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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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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Life

Hhmm...let's see...I left exactly 14 days away from my wedding and my heart beat gets faster and faster day after day. I know I am going to make it and yet I find that there are still a lot of things are still pending. Though I keep telling myself "I am on track, I am on track, I am on track...". I do have checklist but the checklist increased day after day. So tell me when is the checklist going to end from growing? Yeah, I know - it ends when the ceremony is over. Thank you for letting me know. 

During the preparation, definitely there are some(probably a lot) arguments in between me and my gf. I know a lot of people said I should be calling her as wife but please tell me I am conservative. Things that really make us argue are those things that are redundant, unnecessary, irrelevant, not practical, out of budget, to follow or not to follow "pantang"(traditional practise to follow, else something bad will happen) and things like "Are you sure you want this to happen?"...A lot of decisions, a lot of plannings, a lot of thoughts and efforts to make things happen, arrangements...and so on.

Nowadays parents doesn't really gets involved with their children's wedding preaparations and they let their children to handle everything by themselves. We have now even a wedding planner available at the market. Sounds professional though. Well, I would say there are good and bad in all cases. So if you want your parents to pay for your wedding, then they will make sure you listen to whatever they said. Otherwise, you have to pay everything by yourself and you can do whatever ways you want; well, not for all cases though. 

A few months ago I went to a tailor and make myself a complete suit and guess what? I can't wear my long pants anymore! I don't know how I could gain so much weight in just two months of time. It's getting more and more scary when the date is approaching. I told myself that I must get rid of my tummy within these few weeks. Ok Roland, you left two weeks...no more, just two weeks Ok?

I have started to go for jogging since last Sunday. Wow, it was like a donkey years I have stop from any sports and when I first started to jog, I heard a lot of cracking sounds. Hopefully it's not bone cracking sound! At frist I tell myself I am going to finish 5 rounds. Foohh...that's ambitious! After the 3rd round, I know I can't make it to the 5th round. But I tell myself I have to finish until the 5th! What do you think? Do you think I finished until the 5th round? 

Well, I found that whatever we do in our life...it's really like a race. It really needs a lot of encouragements, determinations, rest when we are tired and always believe that we can end the race and win the race. I believe some of us give up half way. Some of us complain that we don't have a good shoe for the race. Some of us face challenges when other runners attack us with some real bad tactics to win the race. Some would even say, "This race is impossible! It's way too far for us to reach the finish line!". Some are fast runners, some are slow runners...some use short cuts, some uses long-winded route...

Whatever it is, I am going to finish this race with HIM. This I promised.

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The pot noodles boy

We make friends everyday and we will never know when they will go. In the process of making friends, there is always disappointments, disagreements, expectations, arguments, and so on. But only through all these it makes us a true friend! Do you experience this before? This is my friend, Jackey Man the pot noodles boy. He was also my colleague. He is a Hongkese born Aberdonian. Basically means, born in Hong Kong but grown up in Aberdeen, Scotland. He left Hong Kong at the age of 2 or 3.

He left IDS to further his studies at Edinburgh for Master in "Energy". Wow...sounds great. Anyway, this is for his own good. I asked him if he is coming back to IDS but that's not going to happen. He will be doing engineering stuff at oil and gas company, in other words...no more programming! 

I still remember when I first met him in Aberdeen, he was sitting right in front of a computer and figuring out what is happening to his code(computer terms - code debugging). Sitting really near to his monitor and pointing his finger on the monitor. I was surprised when he minimized his windows program and saw this particular picture as his desktop background.

Wow...It really brought me into laughter. How on earth a guy in his 20's would put up this kind of picture as his desktop background wallpaper? He must be kidding me, but that's the fact. This particular teddy bear dressed up by human is actually one of the kid's show in Aberdeen and its name is "Bungle" - yeah, I remember its name. It's cute, isn't it?

He is a person who is very confident with what he is doing and I find it quite difficult to convince him into something, especially programming. I wouldn't say he is ego but more to a very high self esteemed person. Most of the time we argue about how we want to write the code and he is a person that never let anyone touches his code - trust me. 

I really cherish all of the moments that we spent together, especially the trip to Edinburgh. We were in the same project, "EIKOS" is the project code name. Lately, before he left...he involves in our main product, D2 and I think I really tried my best to help him to get his work done. This is the thing that I never regret of doing. I am really satisfied out of it because I had really help him with all of my strength, my knowledge, and my will. See, you will never know when is your friend leaving you. So make sure when your friend needs your help, make it as if this is the last time you are going to help him.

