Last night, I was coming bk home late from supper with Eng & SP. As I was surfing my PC, I was thrown from my chairs from a big bang ...... and all I can remember then is a continous loud noise, fireworks cracking, I look at the clock, it's 12 mignight. Some "patrioctic" fellows just carry their Merdeka celebration to our quiet paddy fields neighborhood, and try to "awaken" everyone to join them .

My parents and brother were all gone to bed, I can't imagine how suprise they are to be awaken like this ...... and I know my mum has problem to get bk to sleep once she's awaken in the middle .

As far as I know, we do hv official venue to celebrate the Merdeka and hv all those fireworks cracking going on ...... so what the HELL these "patriotic" idiots are doing around my neighborhood ????

Celebrating Merdeka is not abt giving ur fellow countrymen a good shock in their sleep, especially the elders and those still need to get up early and go to work. Prince Nazrin is right abt 1 thing, our education shld hv implant the "humanity" to the students ..... else we're doubt we will hv another 50th of Independence celebration in the future ..... as Malaysia might be ruined by these "patriotic" jokers .

I have been coming back from Klang almost 1 year now, life have been quiet for me here . Well, apart from meeting friends, joining the cool activities in town, make a small trip ..... I'm just spending life.

It is not still water, but rather a slow flowing pace river, slower than the one I hv saw in Mulu ....... but clear and refreshing.

Sometimes, someone will show up, and causes some whirls ...... and I will feel sorry as I didn't notice them all this while. I'm a careless person, when I choose to be . As for the past, my sensitivity had caused me some chaos, so back to the dumb state these days .

Will the whirling water causes the "tsunami" in my life ? I don't know , I'm not thinking too much abt it though ....... as I choose to live in present this time, and look straight to my target .

今天傍晚忙里偷点闲，跟老爸呆在电视前，欣赏了凤凰台的"缘份的故事"。

这真人真事的节目访问了一段异国情缘，成都的李梅及美国的托尼。

访问的当中，李梅说了一段话:无论我跟谁在一起，我都必须和自己在一起。这是她在三十岁后领悟的，一段失败的marriage后。

走过人生苦辣，才逐渐明了自己，接受自己 。。。。。。再和自己，继续走下去。

Here we are, mum calling out from my window before 7am this morning, and said we shld go earlier to the market, as everyone shld be out to chase after the ..... roasted pork.

Okie, okie ..... wake dad too, the team hv to be comprised of forward, center and guard for the battle .

Off we go, half an hour earlier than the usual hours. Just I tot we're the earliest birds, then suddenly we saw many familiar faces at the roasted pork stalls ..... all the uncle and aunties from the neighborhood are already there and waiting for their order.

We try real hard to get the attention of the owner to serve us ...... I ask mum that next time we shld bring our own knife to chopped those pork, and just pay to the owner , easier.

At last we hv got ourself a piece of the roasted pork ..... and next for the piggy's stomach . Mum told the owner what she wants, using her broken Hokkien, and we saw the owner turn around and try to get smth from the stall. By the time the owner turn around, she's grabbing the roasted piggy's head and ask if we wanted the whole ??? We are like . The next thing is a good laugh abt it ..... this time we hv to tell the owner in our fluent Cantonese that we wanted the stomach, not the head . Oh boy ..... mum had been staying in Penang for more than 30 years, and still she never wanted to polish up her Hokkien. Thus from time to time, I hv to be her translator, an amateur myself .

Oh yeah, today is the Ghost Festival in the Chinese Lunar calendar. According to the tradition saying, the door of Hell will be opened up, and all the "ghosts" will be lingering around in the human world. And we, the human shall offer them with food, Hell nation's money notes, and things that we thought they will be using too just as when they are alive. So ........ it is advisable not to stay out late during this whole month .

Aha, Theng and I just went to visit PL n her little baby this noon. Yeah, promised that I will handcuff Theng and bring her to visit PL once she's bk from KL ...... that fellow always sneak bk and never inform us to meet up, not all the time, but sometimes .

Little Zhi Xuan hv grown up ....... handsome little guy with fair skins, thanks to mummy's good gene. He is pretty excited with the arrival of 2 "aunties" . I got to babysit him for a while ...... a bit tense though coz worry of not handling him well, hope he is comfortable enough .

We order the pizza for lunch, little Zhi Xuan staring us with the food, we just hv to comfort him that his time will come . FK bring out the baby chair that Theng n I hv bought for the baby, for Theng's inpection, coz she hasn't saw it yet. Hemm, looks like I made a smart choice by choosing the rock + walking chair. Amazing how they design the multi usage chair, to help the baby to walk, and also stop him for walking too much when daddy n mummy is not free . I was pretty excited when I was choosing the chair, as if I'm the one who will be using it .

