Cutest and friendliest baby

Yesterday I saw the cutest and friendliest baby~ well, not exactly baby, about 2,3 years old I guess.

A mother carrying her son walked into the lift where I was in. When the baby saw me immediately he said "Jie-jie!" (sister). Naturally, I said hello. He held out his hand so I held it and talked to him. He kept on going : "Jie-jie~ Jie-jie~ Jie-jie leh! Jie-jie~ Jie-jie~" while kept turning about in his mother's arm, and laughing and calling jie jie. He was sooooo.. cheerful and adorable. His mother was amused and said, "Yalah yalah, jie-jie lah jie-jie lah..." Yet he kept on going "jie-jie jie-jie" and laughing... He was really really adorable. So happy to see such a baby :)

What is wrong with me

There is something wrong with me. For the first time in my 5+years of diving, I do not feel excited about going on a dive trip. I don’t understand. But I’ve been kind of depress for the whole week though.

It’s been weeks since I last cried, till yesterday. For no apparent reason. I must be going crazy.

Well... the only reason I can think of, maybe, is the possibility of "change" that might come in future... Maybe nobody knows what I mean, doesn't matter.

School time

I miss the time in secondary school, I actually miss it. Never thought I would. I didn't really like school. I am kind of a lazy student.

I don't miss primary school time though. The teachers in private Chinese schools were all about money. You will be popular with the teachers if you are rich. Being poor, it's like an outcast. Well I might be exaggerated it a little bit but I feel like using the word "outcast". hahaha...

In primary school the friends I hung around with were the rich ones. No special reasons but just so happened that we got along well. It’s not good for my self-esteem, mixing with those rich ones during those days, since the teachers’ eyes were shining with dollar signs. So one important lesson primary school taught me was that, those who got the money, rule. I have no special memory about primary school apart from this. Good eh? Fortunately, my self-esteem wasn’t destroyed at that time. I don’t know, maybe the rebellious side of me won over it. And now I seem to have too much self-esteem till almost narcissistic (no such word in Encarta but there is in my Nokia handphone’s dictionary).

Secondary school was more memorable. It was then I made some best friends. And there were some nice memories :

happy times : we crazily chased over International junior volleyball players all over hotels in JB ; we (only students) ourselves held badminton tournament;

“horrifying” times : I got ZERO mark in Chemistry monthly test;

sad time : being short and discriminated and teased;

interesting times : went to some ulu (remote) school for chess competition, where ONE taxi took all 7 of us, and stopped to consider taking one more passenger……… ;

tough times : we always had to wait for the bus that seemed never going to come; while walking through the bush (short cut) to take bus, it rained and we along with our books were drenched;

crazy times : I retorted at some gang students thinking that she was criticizing my best friend out loud (I never found out whether she was indeed criticizing my best friend or not…) such impulsion… ;

secret times : well, not exactly… it’s an open secret that I was fond of my Shixiong;

guilty times : my best friend ST and I idling around when the rest of the class buried their heads in books and working hard;

memorable times : ST, EK and I always went A&W thinking to study together (while having mouth watering fast food) which always ended up ST and I chatting about non-study related stuff while EK concentrating on the homework ;

“weird teacher” times : an Indian teacher who must had something wrong in the head kept punishing us over the slightest thing (sort of like Severus Snape). Rumour has it that he once ate a chalk when he got very angry;

satisfying times : art lessons which I was rather good at sometimes (depending what we had to draw)

Those were the days... It's been so many years. Starting to get old. hahaha... as my friend Patrick rightly put it, when you start to think "those were the days", it means you are getting old.... haha...

Superstitions

I am very sick and tired of Chinese senseless superstitions. Especially about babies.

There are a whole "truck" of things which we are not supposed to do or say in front of the new born. For instance, you are not to take photos of the new born baby. For fear of what? I forgot. Never really cared. I always seek the parents’ permission if I wish to take pictures of their new born. There was once, I got the parents’ permission as usual but was stopped by an elderly before I take the photo. You know how aunties are, and it wasn’t pleasant. It wasn’t a pleasant feeling, at least, to me, being stopped like that. I hate it.

Then there were plenty of things you are not supposed to say. You are not to compliment the baby being good (乖), didn’t cry a lot, you are not to say the baby is pretty, you are not to say the baby is cute, etc etc. Whatever nice things about the baby, you are not supposed to say in front of the baby, for fear of the baby growing the opposite.

