Hazy Kuching

The haze is back again, and this year it seems a bit more serious. for the pass few days the Air Pollutant Index in Kuching and other few cities in Sarawak has been registering unhealthy level. To make things worst, there is no rain so the haze just got worse. Well in case, some of you don't know what haze is, here is a brief defition of haze.

Haze is an atmospheric phenomenon where dust, smoke and other pollutant particles obscure the normal clarity of the sky. It occurs when dust and smoke particles accumulate in relatively dry air. When weather conditions block the dispersal of smoke and other pollutants they concentrate and form a usually low-hanging shroud that impairs visibility and may become a respiratory health threat. Dense haze caused by industrial pollution is also known as smog.

Source: wikipedia.com

This is situation is common in South East Asia. Every year is the same story. Thi is thanks to our neighbour Indonesia. Around this time of the year farmers of Indonesia will start clearing forest lands for their new plantation. usually this leads to forest fires which are uncontrollable. With the dry season plus the burning haze is created and thanks to them, we suffer too... thoseIDIOTS!!

Visibilty in Kuching was quite poor

This photo is taken from the 8th floor in Swinburne Uni, The haze is so bad that we can't see the City Skyline anymore

Hopefully the haze situation will get better, as for today and yesterday the API has drop down significantly but it is still in the moderate level. Cloud Seeding operation has been carried out that is probably why yesterday it did rain for a while. But hopefully the real rain will come back!

An Undergraduate Life

Since I have graduated from my diploma life , it has all been a rushed and it seems like lifes has rushed me by so fast.

Imust say that an undergraduate is so much more different. Life is far more harderm not to mentioned the workload and attention that you have to pay. So far from what I can see life is like hell. Everything in degree is independent... the lecturer will just brief through on what you have to do and in the end you have to figure on how to do the things yourself....

Well.. I have to try my best right so gambateh to me ;)

Plane Spotting

Tuesday Morning, bright and sunny! A good day for plane spotting heh heh...actually I just want to go and take a peek at Silkair's baby Airbus 319. Not only that I also wanted to catch the wide body of Malaysia and also Batavia Air. I arrived at my spotting spot around 8.55 pretty close to 9 though and patiently waited and all I can it was pretty fruitful. But...sadly sadly my camera ain't that good so what I got wasn't really good...need to invest in new camera. Now to put the photos up!

Batavia Air 821 from JKT/PNK - Arrived a rare sight 2 Foreign Airlines in Kuching at one time

Batavia Air B737-200 Leaving for PNK/JKT

Silkair A319 leaving for SIN

Graduation

On the 9th of August Swinburne University of Technology Australia and Sarawak Campus would be holding the Graduation Ceremony 2006. Roughly 200 Graduans will be present on that day.

Out of the 200 Graduans I am one of them...YES! YES! Finally! I have completed my Diploma I can graduate from my dilpoma. I am so happy. I Had my rehearsal today at the venue which is at Dewan Santapan the DUN building.

Sarawak State Legislative Building

Cool eh~ we are actually using the Sarawak State Legislative Building (locally known DUN) for our uni's graduation ceremony. Guess it is because we are an Australian University and the CM will be present on that day also, the ceremony is exteremely formal and stylish, how are suppose to enter the hall, where to stop and bow when to clap etc must all be perfect. But overall it was a fun experience and I can't wait for wednesday to come when I would really graduate.

Sad though my parents can't make it cause they will be working but hey just to let you know I am still continuing into my degree. I am taking Bachelor of Business Accounting. Heard that it is damn hard...oh well wish me luck to pass my degree and once more would be able to graduate but this time would be for my degree and my parents would most definitely attend this one.

Toll bridge to SSLB

HURRAY!!!

To Love someone who Don't Love you

You know sometimes life can be fun and sometimes life just sucked. Especially as we grow older and older more and more complicated stuff evolve around you. Especially complicated feelings. I guess I have reached an age whereby I understand what is love and loving someone is never easy, well worse is to love someone who doesn't even love you, I guess that is the suckiest part ever!

For I have these feelings I cared for this person and want to give her the best of everything but after all you have done and this person still ignores you and all. It hurts man it really hurts you deep. Ok...so what I never confess I am afraid to confess but I thought action speaks louder than words right? But all the actions, it seems that the person doesn't even care!

