想太多

我今天，在朋友的电话里听到了一首歌，这首歌的名是：想太多。当时我一听到，我就想起了我自己，是个很会去想东西的人，会去想太多的一个人，想到，把自己的心情也搞砸了。我发现，这首歌的歌词很配我，由此是到“是我想太多”的部分。

我还记得，有个人跟我说过，不要想得太遥远，也不要想太多。现在开心就是了。 我经历的活得开心点，不要再去想太多。但是，有时侯还是控制不了的去想，是在是有点失败，哈哈！但是我定，要加油的不要再去想太多。活得开心点。一定要加油！

这是歌词之那首歌。

李玖哲-想太多


你笑著說 他是朋友
但你眼中太溫柔

我的不安 那麼沉重
只有你不懂

他霸佔了你的心中
屬於我的角落
所以你說 我們 不是你和我

是我想太多 你總這樣說
但你卻沒有 真的心疼我
是我想太多 我也這樣說
這是唯一能 安慰我的理由

他霸佔了你的心中
屬於我的角落
所以你說 我們 不是你和我

是我想太多 你總這樣說
但你卻沒有 真的心疼我
是我想太多 我也這樣說
這是唯一能 安慰我的理由

我想我沒有 錯怪了什麼 雖然你不說
或許錯在我 太晚我才懂 愛了你太多

是我想太多 你總這樣說
但你卻沒有 真的心疼我
是我想太多 我也這樣說
這是唯一能 安慰我的理由

Please let me pass

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Short Talk:
2 down and one more to go...please...please let me pass my FIS...Lord....help me....
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After my contract law paper, I was rushing on with my nightmare subject, Financial Information System. I have been taking this subject for 3 semesters already, and I do not want to do it again. By right this semester the questions are suppose to be easy. But I had no idea what happened to me. Towards the end of the paper, my mind started to go blank. I forgot my formulas... I was in the shits.

Studied too long...got bored and started to get vain .. XD

I thought I have done well, until when I came out and starting discussing with my friends (big mistake) my confidence level fell to almost 0. I thought I was going to go up to the 9th floor of Swinburne and just jumped down and die.

88~... good number and was at the 3rd table so its 883~~ nice~~

My worst nightmare!! >.<

I am not going to blame it on my lecturer but, I know that,I, myself is to be blame for not practising enough. Sighs... now I can only hope that I can at least get a pass for this subject. If in the worst case scenario that I fail, I might just quit studying or just study another course.

Another story, while I was studying for my FIS in uni, My church friends were so kind to bless me with "green bean soup" and gave me a card to bless and encourage me. Guys, the soup was delicious. Just right not to sweet. Am very touched by you guys. Thank you for your card too.

The card and the soup~


The Card~


The soup~

Chee and Tee Heng Good Luck with your Auditing tomorrow!

1 Down 2 More to go!

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Short Talk:
2 more subjects....FIS and macro....gosh....tension? nah...nervous? wee bit....procrastinating? a bit
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Finally, 1 paper done and another 2 to go. My first paper for yesterday was Contract law. How did I do, seriously... I had no idea what the hell was I writing in that exam hall... I seriously seriously had no idea. Cross my fingers, and pray that I will pass.

Darn....why is it always me the one who sits in the first place...bah!


Cover page of Contract Law paper

Now, I need to work hard for my FIS. This is my nightmare subject. When I think about it, it gives me the jitters! LOL.

Gambateh Edwin!

Vivien, All da best in your Marketing Behaviour!
Chee and Caloon, All da best in your E-marketing!
Ing Ming and Caloon, all da best in your Company Law!

Assignment Marathon

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Short Talk:
My first paper is just a few days away... been doing revision...but still a bit blur...aiiks!
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For the past 1 week, I have been rushing my macroeconomics assignment with my group members. This is by far our last assignment for the whole semester and indeed the most tiring of all the assignments that I had ever done. We took a week to gather information and compile it into a whole report.

My group members are also my adorable friends (Vivien, Siaw Chee and David) worked real hard for this assignment. I am very glad to have them as my group members. Although I think I did not contribute much except to turn their notes into a full report and giving opinions here and there, I have done virtually nothing. Yes, I sounded lazy. Seriously... I didn't know what I should do.

Searching hard for information

But this one whole week was not just work and work, we had tonnes of fun. Because during, this whole week we were so stressed out we have been doing so many goofy things. Half way through the assignment we actually dance... LOL.... YES! Dance...! We changed Beyonce's Irreplaceable lyrics from 'to the left, to the left' into 'to the right, to the right' and dance. Stupid but fun. Vivien was the funniest of all for there was one particular night while David was explaining something to us, she suddenly stood up and we were like (Huh? wot happened?) and she lean over the table and the next thing we knew she was poking David's "spare tyre"... we were like... errr... Vivien what are you doing?? (-_____-'') and she said she thought why David's shirt can move while he was talking and that movement turned out to be David's tummy and yes we were laughing so hard.

