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Monday, 06 April 2009

  • Its been a while...

              Its has been really quite some time since my last blog so as i also can't remember when was my last blog posted..lol..  lots of stories to be told.. lots of learning to be shared.. lots of memories to be kept.. but i'll just go through it briefly so as not to make my fellow reader bored to death..haha..

             After the dec holiday it was the coming chinese new year festival that had been bothering me for the whole of january until 21st of jan which is the day the event was held. I was the president of that event and its really the first time for me to organise such big event. The most important thing for being a leader is the ability to make the correct decision. As for me, i'm totally sucks at that.. but through life we make choices everyday..so still learning though..

           After the burden of CNY has been off my shoulder.. there comes our first test for the semester.. i really struggled as for the whole january i barely did any revision and studying.. then february came, on and on we had our test subject by subject and then intercalary days came.. its the days of happiness and blissful joy where charity and sharing and giving falls into place.. i joined the butterworth youth on the trip to the home of special children. its was during lunch time that we arrived that day and they were having lunch.. so we help to fed them as they can't eat properly by themselves.. looking at them makes us reflect on how lucky we are and with our normal physical body we should help those who are less fortunate..


    The Handicapped Children's Home at butterworth...

    it was on feb also that i bought my bike..its a yamaha brand and the model is SR-X.. my first time hearing this model oso as i only know Honda EX-5 because its the bike i had back at my own house at kk..haha.. so now its about 2 months old d.. and still remember the first day when i was riding my bike back from butterworth to my campus it rained.. quite an experience..

    my Yamaha SR-X...

             After the CNY also i started my tuition class at kuala kurau every monday 3pm to 5pm with currently 16 students.. so every sunday and monday evening i'll be going to kuala kurau..but sometimes i'll take the bus from parit buntar to kuala kurau as to ride for half an hour there and another half an hour back is really tiring.. so might as well rest on the bus..XP

             Then Naw Ruz came.. during Naw Ruz eve we had a unity feast at Parit Buntar Baha'i Centre where i invited 1 of my fren to join us.. then on the 21st i joined the penang community celebration..after the lunch me and jervin joined the penang youths for movie at queensbay mall before going back butterworth..
     



              Just last friday i went to penang again and this time to really release some stress after the test 2s... of course after we finished our digital assignment on thursday nite where 3 of my frens din actually sleep that nite till the next day 7am where we have to wait for the shutter bus to go to penang main campus.. at first we planned to go for bowling during the morning but seems they need to sleep so i followed my roommate cheng zheng back to his house at air itam somewhere near feaizi's house.. around 11am we went to cyber cafe together with 1 of his fren and we played 'left 4 dead' which is a zombies killing shooting game.. then we went to red box at gurney plaza with another 5 of cz and gau hwang's fren.. its really fun but unfortunately we din took any picture..sob..  Then at nite i joined the junior youth gathering at air itam. its ching's and feaizi's group.. so they were planning their service project to visit the orphanage so me and feaizi look through the internet for origami to make tulips to teach them.. After the jy gathering we went queensbay after picking up jing ping at the institute perguruan where we watched 'knowing' till about 2am..lol.. its feaizi's birthday so we spent the nite at his house..

             The next day ching ching got a ruhi class at 1pm.. at first she invited me to go also but her participants are 2 gals.. and according to feaizi they are quite shy with boys around so i din go lor... i played electric guitar at feaizi's house for the first time..lol... so i phoned my fren to go watch movie again so as not to interupt the birthday boy with his partner..dun wan to shine lor... we went to gurney again to watch fast and furious 4.. while waiting for the movie we went to the arcade and i tried the para para dancing game.. its my first time oso playing that as back at kk i really seldom go into the arcade as its full of philipines and smokes.. can't stand it.. its quite fun.. after the movie my fren drop me at the penang baha'i centre where we had the jy animator encounter there.. we shared experience and problems faced during animating the jys and at the end we had a small cake cutting for feaizi for his 23rd birthday..haha.. That nite i followed ming rui's car back to butterworth and stayed overnite there together with jervin and his bro which just came back from cambodia..

              Sunday morning jervin sent me and his bro to the bus stop where i get back to the campus for the study week before the final exams.. so here i am at the hostel... think thats all till now.. below are some random pics for the pass few weeks...


    The sauna herba that yeong chien introduce me.. we went there once..haha.. looking forward for the second time...XP


    The 2 stars i made for my to cousins while on the way back from kl last 1st March..


    Dun waste the food left overs..its a piece of art...lol...


    my first kfc inside the hostel...in the pic..gau hwang(left),my roommate cheng zheng(right-blurr), and FOOD(middle)...


    And finally this is Kuala Kurau lor.. its a fishing village with simple people living simple life..
             

Friday, 02 January 2009

  • Dec 2008 Holiday..

        Its really be so so long since my last post.. Having holiday ma..hehe.. so now back to my engineering campus at Nibong Tebal d and 2nd sem started lor... and now its going to be the 3rd week of sch d...wow can't believe time pass so fast..2 more weeks then Chinese New Year d lor!!! haha..

    The Days at KK

       So i guess i'll start of from the first event when i'm back at Kota Kinabalu.. i'm very priviledged and thx to aunty cho ling that i'm given the opportunity to become a wedding MC together with natalie.. its really a great experience and i guess its a once in a life time experience..haha.. so the first thing when me and my other 2 bros get down the plane, we went to the Promenade Hotel to meet up with Aunty Cho ling to survey for the venue. Then Natalie handed me over the script for the MC-ing coz she's more experience in this MC thinging. So i just translated it to english and the next day morning went to her house to practice. Its quite rush coz i get back to kk on 26th and the wedding is on 27th evening.. So that nite we had fun although we did a little mistake on one of the ceremony but overall the bridegroom was satisfied so Hoo-Ray for both of us..haha..and thank God oso..

    me and my MC partner nat..                                           from left,mandy,nat,me,on,aaron,elicia..


