Bukit Tabur, Taman Melawati CONQUERED!

Worlds Longest Crystal Quartz-Rich ridge-Crystal walk conquered! Adapted from: endemicguides: '' This Tabur Ridge is a long and narrow series of karst hills with a high content of Quartz crystals. The ridge itself, averaging 200 feet high, runs in a semi circle bordering the eastern edge of Kuala Lumpur city. The Tabur Hill Ridge is rated the Longest Quartz-Rich Ridge in the world. Quartz is one of the three common components in the formation of rocks. '' wow! longest in the world! does it look challenging looking from the pic? shall we make the challenge now! yeah...let's go!!! As you can see, there is a lot of haze due to the rainy day yesterday night and the day's morning. Rising sun great sun rise~! Love this pic so so much~ Klang gate dam Gurindam Jiwa tagged this as his favourite..erm not bad..haha Here is the view from the top of the hill. We can't see anything other than the thick haze. Nonetheless, I guess I haven't seen any blogs of Bukit Tabur with thick haze. We are the first perhaps~ We can't see anything This pic was taken when we were climbing down the hill. At that time, the weather started to be hot and the haze are gone so we are able to get clearer view. Addition bonus for us to see both thick haze and without as well. KL city view

And the survivors!

Well, what a great day! We are not expected to be here, Bukit Tabur as safety has become our concern since it was raining till late night the day before and even early in the morning today itself. Our initial plan is to go G-Hill, another hill nearby which does not require us to climb but just involves walking, yea..its kind of boring but we have to change plan due to the weather and safety reasons. Out of expectation, we are here at Bukit Tabur to challenge the impossibility and the world longest quartz-rich ridge. It is destined for us not to go G-Hill when we are already at that area but just couldn't find the entrance. So, after some considerations, we are going to challenge Bukit Tabur!

Well, get ready with a bucket of popcorn and a glass of pepsi. You gonna watch the slideshow of the whole event FOC~ Part 1 of the journey:

Part 2 of the journey:

Part 3 of the journey:

Selected scene:

Selected joys:

We have conquered Bukit Tabur! Bravo to every1~

* All photos taken using my Olympus digital camera.

Deputy Education Minister Razali dies

Shocking news!

For those who attended the GPF 2008, the Deputy Education Minister Razali dies today due to unknown causative disorder yet at the time of writing.

Taken from the Star.

KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Education Minister Datuk Razali Ismail died at the Aminuddin Baki Institute in Genting Highlands at about 6.30pm Friday. This was confirmed by Education director-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom when contacted by Bernama today. It is believed that Razali, 59, who is the MP for Kuala Terengganu, collapsed while playing badminton at the institute. Alimuddin said the body would be taken to Hospital Bentong, Pahang.Razali leaves a wife, Datin Nooraini Lob Yusoff, and five children. A staff of the institute said Razali had been playing badminton with several staff members when he collapsed. "He did not have any specific function there. He had come for recreation," he said. Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, when contacted, said Razali’s death was a great loss to the ministry. "I’m deeply saddened. It’s a great loss," he said in a text message. Hishammuddin said he was at the institute and was engaged with the funeral arrangements.

IN MEMORY~

CBC Steamboat Restaurant (Pulau Ketam Seafood), Yulek

Pulau Ketam Seafood as it claimed is located at the Cheras Business Centre in Yulek. We ordered for 10 persons means there are 10 eggs and 4 plates of raw foods. The range of raw foods Tom yam and chicken soup. It is sweet and tasty even for tom yam soup. I love sweet soup. Ironically, we are given one pot only for 12 persons. So, we need to sit in a very limited space. Do you notice we are eating under the blue tent? It was specially set up for us because it was raining at that point of time till now...look alike the port klang seafood..where can I go there and eat? They charged us RM 1 for ice cubes and RM 9 for the chinese tea. (free refill) L- This is the portion of food that ones get after each round of boiled foodsR- We ordered 2 side dishes, one is fried dumpling (14) with rm 1 each and fried chicken wing (5 pairs) with one pair RM 2 each pairs. Here is the Makan Team..lolx.. haPPy HolIday~!