I am bad at drawing... but an illustration of what Vivien has done...Muahaha (she's gonna kill me!)

On Saturday, it was Siaw Chee's turn to do something funny. She found this red umbrella and she was so fascinated by it, she started dancing with it.... and David followed her too. The as she was dancing she sang “彩虹妹妹恩爱唉哟...(Rainbow sister is loving ai yo.....)" and she said... just dance and sing since nobody was watching us... and Vivien said... " errr.... Chee... there are cameras up there...Guards must be lookin at you at the monitor there" and she was like oh shoot! and quickly ran back to class. Really funny...

On Sunday, in order for us to finish our assignment we had to look for a place with wifi. Initially we were suppose to go over to E-Magic but it was close... so in the end we went to Starbucks, since currently Kuching's only Starbucks is located at the airport we had no choice but to go there. But soon we will have a second Starbucks located at The Spring Mall. Due to this assignment Swinburne has also become somewhat like my second home, I spend most of my time in Swinburne doing the assignment.

Starbucks!! The new hangout place for Kuchingites...Lolz

Chee and Vivien...very hardworking

Everyone has worked hard in for this assignment. Well everyone except me, cause there are times half-way through the assignment I will walk around and half way through the report I will surf the internet reading forums and blogs. My sincere apologies to my group member... but when I do these things usually it means:

1. I don't know what to do since, you guys are looking for info,
2. Surfing websites, while I was typing the report halfway means my mind is blank and am thinking. So I kinda surf websites to help me think.

But overall, I really appreciate all of you guys as my group members and you are such great friends. All the best for the finals and let us all work hard! Gambateh!

To all Swinburne students All the best for your Finals!!

To my church members who are studying in Swinburne, All the best and God Bless you all!

Weird Thing

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Short Talk:
Exams are near... am I studying or still procrastinating? Hmmm.... a bit of both...but I can't concentrate....bleh!那天。。。我到底在干吗？十一月三日。。。该是我最难忘的一天。 =)
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The day I started to do my FIS quickbooks assignment, was the day I started to stay back in Swinburne a lot and I quite like staying back in Swinburne. I find that I can concentrate on my studies more when I am in Swinburne. I can pick a class and have the whole class to myself and put in a 110% of concentration in doing my revision.

Err... there are times I sort of fell asleep in the class... Whoops! You didn't hear or read that part! There are also times where you can find some weird objects lying around the floor. Like quite some time ago at the Swinburne's 1st floor library I found this weird object lying there on the floor next to the bag cabinets. I took a closer look... IT WAS A BRAND NEW SANITARY PAD...

Tsk...tsk sometimes people can be so careless. Wonder what if the person suddenly needs it, I dare not think....LOL...but nevertheless there are always 24 hour convenience shops around in Kuching so maybe when that particular lady needs it, she can always visit those shops. But again I wondered...will the cleaner "aunties" dare pick it up and use it? Hmmm.... maybe they would! LOL

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小小话题：
很感谢那天你所给我的经验。 很高兴能认识你！跟你学了不少东西哦！像你说的也许这些都是个缘分。 祝您， 过这个美好幸福的生活与日子。打开你的翅膀飞吧！

10th Bible Conference

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Short Talk:
Final Examinations are coming up on 19th of November and I am pretty stressed out. No more procrastinating. Its time to get serious and do some serious revision.
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From 26-28th of October which is from Friday to Sunday, I have attended the 10th Bible Conference. The title for this conference is Our God Speaks. To tell the truth I have never attended any Christian conferences or any other such conferences in my entire 20 years of living in this world and I this conference did leave down a good impression in me.

We had a special speaker for this conference. He flew half-way around the world just to preach and prophesies us. It is none other than Rev Kirk Duncan, from Canada. This man is 71 years old and trust me he is so energetic he looks more like a 40 plus man rather than a man of 71! its the truth! you should have seen him up there.

I am a camera shy person.... Shawn I am not "tiao keh" ok... I am the humblest amongst the humbles

From the very first day, when I heard him teach in my heart I thought he is a great speaker and teacher and true man of God. Yes, I won't deny he is good and I had learnt something from his teachings. Part of me has indeed been inspired by him and his teachings.

Rev. Kirk Duncan and Pastor Kung Chin

His lessons are never boring, just like Pastor Dennis preachings. There is always a pinch of humour which keeps us awake and paying full attention.

