid...

A great story from Malaysian Mirror

2010-07-21T21:09:00.001+08:00

OLDER VERSION

An ant worked hard in the sweltering heat all summer, building its nest and laying up supplies for the winter.

A grasshopper thought the ant was stupid not knowing how to enjoy life. It spent its days laughing, singing & dancing thoroughly enjoying the summer.

Came winter, the ant was warm, comfortable and had no shortage of food.

The grasshopper had no proper shelter, no stored food, and couldn't find anything to eat from the snow-covered ground. So it died and the story ended.

Moral of the story: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION

An ant worked hard in the sweltering heat all summer, building its nest and laying up supplies for the winter.

A grasshopper thought the ant was stupid not knowing how to enjoy life. It spent its days laughing, singing & dancing thoroughly enjoying the summer.

Came winter, the shivering grasshopper called a press conference and demanded to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while he was cold and starving.

TV1, TV2 & TV3 showed up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper alongside to a video clip of the ant in his comfortable home with a table full of food.

The majority of the Malaysian parliamentarians were stunned by the sharp contrast. How could this poor grasshopper be allowed to suffer?

Khairy staged a demonstration in front of the ant's nest.

Nazri went on a hunger strike along with other grasshoppers demanding that they be relocated to warmer climate area during winter.

The Malaysian Government immediately passed a law forbidding all ants from working hard in the summer so as to bring about equality of poverty between ants and grasshoppers.

Muhyiddin increased 'More Special Reservations' for grasshoppers in educational institutions & in government services..

The ant was fined for failing to share 30% of his food with the grasshopper. The PM announced that this was part of the NEP. No ant should question it. (Don't forget, Tax Audits were introduced and targeted at certain individuals who were eventually penalised heavily for not contributing enough to the well-being of the grasshoppers).

Many years later...

Some ants migrated to the US and other countries, and set up multi-billion dollar companies there.

Hundreds of grasshoppers still died of starvation despite the 'More Special Reservations'.

Losing significant number of hard working ants and free loading the grasshoppers, Malaysia remained a developing country, despite its abundant natural resources.

All because the remaining ANTS were still doing their work ...

Latest finding showed that almost all the grasshoppers in the political arena and civil service were hoarding corrupt wealth which they refused to share with fellow grasshoppers.

Moral of the story: How to crisp grasshoppers who eat your heart out!

LATEST (VERSION 3)

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

Channels 7, 9 and 10, the ABC and SBS show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

Australia is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Cardinal George Pell then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Prime Minister Rudd condemns the ant and blames John Howard, Robert Menzies, Capt James Cook, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Bob Brown exclaims in an interview on Today Tonight that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, Labour in conjunction with the Greens draft the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: You decide in the 13th general election.

This was published because we believe that you are an ant – not a grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't bother alerting any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it, anyway.

Birthday 2010 wishlist

2010-07-18T20:46:00.000+08:00

This is the first ever wishlist i made in my life.. practically because, i cant afford to buy this all...

Top of the list :

1. The Ipad

Many asked why do i need one of these? I say : I need bigger screens for wireless connectivity.. i think my BB has worsen my short sightedness in the past one year.. N most importantly, i worship great gadgets, and this is one of them... ok, next...

2. A watch (Tissot, Seiko.. or some sort)

I am now still on Swatch, one that my ex bought for me in 2006? This is not right. I need something for a 26 y.o.... ok, next...

3. ManUtd Aon shirt

Many said... this shirt is not nice.. don't waste your money.. Fact is, i seen ManU from Sharp to Vodafone, Vodafone to AIG... each time they change, ppl starts criticising the shirt.. but nevertheless, it is a ManU shirt... this will probably in my top 3 birthday wishlist for at the least the coming 2-3 years as it has been for the past 10 years...

4. Cash, cash and cash...

Please kindly reimburse me.. I had a torrid time in the world cup which i vow not to repeat anymore...

What could've been my dream phone

2010-07-17T11:17:00.000+08:00

I wanted to get the Iphone4

Next thing u heard is how the deathgrip on the iphone saying it drop calls...

Then hear Steve saying "You know.. we're not perfect"

by Greg Kumparak from Mobile Crunch

Shawnie... in support of Earth Hour

2008-03-14T23:11:00.000+08:00

March 29th 2008, 8p.m.... will witness cities around the world switch off their lights for one hour in support of Earth Hour 2008....

Earth Hour 2007 is about Sydney...

Earth Hour 2008 is about the world....

Sign up for Earth Hour at http://www.earthhour.org

pattern pattern ziess...

2007-09-19T23:31:00.000+08:00

ah tih told me tat the the council voted me as the 'king' now...
sorry guys... make u guys so dissapointed in me...
haha.... aku balik karang. aku hantam siapa siapa yang undi aku jadi...

si beh ka na sai....

love u all, weng yew...
back on nov 3rd jor... ah tih, bawak kumpulan kompang jemput aku ya...

Different sides of ME...

2007-09-17T00:15:00.001+08:00

The many many moments of ME...

Me n my ji mui, plus mechatrons...

Taking a break in LT ONEMe and my bestest dear dear siew chin... n sam (o_o''')Me, mum, sis n my niece at my second home... Hargrave library

My naughty lil Jaslyn

My bestest Auntie Jerrica... she's alwiz there by my side...

My bestest dear... Khaw Get Pei... Will never forget U.. sorry =)
My Melbournians brosss.... In the ocean facing Sydney Harbour Bridge 2006

The 'Sydney' from Opera House

My bestest MUFY buddies ar...

My Lang-virgin breaking ceremony... with my bestest bros for Xmas, i think!!!

