Caving Part III

A few days ago, after 1 month plus doing the caving at Dark Caves
located next to Batu Caves ( 12km from Kuala Lumpur ).
I suddenly ran a refresh on what Mr. Suja Yussoff has said.

In the caves, he told us that whatever sports or hobby we do,
we have to do it with safety precautions + safety comes first
mindset in our head and brain !!

For example, he said caving would be dangerous if no safety
precautions deployed, such as :

1. Be prepared with suitable equipment/ attire.

2. Get a guide or ranger with the team.

3. Tell others people where you want to go before you go.
In that case if you are trapped or get hurt in the caves
or forrest, people will realize that you are missing.

4. Don't act as hero. If need help, have to call for help.

5. Don't destroy the ecosystem.

6. Don't eat/ drink the stuff in the cave.
You have any idea how many bats, snakes, caching, kuchings,
and bugs wash their asses in the stream water?
Go ahead, drink the mineral water !! go a head !!

7. Don't use your torch light / spot light to beam at the animal.

8. Don't eat too much of food before you go caving, why?
===> You will probably stuck like my friend Kai\\\Hong.
===> You will burp a lot of curry / nasi lemak smell.
===> You might feel like want to Pang Sai
===> You might be heavier, hence difficult to climb the rocks.
===> You might just.... puke if you are too tired / exhausted.

9. If you see a white snake in the cave, go around it without
scaring or pissing it off ! You would be fine.
Cause the snake doesn't like you either.

10. If you see a bat with a rocket at his / back, and can fly from
Rome or Italy to Malaysia, tell the cops and National Geographic.

Well, basically, that's what I've learned during the process.

And oh, do not ever, I repeat Do Not Ever Wear your most expensive
and favorites Jeans and T-Shirt and shoes to do caving. Why?
Hmmm... I let you figure it yourself..

Best regards
Wong Kai Hong
22 Jan 2005.

Happy Birthday BB !! Happy Birthday !!

每一句说话

曲名：每一句说话 歌手：太极 专辑：4u

曾遇挫折失败,旁人不理我呼哎.
全因你某天舒我愁怀,
我已深深了解.

但你忘情将爱活埋
何解不理这心态
还请紧记车厢中拥吻
ILL LOVE U TILL I DIE
无缘无份怎可分解
痴心一片原是孽债
悠悠长夜记起每句说话
HOW I LOVE U
MY DARLY
HOW I MISS U

宁愿永远失败
来填补对你的债
仍想起某天几段情怀
I STILL LOVE U TILL I DIE
I STILL LOVE U TILL I DIE。。。。。。

是非曲直: 正盗相争，难为用户
2005/01/17 17:35:44
●宋凌风


近年来，盗版光碟问题不断。不论是政府方面，还是正版商家方面，为了阻止盗版光碟的蔓延，可说是无所不用其极。不过，很多时候，为了这一场“正盗之争”，他们往往忽略了一直以来支持正版的用户。



我有一位香港朋友，是音响发烧友，很注重音质，所以，他一直以来都是正版音乐光碟（AUDIO-CD）的支持者。不过，近来他向我诉说，现在的音乐光碟已大不如前，因为很多正版光碟都加上了防盗技术，使到音质大大下降。一般人也许会听不出，不过，以他的音响配备，一试便知。我也上网了解过这类防盗技术，结果，还是发现有方法可以破解到。



在影音光碟即是VCD方面，由于在发明影音光碟时并未考虑过盗版问题，所以，一切现有的防盗技术都是问题多多，如无法在某些品牌机上播放。不过，由于光碟烧录机（CDRW）已普遍，有些正版影音光碟商在情非得已之下，想出了个“一石二鸟”的防烧录方法。



由于一般家庭用户使用的烧录光碟容量都介于700MB，超过这个容量就会出现不稳定的情况；而正版影音光碟商出版的光碟则是母片压制的，现今的技术已可压制到900MB左右的容量，由于容量与技术的容许，他们就把一套90分钟的影片（原为两片光碟）二合为一，置入一片光碟内，一来可防止一般用户盗录，二来可减低生产成本。这对防盗版无疑是很有效，不只是光碟烧录机无法读取光碟内的资料而盗录，就算是一部新品牌的播放机，读取这类超容量的光碟也会出现各类问题，如读取速度极慢；观赏到后段部分，影片出现停滞；影片进行前进与后退时，出现当机。



除了以上问题，由于光碟越离外沿，读取就越不稳定，光碟的机头会不停修正错误，从而加速光碟机头的耗损，也减短了播放机的寿命。



目前的光碟播放机价格虽合理，但坏的原因是使用正版光碟，这对正版用户是合理的吗？



为了防盗版，正版光碟的品质比盗版的还差，这对正版用户公平吗？这不是迫正版用户“倒戈相向”吗？

Philips watched Kung Fu already !!

I have watched Kung Fu already today, it is Sunday late night right
now and I am done watching it.

Well basically it was nice, really !! I mean the story was ok, people
that I know in the movice, Mr. Chow himself and when was doing
that sign language thing and with the cute little girl...
Mellows !!!

But one thing that I don't understand is that I didn't hear the
Kung Fu song at all, not even after the movie ends. Well if it
is after the movie.... :)

Will write more about this later ok? Time for sleep cause it's
a wonderful Monday tomorrow. Good night.

Invoice

Philips worked very hard on Friday

As I woke up on Friday morning, I think I started to work very hard
on the day.

In the afternoon I went to see Ben & Kenny from MCL (M) System
at Subang USJ area. Hmmm... that would be the new shop lot after
the Giant Hypermarket.

Spent about 2 hours there talking about the road map plan +
current issue of their purchase from us. The chance is good for
them to continue to work closely with MTSB due to our offer
and our quality of products.

Later went to Low Yatt plaza and left my car at Pudu Caltex
near the old Majestic Cinema. And guess what? I became
environmental friendly and walked to Low Yatt Plaza alone :)

I think it is possibly 3 km and I took 20 minutes to walk to Low
Yatt Plaza from there. Then went to see Iris Lai and Francis
Yap from Makiwa.... hmmm.... and did some shopping for IT
list too :) Time has since then gone to 4:30 pm when I meet the
friends from Singapore and Andy and everyone else.

Later we took a cab back to get my car WKG 9214 and cost me
10 bucks..... that I promised myself that one day I will use my
power to destroy all the taxi in Klang Valley who does not use
the Taxi meter and cheat the passenger.... I swear I will !!

And from there we proceeded to City Link Enterprise and Michael
and all had a good chat. Well as a friend and supplier I fully
support what Michael and the rest are doing. Good eh?

Later in the evening we came back to Bukit Bintang area and
went for a short meeting, and then again nice food at Jalan Alor.

After everything is done, it was already 11;00 pm and I reached
home near 11:45 pm. Basically that's a day for me when I work
harder then normal day.

Feel so tired when I reach home and come to think about it, hey
I worked for 14 hours today leh !! Not a bad record eh? Of course
it involved a lot of walking, talking, meeting, negotiating, driving,
waiting, eating, drinking, joking, screwing and arguing....
that is the facts of life and we have to get used to it.

At the end of the day before I sleep , i refreshed about what I
have done today and how is the outcome.

===============================

Pro : Customer relation is very much better.
: Car performance become better after service.
: Secured the sales order for Feb 2005. About 500K pcs
: Understood customer requirement & need.
: Understood market movement.
: Lost 1/2 Kg cause walked a lot

Con: A little bit tired.
: Get screwed a bit from customer.
: Lost RM 466.00 due to car service. Clutch Change and so.
: Gained 1/2 Kg cause eat a lot.

At the end of the day, when you are free and before you sleep.
Try to think and refresh your own memory of what you have done
today. Any mistake or any wrong decision?
Anything special or anything important that you have missed?
And make a pro vs con chart comparison like above :

Wehn all pro and no cons ===> A super good day. Get reward!
When pro is more then cons ===> A very good day. Fruitful !
When pro is same with cons ===> An ok day. No fruit !!!
When cons is more then pro ===> A bad day. Get bad fruit !!!
When all cons and no pro ===> Even worst. Get Papaya !!!

From the chart and table above, one can easily :
====================================
1. Identify the mistake.
2. Admit the mistake ( to self or to the person involed ).
3. Apologize for the mistake ( to self or to the person involved ).
4. Learn from the mistake ( pros and cons ).
5. Never repeat the mistake.

Philips did not swim for 7 days already

Last night after kao tim everything I stayed at computer and
watched White Chicks DVD. Wow that was fantastic !!

White Chicks <=== Totally Crap + Rubbish + Waste of time in
my humble oppinion. I watched for about 30 minutes and I have
decided not to continue anymore cause I think it is a really a waste
of time to watch this kind of stuff.

Well, soaked my cloths, took a nice bath, prepared some sales report and went to sleep. Time that I went to sleep was 12:30 am I think.

Woke up at 5:00 am thanks to the prayer. I responded to them
:" Rodger! Got it loud and clear ! over !"

And moved the cloths from washing machine into the dryer and
let it dry for about 70 minutes or so. At about 6:30 I wake up
again to take out the cloths from the dryer.

Yeah the cloths are still warm and I quickily hanged those working
cloths so that they would not wrinkle so much and could be ready
to wear anytime :) Brilliant Idea to save electrical bill eh mate?

After everything is done it almost come to 7 am, well, I was
suppose to swim today. But due to insufficient of sleeping I
jump back to my bed and wake up at 8 am.....

And I am suppose to wake up at exactly 7 am to swim !! cool!!

There above is a very bad examples for a healty life style.
I suppose a 5 hours good sleep is enough for average person.
Why need a sleep from 12 am to 8 am ??

I magine if we sleep 8 hours a day ( more in weekend ) we are
spending 1/3 of our life time sleeping you know? That's why
weekend I seldom wake up late unless there is a good reason to
do so, such as get stuck to some pretty girl besides me or
something like that :) There was a few time that I woke up
at 7 am in weekend and found , wow actually weekend we have
a lot of free time to utilize !! correct?

Further more if you would wish to have a second income &
make a good brand, be sure to use your weekend smart and
don't waste too much of time by sleeping.

Cause sleeping brings no profits and too much of sleeping makes
one get migraine !! Think about it ok? Let's wake up at 7 am or
8 am this Sunday and do something ( like what Ah Bun's mom
have said ) Be a usefull person !!

Philips Gets Very Annoyed !!

Today we will learn a few words :

1. Age
2. Older
3. Uncle
4. Uncle
5. And Uncle again

Not very long time ago, at a town called Kota Bharu ( 475km )
away from Kuala Lumpur. I went out for breakfast with my family
at Jalan Kebun Sultan. I was standing with my mother at her
favourites food stall. Then the sales person there suddenly asked
my mother while looking at me.

"Li Eh Ko Ah?" ( Your older brother ah?)
Year = 1992
Venue = Jalan Kebun Sultan

I was amazed, do I really looked that old?

Later of the year, also in 1992. My favourite teacher Mdm Quek
looked at me at Bilik Guru and say :" Hmm this boy looked matured!"
I didn't mind about it , in fact I feel happy cause you know? I am
the man !!