Little Zhi Xuan is too excited until he refuse to go to bed ...... making all the noises to get our attention. Too bad, the 2 "aunties" is busy with the deli wings ..... only the daddy and mummy is taking turn to calm him down.

It is pretty headache when baby is crying, and we really can't figure out what he/she wants. PL is asking little Zhi Xuan what he wants ...... and we do hope he can speaks then .

PL did actually successful put him asleep ........ for 15 minutes and he's awake again, and the crying comes again . So the 2 "aunties" quickly excuse ourself and try to make way home . How strange, little Zhi Xuan stop crying when he saw us leaving . Come on, we can't be that annoying, can we ???

But anyhow, nice to see the little Zhi Xuan to grow up a bit now ...... next time when I saw him, probably he's walking unsteadily yeah .

Yeah, it's a cartoon, so what ? I do watch cartoon sometimes, as long as the story is interesting and it is beaautifully featured .

If u hvn't seen it or hv no idea abt it, it's a story abt a little rat, who is gifted in tasting. And how this little rat follow his idol chef's guidance to pursue its own desire and becoming what it wants to be, a chef . Of coz u will hv the usual of story plot where there will always be a bad guy, who is trying to stop every thing good from happening ..... and a bunch of family members who will support the little chef at the end even though they can't agree with it at the beginning.

Everyone can cook ...... this is the idea what Chef Gusteau has try to sell. Infact not only in cooking, I believe this spirit lies in everything we try to do.

Honestly to say, I shy away from kitchen all these years ..... the excuse that I hv is, my mum is a good cook, and we hv taken her for granted all this while. And I feel that no matter how hard I try, I will never up to her standard . But I forget the fact that I never try at all actually .

Making the cheese cakes and tiramisu brought me to sneak into the cooking world lately, and I'm happy to say that I enjoying it a lots. Though it is simple ...... but knowing that I hv too the ability to improve every time and try to fine tune the taste. The ability that I admire the most in my mum ...... to bring out the best from the ingredients and materials.

I hv my 1st lesson from my mum in cooking curry chicken last week, strange that it taste better when she's cooking . I guess when you're the chef, you hv much higher expectation then .

Go and watch this cartoon movie, I will call it a good film myself ...... viva Disney .

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A friend said : just think that work is the time to fill the gaps between traveling, learning and meeting friends.

Hemm, very true, this is how I look at my work these days. U ???

我的tiramisu师傅告诉我， tiramisu的意大利译文是"让我快乐". 之前做了两个tiramisu给同事和好友吃，不晓得他们可觉得快乐 ？？？

上个星期六，在访友途中，发生了一点公路意外， 让我心惊胆跳了一轮，虽无大碍， 可也提醒自己得小心那些不小心的公路使用者。

心情无法平复，只好等周日再弄tiramisu给新加玻归来的好友吃了。许是经验多了，不再手忙脚乱，悠然自得地砌着饼层，敷上mascaporne芝士 。。。。。我享受着小厨师的滋味了 。

朋友赞好吃呢，我也欣然接受了 。 曲终人散，把tiramisu的快乐都散播了，我独自坐在客厅，把最后一口tiramisu放进嘴里。原来就是如此了，我感受到了，那幸福的感觉，我让我自己快乐了 。

Well, I still can't get enough of the trip ....... a singaporean friend that we met during the trip have uploaded the photos of the Mulu National Park :
http://picasaweb.google.com/seowwoon/MuluNationalPark?authkey=0T9hY0xsmsA

A collection of great photos and I'm really ashamed of myself for not being sensitive enough to capture all those tiny creatures, coz I'm keep looking for the bigger size animals all the time, haha. It is my dream to capture a shapshot of the hornbill all the while. But for that I hv to climb a lot more higher, coz those birds live in a very tall tree.

Some lessons learnt from the trip ..... I'm still very new in the trip of trekking type. But hei, everything has a start, and I'm glad I hv a good start . Got to be more relax and more observe, and more open to others too for the coming trips. I missed a wonderful chance to learn more abt the forest from the fellow tour guides, too busy of socialing with my new teammates .

Till another trekking trip again, in the wonderful land .

:PEver heard of Mulu National Park ?? It's in Sarawak (east Msia), near to Brunei and to Sabah too.

So I jump into the Mulu National Park trip which is organised by my Rawang friend's friend. I guess I'm a bit tired of having to orgnanise my own trip, thus it shld be more relax to be a follower this round .

Well, I did imagine myself displaying a nice pose, where the Pinnacles set as my background, and I would hv write a grand story how I manage to climb to the viewpoint in my blog. Anyhow, it is an imagination ..... coz I didn't make it to the viewpoint .