        Next on the list is some session with ABM Jossie from Taiwan. She stayed at my house for a about 5 days as a resource person sent by Counsellor Gobu to help the kk community. Its time of learning and serving where we did Junior Youth review gathering, Children's Class review gathering and Ruhi book 1 review.. and not to forget lots of teaching activities done during that period of time. The most memorable one is the day we had the Children's Class review gathering. The parents were having session with ABM Jossie where the youths which is me,yung yung,yennie,fairuz and wai on brought the childrens to the playground at the Park infront of the Arkib near my house..its like heaven for the kids there where they ran here and there.. We spent 2 hours at the park till 12pm where the session ends at baha'i centre then we took them back.. its really a joyful moment and guess what..2 hours of babysiting ends up in whole evening of immobility on bed.. swt..haha.. Being parents really aren't that easy..haha..

         The next few days i went out yum cha with some friends to get updates from them and sort of like a reunion lor.. On the 12th dec we visited a family which is natalie's relatives living at Putera Jaya,Telipok. the place i stayed from 12 to 16 yrs old.. The adults had ruhi book 1 and the youths were inside the house chit chating. Then the adults suggest that the youths oso do some studying so the next 2 days we did ruhi book 1 and junior youth gathering at their house.. On the 13th was the first day where me and yennie and natalie is animating for the jy and uncle oliver together with yung yung and wai on did the ruhi with them.. a sad thing happened that day when we went out with the jy to let them experience taking public busses where their dog got banged by a car on the road. It really got us shocked and stunned for a few seconds but after we went back to the house we said prayers and take that as a learning where we must cherish our life and look after little lifes around us coz life can be gone in just a few seconds. The next day we continued the jy gathering and ruhi class where the jy help to prepare lunch for everyone. That evening they went to play badminton at the hall just opposite my house but me and my bro just go chit chat and say goodbye to them as we haven't pack our things yet and the next day our whole family is taking of to penang and to Medan,Indonesia on the 16th..



    Medan Here We Come!!!

           So its on the 15th evening we reached penang and stayed overnite at my uncle's house. the next day morning we meet up with my big bro wai ho and then at the evening off to Medan..On the 16th evening we arrived at Medan international airport its not wat i expected where its just a small airport much smaller then KKIA. so we tooked taxi and stayed overnite at the Polonia Hotel where we contacted the Lovely Tour to had our 3 days 2 nite tour around Medan. The first nite we had our own dinner where we took the kereta beca to the town and ta pao our dinner back to the hotel. The traffic there is very terifying with narrow roads and all vehicle keep pressing their hones while overtaking. But we manage to get back to the Hotel safely lol.. So the next day morning which is on the 17th morning we joined the Tour where there're 4 families in the bus all from M'sia. 1 indian family,2 Malay family and 1 Chinese family(us)..really represent M'sia huh...haha.. We went to lake toba on the first day of tour which is about 5 hours from the medan town. we stopped by at a shop where they're selling peanuts but the name is really special.. at around 5pm we reached lake toba. we stayed at a shuttle just next to the lake. the view was really fascinating as the lake is bigger than the whole of singapore and there's an island within the lake also..

           On the 18th we went to Simosir which is on the island within the lake. we visited the local ppl and bought some handicrafts. they're really good at carving things.. One thing special about them is that they praised lizards(cicak) where to them lizards go out seaching for food and will eventually come back to its origin. until about 12pm we headed back to the hotel for lunch and then get into the bus to go brastagi which is about 4 hours drive. And along the whole way the road is really narrow and scarry but i think they get used to it already. There lots and lots of churches along the road where u can actually c 2 churches built just next to each other.. we reached brastagi around 5pm where we're given half and hour to go look around their market place selling lots of fruits.. our family went straight to the durian stall where we had 4 durians for only about 35,000rupiah which is about rm12..its really delicious the durians there. then we headed to the hotel to take our dinner and rest for the nite. The weather there was really cold and there are no air conditioning at each hotels coz they don't need 1..and the hot water provided is only from 6pm to 8pm and about 2 hours also in the morning.

           19th which is the last day of our trip at Medan, we went back to medan and had our lunch at a restaurant there. the ikan bakar was really delicious. then the we say goodbye to the tour where they sent us to the airport and off we go back to penang.          

           
                           having our lunch before heading to lake toba


                   the peanut brand that they sell..unique huh..
     

    3 of us with the 'scarf' to show respect to the kings..                           the view of simosir


           our tour group with chinese,indian, and malays..haha..


                                       the lizard...


            on the boad to pulau simosir..                                                         at the hotel beside lake toba..



                a view from inside the bus of lake toba..             the map of lake toba with simosir island in the middle..


    Back to M'sia spilt up...

           The moment we reach penang, i've to sent my parents and wai on to the bus station as they're taking bus straight to kl where my parents will be going to kuching to join the regional conference there and wai on will be joining the youth camp from 20th till 24th. Me and wai ho stayed at my uncle's house and the next day we met our 4th ah yi at my da yi's house where together we went to visit my grandma at Pantai Acheh. On the way we had laksa and hokkien mee at balik pulau and we spend our time with my grandma till about 3pm then together with her we went back to my da yi's house. that evening me and wai ho stayed at my cousin's house as the next day i need to go back my campus already and wai ho will be going to his friend's house at alor star. That nite we planned to go watch movie at queensbay mall but its all full so we booked for the next day afternoon. The next day we watched 'Yes man' before i followed my roommate's car back to campus and my cousin send my bro to the busstop.

           Then the first day of the 2nd semester started where we had our first lecture on the fist day of semester from 2pm to 4pm. On the 24th i tooked a bus to butterworth to meet up with my dad at my uncle's house. then we drove to penang where i joined my friends at gurney to celebrate christmas eve. its really crowded there with ppl playing with the snow spray although it has already been banned last year. after that i stayed overnite at my friend's house at Jawi. we reached home at about 3.30am that nite coz very jam on the penang bridge.


    in front of the gurney plaza.. so crowded!!! and the cars that passed through all become white car...lol

    then the next morning my parents picked me up there and we headed to alor star to pick up my big bro and to visit his friend's family. Then we stopped by at Sungai Petani to visit uncle Ch'ng and his family.we had a drink at Old Town before headed back to butterworth.
     
           On the 26th me and wai ho say goodbye to our parents where we followed uncle ah loy's car to kl to join the kl conference and my parents will be attending my cousin's wedding at penang island.