Never realized that a person would used the word "matured" to
hint the word " old ".... Jesus Christ I was only 15 years old that
time....... OMG ! OMG !!

Fine, then during the 92s and 93s I always take my cousins out
( they were about 2 or 3 years old that time ) to shopping mall
and places like that. And they do stick to me very much....
Me <=== One hand carry 1 cosin.

Suddenly this Malay promoter or customer I can't remember asked
" Anak kedua ke? " while looking at my cousin...

I jumped back 2 steps and pointed at my nose and shouted
" Wei ! Saya belum kahwin lah !"

The the Malay person said : "whooopss ! dua anak mar !!"

That's why, during that period my look did really charm a lot of
little little girs. Kononnya matured & steady !! Wah Piang !!

13 years gone ......

Back last 2 months ago when I gone back to Kelantan with my father
we went to my mother school. We sent her to the school and when
we were about to leave, suddenly my mother's assistant head master
walked out. He saw my father at the front passenger seat and said
hello to him. And he saw me and waived at me and said
: "Hello Uncle " and he left...

Ok I thought I'd heard wrongly and left.

Suddenly my father smiled and asked me " Did he just called you uncle?"

OMG !! An assistant head master aged about 48 or 50 years old just
called me uncle that day. Well, I am sort of getting used to it you know?

Well until yesterday, I went out for lunch with my customer Mr Tan
near Steven Corner in Cheras. Of course we sat down and get our
mixed rice first. Suddenly this lady ( aged = around 35 to 40 ) proceed
and asked me :" Uncle what you want to drink ?"

I said :" Errr.. Teh O Ice please !"

And why the hell she called me uncle for? Can't he call me Mr. or Sir or
anything ? Damn I think she must be new in service line !! Normally
newbies would make the same mistake.

Now I never call some one below 85 years old aunty and uncle.

I call them sir or madam, or mister or misses... or something like that.

Hence, why the hack am I writing this complain? Well just to remind
the people out there so that we could be more courteous and show
courtesy to the people out there. Be good and be polite. Say thank
you and pull the chair for the ladies, and hold the doors as you passed.

It's nothing heavy or difficult to do, just use a little bit of your energy
and effort will make this world a better place to live.

Best regards
Philips Tong
Chief of Main Kitchen
Solar Air Ltd.
Airport Authority Building,
1 Cheong Yip Road,
Hong Kong International Airport,
Lantau, Hong Kong

Philips Doing Kung Fu !!! Wa Cha !!

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing

They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down
It's an ancient Chineese art and everybody knew their part
From a feint into a slip, and kicking from the hip

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing

There was funky Billy Chin and little Sammy Chung
He said here comes the big boss, lets get it on
We took a bow and made a stand, started swinging with the hand
The sudden motion made me skip now we're into a brand knew trip

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they did it with expert timing

(repeat)..make sure you have expert timing
Kung-fu fighting, had to be fast as lightning

Philips is mellowed today...tell me a reason not to.

曲名：我只在乎你 歌手：邓丽君 专辑：存为爱

如果没有遇见你 我将会是在哪里?
日子过得怎么样 人生是否要珍惜?

也许认识某一人 过著平凡的日子
不知道会不会 也有爱情甜如蜜?

任时光匆匆流去 我只在乎你
心甘情愿感染你的气息
人生几何 能够得到知己?
失去生命的力量也不可惜

所以我求求你 別让我离开你
除了你 我不能感到 一絲絲情意

如果有那么一天 你说即将要离去
我会迷失我自己 走入无边人海里
不要什么诺言 只要天天在一起
我不能只依靠 片片回忆活下去

任时光匆匆流去 我只在乎你
心甘情愿感染你的气息
人生几何能够得到知己?
失去生命的力量也不可惜

所以我求求你 別让我离开你
除了你 我不能感到 一絲絲情意

Second Mellow

曲名：夜来香 歌手：邓丽君 专辑：何日君再来

那南风吹来清涼　那夜莺啼声悽怆
月下的花儿都入梦　只有那夜来香
吐露著芬芳
我爱这夜色茫茫　也爱著夜莺歌唱
更爱那花一般的梦　拥抱著夜来香
吻著夜来香
夜来香　我为你歌唱
夜来香　我为你思量
啊...　　我为你歌唱　我为你思量
夜来香　夜来香　夜来香

If Philips would ever in love again....

Jika Kau Bercinta Lagi
by Alleycats / Flop Poppy

Jika kau bercinta lagi
Cintalah sepenuhnya
Jika kau bercinta lagi
Jagalah kau hatinya

Kau yang memilihnya
Tanpa memikirkan tentang diri ku

Kini aku hanya dapat berdoa
Agar berbahgia kau di sampingya

Jika kau bercinta lagi
Cintalah sepenuhnya
Jika kau bercinta lagi
Jagalah kau hatinya

Aku tak dapat menghalang
Engkau punya kemahuan sendiri
Biar ku hidup mengenang peristiwa
Yang tak dapat ku lupa

Kini aku hanya dapat berdoa
Agar berbahagia kau disampingnya
Selamat tinggal
Aku mengundurkan diri
Aku mengundurkan diri

Philips gets insomnia

As you all know that Philips went for a 15 laps yesterday morning.
And I also said that hmmm... there would be no short term impact
physically am I right?

No I think I was wrong !!

After the 15 laps in the morning, a few things were observed and
recorded in the afternoon till midnight :

1. Very hungry in the morning
2. Very hungry in the afternoon
3. Very hungry in the evening

But....

1. Not feeling sleepy in the morning
2. Not feeling sleepy in the afternoon
3. Not feeling sleepy in the evening
4. Not feeling sleepy in the night
5. Not feeling sleepy at 2:30 am !!! mein Gott

I guess the so called Excersise Afterburning System ( EAS ) must
have been working whole day yesterday since I press it quite
hard in the morning.

See our body metabolism will be increased when we do excersise
and diffrent people has diffrent Metabolism rate. That's why some
people could get fatter by eating regulary and some people
wouldn't get fat easily after whacking food whole day.

My metabolism belongs to slow adjusted type. Which mean when
it is been increased it would not go down easily and takes a lot
of time to cool down.

Previously when I was around early 20s I will sweat 1 hour after
swimming course. Heat beat & metabolism is still high even after
one hour.

Ah, it is same for my temper too. When it comes, it comes slowly
and when it is going off, it goes off very slow too. Hence slow
come slow go is what I am telling you here :)

Anyway, yesterday after work I reached home at about 6pm.
Well I didn't sleep nor anything but I was fixing my CPU and
do some CPU cleaning & so on. Cause I have not accessed to
my CPU for quite some time already.

After that, we went on for dinner at Taman Tun near the old
Jaya Jusco. And after that gone back to home everybody, even
with the air cond turned on I just didn't feel sleepy !!!

Yeah no wonder the time was only 9:45 pm and I proceed to
went on to Internet and play the Conquer Online game. After
getting about 3 - 5 % of experiance I have decided to quit. Cause
I started to feel sleepy. But hei the TV was showing
Triumph In the Skies !!! Samm !!!! Philipsss !!!

Well, finished the show at 10:30 plus, watch some HBO and movie
which are totally tasteless. Proceed back to room and listen to
music, online research and check mails...... but still no luck cannot
sleep....

Alright, 11:45 pm I off the light and listen to some orchestra music
and tried to sleep :

1. Independence Day Theme
2. Austin Power Intro Theme
3. Rod Stewart = Have I Told You Lately?

And finally I was able to close my eyes, but WTF I wake up at
2:30 am again? And again at 5:30 am !! and 7:00 am !! And
7:30 am and 7:45 am and 8:00 am.... finally I cannot tahan
already at 8:15 I went to take bath and come to work in the
office.... here I am sitting here in office....

Oh ! Insomnia cause Philips Swim ?? Help !! Help !! Help !!!

Philips goes swimming ...

Last night my dear housemate said I grow up already...
Errrr .... to be precise grow wide already. You know when the meat
grows left and right, front and back instead of growing up?

And before that my mom asked me to swim more, and before
thatwhen I was in the office, Gerald looked at me for 5 seconds andsaid :" Eh Fei Chai ! you are getting fatter !!"

I reply :" No lah I've just lost a few pounds !"

Gerlad :" You know, all those people who are drunk always say
that they are OK and not drunk?"

I then bang head on my table 3 times. And finally before I go to
sleep I set my alarm from Sony Ericsson T610 Triband Phone to
6:45 am .... gee !!

Oh I thought washing my car for 1 hour could be equivalent to
1 hour swim. But after I washed my car I makaned my
sandwiches before I sleep. That makes me feel guilty and
wished to swim. Then I tatatata... put all the cloths in the
washing machine and set it Soak Mode, pour in the liquid
detergent , read some books and proceed to sleep......

Time = 5:58 am and I wake up cause my Muslim friends start
to pray at the nearby Mosque. Well 27 years of praying for
me is only 1 word = "used" to it.

So at 6:00 am I proceed to place the washed cloths into our
dryer . Hmmm !! Yeah my housemate has a cloths dryer, how
many of you out there has a cloths dryer in your house?
Anyone? Hmmm? Anyone of you has one?? hmm???

Well after that I proceed back to my bed and spent some
quality time there, and at 6:45 am my alarm woke me up again
using the song "tian mi mi " from the late Terresa Teng !!
I jumped up and off the alarm and proceed to sleep again.

This is standard for more then 75% of human being in the world.
Alarm set, alarm went off , we wake up, shut down the alarm,
and then go back to sleep .

Alarm <===== Something which make noise. But will always fail
to wake people up !!! Bravo !!!

And I went back to sleep after my alarm is shut down. In the
dream, I was in the office MTSB, and I was preparing myself to
swim !! OMG !! mein Gott im Himmel. I was taking of my cloths
and tie ( now when do I start wearing Tie to work? ) and
I looked at my swimming tools, WTF? Got bra, got women undies
and jeans and stuff like that !! mein Gott im Himmel !! And there
is a swimming pool in MTSB near the traning room meh??

Finally I wake up in cold sweat !!! Time = 7:15 am and jumped
off the bed. Found my swiming trunks and cap and my googles
and proceed to the real swimming pool. 2 minutes of warmming
up by doing opening and closing eyes excersise is good enough.

Jumped into water and did 15 laps with 1 rest for 20 seconds.

There was a lady was doing many laps of free style, perhaps
5 to 7 laps but she does not look tired at all. Well for me I
just proceed with my breast stroke cause I need the stamina
to do long distance.

As I swim the sky became brighter and brighter as time goes
by. Some old folks are seen doing Tai Che excersie near the pool
and there are birds doing the water fly over stuff.

Well whatever the birds are doing near the pool, just please
don't poo and pee in the water ok? I quickily finished the 15 laps
and the time has came to 7:55 am.

I am getting out of here !!!

Go back, pang sai ( hmmmm ! song !! ) and take bath and like
usual just go to work in the office. Any diffrent you ask me?
Nope ! Swimming is a long term sports that you would not see
any changes in short term time. So let's meet again soon
in the pool. This time time should be around 7 am :)

That's how Philips Tong goes swimming on a cool morning near
Kayu Ara area :) Just 1 word <==== Song !!!