So? No offence to the parents. So then what the hell am I supposed to say? That your baby is ugly? Your baby is naughty? I mean, COME ON. I understand all parents want the best for their kids, want to avoid anything negative. But this is really a senseless believe. Though superstition is always senseless...

When you see a new born, you aren’t supposed to keep quiet either. Imagine you see your friend’s new born and just remain silence. Is that good? No, it’s not. Your friend will for sure wonder if there’s anything wrong with his/her baby that cause you to keep to your silence.

So tell me, what the hell am I supposed to say? I am really sick and tired of always being nudged or being told “shh” or “don’t say that” by people (usually not the baby’s parents) whenever I compliment the baby. Should I say then, “Oh, their baby is soooo naughty…”? Imagine what the expression of the parents will turn into.

I don’t know. I consider myself not superstitious kind of person. Well, most of the time, if not always. Maybe people will think I’m inconsiderate but honestly, seriously, I reckon this is really the most ridiculous superstition of all.

Harry Potter - closure

Finally, after 2 years of waiting, fans around the world can finally get hold of the final book. I woke up before 7am on Sat and went to get the book slightly past 7. There weren't so many die hard fans in Johor, I reckon. There were only a couple of people getting the book when I was there and bags of books lined up on the floor are of few quantities, unlike those in Singapore where fans were queueing up on the night before!

Sadly, Malaysia's 3 main bookshops namely, MPH, Popular and Harris are boycotting Harry Potter 7 to protest a hypermarket (should be C***four) is selling the book at a cheaper price which has violated the price agreement. They won't be selling HP7, except for those who had ordered it in the pre-sale. How unfortunate that such thing happened...

Anyway, I started reading the book from 7:30am to 8pm, stopping only to take meals and toilet. I would probably spend another hour or so if I didn't rush things up a bit. Cos I was to go out with friends at 9pm. I didn't want to leave, maybe, 50 pages of the ending and go out with friends. I couldn't bear it, couldn't bear not knowing the ending when I was so close to the end.

The ending, *contains slight spoiler*do not read if you intend to read the book*I thought, is as good as it gets. The thing I worried about (of the characters) didn't happen. I am happy with the ending though it's not perfect (meaning, everybody survives, which is quite impossible). I was really really upset that one of my favourites, Dobby, has to die... Really really sad... and Hedwig... and... well, read it yourself.

The next day, I read some chapters of the story again. Basically, I can't stop reading it over and over again. It really did marvelled me how much twist there are in the book, really have to take my hat off J.K.Rowling. She said she can never write a better story ever. Well, I agree. I really love all 7 books of Harry Potter. And just like the author thinks she couldn't write a better story, I don't think I'll ever read another story that I like more~!

Harry Potter's last book~

Harry Potter's last book - The Deathly Hallows is releasing on Sat~!!! We've been waiting for 2 years~ man.. 2 years, didn't achieve nothing in these 2 years. Time flies...

ANyway, I can't wait to get the book~! I've cancelled our regular badminton session on Sat cos I don't think I will be able to put the book down before I finish it. But we have a gathering on Sat night... I'll just have to continue reading it after the gathering. I will get the book at 7+am. The previous book, took me 13 hours straight to finish it. If I need 13hours to finish this one too, then I will finish by 8pm. Our gathering is 9pm. hehe.. hope I can finish it. Else, the cafe we're going, their coffee is really strong, that would be able to keep me awake to finish the book in the middle of the night. ha~

I hope I won't be too sad after reading the book.... cos 2 important characters will die in the book..........

Harry Potter 5th movie

Watched Harry Potter The Order of the Phoenix yesterday. In my opinion, it portrait fairly accurate as the book. I liked it. But it’s a sad episode of Harry Potter, just like in the book…

One might think I was being really stupid… but I still remember I got really depressed reading Harry Potter The Order of the Phoenix. I got so involved in the story. I hate it when Sirius died. I felt Harry Potter’s pain, as if it’s real. It’s just a story, yes. But I can’t help it. Every chapter creates reverberating effects on my mind and heart. I’ve never liked a fiction story this much. Really. Seriously.