The Chi-Lounge K session with the cool bananas 2007
My bros before my return to Melb, June 2006, Chillis MV
My first CF in many many years, thanx to Jian Aun, we were housemates minus ONE

Year ONE, context engineering research project, is to play in Sunway Lagoon for free

The fours.. unfortunately... hehe.. but finally... I am a Bachelor

Yew Seong (M'sia-Sydney-Melb) and Wei Ling 2006

My bestest pattern pattern girl mate, Andrea Kong.... hot property for many guys out there..

Me with the Biotechs... N my bestest daughters

Me n my Year ONE club hopping, bar dancing, lounge crapping buddies... RESPECT!!

MUMSU ball 2006... Hehe... Emphasis is on ME n my Dear Dear.. lol..

K session with about 30 bros n sis.... wonderful... Song bird ktv, Imbi Plaza... dodgy but FUN...

Just me and Ah Kei.. very love this pic...

CRS budss.... 5 years, some 11 years journey alongside me... Pattern pattern on...

2006 of plenty K sessions...

Hmm... My Darling Tan May Fay... very hot... very adorable... Hurt me badly... =(

N still my darling, nonetheless... Darl... must miss me, ya...

Needless to say, my bestest buddies of all time... Walk thru so many things together...

My life's a whacking moment rite? I just can't ask for more from God..
Thank You, Father Lord in Heaven.....

DUMB OR SMART?

2007-09-15T00:32:00.001+08:00

A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, "This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you."

The barber put a five rupee coin in one hand and two one rupee coins (1+1=2) in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, "Which do you want, son?"
The boy takes the two one rupee coins and leaves."What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never learns!"

Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store."Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take two one rupee coins instead of five rupee coin?"

The boy licked his cone and replied, "Because THE DAY I TAKE THE FIVE RUPEE COIN, THE GAME IS OVER............
Moral: When you think the other person is dumb, you are making a fool of yourself.

quoted from my best bud's blog...

A question for evrybody?

2007-09-13T13:32:00.001+08:00

如果你想起我, 你會想到什麼?

If you suddenly think of me, what would u be thinking of?

Dunno if I m doing it right?

2007-09-13T09:53:00.000+08:00

In the end, you decided to come. Because you know i really wanted to go. I don't know if this is right. Cause, it's always against my principle to make people do things they do not want to do. But this time, i really want to thank you for always listening. N even more this time, you decided to come with me. I know this is a semi hard thing for you to do. But i will appreciate everything you've done.

The Msian Mechatrons of 2004

2007-09-12T10:33:00.001+08:00

The OZ contingent (14th Dec 2006)

The Msian Contingent plus some OZieess (8th September 2007)

2004 - The year where it all begin....

2004 end - The last pic before the departure of a few OZ contingent

Some other moments.....

The mechatrons contingent at the Monash Msia Ball 2005 - Hilton @ Cyberjaya
OUR BEST MOMENT - COMP LAB 11

Hereby, i vote this as the best moment our of mechatrons live... I call it the "comp lab 11" moment. Monash Msia only has 10 comp labs. We made upper foyer to become a new comp lab. There were more than 13 laptops, 3 printers, 1 scanner (i think).... N over 20 mechatrons... N time is approaching 12 midnite... All rushing for Dr. Alex See's report... That moment was just pure magical....

My comments :
From where we were, till today... Everyone finally grad... From the 2004 us, look at now.. Some ppl working for cigi factory, one even married, one continued to be married, and some even becoming a couple... N the moments that we spent together, class, medan, corner shop, spectrum, pyramid, labs, foyer n cyber cafes... We really had achieved alot... To everyone, good luck in the future la... Althou, some is earning big bucks alredi... N some r master-ing, n phd-ing... May the force be with us... N to my beloved ji mui, Phang Shih Mun, quit ur stupid job, n find another... Haha =)

Key to increase your profit

2007-09-11T17:09:00.000+08:00

My lecturer says,

1. Increase Price
2. Reduce Cost
3. Grab more market share

-Mr. Michael Vincent

Dissapointed...

2007-09-11T14:40:00.000+08:00

Very very dissapointed with ur decision... I was really really looking forward to it...
But neway, really really nothing to say to u d... Not once, but twice jor... Christmas concert, u liddat... Now once more... u really left me stunned n speechless...

I hope you can come..

2007-09-10T19:30:00.000+08:00

Your call really stunned n shocked me. Never wud i tot you will tell me such things. I dunno how to explain to u. Cuz firstly, i dun wan to mention about the things happened before this. All i know is i m very comfortable having u around. Not many ppl in Melb now really matters to me. I just wanna spend time with ppl i m comfortable with. But i dun wan to force U, if u really think tat coming is not what u want to do. Then just dun come.

From a princess to a princess

2007-09-07T09:32:00.000+08:00

A princess helped me email-ed another princess lately. My resignation letter. Finally on hols now.

I m so Adelaide bound. Just purchase a ticket ystrdy. I am super loving my randomness. Haha. I owe myself this break for a long time. Time to find a place to dump all the mental n emotional disturbances away. So, this time i m going alone. Will be staying at brother Jay's place. My good ol' mate. But, ultimately, thanx a devil for reminding me tat i can actually do this.

"It's not the princess that make a prince. But it is becuz of the Prince, the princess feel like a princess." - quoted from a fren

Word of the week

2007-09-04T20:19:00.000+08:00

Learnt a new word this week....

m-a-s-o-c-h-i-s-t

dictionary.com :
gratification gained from pain, deprivation, degradation, etc., inflicted or imposed on oneself, either as a result of one's own actions or the actions of others, esp. the tendency to seek this form of gratification.

Introduced by Princess G... No apparent reason at all...

My super belated bday post... lol...

2007-09-04T19:47:00.000+08:00

I had a great one this year...

The nite before my bday... I was out dinner at Bamboe (An Indonesian restaurant in Homesglen) which i used to go occasionally last year. Was celebrating my bday with Dennis, Jian Aun and Princess Grace Yong. I ordered the long missed nasi ayam komplet with es teller.