My name is Philips .. Philips Tong

Today this morning when everyone were still a little bit blur in
the office. I stand out and pointed at my nose and shout,
and I shouted loudly
:" Sammmmm !! Why like this ???? Hmmm?" After I pointed at my
nose I opened my arm and senget my head a little bit.

After 3 seconds, people in the office ROTF and climb up via chairs
and ROTF again? WTF?

And from that moment onwards my official name in MTSB is
been changed to Philips Tong. Whenever they are bored or got
nothing to do, they will request, do Philips one time !!

Then I would have to stand up, pull my pants tight, open my
arms, senget my head a little bit and ask :" Saammmmmm !!! "

They then will have a great time !!!! Thanks to Triump in the Skies!

Everyday the TV show and movie that we watch actually is
being blended in our real life without us knowing it. I started to
sound like Philips again ( happened 6 months ago ) and the best
part is that they said my tone sounds like Philips too...
"Saaammmm !! Why like this ??? hmmm??? " Kepala Senget !!

Well, I think it is ok and fine if we were to use these useless
quote and sentence from the TV and movies from time to time.
Quotes like these would come out sometimes :=

"Evidence will never lies" with your kepala senget sikit
"The truth is out there"
"Talk to the hand"
"I will be back"
"Hastala vista baby"
"Argh Good Die Mite !"
"Argh this is a large croc !"
"Sammmm ! why?"
"Gogogo"
"Yo ! Pik Pak lei gei long de tong!" and so on....

It actually has a very good effect on our daily life. It is called
Resonance or 共鸣, or at least this is what I believe in. I believe
in a lot of things, one of them is to use polite way and relax way
to convey a message at most of the time.

When your friend make you angry or you have a really bad hair
day. You could of course curse something like " F off stupid ass"
or something like that. But those are a little bit rude for some
so called educated people ... kononnya !!

Well, I think sometimes we could instead be alternative, like when
you have a bad day. Just point at your nose, open your arms and
say to yourself " Sammm !!! Why?? Hmmm?" with kelapa senget
sikit. I think that will convey your message without giving any
up set feeling to anyone around you.

Wouldn't it be nice and sweet if we could be nice and talk politely
to everyone around us? Like what Wet Wet Wet said, love is
all around..... to be continued.

My Name is Philips.... Philips Tong

Today in the office, suddenly I complained to my Jessie & Amanda
by saying :" Sammmmm !! Why like this???? " with my arms widely
opened....

They all then suddenly ROTF and climb up and ROTF again... WTF?

And from that moment onwards people in the office are calling me
Philips Tong... Philips Wong ... Philips Tong .....

Now this is natural for me, I used to take some quote or sentence
from the TV or movie and use them in real life. Because there
are so many useless quote out there that I think could make
people feel relax and easy.

The most importantly, I think the quotes from all these TV and
movie because it is poweful and creative. Like...

"Talk to the hand !"
"I will be back !"
"Sammmm !!!"
"Hastala Vista Baby !"
"My name is Alice, and I remember everything!"
"Argh ! Good die... mite !"
"Argh this is a huge croc !! "
"Evidence will never lie!!"
"My name is Gil.. Gil Grissom from LVPD Crime Lab !"
"Don't make me say it twice !"

And many more that when we use it in our daily dialouge, it could
help to secure peoples attention by the easy and relax way.

Imagine you want to talk to your friend, or you want to scold
your friend, of course you could say :" You dick head !" but
this sometimes will create an tension atmosphere & make things
a litte bit uneasy for some people.

But, if you put yourself in people's shoe. You will then switch the
mode into :- Saying " Sammmmm, why like this?" with your
arms opened wide and some smile on your face.....

This will give you a better result compared to throwing something
like " You dick head !" into peoples face. Agree??

Well my idea is always to use diplomatic and light and easy way
to all the people and living things around you. Even animals and
plants do have feelings, you didn't feel it does mean that it is not
there, you didn't feel it because your skin is as thick as the
Great China Wall, that's why...

Now probably you will feel upset cause I've just claimed that your
skin is as thick as the Great Wall of China. Now wouldn't it be
better if I have said :" Evidence never lie !" and looked at you
with my head senget sedikit ??? And smile to you after saying that?

That is precisely what is my point today. An objective and target
is always there, but it is up to us human to choose the best path
and route to achieve it. Sometimes we have forgotten that
"If Mc Donald doesn't come to my house, I go to Mc Donald !"
or
" If Penang doesn't come to me, I go to Penang !"
Always should be flexible in life, don't insist on something which
will do no good to either any party.

Hang on a second, wind is breezy & sea is calm
Reverse one step, sea is wide & sky is blue

忍一时 风平浪静
退一步 海阔天空

Sometimes people thought that gee Philip Tong seems to be
Mr. Good Guy 好脾气 or never have any bad tamper.

It seems so weird and unimaginable in some eyes and some
people. Some would not understand how come someone could
ever keep silence or quite even under the worst condition.

But what I am thinking is that, sometimes if you shout and make
noise and make everyone scared and afraid of you. And at the
end of the day, your objective is still not achived and your
problem is still there.

By upseting everyone and making yourself looked like a dumb ass
and the worst part, the problem is not solve. All you get is
that your blood pressure increased and perhaps you pee in your
pants too when you shout too loud like a donkey.....
what good is that to our life? Nope !! As a sales and marketing
people, I only do things which will bring me benefit and happiness.
If could bring me profit even better... wah ah ha ha...

Not to say that I never have any temper or 没什么脾气.

Just put it in a way that I don't like to show all these things to
everyone. I could have my temper too but it depends on people.
If my love one make mistake and if it requires me to use some
temper, sometimes have to use some to rectify them.
But temper is never a good thing to use, it is like nuclear bomb
or biological weapon which will hurt everyone.
I would not use it if I have no other choice.

Remember, if you could be so kind to any Tom Dick and Harry you
meet on the road and smile to the people in Sungai Wang or
1 Utama Shopping Complex when they accdentily step on your
foot or bang into your way. Why not use this kindness to forgive
your love one and your family member, you could be so kind to
stranger, why can't you be so kind to your family member??

Now I think this blog is out of control and out of my topic !!
What I was going to write was about Philips Tong, why it came
to an end at Temper & Anger Management Course?? Help !!
Help !! 救人啦 救人啦 救人啦 救人啦

To be continued, sam !!

New Year 2005 Part Duex

It's already 4th Day of 2005, and you know I just kept on writing the
year 2004, 2004, 2004, 2004.... This happens every year, particularly
at the first few days of a new year, 2005... now I can write 2005
already, yahoo !!!

Back to December 2004 ( I spelt 2004 correctly and naturally ) the
sales that I did was really not too bad. Look at the figures below :-

Total pcs sold = 3,422,950 ( CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, CD-RW)
Total value RM = 971,419.50

I think that is a new record for myself for my entire 5 years working
experiance. Well thanks to my customer who organized the PC Fair in
December 2004.

The secret of doing good sales in the CD-R and DVD-R industry, I
believe in a few rules :

1. Price has to be competitive.
2. Product has to be good and stable.
3. Sales Team has to be friendly.
4. Quick response time
5. Face skin has to be thicker then Great Wall of China !!!

In this industry, the circle is too small, today one could be your best
customer and tomorrow he/she could poff and become your worst
nightmare. I don't use the word enemy here because I believe some
people might not buy from you, doen't mean that they are your
enemy or something like that.

Customer don't buy from me because the time is not right yet and
the condition that I gave them is not good enough yet :) That's all.

And once the customer is sort of start purchasing from our company,
all we need to do is to improve our relations, understand their
requirement, solve problems for them and the repeat orders will come
like end of the day :) That's cool eh ?

My ultimate target is about 2,500,000 pcs of CD-R and DVD-R every
month regardless which customer, but the price has to be good and
I have to gain maximum margin for my company. Will try to achieve
this during 2005 and I could be someone, perhaps :)

While working hard towards 2.5 million target, I will also sniff the
market and perhaps prepare myself for on and off international sales
if Mr. William Ho ask me to help him a little bit.....

I hope our bond and relations could get better and better everyday
and may me not screw up a big time for the year of 2005. The
Rooster Year !!!

And Oh Yeah, eat more vegetable and fruits this year !! Take some
supplement Vitamin C Pills from www.amway2u.com wahahahaha....
Till then, wherever you are, good day and happy new year...

Apple Juice = Fruits
Durian = Fruits ( King of Fruits )
Totally agree, anyone against this? ;-)

New Year 2005

Well, what a nice way to start a new year?
Today we will learn a few words :

1. Tsunami
2. Tidal Waves
3. Flu & Fever
4. Beautiful Girls
5. Crying alone.

And as you all can see, I have not doing my blog for quite sometime already.
Why? Mainly due to the 3 causes above and I felt really sick for the past 2 weeks.

Feeling sick from before Christmas, during Christmas and after Christmas is
not cool at all !! Trust me, next time if you want to get sick, don't do it
during Christmas Holiday.... don't !!

I probably taken too much of oily and hot food before mid December 2004
and did not take enough of fruits and vegetables. You know? Single guys
staying alone, normally will have insufficient fruits and vegetables consumed.
that's why my mom and family asked me to get married asap !!
No way !!! This is out of the question !! Next question pls?

And really ! Due to insufficient fruits and vegetables, I got sick !! In Chinese term they call " too heaty!" and in English Damansara Clinic they called it
Bacteria Infection and Throat Infection.

Anyway I was feeling really lousy during that period. Moreover, on 26th December 2004 there was a relatively huge scale Earth Quake near Indonesia
and recorded at 9.0 at scale.... OMG !!! my uncle called me up and asked
me if I feel anything, I answered yeah ! " I felt fever and sleepy !"

Anyway, during the earthquate around 9;00 am local time ( Kuala Lumpur )
most of the Malaysian are still sleeping , including us from Kayu Ara and we might have missed the "goyang" feeling ..... too bad eh! Somemore I was
really sick and having high fever, wrapped myself up like Siu Bak Chang in bed.

In the bed I was thinking, "Oi !" where are all those beautiful girls when
I needed them? Where are they ?? hm?? Hmm?? And then I cried alone in
the bed cause wu wu wu... no one take care of me... wu wu wu !!!

And later of the day, I realized that Tsunami ( not Tidal Waves you idiot!)
has stuck Penang, Langkawi, Kedah and some others part of Malaysia.
Not to mention Banda Aceh, Thailand, Phuket, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Maldives,
Somalia and so on.... and till date they are 155,000 person died of this
Tsunami and the toll is still climbing.....

Really didn't have the right mood to blog when this kind of news come to
you during New Year or around Christmas time eh?

To be continued....

Pak Tor Again???

It was a hot Wednesday afternoon when my good friend Amanda called us to have lunch with Mr. B.J. Lim from LG Korea.