I really felt like my world has shattered apart. But hey... there has got to be someone better right? I mean there will be this one true person for me right? So who knows I might find that person one day... so I'll try and work hard and erase this feeling from my heart where I will start a whole new life. Cheers!

decisions decisions

I want to get a watch and man is it hard for me to make a decision on which watch I want to get, should I get an expensive watch or should I get a cheap watch?

Some of my friends ask me to get a cheap one and some of my friends ask me to go for the one I really want. One of the ones that I saw and liked was from fossil. The design is something similar to this one I guess and it cost RM 292.50 that is after 10% discount.

Some of my friends asked me to just get it.... I am so confused now which one should I get cheap or this? hmmm... arrrgggh decisions decisions. One more friend to ask then I will make my final decision to buy or not to buy!

Big huge Mouth ulcer

Ouch! Ouch! well I'll be damn this is the first time I had such a huge dental ulcer.And it hurts like hell man.

I used some dental gel but din quite help. So I used the old method...SALT...Oh man that really hurts like hell I can feel my freakin tears comin out of my eyes once the salt contacted with the Ulcer. Oh yeah baby that is natural high! WOW~

One Crazy Day!

I guess this is one of my craziest day! Woke up at 7 coz I have to tutor students at 8am. 10.30 finally the class ends but I had to go to the Uni to do my group assignment, after at 1 I went to pick up my mum and had a quick lunch then went home a whilr to keep the laundry and back on the road again to the city centre to pay up somethings.

My Uni class starts at 3.30 and by the time I send my mom home it was 3pm and I had to rush to my Uni, lucky my uni is close to my house. Once there NO PARKING SPACE!! had to park a few blocks away and walked all the way in. F**K the day was damn hot again wand it was quite a hike to the campus!

Later when my class ended at 5.30 Ihad to get to another tutoring class which starts at 6.30pm and ends at 9.30pm. It was only then I can come back home. *Sighs* man this is one F**king crazy day!

KLIA shrunk!

Words have it that the Malaysian government decided that KLIA was just to big and they decided to scale it down a bit! Heres is a picture showing the scaled down KLIA. =)

Smaller KLIA

Do you believe your eyes?? How KLIA have shrunk! Nah I'm just joking. If you didn't believe that this is KLIA then you are correct coz this is KIA. Huh??? KIA??? what is KIA isn't KIA the Korean made car KIA Motors??

Ahemz ...Well no! KIA stands for Kuching International Airport. Located in the Southern Tip of Sarawak Malaysia it is the capital city here. Recently KIA went through a RM620 million redevelopment scheme which included extension of Terminal Building and also renovating the old parts. Lengthening of the Runaway from 2,545 metres to 3,780 metres with a full parallel taxiway. The new Terminal is equipped with 9 gates and around 12 aerobridges. The developer is Global Upline and KLIA consultancy. This explains why the airport has the looks of KLIA.

New check-in hall

Cranes fixing up new airbridge

Remarkably the whole terminal was finish in 15 months time and 24 months ahead of schedule. The runway is yet to be completed.

Lots of singnage so travellers won't get lost

This New Terminal is bigger nicer more modern and High class. Also more sophisticated and according to the developer it is equipped with the state of the art facilities.

A MAS B737-400 and Batavia Air B737-200

Another pic showing the fixing of the new airbridge and behind an A330 of MAS just landed from KLIA

So After a few days from the official opening of the terminal Building on 17th of April 2006 by the Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Abdullah Badawi, I decided to take a looksi looksi at the whole terminal and it is really nice and if you look closely there are quite a few differences between this airport and KLIA. I also saw tourist enjoying themselves in the departure hall. ;-)

My overall view this airport is nice modern and quite big. it gives Kuching a whole new image.

Tourist enjoying the new facilities

KLIA

KIA ( can you spot the difference?)

** The middle photo shows KLIA and the photo above is KIA can you spot the difference?

KLIA photo taken from this website: Opera

Fried Noodles @ Da Lai

I decided to go to Da Lai Food Court @ King Centre to have my lunch with my friend. Actually I was pretty lazy to drive far away so I decided to go to the nearest place and grab something to eat.