But sadly, I was not able to attend the whole full conference. First, was due to my work and second because Jade's grandmother passed away and I just had to go and see if she is doing okay. I won't deny that I quite enjoyed the Bible Conference. Translation by the translators are pretty good. But I was not in any need for any translation as I can understand English pretty well.

Individuals and Couples being prophesied by Rev. Kirk Duncan

Now that the Bible Conference is over, do I feel refreshed or rejuvenated? I am not very sure but I guess part of me is being rejuvenated and that is no lie.

Next stop is the Malaysian National Convention, which will be held in Kuching also. I am not very sure if I want to go or not. But if I am on duty I guess I have no choice but to go. Other than that, I don't think I will be going. Financially, I am very tight. And if anyone of you out there are going to critique about my financial position. I have two words for you SHUT UP! Why? because you are not in my shoes so you do not know what a hellish life I am going through now. Some more my mood has been further dampen by someone who just reminded me of all the things I have to pay next month once I got my salary.

Note some photos in this post courtesy of Mr. Shawn Lee

A little to exposed

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Short Talk:
Finally I finished and handed in my Quickbooks assignment. I am free....free from quickbooks! Yes... now all I have to do now is work harder and pass FIS and all my subjects!
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Have you ever woke up in the morning and you just know that it is one of those days? Or when you wake up everything is just fine and as the days proceed things started to go so wrong. Well as for me, I would say it is one of those days for me. I started the day quite normally and nothing seems to be wrong.

Once I reached the Uni things started to get a bit rough just a wee bit, nothing serious yet. First, I had to park my car at the Kenyalang parking lot and take the shuttle service back to the uni. Because it was a van and the door was quite low, when I was exiting the van, I hit my head "boobed!" in front of the many girls that were in the van too ( I was the only male occupant in the van besides the driver =.=), the only consolation I had was...well... they felt my pain too. I just hope they won't laugh and giggle behind me and start to gossip behind me... "eh, look at the klutz, don't even know how to exit a van. What a loser! *giggles*"

When I went into the library and met up with my friend, he started to tell me about my quickbooks assignment that we missed out something while doing the Balance Day Adjustment. I had to do some minor corrections and reprint and re-burn the the files into the CD again. But that wasn't so bad.

The highlight of the day was after when I finished my law class. I went back to the library again. Met up with friends and help them out a little with their Quickbooks assignment. Earlier on I had asked my other friend who parked his car at Kenyalang also to sms me when he is done and wants to go to take his car. He did sms me, and said the van had arrived. So I quickly cleared up my stuff and ran down holding my books ( I didn't even keep the books and file into my backpack and just rushed down to catch the van). I went out and looked to the left and looked to the right. The van was no where in sight and looked for my friend and he was nowhere> I was really puzzled then. So I smsed him... he didn't reply. I sat down and kept my books. YES! I look so PATHETIC! Suddenly after sometime I received a message from my friend

"The bus driver knot wait o, he said 4.30 another round"
"He drive away already."

Inside my heart... "&@*&&#@$*@#&*... wait a while also cannot, damn fucking cibai make me run like a maniac and made me looked so pathetic, Kanine ar"

So I went back to the first floor to grab some water to cool down myself. Sure enough around 4.30 the bus came back. I doubled checked with the bus driver to see whether is the bus going back to Kenyalang. Yes it was, this trip there was a lot of people, so I decided to take the "first class seat" So I climbed up the van and there was an unwelcoming sound that greeted me while I was half way climbing...."Ripped!!" Oh dear what is that, I looked down and saw that my pants has torn apart! "WHAT THE FUCK!" I quickly grab my FIS textbook and covered it and hoped that no one saw it, especially the group of girls sitting behind me. The hole was huge I tell you and it went all the way up to my hip and when I sat down the hole opens even bigger and it revealed my "sexy hip" to the world including my "ahemz". I tell you I would have turned really red if someone saw me.

Very Sexy

My mind was racing how will I get out of the van later? Crap.... shit.... cibai why...why of all days and of all time now! I have really down right gorgeous sexy hips. I was afraid that by revealing I will be the envy to all the people sitting in the bus

Well as soon as we arrived at the Car Park, I hurried down the bus limping a bit because I was trying to cover the hole. I wonder anyone noticed my strange behaviour. But I must admit it was quite cooling with that big hole, there is a lot of air circulation inside my pants. LOL...

Well the good news it I got home without anyone noticing my beautiful hip. While I was driving I put up the sun shades to prevent the other drivers from ogling over my wonderful hip. *winks*

Hari Raya Delights!