On the 1st day arriving the Mulu National Park HQ, we checked in to our very much comfortable room, it is a long house style, where you hv rooms on it, and each room hv 4 separate queen size bed ...... and the washroom is very clean as well .

After a refreshment, we're being guide to walk a passage for an hour, and arrive at the entrance of the Deer Cave, known as the largest cave in the world ..... and the largest bat dump compunds too I guess . The cave is magnificient, too bad that my camera and my photographing skills is not up to the level to hv capture some great pictures.

We actually visited some other caves, Lang Cave, Wind Cave & Clear Water Cave. 1 of the friend actually think the ClearWater cave hv the feel of the scene in the movie "A River Runs Through It". I don't hv the same feeling .... as the river is not quite moving outside the ClearWater Cave but nevertheless the water is "clear" . The ClearWater and Wind Cave is actually link, where the ClearWater Cave being the lower passage of the whole limestone mountain.

Comes the hard part, on the 2nd day, after the visit to the ClearWater Cave, we continue our journey and "sail" on our boat to head for the Kuala Litut. On and off, we hv to get down from the boat and PUSH ..... there's smth new for us . I remember for the 1st time, I'm still not reacted quickly, thus end up I'm one of the two that still sit in the boat while the rest is already pushing the boat. It wasn't an easy job though ..... tired, tired, tired. From Kuala Litut, we hv to walk for 8.8km to reach the base camp, Camp 5 before climbing the Mt Api to see the Pinnacles.

We manage to "crawl" to the Camp 5 before the sunset, after walking for 2.5 hours with our backpack full of canned food ...... who's idea to bring along canned food ?? Once we reached, we thought we hv knock on Heaven's door ....... A river runs through it, a mountain stood tall in front of us ........ and finally a dip in the cool river water to wash away our dirt and keep the bees away from us. The small creatures are after our salt .

Did I told you that we saw the Milky Way that night ?? I can't remember the last time I saw such a starry sky ..... not to mention spotted a shooting star as well . The night is cold at the Camp 5, 10 of us sleep in the dormitory, where each of us provided with a mat n ..... nothing else. I forget to rent a blanket, when the light goes off at 10pm .... I was like uhh ohh, can I survive the cold ?? I did survive but in a not so good condition for the climb .

The route to the Mt Api is challenging, a 2.4km journey and the mountain rose to 1200m within that distance. Half of the team make it to the "mini Pinnacles" at the 900m distance and called it quit .... I'm one of them. Do I regret abt it, a bit, just a bit .... but I will be back .

Living for 2 days in Camp 5 is fun ..... I didn't know you can be a rock star if you know how to cook rice in a pot using the stove. , I act like Jamie at Home when I try to give a few tips on how to cook the rice . And the gang, those new friends that I hv grow to know along this trip ..... awesome ppl.

Each time Sarawak suprised me with its nature beauty, there's so much more national parks I vow to explore ....... explore it for yourself, and learn to live a life .

Well, I was holidaying in Ipoh with my parents, visiting my cousin and their families. We had a replacement holidays as the public holidays falls on our rest day.

No one bother abt to read the company email during holidays ...... and that's why end up, friends from others company hv to inform that, Hei ... ur company has been merge with this company .

It comes as a real shock, coz more precisely our company had been sold out ..... so what next ??? Wait and see then .

So did I join the run finally ?? Yeah, I did ..... not practically a run, imagine to hv few thousands of ppl in front of you, you might consider yourself lucky if you got enough space to "walk" quickly.

Eng and I went over to Penang island and stay at Bein's house, as the PG bridge will be closed in the midnight. Spending a night in a comfort apartment seems to be a better choice to sleep in the car.

We're late or shld I said, Just In Time for the registration ..... didn't expect the journey from our car park to the starting point is almost 2km . By the time when we reached the RESCAM building, I thought I might hv call it a day .

As the bridge is currently under construction to expand the lanes, thus you can few working ships is around the bridge, and the stupid divider plate that place along the bridge, could hv kill the awesome scene of the dawn on the bridge.

Though I manage to finish the run in time, but I can't say I really enjoy it. Something is missing from the previous experience somehow. The spirit, the scenes and the youthful energy perhaps.

Well, unfortunately I pick up my old knee injury at the last 500m from the finishing line ..... boy, I barely can straighten my right foot since then .

I hope more frenz will join \the run next year, make sure you're not suffering from the "monthly" pain, firm auditing and etc etc .

Hemm, I was only been away for 3 months ?? It seems longer than that.

So did I eyesight getting improve since I last wrote my blog ? , na ..... it becomes worse I guess, so I would hv to figure out another way to improve it .

A lots of happening here for the past 3 months, some are shocks , more are joys . So I guess just hv to go down on the memory lane a bit ........