    KL Regional Conference..

       We reach kl at about 5pm where we first headed to a hotel inside the TNB college as uncle ah loy they all will be staying there. Then we went to the MAEPS hall to meet up with my bro wai on and other baha'i friends there coz they'll be having rehearsal for the the next day's big event. that nite we slept at soon sayn's house at klang which is about 45 minutes drive from the MAEPS hall. most of the baha'is will be staying at UPM hostel just opposite the MAEPS hall. The next morning soon sayn's father woke us up at 4.40am to get ready to go for the regional conference as soon sayn and my bro and siew yen were involved in the devotional.

        At the regional conference, there were 2 representatives of the Universal House of Justice together with all the counsellors of this region. Not to forget there're friends from Myanmar,Korea and Singapore also. around 3300 ppl attended the conference. Its really a event full with spirituallity,tranquality and joy. Friends from Myanmar,Korea,Singapore and M'sia shared their wonderful teaching experience and their joy in the path of service. Each and everyone of us was awaken from our slumber as it wat is happening in the plans of God and if we're not to move,we'll definitely be left behind of the plan of God.

          The conference lasted for 2 days from morning 9am till 10pm on 27th and 9am till 5pm on 28th. Its really touching where the House of Justice appealled to the youths of M'sia to arise to be in the fore front of the faith. and to remind us the hope that they have for us to succeed in the Heroes Are They project to get 1000 youth went through the sequence of course till book 5 and to be actively participating in the path of service which is the children's classes and junior youth gathering. The conference ended with a song 'would you give ur life to Baha'u'llah'. Many ppl fall into tears at that moment.its really a touching moment.

          Then i followed the butterworth friends back to butterworth as on the 30th i hav class. wai ho stayed back with my twin bro at soon sayn's house before wai ho went to meet up with my mom and my grandma at my 4th yi's house.



    Happy New Year!!! welcome 2009!!!

         i went for lecture on 30th and 31st and came down to butterworth again to join the butterworth youths to celebrate new year eve and to go kuala kurau the next day. we went to queensbay mall that nite and moscow the famous hong kong was there. we watched 'The Spirit' at the GSC and its really not a good movie afterall. then we went down for the countdown outside the mall. 5...4...3..2..1 and goodbye to 2008 and welcome 2009. there were fire crackers and alot of ppl were there. then we headed back to butterworth but its jam again on the bridge and this time is worse than the christmas eve. we reach butterworth at 4am!!! and the next day we hav to reach kuala kurau at 10 something. so we quickly slp to restore energy for tmr's teaching activity.


                           happy new year!!!                                     sing yew and kar yee at queensbay mall


        on the 1st of jan me,jervin,serjin,sing yew and yeong chien headed to kuala kurau to meet up with aunty pau chin to go visit the families there and to introduce children's class and ruhi class as well as sharing the faith with them. few families responded so by next week we'll hav our first class at the baha'i centre of kuala kurau. Then they send me back to my campus as 2nd of jan is a friday and i hav lecture. so guess thats all till now.. kinda busy holiday huh..haha..but the most important thing is to live our life to the fullest!!!

Friday, 07 November 2008

  • August Rush~~

          Yesterday i watched 'August Rush'.. A movie directed by Kirsten Sheriden and actors Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard and Robin Williams. Its really a wonderful and nice musical+romance drama. Just a short synopsis of the story, its about a gifted boy searching his biological parents through music. From an early age he possess such talents of listening music everywhere. Its like the music is in him every second of is life.. And through music the family finally unite.
         
    to all the music lovers out there.. i recommend this movie to u all and hope u all like it too..haha

         Still at campus although at first planned to go butterworth today coz monday have an appoinment with Encik Rashid of the Penolong Pendaftar HEPP regarding the invitation of the YB for next yr's cny festival. yesterday we went to 'kapitol' for dinner where i had char kuay teow and ordered loh bak and taiwanese sausage. the Loh Bak and Taiwanese sausage was very expensive there.. just ordered 3 for each and it cost me rm9.60.. first and the last time lor..haha.. Last nite i searched the internet for music theory lesson and learning the basic of music theory.. but for guitar i still not familiar with changing the key's.. i used to play key C only.. but now have to get use to other key's although i know how to change them d...
         well..practice makes perfect... haha..

Wednesday, 05 November 2008

  • Heroes Are They

        Its been a while since my last blog..haha.. was having study week last week so was just studying lor.. although not 24 hour lar..haha.. last sunday i went to parit buntar baha'i centre where we had a meeting with ABM Rani.. it was supposed to be held at taiping centre but the centre was under renovation.. the meeting lasted till about 1.30pm and we had lunch prepared by uncle maniam's family. We were then clear of our aim to bring 1000 youths between age 15 to  25 to the institute of course until where they can contribute to the community as an junior youth animator and this 1000 names will be sent to the Universal House of Justice with the title Heroes Are They.. work hard man!!!

             I went back to my room at about 3pm and still no electricity. There's this electricity disturbance notice saying from 10am onwards. at first i thought the electricity disturbance was until 2 something but then it was till 6pm..and its a hot day so u can c every door was wide opened for air ventilation..haha. i took a nap till about 5pm and went to Chang Gerng's room just opposite my room. his room is far more windy than mine so few of us hang out there and chit chat lor.. at 6pm the current recovered but then i just found out i haven't printed my exam slip..OMG.. no exam slip means no exam.. i went back to my room and check the internet.. the connection has not recovered yet.. of course i was quite panic that time but i realised i can't do nothing so we went out for dinner first. after dinner i went back and the internet connection was back to normal so i quickly get it printed.. wat a relief..haha..

        Monday we had our Engineering Maths final exam at 9am. The nite before my room mate advise me and cheng zheng to just do all the questions we can and DONT LOOK BACK..coz u'll hav not time for it.. so i did the questions that i can do and really the time was just enough for us to finish 5 questions out of 6. and in every question there's about 4 questions like a),b),c).. when they announced that the time was over i left 2 small part to finish coz i did the last question before the 5th question. then i found out that the 2 last part of question 5 was easy so while they were collecting the papers i quickly finish it up.. the 3 hours was really rushing but really not enough..haha..