After which, i went to black house for a cut cake session... My mango cake... Thanx Yiki and Daniel..

On the day itself (23rd July), i was suppose to go out with Ah Kei but she turned out to be ill. So i opted to spent time with my best city buds... We had dinner at staglatite b4 chilling in a bar cum bistro named red violin at Burke's...

My first ever flamin 151 - Thanx Cheryl Ta...

We were partying with some ang mo chics around the bar...
Presents : Sam, Yuan, Cheryl, Henry, Audrey, Vincent n ME...

ok.. tats abt it on Monday, the 23rd....

Tuesday was my usual best class day... from 9am to 9pm...

Neway, Wednesday was karoke nite at Chilounge...

The peeps plus Henry behind the camera....

Apparently, we ordered a beer name Lucky beer. It had the "Happy God of Buddhism" carved on it... N we think it were cool.. But the beer really did sucked... It was MADE IN AUSTRALIA apparently....

Ok... Thursday....

Went out for movies with Shin Yi for the first time... Yes, just the two of us.. Went to watch Simpsons at The Knox, my first time there too.... Before sending her to Clayton for the trip to Falls Creek which apparently i should have been there if not my weekend class for AFF5021...

It went on... Friday....

Was at this Italian cafe at Lygons, with my aussie buddies... Joseph (HK), Janice(Msia), Tina (China) n some other China ppl which i forgotten their name plus an Aussie guy...
Then i headed to Si Tian's place for a great poker nite... I won AUD20....

Tat sums it all up la...

There was also a dinner with my fairy tale fren i met on the plane on the way back from Malaysia in July last year... Diane....
We went for dinner at this Msian restaurant named "Malay Mas"... Appareently, i been to tat restaurant b4, like 4 years back.. Then we head over to San Churros for some Spanish Chocolatey dessert....

Dunno if i left any parties out... But i really had a great time...

Besides those liquors, meals n desserts... Need to thank my mum for the Polo T, thank Mel n Cl for the Ipod condom n Yiki for the Harry Potter book 7, was realeased 2 days b4 my bday...

N also, Happy same bday to Phlegon(Msia Bud), Jun Heng (Mechatron), Wei Wei (meet in AUst) n Wei Jan (HIgh school mate).... All of us were 84s except for one... No names needed to be mentioned...

Proactive rather than reactive, Malaysia!!

2007-09-04T19:41:00.000+08:00

First of all, Selamat Hari Kebangsaan ke-50, Malaysia....
I hope your new year resolution is to be proactive rather than be reactive...

I took the opportunity of the independance day celebration to go clubbing... Mumsu, the Malaysian Club for Monash Clayton student held a merdeka celebration party at velour... N me, dying for some alcohol n party, decided to go forth...

But the sad part is, the club was real dodgy... Spent most of my time in the smoking area with Tequila Lizarto... N i realize... chatting with her was more fun than being in the club itself...

I know today is goinna be my lucky day... Cuz i bumped into a fren in Tung Wo for dinner... N it was really great...

No pix available for the velour session.. cuz Shin Yi, apparently bearing my son, Swanston only on that particular nite... Havent sent me any pixx yet....

A tribute to the legend! Ole Gunnar Solskjaer a.k.a. Baby Face Assassin

2007-08-29T17:13:00.000+08:00

11 years of Ole... 11 years of Glory...

Ole's United Honours

Premier League (6): 1996/97, 1998/99, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2002/03, 2006/07

FA Cup (2): 1999, 2004

UEFA Champions League (1): 1999

Intercontinental Cup (1): 1999

Community Shield (2): 1996, 2003

"Ole is one of the best finishers I have known. We have had a few good natural finishers at the club but he is exceptional."

- Sir Alex Ferguson

"Ole will be always remembered. The best moment i seen him is when he came on the 81st minute against Nottingham Forrest scoring 4 goals in 10 mins. N of cuz, the champs league final at Nou Camp."

- Shawnie

For Solskjaer, from the fans

United fan's sing: (to the tune of "You are my sunshine")
"You are my Solskjaer, my Ole Solskjaer,
you make me happy, when skies are grey,
and Alan Shearer, was f**king dearer,
so Please don't take, My Solskjaer, Away....."

United fan's also sing: "Who put the ball in the Germans net? Ole Gunnar Solskjaer!!!"

Drive of life

2007-08-26T11:32:00.000+08:00

This is the latest theme from the TVB i m watching..

This song has motivating lyrics...

One phrase which says "we get tougher when we are injured"

Final exams

2007-08-24T09:15:00.000+08:00

I've got 4 subjects this sem

AFF5260 - Money Market Dealing
AFF5021 - Case Study for Risk Management
AFF5031 - Insurance
BTX9760 - Risk Control & Law

This sem.. the final exam really 'yeng' and crazy

AFF5260 - 100% assignment where i just trade in class
AFF5021 - Nonit study, exam is just a case study, will be held in the mid of sem, 6th October
AFF5031 - Bring home exam, the exam paper will be uploaded on 19th Oct, due 26th Oct.. YENG
BTX9760 - 2 hour open book exam....

N ppl ask me y m i slacking???

Happy 822 ya... ah kei...

2007-08-22T00:52:00.000+08:00

Ah Kei pre clubbing look... (stole from her frenster)

Hope you have fun at Korean bbq ya... After so long never c u.. hope to get to c u more in the future... Haha... We alwiz never stop talking... So, going out with u is really really fun...
20 year old d lor... Big girl d... Study hard ya... N all the best in ur studies...
Muaaaaxxxxx n Huggggggzzzzzzzzzzzz

This is the bday card i make for her... althou simple... hope u like it ya.... I very busy with assignments lately.. n very broke... sorry ar.... din get u anything...

Lost priorities..

2007-08-20T23:56:00.000+08:00

Re-prioritize...