Total persons : 12

Total damages : RM 164.00

Damage per person: Rm 13.70

CBC Steamboat Restaurant (Pulau ketam Seafood)

47, Jalan 3/101C, cheras Business centre,

Taman Cheras, 56100 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 012-3456992/019-3898084

Finally, I have a Facebook account!

It is Day 1 of my HOLIDAY but yet I still wake up early at this hour. Surprisingly, I did not set alarm and was expected to wake up at earliest 12 pm. Sob.. not enough of sleep again.

Well, I take this oppurtunity to register a account in Facebook. TQ so much for so many lectures to me on facebook and the critism for not having one. Aisk...as I told be4, I lazy to maintain Friendster and FB together.

To Ms Kitty, I had registered mine. Guess it is your turn before more and more lectures to come to you too.

Here is the screen shot of my account. The image is a bit yellowish as there is problem with my graphic card.

Exam period over!

Finally, the dreadful period has come to an end. Here is the summary on my past 6 weeks of war time. I took 3 days off including the days I attended the Global Peace Festival 2008 before I started my study week. The first week was slow as the longer period of study break made me kept thinking ‘aiya, still got 2 more weeks to come’. In addition, the first 2 weeks is just enough to cover 2 subjects which are deemed to be the killer subjects. There were just too many things to be studied and memorized and it was exceeding a normal person capacity to cover all. But still, I had tried to give my best. In the second week, out of expectation, I had a one day trip to Cameron Highlands. Oh…cool.. holidaying during the study break. I somehow do not know the reason of my presence on the trip. Perhaps, I felt something just not really unusual that I nodded to accompany my mom to CH. In the third week, realizing that time was a factor and I need to adhere to the study timetable as planned, I took the move to tar pau foods by my own and to save some time and energy. I had applied for a loyalty card with Ali Baba (mamak restaurant at Angkasa Condo) which I made my purchase of food daily. And here are the menus;

Nasi kandar Nasi goreng paprik Nasi goreng ladna Nasi goreng hai lam Nasi goreng samurai Nasi goreng tom yam Nasi goreng biasa Nasi goreng seafood Nasi lemak ayam and Salad chicken rice at Fuk Sing (the best food which I bought on Tuesday, the last study day)

That was just food. Next is my sleeping time. The average sleeping was 5.5 hours with 2 hours nap time during daytime. Initially was only 1 hour, but gradually it getting increased. Battling every single minute just to cover everything was really hard. Of course I do online frequently.. haha.. to make sure my friends do me a favor..and to celebrate my blog birthday last week. I do check the latest news daily and to hop in some blogs and forums occasionally. Next are my brain cells, I do not know how many millions of my brain cells die every single day for the continuous 6 weeks. And how to replenish them? I can't think anything deep now. And now, it has come to an end. I can be happy that every single minute now onwards is free of burden, free of stress and free of STUDY time. It is the time for me to hibernate and compensate my sleep time and to play to the fullest! Why life as a student is so miserable? My friends and I will be going to Mid Valley later, guess it is the first for this semester. We are planning to climb hills and to see sunrise on Saturday. On Sunday, the whole bunch of UCSIPSS students will be going for a camp at Dusun Eco Resort at Bukit Tinggi, near my hometown for 3 D 2 N. Hope more events to come after this.

Signing off. Nap time before the proposed 3 pm.

My Blog 1st Birthday!

Yo... Happy Birthday to my very own blog!!!

First and foremost, I would like to thank to the continuous support from my friends and online friends in their contributions in development of this blog. TQTQ.