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Short Talk:
FUCK! I am so broke and its only middle of the month! Shit! No more going out...maybe not even staying back for WFL any more...its BUDGET TIME!
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The one thing I look forward to Hari Raya is that I can meet my Malay friends. We have been separated since our Diploma graduation and some of them are working. I sure miss them. My Malay friends are always warm and sincere towards us. They never fail to invite us to visit them during Hari Raya. Even now, when we are apart and not studying together we are still being invited to their house for raya. Now, that is true sincerity and friendship. I truly respect them.


Another thing that I look forward to is the food and cakes! Oh I tell you guys, some of my friends serve wicked food. I usually look forward to eating masak merah, rendang, lemang, ketupat, pulut, curry and many more. The cakes and cookies, I need not say more about them for right now as I am doing this post and recollecting back what I have eaten there is making me drool like a bull dog!

The cakes were good too!

The first house I visited was Zeti's house. Her house was the first house we visited and the only house we visited this raya because some of our other friends are not in Kuching for this Raya. As usual Zeti's mother cooks some really wicked food. The cakes are great too. I ate so much curry, lemang, pulut and of course masak merah that I felt bloated but surprisingly, I was greedy enough to continue on with the cakes and cookies after that glorifying meal.

Look at all those food!


My first round XD

After the satisfying lunch at Zeti's house I was back home sleeping! Yes I was such a pig! I know! But I went jogging with Morgan and Shawn that evening. Well "Jogging"....

Then I had this lil dude for dinner...YUMZ! ok....ok... joking this prawn is still living happily in its aquarium in Kuching International Airport. LOL

Home Cooking - Sour vege

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Short Talk:

Wishing all those who are celebrating Hari Raya, A Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir Batin. It is also a time for me to enjoy masak merah, curry, beef rendang, pulut *droolz*. I can't wait to get my hands on them all! Not forgetting to see my Malay friends. I haven't seen them for a long time!
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Sometimes it is good to do some home cooking. It is much healthier and cheaper to do so too. Actually I always thought that home cooking is fun and in a way educational. When your dish comes out right and its good, it gives you satisfaction.

I am going to introduce a simply dish which I liked a lot. Preparation is not hard. It is called errr.... Stir fried Sour Veg.

Basically these will be the things that you will need;

• Sour vege (2-3 stalks)
• Ginger (shredded)
• Chillies (Chopped)
• Pork
  
• 2 table spoon of cooking oil
• wok or frying pan

First of all, shred the sour veg into thin strips around 0.5cm. Next, cut the pork into pieces as shown in the picture.

The sour veg


shred the veg roughly 0.5cm in width

Cut the pork

After that, take a small piece of ginger and then shred it into thin slices, followed by the chillies. Basically you have a choice to add in the chillies or not to. For me the reason why I add in the chillies and ginger because the ginger adds in the flavour and as for the chillies it gives a little spice and thus, the dish will have a sourish and spicy taste to it and it really perks up your appetite.

chopped Chillies

Shred the ginger into thin slices

Next, when all of your ingredients are done, boil a pot of water and then put in the pork for 5 minutes then heat up the cooking oil in a pan, put in the ginger first, fry until fragrant and add in chilli, stir. Add in the shredded sour veg into and stir fry again for a few minutes, while the veg is being cooked drain the pork and then add it into the sour veg and stir fry for another few minutes.

BON APETITE!

Finally, EAT IT! haha... actually it goes very well with rice so you should try it out!

Tahi Lalat!

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Short Talk:
Contract Law second test is this Friday, gosh I hope I can do well this time. Gambateh to me!
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Last month, most of the Chinese celebrated the Mooncake Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival. Usually by this time of the month the Kuching city council will host the Inter-cultural Mooncake Festival. Basically people from different cultures will come together and celebrate this wonderful festival. This Inter-Cultural Mooncake Festival is usually held at Carpenter Street. There will be rows and rows of stalls selling mainly food and lanterns and along the way you can see performances of people singing, dancing, and some weird stuff.

This year I wasn't planning to go to the Inter-cultural Mooncake Festival, well I just don't fancy squeezing my way through with a bunch of people. Who knows I might get molested in the process and not know who was it. LOL...joking. But since that night, Chai Hia asked us old buddies to have dinner together at Bla Bla Bla. We took the opportunity to visit the Festival, well the main reason was... the street was badly congested and we decided to go home a little later when the traffic clears.