1. God
2. Family
3. My brothers
4. Risk Management.. Aim big leh shawnie... Forgotten wut ur priority
5. Manchester United (2 draws 1 lost)

This will be my top 5 priority from now on... almost forgotten this...

Issues of the black week

Been back to Karen Lee all over again... Sigh... I m playing it as thou i m 19 years old... How stupid can i be?

Neway, tmrw will b ah kei's bday... SO happy be-earlied bday... N aso happy 5 years old to my lovely cute cute daughter... hehe... Mei Hui.... sorry still cant find a good mother for u...

N also, happy belated bday to my ever beloved mummy back at home... Really miss u so so much... N miss the rest of my families too... Really miss hanging out with my cousins...

N also happy one year anniversary to my blog... Finally ONE year d...

N for the past week, been improving a lot from my snooker skills, been playing like 6 days out of the 7 days for the past week....

Finally, tonite will go out to Korean bbq with you... Hope u will have fun ya... muaXXX....

林峰 (Lam Fung) - 愛在記憶中找你

2007-08-08T22:11:00.000+08:00

I love this new song by Lam Fung for the latest TVB series i m watching... the drive of life...
I fell in love to this song when Lam Fung n Charmaine Sheh kissed in the bus during the 1st of July festival...
I put the chorus on my msn nick for a few times... because i really think it's meaningful for myself now.... N not becuz i m still sad about the things tat had happened... I think the lyrics really suit my situation..

Cantonese Pin Yin from Sehseh blog....

ngor yu nei je yat sang na guo hou bei
ngor yu nei cha yat seh wing yuen yat hei
hai hau zhi kan cheung dei chi yuen zheung hou hei
yiu ji hoh yi suet hei

ngoi tai chung sam foo kap him kuet hung hei
ngoi tai mei hing hing dik keuk zhoi bat hei
ngoi ching loi dou si hau chi ming mei tin hei
ta zhau liu dat yin zhau pin suet lok yue fei

yue gwoh ho yi han nei chuen like tung han nei
yuen yue seung yik yiu doh bei
mo fei seung fong ha nei wan si gwa nim nei
chui yau wui kap ngoh seung bei
chin si jui pa yau yan tai hei
jau suen jam moh san chun sau bei
ngoh mun yik yau yat seh kui lei

nei tai yuen koi jam moh suet dui bat hei
nei tai kan yat chuen san keuk yi gou fei
fai lok ya hui tai duen chi cheung lau sing yue
yat jam ngaan jau yue waan kok pa yau kei hei

yue gwoh ho yi han nei chuen like tung han nei
yuen yue seung yik yiu doh bei
mo fei seung fong ha nei wan si gwa nim nei
chui yau wui kap ngoh seung bei
chin si jui pa yau yan tai hei
jau suen jam moh san chun sau bei
ngoh mun yik yau yat seh kui lei

yue gwoh ho yi han nei chuen like tung han nei
yuen yue seung yik yiu doh bei
mo fei yiu fong ha nei wan si gwa nim nei
chui yau wui kap ngoh seung bei
chin si jui pa yau yan tai hei
jau suen jam moh san chun sau bei
ngoh mun yik yau yat seh kui lei

ngor ching yuen ngor han sum zhang nei
ngor wan zhoi kei yik chung zhao nei

English translation

Me and you
How to compare in this lifetime
Me and you
Almost be together forever
The time and place we unexpectedly meet
Is like a drama
Doesn't know where to start

Love is too heavy
Not enough air to breathe in
Love is too beautiful
Lightly yet unable to carry it
When love arrived
It's just like a beautiful weather
When love is gone
It suddenly changed into blizzard rainstorm

*If I can hate you and hate you completely
Avoid you even if we meet
I just want to put you down, but I still miss you
Who would be as sad as me
Afraid of people mentioning about the past
No matter how far I stretch my arm
We still have a distance between us*

You are far away
How to say I'm sorry
You are very near
Yet suddenly left in split second
Maybe happiness is too brief
Like a meteor shower
In a blink of the eye
Feels like a mirage yet afraid to remember

Repeat * x2

I rather heartlessly hate you
I'm still searching for you in my memories

Chinese lyrics (I dunno how to read this, but for those hu does, good 4u)

我與你這一生哪個可比
我與你差一些永遠一起
邂逅時間場地似連場好戲
要自何頁說起

愛太重深呼吸欠缺空氣
愛太美輕輕的卻載不起
愛情來到時候似明媚天氣
它走了突然驟變雪落雨飛

* 如果可以恨你全力痛恨你
連遇上亦要躲避
無非想(要)放下你還是掛念你
誰又會及我傷悲
前事最怕有人提起
就算怎麼伸盡手臂
我們亦有一些距離 *

你太遠該怎麼說對不起
你太近一轉身卻己高飛
快樂也許太短似場流星雨
一眨眼就如幻覺怕又記起

repeat *x2

我情願我狠心憎你
我還在記憶中找你

p/s : any1 wants this song.. can get it from me... thru msn : shawn1437@hotmail.com
to listen : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru36kHME6kE

Super busy

2007-08-04T20:55:00.000+08:00

Currently addicted to Fallout Boys' Thanks For The Memories... Great song...

Been really really busy lately... Super no time to blog... I have so much things to talk about... like my bday n stuffs... But i just take this time to honor Alan Smith for the contribution he had given to Manchester United Football Club for the past 3 years... He did not score much, just 12 goals in 93 appearances for United.. But to be fair, he was used as center of midfield in number of occasions... His tackles, his aggresiveness and passion is ever so obvious.... His presence has lifted Manchester United in many occasions... Now that he had signed for the Magpies... Good Luck Alan....

