Quit?

Hello there!? I am not sure if anyone still reading my blog, but sincerely apologize for all these. I have not been updating my blog and lots of factors that causes me not to update my blog. First of all, I used to have bad Internet connection from home. No streamyx, can you imagine as a Programmer's life without any Internet connection? It's like taking away a chef's wok!

Not only that, I have to put the blame on Facebook for being such user friendly and ease of use(well, used to be) in whatever reason for me not to go blogging. Everyone seems to take part in Facebook and it's quite responsive! Putting comments to the picture we upload...it's so easy to communicate with friends. Ok, enough of promoting Facebook.

In fact, I have planned to quit blogging because I found myself doing other things more useful other than blogging. I am not saying blogging is something that's waste of time, but I just lost my interest to blog and will hope to see you guys in Facebook ;) Lazy to type? Lazy to think of a topic? hhmm...

I am not sure, probably I will be back blogging sometime in future. Anyway, cut the crap and see you guys in Facebook! Do add me ;)

Happy BuLL Year

Hoh hey! How's your first week of BuLL work? I guess everyone is working like a Bull. Don't try to be too Bull-oholic with your work, save some energy for Chinese New BuLL Year! For those who just started their school, I guess you had a "Booo Booo" week :p Hahaha...a post full of BuLL words.

Since this year everyone around the World is facing the impact of recession directly or indirectly, let's face them with faith. When a BuLL rush down a hill, it's going to be very fierce and without directions. Whoever hits by the BuLL, he will be definitely knocked out! This year, we have heard 1,500 local people who have been knocked out already. So, better count our blessing with our current job.

Though the BuLL is fierce, I will try to "pat pat" its shoulder and manoeuver it's horn with care....I guess the BuLL would allow me to ride on its back with peace ;)

See...it's quite tame if you know how to "manage" the BuLL well ;p

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Today is the last day of year 2008. Are you ready to countdown with your friends and relatives or your family? As for me, I will be celebrating my last day of year 2008 at my church. Yes, I will be singing again on the stage. I need to prepare myself for singspiration practise at 7:30pm before the watch night service.

Oh well, I was supposed to post this before the year 2008 passed by me but...You can still see what I had wrote yesterday. Well, life just gets busier and busier and busier and busier! Anyway, wishing you all Happy New Year of year 2009 despite a crappy year of 2008.

For the year 2008, it has been really a busy and challenging year for me. So many things for me to plan and making sure they work out properly. My career, house, wedding, family...Sometimes I cry out to God to have mercy upon me. I felt so weary that I almost give up everything. Lucky enough that I did not suffer from depression.

Let's see how was my 2008...

Jan
Nothing much on the first month, other than the opening of "tHe Spring"?

Feb

Obviously it's Chinese New Year! This year, it will be on January according to the chinese calendar. It's going to be different this year as I am the one who is going to give out "ang pow" (red packet) instead of receiving anymore "ang pow".

I can see them coming again this year...In fact, it has already started few weeks ago. This is the saddest thing in Sibu everytime during Chinese New Year. The government can't seems to do much to help since Sibu's landscape is like a basin. It's no wonder houses in Kuching are getting more and more expensive, thanks to all the Sibu'ian(myself included, muahahaha).

Mar

I have flew to Aberdeen again for work. Right after that, I have to fly back to Sibu to attend my sister's wedding. After that fly back to Kuching to move into my new house. Sigh!


Before I bought this house in year 2007, I faced a lot of obstacles and objections from my family. The reason being that they believe or someone told them(I remembered they told me that guy is a lawyer and he knows a lot about the prices of houses - ya right!) that the prices of house will drop in year 2008. Well, the fact is the price keep increasing in year 2008! They even ask me to look for cheaper house since my salary was just alright for me to make monthly repayment. Well, in real life it's kind of difficult to achieve both good place with a cheaper price. When I say cheaper, I mean a lot cheaper. Ok, I am not FooChow...oopppss!

After praying so hard, and I wanted to prove to them that I was right. So I did it. Without prayer, all these things will not happen. Anyway, I moved into my house on March as I wanted to have more freedom rather than staying with my relatives. I am not saying I don't have freedom staying with my relatives but just that I am asking for more ;p

Apr
Nothing much on April other than getting some cosmetics on my car.


May
Nothing much...boring month...work work work?