Ok, probably you still can't figure out why he was given a nickname Jackey the pot noodles boy. Can you imagine what he was having for almost every of his lunch?

Exactly, these are the pot noodles that he had gathered for the past two years with IDS. This is not counted those he had thrown away. Of course he didn't build this fort by himself, but his colleague(William) did it during his second last day with IDS. The above photos are taken at Aberdeen's office. Now you know how he gets his nickname ;)

Alright, that's all for the pot noodles boy story. Jackey, all of us in IDS really miss your presence and I will be the one who misses the arguments with you! Hope you will do fine in your Master and I know you will! Take good care of yourself and remember to keep in touch :) May God bless you in everything you do. Friends forever~

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National Day

How do you spend your National Day with your family? Are you patriotic enough to hang our national flag outside your house? This year national day seems to be just another day. Is it just myself or are you feeling the same? I didn't see much flags along the roadside. Is it because of bad economy or our country is having political tsunami that causes all these to be so normal? I didn't feel like celebrating it. As we all know that our country is having political crisis. Some politician said the actual day of National Day should be 16th of September. The controversy keep going and racism issue has never been a close ended topic. What's the matter with it? Sigh!

After all these, it really makes me wanted to leave this country any sooner. No doubt many would say, "What is that to do with me?". Migrating to other countries doesn't solve anything. Racism is everywhere. Unless I am going back to China. Even so, they would said I am Malaysian still! Sigh, endless arguments. Let's hope for the best for this country to stay unite and peace. Anyway, let's see what I do and where I go on National Day :) Btw, my parents were with me spending the holiday together with my gf.

It's Sunday, so no other places other than Church! Brought my parents to the Church although this is the first time they visit my Church. They were complaining why does the Church service took so long to end. My dad kept asking me "when is this going to end?". I have to be very patient and answered him "lovingly" saying "soon, soon..." with smile of course(at Church marr...LOL!).

Not much people attend though :( Probably a lot still pigging at home.

At night time we went for some nice seafood! Yum!

Foohh...big lobster, but of course we didn't order. Too expensive for us. Nevermind, promised myself one day I will eat them all up! 'x'

Having seafood at "Taman Kereta" definitely have to choose ABC Seafood a.k.a. Ah Seng Seafood" or simply store No. 10 ;)

The next morning we went to Sarawak Cultural Village located somewhere at Damai Beach. It's a disgrace for me as this is the first time I pay a visit to this place. The Rainforest Carnival has been here for ages but I only manage to pay them a visit until then. It cost us RM25 per person, not too costly though. It's good to know more about your country's culture for just RM25!

Unique sculpture from different countries all around the world.

Aiseh, posing woh...

Nice view of a village. I can find peace here. Look at the river, it looks so calm.

"Rumah Bidayuh" - one of the tribes house. Looks like one of the hut we can find in Africa.

This is how it looks like from inside.

This is a "machine" for them to peel off the skin of rice before it's being processed. All you need to do is to spin it.

Handmade handicraft, anyone?

Rice pounding, I have no idea what they do with the rice pounding. Nobody was there to explain, sigh! It would be better if someone can explain it to us. I have to guess everything by myself.

Ok, this is the longhouse. This is a 5 doors longhouse. They told me the longest longhouse in Sarawak now is up to 90 doors! Impressive, it will be even nicer if we can have a look at it. It's very cooling under the roof of the longhouse, despite the hot weather out there.

Wow, they are bare foot eh? Can bare with the heat on the "papan" floor eh? *Salute*

State-of-the-art

It's told that those are the warriors skull and NOT baby's skulls. It's quite small, or are they covering something from us? (-_-"")...

Gongs

This is Penan tribe.

Tallest longhouse I can see.

They have an indoor performance(with aircond..aahh, at last) at 11:30 a.m. They performed all different kind of tribe's dance and all of them looks very interesting. I find this one the most interesting. Can you imagine what's next? ...

Exactly! they bite the whole thing with their teeth! They must be using Darlie toothpaste all the while, else how would they have such a strong teeth to hold that few Kilograms of thing with their teeth?? *Salute*

Yeah, basically that's all for my National Day. Quite entertaining and memorable. Especially with the "World Strongest Teeth" performance.

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Nonsense but forgiven

A few days ago I was quite disturbed. I keep on having the thought where this World has nothing worth for me to move on or stay on. Everyone around me seems to criticise about me. They seems not to understand me though they said they do. They backfire me with no reason. They even curse me with joy and teased me. Some are taking me for granted. Some doesn't show respect to me. They thought I am telling lies. Some even twisted what I have said(in order to protect themselves) and causes me becoming telling lies. They thought I am ego and selfish. They said I am the type of "Kacang lupakan kulit". They said I had changed a lot. They said I am no longer who I was.