I started this blog a year ago with doubts on what will be the outcome. At that time, I was very new to blogosphere and the biggest obstacle is that I will not update my blog frequently which doesn't make sense for me to blog. Despite that, I gave myself a probation period to cultivate my interest in blogging and to see how long I can end up. The continuous critics from my friends at the early stage has make me to update my blog as frequent as I can provided I have the free time. They had given their 'demands' on what to put and what to expect and I had tried my best to fulfill their wishes. Sorry for those who experience 'com hang kei' those days and your complaints had contribute in making the changes today. (I hope you all won't experience again)

Initially, I had zero knowledge about blogging. I started slowly to learn the basic features of a blog. Adding features and disabling, adjusting the width of the page, adjusting size of the sidebar, adjusting the insane html codes, changing template, changing colour of fonts and background, choosing the right fonts and many more. I am glad I have acquired some knowledge of the elements and I will continue to learn from the senior bloggers around. Do teach me yea~ Today, I am proudly to say that blogging has become one of my top prioritities. Blogging enable me to share my latest happenings and my views with my friends. At the same time, I may get new friends from blogging too. Besides that, I love to take photos. No matter where I go, I will bring along my digital camera and snap eventually everything from A to Z. Then, I will spend my time uploading the pictures into my blog and make the descriptions to provide a full picture of the events I attended. For me, this is very important as those who wanted the pictures and may not be able to get the original files of the photos from me at certain point of time can easily download from my blog for their own purposes (eg putting in Friendster, Facebook & etc.). For my blog readers, they may get a clearer picture of the events even though they did not participate.

In addition, my interest in the current issues is always prevalent. My friends know well on that~ haha. Before this, I used to give comments in the forum but now I added it to my blog as well. Blogging enable me to express my own views on the issues pertaining to the country. Some may ask why you so bother about it? So, I answered.. Hey, this is your country. Although we are students, policies made will affect to us directly or indirectly. Whatever happens today will become history and your grandchildren and great grandchildren will query you one day in future. We need to participate in the country development to prepare ourselves in the future. Besides that, having that particular knowledge will help us to judge thing better and logically.

If you all notice, I am currently having my final exam. My initial plan to make new look of my blog has to be put on hold due to this reason. However, I will resume the plan soon after my exams period is over. My plans are to make a new header, to make new template, to rearrange the categories to make it user friendly, to make a new profile and etc. Guys, I need ideas~ In addition, I have many topics to be posted. New ideas come every single days. Haha. Just look at the anonouncements on the right side bars. I think the frequency for me to posts in Dec will be a post in 2-3 days.

I would like to thank AhWee for designing the current page header despite we are stranger to each other those days and perhaps now. (no time to fully introduce yet) Freezefrost has also contributed in designing one but there is amendment to be made but not now. For the blog enhancement, I had made an appointment with my latest designer, Jackie (haha) to design something on my page in Dec hopefully. Thanks to Vun and latest just few days ago, Shanna for the smart partnership. Thanks to Eddie for helping me to partipate in an experiment. Thanks to Teng Foung for introducing the ads (adverlets not work and cheated me for a MONTH). My blog is not meant for earning but just for my passion of doing it. I placed the ads for trial and to see how well it works only. I also want to thank to Yumika who really helped me a lot in the initial stage especially answering my queries to my alien --> HTML codes. Thanks to Alvin and Meng Fai too for becoming the cameraman nowadays and provide me with photos. (Those days, I am the sole cameraman. Now, both of them has high tech camera that make me goyang kaki, no need work). Thanks to those who exchange links with me as well. Thanks to the critics (quite many so I don't want to make a long list), the supporters aka the readers and the ones who leave comments~!

Thinking of any contribution to this blog? Well, it is as easy as 123. The simplest is to give me valuable feedbacks or comments on my blog on the contents, layout and etc. If you have any interesting topics, do let me know. Next, you all sure can do it. Just click to the ads every time you pay a visit. It won't harm you, who knows the offers may be of interest of you. My blog traffic has been boosting up in recent months as I only get active in blogging recently. So, I do hope it will continue to increase day by day. Besides that, I had joined Nuffnang, the advertisement company for 4th week and the positive weekly 'feedback' may seem the dream to achieve my first cheque would be possible within 5 months. (Well, i am beginner la.. it takes longer time). For Nuffnangers, please help me to nang this post at: http://innit.nuffnang.com/view.php?id=46185

I believe blogger needs the bloggers' community to survive. With that, I hope that I will receive continuous support from all of you regardless your are a blogger or just a reader (by-passer). Last but not least, do congratulate my blog survival for 1 year. Haha.. I will get back to your comments when I am free. Thank you.