Da Lai Food Court

So I went to check out the stalls. One of the stalls caught my attention they sell a variety of Fried Stuff one of them is something (to me) that people can rarely find in Kuching. This particular stall named it Fried Kolo Mee. Now why would they give it such a name? Easy... the noodles that they used are the noodles that people use to make Kolo Mee.

Most of the stalls that sell Fried Noodles will usualyy use those big fat yellow looking Noodles but muah loves the small type that they use to make Kolo Mee. So I decided to give it a go.

So I waited for a gew minutes for the food to be served and....tick...tock.....tick...tock...Voila! the food is serve and its time to taste it. Get ready the chopstick and spoon. Slowly and cautiously I put a half a spoonful of hot steaming noodles in my mouth...first chew...then another.. and another and gulp!....... HEY WADDAYA KNOW...the fried noodles ain't that bad after all. Another advantage is that it only cost RM 3.00 for a pretty big plate. This is what you can find mixed inside the noodles, some shrimps, bean sprouts, chicken meat, egg, and veggies. So it is pretty good all and all.

The Fried Noodle

Food Summary:

Type of Food: Fried Noodles

Ingredients found inside it: Shrimps, Veggies, Bean Sprouts, Chicken chunks , egg and of course noodles and not forgetting soya sauce.

Price: RM 3.00

Location: Da Lai Food Court @ King Centre, Kuching

Stars (out of 10): *****

You can go try it out sometime

New bed sheets!!!

Wahahahaha... got new bed sheets and it is my fav colour too... and thanks to my sis who bought it for me. She is such a great sis... Thanks a lot Big Sis.
Love thise bed sheets ;)

~Nice Nice bed Sheet ~

A Makeover

Alas... I have decided to give my blog a new look and has given it a new title too. Not to mention I have change my URL too.

I hope that my new blog will look nicer and with the added links on the right side of the window, I hope that it will be useful for visitors who visits this blog of mine.

I have change my blog title to The Journey Through the Highways of Life; in hope to symbolise the journey of my life Through thick and Thin. I'll try and make my posts as interesting as possible.


I hope that my life experiences would not bore you dear readers to sleep. ;-)

Damn Streamyx connection

After months of problem free, smooth connection...the problem comes back! my streamyx connection is so slow! Damn why can't the connection be stable.

Sometimes I really wish that there will be another ISP provider in Sarawak or Kuching that will provide a far better service than tmnet or tm streamyx!

Traffic Congestion

Well as a city grows the traffic grows too... and it seems that today every Kuchingites owns at least a car but usually from what I see they onw at least two or three cars...so traffic congestion in Kuching City is a very common sight... you can get stuck in a jam for at least 30 minutes before reaching your destination.

Public Transport in Kuching sucks... especially the buses donw here you can wait for hours and you don't even see a bus passing the station... the buses down here are old and dirty...wihout air-conditioning... even though there are a few bus companies down here in Kuching sad to say all of them sucks their timetable and everything that they do are not systematic... that is why I don't blame the poeple down here wants to own a car... frankly it is much more convinient to own your own car in Kuching than to take a bus or Taxi. Kuching is not really that small, to get from one place to another you'll need transport. So maybe they should upgrade the bus system down here and maybe everyone will consider taking the bus and the traffic congestion down here will be better.

Traffic jam at Jalan Haji Taha
Morning rush hour and jam @ Jalan Simpang TigaRock Road evening rush hourRock Road by night

A Hiatus

Ah.... I guess I have not touch this blog for like.... er.......2 months yeah... I think that is the correct length of time...lolx...

Well I ahve been pretty busy these days... teaching and playing RO yeah!!! fun... but I will try and come back here and post some more.... I have some unfinish work here.... lolx

Happy Chinese New Year 新年快乐！

Happy Chinese New Year to all those who are celebrating this Chinese New year. I wish everyone will have a prosperous year ahead and may all of you be healthy always!

大家好！ 我在这里祝福大家新年快乐！ 恭喜发财， 万事如意, 年年有余.

Kangaroo Express...The fastest way to break your Parcels!!