We went for lunch and met William, Mr. Lim, Amanda there waiting for us. As usual, nice food and easy atmosphere, of course not forgetten a lot of jokes... according to William Ho :

1. I have a Malay girlfriend (I protested and said no,i have 2actually )
2. I pretend to be malu malu infront of Korea guest. Alamak !
3. Jessie don't like to eat Chicken Foot infront of us?
4. My size was like Mr Chai 2 years ago.
5. We sales dept give a lot of problem to William
6. Because we give a lot of problem to William, he has not taken
annual leave for more then 10 years already. Kasian betul !
7. A lot of English communication barriers.
8. Hong Kong English vs Malaysia English vs Korea English.
9. I know where to find nice food, nice drink, nice Kara OK and the
most important thing, nice Chinese Girls !!! wah ha ha ha ha ha!

Well after the heavy lunch we went back to office, and went for a meeting for LG products, sales and marketing plan and come out with the below conclusions :

1. William wants MTSB to sell 200K to 500K of LG product per month.
2. LG Korea will provide A&P materials.
3. MTSB might think to lower price for LG CD-R.
4. LG Korea will provide full range LG products.
5. We have to work hard for LG products.
6. MFD will also be included for LG Products.

And after those facts and meeting and discussions, we then proceed to
factory visit and production visit.

Then time to go to Low Yatt Plaza, and let Mr Lim to check in at Prince Hotel
located at Jalan Conlay before that.

Oh did I mention that I was driving the Company's Car ? The Mercedez
Benz E240 ? Wow the car = really good ! almost fully computerised and
it is so powerful !
Driving the Benz is really enjoyable and below are my feedback :

1. Very powerful a 2.4 liter engine.
2. Very smooth and light touched steering wheels.
3. Seamless automatic 4 gear transmission with Steptronic.
4. Good air cond system.
5. Good environment & surrounding sensors. Front and back.
6. Good handling and easy to pick up.
7. Keyless engine system.
8. Almost full computerised + 3 profile seats memory.
9. Quiet and smells good in the car :)

A drive from Subang to KL with this car is good :) And at Low Yatt plaza we
went to do the CD-R and DVD-R pricing and branding survey. Mr. Lim
used his notebook ( 555 brand one you know? ) to write down all the
informations and we did some shopping as well at Low Yatt plaza and
Sungai Wang plaza.

Time in at Low Yatt plaza = 5 pm
Time out from Low Yatt = 7 pm
Total parking cost 2 hour = RM 4.00

If it wasn't William and Mr. Lim who accompanied me in the trip and instead it
was Gigi Leong and Sammi Cheng, it would have just perfect and nice :)
You know?
1. Lunch togather.
2. Meeting also togather.
3. Go Low Yatt shopping togather.
4. Go check in hotel togather ( WTF? )
5. Enjoy the KL drive in luxury car togather ( hmm ! Song ! )
6. Go shopping at Parkson togather.
7. Go dinner togather.

So it seems like my Pak Tor experiance and time is "takdir" to be spent with
my boss. Aint' that sad? Hmmm ? hmm?

Well, some words from my heart.
=========================
When we work we work hard, push it to the limit and be dare to try new things.
Have to be brave to meet new challenges & problems.
But
When come to rest and play and family quality time? Also have to
enjoy every moment with the best possible feeling.
Aint' that right??

Kai //// Hong is a chaching stucked in the cave !! Help !! Giu Lang Lor !!
Giu Lang Lor !!

www. giulanglor.com

An Interesting Link

http://www.nobodyhere.com/toren.hier

A friend of mine Fane Yuan, the Bao Zhu Po who sent me this.
Try to have a look at it and enjoy :)

Caving Part Duo !!

A recap from what Suja said before we came to this micro cave.
Suja :" Later we will be doing some caving ok?"
Suja :" Remove your big belt if you have any."
Suja :" Un tuck your cloth, don't want to get your pants stuck and we could see the full monty mate !"
Suja :" And then the caving process is like this !
First you walk like Homo Sapiens
Then you walk like Primates or King Kong
Then you become AnJhing
Then you become Kuching
Then you become buaya darat
Then you become ularrr...
Then you become chaching ....! understand?"
Holy Cow ! I think I would be in trouble already when he said we have to become chaching that time.

The then said, we have to be careful not to bang our head in the cave. And after we pass any micro cave, we have to stand out slowly and only stand up after we are sure that there is no rock or anything sharp at our back. If not..... bang !!

Well after we all sit down outside of the cave... no I mean the micro cave that we are about to enter. Jaya asked all of us to sit down and gave us some talk.

He then said he need a volunteer, I stood up and say :" Me!"
I remember saying that :" Look you all sissy ! if I can make it, you all sure can make it also !!" Then I walked like a hero .....

And I kissed my butt good bye and followed Jaya into the micro cave while everyone is waiting from the back. As expected, the process was Homo Sapiens, king kong, anjhing, kuching, buaya darat, ular... and

1st micro cave was ok, easy to pass, I became an ular and I am ok already. The formula? Put your arms and hand infront, followed by your head, and shoulder and body and then squiiizeee your butt really hard, but don't fart ok? there are people behind for God sake!

Second hole then the problem come, stuck there for about 3 to 5 minutes, shirts and pants all wet already wet cause there are water and mud in the caves. Jaya asked me to use my foot to push myself forward, hmmmm, amazingly it worked and I am in another chamber... even smaller hole awaits me with an L shape turning... alamak !!!

At the chamber, I took out my belt, don't care if people see my butts or anything, i just don't want to stay in the cave anymore.

The tension feeling and fear is there because you are like, a worm moving slowly in a straw or tube, the only diffrence is that you know above you the mountain and rock is weigh about a few million tonnes, nothing big deal, no problem, just a few million tonnes of rock all above and over you, not worry?

***Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.*** Luckily I don't have claustrophobia or else I would be crying in there already.

At the 3rd hole or micro cave the real problem comes. My ribs and the ribs joint are stuck with the rocks. Could not move in anymore and i think about a lot of thing.... really made me think about all these funny thing, first thing come out in my mind

1. Help !!!
2. Malu betul !!!
3. How to get rescue guy to cut open a multi million tonne cave?
4. How long can I survive?
5. Do I have to stuck here for 2 weeks without food?
6. Have i paid all of my bills? Citibank? Car Loan? Oh no !!
7. How about my friends at my back? I am blocking them !
8. Did everyone pass the hole ok?

During the 3rd hole I became very very tired already. Cause the first 2 holes I was really moving like chaching already woh !! Feel really exhausted and tired during the 3rd cave.

Then Suja came to the rescue, he potong Q and came between me and the lee fong.

Scenario was like this :
=================
Jaya => Kai //// Hong <= Suja // Lee Fong // Chee Yuan // the rest
and

// means hole, and yes Kai hong is stuck between 3rd hole.

Jaya was giving motivation to me, pulling my Polo shirt, and Suja was pushing my foot from behind, finally after some tired inch by inch move, I am out from the 3 rd hole. And i was so relieved and exhausted.

Here I would really want to thank Jaya and Suja for their help !!
If not till today i am still in this shape ==> Kai //// Hong

I used to have a nightmare or should I say un pleasant dream about being stuck at some emergency staircase or in between building. I feel after I passed all these 3 micro cave, I am a new guy already, no more nighmare about this.

To be continued at Caving 3 !!!

11:41 am
15 Dec 2004
Just put down phone after checking with Suja Yussoff, told him and I've seen the new type of battery for his helmet and LED stuff.
He now knows where is Low Yatt Plaza, thanks to me wah ah ha..
And he told me that he has been doing another 4 days cave adventure tak terhenti henti !! way to go mate !!!

Black Dragonz Guild AJK

We've Made It ! After Caving & Became Chaching !!

Before Caving

SYPPS 13Dec04 1:00 pm from Mr Ho Sip Fah

road to KB at Guchil = Mr. Ho Sip Fah

nasi dagang shops :( view from Hospital from Ho Sip Fah

Caving at Dark Cave @ Batu Cave

Things to learn today :
=================
1. Dark caves / Caving
2. Eco-tourism
3. Dark , how dark? cannot see your 5 fingers
4. Homo sapiens
5. Primate
6. Anjhing or kuching
7. Buaya Darat
8. Ular
9. Chaching
10. White snake
11. White spider
12. Bats & Bats crap !
13. Kat Chat or Siew Kiong or
14. Stalactite
15. Stalagmites
16. Rimstone
17. Cave Pearls

Today we will learn about Dark Cave or Gua Gelap, which is located besides Batu Caves, 12 KM from Kuala Lumpur city centre.

Ranger question :" Why is this place called Dark Cave?"
Johntim :" Sir !! because this place is dark sir !!"
Ranger answer : " the more important is that because this is a
cave ! "
Johntim bang head on the cave wall....

What a wonderful way to melt the ice and relax ourself before we begin a trip 2 km into the throat or dubur of Dark Cave, depends how you look at it .

There were 12 person of us, Johntim's office people plus our house people. Gathered at Batu Caves at 2:00 pm and
bada bing... bada bam ...bada booom !!
raining heavily and I began to curse..... wtf raining before the trip !! I did not know that the rain has actually saved my life, why? how? read on and you will know.... muah ha hah a...

Time was about 2:15 when we were doing the climbing of the 272 steps of stair case toward the top of batu caves,
the first 100 steps was go go go go go !! like counter strike.
5 minutes later and from staircase 100 and onwards. ..... it was
go....
huhhh...
huhhh...
huhhh...
go .....
huh....
huh.... maciam sudah mahu mati itu maciam ...

It was raining really hard and we were all wet already before we could come to the entrance of the Dark Cave, the entrance is normally looked and no admitance to public. By the time we reached the Dark Cave entrance we were really panting so hard and some got their legs shaking and twisting and goyanging..... alamak...

And from there, we tested our fire power ( of torch light ) and have some drinks before we go into the cave with :

1. Jaya ( ranger team pioneer )
2. Suja ( a nice 1/2 Malaysian and 1/2 sweden ) Amir Yussoff anyone?
3. Mark ( handsome like Keanu Reeves, also 1/2 malaysian )

And the question was : " Why is this place called dark cave?".......
from there the journey began

( IE illegal operation again! Thanks Mr. Gates !! )

And then Suja lead us into the cave and he guided us and explained
the story, history and the formations of the limestone cave....
3 hours with these 3 person is like a 1 year course in some places
if you know what i mean.

So Suja gave us a lot of informations and knowledge while we proceed and
walk into the deeper part of the cave. I had no idea what was waiting for
me infront, not a chance in a life time :)

There was a point where we stopped and all of us swith off the torch light
and everything. Wow ! This is what I call Absolute Dark !!

It was so dark that it is even darker then when you close your eyes.... imagine.
You put your finger infront of your eyes and you can't see a thing, you can't
feel a thing.

Suja then said that in this kind of absolutely dark environment, the creatures
like bats, ants, bugs, snakes and everything here uses their sense of
hearing ( radar system ), tongue ( snakes ) , vibrations ( ants & bugs )
to detect what is infront of them and what is around them.

Suja then said, for a bunch of people like us to come in here , it is like
Godzilla coming to KL city and giving Boom ! boom ! boom !! everyday
and killing a lot of our people and destroying a lot of building.....
he then add on :" this is not precisely what eco-tourism about ..."
I agreed with him :)

After that while we proceed another 100 metre or so, we noticed a
white coloured snake, yeah it was a long snake, about 2 meters
to 2.5 meters, probably was enjoying his/ her hi tea when we came
it. The snake looked quite unhappy cause I think we have disturbed
the hi tea.... oppps ! sorry mate !!!