Jun

Dang! I guess I had worked too hard and that's why I am suffering on the month of June. Doctor found two big sour plum seed gallstone in my gallbladder. I had my operation at Timberland Medical Center. I still keep my gallstone, do you want to have a look? *puke*

The symptoms of this sickness was vomit, diarrhea, fever and dizzy. I thought it was a food poisoning but doctor proves to me I was wrong. Lucky enough that I have my medical card from my company to pay the long list of bills. I am the first one in the company to use that medical card! hahaha...

Jul
I know time is running out, I have to prepare myself for my wedding! So the following months will be my busy month for my wedding~

We went to the Focus On The Family to understand some facts of Men and Women. Well, I was surprised to know all the women are actually the same~ ooppss...

Aug
My parents were here at kuching and I accompanied them to Sarawak Cultural Village.



...and nonetheless Beijing Olympic!


Sept
Nothing much on September, probably was busy preparing my wedding. I better be...


Oct
The bells ringing~



Nov

Company was sending me off to Dubai for a conference. It was a challenging and quite fun at the same time. Working closely with C.E.O will never be an easy trip. I have to think twice before I talk to him, else cut throat!

After that, me and my wife went to Singapore to have our holiday. It was meant to replace my wedding dinner with my relatives who couldn't make it on my actual day. So, we took this opportunity to pay a visit to Singapore ;)






Dec

When thinking about the month of December, what else can you think about? It's definitely about Christmas! Well, Christmas isn't Christmas for Christians...The actual meaning of Christmas for us is the born of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I went for the Christmas parade and thousands were there to join the parade. It's indeed the joy for the Lord.

Me: "Handsome or not? take like this ok ar?" Wife: "Cincai lahh...*snap photo*

Yeah, that was about it for my year of 2008. It's indeed a busy year for me isn't it? For the year of 2009, I wanted to have a slow and steady pace. It's definitely going to be even more challenging year. I pray to God to grant me wisdom and health and most importantly, rest! Rest is important because it will keep us going even further.

I know a lot of Big Things are going to happen again this year, but I just want to walk slowly and steadily this year. During watch night service at my church, Rev. Wong told us to stand still...slow down our pace. I know this is a message from God. He knows greater things are going to happen but...let us face it slow and steady!

Last but not least, may God bless you all in the year of 2009! You know why? because....Recession is coming to town~!!! hahaha...so keep hold your money tight!


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Dubai Trip

Hahaha...I am so surprised seeing myself blogging here. I think I need to put the blame to the Facebook for being so facebookly. It allows me to upload my pictures and notify my friends on my latest uploaded photos! Allows friends to comment on photos as well. It's so interactive until I find why do I need to blog? When I think about blogging, it's a bit waste of time...unless I am so free and find nothing else I can do. Well, blogging of course allow us to "talk" more than just photos lah :p

Alright, what's about Dubai? I have been involving myself in one of my company's main development project, namely WITSML. It's a kind of Markup Language standard that is agreed among the oil and gas company to transfer data from one service company to another. They will be having two conference a year just to keep up with the service company on what's the issue with the standard, what are the implementation issues, what's to improve on, what's to be removed and so on and so forth. Previously they were having the conference at europe and this time they make it at Dubai...and that's why I was there!

Travelling right after wedding is definitely going to be doomed. At one point you will feel wanted to travel since it's a company trip and all of the expenses are covered and what to say if you miss a trip to Dubai? At another point, you won't want to disappoint your wife by leaving her alone while you enjoy yourself at Dubai. Yes, you can say - "why don't you bring her along?". Alright, my policy is not to bring wife along when it's a company's trip as I want full concentration when I am at work(yeah right!). Ok, at least I think so :p Ok, enough of the saying...let's see what we have in Dubai!

I am staying at Media Rotana Hotel, somewhere at outskirt of Dubai. The hotel was launched a day before I arrived and the frontdesk told me that I am among the first 10 to check-in. Aiseh, started to feel good about it. Ok, guess what? The hot shower ain't working!!! I was shivering after the shower and asked them to fix it the next day. Sigh, do you call yourself a 5 star hotel? Give me a break.

hhmmm...at least they served me with a plate of fresh and juicy dates to cheer me up for free. This is not an ordinary dates, they were stuffed with different flavor. Love it! Oh yeah, Dubai is famous with their dates...

This is the place where the conference took place - The Westin. They include buffet lunch for us. Oh man, their buffet lunch was so heavy and so many choices. I wish I could finish tasting every each of the dish, it's just too many! This is also a 5 star hotel and of course their food has to be something lah...