         Tuesday we had our Bahasa Melayu exam where we were supposed to write 1 essay and 10 sentence corrections. its a 2 hours paper so i did the sentence correction first and it took me about 40 minutes to finish it wo left 1 hour and 20 minutes to write a 500-600 words karangan. i took the title which talks about the diverse culture in Malaysia.. after the exam i continued to watch my prison break which starts from season 3..haha.. i finished watching season 2 during the study week..haha.. season 3 was quite short,13 episode only.. and i finish watching it yesterday which is less than 2 days..haha.. Now want to settle my CNY thingy abit then can go penang a while before coming back to study for circuit theory paper and korean paper. as u know my next 2 papers is on the 19th and 20th which is about 2week from now.. really long break..

         O ya.. we had a fire drill last tuesday nite.. tat time we were rushing to finish up our programming project before presenting it on wednesday 5.30pm.. we were to gather at an open space and there's demo on how to use the fire extinguisher. Me,my roommate Cheng Zheng went to play with the fire extinguisher..lol..coz we thought we're down there already so might as well have some fun lor...XD our presentation the next day was a success thx to Richard's Godlike brain.. just a brief idea of our programme namely Function Simulator where it's function is to plot graphs for linear graph,quadratic graph,exponential graph,ellipse..etc..

    the fire for us to put out..haha..

         So today is thursday and hopefully i can settle my cny thing by today so tmr or saturday i can go penang for a few days then come back to study..hehe.. can't wait to go back KK..
         
        

Sunday, 26 October 2008

  • Arising to Serve..

           Last week i had 4 tests.. so was quite busy and tired.. plus need to submit 1 project which is drawing project lor.. so monday we had our engineering practice test..luckily the nite b4 we get the pass year's questions and find the answer then memorize all lo..haha.. then tuesday we had our programming test.. quite tough.. wednesday was quite free but was busy finishing the drawing project thing lo.. thursday we had our drawing test and maths test.. about the drawing test we're using computer to design parts and assembly using a program called 'solid works'.. at first everything went well but then i got the wrong hex flange bolt and can't get the weight that we suppose to get.. so i double checked and triple checked then finally i found the problem.. but it cause me to be nervous d and after that think the end part screwed up lo...haiz.. then only i realize i forgot to turn to God for assistance when in critical part.. haiz..my bad.. learnt my lesson.. so during maths i won't do the same mistake again and i prayed hard and at least i din mess up my paper..

          Friday and Saturday i din really start to study..was watching prison break..haha.. is kind of lag behind as just watching season 2 only...lol..

    few of us went out for dinner on friday in xi zhe's car.. after dinner he borrowed my phone and took this random pic..lol.. in the pic was eng keat lo...


    i bought toblerone during friday coz like long time din eat d..haha.. but it melted the next day as i wan to kept for the next day but hav to finish it today lo coz it almost melt into whole triangle bar of chocolate d...haha..

           Then this morning i went to kuala kurau with aunty Pau Chin and to my surprise Asharaf was in the car oso..haha.. so we went to kuala kurau and i conducted the study circle on the ruhi course entitled 'Arising to Serve'.. there were 3 participants which are all students of aunty Pau Chin.. and guess wat,2 of them are twins!!! lol.. met quite alot of twins here..haha.. so we had our study circle till 10.30am where aunty Pau Chin pick me up from the tuition centre and we went to visit aunty Ah Eng and another student's parents.. b4 that there's sort of like a tamu there so i bought a pair of slippers of 'Asadi'.. alot of my frens here wore that shoe and its really comfortable though..haha.. just rm 11 only..

            Then we went to aunty Ah Eng's house.. they just return from sea so were kinda busy settling the fishes ,prawns, squid , octopus and there's horse shoe crab oso..haha.. she gave aunty Pau Chin alot of squid and prawns.. then we went to the other aunty's house.. she had an accident last week on her bike so there were injuries on her legs.. but not really serious la thank God.. we chit chatted at her house till about 12pm something lo.. then we went back to aunty Ah Eng's house to say goodbye to her be4 we left kuala kurau..


    still alive!!! haha...

            We then had our dinner at Bagan Serai near aunty Pau Chin's house.. we had char siu,chicken and sao ngiuk lo with rice..its really hot during the afternoon so we ordered ABCs.. when it came its like mountain high and i was guessing the price.. but to my surprise it only cost rm1.50...lol... forgot to take picture..haiz.. next time go bagan serai must go try lor..haha.. after that i followed aunty back her house to giv her the form sing yew asked me to giv her.. her house was under renovation to use automatic gate as now she's alone at home so for her safety her son ask her to use automatic gate lor so when come back no need to get down the car to open the gate..really taughtful of him.. coz now all her children was studying elsewhere and 1 of them was married at kl.. and she has been a widow for 5 yrs d.. so just now Asharaf say i become her 'anak angkat' lo haha....

             So about 3pm she and her daughter Asharaf sent me back my hostel lor.. and today i haven't play game yet..haha.. just watch prison break la.. lol... like so unusual to not play game..haha.. but this is wat i'm facing lor..haiz...so in the evening i had a nap and then watch prison break.. then do the programming project which we need to present it the the lecturer this coming wednesday lor.. hehe.. So think thats all till now lo..hehe..

Friday, 17 October 2008

  • A SUMMARY OF VIRTUE

           Its Saturday again.. getting abit of cough and kinda heaty..can't get sick ah..next week still got 4 test!!!.. haha.. anyway, a little sum up of the week..

           Monday,we had our engineering practice class.. this week we're doing the larik..which is like shaping of metal rod.. first,the technician gave us some briefing and taught us what to do..but he spoke so softly that we could hardly hear what he's saying.. then he demonstrated the project that we need to do that morning.. me and gau hwang form a group and we started doing.. but as we're taking the measurements its like there's always error on the measurements.. for example we the reading shows 23.9mm..we want 22.00 so we slightly cut 1.5mm..but guess wat..the first time we cut,its still the same..then the second time we cut it,it become 21.8mm... lol... and the technician wants the range to be +-0.05mm....haiz... what to do... after that we had a short test on the larik.. luckily me and gau hwang still manage to get A-.. but suppose easily can get A de lor!!!


    our master piece...lol.. before the larik process its like black colour lo...like in the pic de left side...then after that is the right side...