I am quite sad of all those comments. Although it's not something that they said directly to me. But someone was passing the message to me and some of them I just overheard it. The worst thing is they can act like they are very nice to me. As if nothing happen. I know this is how life is. Seriously can't think of a reason why they would say all these though I have no bad intention towards them nor hurt them before. I just couldn't understand why they exist.

I was driving very fast and couldn't find a solution to calm myself down. Suddenly there is one voice spoke to me. He said "forgive..." - straight away I slowed down my car and was calmed. Then I start to think again, yeah...why couldn't I forgive? I have uncounted sins that Jesus had forgiven me! Why I can't forgive them? I also realised I am so sinful that sometimes I had repeated my sins but God still forgive me. Yeah, perhaps I should forgive them as well as myself.

Disclaimer: Whatever is said above, I have no intention for any suicide activity. I am not that stupid ;)


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Focus on the family

Marriage...how many people understands what is the true meaning of marriage? Some of us will love to talk about this...some of us will try to run away from even discussing about it. Is it because of commitment you gave during your courtship? Is it because you love her too much? or is it because everyone is doing it and that's why? ...or probably the old folks are pushing you to the corner?

I am not sure whether any of you attended marriage counselling course before. I would say it's something essential for all stages of couples. No matter you are married, going to get married or even as a young couple that just got hooked.

I get to know this course by my own Church. It's actually one the prerequisites of our wedding at Church. I believe a lot of Christians should have gone through the course. Almost 99% of them give thumbs up to the course. Some even attended the course more than 3 times.

It's not free but definitely worth more than what you pay. It cost RM25 per person, meaning RM50 per couple. The material that they gave you is basically more than that. After the end of the course, they provide a candle lit dinner for both the couple. The one that I attend was conducted by Focus on the family. You can read more on their website.

My gf and I learned a lot about what are our differences and how we should punch each other at face tolerate with each other. A lot of things that the speaker talked about were so true about each one of us as a couple. Different backgrounds and those bad habits and get to know more even about ourselves! Sometimes we thought we know ourself very well, but it's not! trust me. They even talked about what are our expectations to our spouse and what are those things that we SHOULD NOT have expected from our spouse. There are a lot of DOs and DON'Ts guideline that I find it quite helpful.

Did I just gain weight? Did I?? No? *phew*~

I will really encourage those who have not attend the course before, to join at least once. It really helps to provide a clearer picture of what marriage is meant for. Especially for those rookies(young couple). At least they will realise what they really mean when they say "I Love You" or "I want to marry you, one day"...BBbbLLLLrrrrrr.... Can't believe I just say it!

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5th Anniversary

So it's 27th November, what happen ? ...keep thinking...oh yeah~ it's my anniversary with my gf - we have been together for 5 years~ woww...we have been together for 5 years already, that's pretty long isn't it ? Well, some might not agree with this. So many sweet and sour things happen within these 5 years. So many promises given to her and so many of them were broken...Oooppss ! Well, let's face the reality where most of us (guys) like to give empty promises - don't you ? Muahahahaa~ not only that, we try to deny it somemore...moral of the story, don't simply promise this and that when you are not too sure whether you can make it or not. But! that's how our life should be ~! without those "beautiful" promises, you just can't please 'em ! So, might as well ?? eerrr... a bit contradicting of what I have just said, but it make sense...Ok, cut the crap, we went to have dinner together. Well, some of you might said - "Only dinner arrrhh? so simple and not romatic lihhh (Malaysian slang)". Let's guess where we had our dinner ;)

Was at work and rush back to have a change ...

His Macademia Cake (some might can guess where were we already :p )

Hers Tiramisu...

Hers Lagsana

His Pan Grilled Dorry Fish

His Pumpkin Soup

Yeap ! It's the knowingly famous Secret Recipe ! :D

She enjoys !

At first don't want to take photo, but she insist - then this is how she took for me ! Like that also can!? I took her cantik cantik, she took my photo like that ! @.@!! Maybe I am too tired...

So sleepy, I opt to order another Cappuccino

learning new skills of taking photo...

After that we went to airport there to have a short chit chat...and after that we...censored ...Nothing happen, Ok? just chit chat!

Hhhhmmm...this passage reminds me when I went to Aberdeen last year December. Walking alone in a cold tunnel to the waiting room - about this time too. Did I say last year December ? Oh No~ It's about one year...there goes 2007 !! Gulp~

That's all for the night...

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