Cheers! 1st birthday~

And i got this big apple cake from Apple

** This is a pre-made post. Exam is in progress~

Solat to replace yoga?

Solat to replace yoga? What a joke.. First and foremost, the issue of yoga which was a practice by the Hindus and Buddhist has never come across my mind. I don’t even know how and where it is origin, But, who cares? The reason people going for yoga is simple; to release stress as well as a form of exercise (some ladies may considered it as to reduce weight). My sis and my friends went for yoga session before. Never before I heard that there is some religion practice in yoga. As from what I heard from their experiences, yoga teaches you how to control your breathing, how to release your stress and how to make some difficult movement smoothly & gently. It is nothing but a form of exercise but utilizes slow movement or calmness element in practicing movement. Malaysia bodohland part 3 and will keep on continues… ‘’ Practising yoga won’t cause a Muslim to deviate and become a Hindu but copying or adding elements which are clearly from other religions is not acceptable in Islam. The reminder was given in Surah Al Kafirun.’’ Can I know what are the mentioned elements that are religious? ‘’ By practising the act which is endorsed by the Hindu and Buddhism religions, one indirectly permits these religions although the faith in the heart remains unchanged.’’ Bodohnya. Let’s give this example. I am a Chinese and I follow the Malays of not using the chopstick but instead use my hands to eat. After eating, I do follow what the Malays practise which is to wash my hands and immediately caress my hair because Malays believe this will prevent the ageing of your hair (meaning to preserve the black colour). OMG. I am considered a Chinese but I am in dangerous state as I allow myself to practise acts which is endorsed by the Malays. Shall we have ‘fatwa’ among the Chinese as well? ‘’ One such activity is Solat, which is to be performed five times a day. Solat dictates a sequence of movements which is good for the body. There are some health benefits in performing the prayer as it has been proven to increase concentration and refine memory, provide a calming effect and regulate stress, and make the body healthy and active.’’

Well, people going for yoga have never intended to increase their memory power. (Plz take note). Regulate stress and make body healthy and active? Well, I am not Muslim and I do not know the exact movement during the prayer and not going to discuss as this is sensitive and due respect must be given to every religion. To my knowledge, praying only utilizes a small spot or area where during the prayer, the devotee will have some sort of movement form sitting, standing up and some head movements.

Such simple movement I would say it’s equivalent like you go for a jog or you do gardening in your house or even the house chore. But, this is not what the yoga practisers want. They want a condusive environment with a soothing music, learn how to calm themselves or self meditation and at the same time to drive the sweat gland to produce more sweat. You may say then why don’t just go jog? Answer is simple. They want something special and an instructor to guide them. If the people found no different in yoga and normal simple exercise as in solat, then there won’t be people signing in the programme. Again, I haven’t try yoga before. But those who had tried before or still practising yoga, what say you? Enlighten use.

The core thing happening in our country is the people are too religious. Whatever simple thing also must be studied whether it is Islamic or not. In my opinion, it is always up to the people to decide. If you are Muslim or Chinese Buddhist but you attend a function or service by the Christians every weekends, it doesn’t means that you allow yourself to let other elements from other religion to so called deviates you. We should have the freedom. If one is strong in his faith to his religion, there is no problem of joining such activities as WE ourselves will learn how to control or how to avoid such things. Another example is attending the open house during festival celebration. Like me who went to my Malay teacher’s house for Raya, I do respect them who will pray before they eat and praise Allah for his generosity in giving them foods. After their prayer, then only I will start eat together with them. This is why Malaysians are so special. We learn how to respect each other.