           During tuesday i handed up the cny festival proposal to HEPP(Hal Ehwal dan Pembangunan Pelajar).. and on wednesday we had our EEE105(circuit theory) test.. this week most of the lecture were cancelled.. like yesterday after bm class our circuit theory lecture was cancelled..haha..



    there's 1 morning with fogs everywhere..rare view.. then at the right is the usm famous 'winter sonata' a path we need to pass almost everyday to go for lecture..

    usm engineering campus's '万厘长城'... the path we need to walk everyday..like endless huh...thats y it got that name lo... then the last pic is a random pic.. 5 of us cycling to library then went outside to tmn pekaka to had our lunch...hehe..

          I was searching for some Holy Writings on spiritual and material progress for the devotional during the camp and need to send to Su Ching next thursday.. so basically today and tmr i need to finish it coz next week will definitely be a busy week with 4 tests coming... and as was searching i found this familiar Holy Writings.. its taken from the Gleanings of Baha'u'llah..


    Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. 
    Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbour, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. 
    Be a treasure to the poor,
        an admonisher to the rich, 
        an answerer of the cry of the needy, 
        a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. 
    Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. 
    Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men. 
    Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, 
        a joy to the sorrowful, 
        a sea for the thirsty, 
        a haven for the distressed, 
        an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression. 
    Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts. 
    Be a home for the stranger, 
        a balm to the suffering, 
        a tower of strength for the fugitive. 
    Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. 
    Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, 
        a crown to the brow of fidelity, 
        a pillar of the temple of righteousness, 
        a breath of life to the body of mankind, 
        an ensign of the hosts of justice, 
        a luminary above the horizon of virtue, 
        a dew to the soil of the human heart, 
        an ark on the ocean of knowledge, 
        a sun in the heaven of bounty, 
        a gem on the diadem of wisdom, 
        a shining light in the firmament of thy generation,
        a fruit upon the tree of humility. 
        (Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings, no. 130, p. 285; emphasis added)

    its nice to ponder on it.. and if you c its like becoming a perfect human..haha...yup..thats part of the purpose of our life...XD 

Saturday, 11 October 2008

  • I did welding!!!

         


        Last Monday we had our engineering practice class at Aerospace school.. all the mechatronics were divided into 3 groups where 1 group will be doing MIG(welding),Larik and Engine.. so i'm in the first group which was doing the MIG.. First, we had a short briefing by our tutor, then there's a short quiz regarding the briefing.. then we took our gloves,face shield,and an apron.. its really important to take safety measure coz we're dealing with really bright light and metal melting temperature..  So for the first half to 1 hour we had our exercise time where we took those used metal to start getting use to welding.. its really fun and exciting..haha..first time ma..XP Then we're given a small project to finish that day which is to connect 2 sheet of small metal about 6cm x10cm in a T-shape. I did mine quite well but din manage to take picture of my master piece coz my hands were dirty so din reach out to my hp..hehe.


    me and my roommate cheng zheng.. the 1 i'm holding is the MIG gun lo...hehe


    cheng zheng,gau hwang and zhi kiong...prepare to fight!!!


    face shield up!!!lol...

               and finally..fire!!!!! one more thing..from the face shield when u do welding u'll only c green light and abit orange colour thing which is the melted metal lo..hehe.. without the face shield u'll surely get blind..haha
    and guess wat,after the session my left hand which is exposed to the light somehow like sun burn like that..red colour..haha..but not serious la..few days gone lo...hehe..

           Then Tuesday came.. the nite b4 i slept quite late preparing for tonite's cny committee meeting and today got lecture at 8am so i end up having about 4 hours of sleep only..@.@ so the whole day my vision was a bit blurr.. the final lecture lasted from 2pm till 5pm.. so i rush back, washed up then had my dinner and then went up to foyer lembaran to host the meeting at 7pm.. We discussed about the things need to do for tmr nite's meeting for all the cny ajks.. then 9pm we,dai lou and dai ga jie had another meeting at lembaran meeting room.. when i enter the room i started writing and writing..need to copy down everything and do minutes...secretary ma...>< the whole meeting lasted till 12am!!! i was totally worned out man!!! then when i reach my room my korean class fren told me that there's a test tmr..wow.. bcoz of the meetings so i skipped the korean class for that nite.. luckily my frens got took picture of the question paper that the lecturer shown them during the class.. so we quickly find the answers and memorize lo...

            Luckily wednesday morning no class but i still need to wake up early abit to study my korean coz not sure whether the lecturer will change the questions o not.. the circuit theory lecture for that day was cancelled so i hav 1 more hour to prepare for my korean test.. at 1pm we had our korean test..and the question paper was exactly the same as the 1 he showed them last nite.. and guess wat,we're given a choice either to discuss o open book test.. sure i choose open book lo..haha.. so no worries for that day's test.. After the test i went back for a nap and prepare for the nite's meeting.. at about 7pm i went to the cafe to had my dinner.. then suddenly it started raining..and its not those small ones.. the wind was so strong that me and my frens had to shift our place behind the wall so we can eat our dinner without additional rain water.. i prayed hard for it to stop coz if not surely my meeting won't be able to be held and the whole thing had to be postponed.. finally God granted my wish and the rain stopped at about 7.50pm..phew... but the attendance was only half but we still had to carry on.. so the small group for the coming cny nite was formed that nite and they had their first small group meeting.. 1 more thing i forgot.. this morning my fren handed up our PCB mini project which is the PCB board.. the tutor din test our circuit so good thing for us..haha.. he said that our board was pretty good.. coz my soldering skill was trained b4 ma last time after spm..haha.. wat a relief..

              Thursday came and morning we had our maths lecture with Dr.Ashidi..a very serious lecturer but i must admit that he's a very good lecturer,well prepared,nice presentation,strict,and the worst case,his question is tricky... then evening we had our solidworks.. i sat beside Ah Kiong,a fren from sarikei,s'wak..he's a brilliant student..he'll ask questions straight when he dun understand..and i must learn from him about that.. then he said that he identified some bicycle that is left at the parking space long long time unused.. so we decided to take it and do some repair and use it lo..so we planned to had our operation on the weekends..