Doraemon Latern... who wants it?

gotta love those lanterns

I must say this year I saw a really not make it a few weird stall selling WEIRD stuffs. I saw there are a few stalls actually selling "Buang Tahi Lalat" , translate it for you in English would be " Away freckles!" ha ha. They actually have these stalls there and I can tell you nobody and absolutely nobody paid any attention to it. I mean for heaven's sake who would go and let some road side stall get rid of your freckles and they claim to be international too! wtf! For me I am definitely not letting them touch me. I might be vain but I am not that vain or stupid.

Who wants to get rid of their 'tahi lalat'(freckles) come here

The lady playing a Gu Zheng[古针]( A traditional Chinese Music Instrument)

Other that all things seem normal until I reach this part where a group of old Malay ladies sat down playing drums and singing... I dunno what also. All I know they had a microphone connected to this huge speaker beside the road and when I passed through that stupid stupid speaker and one of the lady went high pitch I got blasted away... It was so awful! Damn I nearly went death no thanks to her! They should have put a big warning sign there! WARNING: HIGH PITCHED LADY SINGING, MIGHT CAUSE HEARING DEFICIENCY! I made sure on the way back I avoid that part.

I nearly went deaf because of them!

A bonsai plant...this plant is the winner!

But I love one thing I saw while I was at the Festival. There was this group of old folks dancing. It was really great. Especially the old man, I mean like wow can he shake! They actually danced far better than the Hope Church's 15th Anniversary dance performance by the college group. No offence to you guys but they were really good. I would grade them 8.5/10. As a proof, I videoed down the dance.

Gotta love the dance... and look at the old man Sway!!

Push too Hard

You wanted so much from me
But when is it than you can see
And how could I make you understand
That I need some space to breathe
I am a human, I've my own stand
Sometimes the words you say brings seethe


I really wanted to respect you
But I am starting to find it hard to do
The harder I try, the more I can't
Its a space of freedom that I need,
I wish you will grant
In life we should learned to be satisfied
So let us try not to fight

If you pushed too hard
I am afraid sooner or later I might break apart
If you pushed too hard
Hearts are bound to be broken and scarred
If you pushed too hard
One day this family is bound to break apart

You wanted to control everything
Controlling people gives you satisfaction
And now this family's love and warmth is dying
Could we all end up in separation?

I hope that would not be the end
This family's relationship I shall fend
Cause no matter we are connected
nothing could let this connection be separated

If you pushed too hard
I am afraid sooner or later I might break apart
If you pushed too hard
Hearts are bound to be broken and scarred
If you pushed too hard
One day this family is bound to break apart

I know sometimes I am rude
But I promise you that I'll mend my ways
Let not little problems spoil our mood
Lets open up ourselves for better days

By Dwinz

A New Challenge

Challenges in life is it something good or is it something bad? Personally I never really liked challenges. I find them tiring and a total waste of my energy. But these days my perspective has changed. I started to feel that challenge is a good thing. A challenge in life brings out the best in me. It drills me to become a better and wiser person. That was why I decided to take up a new challenge in my life.

This might not be much of a challenge to some of you out there, but for me it is quite a challenge. Recently...well about 2 days ago my tuition centre called me up and offered me a new job as a part-time tutor. I was offered to teach MUET (Malaysian University English Test), not to students but to working adults. Yes working adults who are older than me. The challenge here is to get them obtain good grades in MUET and my task was to teach them and let them understand the format of MUET and how it works and what are the tricks to tackle the questions. At the same time my knowledge for MUET is like zero. I actually had to borrow the book from Swinburne library and read and understand how MUET works and how it was being tested on the candidates.

Initially I had no idea why did I took up the offer. My boss asked me whether can I teach the class or not and my mouth just blurted out yes. At first I was really nervous about it but I told myself that I must have faith in myself and also in the Lord. Amazingly, our faith to the Lord can have so much impact in our lives. Things started to look better. I came to know that Shawn has taken MUET before and also Cheryl. I started asking them questions about MUET. Well I Shawn became my victim of interrogation. I started asking questions on how MUET was being taught in tuition class what are being tested and Praise the Lord that whatever was written in the book about the format was not entirely correct. Seems that in the speaking paper the Individual presentation part was not being tested. Only the group discussion part was tested. I started to learn a lot of things about MUET.

I started to prepare the notes for class and I ended up sleeping at 3am and nearly overslept and missed my morning tuition for my form1 and 2 students but luckily I was not late I still manage to rush there on time. After the morning class the next class was the MUET class... I will not deny that I felt very nervous to tell the truth I was shivering a bit but I kept my cools and started to give the lecture on how the marks are being calculated etc. Then started off with lesson 1 which was listening. So far everything went on smoothly and class ended on time and I managed to finish the lesson I planned for today. My student are nice and friendly and the class was enjoyable. They are willing to learned and I am very pleased and happy that they let me have a chance to teach them. It was really an honour. I am looking forward to our next class now which will be after the Raya holidays.