Picture obtained from www.manutd.com for Alan Smith at the Manchester United Asian Tour 2007

p/s : oh ya, go watch the Fracture movie starring Anthony Hopkins... Very good movie... Just started in Aussie like 2 days back... Dunno much abt it in msia... But, it's one hell of a movie..

i m such an idiot...

2007-07-27T18:21:00.000+08:00

Would u call off a date with a hot chic just becuz u sense 'not much' enthusiasm in her?

I WOULD... OMG... I M SUCH A PATHETIC LOSER.... DAMN!!!

Shawn is a fighter

2007-07-22T00:57:00.001+08:00

Shawn is the head of the lion in leo... Borned on the 23rd of July for a reason... As he is a fighter, n he shall never bow down to miseries...

Hehe.. Shawnie is back... After going thru so much miseries in life for the past 3 months... Finally, he learnt the most important lesson of the day... For the more troubles n miseries he has to face, the stronger he will fight back.. N he shall not give up... So, pour more miseries on him as he need more of those to fuel his desire to do even better...

Last sem, i only managed 2Ds n 2Ps... To me, tat sux... I will do even better this time...

To me right now, i realize tat God is forever good to me... He never just gives me the thing i asked for... He gives me more than I could ever imagine... For the first sem, shawnie is lost, n he found someone to fueled him for sem1... N now, for the second sem, the miseries from tat particular someone will fueled him once again to do even better...

Evrything alwiz happen for a reason, i know for sure that the reason things is happening around me is just to make me become so much better... Thank U Lord for loving me so much...

Now, i dare say... I din lose anything in this... Cuz deep down, u know urself that u lost the most beautiful thing tat cud ever happen to ur life... :)

"THE MORE TROUBLE THERE IS, THE STRONGER SHAWNIE SHALL FIGHT"

My be-earlied bday pressie...

2007-07-21T14:41:00.000+08:00

Went to chadstone with Grace and Dennis ystrdy... Got myself a be-earlied bday present... Haha, the new line of Polo T... the three horses ed...

AUD149.99 - Comments??

p/s : Happy birthday my beloved couzy Michelle... n my bemissed ka jei in Hawaii, Li Mei... mwah mwah mwah...

So near yet so far...

2007-07-20T03:32:00.000+08:00

Had a great dream ystrdy morning, dreamt tat i was back home, enjoying my time with my mum, my sis n my bestest buddies... Celebrating my bday... fuh... was it brilliant...

Woke up at abt 2pm, have a talk with my sis.. My sis asked what i want for my bday... I told her that i wanna go home for the weekend to celebrate my bday... Haha, she said ok... N she will support me financially... N she said that she will do it at all cost... haha... to suprise mum... Hehe.. I guess random-ness n the yeng-ness is in our blood afterall... I just love my sis... Haha, i love tim too... He was so happy to hear me going home that he offered to pick me up from KLIA straight away... Brotherhood to the max...

I grabbed my passport... Called evry1 that i know in melbourne asking if there's any travel agent that they r aware of, i went to STA travel... BUt only to find that there's ticket from Melb-KL but return tick is only available till mid of August... Sigh...

I listed 5 reasons for me to go home :
1. My bday
2. My sis wans to c me
3. To suprise mum
4. I am not having such a great time in melb
5. I am just totally YENG

Haha.. Ended up, i realize i cant b going back... N yet, my frens in melb think that i m... Never bother telling them tat i m in melb anyway... Haha, its good to have a break from them... As too much things had happened lately... They just wun belief the fact tat i m just not emo-ing.. N i laZ to explain to them either... Just let them think tat i m actually back in KL... I reckon wud b a good thing... Mayb ppl think i m stupid or silly... But i dun care...

Btw, i also fell sick... Having sorethroat, fever n headache... N so did Ah Kei... Apparently, we suffered the same sickness at the same time... Wonder wuts the chemistry between us... Haha... Neway, enuff said.. Nitesss

p/s : stop asking me abt the previous blogs peeps... its signed sealed delivered... i just wanna blast everything to my blog... for no apparent reason... and no apparent meaning to cause any types of unnecessary inconveniences.... thank you... lmao

Ok ok.. new beginning... NO.. NO more pathetic blogs..

2007-07-18T00:30:00.000+08:00

New life has begun... Memories are best kept as memories...

Went to velvet for clubbing last friday... It was one of my best this year... Haha... Besides not having any1 seriously drunk or nose bleeding... so on so forth... The best thing happened was really the presence of Ah Kei... Haha... Totally suprised tat she would come... She told me this was way way much better than clubs in Penang... Penang is lala clubs wei... Neway, plenty of things happened that nite... Haha... I was all over protecting her... It was really fun... Looking her enjoying herself... Honestly, this is the first time i actually intro a fren to clubbing... I felt so so special... The party ended early for me n Ah Kei... We then went to Chapellis for a slice of Mixed Berry Cheesecake plus one latte n one cappucino... Haha.. Let the pics speak for themselves...

This is Ah Kei n me...

Happy Yiki, Vincent, Me n Ah kei....

This is the pic i like the most... But hmm... Keep evrything back into ur pants... She's hot (tat night) i must admit... But me n her are only good frens... Hmm... Nothing more... Ehem...

Haha, neway, there was also Daniel, Serene, Celine (I dunno if i spelled it right), Woo Hsien, Henry, Audrey, Pak Lun, Swee Hoe... Plus some ppl tat i dun remember their names... Hmm, evryone tot i was emo... N i was actually trying to prove something tat nite.. But honestly, i heck care wut evryone thinks... I know i m NOT... DEFO!!!!