We had a chill-out night with all the participants and we really enjoyed ourself with the companion of this beautiful scenery. Foods and wine were served during that night. 

Chill out and relax! 

This is my hotel from outside.

I went for a day tour with my colleague, William. I hope my boss won't mind about this after we had work so hard :p

Highest tower in the World - so far~

Dubai is full of sky rise buildings, it's more or less like Singapore - I mean more than Singapore ;)

Dubai airport.

Ok, now tell me how do you find Dubai? :p

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p/s: Not enough of these photos? You can browse all the uncensored photos here.

Thanks to StephenLim@BlogSpot

YiEnT@u and SteF@nie would like to take this opportunity to thank StephenLim for his great effort to blog on our wedding. I was really stunned when I saw it from his blog. Visiting his blog daily is my job. Well, not to say it's my job but in fact his blog is really inspiring and I really enjoy reading them. He blog a lot about food, nice photoshots and most importantly his achievements in his life.

Me and Stephen met at Uni and I get to know this freak(he is a computer geek) in a weird way. One day during my first few lectures, I saw a guy sitting in the hall(in darkness) and was trying to fill in some forms. I think it's PTPTN forms if I am not mistaken. The Uni started the semester already and he apply for his entrance at that last minute. I talked to myself, "hhmm...this guy must have an interesting story to tell me". My friend Kean Yew, Edmond, and some others surrounded him and were chit chatting with him. He seemed not to be responding to what they were talking and continue filling up the forms. From that moment, I have a great feeling of friendship towards him and I can see the fire in his eyes to strive for his studies.

During the first semester of my first year, finding the right person to go through thick and thin in the Uni for studies is not an easy task. Then my friend Kean Yew keep telling me how great is this Stephen and he has a strong programming background during his form six. He took programming as one of his subject during his form six and that really gave me a "Wow" in my mind. So, I have make up my mind to be very close to him - real close...hahahaha. But hey, this really sounds like I am making friend with him just because he has something I wanted to learn for? Not really, Ok? We have a lot of things that are mutually clicked. No doubt after following him, my result really got better(because I joined his team to gain more marks in the project and I don't need to do anything! nyek nyek nyek!).

I am greatly inspired by his achievements and whatever he was doing before, now and in future. He really gave me a lot of encouragements in my life. He taught me how to write codes, play basketball, "kau lui"(ooppss), meaning of life, leadership and much more. I think I am just the opposite version of him, that's bad. Even now, I am still impressed with his achievements and yet I am so lay back from what he had achieved up to this date. He won a lot of programming contests(even during Uni), awards, Java programmers recognition, one of the top scorer for Final Year Project, a lot of girls fall in love with him and etc etc etc...I am envy of what he had achieved.

If anyone asked me today, who do you think inspired you the most in your life...I would say StephenLim. He is probably not the best but his spirit to strive for what he wants in his life has greatly inspired me. I hope one day I would be able to be ahead of him, only if I am able :-)

Well, this is the photo we got during our final paper of our final semester outside the hall. We were so happy that we did it! The joyous moment we had. This photo is the most memorable one for me. Thanks Stephen, friendship forever!


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YiEnT@u & SteF@niE's Wedding - Part 4 (Final)

We had gone through so many stages and at last there is one more round to go. That's the wedding reception at Holiday Inn at Pelagus Room. Let us welcome Siti Hasmah my grandma to my wedding reception, but hey...there are a lot of people told me she really looks like Siti Hasmah. LOL!!!

My grandma really looks like Siti Hasmah, isn't she?

Sign before you enter!

Menu of the night...

Two ice carving swans...love it a lot

Champagne from Holiday Inn

Hahaha...many complained of how ugly was the cake.

Emcee of the night, Lee Chun a.k.a. Leech!

We played the music "Unforgettable - sung by Nat King Cole", with the splashes of pop canon during our entrance...It's memorable...

No turning back

Hehe...we were so afraid that it doesn't get pop...

...and we did it! Yesss!!!

Stefanie's colleagues were there too...you know what, they can do the same "Yum Seng" as we did! even louder if not mistaken...haha

"Yum yum yum yum yum yum yummmm....Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnngggggggggggg!!!!!!"

Alright, that's all for YiEnT@u and SteF@nie's Wedding story! Faster say congratulations to me liao! hahaha...thank you thank you!