               Friday we had our BM lecturer at the morning.. we presented our homework which is to do sentence corrections.. Not easy..coz din use bm for quite some time d..haha.. then we had our circuit theory till about 11.30am.. then that evening i play games.. and at 6pm me,my roommate and 3 other frens went to the gym.. at nite i planned to study but end up playing games...haiz..

              yesterday i did my part for the Engineering Drawing project which is using solidworks to do the part assembly.. then at the evening me and ah kiong begin our operation.. both the bicycle that he identified was lying on the grass and most of the parts were rusted.. 1 of it has no tags on it and the other oso think is those 4th yrs or graduated de.. but it is still locked.. at first we tried to find the cutter but din manage to borrow it from the pejabat.. so 1 of the lock was those small ones and left quite long d so we just use some energy and its broken.. but the other 1 was those quite big ones.. i brought the multi tool kits given by francis back at miri.. so we decided to saw it apart.. we tried abit first and we find it possible to do so.. we manage to break the lock eventually..haha.. then we get them washed and tyres pumped.. my bicycle's front tyre was broken so we find another rusted,spoiled,parts missing bicycle and switched the tyres.. guess wat,that evening we cycle to tmn pekaka to had our dinner..haha.. ah kiong's bicycle's rear tyre was a bit crooked so he also changed his rear bike.. next week we plan to go to the bicycle shop to do further repair lo.. hehe...

          

           

Wednesday, 01 October 2008

  • Youth can MOVE the world!!!

          Its kinda long since my last post.. so where to start..hmm... ok.. we'll start 1 by 1..

    Mid Point Conference..

           Its 20th and 21st where we had our Mid Point Conference at Kepala Batas usually known as KB.. all the baha'is from west m'sia gathered together that day..actually for whole m'sia de la but its just a weekend so east m'sia's friends were unable to join..The theme for the conference is MOVE..as its at the midst of the 5 yr plan, we gathered together and made clear once again our aim for the end of 5 yr plan. The Universal House of Justice had personally wrote a letter for the m'sian baha'is to greet them and this time had a big hope for the youths of m'sia to be the fore front of the faith in m'sia..Therefore, arise all youths of Malaysia..for Youth can definitely MOVE the world!!!
        Of course apart from that i met alot of baha'i friends like ching ching,ping ping,faydi,dorothy and alot more...if i were to mention it then would be a mile long..lol..learning to use bombastic words..haha.. and we oso met a pair of twins namely ashwin and arhwin..really wonderful youths..though they're only 16 yrs old, they're really matured..i mean spiritually.. great 2 days conference and keep the fire burning people!!!

    some of the youths present...

    Sum of the week..

           Basically last week i was busy with the mini project which we are to produce our own PCB board ( Circuit Board). We bought a simple quiz timer circuit with electronic component provided and so our work is just to design the circuit,produce the layout...bla bla... and ta da...here's the circuit board which we produce after times of failure..thx the technician for being so patient with us.. if i were him i'd definitely do it my self rather than wasting so much films and energy clearing the mess...haha..

     then there's this big 'gift' last thursday nite when they elect the Majlis Tertinggi for next yr's coming cny celebration. I was just planning to go and join mayb a small part then for my surprise voted among the 3 highest post..we discussed..and i end up to be the president...wow..really....wow....
         As the saying goes...with great powers,come great responsibilities..who am i, i'm the president of the cny 'xing chun' celebration...sweat...haha..think that's enough for the week..

    Skills training-Balakong..

              Its a long journey to travel to the kl where i started from my campus and took the bus to butterworth.. there i meet up with faydi oso taking bus from perlis..i phoned my sabah fren belvin which is on holiday to pick us up and we went for makan at Chai ling park..quite famous here. its still daytime so not much food there.. after that he sent us to Raja Uda learning centre near my uncle's house..

    me and belvin..
    we manage to go shopping awhile..i din buy anything though.. saw this outfit quite nice..cost rm70 but i dun think its worthwhile for me to buy now so din buy...mayb next time..hehe..

    we meet up with my twin bro and ching ching and jervin, and the 3 sisters sing min,sing yew and sing yee.. we took our bath and went to the butterworth baha'i centre for 19th day feast before we catched our bus to kl puduraya at 11pm..

    at the butterworth baha'i centre..
     

    the 3 sisters..now known as the powerpuff gals!!!haha

             Its really a freezing nite in the bus to pudu..thank God that it wasn't raining..if not i'd be freeze to death.. so we reached pudu at about 7am in the morning..and we decided to had a quick breakfast so we went to the near by Mcdonald.. there wasn't much choice to pick so we ordered the biggest breakfast called 'Big Breakfast'.. though it wasn't so big after all with 2 slice of buns, omelette(forgot how its actually spelled), a piece of hash brown and a refillable coffee.. We're chinese and chinese are always so KIA SOO so we had 2 cups of coffee.. plan to have more but have to leave..haha..
             Then we went to take the ktm to bukit kayu hitam and another train to serdang. at serdang at first we planned to take taxi to the balakong training centre but those drivers charged too expensive so we decided to take public bus there..Jervin's uncle offered to pick us up but we're kinda short of time as the session starts at 9.45am and its almost 9am.. so we took the bus and went to balakong. We stop at the road side and a baha'i uncle which is the learning centre's care taker took a van and pick us up all..
             Then the session starts..its my first time to be at this Yan Kee Leong learning centre though i heard of it many times as courses were always held here but i wasn't able to attend.. so the first day we studied on the material Drawing On the Power of the Word, just the first 9 lesson which we'll be doing it with the youth at the youth camp this coming dec..at the evening we had games and we really enjoyed it.. The next day was a session conducted by Shogil, a 21 yrs old baha'i youth.. he's really a marvelous youth by his young age and great capability.His speech stunned me and moved our hearts. He talks about how important it is to guide the youths now adays which are living in such a material educated world that they are spiritual beings with intelect.
             So the whole thing ended at noon time and after we had our lunch,its time to go back... my bro is going back to his hostel and ching stayed back to look for her fren at kl..so its 6 of us back to butterworth at 5pm..so we took the same way we went here back to puduraya.. On the way back we're stucked in an accident for half and hour and we end up reaching butterworth at 12am.. then Yeong Chien's mom picked 6 of us into her wira aeroback and we went to had our dinner.. Poor thing...haha..


    the youths at the skills training.. some not in the picture as went back earlier.. shogil oso left early coz have a junior youth gathering...