So, conclusion is we do not need a fatwa on the yoga. Let them practice what they want. Just give reminder to them not to deviate (if you think they will).

Last but not least, I do not condemning any religion, any religion practice or discussing the sensitive issues. I am just giving my opinion shall yoga be practised by all or there should be some restrictions. This is in response to the article published in the Star (Nov 5, 2008)

Retreat: Home = Food paradise

I went back home for a night after 'invitation' last week. If I do not do so, I won't be coming back for the whole month as the crucial period of each semester had just started. Of course, I make sure I have completed something before deciding to leave.

I bring along my alarm clock together as I do not want any untoward incident that may make me lose the valuable time. Upon reaching home, the first thing I do is to open the refrigerator and looks for food. Haha. Not disappointing me, I saw many chocolates in the fridge. The others like fruits and vegetables as usual occupied the fridge all time. I treated myself with a glass of Tesco Cola filled with ice cubes. Next, is to move to my room and switch on the air cond. I miss the cool air very much. The hot and stuffy environment in condo really unbearable. But, what to do? No choice.

Forgot to mention, I had a bread fest in the afternoon. I found myself a small eater in the morning that I needed to wait till 12 ++ to start eating the bread. The first few slices already enough to fill my stomach. However, the expiry date of the jumbo bread was yesterday and I had no choice to finish it latest by today in whatever way. It was so suffering and I spent a lot of time too. Eating slice by slice and kept telling myself..'aiya, just few mores to finish all'. I am not going to tell the exact slices of bread here, if not you will labeled me as crazy. I was indeed.

I had my dinner with as usual big portion of vegetables. Today, there is no meats. I guess my mom have no time to defrost the chicken due to my last minute decision. Aiya, miss the 'kampung' chicken. Instead, it was replaced with a large plate of purple coloured cabbage bought from Cameron Highlands and another plate of fried green peas & others vege. For the soup, today menu is bak kut teh with boiled eggs.

My house is always happening and it's good time for me to destress. My 'rich' sis had recently bought a new MyVi ( x sure the price) and a new exercise machine (RM 300 +-). Haiz.. it is useless for her to bought the exercise machine as she never succeeded in any exercise programme she attended or she drafted previously. The new car plate number was the same as my wira of course not coincidentally, but you need to pay for it (RM 300 ++ including service charge).

Today, Jun Jun had his hair cut. Her mum had teach her how to speak 'cut hair' and try to make him feel enjoy for the event. It really looked like mission succeeded as he was happily calling my sis to cut his hair and undress himself. (He still yet to speak fluently & only speaks few words) The initial plan had failed. Just as the machine started to operate, he started to cry. Well, it is always normal for kids to cry when cutting their hair. So, a tag team of 4 people are needed for this mission. One sis as the hair stylist, his mum as entertainer, his father to hold him in the position and another also as entertainer. Toys and small fans are used to distract him. It really worked. So, the whole event was cry laugh cry laugh with cry time predominant over laugh time. (looked like i am making an equation)

This baby boy had recently learn how to answer "Whats your name?' and What is your age?'. He will called out his name Jun and a high pitch of Jun. His answer depends on the mood. If he feel like not telling, he will answer 'papa', 'mama' or whatever name u ask him to say except his name. For the age, he will showed up his finger projecting up from normal relax position and showed up 3 tiny fingers. Yes.. 3 because he could not lift only 2 fingers, he need more time to learn that.

As usual, he always call me in a weird way 'kau fuuuuuuuuuuuu'. The fuu is in high pitch and very very long be4 he stopped. Luckily, it is not in shopping complex, I had the embarrassed time previously.

Another reason for home coming is to take my socks. I forgot to bring back previously. I have also has new stocks of dry foods to be taken back. I am going to turn fat soon.

That's all for now. Hope for a brighter tomorrow and enjoyable session of revisioning. If possible, do rain more please at about 3-5 pm and at night time.