Thus, I don’t understand why there are so many detractors of J.K.Rowling. Jealousy? But some of them are authors of many best selling books themselves. I’m not sure how good or bad Harry Potter books are from the literature point of view and I am not qualified to say so either. However, it got me reading, it got me refusing to put the books down. Isn’t it good enough? They said it instills the believe of witchcraft among children… well, like witchcraft is a real thing… They’ll soon know it isn’t. If this is the excuse, shouldn’t we tell all our children that Santa Claus does not exist as soon as they came to read about him?

Some say her imagination was lousy, mediocre. Well, I don’t see them producing a more imaginative, more reader-attractive, and better sales volume books?

IT IS a phenomenon. Really. The sales of Harry Potter books. Nobody can beat that (for now). You gotta admit there is something special about the book. People young and old liked the story very much. I don’t’ think there has been any book that scores a better pre-selling quantity than Harry Potter. Even Giants, yes the hypermarket Giants, has joined the bandwagon.

I hope to live in a fantasy world. Not because Harry Potter has “polluted” my mind as the detractors might put it on people like me. I hope to live in a fantasy world since I was little. I guess that’s many people’s wish. To escape from this cruel reality. But of cos, EVERYBODY knows it’s not going to happen. Fantasy remains fantasy. Life goes on…

Cruel.......

I had a hard time breathing watching this... I had to skip forward.. I really couldn't bear to watch this....

Dolphins massacre

Child like Miko

Aiyo, my Miko was so cute~ (typical "parents" - own son/daughter is the cutest) Yesterday night, while she was out, I was very tired. Laid in the bed and almost fall asleep. A few times she jumped onto the bed and waited for me to sayang her, which usually I would. But yesterday I was tired, and didn't sayang her and continue to sleep.

I couldn't remember exactly cos I was half asleep but I think she nibbled my hand a few times, and jumped closer to my head when I didn't sayang her. That's so cute~ I didn't think she would do that. Thought she will jumped away when I ignored her.

Love my Miko~ What would I be without her~

I am a star

I too wanna test what Tarot Card am I after reading Banana Booze's.
Here is my card.

You are The Star

Hope, expectation, Bright promises.

The Star is one of the great cards of faith, dreams realised

The Star is a card that looks to the future. It does not predict any immediate or powerful change, but it does predict hope and healing. This card suggests clarity of vision, spiritual insight. And, most importantly, that unexpected help will be coming, with water to quench your thirst, with a guiding light to the future. They might say you're a dreamer, but you're not the only one.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Precarious future of Borneo tribe

Our Borneo forest is shrinking, thanks to the loggers, and thanks to us, the consumer's insatiable appetite for wooden furnitures, papers, etc. (Btw, "Double A" papers are made from sustainable plantation, so use Double A)

And the shrinking of our forest is affecting the life of the indigenous people there. Read here :
Precarious future of Borneo tribe.

An abstract from the article : "Padang (a person) still wore a loincloth, something only the older members of the tribe do now, but the effect was somewhat slightly offset by the presence on his wrist of a digital watch, whose numbers flickered in the forest gloom." Wearing a loincloth, plus a digital watch, that's so cute... But what does he need a watch for in the forest? hahaha.... maybe it's a gift from visitor.

Anyway, on the serious side, it really isn't easy for them to fight againts the loggers, which according to the article, have got political backers. That's so sad... I really think we should give them some space. After so many years, so much development, they still live the way since many generations back. We should leave them alone, should not take away their home...

People in the forests, respect their forests. Why can't people in the city respect and protect our forests too? It's just sad. The recent "Live Earth" concert, trying to create awareness among us people about saving our planet. Personally, I am touched by the effort. I look up to Al Gore. The concert did not really reach a big amount of audience, sadly. And people just went there to see the concert, I don't think a large percentage of people give a damn about conservation. Some people may be converted, most don't, I think. See the garbage left behind by them after the concert. So ironic. But would I change my way of life for conservation? A little. I won't say a lot. Because, actually I think human species is doom for sure, sooner or later. The way we produce carbon dioxide, the way we cut down trees, the way we catch fish, population growing ever faster... look at how the ice in the poles are melting... we have a bleak future.

Our beautiful planet...

It's just sad....