    Rest...
         so me and faydi stayed at the Raja Uda learning centre that nite after reaching from kl.. but we played games till about 5 in the morning and the next day i woke up at 1.30pm.. wow.. i never woke up so late before..haha.. so that nite we had tutors gathering at the baha'i centre.. they're planning for the intensive ruhi course for the coming raya holiday.. So that nite we stayed at the learning centre also.. The next day we planned to go back where faydi will go to his grandma's house at alor setar and i'll go to my uncle's house.. so i sent him to the jeti using my uncle's kancil..and i arrived back home safely without getting lost....haha.. so i quickly throw my clothes into the washing machine as i'm really running out of clothes..
          so that nite my uncle brought me and his family to see the '九皇爷' birthday celebration... it's really a big celebration with the decorations and stuff.. so i meet up with belvin again and we went to chai ling park for supper with his cousin.. There i had my first 'Kutu Mayong', a type of indian food.. quite nice..haha.. and his cousin spend us japanese food..
        The next day my uncle brought the whole family for breakfast at the famous Kuay Teow Teng restaurant near his house and then sent me to the bus station at the jeti there. i took the bus to parit buntar and then from parit buntar took another bus to kuala kurau where aunty pau chin picked me up to the baha'i centre there for a short gathering.. then she sent me to the kuala kurau bus station and i took the bus back to parit buntar bus station and uncle maniam picked me up and send me back to my campus..and here i'm updating my blog.... long journey...haha.. hav to slp now..its 3.30am already..OMG..nitez...


    at the 'jiu huang ye' celebration..really like castle...haha..


    the 'kutu mayong'...dunno spell correct o not..but my fren say like tat la.sounds weird..haha..anyway.. ta da... its like eating bee hoon with gula melaka and santan lo...hehe



Saturday, 13 September 2008

  • Happy Mid Autumn Festival!!!XP

       This will be a 1 week blog update as its been a really breath catching week.. it started of on Sunday where Aunty Pau Chin called me the nite before to invite me to join the teaching campaign at Kuala Kurau. At first i hesitated as i still got my C++ Programming assignments and the up coming mooncake festival to get settled.. Plus i got transport problem to go to Parit Buntar town for them to fetch me there..so i decided to let God decide..i say if it didn't rain then i'll go and vice versa.. Then she called back and say she'll pick me up from my campus..so i guess its a " You Will Go" answer..

    The trip to Kuala Kurau...

               So Aunty Pau Chin picked me up at around 10am and we went to the Baha'i Centre at Parit Buntar to have devotionals before going to Kuala Kurau. I was surprised there is actually a Baha'i Centre here coz the Baha'is at Butterworth never mention about it.. they thought its far from Nibong Tebal i guess.. there i met Sing Yew and Jervin..They were surprised to see me also so i told them its like 5 minutes drive from there to my uni.. After the devotional Me,Sing Yew and Jervin followed Aunty Pau Chin to her house at Bagan Serai to fix her car front window first before headed to Kuala Kurau to meet and share about the Baha'i Faith to her tuition student's parents. Arriving at her house i found out that She's Asharaf's mom. (Asharaf-a youth with other 2 youths that went to Sabah before for travel teach at pitas last time where me and wai on accompanied them..) At the end we end up reaching Kuala Kurau at about 1pm as the journey took about 45 minutes from Bagan Serai.

              Its kind of like a fishing village with a river in between the housing area. The ppl there live a simple life and almost all of them know each others. The first house we went was...i forgot the aunty's name..paiseh(really bad in remembering names..urgh!!!) anyway she and her husband was really nice and friendly. The whole lot about 200 houses in a row have their front door on the ground and back door on the water.. its really relaxing when we went to the back of the house and feel the wind rubbing on our face..

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    every house you can c fishing net and fishing boats at the back of their house..

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    the view from the back of the house...

                they were long time friends of Aunty Pau Chin so we shared the faith with her.. Then we went to about 4 other houses which is also on the same row of houses. All of them welcomed us warmly.. The last house we went was interesting. The uncle said he had a nephew also studying at USM Nibong Tebal and his name is Jing Loong. When i heard the name i was like...lol.. he's studying first yr in electronic so of course i know him..i'm the dai lou wat..haha.. Then i got to know he's also staying at Kuala Kurau..just the opposite side of the river. So after the visit we planned to head back to Parit Buntar where the 19th day feast is going to be held. But i have to head back to Uni so i called up Jing Loong to follow his car back.. So we meet up and we went to have '猪脚面' and 'Kuih Kapit'.. it's really nice of him..then he brought me to his house to wait to go back uni.. his family is really full of laughter..all his siblings and parents oso likes to joke around..haha..So at about 7pm we headed back to uni.

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    the 'pig leg mee'..taste like 'prawn mee'..delicious man!

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    the kuih kapit..this is how they do it..so huge...

    Now Going into the Weekdays...

    Monday we learned how to design and produce a PCB board and then given a mini project to design and do our own PCB board the next week..nite time we had our rehearsal for the coming mooncake festival... 

    Tuesday we handed in our C++ assignment but the lecturer say no need to pass up...lol..and given another assignment to hand up the next week..nite time anothere rehearsal for tmr's mooncake festival... 

    Wednesday finally came where we had our mooncake festival..i've to rush to the cafe after finishing my bm karangan test to get ready for tonite's function. The whole event went quite well...hooray...they say better than last yr's..haha..Good Job everybody!!!

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    from left...wei qiang(roommate+ee 2nd yr dai lou),soon tian(frequent visitor of my room),vincent(roommate),ME!!

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    This yr's special event!! mooncake design..Material sch......EE sch(2nd)..not bad huh...

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    think you know which sch issit...haha..

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    Civil sch!!!(1st).........Aero!!!

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    the crowd in front of the lembaran cafe................. c the backdrop?  they put alot of effort in it..nice leh... and this is the '小草颂'performance..