So for those of you who are afraid of challenges in life, do not be afraid to face them. Have faith in yourself and have faith in the Lord and everything will work out fine. Even if we fail do not fear as Failure is the mother of success. We learn as we grow.

To Cheryl thank your for your help. It was helpful of you.

To Shawn I can't thank you enough for your help. You have been such a big help to me by giving me so much information about MUET. Because of you I have learned so much about MUET and was able to hinder from making a fool of myself. I am very happy and proud to have such a shepherd like you. So to show my gratitude, you are entitled to one piece of Secret Recipe's cake, your pick. See how nice of me. LOL

Whatever....Anything...You Decide.

A friend of mine forwarded this email to me and its really funny and if you can read mandarin its even funnier.

男人最怕的三个 答案 (Three answers tat men are most afraid of)


（1 ）随 便 (Whatever)
男：今天 晚上咱们吃什么？ Men: What to have for dinner?
女：随便。 Women: Whatever..
男：吃火锅吧。Men: Why not we have steamboat?
女：不行，吃火锅脸上要长痘痘。 Women: Don't want la, later got pimples on my face

男：要不咱们吃川菜。Men: Alright, why not we have Si Chuan cuisine

女：昨天刚吃的川菜，今天又吃....... Women: Yesterday ate Si Chuan, today again?

男：那咱们吃海鲜去？ Men: Hmm..... then lets go for seafood
女：海鲜不好，吃了拉肚子。 Women: Seafood no good la, later I got diarrhoea
男：那你说吃什么？ Men: Then what you suggest?

女：随便。 Women : Whatever..




（2）都行 (Anything)

男：那咱们现在到底做什么？ Men: So what should we do now?

女：都行。Women: Anything
男：看电影怎么样？很久没看电影了。 Men: How about watching movie? Long time we didn't watch movie

女：电影有啥好看的，耽误时间。Women: Watching movie no good la, waste of time only

男：那打保龄球，运动运动？ Men: How about we play bowling, do some exercises?

女：大热天的运什么动啊，不嫌累啊？ Women: Exercise in such hot day? you don't tire enough ah??

男：那找个咖啡店坐坐，喝点水。 Men: Then find a café and have drink

女：喝咖啡影响睡眠。Women: Drink coffee will affect my sleep
男：那你说干什么？ Men: Then what you suggest?

女：都行！ Women: Anything


（ 3）看你 (You decide)
男：那咱们干脆回家好了。 Men: Then we just go home lo
女：看你。 Women: You decide

男：坐公车吧，我送你。 Men: Let take bus, I will accompany you

女：公车又脏又挤，算了吧。 Women: Bus is dirty and crowded. Don't want la...

男：那就打车走。 Men: Ok we will take Taxi

女：这么近的路不划算。 Women: Not worth it la... for such a short distance

男：那走路好了，散散步？ Men: Alright, then we walk lo. Take a slow walk

女：空着肚子散哪门子步啊？ Women: But how to walk with empty stomach woh?
男：那你想怎么着啊？ Men: Then what you suggest?
女：看你。 Women: You decide
男：那就先吃饭？ Men: Let's have dinner first
女：随便。 Women: Whatever...
男：吃什么？ Men: Eat what?
女：都行 Women: Anything
男：......!!!!! Men: ..........!!!!!!

So to all the ladies out there. Try not to answer your boyfriends with these 3 words. LOL

Cheers!

Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节

Today, tonight the Chinese will be celebrating another one of their many festivals. Tomorrow the moon will be in full bloom and many young and old, well mostly the old will be gazing up at the beautiful moon beaming down at us.

At the same time little toddlers will be running around with their beautiful lanterns. I believe not only toddlers will be having fun with the lanterns even teenagers will be having tones of fun playing with lanterns.

Mooncakes will be served, and while chewing on the mooncakes some people will gaze up at the beautiful moon.

In case you guys do not know what actually is Mid-Autumn Festival about. Let me explain to you guys.

The Mid-Autumn Festival revolves around the moon and there are many traditional stories concerning the moon. It is believed that the Mid-Autumn Festival originated more than 2,000 years ago and in the old days the festival was devoted to praying to the gods. Because China is largely an agricultural society, the 15^th day of the 8^th lunar month happens to occur after the autumn harvest. That day the sky is generally clear and the weather fine and the people celebrate with post-harvest feasts, signifying the principle that “the divine and the human are one”. During the Song Dynasty, due to the influence of learned people, praying to the moon became widespread. The eating of mooncakes started towards the end if Yuan Dynasty because of a folk story of that time and later the observation of the Mid-Autumn Festival became important.