"You thought you could change someone, the truth is, you changed yourself" - Yiki 2007

2007-06-24T15:21:00.000+08:00

Currently listening to : Nelly Furtado - All Good Things (Come to an end)

I alwiz wanted to continue blogging... but after so long of not doing it... its been like 7 months of so since my last meaningful post... i guess.. too much had happened in recent times... this 7 months was not anything close to my expectations.. as i completed my undergrad and evrything.. as usual, i returned to msia... deciding on where my future lies... i decided to come back to melbourne for another 1 n a half years of study.. But the whole equation of coming back to melbourne was more of weighted to personal reasons rather than wanting to serious study... not tat i m not serious.. but i think, i shouldn't lie to my blog.. i honestly came back more on personal reasons... more to the reason of me not wanting to kick start my 30 years plus of career.. But undoubtedly, my choice of course and the effort that i put in this sem was undoubtedly better than what i normally do... so i have no regrets with my studies...

However, the other reasons and things tat i wud like to c happening never came close to happening as my predictions went all wrong... Things i didn't assume occuring occured instead.. The most significant happening i guess wud be meeting someone (not liking to put names, lets call her Anony, and yes she's a girl)... After 22 years of ups and downs in life.. i thought i wud have learnt enuff to be strong enuff to face plentiful of circumstances.. but in dealing with Anony, i failed.. or should i say miserably... I lost myself so badly... Did so many gay things... Which i am so distraught to even mention it.. But my conclusion is, in this scenario.. plenty of things sided on the bad side... One good thing abt evrything is tat i found myself back to the arms of God... Nevertheless, i went back to Hope Melbourne Church... which is not my style at all.. I went back seeking God's help... Cuz thru out this period.. It was HIM that has given me so much courage and strength... i guess... thru out this period, fear was in my mind afterall... it was a totally new definition of fear to me... the fear tat she said she was once feared of...

I really do not know how the ending is going to be... probably there's no good in knowing... i thinki i write a good chinese phrase myself.. "我知道到最後我也是不會得到你的愛。。如果傻傻的留下。。為何不要瀟灑的離開。。。"... things i wud say went pretty bad... from losing myself... n finding myself in so much fear... finding myself not belonging to me... n yet i have to stand firm to protect evryone else... protecting so many ppl which i wud say their problems has so least to do with me... I found myself being the center of evrything.... seems to me as thou... My energy was draint by more than myself... n yet... i m struggling with my own problems as well... who m i to blame...

I got my mum n sis overly worried about this.. I know i shudn't have... It is becuz... they r the only person in this world that i can count n depend on... Becoming the youngest in the family was really a huge plus plus.. haha... so i must really thank them n God for giving them to me... Mum n sis... i really feel like coming home from this cold winter of melbourne.. but i guess... I cant be running away from such problems... after overcoming this, i belief my life will be much more stronger to serve God...

Today, church was talking abt Steward... Talking abt how to serve God... I found myself losing faith and i m not as much as willing to serve God anymore... I must apologize... I guess i need the breakthru prayers just now... I din get any from the cg leaders but i did prayed for it myself... N now i guess God is helping me once again... giving me the strength for everything... N now i m ready to serve again... Thank the living God...

To conclude this, i guess all good things really have to come to an end... But in this case, i really can say i enjoyed a lot thru out the procedures... No doubt i have plenty of downs as well... But it was really great when the happy things occured... The best i wud say was on her bday... hehe.. thank u for everything... i will b there till the 27th ya... tats the day when both our exams end...

p/s : thanks Steven n Christian for prayers of strength for my last paper this coming wednesday.. really needed it... hehe.. i shall work hard... as i belief... God only help those that help themselves.... Thanks the Almighty God... n oh ya.. thanx Bridget too...

=)

Sydney Sydney Sydney

2006-11-28T07:04:00.000+08:00

22nd Nov

Didn't having any sleep from the night b4, me, ah seng, lim n choo ling took a car ride of 5mins from my hse to clayton station, then a 40 mins train to Southern Cross, then a 1 and a half hour sunbus ride to Avalon Airport b4 boarding a 1 hour and 15 mins plane ride to Sydney. How great can that be.. Lol...

When we reach there, we took a cab looking for the hotel we booked at Elizabeth St. I don't remember what was the name of the hotel already, as we walked like 3 blocks from where the cab stopped. The hotel was one of the dodgiest hotel i have seen lor. The receptionist was an old mixture of middle east and australian. He was so cocky, i feel like killing him... We end up letting him have the money we paid for the hotel and went to another hotel.

After searching high n low for one as most are fully booked, we found Boulevard Hotel and William St which was 4 and a half star and it was really a wonderful stay.

The first stop was to look for something to eat. Choo Ling brought us to this Jap restaurant at Liverpool St. at the corner of Avillion Hotel. It opened at 5.30pm.. n we waited right outside to enter... The restaurant is called makoto.. As soon as we enter... The place is alredi full.. The queue starts as soon as the shop opens..

The sushi train in the restaurant

You can tell how fresh the salmons and sashimiz was.. It was just brilliant.

The teriyaki chicken hand roll

You really should taste the fish roe and the freshness salmon of this masterpiece...

Hehe.... After which... We went for massage at Chicago Spa n Sauna... It was really a 'prostitute parlour' man... Neway, i went for juz a massage... The massage was good, and the story ends there...

23 Nov

Woke up at abt 8am, left the hotel at abt 10am... Went to have breakfast in Queen Vic building... Had a typical msian coffee shop.. had a bun.. Then we went to shopping around that area..

The next stop was at circular quay...

Since there's not much to be done there, we went into the aquarium..

the bastard that killed stevie

i was that close...

The reptile tat attracted me the most is this... The platypus... The idiotic morone that swim across the aquarium like a billion times in a day while evry other fishes was juz enjoying themselves. This pic was really hard to get.. when he is travelling like 50mph...

The day ended cathing a movie and having a meal in china town b4 heading home...

24th Nov

Left early from our hotel to have breakfast at fish market..

Then head back to circular quay for our boat ride out the atlantic ocean for whale watching...