We "Hop"to break your stuff more :)

Frankly, I have never heard of this courier company, and NO I will not use it. Why? my answer is simple. They suck!

Well, why did I say Kangaroo Express sucks. It happened when my friend from KL send me and my friends some presents. It so happens that he used this company Kangaroo Express. Once the parcel arrived...what we have found inside it was shocking. Instead of lovely presents we found shattered glass and broken up glass or snow globe. Nothing was intake except one lucky snow globe and yet outside there largely written the word FRAGILE which I doubt does it even mean a thing to the people who send it.

Where did the glass go?

Poor snowman lost his home

This santa is homeless too.










Reasons, why Kangaroo Express Suck:
* Irresponsible workers!
* Careless
* and I guess lousy service
* Slow at delivering.

The only good one in the package

Sighs lonely house....

So if I ever am going to delivery any parcel. Kangaroo Express is the first out of my list! so in the end we all we received was shattered glasses and only one usable snow globe!

Way to go Kangaroo express. Thanks for breaking our Christmas presents.

Ice Coffee "Special"

Ok...today I had a very special drink @ Siang Siang Tabuan Jaya. I called it Ice Coffee "Special" or locally known as Kopi C Peng "Special".

After Church, Mum, Dad and I decided to grab something to eat. First we went to Ling Long Coffee Shop @ King Centre, but once we found out that most of the stores are closed so we went to Siang Siang Tabuan Jaya. I was feeling mighty hungry this morning and thirsty too.

So when the waiter took my order, I asked for Iced coffee (Kopi C Peng). Later, I went and order my food, ordered a bowl of Kolo Mee and also Roti Milo. Yummy~. When I came back after ordering my drink was already waiting for me on my table. So happily I drank my iced coffee, the coffee was very thin though felt like drinking water...Darn they are so stingy these days and drinks aren't cheap too...cost around RM1.20/40 for that glass of diluted coffee! but that is not what I wanted to say. After I finished my bowl of noodles, I drank a bit of my coffee before continuing on with my Roti Milo...Yes Yes.... I know I am a Glutton...So what I was very Hungry.... -_-lll

Then I spotted something in my glass...and mind you I already drank half of it!!! guess what that little thing was... It was a COCKROACH!!! yes a Little ... NOT so little icky dead coackroach!!!! YUCKS!!! I nearly Puked everything out. I asked one of the waitress to come over and I showed her the "Extra" ingredient they added to my drink...and guess what...the waitress looked at it and looked at it and shrugged a bit went in and got me another glass of Icedd Coffee...WITHOUT apologising!!! WTF!!! but lucky though they did not charge me for that cup of coffee.

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Iced Coffee "Special" with Extra Ingredient

In the end I didn't have the appetite to finish up my Roti Milo so I asked the stall dude to wrapped it up for me to take it home.

Well if you want to have a taste of Iced Coffee "Special" do try and go to Siang Siang Corner Tabuan Jaya. There you will find the most exquisite coffee in the maybe...World!!! Where they will add some "Extra" ingredient in your coffee... hahaha

Swollen Eye

I don't know how it happen but it just happen...probably it is allergy....my left eye is swollen. But not that serious. When I came home on New year's morning my eyes felt a bit painful so I thought I was just tired so I didn't bother. Suprise Suprise when I woke up the next morning I found my eye swollen.

The swollen eye

Probably it was caused by dust. Sometimes my eyes can eb sensitive...ha ha ha...Oh well...what can I say. But it is much better already today. not that swollen anymore and no more pain. Time sure is the best medicine... ;p

The China-Malaysia Friendship Park 马-中公园

Welcome to The friendship park of Malaysia. Situated at Jalan Song, Kuching Sarawak this park build on 7 acres of land.

This park certainly add as another tourist attraction for tourist who visits Kuching, This park features fountains, wishing wells, Tea house and yesh CCTVs all around it. During evening time families will ome and have a stroll in this park and some will bring fish food to feed the fishes... there are a lot of Kois in the pond very beautiful.