So far there are three folklores about the Mid-Autumn Festival. Since tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, I’ll celebrate it by telling the 3 folklores in this post.

Once, a beautiful lady known as Sister Yao married into the Yang family. Sadly her mother-in-law mistreated her. She was nasty towards Sister Yao and demands her to do the household chores during the day and by night she has to work on the hand loom.

Her mother-in-law treats her as if she was a workhorse and showed no mercy towards her.

As the harsh days passed by and soon it was the 15^th day of the 8^th month and the moon was round, bright. It was a lovely sight.

The wretched mother-in-law came into Sister Yao’s room bringing with her an extra load of cotton for the poor girl to weave. She then commented “People say that you, Sixth Sister Yao is a capable person. Turn this seven jin of cotton into cloth.” And she went out of the room.

Sister Yao was in a dilemma, she thought even if she did not go to sleep. She can’t possibly weave the seven jin of cotton into clothes in just one night. As she tried her best weaving the cottons the oil lamp’s light went out. She had no choice but to bring the workload outside as the moon was shining brightly that night.

It was already the fourth watch and Sister Yao was still weaving. If she can’t finish the work when day breaks she will get beaten by that wretched mother-in-law of hers.

Suddenly, a dragon boat appeared from the moon and started sailing towards Sister Yao’s direction. It was a boat full of immortals. One of the immortals called out to Sister Yao, “Sixth Sister Yao go to sleep now, don’t weave anymore.” She replied the immortals that if she doesn’t finish the weaving, she will get beaten tomorrow. Without any reply the boat full of immortals disappeared into thin air followed by strong wind blowing which forced Sister Yao to stop weaving and go back into the house. The Strong winds continued the whole night and poor Sister Yao could do nothing but to wait and get beaten tomorrow morning.

True enough, when morning arrived, Sister Yao was beaten. Then the mother-in-law when into the room to check how many jins of cotton had Sister Yao weaved. There a loud shriek from the room for the wooden loom has turned into a golden loom. It was really gold.

The mother-in-law inquired about what had Sister Yao done the night before. Sister Yao then told what happened from the oil lamp to the dragon boat incident.

The mother-in-law then remembered about the traditional lore that during the mid-autumn night, immortals would leave the moon palace on a dragon boat. For those who are lucky enough to see them, whatever they touch would turn into gold!

From that day onwards the wretched mother-in-law changed her attitude towards her daughter in law. She started to treat her nicely and they work together in the chores and they lived harmoniously ever after.

The story was passed down and the custom of gazing at the moon until the fourth watch became prevalent. It is said that the custom is based on the hope of seeing the dragon boat.

So for those of you, who wish to get rich, don’t forget to do some moon gazing until the fourth watch on the 15^th day of the 8^th month. Who knows you might see a dragon boat full of immortals. LOL…

It is said that during the time of the legendary Emperor Yao, there were ten suns which took turns to illuminate the earth. But one day, out of playfulness the ten suns appeared together in the human realm.

One sun brings prosperity to humanity, but ten suns spell DOOM. The human realm suffered from the ten suns.

An order was given to Hou Yi a excellent archer to check on the suns. Her wife decided to follow him. They saw the pitiful state of the human realm as the result of the appearance of the ten suns.

Hou Yi decided to subdue the ten suns. As he prepared to shoot, his wife asked him to stop as he was violating the God of Heaven’s instructions by killing the suns. But Hou Yi did not care, he continued on with his plan. As the nine suns was subdued, one was being left alive.

As his violation on the instructions given to him Hou Yi was banished to earth as a normal human being. His wife followed him to dwell among the humans. They were astounded by the beauty of the human realm.

Suddenly, out of no where a man kneeled before Hou Yi and asked Hou Yi the divine archer to accept him as his disciple and teach him archery. The man introduced himself as Feng Meng and he wish to learn archery to subdue demons and improve the welfare of people. Hou Yi accepted Feng Meng as his disciple and taught him well.

One day, a strange beast attacked the villagers, Hou Yi came to the rescue by using one arrow he killed the beast. Hou Yi became the hero of the human realm. He was practically being worshiped by the people. Since then, Hou Yi changed into someone else whom Chang-e doesn’t recognize anymore. On the other side, Feng Meng felt jealous the attention Hou Yi is getting from the people.

One day, Hou Yi was looking for Chang-e, he took with him the elixir of life which he has obtained from the Queen Mother of the West. He describe the use of the elixir that if a person drinks it he or she can fly at will but when two people drink it they can be young forever and never age. Hou Yi suggested that they both drink the elixir and dominate the human realm forever. Chang-e felt sad towards the changed in Hou Yi’s attitude and character and wondered how long could she remained together with him.