Posing at the jetty b4 boarding the boat

The four that boarded the seemingly boring boat

The whole trip was a disaster.. Having the other 3 having sea sick.. N the suckiest part is NO WHALE IN SIGHT... the only thing we saw was a bunch of playing dolphins swimming alongside the boat...

The night after, we spend our time at the darling harbour... Had one of the tiniest portion of steak i ever had in Aust...

My Opera House

25 Nov

The last day was Bondi day...

The Clayton Story 1 (The accomodation n campus)

2006-11-28T07:03:00.000+08:00

I need to really sum up the happenings of this year... The only year tat i spent almost the whole year abroad... So i think i shud crap sumthing abt my happenings of the year..

I have been transfered from the msia campus to the clayton campus...
Clayton is abt 20 mins drive from melbourne n 40 mins on the train using the Pakenham line..

This is where i stayed for the year.. 2/34 Panorama Street

Having a closer look

The kitchen where i actually learn cooking

My living room, contributed mostly by suet li's furniture.. lol

Me and my hsemates minus one....

Panorama Street

This is the main entrance to the engineering faculty

Nothing much of a sight actually for the engineering faculty. The place was way much bigger than the msia campus itself. Technological wise way more advance than msia. Study wise, Mechatronic Clayton suckss..

This broker bridge explains how good Melbourne Uni Civil Engineers are..

This is Hargrave Andrew Library where all the engineering students hangout.. Hehe.. I alwiz come here too... Cuz easier to find leng lui while studying.. Not to mention, this is the place i would say i spend most time with the special sum1 tat i met this year...

This is how the 3rd floor looks like.. Hehe.. I think it's the coolest library i had ever been into.. Oh, did i mention that we can talk as loud as we want in most part of the library.. Not to mention that we can actually eat and drink in the library... The library operates from 8.30am to 9pm....

My hsemate apparently studying something abt pregnancy....

The best part abt my uni is that there r a lot of parks where those ang moz n ang mo wannabes hangout.. They juz sit on the grass for lunch or studying.. Sum how they juz enjoy doin things under hot burning sunlight so much... This is wut we call it engineering lawn.. Suppose to have a 'Einstein tree' in which where gravity was discovered...

This is another park next to the campus center on the way to matheson library...

This is the Campus Center where i alwiz makan n hang out during lunch time...

This is the meeting point in campus center.. spaghetti, indian cuisine, pizza, coffee, sushi... all can b found here....

The nicest part abt my uni is the happenings around... from time to time, there will b events held at the lemon scented lawn next to campus center.. where all the markets are as well as games n multicultural events.... I wud say, this is cool lor... especially got free bbq for poor ppl like me....

The after exam doings

2006-11-19T17:43:00.000+08:00

Happy Birthday to my lovely and ever childish blood connected sister... Today is her 26th Birthday.... So.. Happy Birthday....

This is also my first blog after my exams, n after a long long week of resting n outing...

The weather is getting hotter n hotter by days... N to rot myself thru this time till the days the result r to come out... The feeling is juz unbearable...

2006-11-10T13:02:00.000+08:00

Borat a.k.a. Ali G

This is cool shit

P Diddy and Manchester United... Cool bananazz..

2006-11-01T10:19:00.000+08:00

Puff Daddy... Yes yes.. the rapper hu changed his name to P Diddy is a ManU fan wor... He went to look for ManU team when they r playing in Denmark... ManU is cool or wut? Roman's cash can play famous player... But can he buy a rap King? Hard to believe? Believe it!!!.... I think he's goinna rap sumthing abt manU soon.... Haha... I think when Fergie talks to him... He tries to b hiphop too... lol.. Rooney's smile is like "wooo... a rap star"...

Free Hugs in Korea

2006-10-25T17:28:00.000+08:00

I think i m becoming more n more humanitarian.. Cuz i juz feel so great about this video.. hope this spread through the world.. N imagine if i m the guy doing this in Malaysia... I think people around will think that i m craZ... U noe y? No offense, but all Malaysians including myself are naive perverts.... Hope we can really do something about it.. Malaysians..

Check this out.. GUYS

2006-10-23T10:39:00.000+08:00

Hazzy hazzy malaysia..

2006-10-22T23:22:00.000+08:00

I found this thing extremely bothering ar... Evry year... its like every damn year.. forest burning in sumatera... n nothing is done abt it man.... is there any prevention.... where the hell is WWF? taking care of some pandas? where the hell is UN? juz becuz this problem doesn't effect them as much as we do.... no actions can be taken? all u guys care abt is the bull shit nuclear testing by north korea.... which i dun giv a damn abt... cuz having a strong asian counterpart will keep US mouth shut neway....

But check this out lar... got this pix from laine's blog.... without her permission...

this was taken some time back at her uncle's place at pantai panorama...

this was taken 3 days back.... n she is complaining tat she cant c mid valley...

sigh.... n i guess i wun b here to blog as much after this blog... exams coming... next tues...

haha... i noe its damn lame to upload my exam timetable... but wut the hell... this is actually my last one... ever... this is the damn final time monash is goin to update their site with my timetable.... MY TIMETABLE....

taking time off

2006-10-22T23:08:00.000+08:00

Haha... taking time off from my studies n everything... i m here writing this blog... first of all i wud like to wish Yi Khee, Choo Ling, Sam n Marvin Happy bday... these r the bday parties i attended in two weeks time... n damn busy wit my thesis presentation, thesis report, modeling report, modeling presentation, modeling tutorials, modeling demonstration.... so much things to do... not to mention my final finals....