Suja and then said, no worry, cause Suja meet this snake 5 or 6 years
back and it's ok. We then just passed by the snake and left it to continue
it's hi tea.

We then came to a chamber and from there, you would not believe what
kind of cave ( i mean mini cave, nope I mean micro cave ) that we have
to squize ourselve through... you look at the size of the hole ( i mean micro
cave ) and you will not believe that I could pass through.

The rest of the story? Read on Cave 2 :)
11:44 am
13 Dec 2004

Cave Features

Taken from http://www.bermudatourism.com/nat_fea.html
cause I hope to learn more about cave features :)

What happens when water meets limestone? What role does calcium carbonate play in what you see when you visit our caves? The answer to both questions: a lot! What most fascinates visitors to our caves are the amazing mineral deposits which occur in this naturally wet limestone environment. All of our cave formations have formed due to water seeping, flowing, retreating, and dripping. Of course, “Going with the flow” has always been natural in Bermuda. Even 80 feet underground!

These beautiful mineral deposits are called speleothems and listed below are some of the more remarkable features to be found in Bermudian caves:

Stalactites
In order to understand and appreciate stalactites, one must realize that it is from sliver-thin soda straws that these giants grow. Look at the ceilings of our caves. Notice how damp they are and how thin “icicles” hang from above. These “icicles” are actually soda straws or adolescent stalactites. These hollow tubes contain water and calcite crystals. As the water slowly drips through the straw, a bit of calcium carbonate is precipitated from the water and added to the end of the soda straw. This is what makes these soda straws grow downward.

And, of course, due to the damp nature of cave ceilings, most soda straws also conduct water on their external surfaces as well. In so doing, the same miraculous growth process occurs: Water flows down, heeding the call of gravity, and a little calcium carbonate is left behind. This adds to the width of the soda straws. Over time, the external growth of the soda straw blocks its hollow core, the internal flow ceases and the soda straw becomes a stalactite, which will be added to externally over the centuries.

NOTE: An important thing to know about stalactites is how to differentiate them from their similar sounding, but very opposite appearing neighbors, the stalagmites. One easy way is to remember the “c” in stalactite. That’s “c” for “ceiling.” Another way is to make the association that stalactites hang “tite” to the ceiling.

Stalagmites
Stalagmites are perhaps one of the most closely observed cave formations because they are generally at ground level. When you are in a cave, close your eyes and listen. More than likely you will hear the sound of water dripping from the ceiling. What you are actually listening to may be the birth or growth of a stalagmite! These mounds are always reaching upward. And it is because of the wet nature of cave ceilings that stalagmites are formed in the first place. The water dripping from above contains calcium carbonate and as this water drips, it evaporates and leaves calcium deposited on the ground. The minerals begin to form a mound on the cave floor or ledges and eventually, if the conditions are just right, a stalagmite grows as—drop by drop and layer by layer—minerals are deposited continuously in the same spot.

Because stalagmites do not have to fight gravity the way stalactites do, they can grow much larger and heavier. Stalagmites have a great variety of possible shapes—from delicate and complex towers to wide disks to spindly “broomsticks.” There is one thing that most stalagmites have in common, though. They generally have blunted or rounded ends. This knowledge can come in handy if you ever see cave photos—especially the ones that feature lakes—and you can’t quite tell which way is up. Stalactites conversely, generally have very pointy tips.

NOTE: Perhaps you have already read the section about Stalactites. If so, here is the second part of the equation which will help you remember the difference between stalactites and stalagmites: the “g” in stalagmite is useful for remembering “ground.” Stalagmites form on the ground. Of course, the other way to remember the difference is to associate the “mite” in stalagmite to “it just mite make it up to the ceiling” or that stalagmites hold “mite” to the ground.

Flowstone
Perhaps the most common of all cave deposits, flowstone is formed in thin layers over existing features on the cave floor, ledges, or wall bedrock. Picture a cake to which someone keeps applying very thin layers of icing. The first several layers of icing will not usually hide the pronounced shape of the cake. However, icing layers six, seven, eight (and so on…) will successively obscure the cake’s shape and as the icing gets thicker, what once appeared to be a cake will become a thick, rounded mound. The icing has basically taken on “a life of its own” beyond the initial shape of the cake. This is very simply the way flowstone is formed. Water flows down walls and ledges and deposits calcite in layers. As a result of these rounding layers, flowstone may take the appearance of waterfalls. Or draperies, or even bacon.

Rimstone
Because caves are basically born of water, it should come as no surprise to find pools in many caves. But what a delightful sight these underground pools and streams are. Usually filled with extremely still, clear water, cave pools offer us a view of fairyland by perfectly mirroring the ceilings and other features of the cave. It is at the edges of these underground pools, that one finds the amazing cave feature called rimstone. Rimstone is usually made of calcite and forms dams around underground pools and streams. Sometimes these dams even have a stair step appearance. Rimstone dams form where there is a downward flow leading to the edge of a pool. And, very often rimstone is an extension of flowstone.

Soda Straws
Think of soda straws as stalactites in their infancy. They are made of calcite and are remarkably delicate and beautiful—often appearing as translucent thin glass rods. Soda straws are very appropriately named as they are simply long, hollow tubes. These remarkable speleothems are only as wide as the diameter of the single water drops which pass through them. Soda straws basically do the job of transporting water drops down from the ceiling of the cave towards the floor of the cave one drop at a time; at this, they excel. When the transported drops of water finally reach the open end of the soda straw, they may hang suspended in the air before falling. It is while clinging to the growing tip of the straw that the water drop loses carbon dioxide to the air in the cave. But, in losing carbon dioxide, the water drop precipitates calcium carbonate. This mineral is added to the end of the straw, lengthening it. Sometimes soda straws reach remarkable lengths before maturing into stalactites.

Cave Pearls
Most everyone knows that pearls are formed by successively layering minerals over a single grain of sand. And cave pearls are no different. They often begin with a grain of sand too, although they can also form on a piece of bone, fragments of soda straws or other foreign matter. Usually found in pools, cave pearls can be many different shapes and sizes, but the most well-known is the polished, spherical variety, which closely resembles the pearls found in oysters. As usual for most cave features, cave pearls form when water dripping into the pool loses carbon dioxide and precipitates calcite. Sometimes groups of totally unattached pearls are encountered lying within small cups in the cave. Experts believe that these pearls do not become attached because water dripping from above causes a constant subtle movement of the pearls.

Banjir di Kota Bharu

Berita Harian News = View from KB Hospital Besar

Banjir makin buruk:
Terengganu terputus hubungan, 12 lemas
Wartawan Berita Harian



KAKITANGAN Hospital Kota Bharu memindahkan pesakit
berikutan banjir memasuki kawasan hospital berkenaan
termasuk wad pesakit. - Gambar Haris Ibrahim.


KUALA LUMPUR: Banjir yang melanda Pantai Timur bertambah buruk semalam apabila Terengganu terputus hubungan dengan Kelantan dan Pahang manakala angka korban banjir terus meningkat kepada 12 orang.



Terbaru, enam lagi kematian dilaporkan di Kelantan termasuk dua yang masih hilang, masing-masing dua kematian di Terengganu dan satu di Pahang.

Sehingga lewat petang semalam, jumlah yang dipindahkan ke pusat pemindahan banjir di ketiga-tiga juga meningkat kepada 9,874 orang, iaitu 5,078 di Kelantan, Terengganu (4,346) dan Pahang (450), berbanding kira-kira 4,000 orang kelmarin.

Sebahagian besar penduduk di Terengganu terperangkap selepas Jalan Kuala Terengganu-Kuantan dan Kuala Terengganu-Kota Bharu terpaksa ditutup selepas dinaiki air antara 0.5 hingga 0.9 meter di empat tempat, semalam.

Sehingga jam 6 petang semalam, jalan yang ditutup kepada semua kenderaan ialah Kilometer 30 Jalan Kuala Terengganu-Kota Bharu apabila Kampung Belara di Sungai Tong dinaiki air sedalam lebih 0.8 meter sepanjang 200 meter.

Ketua Polis Negeri, Senior Asisten Komisioner I Hussin Ismail, berkata jalan lain yang ditutup ialah Kilometer 64, Jalan Jerangau-Jabor, Km 11.2 Jalan Dungun-Kuantan, Km 91 dan 92 Jalan Kuala Terengganu-Kuantan di Kampung Nyior.

Dalam perkembangan berkaitan, pergerakan peserta Program Latihan Khidmat Negara (PLKN) keluar masuk ke Terengganu dan Pahang yang sepatutnya bermula hari ini ditangguhkan sehingga Ahad ini berikutan negeri itu dilanda banjir.

Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Latihan Khidmat Negara (JLKN), Kamarudin Mohd Baria, berkata penangguhan itu membabitkan pergerakan peserta dari Terengganu ke Pahang, dari Pahang ke Terengganu dan dalam kawasan Pahang sendiri, dari Kuala Lumpur ke Pahang dan dari daerah lain di Terengganu ke Pahang.



Ini adalah kali kedua pergerakan peserta PLKN ditangguhkan berikutan banjir yang melanda negeri di pantai timur.

Kelmarin, JLKN menangguhkan pergerakan pelatih keluar masuk ke Kelantan hingga Ahad ini.

Katanya, peserta PLKN juga boleh mendapatkan maklumat lanjut dengan menghubungi bilik gerakan JLKN di talian 03-26873513/3514/3515/3516.

Di KOTA BHARU, angka korban banjir di Kelantan meningkat kepada lapan orang termasuk dua yang dipercayai masih hilang sejak kelmarin sehingga jam 4 petang semalam.

Empat mangsa yang ditemui lemas semalam ialah Che Mohd Zani Che Abdullah, 30, dari Kampung Apit, Dabong; Ibrahim Isa, 30, (Kampung Sungai Rek, Lak Loh, Kuala Krai); seorang warga Thai, 30-an, (Kampung Banggol Chekok, Gual Sitok, Rantau Panjang); dan seorang lelaki warga Indonesia dikenali Iskandar, 24, (Kampung Paloh, Gua Musang).

Ketua Jabatan Keselamatan Dalam Negeri dan Ketenteraman Awam (KDNKA) Superintendan Alias Mohamad, berkata usaha mencari dan menyelamat dua lagi mangsa yang dikhuatiri lemas masih diteruskan.

Beliau berkata, mereka ialah Che Husin Junuh, 42, dari Kampung Dasar, Sabak, di sini dan seorang lelaki yang dikenali sebagai Baharuddin dari Kampung Sungai Rek, Lak Loh, Kuala Krai.

Kelmarin, seorang kanak-kanak, Nik Muhamad Ameer Nik Anuar, tiga tahun, ditemui lemas selepas dipercayai terjatuh dalam longkang ketika bermain bersama rakannya di Kampung Banggol, Jalan Pantai Cahaya Bulan (PCB).

Che Husin dikhuatiri lemas, manakala tiga rakannya berjaya menyelamatkan diri apabila dua bot gentian yang mereka naik terbalik dibawa arus dan dipukul ombak besar di perairan Kampung Dasar, Pantai Sabak, Pengkalan Chepa, semalam.