Tea house

Statue of Admiral Cheng Ho

KoisAhemz....no hanky panky biznes ;)

The Chinese Arc night view

HAPPY NEW YEAR

HAPPY NEW YEAR 新年快乐

Alas...another year gone and another new year is here. Here I wish everyone will have a prosperous year ahead and may you have a blessed year ahead. Happy 2006 and Good Luck Y'all.

嗨大家好。我在这里想祝大家新年快乐， 万事入一（if that is correct...sorry mandarin not that good still learning). 我希望大家会过着一个快快乐乐的年。让我们来欢迎二〇〇六年吧！！

我们来一起加油加油吧！！ 耶！

Perhaps Love

如果。爱 （PERHAPS LOVE)

Director: Peter Ho (陈可辛）

Cast:
Lin Jian Dong (林见东) - Takeshi Kaneshiro (金城武）
Sun Na (孙纳) - Zhou Xun (周迅）
Nie Wen (聂文) - Jacky Cheung (张学友)
Monty - Ji Jin Hee （池珍熙）


I Have watch this movie some time ago. So the story to me is a bit unclear...blurry but I still I do remember a bit.


Here is how the story goes. The story begins when Monty (Ji Jin Hee) a muse went to Shanghai with a mission, he wanted to taste of genuine human emotions and put himself out as a beacon for lost souls, drowning in the bitter sea of love.

Also arriving in the same time was Lin Jian Dong (Takeshi Kaneshiro), the star in a new musical drama directed by a reknowed director, Nie Wen(Jacky Cheung). On the other hand the co-star of Jian Dong was Sun Na( Zhou Xun) which so happens to be the ex-lover or old flame of Jian Dong and currently having a relationship with Nie Wen who in turn made her a star.

In the musical drama that they are both acting is about a love triangle. An amnesiac women forgets about everything, even her lover and only to be saved from the streets by a generous circus owner. When she finally regains her memory she finds herself caught both in the present and the pass. Jian Dong and Sun Na was both in the leading role and Nie Wen acted as the circus owner and also unaware being the 3rd party. Unfortunately Nie wen did not realise about his two stars past relationship. A decade ago Jian Dong was a film student studying at the Beijing Film Academy and Sun Na was a bar singer. He was a thrifty student and she was a songstress with a run down luck. Both having lonely hearts fell in live with each other. But all was destroyed when Sun Na desire for fame and wealth grew and the relationship was broken as she went for a man who can make her famous, Nie Wen.


Stars allocated: ****
For More info visit this site: Perhaps Love 如果。爱.com

Zathura

Zathura

This movie is actually Jumanji.now why do I say that because they just twisted the story line a bit instead of being in the jungle they were in space. Instead of throwing the dice they have a key that you turn and a button to press and there will be a part where numbers will start turning (sort off like rollet). If your number stops at 3 the little space ship will move on its own 3 knotches up the board (exactly like Jumanji).

The movie was ok. Some parts of it was funny, some parts of it was lame. Graphic wise they are ok but some parts still have a bit of weakness. The actors and actresses in the movie are ok not that bad. If you ask about my favourite character I will say that ot is the little brother. I think he is so cute. The sister was pretty mean but in most of the movie she was frozen and the brother was mean towards the tounger brother but later on they got along welll which each other. Later on the sister fell in love with the brother who was actually grown up but she did not know about this until almost when the game ended. it was a pretty funny movie


Here are some photos and the plot taken from darkhorizons



Plot: In Columbia Pictures heart-racing sci-fi adventure "Zathura," two squabbling brothers are propelled into deepest, darkest space while playing a mysterious game they discovered in the basement of their old house. On their fantastic journey they are joined by a stranded astronaut and must survive meteor showers, hostile lizard-like aliens, a rocket-propelled robot run amok and an intergalactic spaceship battle. But their greatest peril lies ahead. For unless they finish the game and reach the planet Zathura, they are doomed to be trapped in outer space forever. "Zathura" is based on the best-selling book by the acclaimed children's writer Chris Van Allsburg ("The Polar Express," "Jumanji").

Long time Didn't Blog

hmmm.... it has been a long time since I have been blogging. Well after almost a month of hiatus I think I will be blogging again but not that often though. Well....Well nothing much to say....er...er...if I happen to have any exciting stuff I will be sure to start the blog again well...chiaoz heehehe.......