Suddenly Feng Meng called out to Hou Yi, saying that he has a gift to offer to his master. Hou Yi decided to go and take a look. As he looked for Feng Meng, Chang-e decided to drink the elixir alone and leave Hou Yi. At that moment Hou Yi was killed by Feng Meng. Chang-e decided to go to somewhere cold and desolate. Thus, she drifted to the moon.

The legend of Chang-e was passed down. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chinese would gaze at the faraway moon and think of Chang-e.

Chang Ting this is not a story about you ar eventhough both of you have "Chang" in your name. LOL…joking...joking

The story of Chang-e is a very popular story for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The last but not least is about mooncakes presented on Mid-Autumn Festival.

It was the end of the Song Dynasty and the Mongols ruled China. The Mongols were harsh towards the people as they were afraid of the people bringing an up rise. To control them anyone who dares to disobey them was punished severely and people hated them.

They even tried to slaughter all the people which they can’t. Someone came up with the idea that a Soldier was to be stationed in each and every household which will be able to stop the people to communicate with one another and plan on how to attack the Mongols.

One day a group of people gathered together secretly without the knowing of the Tatars. They were planning on how to subdue the Tatars, which they found it hard for there were Tatars in each and every household.

A wise old man then thought of a brilliant idea. Since the next day was the Mid-Autumn Festival, each household will be given a circular cake. The people are being instructed to cut-open the cake and it was a must to cut the cakes open.

Everyone thought the plan was brilliant and the plan was being implemented. In order not to let any suspicion from the Tatars. Each household was being told that it was a tradition to cut open the cakes and eat the fillings. When the people cut open the cakes, they found a note inside the cake. The notes instructed the people to kill the Tatars at the third watch that night. As the third watch approaches, each people went into action. Some added rat poison to the cakes and let the Tatars eat it.

Later, to commemorate the joyous occasion of getting their liberty and peace, the people would eat the cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The cakes then underwent changes before they evolved into the mooncakes that we see today with many different fillings.

How very true, today mooncakes come in many different shapes and sizes and also flavours. Some are good… some awful.

Enjoy your mooncakes and moon gazing. I am off to play my lantern now. Cheers!

edz-lfe.blogspot would like to wish everyone a Happy Moon Cake Festival or Happy Mid-Autumn Festival. 祝大家中秋节快乐。。。



Some photos are taken from:

1. my.opera
2. chinatown collection
   

Not Again!

Ok... I was being tagged again. Seems like I am a great target for tagging.

Since I don't want people to say that I do not support them. Well they don't say it direct but there are implications ;-P

This time around I was tagged by non other than Chye Lin. So here goes.

1. Where is your cell phone? In my wonderful room
   
2. Relationship? Why must there always be such a question.... sheesh... Single
   
3. Your hair? normal hair...wavy I might say
   
4. Study? Still struggling
   
5. Your sister? One sister, in KL now. Missin her
   
6. Your favorite thing? Doing nothing
   
7. Your dream last night? errr...how am I suppose to remember
   
8. Your favorite drink? Coffee... that is why I am caffeine addicted
   
9. Your dream car? BMW 5 series! Sexy hot car man!
   
10. The room you’re in? Computer area
    
11. Your shoes? 10
12. Your fears? no money, fail my exams
    
13. What do you want to be in 10 years? Successful in life, rich, happy...
    
14. Who did you hang out with this weekend? my students... and my computer
    
15. What are you not good at? Singing, dancing, acting I guess
    
16. One of your wish list items? Rich
17. Where you grew up? Sarawak
18. Last thing you did? Teaching
19. What are you wearing? DUH! I AM NAKED! nah just kidding... clothes of course
    
20. What aren’t you wearing? Undies....nah jokin again, shoes and flip flops.
    
21. Your pet? Gold fish and my cute doggy
    
22. Your computer? mixed breed...LOL
    
23. Your life? Sustainable....but shit happens
    
24. Your mood? marginal
25. What are you thinking about right now? next week test, no money....
    
26. Your car? Kancil
27. Your kitchen? Normal size
    
28. Your summer? There is no summer in Malaysia ... duh.....
    
29. Your favorite color? Black...
30. Last time you laughed? While I was teaching
    
31. Last time you cried? err.... When I was a lil boy?
    
32. School? Graduated from school now in Uni
    
33. Love? Where is the love?
    

Oh and I actually forgot about Chye Lin's birthday. Sorry bout that but will certainly remember it next time. Hehehe...

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to Chye Lin and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Wei Ta. God Bless you both.

Cheers!