My "Mii" in Wii

Introducing myself~ this is me (Mii) in Wii. My name is Miki-chan. Am I lovely or am I lovely? I was playing bowling in Wii. It rrreeeeeaaalllyyy feels like real bowling. My bowling ball often "looks like going into the right longkang.. but at the end it turns and go into the left longkang"... I didn't understand at which point my wrist has turn and causes such thing to happen. In this Wii bowling too my ball will turn in the end. It's really fun.

"I am Miki-chan"
Except the one wearing a sunglasses, the rest of the Mii were created by me. The one wearing sunglasses was created by my bro. Cute right? These Mii's? hehe...

I farted!

Damn! I was coughing and used too much force and I lost control and I made a loud fart.

Best still, it was awfully quiet in my office.

Nice.

Really nice.

No more "image"....

Transformer

Transformer, the talk of the week. I haven’t catch the movie but all I heard is good stuff, from the people who watched it.

Yesterday on 98.7FM, Daniel Ong and the other lady DJ (don’t know her name) were talking about it.

Daniel Ong : What would you be if you can transform into anything?

Lady DJ : I would transform into….

Daniel Ong : “khi khi khoo khoo khoo….” (imitating the famous sound made by the robots when they transform)

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Lady DJ : ATM MACHINE!

Both : HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA………….


I almost burst into laughter while walking and listening to them on earphone....

Lost

I lost my all time favourite handphone pouch yesterday .

Fuck!

Although I can buy another one (if it's still being sold), one just hate the feeling of losing the things you love. Damn it! damn it damn it damn it!

FRESH fish, anyone?

"活鱼头熟鱼身 ‘阴阳活鱼’食客抨击 "
（新加坡）新明日报 (2007-07-09)
（综合电）‘鱼身热炸红烧，鱼头还是活的。’

　　台湾嘉义市一家餐厅推出‘阴阳活鱼’料理，当菜上桌时，鱼嘴仍会一张一合，结果被部分食客抨击其做法残忍野蛮，并向嘉义市政府举报。

　　而餐厅东主则声称，‘阴阳活鱼’学自大陆四川，又辩解推出该道菜，只是让客人享用鲜活的美食。

　　据报，‘阴阳活鱼’的原料是活鲤鱼，其做法是用毛巾包住鱼头紧紧抓住，将鱼身先在滚烫油锅炸熟，淋上糖醋酱汁后，就端上桌飨客。当客人享用鱼肉美味时，可看到鱼嘴尚在张合。

　　王姓餐厅东主表示，他在今年6月初推出‘阴阳活鱼’菜式，每条鱼卖28至38新元不等，客人须预订。

WHY would anyone eat that???!! WHy??!! How can anyone has the heart to eat a fish which is still moving???!!!

That is so god damn cruel!

Imagine YOU, one day, all of sudden, being abducted by aliens. Aliens who think it's fun to eat you while you still can move and breathe. So, aliens wrap your head with a towel. Prepare a HUGE pot of EXTREMELY hot oil, clouds of extremely hot air rising from the oil. The air alone is hot enough to burn... Then, DIP YOU INTO THE OIL until just below your neck! BBBBBZZZZAAARRRRRRRRR............................. the extremely hot oil engulfs you..! Extreme pain cuts in like a thousand knives immediately, right into your heart.. you cannot breathe... too painful to breathe... you feel your skin becoming harden... crusty... bubbles are forming beneath your skin... bubbles explode..... every bubble explosion is unbearable.... you wonder why are you in a pot of extremely hot oil.. you wonder what have you done to deserve this..... your flesh is losing touch with your bone... almost cooked... you think of your family... you will never get to see them again... then your thoughts come back to the pain... it's almost gone! because you are almost cooked, except your head...

Then...it's almost over... it'll be over soon... you are now being served... you are put on a big plate... wait a minute, it's not over yet... oh no! oh no!!! something is being pour on you! Extremely hot gravy! Oh no... the extremely hot gravy touches your neck, near your head... your flesh around your neck is not fully cooked... and the pain.. oh the pain.. you thought it was over... yet you feel pain once again..... you wonder why are they so cruel... why not cut your throat and let you die first....