Kejadian berlaku kira-kira jam 1.30 pagi, ketika Che Hussin bersama Shamsuddin Jaafar, 53; Nik Hassan Ahmad, 37 dan Mat Daud Mat Amir, 39, masing-masing menaiki dua bot.

Pada masa sama, 5,078 mangsa dari seluruh Kelantan yang dilanda banjir dipindahkan ke pusat pemindahan banjir sehingga jam 4 petang semalam, berbanding hanya 1,863 kelmarin.

Pemindahan membabitkan jajahan Tanah Merah seramai 1,745 orang, Gua Musang (1,374), Kuala Krai (871), Jeli (746) dan jajahan lain (342). Mereka ditempatkan di 628 pusat pemindahan di seluruh negeri.

Di KUALA TERENGGANU, banjir di negeri ini meragut dua lagi mangsa apabila seorang pelajar tingkatan tiga lemas dan seorang wanita masih hilang dalam dua kejadian berasingan di Marang dan Hulu Terengganu, dalam tempoh 24 jam lalu.

Dalam kejadian jam 6 petang kelmarin, Mohd Faiz Mohd Nor, 15, pelajar tingkatan tiga Sekolah Menengah Tun Telanai, Bukit Payong, Marang dekat sini, lemas ketika mandi bersama rakannya di kawasan padang bola sepak yang ditenggelami air.

Mangsa yang sedang menunggu keputusan Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) dipercayai tidak tahu berenang, hanyut dibawa arus dan tenggelam beberapa minit selepas mandi di padang yang ditenggelami air sedalam kira-kira dua meter itu.

Rakan-rakan Mohd Faid cuba untuk menyelamatkannya tetapi gagal disebabkan arus deras yang menghanyutkan mangsa ke parit di tepi padang berkenaan.

Mayat Mohd Faid ditemui di kawasan parit di tepi padang berkenaan oleh penduduk kampung kira-kira tujuh jam selepas hilang.

Dalam kejadian kelmarin, seorang kanak-kanak berusia enam tahun menjadi korban pertama banjir apabila terjatuh ke dalam Sungai Temala selepas motosikal yang ditunggang bersama abangnya tergelincir ketika menyeberangi jambatan di Kampung Tanjung Belur, Pengkalan Berangan, Marang dekat sini.

Mayat Muhamad Irfan Rani ditemui tidak jauh dari tempat dia dihanyutkan air kira-kira jam 6 petang semalam.

Sementara itu, dalam kejadian berasingan, seorang suri rumah, Nor Hayati Saat, 30, dikhuatiri lemas selepas kereta yang dinaikinya hanyut dibawa arus deras di Jalan Kampung Jak, Hulu Terengganu.

Dalam kejadian jam 7.30 petang itu, Nor Hayati bersama suami, Zuzuki Mat Sari, 36, serta dua anak mereka, Zulhairi, 9, dan Abdul Hadi, 3, dikatakan sedang dalam perjalanan ke klinik di pekan Kuala Berang bagi mendapatkan rawatan.

Zuzuki berkata, ketika kejadian, beliau tidak menyedari jalan berkenaan dinaiki air kerana tempat kejadian gelap.

"Sebaik menuruni bukit di jalan berkenaan, secara tiba-tiba kereta saya dihanyutkan arus deras. Saya hanya sempat menyelamatkan dua anak saya yang duduk di belakang.

"Selepas keluar dari kereta, saya bersama anak berpaut pada sebatang pokok di tepi jalan manakala isteri dan kereta saya terus dihanyutkan arus. Ketika itu saya tidak lagi dapat melihat kereta saya kerana sudah ditenggelami air," katanya.

Zuzuki berkata, ketika berpaut pada pokok berkenaan, beliau hanya mampu berdoa semoga isterinya sempat keluar dan menyelamatkan diri.

Beliau bersama dua anaknya itu terpaksa menahan kesejukan selama kira-kira satu jam setengah sebelum diselamatkan seorang penduduk kampung yang kebetulan melalui jalan berkenaan yang menghubungi polis untuk mendapatkan bantuan.

Keretanya hanya ditemui kira-kira jam 10 pagi semalam, hampir 25 meter daripada tempat kejadian.

Bagaimanapun, Nor Hayati masih belum ditemui dan gerakan mencari masih diteruskan sehingga lewat petang semalam.

Jumlah mangsa banjir yang dipindahkan di seluruh Terengganu ke pusat pemindahan di empat daerah di negeri ini meningkat kepada 4,346 berbanding 2,470 orang kelmarin.

Di KUANTAN, seorang buruh binaan rakyat asing menjadi mangsa pertama banjir di negeri ini selepas dihanyutkan air Sungai Belat, Taman Perumahan Mahkota Jaya dekat sini, semalam.

Mustafa Shukri, 19, dari Jawa Timur, Indonesia, dipercayai tergelincir dari atas jambatan ketika melihat banjir bersama tiga rakannya kira-kira jam 9.30 pagi.

Seorang rakannya, Arwani Marhod, 24, cuba menyelamatkannya tetapi gagal kerana keadaan air sungai yang deras. Bagaimanapun, sehingga jam 4.25 petang semalam, mayat mangsa masih belum ditemui dan gerakan masih dijalankan.

Jumlah penduduk yang dipindahkan di seluruh negeri ini meningkat kepada 450 orang dan ditempatkan di 10 pusat pemindahan banjir.

Pusat pertama yang dibuka ialah Sekolah Kebangsaan Cenderawasih yang menempatkan 24 mangsa. Yang lain ialah Dewan Mat Kilau Hall (106), Sekolah Menengah Sungai Isap (33), Kampung Koleh Seberang, Sungai Lembing (50), Dewan Serba guna Kampung Kolek (32), Sekolah Kebangsaan Pandan (114), Dewan Orang Ramai Jaya Gading (36), Taman Kasturi (12), Kampung Sungai Charu (11) dan Kampung Ah Tong, Panching (32).

Road to Gua Musang Highway Taman Krai Exit 2 from Mr Ho Sip Fah

Road to KK Town view from Taman Kuala Krai exit? from Mr Ho Sip Fah

Jalan Jirat from Mr Ho Sip Fah

Kuala Krai Food Court & our old house from Mr Ho Sip Fah

Jalan SYP view from traffic light and junction from Mr Ho Sip Fah

Jalan SYP nearer to Pasar Kuala Krai from Mr Ho Sip Fah

Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra from Old Post Office View from Mr. Ho Sip Fah

Road to Guchil Traffic Junction from Mr. Ho Sip Fah

tangga krai from Mr. Ho Sip Fah

水灾情况●南洋商报

气象亮橙色信号·大雨持续 东海岸水灾恶化
2004/12/12 18:09:37 ●南洋商报


哥打巴鲁12日讯-东海岸吉兰丹、丁加奴、彭亨州的气象亮起橙色信号，倾盆大雨会持续到今天（12日）晚上，水灾情况可能会持续下去。

目前，彭亨的情况稍微好转，吉兰丹情况严重，尤其是首府哥打巴鲁，今天成了一片泽国；丁加奴的水灾情况进一步恶化。

丁州4路关闭

丁加奴州内4条道路因积水而遭关闭，从瓜拉丁加奴通往关丹的主要道路日前已关闭。

丁州交通与公共秩序组主任法立玛慕警监说，至今天中午为止，州内3条主要公路因遭水淹没而已经关闭，并禁止所有车辆通行，这分别是日隆雅铁山通往雅姆路段、瓜拉丁加奴通往日底第33公里处和瓜拉丁加奴往勿述的海岸小路。

龙运前往甘马挽第91至92公里处靠近北加的路段也因积水深0.5米，禁止轻型车辆通过。

吉兰丹内陆地区因为连日来一直下大雨，过多的雨量流到下游时，导致哥打巴鲁今天清晨沦为水城，就连警察局也不例外，成为灾区。

彭州情况好转

彭亨州水灾情况比昨天好转，截至下午3时为止，安置在疏散中心的373名水灾灾黎，166名已返回各自家园。

彭州目前仍关闭的路段包括关丹通往林明市镇路段，即班珍巴西哥慕迪路段和双溪哥恼路段，双双超过危险水平。

“西彭地区关闭的路段则是而连突美拉通往瓜拉立卑路段，水深1.3公尺，另一路段则是而连突路通往瓜拉淡比灵12公里处，水深0.6公尺，所有车辆都不可通行。”

林明市镇昨天下午时段再度发生水灾，水深约9尺，导致整个林明市镇陷入水中，而关丹东海岸大道甘孟收费站入口处及丹那布爹路段也积水而导致车辆不能通行，目前上述地段的水位已退，车辆恢复通行。

东海岸大道甘孟收费站入口处因积水，导致使用入口处出入的车辆昨晚迫得绕道，不过今早已恢复通车。

吉兰丹方面，这次洪水侵袭各地区，一夜之间不但造成300多人紧急疏散，也是自从八十年代发生严重水灾后，有史以来最严重的一次。

丹州医院疏散

最出乎大家意料之外的是，目前正进行吉兰丹河美化工程，房屋建筑计划的发展商，在河中进行吸沙工作的铁船不堪洪水的冲击，猛撞衔接道北县的苏丹耶也柏特拉大桥。

哥打峇鲁中央医院今天清晨开始成为泽国，底楼各部门病房的200名左右的病人必须紧急疏散。

吉兰丹州卫生局局长拿督阿末拉欣医生说，旧有的病房面对河水泛滥，在医院内留医的200多名病人迫得迁到新病楼。

病情较严重并在深切护理治疗病房的病人，暂时不搬迁，而且手术也会根据时间表进行。

在华人密集地区如哥罗佐路，唐人坡等水涨超过3尺，所有交通工具也只好驾到较高的地区寄放，以免遭洪水破坏。

商店暂时停业

警察局已经加派人手接24小时的电话投报以及传达水灾最新进展，而巡逻及拯救方面的人手大批增加，各部门的警察假期被冻结。

目前，警方找不到一名男子仄胡申仄乌马，40岁左右，在沙柏海滩乘船时被强风大浪吹翻，至今生死未卜。

位于闹市中心的商店因此无法开门营业，纷纷暂时停业；大部分的商家因未料到洪水急速到来，店里的货物无法及时搬走，相信损失也不小。

水災

東海岸災黎增至萬人
丹災情最嚴重‧交通全線中斷updated:2004-12-12 20:00:12 MYT
（東海岸訊）東海岸水災極度惡化，尤其是吉蘭丹州，該州聯繫外州的交通已經全面宣告中斷，災黎人數則從上週六（11日）晚上939名劇增至5000名。