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YiEnT@u & SteF@niE's Wedding - Part 3

It's time to get the bride home...The weather turned into cloudy and made me worried when we were about to reach home. Luckily it was just a few drops of rain and it stopped when we reached home. Then our hero, Julian helped to burn the firecrackers. I think this is a Chinese tradition and I don't agree it has anything to do with chasing away the dark forces or some pantang that we are following. I want it so that it looks like we were "alarming" to the guests "We are back!" - nope, nothing more than that; really.

"We are back!"

"Tah Daaahhh~"...the bride had just entered the house and no turning back, muahahaha!

I can't recall what's so funny but everyone seemed to be laughing, so I laughed as well? hahaha...

Tea ceremony started with Grandma @ Ma Ma...some do not agree we need to kneel down, but we did...

...even with parents

This is the greatest part...Everyone shouted to me to carry the bride into the room. By not wanting to let anyone down, I tried. Let's see how I did this...

I banged her to the door, and then to the wall and then...

...swinged myself 360 degrees turn

...and "dumped" her onto the bed! Woww...that's the first time I see myself carrying the bride and I did it so badly. I have to use the word "dumped" because I lost my strength due to that morning's "get the bride" session. It's really memorable...to be honest, I was thinking to swing her when I make the 360 degrees turn, hahaha...

I think this is Teochew's tradition or Kuchingites culture to have the bride's brother or a guy(as in man) to bring in the luggage full of bride's belongings, gold jewelleries and cash pasted at the cover of the luggage. Hhhmmm...interesting.

Try to count 'em and tell me the figure, whoever can count 'em right would be eligible to redeem your cash prize from me. Hahahaha...

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YiEnT@u & SteF@niE's Wedding - Part 2

It falls on 18th of October 2008...do you know how did we choose this date? Don't get me wrong, we didn't go for any date consultation from temple or something. It was because both of our birth date falls on 18th, I bought my first car on 18th too, and a lot of our memorable things falls on 18th...so we decided to choose the 18th of the month, just any month within the year of 2008 and it must be on Saturday. Bingo, there we found the only 18th of the month that falls on Saturday in the year of 2008 is 18th October 2008. Surprisingly it's really a "red" date for most of the chinese and therefore all of the Hotels, restaurants were all fully booked and lucky that we made our booking one year ahead. Just imagine how "kiasu~ism" has been a trend lately...even buying an air ticket to fly back to Sibu has to be done a year ahead. Sigh!!!

Enjoy the part 2 photos of our Holy Matrimony at Trinity Methodist Church, yeah ;)

My singspiration team of my wedding. From left, Kara Keung, Gorden Law, Robin Chien, and Lucy. Thanks guys for the help!

Pianist of the day, Wendy Lim...it's really our honour to have her as our pianist. She is really good in all musical instruments, don't play play...She is with IMH(International Music House)...must be something lah, else how can she join IMH? hehe...Thanks, Wendy!

This is the moment where I almost cry but I still want to hold the title of a tearless man...hahaha. Just imagine during my childhood, when my dad caned me until he broke the cane, I didn't even let a drop of my tear out other than making some fake crying noise to stop him from beating me...hehehe, so naughty and "kek teng"(act tough). In fact, her dad told me a lot of things like - "take care of her, don't scold her, give her chance" and so on...uurrggghhh!! Make me feel like I am a ...

Unity candle...

Signing of registry at Church with Rev. Wong Kee Sing. He asked us one question which I find it amusing...he asked whether this marriage was forced by anyone or totally of our own will. In my heart, I told myself...I was forced by Stefanie...hahaha, just joking :-p But of course we told him it's our own will lor...nowadays where got parents still forcing their child to marry so and so...that's during olden days.

Recessional...yay~ we are married! 2 in 1

Come come come, single ladies!! it's flower throwing time...you can see all single ladies waiting down there with saliva. Guess what? When we threw the bouquet of flower, nobody rush to catch it. So it ended up kissing the floor and broke into pieces...I just couldn't believe that they just stand where they were and looking at the flower to fall to the floor...sigh!!! really speechless...

We had a buffet lunch at the carpark...yum yum~ It was ordered from Country Court Restaurant...

Ok, That's all for part 2...stay tuned for part 3 and 4!