Finally.. this time it really is going to be over.... aliens gather around you... they snatch your flesh... you can no longer feel it....... bcos your flesh is fully cooked.. your flesh separates from your bones easily.. but you can see it.. you see yourself being eaten.. alive... or half alive...? you can no longer be sure... your life is fading.. yet it is not fading fast enough... you still can see the aliens' faces.. ugly faces... with your flesh between their teeth........ slowly... they eat and laugh.. commenting on how you taste... some like it... some don't... some spat your flesh out... "my flesh..." you thought... but it doesn't matter... nothing matters anymore... you can now see your bone even.. cos they are almost finish eating you.... then a kid alien comes over... "it" uses a fork like thing, extremely sharp like the aliens' teeth.. "it" pokes you right in your cheek! Arrghh..... let me die... you think... let me die please..... but no.. you cannot die just yet... The kid alien thinks it is fun... it pokes that thing right in your eye next! and dig out your eye ball!! and the other come over and tries to pull out your tongue!! AARRGGGGGGHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh.............. slowly... you cannot hear yourself anymore.. finally... you are fading.. your life is leaving you... Good, you think.... good... may these aliens... go to hell.. ....one.... day...... so long... and you died. Finally.

Great Wall of China

Know the recent fuss about the new 7 wonders of the world? China's Great Wall of China has been voted one of them.

Did you notice how people, even tv broadcaster always say "the only structure that's visible from the space"? Actually it is not true. It cannot be true. Yes the GWoC is very long (and magnificent and spectacular blahblahblah) but the structure is too narrow to be seen from space. Read it here at Wikipedia. Yes I know Wiki is not always right. But logically speaking, the GWoC really is not wide enough to be visible from space.

So why is everybody saying the opposite? Puzzles me.

And people from China when being interviewed always give the standard answer "Yes we are very proud of GWoC. We are very proud as a China people." Blah blah blah. I never really agree with such sentiment. I may be a bit on the radical side, I know. What I feel is, everybody can be proud of the GWoC or any other significant structures, buildings as a human being on earth, NOT just the citizens of the country. Cos we are all the same. You and I are all humans. HUMANS built it. Europeans, Indians, Chinese, etc etc, are all humans. We are not much different from each other.

Like wise, I always ponder, what is nationalism? So what you are British and I am Fijian or whatever? We just happened to be born on that particular piece of land. You and I are not much different. What I am trying to say is, we should have "earthism" rather than nationalism. We are all born on earth. We should love our earth and protect it like how people love their nation. But we're not. Humans are virus of the earth. Ironic.

p.s. Why do people feel proud of GWoC when so many people died building it? hmm...

Transport encounters...

Yesterday in the bus, I was using my electronic dictionary, didn’t notice the passengers that got on. I did not see the face of the woman who was standing beside me. I can only see her face if I really look up. What I saw was she was wearing loose clothing and she has a bit of a tummy. I wondered if she is pregnant. Then she sort of caresses her tummy like pregnant women do. So I thought she is pregnant. Thus I stood up and gave my seat to her.

BUT! Turned out she is not pregnant........well, I don’t think she is lah. She looks a bit old, but not THAT old that will prompt people to give up seat for her. And I think she is not pregnant, perhaps just a typical mother who has had a few kids (thus the tummy) and who doesn’t care much about her appearance. Wah, a bit paiseh (embarrassed) leh… She must be wondering why was she given a seat when she is not THAT old and not pregnant........ BUT she took the seat anyway.

Then last week, in the train, there was this woman, with her boyfriend. She is quite pretty but kind of fleshy and plump. By the way, her boyfriend is really really sloppy... ew.... And then, the seat beside me emptied, she hurriedly came and took the seat. BUT, she’s so eager to take the seat and she sat on the flesh of my thigh!!!!!!!!! Uuurgghhh............it’s painful, ok?! She is big size. Why so desperate to take a seat??!! The seat was spacious! So many years I’ve been taking the train, I have NOT been sat on before! Walao eh... so sueh (unfortunate)........

Wii~

Previously ShiXiong put his tag line in MSN : "Wah, my bro bought Wii". Now it's my turn to say "Wah my bro bought Wii". It was really fun playing the Wii Sport~ Baseball, tennis, bowling and boxing, all were fun~ and will sweat after playing them, which is good. The other games which the character goes and search for things, that one I really couldn’t play… I will get motion sickness in no time~! Hahaha…… If I were to play those I better take motion sickness pill… very funny… suffer motion sickness by sitting there on my sofa…

I got too excited playing the tennis that I hit a plant on the coffee table… I played very seriously and hit with quite strong force… so funny… Can’t wait to go home on this weekend and play again~!