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    the last event...'花灯游行' where those who are interested can buy a lantern and all walk around the campus..

    Thursday was a sleepy day for me as for the past few days really not enough slp but don't feel tired..just after finishing yesterday's event i feel like whole body going to collapse..haha..really tired..then have to sit infront of computer doing solid work from 2pm to 5pm..my eyes are really suffering..result--my vision becomes blurr..can't see things at a distance..lol..

    Friday came where we had our BM lisan presentation..we have to use bahasa baku..and i end up mixing few english word during presentation..lol.. but overall was quite ok.. at the evening me and Weng Khai did our long report where Weng Khai did the schematic part and i did the layout part.. But i only finish it at nite coz really can't focus during the evening..too tired.. did 2 rounds of clothes washing as no time to wash it for the whole week..

    And finally its Saturday so now woke up at 10.30 am..its a sunny day so decided to wash my long jeans oso..and now updating my blog lo..hehe.. till then.. have to do maths assignment,C++ assignment,korean script,circuit theory tutorial,solid work assignments and finally the PCB mini project...gambate!!!

     

Monday, 01 September 2008

  • Another Lesson Learnt..

                 Last Saturday I went to butterworth again to my uncle’s house coz Monday is a holiday so I decided to pay them a visit although I think it’s really troublesome and ‘bu hao yi si’ to disturb them so often.. but 1 thing I learned during my trip to Kelantan last month is that sometimes that’s what u call a family.. now they always take k of me and next time its me that will take k of their children..haha..

    The Bad part...

    But again..the trip was a long one.. I took the bus from Parit Buntar at 11.50am and reached Butterworth at 1pm.. that time the bus to Raja Uda(my uncle’s house) was not there so I decided to walk to the bank near by to withdraw some money first as I planned to get my hair cut and buy a new shoe as mine was broken.. after withdrawing the money I waited at the bus stop just infront of the bank.. I waited and waited for the bus and was looking around.. then I was looking a guy just opposite the road who helps ppl to get parking lot and get tips and he got abit of difficulty walking..so some will give and some just reversed and drove off.. and then when I focus back to the road to see whether my bus has came o not I saw a bus passing infront of me…written infront..Raja Uda 232.. OMG..it went pass me.. so I was wondering whether to wait for the next bus which will come at probably half an hour more o wat..then came the rapid bus.. so I quickly asked an aunty who is also at the busstop whether it passes Raja Uda..so she said yes and I quickly boarded the bus..

    So to confirm I asked the driver how much to go Raja Uda and he said Rm1.50 so i know it really passes Raja Uda.. but the road that the driver took was different than the one I usually use when on the Raja Uda bus..so I tried to recognize where is the place for me to stop and get down.. then the bus keep going and going and I felt something was wrong so I switched my seat to the back of the driver..when the driver saw me, he said,” mana kamu nak turun?” so I say Raja Uda… then he said,” alamak..limpas dah.. kenapa tak kasih tau tak tau tempat…???”.. haiz… another lesson learnt.. if dunno place,let the driver know so he can drop u at where u wan to stop.. so I had to get down and wait at the opposite road to take the bus back to Raja Uda.. the bus came and this time I make sure the driver know where I wanted to go.. When reached,the driver told me to get down but it really don’t look like the Raja Uda I know.. so I asked how can I go to Guang Hwa School as it is just opposite my uncle’s house and its quite famous there..

    And guess wat..he say its really far from here so he drop me down a little further infront.. he guided me on how to get to the school and as I walked and walked, I was quite unsure where was it..so I asked some of the waiter of a restaurant..but they don’t know the school…  and finally at a phone shop I met this aunty and I asked where is it..then she said,” are u planning to walk there? Coz its quite far from here..” and I said,” erm…ya..(as if I got other option)”. Then she offered to give me a ‘soon fong che’ there..

    The Good part though...

    Thank God I met her..its really far from there..if I were to walk I’ll surely reach my uncle’s house by nite 6pm.. really grateful and happy that there’re still kind and wonderful ppl in this world..haha.. so when I reached my uncle’s house it’s 4pm already.. and I’m not the only guest that day but my uncle’s wife’s eldest sister and her family was there from N.Sembilan..

    So that nite I joined them for dinner at the seafood restaurant at Bukit Tambun..that was surely after I took my bath and a nap…(really tired).. it’s crowded there at the restaurant and we manage to get 2 tables with about 20 of us.. it’s a new experience for me as it’s the first time I tried this ‘刺螺’ and this ‘balidong’ which is a kind of siput.. the first 1 u hav to use toothpick to get the flesh out and the ‘balidong’ u hav to first suck from end of the shell and then suck from the opening of the shell the get the flesh.. so on my table me and another uncle finish the whole dish of crabs as others were aunties and children.. luckily I can eat a lot oso…haha…


     

                Then Sunday came and I went to get my hair cut and bought my new shoes.. thx to my uncle I only spent rm5 for the hair cut together with Khor Wei Hong(my cousin) who is only 7 yrs old..haha.. and the shoe I only bought for rm39.99 after 20% discount.. that evening I wanted to online to submit the intel scholarship form so my uncle drop me and my 2 cousins at his wife’s sister’s house which is just nearby.. we spent the whole evening there waiting my uncle to go settle his old house which he wanted to sell it out.. after dinner we chit chat until 10.00pm only go home..

    After reaching my uncle’s house I’ve to finish designing the bookmark for the upcoming mid autumn festival which my group planned to use as a gift for those that participate in the activities that we plan to run. And the I watched ‘Death Note 2’ which I wanted to watch long time ago borrowed from the house just now that we went.. so I watched till 2.00am..hehe..really nice movie..exciting..where Kira and L have their own strategies to trapped the opponent..

    Then its today and its time for me to go back to campus so I took the 12.00pm bus back to Parit Buntar and asked Soon Tian to fetch me there using his bike..thx a lot to him as he sent me to bus stop last Saturday also.. just now we had our mooncake festival committee meeting and there’re some final thing to settle..and tmr we have our C++ progam test postpone from last Tuesday.. gotta get some slp lo as tmr morning at 8am got engineering maths  lecture.. Till then.. Bye..

     

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