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YiEnT@u & SteF@niE's Wedding - Part 1

At last I lost my virginity YiEnT@u's knot has been tied. I know I am not being informative enough to my friends around me. Especially those really close friends from KL. Guys, it's really a waste of not having you guys around during my big day. I know I can find a thousand of excuses to explain this, but I promise you all to pay a visit to KL somewhere next year for another round of "yum seng!", ok? ;-)

It's not easy to make this decision in our life. In order to choose the person to be your life partner would not be easy. We went through thick and thin together and took us so much of time to tolerate each other, endurance, trust, shaping ourselves into one another's mold, understand each others different background and accept it at the same time, bad habits, way of living, characters, and so on and so forth. For me, I would think the purpose of our life is the most upmost important than anything else. I am looking for a person who has the same purpose of life and that's why I chose Stefanie as my wife today.

After months of sweat and tears of preparation, this is here we are...a new chapter of our life begins...

All brothers arrived at my house at 7am...Thanks to Chin for sacrificing his Honda Civic to be my wedding car. Everything went smoothly during the entire day of our wedding. Especially the weather.

We had "mee sua" on that morning...I think this is a Foo Chow's tradition but we follow ;) I told them it's a Singapore Mee Sua because it was cooked by my mom and she is a Singaporean...don't play play...hahahaha

Arrived at bride's house at 7:30am with a bouquet of flowers. I felt quite nervous and pressure at the same time. Because I know these sisters won't let me get through so easily! heh!

First task : "Prove to us you are strong enough for Stefanie and the family"

Second Task : "Sort the priority of the following". I put them right, easy!! :D

1. God

2. Spouse

3. Children

4. Parents

5. Career/Parents in law

errr...what about friends? hahaha...no wonder people said after one's marriage, all of our friends disappeared! That's baaadddd....

Third Task : "Shout to Stefanie I Love U loud enough to satisfy her" - She made me shouted twice... :p Naughty Stefanie...I think this is the most embarrassing thing I had ever done in my life, but it's worth it after all...

Fourth task : "Choose three out of five options when you get the bride" - So, I chose the following...

1. Gift(as shown above)

2. Physical touch

3. Words of affirmation

Btw, I need to create the gift on the spot without any preparation. So, my brothers help me out to create a gift for her. We managed to make a "Rochid"(Roland's orchid). There was a chili padi, grass, and a flower. The chili padi means I will spice up her life, the flower to represent her beauty, and the grass means I will always be by her side all the time. Woah, so creative eh?

I need to do this three things when I get the bride and I promised them(of course lah, need to get the bride!).

Fifth Task : "Eat all you can" - Well, the food doesn't looks challeging to me(at first)...

In fact, I enjoy the food they prepared. I thought it will be extremely scary like those in Fear Factor...Then I told myself, "Ceehhhhh...so easy"

It's easy until this superb duperb lemon juice! At first I smell at it and it taste quite thick. Then I said, hhmmm....I like lemon juice. When I took the first sip, I almost see a hole at my stomach. It was sooooooooo thick, OK!? Then my camera man Clement came to my rescue. He can just took it in one go, fuyohh! Thanks for the rescue, Clement!

Woah, after the five levels of test, at last they let me get through...it was quite tough for me...hahaha

Yay! got the bride! Well, I have promised the sisters with the fourth task and I need to do the physical touch, that's why I am holding the bride so close; and of course not forgetting the words of affirmation.

Tea ceremony with parents in law

Yeap, they are my best man and bridesmaid.

Group photo with bride's family and relatives

Sisters...

Su Fong, Suh Chee, Stefanie, Jocelyn, and Florence(from left to right)

Brothers...

Clement(The Lemon Juice Sifu), Julian, Chin(my driver), Stefanie, Me Myself and I, Andrew and Ming Ngi(from left to right)

My wife and I

Alright guys, that's all for part 1 ;) 

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YienT@u and Stef@nie Wedding Invitation Card

I think by today, all of my fans friends and relatives should have received my wedding invitation card. For those who are not invited to my wedding doesn't mean you are not invited. You are invited in my heart, really. I tend to make this a small scale and it's only 17 tables altogether. That's why I am very picky to those whom I had chosen to my wedding reception and dinner. Well, I will always remember to give you a treat to "replace" my wedding dinner for you when we meet next round in town! Just remember to remind me ya ;) 

So, for those who has not receive my wedding invitation card, I have posted them here for you to "bioh bioh"(to view in hokkien). You are free to give comments. We personally think it's just a normal invitation card. To my surprise, everyone seems to give me surprise responses like "Oh no! It's so beautiful!", "Wow...this must be very expensive!", "This is beautiful and it's worth how much you had pay". Whether those comments are true or they are just making me happy, I will just believe them all! If you want to criticise, please try not to be too harsh yeah ;-p

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