丁加奴州及彭亨州的情況也不樂觀，疏散人士各別從原有的2009名及22名增加至4346名及307名，使到3州災黎人數達到萬餘名！

3州多個公路依然中斷，包括甘馬挽第91、92、96、97公里及日隆雅大道第76公里，有關路段都禁止輕型車輛通車，這也意味著關丹往返瓜拉丁加奴州交通已經中斷。

數百車輛困龍運

此外，數百車輛也受困在龍運，無法前往目的地，吉蘭丹州火車也依然停止服務。

值得慶幸的是，丁加奴上午天氣已經放睛，而彭亨州雨勢也將開始轉弱，並出現少許陽光，相信只要兩州的好天氣接續下去，兩州災情將大幅度改善。

截止週日，吉蘭丹州已經發生了2起溺斃案件及1起失蹤案，不幸溺斃的是3歲兒童聶莫哈末及2名字不詳的青年，其中聶莫哈末是在往家前掉入溝渠後溺斃，而來自話望生37歲青年則是在渡河時，掉入河內溺斃。

此外，週日清晨一名工人是沙柏沙灘工作時，也被海浪捲走，生死不明。

丁加奴州上週六也發生一起失蹤案，6歲兒童慕哈末是與哥哥在乘電單車過橋時，一不小心掉入河裡，目前下落不明。

與此同時，彭亨州關丹週日下午也傳出有兒童掉入溝渠失蹤消息，不過，有關消息有待進一步證實。

災黎暫住疏散中心

在吉蘭丹州方面，災而疏散的人士已經突破5000名，他們分別是來自話望生、吉賴、哥打峇魯、日里、蘭斗班讓、巴西富地和丹那美拉人，有關的疏散者目前被安排暫時住在疏散中心。

在公路關閉方面，該州對外公路基本上已經關閉，只允許重型車輛行駛，此外，達蓬火車也暫時中止服務。

哥打峇魯市區低漥地區，包括皇家碼頭、古邦巴蘇路、唐人坡一帶已經成為“澤國”。

在丁州方面，該州的災黎從上週六晚上2009名暴增1倍，達到4346名，關丹往返瓜拉丁加奴部份路段已經因為積水緣故，而禁止輕型車輛行駛。

有關路段包括甘馬挽第91、92、96、97公里、日隆雅大道第76公里，瓜拉丁加奴通往日底第10公里、瓜拉伯浪通往拉丁加奴第8英里及24英里，有關路段積水從0.3公尺至0.5公尺之間。

目前，龍運縣災黎一共有2526名、 甘馬挽縣667名、土兆縣264名、馬江縣31名及烏魯丁加奴縣501名。

丁內陸公路積水禁通車

除了上述3條主要公路外，該州一些內陸公路也因積水而禁止車輛通車，包括甘榜蘭斗班讓通往甘榜瓜拉遮恩第23公里至26公里，甘榜蘭斗班讓第7公里、甘榜瓜拉遮恩通往甘榜遮恩峇都等。

與此同時，彭亨州關丹縣水災進一步惡化，不過，其它縣仍未傳出水災事件，截止中午

12時，因水災疏散人士已經從上週六晚上22名增加至307名。

這些災黎分別來自甘榜巴耶汀吉24名、甘榜阿亦希淡78名、高立園坵17名、再也加汀69名及甘榜斯里達邁19名。

關丹通往林明路段也已經恢復通車。

Sin Chew Daily Kids having fun

Sin Chew Daily Jalan Pengkalan Chepa II Kota Bharu

Sin Chew Daily Jalan Pengkalan Chepa Kota Bharu

Mission Accomplished !

The time now is 9:21 am and the date is 7th December 2004.
This morning my sister called me up at about 7:30 am
Sis :" Hei did mom and pope call you?"
Me :" Nope why?"
Sis :" Alamak they did not turn up at Kajang train station!"
Sis :" I suspected they over sleep and end up in KL sentral!"
Me jumped up from bed, head hit wall, then fall back to bed.
Me :" Oh shit ! Sure ah?"
Sis :" Yeah !"
Me :" Ok wait, I will go to KL and pick them up !"
Sis :" Wait ah !"
Pop:" Hello still sleeping ah?"
Me : " &%%@#%%!(# # Mamachaha !"
Sis :" wah ha ha ha ha....."

Well that is another story of main api, kena api bakar & what goes around comes around !!!

Ok ! Cool ! Clever ! This one sure I am going to revenge!!
I will sure revenge !!

Well, let's forget about revenge and stuff like that cause I am a peaceful person, hey I even starred the Peacemaker 1998
with Nicole Kidman !! How about that? hmm?

Yesterday evening Ms.Esther Lee from my company asked me to sit down and talked to me. She said :" Eh don't get any fatter ok? Now meat everywhere, your face, your body, your legs and Jesus Christ ! No good !!"

She then said :" No more nasi lemak !"
She then said :" No leng chai already !"
She then said :" No good for health !"

I agreed and hmmm... I told myself let's go home and swim.
And ok !

7:15 pm Home Pangsai
7:20 pm Come out from Pangsai
7:25 pm Warming up
7:30 pm Start swimming
8:10 pm Finished 22 or 23 laps
8:30 pm Finished cooling down
9:00 pm Light dinner
10:0 pm Computer time
12:0 am Sleeping time

This morning, woke up and feel arm a bit tired :) wah ha ha means that I did work up good last night. And hopefully the I could stick to the plan and lose a few pound fast before chinese new year !! ok? I will be good and continue to swim one lah.

城里的月光

曲名：城里的月光 歌手：许美静 专辑：铁窗

每颗心上某一个地方　总有个记忆挥不散
每个深夜某一个地方　总有着最深的思量
世间万千的变幻　爱把有情的人分两端
心若知道灵犀的方向　哪怕不能够朝夕相伴
城里的月光把梦照亮　请温暖他心房
看透了人间聚散　能不能多点快乐片段
城里的月光把梦照亮　请守护它身旁
若有一天能重逢　让幸福撒满整个夜晚

Weirdo Dream!!

Came back from Penang yesterday, arrived at 10 pm something at Ampang. Sent the two VIP back to their house and headed back to Damansara.

Well, if you ask me how was the Penang trip, I would say as tired as hell. But the result is I think quite out standing and good. Objective = 90% achieved and I think the trip to Penang should be concluded in a single blog topic, right?

Now I would like to write these down and record them while my memory is still fresh. I had a very very fantastic dream last night, or should I say this morning.
5am something normally is the time when the oxygen in my roon being used up..... so I had to walk and open the windows for air. After that I came back and sleep again............ there the weird things continued...

I was at the graveyard in Kuala Krai and was at my grandfather's grave. Hmm... you know from there we had to walk back to our command centre, which are 2 graves for the anchester of the Ho family. Normally we would just walk and jump besides the others people graves and wala we are there !

But, instead of normal path and way, I found myself standing at a few very large grave of other people. I was literary standing on people's grave ... my God !
I felt so uneasy cause chinese feel's it's not polite to stand on someone's grave while he/ she is 6 feet under !! Imagine if you are sleeping there and someone is stepping on your head, or your body, or your roof ;)

Well, anyway after I realized that I am standing on unknown's people grave, I quickily moved to another spot, but Jesus Christ I a then found myself on another's grave !! Same colour and same size and identical graves !! There must be 4 or more this kind of graves there cause I moved 3 times and evertime I landed on these large grave again.

Then somehow I found the path to move out from there and found the smaller road back to the other side of the mountains.
However, on the way to move around there was a huge crack at the path, something like mud slide, but I feel it is caused by TNB or local bulldozer digging machines.... WTF is TNB or Telekom digging a mud crack here? For God sake this is a grave !!!
Man the hole is very very deep and I had to cross it carefully.

And I think when I was crossing the mud there was a large hole which appear to be some hole or nest for snakes or local reptiles.
I prayed so that these creature does not come out and give me a bite at my ding dong cause it is going to be really painful !

And on the way crossing the mud place, Mr. Chew from ATM S/B and Andrew spoken to me ( and WTF are they doing in my hometown? ) They all said, any type of snake also no need to worry, the most scariest snake is Lazy Snake !!!
Geeee !! were they talking about me? Never mind then ....

By the way, my company owes these 2 person alot of CD-R and DVD-R lately ;) ke ke ke ke....

Right, back to the graveyards. After crossing the mud place I came to a small and newly opened path, full of grass and there were suddenly 3 student looked person walk towards me...
And I moved somemore I came to a library of a college or something.... isn't that scarry? Have to go back and study ?? Damn scarry... so basically this is what I remember from this morning dream. Later I will blog about the trip to Penang. which was fantastic and lovely and fruitful and really tiring !!! wah aha h.

Swimming is good?

Arrgh Good Day mate! ( Pronounced Arrh Good Die Mite *sounds from the termite*

Today is the 3rd day of December 2004, and my plan to stay fit before Chinese New Year arrived is still uncertain. Got to do something !! Got to do something !!

1st of December was a Wednesday and I swimmed for 45 minutes = 15 or 17 laps in our condo's swimming pool. And I started to enjoy from lap 10 and above.

After the swim whole body feel a little bit of itchy, no it is not because the water is dirty or I was allergic to the chemical of the water.
Once someone did not excersise for long time, the blood flows in his/ her body become slow, and if he/she suddenly gone for a good work out, the blood will circulate very quickily in the vassels resulting the itchy feeling underneeth your skin.
That's normal. You don't believe me? Try to stay lazy for 1 month and go for a good jog or work out, I bet your legs and stomach will feel itchy too when the blood moves quick in your vassels. I thought to myself, damn ! Long time no swim already !!! Can't let this happen again.

Hence,

I have set myself a target, that in December i have to resume the 2 swimming session per week. And hopefully by Chinese New Year, the figure will go from 38 inch => 36 inch. 3 session of swimming per week seems to be a little bit difficult to reach some times.

I hope I could sustain this 2 swim per week till end of late 50's if it is possible. But you know, things are not easy to predict and Murphy Laws stated :" What could go wrong will go wrong !", see?

Today is Friday and I am suppose to swim for 45 minutes, but, but, but I need to go to Ipoh and Penang at 4 something, then how?

Well, the solution => bring my swimming trunk, caps and google with the trip and hope I could get lucky when I am in Penang. Hehehehe.... I think it is impossible for me to swim when I am on a trip... just work and sleep only lah. ( shhh.. alot of eating too... wah ha ha ha )

But I think for me, swimming is the best method to lose a few pounds. But if you want to get slim like Ally Macbeal then forget it. It is impossible to get slim like Ally McBeal by swimming.

If you don't believe me, try to look at the whales, they swim 24 hours a day man ! 24 hours and they swim their whole life and hmmm.... still .... relatively huge and big.

Last year before going to Gems Island with my buddies. I trained and trained for months ( about 3 months ) and skipped a lot of meal. Finally my butt get smaller and there were somehow some lines... finally body lines came out. Dang I was fit then ! Can fly like a butterfly and sting like a bee !! I was good! I was good ! I was damn good !

But due to the damn Gems Island cook and kitchen, we had 3 days & 2 night of buffet style breakfast, lunch and dinner. At the end of the days........... the result was :

I from Whale became Dolphine,
and from Dolphine back to a bigger Whale .... hell !! crap !!

I then pointed at my nose, and I shout loudly
:" How big jiao how big ! Big whale jiao Big whale leh!"

So, today what I would like to highlight is that if you want to see swimming result ( positive & healty one ) you have better start swimming twice or 3 times a week for 6 months or so.
And during that time please eat normally and cut down on oily, fatty, sweet and high caborhydrate food.