But then.... taking time off to watch ManU liverpool match was juz brilliant... haha... manU won 2-0... scholes on his 500th appearance for manU... the ninth person ever to do tat in manU's history... n for ferdinand scoring his second goal against liverpool... n his second goal for manU so far.... the story doesn't end there... let me describe rio's goal... crossed in... bring in down wit his right feet to his left feet.... hit into the top left goal corner wit his left feet.. beating a liverpool defender at the same time... wut could be better....i m loving every second of it... n speaking to some frens... i felt it juz wonderful... althou, me n my besties of frens are 8 hours apart in terms of flying... we r doin the same thing at the same time... basically we r connected in some way... haha... mayB u peeps wun understand... but i really feel great about it... neways.. back to the match....

scholesy after his goal..... woooooo.....

rio... with his trade mark index finger.. lol... after his glorious goal...

n of cuz... the celebration...

another quote from my ex dear dear blog..

2006-10-16T09:31:00.000+08:00

From her blog :

what's minnie without mickey?

what's tiger without pooh?

what's patrick without spongebob?

what's ME without YOU?

send this to 15 frens u nvr wana LOOSEEE..

* receive this fwd msg today.. and i haf so little frens in melb that it's so hard to find 15 ppl on my phonebook. Blerk. that's the disadvantage of coming to a new country wit ur frens! esp when ur frens go back to ur country before u.. tsk tsk

* fwd the msg to a few ppl.. one call back.. "u v free?" haha.. two fwd-ed back.. all guys. haha. HOW SWEET! i thot guys would think that fwd-ing sth like tht is gay.

this little msg made my DAY.

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i was the one calling her back!!.... yays... haha... i damn lame ar... alwiz quote from other ppl's blog.. cuz i really got nothing much to write lately... unless abt the finish-less assignments n my mood-depression thesis subject.... dying.... neway... got sumthing happening in my life lately... brilliantly done still... not telling it out yet.. till i succeeded... crossing my fingers.... praying hard for it to be perfect.... bless me ar.. my ex dear dear....

cheers...

Back to winning ways...

2006-10-15T13:49:00.000+08:00

After a defeat against the gunners and a draw againts the cheap skate royaless..... It's back to winnning ways for ManU against Wigan.. not till a brilliant come back.. Goals scored by Vidic, Saha n Ole Ole Gunnar Solskjaer... Yay... 3-1.... Greatest second half i've seen in years for ManU.. i suppose... N i wore the Rooney jersey i bought to sleep tat nite... n it was really a sound 1... haha...

N finally, i bought a small bottle of horlicks for myself... haha... wth... they recalled it... to put a sticker on it... Y cant they juz send the stickers to grocery owners to stick it? tat will save all my pains.. N speaking of which, i love horlicks becuz of Star East Cafe in Glen... they make one of the finest horlicks i suppose... i alwiz order "dung horlicks ar.... nung dit ar... em koi"... hehe... i think i m the only one tat drink horlicks there..... n the best part was.. they were closed down for renovation lately... so i was surfing the web for their site to c if they reopened alredi... i googled "star east glen australia"... n check this out... plz plz click on the pic.. cuz this is juz so cool seto-beleizzz.....

n finally tonite... i won my real poker thingy for the first time since playing... i won a total of $130 bucks... playing at rae's garage... cant b a better time to win.... my last poker till after the finals....

mumsu ball

2006-10-07T21:26:00.000+08:00

Finally got time to do this... Shud have done this way way way way earlier... I went to this malaysian club ball on the 22nd of Sept... which is half a month back...

ok ok.. it was at sofitel melbourne at collins after the exhibition st junction... actually looking at the outside part of the hotel.. i tot its goinna b a dodgy place.... but after i parked my car.. oh oh... have i mention my car? nah.. it was a rented 1... from thrifty.. $65 bucks mate... damn blardy expensive for a day's rent... but it was great lar... as i m fetching some frens along too.. check it out.. a red lancer lar... i noe its no big deal... but i learn to respect the lancer since i was young...

and here's the outlook of the ball room...

the main course... salmon wit sumthing.... rating from 0-10... i giv 7

n the dessert.. tiramisu with chocolate ice cream... rating 6... it wasn't the most beautiful ballrooms i had seen.. but it was really good enuff... din expected much mayB... however, the ball was damn boring for me lar... not much of my close frens went.. n i stuck in a table of virtually all unknowns... i was desperate to go... as this is goinna b my last unofficial ball.. in which i juz chill n look around... so... it was real boredom.... neway... took some pix at tat place... too bad cant find the 1 taken wit aim.. :'(

me n my ex dear dear.. sam boy wasn't meant to b there...

me n sam boy.. haha....

me n my 4 year old daughter... haha... she damn unhappy wit me.. i suppose...

but the after party was great lar... cuz i noe i was wasted... i dun remember wut i had.. i had a corona to start off with... then 3 151s, some vodka shoots then a tequila shoot thanx to justin.. haha... then i aso dunno wut i was doin alredi...

the gay ass pic....

my ex dear dear centering the attraction again.. lolzzz

the prom king is the other guy in white... haha... he dare to touch my ex dear dear wor... he lucky i m drunk...

but at the end of the day... i still manage to drive home.. i was a lil tipsy... but i juz cant stand being sent home by a girl... haha... juz not my thing... but i manage to go home safely... n so did the rest... end of story... siew chin... dun kill me ar... i promise i wun drunk drive anymore...

Mooncake Fest

2006-10-07T13:08:00.000+08:00

spent my shitty mooncake festival this year at st. kilda beach.. a lovely place to b in the summer when those hot huge boobical girls come out to get some tan on themselve...

by the way, when i say shitty... i really mean shit ... haha...

at first... it was juz a boring dinner together wit some frens at westlake restaurant @ lil burke.. ended up drinking some coffee at the beaches near st kilda.. "No bottle on the streets of VIC" prevented us from getting some beeer to chill on the beach... we ended up juz walking on the beach at 0300 hours... there was juz an ang mo couple therre n another chinese group celebrating there wit some mooncakes... we were walking n walking when i receive a call from mother nature... it was huge..... have to get it done at the nearest Shell station.... damn suckie nite.... but happy mooncake fest guyss...