And Insya-Allah after 6 month or more time you would lose a few pounds. And get to see your dick again, or you will be able to tie your shoes again ( whops? Did i mention that I have big boobs too? )

No actually the main thing is that I hope that I could have a regular and healthy life. Don't want to getting old and start giving troubles to my family and my kids. It's really sad that one has to suffer sickness, while giving others family members a lot of trouble and hard time, isn't it?

Hence, please all of you who read this blog ( that is including myself ) every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at least swim twice for 45 minutes. Push up is also good from time to time. Imagine if Wong Kai Hong of 1992 re-appear in Mid Kuala Lumpur? It's like Richard Gere or Will Smith in KLCC mate !! ( Pronounced termite )

Till then, pray for me and give me the will and faith to swim till the day that I am old.

Hello I am Lenny and I am Vegetarian !
And fish are friends, not for food ! Remember that !!

放飞机 ！Part Duex

Today we will learn how to use these sentences :

1. Oh crap & Room Mate
2. 100 elephant stumping & jumping & humping
3 Niagara Falls
4. How big jiao How big , 放飞机 jiao 放飞机 loh
5. Oh, it's OK I am in KL already Will be discussed later.

Are we ready? Well let's continue from the story 放飞机 Part 1 =

Yeah Fane Yuan my "room mate*" saved my day, and why all these text and words seems to be very familiar and Deja Vu ? Cause I have typed all of these text 30 minutes before on Internet Explorer ( another proud product from Mr. Bill Gates ) and suddenly Oh Crap illegal operation and all IE windows gone with the crap !!

So here I am, san san fu fu again typing everything that looks so familiar and Deja Vu !! Oh Crap!!

Well, let's continue with Fane Yuan, my lovely room mate House mate was the one who saved my day the other day when I was stuck in KLIA after I missed the flight. Half of today's blog is dedicated to her and her good friend Johntim. Both of them are my housemate and without them, I am not complete today.

Ok ! Roll back time to 9:05 pm 1st April 2004 Thursday, after they dropped me at KLIA, without knowing that I am already missed the flight. They all left me happily and heading to KLIA toll exit. But on the way, Fane Yuan had a feeling of 100 big stupid elephant stumping, jumping and humping in the stomach, or feeling like Niagara Falls or something like that. Johntim had to make an emgergency brake from third lane of KLIA high way and shifted to 1st gear , pull the parking brake and the car changed lane into a little place call Petronas. There Fane Yuan settled the Elephant & Niagara Falls bill and issue and feel, wheeeeeww ! Song !!

Because of these Fane feeling & the stop at Petronas, it gave me a window to called them up and told them to return to KLIA Departure hall to pick me (who obviosly failed to depart ) up, and carry me home in their lovely Produa Kelisa.

Else, yes, there was no more flight to Kota Bharu that night and i had to either wait for second day morning flight like ( tom hanks in The Terminal ) or I have to take a RM10.00 bus back to LRT Station at Chan Sow Lin and take a cab home.... Fane and Johntim did not let those happen and instead they came back for me.

I thanked them in the car, but I saw tears in their eyes. They also asked me
:"how? what should we do now?What to do now?"

Cis ! Muka cili padi yang melampau, maka hatta mereka berdua dua telah pun berketawa sejauh 10 KM dari Toll KLIA sehinggalah ke KLIA, bukannya air mata kerana sedih akibat saya terlepas pernebangan saya, tetapi air mata yang terjadi akibat ketawa yang berketelaluan. Beginilah rupanya rakan serumah yang tinggal dengan saya. Rakan Serumah yang melampau! Suatu hari nanti pasti akan saya bikin satu filem berjudul " Kisah Rakan Serumah yang Melampau !"

Maka hatta, setelah saya menaiki kereta Kelisa 1.0 Automatic buatan Produa. Air mata mereka masih tak terhenti henti bercucuran dan muka mereka kejang akibat ketawa yang berketelaluan. Yang jantan muka jadi macam Richard Gere manakala yang bertina itu muka jadi macam Julia Roberts !!

Manakala saya yang kasian di belakang berseorangan, hanya tanya kepada diri saya :" Apa boleh buat? Makan roti loh !!呜 呜 呜 呜 呜 呜 (like Liang Poh Poh like that )" Masalahnya pada ketika itu, kulit roti atau pembungkus roti pun tiada dalam kerata, macam mana nak makan roti macam itu?

well, all these small issue above is not that important in my life, the most important part of the story is that.

"Not everyone can affort to 放飞机 one !"

You know, actually only the Rich and Famous in this world are able to 放飞机? Ask any Tom, Dick and Harry, have they 放飞机 before?
Answer = No !

Only the rich and famouse like William Ho, Tom Hanks, Rachel, Ross, Monica, Phoebe, Joey & Chandler, Samuel Tong, Phillips Tong & the rest could affort to 放飞机. Why?

Because simply 放飞机 is not a cheap thing to do. If you are not rich and famous, no no no !! you just cannot do that.

Me? I am diffrent ! I am good ! that's why when I 放飞机 I could still be happy and pointed at my nose and shout :" Yo ! 放飞机 zhe ma, sai mat keng ah?"

or even better, me pointing at my nose and shout, shout loudly
:" How big jiao How big, 放飞机 jiao 放飞机 leh !" No pain !

Even the rich and famous to 放飞机 and see how? William Ho will not enjoy it cause he wants to save $$$ for company, Rachel will feel the pain, Bill Gates, if he missed his flight, he feels like throwing 200 copies of Windows XP Pro into Klang River, that's why Bill Gates is now writting Flight Simulator 2005 so that in future he could pilot himself and will never miss any flight again.

Bill Clinton and George Bush also feel the pain of missing the flights.
Bill Clinton once missed the flight due to Monica Lewinsky Storm and Goerge Bush missed his flight cause Saddam Hussein called him and chatted with him for hours, that's why Bush is still angry with Saddam till now ! till now !!

You see not everyone is as 潇 洒 as me, when come to 放飞机.
I just pointed at my nose and shout, shout loudly
:" How big jiao How big, 放飞机 jiao 放飞机 leh !" No pain !

See? The diffrence from successful rich and famous people vs
VERY VERY successful rich and famous people ( that is me! )

Shhh.... to tell you the truth, the 1st April 2004 wasn't the first time I 放飞机. Actually 3 months later it happened again...
but those, will be discussed in our 放飞机 Part III The Rise of The King. ok? Stay tuned and till then, take good care of yourself.

Mr. John Lim asked me :" Kai Hong where is your room mate, Ms Chiam?" So I pointed at my nose and shout loudly. "No ! She is not my room mate, she is my house mate lah !"

1101 Words 4:29 pm 2nd December 2004. Thursday. MTSB

G Tough and G Shock

Haha don't get me wrong here, I am not writing about Casio's G Shock or G Tough wrist watch, but here I am writing about my attitude for the next 2 months in my work.

I think I am going to be pretty much tough and give my existing nasty customer some shock of their life. Not supprisingly there are a lot of nasty customer in this industry who thinks size and financial capability is everything. Well I hope that for the next 2 months I could use my power to prove them wrong.

The CD-R industry in Malaysia was having a terrible time for the past 3 or 4 months time. The price for CD-R dropped from RM 0.60 to RM 0.30 for the past 12 months and it ended yesterday. Today is 1st of December 2004 and I am about to do something about the price, and I am going to get tough and kasi people a lot of shock today.

Previously there were to many parties ( distributors ) who worked with others via rumors, nonsense, grapevine, false news release, dishonouring purchase and all sort of nonsense and nasty thing.

That had hurted our factory pretty much, as well as our competitor factory. Well now, I think i am going to do something special about it today and I would want you (reader) to pray for me and give me strength to do just that.

I am going to announce price hike to RM 0.38 and RM 0.40 for the month of December 2004. And for January I hope we could look at RM 0.43 to RM 0.45 for CD-R. If I could achieve that without sacrifying my sales. Well I am going to be happy and even could have a nice Chinese New Year, else, it's going to be a long and winding road ahead.

The feedback from nasty customer for the past 1 and 1/2 years reveals that there is no point and not necessary for us as principle to be too kind to customer most of the time. Anyway it is only business and there should not be any personal in it :)

Perhaps you , me and everyone don't know what the hell am I talking about? well I am writing this blog for myself to give mysefl a clear direction and attitude for the next 2 months time. Remember that :) Or perhaps all of us will understand what is this blog about in short and near future..... oh hell !!

放飞机 ！Part 1

Alright, today is exactly 8 months after my first time 放飞机, today is 1st December 2004 and the time is 9:36 am.

Today I would like to remember 2 things for the rest of my life.
1. To read carefully on your air line ticket. ( air asia = ticketless woh)
2. Don't be too over confident.

Roll back to 1st April 2004, Thursday and I was suppose to board a plane ( Air Asia from KLIA to Kota Bharu ) and I remembered the time on the ticket printout from my computer = 9:55 pm.

And after work, came back took bath and waited for my housemate to dinner at New Paris Tit Tat !! After a lovely meal we proceed to KLIA at 8 something, i think it was 8:20 pm, and they asked me if I would be on time for the flight, I said : "Hell Yes Sure !!"

On the way to KLIA i was the one who was driving the little Produa Kelisa.... and my hosemate was nervous if I could make it on time.
I told them :" Hell yes ! I am good and be there by 9:00 pm !"
" and the flight is at 9:55 pm, still got time to go pangsai !"

After about 40 minutes, that was about 9:00 pm when our little car stopped infront of the KLIA departure mall. Gate 2 or 3. I looked at my watch and said to them on their face :" Told you ! I am good!"
" I am good man, I am good !" " I am good !"

So I took my baggage and walked like Will Smith towards Air Asia check in counter. So darn happy because the second day would be the Ching Ming Festival when we would all go to picnic at our anchester graveyards.

When I arrived at Air Asia counter, the light was dimmed, I said to myself " Woh baby, that is what I call romantic & lovely!" And there was a sign written " Counter & Gate Closed!"

WTF? WTF? I asked a guy over the counter and he said sorry I can't help you sir. However there is an office for air asia office at 4th floor, hence I dragged my luggage and ran like hell to the office. Complained to them saying that:" Why your counter are closed at 9:00 pm while the flight is at 9:55 pm?"

The office people :" Hell no! Our flight to KB is 9:15 pm not 9:55!"

And I looked outside the windows, the Air Asia plan has just took off and left some fumes for me to sniff and enjoy. WTF? And there was not much that I could do, called my housemates to pick me up, but they would not buy my story, I said I missed the plane but they all said :" Tipu lah !"

I said :" No ! For god sake please turn back and pick me up!"

They all : " Eh today April Fool , jangan tipu lah !"

But then finally, they all came back to pick me up. On the way back to my house, they all laughed like hell. Cause I told them that I was good ! I was good ! And I called fat lady, she also tak percaya until she heard my housemate voice, alamak, and I called my mother and she also not believe, she said jangan tipu.

Fine, I called my office people and said I missed the flight, she didn't buy it ! On second day when I appear in office, they all only laugh on the floor with tears in their eyes.

Moral of the story again :
1. Read your air line tickets
2. Don't be over confident, never !!